#she has so many hobbies and is always searching stuff up

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[gatitties]

Magpie

─ Strawhats, Heart Pirates & Kid Pirates x reader

─ Summary: you like shiny things and you may have a bit of diogenes syndrome, you just like to collect things!

─ Warnings: none

(Whitebeard ver.)

─ Your strange nature was what made Luffy want you on his ship, he probably just saw you doing something crazy just because you saw something shiny and immediately needed it.

─ Nami and Usopp were not in favor at first, the others have already gotten used to their captain's stupidities, but these two are terrified that you could be someone dangerous.

─ They completely forgot when Nami sees you appear with a bunch of jewelry you found lying around as well as relatively good material for Usopp's (or Franky) weapons.

─ You're like an angel from heaven to the orange girl, practically a money maker!

─ And the others just love watching you collect things, even though it's mostly shiny things, you can always end up going astray when you find, for example, nice looking rocks.

─ You and Luffy have a collection of rocks together, they are all named.

─ Chopper always asks you for help collecting medicinal plants because you're just good at finding things, even though you get distracted by other small items along the way.

─ And that's not all, everyone named you Zoro's official partner, not only are you good at finding little things of interest, you also have a radar to find people! as if you were born with the orientation that the swordsman lacks.

─ Although many times you just get distracted following a trail of shiny things and lose Zoro…

─ Sanji asks you for help from time to time, there are many utensils in the kitchen and he has to move fast, if he loses something among the sea of food and utensils you are always there to give it to him because with a simple glance you found it.

─ The same goes for the parts that Franky needs, you could find that needle in a haystack without breaking a sweat.

─ And while they generally love your collector's character, sometimes you keep too much useless stuff, Robin is the one to let you know when to stop, much as she doesn't like to tell you.

─ You probably ran into Shachi and Penguin before Law and they were the ones who saw you chasing a trail of forgotten jewels on the floor.

─ They thought you were adorable, they saw how your face lit up with illusion when you cleaned the earth of those shiny things.

─ And they probably asked you for help to find those mushrooms that their captain had sent them to look for, just a look at the image they held of the mushroom was enough to find a lot of them.

─ Law should definitely have you on the team, at least, that's what these two thought.

─ And indeed you ended up in the Polar Tang thanks to your more than useful little hobbies.

─ Leaving aside that you were usually the one in charge of finding all the rare medical things that Law asked for, Bepo ended up being your faithful collector companion.

─ When you two have a free day you always get lost on any island, although you love shiny things, you also chased little animals; frogs, lizards, butterflies… although all of these without catching them, just to observe them.

─ You have little competitions with Shachi and Penguin to see which one of the three gets the prettiest shell, Ikkaku is always the judge of the competitions, and she definitely has favoritims towards you so she lets you win most of the time.

─ You also help her in the kitchen, because despite the fact that most of the team is quite organized ─Law's fault─ they can always lose something or other inside the submarine.

─ You are a heart attack for Law when you mutter to yourself when you collect things, just adorable, although he will also tell you not to take so many things, you cannot fill the submarine with everything you collect.

─ Oh boy, Kid is so mad, he's been searching for a specific screw for weeks and it just doesn't seem to exist in the world, then one day he bumps into you, pushes you and knocks you down without giving a shit, but then…

─ His eyes widen when he sees that when you fall you drop a bunch of those fucking bolts to the ground, his eye twitches in irritation.

─ For once he decides not to explode against someone, because he uses the gears in his head, if you have so many of those it is because you got them from somewhere, and you will definitely take him there, right?

─ Well, after that he practically kidnapped you because you didn't go to any stores or street vendors, you were just digging in the dirt and you kept pulling out valuable things.

─ Killer just silently watches you as you get on the boat following a handful of coins heading towards the Victoria Punk in a painfully obvious way.

─ Apparently they just needed to keep showing you brilliant stuff for you to stay, they have a lot of that here! so you were good.

─ You have a collection of necklaces that you share with Wire, charms or piercings that match with Heat.

─ Killer scolds you from time to time because you bring a lot of unnecessary things, but he will let you have your little space for some things.

─ Kid sees you as a tracking dog, you once bit his ankles because despite not denying that you were an excellent tracker, you had more honor than being called simply 'dog'.

─ The others also discovered that it was better not to touch your valuables because you would have no problem throwing fists ─or bites─ to defend your precious things.

[aisereththeprince]

Posting the Submas (+ Akari and Elesa) hc from my Masterpost here.

•The twins are both autistic. Elesa and Akari have ADHD.

•Emmet has about 1 or 2 full boxes/pastures of joltiks. 2 of which are shiny and are siblings.

• Ingo adopted an injured zorua. After the events of PLA he brought back both a hisuan sneasel and a hisuan zorua. He gave said zorua to Emmet.

•Elesa and the twins are childhood besties. Elesa later met Skyla cuz Gym leader stuff and... they get into a relationship lol

• Talking abt relationships: Elesa is Bi, Skyla is Les as for the twins idk but I was thinking ftm and pan. Akari is AroAce, Lucas is Gay and Barry is Bi. They're all gay lol /hj

•The twins' parents didn't know how to raise autistic kids, neither did they really like the transitioning, so Drayden was the one to step up and raise them. (Even though he was often busy w Gym business.)

More under cut

• Ingo was trapped in Hisui for seven years. Akari for five. She ended up landing w Ingo in Unova instead of Sinnoh when they came back. Parts of their memory is still foggy but after half a year or so they remember pretty much everything they had forgotten.

• Akari took longer than Ingo to remember things at the beginning and had to stay with the twins a while before remembering her mother, Barry and the professor. (She has the impression having seen a similar face elsewhere (Kamado)).

• Akari's middle name is Dawn. She used to not like the name Akari but now she prefers people call her that instead.

• Lucas is Akari's twin brother. He really reminds her of Rei. (Also Lucas has a thing for Barry later on after PLA stuff)

• The twins live together. They always have, they always will.

• The twins almost never fight. Almost. When they do it gets really bad. It's SUPER rare tho lol (rarer than a shiny in early Gens)

• After PLA, Ingo picks up carving wood into stuff as a hobby. He's REALLY good at it. Emmet has always liked reading. Sometimes he prefers audiobooks.

•The twins were 25 ish before PLA and 32 ish after PLA. Ingo looked really bad in Hisui (suffering of illness, mental health and physical scars and more) so people there thought he was older, therefore he did too.

• Many thought Ingo dead and some thought him murdered. By Emmet. This added on to Emmets stress and grief but he never gave up his search. Elesa forced Emmet to take a break at some point because things were getting BAD.

•Ingo just can't smile. His frown is unintentional (like in canon). This will be used as a fluff thing when he gets back after PLA events :]

[winterrrnight]

Hey! I love your work, Could you possibly write a Zach Maclaren x reader, where the reader searches for a roommate and she meets Zach and they start being roomies and like cute stuff happens and they end up together🫶🏻

thank you so so much for this gorgeous request! I can't even tell you how much I've always thought about it, I have so so many ideas for it, I am just struggling to put them all together in a good order, so it took me so so long to put it out, but, nevertheless, I hope you enjoy reading it!!

roomies (part I)

PAIRING: zach maclaren x gn!reader

SUMMARY: as your bills pile up and it starts to get lonely living in your apartment, you start your search for a roommate. little did you know, you will come across someone so much more than a roommate.

WARNINGS: none!

EDITH SPEAKS: this is finally out! probably one of my favorite requests I've ever had. this took me so long to write, and honestly, I'm still stuck at a certain part of it, so I decided to split it into parts. who knows, it may become a very amazing series <3

please please reblog if you enjoyed reading this! feedback is always so loved and appreciated <3

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You sigh as you put up one of your last flyers on a pole. It's been weeks since you started looking for a roommate who can move in with you in your apartment, but you've turned up with no luck. Whoever calls you up to be your roommate always has this one problem which is something you just can't handle.

One of the guys who called you up was a drummer, and as much as you love music, all the drumming throughout the day will not help you when you're trying to get some work done at home.

Another one is a complete party animal, and your will power isn't strong enough to wake up almost everyday to a mess of empty alcohol bottles around your house.

So you've made a tough but much needed decision: you will accept whichever person calls next to be your roommate.

Are you desperate? Extremely.

Will it affect you if the person has some qualities or hobbies which do not align with your own life? Of course.

But will it help you pay all your bills? Yes.

No more questions needed.

You come back to your apartment and find an envelope waiting for you in your mail. You open it up to see it's the updated electricity bill for the month. You've seen enough bills with an insane amount of zeroes at their bottom, and this one makes you realise if you don't get a roommate soon, you're going to be kicked out of this apartment.

You sit at your kitchen island, your forearms resting in front of you and your head slumped in your hands as you turn over the details of the current situation you're in over and over in your head. You don't exactly have the most high paying job which can allow you pay all your bills independently, leaving you with enough money for your university tuition and to feed yourself.

Your phone dings with a notification, and you look at it to see it's an unknown number. With hope heavy in your heart you open the text, and you're very glad to see it's someone asking about the apartment.

unknown number: please tell me you are still open to take roommates because I've been looking for an apartment for weeks and have had no luck. I promise I'm not weird.

You let out a small chuckle as you read the text.

you: yes it's still available. and it's okay I don't think you're weird I feel your desperation because same, I've been looking for a roommate for weeks.

You text this person a bit more, and you find out his name is Zach Maclaren and he's in the same university as yours, but you two have very different courses so you never saw each other on campus.

You both have set up to meet at a local coffee shop to get to know each other better, and you have been feeling a bit more excited than you should be. You saw his pictures and you definitely found him attractive. And if he helps you by being a perfect roommate, you might as well gain something more out of this whole situation.

You reach the coffee shop and just as you sit, Zach arrives. He comes up to you with a big smile on his face and even gives you a hug, encasing you completely in his warmth.

You definitely have trouble parting from him, seeing how perfectly your body fits within his, but you do and you both sit on the opposite seats of the table you chose.

"Are you coming from one of your soccer practices?" You ask, as you take a proper look at his outfit to find he's wearing a t shirt with shorts and some sports shoes.

"Yeah, I was worried the practice time might clash with our time to meet up, but thank god it didn't," he lets out a light laugh as you smile at him.

You decide to order all your food first, and then resume your conversations as you wait for it.

"You're telling me you love to cook?" You gasp and he laughs at your reaction.

"Yes," he says with a big grin on his face.

"That's actually so perfect, I mean, if you do move in with me, we can make a proper system of how one is mostly responsible for the cooking and the other for cleaning. It's actually going to relieve so much load off the both of us," you say, as you are served all your food.

Zach takes his coffee and takes in a big sip before speaking. "That is going to be great," he adds. "And we can do all the other stuff together, like grocery shopping or shopping for anything for around the house,"

You smile wide and nod at him, and you both start to eat the scones and croissants you got. A silence falls around you both for just a few minutes as you both eat, but it doesn't feel awkward, if anything, it feels so right. As if you're both meant to be sitting opposite to each other every single day while having your dinner.

You have clicked very quickly with him, and you're so grateful for that, because this might as well be the end of your long, tiring search of finding a roommate. All that is left is to get a approval from him, but you have a feeling he won't say no, because he seems very enthusiastic about it, just the way you are.

"So, what's the verdict? Would you love to move in with me?" You ask, your heart slightly beating faster.

"Of course I would love to! I have spent way too long trying to find a roommate and I don't think I want to continue to do that, but also you seem very nice and I think we would work perfectly together," he smiles at you. You immediately relax and let out a scream of happiness. You get up from your chair to give him another hug as you walk behind him, wrap your arms around his shoulders and gently squeeze them with happiness.

"Thank you Zach, thank you so much," you say as he laughs and gently holds onto your arms. You let go of him and sit back on your seat.

"There's one thing you need to help me with though," you say, and he looks at you expectantly, "so you see, about this month's rent..."

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You finally get the last box from Zach's car and bring it up to your apartment. You keep it on the floor right next to the others and let out a sigh of relief as you sit on your couch to rest.

Just a few minutes Zach comes up too after getting some other things from his car. Just a few days ago, you brought him to your place to allow him to look around and explore. There isn't much to explore, but you were glad when he was happy with his bedroom. But he there is one thing he isn't satisfied with: your kitchen.

"No, you just don't have all the stuff you'll need in here," he says as he walks to your kitchen with a box in his hand labelled as 'kitchen equipment' as you follow him, concerned about what he means when you don't have all the 'stuff'.

He sets the box on the kitchen island and opens it, and you peek over his shoulder to find equipment you only see in those fancy cooking videos on the internet; something you never even considered of buying.

"Whoa," you whisper, as you see him pull out atleast 10 different types of baking moulds. You pick one up and see it is in shape of a skull.

"And this comes in handy when. . ." you trail off, looking at him expectantly, but he's just ushering around your kitchen to keep all his stuff and also rearranging some of your own utilities.

"Halloween, duh," he adds, turning to you and taking the mould from your hands. He keeps it alongside his other moulds in one of your cabinets.

"Your spice drawer needs a lot of work, by the way," he comments, leaving the kitchen and getting started on organising his bedroom.

You huff at his unrequired comment and follow him to his bedroom to help him set up everything in there.

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You wake up to the sunlight entering through your curtains, lighting everything around you in a golden tint. Unlike the usual silence you hear each morning when you wake up, today you hear the sounds of pots and pans from the kitchen, something sizzling away on the stove and the string of the melody being sung by the one and only, Zach.

You go into the kitchen to see him with his bare back towards you as he flips a pancake (and your eyes wander over his back muscles flexing, but that isn't what's necessary right now) and places it in a plate of already piling pancakes next to him. They are perfectly round and golden, something you can never be so perfect at even if you tried too hard.

"Oh hey good morning," Zach says with a smile as he notices you have appeared by his side.

"Hey," you say with a yawn, your eyes still threatening to close. "Did you sleep well?"

"I did, actually, for some reason I thought it may take me some time to adjust to a whole different room and bed but I was very relaxed," he tells you. He piles the last pancake on top of the others and now fully turns around to face you.

"I don't think I've ever had such a lavish breakfast on my own before," you say as you take two plates and knives and forks and follow Zach to your kitchen island.

"Well, now I'm living with you, so it's lavish breakfasts, lunches, and dinners from now on," he grins. You break into a smile as he serves you some pancakes. You thank him and just as you take the first bite, you feel like you've been transported to heaven.

"Wow," you say, your eyes wide and your voice muffled. You never knew homemade pancakes could be this delectable. Zach smiles at your reaction and eats his own pancakes, both of you completely contented as you kick start your Sunday.

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You reach Zach's room with your vacuum cleaner; as per your system, you are responsible for all sorts of cleaning around that house and Zach for the cooking. You knock at his door and here a 'come in' and pull on the latch.

He's going through one of his drawers to get a t shirt while he stands with just a towel wrapped around his waist, his hair wet as drops drip down his neck. He swallow the huge lump in your throat as you close the door behind you.

"I'm just going to vacuum in here real quick," you clear your throat as you peel your eyes off his toned chest and focus on cleaning. The humming of your vacuum cleaner fills the air around you, and Zach goes back into his washroom to wear his clothes.

"Oh would you like to hit the grocery store with me? I noticed you're out of some vegetables and other stuff," he asks as he comes out of the washroom.

You nod at his words and quickly finish up the vacuuming of his room. Soon you both leave for the grocery store.

You take a cart and push it around the store as Zach brings items to put in the cart. You spot some items you have never even thought of adding to your food before. Zach is quick to pile up the cart.

"You know you're hundred percent responsible for all the food bills of our house," you say, half joking.

"Oh yes don't worry about that," he says seriously, as he bends down to a lower shelf to get some sort of special sauce.

When the cart is pretty much filled to the brim, you both reach the self check out station. You stand at the side and Zach starts to bill in all he has bought, and just as he said, every single penny for the groceries came out so his pocket.

When Zach has put all the bought items in the bags, you go ahead to pick one but he stops you.

"Don't worry about it, I'll handle it," he says, picking both of the clearly heavy bags with ease. You try to say something, but you realise quick that there actually isn't a point to say anything; what he wants his way, is going to happen his way.

You follow him out to his car.

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It's been just over a week since Zach moved in with you, and you've got to say, you've adjusted way too quickly than you thought you would. Every plan you make, every task you set, seems to always align perfectly with his own, which allows you both to do your own things in your own perfect harmony. He even helped you with your loading bills of the month, even though it was initially decided he would start taking his financial duties from the first of the upcoming month.

Every morning you wake up to the most perfect breakfast you can dream of, and Zach gets to come back from university to a spotless home. You both usually carpool and save a lot on gas money, which has started to make an effective change to your savings.

Zach's home cooked meals are out of this planet, and you don't remember what's the last time you ordered take-out. Everytime you crave something, Zach will make it at home, and you'll be left completely surprised with how it tastes even better than the take-out.

Zach loves to try new things almost each week, and you're now his personal taste tester (as he likes to call it), or his personal guinea pig (as you like to call it, because you think he's experimenting on you).

"You can so easily sneak poison into any of your dishes and bam, no one will ever know," you joke from your position in your living room, as Zach is in the kitchen whipping up something.

You hear him laugh from the kitchen, and you shake your head with a smile as you focus back on the book you're reading.

Suddenly he comes running out of the kitchen to you, with a ladle in his hand. Before you can question him about anything, he basically shoves it in your mouth.

"How is it? Too spicy? Too salty? I think it needs just a dash of cumin but I'm not sure if it needs cumin or maybe some, I don't know, paprika? Fenugreek seeds? I just, I cannot think-"

"It's perfect," you whisper, as you feel the earthy broth go down your throat, spreading the most beautiful symphony of flavors in your mouth.

Zach stops his rant and looks at you with his eyes wide. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, yes I am!" You say excitedly, as you get up and push him towards the kitchen. "This is absolutely perfect," you look at the pot full of the broth kept on a low simmer. You take the ladle from him and scoop some more broth from the pot and move it closer to him.

He gently sips onto it and closes his eyes for a moment. "It is perfect," he whispers, taking the ladle from you. You nod with a big grin on your face as you watch him add some coriander on top to garnish and close the lid.

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[puckpocketed]

hi!! I was wondering where or how you do you research for players and teams, and just hockey in general? do you have any favorite blogs or other resources? thank you~

okay picking thru web rot for the sharks primer has prepared me for this one lmao here's the quick answer because i really need to eat some pie and go to bed. Hockey is my all-consuming interest at the moment and I haven't watched actual television or films; or read anything non-academic that isn't about hockey in.... 9 months? If it seems like I am taking in a LOT of information in a short amount of time it's because I am. I listen to hockey things at 2-5x speed depending on if its a video on youtube (locked to 2x), a podcast (3.5x is my ideal speed), or my screenreader (5x) and often take notes, save articles as pdfs to go back to, and transcribe things for fun (only recently am putting my transcriptions as addendums to gifs... very rewarding <3). When not studying for my actual degree, I am reading about hockey or listening to something hockey related or watching hockey or writing about hockey or learning how to play hockey. i am so serious. please don't assume that this is normal, optimal, or even something I would wish upon other people. I am in Love with her in thee most wretched and irrevocable way. She's my hobby in the sense that shes my sun and im building my wax wings and looking directly at her light and thanking her for blinding me. amen.

more seriously, if I'm going down a player rabbit hole I will try many of these things - though not necessarily all of them, and not in this order (and i'm sure i've forgotten one or two things I usually try... lordy):

I go to spotify/apple podcasts and throw in player names just to see what comes up and listen to basically everything.

if they are on an NHL team, there are likely MULTIPLE podcasts dedicated to that team. trawl through their podcast archives, especially post-game podcasts where discussion is happening about their performance. sometimes there are even interviews <3

i do the same with youtube if I can...!

throw their name into reddit, tumblr, twitter and scroll. endlessly. just trawl through everything that I can possibly get my hands on. The more obscure the player the easier this is, because there really aren't that many things to find out about them and not many people are talking about them at all. <- this is how I make contact with people who are the only person that knows about this one (1) guy and then we hold fins forever. <3

find out who the teams beat reporters are. if youre looking into prospects, even juniors teams have people covering them. the writing might not be the highest quality but you WILL eventually find fun details if you go digging.

check: elite prospects articles, the hockey writers articles, find out the player's home town and see if their local paper has anything on them (basically, check any and all databases that use a tagging system or have a functional search engine)

helpful things to tack onto the end of google/youtube/database searches: "media availability" "post-game" "interview" "feature" "profile" "scouting report" "draft" "debut" "review" "highlight" "tournament"

if they're a player from a non-english speaking country it's worth throwing their non-romanized name into google to see what you can get. google translate the website // chatgpt translation are two options - not ideal and not to be trusted 100% over actual translation done by a fluent human speaker.

Instagram stories are the bane of my existence because they're so ephemeral

tiktok is a parallel universe to me. I do not have the app. any browsing I do on it is solely via googling "[team name] tiktok official" and clicking around on my desktop PC. I've only ever done this for M.Chrona's gf (who is much more famous than him) but if you're really doing down the rabbit hole of player research, some of their WAGs will post about them. <- as always, be respectful/not weird.

facebook for older stuff... genuinely makes my skin crawl so I avoid it and its a last resort LMAO but yeah teams used to post on facebook and everything!!! <- again. dont be weird and stalk peoples families or friends asjklakjl

"[player/team name] gettyimages [day/month/year]" <- substitute getty images for: flickr, hockeyshots, dreamstime, alamy

Substack is good for general hockey stuff if you can stomach the dreaded idea of subscribing via email or getting the app <3 I like: Jack Han (hockey tactics newsletter), Sean Shapiro (shap shots), Adam Gretz (adam's sports stuff), Thibaud Chatel <- for the analytics nerds, Alex MacLean <- his Scouting The Scouts series is what got me into substack in the first place, Greg Revak (hockey IQ newsletter) <- this is the one that's got me on development stuff atm SUPER rec because there's gifs and charts and many many hyperlinks included for citations <3

i should do a book rec at some point but uhhhh its getting late and im hungry <3 thank you for asking + reading if you got this far, I hope it was a helpful peek into my process?

[kaksparkz]

for the artist askgame, idk how many youve answered already but 3,4,10,12,21,24 and 35!

hello helloo!! sorry im just answering this now, been pretty busy^^ (also, using this chance to thank u for your support!! i always see u interacting with my stuff here hbasfcyhdb you're a sweetheart😭💕)

Your fav piece/s?

Probably this vergil one! i still love how it looks djddgnds my art peaked here im afraid,,,,,

Piece you wish got more love?

hmm, this is an interesting one!! tbh i dont mind it much but this johnny fanart got waaaaay more attention on instagram!! i mean,,, i have a lot of mk moots there so it makes sense lol (and also just got to 1k followers on IG!! crazy stuff💌)

How do you deal with artblock?

to be honest, once i realize i have artblock i stop drawing for a couple of days. if i keep insisting on drawing i just get more and more frustrated and it makes it worse imo. so i like to spend some time doing my other hobbies!!! (´▽｀)

usually i just come back to drawing once i regain motivation or i get a cool idea that i need to sketch so i wont forget. and when that happens, my artblock is usually gone!! so,, i guess i just wait for it to go away? lol not much advice i can give on that sadly :/

Describe your process while drawing!

CHAOTIC. to say the least.

i spend like. half an hour on pinterest beforehand getting inspo & searching for refs and ONLY THEN i can start drawing. i start on SAI1, do the sketch and if i like how it looks, i just clean it up. if it dont, i do 'proper' lineart. after that i start coloring and shading!! this is my fav part tbh. once im done shading i color the lineart so its not completely black. then i open up SAI2 and start doing more rendering, adding overlays & effects. that part is also SO FUN cause it makes everything come together so nicelyy. my art process is a pretty big 'trust the process' till that part lol.

there's ALWAYS music or yt videos playing in the bg, and me taking A LOT of 15 minutes breaks cause that one song is so good and i have to stop drawing and start singing while looking at the spotify lyrics like im hypnotized LMAO

What do you thin you artstyle woukd taste like?

people always say my art looks so tasty and. i kind of agree!! like. smth very sweet. it really depends on the colors i use on the piece but,,, either hard candy, gummies, marshmallows or even syrup i think!!!

What's a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

i get super giddy with every compliment i get so i dont think i can remember one in particular??? but istg people always say the funniest, most sweet things ever and it's so nice to hear :3 but if i had to say smth,,, i once had the chance to talk with this one incredibly talented illustrator, and he kept telling me how he thought my stuff looked amazing. and i was like!!! wow!!! you actually like my stuff?? what!!!!

Piece of advice for my younger artist self

i would sit this little girl down and talk to her for hours tbh poor thing was STRUGGLING 😭😭😭

i guess my best advice for her (and for anyone who reads this, too!) is to not be so hard on yourself. art is a skill, and it takes a lot of time to build it up!!!

i used to get SO extremely upset when my stuff didnt look the way i wanted it to and ughhh. took me literal years to find my artstyle too and that didn´t help AT ALL with how frustrated i was feeling. i felt,,, stuck??

but now i look back at my art journey and. wow have i improved!! maybe if that little girl saw the stuff i do today she wouldn´t be so sad about her art :´] not to say i don´t struggle today, i still feel stuck and frustrated often!! but i guess i learned to be kinder to myself. but i still have lots of things to improve about my art!! i wonder when i´ll take another look back and see how much i´ve progressed since today,,,

thank you for the ask!! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

[nightyslibrary]

Pizza Means Family

Another separated au, where Mikey is the only turtle Splinter saves. While he finds April accidentally and wastes no time to call her his sister, his siblings are raised by two of the famous bad guys. This get out of control when six of them end up at the same place, and each sibling has to decide what to do with what they learn. aka where you belong au because I'm either too good with titles or too bad haha

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Chapter 1: Just a Few Hours Ago, When Everything was Normal

Mikey grinned as he read April's message. Tonight they had made a plan, a late celebration for Mikey's birthday. Since she and Mikey couldn't celebrate it outside as they had planned because of her school, they had postponed it to today. Which Mikey had been hardly able to wait.

They would go eat pizza, have some fun at the roofs, hang out in several places, jump into a pool... so many activities that Mikey was ready for. He and April would meet in the back alley of her apartment. The text was a reminder, in case Mikey got too lost into hobbies- again. The box turtle was grateful for his sister's thoughtfulness, but she should've known there was no way he was forgetting about this.

Maybe he should start getting ready though.

Mikey leaned to get his pouch, wristbands, socks, kneepads and lastly bandana. The bandana was April's gift for his birthday (along with another gift). He and April had learned how to make their own accessories, sew their own clothes, and such stuff from various sources over the years (like her mother's magazines, internet, and Splinter teaching them). This bandana was a result of that, a symbol made with their mutual knowledge over the craft and friendship.

It was nice to have a big sister who would always know how to give the best gifts.

He wondered if his brothers would be good at giving gifts too.

Mikey looked at the table, a few drawings of his ideas and imagination based on the information he accidentally found out on his thirteenth birthday. He still could remember the shock of hearing his dad talking to himself, mourn the turtles he never was able to save. How he wished to be able to find them, and how he hoped they weren't with Draxum. Mikey wondered who that Draxum guy was. But what he currently cared about was how he had siblings.

Dad had said three names.

Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello.

That day Mikey had gotten so excited that he had texted April to meet, and without waiting an answer had run to her place. He had some lost brothers to find, and he had to share his plan with her. April had agreed to help, but she had told him that they should plan this with more care.

They had tried their best on their search, April joining whenever she had free time. They had found nothing.

This didn't stop Mikey from wondering who they were. How did they look? What food did they like? Did they grow up in sewers too? Were they a fan of Lou Jitsu or Jupiter Jim as well?

Did they know about him and Dad?

Another message ping distracted him from his thoughts.

🏵 April🏵:

You better be ready and heading out.

Mikey winced, noticing how much time had passed. If he didn't move, he'd be late.

As he walked out of his room, he glanced at the drawings of his dad, himself, and the other three turtles.

Once again, he wondered if they were really out there.

Once again he told himself he'll find them.

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

Red had a bad feeling.

Yes, Red was anxious often and felt bad about some stuff more than the yokai who raised them or the gargoyles that took care of them as kids… but this was different.

Something was wrong, and he wasn't sure if it was Draxum's plan or Purple's behavior.

Whenever Draxum would ask Purple to take care of stuff in the back, he'd get grumpy. He'd do his job, better than everyone else Red has ever met in his life, but he'd still be bitter. Red had an idea why.

Today he was bitter too, except there was something else along it. He had made that face he'd do when working on his ninpo, creating "something useful", as he would say. Determined, perhaps. Red was worried. Whenever Purple tried something for the first time, there was a risk of failure. Red was not a fan of those risks. Not with how many times he almost hurt himself. So Red hoped his senses were wrong.

Meanwhile, Red was asked to assist Draxum. He would be by his side, in case any of his test subjects tried to run away or anything went wrong- just like how it did thirteen years ago. So Red had worn his armor as always, and quietly waited for orders.

As he watched Draxum work and control things Red never quite understood, he started thinking about his origin. The story about their creation always fascinated him, but not because of what Draxum had managed to create (as he would say with pride). No, what fascinated Red was the others. The man who gave them their DNA and the siblings he was never able to meet again. At least he had Purple, Draxum, Hummin and Mummin.

Still, he wondered if the slider, the loggerhead, and the box turtle were okay.

He wished to know more about them. Had they survived? Was the box turtle with Lou Jitsu? Were the slider and loggerhead what the big lady wanted them to be?

Would he ever see them again?

"Red," Draxum called the snapper.

"Yes, Draxum?"

"Come here."

Red did as Draxum asked, pushing away the thoughts regarding his lost family and focusing on what he had now.

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Purple wished that for once that Draxum would take the risk and put him on the field. He knew that he was aware of Purple's strong ninpo and his genius brain, but Draxum refused to forget that one of his powerful mutant warriors had a flaw that almost cost his life twice.

A flaw that Purple hated passionately.

He knew well that Draxum had the knowledge of his softshell and his weak points, and honestly Purple was surprised that the yokai had chosen him as one of his warriors. Yet, one would expect that he'd have something in his mind for the battlefield if he chose him on purpose.

(The possibility of Draxum adding him into the mix just because of curiosity made Purple feel sick. It couldn't be true anyway. It was Draxum.)

So what if his laboratory once got demolished and he almost died? Who cares if when he and Red played roughly as tots he almost got hurt very very badly? He could protect himself now! He even had made himself a shell out of his ninpo to prove it!

Why had he had to stay back and control everything from outside of the main area?

The worst part was he knew that Red agreed with him, but his brother always would follow what Draxum said.

This wasn't fair at all.

…

Okay, so maybe he did follow Draxum's words too. But not like Red. Purple was different from him. It was just that he wanted Draxum to be happy and proud of him. So that nobody would ever forget him and get rid of him. Exactly what everyone would want.

But he could never prove himself from the back.

Which was why after today it would be different. At the moment of importance, he'd step in and prove he is much more capable than what Draxum thinks!

He looked through the windows. He was already almost finished with his job here, so all he had to do was to climb up to the higher levels and wait.

Perfect plan, Purple. He praised himself as he smiled. Perfect .

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"Come on Veeeeeen! I can't stay inside here anymore!"

Leon's was whining for a while now, half dramatic, half genuine, begging for his sister to take him to her simple mission. So far it was going well.

"Leon shut up, someone will hear you! Do you want us to get into trouble?" Venus glared at him.

"No, I thought I made my request oblivious." Leon said.

"You can't come with me, you know the rules." She reminded him, for a millionth time.

"But Mama doesn't have to know. It will be a simple trip. You get to do your shopping, I'll tag along and see some people, and we will be back before anyone knows." Leon knew he couldn't do much and risk it all, he guessed Venus would know too. So why not give him a chance?

Venus looked at him with softer eyes this time, "I know you're bored of Nexus Hotel and want something different, but you've been to Hidden City. Why don't you save your chance for something else?"

Leon looked away from her, instead focusing on a wall. A wall he had been seeing for the past fourteen years of his life and getting sick of it. Hidden City though? That was a rare feat. "It's been so long, Vee." He sighed. "I know Mama doesn't want any of us out without permission, but I think I'll go insane if I spend another day here."

She rolled her eyes, "You're exaggerating." Still, she came and sat by his side on the enormous bed. "But I can consider it…"

Leon's eyes immediately brightened up. "Thank you Ve-"

"...Only if you wear your guard costume too."

Ah. Of course. The itchy guard costume. "Can't I wear another disguise?" Leon whined.

"No." Venus answered, a sly smile on her face.

"You know, I had heard sea turtles are kind. Unlike you. Are you sure you're not mixing up your species?"

He met with a pillow on his face. "Either be ready when I come back or stay here. You got fifteen minutes."

"Okay okay, fine." Leon huffed. Then smirked, "Good to know you still know to not miss the right offers."

She grinned, "You keep forgetting who taught you first." She said as she left the room.

"Keep believing that!" Leon shouted after her, grinning as well.

As the door closed, he felt his grin get wider. It had been so long since he was able to get out of this building. He was sure Venus wouldn't mind having some extra fun in Hidden City, too.

••••••••

Somewhere far, far away, a teenage mutant girl smiled and laughed with her father. Unaware of the world, dangers, and fate that awaited her.

[watsername]

hiii sorry to bother but I have been getting into making my own clothes and I wanted to ask u if u knew how i could get more into fashion 👉🏻👈🏻

honest to god i got into fashion just by hunting around the internet and seeing ppl i thoight looked cool lmao

i know a lot of people use pinterest for inspo but i never got into it my favourite place to go is tiktok even tho like pinterest it does promote a certain body type imo there’s a lot more style diversity and it’s quick on trends too i follow a lot of sewing creators ( i also want to make my own clothes but i don’t have time w uni rn :( ) right now i LOVE eddysonline he has some great patterns for beginners the stuff is rather feminine so if that’s ur thing i’d definitely recommend his in depth tutorials

knowing what to do with the clothes once u have them is probably a rlly important bit so i also follow a lot of style creators like andrea’s fashion galaxy is one of my faves she’s so fun i also have michaila cothran for more bratz type looks and obv måneskin are one of my faves for eccentric fashions fashion is so diverse in aesthetics there will always be someone or a group of people that u will find for inspiration number one is have a think about who you appreciate aesthetically and if you want that to translate to your own fashion aesthetic

i will say a lot of fashion tiktok leaves me uninspired bc it’s the same jeans leather jacket clean girl combo or skims bodysuit or oh polly dress all in black white and beige so searching for fashiontok might seem a bit fruitless if that’s not what ur into

personally id try looking like styling [clothing style] outfit or [clothing style] sewing patterns if you start following some you’ll end up with more cropping up onto your fyp introducing you to new styles and aesthetics you can find out what aesthetics you enjoy things you want to try out or just tips to elevate outfits with clothes u already have

another thing i like to do is just pick one thing out of my wardrobe and try to style as many outfits as i can with that one thing it challenges the way you’d normally think about your clothing you might find yourself layering things you’d never considered or wearing it in a way that’s different that the way it was intended it gives you an opportunity to try things out and learn how to style things that good on your body instead of just emulating what other people are doing online

i rlly hope u have fun making clothes it seems like a rlly cool hobby i would sell feet pics to make clothes if i had to

[freakystrashdump]

Hello! Could you tell us a bit about Priest? When he was alive did he have any hobbies? Something he was pretty good at and enjoyed doing? Besides hunting witches, of course. What was he like when he was a child? Shy? extrovert?I'm very curious about that background.

Oh lets go baby this one has been in the askbox for a while I was just too tired from work to write stuff down properly.

Priest, known in life as Matthias, spent most of his youth joined to his mothers hip, all the way up until her death, when she was burned as a witch - by his own father.

During his life with his mother there, he showed incredible talent for plant care, as he helped his mother take care of and collect many herbs, watching her intently as she made many teas and potions for the women in their village, memorizing every recipe. He was happy when around her, and the women who went to her for aid loved him as well, telling him secrets, teaching him things, all of which he loved, it made him feel special.

Between the women his mother helped, and the church his father took him to, he saw the difference in how everyone acted, how much they lied to each other, to everyone. He listened and he learned. He watched the adults talk, and learned how to talk like them, learned what they liked to hear. Learned how they lie, and why they lie. He was an incredibly bright boy, very observant of others, very emotionally intelligent.

He lived for the praise of the adults, so he acted grown up on purpose.

After his mothers death, he became angrier. He was told he had to hate her, that she cursed him with her impure blood, and that he was no better than her and that Hell awaited him. And this was beaten in to him, literally, by his horrid father. He started internalizing it fast, that anger, keeping it bubbling inside, a cross he had to carry, getting beat if he let it show. He became silent and obedient, with a glare that could freeze hell itself, and devoted himself to his studies, to the church.

In the church, he searched for redemption for his cursed blood. He turned to God, hoping if he devoted his life to Him, he'd be forgiven for being the son of a witch. He became more and more radicalized thanks to the fear

As soon as his father was dead, at the age of 19, he left everything he knew. It was his rebirth, just as Jesus rose from his death, so this was his own resurrection, arriving to North America, to the little town of Salem.

Matthias quickly rose to prominence, a young, beautiful man who was so devoted to the church that he put the older priests and ministers in the town to shame. He was beloved by all, he truly was, he always seemed to know what to say, always seemed to know what to do, he listened to the townsfolk and offered advice. He had a smile that disarmed instantly, and a serpents tongue that bewitched the mind of all who spoke to him. He rose in title, becoming equal to the Minister of the town.

Don't let any of that fool you, though, like it fooled the town. Matthias was a manipulative, sleazy man, filled with rage. He was hypocritical and self-serving, convinced that the more he climbed the titles of the church, the closer he was to Gods forgiveness. He had no guilt when he brought down the Elders and Priests, learning their secrets and using them against them, and subsequently taking their place and title.

It was a weird dichotomy. He truly loved helping the community, he loved the praise, just like he did when he was a child, he helped whoever he could. But the underhanded beast that lied beneath was there, working, scheming.

He still kept the love of botany, despite everything. He tended to a garden near his home, a bittersweet reminder of his mother, the last time he felt safe was at her side. Even if he hated her, or said he hated her. He'd speak to his plants often. He also loves dogs, he had a rottweiler named Ada, who he absolutely adored and would kill for. He lived alone, in a rectory that was a bit further away than most, closer to the woods. He loved cooking, and he would take up whittling as well. He climbed almost to the top, so he grew content. He was beloved by the community.

Slowly, he started...healing.

But when the witch hysteria hit the town of Salem, it made something…click in him. Something ugly came out, and it made him become worse than he ever was. The anger, the internalized self hatred. He took it out on the supposed witches with zero hesitation. He was furious, he was disgusted, he hated them…he envied them. He missed his mother, and in return, it made him angrier for being weak, his fathers voice echoing in his head that he was no better and that he will never reach God's grace.

There were more deaths than the official archives show, and they were all done by his hand, in secret.

I said this before, but Priest would have been very similar to Draco if his mother had managed to escape with him. If he had grown with her, if she was never taken from him. Matthias would have become a herbalist witch, like his mother, with incredible wit and a serpents tongue, with the ability to manipulate entire towns to his whim, and in return would protect them.

Matthias was at his worst during the witch hysteria, and during the first centuries he spent in hell. He climbed up just as he did in life, and carved out a piece of his own, without ever making deals with Demons. During this period, he was relentless when it came to witches, absolutely bloodthirsty. But as centuries passed, he grew content, not quite healing as he almost did before, but he...mellowed out.

Salem wouldn't have survived if she met Priest in his prime.

He's a man desperate for community, for praise, for a sense of belonging. He chased after the same thing even after he died - he created a parish in Hell, that's how good he is at what he does, with sinners and hellborns alike who lived in his territory actually...behaving, going against their nature, the nature of Hell itself, and believing him. His slice of territory at the edge of Pentagram City is literally the safest place in all of Hell.

[emma-what-son]

There's still hope if people are interested in what she does next and it gets a good reception. - yeah but for that she would actually have to put in some work and bring something real to show for it. If she keeps doing celebrations that glorify her and her self like the Prada Ad then I don't think she qualifies to be called an artist just based purely on what she's brought out in the public domain (not talking about her alleged hobby of painting and other kinds of art and craft if she has them in private). It's not impressive to be frank. So she went on a soul searching hiatus for the last 3-4 years when we saw her traveling non stop and being tonedeaf about Covid and it felt like she was somehow trying to defend that in her interview by saying don't judge me, I was lost and unhappy and needed to find myself so I did some stuff. But after endangering many people's lives like that and hardly even wearing masks when she was a potential super spreader at that time, she's come back with this? It's not even real directing work, just a vanity project on Prada's dime. If she wants to show she understands art then her ad should have somehow showed the ideas she had in mind for what Paradoxe should mean for other people. Instead she had this voiceover about how she wants to be seen and showed symbolic representations of her exploration journey inwards and only mentioned the perfume at the end like it was an afterthought. If all that "soul searching" and irresponsible behaviour during the pandemic was just so she could come back harder than ever on the ego angle and make a high funded project into a manual on how people should see her with all her contradictions and hypocrisies then I think her world tour and all other activities associated with it were wasted. She's entitled to take pleasure trips and leisure times but self marketing hard as an artistic director and film maker and someone who always wanted to create something behind the camera and then bringing THIS is quite underwhelming. She not only didn't bring anything impressive to justify the exaggerated terms she used to promote but seems like she's not even managed to learn a thing or two about humility even as she starts as a beginner in a field new to her (getting out story through the camera and what it can capture rather than doing it by acting out a script handed to her and directed by someone else).

I'm interested to see what she does next. If it ends up being a movie or a short film, then you know she will take it seriously, because she's doing something new and wants to be taken seriously herself. I'm not so sure if she'll pull it off though. I know that we haven't seen everything she did during her break, but I don't think she really took classes to learn more or really spent too much time honing her craft. But we'll see what she says. Maybe I'm underestimating her.

[shamelessrabbithole]

i didn’t know cameron was featured in a photoshoot/book like that, i must search a bit for it but that’s exactly what i mean! another thing is that we know cameron in the sense that we’re fans and we know a bit of the behind the scenes of his personality and hobbies but others who follow him don’t!

i’m sure there are lots that are there for star wars or shameless still that don’t really go deep into his personal life, imagine following an actor because you like him and want to have updates but you just keep seeing those pictures instead. it feels like you’re belong flashed lol (it’s a strong word but how do i say, i didn’t sign up for that it’s uncalled for)

maybe if he had another account to share pictures then it would be okay cause it’s another thing that i decide if i want to see especially if he has a sort of portfolio where i can see what he pictures (aka some sort porn kinky shots)

i understand that being an artist, actor or whatever— being in the industry might make nudity and sexuality less of a taboo or something ‘private’, but i still find it so wrong of him to do that. i read that one of the girl he pictured has a OF and apparently she’s the one he messed around that was 19 at the time? ( and was 4/5 years older? )

let’s say he’s a reminder that men will be men, everything we know from him just keeps piling up and it’s not exactly a great look for him. i’m thinking of when he posted the post-work out pictures, where he posted him laying on his gf (at the time) and making out, the photoshoot with payton in the bath, the pictures he took of madison being naked in front of him… it keeps making me think, why? why do you need to do that so badly. it’s like he wants to direct a r18 movie but since being a pornographer is a bad look he hides behind being ‘artistic’

i do not mind nudity in art but the way he does it looks ‘dirty’ and not as a celebration of the human body. even with the recent shoot where he’s directing his friend, a room full of women, just women and he’s there taking pics of the girl in her underwear and the first thing you see are her open legs (and so her private part thankfully covered) .

((random thought but ive always found it interesting how the closest friend he has from the shameless cast still is a woman, cause once again he surrenders himself with girls all the time, despite that actress being around for less than the others he basically grew up with. this is surely me nitpicking but with everything im noticing it’s just weird))

does he even have a PR team cause someone needs to sit with him and talk it out!

I agree with some of your assessments, like you’re keeping up with him for work updates, not nudity and borderline fetish content belonging to his friends. It can be jarring and unnecessarily in-your-face.

I happen to not be easily shaken by the stuff he posts. I’m more perplexed by it than put off by it, and if given the choice of complete privacy and social isolation versus the stuff we do get from him, then I choose what we get.

There are 2.8 million eyes on his instagram page, but realistically, how many people really take that deep an interest in this sort of thing. A few thousand? I don’t think a publicist needs to intervene and set him straight. He’s so far posted nothing x-rated or so controversial that it would get him canceled, so to me, it’s really all pretty innocent in the grand scheme of things.

[artistibatt-ocs]

Dunamis Region stuff part 2

During the journey in Dunamis, there would still be gym leaders of course! In no particular order, these are the Dunamis gym leaders!

Okay I’m writing this after writing a lot of stuff below, so my notes are actually not consistent due to me changing which characters were in each region. This makes things difficult for me. But I’ll let y’all know which characters have inconsistent position notes don’t worry!

Dark - Rook

An eccentric man who specializes in dark types. Many believe dark types are scary, but he admires their beauty and strength. He wears a scarf that was given to him by his wife, Aura. He acts like he’s a villain by making snarky comments, but he’s a kind (and sorta pathetic) dude.

Aura - Psychic

A soft-spoken woman who specializes in psychic types. She was born with psychic powers, like many other psychic type gym leaders, but hasn’t practiced much with it. She’s a kind person that likes to help people such as her husband Rook who always ends up in trouble.

Alloy - Steel/Electric

The youngest gym leader at around 15. She loves construction and inventing very much! A rotor resides in a special necklace they have and it can create holograms. She usually has rotom a sort of search engine that can be used with specialized gloves. She tends to keep to herself unless Phantom is around as that’s her current guardian as her parents died a long time ago. They see him as an uncle.

Draco - Dragon

Very loud and overly friendly to the point of annoyance to people in his town. He trains dragon type pokemon and preforms shows with them around town. He wears a costume similar to a wizard with a dragon tail and a hat with horns. He’s traveled to every region and even met his Salamence, Bagel, in Kalos. He doesn’t call him Bagel much in public though as he thinks people would make fun of him for that.

Quill - Flying

A shy and awkward young man. He loves flying types, especially ones that resemble birds. They have low self-esteem, but want to work on themself so they end up doing training with their Hawlucha. This training causes him to disappear for days at a time. He almost died at a mountain he was climbing trying to find Articuno until a shiny Delibird helped him. The delibird doesn’t fight, instead they travel around Dunamis delivering mail.

Adrian - Water/Ground

She used to live in Hoenn and Alola, but now she lives in Dunamis. She’s best friends with Draco and Florian. She is a very laidback and chill women who ends up into trouble sometimes due to her nature (getting trapped in galvantula webs in a cave being once instance). She has an interest in Kyogre and Groudon. She likes Kyogre more while her grandfather likes Groudon more. Swimming is also a hobby of hers.

Kelsey - Normal/Fighting

A woman who has a constant sense of justice and is actually the newest gym leader after her father stepped down. She always carries a sword and patrols town to make sure everyone is okay, similar to a knight. Some believe her to not be a good battler, but she doesn’t care as her father believes in her and her pokemon. She admires Keldeo and the Swords of Justice so much.

Phantom - Ghost

(This character is someone with inconsistent notes)

Phantom is a… mysterious one. They are always seen wearing a mask (it helps him see but most people don’t know he has poor vision). There are rumors about how he’s actually a ghost pokemon and other rumors about how he would steal your soul if you’re not careful. In reality, he is an awkward old man who hides from people. He has a theater (that doubles as a gym) where he encourages people to perform in. He wants to participate but he knows he isn’t loved by the people in his town. He can use ghost moves like shadow claw and shadow ball, which is how the rumors started. He is Alloy’s guardian!

Some notes say that Briar is a gym leader of Dunamis, but others say he’s a gym leader of Harmos. So I’ll talk about him when I get to Harmos!

[sankttealeaf]

for skills and hobbies: 🍳, ✨️, 🎁 and ✍️

answering fun oc asks from here!!

🍳 - Are they good at cooking? Do they like to? Why and how did they learn to cook, or, if they didn't, why didn't they?

rue LOVES cooking! it's one of her few hobbies she has that isn't directly linked to being bhaal's chosen / child. she's very methodical when it comes to preparing food and will often like to butcher meat herself if it's being used. (pre-tadpole dinner dates with gortash were... interesting, especially because she doesnt fully trust his staff not to try and kill them)

her foster family taught her! her two siblings both worked in the elfsong tavern so would pick up recipes from the kitchen to bring home. she enjoyed watching her mama cook and would go out and buy vegetables for their evening meal and ask lots of questions!

post tadpole it's gale who becomes camp cook and rue does sit by him and watch but no one trusts her cooking enough to let her make something.

✨️ - Are they a magic user? If so, how did they come to learn it (born with it, studied, acquired, etc.)? What does their magic look like when cast? If not, what is their attitude towards magic?

rue is a wild magic sorcerer! i like to think that being born from bhaal's flesh means whatever magics that lie within him got a little wonky when getting into rue. her magic is chaotic and ive always described it as her being able to phsyically hear the thrum of the weave and she looks for notes that are out of tune to the rest and pulls from that. wild magic surges come from her pulling recklessly!

her magic is full of many shades of red! she's self taught as well, which makes for fun conversations between her and gale when she's "clearly casting it wrong - the somatic components look nothing like that!" and "not everyone can go to wizard school, gale. leave me alone or i'll zap you without even speaking a word"

🎁 - If they needed to give a friend a gift, how would they go about choosing one? Would they buy it, make it, or do something else? Would others consider them a good at gift-giving?

rue gets obsessive when gift giving. the gifts have to be PERFECT or else she will simply not give them anything

theres a scene im pretty sure is not going to make the final cut of "let sleeping dogs lie" but she goes on a small gift hunt for gortash's birthday and gets him a little carnivorous plant, a book of essays on research into different power sources for machines and berry pie with ice cream from the bakery they used to steal from as kids. she spends like, the whole day searching for this stuff and it's well thought out.

over time she does get a little less obsessive with finding the right gift and during her time adventuring she'll often give people things she's found that reminded her of them.

✍️ - What does your character's handwriting look like? Do they write letters often? What other contexts do they usually write in, if any?

messy. as a fellow messy handwriting girlie i need to project onto her. sometimes it's illegible. sometimes she gets tired writing a word and will scribble the rest. sometimes she reads it back and goes "i have no idea what im trying to say"

she's always been jealous of gortash's handwriting because it's prettier than hers and there's been times where she's tried to copy it (it never worked)

pre tadpole - she exchanged letters with gortash often, and wrote prayers down to give up to her father.

post tadpole - she keeps a little diary of her journey back to baldurs gate!

[calexis-creates]

Gacha Life 2 Character designs I've made

So I only use gacha to help with character designs. Anywho....

Here's a song you can listen to too

It inspired the creation of one of my ocs.

Dawntale Undyne

She starts off as a teenage influencer but after releasing Midnight by accident, she has ro become a royal gaurd that travels the multiverse in search of him.

Calexis

Calexis is my persona or whatever, she's the first one I posted and I decided to recreate her in gacha Life 2

Hati

A character inspired by the real Hati, the Norse wolf that chases the moon. Hati is supposed to be an antagonist in most of the stories he's in. Since his name means "to hate," he easily holds grudges and claims to hate everything. Of course, he doesn't hate everything, but he doesn't like to admit it.

Dawntale Sunrise Sans

You won't believe how many times I've redesigned him. But he's an alternate version of Dream Sans, just in my AU. He's a king, he's the one that imprisoned his brother, and justifies all his wrongdoings the way most Asgores do. By saying it's what's necessary, but he also has a short temper, but when he's calm, he acts all fatherly

Dawntale Midnight Sans

Dawntale Sunrise Sans (God Form)

I had to make adjustments to give him the neck thing he has. Anywho, he's an alternate version of Nightmare, just a shy, not wanting confrontation version. But he will if he has to, he's on the run after being released by a group of teens. So he's homeless, traveling the multiverse.

He usually only uses this form if the battle is challenging or he's pissed. He's supposed to have four arms, but idk how to do that. He's supposed to be glowing like the sun, but idk how to do that. This is the closest I could get to what I envisioned in an old design.

MuteTale Sans

Simple compared to most of my designs, but he's more like original Sans, just muted and paranoid. His universe is inspired by "A Quiet Place" movie, and all his scars and stitches are from that. I have his original design drawn out multiple times and just tried making a gacha version

Fenrir Maori

Inspired by the actual Notse wolf Fenrir, son of Loki. Just my version. I'm constantly redesigning his clothes, and this is the most recent redesign. I like using "sadistic puppy" to describe him. I posted his info on in an earlier post.

Skoll

Inspired by the Norse wold Skoll, the one that chases the sun. She's an arrogant, sadistic, flirt that loves explosions. She's usually an antagonistic in my stories, fueled by greed.

Luke Maori

My gay Norse demigod oc. He is brothers with Fenrir and helps Fenrir adjust to Midgard or the human realm. Luke is one of those people who helps people a lot. It becomes more of an obligation to him over time. He always tries to be upbeat and light-hearted, but it's because he's pressuring himself to always be the best version of himself. He used to be the regular golden retriever kind of character, but he needs flaws, too. So his actions of kindness become less out of kindness and evolve into obligation, so he's not as selfless and carefree as he seems.

Joshua Demonikin (TW: trauma, grooming, self harm, cannibalism)

It's one of my simpler designs. He still has a demon form, I just haven't made it yet. He shares his soul with a demon. The demon forced him to terrible stuff, like cannibalism, because it took possession of his body a couple of times. He ended up in a mental facility, got groomed, got out, moved countries, and tried restarting. But he has a much longer story after that. One I won't reveal cuz i don't want to give away the whole story. He's usually rude for the sake of keeping people away from him. He thinks he's dangerous and has tried committing a couple of times. Other than that, his hobbies are the guitar , bird watching, and fishing. He does find his happily ever after, don't worry.

That's all I got so far 👍

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Oh! I did message you in instant messages. I can't always remember who I message someone. And I know that I send long messages that not everyone likes. So there's also that reason too.

Yeah. The High&Low franchise came out eight years ago. So you wish there was more people who still created content for the H&L fandom.

Which is bizarre to me? Because High&Low was a popular franchise when it came out, but now there seems to be nothing for the fandom. Especially because there are similarities between High&Low, Worst and Tokyo Revengers. Pretty boys who are delinquents. [I've only ever seen the Worst crossover movie with High&Low, not even the original series. So I can't comment much on Worst.]

Chimknj also wrote another High&Low story. Well.. There story would be a one shot, a one chapter story. Not that you have to read it. But it is a smutty story between Rocky and his girlfriend (original character) - during the events of the first movie.

And, I think, there is a person who's under the name FireOfJudgment on here. They have H&L stories, and AIB stories too. But I don't know what characters or ships they write for though. In case you may want to search their work. They might be an option for you.

It's best for me to write notes for ideas to stories, and characters, and who knows what else while being involved in the fandom. Because if I try writing when I'm not in any fandom, then my thoughts and ideas... I became fickle and scattered on what I want to write. It's a problem.

Being in a fandom makes me more focused to write for that fandom. If that makes any sense.

I mean.. The color coordination to my characters was accidental for me. Because I tend to go for a specific appearance for my characters, I was very adamant about using those people for my face claims but I wasn't sure for what fandom - and I probably will use them for a lot of other fandoms too. Most likely. But not sure which other fandoms yet though. Anyway. Anyway.. But one person's favorite color is blue, one is orange, and another is red which eventually became their signature colors. So I unconsciously connected them to their respective gangs, which is kinda funny because their personalities actually seem fitting for those gangs too. And since the High&Low cast of characters have been predominantly men, I wanted more female characters involved in the story. But there have been a few things I've been stick on lately.

i am just hella awful at answering my private messages. i’ll be like ‘ill reply to that in a bit’ and then completely forget.

it’s just weird. like fandoms used to stick around for longer and h&l is still relatively recent. like 2016 wasn’t even a decade ago yet! everybody go watch h&l and feel emotions you didn’t expect about a pretty boy gang show. the song ‘break into the dark’ literally got me F*cked Up, everybody go watch the unofficial music video.

i will absolutely go read a smutty fic, that’s half of what i’ve been reading lately anyway. love me an explicit fic. and rocky has grown on me, do really like that dude.

i used to be really good at writing short original stories, but now i find it a bit harder. need that high school inspired brain back. fanfics do come a bit easier for me, but i also second guess myself a lot and some stuff i don’t end up posting or even finishing. which is a shame bc it’s supposed to be a fun hobby. i definitely need a fandom to obsess over or i just go totally blank in the brain.

im so bad at colour coordinating my ocs, i can rarely ever decide on what colour suits them best. idk if anyone’s noticed how many light blue or pink characters i have ahsjdl. my own h&l oc kinda started as an oya oc and then developed into something more and got switched around a bit, i think i’m mostly happy with where she’s at rn tho. im having a lot of fun with her.

h&l is definitely lacking in the female character department. like even the strawberry milk girls don’t get a whole lot of screen time like i thought they would, which is a shame bc i think they’re cool and i love pink. i think naomi got the most screen time out of all the girls and even that wasnt a whole lot. n-e-way yamato’s mum and the bartender lady are, like, definitely gfs tho, that’s my hc.

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do u know if that "data mining through fb posts asking yr address/first car/whatever" is like, real? it's always struck me as scaremongering since ive never seen any like actual evidence that ppl do that. and it seems kinda tedious like, from the hacker's perspective

it is absolutely real lol. the evidence is that people get hacked all the time! hacking is tedious, as a profession and a hobby, all serious computer touchers are doing tedious jobs. this is why adhd/autistic people end up computer touching for a living quite a lot of the time, because we can get into flow states where we can dig through social media posts for 10 hours without getting bored or distracted.

there are many ways to get hacked. the most common way is using the same passwords on one site as you do on another site that gets their data stolen or leaked. thats easy mode. but if you piss someone off, advertise yourself as a target (like a lot of the influencers who have gotten robbed recently after showing off their stupid rolexes and shit on IG), or just get plain unlucky, you can end up on the receiving end of a computer toucher who will start with your tumblr bio and go something like this:

hm, Jessica is 25 years old and lives in Philadelphia and mentioned in a comment that she went to Smith Elementary school which is the aswer to one of the security questions at her bank, and i know what ban k she uses because she posted a complaint about that bank on her blog. i know her age which means that she graduated HS in 20XX and she says shes a libra so shes born in this month, seawrching for the word "birthday" on her tumblr didnt give me anything but searching the same on the twitter account she linked in her sidebar DID give me a post on her actual birthday so now i know when it is, oh she accidentally included part of a mailing address label in the backround of a pic of her nails so now i know her last name, searching FB with this last name in philadelphia i see she has a private profile but i now have every single one of her family members who AREN'T PRIVATE, including her mom who has her maiden name listed publicly (another bank account security question) and i can look up jessica and everyone she knows on voterrecords.com and whitepages.com and mylife.com and find all their mugshots and arrest records and addresses and maybe even pay a few bucks to get complete public records with even more information, it really ddepends on how much of a freak i am, and the internet has bottomless creeps with free refills.

everything i just typed out takes about 45 minutes to do and costs $0 except the advanced records search which is real cheap. i have done this to creeps and stalkers many times in order to get the information i needed to shut them down or threaten them. someone who actually is after your money or accounts can do a lot more and is motivated to do so because most of them are working out of places where a Steam account (for example) is worth the trouble. check blackhatworld.com and read what the instagram scammers are doing in the broad daylight, thats not even a private forum. to those guys, someone's organic and real instagram account is worth a couple bucks and they are definitely out there harvesting them to resell. another reason hackers take accounts is to hit up your friends and family for donations. sometimes they just use it to dump spam and you get banned for it.

edit: a BIG reason random women get hacked? creeps looking through your DMs for nudes, which they then sell or just swap for fun because theyre awful. people dont really need good reasons to do this terrible shit. a ton of women who ended up on isanyoneup.com had absolutely no idea how their pics got on there, and some of the content was stuff they had never even sent to anyone. every time one of my computers or phones shits itself and i have to take it into a repair place ( i try to avoid doing this but sometimes stuff is above even my pay grade as a computer-toucher myself) i am EXTREMELY AWARE that anyone at the repair place can and probably will dump every single photo from my machine onto a thumb drive and take it home. just because they can.

its not super likely that someone is going to walk in your front door and rob or kill you if you dont lock it every single night but like. you should still lock your front door. if you leave food lying around youre going to get raccoons.