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@ryin-silverfish here, also known as "That person who talks a lot about FSYY and fox spirits".
This is my little LMK AU sideblog, which started off as a bunch of disjointed background notes for my fanfics, but developed into its own gigantic thing over time.
I've said elsewhere that, despite LMK (and many other JTTW adjacent works) lifting certain tidbits wholesale from FSYY——like Nezha's backstory or the Golden Dragon Shears, neither the show nor the fanworks really go into the implications of a FSYY/JTTW combined universe.
(For one, Zhao Gongming's three sisters, the Sanxiao, showing up to kick Jin and Yin's butts for stealing and breaking their treasure would be very satisfying, and also hella badass.)
Well, be the change you want, they said.
So here it is: Journey of the Gods, aka "LMK, but FSYY is also canon and an extremely influential historical event".
Inspired by @digitaldoeslmk 's By the Book AU.
What even is FSYY?
"Ancient China's bloodiest bureaucracy recruitment program, kickstarted by a king who simped too hard for the creator goddess of humanity and the fox girl she sent to end his dynasty."
"I'll write my own God-Demon novel, with blackjacks and fox hookers and no Buddhist allegories!" ——Xu Zhonglin/Lu Xixing/Li Yunxiang
Okay, jokes aside: Investiture of the Gods(Fengshen Yanyi) is the other big "God-Demon Novel" of the Ming dynasty, written after JTTW. It's about the toppling of the Shang dynasty and its tyrannical King Zhou by King Wu of Zhou——but with more Daoism, immortals and demons helping out both sides, and ten billion magical formations and treasures.
At the end of the story, almost everyone who died in battle were deified and became the 365 gods of the Celestial Bureaucracy, thus "Investiture of the Gods".
Here is a link to the only full English translation of FSYY, by Gui Zhizhong.
Here is my overview of FSYY's grand overarching conflict, a.k.a. "Why are all the Daoist immortals fighting?"
Compared to JTTW, it's a lot more formulaic and suffers from a massive character count inflation problem, but also extremely influential in Chinese folk religion, to the point of some modern temples, like Qingyang Palace, basically worshiping characters from the novel! Like, the western equivalent would be a church worshiping Dante and Beatrice from the Divine Comedy.
(Similarly, it is to orthodox Daoism what the Divine Comedy is to medieval Christian theology, and should not be treated as actual religious scriptures.)
Okay, FSYY happened in the LMK universe. So What?
Well, first, it will really do wonders to fill up that eerily empty Celestial Realm we see in the Spider Queen special, and the Celestial Bureaucracy will no longer consist of a grand total of five people.
Secondly, it can solve some major show-not-tell problems and actually give legitimacy to the grievances of the LMK Brotherhood + Havoc in Heaven, as well as fleshing out the Celestial Realm.
Third, so many cool magical treasures.
Fourth, LBD gets an origin story, with a twist.
Fifth, I delight in quality angst and horror, and FSYY had some seriously messed-up stuff and implications.
Sixth, Celestial Bureaucracy office politics.
Seventh, Nezha kicking asses and winning fights like he should.
Eighth, crazy Xianxia shit, as you’d expect from the great-granddaddy of modern Xianxia genre.
Ninth, infodumps about Chinese mythos and history trivias.
Tenth, Underworld lore.
...As you can probably tell, this is mostly just me nerding out and writing walls of texts. I'm not a very good artist and can't do Lego style, but will probably doodle some symbol/character designs for funsies.
I also derive most of my enjoyment from writing fix-its and worldbuilding, not shipping characters. Like, I love exploring individual characters through relationships, but just ain't a fan of romance.
There will be a lot of OCs, but unless otherwise specified, all of them will be based on actual characters from FSYY and JTTW, with a few folk gods sprinkled in for funsies.
With that taken care of: good luck and happy reading!
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welcome, fellow monster lovers + fuckers~! to the smash or pass blog!
SUBMISSIONS: CLOSED
First things first - this is a queer friendly blog, so no r.adfem b.s. of any kind. don't be assholes, don't be bigots. be a clown (derogatory) and get blocked.
Second, no shit-talking people's monster(s) of choice. We're here for fun, not for negativity. (So no calling basic, shaming choices, saying "oh this non-human isn't enough of a monster", insulting how they look, calling them vanilla, etc etc.)
Also you're 100% allowed to add propaganda to the posts about why ppl should vote smash. (Not for pass though. Bc that's under the no negativity rule.)
Please see "How to Submit a Poll Option" for rules on submitting.
→ UNDER THE CUT ←
➥ About the Blog
➥ How to Submit a Poll Option
➥ Meet the Mods
→ ABOUT THE BLOG ←
New poll every day
Poll length 1 week
Replies on posts are only open to those who have been following this blog for at least a week.
This is a sideblog. It can not send asks.
We also can not receive or send DMs due to being a group blog.
The ask box is closed when submissions are closed because this is the piss on the poor website. (Aka reading comprehension doesn't exist)
Please note that if your preferred monster loses the poll, that's okay! They're still a winner in your heart. This is literally all just for the lulz. Genuinely, don't worry about it.
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→ HOW TO SUBMIT A POLL OPTION ←
Please use the ask box!
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING!
→ ONLY ONE CHARACTER PER ASK. PLEASE. We're begging ya :V submissions that list multiple characters will be deleted.
→ if the character / monster is a minor, that's a no-go. Don't be a fuckin creep. Keep kids out of this.
(If one slips pass us, please POLITELY inform us by replying to the post. We do our best to check ages, but we're only human. No one is perfect.)
→ we will not post monster options such as W*nd*g*s, Sk*nw*lk*ers, and the like, as its a) from closed culture, and b) not the place.
Native peoples have asked many a time for ppl to stop fuckin w their folklore and stories, so give em respect. It's the least that can be done, goddamn. Any bullshit sent about this will be deleted and blocked.
ANYHOO
If you're able to, add a pic of the monster in question! If it's someone's art, please make sure they're okay with it being used first, and provide credit too. We're not reposting willy-nilly around here. We do need artist credit whenever possible! (if the images submitted are official, pls just make a note of it!)
[Poll Submission] Monster name, What theyre from* [Poll Submission] Wulver, scottish folklore [Poll Submission] Abe Sapien, Hellboy (movies or comics) (image from Hellboy comics)
* this is more if its applicable - ie; from specific mythology, or from a media source. If the media is 18+ please make a note of it!
If you submit off-anon, we respond privately with if its queued or if it was already a poll.
If you submit on anon, the ask is deleted once its queued. (Or if you submit something that we've already done.)
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→ Meet the Mods ←
We're a couple of chaotic idiots who know each other irl and get up to shenanigans. Like this blog.
Mod Curse 🌸
✿ Mid 20s - she/they - Big Gay
✿ Evil women? Sign me tf up!
✿ Uhh I'm a weird cat mom, artist and general nerd, bonus adhd
Mod Ghoul ☢️
➤ late 20s, it/its he/his
➤ Horrible taste in fictional men lol
➤ I also mod SelfshipConfessional !
➤ Three allegations I can never escape - 'oh thats the local cryptid', 'its a creature, your honor', and 'I'm pretty sure you're just a corpse but okay.'
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Here, a prize for reading this entire thing! Pics of the mod's pets!
Ghoul's dog - Ollie - 108 lbs of attitude and crime condensed into an 8 lbs of dog.
Curse's cat - Maple - she likes to slap the shit outta Ghoul (with claws!) when it's visting Curse. (Ghoul catsits.) Pretty sure Maple is 95% floof.
#poll blog#monster fucker#monster lover#monster x human#exophilia#monster smash or pass#smash or pass poll blog#tumblr polls#not a poll
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i might be a little late to this bc it's past midnight here but i just wanted to celebrate some things in my life that happened because of dan and phil:
1. literal joy, i've been living vicariously through them since 2015 lmao, their videos were a a dose of happiness and hope through the darkest part of my teen years, so i'm glad i never stopped watching them, maybe less intensely but hey i rewatch the sims and golf with friends at least yearly
2. friends! one of my closest internet friends i met through the phandom big bang in 2018 and our fandoms have drastically changed now but we still talk regularly. another friend i met was through a gc that started here on tumblr but moved to whatsapp, and then when we found out we were from the same country we got so excited we started talking in spanish for a bit and the admins kicked us out lmao, anyways she's not on tumblr anymore either but i'm staying at her place when i go to london for tit next year (hopefully) yay
3. muse... oh god they introduced me to muse and i couldn't escape, bc i'm a music nerd they became one of my top 5 fave bands. the time i saw muse live was a milestone in my life, buying a concert ticket with my own money, and going alone, i might have struggled to avoid being trampled in the circle pit in knights of cydonia but i got out of it alive and it's now one of my favorite memories
4. this community ! i've been a lurker since forever and just this year i've been turning this blog into mainly dnp, i never wanted to make a sideblog bc i didn't make much og content so there was no point... look at me now actually using this blog as a blog for my thoughts and shit about dnp, so turns out the point was to feel like an active part of the phandom, and i do. i really do. thanks everyone (especially my mutuals i love y'all so much even if we don't ever talk)
so yeah, i'm really happy <3
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hi!!! I loved ur hometsuck kids theme sm it made me want to go back into coding after so long(^^; I wanted to know how u learned it and if u have any tips for newcomers. Ty !!
oh holy shit this is ask is SO SWEET :,) thank you so much anon and i’m so happy to hear it made you want to get back into coding! we seriously need a tumblr theme renaissance. what i would give to see people coding and sharing/reblogging themes like the older days on tumblr. life could be dream.
i learned html and css from making my own tumblr themes as a kid! i think tumblr themes are literally such a good introduction into learning front-end development. BUT to be fair i also took a few programming classes and was a big coding nerd in school and that definitely helped me become a lot more comfortable with making themes from scratch and adding custom script. if you are interested in learning javascript, learnjavascript.online is a great source for starting out and getting some practice!
i think a great way to get your bearings is to look at some base themes and poke around at the code just to familiarize yourself with some of the tumblr-specific syntax. @theme-hunter has a great database of themes to look at with some tutorials for beginners compiled here. i think the best way to learn how div blocks function and what you are capable of changing is by playing around with preexisting code and seeing what you can create. i did this until i was comfortable enough to make a few base themes of my own from scratch that i can go back and reference when starting a new theme or coding project.
tumblr also has a list of their block elements online with some introduction to custom themes, which is helpful to reference when styling the features built into each tumblr blog like title, descriptions, posts, notes, etc.
as far as tips for newcomers, here’s a few things top of mind:
google is your best friend, seriously, i can't tell you how many times i am googling the most rudimentary of things because i'm always forgetting little syntax things. chances are, if there's something you want to achieve with code there will be someone on stack overflow with some advice, or a tutorial on codepen or w3schools that you can use as reference.
troubleshoot with inspect element! i usually build my code straight into the tumblr theme html and css on a sideblog, save, and then keep a tab of that blog open that i can refresh and inspect element to look for errors in the console. i think firefox works the best, but i would recommend always loading your blog in a few different browsers since there is css syntax that is specific to mozilla or chrome (eg. custom scrollbars or pure-css animations)
there are lot of browser extensions that can make the coding process easier! i recommend eye dropper for pulling and matching hex codes. i also use fonts ninja a lot for getting accurate weights and names for custom fonts. a few more that come to mind are window resizer and css viewer (chrome/mozilla) if you want to check those out!
happy coding!
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Intro time!
Hello!!! We're the Corvijay system. There are 4 of us:
Bird or Blue: Runs the blog. Most of the time :> Likes to cook, write, & nerd out about shit. Most of the fandom content is from Blue. A bluejay at heart. They/them.
Corvin: A big fan of ravens. Likes anything he can do with his hands, & is hoping to learn some textile arts like sewing & yarn-spinning. Some of the hobby-related posts will come from Corvin, as well as the ttrpg & botany stuff. He/him.
Lily or Luci: Lover of punk & fashion, most of the hornyposting & goth/punkposting is hers, along with a good chunk of the cripplepunk & queer posts. An aspiring artist & diy-er. She/they/bitch.
Emi: While not present much on the blog, this songbird is the heart of our system. Her hobbies include singing & dancing :> She/her.
Some facts about us in general: we're married to @asoulonfire1. We have chronic fatigue, which means we can't do as much as everyone else, & get around the house in a cane & wheelchair. We're trans & basically bi, & had a very short-lived career as an nsfw streamer (due to aforementioned disability getting worse). Emi & Blue also run an SFW roleplay sideblog called @jaye-of-the-glen! The character is an OC from the game Oneshot (blog is inactive at the mo)
#petrichor musings#pinned#also working on a masterlist of our blog tags but that might take a while longer - need to edit old tags
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intro post i should've made six months ago :/
Hello whoever has stumbled upon my blog! My name is Scarlett or Raven, and I am fine with either! Use whichever you want, I don't really care :)
I am a high school student but I'm not going to disclose my exact age, and i am fine with any pronoun honestly but i usually tell people she/they.
i am a writer, and i write everything from screenplays, novels, poetry, songs, short stories, etc. i also take oneshot requests.
i am a very proud member of the lgbtq+ community, (i am a useless bisexual if you must know ;D) so homophobes and transphobes DNI (that includes TERFS 👀) and you will probably see a lot of gay stuff on my blog.
i am a part of A LOT of fandoms, but i mostly post abt Shadowhunters, Stranger Things, PJO, and Måneskin. But im also a big star wars and marvel nerd and im a huge theater kid.
my ask box is always open for oneshot requests, playlist requests, or anything like that! or literally just chatting with me i will love you forever if you send me asks to just chat and/or bc you wanna be friends <3
My DMs are also always open :)
I have a sideblog for reading, which is @readingaftermidnight007 so go follow me or talk to me abt books over there! i'll probably make more sideblogs soon but thats the only one for now.
i play bass guitar and clarinet and i really like music so i love to give music recs and receive music recs!
i wanna be a director a screenwriter someday
if you wanna add me on goodreads, here's the link..
if you wanna add me on twitter, im @.scarletttt067 but be warned my twitter is a mess of baseball, maneskin, and other random shit lmao
thats it! I'm totally going to be adding to this but for now, goodbye!
(all my personal tags are tagged below)
#scarlett talks#scarlett's ask box#scarlett's oneshots#scarlett talks about maneskin#scarlett talking about nothing#i also have a lot of stuff in byler#and sobh#and kitty#and quite a bit of stuff under chain of thorns#my writing :)
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Can I ask what other fandoms/ships have burrowed into your brain and taken up residence, and maybe what you like about them?
Does hockey count kspsksosksos imma use this to let everyone know that hockey season is coming back and you should block nhl, Anna talks nhl, and Anna watches nhl if you don't want to see it. So, I have a 5sos sideblog ( @ghost-of-you ), I would say that's my biggest insanity, but I am being chill about them lately because they are on hiatus, but they're my favorite band, I love those 4 dudes a lot. I rewatch Gilmore Girls once a year to feel something, I've been following grey's anatomy since season 3 and at this point I feel like I keep going just because I put too much time of my life into it kapakaoaka. Teen wolf and stydia, I don't know, I looked at them in the dance at the end of season one and my brain just said "that's them" and I'm still there. The 100 and bellarke, I'm just obsessed with the enemies to best friends thing they had going before the show turned completely bonkers, I do pretend the show ended in s6 so I won't do something extreme. Stranger things, weirdly I'm not invested in shipping with them, I just seriously enjoy rewatching the show, I put s1 to keep me company all the time. Bridgerton, the rookie, Chicago PD, FBI, suits, the mentality, castle, criminal minds, doctor who, outerbanks, runaways, cloak and dagger, fullmetal alchemist but only the brotherhood. I love spiderman, I even own comics. I have a weird obsession with legend of Zelda and I have ocarina of time memorized (I love playing the randomizer, I even used to stream on twitch for a period of time lol). I am weirdly obsessed with the canceled freeform show famous in love and I think about Rainer and Paige a lot more than I probably should for a show that only had 2 seasons and was canceled 7 years ago. I was big on the mcu but I kinda stopped watching after endgame unless it has spiderman. Percy Jackson, been obsessed with the books since I was 12, kinda enjoying the series all things considered. Huge hunger games nerd, you do not want to get me started on hunger games, I will go on for hours. Twilight, the good place, once upon a time, interview with the vampire, the oc. Star wars I even have a millennium falcon poster on my wall. Did I mention 911 lone star? Because that too. I'm also in the middle of watching swat for the first time, but I'm not sure how a few about the show as a whole right now because the point I'm in is kinda boring. I feel like this is the stuff that makes my brain do something because I can think of it and possibly hold a conversation without looking shit up akpskspsksoskso but mostly, I don't know what makes me like something? It just needs to make my brain tingle. If it doesn't I will put it down and never pick it back up lol.
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ok so I want to start with #notallmen most men are normal but they also there is a somewhat significant disparity between men and women and that's what i want to talk about
Ok so earlier today on my sideblog I made an observation about how when I go out to places where emo boys congregate or look on instagram where I thirst follow them, I notice that, not most of them, but a weird number of them have normie girlfriends vs emo girls who, if they're straight, are either single or dating an edgy man. And I've noticed that a lot of the older guys that I used to play D&D with in the game store had wives who were not approving of their hobbies, but whenever I meet a girl at a con who's with a man the man is always there at the con with her. And when I think about it these are the same fucking thing. The women in these spaces want a man who has a common interest with them but it doesn't seem that that is as big of a priority for the guys.
And it's not like normie men aren't attracted to women in subcultures, there are plenty of guys who want a nerd girl or a goth girl, but it's almost always purely sexual and women usually don't go for it because of how fetishy it gets, and the guys usually lose interest as soon as they get weird about it anyway. like they want to fuck the girl in striped thigh high socks they're not really that into the girl in the rit dyed gown.
So i came to the conclusion that it's a misogyny thing probably. Like I want a man who shares my interests and who wants to do stuff with me, I assume that's most people's motive for dating within their own subculture. It's certainly mine. But goth girls are certainly less conventionally attractive than regular women, thats like... the whole point of the way we do our hair and faces and of getting tattoos, to look weird and out there and unconventional. And reguardless of what they're personally attracted to, having a conventionally attractive partner is definitely a status symbol, especially for a straight man.
Then I started thinking about other ways that guys' dating habits differ and I remembered my straight girl friend who's non white talking about how MOC are more likely to date white women than the other way around, and I remembered a post going around on here talking about how a disabling event is more likely to cause a man to leave than the other way around. And obviously that's not the same thing, but when I think about it it sort of stems from the same impulse that men seem to have to want to be seen with a woman that gives them some sort of social clout.
And then I remembered that incels have this weird theory of hypergamy where they think that all women want to date Chad (highly attractive man) and that's why they can't get laid. but like, there's way more hypergamous men than there are hypergamous women. The one instance I can think of where women are more likely to marry up than men is not physical attractiveness, because I've seen way more mid men with hot women than the other way around. It's money. Historically women have been more likely to try to marry rich men, but the moment you give women their own jobs and bank accounts that shit evens the fuck out and suddenly you have broke men being supported by their girlfriends and wives. Just in my own family my female relatives' inlaws are broker on average than my male relatives' inlaws.
So maybe I just rediscovered the Madonna/whore complex but I think it's really odd that I can see the the ramifications of this trend without even being in straight spaces that often. Like how is my gay ass who actively spurns straight spaces as often as I can noticing that men are dating women who don't make sense for them but who make them look good or whom are conventionally attractive meanwhile women are mostly with guys who share interests or background.
again most guys don't date like this but a weird number of them do. such a weird number that I noticed it despite my incredibly limited engagement with heterosexual culture.
I've connected a series of dots and I am as unimpressed with the straight male psyche as ever.
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erm so this is a writing for an au @wyrmswears and I made =^-^= ermm so basically. kristoph defends Simon for ur-1 and he doesn’t go to jail and kristoph mentors athena. this takes place post 4-1, pre 4-4.
the corridor of the prison is familiar at this point. smooth grey concrete, off white floors, dingy bulbs from the ceiling with opaque lampshades, illuminating spotlights in the hall rather then every crevice.
perhaps it’s more accurate that way, Athena thinks. spotlights every few feet, usually parallel to a set of bars built into the wall. whenever she walks under one she feels like there are hundreds of eyes on her, watching her walk out hunched and nervous, holding a stack of papers so tight to her chest the edges are digging into her fingers and giving her papercuts.
very few of the cells in this corridor are occupied, as is standerd the closer they are to the solitary cells. the ones that are are the ones she walks a little faster past, with her ears ringing from nerves so much she can’t even hear whatever it is they tell whenever someone walks by.
She reaches the end of the corridor that leads into the detention center, and goes through the normal checks that happen when one enters and exits a prison.
she keeps her chin tucked against her chest and tries to make herself even smaller then she already is while walking to the door. once she reaches the exit, she can breathe.
but instead of a door, she crashes face first into someone else, both being thrown back. Athena lands on her hands and knees from trying to twist away from whatever foreign contact that was while falling, facing away from them.
the reports, she thinks. they have scattered all over the ground, and she can already see a few of them that she landed on have had dirt from the floors transferred onto them. Kristoph will be upset that they are dirty. he won’t take it out on her, of course. but she knows it upsets him by the spike of discord in his heart and the way he purses his lips when he sees something dirty.
Athena tried to gather them as quickly as possible, both in a fleeting attempt to keep them from getting dirtier and to prevent anyone from seeing what it is she is carrying. almost as if on cue, she sees the person she presumably bumped into reach out and pick up the paper that flew out to the right, and had landed somewhere near their foot.
Oh god. Athena thinks. The profile on the new detective. kristoph requested it after the former detective who worked with him was arrested. he said he needed allies outside in order to expose the real truth, and that included in the police department.
the hand now holding the detectives profile leads up to a body and a face that sends Athena’s heart from skipping to not beating at all. the hair is almost identical, and his eyes and nose are the same. But his skin is a little more tanned, and his clothes are far too… rebellious for kristophs tastes.
Her mind reels itself back in as she realizes, no, kristoph did not miraculously break out of his cell to see her fall and drop the documents he stressed are to be kept an utmost secret all over the detention center floor. Instead she is faced with his younger brother.
“Fraulein.. cykes, was it? What are you doing running out of the prison block like a madman?” His tone is neutral, and unaccusatory in nature, but she picks up the spike of emotions from him and sees the same pinched face kristoph made when he was trying to hold back his frustration.
Athena jumps up from the floor too quickly, making herself dizzy in the process. She has collected all the papers but the one the other Gavin is holding, which he is subtly trying to read while also trying to not make it obvious.
She stumbles over her words so much nothing coherent comes out, just mumbled apologies for bumping into him and dancing around the question he asked. She reaches out for the paper in his hand, and sees her hand is shaking.
“Is this.. a psychological profile? Why are you carrying this in and out of a facility like this?” Suspicion creeps into his voice, but now his face shows concern, and his heart is steadily filling with a combination of fear and dread.
Athena tries to stutter out an excuse, “I.. im just holding these for someone- I need to get going, im ah, assisting simon with gathering some things” her voice shakes so much any chance she had a being convincing has disappeared out of thin air, and as she tries to stumble past him.
Klavier Gavin stops her, putting a hand on her shoulder and while not forceful, prevents her from going past him. “Fraulein. Why are you carrying a stack of psychological reports out from the hall that leads to my brother cell?” She can’t see his face anymore. His heart is full of so many emotions that in the state she’s in she can’t parse them out.
Her mind is flooding with panic and fear and so many emotions that it drowns out the small part of her brain still fighting to come up with some excuse that instead tears just start pouring out of her eyes.
she tries to stutter out something, anything, but instead just sobs, and once again drops the papers to instead cover her mouth and start desperately trying to scrub the tears out her eyes.
it’s ineffective, and only serves to make it harder for her to breath through the hiccuping and the snot that’s starting to dribble out her nose. klavier has shifted from standing beside her to in front of her, and from what she can see through blurry eyes has an incredibly distrssed look on his face, any distrust he was harboring abandoned.
Athena continues to just stand in front of him crying, wiping snot and tears from her face only for more to appear. She recognizes a German swear being said by klavier before being given a very, awkward Pat on the back, that leads into an even more awkward hug.
She accepts it and begins to cry into the man’s shirt rather then her own sleeves, and is guided out of the detention center and eventually into a car, only realizing when her newly acquired tissue gently pushes her into a seat before going around the car and sliding into the drivers side.
The car doors are closed and Athena only briefly looks around before being offered a tissue box and instead refocuses on crying. by the time she has finished there is a sizable amount of tissues on the floor board of the passenger seat, and she is still sniffling, and undoubtedly looking worse for wear.
Athena looks back up, remember she is in the presence of someone who just bumped into her and then watched her have a breakdown. He sits there a bit awkwardly, but looking at her with a concerned, if not pitiful look. “Are you alright, fraulein cykes?”
She tries to open her mouth, but fails to find the energy to do that, much less speak. instead, she just sniffle and rests her head on her knees while rubbing at her eyes.
“Ah, It’s fine if you don’t want to talk. although, you don’t look alright. Is there somewhere I can take you? Home, perhaps?”
Her hands grip into her sleeves as she considers her options. Home? She can’t go there. Not in this state. Simon would want to know why she was in this state, and she can’t explain that to him. She shakes her head no, chin bumping against her knees.
klavier is turned away, obviously thinking. “the prison parking lot isn’t exactly the best place to calm down at, speaking from experience..” he trails off thinking. “Uh, I could take you to my apartment, if you are ok with that? I have a dog. Those usually help people calm down, ja?”
“Why? Why are you trying to help me?” Athena asks, throat rough from the crying. “your heart is screaming, and you obviously don’t trust me, much less know me, so why?”
“Mein bruder.. you have known him for years, ja? I’m simply.. extending a courtesy.” He says, trying to sound cheery but instead of just comes out sad.
Athena tears up again, and in an attempt to stop herself from crying once more, averts her gaze to look around the car. she sees the profiles she dropped, stacked on the enter console, crumbled and dirty.
why am I even doing this? why… why can’t I let go? Athena buried her head in her knees again, while klavier struggled to get a seatbelt around her. “I just want to get away from here” she mumbled, trying to make herself smaller in the car.
the engine started up and the car shifted into driver, and Athena leaned her body against the door in an attempt to stabilize herself, with her cheek pressed against the cold window. in the faint reflection she could make out puffy eyes and red and splotchy cheeks.
What.. even is happening? Is he going to arrest me? Interroge me? Put me in jail right next to his brother? Her thoughts spiraled throughout the car trip, and by the time they stopped and she was climbing out of the car her hands were shaking again.
Athena followed klavier up the stairs, and stood behind him while he unlocked the door, hugging her arms to her chest. “Make yourself at home, ja? The couch is more comfortable then it looks” he gestured over to the living room to the left of the door, and went somewhere else into the apartment.
She sat in the arm of the couch, folding into herself as if she could blend in with the couch as some kind of sad decorative pillow. Klavier walked back in, carrying a glass of water and placing it on the coffee table in front of her, not bothering with a coaster.
that’s going to leave a ring on the table. Athena tried to let her mind wander away from the fact that she was sitting in a near strangers living room and instead on the fact that he didn’t keep coasters to set drinks on. kristoph would tell him that he’s going to ruin the wood like that.
“You’re going to ruin the table like that” Athena echoed her thoughts, all while keeping her eyes on the glass of water. she could hear the couch creak and saw him sitting down on the other end in her peripherals.
“you sound a bit like him” klavier said, voice once again neutral. her eyes snap over to him from the glass and see his eyes downcast and lips pursed.
She bit her lip, trying to find something to say. “I’m sorry” is all that came out, breaking eye contact to turn back to the glass. “i. i dont know why I was there. why im doing this.”
“I… are you ok, fraulein? you are shaking like a leaf.” klavier sounded concerned again. Hand hovering like he wanted to comfort her but also was unsure if he should. Athena just continued to stare at the glass, watching water drip down the side and gather at the base.
“he asked me to help him- to help find.. the real truth. he said that he was framed, that he was innocent. that it was wright he killed the server, but he could prove it from jail.” Words started pouring out of her mouth, and she couldn’t stop even if he wanted to.
“I wanted to believe it wasn’t him. he- he saved my uncle. he is- was- one of the good lawyers. who sought the truth.” She could feel her nails digging into her exposed knees, leaving sharp marks in their wake. “deep down I know it’s not true. but I just. i cant.”
klavier sat wordlessly, watching while she talked. “He saved Simon. He can’t be bad- I’ve. Ive known him for 6 years. How can you know someone for 6 years and not know they are a murderer?”
“when he asked me to make a profile, I was too scared to say no. i don’t know why I keep bringing them.” Tears started falling down her face again, choking on her words. “I don’t know why im doing anything at all anymore”
she got too choked up to continue, just burying her face back in her knees. she sobbed into herself, while klavier sat silent in shock.
he was frozen in place, conflicted on how to comfort the crying teenager. before he could move, he heard nails click against the hardwood floors and saw vongole trot into the living room, sliding between the couch and coffee table and pressing her nose into Athena’s hand while her tail thumped against klaviers legs
Athena looked up at the sudden touch, and saw a vaguely familiar dog trying to nudge her hand off of her leg and onto his head. she complied, sliding both her hands down his head and scratching her under her chin.
Vongole jumped onto the couch, and Athena slowly unfolded her legs from her chest and let vongole scoot onto her, her tail now wagging aggressively and hitting klavier in the face while he sat silent in shock.
vongole tried to scoot even closer onto her, licking her cheek, and she let out a quiet giggle. “She was Kristoph’s. The dog, I mean. Her name is vongole” klavier managed to say between her tail swiping back and forth across his nose.
Athena slowed, but did not stop petting vongole, but clearly listening to him. “She never really liked him I think, he never let her on the furniture. Made her sleep in a crate. She seems to like you though” klavier continued.
Athena visibly swallowed, and scratched behind vongoles ears. “Yeah. I think she does” her voice was cracking and quiet, but no longer desperate and scared. Klavier gave a quiet smile, while athena buried her face in vongoles fur.
She was still shaking and hunched over, but no longer guarded, vongole successfully knocking down her walls. Klavier looked away and sighed, staring at a blank wall. Kristoph never makes things easy, huh?
#ace attorney#Athena cykes#klavier Gavin#kristoph mentors Athena au#erm yeah#sideblog for the big nerd shit#ace attorney au#btw. being held hostage to post this#the besties are roasting me for not posting#ever#sal and wyrm voice look at me I post regularly on social media teehee#i tried to fix where some of the italics got deleted erm idk how successful I was I wrote this a while ago#also tumblr ate a paragraph. rude#i gave up towards the end#i am not a writer man.
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About me/this blog
Hi I’m Faye (she/her)
A few rules about this blog:
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Some random shit about me:
I’m probably old enough to be your mum, or at least I feel it
I’m British, but I currently live abroad
I’m a big comedy nerd, especially Radio 4
If you see me refer to a Mr Faye, that’s my current husband
No, I have no desire to meet either Mr Thompson or Mr Bailey. If you meet a Faye at a stage door etc, that’s not me!
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Ayo >:)
I'm Rads, he/they. Big Nerd, Bachelor's in Film, Indie Game Dev, artist and author.
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Sideblogs
@chrono-the-babe < I run da chrono blog @our-ends-will-shine-like-stars < star trek au for ct @radellama-art < my art archive (all rb are just me from other blogs)
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Made some stuff >:)
Visual Novels + Indie Games (Playable in browser/Windows download)
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> Second Impact (DEMO) - I did all the cutscene graphics, face sprites, the promo trailer and helped with editing the English version
> Freak the Town - I did art direction, character art and helped with writing, editing and a little bit of narrative coding
> All That Glitters Is Gold - I did all the art and helped with editing
> Freakaversity - I cowrote and designed the characters
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Cool tags
Yearly Game Write Ups - hosted on neocities for easier reading and spoilers hidden on web+mobile (Originals can still be found under rads reviews, goty, and resi rambles)
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rads talks rads asks rads art rads makes games
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art insp story insp outfit insp music rec language ref important
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hands plant network computer guts gender envy read later watch later
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Blorbo shit (mainly ct, let's be real)
magland / magus / harland / h@m / m@h ^ more harland from his au men of mystics which you can read here
st au which you can read here
uni au yee haw au dr who au
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abe and orc (my cool OCs) breakthrough
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noragami levius the oa resi vampire hunter d gattaca
#pinned#navigation#just to make my life easier lmao.. a nice central hub to keep everything clear#and it'll get updated if i make anything more ;)
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Hello! Could I request a level four matchup for GoT, the Grishaverse, and Stranger Things? (I will reblog either from this blog or my fic recs sideblog @musicallistorecs!) i'm a straight girl (she/her), enfp, libra. people think i'm smart cause i can do math, speak several languages and know random shit about astronomy and history but i'm lowkey a himbo. in my free time i love playing the piano, writing, reading, stargazing, playing videogames, and annoying the hell out of my cat (i'm actually a dog person but don't tell him that). i'm enthusiastic and optimistic, always cracking jokes and ready for adventure and a good party! because i'm so hyper and bubbly all the time, it's pretty difficult to see me in my vulnerable state. as a result i'm kind of awkward with physical touch; but my love language is words of affirmation and I love showering my friends with praise. i write poems about the boys i fall in love with like some kind of nerd <3 i love love going to concerts & just live music in general! my biggest dream would be to learn how to fly a plane & get my private pilot's license. thank you so much if you write it! 💜
Want one? Here be the rules 🦋🌈
𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬
𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒃 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒌! He would appreciate your bubbly personality and always feel lighter when you’re around. All his problems feel small when you’re there.
𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔
・He would literally DIE if you wrote a poem for him. He would have such a cheesy grin while reading it
・Would ask for your opinion in all things - what you believe in is very important to Robb and he would honour it always
・Likes to lay down and have your head on his chest. He loves the smell of your hair and the feel of your skin
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈
Dance of the Druids by Bear McCreary
𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞
𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑵𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒊 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔𝒐𝒗! He would be such a great partner. He's well-known as a prince, but has many hidden identities. His mind seems to be everywhere at once, and he continually thinks of what needs to be done. I think he would do well with a partner that has important skills, but knows how to have fun.
𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔
・Buys you the most expensive gifts, and has cute notes that go with them.
・Will stand up for you in every single circumstance. Especially when his family is involved - he will fight for your right to be there
・Loves listening to you play the piano. Will request song after song. Has gotten you a beautiful grand piano
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈
Young and Beautiful by Joel Sunny
𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏! He would actually feel so inferior because you have so much knowledge, skills and talents. He would love you though. And be so proud to call you his. Everyone would know that you're with Steve.
𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔
・Calls you pet names like 'babe,' 'honey', and 'darling'. He's very big on nicknames and doesn't care how lovey-dovey they sound.
・You made matching bracelets for him and you. And he wears it every single day.
・Was so nervous for Dustin to meet you. He thought maybe you wouldn't like him? And this little kid is so important to Steve. But you absolutely adore Dustin.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈
Dog Days Are Over by the Midnite String Quartet
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@longroadstonowhere did this a while ago and since it’s been a while since I’ve done a tag game I’ve decided to pretend she tagged me lmao
why did you choose your url— like any good nerd I picked my favorite greek goddess and used it fucking everywhere, and then since I figured the greek version was probably overplayed went with the romanized version. THEN since I figured the basic proserpine.tumblr.com would PROBABLY already be taken, and I never have been able to stick with a blog for more than a few months (heh), those are some phases right? I go through phases, plus the mythology of persephone also involves her going through phases of life above ground and life below, hey, it fits that too: so proserpine-in-phases
any sideblogs? -- yes, my fantroll blog still exists. I’m not ashamed. also I may or may not have an nsfw side blog
why did you originally start your blog— I needed an image host to post something on the mspa forum and didn’t want to use my deviantart for what were essentially shitposts.
why did you choose your icon— idk, it’s cute. I’ll change it again eventually
why did you choose your header— drunk text I thought was funny. The image is my beloved kitties
what’s your post with the most notes— probably the one about targets all being linked together because they have such similar layouts
how many mutuals do you have— man idk. at least 5, maybe up to 10. several of them are no longer active but haven’t deleted their blogs.
how many followers do you have— around a thousand. some are probably bots, I’m pretty hit or miss about actually checking because I’m lazy
how many blogs do you follow— 138. at least a few are inactive blogs I follow in hopes that they will return, especially my beloved missing mutuals
have you ever made a shitpost— I have a whole tag that’s a mix of shitposts and life updates. I should probably call it something other than crap but man I’ve been using that for a literal decade
how many times do you use tumblr a day—this is not a valid metric of measurement because I never leave lmao
have you ever fought another blog—I mean every once in a while I get into a back and forth but I’ve never done the anon hate bullshit or dogpiling that you see in the real vicious shit. who’s got time for that? I mean obviously some people do but I dont
how do you feel about “need to reblog” posts— sometimes they guilt me into it, mostly they piss me off. I don’t have to reblog shit and you can fuck right off
do you like tag games— I mean I’m doing one now aren’t I lmao
do you like ask games— yeah but I hardly ever get asks T__T
which of your mutuals do you think are tumblr famous— who even IS tumblr famous? I think fame levels really depends on what circle of hellsite you inhabit. anyway idk, I know @persephinae has easily double the followers I do and one of my inactive mutuals used to be pretty big in the homestuck fandom, but I definitely don’t have any mutuals on the levels of like bibliosphere or prokopetz etc
do you have a crush on a mutual— I love all my mutuals
tags— …… if you want to do this, I have tagged you. yes you. I give you my blessing to also fill out this informal survey and post it on your blog.
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Alright time for what Charanya was up to during the Druun apocalypse! There will be a couple more posts about Charanya because there is just so much I have to say about her. Since she cuts her hair after the Druun hit I think it’s a good idea to show what young teen Charanya looked like. The art is @baydews and the link is here: https://href.li/?https://picrew.me/image_maker/415524.
• The months following the Druun apocalypse, Raya and Charanya were a wreck
• To make matters worse, people from other lands were trying to steal the resources Heart has
• Charanya and Raya were NOT about to let that slide. They agreed that the rest of the world hurt Heart enough
• Basically, the first few months of the apocalypse was Raya and Charanya stopping people from getting to Heart’s supplies with traps, scaring them with old legends, and so much more
• Think home alone but ratld edition
• They also went to other lands and spread rumors that bandits and Druun were overtaking Heart
• People stopped trying to take things from Heart after about five months
• When they were sure no one was going to try and take Heart’s resources, Raya set out on her quest to find Sisu
• Charanya had a different plan. She knew that while the majority of Heart’s citizens got turned to stone, there were many of their people that escaped on their own or another land’s boat
• This made her determined to help the remaining Heart citizens in any way she can. She planned to track them down and drop off extra jade, food and water on a regular basis until Raya could find Sisu and fix this mess
• Besides, someone needed watch after Heart and take care of the land so that it would stay a beautiful and prosperous place
• The girls dragged out an abandoned boat to a big lake in the middle of Heart, anchored it right in the center so that they could have a safe place to sleep even without the gem piece
• They used a small row boat to go to and from land and the boat
• Charanya realized that with her grandma gone there would be no one to take care of her hair. She figured it would be best to just let the bangs grow out. She also wanted to cut her hair so that the bangs would be as close to her real hair length as possible
• She got Raya to tie a ribbon around her hair at about shoulder length and sliced it off with her Ba’s sword. She wore a headband to keep her growing bangs out of her face
• Both girls were crushed when Raya first left to search for Sisu, but they knew they had two different missions that they had to complete
• With Raya taking the gem piece, Charanya is way less protected from the Druun than Raya. Thankfully, Heart has plenty of bodies of water
• Whenever Charanya saw the Druun she would sprint and fling herself in the nearest body of water
• This caused her habit of constantly wearing revealing clothes and bathing suits
• She figured it would be best not to ruin her clothes that covered up more. Plus she didn’t want to deal with the extra weight when she was swimming
• Since she only ever saw Raya in Heart anyways she wasn’t worried about people judging her clothing style
• I also think that Heart has very moderate temperatures so there’s never any snow and storms are a rare occasion so Charanya never had any problems with being too cold either
• She spent over a year tracking down every remaining Heart citizen, but she finally found them all shortly after her fourteenth birthday
• As she was tracking down former Heart citizens that had to move after the Druun, she was also taking care of the land itself. Maintaining crops, cleaning up places so that they didn’t look like a huge wreck, that sort of thing
• Obviously considering the fact that she’s only one person her efforts weren’t perfect but she did the best she could
• She also hid all the jade in various locations on the off chance that someone did come to Heart to steal more resources
• Since Charanya’s mom taught her about money at a young age, she knew how much the people would need
• Her plan is that once she tracked everyone down, every three months she would go to each land to drop off supplies to those citizens. She would go at the start of every new season
• Raya would also pop back in Heart every few months to get more supplies and jade so when she learned of Charanya’s plan Raya told her about the safest and fastest ways to get to each land
• The times that Raya came to restock on supplies was also when the two girls girl caught up on what the other was doing. They would also arrange to meet at random locations through out the lands to talk
• The girls thought it would be best not to exchange letters because they didn’t want anyone to find out that Heart was a relatively safe place
• The first time Charanya went out to deliver supplies she was jumpy and terrified of anyone that looked her way. Raya’s stories of her time out did NOT help either
• It was the first time she had left Heart in about a year. Not to mention was by herself this time
• She wrote a note to each family explaining the extra supplies and that she would continue doing this every three months for as long as the family needed
• She was beaming with pride seeing the happy and relived faces of her people when they saw the extra supplies. It made her all the more determined to see it through
• Her route was Tail, Fang, Spine, then Talon
• Though she didn’t have to go to Tail for very long. Within the first six months of her little Charanya delivery service pretty much everyone had been turned to stone in Tail since it’s. Ya know. A desert
• Only one Heart citizen was left there and Charanya helped him to move Fang
• Spine also didn’t last the entire apocalypse either. Though it was definitely longer than Tail, everyone turned to stone there by the time Charanya was sixteen
• The last two years of the apocalypse just going to Fang then. Talon
• She ran into some trouble in Fang when she was fifteen and hid in an abandoned tent. However, the tent was not, in fact, abandoned. There sat the most beautiful Fang warrior Charanya had ever seen
• But that story is coming later!
• Anyways, when she wasn’t taking care of Heart or dropping off supplies, Charanya would read to entertain herself
• With little to no human interaction, she had to do something to keep herself occupied
• She was already a book nerd before the Druun hit, it just became 10x worse after the fact
• When Charanya got wind of someone going around stealing gem pieces, she was ecstatic! She knew damn well it was Raya who was taking them which must have meant that finding Sisu worked!
• She raced back to Heart as soon as she heard and tried her best to not have a panic attack about whether Raya was okay
• The day the apocalypse ended, Charanya was taking a nap
• She has been swimming in the lake where her boat is because it was the only thing that would get her tired enough to sleep in the middle of the day. She couldn’t stand not knowing how Raya was doing
• She woke up to cheers, screams, and a lot of sobs
• At first she thought one of the other lands had invaded Heart, but then she saw swarms of people wearing the colors of Heart
• Raya had done it! The Druun were gone for good
• She swam out of her boat and ran as fast as she could to find her mom and grandma
• They were already calling her name and searching for her by the time she got to the place where they had become stone
• Charanya was afraid her family wouldn’t recognize her, but she was suffocated in their hug the second she made eye contact with them
• She sobbed in her mom and grandmas arms for what felt like hours
• Then she remembered Benja and went out to the bridge to see if he was okay
• She arrived when Benja and Raya were hugging and tackled them both in a hug
• It was only after the tearful reunions that she saw Sisu
• She kinda geeked out before bowing and putting the gem symbol above her head as a sign of respect
• But Sisu wasn’t having it and right for the hug
• “Awww you must be that friend of Raya I’ve heard about!” “Talking shit about me, my ray of sunshine?” “Always”
• Seeing all the lands come together warmed Charanya’s heart
• It would take time, but they would all be okay
Taglist: @faithfulwarrior-og, @isitbussinjanelle, @tigerlillyruiz, @ratld-sideblog
#raya and the last dragon#raya of heart#namaari#raya x namaari#rayaari#namaari of fang#namaari x raya#ratld#ratld namaari#ratld raya#raymaari#rayamaari#raya namaari#raya and namaari#disney raya#raya disney#raya oc#Charanya
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tagged by the wonderful issy @outtamywayskinny (iconique url!) to answer these thirty delicious questions. yum!
name/nickname: sasha / alex / ash / sash, or some forbidden combination of those
gender: lmao
star sign: libra
height: 5′9″ or 175cm because I’m a bastard who believes in rounding up
time: 20:58 CET
birthday: 2nd october baby!
favorite band(s)/group(s): godspeed you! black emperor, liturgy, the soft moon, sonic youth, dinosaur jr, fugazi, system of a down (listen i’ve been jamming to toxicity a bunch recently... we love to hate george bush here), depeche mode, moss icon, a tribe called quest, public enemy, tom waits, mewithoutYou, mother mother, run the jewels, lightning bolt, fleet foxes, protomartyr, fuck buttons, radiohead (sorry)
favorite solo artist(s): chelsea wolfe, fiona apple, baths, mitski, patti smith, courtney love, noname, pj harvey, courtney barnett, steve albini (just anything he touches really), lingua ignota, MF DOOM, madvillain, kanye west’s early work only (again sorry but the college dropout is so good). i used to love grimes and azealia banks more than anything but time has proven me a fool on both fronts (more grimes than ab). i miss 2013 where i just listened to 212 and oblivion on repeat guilt-free.
song stuck in my head: ghost by gouge away. love to listen to a female vocalist scream her lungs out honestly.
last movie: bridget jones’ diary (2001) which is fascinating from a sociological point of view imo
last show: still watching adventure time season 7 with the hope of catching up to see obsidian and make my 2012 bubbline loving heart explode
when did i create this blog: august 2020
what do i post: rambling headcanons, occasional funny posts, takes that range from lukewarm to haute (coutre), other people’s cool art, links to my ao3 page (my writing is good), complaining (i love complaining)
last thing googled: “mace windu lightsaber.” i’m listening to A Civilised Age which is an EXCELLENT clone wars podcast and they were all discussing what lightsabers they’d have so i googled to check what designs they were talking about. so basically. nerd shit.
other blogs: @sashacore (art, politics, personal stuff), @profanetools (elder scrolls sideblog, lesbian dwarf zone)
do i get asks: yes but i dread every single one since i put on anon
why did i choose this url: it’s funny (to me, at least, i can’t tell if my jokes are good nine times out of ten)
following: 700 or something because i compulsively follow people back
followers: 398
average hours of sleep: ranges between 5 to 9 hours but regardless i’m always still tired
lucky number: 77
instruments: clarinet but i haven’t played it in years :(
what am i wearing: a new hope star wars t-shirt (i am visibly doing a shrug emoji but i’m too lazy to copy-paste so imagine it in your mind’s eye) a plaid shirt over that, poorly fitting mens jeans, chipped black nail varnish. very par for the course for sasha.
dream job: god just. someone pay me to write please.
dream trip: interrail around central europe OR i’d really like to do a tour of china, since i think it’s far more diverse and varied than most people give it credit for
favorite food: pizza, but specifically the 3,50€ takeaway pizza from the small southern italian town i lived in for a year in 2018 with the local style of fluffy crust / thin base. fucking divine. never again will i get that quality:price ratio. never again.
nationality: copying what issy says: “i’m from- 😐e- 😰 eng- 🤢 england 🤮” except i can’t say actually say i’m english since my mum is glaswegian it’d be death on sight, whoops! (i think she resents the fact that i’m english lol). but i am to my scottish family as james derry girls is to derry, if that makes sense. i refer to myself as bri’ish usually because it is accurate even if there are certain class connotations to calling yourself british vs. english (it’s a whole Thing).
favorite song: just one??? okay fine. fine. it’s chelsea wolfe’s flat lands.
last book read: i’m still reading beloved which is incredible but i’m also reading mort by terry pratchett which is a good read
three fictional universes you’d like to live in: 1. the one where i am mentally well 2. the one without capitalism 3. i think it’d be fun to airbend personally.
not tagging anyone but big love if you want to do this yourself!
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why is Mike your favorite I want the dissertation OP
IN THIS ESSAY I WILL
- His lowkey obsession with Rich’s life. There was a quote from, I think Mike himself? that I saw once where he jokingly said his true calling in life was to put Rich Evans on camera and film him (if anyone can find that quote again, please send it to me, I think it was in an old interview with him)
- His unique creativity? I mean he basically created the modern video essay format wholecloth on his own. You can’t type the name of a pop culture film or tv show into the youtube search field without tripping over fifteen hundred video essays that were directly inspired by him.
- The shrugging humility when he’s reminded of this. He doesn’t seem to think he’s anything special; he’s just like “I wanted to get my thoughts out, so I did.”
- I once heard Jack and Rich on pre-rec talking about how they accidentally went to the same screening of a movie; Jack heard Rich laughing at the end and said “Hey, that’s Rich Evans!” and they joked that Mike ran away immediately because he doesn’t want to be recognized. It made me feel such a kinship with Mike as an extreme introvert myself
- As a giant Beatles stan (seriously I have a whole sideblog for it, I’ve bought all their albums which is wild cuz I try not to spend money on music, it’s a whole thing), I love that he’s a big beatles fan. A man can recognize good music!
- speaking of good music, he loves Elton John too? And musicals? Grease 2 is a musical that only a theater kid could love, and he loves it, therefore he is a Certified Theater Kid I don’t make the rules it’s just how it be
- his love of Star Trek is so pure and bright. Absolutely nothing in the entire world could make me care about Star Trek, but Mike and his enduring love for it has definitely come the closest. I mean, he got choked up talking about the motion picture for god’s sake. How can you not love this Soft™ Man
- I know it’s considered a bit gauche to talk about their patreon exclusive content, but for a while I was subbed to them there and watched a ton of outtake videos. My favourite thing about them, the thing that delights me the most every time, is that Mike is almost always the one who breaks first when they’re trying to film something scripted, like the nerd crew. People think of him as the stoic one but he’s not and it’s GREAT
- This is a small thing, but a lot of the time he covers his mouth and shrinks down when he’s laughing and it’s end**ring don’t @ me
- He loves making Rich Evans laugh more than anything in the whole world and I think that’s wonderful
- There is nothing funnier to me when he breaks and keeps trying to talk through it
- He’s such a bully sometimes but it’s ok he doesn’t mean it, probably. My favourite instance is when he gave Jay his shirt to wear for the Best of the Worst panel and then roasted his ass with a fucking flamethrower for it
- On a more serious note, he has some really good insights on movies, things that I never would have thought of; the most recent example I can think of is in the Exorcist III Re:View, when he made the point that the movie wasn’t really about people; it was about institutions and how they are supposed to be things that keep the world functioning, and the horror comes from the demon breaking those institutions.
- His Chicago/Upper Midwest accent is so choice, and he’s got a great reading voice. He should do audiobooks
- Every time he tries to tell a story he completely fails and goes on five hundred tangents and has to rely almost entirely on Jay’s superior memory to get to the finish line (like the Joe Pilato story; case in point, he asks Jay if he can tell the story and then doesn’t actually get to the story for two more minutes)
- He doesn’t give a single shit about video games and I love that because neither do I
- wish someone would look at me the way mike looks at his friends
- He just seems like a nice soft guy masquerading as a cynical asshole and i identify with that
#heartofheadss#mike#red letter media#this just turned into another best moments post a little bit lol sorry#really REALLY hope hes too old to understand how tumblr works and never sees this#i promise i'm not a weirdo i just like your videos m8
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