#so shade at anyone that likes her ofc I'm just not impressed

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As you can see I've entered my Genshin era - I wonder when it'll end

In brief, I just wanted to do some warm-up before starting a big art (I hope it'll happen one day...) and show my headcanons just for fun, why not? And ofc I do not impose anything on anyone, this is just my personal opinion and blah-blah

I find Genshin char design quite entertaining. I like the devs try to rethink and use some national stereotypes, folk costumes, some ethnic motifs etc, but absolutely the same blank faces for all characters regardless of their sex and age are just killing me. So that's why I decided to diversify it a little, to estimate possible ethnic and individual differences (yes, all the nations in Genshin are fictional etc, but in fact all the national and historical prototypes seem to be quite obvious). OK LET'S GOO

Tortellini. First of all, I'm sure freckles really suit gingers. Dimples can also add some character to the image of a naive fool and a positive dude (although Tort isn't actually stupid, he's a straightforward simpleton 'cos of his young age - this fact is stated directly in the game, e.g. in Arle's dialogues). Speaking about the general features of the face, I should note the more pronounced angles of the jaw and brow ridges, thicker eyebrows, thicker neck, slightly larger chin - features that correspond to a more realistic facial structure and the difference between a male and a female face. Regarding the nose, the situation is a bit ambiguous: on the one hand, a curved nose is usually considered more Southern European or West Asian (including Arabic and Persian regions) but I once found information about two subtypes of curved noses a long time ago. Like, if the nose is curved in the upper part closer to the bridge of the nose, then this is usually the Asian type, if it's curved in the lower part closer to the tip, then it's usually European. Considering that I've met guys on the street with the latter type of a curved nose (which is also raised up) and their appearance corresponded to the "Nordic" type (light straight hair, light eyes, pale skin of a cold shade), let's assume that this is still a Northern European nose and everything is logical

Signora. Her facial features are slightly softer. She has a usual straight narrow nose. Her appearance is close to the type of a femme fatale, she is suited by slightly defined cheekbones and plump lips (I have nothing against symmetrical round "bow" lips which are trendy today, but I just prefer classic ones with a pronounced cleavage in the middle). Her head is proudly raised. Moles can complement the image: a mole under the eye can add some sophistication and elegance, while the one above the upper lip can add a bit of sensuality (for example, look at the photo of Nika Turbina - her story raises many questions, but her appearance is definitely memorable). In other words, quoting The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov, Rosaline is "a sultry woman, a poet's dream" :)

Dottore. On the one hand, his color palette gives the impression of albinism (although albinos among humans, unlike animals, practically do not have red eyes, but let's forget about it). On the other hand, his Sumeru origin directly asks to add something appropriate, so I decided to choose a hooked nose (yes, I love noses, the most diverse and memorable part of the face). His character and his actions are conducive to introducing a bit of "monstrosity" into the image: sharp facial features and teeth, withered thin lips, a greenish tint in the palette. Well, it turns out he's a true gremlin. I like the widespread headcanon about him having scars, why not - in general, the guy could both earn one in the process of experiments and receive it from his fellow countrymen. I decided to make him stoop a little, but this is a dangerous move. I mean the Doctor is bursting with aggression, determination and arrogance, he is a daring and self-confident person, and such a tightness doesn't fit him. However, his obsession with scientific research, poring over books and constant work on experiments can (probably) cause a curvature of posture. In the end, I decided that this man can straighten up normally if necessary, but he usually still slouches (just like my uncle :)). Or at least like Dead Space protagonist who is also stooped but still is quite a good fighter

Arlele. Here I didn't do much 'cos the developers have already given her a bunch of distinct features: crossed pupils, and black hands, and some patterns on them, and contrasting hair (although most chars have more or less monochrome or at least similar shades of their hair). In general, she's good the same as she is now. In comparison with Signora, her image is slightly more restrained and refined, her lips are slightly thinner, her eyebrows, on the contrary, are slightly thicker, and her cheekbones are less pronounced. The only major detail added is a slightly hooked, drooping nose. I don't know why, but it seems to be very French for me. Some famous French actors and actresses have kinda similar noses (e.g. Louis de Funès, Pierre Richard, Christian Clavier, Sophie Marceau, Laetitia Casta etc.) - well, at least I think so

By the way, I honestly wanted to diversify somehow emotions in my drawings, but all of the characters are smiling again - what can I do if the smiles suit these guys as well as nobody else: Tort has a half-friendly, half-self-confident smile kinda like 😼, Signora has a proud one, Arle has a cunningly condescending one, and Dottore has just a snide "ehehe"

Hooray, it's a Chinese wall of my text again - well, this time it has at least some sense

Have a nice summer everyone!! I hope to see you again before the autumn :)

P.S. hello to the old ones who has recognized the original album cover, it's been 19 years since its release, feel old yet?

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IWTV S2 Ep2 Musings

I absolutely adore the title cards; the "fangs" reflecting main locations of the episodes/seasons. GOD this show's attention to detail.

We open with Lou & Claud in Paris bickering about French & money; already shown in the Pix11 preview (I gave my opinions on the full scene, and another post about Claudia specifically.

Then we get Dubai. O_O Omfg. I made a separate post all about Louis & Loumand, cuz those queens were DIABOLICAL this episode.

Skipping ahead a bit! To the coven/theatre! ^0^

Ohhhh....that's a Children of Satan/Darkness nod! 👀 Only thing's that the old guard from the CoS/D actually weren't part of the Coven/Theatre anymore by the time Louis & Claudia arrived (Alessandra, Eleni, and the rest of Rhoshamandes' fledglings Santino indoctrinated & had train Armand).

So Armand is REALLY showing off, tryna impress Louis; cuz none of the members of THAT Theatre troupe are older than Armand, and not even he's as old as Charlemagne. Armand, your yaoi is showing. XD

It's wild how on one hand we have the coven simping over how pretty Louis is (except Santiago, cuz ofc 🙄); while just HATING on Claudia.

Naw, let her stay! Estelle is THIRSTY and I love her for it, bless! XD

Santiago, you shady wench, you're already on my hit list, BUFFOON; but THIS striped heifer, Celeste--

Wench, are all Parisian vampiresses frumpy busted haters like YOU?

Anyways. 🙄 I hate this effing coven already. 😒

Foreshadowing AF, Mr. I Could Not Prevent It.

Sure, Jan. 🙄 But not all violence/abuse/trauma is physical/sexual. By allowing the Theatre to put their hands on Claudia, Armand harmed Louis more than anyone ever could. Claudia was the glue keeping Louis together when he was already falling apart, and he hasn't been right ever since. BOTH of these dudes are living in a fantasy, frikkin la-la-land, as they think they're HELPING e/o, going thru all these theatrical acts & performances. But are they REALLY happy? Esp. cuz we know who's endgame for them in the books. It's bittersweet, cuz their affection's REAL. But this weird codependency just isn't healthy or right. U_U

Eff you, Daniel Hart. tryna make me cry!

Eff you, Daniel Hart, tryna make me laugh!

This scene with the naked lady (Annika) was SO GOOD! I'm glad they tastefully didn't fully show her whole body like they did in the film--if we can't see full frontal nudity for the dudes, then I don't wanna see it on the gals either. 😤 Fair's fair!

But WOAH, the sexckshuhality~!

👻💀⚰️

I don't even have words for this! 😅 Claudia! Let the man win ONCE!?

But I LOVE how candid this show is about everything from sexuality to race--and ofc discrimination.

Oh they're cooking. O_O

THEY ACTUALLY SPOKE ON THE FACT THAT ARMAND'S A BROWN ASIAN DARKER SKINNED THAN REDBONE LDPDL, I'M SHOOK--COLOR CONSCIOUS AWARD GOES TO~~~!

Armand gets to lead the coven through meritocracy, not racial privilege. HOWEVER, we've got bleach-blonde Santiago still waiting in the wings, so.... I can't wait to see more of their dynamics.

We been knew, Louis, it's ok. U_U

Armand clearly been knew, too! Like: Yeah, I'm not surprised he's cruising all the gay parks--I could tell by the way that American walked! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I KNOW this bish ain't talking, not Mr. Polynesian Marys! Not Mr. I Did What I Had To Do To SCORE. Not Mr. We Met In A GAY Bar. Not Mr. Black Tar And Heroin! Not Mr. Is Alicia Even REAL!? I KNOW he's not tryna shade Louis for cruising, when his closeted arse can't even handle being in a room with Armand making come-hither eyes!

I love Daniel, how he's written & acted, but ISTG I hate his character.

As opposed to Santiago, who is just--BRUH. WERK.

And this is exactly what Lestat was getting at, too. And why Akasha was wrong when she said men are the problem. Like, don't get me wrong, THEY ARE, but chile, ALL HUMANS are the problem; eff gender. Homegirl sold that old dude down the frikkin river, just to save her own skin, and her family's. COMPLICIT. OFFAL.

Santiago's disgusted by humanity, and Annika proved his point.

As for Lestat, his cold willful detachment stems from his attitude that humans are just The Meat. This version of Lestat is SO dang jaded, that humans are reduced to mere food--just like he called Miss Lily.

He doesn't need the Evil Doer creed, if he thinks ALL humans are evil/irredeemable; only worth living if they can sing & make music or something artistic. Otherwise who cares? (Which makes it VERY interesting to see what AMC!Les would say to Memnoch the Devil....)

Speaking of....

I frikkin knew it. ISTG Lestat must be asleep in 2022--if y'all have him do a Merrick and wake up in the finale, I will pass out and DIE.

The question is: WHAT put him to sleep? Is he just sad & grieving post-trial? WTF is Raglan James doing in 2022? Are we post-Memnoch? Where are TWMBK? I NEED ANSWERS, AMC! 😭

[imaginespazzi]

Ah as long as you're good!

Haha, you know I'm always along for the ride with whatever you write, but be careful what you wish for cause you may never escape my long ass reviews/insights 😭

I'm ngl, I barely even read the other two ideas you put down (I'm sorry!) cause I saw "angst" and "baby" and was like yep, SOLD 😃 Nah fr, I'm such a sucker for baby/kid fics lol; I feel like I go through baby fever every couple months atp but then very much remember that I can barely take care of myself most of the time, let alone a tiny human being but anyway (this was totally irrelevant).

Suffice to say, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the exes to lovers idea and the premise you've laid out! It sounds like it could get pretty damn angsty, which I should never be surprised about the potential for angst when you're at the helm (in the best way) haha, but also I'm feeling like there could be a lot of fluff too (i'm manifesting). I just know the interactions between Paige and Azzi's kid will be so endearing (for both Azzi and us) but also I'm envisioning a menace duo that'll drive Azzi up the wall. That little girl is gonna have P wrapped around her lil pinky SO FAST. And well, I already know Azzi would be the best mum 🥹 (I could also be 1000% wrong with all these assumptions I'm already making about their characterisations in the fic, so feel free to ignore if I'm just spouting total nonsense).

Anyway, I'm already keen to know why they broke up after college?! And then the circumstances around Azzi having a kid! Azzi's daughter's first impression of Paige! The on-court dynamic! How the UConn gang features in it! ALL OF IT! Importantly, which W team are they gonna be on?

Also, I vote for a title cause even though I know we never referred to the UCLA fic by its name, I still used "in between shades of blue" for my spotify playlist so the title does come in handy babes 😂 OH BTW, will you still do the lyric preambles for this one too? 🙏

^see what I mean by my long ass thoughts 😩

Ok, i'm officially done. Can't wait for this one, Nivi (but also, take all the time you need ofc). 🫂💗

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I would never want to escape your long ass reviews/thoughts, they're my favorite type of ask to get in my inbox!

LMAO you're so real cause lowkey I was leaning towards this one anyways and I just needed everyone to validate me (thank you!) that it was in fact a good idea. But dude same!! Like I would love a child but I am in fact not at all ready for a child. Also I works with kids so that both really increases my baby fever and also very much makes sure to remind me that kids can be something.

You know me, I loooooove the angst and there's just so much potential for it in the plot so how can I refuse? But I'm so excited to write about the kid and her interactions with the two of them, just cause they're both so good with kids and it's gonna be easy to write.

I'm ngl to you babes, I don't know the answer to most of these, especially what team, like I'm so confused so if anyone has any ideas, please send them! I think maybe Minnesota or DC just cause I like to add their families in and that would be easier but I also do that for every fic I feel.

Yes, definitely gonna have lyrics for intros probably. Partly cause I like it but also because it's easier than coming up with something else lol.

[jentlemahae]

a lot of people are excusing the bad singing due to hard choreo but we have seen lsfm sing poorly in their encores while standing still on multiple occasions so it has nothing to do with that. but overall, it isn't really lsfm's fault. it's hybe's. this is a bigger ongoing issue with them as they keep putting a bigger emphasis on dancing over singing. that combined with short training times and choosing members based on vibes over talent, and you're left with bad singing controversies for most of your groups. hybe needs to fix this.

anw today people are trying to defend lsfm but ofc people can't do that without dragging bp at the same time. after all the bp praise and positivity yesterday i'm not even shocked that i'm seeing a 180 towards them not even 24 hours later. mostly from hybe stans, esp 💜 and 🐰 but what else did i expect. "bp were lip syncing" literally factually incorrect lmao. "they had a backing track" so do most people at coachella, especially pop artists, including lsfm btw (it just didn't play on the stream). also for both bp coachella performances you can hear them over the backing track so what is this argument even about?

also i don't understand the shade i'm seeing towards jisoo? i'm not sure when it happened but k-pop fans decided that jisoo was a bad singer and i'm confused bcs that's simply not true? objectively jisoo is a good singer. is she the best singer? no. does she need to be? also no. does that mean that she isn't a great singer? again, no!!! nobody is asking for all k-pop idols to be whitneys celines and mariahs but the bare minimum is being able to provide stable live vocals on a regular basis, something that jisoo does do. i don't get it.

1000% !!! yeah lsrfm sounding that bad is not ideal but that’s not really the girls’ fault, it’s hybe’s fault bcs they are the ones who were / are in charge of their training and should provide them with the resources to actually get better. and it’s not like this is a new issue for hybe cause this has been an issue with every single one of their groups, so they definitely know but they just don’t care enough to do anything about it

and 1000000% for jisoo !!! i’ve genuinely always been confused at people calling her a bad singer bcs she sounds perfectly fine to me ?? sure she’s had her bad moments like anyone but she sounds very good and stable live 99% of the time. i actually remember i was so impressed by her at both concerts i went to bcs she is veeeeery stable! so this whole “jisoo cant sing” thinng is truly a mystery to me

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Ppl losing their minds over 'restored Donna benneviento and I'm like 😐 she's the most bland kind of hot lol