#splice is better y'all

[the-entity-down-the-street]

"Splice" is a better Frankenstein adaptation than "Poor Things" because:

SPOILERS FOR BOTH FILMS

A) the mad scientists face consequences for their unethical genetic fuckery instead of dying peacefully. Elsa is left traumatized, with her loved ones dead as a result of this experiment. Sure, she's getting a lot of money, but that's not going to undo the mental scars that will no doubt haunt her to the grave.

B) The female monster is actually fucking monstrous. Dren does have some typically attractive traits like symmetrical features, smooth skin, etc, but still. If you're going to make an abomination against science, MAKE THE ABOMINATION. Don't give me some pretty girl in a frilly dress and call that a monster, okay? Cowards.

C) They don't frame the dubious consent/noncon as liberating. Elsa is disgusted with Clive for sleeping with Dren, and when Dren assaults Elsa in her male form, it's a traumatic experience. Bella's assaults (because that's what they are. She has the mind of a literal toddler. I don't care if she is enthusastic about it if she doesn't have the cognitive capacity to understand what's happening.) are framed as sexual liberation and it makes me want to hurl a chair at somebody. Calling sex "furious jumping" because she's not mature enough to fully understand sex. The fact that her fiancé wants to marry her when she's a fucking toddler. Gross. Disgusting. I hate it.

D) Splice is a true gender swap of the Frankenstein narrative, because both the scientist and the creature are female. Clive helps, but let's be real, Elsa is pulling the strings and convincing him to go along with it. Splice doesn't claim to be a feminist retelling like Poor Things does, but it's more narratively driven by women who are allowed moral complexity and agency. There's no bullshit girlboss moment either (the goat brain swap).

E) This one is just a personal gripe, but the whole "bringing back a dead woman with the brain of an infant she was forced to carry" thing? And somehow, this is a feminist retelling? Hate. Get it away from me. Not saying Dren was created ethically (Clive didn't even have fully informed consent because he didn't know it was Elsa's DNA), but goddamn, at least the mother of the child had agency in the child's creation. There is absolutely nothing feminist about using an unwilling woman's body as a vessel for the baby she didn't want. What in the pro-life bullshit is this? Ew. Ew. Ew.

Rant over. Thanks for coming to my Tedtalk.

[lanschpaket]

Everybody calm down this goes out to the people who say that Jinx is dead:

I wholeheartedly believe she is not. And I will support my claim with evidence! I present to you the case of "Jinx is definitely alive"

There's so many hints on her being alive actually. First we get this scene with Caitlyn:

She is actively investigating this case and wants to follow up with things she can find in the Kiramman archives. There she finds the plans of the Hexgate with every detail about the building while holding the monkey head, which was part of Jinx' grenade This is not randomly put there by the creators and it serves the purpose of us, the viewers, understanding that there is a way out of that tower, while you fall down from the top Immediately after the Caitvi scene, right after this, comes the final shot of the show:

There is a point to showing us this. Back in S01 Powder even talks about wanting to be on an air ship one day. And why end this show (at least this story) on this specific scene, if there's no reason to it? Reason is: We count these things together. Conclusion: Jinx is alive, on that air ship! Not enough? I slowed down this scene a tiny bit so you can all see better the spliced in ending screen, which has always been happening whenever Jinx. Mostly when Jinx had her episodes, but y'all get my drift. Also, one last thing. Before we get the scene with Caitlyn looking at the archives, we hear her talking while we see all the wrap ups in Zaun and Piltover. She literally says "[...] our story isn't over". In this specific order. Caitlyn's narration, with that being the last sentence. Then her looking at the archives. And then after the Caitvi scene the airship with the end screen. This story might be at an end now. But it doesn't mean that their personal stories are at an end. And literally not at an end for Jinx. cause she didn't END up dying. She lives

[cryptids-of-spielzeit]

Reunion

Prologue: The Fae: A Brief Introduction

(A Spielzeit Fae Story)

Playtime Co. as a whole seemed to have no moral compass. Save for one or two, all of the experiments that were run inside were done on the orphans in Playcare. One of the more gruesome series of experiments were the entirety of the Smiling Critters line.

It started with the Bigger Bodies. After a few failed attempts, all 8 of the Critters were made into living giants. The 8 were made to work around Playcare, and all had different roles to fill. But, because of their strict placement around the orphanage, many of the children were saddened once they had to leave them for the day. They would openly wish to visit certain critters, and even when they were given the plushes sold to the public, it wasn't enough. They wanted the real ones.

It was then that Dr. Harley Sawyer got an idea. At the time of completion of all the Bigger Body Critters, Playcare had been suffering from overcrowding. There were too many children, many sleeping on the floors, and no employees wanted to take them home. So, if the kids wanted more Smiling Critters, why not make more?

Soon, many of the unwanted orphans were "adopted" by the scientists at Playtime. It would be a waste of money and resources to just make copies of the Bigger Bodies, so they had to go smaller. Like many other experiments, they went to work on making living variants of the publically sold Smiling Critters plushes.

In order to tweak their personalities to better fit their characters, they decided that splicing the children's brains with those of the local wildlife outside would work. At least, that's what Dr. Sawyer told corporate, not that they'd care. From squirrels, to foxes, frogs, and birds, many animal craniums were melded with the children's minds, to mixed results. Those who were more animal than human were put in the reject pile, left to survive for themselves. The ones that the children in Playcare received were still kids, mentally, with barely any memory of who they were and their animal instincts only kicking in at certain moments (I.E. in front of food, loud noises, etc.).

The children loved them, and they loved the children. They also kept their love of the bigger Critters, who saw their tinier versions existence to be both welcoming and tragic, with the knowledge they knew. Catnap, in particular, took pity on all of them, even those amongst the rejects. After he put the orphans to sleep, he would converse with all of them, letting them rest with him for the night, unbeknownst to the scientists.

Come The Hour of Joy, the mini critters that followed Catnap were also following the Prototype. Both animalistic and childlike minds worked together to maul every worker they saw. It was a grand massacre on their part alone.

The allyship between the different minds soon soured once they had escaped. One side wished to just enjoy their freedom, live life and be happy. The others wanted to stay by the side of the Prototype, their bloodlust still unquenched. Thus, the two factions of what would be known as the Spielzeit Fae were made.

This story concerns 4 peaceful fae, Allison, Mandy, Louise, and Max, and a reunion with an old friend under rather amusing circumstances...

(Thanks to @abugcalledtoken for the inspiration behind the mini critter mind splicin', and for makin' the Defects AU, which inspired this short story (y'all will see in the long run ;3) - JY)

[mikeydoodledandy]

a brief fond letter to the tf2 rp community

Sorry to dip in y'alls tags. Not an RP blog I'm afraid, just a guy who used to spend SO very much of his time RPing in the community with so many different characters, and I guess I was just feeling nostalgic. It's been years at this point and sadly I know myself well enough that RPing would be the only thing I would do if I got back into it. But I look back with fondness nonetheless.

Anyone from back when they used to release the comics on the reg? I'm sure there's a whole slew of new characters and folks in general. Are there still "guilds" for characters stationed at different maps anymore? Are there enough of you to even do that now? If it faded out of style, y'all should try it, it was fun.

What extensions are you using to make RPing easier these days? Is the community still unabashedly queer? It better be, it's tf2 after all. Homoeroticism and queer subtext is its bread and butter.

I hope y'all are making friends and your characters are having taboo sneaky red/blue romances. I hope they're pranking each other or picking fights or doing mad science. Are splices still a thing? Someone better have a character spliced with an armadillo or a octopus or something, I swear to god.

Jesting aside, the community and RPing in it is what literally made me realize I was trans. Doing research for my trans characters is what literally pushed me to transition and I'm now the happiest and most comfortable I've ever been. It's been pretty great.

Anyway, love y'all, whoever might be left out there doin' their thing. May your love for this weird quirky game and its funky little dudes be eternal.

[anendoandfriendo]

hii 💚

y'all seem cool

love your blog theming

Oh, hello! :D

And TYSM sksksk the blog header is the three system origin [-genic] label flags we use the most spliced together and the blig avatar is Vanilla from World's End Club (but edited to match the blog header).

It looks much better on mobile because you can actually see the header flags lol, we should probably fix it for desktop too, but it should be something like the endogenic, recursigenic, and the protogenic flags.

[illholy]

what do you consider your strengths as a writer?

which character have you written the longest?

is there a specific character archetype you enjoy writing the most?

█ 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 : 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒊, ( not accepting ) ⤿ @solarisgod. why hello there my brightest mutual (literal )

* ˚ ✦ what do you consider your strengths as a writer? I don't think I have anything in particular that stands out, but I've noticed I have the habit of overly describing things for better or for worst, ( i love you Demonstrative adjectives, i love you Indefinite adjectives, i love you Participial adjectives, i love you all 13 types of adjectives. ) I haven't been confronted of this either, but I splice quotes onto almost all of my replies. * ˚ ✦ which character have you written the longest? There's actually three characters I consistently go back too, Judith, Riruka Dokugamine and Shoichi Irie. Those three would be the oldest in likely equally space of times. I always long for these characters eventually, but with Riruka specifically, it can get very, very odd ⸻ bleach fandom is scary with the femme presenting characters, I think. * ˚ ✦ is there a specific character archetype you enjoy writing the most? Let me answer this again, but with another archetype. ' LOVE OBSESSED' , yandere tropes, truly honest to god characters that WILL throw you in the basement. Think Toma from Amnesia, had me howling when y'all ended up in a kennel, WHAT WAS THAT? I don't think this is rpc friendly tho, so I hadn't yet done this in public, I do in fact have some sense.

[headspace-hotel]

Two very good questions from @dr-dendritic-trees and @makerandbean !

First: Yes! I haven't posted photos of my spinning in a while, but yeah, I essentially use a stick with a side branch at the top that I use as a spool. I hold the stick in my left hand and twist the strand together, letting my left hand slide down the stick as I spin, then when the strand is as long as the stick I wrap it around the top and continue.

I'm actually really happy you brought that up, because I had no idea what the technique was called, and had never heard of it before despite it being a fairly intuitive, ridiculously low-tech way to spin that gives you a lot of control over the strand you're putting together.

You basically pinch a big thick tuft of your fiber between your index finger and thumb of your right hand and splice it into the strand you're working on, and as you work you pull the tuft downwards so it slowly distributes all the fibers into a long strand.

This is especially effective when you're working with dogbane bast fiber, which inevitably has a great number of fibers of just 3-5 centimeters, and a smaller but still significant amount of fibers 10-20 centimeters long. The long fibers give the strand a backbone and the short fibers give it more weight and fuzziness.

The staple length you could get from dogbane fiber if you processed it carefully is, I feel certain, longer than any other natural fiber that exists.

Using dogbane, I have figured out how to get an incredibly smooth even thread by twisting the strand, then scraping my fingers up and down the strand to make stray fibers stick up, and untwisting and retwisting it in short sections at a time so the stray fibers get twisted into the strand.

I think it helps the final result to alternate between holding the strand in the hardest twist you can manage and then letting it relax to whatever extent it wants to, and twisting again.

It's slow but I'm getting steadily faster and faster at it, and it feels plausible that a person using this method could produce enough string for weaving into a garment on a Neolithic type amount of free time.

On the second question: I havent actually tried turning the milkweed yarn into anything since I can't knit or crochet, however, I think it would be so clearly better to blend the milkweed fluff 50:50 with another fiber (possibly milkweed bast fiber!) that I haven't really tried experimenting with pure milkweed fluff much more. I will hopefully show y'all how the bast/fluff blend goes!

My experiment shows it's possible to spin milkweed fluff, however I think it wouldn't be sturdy enough for an item for daily wear unless blended. However blending the milkweed and dogbane has excellent results.

I actually did some research online into milkweed fluff, and the main purpose for milkweed fluff in textile-adjacent things is actually stuffing. It apparently makes amazing stuffing for pillows, blankets, and jackets—it is incredibly warm, hypoallergenic, and so buoyant that it can be used to stuff life jackets.

it's definitely my predisposition to extreme frugality+redneck engineering, but i'm now obsessed with creating things literally without buying Anything. no supplies no tools no nothing, only the stuff you can just find outside, like Plants, Sticks, and Rocks.

I'm making textiles with nothing but foraged plant materials using no tools except sticks. Nature allows you to do this! There's no rules! I mean okay well maybe there might be some rules sometimes but they're just weak human rules! The plants themselves? They're like "Why sure! You can make yarn with nothing but fibers from the dead stem I don't need anymore, a couple sticks from that tree over there, and your own body and mind! Why not?"

Plants like to give us gifts! And nobody has the power to stop them!

[radioconstructed]

[ It's been almost two months that Al can't just make music. It used to be second nature. She'd just imagine the instrumentation, she'd just think of how to adjust or splice or remix music, and the sound would come out of her body-radio with no effort.

If she wants to make music now, she has to play it, all analog, like a normal person. Arranging music? Better bust out the sheet music and get to work. If she wants two instruments playing simultaneously? She'd better get dexterous with those hooves real quick, or refresh her memory about her old synthesizer's looping functions, or download software. At minimum, she'll have to learn to use audacity, at best, she'll have to learn ableton.

Lol. Anyway, she'll ~learn technology as a form of liberation~, but she's drawing a line here. (For now, at least. She gets to be a pouting Luddite about this as long as she wants to be!)

VoxTube music posting is on hiatus. If y'all want any Al Radiodemon Productions in the near future, you'll have to see her doing acoustics, in person, at the Happy Hotel. It's one deer, her voice, and her four limbs, truly out here!! ]

[gr8gollygrace]

Angelina Welde Grimke - Notes + Thoughts

A Black History learning series crafted by Rachel Cargle

Feb. 1880 - June 1958

Father, Archibald Grimke: lawyer, author, Vice President of NAACP at one time

Angelina began teaching English at Dunbar High School and studied at Harvard during the summers

began writing poetry, short stories and eventually plays

Rachel - 3-act drama as a response to Birth of a Nation, published in 1920

Much of her work was not published because, identifying as a lesbian, her sexuality would have been a theme of her writing(1917-1927)

After her fathers death in 1930, Angelina moved to New York and didn't publish any more work

Considered by Alain Locke as "a forerunner" of the Harlem Renaissance

At April

Toss your gay heads, Brown girl trees; Toss your gay lovely heads; Shake your brown slim bodies; Stretch your brown slim arms; Stretch your brown slim toes. Who knows better than we, With the dark, dark bodies, What it means When April comes a-laughing and a-weeping  Once again At our hearts?

Why might this information not been something I had learned -- or at least learned with some depth?

This was an awkward time period, right before what most scholars recognize as the Harlem Renaissance

She was a gay woman of color, who wrote about joy, love and passion, "racial injustice and black pride"

Have any of y'all read her work before? I'd love to know your thoughts!

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

UPDATED PITCH WORDS Y'ALL WE'RE GETTING BETTER AT MARKETING

Hello all and welcome to my #authorintroduction!

My name is Steph Roehler. I am a New Adult Horror Fantasy/Dark Fantasy Author. My biggest inspirations are Guillermo del Toro, Charles Dickens, Arthur Miller, Mike Flanagan, Patrick Ness, and Ray Bradbury.

This month I'm releasing my debut novel, Daughter of Or. This gothic horror novel is a clever splice of #Cinderella x #Dracula, set in a castle that will remind you of the #CrimsonPeak mansion. Throughout, you accompany one young woman as she makes the choice to embrace her identity. All she has to do is evade the monsters in her way and kill the vampiric betrothed holding her back.

But Benca would rather be free than be loved.

With themes of power, female solidarity, and defiance of the patriarchy, Daughter of Or will remind you what it's like to fight for yourself, as wild as you may be.

Daughter of Or will be out May 26th. Preo-orders for the ebook are on Amazon NOW

I guess I wrote a whole book?

If you'd like a crossover of Crimson Peak, Cinderella, Twilight, and Dracula (that's also gay and says fuck you to the patriarchy) you might like my horror fantasy book, Daughter of Or!

Pre-orders are up now, but the ebook and paperback both officially release on May 26th (the same date as Dracula).

[im-like-if-a-girl]

*THE* mean-girl-dean-girl's Supernatural reboot MEGAPOST!

I'm gonna stick a little "keeping reading" here because hoooooo boy, this is a very long post.

Let's start with

Plot

Season 1

Dean kills John while they are out on a hunt in a crime of passion, but Dean doesn't remember because he blacked out. Cue Dean going to Stanford to get Sam and tell him "Dad's on a hunting trip... and he hasn't been home in a couple days."

The audience doesn't know what happened to John, but slowly figures it out with Dean and Sam as Dean slowly remembers what happened that night.

The entire first season, the boys are following the trail John left and fighting monsters as well. They find out Dean was with John, Sam realizes Dean has an unreliable memory, they have heart to hearts about their childhood and the fire, they find John's body, "how could you kill Dad?" but maybe Dean didn't kill dad, whooaaaaaa, misdirection.

It was actually good ole yeller eyes (Azazel) and he made it look like Dean killed John.

Okay, now let's move on to the first episode

Not sure how the opening would work, I would like the story of the fire to be revealed over the course of the first season, but maybe the opening scene could be a little bit of an establishing character relationships and backstory, idk, I haven't thought that far yet.

I'm thinking maybe it's like, Dean gets back to a motel room covered in blood and he listens to a voicemail on his phone from John saying he was on a hunt or something, I don't really know lol.

HOWEVER

I do know that after the intro rolls, we get a scene of Sam waking up to his alarm and "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton starts playing.

Y'all know where this is going.

Cue a montage of Sam's normal Stanford college life (him sitting through lectures, walking through the campus with friends) spliced with scenes of Dean absolutely slaughtering a nest of vampires (or some other monsters, whatever works best.)

But

Now onto

Characters!!! (And descriptions)

Dean Winchester

Some lovely person on this site made edits of Dean with platinum blond hair and it made me feel some kind of way so we're doing that, homie's gonna have platinum blond hair

Side note about the hair, later when the brothers are running from the FBI he dyes it a dirty blond/light brown (insert jackles hair color controversy here) as a disguise.

He also gets tattoos because we were robbed.

Speaking of tattoos, concept: when Dean comes back from Hell, all of his tattoos are gone. His body is a clean slate, devoid of tattoos, scars, etc. So he gets his tattoos done all over again, which he doesn't mind because he made some bad, drunk tattoo decisions in his youth.

(And before you ask, yes, he does get one for Cas, either a bee or Cas's name in enochian, something cute.)

Dean goes to therapy after Sam gets sent to the Cage.

It's actually court mandated because he got in trouble, lol, he would never go to therapy on his own.

Along with the hair, Dean gets to be the grade A twunk we all know he is.

Sam Winchester

His hair gets longer in every scene he's in

No jk, but imagine

King of Microaggressions

Sam starts off like the sweetheart he is in season 1 but in later seasons he starts enjoying killing a little too much...

It's that demon blood, ba-by!!!

He brings up issues of morality to Dean, i.e. killing monsters who aren't hurting anyone. (Yes I know this is contradictory to my previous statement, but these two facets of Sam can and will coexist.)

Sam and Jess's relationship is explored further, meaning we'll need to start with a different inciting incident, but that's fine, I think everyone can agree fridgings are *(thumbs down)*

Sam doesn't truly know what happened the night of the fire until later, and then he understands why Dean is so protective of him.

Jess

She gets to live beyond the first episode

She is also trans

No, I don't feel like I have to explain myself and I won't 💜

She urges Sam to join Dean in a search for their brother, kind of gets pulled into the hunter lifestyle by association lol.

She dies on a rusty nail after fighting vampires on a routine hunt with Sam

No jk!!!

But imagine....

She's amazing and I love her and Lucifer also uses her as leverage against Sam and possesses her because I think that'd be cool.

She supports Sam 100% and also she and Dean are buddies, pals if you will.

She meets Cas Thee El and immediately she Knows, that is a homosexual.

She dies still so that we can have a Saileen Endgame but she's not dying the first episode or in a fridging. Not on my watch.

Castiel

He gets to keep his raw, light-fixture-exploding power.

I want more of that "I pulled you out of hell, I can throw you back in" energy except over dumb shit like Dean not cleaning up after himself.

He looks like a Dilf in every scene he's in, yeah, that's right, dilf with a capital D for *(GUNSHOTS)* *(gets sent to horny jail)*

Claire

She gets pink hair

And more time with Cas

And maybe a nose piercing

Feel like she should be able to kill a couple angels onscreen, punch a couple homophobes

She gets to meet Jack and teaches him swears and fun slang words.

She deserves it.

Jack

I says "that's my baby and I'm proud."

Jack starts off as a baby, but like Amara he grows up super quickly.

Like, baby to 11 year old in a couple days or less.

This is because Jack's emotional age on the show is on par with that of a 5th grader.

It's at this point when he's a young kid that he runs away from the Bunker and shenanigans ensue.

It's also at this point that Dean threatens to k*ll him.

(Still not sure if I want that in my Supernatural (threatened infanticide? In my Supernatural? It's more likely than you think) but we'll see. We'll see.)

Throughout a majority of season 13, Jack is like an 11 y.o. kid

Season 14 he's like a 16 y.o. teenager

Season 15 he's 21, you get the picture.

Listen, I love Alex Calvert a lot. He's great.

But Jack is a child and should be a child.

Kelly Kline

Kelly, baby, stay right where you are, you're perfect.

Eileen

SHE DOESN'T DIE

SHE GETS TO BE IN THE FINALE BECAUSE SHE'S AMAZING AND I LOVE HER.

BLURRY WIFE WHO? I ONLY KNOW SAILEEN ENDGAME!

She teaches Claire and Jack swears in sign-language. Castiel is not impressed.

John

J*hn W*nchester stans, DNI.

He's dead.

We only see him in flashbacks and only sometimes hear his voice in voice overs.

He's not "down the road" from Dean in Heaven, in fact he instead gets to wander around in some Purgatory like Hell for the rest of his time :)

People who get to say "fuck" on the show:

Cas (but only Once)

Jody

Bobby

Now onto other things

I want more of

Ghostfacers

(they need more screentime because I love them)

Dean/Benny

We know they had a thing.

They definitely had a thing.

Demon Dean

Again, I feel like more should've been done with this. All that build up for what, 2 episodes? was not utilized well at all.

Dean's Bisexuality

Straight Dean truthers DNI, my Supernatural is a show about love and being true to yourself

You think Supernatural is a show about 2 straight brothers fighting monsters?

Naw bitch, this is a show about the Gay Experience

He will get to have relations with men on this show.

Of course, only after John dies does he, y'know, display it. Maybe he kisses Cas on his dad's grave just to fuck John over, make him roll in grave.

We all agree John would be/is a homophobe piece of shit, right?

Okay, glad we're on the same page.

Dads

3 men and a baby with Jack is what I'm saying.

I love it when the Trio are father-figures to younger troubled characters they see themselves in, even better if it's like reluctant-but-loving father figure, oh, that trope gets me every time :'^)

Dadstiel and DadDean are my favorites, but I like it when Sam plays "Uncle Sam" to kids too lol.

"Fellas, is it gay to want a tight knit family with your husband, his son, his vessel's daughter, your brother, his wife, your cop mother figure and her wife and their adopted daughters? Asking for a friend."

Garth

Biggest flaw of Supernatural was underutilizing Garth.

I will never not be bitter that Garth was only in like, 7 episodes out of the whole 15 season series.

Every episode with Garth gets immediately 5 times better.

I love Garth.

Follow ups on characters who had entire episodes featured around them and then just... vanished???

This is mostly about Jesse, the magic kid whose imagination ruled an entire town like, his daddy was a demon and nothing came of that kid??? Only one episode about him?? No follow up???

KID CAN MANIPULATE REALITY AND WE'RE NOT GONNA GET A FOLLOW UP ON THAT?????

Uh, there was that one episode with Ennis the guy whose girlfriend was killed by a monster? I think?? Who we never see again, that was weird.

Tamara from season 3, episode 1.

And of course-

Cassie

She was so cool, and then we never saw her again :////

She gets to be a badass.

Religious imagery

As a former Catholic school student who has become for the most part, disillusioned with religion, religious imagery in TV shows like Supernatural make my brain go "brrrrrr."

Fun episodes!!!

Like, after season 6 or so, there's a drop in funny episodes

I'm talking Changing Channels, The French Mistake type stuff. (Scoobynatural is an outlier and should not be counted.)

So anyway

In my version we would have more fun episodes

I'm thinking

GENDER-SWAP EPISODE, BABY!!

(why they didn't do that in the original, we'll never know.)

An episode where Dean gets to wear eyeliner

That's it, end of post.

I want less

Racism

Yeah I feel like this is self explanatory, nearly every reoccurring character in SPN is white, and black side characters normally die in the episode they first appear in, or they'll be featured as a villain (Uriel, Raphael, Billie, etc)

Also there's a lot of... uh... asian fetishism featured in the show (what with "Busty Asian Beauties) that's really gross, also Kevin was a bit of a stereotype...

Also also it's super yucky how they kill the gods from other religions like???? Uh??? That's super disrespectful, let's not do that????

I know Supernatural is like, inherently racist because monsters are a separate race that are seen as some dangerous "other" that must be eradicated by hunters in a form of genocide-

Okay we won't get into that but

Still

Stop killing all your POC

Fridgings/Unecessary murders of female characters

I know Supernatural starts with a fridging, so this will be a hard thing to remedy, but

One death that really pissed me off was the death of Charlie

Yeah, that was pointless and we're not doing that. Charlie gets to live and be an awesome aunt to Jack.

And also Claire

Charlie Bradbury Superiority

Charlie and Garth get to meet because they're nerd/geek solidarity.

British Men of Letters

I fucking hate these guys

They're "litcherally" the worst.

The worst part is that the actors they have playing the British AREN'T. EVEN. BRITISH.

And you can tell

Uh, and that's all for now, I'll add more later.

tag list for people who liked my "if this post gets one like I'll post my SPN reboot masterpost" post.

@darianyunidi @sarasidlesaid @crazybananaalpaca @playfulpanthress @ultfreakme @fififeelsmellow @heller-char @luna8eaton @princessmeganfire @insanebot109 @queenofnightsnow @mongoose-underthehouse

Thank you for the support, hope the wait was worth it.

[bakugouscentedcaramel]

Ah yes, the time has come.

It's time to get your pen and paper because class is in session!

There's plenty of things I could talk about and I pretty much covered the basics down below, but I'm more than willing to help y'all out with anything specific!

I have to preface that I'm not an English major by any means nor do I have any experience writing professionally, the things listed below are purely based on my opinions and submissions I have received.

Writing is forever a learning process, there really isn't a right way of writing but there are definitely some things that will hinder your readers. Here is a list that I compiled both with my own experiences as well as some user submitted issues when it comes to reading works:

•Big blocks of text

° Typos/wrong word usage

•Using the same words

°Too spaced out/not indented where needed

• Dialogue runs into normal sentences

° Speakers/POVs change without notice

• Inconsistencies, either in general or story inconsistencies

°Lack of description/Too much description

• Bland/Artificial actions/dialogue

° Misuse of punctuation/lack thereof

• Capitalization errors

° Long winded sentences

• Using italics for actions

° Confusing formating

• Changing in Tenses

° Using wrong tags/falsely advertising (ex. Reader x Blank should have Y/N, not an OC/Authors name)

• Author notes/comics/pictures in middle of fic

° "~This is a transition~"

• Forcing a character to be OOC for sake of story

° Filler characters

• Not sticking to a specific genre/jumpy moods

Now don't be intimidated by this list! Some of these are pretty self explanatory so I won't go into a few of them. There are plenty of ways to avoid these and in some cases it is perfectly fine to use any of the above. 

Let's start off with the basics!

Sentence structure is the backbone of writing, but it's a very flexible rule. Obviously you have your subject, verb, object and whatnot, but the true art lies in word choice and length.

When it comes to sentences, size does matter. If your sentences are too short they will seem choppy and unfinished, whereas if they are long they will seem winded and unnatural. The biggest tool you can use to find out if a sentence is too short/long is by reading it aloud! If you run out of breath it's too long but if you finish abruptly it's too short.

Word choice is my favorite weapon to work with, I could describe a blue jay as a normal bird or as a mythical animal just by picking the right words!

"The blue jay flew across the field while it sang it's melody."

Or

"A creature with wings made of clouds swooped across the field whilst roaring out a devilish tune."

Word choice can easily convey tone/feeling so it's definitely an important element to writing! If you ever have trouble finding that perfect word try googling for synonyms! Also this website might help you find that one word that you just can't think of!

Grammar is also a very important part of writing. Using the right words and punctuation can be difficult sometimes but there are some easy fixes!

Spelling is an easy fix, if you forgot/don't know how to spell a word consulting a dictionary or Google is a surefire way of solving your problem. You can even find synonyms if you feel like you've used a word too much. 

Punctuation on the other can be a big more difficult, however. 

Here's a couple of sentences that helped me learn basic punctuation:

A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink then leaves. Commas are a means of sewing two sentences together to form a compound sentence. These are mainly used to list out things and to add fluidity to your works so they don't sound as choppy.

A question mark walks into a bar? Question marks are pretty self explanatory. They either raise a question or form uncertainty.

Two quotation marks "walk" into a bar. Quotations are used for both dialogue and metaphors. I personally love using them for sarcasm!

A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink. This one is a tougher one that I personally never learned from any of my classes. A gerund is basically a word that can act as a verb or a noun which would be "drinking". An infinitive is the base of a verb, in this case it's "drink".

The bar was walked into by a passive voice. A passive voice is when you emphasize the action and object of a sentence rather than the subject. You can find that a passive voice tends to use past tense where as an active voice uses present/future tense.

Three intransitives walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave. An intransitive verb is an action verb, expressing a doable activity like arrive, go, lie, sneeze, sit, die, etc.

Some other things that I commonly see are the wrong usages of words. For example:

They: a group of individuals/pronoun "Yeah, they said he'd be here thirty minutes ago."

Their: a possessive pronoun "Leave their stuff alone!'

There: location "What's that over there?"

Then: event/action "Val went to the mall then skittered to the park."

Your: possessive "Your self esteem is lower than the Mariana's Trench!"

You're: a conjunctive "you are"

Affect: caused by actions "The fallen french fry really affected Val's mood."

Effect: caused by events "Climate change has a negative effect on my Cheerios."

Peaked: a summit "Val has peaked at 10:19pm"

Piqued: stimulate interest/curiosity "You have piqued Val's interest by mentioning food."

Do time: "Val is fixin' to do time if she keeps slacking."

Due time: "Val will come with hydration in due time."

Per say: not a thing

Per se: by/in itself "She didn't write this late at night, per se…"

There are different tools you can use to spice up your writings, from metaphors to innuendos, all the way to zeugmas! Let's go over the basic definitions of these bad boys.

Metaphor: a figure of speech that is not literally applicable. "The darkness surrounded us like a shroud." Obviously the darkness can't physically shroud anyone.

Innuendo: a sentence with a hidden meaning "Is that a gator in your pants or are you just happy to see me~" 

Zeugma: a sentence containing words that can be used literally and figuratively, like a love child of the two above. "Val and her coupon expired last week." This implies that not only did my Colgate coupon expire, but I died as well.

Paragraphs are a necessity when it comes to writing. Big blocks of text are an eyestrain to readers and it's easy to lose your place, even if it's only 150 words. It's always best to use Tab or at least 5 spaces when indenting. A paragraph should only be 5-7 sentences long, this is so it's not just multiple blocks of text

When to add a new paragraph:

° A new person comes in

• New idea/context

° Setting changes

• New person is speaking

° Time changes

• The "camera" moves

° Tone shifts

• 5-7 sentences has been reached

Paragraphs help you organize your work in a way and they make it easier for your readers' eyes!

POVs are also very important. First person and third person are by far the most common ones so I'll only touch on these two. It's very important to write a story in one strict POV as to not confuse the readers. You can however jump perspectives like Heroes of Olmpyus by Rick Rodian, as long as the ready can easily tell who is telling the story.

First person is a story that is told from first-hand experience. It's the same as if I told y'all the story on how I almost chopped off my thumb in woodshop class back in middle school. First person tends to use a lot of I's and my's

Third person is a story that is told from a narrators' point of view. Such as "Once upon a time" type of stories. I's and my's should only be used in dialogue

Dialogue is probably one of the most important features of any fic/story. Dialogue can push plots forward as well as add life to a character. Here's a simple exchanged:

"Hiya 'Splodey," Val chirped.

Katuski smirked, "M'dumbass."

Dialogue should always come with a pair of quotation marks. Commas and periods generally go inside the quotation marks whereas dashes, colons, and semicolons almost always go outside the quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation marks however can go either inside or outside, it goes by a case by case basis. Always indent whenever a different speaker is talking, running quotes into each other is a no-go because it causes confusion and eyestrain.

You have to be wary of using simple dialogue exchanges though, if they seem off try saying them out loud! Dialogue is one of my favorite things to write because you can weave personality into them, not to mention you can always hear people talking to get a better idea on how to write dialogue.

For example, I have a southern dialect, meaning I sound different than someone from the north! I use words like "y'all", "fixin'", "finna", "ain't" and have a different vocabulary than that of my northern friends. This means that the characters you're portraying should have their own way of speaking! This will not only add flavor to your dialogue but it also adds to their personalities/backgrounds.

Describing things can be just as valuable as dialogue, but it is a bit more complex. Sure we've all heard of the "show, don't tell" rule. Which is a good rule to follow, however too much showing is just as bad as telling. Again, reading out your work is a great way to tell if you're focusing too much on one thing. Another thing to keep in mind is importance, such as do we really need to know that the grass outside was bluegrass? Which in certain situations it would be! For example:

The grass around the disheveled house was brown and straw-like, with the exception of a ring of grass. Bluegrass. Which wasn't even native to this location.

This paints a pretty good spooky picture in the readers' mind and even adds the element suspense by the implied uncertainty.

I've only covered a small portion of writing so if y'all have any questions or need any help feel free to slide into my DMs or send in an ask! I love getting questions about writing and I'm always willing to help a fellow writer!

[the-patrex]

The Master bit back a frustrated growl as he weaved his way through the crowd of partying humans as he made his way to the refreshment booth. He needed a drink if he were to get through this night. Sniffing, he tried to gag at the sharp scent of alcohol and individual humans. Despite the strong odor, however, he caught the hint of something different. This one was lighter, more enticing than the others and had a hint of lavender perfume to it. Theta. He scanned the crowd but was unable to spot her. What was she doing here? Didn’t she have better things to do than stalk him 24/7? Irritated, he stood at the table and poured himself a cup of whatever drink was in the giant bowl. He wasn’t going to give any information on the Timeless Child if that’s what she wanted. In fact, he didn’t even want to see her anymore. The damn Matrix was enough to make him hate her, or so he’d thought before seeing her new face for the first time.

He clenched his teeth around the rim of the foam cup as he sipped, remembering her holy, angelic features. As if her spliced DNA being inside him wasn’t enough. He’d been awestruck seeing her new regeneration for the first time in person. The way the sunlight had made her hair burn like the early rays of morning and her smooth, perfectly crafted from seemingly God Himself(so different from the old, wrinkled face and bushy eyebrows he’d grown accustomed to as Missy!) made his hearts ache with an intensity he’d never felt before. “What are you doing here sulking about like that?” Speak of the devil, he thought bitterly, turning to face her. “Hello, sweetie.”

“Come to give me a check up, Doctor?” he asked sarcastically, smirking devilishly. She arched her brows, seemingly amused at the response.

“You missed your last appointment so yes.” He scoffed. “Enjoying the party?” His brows furrowed. There was something…off about her stance. She seemed a bit wibbly and sour smelling underneath the perfume. It was definitely not the smell of a rotting corpse or garbage but it made him faintly queasy. He decided to ignore it for now.

“What are you doing here? Don't  you have to babysit your little human friends like you always do?” She chuckled, baring her milk white teeth like a feral creature. Hell, she probably was under that humanoid guise. Or maybe she was a creature whose true form was so incomprehensible to the mortal eye, it had to take the form of a Shobogan once it fell through the portal above that monument so it wouldn’t cause a ruckus. Perhaps that’s why she hadn’t died in the Kassavin realm. Maybe they’d seen her other form and decided to let her go easily because of it. The Master took a sip of his drink which was probably some sort of fruit cocktail by the taste of it. Her other form was probably to beautiful to look at if she looked this blinding in the body of a Time Lord. Blinding like the suns of Gallifrey. The Doctor poured herself a glass of wine.

“Your thoughts are too loud,” she grumbled, taking a sip.

“No one told you to read my mind,” he retorted, moving away to the garden behind the ballroom. He could feel her piercing gaze on him as he pushed the back door open and headed toward the gazebo. “Where are they anyway? That trio of yours?”

“Sheffield,” she responded, picking a flower that complimented her blue dress quite nicely. “You have quite the imagination, we’ll tell you that. Your speculations are wrong. Probably.” Probably?

“You found out?” The Master turned to face her. That wasn’t right. She wouldn’t go looking for the truth unless he’d forced her to. She was a runner not a seeker. He searched her eerily serene expression for some sort of clue. A clue to what, he didn’t know. She was a mystery that he intended to unravel but not in the way her adopted mother had. The Doctor’s eyes bore holes into his own, analyzing every twitch and muscle movement on his face. He didn’t like that look of hers. It reminded him too much of Tecteun the explorer and exploiter. She smiled knowingly and placed the plant in his suit pocket. Who are you? he wanted to ask. Why are you here? What do you want? “Did it hurt?” he asked instead, ignoring the gut instinct to fear this person(thing?) he’d known since childhood. “I bet it did because it definitely hurt me.” He stepped closer to her(it? Them?), wishing she’d show some sort of weakness instead of the serenity he privately yearned for during the late hours.

“Of course it hurt you,” she murmured, cupping his face in her hands. “Everything hurts, doesn’t it? We can see it, all that pain hiding behind the rage in your eyes.” We? When did she start referring to herself as we? She stared sympathetically at him. “Do you want it leave? We can make the hurt go away. Would you like us to quell the rage and pain in your hearts?” Her voice was more soothing than ever and her eyes were so hypnotic, he could barely look away. Their foreheads touched lightly. “Please, Koschei. Let us help you.” He frowned, mulling over her words. Us? Why would she use the word “us” to refer to herself? The strange trance broke and he sharply pulled away, feeling disgustingly exposed and violated. What had just happened?

“How dare you,” he growled, lunging for her throat. She dodged out of the way and placed a hand on his temple while making a sound in her throat that, judging by her expression, was one of disapproval. The Master suddenly felt weak and crumpled to the floor. Time seemed to swirl and wobble around him, causing his brain to spin. When she released her touch, he felt nauseous and puked a bit on the grass. “What the fuck did you do?!” he snarled, wiping the mess from his mouth and glaring at her. The Doctor, or whatever the fuck she was, looked down at him with mild dissatisfaction.

“We opened you up to the influences,” she responded simply, turning away. The Master’s head was still reeling but he struggled to his feet to catch up with her.

“What influences? Who the fuck are you?” The creature didn’t even turn to face him as it- no, they answered his questions.

“We are Legion. Unfortunately, you’re not getting your friend back any time soon.”

“Wh- you’re possessing her?!”

“No, it’s a progressive alteration of the host’s brain to better fit the needs of the parasite.” A parasite, the Master thought bitterly. Of course. So that was where the smell was coming from. He watched as they plucked a rose from its bush and examined it thoughtfully in their hands. “This is perfectly normal for her kind, as I’ve explained to her.” Today was just full of surprises.

“You talk to her?” He didn’t know if he should be horrified, impressed, or enraged at the thing. What has it been telling her?

“Yes, we have tea together.” Legion looked at him. “Would you like an invitation to our next tea party? You seem…what’s the word? Distressed? No, that’s not it.”

“I’m going to kill you,” the Master snarled, getting in their face. They didn’t even flinch which was quite impressive. “You think I’d be okay with a parasite talking to my best enemy like that?”

“Ooh. Careful, Koschei. She’s listening to everything you say right now. Don’t want her getting the idea that you care about her or anything now do we?” They smiled, tapping his nose mischievously with the flower. He wanted to bite them.

“Fuck you,” he spat, storming off to the direction of the ballroom.

“Was that meant for us or your girlfriend?” They called.

“Both!” He paused, realizing the implication of their word choice. Motherf- “And you’re not my girlfriend!”

[Okay, Kos. Sure,] Legion said telepathically. [We’re greatly flattered.]

“Piss off,” he growled through gritted teeth, feeling their amusement roll off him like waves.

A/N: He kept the flower in his coat pocket by the way if y'all are wondering.

[hollyhoneybear]

I totally agree with what you said in the tags; it's internalized misogyny. In the Manhwa community, when someone who fits the "other woman" bill shows up, they go ballistic and decide they're a horrible person. Even if that character is perfectly fine and nice, all that matters is that they don't worship the FL, or they pose some kind of un-intended threat to the FL.

A lot of WMMAP fans also splice their opinions of the Novel into the Manhwa. You see people refer to LP!Jennette as "Novel Jennette", but we don't know how Jennette was in LP?? At least in the Manhwa. Readers consistantly draw their conclusions and reasonings in the Manhwa, FROM the Novel, despite the fact that they are two different stories.

You cannot use the Novel to justify your opinions about the Manhwa, when so many story changes were made to the Manhwa. Anastacius wasn't even a villain in the Novel y'all ToT

(I'd also like to point out that there's a sort of fantasy some fem-presenting people have of being 'better' than other fem-presenting, but I'm gonna get canceled for saying that lololol)

The wmmap fandom made (and still does) me so confused about their opinions on Jennette (both her novel and manhwa counterparts). Is she too naive and forgiving, or is she too ignorant and selfish? I’ve heard so many opinions about her from manhwa and novel readers that I literally can’t tell whether they actually think that or just don’t care enough about her character to see past their own prejudices.

There’s so many novel readers who bash on her and say she’s dumb and stupid every chance they get, but there are also novel readers who say she’s realistic and acted normally (I also thought she wasn’t as bad as I kept hearing after finally reading it).

There are and were so many manhwa readers who said she was selfish and willfully ignorant about others, but others (including me) who think she’s actually hypersensitive to others and is very in touch with her own and others’ emotions. I get people’s interpretations can be different, but to such big degrees between so many people about the same character??? Like there’s gotta be something weird right???

[hwajoongie]

Tagged by @pansynight thank u 🥺💖

tag 8 people you wanna get to know better! 

Favorite color: dark red/maroon

Last song I listened to: Put It On Ya - Jessi ft BM & Nafla

Favorite musician: monsta x for sure for sure. Also Taemin & Dean. Millic?? He's a producer moreso but I'm constantly checking to see if he's put out anything new (millic please get Vida back on Spotify before I combust) and Bring Me The Horizon ✌️ seen them live 4 times

Last film I watched: rjsjdjsjfn SPLICE...... my friend and I had never seen it,,, I don't wanna think abt it tjjdjfs

Last show I watched: Its Okay to Not Be Okay. This show is wild?? Im not a big crier, especially when it comes to movies and TV but somehow this show makes me go Absolutely Bonkers

Favorite characters: Andrew Minyard from the book series All For The Game, Bucky Barnes 👀, there's more but I suddenly cannot remember a single piece of media I've ever consumed???

Sweet, spicy or savory: savory, big extra points if its savory and spicy at the same time

Sparkling water, coffee or tea: coffee, I drink coffee all day, I'm drinking coffee right now, I'm the iced coffee gay

Pets: I have a cat named Rory, he's a tyrant and I love him, nobody asked but here's a picture of him

Tagging: @softhyungkyun @brdybtch @rozegolden @ckyunoirs (I don't really have 8 people to tag 😔, also lemme know if y'all don't wanna be tagged!)

[foxoftheasterisk]

Well now I gotta do it again but with commentary, thanks (nah but genuinely, thanks for the idea)

[Now, whether my commentary would be the same as Aster's, who did mosta the original post... prolly not. But w/e. -¤]

For Elise - Saint Motel [I was about to say "I can't make up my mind on Saint Motel", but actually, that's probably intra-system disagreement? Someone in here thinks they're great, someone thinks they're cheap/overplayed. Me, I like 'em fine I guess.]

Over The Hills and Far Away - Patty Gurdy [Our sibling used to play music on youtube all the time, and this is a song that came up a lot. People in here like it, me too I guess, idk what to say bout it though.]

X-mas Curtain - My Morning Jacket [This one we couldn't think of and had to cheat, because it's X. (Cheating, in this case, consisted of opening our music library and seeing what songs started with x.) It's not really one of our favorites, but it is at least a song we can come up with the tune to on seeing the name. Got it from our friend John, but that applies to about 75% of our music library—we'd mention liking an artist once and he'd give us their entire discography. Or he'd do it just cause it was similar to stuff we liked. Excessive? For sure. But we got a lotta good stuff out of it too.]

On The Turning Away - Pink Floyd [Oh man Pink Floyd. I could tell ya things about Pink Floyd all day. There was a time when we—actually, that mighta been me, specifically—were/was obsessed with concept albums, and The Wall in particular. I'd stitch together entire albums into a single mp3 file and play them in Beat Hazard, challenge myself to finish it. (I don't think I ever actually managed it—with any concept album—but I sure did try a lot.) Hell I made a custom mix for The Wall that spliced together versions of the songs from the studio, movie, and live versions as I felt was best. When I say obsessed...]

From Me To You - From Me To You [This song is actually by a friend's brother, so I know none of y'all have ever heard of it. Fun fact, we used to think this song was about our sibling, cause we thought it was by the friend himself an' they used to date. The one and only time our sib had a datemate.]

Time After Time ‐ Brent Spiner [Do yourself a favor and go listen to this song right now. It's downright amazing. The soul he puts in. And yeah, it's that Brent Spiner, who played Data. No idea how our family found this song but I'm glad we did.]

Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys [Beach Boys is one o' those artists we grew up listening to, on account our parents had the CD. Not as much one of our personal favorites, but they're still pretty damn good an' shouldn't be forgotten.]

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears [Everybody loves this song, too. Fun fact, pretty sure the first time we heard this song was when someone was playing it in Rock Band and complainin' about how hard the 6/8 rhythm made it. Now personally, I like Mad World better, but that doesn't mean I don't love this song too.]

All That I Needed - MOTHER [Oh, this is a weird one. The song is from the MOTHER game series, but we've got an album where those songs have been given lyrics an' all, and this one's real pretty. No idea where that album came from, but I ain't complaining... even if most of the songs on it are kinda dumb.]

Spring and a Storm - Tally Hall [Ah, Tally Hall! Came into knowing them kinda backwards—we first heard "Dream Sweet In Sea Major", an' I was into it enough to look for more stuff by the artist (some string of (I think) Japanese characters that I believe translates to "Musical Miracle"?). Turns out, while they've only got that one album under that label, it's made of some of the same people as Tally Hall, and once I found the right Tally Hall songs, I loved 'em.]

The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake [Which directly led to this discovery, cause they came up on our Tally Hall pandora station! They're a bit esoteric I admit, but I'm fully into them. If you like Tally Hall give 'em a listen, this's a good song to start with.]

Everytime We Touch - Cascada [This ain't to my personal taste so much, but we got folks in here who love this kinda high energy music. The kind who listen to meme songs unironically cause "they're always good!". I tease but I love ya.]

Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd [We tried to do this challenge without duplicating artists. Tried and failed, cause Pink Floyd is so deeply ingrained in our brain. I love the Dark Side/Wall era, an' at least one of the others is real into the later stuff—Division Bell, that other album I can never remember the name—anyway. Fun fact, the other day when we were trying to get me to front for D&D—first time we were intentionally switching (at least, and knowing that's what we were doing)—this song is what got me really present.]

In Memorandum - Haken [ohhh, Haken. Kay, so in our senior capstone course, there was this group of guys that'd play Cockroach King all the time in the shared space. First couple times they played it, we hated it. But then it grew on us, an' now it's one o' my favorite songs an' we own the album. We wanted to put that song on our list actually, but unfortunately there's no C in our username.]

Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John [Another o' those songs we've basically always known, on account of it being played all the time in our home. Good song, too.]

Killing Me Softly With His Song - Lori Leiberman [We listened to several versions of this song on youtube to see which was the Right One. Anne Murray is probably the one we're most accustomed to listening to—which is usually the criterion—but Lori is just better.]

I ain't tagging again, but anyone who sees this may consider yourself tagged if you wish

got tagged by @foxoftheasterisk: “rules: spell out your url with song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.”

usseewa [Ado. I listen to a lotta her stuff when writin' fanfiction, and her debut single is high on th' list after th' Bon-Odo remix of Odo, and her cover of Bocca della Verità]

rocket roll [the Phenomenauts. Love me some sci-fi rockabilly]

una matika de ruda [traditional Sefardi song. So una djudia orgolyosa!]

kuso breakin' nō breakin' lily [Maximum the Hormone. They might be better-known fer the Death Note anime themes, but this is my favrit song of theirs after Buiikikaesu. It's super-cheery soundin' with Nao's peppy vocals on the incredibly fucked up lyrics about an old woman's body crappin' out on her]

un'incantesimo dischiuso tra i petali del tempo [Cristina D'Avena, th' Italian dub opening to the Slayers. I first heard it as a teenager usin' file-sharing software t'find anything and everything related to my favrit anime at th' time, and it was stuck in my head for over two decades since]

dance with me johnny [the Mollys, a disbanded folk group that my mom got me inta. They've got a kinda Celtic Mexican Polka thing goin' on]

unpronounceable [They Might be Giants, natch]

kiaa-khem [Yat-Kha, an awesome Tuvan rock band whose lead vocalist throws in a lotta kargyraa throat-singin']

guess i'll tag... @fraylin @dzhukhe @faxedstar @ayellowbirds and @neveyleh cuz they're my headmates, and @kobold-royalty @transpanda-1 and @dragonprincesalt