#that turned out long

[theshinsun]

oh Kise?

oh worm??

Why I like them

I’m actually gaining a whole new appreciation for Kise these days; underneath the airy smiley surface he’s a really nuanced character, and every time I rewatch/reread KNB I notice something new about him. I love how his passion for basketball grew when he decided to devote himself to it, and how he’s inspired by Aomine and motivated by losing to Kuroko and Kagami, how he’s desperate to improve and play to the point of overwork and injuring himself, and still keeps going. He’s got a very satisfying arc when he learns to appreciate his team and respect his seniors, and I’ve learned to appreciate and respect him for it too.

Why I don’t

All that said... sometimes he can still be a little grating. He’s a little too superficial sometimes, especially dealing with his fangirls, and he seems to get the anime trope treatment disproportionately often compared to the other GoM. Much as his arc and motivations are well-written, I feel like they could be pushed just that little bit further to make him more compelling, but that’s honestly getting into nitpicks, he’s still a great character for what he ended up being.

Favorite episode (scene if movie)

This might not seem like a very important scene, compared to some of his others, but I just fuckin... love the restaurant scene after the first Seirin/Shuutoku game, where he sits at the same table as Kagami, Kuroko and Midorima, and talks about why they play basketball and how losing changes them. (Midorima looking at him and saying he’s changed “your eyes... they’re strange”, before realizing he’s actually gone back to how he was before the Teiko finals is... Important to me) 

Favorite season/movie

Season three Kise can GET it. The ultimate glo up, he’s so awesome in the game against Haizaki’s team, and rematch against Seirin; I love Kasamatsu being like “go give them a greeting” and he just squares tf up it’s so badass. Side-note -- he’s also one of the only characters the Last Game treated well, after being considered “the worst of the bunch” he totally earned his moment to be the best, most powerful member of the GoM for a little while.

Favorite line

That moment in the Seirin/Kaijo game when he gets off the bench despite his coach’s disagreements and goes back into the game, because “I love this team”. I cry every time. “I liked being Kise of Kaijo” is a close runner-up.

Favorite outfit

Okay all his model outfits slap, but hear me out... season one when he shows up at Seirin and goes one-on-one with Kagami, still in his suit pants and shirt and he still kicks ass... iconic.

OTP

Um... so KiKasa or KiKuro seem like obvious choices, and they do have some great development... but I’m actually weaker to KagaKise I think. I don’t know why there’s something about their dynamic, they’re just such friendly rivals (by season 3 at least) and seem to bring out some really good things in each other (and I love the concept of Kagami being able to get Kise to loosen up and be more human, see Two if by Sea by tormalyne) their relationship is just so interesting to me. KiKuro is also up there but I think KagaKise beats them out by a hair.

Brotp

MidoKise. I have seen the light. I could also see them work as a romantic pairing, but the way they play off each other and banter is the Actual Best no matter the context I love these guys.

Head Canon

Kise strikes me as like, the worst enabler in existence. I feel like he shrugs off serious topics and plays things off as no big deal all the time, and he just does whatever he can to minimize discomfort and drama, if it means avoiding difficult conversations, or placating people with material things to get them off his case. He lets a lot of things slide and turns a blind eye when there might actually be something wrong, and it’s not very healthy how he constantly dodges people’s efforts to help him.

Unpopular opinion

Not really an unpopular opinion as much as a lack of understanding, but I just don’t... get AoKise. I mean I get it, but I don’t Get it, you know? Like they’re alright, they’ve got history and some chemistry and you all know I ship Aomine w literally everyone, but I just... still can’t get myself to see it as anything more than a casual fwb deal, or at best an unrequited love. I don’t see the compelling star-crossed romance other people seem to see, I don’t know why. (If anyone wants to try to convert me, I’m all ears, I’m mostly just perplexed by the popularity of this ship). 

A wish

I sincerely wish Fujimaki had the balls to make Kise gay. Not as a device to set him up with people so my ships can be canon, far from it, I just think he’d be a much more compelling character if he was, and out of everyone in KNB (except maybe Mibuchi) he’s the one with the most pieces laid out. It’s right there, and it would add so much depth; having to put on a hetero performance for the sake of his modeling career, trying to differentiate between genuine admiration and attraction, worrying about not being accepted by the friends he’s been able to make if he were to come out... it’s just a shame we weren’t given that bc Fujimaki insists on having everyone but the caricatures be straight. 

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen

I think the worst thing that could happen to Kise is for him to get bored with basketball. Because that will mean there probably isn’t anything he can get into that he won’t tire of eventually, and it leaves the rest of his future looking pretty bleak. I don’t know how likely it is to happen, but at his rate of improvement he very well might face an Aomine-esque spiral one day, and that is... a troubling thought. 

5 words to best describe them

Bright. Flashy. Idyllic. Pursuant. Ravenous.  

My nickname for them

Golden Boy. I also tend to call him a labrador retriever in my head, which, if you know the parallels I draw between him and Mr Peanutbutter...

[decembercamiecherries]

So I'm graduating college this semester and I'm also turning 22 and am having a crisis about having to actually adult. Since you can relate, how do you deal with the stress? 😭😂😭

Congratulations on almost being done with college, that’s such a big step in your life!!!! :D

Adulting is hard….really, really, really hard. I’m turning 22 too it’s not easy >_

There are a few ways I deal with stress, I hope some of these help:

make a list of everything you have to do

this sounds like it will only make your stress worse but it doesn’t I swear

writing things down puts everything into perspective, you might not have as much to do as you think

you can also cross things off once you complete them and it’s so satisfying idk why

if you can, actually write your lists out (this always makes me feel better???)

divide up your tasks 

so, you have 12 things to do and four days to do them? Great do three things per day

less things to do per day = less stress

by the end of the four days you’ll have accomplished a lot

don’t procrastinate, please. It makes you so much more stressed out just tackle a little each day it’s a lot easier

talk to someone

you are seeing your problems through your stressed out brain, you can’t make sense of what’s going on like that

talking to someone can help you brainstorm solutions to problems you’re facing

they also help you calm down and encourage you

exercise

I KNOW NO ONE WANTS TO DO THIS BUT L I S T E N

just. go for a walk. it doesn’t have to be long, even just 10 minutes makes a difference

listen to music while you go for a walk, think about anything you want, take a deep breath of fresh air

this will calm you down. I promise. It clears your head.

And you get to listen to music so that’s awesome, everyone likes music

walk away from whatever is stressing you out and come back to it later

sometimes if you’ve been working on something for a long time you can’t focus anymore

take a break, think about it after you’ve had some time away from it and you’ll see the problem from a new angle

And the most important way to deal with stress is to remind yourself that you’ve gone through tough times before, and you’ve survived. 

You’re tougher than you think, stronger than you believe. 

YOU CAN DO THIS!!!! 

everyone is scared when they do new things for the first time and being in your 20s is all about doing new things, getting your life in order. you are not alone. everyone feels this way :)

[pnevmashepherd]

“Do you… think you might be pregnant?”

          A stunned look washed over the features of the Zabrak, slowly blinking as he tried to figure out how to respond. Of all the unexpected, personal, completely surprising questions he’d ever gotten, this was definitely something new. He opened his mouth to say something, shut it, only to open it again and shake his head. One hand pressed to his temple, slowly shaking his head as a long sigh rose in his chest. Goodness gracious, how was he supposed to answer that?

          It took Eeth a fair amount of time to think of an answer, lips pulled tight as his head momentarily dropped back. While he knew that the question was from a good place, it didn’t make it any less uncomfortable. The fact it was so silent before he answered didn’t help the situation much. After momentarily biting into his cheek, finally having the courage to make eye contact with Xi after that, Eeth gave his response.

         “If I’m pregnant, Commander, Master Yoda is the Sith Lord.” A distinct annoyance was in his voice, the tone sounded foreign and wrong coming from the Jedi Master. “I have not been in the best of head spaces as of late, and I apologize that it was becoming so obvious, but I’m most certainly not pregnant. First of all, I’d need to be having intercourse to have a pregnancy risk. Second of all, I’d need to ovulate. Neither of which have happened in quite some time.”

          Another pause was given, expression hardening,before taking a long breath that ended in a rough sigh before speaking again. “I had to retire from the Council. When you’ve had such a position for as long as I have, it is not an easy task to do. And when you’ve done it for the reason I have, some humiliation tends to come with it.”

[ninthcompanion]

✌ What is the easiest aspect of playing this muse? ☏ What is the most challenging aspect of playing this muse?

((Easiest?

Oh, this is hard… I’ve been playing him for so long that most things about Kratos come naturally now. If I had to pick something, I’d say his vocabulary. He has quite a distinct way of speaking and the way I write even description on his blog is different to the way I would do it if I was writing for me.

He’s very set in his ways.

Hardest?

Getting him to function; getting him to share feelings; getting him to people. Kratos doesn’t have as much social understanding as a person of his age probably should. And he has what I’ve started calling ‘funks’, in which his mood has dropped and it becomes a real challenge to get him to interact properly with people. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it really does. And it often takes a helping hand to get him out of it.

Despite appearing quite cold and stoic, Kratos is surprisingly warm. He has no opinion of himself and his own worth except in relation to others. He needs to be connected to people more than he realises, which makes need to seclude himself and refusal to share his thoughts and feelings quite frustrating.))

[thebookofsands]

♜ shoulder rubs

nonsexual acts of intimacy - select from the following for my muse to respond to: shoulder rubsStatus: Accepting@heraclesstvalentine

Rhee didn’t know the librarian all that well, but she felt that the pair of them could almost be described as friends. It could, of course, be the fact he seemed to be warm and charitable to just about everyone around him, or it could be they actually were starting to be actual friends. It was difficult for her to tell, but whatever it was, she liked it. 

Still, she was surprised when she sat down for tea at Heracles’s request and he, after finding out that she’d been hunched over doing research all day, rubbed her shoulders. It was such a kind, intimate thing to do that in her exhausted state, she nearly began crying. She didn’t, but she also remained silent for a few moments. She opened her mouth to thank him, but instead she whispered,

“Why are you always so kind?”

[shadowbanki]

Yellow!

7 facts about my childhood

I moved to a new house at age 4

I loved Magic Tree House books

I wrote really horrible fanfics at age 11-12, but they make me very nostalgic just like the rest of my middle school life.

In elementary school we made an original book at the end of every year. My favorite was the one from fourth grade I called “The Ice Cream club” XD

This would count as “childhood” because I was 12. When I was in 8th grade, I had a group of friends that left me out of things they did and said I was a weeaboo (which right now, I wouldn’t deny either). Triple Baka was like their friendship song and they kept saying how they were “Miku, Teto and Neru” when they were together. I was upset to be left out of their group, so I thought “so I guess that means I’m Haku then”. I thought Haku as the outcast of the Vocaloids, plus she isn’t in Triple Baka despite being based off Miku. I thought it was perfect. For the rest of middle school I thought myself as the lonely Haku who just wanted friends. Guess that’s why I love her so much now.

When I was in 5th grade, I imagined the world as the Pokemon world. I imagined Maryland was Sinnoh. my hometown was in Eterna Forest, and that Baltimore City was Eterna City. I imagined that the nearby beach was the place near Valley Windworks, and that the beach on the east coast of Maryland was the resort near Lake Valor I think (?). I imagined the Appalachian Mountains of Maryland was Snowpoint city and Mt Coronet.

Pokemon actually introduced me to Vocaloid, because I found Vocaloid through Pokemon videos on YouTube. Pokemon is my childhood and Vocaloid is my teenagerhood. Too bad my obsessions of them never seemed to overlap though :c I would’ve made awesome crossovers if they did :p

[philosophicalfish]

And another thing I'm really hoping to get out of this tank palooza is some discipline. This last year was... pretty not good for me on a motivational level, mostly because of anxieties about school and my much too quickly approaching adult day I've just really been hard pressed to do much of anything personally productive. It's been getting a bit better lately mostly because THIS SEMESTER IS FINALLY ALMOST OVER, but I didn't get nearly the grades I wanted and I can't say I'm overly proud of myself. Point is, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do this RIGHT. I've always been an animal lover and I like to think I've amassed an impressive repertoire. (seriously. ask soyapop or arcadianhedge about my obnoxious animal facts. I literally never shut up.) but in my research spree over the past few days I have learned SO MUCH I NEVER KNEW. So new feeding plan. New tank set ups. And new tank management routines. Abby's getting a new barebottom set up, plus a new diet, and she's in a 10 gallon (and will be until I can afford to upgrade her to a 20) so that means HELLA water changes, also the betta and neon tank set up I have in mind is going to take some pretty big effort, as it will be my first major exercise in aquascaping.   I want to be able to back up my knowledge with my behavior, I want to help give them the best I can and I want them to help me get my organisational skills and motivation together. This will be good for me. 

[thegreatworldofmelissa]

Life In Bullet Points

- there is a little boy who was born a couple months after D who I have never met and only really know through Facebook. He is my sister in law's step cousin's son. So no close, but more realistic than just the internet. He was diagnosed with cancer when he was 6 months and now after fighting all his life is being placed under hospice care with just weeks to live. This whole thing is so sad and scary. I honestly don't know how I would be able to handle knowing that there were only so many more days left for my child. I don't pray much, but have been for them and the health of the ones I love. - on the subject of scary shit with your kids, the nanny wrecked her car Friday with the kids in it. Thankfully it was not serious and the kids were not hurt at all. The nanny went to the ER to get checked out for some minor stuff, but all is fine. Her car rear ended a pick up truck when an ambulance pull out in front of an inexperienced driver who pretty much stopped in the middle of the road. To show you just how big D is getting, just tonight he replayed the whole incident to us with way more details than I thought he would pick up on. When i picked them up from the accident I asked him if anything hurt, he said yes and I asked what was it. He said Erika's car. That is when I knew he was good to go. - work is annoying and I still wish everyday I didn't have to go. The next few months are going to be a shit show and I just want to wake up and it be New Years Day. - we got a babysitter the other night. She is a sweet 20 year old college student and D pretty much loved her. So much that he didn't even ask about us until we had been gone for 2 hours after sneaking out. As much as I hate shelling out the money for a babysitter, it's nice to know we have someone we can call on and not feel guilty or make elaborate plans to have the kids taken care of. She will be coming back over this Saturday while we go to a wedding. - on our night out we looked a house that we liked, but most likely won't get because we have to kind of sell our house first. We don't want to rent and I'm not real comfortable signing up for two mortgages either. But if has gotten us moving forward with getting the house market ready with the long term goal being march to get it listed. But if we get our asses in gear then it may be sooner. Carpet guy comes tomorrow and paint guy comes Wednesday. So we shall see. - after everything that has gone on the past few weeks and work being so busy these days I'm doubting so much as to how much more I can handle in our little family. I'm just not sure I could handle 3 kids and job. But I then have to remind myself that D is growing up so fast and will be so different in a couple years. I'm really not obsessing about this, I just happened to have a serious moment of "what can you really handle in your life" to put me back in reality. - along with D growing up like crazy ( the new haircut is not helping to slow down the inevitable). C is turning into a Mr. Personality. This really is a fun time, but I swear at every age I can say that. He is also at the age of taking all the things out and leaving them all over the damn house. I pretty much have no fucks to given on the state of my house at this point. Bless the cleaning lady who comes tomorrow. - oh I also swear to god C said mommy the other day, like clear as hell, but not a real word since.

[allonsymiddleearth]

Book Meme

Tagged by markspants Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [ten] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

1. The Silmarillion That quote about "One never finishes the Silmarillion, you either throw it away in disgust or else you live inside it forever" is very true. I even did both! Well maybe not "disgust," but I couldn't finish it the first time I tried. I can't believe I only read it for the first time a year ago (I finished it on July 14th, I remember that for some reason,) because since my mind has spent so much time in the First Age or before of Middle-earth and Valinor, most of my tumblr friends are in the Silm fandom, and it seems like such a huge part of my life that it's hard to believe it only has been for a year.  2. Lord of the Rings/Hobbit When the first Hobbit movie came out and I said "hm, I should watch the movies so I'm motivated to read the books and I'm all caught up so I can watch the Hobbit movies" I really didn't expect to fall so headfirst into Tolkien and never resurface, but I'm so glad I did. Tolkien was what got me into writing fanfiction, and fanfiction's given me the confidence to start my own original works again, which is huge since I lost my music creative outlet and was really in need of another one. 3. Harry Potter I actually started reading these books really late, too. I didn't start reading them until sophomore or junior year of high school? But, especially this year in dealing with personal experience with death of a loved one, they've been incredibly therapeutic just in the books themselves, not counting it being my first fandom. (Actually it was more a fandom on facebook too, right around when Pottermore came out I was really into those Harry Potter fanpages and I had one called The Magical Quill of Pottermore and I'd do quizzes and games and discussions and it was all generally awesome.) Anyway, Harry Potter has gotten me through some tough times. I don't know how JK Rowling has such a skill with it, but you really just always feel slightly better about your suckish life after joining Harry for a bit in his suckish but beautiful life. The books always feel so personal, like they're personally tailored to exactly the part of the human experience we all go through. 4. The Phantom Tollbooth This book is just great to read as a kid because it's so creative, and great to read as a not-kid because I really love the greatness of complete nonsense children's book worlds often can have. And I love the quote, where there's the "Senses Taker" who gets defeated because the main character laughed, and the Senses Taker says that "as long as you have your sense of humor, I can not take your other senses from you." I re-read that part at a point in my life that I really needed to keep my sense of humor, too. And my dad and I quote "It is more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be!" occasionally. It's just a great book that I re-read just about every year, enough to enjoy revisiting but never wear out. 5. Poison by Chris Wooding I don't know why this book stuck with me so much. I read it when I was maybe 10 or so, and I think I mostly just remembered the girl with the purple eyes on the cover because I wanted purple eyes. But I bought it and re-read it last summer, and like The Phantom Tollbooth, I love the free fantasy creativity lots of children's books have that adult books seem to lack. I also just really love the (spoilers) part where the main character turns out to be the main character in the story, so even though she doesn't feel like it, she's necessary to the whole world and when she gives up everything else fades around her. Really feeds into the whole personal fable thing if you identify with her. (I've become very interested in personal fable recently idk why #PsychologyStudentProblems) 6. I think I'll just lump here all those animal series I read when I was little: Pony Pals, Dolphin Diaries, Animal Ark, The Phantom Stallion, Heartland, Thoroughbred, Thoroughbred Ashleigh, etc When I was little there was a long time where I would hardly touch a book that didn't have an animal as a main character. And I read all the time when I was little. My extended family on my mom's side thought this was weird, because I didn't really want to play with games or toys as much, I just wanted a book, and apparently other "normal" kids played with games. Anyway, all these horse series for girls who love horses were my favorite thing in the world from ages 5-12, basically.  7. Paper Towns I like all John Green's books. I'm weird about TFIOS and I'm not sure why. I think it might be less that I have an actual issue with the book, and more that when I read it I fear all the ways fans will mis-interpert chronic illness, and when you have a chronic illness that isn't cancer you often get weirded out by the fact that media ALWAYS focuses on cancer and nothing else so... anyway. Paper Towns. I just think a lot about that quote at the end where Margo and Quentin are talking about how we're like vessels that crack, and over time we break down and that's how people can see inside and see who we are. (this quote) And I think about that a lot because I think about how when you're sitting inside the vessel, you can never get outside it and really see what you are to other people. Like I never really know if what I say or do comes across the way I think, and people really aren't always honest. And I never can really read my writing from an objective standpoint and see how others hear my voice or the things I say. And I can never really see my flaws or merits for what they are, because I'm always standing behind them and I can't see them head-on, like everyone else can see them. There are so many things we notice about each other and never say, and those are the rest of the boarded up parts of the vessels we don't know the shape of because we can only look out through our cracks. I think about this a lot. 

8. The Hunger Games.  I think it's the fanfiction I'm writing about the Hunger Games more than the actual Hunger Games that has influenced me the most, but it still belongs here. It's about a normal year of the Games, and it's about how the environments they exist in have created who the characters are. They're not evil kids killing each other or innocent kids killing each other, things are way more complicated than that. As is life. 9. Outliers.  Holy crap how did I not even think of Outliers until book number nine. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell actually completely probably changed my life. It's called "the story of success" and it's all about what makes a person successful. Like my HG fic, it's all about our environments. Did you know your IQ can be vastly influenced, not only by your genetics, but by your environment as a toddler? Just by whether it's stimulating enough, but also by whether there's a "goodness of fit" and all these tiny things that have to come together by chance to make a person successful. And disadvantages are what they say they are- disadvantages. There's a reason successful people are successful, and it's mostly all kinds of luck- luck to be taught how to work hard, luck to have genetic traits, luck to be in the right place with the right advantages, and so on.  10. ASoIaF I've watched the Game of Thrones show since season 2 started, but I just can't ever finish the books. I think because most of the characters are just so gross and I don't want to read about them. Then Oberyn Martell waltzes in this season of GoT and revives any interest I had in the show four times over, and now I'm obsessed with Dorne. It's still messed up, nowhere in Westeros is perfect, but I love Dorne with all my heart and now I'm actually motivated to at least read the Dorne-oriented chapters of ASoIaF, which is good, because I do want to like the books more than I do. So this one is a recent obsession. As usual I rarely tag anyone, but any followers who want to do it, please consider yourself tagged, and tag me so I can read your answers!

[princesshayleyweasley-blog]

☑ - A fact about the character✾ - Why I chose my character

☑ - A fact about the character

She can't play any instruments, and wishes she could, but she just doesn't have the time or energy to put into learning one.

✾ - Why I chose my character

Hayley Harris was sort of an on the spot thing. Ages ago, right when WR first became a group, I wanted to bring my character Hayley Potter (Yeah, she was Harry's older sister) in, but she was severely under developed and it just didn't make any sense. So all I did was slap a different last name on her and say she just didn't get along with her parents, and that's where Hayley Harris came from. I'd always shipped the original Hayley with Fred Weasley, but the current Fred already had a ship, so I kept trying to find another ship and force Hayley to like it, and eventually I got fed up and quit. I brought her back about a year and a half ago, and here we are :D