#that’s really a common trope and the BIGGEST indicator of a character sexuality

[wheelercurse]

st5 allegedly leak discussion below

they’re really going with gay mike route if the leak that mlven are making out laying down in a field is true.

An open-eyed kiss in front of a closet wasn’t enough evidence, so they need to make things clearer. Mike isn’t sexually attracted to girls at all.

[yascaret]

really LONG CHARACTER SURVEY.

(I edited/removed some of the questions to make this more FFXIV-friendly)

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BASICS.

FULL  NAME :   Lofn Yascaret

NICKNAME :  None (yet??)

AGE :  Appears around 30 by hyur standards 

BIRTHDAY :   Midwinter 

ETHNIC  GROUP : Viera (Rava)

NATIONALITY :  Ivalician (?)

LANGUAGE / S : Common

SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :  Homosexual

ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION : Homoromantic

RELATIONSHIP  STATUS :  In a relationship with Aja Hyskaris & Pjel Qoet

HOME  TOWN / AREA :  Yascaret, Golmore

CURRENT  HOME :  A small, cluttered house in Shirogane

PROFESSION : Disaster lesbian, whiner

PHYSICAL.

HAIR : White with faint violet undertones. Thick, heavy bangs that partially obscure her eyes. Her hair is very dense and wavy, and it reaches her waist when loose.

EYES :   Violet, but the left is considerably paler than the right

FACE :   Pretty, if melancholy. Pronounced cheeks, prominent nose, striking profile. 

LIPS :  Small, but full. Usually painted a dark brown.

COMPLEXION : A dark, barely warm brown. Mottled with white “freckles” in places (nose, cheeks, shoulders, breasts, lower back)

BLEMISHES : None of note

SCARS :  A few old, faded scars here and there from a life long left behind her

TATTOOS :  None

HEIGHT :   Nearly seven fulms

WEIGHT :   Average

BUILD :   Slim, but more bottom-heavy. Her upper arms are the only indication of muscle left from the Wood.

FEATURES :   Feminine, pleasant (by viera standards, at least). Has a very defined nose and a striking profile. Heavy-lidded eyes that naturally lend to melancholy expressions.

ALLERGIES :   None of note

USUAL  HAIR  STYLE :  High, messy ponytail. Dense, thick bangs that almost completely obscure her eyes

USUAL  FACE  LOOK :  Melancholy, aloof, heavy-lidded eyes and faint, pensive frowns

USUAL  CLOTHING :   Loose, comfortable blouses, leather trousers, tall heeled boots. Browns, whites, silver, violet

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S : Abandonment, loss of loved ones, loss of her senses

ASPIRATION / S :  To find some amount of meaning in her life outside the Wood, to find her calling

POSITIVE  TRAITS :  Resourceful, passionate, resilient

NEGATIVE  TRAITS :  Aloof, anxious, self-destructive

MBTI :  ISFP-T (Adventurer)

ZODIAC :  Menphina (Aquarius in real world)

TEMPERAMENT :  Melancholic

SOUL  TYPE / S :   Artisan (I have no idea what this means??? I googled it and took a buzzfeed quiz for her lol)

ANIMALS :   Rabbit

VICE HABIT / S :   Pining, infatuation, brooding, oversleeping, stress eating

FAITH :  Belief, sure--faith, not really

GHOSTS ? :  Why not?

AFTERLIFE ? :  Why not?

REINCARNATION ? :  Why not? But probably more likely than afterlife.

ALIENS ? :   Probably

POLITICAL ALIGNMENT : Zero concept of politics outside the wood and she intends to keep it that way, being a selfish bitch

EDUCATION  LEVEL :  Average education level of the average rava viera

FAMILY.

FATHER :   lmao

MOTHERS :  Dead to her, all four of them 

SIBLINGS :   One older sister (that she knows of)--their relationship was not great

EXTENDED  FAMILY :  Countless cousins and half-sisters, none of which she knows anything about

NAME MEANING / S :  Lofn, from the village Yascaret

HISTORICAL  CONNECTION ? : It matters not

FAVORITES.

BOOK :  She’s the type of freak who reads instruction manuals and spellbooks for fun, so probably one of those

DEITY :  She tries not to think about them

HOLIDAY :  Moonfire Faire (does that count as a holiday?)

MONTH :  The warm ones

SEASON :  Summer

PLACE :  Her bedroom, or the Azim Steppe

WEATHER :  Thunderstorms, though she is growing more fond of snow

SOUND / S:  Rain on the roof, thunder in the distance, the sound of wind through flowers or trees

SCENT / S :  Honeysuckle, cedarwood, leather, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

TASTE / S :  Honeysuckle, orchid, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

FEEL / S :  Soft moss, clean sheets, sheepskin, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ANIMAL / S :  Cats

NUMBER :  3

COLORS :  Violet, brown

EXTRA.

TALENTS : Picking up new things (especially technical things),  singing (though she doesn’t sing anymore, ever), 

BAD  AT :  Getting her shit together and keeping her shit together

TURN  ONS :  Shitty smirks, sweet smiles, pet names, fleeting touches, romanticism

TURN  OFFS : Men

HOBBIES : Drawing, writing, gardening, tinkering

TROPES :  Lipstick Lesbian, Insecure Love Interest, Marry Them All, One True Threesome, I Have No Son!, Traumatic Superpower Awakening, Mad Whisper, Country Mouse, Affluent Ascetic, Lady and Knight, Eye Colour Change, Sky Pirate, Combat Stilettos, Dark-Skinned Blond, Statuesque Stunner, Wrench Wench, You Can't Go Home Again, The Gift (I have to stop or I will be on TV Tropes all day)

QUOTES : "Oh no”

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   If you could write your character your way in their own movie,  what would it be called,  what style would it be filmed in, and what would it be about?          

A1 :  It would probably just be Mulholland Drive but everyone has rabbit ears

Q2 :   What would their soundtrack/score sound like?          

A2 :  Dreamy and melanchol, like The Duke of Burgundy’s OST if it sounded less sinister

Q3 :   Why did you start writing this character?          

A3 :   Because when viera came out I knew exactly what I wanted my viera to be--a physically strong, emotionally stable badass warrior lady who doesn’t afraid of anything--so naturally she became the exact opposite of that because at all times my subconscious is trying to sabotage me 

Q4 :   What first attracted you to this character?          

A4 :   My grubby little gay hands wrapping around Final Fantasy Tactics Advance in 2003 and seeing a viera for the first time. Also, my grubby little 1999 gay brain struggling to comprehend why I thought Ultimecia was so hot

Q5 :   Describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse.

A5 :   Sometimes writing her is stressful because I channel my own past experiences with depression and anxiety a little too hard I think. Also her overarching themes I want to eventually bring out via RP storylines are so ambitious and complicated that I feel entirely too stupid to write it well so I’m always at least a little bit stressed about that

Q6 :   What do you have in common with your muse?          

A6 :   Crippling depression lmao

Q7 :   How does  your muse feel about  you?          

A7 :   She’d probably not even acknowledge my existence because I’m a human and what good is that

Q8 :   What characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ?        

A8 :   I feel like Pjel and Aja are the obvious choice so I feel a little shitty saying Pjel and Aja, but...I really love playing Lofn off both of them, I feel like they perfectly compliment different parts of her personality that I really enjoy writing (mainly her pettiness and her gayness) and I feel like Lofn also prods at both of their insecurities just by being her terrible self, and it’s fun for me to watch them squirm lol

Q9 :   What gives  you inspiration  to write  your muse ?        

A9 :    Um, premenstrual syndrome?? Lmao but for real if I’m struggling I’ll just go watch some Gentleman Jack (Lofn is literally Ann Walker, sorry) or listen to some FF8/FF9 music, or dick around in FF12 for a bit. Basically I identify a handful of loose inspirational touchstones for a character and fuck around with all of them until inspiration strikes

Q10 :  How long did this take you to complete ?          

A10 :  About a week, off and on...

[calsmusecollection]

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For The Outsider

This has been in my drafts for SO long, and I just am tired of it being there. So I just filled out any easy questions I’d skipped and crossed out the others. I’m sorry it’s not done but it’s been avoided for like a year so... yeah...

BASICS.

FULL  NAME :

 The Outsider, Sanct

NICKNAME :

 Black Eyed Bastard, Black Eyed Devil, Black Eyed Groom, Whale Satan

AGE :

17/4000+

BIRTHDAY :

 The calendar was different than. Roughly speaking it’s the 20th day in the Month of Rain that he was born human and the Fugue Feast when he merged with The Void

ETHNIC  GROUP : ///// NATIONALITY :  Pandyssian LANGUAGE / S : Yes. All. As a human he only knew one and it has long since died out SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :  human: Homosexual, Void: Demisexual (generally only his Marked) ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION : human: Homoromantic, Void: Demiromantic (Generally only his Marked) RELATIONSHIP  STATUS : Single CLASS : human; destitute, Void; beyond such human designations HOME  TOWN / AREA : The town’s name was lost to time. It was on the Southern part of Pandyssia CURRENT  HOME : Void- seems to be taking a particular interest in Dunwall/Gristol PROFESSION : Boredom.

PHYSICAL.

HAIR :

human; yellow-going toward white, Void; Black, Post-void Human: Black

EYES :

human; clear blue, Void; Black including where the whites should be. Some people imagine specks of light, or fire in them. He’d deny anything that wasn’t pure black, Post-void Human: Light blue green

SCARS

pre-void-human; too many to count, Void; none, post-void-human verses; a scar that goes across his neck as though to sever both arteries, scars on either wrist indicative of being bound

TATTOOS :

Nope

HEIGHT :

5′6″ (short Void is short)

((I looked up the average height of people in 2000 BCE which would be roughly 4000 years ago if I can do math, and in fact the number I came up with was 5′3″ for men but the sample size is small. The average for the Roman army was 5′7″.))

WEIGHT :

120lbs??

(I dunno I’m really bad at weight...)

BUILD :  

Slender

FEATURES :

Nothing special

ALLERGIES :

None really

USUAL  HAIR  STYLE :

Messy. Not in a deliberate way. More of a ‘what’s a brush?’ sort of way...

USUAL  FACE  LOOK :

A neutral expression that airs on the side of criticism or confusion.

USUAL  CLOTHING :

Dark pants and dark boots and a dark jacket over a white shirt. He wears rings on some fingers. Silver. Which he is loath to contemplate parting with.

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S :

 He’d tell you he’s beyond such emotion. But he is rather scared of no longer existing. Death maybe. But more than that.

ASPIRATION / S :

None

POSITIVE  TRAITS :

NEGATIVE  TRAITS :  

MBTI :

ZODIAC :  

TEMPERAMENT :  

SOUL  TYPE / S :  

ANIMALS :

Whales. Rats

VICE  HABIT / S :

Stalking the Marked, Being needlessly ominous, sweet food

FAITH :

He once worshiped the Leviathan. He’s learned to worship nothing

GHOSTS ? :

Eh. Trapped spirits maybe

AFTERLIFE ? :

Nope. Just Void

REINCARNATION ? :

 Nope. Just Void

ALIENS ? :

 Why not? Though he’s not seen any

POLITICAL  ALIGNMENT :

 Humans are so... stupid. To think such things last

ECONOMIC  PREFERENCE :

 He’s beyond such things

SOCIOPOLITICAL  POSITION

Annoying god-like being

EDUCATION  LEVEL :

Zero... or... all of eternity? It’s hard to pinpoint

FAMILY.

FATHER :

 Unknown

MOTHER :

Unknown

SIBLINGS :

none

EXTENDED  FAMILY :

Unknown

NAME  MEANING / S : Outsider-  a person who does not belong to a particular group.

Sanct- Ghost 

FAVOURITES.

BOOK :  

The Young Prince of Tyvia

MOVIE :

5  SONGS :  

Drunken Whaler 

DEITY :

 Himself. He loves himself the most.

HOLIDAY :

 Fugue Feast is always entertaining

MONTH :

 Month of Rains probably

SEASON :

Summer

PLACE :  

Seaside

WEATHER :

Stormy, just before the sky opens up and it starts to rain

SOUND :

 Whales singing, Steal clashing,

SCENT / S :

 The sea on a warm day, fruit tarts

TASTE / S :

 fruit tarts, sweet drinks

FEEL / S :

Ocean waves crashing on the shore, the feel of a breeze, the warmth of touch

ANIMAL / S :

Leviathan and rats

NUMBER :

8

COLOUR :

 Blues

EXTRA.

TALENTS :

BAD  AT :

TURN  ONS :

 “You Fascinate me”

TURN  OFFS :

 Predictability

HOBBIES :  

TROPES :

AESTHETIC  TAGS :  

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   if  you  could  write  your  character  your  way  in  their  own  movie ,   what  would  it  be  called ,  what  style  would  it  be  filmed  in ,  and  what  would  it  be  about ?

A1 :

 The Outsider doesn’t deserve a movie. But if he had one it would have some sort of one-word title that helped no one guess what it was about. Like.. “Time” or “Forever”. It would be some sort of ridiculous indie film that is trying so hard to intellectual that all concept of linear storytelling is lost. Symbolism takes the place of narrative. And you leave the theater feeling as if you’ve lost days instead of a mere hour. It’s supposed to be about what it’s like to be him in the Void. And maybe it is. No one can be certain.

Q2 :   What  would  their  soundtrack / score  sound  like ?    

A2 :

 Ethereal for want of a better term. With that sort of undercurrent of creepy as shit. The sort of music that either has no lyrics or the lyrics contain no chorus. It’s just this story that’s being sang in airy tones over deep music.

Q3 :   why  did  you  start  writing  this  character ?

A3 :

  He wouldn’t leave me alone. I tried to get my bff in rl to finish the game and save me from The Outsider but they never did and I had no choice but to find someone else to satisfy him.

Q4 :   what  first  attracted  you  to  this  character ?

A4:

 He’s.... neat? I dunno. I played the first game and I think I only got through some levels because I kept telling myself that there would be another shrine if I could just get to it. How I get my muses is dumb. They show up in my head and declare themselves deserving of my time >.<

Q5 :   describe  the  biggest  thing  you  dislike  about  your  muse.

A5 :

How disconnected he is. Like he can seriously upset someone and not even register that he did. And that’s the antithesis of me and it hurts me every time.

Q6 :   what  do  you  have  in  common  with  your  muse ?

A6 :

 We think people are interesting? That’s... about it...

Q7 :   how  does  your  muse  feel  about  you ?

A7 :

 He tells me I play him wrong. No matter how I play him. It’s always wrong. And he hates his backstory. And he wants me to be more cryptic. And. And. And. -_-’ He’s a judgmental little brat.

Q8 :   what  characters  does  your  muse  have  interesting  interactions  with ?

A8 :

 Everyone? I think I really love him dealing with people who don’t have marks a lot.

Q9 :   what  gives  you  inspiration  to  write  your  muse ?

A9 :

 I rewatch the clips of going to the shrines for one thing. And I have a few songs that remind me of him. And I I just... I guess you’d call it meditate? I zone out for a few moments and try to clear my mind of anything that isn’t void.

Q10 :   how  long  did  this  take  you  to  complete ?

A10 :

.... shhhhhh... some questions need no answers....

[crimsonfluidessence]

REALLY LONG CHARACTER SURVEY.

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BASICS.

FULL NAME: Esredes Rosemond

NICKNAME: Esrey

AGE: 33

BIRTHDAY: the fuck are birthdays

ETHNIC GROUP: Ishgardian Elezen

NATIONALITY: Ishgardian

LANGUAGE(S): Common Eorzean, Dragonspeak, does ishgard have its own language idefk

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Heteroromantic

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single as fuck

CLASS: Gladiator

HOMETOWN / AREA: Ishgard

CURRENT HOME: The Coerthan Wilderness

PROFESSION: Heretic Commander/Ishgard’s Most Wanted

PHYSICAL.

HAIR: Swept back and crimson. Noteworthy for the way it splits into tips at the ends.

EYES: Orange

NOSE: ....a fucking nose what do you expect me to say

FACE: Nasty looking

LIPS: Never anything but a black line in my art style so who fuckin knows

COMPLEXION: Light brown.

BLEMISHES: idk

SCARS: A lot in various places on the body.

TATTOOS: None

HEIGHT: 6′0

WEIGHT: idk how to do weights

BUILD: Sturdy

FEATURES: uh... he exists

ALLERGIES: None

USUAL HAIRSTYLE: As presented. He rarely combs down the tips.

USUAL FACE LOOK: Vaguely pissed off or emotionless.

USUAL CLOTHING: Either the Haubergeon outfit or his red tabard outfit.

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR(S): Drowning, Being Captured, Failure, Strangulation, Dying in an embarrassing manner

ASPIRATION(S): Taking over and fixing Ishgard.

POSITIVE TRAITS: Loyal, Brave, Confident, Ambitious, Unyielding

NEGATIVE TRAITS: Manipulative, Brutal, Reserved, Hate-filled

ZODIAC: Fuck the zodiac.

TEMPERAMENT: Choleric

SOUL TYPE(S): what

ANIMALS: Rabbits

VICE  HABIT(S): Over-exerting himself

FAITH: None.

GHOSTS?: Yes

AFTERLIFE?: Yes

REINCARNATION?: Maybe?

ALIENS?: Dragons already exist

POLITICAL ALIGNMENT: He’s like a conservative evil liberal its weird

ECONOMIC  PREFERENCE: what?

SOCIO POLITICAL POSITION: Anti Ishgard, pro heresy.

EDUCATION LEVEL: High School

FAMILY.

FATHER: Unnamed but he exists

MOTHER: ^

SIBLINGS: Seraphiaux Rosemond What siblings? I guess there’s Ysayle, it’s not like he has any biological ones who still love him...

EXTENDED FAMILY: Who knows?

NAME MEANING(S): Esredes doesn’t meant anything. I made it up. Ezredes means colonel in hungarian though, and that’s a neat coincidence.

HISTORICAL CONNECTION?: Not related to Durendaires.

FAVORITES.

BOOK: Probably that one epic heroic tale that’s actually realistic out there somewhere

MOVIE: If they existed, he likes action movies.

5 SONGS: Idk, but he sometimes likes humming them to himself.

DEITY: Fuck you.

HOLIDAY: eh... I guess All Saints Wake is pretty decent

MONTH: September

SEASON: Autumn

PLACE: Idyllshire

WEATHER: A slightly cloudy day with a nice, mild breeze.

SOUND: The soft ambience of a forest.

SCENT(S): uh

TASTE(S): Meats

FEEL(S): The hair of someone he cares about when he’s trying to comfort them.

ANIMAL(S): Rabbits

NUMBER: uh

COLORS: Red and Gold

EXTRA.

TALENTS: Swordfighting, Strategic Thinking, Manipulation, Flying

BAD AT: People, emotions, cooking, anything involving engineering

TURN ONS: Assertiveness, Confidence

TURN OFFS: Stupidity, Miqo’te

HOBBIES: Flying and hunting

TROPES: Dark Skinned Redhead, Frontline General, Ambiguously Brown, Magnificent Bastard

AESTHETIC TAGS: I can’t aesthetic but like, besides dragon and blood and swords, his aesthetic boils down to regal and elegant but tough

GPOY  QUOTES: ?

FC INFO.

MAIN  FC(S): Nope

ALT FC(S): Nope

OLDER FC(S): Nope

YOUNGER  FC(S): Nope

VOICE CLAIM(S): The voice he has in my head

GENDERBENT FC(S): Nope

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1: IF YOU COULD WRITE YOUR CHARACTER YOUR WAY IN THEIR OWN MOVIE, WHAT WOULD IT BE CALLED, WHAT STYLE WOULD IT BE FILMED IN, AND WHAT WOULD IT BE ABOUT?:

Villain protagonist film where Esredes has to stop the Even Worse villain while still being unapologetically evil himself, teaming up with morally gray problematic good guys that don’t give a shit about his evil. General rule of thumb, if you want him to be the protagonist, make the villain the equivalent of Dolores Umbridge atrocious.

It has to be filmed in a way where the visual parallels clearly indicate nobody is in the right, that he is little less atrocious than the other villain. Give it enough of subtle intelligent cinema film style, not enough so that it’s confusing and prone to missing everything. Let the film have an element of pretty cinematography that can be contrasted with the more brutal scenes.

Call it “The Exception, The Guardian, and The Monster.”

Q2: WHAT WOULD THEIR SOUNDTRACK / SCORE SOUND LIKE?:

Esredes’ song aesthetic is somewhat orchestral, but intense in nature. It has to reflect the battle heavy lifestyle of his, all while making time for the more elegant and sophisticated parts.

Q3: WHY DID YOU START WRITING THIS CHARACTER?:

I wanted to make dragon characters for my friend’s roleplay group because generally no one gave a shit about all the human characters I came in with. His idea had the most inspirational energy and I went with a character representing everything I hate.

Q4: WHAT FIRST ATTRACTED YOU TO THIS CHARACTER?:

I first began to actually like him because of his dialogue. So much fun to write, like holy shit.

Q5: DESCRIBE THE BIGGEST THING YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOUR MUSE:

I mean, I find a lot of his personality atrocious in general. I don’t like his abusive tendencies, even though I love writing them because of how it defies the idea of him being the local sad man you can just befriend with sunshine. Really, I don’t like that he has to default to murder as a solution and call it for the greater good. He could be genuinely heroic if he tried to find another solution. And that is why he should never stop doing that.

Q6: WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN COMMON WITH YOUR MUSE?:

Desire for quick and snappy change. Generally being the one who can think when no one else can. Thinking nobody likes us while blatantly ignoring all the people directly around us. And both of us have a desire to use our powerful presence, but only one of us can actually pull it off.

Q7: HOW DOES YOUR MUSE FEEL ABOUT YOU?:

He’d probably just call me out on all my weaknesses. Try me, Esrey. So has everyone else before you. You know what it feels like too, don’t you?

Q8: WHAT CHARACTERS DOES YOUR MUSE HAVE INTERESTING INTERACTIONS WITH?

All the kids are fun because each flavor of Esredes trying to work with a disaster is beautiful. I love the absolute purity of Clover, the therapy of Dione, the chill of Rev, snark of Bellona, constant anger of Alastor, etc. The parents are also adorable for their emotional support to the character. Agatha and Esrey are fun because of how awkward but friendly they’re trying to be. Oh, and B’ahm is hilarious because the man is just trying to exist and be friendly and is STILL getting all over Esrey’s nerves.

Q9: WHAT GIVES YOU INSPIRATION TO WRITE YOUR MUSE?:

It’s not hard to get inspired to write him in general, since I have a puppetmaster approach and not a muse approach to writing characters. I usually just have to put on epic sounding music and absorb myself into the mental imagery of him it produces.

Q10: HOW LONG DID THIS TAKE YOU TO COMPLETE?:

Like forty five minutes. Git gud.

[lia-nikiforov]

Weekly Anime Ramblings: Kino’s Journey NOT!

Hello my friends! I don’t know about you lot but the temperatures over here plummeted literally three days ago and I’m freezing lol But I also had time to finally catch up to the animays right before the avalanche of Saturday  stuff comes in, so let’s go straight to the highlights of the week! (I wrote this on Friday night but the internet is being garbage and won’t let me post)

Firstly, this week’s award to “Show that Made me Yell At the TV” goes to...

It was good yelling, mind you. And sobbing. And clutching my chest

MMO Junkie is aggressively cute and you should be watching it like... yesterday.

Kino’s Journey went for a third episode in a row that didn’t feature Kino, this time, at all, so it feels kinda wrong to keep calling the show Kino’s Journey when Kino has only played an important part in like half of the episodes. And apparently the theme in all of Shizu’s episodes is gonna be  "the commonfolk are literal imbeciles who will actively do whatever they can to preserve the status quo bc they're convinced it is the best possible situation and won't let Anime Savior fix their lives".... The more this show continues, the more I convince myself th source material isn’t really all that good and it was the original anime that found a rough diamond and polished it

Gotta love the casual “being xenophobic is super normal because immigrants cause terrorism”.

Hoseki no Kuni might be shaping up to be my favorite anime of the year.. This week’s episode had excellent comedic timing, really cool action scenes and then there was that cliffhanger nnnngghhh I need the next episode yesterday

Also Phos is big mood.

i just watched episode 9 and want to die

Juni Tasen is self-destructing at lightning speed but I’m not here to give you the saucy details on how the very promising ation schlock of the season became a boring dread. I just wanted to comment on how idiotic the twins’ back story is. Their entire “thing” is that they’re edgy lawless hitmen that will turn on their clients and steal all their money. Even from a basic logical point of view, this is TERRIBLE business, nobody would ever hire these brothers again,the end

*sigh* last week Ballroom was so bland and boring I didn’t have anything to say about it, but this week we were back to the usual woman-hating program. This time the most egregious thing was how the show is so hellbent on being as hateful towards women as humanly possible, it will squander its own chances at emotional resonance. The biggest example was with the second part of Akira’s flashback. Instead of making her more sympathetic to the audience by focusing on her unhealthy fixation in Chinatsu, the flashback ends with a scene that is clearly meant to paint her in a negative light –purposefully unbuttoning her shirt to proposition Mine-san. It’s an extremely common anime trope, the mean teen girl that is “too sexual”. It was a completely unnecessary scene, the only purpose it served was to make us see Akira as some “home-wrecking skank” (because “evil obsessed lesbian” wasn’t enough I guess).

Another thing that didn’t work was Chinatsu’s sudden change of heart. Up until now, her relationship with Akira has been shown as one of spite and vengeance, with Akira constantly demeaning Chinatsu, and Chinatsu wanting to see Akira humiliated. Then, suddenly, without any indication that there’s been some sort of reconciliation between them, Chinatsu starts cheering for Akira and we’re supposed to buy that they are now “friendly rivals”. Considering how long-drawn the Chinatsu-Akira conflict has been and how many sequels it’s left in Chinatsu’s dancing, it’s kind of amazing that they somehow manage to resolve it in the least satisfactory way possible.

(there was no Apocrypha this week, so have this weeks old cap instead because now it’s a meme, I guess)

Oh, and I also feel it’s my obligation at this point to say: It’s been [0] episodes since the last body-shaming “joke” in Welcome to the Ballroom

I never thought we’d get a story about how Hoozuki got his club but now I don’t know how we ever lived without it. Every week I continue to be surprised by how perfectly on point the comedy in this show can be.

And the Award for “Show that can stop killing the good guys right about yesterday”goes to Children of the Whales! It’s one of my favorite shows of the season but damn, can people stop dropping like flies so I can stop worrying for Suou who seems like a walking death flag

I also feel very attacked by this Kanda-esque character design, who gave them the right to use my weakness against me like this.

Lastly, Altair continues to be a mess production-wise and with a very unfortunate execution of what could be great ideas, but the only thing I care about is this beautiful long haired dude that occasionally throws in a gratuitous word in Spanish.

Such a delightfully dumb redundancy

That’s it for this week! I’m still freezing cold AND I seem to have caught a cold right at the end of the semester, so pray for me my friendos

[twh-news]

Welcome to Skull Island: on set with Tom Hiddleston and the biggest King Kong ever | The Guardian

The director and cast of Kong: Skull Island, including Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson, discuss filming opposite an 85ft ape – while using as little green screen as possible.

“Apologies for the shirtlessness,” says Tom Hiddleston. “I didn’t want to show off.” The world’s most impeccably spoken Marvel baddie is looking awfully embarrassed. I’ve caught him emerging topless from his trailer, late at night, with female company. The makeup artist has been in with him, carefully pawing at his torso. Hiddleston is shooting a movie in Hawaii and, as it is, his skin doesn’t look sufficiently sun damaged. Muddier stuff is slathered on, and our star is good to go.

This dramatic tan is part of the latest, and perhaps most adventurous, step in Hiddleston’s ascent to the A-list: the lead role in a grand new reboot of the King Kong franchise. It is why we are both standing in mud in the middle of the night on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

The question arises, though: do we really need another movie about King Kong? Ever since the romantic giant ape landed in New York in 1933 with a giant crush on Fay Wray, he has cropped up in at least another six films, most recently Peter Jackson’s handsome 2005 remake. In the latest reincarnation, Kong: Skull Island, he is getting the origins treatment – his story beginning again, ready to be continued in future films. Reassuringly, any reservations one might have about such a project seem to be shared by the film’s producers, who chuck around words such as “fresh” and “current” as casually as Kong juggles biplanes.

“I went in and pitched a movie I would want to see and my friends would want to see,” says the director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts. “I honestly thought they were going to laugh me out of the room. Then they responded really well and we started building that story.”

One can understand this initial concern. The 33-year-old has just one full-length credit to his name: the low-key coming-of-age indie The Kings of Summer. The only thing that film has in common with this one is that trees feature. Vogt-Roberts also looks every inch the indie director – gold medallions, heavy hipster beard – not a guy you would automatically trust with a reported $190m (£152m) budget. But maybe it is because of his indie credentials that the vibe on set seems so relaxed. There is an army-like camaraderie between the actors playing soldiers and those playing non-military folk.

So what is the movie that Vogt-Roberts and his pals would want to watch? Well, it’s set in 1972: the Vietnam war is almost over and the Landsat programme is dawning. For the first time, satellite imagery is able to capture the Earth as a whole and shine a light on previously unknown areas. A voyage to discover what really lies on a mysterious island is launched with a ragtag crew, all with conflicting missions.

“In the early 70s,” says Vogt-Roberts, “the world was in chaos, and I love the idea of using that as an access point for the characters, taking people who are in the middle of sexual revolutions and racial riots and losing wars for the first time and political scandals – people who are watching the world crumble around them – and sending them to an island untouched by man. There’s a sense of catharsis to that.”

But don’t be fooled by the film’s vintage feel. The producers are keen to position this as a contemporary adventure. Recruiting Hiddleston, hot off award-winning TV show The Night Manager, is indicative, and he is surrounded by an eclectic and self-consciously contemporary ensemble. There is 2016’s best actress Oscar-winner Brie Larson, franchise addict Samuel L Jackson, character actor John C Reilly, Straight Outta Compton breakouts Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell, plus John Goodman, fresh from his terrifying turn in 10 Cloverfield Lane.

“It’s a pretty big family to be travelling around the world with,” Larson says, mid-midnight snack. We are in an open air tent and she is ploughing through salad, surprisingly energetic and awake. She has just done the umpteenth take of one especially draining scene; there are many more to come. “Usually, I’d be done by now,” she says with a grin. “Most films I’ve done are 20-, 30-day shoots. So I keep thinking this is the end and we’re not even a quarter of the way in.”

To create a place of unique otherworldliness that could conceivably exist on Earth, three locations – Australia, Vietnam and Hawaii – are being amalgamated. There is an emphasis on bricks–and-mortar sets rather than a CGI overload, which is reserved for the big man himself (a Kong record height of roughly 85ft/26 metres) and a host of nasty creatures with whom he shares his ecosystem. “Jordan always insisted that we should be in real places,” Hiddleston says. “There should be as little soundstage or green-screen work as possible. He was location-scouting for nine or 10 months.”

Despite the hour, he is animated and enthusiastic as he talks to me between takes. This scene involves the characters arguing over whether Kong is friend or foe. It is intense, but what is initially thrilling to watch from the wings becomes notably less exciting the 30th time round. While Hiddleston and Larson remain upbeat (she does an improvised workout with a prop gun whenever the camera stops rolling), Jackson is starting to feel the strain. “How many times have we done this?” he asks. No one seems to know.

When it comes to my chat with him, I’m gathered with a handful of other journalists and his weariness seeps through.

“Why do you think this King Kong is different from the other King Kongs that we’ve seen,” asks one journalist. “I don’t know. I haven’t seen it,” replies Jackson.

“When we spoke to the director and the other actors, they compared your character to Captain Ahab. Is that something that inspired you too,” asks another. “No,” says Jackson.

Still, at least Jackson made it to Hawaii this time. In 1992, he was due to head here to film his doomed role in Jurassic Park when a hurricane destroyed the set before his scenes were shot. His work on Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur thriller was consequently based in LA. His biggest challenge for both projects, he reports, remains the invisible co-stars.

“The first lesson I got on green screen was from George Lucas years ago: the more you do, the more we have to draw,” he says. Do the practical sets help? “No, because you still have to ask the same questions. How big is it? Where is it? How fast is it moving? Sometimes they don’t have the answer to that.”

At least his Avengers co-star is living and breathing, right? “Tom’s got his fans,” he says with a smile. “A lot of girls. It’s good to work with people you know and trust. I guess he’ll be going back into the Marvel universe and put that green suit on again. Hopefully, I’ll be back with my eye patch and we’ll be together again.”

The love is mutual: Hiddleston waxes on about how Jackson is “a consummate professional … just a very fine actor”. But that, surprisingly, is about it when it comes to romance in the film. Despite Kong’s penchant for women, in this version, he is all business, no pleasure.

“This is not a traditional Beauty and the Beast story,” says Vogt-Roberts. “I personally don’t want to see a damsel-in-distress story and I don’t think the rest of the world really wants to see that any more.”

This was a deal-breaker for Larson, too, who added tenacity to a victim narrative in Room and will next be squaring off with a warehouse full of gun-toting blokes in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire. “We’re in a really interesting time when we’re interested in seeing something different,” she says. “I’ve seen women who have found their way to continue to be feminine but still exert a sense of force and a sense of strength, and that’s important to me.”

Kong: Skull Island, then, is dodging some familiar tropes. But it is also part of a very modern trend: not just a kickstart to one dusty franchise, but a way of breathing life into a shared universe, a world also inhabited by another giant of the screen: Godzilla. The breadcrumbs have already been dropped online, and there are easter eggs in the film to reward the hardcore monster fans. But, on set, everyone is tight-lipped about the upcoming face-off, scheduled for 2020.

“I don’t know much about it,” Hiddleston says. “We’ve got to finish this one. I obviously know it’s a plan and that’s what Legendary [the company in charge of both properties] wants to do. It’s exciting and something that hasn’t been done in a long time. If it’s done in the right way, then it could be cool.”

Godzilla 2, with its rather leading title, King of the Monsters, is next, with Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things attached. Might a Kong sequel be on the way, too? Vogt-Roberts shrugs off talk with a lightness befitting his roots, rather than his reality: “That’s a little bit above my pay grade.”

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BASICS. FULL NAME : sir lancelot du lac ( born galahad of the lake / galahad y llyn ). NICKNAME : lance. AGE : ~27 in main verse. BIRTHDAY : november 2nd. ETHNIC GROUP : welsh. NATIONALITY : british. LANGUAGE / S : common brythonic; brythonic celtic languages ( welsh, cumbric, cornish, breton ); pictish ( knows a touch ); latin ( conversational fluency ); greek ( literate, though not fluent ). SEXUAL ORIENTATION : bisexual. ROMANTIC ORIENTATION : biromantic. RELATIONSHIP STATUS : dear god please help this man. CLASS : noble ( thane ); lesser royal; knight. HOME TOWN / AREA : the isle of avalon; glastonbury. CURRENT HOME : joyous guard. PROFESSION : knight of the round table.

PHYSICAL. HAIR : black and curly, reaching down in waves to his shoulders. EYES : very deep brown. NOSE : roman. FACE : gentle, yet angular features; evocative of youthful masculinity. wears a beard. LIPS : soft; downturned at the corners; perpetually somber. COMPLEXION : very fair; exquisitely soft. BLEMISHES : beyond various scars and wounds, none to speak of. SCARS : plenty. most apparent are the ones on his face. he has a thin scar on his right cheekbone, giving him a wild, feline appearance, one reaching from his left brow into his hairline, and one that dips into his upper lip. his most grevious scars are one on his left ankle, one just to the right of the small of his back, and one spreading from his left collarbone to just above his abdomen. TATTOOS : none. HEIGHT : 5′8″. WEIGHT : ~ 132 lbs. BUILD : willowy and slender; built for swift movements and sharp attacks or for graceful diplomacy; extremely muscular legs and abdoment; built arms and shoulders. very toned muscles. small, but holds more strength than he appears to.  FEATURES : handsome. a pretty boy, but an extremely masculine one. described appearing as a young stag. ALLERGIES : not quite an allergy, but he’s lactose intolerant. USUAL HAIR STYLE : worn loose, though very well maintained. the sort of look that seems like the wearer doesn’t care but actually cares very much. naturally and wonderfully chaotic. worn in a bun when anticipating combat. USUAL FACE LOOK : somber. USUAL CLOTHING : deep crimson tunics lined typically with gold threading. dark or black undershirts and trousers. thick, dark cloaks lined with furs. boots, always polished and well-maintained, matching the color of his belt. occasionally wears ornamental armor or a circlet.

PSYCHOLOGY. FEAR / S : inadequacy; lack of being loved; his sexual orientation; breaking his image as an almost mythic figure; a young death. ASPIRATION / S : to constantly and without fail prove himself as better than the rest in order to be admired and loved. POSITIVE TRAITS : charming, graceful, empathetic, witty, musical, talented. NEGATIVE TRAITS : insecure, depressed, violent, capricious, judgmental. MBTI : enfp-t: the campaigner. TEMPERAMENT : melancholic. SOUL TYPE / S : performer. ANIMALS : stag. VICE HABIT / S : wrath. so much wrath. and so much pride. and so much self-loathing. FAITH : nihilism. GHOSTS ? : unsure. AFTERLIFE ? : unsure. REINCARNATION ? : yes but he’s sad about it. ALIENS ? : dude. the fuck’s an alien. POLITICAL ALIGNMENT : arthur and arthur accessories. his only holdout is that he is extremely defensive and loyal to the old people and the old faith, even though he doesn’t necessarily follow it himself. ECONOMIC PREFERENCE : he’s so used to the life of a campaigning soldier that he refuses lodging within camelot’s castle and sleeps in a stable loft instead, if that’s any indication. SOCIOPOLITICAL POSITION : the absolute lowest in the upper class that someone could get. EDUCATION LEVEL : he’s incredibly intelligent, but his schooling revolved almost entirely around warfare, with only occasional forays into more artistic pursuits such as literature, philosophy, and music, though he loves all three dearly.

FAMILY. FATHER : king ban of benwick ( the horned god ). MOTHER : viviane, the lady of the lake ( the virgin huntress, the three-faced goddess, ceridwen ). SIBLINGS : six elder bastard brothers and many legitimate brothers, including lionel and bors the younger. technically only related to balan and mordred because of their supernatural conception. EXTENDED FAMILY : jesus fucking christ okay here we go kids. half-aunt morgause, wife of king lot. half-aunt igraine, former wife of gorlois of tintagel, wife of high king uther pendragon, high queen of britain. half-grandfather taliesin, merlin of britain. half-cousins with gawaine, gaheris, gareth, agravaine, and mordred through relation to morgause. half-cousins with morgaine and arthur through relation to igraine. related to a metric fuckton of half-brothers thanks to ban not keeping it in his pants. NAME MEANING / S : galahad is believed to mean hawk of summer, from the welsh word gwalchaved. lancelot is possibly a misinterpretation of the old frankish word l’ancelot, meaning servant. his many bynames, y llyn, an loch, and du lac, all mean of the lake. HISTORICAL CONNECTION ? : probably not. but he could be related to / derived from a very great number of welsh deities and heroes.

FAVOURITES. BOOK : the iliad. MOVIE : n / a 5 SONGS : n / a DEITY : he has referred to his sword as the only god he believes in. HOLIDAY : samhain. MONTH : november. SEASON : winter. PLACE : lakes. WEATHER : sunny, with a cool breeze, or snowy. SOUND : the gentle ripple on the surface of a lake; the soft cries of waterfowl. SCENT / S : petrichor. TASTE / S : ale. FEEL / S : a soft touch. ANIMAL / S : horses. NUMBER : 1. COLOUR : crimson.

EXTRA. TALENTS : swordplay; jousting; horsemanship; warfare; care of animals; swimming; singing; playing harp; poetry; philosophy; forestry; navigation. BAD AT : dancing; keeping his own secrets; trusting the right people; following a faith. TURN ONS : emotional intimacy; soft touches; quiet breaths; gentle assurances; frequent kisses; the safety to be vulnerable; physical strength; well-toned muscles / athleticism; masculinity. TURN OFFS : excessive roughness; comments / jokes at his expense; loud volume; indiscretion; lack of communication; lack of emotion. HOBBIES : training for war; caring for the king’s stables; studying the history of warfare and combat; reading manuscripts on philosophy; writing poetry; playing music. TROPES : i have a whole list on my about page, but some of the most fitting are bi the way, competition freak, crowd pleaser, dark is not evil, determinator, gayngst, glory seeker, hero antagonist, heroic bastard, honor before reason, horseback heroism, looking for love in all the wrong places, nerves of steel, pretty boy, red is heroic, the ace, the charmer, and what you are in the dark. AESTHETIC TAGS : blog tag. i also have a pinterest board for him here. GPOY QUOTES : “i’d like to tell you it’ll get better tomorrow, but i’ve been through so many tomorrows and nothing has changed.“ / "we should get together sometime and spiral into terrible uncertainty.” / “put me on a pedestal and i’ll only disappoint you.” / “as always, all i should have said was, ‘i love you.’” / “we loved with a love that was more than love.” / “you have a heart that keeps others strong.” / “loving you was the most exquisite sort of self-destruction.”

FC INFO. MAIN FC / S : kit harington. ALT FC / S : n/a OLDER FC / S : n/a YOUNGER FC / S : n/a VOICE CLAIM / S : ewan mcgregor, but with a welsh accent. GENDERBENT FC / S : n/a

MUN QUESTIONS. Q1 : if you could write your character your way in their own movie , what would it be called , what style would it be filmed in , and what would it be about ? A1 : shot on film to give it an aged look, with a very washed out and muted color palette. directed in the style of stephan spielberg or christopher nolan. gives screentime to emphasize lancelot’s formative years in avalon and on campaign in continental europe, but the main focus is on lancelot’s role within the camelot romance dodecahedron and how his actions influenced the rise and fall of camelot. titled “galahad of the lake” in order to bring home that this is a story ultimately about how lancelot became the man he is in legend. Q2 : what would their soundtrack / score sound like ? A2 : composed by theophany and rozen. the soundtrack would be very much akin to theophany’s time’s end, especially time’s end: part ii. his character suite would be especially similar to healing termina. Q3 : why did you start writing this character ? A3 :  hhh, about four months? i’ve loved lancelot as a character for a very long time, but never really decided to sit down and write about him until recently. Q4 : what first attracted you to this character ? A4: i’ve loved lancelot for as long as i’ve loved arthurian lore, so since i was like, six or seven years old. he’s just a Cool Dude. lots of emotional depth, too, which is something i’ve always found to make me love a character. Q5 : describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse. A5 : fuck, man, i don’t dislike anything about him. i adore him. he’s fuckin perfect, okay? definitely not a perfect person, definitely very flawed, but as a character, that makes him perfect for me to write. in terms of ease of writing, i wouldn’t change a goddamn thing. Q6 : what do you have in common with your muse ? A6 : we’re both incredibly handsome, and we both really like horses. Q7 : how does your muse feel about you ? A7 : apathetic. Q8 : what characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ? A8 : everyone. just straight up everyone. first of all he himself is just interesting in any interactions because he’s snarky and violent and charming all in one, and you never know which side of him you’re going to get, so it’s always a good time. second of all, it’s just fun to let him loose with all the characters he can find? it’s a good time. Q9 : what gives you inspiration to write your muse ? A9 : i make my autoplay what it is for a reason, yo. it’s because that’s the shit that gets me goin’ with this character. Q10 : how long did this take you to complete ? A10 : one hour and twenty six minutes.

[kentmansleys]

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BASICS.

FULL  NAME :   Kent Mansley; no middle name. NICKNAME :   Kenny (call him that and he’ll hate you). AGE :   42. BIRTHDAY :   April 6th. ETHNIC  GROUP : Anglo-American / small percentage Polish, on his mother’s side. NATIONALITY :   American. LANGUAGE / S :  English, and a very laughably small amount of French. SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :   Bisexual (repressed, identifies as heterosexual). ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION :   Biromantic. RELATIONSHIP  STATUS :   Single, but has various one-night stands.    HOME  TOWN / AREA :  Illinois, somewhere country but near Chicago.  CURRENT  HOME :   Washington, D.C. PROFESSION :   Government agent.

PHYSICAL.

HAIR : Auburn / red hair cut short in the back and left long in the front. It naturally rests in the wavy shape it takes it this deleted scene is any indication, as it shows him dishevled after no attention with it still in that shape... EYES :   Light blue. FACE :  Very angular; has a strong jaw and prominent chin.  LIPS :   Not too noticeable, but certainly not thin. Good for kissing. ;^) COMPLEXION :  Pale, with freckles (that are faded due to lack of exposure). His cheeks are always rosy. BLEMISHES : Used to have acne scars, but they have since faded. He considers his freckles to be blemishes.  SCARS : Has one across his abdomen from an appendectomy.  TATTOOS :  None whatsoever. HEIGHT :   6′4″. WEIGHT :   183 lbs. BUILD :   Broad sholdered and long limbed. Has long hands and feet. Thin wasted, with a silloutte one might call similar to that of the Dior New Look-- his hips are smaller than his shoulders, however, leaving him not quite as feminine as the postwar ideal postulates.  FEATURES :   Has a few wrinkles that are mostly notable with extreme expression.  ALLERGIES :   None.  USUAL  HAIR  STYLE :   Combs the long part of his hair back. Kept short in the back. USUAL  FACE  LOOK :  Usually keeps a neutral to mildly displeased expression.  USUAL  CLOTHING :   Always wearing suits (sometimes with a trench coat) or something that could be described as only semi-casual. 

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S :   Death, the unknown, the “other”, failure, poverty, being alone. ASPIRATION / S :  To get a better / more active job, and to marry a woman who will be subservient to him. POSITIVE  TRAITS : Debatebly charismatic and affable, very loving towards those he cares for, responsible when he wants to be, adept leader when not given too much control, intelligent, quick witted. NEGATIVE  TRAITS :   Self centered, lustful, prone to anger, greedy, lazy, sore loser, possessive, cowardly, power hungry, overly sarcastic, overly skeptical, somewhat gullible, prone to overreacting, debately creepy. MBTI :   TBD. ZODIAC :   Aries. TEMPEREMENT :   TBD. SOUL  TYPE / S :   TBD. ANIMALS :   Bloodhounds, in particular beagles. Cats, in a... strange way.  VICE  HABIT / S :   Smoking, drinking in perhaps excess, having sex in perhaps excess, gossiping, stealing, occasional animal cruelty, speeding, littering, cursing in perhaps excess... The list goes on. FAITH : Non-practicing former Baptist. GHOSTS ? :   No. AFTERLIFE ? :   Yes. REINCARNATION ? :   No. ALIENS ? : No. POLITICAL  ALIGNMENT :   Conservative; Republican. EDUCATION  LEVEL :   College level.

FAMILY.

FATHER :   Charles Mansley, Sr.  MOTHER :   Mercy Mansley, nee Smith. SIBLINGS :   Calvin and Kyle (twins), Christopher, Chuck (Charles Jr.), and Kevin. EXTENDED  FAMILY :   His grandfather, now deceased. Several distant cousins through great aunts and uncles on both parents’ sides, but no immediate cousins (both parents were the only child). NAME  MEANING / S :   Kent may derive from a Brythonic word meaning “costal district” and comes from an English surname, which in turn refered to an area in England; Mansley I couldn’t find a meaning for... In terms of significance to Kent’s character, though, it highlights how he is meant to be a negative reflection of the standards for men of the 1950s. HISTORICAL  CONNECTION ? :   His mother’s family was big in tobacco for quite some time. Other than that, they have no connection to real historical figures.

FAVORITES.

BOOK :  I haven’t decided yet. Probably The Maltese Falcon. MOVIE :  Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope; Brandon Shaw is his favorite character. 5  SONGS :  Autumn Leaves by Pat Boone (cover of the original by Nat King Cole, which will make Kent cry if and when he hears it), Mood Indigo by Frank Sinatra, My Blue Heave by Gene Austin (a childhood favorite that will also make him cry), Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman, In The Mood by Glenn Miller. DEITY :   The Christian God is the only one he knows. HOLIDAY :   Christmas for sure. MONTH :   Any fall month. SEASON :   Fall. PLACE :   Most cities.  WEATHER :   Cool, somewhat overcast. A nice fall day. SOUND : Big band jazz is his favorite type of music, but he also likes the sound of falling rain. Or the calm sounds of city life, intertwined with bird song. SCENT / S :   A good perfume, and the smell of good food.  TASTE / S :   He has a notable sweet tooth. FEEL / S : Satin, cotton-- really the feel of most smooth or soft fabrics. The warmth of another person. A sense of freshness after a shower or a good night’s rest. A bit on the darker side, he likes the feeling that comes with not having to think.  ANIMAL / S :   Dogs. NUMBER :   17. COLORS :  Green.

EXTRA.

TALENTS :   Pretty good photographer, rather flexible when he needs to be, adept liar, fairly decent cook. BAD  AT : In some cases-- standing up for himself, seeing a bigger picture, keeping his calm. TURN  ONS :   Sensory deprivation (particularly blindfolding), orgasm denial (denial in general to be honest), spanking, begging, phone sex, tied wrists/handcuffs, lingerie, high heels, feminization (of others and himself), hands (kissing palms, sucking fingers), discreet public affection (groping under a table, sneaking away from a party for a quickie, ect.), praise, accents, sadomasochism (giving/receiving mild pain), foreplay, age differences (legal ones!), asphyxiation, physical responses (gut tightening, lashes fluttering, mouth coming open, genitals throbbing, ect.), touching, partial clothing, ice on skin, uniforms (particularly military), car sex, voyeurism (watching his partner or having his partner watching him only), clothed grinding, coming in or on one’s partner (in ass or mouth, in hair, on body, on face/glasses, ect.), neck kisses, and dominant partners. TURN  OFFS :   Sensory overload, roleplay (in most cases), non-communication, being watched by strangers, orgies/multiple partners (a threesome is his limit), bloodplay, danger, masks, age play, drugs, dub-con/non-con, degradation (a little humiliation is fine), scat/watersports, amateur porn (porn in general, aside from still images, does little for him), gore, and underage persons.   HOBBIES :   Collecting-- he likes to buy Captain Marvel comic books, pulp novels, and pin ups.  TROPES :  A lot-- some of my favorites are Evil Counterpart, Faux Affably Evil, Jerkass Has A Point, Motor Mouth, and Would Hurt A Child. I highly recommend reading all of them though. AESTHETIC  TAGS :   Pin ups, city scapes, suits, smoke, consumerism (ads).     QUOTES :  “ The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” - From The Great Gatsby. | “ I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.” - Richey Edwards | “ I don’t like pity. Pity makes you feel small and weak. I’d rather have someone hate me than pity me.” - From Animorphs | “ Sex is like drink, and it’s bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.” - From Oryx and Crake

FC INFO.

MAIN  FC / S : I don’t like giving FCs to animated characters. ALT  FC / S : OLDER  FC / S :   YOUNGER  FC / S :   VOICE  CLAIM / S :  GENDERBENT  FC / S :  

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   if  you  could  write  your  character  your  way  in  their  own  movie ,   what  would  it  be  called ,  what  style  would  it  be  filmed  in ,  and  what  would  it  be  about ?          A1 :  I’m not really sure what it’d be called (I’m not good at thinking up titles on the fly); it would of course be animated, probably framed in the way that a drama is. I think the best thing to focus on would be Kent’s life post movie, so it’d be sort of like... A half sequel to the Iron Giant. Where he and Dean kiss. Q2 :   what  would  their  soundtrack / score  sound  like ?          A2 :   I think the late Micheal Kamen scored him perfectly, and his reason for scoring him like he did is hilarious.  Q3 :   why  did  you  start  writing  this  character ?          A3 :   I re-watched the Iron Giant for the first time in years in the spring of my high school sophomore semester at 15. I had my interest piqued in the movie (a rather muted one compared to my love of the film post viewing) because I remembered the Giant being badass. I came away with an intense passion for Kent. I somehow ended up stumbling into the tumblr rping community-- and haven’t yet found a reason to leave --because I wanted to write for Kent. The need to make content for him was, and still is, rather astounding.  Q4 :   what  first  attracted  you  to  this  character ?          A4 :   He’s so vile. He’s a contemptible human being with a motive that’s understandable-- he’s selfish, but recognizably so; he’s afraid, but understandably so. And I think he’s hot, that too. Q5 :   describe  the  biggest  thing  you  dislike  about  your  muse.          A5 :   He’s an awful awful person; I’d hate him if he was real. But he’s not, so it’s all good. Q6 :   what  do  you  have  in  common  with  your  muse ?          A6 :  I’m glad to say that our commonalities are present because I’ve put them into Kent, not the other way around. We’re both bisexual, have a distaste for tomatoes, and are poignantly afraid of death. The latter one might not be an impression in its entirety, but...  Q7 :   how  does  your  muse  feel  about  you ?          A7 :  I’m a bisexual, black woman. He’d hate me on that basis alone. Q8 :   what  characters  does  your  muse  have  interesting  interactions  with ?        A8 : All of the characters of the film (of coruse), Li Shang, Helga Sinclair, Fred Jones, Agent Looker, Vinny Santorini, Alistair Krei, several well crafted ocs... Q9 :   what  gives  you  inspiration  to  write  your  muse ?         A9 :   EVERYTHING. I cannot name every single thing that does. Every song I listen to, every show or movie I watch, every book or short story I read...  Q10 :   how  long  did  this  take  you  to  complete ?          A10 : I don’t know. A few hours probably!

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Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy Book Review

Star Rating

Far in the future, mankind has retired the planet Earth and moved beyond to new galaxies. And every person depends on the Mercer Company for every little thing, from useless trinkets, to water, to even oxygen. Ari is the sole refugee of the planet Ketch, a planet barricaded from the rest of the universe after Mercer quelled their attempted uprising. After finding Ari in space debris, she becomes the adopted sister of Kay, but this results in his moms being arrested by the Mercer Associates. When Ari accidentally alerts Mercer to her location, her and Kay hide out on Earth where she discovers a sword stuck in an oak tree. The moment she frees the blade, she reawakens Merlin and Morgana, and starts the cycle of King Arthur once again. In order to defeat the great evil of Mercer and unite mankind, Ari, Kay, and Merlin gather the new knights of King Arthur. 

Once & Future is one of the biggest disappointments I’ve ever read. I was so excited for a retelling of King Arthur in space, with the diverse cast it represents. Unfortunately, the story itself took a backseat while the authors focused on the characters’ relationships/sexuality/lecturing about being more PC. For an epic space fantasy, this is a huge letdown. I wish that Capetta and McCarthy had focused on the story and authentic character development and let the diversity of the cast just be instead of reminding the reader every other page. Ari’s correction of “mankind” to “humankind” induced a major eye roll. And when the gang jumped on Merlin for mistakenly referring to Lam as he instead of them was uncalled for. I have absolutely no problem with someone using the they/them pronouns, but I do have a problem with the “Did you just assume my gender??” nonsense. The mistaken pronoun can be corrected in a respectful manner, not by aggressively correcting an innocent mistake. The fact that Merlin immediately refers to Lam only through they/them shows that he respects Lam’s gender identity and meant no ill will in the mistake. 

The back cover of the book boasts that the novel will explore identity, yet it really doesn’t. There’s no hindrance to anyone’s sexual orientation in this universe so the fact that Ari and Gwen get married barely bats an eye. She’s a Ketchan without a home and yet this theme is never delved into. No one looks at her like she doesn’t belong or fit in so there’s no racial obstacle. And the biggest identity of all is the fact that she’s the reincarnation of King Arthur. This revelation is hardly dwelt upon by Ari or any of the knights. It’s accepted rather quickly and we never see her come to terms with this part of herself. We see the aftermath which is a huge problem this book seems to have. All of the important scenes take place ‘off screen’. The beginnings of the uprising happen when Ari and Merlin are both unconscious, Ari’s message to the universe, essentially setting the rebellion into motion, is relegated to the background while Merlin and Val flirt, and Ari’s training (and subsequent character development) is skipped over with the cheap “one year later.” This feels like lazy writing, as the authors sacrificed story for more useless scenes of characters wanting to make out with one another (mostly Merlin and Val, which does make for a good subplot, but when this takes away from scenes that actually drive the main plot, it just brings down the story. Don’t even get me started on the damn kissing scene mid-battle). 

The characters as whole just feel flat and uninteresting because they lack any kind of substance. A major character dies, yet it hardly elicits a response because this character doesn’t change or grow so that the reader feels connected to that character. And the tension that’s presented between Ari and Gwen in the beginning is a lazy attempt at creating the ‘I hate you/I love you’ trope because all it just melts away so quickly. There’s not really a ‘will they/won’t they’ feeling about the two of them. Even the spat they do experience is resolved incredibly easy. Merlin is the most useless magician (even below Aziraphale). Even though he’s aged all the way back to being a teenager and hormones can be a bitch, there’s no indication that he’s lost any wisdom or magic in the process. Yet, he never seems to have any magic. He’s able to fly himself to the Moon, but when the gang’s in trouble, the only thing he can ever seem to manage are some fireworks. The villain is the big Mercer Company, with the Administrator at the head. While this does make for an interesting adversary, what’s a girl with a sword supposed to do against a company? Unfortunately, the whole Medieval aesthetic is forced throughout the story in an attempt to meld the King Arthur in space aesthetic. It’s so contrite and just shows a lack of world building. I still don’t understand the planet Lionel and just why it’s set up like a Medieval Times restaurant. And one of my biggest pet peeves about sci-fi stories that take place far into the future is the idea that knowledge of today’s world is ‘lost’ to the civilization (unless this has a valid explanation that’s built into the world of the story, which it isn’t). The domes on the Moon are “named after ancient vehicular gods” like Dodge. I find it incredibly hard to believe that with our technology today and the way information is stored so that it’s accessible even as the technology changes that no one would know that Dodge was just a car brand. It just feels like a lazy attempt at the ‘we’re so far in the future that we don’t understand common every day things from the old Earth so that makes this funny’ cliche. It doesn’t develop the world, it just follows the formula that so many sci-fi books has done time and time again. 

The plot itself had so much potential but you have to do more than just throw in a bunch of diverse, PC characters to make a good story. They have to drive the plot, they have to grow and develop (on scene), and they have to struggle. 

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Humanity's Love Affair with the Sociopath

Sigh. This one's been a long time coming, I've been putting it off because it's such a big topic, but I need to talk about it eventually because it's at the core of everything I've ever talked about. It's my problem with the Zeitgeist, and with contemporary society today. It's my beef, it grins my gears, and it's something you've never asked yourself.

Why do you love sociopaths?

The media is partly to blame, it always is. We've seen an evolution of character types across the decades, from the friendly person with the heart of gold from the idealistic '80s doing all it can to avoid the inherent, inborn corruption of humanity, to the more earnest depiction of an abrasive, incredibly cynical person with a heart of gold from the '90s. From Ninja Turtles to John Constantine, they all had something in common.

They had a heart. They all had compassion, empathy, and no matter how cynical some of those '90s characters could get, underneath it all there was still a basic belief in humanity. A compassion that drove them to always do the right thing despite their bitterness at an uncaring world, an untainted moral compass that never swerved away from wanting what was best. For everyone, with no one left out. An end to the suffering people unjustly endured at the hands of those without a soul.

At some point, we started cheering on the villain. The abyssal creature without a soul, the demonic presence that had no heart to speak of, never you mind one of stone. It became so 'kewl' to be the con man, robbing old ladies for all their worth, spitting on the heroic figures who'd heretofore showed children the consequences of such actions.

It all comes down to the rise of extraversion and how it's tainted to its very core. It might sound like a horrible way to think, but there's just too much evidence to support it and there's going to be a lot of that in this post. I've learned that it isn't 'Humanity are Bastards,' as the trope goes, but rather 'Extraverts are Bloody Psychopaths,' just within varying degrees.

Why do you think the Nigerian scam mails worked? Affiliative extraverts thought themselves clever, they'd 'play' the poor prince, get him to open up and trust them so that they could get that big, juicy slice of money. And then? They'd not give it back! 10 per cent! Why have such a meagre pittance when you could take this 'innocent prince' for all he's worth? What a lark, take that silly sod to the cleaners for trusting you!

Didn't work out that way, eh extraverts?

As good as extraverts think they are at 'playing the game,' sociopaths are a billion times better. And affiliative extraverts seem almost wired to fall for it. It might be a survival instinct to obey the strongest, and thus be seeen as such by proxy, so sociopathic behaviour is desirable because it exudes airs of 'strength.' Even when that 'strength' gets your bank account cleaned out because you thought you were being bloody clever.

Instead of falling arse over tit for a stupid, stupid con.

It's why we have cults of personality... right? Just the affiliatives trying to emulate the 'strong,' trying to be 'strong' by proxy. All looking to the 'strong' for guidance, for will, to do what they bloody can't. Trying to behave like them in order to gain favour. Whether it's Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, or any charismatic sack of ichorous waste, whatever the Wastrel of the Day is, if they're manipulative enough, the affiliatives will follow.

It happens on all kinds of scales. All kinds. You'd have to be the world's shiniest example of a Joe bloody Soap to not see it, and people don't. These cults of personality pop up everywhere. And I have to pick out an obscure favourite of mine so that people won't be too invested in it, if you're seeing this from an outside perspective, you might actually catch on. So, what manner of dirtbag is going to serve as my example?

I'm going to use one that was never of criminal intent, though a generally scummy person nonetheless. Chris Avellone. In video game circles you might have heard of him, most do I'd think, and they worship him without even really knowing why. Why? Well, he's a sociopath, isn't he? Anyone with the brass clackers enough to lead a cult of personality always is.

Nature of the beast.

What'd he do? Let's see. He wrote a Fallout Bible and claimed to have absolute creative veto over the IP, for one thing. If a designer or writer had anything contradictory to say on the matter? He'd passive-aggressively mock them in his 'Bible.' That he called it a bible is more than a bit telling, don't you think? That's not indicative of off the charts narcissistic arrogance at all. Oh no, not even a little bit. No, no...

So let's look at the characters he's proud of including in video games, shall we? Kreia, from Knights of the Old Republic: A soapbox for Avellone's seedy, unbalanced views and a sociopath. Ulyssess, from New Vegas: See Kreia. Weeping Mother, from Pillars of Eternity: See Kreia. Sensing a pattern, yet? Ulysses wanted to nuke everyone back into a fresh apocalyptic state, it's what humanity deserved, he just wanted to watch them burn.

Avellone has often said that that's what he'd wish for the Fallout franchise. That's not worrying at all, right? Okay, how about how in a recent interview, with all of the cocksure arrogance of a sociopath, he told an interviewer that he prefers 'smart evil?' He'd prefer to 'talk two people into killing one another' rather than actually save anyone. Or Tyranny, which was Avellone's brainchild? That was a world of villainy and evil, lead by sociopaths... Cor, have to wonder if you're sensing a pattern yet. I am.

Oh, and he took an ending out of a game that allowed a group of sapient creatures a future, and a chance at happiness. Why? They weren't human, he believed that their purpose in the story was to die and suffer. Oh yes, did I mention that Avellone is a bit of a crackpot?

And yet people love him.

So, let's move onto a fictional example. Rocket Raccoon was originally an abrasive character with a heart of gold, much like John Constantine. I adored him. That's when he was written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Did you know that Rocket had a different origin than the dreary rot the films put him through? He was originally a fluffy artificial life form created to help the mentally disabled and disturbed. In DnA's run on Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket was a really nice fellah, reliable, and a genius. Definitely a bit rough around the edges, to be sure, but a stand up bloke nonetheless.

So, Rocket Raccoon is handed over to Bendis. Brian Michael Bendis...

Brian "Misogyny'n snuff porn is my bag, yo!" Bendis. Brian "I think it's super funny when Elektra gets kicked hard in the vagina by a guy, especially when the onomatopoeia is FOOM!" Bendis. Brian "If a woman didn't get shot in the head in this issue, I didn't write it!" Bendis. Brian "I hate Grant Morrison and Alan Moore just because they're British and that scares me!" Bendis. Brian "It's so funny whenever Tigra gets humiliated, stripped down, forced to do naughty things on camera, and then gets brutally raped by white villains. 'Cause I hate her and that makes it funny! Hehe!" Bendis. Brian "When I write Doctor Doom, he gets to call a woman a 'fat cow whore' and it's totally in character!" Michael God Damn Fucking Bendis.

So, yes, Bendis is also a sociopath. We won't talk about that, here, though. I think I've already covered my grievances above well enough. Suffice it to say though that this man has a history of being shitty to women in comics. And you can probably guess what happens to Rocket, right? Rocket is now a misogynistic sociopath. Hooray. He's a massive arsehole. And not the kind that has a heart of gold, of course. Oh no, not even slightly. He's just a humongous pile of shit.

Cheers, Bendis. You desperate, oversexed and sexually frustrated tosspot. I don't want to be around for the next character you drag over hot coals. That, loves, is why I no longer 'Make Mine Marvel.' More like, 'Take Thine Garble... and shove it where the sun don't shine!' I'm sorry, I have to be facetious, I can't make it through this any other way.

The world is just obsessed with sociopathy.

Take a running kick at a cat's skull to post up on Youtube? Haha, it's funny! Grab a dolphin out of its water, toss it around and abuse it on camera for the purpose of selfies? It's fiiine! When did we start excusing this kind of shit? When did we begin to turn a blind eye? When did it become okay for some charismatic, inbred pigfucker to ruin Britain for everyo--Okay, now I'm getting too specific, aren't I?

That's the truth of it, though. All it takes is charisma and a Machiavellian mind and you can get away with anything! You can be the world's biggest dickhole and people will just cheer you on, no matter what you do! It doesn't matter who gets hurt in the process, does it? And that's where this pus-filled bubo on the face of humanity I 'affectionately' call the Alt-Blight rose from. This is the kind of hell we're living in where somone can have people genuinely think they're hot shit and the greatest new thing since sliced bloody bread for driving a car into a crowd of peaceful protestors!

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING TO THE WORLD???

I come back to Rocket Raccoon in my head. A fluffy critter made to help out the mentally infirm and troubled, reinvented in this cool, hip new age of rabid sociopathy to be a psychopathic, crazy cyborg killer. Why?

Why any of this?

Extraverts.

It's the conclusion I keep coming to and the one I can never get away from. It's what I pointed out when I linked that video from Mike Rowlands just a li'l bit back where he was pointing out how an Alt-Blight arsehat was being a filthy, pathological liar. In one shot, putting on a sob story about how his ilk are just 'peaceful,' not at all violent like the left, and so unfairly 'persecuted for having wrong opinions,' boo-hoo; In another shot, shown counting and bragging about his many, many, many guns.

Extraverts are enablers. They're a hoard, a hive, a buzzing little collective of workers that empower sociopaths by being taken in by them, granting these nutcases power beyond reckoning through their sheer numbers. This is how Trump happened, becasue affiliative extraverts are so easily brainwashed, conditioned, and tricked. All you have to do is convince them they're being clever, that they're in the 'in crowd,' that their chosen social tribe is the most hip, happenin', 'kewl' one out there? And they will, each and every one, collectively swear a holy blood oath to a known murderer.

And thanks to that, we're in a position where it's 'cool' to be a sociopath, psychopath, or other kind of crazy. it's 'seductive,' it's 'hot,' it's 'alluring,' it's 'pull your heads out of your fucking arses.' This isn't Twilight. It's 'strong,' it's 'powerful,' it's 'money,' it's 'stop being so damn deluded while the world dies around you.' With readily denied real issues rotting the world we live on, like global warming and overpopulation, this earth's not going to be around much longer. So why?

Why?

Do you just not care about your children? At all? Or your grand kids?

You bunch of bloody soggy-brained lunatics. That's all I can really say on the matter, isn't it? Singing and dancing while the world burns around you. You bloody lunatics.

I'm just going to talk a liittle about something personal that means a bit to me before I wrap this up. It's even managed to invade the furry community, to worrying degrees. When the Internet was younger, when there were few extraverts (because the Internet was wickedly complicated and they'd not the salted noodles enough to figure it out), the furry fandom was such a genuinely lovely place. It was. You should've seen Furcadia at its height, it was lovely. There were these little communities hosted on servers called MUCKS where fantastically brilliant, singular people got together to dream and imagine things only the brightest furry minds would.

It's why there were a lot of furries involved in video game development in the '90s and early '00s, you know? True story. Look into it. Dr. Cat is but one example. Anyway, it was good. And now? The Alt-Blight have invaded these MUCKs, chased all of the light and wonder away, so these are now tainted, festering hellholes of hatred. It's bizarre to walk through them again and, crestfallen, see how that cancer has made them sick with bile.

Even furries now have to deal with the Alt-Blight. I'm sure a lot of furries might think it's cool. That's the friggernaffin' Zeitgeist, isn't it? Sociopathy is so cool, hot, powerful, and sexy, and a giant taintfest of hatred, let's please never forget that part. It's a very important part, I think.

So it's everywhere. I feel like it's overtaking everything that ever meant something to me. So this is a fight. It has to be. In its own way, this is a war. This is the most abstract war anyone's ever fought. It's a war fought by abstracts against abstracts. It's a war fought against hatred, by compassion; It's a war fought against intolerance, by acceptance; It's a war fought against arrogance, by knowledge; It's a war fought against propaganda, by independent thought; It's a war fought against collectivism, by creativity; It's a war fought against the worst of us, by the best of us.

So, you know. I might be an abrasive buttface, and that's fine, because my heart's always in the right place. I'm not a misogynist, I don't abuse animals, I'm hardly about to run a car into a crowd of people... I think this defines the very opposite of who I am. I've chosen my side. I think that's something we all have to do, now, because it's necessary. Because this is happening and we're not going to be able to hide our heads in the sand any longer.

I get to choose to be 'a poncy, SJW, politically correct sissboy' or... well, a monster. An actual monster. Which is what they are. It might be evangelical, but it's how we have to look at the world, now. So I'm proud to be an SJW, I've said it in the past. I couldn't be more proud, I couldn't be happier! I derive great personal worth from this, because I'm not a monster.

Monsters of yore might have had scales or fur, they might've been fifty stories tall or come in flying saucers. The monster of today has white skin, they're not that tall, either, and they certainly didn't arrive in flying saucers. No, these monsters are home-grown. They're our monsters. And we have to recognise them as such.

If you see a Nazi, say Nazi. That's what every sociopath, psychopath, and associated nutjob out there is going to be. The Alt-Blight, what have you? Nazi. Even ex-neo Nazis will tell you that the Alt-Blight are Nazis.

So can we stop glorifying and empowering monsters now, please?

This is a dark time in history, one of those things where the younger generations will look back and shake their heads in such terrible shame. So let's come out swinging and put this Nazi blight to rest. Once and for all.

Citations

Abused Cat Abused Dolphin Avellone Prefers Sociopathy Example of Bendis's Sociopathy Alt-Blight Furry Troubles Alt-Blight MUCK Taint Alt-Blight Brainwashing