#the only acceptable bald man tbh

[i-love-when-women]

Day #8 of watching Megamind every day before Netflix removes it after the 31st.

Yes- I have a problem. No, I will not be watching any other form of entertainment for the remainder of December.

Anyway-

The fun thing about watching the same movie, at least once, day after day is that you start to take notice of things you didn't before- or at least didn't pay attention to before.

Like Megamind's range of expressions. To be fair, all the characters that aren't background fillers are extremely expressive- bless you animators. However, there's just something so wonderfully endearing about how damn expressive this silly blue man is.

I am particularly fond of the later scenes- the rain scene and Tighten's broadcast reaction- where you can just SEE the turmoil and/or thinking going on in his big 'ole head.

While a lot of his expressions are greatly exaggerated, and maybe sometimes just a little silly, the animators really did bless us with an animated character that can express SO MUCH with just his face (especially his eyebrows).

I haven't really posted on Tumblr before, nor do I really know how to use it (aside from liking and reposting, anyway). However, I'm half tempted to make this a series. I have so many silly thoughts about this wonderfully silly movie- and no one irl to share with.

Someone please tell me you've over analyzed this movie as much as I have- or anyway movie.

[ren-is-real]

Inanimate Insanity dash simulator (pre ep 16) (i will do more of this if this goes well probably)

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does anyone ever get so tired they start seeing spiders lol

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me when i lay down and hallucinate the horrors lmfao

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what

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Oh so this is not a safe place suddenly

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as an unbiased outsider im cheering for them both ^^ im so excited for the finale!!!!!!!!!!!

#idk what i'll do when this ends tbh #like damn. #we'll cross that bridge when we get to it!!

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any couple can be gay if they are bisexual and their genders are weird enough

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why did you post this directly after talking to me and test tube

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lightbulb why did y

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when you want to ask someone about something but the trek is IMPOSSIBLE and you will DIE (hes downstairs setting up a party im just scared)

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i am not giving you the aux to play green day at the party

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:(

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ok. two songs

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when a fake girl tryna act like me but im the only one there is

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REAL!!!!!

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who are you.

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hey didnt you die. or something

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hey anyone know where pickle is haha. anyone know his room number or amything lol like it would justs be fun to know,,, hagaha,,,, yeagh

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imagine using a run down website that hasnt been relevant in YEARS. you all need to get off and go touch some grass or something jfc

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you're literally using it?

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kill yourself

#you used to be cool man

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i drew some vent art about old stuff.. im better now!! im just letting off some steam haha

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this is so cringe

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you're cringe.

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trophy just ran to the bathroom sobbing

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greetings tumbler! i an steve cobs, C.E.O of the meeple company. i am looking to get in contact with a mephone! specifically mephone 4. (model 4s) any help is greatly appreciated!

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go back to twitter vro 💀

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trying a healthier outlook on life!! i'll tell yall how it goes!!

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failed

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i miss egg :( i wonder where the other one the aliens mentioned went. i hope it found a parent that loves it as much as i loved egg. i mean i wasnt the best parent but uh you get what i mean

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???????

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??????????what??????????

#why is steve cobs on tumblr get off

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i need a boyfriend except he's not a boyfriend and is just some weird british guy i drag around with me everywhere

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diversity win!! corrupt capitalist CEO of multimillion dollar company steve cobs is bisexual!

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who informed you of this.

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I WAS??? JOKING??????

#GUYS??? #STEVE COBS GAY ICON??? #HOLY SHIT #IM SCREAMING ITS HIS OFFICIAL ACCOUNT ITS NOT A GIMMIC #meeple

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as a member of the lgbt we do not accept steve cobs

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even when he changes the meeple logo to a rainbow during pride month we dont accept him

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just to clarify yang posted this not me -yin

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steve cobs being bi and accidentally admitting to it on tumblr was not on my 2024 bingo card ???????

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you'll be first.

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what

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[restinslices]

How do you think the long haired men of Mk (Bi-Han, Kuai, Liu Kang, Raiden, and Kung Lao) would feel if their partner did or played with their hair? You can choose of its paragraphs or bullet points

We’re finishing these requests bit by bit!

Off topic but I downloaded Spotify after not having it for years and why tf do I have to listen to 5 unskippable ads to listen to music? Who decided this? And y’all adding songs I didn’t ask for to my playlists. Go deep down to hell.

Bi-Han

I’ve always said that Bi-Han isn’t fond of physical touch but I don’t think he’d be against his partner playing with his hair 

I feel like his reflex reaction is to hit whatever touches him unexpectedly so warn him beforehand 

Or get hit

It’s all on you 

Any sort of affection he prefers to do in private. Same goes for this 

Idk why but I think when Bi-Han is stressed, he takes his hair out of a bun then puts it back into a bun

If his partner wanted to do that for him instead, he’d appreciate it 

He’d mainly enjoy it when you two are alone and not really doing anything 

His mind is always moving 60+ miles a minute. Running your fingers through his hair or taking his bun out and putting it back in will slow his mind a bit 

It's calming but I don't think he'd ever ask for it himself 

He doesn't really ask for affection at all tbh 

When it comes to doing his hair, it's either a bun or straight down. He doesn't really do anything else and he's a party pooper 

He'd arguably enjoy this more than typical affection, like kissing and cuddling 

Kuai Liang

Honestly I think all the guys would enjoy it 

Kuai Liang specifically enjoys his partner helping him wash his hair 

Could he do it himself? Yeah. 

But he enjoys spending time together and it helps him relax 

I'm pretty sure Kuai Liang’s hair is only long enough for a bun or a weak ass ponytail

He has his pride so that ponytail shit is not happening 

A nice shoulder massage and running your fingers through his hair is ideal relaxation after doing whatever bullshit the day brought 

I don't think he has any complaints against it

He sees affection as a positive and since this is a way of showing affection, he's ok with it 

Plus it relaxes him like I said 

You can possibly get away with putting accessories in his hair 

If you did it when he was asleep, I don't see him immediately taking it out. He'd humor it

This man has a wife for a reason y'all! He's a lover! He's enjoying any sort of affection and he's playing with your hair as well 

You guys can do each others hair as a way to spend time together 

Unless you're bald 

Maybe he'll rub your bald head. idfk 

Liu Kang 

Another lover 

This man just wants to live his life and have a special someone and they will not let this man have either. His life is nothing but tragedy 

So with that being said, he’s accepting any kind of affection 

Doing his hair would be more fun than doing Kuai Liang or Bi-Han’s hair because his is longer 

His default style is the top knot but he’d be alright with you doing his hair in different styles 

Multiple buns, braids, ponytail(s), ect

And when I say braids, I do not mean fucking box braids. Do not piss me off

He wouldn’t keep it in for long but he wouldn’t take it out immediately 

He thinks it’s cute 

When it comes to playing with his hair aimlessly, he also wouldn’t mind 

As long as you’re not twirling his hair while he’s tryna fight or focus, he won’t mind 

Did I mention this man is touch starved?

Everytime his life looks like it’s starting to get better, some bullshit happens 

So please love on him

Twirl his hair with your fingers, run your fingers through his hair, randomly start braiding his hair, offer to help wash his hair, do all that lovey shit 

Raiden 

Raiden only has enough hair for a mini bun and idk how long his hair is when it’s down 

So he doesn’t have inches like Liu Kang does 

When it comes to doing his hair the options are limited 

I think he’d be neutral on it 

He’d prefer other ways to show affection but he doesn’t dislike you playing with his hair 

He’d prefer hand holding or sitting close to each other. Stuff like that. So he doesn’t dislike someone playing with his hair, it’s just not his favorite 

Prefers it in short doses 

Idk why but I feel like at some point the feeling of fingers in his hair would drive him a bit nuts

Y’all gotta take halftime 

As for doing his hair, you’re more than welcome to put it back in its usual bun but that’s all he got 

Him, Liu Kang and Kuai Liang I think are lovers fr so I think they appreciate affection the most. Especially physical affection.

If you wanted to do the accessorizing thing, you could give him a special ponytail holder and he’d use it 

That’s all the main thoughts I have about him tbh. He likes affection so he’s not against playing with or doing his hair, but he has other preferred methods of affection 

Kung Lao

I need us to be fr just for a second-

Kung Lao has the shaved sides and undercut. The only hair he really has is that mini ponytail

He has SOME hair but I can assume he probably has the shortest out of everyone on this list 

And so I must say, he would feel mixed 

Because on one hand he’s like “what are you even playing with? This is kinda weird. Can’t we do anything else?”

And on other days when he’s feeling it (why the change? Depends on the day) he’s like “make it enough”

Majority of the times he’d feel like the first scenario I brought up 

Idk, I feel like someone toying with your little pony would throw anyone off 

Maybe there’s a skin and his hair is down and I haven’t seen it, but I’m assuming his hair is pretty short. Out of the ponytail it’s maybe just reaching his shoulders?

Another situation where if you wanna put it in the usual pony, you’re more than welcome to 

Will also wear any ponytail holders you give him 

Will wear any little accessories but doesn’t keep them in for a long time 

If you wanna put his hair in a little bun, he won’t protest, but you’ll look away and he’ll put it back in his default style 

It’s not that he doesn’t like it. He’s just used to that specific style. When it’s changed, it makes him feel off 

Also multiple other characters have buns. He doesn’t wanna be like these other hoes

I am now realizing how short this is-

[blubushie]

tbh, as a woman who hangs out in communities where alot of middle aged men are guaranteed to gather around, you really hit the nail on the head. i've yet to find a tf2 fic that actually captures that male camaraderie that i've seen from the men around me.

Also, knowing this is the queer website and that much of the TF2 fandom is transmasc, I'm gonna address this so these kids can't go "I don't do that!! I'm a man!! I know what men act like because I-"

Men in queer spaces don't act the same way in the queer space as they do outside of it. I know I don't, cuz people get judgy. Queer community does not like men or masculinity. If you look too much like a man, or act too manly/boyish, or engage in male behaviours even with other men, they will look down on you. The only acceptable men are behaviorally effeminate, androgynous white twinks. If you divert from this in any way—too masculine, too POC, too physically male, too tall or fat or broad—they will treat you like a predator.

So a lot of these people, if they are interacting with men, are often interacting with other young transmascs who aren't socialised in male behaviour yet (usually online), or with men in queer spaces only—men who are masking. And they think men are just like this all the time.

And any man who doesn't play up the effeminate harmless uwu-shyboy persona is now scary or being toxically masculine because he's engaging in friendly ribbing with another man while being in a queer space.

I noticed it especially when me and an older bear went to a queer event (separately, we didn't come together) and he was practically ostracised because he's tall and bearded and bald and hairy and fat and very obviously male. And it turns out he was a trans man and he felt he didn't have a place in this event because everyone shunned him, or somehow managed to bring up toxic masculinity and how they don't feel safe with men in certain spaces, all in front of him while very obviously targeting him. The younger transmascs, of which there was quite a few, agreed with this. They ALSO didn't feel comfortable with him there because he was TOO male despite being just as queer as the rest of them (if not more—he was in his 50s and the oldest person there and had been out since his early 20s, so he defo had the most life experience of everyone there as far as the trans folk were concerned).

So naturally he and I hit it off. We separated off from the group, got drinks, and spent the afternoon in the corner, just us, discussing boats and fishing and lightly ribbing each other and laughing to ourselves while everyone else kept giving us glares and side-glances. Men are not welcome in queer spaces. Masculinity is not welcome in queer spaces. People treat ANY instance of masculinity as toxic. And so these young transmascs lost out on a perfect opportunity to see how men actually interact with each other, because the only other men they're actually interacting with are other trans men who don't know how men socialised as male act either.

It's kinda sad, in a way. Cuz they're gonna continue not knowing, and when the day comes they're gonna be blindsided and not know a fucken thing about how to be men in social environments because they don't wanna listen to or observe other men, not even the transmascs what came before them. Masculinity scary or some shit. And this is why it's SO IMPORTANT to have people outside of your familiar circle or your social group or your echo chamber as friends. It's why you should befriend your elders and learn from them, not shrink in fear cuz beards are scary or something. Not everyone can be a skinny white transmasc twink and not everyone WANTS to be. Masculinity is NOT a bad thing.

Anyway rant over. Point is these people don't know what male comraderie looks like cuz they don't actually put themselves out there to experience or observe it. Or even just engage in media where it's plainly showcased. 🤷‍♂️

[bazooka-overkill]

in honor of me getting absolutely zero play valentine's day i decided to rank the wii punch out boxers in order of how much i would willingly be their valentine/go on a date with them

don't take this seriously btw i made this at like 2 am :33333

list under cut

13.) king hippo

im scared of him

12.) piston honda

this is just a me thing but his eyebrows are off putting to me😭😭 if he ever pulled up w his eyebrows i think i would start crying /nsrs

no shade to piston honda btw. luv his character and i’m 100% sure he’d treat his valentine right

11.) von kaiser

CRIES he is so scary. i made a joke post about him and how he stares (specifically the stare that europeans do). no amount of roses could ever erase his stares😭😭😭

10.) don flamenco

he has carmen and i don’t wanna be a homewrecker yk

if carmen wasn’t his valentine tbh he’d be a decent valentine. a little over the top but nothing compared to a little someone else on this list

9.) soda popinski

every time i see him i think of patrick star. you think i want a valentine that looks like fucking patrick star

8.) bear hugger

i put him at no. 8 not becuz he’s a bad date/valentine but bc it’s a tie between him and aran ryan. i can’t really see bear hugger being a traditional valentine if that makes sense??? 

luv him to death tho. shout out to all three bear hugger fans

7.) aran ryan

despite his whole “i’m fucking insane” persona i believe aran ryan is,,, the better half of a valentine. sure he might light a building on fire in the shape of a heart for me (criminal charges!!! so romantic!!!😍😍) but he means well and i would take him up on an offer for valentine’s day

6.) super macho man

i’m literally only accepting his offer for the money. you know that man does NOT live frugally when it comes to valentine’s day. or just in general lmfao

5.) great tiger

if he pulled up on his magic carpet and asked me to be his valentine i’d accept in a heartbeat. who could say no to a flying carpet and a man who would get those giant flower bouquets of ur favorite flower(s)

4.) bald bull

yall might not agree with me on this but i personally believe bald bull is one of the best people for valentine's day. plus that lil tooth gap shown in his intro is legitimately so cute who could say no to that (he may be a grown man but anyways LMAO)

3.) glass joe

first off he is from france and that is the place of laaauuuuuuvvv😍😍😍 or something like that idk i didnt pay attention in geometry

second just look at him. that man is one of the top tier valentines, or just overall dates

2.) disco kid

this is a little obvious bc i put him up so highly but i luv him. he’s so silly and energetic but idk if i could match his energy

he’d probably bring his valentine to a roller rink or some shit like that. if that was me i’d probably die on the rink😭

MR SANDMAN NUMERO UNO🙏🙏🙏

this man is literally so fine yall do not understand the extent of how much i love him so much. from his design all the way down to his whole “sleep” gimmick OUUUGHHHHHHHH 

if this man asked me to be his valentine i think i would legitimately explode on the spot. im not even joking like i would explode like a fucking bomb he is so FINE TO MEE

he’d probably pull up with those giant teddy bears (yk what i’m taking about right,,) and some flowers. he is so fine to me you guys don't understand

[alter-ego-cole]

OKAY IM GONNA SAY IT ALL RIGHT HERE ROGHT NOW SO LISTEN UP HERES THE STORY:

Some dude in a goat fursuit kidnaps the boxers and puts them in the killing game. After they tell everyone about the situation they're in, King Hippo attacks them. Then uhhhhh (tbh I'm not sure where I went with this part. Its supposed to be something comes down and rips his head off. When I came up with this whole au originally king hippo was speared so nothing new.)

To pass time Disco Kid sets up a party. Don takes Disco Kid to another room and beats him over the head with a boombox. The next morning, Little Mac finds the body and the whole trial happens shortly after. After discovering the culprit Don gets punished. He gets repeatedly attacked by a bull until it impales him.

Since SMM is a dick and very little people take Joe seriously, Joe went and beat the fuck out of Macho Man with one of Aran's horseshoes, then stuffs the body into a locker. Later Sandman discovers the body due to the awful odor. During the trial, not only is it discovered that Joe is the culprit, Kaiser knew Joe did it because he insisted him to. After the trial, Joe gets punished. He escapes from an angry crowd all the way to a stage. He then gets strapped in to a guillotine and looks sadly at everyone before the blade falls.

The next day, Hondo and Great Tiger are having a match in a private boxing room. Hondo punches GT's turban gem and knocks him out. GT doesn't seem to be breathing, which causes Hondo to panic. Bear Hugger then walks in the room and in a panic, Hondo punches him in the head and throws him against the wall, killing him. Later that night, Soda walks in and discovers the bodies. The trial begins shortly after and confirms Hondo to be killer of both GT and BH. For Hondo's punishment, he gets tied down to train tracks. Hondo feels a train coming, so he tries to escape. When he loosens the ropes enough, he attempts to jump onto the other side, but doesn't jump in time. The only thing that's left of Hondo is his headband, which Aran keeps.

A week after, Aran grows tired and slightly more deranged, to the point where he might just kill as well. Aran talks to Kaiser and convinces him to shoot Little Mac to get out of the sick game they're stuck in. When Kaiser gets Little Mac into a more private room, he kicks Mac down and shoots him, but shot his arm instead of his head. This causes Mac to faint and gives Kaiser an opportunity to escape the situation. After Kaiser shot Mac, the other boxers heard the gunshot from the other rooms and found Little Mac unconscious. Bald Bull then went to find who shot him. After he found Kaiser trying to run, Bald Bull took Kaiser's gun from his hands and beat him in the head with it. Soda finds Kaiser's body and starts the trial an hour later. Despite Bald Bull's contradictions, the evidence lead to him killing Kaiser. Bald Bull's punishment starts by him getting interrogated and shamed by a large crowd. He then gets shoved into a steel, hollow bull. Inside the device, Bald Bull screams in agony as the fire underneath him grows. On the outside however, all that's heard is the distressed cry of a bull.

Later that night, when Mac tries to sleep, someone breaks into his room and tries to stab him. Mac wakes up and tries to run from this mysterious maniac. In the morning, Mac wakes up thinking last night was just a nightmare. Soda discovers a mysterious body in the middle of the boxing room with uncountable stab wounds. The trial is proving that Little Mac is the culprit, despite him begging and pleading that he isn't and that whoever entered his room tried to kill him. Little Mac is set in a weird room where he sits on a conveyor belt, leading to two metal fists resembling boxing gloves repeatedly smashing against eachother. As Little Mac accepts his fate, someone comes in and stops the arms: Great Tiger wasn't dead, as he was in a comatose state and woke up to Mac's demise. With his magic, he temporarily stopped the machine from squishing Little Mac. After he falls to a safe platform below however, Great Tiger can no longer hold against the boxing machine and gets crushed by the two fists.

Three days after what happened, the building is now free to explore by the boxers remaining. They discover more about who the weird kidnapper is. It's revealed that they seem to be a kid named Cole who was obsessed with everything about the WVBA. After Cole revealed themselves, they force the remaining survivors into a trial, where all is explained and it's said that they've won the game. Afterwards, Cole gets strapped to the same conveyor belt that Little Mac was almost killed on. Cole gets completely crushed between the two gloves and opens up the exit to the horrid building that trapped the boxers from the beginning.

[mulletmitsuya]

Toman groupchat

Warnings: swearing, suggestive, mentions of alcohol

a/n: i feel like these are getting repetitive and boring ngl :/, lemme know what you guys think, ly<3

Kazutora: idk man

Kazutora: how can you be bi and still have no bitches

Kazutora: you have all the options

Kazutora: and you still not getting any???

Kazutora: ion even wanna laugh at you. im just sad

Baji: dude💀

Mikey: what are you talking about

Draken: context????

Kazutora: just thinking about how Draken will die alone cause he's a fucking coward

Smiley: he still doesn't have any bitches???

Draken: why do you always have your nose in my fucking business

Baji: someone as hot as you shouldn't be single tbh

Baji: i'd suck the soul outta you bro

Baji: like a homie would do🤜🤛

Baji nvm that was a moment of weakness you're basically bald

Kazutora: you slipped up😕

Draken: 😐

Mikey: ok like i know i make fun of Ken-chin a lot, but ig if we're talking facts, he is pretty attractive

Mikey: doesn't beat me tho

Mikey: nothing beats being a cute blonde whos submissive and breedable😚

Mitsuya: ayo??

Kazutora: being a 6'2, ripped, extremely attractive man with tattoos, scars, mommy issues and can man handle you like a rotisserie chicken does beat that actually

Baji: bro??

Smiley: that was sus as hell🤨

Mikey: why the rotisserie chicken😭

Kazutora: imagery

Draken: uhm

Draken: thanks??

Draken: i think

Kazutora: you're still bitchless tho

Baji: i agree with Tora, but i think cute beats hot

Mitsuya: theyre two very different categories. its like having to choose between Hakkai and Draken

Mitsuya: Hakkai's more on the cute and handsome side while Draken is hot and sexy

Mitsuya: actually Hakkai's hot too nvm

Mitsuya: its basically impossible to choose

Mikey: AYO

Smiley: Mitsuya????

Baji: I KNEW HE'D SLIP UP ONE DAY

Draken: really?

Draken: thanks Mitsuya😁

Mitsuya: 👍

Mikey: WHY DO YOU ONLY ACCEPT COMPLIMENTS FROM MITSUYA

Draken: cause i know hes being genuine

Draken: you guys just do it to make fun of me

Kazutora: dumb, clueless, bald headed ass mf

Draken: go back to jail

Draken: i didn't mean that, dont go back to jail

Draken: i didnt mean to disregard your growth like that

Kazutora: bro chill its not that deep

Smiley: thats Drakens problem, he's a good person😕

Smiley: bet he'll die by jumping in front of gunshots to save someone or smth

Smiley: then he'd probably spend his last moments trying to comfort the person and telling them that it wasn't their fault

Smiley: shit pisses me off fr

Mitsuya: ??

Draken: ..what?

Baji: having morals restricts you from having fun

Draken: Baji stop acting like you're not a good person

Draken: aren't we your treasures

Baji: stfu i was hallucinating and on the brink of death

Draken: aren't you the one who sacrificed your life cause you didnt want Kazutora to feel responsible for your death???

Draken: and what did you do in your last moments?

Draken: you comforted Chifuyu

Baji: ...

Baji: Juana

Draken: ??

Draken: who's Juana ???

Baji: Juana put deez nuts in yo mouf 🤣⁉️

Draken: fuck you

*Draken has left the chat*

Kazutora: lmao he's mad

Mikey: ayt now that he's gone

Mikey: Mitsuya

Mitsuya: what

Baji: are you in love with 2 people

Mitsuya: omfg calm down i just think they're hot

Mitsuya: i have eyes

Baji: cap

Smiley: you're not the cowardly type so do smth about it don't be a pussy

Mikey: which one tho

Mitsuya: Draken's right you guys are so nosy for no reason

Mitsuya: dont yall have boyfriends??

Mikey: of course he'd agree with Ken-chin🙄

Mikey: but that reminds me i have to go hang with the bae 😋

*Mikey has left the chat*

Smiley: ew

Baji: im gonna go torment some kindergartners

Kazutora: you're gonna get reported by the school dumbass

Kazutora: pick me up tho

Baji: ayt

[grntdmp]

Ahsoka and OG Handmaidens

This has been in my head for a while, and after finishing Tales of Jedi I need to get it out.

To get our facts straight, so to speak, Bail and Ahsoka were working together, Bail knew about Obi Wan and Yoda, don't tell me he didn't have any way to contact Padmé's handmaidens.

Now, I haven't read the Vader comics, I know that they protected Padmé's grave and founded their own small rebel cell? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Now to my point, Ahsoka specifically tells Bail that Padmé was her friend. Now, I refuse to accept that during her time with the senator and then alone on her own she didn't talk more with either of the handmaidens (and even if so, this is Star Wars, everyone has met/ knows everyone).

I propose Ahsoka working with them. This annoying teenager/young adult/new adoult who reminds Sabé of both, the tiny to be padawan and her love, would drive them absolutely crazy (kinda in the good way).

Just imagine the sass that would go down, the debates that would look too violent to everyone, except those who know them.

I also need Sabé punching Bail in the should for keeping secrets (this is an AU)

And now imagine Kaeden, and maybe Miara, joining this little AU equation of mine. The attitudes, the pranks.. The matchmaker situations because of course Kaeden and Ahsoka haven't gotten together despite certain scene in the Ahsoka novel. I want to say I'm sorry for causing Bail such headache, but I'm really not.

And then they meet the Ghost crew, and Sabé joins Kannan's bitching on the Jedi (only when there is alcohol involved and the kids are sleeping), because despite never meeting her, Kannan knew who Amidala was, duh.

And Princess on Lothal comes around, and Bail almost meets his end a few years too early. (note - never put yourself on a bad side of a first gen handmaiden). Even if all handmaidens suspected who Leia actually was, or more like, who were her bio parents.

And then Rex comes back, almost has a heart attack, because not only is little Snips dating, but there was another Amidala?? And later he when he finds out that not only did they have twins, but Anakin turned to Vader, and that wookie is Chewbacca?? Isn't the galaxy supposed to be like, large or something?? Give him a break, the old man deserves it. Old bald man, as little Poe calls him.

Also, Sabé would go a little crazy from Amilyn, before she understood her (the rest would be just laughing at her tbh).

[24hlevi]

Dangerous Lovers

Suguru Niragi (Alice In Borderland) X Fem!Reader

Genre: Fluff? i don’t really know tbh

Summary: Upon first meeting Y/n, Niragi always had his gun in her face. Now, he points it to anyone who threatens or does something he doesn’t like to Y/n

Word Count:  1.5k

A/N: Italics means flashbacks, i love niragi so im very happy i got this request 💙

gif is not mine !

When you first arrived at The Beach, you still had barely any clue on what was going on. You had played a few of the deadly games but still had no idea what anything meant. So when you stumbled across the large location and being forced inside. Well, it didn’t exactly go very well.

You sat in the chair with your hands tied behind your back with a group of people surrounding you. When the man with long brown hair and sunglasses on cleared his throat, you looked over at him.

“Welcome to The Beach. My name is Hatter.” He said to you. “Now tell me, do you know what this place is?”

You shook your head in response, glancing around at everyone else who was in the room.

“Then I shall explain. This is a safe location where we all contribute to one thing, collecting all of the cards of the deck and helping 1 person go back home.” Hatter explained. “Do you understand the cards and their meanings?”

You shook your head again, “No.”

“Ah.” Hatter nodded. “So here’s how it is then. Spades mean a strength game, Clubs mean a team battle, Diamonds mean wits, and Hearts mean betrayal. The number of the card is the level of difficulty. Quite easy to understand, yes?”

You nodded slowly, “Yes.”

“Good! Now let me see the cards you have.” Hatter held his hand out towards you before realizing you were still tied up. “Oh, that’s right, Hey.” He snapped his fingers and pointed to the man that was leaning up against the wall with a sword in his hands, hood over his head as tattoos ran down his head and face. “Untie her.” Hatter pointed to you.

The male nodded, walking over to you and raising his sword before cutting the rope that held your hands tied together. You looked from the man to Hatter who had his hand out towards you still. You dug into your pants pocket and took out the one card you had which was an 8 of hearts.

Hatter looked at the card and a smile lit upon his face as he looked back at you, “Well, my dear, here’s what you can do. Join us at The Beach and help contribute to collect all the cards, or leave and die very quickly.”

You didn’t respond for a few seconds as you looked around before back at the man standing in front of you. “It seems I don’t have much of a choice so I’ll join, I guess.” You replied.

“Great!” Hatter clapped his hands together. “Before you go, though. There are 3 rules here at The Beach. 1, Always wear a bathing suit. 2, Feel free to live your life exactly as you wish, that included drugs, alcohol. And 3, death to all traitors.” He told you.

Your eyes widened a bit at the last rule he said but you nodded anyway, “Okay.”

“Great! Now someone get her a bathing suit while I get her a room.” Hatter told everyone before walking away and out of the room.

You stood up from the chair and glanced around before stopping once you noticed a raven-haired man with many piercings looking at you, gun over his shoulder. You quickly looked away and started to walk but you didn’t get very far before the male rushed in front of you, putting the tip of the gun right in your face, making you stop abruptly, eyes wide.

“What’s your name, hot stuff?” The man smirked at you.

“Y/n.” You replied quickly.

His smirk remained on his face as he spoke again, “Come with me then, Y/n. I’ll show you a real good time while stuck here.”

“I would accept, but you’re still a stranger.” You responded, continuously looking from him back to the gun that was still pointed at your face.

“Tsh.” He scoffed, rolling his eyes as he clicked the safety off the gun. “I’d chose your words carefully, princess.”

A tall and extremely intimidating bald man walked by you two and he stopped beside Niragi. “Cut her some slack, Niragi. You can’t go around killing our new recruits, especially when she got us a high card for hearts.”

NIragi scoffed again and took his gun away from your face, looking back at you. “I ain’t a stranger anymore, so how about you come with me? But you can’t say no.”

You just nodded in agreement, not wanting to get killed the first day you were there.

A smirk fell back on Niragi’s face as he wrapped his arm around your shoulders, “Let’s go then, princess.”

After that happened, you had grown to develop a liking to the male but not exactly knowing why. But after a few drinks with him one night and long kissing sessions, you two had decided to make it official that you were his and his only. Shortly after that he taught you how to shoot a gun and protect yourself in case anything went wrong and he even convinced Aguni to let you carry a gun with you anywhere you went. Since that, you two had become known as the dangerous lovers from the people at The Beach after Niragi taught you how to also not take shit from anyone and how to get what you want and when you want it.

Now, everyone knew not to mess with either of you, but you especially because they knew the consequences that would happen if they did anything to you that Niragi didn’t like or felt was threatening to you. When you first met Arisu who was extremely sweet to you, Niragi took notice and pointed his gun at the boy.

“The hell do you think you’re trying to do?” Niragi growled, pointing his gun right at Arisu.

Arisu’s eyes widened as he raised his hands up in surrender, “I wasn’t trying to do anything I swear!”

Niragi eyed down the boy and scoffed, rolling his eyes, “Sure. You’re just being ‘nice’ to my girl.” He clicked the safety off the gun.

Arisu’s eyes went even wider as he looked between you and your boyfriend, “I didn’t know, I swear! I just wanted to find out how everything worked here!”

You put your hand on Niragi’ shoulder and he turned his head to look at you. “It’s okay, babe. Besides, I have a feeling we’re going to need him.”

Niragi looked back at Arisu and tossed him a hard glare, taking the gun away from his face and putting it back over his shoulder, “Just know this, kid. She’s mine.”

Arisu nodded quickly, “Got it!” He said before quickly walking off.

You let out a short chuckle while watching Arisu speed walk away and you looked back at Niragi, “Trust me, baby, you won’t ever lose me.”

“Damn right I won’t.” Niragi leaned down and kissed you.

Then there was another time when Chishiya wanted to be an annoying fuck like he is when you were at a game with him and Niragi and he kept helping you with strategies and he even dragged you away from Niragi for a bit of the game.

“Chishiya what the fuck are you doing?” You hissed quietly in a whisper, “Niragi is by himself.”

“That man can take care of himself.” Chishiya responded.

You rolled your eyes at the male before questioning him, “You’re doing this just to piss him off, aren’t you?”

“Obviously.” Chishiya nodded, “It’s funny seeing him get all mad.”

“Fucking hell.” You mumbled to yourself before looking back at him, “You know, I’m not even surprised anymore.”

“You little fuck.” You heard Niragi’s voice from behind you, causing you to turn your head and look at him, seeing he had his gun pointed at Chishiya.

“Ah look, there’s the boyfriend of the year.” Chishiya said sarcastically, raising his hands up in defense.

Niragi glared harshly at the other male and grabbed your hand, pulling towards him, keeping the gun held at Chishiya. “Fuck off from my girl or else your brain will end up scattered on the floor.”

“Whatever you say.” Chishiya said as he walked away from you both. “But we both know Y/n could use a little variety in her men.”

“You little motherfucker!”

You had to admit, you liked it when Niragi got protective over you and would scare the shit out of people, but you knew when to stop him if it was getting too far which it almost never did because everyone would usually back off immediately after seeing the gun up in their face. Plus, it meant that everyone knew you were his, and you both wanted to keep it that way. And you did the whoke time. Sure, there were scary moments when he would lose his head for a couple minutes, but you knew how to deal with it, and Niragi loved that. Knowing that you weren’t scared of him and he could go as far as he wanted and you still wouldn’t be scared of him. He didn’t know the reason why, but he didn’t care much. You two were the couple that no one wanted to fuck with.

A pair of dangerous lovers.

[dystopiandilfs]

Which DreamSMP members do I think have the best chance of surviving the zombie apocalypse?

I feel like I need to add that this is in real life not Minecraft and also there's no warning, you just wake up in the middle of the apocalypse so you can't prepare supplies and weapons. You also can't contact anyone because of the power being out so if you're alone you can't just text someone to pick you up .

Dream: If he's on his own then absolutely but if he's in a group it's 50/50. Dream would absolutely be able to survive off of minimal supplies and would be fine if he's either alone or with Patches. Florida Man instantly increases chance of survival by a lot. However I know this dumb bitch would try to parkour and loose his footing and die that way.

George: Absolutely not. George lives off of McDonalds and I genuinely think he'd struggle with having to eat things and hope for the best. However if he's with a group he's got a better chance purely because everyone is a George stan.

Sapnap: Sapnap's downfall would be if he was on his own because of lack of human interaction. If he's with Dream I think he'd have a good chance of survival. Also I feel like Sapnap can run fast so he can zoom away.

Tubbo: Based on Tommy's vlogs and his general mindset Tubbo definitely has a great chance of survival his only downfall would be him wanting to test something and it going wrong. If Tubbo's in a zombie apocalypse he's killing himself before the zombies kill him. He's also short and would be able to hide really well so that's another advantage.

Tommy: No. I don't think he could last more than a week. Maybe if he's part of a huge group he'd have a better chance but you know he'd wander off from the group and get abandoned. I also feel like he'd be the dumbass to Naruto run away from zombies.

Ranboo: No. Height doesn't equal power. I've seen how he plays Wii games. Ranboo would try it hop a fence and just be a flailing pile of lanky American. One dead leg and Ranboo's gone.

Wilbur: Wilbur wouldn't even know the apocalypse was happening, he'd wake up on a random beach and then 3 weeks later he'd notice something is up. I think Wilbur's the type of person to eat random things because they look "safe" and that'll be his downfall.

Quackity: No. Quackity can not outrun a zombie. If he's in a group he might last a while but then he'd get lost one day and just never be seen again.

Karl: No. I don't need to give reasons I just know he'd be the first one dead. He'd probably moan and get caught.

Bad: Yes. The only issue would be his compassion but other than that he's fine. Florida Man once again increase chance, he's got a lot of knives, owns a gun. He's fine.

Sam and Foolish: I've put them in the same category because I have the same explanation for them both. Yes they might have the physical strength but they're also himbos and I think they'd be too focused on helping others and both accidentally get bitten or they'll try to brute force their way through and get surrounded

Punz: If he can run then I think he has a good chance however I also wouldn't trust him to not die from eating something. I love Punz and would trust him with my life but I also wouldn't be surprised if he abandoned everyone to save his own ass and I respect that.

Puffy: No. She's got asthma which is obviously a disadvantage. I love Puffy but I don't think she could last a week in a zombie apocalypse. However one good thing is that she's small and can hide in places that others can't so maybe she'd last a while.

Niki and Jack: They'd stick together to the end. I feel like they'd go down the path of if one gets bitten the other purposely gets bitten just so they can stick together. I do have faith in Jack because like BBH said bald people run faster. I do think that Jack and Niki would be so focused on helping eachother that they'd struggle as a duo but if they're in a group together they might last a long time.

Ponk: Ponk is the biggest 50/50 out of everyone because he's kind and would probably help people but he'd also understand that you can't save everyone and it's better to lose a few stragglers. I feel like Ponk would purposely try to weed out the weak people so his team would be a unit.

Antfrost: I feel like zombies would be homophobic. Rip that pussy. I feel like Ant would be cautious enough to not die from eating something poisonous however I do think he'd die on his own. I feel like he'd try to be helpful by giving someone his coat then freeze to death.

Techno: No. I think he'd just accept death tbh. He might attempt to survive if he's in a group but I also feel like he'd try to self sacrifice when it's unnecessary.

Philza: No. I don't even have a reason I just think he wouldn't last the first day. Like I feel like he'd try to act unbothered and try to brush everything off and it's what kills him. Like he'd be bleeding and just not say anything and bleed to death.

[ashendalia]

Because I've been thinking about it half the day now because oh lawd he bald poor peepaw

The possible implication of how long Ingo's actually been stuck in Hisui with amnesia and the only things connecting him back to his own time being the clothes he was wearing is actually kinda heartbreaking

I'm personally in the boat of he's probably been there for years now and has started to grow older, but the guidebook art just makes me think it's been more years than I initially thought is all

But like, man can you imagine how it must've felt to constantly feel like you're missing a part of yourself, to possibly never feel completely part of the place that accepted you because you joined as an outsider, to feel out of place but you for the life of it cannot figure out exactly why

Like, to feel those things for so long that it's just become another part of yourself and you just get used to it even if it's awful and gnaws at the back of your mind

It's kinda fucked up and really sad to think about for me tbh

[horrordirtbag]

I have to say I 'm not 100% sure Jason would sink to targeting small kids. He mostly ignored them in part 6 and while he did attack Tommy as a boy, he was presumably in a blind rage from taking so much shit. It's something that sets him apart from Michael and especially Freddy.

impromptu ramble incoming cuz i analyze these movies too much

Jason himself is just a child in a mans body, so I don't really think he'd see himself as any different. In his eyes they aren't any less guilty than the counselors, given he was ruthlessly bullied by children and (going by the FvJ dream) pushed into the lake by them. Although I guess we never can know what the reasonings of a mute man are lol

In part 4 Jason is just as meticulous in stalking and waiting to strike as always, even if more angery. Attacking Tommy was a conscious choice. We can really see this when they're at the top of the staircase at the end, Tommy on one side, Trish on the other, and Jason looks back and forth at both. He prioritizes going after Trish, but we can see he was totally considering going for Tommy as well

And in 6 I don't think he was going to give the kids hugs when he smashed into their cabin at the end lol. He only backed off when Megan showed up which lines up with this staircase logic (TM) we see in 4. For whatever reason, he prioritizes teenagers/adults before kids. Could be for practical reasons (teens are harder to kill) or because they are "more guilty" than children, probably a bit of both imo. I think he waited so long to go after the kids in 6 because hacking away at them would've caused panic too soon. He likes to pick people off one by one and only reveal himself when it's too late (aka the third act lol)

I mean, that was kind of the whole reason to include kids in 6 as well, to raise the stakes. If Jason refuses to kill kids, that was kind of a useless inclusion to the film

As for Freddy and Michael, I think that's exactly why people want Jason to be more "wholesome" or "innocent" in nature and thus less willing to accept him as a dog-eater. When stacked up against the rest, Jason is uniquely "less bad." Especially when he actually was stacked up against Freddy in 2003, I have a feeling that really changed Jason's public perception as a sympathetic and tragic character, cuz tbh it was the first sequel to ever really put effort into painting him in that light. Honestly, I used to think Jason would never kill kids either for these reasons but I eventually came to terms with it lol

But I don't think Jason becomes much less sympathetic when you view it as a kid killing other kids, or only eating dogs for food (idk what the fuck happened with Gordon, though). He don't know no better

I also think, because of FvJ, a lot of people forget Jason is also just a complete asshole lol. He 100% loves fucking with people and being a total dickhead. I think it helps him vent his anger lol

Though until we actually see Jason deck a child, this debate really has no end. But imo, I think there is more supporting Jason killing kids than him not, even if it's not his priority

TL;DR Jason is basically a kid himself and, backed with some film evidence where we can see the gears in his bald head turning, it seems very likely Jason would absolutely punt a baby

[redxblueihateloveyou]

honestly you're one of the rare ones who didn't lie about reading the dmbj og books bc after seeing some ppls tweets there are way too much of 'its bc i've read the book i hate it' and then they proceed to describe the thing they hated that was in the book and i just start laughing. anyways same about the 'restart'. like hell i'd exchange what zu yilong and huang junjie did for what was happening in there and it all ending with wu xie rapidly aging and going bald no thank you

I just think that this is the kind of a rare fandom, where whether you are a fan of the books or not, it doesn't matter unless you're making sense and consistent with what you're saying, bc the novels are a hot mess tbh. Like even if you're a huge fan of the books for some reason, there had to be places where u were like "well that was... strange" lol

So like it weirds me out when ppl keep agressively yelling ooc and he'd never do that, if that's what he did in the novel. you mean like "ooc compared to what this character is in your head?" but thats not ooc lmao

For me it's just the overall feeling I guess, like if I'm watching and it feels right or it feels.. well, not. Chemistry plays a huge role too.

Like the only Qilings I love are Yuliang & Junjie, but whoever came up with the "Yuliang is the closest to the book Qiling version" is hella wrong and lying, you can check it yourself. But I can't consider the fact that they're so much softer and more gone on Wu Xie as a flaw, although some aparently do xD

Same as I personally can't accept the Wu Xie's "don't worry about him" line in the new one, but know for sure that there was tons of moments in the books like and I quote here Wu Xie literally going "knowing how skilled Xiao Ge was I wasn't worried about him at all, so I just watched him as he ran, distracting the creature". Like I'd rather have SOP version of Wu Xie being hella scared even when XiaoGe just jumps down stuff and running to check on him first out of everyone else after bomb explodes. But thats not whats happening in the novels, so it's technically ooc haha

Those who read also know that like "I'll notice if you disappear" 'I'm a man with no past and no future' scene in UN that was done so touchingly and romantically.. well, to say that it didn't carry as much emotion in the book is to say nothing lol. It just wasn't the vibe UN went with.

And why would I even want the Reboot book reunion going "why are u here?" of nothingness, if I can have what these idiots did with their heart eyes and "you're here, I'm okay now" and everything?

I mean, if you want the book version, fine by me, but like blaming people who wanted by novel #...12orsmth for them to pass some stages and get the warmth we got in UN and SOP is insane.

I mean, just the fact that in the Restart book Wu Xie had an internal thought that next time they see each other they might not even know how to behave with each other and that for him he's just a random person he passes by in his long life just almost made me close the damn thing lolz

yeah, about him basically dying at the end.. also no thanks. stupid me prefers them living together and Qiling hating Wu Xie being hungry birdy and going to buy him food xD

"going bald" lmaaaaaao it said it'll grow back its ok

I honestly considered myself an extra Xiao Ge fan, until I saw some ppl's reviews and opinions and thought "omg lmao some just go straight overboard with everything", esp considering canon.

I was straight up laughing at that one comment "all he does in this part is looking lovingly at Wu Xie and protects him". I was like damn, so many of my faves are cancelled like that... I mean, you're watching HOB anime and like "my god it's such a bad representation of the Hua Cheng character, all he does is stares at Xie Lian and protects him" lol (I'm sorry but this 11 episodes are NOT the part of the book that tells his story and who he is, but this in fact doesn't mean that they "reduced him to a tool" lmao). Meanwhile some DMBJ books Wu Xie goes "I knew he was hired by the 2nd uncle just to keep us safe". LMAO SO WHAT? this is not making him a tool, that's just what he does, it doesn't make his FULL CHARACTER, just bc he does that.

Like seriously, it sounds as insane as someone splitting MDZS in 3 parts, watching the last one, then the first one and saying like "you know in the last part all that LZ does is stares lovingly at WWX and protects him, he was much more complex and flawed in part 1". Like wth lol... ITS THE SAME FUCKING CHARACTER.

Also I saw one UN review that was positive, but just went that Xiao Ge in that part felt more like humane or smth, bc "at some point he even grew a scruff". I was just sitting there like... out of all the things in this series that made him humane, why mention the scruff? Like since when it's a thing...? I mean just bc Shen Wei or Lan Zhan look perfect all the time that somehow means they don't have feelings or less human beings? I do not get.

So all these tantrums of "ISTG IF THEY EVER SHOW QILING JUST PROTECTING THEM... I'M GONNA BLEW UP" and the same one saying that they're the book fans, I'm like "how didn't u blow up during several books already?" lolz

I like love reading so many different opinions, when it comes to this fandom, bc it's so fascinating, but some arguments just don't go together well haha

And I'm a huge fan of UN, but like.. some go a bit TOO extra about it and their arguments just don't stick sometimes, bc they're trying again with the "it's the less-est ooc from books", but it wasn't as much it, as the fact that it just had soul in it, which sometimes in my opinion actually completely lacked in the og novels.

Anyways, as an extra Qiling's fan myself, I can tell that some are going waaay overboard with stuff.

[blablasimp]

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐡𝐜 𝐁𝐨𝐤𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐰𝐚

𝐁𝐨𝐤𝐮𝐭𝐨:

You weren't looking at where you were going so Yehey!! You hit your head on a

✨ Lamp post ✨

Lmaoo this mans screeched your name and immediately checked the place of impact asking you if it hurts

Looking back you saw Bokuto charging towards you after you avoided his kiss, so what did you do? You playfully ran ahead. It was all fun and games until you heard Bokuto yell " BABE WATCH OUT " thinking it was a distraction you turn your head towards him and you... Stuck you tounge out, confused as to why Bokuto had a panicky expression that was until you looked ahead and saw something it was long and thin with a coating shiny as my uncle's bald head (to all the bald peeps.. You are awesome!!) What was it?! A.....

✨ Lamp post ✨

As you face fighted the lamp post, Bokuto was already by your side helping your staggering form.

" y/n, babe! You alright?" Bokuto looks at you very much concerned.

" y-yeah I'm alright.." releasing a relieved sigh, you closed your eyes

You felt warm calloused hands on your face, softly caressing the newly formed bruised.

" babe... You're hurt..." His hair deflates at the sight of the bruise. His body with the sunset glow and so close to your face while he gently caresses your bruise.. yeah you win at life tbh✨

" kou it's alright! " You tried to cheer up the deflated Bokuto.

Bokuto lets out a Hmph and picks you up bride(or was it princess??) carry style.

" Let's go to your house and treat it! " You still shocked from being lift up like that, looked up to see a smiling Bokuto ready to apply medicine to the bruise when you get home!

����𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐰𝐚:

OooOh to have Oikawa Tooru care for you

Y'all were on a date and well one thing lead to another and you were running around the playground.

You hadn't notice a rusty pipe that stuck up the ground and tripped on it resulting a scrapped up knee

He would immediately be by your side helping you stand up

He would lead you to a bench and there will he clean your knees

The cherry blossoms sway, it was peaceful. If you and Oikawa weren't screaming like children..

" Y/n love, come back here and let me love you!!! " Almost just almost did Tooru Oikawa catch your waist. Letting out a giggle/snort, you looked back at him smiling. He was also smiling when his expression suddenly morphed into panick and you were confused

" Never!! " And you tripped on a rusty pipe✨

Accepting your faith you brace yourself for impact and oof did it hurt face planting unto dry and hard ground. his strides grow faster until he reaced you still face fighting the ground.

" y/n love? " Crouching next to your figure he pokes your sides.

" love are you alright ? " He brushes your hair back and you finally looked at him, a deadpan expression on your face.

" yup totally alright. Totally didn't trip and hurt my knee " You stood up and oof was your knee kind of nasty, blood dripped down your knee it was mixed with dirt.

Tooru winced on your behalf

" come one lets go on the bench, love" pointing at a beautifully carved stone bench.

Nodding and you were of the ground so you wrap your legs around Tooru's waist.

Walking towards the bench he lets you down on the bench gently.

" it was a good thing I brought a first aid kit in my bag " Tooru says as he pulls out a whole first aid kit from his bag and sets it down on the bench.

" this is gonna hurt a bit, y/n chan." He takes out alcohol and a cotton swab. The chill and pain you felt was haha ouch..

" ok I'm almost done, love." Finally putting bandages on your knee he places gently kissis all over your knee, looking up to see your blushing face was something Tooru loved.

He looks at you like you were the only person on Earth right at that moment, eyes so full of love. He rises up from his kneeling postion and cups your face planting a soft kiss on your lips it was quick but sweet.

" I love you y/n chan "

" I love you too Tooru "

𝐄𝐧𝐝

𝐊𝐚𝐣𝐝𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐳𝐣 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 3 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨✨

[thedreadvampy]

So this was sent to me by @atiredpan weeks ago when the White Jon conversation was very live and I'm posting it (belatedly) with their blessing (they didn't want to put it up publicly and have it seem like an attack which I really very much appreciate but wouldn't have minded) and I percolated for a few days and then got very busy for a few weeks. Response follows.

So I feel weird about how I'm responding to this stuff, I'm launching rapidly into taking about/explaining my own experience in a way I'm worried maybe comes across as a direct comparison. It kind of feels like I'm talking in a way that's like brushing off your experience and saying OK BUT HERE'S WHY I'M RIGHT and that's not what I'm trying to do, it's just that there's not much I can usefully add to what you've said - you know your experience better than I do, and I'm not gonna go around trying to read into it or reexplain it. So I'm going to talk about where I am/have been coming from, but not with the intention of countering your points, all of which I think really resonate.

First off, the post where I was like "Jon is white and if you disagree you're Wrong" was, unreservedly, just a shitty post and I'm not suprised it upset a lot of people. I'm really very sorry about that, it was thoughtlessly written and pretty stupidly posted.

I totally get that my whiteness has fed into how I hced Jon (and as I think I've said before I saw Jon a certain way well before I engaged with any fanworks, just as you did). There's a lot of reasons I imagined Jon as white from pretty early on, a non-negligible one of which was like...That's Jonny. This is a podcast by Jonny, about a character with the same name and mannerisms as Jonny, and Jonny is extremely white. It would have felt weird, when I was listening to TMA as a Friend Podcast, to stick a brown face onto what at least appeared at the time to basically be a self-insert character of my white friend. Now that's a really personal thing informed less by the story and more by the circumstances under which I've interacted with it, but it certainly laid a baseline. I didn't really have a clear mental picture of Jon (or most of the characters) for a looooooong time (for an artist I'm really not a very visual thinker) but I had a few sort of mental sketches (Jon is short white balding and awkward, Martin is tall biracial and scruffy Basira is fat and somali Melanie is my friend from work etc) which I developed a long time before I encountered fanworks.

I saw the alienation you mentioned and I connected it to class and gender, not race, because I’ve met a lot of cis men, white and otherwise, who interpolate trauma, class insecurity, insecurity about their own abilities, and so on into withdrawal, denial and snappiness. So for me I had an interpretation of that element of his personality which was pretty much race-neutral, and then I had these existing cues leading me to assuming he was white (largely that Jonny is white, but also wee stuff in the story that...it’s not like anything substantial enough to remember, let alone justify, but there were certainly interactions that pinged whiteness for me personally)

There are actually iirc a few throwaway references to Jon being promoted above more qualified candidates throughout (or at least I thought I knew that before s5), but the time I decided I thought White Jon was an obvious conclusion was of course the conversation where Sasha expresses frustration about it. and the context of that conclusion (at least as far as I can see) wasn't "people of colour can only exist in subservient positions/defined by oppression" but was informed by two things that were going on with my life around the time that episode aired

I had been having several conversations with friends of mine (and largely friends of Jonny's) who work in London in the museums/archiving sector and who are the only women of colour in whole departments or even whole museums, and who experience so little career mobility compared to their less-qualified white counterparts (we're talking about women graduating top of their class at Oxbridge with anthropology or library science masters and stellar original research, with a decade or more of impeccable work experience and acting up, being left in internship and low-grade positions, while white men who "fit the culture" but have 0 museums experience sail into upper management positions and then stay there until they retire). So I'd come almost directly from these conversations into what to me sounded like exactly the same gripe in TMA.

I'd been at that point working for about a year and a half on co-coordinating the anti-oppression committee in my workplace, which was a very Good Progressive Activist Charity with Good Lefty Principles, and over the course of experience sharing and discussions both with colleagues of colour and along lines of wealth, disability, class etc, I was very much confronted with the realisation of how much 'being adequately qualified' meant different things for middle-class good-university white men vs much more highly skilled and hardworking women of colour or people of different class and wealth backgrounds. Obviously I'd known that before in principle, but not really having been in Salaried Workplaces (as opposed to like. service and retail hourlies) I hadn’t got so up close and personal with it. So that was also very fresh in my mind, this like...big substantial experience of how Good, Well-Meaning, Caring, Thoughtful, Woke white men just........did not need to think about this. at all. and were startled and discomforted to face it. and that this was also true of most white middle-class women. and these conversations were really carved down the middle between white middle-class European women saying ‘this is such a surprise when we have such an equitable hiring policy and diverse staff, that there’s this gender gap’ and women of colour in the room wearily saying ‘yeah, there’s a gender gap, there’s always a gender gap and it is always a racialised gender gap’ so yeah I was definitely thinking about the intersection between being passed over at work because of gender and because of race.

The point about Tim is interesting because I think for me what’s getting lost is that I don’t think Jon is entitled as like...a Character Trait. He’s not like...Toxic Masculinity Man. He is very anxious about boundaries and about his own capacity to do harm. But it has to be pointed out to him where he’s doing harm. He doesn’t notice where he’s been unfairly advantaged, and that’s to me much more reflective of most people’s relationship to white or male entitlement. 

As I say, that exchange with Tim and Sasha cemented the Jon Is White hc in my head specifically because it was so reflective of conversations I had had with women of colour working in similar workplaces, about white men, usually about white men they generally liked or at least didn’t have beef with beyond their unfair advantages. 

It seems odd to me to frame ‘bitching about your boss on your friend’s behalf to make her feel better’ as more similar to white entitlement/white privilege than any of that tbh? That’s just...being friends with someone? 

Anyway I recognise that it’s not white entitlement to accept a job. Obviously it’s not, it’s just sensible under the circumstances, you get lucky and you grab it. For me my sense of Jon as white-because-of-this is not “he took a job he shouldn’t have taken,” it’s more about his obliviousness to the impact he has on others, and also primarily how people react to him. The interaction between Sasha and Tim is saturated with the of course it would be him I mentioned above, but even before that he walks through the world not expecting to have to think about anything but his conscious decisions, and he’s caught aback when people see him as out of place or as having power above his station.

I think it’s impossible to extricate ‘this is where my head was at’ from that interpretation, and also like obviously my own whiteness is a big factor. And not just my own personal whiteness but the place I grew up (which was 98.3% white) and the world which reflects back whiteness. So this is in no way intended as a bolshy This Is The Correct Headcanon the way my Bad Post was bc examining it I’m like...yeah I mean this is about how I personally interpreted this based on where I was at at the time. But I do feel like there’s some communication gap in what it is about this unqualified promotion thing that pinged me - it’s not that All Bosses Must Be White And All Brown People Must Be Downtrod, it’s something quite specific about the tone and tenor of the interactions around the getting-a-job.

But also? Idk. Kind of unrelatedly, and people obviously should feel free to disagree with me on this, it feels kind of off to frame this as defaulting to a white Jon? I sort of think that my idea of Jon as white is very much not ‘white until proven otherwise’ - part of the reason for my original strident tone was that I felt that I was being expected to drop a headcanon I had for specific reasons and default to the fanon version of Jon without actually having any reason other than ‘this is how the community thinks he should look,’ and without really understanding anything about what that means, and while obviously defaulting to a non-white headcanon isn’t like...entrenched in the way that defaulting to a white headcanon is, it does seem to me like this is perhaps part of why white fans slap brown skin onto a character without thinking into what that means or why they’re doing it.

The thing I’m struggling with as regards my personal headcanon here is that I could decide to only ever draw Jon as Fanon Jon, but it wouldn’t be because I had strong reasons to see him that way, it wouldn’t be the same as why you see Jon as brown, or why I see like...Melanie as Indian, it would literally be Default To Standard in a way it isn’t for you. And I don’t feel that I have Defaulted To Whiteness, or where I have it is for reasons specifically to do with Jon (I visualised Jon as white because I visualised him as Jonny, who is white), not because I think every character is White Until Proven Otherwise. Like, my reasons for understanding Jon as white may be bad reasons, but they are reasons, not post-hoc excuses (I can’t like...prove that. but I know it to be true at least on a conscious level). I didn’t go Oh Jon Is White Because Everyone Is Unless I Have Reason To Think They Aren’t, Hooray, Here Is A Post-Hoc Justification For Why It Isn’t Racist To Think That. So while I am totally on board with the idea that it may be shitty, harmful or poorly thought through to hc Jon as white, I’m not sure I can fully see it in myself as being default. But I do understand that that isn’t necessarily what came across in my original short post.

Honestly, the reason I took issue with Fanon Jon and Fanon Martin in such a bolshy way in the first place was that I didn’t get why these characters were universally seen as Asian and white, respectively, and had such strong and consistent fanon images, when none of the other characters did, and when I was seeing people drawing people like Sasha and Melanie and Tim as white way more when in my mind there was no reason to assume they were white. On an emotional level I guess I think either there’s Fanon As Lore, or there’s no fanon (and I prefer the latter) and my discomfort came from the place that the one character I absolutely saw as coded as white in the core cast had this one really specific Ambiguously Brown Fanon Look (which from what I’d seen at the time didn’t seem to be like...backed with anything or coming from any personal interpretation for most of the white fans I was seeing on like Twitter and Tumblr) but white headcanons are everywhere for characters like Melanie or Sasha or Georgie, who seemed to me to be unambiguously people of colour, or characters like Tim or Martin (who could perfectly reasonably be people of colour and who I hc as Rroma and biracial respectively)? I don’t know, it’s difficult to express, but I find it frustrating.

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The Raven Boys thoughts

ch 1: boi I thought gansey was the bald one 😔 anyway the bald bitch and the nerd who looks like a twink in every fanart are gay

ch 15: wow guys nothing has happened so far... nothing..... we're almost 200 pages in and nothing that interesting has happened, I know the plot is setting in and the pace is starting to speed up a little but wow so far this already isnt my fav book of the series I think

ch 24: ok the pace is starting to pick up and I'm really enjoying it rn, I still see gansey as this polo wearing and golf player fucker but he's getting better I guess, Ronan can fuck off sometimes he's so edgy it irks me a little

on this and on the previous chapter they saw/hallucinated some stuff at that hollow tree and then at the end gansey was like "ohh blue was the missing person/thing I feel so connected to her something something" and tbh I did not enjoy that very much it was a bit 😬😐 for me bc I just dont like when this type of connection between characters bc it feels like the author is trying to force/speed up a relationship they just dont have yet?? and we the readers must accept they feel the connection in their souls and it just feels so right for them to be around each other when in reality it feels a bit lazy to me..... I'm still halfway through the book so it's not like I can complain for real but still ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ch 42 maybe?? : okay just something's I wanna tall about: can we pay respect to Maggie stiefvater and how organic she made Adam deciding to wake the ley line?? bc it was GREAT and I deeply loved it, i know i said that the book felt boring and very slow and how it needed to pick up the pace but i think this trilogy falls into the lotr/hobbit category where it's one big movie (in the specific case, book) divided into 3 so it would be easier to digest and I think this makes total sense, everything I've read so far (from chap 33 to here) feels so perfectly paced and planed but still it feels natural, when Adam was coming back home and he had a confrontation (well, not really) with his dad it just felt like was supposed to happen at that time with those exact words describing everything and mwah I'm loving it so much

also!! boi do Adam and blue sound so cute together, when he said he wanted to kiss her I was like

bc holy shit do they make a cute couple EVEN THOUGH I do know she ends up with gansey and their energy is also really good but goddamn do they look cute together and to think he would have been her first kiss too I'm going insane rn brub oh my god

also maybe it's the 21 year old in me talking but god did I wish they were one or two years older, it just kinda makes me a bit :// reading to 16 year olds being this traumatized about life in general and I feel like it honestly would change much if all this happened in the meantime they're about to turn 18 bc it would still be a ya book but it would be just?? more comprehensive I guess, adam dialogue about making up enough money to leave his house and getting into a good college so he can live a good life and have a home finally baby that's a 17 year old talking and feeling the pressure of the so called adulthood and being so close to being independent but also still being so young and !!!! I just feel like it would make more sense to me personally

re: about gansey's glasses: did I miss something or have the part where he gets glasses already went by?? bc he shower up at blue's home wearing white ones and there was no tall about it?? nothing else and it makes me feel like I missed something and I'm not sure yet

ch 48 and ending thoughts: ok. I'm not really sure what to feel about it bc even I had a rocky beginning with it I did end up really liking the ending but it left such a big taste of wanting more than I got that it just kinda makes me feel like it was, in a way, a prologue for the second book, where I imagine things will be more intense and already be in motion plot-wise. I have many question but my biggest one is that wow apparently that was the big explanation for gansey wearing glasses?? bc it honestly looks like I missed something or a chapter where something happens and he got glasses, his fight with whelck did break his thumb but it somehow got him glasses too?? or what the hospital like "yeah you're blind so fuck here's some glasses bitch"?? and Adam mentioned something on his face from their fight and??? was the discussion their fight and how did it hurt gansey's face?????? HOW???

not only that but also Adam sacrificed himself and how exactly does that affects him?? or was the whole "oh I've sacrificed myself my whole life" dialogue supposed to explain something?? bc yeah it kinda did but I was left with the thought that he would be kinda like a puppet I guess? bc he said he would sacrifice himself so in a way he wouldnt be himself anymore and there would be something else controlling him and maybe that was just my imagination wanting to guess what was going to happen now

I did think there would be the classic sacrifice scene and that whelck would try to shot gansey and that Adam would step in front of him or idk bc the scenario wasn't really solid in my mind and I did have trouble trying to figure out who was in what place but it was fine I guess

how on earth did Noah pull out chainsaw from his dreams?? man what the heck I need to read the second book