#there’s a reason my username has this in it

[starrycometmoth]

GOOD MORNING @that-seems-stupid-lets-do-it !! HERE COMES MORE LUMI RAMBLES AND HOPEFULLY MY BRAIN WON'T RANDOMLY DIE THIS TIME!!

So I wanna talk more about them in Nightcord cuz I feel like I focus too much on their sibling dynamic with the Hinomoris whenever I ramble about them, oopsie. Also (I'm writing this sentence after I finished writing everything else) tw, I got into a lot of dark topics cuz Lumi has a dark backstory and such.

So, Lumi isn't very confident in their singing voice and feels their only good contributions to N25 is managing the social media pages. The others don't agree, which is why eventually they started easing them into letting them sing sometimes!! Kanade told them that they don't have to always sing, that they can do it when they're comfortable, but also that she thinks Lumi's voice is sweet and pretty. This makes Lumi very happy and they try their best to sing more often.

When Lumi initially joined, the group jokingly called them the group's "girlfriend" or "boyfriend," which both flustered Lumi and made them feel honored. They were always making sure everyone was feeling okay, letting them vent to them, making sure they were eating, drinking water, and resting (despite being horrible with doing all of this self-care for themself).

However, for one person, the girlfriend/boyfriend joke was not much of a joke after several months... No one knows how, but Lumi and Mizuki became a thing at some point. All they know is that Lumi told them the day after it happened and of course everyone was shocked, except Mafuyu saw it coming from a mile away with his sixth sense or something idk. It was probably very obvious that they had feelings for eachother whenever they'd do their irl meetups, because Lumi was always the chattiest with Mizuki, and they'd always hold hands with each other or snuggle in the booth in the diner, insisting on sitting together all the time.

Also, I've had this scenario in my head on how a Nightcord sleepover would go with Lumi being a part of the group, and the entire time they're just cuddling eachother. That's it. That's the sleepover. (Lumi was originally intended to be a polycord insert rather than just MizuLumi, but I got a random Mizuki hyperfixation one day and from there MizuLumi was born. Now, they're pretty much in a qpr with the rest of N25.)

ONG I NEVER SHARED THE COOLEST THING ABOUT THEM IN NIGHTCORD.

So, everyone has their usernames that they go by to keep themselves anonymous or whatever... Lumi's is Lumi*neon. Yes, it's a pokemon reference. Is it their favorite pokemon? No. But is it in their top 10? Absolutely. C'mon, Lumineon almost shares a name with them!! Am I the only weirdo who thinks it's really cool when something in a piece of media shares a name with me?? Yes, even my deadname (which has not happened, considering I have a rare spelling, but I've had several close calls).

Ofc every Nightcord member has their reasons for wanting to disappear, and Lumi is no exception (is it really an OC if you don't traumatize and torture them?). I mentioned in the last ramble that they have trauma. It was from their birth family. They did not have a very happy life with their old family that they were born with in America. I'm not going into details, but just picture what you'd imagine a not so happy family looking like. They eventually got put into an orphanage and I have no idea how, but the Hinomoris got them and helped them recover a bit, but Lumi still wants to disappear. They feel they can't be loved, and they're slowly learning to accept that they are loved; by their family, by their friends, by their girlfriend. People love them.

Initially, they weren't sure what they were going to do when they were older, kind of similar to Mafuyu in a sense except because they were discouraged from their old dreams, they wanna divulge completely away from them and into something more "successful" (as music and art were once their passions). Eventually, probably if I were to make a version of them that ages up when the rest of the cast does during the third anniversary, they'd figure out that they want to be a teacher. Of course, that means they can't be a part of N25 anymore. Working late at night and barely sleeping before you have to wake up early to go to school? They couldn't ever manage that. They're planning on being in Nightcord until they graduate college, however, no one in the group knows that, not even Mizuki. Lumi is too scared to tell the others their dream because they don't want to be separated from the others.

I think that's basically all of their Nightcord stuff, but I do have more about them and what they were like when they first came to Japan, just cuz I find it really interesting how different they were from their current self!!

So, they were traumatized. They came to a brand new country with a language they'd never spoken before and new people to call their family. They felt like such an outcast. They were quiet, like very quiet. They didn't speak unless it was necessary. They were always scared to do things without asking first, even things such as getting a s acl or using the restroom. They flinched when people went near them and would often just isolate themselves in their room and do nothing except get wrapped in their own head.

Of course the rest of the Hinomori family worried about them, especially Shizuku and Shiho. Shizuku was definitely more visible with her worry, as she was always trying to help Lumi through it, though it was a bit overwhelming for Lumi, and Shiho knew that. That was why Shiho kept her worry to herself. She knew that Lumi didn't need someone immediately jumping on them in order to help fix them, that it was going to take time.

With Shizuku's constant worry and care, Lumi did slightly warm up to her first, as they couldn't tell that Shiho was silently worried for them too. In fact, Lumi was somehow convinced that Shiho hated them, and Shizuku would reassure them several times that she didn't. She knew Shiho was just as worried as she was.

Shizuku uses her sister magic and after over a year Lumi is now the clingiest sibling you could ever imagine, as in they were affectionate. Shiho pretends to hate it, but secretly she's happy for Lumi being able to touch people now (even at the cost of her own sanity KSKAA). Lumi's favorite people for sure are their big sisters.

They have issues with overthinking and nightmares at night, so they can't even sleep by themself. They've gotta be with Shizuku or Shiho.

Also, the language barrier; did Lumi ever learn how to speak Japanese? Nope. They've picked up a few words and phrases, but for the most part it's actually really hard for them to learn, even with Japanese speakers in the house. So, Lumi speaks English for the most part. Shizuku and Shiho know a good bit of English, thanks to them needing it as celebrities if they wanna go around the world, and will usually speak to Lumi in English. They help translate stuff if Lumi needs it, as Lumi does NOT trust translation apps.

Random facts about them!!

No one knows their gender, they're agender AFAB and bind, but people genuinely cannot tell. If I remember right, awhile back I was explaining concepts for N25 trust ranks with a friend of mine and Lumi and Mizuki's first one was something like "Gender? Girlboss." Because people love calling both Lumi and Mizuki girlbosses, when in canon their genders are both hard for the public to tell, so tis their gender now /silly

They dislike marshmallows. They have a fear of them, specifically raw ones. Dried or cooked are fine, but marshmallows straight out of the bag? That's a NIGHTMARE. If they want to touch a raw marshmallow, they will literally pull out gloves. They think that marshmallows are unnatural and weird, despite knowing they're only made of sugar and gelatin. They're a little paranoid about marshmallows (just like me frfr)

Okay, so the way I talked about MizuLumi kinda made it sound like that's the canon ship for this universe, but tbh it's not. Platonic polycord (with Lumi) is most certainly the canon here, however I've completely divulged from it being the main ship. I'm a multishipper, and naturally I've made up scenarios with other possible characters in my head (by "possible," I mean people who they're most likely to interact with in their canon). If I had to choose a non-N25 ship for Lumi, I'd have to say HaruLumi. It was something I thought of one day while going insane from overworking myself. Lumi would most certainly overwork themselves, I thought to myself. I suddenly thought of Haruka, the queen that he is, and suddenly HaruLumi was born in my head. They take care of eachother when they push themselves too far <3 (I also just really like the dynamic of Lumi being the pathetic non-celebrity and being like "Omg Haruka could've chosen anyone to date and he chose ME??" FJDJWKQ THEY'RE SO PATHETIC JFKSKWA /vpos)

Honorable mention to Saki x Lumi (I didn't think SakiLumi sounded cool so I just said that KDKSKS). Platonic or romantic. They're silly. They probably cuddle with 50000 plushies and then one of them will pick up one and kiss the other on the cheek with it, and then they'll go back and fourth with this for the next hour because they're silly.

Also honorable mention to MinoLumi. I have no dynamic for them in my head, so that's it. That's the ship.

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU PHOTOS OF THEIR DESIGN BEFORE I FINISH MY RAMBLES HERE!!

you guys should tell me about your ocs. spare no detail i want to see it. i will not be annoyed with you tell me everything. im a newborn baby lamb i know nothing explain all of it and all of them to me. even if i dont know you

[epiphanytear]

Shining me, precious soul of mine

[an-internet-introvert]

Countdown to October 19th (11/19)

Interactive Introverts

[sylkana]

not to be mean but can that gunman do elon next

[embarrassinglastwords]

i legit can’t stop thinking about what gojo’s last words to geto could’ve been

it was “i love you” and i wont accept other wise

first 4 pictures from the jjk 0 light novel translation i found on twt

[gammija]

that annoying ai RDJ-jon is still on top of every tma related tag, unmarked as ai. so i have to talk about this other post.

putting aside weird anatomy (why are there pits in her shoulder), the lack of anything approaching a character design aside from 'pretty white woman', how she's half undressed for some reason, and any number of other things - look closer at the background. we're being watched

what's... what are these

these eyes are genuinely so funny to me. they can't be by the same entity that made the original: a human artist would draw them in a style matching the portrait, and an image generator would either do that, or generate something more photorealistic

so im trying to figure out the thought process here. was it an artistic flair to feel like they 'made' the art? to try and beat the ai allegations? or just to make it more 'tma'-y? did op truly not see the vast difference in style between them and the rest of the image?

or did they just not care, said, 'Meh, im not gonna spend more than 10 mins on this - What am i, an artist?'

and hit post

[toiletshit]

I don't care if you say that there's nothing to see here. Your art deserves more attention man, and your art styles are stunning. Don't stop. You're amazing.

oh uhhhhhh. thanks. I guess. I literally forgot that I even had that set as my blog title (as might be expected I never actually visit my blog, so stuff like title, description, header image etc I'm just. unaware what I set them to some literal years back)

I wouldn't even say that I have multiple art styles lol, it's just a current phase of... trying to replicate other people's art essentially.

[theokusgallery]

One of the funniest things to have ever happened to me is that someone once made a post vagueing about me being a horrible person and it was so deranged that people thought it was satire

[loumandivorce]

I am not on Instagram omg. Which frame did assad post?? Schkklll I am sorry if this is getting boring but oh my god the Bollywood bug in me that I keep dormant on this american website.

💗 don't apologize! I love to talk ab bollywood lol it was this frame from the badnaam scene which is such an excellent choice. i don't have instagram either so ive only seen the screenshot lmao

[astralleywright]

I'm not actually worried about them getting beaten up by the others or anything, just resigning myself to one more deep sigh if the endgame turns out to be less about bh and more about everyone else's reaction to whatever they do, even if it's positive. it's been probably easier to fall into a negative spiral about it as someone who has only watched this campaign while trying to not get bitter about the others or sour the experience by reading hate …which meant I've also missed out on more balanced takes like yours, oops

thanks for answering!

no i completely get that 😭😭 i've been very very lucky to find a good group of friends and mutuals (and if you see me rbing from somebody on a regular basis, consider that my seal of approval!). because if was just out there in the wild west of the cr tag myself i'd be absolutely miserable lol

[misiahasahardname]

i don't think i like being called mia anymore

[usedtobethelegendcreator]

I’ve taken it upon myself to log back in to my old @thelegendcreator account. I only have four emails, should be easy to find which one I made the OG with, right?

Wrong. I have checked every email. I have reset so many passwords. Not only can I not find that account, I also apparently have two accounts I don’t remember making. I mean, it was definitely me who made them, based on the blog titles, but I don’t remember them.

Eventually, I thought to myself “Hmm, maybe I used my iCloud account?” So I tried it. Nope. Then I realized the original “you’ve been logged out” email was sent to a completely different email, so I tried that too. Zilch. Those two didn’t even register in the system.

My aunt is the one who logged me out in the first place, but I’ve asked her for the new password before, and it’s been so long that she doesn’t remember. And, now that I really think back on it, I’m pretty sure she changed the email to hers too. So fuck me I guess.

Support’s up next. Whoopee. Let’s see if they can help.

[lunadude1996]

Good luck getting me arrested or even in a mental asylum without admitting that Leah Hennington (aka @shittirishaterssay) revealed her real name via paypal without knowing... (her words not mine) After all this time, I finally won! @pepsi-al @malama-art @weirdgirl92 @dbzebra @red-rose-corner @pokenoire @themattress @cbcanime @saturnniidae @randomtheidiot @stuffamourshipperssay @ultraericthered @skytroops

[merklins]

He-LLO I am keeping this on anon because Shy™️ but I just wanted to say I absolutely adore your HLVRV drawings and sketches, and all of your ramblings. It makes my little splitroject heart happy to see someone take such joy and love into creating things about my source (and everything else you do, too!).

Hehe THANK YOU, mysterious person in my inbox, it was sooo nice of you to send this in!! I love making hlvrv stuff, saying the hlvrv things, etc, and it makes me so excited when I see that other people like it too! (: My inbox is always WIDE OPEN if anyone (anyone!) wants to hlvrv stuff at me, on anon or otherwise!

AND FOR THIS KIND MESSAGE... A DOODLE!

[shadowkira]

Me finding the harpies in BG3 and immediately thinking they're hot... Shadowheart liked their singing too, immediately once the fight started Lae'zel and Karlach got caught up in their song. Lol.

We're all sapphic messes.

[thedeathdeelers]

Most nostalgic food you enjoy?

aw mannnn shawarma from this one place in the country i grew up in- they have tHE BEST shawarmas ever and im salivating just at the thought of it

it brings back a lot of memories of my childhood and i miss it very much