#theres another project i may introduce but i need more info for it..

[angelfevr]

funnily enough, i havent worked on angelus custos for three months so have a Very late snippet!!! teehee ^_^

[maddiefriendlovesbilly]

Spencer x Ghost?

Spencer x Ghost

(AAAAA- it has been months since you sent this to me, and all i can say is im so sorry) Side note I have my friend @lethalbreadkills helping me with this one!

For reference: Maddie (maddiefriendlovesbilly) is green, Jimmy (lethalbreadkills) is red (((its 4:30 at the time i have joined this so im dead braincell wise sorry yall))) and Orange is stuff we decided together :3

Also this is so very chaotic im so sorry for this anon but this has been in my fuckin drafts for SO LONG and this is the only way its getting finished (its now 5 am uwu) im so sorry for all the shitposting i do its a mess. I shouldnt have been allowed here. (we finished at about 5:30 am its hell <3)

Sphost? Ghencer?? Sphoster??? I adore and despise them all equally.

We have decided that it should be BeanieGhost

Anyway I think this ship is really cute

They’re both so neurotic I can only imagine the chaos that would ensue

One of them starts a rant on some topic and the other joins the hell in

I’m an advocate of LETTING SPENCER INFO DUMP BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT OKAY

And Ghost would let this dream come true???

I would die for both of them and if Spencer told me I had to die I wouldn’t even complain, no questions I’d just be like “Aight.” I trust him that much.

(Not sure I trust Ghost’s judgment enough to do that unquestioningly; sorry Ghost)

Back on topic

I can’t imagine these guys on anything that comes close to society’s definition of a date

It’d be more like “hey you wanna come on this hunt with us?” “maybe, depends if there’ll be snacks” or like chilling in Spence’s room binging the entire star trek: original series in one sitting or “oops sorry about that level 11 entity that attached to my soul and is now wreaking havoc in your house, wanna make out later to make up for it?” “Fine but you also have to play three rounds of Call of Duty with me afterward”

They wouldn’t be romantic often but like highkey? I can see them throwing themselves into the line of fire for each other with a recklessness only they could survive

We can’t forget that Spencer is a more than 60,000-year-old overpowered demon/god/entity/thing, which, yes, could throw a slight wrench in this ship for multiple reasons, but I choose to make angst out of it instead.

Side note: Ghost is a chronic conspiracy theorist (and you can’t tell me otherwise) and every once in awhile Spencer will offhandedly say something like “Y’know I helped the Egyptians build the pyramids” and Ghost just goes fucking feral.

Look, I’m not saying Spencer IS touch-starved and most likely has issues creating and developing relationships and therefore avoids interpersonal connection, especially offline, but I AM saying he is prime material for it. (thats a lie thats exactly what shes saying don’t believe it) (I’m projecting okay dont judge me) (loser imagine projecting)

Imagine with me for a second: Why does Spencer willingly stay with a family who locks him in their basement with only minor complaining? He’s a near all-powerful entity just released into the world for Spence’s-sake - If he wanted to, there’s no telling what havoc he could wreak! So why doesn’t he? Why would someone so powerful, so terrifying, so dangerous that a group of people decided to seal him away forever stay with the first family he finds in sub-par conditions for years - especially someone who’s seen to be as high-maintenance as Spencer? Let me hit you with a theory: He’s chasing the feelings of validation, safety, and love - no matter how rarely it’s shown - that a family can provide. Being socially isolated for even a few years can do a number to a person’s psyche (I should know, I’m projecting onto this character right now), let alone thousands.

Now maybe Ghost can’t match thousands of years in isolation, but damn if he doesn’t have a few years of crippling loneliness on his record too.

I can see the two of them learning how to be vulnerable around others together, emotionally and physically; learning how to open up and how to talk through issues; and some third point, because points are better in threes.

(May I suggest that these losers are both trans but thats just me adding in my own projection lmao)

(You absolutely may)

Imagine the conversation thats just “so i have a murderer in my head thats an ass” “rip to u ig sounds like a you problem :///”

imo spence has trouble expressing emotions other than like,,, annoyance and haughtiness, its like sort of his go-to defence, so showing Ghost his emotions is a big step for him

I hear you, and i say yes good. (found this one headcanon that i kinda live by where he was uh, either autistic or adhd i dont remember but theres that too) OH yeah that would be at thing huh. Spencer: *is emotionally vulnerable @ ghost* ghost: oh shit im trusted??? Oh fuck uh.

Yeah so like…. Ghost and spence showing emotion at eachother is kind of :flushed: ghost be like: whats an emotion. Imagine having emotions fuciiing loser hhaha,,,, *laughs nervously*

Ghost is also very emotionally distant with most people so it would probably be like “what??? The fuck?? Emotions?????? You have those???”

Ghost and Spencer be like *gay*

So another idea is that maybe Spencer realizes Ghost doesnt play any games [like the uncultured SWINE he is] and decides he must [remedy] this and so he introduces him to like, nintendo first. (some bitches thought that said nintendo fortnite. Im bitches) and theyre playing like, mario kart or smash or smth and Ghost gets really [fuckin into it]

Ghost and spencer: *literally in eachothers laps playing fucking wii tennis*

Spooker: what are the- *TOAST FUCKING SLAPS A HAND ACROSS HIS MOUTH* shut up you dont wanna know what happens when its mentsonssbfdjfsd (sorry i had a stroke uwuwuwuw)

(Theyre in denial we don’t judge in this house)

They will not hesitate to play dirty either, they will straight up push each other over and vaguely flirt

Ghost is losing and straight up fucking goes “ur hot” and spencer actually dies and boom ghost is the winner. sparkle emoji Magic sparkle emoji

“I am Not a HomoSexual:™:” “Yeah, sure you aren’t” “Screw off”

Pet-names-ish: Asshole, Gaymer-Boy, casual insults, Mr. Spirit Bitch, Mistake, Loves Ghosts More Than His Boyfriend What A Fucking Loser aka Gay-ass

Pros:

They both open up a lot most likely. Gain someone to trust since they’ve sort of been through the same things (though on much different scales)

I can see soft hours of hanging in each other’s bedrooms

Spencer is a tsundere you cant tell me otherwise youre just a coward if you disagree

So is Ghost so this can only go well

Every time Ghost has to solve a case at the Acachallas Spence is just peaking out from his basement like “the fuck is this?? Hot Man??????”

Enemies to lovers 500k (Gets Hot and Steamy :flushed: NOT CLICKBAIT!!!!11!!!!! 18+!!!!!!! GAY LOVE StORY!!!!!!) Lemonz!!! Made from teh Sexiest of Wattpaders UWUWUWU YAOI Boys Love don’t like don’t read!! (this is so fucking stupid jkfnd) I hate this with a passion Q^Q. All my years of being a basic watpad fanboy have helped me to the moment i bring maddie to tears

The steam is just like,,,,, holding hands and being angy all the fuckin time the steam is literal because their anger translates into actual steam

Cons:

Their angst has nowhere to go and it just sits between them like two raccoons at a dumpster-style mexican standoff

They really start off hating each other huh. Like, I know this can still lead to healthy relationships but neither of them are very good at healthy relationships with people he hasn’t known for his Whole Life so that’s an Oh No.

They totally feed off of each other’s stupidity (but this could be seen as a pro too so take that as you will) as well as anger - im talking one-upping each other kinda shit

Its ridiculous honestly how intense it gets, like they straight up need intervention sometimes because they dont realize they can just STOP

Conclusions:

I think this would be a relationship that would that a lot of time and hard work to make work, but i think in the end it would be really super cute!! Like it would make no fuckin sense to anyone else but somehow they’d understand each other and help each other through their similar issues. Also theyre both big nerds in different ways and i think they’d have just ranting sessions back and forth over and over and it would be soft!!!!! So yeah, i think it would work, at least, i want it to :D

So. Maybe?? I feel like it could, but they’d need to work pretty hard to make it healthy and not constant fighting. Could be stupid amounts of cute and wholesome but also could be stupid amounts of oh no and pain, depending on how the two act. If they learned how to get along with each other and work past their differences it could be super cute and soft. Just a very, er, bumpy beginning. And middle. And end. (this makes me very nervous,,,,why did you mention an end) (wouldnt you like to know weather boy) (TvT) UFDUNS bumpy but soft . Agreeing with the loser gay, want this to work it’d be interesting :3

[starryseo]

high schooler!jaemin

my pRECIOUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS

im sososo excited to write this because i loVE NANA sosososo much,, i miss him terribly but i hope that if and when he returns he is super happy and healthy so he can carry on making m e m o r i e s. sm need to update us more on him :((

sOO0o0oO0O0o0oooo0OOOO0o

ok so ma boi na jaemin

is literally loved by everyone in that school

and they all know him as the Smiley Kid™

like they may not even be in a class with him

mAY NOT even be in his year

but they have seen him around school

and i GUARANTEE he was smiling so everyone just knows who he is

they also know him bc he once started this petition

initially, the school didnt have a badminton club

and nana was just like ???/ badminton is love what the heck????

so he b e g g e d the sports teacher to start a club

and the teacher loves nana bc he’s always so active and supportive and just amaZING in their class,,,,, so they give him a chance

but they cant just start a club outta nowhere yknow?

so they’re like, if you get enough people to support you then i’ll talk to the head teacher and see what we can do ok?

so thIS BOI RAN OUT and started just asking literally e v e r y o n e in the school to sign this paper so the club would happen

and like who can say no to his smile??? it literally makes my heart weAK

the dreamies were the first to sign obviously

even donghyuck

but he only done it after nana said he’d post the old baby photos of hyuck everywhere aha love this boy

those baby photos??? he got them from hyuck’s mum lmao

yeah hes the kinda kid to talk with the other dreamies’ parents - mainly the mums because hes just such ??? a darling? ???

obviously he got enough signatures and he did not stop smiling for like a week bc badminton club!!!!! is finally a thing!!!!

he and mark are always the first to turn up and honestly some ppl just go to watch the two of them have a match

when hes not sparring w/ mark hes super kind and helps out others that are playing but struggling

which just makes everyone love him even more

he and jeno always get lockers full of confessions

and hes such a cutie he has the notes all saved in a shoe box under his bed

i say “a shoe box” but like he has so many notes there are like 20 boxes lmao rip

and whenever he gets chocolates or smth he always shares them with the dreamies

he also tries to help the others out whenever he can

like,, running lines with jeno for his auditions,,,,, helping out jisung and chenle with their homework etc.

he also encouraged mark the first time he wrote a poem to get it published in the school paper,, mark was heckin’ nervous so nana suggested sending it in anonymously, and mark just continued with it

also!!!!! this boy!!! i know i said renjun has like the bEST food in his lunch boxes, but jaemin is a close second

he always packs fruit with him and like its so ?? cute???

he spends the previous night chopping up the fruit - apples, bananas, mangoes, pomegranates, grapes, oranges, you name it - and then puts it in the fridge so it’s all fresh for lunch tomorrow.

uses a separate container for it and theres just s o  m u c h fruit

he brings in 7 forks as well because he kNOWS !!!!1 the others are gonna take some from him

alsooo he is The Hoverboard Master™

lowkey gets frustrated when jisung challenges him

but is highkey supeeerrrr !! happy!!! when he beats jisung

insert the dreamies just disappointingly head shaking as jisung fake cries

“youre seriously not gonna let the kid win??” - mark

“even im not that cruel” - hyuck

but nana #dontgiveafuck bc he just won hAH TAKE THAT @JISUNG [had to make sure i didnt tag a blog there lmao rip]

mm so yall prolly met bc of a mutual dislike for sociology

ok so this part may be rubbish bc i know nothing abt sociology lmao so idk bare with me

yall were in the same class and the teacher set a partner project for the last term which she would test you on

1) ew partner projects #amirite 2) ew sociology #amiriteagain

cliche move: yall got paired up together

the project was basically one where you guys could freely talk about any topic relating to modern day society

you guys had to prepare a powerpoint expressing contrasting views to the topic and then also include your own

didnt seem hard enough, but since you were being graded on this you had to put in 110% effort overachievers ayyyy

so yall got to work, tryna think of what topic you could write about

and after much debate and thinking you both eventually agreed on writing about how social media portray young men

first yall were gonna do women but felt that others may do that,,,, and also that the expectations men had werent spoken of as much so this would be interesting

in lesson you made a quick plan about how you were gonna go about this

decided that it’d be best if you both worked on the powerpoint together, but done research separately so you could just merge the two when making the powerpoint. like, nana would find bad views and you would find good ones.

so you went your separate ways after that lesson and met up the next day

yall chilled out in the library after school and started your individual researching

and after like the first hour the cuTIE asks if youre hungry and youre like yeah a lil’ bit, so you guys pack up your stuff and head down the street to the cafe and eat a bit there

he pays even tho you had previously agreed to split it :(((

and youre just like “hey we should just base our project on you-”

jaemin: “a nice young man that pays the bills?”

you: “a lying young man who said we’d split but stole the bill before i could do anything. im writing bad things about you now”

jaemin: “YOURE BEING BIASED, THATS UNFAIR–”

you: “idc :))))”

yall were just kidding obvs

after eating you guys head back to the cafe for like another hour of researching

and you decided that tomorrow you’d make a start on the powerpoint

so yall say bye, meet up tomorrow after school bc theres no sociology lesson, and do the same thing as yesterday

including the cafe dateeeee ;))))) 

you make a start on the powerpoint and like hes such a perfectionist

like “no, no, no y/n move the title a bit to the right. no no ! your other right,,,, aaa no youve moved it too much !!!!”

“um,,,,, im not really feeling this navy blue, use that green instead,,, actuallyyyyy, what about that purple over there????”

after he starts shouting out hex codes to use you give up and just let him take the mouse

he ends up keeping the initial navy blue lmao

so after that hectic day and jaemin’s complaining youve managed to do just. your. first. slide.

but it has a super c00l background and animations so yeah very productive !!!

this basically continues for the next 3 weeks, with you guys presenting in the 4th week.

when it comes to the presentation day yall were vvvv nervous going up bc you get graded on how you present it as well, not just the info :’))))

but the whole thing runs super smoothly bc na jaemin flashed thAT SMILE @ YOU AND ALL YOUR WORRIES DISAPPEARED BEFORE YOU GUYS EVEN INTRODUCED THE TOPIC

the whole thing went really well, you guys took turn answering questions your peers and the teacher threw at you and when yall were done he sMILED AGAIN !!!!! and like yall felt super confident bc that went hecking well

when you got your results back it was an A*/ A+ and nana sent a message to you like “OMGGGGGGG WE DID IT!!! YESSSS!!!! MY AMAZING HARD WORK PAID OFF”

“***ouR AMAZING HARD WORK,,, BUT LIKE IM PRETTY SURE IT WAS MY AMAZING HEX CODES THAT SEALED THE DEAL”

yall decided to celebrate at the cafe that you frequented

the old lady that owned the place knew you guys really well bc of the project

she’d be constantly refuelling you guys so she knew about the project too LMAO

and so when you guys told her that you guys aced the project she was super happy too and she was like “your food is on the house ily !!!!”

so like whoop whoop !! free food !

and you guys kept up that tradition during the summer holidays, meeting up at the cafe

and like the employees there knew you both so well

they started a bet like “how long until they walk in here holding hands one day and start dating???”

jaemin accidentally calls you sweetie or smth and you both just hear the old lady scream “yeSSSS!!! I WON!!!!! PAY UP WORKERSsss!!!! FREE FOOD FOR YOU, JAEMIN + Y/N!!!”

yall were confused as heck buT FREE FOOD !!!

i aint even surprised this was my longest one i love na jaemin

[bogject]

The Script From My Review

So I started this year by asking the question (CLICK) can objects tell stories?

and the answer to this is (CLICK) yes (CLICK)

Thanks for coming! - Haha just joking! (CLICK)

The real question was HOW can objects tell stories?

This lead to me investigating the effectiveness of found artefacts vs mythical objects, which are objects intentionally crafted to have a narrative and a history.

From looking into mythical objects I was then faced with the question - (CLICK) How can I make my own story telling objects?

To kick off my investigation I decided to focus on an initial site, which was Deptford docks, and in wanting to highlight the alternative history of the docks I built a small boat and launched it into the Thames. (CLICK) I didn’t really know it at this point but by reintroducing forms of historical labour to this site I was attempting to make the history more physically apparent, even if it was on a small scale.

So then through looking into traditional sunken ship preservation, which essentially meant pickling the ship before bringing it to the surface, I started to explore different methods of food preservation. The idea of preservation in literal and metaphorical terms became key to the project. (CLICK)

I produced a series of objects, creating links to Deptford docks using food preservation methods. The idea was that the meaning was transferring from object to object. I made Thames Water Jelly, a pickled ship and a Thames trifle. (CLICK)

I later buried this trifle underground, which is another ancient method of food preservation and this lead me to discover bog butter. I’m sure you all know this by now but bog butter is literally butter which has been discovered buried in bogs, dating back to the iron age.

So in learning about bog butter I learnt more about bogs and how they contain the perfect conditions for preservation, the high acidity and low oxygen environment means that anything biological can almost perfectly be preserved within them and this is why we’re now finding butter from 2000 years ago floating around in them. (CLICK)

I then went on to visit some London bogs, the most impressive one I found was on Wimbledon Common, named Farm Bog. I had a go at making my own bog butter which involved burying it in the bog, leaving it for five days and digging it up again. I then preceded to make ice cream out of it that I let people try at the last review. I used a recipe formulated by an ice creamery based in Dingle, a town in Kerry which is a county in Ireland where a number of bog butter discoveries have been recorded. I also have extensive family in the area. So the reasoning for ice cream was split between this and the idea that ice cream was like a contemporary version of butter. At one point it was considered of high value to a community, the butter stores would be relied upon in times of bad harvests and it was considered an indulgent treat, often brought out at special occasions and important meals.

SO, after this I began to try to narrow down what it was that had intrigued me about all these food objects I’d been making, and it was something to do with the temporality of these things and how they were able to tell a story related to their direct environment in a new and interesting way. I began to read a report called ‘Materiality of Time and Temporality of Place,’ which analysed the conditions that enable time to manifest but essentially the point I took most from this was that ‘The lived body encounters the place world by going out to meet it.’

So I decided to go to Ireland. (CLICK) By doing this I hoped to more authentically explore the environments and systems involved in bog butter by recreating the conditions to physically explore it. I decided on specific sites to visit before going and tried to keep as much ephemera from the trip as possible that I could use afterwards. I kept a diary, I stored little things like receipts and filmed as much as I could.

Once again, I buried some butter, this time in two locations and I made contact with a guy named Peter Foss, an environmental science who gave me a lot of specific information on the sites I was visiting and put me in touch with various people who were knowledgable on the area.

When I came back from Ireland I made a short film that documented what I did and a zine. The first iteration of the zine wasn’t so good but I used this to create a second iteration which was a lot more succinct. Within the zine I started to try to simplify what I was doing by employing the use of timelines and showing my thinking through the intersections of these timelines. (CLICK) Here are a few examples.

So I showed all of this at the work in progress alongside a cube of bog that I fashioned from compost and acrylic. (CLICK) The feedback I got on the zine and film was good but the cube of bog came across as more of a comedic approach and this confused the overall message so I scrapped bog cube. (CLICK)

Re-evaluating after the WIP, I tried to narrow down what the project was coming to focus on. I felt it was leaning towards being about the materiality of temporality, and even me saying that out loud makes me kind of want to slap myself,  but anyway so looking to explore further the temporality of the sites I’d been investigating I started looking at processes that had historically surrounded the bog.

I did a bit of research into peat cutting. Peat is a fossil fuel that used to be cut from bogs in squares and then dried and used as fuel. This used to be a pretty big operation in Ireland. Traditionally, after harvesting the peat the families involved would stack the bricks in structure called ruckles that would help them to dry out. Whilst being the most space effective way to dry out the large amounts of peat cut, the structures looked like sculptures in themselves, often measuring over 2 metres in height and being pretty nice to look at. They were almost like monuments to the back breaking work that went into harvesting the peat.

It was at this point that I read a pretty heavy report called the ‘Temporality of the landscape’ by an anthropologist called Tim Ingold, he coined the term ‘taskscapes’ and theres a lot that could be said about this report in general, but in short he makes the point that ‘Just as the landscape is an array of related features, the taskscape is an array of related activities.’ The landscape is not a finished form it’s generated in movement. So basically, most people see the landscape as a finite image but really its continually changing on a microscopic level and this is down to systems of taskscapes, like peat cutting, where people and environment engage in tasks that form features like paths and indentations on the landscape. The idea of the impermanence of the landscape I thought linked back quite nicely to the continually evolving nature of the mythical object and shared parallels with the bog in the same way that it’s both really old but also constantly regenerating and new.

I felt I was getting a bit tied up in theory at this point so I built a ruckle of bricks in my garden (CLICK) as a way of testing out the generation of a taskscape.

Then I had a tutorial. The general points were that it felt a little insular because I hadn’t involved enough people directly. I also needed to work out who these acts were for and what it meant to be doing this at this point in time, seeing as the whole project was focused around temporality.

I’d been recording myself carrying out generative tasks throughout the project and this is when the idea that I was re-introducing forms of labour that had historically been connected with these sites of interest came about. I liked this as a more succinct and direct explanation.

Another thing that cropped up was what is the relationship between ruckles made of bricks and butter buried in bogs. The short answer is that there is no relationship between the two.

Everyone wanted me to carry on with butter as a thing and after some initial push back I realised that butter along with preservation were two key points that I needed to stick with. I then decided to actually make some butter (CLICK) which is actually a lot simpler than you might think.

So what now? I hear you scream. Well, in reviewing all of this I’ve decided that first and foremost I want to preserve the history of bog butter. I’ve really enjoyed researching it and I think it’s necessary as we’re already kind of unsure of its origins so give it another thousand years and I’m sure we’d be even worse off. By doing this I also hope to generate conversation around the importance of preserving our cultural history and traditional heritage practices that may seem somewhat obsolete today but I think still hold value when reviewing the importance placed on technological advancement and considering the ever growing disconnect between us and the natural environment.

In order to do this I want to stage a super specific re-enactment of a votive offering bog butter burial, it will most likely happen in Ireland at a bog and I want all the details to be as historically accurate as possible. I will film this and then I’ll create a publication that documents my process and the project and lays down instructions on how to retrieve this buried butter in the future. It’s my hope that I can then preserve this literature for someone to find further down the line to discover my butter, thus kind of looping the cycle and passing on the information to people in future.

(CLICK) In order to do this I have spent the past week talking to re-enactment groups and iron age experts in order to gather the right things and make sure I’m doing everything accurately. I’ve arranged some phone calls and some meetings later on in the month. I need to gather info on rituals, dress, the way they made butter and hopefully I’ll stumble on some more things in the process of getting this information.