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I need to confess something but don’t know where else to say it…
But the obsession people have with how others keep their body hair is really starting to annoy me. Especially with the argument “if you shave your pubic hair you’re a pedo” like no babe… like not even taking into account the people who have texture issues or whatever
I’m a little freak who has a shaving kink and gets really turned on by the feeling of that part of your bodies skin being smooshed against another person’s!!! I’m not a fucking disgusting human I just have a KINK!! And the intrusive thoughts I get every time I enjoy said kink is really starting to get to me.
I get it friend. For a long time I was a no shave girlie (gender neutral) because not doing something is about 100% easier than doing something, but I shave now and I like it a lot better. I think it feels better wearing underwear and I like the way it looks with the way my body is shaped. Also makes it easier to wear leotards for ballet but that's neither here nor there.
As with every trend, there are always people pushing back against it as a moral failing and not simply a social trend. Shaving is, by and large, a trend. For years the norm was not to shave, and then porn started shaving to give people a better view of the goods, and people started imitating porn and establishing shaving as the new trend. Even shaving legs is a relatively new trend, we didn't really see women start to shave until 1940-ish because razor companies needed to expand their market. That's so recent!!
People care way too much about how other people style themselves because they've been trained to care. It's the same reason people stare at goth kids in the mall, anyone who is doing something outside the agreed upon social norms is going to be picked out by the general population. Which is why we occasionally see such huge backlashes to these trends. More often than not in order to push back against the norm people will flip it on its head and demonize it. I've already talked about this in terms of giving head (people saying you shouldn't suck dick because it isn't feminist in order to uplift eating out) and I think the same thing is happening with pubic hair tbh
Generally an individual has no problem holding two ideas in their head, shaving is fine but also not shaving is fine, but once you get three or four people together it starts getting really hard. Add in the internet echo chamber and you've got a recipe for people calling things they personally dislike a moral failing of the highest degree. Personally, I ignore it because I'm going to do whatever I want with my body anyway so what do I care what other people think of my private parts? They're not the ones seeing them, I am!
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hello! take some designs for an after-game PMTOK au i've had rattling around in my brain for a bit. More explanation under the cut :]
Okay so the basic premise is that a couple of months after the game something something star spirits cause the legion of stationary + Olly and Olivia get reborn as toads (except for like, 1.5 of them) and are dropped off unceremoniously in Toad Craftsman's front yard for him to deal with.
This was mostly an excuse so I could draw some Olivia interacting with everyone because we never got to see her hanging out with them and I plan to rectify that! Uh here are some design notes:
For all the LoS I really wanted to give them all different types of mushroom caps for fun so Colored pencils got a death-cap mushroom as theirs since I wanted something flat like their box. I wanted their design to be reminiscent of an art student since I thought it would be funny.
Rubber band's mushroom cap is a bunch of enoki mushrooms reminiscent of their little hair thing. I think they adjusted the best of the LoS to being a toad since they already took a pretty humanoid form when they were an office supply.
Hole punch's mushroom is a Morel mushroom since they have a bunch of holes and stuff. their hair is also supposed to look like cut up paper.
Tape has a button mushroom since I really didn't wanna distract from their hair and them having a really tiny hat seemed funny. Still the most loyal to Olly even though he literally has no powers anymore because its the FAMILY!
Scissors is an oyster mushroom since it looks kinda cut up. Also their Handaconda has been turned into one of the Underwhere hands from the river Stix. They're the one dealing the worst (besides Olly) with being a toad and keep trying to do flips and shit and failing.
Stapler is a chain chomp with really messed up teeth, thats it.
Olivia and Olly are just normal toads! Also Olivia is fine, she just spawned with the "cut" out on her cap, since she can't really wear her signature hat. Didn't really have to change much about their designs, they're already perfect. But as stated above, Olly is really not doing well being a toad, makes it really hard to make origami. I also think Olivia really doesn't like it either, she liked being who she was and this just feels wrong to her. it feels wrong to all of them tbh
I also tried my hand at an Origami craftsman design. I wanted him to kinda look like Olly and Olivia, having Olivia's hair texture, but Olly's color and shape. I've seen people head canon him to be really young and I totally agree, makes his mistake seem a little more driven by naivety then by deliberately going against what he should know. He's dealing...okay with having a bunch of people in his house.
+ some sketches


Yea the only ideas I have for plot is that Olly is trying to remake all the 1000 cranes again so he can turn them all back into their true forms and they can leave (the idea of taking over doesn't really appeal to him anymore) and go somewhere else. But there's also a time limit since the origami festival is happening soon and the Craftsman has to go to it and the others really don't know how everyone else might react to them. Also everyone only remembers up to when they die so colored pencils really has no context while Olivia knows mostly what happened. i like the idea that this creates some tension between Olly and the LoS who are questioning what happened to make him change his mind so drastically.
so yea if anyone has any ideas or questions send me an ask, I really like this au and really wanna talk about it :]
#Sorry for the amount of tags i'm about to use#mario bros#paper mario#the origami king#pmtok#pmtok colored pencils#pmtok rubber band#pmtok hole punch#pmtok tape#pmtok scissors#pmtok handaconda#pmtok stapler#pmtok olivia#pmtok olly#pmtok toad craftsman#roswells rampage#pmtok toad au
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i need more of those 5sos thoughts!!!!
bf ashton thoughts ⋆ฺ。*:・



a/n: ask and you shall receive!!! i swear i've been seeing so much ash content so ofc i had to do him next. he also happens to be my 5sos lane which makes it even better. fluff and smut sections included in this one!!
so so so many beach days. he loved when you record a wave he caught while surfing and it doesn't hurt that you're wearing a bathing suit either
big gift giver. always brings you fresh flowers and makes sure to keep on to know when he needs to rebuy them. picks up little trinkets that he thinks you'll like and tries so hard to package them up cutely but ends up failing. but it's the thought that counts!!
100% tries to teach you how to play the drums, even if its just a simple beat
late night spontaneous dates are a normality when being with him. could be anywhere from going to a park and stargazing to diving into the city and going to a bar
he wants to show you off 24/7. like he doesn't have one picture "this is my partner" picture, its a whole album that he's showing to people because he can't believe you're all his
meditating together
guarding together
tbh just being outside and being in nature together would be a big thing for him
not a super huge pda person but BIG on physical touch
so so so many songs written about you. if they didn't end up on a 5sos album he would totally curate his own and dedicate it to you
tons and tons of inside jokes
would 100% get a tattoo for you. i don't think it would specifically be your name, but maybe some art you produced or something that reminds him of you, etc
not a super big pet name user, but sometimes he'll sprinkle them in
smoking together>>>
smutty/suggestive thoughts below the pics



its always ass or tits, and though ashton definitely loves both i feel like he's more of a thigh guy. they way they're so plush and he can squeeze them and mark them to his liking. how they look in skirts or dressed or when they they're over his shoulders. he can't get enough of them
100% puts you're pleasure first. if he comes, great! but he's so focused on you and making sure that you're experiencing as much pleasure as possible
on that note-- he loved to eat you out. your taste, your smell, the way your hands grip at his hair and his name falls from his lips is just intoxicating for him. he also can't deny how much it boosts his ego knowing that he can make you come with just his mouth
so many suggestive comments when you're with a group of friends. he loves watching you get riled up and pressing your thighs together by his words
he's such a tease oh my god. like you know something is about to happen just by how his eyes shift and that smirk that he can't seem to wipe off his face
such a slut for you. he wants you anywhere all the time. doesn't matter who's around, before a show- after a show, he needs you.
thigh riding!!!
so much casual dominance omg. driving you guys everywhere, constantly trying to find ways to help you, helping you pick out outfits. ugh i can't stop thinking about it
don't think he's a huge lingerie guy, but he really appreciated it when you take the time to pick out a set and doll yourself up
cannot get enough of bondage and blindfolds. both using it on you or you using it on him
obsessed with marking-- he wants people to know he's yours and you're his. like i can just imagine him posting a picture on his instagram story where his hair is all messy and his lips are plump from friction, neck littered with hickeys. he would probably delete it after a couple of minutes because the pr team would actually freak out, but it was most definitely worth it in his book.
high sex
likes to take his time, but doesn’t mind a quickie
cuddles that turn into sex that end up with you two curled back together asleep
love love loves kissing. how simple it can show your affection for someone and how it can be innocent and turn into something more
sleepy sex!!! early mornings or late at night when he’s back from the studio and just needs to be as close to you as possible
#5 seconds of summer#5sos#5 secs of summer#5sos fanfic#5sos imagine#5sos images#5sos smut#5sos x reader#luke 5sos#luke hemmings#luke hemmings imagine#luke hemmings fanfic#luke hemmings x reader#luke hemmings smut#calum 5sos#calum hood#calum hood x reader#calum hood smut#calum hood imagine#calum hood fanfc#ashton 5sos#ashton irwin#ashton irwin x reader#ashton irwin smut#ashton irwin fanfic#ashton irwin imagines#michael 5sos#micheal clifford#micheal clifford smut#micheal clifford imagine
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aot veteran/104 corp icks bc im back on my bullshit
someone requested AOT veteran icks, they didn't specify nsfw or not so I did both and also added sasha connie and jean bc i luv them:) feel free to message/inbox with requests!
(levi, erwin, hange, jean, sasha and connie)
Levi
will visit ur place and organize things without you asking. he'd just be like "ur welcome, now your kitchen makes sense" and ur like sir, I don't know where anything is now??? also he'd def the type to proclaim he's better than you for only getting two hours of sleep when you got four. honestly so many icks come to mind for this one, imma limit it to those two for now (stay tuned lol)
nsfw: tries to be rough with you but forgets his own strength. will try to throw you on the bed, but he does it too hard so you completely miss the bed and fall on the other side of it and he's just standing there like "🧍🏻...my bad."
Erwin
you cannot convince me this man doesn't wear water shoes at the pool. you guys say you want a dilf until you actually get one bc this is the type of shit it entails^^
nsfw: erwin cannot dirty talk for shit. im srry but if you're a lil kinky this isn't the man for you. try to call him daddy and he'd be like "we don't have kids?" and you explain the kink to him and he'd just say, "have you considered therapy?🤨" now he's concerned, boner gone, you feel called out, just go to sleep tbh
Hange
they're def a firm believer in natural deodorant and won't take the graceful hints that it's not working. prob wouldn't chill w them on a hot day is all i'm saying
nsfw: feel like they'd be really good in bed tbh like i'm struggling to think of an ick. hange has big dick energy, weirdos just do it better idk. i think maybe hange would try to spit in your mouth (they a freak) and they have so much and its thick and globby like the back of the throat type spit, your gonna choke bro im gagging as a i type-
Jean
bring back toxic masculinity because Jean's hair care routine is so good to the point he'll call out your split ends, i just know it
nsfw: a fucking chatterbox like his homies know everything. you've walked in on him telling connie in extreme detail how he had you in a full nelson last night while you screamed bloody murder and he doesn't see why ur mad. "babe, if anything i'm bragging about you 😏" fucking idiot istg. also kinda gross but I think he's the type to keep sniffing his fingers after fingering you like well into the next day EWW
Sasha
obvi she can't share for shit so I think she'd be an annoying person to eat out with. like yk when you're with your friends and only one person puts their card down so the rest can Venmo them? I think you can ask her to Venmo 20 and she'd send 15 and say something like "oh I didn't eat as many fries" but she fr did. never puts her card down either so believe it or not? jail.
nsfw: will literally be on her phone mid-sex with you. feel like she'd be really into the subway surfer vids and yeah, you go down on her and look up and she brought her own entertainment? ipad child behavior
Connie
i think he'd say "we" when talking about his fave sports team as if he contributed. like, "really connie, you helped win the superbowl? did you score a touchdown?" grow tf up
nsfw: insane bush on this one, i feel like he doesn't groom for shit and whatever, that's your choice! but I also feel like college-aged modern connie would talk shit about women who weren't bald down there and won't eat it unless it is. HYPOCRITE!! I think when he gets to his mid-twenties tho he'd mature (sasha beat his ass)
#aot headcannons#levi ackerman#levi headcanons#hange zoe#hange headcanons#erwin smith#erwin x reader#erwin headcanons#jean kirstein#jean headcanons#anime headcanons#connie springer#sasha braus#aot x reader#aot fluff#snk levi
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It's games night tomorrow. I have prepared Marauders questions accordingly. Feel free to include Snape and Lily in the game.
Who's the best at Chess? Who's the worst?
Who's the best at poker? Who's the worst?
Who's always suggesting Strip Poker, and who turns up wearing extra layers for the occasion?
This is my favourite game - who's the best at Scrabble?
Who's the best at charades and who's the worst?
Truth or dare! Who's choosing what? And would you wanna indulge us with an uncomfortable truth about each one of them?
Finally, how would a game of Werewolf go down? Ironically, I have a feeling Remus would be very bad at it.
omg this is a fun one!! Good luck with your games night!
Who's the best at Chess? Who's the worst?
Honestly, I feel like it's Sirius for a lot of these. Sirius lol. I see him as pretty strategic and he's obviously very intelligent and I think he'd have played a lot against Reg as a kid. James could maybe give him a run for his money just because James has maths brain, but on the other hand I think he'd be a bit reckless strategy-wise. Though now that I think about it Remus would be quite good... hmm now I think it's actually a tie between Sirius and Remus. And they'd have the most fun playing each other for that reason because they're evenly matched. Peter, obviously, is the worst.
Who's the best at poker? Who's the worst?
Again I think Sirius is the best. His poker face is impeccable first of all, and he's very very perceptive when it comes to others. I think he'd be an absolute menace when playing poker. Like he could play professionally. And here I'll actually say that Remus is the worst-- we know Peter can be very deceptive when he wants to be, and also I think he'd be quite a cautious player. So would Remus but his bluffs would just NOT work, especially on Sirius. James kind of just average.
Who's always suggesting Strip Poker, and who turns up wearing extra layers for the occasion?
Again I think Sirius is probably suggesting this lol. Maybe James. Peter DEFINITELY would turn up with three thousand layers lol. Remus, while knowing he will lose, is committed to fairness so he'd play the game as god intended.
This is my favourite game - who's the best at Scrabble?
lol I must confess that I hate scrabble..... but its fine.... maybe I'll go James for this one! I just feel like he has a quick thinking to him that would make him spot possibilities on the board and his letters really easily. The reason I hate scrabble while actually loving anagrams btw is that it's not about making the longest word (which I enjoy) but about getting shorter but effective words on the right squares. That's much less fun to me because instinctively I always just want to make the longest word possible (so I prefer playing along with Countdown or the nyt spelling bee haha.)
You didn't ask for the worst scrabble player but it's probably Peter-- on the other hand I can also see Sirius being That Guy who constantly tries for words that everyone knows dont exist lol.
Who's the best at charades and who's the worst?
Okay hmm this is interesting... I think I'm going to say James is best, and my reasoning for that is that the Potters were definitely a Charades Family. Every christmas they play charades in the parlour (🤢) however James is also extremely competitive about it and gets VERY frustrated when people don't guess right lol. He takes it way too seriously. Maybe I'll say Sirius is worst because 1. he wouldn't make much of an effort 2. he'd purposefully choose extremely obscure things just to be annoying
Truth or dare! Who's choosing what? And would you wanna indulge us with an uncomfortable truth about each one of them?
I think I've answered the first bit before so quickly: James, Sirius-- dare. Remus, Peter-- truth. Okay now the home truths....
Sirius: hard to say what he wouldn't be willing to admit to, tbh. Maybe something actually emotional-- something like his fears that he'll become like his family. Or, tbh, the fact that he once believed his family's screed about muggleborns, which is something he may have tried to downplay later on.
James: James would be embarrassed about slightly less deep things than Sirius haha. I do think his crush on Lily would be embarrassing to him at first. Depending on when this game is played I don't think James would really want to admit he'd never kissed a girl. Obviously he has deeper insecurities, but in terms of what he's aware of I think James is generally pretty open.
Remus: Remus has a lot of obvious uncomfortable truths. Maybe that he doesn't approve of some of his friends' behaviour, or his fears that he's less than what his friends deserve, his jealousy (as I see it) of Sirius. I also see Remus as having had at one point a crush on Lily too so he would NOT want to admit that in front of James.
Peter: I'm gonna say he pissed the bed his first year lol. He also would not want to admit that he's never kissed a girl-- whereas Remus would probably admit this quite easily. I think he'd also be unwilling to admit to academic failure. Peter's definitely the most likely to lie during truth or dare.
Finally, how would a game of Werewolf go down? Ironically, I have a feeling Remus would be very bad at it.
I had to look up what werewolf was, we call it 'assassin' in spain.
I think Peter would be the surprise star of this game haha. He's sneaky. iirc you need more than 4 players so lets say they're playing with a big group of people-- James and Sirius would be an insanely good team if they were the murderers/werewolves. Sirius would also be very very persuasive in getting the group to accuse someone other than him. I agree Remus would not be very good at this lol.... Sirius and Peter would definitely be the best. If they were both the murderers though Sirius would absolutely sell Peter out to survive, ironically haha. James would be alright, especially if paired with Sirius, but maybe a bit overconfident. Lily I think would be quite good at this too.
wait Ive just reread the ask and realised I was supposed to include Sev and Lily. For most of these though, I don't think Sev and Lily would be either best or worst compared to the Marauders. Lily might be quite good at scrabble though, I can see her beating James. I'll add their truths (both would pick truth imo, although I can see Lily picking dare.)
Sev: his crush on Lily
Lily: her crush on James
Okay done! Lol. It's hard for me to imagine Sev playing anything with the Marauders (or anything at all to be honest unless it was a 2 player game with Lily. So I can't envisage how he'd ever be playing truth or dare.) But more seriously, if Lily was playing with the Marauders she probably would not want to admit a great many intimate details to a group of teenage boys haha.
#yay I missed these ty!#this was fun too. i could see the werewolf game happening so clearly in my head#mwpp#replies#i had an extended scene where they played truth or dare (well really it was a version of king's cup called merlin's goblet haha)#i think they asked peter when was the last time he had a wank lol
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I love forensic anthropology so much, it's been one of my dream topics to study for a very long time! I've been hoping to go to school for it but I'm worried I don't have the smarts or discipline for it, especially because I want to specialize in the osteology aspect of it (if that's even possible i have no idea tbh) and I've always done poorly in school. But it makes me so happy to see other tumblr users in the field! I hope you're having a great day ✨️
Hello there! Thanks for reaching out! I've actually been busy with a forensic science symposium, or I'd have replied earlier! There are free forensic webinars and symposiums online and in person, by the way - worth looking around for. Also, FutureLearn usually runs free Forensic Anth online courses. I found them both fun and useful for university review. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/forensic-archaeology-and-anthropology
If I may give you a pep talk, don't get in your own way with thoughts of not being up to the studies. Yes, there is a lot of foundational stuff to get through, but in forensics there is always something that grabs you and makes you WANT to keep coming back for more, and figure out new ways to make it lodge your brain. And the people you will meet are some of the most wonderfully nerdy, interested, service-minded and friendly you will meet.
I made a first run at university at age 19, and it did not go well. Nobody was talking about ADHD, and it was a cold and isolating place at the time. I wouldn't have had the guts to go ask for help even if I'd known where to go. That was in 1993. Fast forward to 2010, and I very suddenly got bitten by the Forensics bug. I started re-doing all my Gr 12 sciences, to get ready to re-apply. I found out that my brain had shifted. I knew how to play to its strengths. I wasn't anxious and trying to graduate, but working towards something I wanted. I had role models I wanted to follow. And I was able to e-mail researchers and even my future grad supervisor directly, and they were incredibly supportive.
I finished that first degree with strong marks, but a dismal CGPA, because no amount of work could entirely pull up that year of 0.25 GPA (I just disappeared from classes.) I might have still applied for Grad School and made the case that I had shown what I was capable of. As it happened, I went back for another two and a half years, and did a second BA with an Honours research component. (You generally only have to do the upper level stuff and a few key pre-requisites, for a second degree.) That was enough to get me into Grad School. And THEN I figured out I probably certainly definitely was a textbook case of hidden ADHD.
Osteology: Yes, osteo is hard. I thought it would be easier for a visual learner like me, but oof, it is a lot of 3D puzzles of bony fragments, with landmarks and grooves and subtle wear marks! But it CAN be done. Look up the William Bass Human Osteology Field Guide and textbook. They're the gold standard, and they're in grayscale, which makes them much easier to make out than natural coloured bones. Start slow and just have fun with it before starting any courses. Figure out what your brain likes. I've found my top two osteo hacks are to make plasticene models, or simple flashcards.
And yes, there are lots of forensics careers that are based around Osteology - it might be fun to do some digging and reach out to a few osteologists or forensic anthropologists to ask them about their work.
Come chat bones any time!
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a flimsy design/character analysis by me ✌😔✌
ok so the paolox brainrot is really getting to me (as if it wasn't strong enough 😑) and i have a lot of thoughts that need to be written down somewhere ok... i haven't really done that before so i thought it'd be a good exercise for me to polish my not so good english and my not so good analysis abilities lol....anyhow. i'm going to do this with their vanilla design that i love so much. more under the cut if you wanna read more about my nonsense ⬇️⬇️⬇️ (sorry in advance for any mistakes lol)
well idk how to begin. let's start with paolo
man. base game screamer. and he's still SAUR cute. ok so. just with his face there's so much i can say already
from his hairstyle, i'd say it feels "let loose", with the bits of strands peeking here and there. doesn't surprise me from a someone living in a household named partihaus you feel me. it looks like he let his hair grow from another hairstyle and haven't cut it since. same thing with his eyebrows, there's little to no care to them, just let the natural hairiness do its thing ! they're super thick and i love it so much. 🐻
however, it does look like he pays attention to smaller details of his appearance still. his beard is clearly trimmed and stylized. that implies that he spends a lot of time in front of the mirror 🪒 also i feel there's self awareness and that he chose that style of beard wisely... i'm gonna be honest, his face is huge lmfao because of his large jaw and chin. the beard DOES make a difference and makes his face smaller. he knows how to rock that beard and a clean shave would be a big no-no.
back to his hairstyle, there's an interesting lifestyle aspect you can pick up. why tie it up ? simply because he is an active guy and his hair would get in the way of his daily activities if he didn't. he even goes a step further by wearing a bandana for workouts. so yeah. i like that it highlights that aspect of his personality !
ok ! that was only the head so let's move on to the rest.
i haven't found anything to say (yet) abt his other outfits so i'm just gonna. focus on these two to lay out my thoughts lol
so despite all of the sims having the same height in the game, i do think paolo is more on the shorter side...because of his jeans lol. look at how it's cuffed 😭 it's one big fold. it's not easy finding pants with the perfect length. so yeah i love me a short-average king !
on the body type, it clearly shows me a man with discipline. i mean it's easy to show cut abs and muscle definition with the slider in the sims lol but i can assure you that this shit is tough to achieve irl. i love to portray him as a loser for laughs (affectionate) but he's a really hard working dude.
judging by the choice of his swimwear there's this whole thing going on where he needs to be a show-off i think...lol. the size is very telling. sculpting his body is one factor for sure and tattooing it is an additional one. out of all the partihaus sims, his tattoo is the biggest. (yeah they all have one its so cute lol...) that's flashy. bold. audacious. he sees things on a large scale. he strikes me as a loud guy, that naturally takes a lot of place around him you feel me. that's why i feel like he would express himself a lot through body language lol. also well. he's italian. 🤌🤌🤌 (unfortunately)
and speaking of his tattoo, i'm not even afraid to say that he's a japanophile because of the style lol... (i remember seeing someone say that he would dress like a yakuza and that's absolutely correct.) i know for a fact that there was a huge anime boom in italy, so he probably grew up being a huge weeb or something 😭 (canon event for half of europe tbh LMFAO me included.) so yeah. ok i did change his tattoo in my makeover but kept the same style 👍 irezumi type.
ssssooooo yeah thats all i have to say about this 💕dumbass💕... next!
HEEHEE his handsome face.... ok let's go
well. everything about him screams anti system. non conformist. he wants to leave an impact on you and manages. one would think "hey these piercings are all over the place. it's not homogeneous." that's what i thought at first too. i wasn't immune to making things look more cohesive, so one of the first thing i wanted to change was his piercing color. but then i thought about it more... he's a non conformist ! this choice of clashing colors, alongside the asymmetry makes perfect sense. so i backtracked lol. that's now one of my favorite thing about him 😭👍
because of that, i feel like these piercings were made mostly out of influence from mary (will get to that later) but also impulse ? it's easy to have an image of a chill/cottage-ish guy with him being an eco-master but tbh i read him as reckless at times lol. esp with this line from the household description : [Unfortunately, sometimes he takes "fighting" a little too literally.] he WILL whoop your ass so...watch out.
there's also this very interesting physical trait going on with his hair : he's greying. i am pointing that out because he's still a young adult. idk what happened to him, but to be greying this much while being this young, he must have had a rowdy past with bad life choices lol. my mans clearly stressed out. maybe that's why he wears his beanie most of the time idk ! seeing his grey hair makes him look older...he may be self conscious after all...😔
enough of his face. moving on
you can pretty much pick up everything from his base outfit lol. i mean it's pretty self explanatory. reuse, reuse, reuse etc etc. he's ultra frugal and that's so cool actually.
and this minimalism also translates to his body type. i think he eats -just enough- to live...😭 no overconsumption. also since he likes the outdoors i do believe he walks a lot so adding physical work to that, he's built like. a pinky.
so, through the wiki, i learned that his moms were created for him... he was meant to be a 1 sim household from what i understood. but the addition of his moms change A LOT about what some of the accessories he wears means and it brings much more to his character. let me explain.
his mothers are very important to him. like i'm not exagerating lol. both of them are role models to him 100%. (its very infuriating that he only recognise blossom as his mother but to hell with that. he loves them both lol 😤)
first and obvious link to mary : the ear gauges and piercing. "my mom is so cool. i want to do the same thing when i grow up." boom.
second and more discreet link to blossom : a matching bracelet.
now the most observant people will say to me and understandably so : "you made that up. knox doesn't wear that bracelet at all" um akshually. yes he does. it's on his everyday outfit. you have to take his top off for it to show up. 🤓☝
so yeah he loves his mamaws ok....... he's a rambunctious but loving boyo.
aaand yeah. that's about it lol PHEW im done for now...
if you read through the whole thing well! thank you for taking the time to hear me out lol...😭👍 let me know what you think ! and maybe share some stuff i didn't pick up lol 🤔🤭 i'd love to hear everyone out.
#paolo rocca#knox greenburg#tigersays#ive put all my brainpower into this broooooooooooooooooooooo lmfao#i think theres much more but idk. i will update later if something comes up my brain is FRIED#i feel so. vulnerable LMFAO i never shared my thoughts like that. i just hope it makes sense
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okay, culture came in. klebsiella oxytoca. haven't spoken to doctor yet because they're being extremely frustratingly uncommunicative but i also recognize that there wasnt much to be done until the culture came in. should talk to id today and am gonna discuss home health / a midline (just bc im worried about reinfecting a central while actively septic lol but a picc is doable too) so i can do iv abx and fluids at home.
decided not to push it with gi atm, ill worry about it later i think. probably gonna go to an an az hospital that doesnt use mychart since the pica is a part of it all and i can NOT risk that stigma here too it might get me Killed. going to ask about iron infusions bc mine is at severely low now and dropping every day. also gonna ask for the cbc with differential and the blood sugar shit bc i feel like we need the differential for the cbc at LEAST and i need their input on the blood sugar bc that was nearly diabetic ketoacidosis level yesterday lmao 😅
might not get the antibiotic susceptibilities today, sometimes it takes an extra day or two iirc, but while this antibiotic is helping its also the antibiotic i was given last time and didn't work for long so im gonna mention that since its important
neither shoulder will stay in rn, might ask about an xray but not pushing it too much bc its the least of my problems but i could probs at least get an ortho referral.
also gonna ask about cath change bc while thats agonizing esp rn its rly important for trying to keep the infection from coming back due to biofilms
i still can't wear pants rn :/ havent been able to for several weeks atp and only have like two wearable dresses after tearing one of them. need a couple nightgowns bc i dont have much here in oregon but i will Figure It Out lol
overall, very tired, didnt get much sleep bc was wired after nap but waiting to talk to the hospitalist before i let myself knock out bc otherwise i won't be able to hold a convo bc sleep drunkenness lol. mostly just a waiting game at this point, need to tall to id and the hospitalist, pretty bored but cant move around much bc really unsteady. my legs are randomly swollen too which was kind of alarming to notice.
but temp is down! heart rate is my pre-january baseline, blood pressure too, but there's a chance they'll take me off my beta blocker bc it makes my bp pretty low and that always freaks them out esp in the context of sepsis even tho i actually feel better when my bp is on the lower end lol. wbc went up 9 points in like a day or something, as it does, but they didn't do complete blood count with differential so idk what the individual wbcs are. they gave me fluids last night which might be part of the swollen legs bc kidneys are struggling but im happy to be more hydrated lol usually i have to fight sooo hard to get fluids. oxygen is also looking good!
overall still very sick and sore with fun sepsis body aches and the only thing that'll touch it is oxycodone but whateverrrr lol. they'll probably keep me for a couple more days at least, maybe longer which is probably a good thing bc yk recurrent sepsis even if its annoying. i can gladly say that at least the nurses are kind and i hardly even see the drs so that's what matters most tbh
wish i could go deal with the arizona move out today but unfortunately a bit focused on Not Dying atm
but yeahhhhh that's whats up so far. different hospitalist today so im rly hoping they are more communicative and kind - ik this is a big hospital and very overrun but i need to know whats going on, i should not have found out my kidneys labs were concerning enough to be put on a renal diet by the room service staff lmao thats completely unacceptable tbh
but yeahhhhh thats basically whats up! hope everyone is having a good dayyyy 🥰
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heya it's me again!
just wanted to add more details to my tyrant! reader x albert wesker idea
tyrant! reader is huge. like around 7-9ft tall. and muscular too. (we need more buff reader)
when wesker finally finds tyrant! reader, they're found wearing either very ill-fitting clothing that they obviously stole or a black hooded cloak
wesker is in awe of how big reader has grown due to the t-virus and the fact that they can pick him up like fucking nothing lol
(wesker deserves to have a monster partner fr)
ok wait because cloaked buff tyant reader goes SO hard. i love this so much but its also hilarious somehow, its making me think of the tsum-tsum wesker art - reader is all dark and scary looming over someone and they reach into their cloak like they have a weapon or something but they pull out tsum-tsum wesker and he's like >:3
also i think wesker is an egomaniac before uroboros brings him back to life after re5, so at this point he absolutely expects you to be frail and pathetic and unable to control the virus in your blood, so when he finally sees you in person for the first time after your mutual manhunt for each other, he's just.... oh. what the fuck.
don't get me wrong, he's caught off guard but he loves it. he had always been slightly weirded out by BOWs before, even though he took pride in his creations, but seeing you in this beastly, powerful form drives him crazy. He's so proud of himself, obvs, but he also admires you - insanely so. the fact that you not only survived the t-virus, but it accepted you, and you kept your sanity and personality (except you're definitely a little bloodthirsty now, kind turns him on ngl) after becoming a tyrant - it's like a dream come true for him.
another note - i can't find a real canon height for wesker, some places say he's like 6'2 but i've seen others say he's like 7ft which i think is ridiculous tbh. I'm absolutely imagining him as lithe but broad and muscular, definitely over 6', but the height difference between him and reader makes him look like a little princess in his leather suit next to you.
jfc keep em coming this is making my day
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ty for your furry meta posts 🙏 im not a furry so its rlly interesting to see ur pov and thoughts!
what do you think lqg and qqq would have as fursonas?
i'm glad they're being enjoyed! it's something i'm incredibly passionate about both from a technical perspective (appreciating the craftsmanship that goes into making fursuits, the community itself, etc.) and from just. i like furries and that's how i got my start making art.
as far as your question goes:
lqg is an easy one to me, and i know this might be controversial, but a white tiger for sure with either bright blue or purple eyes. he'd also bring props to cons, i think. i don't think he'd fullsuit tbh, he wouldn't like how much it restricts motion. BUT that opens up huge opportunities for the intersection between cosplay and suiting bc he'd be able to wear normal clothes with his head and paws.
i am ashamed to say i don't know enough about qqq rn to accurately clock what i think her fursona would be in a fursuiter/furaffinity user au kind of scenario. she's not super present in the source material and i simply haven't read enough fanfic with her in it to sort of settle on a really good characterization. i am a failure and a disgrace to the yuri and milf-loving community for this.
(trying really really hard not to hit her with the butch beam) i'm sort of leaning toward a lynx or a hyena personally, and not just due to my personal bias for hyena girls. i think she's flashy enough to have something more unique/distinct as far as fursonas go, and hyena suits usually serve a surprising amount of cunt.
i think if you wanted to really lean into her first presentation as someone sort of powerful and elegant, one of those realistic airbrushed heads would suit her, and for that definitely caracal or serval. suolaxier on twitter and insta makes the most jaw-dropping, gorgeous realistic fursuit heads and one of their most recent creations is this stunning serval that i'm obsessed with.
and as a fun fact unrelated to qqq for the most part: there's a huge crossover between EGL and realistic suiters in jpn and cn fursuiting circles and it makes for the most stunning visuals.
#svsss#ask danny#in general i do not get celebrity crushes but fursuits? fursuits i do get crushes on#and i have a crush on so many of soulaxier's#this is just going to turn into me showing off my favorite makers and suiters if i don't stop. okay goodbye.
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(tbh, I don't even have the angel cards cuz I'm broke lol🙃, but I'll tell a few thing's what I noticed on other people's post about them either the comics, message's, or stories and theories)
Let's start with Rafael, the dude is like that one insecure kid in the family that always get compared to their other siblings or cousins, Gabriel is the messenger, Michael is the right hand, Rafael wanted to be acknowledged as something, he sees god as kind and benevolent being and being too merciful so he wanted to be the one who punishes evil for him because he loves god and wanted to understand him in some degree, so he judges based on his beliefs wether they're innocent or not and just like other Angel's, his views are always on god and wouldn't acknowledge the God's other creations because he sees them unworthy of God's recognition, bro is already insane (and God didn't even reprimanded this type behavior idk) and had spiraled further since God disappear when peepaw Solomon died, so ever since then he sees all of his decisions and other forms of punishment as a will for/from God in hopes he will come back one day and see his work.
So, the Christmas event happened and most of us know about the chastity belts they wear as to keep them pure for god, and out all of the three seraphim, Rafael is the only one that had his successfully and actually taken off by Raon (that's what they say) and by the time our little rara came back to heaven, bro had his post nut happiness because no joke that the brother actually thought he had ascended into a higher rank than Michael and Gabriel after he experience his first nut (since Lucifer said that Angel's engaged in ecstasies and eventually stop before they climax) Rafael was in a good mood back in heaven during those days that he scared most of the other Angel's.
(that's all bro, I'm new to your blog and love your raon trash talks, sorry English is not my native language btw, you also get a follow, I'll still go a couple of research for the other seraphim)
[ and also After reading a couple of your Lucifer x Companion works I'm hooked, Raon is so rotten to the point I think he wouldn't stop even if ever one day Companion gets married to Lucifer and Raon would just insist that its for the betterment of hell lol bye]
Funny you should send me Raphael of all angels, I was actually starting to write about him. So that's how he's like huh? That's funny. I am going around and reading what I can find about him, especially his card lines because I get the strongest grasp of a character by the way they're talking. And wow, he's a delusional one, ain't he? Also, I take an interest in his relationship with Heaven, since it's pretty clear he has no love for the others that live there, and if need be, will burn that place to the ground if it aligns with his views on God. What a weirdo.
Haaa, my brain has been stuck on how the seraphim would take in interest in the Embittered Companion, and how that would descend into some good old obsession. I know for certain that they didn't take any interest in the Embittered Companion. It's only after spending time in Heaven do things start to descend. Of course, I naturally want each of their obsessions to be distinct from one another. Like, how I imagine Gabriel to take issue with anyone who keeps a feather of the Embittered Companion to themselves, regardless if they were demon or angel. And Raphael, he has a weird sense of when the Embittered Companion is about to become lucid, so he tends to be there and just, stares. And sometimes laughs for seemingly no reason. He's creeeeepy.
Michael, eh, I don't have anything on him right now. Maybe later.
And yes, yes, Ra-on is certainly a rotten little thing, because holy hell man, incel behavior is no joke and that shit is extremely hard to weed out of a person. So, Ra-on is going to be a frustrating character to deal with, but he'll get better eventually. It's just going to be a rather painful process because of how much he's gotta unpack. Thank you for liking it all!
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Carlos needs to leave LV and get with a Spanish brand like Loewe or Balenciaga. It feels like lv really don’t care about him that much compared to how much Gucci care about jannik. They have the most popular player in men’s tennis as their ambassador and they dont gaf. They didn’t even post about his rg win. Can you believe it? Jannik could win a freaking challenger and Gucci will post about it😭 Plus the dinner that Gucci hosted for Jannik with Ryan Gosling and Salma Hayek.
I think Gucci is very invested in Jannik also because its an Italian brand and hence why Carlos should go to a Spanish brand (I know loewe is under lv’s parent company. But they are pretty independent as far as operations and creative direction is concerned).
Idk sometimes it just feels like it’s Carlos and his checkered nike polo shirt against the world.
ooo ok yes i was actually talking to my irl bestie about this the other day bc she's much more into luxury brands than i am and she mentioned how carlos should go to loewe too ! that being said i literally just rbed a post saying that he should wear a pink LV bag lol but i'd be happy if it was any nice pink bag. tbf i know very little about these fashion brands so yea i don't have super strong opinions on them, but it would be nice to see something other than LV for the reasons you mentioned.
i didn't know that LV didn't post about his RG win but yea that sucks 😭 iirc i think he did like a small photoshoot after winning RG in a suit but i don't think that was for LV specifically. it might have been for rolex but i'm not completely sure.
but yea i definitely agree with you that compared to jannik and gucci, LV seem to underutilize carlos. i also think you're right about how it might be bc of the italian company and italian player thing. i'm not exactly sure how either brand goes about their sponsorships/partner deals, but maybe it could be that LV doesn't really go that hard on using their atheletes or other partners in general 🤷 maybe it could also be a difference in how much carlos and jannik really want to participate in these kinds of things. to me it seems like carlos doesn't really care much about fashion compared to jannik (although i don't think either cares that much, but jannik definitely seems more willing to play into that stuff !). also maybe a difference in whether they have stylists too or just hand them clothes and say do what you want with them LOL.
lately it seems like they have been ramping up the gucci and LV endorsements though, and i think i should give some props to LV for the most recent fits bc they're much better than what we got before (i'm well aware the bar is on the floor LMAO). i'm not super picky but i definitely think it would be interesting if carlos went to a brand that really poured more resources into him and took advantage of having a deal with him, and it would be nice if it was a spanish brand for that reason too.
it really do be carlos and his checkered nike polo against the world 😔 BUT i think he should fix that and HIRE A STYLIST PLEASE like i know you have enough money for it carlos !!! hire a stylist for us please so we can see you in nice (NOT JUST DECENT) outfits !!! tbh i think a stylist would be extremely helpful for him and his brand but again idk much about fashion and these things so yea
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cupcake, warm milk, pillow, pastel, soft fur, meow !!
Cupcake - Do you have a comfort food? If so, what is it?
OH YEAH- my comfort food is quite literally kung pao chicken (no green peppers, add broccoli) from the Chinese food place down the street from us. they literally know my wife (tho they think she's me bc i always order) bc i am spoiled (read: they are VERY affordable) and xe will pick it up for me basically whenever im having a bad day and we have takeout money available and it never fails to make me 300% happier until i finish the leftovers
Warm milk - What is something that makes you feel comfortable?
my headphones c: they are over the ear and noise cancelling, i wear them 90% of the time i am not at home, and in general if im having discomfort but idk why I'm usually reaching for those first
Pillow - What are five (or more) things that make you happy?
non-living things/experiences only for this (bc if not my wife, cats, and closest friends take up slots 1-8 easy): the leather cock ring my wife tried buying that fits my wrist better (its really fun to clicky clicky and also is a cute bracelet and also makes me blush knowing what it was supposed to be for), seeing children expressing themselves through their clothing in public (UGH 🥰💞), seeing people with their friends/lovers and being able to tell from the laughter/loving touch that they're in their own little world together, movie nights at home (or at least somewhere i feel safe to unmask), CHICKEN SPAGHETTI THE WAY MY AMMA (mom) MADE IT, basically Any food but esp soup from my mami (grandmother), ummmmmm g-d this list could go for a really long time tbh so I'm gonna cap it but tbh a lot of things make me happy also, its not a very hard feeling to make happen for me
Pastel - What is your favorite color?
😭 g-d okay i had to use a color picker bc i wanted to give a very accurate representation of the orangey yellows and purpley pinks i like so oranges/yellows: dd9220 ffbe67 f2b40b pinks/purples: cfb5d2 ff4fd3 a8548f
Soft fur - How are you feeling right now?
honestly could be better, this morning was weird and now im itchy bc my skin is dry from the cold but im also leaving work rn so my mood will Definitely increase for sure in the next hour once im home
Meow - Share a random fact about yourself, please
ohhhh ummmm let see.....OH I have photos of my uterus in a folder somewhere because when i was 17 i had to have emergency surgery bc of a ruptured cyst and even though all i remember is Immense pain, i was apparently sobbing begging them to take pictures of my insides while they were trying to put me under for the surgery. i did this AGAIN when i was 18 and had to have my appendix removed (again, emergent surgery), and they did give me the photos but i lost those when moving
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Its hard for me to talk about faith as it is hard for me to talk about anything. I say I don't know so much it might as well be punctuation for me. It's hard to say just how important I find personal faith and spirituality is over that of something based in a group. Maybe thats why I like the favored soul. They are often outside of a organization. Sometimes feared, sometimes revered, sometimes both. But this is real life I am in, not fantasy. I am not going to delude my experience by thinking I am a chosen one.
Years ago I was spending time with a friend at his college. I had feelings for him at the time. He was my first dm and the first guy I would date later one. He was exploring paganism and had been for a little while. But I was different. My parents, raised catholic, turned to paganism in their college years and kept it in their hearts along with their faith in christ. There are points I cannot tell what they really believe. But thats the thing. Faith is not one side or the other. Back to the point I have been pagan my whole life in a way.
So I am spending time with this guy and he eventually finds a group of queer kids that call themselves the Pagan Student Union at the college. He invites me to join their meetings. And I do. But the thing was. The thing was one of the first people I talked to very openly said they had dreams about Thor and he told them find other followers. An alarm bell went off then but i didnt know what it meant.
In short this group was a bunch of queer, college kids who were trying to escape christian programming. I have no ill will to them but tbh. They kinda creeped me out after a while. My friend I dont think talks to them anymore but remembers things differently.
By that point in my life I had been wearing a hammer for a few years and working with runes since high school. It was important to me but I have moved from the mystical stuff about it. Runes are letters. They have the meaning you give them. Like tarot. Its about interpretation.
I realized that some of the people i dated and loved at the time were misguided. They were told things that made them feel special by people who wanted something from them. I dont think one of them realized this. I didnt know how to tell them they dont have a dragon soul. That guy probably wants to sell you something or wants sex.
Then I come to learn through my mother and some online scholarly types that yes. There are people who do just that. Theyre called grifters. And they'll take a lot if they can. Theyre everywhere. That same person with the dragonsoul also felt they were talking to spirits.
They asked me if i believed them on a walk back from a little patch of woods near my home. Idk what i said anymore. I didnt but i didnt say that. They knew i didnt believe them though.
For other reasons im glad that person is gone from my life.
I learned that sometimes the things you find faith in are not the things you think them to be. Gods do not speak to us in anyway we hear if they do at all. Trees dont talk or have spirits that talk on their behalf. The guy whose telling you have a special soul probably just wants to bone. If they do I dont think the person writing this or that book knows how to listen and discern what theyre saying.
But there are real things out there that happen. Storms do move overhead and I feel energized by their rain. I feel awe. I feel fear. I feel excitement. They're like a friend who makes me feel good about myself and I value the time with them when we have it. I call him Thor.
There is something sacred to me about people fighting for what is right. For justice and truth. And i read stories about them and imagine a friend is telling me them. His name is Tyr.
I wonder the woods and see wind blowing through trees, forcing a cacophony of swayinh bodies. I cannot hear my own voice in the wind. And I am excited by this. Like I could be knocked off my feet at any moment. The glory of it all! To live and breathe at this moment.
I cannot find my dogs bowl for 2 weeks. I know in my mind it is under a couch somewhere but i cannot see the blasted thing with any flashlight. No one can. It must be the gnomes. Its always the gnomes. We curse them and bemoan them. It shows up two weeks later when we move the couch for other reasons. They have forgiven shilo for spooking them and returned the bowl.
Life is full of so much wonder, mischief and grief. The things you find mystical are not magic because they have extra properties. Theyre mystical because they exist and you can marvel at them!
My friend is a geologist and she likes to poke fun at the witchy types who think rocks do things. But she talked in the same breath about how these things have been crushed and moved for thousands if not millions of years to the surface into the form they are now and you get to hold it! Isnt that beautiful. It is Lee. It certainly is.
Life isnt tragic because we face so much hard ship only to die in an uncaring universe. Its beautiful that we get to live at all and do all these things and love people and sing and dance and hold rocks. The universe may be a charnel house of mostly dead stuff. But isnt it beautiful that we get to be some of very few things that can move and think and do so many things!
I exist at the same time as the stars do and they are beautiful. I get to see snowstorms and thunderstorms and my dog Shilo and all my friends dogs and all my friends. All in my lifetime! And so much more! I exist at the same time as all these things.
There is beauty in that truth. It is so awe inspiring to me that i get to be here at all! And so much more. So much more i couldnt say it all in a single post. I have faith in this beautiful world and everything that comes with it. I call her God for simplicity.
I like to think of her as a friend whose so excited to show me all the cool shit they find on their walks.
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VAL AND SAM INTERACTIONS....LORE....... HEADCANONS.......SKETCHES.......ANYTHING!!!! i need more content of them both or i will literally Explode
I don't really have any new sketches atm but have some random facts or something
Both Sam and Val can't cook great, at best Val can make a decent egg on toast
They literally eat nearly all their meals at the restaurant owned by Kain's mom (Ms. Wanchai)
Their main source of income is bounty hunting
Why? Because being a bounty hunter gets you a bounty license which can be used as a form of ID without needing to be registered in the government archives (loopholes lol)
This is great for Sam, who's not supposed to be in this era and is keeping it a secret, and Val, who's technically legally dead
This way they can continue to make a living, and continue leasing the apartment
Bounty hunting itself is a dying profession unfortunately because the risks and the government slowly trying to push it out
tbh in the Retrograde world, if you either work for the government, become a bounty hunter, or join the terrorist group
You lose your bounty licence if you don't complete a bounty at least twice a month
anyway enough bounty stuff back to Sam and Val
Bounty hunting gets them like around 800 USD (there's a different in world currency tho)
Harder bounties can go up to 2k or more
But it's not like a lot so they're kinda just scrounging by
On off days Sam usually goes to the arcade or a bar at night
Val spends most of the time inside, but he'll also take his hoverbike for a spin
Speaking of which, Val got his hoverbike in a street race against this rich guy during his early bounty hunter days
That's why it's so fancy
If Val sold it, he'd probably have enough money to buy a fancy place in the city
but he's way too attached to it, plus it's their only form of transportation
Otherwise they'd have to take public transport and walk
They have clothes they wear for bounty hunting and clothes they wear for normal days
They both actually have two of the same jacket each
They do all their laundry at the laundromat where Kain works
Normally, they do all their shopping locally but because it's a small town, sometimes they have to go to Jupiter because it's the closest city
Speaking of which, the name of the town they live in is "Level 4"
It's where Val woke up after "dying" and he hasn't really been bothered to leave since
Because of the halo on his head, Sam gets recognized pretty easily when he goes out in town
Sam's halo turns off when he sleeps, but he also recently found out if he covers the metal implant on his back, they it goes away somehow (however it makes him really sleepy when he does that)
Val used to smoke a lot but he doesn't anymore, he only does it if he gets really stressed about something or he has a nervous breakdown
There's a lunar eclipse that happens every year since the cataclysm, Sam is always super excited to see it since he's a big fan of astronomy events
Val has always felt incredibly sick on those days, ever since he was a child, he usually closes all the blinds and locks himself in the bedroom,
It feels like his blood is trying to claw its way out of his veins
It goes away the next day so it's probably nothing
Sam once developed a strong addiction to a specific cherry smoothie at a dinner and had it every single day for an entire week, he spent the next week in bed from a terrible stomach ache
And finally as a fun Christmas special
For Christmas, Val and Sam usually spend it with Kain and his family plus their friends,
they don't have a christmas tree cause those species of pine trees kinda died out overtime and are pretty hard to find nowadays, and they don't have enough money for a fake one they'll use once, so they just opt to decorate a random houseplant
Anyway sorry this is pretty long 💀 ngl you can bring as many hcs as you want, they could probably have a chance to make it to the canon-
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i don’t want to out myself completely cuz i was raging over this, but it is really similar to what you said a couple months ago about how the people loudest about the game on tumblr are also those who don’t play the game or understand the characters for some reason… i thought it would get better too and they would move to something like baldurs gate 3 but they haven’t. the worst thing i saw recently was someone who only reblogged x reader aus, which i don’t care about that much tbh, talking about how the characters aren’t emotional and how they don’t wear their trauma which is INSANEEEE. especially because ghost exists along with many other scenes in modern warfare and even the smaller games that tumblr doesn’t care about… mind you, this person reblogs hybrid au fics but is complaining about how cod characters aren’t emotional and how they don’t wear their trauma and how it’s unrealistic for fic writers to include that in their fics (lowkey not my business tho, letting the cod fic writers eat eachother alive would be beneficial)
it’s kind of like they don’t view the characters as characters that are complex (for cod standards) and instead just look at them as sex toys for them to masturbate to. it’s literally insane. you were ahead of the game on noticing this.
Like the campaigns for COD, in comparison with other games, are so short that of course we're not going to see every emotional facet of a character. They're very fast-paced campaigns. But we definitely do see them portray emotions. Just because it's not romantic angst doesn't mean that they're not actual emotional responses from the characters. Bro, one of the most iconic memes from COD through these last twenty years is literally Price crying out in emotional agony seeing Soap die. These girls just have the media literacy of a fucking fruitfly and don't see characters' emotions written in a story's subtext lol.
Definitely, I could see that they just viewed them all as interchangeable sex toys and objects. Which sucks because the Modern Warfare storyline, which began in '07, is dear to a lot of gamers' hearts, even for people who have stopped playing COD before the reboots. Like, Captain Price [and arguably Soap] was considered a huge icon/name in video games prior to the reboots. Yet, these "fans" sort of just bastardize the characters and the stories to write glorified porn, ignoring sort of the cultural weight a lot of these names have attached to them among gaming circles.
What annoys me most, too, is that a video game subculture, a space on the internet for gamers (men and women alike) who do love these characters, got totally ransacked and raided by airheads who outright state they have no care for video games, for gaming subcultures, for the stories of the games itself. Unless you go to somewhere like r/girlgamers and search for a Warzone or Multiplayer LFG there, it's hard to find other people in female COD spaces nowadays who, like, would actually want to play matches with you. Like, people have forgotten entirely that COD is a video game and its characters are from a video game, not just an empty, decontextualized sandbox of dolls and faceclaims for their edgy, try-hard, and unrealistic smut fics.
Anyway, it's nice to be recognized for when I am right, even if at times I lost my cool and it felt like a waste of time. Thanks anon.
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