#this is in a specific universe of mine also i just don’t have a name for it

[autisticlancemcclain]

“Al-righty.” Shiro hums merrily to himself as he puts the car in park and holds the keys out to Keith. “Here we go.”

Keith stares at them. Shiro’s hand remains where it is, keys dangling from the key ring around his finger. His expectant look leaves Keith at a total loss.

“Did you drive me out here to murder me?” Keith asks eventually, finally breaking the building silence. He looks pointedly out the windshield, where all that is visible for miles and miles is the desert.

Shiro snorts. “Yep. You ate the last ramen pack one too many times. Time to meet your end.” He reaches over with his other hand and grabs one of Keith’s, gently prying his fist open and placing the keys into them. “No, I’m not here to murder you, doofus. That would be a horrible idea. I don’t have an alibi.”

Keith refuses to laugh at that. It’s not funny and also Keith has been warned about letting Shiro think he’s funny. It can only lead to more dad jokes, or worse. “These are your car keys,” he says, gingerly holding the objects in question.

“Yes,” Shiro says.

“Context clues imply that you are asking me to drive your car.”

“Mhm.”

“I am thirteen years of age.”

“Yep.”

“We met, famously, because I stole your car. This very car, in fact. And crashed it.”

“Correct.”

Keith blinks slowly at him. His amused expression does not shift. Keith’s not sure how else to spell things out for him, so he just shrugs. He’s not about to say no to getting a chance to drive. How many other thirteen year olds can say that a legal, licensed adult took them out to drive?

“Okay.”

He steps out of the car, Shiro quickly vacating his own seat as well. He stands outside the driver’s side as Keith settles back in behind the wheel, leaning his torso through the open window.

“Okay,” he starts, voice taking on the same instructional quality he uses to lecture. “First step: seatbelt. You know this.”

Keith dutifully buckles himself in.

“Excellent. Now you can adjust your seat — levers on the underside there, yeah. You want to be able to easily touch the pedals, but when you fully straighten your arms, they should only go to the steering wheel. You’re a little too close.” He reaches down and guides Keith’s hand along the lever, helping him push the seat back slightly. “There, perfect. See you you can reach everything, but you have lots of space to move? That’s perfect. Fix your posture, though.”

“Does that help with visibility?” Keith questions, figuring a straight back will make it easier to see over the wheel.

“Nah, I just don’t like it when you slouch. Moving on.”

Shiro quickly runs through the rest of the set up with him — adjusting his mirrors, making sure he knows where all levers and signals are, testing the brake lights. Once he’s satisfied that Keith has a general idea where everything is, he jogs over to the passenger seat and climbs in.

“Okee dokee,” he says as he flicks through radio stations so fast you can barely even hear the first couple notes. He pauses after a moment, eyes flicking to Keith, then clicks back a couple stations, finally settling on a country station playing an old Johnny Cash song. “Start the engine.”

Keith does. The old car sputters for a second, then roars to life.

“Good! Drive!”

Keith looks at him in alarm. “What? Just — go?”

Shiro grins, wide and cheeky. “Go!”

Keith doesn’t need anymore encouragement. He steps on the gas, and the car careens forward at top speeds, shooting a cloud of red dust behind them. Shiro whoops, turning the song up louder.

The wind blows loud and fast through the open windows, competing with the blasting music and whipping Keith’s hair all around his face. He gets sand in his eyes more times than he can count, but he doesn’t dare take his hands off the wheel, just blinks it away as fast as he can. He watches the speedometer climb past forty, fifty, sixty, and his belly swoops every time they ricochet up a hole and go careening back down. Every so often Shiro calls out instructions — “Look at your mirrors and your blind spot before you make turns! Foot off the gas for the first half of the turn, then accelerate through the end of it! Don’t cross your arms over the wheel! Listen to the car so you know when to shift gears!” — sometimes a little too late. Keith stalls the car more than once. He also, at one point, swerves to avoid a cactus that seems to appear out of nowhere.

But Shiro never asks him to stop. Never has him pull over, never screams at him for messing up, never chides him about his speed (which, he might add, is entirely reasonable). He only grips the ceiling handle and cheers Keith on, whooping every time they hit a bump. He only calls out words of encouragement, smiling big and proud, cheering Keith on til he’s smiling just as wide.

For the first time since he lost his Pa, Keith feels like someone wants to see him happy.

[the-meme-monarch]

telling this to you because you’re the only one who likes the human characters in dandy’s world. but

Sam (sprout’s handler) is the only non-binary character in all of dandy’s world. which had to be weird for them! considering the time it takes place I doubt they were out. with your headcanons of Delilah being loveless aro & Arthur being aro it makes me think that maybe there were a lot of lgbt workers there. maybe they attracted each other to work in this nice place where there’s less judgment. idk I’m thinking

i’d like to start off with this post of mine before i start my damn Dissertation HDHSJSN

and yeah i think working at gardenview was very generally very nice ! i just like to think arthur is very kind, he wanted to make a good kids show that teaches good lessons. and like, assuming the universe of dandys world is otherwise realistic to real life; he’s a black man born maybe the 60s, growing up in the 70s and 80s. he would have witnessed discrimination or had it enacted on him, and Certainly not saying racism just Doesn’t Exist Any More, but he would’ve grown up while segregation was still very prevalent and racism was. louder. in the general -especially white- population. and then w my headcanon of him using mobility aids he would’ve likely dealt with a lot of ableism. and being aroace(though likely just identifying as asexual, as it seems aromantic wasn’t coined until 2005? according to google at least) likely dealing with amatonormativity/allonormativity/heteronormativity/aphobia/or even homophobia bc Well If You’re Not Straight You Must Be Gay. also while he maybe wouldn’t have had direct experience to the aids crisis, he was still Around For It. and then also my hc of him being mixed race. and then All the ways these things intersect with each other. i think he’s shaped by his experiences and just wants Better and to create positive change !

i also have a little headcanon that he used to be a teacher’s aide ! i think he’s always been into drawing and making characters, and so this job is where he decided he wanted to do children’s edutainment :’] my sibling and i have talked about what we think the cartoon may have been like, and i think we figured “somewhere between animaniacs and bluey”

delilah ofc would’ve dealt with sexism, and amatonormativity/etc and shitty comments about how she acts or doesn’t really care to make friends, “being a loner”, or not being “lady-like enough” or god forbid being friends with a black kid. i think she would be queer friendly maybe more because more plainly “what difference does it make/why should that bother me, they’re not hurting anybody” but also bc “they’re still people too” ! I think it’s very likely both her and arthur were raised christian, arthur probably still identifies with it, but i don’t think delilah does. i think she thinks her religious upbringing was a prison NDNSJSNSJ

sam may not have come out to either of them, but i think they felt safe there that maybe they could to at least the other main toon’s handlers <:] and also with them being presumably irish, with their last name being mclaughlin, they would’ve been dealing with bigot shit for that alone i wouldn’t fault them in the slightest for not coming out to anyone ever. regardless i think arthur and delilah try to make sure that gardenview is a welcoming and kind environment that doesn’t tolerate That Shit. i can only imagine the smear campaigns the show wouldve gotten for having a rainbow flower boy protagonist.

also iirc sam is Stated to be nonbinary and using they/them, while looey and teagan we don’t know the specifics of their gender labels but we do know they use he/they and she/they respectively, and i do picture them deciding on those pronouns was a later development, and not a since-creation thing. idk if they would’ve come out to anybody either, or if they did I don’t think they would’ve even thought it was a big deal at all. i think toons in general are sorta just inherently silly little guys that don’t really adhere to human strictures, they think bigotry is stupid they don’t Get how someone could actually think that way

[aventurineswife]

hi! can i request for herta with a reader who's a fellow genius society member that's absolutely smitten over her? they compliment her achievements from time to time and even volunteers as her lab parter or assistant sometimes but herta is like no you're my lover!! you have to stay safe!! at first but if they really are willing to be then... she just lets them do whatever they want lol

she also finds it cute if both of them are working in the same place together... nothing but comfortable silence with each other's presence while busy with their own works.

thank you!! i really love your writing!

Love is the Ultimate Equation

Summary: In the quiet heart of the cosmos, Herta finds herself growing accustomed—perhaps even fond—of a fellow Genius Society member who seems utterly smitten with her. Despite her usual insistence on working alone (and delegating via her many puppets), she allows them into her lab, into her routine, and eventually, into her heart. Between teasing banter, protective instincts, and soft silences shared over experiments, their relationship blooms in the most scientific of settings.

Tags: The Herta x Reader, Genius Society!Reader, Mutual Pining, Established Relationship Vibes, Protective Herta, Lab Partner Romance, Soft Sci-Fi Fluff, Banter & Wit, Domestic Science Energy, Slow Burn Feelings Turned Soft Love.

Warnings: Light mentions of lab-related danger (non-graphic), Mild possessiveness (playful/protective tone), Excessive scientific flirting, May induce yearning for someone to share equations and eye contact with in a sterile lab setting.

A/N: You're welcome and thank you!! 🤭💖

In the far edge of the cosmos, beneath the ever-turning hands of the Clock Tower, a quiet hum of machines filled the air—a rhythm only broken by the rustle of data scrolls and the occasional amused sigh of one very specific genius.

“Again?” Herta tilted her head, hair swaying with the motion. “You’re here again.”

You didn’t look up from the console. “Is it that surprising? This is, after all, the most fascinating lab in the entire universe.”

“No. It’s not.” Herta’s voice was smooth and dry. “It’s just mine. And you should be using your brainpower to, I don’t know, revolutionize biology or collapse a quantum paradox. Not fetching beakers for me.”

“I like being your assistant,” you replied, offering her a sheepish grin. “Besides, you said yourself—‘there are only two competent people in this society, and I am both of them.’ I figured being nearby might raise the average.”

Her lips quirked, a rare and dangerous smile. “You’re flattering me.”

You did that a lot. It was hard not to.

Ever since joining the Genius Society, you’d been enchanted—not just by Herta’s achievements, though those were spectacular—but by her presence. There was something magnetic about the way she moved through a room like it belonged to her, the way her thoughts danced between formulas and impossibilities, the way her puppets reflected a mind too busy to be in just one place.

And yet, lately, she'd been... present. With you.

“You don’t have to risk your life in here,” she said one day, arms crossed as she eyed the test chamber. “You know I can handle it all. You’re my lover, not my lab tech.”

The title made your heart stutter. “Lover?”

“You kiss me behind the quantum stacks, bring me tea I don’t ask for, and volunteer to work in rooms where the variables might literally scream. What else would you call it?”

Your throat tightened. “I thought I was just annoying.”

“You are.” Her expression softened. “But annoyingly sweet. Like a protocol that insists on double-checking even when it’s right.”

“And yet, here I am.”

“And yet, I let you stay.” She turned back to the projection screen, feigning indifference. “You win. You can assist. But only under one condition.”

You perked up. “Name it.”

“We work in silence. Comfortable silence. None of that praising nonsense while I’m calculating whether the Simulated Universe can experience recursive self-awareness.”

You raised a hand solemnly. “I vow to only admire you quietly.”

Herta rolled her eyes, but the corners of her mouth curved just so.

And so, it became routine.

You worked beside her, sometimes fiddling with equations, sometimes running tests she’d deemed "too boring to exist." The Clock Tower became your shared cathedral of science and soft glances, filled with the glow of simulations and the light tap of keys.

Some days, neither of you spoke for hours. And yet, those were the warmest moments of all.

You'd glance over and find her already looking at you.

"You know," she said once, fingers tapping a rhythm on the glass surface of the lab table, "I could have built another puppet for this."

You leaned closer. “But you didn’t.”

“No,” she said, voice quieter than usual. “I didn’t.”

There were galaxies exploding in her mind, experiments spiraling into the unknown—but somehow, she always made room for you.

Not as a test subject.

Not as a variable.

But as her constant.

[direwolfrules]

I get that this is kinda over shadowed by the, well, everything going on in the book, but why is no one talking about how District 12 was a fucking Company Town. The miners were paid in scrip. Scrip was only supposed to be redeemable in the Capitol Store, but luckily some of the merchants in town would accept it as an alternative form of payment.

Keep in mind I’m American so my knowledge of the subject is very USA history centered, if anyone with knowledge of similar systems in other nations wants to jump in I encourage it.

For those who aren’t aware, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, companies would build entire communities, Company Towns, to house their workers. In the United States this often happened in remote areas where resource extraction jobs such as mining and logging/lumber milling were occurring. These towns would often be the only place to live for miles near these work sites, so even in the locations where it wasn’t required by the company that owned the site for their employees to live in the company town, many had no choice but to do so.

Most company towns were exploitative. You HAD to live in the company town most times, and in many cases the company would charge you rent. Then comes the Company Stores and scrip. The company owned and ran the store in town. So you needed to buy your groceries and toiletries and basic articles for living from the company. Thing was, they’d charge an excessive mark up for these products. So your pay would never quite be enough to afford everything you were buying, leaving you forced to put in on credit. Leaving you in debt to the company. But say you were in a company town just close enough to another community that you’d be able to make the trek to buy stuff from their shops. Surely, in that case, you’d be able to avoid the debt to the company that employs you? This is where scrip comes in. Scrip was an alternative type of currency that was only really good in the company town that issued it. Miners and loggers would be paid in scrip instead of actual money, and the exchange rate was practically worthless. Even if that neighboring community existed, the likelihood it would have a shop that would accept pieces of paper that were only useful as tinder outside of a company town were slim to none.

Company towns were designed to keep workers in debt to the company, and therefore trapped in their employment with the company. They were often lacking in what we would today consider to be basic municipal services, were full of poverty and lacking conditions, and the general awfulness of the practice and environment was one of the factors that lead to the unionization of mine workers.

Which leads me to a bit of Appalachian Coal Mining specific history and another few things I don’t see people talking about in the books. For around a decade in the 1910s-1920s the West Virginia coal wars, also known as the mine wars, raged as part of the dispute between unionizing miners and the mining companies/their union busting mercenaries/the U.S. government. The history is too long for this post, but I encourage everyone to at least read the Wikipedia article. Anyway, the Coal Wars culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain. During the Battle of Blair Mountain, which was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War, about 10,000 miners rose up against the companies and corrupt sheriff’s department that were literally murdering murdering them on courthouse steps for unionizing. The companies and the US Army had bomber planes drop gas and explosive bombs left over from WWI on them.

Anyway, I find it incredibly interesting with this historical context that one of Haymitch’s friends is named Blair. Whether or not Blair Mountain is still known as Blair Mountain during the series is unknown, the only in universe reference we have to what placed used to be named is when Katniss mentions District 12 is in what used to be known as Appalachia. It’s just interesting to me, that a name so tied to Appalachian coal miners rebelling against exploitative companies and corrupt law enforcement, lived on.

I also want to point out that while the miners were bombed and routed at Blair Mountain, though it was technically a win for the companies-government coalition, even though it led to lower numbers of UMW members for the next few years, the fight continued on. And in the 1930s the union won most of what the miners had been fighting for. Something something, District 12 parallel.

Anyway, I leave you with some music to listen to:

[minijenn]

Aftter a very lengthy time, I am finally open for writing and art commissions again!

As per usual, feel free to send me a PM through any of the above channels to request yours! Also, bear in mind that all payments will be processed over PayPal and that that all commissions must be paid full price up front before I will start working on them. Also generally all prices are negotiable but I will uphold to the above prices mostly (though the line is blurred a little for the bigger projects)

As for what I’ll draw, basically here’s that list:

Art Commissions:

Universe Falls stuff (regular, AU, hypothetical stuff, you name It and I’ll pretty much do it (with some exceptions of course)

Stuff for these fandoms:

Gravity Falls

Steven Universe

Owl House

Amphibia

Kingdom Hearts (extra cost, see above) (also includes Keys to the Kingdom based art)

Legend of Zelda (extra cost, see above) (also includes Shades of the Sea based art)

Disney (Any of their animated movies fit, also Pixar)

Other Nintendo franchises (Mario, Animal Crossing, Metroid, ect.)

(anything outside this stuff… I’m not very likely to have any talent in drawing, so be aware)

Expect pretty much anything to be in my usual styles, as seen above, unless you have a specific request for a different style (which could cost a little extra, depending on how challenging it is)

The most characters you can request in a colored character sketch is 6 (there is no character limit for uncolored)

I will draw character death/blood/violence/gore/ect but not in an explicit manner

Here’s what I won’t draw:

NSFW (like at the very most I’ll draw a kiss tbh)

Ships I don’t support (and if you ask for one of these, I’ll let you know if I won’t go for it)

Fandoms/crossovers I’m not familiar with

I do reserve the right to reject or accept requests based on personal reasons!

Writing Commissions

These are pretty much only gonna be for drabbles and oneshots and the prices are as follows: 

$10 per 500-1000 word drabble 

$20 per 1000 word oneshot

+$5 per every 500 words over that base 1000 (max I’ll do is 5000 words)

As for the kinds of writing commissions I’ll be taking, basically any theme/AU/prompt goes, but keep in mind I’ll only be writing for these three things:

Universe Falls (this includes all of its AUs)

Kingdom Hearts/Keys to the Kingdom (includes AUs as long as I’m familiar with them/comfortable writing for them)

Legend of Zelda (any game/includes AUs)

And as for the rules of these writing prompts, they’re as such:

I won’t write any sort of porn/smut/lemon, other gross stuff

I won’t write for any ship I’m not familiar with/comfortable with

I won’t write anything with any non-canon OCs in it, sorry fam, they’re yours, not mine

Any and all tones are allowed, from teeth-rotting fluff to the angstiest of angsts

Be as specific as possible when requesting a writing prompt, just so I can make sure I’m giving you what you want (i.e. include a brief blurb of a plot you want me to tackle, or if you don’t have one in mind, a quote or a prompt works too! Heck, even just a character interaction you might want to see me take on is fine)

Lengths are negotiable, everything here is by a case by case basis 

Again, I do reserve the right to reject or accept requests based on personal reasons!

Feel free to forward any questions you may have my way! As mentioned before, please send commission requests via PM please!

Commissions will likely remain open for the next week, depending on how many I end up getting. Very excited to see what ya'll have me draw/write this time around ^_^

[shadowkoo]

I just needed to come here and vent for a moment. As a writer, I put a lot of time and thought into curating my ideas and outlining fics before I even begin writing. So, you can imagine my surprise when I woke up this morning to a tumblr notification that someone had tagged me in a post titled “[My Fic Title] Part 2.”

Naturally, I was a bit shocked. After scrolling through it, I realized that this user had written a second part to one of my fanfics, and they tagged me to credit me for the original story.

While I won’t name the specific fic or the user (they did remove it per my request), I feel the need to address this publicly with a quick PSA.

My characters, storylines, cliffhangers, and everything in between are my intellectual property. Yes, the characters are inspired by real idols, and yes, some of my plots exist within established TV/film/book universes. But the ideas, twists, and execution are mine, and I’m the one who will decide how they unfold. (For clarity, the fic in question isn’t set in another media universe, but I wanted include this line since it is relevant for a couple of my other works).

I appreciate that this person enjoyed my fic enough to be inspired to write something themselves, but to be completely honest, I don’t think what they did was okay. I have some serious issues with this, and I want to share them to hopefully prevent this from happening to me—or anyone else—again.

First off, I find it incredibly rude that they didn’t reach out to ask my permission beforehand. Had they done so, I would’ve immediately told them not to go forward with it. Instead, I found out through a tag after the fic had already been posted, which felt like a slap in the face. To make matters worse, because of time zone differences, the post was live for hours while I was asleep, gaining traction.

I know that in the fanfic community, it’s somewhat common to write alternate endings or continuations for larger works from big-name authors or shows, but that’s not what’s happening here. I’m a hobby kpop fanfic writer. Writing a fanfic of my fanfic just feels out of line.

To be blunt, it felt like they were piggybacking off the success of my story, trying to steal some of the excitement I’d built for an upcoming second part. It also seemed like an attempt to siphon engagement, followers, and interactions from my readers—people who were already invested in the original work.

What bothers me even more is that I’ve publicly mentioned I’m already working on a second part. It left me with a bad taste, like this person was trying to rush out their version before I could post mine. That kind of move creates confusion for readers and, from where I stand, feels calculated and disrespectful.

So let me make this crystal clear: No one has my consent to rewrite my work, create additional parts to my fics whether they’re complete, on hiatus, or in-progress, whether or not i have mentioned that i'm writing another part, or to publish alternate endings, etc.

Thank you for understanding. - Raven

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

So uhh I wanted to share a little headcanon(or an au of an au??) of mine about the himbois :)

I love and adore that the himbois love each other so so deeply and would literally die for each other in a non-romantic way because it shows how romance isn't the be all end all of love and that the other types of love are no less strong or no less important and it breaks away from all the allonormativity. BUT I maintain that it would be hilarious if Jon and Gerry were dating with Danny as their enthusiastic third wheel.

Absolutely nothing changes, the dynamic is the exact same except Jon and Gerry sometimes kiss and hold hands now. That's it. They don't love Danny any less for it or are any less affectionate with him. And it makes people(including their audience) so confused because they can't figure out which is dating which if any of them are dating each other at all(would there be like, video essays theorising about it?) Which the himbois get a huge kick out of.

It's kinda like that meme, I don't remember exactly, a couple getting a cake for their anniversary make the baker write their friend's name right alongside theirs except they ask to make the friends name a lot bigger because they love their friend that much

Your au is perfect the way it is just wanted to let you know

Oh I absolutely love this. Especially because it so fully fleshes with my own idea about relationships in general but specifically with these characters.

I never really liked the idea that romance per se had to be the number one relationship in your life. So the idea of a sort of platonic throuple where 2/3 were romantically involved and the third was just And Your Friend Steveing their way through this relationship was always something I was down for.

Danny, Jon, and Gerry specifically are characters where my headcanon about their romantic orientation changes for me depending on the fic. In nhthcth and in the himbois AU, I see Danny as aroace. But I had a different fic where Danny, Jon, and Gerry had this exact dynamic, just flipped as to who was involved.

It was an AU where Danny and Jon met when Jon was in university and fell sickeningly in love. Then, Danny disappeared after he visited the Theater Royale. Jon went off the fucking deep end in the aftermath, and eventually ended up at the Magnus Institute in so much of a spiral that he ended up dragging that one guy who was accused of skinning his own mum to the doctor and bullying him into cancer treatment after he passed out while having a smoke. Gerry and Jon then end up platonic soulmates who decide to live or die for each other, which one they pick will depend on what their options are in the moment.

I could never settle on an ending, but one of the potential endings was a happy one where they realized Danny was still alive. The Circus had kept him as a captive audience to a show that never ended, because they couldn’t feed on the scale they needed to and still evade Gertrude’s notice. So they nabbed a bunch of people from all over and had them join their audience. Danny was one of many, and Jon and Gerry save him from the show. After they do, it’s just:

Gerry, very secure in his place in Jon’s life but also aware that Jon’s presumed dead fiancé and soulmate just came back from the fucking dead and they sort of had life plans together: so how’s this going to work

Jon, hasn’t let go of Danny’s hand since they found him: do you know that thing where you have two hotel rooms connected by an interior door

Gerry: yeah

Jon: that but houses

Gerry: fuckin sick

The primary relationship is Jon, Gerry, and Danny platonically. Jon and Danny just also happen to be in love.

I have other fics where Jon and Gerry are romantically in love. I definitely ship them—it just depends on the circumstances. I love your dynamic in the context of the himbois au.

I have a lot of fics I’ve imagined but haven’t written that have this sort of set up, so I really really love this concept here. I don’t know if you read any of my other fandoms, but I have some imagined fics for JJK where Maki and Yuuta are platonic soulmates and also happen to be independently in gay love. I’ve got an imagined fic for BNHA where Izuku, Todoroki, Iida, and Shinsou have each other as platonic partners that they think of as their “primary” relationship, but Izuku and Todoroki happen to be dating also. I just really love this as a relationship dynamic. Thank you so much for sharing with me!

[having-a-hyperfixate]

Don’t mind me sprinting to try and get this thought in order before the Anime Expo panel. I need it to be out in the wild Just In Case.

So, a few of the Gung Ho Guns have gotten reworked for Stampede, yes? To varying degrees.

Ninelives is apparently not a horrific flesh mech, Dark Souls boss thing, according to the end credits of episode 3.

E.G. the Mine just got a HUGE upgrade and didn’t get owned 3 seconds after he showed up.

Monev was an actual character with a fubar backstory and emotional impact instead of just Some Guy who trained in a basement for years specifically to kill Vash. (and Orange is SO EVIL for this)

Elendira is. *gestures futilely* There is so much going on there but yeah. She’s going to be terrifying once she achieves adult body and loses (drops?) the childish attitude. Also because of the whole Plant hybrid thing her nails truly are literally infinite sooooo.

So I have some thoughts about Hoppered the Gauntlet.

In Trimax, Gauntlet’s narrative weight comes from the fact that he makes Vash remember, which by extension makes US, the reader, understand what July really meant. Before that we had heard mention of it a few times as ‘a city destroyed in a single night’ and talk of there being ‘no survivors’ but we had no actual connection to it, and also no real idea if that was even true. But in Stampede, we saw July happen. We were there. So even if Vash’s memory is still shot afterwards, and he doesn’t remember Lost July, we the audience DO. So having the Dragon’s nest play out exactly the same isn’t going to have the same narrative punch in the gut that it did in Trimax. It can’t.

There’s also the fact that, given how we’ve met most of the major players in the story, or had them mentioned at least (hi Milly), it feels kind of Odd™ that we haven’t seen someone has emotionally impactful as Gauntlet yet.

Unless we have.

We saw with Rollo/Monev that Orange is willing to have the person’s regular name be one thing and then have a second Eye of Michael code name. I suspect that is going to happen with Gauntlet; either because EoM or because he has decided on his own to lie about who he was.

And yes, I do in fact have someone in mind.

I checked myself the translation there is accurate; the only change I would make is calling the gun ‘gaudy’ instead of ‘shiny’ but that’s not a huge deal. Also for the record, the original tweet is from Jan. 11, well before he makes his reappearance for the season finale. So when it talks about a ‘reappearance’, it is talking about seeing him again in July. Original tweet here, tweet containing the translation here.

I think Chuck Lee is going to be our Gauntlet. That he made it just far enough out of the city to survive, but that he was badly maimed in the process, and that his family didn’t make it. He’s the ONLY member of the military police with a unique design. He has an actual name, and the director himself tweeted about his backstory. His gun is so unusual that we would recognize it anywhere. Hell, I referred to him as ‘the gold gun guy from episode one’ when one of my friends didn’t recognize him immediately. His gun is so incredibly recognizable. Almost like we need to be able to recognize him by that alone, when everything else about him has changed.

THIS could be how narrative weight for Gauntlet is established in the Stampede universe when it can’t be done the same way as in Trimax. Taking a character who has, in a way, also been with the audience ALL ALONG, who was there with us for two pivitol moments, the beginning and the awakening, but who comes at it from such a horrifically different angle and bringing him back in such an agonizing way. Because he was very much in the wrong with his stunt at Jeneora Rock, but his rage over the loss of his family in July would be justified, even if we know it wasn’t Vash’s fault.

(Also, the IRONY of him ending up as one of Knives’s lackeys when Knives is the one that caused all of this? Damn.)

Footnote: I have Thoughts on why they can get away with adding Milly to The Squad late. That is a whole other Thought but tldr; (and also I haven’t actually written it out) Milly is the most perceptive of all of them she doesn’t NEED an extended intro to Vash to Know.

[phantomwyvern]

Pokes u gently... How developed is the AU you've talked abt where you drag Firth thru a redemption arc? Do u wanna talk abt it. I wanna discuss that little loser. I want him to be in immense pain /silly

YOU GET IT!!! TO THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BLENDER WITH THAT LITTLE BLUE BASTARD!!

Kay, this does have an outline and dialogue for it so far in my docs and it’s gotten me to pick up comic art again. Under a cut because this got long af. And as always feel free to ask about anything else or even add your thoughts or what you think would be fun for this AU, I’d love to hear them. Also if you see anything in here that strikes you and want to do something with please take it and run with it. Whatever you come up with is bound end up different than mine on some level and I’d love to see what you do with it, universal blessing for plot beat borrowing.

The basic premise is Firth manages to dig himself from under the boot bar, into a New Carcinia that has been launched into a Great Depression because Firth has managed to make the vast majority of trash completely worthless within a matter of hours. You can find pretty much any type of trash you want by just digging around for it in the city now, the value for just about anything that isn’t a building material to them has tanked HARD. And on top of that people going nuts from getting Gunked has went from basically unheard of in the reef to a near daily thing. Crab Raccoon City my guy, Crab Ragoon City if you will.

Pretty much all the trash Firth had saved up as a just in case scenario is completely worthless now, and seeing as he seemed to be a trash reseller of some sort before all this, he no longer really has that as prospect seeing as that’s likely not in very high demand. He’s walking around with injuries both from his fight with Kril and being crushed by a building. His apartment building has been completely destroyed because of the trash island he decided needed to be dumped on top of the city. He has screwed himself and literally everyone else over so fucking bad with his idea and his only saving grace is that he, Kril and (unbeknownst to him) Nemma and Chitan, are the only ones who know he did it so he doesn’t have a whole angry mob after him for this.

Firth is now in the same place of everyone he’s ever thought he was above, and he has no clue what the hell to do about that. But he’s still in denial about any of this being a terrible idea, he thinks this was still a great idea on some level! If only everyone did what he thought they should have done things would have been perfect. He refuses to take responsibility for any of this, and blames everyone else for not acting how he wanted them to for his ideas to work. (It’s not Firth if he isn’t still kind of the worst, and he still has capitalist brain rot really bad. Don’t worry though, this is a redemption AU.)

He eventually runs into an old business partner named Strait. Strait is OC I made specifically for this and he’s very much meant to be a reflection of Firth if Firth was more self aware of just how selfish he was and knew how awful everything was for anyone who wasn’t actively in charge of stuff on some level and just…didn’t care and actively leaned into it.

And Strait, seeing how dire Firth’s situation is decides to take advantage of this. He offers Firth a job that he knows he doesn’t really have any choice but to take, and knows he won’t be able to leave as well with how injured he is and seeing as Firth never really mentions any family or close friends, and to be honest is probably someone who has a hard time asking for help and likely had a pull yourself up by you bootstraps mentality won’t have any help to get out of it. He knows Firth is desperate and a desperate worker is a hard worker and Firth already sees him as a friend so he can also spin this as Firth doing a favor for his friend. Strait sees the power vacuum that Roland left after he disappeared and is gunning to take it over and he’s going to need a lot of people to help him take that place, which in his eyes means to screw a lot of people over, and his old “friend” Firth unfortunately just so happens to be in a very convenient place for him to do so.

Firth begins working for Strait, very much under the impression his friend is actively trying to help him, completely unaware that he’s in no better of a position than everyone who ever worked for Roland was. Every time he sees someone get injured or gunked and he himself gets injured he goes to complain to Strait. Strait who always says he’s going to fix it, but that never happens. Firth waits and waits, watches as more and more people get Gunked and injured, including him when Strait starts sending him to kill the gunked crabs. Crabs that he had gotten to know usually and was sometimes friends with.

Firth’s mental health spirals further and further down until he’s eventually forced to acknowledge that this is just what happens to the people who aren’t on top, this is how you run a financially successful business that doesn’t stop growing. You oil its machinery with blood and cruelty and you can never stop. He doesn’t want do that to other people, doesn’t want others to die and get injured just so he can make money. He doesn’t want to hurt anyone, but that had been pretty much all he’d done before he’d wound up here. From trying to kill Kril to dumping trash on New Carcinia and getting just about everyone in the city sick. His world view is finally beginning to completely destabilize.

Enter Kril and Chitan, who post canon have become an adventuring bestie duo and are surviving and thriving despite the horrors. Protecting people from the gunked crabs. Kicking the asses of people who are screwing everyone over like Magista and Roland, which is how they hear about Strait.

The decide “Yeah, this guy probably needs his ass kicked, let’s make him regret every single decision that lead him here!” And off they go to storm Strait’s company!

Which is how they finally run into Firth again!

Strait sent Firth to go confront Kril, having already been using him as a sort of living shield up to this point. And Firth is rightfully fucking terrified when he realizes who Strait sent him to try and scare off considering the fact Kril kicked his ass even when had god powers and Kril seems to have gotten only stronger since then. The second Kril lays eyes on him and realizes that Firth survived, he knows he’s screwed beyond belief.

And Kril is pissed to see Firth. That’s not just Firth’s new found fear of him talking. He sees Firth looking to start another fight and jumps in without thinking twice about it.

And Firth is still fucking terrified but he also realizes he’s angry at Kril too. Kril who ruined his whole plan, Kril who broke the Whorl so neither of them could even fix what happened, Kril who who didn’t even have the shucking guts to finish the job and kill him and now he had now choice but to work for Strait with no way out that he could possible see.

What had begun as physical fight that Firth was terrified off descends into a yelling match with Firth blaming Kril for all this because he still refuses to take responsibility for his actions and there consequences and Kril calling him out on every single thing he knows Firth has done. From all the shit he pulled and said on the treasure hunt. To how he stole a magic glowing shell he knew nothing about and dumped trash on everything he’s even known and now the fact he’s blaming Kril for his own stupid and selfish actions. Tells Firth how he’s glad he failed to kill him because it’s only fair that he gets to live through the consequences of said actions along with everyone else.

And this is what finally completely shatters Firths world view. He knows Kril is right, has been thinking how Kril was right about him being selfish since not long after he got to Straits. How he very well could have been the one hurting other people like Strait’s been hurting him and all the other workers here in slightly different circumstances.

Firth finally just crumbles. Like full on sobbing crumbles as all the guilt, stress, grief, fear and anger and accepts the fact Kril is probably finally going to kill him here, thinks he deserves it even, he knew Kril would make it quick. That Kril was still merciful.

And that’s when Kril finally stops looking through his lenses of anger and finally takes a good look at Firth. Realizes just how beaten down and broken he looks. He’s injured, looks like he’s barely been getting anything to eat and Kril swears he sees the early signs of a gunk infection on him.

As much as he’s still upset with Firth he just feels like sort of a bully now. Firth is in no better of a position than all the other crabs here. Kril is stronger and in better shape than him by a long shot and Kril still decided to beat him up. Whether or not he still thought Firth was a complete jerk he didn’t think he deserved this.

So Kril tells Firth to wait right there and that he would be right back.

He goes off to find Chitan who had went ahead to go see if she could get a hold of Strait only to be told that Strait had escaped.

He tells Chitan he wants to help Firth. Chitan is far from enthusiastic seeing as Firth almost let her die because he stole the Whorl and then poisoned the entire city. She kind of wants to just kill Firth and be done with it but she sees Kril is trying to help someone and is willing to help him with that with the caveat that if Firth fucks up too bad and becomes a threat they do away with him.

They begin deciding where they want to take Firth because they don’t know of any family he has and they saw how his last friend went.

And then Kril lands on Moonsnail! Kril knows Moonsnail won’t hurt Firth, y’know probably.

They bring Firth to Moonsnail, not realizing they are about to put Firth with someone who is he is going to hate between Moonsnail narrating his own and everyone else’s actions and the fact Firth is now pretty scared of Umami Magic thanks to the Whorl.

Kril very briefly thinks this might be a bad idea before deciding they don’t have any better ones and there’s a Moonsnail shell right there so he can just come check on them every now and then. Chitan thinks the thought of both Firth and Moonsnail tormenting eachother is entertaining so she isn’t about to start thinking about anything other options either.

Cue the one of the stupidest situations Firth has ever been in. Moonsnail narrates whatever Firth does half the time because he finds it amusing. Firth is still scared of magic but his irritation with Moonsnail far outweighs any fear of him. And he can’t even bring himself to be mad at Kril for this. Kril didn’t have to help him with any of this, especially after all the shit he’s pulled, but he still did and even came by to check on him on a regular basis. Every time he mentally curses Kril for bringing him here he feels bad about it 5 seconds later. Kril still cared about him despite the fact he’d been a complete jerk so he wants to at least try and make him happy rather than do nothing besides complain about his new roommate.

Kril comes by to visit every couple of days, both to talk and check in on them, and honestly he does sort of just find Moonsnail’s and Firth’s interactions funny at this point.

Moonsnail eventually says that he senses some Umami abilities in Firth, gives him the magic awakening zap and tells Firth to try out some combat magic, Firth immediately hates it because it just reminds him of when he had the Whorl. So now he has new abilities he doesn’t even want.

And then one day Kril comes to visit them with a injury that’s a bit to concerning for Firth to just shrug off, because he does care about Kril quite a bit at this point if he’s being honest.

So rather than combat magic Moonsnail tells him to try healing magic instead. And what do you know he has a knack for it.

This is what I have outlined out for the most part. There’s a good chance this is going to get shippy with Kril and Firth and because they make a great enemies to lovers ship and I love something that’s one sided pining before it gets to be two sided and theybalso work really well for that, but they might also just become close friends we’ll see what I’m vibing with more.

Anyways thanks so much for asking about my silly AU, I hope didn’t spring to to much on yall but who am I kidding when I’m on the other side of this situation I’ll usually eat this up.

[gucciwins]

i miss harry so much :(( could you write a little blurb for us to see what harry and y/n would be up to today? even if it’s only 300 words idc i just need some harry content🥹🫶

had no idea what I wanted to write or if you wanted to see a specific couple of mine but I do hope you enjoy this for now 🥺 love you

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Autumn was his favorite season. 

He loved the cold, always being bundled up in a jumper. Gave him even more of a reason to visit his favorite coffee shop. It didn’t hurt he also got to see Y/N, the pretty barista who always drew a flower by his name. 

It’s actually where he was heading on this drizzly morning. He had finished his workout and thought he deserved a treat. To his surprise, Y/N wasn’t behind the counter waiting to greet him with a bright smile. Of course, he shouldn’t have gotten his hopes up; he knows she has to get a day off. 

Harry goes to the counter and orders a black americano to match his mood and chocolate croissant. 

“Not big on flavor today?”

He turns around and finds Y/N looking up at him, having overhead his order. “Hi,” he greets in a fluttery breath. Y/N always recommended a drink, but it seemed he didn’t bother today. “Uh, I wasn’t sure what to get.” 

Y/N laughs, “I’m sorry if that’s on me.”

Harry is quick to shake his head. “A bit in the clouds today. Didn’t want to think too hard.” 

“Mhm…”

“Off today?” Harry asks, wanting to keep speaking with her.

“Yeah, I was in the neighborhood and wanted a coffee before continuing the day.” 

Harry smiles, “where are you headed, if you don’t mind me asking?” 

Y/N steps closer to him. “Oh, I’m headed to the park to do some reading. Nothing exciting.” 

He’s intrigued, though. He wants to ask her what book she’s reading? What is her favorite genre? If she had one, she’d recommend for him. Before he could ask any of those questions, she excused herself to grab her coffee, and Harry thought that was it. He’d go back to admiring her from afar. In came a crowd of people, and he seemed to lose sight of her and instead decided to wait for his coffee and go from there for his day. 

Harry looked around one more time in the buzzing cafe before walking out. He decided to turn right when he heard a yell of his name behind him.

It was Y/N.

She rushed over, her tote bag slipping off her shoulder. “Sorry, didn’t mean to startle you.” 

He shakes his head, assuring her it’s okay. 

Y/N brushes her hair back, a sign telling him she’s nervous. “Well, I was wondering if you wanted to walk with me. Only if you’re free,” she adds. 

Harry bites back his smile, knowing he might have never gained the courage to ask her out, but glad Y/N made the first move. “I’d love to join you.” 

It’s how they find themselves walking to the park and settling onto a dry bench as the morning drizzle seems to have passed. Harry could listen to Y/N talk all day. He learns she has lunch with her parents every Sunday and has a baby tabby named Gus, after her favorite romance character. She shares that while she loves making coffee, it’s a means to an end while she gets through university. Y/N has a year left and knows time will fly by after the holidays. She tells him that she loves jackets and can never go without one. She can also be very forgetful, meaning she’s gone through her fair of keys to her flat. Y/N switched it up on asking him questions, but they always seemed to go back to her, not that she minded. 

“Can I confess something?” Harry tells her after he returns from throwing away their coffee cups. 

Y/N beams at him, “course, Harry.” 

“Uh,” he thought it’d be easier to confess his feelings, but he felt his heart in his throat. “I think you’re amazing, and I’d love to take you on a date,” Harry breathes out.

Y/N feels her face flush at his confession. She places her hand on top of his and gives him a squeeze. “I’d love to go on a date. Though this felt like a date to me.”

Harry agrees but promises their second date will be even better. Y/N excuses herself after seeing the time after giving Harry her number. 

“Don’t make me wait for a text, Harry.”

“Call you tonight? We can plan out our date.” He offers. 

Y/N nods, “sounds perfect.” 

She walks away but pauses a few steps away as if she is debating something because he can ask her if something’s wrong. Y/N walks back over to Harry and places her lips on his cheek. It was a short kiss, but he could feel her lips' softness. Y/N pulls back with a sheepish smile, laughing as she sees Harry’s face turn red. 

“I’ll see you, Harry.”

“Bye, Y/N,” he breathed out, locked in a trance. 

It’d seemed this Autumn would forever hold a special place in his heart. 

[zoniteillusion-pyritedreams]

💗✨ Aphrodite’s Altar Diaries: Love Spell 001 – Call It In, Honey ✨💗

subtitle: a soft + spicy ritual to open the door, not force it shut

Hey babes,

This is my first entry in what I’m calling my Aphrodite’s Altar Diaries, a digital spellbook-slash-love-letter to those of you walking with Her, calling in connection, or just curious about a little divine romance. 🌹

Recently, I did a love spell—both for myself and for a friend.

You can totally use this for a specific person (yes, your SP, whether it’s your crush, your ex, your favorite idol, your local barista) or to just call in love in general. You’re not forcing anything this isn’t a puppet spell. It’s more like opening a window and saying, “Hey universe, I’m ready to meet this person. Let us vibe and see where it leads.”

If it’s not meant to work out, it won’t, but now you’ll know rather than wonder.

Aphrodite’s magic is soft and clear like that. She opens the door but doesn’t push anyone through it.

💕 What You’ll Need (and Why)

This is a burning bowl-style spell, and you probably already have most of the ingredients in your kitchen.

🕯️ You’ll need:

A fire-safe bowl or mini cauldron

A charcoal tab (or just burn it outside if needed!)

A cute cup or bowl for mixing (mine’s a Hello Kitty blind bag find—Aphrodite loves cute shit)

A teaspoon or something small to mix with💗

🌿 The herbs & flowers (use what you have don’t stress):

Jasmine flowers – opens the heart chakra and draws in love

Bay leaves – for manifestation and connection

Rosemary – forgotten love herb! Passion + loyalty + clarity

Lavender buds – soothing, calming, brings ease into love

Rose petals – obviously, Queen Aphrodite’s favorite

Lemon balm – calming + sweet energy (burn-only, don’t ingest random ones off Amazon)

Peppermint – love + healing (calling in the healed version of someone is key!)

Thyme – purification + healing + courage

Dill – love, lust, spice. Because you don’t want lukewarm affection

Mugwort – psychic clarity + enchantment

Black pepper – adds kick + speed to spells

Cinnamon – attraction + power + sweetness ( also speeds up the spell)

Coriander seeds – for longevity, connection, and emotional openness

Fennel seeds – protection + clarity

💡 Pro tip from my kitchen witch aunt (a green witch through and through):

Cook with intention. Even tea can be a spell if you brew it with a purpose.

🩷 Optional (But Powerful): Personal Taglock

This one might sound weird to some, but hear me out—hair.

Hair, nails, teeth (yes, teeth), anything from your body is energetically you. I grew up in a household where we never let others keep our hair, and burned it instead. Your hair holds your essence. Including a piece in a love spell binds the spell to you.

I usually use a few strands I naturally shed when detangling or washing my curls.

🔥 The Ritual (Spell Time!)

1. Mix all your ingredients in your cute little bowl or cup.

2. Light the charcoal tab (if using) and place it in your cauldron or fire-safe bowl.

3. Once it starts crackling, pour your mix on top and let it burn.

4. While it’s burning, speak your intention aloud. Or use this:

“I open the road. I align.

This love is divine.

No fear, no bind, no weight in my chest.

Just truth, just love, just soul at rest.

Bring forth the path where we both are free,

And call [his/their] spirit back to me.”

Feel free to replace “his/their” with a name or leave it general if you're manifesting new love. This spell works either way.

Let it burn out completely. The charcoal will go for a while. You can:

Toss the cooled ashes into a plant, garden, or park

Store them in a jar until you can return them to nature

Or toss them into the wind if you’re up high enough (like my aunt’s 16th-floor balcony facing the river—perfect spot)

🐚 Aphrodite Said Share It, So I Am

I actually wasn’t planning to post this. But while meditating with Aphrodite after doing this spell with my friend, She leaned in and gave me a soft little nudge:

“You should share this. Some of your people need it right now.”

So if this post found you, maybe it was Her. Maybe you're meant to try this. Maybe your SP needs help removing the mental junk and toxic fog from their life. Maybe you just need to remember that your love life isn’t cursed it's just been blocked.

This spell gently clears the path. For you, for them, for whatever’s meant to unfold.

🩵 That’s it for now, my loves.

Sending you big hugs, soft kisses, and sparkles in your aura.

Until next time, trust yourself, love boldly, and let the goddess guide your way.

XXX OOO,

Your favorite Chaotic Love witch Laniy

[nicromancytarot]

so how did you manage to find the exact name of your spouse thats quite cool!

It’s a long story in all honesty. 2022 I liked this guy, and I stumbled across pick a cards on YouTube, I watched one about my future spouse and it mentioned some specific things that unfortunately for 2022 me did not add up with the guy I liked. At the end of 2022 I interacted with my future spouse unknowingly, and he’s always been under my nose which sounds insane and creepy at the same time. My friend sent me a video of him in 2021 and I had no idea who he was, I used an audio of him on tiktok in 2022 and still hasn’t a clue of his existence, even as far back to 2020 when I saw him on youtube and vowed to never watch his content ‼️

He’s somewhat in the influencing space if you can’t already tell (I’ll keep his name private for the sake of both of our privacies and timing, since obviously things can change) so I didn’t think much of it. Then mid 2023 I got back into Tarot and pick a cards, I was feeling really demotivated so I decided to watch some about my future spouse again, same thing as always happens, I put two and two together and was like “oh, hang on a minute” then bro got semi cancelled and I was onto bigger and greater things, hoping Louis Partridge was my husband instead 😔

I always felt verrrry drawn to this person no matter what and it pissed me off cus this was my era of loving Miguel Ohara and wishing that he was real, but it was spoiled by this man being on my mind. So around 5 months later I got back into his content (very loosely) and I was a tad more content with him being my future spouse.

I then started learning more about astrology, he hasn’t got many chart analysis posts about him as he’s not mainstream or anything, but the ones that he does have, the “soulmate” ones weirdly describe me and it’s creepy, because it makes me feel parasocial, I only know one other person with a “famous” future spouse so I don’t really know how to feel about it, since there’s so many unsuspecting, but it’s weird to know who you’re going to marry.

Another thing I should probably say is that my spirit guides don’t hide much from me anymore, the start of 2023 they gave me a blob of information about the universe and how it works and all these things about the afterlife (which again, makes me sound psycho, so I don’t speak about it) I’m writing a book on it, have been for the last year, it’s definitely going to be a lot when I one day release it lmao, but because of them telling me all this stuff, they don’t really care to hide my future spouse’s identity for me, I think they figured that it will motivate me to actually get my ass up and become who I want to become so we can meet.

But going back to the astrology, I was told by my spirit guides via pendulum that I was going to meet him at 21, that was told to me October last year, December last year I was looking through our astrology transits, we both have a 5th house (love and relationships) transit on November 24th 2026, 14 days after my 21st birthday. So that was certainly confirmation lmao. His 7th house ruler (where you could meet) in astrocartography goes over the country I live in, and my 7th house ruler also goes over that place too, so again, very strange.

During my October pendulum time, I spoke with one of my great grandparents who had a specific message for me, and she proceeded to spell out his name, so that’s how I know that lmao.

I’ve done so many readings on it since because it does make you feel absolutely, incredibly insane and possibly out of your mind, and they’ve always added up. I did a “how he’s going to meet his future spouse” and then mine, they added up too much, it was terrifying (bro feels rejected by me, L) and I also asked for confirmation a few nights later for just a single sign that he is indeed my future spouse, I pulled AT THE SAME TIME the lovers and two of cups, I genuinely sobbed when I realised I could’ve recorded it, it’s the craziest thing that’s happened to me in Tarot I swear.

I also received a few readings since during exchanges and games where people have straight up confirmed that he is who I think he is. So hopefully we both make the right decisions to be together in the end, it’s definitely not an opportunity I plan on missing out on.

I can’t lie, knowing your future spouse is hard, especially if they’re somewhat someone you look up to, I’m not necessarily a “fan” of him, I don’t really interact with his content anymore, I haven’t really done so since early 2023, but I feel guilty for not doing so now as of who he is to me, and who he shall be. I constantly have doubts about it, my guides get pissed off at me all the time because I’m always asking for confirmation or searching for something, but really all I know now is that if I make all the right choices, and he does too, then we will become what we will be, but for now I guess I feel isolated in that.

I won’t get into the whole negative side of knowing your future spouse, unless some asks me to lmao, it’s certainly too much for this already too long rant.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk xoxo

[gracebethartacc]

I’m pretty curious about the Mirror World as the sorta EQG substitute, can you explain a bit more on it? like what differences are there compared to the main world? And how does Sunset’s arc change here?

my thoughts thus far is it’s more akin to a What If universe and not a swap but it just presents itself that way (think like winter kings world in Fiona and cake)

-instead of Luna being envious of tia, celestia gets power hungry and becomes daybreaker, which leads to Luna banishing her to the sun (instead of mare in the moon she’d look like a sunspot sort of ?) this makes Luna the ruler and tia would be the one to return younger (bc i love the thought they’re twins or close to it but bc of luna being banished it made her younger due to being frozen in time)

-twilight I enjoy the thought of maybe the same events DO happen for her! Up until magical mystery cure, in which she doesn’t fix things and so the mirror world mane 5 are all swapped around (both in personality but also looks/probably names effected as well) and possibly there’s a bit of magic intervention/universe rewrital to make nopony question it besides twi, spike, and the princesses who would remember, perhaps this would be how midnight sparkle happens because twi would just get soooo fucked up over all this bc she essentially lost her friends and nopony cares or knows but her, and she’d go a bit crazy trying to find a way to fix it/researching Starswirls spells until she cracks, seeing as og midnight was after knowledge it would only fit if my version of her is as well but now it’s more bc she’s desperate than manipulated into it yk

-I feel similar plot plays out of sunset helps midnight but in this case it would be mirror/princess sunset, and the first films plot would be similar set up of our sunset getting corrupted and our twilight helps her (who would go through the portal one way or another) (not sure if I’d keep the element stealing or not? Maybe? Seeing as all the og elements have been switched around and mirror twilight doesn’t have her friends anymore thus her element doesn’t work anymore (no friendship equals no magic) so our sunset can’t get mirror twilights element so she goes to og world to get the og twilights element instead (unsure Why she’d do this though? Love any help brainstorming beyond just she’s power hungry like I’d want there to be more to it? Maybe revenge for how twilight basically took her place as star pupil? Shrugs? Like she sees it as twis fault she was banished?? Idk id need to chew on it more)

-our sunset hatessss mirror sunset bc it’s one big reminder that she’s a fuck up and that this could have been the future she had if she didn’t betray tia (iirc in the original she went into the portal willingly? Where as I like the idea in mine she fucked around with things she wasn’t supposed to, and or found out something she wasn’t supposed to (probably something to do with nightmare moon? I always love the idea the stars aiding in her escape is actually tia due to the sun being a star n all idk I love the concept She’s the one to help Luna escape and not just random prophecy, so maybe sunset figures this out and gets pissed, that or just finds out a lot of things tia is hiding bc I like her being flawed/morally grey so idk what Specifically this Thing She Fonds Out ™️ should be) anyway sunset gets banished bc like. That’s how tia copes with her problems. God is evil? Put him in stone! Sister got evil? Put her in moon! First student got evil? Put her in mirror! New student is antisocial? Put her in social place! Etc etc minus discord bc I don’t think I want him to be in stone in mine lol bc that’s a bit too fucked up considering he’s literally a god. Concord would NYAT let that shit slide)

-mirror sunset/princess sunset would have friend group comprised of twilights old friends/the twilight clone characters I’d think (in my initial brainstorming I thought of them as the element bearers but I’m scrapping that bc again it’s a what if/alt events timeline and Not a swap au, so the elements are theoretically the same (and again it plays into the plot (points at the MMC going wrong thing)

-I think our sunset would eventually come back to og world (bc in this version she wouldn’t make a new friend group or anything bc I basically split her in two (og movie antag sunset (ours) and later goody two shoes redeemed sunset (mirror)) and would reluctantly get a redemp arc and would join my group of “side characters cast” (starlight, trixie, sunburst, thorax, pharynx, that whole group)

I’m not sure When specifically this would happen but probably later on just bc the thought of sunset coming back after sunburst has already come to terms with her being gone and has a family is soooo funny. Sunset gets back and is Jumpscared by her brother getting bitches and having a whole ass baby while she was gone wtf….

sunset and twilight having a kind of miles and spot dynamic like “YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!!” “NUH UH? I DONT EVEN KNOW YOU???” if I go with the sunset is mad at twilight for taking her position thing lmao

also midnight sparkle would similarly be redeemed to canon and almost be mirror sunsets version of how our twilight has starlight ? Extra cast member that learns from the princess before eventually going off to do her own thing w her own friends (no midnight getting banished to our world, again it’s not a one to one swap and even then this is Luna as ruler not celestia so she’d do things differently )

ummm that’s honestly about it? TLDR: celestia and luna are swapped, sunset and twilight are swapped, and mane five are swapped. Except not Actually but close enough yk

[octahyde]

Do you have any original characters for TWST?

(As a preface I do have another OC I ship with Chenya, Beau Rhodes, but… I haven’t done much with him besides conceptualizing him. Maybe I should do more since I don’t talk about it enough but TreyRid really really is my romantic canonxcanon TWST OTP and I love it desperately even if I never talk about it. I’ve also been fucking around lately with middle freak Ortho having a form he can use on the surface but ehhh that’s not really an OC thing.)

Ok here it is… The #yumeshit lore post. I actually wanna start getting into like the yume community on BlueSky or something because it has a lot more male yumes than tumb (or rather twit does but my main is a permalocked personal and they’re all slowly but surely jumping ship to BlueSky LMAO), so I might as well explain The Lore in detail. 

As a preface I spend a LOT more time thinking about them when they’re older, because 1) self actualization and 2) why would I EVER want to willingly think about being a teenager again. I literally describe high school as “a haze of undiagnosed mental illness, and also drama club”. no thanx. It’s just not like… too lore noteworthy vs the stuff that actually happens in canon lol.  Here’s what they look like as adults. I’ve mentioned working on a Shrouds piece that took 2 months I finally finished last week, and this is it:

(Side note- along with being a tgirl I hc Idia is a double below the knee amputee after the incident that killed Ortho)

also feel like I should say… Trix’s views on Rook don’t reflect mine LMAO. I have mixed feelings on Rook, but overall my feelings lean positive towards him. He’s a total freak and it’s funny as fuck and I love it. So if you like him don’t try to take the dynamic too personally, it’s the way it is for a laff more than anything.

Beatrice “Trixie” “Trix” Hart is a catch all self insert of mine; mostly for platonic yume. (She was made as a self insert assistant for Klavier Gavin, hence the name, and is also platonic with syl(gags) sylv(throws up in my mouth a little) Sylvain Jose Gautier. If you wanna know about those you can ask ig, I don’t have a ref for 3H Beatrice but I did draw AA Trixie when I came up with her.) She started out as a girl (and I still view her as such in those universes) but for TWST he’s specifically a guy because. Well. This game made me realize I was a transhet man and especially yume helped me sort that out along with being st4t exclusive LOL

Trix is a Pomefiore second year bnuuy beastman from the Shaftlands, Class C (same class as Azul and Jamil). It just kind of really conveniently worked out that my sonas usually have upright brown bnuuy years like the Snow White bunnies and I’m so artistic Pomefiore was the only dorm that makes sense LOL. His Book 7 cameo on Rook’s shelf…

He’s in Film Research Club, and is unique because he joined specifically for crew work, not acting. He’s very extroverted in club and with people he’s close to, but he can be surprisingly introverted when he’s not comfortable. (Ambivert moment). He specializes in practical magic with his sewing and art, and Hates PE. (He likes flying, though.)

His unique magic is My Sweet Heart, which lets him see memories and emotions from people if he grasps their right hand and puts his hand over their heart. 

Caycay is his Number One BFF. I don’t know how they met his first year, but it was basically an immediate click (#trans recognizes #trans. #real #recognizes #real.). Trix walks to class with him every morning, and they frequently go to cafe collabs on the weekend and after class, being sure to leave some of their food out of their magicam posts lest they earn the wrath of their wardens LMAO. If Trix needs someone, Caycay is There for him.

Him and Vil are also VERY close. During his first year, there was an incident that lead to him being roommates with Vil, despite her being a second year and him being first. Trix Really does not like to talk about it, and while Vil would be fine telling people, she doesn’t out of respect for him. She also appreciates someone around club that’s enthusiastic about crew work, and tends to let him lead costume and prop work.

It’s Very clear he has a huge crush on her and that she doesn’t reciprocate. Sometimes she might throw him a bone and give him a little extra praise though LMAO. They do have a very bad fight toward the end of Vil’s third year though, and they go years without talking after. 

His closeness with Vil leaves him some leverage for defending Epel. (#nonpassing recognizes #nonpassing. #real recognizes #real.) It’s mostly in vain, though, but Epel appreciates being looked out for a LOT. Especially because, despite how artistic and fashionable Trix is, his personality is MUCH more down to earth than other Pomefiore students. He’s the biggest advocate for Epel transferring to Savanaclaw his second year and someone who Epel confides a lot into.

Rook’s nickname for him is Monsieur Lapin (Floyd’s is Sea Bunny. Floyd doesn’t come up so I figure I might as well say it heh.). He hates Rook. He thinks Rook is a freak. Especially as a beastman he thinks Rook is super fucking weird. Rook loves Trix’s artwork and his personal journey with beauty and adores him a lot as his beloved underclassman. He knows Trix hates him. He doesn’t care. Trix hates him So Much.

He doesn’t know Ortho much minus the guy who sits next to Caycay’s companion pre Book 6, but once Ortho joins Film Research Trix gets attached REALLY fast. He’s always wanted a younger sibling so he dotes on Ortho constantly, and they rec each other anime and games all the time. (Trix gets him into Professor Layton and he LOVES it.) He learns… a lot about Idia and Ortho’s relationship through this.

Lilia also got asked to tutor him for history once because Trix can’t do homework For Shit and needs help finishing assignments despite his test scores. This backfires because they don’t get anything done ever, but most importantly for The Lore they trade socials and thus Trix is friends with Muscle Red and knows who he is.

Ok. Now the meat of it. The #yumeshit. 

I think it’s probably obvious, but Trix is a nonpassing trans guy. NRC being an all boys school makes him feel safer, but… when he’s not at NRC, even if it’s just in the foothill town, he girlmodes. Being misgendered hurts a lot less that way. (No this is not projecting. Just kidding it is. Please help me.)

As a way of getting respite from this, he VTubes as a magical boy with a voice changer. I don’t have a proper ref but his sona is like the best design I’ve ever done and I’m lowkey mad about it. Anyways. While his interests aren’t really a secret irl it’s always kind of surprising when someone that doesn’t know him finds out he’s into nerdy things, but he gets REALLY invested in the games he’s playing and he has A Lot of info and interpretations to share. And despite his bright design, he gets most excited from horror. He’s not a huge indie by any means but he has a solid following. 

And when Muscle Red sees there’s a well known horror game Gloomurai likes on the docket, well, he HAS to invite them to watch his friend with him! They’ve been telling him how their favorite speedrunner retired and they need someone new to watch, anyways. 

Idia’s very pensive at first, seeing such a bright and sparkly character playing Resident Evil 7, a horror game with a very disgusting atmosphere and themes to match. Probably going to overreact to everything and pretend to be super scared and upset to look cute for views. But he’s watching with Muscle Red, and he wouldn’t make her watch something cringey like that, would he…?

As the game starts up, he starts gushing about what an amazing atmosphere the game has. The entire thing is filthy, and that leads to an overwhelming feeling of dread and disgust- even moreso with the family. His eyes light up when he points out an early scene is referencing The Blair Witch Project.

When it comes to things outside of gameplay itself, he really knows his stuff. Despite how mad him dying for the hundredth time on an extremely easy stealth section makes her, it’s nice to see such a passionate horror otaku. She almost doesn’t mind it because she likes listening to him talk. (Almost.)

Idia starts watching him with Muscle Red regularly. She’s too shy to talk in chat, so she just gives a lot of questionably large donos when he does things. 

He gives a lot of half joking “thank you for funding my doll collection” responses at first, but then says Gloom should chat if they’re comfortable. He’d love to get to know someone who is giving him all this money, and they’re considered a legend in chat for it. She’s nervous (she has no idea why), but she does slowly start chatting and attaching messages to her donos. Soon, she’s a regular in the chat and community. 

So active, in fact, she finds herself with a dm asking for her discord one day. A message follows shortly after about how he appreciates her involvement and wants to get to know her better- now that she’s more talkative, he thinks she’s really funny. 

From there starts a quickly blooming online friendship. They talk whenever they get the chance, though he strictly has to go to bed early or he’ll get chewed out by his housewarden. (A female housewarden…? Is he even forced into the girl dorms at his school?) Idia’s never forthcoming with private info, though, and he seems pretty hesitant with how feminine he is irl to give much past vague detail, either. 

Meanwhile, Trix has to be incredibly careful when lights out and Rook makes the rounds with how late he’s staying up. He is the number one person Trix would rather Die than see his conversation history when confiscating his phone. Gloom’s rude but funny and he loves hearing about X Obscure Game Yaoi Ship. (Sometimes he becomes a casual fan of the series and ship in question- he has been commissioned a LOT to draw her Star Rogue OTP by her.) (He also gets converted to Luisley probably.)

Offline, though, Idia and Trix’s relationship is… awkward. One time during remedial gym lessons when both of them had to run laps in his first year, Trix started complaining about missing club and how he needed to fix his make up, and Idia, being Idia, made a really snide comment about it. Trix snapped at her, and while to him it was just having a bad day, Idia… never really recovered from it. 

In the next year her only exposure was daily convos that were way too peppy for so early in the morning with the extrovert that sat next to her. (I’ve always hced Idia and Caycay sit next to each other in class and straight up forget this isn’t actually canon on a regular basis.) At some point, he started taking curious glances at Idia, which didn’t help at all.

Trix starts getting suspicions about Idia from the few times he does hear her talk, and how similar it sounds. Has he met her before…? But surely he would remember knowing someone as distinctive as Idia, right? 

He has absolutely zero involvement in Book 6 also. With everything going on (because their vice warden ROOK LITERALLY LEFT WITH NO WARNING OR BACKUP PLAN, BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DID, HE IS THE WORST PERSON ALIVE WHO HAS EVER BEEN BORN), him and his roommate end up being the ones to take charge and keep Pomefiore in order. I feel like with Idia yumes in particular Book 6 is a Big Thing because like, Book 6, so I feel like this is important info.

(He IS in Book 7 though. His dream is in between Epel and Rook’s. It’s about being amab :’( He doesn’t take waking up and being back in his actual body well.)

Her and Ortho coming back clear any doubts in his mind: Gloom suddenly leaving on the night of the incident, with zero word since, only to long back on with a “sry, irl stuff happened,” the day after the Shrouds come back? She’s Gloom. Especially getting to know Ortho in club and listening to him talk about her, there is literally no other option. 

He was planning on confronting her about it… then Book 7 happened. Obviously how it ends could change this, but for now once everything’s settled Idia gets a discord notif saying he has to talk to her, and he wants to in person. She tries to say it would be too hard to arrange, only to get a simple response: “Ignihyde Lounge. One hour. You’ll know when you see me.”

She is, unsurprisingly, horrified. How did he figure out? Does he hate her now that he knows she’s a freak? Is he coming to tell her how he can’t believe he befriended someone so pathetic? He’s going to tell everyone all the things she said in confidence. “Lol, you guys thought Shroud was a freak before? Get a load of this!”

Luckily, Trix told Ortho about it. He’s able to coax Idia out and helps her to the dorm lounge, holding her hand along the way. 

And indeed, the one Pomefiore uniform in Ignihyde’s dorm lounge sticks out like a sore thumb. Her heart rate explodes. He’s who she’s been talking to this entire time?! No. No. Absolutely no way. She’s not doing this. She tries to turn and run away, but her brother’s death grip (why did she give him all that strength?) keeps her in place.

He looks around awkwardly as he walks up. “Hey, uh… sorry about that time I snapped at you. Ortho told me it really freaked you out.” Trying to calm her down would hopefully make this easier.. “Do… you want to go somewhere more private? You’re even paler than normal.”

Yes. I do. Alone. And I want to forget this even happened. Unfortunately for her, the look on her bother’s face told her it was a mandatory quest. Defeated, she leads him back to her room. 

He sits uncomfortably stiff on her bed. Idia hides in her chair, turned away from him. He tells her that he doesn’t hate her, that he doesn’t think she’s pathetic. No response. Luckily, he invited Ortho for backup. 

“He really wants to be your friend, Idia! He’s the still same person you’ve been talking to online. And he’s really nice. He’s the one who recommended those games to me!”

Taking a cue on how exhausted she is mentally, Trix gets up and walks to the door. “Just… think about it, okay?”

Think about what? The fact that this person she got close to was actually a loud extrovert who hung around a bunch of normies? That he knows all of the rumors about her? Forget real life- he could go online and tell everyone what a freak Gloomurai was irl, too. 

They don’t talk anywhere for like a week and Trix doesn’t walk to class with Caycay, but then they do talk it out. It’s really hard and REALLY scary for Idia, but she’s able to accept him into her life as a friend. He ends up being a really big pillar of stability for her, and he already knows about her own transness and boymoding which makes him even safer.

And… that’s how they are to the end of her third year! Friends. And really, not looking for anything past that. 

Idia gets a really REALLY nice condo in the Kingdom of Heroes for her internship. (Which she mostly even only uses the upper half of. Smfh) She also gets two cats; a white one, Clear, and a gray one, Ryoji. I’m sure you can guess who they’re named after. Reminder that Idia is canonically a fujoshi. Anyways.

Trix visits during school breaks with Ortho… he also stays in Ortho’s room with him while he’s there. For the most part it’s a lot of just comfy stuff like gaming and watching movies, Ortho taking Trix out to see things and such. Over Winter break while visiting Trix edits one of the Film Research pieces for the culture fair bc he’s club president now… By the time of said fair with 4th years presentations it’s very obvious to like Everyone how they feel. (And they probably know it themselves but try to ignore it because neither feels ready for a relationship).

A really REALLY big point worth noting during this time period (and this is all I’ll say bc I know it’s a difficult topic) is that they see each others cutting scars for the first time. They never really comment on or talk about it, but there’s a wordless understanding and comfort between them afterwards. 

Idia’s staying on the surface for at least a few years to see if researching with Olympos resources can give any new perspectives on blot or her curse. If Trix wants to stay for his internship, there’s plenty of room. She doesn’t admit it, but she really wants him to stay. Unfortunately, though, he’s always been interested in the Queendom of Roses and opts for an editing internship with a publisher there.

It’s more of the same; he visits her more regularly because he’s not limited to NRC’s schedule, and he still streams and she still watches and talks to him. He also adopts Chunky who LIVES FOREVER AND NEVER DIES, EVER. There’s an undeniable closeness between them but neither are still ready to actually act, even if it’s clear they may as well already be together lol. 

During this time she also starts getting him transformation potions to help with dysphoria from STYX while he transitions.

After his internship, he’s able to get a job at the Kingdom of Heroes office of the publisher he interned for. He may or may not have chosen to transfer on purpose- there’s plenty of space there, anyways, so much so he can have his own room big enough to both sleep and work in. Ortho’s out on his own acting internship with Vil’s agency, so for the most part it’s just them and their cats in this huge place lmao. It’s really easy to coexist because there’s space when they need it and Idia’s like entire gamer zone on the upper level when they wanna do stuff together. It works out really well.

There are a whole bunch of headcanons of mine about STYX and the Shrouds and their relationships that I’m not really comfortable going into. However, when they overblotted together, Idia and Ortho did something… really traumatic unrelated to Middle Freak Ortho’s death that Idia blames herself for. She still has regular nightmares about it, and while Trix usually isn’t around from the breakdowns because he’s in his room when they happen, this time he fell asleep upstairs and heard all of it.

He goes in to check on her, and she’s really closed off. He’s eventually able to get her to tell him what happened and her guilt, but… He already knew. Ortho told him years ago when they were all still at NRC. He was waiting for her to tell him on her own terms.

Idia does uhh not take this being hidden from her well! He rationalizes that knowing it and never judging her and standing by her side this entire time means he truly does care and doesn’t blame her. He holds her hand and for the first time says it:

“I love you.”

Idia looks at him wide eyed for a second before turning away.

“You need to leave.”

He’s allowed to stay- she’s not going to just throw him on the street- but he is not allowed upstairs near her. She needs time to process everything. Especially how he hurt her trust. 

Eventually they are able to talk it out though and end up in a relationship. YIPEE!!!!!! Ortho moves in permanently around this time with his internship over with his 2 dogs to add to the family. :)

There’s a lot of stuff with STYX and Woe I haven’t fuuuuuully sorted out the details of, but Idia does eventually have to go back for a while to put her research to use and put an end to things. I think this period is really tough because she does Not want Trix to see what a horrible place it is and how it’s the source of so many awful things it was so she tries to leave him. She doesn’t obv and she’s able to successfully find a solution to the Phantom problem.

Once she’s back, though, she does have a near immediate breakdown- with it all over, her brain can actually like. Process what her life was up to that point and she just kind of snaps. She ends up hospitalized for a few months to keep her safe from a HORRIFIC schizophrenic break. Trix uses STYX Bux for a place to stay so he can visit her near daily and help her through it. There’s also a REALLY bad incident with Ortho.

Minus that though from there it’s… really just them being happy, healing, and transitioning with each other. Idia becomes an indie game dev and Trix becomes a horror writer. He still streams (she started vtubing somewhere along the way too), but they’ve never publicly posted about their relationship. It’s really funny because it’s like blatant but they just try to act like it isn’t LMAO.

As they get older, they move to a small, quiet place in the Queendom of Roses. They have 3 kids (who I also have ocs for but that’s WAY too cringe) who are very well loved. Ortho also lives with them and they have a very happy family. :)

TL;DR: Idia wins the VTuber Fuck A Fan contest.

[thepreciouspurrsian]

With everything going on in life, I’ve been multitasking like a pro. And I’ve also been multitasking a lot of stuff in the fandom. They should write my name under the definition of “Multitasking” in the dictionary, haha!

Wondering why? Here’s why!

Spending time with my family, my pet and friends? Absolutely! That’s the top priority.

Finishing my art and technology classes at the junior high school? Yep!

Wrapping up my interior architecture classes at the high school? Oh yes!

Submitting grades for both schools? Done! And I’ll miss school for 4 months. You could say I teach wholeheartedly.

Completing my university architecture classes? Yes teaching is over and I’m also working on their exam questions.

Wrapping up my own PhD classes? Finally finished yesterday and now I’m studying for the exams coming up in the next two weeks.

Final edits of the paper “Understanding Iranian Architecture in the Sasanian Era: An Intertextual Approach to Tradition, Inspiration, and Influences”? Approved by the professor and it’s getting published! Creating a 50x70 data sheet on Taq Kasra as part of the same paper? Checked off! The energy I put into this one could’ve written a whole essay. (Data extracted from approximately 150 papers (both English and Farsi) on the last Persian empire: the Sasanian dynasty, during this semester. E / ndNote’s gonna sue me for overusing their app, haha!)

Submitting the final version of another paper with my other professor “Reassessing the Role of Game Theory in Architecture” which she approved last week? Done! Thanks to Rowzane magazine for mentioning game theory and architecture in their latest issue. (They even mentioned A / C!! Should I make that a new post??)

Final approval of my PhD topic just in time for my oral exam next March? Yep! I proposed it to my advisor yesterday and she loved it! I won’t name this one just yet. It’s a secret. This one stays nameless… until the day I defend it and make it mine.

Violin practice? Of course! There’s always time for that too.

And on top of all that I got two new design offers last week.

An interior design for a 200-square-meter home appliances store? Yep! Already accepted and I’m working on its 3D modeling and rendering.

Another architectural planning for a 1,200-square-meter office space? Also in progress with my team under my supervision.

Do I still have time to play V / alha / lla? Of course!! How could I not play it? I’m already +30 hours in!

Time for Tumblr? Oh, for sure; about an hour or so a day. I try to create different content here too.

With all these responsibilities, what about fanfiction? Oh I’m working on that too! A four-part story: two parts about B / asim, two parts about L / oki. So it’s a work in progress!! (Why did I separate letters in some specific names? I don’t want this post to show up in searches. This is a personal post and it’s not fa / ndom-related.)

I tend to be more productive when I have a million things to do. Writing/reading fics seems like a kind of escapism for me.

And with all this… do I still have time to catch my breath? To sleep and eat? Absolutely. I’ve got other things to do as well and I’m pretty sure I’ve missed a few.

See? If multitasking were an Olympic thing, I think I’d be winning medals every time! Joke aside, it comes with the mindset I guess. I can’t live without a goal. (or two, or three or…) We’re super competitive here.

Years ago, I had a friend from the Netherlands. We were best friends for years and even back then I was always busy. I remember one time she told me this song reminded her of me.

She was right. She still is.

Still, am I happy? Most certainly! I’m standing exactly where I’ve always wanted to be! And I feel more than capable.

[jaimemes]

Bienvenidos a todos!

For the sake of readability, I’m using proper grammar and a more professional tone for this post, but normally I’m not too uptight about it (unless it’s for the newspaper, of course!).

Anyways, hello! My name is Jaime, I’m a second-year student at Naranja-Uva Academy, as well as the head of the academy’s Journalism Club. I’m currently studying under the Humanities track, with focus on Literature, History, Archeology, and Anthropology! Yeah, I hang out in Sra. Raifort’s class a lot…

Here's my trainer card!

I also have a sister. I may bring her up on occasion. And sometimes a friend of mine will pop up occasionally on my blog. I can't stop her sooo. eh.

I’m always open to interacting with people on here, so don’t be afraid to shoot me a message!

[OOC: More info under the cut!]

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Jaime has a little sister named Victoria, who he may vague about occasionally. Her blog is @victoria-vd

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#blind spot -> blind spot signifies that this post is completely invisible to certain blogs linked to this one ( @aspens-dragons @espers-n-espurrs @yveltalreal @vulgrados-best @rock-n-rolycoly). ➥ If its tagged with a specific character, then only that one cannot see it. the rest would be able to. for example if another blog tagged “#blind spot: jaime” then Jaime specifically cannot see that post. Blind spot posts are completely free for anyone else, anonymous or otherwise, to engage with.

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anyways. woe. jaime (and victoria!) be upon ye