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ramble about ur favs i wanna hear abt ur thoughts -zaptrap
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HAN’S INFODUMPING ABOUT JAY... START!!!!
so like sgdkdhdkdhd I say Jay and Lloyd are my “favorites” but honestly it’s so hard to pick favorites out of this skittles squad like I love EVERY character for a variety of different reasons. I was going to also infodump about Lloyd but then I started talking about Prime Empire and then this post got. Long. So. it's just Jay I may infodump about Lloyd another day especially since I'm very Conduit Brained Rn but yea yea!
this is long so i'm putting most of it under the cut so y'all don't kill me for making a huge long post
I considered putting Zane and Sora on here as well since I’d also consider them my “favs” but like this is already gonna be. A lot of. Infodumping (also i typed THIS part before I even started and decided not to yell about Lloyd because this already got long enough). Maybe I’ll make a separate post for those two hmm hmm much to consider but for now MY (technically) FAVORITE NINJAGO CHARACTER: JAY WALKER
THE SPARKPLUG WHO INVADED MY BRAIN LIKE A PARASITE
so hey his name is a pun this makes me laugh ridiculously hard every time I remember he is named. After a misdemeanor HSKSHDKFH
Jay is such an interesting case of a character for me because I started out the show not liking him. Which is. Stares at my entire account I think my feelings have changed somewhat
Jay starts out as an asshole I don’t think anyone can disagree with me there (although honestly they’re all assholes in early ninjago they bullied a ten year old and left him dangling several feet off the ground) but over the course of the show you can see him start developing into a much more interesting character. He goes from being so insecure he's faking everything about himself to someone who knows who he is and is so genuine about it
now yea we could argue about whether his character was too uwu-ified post-season 10 but this is the FUN HAN POST SO WE'RE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT the point is you can SEE the growth that Jay has gone through and I am going to show you that growth through what I call
✨ The Skybound to Prime Empire Effect ✨
I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THE IDEA THAT PRIME EMPIRE WAS WRITTEN TO BE A DIRECT PARALLEL OF SKYBOUND AND WAS CENTERED ON SHOWING HOW THE NINJA ESPECIALLY JAY HAVE GROWN THROUGHOUT THE SEASON
when season 12 rolls around we are at the point in Jay's development where he is CONFIDENT in who he is. He's a fun-loving jokester with the power of lightning and the drive to help people whenever he can. He uses jokes and humor to help alleviate tension and get people through whatever's happening. And when on his own what does he do?
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BECOME AN ENTERTAINER BABEY
i like to think jay's club in prime empire was a safe haven for anyone stuck in the game who figured out hey. we Can't Leave and felt freaked about it. Also Jay would generally try and spread the word that hey something ISN'T RIGHT HERE which would lead people to want to stay with him
(totally plugging my friend's fic but this kind of thing is explored in would you like to enter prime empire by @finn-m-corvex y'all should check it out cool cool)
also the prime empire shorts which i watched all of in the midst of typing this video cuz i love them go watch them please please please jay was publically fighting the red visors which I imagine may have raised some red flags for some players
THIS SOMEHOW TURNED INTO PRIME EMPIRE INFODUMPING LMAO ANYWAYS Jay's confident! He becomes an entertainer because it's who he knows he is! And it's something that will get people hyped and having fun, which is very in-character for Jay to do! He uses those kinds of things to mask the Bad Things going on and get people remembering what's good
I've talked about this sort of thing before but that's Jay's whole philosophy as early as season 9! Which is a DIRECT contrast to how he views it in season 6, as Nadakhan puts it scarily accurately
"You make jokes to mask the fact that you're afraid"
(i was gonna grab a screenshot for that like i did with the hunted scene but netflix has bloCKED THE ABILITY TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS THE WAY I USED TO and i don't have them already and i'm too lazy to grab them from elsewhere so alas trust me he says it)
making jokes to hide your fear and using humor to remind yourself of what's good and coping with the bad are two VERY different outlooks on it
so I think this outlook is what drives him to make this glamrock persona in the first place - this is a bad situation, one he's in with other civilians, and what better way to keep him and themself safe until the others get there than throwing a big performance at a safe place!
also it's just so gender okay I want to look like Superstar Rockin' Jay so badly
it's also interesting to see his outlook on his parents change over time! In season six he finds out Ed and Edna aren't his birth parents and feels upset about it, not understanding why his birth parents would've abandoned him. In season twelve, that outlook changing is EXACTLY why Jay's able to get through to Unagami
"I was abandoned by my parents, too!... I never understood why, and I never had the chance to even ask. But I always hoped there was a good reason. What if there's a reason?"
(again curse you netflix i wanted SCREENSHOTS whatever whatever)
It's this scene that gets Unagami to calm down long enough for Milton Dyer to get there, and presumably is what stops him from just. Flattening him and Jay like a pancake.
to piggyback off of this i absolutely adore how Unagami and Jay consider each other adopted brothers in that one book I still haven't read and I hope he's in Dragons Rising at some point Unagami is my favorite "villain" (no longer a villain) in the whole show he deserves more screentime
like this is where i found out about this and it's plagued my mind ever since. i need to read. this book just for them
SO YEA OKAY Prime Empire is "Who is Jay as a Person Post-Skybound" to me also it opens up so many fascinating things about Jay. I rest my case
so backpedaling a little bit. JAY CARES SO MUCH ABOUT HIS PARENTS GUYS IT'S SO SOFT AND I'M sobs
like yea the first episode with Ed and Edna in it has Jay avoiding them like the plague but this gets explained very easily when you remember he was bullied for his home life before he became a ninja. It makes a lot more sense why he wouldn't want them around his new friends, assuming they'd react the same way. Also how was he supposed to know literally all the rest of the groups parents were either dead, presumed dead, or had a toxic relationship with their kid lmao
(Cole calling his mom kills me. Cole's mom is dead. I know they probably just didn't think that far ahead when writing the dialogue but it's so funny mans pretended to call his dead mom to get on Jay for not appreciating his parents iconic behavior)
anyways literally every episode Ed and Edna are central to (except like the one in skybound) Jay stops at nothing to protect his parents and it means the absolute world to me he's so much like them!! They raised an inventive little nerd and he will stop at nothing to make sure they're safe and it's. It's SO IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY
ALSO this is an excuse to clip my favorite piece of dialogue possibly in the entire show. Except Netflix won't let me now. So you just get the text dialogue
Jay's just fallen from the sky with a messed up eye and is incredibly distraught that all his friends are captured. And his dad just. The woRLD IS FALLING APART AND HE'S EATIN' SOUP-
Ed i love you
anyways
anways anyways this just turned into me rambling about prime empire and then Ed and Edna and a lot of disjointed other stuff but thank you for this opportunity i was going to also ramble about lloyd but i put this post in a word count and
yea i think that's enough for a tumblr post anyways! If anyone wants any like. More logically thought out and direct thoughts about characters feel free to send me asks this was fun thank u @zaptrap for this opportunity to scream about jay
#help this was. my brain is so not intact today so if this makes absolutely 0 sense i understand#i did end up watching some prime empire stuff during my ramblings and guys. the ending of that season still makes me cry#this is fully prime empire propaganda btw i need to like. talk about the season more because despite what my skybound posting would lead#y'all to believe THIS IS THE ACTUAL SEASON THAT LIVES IN MY HEAD AT ALL TIMES MOST OF MY MUTUALS ARE JUST MORE SKYBOUND BRAINED#AND IT RUBS OFF ON ME EASILY#but no prime empire is the fucking best#if i talk about jay long enough it WILL just turn into prime empire#also after I wrapped up this post i continued thinking more jay thoughts but this post is already long enough#like how jay is actually SO incredibly self-sacrificing and how he cares so much about helping people#also wow i didn't even mention his powers in that whole ramble. rare for me.#one day i wanna do!! a powers masterpost. like how i view all the ninja's elemental powers#but thats another day's project i am. So Eepy#anyways hope y'all appreciated this#also thank u serp for sending this ask which allowed me to Scream into the Void about jay walker#category 11 han moment fr#ninjago#lego ninjago#jay#jay walker#unagami#edna#ed#i have no idea if ANY of this is coherent btw#prime empire#skybound#hunted#quest for the lost powers#ask#spinjitsu screams
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me reading the comics post and ur tags fr like *brings you a microphone* how do u feel about the shit tim's been put thru?
I'm assuming you're talking about my "everyone needs to do a 1-year stint in comics fandom before doing a different fandom" tags. My genuine opinion on the shit Tim's been through?
I think it's hilarious. Tim Drake spent much of his Robin Career being the cool, relatable, 90s nerdy teen. He chugs energy drinks. He skips school. He skateboards. He's the main character of a 90s teen sitcom. It is immensely funny to me that this theoretically-on-paper normal, oddly charismatic nerd loses most of his closest friends, his father figure, his title, the trust of his family, etc etc within the in-universe span of, what, a year and a half? Like it is SO funny to me that the universe just decided out of the blue "yo we gotta shit on Tim Drake RIGHT NOW" and then it happens in rapid and dramatic succession.
And keep in mind Tim is already unhinged (NOBODY NORMAL WOULD EVER DO THE FAKE UNCLE THING) so the fact that he he decides to go all in into an edgy new persona is like, comparatively reasonable and normal. But he's so uncool about it that he reuses another one of Jason's castoffs and doesn't change the name, because the idea of someone calling him something other than 'Robin' makes him want to curl up and die. It's the funniest, most dramatic way to do a cry for help.
Don't get me wrong, it's also extremely sad. However, I am a firm believer that things can be very sad and very funny at the same time. That's life, babey.
Within the context of my "everyone needs to do a 1-year stint in comics fandom" tags, the way I pick and choose my Tim canon is that I pile on every single ridiculous, over-the-top, dramatic and sad event, smash them all together, and shove them at a boy whose coping mechanisms start at "lie your ass off" and end at "blow shit up." This creates a very sad character. It also creates a very funny character. Yeah, giving Tim the love and support he needs is great, but also making him do increasingly elaborate cries for help without realizing he's crying for help is even better.
Anyway, Red Raven by PlotlessWanderer is the greatest Tim Drake fic of all time.
#dc#Tim drake#I'm literally begging everyone to read red raven it's the best Tim fic in the entire goddamn fandom#asks#the way a lot of the ManPain is executed in canon is extremely shitty#but the best thing about fandom imo is when people take canon events and spin them in such a way that they click#i love it when canon gives you puzzle pieces and you assemble a coherent picture. not the one they intended. but still coherent#lazuli talks
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Fake boyfriend..?
Bakugou Katsuki x reader x Kirishima Ejirou
Read first: announcement
Read next ^^ - here
Tw: cursing, also maybe some spoiler
Things you should know:
1. I will follow my storyline, there may be some spoilers! I will not focus on anime storyline, sure it will be there but I will focus on my storyline mainly.
2. I decided that this will be story, I don't know how long it will be, how much chapters will it have, I'm doing all this spontaneous and I just hope to have a good time writing this, and I hope you have a good time reading it!
3. No hate! If you don't have anything nice to say don't say it. I accept criticism but not hate thank you very much.
4. This is my first time actually posting what I write so please don't be too harsh on me :>
5. Reader is going to be using she/her and will be referred to as female
6. I may or may not change name of this story because I'm still not sure what to call it. If you have any suggestions you can comment or put it in my ask box or whatever it's called I'm still trying to figure out things here.
7. And the most important! Have a good time reading this. If you have any suggestion of how can I update this story/chapter don't be afraid to text me or comment or whatever!
Part 1 - 2 weeks before U.A High
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Kirishima is my best friend. We met when we were little and we were practically inseparable, and, if we're being honest, we still are.
Now it's about 2 weeks before end of the middle school, and we're sitting in class talking about what high school we want to access. We were supposed to choose what school will that be like 10 times till now but I still don't know! I'm indecisive so it's hard for me...
I groan to myself and hit my head on the desk but it doesn't go unnoticed from person behind me. That's when i heard it—
"Pssst!" and a little poke to my back.
I slowly turned and I made eye contact with scarlet eyes that belong to my one and only best friend - Ejirou Kirishima.
"What?" I asked not in a mood to talk.
"Have you thought about that thing?" He asked all excited and happy.
"..." I broke eye contact, not answering.
"C'monn what's the worst thing that can happen if you choose it??" He insists.
I was quiet for a few more seconds and then I answered him.
"Fine, I'll enter for that stupid school" I said and rolled my eyes at him, not even a second later grinning from ear to ear.
"YES! You will not regret it y/n! I promise! We will go and be heros together. Man, i can't wait..." he then started mumbling to him overexcited self about how its going to be the best time ever, or something like that.
I just laughed a little and turned around waiting for class to be over.
When the bell finally rang for the end of the class it was lunch time.
"Yess babey! Lets go eattt!" I jumped and hyped up Kirishima to hurry up with getting his things.
"Jeez, y/n, calm down. I'm coming im coming!" He said getting his things in hurry.
"That's what she said!" I laughed out loud and exited the classroom waiting for him outside.
After a few second he exited as well and I 'boo'-ed at him scaring him.
"Jeez! You were dead 5 seconds ago and now you're all overjoyed!"
"I knooww, but now I get to eat, so I'm not grumpy" I laughed.
He just rolled eyes at me and continued to walk.
When we got in cafeteria someone yelled my name. I looked right and left only to find one and only girl who could yell my name in the middle of cafeteria. It was non other then pink alien girl - Mina Ashido.
"Hey Min!" I waved at her like fucking sims - getting my hand all the way up and then waving maniacally.
She came over and we started making small talk until we got our food and sat down at the table.
"So." Mina said shortly and clear.
We looked at her in confusion, then at each other and then again at her.
"So what?" Kirishima said while I was drinking my chocolate milk.
"Are you two together yet??" She asks and get up all excited, expecting for our answer to probably be yes this time.
We just rolled our eyes and i groaned.
"Mina, if you're gonna hang out with us only to try and get us together then we can't be friends bestie" I said half sarcastic half honestly.
She fake sniffed and just answered, "but you have to get together ONCE ALREADY"
"Yeah, but Mina you're trying to get us together almost 3 years now. Please stop for our and yours sake too" Kirishima said and I nodded agreeing.
She huffed, rolled her eyes and just said "Fine"
Later on we just had some small talk while enjoying our food. When lunch was over, there were some boring classes and I almost fell asleep like 3 times, but every time Kirishima poked me with a pencil, and whispered for me to 'stay awake'.
When last class was finally over, Kirishima and I walked out of school talking.
"So tomorrow you're going to train with me" he said
"What? I did not anticipate in that!" I disagreed
"Well, you didn't do any training all this time, and you have about 2 months before the exam. You better start as soon as you can." He reasoned.
And he was right damn it. "Fine. We'll train tomorrow, text me about time and place okay?" I asked and he just nodded.
"Will it be hard training?" I asked, not really wanting to die out there.
"You'll see" he said and just chuckled.
Great. I'm gonna die out there.
#bakugou x fem!reader#x reader#xreader#anime#boku no hero academia#katsuki bakugou#ejirou kirishima#mina ashido#bakugou x reader#kirishima x reader#my hero academia#fake boyfriend..?
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20 Questions for Fic Writers
Tagged by: @noodyl-blasstal thanks!!
Tagging: @fandomsnstuff @duck-newton I think a lot of people have been tagged already but if you haven't pls consider this an invitation to answer these as well!
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
2 currently, but I plan on putting up my TAZNC work at which point I will have 15!
2. What's your total AO3 word count?
4,680 right now, but that number will increase by a lot shortly since I think all my TAZNC works were between 1,000-4,000 words.
3. What fandoms do you write for?
TAZ, and I've got a few Owl House things in the works I hope to finish some day.
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
Show Me Yours, then The Thing With Feathers
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
Yes! I love receiving comments and I love being able to talk a bit about what I was thinking when I wrote things.
6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I don't usually write a lot of angst, but probably this unnamed ficlet because nothing really gets resolved at the end, although it is a fairly hopeful ending.
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
It's hard to pick, I write mostly things that leave a lot of possibilities open, but I'd say probably my 10th entry for TAZNC this year (man I really gotta name these things) because I think the emotional journey makes the ending more satisfying.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Nope! I've only gotten very kind words and I'm extremely grateful for all of them.
9. Do you write smut?
Yup. Nothing I'm quite finished with yet but I have several in the works and I hope to get some posted soon
10. Do you write crossovers?
They're not really my style, but I think they are fun to think about and play around with!
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I know of, and I'm small enough right now that I think it's unlikely.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Not that I've heard of
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I did once on a previous account, unfortunately I was very bad at finishing anything at that point in my life and I hadn't gotten on ADD meds, so we didn't finish it (my fault). I'd like to co-write something at some point, but I think I'd need to have more practice with writing/finishing longer stories before I felt confident about doing it again.
14. What's your all-time favorite ship?
Taakitz babey! Top tier meet-weird plus some truly beautiful moments, and such a great dynamic to play around with
15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
I'm not sure I'd say "never," but there is one Taakitz fake dating fic that I would need to seriously rework in order to make it coherent. I hope to finish some version of it someday, but it certainly won't look like the current WIP.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Boy I wish I knew! Someone told me I have a "lyrical" writing style, so I'll take it! I do really like working with the flow of words. Also I wrote a lot of tender romantic scenes when I was a touch-starved closeted high schooler, and I was surprised by how easy those scenes feel to write in my current work.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I have a tendency to write too much lead-in and too much ending if I'm not careful, so I basically have to chop off the first and last bits of every fic. I am very bad at coming up with plots. I worry a lot about capturing characters' voices and can struggle with differentiating them. And as previously mentioned, I tend to start a lot of things and not finish them, although I think I'm improving in that regard!
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
I'm very wary about it for myself. I could just about manage French but for anything else I'd want someone fluent to look it over for me.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Good Omens, back before the TV series came out! It was a pretty small fandom at that point, and I had to get my Aziraphale/Crowley angst out somewhere when I only knew like three people who'd read the book
20. Favorite fic you've ever written?
I'm really proud of my TAZNC work, but I think I'm still proudest of The Thing With Feathers because I feel like I did exactly what I wanted with it and captured everything I was hoping to.
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okay here are the asoiaf ocs rotating in my mind. they’re all a little half-baked because i haven’t actually written any fic, but i love them:
daella “venya” targaryen
“alysanne waters”
tybalt hill
dara stark
daella “venya” targaryen:
au where baelon is a girl who survives with congenital heart issues, leading to chronic illness as she ages. rhaenyra pushed for her to be named visenya regardless, but otto was like “the realm is already super mad that she’s a weakling girl and may view naming her visenya as an insult” lmao as if the smallfolk care. regardless, rhaenyra tells daella her true name is visenya targaryen and she’s the blood of the dragon who will take what’s hers with fire and blood. you know how it goes with these guys.
eventually, everyone in the red keep calls her venya as a compromise, except viserys (who usually feels too guilty to refer to her at all) and otto (misogyny). venya is very close with rhaenyra during her childhood and doesn’t like to be parted with her under any circumstances. she knows she’s resented by everyone but rhaenyra and clings hard. venya herself is like. passionate and stalwart but also vain and petty and bitter; she wants and wants and wants. *stores all the disability-related bitterness in the asoiaf oc* rhaenyra is initially very indulgent but like. eventually she has her own children and needs to start prioritizing her ascension, and venya never really forgives her.
on the outside, however, venya maintains a veneer of gentleness and grace. she learns the harp, she reads scriptures, she daydreams about running her own household, knowing that she might not live long enough to marry, even if anyone would marry her. (which is proving hard but like. she probably would get married to secure an alliance.)
anyway, venya defiantly stays at the red keep when rhaenyra moves to dragonstone. but now she’s just alone most of the time—except for queen alicent, who visits out of guilt or her own loneliness for rhaenyra. (once upon a time, alicent told rhaenyra that venya would never be alone as long as they’re both with her,) but venya resents how weak alicent seems to her. she’s really visenyaism distilled. as the stress in the red keep mounts, her symptoms worsen, and eventually she dies very suddenly during a heart attack.
in his final act of faildadding and with the last of his energy, viserys uses some valyrian blood magic to uhhhhh sacrifice his life and raise venya from the dead! it works a little too well and with many consequences. venya is back with a lot more energy than before, but she still has the same heart condition—only now she like. can’t really die? like she can, but not from her condition. we don’t know much about valyrian blood magic so i’m making this up as i go along.
venya is uhhhhhhhhhh okay. well. what if you combined aemond, maegor, and visenya into one person? Princess Daella the Terror of the Realm is here babey! and she wants revenge! on everyone, including herself for her perceived weakness! she steals a dragon and attempts to steal the crown for herself. she could be a good queen—she certainly has studied the part more than rhaenyra or aegon! but the visenyaism cursed babey. this entire oc is also just an examination of westeros’ ableism and misogyny + an interrogation of the "disabled people get magically cured" trope.
alysanne waters:
actually jaehaera targaryen after rhaena scoops her out of the red keep and fakes her death, but she counts as an oc. alysanne has a fairly peaceful life, all things considering. she’s never quite free of the horrors, but absolutely no one is pressuring her to be anyone at all, so she’s kind of free to be whoever she wants within westeros’ extremely limited imagination for women. she serves as a companion for rhaena’s trueborn daughter, embroiders, and explores the ancient stone underneath the hightower. normal behavior. i think she gets into magical history after rhaena’s daughters leave the hightower to get married, but no one’s too worried. that’s kind of normal for hightowers anyway.
alysanne also compartmentalizes her two lives—she thinks of jaehaera as an entirely separate person who’s body she used to inhabit, basically. is this healthy? probably not! but westeros has the opposite of therapy, so she DIYs her own coping mechanisms. she doesn’t resent princess jaehaera at all, however; she feels this almost sisterly protectiveness over her memory. in a hypothetical fic, king aegon iii visits the hightower and she undergoes an identity crisis/exploration moment.
tybalt hill:
actually the youngest son of ned/cat and twin brother of dara in my “cat is pregnant during the war of the five kings and exchanges herself for sansa au.” he never has any other name besides tybalt hill. to cover cersei’s political blunder, tywin only announced the birth of dara, killed the midwife who delivered the twins, and shipped baby boy stark to casterly rock to masquerade as kevan’s bastard. (this, of course, ruined any happiness in kevan’s marriage, but anything for the lannister family.)
tybalt has red hair and grey eyes, meaning he stands out at casterly rock in the worst way and loathes his appearance. he might have been a sweet kid, if a bit conceited, in other circumstances, but now his capacity for loyalty is 100% directed toward the lannisters. he's raised a bit like jon, but a thousand percent worse in every way. he’ll prove he’s a lion whatever the cost. oh no!
dara stark/"alayne stone":
short for eddara; the youngest daughter of ned/cat and twin to tybalt hill in the same au. dara got to stay with cat in the red keep, but has no memories of living there. at 14 months, littlefinger spirited her and cat away; dara became alayne stone and catelyn her mute septa. oh no! (catelyn is mute because she cuts her own throat to prevent the lannisters from punishing dara or sansa, now imprisoned at the twins, when joff is poisoned. she doesn’t die, but her voice box is fucked up now. i enjoy making canon divergent aus parallel the og story when possible.)
like her twin brother, dara has red hair and grey eyes. unlike her brother, she has a mostly carefree childhood. she’s a lot like both her sisters: high-spirited and friendly, with a huge rebellious streak and a love for fine dresses. catelyn shelters her as much as possible and is very, very strict with her. she wants dara to survive any world where she could end up alone. dara suspects catelyn is her mother, but never asks—they’re a bit like elphaba and liir from the wicked books.
petyr loves pretending dara/alayne is his own daughter lmao. it’s still creepy, but not as creepy as petyr was with sansa; this time cat is still alive, if “damaged” in petyr’s self-centered, misogynistic pov and dara looks enough like ned that petyr can’t project his obsession in the same way, although he still yearns (ew) for that idealized version of young catelyn. he’s also possessive of his fake dad role + rebukes any ideas from catelyn to have dara eventually marry a northern lord so she can take back winterfell.
this au basically becomes a fucked up parent trap because tybalt ends up visiting the vale with kevan at some point on a red keep venture. petyr kept dara and cat pretty well-hidden so dara and tybalt have a real spider-man pointing.png moment in the godswood.
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For the ask game, with anyone who is currently in your mind...
🧸 - How would your F/O try to comfort you if you were upset?
🍡 - What nicknames do you have for each other?
🪺 - Describe your F/O's perception of you before you got together, compared to what it is now!
🪷 - If the roles were reversed and your F/O was the one selfshipping with you, what would their blog look like?
🫧 - What song(s) remind you of your F/O?
🪼 - What’s your favorite way to feel closer to your F/O?
OOOHHHH BABEY.
How would your F/O try to comfort you if you were upset?
Going with Laios here. hes my big stupid boyfriend and I think he would just squeeze me really hard. with his big arms. swoons...
2. What nicknames do you have for each other?
My fatal flaw is that I'm really bad at giving people nicknames or calling them pet names. I try so hard and I fail. I would call any of them sweetheart/honey when I want something from them but Kaito specifically is babe. bc hes a babe... my beautiful effeminate husband whom I love.
3. Describe your F/O's perception of you before you got together, compared to what it is now!
Laios again because I love him. He did not give a fuck about me until I forced my way into his life. Not in a mean way he's just not very perceptive of other people... Then we started kissing and now hes all smitten. Whipped even. And he goes wow I love my beautiful girlfriend.
4. If the roles were reversed and your F/O was the one selfshipping with you, what would their blog look like?
Taps my chin... Laios again because hes the one whos most likely to use tumblr. His blog would be a little ugly because hes bad at decorating but he would post things like. Today I was at work and I thought about my beautiful fake girlfriend. Actually thats just how I post on here. Answer canceled.
5. What song(s) remind you of your F/O?
Surprisingly I barely have any music that reminds me of my F/Os. I DO have a Spaggie playlist with a grand total of three songs on it though. The most important one is Softly by Mannequin Pussy... Just trust me its the Spaggie song ever. I would also say Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen for any of them because ermmm.... I'm gay. And thats my favorite gay song.
6. What’s your favorite way to feel closer to your F/O?
Cuddling obviously. But more specifically for Laios I would say cooking together... Hes good at cooking but I'm better at baking so I get to do all the little tasks like cutting things while he cooks and he gets to do all the stuff like stirring while I bake.
#making this tag mid post to say writing this made me realize whenever im on my computer and typing anything more than a paragraph-#i default to proper capitalization and punctuation and stuff#except for apostrophes. for some reason.#thank you acey ^_^
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no thoughts only crying @twoohfivelive @lilaviolet
#first off miss lila violet....u introduced me to many good sami mutuals over the years#u got me to ask a wrestling gif blog to make a particular set of sami that i really wanted to see and it is probably one of the reasons#that i started to speak to people more in the wrestling fandom#bc i was still very very new to it all in the year of our lord 2017#so if i talk about anyone on a first name basis#just know that i love calling people by their name bc it makes me feel close to them#if i see it in their bio i do not hesitate#that's it we gotta be friends now#and u have no idea how hard it is to stop myself from calling you by your name that is in your podcast#because i've noticed you dont have it in your bio here on tumblr#i dont think i am close to many people actually#but i try bc i feel the need to have people in my life#im constantly in that 'fake it till you make it' mode when it comes to friendship#though i often struggle bc im bad at keeping up with people especially if i have things of my own to deal with at home#but i love u!!! yes we do disagree a lot when it comes to the faves but i still love seeing your opinions on my dash!!!#that's true love babey#and MICAH dear micah my M n emi#everytime i see something australian related i think of u like.#that dumb 'im from melbourne' post that pops up every once in a while#or like something crazy terrifying about a kangaroo or some shit#im like. that's where micah lives#sdjhfgsjdhgfsdhshsh i really do be thinkin about u sometimes when i havent seen u in a while#any time i see the 205 boys anywhere im like hey thats micah's fellas right there#like yesterday when tony was in the crowd during that match#i was like. my dear friend welltheysayimdifferent child of Nigel would enjoy this cameo#ANYWAY what the fuck i love u both.#fwiends tag#yeehaw brouhaha
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Do ya ever come up with a new character concept n then ur mind starts absolutely RUNNING with the possibilities?
I start it off but then I am helpless to stop it. It takes up my thought in every waking moment of the day. It is the special interest. Nothing is safe.
#speculation nation#anyways hi first week of school plus new focus is why i havent been on at All#ill talk about this dude at some point. im rly liking him#hes a lot different from my other characters tbh#hes Super social (sorcerer charisma Babey). kind of asshole but honestly not actually#it depends on who u r and how u approach him#if ur nice to him or respectful with no ulterior motives. hes perfectly friendly!#if u come to him Wanting something tho. he gets mad and then gets mean#his defining thing is hes the son of a celebrity so like. hes used to so many fake ppl wanting shit from him#he just wants to live his life and be Free but everyone Expects things from him and he hates it#ive been coming up wth backstory characters both good and bad#honestly its different to have a character whose angst is that everyone wants him Too much#it’s very much fire emblem sylvain vibes. i definitely have taken some inspiration from him#but theres more to him than just that!!! tho i should probs talk more later#oc shit#his name is Kallias btw. and yes that means ‘beauty’. yes that is the Exact reason i named him that
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tbh i would love any kind of internet security list you could provide whenever you have time! :)
*kracks knuckles*
INTERNET SECURITY LIST AND OTHER FIREFOX EXTENSIONS
▷ use firefox, not safari or edge and Definitely Not google chrome;
▷ always use duckduckgo as your regular search engine. even w the extensions below you’ll see that none of them will light up bc duckduckgo is awesome and doesn’t track u;
▷ go to your add-ons and get these extensions (alphabetical order):
— adNauseum (fake-clicks on every ad it detects a bunch of times so the company's analytics will be all fucky-wucky and it will cost companies lotsa money)
— cookie autodelete
— decentraleyes
— disconnect
— don’t track me google
— duckduckgo privacy essentials
— hoxx vpn proxy (free, although limited, vpn)
— https everywhere
— localCDN
— privacy badger (redirects your trackers babey!)
— privacy possum (falsifies data so it costs companies as much money as possible)
— TrackMeNot (does randomly generated searches on random search engines so it hides what you really search for AND makes analytics all fucky-wucky)
— uBlock origin (superior adblocker)
— WhatCampaign (swaps out google analytics with fake shit, do you see a pattern? once again! the analytics are, repeat after me, fucky-wucky!)
▷ other add-ons that i do recommend but have nothing to do with tracking/adblocking:
— auto tab discard (closes ur tabs after long time no use, mend it to your own settings);
— bitwarden (one place to keep all your passwords, would not recommend putting Very Important ones like your bank account there but, like, tumblr works);
— dark mode (automatically makes websites dark, isn't perfect but it's nicer than being blinded by every Wikipedia page at 3am when you're losing that sense of existence and what is and isn't real anymore)
— firefox multi account containters (sort your tabs babey! give cute colors to your tabs, separates them from work/personal/shopping/etc.)
— google docs dark mode (turn off dark mode and use this one for docs, works amazingly)
— grammarly
— honey (save money, use honey ;))
— mind the time (keep track of how much time you've spent on a tab)
— reddit container and facebook container (two seperate add-ons but keeps your reddit and facebook stuff separate from the rest)
— reverso context (for my fellow bilinguals who sometimes Do Not Know the words and then there they are)
— shinigami eyes (it's a starting extension but it tries to hide transphobic and other anti-lgbtq+ stuff from your view. when you see something's slipped through, you can report it to them so they hide it from other users)
— simple tab groups (sort your tabs in groups with names n stuff)
— sponsorblock (also a starting extension, but hides sponsored-moments from youtube videos and makes you enjoy the content you're there for, not the 783rd hello fresh or raid shadow legends ad. it's user-driven, so be sure to submit the moments where there is sponsored content to help other viewers!)
— tranquility reader (if u don't want to be overwhelmed by all the functions on a webpage and just. read. the. damn. text.)
— unpaywall (a MUST for all students or people in research-driven workfields. read those paywalled items and articles! learning should be free! another option for this extension is 12ft ladder)
and those are all the extensions i currently have on my firefox. if you have any recommendations, drop 'em in my inbox and I'll add them to this list!! hope this helps you out!
small reminder that adding more extensions might make your firefox slower, but trust me, is alllll worth it.
stay safe out there on the big wide web that wants to know everything about you. don't tell them more than what you want them to know xx
#terrifying thought: my boyfriend uses google chrome and no tracker-blockers and his reasoning is:#'google will know where i am when i'm kidnapped'#yeah and SO MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE NO BUSINESS IN IT#like maybe the KIDNAPPERS IN THE FIRST PLACE?#and ofc tracking ain't always physical. it's also your behaviour on the internet and the things you show interest in#i forgive him for this behaviour only bc he's cute#anyways!#firefox#add-ons#adblock#liminalweirdo#extensions#google#zhalia’s lil chit chat
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Now Playing(Title): Touching Their Boobas! (Headcanons)
Requested By: @polluxminor
Song Artists(Characters): Kaeya, Diluc, Childe, Zhongli, Xiao, and Beidou
Remix(Au): Modern Au! cause why not
Lyrics(Summary): Their reaction to you just randomly squeezing their boobs ?????? gn!reader by the way, but pronouns aren't really mentioned regardless
Explicit?(Warnings): No beta we die like Khaenri'ah, lowercase, suggestive (but nothing more than that!), they/them used for Kaeya, Beidou, and Xiao, slightly ooc but I feel like they'd act differently in a modern setting anyways
A/N: consider this to be crack, also this is under the impression that you are already their s/o (or at least their bestie) and they're fine with you doing this because it would be....very much weird if that wasnt the case!
Kaeya:
he just looks at you for a few seconds and blinks like three times in a row
you swear you can hear the blinking sound effects as he does it too
then they let out their stupid, toothy smirk and start laughing at you
"Damn shawty, you down THAT bad?"
starts squeezing their tiddies himself and talks about how nice they are
can and will defend them with his life. ESPECIALLY if you take it back and call them flat. expect all hell to break loose.
will probably bring up his ass at some point too
"Got tha fattest ass on the block babey"
please shut this guy up.
Diluc
doesnt even realize whats going on at first
like Kaeya he'll just kinda stare at you for a few seconds before it finally hits him
like a truck, too
"[Name], why are your hands on my chest"
"Man tiddies."
"I see."
he'll never tell you upfront but it flusters him a lot
as soon as you aren't paying attention to him anymore his face gets all red and he has to put a hand over his heart to make sure his HR is stable so he doesn't collapse and die
do it more often! eventually he'll crack and you'll be able to see how embarrassed he gets! its really cute :]
Childe
dont. you'll regret it
im serious this man is so extra for no reason
he can and will fake moan out loud. doesnt matter where you guys are.
in the middle of walmart? he'll moan. in your college dorm with the door cracked open and people in the halls? he'll still fake moan! he doesnt care if professor Zhongli or Albedo hears either, it is what it is.
generally speaking though he doesn't really mind, he's flattered actually!
you on the other hand will probably mind very much when it gets you kicked out of Starbucks or extra homework from your professors.
will grab your chest back though (only if you're fine with it)
Zhongli
poor peepaw.
he's so confused he doesn't know why you're just groping him like that
he thinks there's something wrong, like you're silently pleading for help or you wanna kill him.
he grabs you by the shoulders and asks if everything is alright.
yeah???? everything's okay your tits are just fat Zhongli please calm down
after he realizes you just wanted to grope him he sighs out of relief and lets you go to town
unless you don't wanna anymore, then he's cool with that too
Xiao
run. run as fast and as far away as you fucking can
they will chase your ass across the goddamn country if needed
dropkicks you (playfully)
he genuinely doesnt mind it at all it just caught him off guard and flustered them and they needed to cope somehow
after he's done attacking you like a rabies ridden raccoon though he'll calm down and just snuggle themself into your chest (if you're fine with it)
grumbles some shit like "stop being horny all the time" and "you cant just do that to me"
doesn't really mean it of course
Beidou
"This is why mom doesn't FUCKING LOVE YOU!"
in all seriousness though I feel like they'd laugh their ass off before (consensually) groping the fuck out of your chest too
she's so nonchalant about it as if you do it every single day
which you probably do, after that
teases you nonstop over it.
one day you accidentally grope them a little to hard and they just gently pick you up and tosses you onto the nearest soft surface
then she jumps onto you
small price to pay for hurting her tatas
#genshin impact modern au#genshin impact college au#genshin impact x reader#xiao x reader#diluc x reader#kaeya x reader#beidou x reader#childe x reader#zhongli x reader#tartaglia x reader#genshin headcanons#adeptus xiao#xiao#zhongli#childe#tartaglia#beidou#diluc#diluc ragnvindr#kaeya#kaeya alberich#[☕] requests#[☕] writings
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1895 EPQ Project: Part 1
The Foundation Layer
SO basically, in the 1890s you had 2 options for the layer closest to the skin: a chemise and drawers or a combination of the two (handily named combinations). I chose to make combinations since apparently they are more economical in terms of time and fabric, and as a broke busy teenager this suits me just fine.
I wanted my combinations to have 'split' drawers that close with buttons down the centre front. I chose a pattern from an 1895 sewing manual and made my design based on the my pattern, contemporary adverts and extant garments. If you look closely, there's a teensy dotted line on the pattern, I decided this was an option for a low neckline and used that.
The pattern told me to use a 'scale corresponding with bust measure', however I don't really know 1) what that is, and 2) how to get one, so I decided to draft the pattern according to the scale given in the book and then fake it till you make it. I drafted the pattern pieces onto gridded pattern paper (honestly took me over an hour). I then marked the seam allowances and darts using a Frixion pen, which I cannot recommend enough because it comes right out when you iron it.
First I sewed the back pieces together with a French seam, then I sewed the darts. Next I sewed the fronts to the back piece at the sides and shoulders and flat felled it. This was the first point I could try it on and see if it fit, so naturally I did and naturally it didn't. So I re-sewed the darts until the fronts overlapped as they were meant to.
The next step was to sew the legs together up to where they meet and flat fell the seam. I then hemmed the raw edges of the split and gathered the rear flap (yes haha butt flap very funny) to fit the back panel.
Then it was placket time, babey. I used 8 buttons spaced 2 inches apart . As several extant garments I looked at used cloth covered buttons (these guys right here), I used plastic buttons covered in my fabric. I put the buttons on the left and the buttonholes on the right. Please don't look at them too closely, they are my second biggest weakness after hooks and eyes.
Then I sewed edging lace around the neckline, armholes and legs. I used reproduction lace from Etsy. Yes, it was expensive but it was really pretty so I didn't mind.
To sew it on (mini tutorial time):
Legs: I joined some insertion lace to some zigzag lace with a whipstitch. Then I top-stitched it to the fabric half an inch from the bottom, then folded the seam allowance into a hem and stitched it down (source)
Neckline: I topstitched the lace around 1/4 inches from the edge and trimmed the excess to about 1/8 inches and overcast it to the main fabric (source)
Armholes: I tacked the lace about 1/4 inches from the edge and then pinned and sewed bias binding on top through the lace. I then turned the bias binding to the wrong side and secured it with a whip stitch (source)
I meant to have pin tucks on the legs, but when I tried the finished combinations on they were already the right length so I couldn't have any.
And then it was done!
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I'm really proud of this because this is by far the hardest garment I've ever made. Not necessarily the the physical putting together of it, but having to figure out the pattern and instructions myself. Even though there are a few places I wouldn't invite you to look at closely, I still like to think that someone, once, made some combinations that were much worse. And then they wore them every day.
My favourite part is the fact that this is school work. I get to work on my hobby then at the end of it I get a grade!
#this is long#historical costuming#historical clothing#historic fashion#historical dress#dress history#historical fashion#fashion history
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gonna babble and list down all the reasons why i love psychonauts 2 so far to OBLIVION
(warning: post contains major spoilers so i dont recommend continuing if you havent played the game. but also do not spoil if you have, since im still in the part where i reached where the psychic 6 resided)
1. raz being much more babey in this game, but also being just as capable and intelligent as last game
2. the game showing that raz CAN fuck up, learning his mistakes and making up for it
3. raz being such a good and respectful boi ;-; the way he talks to his grandma and the way he talks to lili knowing she was in a very vulnerable state,, his parents raised him so well
4. raz and lili basically switching places in pn2 where raz is being a complete stuttering mess and lili is the oblivious one (though this is mostly bc she was occupied with her dad so UNDERSTANDABLY so)
4. THE REALISTIC DEPICTION OF SIBLINGS OF THIS GAME GOOD LORD I LOVE IT
5. i mentioned this in my last post but after raz learns his lesson with hollis, he starts to ask for consent before going into someone’s mind
6. the seamless metaphors and symbolism to mental issues and healing
7. the fucking genius that is the panic attack foes..them being quick, ruthless enemies thats hard to catch up with unless you deliberately slow it down with the time bubble ability. it also has the ability to multiply; symbolizing that the person struggling cannot tell what is real of what is fake. idk this enemy just really made me pause the game for a bit bc of sheer appreciation .. i i remember struggling with a panic attack fight and even i felt overwhelmed
8. raz having a change of heart from killing animals from pn1, and pets them in pn2; him also constantly making apologetic remarks when he does is so funny
9. the whole segment of raz finding out lucy was pretending to be his grandma and it being ford’s fault. the way he felt betrayed, hurt, and angry; and how it hurt even more so when raz idolized him, and considered him a friend bc of what they went through together in pn1. the strength raz had to say that ford fucked up his entire family, and its all his fault. UGH. cinema
10. raz’s char arc being absolutely stellar in this game!!??! we got to know more about him, the family ‘curse’, and how he grew. im so damn proud of him i feel like a loud mom cheering her kid’s name when they get up onstage for graduation
11. raz’s family. period
12. gameplay being fun as fuck with thought compelling puzzles with a balance of forgiveness if youre being a dumbass,, im not a gamer by any means but i found myself playing for 10 hours straight and each time i come back im having the time of my life and never wanna put the controller down. im rank 60 ffs
13. i theorized that the minds we were gonna go through this game were the psychic 6 and while that DID end up being the case, they did it in such a smooth way that fit the narrative that didnt just feel like a ‘checklist; do this and save the world’ feeling, it was closely tied to the narrative and it wasnt a linear process. its so good
14. music is obviously a given i literally have no words i find myself staying in one place in each world just to dwell in the music
15. the ENTIRETY of psi king’s mind. definition of gorgeous
16. psi king’s segment where we find out his band members were the psychic six and where we slowly get to put the pieces together and find out he’s actually helmut fullbear. the moment we got to witness where he slowly unravels his doubts about his friends and himself with raz helping
16. speaking of psi king: jack black. thats it
17. SPEAKING OF PSI KING AGAIN: LGBT REP!!!!
18. milla’s full name being camilla and it being revealed that sasha accidentally mispronounced her name to ‘mia’ and decided to remain it that way bc she thought it was rly cute
19. the moments in this game having the perfect balance of heartwarming, hilarious, and foreboding. early on in the game i was like ‘huh i was expecting something a lil darker to bring to the table but i can understand this!’ but i was wrong. i was so. fucking wrong. i had my jaw dropped in the lucy nona reveal the entire time i was terrified. fantastic segment
20. as much as i struggled in compton’s mind i really loved the idea of his world bc 1. hes the first world we encounter the Judge enemy, since all he did was blame himself from what happened with lucy and the psychic 6 2. his world based off of hollis, truman and ford being the harsh judges and critics of his own mind and facing the constant pressure sinilar to a reality cooking show. its kind similar to gloria’s theater from pn1 in that regard, but definitely brings new and different ideas to the table
21. raz offering frazie to come with him to psychonauts hq as an intern to embrace her psychic powers and frazie considering it
22. raz being a good older brother to queepie
23. norma having a crush on raz’s fucking dad (idk if shes doing it to screw with raz or if she rly does but either way its SO FUNNY)
24. raz (depending if the player chooses to or not) bringing rare fungi for lili to make her feel better despite him knowing the truth about truman god these two are adorable
25. lili feeling terrible about truman and raz trying to sympathize w her saying he was pretty shit to his own father too (poor baby ;-;)
26. raz wanting the approval of nona :’) asking her if she wants anything to make her comfortable
27. the intense conversation between dion and raz
28. ford dropping this bomb on raz that there was no curse to begin with, and that the aquato curse was just a ruse for lucy to not go near water so maligula cant be awaken. jfc poor kid i actually cant believe that dialogue was optional
29. raz’s ’yoink!’ voice clip. baby
30. raz mentioning true psychic tales to any moment available ever
31. THE CASINO MISSION SEGMENT WITH THE INTERNS 💙💙💙💙
32. sam boole
33. oleander trying to make the death tanks against maligula without a budget
34. those two psychonuts members in the atrium talking about how sasha and milla are ’doing it’, with raz interjecting that theyre professionals and the members replying with ‘we meant yoga why what did you think we meant’ and raz being like ‘oh.’
35. that man and woman planning an affair in the entrance lobby of hq and the woman’s husband accepting and knowing about it
36. the clarification of psychonauts’ mission with hollis, on how their purpose is not to ‘fix’ people but to help fight the struggles they already have
37. the voice acting holy HELL the voice acting!!!! psychonauts 1 already had amazing va’ing but gOD everyone did amazing here; especially richard horvitz
38. RAZ AND LILI IN NICK’S MIND THEYRE SO FUCKING FUNNY SJJKDJKSD (IM TYPING THIS AFTER I FINISHED THE WAVE OF ENEMIES BIT WHERE LILI PRESSED THE WRONG BUTTONS) raz being like ‘’ok yeah you finished pressing the wrong buttons so far’’ and lili being like ‘’JUST GET ON THE STUPID RIDE’’ IM FUCKGIN DYING
39. the player having the option to get rid of the background music in gristol’s mind and the reward being raz’s sigh of relief im actually fucking dying
40. raz making up a code name for lili (’potato masher’) and lili liking it :)
aand thats it so far :)) this list will be updated the more i play or tidbits i remember
#shut up vie#psychonauts#psychonauts 2#psychonauts 2 spoilers#pn2 spoilers#razputin aquato#raz aquato#lili zanotto#sasha nein#milla vodello
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On racial stereotyping of the Haans in TMA...
Right so as someone who is ethnically Chinese I have NO FUCKING clue how I didn’t notice this more distinctly in my initial binge of tma (going too fast and not paying closer attention to character names and descriptions, probably) but the Haan family storyline is, all horror elements aside, pretty fucked up in terms of racial representation re: stereotyping. This got long as hell, but please please please take a moment to read through if you’ve got time for it. thanks.
To start off, the Haans are one of the few characters in tma with an explicitly specified race and ethnicity—Chinese—and pretty much the only explicitly Chinese characters in tma, other than the mostly unimportant librarian (Zhang Xiaoling) from Beijing. But like, Haan isn’t even a properly Chinese surname, at least not in the way that it’s spelled in canon (it should be Han, one a. A quick google search tells me that Haan as a surname has...Dutch origins??).
Of course, that could be chalked up to shoddy anglicization processes within family histories, which certainly isn’t uncommon with immigrant families, so I’m not going to dwell on names too much (although I also find it interesting that John Haan’s name is so specifically and weirdly anglicized that he changed his own surname?? Hun Yung to John Haan is a very big leap of a name change and frankly not very believable. ANYWAY, this is not that important. I don’t expect Jonny, a white Englishman, to come up with perfectly unquestionable non-Cho-Chang-like Chinese names, though it certainly would be nice. Moving on).
What really bothers me about the Haans is how they almost exclusively and explicitly play into negative Chinese immigrant stereotypes. I don’t even feel like I need to say it because it’s like...it’s literally Right There, folks. John Haan (in ep 72) owns and operates a sketchy takeout restaurant. They’re all avatars of the Flesh—and John Haan is Specifically horrific and terrifying because he cooked his wife’s human meat and fed it to his unknowing customers. Does that remind you of any stereotypes which accuse Chinese people of consuming societally unacceptable and ethically questionable things like dog/cat/bat meat (which, if it’s not already crystal fucking clear, we don’t. do that.), which in turn characterize us as horrible unfeeling monsters? John Haan’s characterization feeds (haha, badum tss) directly into this harmful stereotype that have caused very real pain for Chinese people and East Asians in general.
And Jonny does nothing to address that from within his writing (and not out of it either). And, speaking on a more meta level, Jonny could’ve easily had these flesh avatars be individuals of any race (like, what’s Jared Hopworth’s ethnicity? Do we know? No? Well then). Conversely, he could’ve easily, easily had a Chinese person be an avatar of any other entity. So why did he have to chose specifically the Flesh?
(This is a rhetorical question. You know why. Racial stereotyping and invoking a fear of the other in an attempt to enhance horror, babey~)
On Tom Haan’s side, Jonny seems weirdly intent on having other characters repeatedly comment on his accent (or rather, lack thereof) in relation to his race. Think about how, in ep 30 (killing floor), the fact that Tom Haan had spoken a line to the statement giver in “perfect English” was an emphasized beat in that statement, and a beat that was supposed to be “chilling” and meant to signify to us that something was, quote-unquote, “not right” with Tom Haan. Implicitly, that’s saying that it was unexpected, not “normal”, and in this case even eerie, for someone who looks Chinese to have spoken in fluid, unbroken English. Mind you, the line itself was perfectly scary on its own (“you cannot stop the slaughter by closing the door”), so why did Jonny feel the need to note the accent in which it was spoken in? Why did Jonny HAVE to have that statement giver note, that he initially “wasn’t even sure how much English [Haan] spoke”?
This happens again in episode 72 with a Chinese man (and again, his ethnicity is Explicitly Noted) who we assume is also Tom Haan. This one is rather ironically funny and kind of painfully self aware, because the statement giver expresses surprise at Haan’s “crisp RP accent” and then immediately “felt bad about making the assumption that he couldn’t speak English,” and subsequently admitted that thought was “low-key racist.” Like, from a writing perspective, this entire passage is roundabout, pointless, and says absolutely nothing helpful to enhance the horror genre experience for listeners (instead it just sounded like some sort of half-assed excuse so Jonny or other listeners could say “look! We’ve addressed the racism!” You didn’t. It just made me vaguely uncomfortable). And again, having other people comment on our accents/lack thereof while assuming we are foreign is a Very Real microaggression that east asians face on the daily. If Jonny needed some filler sentences for pacing he could’ve written about Literally anything else. So why point out, yet again, that the crazy murderous man was foreign and Chinese?
At this point, you might say, right, but yknow, it was just that the statement givers were kind of racist! It happens! Yeah sure, ok, that’s a passable in-universe explanation for descriptions of Tom Haan (though not John Haan, mind you), but the statement givers are fake made up people, and statement’s still written by Jonny, who absolutely has all the power to write overt discrimination out of his stories. And he does! Think about just how many minor (and major!!) characters are so, so carefully written as completely aracial, and do not have their ethnicity implicated at all in whatever horrors they may or may not be committing. Think about how many lgbtq+ characters have given statements, and have been in statements, without having faced direct forms of discrimination, or portrayed as embodying blatant stereotypes in their stories (though lgbtq+ rep in tma certainly has their own issues that I won’t go into here). Jonny can clearly write characters this way, and he can do it well. So why, why, am I being constantly, repeatedly reminded in-text of the fact that the Haans are East Asian, that they’re from China, that they’re Chinese immigrants, that they’re second-generation British Chinese or whatever the fuck, and that they’re also horrifying conduits for blood, gore, and general fucked-up-ness? It’s absolutely not something that is Needed for the stories to be an effective piece of horror; the only thing it does is perpetuate incredibly harmful and hurtful stereotypes.
And listen, I love tma to bits. It’s taken over my blog. I’ve really loved my interactions with the fandom. And I am consistently blown away by Jonny’s writing and how well he’s able to weave foreshadowing and plot into an incredibly complex collection of stories. But I absolutely Cannot stop thinking about the Haans because it’s just. It’s such a blatant display of racial stereotyping in writing. And I’ve certainly seen a few voices talking about it here and there, and I don’t know if I’m just not looking in the right places, but it certainly feels like something that is just straight up not on the radar for a lot of tma fans. And I’m disappointed about that.
Just, I don’t know. Take a look at those episodes again and do some of your own thinking about why these characters had to be specifically Chinese (answer: they didn’t.). And in general, PLEASE for the love of god turn a critical eye on character portrayals and descriptions whenever they are assigned specific races/ethnicities (Some examples that come to mind are Jude Perry, Annabelle Cane, and Diego Molina), because similar issues, to an extent, extend beyond the Haans, though I haven’t covered them here.
You shouldn’t need a POC to do point out these problems for you when they’re so glaringly There. But for those of you who really didn’t know, hope this was informative in some way. I’m tired, man. If some of the only significant Chinese characters you write are violent cannibalistic men with a perverted relationship with meat, just don’t do it. Please don’t do it.
EDIT: Since the making of this post Jonny has acknowledged and apologized for these portrayals on his twitter and in the Rusty Quill Operations Update, which went up September 2020. A long time coming, but better late than never. This of course doesn’t necessarily negate the harm done by Jonny’s writing, and doesn’t make me much less angry about it, but is appreciated nonetheless. For more on this topic there’s a lot of productive discussions happening in my “#tma crit” tag and in the notes of this post
#tma#the magnus archives#magnuspod#tma 30#tma 72#tma crit#racism#sinophobia#racist stereotyping#tw cannibalism#tw violence#long post#tom haan#john haan
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What’s poppin homie? Idk how many characters you’re willing to answer asks for, so may I have hcs of how Izuku, Todoroki, Tamaki and Hawks react to their s/o who’s pro-hero costume resembles that of Mai’s bunny girl outfit? Thanks a lot!💞 love your blog bro!
hi homie! and thanks for the love, that’s so sweet you’re makin me blush bro. also, for future reference, I don’t really have a limit on how many characters or which characters I write (within reason ofc) so feel free to ask away <33
Request for: Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, Tamaki Amajiki, Keigo Takami Warnings: allusions to female pronouns but i usually use those anyway which!! In case you don’t know, I resort to those when there isn’t a specification but if you want I can for sure re-do something to fit the pronouns you want ~~~
Izuku Midoriya:
📓He just- 📓👀👀👀👀👀 📓He’s so sweet, and so precious, and he just loves you so much but 📓👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 📓He can’t NOT look 📓Unless it makes you uncomfortable when he just endlessly, silently drools over your curves then he will resort to not drooling and glancing respectfully 📓He won’t say anything, he’s too babey, but he’ll look for sure 📓Definitely not the type to be like “but you’re mine >:( “ and say you should change your costume, he’s VERY supportive 📓Because 1. Yay you have rights and 2. Yay hottie in a bunny girl costume 📓You guys kinda match and he loves that but he won’t say anything 📓I’m talking without the third movie where he probably doesn’t have the bunny-esque design anymore :( boo
Shoto Todoroki:
🍜Another one who probably just kinda stares 🍜Like “wow” in total silence 🍜He would like permission to simp peacefully 🍜Doesn’t care if other people are looking cuz?? hi why would he, he knows it’s for work 🍜Doesn’t mean he’s good to work with though 🍜He gets soooooo distracted when you come in a room let alone when you’re in your hero suit 🍜”What do you mean it’s been two hours? (Y/n) walked in five seconds ago.” 🍜Very awkward and does not pick up on queues but he’s trying 🍜Unsure of how to express his appreciation without sounding creepy so let him work on that for a little bit
Tamaki Amajiki:
🐙He Can’t: Handle It 🐙You show him your hero suit for the first time and he almost dies 🐙You killed him, he’s dead, he’s dead now, you killed him he’s dead 🐙His heart stops and he has to look away before he loses all sense of thought 🐙God forbid you accidentally make him into a mindless simp machine that just watches you be cool in your bunny girl costume (he’s secretly begging for it shhh) 🐙Also doesn’t say “you have to change grrr >:( “ cuz hey, he’s a respectful guy but he also just 🥵 cannot look away sometimes 🐙Blushing and stuttering before you even talk to him 🐙I feel like it’d be a crime if I didn’t mention Yato for Amajiki so here’s the obligatory reference 🐙”I didn’t know you’d take the name literally, bunny…”
Keigo Takami:
🐔Really? The biggest, most horny simp in the game? You’re asking how he’s gonna react? 🐔He is just so horny :( all the time :( 🐔And you’re just so awesome and amazing in your regular clothes imagine his shock when you step out in the bunny girl costume 🐔It’s like Midoriya’s level of staring and muttering but like 🐔x 100000000000000000000000000000000 🐔What do you mean his eyes used to look at the sky? Sounds fake, he’s only ever known staring at you 🐔Respectfully of course, he’s no demon 🐔Yet >:) 🐔Does not CARE about other people looking, like sure, he has his fits but like, have you seen his costume without the pants? 🐔He dresses like such a whore all the time, you’re honestly fine 🐔”Both literally and figuratively ahaha” - hawks when you’re fine
~~ This might’ve been useful at the beginning so sorry! But this is the costume in reference if you don’t know :3 it’s fan art but it gets the point across
#bnha x reader#midoriya x reader#izuku x reader#deku x reader#shoto x reader#todoroki x reader#tamaki x reader#amajiki x reader#tamaki amajiki x reader#shoto todoroki x reader#hawks x reader#keigo x reader#keigo takami x you#anon chatter :)
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AAH promo time :)))
O P E NEXT EPISODE'S THE TARLOS KISS
AHHHHHHH :DDDD
AWWWWW 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️ THEMMMMMM 🥰🥰🥰
y'all they love each other so much :'DDDDD
Iris
That better not be a problem xd
Why does it sound like a problem lol
Girl I trust you
Be careful with that trust XD
OPE thereee it is with those guys
Dang o.o all this in one episode???
I'm seeing like explosives and- well probably just more explosives honestly xD, and-
HOLY
DANG O.O
THAT BUS ಠ_ಠ
Okay Owen good thing you got away from those guys like. Literally immediately ಠ_ಠ
I mean I knew they were bad but now we're full on seeing it even if just for a second xdd
Anyhoo
Ahhh dang he's asking all of them for help 👀👀
Presumably lol unless they're doing a fake out with the audio but I think he is lol
At the very least he's warning them
HMM interesting 🤔🤔🤔. . .
All of that I mean
OPE there's the papers 👀👀 not that we knew already but I just mean newspapers are on it, for something xD
Wow, crazy
OKAY xdd dang
Next week's gonna be wild lol
So yeah! That isss the last of my last thoughts lol. I'm scared xD. Now it's time for the. . .
REVIEW
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THEY'RE BAAAACK THEY'RE FINALLY BAAACK MY BABEYS :'DDDDDDD
All of them :DDDD <3333
I love them so much 😭😭❤️❤️🥰🥰
Anyway, lol!
I loved this episode so much!! The rescues were cool, we got TARLOS :DD AAAH, lol, none of the storylines I was scared of dragged on too long (or, you know, the beginning of them anyway), and we got to see our wonderful 126 (and co) again :DDD. It was amazing :)). Now, onto some individual parts!
See not everyone has a plot each episode unlike tgd most of the time so this is easier but also harder lik
Marjan, Paul, Mateo, Nancy - I LOVE YOU GUYS 🥰🥰🥰🥰 SO MUCH :DDDDD!!! You are my babeys and my children and I love you <3. 'Nough said <3.
XD Just kidding lol. They were all hilarious as always - Nancy catching Tommy in her flirting, lol, that was amazing xD - and had some great scenes/bits of scenes together :)). The very beginning and the Sharknado bit are great examples just off the top of my head lol! And of course, they were great at their jobs :D 🥰🥰❤️.
Also, the three amigos being disgusted in the background after that fairground kiss and Nancy being disgusted in the foreground? Amazing, lol.
Now! Tommy :)). And this new guy! IIII already forgot his name lol. But AAAAHH!!! Meet cute much :DD?? Tommy was of course amazing and an icon this episode, and her and that new guy were so cute :D. Plus her panic and dread at the end was hilarious XD. I like him WAY better than Julius (why did I even bring that up so now I have to think about it augh 😭😭😭), so there's that right off the bat lol xD. He's already got that on his side - that he's NOT JULIUS XDD. Anyway, lol, it's gonna be hilarious, I think, and interesting to see where this goes 👀. Poor Tommy at the end there though, girl is s u f f e r i n g xDD.
Owen and Judd! Owen. Owennnn xD. MY GUY. How did nothing tip you off lol
See this is why you're the token straight xDD Judd was suspicious right away
Well I mean you're more token cishet white man but yk <3 XDD
Anyway lol, I think I will actually enjoy this storyline! Not that I necessarily thought I wouldn't, but I'm sure it will be angsty xD, plus I'm not always the biggest fan of Owen-centric things (though I'm not as much of a hater as some other people). Nonetheless, it looks like it'll an interesting and dramatic time, so I'm here for it :DD. Also Judd just laughing along for the ride lol xDD. Icon. But, though I say that, he was there for Owen the whole time as well :). That talk after the bar with the two of them was really sweet <33 🥰. They're besties, your honor :DD. Oh, and of course they also slayed at their jobs today :))).
And yeah, like I said lol: don't worry Owen - I'm sure you'll have plenty of dragons to slay soon xD.
Grace! Icon, amazing, love you girl 🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️. Sometimes I just love seeing Grace's little "hold up" moments and confused faces at some of the 9-1-1 calls lol XDD. Anyway, she also was amazing at her job this episode, as always :DDD 🥰🥰🥰. Can't wait to see more of her :).
And now. The moment you've all been waiting for.
CARLOS
AND
TK
:DDDDDDDD!!!
Okay y'all it's Tarlos time 🥰🥰🥰
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Okay I'm good lol
:)))))
(no I'm not xdd)
Anyway! I love love love love LOVED them this episode 🥰🥰🥰🥰. They had so many great scenes 😭😭😭. I am a liiiittle but disappointed we didn't get a kiss, but eh, whatever :D. We got so much besides that lol, and I'm fine with that xD. Even if some of it was angst xdd. I mean, it's still a better start than last season LOL XDD.
that was pain xdd
Anyway lol xD. Oh, and of course I'll also be talking about Iris here in this section, but I'm not really considering her as getting her own, since she's not like one of the mains yk lol, I'll just be talking about her here xD. So, continuing on, y'all they are so adorable 😭😭😭. And even though it killed me, I love me some angst, so I'm doing great lol. I mean, it wasn't THAT bad so I probably would've just been like, gravely injured (nah I'd be dead lol) if I didn't love angst, but still XD.
Anyway y'all I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY PLAYED US LIKE THAT!!! We all (well so many people anyway) said that that was too obvious, and that Iris wouldn't come back, and then that she probably wasn't the secret/it wasn't about her but she helped lead them to it or something (I considered that anyway and I know some other people did), and they PROVED. US. WRONG. XDDD. I did consider several times that maybe they would do that, it would be just obvious and crazy enough to be likely, but I didn't want it to be this so I didn't think about it much xDD.
And I mean, don't get me wrong, I loved the scenes in this episode, and I'm sure I'll continue to love this plot, I just wish it was something a little more fancy. And also that Carlos hadn't been married before lol. But, it was for kind of okayyy reasons, and good reasons to keep it - although Carlos, no offense, not to hurt you lol, but if had checked in sooner you would've known she didn't need the insurance anymore sooner xdd. But! Hey, it's in the past lol. Anyway, not my first choice for a secret, but I think it's really interesting and it'll be a fun (if not very literally) plotline :D.
And also just- AAAHHHHH THEY'RE GETTING MARRIED 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😭😭❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰. Y'all I literally can't handle this 🥰🥰 :'DDD. It's t h e m 😍😍🥰. All the wedding planning stuff and what not - aGH, it's so cute :'DDD 😭😭🥰. I'm so excited and I love them so much :))).
I am still scared for this storyline though lol xD.
But nah, I know it'll all work out fine lol. And I know I said nah but it actually doesn't stop me from being scared XDD.
Oh and lastly WE GET THE KISS NEXT EPISODEEEEE AAAHHHHHH and also AHHHH THAT HOLDING SCENE 😭😭😭😭. Like where TK was holding Carlos's face (or like neck or smth idk I was busy freaking out xD) :'))). If I remember correctly it was also that "I love you" scene from the promo? I don't know, like I said I was busy freaking out lol, but I'm pretty sure it was :'DDDD 🥰🥰🥰. Amazing, I love them so much, I am not at all ready and also so ready for this season :DDD. Let's do this :'))).
Overall, I really loved this episode! I thought the rescues/calls were cool and interesting, I loved seeing everybody again, and the disaster was super cool and unique :DD. I'm so happy to have my babeys back 🥰🥰. All the group scenes were hilarious, the plots were interesting and set up more cool stuff for the future, and the tarlos content was top notch :'DD xD. I think Owen's will be the main drama, obviously, but I'm looking forward to seeing where Tommy's goes. And I'm super excited for TK and Carlos's :D. I think this episode was an amazing start to what's sure to be an awesome season!!
So yeah! Such a great episode, I'm so glad we're back. I'm interested to see where this all goes! This has been my review of. . .
9-1-1: Lone Star, Season 4, Episode 1: The New Hotness
It was amazing! I'm really excited for the next episode, and the season as a whole. I'll be back next week for my review of. . .
9-1-1: Lone Star, Season 4, Episode 2: New Hot Mess
See you then!
#9-1-1 lone star#911 lone star#oasis's 9-1-1 chatter#911 lone star season 4#911 lone star s4#911 lone star season 4 premiere#911 lone star s4 premiere#911 lone star 4x01#911 lone star s4e1#I bet that next title's about tk lol#I just looking it up to put it there and I remembered seeing it (I kinda avoid the titles and summaries though - summaries more) and then#I connected it to the quote from carlos we've seen that we know based on outfts is going to be next episod XD#but hey I wonder about what 👀👀#maybe he'll be sad about iris or carlos having been married befoe#not necessarily jealous but yk#eh idk anyway lol#I'm excited for it :))#also I remember thinking when I saw the titles that I liked how they matched and I still do xD#I think it's fun lol :))#oh also NANTEO 'BABE' AHHHH#SOUND THE ALARMS IT'S HAPPENED :DDDD#amazing :)))) 🥰🥰 I love them#I'm talking about nancy calling mateo babe btw lol#see we even got nanteo content 🥰🥰#perfect episode /lh lol#tarlos#aaaanyhoo AAAAHHHHHHHHHH#I loved this so much and I am so happy to have them back :)))) 🥰🥰#and I am so so excited for the rest of the season :DDDD!!#byeee you guys ❤️❤️😚 I love y'all :))) 🥰🥰🥰🥰!!!
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You wanted Nicknames, I've got nicknames!
Tokoyami: Fumi, Pretty Bird, The Shadow King™️, Creature (affectionate, used for both Tokoyami and Dark Shadow), Angel, Dark Angel, Dark Prince, Creature of the night (a Rocky Horror Picture Show ref),
Dark Shadow: DS, Gastly/Haunter, babey, Little Rat (affectionate, because he blurts out Tokoyami's true feelings, whether it's to tease, or Fumi won't open up about how he feels)
Vash (Trigun): Vashie, Mr. Stampede, Angel, Love, Puppy, Valintinez (deadpan, usually told a bad joke. Based on a fake name he gave to Wolfwood), Sunshine, Needle Noggin,
(asks for blorbo nicknames and suddenly I only have like, 2 blorbos.)
Oh my these are all so cute 🥺 the ghastly/haunter one 😭 ADORABLE dark shadow just shouting out 'HE LIKES YOU' cause he can't stand that you don't know 🥺
Also tell me how I said oh y'all are gonna make a creature feature then 🎥 but ya know 😉 haha lemme stop
Very cute names 🐱
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