#time for this clusterfluff

[suau-raised-by-corrupted-gems]

Sorry for the sudden disappearing act, folks!

Winter break is coming to an end [next semester starts the 21st D:] and I suspect this semester + year in general might be a bit busier than last, so I kicked it into high gear and actually tried scripting and drafting the next few parts to chapter 2 (One of my New Years resolutions; actually think before I act, a.k.a script and draft before I draw cuz last year was a clusterfluff ×_×) while at the same time trying to get used to drawing Centi and drawing up extra backgrounds.

I am still lurking about, just working to make sure this chapter doesn't loose traction and become sloppy towards the end like prologue and chapter 1 kind of did. (For me at least. :P)

But, i am also making random stuffs in this au to entertain y'all for the long wait.^^ you know scenarios, headcanons, character design, all that fun stuff.^^

Until next post, have a cute Lil Q with an askerfly.

[Of course, there's always asks you can shoot me if you'd like^^ but if it's a bit spoiler-y/lore related, it's may be vaguely answered or watered-down]

[suau-raised-by-corrupted-gems]

Aaaaaand with that anticlimactic exchange, I'm bringing the chapter's end here.

Don't wanna get too dramatic this early in, [since I already milked the drama slightly here to begin with-] not to mention me not wanting to drag out too much and end on another close-up shot.

Soooo, this was a bit of a clusterfluff of a start, but hopefully I managed to land some kind of hit here.

I'm gonna take a brief hiatus from this for now; of course I won't stop drawing Lil Quartz and his crew, but comic wise, I need time to actually PLAN out the script and sketches of the next chapter, while at the same time sprucing up some of chapter one's pages and some prologue shots. [Cuz both were me going in blind, no sketches or full script, and i need to re-evaluate my nonsense and straighten things out. x_x] I'll keep y'all updated on Chapter 2's progress throughout this hold, dw. :3

But... that out of the way...

Thanks for reading this chapter! Hope to see you in the next one!

Welp, enough rambles. Time for a brief break from comicing and start working on other doodles. [perhaps fanarts and lore headcanons? ;3]

But until then, this has been your oddball author, Sam.

Over and out! ✌️

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[disasterpurplebois]

Let chaos reign

[doesromandoart]

aanother attempt at a fake screencap with Variscite

[sheltereredturtle]

Supercorp Love Languages

So my friends and I were discussing the 5 Love Languages the other day. I always thought it meant how you show others love, but apparently it’s more how you want others to show You love? and I thought jokingly “Lena’s is most definitely Words of Affirmation,” and then my brain imploded with a theory/examples:

LENA’s primary love language is probably Words of Affirmation, she grew up constantly seeking approval from the Luthors, the world, and even Kara + friends. Despite the confidence she shows, she doubts herself often and needs others to reassure her of the brilliance and kindness we all know she exemplifies. She needs others (friends/mentors) to give her that extra push/encouragement to believe in herself and keep moving forward.

Lena praise-kink Luthor, need I say more XD? (im gonna)

Kara “I’m not going anywhere, I will always be your friend, and I will always protect you” (2x18)

Kara “You are not weak. You are a brilliant, kindhearted, beautiful soul.” (4x19)

She just wants to be loved yall. Rhea to Lena “Never doubt yourself again. You are a Marvel, Lena. And your mother should be proud to call you Daughter.” (literally 5 seconds later she’s betrayed T^T) (2x20)

Lena to Lillian “no, what you taught me was to doubt myself, to look for validation elsewhere. So much so, that I was willing to take it from the first mentor (Rhea) that offered it.” And then Lillian proceeds to apologize and say that Lena is brilliant and could save the world. And then she does. (HER FACE. she just wants to be good) (2x22)

Lillian says I love you with truth seeker and Lena doesn’t know how to react :’( (4x21)

Lena: “I can’t summon a breakthrough through sheer force of will.” Alex: “then how is it that every time I’ve seen you work under pressure you’ve done exactly that.” (4x15 on saving James)

Brainy “but if you want to be trusted and accepted, than you must also trust” then Lena goes to tell Kara the truth about helping Lex (4x19)

Jack “I just miss you” + “I wonder what would’ve happened if I had said ‘there was room, for both me and your family.’ I mean if I had made room. If I could still do that.” then they kiss (2x18)

 So many more examples (with Sam, Lex, Eve etc)

And now in S5, WHO is Lena getting that reassurance and love from?!? Lex. -_-

KARA’s love language is mayhaps Receiving Gifts (more specifically, but not limited to, food). I also think this is how she tends to show her love.

Receiving gifts:

Necklace from her mom when she was 13 and escaping Krypton :’( and her cape from Kal, both of which are shown to be incredibly important to her at the time (1x01)

Lead-lined glasses from Jeremiah that she still wears (1x17)

Apology Earth-birthday cupcake from Alex (2x11)

Office full of flowers from Lena (2x12)

Lena buying Catco for Kara (3x01)

Kryptonite shield from Lena (4x18)

New suit from brainy (5x01) “did you forget it?” lol

Helping Kelly pick a present for Alex (Kara was READY) (5x05)

Anytime someone brings food and Kara does a happy dance

Giving gifts:

Dragon sculpture she made for her father (1x13)

Bringing flowers to comfort Lena (2x18)

Gives necklace to Mon-El (2x022)

Planner to Lena, a Danvers family gift giving tradition (3x02)

Anytime Kara brings food to Lena (i.e. 4x02)

Giving a SuperWatch to Lena (5x01)

Kara to Nia “Maybe giving food is Brainy’s language of love” (5x02)

All Lena’s favourite food from around the world (5x03) (look how bashful/happy she is because Lena’s happy)

Giving Lena Lex’s journals (5x03)

I’m sure there are more I’m just forgetting (sorry I didn’t provide picture reference for every single one but I’m sure you get the point)

And in S5, maybe this is why Kara is feeling slightly inclined toward William..!? because of the coffee and grandma-puzzle gift?? (bit of a stretch tho… I dunno, I don’t understand what they’re doing)

I think it’s safe to say Physical Touch and Quality Time is also high up for both Lena and Kara, there are so many examples so I won’t bother listing. Anyways, while Kara has already apologized (beautifully and sincerely) multiple times, Lena isn’t listening because she thinks that all the love that Kara has shown her isn’t real. I think what Lena needs to hear MOST right now is Kara (and all the other superfriends) actually TELLING her that she is still loved and appreciated. And that just because Kara wasn’t completely honest about her identity as supergirl that doesn’t mean she wasn’t honest about all the other things she has said about Lena: that she is a brilliant, kindhearted, beautiful soul T^T. PLEASE. We the audience have seen Kara defend Lena to the others, but Lena hasn’t seen or heard about any of that. sOMEONE TELL HER THEY STILL LOVE HER (not you Lex). (I mean obviously after that, they still have to work hard together to resolve their issues. just been sayin that this is an important step that hasn’t happened yet)

#me trying to make sense of the clusterfluff that s5 has been #I am a professional of nothing these are just my random thoughts #me saying all this as if I have faith in the shows consistency lol #this ended up way longer than I intended #sorry for any off topicness #I definitely spent way too much time on this #Lena still probably thinks Kara was all for aiming that claymore at her :( #also please excuse the not great pictures I don’t know how to find and properly use/credit gifs

[risualto]

OC Fears

I was tagged by @rebelfatebinder (as well as a heck ton of open tags) a while back to do this OC fears meme with my characters, but the format didn’t really work for many of my characters for a number of reasons.  So, I thought I would instead list a few of my OCs and the fears that I know they do have.

Open tag--if you would like to do this or the original OC fears meme (found here), consider yourself tagged and tag me back so I can read about your characters, too!

Basically, I’m going to list things that each character has a notable fear regarding, meaning that this is something that affects their decisions in ways that are significant for their narrative.  I’m trying not to overlap with characters who I did the Negative Traits tag game for just to keep things interesting.

Nickolai (original fiction)

Responsibility (Failure) - Nickolai has a really difficult time accepting it when other people rely on him because he’s terrified to fail and incur their anger or lose them as a result.  Therefore, he pushes people away by making himself seem unreliable and flighty.  This fear stems from a subconscious knowledge that Nickolai carries the weight of an entire civilization, even when he wasn’t consciously aware of this duty. Small spaces - Nickolai is claustrophobic.  This stems from the fact that he is, essentially, a wind spirit stuck in a human body, and being stuck inside boundaries goes against his nature.  ...but the human part of him is also just irrationally scared of small spaces.

Iruka (original fiction)

Isolation - The fastest way to compromise Iruka’s mental state is to isolate her both physically and psychologically--she can do okay if she’s physically by herself but knows there are people coming to her/people she can return to.  But if she feels like she can’t connect to anyone and is isolated, she panics. Suffocation - I know this one seems obvious, but as someone who can breathe both air and water and has a pretty immense lung capacity, Iruka is really scared of not being able to breathe.  Suffocation triggers a pretty vicious fight or flight response.

Ayumo (original fiction)

Restraint (powerlessness) - Ayumo cannot stand to be, for any reason, restrained.  Being immobilized in a fight or, for example, having his hands cuffed, is deeply frightening for him; but this extends to being manipulated as well.  Ayumo defines himself through defiance, so being blackmailed (or pseudo-magically controlled) into doing something frightens him as badly as being paralyzed.  This fear comes from the fact that Ayumo’s early life was a clusterfluff that was completely out of his control, so maintaining control is important to him. Public speaking - Stealthy boi hates having a lot of attention on himself.  He survived most of his life by avoiding all attention, so that’s not fun for him.  But also, he’s generally a very intimidating person and not exactly eloquent, so talking isn’t his favorite thing either.

Tai Lon (Pillars of Eternity)

Freezing to death - Despite being a pale elf, Tai Lon really hates the cold.  Freezing to death is like the worst way she could go in her opinion.  She’d trade places with Iovara to avoid it.  That’s how scared she is of dying from hypothermia. Small (confined) spaces - Tai Lon is also claustrophobic, though for her, the fear only really kicks in if she is trapped.  For example, being in a small room with a door that’s unlocked doesn’t bother her, but a collapsed cellar will freak her out, even if there’s enough room to move around.  This fear comes from what happened to her when Caed Nua collapsed. Thunder (sudden, loud noises) - Also stemming from the collapse of Caed Nua, loud, resonant noises with no discernible source scare Tai Lon.  She can get through thunderstorms if she’s with her friends, but it still sets her on edge.

[the-brothers-jack]

Visit my island!

EDIT:  Thank you so much for coming!  I had a great time, we should do this again!

Benefits: 

Oranges

Coconuts

Nook’s Cranny has a baby panda right now

Plaza (hourly music!)

Windflowers

Hybrid flowers for catching peacock butterflies

English timezone

If you can (you don’t have to!), please bring: 

cosmo seed packets

lily seed packets

mum seed packets

pansy seed packets

Please don’t trample or pick my hybrid flowers!  I want people to be able to catch peacock butterflies, please.

Message me for a dodo code!  (I’m doing it that way so there isn’t a clusterfluff of loading screens as people come in and out)

[fandom-games]

This is the story of the only interesting thing I've ever done in my life, so enjoy.

There are a couple things you need to know about UK colleges. 1) They're different to unis, as in you can leave high school at 16 and start there the next year, which is what I did as I wanted to study in a place that didn't make me want to punch an electric fence every day and 2) it's a complete and utter clusterfluff. (fun fact, one of my classmates in my first year of college, within the very first fortnight, actually stood on a cafeteria table and gave a speech to the entire room, what I'd say is about 200 people at least, an act that was preceded by us asking what he was doing, and him responding "something I should have done a long time ago". I so wish I wasn't in too much shock to record it. But that's a story for another day.)

For now, let's talk about the time I became a class meme for doing a presentation dressed in a Spiderman catsuit.

The class in question was my creative analysis class, taught by a very nice man who I'm sure I annoyed the hell out of every day...sorry.

In said class, we each had to pick 2 pieces of media to talk about and dissect. My first one was an anime, and my second one was Infinity war. Each student had to show a 2 minute clip of their desired talk point and then discuss things like lighting, sound design, directing, etc.

Now I wanna clear something up. When I say catsuit, I mean full body from fingers to toes with only the head being detachable. In essence, not easy to hide. But that wasn't gonna stop me. I mean I had a freaking Spiderman bodysuit, what else was I gonna use it for?

That day, I went to class with my legs already in the suit, arms tied around my waist, covered in baggy clothes, which thankfully wasn't unusual for me.

My first analysis? Went completely fine, nothing strange, other than people maybe wondering why I picked a show about half naked swimmers. Then...came my second.

Picture this: lights off, the video starts, there's Thanos monologuing on screen. And the girl showing it all to you sprints out of the classroom like a lunatic and slams the door shut behind her.

And thus began my 2 minute time limit. I still wonder what the 5 or so people on the computers outside the room thought when they saw a 16 year old girl run out of her class, take her jumper off, put on a Spiderman bodysuit, somehow zip it up (yes, I did indeed practice it beforehand), throw all of her clothes including glasses off to the side, and linger with her ear pressed against the door, waiting for the lull in the music.

I walked in, and had to stop the presentation for 2 minutes because everyone was too busy laughing and cheering as I couldn't see anything because I was no longer wearing my glasses (yeah, in hindsight... probably should have worn contacts.) I did the rest of the presentation dressed like that.

In the end, it resulted in a bunch of wonderful photo ops at the end of the class, a recording of my presentation that was gonna be showed to the SQA as proof of my completion of the task, and a passing grade.This is the story of the only interesting thing I've ever done in my life, so enjoy.

There are a couple things you need to know about UK colleges. 1) They're different to unis, as in you can leave high school at 16 and start there the next year, which is what I did as I wanted to study in a place that didn't make me want to punch an electric fence every day and 2) it's an utter shit show. (fun fact, one of my classmates in my first year of college, within the very first fortnight, actually stood on a cafeteria table and gave a speech to the entire room, what I'd say is about 200 people at least, and act that was preceded by us asking what he was doing, and him responding "something I should have done a long time ago". But that's a story for another day.)

For now, let's talk about the time I became a class meme for doing a presentation dressed in a Spiderman catsuit.

The class in question was my creative analysis class, taught by a very nice man who I'm sure I annoyed the hell out of every day...sorry.

In said class, we each had to pick 2 pieces of media to talk about and dissect. My first one was an anime, and my second one was Infinity war. Each student had to show a 2 minute clip of their desired talk point and then discuss things like lighting, sound design, directing, etc.

Now I wanna clear something up. When I say catsuit, I mean full body from fingers to toes with only the head being detachable. In essence, not easy to hide. But that wasn't gonna stop me. I mean I had a freaking Spiderman bodysuit, what else was I gonna use it for?

That day, I went to class with my legs already in the suit, arms tied around my waist, covered in baggy clothes, which thankfully wasn't unusual for me.

My first analysis? Went completely fine, nothing strange, other than people maybe wondering why I picked a show about half naked swimmers. Then...came my second.

Picture this: lights off, the video starts, there's Thanos monologuing on screen. And the girl showing it all to you sprints out of the classroom like a lunatic and slams the door shut behind her.

And thus began my 2 minute time limit. I still wonder what the 5 or so people on the computers outside the room thought when they saw a 16 year old girl run out of her class, take her jumper off, put on a Spiderman bodysuit, somehow zip it up (yes, I did indeed practice it beforehand), throw all of clothes including glasses off to the side, and linger with her ear pressed against the door, waiting for the lull in the music.

When it arrived, I walked in, and had to stop the presentation for 2 minutes because everyone was too busy laughing and cheering as I couldn't see anything because I was no longer wearing my glasses (yeah, in hindsight... probably should have worn contacts). I did the rest of the presentation dressed like that.

In the end, it resulted in a bunch of wonderful photo ops at the end of the class, a recording of my presentation that was gonna be showed to the SQA as proof of my completion of the task, and a passing grade.

Proof? This was taken as the next person was setting up. I blocked out my classmates faces (though they have themselves publicly shared it), but have fun with this image everyone.

[zc-undertale]

I Randomly Made an Undertale-Themed Skin for Windows Media Player 12!?!?! X3

WELL! This was quite a departure for me! >w>

I wanted to make a media player compact, yet visible for when I do art streams (If I EVER end up feeling up to doing that again... heh heh... ^_^()). Anyway, I then had the desire to make it Undertale themed. So I made a micro player with only the basic screen customized, and made it tentatively public. Folks loved it, but wished it was bigger. So I doubled the size, and went all-out with customizing it, including many details, even little easter eggs. But MAN it was tough! Not only having to learn programming on the fly, but also the fact that Microsoft's own official dev documentation had mistakes in it! And the weird language it uses is a clusterfluff of non-standard syntax, so it was hard to find out how to do what I wanted to do. But I'd say I got it 90% the way I wanted it, which I'm proud of. Especially since it fought me tooth-and-nail with technology BULLCRAP that ALWAYS happens to me (changing a bit of code would break something else completely unrelated, etc)! So much trial-and-error, I think I'll be dreaming about re-opening this player over and over again to see if I got pixels lined up just right or whether or not I broke something with each little code edit I did... There are a few minor visual bugs, and some things need to be clicked twice the first time you load the player. There's peculiarities with the docking/undocking of sections as well. But there's nothing I can seem to do about those, hopefully it's not enough to ruin the experience (I myself have gotten used to 'em). Someday I might do a couple more tweaks (and fix things if I can ever figure out how), but for now, I think it's not bad for my first skin edit, and for having to do a lot of coding when I've never done any coding before. Well, enjoy~!

Here’s a .zip file, which includes a README, two necessary fonts, and three sets of Visuals which work best with the special way I arranged the window. https://jmp.sh/56a7s5L

[mrnerdteacher]

“Avengers: Infinity War” Jumps the Shark by Contracting the Fatal Comic Book Virus, and as a Result the Stakes Couldn’t Be Lower: A Review with all the Spoilers

“In time you will know what it’s like to lose,” Thanos hums menacingly in the film’s opening shots. “To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail all the same.” Wait a minute, is he talking to Loki or the audience? Specifically, the audience who will desperately try to like this movie out of loyalty and the desire to have the last decade worth of movie tickets (roughly $304) amount to something. But alas, when it comes to comic crossovers, Infinity War is king, and the emperor has no clothes. 

ALL THE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

“Avengers: Infinity War” encapsulates everything that is wrong with the superhero genre of films. Ridiculously expensive special effects, big name actors with little to do, exposition as opposed to character arcs, and everything (everything) in the service of action figure sales and the setup for the sequel. This film is bloated, emotionless, largely humorless, overly busy, and makes a pretty huge misstep by doubling down on the most overused, predictable trope of all: the comic book death.

See, it’s a long-running joke that no one stays dead in comics. Not even Captain America, whose controversial JFk-style assassination actually made headlines in real newspapers around the world, could stay in the ground for long. After all, these Captain America fruit snacks aren’t gonna sell themselves.

So in a movie with very little plot, the culmination of the “story” involves Thanos succeeding and wiping out half the sentient life in the universe. It’s a somewhat disturbing scene that plays out for the better part of five minutes, as you watch tensely to see which beloved character is going to start turning to ash. And this movie pulls no punches, dissolving fan favorites like Black Panther and the Guardians of the Galaxy, leaving little but the original Avengers cast standing by the end (actually, isn’t it weird that half the galaxy is deleted, yet all 6 o.g. ‘Vengers are spared? Random my ass).

But the downer ending, which is notably evocative of films like The Empire Strikes Back (brilliantly foreshadowed by Spider-Man's love for the film in Civil War) had little to no impact on anybody, in the story or in the movie theatre. Every actor seems oddly un-horrified, or even unsurprised to watch their comrades crumble into coffee grounds. Was the green-screen-ensconced cast even told what the final special effect would look like?

Most criminally, though. Nobody in my opening night crowd were really that “shook.” Sure, a few kids were vocal about Groot and Spidey kicking the bucket, but at this point EVERYBODY knows this is only temporary. Not only have sequels starring “deceased” characters been announced long ago, the time/reality bending powers of Thanos’ gauntlet make it incredibly easy to imagine how all of this will be undone.

So, just like comic books, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has just contracted an incurable disease of low-stakes. Any big fight scene or shocking death from this point on will be seen as “only for now”, and all the work put into such elaborate crossover plotlines will have been wasted.

Hopefully this will force screenwriters to start showing some real creativity with the genre instead of yet another sky beam at the center of yet another downtown destruction derby that somehow doesn’t seem to hurt anybody. Infinity War is exactly the kind of emotionless, swollen clusterfluff that we all feared the first Avengers would be; moments of fun lost in a flurry of cringe and self-referential hooey. If this is what the “payoff” has been, I’d like my $304 dollars back, please. I hear the Playstation VR is on sale...

FINAL GRADE: D

[fangirlfiles1]

Two things:

One: I have two more prompts to fill, but I won’t be able to do it tonight. I’ve got to do some reading for psych and then head to bed. I will finish them as soon as I have time! This has been so much fun, and I definitely plan to do more prompts!! If you have some one word prompts, feel free to send them in, just know that I might not get to them right away as I’m very busy with college and some other things.

Two: Oh my goodness there are so many new friends here??? Hello! Thank you so much to everyone who has followed me in the last twenty four hours. I am excited to have you guys here! My ask box is always open and I would love to hear from you all. I assume most of you are here for my writing as you have come after Rest For A Helper, so tomorrow (if I remember lol) I will be making a master list of all of my fics to make it a bit easier for you all to find.

For now though, I must get to work and then sleep! Thank you all for a really fun day, and to my newbies... welcome to my clusterfluff of a blog haha! <3

[hojoontrash]

20q’s

I was tagged by @toppdogghansol (on my main blog, but I’ll just post everything once here) and @fyhjjxxn, my thanks to the both of you.

RULES: answer the 20 questions and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better

NAME: Holly

NICKNAMES: none :((

GENDER: female

STAR SIGN: Cancer

HEIGHT: 5′3″ or 159 cm

TIME RIGHT NOW:12:53 am

LAST THING I GOOGLED: inch to cm conversion for my height just now

FAVORITE BANDS: Topp Dogg, BgA, Echosmith, Of Monsters and Men, The Fray, Daughtry

FAVE SOLO ARTISTS: Owl City, Ed Sheeran, Yui

LAST MOVIE I WATCHED: my sister just made me watch "Your Name”. I don’t watch movies often, though.

WHEN DID YOU CREATE YOUR BLOG: March 2017, when I finally explored kpop for fun and now I’m either in heaven or hell

WHAT DO YOU POST: (for this side blog) Topp Dogg, kpop memes, and the occasional non-kpop stuff like this. (On my main blog @thelooserchange) stuff that make me laugh, aesthetic, art work, things that move me...just a whole clusterfluff of stuff.

WHEN DID YOUR BLOG REACH ITS PEAK?: ????  ??  ???????

DO YOU HAVE OTHER BLOGS: Yes, the aforementioned @thelooserchange 

DO YOU GET ASKS REGULARLY: No. But I don’t usually have answers anyways, so that’s just as well.

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR URL: (side blog “hojoontrash”) I needed an outlet for all my Topp Klass angst, sorrow, and love, so I figured it should be completely dedicated to TD. I’m fangirl trash to begin with, and my bias is Hojoon, so...it just made sense  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (main “the looserchange”) There’s not much behind it really, I just needed some user name that wasn’t already taken (it was so frustrating). I thought of the “loose change” in the lyrics of “A Team” by Ed Sheeran and made this username (cause “loosechange” was already taken >:I)

FOLLOWING: 434 (yeah...I might need to do a Tumblr purge)

POSTS: (side) 726, (main) 2,609

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Ravenclaw (though I’m not a Harry Potter fan pleasedon’tkillme)

POKÉMON TEAM: TEAM MYSTIC!!! :D

FAVORITE COLORS: ivory, light grey, shades of blue

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 7, varies

LUCKY NUMBERS: I don’t believe in lucky numbers? But if I were to name numbers I like: 0, 7, 13 

FAVE CHARACTERS: (Oh boy, here we go) Kaworu Nagisa and Rei (Neon Evangelion), Gaara (Naruto), Yashiro (Skip Beat!), Hong Sul, Jung, and In Ho (Cheese in the Trap), Wally (Cherry Boy, That Girl), Hina (Hinamatsuri), Bunchou-chan (Sekaioni), Midorima (Kuroko no Basuke), Yanda (Yotsuba&!)...the list can go on and on

WHAT AM I WEARING NOW?: Pink pajama pants, flip flops, light t-shirt under my blue uniform sweater from back in high school, which is now covered in paint stains.

HOW MANY BLANKETS DO YOU SLEEP WITH: 2

DREAM JOB: Mangaka, graphic novelist or webtoon artist, graphic designer, illustrator

DREAM TRIP: hiking trip, exploring abandoned places/trails, China, Japan, Italy, S.Korea, the Moon, various alternate universes and fictional places

I’ll tag: @lowkey-hansol-trash, @kmsmitty, @xdajoker, @flanelltees, @toppdoggwho, @incorrecttoppdoggquotes, @wondrousness, @mengj1a, @husberttee, @alexis-harsgreaves, @angelcyj, @sailor-sol,  @valhallafrommars, @ikonic-hyuk and anyone else who wants to do this (optional)

[fangirling-phoenix]

EUROVISION NOTICE

The time has come. The biggest European showdown of the year is about to begin in less than an hour. I am not even remotely sorry for the amount of posts I’m about to make.

I will be tagging posts with:

eurovision

eurovision 2017

phoenix watches eurovision

so feel free to blacklist these tags if you want to avoid this clusterfluff that we call Eurovision.

You have been warned.

BRACE YOURSELVES

[phandomsecretvalentines]

Nothing Compares to You

Summary: Dan may be adored by some high profile people nowadays, but no one will ever compare to the dork he fell in love with eight years ago.

Genre: fluff

Tw: mentions of depression, mentions of 2012

A/N: So this is my valentines gift for @lovellester! I know we don’t know each other but happy valentines day! This is basically a 1k clusterfluff fic about Dan and Stop Speak Support, it’s a lil bit crap i’m sorry! :/

If you’d have said to eighteen year old Dan that this was his life now, he probably would have laughed in your face.

Having spent so many hours growing up contemplating what he was doing with his life, idolising various Youtubers and musicians, and just constantly disliking who he was, the idea of being a successful Youtuber with one major world tour and another fast approaching, plus an ambassador for a mental health charity after having opened up about his struggles with depression seems just a tad far fetched.

And that’s not even mentioning that he now lives with the very Youtuber he idolised the most.

Phil had essentially become Dan’s rock. Even before they had started speaking to each other Phil’s videos became a constant in Dan’s life, and after they had begun talking it quickly became apparent how well they fit into each other’s lives.

Dan had always adored Phil, found his video content and editing style quirky and interesting, but meeting him face to face, DAMN. That sent Dan’s heart into overdrive, finding that he could appreciate Phil’s very existence even more than he anticipated. He was just so sweet, so attractive, understood Dan better than anyone else. So when Phil took him up on the Manchester Eye, to look at the North from above, Dan could no longer take it, how charming and how perfect Phil was for him, and captured Phil’s lips in his own.

Cliché, but perfect.

Dan wasn’t new to finding boys attractive. Hell the way he idolised Pete Wentz’ appearance or Matt Bellamy’s voice was kind of proof in the pudding, but this was the first time that his attraction to the same sex had been put into practice. Initially Dan was convinced that his crush on Phil would remain a celebrity adoration just like the others, so to have actually befriended Phil on line and still had his feelings stray far from platonic freaked the fuck out of Dan. When he first started watching Phil, he had a girlfriend. But the extent to which he was emotionally cheating on her made him realise that this relationship was no longer fair on her, hence they inevitable broke it off. That was the night him and Phil agreed to meet up for the first time.

Of course his relationship with Phil was far from perfect. They still had their petty arguments over why Phil had eaten Dan’s cereal or why Dan had used up half a bottle of shower gel in one shower, but it was never as bad as it was during 2012. Dan’s Youtube Channel had rapidly increased in popularity and information regarding his personal life had been released, including a certain video that Phil had made to make him feel better whilst they were in separate parts of the world. Dan frequently lashed out at Phil, blamed him for what had happened, and later simply became terrified of Phil leaving him.

But he never did. Phil completely understood why Dan was so terrified and closed off, and remained faithfully by his side, helped him to improve Dan’s relationship with their audience as they also matured and the boundaries between Youtuber and audience were solidified. Phil constantly helped Dan through his existential crises and worst depressive episodes, and helped Dan find the professional help he needed to get the help he needed.

Once Dan had found a therapist he liked, and felt able to stop taking his medication, he opened up to his audience about his struggles with depression, which, surprisingly lead to him having so many more amazing opportunities that he could have never dreamed of.

And here he was today.

The new anti cyber bullying campaign that Prince William had supported was something that Dan was completely in favour of, and to be asked to help to spread the message was a privilege that he did not expect. He knew that his struggles with bullying as a teenager plus the impact this had on his mental health would help him to fully connect with young people, but he still didn’t expect to be asked. And to be in presence of Royalty and have the prince know who you are? This was completely out of the ordinary for Dan.

Dan’s various experiences online lead him to be the lead conversationalist during the assembly, which gained him many an approving smile and nod from the prince and Professor Green. He wasn’t surprised really. After all, his online presence was far more prominent than the other two, heck, the prince was only allowed to share the Kensington Palace twitter account. So he shared anecdotes about what not to do online, and even advised some time away from the internet, just to avoid extra stress and panic should the situation arise.

Dan was proud of what he was achieving through this campaign, and particularly surprised at how much good he could achieve simply by being open about his own mental health struggles on his Youtube channel.

Currently, Dan is sat in his sofa crease, chuckling at various memes on Tumblr regarding his day today, particularly regarding his relationship to Prince William. Some compared the Prince’s ‘heart eyes’ to Dan’s own, and some suggested that Will looked like he would consider leaving Kate for Dan. Some people found it amusing that Dan would reject the prince should he ever ask, and while it was intended in jest, Dan quickly realised how true the statement was.

No matter what great opportunities arise for him and what high profile people he encounters, the one thing that will not change is the stability that Phil has provided for him, and how he would never consider leaving him not even for a second. Phil is his prince, cheesy as it sounds, and no one else could possibly compare.

He can never forget that Phil was there for him at his worst times and stuck by him through his struggles. Phil made him feel like no one else could ever make him feel, and supported him in a way no one else could.

It was at this moment that Phil walks into the room and snuggles into Dan.

“What’s up bear?” he asks

Dan smirks, then replies

“The prince gave me heart eyes today”

Phil raises an eyebrow

“Oh? Should I be jealous”

“Oh definitely”

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Rant time (open for discussion if you want)

(Hey sheridan if you could just not read this thatd be great thanks)(but tbh i mean i cant stop you so🤷‍♀️)

Okay so yesterday i spent a better part of the day cuddling with this guy. Hes someone ive been friends with for almost a year and a half but its been a friendship mostly revolves around heloing each other through depression. Anyway last few months ive been working on actually making it a more thoughtful friendship bc he is genuinely a sweet guy.

About a week ago i hung out with him for the first time and we just walked around the mall being obnoxious teenagers and i walked with him to his apartment because he wanted to show it to me and i didnt want to make him walk by himself. Well then i was leaving and he ended up walking me back to my car at the mall. A few days after that we had planned to hang out again but this time at my house (wanted to meet the cats)

Like a day or two after that i kind of had a crisis and wasn't sure if i was developing feelings or not. I had a little crush but i wasnt sure if it was because i actually genuienly like him or if i was just latching on because he paid attention to me. He also has been pretty flirty for most of the time ive known him but its a small enough that it can still be considered friendly and him jusy being nice. I had asked about it previously and he mentioned that he tended to come across as flirty to a lot of people on accident. Anyway i did the ol' 20 questions thing and hinted out that there was a possibility of a crush but didn't mention anything after it

Hours later into the conversation he said that crush was mutual. I did make it fairly clear that i needed to figure out my jead and that i didnt know what was going on and that i wasnt promising anything. We continued the random q n a over the next day or two and it was a generally pretty open 20 questions. Didnt really not answer anything.

Well on the day he was coming over he planned to bring a movie (Rango) and i wanted to watch the black mirror movie so it was like already pre established we planmed to have casual movie day. We had both been keeping up the casual flirting and whatnot and like the night befire he had asked me if i wanted to cuddle as we watched movies. I did one of those like half answer things and basically did the "theoretically yes, realistically im anxious" but it was fine🤷‍♀️.

(I should probably preface with the fact that about 2 years ago i came out as pan rom and ace but like thats still very confusing bc honestly sexuality is hard? Ive dome some things that def werent ace and i enjoyed them kinda? More if the emotional aspect rather than any physical pleasure? But i still have very mixed feelings about said things so i dont even kmow anymore. Its kind of like i want to do and experience those things with another person (boy or girl) but like the thought if a dick kind of rly grosses me out and i dislike General nudity. So that aspect of my life is super wacky.)

(My first and only relationship was with a girl and it lasted about a year and 4 months. We lived pretty far away from each other (like a 30 min drive which was a lot bc neither of us amhad our license at the time) but we had been best friends for years prior. We did practice on the same team 12-16 hours a week together but we werent able to actually be a couple at the gym. Anyway we were already pretty close and comfortable with each other and it became like that physically as well. However i was very conflicted physically because i wanted the emotional bond that came with physical intimacy but the actual like pleasure aspect wasnt quite there. In the moment it was generally fine and enjoyable but ive never really understood like the big deal kind of? And afterwards it was kind of uncomfortable to think about so i mostly just ignored it. I also think i allowed myself to go too fast bc we knew each other really well but not necessarily in the relationship aspect. So we had been dating for 3 months maybe but i would have only seen her outside of practice like 4 times? I domt know im just kimd of scared of doing that again)

But anyway back to my story. Yesterday the boy camw to my house and it was pretty casual playing uno and joking around with each other. We started watching rango and were sitting on two pieces of a sectional together but not really together id you know what i mean. It was more of like separate cushions and i was leaning up against the wall on a pillow but our legs were touching. (He totally thought at one point he was playing footsie with me but it actually my shin. That was pretty hilarious) He also made a terrible joke "why are you using that pillow when theres a 6'2" one right here" (yes he is tall boy but i am tall girl so its fine) (i didnt take him up on the offer either.)

We had later moved to my bed to watch black mirror on my phone and were laying on our stomachs side by side. Totally ended up pressed together along oir sides and he was playing with my feet but it was warm and nice but goodness i was nervous. There was so much like tension.

I ended up flipping onto my back (bc i can only lay on my front for so long befire my shoulders and arms absolutely die) and told him he could do whatever but that i was laying on my back. He took that as an invitation to cuddle on me (it kind of was ) and thank god bc i was losing my mind. It just started out with his head on my shoulder/chest but as we got more comfortable his arm was around me and i was leaning into him.

Anyway(how amny times do you think ima say this lord) it was real nice and all but what inspired this rant was that i wish id like participated more in cuddling or like done something more with it. But then again im also like noooo dont go too fast calm doooown.

I also have the problem of like not being completely attracted to him. More of emotionally attracted but maybe im alao just attracted to the idea of him and i really could put anybody in that place? But he keeps fishing for compliments and its rly hard bc im not one to be untruthful but i look at hom and its just ?? I dont know. Thinking back to my ex girlfriend i never particularily found her attractive until we agreed there was mutual feelings and right before we dtarted dating? Then she basically became the light of my life and was perfect in my eyes. Kind of hoping that happens with this boy but i dont know.

I really just dont wanna like get his hopes uo and like keep it going that hey i like you and thrn jist kind of throw it all away later? But i also really love this whole like casual awkward flirting and im desparate for cuddles in my life. But it could also just be with anyone and i feel terrible for it.

So yeah what do??

Also thanks for actually reading through this clusterfluff mess of writing. Gosh this actually could be like a fanfic i wrote wow. Idk feel free to leave your thoughts ig. Do you want you want😂🤷‍♀️🙃

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37 Hilarious Phrases Parents Say to Avoid Cursing in Front of Kids

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“Mrs. Andersen? We need to talk about your son’s new favorite word.” I’ll never forget that phone call from the preschool teacher of my adorable, cherub-cheeked four-year-old. Like many kids his age, my son had discovered a fun new word and wanted to use it all the time—and the fact that it got a major reaction from all the adults around him made it just that much better. The word? Motherf*****.

The day prior, I’d been bending over to tie his shoe when his older brother threw open the front door, nailing me right between the eyes with the metal doorknob. I’m not much of a curser but there’s nothing like pain so searing that you see stars (literally) to make a mom lose her, um, shiznits. I let out a string of curse words that would make a sailor blush. And of course, my kiddo remembered the best one.

When he got home that day, we had to have a long talk about appropriate language and I learned as much of a lesson as he did. If you don’t want to hear your toddler call their friend a “d*****bag” then you’d better not say it in front of him. As a parent, your creativity is one of your best skills—and we don’t just mean with Play-Doh. Here are some of our favorite swear-substitutes real parents use.

1. “My curse words come out sounding like a mix of Yosemite Sam, the Swedish Chef, and (before we knew what a horrible person he truly is) Bill Cosby, along the lines of Flootin’ frappin’ shligmen durnkin!” —Ted Williams

2. “I will call someone a ‘Richard’ as shorthand for ‘d*ck.’ My twins and several adult friends actually think my boss’s real name is Richard.” —Tracey Having a “creative vocabulary” is one of the 11 surprising signs you’ll make a great parent someday.

3. “The other day I dropped something in the kitchen and, because I could see my son watching me, I exclaimed, ‘Ugh, fork me!’. He thought it was so silly; I was glad it was safe.” —Kylie Larson

4. “Once, when I was opening a fizzy drink, it sprayed purple juice all over the bench top, the floor, the ceiling, and my clothes. ‘F…’ I started to say until I felt three sets of little eyes staring at me. I immediately changed it to ‘F… or coughs and colds take medicine!’ It was so funny that now we just use ‘for coughs and colds’ to express frustration.” —Nate Hamon

5. “Shut the f*** up used to be a part of my pre-kids vocabulary but now it’s ‘shut the front door!‘ which is way funnier anyhow.” —Amber Graves (Here’s why kids behave so much worse at home.)

6. “During the Great Lice Outbreak of 2015 (from which our household will forever be scarred), I discovered my new favorite phrase ‘holy cannoli!’ It replaced holy sh*t whenever I found another bug and it’s even better because it rhymes.” —Maryrose DeGroot

7. “My son once told friends from church that ‘my daddy says the F-word all the time at home.’ I had to quickly explain that I say ‘fart’ instead, and that’s what we call ‘the F word’!” —Tor Bailey

8. “‘The classic ‘fudge!‘ is my go-to for anything from stubbed toes, to an eggshell in the omelet, to a realization that I posted a comment on social media with a spelling mistake.” —Nate Hamon

9. “I’m from Minnesota and for whatever reason parents here always say ‘Uff da!’ I’m not sure if it’s from our Norwegian roots or even what word exactly it’s supposed to replace, but it always makes me smile.” —Kim DeBerge

10. “The c-word is the curse word I hate the most but if I ever have to say it, I spell it out with ‘see you next Tuesday.’ Adults know what I mean and young kids don’t even pick up it’s a bad word.” —Alison Hill (Have you read these hilarious texts gone wrong, from parents?

11. “As a foster mom, I’ve had quite a few kids that come with serious potty mouths, so I have a lot of practice with fake cursing. The one I probably use the most is ‘friggin!’ which I don’t love but it’s better than the real thing.” —Lisa Gunn

12. “Oh shnuck! It gets my kids laughing every time—mostly because it comes out like oh shhhhhhhhhnuck!” —Emily Tessman

13. “‘Fart knocker‘ is the one I use as a direct cuss at the kids. As in, ‘Stop fighting you little fart knockers!’ For emphasis, I’ll add frickin’. ‘Stop fighting you frickin’ little fart knockers!’” —Nate Hamon

14. “When I slammed my finger in the door, I yelled out ‘son of a… nutcracker!‘ Another favorite for when I hurt myself is ‘cheese and rice!‘” —Casey Wetjen

15. “I like to yell ‘shoot a monkey!’ when I drop things, break something, forget something. I have no idea where that came from but it works!” —Presley Salmon

16. “‘Shiitake mushrooms!‘ is apparently my go-to swear for when I’m in pain. Like, I’ve sliced my shin open on the dishwasher twice and both times I end up yelling about produce? We all know what word I was really thinking!” —Presley Salmon

17. “I like to say ‘well butter my bum!’ and ‘son of a biscuit!‘ I guess I like food curses!” —Jeni Svestka (Polite language is just one of the 17 forgotten manners parents should be teaching their children.)

18. “Clusterfluff. It has almost all the satisfaction of saying the original but it’s way more kid-friendly.” —Anda Teverzczuk

19. “I started out by using ‘hells bells‘ a lot and somehow it morphed into ‘hells bells and cockle shells’ which my kids mistakenly heard as ‘hells bells and taco shells‘ and so now I just yell ‘taco shells.’ Yep, it’s like playing ��telephone’ but with cursing.” —Carlie Pehrson

20. “Sometimes I say ‘sugar dumplings‘ but, let’s be honest, I just straight up curse most of the time.” —Cheri Gould

21. “Some parents are so creative! In the heat of the moment, all I can think of is ‘curses!‘ Because I’m original like that.” —Shanae Briggs

22. “I go full-on sound effects. Like I say, ‘Are you (beep noise) kidding me?’ so that the part that is censored can be filled in by whatever curse word the listener imagines.” —Tor Bailey

23. “I say ‘shoot the dog!‘ when something goes unexpectedly wrong, like a house project or when the dryer breaks. Ironically, I only use it when I’m in a good mood.” —Rosalie Davis (Want more? Check out these 11 parents quotes that will have you dying with laughter.)

24. “My family loves to bowl and whenever I throw a gutter ball everyone waits for me to yell ‘the F-word.’ However, my ‘f-word’ is ‘fooey!’ Or is it ‘phooey?’ but that doesn’t start with F. Whatever, my curse word, my spelling!” —Shirley Jamiel

25. “Instead of ‘what the f***, I say, ‘What the monkey?’ It works even better because it’s so random it usually diffuses the situation.” —Tor Bailey

26. “I’m a big curser but when I don’t drop a real f-bomb, I go with ‘frack.‘ It works and there’s the potential for some interesting environmental conversations.” —Sarah Barak (Know a funny parent? Here are 17 of the best compliments you can give a parent.)

27. “My mother’s favorite swear word when I was growing up was ‘Christopher Columbus!‘ I didn’t realize how funny that was until I became a parent myself and said it.” —Janet Elise

28. “I say ‘darn‘ a lot. So when we moved to a new city and I got lost trying to figure out the GPS directions, I’d yell ‘darn!’ every few seconds. It got so much that my oldest just assumed that yelling ‘darn’ was just a part of driving, like turning on the blinker.” —Rosalie Davis

29. “I normally swear like a sailor. But there are some moments when even four-letter words aren’t enough to express my feelings. In those cases, ironically, I yell ‘ALL THE SWEARS!’. Which doesn’t technically have any curse words in it at all!” —Marste McDonald

30. “A colleague and I were brainstorming ideas for curse words you could say in front of her young kids at home. ‘Shootskis‘ was a favorite. So was ‘fahrfegnugen.’ The best part was though is everyone started saying them in the office too!” —Lara Wiz

31. “‘Sugar Honey Ice Tea!‘ is my favorite because it’s cute for kids but adults can quickly figure out it’s an acronym!” —Anne Poirier

32. “At three feet tall, my youngest is the perfect height to nail my very patient husband right in his tender parts. He yells ‘sunny beaches!’ or ‘fudgenuts!‘. Depending on how hard the hit was, there might be some real ones mixed in too!” —Marianne Farquhar

33. “My husband and I have four daughters so ‘oh my hell…o kitty‘ has come out of our mouths more than once!” —Nicole Westenskow

34. “‘Mother trucker!‘ is my favorite kid-safe curse word to use around my two young daughters.” —Jennie Berglund

35. “My grandmother used to say ‘god d*mnit’ quite frequently, until the grandkids came along. I grew up hearing her yell ‘God… bless America!‘ I always wondered why she sounded so angry about America.” —Adrianne McMahon

36. “I almost don’t want to admit I actually say this but here goes. ‘Oh my freakin’ heck!‘” —Kacy Moller

37. “If I want to curse and don’t want my kids to hear it, I just swear in German. ‘Schiesse‘ is my favorite. It means sh*t but sounds so much nicer!” —Jill Fairchild

And if you find you can’t stop cursing, don’t sweat it. Turns out swearing is one of the weird habits that means your smarter than everyone else.

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