#welp I hope you don't mind me rambling on like that

[skratchytheclown]

How ya doin', OP?

Hey! I've been doing pretty good. I know I haven't been active recently on here, so these are the reasons why:

1 (the biggest reason): This week is just a pain in the neck when it comes to work. I have multiple big projects due this week. I already finished most of it, but I still have one more project I need to get done. I'm also celebrating Easter and practicing for an upcoming interview, so I still won't be very active until (let's just say) Monday afternoon. I may still post something during the weekend, but nothing big.

2: I just felt less motivated to draw this week. I was feeling concerned about how this blog was being perceived (hence the polls), and I was just in a general "don't feel like it" attitude for a bit. Some of the motivation has come back after taking a short break.

Once I have more free time, I will check the poll results, and start working on story stuff depending on the results. I am also planning on having Wendy interact with the "Broodals" more (which are all available for asks, by the way. Yeah I am super subtle). I need to do stuff with Iggy, Lemmy, and Morton as well. (If you'd like to see more of the side characters, such as Carmen, you can ask about them. They won't be able to answer the questions, but it will let me know that people are curious about them, which might me to making them available for asks someday).

On another hand, I have almost collected all of the voice HCs for the characters on this blog. I am only missing two. After I am done gathering voice clips, I may make a video showcasing them (as requested by someone a long time ago). woohoo.

Aaanyway, I appreciate you checking in on me!

[qqueenofhades]

I completely understand if you don’t feel comfortable answering this, but my mind is spiraling out of control and you’re the only person I know with the level of knowledge to where I can feel comfortable asking this without getting some form of “bla bla we live in a safe state don’t worry.”

I’m sincerely wondering if I need to be making plans to leave the country in the event of November bringing the most horrible of outcomes despite our best efforts (and yes I’m planning to vote blue in everything I can); as a AFAB in CA?

I know about project 2025. I’m terrified. Forgive my pop culture reference, but I feel like a version of Princess Zelda staring down a barrel of possible doom while everyone around me is like “nah that future you literally had a nightmare about where they made it illegal for a woman to have a bank account without a guy co-signing it and took the money from everyone who didn’t comply by a certain date isn’t even a possibility!”

I’m just confused about my life and am trying to take it day by day, and exercising every right while I still have it to prevent this outcome, but it feels weird making plans and retirement accounts and just general Setting Up Adult Life And Future Things™️……while wondering if I even have a future in this place at all and I’m just making it harder to escape if need be.

I’m sorry I’m rambling, and I guess I don’t know what I’m asking since no one has a crystal ball.

But I guess, it’s stuff like how much can the feds effect state’s policies? Is it possible for them to immediately block international travel for all women practically upon inauguration? How much time would I even have to gtfo if the worst begins?

Bc honestly this whole thing feels like the lead in to a very nasty chapter of a history book, and even though I have hope we’ll have another blue tsunami, it can be hard to try and figure things out when it feels like there’s barely any historical precedent for any of it.

Welp. Okay. First of all, I am giving you a comforting hug, I am walking with you to your favorite coffee shop, I am paying for your favorite beverage and also a baked goodie of your choice, and we are sitting down in a corner where we can talk honestly. So that's where I want you to imagine us having this conversation.

To start with, yes, I completely understand this feeling of utter, paralyzing doom, where I am trying to go about my daily life and make plans for my career and carry out daily tasks and Be Responsible while there's still just this total void beyond the end of the year, the utter impossibility of knowing if we will have dodged an absolutely massive bullet and finally be safe (since if Trump loses again he is 100% going to jail in the next four years) or, well. You know. That is a very hard way to live, when you're wondering if anything is going to matter and you can't see beyond that black cloud of fear on the horizon. It sucks you down and tells you that nothing is worth doing now in case it just gets so much worse. I am not going to tell you not to feel that. We all do. We are all scared. That in and of itself is a perfectly normal way to feel.

However, there are things you can do both now and if (I repeat, if) God absolutely forbid, the worst was to happen (again). First of all, we have already lived through a Trump presidency once. It was terrible and scary and awful and demoralizing as fuck, but we can do it again if we absolutely Goddamn fucking have to (once, again, God forbid). Second, you are currently about as safe as you could be in California. Newsom has proven himself to be smart, tough, able to run rings around Republicans, and unwilling to comply with their stupid performative-cruelty directives. He's not a saint or a magician, but you don't need that; you need a shrewd politician able to fight back, and he has proven himself willing and capable of doing that. So as long as he is governor, you're going to be more safe than not, and I'd also like to ask all the shrieking Online Leftists if, should the shit go down, they would rather live in a state with a Democratic governor who will fight Trump 2.0 every step of the way, or a Republican governor who will just roll over and obey. (But that would destroy their BOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAME talking point, so you know.)

Next of all, even if the Republicans are doing their best impression, America in 2024 isn't Germany in 1934. There are different tools, different ways to fight back, and different awarenesses/social media/visibility factors. I also need everyone to remember that just as Biden can't just sign an executive order and fix everything everywhere, Trump can't just sign an executive order and fuck everything everywhere, just like that with no more discussion ever. He tried that last time, it generally didn't work, and trust me, at least this time nobody is sleeping on the danger he poses. His candidacy in 2016 was dismissed as a long-shot joke that nobody took seriously until it was too late, and for better or worse, people aren't doing that this time. He will be sued instantly, incredibly, and repeatedly with everything his band of wannabe fascists try, and since we have had four years of Biden fixing the courts from where Trump trashed them, that does mean something. There is no scenario where even if he does issue some outrageous order against women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, etc (which to be clear, I'm sure he would try) it would just be carried out completely, immediately, and with no feasible way to stop it. Evil is evil, but it is also stupid, clueless, determined to hurt people just for the hell of it without any regard for what is possible or which will be allowed, and there's a lot more grey area in there than just "Trump says something terrible and it's instantly done, the end."

Once again, I'm not going to say that the worst-case scenario is not possible, but I don't think it's likely, and even if that does happen, there are ways for us to survive and fight back (again). Nobody wants it and it should not have to be asked of us due to the utter collapse of the social, civic, political, and intellectual fabric of this country thanks to the TrumpCult, but once again... these people are so loud and dangerous and cruel and stupid because they are in the minority. Etc. etc. polls are garbage, but we did just have an interesting piece of empirical data from the Iowa caucuses. Trump -- in one of the whitest, most rural, most conservative, most religious, most Trump-loving states in the country -- struggled to break 50%. Almost half of a rabid Republican fully-Trumpized electorate, among the diehards sufficiently motivated to get out and caucus in extreme freezing weather, voted for someone else (Haley and DeSantis took about 20% apiece). Now, no, we don't know how that will translate to the general election, and if registered Republicans will flock back to the nominee even if it's Trump, but as almost half of Haley voters said they would vote for Biden if it was a Biden-Trump matchup in the general, there is some sense that Trump is an aberration to their otherwise ironclad party loyalty. Now, Republicans are the fucking worst and nobody should be relying on them to save us; we still need to get out and vote for Democrats with all our might. But Trump is no longer barn-burningly popular even in core Trump heartland, and it'll be interesting to see how things go in future primaries.

My point is: I know the feeling that evil is awful and unstoppable and all-powerful, and will crush our lives and our futures no matter what we do to resist it. I really, really do. But Trump is a terrible candidate, he's running literally only to keep himself out of a long, long prison sentence, and if he had crushed the Iowa caucuses regardless, we might be having a different conversation. However, we need to remember that it is possible, again (God forbid) in the worst scenario, to resist, to live, and to win. Everyone who is motivated to work for a better world will still be here. Everyone who can help you and all of us will still be here. And there are more of us than there are of them. Yes, I do understand the feeling that we need to have contingency plans in place, I do absolutely know that it could get very bad, and all that (as you say, nobody has a crystal ball). But for now, I want you to take a deep breath, try to take this day by day, and remember that this is not a crushing and inevitable future that will sweep over you and destroy you without you (or any other person of good will) having a say in the matter. You still have agency, you still have the ability to protect yourself, and you still have others who will protect you in turn. You're not alone. The bad guys want you to think that, because when you're isolated and terrorized, you're easier to pick off and/or recruit into their cult. But you're not.

In conclusion: "What are we holding onto, Sam?"

[stychu-stych]

Now… I have NO idea if people already asked, but I have been kinda like… looking thru your page in the past few days and I will say that your Narinder’s design looks SOOOO GOOD OH MY GOSH.

Like… okay. People already talked about this but I will emphasize on his NOSE. Like I don’t about tall but something about his nose is..l WLNWNEEM.

IT JUST FITS HIM SO WELL I AM DYING. I AM DEAD. I AM DEAD ROSE QUARTZ/ref to Steven Universe if you know it

Lamb should be very lucky that they got a guy like him.

And I am no joke, I feel like this would be SO creepy if someone told me my nose looked pretty but I swear to god it fits Narinder so well…:’)

Out of all the designs I saw from people, yours is SOOO good and I am already obsessed like hell. I love and love it. Please don’t stop🙏 my art skills could never

I could sit here for hours talking about this but I don’t want to bother you. And you most likely wont read this but still😭

And like, I am drawing fanart of cotl and well duhh of course the first characters I will draw is Lamb and Narinder. But Narinder’s design/face looks so off after seeing your beautiful crunchy art. So since this supposed to be an aaaassskk….

Could we POTENTIALLY KINDA use your way of drawing his face/his nose👉👈 (I feel so weird asking this😨)

New hyperfixarions do truly hurt one deeply</3….

ANYWAYS. Thank you for letting me ramble like this here, I hope you read this very long essay of mine. And if tou don’t, welp… I STILL HOPE YOU MAKE CONTENT.

TY! ✨✨✨ I love drawing noses! I love noses in general, they can be so unique and make faces look so outstanding. And oh, the Lamb feel so lucky, they fell only because of that nose for sure jdbdbd

About your question- I don't mind at all ✌️ thank you for asking. My designs are still fanarts, they're not my characters and I made Narinder this way just because I love sad, angry men with "I'm too old for this" look hdbdhshd I'm so happy that you like my arts and if my work inspires you in some way - go for it! And have fun with drawing

Also why so many people think I don't read their asks or posts where I'm tagged 😭 I read all of it and I'm so hyped everytime someone mentions me. Also I love seeing new asks, I always try to publish all of them, sometimes it can take me a long time when I want to draw something as an answer

[lady-loveluck]

Omg the graces x richie posts have got my mind going crazy. I need to see these two losers together omgggggggg!!!!! Anyways here are some headcannons my brain just thought of

- this is definetly the type of couple where their both very autistic and will talk to each other about their hyperfixations to one another. Grace rambling about occult stuff and haunted houses while Richie is talking about the 5 new animes he's just bingedwatched

-They both have definitely bonded over having a crush on max jagerman at one point or another. They both have very similar tastes lol.

- sometimes Richie will give grace the hair clips he uses for his wigs and puts them in her hair. And grace does the same thing to richie with her butterfly clips.

- if and when grace goes absolutely bat-shit crazy and finally snaps at someone, Richie honestly just watches I'm awe and has little sparkles in his eyes like " omg this is the sickest thing I've every seen and I'm very much in love with you rn" he loves crazy grace❤️❤️(don't we all)

- Richie is definetly scared of spiders and so he makes grace kill any that he sees. Grace doesn't mind but she always teases him about it

- the one and only time Richie ever went to church was because he figured out he liked grace so he went on one random Sunday. But immediately got kicked out because he was wearing one of them hentai hoodies💀

Welp that's all my brain can think for right now but I hope you liked the hc lol now I need to go sleep 😔✌️

-🕷🕸

NOT RICHIE WEARING A FUCKING AHEGAO HOODIE TO CHURCH

(IS SO IN CHARACTER I LOVE IT)

I love these!! This ship has started to grow on me

[oliversrarebooks]

Hey I’ve been following for a while and really enjoy your writing 💖 and if you don’t mind talking about it, I’ve been wondering about your process a bit, as in how often do you write and how much do you tend to get done?

I ask partially because I’ve been considering starting a writing blog of my own but problem is I’m really slow as a writer 😅 like it can take me a day to do half a page and I can’t shake the habit of rereading and editing as I go. You post pretty regularly so you seem to have a good technique going, and I think you’ve said something about having adhd in the past??? I have it too so if Im remembering correctly then you probably understand how productivity can be a struggle. I guess I’m hoping to pick up some wisdom from someone in a similar boat

Anyways, sorry for rambling, keep up the good work and hope you’re having a good day ☺️

Getting faster at writing is just a skill you can develop over time, I think, and even then, some people will be faster than others and that's okay! Instead of worrying about doing half a page in a day, you could try writing 100 words a day for a while, for instance. Writing a smaller amount more frequently will eventually get drafts done.

I've been writing for a while and I tend to be reasonably fast, but a lot of that is practice and planning. I'm often writing from a loose outline of how the scene will go, and for my bigger projects, I have a big picture outline with notes, too. Writing for me is fastest when I treat coming up with the ideas, scene progression, dialogue etc. as a different activity, especially because the "thinking" parts can be done while doing chores or commuting etc. I do Nano each year and there's no way I could ever finish it if I weren't writing from outlines.

I try to write each day and aim for 400-500 words a session, but I often do have to skip days for various life reasons.

I'm only recently diagnosed with ADHD so I don't have any great productivity tips! The entire reason I ended up getting diagnosed was because my productivity was driven almost entirely by anxiety and the stress was literally killing me. I'm trying to get into a healthier mindset now, especially now that I have appropriate meds.

One of my big ADHD-related problems was being unable to ever feel accomplished -- even big accomplishments always feel more like "welp that's one tiny thing done but I still have a mountain to go". That's one of the mindsets I need to shed and remind myself that writing something like Bookseller in my spare time is a pretty good accomplishment!

I feel like maybe I see some of that in your ask, where you're being hard on yourself for writing a half a page. Even if it took you a while -- maybe especially if it took you a while -- that's still something you get to be proud of. No one else is going to tell the story you have in your head in the way you would tell it, after all.

[marshmallowprotection]

Hi !

This is not a request, I just want to say that I love everything I read here

As a huge Saeran lover this blog is a gold mine that I can't stop exploring (I hope I haven't crowed your notifications too much ?) despite that I haven't even play Another Story yet and shouldn't read for spoilers sake. Welp, too late.

But it's a little funny to me because reading all this only confirmed the impressions I have of him. Of them. It looks like someone ripped the thoughts out of my mind and completed it to make it all nice and neat and accurate.

I don't want to ramble too much so I'll try to stop here. I just love everything you wrote in there. About the other characters too.

Maybe I'll come back to ask stuff too, later.

Oh and I'm amazed to see there's still people talking about Mystic Messenger in 2024. This is so cool

There are plenty of people who keep saying the fandom is dead but it's not. Sure, it might be smaller than it was in the past, but that isn't a sign that the fandom is dead. It's just a little bit more peaceful in my opinion. I know people still pop off on Twitter, but I'm not active over there, this is my main base of operation and while the Tumblr fanbase may seem quieter, we're all still here, you just have to click around to see who's posting frequently and find mutuals who are just as active!

Please, liking and reblogging posts is how we get engagement. Don't feel bad about liking my posts. I get excited when I see people find my masterlist, even if they start from the beginning and like some of my earlier writing before I began to feel more confident in what I was posting. Please, like as many posts as you want. I don't mind. I know many of my mutuals wouldn't mind it, either. /lh

Thank you for enjoying my writing! I hope you're able to enjoy playing Another Story soon! Playing the game itself is a different experience compared to reading something about it from another person.

I can tell you what happens all day long, but it won't have the same impact as it will when you're playing the game organically. I can't wait to hear how that goes for you! I'm always super excited to hear from players who don't know Saeran just yet and how quickly they fall into the rabbit hole to discover more about him as a person.

[theleatherdragon]

Sorry for the ramblin

Welp, I guess it's time for another dumb journal from me. I've been really dealing with a lot of things and changes these last couple years and I think I'm finally starting to realize my life is shifting.

It's hard to like, I dunno, but when you've been online for 20 years it's kind of wild. For me, I guess it felt like I had to keep doing the same things and the same ideas and be the same person, but that's impossible.

My brain cannot words right now lmao

Anyhoot, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really need to just change and not be scared to change. The things I did 10 years ago, I don't have to keep forcing myself to do them just to appease others. I've let my art suffer so much trying to do what I think people want me to do between raffles and fanart and all sorts of things, challenges, etc.

This past month has been the worst month of my entire life, I literally thought I was gonna die a couple times because of how my body reacted to medicines and stuff. Still don't know what's wrong with me, thyroid stuff, but I think it really kick started my mind into looking back at things.

Like, why did I miss out on so many things because I tried to do projects I had no time for? Then, when I didn't do them in the time I wanted, I guilt tripped myself over and over and put on even more new projects in hopes that I'd do those instead.

I am rambling lmao I don't even care though. I guess I just want to get it all out there, to whoever, why you're reading this who knows. Life is funny that way, ain't it?

But yeah, I just need to start actually letting go of things and move on to new things. I'm tired of trying to pretend I'm into the Skylanders fandom this much. Like, I love the charaters and I love the memories, but this current state of the fandom is so toxic and it really shows. I don't want to be so involved anymore. I'm tired of running my AskSkylandersCynder blog, if you can even call it running anymore. I made that thing 10 years ago and the last 4 years I just don't have any interest, even though I force myself to. It really was the best thing I did at that time but I just need to let it be.

All those challenges and Inktobers and other things, I tried to force myself to do those for other people, not for myself. I just need to stop doing this man, I miss just drawing just because. I guess from the constant moving around in life and being around terrible people irl made me want to hold on to the ideas that I'm helping others online with my art when it probably didn't even do anything.

I'm just tired. And I'm done being tired, I dunno what this second wind is that I got this month but I'm not gonna lose it this time.

I'm still into all my fandoms and stuff of course, and I'm still going to make art for other people. Don't even get my started on Art Fight lmao you better believe I'm aiming for 100 pictures this year. But I'm done forcing myself to feel like I HAVE to do these things. No more to do lists, no more holding onto old projects, no more trying to keep up with things that should have just ended by now.

I just wanna live my life man, I just wanna draw. I never cared about the numbers, hell I've had pageviews and stats adblocked for years now, I really don't care about those. What I care about is making people happy by drawing their characters and drawing their favorite characters. I don't want to be famous, I don't wanna be tied down, I just wanna draw. And I wanna see your art too. I love all the characters and concepts and just ugh I love it, I don't know why.

I wanna be what I wanna be.

I'm definitely done rambling now. Usually I feel bad about it but I just don't care anymore. I'm gonna go work on art now lmao I hope you guys are all doing awesome, and maybe you can figure out life too. Edit: I had some more thinking after posting this while cleaning the house. I also realized that this mindset I put on myself is what made me get so distant from people too. I got too overwhelmed at trying to keep up with so many things that it made me essentially start time travelling where I didn't even consider things existed until they were in front of my face. I've lost touch with so many people out of shame between not remembering and going "tomorrow, for sure." I want to change that too. I shouldn't have let a few bad people ruin everything for me. I got scared of commenting on art because of a few people that didn't deserve my time, lashing out at me for not saying what they wanted to hear. I also got scared of just not fitting in. I have so many compliments and things I wanted to tell people for years but I was just too scared to and I hate that. I'm going to start being more social again with that. I feel like that made me look stuck up or something, I dunno. I'm just so afraid of hurting people about anything when in reality I bet it doesn't even bother them at all. Like how messed up did I have to become that me giving someone a compliment terrifies me into thinking I might ruin their day lmao help

[starry-blue-echoes]

OK COOL SO-

In ASBR there's a fight between Yukako and Bucciarati, in which Yukako is aware of the inner workings of Passione, and even Bucciarati is surprised at how she knows. And that made me think "Oh Yukako's definitely part of the mafia" so now I have a Yukako joins the Bucci gang au. Basically after Part 4 Yukako's family moves to Italy and she and Koichi have a long-distance relationship as she keeps him from finding out she just joined a mafia because Koichi would just. Instantly blue screen at that fact. Also because Giorno steals Koichi's bag Yukako finds out and destroys him. As a treat <3 I have a whole fic about this if you're interested in it, plus art of Yukako in the Part 5 style I made.

BSFVNSRFNSBHBSHVBS W H E E Z E -

I'd love to read the fic if you'd like to share, but also I brought this up to an irl friend of mine, he thought it was hilarious, and I hope you don't mind if I ramble to you about some of the Thoughts we came up with for our own spin on the idea-

(also I'm writing this in the "universe" of my Cinderella Rewrite, just so I feel more comfortable with yukakoi just a heads up thanks okay bye)

so sort of a headcanon for me to start things off, but Yukako's parents are both very wealthy but also very VERY absent, and once she hit middle school they stopped hiring babysitters to watch her so she was more or less on her own aside from a handful of incredibly scant visits/phone calls. She never knew exactly where their wealth came from but it wasn't really like she could ask so

but then fast forward to the end of her first year of high school and her parents suddenly drop the bomb that they're moving for "business" reasons and she's going to live in Italy. Naturally she's completely heartbroken because she has a life here. Friends and a boyfriend and people she'd honestly call family, and now her parents are making her leave it all behind without so much as an explanation

it's..... definitely rough, but made a bit easier by how Koichi swears he'll do everything he can to stay in contact. They have calls at minimum four times a week, send each other packages all the time, and just do what they can because they genuinely want this relationship to work out

as for Yukako's decent into Passione Things and joining the Bucci Gang...... I'll admit, I'm not super sure how exactly at the moment. I want to keep it with the theme of how Bucciarati helps her out in some way, and I do have the mental image that she didn't spend a lot of time at home because the house was way too big and empty and it was honestly driving her crazy. He probably saved/helped her somehow and Yukako, who's been honestly starved of any kind of Positive Adult Attention since Morioh, just decides "welp, guess I'll die for him"

I think it would be funny if she didn't actually join the gang at first, she just kinda.... sneakily helps him out from a distance. She knows Stand Magnetism would force her to meet some Stand Users eventually, so at least this way she's doing it on her own terms. Of course she's eventually caught, but she does impress them with her knowledge on Stands and ability to use hers, so New Teammate Obtained

Yukako definitly gives them a different perspective on Stands. She's pretty cagey about the specific details of where she moved from, but they do know it has a pretty big Stand community and she's been in a fair amount of fights. They also know she has a boyfriend whom she loves greatly and if anything happens to him Someone Was Definitly Going To Die

I can see Yukako and Fugo are both Besties and Worsties, bonding over being Rich Kids With Shitty Parents and also the only ones who posses a whole Two(2) braincells all for themselves, but they also have two of the worst tempers and when they fight it's bad. She also manages to get on Abbacchio's Not Bad side somehow and the two like to vibe silently together like a pair of cats

and I had. Such a funy sorta angst idea for a way for canon to go (and everyone lives because Fuck Canon &lt;3)

so like. What if Koichi took the mission because it would be an excuse to visit Yukako. And the trip was supposed to be that week.

so ontop of the general stress of everything, Yukako is At Her Fucking Limit right now because she's supposed to be hanging out with her boyfriend for the first time in nearly 2 years, not going on the Worst Roadtrip Ever, she didn't even get a chance to tell him where she was going because this trip came out of nowhere-

and then by the time everything is over and Yukako gets back to Naples (still a little bit banged up from the last fight) it's unfortunately Koichi's last day here

were Diavolo not stuck in that death loop she would've ripped him to pieces with her bare hands

but then for a bit of fluff, a few months later thanks to the whole "now controlling the entire Italian underground which is a rather lucrative career" they're able to invite Koichi back so the two can hang out together for realsies this time

BUT in true Koichi fashion (for some crack), he accidentally gets ropped into Stand shenanigans and kidnapped again leading to a massive goose chase around the city

[dovelyanon]

So I was thinking and I realized I don’t know why Teach me how to sing is named teach me how to sing. How’d you come up with that title?

Omg, you asked! I was wondering if anyone was ever going to ask. Warning: I'm about to ex-theatre kid nerd out.

I hope you don't regret this, @rahabrios

The Similarities between Adrien Agreste and Johanna Barker

"Teach me how to sing" is a lyric from 'Green Finch and Linnet Bird'- the damsel's song in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In it, Johanna- the play's damsel in distress- is locked in her room. She looks to the songbirds in their cages and wonders how they can sing in these conditions. Feeling powerless, she wishes to learn how to be content despite her circumstances hence the lyric "teach me how to sing". I thought it mirrored Adrien's constant struggle in the fic- between his desire for freedom and his desire to remain and be the perfect son, to make his father happy. Johanna never finds happiness in these circumstances and neither does Adrien.

I had a few titles in mind when I started the fic, but what sold me on "Teach Me how to Sing' was all the fun parallels between the story/Miraculous in general and Sweeney Todd. Here are just a few I remember finding amusing (Light Spoilers for Sweeney Todd ahead):

Judge Turpin and Gabriel Agreste. Judge Turpin is Johanna's guardian, a wealthy man with political power who was obsessed with Johanna's mother. After he drove her mother to her demise, he took charge of Johanna and keeps her locked away under tight surveillance. He ultimately has darker intentions toward her and, when she refuses, he labels her insane and tries to have her committed.

Sweeney Todd and Gabriel/Hawkmoth. Johanna's actual father is Sweeney Todd- a man so consumed with vengeance for his family that he is terrorizing all of London and sinking ever deeper into madness. He knows Johanna is alive, but kind of just... doesn't bother to try and talk to her and isn't urgent about freeing her? He is more occupied with taking revenge on Judge Turpin and lamenting losing his perfect family and wife. He does not try to have a relationship with his daughter because she'd probably "look too much like her (his wife)" and they'd "never be the way we were".

Mrs. Lovett and Nathalie. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney Todd's dedicated partner in crime. She's arguably more capable and more intelligent than him. She comes up with the bright ideas while he whines and she takes the brunt of his mood swings. But she's head over heels for him despite the fact that he is stingy at best and manipulative at worst with his affections and largely emotionally unavailable to her due to his fixation on his lost wife. He uses the hell out of her anyway. He is ultimately responsible for her demise.

Anthony and Marinette. Anthony is the optimistic and hopeful pauper charming who drops into Johanna's life and helps her to escape from her gilded cage, fighting retaliation by Judge Turpin each step of the way. He is also notorious for having one of the most stalkerish love songs by his archetype in musical history.

Some notable lyrics:

"I'll steal you, Johanna."

"Do they think that walls can hide you?"

"Even now I'm at your window."

He is the well-intentioned but slightly creepy love interest. But we're rooting for them anyway.

Well, yeah. There were a few more, but that's the gist of it. Sorry I turned your ask into a photo essay, @rahabrios

I didn't expect anyone to ask me this and thought the nerding would stay safely locked inside. I guess not. Welp... I recommend Sweeney Todd for anyone who likes musicals and dark themes! The original play with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury is great, but I'm also a big fan of the 2007 movie with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter <3 Thanks for reading my rambles.

[jasntodds]

I'm new to your blog hiii 😊 This is cuz of your music fic post, this is not me requesting I just simply must gush about this because I love music and there are some musicians imo that just hit so right with Jason (*cough* Matt Maeson)

Anyways here's some songs that I think have serious tremors of Jason Todd running through them 🎵 ❤

🎵Halestorm: Back from the Dead (this one is self explanatory lol)

🎵The Pretty Reckless: Got so High/ Standing at the Wall (side note~their latest album Death By Rock N Roll is so good and so sad)

🎵Eminem: Drug Ballad/ Never Love Again (don't worry these are milder Em lyrics cuz we all know some of his word choices are vomit inducing but these are basically simultaneously love songs to the drugs but also a cautionary tale against them)

🎵Avril Lavigne: Fall to Pieces/ Nobody's Home (I just think they fit for Jason esp nobody's home)

🎵 Matt Maeson: Dancing After Death/ The Hearse/ Tread on Me/ Go Easy/ Cringe/ Me and My Friends Are Lonely/ Mr. Rattlebone/ Grave Digger

(I motherfucking love this man's music 😢💘 lyrically mostly everything describes Jason. I LOVE the line in Me and My Friends Are Lonely "The city breathes when I do not" > that is so Gotham and Jason and Gotham and Robin and Gotham and Redhood. In Mr. Rattlebone the lyrics "I am the driver. I am the shadow. I am the hearse" welp 😢🙃 The opening of Grave Digger oh my days "I can't run to you Father, I need love". Anyway I'm gonna shush now because I am getting carried away lol but hope you don't me spaming you with all this

Hey!! Uh, I love this???? lmao I love hearing songs that relate to my favorite characters!! I definitely made a playlist here with all of these songs and I'm gonna add to it for songs that just scream Jason dkfhgdf I will be 100% listening to all of these and I actually really enjoy Matt Maeson's voice so that's so perfect??????

I'm so sorry but this is me reading "The city breathes when I do not."

Look, ANYTHING relating to daddy issues screams Jason to me and I nearly lose my fucking mind every single time. It reminds me of that one quote that's like "Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in my father either." This will be the first song I listen to omg

You can always come and ramble to me about music and/or Jason I love all types of music and I love Jason so I am always here lmao

And since you gave me some awesome recs, I'm gonna give you a few fkghfd:

Left Behind by The Plot In You. Look, it is one of my FAVORITE songs (is it my most played of the year?? Probably lmao it's in my top most played of all time and it came out in Feb lmao and I know I clocked over 60k minutes of music this year). But, when I listen to it, I relate it to Jason and Bruce's dynamic with lines like "Just know, all the sacrifice had robbed me of my time" and "I left behind, everything you killed inside" Landon screaming the lyrics makes me wanna CRY you can hear the pain in his voice and that's just very Jason Todd to me lmao

Deep End by I Prevail. It's such a good song?????? (I used in a fanedit and they liked it on TikTok) but my mom knows every word because she has to deal with me and brother playing it lmao but the WHOLE chorus is super Jason coded "So I made friends with all my demons. Let 'em sink their teeth in. Got used to the feeling of letting it go. So give me something to believe in or throw me in the deep end. It all feels the same with your eyes closed. So you can throw me in the deep end."

And Hollow - Lo's Version by Lo Spirit. I found him on TikTok (I swear I am not on that often??) and he's an INCREDIBLE vocalist. But this song is his best imo (followed by Good Enough and Wild Things (my beloved)) but this song is perfect for Jason. I mean, in Titans, he literally says there's a poison in him. It's perfect!! "Maybe somethings wrong with me. Maybe I was meant to sit and wait." and "Why do I, why do I feel so hollow? Hollow, hollow. Try to hide from my mind, but it follows."

[thegreatgeodo]

Hey Yo!

'sup! If you're here, then that means that you liked my content, i just sortta materialized into your feed, you know me from somewhere else and you specifically looked for me, or you're a fellow gamedev. Whatever the case, i'm just some guy who you can talk to, ask questions (pls do, i really don't mind and i love rambling on my quote unquote 'profession', game lore, or just whatever). I'm not really unique, i don't strive to be, i keep my goals simple and reachable, and yet with all these little projects i'll make it big one day, i hope at least. I'm not very fast to trust someone with things like My IRL face or similars, so please don't expect these from me (except My voice, that shit's all over My YouTube channel). Moving on, this is one of My main forms of logging, along with My youtube channel and whatever the hell i do on the Unitale discord server. Talking about discord, You can find me there as thegreatgeodo as well, i know, i don't have a knack for names. Also! Some more shit bout me

• You can dm/ask whatever the fuck

• I'm there for ya

• Trauma dump if ya need! I'm not the best but i'll help and if it rhymes it's right

• Artist(?????? Not really)

• I love asking why. Why do we fall? Why is that metal ball heavier than that other metal ball when they're the same size? Why do we exist? Where did we come from? Where'd you go when you we're done i'd like to know what you've become your biggest fan awake a ton i'd cry I'd stand on your front lawn it plain to see you're scared of me but that's not how it's s'posed to be when you're the reaaaason i'm in Town nd every piece of mind you put down don't you know i think of the cat's meo-o-ooow Where's the tiger now, Where's the tiger no-o-ooow Bill Watterson can you hear me--

• i ocassionally go off on tangents

• Main and ONLY account. I've had this brought up a few times.

• You can do whatever the fuck in here as long as you're not offending someone. Incite crime? Sure, why not. Arsonpost? Fuck it. Incriminating a guy? ... Maybe yeah. But being rude is where i draw the line.

Edit regarding the kosa law:

Welp. We're potentially fucked. And with we i mean it to trans, enby or generally queer people, i'm sure you know this by now if you've been around my blog, but i fully and completely support the queer community. Every single one of you. I will probably not abandon this place, if i do,

My discord is TheGreatGeodo

I've been told the laws also affect discord, but like, i'm guessing it'll be dramatically less since discord is supoosed to be somewhat prívate. If i do end up feeling too attached to any of y'all i'll give you my phone number but (not to be rude btw) I'm not up for that much of a commitment yet. Allinall, let's hope things end up better

[assassinskillinghimmyfavorite]

📌

WELCOOOOOME

This is just a collection spot for HLVRAI posts. Mostly stuff about Gordon. If you want your post removed from this blog just send me an ask, I genuinely don't mind. And btw, obligatory DNI list.

This blog is managed mostly by Lite (🐦) Of the Hydrangea System. I'm not a Benrey, I just have an unhealthy obsession with Gordon. (other system guys may reblog/post stuff here though. Idk I don't control xem or anything.)

Tags and other Info below.

Most tags follow a format of "identified as : [character]" except Joshua and Sunkist who have "joshua attacka" and "perfect dog"

There are also special tags for the hidden characters, which I've given headcanon names to so like, sorry. lol.

Special tags are : "mikachu" "anomalous andy" "da bapys" "lanky dong" and "hhgreggory"

Feel free to yell at me if I forgot to tag a character.

As for other info, welp.

If I'm ever aggressive towards a character without a tone tag please know it's always joking and lighthearted. If you want me to delete a tag for any reason let me know please. (This also goes for the banner on this post btw. I don't actually want him to explode.)

A lot of my og posts here will probably be headcanons or screenshots of the series. For archiving purposes I'll tag those as "assassinskillinghim" because sometimes I don't want posts to show up in the main tag. (I'm insane about these idiots sometimes)

And that's all I can think of for now. Thanks for reading that horrid ramble, and I hope your day goes good (or gets better).

[scribbledchapters]

Chapter Thirty-Five ;

Welp. There goes another one.

I keep telling myself I'm not ready to write about you. I keep coming up with the excuse that it's only happened like 2 days ago and it's still too fresh for me to talk about. But in reality I'm just running away again. And I'm sick of running. or more like I'm tired of running away. It's still fresh. The emotions are still raw. That's a good time to write. So it's a dumb af excuse. This rambling too - procrastination. Yeah yeah, i'll get to it.

You're my best friend. Every time something good or bad happens, the one I want to talk to is you. and it's been two miserable days and I miss you. Man, I fucking miss you. It's so incredibly hard when you're attached to someone but you can't speak to them anymore. Well, technically I could but I know you don't want to hear from me right now. So I won't reach out. I shouldn't bother you. You're just trying to find your own happiness, and I respect that. I want you to be happy. Did you know? I'd do anything to make sure no one would hurt you. But that's my problem. Not yours. Not anyone's.

It's hard for me to open up to someone. I think that's obvious when everyone likes to ask me why I keep my cards so close to my chest. This is why. I care too much. I feel too much. I give too much. It's always been this way, and I've tried not to. care. feel. give. But I can never help myself. So instead, I just shut people out. Don't let them get too close. Cause I know who's going to end up getting hurt (the most) in the end. It's always usually me. People often forget. But I don't. It etches in my mind like a tattoo. As stupid as that sounds, but I guess I am stupid so haha there you go.

I'm sorry things are the way they are. I wish they could be different, I don't know in what way, but just different. I wish I could be selfish. I wish I could bring myself to ask you to stay. beg you, even. But I can't. You let go of the ones you love if they are happier without you. And I'm sure it hasn't been easy for you too.

I'm sad. but I am mad at you too. I know it's not your fault, or anyone's. But I am mad at you. I know you understand what I mean, and if I were to tell this to you right now, you'd laugh and tease me until I'm crying but laughing at the same time. I hate you, you dumbass. But you're my dumbass so I love you too. You'd probably pull that stupid face you always do that I hate but I can't help but laugh. ugh. I wonder if you know that I'm sitting here crying about you. I think you do, you know that I'm a big crybaby. You know how much you mean to me, I hope.

So who am I gonna tell stupid, meaningless shit to now? Who 's gonna show me retarded videos and laugh at stupid shit with me now. Who's gonna tell me off for being a dumb bitch when I'm being a dumb bitch now. Who's gonna laugh at me when I cry over stupid things that don't matter. Who's gonna keep me company when I have anxiety from work now. Who's gonna laugh at me when I shove stitch in their face.

sighs. Losing you has been hard ok? You're my best friend..

I miss you, man. I really do.

rachel.

[pesterloglog]

John Egbert, Jade Harley, Davesprite

Act 6, page 4336-4345

JOHN: oh man, rose and dave have sweet god tier pajamas like us! that's so awesome.

JOHN: haha, dave looks like kind of a doofus with that snug little hood.

JADE: i think he looks cool!!!!!

JADE: the cape is great, hes like a super hero now

JOHN: that's true.

JOHN: i still think i prefer my outfit though.

JOHN: look at all those trolls...

JOHN: there are so many trolls. the idea of meeting them all is kind of overwhelming.

JOHN: i wonder which one is which?

JOHN: i think that must have been karkat there. and that was probably his clown asshole friend he mentioned, too.

JADE: yup

JOHN: and that was definitely terezi, with the fancy glasses.

JOHN: not sure about the others... i wonder if vriska was there?

JADE: ...

JOHN: it's nice to see rose looks better.

JOHN: last time i saw her, she looked really grim.

JOHN: and also, dark.

JOHN: i was trying to talk to her, but she sounded like a babbling monster, so i couldn't understand her.

JOHN: it was really frustrating, and all of my nervous rambling probably made me sound like an idiot.

JOHN: and then when i woke up later, she was dead.

JADE: :(

JOHN: did you know...

JOHN: that i had to kiss her to make her come back to life?

JADE: !!!

JOHN: yes, it's true.

JOHN: it's kind of weird kissing a dead body, but i didn't mind.

JOHN: how did you feel about it when you kissed dave when he died?

JADE: ...........

JADE: how did you know about that!

JOHN: karkat told me.

JADE: oh

JADE: that figures

JOHN: do you think that all of our unbridled corpse smooching means karkat's silly shipping prophecy will come true?

JADE: umm

JOHN: i mean, the guy is really angry, and says fuck like in practically every sentence.

JOHN: but he does weirdly seem to know what he's talking about when it comes to romance.

JADE: yeah

JADE: i dunno

JADE: do you want it to come true?

JOHN: man.

JOHN: i don't know.

JOHN: do you?

JADE: hmmmmmm.....

JOHN: hmm, indeed.

JADE: i think i miss them already

JADE: and weve only been here for a few minutes :(

JOHN: yeah.

JOHN: there's a lot i want to tell them about.

JOHN: and a lot i want to ask them.

JADE: well

JADE: you could ask them now if you want

JOHN: really?

JADE: yes

JADE: in fact

JADE: you can hop right through me and join them

JADE: then you can travel with them to the new session if you like

JOHN: whoa!

JOHN: well, heck, why don't we do that then?

JOHN: it would probably be more fun with them than being on this golden battleship by ourselves.

JADE: it probably would!

JADE: but i cant go with you

JADE: i can serve as a gateway

JADE: but i cant travel to the sun myself, remember?

JOHN: oh yeah.

JOHN: dammit!

JADE: but its ok, really!

JADE: if thats what you wanted to do, i wouldnt mind

JADE: but whatever you do, you have to decide quickly

JADE: they will be departing from the sun very soon

JOHN: but i wouldn't want to leave you here all alone for three years.

JOHN: that would suck!

JADE: i wouldnt really be alone though

JADE: i have the population of five planets to keep me company!

JOHN: :O

JOHN: that's right.

JOHN: that makes it seem not so boring i guess.

JOHN: but still...

JOHN: i would feel really bad leaving you here, even if you do have a million salamanders and chess guys to keep you company.

JOHN: you are my friend and also my sorta-sister, and we just met for the first time ever a few minutes ago...

JOHN: i'm not going to be like, welp! see ya in three years jade!

JADE: awww :D

JADE: ok then

JADE: personally, i think this trip could be a lot of fun!

JADE: theres no pressure to do anything important or run around like lunatics anymore

JADE: we can just relax

JOHN: yeah.

JOHN: now that you mention it, i'm pretty beat.

JOHN: also... starving!!!

JADE: woof!

JADE: whoops

JOHN: heheh.

JOHN: i sure hope there are things to eat on those planets.

JOHN: there were a lot of weird glowing mushrooms on lowas. i dunno about those.

JOHN: i seem to remember a bunch of farms on the battlefield...

JADE: there should be lots of good stuff on the planets

JADE: also i would bet this ship is stocked with plenty of military rations

JOHN: yeah, probably.

JOHN: pff, hell, we could just raid all of our fridges and alchemize some tasty grub!

JADE: oh yeah!!!

JADE: durrr, problem solved

JOHN: ok, cool.

JOHN: but it would still be nice to say hi to everybody before they leave.

JOHN: just to let them know how we're doing.

JADE: yes

JOHN: like, one of the last things rose saw before she died was me dying...

JOHN: i wonder if she knows i'm ok?

JADE: im pretty sure she knows a ton of things now

JADE: considering she is a fully realized seer of light

JOHN: yeah, probably.

JOHN: then maybe i'll just hop over real fast, and give karkat a fist bump, and give dave a hard time about his hella tight little hood, and then hop back?

JADE: im sure that would be hilarious

JADE: but

JADE: if you go i dont think i can bring you back

JADE: i cant bring anyone or anything to here from there!

JOHN: aw man, really??

JADE: as far as i know...

JADE: if theres a way i havent figured it out yet

JADE: i am still kind of new to this omnipotence thing after all :\

JOHN: that's stupid.

JOHN: what is with all these rules!

JADE: i dont know!

JADE: im sure the rules exist for a good reason though

JADE: maybe to somewhat limit the power and reach of omnipotent beings?

JADE: if there are no limits at all, it could be especially dangerous in the wrong hands

JADE: like what happened with jack!

JOHN: isn't that a contradiction though?

JOHN: if there are limits to your powers, you can't exactly be OMNIpotent, can you?

JOHN: more like...

JOHN: semipotent.

JADE: then i guess thats what we are!

JADE: semipotent demigods

JOHN: demidogs.

JADE: woof woof woof!

JADE: dammit!!!!!!

JOHN: heh...

JOHN: can you not control the woofs?

JADE: i havent gotten the hang of the woofs yet :(

JOHN: so, the dog ears...

JOHN: is that a permanent thing now, or what?

JADE: i think so

JOHN: i like them.

JADE: i do too!

JOHN: you are like a furry now, but not really the weird kind that people on the internet like to have sex with in their imagination.

JADE: D:

JOHN: hey, can i at least send a message through?

JOHN: like a note or something?

JADE: sure!

JADE: better hurry up and write it though

JOHN: oh snap! ok, gotta think, quick...

JOHN: what do i write on?

JOHN: maybe the back of a movie poster or something?

JOHN: i don't think i have one captchalogued though...

JOHN: and now that i think about it, most of them were ruined by imps. :(

JADE: how about this one?

JADE: looks like its still in pretty good condition

JOHN: yes, that's perfect!!!

JOHN: everyone will love it, especially probably dave.

JOHN: i think i need something to fold it up and put it in though.

JOHN: i don't want to just like crumple it up and chuck it in there like some garbage...

JOHN: i could stick it in a book i guess.

JOHN: but i kind of don't want to part with any great reading material, especially since we're going on a long trip.

JADE: john you have to hurry!

JOHN: ok, ok, um...

JADE: here, will this work?

JOHN: oh, yeah. i guess that'll be fine.

JOHN: now, uhhh, what to write...

JADE: whatever you write just make it quick!

JADE: and tell everyone i say hi!

JOHN: ok, will do.

JADE: ok, while you work on that, i think ill bring up some friends

JOHN: huh?

JADE: you know, let some of our travel companions get acquainted with the ship!

JOHN: oh fuck, it's dave sprite!!!

JOHN: i forgot about him.

DAVESPRITE: yeah no shit

JOHN: how've you been, buddy?

JADE: shooooooooosh!!!!!

JADE: write now, catch up later!

JOHN: ok, i think this is a pretty good letter.

DAVESPRITE: let me check it out

DAVESPRITE: maybe ill humorously defile willis and afflecks dumb skyward yearning faces

JOHN: oh HELL no.

DAVESPRITE: come on dude hand it over

JADE: nooooo come on guys theyre about to go just stuff it in the bucket and throw it at me already!!!

DAVESPRITE: too late i already did it with sprite powers while he wasnt looking

JOHN: augh you bastard!

JOHN: wait a minute!

JOHN: i forgot, trolls hate cleaning products for some alien reason! shit, that's going to make everyone so uncomfortable.

JOHN: oh well, there it goes. too late i guess.

DAVESPRITE: ahahahaha you fucked up

[deepspacedukat]

🤣I’m glad you liked the little scenario I came up with friend! 💙 Also this is sort of on topic since it’s about my corydora catfish tank and sorta not. Sorry for the fish ramble in advance but I hope you don’t mind me sharing my ordeal.

But I’m having a time with the new additions. I have a mix of adopted and store bought fishy friends and added to the surviving three so I now have nine. But four of them are store fish so I know what the prices are it’s $2.50 for standard wild colors like the natural colored ones (on average depending on the species, I used the emerald corydora price) and my albino (Ghost) (would’ve gotten minimum of two but it was the last in the tank, they normally have panda, emerald, bronze, or peppered corys) so the albino was store bought at $6.75 which I expected since it’s a rarer color morph and but what I did not expect was when I put in the order for two melanistic black corydoras (male and female) was for them to be $20 EACH. Which I found out the price when I showed to to buy them after picking up the peppered corydora. So I get them and figured since I specifically got a male (Nix) and female (Arwen) and they’re the same kind I’ll just mimic rain and put some nesting moss in then they’ll try to spawn, right?

Welp as soon as I added the new fish to the tank and they started exploring and staying grouped together cause they traveled together. But Nix immediately ditched Arwen as soon as he saw Ghost so now for the past two days he has been following the albino corydora (and some vice versa on her part) like a lost puppy and laying on the substrate with her, while poor Arwen after being dumped found Aragorn (emerald cory), Haldir (emerald cory), and Phantom (glow albino), and decided to shoal with that group.

Oh, I don't mind at all, friend! My ask box is always open for whatever you want to chat about! 💙

Awww, look at all those cute lil fish bbs!! 🥺

That sounds like quite the saga! I'm glad the new fishies are settling in even if there's a bit of group shifting going on. Also, I love the names! The LotR theme is *chef's kiss*

[footballandshit]

thoughts on the final?

sorry this is like almost a week late 😩

keeping my ramblings below the cut!

pre-match: okay ngl i wanted an 'underdog' team in the finals. (morocco 😭) fra and arg are like big teams when it comes to football so i was kinda demotivated to watch it tbh haha. and i was torn between like not wanting fra to win twice in a row and also not wanting arg to like glorify messi further (note: i have nothing against messi btw, i think he's a great player and deserves all the success he has, but i didn't want it to be like oh he's god now because he has the wc too, like he doesn't need to win the wc to be the best player or sth right? he's good already!) + us gunners don't like emi for reasons haha. but then again i have blorbos in fra... so your girl was in a dilemma!! 😵‍💫

during the match: okay the match itself. first half was kinda dead ngl. idk what happened to fra but let's just pretend the first half didn't exist. 🫣 it was almost like fra was gonna serve arg the win on a golden platter. arg played well tho, so good for them! then france stepped up in the second half, and only then the match started to become spicy!! we gotta admit kyky served cunt!!! like c'mon he was working his ass off in the second half and it paid off. varane's thicc ass putting arg onside was not on my bingo card but hey, that's the world cup for ya. loved the memes. i hate extra time, i hate penalties. i hate when the result of a match depends on penalties plsss it's like the 90 mins of game before was a waste hshs. felt really bad for the players who missed btw.

post-match: in the end, i'm kinda cool with arg winning i guess, i mean they played quite consistently throughout the match. look idk how they decide the golden ball winner, but i think there were other players that performed better in the wc? (correct me if i misunderstood how this award works haha). i didn't mind emi doing his dance during the penalty shootout because like wtv it's a celebration right? but i think the 'fucking the glove' thing in front of the Emir and like the entire world was kinda inappropriate?? idk haha my parents and younger brothers were like wtf?? okay that all aside, not surprised by the racism that came after, but like i'm tired of it tbh, can ppl stop taking football so seriously like you really wanna attack young coloured players for representing the country in the biggest global football tournament whilst you're screaming shit behind the screen?? also ppl were saying that ky called south american teams inferior or sth, and turns out, from the original video source and translations, it wasn't?? bruhh ppl really making up shit to attack a kid. look, if y'all find him arrogant or sth or just simply don't like him, that's cool y'know. you don't need to come up with some reason to hate him lol.

welp, at least we saved morocco from the heartbreak, and i hope to see them do better in the next wc!!

okay i think i should stop here, hope i covered everything, anon! HAHA