#what a concept tho

[sorryimananti-romantic]

I suddenly remembered the time I was in play school (baby nursery- pre K). I was the kind of kid who used to fight kids to get into the teacher's lap. Like I legit used to cry if someone other than me even tried to sit in the principal ma'am lap. Now I can't stop thinking what if Ateez were Play school teachers with a kid like me💀.

Baby me would be hanging down Seonghwa's neck, fighting kids like a rabid gremlin when they try to get on his lap. I might be a wee bit scared of Hongjoong and Mingi at the beginning though. Joong gives math teacher vibes (hated maths since birth) and Mingi would've been a wee bit scary simply bec he's so tall and a little intimidating at first.

I picture kid me climbing up Yunho like a Monkey on a tree somehow. He's only a lil bit taller than my uncle and I once climbed up to his face and bit his nose. Baby me and Wooyoung would've been besties.

Yeosang, I guess, would've been the pretty teacher that baby me (and adult me ngl) would be too shy to talk to while San would've been the teacher whom I used to tell all my family shit. Like "Teacher teacher, mom bought a new bra today."

"That's great? ^^'?"

"Teacher when would I get to wear a bra"

Kinda thing. (Trust me I actually did that to a poor teacher. )

LOL i was the kind who would watch the kids fight to get into the teacher's lap and judge them 💀 i did have my fav teachers but man our principal was so scary she was like the lord voldemort of our school. practically immortal. smol but a huge presence and honestly kinda evil 💀💀 i would have liked to see you befriend her 💀

but omg ateez as teachers is a concept. you're so accurate about what kind of teacher they would be. seonghwa would def be the campus fav. AND YEAH JOONG DOES GIVE MATH TEACHER VIBES if i had a teacher like him when we got introduced to algebra maybe i wouldnt have nearly failed the exam (i recovered pretty soon tho i just had a love-hate relation with maths💀)

mingi would definitely have been the teacher who we thought would be scary and cold but became everyone's fav teacher as soon as he cracked a smile. and you bet he would have enjoyed his little students making stupid jokes. yunho would have been the campus fav too but kaya is your uncle okay WHY WOULD YOU BITE SOMEONE'S NOSE-

Wooyoung would have been the teacher who knew every kid's business LOL. and you're very right about yeosang and san too. i feel like yeosang would have been the teacher you went to when you had some problem with other kids.

and you bet san would have responded to that question pretty maturely but smiled to himself later hehehehehe he would always remember all the stupid and cute questions kids ask 😌

[tenowls]

rivals

[hinamie]

sidelong

[minnobyy]

side order doodle! based on the first trailer and concept arts from famitsu

i really liked the brown hair color that agent 8 had and the long tentacles that was in the concept art! i really wished we had a long hair style for our octolings 😭

[marthajefferson]

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[time-slink]

glasswing butterfly.. :)

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Putting the Gravity Falls characters into the Trolls universe just because I can

[finnbin]

Bill and Ford doodles for @donniipao's puppet Bill au idea because I love it so much!!! :D

I hope you like them!!

[thewhizzyhead]

how genderbending the warriors (2024) is done not for the sole sake of "bad-assery"

okay here we go feminist ramble time for our newest chick on the block: warriors. now i'll be honest, prior to listening to the album, when i first heard that the warriors main girls were originally dudes in the movie and the novel, i thought that the decision for the genderbending, in lmm's perspective, were from the following: 1.) girl power move in like a very basic meaning of the word "bad-ass" 2.) simply a twist on a cult movie about big gang bros loved by the film bros, and 3.) a way to have the schuyler sisters back together gjfkdfldf

but when i read more about warriors and its development and how lmm took inspiration from the gamergate controversies of 2014-2015 aka among the peak of gamerbro misogyny campaigns, that's when i realized that Oh Shit Is Serious - because adapting a story about a group being framed and targeted and harassed for something they are accused of doing without any substantial proof other than a man screaming "THE WARRIORS SHOT CYYYYRUUS" with 21st century misogyny campaigns in mind makes the theme of fighting back a lot more complicated and a lot more resonant, going beyond just marketing a cast you can call "badass"

take the hurricanes' quiet girls, for example. the hurricanes (concept album version) is the only gang that lets the warriors off the hook and with a stern warning: quiet girls don't make it home. here, the hurricanes berate the warriors for not saying shit or attempting to defend themselves from accusations they know well aren't true. THIS MESSAGE IN PARTICULAR is what stays and influences ajax, fox, and swan til the very end of their stories.

literally one song after this does ajax show how easily she resonated with the hurricanes' lesson by finally sticking with her gut and actually choosing to fight back against both the baseball furies AND against the sleazy undercover cop. the latter encounter is one of the instances that really solidifies the recontextualization of the story because in the OG movie, ajax (a dude) WAS the sleazy fuck up harassing a woman in a park - and now with the literal character switch, ajax goes from being just a rebellious gangbro dude bro into someone whose want to fight is warranted. such a want to fight is seen in fox seeing as fox is the first to comment on the quiet girls scene and that, in the concept album, she is the one that instigates the rumble against the police in union square - saying that she is sick of being afraid of them and their 'fuckin powder blue' colors (also notice how she is the only warrior that really does say fuck the cops i think that's cool BUT I'LL TALK ABOUT FOX MORE NEXT TIME)

to a less obvious extent, swan also gets the receiving end of this recurring theme - by the album's finale, the usually violence-averse caution-first interim leader becomes a lot fiercer in protecting her crew. but perhaps among what i consider to be the biggest recontextualized change in the feminist sense is MERCY and her motivations to join the warriors in the first place. according to the wiki, her attraction to swan and the warriors and um seeing the orphans as wimps is what led her to switch sides BUT IN THE CONCEPT ALBUM, mercy's motivation to become a warrior is deepened, rooted in admiration rather than attraction - wanting to be like those women who hold their head up high. and again, we see this in Sick of Runnin' when she takes part in the rumble, finding her bravery within their ranks as they fight back. here, mercy becomes less of a swan tagalong and more of someone that wants what the warriors have: pride.

of course now that i type this out i realize that warriors is not based solely on the feminist rhetoric as with their theme of hope amidst adversity, the story is more intersectional and rooted in community struggle and wanting for more than that. but nonetheless, i genuinely believe that the twt filmbros arguments on why the genders should not have been changed in the first place just for "woke" points is kinda like,,,very shortsighted because not only does the narrative of women narrowly escaping unwarranted accusations actually fucking fit, but the act of learning to fight back amidst all odds - be it that of disbelieving, predatory men or the power of oppressive pigs - stays resonant for women yesterday, today, and the days to come.

ultimately, warriors (2024) is not solely a tale of female badassery - rather, it is a tale of the need for such "female badassery" in the face of past and present realities, which is why it somehow fucking worked.

[inkskinned]

you're grabbing lunch with a nice man and he gives you that strange grimace-smile that's popular right now; an almost sardonic "twist" of his mouth while he looks literally down on you. it looks like he practiced the move as he leans back, arms folded. he just finished reciting the details of NFTs to you and explaining Oppenheimer even though he only watched a youtube about it and hasn't actually seen it. you are at the bottom of your wine glass.

you ask the man across from you if he has siblings, desperately looking for a topic. literally anything else.

he says i don't like small talk. and then he smiles again, watching you.

a few years ago, you probably would have said you're above celebrity gossip, but honestly, you've been kind of enjoying the dumb shit of it these days. with the rest of the earth burning, there's something familiar and banal about dragging ariana grande through the mud. you think about jeanette mccurdy, who has often times gently warned the world she's not as nice as she appears. you liked i'm glad my mom died but it made you cry a lot.

he doesn't like small talk, figure out something to say.

you want to talk about responsibility, and how ariana grande is only like 6 days older than you are - which means she just turned 30 and still dresses and acts like a 13 year old, but like sexy. there's something in there about the whole thing - about insecurity, and never growing up, and being sexualized from a young age.

people have been saying that gay people are groomers. like, that's something that's come back into the public. you have even said yourself that it's just ... easier to date men sometimes. you would identify as whatever the opposite of "heteroflexible" is, but here you are again, across from a man. you like every woman, and 3 people on tv. and not this guy. but you're trying. your mother is worried about you. she thinks it's not okay you're single. and honestly this guy was better before you met, back when you were just texting.

wait, shit. are you doing the same thing as ariana grande? are you looking for male validation in order to appease some internalized promise of heteronormativity? do you conform to the idea that your happiness must result in heterosexuality? do you believe that you can resolve your internal loneliness by being accepted into the patriarchy? is there a reason dating men is easier? why are you so scared of fucking it up with women? why don't you reach out to more of them? you have a good sense of humor and a big ol' brain, you could have done a better job at online dating.

also. jesus christ. why can't you just get a drink with somebody without your internal feminism meter pinging. although - in your favor (and judgement aside) in the case of your ariana grande deposition: you have been in enough therapy you probably wouldn't date anyone who had just broken up with their wife of many years (and who has a young child). you'd be like - maybe take some personal time before you begin this journey. like, grande has been on broadway, you'd think she would have heard of the plot of hamlet.

he leans forward and taps two fingers to the table. "i'm not, like an andrew tate guy," he's saying, "but i do think partnership is about two people knowing their place. i like order."

you knew it was going to be hard. being non-straight in any particular way is like, always hard. these days you kind of like answering the question what's your sexuality? with a shrug and a smile - it's fine - is your most common response. like they asked you how your life is going and not to reveal your identity. you like not being straight. you like kissing girls. some days you know you're into men, and sometimes you're sitting across from a man, and you're thinking about the power of compulsory heterosexuality. are you into men, or are you just into the safety that comes from being seen with them? after all, everyone knows you're failing in life unless you have a husband. it almost feels like a gradebook - people see "straight married" as being "all A's", and anything else even vaguely noncompliant as being ... like you dropped out of the school system. you cannot just ignore years of that kind of conditioning, of course you like attention from men.

"so let's talk boundaries." he orders more wine for you, gesturing with one hand like he's rousing an orchestra. sir, this is a fucking chain restaurant. "I am not gonna date someone who still has male friends. also, i don't care about your little friends, i care about me. whatever stupid girls night things - those are lower priority. if i want you there, you're there."

he wasn't like this over text, right? you wouldn't have been even in the building if he was like this. you squint at him. in another version of yourself, you'd be running. you'd just get up and go. that's what happens on the internet - people get annoyed, and they just leave. you are locked in place, almost frozen. you need to go to the bathroom and text someone to call you so you have an excuse, like it's rude to just-leave. like he already kind of owns you. rudeness implies a power paradigm, though. see, even your social anxiety allows the patriarchy to get to you.

you take a sip of the new glass of wine. maybe this will be a funny story. maybe you can write about it on your blog. maybe you can meet ariana grande and ask her if she just maybe needs to take some time to sit and think about her happiness and how she measures her own success.

is this settling down? is this all that's left in your dating pool? just accepting that someone will eventually love you, and you have to stop being picky about who "makes" you a wife?

you look down to your hand, clutching the knife.

[satsuha]

🎉 happy anniversary 🐙Ⅱ!! 🍻

can't believe it's been a year already!! i love this game to bits

[mourning-tides]

Cassie Sandsmark they could never make me hate you. Even if they’re trying. Really hard

Also idk if Greta and Cassie were technically roommates at Saint Elias’s but who else would it be. They’re buddies. Bonds forged in Yj are unbreakable unfortunately

[gierosajie]

Mirabelle and Siffrin are like the two ends of what being your god's favorite entails. To me.

[kittykatninja321]

Thinking about how Bruce treated Jason’s legacy after his death is kinda pissing me off and the only consolation is knowing that whatever peace Bruce created for himself by warping his memory and telling himself that Jason’s death was due to his own recklessness and anger in order to cope was greatly disturbed and shaken by Jason’s return. Pain and suffering on planet earth <3

[tsuutarr]

I find the love god to be both absolutely terrifying and hilarious at the same time. His soulmate comes back as a worm? Build a luxurious terriaum with tons of leaves for them to feast on. Soulmate is now someone's pet golden retriever? Time to steal them off of the family's front lawn and build them a nice dog house away from society. A trout? The God has gone fishing with an industrial fish tank in tow. It'd actually probably be pretty nice....whenever the soulmate isn't human. When human it's just this insane guy randomly showing up and refusing to leave you alone while insisting that he's a god.

Yeah, whenever Reader is reincarnated, Aizono takes really good care of Reader regardless of what form Reader takes! Tbh having a god take care of your every need must be sooo nice lmao

That said, it'd still be nice to have Aizono take care of you when you're human too imo because he wouldn't just assert that he's a god out of nowhere lol

It'd mostly depend on the situation, but in modern times, he'll assimilate into society and try to woo you naturally. Of course, if he can't woo you naturally, he'll just whisk you away to his palace, which might not be as nice but hey, at least you don't have to worry about bills, rent, or groceries!

But yeah, Aizono is the type of guy who's super devoted and usually tries not to be forceful if he doesn't have to be (he's the type of yandere that rather use his brain than brawn).

He'll be careful to make sure you won't be too scared or wary of him and will try to build up a bond between you two naturally. Since he knows you two are bound for eternity, he's not in as much of a rush as other yanderes. Of course, in the backdrop, he'll eliminate any potential suitors (usually by pairing them with someone else, though he's not above disposing of them entirely).

Kidnapping and showing that he's a god is usually lower on his priority list. His priorities lie in making sure you like him/aren't wary of him, like to spend time with him, and rely on him. He prefers manipulating the situation so that you WANT to stay with him.

(here's a doodle of Aizono and worm!reader <3)

[dovesick]

magical girl potoo!