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pinksummer444 · 2 years

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what makes you pretty and popping? 💗🏄🏼‍♀️💅🏼

PSYCHIC READING / PICK A PICTURE 🤍

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pile1:

(pipe down x drake)

• your definitely top tier quality. top shelf please? most expensive thing in this store? the most expensive thing on the menu? that’s what you are. & that’s what you have. your favorite color is pink. your style is very feminine, girly and classy. you dress like a grown women that has no time to spare. very business like, bossy bitch, pretty bitch. the prettiest at brunch with the girls type of bitch. you have your own motion. you move and act like you know who you are. you walk with purpose and attitude. your probably always on the phone or checking your emails/texts. your so pretty and nonchalant. you don’t take anything personal but your family life. everything else is just business to you. 💰 you even treat romantic relationships like it’s a business. you like to mix business with pleasure. you don’t like drama at all. you avoid drama because it makes you look bad. your face card is very clean and expensive. 🙅🏽‍♀️ anything that makes you look bad you can’t be associated wit it. you won’t even risk it, jeopardizing your image/career. you simply upgrade. you take pride in doing so. you don’t let anything or anyone guilt trip you into staying once you’ve out grown it. it’s your world and everyone else is just in your way 💅🏼 you enjoy most of your time eating out, shopping 🛒, trying on new clothes &traveling to different places. for this pile men already know you take care of business, by the way you walk, talk, dress etc. a lot of people want to marry you and make you the one the first week of getting to know you. it’s the way you wear you clothes, perfume, & personality is so soft, subtle, angelic & girly. nobody can compare. top notch. just looking at you makes people feel instantly enchanted and mesmerized. soft skin, soft spoken, soft lips, angel eyes, pretty hands and feet, w/ great style. you remind people that there are still naturally pretty girls, who aren’t just pretty for online content. your pretty IRL. 💕 nobody can tell you no, in this pile because people don’t like to disappoint you. 444 could be your angel number. men you date give you the world, because you expect the world 🗺💕

pile 2:

(vixen x kentheman)

• you give off the hottest, wettest, vixen, bipolar, emotionally disturbing slut next door type of vibe. your jenny from the mf block. every man wants to fuck you, torture you, watch you. your the sex symbol. you finesse, you seduce, & you hustle like a man. in fact you’re always plotting on the next victim to use for your own benefit. ⭐️ you suck your victims completely dry. your a pretty little liar who plays victim and it always works. you don’t care about karma, or consequences because you are karma and consequences LMAO. your eyes are filled with pain, and sorrow but also so fierce and piercing. your a walking cautious sign, you can’t be trusted because your literally sneaky af. you don’t ever get caught with any of your schemes and missions. your just a alley cat who’s trying to survive. it’s giving cat women vibes. you have too much sex appeal and you know exactly how to use it. your a very dark spirited beauty. a beautiful wild black stallion that can’t be tamed. your energy is so enticing that people become easily obsessed with you.

pile 3:

(spotless mind x jhene aiko )

• “change is inevitable, why hold on to what you have to let go of, like did I really break your heart????? was it all my fault??” your a pretty little mess of a person. your difficult to deal with and your a headache to all the men in your life. men find you to be over baring and careless. you don’t care about anybody but yourself. it’s hard for you to take accountability for how you make other people feel when you decide to leave out of their life unexpectedly with out any explanation, without a warning just simply because you can and you suddenly felt like it. or that something/someone else excited you. brb!!!! type of energy lol. you are very impulsive and fun. your very self absorbed. your feelings come first and that’s the end of the story. your very greedy and restless. you need more of this and you need more of that in your life or you’ll throw a fit. you have the newest of everything. your always on top of the latest trends and fashions. you take retail therapy very serious. you binge shop alot on outfits and lookz 🛍 it soothes your soul. you love to play dress up. your someone who needs constant reassurance and entertainment. your hard headed and spoiled. you don’t listen very much. things run in one ear and out the other when your no longer interested. you don’t like to take anything serious in this pile. it’s hard for you to hang out with someone repetitively and not start to get bored. you hate repetition, & you hate working hard in this pile. it’s too serious for you. anything that seems too serious makes you feel uncomfortable. so for this pile your a entrepreneur or a future entrepreneur or your going to marry someone who can take care or you. (queen/king of wands or swords) you like to keep more than one option in love so you spend time with them or you just spend your time alone quietly but mostly listening to music (because you need constant entertainment) I’m getting a extrovert/introvert type personality from you where you don’t mind being alone for a long while or constantly going out and partying. p.s your always in a hurry and running late. but fashionably late ig 🤦🏼‍♀️

pile 4:

watch music videos to all songs.

(women x doja cat)

(don’t cha x the pussycat dolls)

(pour it up x rihanna)

(goodies x ciara)

• “divine feminine, im feminine” you could do multiple things for money in this pile. people know exactly who you are when you walk into a room. a lot of people gossip about you even when your not around. people want to know who your dating because they know he’s got to be the man. people want to meet you in person and are really nosy and speculate a lot when it comes to you and your lifestyle. they wanna know your life secrets. they wanna know everything about you. they feel like you have a lot of juicy stories and secrets to tell. you have a lot of secret admirers and some of your secret admirers are closer to you than you even realize. your so talented & your very relatable to your audience. you remain who you are even with all the glam and glitter. you receive a lot of admiration & love. you have fans. you even receive fan mail and messages. many people look up to because of your creativity towards life, art, music and sexual expression. people take notes from you and think your so cool and dope to be around. you have a very particular and private life. you like your private life to be a private life. no cameras, no fans, no audience, no questions. a lot of people take photos and videos of you. & of lot of strangers remember you even if the company from you was brief, because you effortless inspire others. your personality is top tier. you have a very spontaneous love life and work life in this pile. you could have a very complex, taboo, secretive unusual love life/ work life. i feel like you’ve always felt different growing up & you still feel different to this day. you never really had a normal life or normal relationships. but this makes you happy and gives you a since of freedom and control over yourself & your life. your fans love you for who you are and so do the people in your private life. your a shooting star. 💫 you live a life that many wish to live, a lot of people wouldn’t mind trading places with you and trying on your shoes. people obsess over your life, and how much attention you receive from others. your a icon. your the one and only. behind all the sexiness, your really just a regular girl and this what your fans don’t know.

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nightunderthesilversky · 3 years

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Cherry wine

I was singing to Cherry Wine as one does and started dissecting and analysing the lyrics in my head, so doing a full-scale of it here. It’s going to be pretty disorganised probably but meh. Should I think of this tumblr like a commonplace diary? But it feels like a performance anyway. My entire life feels like a performance. TW: Domestic, intimate partner violence, romanticisation of domestic violence and imagery. More notes at bottom of post.

“Her eyes and words are so icy Oh but she burns Like rum on the fire Hot and fast and angry as she can be I walk my days on a wire.”

Her anger is explosive in its sharpness and silence. Walking on a wire or walking on eggshells is used to describe when one fears the other one blowing up over small things; this relationship is governed mostly by one party and is unhealthy.

Walking on wires cuts deep lines into your soles.

Why do you keep walking?

“It looks ugly, but it's clean, Oh momma, don't fuss over me.” I find his contrasting use of ugly and clean very interesting because in my head it correlates to how used-to the person is to the abuse. If you walk in a random, non-sensical pattern 100 times, it’ll start making some sense to you. It also makes me wonder about what ‘clean’ actually means, because abusive relationships can often be hot-and-cold (thanks hozier) and just all over the place and not very clear or logical.

“Oh momma, don’t fuss over me” seems to speak to the isolation in an abusive relationship. Abusers often isolate their victims from their family and friends and support groups and make them feel like they can’t talk to anyone about the relationship because they just wouldn’t get it, and would misunderstand. A gaslight that the abuser is only misunderstood and would be judged and is a poor person and has the victim protecting them.

“The way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine Open hand or closed fist would be fine The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.”

There’s a sense of belonging that probably contributes to the romanticisation, despite the boundedness of it, it still feels like solid ground in a way. A fixed cage whose limits you know instead of a moving one.

“The blood is...sweet as cherry wine” makes me think about the ‘I hurt you only because of how much I love you’ tactic or gaslight. If she’s being passionate, it’s because her love for him inspires passion. “Rare” is also trivialisation of the issue and hurt caused, I think. He’s telling his mother that it’s nothing to be worried about.

IDK why this songs seems to be sung to a fireplace for me, in winter chill. Loneliness and desolation of a raven kind.

“Calls of guilty thrown at me All while she stains The sheets of some other Thrown at me so powerfully Just like she throws with the arm of her brother.”

Abusers often victimise themselves and accuse their victims of being abusive or unhealthy or ‘bad’ as a tactic. The person feels guilty too. They’re aware it’s not healthy but are romanticising it still perhaps- like being stuck in an alternate world.

They know the abuser isn’t loyal to them. And it isn’t love after all, when they cheat you, but they don’t speak about it much more. I just get the sense that the person is aware of what is happening and distantly, of why it’s wrong but is feeling like they need to suppress it or keep the knowledge far away. Like denial, I guess.

“But I want it It's a crime That she's not around most of the time.”

Living without something for some time can give you more distance to nitpick only the parts that look lovely or romantic. Time blurs things and can make you miss them even when they don’t deserve it (I miss my childhood best friend more than I loved her at the time). Memory distorts.

The abuser is a terrorising presence despite her absence. The person is walking their days on a wire even when she’s not around most of the time.

“The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine Open hand or closed fist would be fine Blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.”

“Her fight and fury is fiery Oh but she loves Like sleep to the freezing Sweet and right and merciful I'm all but washed In the tide of her breathing.”

Sleep to the freezing is sweet and right and merciful to the freezing. A loss that makes you detached cuts you off from shivers of pain. Sleep for the freezing is easy to come by, but bad for you.

“The tide of her breathing” makes up a different picture in my head. Of flaring nostrils in an angry father and a scared, skittish and anticipating daughter. This is a frightening image. You can also smell alcohol on people’s breath sometimes, and alcohol abuse and domestic violence are often correlated in media. Cherry wine is bitter red sugar.

“And it's worth it, it's divine I have this some of the time.”

And what is it like rest of the time? The person seems to be highlighting the passion and romanticising it, and choosing to eclipse and deny the rest.

I’ve always been confused by people claiming they are ‘God-fearing’ as a good quality. Often, religion makes a sense of reward and punishment based on ‘trust-me’ commandments or laws or guidelines. God and Religion set the rules which no one knows why, but people try to make sense of and figure out.

“Divine” is supposedly superior,and all-knowing, and wonderful to witness.

Hozier uses a lot of religious imagery in his songs.

“The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine Open hand or closed fist would be fine The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.”

- Hozier A/N: Please note that I am not trying to romanticise abuse or domestic violence!!! It is harmful, inexcusable and causes a lot of pain. Real love and care do not abuse. If you are in an abusive relationship, I hope you get out soon. It must be so tough for you and I’m proud of you for keeping on trying. It is not your fault and you do not deserve this. I hope you find the help you need. Adding some links to resources that might help below. Others, there are also a few ways you can get educated and help!! Also, if anyone finds this triggering despite the warnings and insensitive, please DM me, and I’ll try to take it down. I’m doing this as a literary exercise only (and not a very advanced one at that) ___

Women In Distress (Also for male survivors and anyone!)- CRISIS HOTLINE: 954-761-1133

Please see https://www.thehotline.org/

Indian Helpline for women: 181, 1091/ 1291, (011) 23317004 Indian Helpline for men: 8882-498-498

UK helpline for LGBTQ+ domestic violence victims/survivors:

Phone 0800 9995428

Email [email protected]

And see website.

LGBT surviors helpline : 617-742-4911 (voice) • 800-832-1901 (Toll-Free) (Don’t need to want to/have to get out of the relationship to seek help)

Collection of helplines:

https://www.domesticshelters.org/resources/national-global-organizations

https://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/crisis-hotlines

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#hozier #songs #lyrics #poetry #artist #art #songwriting #lyric analysis #analysis #domestic violene helplines #taylor swift

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pointedly-foolish · 4 years

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i’ve been listening to alot of j-pop lately...

i would like to earn the trophy of never being able to draw kaede consistently uwu

just messing around w composition

oh btw, the lyrics are from hitchcock by yorushika. i’d put the link here but i’ll be shadowbanned by tumblr. just check it out! it’s rlly cool and the song slaps !

date: 26/06/20

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more thoughts about kaede in my au under the cut

- i feel like - after isolating herself in her room for long enough - and kaede has run out of tears to cry - she’d seek out her grandma and open up to her, allowing herself to ramble and vent while her grandmother comforts her - maybe comforting kaede with words, but just her being physically there and still here, still present, still alive, grounds kaede to a certain extent - idk i feel - an 11 year old child - would have a lot of questions, and confusions, regarding the circumstance around her father’s death, the heavy secrecy around his work as a hero, and how to move forwards - she would voice some of her anxieties, and kept others to herself - questions like:

why didn’t they ever tell kaede about her father’s job?

why wasn’t she told that he was a hero? was she not important enough? did they think she wasn’t mature enough to understand?

did they not trust her enough?

what would’ve happened if he had died some other way, while saving someone or in the line of duty? did she not matter enough to be told?

were they really going to keep her in the dark forever?

was it her fault that her father’s dead?

did she indirectly cause it? if she had reached him sooner, if she hadn’t gotten stuck in the elevator or gotten stopped by the heroes, would her father still be alive?

why did the heroes kill her father? how come they showed no hesitation?

wasn’t her father barnaby’s partner? didn’t they work well together? how come barnaby showed her father 0 mercy?

from all the interviews and shows they did together, it seemed like they both respected and cared for each other. so how come they ended up killing each other?

aren’t heroes supposed to be the good guys? can she and her family trust them, regardless? (she knows the answer is no)

what else will they do? they’ve come after her father, will they come after the rest of their family? will they target her? her grandmother? her uncle? (kaede can’t bear the thought of losing her grandmother or her uncle, the last family she has left. the only people she has left.)

will they keep pursuing them and not leaving anyone alive?

why won’t they give her her father back?

why have they faced 0 repercussions while her family are suffering?

why is it that bad people prosper?

what should she do from now on?

everywhere she goes, everyone shuns her, so what should she do now?

where does she go?

it’s easier to pretend that everything is ok and to relive memories of happier times, but is it ok to do so? how should she move on and seek closure?

is it selfish to seek revenge?

- it’s easier to be in a state of apathy than to think about what’s really happened, but she knows she can’t stay this way forever - but she just feels so - tired - and she feels so empty - she just wants to find a patch of soft grass, lay down under the blue sky and the warm sun, and just sleep for… forever - it just - hurts - so much - it’s not that she’s suicidal, or that she wants to die - it’s just that she thinks it’s really hard to keep going - in a strange parallel to her father, she is also able to disregard her own safety and her own environment pursue her vision of justice.

the selflessness that has allowed to relentlessly seek revenge is the same kind of selflessness and lack of concern for the self that has allowed her father to save so many people.

#kaede kaburagi #tiger & bunny #yuri petrov #lunatic tiger & bunny #t&b #falsely draws #desolation!au #the minimalist vibe was a happy accident lmao #jsut messed around #cuz ive been feeling consistently bad for my art lmao #sorry bout the messy lineart #wasnt planning on cleaning it too much from traditional

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ssaalexblake · 5 years

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" #13 is already scary club!!!!! #she's just more emotionally mature than men 1 through 12" THIS, I am fully into this and agree!

Yeah, I mean, the first run through of season 11 I ended up focusing more on her chipper side, so I deliberately watched out for anger and personality faults on my second go through, and really, it’s all there in Whittaker’s performance. Especially in Resolution, which isn’t surprising considering what the bad guy was, it was also, strictly speaking, the first proper barometer we’ve had to measure thirteen’s reaction to something we’ve seen the other doctors react to.

I just have a lot of very jumbled thoughts about the actual narrative, where i think they’re going with this, and kind of… Weariness?? At the logic behind wanting a ‘snap’ from 13 just to prove she’s angry?? I ended up using this as an excuse to vent stuff i’ve been trying to say but am bad at putting into words, oops.

I mean, 13 was Clearly not in a good mood over that Dalek. Compare her reaction to seeing Tim Shaw again to seeing the Dalek again and that’s brutally obvious. She blatantly mocked Tooth face, and regarded him so little that she just marched off away from him and pretty much forgot entirely about him while trying to put those planets back where they came from, even After she realises that Tim Shaw pretty much slaughtered the inhabitance of a handful of entire planets she still totally disregards him.

Which, frankly, is kind of terrifying in itself considering what he did to (potentially) many billions of people, and says a lot about the doctor’s view on casualty counts, but not currently my point. In the end, she doesn’t even end up doing a single thing about him, and just leaves him in the stasis pod that it’s Very unlikely anybody will come across ever again considering the planet messes with the brains of whoever walks on it, even time lords!

Aaaaaand compare and contrast to Resolution, 13′s entire frame of mind in the whole episode was in crisis mode, she did not let it get one over on her, but she was Clearly incredibly more worked up in this episode, which, contrasting with the previous ep, is kind of jarring.

She’s erratic, frantic, at times perversely entertained, accidentally changed the entire tardis colour scheme to red in a fit of temper, takes out time more than once to taunt the dalek (and uhm.. she does this and it gets away and the next scene is of it slaughtering a bunch of soldiers), oh… And that thing where Ryan’s dad was like, about to get spaced and die horribly with the dalek and she just froze and did absolutely nothing about it. I mean, in the same episode she controls the tardis with a clap of her hands… which i will assume was just her doing it telepathically and being weird about it, which means she really doesn’t get to use ‘well i was holding on myself’ excuse to get out of That one, and this is among other things which i’m sure i’ve forgotten.

More importantly, i can trace the above things back to moments in previous episodes, like, perverse glee??? Demons of the Punjab. Anger??? King James just had that effect on her even when he Wasn’t actively being a sexist asshole, she didn’t like him hitting too close to home. Threatening? Kerblam’s ‘if i ever find out you’re lying’. Taunting? she legit taunts Krasko into straight up throttling her. Sacrifice one for the good of the many? Kerblam, you could easily view Charlie as her first proper kill. It all has roots, didn’t come from nowhere.

I’ve spoken before about how she’s deliberately tempering her anger, and how it all roots back to ‘laugh hard, run fast, be kind’, but i feel like that’s kinda made it seem to people that she’s not scary just because she’s not being openly ostentatious about it?? When in actuality she’s just performing intense amounts of emotional labour in a genuine effort to improve herself, and it’s not gender based because canonically this utter disaster had no clue how lousy they’d been to their female companions or anybody else until some very blunt life lessons… in an episode in the back half of the season, so canonically we legit Can’t write her previous behaviour off on any kind of female socialization.

And while I feel like we are heading to 13 crashing and burning, you know, figuratively (but she’s still the doctor so i won’t rule out a 50% chance of literal crashing and burning), bottling isn’t a super idea either and she’s probably going to combust, i’m justminorly uncomfortable with the insinuation that the base line of all anger is the explosive outbursts the doctor is prone to. I’m not against her snapping and having a classic doctor outburst, pretty sure that’s where they’re heading because she’s slowly but surely gradually losing ground with the image she’s trying to project and the only time we’ve already seen her called on it (king james) she… Did not react positively.

I just have issues with the insinuation that to be the doctor she has to act out their worst qualities when we can see them in her clearly without her doing so just to Prove she’s the doctor. She’s already angry and arrogant, it’s there in the show, it’s just… Angry outbursts aren’t good? And having the storyline framed around her snapping actively being scary and bad for both her and others is more where my head is at, I think i feel like this is where it’s going, for it to be a breaking down moment rather than framed as something liberating, i just don’t feel comfortable with the grandeur surrounding it potentially happening in a liberating fashion.

I mean, from a gendered perspective, women having to temper reasonable anger is bad and oppressive and i understand the bad optics of it and wanting it it happen for the very reason of avoiding that, but also? Men Not having to bother to temper violent angry outbursts is also an awful thing on the list of shitty things about patriarchy, but that doesn’t just mean everybody should be able to have angry violent outbursts, it means nobody should, it’s not about stooping, it means work on self improvement if you do do this and stop, not ‘hey everybody gets a free pass to be an explosive scary jerk’.

The discussion around this all often makes me uncomfortable in the ways we treat violence and anger. I’m not a fan of loud/cold/threatening outburst kinda people, real or fictional, which is probably why my favourite Who characters are almost never the doctor. But I Do recognise they’re finally making an effort these days, and I do recognise and appreciate it in 13 and it makes me like her a lot more than a number of the other doctors. They’ve reached a stage where they’re actually working on it, methods aside, i respect that I can see all of the doctor’s questionable qualities within her but i can also see some kind of attempt to actively work on them. That is laudable.

I mean, ok, maybe Not the best story to go with after 12+ men and suddenly one woman, but it Did start with 12 and Capaldi whose presence bought age and wisdom to it, Whittaker is just following the thread, really. It also Probably wasn’t purposeful that it ended up like this??? Considering new management and writers etc etc, but i also very much feel like s11 was a groundwork season and even in that i can see the fascade slipping away episode by episode, in resolution she even tells them one of her deepest shames, at the time with little context, but if any of them think back on it, they’ll Understand.

(disclaimer: I don’t have anything against anybody who wants a snap (if written well, i would also enjoy it, i like angst), i just have an issue with our cultural relation to violence in certain circumstances and this narrative kind of creeps towards the idea that if you’ve had outbursts before that you can’t stop yourself the next time and I don’t like that as a message, i don’t dislike any of the doctors, i just like the companions Significantly more 90% of the time, and yes i would very much like to be able to show anger as a woman without being demeaned for it, but there is a difference between being looked down upon for being justifiably angry, and thinking it’s ok to let your anger take control of you and scare others. Also: Not all emotional labour is bad, i have to write this bc i’m publishing on tumblr so yeah. )

#danni watches doctor who #this Got Away From Me #and u didn't even ask a question im sorry lol #also #all i can think of abotu her trying to return those planets in the finale #is the monsters inc 'put that thing back where it came from or so help me'#and her doing the little dance #oops?#aaaand i added a disclaimer bc the last time i wrote an opinion on this show i got rudeness #and the time before that actually #but honestly i think it's gonna start caving round her ears soon #me: i can't wait!!!#also me: don't hurt me Or them Chibnall they're perfect angels who don't deserve it #i hate publishing opinions on this site but also i'm sick of the frame of mind #that means i don't so i'm #publishing #doctor who #also i feel like this would have more meaning if i'd Watched the end of 12's run instead of just read about it all #i don't have binge watch kind of time #tho

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dasaene-archive · 7 years

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Sx-blinds Mistyping as So-blinds

I never made a proper post about this, but I’m seeing an ever-increasing number of people that from my observations mistype themselves as so-blind (usually as sp/sx, since secondary so is harder to type) or as so/sx but are actually sx-blinds that don’t understand the soc instinct or are in complete denial that they don’t understand sx either. This seems to be a popular topic as of late and I think it would now be an appropriate time to post this. As an sx-blind myself I hope to offer a different perspective on sx-blind motivations and faults. There are many questions about soc/sx-blindness that I wanted to answer in this post (like what passion means to sx-blinds, what do you think is soc’s best quality, how can I tell if I’m sx-blind or just have a 9 core/strong fix), but for some sort of consistency in this tertiary Ti infodump I will elaborate on those in a different post.

I think it should go without saying that if you’re serious about learning about typology you shouldn’t get all your information from Tumblr, but a lot of people still rely on it for the majority of their information. Tumblr is an excellent resource if you know the right people and figure out how a proper way to interpret information, but it’s not great for confused sx-blinds. I don’t claim to have a perfect understanding of instinctual variants, but most experienced and reliable members of the Tumblr typology community are so-blind, and although they do a good job, they can’t help being biased from their negative experiences with badly developed sx-blinds or sx-blinds that made no effort to understand so-blindness. I mean I’m pretty sure the reason why a lot of so-blinds become so-blind is due to the influence of unhealthy, overbearing sx-blinds in formative years.

However, so-blinds are not the only people to blame for the confusion, rather sx-blinds themselves. A main criticism I have of sx-blinds is that not enough are sure of their typing/willing to rock the so-called community boat and come forward to try to explain soc with all its good and bad. It’s pointless not to at least try to speak up about your thoughts, since so-blinds are not superior nor do they care about “community values” and are more than happy to refine their own and by extension your ideas. Until I asked questions and tried to understand an so-blind point of view, I didn’t get sx very much at all, and I probably still don’t, but I’m far less clueless than before. That’s the purpose of discussion lol, there shouldn’t be any shame in trying to get a grasp on your lack of sx or try to help other people form a more conclusive idea about soc

The words of those in “higher standing” in a community (something I will elaborate on further in) can bother sx-blinds, and many will be afraid of being sx-blind because they are afraid of/don’t relate to/don’t get what the materials they read are really trying to say about all the bad qualities of lacking sx. Being affiliated with the image of soulless, bossy, desperate people incapable of fulfilling relationships isn’t appealing to them. People with soc generally want to be “nice,” they want to be “good,” they want to be likeable and cool and accommodating. If they read a lot of things that say differently from what they perceive themselves to be like or try to be like, they will mistype.

I’m not saying that sx-blinds are insecure or incapable of critical thinking, but when they first start out learning about anything, having many people to rely on as good sources and available to provide feedback is important to them because their relationships always act as a network of information (”networking” put under sx-blind descriptions isn’t wrong, even if that behavior is commonly misunderstood). Being able to rely on the numerous connections they create is what has benefitted them in society, although not necessarily benefitted them in understanding themselves. So when their sources conflict with their self-perception, it usually causes misunderstanding instead of something more productive.

Because sx-blinds are unfortunately pretty susceptible to the words of others, so-blinds are usually put into a “higher standing” in an sx-blind mind because they are more confident in their words and actions as a result of being able to ignore other people in a way sx-blinds can’t. Which is why so-blind sx-blind interactions usually go one of three ways: sx-blinds being frustrated by so-blind criticism since they feel incapable of arguing points that they know will fall on deaf ears, sx-blinds approaching so-blinds for friendship or attention in ways and for reasons that would never appeal to the latter party, or sx-blinds becoming literal sheeple.

Many well-known so-blind users have recently made posts about how the grouping or ranking of people is nonsensical to them, because this grouping is the main way sx-blinds view multiple people who share opinions, style, or way of communication. This grouping is also the reason why so-blinds feel like sx-blinds treat everyone the same way. Although sx-blinds do group people, it creates a helpful organization or hierarchy that helps them understand why certain people are friends with others, why certain trends in their communities are happening, and why some people are more “powerful” (higher-ranking) than others. This doesn’t mean they have to make the structure rigid, although many unfortunately do and that’s what causes the cruel, awkward, or just plain weird interactions so-blinds have faced with sx-blinds.

When healthy, sx-blinds understand that just because they have grouped a person with another superficially similar person doesn’t mean they can’t adjust to them as an individual or remove them from a group entirely once they have more information. There are some complications that come with grouping people in the first place, and I have made other posts explaining how sx-blinds figure out who’s safe for them, but group structure is what makes sense to sx-blinds, who see people in communities. It’s not an inherently negative or positive thing, although sx-blinds sometimes have trouble figuring out where the lines are when they think of themselves as a part of a specific group with a specific role. If they manage to get the group organization and their self-perception right, they are excellent at teamwork, realistically dismantling social structures that they have seen to be more harmful than beneficial, and understand the limits of their sx blindspot and which weaknesses can be worked on. If they get it wrong, well, there’s enough stories of sx-blind mishaps out there for you to probably figure that out. Enough unhealthy sx-blinds are out there to make people pretty confused about their variants, because one sx-blind can be totally chill if a little plain while another is going to be super annoying to deal with.

Mistyped sx-blinds think because they have basic requirements for so-blindness (hobbies, close friends, etc. etc.) that they could never be sx-blind. They don’t understand what sx is just from its descriptions, but because soc descriptions make less sense to them, they stick with being so-blind and begin to idealize it until they really believe that it’s what they are. This is an especially common problem for sx-blind introverts or people in the withdrawn triad, since a lot of activities described as so-blind are one-on-one or personal pursuits, although neither are so-blind-only things. A miscommunication occurs; so-blinds are the majority in making these posts, and because so is their blindspot they can’t explain it in a way that applies to less extreme sx-blinds, and because sx-blinds have sx in their blindspot they think that sx fits them even when it doesn’t. So-blinds are pretty decisive and make posts that express that decisiveness, which some more impressionable sx-blinds take as fact instead of a different way of communication. OP vs reader blindspot disagreement is a major cause of mistyping.

Sx-blinds generally have less of an objective impression of their own strengths and weaknesses than so-blinds due to being influenced by the opinions of others and lacking the specificity that sx gives people, so although some of the negative attributes given to sx-blinds are true even if exaggerated sometimes (like being boring due to the fact that they talk about obvious things to maintain distance and don’t express passion like sx-users), they make sx-blinds defensive and mistype out of fear that they could ever be a part of that sad group. There’s nothing objectively wrong with being sx-blind, but sx-blinds care about being respected in general, and they don’t think that with those qualities associated with them that it’s possible for them to be. Which is pretty sad, although I agree that it’s no one’s responsibility but their own to get over themselves, accept weaknesses, and recognize when someone’s opinions are just opinions even if they can have potentially valuable information.

Being unable to acknowledge weaknesses seems to be a pretty common problem in mistyping in general, which imo is odd since you would assume that people looking deeper into typology would be willing to accept the problems that come with being each type and learn from them instead of forming their identity around a stereotype and being Totally Definitely 100% So-Blind™ to avoid their problems.

To summarize, the basic qualities of average sx-blindness are these: understanding the social environment based on groups, lacking motivation/having embarrassment in pursuing or publicly expressing dedication to interests, a degree of confused self-perception (especially in low Ti or those lacking a 4 in their tritype), and being [too] receptive to the opinions of others. Mistyping is connected to the perception sx-blinds learning about instinctual variants have of soc and sx, and how they wish to distance themselves from the idea of sx-blindness because many descriptions they read are worded in an so-blind way that they don’t relate to or are true things that they refuse to see in themselves. Sx-blinds are easily affected by changes or the popular opinions in the communities that they see themselves a part of and therefore have many misconceptions of their own behavior or lack the self-awareness to work on the flaws that cause them to have a weak sense of self in the first place. [soc voice] If sx-blinds wish not to be misunderstood, they should work on understanding their own thought process and sharing their views, instead of denying that they have soc or lack sx.

#sx blind #so blind #instinctual variants #typing

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i talked about this a bit on twitter but i wanna elucidate on it here so here’s another fucking post about the fucking dream daddy shit because i cant stop myself from being annoyed by the back and forth and misrepresentation and vague posts trying to act like they’re just talking in general when its very obviously about this

strap in cause this is gonna be a long one

there are three points i want to make

1) criticism of media is important and needed, particularly in the realm of discussing representation and creator intent, since its overall purpose is to further discussion and foster overall improvement in future. criticism of a work isn’t always an attack on the people who like it

i mean, we’ve all been there. it sucks to read when someone’s talking down something you like a lot, especially if its something that’s very meaningful to you. it happens to me too - i can’t count the number of times i’ve read an article or essay ripping apart something i love and found it very difficult to disengage my personal feelings from it.

but unless the person making the criticism is specifically going out of their way to say “and all the people who LIKE this thing are fucking gibbering idiots who wouldn’t know good quality if it punched them in the face”, then the criticism isn’t an attack on you personally, and you have to find the place to disengage that emotional attachment and at least tolerate the criticism of the work. you may accept and agree with it or not, but understand that the critic is (probably) not directly attacking you

and raising potential problems on the representation side of the work is important, because it highlights potential problems for people interested in it that they might not have been aware of before, like creator’s personal views influencing development of the work, or unfortunate implications of plot beats within the work

there’s definitely legitimate cause for concern in game grumps involvement with dream daddy. in my personal experience, the grumps aren’t particularly forward thinking in a lot of respects - arin and danny are quick to lapse into bottom of the barrel racist accent humor (particularly with asian characters), or “hey, isn’t being gay kind of weird” straight guy nonsense. the understanding they’ve showcased of lgbt concepts and issues leaves a lot to be desired (last i remember, arin still considered “cisgender” to be a slur despite being told what it actually means)

and every time this is brought up, i see fans saying “oh but they’re better now, they’ve learned!” and i have to say, i still watch them fairly regularly and...they really haven’t! the “progress” is minimal at best, its like watching someone push a boulder up a hill. they haven’t really changed all that much in the last few years to be frank. so the concern with them being involved with, and putting their name on, a game where the focus is on mlm (and has transgender characters) has definite grounding, given how they’ve acted before.

and the cult ending naturally has unfortunate implications - the idea that every character in the game is being tricked into being forever single, their misery being used to fuel some sort of demon...i mean, given how gay people have been treated throughout history and in media, at the very least it’s pretty regressive. you can’t fault someone for reading the transcript and feeling a little sick

the raising and highlighting of these things isn’t a personal attack. it’s overall, to help people make an informed decision, and be aware of the things that aren’t so great - that might be a dealbreaker, on a personal level. criticism is valuable, and useful, and we should recognize it as such

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2) on the opposite hand, EVERYTHING we read, watch, or play is guaranteed to have a problematic element of some sort, and nothing you ever enjoy is perfect. expecting something to conform to a 100% ideologically pure standard is unreasonable and ultimately a fool’s game

my personal favourite game of all time, ever, is killer7. it’s the game that bought suda51 to prominence in the west. it’s a weird blend of first-person shooter, rail shooter, and rpg. the story is outright bizarre, with disorienting visuals and surreal events like a lucha wrestler headbutting a bullet out of midair, a ghostly man wrapped in bdsm gear popping up to give you advice, and giggling zombies that explode on contact

its also got quite a share of shitty moments - a rape scene, the female characters leave a lot to be desired, its got a frankly weird interpretation of a lot of psychological disorders, and a good chunk of the game is dedicated to character development of a pedophile

suffice to say it probably wouldn’t be a big hit with a lot of people here. but does this stuff mean its completely reprehensible, and not worth spending any time with? i did just tell you it’s my favourite game so you can probably guess how i’m going to respond to that rhetorical question. this post is long enough without me spending several more paragraphs explaining to you why i think killer7 is worth giving a shot, so i’m going to skip to the point that this example is illustrating - the things we love, our favourite things, are probably just as, or maybe even more problematic than the things we don’t.

i’m not going to cite any further examples since i don’t know what you, the reader, personally enjoys or loves, but like...i guarantee you, its probably done something pretty shitty with its running time. i’m fairly confident i’ve never read or enjoyed something that didn’t at some point play into some shitty trope about lgbt people, or people of colour, or women - and if didn’t somehow, chances are it’s because it never showed them in the first place, because its focus is on straight, white, cis men, which is, naturally a problem of its own

if you’re willing to shrug off shitty opinions of creators of things you love, or bad tropes and plot elements in things you love, then why is it so different for the things you dislike? to write off dream daddy entirely, because of the involvement of game grumps, and the existence of one bad ending with shitty implications, and ignoring its more positive elements while praising the things you love that have more than likely done shitty stuff too is...frankly ridiculous

it perhaps may not seem like much to you, but dream daddy getting the kind of coverage and attention it has is...kind of a big deal as far as i’m concerned! games with narrative tend to be pretty hostile towards gay men*, so for a game that presents an overall sincere and positive representation of gay men to see this much attention and get to no. 1 seller on steam a significant step forward, i think. it’s not revolutionary, but personally, as a gay man, it means a lot to me, and i know a few other gay men who would feel the same, and that surely counts for something

and as far as killer7 goes, well...waypoint explains it better than i could, but i would just like to say: that pedophile character i mentioned? that part of the game ends with you beating him in a duel so hard, he falls over and gets eviscerated by a machine designed to cut out organs. so it’s not all bad.

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3) (this is the big one) this site has a big fucking problem with virtue signalling

perhaps its bad of me to assume something of people, but i’m going to go out on a limb and say at least one person immediately closed the tab the moment they read that line, and i wouldn’t blame them, because the problem with saying something like “virtue signalling” is that the alt-right and gamergaters have tried their absolute hardest to make that phrase essentially mean nothing by throwing it at anyone who shares a dissenting opinion of any kind. but despite their efforts, virtue signalling is a phrase that does actually have a meaning, and its the meaning i’m using here

i’m going to take a quick excerpt from hbomberguy’s video on the subject (it’s worth watching, it’s only 10 minutes long and pretty funny) - “The term was originally coined[...]to decry people who say, ‘I don’t like this thing very much’, in order to feel good about themselves, and then just, vote Labour every few years or whatever and take no stake in actually making things better.”

tumblr (or at least, the part of tumblr i engage with) does this, a LOT. it’s in the smug, one line “uhhhh, yikes, lmao 💅” rebuttals to arguments against the thesis of a given post. it’s in the strawman cartoons and chat posts that cast opponents of the OP as self-contradicting fools. it’s in the “so jot that down” responses, the “i’m side-eyeing everyone who isn’t reblogging this”, etc. etc. everyone has done this. you have probably engaged with this. i definitely have - at least one of my popular posts, if not more is, basically me, doing this thing! to be fair i had no intention those posts being popular, but then one never does, do they?

in the case of dream daddy, it’s “me: y’all:” image edits snarkily demonstrating how they’re SWERVING “that dad dating shit”, chat posts casting defenders points as “WHY CAN’T YOU JUST NEVER CRITICIZE ANYTHING EVER”, posts smugly announcing they’re going to pirate the game just to take money from arin hanson, as if that’s how game development works, and i think it’s what’s led to a huge amount of misrepresentation about this game in particular

i’ve seen people acting like the game grumps are like, directing and writing the game, when, as far as i’m aware, all they did was provide funding and voice acting. and the big thing that really got my goat, was someone describing the cult ending, and listing the implications i’ve already gone over myself, and then saying that this was the game’s true ending

this...literally could not be further from the truth. for starters, no-one has actually gotten this ending from playing through the game naturally. the reason? because you CAN’T. it was found through data-mining - it isn’t accessible through regular play. it’s either content that was cut from the game late in development, or, as the theory goes, intended to be a non-canonical or fake ending added in as halloween DLC come october (given the tone of the whole thing it sounds reasonable to me) which has, unfortunately, now been ruined due to this whole debacle

to do this kind of thing, to describe this as “the true ending” borders on being an out and out lie for the purpose of making dream daddy look way, way worse than it actually is. there’s no justice here, there’s no attempt to inform accurately. it’s “hey, check out how shitty this thing is! i’m good for disliking it, aren’t i? ignore the context, or the fact that i’m literally lying about what this is”

look, okay, i’m getting a little vitriolic - people can make mistakes, misunderstand things, it happens. everyone does it. me too. but this posing, this “look how good and cool i am, for not liking this thing”, it helps nothing at best and actively harms at worse. misrepresenting positions, context, and events for the purpose of satisfying the ego of whoever is making the statement - it helps no-one, except that person, in the most minor and meaningless of ways

i want to be clear - this final bit is just as much a memo for myself as it is for everyone reading this

be critical. don’t take things at face value. read into issues, understand context. get as close to the source of the issue at hand as you can, and determine the truth from there. resist the urge to be smug, detached, and dismiss those who disagree with your position - resist the urge to laugh at them, they may just not know. try and engage them in honest debate. if they resist that, if they don’t want to meet you on an equal footing you are within your rights to disengage.

be strong. support the things you love, and remember where the line is

we can all be better

*i’m not saying that other groups aren’t treated with hostility in games and gaming - trans women certainly get it really, really bad. just personally saying, in my experience as a gay man, the gaming community, and subsequently games with a focus on narrative themselves, have a sort of...special hatred of mlm. not necessarily worse, just...uniquely hostile

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#fannibalselfrec event - Hannibal season one

Thanks to @hannibalficwriters for organising this, I’m looking forward to checking out everyone’s recs :)

I nearly decided not to take part - I have problems with self-reccing, especially when I think something has received ‘enough’ attention. It just seems greedy. But that’s a) stupid and b) I have a story I want to tell about the writing of this fic.

I have literally only one (1) which qualifies. Others have strayed too far into AU-land to count as taking place in S1. That fic is *drumroll*:

Cathexis

Hannibal/Will ~ 57k words ~ Explicit

A Season 1 BDSM AU

Summary: What if Hannibal's sadistic tendencies only find expression through consensual BDSM relationships? Set in a Season 1 AU where Will is allowed to continue teaching, relatively undisturbed by Jack, and seeks Hannibal's professional help of his own accord.

The story I want to tell is how I went from not even thinking about writing, to writing something which juuussst about qualifies as a short novel (if we go by word count) in the same bound. (And how you can too! No, just kidding - I hate those kinds of terrible advice blogs. But stick with me, there’s things in this story which might be relevant for anyone reading.)

Before this fic, I wasn’t writing. Anything. Not only that, but I wasn’t even a frustrated writer who wanted to write but couldn’t. The idea of writing had never occurred to me. Sure, I was a frustrated creative person - I have been all my life, even since I was a very small child. Just before this fic, I had been studying fine art with a load of other adult learners and trying to engage with the contemporary arts scene in a fairly amateurish but genuine way. I would have described myself as an artist. My creative friends are sculptors and printmakers and painters. We had just finished putting on a group exhibition - just to see if we could - and were thinking vaguely of other things we might do together in the future.

Enter fandom. I had come to Hannibal post-cancellation and watched all three seasons breathlessly, then wandered around Tumblr reading meta and finding great fic and thinking WHY OH GOD WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS in a way which is familiar to anyone who has just Found Hannigram.

My gf is a fandom-savvy individual and we usually talk about our obsessions, whether they're shared or not. We came up with something which we found funny and which you most likely won’t - after steeping ourselves in Hannibal's god-complex we thought it would be hilarious to reduce him down to a common-or-garden bedroom sadist. He would make bad bondage puns and have a dungeon instead of a murder basement. Lololol etc. I even went so far as to refer to this as Fifty Shades of Graham, which if you know me, demonstrates how un-serious I was about it.

I DID NOT INTEND TO WRITE THIS is what I am trying to say. It was a joke, a bad one, and a private one. I never intended to be a writer* at all.

Because apparently, unbeknown to me, that’s what I’ve been all this time. Secretly, under the surface somewhere. And what I think is this: I just wasn’t ready to be a writer before. I wasn’t ready to discover this about myself. The things that I did before - all the visual art, all my academic studies and crap jobs - all have, in differing and subtle ways, all fed into this part of me which wasn’t ready to come out yet.

And I also think that this is happening to all of us. It’s just as true for you as it is for me. We all have hidden pockets of potential, things even the most self-aware of us do not know about, or refuse to look too closely at. Those pockets might not lead directly to anything life changing, they may be paths to other, deeper and more difficult to find pockets. Or simply to activities and interests we find enjoyable, a way of doing something just for ourselves or of meeting people we need in our lives.

A wise person on the internet said “follow the rabbit-holes”. They all lead to the same place anyway, and the easiest path there is the one of least resistance. Follow that strange tug, dive in, see where it leads you without worrying about the destination. You might end up being very surprised.

*It took me maybe six months to start to feel I could use the hallowed word Writer when talking about myself, and now I can even tell complete strangers this without blushing and feeling like a fraud.

18 months later and I can't imagine not planning all my not-work time around writing - I think about it constantly. It nags at me when I’m prevented from doing it by other commitments. My weeks and weekends are based squarely around which project I'm working on and how much time I have until that deadline, self-imposed or not. I have so many projects lined up they are constantly being juggled and re-ordered so I can try to maximise my available writing time in the most effective way. I’m even looking beyond fandom and beginning work on an original novel. And it all started with this fic.

For the really curious, here is how Cathexis got written (under the cut):

I read even more fic (really amazing and intimidatingly good fic too) and even more meta and I thought more and more about Hannibal and Will’s complex dynamic. The BDSM AU became less of a joke and more of a place where that could be explored without getting too tangled up in the difficulties of Will’s relationship with Hannibal. I thought about it often. There was so much discussion and activity in the fandom that the idea of putting down your feelings in the form of a story didn’t seem so strange.

But still, it didn’t seem like that was the route for me. Until, one morning after Christmas, I woke up with dialogue in my head (those moments just before and after waking are so good for weird happenings like this). I didn’t move, didn’t do anything at all, before I wrote it down on my phone. It felt like a strange thing to do at the time - trespassing in a place I didn’t quite belong. It was a compulsion. I just knew I had to do it.

I had no idea if more would follow or if I even wanted more to follow. But more did. I wrote that down to, in the same place (which, by the way, was the note app *not* anything as official as a Google Doc - the very idea :0 !!)

It took me maybe three-four weeks of this to brave the idea of doing something with the snatches of dialogue and scattered notes which had built up. They had become pieces of a puzzle which I needed to solve - until then, I knew I wouldn’t find any peace.

I had been talking with @wraithsonwingsposts about the show and had encouraged her to work on a fic idea she had been playing around with. She returned the favour and was so fantastic and supportive all the way through - and therefore, this is all her fault, as she already knows ;)

The rest of the story was the same for anyone undertaking a piece of writing - one word at a time, much time staring at a blinking cursor, a lot of editing. But overall, I think what got this written and completed was keeping my aims simple. The were 1) see it through to the end (i.e. solve the puzzle), and 2) try not to make a complete tit out of myself.

I know for certain I hit one of those goals.

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Bonus: for the very-very-very curious, here is the original and un-edited version of the I wrote that morning (a version of which appears in Chapter 8), and the first thing I wrote since school:

"What kinds of things do you say when you... afterwards?" "I thought you found it too difficult to hear?" "I want to know. I can catch the odd word, but the way you say it... I like the way you sound." Hannibal hesitated for a tiny moment. Will smiled and said, "I thought it was for my benefit only you don't say it in English." Hannibal sighed and conceded, "Perhaps it's easier, sometimes." He moved closer to Will, made it almost impossible for Will to escape from what Hannibal had to tell him, and to study his face as he spoke. "I call you my darling, my lovely Will, so precious to me. I tell you how beautiful I find you, how complete my desire is and how abandoned you make me. I tell you that you are mine and belong to me, that I shall never leave you, that you have made me yours. I praise you, for being so very good, for indulging me, and for indulging yourself also. I tell you that you deserve it, and more, and I tell you I love you." Will went very quiet, almost not breathing. He had known what to expect but to hear it stated so simply was almost too much. Hannibal continued to look steadily at him, waiting. Will turned over suddenly, so he no longer could watch Hannibal's face, and pressed himself back into his body. Hannibal moved to accommodate, folding him arms around him and holding him tight. He brought his legs up so his thighs pressed into the back of Will's, and his ankles tangled with Will's also. They lay there for a few moments without speaking, bodies perfectly aligned. Will felt safe again. "If you wish to explore these issues, I have a suggestion. There are things you could wear, even in public, which could serve to remind you of my possession. Something more concrete than a bruise or a bite mark." Will considered how it might feel to have such a reminder, one he could feel wherever he was. An image came to him of a collar made of plain but good quality leather. It could be concealed under his shirts, especially if he wore ties. It would be slim but solid, with one heavy buckle to fasten it. He could almost feel it's weight resting on the back of his neck, like Hannibal had placed his hand there. Will opened his mouth to speak and then realised Hannibal was holding and touching his hand gently. The gesture was so soft and specific that Will had to look, to watch Hannibal's hands. Realisation dawned on him. Hannibal was meditatively rubbing small circles up and down in between the second and third knuckles of his third finger on his left hand. Will turned over to catch Hannibal around the shoulders and demanded, "Did you just ask me to marry you?"

Cathexis on ao3

#fannibalselfrec #hannibalficwriters #hannigram #hannigram fic #hannibal #my fic #cathexis #wow that was a lot of words about me #:0 #writing stuff

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Cutie Reviews: Kira Kira Crate March 19

Okay, so I really don’t know what’s going on with the move now. We’re very slowly doing things around the house but my dad is really fighting it (due to a few issues) and trying to keep us from moving. There’s been a lot of tension between everyone in the house and it’s become a big, stressful mess. I’ve actually been feeling sick the past few days from it.

This months theme: Peach Party

“In this month’s crate, you’ll find a curated selection of products for a Peach Party of your very own!“

Naive Peach Body Wash

By Kracie we have this lovely, fragrant Naive Peach body wash. Any long-time readers will probably recognize the design and name, but for anybody new, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Naive Peach in one of these boxes. A long time ago, back when Kira Kira crate first came out we this in face wash form. It smells amazing, and it’s one of my favorite brands to use now.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

There isn’t too much I could really say about body wash. It does its job and lathered very well, it smells really good- and I had big hopes the scent would last, much like the facial wash. However I felt that was where it fell short. I could smell it while I was using it but as soon as I dried off the scent seemed to vanish, and usually the scent from whatever I use lasts a pretty long while after I bathe.

Backside Warming Pads

Yeah, you read that right. We got butt pads. Which is also why I cropped this image in taking it, to make sure Tumblr didn’t accidentally mark it as adult content. Of course knowing my luck, they probably wouldn’t have even caught it.

Anyway, these are heating pads for pains and aches in the lower.... quarters. They are infused with collegen, hyaluronic acid, and cereamide to provide soothing comfort for sore spots. Each pad also has a cute little print on it and we get multiple sets per box.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Ironically, the night when I was trying these out I was actually suffering from some stiffness and irritation from the busy day I had. They only take a moment to warm up and it’s very comfortable with them on, I was able to sit and move around fine, as long as they weren’t in a “spot they didn’t like“. The concept is silly but they actually really helped me feel better! I was pretty surprised.

As far as I know these aren’t for use on other places, like a sore arm or leg muscle, but I assume you could use it on them? I don’t really think it actually matters, as long as you avoid hair- that would probably hurt.

Peach Face Mask Pack

Our next item is this cute little face mask pack made from fermented rice, peaches, and milk to create a creamy and soothing texture. Each pack contains 24ml of product, so you can get a handful of uses out of this.

All you do is apply the product and leave it on 5-10 minutes, then you wash it off.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

It has a fairly light peach candy scent, but I noticed the scent got a lot stronger while using it and lingered for a good while after cleaning it off.

I really liked how it felt on my face, and it felt really cool and relaxed. I’m glad we get a few uses from it, because its worth re-using in my opinion; and you can share with other people :3

There is one tiny, itty-bitty misleading inconsistency I noticed though. The package shows the product as being a really light pink color, but I assure you it’s white. It turns clear over time also. It’s not really a big deal or anything, but I just thought it was worth noting.

Helliesh Heart Cosme Compact

By Helliesh we get this adorable little heart-shaped compact (which would have been perfect for February’s box I might add) that comes in Coral Mode Pink or Peach Blossom. The color difference of the heart and product is subtle. The name is written on the back and mine is Peach Blossom.

This compact is a 3-in-1 piece. It can be used on the lip, cheek, and eye.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

The color is very pretty and you don’t need a lot to use it. It feels extremely light when applied, to the point you wouldn’t even realize you had it on unless you looked in a mirror. It’s not oily, greasy, or sticky when applied and it looked very pretty as is or blended.

I did have one issue using it, but this is only the fact it didn’t look that hot on my lips. It was patchy and uneven, but I can’t tell if its the product or my lips at fault because I see the same thing happen when I use other items like this sometimes, and when I put on things like lipstick it seemed to go on fine. Otherwise, it went on the cheek and eye just fine.

Peach Milk Sheet Mask

Our last item is this Pure Smile face mask from their “milk“ series, and of course the scent/item used is peach. According to the package its good any season of the year on all skin types, and its also made with Vitamin E, collagen, hyaluronic acid, and arbutin. Along with tons of other items listed on the back.

The scent is very strong peach, with a light creaminess sort of like peach-scented lotion.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥

As cute as the package is, and as great as the smell is, I was a little disappointed by this. It was extremely wet and moisturizing while on my face and it felt pretty good, but after cleaning up upon finishing I noticed it seemed to sink into the skin really quickly, so I actually don’t feel any difference. Some masks you have to use a few times for that, but usually these do pretty good, to the point of lasting for a few hours, or over the night. But it seems that only the stickiness remains...

However, I did notice that with a little lotion my face seemed to feel better than it did.

♥ Cutie Ranking ♥

Theme - 5 out of 5. I mean they’re no denying this is a very heavily peach-themed box, the backside warming pads caught me off guard but I got it after a moment. I really like this box though, they picked a lovely springy-sort of item to focus on and I thought it went good. There’s been many times when I said “why can’t a box focus on one item in particular?“.

Content - 5 out of 5. I loved all of the items! I admit there was one I wished did a little better. But I didn’t hate it at all.

Total Rank: 9 out of 10 Cuties. This is a pretty even and well-spread out box in terms of items. You get a little something of each pretty much, and I thought all of the items were pretty fun, cute, and they smelled really good. The items were simple, but I was left wondering if all together if they were worth the price we paid.

♥ Cutie Scale ♥

1. Heart Compact - I can’t help it, it’s so cute~ Plus it’s small so you can carry it around easily, and the color looks very nice on the skin.

2. Face Mask Pack - I wasn’t really sure how well this one would do, but these usually do pretty well. The smell is light but it was really nice when being used, and I liked how my skin felt afterwards.

3. Warming Pads - I wish we got more than 3 sets per box because they felt really nice. I still ended up sharing one of my unopened sets though~

4. Naive Peach Body Wash - Again I was a bit disappointed in it but just barely. It did its job and felt really good on the skin, and the smell is amazing as always.

5. Face Sheet Mask - I loved its packaging, it’s so cute and pastel, and the mask itself smells really good; but I just wasn’t amazed with the quality after taking it off. I mean it wasn’t bad, but usually they do better.

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