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braxiatel · 1 year

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Goodtimeswithscar is a sexyman and I will prove it to you

If you are still on the fence I encourage you to look at the sexypedia - a wikipedia dedicated to tumblr sexymen - and checking out their tropes page. Scar meets 35/62 on a list where recent winner of the tumblr sexyman poll Cecil Palmer of WTNW fame only has 8 listed on his character page!

35!

Scar is Textbook, and if you need proof I have gone through all the tropes and explained why they apply to him!

VOTE SCAR!

4th Wall Blurring: This one is arguable due to the nature of the medium but I’ll include it

Animal Theming: See: animal hybrid headcanons and designs. Cat Scar, panda Scar, hyena Scar, avian Scar - they’re everywhere!

Angst: That cactus ring… magic mountain. need I say more? This boy has angst.

Bait: *gestures at the shirtless skins*

Capitalist: she sells sea shells on the sea shore but the value of these shells will fall due to the laws of supply and demand no one wants to buy shells cause there’s loads on the sand step one you must create a sense of scarcity

Chaoslord: HotGuy! [snipes you for no good reason]

Criminal: shells will sell much better if the people think they’re rare you see bear with me take as many shells as you can find and hide them on an island stockpile them high until they’re rarer than the price of diamond

Con Artist: step two gotta make the people think that they want them really fucking want them hit ‘em like Bronson influencers product placement if you haven’t got a shell then you’re just a fucking waste man

Dealmaker: three it’s monopoly invest inside some property start a corporation make a logo do it properly shells must sell that will be your new philosophy swallow all your morals they’re a poor man’s quality

Distinctive Voice: I do not need to make any arguments here. Have you heard him???

Quotable Catchphrase(s): well hello there, scarred for life, “a-ma-zing”, etc.

Distinctive Laugh: I think I autism stole Scar’s laughter (whoops) so I’m giving him this one too, but also that gigle is just very good and we all know it, right?

Dominating: from the trope description: “Characters who assert their power over others. Could be through manipulation, magic, smugness, or force of personality.” Yes.

Duality: Convex did not put their whole entire vexussies into that possession storyline for us to forget about it.

Egotistical: This one is arguable and a question of characterisation, but I think that we can all agree that on some levels, yes.

Eldritch: From the trope description: “Since the typical sexyman is a tall mostly human looking pale twink, in a vast majority of the cases the eldritch is a heavy implication lying just under the surface.” Hello? Vex Scar??

Gay: See subsection:

LGBTQ+ Coded: That cactus ring. Mumbo “eye candy” Jumbo. The season 7 mayoral race. Concorp. His jolly rancher arc. This man has so many boyfriends.

Girlboss: listen I think a lot of characters who aren’t traditional girlbosses get called so, but with Scar I think it’s accurate okay. Did Scar utilize girl power effectively when he and Cub were blatant war profetiers during the season 6 civil war? yes. Absolutely. Girlboss.

Glowing Neon: vex blue anyone?

Hot-headed: Don’t let his calm exterior fool you. Remember. Scar when someone steals his horse: *sets their whole entire house on fire*.

Intelligence: yes but also see subsection

Smartdumb: Okay listen. Scar is Smart. Scar is very smart. And I specifically have to make sure you know I am talking character only here because cc!Scar seems to me to be a Very intelligent person with a wide field of knowledge. But uhm. c!Scar dies so much and so often in ways that are completely unavoidable. He does silly things without thinking of the consequences. I have seen enough people calling him a himbo (beloathed term) enough times that I do not need to argue this point. He is smart but also babygirl Why are you like this.

Johnlocked: “When two characters are shipped extensively by fans despite the pairing not necessarily being canon (or even present) in the original work.” it started out with a cactus ring how did it end up like this, it was only a cactus ring, it was only a cactus ring

Knifemurder: Hotguy! [snipes you a second time]

Magnificent Bastard: This Is The Whole Point. Scar oozes charisma even when he is the villain and that’s why he is so beloved. He is smart, he is stylish, he is charming, even while he is killng you. This is the point.

Marked Canon/Fanon Divergence: “Sexymen with a large gap between how they are in the original work (Canon) and how they are commonly portrayed in fanworks (Fanon)” see : the fake crystals vs Scar actually having magic, the abs being painted on vs shirtless Scar everywhere, etc.

Monster Features: vex scar vex scar vex scar

Nonhuman: like the vex thing is literally canon it’s not fanon those cons sure did vex

Pale Twink: We could have done many things with this collection of blocks people, and yet my dash is full of shirtless twinks/twunks every day ending with a y. Curious.

Perpetual Smiler: Okay listen this is partially the nature of the medium but also 1) that is a distinctive smile and 2) have you see the fanworks?

Power: This man tried to sell fake magic crystals and we all just decided he can do magic. He was an elf once and now fae/elf Scar headcanons are everywhere.

Scars: I- I’m not explaining myself here. yes???

Tall: I can think of one, maybe two portrayals of Scar that have made him short.

Theme Song: four expand, expand, expand clear forest make land fresh blood on hands five why just shells why limit yourself she sells seashells sell oil as well six guns sell stocks sell diamonds sell rocks sell water to a fish sell the time to a clock seven press on the gas take your foot off the brakes then run to be the president of the united states eight big smile mate big wave that's great now the truth is overrated tell lies out the gate nine polarise the people controversy is the game it don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name ten the world is yours step out on a stage to a round of applause uou're a liar a cheat a devil a whore and you sell seashells on the seashore

Unkempt: so those rugged life series Scars, huh?

Villain: Scar has been the villain several times and has a Long list of crimes to his name

Technically Antagonist: see 3rd life

Villain Protagonist: unreliable narrator Scar my beloved. I love how he just *does terrible things edited to make him look like he’s just a silly little guy having some harmless fun*

Well-Dressed: Hmmm I wonder why waggon/tycoon Scar routinely wins every Scar skin poll. Also he has enough outfits to include these sub categories too:

Suitguy: “Characters who typically wear formalwear, specifically suits. Often includes waistcoats, top hats, bowties, and pinstripes. Other neckwear may also be worn.” Again. The tycoon skin really lives rent free in all out minds, huh?

Long Coat/Cape/Robe/Etc: bathrobe wizard Scar my beloved but also do you know how many thirst trap last life Scars I’ve seen??

White Twink Humanization: He is made out of blocks in canon. We did not need to make him like this and yet we did.

White Hair: last life Scar beloved by many <3

VOTE SCAR!

#I hope this makes sense I am sick today so brain is no #mcyt #mcytblr sexyman #mcytblr sexyman poll #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #hermitblr #hermitcraft #trafficblr #3rd life smp #last life smp #double life smp

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thezombieprostitute · 8 months

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Alphas & Algorithms - Part 4 - Bets & warnings

A/N: Continued from Part 3. Reader is female and is described as "tall". No other descriptors.

Warnings: It is a Dystopian AU. Food scarcity, hunger, mentions of families being separated. Please let me know if I missed any!

--Part 1-- --Part 5--

--Series Masterlist--

“He’s not interested in me,” Y/N tells Jake as they cuddle up on her couch. “He’s going to come back for our next date and tell me he’s not interested. I know it.”

“You don’t know that,”Jake reassures. “He could just need some time to think. You said yourself that he talked about feeling like a fish out of water more than once.”

“I’m telling you, he’s not interested. I don’t have the highest accuracy of predictions for nothing.” Y/N sighs and pushes to prop herself up. “Maybe the other Omegas are right. Maybe I’m just too boring. Too plain vanilla.”

Jake squeezes Y/N tightly, not letting her escape, “I keep telling you not to listen to them. They’re jealous idiots who just don’t appreciate the kindness and gentleness your scent embodies. Their scents clash with everything around them but vanilla goes with everything. And that’s how you’re able to pick up on stuff they can’t. Your scent works with the people you question, letting them relax more around you, which gets you an even better idea of their true scent. Your empathy is not a weakness, no matter what those assholes say.”

“I know how the mechanics of it work, Jake.” Y/N tries to pull away to pout but he holds her close. “And I know it helps others to be accurate with scents. But…it’s…It gets painfully lonely to be pushed away by others of “your kind”. I love having you as a friend, Jake, but with you as my only friend, it’s a lot of pressure on you. I know you’re stressed out, but still smiling at me. I appreciate the effort but you shouldn’t be the only one supporting me.”

“And when you get your Alpha, I won’t be.” Y/N gives Jake an incredulous look as he continues. “Seriously, you doubt but I’m certain Curtis will be back and, as he learns more about you, he’ll fall desperately, madly in love with you and you’ll have both your Emotional Support Beta and your Alpha Mate!”

“I do appreciate the optimism, Jake but it just isn’t going to happen. At least not with Curtis. Maybe that other Alpha will work out better. So long as I don’t have to do any more of those scent tests.”

“I’ll make you a deal. If Curtis turns you down, I’ll cook up that 5-cheese mac-n-cheese you love so much. If he ends up agreeing to be your mate, you gotta bake me up that death-by-chocolate cake that almost put me into a diabetic coma.”

Y/N chuckles and decides to up the ante. “Add barbecue chicken strips to that mac-n-cheese meal and I’ll add homemade chocolate whipped cream to the cake.”

“Deal!”

It’d been a couple days since the date and the benefits of the full stomach and foot massage had already faded. Curtis felt the pain in his stomach again and every step was pain yet again. Y/N’s cookies were already gone, courtesy of the pups, but he couldn’t blame them. They generally couldn’t afford such calorie dense, sweet foods. He did hope that Y/N’s promise of more ration packs for his nutritional needs would hold true, though it was way too soon to tell. Hopefully his refutation of her courting wouldn’t affect her promise.

After only a few hours of work Curtis caught a whiff of someone. Curry. Warm, strong beer. Hobie. “What do you want, Hobie? I’m working.”

“From what I heard, you’ve been gettin’ it on with a Pet.” Hobie stepped into Curtis’s view.

“I’ll be seeing her again tomorrow and telling her I’m not interested. She gave me the out, I’m taking it.”

“Ya don’ wanna do that,” Hobie whispers. “I got it on good authority, you’re gonna wanna take her up on the offer.”

Curtis stops what he’s doing so he can turn to Hobie. He sees the man is dead serious. “What do you mean?”

Without speaking, Hobie hands Curtis a small pouch with some fabric inside. Eyes not leaving Hobie, Curtis opens it and gets the scent. Stevie! His brother’s scent, and fresh!

Hobie sees the recognition on Curtis’s face, “that’s right, bruv is alive. Been ‘elping us out against The Man.”

“And what’s that got to do with me? I can’t rescue him. Probably can’t see him even if I do accept the offer.”

“We got ya covered there,” Hobie grins. “Stevie’s been ‘olding off the next phase of our plan. Wants to make sure ‘is Pack is protected first. That’s where you come in. Stevie made sure to get your scent added to ev’ry Pet’s list of potential mates, waitin’ for one to choose you. You wanna protect your Pack? Keep ‘em outta harm’s way from The Man and The Revolution? You agree to the Pet’s terms.”

Curtis stared at the fabric for a bit, cementing the scent in his mind. When he looked back up, Hobie was gone. How he had the ability to both draw attention and go invisible was Curtis would never understand. When he saw the security drone coming towards him, he hid the fabric in his pocket and went back to work. He was going to have to have another Pack meeting before tomorrow and he was not looking forward to it.

After the pups had gone to bed for the night, Curtis sat down with Andrew and Tanya. He handed them the pouch without saying anything and watched the recognition grow in their faces as they caught the scent.

“Oh. Oh no,” Tanya whispered as she looked at Curtis. “You’re going to leave us, aren’t you?”

“Not until I get more evidence of Hobie’s claims,” Curtis whispered. “It’s one thing to know he’s alive, it’s another to know…” He cuts himself off. The less information his Pack has about the revolution’s plans (hypothetical or otherwise) the better.

Andrew looks at Curtis, “he’s your brother. Pack by blood. You know we’ll respect that.”

Curtis nods. It’s an uneasy night of sleep for all of them.

--Part 5--

Tagging @every-username-is-taken-damnit, per request.

#alpha!curtis everett x omega!reader #curtis everett x reader #alpha!curtis everett #tall!reader #curtis everett x tall!reader #tall!omega #dystopian au #dystopia au #tall reader

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csmeanerr · 4 months

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Mod Shit, I get it if you don’t post this one for reasons that are about to be obvious, but re the $900 Fooling. (I agree it’s superior to the 20K Grem and most Chams, but with a single colored winged dog with a halo, that’s not saying much. At least Lu is going to do extra art due to the high price, more than what a lot of CS owners would do…)

When it comes to high-cost CS, I often hear shit like, “support artists!” and “they gotta eat, too”, “get that coin!”. Or whatever excuse. Mother fuckers spend shittons on CS designs. You aren’t supporting shit. You’re buying into clout and manipulative FOMO tactics. OK, yeah, someone’s making rent or whatever, but admit it: if that $900 Fooling (or whatever) wasn’t a CS, you’d be cackling at the person who bought it.

CRICKETS when artists who don’t use manipulative FOMO tactics put out comms or adopts. Sometimes even relatively popular artists struggle. So much for supporting artists, right?

I want to use this opportunity to show you what $900 can get you in art if you’re so inclined to kick clout-chasing to the curb, but still want to shake dollars at artists. The artists I’ve selected are random faves of mine and I’m not affiliated with them. They’re chosen to give you an idea of what you could get for $900 instead of a fucking dog.

sariyaart on Carrd: $900 is almost certainly going to get you a painted full body. PAINTED. As in, fully-rendered, in a mostly-realistic style.

Aspeneyes on Weebly: $900 will get you a full illustration since these start around $400

Nebquerna on Carrd: $900 could get you two or three concept sheets or custom designs

BlindCoyote: $900 is about enough for a full illustration, and definitely enough for a shaded colored sketch

Godbirdart: $900 will get you a full illustration

I know we often compare prices of stuff other than art to demonstrate what a rip off CS is. I think it’s even more demonstrative to compare prices (and quality!) to what other artists do. The artists I’ve listed above are professional freelancers, by the way, either part time or full time.

I remember someone once joking that the 20K thing was all Caravan’s fault because no artist could be expected to produce work good enough to justify that amount of money. Aside from the fact that the artist shouldn’t fucking take that money, then, and show some integrity, I guarantee you any one of those artists above would produce something spectacular. Hell, at that price, they’d probably agree to some sort of commercial rights.

But yeah, $900 for a dog with wings and a halo is totally at the same level of these other artists.

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a note to add to this is that cs often artificially inflate value with traits and artificial scarcity while also actively undervaluing other artist’s. they’re even aware that the artificial scarcity is the highest reason people buy since it’s developed this toxic mindset that no one else can have the same idea. if people can make the same thing then they won’t buy theirs, not because people might buy from the merit of their work but because they slapped on so many labels such as ‘official’ and ‘rare traits’

have the gall to cry about having to make so many adopts on a base while people who buy them draw entire fullbody drawings with backgrounds for 5 pieces of artificial currency

most cs are so deathly afraid of making things easy to get because it’s hyped up by the artificial scarcity. would cypherus grems be as tempting if people could just make one? would a cow girl oc perk your interest as much if it wasn’t followed by ‘biia-made mal’accilin’? these artists are genuinely skilled and talented and DO deserve a high degree of respect skill-wise to get where they are, but they grow themselves higher by pushing others down and that’s just not right

#submission #general #help

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gold-pavilion · 2 years

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hello :) I just found your blog and I think your take on tkrv manga is interesting. May I know your thought about koko & inupi library kiss panel? Does he kissed him as he is or with image of akane in mind? do you think the said panel a queer bait or is there truly something between them? I've been wanting to know (neutral) translator opinion and not from shipper or antis view. Sorry if you have answered similar question, thank you! <3

Hello!! Thanks!! That's alright, it's an interesting topic to discuss and I've barely touched upon it!! To be honest, I'll take this chance to go in-depth, because Inui and Koko's story opens up a whole thing with LGBT rep in manga and the way it's taken by fandom.

Firstly, in order to define whether this is a concrete piece of LGBT content or a case of baiting, we gotta start from establishing what queerbaiting is.

The wikipedia definition is perfect:

"Queerbaiting is a marketing technique for fiction and entertainment in which creators hint at, but then do not actually depict, same-sex romance or other LGBT representation."

There's another concept that I always apply to this, and that's plausible deniability: where is the line between 'hinting' and 'depicting'? Are two people of the same sex, for example, saying they'd die for each other anyday 'hinting' at a romantic bond, 'depicting' a romantic bond or is it meant to be ambiguous? When we just can't be sure of what it is, there's plausible deniability; people who don't wish to see it as LGBT rep will say it's not, people who see it that way will say they do. I, for clarity's sake and to avoid being baited (because I am queer and tired), only consider a canonical depiction one where there is no longer plausible deniability, when no one could argue 'that was platonic, just a friend thing' or nothing is ambiguous anymore.

And when is there no plausible deniability? Normally, when the word 'love' is used or alluded to in a clear romantic context, or an unmistakably romantic gesture (such as a kiss on the lips) appears. Then it's no longer up to interpretation, but a concrete part of that media.

Now, given that Koko and Inui is a romance that took place, ergo, the romantic nature of feelings involved was made undeniably present (the kiss, among other context signs), I don't think we're being baited. It's not bisexual content "hinted, but not given"; it was very much given, fully intended and executed as romantic.

Having said that, I think fandom gets easily confused on what discussion they're having and what discussion they're trying to have.

Is InuKoko a thing that canonly happened? Yes. It took place beyond plausible deniability and has been displayed numerous times in canon as a plot point of romantic characteristics. Is it LGBT? Yes.

Did it happen for reasons that were unhealthy? Did Koko take a romantic initiative because he was grieving? Or because he was projecting? Or because he was confused? Discussing those points doesn't make InuKoko less canon or less LGBT. It can mean we have a messy bisexual story on our hands, or even an unhealthy bisexual story on our hands if you wanna see it that way, but the fact remains that we have a bisexual story on our hands. Fandom can discuss whether Koko thought about Akane while kissing Inui or not; but the fact of the matter is still that he kissed a boy.

In other words, the discussion of whether it's a 'good' or 'bad' ship is free real estate. Have at it. Maybe Koko was a disaster and an absolute dickhead about it. Maybe Inui was too when he wouldn't talk about his doubts for years. But the discussion of whether InuKoko is a ship that canonly happened in Tokyo Revengers is… not a discussion; the answer is yes.

From the standpoint of someone who cares about LGBT rep and its scarcity in mainstream anime/manga, believe me, I find it frustrating when an LGBT storyline happens "for reasons rooted in heterosexuality" (ergo, Koko developing his homosexual interest in Inui as an aftermath and consequence of his previous heterosexual interest in Akane). And I find it frustrating precisely because it makes people confused about what is still, despite any why/how/etc, an LGBT thing. At the end of the day, the fault of that lies less with the content, but with people shifting the conversation to something it's not and putting validity behind gates of secondary relevance.

At any rate, I've said my piece on that. Back to the start of the question! Back to the library scene.

Because, while it doesn't change things in terms that what happened has happened and what's canon is canon (and I wanted to make that very clear, as my top priority), I can sure give my own thoughts on the scene itself. For fun lmao.

We don't truly have anything that tells us, clearly and unmistakably, what was going through Koko's head that time. Personally, I think it may be intended to be ambiguous and/or to match his emotional state; that's to say, in process of figuring out what he felt.

However, nothing in canon has ever pointed to Koko taking Inui as a replacement for Akane, nor confusing him with her in any way (in dialogue, in the recent chapter 252, that has been reestablished too). On the contrary, he's demonstrated to be very aware of Inui as Inui, and to be anguished precisely because of the push and pull of two feelings he has at once. If you ask me, I think there is a reason he said Akane looks like Inui, before likewise implying that Inui looks like Akane too; he has seen them both as themselves.

I don't think any of these things are there for no reason either, as that simply doesn't exist in fiction. Every scene, shot and dialogue is part of a piece of fiction 'cause it is, in one way or another, relevant to be there. I also don't think it's a coincidence that the side of Inui's face that is towards Koko, that is so focused in the scene, is precisely the side with the huge burn mark; the side that isn't Inui-Akane's similarity, but just Inui. I believe there's a reason there for him to have broken down in guilt and grief about Akane after doing that, with someone who was not her.

But that's up to anyone's interpretation.

As a translator, the most I can say is the little parenthesis two paragraphs above: that in the text, in the dialogue, there is no suggestion of replacing or confusion, but a messy case of feelings for two people. Always an Inui and Akane-san, never an Inui as Akane-san. Up until, of course, chapter 252 makes it simply Inui.

The rest is just my impression of the overall material I'm reading, and my take as someone very used to handling fiction. But I'm very happy to be asked about these matters and very honored to be considered someone neutral you'd send this message to!! I hope this has been helpful orrrr at least interesting, 'cause it definitely is to me.

Message again anytime!!

#asks #inukoko #kokonoi hajime #inui seishu #inui akane #thoughts and talk and so #tokyo revengers #tokyo rev #queer themes #let's please not forget that bisexuality exists #but other than that #queer rep vs queer baiting talk

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enrapture · 1 year

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I know ur bi & since ur single whats ur type in men specifically?

I'll make a list! but go in depth. sorry this is a lil long.

-I struggle w/ certain things like adhd, anxiety and trauma so they gotta understand that and accept that and if they still like me afterwards then there ya go lol

-I like depth, fuck the small talk. be different. for ex: lets talk paranormal stories.

-if you’re too distant I’m uninterested lmao

-someone who takes care of themselves. (eats their veggies/a decent amount right, their vitamins, drinks water, works out kinda is just generally in shape. etc)

-men that don't make fun of my likes/hobbies/special interests but try to understand them whether they dislike them or not maybe do research/ get into them bc they know i like them and like seeing me happy.or at least make the effort to hear me boast about them idk fuck. just general understanding would be fuckin cool.

-effort effort effort that shit is fucking sexy as shit to me.

-don't waste my time and i won't waste yours. Be direct with that you want.

-compliment meeeee, I like someone protective. If we can be weirdos together then that’s a match.

-when their words MATCH their actions.

-I'm expecting / used to people treating me like shit. surprise me and be a GOOD PERSON to me in my life lmfao.

-good at communication and know how to healthy communicate their thoughts and feelings, wants and needs no matter how difficult

-men who don't fucking lie. worst thing you could ever do to me is lie, make fun of my interests, talk shit about me, be toxic and manipulate me and use me among gaslight me etc etc. 100pts. I'm very selective with who I let into my life, I have trust issues due to trusting the wrong people and got burned for it many times. scarcity is value. Don't make me regret my decision. men who don't hurt my feelings!!!

-men who like me for more than just my body. who like my personality and shit so much more. 1000pts

-i don't like clingy but i also like the healthy amount of quality time spent together so. I don't need to talk 24/7 i guess but we do gotta see one another a few times or make lil dates or something in order for it to work. it can't be constant to nothing at all. healthy balance???

-I avoid fuckboys like the plague but i can't help but fall (emos, musicians, skaters, skinny, fit, nerds, the funny weirdos LOL. that sorta vibe. etc)

-men who are genuine. gentle. yet aggressive (when its the right time to be) who care about me, support me (call me out on my shit if its not healthy or if im just misinformed and will KINDLY inform me and help me understand/enlighten my way of thinking. Intelligence is soooo incredibly attractive to me, if you can teach me something in some form Its 50pts in my book.

-men who send me stuff like "this reminded me of you, I know youd like this" etc who get my sense of humor and make me laugh. Who try to cheer me up if I'm sad. Men who are open minded, loving, sweet, mean well. caring mmmm

-men who realize mistakes happen and that growing is a process, healing isnt linear as I would with them. Growing out of unhealthy habits and changing for the better:) there is always room for growth.

-if you tease me / are playful / bully me kinda I'll probably end up crushing on you. I like me that are smooth talkers.

-connection is cool, men who have similar hobbies or interests (I like anime, cinephile, video games, reading, art, concerts, exploring, hiking, camping, writing sometimes, music, content creating sometimes, social media stuffs, baking once in a while, photography...) etc. you dont have to have the same exact interests I would prefer you to have your own set to show me that would be cool. but I do like having interests to bond over specifically though lol.

-i guess for an example of men (their body types / personalities) I like are: timothee chalamet, awsten knight, ryan gosling. (abs, arms, hands, eyes, mouths) hnnnnnng everything so sexy FUCK.

-I like men who arent egotistical dickheads. confidence is nice, but if you think you're the shit and are entirely full of yourself youre absolutely disgusting.

-men who are respectful, hold the door, arent afraid to call / video chat. upfront and straight forward, who don't play mind games. direct. sometimes buy me gifts or surprise me with them (I've never had anyone do that. my last relationship they only cared about trips.) nothing wrong with that I liked the trips we went on but i like feeling appreciated idk physical shit is nice too. call me shallow. I like gift giving/ receiving. I do like going on trips but we hardly went on any lol. living is expensive.

-idc how you dress, what you do with your body. don't tell me what i should be doing with mine.

-be my best friend first I don't like rushing. get to know me as i will you slowly over time. lets take our time and feel it out. Who knows it may not be what we want later on. some people like jumping into something immediate. I have to write it out lmfao. that i do not want that or am looking for that. idc if we have "history" or not.

-everyone has things deemed as red flags, struggles, issues, immaturities etc. Lets not be assholes and judgmental pussies. but lets understand and try to grow past them and become healthier better versions of ourselves after all our inner child would want that. change is necessary don't stick to negative habits. be fluid.

phew, I think thats all I can think of at the top of my head atm.

#anon

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elderdragonblu · 1 year

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questions for fic writers: 9, 15, 16, 32, 37, 48

9. How do you find new fic to read?

I mostly find new fics by searching through specific ship tags on AO3, and sometimes I’ll add in another tag like “heavy angst” or whatever I’m trying to find within that certain ship tag, other times I’ll just have the character names and then another tag if I’m looking for something specific to the character (I’ll also add other tags to narrow down the search, but sometimes without narrowing it down I can find fics that I wasn’t looking for but are fun to read!)

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

It’s gotta be my Mute!Max one, I know I never shut up about it but it’s SO WHOLESOME. Plus, Dana’s on it and like!! C’mon!! It’s Dana!!

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

I really want to see more “soulmate aus but the actual ‘soulmates’ don’t love each other romantically like they’re supposed to and both actually love other people while remaining besties with their soulmates.” I’ve always found the idea of soulmates odd, like the concept is cute but I want something that’ll break that mold and I’ve considered writing an AU like that.

Another AU I wanna see more of are Love is Strange ones, not for any particular reason other than I think love is strange is wholesome and it deserves more content.

32. What’s your ideal fic length to read?

Depends on whether we’re talking multi chapter or one shots. I prefer one shots to be at least three thousand words, however when it comes to rare pairs I’d take anything given the scarcity of them. I don’t have a max limit because oneshots are awesome and I love long shit because I’m insane.

As for multi chapter fics, as long as it’s over three thousand words I don’t really care for how many chapters it may have.

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

I posted this one recently, but Execrable was a fic i really enjoyed writing and was based on the owl house (cause surprise I like toh too) and just possession in general. I like how I paced the scenes and how I made it noticeable that someone is possessed in the Oneshot. Im still really proud of it, and I think it deserves more traction.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

I was rereading a fic called Rewrite the Stars by War_On_Mars cause it’s similar to a multi chapter story I wanted to try and create so I was looking for inspiration. It’s also a really good fic and series and recommend you not only read it but everything else that War_On_Mars makes because it’s good writing and good storylines like what else is there to say.

#thanks for the ask #seriously go check out war_on_mars and ossifer on AO3 #wonderful fic writers

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dwagom · 2 years

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regarding tether for all you fellow haters of cryptocurrency:

tether's price has roughly recovered, now it's stable again but just a wee bit lower than before the flash-crash from a week ago. ofc this would make anyone think that the scam has weathered yet another crisis, except that it didn't. someone reminded me to check tether's market capitalisation (=number of all coins*their price), and uh,

you can see that while tether's price is stable yet again it's tether's market capitalisation which is dropping. and if the price is stable, then it means that tether's now doing the opposite of printing and actually removing tethers from circulation in order to increase scarcity and drive up demand

i'd say this is desperation because trading off USD-Tether exchange liquidity for price stability is basically how you start a liquidity crisis on both sides of the exchange. it could very well be that tether's propping up the price with the last of its strength until the whales get out because otherwise i have no other idea why the main player would be risking setting off a liquidity crunch on the tokens' side of the exchange. and, further, needless to say, everyone involved in crypto who's holding tether itself (not too many, i assume, especially not after that flash-crash) is playing dumb over tether's paper-thin USD liqudity and shoving it under the rug in a firm conviction that they'll be the fastest when the bank run hits because they're so close to the exit-door, but if there's a liquidity crunch on Tether's side as well, effectively preventing people from even starting a bank-run ("bank", lol) then things are going to get colossally funner and messier to watch because while everyone holding tethers can hope that they can cash out in dollars, people holding other crypto through tether as a proxy will be the ones to set off a cascading panic when they realise that because of a double exchange needed to get out they'll be double-baghodlers as there's not one but two rapidly narrowing exit-doors they need to get through, and knowing how crypto operates there's also gonna be a lot of "server issues" and "urgent maintenance" in the way. it's like locking all the marks behind two consecutive sets of narrow doors and then further blocking up the hallways with a maze of fridges -- and as much as i loathe anyone dealing in crypto, i really gotta give it to tether just this one time for the sheer devilishness of the sweetest, biggest exit scam so far in this century. and also because i love to see people i hate fucking one another up, that's fun too.

#cryptocurrency #tether #financial crime #late capitalism

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artanalysis1472 · 2 years

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Things I know

loneliness

a girl stuck perpetually in time, giving herself up to be the temporal time guardian (a la Madoka). another girl who moves to the school notices her and realizes there’s something off about her. they get close, and the time guardian reveals her loneliness, her atonement.

a girl who is ready to give her heart out, a bit of an idiot (a la dancer in the dark) keeps getting rejected and ghosted by people who don’t care about her

how do we communicate? through words...

how do we stop communicating? through lack of social responsibility, through increased shame, through the need for self-protection

people holding their interests too close and afraid of being vulnerable, becoming increasingly cynical, “growing up,” scarcity mindset, narcissism, afraid of getting hurt, grass is greener syndrome

lack of communication; unable to bridge the gap - “i can’t reach you”

sometimes this communication is cut short by the fact that one of the people died and you can never have chances to make things up.

kayla and her brother

two business partners: one fallen angel (Senna) and another person who actually really cares for them, but the girl has attachment trauma so she will never know what it’s like when the guy opens his heart to her (blue valentine? angels - within temptation, Mitsuko, she will be loved)

grief and missing someone - we are nostalgic not because the past was good, but because the present is unbearable

actually happy moments, yeah?

lose yourself to dance: two friends, a gay guy and a girl (Senna) back in their youth

childhood, wonder, sensitivity

nature

being an artist

resilience and getting up again

the wise artist: “i’m at peace with the kind of person i am”

the epicurean artist: life is just about the small pleasures and a balance of them: enjoying good food, good art, good company. not much to it.

the warrior artist: “why don’t they like my stuff? UGH! I’ll show them! i’ll force them to like my stuff! no time to waste, gotta get to work!”

NOTE: I’m actually leaning more towards making them all the warrior artist archetype...

a creative writer, (nora)

a pansori singer, (tae-hee), main struggles are with her and her community

a pop idol, (??) insecurity, multiple personality disorder? -> i’m actually leaning towards making her not problematic at all, and instead, the embodiment of joy and love

use the same core character, but with different iterations?

fallen angel - “this world may have failed you that doesn’t give you a reason why, you could’ve chosen a better path in life”

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Five and five (gotta do it)

5. Guilty Pleasures

HMMMM I think that Five has a lot of guilty pleasures tbh mainly because... they were pretty much conditioned to never do anything fun as children? Allison and Luther build a fort and they get yelled at over it :/

And then with the apocalypse and the commission and then stopping the apocalypse... anything that wasn’t on task on mission all the time would make Five feel guilty because... he’s supposed to be saving his siblings. Everything else should take the back burner to that, and so anything that isn’t about that... makes him feel bad. Especially if he’s enjoying it, because his siblings are dead or about to die and he shouldn’t be having fun when he should be working.

and it can be really hard to get out of that mindset. even when the job is done. especially when it’s been like that your entire life.

Five’s guilty pleasures are... anything soft. Anything that’s just for him. Anything selfish, because he’s spent so very long sacrificing everything he is in service of saving his siblings.

(He tells the Handler she made him a murderer, but what he means is that he made himself a weapon. He would do anything, sacrifice everything, just to save them. He would carve off pieces of his soul, his own humanity, just for them. And he did so. He did so and they don’t even know -

He’s afraid they wouldn’t care if they did.)

Being witnessed doing anything... probably makes his skin crawl honestly. Even if it’s something simple, like Diego walking into the kitchen while he’s eating or Vanya interrupting him while he’s reading a book or even if Allison gently shakes him awake from a nap to tell him to go to bed.

Part of it is the isolation... part of it is because he’s used to hiding literally everything. Which is part of what makes his communication in canon as bad as it is and yet even then somehow he managed to communicate better than half his siblings tbh which is saving something BUT the point is he hid things from Reginald because he was under constant surveillance and he hid things from the Commission because he planned to betray them

anyway back to the question

Five’s guilty pleasures are anything not in direct service of his perceived goals, and without those goals... pretty much everything tbh

But Dolores is a guilty pleasure because she’s his friend.

Any down time is a guilty pleasure. Sleeping when he doesn’t literally drop is a guilty pleasure. Even eating might be a guilty pleasure, eating a full meal after such a long time of scarcity - do we ever see Five eat in the show? I can only remember him drinking coffee and alcohol

Yeah Five has guilty pleasures, too many of them because in general he’s just... someone with a profound amount of guilt centered around one decision he made when he was a child than compounded every day he failed to save his family tbh

someone give him a hug :(

(and therapy)

#ask game #headcanon game #tua #the umbrella academy #number five #five hargreeves #yeah someone give this old man child some therapy goodness gracious #but yeah i think five would feel guilty about enjoying literally anything #every pleasure is guilty to five #because at his core he thinks he deserves to suffer #for abandoning his family for being an assassin for failing vanya #you name it #five fundamentally believes he doesn't deserve nice things :(#Anonymous

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veliseraptor · 4 years

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neuxue replied to your post “outlook for today is Bad so if people feel like sending me nice...”

I'd send a virtual hug but I'm bad at hugs so instead, headcanon if you wish: the untamed characters ranked by how good/bad they are at giving hugs

oh man this is a good one and I’m excited by this whole concept. there are not nearly enough hugs in the untamed actually, I’m going to go out and say that. the ones that there are are very good (jiang cheng in episode 20! stand out hugging) but still not enough.

okay let’s go! rated on a scale of 1-10.

Jiang Cheng: We see him give a hug and it is a fantastic one. We see him give a couple hugs, actually, so we know he can do them and is good at them! The one with Wei Wuxian - full body, face in neck, prime hugging material. On the other hand, only gives hugs to two people and once they’re dead probably doesn’t give hugs to anyone, except maybe Jin Ling once a year. Drops his rating to 7/10.

Wei Wuxian: Aces hugger, I’m betting, at least until he got fucked all to hell and stopped touching people in general for the most part. I mean! We see how tactile he is pre-Burial Mounds, and even after that he’s always grabbing onto Lan Wangji. And for someone who is just generally very “I will love you with my whole being” I feel like he probably gives those good full-body hugs. 10/10, would take a Wei Wuxian hug.

Lan Wangji: Will only hug one (1) person and it takes him like two decades. Okay, he did probably hug his mom, and up until the age of 10 Lan Xichen. He would hug Lan Xichen but they’re just not like that. I’m sure Lan Wangji hugs happen but they’re really too rare to assess and unless you’re Wei Wuxian you’re not going to get one. 5/10.

Nie Huaisang: Capable hugger, though not like. The holding kind. I don’t read him as much of a hugger but if he does it I feel like he’d be good at it, because Nie Huaisang is nothing if not committed to his chosen activities. Lands at a solid 7/10.

Jiang Yanli: So you know those times when someone hugs you and you’re like. I did not realize I needed a hug. I didn’t realize I needed a hug until right now, and now I am being hugged and it is so nice that I’m just going to start crying because I feel safe and loved and momentarily like all my problems have gone away? Just me? Anyway, Jiang Yanli hugs like that. 10/10.

Wen Ning: I bet Wen Ning gives great hugs. I have no evidence for this other than the fact that he is an absolute sweetheart who is full of compassion and loyalty and loves the people he loves very much. The tragedy is that after he is undead-ified he has to be, like. Careful with his strength, which makes hugs a little harder. :( But he does his best! Solid 9/10.

Wen Qing: Another one for the “gives great hugs but will only hug her family + Wei Wuxian, so points knocked for that, and also if you told anyone she would not be happy with you, so better keep it to yourself.” But if you watched her hug Wen Ning you’d be like. Damn I wish she’d hug me. 8/10.

Jin Zixuan: Would rather not touch you if he could help it, unless you are Jiang Yanli, and he’s gotta work up to that one, honestly it’s a miracle Jin Ling was conceived and probably mostly down to Jiang Yanli. I bet he is the most awkward hugger imaginable. It’s so bad it’s kind of cute. 2/10.

Jin Guangyao: Probably a decent hugger if he’d do it for you? But I don’t feel like he’s much of a hugger on the whole. Jin Guangyao is not a closet snuggler, I do not think. He will accept hugs from two (2) people, ever, and he would prefer them kept to a minimum. Probably does the quick hug where it’s very light and then he’s out. But also he is very small and huggable if you can get him to hold still for it. 4/10.

Mianmian: In the Mianmian and Jin Zixuan partnership, Mianmian got all the hug energy. 9/10.

Lan Xichen: Would probably be a good hugger if he ever did it, but his personal space bubble is pretty distinct and he doesn’t tend to give off an impression of “please invade me” about it. Limited experience with hugs in general so is probably actually kind of awkward about it. But he would try, if he wanted to. And it would be very nice, especially because of all the fabric involved. 5/10.

Nie Mingjue: Great hugger, but you’ll never prove it unless you are a child under the age of 10 or Nie Huaisang. 8/10 for reality, dock three points for the impression he gives off as someone who has never given a hug in his life, ends up as 5/10.

Song Lan: Would rather you didn’t touch him at all, thank you. 0/10.

Xiao Xingchen: You wouldn’t think it to look at him but Xiao Xingchen is a closet snuggler and gives great hugs. Is kind of touch starved, actually! Will take a hug when it is offered and lean into it like that one video of a cheetah really happy about getting its head rubbed, you know the one. It’s kind of sad, actually. But also adorable. 8/10 mostly for lack of recent experience.

Xue Yang: Xue Yang gives the best hugs. They’re fantastic full-body affairs that are just like. Almost limpet-like? Also a closet snuggler and pretty aggressive about it. However, also deeply hazardous to your health. Probably a 10/10 if you’re not worried about the risk. 1/10 otherwise, because it’s still nice but then you die, or discover that you’ve killed your best friend/ex-boyfriend by accident and kill yourself. You know how it goes.

A-Qing: Will accept hugs from Xiao Xingchen only and nobody else. Probably good hugs there, though. Still, given their scarcity, she gets a 4/10, especially because I feel like she’d actually bite anyone who wasn’t Xiao Xingchen.

Jin Ling: Again, like Jiang Cheng, gives very good hugs but is more likely to kick you in the shins. 4/10 during canon timeline, 8/10 when he gets older and stops metaphorically kicking people in the shins, also known as “stabbing them.”

Lan Jingyi: Actually I don’t think much of a hugger! He’d be fine at it but not, like, a stand out. I’d give him a 6/10 mostly because he’s slightly higher on this scale than Lan Wangji but not much.

Ouyang Zizhen: I just feel like Ouyang Zizhen gives good hugs. I have no evidence for this or particularly detailed reasoning, only that he is a good boy and we see him rubbing Jingyi’s back soothingly in one scene. 10/10, fight me.

Lan Sizhui: Gives great hugs. We have a lot of canon evidence for this. 9/10 only because he probably didn’t exercise it a lot for a while after the age of, like, 8. He just kind of has that vibe of “I would hug you but I feel like I shouldn’t do hugs indiscriminately, that would be undignified and I have to be the perfect Lan Sect role model.”

Jin Guangshan: No thank you. 0/10.

#the sad queer cultivators show #the untamed #i will not accept criticism #(i will accept some criticism)#suicide mention cw #lise does meta #...or something #aggressively headcanons #this was worth every minute of the time i spent on it #neuxue

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Since @patchun brought up Hugh as a rival, here’s my personal take on each rival character in Pokemon, because I’m bored.

Blue - I actually do like the guy, and I think that overall he’s a solid rival. Story-wise, he’s one of the few that is always one step ahead of you, and clears the entire league before you. His team is solid, and he makes adjustments based on the starter Pokemon he picks. I also think he’s just kinda fun. He’ll make excuses about why he lost (”I picked the wrong Pokemon!”) and gives you shit as someone he considered less than him, but there’s still some level at which he’s like “Oh hey, you’re improving!” He’s a solid rival character.

Silver - I kinda feel like Silver isn’t really your rival, he’s just someone that shows up a lot that you have to deal with. Like it’s never entirely established that the two of you are competing, he just wants to kick your ass for funsies in all his earlier encounters, and only comes to respect you at all at the end of his entire quest. Which is cool! I actually like Silver a lot, I think he’s got a ton going on and is a pretty unique change from Blue. Blue was super invested in the League and being the best, while Silver’s also about being the best, but seems to have little interest in the League itself. His motives are outside of the League, and frankly outside of your own. He grows into the role of rival to the player more as a result of Lance’s comments to him and his own soul-searching. I think that’s great.

Brendan/May - And then there’s these two. I’m not entirely sure what the plan was behind these two. I’ve heard they shifted off of the antagonistic rivals because bullying was a problem, and that’s why every rival since has been your friend rather than an opponent, but these two aren’t even that really. They barely exist. As characters, they rarely show up and don’t really do a whole lot at any point, and as a rival trainer, they’re so bad they never fully evolve their starter. Brendan and May are, to me at least, the worst rivals in the series. If it was because they thought early rivals were too mean and toned it down, they did so without accounting for any alternative traits to make them interesting, but at least they started getting it right soon after.

Barry - I actually really like Barry. Initially, he was a bit annoying with the whole “I’m fining you!” gimmick, and being supremely absent-minded half the time, but he grows on you a lot. Kinda like Blue, Barry spends most of the game ahead of you, and is a pretty competent trainer. But instead of being aggressive in his rivalry, he is your friend and acknowledges how good you are. He never seems to even acknowledge his defeat to any extreme degree, he’s just having fun and doing his own journey while using you as a point of comparison, while still taking this really seriously, in part because his father is a renowned trainer that he wants to live up to. Which is solid. Also I gotta admit, the situation with the lake guardians was really cute, how Rowan recognizes him and gives him the tougher mission, how into it he gets, and then how hurt he is that he wasn’t able to protect Uxie. Barry just a sweet kid and a solid rival.

Cheren - Cheren is much like Barry, in that his focus is on battling at its core. Contrary to Barry though, Cheren is actively irritated that he can’t seem to beat you. He keeps pace with you, but I don’t think actually gets ahead of you at any point in the story. If anything, he’s interesting because he’s someone driven by the same journey to be a great trainer that you are, but is coming face to face with the realization that he’s not making the same gains, and may not be able to achieve that initial dream. He has to adapt, and ultimately settles into the Gym Leader role, and is a bit of a mentor in BW2, which is really cool. That’s really what makes the BW rivals so good, is that instead of just being another super good trainer who’s ahead of you all the time, they explore the idea of someone who wants to be the best but isn’t, and how he handles that. I like it a lot.

Bianca - Best rival, fight me. What makes Bianca interesting is that she’s kinda like Brendan and May, in that she’s not...really here to be a spectacular trainer. She is but she isn’t. She starts out on her journey to become a trainer, but isn’t super motivated by competition like Cheren. In fact, Bianca doesn’t really know what she wants to do at all. What makes her interesting is that change from being just another trainer to battle, to finding her own path in life that doesn’t involve the competition. It’s not what she wants to do, and I always really liked that. She eventually settles on being a professor’s assistant, and I think it’s great seeing her settle into a role that makes her happy. The series has always posited this idea that people exist with Pokemon in different ways, but this is honestly the first time we really get a rival who comes to engage with Pokemon and battling in a different way from the usual.

Hugh - I don’t like Hugh. I get the attempt with him, and appreciate it. A lot of Gen 5 centers around Team Plasma, and in this case, Hugh is a character who was directly impacted by their actions when they stole his sister’s Purrloin. He was a child and couldn’t do anything, so he’s grown up resentful of Team Plasma and determined to become strong enough to protect his sister and those he cares about. He’s along on your journey to improve, but never once does he seem all that invested in the League itself. He’s more invested in taking down Team Plasma and getting his sister’s Purrloin back, and all of that should come together into a really cool rival for this generation’s thematic narrative. His problem is really just that he talks. “You’re about to feel my rage!” Hugh, please. You’re embarrassing me in front of Zinzolin. I can’t say I hate Hugh, but I feel like he’s a character who just missed the mark they were aiming for, largely by being more of an edgy nuisance than an interesting character study.

Serena/Calem - I am only talking about these two because fuck the XY friend group. Honestly, they’re...pretty forgettable. Like I honestly can’t remember any significant personality traits from them at all. They’re like Brendan and May, only slightly better because they keep at it even if they’re constantly behind you. I think by biggest problem is how they never feel like they amount to much thematically. A big focus in XY is meant to be on scarcity. Mega Bracelts are rare, and not everyone can own one or utilize mega evolution. You battle them to get one, which by default means they don’t. And that sets up some interesting ideas, right? Like, how does that impact things? When there’s legitimate scarcity and not everyone can make use of this, are you willing to crush the dream of your childhood friend to make your own come true? Well actually it doesn’t matter because it’s never really brought up. The great tragedy of XY was lost potential, and the rival’s a big source of that.

Hau - Hau is...a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, SuMo. On the other, USUM. In SuMo, I like Hau a lot. He feels a lot like Barry, if Barry didn’t give a shit about competition. Hau is very laid back as a rival, and challenges you while attempting to keep pace, but ultimately exists to have fun and enjoy his journey. This is the trait that makes him and Gladion such fun counterparts. But then USUM rolls around, and makes up this whole subplot about how he’s not actually trying and that this is a betrayal of his Pokemon? And then it leads to this whole crisis where suddenly he’s super invested in competition and being the best, and ends up as your Champion battle? And it just doesn’t feel as interesting. If anything it feels like USUM’s eternal Gen 1 dick sucking coming back to reference your rival as the champion, rather than actually focusing on the character’s development.

Gladion - Okay, I really like Gladion. He’s a bit more like Silver than anything else, in that I don’t think he ever like...expresses wanting to be your rival? He just shows up and challenges you because fuck you in particular. But through interactions, and your eventual assistance with stopping his mother and breaking down those emotional walls, Gladion grows into someone who still wants to be a great trainer, but is no longer driven by the need to be the best to protect his sister and stop his mother. Rather, he just learns to enjoy competition for its own sake. And I really like that! I feel like he’s Silver, but refined to be a more interesting character.

Hop - Okay stop me if you’ve heard this one. Hop’s a rival who’s invested in the competition, and is largely driven by living up to a family member’s legacy. He’s generally friendly, but expresses intense dissatisfaction with his performance because he can’t beat you or Bede. He’s been competitive, but ultimately very laid back until a sudden realization that he needs to try harder and is suddenly super driven to become the best. His post-game arc is entirely about finding out that maybe he doesn’t want to be a trainer all that much, and finding his own calling, which is a professor’s assistant. That’s Barry, Cheren, Hau, and Bianca, in that order. I do not love Hop. I don’t hate him. There are definitely worse rivals with less going on. But Hop feels like an amalgamation of previous rivals rather than his own being. He goes from laid-back but invested in your rivalry, to super serious and determined to be the best, and ending on maybe not even wanting to be a trainer that much. It’s a weird shift in his journey that I don’t think meshes as well. He takes the parts of these previous rivals that made them interesting, but it turns out slapping them all together makes a character that’s less than the sum of its parts. However, I will give points for one thing I actually love about Hop: when he keeps losing, he completely changes up his team. That’s something no rival has done. Minor adjustments, like Blue dropping Raticate, have happened, but we’ve never seen a complete shuffle in who they lead with or what the team composition is. So I do think there’s merit to Hop, even if he’s not my favorite. It could be worse. It could be...

Marnie - A literal nothing. She does announce that you are her rival, so I guess I have to talk about her. She’s nothing. Like, I kinda have to give more points to her than Brandan/May solely because she does at least try, but she never really has anything going for her. Her brother is more compelling than she is, being a gym leader in charge of an area that is really struggling, and trying to showcase that Dynamaxing isn’t required to be a good trainer. Marnie...has none of that. At all. She just has the freedom to be a challenger for the Champion title, and the town is insistent on her winning to prove...something. I honestly do not understand the plan. It wouldn’t change that their territory has no ability to Dynamax, and unlike Piers, Marnie has no qualms about using Dynamax to win. She has no real convictions, and if memory serves only battles you twice. And she’s not exactly that good either time. I never once felt like Marnie mattered. People just liked her design and decided she was great, but she...she doesn’t do anything.

Bede - I’m hesitant to count Bede, but you battle him more often than you battle Marnie, and he does eventually consider you an obstacle to overcome so I’ll count him. Honestly, don’t like him that much, but he’s better than nothing. Bede’s interesting in that he’s kind of a rival that’s ahead of you? At least implicitly. I don’t think we get hard confirmation that he’s beaten any of the challenges before you, but a lot of his battles involve him being in a location before you got there. I do kinda like his arc, in that he’s a bit of an inverted Cheren? In the sense that his ultimate endpoint is as a Gym Leader, but not because he’s looking at things in terms of adjusting his goal due to always losing, but adjusting his goal because it turns out that’s just really what he wants to do. At first he hates it, and his final challenge to you is a means of saying he’ll quit forever if he can’t win, but ultimately he settles into an appreciation for being a Gym Leader, and I really like that. While I dislike him more on a personal level, I will say I think he’s a better rival than Hop. Has more going on for himself, anyway.

#pokemon

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recurring-polynya · 4 years

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Of all the movies Disney *should* remake, "The Black Cauldron" us at the top of the list because they missed the mark by a whole lot. But they won't because the movie almost killed the entire studio and next to Song of the South, it's the movie the studio pretends they never made. (Side note: it was also the 1st to use the iconic Disney logo they used until late 2000s 👍)

No lie, I almost threw hands at a cookie exchange party with someone who was trash-talking this film, which I am pretty sure I have never actually seen, but I have extremely strong feelings about.

Black Cauldron came out when I was 4, and I remember seeing commercials for it on TV, and I remember desperately wanting to see it, but we didn’t, probably because I was too young. I was an extremely cowardly child, and this was absolutely the right call on my mom’s part. This was a weird era of really scary children’s fantasy: Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Last Unicorn. (I only saw that last of these when I was young. We rented it multiple times, and I both loved it, because it had a unicorn, and was terrified of it, because it was terrifying. I told you I was a coward.) Now, you young’uns may not believe this, but if you missed a movie in the theaters in those days, you missed it. We did not have a VCR. VCRs cost, like $1000 or something. Also, Disney was really weird about the way they released films, where they would only put them out on video for a few years at a time and then put them back in “the vault,” to create false scarcity, y’know, like the McRib.

When I was a kid, my dream was to become a Disney animator and I was really obsessed with them for a while. I had a big book about all the Disney movies (it was huge and I bought it with my own money, I remember that) and I read the entry on Black Cauldron so many times. It was also the first animated Disney movie to not have any songs! It barely even had a soundtrack.

When I was 10, they had all 5 Prydain books at the Scholastic Book fair, and you bet I picked them up. I read them a million times as a kid, and I try to re-read them every 5-10 years. My editions have the most gorgeous Jody Lee cover illustrations (she also illustrated a lot of Mercedes Lackey’s book covers).

The movie is definitely Wrong. All the character designs are so bad. Fflewddur is old? Gurgi is cute? Hen Wen is small? No thanks. I think the movie is actually a mash-up of The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron. I don’t think it has either Adaon or Ellidyr, both of whom died to destroy the cauldron in ways that I will never get over and WEIOTNRGKJNRFKGHSF.

Furthermore, much like Earthsea, this is just not something I want to consume in movie-form. These books are about finding your place in the world, what we owe to each other, that people are good or bad independent of whether they are a king or a potter but we all only get one life, that meaningful work and friendship are the greatest treasures, that knowing and loving his people is more important in a king than valor in battle, that war does nothing but destroy lives.

This is not exactly a controversial opinion, but also, I love animation, and I hate the very idea of live-action remakes. I cannot think of a single animated film that I would like to see remade in live-action, but I can think of plenty of live-action films I’d like to see remade as high-budget animation. But, Disney, if you gotta, if you really feel the need to remake Black Cauldron, can you do a girl a solid and make Fflewddur a total smokeshow? Bards are in these days, I hear. Thank you.

#asks #the chronicles of prydain #books #this was way too personal i am sorry for oversharing #this post is going straight to therapy with me

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colesmemes · 4 years

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▸ father john misty sentence starters & memes.

assorted lyrics from father john misty’s discography ; mature content and language may be used, feel free to adjust as necessary.

❝ my love, you’re the one i want to watch this ship go down with. ❞

❝ everything is doomed, and nothing will be spared. ❞

❝ i love you, honey bear. ❞

❝ don’t they see the darkness rising ? ❞

❝ people are boring, but you’re something else completely. ❞

❝ damn, let’s take our chances. ❞

❝ dating for twenty years just feels pretty civilian. ❞

❝ you’re something else i can’t explain. ❞

❝ take my last name. ❞

❝ i haven’t hated all the same things as somebody else since i remember. ❞

❝ what are you doing for your whole life ? ❞

❝ there’s no need to fear me. ❞

❝ i can hardly believe i’ve found you and i’m terrified by that. ❞

❝ that’s how you live free: truly see and be seen. ❞

❝ if you try that cat-and-mouse shit, you’ll get bitten. ❞

❝ why the long face, blondie ? i’m already taken. ❞

❝ i’ve said awful things, such awful things. ❞

❝ no one ever really knows you and life is brief. ❞

❝ so i’ve heard, but what’s that gotta do with this black hole in me ? ❞

❝ maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity. ❞

❝ but what i fail to see is what that’s gotta do with you and me. ❞

❝ i can hardly believe i’ve found you and i’m terrified by that. ❞

❝ love is just an institution based on human frailty. ❞

❝ she says, like, literally music is the air she breathes. ❞

❝ someone’s been told one too many times that they’re wise beyond their years. ❞

❝ i’m feeling good, damn, i’m feeling so fine. ❞

❝ don’t be alarmed, this is just my vibe. ❞

❝ those aren’t extras in a movie, they’re our clientele. ❞

❝ perhaps you shouldn’t drink alone. ❞

❝ i’m just dumb enough to try to keep you in my life for a little while longer. ❞

❝ i’'ll take it easy with the morbid stuff. ❞

❝ honey, i’m worried about you. put yourself in my shoes. ❞

❝ you’re too much to lose. ❞

❝ you’re all that i have. ❞

❝ so please don’t die wherever you are tonight. ❞

#rp meme #indie rp meme #rp sentence starters #sentence meme #rph

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frasier-crane-style · 4 years

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Picard 2-3

-Mmmm. I’m torn between thinking some elements of this are really cliche--the incestuous bad guys, the roguish mercenary hiring out his ship, the dorky scientist, on and on--yet Trek has always been troperiffic to the point of being “Wagon Train to the stars” (or Horatio Hornblower in space, if you’d rather). So the same old cliches in a Star Trek setting is nothing new, maybe even preferable to some “we’re still relevant, dammit!” stuff going on (Starfleet officers in sunglasses, vaping). But also, like damn, these tropes are supposed to be spices, not the whole meal.

-Maybe they should put all the character traits in a hat and mix them up a little. The smuggler is an awkward dork who’s a huge fan of Picard! The scientist is a grizzled badass who knocks back shots while sewing up a wound he got in a barfight. Could be fun.

-Not to take anything away from P-Stewart, but even he can’t sell the character shilling Rios gets as he first shows up. Oh, he might seem disillusioned, but he’s really a badass Starfleet hero waiting to happen? Gee, thanks, never could’ve figured that out on my own. I haven’t watched any movies since my parents think color television is the Devil.

-Although at least Rios is likable. Rafi is kinda... yeesh. How much of a fuck-up do you have to be to end up a druggie burn-out in a utopian, post-scarcity society? She’s not even on a colony world, she’s on Earth. And since when would Starfleet fire someone for being an aide (?) to someone who quit? Did they also blackball her so she couldn’t get a civilian job hauling ore or something (which you’d think a highly qualified Starfleet officer like Jean-Luc Picard’s protege would easily be able to do)? And what kind of bitch takes a man resigning in protest of a mishandled humanitarian crisis in which millions/billions are dying and makes it all about her? Although her character concept seems to be ‘someone even Picard wouldn’t care about dying,’ so maybe they had to make her the biggest drip in the Federation.

-Probably the best characters, though, are the Romulan housekeepers who hang out with Picard, so it’s a shame they’re not coming along. And I guess we’re getting a young, hot Romulan guy with a samurai sword instead? Weak.

-”They’re aliens!” “They have Northern accents.” “Lots of planets have a North!”

-I guess it’s the sign of the times that, between The Last Jedi and Logan, now there’s a subgenre of stories about old, pathetic heroes getting back in the saddle--again, cliche--and y’all thought TLJ was being so subversive when really Luke’s treatment is the de facto prism through which these characters are viewed, the first elevator pitch made. Well, on the one hand, I can see they want to avoid a show where Picard is a high-ranking admiral and can resolve any problem by making a phone call. On the other hand, ‘Picard jumps into the Millennium Falcon and has adventures with a ragtag bunch of misfits’ is not only cliche, it’s a bit un-Star-Trek. The movies told some good stories about Kirk being an admiral. I gotta think there’s a way to try harder and come up with a fun story where Picard struggles and has difficulties while still being a respected icon, instead of basically asking us to imagine this interquel where he squanders all the goodwill he accumulated over the course of TNG and becomes a disgraced weirdo.

-Likewise with this ‘Data’s daughter is the Chosen One’ stuff. I’d be perfectly happy if the Romulans just have a thing against synthetics because “oh, we had an AI uprising once, it was awful, now we hate them!” But I think they’re going in the direction of there being a big dumb prophecy and guys, Logan already did the ‘we must protect the super-special girl’ thing and it even had Patrick Stewart too. I’m starting to worry they basically took another mediocre TNG movie like Insurrection and stretched it out into a season of Netflix.

-Does it really make sense to treat Picard as a senile old man when people live to be like two hundred in Star Trek, like McCoy did? He should be middle-aged.

-With the synthetics, there’s a bit of zeerust in that realistically, we would’ve had our robot slaves waaaay before Data, especially in order to have a utopian, post-scarcity civilization to begin with, but Trek continuity has it that nope, Data is the first AI ever, so that’s what we’re going with. And honestly, I prefer it that way to Discovery’s ‘oh, one week before TOS, everyone had holograms and starfighters and Iron Man suits, we all just got rid of those riiiight before The Man Trap for random reasons.’ So that’s that on that.

-Only 90s kids remember the Eugenics War.

#star trek #picard

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inikavulpixelreviews · 5 years

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Let’s Talk About Pokemon - The Ice Type

Clearly one of the rarer types. But whenever I see all the Ice types laid out all at once like this, I just end up thinking “Wait... That's it?” It doesn't help that the type is so specific to what kind of environment they can be in, snow fields, mountains, and caves. (You would think with the Sinnoh region being known for being up north and really cold would be teeming with new Ice types, but it only gets a mere one completely original line along with some evolutions.)

You'd think this scarcity might mean the type is almost universally good, but nope. Ice, while very good offensively for being able to topple some of the common types as well as Dragon, Ice is notorious for its amount of weaknesses and only resisting itself. Which doesn't even make that much sense. Shouldn't Ice be resistant to Grass, Bug, or Flying? It doesn't help that they keep trying to make Ice types that are on the defensive side. Cause THAT'LL work out. I think the Ice type needs an overall update for its place in the chart. It's fine if they wanted to make a type that's more offensively oriented in the same way Steel is a master of defense but not that good at offense, but I think this goes a wee bit too far.

Ice is up so far on this like if nothing else, because aesthetically it's one of my favorites, and with 6 left I might as well list them out in order of faves. Ice type took a while to find a good stride, but I do end up loving most of the new Ice types, some of the Alolan forms included. It's just a shame that Alola has a sole, lonely Ice type in terms of entirely new Pokemon. Sigh. Back in the day I was kinda hoping Lunala would be Ice type. Cause the moon is cold, and it would be the opposite of DEFINITELY-a-fire-type Solgaleo and all that.

Ice definitely has the potential to go up a rank or two even, if we get more REALLY good ones along the same quality as some of my favorites among the type like Vanilluxe, Aurorus, and Kyurem. I'd love to see Ice be a little bit more common too. Black and White, as I recall, are the only games that have really found a work-around for Ice types having to wait until nearing the end of the game to even start showing up.

Top 10 Favorite Ice Types:

Wasn't as hard as expected, given Ice's rather limited selection. And as much as I like Glaceon just as a snowy fox thing, I gotta admit there could be a lot more to it.

Bottom 10 Least Favorite Ice Types:

This was a bit more difficult, and I don't even necessarily dislike even most of these. Sealeo's probably just winning the prize for “Pokemon I most often forget exists”

The Cutest:

The COOLEST (hah):

The Prettiest:

The Spookiest:

I was surprised I could manage to pull this one off. Cubchoo included, because nothing's spookier about winter than catching a cold.

Weirdest/Most Unique:

Most Inventive Use of the Type:

Snover and Snorunt are just. Such cute and creative little snow creatures. Between Snorunt's shivering and Snover having the whole evergreen tree creature thing going on. Vanilluxe for creatively combining two ice-associated aspect between ice cream and icicles as the cone. That's STILL so genius. Admittedly Cryogonal is just so hilariously blunt with its design, but who the hell comes up with “carnivorous snowflake”?!

ICE TYPE WISHLIST:

NOTE: These Type Wishlists were written out before any news on new Pokemon from Sword and Shield. The Pokemon revealed over time will not affect these wishlists. Just to present them unaltered despite spoilers and in the interest of getting the wishlist out there, and to see which items on said wishlists get fulfilled by Sword and Shield!

A Snowman:

I'm alarmed at how requested a snowman is given how much people tend to dislike objectmon. I guess this is an exception since Frosty the Snowman exists? I dunno. EITHER WAY, I want one too. I won't even be that upset if it's super straightforward. I just want ANY kinda snowman.

A Snow Angel:

Seems like the perfect application for the Ice/Fairy type! Obviously it'd moreso have to be a snow angel in spirit, since a snow angel isn't really a physical thing so much as a shaped indent into the snow.

A Mint Plant:

I kinda just want another Grass/Ice type, but I'd love to see something with a rather minty aesthetic. Even if we incorporate some sort of “gum” look to it, like colored speckles on its hard body or something.

A Caribou:

Really, I'd be okay with any cervid getting an Ice type Pokemon. Caribou just have really neat antlers as has the excuse of living in arctic regions.

A Christmas Elf:

Again, got the perfect opportunity for an Ice/Fairy type here. I'd love to see any more Christmasy-associated Pokemon out there. Heck, I could already see dex entries about this thing and how, true the tricky nature of fairies, it love to leave gifts for children. At the expense of it stealing from someone else to get said gift. That's perfect for the Fairy type.

A Snow Owl:

I'm just never gonna get tired of owls. Fight me. Not super counting on this one any time soon since we very recently got the Rowlet line, but I’d love to see this thing help bolster the number of offensively-oriented Ice types. One that’s actually got the Speed to not get one-shot before it can move in the meantime, too.

An Icy Moth:

I get why we don’t exactly have a ton of Bug/Ice types. Winter/Snow and insects tend not to go together. But there’s still species of bugs that live in the world’s colder regions! Like the snow moth and the arctic woolly bear moth (what a name)! I’d love to see a moth with a really pretty, crystalline design.

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#Pokemon #Ice Type #Pokemon Reviews

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