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tadpole-san · 3 years

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Hi again! I’m the user that recently asked abt Klarion lol. Could I request a Klarion x Reader (one shot or head canon is cool I’m not picky) where they have an established relationship and live together? Klarion, despite being a Lord of Chaos, wouldn’t dare hurt his s/o, but does enjoy pranking them. I was thinking he could do a small prank for this one, like moving one of his s/o’s things inch by inch until it ends up in a different room or something? :)

pairing: klarion x reader, pre-established relationship

a/n: I’m so sorry this took like,,, a longass time anon! I deadass had this drafts sitting as an open tab on my Docs for a longass time between school and everything else because i am, unfortunately, a second semester highschool junior :(

This is my first time doing headcanons on this blog, i hope you like it! I also took this ask as an excuse to rebinge all three seasons of yj for klarion content. ANYWAYS, enjoy this combination of general living with Klarion hcs and what happens when he pranks you

Have you seen the guy’s hair? He both looks and acts like a devil - the mischievous fun kind, not the kind that’ll try to eat your soul (but when you poke fun at him for his “horns” he does throw a bit of a tantrum and threaten to do that. Since he’s the Lord of Chaos and all) and living with him is guaranteed to be like living with the kind of imp trickster you’d read about in a story book

And with his magic? Definitely uses them like he’s an imp - one of his favorite pastimes has been to use them to play little tricks on you. They’re still harmless, and the worst they’ve done is inconvenience you, like whenever you’d have an outfit planned out for whatever you have going on during the day and he uses his magic to change all the colors into something wildly inappropriate for whatever it is you have planned

You don’t ever get really mad at him, but you will roll your eyes and sometimes be a little annoyed depending on how far he goes, and to get back at him you’ll usually hog Teekl and take him to your room while you lock Klarion out (even though he can technically use his magic to get into the room anyways) and pretend to ignore Klarion while he whines about being totally neglected outside

This doesn’t usually last that long because you tend to cave in and let him in with you and Teekl

He’ll then proceed to drape himself all over you - not unlike a cat - and get into some sort of one-sided argument with Teekl about stealing your attention from him. You always end up having to pull Teekl away from him when he lunges at the cat (“Babe, you need Teekl if you wanna stay in this dimension” “He’s pure evil!” “And we can unpack your feeling about this some other day when you’re less inclined to throttle the cat-”)

He talks in his sleep- a lot. His chaos-addled mind already has him saying stuff like “holy carp” and “see ya later, armadillos” and things get even weirder when he’s asleep. The result? You’ve subsequently picked up these sayings for yourself and you mutter them around… a lot. Your coworkers have given you weird looks, but they’ve taken it for the equivalent of Robin’s “holy ____ Batman”, and at this point, it’s better than explaining that no, you’re not from Gotham, and your boyfriend is actually technically the supervillain Lord of Chaos from a different dimension

“I guess I’m from Gotham” is also a pretty good explanation as to why you’d show up to work in a hot pink shirt and neon green pants. At this point, this particular prank of Klarion’s with his magic and your clothes is one of the regular almost-daily ones

The more you had to show up to work looking like - well, a literal clown - a lot of the days, the more irked you got about it; but the more often it happened was the more you saw Klarion actually brighten up and laugh when you had to go to work instead of generally sulk the way he would when you had to leave for hours on end. So that made it pretty worth it to start getting an extra pair of normal clothes ready in your car

Another one of his favorite pranks to play is to mass-duplicate random things in your apartment - like you’ll open your closet, expect to see a neon rainbow from your old clothes greeting you, and instead dozens of clothes racks will just tumble out

The first time it happened, you think your brain literally short-circuited, and Klarion found you staring at the pile at your feet

“Babe - I don’t really know what to do with this - thank you?”

That definitely wasn’t the reaction he was expecting, but he gets smug about it anyways - “you should be grateful that a Lord of Chaos such as myself would do this for you!” - and then he takes it as a sign to do it at random intervals

He’ll do it with literally anything, but he does know to definitely avoid the kitchen after you open the cupboard and a dozen identical bowls nearly fell on your head

Hearing your subsequent shriek and onslaught of swearing is what alerts Klarion to your impending dilemma, and right at the last second he’s able to freeze them in midair and save you from an inevitable concussion (and probably worse)

Lesson learned the hard way: kitchen is off limits, along with anything above eye-level

He won’t admit it, but the incident freaks him out enough that he literally hovers around you for the next few days, in midair, and when you’re at work, Teekl will “magically” show up in your office

The pranks even stop completely for the next few days - he’s definitely spooked, even if he’ll never admit it out loud, and he plays it off as throwing a tantrum that the prank didn’t work the way he wanted it to

But it’s easy for you to see past his somewhat “childish” front. You also know well enough that if you confront him on it it’ll lead to a cycle of denial, more tantrums, and finally, denial

And you love him, and you don’t like seeing him worry in his own way (hell, it’s even affecting the things he says at night) so it’s more than easy for you to cave in after a few days

“Damn, I could really use dozens of the same exact clothes hanger to completely overrun my closet. It’s a real shame I don’t know any magic to do it, huh?”

Is it the easiest trick in the book? Yes. Does it work? Absolutely. And it brings a smile back to his face, even if it’s at the expense of your poor sanity at times - but that’s still part of what comes from living with him, and you honestly wouldn’t trade it for anything else

DC Taglist:

@cipheress-to-k-pop

#🌙#✨#📰.dc #klarion x re #klarion x you #klarion imagines #klarion #young justice klarion #young justice imagines #fluff #here marks my return from my #hiatus??? sort of #klarion remains to be criminally underrated (HAHA! a pun) and i hope ive contributed to what little content there is of him #in a way worth of the lord of chaos #gender neutral reader #reader imagines #headcanons

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evansyhelp · 3 years

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do you have any advice for getting your blog off the ground?? i was around abt the same time that your blog came up, so yeaaaaaaaaars ago i think, and now ive come back fresh and i'm struggling to get much interaction bc idk anyone anymore and its making me a lil sad :(

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that, anon! I totally feel you — I don't know many people here either and I still sometimes feel like I'm shouting into the void. But there are some things you can do to establish yourself.

1. Make the most of your tags. It used to be that your post would only show in the first 5 tags you used, but now you can use all 20. Spend some time researching what tags your content belongs in. If you're an RPH for example, head to #rph and #rp resources and see what other tags RPHs are adding to their posts. If you're going to be posting a theme, check out other theme-makers' posts and see what tags they're using.

2. Make sure you're showing up in the tags. Something that's changed a lot in the past couple years is the rules around tags. To be blunt, they're fickle as hell, and your post might not show up in the tags for a few reasons, including: you've linked to something other than another Tumblr post, your image looks too much like skin to the mature content algorithm, or you've used a word that's been flagged by the mature content algorithm. These rules aren't consistently applied across blogs at all which makes it annoying as hell to figure out your own blog's rules, but just check the tags 5 minutes after you post something to make sure it's actually showing, and tweak the content of the post if it's not.

3. Make it clear what your blog is for. Your URL, description, and pinned post (and even your icon and header, if you want) should all indicate what kind of content you provide, so people know at a glance if your blog is something they're interested in. A vague URL and description will kill your engagement because you'll blend in with thousands of other personal/casual blogs.

4. Be the first to interact. Follow other blogs similar to yours and engage with their content consistently. Reblog their creations, reply to their posts, send love to blogs you enjoy. This will help get your blog out there and get your blog recognised by people, and you might even make some friends in the process!

5. Create, create, create. Create content consistently and your audience will build itself. To borrow some freelancer terminology, try to establish "authority" (aka prove that you're a good resource worth listening to) in the community by demonstrating that you know what you're talking about and that you're talented at what you do — create sample work, tutorials, masterlists. Answer questions before they're even asked.

6. Put your offer out there. Once you've demonstrated your knowledge, make a post in the tags inviting people to ask you questions, request content, or whatever kind of interaction you're seeking. I don't recommend doing this any more than once a week, and generally creating content will be more effective than these kinds of posts, but they do work!

7. Join communities. On Tumblr there are two kinds of notable communities you can join: networks, which let you apply to put your content into their network tag/blog (e.g. gifpacknetwork); and discord servers, where you can find similar users, make friends, and get your content seen by a wider audience (either with a server-dedicated Tumblr tag (e.g. codingcabin, supportcontentcreators) or a channel within the discord server where people can link their creations). You can check out #network on my blog, or Google "(your kind of blog) tumblr network" / "(your kind of blog) discord server".

8. Be prepared for silence. Engagement on Tumblr honestly kind of just sucks. A lot of users don't engage with other people's content at all, and even when you do get engagement, you'll experience random dry spells, or random posts won't do as well as others for no apparent reason. It's easier said than done but try not to get too invested in any particular post or any particular aspect of engagement (e.g. how many asks you get) — this is so much more enjoyable when you stop dwelling on the numbers and just make what you enjoy making with no regard for how well it performs.

9. Be patient. Patience and consistency are key. You're (most likely) not going to get hundreds of followers overnight, so set realistic expectations and enjoy the small milestones. If you're always wanting to get bigger and bigger, you're always going to be disappointed that you're not getting there fast enough. Take it one day at a time and enjoy every note and every follow you get.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions.

#ask #rph #rpc #rph help #tumblr help #anonymous

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patheticfrogarchive · 2 years

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…please elaborate 👀 (I agree w/ bts post)

OK I AM DRUNK BUT HERE ARE MY MAIN THOUGHTS that are probably a mes but again i am quite drunk

kpop stan culture is. absolutely encouraged by the big name... labels i guess??

take bts in particular for example. they are the only kpop group im familiar w so im just gonna be talking abt them from now on

LIKE ITS DOWN TO THE SMALLEST THINGS. weverse notifications?? its always "*idol name* shared a post with you" YOU. LIKE. YOU PERSONALLY. NO!!!!! HE DID NOT SHARE IT WITH YOU!!! ITS A PUBLIC POST!!!

like its all set up tp make you think that you have a personal relationship with these guys. i hate the twitter buzzword of parasocial relationship BUT IT REALLY IS. you have bts members coming online and waxing poetic about how much they "miss army" and "cant wait to see army" as if its a singular person. its not. there is no way they care about every single individual fan. im sorry but they dont

im sure they are lovely guys. and i dont doubt that they are very apreciative of their fans. fans make the artist you know? theyd be insane to not be tahnkful!!! but to LOVE EVERY SINGLE FAN???? ALL THE SHIT THEY SAY ABOUT "OH I WONDER WHAT ARMY ARE DOING TODAY" THEY DONT CARE!!!!! HOW CAN THEY!!!!! ITS NOT REAL!!!! their personas are so obvisouly formulated and created to sell shit

its all about selling shit. yes the 7 members of bts are most likely in it bc they are truly passionate about making music and spreading kindess but like. the company they are under only cares about money. trying to argue otherwise makes you look whack to me

people are all about eat the rich and capitalism bad until its benefitting their fave sexy man

ANYWAY people wholly devote their fucking lives to these people who will NEVER know them or truly care about them and its genuinely insane for me to watch like. i will see countless people on twitter waste DAYS of their lives streaming songs and waste so much money buying shit just to """support their boys""" when the LAST thing these guys need is money. charts mean nothing. numbers mean nothing. at the end of the day it does not fucking matter if their shitty song written by ed sheeren reached number one or not. and you all wasting your lives away acting like youre working a full time job streaming garbage is a waste of time im sorry!!!!!

its actually insane and kind of sad that i see so many young people devoting their lives to these people who do NOT know them and will NEVER know them or care about them the way these fans want them to. its an insanely unhealthy culture that is set up and is, in my opinion, DESIGNED to prey on vulnerable people.

and again. im sure the bts guys are lovely people. im sure theyre very nice. but at the same time im sure they too have been taught to say things certain ways to draw these people in and cnvince fans that they have personal relationships. "army we care about you all!!" no they dont. its impossible. yes im sure they're grateful for their fans!!! any famous persn would be insane to not be!!! but do they care about each and every individual one???? HELL NO!!!!!!!

also just a side note but if you ask me its actually kpop stans who infantalize these idols the most. they are not your "boys" they are not the "tannies" they are not your "uwu softe hobi jimim tatetae joonie jinnie meow meow kookie" who do no wrong and need defending from harm. they are grownass men who you need to treat like normal adult human beings. stop being fucking weird. as as korean person myself its fucking demeaning seeing prominent korean people being treated like fucking babies who cant handle anything that comes their way. i PROMISE you that jungkook isnt getting depressed over some random twitter user who called him ugly. you dont need to report them for hate speech. its not that big a deal. god. yes they and other korean groups face racism, but not everytning is a fucking attack.

there is nothing wrong with loving a kpop group or stanning a certain idol but also you have to be realistic about it. if your mental health is suffering because of someone you do not know, or if you are suffering financially because of a kpop idol, please seek help.

#ask

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teaveetamer · 4 years

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A trivial observation, but feels like twt has terrible moderation tools or bad etiquette. If u like a user's fanart or curating of fanart but u don't agree w some of their headcanons/other fandoms, u can't just blacklist those specific posts. Yes u can unfollow/block but it just feels like reducing fandom engagement to all or nothing by forcing u to accept everything abt the user or not at all (hence more purity/problematic discourse). Easier to be mistaken as rude or inconsiderate. It sucks.

Weird, I was just talking about this with someone.

I’ve honestly considered going to other social media platforms to cross post certain things, but I’ve been holding back because of just how unusable those platforms are for the things I like to do.

On a platform like Tumblr you have the option of side blogs if you want to tailor your content (this particular blog was made because I just wanted my main blog to be about dumb, fun shippy stuff so people who are beaten down with discourse don’t have to engage with it or hear my hot takes and whining if they don’t want to). I suppose you can do something like that on Twitter, but from what I can tell it’s much more unwieldy, since you have to completely log out of one account and into another instead of just switching the posting blog on the fly.

A platform like Reddit allows absolutely zero curation of your content. You can go onto r/FireEmblem and find Edelgard hot takes next to random Fates fan art next to the millionth fucking “who would Ike end up with?” post (with the top comment always being “Soren, obviously” if I have anything to say about it). The closest you get to curating your own content is subreddits, but it’s honestly a crapshoot if your sub will ever get large enough to actually support a healthy fan community. Then you have the trouble of moderators setting rules and playing referee and occasionally power tripping/being completely incompetent.

Twitter is just a dumpster fire of everyone constantly stepping on each other and starting petty shit, at least from what little I’ve experienced of it. It’s far too easy to call someone out or insult them and far, far too difficult to explain, engage, or defend yourself in any coherent way if you do get attacked. So everything descends into a shit flinging match just by necessity.

It’s nice that Tumblr has cooled down a lot (I’m guessing because most of the obnoxious people moved to Twitter during the porn purge), but it’s also really sad because you can just see it limping on now. This platform has a very specific, unique niche and it sucks to see it repeatedly and utterly squandered.

#Anonymous

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midoriida · 5 years

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I don't think as a fandom we take enough time to think about just how ABSURD the bnha world really is. Because I love shouting into the void (my two (2) followers) here's some of my bnha world headcanons!

Jobs have probably gone downright in s a ne. Like yeah quirks are cool but can you imagine how wild it must be to be an insurance investigator or a lawyer???? like????

"So... You're telling me the attacker used his eye as a wrecking ball and demolished your vehicle.........?"

"YEs!!1!1! You gotta believe me;!1!2!2(32("

"... Unfortunately that's the most believable thing I've heard today."

Gone is the day of mass producing all clothes! Custom is the way most people go these days primarily mutant and transformation users but it could probably end up mainstream enough that everyone else will do it too. Clothing designers now have to make clothes with 10 arm holes or random shaped holes for weird body parts that are caused by quirks. I imagine knitting is probably making a comeback too! It's versatile and can be made to the shape of odd things. So Koda for example, could have a nice warm hat for winter too, or we probably have a lot of custom knit fin/flipper mittens. (❤️)

Architects having to put vaulted ceilings and huge doors in EVERY new public building. (Even with things being made to be more accessible to the public there's still a lot of places that some people just /can't/ go to because of their quirks!)

On the topic of public buildings, I bet if you go into a (new) cafe or restaurant they'll have ALL kinds of different chair sizes. With people all being so vastly large and small, one size isn't gonna cut it here just like with clothes. They maybe have different sections of the restaurant with different size stuff. I imagine this particular concept could be pretty new though so it's probably only really found in VIP or "classy" places, but it's slowly branching out everywhere depending on the population statistics in each area.

Another probably recent development is grouped housing. I don't mean like a bunch of people living together, but like people with similar quirks living in the same area so they can have a community fit to their needs. I mainly see this happening with animal like quirks, or just quirks that can be "high maintenance". Like a bunch of people with ocean animal mutant quirks living together on the coast or maybe even towns of majority quirkless people! The thing that's just so crazy to imagine is how our current world today that's commonly a "one size fits all" kind of world would slowly have to adjust to an individually customized world!

Speaking of individually customized, I imagine quirks probably made the health care industry SPIN. I bet it's now a hundred times harder to become a doctor because not only do you have to learn about the basic human body but you need to learn about how quirks effect people and make them all different! Different medical procedures and medicines have higher chances of not work on everyone so things probably are still in the process of getting majorly adjusted while doctors are still trying to learn everything they can about quirks!

The list of crazy ways the lives of people living in bnha have changed is essentially /endless/ and we really need to talk more abt this. Also Horikoshi should give some more good world building! give !!!! us !!!!! the info !!!!!!!!

#i have so many world hcs to make up for the lack of canon info pls #rb this with your own world hcs!! i love talking about this stuff more than i probably should jsjfjd #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha headcanons #world headcanons #txt.

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laystudio · 6 years

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hi! im that anon that asked for a tutorial and you said something specific and i really liked your harvey dent edit? the one that said, god is dead. and it was all red and stuff and super cool looking? no pressure! i just think your stuff is really cool and was wondering what the process behind some of it was!

ofc! it’s no problem at all :)

so i’ll just give a brief rundown and a v rough tutorial on how i made those particular graphics. thank u so much for the support, i’m especially proud of them too and it’s nice to hear u like them as well!

what you’ll need:

photoshop cc 2015.5 but any ps would do really

basic knowledge of photoshop

patience

fonts: dk shaken not stirred, liquido, couture, helvetica, helvetica neue, votu

so the first graphic is a really stupid move and i just realized it like hours after i posted it: it’s one of two graphics that feature a fanart instead of a faceclaim. looking at it as a whole, cohesive set it looks really stupid and surreal? bc it doesn’t match and just throws u off? so my advice is don’t do that. if ur gonna edit from an actual comic then the rest should be like that too (2D) but if ur gonna edit with real life elements i suggest to just stick to that path (3D) so that everything looks coordinated and neat :)

the second one actually took me a while to get right but basically the red circle is in [linear light] and the black circle is in [hard light] mode while the top most white is in [normal]. the paper texture is above all three layers and is on [multiply] mode so it only looks visible on the white circle. the “angels” text is just some basic layer mask so it looks like it’s inside the white circle. as for the style of the graphic itself it’s just based on the previous harvey graphic i did here, the last one on the left. the thing with that is i look for inspiration from other graphics i find and there’s a lot on behance, flickr and even pinterest. just search for ‘graphic designs’ and you’ll find a lot of good ones. u don’t have to copy them exactly but u can adopt and transform it into something urs! but if imitating some designs and tricks is what helps, then it’s fine too. nobody is born an innate artist/designer/whatever so just explore and experiment with what u know and what u want to see. eventually, u’ll be able to develop ur own style.

the third one is basically the same as the second and fairly straightforward. the big, red 2 is set to [darken] mode. i guess with this graphic it’s mostly abt negative space??? and also maybe laziness but negative space is good so that overall, ur graphic set wouldn’t look too cluttered. it helps the eyes breathe i think. also the main focus is the faceclaim, and since the graphics above and below it is already optically centered, it’s at the rightmost side for asymmetry. just a thought.

ok i’ll be real this is one of my faves bc it just looks so harvey i couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw that hand. i just cut it and applied a gradient map of white and light red i believe so it looks like it’s sketched out or smthng. it looks just like harvey’s burned hand but bc i’m an idiot i forgot to flip the canvas so that it would look like his left instead of his right hand. to this day i regret this mistake. if u look close enough the coin has harvey’s face on it too. damn i love him. but moving on, the lines are made with the pen tool. the pen tool can be a hit or miss thing to use and i just recently learned how to use it properly but it’s v convenient once u got around it! it’s like a sophisticated brush tool if u want to incorporate more lines in ur stuff. u can also use it to cut stuff out (like with the quick selection and magic wand tool) but i don’t do that method often so probs don’t listen to me. i only have a v basic knowledge on it but there’s a yt video tutorial on how to properly use the pen tool if ur interested.

this fifth one is very….. meh. theoretically, it could’ve been better but since i’m the Worst in practice it ended up like that. the design is p much those adidas ads with the many dots? sorry for the plagiarism, adidas, but i don’t make money off of this. so when in doubt just slap some geometry on ur edit and ur good to go. i go for circles bc they’re more aesthetically flexible, if that makes sense? i find rectangles cool but they tend to look out of place in something so vertical; it leaves little space for words and other elements. but polygons look better on horizontal canvases so u can try that too!

the last and definitely least is the most ‘meh’ out of the bunch bc i literally stopped caring abt 2/3 into this thing. the thought that comes to mind is: time magazine cover nov2017 so what does that say abt it really. the text is naturally like that thanks to the font: liquido with a wave-like option if ur into that kind of stuff. some layer masks too to get the effect of the text being inside the harvey art. it looks so dumb now wtf i’m an idiot. but hey, 2 harveys. i’m a visual genius in that respect. again, some gradient maps and a red rectangle border. tip: u should most definitely add a contrasting color or accent in ur graphics, which i once again failed to do here. in this case it’s black since the color palette is red, white and black. it adds a depth to ur work. if ur skilled enough, u can use a wider range of color palettes instead of the usual black, white, [random color]. i, myself, haven’t mastered that yet so that’s what i usually use but one extremely prolific graphic maker who has a good eye for these colors is user mattelektras. u can check out her stuff and see how she uses complementary colors in her edits.

some other things to note:

if u need a paragraph-like text for filler, u can go to type > paste lorem ipsum then adjust the font size to ur liking (somewhere around 0.8pt for maximum unreadability)

it’s good to pay attention to colors and spaces in ur works! the color wheel is ur friend in this trying time

smart sharpen always and forever (at abt 65-130 depending on ur image size)

this got lengthy but i hope i was able to help! i know it’s not that detailed but if u have anymore questions don’t hesitate to ask :) i’m not bothered at all so don’t worry abt it. happy designing!

#answered #achilleanachilles

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diverdowns · 7 years

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narciso anasui - 1 am character analysis

so, anasui — one of my favorite jjba characters, he’s probably somewhere around third or fourth on my list. i’ll do a quick rundown of his background and personality before i go in-depth into some of the arcs he’s in as well as some of his quotes, notably from the heavy weather arc and the made in heaven arc.

(as you might expect, major spoilers for all of part 6.)

i’ve tried to go easy on the headcanons and focus more on actual character analysis / meta stuff, so here we go.

anasui probably has some serious abandonment issues — we see in canon that it’s mentioned anasui had some major issues connecting with other people growing up, and so he developed a stilted sense of empathy + an obsession with dismantling / disassembling things. this presumably carried over to people — perhaps an underlying subconscious desire to understand people’s motivations that he couldn’t read on the surface through social cues that had, until that point, gone over his head. (or maybe he just really liked tinkering. who knows.)

judging at least from his obsession being allowed to grow unrestricted and out of hand as he continued to suffer socially as a result of it, we can probably assume that anasui’s parents probably didn’t care about him too much — at worst, they may have been neglectful or abusive. still, everything abt his parents is just speculation. notably mentioned in canon though: as a child, he disassembled his neighbor’s car, and was institutionalized for six months. being placed in a place like that for that long of a time does shit to you, and it’s def nothing pretty. add likely parental neglect to the equation, and you have abandonment issues just waiting to erupt.

(as a side note, psychologically, this is an obsessive ritual that can be seen in a number of conditions from asperger’s to alzheimer’s, so honestly any kind of mental illness speculation is fair game for anasui, but this isn’t the post for that.)

whatever the case, he seems to assimilate back into society once his awkward phase ended, though his strange upbringing probably left some lifelong habits / scars there, who knows. he doesn’t do anything to warrant serious attention until he’s 21. at this point, he has a (presumably) long-term, monogamous girlfriend — if it’s anything like the way he treated jolyne, we know that anasui is… overbearing, to say the least. in any case, he walks in on his girlfriend cheating on him when he makes a surprise visit to his girlfriend’s house, and murdered both of them, dismembering them so that “they would never come together again.”

it’s never mentioned if anasui was a stand user since birth, so we can assume he either used diver down to do all this disassembling or he was just…really good at taking things (and people) apart, but it’s likely that he’d had diver down from a young age — up until he’s imprisoned, it doesn’t seem like he was doing anything in particular that would’ve caused him to be normally strong enough to kill two grown adults on the spot, without the help of a stand. (then again, anasui’s capable of some pretty fucked up things either way, so this is just my speculation / hc.)

after his imprisonment, he has a full psychiatric analysis and — nobody can find anything technically wrong with him. besides his obsessive ritual and explosive temper, he’s…just a regular guy, albeit somewhat of an asshole. emporio mentions that his original obsession’s cause was never really discovered, as well. the murder of his girlfriend and girlfriend’s lover was highly publicized, his name being spread through news both on tv and in newspapers, so presumably the details of the crime were sufficiently brutal.

anasui shows a stunning lack of regard for most people’s wellbeing — for the most part, he ignores F.F. and offers little help as she fights kenzo and his dragon dream — though jolyne (and by extension, jotaro) is a notable exception. anasui claims to have fallen in love at first sight, attracted to jolyne by her iron will and strong determination to do the right thing and save her father, and expresses a strong desire to marry her. actually, when jolyne’s involved, he has an almost humorous lack of self-preservation — eg. during the green birth arc, when jolyne’s infected with a presumably fatal plant…infection…disease….thing, anasui not only touches the flowers growing across jolyne’s skin (trying to use his stand to destroy them from inside of jolyne’s body, to no avail) but also puts the flowers in his mouth, which while being played for laughs is also ridiculously foolish. (in general, though anasui ricochets heavily from being the comic relief character to being the stoic yet brash character in the main ensemble, mostly after weather’s death) there’s kind of an explanation for his reckless behavior, coming up later.

(keeping all of this in mind, and despite anasui’s willingness to use his stand to protect the main cast to the point of taking fatal blows for them, he is definitely not a good person. i just want to get that out of the way before someone accuses me of being like, an apologist lmao)

ok, so let’s go thru anasui’s main appearances, from his introduction onward.

emporio goes on to mention that “if weather report wasn’t here to keep [anasui] calm, there’s no telling what anasui’d do.” seeing as anasui is imprisoned when he’s 21, as mentioned in his introductory chapter, and he’s 25 when SO takes place, four years have passed since he’s landed in green dolphin street jail. (for reference, his sentence is for 12 years — relatively light for a double homicide, all things considered — so he’s served a third of that.) presumably, he’s known weather report for at least a majority of that time, as they at least have enough of a rapport for weather to keep anasui out of serious trouble. (weather is 39 during the events of SO. weather, for reference, has been in prison for around 20 years, since pucci took his memories from him when he was 16. also, at the beginning of the BR arc, weather has trouble using a sink that anasui with his impressive sink knowledge notes has been around in modern plumbing for at least 20 years. as a quick side note, anasui seems to have a ridiculous knowledge, in general, of a lot of mechanical things in general — during the yo-yo-ma arc, he spouts off the specifications of a random machine gun after just glancing at it.)

at the end of ch 697 we also just see a scene of weather and anasui hanging out in what appears to be some random ass hallway in the male ward of the prison with no guards around, so take that as you will lol. the two have presumably been hanging around each other for a while like this, so that’s interesting, at least.

the BR arc is where i really got into anasui, so let’s go a little in-depth on those chapters. anasui seems to know a whole bunch of random facts about disney world (though he holds a theme park guide in his hands while he spouts a bunch of random disney world facts, he doesn’t seem to look at it / open it until after he finishes talking, which draws out the legendary “where the fuck is mickey” line). he also mentions manhattan and rome, and how he’s been to neither of those places. it’s probably safe to assume that anasui is floridian — but maybe he’s just really passionate about orlando, who knows. he seems pretty passionate about sinks, too. other than that, not much real information is released here besides things like “anasui’s very passionate about mickey” and “weather report is a fan of post-impressionism”

so, on to the Fun Arc. heavy weather. when weather first gets his memories back, the first things he does, in order, are shove a injured person out of a chair, take said chair, and then force water into a doctor’s body to make him into a chair.

anasui, despite being a literal murderer and honestly doing plenty of fucked up things over the course of the series, flips his shit. he’s legitimately horrified, probably less so from what weather’s doing and more so that it’s weather that’s doing it. actually, weather kinda acts like anasui, honestly, so maybe this is also just anasui being a giant hypocrite, but hey. he’s literally described between chapters as having no idea what’s going on and being pretty freaked out — he’s just following weather at this point because he still has no idea where jolyne is.

(im going to note for my own self-satisfaction that despite weather’s whole “you’re only useful to me now cause you can kill me, anasui” line and all that, when pucci grabs anasui during weather’s fight against him, weather visibly reacts and gets worried regardless, so hey, my rarepair)

okay, after weather’s death, anasui makes a mini speech. (arguably, weather’s death is the turning point for anasui to take more of a serious and less of a comedic role.) here’s what he says:

“listen, jolyne. people have called me a ‘murderer.’ the papers have called me that, and i can’t say that i disagree with them. when people asked me if i would sacrifice myself for the sake of my family, i answered ‘no.’ i’d probably answer that way, now. my heart was never moved by them.”

(more evidence to suggest that anasui’s relationship with his family wasn’t necessarily the best.)

“but i know that i’d be willing to risk my life for something that was able to revive me. i used to be dead.”

interjection here: whether he’s talking about his betrayal (when his girlfriend cheated) or maybe just a general feeling of aimlessness towards life in general, this is pretty dark for anasui, actually. it’s one of the only times he even talks abt his crimes, and this is an interesting concept that araki explores a few times with multiple characters. (eg. anasui risks his life to revive himself with “love,” or what he thinks is love, in any case, to follow jolyne. abbacchio does something similar to follow buccellati, in p5. weather “revives himself” for revenge, and johnny in p7 for the hope of walking again.)

prior to giving himself a mission (jolyne), anasui thinks of himself as functionally dead. this also explains, for example, his nonchalance towards risking his own life and wellbeing for the others.

“weather was that way, too. weather came back to life when he left that prison. i can tell. so don’t think too deeply about what happened to him. these past few days, weather was happy. weather was already saved.”

— okay, in my mind, most of this is just shit anasui says to make jolyne and hermes feel better about weather’s sudden death. to an extent, it’s true: weather prior to getting his memories back was enraptured with the world outside the prison, helping innocent people, messing with sinks, reading fairy tales, but that’s not really the truth. after getting his memories back, weather admits to wanting to die, admitting that he took a cruel sense of pleasure in watching heavy weather run its course and telling anasui that in a twisted way, he’s glad anasui’s there so that he’d kill him. weather’s not happy.

(but who knows? in the end, the character that actually knew weather for the longest was anasui — maybe he’s right and that there was something that revived in weather that we didn’t get to see as the readers.)

but what’s interesting is that he doesn’t mention weather’s sudden transformation after getting his memories back, he lets jolyne and hermes carry on the weather they knew in their thoughts, instead of telling them the truth of weather’s personality. on my second read-through, i noticed that (besides pucci, i guess, and versace by proxy) anasui is the only one who sees weather’s true personality.

and maybe, dying for the sake of his goal (ie. weather’s attempted revenge) was close enough to redemption, in anasui’s eyes. if we pick apart weather’s final goals, he’s living only so that he can 1. take revenge on pucci and 2. die. honestly, in a sad, fucked up anasui-logic kind of way, weather dying in his attempt to kill pucci at least fulfills half of those goals, so it’s not a stretch that anasui could shrug and say “close enough i guess.” but imo, he still says what he does mostly to ease jolyne and hermes’ consciences. it’s one of his kinder moments.

in the actual final fight against pucci, anasui’s probably just behind jotaro in terms of fully grasping and understanding pucci’s abilities — and their implications in battle. his final plan is the only one they really have: because diver down is able to phase through and protect all of the others, he will take the first hit from pucci, and at that exact moment jotaro will stop time and presumably ora pucci into oblivion.

it doesn’t work, but the plan had merit and was surprisingly well thought-out, showing quite a few of his personality traits — while he’s angry and headstrong most of the time, he’s relatively good at thinking on his feet and is always quick to come up with plans, especially in battle. now let’s look at his last lines.

“don’t stop [pucci’s blow] before he hits me. do it after…”

while all the other characters pause and stare at him in shock after he says this, he’s relatively calm about it. he knows it’s the only chance they have, regardless of the danger it poses to himself. dying, to anasui, is not the worst that can happen — it’s having to live again with no purpose (which he’s established, atm, as jolyne).

“ever since i got out of prison, i’ve managed to stay alive… if i can just stay alive, keep this trend… then maybe i’ll ask jolyne to marry me. …or, you know, something like that.”

a lot of people do make light of this (and it’s somewhat comedic, for sure) but it’s interesting again to see how much this drives him. before i really get into it, let’s take a look at jolyne’s (infamous) response.

(jolyne:) “anasui… all right, ask me. […] your plan… it still as hope. it’s not darkness that drives you… even if there’s only one path that we can take, if there’s a hint of hope, then that’s the right path.

holy shit do i love this quote. in the end, anasui’s not… redeemed, not really. he’s still a murderer. he still feels no remorse over killing those people. but he’s not evil, either. his motivation is that he wants to live for real: he is driven by hope. and through all the morally grey protagonists of parts 5 on, this is what they all have in common: a hope or dream that gives someone who’d thought themselves dead something to live for. jolyne doesn’t say this because she’s suddenly in love with anasui, or because she wants to marry them, she says it because she’s realizing this — she’s realizing that anasui’s hope, his resolve, might be enough for this plan to work.

actually, in the end, in an ironic twist of fate, he does die for — and by — jolyne’s hand. (hah.) pucci redirects stone free’s punch into anasui’s torso, piercing through his chest and killing him near instantly. rip. and that, in any case, draws an end to this wall of text.

also i think one random fic i read mentioned a throwaway line that anasui apparently had about him having been married once in prison? i dont recall anything like that, but someone else has confirmed it (i’d love to find the source, if anyone has it!)

i’d love to get into the whole thing about his motivation in the first place: why anasui “falls in love” with jolyne and why that matters, as well as possible subconscious motivations for his obsessions/his stand ability but that’s falling solidly into the territory of hc’s, and not so much analysis/meta.

i’ll write it up some other time, maybe, if there’s interest.

#narciso anasui #narciso annasui #jjba #stone ocean #jjba meta #stone ocean spoilers

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alright I’m never mentioning this story again but here we go- your lengthy ridiculous post as promised:

So back in early 2014- for a couple weeks or so- I was almost obsessively hoarding urls. Most of them were SPN, Hannibal, or WTNV related bc those were my main fandoms at the time. I ended up giving many of them away to people who were in those fandoms. However, I really was hoarding just abt everything I could think of, and that included a certain url.

At this point, Ylvis’ shoot to tumblr meme fame was somehow still around (for about 6 months) for whatever reason. Like, besides that one song, can you really think of anything else notable that they’ve done that’s gotten to the same level of infamy outside of their home country? I don’t really think so. But the song was somehow still funny to me (and my grandmother)- and at the time ‘Xofficial’ fandom-type blogs that had almost nothing to do with ‘X’ were still around and popular- so I went on a halfhearted whim and within a couple of seconds ylvisofficial was mine. No one would’ve really wanted that url right? But I thought it could be fun to use later on.

Anyway, around May I suddenly found that I could not queue posts or essentially do anything regarding my main blog. Slightly annoyed but thinking it was a tumblr glitch, I just left it alone and idly checked my email. There were two emails from Tumblr Support sent within the same timeframe. They went something like this:

“'Regarding Ylvisofficial.tumblr.com’ ‘Hello, We have received a request from the comedy duo, Ylvis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylvis), that they be given the web address ylvisofficial.tumblr.com. In order to respect their professional name, and because you have never posted to the web address, we have changed your blog’s web address to [temp blog w numbers] If you feel that this URL claim has been made unfairly, you can email us at [email protected] and detail your objection. If we do not hear from you within 48 hours, the web address will be permanently given to them.’”

Like….. okay, sure tumblr you can take it. I hope they enjoy their “”“official”“” url or whatever. I love that they included a wikipedia page instead of maybe like their actual website or something. Like I’m not going to fight them for their own url obviously- no one really cares at this point. But there was also that other email:

“'ACTION REQUIRED: Release All Unused Urls’ 'Hello, We recently determined that you have registered, but aren’t using, an unusually large number of Tumblr blog URLs. As you know, URL hoarding is against Tumblr’s Community Guidelines ( X ), as it’s important for URLs to be available equally to all of Tumblr’s users. Because of this policy violation, we have suspended access to your primary blog. Please release all saved and unused URLs from your Tumblr account(s) by visiting [ X ] Then, let us know when that’s been done so we can restore your access. We won’t consider posting or reblogging material to your saved URLs after receiving this notice as a valid “use.” In addition, please do not move URLs to other accounts or create new accounts for these URLs. It’s very important that URL real estate be available for the beneficial and fair use of all Tumblr community members, and we appreciate your help in making sure that happens.’“

Which is unusual? How often does this email combo actually happen to anyone? I think they just do random checks regularly, but since Ylvis sent a request to tumblr for that blog url, tumblr must’ve also- in the process of retrieving that url- realized that I had far too many urls hoarded. This all could have been resolved very quickly….. except I didn’t have access to a computer or consistent internet access for a week. So, I waited a week, agonizing over not being able to supply my ~dedicated~ followers w/ whatever fandom posts crossed my dash, and actually not being able to see my dash at all. Let me tell you, deleting 150+ blogs when you have to input your lengthy password every time gets exhausting. I think within two hours I was done, and they restored my account. 150+ mediocre to slightly good urls gone, but at least I had my blog back. After about a week all was well and done, and Tumblr Support, Ylvis, and I went on our separate ways. We haven’t interacted since.

This story sounds very boring as I’m retelling it so I’m sorry if you were expecting something more riveting anon, but what’s also sorta interesting is- that if you really do go to ylvisofficial- you will find nothing. They haven’t posted anything on their blog. On their official site they list their twitters, sure, but no mention of their tumblr. There could be several reasons for this: Maybe they thought their following was bigger on tumblr, but once the fad passed they weren’t interested in catering to that kind of audience anymore? Maybe they realized their official website would most likely be getting more traffic than a silly tumblr blog? Maybe they just didn’t want anyone defaming their respected reputation by posting memes and fan art under their good name?

I would have thought, perhaps, that if they cared so much to contact tumblr directly to acquire (I would assume monetarily) an ”“"official”“” url so that they could have an “”“official”“” blog where they would hypothetically post “”“official”“” news, that they would have actually done something with the url but no, it’s just floating around collecting dust. Much like it would have been if I still had it in my posession, honestly.

So I do wonder: How often has this happened to anyone? Did anyone know or care that Ylvis has an official tumblr blog? Has Ylvis and their particular brand of humor even been remotely relevant since that dark time of late 2013? What would the fox say, if they actually used their tumblr platform to say it?

Your guess is as good as mine, but if you wanted to know from the fox’s mouth themselves their Instant Messaging box seems to be open at this time.

#shut up kita #dpechemode #ylvis #url hoarding #long post x/#asks #do i /still/ have a hoarding problem? p e r h a p s #similarly with my RD blog- I wasnt able to secure the name w/o a hyphen for whatever reason- despite the url not showing up #but T-RD works just fine nd I hope they arent interested in getting into tumblr anytime soon #theyre social media hermits anyways

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