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sca-nerd · 8 months

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renn fair tips!!!

yes bring water, but also figure out how you can bring that water, some places only let you bring in sealed, never opened, bottles (cause alcohol is a large part of event revenue)

CASH, most sellers have got a square card reader or paypal or something, but those work at the whims of cell service, and cell service tends to suck in parks

also with cash depending on the seller they might just wave the tax. things are priced to even dollars most of the time

the crafts people (leather, blacksmiths, silversmiths, glassblowers) are where you really want to "focus" your money, not because there's anything wrong with the clothing stalls, it's just that it's harder to get those items online, and you're helping a small business

also some of the clothing sellers just buy in bulk from a place like amazon and clip off the tag, "wevez" is where i get my skirts, and the price markup can be anywhere from 2 to 3 times what you'd pay if you bought from the seller directly

the end of the last day of the weekend you can get food for cheaper, so if you're staying until close and don't want to find a fast food joint, get a turkey leg

bed bugs, (SPRAYS DO NOT WORK ON THESE MOTHER FUCKERS) the horrible truth of the matter is, it is a valid concern, moreso since COVID. so if you do buy anything, im talking books, tunics, hair wraps, corsets, trousers, a kilt. anything a bed bug could be hanging out in, you put that in a seperate plastic bag, seal it, and stick it in the freezer when you get home. then you beat out the thing a few hours later.

this doesn't kill them, but it does make them hibernate, which means you can shake them out then kill them or if youre feeling vindictive, pop them in the oven, a minimum of 120F for 90 mins gets all bugs and possible eggs. you could also put the things in your dryer on high for the longest setting, but i personally prefer the oven (and not just because i don't have a drier)

business cards! i personally collect business cards for convience and maybe one day i'll go back to pursuing graphic design, but having a designated pocket for business cards or pamphlets cause you may be grabbing a lot of them

the vibes: Its a bunch of weird nerds getting dressed up to play pretend and get drunk in the park. It can get weird, and it can get raunchy (not horny, just crass) i have witnessed several different parents huff off with their kid cause a performer made a low brow joke that was obvious enough that the kid knew smth dirty was said, MOST of the people are chill with boundries, but some never got out of that phase of being a dick cause they think it's funny

speaking of phases, renn faires are still the only place i have ever been where you've got the flagrantly queer and menanist douchebags bumping shoulders. like side eyes are made im sure, but you can walk down a path, past somebody in the loudest, most obviously gay garb you have seen outside of a drag show, then a few feet behind them is somebody else with a trump denim vest

also, back to the rauchy bit, there will likely be people there who are cool, but use outdated/offensive lingo. like I got called a fairy by a guy waiting in line for a kebob, he did try and backpedel, but im fine with being called that and his girlfriend (who obviously dragged him there) was dressed up like a fairy, so jokes were had and expensive kebab's purchased (idk what they used to season those things but they were so fkin good for just being some meat on a stick)

if you do a craft (knitting/crochet) check if you can bring your supplies in because some places don't let guest bring in knitting needles (they are often 11 in long pointy sticks so fair enough)

ASK QUESTIONS not just at the small semi educational areas they sometimes have, but also the people selling things, i love hearing people talk about their crafts (also renn faire drama is real and it is wild, and it's much more exciting because it's effect on you is almost null)

WATER WATER WATER

I KNOW I SAID THIS AT THE TOP BUT IM SAYING IT AGAIN

DRINK SOME FUCKING WATER

some faires have pub crawls and i have witnessed many a stumbling drunk get escorted out by EMTs cause he didn't pace himself and drank on an empty stomach

#renn fair tips #my mutuals rock #ask and you shall recieve

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strwbrrylou · 9 days

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Who’s your most favorite character out of every fandom you’re in?

i love this question!!! growing up I've been in A LOT of fandoms that def shaped who i am today 😭 but most of them are dead. I'll just list some that r kinda active/still think about

1. Viktor from Arcane

Okay, Caitlyn comes in 2nd. But he's my most favorite. I initially loved him for his grumpy attitude and his accent (who doesn't) but his childhood story made me fall in love with who he is a little bit more. :')) i like how he's dedicated to his work and how he decided to take the risk in helping Jayce when it came to magic. this guy's an inventor, a scientist, and a dreamer. and i love those types of people!!! anyway i just want him to be happy

2. Reigen from Mob Psycho 100

i LOVE this unhinged man. everything is perfect about him even though he is literallt imperfect. loved his chatlracter development the most. anyway its reigen so i dont think i have to explain why hes my favorite.

i also just want him to be happy

3. Fischl from Genshin

She's one of my first characters in the game and even though her stats aren't that good i keep trying to let her be part of the team 😞 im too attached to her. She's pretty and im obsessed with her design but i loved her antics and silliness the most. she is jus like me forrreeall. i love beidou too (i love strong pirate boss woman<3) but fischl is just a character i relate to more. I ALSO WANT HER TO BE HAPPY!!!

4. Madoka from Madoka Magica

5. Eddie from IT

6. Will Graham from Hannibal

7. Miss Pauling from TF2

OKOK GUYS i have actually never played TF2 BUT THE COMIC AND FANON STUFF ARE SOO GOODD.. and Miss Pauling?! i love her an unhealthy amount....... oh my god i want her likensjaiaoaois SHE WAS MY FAVORITE IN THE SERIESS. shes so cute and she tries her best always 🤧 medic comes in 2nd.

8. Aziraphale AND Crowley from Good Omens

9. Chase AND Buddy from Cinderella Boy

need i say more

alsoooo honorable mentions from dead/other fandoms

- Jaehee from Mystic Messenger

- Haruhi from OHSHC

- Yamaguchi from Haikyuu!!

- Bill from Gravity Falls

- Fluttershy from MLP

- Tubbo from DSMP (yes i had a phase)

- Canada from Hetalia (this is embarrassing)

- Roxy AND Wallace from SPVTW

#my junk

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nouveauxamoris · 6 months

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i think u should post more design hcs... if i may suggest the big three in the bitch brigade :3

IM SO ON IT! just like the last design hc post, i’ll add little rundowns of some of the design traits!

DAZAI

my dazai design has gone thru a LOT of phases, as well as just a bit of exploration… a few common and solidified traits about him however:

- dazai’s very tan, and his hair is VERY curly, bordering coily. in my hc he’s ethnically mixed :3 (japanese and bangladeshi!)

- soft but sharp face, big nose, and soft big eyes. thick eyebrows too! i based his colour scheme off the manga one, so, dark brown almost black hair instead of a lighter brown, and dark brown eyes instead of a chestnut brown.

- SNAKEBITE PIERCINGS! in me nd the lovely @fiftyofhearts ‘ hcs (hes the asker here hai ethan :3), he got them done w ranpo and yosano.

- he’s fat. okay. i said so. the silhouette of his big ass clothes (the trenchcoat specifically) makes him look a little smaller, but thats still very much true.

- he’s scruffy. goes through periods of shaving vs not shaving but generally has a little bit of wispy facial hair more often than not. also, he’s transmasc!!! he binds w bandages also its not good. don’t do what he does. i don’t encourage unsafe binding

- 14 to 16-zai was very hyperfem. i don’t think he had that realization that he was trans until a liiiil bit later. maybe around 17? very subtly transitioned. i dont think he outwardly came out to many people other than probably chuuya, oda, and ango. everyone else just caught on eventually. he definitely went solely by his last name to disassociate from his deadname and eventually chose the name “osamu” as his first later on

- prisonzai is FULL of facial hair! his hair has gotten a lil longer too. that’s due to the fact that i’d imagine honestly his hair grows Very fast. and they’re not gonna give him a razor to shave this is literally prison

- he’s a lesbian btw

SIGMA

somehow, the sigma design has stayed relatively linear.

- LATINA SIGMA REALNESS!!!!!!!!!! a little ethnically ambiguous canonically because she was made from a book. duh. but tbh i think shes argentinian

- tan skin, very cool undertone. soft and droopy eyes, SUPER thick eyebrows, and white eyelashes. very round face and big and wide arched nose. she has a bit of a pathetic and sopping wet look to her, but she still looks very kind and gentle. most of the time while she’s masking (usually while working), that kinda works in her favour. adds to the warm and inviting feeling she’s got goin on. however, her resting face is very sad and miserable.

- she’s tall and lanky, kinda skinny. very lean and relatively average build. her colour scheme and outfit design is adjacent to the way she’s drawn in the manga. i love her so much but i dont like the anime depiction of her outfit… sorry bbg. she’s perfect in every way however

- i think generally, she’s very androgynous. enjoys dressing very androgynously too. you know how in stormbringer lippmann is described as like, so androgynous to the point where if he dressed femininely men would go crazy ‘nd if he dressed masculinely women would go crazy?? yeah. she’s got something similar goin on. switches between dressing femininely and masculinely and very in-between often. always doing something cute.

- in my eyes she is so transfem. no sort of medical transition, tho… just socially. came out that page serving cunt and she’ll continue to the day she dies

- she wears press on nails me-thinks. usually black almonds or stilettos, sometimes she switches it up to purple however.

- hair cut is kinda weird but like ???? its like if u mixed a hime cut w a wolf cut basically. or smthn like that. lots of layers. yes that’s her natural hair colour btw, she’s just cute like that.

- she’s also a lesbian btw

JŌNO

i’m only rlly getting into drawing jōno recently.. so lots of things keep changing. however, i HAVE decided on something.

- jōno is very much so blasian. lightskinted…. hair is pretty wavy but rests pretty straight just cuz of the haircut. the red is dyed btw. she didn’t care much abt the colour, someone asked to fuck w her hair, and she begrudgingly told them to go crazy. everyone seems to like it however, so she’s down w it.

- SMILE LINES. SMILE LINES AND EYE WRINKLES. product of keeping her eyes closed literally all the time. and her stupid smug resting face. she’s also filled with freckles and beauty marks. majority of them are on her face, but she’s definitely got some around her body as well.

- jōno is Tall. around 5’11” ethan has decided. she’s got a very graceful build but she’s NOT small, nor thin. lots of muscle and fat collecting around her thighs and legs, her strongest asset when it comes to physical strength methinks. have you SEEN how violently she’s able to kick people??? cmon now.

- very elegant woman in every aspect Except personality. i love her she’s actually SUCH a bitch

- again. TRANSFEM! if i like a male character.. heh… well… let’s just say they’re no longer male. (unless you’re dazai. he’s boybossing it up every day)

- she’s ALSO a lesbian btw

- i don’t have a lot to say for her i just love her so much omg

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #bungo stray dogs fanart #dazai osamu #dazai bsd #self ship #bsd sigma #bsd jouno #saigiku jōno #jouno saigiku #osamu dazai #i LOVE THEM!#ethamorisbsdverse #bsd hcs

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mllebabushkat · 2 years

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☀️ Warrior Nun S2E8 🌙

FINALE IM NOT READY

oh?? reya hello there

protective!bea is so hot ugh

not at her Instantly going for vincent's throat

EUROTRASH JESUS— michael u legend bahahah

ava rising from her crown!coma in the back like she’s been possessed ahahhahahshs

the softness!! in avatrice's little exchange "are you alright?" "fine"

i have a pit in my stomach did you see/hear ava THIS GIRL has just accepted the inevitability and necessity of her self-sacrifice HASN'T SHE 😡😭

nooooo ava + michael my noble selfless babies :(((

hehe bea and superion ava protection squad <3

awwwweee my feels are soft and easily hurt all those goodbye moments :(((((((((((

AVA WRITING A FAREWELL LETTER TO BEA MY HEART- 😭😭

“sometimes the simple truth of being alive just…moves me” she has grown up So Much i'm so proud oh ava dearest 🥺

and superion :(( she doesn't really know but she Knows and she accepts what must happen much as it tears her apart

grumpy bea hahah i still don’t like that look on her

“you’re still a nun aren’t you? forgiveness is part of your job” -> ava sowing more seeds in bea's crisis of faith :")

michael to jillian: “i’ll see you again” um. ru sure sir

first that talking heads quote (she only learns from cam the best), and now “don’t fuck it up” YES QUEENNNNNNN SUPERION

legit my fave

oh lemme take a moment to say i LOVE the brutalist concrete set design this season !!!!!!! *kisses for the crew again*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA michael cocking his eyebrow at the fbc guard when vincent calls them adriel's virgins 💀

yasmine <333333

"that is not in any way how that works" lmaoooo

also the LITTLE SMILE on her face as she says it bea is SO. WHIPPED adsghakldfk

they’re so stupiddddddddd ocs girlies why would u have ur reunion in the open whyyyyyyy

"sister warriors don’t run" have i mentioned i love yasmine

YES AVA PHASING PUNCH

“wow she’s incredible” “yes she is” THE SMILE ON HER FACE DID I MENTION BEA'S WHIPPED

YES cam reunited with her crossbow <3

yessss avatrice combo attack fave move!

no i don’t like the distrust between them :(((((((((((

the cross reflecting in avas eyes :((( oh no :(((

wait i can't help but to imagine yasmine might've had that one moment of doubt of what if ava turned on them

OK before we get to

That Scene

let it be known that this was actually such a beautiful moment, like much as the gifsets are gorgeous they do not do the magic of this scene any justice,, my heart is so full l;khsl;js;lhjssfd

alright, ✨AVATRICE✨

"Because things change when you realise not everything's about you" bea's words laid down right back at her feet ow my heart hurts

did my eyes start watering when the music started? obvs.

"They die so everyone else can live"

"I’m doing this so you can live your life. So live it, okay?"

"I won’t. I can’t." (what is my life without you?)

and you can see the infinite fondness in ava's eyes, you can see that she plans to kiss bea already when she steps forward

and she disarms her! (because of course bea had to make a last ditch effort to save ava from herself, and of course ava's grown enough to match her in combat)

and she kisses her !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❤️

and of course it’s oh so tender

[Hymn for Her] has me in a CHOKEHOLD

the way the camera spins and the chorus swells like a revelation, like they've finally found home in each other 💖

bea's hand reaches out first and of course it's the Patented Avatrice ✨Face Caress✨

THE FOREHEAD KISS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ava's teary smile, and bea returning it with a hint of a smile and a nod

"IN THE NEXT"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOJDGDJDKSKAHSH

this music im cryign again 😭😭

we all agree we aren't normal about this scene right?????

bea is shell shocked, and ava’s heartbroken, but they both dutifully carry on in that deathly silence (*kisses for the sound designer*)

“we have no choice.” “we have a million choices…we’re both living on second chances anyway” 😭😭😭😭😭😭

there’s that parallel between ava and michael again (i love the two of them),

and there’s that great inevitable tragedy of all our heroes carrying a sacrifice they don’t deserve to be burdened with

i’m waxing poetic this episode and nobody can stop me

but the plot chugs ever onward so-

“semantics, huh? That’s what we’re betting our lives on?” “we’re betting our lives on faith.” “huh, even worse.” SPITTING FACTS atheist agenda ftw

ADRIEL A-POSING HAHAHA he looks so fucking awkward standing with his legs apart like that ajhahdhdjaha

ooooh an uneven cross window this setpiece is fantastic

NO LILITH

MICHAEL HIS HEART?????????

WHAT THE E FUCK

that’s goddamn brutal

holyyyyyyyy shittttttttttttttttt

THATS IT? HESDEAD? JUST LIKE THAT

??????

grudging respect to the writers for having the balls to put in such a cruel end

i still can’t tear my thoughts away buT

BEA HALLWAY FIGHT MY BELOVED

OH the waver in her voice 🥺 when

“you all stand between me and ava.” NO MORE PRETENCE this is HER girl in DANGER she’s gotta save her !!!!

“stay… and you’ll never walk again.” BRUTAL. LOVING this look on bea

wow wow wow ave maria melting into that 2WEI arrangement is gorgeoussssssssssssssss

that deep resonant bass hits SO good

btw i’m so proud of myself for instantly recognising a signature 2wei song without checking they really are the kings of epic soundtracks

YES BEA KICK ASSSSSSSSS you are a work of ART

a l s o yES YASMINE THE CROSS SHIV

“that’s your femoral artery” i LOve a nerdy badass <33

“oh you uNHoLy biTcH” AHDHFKALHDJDKD LMFAOOO YESSSS

wanna take a moment to acknowledge bea’s compassion when she tells yas keep safe, you’ve done enough.

yasmine my bby going “maybe I’ll just sit here and wait for a while” hahahahA BEST GIRLIE ILY

update up top: camilla my beloved still kicking ass <3

sigh alright back to the slaughter chamber

hmmmmmmmm backstory

what is adriel’s gripe with reya ? is it possible it’s actually valid??? i need to know M O R E

alright adriel’s distracted thx for the mindfuck cam mwah x

OK AVA LESGO

yes stab his little bitch ass,, love that sword toss + phasing move gO STYLE ON HIM

fuck lilith uP

adriel is an airbender ?????

oh but the shot of michael’s lifeless heart :(((( i didn’t need to see him like this again :(( i’m really gonna miss him rest in peace my boy :(((((

BEA-

OH SHIT THE BOMB And the

divinium shrapnel-

“wait just let me rest for a little bit okay” WAIT NO SHE’S DYING

AND ADRIEL LIVES NO NOT THE EVIL LAUGH NOT THE VIOLIN CADENZA—

(side note love the shot of adriel limping then walking as his foot horrifyingly twists back to normal)

“i cannot be killed in this realm” fucking semantics didn’t pull through in the end :(((

bUT CAM WITH THE CLUTCH

OH AND ava’s been fighting without the halo this whole time???? what a BAMF

TARASKSSSSSSSSSSS WOW never did i think they’d save the day no i lie. semantics saved the day

HAHAHAHAHAHAA TEAR THE BITCH APART insert kill bill meme

ok but did they actually kill him this time (if so DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD)

reya to the rescue..! that *nod*

ah, birdsong. they’ll be alright up top :)

ALAS

ava’s still dying

and they’re cradling again

and surely these are their final moments together

“Why are you always trying to save me?” (she loves you)

“Let me go”

“Be free” (remember this exchange from last time?)

“I love you” (you knew that)

“I love you” (you didn’t hear)

see you, ava

:”(

lilith, still “i really hope we end up on the same side”, and then she’s gone too

and there’s nothing left except for the music to ramp up, and the arc to power down, and her to sit at its base,

alone

and it finally hits her, she’s lost, it’s over

bea 🥺 darling

:((

…

but post credits????!!!

post-ocs!bea is Yet Another Vibe

ugh when i have the energy i’ll make another rant about the significance of her looks this season

sister dora arms! cute hair~

of course, the montage and the cast sendoffs as bea walks out but she looks happy, free

a final farewell, but only for now <3

and the sword glow????

AND THAT’S IT

extra shoutout to [Always Forever] the lofi credits, istg the ost this season SLAPS

but yeah, holy shit, it really is over. that’s it, that’s all of season 2 huh (i’m hoping so hard for a season 3 and more). damn this was a good ride. so many new memories to treasure. so many more thoughts yet to be articulated. but all that for later,

in the next x

#warrior nun #wn #warrior nun season 2 #avatrice #thanks for coming along <3 #i have nothing but love and respect for this series and its cast and crew and fandom #babushkat rambles #babushkat watches warrior nun

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mydiaryx · 1 year

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Uh okay so my Mac is being slow, which is a bit annoying, im still stressing about primavera, its okay everything works out in the end, I think im just going to have to take a real good look at my spending habits tbh, I don’t think im toooo bad, I just need to stop getting tempted ! Maybe I should just delete TikTok off my phone, I actually think I just should tbh, but make my account private first and just deleted, idk why that was jus crossing my mind ! My time at George and when Jenna said 9 years old don’t have tiktoks, yes they do omh !! Okay so I reckon until payday I can try and spend like no money, its just so annoying that I like have to pay for the car park !! Okay today then I should post some things on vinted, I should just go through my wardrobe and do it, I don’t think I should really clean the whole thing out yet I should try and get loads of work done this week, tbh I could do like a massive actual clear out when I finish uni, oh yeah bc also if I want to go on hols with the gals then im gonna need a bit more money, I am allowed to spend money on myself I just need to stop feeling so guilty about it, bc tbh everything I spend is just like gives me a bit of guilt, okay so I wish I could go back to that like phase I had at the start of uni or whatever when I was litterally buying nothing !! At least im also not like dying my hair anymore, I used to spend so much on that, I just done needed all these things I want !! Its so silly, I just keep getting influenced ! Okay maybe I need some workout leggings but that’s it ! At least I have my cute workout gear now, I wont need any more for a long time, also at leat it only is like 10 now tbh, not too awful, also like if I want to go on TikTok later I should just I kind of actually fancy like okay also at least like in my appraisal I can say I want to start applying for head office, maybe they can help me with that, just so unsure about being a buyer, idk why I wanted to be a buyer so much at first, it is a bit more glamours tbh but id actually love to be a pit designer the most they look like they had such a cute fun time and looked so chilled out all the time lol I am not sure about him working there tbh, I reckon he’s way better off at urban , stuff like that is a bit scary when it comes to like getting paid ect. Okay now im gonna post some things on vinted.

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tflaw · 1 year

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hello my beloved tumblr user 4fyd (THE USERNAME CHANGE OUU) how r we feeling abt the new banner !??? me personally .. i feel hopeless KSMDM i also just realized that this is the first time im gonna pull on a second phase banner so it might be on the afternoon/night for us 😭 i woke up HORRIFIED .. hehe im not gonna hope much for my mere 20 pulls lmao but i hope i get rosaria at least :// i want her sooo bad <//3

+ WAIT RLLY ?? omg ?? i didnt know that but damn they both sound so sexy i shouldve found that out sooner :')) but naur omg ayato is rlly good too hyv is so vile for these banner fr 😭 i wouldve pulled for him too if i didnt want raiden that much .. but akdnsk it's ok ive been avoiding the hydro hypostasis anyways :')) im still sooo salty abt leaks saying shenhe not having her rerun pls but tbh it's great bc i dont have that much source of primos for now !! if u ever pull for ayato, good luck ava !! i hope u get him early pity too !!

+ NAUR let me tell u abt something that happened to me in windtrace 😭 bc i was .. the hunter for a round and somehow i managed to let TWO rebels win without a disguise help i had to block those two afterwards i was sooo ashamed :')) and yes HAHA some ppl's tactics includes pretending as an npc and it works !! though it's still veeery risky bc u might get chased </33 ngl im hoping for some fun windtrace interactions but so far ive been w very serious players n the chat is always quiet ://

+ i dont blame u for the fyodor obsession ava HE IS SO 😩 !! he's so sexy n pretty istg n his crime and punishment is just so intriguing .. he always brings me to the edge of my seat when he appears omg and his design is just SOO good 10/10 would slut myself out !!

+ and hehe thank u so much ava !! <33 the weather's been so cold lately n ngl ive been feeling a bit sick but other than that im doing great n im safe !! i hope you stay healthy this upcoming year unlike me :')) ANSWK id totally love to meet u too ava but ik we both cant travel for shit LMAOO but hey i hope we manage at least 😭

hello my love tumblr user lovewinery it is i the one who changes uset at least once a month <3 !! naur don't lose hope now !! i got zhongli after xiao's banner before so i know you'll get raiden, too!! we don't know what'll happen in those 20 pulls !! and may u get rosaria <33 i'm gonna try pulling for sara cons on ayato's banner maybe he'll come home hihi

+ HELP u blocked them? i was the hunter one time and we were in watatsumi island . pls. someone used kokomi and said in the chat that watatsumi is her domain idr but they didn't even use any disguise . i fr ran around the place trying to chase them . and i didn't even catch them pls. i was hoping that rebel doesn't have a tiktok acc and recording the whole thing cause that's fr embarrassing 4 me <//3

+ i love him, ai . ive already expected this to happen when i saw his photos a while back . i knew he's gonna be in my mansplain manipulate manslaughter list . when i first heard his voice, ai :(( i was ready to give him a lap dance here and there

+ omg what is in the air fr a lot of people are getting sick these days :(( drink your meds and lots of water !! also keep urself bundled up it's so cold these days >:(( i slept w a sweater on and i was still shivering earlier . that's true <//3 maybe one day we can meet w the others !! 😭

#xoxo: ai.#✉️: hotmail.

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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years

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exercises in drawing sooo expediently (putting last night’s hours spent on few, tiny edits & putting down flat, stylized colors into a drawer)

#and the initial effort that involved yknow like 95% of the lineart...maybe still a couple of hours. which Is relatively quick for me lol #certainly still considering [can i draw goosebumps the musical Visualization Manifestations] lol daunting....things take me so much time #and you Know im wrestling myself like Stop cleaning it up so help me lol...always drifting towards Honing in efforts at more spontaneity #or flexibility or what have you...which is easier to try out when first of all i'm working off of smthing already drawn/sculpted/stylized #corned beef #luca #Takes An Inhale....haha no i can't max out the tags i intend to go do kitchen things impendingly. try to sprint through unending remarks #first of all my not being able to put entire lengthy tails in composition uncropped here: tries not to look hurt =(#second of all i love when things have the vignette energy so much. that is exactly what i want yes please thanks. just hangin out #who all put on thinking caps so hard like Caps For Sale guy that all this was possible like. how did this get so grounded lol how's it so #like mostly Various Phases Of Hanging Out. it is so everyday. of course it's not completely like ''and that would def happen like that irl''#and of course saying ''wow it's not very fantastical huh'' is like so a premise is magical fish people. the point stands like my god....#hanging out everyday grounded Distilled To Essence goings on like. you go ''what if these ppl were just hanging out'' & You Get That....#speaking of Distilled To Essence that sure applies to ''ya we know our Core here is 'what do/will you do for your friend here. vice versa'''#like that's so obviously front and center throughout like just. starting to think however things were whittled down to the core of things #it's like when you Do distill things to the point you absolutely know what all Things Are About here you can execute things epically winsome #head in hands for a moment like my god.....setup payoff.....it's fine. we're all fine #i love vignette energy i love people having cool dinosaur raptor type tails and otherwise galaxy brain fish designs that i think pwn hard #i also love successfully / strongly executed setup payoff b/c you know what your story's about and could and did distill to that essence #i love when the essence is what can/must/should/will you do for your friend; furthermore i love. arcs kicking off with / ft. serendipity #sometimes Getting Going on your emotional arcs involves happening to run into other ppl even if for characterful reasons #just little sometimes you can't do xyz on your own for yourself but why don't you go have some experiences with a kindred spirit or two #wherein there need not be any particular distinction between friendship and [friendship that Could be the foundation of romance] b/c #how would you know when there's no Real World internality in stories and b/c in what way is such a distinction Meaningful in many stories #and then when you'd normally go ''oh they forgot sauce in my order =('' & glumly move on you can/do immediately request sauce for the bestie #we've all been there....also the visual style i'm like is that watercolor influence i detect....do we have art direction? directing art?#anyways i'm so. and i'm also glad to take advantage of like ''ok time to try drawing spontaneously / loosey goosey here''#just little [screaming as billions impends] and [hypothetical practice at such processes]....we have fun #see i didn't get to thirty tags (i think. surely) not b/c i truly zoomed to the kitchen it's like idfk half an hour later. im. riled #oh my God no this is tag thirty lsdjfsd;jf im soooooooo. i gotta go

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xmascritter · 2 years

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So, I have been dragged out of my internet slumber leading up to finals to see this mess, and i dont post much, but I do have to rant here because people keep saying something that gets on my nerves.

NSR/NO STRAIGHT ROADS PEOPLE: THIS RANT IS NOT AT YOU! This is tagged because I am using concept art of Sayu. Please go on with your day. :)

Now, for the Subma and/or Pokémon fans,

As Im sure everyone who has been under the ingo tab for more than 2 seconds today has learned, there's supposedly a leak of pages from the PLA concept art book of the concept art of Ingo with a receding hairline and no eyebrows. If you don't know what Im talking about, here is the picture.

Now, I feel I have to address this first before I move on to my actual problem here. I personally see no problem with Ingo having a receding hairline and no eyebrows. Honestly it's kind of funny. Will I personally be drawing and/or imagining him with a receding hairline? For the most part, probably not, but I support the people who do.

HOWEVER, what I AM pissed about are the people who are saying that this is canonical. You have to remember that this is an art book, and while it is still official concept art, it is just that, CONCEPT art.

CONCEPT 👏 ART 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 ALWAYS 👏 CANON!!! 👏

A perfect example of this is Sayu from the game "No Straight Roads" by Metronomik (hi NSR fans, sorry if you're still here and have decided to see the fuck is happening in the pokémon side of tumblr). The lovely crew behind the character designs for the game let us see A LOT of the concept art for these characters, and probably one of the most distinct evolutions of the characters design in the lineup and probably the best example of my case is Sayu, the bubbly mermaid popstar. Some of her earliest concept art shows her even before she was decided to be a mermaid!

Now, is this what sayu looks like? NO! Can you draw her like that or write fanfic about her looking like that? Yes! But JUST BECAUSE ITS AN OFFICIAL CONCEPT DOES NOT MEAN ITS CANON. Early concept art of her even in her mermaid form shows a vastly different design!!!

Later concepts do get a lot closer to what her official design is, but, well... thats how concept art works! The later concepts are going to a lot more closely resemble the final product because its what immediately lead to it!!!

Needless to say, we don't know all the changes Ingo's design went through during concept phases to his official artwork, since Gamefreak only shows us so much in these artbooks, we don't fully know how his design has evolved over time. However, this

And this

Are the official design and model that we got. Meaning his hairline could be fucking across his forhead for all we know. Please, do have fun and enjoy drawing bald Ingo, I look forward to seeing what this does to all the fanfics, headcanons (ha!), and the stories. But please, don't call that shiny head canon, I don't need to burst a blood vessel today. You can call me in denial all you want, but unless we see his hairline in some official artwork like pokemon masters or the anime or something, I will continue to sit on this hill until I too look like I've gone through hell after getting yeeted to the wrong time period.

TL,DR; girl gets irrationally mad at tumblr because they keep saying that because something is in the concept art that it is canon.

Thank you for reading through my half baked rant, and I am sorry.

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moved2usagiiboo · 2 years

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綺麗ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕪 𝕃𝕚𝕒𝕣偽者

Syp; You never realized how much you hate pretty liars until today.

Ft; Nurse!Reader x College!Hanma

Rating; Sfw, angst with no comfort. Minors do not interact. Thank you💕

A/n; I have a new found love for Mr. Hanma and the first thing I do is write angst 💀

There’s a lot to say about Hanma Shuji. Many words that could describe his complex personality that is unique to him and him alone. Rascal, slimy, impulsive, mischief-maker, a liar. The list goes on and on, after all, the amount of words is vast. However, with all of that being said, you still can not understand him. He’s special. Whether that be a good or bad type of special, you haven’t been able to determine that yet. His personality is unlike something you’ve never seen before. And you’ve seen a lot, you are a college student after all.

You just don’t understand him. Just like a bad dream he appears out of nowhere, sometimes unprovoked and other times manifested. He leaves such a powerful impact on you and your psyche that you can never forget him.

Hanma Shuji came out of nowhere, randomly stumbling into your office during lunch break. Cuts and bruises all over him, his clothes torn, and yet his signature smirk never left his face. You never seen him around the campus before, even to this day you haven’t seen him with a single textbook. You don’t even know if he goes to this school. Nonetheless, that didn’t matter to you at the time. He was injured and being the assistant nurse you did what was required of you, truly, the bare minimum. It’s not as if you were an actual doctor, not yet. And the school didn’t have equipment like a hospital would. All you could do was clean his wounds and bandage him up.

“Are you an angel?” He smirks with his golden eyes.

“No.” You said blatantly as you dabbed his face with a alcohol soaked swab. “Im the nurse’s assistant.”

“All I see is an angel.” He hummed as he closed his eyes. Nothing else was said during that encounter. He sat still and allowed you to do your job with no complaints and barely any noises of pain. You’re not sure where you went wrong during that one talk, what you said that got him so attached— maybe is isn’t even attached. Maybe, he’s bored.

Yes, bored. That makes more sense than him having some form of attachment to you. That’s just not Hanma, he’s a wild card. He swears no loyalty to anyone other than thrill and excitement. It’s not as if you’re the most entertaining person in the world, it’s the exact opposite. The most thrilling thing you may do is reading. Even then, you’re reading medical material. You’re dedicated to your future practice, there’s no time for anything else. Being a doctor is hard work, if your sole focus isn’t your profession than you’ll fall behind. You don’t want that.

Which means no distractions. It’s just so hard to get rid of him, most times you don’t even want to do that. He creept his way into your life and marked his territory there. You complain all the time but you really like his presence.

“Hanma, why are you here?” You sighed when the door creaked open. Used to him constantly sneaking in you don’t have to turn around to know it’s him. It’s as if the air changes when Hanma enters a room, you can never determine whether it’s a good or bad change.

“How you know it was me, angel?” He chuckles softly. His footsteps now heavier than before, no longer trying to sneak in and “scare” you. He was caught.

“All of the sudden the room started to smell like rat.” You’re nonchalant about it. Too focus on reorganizing the medicine in the clear cabinet.

“You’re so cruel to me~” Feigning saddens through his voice. His lanky body makes his way to his designated seat, one that he claimed on his own without care for what you wanted.

“Truth hurts. And get out of that seat, how many times do I have to tell you? It’s for actual patients. This isn’t your lounge area, Hanma.” You scold him. He’s not phased by it, you’re starting to think he enjoys it. Perhaps he’s a masochist?

“But I’m injured, little nurse~” The first time all today did you turn around to face the man. “I have a broken heart.” Palm laying flat on his chest with golden eyes boring into yours.

Three blinks as you stare at him with zero expression. “Die then. But do it outside of my office.”

“Starting to think you’re a terrible nurse and an even worse angel.” He signs. His long arm stretches over to the desk near by him, grabbing a pencil from on top. It’s obvious he’s bored and yet he refuses to leave. Taking the pencil and placing it right above his top lip, pushing his lip upwards to hold the pencil in-between the small space.

He moves his lip side to side while maintaining a tight grip on the wooden writing tool. Moments pass of complete silence, well, not entirely silent. Your soft mutters along with the clinking of the glass bottles softly being placed on the cabinet shelf. Reading aloud the various medicines aloud as you matched them to the ones seen on your clipboard. Three bottles being placed in alphabetical order, it was going smoothly. The silence aided in your focus and Hanma didn’t like that.

“Keep your hands to yourself Shuji.” You didn’t have to raise your eyes to know Hanma was stretching his arm out completely to try and poke your side.

“You make it hard to.”

“Why?” Finally closing the cabinet doors and setting down your clipboard. “Its not like it’s fun here, you should have better things to do than stay here.” This might be the first serious conversation the two of you had since this little 'relationship' started.

“So?” Resting the pencil on his ear, he doesn’t give you the time of the day with that question.

“So, why are you here?” The silence is louder than the conversation and heavier than any boulder. You ignore the tightness in your throat as his golden orbs blankly stare at you. “Fucking— Just forget it Shuji.” Slamming your hand against the clipboard you gripped it. Turning on your heels the pumps of your shoes clacked against the tile as you walked away.

Before you could open the sliding door the corner of your eye caught a familiar hand with black writing on the back. Which slammed against the wall— your breath hitched as Hanma loomed from behind you. You never realized how tall he is until he’s right behind you. His presence is suffocating, intoxicating, you could either get drunk off of this feeling or pass out from it.

“I like you, little angel. That’s why I stick around— you’re so pretty when you’re focused. Can’t help it, you make it hard to want to leave.” Your shoulders hunch up from the feeling of Hanma’s voice right next to your ear. Your eyes turned to the side to avoid his never-ending gaze. What are you supposed to say to this? You didn’t expect such this — a confession. Knuckles turning white from the grip you have on your poor clipboard.

Your throat is in a permanent lock, you couldn’t bring yourself to mutter a single word. In this awkward position, you have no idea what to do. You can feel your brain scrambling until Hanma let’s out a hearty laugh.

“Lighten up, Y/n. It was just a joke.” The hand that was against the wall removed itself, finding it’s way to top of your head ruffling your hair. “You definitely aren’t my type, so don’t worry. I’m just hanging around here cause I’m bored.” You should feel relieved. He doesn’t have feelings for you, that makes things easier. But it hurts.

“I’ll leave now, yeah? Have fun with your little bottles~” You wish you could’ve seen his face before he left. You guys never locked eyes once, maybe if you did then he would’ve seen that you felt the same.

“You’re such an asshole.” Muttering to yourself as you closed the sliding door after Hanma left. Cruel. Unnecessarily cruel. With tears dripping down on the tile you realize just how much you hate pretty liars.

Permatag; @bxnten , @yukihime-mikeys-girl

#tokyo revengers x reader #tokyo revengers x reader angst #hanma x reader #hanma angst #hanma x you #tokyo revengers hanma #tokyo rev angst #tokyo rev x reader

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amerrierworld · 3 years

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First Meetings

for @me-goro: Lou x fem! reader in which they don't know of each other at first but with time fall for each other and get together?

AHGJKSG THIS IS SUPER LATE WHOOPS IM SORRYYYY

Summary: You’re an intern for Rose Weil and meet Lou and Debbie when they visit her fashion show.

Characters: Lou Miller x fem!reader, Debbie Ocean, Rose Weil

Word Count: 1.8k

Warnings: none :)

From what you could tell, the show had been an absolute disaster. Your boss Rose had disappeared among the endless rows of clothes and accessories. You caught a glimpse of her disappearing with a jar of Nutella and a spoon maybe half an hour ago, practically hyperventilating.

One of the makeup artists snapped her fingers to stop you zoning out and you got back to work with switching her brushes and palettes that she was using, like a surgeon performing a heart transplant.

You got this job expecting a bit of experience. Maybe some original designs, applying makeup yourself, collaborating... but you were stuck assisting and fetching coffee for those more experienced.

“I swear to God if I catch you dozing one more time-” the lady threatened, snapping again to get your attention. “Pass me that blush, now.”

You sighed. Eventually when the model was done, you were dismissed for a little break. You went to get a coffee and thought of Rose that was hiding somewhere. So you got two coffees instead.

You dodged models, stylists and photographers left and right until you stumbled upon Rose Weil sitting crosslegged on the floor. Her mess of blonde hair could not go unnoticed anywhere.

She had been the one to interview you for the internship, and was incredibly kind to you. You were disappointed when you realized how little you actually had the chance to work with her so far.

But when you approached Rose with two hot cups of coffee in your hands you realized she wasn’t alone. Two very stylish women were by her sides, seemingly trying to soothe her as you approached. The blonde caught you eye, because she was wearing a beautiful baby blue suit, and you thought she would have been amazing to walk down the catwalk in exactly that.

The three looked up as you neared and you smiled shyly.

“Coffee, Miss Weil?” you asked, holding it out.

“Oh, Y/N,” she exclaimed, delighted to see you. “Oh, you’re such a sweet girl, but if I have anymore caffeine I might completely lose my mind right now.”

“No, no, of course. I was just wondering, I accidentally made two,” you lied hastily. You eyed the blonde and brunette that were hanging out with your boss. The two shared a mutual look, and you took a chance.

“Either of you want coffee? It’s got cream and a bit of vanilla.”

“Yeah, sure,” the blonde’s voice rumbled through your ears down your entire body. She stood up and accepted the cup, taking a languid gulp.

“Careful, it’s... hot.”

She grinned. The temperature didn’t seem to phase her.

“So, what do you say, Rose?” the brunette looked at your boss, who was still prodding with a spoon at her Nutella.

“Yes, yes, of course. I haven’t got too many options, do I?”

You barely registered what they were talking about as the blonde smiled at you for a second.

“You do make a good cup of coffee,” she complimented you. You huffed out a laugh,

“Well, it’s all they really let me do around here.”

“You a fashion designer?”

“Uhm. Not quite. I’m just an intern here.”

“Oh my days, Y/N is a genius!” Rose interrupted from the floor. “So much potential. So much better than me. God, I wish this job deserved you.”

You giggled nervously at her comments, flattered but a bit worried, because Rose did look a little like she was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

“Well, maybe Y/N would be interested in helping you out on this job?” the blonde suggested. The way she said your name was intoxicating. She had a slight Australian lilt that made you swoon.

“Not part of the plan.” The brunette shot a sharp look at her friend, who shrugged.

“Plans change, Debs. What’s one more?”

The brunette -Debs?- rolled her eyes, moreso at the blonde than at you. “Alright, fine.”

The blonde grinned at you, sipping more coffee, before offering a handshake. Her fingers were entirely bejewelled with gorgeous rings. You shook it as firmly as you dared.

“I’m Lou, by the way. So, if you’re up for joining the team... Why don’t we talk about it over... more coffee? On me this time.”

“Very smooth, Lou.”

“Shut up Deb.” Lou angled herself to fully focus on you and block Deb out of your vision, much to your amusement. “Coffee?”

“Yeah,” you said without hesitation. “Let’s.”

The coffee date was a lovely date, all discussion about crime aside. You were easily swept up with the Ocean team, whether it was because of the promised money, or the sultry blonde sitting across from you.

For the date she wore a vest with a deep neckline and a littering of necklaces dipping into the cleavage. You tried your very very best not to look too often.

“I’ve never been to the Met, actually. Should be fun,” you shrugged after her careful question to join the group. You sipped your hot drink from a mug that sat comfortably and heavily in your hand. There was rain rumbling on the New York streets outside.

“You’re the first to call it fun,” Lou grinned. “Remember, it’s a job too.”

You lowered your voice to reply, “look, whether or not it’s illegal, it’ll still be loads more fun than my current job. I fetch coffees and clean makeup brushes for a bunch of stuck-up artists.”

Lou chuckled, drinking her black coffee. You learned she didn’t usually enjoy things in her coffee, which made the fact that she accepted your cheap coffee offer from when you met even better.

“This is perfect movie weather, don’t you think?” you commented, watching the soft rain outside.

“I suppose so. I’m rather disappointed actually.”

“Why?”

“Well, I had been hoping to take you on a romantic bike ride around the city, maybe even the parks. That’s not very plausible when it’s raining.”

You giggled, “We could recreate that scene from the Notebook?”

“God, no,” Lou groaned, smiling stupidly. “I’ll definitely catch a cold in this.”

“Wanna catch a movie with me, then?”

Lou eyed you for a moment, and you felt something warm spread inside your chest just from the way she looked at you.

“I’ll do you one better. Come over and we’ll watch a movie at my place instead. It’ll be free and I’ll make us popcorn that’s better than cinema popcorn.”

You tapped your chin in feigned thought. “That’s a bold claim.”

“There’ll be alcohol.”

“Alright, you’ve convinced me.”

The both of you laughed as you left the cafe, hurrying to a cab in the downpour.

Lou helped squeeze water out of your hair in the cab, and you took the chance to lean back into her hold. She chuckled deeply and let you sink into her side, her arm draping over your shoulder on the way home.

There was an unspoken familiarity between the two of you since you had met. You had texted consistently, asking questions and slowly getting to know each other. A small part of you was worried that you didn’t quite know her- criminals tended to be secretive, didn’t they?

But you really didn’t have a worry. It had been lovely, and romantic, and stupidly adorable thus far.

Once you reached the front door of here place, Lou struggled a little with the keys from the rain in both your faces.

“So is this actually your place, or are we breaking in right now?” you said when she led you inside.

“Oh, haha, very funny.”

The loft was spacious, much to your delight. You asked to use her washroom, and you were able to distinguish that this was in fact Lou’s home, from the amount of short eyeliner pencils and mascaras filling the bathroom drawers.

When you came back, kernels were popping away in the microwave, and the Notebook was ready to play on the TV. You chortled at the sight, hurrying over to the couch and flopping down on it.

“Can I have some space on my own couch, please?” Lou grinned, settling in next to you. She sat a few inches from you, probably trying to give you some personal space or something. But you reached over to the popcorn bowl that she was holding, and after eating a mouthful, you cuddled up to her side, one hand permanently in the bowl.

At some point that evening her arm draped over your shoulder again, and you wrapped your arms around her waist. The movie kept playing, but you could only focus on her torso rising up and down with every breath underneath your ear.

The rain kept pouring as the sun wet down outside. When the movie finally neared the end, Lou whispered, as if she was going to interrupt the film,

“Do you need to be anywhere tonight? Or would you like to stay?”

The question startled you. You lifted your head to look at the blonde, her hand immediately coming to cradle your face, as if on instinct.

“Wanna get rid of me?”

“No, actually. On the contrary... I don’t think I want you to leave.”

You looked incredulously at her. “You already want to U-haul? That’s a bit stereotypical don’t you think?”

“Oh, bugger, you know that’s not what I meant,” she grumbled. You grinned at her adorable little frown, leaning forward and putting one hand on her chest and brushing your lips over her chin.

“I know what you meant,” you hummed, before your lips met.

Lou slowly responded to the kiss, her breath deepening. She wound her hands around you and pulled you into her lap. Ryan Gosling said something romantic in the background, but you hardly noticed because her fingers pressed against your back to nudge you closer.

When you pulled away, her face was flushed and her blue eyes were blown.

“I gotta say it now, darling. You’ve somehow turned my life upside down very, very quickly. You might be stuck with me.”

The unspoken familiarity grew even more, and you couldn’t help but agree with her before kissing her again.

“I don’t wanna mess up,” Lou muttered against your mouth. You tenderly traced her cheekbone down to her jawline.

“I don’t either. So I think we’ll be alright,” you replied sheepishly. “I’m not gonna run off as soon as the Met’s been robbed, I promise.”

“Oh, well thanks for now putting that idea into my head,” Lou huffed in response. You giggled and kissed her chin again, then her jaw, then her neck. She sank back into the cushions, pulling you even closer.

At one point you lost track of where you were going with your kisses and settled into the warmth she was exuding instead. You clung onto her and buried your face in her neck, nearly falling asleep.

“You’re missing the ending,” she whispered, hand raking through your hair.

“Don’t need it,” you replied, hands gripping her vest. “I’ve got everything I need here.”

A/N: Lou comfort is a 24/7 need for me, okay? I kinda didn’t do the “fall for each other with time...” I hope that’s alright o.o

#merry writes #amerrierworld #lou miller #lou x you #lou x reader #lou miller x reader #lou miller x you #oceans 8 #ocean's eight #oceans8 #cate blanchett #cate blanchett x reader #fem!reader #fanfiction #ocean's 8 fanfiction

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olderthannetfic · 3 years

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It's really surprising that you're so well versed in older fandoms and yet participate in new popular ones (that cdrama, kpop) is this by design? Im in my twenties and my interest turnover is already way slower than it used to be

You know, that’s a really interesting question. I wouldn’t say it’s by design exactly in that I do tend to just follow what strikes my fancy, and I can’t force myself to want to write fic for just anything. (I find it easier to like reading fic without serious involuntary emotional investment, but writing takes more. Vidding I can do on command most of the time, but I don’t usually bother unless I have a lot of feels or I’m fulfilling someone’s prompt.)

However, me getting into BTS was 100% due to me wanting to understand BTS enough to explain to people who weren’t very interested but wanted to know what was going on in fandom lately. Under normal circumstances, I run the dance party at Escapade, the oldest extant slash con. We borrowed vividcon’s thing of playing fanvids on the wall--all of them set to dance music--as the soundtrack for the dance party. This means I’m creating a 3-hour mixtape of fannishness, which has amazing potential to make people feel in the know about Fandom Today... and equal potential to make them feel alienated if nothing they care about shows up. Only about 100-150 people attend the con, so it really is possible to make a playlist that feels inclusive yet informative--it just takes a huge amount of work.

Every year, I do a lot of research on which fandoms are getting big and look for vids from vidders people won’t have heard of, so there is an element of consciously trying to keep up with things. Generally, I only get into these fandoms myself if I had no idea what they were and then suddenly, oops, they’re my kryptonite, like the buddy cop android plot in Detroit: Become Human, which sucked me in hard for like 6 months on the basis of a vid.

(So if you’re into cross-fandom meta and associated stuff as one of your fannish interests, you tend to have broader knowledge of different fandoms, old and new, than if you’re just looking for the next place you’ll read fic. It’s also easier to love vids for unfamiliar things than fic.)

But though I was only looking for a basic primer on BTS, BTS has 7 members with multiple names and no clear juggernaut pairing, not to mention that AU that runs through the music videos and lots of other context to explain. The barrier to understanding WTF was going on at all was high enough that to know enough to explain, I had to be thoroughly exposed... And once I was over that hurdle, oops, I had a fandom.

In terms of old vs. new, here’s the thing: kpop fandoms in English and c-drama fandoms in English right now feel a lot like anime fandom in English did in the early 00s. I had a Buddy Cops of the 70s phase in the middle, but my current fannishness is actually a return to my older fannishness in many ways.

What do I mean about them being similar?

Yes, I know some wanker will show up to say I think China, Korea, and Japan are indistinguishable, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the way that I used to routinely meet Italian and French and German fans, Argentinian and Mexican, Malaysian and Indonesian and Filipino too. English-language fandom of SPN or MCU may have all those fans from all those countries, but it feels very American most of the time. English-language fandom of a non-English-language canon is more overtly about using English as a lingua franca.

It also tends to attract people who as a sideline to their fannishness are getting into language learning and translation, which are my other passion in life after fanworks fandom. (I speak only English and Spanish and a bit of Japanese, but I’ve studied German, French, Russian, Mandarin, Old English, and now Korean.)

Nerds arguing about methods of language learning and which textbooks are good and why is my jam. This is all over the place in English-language fandoms of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean media. Those fandoms also tend to be full of speakers coming from a Germanic or Romance languages background who face similar hurdles in learning these languages. (In other words, if you’re a native Japanese speaker trying to learn Korean, the parts that will be hard for you are different than if you’re an English speaker, but you’re also usually not doing fandom in English.)

There’s also an element of scarcity and difficulty of access and a communal attempt to construct a canon (in the other sense) of stuff from that country that pertains to one’s fannishness. So, for example, a primer explaining the genre of xianxia is highly relevant to being a n00b Untamed fan, but just any old thing about China is not. A c-drama adapted from a danmei webnovel is perhaps part of the new pantheon of Chinese shit we’re all getting into, but just any old drama from decades ago is probably not... unless it’s a genre precursor to something else we care about. Another aspect here is that while Stuff I Can Access As A N00b Who Doesn’t Speak The Language may be relatively scarce, there’s a vast, vast wealth of stuff that exists.

This is what it felt like to be an anime fan in the US in 2000. As translation got more commercial and more crappy series were licensed and dumped onto an already glutted market, the vibe changed. No longer were fans desperately trying to learn enough of the language to translate or spending their time cataloguing what existed or making fanworks about a show they stuck with for a bit: the overall community focus turned to an endless race of consumption to keep up with all of the latest releases. That’s a perfectly valid way of being fannish, but if I wanted that, I’d binge US television 24/7.

Anime fandom got bigger, but what I liked about anime fandom in English died, and I moved on. (Okay, I first moved on to Onmyouji, which is a live action Japanese thing, but still.)

Hardcore weeaboos and now fans of Chinese and Korean stuff don’t stop at language: people get excited about cooking, my other other great passion. Times a thousand if the canon is something like The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, which is full of loving shots of food preparation. People get excited about history! Mandarin and Japanese may share almost nothing in terms of grammar or phonology, but all of East Asia has influence from specific Chinese power centers historically, and there are commonalities to historical architecture and clothing that I love.

I fell out of love with the popular anime art styles as they changed, and I’m not that into animation in general these days. (I still own a shitton of manga in art styles I like, like Okano Reiko’s Onmyouji series.) I’ve become a filmmaker over the last decade, and I’m very excited about beautiful cinematography and editing. With one thing and another, I’m probably not going to get back into anime fandom, but it’s lovely to revisit the cultural aspects I enjoyed about it via live-action media.

BTS surprised me too, to be honest. I really dislike that early 90s R&B ballad style that infests idol music (not just Korean--believe me, I resisted many rounds of “But Johnny’s Entertainment though!” back in the day). While I like some of the dance pop, I just don’t care. But OH NO, BTS turn out to be massive conscious hip hop fanboys, and their music sounds different. I have some tl;dr about my reactions in the meta I wrote about one of my fanvids, which you can find on Dreamwidth here.

But back to your comment about turnover: I know fans from the 70s who’ve had one great fannish love and that’s it and more who were like that but eventually moved on to a second or third. They’re... really fannishly monogamous in a way I find hard to comprehend. It was the norm long ago, but even by the 90s when far more people were getting into fandom, it was seen as a little weird. By now, with exponentially more people in fandom, it’s almost unheard of. I think those fans still exist, even as new people joining, but we don’t notice them. They were always rare, but in the past, only people like that had the stamina to get over the barriers to entry and actually become the people who made zines or were willing to be visibly into fanfic in eras when that was seen as really weird. On top of that, there’s an element of me, us, judging the past by what’s left: only people with an intense and often single passion are visible because other people either drifted away or have seamlessly disappeared into some modern fandom. They don’t say they’re 80 or 60 or 40 instead of 20, so nobody knows.

In general, I’m a small fandoms and rare ships person. My brain will do its best to thwart me by liking whatever has no fic even in a big fic fandom... (Except BTS because there is literally fic for any combination of them, like even more than for the likes of MCU. Wow. Best fandom evar!) So I have an incentive to not get complacent and just stick with one fandom because I would very soon have no ability to be in fandom at all.

My appetite for Consuming All The Things has slowed way down, but it also goes in waves, and a lot of what I’m consuming is what I did back in 2000: journal articles and the limited range of English-language books on the history of m/m sex and romance in East Asia. It’s not so much that I have a million fandoms as that I’m watching a few shows as an expression of my interest in East Asian costume dramas and East Asian history generally.

I do like to sit with one thing and experience it deeply rather than moving on quickly, but the surface expression of this has changed depending on whether I’m more into writing fic or more into doing research or something else.

But yes, I do do a certain amount of trying to stay current, often as a part of research for fandom meta or to help other people know what’s going on. Having a sense of what’s big doesn’t automatically mean getting into all those things, but I think some fans who are older-in-fandom and/or older-in-years stop being open to even hearing what’s new. And if you’ve never heard of it, you’ll never know if you might have liked it.

#fandom meta #fandom history #Anonymous

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cozymochi · 3 years

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I already know this, but it’s worth asking-

What are elements of the soft retcon you love and what elements do you still prefer from the original continuity?

AFTER OUR BINGE, I noticed a lot of things.

but im too scared to blast this to the masses cuz it involves some tinfoil hats on my part so 😭 It’s kind of long and dumb.

The soft retcon stuff I like is definitely the design overhaul. I dunno. I really like the more saturated and bright look. Both for the aesthetics and the characters. Though I’ve seen people rly hate that. …Not my problem though!

A BIG THING I LIKE: I think I like the soft-retcon Membrane family waaaay better.

After watching the main series’ I kinda noticed how much harder it was to root for Dib, or how kiiinda flat the other members of the family were. Don’t get it twisted, I liked ‘em fine as they were. They just didn’t really do anything for me. It’s definitely evident that JV and co didn’t quite pin down what they wanted for them yet. (This kinda thing is pretty normal for anyone I think, sometimes ur characters are just gonna be wips for a while, and IZ was cut off really fast)

The overhauls in the soft retcon (primarily in ETF) such as making Dib’s general motivation more personally driven, or making the family dynamic a little better (and cooler in some cases) I think makes them all a bit more palatable as characters? I dunno. Lol. I just like seeing more positive things. (I don’t view this as in-universe “character development” tho that’s kinda weird imo, sometimes it really just is easier to say that somebody just changed their mind). The Membranes in ETF definitely feel like a fleshed-out culmination of stuff that was getting rolling in the comics.

Even if the gainax ending in ETF punches me in the face.

(And believe me i got a myriad of issues with the comics, but those guys aren’t really one of them)

The stuff I prefer in the original continuity though is pretty much everything and anything having to do with the Irkens and other aliens.

BECAUSE THAT STUFF WAS PRETTY GREAT and I think it got shafted pretty badly in the comics and ETF. I can see why though. I read some JV interview from 2015 (I think on IGN? Idfk. I should’n’t have been on incognito), around the time the IZ comics were getting started. Long story short, he wanted to use the comics as a means to address all the problems he had with the Membranes in the og series and kinda… revise them. Which, gr8 yay, they needed it imo

As for Zim? He said Zim wouldn’t change.

Call it my tinfoil hat moment, but I think that that mindset was exactly the issue… Zim and co. were VERY defined and fleshed out by the og series end (as wack as some later eps were gonna be), but I think just leaving them to the wayside like that as characters that don’t need change (i.e. that much attention) is exactly why Zim, The Tallest, and much of the other space-centric stuff kinda got warped and flanderized. Or, hell, not referenced altogether. Zim got dumber, the Tallest got dumber, and a lot of the other space things specifically involving ID2 kinda… phased out.

Sometimes what you remember a character being like, wasn’t what they were like at all. And if u don’t reaaally work with them, ur gonna exaggerate or even forget whole things. The Membranes were worked on with the intent of fleshing them out and reworking them to what we end up seeing in ETF.

Zim? He wasn’t. He was just considered fine as he was, and while I agree with that on principle, in the comics execution he doesn’t quite feel the same. He feels more like… maybe a caricature is too harsh? But. Definitely weird. I’m just not nearly as invested. :( (There are a couple exceptions, but. Meh)

But I should also mention in that same interview the point of the comics wasn’t really for lore or continuing setups from season 2, but just random anthologies and a sandbox to fix up some characters *cough* the membranes. Unfortunately, that didn’t include the titular one. Meh. What can ya do.

SO YEAH. ORIGINAL CONTINUITY ZIM AND CO? Yes. They WERE more fleshed out and defined. But plz, that doesn’t mean nothing else can be done with them! ya gotta actually work with them! Character expansion happens naturally. …Eh. What would I know? I don’t have a dang series.

This is kind of an aside: But I really don’t like the idea of trying to make the soft retcon retroactively fit into the old continuity yet have both things play out in the exact same way. Sometimes it makes sense, other times it just makes something get framed a whole a lot worse unintentionally by trying to deem it as “unseen character development.” Trying to tie everything together under a single path is kinda dumb imo. There’s no way to do that without making something a lot more FUCKEDDDD. Or way more complicated. IZ was workshopped waaay too much in it’s run to do that jfhfhchv

And, personally, I don’t really like making things more complicated tbh. Sometimes— as dumb as this sounds— not looking into stuff is much easier to swallow than trying to make everything work as a single unit.

All a soft retcon is is just: “things pretty much are setup the same they just played out a bit differently.” You may as well call ETF a soft retcon of Zim Issue #1 /s There’s just no way, man. God forbid this go into anime territory with “HERE IS A DIFFERENT TIMELINE” OH GOD NO!!

It’s ok guys really. Sometimes… things just be like that aight…

and that’s why at the end of the day we hand-wave it by not getting too deep, or pick and choose what we like and head out :DD

and let’s be real despite what i praise i don’t enjoy everything from the soft retcon, if my zim rant wasn’t enough. Like how i don’t enjoy everything from the comics or OG series. And despite my wording I actually don’t take all of this that personally.

…But it’d sure be nice if i could have all the good stuff from all of it mushed together. Gimme the alien lore from the og series, gimme the membranes and earth from ETF, and—

…

well idk wtf i’d take from the comics lmaooo maybe the Gaz plots.

#cozy ask #should i ask folk NOT to reblog this #i mean i guess it wouldnt matter most of what i say is under cut #but i’d prefer none

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jaeyunzie · 3 years

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your first -- jay

pairing: park jongseong x reader

word count: 987 words

genre: angst!

there will be a pt 2!!

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jay was beautiful. you were never the type to be interested in love, rather, the concept confused you. coming from a household where love wasn’t prominent clouded your perception of love; until you met him. you didn’t know what made you felt that way, was it his looks? the way he was always ambitious? the fact that he never gave up? you still don’t know what it was but you knew that you fell in love with the park jongseong.

in jay’s eyes, you were unique; in a good way. you didn’t treat him like a bank like most people he had met, you never doubted him everytime he would make the wrong step and you were always there for him. he liked this. he liked you being there for him and believing in him. so naturally, he fell in love with you too.

it was a surprise to your friends that you ended up with him. how could you? the person who was never keen on love, the person who never payed attention to any conversation about love; ended up falling inlove? they felt transported into another universe. but you couldn’t disagree. being with jay made you feel like you were in another universe. everything felt just right.

today was your 6 month anniversary and you wanted to surprise him. his parents had approved of you, they loved you probably just as much as he did. so it was to no surprise that his mother welcomed you into his house with open arms. “y/n ! what a surprise. jay isn’t home so what’s the occasion?” she welcomed you as she cups your cheeks and slightly pinching them. “hey mrs park, it’s our 6 month anniversary so i wanted to ask if you could maybe help me make some food? i’d love for us to celebrate it with you guys.” you smile at her, pulling up the bag of groceries you’d just bought. “of course! well I have to leave in a few hours to meet some friends so I don’t think I could celebrate but I’d love to help cook.” she replied, taking the groceries from your hand and putting them on the kitchen table.

besides the groceries, you already had a store decorated cake, a gift and some flowers prepared. taking off your shoes, you enter their house. you’ve been here so many times yet you can’t get used how big and how beautiful the interior design was. you wanted to put the gift in his room, as it was special and you wanted him to see it in his private time. “mrs park, is it okay if i put these in jay’s room?” you asked, and the moment she nodded; you head upstairs to where his room is located. you twist the door knob and it was unlocked, as usual. jay had a habit of always leaving his door unlocked no matter what. when you entered, the lights were off and as your eyes scanned the room, it landed on something peculiar. it was a diary. jay has a diary? was your first thought. he had a hard time expressing his feelings and sometimes you would have to beg for him to spill it out, so it was surprising to see but also made sense maybe this was how he relieves his stress you thought.

for some reason, albeit you knowing it was wrong, you wanted to read it. setting aside the gift, you sat down on his chair and opened what was inside. as his girlfriend, you expected to see your name pop up once or twice. but as you examine the pages even more, another name popped up constantly. you recognised this name, it was his ex, the person he loved before you. this diary is probably old, it’s only been 15 pages was the thought that lingered in your head. you were jealous and there was no denying it, he wrote about her as if them as if they were his whole world.

10th February

i can’t live without them, i don’t wanna let them go but they wont even look at me.

you decided that looking through old pages wasn’t gonna help your jealousy problem, so you find a page that had a date in which you knew was significant to your relationship. march 28th, the date you got together. you sighed out of happiness when you saw that your name was the first thing on the page, but that smile on your face did not last long when you read the page even further.

28th March

y/n , they’re beautiful. reminds me too much of them though. i can’t get them out of my head and it has been 2 months since we broke up. i see them in y/n and it hurts when i have to pretend y/n is someone else.

as you flipped the pages even more, his writings were just full of regret and sorrow. Regretful that he was not honest to you, regretful of letting his ex go, regret and regret. the book fell out of your hand and laid on the table, you closed it making it seem as if it were never touched. tears didn’t come out. you don’t know why. it hurt too much to cry. it hurt so much you couldn’t feel anything and you wished you never picked that stupid diary up. you wish you never knew.

as you stood up, you looked down on your gift. your head was filled with voices, should you take it back or act like everything is okay. how could you leave; his mother was downstairs waiting for you. but what do you mean by how could you? the real question was how could jay? how could jay pretend this whole time. he told you that you were unique, he told you that he loved you just as you loved him. how could he?

to be continued

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author’s note HAI THIS IS MY FIRST EVER UM work?? idk what to call it lmao im so sorry its crap i havent written anything since my 2018 middle school fanfic phase n now im HORRIBLE at writing anyways yes stay tuned for pt 2!! ill edit this later cuz i wrote this on a whim n theres probably plot holes and mistakes here n there

#jay #enhypen jay #enhypen x gender neutral reader #enhypen x reader #park jongseong #enhypen imagines #enhypen scenarios

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rainecloud020604 · 2 years

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longass rant I'm sticking here cause I need this out of my fucking head so I can do schoolwork I don't recommend reading this at all but like heaving tws for current events and suicide

I've been sick with the flu, two weeks (yes its the flu not covid ive been tested) and my mental health has been rotting while i have to rest in bed so i dont god damn hurt myself trying to do too much physical stuff, one day i could barely move and i slept most of the day, my legs didnt work and it took until about 8 at night for my arms to work, it was horrible and terrifying, this happened thursday btw it wasnt that long ago. I've been trying to reach out for help with my mental health for years and this year is the most progress ive achieved in all of that time, that being said we are in year three of a pandemic where the 1% can sit from afar and watch the poor die and rot from something if they got of their asses and helped we can have maybe helped with..but no they profit off of the mass loss and deaths as the counter keeps rising. Governments dont care, no one seems to be phased anymore and its horrible i want it to all stop i want to stop being so aware of it to the point its hurting me. but I cant and its horrible, this world is full of so many horrors where cishet white men make the rules, i hate it. I try what i can to help, i sign things i spread things as much as i can without risking hurting myself, which isnt a lot and it feels like little more, im almost and adult and i dont like the idea of having to enter this forced idea of i need a job and i need to do this and that while im a mentally ill child still. I didnt expect to make it this far why does it hurt to much more to be here now, why is the world falling and crumbling around us as we burn our forests and pollute our water cause it gives some pigs another dollar in their fucking pocket with the other billion they have there, why are our lives viewed as so fucking disposable by others it enrages me that so many people can shrug off the horrors of this that we need to change and have been needing to be changed for years. The world is not built for me at all, the only step up I have in this god forsaken world is that im god damn white. thats it. im poor, disabled, mentally ill, trans and queer, afab the world is against almost everything i fucking am and everyone who falls into every category afterwards, yet people get mad that we are mad why are we getting mad at each other we should be mad at the system designed to enslave and fail on those it pretends to protect, why are people so BLIND to it all, WHY arent they looking at the truth just a glance i know it hurts seeing how much is a lie but we need to fucking fix it please, i hate that i feel so alone and disconnected from this reality that im trying my hardest to fix in small ways but NOTHING works im still just a god damn kid who wanted to kill himself at the age of 8 and some days i wake up regretting not doing it, i didnt think id live past 16, its so SAD how an 8 year old was waiting for the world to fail on her so soon its so upsetting.. its so god damn frustrating. i god damn hate it here and how fucked up our world is and how hard it feels to change it

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wsgeon · 3 years

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hey everyone! ummm this is peyton (also the mun of lee hyeon) taking a second shot at a second character — i have a lot of muse for this one, so i swear he’ll be around for a while… 🥵 this is ryu geon, yes his name rhymes with hyeon’s & no i do not care ♥️ he’s the lead guitarist/vocalist of meta and also the son of a former nobody rockstar, but i’ll get into all that below! like this post if you’d like for me to come into your ims to plot, click the read more for more info on geon, and/or click here to be taken to his pages: CAREER, DOSSIER, PINTEREST.

HISTORY.

born in autumn ‘97 to a “budding rockstar” (translation: “no yeah i swear our band’s really starting to take off, we sold twenty-three tickets to our last show!”) & a woman with commitment issues ♥️ geon’s dad always told him that his mom left because she had some dire matters that needed to be taken care of and SWORE that she cried the last time she held her dear baby boy, but all of his dad’s bandmates say that she was just some groupie and had to be persuaded into carrying her child to term… who can say for sure?

naturally, there are no pictures of this mystery woman. there was one (1) of her holding infant geon, but then he found out that that was actually a sound tech who worked for his dad’s band… and he just never corrected geon’s assumptions LOLLLL

anyway! he was always really close to his dad, considering they were a two-person family. he has a set of grandparents, an aunt and a couple cousins but they were never involved with geon’s life because his dad is the #blacksheep of the family. geon and his dad against the world, am i right?

uhhh geon was also kind of a black sheep growing up, but he didn’t really notice? he was a happy kid, very energetic and enthusiastic. a lot of adults in the area looked down on him & his dad, but he was SOOOO blind to it because his dad’s a god in his eyes and HE’S always been nice to everyone, so why would they not like him??? because his clothes smelled a little like dad’s cigarette smoke??? big deal

wasn’t troublesome (beyond talking too much), but a lot of people still expected bad things from him :/ “his father’s a dirtbag, i’ll be surprised if that boy doesn’t end up in jail by 20”, “he won’t amount to anything without a proper role model in his life”, “his dad is teaching him how to slack off”, “he won’t contribute anything to society”, etc. he kindaaa picked up on this as he got older but pretended not to because it was more rewarding to play dumb and keep being a good kid(tm) to prove them wrong

was basically a mini version of his dad. same style, similar features, birthmarks in the same places, same “live today, die tomorrow” approach in life, same affinity for singing & playing rock music. ummm he loved his dad a lot. a lot. a lot. wanted to make him proud SO BAD, started his first band when he was 15 and they sucked so bad but his dad was their biggest fan… you know how it is. a lot of people misunderstood him, but he was a very good guy and such a great parent

TW DEATH unfortunately he passed away just shy of geon’s 18th birthday and your boy still hasn’t forgiven the world for taking his dad when he was in the middle of his angsty teen phase — had he known that their time together was dwindling, he would’ve been so so so much better to him END TW

his dad’s band actually rocketed into the charts after he passed & suddenly they were getting loads of publicity, lots of “what a shame that he went under-appreciated” which pissed geon off SOOOO bad because why couldn’t they have had that energy when he was still alive? he’s still mad about it five/six years later

this is getting kinda long, so uhhh tl;dr, he ended up staying with the drummer of his dad’s band until he was old enough to live alone/READY to live alone, but he changed quite a bit. was really going through it, quit his band, stopped putting effort into school. barely graduated. went from being a social butterfly spending every weekend at a gig or with friends to spending all of his time on a pc or in front of a tv, playing console games. the internet comforted him when nobody else would/could and then he met the future members of meta <33333333 #newbeginnings

present day geon is still struggling, has to go to counseling bi-weekly but he’s coming back out of his shell! he wants to fall in love with life again, just wants to tread carefully... outgoing & will talk to absolutely anyone, but he still spends most of his time alone. hard to reach by text, so if you wanna talk to him, you better call/facetime LMAO. talks a mile a minute, especially if you get him going abt something he really likes. laughs a lot, smiles a lot, more habitual than actual signs of happiness but yk. ummm he has a really loud voice, mostly controlled nowadays but he still gets carried away sometimes. an absolute menace during long drives/flights, sorry meta.

funny but only when he’s in large groups. feeds off of other peoples’ energy, really good at reading a room and breaking the ice/making everyone comfortable, but if you meet him 1-on-1, none of his jokes land quite the same.

i envision him as being the kind of guy who carries himself in such a way that you’d assume he’s really popular/out of reach/maybe even full of himself, but he’s... not like that... at all... in fact, he’s kinda irritating when you get to know him. the personification of a flood followed by a drought and vice versa, always either too much or not enough. gets used/ghosted/dropped/dumped/whatever a lot because he’s soooo fun in the moment (if he isn’t in his feelings), but draining long-term.

really emotionally intelligent, in touch with his feelings in a way that a lot of people never thought he would be (probably thanks to counseling tbh). he’s very very rarely the type of person who will make you wonder what your place in his life is — he’s communicative, kind, honest. ummm he thinks that intimacy between friends needs to be more common, so he’s really affectionate with the people in his life. type of guy to tell you he loves you every chance he gets (calling you when he’s drunk, sounding like a clingy ex type beat) & greet you/depart with a hug. losing his dad kinda fucked him up in the way that he won’t leave/hang up until his friends say “i love you” back, gets kinda (re: very) upset if he’s denied that and/or a hug.

TRIVIA.

has been playing the guitar “longer than he’s been walking” (not really, but he swears it’s true).

uhhh he really likes nail art, but he’s kinda hesitant in what he tries? mainly sticks to black polish (or other plain colors), but sometimes he’ll get little designs added in as well. mainly does it himself because he still doesn’t feel comfortable in salons... if his work looks bad, leave him alone <3 he’s trying

inspired by people like kurt cobain, nicky wire, yungblud, billie joe armstrong & damiano david in the fact that he’s not against wearing dresses or skirts on stage. doesn’t do it ALL the time, but often enough that it doesn’t go unnoticed. some people say that he does it for attention because he doesn’t dress like that elsewhere and tbh they’re probably kinda right

interested in history (only SOME... dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, specialized areas like the history of circuses/clowns/skateboarding/punk, stuff like that yk), stand-up comedy & documentaries. could spend a whole day watching documentaries and would say he had fun, has a lot of useless knowledge that nobody gives a fuck about and is kinda dumb when it comes to things that matter

when it comes to music, he prefers playing really fast and heavy rock or punk over anything else, but he actually listens to a lot more soft indie on his own time... he’s too tense these days to be listening to anything else RIPPP

the vibe: homemade tie-dye, ripped slipknot t-shirts, frosted tips, neon crocs with alien & peace-sign charms, chipped black nail polish, calloused hands, cheesy pick-up lines used NOT to land a date but to pull a smile, driving until he’s lost, stupid socks paired with pressed suits, dramatic poetry in an iphone note, etc.

PLOT IDEAS.

people he met through online support groups about coping with grief

uhhh an on & off relationship that’s been going for who-knows-how-long. the reason for this is up for discussion, but i imagine that he hasn’t given up yet because the constant highs and lows are a good source of inspo 🤪 artists must suffer for their art!

opposite side of the coin — someone he’s interested in, but he’s NOT disloyal so it’s a pattern of persistent courting when he’s single vs intense friend-zoning when he’s not and they’re getting tired of trying to figure out what he wants from them

someone else who likes nail art & can convince him that NOBODY cares if he goes to a salon

someone (probably female but doesn’t really matter tbh) who feels like his feminism is entirely performative… maybe they attack him directly for it or maybe they just REALLY don’t like him and they’re super vague about it idk. either way, please tell him that activism is much more than recommending one female artist a year and saying “clothes have no gender 🤪” so he can be praised for the bare minimum (his heart is in the right place but his skull is empty)

someone super introverted who comes out of their shell with geon! uhhh maybe they think that he’s the one doing them a favor, but in reality spending time with them has been doing wonders for his mental health

other people who like to skate. let’s congregate at the local skatepark and scare the middle schoolers away

someone who inspires him musically, for whatever reason. lots of late nights in studios, idly strumming his guitar and writing lyrics that definitely aren’t about how their eyes look in these dim lights… umm maybe he thinks he has a crush on them but really doesn’t and ends up hurting them eventually, maybe he really DOES have a crush but will (probably) never do anything abt it or maybe it’s entirely platonic and he just admires them a ridiculous amount

someone who likes to make music as a hobby, prob won’t publish/release any of it but it’s fun to imagine. spontaneous meetings with geon in the middle of the night, recording songs together and keeping the WORST takes for the laughs. there’s probably a diss-track of them going in on each other floating around somewhere even though geon can’t rap for shit

night owls who keep him company on the phone, even if they can’t be there physically. them talking really quietly vs geon shouting at them while he plays games LMAO

gaming buddies. come over, maybe you can carry geon through his game of the week or you can both fail but have fun while you’re at it… or you can scream while he fends off that hoard of zombies behind you

i’m typing this at the last minute (literally) so i’m gonna stop here, but i will get a proper plots page put up asap with a wider variety of connections!!! but as always, please do let me know if you have any other ideas. i’m always happy to plot and write with you all 🌚

#ws:intro #frankly my characters end up a lil different from intended 90% of the time soooo take my description of his personality w a grain of salt #this intro is long and illiterate but i'll fix it at a later time

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