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russellsppttemplates · 23 days

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I want this every day (Charles Leclerc)

Charles has been frustrated with the team's strategies and the results he's been getting lately so you find a way to cheer him up

Note: english is not my first language. I was going to write it earlier on the week, but then I felt like I a jinxing it so I stopped... but after today, I think it's a good place to start...

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Another race weekend where he was out qualified by his team-mate left Charles with the feeling that if it came to it, he was almost one hundred percent sure they would ask them to swap positions.

Points for the team would be important anyway and they came away with a good amount and the car showed to be competitive enough considering the RedBull dominance on the grid, but the frustration was still there.

With the team and with himself.

They told him they'd keep him - there wasn't a quesion put down about his contract -, Il Predestinato wasn't something he carried lightly but often times it was confusing. Without the support and appreciation from inside the team, it was proving difficult to achieve their goals.

His childhood dream was driving for Ferrari and Suzuka always carried a heavier weight for him. As he took off his helmet and was faced with the number 17 on the side, he apoligised. To Jules, who he wanted to make proud every day but even more on this particular track. To his fans, who deserved better than this. To you, who were there for him, arms open for a hug and a shoulder where he could cry and let his feelings out on, to hold him and remind him every single time that all of the nonsense commentators and the media still had the audacity to say about him despite his continous shows of intelligence, skill and talent, and to love him.

The way you loved him was something he had never felt before and had never thought he deserved.

The face you were giving everyone in the garage that dared look at you wasn't unfortunately a rare occurrence, hence the fact that so very few team members approached you, "Charles is just finishing his interviews, he should be here soon", Silvia said before excusing herself from the garage.

You walked to your boyfriend's driver room, knowing he would end up in there soon enough after greeting the mechanics and engineers.

He stepped inside the room less than fifteen minutes later, finding your embrace immediately as his arms wrapped around your waist, "it's not fair that this keeps happening", he mumbled.

"I know it isn't", you kissed his stubbly cheek while rubbing his back soothingly.

"I thought I could've done so much better, for the fans, for you, for Jules", he hiccuped, letting himself be vulnerable after bottling up everything he was feeling.

"You did us proud, Charles - he is always so proud of you", you cupped hisface in your hands as you hoped the words got through to him, "okay?".

The flight back home had Charles sleeping most of the time, the whole rush of the weekend catching up with his body as he slept with his head on your thighs, your fingers playing with his locks while you arranged your schedule for the week ahead.

"I was thinking we could spend some time together today", you said over the phone, hoping he hadn't booked anything since you made sure that Andrea and Joris had cleared his schedule so you could make this happen without a hitch.

"You don't have work?", Charles asked, "no, I arranged a few things and a meeting got cancelled", you explained.

"Good, I don't have anything to do either, I was just going to stay home, but being with you sounds much nicer, my place or your place?", he wondered.

"My place, please", you replied immediately, "I just want to change my clothes and I'm feeling like spending the afternoon in", you tried, hoping he would catch on and not mess up your surprise.

"Okay, amour! Do you need me to pick you up from work?", Charles asked and you heard a small smile on his face. You weren't sure why, but Charles really got a kick out of dropping you off and picking you up from work, so you felt bad for the answer you were giving him, "it's okay, you can meet me there, I'm already walking", you said as you drove out of the shop and headed home. It was an inoffensive lie but you kept telling yourself it was for a greater good.

"Okay, I'll meet you there in twenty minutes or so", he said, "Je t'aime, mon amour".

Riccardo seemed to have parked the car at the front of your building, making you get the bag out of your car trunk and join him and his family, "hey guys! Thank you for coming to this", you smiled, touching Chiara's foot softly and getting a giggle out of the little girl.

"No worries, this is such a nice idea and we're happy to help!", Marta said, letting you walk up to the door so you could get to your apartment.

"For the first time in my life, I'm the first one somewhere, and then they showed up too!", Joris said as the rest of the group you invited stood up from the hallway floor.

"I'm sorry for making you wait, but I had to pick these up and then the call with Charles had to be done at the precise time so he wouldn't get here before I did!", you explained, unlocking the door and letting them in.

"So we're fine to wait, but Charles can't wait for you?", Joris teased, making kissing noises as you shook your head, "privileges of being my boyfriend - it is what it is!", you chuckled.

Delegating the small tasks you left for the last minute, Charles' text saying he had just parked the car was enough to capture you attention, "quick quick, go hide in the living room - careful with the board game boxes! He's coming up!", you ushered your friends to the living room before your boyfriend knocked on your door.

"Hello, my love", you said, kissing his lips and pulling him inside the supposedly quiet apartment.

"Hey, gorgeous girl - I missed you", he squeezed you tight once you closed the door, "I was getting in my he - what's that?", Charles asked as a noise came from the living room.

Chiara squealed loudly enough for him to hear, so in part your surprise was not such a surprise, "you're not alone?", he mused.

Lacing your hand in his, you pulled him to the living room as everyone jumped out of their places to greet him!

"Surprise - ish!", you waved your hands as if you were announcing some great show, "I gathered all your favourite people - Lorenzo is coming with Charlotte in a bit, he just picked her up from work and your mother also had a cliente so she'll arrive a little later. Arthur is in the bathroom?", you wondered as you saw him walk out and pat his brother's back, not missing the truly surprised look on his face as he pulled you closer to him, kissing your temple, "you're the best, amour, thank you", he whispered.

You had food laid out in the coffee table and drinks in the kitchen where everybody could serve themselves so you could have your dining table available for the board and card games you were playing along with some building blocks for Chiara who was immediately stolen from her parents once your boyfriend saw her.

"Do we want to make a castle? Or maybe a rollercoaster?", Charles mused with the little girl sitting on his lap, still keeping an eye on his Monopoly game to make sure no one was missing any of the payments on his properties, "Good job, chérie!", he congratulated her, kissing her chubby cheek.

"Do you want me to get you guys anything? I'm already going to the kitchen", you wondered, "can you fill this up for us, please?", Marta asked as she handed you the orange juice jug, "yes, of course!", you grabbed it.

"This was a great idea, Y/N", Lorenzo said whole he poured himself a drink as you stepped into the kitchen, "he's been in his head a lot recently", he began.

"It's not much, really, it was quite easy to put everything together and you being here was very kind", you brushed it off.

"Y/N, gathering his favourite people to do something he loves apart from racing may seem simple but it's what he needs right now - don't underestimate yourself or the ability you have to bring him back to a good mental space", he rubbed your shoulder before going back to open the door, "it's our mother", he excused himself.

You set the jug on the table and took Chiara from your boyfriend's arms, volunteering to change her nappy in your bedroom.

Charles hugged his mother tight, "Hello, mon petit", she cupped his face and kissed his cheek, "I'm not little anymore", Charles blushed, "you and your brothers will always be my little boys, I don't care how old or how tall you get", she smiled, greeting everyone else in the room.

His favourite people were all in the same place, Charles thought. Some were playing cards, some were just chatting and you just picked his friends' daughter to change her nappy like she was your own.

"Do you have room for one more? I'm usually pretty good at this!", Lorenzo said as he sat at the dining table, "you take my game - it's not too bad, just make sure Marta pays up what she owes me - two hotels in my blue cards", Charles raised his eyebrows, "I know you were counting on your daughter's cuteness to distract me, but I have excellent vision", he smirked.

Charles walked to your bedroom, seeing you close the diaper bag as Chiara kicked the air, layed on top of your comforter and giggling at the story you were telling her, "and then I had to tell the lady 'that won't do, because I have my boyfriend's family and our friends over for dinner and I can't have too little food! Even if I have left overs for weeks!' because that's what's right, right? She also had this very fluffy bread that was still warm from the oven so I asked her if she could add that because I knew you'd like it - bread is the best, isn't it, cutie?", you spoke.

You were it, he had known that for a long time.

You were the one he wanted to grow old with and go through every challenge life wanted to throw at you, because he knew you both could face them if you were there.

"And who is that spying on us, hm? It's Charles! Let's go and give Charles a big hug and many kisses!", you smiled, picking her up and approaching your boyfriend, cuddling into his chest as you kept the little girl on your arms, kissing his chest while Chiara palmed his face and giggled when Charles pretended to eat her fingers, "yummy fingers, nom, nom, nom".

"I need to get started on dinner - I'm doing that roast you really like", you offered, "I already prepped most of it, just need to cut up the veggies and then put in the oven, simple as that".

"C'mon, Chiara - I bet my mother is wondering where you are because she'll want a cuddle", Charles took her from your arms, "I'll be back for you", Charles slapped your butt playfully.

You were seasoning the food on the trays, making sure you weren't forgetting anything when your boyfriend walked up to join you, wrapping his arms around your waist, "thank you for this, I really needed it", he kissed under your ear, turning you around to face him and kissing your lips properly, "it's fine", you scoffed.

"No, I really needed it - it's easy to lose sight of these things and these moments", he began, "I was home and getting way too much into my own head and I wouldn't got to anyone unless they asked about it", he admitted, squeezing your body closer to his.

"I'm glad you liked it, it's truly nothing but I'm glad you're happy", you smiled, "I can't control what goes on your mind all the time but I'm going to make sure that whenever you're near me and say silly things about doubting yourself, I will always help you see the truth and work it out with you - no down talking about yourself when you're with me, understood?", you stated firmly almost like you were lecturing him.

"I know, amour", he giggled, kissing your forehead and then littering some more kisses on your face and making you break out in laughter loudly.

The dinner was great and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves as they ate the meal and spoke about whatever came to mind, summer plans already in discussion.

Charles was helping you put away the plates when he decided he would voice the thoughts running through his head. Usually at this time of the day he was already knee deep into strategies and failed attempts, but this time was different.

"I want this every day", Charles said with a big smile on his face.

"Well, not all of us have your schedule, it would be lovely, but maybe making it a weekly thing? Monthly maybe with your schedule?", you tried, not wanting to kick his idea straight to the trash.

"I don't mean that - I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I was wondering if you'd like to move in with me", Charles clarified, "there's no point to keep two places when realistically, we spend most times at eachother's place - you're down to what? Sleeping two nights here per week?", he noted as you smiled.

"You want to move in together?", you checked and he nodded, "yes, I do - honestly, I've thinking we keep my place since you're renting here and that way you'd be closer to work, too", he suggested.

"Sounds good to me", you smiled, kissing his lips, sealing the deal.

"I don't want to be far away from you when we don't have to be, and this way you can save on rent, too!", he added and before you truly lectured him, he caught you ahead, "I know you won't let me pay for things on my own and we will find some arrangement for that, I was just saying you won't have to keep paying your landlord", he smiled.

"I mean it when I say I want to split expenses, okay?", you argued, "unless you start going with expensive caviar or any of that crazy expensive stuff - my salary can't take that", you joked.

"When have you ever seen that in my fridge?", he threw his head back as he laughed.

"I'm only joking, handsome - I can't wait to move in with you", you hugged him, "I love you, Charles, can't wait to be your new roomie".

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theneighborhoodwatch · 1 year

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ramble about wally & home's codependent swag. do it. you know you want to /lh

sorry for sitting so long on this one, anon. it's good to let thoughts Ferment sometimes. anyway - [pulls up a chair to sit down on it backwards, facing you]

so, the way i see it: it all comes back to home, yeah? home is not just the house - home is also the name of the town, it is very likely the town itself, and that town may be (as far as we know) the entire world. the very Concept of the home been discussed by clown as a central theme of welcome home a few times on his blog. when i say that home is everything, i do mean everything, and i don't think there's anyone for whom that rings more true than wally.

i know i link back to my older posts a lot, but i swear this one is relevant bc i wanna elaborate on a point that i make in the first half of it: the way i see it (as of the time of this writing) home, in all senses of the word, is wally's top priority. which is not to say that his devotion towards home supersedes everything else, but that everything else sort of feeds back into it by design. the neighbors? they are there to inhabit home. we, the audience? we are there to perceive home and round out its population. the WHRP*? they said it themselves - they're there to make that fucking house a home. home is everything, and in turn, everything is for the sake of preserving home. wally cares for his neighbors, and he cares for Us, but would either of those still be the case if there was no home to preserve? i'm not sure.

there is a catch to this, though. of course there is. wally's identity already seems tied pretty heavily to other people; he learns from his neighbors, and he does so on the audience's behalf. given everything i've written in the above paragraph, this can arguably be an extension of his devotion to home, however genuine those relationships may be in their own right. in other words, home (more specifically the restoration/preservation of home) is not only wally's chief motivation, but as far as he's concerned, the reason he exists at all. i think a lot about these tags that @pretty-in-possible (hope you don't mind the tag) left on a post of mine describing their image of wally:

and i had something very similar in mind. if wally's goal truly is the restoration/preservation of home - in this context, his raison d'être, the basis for his entire sense of self - then i can imagine why he would be willing to follow his original role as closely as he could even 50 years after the end of the original show. i can imagine that outgrowing that role in any capacity would feel like a sin. i can imagine that watching his friends outgrow theirs, or at least express a desire to do so, would seem extremely reckless to him, if not an outright betrayal.

("wait," you might say. "doesn't tampering with the site technically count as him adapting/evolving past his original role as audience surrogate?" "yes 8]" i would say. i would not elaborate, and then we would move on.)

i've mostly been talking about wally's side of things, and the reason for that is mostly that wally is just easier to speculate about. home is such a mystery that some people aren't even sure if they're the same being that was on the original show; i've seen people posit that whatever home is now, it is Not what they were originally, either that they're undead or that they've since become a husk for Something Else to inhabit, or some third thing i'm forgetting. either way, i think it's interesting that as attached as wally is to home, even he doesn't seem to be able to assess whatever their needs are with 100% accuracy - if the duet audio is to be believed, there's at least Some guesswork involved. who's to say that wally isn't just hearing what he wants to hear, at least some of the time?

i wonder - how does home feel about being an Embodiment, not of just the town, but of the very word "home?" are they frustrated with the fact that even wally, their own inhabitant, can never fully understand them, and has become resentful? do they appreciate the effort regardless, but feel a growing impatience gnawing at them day by day? are they apathetic at best towards wally, but need him to fulfill some goal or another, since they're an inanimate building? either way, i can't help but feel that home also relies on wally in some way; perhaps not as heavily as he relies on them, perhaps not in the same way or for the same reasons. but there is something Mutual there, i think.

tl;dr: these two are hurtling towards disaster and i, for one, cannot wait to see every last bit of it. here are two songs that remind me of them every time i hear them, the realization of which is often accompanied by guttural wailing.

* wally doesn't seem to have any strong feelings towards the WHRP team outside of maybe sharing the same motivation as them (i.e. restoration) but this may be because he's either hiding from them and also doesn't seem like the kind of guy to Express negative emotions, or he because he is the WHRP team - we'll see how things shake out.

#anonymous #ask #welcome home #wh speculation #wally darling #home #finally. it's been a while since i've been publicly unwell on this blog

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ithinktheygotthealias · 10 months

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a (draft) list of every time Mr. Spock had an interaction that might be construed as romantic

*this version will be deleted when (if) i fix this list up with some gifs and screenshots*

so, i have decided to compile some independent evidence on a few points that have been in (more than usual) contention lately in the fandom. my focus, as always, is tos. this one is a bit more controversial in that while i very much understand and respect that many fans see Spock as gay and/or ace, i personally feel like there's canon evidence for his being bi/pan and interested on the segs even outside of Pon Farr.

my interpretation is that both spock and kirk are bi/pan, though kirk has a marked preference towards women (see the rodenberry footnote. the love of his life just turned out not to be one. and he wouldn't have it any other way) and spock leans towards men (an interpretation not backed up statistically by the list, but who cares). again, this is my opinion, and the beauty of fandom is that it's in the eye of the beholder.

previously i made a draft list of the evidence for kirk being into men (excepting spirk evidence) in tos. the goal is to have one on all of the references to chapel's feelings for spock too, but that will be more work so maybe in a few days? never trust any promises i make on this blog

three important disclaimers before we begin: kirk, chapel and uhura will not be featured.

the reasons being, in kirk's case... *gestures vaguely at the entirety of tos*; in chapel's because i intend to go into her feelings for spock and how he reacts to them on-screen separately; and in uhura's because iirc there's only one instance of her flirting with him outside of their duets (where it can be construed as part of the performance), and it's not only in the beginning of the series, where it might be seen as Early Installment Weirdness, but also in The Naked Time, the episode where everyone goes crazy. also, uhura flirts with Everyone in this show, and i say good for her.

but enough with the preambles and on with the list:

the what the fuck?!? ones:

Leila Kalomi (This Side of Paradise) - this episode is baffling to me -- did spock and leila have something going on in the past that he ended because logic and rejection of humanity and putting starfleet first? or was it one-sided? spock says it was the first time he ever felt happy, but he acts so antithetically to who and what spock is that i personally find it hard to believe. maybe he just thought that was how happiness felt, and later on he discovers he was wrong (moments like the end of Amok Time, "this simple feeling", the beginning of WoK etc.). anyways cool motive, still drug-facilitated s.a.. big fan of sex pollen fics and that quote spock says about self-made purgatories though

T'Pring (Amok Time) - going strictly by the episode, vulcan biology... the biology of vulcans made spock want her, but he feels humiliated by the loss of logic. her reasons for not wanting him are two-fold: she simply likes stonn better (in that roundabout way vulcans admit to feelings), and she doesn't want to marry an absentee living legend, which, fair. the fact that spock's not a full vulcan must play some part in it too. but there's plenty left for interpretation. they are distant at the moment, but have they always been? how long has she been into stonn? why did they not divorce more amicably previously? i could go on forever, but i this is already too long. point being, even if it doesn't gel with my personal headcanon, there's nothing really wrong with snw's interpretation of this relationship.

the lighter ones:

Romulan Commander (The Enterprise Incident) - this woman is My Commander. I would follow her to the ends of the galaxy for the imagery she has blessed my eyes with. this being said, i think the important bit here is their conversation in the turbolift at the end. spock is not one to lie out of politeness. he could have said nothing, but he used those contorted phrases of his to imply he was a willing participant, and liked it. and she picks up what he puts down. also at some point kirk complains spock is taking too long and it cuts to them in her quarters, implying that spock got kinda into it (also, jealous, jimmy?)

Kollos (Is There No Truth in Beauty?) - this one's debatable, but i'd argue there was some attraction there, in a brainy way. smart is sexy, and all. dr. jones certainly thought so, from her reactions

Adam (The Way to Eden) - Pacifist Discount Roger Daltrey Hippie Musician In A Monokini Seduces Rebellious Vulcan was the tabloid headline

Droxine (The Cloud Minders) - insert cringey line about extreme female beauty. how the seven-year cycle became public knowledge given the drama of amok time is a mystery to me. the attraction flew out of the window real quick when the planet's situation made itself know though. anyway i shipped her with vanna.

Zarabeth (All Our Yesterdays) - i... don't get how logic can be time-locked? is the st universe secretly like a civ game? takes me out of this episode way too much. anyways he almost went full warrior vulcan and stayed in the past with her

the meme ones:

The Computer (The Ultimate Computer) - mccoy said it best.

Surak (The Savage Curtain) - spock, he's your ancestor! and at this point any intellectual crush is pretty quickly superseded by how thirsty he is for That Human Booty Intuition

#again #please feel free to add to this #i'll put your additions in the final version if i get around to doing it #don't think i haven't noticed almost all of these are after amok time #specifically in season 3 too which might be related to the general s3 woes somehow #it became late while i looked into this i'm sleepy and had a rough day #does it show #star trek #star trek tos #spock #might tag more later

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20dollarlolita · 11 months

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hi! me again. cut/sew 015 has me in the trenches. if you don't mind, do you think you could look at the instructions and tell me if they're setting me up for failure? specifically steps 9, 10, and 18. i've tried pinning the shirring to the bodice in every way i can & it either doesn't turn out the way that step 18 indicates OR the straps come out twisted. i'm not sure if i did something wrong at steps 9 and 10 (i've triple and quadruple checked and don't think i have) or if it's a misprint. ty!

So, I have the instructions here, but the instructions do not specify notches, so I'm doing a little bit of guessing here.

Quick note from someone who's been doing amateur lolita sewing tutorials for almost 9 years now: when you make a design that will be lined, write the instructions such that you treat the lining as if it's a different fabric from the face. Even if the end user decides to line the garment with its self, it will help people understand what is going on. This is because a lining in the mirror version of the face fabric. When you have four pieces that are identical, except that some of them are mirrored, things get very confusing very quickly.

Anyway, for everyone new to the party:

Cut/Sew dot Co is an indie pattern brand. They're basically one incredibly dedicated woman who designs, patterns, cams, builds, tests, writes instructions for, markets, and distributes the patterns. She's made nearly 100 different patterns, as far as my counting goes. Their goal is to make alternative j-fashion inspired patterns available for everyone, especially beginners who don't have a lot of technical sewing experience.

They're relevant to this blog because 1) they make patterns that they claim are lolita fashion patterns and 2) one incident in 2020 where the designer had a go at the lolita fashion community because we said her designs weren't actually lolita and 3) someone specifically asked me about this pattern.

I've previously made one of her patterns, and the main issue that I had with it was that none of the images of the pattern actually properly represent what the pattern will actually make. My other issue is that the patterns seem to have 1/4" seam allowance, which is a really bad seam allowance to use when you're sewing a garment that needs to be adjusted and have techniques like gathering and zipper application. 1/4" seams are usually used in quilt piecing, where they're being used on stable plainweave cotton and not on curved, load-bearing seams.

Anyway, CUT/SEW 15: Lolita JSK appears to be a self-lined JSK with a 1/4 back shirring panel and a 12" invisible side zipper closure. It has a front faux-lacing panel, and princess seams with trim along the princess line that extends all the way to the hem. The hem has two wide ruffles.

I'm not here to critique this pattern. That will be later.

So the questioner here has kindly provided me with the instructions, and here's my best ability to help them. The question is that steps 9 and 10 explain how to assemble the bodice, which is then set aside until step 18. When we pick the bodice back up in step 18, it feels like it has somehow changed and does not line up with step 10.

I am posting the instructions here in the hopes that my input will help other people who bought this pattern use it effectively. These instructions and images are posted to help cut/sew's customer base use their product without frustration.

STEP 9:

9. Place the sewn bodice front face up in your work space, making sure the dress straps are laying flat. Take a bodice side back piece and lay it under one of the dress straps so one edge of the strap just meets the notch along the top edge of the bodice side back. With the angle of the straps, the other edge of the strap should hang off past the bodice side back by about 3/4” - that’s okay! Pin this strap in place right at the notch, then take it to your sewing machine and baste the strap in place, sewing 1/4“ away from the edge..

Lay the sewn bodice front face up in your work space, then take another bodice side back piece and lay it over top, face down. Match it to one of the basted bodice side back pieces on all sides, then pin the two together. Take the pinned bodice to your sewing machine and stitch the two together along the top, sewing 1/2” away from the edge. Pull out the basting stitch underneath, then press out this seam.

Repeat this entire step with the second set of bodice side back pieces on the opposite strap. When finished, flip both bodice side back pieces out so they’re face up, then press the seams you’ve just sewn flat.

Okay so this makes plenty of sense to me, once you remember that this is self-lined. This means that there are four side-back pieces in play. We're going to call that left-sideback-face, left-sideback-lining, right-sideback-face, and right-sideback-lining. LSF, LSL, RSF, and RSL, if you will.

The image up there shows the in-progress picture, but here's what I think it'll look like when you've finished everything, and you're at " flip both bodice side back pieces out so they’re face up, then press the seams you’ve just sewn flat.":

The important thing to note is that, from my understanding of these images, you will have the straps attached with the short end (where is says SA in my drawing) facing the center.

For the record, this is where commercial patterns have notches. You notch the side seams on all patterns so that you don't get confused about what pieces connect to the side seams. Notches make patterns easier.

10. Place the shirred bodice center back face up in your work space. Lay a sewn bodice side back piece over top, face down, and match the edge with the notch and strap to one raw edge of the bodice center back. Pin the two together along this side, then take the pinned bodice to your sewing machine and stitch, sewing 1” away from the edge.

Repeat this step on the opposite side with the second bodice side back piece to create one continuous bodice.

So here is where the instruction diagrams confused me a little bit. I added some color to clarify things: The PINK line is the back sewn to the shirring panel. The GREEN line is not sewn to anything.

When this step is over, and we lay the complete bodice out, it will look like this:

If this is what your bodice looks like at step 10, when we pick back up in step 18:

18. Place the bodice front face up in your work space. Lay the bodice back over top, face down, and match the two together on the right side. Pin them at this seam, then sew both together by stitching 1” away from the edge. Trim the raw seam with your pinking scissors, then press open this seam.

Note that you're only going to sew one side seam here, because the other one will have the zipper installed. We can't actually lay the piece flat anymore, but if we could magically lengthen one of the straps so that it was suuuper long, it'd look like this:

I think your part is getting twisted because that image up there that I had to add the green/pink line on isn't very clear about what side is being sewn. If you look at that and sew the sides that LOOK like they're lined up in the picture, you'll sew your side backs backward.

I just want to emphasize that THIS is what notches are for. Notches are a means of communication between the pattern developer and the user. Placing your standard one notch on your side seams will allow the person who uses the pattern to know for sure what pieces are being connected to what pieces, and where those should be. The decision to not notch the common things (back and front, side seams, sleeve holes and sleeve caps) is just something that makes no sense to me.

While not directly asked, I am also VERY confused about the instructions for placing an invisible zipper in this dress.

I really, really want to like cut/sew as a company. Their mentality is in line with my own: make things easy for beginners, and make the environment they're in accepting and supportive, and people will be able to build things and have fun. I regularly have to remind myself that just because something didn't get done my way, it doesn't mean it wasn't done effectively. Cut/Sew has put out something like 100 patterns, which were all the work of one incredibly dedicated individual. My general complaints with the company have been with social media presence and marketing, as well as not having clear images of the garments and/or technically usable fashion flats. My other beef that I had with them, the 1/4" seam allowance, seems to be resolved in this pattern. It looks like they've gone up to 1/2".

If there's enough demand, I can buy this pattern, make it, and provide a technically accurate flat as well as complete images of the garment. Just let me know if you want to see that and then get ready to wait possibly literal years until I acutally get it done.

Hope this helps somehow. G'night.

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I don't like calling people stupid because it's just rude and some people have developmental difficulties I don't want to ridicule. But my god are solos stupid. 2 days now all I've seen them talk about is JK and Hybe. Seeing Pjms 'spin their wheels' as you say BPP about 'stocks' and 'investors'. It's so fascinating to me how their minds work because every now and then one of them will point out how their theory doesn't make sense or how it's counterproductive to what they're saying Hybe's goal is, it's like they can *just* glimpse the light of enlightenment at the end of the tunnel but then it snuffs out before they can grasp it, and then they fall back into their convoluted web of conspiracies of how everyone hates Jimin.

This is how they 'spun their wheels' before the contract renewals when every pjm blog I saw was convinced Jimin won't renew. Same thing with how they were convinced V would get all the things Seven got. I just lurk on their blogs because it feels like a trainwreck happening in slow motion and I can't look away. This is the first time I've become active in a fandom and it's been such an eye opener to see how solos radicalize themselves. Have you seen this dynamic happen anywhere else? I thought Armys were bad but it makes sense that solos are on the fringes of the fandom because they are somehow even WORSE than Armys. Even the solos who seem educated manage to make the most ridiculous logical fallacies in their thinking. It's mesmerizing to watch it happen BPP. I'd pay big bucks for someone to study them and I'm very eager to know if you've seen anything like this in other communities.

I'm glad you saw parallels in the flat earthers video I sent and I apologize if it saddened you.

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I'm just hanging in tight for when Grammy nominations are announced this week lmao. That's when the real fireworks will begin. A few of my friends have started collecting bets in our gc for the kinds of theories, meltdowns, and plain ol tomfoolery we're going to see - on the ARMY side of the fandom but especially on the akgae side. It's going to be a blast.

And like I've said before, there are some groups where it makes sense to be a solo stan, but anybody who becomes an akgae for any member in BTS has already shown a lack of intelligence. I'm not saying that to be mean or condescending, it's just what I've observed to be true. And in a fandom like ARMY that already has its fair share of idiots, you have to have some exceptional blindspots to still manage to not get what is obvious to most other people. But such is how the cookie crumbles.

What I see BTS akgaes do, I've seen happen before. But none of those examples/comparisons are flattering. Some might feel I'm going too far by making that parallel, so I won't explicitly make it. All I'll say is that it's worse than the parallel between taekookers and Larries, and it's why I'm thankful about the way BigHit manages their acknowledgement of and response to akgaes. I'll always be grateful for how the members are mostly insulated from the special brand of insanity that's rampant in these parts of the fandom. BTS don't deserve to see any of this filth.

I question why you're lurking on akgae blogs though. I understand it's interesting but you must've picked up the pattern by now. There's nothing akgaes are saying now that they haven't said before, and it's the exact same thing they'll be saying 2, 3, 10 years from now. They're awfully predictable in how they think, most of it is hazard-grade copium, and the damage they can do to any of the members is mostly contained, so what's the point lurking on their pages just to mock them?

You didn't ask but I suggest you leave them be. Yes trainwrecks can be fascinating to watch out of morbid curiosity, but at some point if that's how you're spending most of your time in fandom, it begs the question why you're really here.

Anyway, stream Golden for a healthy dopamine boost.

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#bts #jimin #jungkook #jikook #bts chapter 2 #fandom behaviour #bts army #bts solo stans

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ciaossu-imagines · 11 months

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You know… sorry not sorry. Hibari with an SO that is independent and capable of defending themselves and lakes to have their voice heard

…. Any and all Hibari with s/o content please. At any time

No need to be sorry at all anyway!! You know I’m always happy to write Hibari for you at any time!

Okay, so I know I’ve said it a million times on this blog, and I will continue to say it another million and one times, but I really do believe that Hibari does both need, and prefers, a partner who is much more on the independent side. It’s not that he never wants to see them or spend time with them, or that he won’t care about his partner. It’s more that Hibari has a lot going on, a life of his own, things he’s interested in pursuing, an entire life outside of his relationship, and on top of that, he really is a guy who does need alone time. He can’t handle clingy people and partners who need him around all the time or need to be texting him constantly or partners who make their relationship the primary focus of their life. It’s an instant turn-off for him and he wants someone who will have an entire life of their own, their own goals and ambitions and interests and hobbies. He wants someone who is okay with not seeing him every day and someone who is okay with giving him all that alone time he needs to really function. He wants a partner who will look at a relationship much like he would – as part of a life, not the totality of it.

Hibari is really a very observant guy. He’s able to get a pretty good grip on people, if he has enough opportunities to observe them, and he’s pretty quick to realize and understand if someone is only interested in being around him because they want him to protect them or because they feel he can give them direction to their life. And if those people are strong enough, he’s okay with using them as underlings and pawns, but he’d never be able to take a potential romantic partner seriously if he does notice that they’re drawn to him for that reason.

Notice how I said people being strong enough…that’s also another huge thing for Hibari. He does care about his partner, he does have a slight protective urge over them, but he won’t take any potential romantic partner seriously if they’re not strong. He does prefer someone who is physically strong, even if they can’t quite match him (and I definitely do think he is someone who would spar with a romantic partner as a date, if they were physically strong, and would kind of work in training them on how to become better at this or that in there and it would all be fun to Hibari). But I’ve mentioned at least once before that, as he does grow up, Hibari does come to realize and accept that there are different forms of strength, which is something that Tsuna and his family really does help Hibari to comprehend. So, he would be okay if physical strength and fighting was not his partner’s strong suit, though he expects them to stay off the battlefield and learn basic self-defense if it’s not. But they have to be strong in some other sense, such as being emotionally quite strong, self-aware, and confident, or mentally strong.

I do think Hibari really takes a liking to people who challenge him in some way, especially as he grows older. Having a partner who is unafraid to do that really improves who he is as a person. While I do think, as a teenager, he wouldn’t have been okay with anyone talking back to him, including a romantic partner, he gets more okay with it as he ages. He wants his s/o to disagree with him, though he expects them to have solid reasons and facts to back up why they do. While violence really does serve as the most enjoyable to him, I also see Hibari as someone who is intrigued and enjoys a good clash of a wills and a good debate, especially if his partner brings up ways of looking at something that Hibari would never have thought of, just because that does help him going forward, gives him more knowledge, either factual, or emotional knowledge, and knowledge is a strong weapon in his entire arsenal.

#event ask #katekyo hitman reborn #khr #hibari kyoya #headcanons

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i need to stop writing random shit in the fact account drafts anyway i have so many thoughts about the singular chapter (the last one) of canaria that i read so now i'm gonna word vomit (onto the right blog this time!)

So YEAH hopeful ending holy shit but also I think it's gonna fall apart and that hurts. But! It's also the most realistic outcome and prsk is actually surprisingly realistic with how they write things in terms of like, plot and emotional stuff. Staying at PXL as WxS is what they would all like to do, because no one wants to leave their friends behind and go separate ways when you grow up. However, in terms of their dreams and ambitions, staying at PXL is only what Emu wants to do.

Emu wants to stay at PXL because of what it meant to her grandpa. She wants to make sure the park will continue to bring smiles to everyone for years to come because that was her grandpa's dream, and it's her dream.

Tsukasa wants to become a world-famous star, and then comes the question of can he still do that if he stays at PXL? And honestly, not realistically. Yes, the park has made a name for itself and the group did promotional tours around the country, but he's still just a performer at a theme park. Tsukasa is really interesting in this scenario because he's a very selfless character but he also manages to balance that with being selfish because sometimes that's what you have to do to achieve your dreams (Love Live reference). And it really comes down to would he settle for being a theme park performer over world fame?

Nene as well wants to be a musical star, and if the design of her fragment sekai is anything to go by, we're headed to broadway (i can't remember if this is ever mentioned anywhere someone please force me to stop skimreading everything). And again it comes down to would she sacrifice her dream of becoming a muscial theatre star in favour of staying with her friends.

It's also interesting from Rui's POV. I actually read curtain call the entire way through so here's more word vomit sorry. Rui has everything set up for him to leave PXL and WxS. It was handed to him on a silver platter and he even accepted it even though it's not what he wanted. Obviously Asahi sent him back to WxS, but he did say that he'll get in contact with him once they graduate high school and that the offer still stands.

And it's here where we reach that split between dreams and aspirations, because just on a surface level, Rui is the only one who falls heavier on the dream side of things. Rui aspires to be a director, but ultimately his dream is/was to have people accept him and have somewhere to belong. WxS gives him that and it's why he doesn't want to let it go. That said, WxS gave all four of them a place to belong, it's just that for Rui, that part is a lot more important to him than his actual aspirations, whereas it's more balanced with the other three.

With all that considered, I don't think whatever Rui's idea is (unless it's a real banger idea) is going to work out. They still have another school year to go (or 3 irl years), so there's time to try things out and see how they go, but in the end I just don't see it happening. It's a case of it just isn't how life works. All four of them have different dreams and aspirations which means naturally they are going to walk down different paths. It's not like Leo/need, MMJ or VBS where they all have the same goals and dreams and (for L/n in particular) they can and will reach these together.

That said, if they do disband and the devs don't just write them out if that happens, I could easily see the unit still functioning from a purely gameplay perspective. Just because they don't function as a unit doesn't mean that they aren't friends and don't have lives anymore. You could focus on what Rui and Tsukasa are doing in uni/work, and also Emu and Nene will still be in high school, so WxS could continue as a part time thing. For a bit. Maybe.

Anyway watch love live if you watch it you can handle anything this game could throw at the wxs story (lie it still hurts no matter how many times you watch the train station scene)

#this post is called can you tell what unit i'm fixated on rn?#project sekai #wonderlands x showtime #mine #project sekai spoilers #Rambles #long post #idk i've decided i don't like putting my long stuff under the cut it's less convenient for me #this took like 2 hours to write because i kept getting distracted every 5 minutes

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I like tenn being tenn being zim twin idea. Tenn the favor one even though she is completely capable of doing the same about of destruction as zim. They care about zim safety(helping hide his defect as a smeet) as, he care for them as well (he literally got worry about them from missing calls and plan a rescue mission without a second though). Wander what their though on each other current situation? (For tenn during and post meekrob, as well as her though on reserving the sir units)

Also love this blog has some really interesting ideas. Also sorry about asking a lot.

(Gonna add links when this post is a few hours old to prevent tumblr from eating it)

On Zim’s side of things, he’s always been mostly aware of what Tenn’s been doing. It’s a bit hard not to considering things like the lead up to Operation Impending Doom 2, where even before it was officially announced, Tenn and a few other outstanding Invaders were both being hyped up as key figures for an “upcoming project” overseen by the Tallest themselves. Even on Foodcourtia, when official Irken news rarely broadcasts due to how controlled the media is, Tenn’s face (along with a few others) was still a common sight on irken military recruitment posters.

On Tenn’s side of things however, Zim’s story is a complete mystery that both confuses and seriously concerns Tenn.

It started out perfectly normal. Zim, Tenn and Skoodge became adults (technically, not biologically), left the Academy, Tenn and Skoodge both joined the military with their own goals (Tenn wanted to become Special Forces while Skoodge always wanted to become an Invader), and Zim decided to go for a career in science. They promised to keep in contact whenever that was possible and then parted ways.

Tenn wasn’t able to remain in contact with Zim for a while. Neither was Skoodge. Military training and all. Even after becoming an official member of the Incendiary Corps, Tenn wasn’t able to speak much to Zim or Skoodge as Special Forces is a rather busy job. They did speak to each other, but never consistently.

And then, nearly a year after they originally parted ways with Zim, tragedy struck. Almighty Tallest Miyuki was declared dead, having lost her life in a massive lab accident on Vortian Scientific Station 13. In fact, only a handful of people survived the accident in general.

This hit the entire Irken Empire HARD, especially since the Empire shuts down for a few weeks after the death of a Tallest in a state of required mourning. But it hit Tenn even harder than most not because of their connection to Miyuki, but because they knew that Station 13 was the exact Station that ZIM worked on, and they weren’t able to find any proof that he was one of those few survivors, as the Irken media focused purely on Miyuki’s death and never said anything about the others aboard the station (partially because there was only one Irken working there anyways).

Tenn tried multiple times to find or contact Zim, but he had pretty much disappeared from the face of Irk.

That was, until just a few months later, when Skoodge (who was still stuck in training and constantly held back due to his height), called Tenn and told her that Zim had been spotted in his military training group. He was only there for a few days before either being transferred or promoted (Skoodge wasn’t entirely sure which had actually happened), but he was there. Skoodge talked to him, mind you only for a few minutes in total because of just how Irken military training is, but it was definitely him.

That first came as a relief to Tenn, but that relief quickly became concern as they realized exactly what that meant. Zim had joined the military. That just doesn’t seem right. Zim never had any interest in joining the military at all, always being more interested in scientific stuff. In fact, Zim had actively stated his dislike of military training before, hating being consistently bossed around by a Drill Sergeant or commander that thinks they’re above everyone else. So why the hell was Zim in the military all of a sudden?! The Empire wasn’t forcibly enlisting people and they could think of no reason that Zim would even want to join the military, so why was he there?! It’s simply not like him to willingly join.

And the way Skoodge had described it, Zim had changed. He was still Zim, but he was different. Seeming constantly stressed and paranoid, avoiding Skoodge whenever possible, being even more self destructive and impulsive than he was before, and at the same time seeming numb to everything around him with occasional depressive episodes. Skoodge described it as being like a piece of Zim had been torn out.

(In reality, this was Zim being extremely traumatized from the very recent Blob Incident and dealing with PTSD. It’s just that Skoodge and Tenn had no way of knowing that)

Skoodge also described some concerns with Zim’s health, as Zim seemed to have difficulty with hearing all of a sudden and could frequently be seen gripping his right hand like it was in pain, both in and out of active training.

(This was from injuries sustained during the Blob Incident)

Zim also refused to contact them at all during this time, which only added to the mystery and the concern that Tenn felt.

But by then, Zim had disappeared again, this time into the Irken military system instead of thin air. Tenn wasn’t sure where he went, where he was trying to end up, or why he was there in the first place, but Zim was somewhere in the Irken military, and despite his reputation of causing accidents wherever he goes, Zim is surprisingly hard to track down. Even when Tenn found a place or military squad that Zim destroyed, he was always gone by then, either being transferred or promoted with basically no way of knowing to where. Tenn also had to deal with their actual job, which like mentioned before, is a rather busy and important one.

Then out of nowhere, Tallest Spork died. Killed by a massive energy eating blob that broke into an elite soldier graduation. A heavy blow to Irkens everywhere. Stranger still was the news of what also happened during that incident. A lone elite soldier (whose identity was left anonymous) snuck away from the evacuation, confronted the blob, and somehow killed it, with the skills he showed during the fight earning him a place in invader training.

Tenn definitely focused on the event due to both Spork’s death and the fact that Zim was included on the list of graduating elites. But she never learned about Zim’s involvement in it. Apart from Spork and a few royal guards, there were no casualties, and all elites survived, so Zim definitely survived. No doubts about it. The question of how and why Zim was there in the first place still remained however.

And then Operation Impending Doom 1 happened. Tenn wasn’t there when it all went down, they had duties elsewhere, but they saw the news, and it confused and frightened them.

Zim, now Invader Zim, had hijacked a Frontline BattleMech and gone on a rampage across the surface of Irk, single handily putting a stop to Operation Impending Doom 1 before it even got off the ground and decimating Irk’s surface. After that, Zim had been arrested and brought to the Tallest, with Zim being sentenced to permanent drone work.

This. Left. So. Many. Questions. What made Zim do that, as, despite his lack of self control, he had never been THAT destructive or lacking in common sense?! Where is Zim going now as a drone?! AND WHY WAS ZIM IN THE MILITARY AS AN INVADER IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!

(In reality, Zim’s actions in OID1 were the result of a mental breakdown. The trauma of Miyuki’s death and Spork’s death combined with the stress of hiding his ever worsening defects in the military under threat of death eventually got to Zim and he finally cracked under the constant pressure and PTSD)

Then, Zim disappeared a third time, this time into drone work. Tenn knew he had been made into a drone, but didn’t know what kind of drone he had become, where he was assigned or anything. Zim just disappeared. Again.

And then, three years of silence. Tenn switched from being Special Forces to being an Invader, became the face of OID2 due to their outstanding performance and finally met back up with Skoodge (who had finally become an Invader after being held back constantly even though he was more than qualified the entire time) for Operation Impending Doom 2.

Tenn had figured by that point that Zim was just gone. Wherever he was working as a drone, she wasn’t going to find it. Zim was just gone. He was some rich Irken’s property now.

And then, as Tenn stands on the podium at the Great Assigning, take a wild guess at who comes crashing in: none other than Zim.

They never got the chance to talk properly during the Great Assigning, as the Tallest rushed Zim into his Voot and sent him off as fast as possible while keeping him away from the other Invaders, so it was a very surreal experience for both Tenn and Skoodge. They just saw a living ghost walk into the convention hall, bargain with the Tallest SUCCESSFULLY (or at least semi-successfully, as the mission given to Zim was fake), and be quickly ushered out, disappearing just as quickly as he appeared.

Fast forward Six Months and Tenn gets a call from some unknown planet from Unknown Space. It’s Zim, having finally arrived on Earth.

The two of them talk whenever it’s possible. Talking about anything from takeover plans to new discoveries and random chitchat. And Tenn learns just a little bit about what happened over the course of the last five years. Not a lot, but they learn some smaller things, like:

Where Zim went as a drone (food service on Foodcourtia. Strangely enough, Zim doesn’t seem to remember any of it.)

The injuries that Skoodge mentioned when he saw Zim in the military (Inner ear was permanently damaged in a lab accident and Zim now relies purely on his antenna for hearing, making him partially deaf. Zim never explains the hand thing, but given how Irkens view hands and feet, Tenn views that as none of her business.)

Why he came to OID2 (Zim had a whole story for that one. Apparently he originally snuck off Foodcourtia to go to OID2 so he could see Tenn and Skoodge off on their respective missions, but realized when he was about halfway there that he could use the opportunity to prove himself as an invader again and gunned it for Conventia at the Voot’s top speed after that realization. He also had to break into the main convention hall because drones weren’t allowed in.)

But Tenn never has their two biggest questions answered, those questions being:

Why did Zim join the military in the first place?

What made him destroy OID1?

Tenn also sees that Zim has changed since she last saw him. He isn’t exactly how Skoodge described him (mostly because Zim has had more time to process Miyuki’s death, along with new trauma being added on), but he’s still different from the old Zim. That numbness towards everything was gone, as were the depressive episodes that Skoodge mentioned (most of the time) and he wasn’t as paranoid or anxious as Skoodge described those three years ago either (although he did show some signs of paranoia and anxiety), but Zim was now more impulsive and self-destructive, lacked even more common sense than before, showed signs of serious memory problems as he couldn’t remember anything that happened on Foodcourtia (he couldn’t even remember who he used to work for) and was just more forgetful in general and was very, very secretive over his past, refusing to talk about anything that happened before Foodcourtia and dodging the questions every time they were brought up.

It wasn’t as bad as Skoodge described it (because Zim had changed both for better and for worse since then), but Tenn could only describe it like a piece of Zim had been torn out.

And because Tenn was captured, they never saw Zim’s trial or anything like that that could have explained things. They also weren’t there when Zim was taken back to Foodcourtia and regained his (previously repressed) memories of the place, which could have explained just a tiny bit more even if they never saw Zim’s trial.

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As for Tenn’s thoughts on the SIR Units, they have no idea where they came from or where they were supposed to go.

Megadoomer X-3 Combat Stealth Mechs come in three parts, the mech itself, the battery and the stealth suit. The Battery is attached to the back of the mech and is what the power cable attaches to, and the stealth suit is a specialized full body suit that lets the driver turn invisible with the mech. Zim didn’t have the battery or suit, and that’s because Tenn had them. The three parts are shipped separately from on another and Tenn had already received the two smaller items. They were just waiting for the mech itself at that point.

And then, without any warning, they received a box full of malfunctioning SIR Units. The label on the package even said it was addressed to Tenn from the Irken Empire.

And Tenn has no idea where the SIr Units were originally supposed to go. Their best guess is that they were supposed to be sent to a manufacturing or recycling plant to be melted down and the labels somehow got switched.

Meanwhile, Zim has no idea that the Megadoomer he got was supposed to be Tenn’s, nor is he aware of the fact that Megadoomers are shipped in three separate packages. Zim wasn’t even expecting to receive a package on that day. He never asked the Tallest for anything and just randomly received a Megadoomer with the package addressed to Zim. Hence why he immediately calls the Tallest and thanks them for the gift.

If the two of them met up again they’d probably figure it out (or at least figure out that Zim received Tenn’s Megadoomer. Zim would never believe that the Tallest would willingly send him a box full of malfunctioning SIR Units).

#invader zim #headcanons #zim #Tenn #sorry this one took so long #things have been very very busy recently

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Talking about characterization, there's one thing I've seen only in a handful of fanfics and that kind of bothers me it doesn't appear more: Butch being the first one of the boys to get along with the girls. People usually write Boomer as being the one to overcome their 'rivalry' first, but I honestly don't think he would. The fandom seems to have forgotten that Bubbles is just as 'take no shit' as Buttercup and Blossom, if not more - I mean, we all remember that one episode in which she gets fed up with people calling her a crybaby and goes batshit crazy with the 'crime fighting', right? She's all 'mercy is for the weak' as she kicks the poor Talking Dog's butt. Bubbles is kind of ruthless when she wants to be. Now, thinking that the boys are the girls' 'bad sides' made worse, I think Boomer would be the meanest of the boys. There's that one comic issue in which the girls and RRB fight against the Boogieman together (the one with the iconic green's fistbump :D), and in one part Boomer makes fun of Brick (who, if I remember correctly, gets all embarrassed and defensive lmao). Anyway, what I want to say is: that boy is the meanest bean and there's no way he would be the first one to be friendly with the girls. My boy Butch, on the other hand. You once said that he's the quieter one of his brothers (I think it was on an ask about Parasomnia?) and I was like "oh shit, they're right!". Whatever little canon personality we have of the boys, Butch's the one more "laid back" (as to say) out of the three of them. He's there to have fun - even if his idea of fun is committing petty crimes - and I think that, as he grows up, he'd be the first one to think "eh, why are we still pulling the girls' (metaphorical) pigtails?". He still would be, like, FUCK THE SYSTEM, have anger issues (just like BC does), love fighting, and have 'fucking shit up with his brothers' as his favorite pastime. But it would be because he thinks all those things are FUN, not because he still has "destroying the girls" as his number one goal.

Oh yeah, I'm all here for Butch being the laid-back brother!! Another anon and I talked about something similar a while back! i'm sorry this blog needs to be better indexed lmao but it's in here somewhere

But i think we pretty much agreed that Butch would ideally be the middle sibling peacekeeper stuck between the two biggest drama queens, so it would only make sense that he would then be the brother most "okay" with a truce haha

He would definitely be the family "fixer," and I think Boomer and Brick would need bailing out a lot given how canonically Too Much they are, especially together. It'd be cute if someone wrote a fic or something depicting Butch as the rock that really holds the little fucked up family together, including HIM and Mojo. I think it has potential

#brothers that make my brain go awwww #a family that's evil together stays together <3 #anon asks

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Sorry about all the Kim and Ron ask. I saw the conversation being brought up and I had to chime in.

I’m officially done though, you are a Drakgo blog. Let’s talk about Drakgo!

How do you think their dynamic is going to change after graduation?

Do you see them as being domestic?

They already seemed like an old bickering married couple in my eyes:

They live together, they own a dog, they technically had two (three if you count the comics) children already. They are a big evil family and I love that about them.

They are so chaotic and trying to envision how two villains can have a relationship is what makes their dynamic so interesting.

LOL I do not mind the Kim/Ron asks one bit!

but anyway, you hit upon a lot of things I love about Drakgo. first and foremost, how can two villains have a successful relationship?

there's an assumption with villains that they are flawed in some generally culturally accepted way. they lack morals... you know, willingness to murder... world domination... all those things. and you can infer other flaws, such as...can they implicitly trust another person? deeply enough for a lasting relationship? this is what first made me explore the ship, was trying to figure out... how can people who are flawed, who like their flaws, have that depth of trust? I think ultimately with any ship, the goal is for the ship to live happily ever after, no matter what that looks like. but a "partially ever after" isn't so satisfying. so figuring out who these two are, and taking them from where we know them in canon to who they could be post-Grad is my greatest area of interest.

that said, if you interpret them as a couple already (as many in the fandom do), cuz they DO seriously give off that old married couple vibe... it's easier to work out. the question at that point really just becomes what do they do post-Grad. and, if one is interested (as I am), how did they get together in the first place?

I'm not meaning this answer to be a fic advertisement, but, if you are a fic reader I can recommend some of the "old married" how they got together pre-canon stories, and I myself have mostly written post-Grad how they got together stories, plus established relationship domestic stories.

which leads into.... oh yes, they can be domestic. it's just not gonna look like kim/ron domestic. I personally can't see them hanging up their evil shingle and going good. I can see them trying good. but I just can't see the radical change to the good side that would be necessary... could they be something in between? perhaps. and I can recommend fics to that effect too!

post-Grad... my personal final interpretation is... they may or may not try being "good," with Drakken being the one wanting it and Shego not wanting it at all. he'd either stay evil for her sake, or, after trying good decide he wants evil or make some mistake that forces him back into it, which he would not be displeased with... if Shego tried being good, it would be for Drakken's sake only. but I think they would ultimately stay evil and stay together. and if they went domestic, such as...if a child became involved... they would still be evil but be much more low-key about it. less out there in everyone's face for Kim to come foil them, more secretive about it... some long-term plot like Shego in Sitch in Time. world domination is still the goal~

I'm sorry all my answers lately are so broad and non-specific. but if you want something more specific, do ask!

#queued post #kim possible #drakgo #drakken #shego #drakken x shego

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smoothgeometry · 1 year

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FAQ: Who is The Colonel?

If you've been on the main blog page and not just mobile, I'm sure you've seen the banner up top as well as the blog description, which leads to the obvious question:

Who is The Colonel, exactly?

Well, he's the architect, to a great degree, behind the polycule I RP, and the only character that I write that isn't actually my own.

TLDR: I RP as Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss (a once-popular JRPG from the Tales Of series). There's a lot of odd magic things in his setting that ultimately mess with the fabric of reality, so I don't think that it's a stretch to say it's possible for him to be dropoped somewhere on another plane if someone fucks with magic in just the right way.

With that said, his personal plot is deeply involved with his desire to go "back home" and survive in the universe he's landed himself in long enough to do so. He's done a good job of the latter, but so far, nothing he's researched has worked... well, not yet at least.

While Jade does have a playful side, it's usually to keep others at bay. Underneath the facade of social versatility lies a man whose trust is hard-won. Although he has painstakingly learned the value of others inhabiting the world alongside him, that doesn't mean he has to lie to himself about how competent they typically are. He is the sort of person whom many consider to be their friend, but does not consider many others to be his friend in turn.

Thus, the Garden.

As much as he would like to be an isolationist, that's no way to live. it's not conducive to good mental health, and if he grows to be unable to trust his own mind while he's working towards his goals, all would be lost (so far as he's concerned, anyway).

This blog is called "Smooth Geometry" because the members of the polycule jokingly refer to their group as "The Circle", a play on the phrase "circle of friends". But Jade prefers to think of them as either a petri dish (a "successful" experiment of his own design), or a garden.

The fact is that he vetted and put each of them through the ringer to ...mold them, in a sense. To direct their growth.

Jade would rather not make new friends unintentionally, and having this group satisfy his social (or other) needs severely limits the amount of bullshit or unexpected drama he has to handle. My personal headcanon is that he most certainly is a person with anti-social personality disorder; he's made his mistakes regarding socializing in the past, and gotten to the point where he's figured things out. His coping mechanisms are set, and they aren't the most destructive they could be. Having a specific group of people that he's emotionally involved in both reduces the outside drama he has to invest in (becaues he can't completely avoid it, lol), and gives him a controlled environment within which to indulge in his emotions so far as his personal interest.

Jade was able to make friends even in his source canon, after all. He has a clear grasp for interactions with others and what they entail/what others expect. Trial and error pay off, sometimes!

Anyways, he's gone through quite a bit, and suffered quite a bit more once arriving in this universe during The Great Reveal. He's a soldier and a survivor though, and has plenty of tools in his arsenal, and thus was able to build himself into a cushier life than most. Jade has in fact made a comfortable space for himself here, but that doesn't mean he's given up on potentially getting back home.

The Circle, his polycule, is full of people he loves (or would like to grow to love) in one way or another, but his priorities are still set neatly in order. They are quite carefully picked and cultivated flowers, so far as he's concerned, and he's managed to arrange (or is in the process of arranging) his garden into a peaceful place for himself, bloom by bloom. Jade would never argue that he's a good man, ever, but he can be a consistent partner if nothing else; that's better than most others by a wide margin, he thinks. Does he deserve it? Likely not. But he worked/is working hard to get these people and relationships in juuuuust the right places, and he's going to enjoy the convenience of that as he pleases.

#jade curtiss #the gardener #meta info #canon thoughts #when he's feeling particularly mean or haughty he refers to the other Circle members as his toys lol #but when he's feeing lovey he absolutely calls them flower #when more than two of them are on dates with him he sometimes calls them a bouquet #dont let jade fool you tho #he's dangerous and falling for him is a bad idea and even he knows it #faqs

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skyshardmusic · 1 year

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Endless Labyrinth and ambiance from The Borderline.

So, basically this blog is my thread from Twitter but in all in one!

The idea is to talk about some of my music once in a while, tell interesting details and stuff. So here we go.

I re-discovered this ambiance piece recently, when I was re-listening some of my stuff with new headphones.

This headphones are way more professional than what I used, and its a huge jump forward, I'm still getting used. The main feature is that I can now hear the bass placement correctly, since my previous headphones (Sennheiser HD 251) lacked bass.

Anyway, I was expecting most stuff to be bad, but to my surprise the quality amazed me. I think my monitors helped a lot during the mixing.

The point is that I could hear stuff that I tried to do but couldn't say if I nailed it or not yet, with my old headphones. Very spatial audio, anxious automation of the sub-frequencies (really, makes ya feel anxious), good placement for different FX and stuff which was happening on the "scene" and all of that pretty clean too.

My goal with the ambiance pieces from The Borderline was to give the feeling of an horror game. For example, if you play any Silent Hill game without sound, it doesn't fill scary at all. The secret is in the sound. Messing up with your brain to induce a feeling of discomfort, anxiety, fear. Make you feel like you're in a bad place ya know?

And I think I got kinda close to that. Y'all can tell me better if you got uncomfortable while listening. If you did, then great! It means I kinda nailed it!

Of course The Borderline is not all about making you uncomfortable. The horror ambiance is mixed with melodic and chill songs before and after, to advance the story and give a sense of calm before or after the scary parts.

But in overall I think so far those might be my best works on ambiance. Stuff like "The Other Side" too, I was expecting it to be bad on this studio headphones, but I found out its actually pretty well nailed.

I probably could do better now with automated binaural movement, but I think not everyone will hear it since we're going into deep audio territory.

One day I would love to mix a horror ambiance piece on a Dolby system. That would be so nice to do ~

But ye, that's what I wanted to comment today on my stuff. If you haven't heard it, The Borderline is free/pay-what-you want on my Bandcamp page.

With that said, this Friday is Bandcamp Friday, if you want to support me with any amount and getting The Borderline in your collection. I strongly recommend getting it on FLAC/WAV, however I can proudly say that the MP3 320kbps sounds pretty good too.

So ye, that's all for today, and I'll be back another day with another thread about another song.

Be good to each other. Behave. Don't drink too much cider. Peace.

#music #ambiance #horror #audio design #electronic music

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catastrophe-sandwich · 1 year

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A little while back Google sent me an ultimatum. Pay 24 bucks a month for my and my parents Google accounts, or lose access to all my email, purchases, books, photos, decades of history. Flickr did the same thing. Cloudflare, another company I loved, got into the business of platforming the alt right. Microsoft bought GitHub and stole everyone's code for their AI training.

All these things that I liked, even loved, existed solely to be bought out, upsold or flipped for a profit and gutted. Maybe not immediately. But there's really one goal in capitalism, and that's extracting as much value from the thing as you can.

I quite love my MacBook. It's easily the best computer I've ever owned. But on the flip side I have friends I just can't contact because they use iPhones. My mum wants to know why she can't FaceTime me, and I have friend groups with group chats I'm not invited to because I use Android. This was a deliberate, documented decision by Apple to lock everyone into their ecosystem and extract as much value as they can with the least effort possible.

I fucking hate it.

But if anything has made me any more anticapitalist it's Elon.

Fucking Elon.

Twitter was a product that I loved. 15 years ago I joined, on a whim, because it was doing the same thing I was trying to make my blog do. Little updates in the sidebar. I never imagined it would have such a big impact on my life.

I think I was 21. Damn. I basically grew up on Twitter. Living through my 20s with (initially SMS access, but eventually) a permanent uplink to the hive mind which shaped who I am today. Initially I was just broadcasting my thoughts, which reflected my narrow worldview at the time. But it slowly became more of a community thing and opened my eyes to the larger world around me.

#btub was a monthly meetup of Brisbane folks, The Brisbane Twitter User Brigade. A hodgepodge group of internet weirdos who would rock up to Greystone Bar and just hang out together. Network. Get drunk. We had those cheesy "hello my name is" stickers which we'd write our Twitter handles on (@goAshley!). It was hilariously dorky, but I loved it in an ironic sort of way.

At its peak we filled the entire deck area and went late into the night.

Through the years I met some of my best and closest friends on Twitter, through btub and otherwise. Eventually it became maybe not mainstream, but a lot less about community. But it was still my uplink to all my internet friends. Any moment of the night or day I could pull out my phone and not be alone. Or sometimes be more alone than I ever was, depending.

I always said I would leave Twitter when they introduced ads in the feed. They introduced ads years ago, but I still loved that place. They introduced the algorithmic timeline that amplified hate and surfaced other people's anxieties to make them yours. But I stuck around because you could turn that off. Jack Dorsey introduced crypto to the platform and I still stuck around, reluctantly, because that's where all my internet friends were.

Then Elon Musk.

I was willing to see it through because I used to like the place. But I don't think anyone was prepared for the speed it devolved. Elon seems to be an outlier in this tale of capitalist bulldozing, because there's no motive here other than that he appears to be a complete fucking idiot. But nevertheless It's clear he has no respect for this thing that we have collectively loved, and he's certainly not going to make it a safe or pleasant place to be from now on.

It's heartbreaking. The end of an era. All because the rich man wanted to own the internet.

The hive mind, my avian companion, custodian and curator of my thoughts existed solely to be bought out, flipped for a profit and gutted. Fucking capitalism.

Anyway this whole post came about because I love Automattic. They do really good stuff and Tumblr is lovely…

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crescentmoonrider · 1 year

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I posted 2,865 times in 2022

That's 147 more posts than 2021!

105 posts created (4%)

2,760 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@pikarasaaa

@duesternis

@dabiden

@proximally

I tagged 2,029 of my posts in 2022

Only 29% of my posts had no tags

#jujutsu kaisen - 209 posts

#pokemon - 144 posts

#video - 121 posts

#long post - 80 posts

#homestuck - 59 posts

#mob psycho 100 - 58 posts

#gif - 57 posts

#dracula - 51 posts

#clothes - 51 posts

#history - 41 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#(slams the table) give me back my hours of pmd i didnt mean to load that save file i didnt even mean to have a save state my finger slipped

My Top Posts in 2022:

it’s been..... 3 years......... oops ?

for the luckily unaware, i first posted about this AU back in 2019 for the kakaobi week, said “someone remind me to make a post with like, more details about this AU” and then promptly forgot about it

anyway uh, Root AU !

basically, Obito is found by Root, Orochimaru is brought in to experiment on his body with some HashiraDNA™ (it’s not like Obito would survive otherwise, so no consequences if things turn out badly Again) and surprisingly the graft takes

so now Danzo has a new tool, Orochimaru has a long-term pet project and some reassurance that his HashiraDNA™ experiments could work, and Obito is Going Through It

his new body is super fucked up. not only is he now a weird amalgamation of cells that only fit together thanks to seals engraved inside his skin (? or whatever the equivalent of skin is for half-tree-half-man limbs), but the rest of his body is Also covered in seals to guarantee obedience, silence, not bringing harm to Root or Danzo, not revealing his original identity, not killing himself... but also some of them are responsible for keeping him alive, so it’s a mixed bag

his new name is Kinoko, in katakana. because i thought it was funny to call him mushroom and/or tree child, even though it doesn’t fit the pattern of Root names. also it’s just fucked up enough that Orochimaru would like it i think, so we’ll just say he’s the one who chose that name

so that’s the origins of Kinoko

because his old self has been buried by Root training, seals, and trauma, his feelings relative to Kakashi and Rin are pretty different from canon, in that while he witnessed Rin’s death through the shared sharingan connection with Kakashi (which led to the discovery of said connection and the implementation of some news seals inside Obito/Kinoko’s eye socket to make sure nothing from his side goes to Kakashi) and it awakened his mangekyou, he doesn’t keep a grudge. Rin’s death becomes just one more fucked up Root thing in his mind

unlike Kinoe, whose mastery of mokuton is used to great avail with complex buildings and structures, Kinoko’s version of it is incomplete and entirely tied to his body. on the one hand, this limits his range a lot, but on the other he doesn’t require hand signs and thus can launch very efficient surprise attacks

by the time Team 7 is established, Kinoko is assigned to watch over them and make sure nothing goes wrong with either the 9 Tails or the last living Uchiha who isn’t an abomination of nature

while he cannot reveal his identity, nothing in his programming forbids him from being accidentally spotted by Kakashi, which accidentally happens. accidentally

yeah Kinoko is kinda tired of Danzo’s shit, turns out, and would very much like some freedom

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This is true love.

just had to draw the queerest straight couples in jjk on a double date

Hakari and Kirara have such t4t swag... and of course there’s wifeguy and monsterfucker supreme Yuuta and whatever he’s got going on with Rika

in both cases : relationship goals, albeit in a very different way /o\

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my good buddy @b4kuch1n has been doing dress-designing streams these days, and made me want to flex my fashion muscles myself a bit

also, yknow

yuuta in a cute dress good

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See the full post

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My #1 post of 2022

ino is just so shaped, i love him

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #long post #oof the reminder of that pmd disaster was rough #lost whole hours of progress #eye strain #gif #that header for the wrapped post thing tho..... graphic design is tunglr's passion

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redwineconversation · 2 years

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I felt you in my life before I even thought to

TL:dr version: good news for Arsenal and Juventus - Lyon is basically dead! Bad news for Arsenal and Juventus - Lyon is particularly good at coming back from the dead.

Disclaimer: I'm like soft 90 percent sure I have referred to "Case of the Ex" before somewhere on this blog, but just to clear about when I use that expression, it simply means playing against your former team and nothing to do with a player's personal relationship status.

Anyway, with that out of the way, let's chat about the UWCL draw.

First up is Arsenal on October 19, which I am not super thrilled with in terms of timing - I would have much rather play them in November when we wouldn't be as dead - but not much you can do about it.

There's several factors at play: the alleged "Beth Mead Revenge Tour"; just how long can Lyon survive on life support while being on a ventilator; and how van de Donk handles Case of the Ex.

I want to chat about the latter because I have seen two sides so far on social media: either van de Donk will kiss the badge and provoke Arsenal fans, or she will acknowledge she was with the club for six years, Gunner for life, all that stuff. Here's the thing though: we don't know which way it will play out, and probably won't know until the game(s) actually take(s) place.

Yes, van de Donk did write a love letter to the club and the fans. Yes, she was with them for six years, and even I am reluctant to downplay the emotional attachments she had to the club. You don't stay that long with a club if there wasn't something there. I am more than happy to concede all of that.

But the van de Donk who wrote that love letter isn't the van de Donk we have now. I absolutely do not mean it in a negative way. It's just a hell of a lot easier to emotionally deal with Case of the Ex when your new club is the one handing you the Champions League trophy.

I've seen Case of the Ex go both ways: Sára Björk Gunnarsdóttir was subdued at best in her celebration when she scored against Wolfsburg in the 2020 Champions League Final (Lyon won 3-1, their fifth straight). Saki Kumagai, who was with the club for eight years. was respectful scoring against Lyon in the group stages last year. (Her goodbye post to Lyon remains, in admittedly my biased opinion, probably the most touching goodbye to a club).

Pernille Harder had a completely different take on Case of the Ex when Chelsea played Wolfsburg. If anything it took me by surprise - I would have expected Harder to have been the most respectful out of the three cases I referred to. Wolfsburg took her to two Champions League finals, made sure she was talked about when a discussion arose regarding the world's best players, etc. I would have put legitimate money on a subdued goal celebration.

That wasn't what happened.

And that's why I think it's premature to say van de Donk won't. Yes, she had a very good relationship with Arsenal. But she's at a different club now, who has given her what she wanted all along, and maybe, depending on your view on professionalism, sees her for what she is.

She sees Lyon for what they are, too, and I think that's another factor which is going to be at play: she understands that a vexed, vengeful Lyon is unplayable. Are we certain, if Lyon finds themselves in a hostile environment at the Emirates, with certain players diving and calls going against them, that Lyon's eyes won't darken? Are we really certain van de Donk's won't?

Which leads me to the second point of discussion: what is stronger, Beth Mead's alleged Revenge Tour, or Lyon's hatred of losing? It perplexes me a little to read with such conviction Beth Mead being angry > Lyon losing. Both are strong, both are valid, but. It's a lot harder to GOAT yourself past a team whose eyes, I have said repeatedly, change at the very thought of losing.

Mead might be angry, might want to prove herself, but it's so, so hard to do so against a team like Lyon. I also have full confidence that Mead will be mouthing off about how she is angry, about how she wants to prove herself, about how Lyon is on life support and therefore there for the taking. She is hardly known for restraint, are we supposed to believe, in all due honesty, that she won't say something which will piss Lyon enough to get off the ventilator and be themselves?

Now it must be said that Lyon currently being crippled by injury is something that plays to their opponent's favor. If you do the math Lyon is without 10 important players: Carpenter, Macario, Marozsan, Majri, Hegerberg, M'Bock, Dabritz, to name just a few. The Carpenter Dilemma has not been solved and will not have been by the time these games take place.

If Arsenal want to win, they have to put an end to this bullshit Miedema as a 10 thing they have going on. She will be eaten alive by Lyon's midfield, particularly if Henry gets to play DM. Miedema is not quick enough, does not see the game fast enough to play as a 10 against a team of Lyon's calibre, crippled by injury or not.

With that being said, I am more concerned about Juventus than I am about Arsenal, and again, remain somewhat perplexed by certain individuals dismissing Juventus because of their current league rankings. This is a team that Lyon has a history of struggling against. This is also the team that both Wolfsburg and Chelsea struggled against. Are Arsenal fans really so cocky that they believe themselves to be the exception?

Still the question remains: can Lyon force themselves into a resurrection? We don't know. And we won't, either, until these games are played.

#all good love stories start in the rain #uwcl

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