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kakiastro · 1 month

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Venus Series pt 2: Taurus

Cillian has a Venus Taurus 27°

Venus is at home here so these natives express Venus energy effortlessly.

- they are natural beauties. They may have smooth skin or there’s a glow to them, especially their hair. Is it just me, or do a lot of these natives have curly or wavy hair? Very attractive voices, may love or have the ability to sing.

-they love having expensive or nice things. This can play out as being materialistic but I seen people who live minimalistic lifestyles but still have nice or decent things.

- may come from a family that had a heavy focus on finances, the women in their life may love to shop for their family. The native may love to shop and buy things for their family. A lot of these natives may have had parents who opened a bank account in their name at an early age. They learned the value of money at an early age.

- I know this is going to sound stereotypical but there’s some truth to it. These natives love their comfort food and relaxing. I’m not saying they’re lazy(even though you can be) but these people love peace and quiet. If not quiet then surrounded by loving people. Think of Venus in her purest form, that’s these native.

-they’ll never admit this but these natives can most definitely be possessive with their partners. Not always in a creepy or toxic way but it goes back to that wanting peace so if you bring that energy in their life, they will want you around forever. They deeply crave intimacy on a soul level but it manifest for them as buying you something that has a deep meaning to them or symbolic to yall relationship. I also notice a lot of these natives marry or settle down at a young age. They’re not the type to hope from person- person. They’ll choose a person they could spend their life with, and if it doesn’t workout then they’ll be single for a long while before hopping into another serious relationship. They also know from the get go if they want to be with that person, it’s like an intuitive feeling they get(probably due to Aries 12h), you’ll know if a Taurus wants you.

-music is another favorite thing they love. They may have a very few artist that their “die hard fans” of but they’ll listen to anything.

-may be interested in fashion/beauty, music, acting, money, culinary, dance, forestry careers

-they can be stubborn and definitely take their time if it’s something they really don’t care for, encourage them with their favorite food😅I kid! Sort of…

-I don’t know if it’s just me but I noticed you guys have a slow swag walk. Like imagine those movies where camera is slowed up when the main character is walking slowly after he beat the bad guy up. Yall know what I’m taking about right?😅thats how yall walk for real but it’s attractive.

- beautiful homes as well, it might look like a art museum in their house

Keep in mind that this is just a single placement, aspects to it influence the energy!

#astrology #astrology community #knowledge #love astrology #astro observations #advanced astrology #birth chart #kakiastro #tropical astrology #venus astrology #Venus series by kakisastro

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atticustimestwo · 15 days

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do you mind sharing a bit more about your analysis of heart,,,

i'd love to!! (i assume this is about the heart critique piece i did a few months ago, but please correct me if im wrong!)

in terms of the "a critique on the treatment of hearts characterization" piece, i wanted to visually explore some frustrations i have had with how the fanbase seems to fall into some unfortunate patterns when it comes to hearts character.

frequently, i see heart infantilized - this either comes across as him being a kicked dog unable to help himself because he is too weak, a baby angel who did nothing wrong, or a feral gremlin child. i think flattening his character down to any/all of these is, for lack of a better word, a bit problematic?

; one reason being it just defeats the idea of emotions being a visceral, intense thing. heart is meant to represent emotion in its purest form; i feel woobifying him takes away from that concept because it shows having emotions as being inherently weaker or less mature. i think a lot of people kinda forget HMS aren't just tv show characters. they represent greater concepts that near everyone feels and feels uniquely - theyre more sensitive than your typical character. thats not saying treating them as characters is bad! everyone relates to them differently because they are so personal, they make them their own and i think thats really awesome!! ; but boiling them down to these really generic tropes and making heart a baby kinda defeats the idea that emotions are a real, visceral, multifaceted concept. ; another reason i think it can be problematic is that it sometimes unintentionally comes across really ableist? a lot of these 'fandom-y' tropes are already rooted in ableism in some way, which is bad on its own, but theres also the important addition that heart is frequently portrayed as blind.

ive seen people time and time again fall into stereotypes with heart that his blindness makes him weak/helpless/childish. truthfully I dont think people do this intentionally, but its still internalized ableism showing up. i recognize that a lot of the people who woobify heart tend to be on the younger side, so they dont really recognize that theyre flattening him down like that- not out of malicious ignorance, but because theyre kids who havent really had the life experience yet to grasp the full concepts of the album or realize they might be implying harmful stereotypes; that doesn't necessarily mean its okay, but i think its just them being uneducated cause theyre kids and they have yet to learn that stuff. ; all that being said, im not trying to police people on how they portray characters. im not any authority on this fandom/album by any means imaginable - im just a fan like everyone else here! like i said before, characterizing HMS is not inherently a bad thing at all ! its fun, and its what this fanbase is built on in the first place! its so great that everyone can interpret and relate to HMS so personally, i think chonny really hit it off with the concept for the album and the execution is stellar! seeing all the fanart and different interpretations of it and the characters is such a beautiful thing, no matter if its joking, lighthearted, or deep! ; at the end of the day, theres no wrong way to interpret this album, and theres no wrong way to characterize heart. more than anything that critique piece was built up frustration turned to a call to action for people to stop and think deeply for a moment about how they portray heart - to open eyes if someone might be unknowingly flattening or adding problematic ideas to their characterizations. and to just be mindful of that going forward! 💜

#cj heart #chonnys charming chaos compendium #cccc

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leon-on-the-froggy-chair · 5 months

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Felt like rambling aimlessly today.

Because bro. Words can't even begin to describe how much Resident Evil means to me. I was just talking about horror games and the essence of them with friends and theres just SOMETHING about Resident Evil that the roots of my very soul have buried themselves into. There is no me without RE (badum tss). As funky as that sounds its something thats been so greatly important to my development in a way I don't think anyone could really understand. This was the thing that was there no matter what I was going through, its the lens through which I learned to view the world as a kid and still sort of do (autism moment), its the thing that made me undertand myself as a person and find my identity, it's essentially the thing that raised me where my parents didn't. And its funnier that it was introduced to me by my parents. And by extent it's characters are so greatly fucking important to me, and of those Ada especially. She was really the first character i could relate to and my first character-focussed hyperfixation. And she honestly got me through a lot and her character taught me a lot as a kid.

And on that, I can't begin to explain how much i CRIED playing RE4R's Separate Ways. I know theres criticisms but it just made my inner child so fucking happy to finally see her character treated with the respect and attention she deserves. And the soundtrack carried so much important nostalgia I cried every time I opened a typewriter lmao. The whole remake got me really bad actually. THE most important game to my childhood got remade this year and delivered everything younger me and current me could've ever wanted AND MORE. They showed me a new rendition of a character I previously disliked that I now deeply relate to and who's arcs have taught me a new perspective on my real life and who is also getting me through a lot, much like Ada did all those years ago. This is a very long way of saying Ada and Luis are deeply engrained in my soul. But seriously. I know its probably in some way sad or comes off deeply out of touch with reality but the impact of these games and especially RE4 Remake currently is inexplicable.

And I have known people who've talked about how "new fans" ruin the games or characters for them. And I've seen a lot of people get pissed about kids getting into the games. But idk, first of all I'm happy more people are into the games (creepy or otherwise gross people excluded). And I don't think theres a world where someone could truly detatch me from these characters or this franchise. I've been through a lot with this special interest and idk that serves to have made it even more important to me.

#silly ramblings #on that last bit #its funny to think there might be new people who'll attach to this franchise the same way i did as a kid #Bc I'll tell you what i could NOT relate to anyone around me growing up bc RE was my thing and not whatever my peers were into #actually i deadass got made fun of for it like by teachers and shit bc my autistic ass obviously talked about it often #funny stuff good times #all those mfs who made fun of me are Leon simps on tiktok now and im actually happy about it lmao like NOW YOU SEE THE APPEAAALL #leon and ada were my first ever crushes actually fun fact #side note im cooking an ada analysis and oh boy am i gonna be scared to share it #resident evil

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ship-discourse-confessions · 3 months

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genuinely have to wonder what these people who are so staunchly anti non-offending paraphiles want to happen to said paraphiles. like... what, do you want them to be killed for their thoughts they cant control? you think they deserve to die because theyre mentally ill? do people with homocidal intrusive thoughts deserve to die too, for an act they have not and likely will never commit? i hate to break it to you, but paraphilias are way more common than you think, and the people who have them are humans just like you. some of them seemingly come from nowhere, but a lot of them stem from trauma, which yall dont like to think about because it reminds you that if things just went a little differently, you couldve ended up like the inhuman, irredeemable monsters you advocate for the murder of. either way, its literally not something that the paraphile can control. fundamentally its unlikely any of them will ever be able to shirk their attractions. they can, however, just like you, control their actions. they are people with mental illnesses so stigmatized that its socially acceptable to publicly call for their slaughter. if you fancy yourself someone who thinks that people can be reformed and rehabilitated, someone who identifies as a prison abolishionist or an anarchist, you cannot also advocate for the involuntary killing of people with mental disorders. and you cannot perpetuate this culture of shame and fear and hostility, because all it does is push paraphiles who desperately need help further into isolation, away from the help that they need, and closer to actually offending. if someone is outed as a paraphile, their entire life is ruined. all of their connections are severed. theyre met with constant active hostility for something they never asked for and something they cannot control. so why, then, would a paraphile ever feel comfortable asking for help? how could they ever feel like they can reach out to a professional or even just to their friends and family when the risk is so high? when theyre told that theyre going to hurt people no matter what anyway?

full disclosure, im a paraphile. i wont specify anything beyond that. but for the longest time i really did feel like an irredeemable monster who was doomed to hurt others, that it was only a matter of time. that mindset, unsurprisingly, is not very conducive to recovery. it was only when i found other paraphiles online, learned i wasnt alone, that i didnt have to feel like the only option was death, that i finally felt like i could take control of myself. the isolation was the biggest hindrance to that. feeling like i was entirely alone in the world aside from people who had committed heinous acts, because the paraphiles who havent obviously cant talk about it. except they do, in small corners of the internet, where they still face incredible harassment and shame. still, knowing i was in the company of good people and knowing that my attraction wasnt some conscious choice on my part that made me into an inherent monster helped majorly. i didnt choose to grow up in the environment that i did. i didnt choose what i was exposed to as a kid. i didnt choose how any of that would affect me. i didnt choose to be a paraphile. but i am choosing to be a good person despite it, and im choosing to let other paraphiles know that they can do the same. i know there are some reading this. youre not alone, you can get help, and you can choose to be a fantastic person. youre not doomed. you dont have to die to keep others safe.

to summarize: paraphiles are human beings with mental illnesses just like many of you. and just like you, they need help and support, but its incredibly difficult to get that when the public opinion on them is generally "you deserve to die no matter what." we are incredibly common. you probably know a paraphile. and if that deeply upsets you on a moral level, i hope you know thats the reason why paraphiles hide it and just get worse and worse.

paraphiles are always going to be here no matter how hard you wish they were all dead. thats just a fact. so you can keep making graphic threats against mentally ill people, literally only causing further harm to them and to others, or you can show compassion and a genuine desire to see things get better by at the very least not perpetuating obvious anti-recovery, pro capital punishment, pro thought crime propaganda.

#shipping discourse

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nutal · 12 days

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Even better-

What if Emily is crushing on Lute, but supports her in getting with Adam.

But Adam is still deeply in love with Eve, because despite what happened between them. She still gave him their children and helped him survive for over nine hundred years together.

But eventually it works, Adam falls for Lute and they end up together.

But then Emily learns about the exterminations and is mad at both of them. But when Adam dies she feels really sad, but also guilty. Because like, her crush is single again.

So Emily and Lute eventually end up together. After Emily supports her through her grief and talks her out of all her built up hatred.

But wait, there’s more.

Adam came back as a sinner and eventually bit the bullet and started going to the Hazbin Hotel. Because he wanted to get back to see Lute again and slowly started making progress.

But upon learning that Lute and Emily are together he feels like he got betrayed all over again. That the woman he loves left him for a seraph (he doesn’t hate either, since they genuinely thought he was dead. Unlike Lucifer, Lilith, and Eve. But he also feels cheated, since it hasn’t even been a full year yet.)

So Adam starts a downward spiral, because like his reason for redemption is with someone else now. So what’s the point? So he sleeps around with several one-night stands that barely fill the empty feeling in his chest. And he starts acting like a jerk again (not the same superior feeling, but more like the slightest thing will piss him off.)

And eventually Charlie tells Lute and Emily. Who comes down to help Adam out. He rejects at first, but eventually they get him to listen. And start a throuple with each other after he starts getting better again. With Emily and Adam even falling in love with each other while falling harder for Lute as she does the same. :D

Thoughts?

THIS IS WILD HAHAHA OHMYGODH OK ILL BREAK THIS DOWN

I for sure see one-sided EmiLute (on Emily’s side) with her helping Lute out with Adam, but I also def see Adam still yearning for Eve after some time even if he’s really bitter after what happened. I think Adam loved Eve a lot, they had something special for sure, much more so than what Adam had with Lilith. Plus, like you said, it’s probably likely that Eve bore Adam’s children since she was literally created from his rib to reproduce with him which just intensifies this a lot. (Idk if them having actual kids is canon yet since hazbin isnt a show thats supposed to be ‘biblically accurate’ (OBVIOUSLY cuz it would be pretty weird if it was LMFAO) but still a really interesting thing to think about) and so that would probably itch at Adam from time to time despite how much he tries not to think about it.

But yes guitarspear def def works out in the end for sure like adam realizes hes in love with lute but hes so horrified of love at this point hes js like fuckkk mann

Okay now I gotta say though, while I can see Emily having a one-sided thing for Lute, I can’t envision Lute returning those feelings and I also definitely can’t see Adam and Emily either. Just my personal opinion, but that doesn’t compute in my brain LMAO

BUT i love the idea of sinner adam using the whole one night stand thing to fill that hole in his chest thats so fucking real because he WOULD

Overall this was a crazy ass read op! I love some of the ideas in here and you should def do something with all of this (if you want lol)

#hazbin hotel #guitarspear #emilute #lute hazbin hotel #emily hazbin hotel #adam hazbin hotel #eve hazbin hotel

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lollytea · 2 years

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Here to talk about Gus (headcanons and thoughts, in no particular order)!!

- Gus tells Luz he wants to study human magic/magicians too. Luz just scoffs and says something like ("why would you even want to, its not even real magic just..." "llusions? ;)" "Huh. You got me!)

- Viney is 1000% down to help Gus make that tunnel beneath the school from his bucket list.

- Once the whole world gets put back to normal, and when he's not working with Viney on the above "project," Gus spends his school day hanging out with Hunter and Luz (who have all their classes together since they're both doing all the tracks) being a Supportive Friend(tm), learning glyph magic (good for offensive magic to balance out his illusions, + they're how he can incorperate the smoke-and-mirrors human magic to his repertoire

- He gives his palisman a human nickname too: Emmy-B ;)

- The illusions class can't really teach gus anything anymore tbh--he could probably teach the class? So the only time he's in the classroom is when Hunter and Luz have illusions and he tags along, or when the teacher asks him to mentor matt. When someone complains, the teacher smartly points out thay when you can attend illusions class and do all their homework WITH an illusion, they are free to not bother coming in too. (They don't even touch the fact his illusions are sentient, seemingly without him even having to try which should be impossible but hey I guess thats par for the course for gus)

- Gus makes illusion copies of all his friends, they're pretty useful when you want to do some mischief. Except for Hunter. "Cause there's only one Hunter." Gus says materoffactly when asked

- Gus can run someone through their worst fears with graye's seeing glass. When Gus is chosen as Grom King he is the last of the royal line because when he beats the demon of fear with fear itself Grom gets gone'd for good. Master of Ceremonies for a REASON

- In the eventual huntlow household, they have a guest room and a Gus room its nonnegotiable.

- Gus worries that he's "so dumb" when it comes to other people. And yet he strives to overcome and work on those soft skills whenever he can, from MC'ing at Grom, to doing interviews of Eda and King, serving as president of a club, to his ultimate aspiration of being a witch AMBASSADOR to the human realm, and idk I just think that's so admirable.

- Gus teaches Hunter how to surf-style ride his palisman in exchange for learning how to do a backflip. He reallllyy wants to do a backflip "or die trying!" (Hunter is 100% with him on the die trying energy. Willow is not. How does hunter know how to do a backflip btw? *Flashbacks to hunter flinging himself off snowy cliffs during scout trials in the EC* "Trial and error...")

- Gus keeps pretty silent after waking up after their first night in the human realm. Silent like Hunter and Luz. They all have haunted eyes, but he knows he must look terrible because he's seen some things. Heard names. And when he's finally the only one up one night he gives Flapjack an ultimatum (a picture frame of a memory, of a too-familiar shape atop a too-familiar blonde, etched unto his mind): he knows about Philip. He knows about Caleb. And it's either Flapjack tells Hunter everything the next day or Gus will.

Ahhhh I'm going to stop here but just know I could still go on and on!!

These are so gooooood!! I've been losing my mind over this since I first read it. Probably the best Gus ask I've ever received. You UNDERSTAND this funky little dude.

- Gus wanting to become a magician is SO fucking on brand for him. Like?? The witch kids learn that the Human Realm has their own version of "magic" which Willow, Amity and Hunter are kinda dismissive of at first. ("Sooo...its fake then? They lie about having magic??") But Gus is SO fucking into it. Cause its HUMAN magic!! Of course he wants to study human magic!!! He's deeply fascinated by the whole concept. And he masters it. Because of course he does.

Like "magic" tricks are not a thing in the Boiling Isles. There is no reason for them to exist. So Gus fucking wows Willow, Hunter and Amity with his little performances. He's pulling "Is this your card?" type shit that blows their minds. Cuz like. It's very obvious when a witch is using real magic cuz they need to cast spell circles and hold on to them. But Gus is evidently not using a lick of magic for his tricks, which drives the other witch kids completely bonkers. Like "HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT??? HOW??? HOW????"

Gus doesn't tell them. It's partly payback for making fun of human magic and partly because a magician never reveals his secrets. That was the very first thing he read when he started studying "magic" and he takes it very seriously.

I could see him idolizing Harry Houdini. He's committed to studying his escape artist tricks and figuring how he pulled them off. He plans on trying them out himself one day.

Street performer Gus!! Gus getting booked for birthday parties!!! Gus in a sparkly little waistcoat and a top hat that he pulls rabbits out of. Except he doesn't have a rabbit so he uses Ghost. Luz, Willow, Hunter and Amity all take turns being his lovely assistant.

(Magician Gus really evoked my Gus passion. This is SO good. Thank you for this one.)

- VINEY AND GUS DELINQUENT DUO!!! This made me think about how chill yet chaotic Viney is and how she was a former "delinquent" which reminded me that Matt is also a huge detention rat. I feel like an overlooked part of Gus and Matt's friendship is that they would probably enable each others' impulsive and and unhinged tendencies. Gus Viney and Matt delinquent trio would be so powerful. It's like. When Gus is hanging out with his usual best friends, they keep him out of trouble and are like "Gus no." So when this happens, he turns to his OTHER batshit insane friends who are like "GUS YES."

The three of them have snuck into Hexside at like 2am to dig. Regular teen experiences yknow.

- Gus a confirmed nuisance because whenever Luz and Hunter have illusion classes he's always there like "Hiiiiiiiiiiiii <3" and keeps distracting them and making them laugh. He eventually needs to be seated on the other side of the classroom. And yet he STILL distracts them and makes them laugh. Gus please let your friends learn.

Also yeah he really is just at Hexside to kill time and hang out with his friends. Gives him some stability to his daily routine. Also if he wasn't a student he couldn't be on the Flyer Derby team.

I absolutely could see him (Hunter too) being taught more about glyphs by Luz and eventually advancing to combos. (Love how Gus the Chaos Boy knows how to use the arson glyph. That feels cosmically correct.) It's yet another form of human magic, so of course Gus is interested, while Hunter is really into it as its a technique of savage age witch history.

- Judging by Clover and Flapjack, I think the palismen already had names when they were adopted. Though it's possible some didn't so this headcanon could absolutely still hold up. I like to imagine that Emmiline Bailey Marcostimo was originally carved and named by another witch who was also fascinated with humans, so when she found Gus, she was overjoyed. And when he learns her name, he's overjoyed too. He loves it. Its so humanish. I love the idea that Gus just never shortens it. He says her full name every single time. She's told him that Emmy is fine but he insists.

Though going with the idea that he named Emmy himself, I love to think about him tirelessly pouring over books on human history, combing out a list of names he likes best and being stricken by indecision, gives her three of them.

- LITERALLY. HE DOES NOT NEED TO ATTEND SCHOOL ANYMORE, HES JUST HERE TO VIBE. Like I feel like if Gus bumped up another few grades and graduated early, he would have to start thinking of his future at the age of 13. Because he's a prodigy and people have high expectations of him. But he's just a kid and he's already been through so much and had to grow up really fast in that time spent in the Human Realm. So these few years left at Hexside are pretty much just fun and carefree teenage fun as far as Gus is concerned. He likes seeing his friends everyday. He likes being on Willow's derby team. He likes watching grudgby matches. He's got so much Hexside pride, he could never abandon it. Hell, Bump probably did ask if he would like to just take his final exams and graduate already, but Gus opted to stay where he was. He's like @Luz, Hunter, Willow, Amity and Matt "I could never leave. You people would be lost without me." And they would tbh.

But yeah Gus's fucking SENTIENT illusions really need to be admired. That boy is on some other shit

- "There's only one Hunter" 😭 No but this one HITS. Like. Oh my God?? And I love to think that, similarly to how Gus's emotional maturity and his quiet perception of Hunter's mental state during Labyrinth Runners was demonstrated, he would understand why he shouldn't make Hunter copies without having to be told. Hunter never says anything about it. Gus never says anything about it. If anyone ever asks "There's only one Hunter" is his only answer. They've never really talked about it but Hunter has noticed and he appreciates it more than words can ever say.

- GROM KING GUS!!! GROM KING GUS!!!! People have been wanting another grom ep for so long (For established lumity and also huntlow reasons) and I've always been indifferent but now I'm like!!! Please!!!! Please grom episode just so I can see Grom King Gus in action!!!! That's so galaxy brained too. He WOULD have an advantage over grometheus wouldn't he?? Monster's not expecting a witch who can bounce his own power back at him.

Oh my god. So you know how in Looking Glass Ruins, Gus reads out the names of some illusionists and they all have their own titles?? (the vision creator, the mirage maker etc.) What if, once Gus defeats Grometheus, he also takes his title as his own?

Gus the Fear Bringer.

I'm thinking so hard about this, it's so good. Gus would have to give up his MC duties for this one. He would pass the honor on to Luz, to which she swears not to let him down. She and King are an awesome MC team.

Also I'm losing my shit over the thought of like

Hunter: Not only am I going to my first high school dance, which is nerve racking enough on its own, but my date is Willow Park. There is nothing that could make me any more stressed.

Gus: Guess who just got chosen to take on Grometheus? :))))))

Hunter: I stand corrected.

- Asgdhgjnk Gus has a room in the huntlow house. Gus has a mug in the huntlow pantry. Gus has his shows recorded on the huntlow crystal ball dvr or whatever the fuck they use. He has his own key to the huntlow house. When they go grocery shopping, they make sure there's always plenty of food that Gus likes. He's not even there half the time, but it just feels like he lives here.

Willow doesn't mind if her friends show up uninvited into their house. But Hunter gets so pissed about it. He gets home just to find Luz and Amity sitting on his couch. Who the fuck let you two in here? Did yall even KNOCK?? But Gus is exempt. Gus can do whatever he wants. Gus could show up at 2am and Hunter, while 90% unconscious, would be like "hi Gus!"

Willow could never imagine a reality where Gus wasn't just a regular inhabitant of her home. It's been like that since she was thirteen and Gus started inviting himself in whenever he pleased.

- :0!!! I never thought of this before!!! Gus really does think so lowly of his own people skills but he works tirelessly to improve them. He really puts himself out there and it's so cool of him!! And like, despite how often he's been deceived and manipulated, he just has such a love for people as a whole and strongly believes in the decency of others. He loves to talk!! He loves making connections!! He wants to entertain people, he wants to talk with people, he wants to understand people.

And yeah it's absolutely partly tied to his own future ambition. An ambassador needs to be charismatic and emphatic, so he's really doing the most he can to fully round himself. I love Gus so much!!

- Gus and Hunter learning from and teaching each other is one of my favourite headcanons ever!! Still love the idea that Hunter teaches Gus self defense cuz he thinks the way Hunter fights is SO COOL. Gus isn't much of a physical fighter but he teaches him enough that he could probably defend himself if cornered.

But YEAH!! Staff surfing and backflips. They both believe the others' respective staff skill the coolest shit ever.

I feel like Willow has always fretted over Gus's reckless nature but ever since Hunter entered the picture, she's been a lot more chill. Cuz she doesn't feel like she has to constantly watch him, cuz if he's out there doing insane shit, Hunter is usually with him. And Hunter is perfectly capable of keeping up with whatever Gus is doing and will usually hype him up, but it's like. Whenever they're about to run off to do the stupid stunt of the week, Hunter and Willow always exchange a look that's like

"Keep him alive."

"Don't I always? <3"

- THIS ONE HITS TOO!! Gus gets so wrapped up in his feelings of fear and helplessness that he clings extra hard to what he does have, namely his friends. The things he's seen and heard shake him to the core but that's not what matters right now. Once he's had some time to process everything, his biggest concern is Hunter. And he goes fucking OFF at Flapjack. Like it's up in the air whether Flapjack is in the right or wrong for hiding this, (he is only a little birdie. And is probably hesitant to hurt Hunter any further with the truth.) but Gus is so agitated by the trauma he's experienced and is driven entirely by his own love of Hunter that he feels personally betrayed by Flapjack's actions.

His voice is brimming with anger and devastation as he demands "How could you keep this from him? This isn't what a palisman is supposed to do. You're meant to be his lifelong friend, but all this time you've been letting him live a lie....you know what? Fine. Maybe you don't intend to act like a friend, but I do. So either you figure out how you're gonna tell him, or I'm doing it myself."

It's just!!! Aaaaaaa!!!!

Thank you so much for your Gus headcanons. I vibe with them so much and your brain is huge!!!!

#the owl house #gus porter #i never tag my asks but PLEASE #i am begging for reblogs on this one #i want people to see anon's big brain #huntlow adjacent

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spatio-rift · 3 months

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Hello! I wanted to ask your favourite ships and the ones that you don't really like and why

Hiiii thank you for asking i love to talk about stuff like that and procrastinating on work. i think in recent years ive been enjoying comedic dynamics the most ^_^ i love to laugh and the best kind of dynamics (romantic or otherwise) to me are ones that are funny first and foremost. and theyre best when theres something compelling about it but still a lot of room to play around.

a funny thing ive noticed also is that for most of the media i really really like i care about a platonic unit including the ship/at least one character more than the ship itself? like strky > imakasa, taka (oto) > suika, $quad > kubometo.... like the shipping is funny but the platonic unit is where i get the warm feelings from.

now to actually answer the question ^_^

my favorite ships are the ones cited above as i said mainly because theyre hilarious to me. but i also like that suika dont necessarily like eachother but grow to care deeply for eachother, and the plausible possibility of a history together in oto as kids from how much they know about each other despite being so hostile in early hebi. what happened there... its funny asf but It Could Be That Deep. and also i like the idea that they still hold a massive grudge against sasuke literally 15 years after he fucked them over even though the man doesnt care and probably doesnt even remember. ive always liked the idea that they could have bonded when they reunited during the war over both being mad at him for treating them like dirt but alas kishimoto decided karin still being into sasuke and beating the shit out of suigetsu was funnier.

kubometo and imakasa have a lot less going on, mostly i just find them absolutely hilarious. imayoshi in knb is mostly presented as weird menacing and creepy from seirins pov so imakasa (and strky) is a fun way to play around with his sillier traits, because in that unit hes not a scary opponent determined to do everything in his power to win, hes not an eccentric senpai that never says what hes thinking to his teammates... around kasamatsu and other dudes his age hes just a gay little freak. its refreshing!

i will not pretend kubometo has anything like this going on. its just really funny to me! so many things in saipsi are, but this one really scratches an itch for me. i would actually say that trying to make it deeper than it is and write about it seriously makes it a lot less interesting for me. well thats just my saipsi philosophy in general ^_^ if you start thinking too hard about it it becomes less funny, which is a capital mistake when enjoying a gag manga.

Erm ! for the ships i do not like.... there are so many but out of respect for some beloved followers i wont mention the ones that i really hate just because im biased as hell and no other reason (lol). lets just talk about a few that i have actual arguments for.

for saipsi i dont mind a lot of things as long as it is made funny by people who like it (otherwise i just do not care) but when it comes to saiko and kusuo im sorry we need to stop what is happening here. Out of every possible pairing in saipsi why these two. asou made saiko because financial power was the only thing he could think of at the time that was left to be a challenge to kusuos powers, and then he never really pitted them against each other because it was (offense number 1) already done (kusuos dynamic with kokomi and her divine beauty esp in earlier saipsi revolves around the exact same thing) and (offense number 2) literally not even funny.

their main reasons for interacting are 1) one sided rivalry because of kokomis crush on kusuo, which was abandoned Very Quickly and thank god for that because it wasnt funny at all and made saiko less likeable with each panel (and it encroached on makotos reason for existing in the work as well) 2) The Purge, except saiko never ever learns who that cyborg ciderman cosplayer that humiliated him was. kusuo barely registers in saikos mind past his introduction like he really doesnt care. the ones that consistently and meaningfully interact with him are always nendou, aren and kaidou, kusuos just always around so we actually witness it. it actually matters a lot to me that saiko is one of the only characters that are in the (extended) friendgroup not because of kusuo but mainly because of first kokomi and then nendou. so why make him and kusuo a thing?? theres nothing there! (heavy breathing) sorry if you like saisai i had to get it off my chest.

i think one other ship that i really do not like now for Actual Reasons is hanaima from knb. i used to be a Huge fan but as with a lot of things in this godforsaken fandom my enjoyment of it was really soured by people who just Did Not Get It. hanaima is the ship for people who want a ~Dark and Edgy~ dynamic in a highschool basketball manga. people who like it generally dont understand hanamiya and imayoshi as characters and the actual dynamic they have, they just want to write about abuse and poor little meow meow hanamiya and yandere sadist imayoshi and stuff like that. One! hanamiya is not scared of imayoshi he just hates him for being annoying and weird and not letting him do whatever he wants which is injure people and ruin their dreams! Two! imayoshi is kind of a freak but he is kind! whatever awful thing you think imayoshi did to hanamiya in middle school that explains why hanamiya doesnt want to do anything with him now is complete bullshit! its not about imayoshi being evil or an abuser or anything like that ITS ABOUT HANAMIYAS EGO! at most imayoshi is just annoying because messing w people hes fond of is his favorite past time!

ah well there are more things that people get wrong about their characters and dynamic but lets not increase my heart rate too much i wouldnt survive it. if i had to sum it up i think ships i do not like are either just offensively unfunny or like, the idea of the ship goes against established character so forcing it to happen makes them awfully ooc to the point of being near unrecognizable. like i know anything can happen in the mind of a fan but i like these characters for a reason, you know?! Erm well i dont know how to end this rant now so ill just say thank you for asking and sorry if its a boring read, just talking about myself and all ...!

#but to be honest even with the ships i do like... i only like the way *i* do it #because nobody really gets it the way i get it <- not to say im above everyone else but just we enjoy VERY different things about it #so i could make a similar rant about all the things i do not like about how people portray suika etc etc #its kind of hard to talk about stuff i dont like! ultimately its more like 'im neutral on this but people do it badly so i dont like it'#i dont want to ruffle feathers if i get really honest about the things i actually straight up do not and never will like

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im rabid with jade brain rot

thick fem s/o with jade rambling

slight suggestive/nsfw in some parts maybe?

• Jade who is too used to curling in on himself in coral reefs and sea walls, pushing himself further down to hide and wait for perfect moment to strike or to just simply watch ocean life swim by. Being enclosed is something that brings Jade comfort, the tight pressure all around making him feel safe and secure (a trait that mayhaps encouraged Floyd's love of squeezing). Which is why he can't help but seek your warm full figure out and bring you back to his room for a moment to escape from his busy schedule, even if it sometimes goes on for longer than he intended and gets a ear full from Azul. In his eyes, it's worth it. It started out as a small source of comfort that slowly becomes something more and more to Jade.

•He can't help but push his face further in between your breasts trying to fully block out his view of the room only wanting to see darkness. He tries to pull more of you onto him, wishing to feel more of your weight on top of him. He truly is secretly a greedy eel who wants more and more of you, and you can feel it in his actions. He sometimes wish you would just lie your whole body on top of him, your full weight on him would please him greatly, but he doesn't want to make you uncomfortable so he'll take whatever you feel like giving him that day. When he finally settles down in a comfortable position, you can feel him exhale deeply before he starts kneading at your more softer parts of the body.

•If you asked Jade what his favourite part of your body is, he would give you a smile, a soft kiss on the lips and answer 'I love every inch of your body, Dear.' but you know better. Most of the time he tends to massage wherever his hands are currently at, but with how his hands always find themselves sliding down to your hips and thighs and stay there for the remainder of your time together? You would bet money he has a preference for them even if he denies it.

•During these moments in his room alone, you can't help but feel loved and also self conscious. You never really cared about your looks and weight as you got a little older. Despite the teasing from your family and bullying you had to get over as a kid, you learned to accept and love yourself eventually no matter how you looked. Tho sometimes you can still hear the comments in the back of your head when you're feeling low, and when you get into that bad mindset you can't help but wonder, why you?

•You don't think you could ever admit to Jade your insecurities most of the time since to you they just feel so small and silly, since its just about your looks and not anything you would consider important. Even if this slippery eel has a way to worm sneaky questions in while you try to vaguely vent about whats bothering you, and get you to accidentally confess your worries to him anyways. You can help but sigh at how easy it is to fall for his tricks, but you know its his way of showing that he cares and wants to help. And for that you'll forgive him again and again. A kiss here, and a squeeze or hug there, Jade is always ready to reassure you that you are lovely and perfect just the way you are and wouldn't change anything about you. (thats a lie, if he could he would wash all your doubts away in a flash so you could give him the full WWE bedroom experience and thigh choke holds he keeps wet dreaming of. he knows you need to overcome this yourself with him giving you support on the side but one can dream for the day to come sooner)

•You love having his arms around you and his hands on you, but you can't help but flinch when you feel hands sneaking onto your stomach or eyes staring a bit too long on your body and stretch marks. Normally such a thing wouldn't bother you before, but when you see how handsome he looks when just waking up, or the shimmer of his mer form in the sunlight and lean body, it's just the little things that make you question what does he see in your imperfect body. What does he see in you when he could get any one he wants.

•You remember asking once before you could stop yourself why he seemed so interested in the stretch marks that covered your hips and upper thighs. Him gently caressing the marks on your thighs made you embarrassed and a bit ashamed, you also wonder for a second if merpeople could even get them in the first place. Maybe its a curiosity he has for something he has never seen before, or likes the slight texture they have. You can't help but voice your worries over it and ask him what the deal is. He pauses, and gives a slight chuckle. You didn't expect him to bring his face to them, and rub his cheek over the marks. Jade's reasoning being that they look and remind him of rippling sands, and shore lines is enough to shock for a moment. Even if he looks back up with a teasing smile that makes you want to question him more, but you resist the urge. Such a Jade answer to be something so simple on the outside but you know holds more meaning it you looked further into it. You stopped the questioning, and worrying about his wandering eyes and hands on your body after that. You know if you asked more questions he would find more ways to lovingly tease you over it, and give an answer thats going to keep you up at night.

•Sometimes you still wonder what Jade sees in you and your body, but you slowly learn to just accept the fact that he truly might be interested in you and actually likes how you look. You know that he does have unusual tastes, and a mean part of you wants to chalk up that his love might just be the same as that. Morbid curiosity for someone who isn't thin. But a part if you feels that its cruel to try and say his love isn't true or kind, so you push the negative thoughts away and believe that he truly does love you in a pure way. As pure as a Jade Leech can get. You know your own self love, and the love Jade has for you are two completely different things and you might never fully understand it. But you find yourself not minding the idea of also learning how to love yourself through his eyes and in his own special kind of way.

•Jade doesn't think he has it in him to ever admit it, even if it's not the same as the familiar ocean's embrace he grew up with, there is just something about how you hold him back in your arms that starts to feel like home. Sometimes he ponders if its better than actual home as more time passes by, late nights at the lounge drying a glass as he watches you from across the room.

•The table you are seated at is scattered with drinks and books from the studying your friends dragged you along for, which as typical of them started out as studying and now ended up as another hangout sesh. Feeling eyes on you, you look up and over at the bar where Jade is still rubbing the same been dry glass. He knows he could be doing other things right now, but he doesn't want to you to be out of his line of sight just yet. Meeting your gaze, you give him a soft smile and for a moment he feels like all is still.

•Jade has seen your smile many times before, as most people here at the school. You were never one to shy away to express how you are feeling, and a selfish part of him wishes he could keep your smile to himself. but he is not that possessive. Not enough to force you to only smile for him alone even if he craves it, so he lets the world feel the same deep calmness he feels whenever you grace him with one. The same calmness he can only compare to childhood rests on the ocean floor where every thing is still and asleep, even Floyd is silent for once as they enjoy the tranquility together as if life is frozen in time. Little things from his past that he tucks away into the deepest parts of his heart that keeps getting dug up again and again whenever you remind him of the feeling. He promises that someday he'll let you in, and experience it and all the dark feelings he has for this world and you. When he can confirm for sure that you wont be afraid of how he truly is like and wont run away, when he knows for sure that you'll accept and love him all the same.

•After your shared private moment, a short one to you but it means more to him than you'll ever know, you turn your attention back to the conversation at hand, and Jade returns the glass to the shelf behind him. You may not be the ocean but you certainly have similar traits that he keeps finding out and comparing. It almost feels like a game to him, wanting to see what new things you'll show him and him seeing how he can connect it to something thats an important part of himself and his life. He wonders for a moment if he would someday be able to replace the whole ocean and the thought of home with your body, and Jade finds himself not minding the idea of finding a new home in you someone who is dusted with traces of his sea.

#jade leech #jade leech x reader #jade leech imagines #i dont normally put my hcs into words but this was something i needed to put on text so i can come back to it and reread #my hcs #'how self inserty was this' shut up #your honor he is in love #no i dont care if nothing in canon proves or supports it #its just a gut feeling trust me guys #there is nothing in the world you could say or show me to make me think otherwise that any of the octatrio mfs are not in love with mc #they got that love interest feeling #theres just something about how accepting they are of you in chpt4 after what happens in three that feels so sus of their chara #like 'oh i dont normally tell anyone about my UM but since its you and no-'#'its not like we trust and like you or anything youre just a silly little person not a threat at all hehe' yeah fucking right you little bit #idk it just feels different from how riddle or leona acts around mc after their episode u know??????#YA KNOW???????????#i need to post this now because i keep editing it and changing stuff or adding new things in so if there is mistakes then 💀💀💀💀#my writing feels like cringe but at least i am free #i got four hours of sleep before work cause of this

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rodeoromeo · 9 months

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How did you first get into CSNY? If you want, you could talk about each of them individually.

ahhh thank you for asking this! It's kind of not an exact story, because in a way I've always been "into" CSNY because I've been familiar with them musically for a while, but I only recently became extremely obsessed with the band members.

I've been a fan of Neil Young's more popular music since I was a kid, because my parents are fans of his. (They've seen him in concert three times and they actually saw CSN one time. the jealousy). My earliest Neil Young memory is looking at the cover of their Mirrorball and Harvest Moon CDs.... I didn't know anything about him as a guy for a long time though. But who wouldn't be compelled by this image

who is he.....

In a roundabout way I've been a Buffalo Springfield fan for much longer than I've known anything about CSNY too, because my personal entryway into my obsession with 60s/70s music and culture was the Forrest Gump soundtrack (thank you to my parents' CD collection again). That happened nearly 10 years ago (that origin story is also kinda wild and very formative I think I've half talked about it before)

I sort of tripped into picking them up this intensely right now. A few months ago I bought Stephen Stills' self titled album at a record store at the same time I was getting the Monkees Greatest Hits because I though if he's good enough for Peter Tork he's good enough for me (hilarious), and strangely enough realized there were a lot of songs on the album I already knew that I just didn't realize were his. So I've been listening to that album a lot a lot for half a year almost.

I also became obsessed with finding Deja Vu on vinyl because I was deeply into Our House, and it wasn't that hard to pick up. I quickly had like... a religious experience listening to it one night so they really started to get their hooks into me. I think a lot of my obsessions actually start due to deep emotional experiences and shifts rather than some calculated coherent thought.

The easiest quickest answer is that I started reading CSNY by Peter Doggett. My Dad read it a few years ago and I remembered him enjoying it so I picked it up and its been really really interesting learning more about each of them, and thats where I kind of started to fall in love with them all and their stories (especially Neil and David who I also just . fell in love with deeply and developed huge crushes on . hi guys)

Also sneaking into two Neil concerts last month really cemented Him for me. He's got a world of respect from me and easily became one of the most significant artistic voices in my life right now and is getting me through a really tough time in ways I can't even describe. Art that saves you... its a gift you can never repay.

TLDR; I've always been into them, I'm newly into them, they've always been here, they're showing up in new ways for me every single day. They're a representation of a part of history and a movement of art that has been a part of my soul since I was a kid, they're a fresh thing breaking through the cycle of pain and apathy I'm living in. They mean a great great deal to me.

#i have a suspicion this is one of my friends trying to distract me from the agonies lol #or its a friend or future friend genuinely curious which hi!#sorry this is somewhat incoherent i just woke up #i really like to talk about them though although its so hard to explain how they got in here man #csny #neil young #op #b talks

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evanescentdawn · 1 year

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i really want to (21:31) write a seo yul fic, but it’s hard *thinking* about to write. i mean. i probs could make something with jin buyeon/naksu, but i don’t want to write that right now! ahhhhhh, i just remembered this brief idea of jang uk + seo yul + their childhood. honestly forget what the idea was supposed to be but it was something something something thoughts dhdjdjdjkdkd.

anyways: to think about jang uk + seo yul��s bond because i deeply love it. it’s so good !!!! like sobs they care abt each other so much and really interesting how different they are. like how they think and stuff. hey. you know. what would be fun. if I wrote a fic about jang uk and his quest to find a master — like jang uk, how his god what was it called again. his gate of something was closed. and seo yul and dang-gu who were practicing/learning magic. and how jang uk felt — BUT THATS ABOUT UKIE. NOT SEO YUL.

do u see my problem, now. my issue. i just wanna !! write a !!! seo yul !!! fic !!! okay what if I make it au. you know like fantasy still, but set in different fantasy. i am really liking the idea of crown prince & seo yul going on a quest together. more like seo yul going on a quest and meets crown prince. omg seo yul going a quest that has do with his family + idk a coming….what was it called again. Urgh. like the whole Becoming An Adult Quest. it would be really interesting! (edit: finally remembered. it was coming of age. that’s the phrase I was looking for LMAO)

seeing seo yul out in the world — for the first time — and wondering what kind was his parents, and his family. and how this seo yul would brave this quest. what kind of quest is it, even. you know. hhhhhhhhhh, i do like the idea of meeting naksu. like in canon, where she’s just a kid like him living in solitude and they meet. it’d be so 🥺 especially considering the whole thing of his family dealing in her father’s death which she finds out later on.

i really just should plan out what kind of Quest this is. but just thinking: ooooh, hey what if. like seo yul was doing the quest and got injured and naksu saw him and helped him. after all, she wasn’t an assassin who had closed her heart entirely then — and she helps him. seo yul stays with her in her lil home before he has to go back to the quest. (which again what the fck is it, i really need to think about it. but urgh. i am not familiar with this kind of genre. well, whatever. it’s cool. i can research that shit)

also no! i have Not forgotten about the crown prince. i did think before Maybe he’s like on his own quest but that was boring for me. so like what if there’s a whole thing going in the palace. like. mmmh. a rebellion? his mother getting involved with evil….hhhhhhh. so jin mu. go won’s master and who has always stood by his side, but things lately have gone down the drain: it turns out that jin mu and his mother had conspired/made deal with the devils and are dabbling with dark magic, and idk it’s causing the life of the people. go won’s world crumbles down.

he runs away(?) idk

i haven’t figured it all out yet. but REALLY liking this go won meeting seo yul and u know it would be fun to throw naksu in the fun. young naksu, brain full of only revenge, who has had Barely any human interactions. go won, the crown prince, petty and haunty and insufferable but heart in right place. and seo yul !!! follower of the Rules, the golden boy, on a quest and dealing with family problems idk. BECOMING FRIENDS. SAVING THE WORLD.

such a fun trio !!!! *heart eyes* i can already see their interactions and it’s so lovely.

but ! also ! it feels So Wrong to not have jang uk anywhere in the story because in my mind — eventually he and naksu’s paths cross and they have epic romance because I’m otp trash. so like idk. oh like he’s still the late king’s son but this time….it’s not the soul swap thing that happens but jang gang…? god what was his not-father’s name. i don’t remember. wait. what if hmmmmm. i still want park jin involved in jang uk’s life and have their whole Awful Thing. hey wait what if…. urgh, the thoughts r Not connecting. anyways so basically: there is something happening abt jang uk’s birth and stuff and idk he can’t do magic…? or there’s a seal on it. but HE doesn’t know it. no one tells him. he just knows that he’s the only who doesn’t have ability to Magic. which is, yeah. but as our trio gets tangled with all this stuff that’s going on —

park dang-gu and jang uk, dear friends of seo yul, get a whiff of it and obvs go in concern for their friend. and well. jang uk. finds the truth of his birth or smth.

idk, not really feeling jang uk’s background rn. whatever. i can think of it later. this is about seo yul, first most anyways.

wow! this was certainly a journey ahahaha. I’m glad to have found a fic I can Work on abt seo yul because really needed that. i mean. i did have that time travel idea — well. it’s not really an idea but more like a vague concept of seo yul being the one to go back in time. which would be interesting explore. like seo yul being so unhinged. i Need that. anyways, yeah. 21:56

#yuki talks ideas #idea: Seo Yul Quest #oh ! i really want to add soo-i here somewhere that would be fun !!!! 21:56.#alchemy of souls

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i-go-by-whatever · 10 months

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uh this is gonna be me processing how i feel one year after the news of technoblades passing. skip this one.

it was 10am on july 1st when i learned of the news. the first thing i saw when i woke up was dreams tweet and i just saw 'fuck cancer' and my heart fucking dropped. in that split second i was thinking 'oh no, did it get bad again?' i didnt think that he died. i had hope. when i watched the video and listened to his last words, my heart was shattered and i simply did not know what to do but cry for hours.

i had just got out of a week long 'down' state, when i had felt the worst ive been in years and i had one good day before i heard the news. i fell back into the sadness and it sucked. it sucked so bad.

every few hours id go on twitter and see more people react to it throughout the day. i watched as his family, friends, and community mourned him. every passing tweet made me cry. technoblade meant so much to a lot of people. he meant a lot to me too. and his death hit me so hard i was blindsided by the pain.

its an insane feeling to grieve over someone i dont know or never met, whom i only started watching for less than two years. it makes me feel insane to cry about it when none of my friends knew him. it feels insane how there is no tangible way techno had changed my life because i built no friendships through him, or made art of him, or was even an active member of the community. all i got was/is my love for him and his friends that he introduced me to. idk how to explain it, but it felt like i dont deserve to grieve him.

but obviously his community has been so loving through and through. we held each other, even though i personally spoke to nobody about it (given the fact that i dont talk to anyone or tweet on twitter and nobody irl knew him). theres still a weird feeling of loneliness and isolation despite the collective grief.

the toughest thing to watch was his father grieving him together with us. i had lost my father when i was a child and i watched his mother mourn him. it never made sense then that a parent should watch their kid die. it still doesnt make sense now. in some egotistical, nonsensical way, it felt like the universe did a trade with me.

i have never had any direct communication with technodad, but i think he had helped a lot in my processing my pre-existing grief over my father, together with our grief over technoblade, and everyone else i have lost in between. i will forever appreciate him for that.

sidenote: the dream technodad had about being at a gathering and he couldn't find technoblade. but turns out he was in the other room playing a game. and in the dream he was like 'oh thank god he's not dead' but when he woke up reality hit him like a truck?

yeah well, that was how it felt when i found out my dad passed away all those years ago. i woke up to a house filled with relatives and my mother pulled me aside to tell me my dad had passed away. he was the only person who wasnt there.

the grief i have for technoblade is so deeply intertwined with my grief for my father and i dont think i can ever succinctly explain it to anyone in my life. because they happened 16 years apart and had no connection whatsoever except for me whos in the middle. slowly processing my own grief.

(midwriting this i suddenly realized that after my birthday this year i will be older than technoblade could ever be and im sobbing silently in my room so my roommates cant hear me)

it sucks being someone who doesnt cry in front of people and struggle to ask for help or even a hug. the loneliness is palpable. thats why i wrote everything here.

i love you, technoblade.

i love you, dad.

im sorry to lump the two of you together like this. im a little insane, i know. i hope its okay.

#technoblade never dies

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hellboundhimbo · 2 years

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okok im having Thoughts tonight and i usually save these for my notes app but ill post this one i think

i know the whole schtick with giorno is like oh hes dio but good (i am aware of the fact that is a very bare bones explanation of his character but bear with me its late,) but honestly he has the potential to be fucking terrifying.

i both love and dislike fanon portrayals of him leaning more toward morally grey, cuz on one hand that is so cool but also hes not fully, like that i guess? at least i think so personally.

in golden wind he reads more as an aloof, kind of weird kid with a big heart and deadly ambition, and doesnt really start shedding that persona a bit until the end, when hes faced with the death of his comrades and the weight of surviving. then we get into phf, and hes acting like dio suddenly?

not fully, but like the library thing felt like a pretty clear callback to dio's personal library yknow? like some parallels were being put in place. then at the end of the novel, the kinder parts of his personality start to shine through. this might sound weird, but while i was like "fugio rights slay" i was also kind of unsettled by giorno in a way?

like he seemed so ethereal, almost like a fucking god with his presentation (which may be a symptom of fugo being a bit of an unreliable narrator.) it made me go back and forth of whether or not giorno was really a good of a person as VA made him out to be.

honestly, i think it may be a trauma response on giornos end. he always seemed to float above it all, even in late golden wind, but i think we as a fandom forget that hes still a kid, sometimes (especially. some groups.)

from how he spoke and acted at the end of VA, you can tell hes a different person than he was at the beginning, and while I do really have my gripes as to giornos role as a protagonist that is a post for another day.

giorno learns what leadership truly entails and is subsequently scarred by the expirence, and i think thats most notable in his infamous monologues. in early VA, theyre usually charged by some kind of ambition, or hope for a noble change, but in PHF its moreof musings on humanity itself (if that makes any sense.) it's definitely different to dio's, giorno providing mostly words of wisdom and affirmation along with his funky little psychoanalysis

hes also scarily perceptive, which like he always has been, but when paired with his more serene presentation in phf, it gives the illusion that hes somehow omnipotent or something, like he knows everything about you (or like. fugo in this scenario.) i think it may show how his idea of what it means to lead has changed since the beginning, that while he does want to do the right thing he also has it in his head that tragedy along the way is not only inevitable, but expected.

this is what I mean, like hes definitely a bit morally grey but hes not like "ooh fugo im so fucked up the ends justify the means ooh imma kill people to stop drugs ooooooh" but hes also not a saint by any means. hes deeply traumatized and has effectively numbed himself to the concept of death his entire life, and i dont think his evolved stand and chosen career path much helped with that.

like. i guess the conclusion of his absolutely incomprehensible rant is that while giorno is still the person he was before VA in terms of his kindness and compassion, but his experiences in canon changed his world view immensely. he can be scary naturally, yes, but the way i see it? giorno is 100% dealing with some kind of trauma, and while the expirence of VA did help him grow, it also Fucked Him Up. consequences of skipling algebra 1 and joining the mob ig. or maybe it doesnt mean anything at all and I'm just dumb and tired.

ig this sounds kind of weird from the guy who will die on the hill that giorno as a character was kinda wasted on VA, but hes rlly interesting to think about i think.

#giorno giovanna #i am so tired #jjba #this is incomprehensible

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doomface · 1 year

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Thinking thoughts about potential atla fic(s) i wanna write (namely with my kataang fankids)

here’s just some spitballing under the cut

a lot of this is just my stream of consciousness/opinions so take it with a grain of salt

So, given that this is purely an AU i can address certain elements I didn’t particularly find appealing that were introduced after the atla show and put my own spin on them

One element is... how Aang treats his kids. I’m definitely not one of those people thats like “omg Aang needs to be a perfect father they ruined him in TLOK by giving him flaws” but... some of his parenting choices are questionable at best. Like it feels like he focused on primarily and practically only educating Tenzin on Air Nomad culture?? Like bro... your other kids might not be airbenders but that’s still their culture. And also water tribe culture is their culture too. Idk it just feels like its very one or the other with this family (and honestly even with other characters of mixed heritage in TLOK) and that always squicked me out. Like... blended families with blended cultures exist - they shouldn’t be made to choose one or the other. They make a big point of this in the comics and even have a pretty good character representation of it with the character Kori but then in TLOK they just kinda ... don’t do that as much? The Kataang kids and Mako and Bolin feel like big offenders of this. That’s just my take anyway. TL;DR I want to make their family feel like a blended family and not one that has to choose sides. All Kataang kids would be able to immerse themselves in the cultures of their parents. I guess its less of an Aang parenting issue so much as it is a Bryke writing issue but either way... yeah

Another element is... the way the air nomad genocide is “fixed”. Idk as a Jewish person who has a lot of personal ties to genocide survivors the way it was handled in TLOK always squicked me out. just woop turned the magic lightswitch off and on again and bam more airbenders. it just felt deeply cheap to me and really inconsistent with the more reality-bound themes of ATLA. I would want to address this more realistically than that. One element I enjoy from the comics and TLOK is the introduction of the air acolytes as converts to the culture who, although they are not air nomads or descendants of them, still help preserve the culture and keep it alive by participating in it and educating others about it. I think it would also be interesting to explore possible descendants of air nomads who could maybe be given an opportunity to learn to reconnect with a culture that they never got to know about due to their grandparents/great-grandparents having to hide their culture for fear of being killed. I’d also be interested in exploring the possibility of maybe small pockets of airbenders living in hiding somewhere who have been existing in diaspora and how their culture may have adapted over the years as a result of that. If the Sun Warriors can hide on that tiny ass fire nation island then there’s definitely some descendants of air NOMADS hiding out somewhere sorry Bryke. they may be a sub-culture in similar style to the sun warriors/foggy swamp tribe/sandbenders. I may also bring in “The Guiding Wind” from Avatar Legends to some degree. I’m like 99% sure its implied Ty Lee is the descendant of a guiding wind member so that could be fun to explore.

Another element is........ idk I just think Kataang would have more than 3 kids. This is totally a me thing but I definitely see the Kataang family being on the larger side. Lots of family, lots of siblings, lots of pressure from being the kids of the Avatar and how they all deal with that. I’d also make the kids... look more like both parents to a degree instead of Kya and Tenzin basically just being Katara and Aang the remix. Because I don’t want to retread TLOK canon in this AU all of these kids would be completely new but I would recycle some bits from Kya, Bumi, and Tenzin into these new kids.

This isn’t a fix-it fic really so much as a “here’s what I personally would do” sort of fic. If I do actually pursue this I hope to do it justice and do it respectfully. I’ve been an ATLA fan for an eternity and wanted to contribute to the ever growing pile of ATLA aus and fan content.

I probably have more thoughts rattling in my brain that aren’t quite rising to the surface at 12 am but yeah... these are my basic ideas

#posts this at ungodly hours so no one sees it and runs

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I've also seen the 'taking care of yourself/your own happiness is selfish and bad' in activism/progressive spaces too. Actually, that comic you rb-ed about the guy buying a videogame and donating to charity, and then being 'called out' for not donating all the money, was the thing that made me send the original ask

But yes, you are right in saying that that mentality is also very prevalent in religious morality. (Makes you think doesn't it lol)

ironically, thats exactly how i meant it too. being socially or perceptually 'progressive' does not stop you from absorbing religious (or just generally controlling, chicken and egg on historically which leads to which) morality from context or culture. how many people these days, even those opposing capitalism, know that its literal roots is protestantism? think of all of the discussions about 'conservatism/puritanism with a gay hat'. - "i dont want to see gay sex bc sinful" and "i dont want to see gay sex bc what about queer kids" are the same statement. "white and black people shouldnt date bc of racial purity" and "white and black people shouldnt date bc power dynaimcs" are the same statement.

"woke" or social justice language has seeped so deeply into discourse that people are cloaking their every statement into it, theyre expressing their emotional baggage or inclinations with it. they've found a "progressive" way to state every personal beef they have with the world, and by doing this have made it very emotionally taxing to dispute them in good faith. if its easier to make an analogy with fandom on the fandom blog - antis think of themselves as progressive too, but they're parroting conservative rhetoric that they have absorbed, that makes them feel good, is intuitive, and they dress up their arguments in sj terms because that's what's marketable in their sphere. they probably even believe it's true - the same way some people genuinely believe in "selfishness" - but that doesnt change that the ideology itself is founded on conservationist, traditionalist, controlling beliefs.

i hate to bring up 'cultural [christianity/religion]' because that term has been twisted into nothing by social media, but this is what it actually means. even if youre not religious, the morals and the cultural background (ethics, interpersonal norms, rules for raising children) still seep into your understanding of the world just by Living In Society, by proximity, by your relationships with people who also live in that cultural environment (yes even if they themselves arent religious). opposing the norms, and sifting through them to find what actually is useful and makes sense, and what is "peer pressure by dead people" is a conscious effort. Identity alone cannot do that for you. Coming out, being queer, visiting counter-culture spaces can be a start but it is not automatic. The same way a lot of queer people have to unlearn homophobia (be it internalized or not), rooting out 'intuitive' (ie learned since childhood by socio proximity) beliefs and judgments of others is also a lot of work and involves challenging a lot of what you automatically think when faced with a problem or difference or deviance. (of course this doesnt apply only to religion per se, [some] americans and their 'what would the forefathers think' fall directly into this way of thinking. tho i might argue that's kind of pseudo-religious but thats a whole other discussion)

#ask #of course it comes easier to some than others - we touched on this when talking about ND and NT people and their acceptance of deviance #but at the end of the day deeply rooted beliefs that you often grow up in tend to sneak up on you #i remember a good write up on here about how when you see someone in public wearing something 'unflattering'#you initial thought might be 'ugly' but that matters less than what your actual conscious thought on that is #and fighting with yourself to make the effort to correct the bias and go 'power to them they're wearing what makes them happy and its #awesome' is the way to combat internalized biases #(you know actually back in the days of more newly rising antism there was some kind of debunking post to a'we need to talk about it' fishin #hook point where the person was listing off /other/ things we could also talk about in a fandom community #and one of their points was 'some people use fandom as a replacement of religion in their personal lives'#which is a very interesting discussion topic that i would love to analyse more and actually see some talk points #but alas i can hear the cold takes from here and like. maybe in private with friends lol)

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