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smallwonderdolls · 4 years

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Review: 2D Doll 1/6-scale new body (normal yellow)

Above: Not a very graceful-looking pose, but a memorable one that shows off the poseability of the 2D Doll 1/6-scale body!

Summary: 9/10 would recommend.

Pros: Good poseability; two-piece torso; option hands are available; hefty, solid quality resin; reasonable wait time. If you’re looking for variety, this is also the shortest Yo-SD-scale body I know of.

Cons: No easy hand-changing mechanism; back of elbows have that sculpted nub which I find rather ugly; more expensive than other Chinese-made 1/6-scale bodies.

Note: I want to add that my 2D body came strung with extremely thick 3.5mm elastic (I usually use this thickness for MSD’s!), and with an over-sized S-hook in the head which I had to switch out for a smaller one in order to fit the kindergarten Kun-kun head pictured above. It was also strung so tightly that there was barely any give when I pulled on the S-hook. I wanted to keep it as it was for this review, but I couldn’t bear the tight stringing and ended up restringing the body the very same day, with slightly thinner elastic (about 2.5-3mm, which is still thicker than I usually use for Yo-SD’s). 2D Doll have mentioned on their Weibo that they are looking into this issue after receiving complaints, so this will hopefully change in future.

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Wait time: It took about 2 months to arrive, even though I ordered in February 2020, during the Covid-19 situation (to take advantage of a sale). Not bad at all. It came securely packed in an unbranded box (probably because I didn’t order a full doll?)

Sculpting: This is a child-like body with somewhat cartoon-y shaping. For ease of comparison, the body is pictured below beside the fairly well-known Volks body (also one of my favourites). Without the head, there is a height difference of almost a centimetre. There aren’t many other good bodies which are both in the same scale as Yo-SD and are significantly shorter, so this pleases me greatly.

Below: back view. Note the elbow joints which have a floating nub on the back. Visually, I find this type of elbow extremely unappealing... but I’m willing to put up with it in this case because the body checks all my other boxes -- and at least those armoured nubs are not on the knee caps (shudder).

The other sculpting point that irks me slightly is the swollen-looking ankles, with ball joints larger than the base of the calf - but I suppose they help promote sturdy posing. I should mention that the soles of the feet are not flat but are cutely sculpted with an arch.

Posing: As shown right at the top, this body crouches solidly and with little effort, which is no mean feat. The double joints in the elbows work perfectly and are not difficult to engage, so the doll can touch the back of its head and its face with ease. Wrist and ankle mobility is quite good.

The thighs are on the tubby side and are in all one piece with just a basic slot at the top. As a result, thigh mobility is slightly limited, though not as much as one might think. The doll can only sit with its legs spread, compare below:

Below: Kneeling is possible, both upright and on the doll’s haunches (”seiza” position), but again, the legs have to be spread. The double joints in the knees engage quite smoothly.

Below: The spread-eagled “suwarikko” pose is one of my favourites. This body can do it, but not as smoothly as Volks, Pettimal or Miyadoll. It can also sit with both legs bent to one side!

Below: Body can also stand with one leg in front of the other, or slightly raised.

Resin: The resin is heavy and feels very solid. I don’t see any traces of seams, discoloration or dust. It is totally opaque with a very slight plasticky look to it. I have no complaints, resin-wise.

Hybridizing notes: The body is a good match size-wise for my Mia Soo Smile head and kindergarten Kun-kun, which are both on the slightly smaller side of this size range. A silicone “KIPS” disc is needed for maximum head mobility. The neck is on the long side and could stand to be shaved down about 3-5mm (which I intend to do subsequently). I have since discovered that 2D Doll sells a “short-necked” version of their 1/6-scale body, probably intended specifically for hybrids, whilst the original version which I purchased has the standard longer neck (I surmise that the 2D Doll heads have a deeper neck socket than average). Be sure to purchase this version for your hybrid, if you wish to save time and effort. Edit: The standard body is about 235mm at the highest point of the neck.

Below: Colour-wise, 2D Doll normal yellow is an excellent match for slightly yellowed Volks fair - I’d rate it a 95% match. It is less peachy/ more yellow-toned than Mia’s new normal - about an 85% match. I will likely order a short-necked normal pink body to compare, and will update this review if so.

Option hands: A small range of option hands is available. Closed hands are usually some of my favourites, as far as hand poses go, but these ones are strangely bland and look like they were made out of plasticine. The standard open hands are quite chubby and cute, though, with detailed nails and finger joint creases on the underside. The main problem as far as the hands go is the lack of an easy-change mechanism. Combined with the super-tight stringing, I needed the aid of hemostats to be able to change hand parts.

Overall: You know how you can kinda tell, just by looking, that some bodies draw inspiration rather heavily from other well-known or market-leading bodies? This body doesn’t give me that feeling. I feel like it was sculpted from scratch, with a specific vision in mind. The end result is more individual than most 1/6-scale bodies now on the market, whilst also being functional and charming. And of course, there is that irresistible height difference, which was the main reason I originally purchased this body.

Purchasing tip: 2D Doll often has sales where bodies are up to 15% off. I’ve also noticed that a couple of multi-brand Taobao retailers list in-stock dolls at discounted prices, so you may want to take a look if you’re in a hurry.

#bjd #bjd review #yosd #2ddoll #2d doll #yosd body #2d doll review #volks #bjd comparison #yosd comparison #resin comparison

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vagmen · 4 years

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My favourite picture of the day so far 🔥 #gtifestival2020 #vagmen #vagmengroup #vw #golf #gti #gtifestival #vwcaddy #stance #static #slammed #bmw #audi #mk4 #caddy #mk6 #mk5 #vwlife #mk3 #mk2 #volks #vwporn #vwbus #mk7 #mk1 #passat #vwgolf #polo #vr6 #vwtransporter www.vagmen.co.uk www.performancevw.co.uk Www.vagmen.com www.alldubs.co.uk (at Gti Festival Santa Pod Raceway) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGdLG6hH1c8/?igshid=a2yaigvr2t2b

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xdazzlex · 4 years

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My bjd collection as of Feb 2020. Aside from some clothes and accessories, I expect nothing more. Today I finally dressed them up (I normally keep my dolls bald and nakes to avoid staining and far from sunlight and warm radiators, don’t worry xD). And I made them sit next to one another. It’s a mix of styles and it turned out I’m short of clothing and flat shoes... or maybe high heeled feet.

I’ve never had so many bjds before, and I’m actually happy that I can have them, because now it’s easier to decide who’s a keeper and what style is my favourite. Surely, the realistic ladies are keepers. Some of these dolls need to be painted, some re-painted.

From left: Zaoll Luv, Supia Lina, baby Daydream Coco, my grail-since-ever Supia Rosy (I also have one sleeping version in a box xD), AiL Alice (who actually will leave us), pastel volks nana twins on sd13 and sd10. On their lap, my baby - volks myu. Then, AE Moira and unpainted dreaming Zaoll Luv. I also have an Angelheim Zena’s head. For now, I am wondering whether I really need three pairs of twins lol xD

#bjd #my bjd #balljointeddoll #supiadoll #volks bjd #legitbjd

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otomecrisis · 4 years

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Who r yput favorite characters from the otomes you play

oooo ! okay so i’m gonna give my top two lmao, and i’m also gonna include regular dating sims !

Mystic Messenger - Jumin, Saeyoung

Obey Me! - Lucifer, Belphie

Ikemen Rev - Ray, Luka, Jonah, Fenrir

Princess Closet (not my favourite game but i’ll include it) - Shuu, Reo

Hustle Cat - Graves, Hayes, Mason

Blush Blush (don’t judge me) - Volks, Anon

Wizardess - Yukiya, Joel (so far anyway, i haven’t been playing long)

i’ve only just started playing Ikemen Vamp and Sengoku, but i immediately gravitated towards Mozart and Nobunaga

#ask #anon #otomes made me realise i have a type.....#i like them aloof n kind of mean #and emotionally unavailable #also if u know of any otome/dating sims i can play on android or laptop #pls lmk !#i've got Cinderella Phenomenon and Enamored Risks #but i havent started playing them yet

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stormklinge · 5 years

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Far Cry OC Backstory

Oh my goodness! Another meme! Thank you so so much to the wonderful @johnathot-seed for the tag! I loved reading about your wonderful opossum queen Miriam and I am very excited to fill out my own meme! (◕▿◕✿) ♡♡♡♡

I do not wish to clutter up anybody’s feed with my rambling notes as there is quite a lot! So I think I will do my tagging here and put the backstory under a read-more cut!

Tagging: As for usual, I would like to extend my tag to any of my wonderful followers who would like to fill this out and say that I have taggaed them (and please share it with me as I would love to know more about all of your wonderful characters! ♡(ŐωŐ人) you are all such wonderful and lovely creators and to share in that is such an honour!) I am not sure who has been specifically tagged in this beyond those I saw tagged in the post I was, so I apologise if I re-tag! But I would absolutely love to tag @ataaaaashi to know more about your Jesse! (I have seen some of your memes but I am always wanting to know more!) And @judgeofeden for your Diana! Please feel no obligings to do the memes but I will always love to read them!

Character: Volk - “Jacob’s Wolf”

Childhood/Early years/Teenage years:

Volk was born Nolan Volkheart to an abusive household; after being removed he was sent to live with his grandfather in Hope County, Montana, at the age of 8. Here he learned to hunt and survive off the land and was learning to take over the farm his grandfather ran at the foot of the Whitetail Mountains. Volk was quiet and reserved and kept to himself as a child. He took over the farm when his grandfather passed away when Volk was 19.

Pre-Cult:

Volk was never very social and tended to prefer the company of animals. However, at the age of 19 he began volunteering at the FANG Center and befriended a number of people who worked there as well as the animals. His favourite animal to work with was the wolves, but he always had a fondness for Cheeseburger. Volk was also friends with Rae Rae and her husband, having met them after meeting Boomer during the competition where Boomer was crowned as the top bird dog in the county.

Volk began attending Joseph’s early sermons out of a social desire, enjoying watching the sermons among people without feeling the social pressures to talk or be a very active participant. He felt like he belonged and continued to attend, but was never as radical in his following as the others.

As Joseph began to become more militant, Volk began to grow more nervous about Eden’s Gate and begins to doubt his attending. When he first sees people dragged in on their hands and knees before the Father as “sinners”, he and a few others (farmers from neighbouring farms who he knows) panic and run for it. Jacob is ordered to hunt them down and it escalates into a vicious hunt for those who are fleeing. Volk and two others manage to hijack a vehicle and make a run for it properly, but are driven into an accident by those who are chasing them. Volk is injured and taken to Jacob in the Whitetails, while the other captured farmers are divided up between John and Faith.

Cult:

The training that Jacob puts Volk through is a prototype for the training he eventually uses on the Deputy, and is not as refined or subtle as that training. Volk’s mind eventually breaks under it, and it is so severe that Volk’s mind is wiped of his memories (Jacob sort of ‘erases’ the old Volk and makes a new one). Volk is so adept in his trials and so vicious that Jacob selects Volk as a Chosen, and Volk quickly becomes his favourite. Volk has an impressive body count under the Cult and the Whitetail militia are terrified of him (Volk has managed to kill quite a few Whitetails).

Volk is eventually branded with an Eden’s Gate cross marking to his back by John (he is also tattooed with the sin of Wrath but that is during his Atonement). Jacob and Volk do slowly move into a relationship with one another (which Joseph does not approve of at all and has Volk tattooed with the sin of Lust twice, once for himself and once for Jacob).

Volk does have two possible routes for his story that I always play with, one where he stays with Jacob and continues to fight the Resistance.

And then one where he teams up with a very special Deputy... But this is his backstory and I could ramble forever about his story for that and New Dawn! If anybody would like for me to write up more about him please feel free to ask!

#meme #oc: Volk #Jacob Seed #Far Cry 5 #oc #New Dawn

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sole-cuore-amore-e-droga · 5 years

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Suspiria remake review from a shitty movie-goer

(this review is posted too late so excuse me for some timing inaccuracies I couldn’t be arsed to edit)

(IF YOU HATE TL;DRS JUST SKIP AHEAD TO THE “THE REVIEW” PART. YOU’RE WELCOME)

I actually hate to admit why was I interested to watch this movie in the end, but for once SOMETHING motivated me to go to a movie after countless tries from my family to get me to watch something in theatres at a “reasonable time” (daytime is what they mean, this movie was at 8pm our time, and this is when the cross-city bus transport (it goes from one big city to another) stops doing their service lmao).

I myself have a lowkey interest in moviemaking (I’m already getting there by editing my phone-recorded videos because whatever). I come up with my concepts in my head and I am mostly willing to put them down somewhere in my computer so I don’t forget it years later if I want to make that concept a thing in the end (because none of my concepts are finalized... well except for one short horror-ish story I posted on DeviantArt (see mom, I do like some horror stuff!). Reddit as of lately inspired me to edit some of my movie’s plot-lines based on irl events (not related with anything too SJW), and I’m not sure how an usual movie-goer would see this concept but I am going to try to execute it... whenever I have enough equipment to shoot my own little films or skits or whatever.

What’s that? There are people who scrolled past this and already yell at me that “YOU ONLY WENT TO SEE THIS MOVIE BECAUSE OF THE MAN WHO COMPOSED THE SOUNDTRACK~~~”? Ugh yes you exposed me, tea all over. I even had “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” on a bit of a repeat as of lately (how fucking come I wasn’t too couragerous to listen to this song before?? And “Pyramid Song”??? Man am I discovering their pearl(ie)s(*) too late). And I’m occasionally on the band’s subreddit as well. And the man himself is touring ‘round the USA, signing material of fans and have genuinely warm chats with them. Admireable.

But that’s only half truth.

I never thought I’d see Suspiria on cinema theatres in here. Until one time when I saw an ad on a completely random Lithuanian website that said this movie is coming to our theatres 14 December... I couldn’t quite believe my eyes. I made my goal to see Suspiria since then. I even dared to ask a couple of my new college ‘friends’ to see it with me, but one of them fell off the deal when I revealed that I’ll be going to see it on Saturday, and on the weekends he’s usually at home, far away from the city the college is in (he lives in college dormitory on mostly the work-weekdays). So my only movie companion ended up to be this 28-year-old coursemate (actually we both study different things but sometimes we attend some of the same lectures) who was intrigued by the Suspiria trailer herself so at least I’m gonna have her by my side of the movie, so I thought. Sweet.

I already envisioned seeing this in a mall cinema theatre but my companion offered me a cheaper alternative - her suggested cinema theatre was actually in renovation so the business is temporarily happening inside an actual drama theatre’s long theatre hall. I had to wait long until the ticket box opened and because of that I was lowkey frustrated as I finished my English test writing a little earlier, so I spent my time walking around the city until the time came and I wandered off to the old building of the cinema so then I remembered it was moved and I found the moved place. Yeah I bought the tickets before my companion could but I’ll skip ahead to the time that I almost lost the tickets because they were put down on a windowsill outside some children activity centre (Suspiria and children?? lol). I came back home late at night and was ready for the movie to happen the next day. Oh and before buying the tickets I coincidentally saw dance classes going on nearby that building... weird, as Suspiria has dance elements in there

The day came (December 15) and my family went together with me because they saw this as an opportunity to see the Christmas tree of our city (but not the movie). Needless to say, they were still visibly pissed at me orchestrating this idea, as I planned everything BUT the transport to go by. Well at least my mom and my sis. Dad was cool with it as he returned home to watch Home Alone. Aside all that, the cinema hall was cozy, Christmassy, not too small, there were a few trailers before the movie, no snack-seller places (as this is not a mall lol) - my companion was glad she wasn't at the mall as she found this place where we were at way lovelier.

Now with all that unnecessary long intro off my chest, let’s begin:

THE REVIEW

(definitely not spoiler-free, if you are sensitive to spoilers please watch the movie for yourselves before reading my review. But if you like being spoiled, I’m your friend then I guess lmao)

The intro to the movie felt like I ended up booking a wrong movie - I didn't expect that to be set somewhere in Germany, especially an American/Italian-shot one. Was that a thing in the original Suspiria? I don't know... (apparently it is, but the cities are different, never the country though)

Patricia (I didn’t know it was Chloë Grace’s role until reading the Wiki) looked like to be a really big deal here, with the dance pupils discussing her disappearance the other day and Susie overheard them, then Sara mentioned the Patricia thing to Susie after Susie revealed she was kind of chosen as the lead dancer for the Volk play... is it because Patricia was THE saviour that unfortunately knew a little too much?? Idk, it’s perhaps the reason we get to see the Klemperer guy subplot happen (I didn’t know it was Tilda Swinton behind him all the time either, must be because the way the male German accent was put on her lol). Turned out she was captured and kept under some dungeon where Sara had gone later in the movie, but looking like an almost melted and grotesquely old human being (or if Mary’s mother from “Chocolate with Nuts” was a person). Speaking of which, there is one more later in the movie, but I won’t tell just yet - we will need to get into such scenes discussion first.

Interesting deaths here, despite of them being grotesque and horrifically detailed. It almost felt like Susie, whilst doing her first dance as the probable lead dancer, temporarily turned into Olga’s voodoo doll or a violent bloodbender (that old lady from Avatar that could bloodbend was incredibly uncanny, damn) and left Olga completely fucked up, and the foam mouth later on... is this the effect myxomatosis has on a human being if it was ever humanly? She was twitching and salivating afterall. :P But no, she’s not dead until she gets to plead her death later in the movie! :O Several others occur throughout, but none is more prominent than this key scene I described, well at least according to TV Tropes.

The search for the evil person in this movie without Wiki helping me much was definitely a nice game for me to play. I kept thinking that Blanc might be that one, then I thought she’s not the one until she looked at Carolina (I think that was the tall tomboy’s name??) suspiciously and then she later passed out on the floor violently, with rabies foam and everything.

Anyway, don’t tell me Tilda Swinton wouldn’t make out a pretty good Thom Yorke post-Pablo Honey. She’s 8 years older than him, ffs! Also played a man before (e.g.: this movie I’m talking about) so the make up won’t be an unjumpable-over hurdle.

The sighs were for sure unsettling, especially because they oddly sounded like orgasm here and there. IDK why. I know fucking is referenced twice in this movie (well only fucking once and sex another time). Speaking of random things, the nightmare shots were completely random themselves, following up with some imagery we never see in the movie again, and some of that we see only a little (like the worms and bloody organs).

3 long scenes that were note-worthy for me. One is the Olga mutilation/Susie's first dancing scene that I already noted, and it was driven by music (the others will be too. Soundtrack of this movie still rules). Then there's the Volk play itself - girls go from one place to another, take poses of each other, dance individually, let their minimalistic red rope dresses flick in the air, interspersed with Sara in the underneath area and her broken leg (so broken, the bone went out of her skin!), and then the matriarchy getting her back on stage, but healing her leg with her witch powers before that. I haven't really listened to the rest of the soundtrack but I gotta check the song out so that I won't end up labeling it as a Kid A reject. No but seriously - intense dancing needed some intense drumming and painful instrument sounds just to project out the massiveness of the whole play.

Then I keep remembering the scene where Madame Blanc commands Susie to jump higher and higher in the mirror hall, up until she jumps as highest as possible. Also my companion’s favourite scene was the stare exchange between these two ladies during the part where people were singing some drinking song in a bar to celebrate ‘Volk’’s success - you hear them singing and then some chilling background noise slowly mixing and creeping its way into the atmosphere, then I think it leads into a scene where some sparkling aura entity wakes Susie up (and she’s nude) in the middle of the night and gets her to go down to this... dungeon orgy full of random stuff going on, complete with an Asian man doing something beyond explanation (I could say lewd but not quite), even more strange ritual dancing and the very much frightening Madame Helga... who looked like Jabba the Hutt for some reason. And then of course everyone slitting, slashing and twisting each other, and by the end Susie throwing us all a plot twist which makes her THE evil one who can finally let her ‘friends’ go of all that suffering they have been through thanks to the damn witches (and yeah apparently her dance friends haven’t completely died? THAT’S how they do - they tell Susie to end their suffering and she does). Also she cracks her chest open to reveal a... very graphic part of a female body that will by no doubt get this whole text review reported without consent so I refrain from any illustrations. Oh and this scene mostly has the possibly favourite this movie’s soundtrack song of mine, if not one of them, play - titled Unmade. It was a mind-boggling decision to do so but the movie editors do them I suppose, but still. I felt sad for the song having to be the background of such absurd but fair enough events? (Oh and I didn’t mention that everyone who voted for the other woman than Madame Blanc to be the leader of the witches (iirc) were rid of in this movie. Damn.)

Oh and the ending is rather an interesting detail, not talking about post-credits because as always I have to be this one movie goer who wants to do it but can’t because they’re urged to go back out of the movie theater. We turn into modern day Germany with a love heart carved on a brick wall with the letters A and L (perhaps?? at the time of finishing this review my memory towards it kind of erased some parts of the movie for me), a nice little remembrance of Lutz’s (the old man’s) love for his dear Anke, with which they have reunited during the movie, but Lutz was dragged out by some people related to the dance academy for probably wandering elsewhere than needed and somehow Lutz ended up as one of the sex dungeon victims, stripped of clothing and lying down quite powerless. That and before the modern day shot we are subjected with Lutz in hospital with Susie coming to visit, they discuss something related to the plot, Susie touches the guy speaks some more, leaves and according to the Wiki, Lutz “suffers from a violent seizure” that was nothing more than just a hard seizure. And it even erases his memories!

Anyway, as a whole, I felt more underwhelmed of this movie’s experience despite really wanting to see it. Like, “uhm yeah gore blood people getting slashed everyone’s a witch and everyone’s watched over by the witch and if you expose the witches you die” kind of underwhelmed. I didn’t want this movie to blatantly go through my head, but it did, that’s why I wanted to make notes everytime something notable happens. There was one startling moment, and it just was an innocent scene transition. And something within Olga’s mutilation scene made me chuckle (and made some other people leave the cinema hall ASAP). It’s more of a disgusting watch than scary. Also feels too dragged out in parts.

I’d only recommend it if you are gore-tolerant (there are people that can’t stand looking at blood so this might as well not be for you, especially if you’re younger than 16), like intense choreos that can impact other people literally, and... the soundtrack. Yes of course. If you dare to get through the movie with feeling its soundtrack, sometimes you might as well feel it right, but some of the soundtrack song usages might as well make you go “hmm” as much as me.

I'll remind myself to never watch a movie in theaters for soundtrack again (unless they're not THAT late). And the other 'trilogy of the three witches' movie remakes, especially if they come out at the time I haven't moved houses by now, because for sure as hell will my parents not like me going to cinema late once more. The movie is lowkey 7 out of 10 for me, can sometimes it's on the verge of falling down to 6 becaude of no completely proper comprehension of some directing choices... so 6.7/10 is good - as it still has 6 in it, but totally leans on to the 7.

Will probably watch it again. I need to remember some more of this movie sometime later. And looking for online uploads of this movie is unrecommendable - I'll wait until Lionsgate distributes it to America for wider audiences so that anything could surface 2 months (or even a few days) later from now. Though if I didn't need all that, I'd definitely not watch it again for a long time... unfortunately I want to.

Post movie feelings: my companion liked the movie, initially said to never watch it again but now wants to watch it again because it was so "wtf" she felt like re-experiencing it at some point. She liked the music (another bonus point for Yorke). She wished she could film the reactions of other people who watched this, as they mostly were confused, all being like "wtf did I just watch???". I'm already feeling bad for the 3rd companion who didn't join us but would also like to watch this - he’ll likely be one of those confused movie-goers.

#suspiria #reviews from a shitty movie goer #lol :')#spoiler alert #tl;dr alert #this review's looooong overdue but f*ck it!#suspiria (2018)#there's a lot i might have missed?#movie review #review

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mysticplush · 6 years

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I'd like to introduce another one of my OCs to you...

This is Arlo.

History

- He's a mermaid?merboy? idk. fishfolk. Technically they're genderless until they turn 16-ish, so either pronouns work. Anyway, his legs can turn into a fish-tail.

- He's looking for the Prince of the Ocean. He believes the Prince was kidnapped or taken away by wicked fishermen.

- Arlo was good friends with the Prince. They often played together at the palace, and were very close.

- All merfolk have a sort of weak, telekinetic-bond with the Royal family. It's not used for much, unless the King wants to make an announcement and gather everyone together. The Prince's link... is gone. Because Arlo spent so much time with the Prince, he is more in-tune with the Prince's frequency. The unexpected loss of this link was kinda traumatic for the little fishie.

- Arlo was secretly given this task by the Prince's mother, she believes there could be foul play in the Princes' sudden disappearance. She trusts Arlo's strong bond with the Prince will help them find him.

- Under cover of darkness, the Princes' mother introduces Arlo to an enchantress, who gives him the ability to change into a human & explains how to change back.

- Enchantress also gave Arlo a magic conch shell; when he puts it in the ocean, he can talk to her with it. He keeps it on him at all times.

- Early that morning, little Arlo swims close to shore, then changes. Unfortunately, he misjudges the distance (& his complete inability to swim as a human) and sinks like a rock. He is rescued by Noa, who was out on his morning jog when he saw a small child flailing far out in the ocean. Noa bravely dives in, and pulls the kid to shore. Arlo collapses & Noa becomes his unintentional caretaker... ›› [To be continued...!]

About this weird little fishkid...

- He's about 3 years old in Mer-life, which is about the equivalent of a 6/7 year old human. (their average life span is about 25-30 years)

- Very curious about everything.

- Can talk underwater. (don't ask how) He can also talk to fish (but he has to put his whole head into the tank in order to have a proper conversation).

- He's not allowed in the aquarium any more.

- Does not like shoes, but begrudgingly wears them when he's out.

- He loves baths & especially enjoys novelty soaps & fizzy bath-bombs (they smell nice, but don't eat them!! D: )

- Prefers to eat his food uncooked & saturated in salt water.

- His favourite drink is lemon soda. He loves that it bubbles all by itself! :D

- Honestly, he's not a big fan of sugary things.

- He loves all types of music (TV jingles are his favourite because they're easy to remember and fun to sing).

- Scared of public transport, especially trains & subway.

- He does not deal well with crowds.

- He has a plush sea turtle called Mo. Noa bought it for him at the aquarium. Arlo takes it with him everywhere.

- Thinks elevators are some kind of magic. (pls don't tell him the truth)

- He gargles in his sleep. This scared the fucc out of Noa the first night he had him home. Thought the kid was possessed or dying or smth.

About the doll...

He's a Volks Mini Dollfie Dream (semi-white skin). His head is a heavily modified DDH-03, that has a custom faceup. His eyes are from DDP Yayoi, and his wig is made by me. I also sanded his chest down a little bit. :3

#doll #dollfie dream #mini dollfie dream #volks dollfie dream #my dolls #my ocs #custom doll

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montydollcrew · 6 years

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Event Report - Doll Show 53 (Early Summer Asakusa) Part 1

Last week there were two doll events in Tokyo - Doll Show and Dolpa. Dolpa was only the day after! I went to both.

Jasper came with me, mainly because I had already looked up the dealers list and knew that there would be people selling clothes made for Dearmine Beans, which are a tricky size to fit due to their big thighs not fitting standard Obitsu11 stuff unless its extremely stretchy like the leggings he’s had till now. (If you’re wondering why he no longer has blushing on his ears, long story short I screwed up glueing his magnets back in after they came out and the only way to remove them was to use acetone to dissolve the glue, which meant losing the blushing. I do plan to redo it once I get some pink pastels)

This was also my first Doll Show! I had considered only going to Dolpa, but Doll Show is an event for all dolls while Dolpa is only for Volks products, so Doll Show is a good way to see all kinds of other dolls. The event started at 11am, but tickets were being sold from 8am. In order to get a priority entry ticket and be allowed in first, you had to be there from 8...which is what I did, because I wanted to buy some stuff from Ronronshuka for a friend and since she’s so popular, her stuff disappears pretty quickly. The priority entry were tickets with random numbers on them which determined your place in the priority line - I think it was between 1-500, but it could have also been up to 900. (I forgot what I had, it was around 240 or so I think, so not bad)

Besides Jasper I’d also bought Mel’s headless body along, as I was meeting constellar (who was visiting Japan mainly for Dolpa) to get his head back with the new faceup. I will do a pic spam of him later, but he looked absolutely wonderful and I can’t get over it.

Here he is impatiently waiting in line. Anyway, Doll Show was comprised of 3 floors in the building it was in. The 7th floor had the ticket sales as well as Azone International’s booth (they do sales as well as unveil new products at Doll Show), while floors 5-6 were for the other dealers. The ‘fun’ part was they didnt want the lift going constantly up and down all morning so were discouraging anyone who didn’t actually need it to use it before 12 or so, meaning that we had to take the stairs to the 7th floor. I sure got some good exercise in this trip, anyway. What surprised me was that Azone hadn’t actually set anything up yet when we were all waiting in line - I assumed they’d do it the night before - but our position in line allowed us to watch them set up. (however, they put a barricade around the new doll displays so that no one could see them until the event started). I wondered if they’d get it done in time but they worked very quickly and it was kind of cool to see.

When it was finally time to go in, I headed straight to Ronronshuka. Even though I managed to get 18th or so in line for her stall, I still missed out on one of the things my friend asked for - luckily I got the rest. There was also a really beautiful DD dress set I wanted to get for myself which had also sold out. But it was also kind of pricey, and seeing as there was still Dollpa after this, I didn’t want to buy anything too expensive. Pics weren’t allowed until after 12 so here are some pics of Ronronsuka’s booth that I took later in the day. She honestly has the cutest displays and her custom DDs are the cutest I’ve ever seen.

The pink and white set the white-haired DD is wearing is what I wanted - I think it’d really suit Luka, but oh well.

Ronronsuka’s also come out with a line of her own wigs which look great and had me sorely tempted, but I don’t really have a use for any of them at this point. It was the first time I’d seen what Ronronshuka looks like, and she’s so glamorous! I wanted to tell her how much I love seeing her cats on instagram, but I got too starstruck. By the time I’d done my initial round of shopping and looked at everything it was past 12, so I started to take photos, starting with Azone on the 7th floor. Their product displays for new and upcoming items:

It looks like they’re making another version of the new super poseable Pure Neemo body that has proportions closer to the original, which I’m glad of. The slight chunkiness of the original body was part of the entire charm of pure neemo, so the super skinny new bodies with the ugly joints don’t interest me at all.

Kikipop’s Hoekuchi versions are also coming! I have never been that interested in the Azone versions of Kikipop because my favourite of the resin ones have always been the Hoekuchi versions, and I told myself I’d only ever consider getting one if Azone finally made them. Looks like these ones are going to be really, really cute...;; We shall see! Anyway, the 50cm girls:

I wasnt really interested in showing off too many of the new products myself since other people do a better and more in-depth job. If you are interested in all the new Azone stuff shown (which is more than what I’ve shown) check Neemosi on twitter.

Now some miscellaneous photos from other dealers! Note: I did not take photos of every single dealer as it would have taken far too long - and I also only really took photos of stuff that interested me (so not many Blythes or Pullips for the most part despite how many there were, sorry). But you can see the full list of dealers here if you’re interested. They encompassed everything from Obitsu11cm and even smaller, to the 70cm+ dolls, and there was also some guy selling wigs for 1/1 dolls.

I really loved these little robot guys this guy was selling!

There was a vote going on here to decide what the next face of these Petworks dolls should be. I cant remember if I voted B or D.

I’m usually not a big fan of Angelphilia but the girl in the pink shirt has a real cute face.

Obitsu unveiled their new 45cm boy body and I like it a lot. The main thing I dont like about Obitsu bodies is the ugly knees, but they’ve gotten rid of that here. It’s very promising!

Obitsus 1/6 girls are all very cute too. They have removable eyes and wigs, unlike pure neemos.

I quite like these carrying cases.

I wish I’d gotten Jasper some clothes from here too, but I’d already bought him clothes elsewhere and was trying to stay under budget.

The above two pics was a dealer selling eyes made from real gemstones. They were extremely expensive but also amazing. I couldnt really take any good photos of the eyes themselves, because my camera wouldnt focus on them properly and the lighting made them look different in the photos to IRL, which was annoying, but I tried. The dealer was wearing a waist-coat and looked like some kind of fantasy character.

The above two pics are from Good Smile Company’s booth there - they were showing off their new doll line, Harmonia Bloom. I honestly didn’t like these much at all when I first saw them online, but I think they do look better in person. However, I’m not really a fan of this kind of aesthetic. I had been hoping that they would be showing their new obitsu11-esque doll bodies/clothes for nendoroids that they showed at a previous WonderFest but unfortunately they weren’t. Still, it’s interesting that Good Smile are branching into dolls now.

I got a shirt from this booth! Although I kind of wish I’d gotten one of the short dresses to act as a shirt instead.

That condludes the dealers! Here’s what my booty for the day ended up being:

Two wigs (same style/colour, different sizes), clothes for Jasper, a shirt for Mel, heart sunglasses for Bri, shoes for Mel and also a new hat for Mel, because his current one had a really large brim that was annoying me. This hat was actually from the exact same dealer I bought that hat from last year, but the brim is a lot shorter. The next post will be the displays of the patrons dolls, which is always fun to see.

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xthis-rebelle · 6 years

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Don’t Let Go.

So I entered the PJO Secret Santa 2017 ( @pjosecretsanta2k17) and here’s my piece for my giftee; @basic-volk ((if you have an ao3, please give me your username so that i can gift it to you there, thanks))

Hope you enjoy it! Special thanks to @rosyredlipstick for beta’ing this for me.

title; don’t let go.

pairing(s); solangelo (Nico di Angelo//Will Solace), jasiper (Jason Grace//Piper McClean); percabeth (Percy Jackson//Annabeth Chase); reynabeth (Reyna Arellano//Annabeth Chase).

rating; general//teen.

notes; you didn’t ask for anything specific and this was gonna be a series, but I didn’t have the time to write it, so here’s 4.8 k words of solangelo angst and fluff instead :) also, nico calls will ‘amore’ (love) and things are implied, but not shown. This also set in a mortal a/u. Read it on the AO3.

Will Solace knows when his boyfriend is keeping a secret. For all the years they’d been together, (eight years, they’d gotten together when they were seventeen, exactly two months after Nico and him went on their first date: an annual Christmas fair that Nico knew Will badly wanted to go to) Nico has kept a secret exactly three times.

The first time, when he was nineteen, he told Will he was fine. In fact, he wasn’t. It had been his first Christmas since his mother and sister died. They were out shopping, and a drunk driver lost control of his vehicle, ran a red light and slammed into the car they were using, and they both, along with the di Angelo’s driver, Jules Albert, didn’t make it. Nico didn’t tell Will that it was eating him up inside. That he felt guilty, because he constantly questioned himself: how could he enjoy himself with his boyfriend and his mother and Bianca weren’t there anymore?

Another time, when he was twenty-one, he kept the fact that their close friends, Percy (who Nico liked at one point) and Annabeth had broken up and Annabeth was now together with Reyna, someone who Nico considered a second sister.

And finally, when he was twenty-three, he hid from Will the fact that he’d quit his job after graduating from college and was going to start to work at the DA’s office. The DA’s office had approved his application as soon as they saw he’d graduated at the top of his law class. Will, a medical prodigy, was going to start residency soon. Nico felt as if that would take a toll on them both and their already tight finances and so he wanted to be able to pick up whenever they fell short. They barely had any funds left for themselves after they paid rent, bills and bought monthly necessities, such as groceries. The drastic increase in salary for Nico would be able to comfortably cover it all, plus there would be enough left over for them to actually start saving properly, instead of depositing some money at random times only to have to withdraw it for some financial emergency, like the time when their rent had raised unexpectedly and they had to dip into the savings pool.

So Will knows when Nico is keeping a secret. He sees the signs. Nico is even more quiet than usual and he avoids looking Will in the eyes. In the aforementioned instances, Nico eventually caved and told Will everything. After talking through them, after letting Nico know that he could trust Will and he shouldn’t hide anything because effective communication was the key to a healthy relationship, all was good again.

But this time, Nico isn’t only keeping a secret, he’s lying. Even though Will gets a bit ticked off when Nico has his secrets, he respects Nico’s privacy, so he doesn’t push it, but something rubs him the wrong way when he knows Nico is lying and keeping secrets.

It’s almost seven o'clock when Will sits on the couch, thinking about all these things, waiting for Nico to come home. He has the night off for the first time this week. His week so far has been really hectic; working in the E.R. is no child’s play; all doctors were always busier during Christmas time, and honestly? He just wants to relax with his boyfriend.

His exhausting fifteen hour shift yesterday also adds to his exhaustion, doing nothing but giving him baggy eyes, a lethargic, sluggish feeling and dull, but normally brilliant blue eyes.

Outside is snowing and the couch is so warm and he has his favourite blanket wrapped around him. The news broadcast plays softly in front of him and the fire in the fireplace blazes bright.

He doesn’t know when he falls asleep.

When he wakes up, he groans and stretches his hand, grabbing his phone from the night stand next to his bed. Blurred numbers meet his eyes for a few seconds as he turns it on, but he gasps when his vision clears. It’s almost nine in the morning. Then, he realizes that he’s in his bed. The other side smells of Nico and the sheets are wrinkled. Nico was there, and it seems as though he’s already left for work.

Will starts to panic when work crosses his mind, and quickly checks the hospital roster he keeps on his wall. He doesn’t have a shift today, thank God, but he does have a twelve hour tomorrow morning at eight.

He goes to the kitchen, sleepily pushing his blonde hair away from his forehead and makes a cup of coffee, black, just the way he likes it. After, he pours some Frosted Flakes into a bowl. He sits and has breakfast alone on a small dining table meant for two, his heart sinking in further into his chest.

He misses Nico so damn much.

They knew it was going to be hard when Will started residency and when Nico started working. They promised each other to face their obstacles together and to talk to each other if it was becoming too much for them to handle. But now, they were doing the exact opposite, and it feels like Nico is slowly drifting away. The distance and lack of communication between him and his boyfriend is slowly taking its toll on him. He can’t help the wobbling in his lower lip. One of the things he was always afraid of was watching their relationship slowly crumble, and Will feels like that’s exactly what he’s doing. He doesn’t have the emotional energy to deal with this so he goes back to bed after, and cries softly into his pillow.

His phone vibrates and there’s a tiny hope that it’s Nico.

Instead, it’s his best friend and fellow resident, Jason Grace.

Hey Will, I’ll drop by in half an hour with Piper to pick up the stuff for the annual hospital children’s Christmas party.

Will drags himself out of bed again, does his usual morning routine of brushing his teeth again after breakfast, showering, then changing into his at-home favourites: a plain, round-neck t-shirt and black sweats (it was too cold for his usual cargo shorts), and then brushing back his unruly hair, only for it to fall over his forehead again.

Finally, he puts on his happy face, smiling at himself in the mirror. The smile looks believable, so he leaves his bedroom.

Will knows outside is still cold and snowing, so he starts to prepare some hot chocolate for Jason and Piper to warm them up when they get to his apartment.

Then, he sits on the couch, picks up the novel he’d begun to read a week ago from the small table next to him, opens it to the bookmarked page and lets himself be taken into a different world for a while.

True to his word, Jason arrives within half an hour after the text within half an hour of the text being sent, Piper at his side.

“Hey Jase,” he greets them both with a hug, “Pipes.”

Will ushers them inside, since Piper is shivering in Jason’s arms.

“Do you guys want some hot chocolate? I just made it, so it’ll warm you up,” Will offered.

Piper gratefully accepts the offer. Will goes into the kitchen while they hang their coats and settle in and he comes back with two tall, steaming mugs of hot chocolate, which he places on the center table for them.

“How are Annabeth and Reyna?” Will asks.

Piper is close with the couple. They hang out every other week, even though Annabeth and Reyna married two years ago. Will never found out the whole story, but from what Nico told him, the whole thing between Percy, Annabeth and Reyna was really, really messy and they didn’t want anybody involved, so it was kept secret. Nico and Piper were the only ones who knew the actual story because they were the closest to the three.

Although Will should have been mad at Nico for keeping the secret (he was, for a few days, until he found out Piper hadn’t told Jason anything either), he let it go because he knew when not to pry. And that was a no-go zone. Whatever happened was so bad, Percy and Annabeth don’t even talk anymore.

“They’re fine. They’re actually starting to consider adoption,” Piper says to Will, a large smile gracing her lips as her eyes sparkle, excitedly.

“Wow, that’s a pretty big step,” Will’s eyes widen.

“It is,” Piper coos, sipping her chocolate, “They think they’re ready to start a family. I might be an aunt this time next year!”

“That’s really good, I’m happy for them,” Will says, with a small smile, “They’ll be really great parents.”

“And what about you? And Nico?” Jason asks innocently, unaware of the couple’s inner turmoil, or rather, Nico’s obliviousness to Will’s inner turmoil and insecurity.

Will sighs, his smile leaving his lips, “We’re fine.”

Jason narrows his eyes in suspicion. Will isn’t acting like his normally bright, bubbly self. He gets the feeling that Will isn’t telling him something, but he feels as though it isn’t his place to point out his observations. They make more small talk while Piper and Jason are finishing their hot chocolate, and the couple doesn’t stay too long after.

Will’s left all alone again when they leave.

He receives a text from another co-worker, Kayla, shortly after. The words makes his heart drop.

Hey Will, don’t mean to alarm you, but I wanted to let you know that I saw Nico walking past the hospital with a dark-haired, surfer-type of looking dude.

Will’s breath catches in his throat.

Dark hair, huh?

Percy.

Although he tries not to think about it, there’s a tiny voice in the back of his head that keeps nagging at him, keeps asking the one question that he’s trying to avoid.

Was Nico cheating on him? Was Nico finally bored of him, like he’d worried?

No. He wouldn’t, Will thinks firmly, silencing the voice in his head, Nico wouldn’t lie to Will without a good reason for doing so. And he definitely wouldn’t cheat. He’s a good person.

Against his better judgement, Will lets it go, picking up his novel again.

He doesn’t know Throne of Glass could be so interesting. Or distracting.

It’s about six o'clock when Nico gets home. Will is in the kitchen, preparing dinner.

“Will?” Will hears his voice call as the apartment door opens.

“In the kitchen!” Will replies.

Will sees Nico walking into the kitchen. He hugs Will from behind, pressing his lips to Will’s cheek as Will cuts carrots on the island. He’s making stir-fried vegetables and, not to toot his own horn, it smells heavenly.

“Percy stopped by, wanna come say hi before he goes home?” Nico asks, burying his face in the curve between Will’s neck and shoulder, arm still around his waist.

Will shoves away the unpleasant, green eyed monster that threatens to unleash itself when Nico lets him go. He turns off the stove and turns in the direction of the living room to tell Percy hi. What kind of person would he be if there’s a guest in his home and he doesn’t say hello?

Percy leaves after saying goodbye to them both and Will goes back into the kitchen to resume making dinner.

Nico follows Will into the kitchen, noticing his cold and detached attitude. It’s not the type of attitude he usually has, and they both know this.

“You’re mad at me, aren’t you?” he asks Will, frowning, “What did I do?”

“What?” Will’s eyebrows knit together, “Look, can you please let me enjoy my day off and make dinner? I don’t have the mental capability to get into this right now.”

“Will,” Will can see the hurt in Nico’s eyes as he says this, “You’ve been acting strange all week. Just talk to me, please.”

“Okay, fine!” Will finally raises his voice a tiny bit, not full-on shouting, but just enough to allow some of the frustration he’s been bottling up free, “You wanna talk, Nico? Let’s talk!”

Will’s phone rings, startling both him and Nico, and they jump in shock. Will looks at the caller I.D.

It’s the hospital. He answers the call.

“Will Solace,” he says.

“Oh thank God,” Will recognizes the voice of his supervisor, Dr. Chiron Brunner, “Will, I need you down at the E.R. stat. We need all hands on deck right now.”

“Is everything alright?” Will asks, keeping his own tone calm, despite the underlying hint of panic in Dr. Brunner’s voice.

“I have the other residents busy with a patient who suffered a stroke and caught a seizure when he was rushed in and victims of a four way crash on an intersection due to a driver skidding on some ice. The ambulance just went for a pick up and we need the help,” Dr. Brunner says in a rush.

“Dr. Brunner, it’s my day off. I’ve been pulling over twelve-hour long shifts all week,” Will responds, while rubbing his forehead, his frustration at it’s maximum point, “Plus I have some personal issues right now that I really have to work out. I don’t think I’m fit to be working at the moment.”

“I understand, Will I really do, but we really need you here. Our hands are really full. Even Jason and Kayla are here,” Dr. Brunner says.

“Dr. Brunner,” Will starts, but he’s cut off.

“Please,” Will can hear the desperation in his superior’s voice.

Will feels upset and agitated, because there are lives that are at stake here and saving them is supposed to be his priority as a future doctor. But at the same time, he needs to talk to Nico, he needs to deal with his own issues, their issues. Will realizes that he has to make the choice he knew he had to make eventually, but was dreading to make.

It’s either his job or his relationship.

“Okay, I’ll be on my way,” Will says and disconnects the call.

Dinner is forgotten as he explains the situation to Nico while grabbing his phone, wallet, keys, hospital I.D. and coat. It’s a good thing he lives almost five minutes away from the hospital.

“We’ll talk as soon as I get home, okay? I promise,” Will says to Nico before he rushes out of their shared apartment.

He doesn’t kiss Nico on the cheek this time. Nor does he tell him he loves him.

The hospital lights shine brightly above him, in the dark December night. Inside the hospital smells of bleach and disinfectant.

He catches his breath, tired from running. He dusts the bits of snow off his hair and clothes. The weather had thankfully held up until he’d gotten to the hospital; it was lightly snowing, unlike this morning. He hurriedly puts on his scrubs in the residents’ office and goes into the main E.R., where, he meets Dr. Brunner. Together, they wait for the ambulance to arrive as Jason and Kayla and two others try to save another patient.

Will is functioning purely on caffeine now. Ten hours have passed since he came to the hospital and he’s on his fifth cup of hospital brewed coffee. It’s cheap coffee and it tastes horrible. Dr. Brunner takes Will into his office after everything settles and asks him if he’s okay. Will mentally adds that to the list of questions he doesn’t know how to answer, ut laughs Dr. Brunner’s question off, telling him he’s okay.

Within those ten hours, however, they’ve saved multiple lives.

The man who had caught a stroke and had the seizure, a teenaged boy, which was the one the ambulance went to pick up, and so far, two of the persons involved in the accident.

Dr. Brunner sends him to talk to the boy, since no one else seems to have any luck.

The boy’s name is Brandon, he notices, glancing at the chart in his hand, and he’s reminded of Nico. Brandon has black hair and blue eyes whereas Nico’s was brown, and whatever they were lacking in height, they more than made up for in attitude. Will looks at the chart in his hand.

He’s reminded of his boyfriend again, of how they’d met. Nico had been hospitalized at fifteen, too, for the same reasons as Brandon. Will’s dad was his doctor and he brought Will to see Nico, to keep him company, so that he wouldn’t be as lonely and he’d have someone his age to talk to. They went to the same school and Will made sure Nico was up to date with all of his work. While they talked, they discovered they both had lots of things in common and a friendship was born. Will had even been there when Nico’s dad had broken down at the thought of losing any of his family (completely unaware of the tragedy that would later befall the di Angelo’s) and even though he never fully accepted it, which was the reason why Nico had ended up in the hospital in the first place, he tried to come to terms with Nico’s sexual orientation.

Two years later, after being close friends and lots of mutual pining, Nico asked Will out, and soon after, they got together. Nico’s dad was still trying his best to accept it, but he was genuinely happy for both his son and Will.

The world beneath Will’s feet spins uncomfortably. He presses his fingers to his temple and finishes Brandon’s chart. He gets the hell out of the room right after.

He’s sitting in the waiting area, eating a pack of potato chips when Jason finds him.

“Are you alright?” He asks Will, biting his lip worriedly.

“I’m fine,” Will smiles, the lie slipping easily.

Will knows he’s not. God, he must look like a hot mess. He’s too exhausted, he hasn’t had a proper meal for the past day, and his brain feels like it’s being fried inside his head.

Half an hour later, he passes out in the residents’ office.

The rest of the night is a blur. He’s vaguely aware of Nico’s voice arguing with Dr. Brunner. Someone helps him to Nico’s car and then he’s in their apartment.

When he comes to, for good this time, he can hear Jason and Nico talking. It takes him a moment to gain his bearings. He’s in his bed, in his room.

“— Hasn’t been taking care of himself. Something, and my instincts tell me it’s related to you two, is off. So you better man up and talk to him,” Will hears Jason say seriously, “It’s been bothering him all week.”

“I knew it,” Nico sounds frustrated with himself, “I knew that something was bugging him. We were going to talk before he was called to work.”

Will doesn’t want to get out of the bed. He rolls onto his side, yawning. He feels like he’s been hit by a train.

“Dr. Brunner cancelled all his shifts for the next week,” Jason says, after a heavy pause.

“Oh. I’ll let him know,” he hears Nico reply, and then a door closes.

Nico comes into their room. Will see his mess of black hair first, followed by his lithe, small body. Will turns, facing Nico as he lies next to Will, on his side, and runs his fingers through Will’s soft curls.

“How’re you feeling, babe?” Nico asks, pressing his lips against Will’s forehead.

“You want the honest answer or an answer?” Will responds, relishing the small touch.

“Honest answer, always,” Nico answers, furrowing his eyebrows, pursing his full, rosy red lips, “Are you implying something?”

“Do you think I’m implying something?” Will whispers.

“Damn it, Will,” Nico says, “If you have something to say, just say it—“

“Are you cheating on me?” Will blurts, looking him dead in the eye.

Nico looks taken aback, as though that’s the most ridiculous thing Will has ever said.

“What?” Nico still looks shocked as he stares at Will.

“Don’t make me repeat myself,” Will feels like he’s about to cry.

“No, Will. Babe, why would I do that?” Nico asks, grabbing Will’s hand, not breaking eye contact, not even once.

“You’re keeping something from me. You’re hanging out with Percy all the time and you’re lying to me,” Will mumbles, letting a few tears escape his eye, “And I know how you felt about him. So I..I don’t know. I just thought.”

Nico reaches out, hesitantly, and wipes the tears away from Will’s cheek, his pale hand standing out nicely against Will’s evenly tanned skin. Nico’s touches are warm and comforting, and Will wants to do nothing but lean into them, but he resists the urge to do so.

“Amore, what I felt for Percy is nothing compared to what I feel for you. Percy was nothing but a stupid crush,” he tells Will, still maintaining eye contact.

Will feels like a weight has been lifted off his shoulder. His heart is not as heavy. He lets out a broken sob, nodding in relief and Nico just shakes his head before he wraps Will in his strong embrace. Will buries his head in Nico’s chest and inhales deeply, taking comfort in his familiar, earthy scent. Just like that, Will is grounded. He’s home.

Don’t let go, he silently pleads.

Instead, Nico holds on to him as he cries, the ugly, loud gasping, hiccupping, snotty type of crying, finally snapping and letting go of all the pain and frustration. Nico runs his hands through the taller man’s hair, rubbing soothing circles into the small of his back. His touches silently reassure Will; I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. I’m not leaving you. Let it out, babe. I’ve got you.

They stay like this until nightfall, Will safe and tucked away from the world in Nico’s arms, until Will hears his stomach growl loudly, breaking the tension in the room. His face heats in embarrassment and Nico lets go of him with a small smile, gently pulling Will up to a sitting position with him.

“Wh-What are you doing?” Will realizes that throat is sore from all the gasping and sobbing as he asks this.

“Come to the kitchen, I made us lunch. But I guess it’s dinner now,” Nico tells him, furrowing his brows, “We’ll talk more over a proper meal. The only reason you got to come home was because your supervisor pulled some strings. I never realized how badly this was affecting you, amore.”

Will realizes he only remembers bits and pieces of that night as he allows Nico to lead him to the kitchen. He doesn’t care about what he remembers and doesn’t remember anyways, all that matters right now is food. His stomach lightly growls again as he inhales the aroma of whatever Nico cooked.

Nico tells to him not to sit yet, and Will watches curiously as he shuffles around in the kitchen, definitely out of his element, running his hands through his hair and swearing in frustration in soft Italian.

He places a tablecloth on top of their small dining table. Then, he adds silverware, and he places a small candle in the middle of the table.

Will’s curiosity doesn’t diminish as Nico pulls the chair out and motions for him to sit. He does so, and Nico pushes the chair in.

Then, he brings around a plate of what looked like fettuccine alfredo with chicken and places it in front of him.

Will’s favourite Italian dish.

“I, uh, meant to do this on Christmas morning, but that’s, like, two days away,” Nico rubs the back of his neck, “And it seems that now would be the more appropriate time.”

“To do what?” Will asks, totally confused as he takes a bite of the alfredo, but Nico ignores him, going into their room.

He comes back with something in his hand.

“What’s that?” Will questions, looking at Nico, who looks a bit paler than usual.

Nico doesn’t answer, but sits opposite him and sets the small velvet box in front of Will.

Will gasps, his heart beating faster. The tips of his ear tinge red. Oh God. Did Nico get him some kind of jewelry? He never did like jewelry–

“It’s custom made,” Nico explained, “This is what I’ve been keeping from you. Percy was with me when I went to pick it up. And he was helping me come up with a special way to give it to you.”

“Wh-what?” Will gasps.

“So no, I wasn’t cheating on you. In fact, I wanted to ask you if you would give me the honour of calling you my husband,” Nico says, his voice calm. He gets out of his chair and goes down on one knee in front of Will and his hand shakes ever so slightly as he opens the box.

Inside it is a silver band, inlaid with garnet, sapphire and amethyst patterns. A line of amethysts ran in a circle on the outside of the ring, sapphires below the amethysts and garnets above them. It took Will a moment to realize the meaning behind the stones. It was their birth stones; January, Nico’s month, were the garnets and September, Will’s month, were the sapphires, and month they’d gotten together, February, were the amethysts.

“See, I love you, and I’m sure now that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Only you. You’ve seen me at my worst and you’ve seen me at my best and you’ve always accepted me for who I am. You’ve been there for me at my lowest, and you’ve helped me overcome some of the biggest challenges in my life; especially when my mother and Bianca died. You helped me with my depression and my insomnia. You helped me overcome my insecurities, but I wasn’t there to help you with yours. I wasn’t there to reassure you that were my sun and my stars and I wasn’t there to make sure you were taking care of yourself. I wasn’t a good boyfriend over the past few weeks and I’m so, so sorry for that. But I promise, I’ll do better, because I don’t plan on letting go of us, of you, anytime soon. So will you make my year?” Nico asks, softly, “Will Solace, will you marry me?”

Will is in awe. Of all the things he expected, this was not one of them. He put his hand over his open mouth, tears of pure joy running down his face this time. He nods. Nico takes his hand and slips the ring onto his finger, almost reverently, tears of joy streaking his own face.

Perfect fit.

Will looks at it in the candlelight. It’s beautiful. A warm feeling blossoms inside Will’s chest as he looks at his boy—no, fiancé. The love of his life. The man he was going to marry.

“I’m sorry,” he says softly, getting up from his chair, going down to Nico’s level (he’s still on the ground) and throwing his arms around the smaller man, “I knew you wouldn’t cheat on me but seeing you with Percy so often just made me think about all of these.. possibilities and everything just… kind of spiraled out of control.”

“No, I’m the one who’s sorry,” Nico tells him, tightening his hold on Will’s waist, “You were putting yourself under unnecessary stress because of me. Will, you don’t know how frightened I was when I got the call from the hospital. I couldn’t live with myself knowing that I was part of the reason as to why something happened to you, mio amore.”

“You’re forgiven, darlin’. I love you, so much, Nico di Angelo,” Will sniffs and although his words are muffled into Nico’s shirt, he knows that Nico hears him use the pet name he loves.

“I love you too. You are my universe,” Nico gently pulls Will from the hug and kisses him on the lips, softly, sweetly and passionately, despite the stickiness left on his face from happy tears, “My sun, my stars, my entire galaxy. Merry early Christmas, Will Solace, soon to be di Angelo.”

Despite the cold December, the couple spends the night on the couch in their apartment, their love keeping their souls burning bright and warm, warmer than their fireplace ever could, wrapped up in each other’s loving embrace. There are no barriers between them; everything is out in the open. There are no more secrets, only a sense of love, understanding and blissfulness.

And Will Solace would not trade it for the world.

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maramaja06 · 6 years

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Music Shuffle Tag

(: I was tagged by @quiddity-jones :)

Rules: Put your entire playlist on shuffle, list the first 10 songs + your fav lyrics from them.

In fact, I have many playlists., this one I use while building things like this apartment then music influences more my houses than my sims... and that`s why this picture choice.

Thank you again Quid, for i love a lot of this songs since many years and I didn’t care about the lyirics anymore, so it was like revisiting the past and thinking about why I choose them and which are my favourites lyrics. It was fun and and beautiful. I own you :)

1. Meer aus Farben ( german, means: a Sea of colours and It’s like they talk about simming lol )

(With only a blink of an eye I can walk across the water

And the waves below me are melodies in my ear I just drop everything and I close my eyes And then I'm floating in the flow to a beautiful place Here all things are bright, so light and so alive Here I can dream everything as I like it

I discovered a whole sea full of motley colours Dadabdadabdabdada And I just paint my world, everything is perfect here Uohohohuohohoh .....)

2. Taramundi by Hevia (galician dialect, Spain)

Is someone out there who can translate? I would love to know what this means - apart being about Taramundi a beautiful county in Asturien, Spain and I think it is about the magic in it. The celts were there and you can notice that on the music. - I sat my hopes on you, @anotherplumbob ? ( xaile in Portuguese means shawl... envueltu maybe envolvido ? So maybe .. For it comes and goes, involved in a magic shawl? (just guessing - Google was no help at all, lol)

Pa'que es,

envueltu y voi y va,

xiale il magia na.

Xiale.....

Limpie il turie estraurba,

ilumina a nama' na'.

Xiale....

3. Cacador de mim by Milton Nascimento. (brasil, “Hunter of Me)

For so much love For so much emotion Life made me so Sweet or atrocious Tame or ferocious Me, hunter of me

Stuck to songs

Delivered to passions That never ended I will find myself Away from my place Me, hunter of me

4. Ek Onkar by Harshdeep Kaur (Hindi Movie Rang De Basanti)

It’s a mantra, very peaceful, beautiful and dreamy. I couldn’t translate that either.

5. Sonho meu - by Maria Betania & Gal Costa (Brasil, “My Dream”)

My dream, my dream Go get someone who lives far away. My dream Will you show me this longing? My dream With your freedom My dream In my heaven the star guide is lost The cold dawn only brings me melancholy My dream

I feel the singing of the night In the mouth of the wind And the dancing flowers In my thoughts

Brings the purity of a samba Sense, marked by love's sorrows A samba that moves our body And the bumbling wind wrapping the flower

6. But it’s all in my mind by Isaac Gracie

Diggin' holes in my brain tryin' to hide away You know when it gets bad for your health Things have gotta change 'cause they're not same

But it's all in my mind, all in my mind My cold brown mind It's all in my mind, all in my mind I don't even get to be alone

7. "Forca Estranha” by Caetano Veloso (Brasil, “Strange Force”)

I put my feet in the creek

And I guess I never took them out

....

Life is art's friend

It's the part the sun taught me

The sun that crosses this road that has never passed

That is why a force leads me to sing

So this strange force

That's why I sing, I can not stop.

That's why this enormous voice

8. Concierto de Aranjuez - Adagio by Paco de Lucia (Spain, instrumental)

9. Povo que lavas no rio by Amalia Rodriguez ( Portugal/Fado)

Volk that wash in the river

That carves with an ax

The planks of my coffin

There may be someone to defend you

Who buys your sacred ground

But not your life

10. Coming Back to Life by Pink Floyd

While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime I took a heavenly ride through our silence I knew the moment had arrived For killing the past and coming back to lifeI took a heavenly ride through our silence I knew the waiting had begun And headed straight..into the shining sun

I would like to tag @anotherplumbob @goneril-capp @thespangleway @neopixiesims @openlyweird

#music lyrics tag #non sims #but still sims

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commanderguixi · 6 years

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Character meme: Elena and Mox (bc as a fellow moxrider shipper I cant let that opportunity slip)

Elena

First impression

Such a lovely face. Such a great voice. Volk, shut up, let me listen to Elena instead. She’s fast becoming one of my favourite characters from this series.

Impression now

She’s my favourite character from this series. I love her so much. I would WRITE for her. I will give her a backstory if it’s the last thing I DO

Favorite moment

IT’S VERY VERY SUBTLE and it’s more noticeable watching the cutscene, BUT ELENA’S EYE DRIFT SLIGHTLY TO WHERE THE ASSASSIN IS. SHE NOTICES THE ASSASSIN LONG BEFORE SHE ACTUALLY SHOOTS HER AND I’M SCREAMING.

Idea for a story

Well, I have Confirmed that after I’ve finished writing Chosen, I’m going to be writing a full-length fic detailing my HCs with Elena’s backstory, from birth until Operation Gatecrasher. There’s about 20 years to cover, since the Reapers formed very early on (even before the Hunter was made) so. Good stuff.

Unpopular opinion

Not sure what might count as unpopular for her? I guess that I don’t find her constant chatter during Lost and Abandoned to be annoying.

Favorite relationship

Moxrider. I’m a sucker for enemies-to friends-to lovers tropes, especially since there’s a lot of material to work with regarding these two. They’ve always had such long standing animosity and Mox is a redeemable fellow. It’s definitely a slow process, and one that needs a lot of trust to build as Elena, even regardless if she hated him once before, is cagey when it comes to relying on others.

Also, they were totally highkey flirting with each other near the end during L&A.

Favorite headcanon

Her unnaturally keen sight might’ve had her definitely Up there with ‘human candidates for the Hunter prototype’ (although back then his codename wasn’t Hunter, just ‘Chosen Commander’) -- But I have a lot of HCs for her, how can I choose just one.

Mox

First impression

SUCH A LOVELY FACE. Absolute badass. Look at him giving zero fucks at destroying the fuel truck. Bradford’s gonna gain 40 grey hairs just from Mox alone and I love that.

Impression now

Still an absolute badass and I wish I could do you more justice in my written works, Mox. So far all you’ve maNAGED TO DO IS GET DAZED A LOT but I’ll fix that. Soon... soon..

Favorite moment

The fuel truck. Just the absolute Command he has. Squaring up against Elena. Classic. Getting himself kidnapped by the Assassin -- not so much but he’s a BADASS in the fact he survived that.

Idea for a story

Something Moxrider related, maybe. I’ll get back to that.

Unpopular opinion

He’s really cute, okay.

Favorite relationship

Since I’ve already spoken on Moxrider, I’ll mention that I love his friendship and loyalty to Betos. She’s probably the only one on the gotdang Earth that would take Mox under her wing, even despite his brutality as a field commander. She understands and he’s eternally grateful for her. Would 120% lay down his life for her, which is the most Skirmisher thing he could do.

Favorite headcanon

He gets pestered a lot by other soldiers that have questions (not all of them good questions) about the ADVENT troopers. He tries his best to dispel a lot of the outlandish (and usually racy) rumours about his kind with politeness and sometimes even amusement at the common misconceptions but he’s Doing His Best.

#dres writes #long post #i have.. thoughts #crazy-tea-lover

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smallwonderdolls · 5 years

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Resin comparison: BF, FL, AL, Volks, Miyadoll

*All parts pictured above are in the “normal” resin colour offered by the various makers, except the Miyadoll, which I just threw in since I had it (I think it made the darkest, 2005 Volks part look worse than it actually is, though XD;;).

Visually, Bluefairy and Fairyland resin colour is a close match, I would say 90%. Unless you are very picky, I think it would make a satisfactory hybrid. The difference is that the BF resin is more pigmented/ saturated, whilst the Fairyland colour is slightly paler and has a bit of desaturated grey-ness in it.

Volks 2018 and Alchemic Labo fresh are also surprisingly close in colour, although the texture is different. It could make a reasonable hybrid with some blushing.

Combined with the texture of the resin, Alchemic Labo fresh looks a little dull. I think my favourite of the four “normal” resin colours is the 2018 Volks, followed by FL. Beside my less brightly-coloured crew, BF’s colour is just too saturated for my taste...

Texturally, Alchemic Labo and Fairyland are the most “plasticky”-feeling. AL is distinctly on the shiny side, while FL is more matte. Alchemic Labo feels heavier and more solid, though - Fairyland feels very light in comparison to all the other resins I have.

Bluefairy is also quite light in weight, but the texture is less “plasticky”. I am sorry that I cannot describe it in any clearer way... It is in-between AL and FL in terms of shine.

Volks as always has a lovely texture to it. Very solid-feeling, matte, and yet with the very barest hint of translucency. So far, it’s my favourite resin formulation of all that I’ve encountered (though I will say, the last time I “encountered” a doll besides my own was about 10 years ago XD;; The technology may have moved on since then...) The cream white Miyadoll resin (not sure if the other colours would have a different formulation) feels and looks similar to Volks pureskin, if slightly more textured. It is rather lighter in weight.

#bjd resin #resin comparison #bjd #volks #fairyland #bluefairy #miyadoll #alchemic labo #chibi unoa

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terravolksisms · 6 years

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TRRA - Part Three

And Part Three is finally here! I hope you all enjoy it!

The creatures of Grimm charged, howling and growling as they closed in on the lone Huntress in training. But the Beowolves were in for a surprise as Terra rushed forwards to greet them.

She battered the first Grimm away with Resistor, the Beowolf collapsed with a wet sound after she introduced her shield to the monsters skull. The next Beowolf wasn’t so lucky, she swung Surge in an arc and cut the beasts head off in a single swing.

Without even pausing for a moment she was onto the third, stabbing that one through the chest just like she’d done with the Ursa moments earlier. The fourth lashed out at her with its claws, but she brought up Resistor at the last moment to block the blow. Then she charged in, battered the Beowolf with her shield until she had an opening, and then she opened up its chest with her blade, spilling shadows out onto the ground.

The fifth was more hesitant, and attacked at the same time as the sixth, but it was even more unlucky than its companions, running right onto Surge and impaling itself. But it distacted Terra long enough for its companion to rake Terra’s back with its claws.

Terra grunted as she stumbled forwards into the quickly dissipating Beowolf in front of her. She hadn’t seen the blow coming and had forgot to engage her aura, something she mentally scolded herself for. She couldn’t afford to have that happen again.

Fortunately her armour took the hit. Someone else would have had their back opened up very messily. Possibly even fatally.

Terra spun on her heel, as she activated her aura she brought Resistor around and slammed it into the Grimm’s jaw. There was a loud crack as something in the monster’s skull gave out and it collapsed to the ground in a messy heap before it began to dissolve like its companions.

The seventh appeared somewhat surprised at how quickly its pack mates had fallen. So before it could react, Terra brought Surge up, the sword morphed into its Lightning Gun form in her hand, and then she shot it through the head with a bolt of lightning, and the seventh Grimm was no more.

As Surge returned to its normal state, there was a loud crack behind Terra. She spun around to find her brother Auric dispatching the first Grimm with his mace, it appeared the creature had managed to shakily get back onto its feet while she was distracted.

‘You missed one.’ He grinned at her. ‘Nice work though Sis.’

Auric was the second eldest child in the Volks family. He’d been the golden child since the day he could walk, of course Terra’s parents didn’t like to play favourites, it wouldn’t be fair on their other five children. But Auric was better than good at absolutely everything he tried to do. At first they thought he’d be an electrician like their mother, then he discovered a passion for machines like their dad. Now he was trying his hand at being a Huntsmen like his sister. And Terra was glad they weren’t twins. It’d be hell trying to make a name for herself at Beacon if she was going there alongside her golden haired brother.

‘I was saving it for you.’ Terra smiled back politely. ‘I didn’t want to steal all the fun.’

‘I ran into a couple on my way over from the lake.’ Auric shrugged. ‘I came as fast as I could. Arrived just in time to watch you tear those Beowolves apart. Very impressive. But in the future, try to keep your aura up. Professor Qrow would be disappointed.’

Terra sighed. ‘I know.’ She glanced around, for the first time noticing how quiet the marketplace had become. ‘Are they all gone?’

The rattling crack of dust powered weapons sounded not far off in answer to Terra’s question.

‘Doesn’t look like it.’ Auric grinned, ‘Come on Ter, last one there misses out on all the glory!’

They both rushed towards the sounds of gunfire, before they emerged into the market’s car park to find a number of militiamen fighting against another, larger pack of Beowolves.

Neither Terra nor Auric paused to survey the scene before them, if they didn’t act fast, the pack, and the alpha commanding it would overrun the small militia band.

Auric leaped at the closest Grimm and brought his mace crashing down onto its head as Terra charged in, battering one Beowolf out of her way with Resistor as she slew another with Surge.

‘Aur, cover me!’ Terra called as she began to hack and smash her way through the pack towards the Alpha. Her brother nodded and took up a position behind her, covering her flanks and making sure to finish any Grimm off that hadn’t yet decided if they were dead or not after meeting Terra.

It wasn’t long before Terra found herself charging the Alpha Beowolf. The creature was huge, covered in pale bony protrusions that contrasted its otherwise ink-black flesh. The Alpha howled as it saw her and lumbered forwards to greet her.

Its claws fell down on her, but Terra managed to block the heavy blow and slashed at its arm, wounding the beast. But the Beowolf barely even let out a grunt of pain as it battered away at Terra’s shield with its other paw, and followed up by trying to head-butt her, a move that completely took Terra by surprise.

With her sudden loss of momentum, Terra found herself fighting more and more defensively as she gave ground before the Alpha. She could already tell that this creature of Grimm had much more experience fighting humans than the other creatures she had fought. It was faster and better at predicting her moves.

But it was far from unstoppable, and while it was able to push her back, Terra wasn’t giving up, she managed to get a couple of hits in, only half of which resulted in her having to absorb a blow with her aura.

She was starting to tire, but so was her opponent, and unlike the Grimm, she wasn’t suffering from a dozen minor wounds.

Then, the fight suddenly turned when Terra jumped backwards over a parked car. The Grimm scrambled after her, but as it clambered onto the car its foot landed on the windshield and crashed through the glass. The Grimm howled in pain and tried to pull its leg out of the glassy trap it had found itself in. But while it struggled with the ruined window, Terra leaped forwards and with one mighty swing chopped the trapped Beowolf’s head off with one clean swing. The beast dissipated as Terra found herself in a suddenly quiet car park.

She looked up and found her brother and the militia all looking around as the last of the pack of Grimm dissolved into the wind along with their leader. The battle was well and truly won.

The militia let out a ragged cheer and Terra and Auric couldn’t help but join in.

‘Terra!’ Auric called as he ran over to embrace his sister, ‘How was your first taste of real combat?’

‘It was…’ Terra paused as the memories from all the fighting swirled through her head, the fear, and the rush, how long had she been fighting for? It felt like hours, or even days. But surely it had only been a few minutes… ‘It was amazing!’ She grinned.

‘You know, you two were pretty damn amazing!’ One of the militia called out, ‘where did you two learn to fight like that?’

‘Signal Academy.’ Terra smiled.

‘Damn, I could have sworn you two were the real deal from Beacon Academy!’ One of the other militiamen grinned, ‘Beacon will be a breeze for you two when you get there after what I’ve seen.’

Terra and Auric exchanged glances and grinned at the praise.

‘Maybe this town isn’t so boring after all.’ Auric chuckled.

#TRRA #terra volks #RWBY oc #RWBY oc fanfiction #rwby fanfiction

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