#i imagine the clock aesthetic would be good

[hsjazebel]

Desperate part 2*

Word count: 2763

A/n: I’m sorry to have made you wait so long for part 2, but here it is! I hope you enjoy💘

*the imagine is just for aesthetic*

part 1*

“I'm gonna fuck you so good you won't be able to look me in the eyes for a week without blushing."

He looks you straight in the eyes and your mind is blank, you just want to be fucked so good and not think about anything.

“Cat got your tongue? I've barely touched you and you're already all stupid! You just want my cock in your little pussy, don't you?”

You nod not having the strength to speak, but this isn't enough for him.

“Words, baby. I need to hear your beautiful voice. Is that what you want?”

"Yes, yes. I want you!"

“Oh is it, pretty girl? You want me? Who expected that the good girl who knows how to cook such good pasta would actually hide a dirty part! But don't worry, now I'm here to scratch your itch, I'll treat your pussy so good I'll ruin you! Are you ready pretty girl? There’s no turning back.”

“Yes, I want it so bad!”

“Good girl!”

And so, he sticks his cock in you and it's like the rest disappears. You lie there with your mouth open making little moans because of the feeling of his big cock opening you up and stretching you out to make his way in your pussy.

“This is all you’re good for, just a hole for me to fuck. Such a nice, wet little pussy for m-“

The sound of your alarm clock wakes you up from your wet dream. You open your eyes trying to adjust to the light coming from the windows. Last night you forgot to lower the shutters and you're mentally cursing yourself for it.

The memories of your dream are still in your mind that you can even feel your panties getting wet.

It's been a week since your first meeting with Harry and it's been a week that you only have him on your mind.

This isn't the first time you've had a dream like this. And you know it won't be the last either.

You desperately want to take care of yourself but you don't have time because you promised your mother to go out and do some shopping together.

You decide to go take a cold shower trying not to think about the all too real feeling of Harry fucking you.

Then you choose an outfit for the day and go down to the living room where you find your mother fully dressed.

“I'm so happy to have a mother-daughter day! It's been a while since we went shopping together. I'm sad your sister isn't here too, it would have been nice to just be girls!” Your mom says as she grabs her purse and keys.

“Yeah, but she’s like Dad, she doesn't like shopping,” you follow her as you leave the house.

“I really don't know how she doesn't feel like going out and buying new clothes!” She laughs.

“I always ask myself that too!” You laugh along with her.

You both head towards the city center and start entering various shops.

After spending an hour trying on clothes, you decide to go into Sephora, a place you can't resist, and while you're debating whether or not to buy the Rare Beauty blush you hear your mother's phone ringing. She spends a few minutes on the phone and when she hangs up the call she looks at you with a sad look.

“They just called me from work. They said they found a motive against the other defendant in the trial. I have to go to the office. I'm so sorry to have to leave now, I even thought about going to brunch together.” You can tell she wasn't happy about leaving, but your mom was an established lawyer in your city, and she was now working on this very important case, she couldn't do anything about it.

“Don't worry Mom, I know how important this case is for you! I think I'll take another look in here and then I'll go get something to eat quickly,” you smile at her trying to cheer her up. “Come on, don't make that face, I'll stay here all summer, we'll find many more days to have another mother-daughter moment.”

"You are right! It seems to me that I don't see you very often and I was so happy to spend this day with you! Please don't spend too much money on makeup, I know you don't have a minimum of self-control when you come in here,” she laughs as she hugs you goodbye. You hug her back and with that you see her leave the shop.

You finish your shopping trip - and you may not have exactly listened to what your mother told you about not buying too much makeup - and decide to go alone to that brunch you were supposed to have with her.

You arrive at a small place near the center called Jerome and already from the outside you could see that the interior was all decorated in pink and this caught your attention.

You had passed by here several times but you had never seen it or heard the name of the place, so you deduce that it is a new opening, and so you decide to go in.

The interior was as you expected, all pink with neon cursive writing. On the left was a wall covered in pink and white roses with large swings as eating stations, which also had a large teddy bear that you found absolutely adorable, and on the left a large glass counter showing that which, in your opinion, was paradise.

A waitress with a welcoming smile comes towards you, inviting you to take a seat in the front room and that someone will come to take your order once you are ready.

You return her smile by thanking her kindly and make your way into the room she indicated.

On the way, you find on the right side a wall covered with pink velvet and a bicycle leaning against it with another big teddy bear on it. You find this corner particularly cute so you take your phone out of your bag to take a photo.

As you open the camera app you hear a familiar voice calling you.

“Hi Y/n!”

You turn in the direction of the voice and find the protagonist of your latest dreams sitting at a table on a pink velvet armchair.

"Oh! Hi Harry!" You return the greeting by smiling at him.

He pulls back a chair as a sign to sit next to him and you gladly accept.

“Shopping day I see,” Harry tells you pointing to the bags you had to bring with you.

"Oh yes!" You laugh. “I was out with Mum but she had to run away to work, so I'm forced to go around with all these bags!”

Harry laughs back. “That's why you're here alone.”

You are about to answer him but are interrupted by a waiter who has come to take your orders.

Once he leaves - not before giving you a sweet smile - you see Harry give the boy a not-so-kind look.

You continue your conversation until within a few minutes your food arrives.

You start eating in silence and you notice that Harry keeps staring at you.

“Do I have something on my face?”

“Mh? What?"

“I see you staring at me, I asked you if I had something on my face.”

“No, no you don't have anything on your face, it's just… I don't know if it's appropriate to ask you something.”

“Ask me what?”

He takes a long sigh. “I was just thinking… if you have a boyfriend”

You stop yourself from laughing at his question. “No, I don't have a boyfriend. Why do you ask?"

“I was just curious to know I guess. It is undeniable that you are a beautiful girl and I also noticed how that boy looked at you before and I was just wondering if you have a boyfriend, that's all."

"Don’t worry. In fact, right now I don't want a boyfriend, I broke up a couple of months ago so I'm thinking more about myself now."

“I'm sorry, I didn't know you broke up recently. Can I ask why if it doesn't bother you?”

“Don't worry, it doesn't bother me. I've been with this Italian guy named Lorenzo for more or less a year and a half, except that in the last period, things between us haven't been going so well. In the last few months, I saw him as more detached, and in the end, I discovered that he had another woman... that’s the reason!" you laugh sarcastically.

“Excuse my language but… he must be a real dickhead to have cheated on you.”

“I'm big now, you can use bad words in my presence, and yes you're right, he's a big dickhead!” You laugh and he follows you.

After finishing your brunch you are the first to get up.

“Thanks for keeping me company, Harry. I really enjoyed talking to you!”

“No, thanks to you Y/n! And I enjoyed talking to you too! It could be done more often!” He tells you smiling, making his dimples appear.

“Yes, I would be more than happy to do it again. Maybe I could mention to Dad to invite you to dinner some evening.”

"I'd really like to."

And so you head towards the exit of the place with him opening the door for you like a true gentleman.

Once outside, however, you remember that you had arrived here in your mother's car and now that she was gone you didn't know how to get home. So your only option - other than walking in the July sun for 40 minutes on foot, which you didn't think was the best option - was to ask Harry for help.

“Um, Harry?” You call him. “Sorry but I just realized that I don't know how to get home since my mother left with the car, and.. uhm I wanted to ask you if by any chance, if it were possible for you, you could take me home.”

You didn't like bothering people about your things, because you always had the impression that you were annoying.

“Of course, I can take you home Y/n! I would never leave you stranded. In fact, I was just asking you if you wanted a ride but you beat me to it."

And with that, you head towards his car. And again, being the gentleman that he is, he opens the door for you to get into the car.

Along the way you are rather silent, in addition to the noise of the radio music in the background, there is every now and then an exchange of words.

Once you arrive at the gate of your house you almost feel sorry to let Harry go, and he seems to think the same as you.

You're about to say bye and thank him when an idea comes to you.

“You know I was thinking about the conversation we had that evening at my house and I just remembered that I have another book that I think you might like… if you want you could come in the house for a moment.”

“Yes, I'd like to come in but I don't want to disturb you."

“Don't worry, there's no one at home. Mom and Dad are at work and my sister is at the beach with some friends.”

“Oh…okay.”

He leaves the car in the driveway and so you go into the house.

As soon as you enter you head towards the bookcase in the living room but looking carefully among the books you don't find what you were looking for.

Going back in your memory you remember leaving it in your room; you had recently finished reading it and you immediately thought Harry might like it.

“Um…I think I left it in my room, if you want you can come with me, I also have other books there and I think you might find something you might like.”

"Yes, of course!"

So you go up the stairs and enter your room, but as soon as you enter you see the chair near your bathroom with your pajamas and underwear on it that you had taken off before entering the shower.

But the thing that immediately catches your eyes are your white lace panties on top of your clothes, and, if you look at them better you can also see a darker part on their crotch which you know well what is due to: the man next to you to you.

While you were both in your room, you felt a strange tension in the air. You look at Harry and notice the way he avoids your gaze as if he's hiding something. You suddenly feel vulnerable, remembering the embarrassing moment when you had accidentally left your panties on the chair. You wonder if he saw it.

“Sorry if the room is a little messy,” you say, trying to break the awkward silence.

He smiled faintly. “Don't worry, you told me that the book you recommended is here somewhere, right?”

Your heart beats faster in your chest as you try to figure out if he's just trying to be nice or if he's trying to avoid the awkward moment.

“Sure, it's right there on the nightstand,” you reply, gesturing to the book with a wave of your hand. “Sorry about the mess.”

He walks over to the nightstand, but in his gaze, he notices your panties casually placed on the chair. He lets out a short sigh, trying not to let his embarrassing discovery show. “Thank you,” he said, taking the book carefully.

The tension in the air seems to increase as they both look into each other's eyes, an energy filled with repressed desire and forbidden curiosity.

You try to ignore the racing of your heart as he walks away from the nightstand with the book in his hands.

“There are some really interesting parts,” you say, trying to keep the conversation light. "I hope you like it."

He nodded with a gentle smile. “I can't wait to read it, thanks for the advice.”

The silence that followed was heavy, full of tension and unspoken meaning. You both knew what was behind that embarrassing moment, but neither seemed ready to face it.

You bit your lower lip, trying to find the courage to say something, anything that would break the overwhelming tension. But the words seemed to get stuck in your throat.

Finally, he turns to face you, his eyes meeting yours with an intensity that makes you tremble slightly.

“Is there anything else you would like to talk about?” He asks you, his voice barely a whisper.

You swallow, feeling your heart beat so loudly it sounds like a drum in his ears. “Yes,” you admit in a small voice. “There is something we need to address.”

You feel your heart beating furiously in your chest as he gently approaches, creating an atmosphere full of anticipation.

“I know,” he whispers softly, his voice a seductive harmony in the air vibrant with desire.

A shiver of emotion runs through your skin as your gazes meet, communicating desires and secrets hidden deep inside.

You nod slightly, unable to articulate a sound, your breath held in anticipation of what was about to happen.

He gets even closer, so close that you can feel the heat of his breath on your skin, but without ever crossing that invisible border that separated reality from enchantment.

An instant of silence full of meaning lasts longer, time seems to have stopped as you let yourself be enveloped by the magic of waiting, aware of how powerful and precious that tension suspended between you can be.

You get dangerously close to the point where you can feel his nose touching yours, the desire between you vibrating in the tense air.

Lips a few millimeters apart, the imminent contact was like a promise of suspended passion, when suddenly the sound of the front door opening resonates in the air, interrupting the intimate moment.

You both tense up instinctively, your heart quickening its pace in your chest as your gazes meet in a mixture of agitation and repressed desire.

“Y/n! I am home!" You hear your father's voice coming from downstairs.

“Fuck,” you say as you pull away from Harry, but the heat of the barely touched contact still burned on his lips, while your body trembled slightly in anticipation of what might happen.

#harry styles #harry styles fic #harry styles smut #harry styles blog #harry styles x reader #harry styles x yn #harry styles x you #harry styles imagine #desperate

[tofusfortbhk]

Role swap AU with Teru as a clock keeper and Akane as an exorcist! I thought of a swag altered clock keeper fit and needed headcannons and art to go with it.

Here Akane is trying to acquaint Teru’s face with his bat but Teru stopped his time.

LETS BREAK IT DOWN (wikikiki) (those are dj noises btw)!

Clock Keeper Teru:

I’d say clock keeper Teru is able to freeze time for maybe an hour. It’s op, I know. But, I like the idea of him doing it everyday to goof off and catch up on the fun miscellaneous things he never got to do as a kid and Akane just getting increasing pissed off at having to wait out the time freezes. I’d imagine that’s how their 1st interaction occurs, Akane finally hunting Teru down and just being exasperated at his immature use of supernatural power.

Moreover, besides the critical threatening Kou no-no, Teru would probably enjoying being a supernatural. If anything it complements his nature more: selfish and self-serving, not really benevolent but not exactly malevolent either. I think, like his exorcist duties, it’d be a good distraction but, not really proactive in solving his more deep-rooted issues.

Exorcist Akane:

Akane would be a really fun exorcist. Boy’s a thinker and I could see him winning battles in really creative ways.

Maybe it feels like I nerfed him by making him average in terms of anti-spirit lightning, but I’d assert that it wouldn’t be Akane if he wasn’t working his ass off and overcoming the odds stacked against him. That’s his THING.

Plus, I think limitations breed innovation. Teru’s so powerful he doesn’t really have to care about finesse when taking down supernaturals, but AKANE HAS TO-

Plus, the aesthetic of Akane wielding a bunch of talisman similar to Luz and her glifs from the Owl House matches him so well. He do be note-taking and scribbling. (Also, bi icons times 2).

Yup!

#toilet bound hanako kun #tbhk #tbhk fanart #teru minamoto #akane aoi #my tofu art #teru minamoto fanart #akane aoi fanart #role swap au

[inverted-flowers]

More hermits as deities!

I got very stuck on Impulse because I was so determined to do his... But well uh... yeah...

Bdubs: God of The Day

Good nights rest

Sunrise

Daytime

Horses

Enjoyable travel

Healing through rest

Safety at night

Symbolism:

Moss

Clocks

The sun

Horses

Sleep caps

Offerings:

Clocks, either working ones like pocket watches or fake art pieces

Blankets

Medicinal herbs

Lavender and other herbs associated/for calming and sleep

Notes: Followers would place shines in areas where they could get lots of sunshine. The most traditional spot would be in a bedroom window that gets lots of light.

Gem:

Feminine strength and power

Honesty

Self defense

Cottage life

Note: I only recently started watching her and honestly my poor health and lack of wifi is preventing me from watching most rn.. poor timing but I really wanted to include her because she's wonderful. Also she's rather Athena coded. Athena is a greek goddess of war who's also a patron goddess of craftsmen. I rest my case do I not?

Impulse:

Scar: God of The Trade

Impulsiveness

Symbolism:

Yellow, gold, and black

Lower case i

Offerings:

Gold

Trades and deals

Manipulation and verbal trickery

Facades

Aesthetic gardening

Beautiful trees

Symbolism:

Fae and vexes

Offerings:

Money

Snacks

Gardens and landscaping work

Notes: His typical worshippers could be traders, but especially those who work the land. Garden and field workers under the wealthy could be a particularly big group. Since typically fae are known for their twisting of words and also incredibly nature based, it's only right to include them.

Joel: God of Pride

Pride and bravado

Self awareness, shame, and false bravado

Sarcasm

Symbolism:

Lighting (i had to ok?)

Ogres

Offerings:

Notes: His followers are totally ubber secretive. Also I imagine that he's sort of a two sides to a coin type. In art maybe he's depicted as both an ogre and a man with green antenna. Which is used indicates which "side of the coin" is at play. I think there's a lot more to be included in his list too.

Tango: God of Ambition

Distractions

Intense focus

Mechinisms

Ambition

Passion, excitement, rage, and drive

Symbolism:

Red, icy blues for certain periods

Fire

Offerings:

Notes: Can I just jokingly say he's the god of adhd? Lord he was just about Impulse all over again in this process.

Xisuma: God of Music

Music and expression through it

Community

Guidance

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Overall notes:

I assume Cleo would be referred to as a diety instead of a god or goddess. When I inevitably start watching her content because oh my god a person who also uses they/them and another pronoun maybe I'll try to revisit this but I dunno if I'll remember lol. So if any who's a fan of their's had ideas please please share! I'm very curious of them!

I've also kinda broken it up into categories and I have more to add to this topic so I'm looking to do a post where I talk more about it! Feel free to join in when I do.

And just like last time, I'd love to hear other's ideas with this. If there's any gaps I left or people I haven't included, I welcome you to toss in your input. Even if you're just adding onto something that I didn't leave blank! I read all the ones people shared with the original post and it was lovely. Honestly I might explode because I still can't come up with much for Impulse so input would be greatly appreciated.

(Also I cannot believe I didn't include bdubs in the first post so I'm added him in here. How the heck did I not notice? He's the one I started with!)

Edit: it took me an embarrassingly long time to notice I didn't put the handful of ideas I had for Impulse down.

#hermitcraft smp #hermitcraft #hermitcraft au #bdubs #bdubbleo100 #geminitay #impulsesv #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #gtwscar #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #tangotek #tango tek #hermitcraft tango #xisuma #xisumavoid #inverted flower's hermit deities #sure thatll work

[mftm1987]

all-time dream peche show/set

some of y'all bless n keep u are weird enough to want this information and because i am quite literally an information professional (librarian) i spent too much time and thought on this. at least a lot of it was on the clock lmao putting this under a cut bc it goes off

a lil note

i tried to choose songs i know them to perform, which i suppose in some ways defeats the purpose of something like this lol i guess the dream part is in the production/performance. and alan still being in the band and it somehow being 1987 but they also have access to their entire back catalog. anyway! i reference a lot of mixes throughout and i don't necessarily mean they perform it exactly like that as opposed to the originally released version, more.. thats the vibe i'd want the arrangement to channel

set list

instrumental intro - painkiller (w bc/cta industrial samples. basically would love to see alan get his grubby rat claws on this one)

first quarter: classic pechay mold - walking in my shoes (anandamidic mix) - policy of truth (think the way dave’s busting this out on mm tour is maybe its platonic ideal) - stripped (highland mix + 101 rlly going off with the giant sound pads)

second quarter: we r grooving - halo (no notes whatsoever. a setlist with express purpose of GROOVE and i could take lessons) - mercy in you (devotional. the way it’s a gospel disco hit in 1996..if you come up w a better way to arrange this lmk) - in your room (album version obv + apex mix as the outro which litr samples judas/leads into)

martin songs: wanna see that man suffering and healed - judas (grooving outro fucking required this is my huge and glaring shade on devotional lol) - home (alan could have fun w this one i think) - strangelove (starts w mm tour acoustic mart + finishes with full backing n shared lead)

third quarter: let’s have some fun! - shake the disease (a vault classic that i’d love to see them do something weird with) - nothing (101 guitar moment w the caveat i have heard rumors of a ‘devotionalised’ version that didnt end up on the setlist and if it truly fucks like i hope it would, then that) - john the revelator (influence of the unkle reconstruction aka that twinkling far out grungy thing. feel like mart on guitar and alan sparkling along the keys would be mmmmmmmm)

mart n dave duet interlude - sweetest perfection/condition mix (alright ive seen no one discuss this but these 2 share more than similar names!! i can hear it!!! and to get an a. wilder layered sonic journey..i wouldnt know how to act)

fourth quarter: we R grooving redux (R for haRd) - it’s no good (influence of hardfloor mix) - enjoy the silence (devotional/onip aka mart get nasty with that solo and dave be gay about it)(alright this is gonna be controversial for this blog but i think it’s gotta be the paris version for this show. it’s such a filthy solo and also imagine alan on the drums for it)(whos playing the keys bitch this is a fantasy) - nlmda (aggro mix intro + split mix Yes at least 10 mins of this song)

encore: oh y’all wanted to dance huh - personal jesus (funnily enough with how Much™ i want everything else to be, playing this one straight might be the highest camp experience it can give) - master and servant (101 sound pads and bridge breakdown) - just can’t get enough (live in hamburg where they just fuck UP that 12”)

2nd encore: peche mode is a sad band, but the best band in the world - a question of lust (flood mix) - black celebration (101 w all its extra interesting lil sounds is a fav but i’d be SO open to a new alan take on this one) - everything counts (the graph/on the wall/the hand shake versions only. everyone else need not apply)(yes that means u devotional)

setting and era (musically/aesthetically)

as for the musical era, here’s the thing: if alan is present (and as it’s my dream dm show he is) i trust him to unify All This under some kind of cohesive performance. these are but humble suggestions of my fav arrangements. i’d say the underlying theme of my choices is High on the groove scale, but also very much wanting old school peche banging with hammers

outdoor on the lawn venue. ideally june 1, so it’s alans bday n dave hopefully won’t shut up abt it. looks-wise mftm/101 w shades of violator dark summer sexy. in high fantasyland: alan’s got that bisexual denim on leather look of drumming personal jesus in 89. mart’s tits are slipping out of that super low cut tank of 90 with the armband on. fletch is in his cunty mock turtleneck. dave’s in leather pants, a red tank n shirt and The Jacket that he gradually strips out of of (feels sacrilegious to not have him in a crop top in the late 80s so let’s just say his tank rides up a lil hehe)

mostly devotional visuals tho colorized less blue/purple lol, the big sans-serif Ms of memento mori were also giving for me. always love a dual-level setup for a dm show, but only if dave can traipse about both levels and flirt with whomsoever he chooses (which he will)

#depeche mode #PLEASE feel free to use this as a template to Show Me Yours #the poor people who liked my post and expected just a list of 20 songs

[jessicas-pi]

I Am A Little Addicted To The Incorrect Quote Maker.

Anyway. Twin Blades And Beskar (Lifeswap) AU?

Inquisitor: Well, aren’t you all a rag-tag group of adventurers with unclear goals and good hearts! Oh, let me guess: you’re out to save the galaxy! Kanan: Well, actually, that sounds like a pretty fair assessment. Sabine: More or less, I guess... Ahsoka: That sounds awesome! Let’s do that! Ezra: I’m new here, but I am open to the concept. Hera: I thought that’s what we were doing, guys, come on!

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Sabine: My aesthetic is "would be suspected of witchcraft by small town citizens."

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Ahsoka: Throw lamps at people who need to lighten up, and throw handles at someone who needs to get a grip. Kanan: Throw a refrigerator at someone who needs to chill. Sabine: Throw scissors at someone who needs to cut it out! Hera: Throw a clock at someone who needs to get with the times! Okadiah: Throw matches at someone who needs to get fired up! Ezra: Throw a brick at someone to kill them!

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Ahsoka, making coffee: This is going to fix everything.

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Sabine: Rules were made to be broken. Kanan: They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken. Ahsoka: Uh, piñatas. Chopper: Glow sticks. Ezra: Karate boards. Hera: Spaghetti when you have a small pot. Sabine: Rules. Kanan:

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Ezra: I hope no one lowkey hates me. Ezra: Highkey hate me. Hate me with every fiber of your being. Ezra: Go big or go home.

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Chopper: Drink your school, stay in sleep, don't do milk, and get 8 hours of drugs.

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Hera: Just be yourself. Sabine: Really? Hera, I have one day to win over Ezra’s clan! Sabine: How long did it take for you guys to like me? Okadiah: Couple of weeks. Kanan: Six months. Chopper: Jury’s still out. Sabine: See Hera? ‘Just be yourself,’ what kind of garbage advice is that?!

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Okadiah: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the things you lost throughout your life. Ahsoka: It would be nice to have my sense of purpose back… Hera: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this. Ezra: My will to live! I haven't seen this in years. Kanan: I knew I lost that potential somewhere. Sabine: Mental stability, my old friend! Okadiah: Force, could you lighten up a little?

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Ezra: Of course I have a lot of pent-up rage, you fool! I've been the same height since I was twelve!

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Okadiah: If you got arrested what would be the charges? Ahsoka: Theft. Hera: Disturbing the peace. Kanan: Aggravated assault. Sabine: Arson. Ezra: All of the above. In that order, probably.

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Ezra: So, what’s Sabine's type? Kanan: Awkward, overprotective, oblivious, terrible sense of humor, Mandalorian. Ezra: Sounds kind of like me. Too bad she loathes me. Kanan: Did I mention oblivious? Ezra: Yeah, why? Kanan: Just making sure.

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Sabine: If I die, you can have what little I own. Ezra: Wait. What do you mean "if" you die? Sabine: My unending existence is fuelled by pure spite, that of which the painful experiences of life have rendered me full. Ezra: Ezra: *Sighs* Let me call your Master again.

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Chopper: All of your existences are confusing. The Spectres: How so? Chopper: Your presence is annoying, but the thought of anything bad happening to any of you upsets me.

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Kanan: If you put 'violently' in front of anything to describe your action, it becomes funnier. Kanan: Violently pilots. Hera: Violently lightsaber trains. Ahsoka: Violently sleeps. Sabine: Violently raises the dead. Ezra: Violently murders people. Okadiah: Violently worries about the previous two statements.

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Sabine: Sometimes I wonder if I’m hearing voices. Sabine: Then I remember that’s the last bit of sanity I have trying to get me to fall asleep at a reasonable time.

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*The squad's reaction to being told they're the chosen one* Hera: I will not let you down. Ahsoka: Sounds fun. Kanan: K. Sabine: Like kriff I am. Okadiah: Do I have to be? Ezra: Please manda I am so tired

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*after a perilous life-or-death escape/rescue* Sabine: Oh, gods, I could just kiss you right now. Ezra: ... Ezra: Neat. *later* Ezra, lying face down on his bunk: I said "Neat," Kanan. Who says neat? It's not neat to say neat but I said it anyways because I'm kriffing stupid. Kanan, reading a book: Don't beat yourself up too much, kid. Everyone gets nervous sometimes. Did Oke ever tell you what I did when Hera confessed her love for me? Ezra: Didn't you thank her? Kanan: *closes the book and looks at the ceiling* I thanked her.

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Kanan: I have met some of the most insufferable people. But they also met me.

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Ezra: Capitalizing every word in a sentence is vomit inducing. Sabine: Enjoy Your Trip To Puke Land, Boy!

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Hera: I think my guardian angel drinks.

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Ezra: The only thing I'm guilty of is being adorable... ...and also assault with a deadly weapon.

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Sabine, at the slightest provocation: I came into this galaxy screaming and covered in someone else's blood and I'm not afraid to leave the same way.

#twin blades and beskar au #sabezra #incorrect quotes #jedi sabine wren #mandalorian ezra bridger #i am going to be so insufferable with this incorrect quote thing you have no idea

[tarotnoob]

PAC: What energy should you embrace?

Choose an image and scroll for your message.

Pile 1

Embrace: Your vision

Energy: Taurus, Venus, fire

There's a lot of venusian energy coming through. Lots of passion and creativity, commitment to a vision, abundance. I think you're feeling pretty inspired. And I think you should go with that. You clearly have some type of vision going on aesthetically whether it's related to a creative project or reorganizing your room or going for a makeover. Whatever it is, it's making you feel pretty excited.

I feel like if you embody this energy, you're going to feel very powerful, attractive, inspired. I see lots of success and change for you at this time.

Whatever your environment is or what you want it to be, you definitely have the power right now to make it into whatever you want. A great time for decorating, a great time for playing with your makeup or changing your hair. A great time to pursue some type of side creative project for extra money.

It's a good time to move forward in terms of financial success. If you have any options in regard to increasing your income, now would be a good time to accept such offers or pursue such options.

It's also a great time in terms of receiving abundance. I do see you taking more action at this time with all of these wands. But there's a lot of stability with these actions, or I should say if you are going to do anything impulsively, there should be some form of structure to it for best results.

It's also a good time for love and commitment in your relationships. For some of you, you're going to see progress in your love life and a lot more stability.

I think if you struggle with your manifestations in terms of financial success or even goals about your physical body, you might try some visualization exercises whether that's literally mentally in your mind imagining the thing that you want to manifest or mood boards or any type of visual boards that help provide a more concrete image in your mind.

Or, if you're feeling uninspired, try changing up some type of aesthetic whether it's rearranging your room or buying a new poster to hang up, adding some flowers, I really feel like something visual right now is the best thing to get you motivated.

Or you can always delete your entire Instagram and then rearrange it forward aesthetic purposes. Ha.

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Pile 2

Embrace: Activating, planning, between phases, verge of new

Energy: Aquarius, Pisces, moon, venus

So, this touch is a bit on some collective energy. It's definitely very in between phases but closer to the end of a cycle. There is a lot of messaging around activation of different aspects of yourself that could be available to you as well as activating things that are still unconscious or not in movement toward a goal or desire or dream.

There seems to be areas in which you haven't reached the full potential or there are options that are still missing to you in regard to how to plan away to make this dream manifest. It could be due to being overwhelmed or simply not seeing what's available or being a bit lazy or procrastinating. But there are certain energies that could be better tapped into at this time in order for you to make progress toward a goal.

It could be that you have a vision for this but there's not a lot of structure to it at this time, so you could work on where you can build it up a bit more. I think it's not saying that you are behind in a schedule, it's saying that this is just a good transitory time where you should be focusing on different parts or unseen parts that will work together almost like a cog in a clock. Right now the clock isn't fully functioning, but when you figure out how the piece works or even if you are missing pieces that you can then go find that piece and put it in.

It's just saying you're in that phase. It's not passing judgment.

So, it does seem like a great time to put energy toward a goal or dream. But keep in mind, there's still varying things that need to come together in order for this to come into reality. It could even be that you have done everything that you need to, but the universe is now going to take over and provide certain missing pieces whatever those may be. So it's overall, a pretty good time to stay in a more receptive state. Another example of what this feels like is when you have basically written out an essay that's due in class, but you still need to add a couple more citations, you need to complete the bibliography, you need to edit and spell check and do some final touches here. There could even be some information you are waiting on from a professor or a source to add another quote or fix up another certain part. There does seem to be a little bit of an element that's out of your control. That's why I say it feels like there's something more here for the universe to bring in as well. Potentially, offering that to you through another person because to me there's a lot of unconscious collective 12th house energy. So it's like, expect someone else to be a part of this plan and you're kind of waiting on them as well.

So, no need to panic, you are about where you need to be. There's just a more to go and more parts need to be activated. If you are feeling frustrated because something is taking too long to manifest, I would consider that maybe you have missed something or if you feel like you have done everything, you're just waiting on divine timing basically for something else to come in.

There's also a lot of more spiritual energy here. So it feels like there's a bit more involved to this goal than simply something physical. There is some type of spiritual element here. So, it could be that you are waiting for a spiritual transformation to make its full cycle and it hasn't completely hit there yet.

But, mostly I am reading the 12th house energy not just as spiritual or whatever, to me I'm thinking of it as the void of the astrology houses. So it's more something is just missing. Or some spiritual element hasn't quite activated but is building up the energy to come into existence or to get activated.

I don't know why I'm getting so many examples and metaphors in my mind, so this might be part of it too. There might be something you're trying to visualize or manifest that's very clear in your mind or maybe part of it is that visually you need to have a very concrete example of you want before it will come into existence. Maybe you've only figured out some of the minor details of what you want to manifest but, you need to really figure out the details. Whether that's in your imagination or even if it's a concrete plan that you're working on, some details of how to make this work could be fuzzy.

Because I was going to say it feels kind of like before rocket takes off and different parts of the ship have to activate before you can release the thrusters and take off and even when it goes up into the sky, parts will fall off to make it lighter or to send it boosting further sorry for not using technical words because I'm not a rocket scientist lol.

But, yeah I keep feeling like I'm in the seat and I'm feeling the tremors of the thrusters and everything is being clicked, but you're still in the process of taking off tasks on a clipboard. You're not taking off yet.

So awesome I'm done with the analogies.

Maybe you're very imaginative group. I told pile one that they should consider creating mood boards or using some type of visualization practice that would cause a manifestation to feel more concrete in your mind so that you can manifest something that is more specific to what you want.

Try that, and also really consider if there's more information that's needed. Especially if it's something that you can get by doing a bit more research online. I just keep feeling like there are some details missing. Partly because of waiting on the universe and partly because it's missing to you.

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Pile 3

Embrace: Rest, accomplishments, progress, recharging, release

Energy, Venus in air signs, Venus in Aries, sun in Capricorn, Mercury, Mars in Scorpio, Saturn in Libra

With this energy, I feel a bit tired. There are some similarities to pile two in terms of context of what's happening, but they will probably feel like build-ons of each other. They aren't entirely similar.

What, I am seeing with these fours coming up is that there have been accomplishments, but also it's almost as if you need a break. It can be a break to assess how far you have come and in order to change a perspective or at least become aware with, in terms of the progress you have made, how has your perspective of a situation or a habit or a goal that you are working toward changed compared to the last cycle. It's a good time to stop and reflect. Like with all of the piles so far I am getting really strong examples that keep coming to me, so it must be a good time to be doing a lot of visualization or having a clear concept of what is going on or taking time to assess your perspective of something that has changed.

Because, what I am seeing is let's say you are working on a project in the yard. And it's a fairly long project, maybe it's something like I guess I'm seeing somebody farming the lands. And let's say they are having to go row by row to weed or plant something. You have a lot of acreage, you are basically doing it manually or maybe you are using machine, it doesn't matter.

But what it feels like is somebody who has a lot of work to do that feels very seven of pentacles and you get to a point where you aren't completely finished, let's say you get about 3/4 of the way through. So you stop and you look back at all of the work that you have done, and then you look forward and you're like okay so I have another quarter of the way to go. Does what's behind me look like I did it all correctly and then if it doesn't, what should I be doing differently for the next quarter of the acre and also is there anything I have to go back to with what I have done that I need to assess if it needs more work or assistance. Maybe you missed a spot. Like it's just a good time in life right now for an assessment of how far you have come and what you have put into it. Is there anything that you still need to do or correct. Plus, you have to look at the future and be like is there anything I need to change this little bit forward until I get there. Is there anything I still need to do. Is there anything I'm waiting on.

Venus seems to be having a very strong pull right now at least with this reading when I'm doing it. There's a bit of Mars and Capricorn and Scorpio energy coming through as well as Mercury. So maybe anything that has to do with Gemini or Virgo. But mostly Mercury being at the back of the deck makes me think of thinking and communication. So maybe you are working towards something, but you are waiting on something that has to do with a communication or you need to communicate something to someone in order to make something happen.

Since it's thinking, it also can be about that assessing. Gathering more information, having to talk to somebody in order to retrieve more information, having to go online to do more research, waiting on a communication. These are all things that you might need in order to finish that last little bit of acreage you need to work on here towards some type of goal.

There's definitely a lot that you have done right and you should be satisfied with because four of Wands makes me think of okay I've done the work and I've made a lot of progress and there is something I have accomplished that I should be proud of but also time to take a break.

Four of pentacles is also kind of that energy protection card for me, so it makes me feel there is definitely some stability here, so there's been progress but also it's a great time to rest and assess.

Page of swords and mercury being here just kind of mirror the idea of there's some thought that's going into something. There is a bit of energy with the five of cups and three of swords. It could show that you aren't completely satisfied with how much progress you have made or there have been some setbacks. It could even be a prophetic message in that you are maybe waiting for some type of information or not getting the information that you wanted has been a setback. Like let's say you applied for funding for a project that you want to get off the ground. But the first person that you tried to ask for money or you went to the bank for a loan gave you a denial.

And that could be why you have to stop on this path and reassess okay what do I do now. And that's just a specific example, you can apply that however that might work for you if something didn't work out and now you need to think of plan b.

With the new moon here, again it's a great time to stop and assess or apply some intentions. That could be visually creating some resources to help you better manifest something or just that there's a new phase happening or about to happen in regard to this situation or project or relationship.

But mostly I'm seeing it as about setting your intention. It doesn't matter the phase although obviously it feels like a beginning or a beginning of a next step in a long process and that particular step is about setting intentions for what you do next.

And like I said the steps seem to involve navigating a disappointment or setback. What are you thinking of doing next or what information can you gather to continue forward. After of course you take this moment to rest and think through a course of action. It's definitely not showing a time of a lot of action or pursuing. It's a time to process and analyze and figure out what to do next. And probably to not really dwell on any disappointments. It could even be that during mercury retrograde you might have experienced these setbacks or some type of communication was delayed or you didn't get the news that you wanted or you haven't completely heard or gathered all of the information you need and have been more focused on the negative of that as opposed to how far you have come and also just having the patience to wait it out until the information comes through.

Rest and assess.

Edit to add: I wouldn't be surprised if for some reason, you actually feel so tired that you might come down with a cold or feel a bit physically ill. You might even experience emotional moments where you need to release. As in have a good cry. This is just a part of a buildup of an excess of energy that needs to be released, which is why your body and mind at this point might be trying to tell you or force you into a resting period.

#tarot #pick a card #spirituality #energy #encouragement #pride #pick a pile #tarot reading #venus coming through

[silentwillowwhisperer]

I'm finally doing it.

Hi! Ummm... I'm pretty sure you've noticed the fact that I haven't posted the tattoo parlor thing for the past 2 weekends, but Imma do it now.

HUGE thanks to @multi-fandom-collection for their ideas!!! I'm gonna be using a few. (Some will come later though.)

I'm currently sketching out a tattoo for Lance, and I'll either do watercolor accents or just do the whole thing digitally.

By the way, here's a fun fact about me! I'd like to be a tattoo artist at some point. I have a mini-fantasy of opening a tattoo parlor that connects to a flower shop.

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Keith spent the next half hour asking Lance basic questions about why he wanted the tattoo, and what he had in mind.

As the other man spoke, Keith found himself drawn into his bubbly personality. Sure, he came off as rude and a bit cocky, but he could tell that Lance was a naturally friendly person.

Keith still ignored the various pick up lines hurled at him, though.

Apparently Lance had been wanting to do this for a while, and his friends had taken matters into their own hands. They placed a bet with him that they knew he would lose, but everyone knows that Lance can't back down from a bet.

As Lance mentioned something about getting his ears pierced, and Keith found himself imagining Lance like that. Hiding his blush, he made a mental note to ask Shiro about that. He was fine sticking needles in people, but it freaks him out to see it come out the other side. Whenever he gets a new piercing, he has to ask Shiro to get rid of the mirror. If he can't see what's happening, then he doesn't mind the pain too much.

Keith is derailed from his train of thought when he realizes that Lance is holding a phone in his face.

As he takes the device, he takes note of the Forget Me Nots and blue Hydrangeas dotting his phone case.

The image Lance is showing him is one of Keith's own designs. Its a purpleish-gray dagger surrounded by roses.

Shut up, Keith's allowed to be cliché sometimes.

"I noticed that you put a lot of flowers into your art. Could we maybe do something with that? I was thinking about going for a blue theme. I don't really mind what flowers you choose. And could we replace the dagger with a lion?"

Keith smiles. All his last client told him was that she wanted something 'aesthetic.' That's it. It makes Keith's job a whole lot easier when people actually know what they want tattooed onto their body for the rest of their damn life.

He grabs the nearest sketchbook and doodles a rough design of a lion.

"Like this?"

Lance nods excitedly. "Yes! Thank you! This is awesome."

It's so sincere that Keith decides to give Lance another shot. He holds out his hand.

"Hi. I'm Keith, and right now is gonna officially be our first time meeting. I have had no crappy first impressions of you, and as far as I know, you have no association to Allura."

Lance grins and returns the handshake. "Oh, thank goodness. I was honestly worried that you were gonna hate my guts for the rest of time. And my name is Lance. It's nice to meet you, Keith."

The both laugh for a second before Lance glances at the clock.

"Oh crap! I'm late to help Hunk out with his baking! See ya, Keith!"

Keith chuckles as he watches Lance race to his car through the window.

Thank goodness not all cute boys are jerks.

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

#tattoo shop au #vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender #tattoo artist keith #keith kogane #klance #keith vld #lance mcclain #vld lance #lance vld #vld keith #tawny post

[howl-fantasies]

What would it be gotham!Jervis witha friend who's ladylike with a vintage aesthetic

(Sorry this probably a confusing request😅)

A/N - Hello dear, thank you for your requests (I saw them all and I'm working on them, since I'll be free next week except on Monday, I'll post them!!)

Oh my, it was kind of fun imagining Jervis with his peculiar friend in Gotham I have to say, I hope you'll like it.

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So!

First things first, we all know Jervis is the epitome of refined - when he's not killing or hypnotizing half of the city 👀.

Meeting a ladylike friend with a vintage aesthetic would be an incredible experience for him. He loves, no, absolutely loves their style and how it contributes to make them a unique citizen of Gotham.

He would be super curious about what brought them to choose this style as well as where they learnt to be the way they are.

Would 100% organise a tea party and invite them in order to ask all the questions he has. The event's theme would respect his guest's vintage aesthetic. A way for him to show how much he appreciates it and wants to share his new friend's passion.

He was a perfect gentleman, listening like nobody else and even offered to go shopping with them in order to extend their wardrobe. He would also be thrilled to be dressed by someone with so much sense of style.

Since his friend is ladylike he would always be on his best behavior. Here too, it's a question of respect and a way to show his appreciation. He wouldn't tolerate any Gothamite, be it a normal citizen or a thug, to mock, insult, or just be rude with them.

He would never hurt someone in front of his ladylike friend, it would be unrefined. But the too large smile he would wear the next day and the missing papers all around the city showing the rude person would be a good indication about what happened during the night.

He would often invite them to the opera, posh restaurants, museum... Just to spend some good time when he's not traumatizing the whole city.

Since his friend is so precious, he would often think about giving them his drug or not. At first, I think he wouldn't do it, preferring to keep them as they are. But at some point, he would give them the choice (not really but for him it would seem like one).

If his dear friend says no, they would never know how disappointed he was. That little fox would just smile and pretend it was all a joke and it was so funny to see how gullible they were. But at his next tea party, he would show them an incredible magic trick he learnt when he was a child. See the clock dear? Do you hear its ticking? Good. Now, you would be so, so kind to pour that little bottle in your tea and drink it all.

If his friend says yes to take his drug, he would stay with them the entire time, just to be sure everything went well with it. Fortunately, they will stay as ladylike as before and their beautiful aesthetic won't change. But now, his dear friend is less bothered by the mention/view of blood and by his not so legal activities. Perfect, isn't it? He always has wanted a partner in crime. And, guess what? They are the perfect candidate!

The two would wreak absolute havoc in Gotham, with the most sophisticated traps. It would be rare for them to directly have blood on their hands since Tetch would create an entire army of hypnotized goons ready to give their life for them.

Jervis would offer his friend to be in charge of all costumes for his deadly tea parties, and the decoration too, if they wish. He would count on their impeccable sense of fashion to revisit Alice in Wonderland style and adapt it until everyone in Gotham is dressed like in his dreamland.

He would be one of the best partner in crime to have in the city, with Jonathan, to be honest. If his friend don't try to cross him, he would be the BFF of the decade, never letting them down if something happened, like being caught by the GCPD or send to Arkham. He would be a total protective yandere for his friend. Or his future s/o? That's for them to decide.

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A/N - I hope you liked it and it was what you imagined 😗 😂 I really had fun imagining their unique duo in Gotham tbh.

Have a beautiful day/night and take care!

#gotham #gotham imagine #gotham x reader #gotham fox #gotham villain x reader #Gotham villains x reader #jervis tetch x reader #jervis tetch imagine #jervis tetch #Gotham villain #gotham headcanon #gotham fandom

[beantothemax]

I either want to say Temenos cannot even begin to hold a tune in a bucket, or he sounds like the good version of the Elsa from Frozen male covers where the voice is just lowered an octave with software.

He does seem like the dramatic sort to belt out a staccato at 3 am for the aesthetic which all of his neighbors and fellow travelers would like to clock him over the head for. Osvald is the one that just tonelessly screams back like that one guy in that one tiktok(at least I think it was a tiktok)

YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES. I can vividly imagine temenos doin some karaoke with crick and 1am in the morning and osvald just yelling ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP ITS ONE IN THE MORNING’ (they keep singing they just do it a little quieter. osvald didn’t get a lot of sleep that night.)

#asks

[linalilia]

[meet the prisoners!] prisoner 007: yano asahi

just so you know most of the time i have no idea what to do with my ocs' hands.

so, we already know which prisoner is the oldest one, but what about the youngest one? well, here he is! (fun fact: he was actually supposed to be even younger at first)

this boy.. tbh i'm not so sure about his verdict as well, like at the same time THIS IS A CHILD AND HE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE HERE but also.. he's not really the most sympathetic prisoner here.

General info:

Name: Yano Asahi (谷野旭冴) (his last name means "valley" and "field" and his first name means "rising sun" and "clarity")

Age: 11 y/o

Gender: Male

Status: Prisoner 007

Birthday: May 15 (Taurus)

Height: 145 cm

Blood type: O

Image color: #DBFFC1

Occupation: Elementary school student (sixth year)

Personality: Asahi appears to be a sweet child when you first meet him, however, his true personality is not like that at all. He's very rude, he swears more often than all the older prisoners, he says mean things without thinking and whenever someone tells him that it's wrong to act like that, he just lies on the floor and cries or says that he's just a child, so it's okay if he makes mistakes like that. He takes full advantage of his age and even makes other prisoners do all kinds of things for him, because "he's a child, so he's too weak to do it himself". It's obvious that he was very spoiled by his parents: he asked for a different prisoner uniform because he didn't like this one, he's the one who requests more stuff than all the other prisoners and if something doesn't go his way, he starts crying and says that he will tell his mom about it. But even though he is almost never seen smiling or laughing, he's actually.. very calm when it comes to his crime? He never mentions it and when the guards ask him about it, he simply goes "Huh? What crime?". At first the guards thought that he's just pretending or maybe he's so cruel that he doesn't care about his crime.. But for some reason, it also feels like he actually doesn't know what crime he committed. Or maybe he does know, he just.. doesn't want to think about it.

MV info:

Which canon Milgram song he would cover: Half. YES. THE YOUNGEST PRISONER HERE WOULD SING HALF. It fits his backstory well not counting the whole cheating on your wife part and for some reason I actually can imagine him singing it and it would sound good with the voice I imagine him to have. Maybe his cover would be like a cuter and softer (but still very emotional) version of the original song?

Which DECO*27 song he would cover: Iiya. The lyrics actually sound a lot like Asahi and I can definitely imagine him singing it for. Reasons that I can't talk about yet.

If he could cover a song by a different Vocaloid producer, which one would it be: All I Need Are Things I Like by Pinocchio-P.

His MV description: .. his MV would have a goth aesthetic actually. It would mostly have gray and black colors, but some important objects would be the same color as Asahi's image color.

His MV starts with Asahi sitting in his room, looking bored and watching the clock tick. He gets annoyed and walks to the door, but something stops him from leaving the room. He starts walking around the room and it looks like he's thinking deeply about something. He looks at all his toys (and he has.. a lot of them) and.. suddenly starts crying while hugging one of them? It does look sad and makes you feel bad for him, but the lyrics are actually about him feeling like "this is not enough, he deserves more" and him asking someone to "give him everything he wants, because he's their only joy in life and he should be treated as one". He looks at a particular plushie he has, the one that looks like a strawberry and for some reason he finally decides to leave the room.

We see Asahi in his room again and now he's actually playing with his toys, though he still looks bored. The lyrics mention that he's still "not satisfied" and "he won't stop until he gets what he wants". He looks at some books he has in his room and decides to read one of them just because he has nothing else to do and it looks like he actually finds it interesting. It gives him inspiration to do something and he gets so excited that he starts writing something in his notebook while lying on his bed, still surrounded by his toys. If you look closer, you can see that he's writing something called "A list of weaknesses". When he's done, he starts laughing and it looks like he is not exactly sane right now. The POV suddenly changes and it looks like we're opening the door to Asahi's room and see what he's doing. Asahi pretends like everything is fine and just smiles at us.

We still see everything from that person's POV and now it looks like that person is having dinner with Asahi. There's no one else around and the whole scene just gives off that feeling of loneliness. The person stops eating to tell Asahi something and he still looks annoyed, but he listens anyway. But then, everything becomes blurry, even though we can still see that now Asahi is smiling and that person's food was actually the same color as Asahi's image color. That person falls on the floor and now Asahi looks like he is actually scared for them and he even tries to help them get up, but everything goes dark before he is able to do anything.

The POV changes and we're opening a door again and we can see Asahi lying in a puddle of something that looks like a bright green liquid. We walk closer to him and try to wake him up and when he does, he looks at us with a confused face expression and the lyrics say "Hey, can you remind me, what did I even want?"

Trailer 1 Voicelines:

"Huh? Why do you even want to know my name? If you're soooo smart, then you probably know it already, don't you?" *SLAP* "OW! What the fuck are you- Fine, fine! My name is Yano Asahi, I'm an elementary school student and all.. But you knew that, didn't you? Look at me, I'm literally a child! Now let me go home or I'll tell my mom about what you've done to me!"

"Hey.. Come on, you know I deserve it. It's not that expensive. JUST BUY THE DAMN THING ALREADY, THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING! WHAT, ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY THAT I DON'T DESERVE IT? Oh.. maybe you just hate me? You hate me, right?"

Trivia:

Murder is his only crime and he had only one victim.

Of course, he believes that he will get an innocent verdict and it's just not possible for him to be voted guilty.

He spends most of his free time eating something or playing with the toys he requested.

Some prisoners have mentioned that they heard Asahi talking to someone in the middle of the night, but when they checked, it was just him sitting in his cell and talking to himself. They heard him talk about the other prisoners, Milgram and this whole situation. When it was morning and they asked Asahi about it, he denied everything and he looked genuinely confused.

He's not close with any prisoners and he especially hates Akio even though they're very similar.

Naomi is a little scared of him because of him being almost the same age as her students (though a little bit older) and she tries to avoid him when she can. However, Asahi himself doesn't think she's that bad and other prisoners even say that he sees her as a mother figure.

Even though he's not friends with anyone here, he still refers to all other prisoners by "Nii-san" and "Nee-san", basically treating them as his older brothers and sisters. And about the guards.. he really doesn't like Eiji, so he refuses to call him that, but he eventually warmed up to Miki and started calling her his big sister as well. (Edit: that was changed and he's actually calling everyone "(Name)-nii" and "(Name)-nee" now. I just thought that it sounds more like him)

Other prisoners didn't want him to spend time with Kei, because they were afraid that Kei will be a "bad influence". To everyone's shock (even Kei's), Asahi understood.. uh, everything that comes out of Kei's mouth perfectly and when they asked where he got this knowledge, he just said that "he's young, but he's not stupid".

#.. okay maybe he will get a guilty verdict #oh no another prisoner who actually doesn't remember their crime that well #also. you guessed it this boy is my second muu-coded character #akio really got the god complex part and the “it's not my fault” part meanwhile asahi got the “rich kid who whines a lot” part #milgram #milgram oc #linagram

[fredheads]

tell me about basketball fred 🏀

I love you Mel I love you so much!!!

Firstly 30s-50s high school basketball is my FAVOURITE era aesthetically like .. DO WE ALL SEE THE VISION DO WE SEE IT?!?!??!

And the fact we know Fred excelled at baseball too... the kid was an all-around athlete i am SWOONING!! I have been talking about basketball fred since 2017 too I always knew. intuitively.

They almost caught me slipping with this 50s basketball plotline on riverdale now too I almost tuned in to see archie play in a moment of great weakness...I did not but if anything COULD get me...

SO I had Fred pegged as a power forward (4) which requires a slight stretch of imagination bc that's usually the second tallest player on the team but they made them shorter back then right? his lil 5'10" ass... but no apparently he was a POINT GUARD which i did not ever suspect but that goes traditionally to the shortest player on the team so he was a baby surrounded by giants think about THAT!!!

Point guard is one of the most difficult positions to play in that your skill level has to be amazing AND you also have to have/use intensive knowledge of the game, your team, the other team, stats, the mechanics of plays, etc and it is essentially a HUGE leadership role (very often the point guard is the team captain or at least functions as such on the court) and requires trust and respect from your teammates... You have to be one of the best players on the team who is also going to be consistently selfless and teamwork minded and set other people up for shots without hogging the glory yourself and if that is not something Fred could excel at naturally..... I'm emotional

That said you have to be an AMAZING ball handler (@ariesbilly cautioned me against using this turn of phrase but... haha) and a great distance shooter and he was probably scoring a lot of 3s... I feel deeply and intuitively that he would always pass to his teammates if he could but if the clock was running down he was the one to even the score up with some quick clean jump shots in rapid succession so that they could keep playing.. and maybe the occasional mid-court lob that went in in the nick of time what do i know... he definitely stole many a game from the jaws of death in the last second before the buzzer whether it was he himself shooting or a really great assist or those last two foul shots under great pressure... he was born to be a hero he cannot help this he is god's specialist boy and I am just the messenger

ON THE SUBJECT OF FOULING point guards can be MEAN and he was just a little guy but i also know intuitively fred only played very clean ball however he probably dealt with a lot of aggression and being pushed around a bit and the other team would get annoyed they couldn't pressure him enough to mess up... if fp stopped games in their tracks once or twice cuz he tried to run on the court to beat someones ass on the opposing team that's his business (maybe he met them outside later)

Briana and I have been saying realistically Fred and definitely FP would not have been able to be so active in school in the great depression when they were probably needing to work to support their families (but if oscar worked so fred could get a good education and play basketball....crying and popping pills) so there is sadly a very low chance they played together if at all BUT IF WE MOVE IT UP TO THE 40S AND THEY DODGE THE DRAFT I THINK THEY COULD BOTH BE GUARDS TOGETHER.... I've wanted to write them playing basketball all my life...

ALSO THEY WERE 3 TIME STATE CHAMPS THEY WERE 3 TIME STATE CHAMPIONS DO U UNDERSTAND THIS???????????? HE LED THEM TO STATE VICTORY 3 TIMES!!!! (maybe 3 yrs in a row and he still dropped out senior year? 🥺 without being able to be scouted for college or get his senior year athletics letter or play his last year??? 🥺 but he also served in WW2 in this show so realism truly doesn't matter does it...) BUT THEY WERE 3 TIME STATE CHAMPS!!!! LIKE THAT IS HUGE AND I KNOW HIS NAME IS ON THE GAME BALL IN THE TROPHY CASE AND HIS PICTURE HOLDING THE TROPHY AND POSSIBLY HIS NUMBER IS RETIRED..... AND ARCHIE PROBABLY GREW UP SEEING THIS IN THE SCHOOL HALLWAY EVERY DAY AND HE JUST WANTS TO CONTINUE HIS LEGACY PLEASE!!!! oh he was most def team captain... probably MVP too..

I need to stop bc this is getting so long but oh my god... he was their point guard...

#fred andrews #fp jones #parentdale #HE MEANS SO MUCH TO ME IM GOING TO EXPLODE

[release-the-sheep]

okay I've been enjoying the goncharov resurgence very much but I just saw something that caused some Thoughts. somebody posted a post-canon Katya/Sofia fic where they run away from it all and basically live happily ever after (very on board so far) but they tagged it with "idk could be canon-compliant, katya lives change my mind" and I. hm. Katya lives, yes, agreed. but the other thing. hold the phone.

SETTING ASIDE for a moment (we will return) the fact that for this fic writer it's probably Not That Deep, let me be pedantic for just a sec.

It always irks me a little bit when people tag something as "canon-compliant" that has no regard for canon's themes, or its aesthetics, or both, or etc. For me, "canon-compliant" is a little more than "doesn't completely change or break the timeline and setting of canon", it has to be (or at least make a visible effort toward being) in the spirit of canon. Disclaimer: this is entirely my problem. but again it got me thinking and I wanted to share.

Anything made about this movie where anyone (other than Sofia, for obvious reasons, but even her) gets out alive and unharmed and can start fresh somewhere safe and far away is not only against the spirit of the film, it is ANTITHETICAL to what I would argue is the main theme: the sensation of being trapped and the impossibility of change and evolution within the constraints of an artificially static sense of self (a mouthful, but it is JWHJ0715 so what else can we expect). the POINT is that they can't escape! that is what is being said about the dangers of being in the Family! you have to be one unchanging person to survive in that world, whether you want to or not! that's WHY Joe dies (and why it's so sad that he does, he was so close!). that's WHY it hits so hard when Katya shoots Goncharov and misses. THAT'S WHY ANDREY AND GONCHAROV ULTIMATELY KILL EACH OTHER HOLY SHIT like you can't ignore it! the tragedy of the thing, the greek myth levels of unalterable fate and destiny, the axis everything turns on, is the fact! that! no! one! gets! out! it can't be canon-compliant if that goes away, I'm sorry!

but sheep, you say, let people have fun. yes. I know. that's why I'm here too. I usually avoid the "canon-compliant" stuff in this fandom precisely because everything is so doomed and dour - as it should be - and when I'm engaging with fic I'm looking for the escape, too. I'm gay and want Katya and Sofia to have their fairytale ending. I just think this writer got a little caught up when they tagged "idk could be canon-compliant". it also made me think more thoughts, namely about this tag not being That Deep. it's really a testament to how masterful JWHJ0715 and Scorcese are as storytellers. one of the marks of a really good tragedy imo is getting the viewer so into the story that they forget it's a tragedy (despite how many times you tell them, ahem Father Gianni as a character, ahem clock symbolism) and begin to imagine a happy ending. when people use this kind of tag it is typically a melancholic wish that canon weren't Like That™ so it could instead be Like This and if you squint and do a bit of interpretive gymnastics it can be read Like This, and everything can be okay. and I just wanted to highlight a) how good this film is for pulling that off and getting that reaction and b) how much I love what people create from that reaction. it's just not in any way ever even a little bit "canon-compliant" lmao.

#no hate to this author! I haven't named them here but it's a wee fandom and now that I've pointed out the tag you could probably find them #be nice #goncharov (1973) #unreality #jokes out of the room. not only does this movie not exist the fic I am talking about doesn't either #I love this fandom and I love what we do here on this tumbled blue website #and I love soft post-canon katya/sofia fics

[heliads]

hello! can i request fem!reader x wanda where is avengers movie night and it's natasha's turn to pick to movie and she chooses a horror one. reader is legitimately terrified of anything to do with horror, she has never been able to watch an entire movie, but she also knows that if the other avengers, especially tony and yelena, find out about this fear she'll never have peace again, so she says nothing, but wanda notices that she's almost crying and just hold her tight and whisper sweet nothings in her ear and tells her something like "don't worry, ok, i'll always protect you, you're my girl" and reader feels so safe that she even sleeps in wanda's embrace, pretty please <333

oh, to have wanda maximoff as a viable source of comfort

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You don’t think you’ve felt this kind of dread in quite some time. It’s the kind of slow burn fear that makes you sick to your stomach, some invisible, intangible parasite worming through your insides and making your entire body wrack with discomfort. You thought you’d only feel this afraid going into a fight with the Avengers that you know you won’t win, but no. Right now, you’re paralyzed from the thought of a far worse fate:  movie night. 

You don’t usually associate team movie nights with this sort of raw agony. They’re honestly quite fun, despite the polarity in movie preferences between the Avengers. Most nights, you can hardly hear a shred of dialogue in between everyone’s sarcastic comments. 

Tonight, though? This is different. It’s Natasha’s pick today, and instead of saving you from a less than promising night of tedious historical fiction or gloomy war flicks, she’s damned you completely. Of all the countless films or shows to start, Nat has gone and picked a horror movie, and that means you can harbor no illusions about having a good time. 

You can say with the greatest confidence that you are not a horror movie buff. In fact, you’re as far as you could possibly get from saying you like those sorts of films. You don’t know what it is about them, but the second you see anything remotely relating to horror, you have to turn it off. 

Maybe it’s the fact that jumpscares make you flinch so bad you practically jump in the air, or the way you start to vividly picture every horror villain appearing in your life, but you just can’t take it. And, seeing as you do your best to avoid horror movies whenever possible, the thought that you’ll be forced to sit through this one is making you feel physically ill from dread.

The easy thing to do would be to bow out of tonight’s showing, claim that you have to do homework or you want to train or any other excuse. However, Natasha has invited her sister over, and you could never admit a shred of weakness to Yelena lest she pounce on it in an instant. Between Yelena’s knack for noticing flaws and even Tony’s biting sarcasm, you can’t afford to let your hatred of horror movies come to the public's attention.

You can only imagine the sort of hell they’d wreak on your life were they to find out. No, you conclude, you can’t avoid tonight’s horror movie, even if you’d rather chop off your own arm to get out of it.

So, with the monotonous terror of a dead man walking to his execution, you watch the hands of the nearest clock tick closer and closer to dark. You eat your dinner without much of an appetite, and before you know it, Natasha is calling for everyone to assemble in the movie room. Tony designed the place a long time ago with this sort of thing in mind, and he always takes great pride in making sure everyone fully appreciates the design of it.

Right now, though, you can’t spare even a second towards the aesthetic of the movie room. You watch through gritted teeth as Natasha happily picks the goriest, creepiest movie she can find. The opening credits begin, and just like that, your fate is sealed.

You had hoped that maybe this horror movie wouldn’t be as bad as your past experiences, but barely fifteen minutes in, you’re already shifting uncomfortably in your seat. You all but shrink back against the back of the sofa, grateful that you’re in the farthest corner of the group so not as many people can see how obviously unhappy you are.

As the movie progresses, you only feel worse and worse. Your fingers worry the edge of your shirt, tugging at the fabric as the tension builds. Your entire body feels tense, ready to break. This is quite possibly the worst night of your life.

A particularly brutal death happens on screen, completely out of the blue and startling you more than anything. It’s sickening to watch, and the knots in your stomach only make themselves more known than before. The fact that the movie has barely even reached the halfway mark is impossible. How can you possibly take any more of this?

You feel as if you’re going to cry. Why did Nat have to pick a horror movie, of all the possible options? Why couldn’t you just leave? There’s no way for you to discreetly slip out of the room, and if you close your eyes for even a second, you’re sure to be called out. There is no escape, and you hate it.

Just when you’re certain that you can’t take any more, you feel an arm tap your shoulder. Looking up, you realize that Wanda Maximoff, who had been previously sitting next to you, has scooted even closer. She smiles understandingly at you, and holds out her arms to you. You slide wordlessly into her embrace.

“Not enjoying the movie?” She whispers.

You nod against her collarbone. “I hate horror movies,” you murmur emphatically.

Wanda chuckles softly. “I can tell. Don’t worry about it, sweetheart. You’re safe with me, aren’t you?”

You nod again, unable to trust yourself to words. In all honesty, you trust Wanda more than anyone else here. You’ve certainly been dating long enough, but even without your relationship, Wanda means more to you than you could possibly describe.

It still comes as a surprise that Wanda only joined the Avengers about six months ago. You think she should have met you when the two of you were just young kids for all her influence on you. Wanda knows exactly how you think, your favorite things, how to talk to you when you’re in a foul mood and make sure you leave the encounter smiling.

Wanda claims that you’ve done just as much good for her, that without you she never would have been able to pull herself out of a post-Sokovia haze, but no matter how many times you make her laugh, it never feels like enough. You may not have escaped a war torn city, but that doesn’t mean you need Wanda any less than she needs you.

Case in point:  right here, right now. The horror movie is still raging on, but it seems to have settled into the background, a distant distraction compared to the warmth of Wanda’s embrace. This is what you need more than anything, a reminder that you’re not alone even in the face of all this turmoil.

Wanda presses a kiss to your head. “Feeling better?”

You nod. “Much better. I know it’s just a movie, but I hate these sorts of things so much. It’s silly, but I can’t help it.”

Wanda shakes her head. “It’s not silly at all. Sometimes, the line between movies and reality can be far harder to decipher than anyone could ever believe. You never know for sure what’s actually happening and what’s just a figment of your imagination.”

You’re just glad that she doesn’t think any less of you to pay any heed to the darker tone of her words. “Thanks for sticking by me,” you whisper back to her.

Wanda smiles. “Of course I will. You don’t have to worry about a thing, you know that? I’ll protect you from serial killers and horror movie monsters alike. You’re my girl.”

She says it so simply that it makes you laugh, coupling it with a kiss on your cheek. Up a row of seats, Yelena turns around to glare at the two of you.

“If you’re going to interrupt the movie, can it please not be for something as annoying as the two of you making out? Find a quieter place to idolize each other, please.”

With that, she turns back to the movie, receiving only a swat on the shoulder from Natasha for her comment. You and Wanda are likewise unaffected, and the chastising remark only makes the two of you giggle harder. You do try to acknowledge the viewing needs of the other Avengers, though, and quiet down soon enough.

Now that you’re safely tucked within Wanda’s arms, you don’t feel nearly as scared as you were before. In fact, during a brief lull in the on screen killings, you’re even able to close your eyes for a little while. The late hour, coupled with Wanda’s fingers tracing invisible patterns on your arms, pulls you into sleep sooner than you thought possible.

You spend the next hour in patches and whispers of sleep, dozing in intermittent stretches. You aren’t entirely sure what’s a dream and what’s just the sounds of the movie reaching your subconscious, but you never feel too worried, so you let it rest.

When the movie ends, you wake up at last to find Wanda smiling at you. The rest of the Avengers are already filing away, turning on the lights and commenting on who’s going to pick the movie for next week.

Wanda pulls back a little, letting you sit up. “Sleep well?”

You shrug. “Well enough. Thank you again for being so sweet.”

Wanda laughs. “I don’t think you need to thank me for wanting to cuddle. I enjoyed it just as much as you did.”

You smile back at her, leaning forward to kiss her. “It’s a good thing that the next movie night is coming up, isn’t it?”

Wanda nods emphatically. They should be good again after this, but you learned tonight that horror movies aren’t nearly that bad when you get to have Wanda so close to you. Who knows, maybe you wouldn’t even dread another horror movie being picked, not when you can reach out to Wanda for comfort. You suppose you’ll just have to wait and find out.

wanda tag list: @mionemymind, @xxxtwilightaxelxxx

marvel tag list: @thatfangirl42, @rogueanschel, @mycosmicparadise, @ellobruv, @caswinchester2000, @with-inked-solace, @sher-lokid7, @23victoria, @amortensie, @watchreadfangirlrepeat, @gods-fools-heroes

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[annetalkscomics]

So I decided I want to get my first tattoo next year…

I always thought it would be fun to have some tattoos but like—never really found one that I thought would fit. Like there were fun aesthetics but nothing I was gung-ho about committing to for the rest of my life, you know?

I wanted my first tattoo to be symbolic. It had to say something to the world and it had to remind me of something very, very important. But what on earth could it possibly be?

What means the world to me?

And then it hit me.

Reading Sandman this year was such an accomplishment for me. I started the series back in 2018, believe it or not, and things were a lot different back then. It hit me around volume 2 that this book was going to be something special, and I realized that once I was done that feeling would vanish. That sense of awe, that wonder. You know that feeling, right? When you’ve picked up a marvelous book and you can already tell before you’re even halfway in that this is a book that’s going to change your life? That was Sandman to me. I knew that this was a book that I would cherish for my entire life, but that also meant I had my entire lifetime to read it. No sense rushing a good thing. I wanted to savor it like a good steak or the finest of wines. I wanted to ingest it in the smallest, most digestible portions…and just let it melt into my palate. So that’s what I did.

Before 2022 I had only read four volumes of Sandman, of course, but I had gone ahead and read both Death miniseries. Why? Because, out of everything I had seen in Sandman and as interesting a character as I found Morpheus, there was just something more about Death. Her friendly demeanor, her lovely smile, the fact that she loved everyone and she was the one person who didn’t judge anyone for what life had turned them into. I thought maybe it was that kindness that drew me to her. I thought that she was just the world’s most ironic comfort character.

But this year I realized that there was more to it. Death wasn’t a character I liked purely because she was nice, but because she was a character that was familiar. Not because she was what I always imagined she would be, but because she was what I always hoped she would be…

I have thought about death more times in the last four years than I ever have in my life. Not because I was depressed or suicidal, but because I realized when I finally admitted to myself that I was transgender that I was no longer safe. It’s funny to assume in a world as dangerous as this that I ever was, but when you think you’re a white cishet man that’s not really something that really crosses your mind. If something happens to kill you it was a freak accident, a total random happenstance, it was a random occurrence of nature that just happened to put you in the wrong place at the wrong time. It felt safe. When I found out I was trans it suddenly felt different and I was scared still am scared because I realized I would never know another day where there wasn’t a target on my back. It wouldn’t always be a visible target, and if I, right now, kept my head down and just kept to myself I could easily pass as having no target at all for maybe the rest of my life…but it would still be there. Just because I’m me. And in the light of events just this past week, that knowledge has never felt more real.

So what am I supposed to do? It’s a terrifying thought; it’s a terrifying place to be. The idea that the clock is ticking away faster for me than for others, faster than I ever imagined…that it could be violent, that it could be painful, that it could happen at any time in the name of hurting me and everyone out there like me. You know how weird it is to feel like not even my own heartbeat is mine anymore? My life is now just a point to be taken at will for the sake of some bigoted agenda, whether passively or actively. So what am I supposed to do? The sound of her wings is louder than ever before.

But that’s just it. If the clock is running down, if I am a target, if this unfair world is my reality than why would I ever just sit back and accept it?

Death isn’t what destroys life—it is the fear of Death that steals purpose from us. It is what causes us to be fearful, hateful, ignorant and cruel. I know that fear is what they want. The same people who want me dead and gone love it when I’m afraid…when we’re afraid. But I won’t give that to them. I refuse. They can use everything against me, but I will not give them control over how I feel. They can not have my mind or my soul. They will not make me afraid. I can reclaim my fear of death, and, by virtue of doing so, reclaim love for my life.

To hell with being scared of death!

So—my first tattoo is going to be Death’s ankh. I want it on my chest like a necklace I can’t take off. I want that reminder that Death isn’t something to fear, and although I carry that with me it is something that I am not trying to hide from. She’s not out to get us, she’s rooting for us, because she knows what a gift this is. I plan to use that to the fullest. For the rest of my life.

Whether it’s me or you or anyone else, we all end up with the same black haired goth on our doorsteps, and I intend to greet her with a smile, a hug, and maybe even a kiss (if I’m real lucky).

She is Death and I love her. 🖤🖤🖤

[theredbackpack]

I saw Tisakorean live last week. I did not pay attention to the openers until right before the show started, but was blown away at the lineup: Texas Boyz, Yung Nation, and Trill Sammy with Dice Soho were the big names. Across these acts, you can draw a line from them to Tisakorean's new music. It was an incredible blend of circa-2011 blog-rap nostalgia that called to mind in the best way my nights at small sweaty clubs seeing eight rappers in a row over the course of four hours.

I don't know if you've seen the videos of Soulja Boy snapping, but I clocked it as a reaction to what Tisakorean is doing. It speaks to a trend/zeitgeist: concurrent to this is the embarrassing efforts to make "indie sleaze" a thing, which confusingly throws all manner of sounds and aesthetics anywhere from about 2004 to 2010 into a blender. The Dare kinda sound like LCD Soundsystem but they also remind me of mid-'00s detritus like The Bravery. I sense the same era rap music creeping on the margins: Homer Radio featured a slew of snap/dance music in a recent episode (#23, from April); indie sleaze nostalgia combined with "blog rap" podcasts point toward an endpoint destined to go just a few eras backward in time; the fact that 2003 was twenty years ago; this Druski skit that dropped the day I drafted this; and yes, Tisakorean's masterful album, Let Me Update My Status.

When Tisa appeared on the national stage in 2018, I thought he was riding the wave of a trend: regional dance rap that consisted of artists like Splurge and 10kcaash, alongside future footnotes like Lil Tecca. His 2019 debut, A Guide to Being a Partying Freshman, was met with a mixture of shrugs to light praise. A fun collaboration with Chance the Rapper seemed to seal his fate as a guy who would burn bright and hot but not for long.

The first time I thought "he has something" was 2020's "Bate Onna Bo" which weaved through so many movements in the span of four minutes it had to be the work of a musician with a real vision. By 2021 we got "Old School Cash" and "Silly Dude" and it was clear he was following his instincts and making the exact kind of music he wanted to make. This came to a head in 2022 with his EP 1st Round Pick and "Backseat," which was my favorite song of the year. Sometimes that's as far as an artist can go. But he pressed on: Let Me Update My Status underlines my thought that Tisakorean is an era-defining rapper in a time when artists make interminably long albums to game the streaming algorithm then disappear off the planet.

It may seem premature to call Tisakorean era-defining but that's where I landed. I don't mean he's sold the most albums or had the most hits, but in this age where you can have a few songs and leave no impact, that he's had an audience since 2018 is huge: that he's produced great music since at least 2020 is even more impressive. (While I never disliked his earliest music, it hits a lot better now in the context of his career arc.) A lot of people who liked "The Mop" may not be following him now, but artists who shed casual fans are probably doing something noteworthy. No one is good for three years, let alone five. I like Travis Porter more than your average person, but I'd argue at best they had a three year imperial phase. Now anyone starting a twitter reply with "buddy" doesn't know they exist.

The Atlanta snap/swag sound and movement from 2006 through about 2009 was a singular moment that came just as regional music was cresting (Houston famously in 2005, Three 6 Mafia won the Oscar in 2006), before blogs, before Drake. Early Gucci Mane was popping off and OJ da Juiceman became a household name within this precarious window. But as soon as all cool regional stuff became fodder for rappers on major labels and young hypebeasts like ASAP Rocky to absorb, it was over, which is why it's due for a renaissance.

It's getting harder to imagine life before smartphones, before omnipresent internet and connectivity, before literally every aspect of our lives was managed by at most three or four corporations. Kevin Durant's iconic BlackPlanet page might as well be the Dead Sea Scrolls as a relic of his personality expressed through that era of the internet. But any means of original expression becomes unlikelier as we get funneled into pre-ordained ways of being our ourselves, of consuming art and media and sports, to the fabric of our thoughts.

A few years ago Matty Healy described his life pre-internet the best I've heard it. It's not about the changes it brought, but that he cannot remember what it was like to live without it. He cannot remember what it felt like to feel things before the internet, and what it felt like to not have to think about the internet as he felt things, and that his life and experiences still had meaning. And this inability to remember will render us more vulnerable to exploitation, and feeling like we are not connected to our true selves.

It used to feel different to feel alone, to feel sad, happy, etc, without thinking about how to broadcast it. Even if you don't put yourself online like that, there's an inkling to want to. I took a ton of pictures and videos at the Tisa show and I put some in my stories, but I found I didn't want to share them permanently. They are for me.

Let Me Update My Status is a masterpiece in perfecting sounds from snap to crunk to mid-aughts Neptunes. It's a callback to a simpler time, which is nearly impossible to do without some subconscious argument we also need to return to simpler, regressive politics. What makes the album so invigorating is how thoroughly it plumbs the era as an aesthetic and sound, not just as an excuse to make goofy videos. Its accomplishment is how it demonstrates snap music as an organic form that was never a response to anything: it was not conservative in its values, instead it was a truly original and innovative Black American artform that took time to receive the respect it deserved. (Quick aside: yes there were people who always loved it and it was popular for a reason, but it was not considered a given until years later.)

In Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels he says in spite of the liberal ideology at the heart of punk music, it was a conservative movement because art that aspires to either simplicity in its content (songs as political statements) or as a "return to form" (three chords and 4/4 time) is reactionary. The real-world impact of punk as ostensibly progressive expression was what came after it; it's Minor Threat and Green Day but also skinhead music. When mid-'10s revisionism took hold and people rightfully concluded "D4L were important" it took forgettable Big Sean and Kid Ink albums to get there; it took the critical adulation upon the arrival of artists as disparate as Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Waka Flocka Flame to get there; it took time to get there, to see what had shaped everything that preceded the moment as vital to the culture.

Tisakorean’s delirious ode to snap music locates within a specific timeframe from the past an emotional center and palette, finding new entry points into the sound, blending homemade beats with experimental forms as well as hyperpop to fashion an immersive triumph. There’s nothing one-dimensional about Let Me Update My Status and it also doesn’t conjure any Bush-era feelings of excess or doom, which it might do if it used nostalgia as a gimmick. I love Let Me Update My Status because it sounds exactly like how 2007 felt, and for me 2007 was a good year to be alive, using the internet not because I had to but because I wanted to.

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Finally, Found Me Volume Two, released with my creative brother Fat Tony, released in February. Buy one here. It continues to be my favorite thing I do. I wrote about Lil Yachty for NPR. Read that here. I started a Linktree and will add to it when necessary; bookmark/follow me here.

#tisakorean

[fantomette22]

Single character: Lady Maria

Duo: Father Gascoigne and Old Hunter Henryk

I'm going to begin with them because I would have a lot of things to say about Maria later.

I think they're really cool characters with quite a tragic fate. They had everything... they were so close to escape this nightmare when you think about it... and they lost everything. But it's too bad we didn't get too much info on that (need to read more fic I guess). It's really the first big not too much implicit thing you can understand too.

So I don't ship them too but people can do what they want. For me they have huge bbf/bro vibes. They were hunt partner from awhile. So really close friends.

I'm not sure Henryk was really related to Viola but he was considered like a "grandfather" by the little girl. Like a member of the family so he was sure really close to all of them. (the cute family stuff would be the fluff case)

About our dear Lady of the Astral Clock Tower now (thank you for asking as well !) :

Alright so like some of you might know I really love Lady Maria (she's like in my top 3 I guess?!) I can't stop making stuff about her. She's my favorite boss of the entire game too ! I just love it. Look at this beautiful dance.

She's so mysterious and her story is so tragic T_T... (and her aesthetic 👌please bring it back I want the same clothes) There's a lot of different interpretations about her too. She might have been quite different in real life to what we saw during her fight ! But you know it's complicated & people argue about it smt, but anyway.

I'm not going to develop everything too or I'm never going to finished XD

Wasted potential : it's more about what we were rob of. You know the cut extra npc dialogues content :) (I will always be mad about it. It's the cut content the closest as canon for me ok)

So if we look only at the boss fight yep she's scary. And I'm not going to marry anyone so it's a joke ok XD she's one of the few video game female characters that made me go : "M'am ! O_O"

About the "oh it's me" / "project my issues" : Well it's been a while I'm feeling much better in my life (even if I still can get anxious fast and still working and self confidence). But some years ago it wasn't easy. So I guess that could help me to understand/interpret how she was.

(I was not feeling good bc of Mergo at some point. And thanks to this and a comic&fic... I think Maria might had a similar reaction the the Fishing Hamlet and all that stuff) We're different but really similar at times I think. Oh and it helps me for her potential backstory as well (& relationship with her family). It's much more drama than a really thing too. But apparently not as much as some people here imagined XD

#character bingo #father gascoigne #old hunter henryk #lady maria #bloodborne #I need to draw her more too but I already did quite a lot of fun things already #for the fam thing it's more like : guys I love you but I need to do my life far from here