#like nobody else compares

[raayllum]

whenever people are like "i love ships where the girl is badass and the boy is in awe of her" i just always default to rayllum bc i don't think there's any ship where the guy is more of her #1 fan and cheerleader like look at him

Rayla is selfless, strong, and caring. That's what makes her a hero. That's what makes her Rayla.

#like nobody else compares #rayllum #pining!callum #supportive callum #and he does all of this without idealizing her and while simultaneously recognizing that #she needs help and care and concern like anyone else! so much gentleness and love

[childrenofthesun77]

...okay, so I'm probably not the first person to notice this.

But gear's earing that he points towards when he says that he did the same ritual he wanted to help kuro with already on himself before:

actually looks pretty similar to the pieces of the necklace the count used to create the servamps:

The different pieces of the necklace seem to contain one demon each and the count used them to create the servamps.

So...did the count either learn this technique from the werewolves or is he possible even originally a werewolf himself? It would explain why he's immortal, that's why I'm wondering about this.

Gear says that the ritual is used to remove spirits, could it be that the count removed his own sins using the werewolf ritual and created the demons this way? But he went too far and removed too much unlike gear who only removed one part of himself? Him removing the sins from himself would also explain why he's so weird and doesn't understand other beings. As the sin demons say, they are a natural part of being a human and we have seen multiple times that denying their existence is harmful, removing them all from you would probably lead to you not being able to relate to other people anymore.

Maybe removing all these parts of himself is also why he has no appearance. Without his demons he's not a person anymore.

The count originally being a werewolf would also explain why he has magical abilities (gear can also use magic) before other magicians existed and why he's so anxious about certain people dying. Gear talks about how his immortality makes him sad because human friends do die, but unlike the count gear seems to accept death, grieves in a heathier way than the count and is able to move on and make new friends. Could also explain why his magic and creations are all strongly tied to the (full) moon.

Another similarity is that while werewolves apparently can't reproduce gear was able to have descendants by sharing his life force (it's mentioned in chapter 135 which isn't translated yet) with a woman and through her human children tsurugi is related to gear. Sigurd explained to nicco that the magicians came to be because the count let humans drink his blood, three survived, got magical ablities and became the ancestors of all human magicians:

Maybe the count is more of a werecat though. He and the sloth demon do seem to have a closer connection, even though the count's appearance changes depending on the person looking at him he does usually keep his tail and the tip looks exactly like the one of kuro's cat/lion form and similar to the the one of inner sloth's non-human form.

It was also stated multiple times that the sloth demon is the strongest. I wonder why that is. Servamp comments on the fact that being lazy is often actually a sign of depression/anxiety through kuro's arc, so maybe the count was depressed and that's why the sloth demon is the strongest? Basically the demons strength depends on how much the count suffered from the different sins? It would also explain why melancholy is so strong, I assume kuro refusing to see him no matter how many siblings he sent his way to tell him to come looking for the count made him extremely sad and probably even made him come up with the plan to have himself be killed and then put in the same body as kuro through the ritual.

I assume he was behind C3 ordering the servamps to kill him because he's the one who created the magicians and thus C3 and lily who is kind of working for him was probably the one who put the idea that the count needed to be killed into the head of his eve (aka a member of the alicein family who hold a lot of power in C3 basically since the beginning. I explained this in more detail in another post). The people from C3 even said that the count can only be killed if he wants to and yeah, kuro didn't truly kill him, but he did destroy his body and kuro seems to have met little resistance when he attacked the count. Which probably means the count wanted this to happen.

#servamp #...if the servamps/demons all came from the count and the magicians are all basically the descendants of the count #does that mean this truly is all just a huge family conflict #since basically everyone involved is somewhat related to the count?😅 #Sigurd says he's related to one of the three people who drank the counts blood #I'm still wondering if mahiru is special because he might have the blood of all three bloodlines #and C3 has a rule in place that forbids all three bloodlines from crossing #probably put in place by the count or lily #and that's why akira told nobody who the father of her child was #I still like my absolute crack theory that because mahiru might have “more” of the counts blood in him that he has no fixed appearance eith #But because he's so normal everyone perceives him as normal so nobody noticed until now that mahiru looks slightly different to all of them #honestly it would explain/excuse some questionable choices made by characters who as far as we know should be good people #Like why akira didn't tell anybody who the father was #why tooru tried to avoid being seen with mahiru in school by always saying he's to busy #Why tooru told mahiru not to tell the secret to anyone else #and why mahiru was raised as mundane as possible and as far away from C3 as possible #even why tooru kept his work for C3 secret from mahiru even after mahiru made the contract #and why he still didn't tell him the name of his father #If people know your relatives they start comparing you to them #If people knew that touma was mahiru's father they might expect mahiru to look like him #If people only knew mahiru was related to akira and tooru they would expect him to look like them #If people at school only knew mahiru but never met tooru before mahiru's appearance to them might be too different from tooru #Touma saying mahiru looks exactly like tooru doesn't disprove this crack theory either btw #Touma sees mahiru as tooru 2.0 and he's not 100% convinced he's actually mahiru's father so mahiru appearing as a copy of tooru makes sense #Just like mahiru would perceive himself as looking like akira and tooru because those are the only close relatives of his he knows #Sorry but I'm having too much fun with this crack theory #the twist that raising mahiru as the “ordinary high school student” was all a plot by his family #to keep people from noticing that they don't actually agree on what he looks like is too funny to me

[shouldprobablybereading]

Hot take of the day is that I think sanderson not letting adolin murdering sadeas have any real consequences killed like 95% of interesting debate on the morality of it

#it serves some narrative point on some character arcs #but it could have been so much more interesting than sanderson made it #like right now it’s just kinda pointless #to talk about #nobody cares about sadeas so it’s not emotional #and the closest we can get to a philosophical debate is adolin and dalinar being kinda awkward about it #which again would have been interesting if anything actually came out of it #but it didn’t #now it’s just a question of whether you should be allowed to take the law into your own hands like that #which I think could be very interesting if we took a look at the power position adolin holds #as highprince and heir etc. #should he be allowed to make that type of decisions #sadeas was an asshole but how does this play into how he solves other conflicts #if not for his dad and cousin being the ones in charge would someone else be treated differently #this type of thing was exactly why people didn’t want to work with the alethi to begin with #what are the political implications #blah blah #even if saying ‘yeah it was right it was necessary and sadeas sucked’ #it would have been more interesting if there was anything to compare it to rather than just #‘well now we don’t have to deal with sadeas anymore that’s convenient’

[b4kuch1n]

hfr indulgence weekend

#hi-fi rush #hfr chai #hfr peppermint #hfr korsica #hfr macaron #hfr cnmn #gods cnmn's tag is so fucking funny. yeah those are letters #the ink comms are! finished! I just gotta go scan them #I dont trust my phone scanner rn tbh its. u can see right here lmao #gonna try and scan it at a photocopy shop to compare the difference #anyways yes of course I tried my hand at redesigning the suit stuff lmao. like whats in the game is cute. but. clenches fists #they dont understand women in suit like I do!! they dont understand.... they dont underst #I enjoy the Idea of putting chai in formal wear bc that dude is straight up a rectangle. literally needed to fake a waist for him #but yeah. tbh also kind of a surprise how much I enjoyed drawing chai's face. like he's straight up just. :-D <- thats him #everyone else slaps obvs but chai is like. I think I just enjoy translating that specific eye shape lol #also maybe its just decoration but I choose to believe that sleeve on his left hand is a compression sleeve #it was the load bearing arm. nobody comes into my inbox about that sentence ok #alright. alright #got some Plan Thing coming up at the end of june-start of july mark. hope that goes well #but otherwise! scan ink comms tomorrow! then that will be open again on. monday I'll say #so! stay tuned for that? aye #also actually Ive been enjoying doing those chibi things like in the first page up there. its fun to try and figure out what to include #this is genuinely new to me lmao. before the sk8 stuff I havent drawn that kinda thing for literal years #this year is the year of art thing resurfacing huh. ink and now this... well! its fun to see #okay. alright. I go sleep now. or I go get snack actually. and Then sleep #have a good night lads! keep ur wrists safe for me please

[variousqueerthings]

the thing is I do quite like individual stephen moffat episodes, I think they're good episodes. they get less good when you start to see patterns of writing and how he has a tendency of beating a dead horse + ongoing sexism which may be missed in one episode, but becomes very clear through repetition, but if one considers them as one-offs they're Neat bits of writing. it's when he tries to make it longform that it all falls to pieces for me and reverberates back. his lore is a mess and consequently so are his characters if one spends more than an episode or two with them.

#anti moffat #im rewatching doctor who #the measurement #we're at silence of the library and meeting river song #and she's quite a different character to who she becomes later in the show but already got some Stuff that rubs me the wrong way #i would call this moffat's issue with creating someone 'worthy' of the doctor #he talked about that before in terms of madame de pompadour #and so river song Has to become The most interesting most badass most capable most witty most knowledgeable etcetc #has to know everything about the doctor that nobody else knows + have all the same adventures as the other companions #so it's no longer their adventures with the doctor and their stories - she's shoved on top of them to be better than all of them #so none of them were worthy enough -- not compared to her. and then ofc later on she's part timelord as well to really hammer it home #unfortunately river song on the show never worked for me #she ticks every box of things i dont like about moffat's writing and it only becomes moreso as the show continues #but maybe in the audio dramas where she's got more personality -- i have been curious about it

[skyward-floored]

Don’t think I’m going to end up using this but it made me laugh

#wild being annoying my beloved #it’s a trait of his nobody ever uses so I like to do it hee hee #well not nobody #but I don’t see it much #as compared to ‘boo hoo he’s so traumatized’ (ignoring everyone else’s trauma) #rambles from the floor #wip

[willowser]

willow everyone around me has a partner/fwb (we're in our 20s) and i'm still a virgin i feel so excluded 😔!! i want to have sex too i'm just scared and feel soooooo left behind. childish almost because i am an adult woman with a job and license and can legally drink and rent a car! grrrrr! and i know in my heart that it's silly to feel this way but i can't help it sometimes

oh my dear !!! 🥺 i think when we're surrounded by people that are involved in something that we're not apart of, it's very normal to feel excluded !! a lil' left behind !!! but 🥺 intimate relationships are not the same as hobbies or tv shows that our pals are into for the moment 🥺 and i think the fact that you do feel scared is !! v important !! and something that you should pay attention to !! 🥺🩷 regarding a vulnerable moment such as this, i think you would regret it more to rush into it with someone while you're scared, more than you would regret just waiting 🥺 until the time feels right 🥺

being a virgin does not equate to being childish, friend 🥺 you're right !! you're a grown ass woman with a job and a license !! that can drink and rent a car !! you're a multi-faceted human being 🥺 and you can't be narrowed down any one way !! 🥺 this is just another piece of you 🥺 and life is so different for everyone, you really can't compare yours or your experiences with others !! bc all that usually does is leave us feeling off-track, when really !! there is no track !!

it's not silly to feel this way 🥺 it's normal !! and i'm sure it will come and go and that's okay ! but know what's best for you 🥺 and if you're feeling a scared or unsure, it's so important to listen to that little piece of you ! 🥺

i am kissing you on the head friend ! and hoping that you don't feel pressured or left behind 🥺🩷✨️

#everyone has such different experiences in life you cant compare where you are vs where others are !! #i know that's so much easier said than done #and it a sex crazed world we live in now it's hard to ignore !! #but listen to yourself ! your own feelings !! #bc your experiences are YOUR experiences and nobody elses 🥺 #and they'll stay with you forever 🥺 #in saying all that #i actually have a friend that is 26 and just recently had sex for the first time ! #she's been on dating apps for a while and she only ever told partners she felt really comfortable with #and then she was dating someone for a few months and felt comfortable with them and went ahead ! #and they're not together anymore but ! it was with someone she cared about at the time and trusted ! #not to make it sound like they broke up right away it was a few months later but #the point is — she knew when she felt like it was time ! #and i think that's important !! #✿ ask willow

[davilasinfiltro]

It’s so funny Bad’s audience wants him to get kidnapped so bad and face consequences for his disobedience but his character is likely immune to it somehow bc of his past. He’s just the federation’s special boy

#q!bbh #q!badboyhalo #and nobody’s even mentioning how bad gets off easy compared to everyone else #everyone just likes him too much they don’t even notice his pretty- I mean special privileges

[son1c]

they couldn’t put super sonic in sonic forces because then they would have had to write infinite with an emotion other than bloodlust and pain and that would have made him too powerful as the single most complex character in the entire game

#the emotion is jealousy btw. i think about this all the fucking time #like here's a guy who wants so badly to be something. anything. and he's grasping at it #with everything he has #he has a magic rock but it's fake. artificial. it's nothing compared to the #ancient might of the chaos emeralds #and that difference would be palpable. and he would hate it so much. because that's what he wants. but he can never have it #i don't think the chaos emeralds would respond to him if he got his hands on any of them. and i don't think he would ever have a super form #because he's nothing and nobody and he will never be anything else <3

[dirt-str1der]

Love characterising nishikiyama as a booze hound drug hound meth addict high every day body mass 75% alcohol hands constantly shaking literally spacing out while driving fifty over the speed limit using elderly folk as speedbumps one hand on the wheel and one hand free to do more drugs and coming into work while functionally deaf and blind and he is still leagues more competent at his job than kiryu

#Yakuza loveblog #i dont talk about nishikiyama enough because im kazamapilled and hate him a little bit but im also kiryupilled and love him so much so you #see my problem? like i adore when nishiki is just. better in every way than kiryu and nobody ever sees that because theyre all too busy #sucking kiryus cock like okay nishiki had the rest of his life planned out when he was twenty and he was an extremely successful criminal #and getting himself noticed in many many circles then kiryu steps outside and gets into a street fight immediately and the entire tojo clan #surrounds him to throw cash at him like nishiki was actually doing so well for himself before his life was ruined. nothing is his fault #like i love just accepting that nishiki has one hell of a substance abuse problem and nobody cares enough about him to talk to him about it #and kiryu thinks its normal because hes the only one who can see that nishikis doing some great work out there so he must be doing #everything right. inconceivable that nishiki has any sort of ‘problem’ hes the real screwup and kiryu knows he makes life harder for himself #but he refuses to change because hes convinced that thats the only thing hes good at. like i believe that nishiki has a coke snorting #mechanic in game like harry db and without his coke buff he cant do as much damage like with it his output is on par with kiryus whos just #been blessed since birth by the violence gods. anyway kiryu is the only person in the world who thinks that nishiki is great do you get it #nishiki has lived his entire life in kiryus shadow and he doesnt care that kiryu has a natural charisma that he will never have. he has to #get out there every single day networking and socialising and hustling and nonstop landing interviews with cool magazines to get his name #out in the world while kazama takes kiryu out and drags him by the elbow to meet people like this is my son kiryu who has every disease and #everyone claps and cheers like i cannot stress enough how on top of the game nishiki is compared to kiryu. he has a car. kiryu doesnt even #have his own lighter. they are not on the same playing field and yet nishikis always trailing behind him because opportunity is always #knocking at kiryus doorstep whether he likes it or not and nishiki gets fed scraps and nothing else and hes the one with ambition he wants #the view on top and most importantly he wanted his brother there with him but nobody ... likes him ... nobody likes nishiki nobodys in his #corner he onky had kiryu and when he lost him it was quite literally him against the world. it always made me laugh how at the end of yk1 #harukas paying her respects at nishikis grave when the only time he ever cared about her was because he wanted her little pendant and he #(actually fucked how alone nishiki was he didnt even have his own fucking men to rely on he was basically working alone with someone he knew #was using him like ??? he was fucking desperate) anyway i really love to think that kiryu being nishikis only friend and the last person in #the world who thought kindly of him (barring like ... kashiwagi) was grieving terribly over his death and haruka being a sensitive and #sweet little girl took the initiative to ask about nishiki and i think kiryu would tell her stories every night of the kind of stuff he and #nishikiyama would get up to when they were her age. he would tell her how amazing nishiki was and how he always looked out for him how he #took care of his sister and how he would always be the one to remind them of impending birthdays and the like. nishiki cared about the #little things .. and he made kiryu want to care about them too but theres just something different between them because nishikis always #been a better person than him .. and he would tell haruka in a voice that sounded like he was begging her to understand that nishiki wasnt a #bad person.. though he did bad things he was a good man and he still wishes with all his heart that he could have done more to save him ...

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen #no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?) #Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty #Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it. #obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't #But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!” #is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying. #Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status #her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier #the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all #siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen #Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her #that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do #like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her #and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented #no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard #(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..) #ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth #because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century #both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country #yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time #and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians) #Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers #who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression #queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status #yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this #so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties? #why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism') #after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support #and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

ok somebody rb'd and reminded me of this post where i talked abt jubilife developing its own fusion language and i dont want to reblog the whole thing bc it's long BUT. i also mentioned there that the protagonist would very likely speak this language if they're from modern sinnoh, which it occurred to me on reread actually opens up a very fun interaction with jubilife, because they have this magical mystical language that everyone can understand.

not fully, or even, like, super well, but if they talk, you'll probably get the gist of what they're saying. and vice versa, where they can more or less understand everyone, esp. the clans and the people from kanto/hoenn/johto. ik nobody in pla knows or cares that the protag was sent by arceus aside from like, cogita, but if they DID, imagine how this would look to an outsider. blessed by the almighty to bring people together. except SIKE it's just bc they had the advantage of learning your compressed language bundle way in the future and got to take it all back to the time where it was in active development. a lot of their verb forms are fucking wacky. ingo somehow still does not recognize any of it.

#the nemesis speaks #pla analysis #the bit there being that like. unova is like the main area of the game world that NOBODY in the galaxy team seems to come from #(unless i missed one but i don't thiiiink i did. and even if i did it's a very small portion compared to everything else) #paldea and kalos are more absent aswell but i have Headcanons abt that #so unovan (well. i dont call it unovan. hcs abt that too) is probably the one language with zero presence in galactic or w/e they call it #ingo's like a direct inverse of the protagonist actually. fucking nobody has ANY idea what he natively speaks. #he's picked up hisui's language obviously but like he's probably still lowkey looking for people he could talk to without so much Work #alas.

[evilhausen]

trying to move on from the guy i had a crush on bc he has a girlfriend and she's right next to him. but he won't stop giggling at everything i say. how am i supposed to live when i know he likes being pinned and having his [redacted] [redacted]

#he doesnt do it to anybody else. im not thay funny nobody else was laughing like that. and he was staring at me #as i tried to look everywhere BUT at him #and his new gf is adorable and sweet but she is very tame compared to what i think i rmember him being into. #it's so over. but i will not stalk his socmed. i wont do it. i will not #edit: just realised i posted this on the wrong blog. hello wrestling fan community. i am sorry

[uwudonoodle]

Reminder to myself to STOP looking at fics in the same fandom/ship as the one I'm currently writing. Everyone else's stories are so amazing, and it makes me feel like garbage in comparison. I'm so scared my story won't be up to the fandom's standards and will be ignored.

#fandom #fic #fanfic #fanfics #my fic #fic writing #fic writer #fanfiction #fanfic writing #fanfic writer #I need to stop comparing myself to others #comparison is the thief of joy #nobody can write my story like I can #my story won't be for everyone #someone will find something to love in what I have to offer #insecurity #insecurity can be crippling #I'm going to keep going #I'll just live in the little world I made up and ignore everything else #at least I'm my target audience #forget everyone else and get to work #you should be writing #I'm getting better every day #I'm putting in the work to make my story something I'm proud of even if it doesn't get the response I'm hoping for #working past insecurity

[placetneplacet]

I get it. I could talk about others things. Acting and staging and plots that may or may not go anywhere.

I could talk about the moment of utter silence and stillness when Vegas encounters his dead father.

I could talk about the utterly feral look on Pete’s face when he unloads his gun in his work mate’s chest.

But none of that really means anything to me without this part.

This is the part that matters. That these two broken people, have found a person. A person who loves them.

A person who sees past all the masks, that sees all the scars and brokenness and believes that that’s not all that they are.

That believes that they are beautiful and worthy of love and that together they can build something new and bright and beautiful.

That it doesn’t have to always be blood and pain and brokenness.

That specifically they can give Macau something better than what they had. That the cycle of violence can end with them.

This is what I came for brokenness and healing, reconciliation and forgiveness.

#kinnporsche the series #vegaspete #Vegas #Pete #Macau #A baby will make four�� #I don’t know #this was the thing that meant the most to me #and I got it #I’m going to revel in a minute #I will forever be indebted to that one op who compared Vegas to Stitch #it is hilarious and incredibly moving to me personally #sorry if nobody else likes it

[moonsidesong]

i think its kinda funny that ibis paint is regarded as the Broke Artist App or whatever (as opposed to more mainstream programs like csp or procreate) because its free and because of how popular it is with phone + finger artists while im jusg sitting here having used ibis for a cool eight years on purpose.

like i have an ipad and an apple pencil and all theyre very nice and i absolutely could move to a more powerful program i have the resources to do so but my change averse brain has decided they like it here a lot and im not leaving

#not talking smack on phone and finger artists btw. some of my mutuals use their fingers and their art goes crazy i respect that so much #even when i did use my phone (most of 14 crush was done on a phone!) i still had to use a cheap rubber stylus hahaha #anyway maybe ill try procreate someday but also i hate learning new programs and i like ibis's brushes too much #fingers crossed that they add fully custom brushes someday though #like id love to be one of those artists that makes really cool art with ridiculous shapes and nobody even knows until they tell you #younger artists might not know this but modern ibis is STACKED compared to how it was in 2015 #like i remember when clipping layers were first implemented. and they sucked. like they didnt fully go over the lower layer #so it just left a gross tiny outline around the shape #and there wasnt any border or text tools either #and there was a hard cap on layer count depending on your device's storage and the canvas size #modifying brushes wasnt even a thing HAHAHAHAH you just used what you had #anyway okiku reference window unrelated shes just there for something else im working on<3 #bri talks #for the record all this is to say i think the smack talk towards ibis is pretty unwarranted #like yeah maybe its not as powerful as a lot of these fancy paid apps but i honestly think its insanely good for being a free program #i think getting rid of the ads costs more now than it did when i paid to get rid of them but i mean #free with ads is still a lot more than csp's ever gonna give you!!!! #(psst. secret from me to you! you wont get any ads if you disable the app's data usage and turn off wifi when you use it) #(alternatively just use airplane mode but you can still get texts and stuff the first way)