#so do vibe with the thought of a singular god but like the thought of like several entities a bit more

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Top 5 color?

Ooo interesting question, and I have such different answers to this:

It's funny cause lighting design is one of my favorite things and yet I never talk about it. For uses of lighting, I have two favorites for the year:

Moonlight Chicken

gif from @wanderlust-in-my-soul

The warmth of Jim and Li Ming's home, the cold of Heart and Wen's home, the way the light slowly dims throughout the entirety of Wen and Alan's break up? Moonlight Chicken has some of the best, most thoughtful, and incredibly interesting uses of lighting of the BLs I've seen from 2023. (Fun fact! Orange and blue lighting color combination is probably my favorite lighting combo because it's so gorgeous).

Playboyy

Playboyy is certainly a messy messy show, and I don't think it is using it's lighting intentionally like Aof was in Moonlight Chicken, but it is getting fucking creative and artistic with some of it's lighting and I love that shit. They've been going hard on the reds and the purples in this show and I support it.

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For my absolute favorite color moment of the year, I have to give that to:

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

gif by @my-rose-tinted-glasses

Shiro getting him and Kenji matching aprons for Kenji's birthday. The colors may not match, there may not be a color exchange, but holy mother of god this scene absolutely destroyed me. Shiro has grown so much throughout the course of this show and it makes me so fucking emotional.

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My singular favorite use of color in a show this year:

Last Twilight

gif by @tomystars

Once again Aof is taking the crown for such intentional uses of color. I don't care here if the pink has an actual meaning to the color, what I care about is what this shirt does to show Mhok's character, grant some autonomy to Day, and give you a sense of how Day's vision works. Which, I know the show has been doing pretty consistently throughout, but you can really see here why bright neon colors work really well for Day, and why Mhok 100% puts those bright neon yellow laces on Day's old shoes.

and finally...

Net's skin

gif by @ueasking

Net has such a gorgeous skin tone, and @neuroticbookworm and I weep every time some magazine, show, or other promo photo lightens his skin. Honestly I am personally not vibing with Middleman's Love but both Net and James look so good in it.

ASK ME MY TOP 5 OF ANYTHING BL 2023

#top 5 of anything bl #ask game #moonlight chicken #mlc #playboyy the series #last twilight the series #what did you eat yesterday? #kinou nani tabeta? #bed friend the series #middleman's love

[swimmingismywholelife]

Paradise

Summary: Christian takes you on a tropical getaway during his time off.

Warnings: Like a singular suggestive comment, just some fluffy vacation vibes really

A/N: Inspired by "Paradise" by NCT 127 and my trip to the Philippines. I actually love doing smaus so I hope you guys like it lol. Also Happy AAPI Heritage Month ❤💛

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yourusername & cmpulisic

Liked by cmpulisic, kaihavertz, gioareyna and 9,194 others

yourusername: Now this is a sight I could wake up to every day

cmpulisic: you're the only sight I need baby

west.mckennie: ......bro

yourusername: I know I thought we taught him better smh

cp10lover: so beautiful.....oh I guess the trees are nice too

chelseablue: do it for the girlies hit us with those Christian pics

yourusername: 👀👀👀

captainam3rica10: hot girl summer but the summer is only hot bc of the girl

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cmpulisic & yourusername

Liked by yourusername, west.mckennie, benchilwell and 23,850 others

cmpulisic: I really do love me some cake by the ocean 😍

yourusername: I've been working really hard on my butt I really appreciate it 🥺

cmpulisic: oh baby I'll appreciate your ass anytime you want me to 🥵

masonmount: there are children on this app get a room pLEASE

itscalledsoccer: Christian has really been waiting his whole life to use that line 💀

y/nbestbabe: I'm not sure if I'm more jealous of y/n or Christian rn

pulisiclover1: I don't swing that way but I will just for her

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yourusername & cmpulisic

Liked by cmpulisic, baaronson7, kepaarrizabalaga and 10,883 others

yourusername: This place where we're dreaming the same dream is paradise 🥰

cmpulisic: God I'm so in love with you

yourusername: not as much as I am with you ❤

y/nchristiansupremacy: that's it I'm jumping onto the train tracks I can't do this anymore

upthechels: WHEN IS IT MY TURN I'M SO LONELY FFS

Taglist: @neverinadream @pulisicsgirl @masonsrem @masonspulisic @bracedes @lizzypotter14 @notsoattractivearenti @thoseboysinblue @mortirolo @lovelynikol16 @chelseagirl98

#christian pulisic #christian pulisic imagine #christian pulisic x reader #christian pulisic smau #Christian pulisic fluff #swimmingismywholelife

[whinlatter]

Also how do you think ginny and Harry's marital life was? Did they get married early?Did Ginny sometimes resent her husband's profession? As a couple do you think they fought often?

Thanks so much for always replying to all the asks so wonderfully! You're so amazing!!!

I think Harry and Ginny's marital life was happy, of course! I think their marriage was a singular source of stability and renewing joy throughout their adult lives. (can you imagine if I was like... nah, it was garbage, divorce)

Without further ado... here's too many words and thoughts on Harry and Ginny's married life and careers, and some fic recs that have helped shape how I think about it dotted throughout. Come for the twee house descriptions, stay for the rant about neoliberal feminism at the end I guess!

On married life and the Potter household:

I love the idea of the Potters presiding over this ramshackle chaos household in big house near the sea, with a great big garden and treehouse for their kids and the cousins and various pets to maraud about all over the place. I actually think quite a lot about the house they'd be in. I love the idea of them building it from scratch, a big house with modern comforts but rustic, cosy, English country features, more horizontal than vertical (kind of farm/barn conversion vibes). In my mind, their house has lots of light, lots of beams and soft wood furnishings, and then a few quirky features and colours that are all Ginny's idea (Luna paints beautiful murals on each of the kids' walls). I imagine their house has lots of big windows with window seats so the adults can sit out and watch the kids play outside. I think the kitchen/dining room would be the heart of the house. Harry's doing the cooking, Ginny's writing at the table, kids are streaming in and out, it's just a real thoroughfare of teenagers and family friends and grandparents streaming through with the wireless on.

On marrying and having kids young:

I do really think Harry and Ginny got married early and had kids young. As I get older I only get more ok with that as a timescale for them. I think the intensity of their wartime experiences, their very involved role as godparents to Teddy (especially thinking maybe it might be nice for Teddy to have younger god-siblings), and their family reference points (both being from families where marrying young is quite normal, and where babies and toddlers are increasingly around a lot) are all factors that lend themselves to these two locking in in their early twenties. The pieces I love most on their marriage/babies etc are all ones that have a lot of humour and spontaneity and walk this gorgeous line between flippancy and total certainty - acesofdiamond's version of their wedding in Arran, Scotland, is canon to me, and also quickfire by flagpoles, on them having a shotgun wedding, is just so so so good and so them.

On Harry's career:

I think Ginny would understand why Harry chose the career he did, but I think it would be a source of tension for them. I'm thinking a lot about this at the minute for some writing (👀), but I think Harry as an adult would have to confront the fact that he intends to keep choosing to get back in the arena and fight Dark magic, this thing he does it to keep the people he loves safe but that also asks so much of the same loved ones who have to watch him do it. I think Ginny would try to push him to see that, but I don't think those would be easy conversations, and I do think it would be one of the things they argue most about on the occasions when they do, properly, fight. On the day to day, things they bicker over include: whose fault it is that the house is a mess (obviously it's both of them, plus the three messy children those two messy kids created); whose fault it is that the Potters are literally always late to everything (Harry blames Ginny, Ginny says the only reason he was ever on time before was because of Hermione, and he chose not to marry the punctual one so he just has to lump it); and Ginny losing her wand around the house/not keeping her wand on her (it takes Harry a long time to say it, but he's always just thinking of James on the sofa the night he died).

On Ginny's career:

I know this is a bit controversial, but I'm honestly happy with the idea of Ginny quitting playing professional Quidditch young. I think she quits after she has James, or maybe between Albus and Lily, so by the time she's about twenty four, twenty five. This is a bit of a soapbox one for me, and maybe one day I'll write about it in some form, but I think there's quite a lot to be said for freeing yourself from being accountable to career decisions and dreams you once had for yourself when you were seventeen, especially career plans that served as escape hatches from traumatic teen years (for the same reason, I like the idea of Ron quitting the Aurors after a few years). I think, as teenagers, we imagine futures for versions of ourselves we haven't met yet. Renegotiating your hopes and aspirations for yourself can be a real sign of growth; holding yourself hostage to who you thought you'd be can make you very miserable.

Relatedly, I do think Ginny in her mid-twenties might have a different relationship to her playing Quidditch than she has a teen. I think lot of her wanting to play professionally is about her having something to prove (I have also totally adopted the headcanon from this fantastic piece on Ginny wanting to be outdoors and in the air as a rejection of the chamber). It feels right to me that Ginny might reconsider her attitude to physical risk and injury by her mid-twenties, particularly if her children are watching her play an extremely dangerous sport week-in week out. I also think she might reconsider how much time she wants to spend away from her family. I wonder if Ginny would also develop a different relationship to the sport outside of a school context, especially the press scrutiny and the big business of sport on the outside. We know that when she quits playing, it's not the end of her professional life, and I think her writing about the sport, and being a voice in the culture of the sport but also in the Wizarding World at large, makes a ton of sense for her. But I think it's good to change jobs because what you want for yourself changes, and I really think it's not a feminist failing to want to spend time with your family and to look for jobs that are interesting and help give your life meaning but that also let you have a family life. It's boardroom girlboss neoliberal nonsense feminism that says wanting to spend time with your friends and family is less of a route to happiness than climbing up some horrendous hyper-individualist career ladder in pursuit of success (especially, in Ginny's case, in professional sport, where careers only ever end on a downturn).

Thank you anon for wanting to hear me bang on about all of this!

Fics mentioned here include:

dancing on to your heartbeat by aceofdiamonds - H/G wedding fic

quick-fire by flagpoles - H/G proposal and pregnancy fic

Little Sugar Men by dopeythedwarf - H/G, on Ginny and flying

#harry and ginny's house is a beautiful mess because so are its occupants #sorry for the soapbox but i will rant about ginny's career choices until the cows come home #hinny #headcanons #fic rec #thank you anon! #harry x ginny #ginny weasley #harry potter #meta

[caruliaa]

despite the whole theater kid-ness of pokeys i feel like maybe its just me being a certified logan disliker having a more critical view of him but the whole singular voice thing not tolerating anyone elses voices or thoughts is soo logan like hes always wanting to have thomas do his life exactly by his plans and his order yk and ofc they r both dark blue but im trying not to factor the colours into this bc thats so boringgg it should be either about thematic links or vibes. tinky is remus ik theres no time and space link to remus but they both have the same chaotic almost playful in a kinda twisted way energy to them and idk if remus is ever called a bastard in canon but i feel like he is in fanon/by the fandom a lot sooo. roman and nibbly is like soo obvious imo if u dont get hung up on the very weak idea that pokeys theater kid nature means hes roman by defult like i mean beyond being creativity roman is the personification of thomas' dreams and desires and nibbly is a not only the "hungriest" of the lords in black but feeds on the people that have the most passion and desire or need for something. virgil feels like an obvious choice for blinky bc of the idea of like anxiety = being always Watched (and ourple but we arent counting that) but i also cant stop thinking abt the "weve been watching you gracie, someones been a little naughty" line and linking blinky to the idea of failing strict xtian ideas of morality and the belief of always being watched by the xtian god and always being watched by blinky so i almost want to say patton for tht reason (tho iirc pattons whole thing was like catholic upbringing and morality specifcally and grace wld think thats not real xtainty but this aint abt her sorry) but yk there r five lords and six sides so they can share blinky yay. and then janus and wiggy which even tho there isnt really that much of a strong link between them i feel like still rly fits just bc like i feel like they have a similar demeanor in the way they like talk and act i guess and i feel like they both have a conniving nature to them. but all of this could be bs i havent watched tss in so long . but i dont think it is i think im right . okay bye .

#have not thought abt tss outside of chess and them talking abt it with me in soo long. yet had such an urge to assign the sides to the lords #so i DID !!! but i should talk abt the lords just in general more. crazy how i have so many thoughts about media i love bouncing around my #mind and yet im never actaully talking abt them on the Thoughts Abt Media You Love website. why . #anyway im probably never going to post abt tss again. but enjoy this #flappy rambles #sander sides #hatchetfield #the lords in black #pokey #tinky #nibbly #blinky #wiggly #logan sanders #remus sanders #roman sanders #virgil sanders #patton sanders #janus sanders #starkid #tss

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Side B

Propaganda below ⬇️

Kristen

Once known as a Chosen of Helio, Kristen lost faith, found out she was gay, escaped the abusive church, and helps a lonely abused goddess return from the dead and continue the goddess of mystery. She also ends up creating her own god in the middle there, but decides it's kind of super annoying and eventually nopes out.

Kristen might be skirting a couple lines here so I'll provide my reasoning for why I think she might belong in the competition but feel free to choose as you wish. Kristen used to follow Helio, and her entire relationship with religion and Helio is meant to show a story of a queer teen leaving an abusive Christian church (I'm not sure if it's specifically Catholic or not, I'm Jewish and don't really understand the differences very well). Throughout the story Kristen meets Helio, finds out how much of a dick he is, finds out how terrible the Church has been and becomes more aware of how her family and the Church are racist/homophobic/abusive/etc., learns more about the world and breaks her ties with the Church, and then goes to find her own faith and a god worth worshipping.

girl is miserable for so much of the first season. girl is battling the brain demons. girl is battling the actual demons. and the actual angels. and the football coach who she knows from church. girl has brothers named bucky bricker and cork. girl invents a new god and cannot get people to convert to her faith apart from a singular dude named craig because she is so visibly annoyed by her own god. girl is gay and has a werewolf girlfriend. girl is so kinky. girl has a dexterity score of 4. not modifier. score. i'm kissing girl on the mouth i love her a lot.

She was a chosen prophet of Helio but oops she’s a very lesbian and so she has to battle with her faith hating gay people as she realizes she is gay people. Early on dies and goes to heaven and discovers Helio is a frat bro and doesn’t really vibe with that. Eventually dies again and fights past angels to get to Helios office and finds her old principal (who died to resurrect her the first time she died, it’s a long story, watch dimension 20, shits wild). And so he makes a deal to help her if she helps him break out of heaven. And also while she’s in heaven she makes a new god whole cloth out of her current beliefs. (She later finds that god annoying because it’s the embodiment of “YES! WOW! YOU CAN DO IT!!” The god turns from YES! Into Yes? In her changing faith. She later resurrects an old god of dreams who was corrupted). But yeah so she has religious trauma out the wazoo. She went to church camp that was actually a front for a cult within the Helioic faith. Idk if it’s Catholicism exactly cause I’m not catholic but it’s clearly parallel so some real world Christ based religion.

At one point they drop 10 stories because they thought they could use their ribbon to fly. They couldn’t.

her entire arc over fantasy high's first season is realizing she was gay and also that her church and the people in it were basically a cult which like SAMESIES and she does end up going to heaven after dying by slipping on corn and getting incredibly disappointed by the jesus equivalent of her universe (his name is helio and he is a frat boy) and after she's resurrected she makes her own god (not very catholic sorry) and preaches about it (pretty catholic of her tbh.) aside from the religious trauma some other kristen fun facts and highlights are that she once ribbon danced down the center of a spiral staircase and lived, she carried a bible around for a good chunk of her freshman year of high school, and her last name isn't a reference to anything because applebees does not exist in the world of fantasy high.

View more propaganda in her tag

SCP-166

Catholic deer girl. She’s just nature themed. Wants to have access to a Catholic phone line. But is not allowed to due to it risking the possibility of exposing SCPs to the world. But she has a rosary. Just unhinged.

She was just left in a convent and was raised catholic. But I love her because she has the most unhinged father and she's close to getting there istg

#kristen applebees #d20 fantasy high #scp 166 #just a teenage gaea #cct polls #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr polls #Youtube

[kpopnstarwars]

ok but like cover me vibes (basically sad) with medieval!au seungmin - sorry for any completely wrong army terms i didn't do my research

tw: suicidal thoughts, references to war/front lines (medieval tho), death, angst with eventual fluff, loss of loved ones kinda

you had one sweet, surreal week with your seungmin as your husband before he was snatched from your grasp by the call of the battle.

the constant ache of his absence throbs in your chest like a knife's blade. your memories of the short time you had together are blurred at the edges, the happiness they were soaked in seeming uncanny in the midst of the hardships of warfare. they come in flashes to you in the middle of your midnight watch, posted on the castle turrets with your bow: the way he smiled into your kisses, the way his hands cradled your waist, the way he could make your heart stutter and your stomach flip with just a look. the day of your marriage feels as if it was decades ago, when in fact it was only a few months ago.

it shouldn't have been this way. you were both soldiers, but he'd made you promise to stay back and defend the city with the other contingent while his was sent out to fight the invaders. in return, he gave you his word that he would stay safe, but you both knew there was never any way of confirming that. you cried, sobbed, begged, but he was obstinate that you stay away from the front lines and that he go in your stead.

truly, you can't blame him for that; you'd wish the same if in his place.

you know he longs for you the same way you long for him.

correction: you know he longed for you the same way you long for him. because a letter arrived exactly a month ago, reporting him missing in action. you had stared at the official seal on the letter until it began to blur with your tears. you're a soldier, you know that 'missing in action' just means that they couldn't find his body; you know that he's as good as dead - more letters arrived the weeks after that, and they'd heard nothing. surviving after being reported missing in action would be a miracle, and you don't dare let yourself hope.

you know your seungmin. you know he would have fought until his very last breath to get back to you.

a tear slices down your cheek, and the cold wind that swirls around the top of the castle walls turns it ice cold. you wish for nothing more than to have been there on the front lines with him when it happened, so you could have died with your husband, the only one you had worth living for, by your side.

you've considered joining him many times. in the dead of night, while you're on watch on the castle walls, you've thought too often about leaning forward and pitching yourself from the turrets, but you can't. you're too much of a coward.

the sun begins to show itself, appearing on the horizon and limning the lands below you in golden light. you want to scream at it for rising when he's gone, but you can't even draw enough breath into your lungs for that; the knowledge that he's gone is suffocating, killing you slowly, smothering your heart and letting it wither in your hollow chest. your fingernails dig into the aged limestone of the battlements, and you wish that you could crumble away into the dust under your hands.

and then you see it.

you see them.

first, they're just a darker patch on the horizon, fuzzy at the edges due to the rolling mist, but with the rising sun, they inch closer, not walking in formation, their armour dull and their steps weary, but their faces triumphant. desperately, you want to look away - you know he won't be there. you know he's gone, and yet you can't tear your eyes away, searching frantically for his familiar form. tears well up in your eyes - frustrated, you swipe them away, praying to the gods you know, pleading to anything: the warm sun, the limestone beneath your hands, the soil that the approaching men walk upon.

your heart stops.

no.

no.

it can't be him.

can it?

you scramble down from the castle tower, a singular thought in your mind: seungmin. your officer attempts to stop you at the drawbridge; you shoulder past him - you need to get to your husband. you need to see if it's him.

sprinting forward, you fix your eyes on his figure. as you approach, you become more certain; he's covered in blood and limping, and one of his arms is held in a sling, but his head is held high - you could recognise him anywhere.

tears begin to stream down your cheeks as you get closer. you see the moment he spots you, because he opens his arms and his face lights up, brighter than the receding stars, brighter than the rising sun. weeping, you launch yourself the last few feet, and seungmin catches you despite all his injuries, twirling you around like he did at the first dance of your wedding. you don't dare unlock your arms from around his neck when he sets you down for fear that he'll be ripped away from you again, and he cradles you to his chest; sobs wrack your body as you fist his shirt in your hands, pressing your face into his shoulder and breathing in his scent, still there underneath the grime.

'seungmin,' you whisper, cupping his cheeks and bringing your forehead to his. 'my seungmin.'

he smiles, eyes wet. one hand holds the back of your head, fingers entwined in your hair, the other clasping your waist, pulling you infinitely closer, tucking you tightly to him. leaning in, he fits his mouth against yours, speaking against your lips.

'my wife.'

stray kids taglist: @sleepyleeji

#ficlets #seungmin #kim seungmin #stray kids #skz #stray kids seungmin #skz seungmin #seungmin x reader #seungmin x y/n #medieval!au #medieval!au skz #stray kids!au #skz au #stray kids au #angst #fluff #cover me #cover me stray kids #seungmin cover me #cover me seungmin #cover me skz

[star2fishmeg]

ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ ғᴀᴄᴇ

Pairing: Todoroki Yosuke x f!reader

Summary: ah, Oya High! The bane of y/n's existence! Why? Because she hated Todoroki's guts, or does she?

Warnings: enemies to lovers, swearing, degrading language, fluffy ig?

Authors Notes: I bet Yosuke could actually treat someone so well if he had charisma

Requests: @shiropatootie

She lay sprawled out on her bed, phone pressed against her ear listening to her brother ask a 'small favour'. The weather had taken a turn that afternoon, the heavens opening to rain with a dash of doom and gloom in the atmosphere, and her brother left for Oya the morning without an umbrella.

She groaned, rolling onto her back, "Ew why should I?...No, what if he's there? I can't stand his face, it's so condescending and he just haaas to be wherever I am," She exasperated, ending the call after giving in to his whines. It was true, l/n y/n and Todoroki Yosuke hadn't gotten along since the day they met, which, by the way, was an absolute nightmare. She called him ugly, he called her pig-like, she pulled his hair, he punched her, you get the gist. Now they avoid each other, truly repulsed by each other's presence.

♡

The worst thing about miserable weather and Oya High was that everyone seemed to cram into the school at once, congesting every possible hallway. Y/n, being a female, ducked and weaved through, clutching the umbrella in her fist, grumbling profanities as she barged through towards her sibling's common spot (which was just another manky classroom with a couple torn sofas in and porn posters on the walls). Times like these made her wish she didn't have a day off, she liked her job anyway, but dealing with a school full of men was not the vibe.

Sliding the door with vigour, she pelted the umbrella at her brother, who was lounged out on a sofa in the corner, "Ow, what the fuck, y/n?" He whined, rubbing his chest where the item collided.

Folding her arms, she cocked a brow, "You asked, you shall recieve. You're such a dumbarse, next time, don't even call." She turned on her heel to make the trek through the halls again, fighting off the yelling when her exit was blocked. Tall, slender, uniform worn perfectly? "Fuck outta my way, ugly."

Smirking, Todoroki stepped closer, sliding the door shut behind him. "I don't think you'd want to walk home in that," He pointed to the storm outside, he was correct, with that wind no-one would be able to walk in a singular direction. It was a miracle the school was still holding. "So you're stuck here, little bitch."

"I'd rather be run over by Lemura," the speed she had walked away was unlike other, even the guy who was sat next to her brother moved so she could sit in his place. If there was one fight nobody wanted to see, it was Todoroki vs. Y/n, that was ugly. "I'm going to sleep, wake me up when the storms over."

Needless to say that she did wake up, but laying down with a ratty blanket tucked to her chin. Eyes fluttering open, vision blurry and eyes sore, she pushed herself up and used her nails to comb through her hair. The room had emptied, but the roars from some sort of fight travelled through the ground floor obnoxiously. She rubbed her eyes, vision clearing only to see his figure slouched on the sofa opposite the room - legs spread in that seductive way men sit, manspreading but as if they're waiting for you to sit on them. They remained dead silent, not a sound except shuffling, breathing and a lot of eye contact and thick air strangling them.

He was too smug, "Good afternoon, you look like shit. Sleep well?" God Todoroki's voice was so taunting, and unfortunately it was still storming outside, only worsening as now the wind was howling.

"What are you still doing here? Thought you would've left me since you enjoy my suffering." She mumbled, throwing the blanket over the back of the sofa and collapsing back into the cushion.

Todoroki scoffed, unfolding his arms and slinging one over the back of the sofa, "Wasn't gonna leave you alone in this place, are you stupid? And I like teasing you, it's fun."

"But why? You hate me why don't you just get one of your lackies to supervise so you can go off and I don't know, assert your dominance? Makes me think you like me." She mocked, turning her head to watch the rubble outside fly across the courtyard. It was such a shithole, how it was still standing was indescribable, how it was sanity was impossible, she didn't ever ask about the bathroom hygiene situation.

"I never said I hated you. If I hated you, well you simply wouldn't exist to me." Y/n's head snapped around in shock, eyebrows raised in disbelief at his words.

She blinked twice as to process the situation, "So that's why you follow me? Because you actually like me? As a person?" She leant forward, elbows on her knees.

He mimicked her posture, "You could say that. You're very entertaining and fiesty, I like it. And you pack one hell of a punch when pissed off." Y/n sighed, flopping back again and rubbing her face. Initially she thought he was just playing, but he would've dropped it by now and made some sort of rude remark about her. He was right though, the last time she had punched him, his skin bruised purple, and quite frankly, she wanted to punch him again.

"Don't make me punch that pretty face of yours, 'Doroki, maybe it'll knock some sense into you." She continued to whinge, only provoking his unstoppable habit of teasing. Surprisingly, he stood up and strode across the room. The sofa dipped, but y/n didn't turn her head too quickly, feeling his hot breath in her perimeters. One unexpected feature about Todoroki was that his hands were smooth and soft, and these hands gently pulled her hands away from her face and softly tilted her chin up to lock eyes.

"So I'm pretty now? Have you been lying? That's not what good girls do, is it?" He mumbled, the space between them getting smaller with noses just grazing, "Come on, y/n, let's be honest. Neither of us actually enjoy fighting like this."

"Yosuke, if you're gonna kiss me just shut up and do it. Don't be a pussy." She spat, gripping the collar of his jacket and fusing their lips together. He cupped her cheek, returning the sweetness of the kiss. It wasn't anything deep, it was closed but he could taste her cherry chapstick, the same one that flustered him everytime she puckered her lips after applying it. He didn't even mind if it transferred to his, as long as he could taste her forever. They pulled back slowly, eyes fluttering opening but never leaving the intense gaze. His fingers traced from her cheek to her tingling lips, the pad of his thumb nestling on her bottom lip,

"We don't speak of this...unless in private." He smirked, the teasing of his tone melting off his lips like honey.

"The more you keep taking and looking like you're gonna devour me, the more likely I am to do it again."

"Bet."

[Masterlist]

#high&low #highandlow #h&l #yosuke todoroki #todoroki yosuke #todoroki yosuke x reader #high&low x reader

[oldsargasso]

YOUR WIP SNIPPET I’M GONNA FALL DOWN!!!

Kenta sitting there and waiting with Kim is so cute to me, Kim’s “are you fucking kidding me” look is HILARIOUS, and oh my god Kenta just tell him you want him to grab you by the collar.

That’s a really good point, especially when it comes to their relationship with Kim. It’s easier to accept someone’s flaws when it’s not you they’ve hurt, and when they didn’t target you specifically. Like how long does it take Kim to process what he went through? Does he have dreams about Winner standing over his body? There’s a level of physical trust that has to be built up from below zero. Winner went out of his way to beat on Kim when he was down (and maybe part of him was bitter that Kim hadn’t embraced him as a teammate, and angry that the person who always turned him into a kicked puppy was so easily reduced to nothing, like “You’re supposed to be better than this. Get up,” kind of complicated, misplaced, nasty feelings). 

Another thing I’ve been thinking about in regards to guilt and penance is Kenta and Dean’s relationship, and the way Kenta pushed Dean down the wrong path? I don’t think Dean would particularly blame him—it was his own choice (unless it turns out that Kenta knew Charlie’s death was gonna be faked and let Dean take the fall for it. In which case there would be a lot of anger, since Dean was already upset about being blamed for something he didn’t do).

But I think Kenta would probably blame himself (when does he not), since Dean would never have done anything if Kenta hadn’t suggested it, if Kenta hadn’t seen him as a set of dominoes ready to topple over. I think it’s something they’d probably fight about and would tie into Dean’s issues with wanting Kenta’s respect.

Oh yes Winner you are such a martyr it is sooo terrible to have to sit there and watch all of that glorious action; whatever would they do without you? 😆

Oh Dean. He’s never not gonna make me hurt. I am NOT ready to talk about him and Alan again ahdjfjfja it is so tragic!!!

How DO they all get together SHFJFJF THAT’S SUCH A GOOD POINT. It’s honestly probably very messy and convoluted, given all of their histories and Winner’s resistance to even caring about anyone. I think things would happen between some of them more easily than others. I will think some thoughts on this. 

I am. Not Optimistic about all four of them surviving. LOL. 😬😬😬 But I am prepared to fully ignore some things that happen and and live in canon divergent land ahdjfkfj. I had the SAME thought about Dean, like oh at least he’s safe behind bars! (The episode may have aired by the time this gets posted so I may already be in “lalala ignoring this” land”)

(WINNERDEAN FIC!!!! 🥺🥺🥺)

WAY HAS A CAR DEALERSHIP AS A SIDE HUSTLE 😭😭😭 Winner at least podiums during the races, so maybe he gets a modest amount of winnings? Idk how racing works BUT I do think he has family money. Like he absolutely has those entitled vibes, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he comes from a racing family as well. 

THE SAME GYM, THE SAME LOCKER ROOM, AND THE SAME BAR. Like I know the city is not that small, why are they always up each other’s asses hmmm (homo reasons)

I just keep imagining all the ways it would go down. it's so dependant for me on how well Kim and Kenta knew each other BEFORE. did they meet that singular time Tony came to watch a race? or was Kenta doing like, personal assistant type stuff and helping Kim get settled in? I can't get past the look they share as Kim is taken away it's SO charged and speaks to a bit of an established relationship (of any sort). but yes Kim should grab Kenta by the collar. both of his shirt and the one Kim's gonna give him.

oof I feel like we haven't discussed Kim's trauma from being held captive and beaten up at all, how have we missed this!! it's definitely the way Winner went about it, bitter and vindictive exactly as you say. like when we first meet Winner and Kim in the gym they're aligned together but very quickly Kim is like "um no" - we see him very much against Winner employing dirty tricks but he's also aggressively not on team Winner before that even. if only we had gotten a handful more scenes of Red Racing before everything kicked off! the guys in the garage Winner's drinking with seem to support him, so he's not the worst all the time. but yes to everything you said! there is a huge gulf between where they have to come from to where we most often place them all together. I guess that's the more difficult part of their story and not half as fun to discuss as them all navigating an actual relationship lol.

wasn't it Kenta who sabotaged Babe's car the other time? he got caught on the cameras but literally only by Kim, who's locked up at the time Charlie's car gets sabotaged. couldn't he just. do it again?and also HOW did Kenta know to go to Dean for that? (my headcanon is Winner introducing Dean to Tony as a like, here's a guy who could be on our team kinda thing. like someone had to know to exploit Dean.) anyway YES. Kenta would blame himself and him taking all the blame of it is taking away Dean's agency. because he DID make that choice - he didn't think it was going to kill Charlie but it was always a risk, car racing is not the safest sport at the best of times. it would tie in very well with the age-related respect issues; Kenta reducing Dean's role in it all is akin to treating him like a child, like he doesn't know enough to know what he did was bad. so far Dean's the only one who's faced actual consequences for his actions!

honestly I can see it starting with any permutation of the four of them lol. I often default to it happening WinnerDean + KimKenta -> all four (after various mixing of three of them) - probably the only way I can't see it happening first is WinnerKenta lol. although that would be the most toxic way to kick of this toxic polycule.

Winner is the one I'm most nervous about since he's a true villain in the piece but I'm Very Concerned about a Kenta self-sacrifice play. but yeah I will be joining you in canon-divergent land if anything actually happens to these four. BEYOND what already has lmao we gotta get Dean out of jail.

(SOMEONE has to write winnerdean fic we are starving. I gotta stop using all my words and energy on these asks lmao but I'm having so much fun)

we have now discussed rich kid Winner in our third simultaneously occurring pit babe-related conversation on this website lmao. at some point in the near future I am gonna go through and collect all the exchanges we have had and put them all together.

FOR REALLL though, x hunter seems to despise Winner yet at no point was anyone like "should we go somewhere he won't be?" of course not. surely I am not the only one who believes one of the reasons Winner hates Babe is because he got rejected by him.

#asks #pit babe #pit babe polycule #I have chronic fatigue which is why I say it's using my words and energy #PLEASE do not take that as a suggestion to stop blessing me with these asks #anyway I am about to go to bed and when I wake up pit babe will be over 😭😭😭 #I'M NOT READY

[princess-of-the-corner]

If Steven Universe was in the crossover would Ben be able to transform into & Scan Gems, amd would he be able to fix corruption with the genetic fix thing he has in the Omnitrix.

Good question!

So the question here depends on if Gems have DNA, as their bodies are hard-light projections and their 'gem' is inorganic. While we can't use Rose as an example due to other shapeshifters not having DNA but mimicking it(like Anodites), Word of God says that Gems do have DNA! Ofc stored in their Gem.

So yes, Ben could transform into the Gems!

The real question is whether the Omnitrix would recognize all Gems as a singular species giving us whatever form Ben vibes with, or would they count as sub-species so he has a Ruby!Ben, Diamond!Ben, Emerald!Ben, etc. Personally I think that each Gem is distinct enough to be a sub-species, so if he goes through and scans every gem he'd suddenly have a LOT of new transformations.

Fusions wouldn't count as separate sub-species though, just a combination of other species. So he couldn't scan Garnet and get her abilities. However, as a Gem, he'd be able to fuse with other Gems.

As for corruption!

This depends on if the Corruption is DNA-based. Which.... it's hard to say because we don't quite know what exactly the corruption is. We know how it happened, but even the Diamonds are baffled by the result. Best guess is something along the lines of the fact that Gems are beings of light and sound, and the corruption has distorted those making their bodies monstrous and their thoughts scrambled.

I think Ben would have an easier time using that function on the cluster experiments. Though he wouldn't be able to heal them completely as he can't fix the shattered Gems, he would be able to un-fuse them

[spotsupstuff]

If it’s alright with you, I’d love to hear more about your version of Chasing Wind! I absolutely love the idea of half the city being inside their can, and all the cool stuff in the surrounding area, and her design!

awww shit i don't have MANY Wind thoughts she's mostly in the bg. but i'm gon try n scramble for smth for u, captn

to her design, a few small facts! they are the iterator who's design has probably changed the least since i've first made one for them two years ago

her design is HEAVILY inspired by @/inkycorvid, especially the earrings!!! praised be the elder sage for big brain design thoughts

her current outfit is based off of the Rattanakosin dress of Thailand! (simplified to hell n back cuz gods i do have to limit myself Somehow with this kinda stuff else my hand goes caput 🙏. i still have yet to really get the outfit down properly tbh)

the city being half within them and their citizens genuinely loving them lead to Wind becoming SOMETHING of a teacher to the side of her main jobs as an Iterator. this is mostly the case because i sent this vid to shkika sayin "my Wind vibes" and she replied with

so now i'm fucked up about it, because this fucca -points at the screenshot- is SO right about that, that WOULD happen. Wind is SO fuckin excited about teachin kids funky stuff like that. Full of Energy

their holy characterization formula is "good-looking jolly young teacher in either kindergarten or first few years of elementary school who knows martial arts" she looks like an absolute sweetheart but can put a man into an involuntary nap with singular karate chop. like she's still a pushover but at some point the hands start flyin

a city within the iterator is practically unheard of

Wind LOVES their interjections. like every other sentence is gonna have an "oh!" "ah!" "hah!" or smth of the like in it. i didn't headcanon this on purpose she just started doing it herself in her dialogue so i guess that's her Thing now

their positive attitude towards everything ever and their love of kids brought them close to Nish. these two together in one room is like LED headlights on a car. they are so fucking bright you're gonna go blind within seconds

nobody knows how- least of all Suns- but Wind ended up growing very fond of and close to Suns. they converse theory and go through simulations together a lot, when Wind's communications aren't down because of the tornadoes. if this was one of those AUs where the iterators, as their puppets, just hang around, those two would be like constantly at each other's hip. often subconsciously. they are like that one fuckin char dynamic meme

[some nasty stuff under the cut. you have been warned- it's nothing Particularly graphic but the imagery is Not Fun]

Wind is like the only iterator who took Suns' degression into their Hot Girl Summer arc ""well"" cuz she's just tryin so so hard to be positive to the point of blinding herself to bad things completely later down the line. even Nish was wigged about The Hot Girl Summer arc. The Hot Girl Summer arc is Not A Good Thing

ignoring Suns' drama: Wind's voice gets shot at some point and as result it becomes reverbated. the reverbs get worse when she's in distress

#Spot says stuff #rw #you have some Incredible timing anon hot damn #i was talking to shkika about my GW n also decided to add Wind into that rizz ask and then u came in JKGDSLMCLK

[stardomtrash]

Stardom 2024 predictions a la "3 Count"

If you guys haven't seen the WrestleTalk series "3 Count" I highly recommend it. Basically, it's predicting something, or looking back on something, and describing it in three words or less. I wanted to use that format to give my Stardom predictions for 2024. I can look back on these next year and see how many I got right :) Feel free to comment your own or give your thoughts!

Some of these are a little more lacklustre than others. For example, I had nothing for Ruaka to do XD You'll see that a bunch, ones that have the vibe of "creative has nothing for you".

Some of these might be '''controversial'''??? I don't know, but it's all meant in good humour, so please don't @ me with slander cos you disagree with me XD I don't think the Stardom/wrestling community is like that at all honestly, it should go without saying, but nevertheless :)

2023 was a tricky year for Stardom, so I'm hoping for some great improvements and more awesome content in 2024!

Overall unit

Oedo Tai: Never taken seriously

STARS: Consistently consistent wrestling

Cosmic Angels: Reabsorbs Club Venus

DDM: Dissolves/is rebranded

Gods Eye: Gets slightly goofier

Queen’s Quest: Reliable workhorse faction

Club Venus: The experiment failed

Queen’s Quest

Utami Hayashishita: Grows hair long :(

AZM: Kid match - showstopper

Saya Kamitani: Challenges Maika. Loses

Hina: 2023’s most improved?

Lady C: Gets better gear

Miyu Amasaki: DDTs for everyone!

STARS

Mayu Iwatani: Drops IWGP belt

Hanan: Unsuccessful Artists challenge

Saya Iida: Fun multiman spots

Hazuki: Grand Prix winner

Koguma: Stuck in midcard

Momo Kohgo: Joins Cosmic Angels

Oedo Tai

Natsuko Tora: Cuts amazing promos

Ruaka: Bonks with box

Rina: Loses title - Hanako

Fukigen Death: Multiple rumble entries

Starlight Kid: Still not pushed

Momo Watanabe: Reliable heel workhorse

DDM

Giulia: Leaves for America

Maika: Creates own faction

Thekla: Stays in undercard :(

Mai Sakurai: Character continues improving

Cosmic Angels

Tam Nakano: Returns. Retirement road…

Natsupoi: Returns. Wins Cinderella

Saori Anou: Holds belt ages

Yuna Mizumori: Does pineapple things?

Gods Eye

Syuri: Kisses more girls

Saki Kashima: Consistently funniest wrestler

Mirai: Learns promo skills

Ami Sohrei: Thanks for coming

Konami: Returns full time

Club Venus

Mina Shirakawa: Reignites Tam feud

Waka Tsukiyama: 1 singular win

Independent

Suzu Suzuki: Faction with Maika

Hanako: Joins Gods Eye

Mei Seira: Joins Stars maybe?

Aya Sakura: Joins Stars too?

Yuzuki: More pro matches

#trash's trash rambles

[thechaoscryptid]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. spread the self-love ❤

Thanks for thinking of me, nonnie 🥰 This was actually a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, picking 5?? It was a good excercise in remembering I actually do like a lot of my past catalogue lmfao

The summaries got kinda long and I also wanted to do a little commentary on each so I'm gonna put the full post under a cut but the short list is:

Singularity (Shigadabi)

i've looked for love in every stranger (to get to you) (Sylvix)

Hello, My Name Is Human (Odazai)

Divinity (Matchablossom)

Blur (Sheith)

Singularity | ShigaDabi | General

Alpha Arietis dies in a brilliant storm, spraying billions of years’ worth of accumulated gas and matter through the cosmos as it collapses in on itself. Great fingers of dust reach toward the endless abyss, and cradled in the palm of the cooling nebula, a godling sleeps. His heart is white-hot and aching, all the pain of his progenitor’s end pulsing through him as he curls in on himself. The gazes of the other gods weigh heavily on him as the universe swims into focus. Their whispers ripple across galaxies to wash over his still-tender form, awakening in him an anger that beams into the darkness as his eyes open, twin crimson spheres cutting through the endless night.

This was such a fun style experiment!! I wrote it for a zine and it was by far the shortest fic bc I decided to go with the dialogue-less option; it felt better suited to the space vibe.

I looked up so many astronomy facts for this too, which was fun bc I'm a bit of a space bitch (even though I probably fucked it all up for the ~narrative~ lmao). Did you know! Beta Capricorni, one of the stars in Capricorn (Dabi's sign and mine - we share a birthday, and it is my favorite BNHA factoid), is commonly known as Dabih, derived from an Arabic legend saying Beta Capricorni and Alpha Capricorni, aka Algedi, were "the lucky stars of a slaughterer."

I really really want to dive further into the concept of gods being birthed from dying stars at some point - there's so much I didn't get to in this fic just bc of limits and themes and such, but I think it's fucking cool even if it's not popular.

i've looked for love in every stranger (to get to you) | Sylvix | Explicit

“Yeah. Listen, Fe, I’m sor—” “Don’t,” Felix says. When Sylvain opens his mouth to protest, Felix cuts him off. “Seriously, don’t. I don’t want your apologies.” Sylvain arches a brow. “I just want you—” (And oh, those words on their own are nearly enough to unwind that barbed wire, but somehow it hurts worse knowing it’s not what Felix really means.) “—to be better.” Felix takes a deep breath, turns to the kitchen counter, and fiddles for a second too long with the tabs on the pizza boxes. “I hate watching you hurt yourself.”

Man, where do I start with this one. I picked at this fic for over a year and a half before deciding to finish it for a bang, and I'm so happy about how it turned out. One theme that shows up a lot in my writing is "love is an action and a choice," and I think this fic showcases that beautifully.

Sylvain's so fucked up here and I love him so much. This timestamp from the middle of a breakdown and subsequent guilt about said breakdown just...really hits home. And Felix being there - CHOOSING to remain there - through that one and all previous ones? clenches fist They're in love, your honor.

I just think it's important to show that being kind of a shitty person doesn't preclude you from being loved, nor should it.

Hello, My Name Is Human | Odazai | Mature

“No need for sorry,” Oda says, the words automatic. “That’s not your place.” It’s the wrong thing to say, comes out nothing like he’d intended. Dazai flinches as though he’s been shot, curling up into himself and away from Oda before scrambling to his feet. There’s no easy grace in his movements today, only a quick, jerky retreat before Oda comes to his senses and darts after him. He wraps a hand around Dazai’s forearm to tug him back, and there’s nothing but rawness in Dazai’s eye when he turns around. “Let me go,” he says icily. “It’s not your place.”  “Dazai.” “Fuck off,” Dazai mutters, shrugging Oda’s hand away. “I’ll go die alone, then. In my place.” “Hey,” Oda says, soft as anything as Dazai’s turned half away. He holds his palms out, the same way he would for a stray or lost child. Dazai takes a shuddering breath. “I’m sorry,” he continues. “Your place-” “An executive doesn’t have a place,” Dazai says. “A weapon doesn’t need one.”

This was the spiritual precursor to in the morning i'll be with you, and upon rereading, I realized I wrote pretty much the same fic twice 😅 There's just something that hits EVERY time about softness in the face of bluntness about doing and wanting terrible things. I chose this one instead of in the morning because of one of the places the two fics diverge, actually.

In this fic, Oda actually says "I love you" to Dazai and Dazai does not take it well, and it feels important to me that not every I love you is received with an equally passionate "omg I love you too." But like I said for the Sylvix above, it's also important that it's expressed, even if it hurts or isn't received or reciprocated.

Divinity | MatchaBlossom | Explicit

“I don’t need anyone,” Kaoru whispers. He’s always been good at making bad decisions when it comes to Kojiro; this is another in a long line of failures and he’s not willing to admit yet that maybe Adam fucked him up past the point of no return. “It’s fine,” he mumbles when he hears Kojiro shifting. He’s too afraid to watch him walk away. “You can just go.” And instead of leaving, Kojiro shuffles forward and hugs him. Kaoru is surrounded by impossibly gentle arms and the scent of pine, and though he’s used to the latter, he hasn’t been touched like this in a long, long time. “I’m not going to go,” Kojiro says softly. His face is buried in Kaoru’s shoulder, lips warm where they brush across his skin. “I’d say sorry, but I’m not, Kaoru. I don’t want to.”

God this fic actually kickstarted my writing motor after being really burnt out and plateaued on skill for a while. While it's not my most technically skilled fic (I don't think any on this list are, tbh?), it was fun to write and it's still fun to read.

I loved being able to take a softer turn with Kaoru's anxiety as opposed to some of the harder mental health issues I'm used to expressing in my writing. And Matchablossom were really just out there on screen being Like That at all moments, huh? Their dynamic is just such a joy to play with, whether it's softer like this or harder like some of my other SK8 fics.

Blur | Sheith | Mature

“Everything I’ve done, everything I’ve made of myself, and it still isn’t enough. You know they always said shoot for the stars? I didn’t just shoot, Shiro, I helped save those stars. Where is there to go from there? There’s no coming back down to Earth after you’ve seen realities collapse around you. There’s no normal.” “It doesn’t need to be normal,” Shiro says. “I WANT normal!” Keith’s chest heaves, throat raw with the force of his insistence as his truth is birthed into the world. Twenty-five years’ worth of longing shake themselves loose from inside him and when they bleed out, so does his energy. He sinks to his knees, shaking as he repeats the words again and again. “I want normal. I want to be normal, Shiro, why can’t I be normal?”

This fic is just 9k of me bleeding my truth onto the screen, I'll be real (it should also be stated my self-destructive behaviors aren't physically harmful, that's artistic license). It hurt to write and it hurts to reread bc not much has changed in the years since I wrote it, but it's good, and I stand by the rawness of the narration. Dealing with a personality disorder and suicidal ideation (especially unmedicated and without therapy - bitches be rawdogging reality and I'm bitches) fucking blows. It's exhausting, and it makes you feel inhuman.

This scene especially knocked a few realizations loose for me, bc I don't remember writing it; my head just shut off, and then I looked at the page and went "ah. Oh dear. This feels like something I need to unpack, huh." And here we are, several years later, still unpacking lmao

#asks answered #anonymous #my writing #self rec #shigadabi #sylvix #odazai #matchablossom #sheith

[sleep-deprived-loki]

Getting slowly back into Norse Mythology instead of actively avoiding it, I must say, its incredibly liberating to just allow myself to read it without judgement of my feelings. I used to be afraid of the sense of familiarity and the strange feelings that would surface, but i know why now. It's quite funny actually, because I could be reading seriously and intently and then I'd see stuff about Hel or Fenrir and start smiling lmao.

When I used to read about Ragnarok, I'd envision Fenrir breaking free and just trampling on everything and eating everything while Hati and Skoll go feral and the hordes of the dead pouring out and I just see myself pushing through the crowd (that's getting killed or eaten) and yelling "that's my boy! >:D" and cheering. It's one of those intrusive thoughts that just pops out of nowhere but it makes me laugh every time. It's like that time I dreamt that I (as Loki when the myths were the present) escaped from the uh eternal punishment, yada yada, burst into the Aesir's meeting and kicked down the door like "HA GUESS WHO IS BACK MFS". Odin's stoic deadpan expression makes me laugh so hard even now ahaj and then Baldur, who in my dream was the twinkiest femboy, gave me a crushing hug and said "Welcome Back Loki :D!" Despite me having attempting to murder him in the past 💀

Most of my dreams are norse mythology related and I often look like my internal image of spiritual Loki and actually do serious things and thinking but occasionally my dream would be THAT, I smiled an entire day after that dream. No idea where that came from, but not complaining.

Alsotoclarifyimnotsayingthesearememoriesorevenmildlyaccuratetheyrejustfunnyweirdassintrusivethoughtsanddreamssomeofmydreamsitreasurebecauseiseethemmoreasactualmemoriesbutthensomeofthemarejustlikethis

I love being otherkin sometimes, can be serious, hard, frustrating and anxiety inducing but it can also be silly. Oh well. Not that I can choose not to ,_, been there tried that.

(Think I'll keep posting thoughts like this in an attempt to slowly make sense of being deitykin as well as pagan. To me it feels as if I've always been pagan - can feel it in my bones, just got a religion assigned to me when I was born that I kind of like but don't vibe with much to be honest. Anyway, after Internet scouring, I've found pretty much nothing about being deitykin and pagan or even just detailed deitykin stuff besides from the definition and a bit of elaboration so I'm going to start my own, maybe it'll help other people someday, or at least make them feel like they're not alone. That seems to be quite a theme for alterhumans, especially deities, oh god, the resources are like one singular dry tumbleweed)

#deitykin #godkin #otherkin #alterhuman #divinekin

[waywardsculs]

THE ANGELS

CUPID / EROS

Role: Patron of Love and Romance Ranking: Higher Echelons ( Nobility )

Responds to both Cupid and Eros, but his " true " name is Eros.

Very, very friendly and easy to approach. Super outgoing and probably the best of the angels to just have a general conversation with.

Genuinely believes that things like sex shouldn't be looked upon as a sin so long as it's consensual.

This little turd is so damn dense when it comes to literally anyone having an interest in him at all. He may help govern love but him?? Loved?? Naaaaah.

Bow? Nope. This boy has a sniper rifle. Much more accurate for his work honey.

Omnisexual babyyyyy

He legit has almost no brain cells okay he's just an emotional guy with lots of love to give and thinks pretty much everyone deserves some form of love. ( of course there are exceptions but shhh )

GABRIEL

Role: Messenger of Heavenly Decrees Ranking: Primordial One ( Original Archangel )

He is probably one of the laziest of the primordial angels. Why? Because it's not like the big G gives him many messages to hand out.

He doesn't really care all that much about a lot of things. He's seen so much shit that next to nothing surprises him any more.

What did surprise him however was hearing about the Exterminations. He didn't vibe with that.

Over time, he's actually come to think the whole thing of Heaven and Hell is kinda ... Ridiculous. Not that you'll get him to ever admit it.

He may seem chill but he'd literally trade someone's soul for a singular corn chip if they pissed him off enough.

He's a shit to the other primordials by sometimes purposely telling them bullshit just to watch them argue.

Demi, kinda leaning closer to Grey - Ace.

RAPHAEL

Role: Protector and Guide to New Souls Ranking: Primordial One ( Original Archangel )

Shortest temper of the primordial angels. Will not hesitate to smack others upside the head for misbehaving.

He does that but at the same time he's also someone that pushes limits at times just to see what the others will do.

Trained in multiple weapons. For what reason? Don't worry about it. It's not important I promise.

Was one of the few who knew about the Exterminations, warned about what would happen if others found out, but didn't really try to stop anything.

Doesn't involve him? Cool knock yourself out he'll sit back with popcorn and laugh as you dive face first into the mud.

Kind of an ass. No other way to put it.

Pan.

SERAPHIEL

Role: Grand Vizier of God Ranking: King of the Angels

He and his wife no longer talk. Or see each other at all. Don't mention her.

His daughters are literally the most important thing in his world and he'll fuck you up if you ever do anything to hurt them.

Probably the busiest, even more so than most of the primordials.

Eternally fucking tired please just let him rest for once ...

He had absolutely no idea about the Exterminations and, despite what some might think, is absolutely against them.

While he doesn't really like the idea of violence, he can and will throw down if need be.

Can you say single dad? ( yes he's down for a new spouse )

Demi. Stressed Demi.

URIEL

Role: Mediator of the Angels Ranking: Primordial One ( Original Archangel )

If you guessed Uriel would be the one that has the highest interest in Hell's denizens you would be absolutely correct.

He's slept with a couple of demons tbh. Don't tell anyone this. Not like he'll really get in that much trouble but still.

Genuinely misses Lucifer's presence in Heaven. He used to enjoy hearing what thoughts ran through the other's mind.

What if I told you he was always secretly fond of Lucifer but never said anything because he didn't want to risk anything.

Literally the brains of the primordials that are still in Heaven.

Omni. Has been single since the beginning of time. Softest boi until he needs to throw hands.

#SLAM DUNKS EM DOWN. #┊CUPID ═══ ✧ in character #┊GABRIEL ═══ ✧ in character #┊RAPHAEL ═══ ✧ in character #┊SERAPHIEL ═══ ✧ in character #┊URIEL ═══ ✧ in character

[mystery-moose]

DEATH STRANDING (Feb 27th)

In my quest to write down thoughts about art this year, I recently completed Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding for the first time! I had started it twice already, but stalled out both times because I got distracted or moved onto other things.

Kojima has always been a problematic fave of mine, but Death Stranding might be my problematic favoritest of his work.

The raw gameplay loop is as perfectly calibrated, engaging, and compelling as it was when I first played it back in 2019. It is, as Tim Rogers put it, the Gran Turismo of walking simulators, though I would probably put it more accurately as “the world’s best hiking and logistics simulator.” Trekking across Icelandic wastelands and haunted volcanic plains and up and down mountains is alternately so meditative and so tense that even after a cumulative hundred hours in my save file I was still doing optional deliveries just because I enjoy traversing the world. It’s so singular and unique in the thing it’s attempting to do, and in particular with the atmosphere it’s trying to cultivate, that I can say honestly that I’ve never played anything like it. And that’s a wild thing to say about a game with a big budget these days!

But that’s what you get with Kojima. Especially with Kojima these days, unfettered by corporate oversight or monetary concerns. He wants to communicate something, and by god he’s going to do that whether you or anyone likes it or not. That’s a big reason he’s gotten the reputation he has today. And we can argue about auteurship and how it’s bullshit in collaborative mediums all day (and that’s a fine argument to have) but it’s not like Kojima didn’t put in the hours -- the dude’s been making games since 1986, and been a project lead since ‘87. We can say he got lucky once, maybe twice, but we gotta say he’s worked for his pedigree at this point.

I mean, the man made an entire game about nothing but fetch quests, and he made it fun! What the fuck, right?

That’s to say nothing about the use of music, which introduced me to some tunes that still live on my phone! Or the stark, utilitarian-but-inventive mechanical design of Yoji Shinkawa. Or its story, rooted in absurdist silliness, Tarkovsky-esque surrealism, and bizarre metaphysics, bluntly hammering its central message home even as it weaves numerous other threads (heh) into its narrative through its use of visual symbolism, textual analysis, and iconography.

Of course the pacing is a nightmare, though -- so much of the story is backloaded in the final few hours of the game, including numerous revelations that would be better served earlier in the story. And his treatment of female characters, while much better here than Metal Gear Solid V, is... well that bar is beneath the floor, frankly. I do like the women of Death Stranding, in particular Fragile (yes that’s her name, every character is named like that) but the way the camera treats Fragile in one scene that would otherwise be really powerful, and the way Mama’s subplot goes and what Kojima’s even trying to gesture towards, and then the whole deal with Bridget and Amelie... it’s all just kind of a mess.

Which is basically the story of the story of Death Stranding, really! It’s a mess! A frequently fascinating, rarely insightful, occasionally quite powerful mess, but a mess all the same. Whether or not you can look past the stuff that doesn’t work to examine the stuff that does, or are equally interested in failures and fuckups as successes, determines whether you’ll enjoy the story here. That’s how Kojima rolls, though, has been since Metal Gear Solid 2, though that game probably remains his high point for thematic fascination, if not dialogue or character writing. (Including women! Seriously, he’s only been good at it like one time!)

I’ll say, too, that if you care little for story and want to run purely on vibes, then Death Stranding might very well be for you! The vibes here are totally unique and absolutely immaculate, particularly in the audio-visual department. There is nothing quite like when one of those Low Roar songs kicks in while you’re descending a mountain toward a new city, or Silent Poets coming in as you march across a blasted plain. And again, it all feels so personal; you are listening to Kojima’s personal mixtape, a set of bands he heard that he loved and which he associated with this game he was making, and getting that kind of truly personal touch from a big-budget experience is almost impossible to find in games.

Everything in Death Stranding, for better or for worse, is the product of one man’s mind, a snapshot of the things that move him, scare him, fascinate him, make him think and feel and wonder. And they’re all things he wants YOU to think about and feel and wonder. Some of them are stupid, for sure! Others are obvious or shallow. But more than anything, they’re all honest. Death Stranding is one of the most earnest, sincere artistic expressions I’ve seen in any big-budget media, and if that interests you at all (or you’re really into traversal mechanics in games) I’d absolutely recommend it.

Or if you like to point and laugh at the man who put a guy named “Die-Hardman” into his story. Rest assured that Kojima is absolutely laughing too.

#death stranding #video games #i gotta say for as dumb as it was? #i REALLY liked the ending to this game #absolutely impeccable vibes #even as the story itself got so bogged down in its details #great performances from tommie earl jenkins and mads mikkelsen though! #and i really ended up liking norman reedus a lot too #and of course troy baker's scenery chewing. the man fasted for DAYS before he got to that set you can tell

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 2 - Side B

Propaganda below ⬇️

Dracule Mihawk

Okay so he wears a cross necklace and his sword looks like he has a cross on his back. Like yeah hes a gothy bitch but got that Catholic vibes trust me also got that catholic vampire 18th century facial hair

his weapon is a giant bedazzled cross sword and if he held up his arms he’d look like he was being crucified on it. he’s spanish *and* dracula coded. puss in boots has been accepted and this is his human counterpart.

he keeps sipping red wine, what’s that if not the blood of christ?? also his hobby is gardening and he adopted two orphans. catholic mom.

a vote for mihawk is a vote for all of the forgotten one piece characters

Kristen

Once known as a Chosen of Helio, Kristen lost faith, found out she was gay, escaped the abusive church, and helps a lonely abused goddess return from the dead and continue the goddess of mystery. She also ends up creating her own god in the middle there, but decides it's kind of super annoying and eventually nopes out.

Kristen might be skirting a couple lines here so I'll provide my reasoning for why I think she might belong in the competition but feel free to choose as you wish. Kristen used to follow Helio, and her entire relationship with religion and Helio is meant to show a story of a queer teen leaving an abusive Christian church (I'm not sure if it's specifically Catholic or not, I'm Jewish and don't really understand the differences very well). Throughout the story Kristen meets Helio, finds out how much of a dick he is, finds out how terrible the Church has been and becomes more aware of how her family and the Church are racist/homophobic/abusive/etc., learns more about the world and breaks her ties with the Church, and then goes to find her own faith and a god worth worshipping.

girl is miserable for so much of the first season. girl is battling the brain demons. girl is battling the actual demons. and the actual angels. and the football coach who she knows from church. girl has brothers named bucky bricker and cork. girl invents a new god and cannot get people to convert to her faith apart from a singular dude named craig because she is so visibly annoyed by her own god. girl is gay and has a werewolf girlfriend. girl is so kinky. girl has a dexterity score of 4. not modifier. score. i'm kissing girl on the mouth i love her a lot.

She was a chosen prophet of Helio but oops she’s a very lesbian and so she has to battle with her faith hating gay people as she realizes she is gay people. Early on dies and goes to heaven and discovers Helio is a frat bro and doesn’t really vibe with that. Eventually dies again and fights past angels to get to Helios office and finds her old principal (who died to resurrect her the first time she died, it’s a long story, watch dimension 20, shits wild). And so he makes a deal to help her if she helps him break out of heaven. And also while she’s in heaven she makes a new god whole cloth out of her current beliefs. (She later finds that god annoying because it’s the embodiment of “YES! WOW! YOU CAN DO IT!!” The god turns from YES! Into Yes? In her changing faith. She later resurrects an old god of dreams who was corrupted). But yeah so she has religious trauma out the wazoo. She went to church camp that was actually a front for a cult within the Helioic faith. Idk if it’s Catholicism exactly cause I’m not catholic but it’s clearly parallel so some real world Christ based religion.

At one point they drop 10 stories because they thought they could use their ribbon to fly. They couldn’t.

her entire arc over fantasy high's first season is realizing she was gay and also that her church and the people in it were basically a cult which like SAMESIES and she does end up going to heaven after dying by slipping on corn and getting incredibly disappointed by the jesus equivalent of her universe (his name is helio and he is a frat boy) and after she's resurrected she makes her own god (not very catholic sorry) and preaches about it (pretty catholic of her tbh.) aside from the religious trauma some other kristen fun facts and highlights are that she once ribbon danced down the center of a spiral staircase and lived, she carried a bible around for a good chunk of her freshman year of high school, and her last name isn't a reference to anything because applebees does not exist in the world of fantasy high.

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