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#so... Lots of issues but i just wanna look cool and dress like a witch or something :(
carebearmareee · 1 year
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heyyy <3 here for a matchup?? i remember trying to do one once, but hopefully you aren't the same person 'cus that'd be embarrassing 😳
ANYWAY. heres my totally aesthetic bio <3
— ( main three horoscopes ) cancer 🌞 gemini🌜& cancer ⬆️
— ( clothing style ) ( preferred since i can't rlly dress the way i want until i move out 😃 ) mixed?? a lot of fairygrunge. mmm fairygrunge <3 also punk vibes? kinder whore is VERY cool!! id like to look like a beat up babydoll who vomits black goo. 🥺
i also really enjoy regular fairycore, too!! victorian goth is gorgeous, and dark toned corsets r hot.
sometimes i like to wear lots of makeup, sometimes i just do thick mascara, babydoll lips and falsies <3 it's way easier since i burn out a lot.
not really a clothing thing, but i discovered this new (?) aesthetic that's called starflesh and OMG ITS COOL!
i don't have any piercings other than my ears, but when i can decide what to do with my own body, i plan on getting these ::
smiley
septum
both nostrils
snake bites!!
maybe dimples? ( is that what they're called? )
double eyebrows <3
tongue? ( kinda scared tho )
and some other unmentionables 😃
probs gonna get every ear piercing known to man
— ( shit that i LOVE ) hiking. as long as im not tired, and in the mood. crystal hunting is cool, whether it's in the stores or out near creeks. never find any pretty ones out in the wild, though :(
thrifting is cool!! i love going to my local mall and getting myself dolled up so i can flex on the old (bigoted)people.
most of the time im sulking in bed, though :') i also love going for drives!!! i usually end up listening to music though, and not wanting to talk. but maybe that's just with my dad, idk 😳
i consider myself spiritual? idk, it's been a while but it's been rotting my brain lately.
— ( music genre? ) like.. literally anything. nu metal, indie, dark and classic pop, rap and more. talking about music artists would be easier, sooo i really love all of these artists and maybe more!! ::
Tyler the Creator
Doja
Incubus
Korn
Slipknot
Limpbizkit
Lady Gaga
Citizen
Tame Impala
Evanescence
MAC DEMARCO (pls ilhsm)
Steve Lacy
Pink Pantheress
i don't want this to be too long, but yeah go figure :')
— ( extra ) my favorite crystals ( mostly in color ) are amethyst, citrine, tigers eye, jade and rose quartz!!
my favorite yuuri boy is probs seth. ( atm, i love almost all except jack. sorry jack.. :< ) i really connect to his character..
but obviously it's cus we both have mommy issues HSHSHS.
tbh tho, yan!finn has been on my mind as of late though. mmm <3 obsessive witch man.
my fav animals r bats, deer, frogs (i feel like most queer ppl do), foxes, BARN OWLS, cats, dogs and probs way more.
SORRY THIS IS RLLY LONG i have the urge to literally tell everyone everything abt myself sometimes.
no because i wanna be ur friend like what u seem so cool. dhakrhajfaisj ok i just need to know what fandom this would be for i don’t think u said it on there but maybe u did and i’m just being a little bozo lmao
HAVE A NICE DAY :))
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sputnikissweet · 3 years
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Thoughts on “Fate: The Winx Club Saga”
My last Winx related post got good feedback :)!! and i swear i’ll post more on other stuff but there are just some things i wanna get off my chest. this is also lengthy.. oops
also gifs aren’t mine!!!
let’s start off with characters
MUSA
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Netflix, do y’all just hate Musa... Her powers are so downplayed. it’s utterly disappointing.
I understand that Musa is the emotional girl out of all of them but they took that and ran with it. I’m just not a big fan of the whole mind fairy thing because every fairy can connect to things that’s based on what kind of fairy they are.
she can do SO MUCH MORE. She can literally control sound waves.. She is Vanya Hargreeves in fairy form yet all she does now is feel others emotions.. cool.
Fairies (regardless of specialties) can also read aura’s and some can connect with their given specialities (Flora w plants) so a mind fairy serves no helpful purpose compared to the others?
STELLA
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The reason Stella was popular was because despite being a spoiled princess, she was still the nicest and most welcoming person ever. She never used it against people. ( I mean the Solarians were literally so confused when they were reporting how Stella was evil during Valtor’s reign)
It felt more like Diaspro with Stella trendencies.
Stella was literally the one who convinced Bloom to go to Alfea and was so patient with her. She even had Bloom fake being her friend in the original just so she could attend alfea but this stella willingly put her life in danger.. FOR A BOY???
Yes Stella was a bit boy crazy but she wasn’t really serious with any of them except for Brandon so she would not have tried to kill Bloom for Sky. Who wrote that and for what??
That is not Queen Luna, that’s countess Cassandra 2 seasons early.
Why did they have to give her mom issues like Bloom? Her mom was her emotional support from the little bits we saw her? Her parents not giving her attention on top of upcoming issues with her dad would’ve been interesting enough.
Also the whole ring thing was a major thing and they just touched on it then never again, just don’t mention it then..?
A bit morbid but i think the whole blinding her best friend plot has potential.. hear me out... for her enchantix, especially when she can use the dust. But netflix if you include enchantix, please do not butcher it.. please.
She had such a sunny disposition and it was only ever her teasing that upset the girls at times but she was mostly at the core of each other their problems. She may look exactly how i pictured stella but she is the farthest thing from.
also stella getting her strength from anger? who is this?
AISHA
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Please tell me how Aisha would be the teacher’s pet-
She’s the one who literally ran away from a marriage and was breaking all these princess streotypes- She’s very strong willed and would not have kissed ass to authority figures (except for mermaid guards of course)
AISHA WOULD NOT HAVE SNITCHED AND THAT GOES FOR ALL OF THEM I DO NOT CARE
her outfits weren’t bad though, i think she was the best dressed next to Beatrix.
TERRA
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Why were they so rude to her-
I still wish she was a WOC because then her brother and dad would’ve been too so just a chance for more representation then netflix just turned a blind eye to
Where did her storyline go- We saw her being insecure in the first two(?) episodes and Musa saying Stella is everything she wants to be and then Riven and Dane just make fun of her for the rest of the episodes then Stella tries to compliment her? I feel like there was so much material to work with and make into a powerful arc or moment but they just swept it under the rug and pulled off something quick.
I like her character though, she’s a huge softie and a lot like her cousin, let’s not hate on her oo much cause Flora would not have condone it
BLOOM
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Why is this Bloom so angsty
Actually OG Bloom was too but i feel like they tried making her so seem “mysterious” and if you’re mysterious, apparently you can’t be nicer?
I wish we saw her more vulnerable cause i liked that Bloom was such a badass but always cried HAHAH you know what i mean?
WHY WAS SHE DRESSED IN HER REGULAR CLOTHES WHEN HER WINGS APPEARED PLEASE AT LEAST GIVE HER SMT A BIT MORE FITTING FOR THE LITERAL “ANCIENT” TRANSFORMATION-
Disrespect Vanessa- No.
Okay i think there’s potential in the changeling thing but i think Mike originally finding her in a burning house and saving her is so heartwarming :((
this is related to bloom so i’ll keep it here... WHERE IS DAPHNE!!!
not gonna lie tho, the actress is exactly how i imagined bloom irl
bloomerang... i’ll leave this here.
OTHER CHARACTERS // MISC.
Rosalind and Dowling were two evil and eviler versions of Faragonda. Not even they were just split Albus Dumbledores and one is enough for all universes.
Beatrix is woke ig..? I like her style tho and the actress is pretty good. Also like how by the finale it’s kind of known that she’s a witch and not a fairy so ancestral witches storyline? I’m also not mad they made her one character, it fit better for the story they were going for.
BRING BACK CLOUD TOWER!! NOT ALL WITCHES ARE BITCHES (mainly mirta)
I know Riven is an ass but it was d r a g g e d. Like let’s lead this guy on! Oh and do drugs on campus! I’m 16 btw but let’s get drunk every other scene! Not to shame though.
I just don’t like Sam, he was boring to me and contributed nothing. sorry
Dane had potential to be a great self discovery story but no let’s make him fat shame Terra because that’ll be cute! no.
It’s just weird to think that Sky’s father abandoned him to raise a completely different child.. I don’t- yeah..
Kiko is- oh wait he wasn’t there.
Why are they on instagram? If anything, they would’ve probably had something wayyy more advanced.
Adding more fire fairies just lessened the stakes of Bloom’s whole reasoning for trying to master the powers of the dragon flame because she was the only one left so she had no choice but Fate makes it easier to argue that she was just being selfish when in WC, it had to be done.
I do like male fairies and female specialist, power! but i wish they kept the schools separate.
I know everyone says this but.. their outfits could’ve given us another Euphoria like moment and they wasted that opportunity. I mean seriously, you put Bloom in Brandy Melville?
SHIPS
I wish SkyxBloom was more slow burn and had more build up. It was reasonable but idk the pace still seemed a bit fast.
There should be no world where SkyxBloomxStella would exist. Not in this or any other worlds.
MusaxSam was just boring.
TerraxDane just no.
wheres nabu for aisha? actually, respectfully do not let the same people cast Nabu and Helia because i just don’t trust y’all-
RivenxBeatrix, eh follows the og plot but i wasn’t really a fan of it back then too.
RivenxDane, seems queerbaity? maybe it was intentionally set up that way for development but it rubs me off wrong.
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The Owl House Elsewhere & Elsewhen Recap
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Luz takes despite measures to learn about the portal and Eda’s past comes for her. Spoilers below. 
Well here we are again. Earlier Friday it was announced that the light novel was canceled. According to Dana, the publisher was only offering to pay pennys. I don’t know if she meant Disney Press, Disney Manga, or Tokyo Pop. All three were attached to the project. It sounds like this went down a while ago and properly wasn’t that plot heavy to begin with. But it is salt in a wound; even if just a little. Dana had said she’ll be down to another go, albit for decent money. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to write an Owl House review without drama hanging over everything. One day.
Anyway, Hooty is hosting a party for Lillith’s new job as a museum assent director. We got Steve, Big Nose (who disappears between frames, and they spill her drink, so it’s just not an animation issue), Mama Clawthrone. But Lilith’s former mentor, who is just Dora the Explorer for some reason, taunts her.
Meanwhile Luz decides to look up time travel magic so she can talk to Phillip directly. But time travel isn’t just a spell. In fact it’s considered pseudo science I like this since too many fantasy shows just have time travel but only use for one or two episodes and than just don’t mention it. Luz recruits cool Aunt Lilith to help her.
While that is going on, Mama Clawthrone tries to reconnect Eda with her father. She doesn’t want to, even dressing up as Lilith to try to escape. No one buys it, but it does make King and Mama Clawthrone sorry enough for her to let her pass.
But despite Eda’s scheming, she walks strat toward her father. And we learn why this is so hard for Eda. She didn’t just take out his eye. She mauled his dominant arm. An arm too damaged for him to do the job he loved. CXraving pailismens. He doesn’t blame Eda, despite Eda insisting that he should. It was a fantastic scene.
Luz and Lilith find some time portals in the sand thanks to Lilth’s science magic. They don’t have a lot of time so Luz searches for the Deadwardian Era while Lilith trips over her own head. I wanna take a moment to appreciate the Peridotifcation of Lilith. Her hair is starting to frezz again and she started wearing her glasses again. And most important of all her air of menace has been replaced with dorkiness.
They find the era and discover that wild magic isn’t that wild. Witches change between types of spells with no issues. They find Phillip being bullied by two bipedal demons about their missing brother. Luz saves him and she and Lilith give false names to protect the timeline.
They journey to the Titan’s head while Luz teaches Pjilip about the light glyph. Lilith is unnerved by how his polite demeanor and his compliments seem familiar to Lilith.  
Turns out Phillip wanted them to distract a monster while he digs for a mirror. Then leaves them to die. Luz uses what she learned from Lilith to tame the monster. They go to confront Philip who lied about needing the mirror for the portal. So Lilith punches him. They return to the present and meet with Eda.
While Phillip goes to a cave where he reveals glyph tattoos on his arm. One that causes him pain. And he can only stop it by eating the essence inside the palismens. Belos suses the mirror to summon a face with an eclipse moon motif. Similar to what made the owl beast curse.
I knew Belos was Philip. Everyone was saying he was decent or something but nope, same guy. Belos says he only needs to stay alive to do something. Then what is it? I always assumed that immortality was his end game but the dialogue hints at something different.
The time travel seems to be stable time loops with Lilith kicking her own head. And that line about meeting each other could have meant this episode. Hell, he could have sent Dora the Explorer to egg Lilith on.
Fantastic episode, answers, more questions, and drama 4/4
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agusvedder · 3 years
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I DON’T CARE if this doesn’t get any notes. I need to vent.
My name is Agustina, I’m 27 years old. I’m a nonbinary, queer, latinx person, parent of a 4 year old, non-verbal authistic child. I suffer from depression and anxiety.
I’m 9 thousand kilometers away from the woman I love.
I’m not a victim. I am a minority. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
I started watching Supernatural in 2015, you know, being a stay-at-home parent, who dropped her career and her job to live the first years of their child, there wasn’t much I could do in my free time but to watch a show. I caught a few episodes of season 11 on tv and then I decided to start from zero. I always acknowledged how problematic it was in terms of representation, but always saw small threads of light filtering in the message it sent, recognizing how its writers were trying to shed a little light, creating a jenga tower of storylines and new characters, only to be thrown away by poor, useless deaths and the erasure of said characters.
Since my first run on season 1 I related to Dean. I saw myself on him. (I will never be as brave and cool as him tho, never ever, but his personality traits, some of his family issues, his self worth issues, his loneliness, his unaddressed childhood trauma, his growth in a circle of violence, his reticence to address his feelings until he explodes?... Yeah. There are days where my girlfriend makes fun of me saying “Ok Dean”). I kept looking up to Dean in his geekiness, in his way he always put his life on the line to protect the people he loves and put them always first… even in the supernatural side of the storyline, he still was profoundly human and abnegated to the people in his life. Also because I’m deeply in love with Castiel but that’s another subject. Thanks to this show, I’ve found people in my own country who now I recognize as my family beyond SPN, who helped me accept myself the way I am, who are always there for me. My found family, my chosen family. Because family don’t end in blood, because family cares about you, not only for what you can do for them, because that’s what all of us have in common, and why this show resonated as strongly as it did for us. That’s why we found each other and ourselves in the process, in a circle of love, support, non-judgement and willingness to find a family in ourselves when our own blood relatives ignored us, abused us, refused to recognize us. We’ve found love and family. I’ve found the woman with whom I wanna spend the rest of my life with because of this show.
That’s the power of this story. I know my small circle is not the only one who lived this, who continues to live it.
I can talk about this forever, but there’s something I wanna talk about specifically here. When the ending aired.. what I felt was… like a bucket of cold water was thrown over my head. You know when your parents come home, or call you and give you the devastating news that someone you love died? that exact feeling. The adrenaline, the heartbreak, the feeling of loss. 
The whole season 15 and 15 years of storyline were completely overturned. The misogyny the writers tried so hard to erase, it was there again, in a faceless woman who was supposed to represent the person a lead chose to spend the rest of his life with, reduced to a lilac dress, a blurry face and a uterus. We never seen acknowledged the existence of Eileen Leahy, Sam Winchester’s romantic interest since season 11, his perfect partner whose disability wasn’t an obstacle for her to be a badass hunter. (BUT COVID!! <- No. Eileen Leahy appeared in two episodes this season without Shoshannah being on set: Last Holiday and Despair. If they wanted to include her, they would have. They didn’t because they don’t give a FUCK). Sam Winchester is an academic, a witch, a leader, a powerful hunter, a kind human being, and the ending that was given to him was living an unfulfilled life, dying at a ridiculous young age, having a son only to replace his dead brother? It was sad. Sammy deserved better. He always did.
My beloved Dean Winchester, who I love so deeply, who taught me a lot about myself, about life, love, family, about *ejem* VICIOUS CIRCLES and the power of breaking free from them, of learning to embrace one’s self, our real tastes, our real identity, to come out of a shadow of being reduced to someone’s caretaker instead of having an identity of our own, to spend life loving family the healthy amount.. well, he was killed in a ridiculous way, on a milk run of a hunt.  After being eager and ready to kill himself so many times. After all he’s been through, after saying he’s good with who he is, after considering retirement, after standing up to his dad, saying he already has a family, ready to cut the “I’m Okay” bullshit, address his feelings, his trauma, don’t letting those define him. He deserved better. He always wanted a family, he always wanted to break free from the version of himself he was created to be, “daddy’s blunt little instrument” (For fuck’s sake, he even said it in the same show 10’ before dying, man. If we don’t keep living, the sacrifice the people who died for us did, was for nothing). Are you telling me this man really would refuse his brother to call an ambulance? Refused his brother to get the first aid kit even knowing it was more serious than his brother thought? He was ready to live. He CHOSE life, and at the end his choice was stripped away from him. He clearly was a bisexual man and they never explored it.
Cas. The misfit. The fish outside of the water. Ambiguous gender and sexuality. Finally makes a homosexual declaration of love after all he’s been through. After being brainwashed, used, suicidal, isolated. After telling Sam and Dean he loved them more than once, that they meant everything for him. After confessing he’s been in love with Dean since he pulled him out of hell…. Was erased from the story. Erased, literally. Two emotionless mentions aren’t enough for a 12 year old family member who pulled both brothers out of hell, who died for them more than once, who until 2 seasons ago he didn’t even feel like he belonged there ‘cause he was never told he was loved. No one ever told him “I love you” back. Not Jack, not Sam, not Dean, not Mary. No one. Ever. And still, he died for love. And with his death, he was erased from the finale, being that the first finale Castiel wasn’t in since his appearance on the show. He deserved better. 
All roads lead to Rome and you know what we got at the end of that road? a bottomless pit of NOTHING. The building up towards a different end isn’t just in s15. It’s been there for years and years. And if you watch the show, you see it at plain sight.
 
Sam Winchester hurried to die to reunite with his brother in heaven EVEN WHEN HE SPENT 30 MORE YEARS WITH A WIFE AND A KID he only wanted to die to go back to his brother? it’s insane, it’s ridiculous. That’s not what the show has been about for seasons now. SEASONS. The road was paved towards a healthy brotherly bond, each brother living their future the way they wanted, finally breaking free from the curse John dropped on Dean that Sam’s destiny was in his hands. No no. What was that? Did it ever happen? Was it a fever dream? They really destroyed everything in 38 minutes of the finale? 
Stupid. 
Representation is important, stories are important. They change lives. You know how it changed mine? After I saw Jonathan Van Ness coming out as non-binary, I started to realize how I never called myself "a woman, a girl" or anything like that, how my "female presenting" aesthetic changes drastically depending on how I feel when I wake up  how I always called myself a "person", no gender involved. I realized I was a non-binary person even after becoming a parent. Thanks to Jonathan Van Ness. Thanks to seeing a person like her being unapologetically herself. 
Representation matters. 
It matters. 
It helped my mom understand me when I was 13 and had a girlfriend. It helped my dad educate himself about trans identities. It helped my sister understand about her demisexuality. It helps break circles of ignorance and stereotypes. It helps people process what these characters wanna tell, and realize they're human beings above it all. We suffer, we laugh, we grieve. We love. We exist. 
Supernatural missed a chance to be a historical show in terms of representation. And it breaks my heart.  I cant believe they decided to erase Dean's sexuality, to erase Castiel after saying loud and proud he's in love with a man, to erase Eileen whose disability only was a disadvantage when they KILLED HER in the most ableistic way in s11, to never show Charlie and her girlfriend again, that they decided to make God bisexual AND a villain, thay they decided to turn the only regular non-binary character of color into the villain too (Billie).
I'm still grieving.
This is why "a stupid show" is so important for me, and for lot of people like me. Cause representation can change lives. Stories can change lives. It certainly changed mine, and I'm not the only one. 
Don't let anyone tell you you're just a butthurt fan because you're suffering this ending. Every one of us have a story and this is mine. All of us are valid, our feelings are valid. And we'll get through this eventually
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themiraculousec · 3 years
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'The Mysterious House' Transcript
for the hearing impaired/individuals with auditory processing issues
(I'm not qualified for this, I just did it for fun, so sorry if there's mistakes)
spoilers!
https://youtu.be/dbsvgZhCM3c
Ducky: Aw, Man, this year’s Halloween sucks! We barely got any candy.
Tammy: Maybe it’s because your costume looks cheap and basic! What kind of ghoul(?) looks like that? You didn’t even try!
D: At least I have a costume!
T: You know I don’t like dressing up for Halloween.
D: Alright, alright. Let’s stop fighting. There’s still plenty of time to get candy. We just gotta find a good house!
T: Yeah! The night’s not over yet-
T: Wow! That was fun, we got a lot of candy!
D: Yeah! That was so cool, Tammy, however... I think it’s getting a bit too late. We should go home.
T: Come on, Ducky, there’s still so much(sic) houses we haven’t visited yet. Don’t tell me you’re scared about trick or treating!
D: Ah- I’m not- I- I really don’t feel scared, okay? Let’s just visit a few more houses and then go home.
T: Alright! Hm… Oh! What about that one?
D: You wanna go there? Ugh, fine, but we’re going home after that.
[knock knock knock]
T&D: Trick or treat!
Witch Sheep: Why- hello there, little children! Are you looking for candy? Then come in, come in! We have candy for you two silly bunnies.
D: Wow, this house looks neat!
WS: Thank you! I’m so glad you kids like it. Now, allow me to introduce my friends; this is Billy, TVA-
TVA: Hello
WS: -and the Pumpkin Rabbit.
[uncomfortable pause]
T: Hehe… Pleasure to meet all of you, but we’re really just here to get some candy, you know?
Pumpkin Rabbit: Oh, little children, we have plenty of candy for you.
[camera clicks]
PR: Sorry about that. We like taking pictures of our guests every year, that way we never forget them. Go take a look, little children.
[background music is briefly distorted]
D: Well, thanks for the candy, but, uh- yeah. It’s getting very late. We should go home now.
WS: Oh, really? Don’t you think it’s a bit dangerous for two kids like you to be wandering around the streets at this hour?
T: I mean- yeah, but we gotta-
PR, interrupting: I have an idea. Why don’t you two stay here for the night?
D: Uh- are you sure? We still need to go home. You sure this is a good idea?
PR: I think it’s a great idea. Besides, it will just be for one night.
D: ...Alright.
[no background music, loud white noise/static ambience]
[Clock ticking]
D, distantly: Tammy… Tammy…
[door opening]
T: Ducky?
[Billy standing in the dark. No sound.]
T: Oh… You scared me. H-How have you been there? Where’s the rest?
[No answer. Billy leaves.]
T: Hm…
[Tammy’s footsteps]
D, distantly: Tammy…
[door creaks open]
T: Hello?
[loud piano notes while zooming in on the door.]
[music stops]
...
T: Ducky?
[door creaks open]
[Tammy’s footsteps]
[door creaks open]
[Tammy’s footsteps]
[door creaks open]
[brief, underwater-like ambience]
T: Ducky?
D, closer: Tammy.
[Tammy’s footsteps]
T: Ducky, come on, dude- this isn’t funny!
T: Ducky!
[loud musical tone]
[Tammy gasps]
[“Streets of Cairo” plays loud and staticy]
[“I will sing you a song, and it won't be very long 'Bout a maiden sweet, and she never would do wrong. Ev'ryone said she was pretty. She was not long in the city. All alone, oh, what a pity, poor little maid.
She never saw the streets of Cairo. On the Midway she had never strayed; She-”]
[music cuts out]
PR: What are you doing here?
T: [whimpers] What have you done?!
PR: What a naughty child, wandering around the house. I will have to punish you for being such a misbehaved little bunny.
PR, continued: Don’t worry- you won’t feel a thing and you’ll get to be with us. Wouldn’t you like that, little girl?
[music restarts from “she never saw the streets of Cairo-”]
T: G-Get away from me!
[music briefly reverses]
[MUSIC BLARING. ERROR SOUNDS.]
Tammy's line from before (all glitched out): What have you dONEEEEEEEE [error sounds]
[silence over end card]
[“I am the Boogie Man” plays over the credits.]
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rebelcap · 4 years
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We are not just friends — part 9
Chris Evans x bi!latina!character (Sofia is a person of color, she's brown.)
Chris and Sofia meet when their best friends started dating, it all started at friends with loads of bumps on the road.  
Warnings: drinking, smoking, drug use (weed), assault, Chris being Steve Rogers, commitment issues, my girl Sofia kinda messy, lots of fucking (eventually) 
This is slow burn at its best, at least emotionally. 
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“ It's not fancy, isn't it?” Sofia asked going through her suitcase in the middle of the bed, hoping to find something to wear.
“ Nah, it's casual. Like a get-together—” Chris answered her thought the phone, they were Facetiming as they both get ready.
“Alright, what about… this and this?” She said holding up a red mini skirt with a red crop top. “I feel like matching.”
“Love it, red suits you. “ Chris answered and Sofía wiggle on the bed and began undressing, not caring for modesty as Chris looked at her.
“Enjoying the show? creep. “ She laughed as Chris rubbed her beard watching her get undressed, she wasn't being sexy or anything close, Chris just find her fucking hot all the time.
“Sure, don't mind me.” Chris answered her smiling. “want me to pick you up?”
“No honey, it's okay. I'll Uber the rest so you can't have to drive back and forth.’
‘I really don't mind, Sof.’
‘I know, but you know how I am with getting ready. I don't want you running late and shit. It's fine, you go ahead and I'll text you when I'm there.”
‘You sure?”
‘Yes, dumbass. You go ahead I'll text you. “ She said kissing the screen making Chris laugh.
“Alright, I'll be going then. call me. “
They hung up and Chris go ahead and grabbed his things and went ahead to his friend's birthday.
And Sofia took her time and arrived forty-five minutes later cause she can.
Chris was already waiting for her outside, having a sly smoke and playing with his phone on the side of the building, high-end building on LA.
Sofia called him out and shake her head when she saw the cigarette on his hand and Chris put it out.
“Sorry, I know you hate it. “
“It's bad for you. “
“I know—You're pretty,” Chris observed her, she was wearing what she shows him earlier, looked much better on her, red was definitely her color.
“Do I? I feel a little silly. I nervous—I don't know.” She nervously laughed shrugging as Chris pulled her in for a quick kiss. “I don't know anyone.”
“Neither do I, really. I know some of them.” Chris told her and she hummed. “I'm a little anxious.”
Sofia smiled and kissed him again, he wrapped his arms around her waist and fight the urge to grab her ass.
“We should go in.” He said letting her go and she agreed, rearranging her skirt and walked in with Chris.
The party wasn't what she was expecting, you know like a get together a few beers and friends hanging out but no, it was a full-blown party with a lot of people.
She didn't say anything as Chris greet people and introduced them to her, it was a little taxing but she did it anyway because it's Chris.
“Dude, so many people.”
“Yes, I thought it wasn't like this.” He looked at her with an apologetic look.
“It's fine, you do your thing and I'll mingle with that bar over there.” She told him with a smile and almost pushed him towards his friends.
“You sure?”
“Yes, go.” Sofía pushed him again and Chris leans over and plants a quick kiss on the top of her head.
“You're the best, it will be just for a little bit. I'll be back.” He kissed her again and disappear on the crowd and she looked forward to the bar, maybe getting a little bit tipsy will loosen her up but the crowd here was way different to what she and Mandy hung out back at home.
She felt pretentious wearing matching top and skirt, she couldn't imagine what she would feel wearing a thousand-dollar dress like the bunch of girls over there.
She grabbed a beer and isolated herself to a corner, where she could observe the party—witch was absolutely cool with her, what she wasn't expecting was seeing Chris's ex-girlfriend chatting with some girls and pointing out exactly where he was.
“Oh boy.” She mumbles drinking her beer and looked at her walk through until she reached him and he acted amicable with her, hugs and cheeks being kissed.
At that moment she decided to get fucked up and dance if he was going to be with his ex might as well she find something to do at this stupid party. Sofia quickly drank her beer and head back to the bar to do a few shots, clearly catching the attention of a few guys hovering over there.
“Hey,” One of them says, he had a kind smile and was attractive enough.
“Hi.” She said back, smiling too.
They chatted for a bit, his name was Tom, he's a publicist and single.
“You came here with someone?” Tom asked as she sips her drink, the second one.
“Mm-hm, with my friend.” She vaguely said, not wanting to hint that it was Chris.
“Oh, do I know her?” He asked, trying to find out who and assumed it was a girl.
“It's a he and probably you do.” Sofía quickly answers and without thinking looked back at where he was before and his back was facing her while he talked to his ex's ear. Sofia couldn't help but sigh deeply and drank the rest of the drink. “Can I have another one?” She flagged the bartender and he quickly began making her another.
“You work on the industry?” He asked taking a sip of his own drink and Sofia realized that he really didn't like this dude anymore, she didn't want to talk about work of the industry.
“Not really—”
“You should, you've got this young Salma Hayek thing going on.” He said moving his hands and Sofia raised an eyebrow.
“Yeah, we're both Latinas.”
“Really? where you from?”
“Yeap, Argentina,” Sofía answered back and quickly looked back at Chris and he kept talking with his ex, now drinks in hand and he had that pink on his cheeks and moving his hands.
man, am I jealous? She thought for a second but quickly shake her head and looked at Tom, trying to find out if she could possibly, at least, make out.
But he was a little off-putting and Sofia started thinking that he was recruiting or some shit—witch she wasn't interested at all. Leave that to the talented people, she wasn't that.
“—You know, I could introduce you to our manager. We're looking for someone with your profile, there's a lot of new—”
“I'm going to stop you there because I've got no interest in having a manager or working on the industry.” She said that with a mocking tone. “I'm good at my normal job.”
Tom actually scoffed at her then shake his head, “Then what are you doing at a party like this? are you an escort?”
Sofia was the one to scoff now and give Chris another look, and his ex had her arm around his waist they were going to make out anytime soon. Now she really wanted to get the fuck out of here.
“I came with a friend, whatever. Bye,” She waves him off and turned her back at him, not bothering to see if he walked away or not.
She pulled her phone and furiously text Mandy.
Christofer, it's all cozy with his fucking ex and people here are treating me like I am a fucking escort.
“I'm a fucking idiot.” She mutters to herself after she press sends, totally regretting that because she knows how she exaggerates things.
Baby, leave that party. Go to the hotel and we'll talk.
Sofia stare at the screen and decided that Mandy's idea wasn't bad, at all. She wasn't going to wait around as Chris fuck the girl—and she did felt bad like it wasn't enough for him. She looked one more time and indeed, they were absolutely making out.
“Yeah, fuck this.”
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“I can't do this anymore,” Chris push her away and shake his head."I came here with someone, I can't be doing this. She's important to me,"
She scoffed, "Yet, you are here making out with me. Why then? " She asked and tried to resume the kissing.
"No, I can't—I shouldn't be here," He turned around and drank the rest of his beer praying that Sofia didn't see that.
Of course, she wasn't picking up, Chris began to panic actual panic as he quickly typed.
Where are you? can't find you.
Sof, are you okay?
Please call me.
Sofía was walking as she looked at the screen and scoffed, the hotel wasn't that far and she feels like walking trying to clear off her mind. For a moment there she had those awful flashbacks with Tiffany, she used to do the same shit, worst of all she allowed it. She knew that this was nothing, that they weren't absolutely nothing besides friends but if this is how he was gonna behave as friends.
"I'm walking to the hotel," She spoke softly at the phone, it was Mandy.
"What happened?" She asked and Sofia told her the whole thing. "Well fuck, he's calling me,"
"Yeah I should probably let him know that I'm heading to the hotel before he called the police," Sofia said softly and sighed. "Tiffany used to pull this shit—
"He's not Tifanny, "
"Yeah, I'll talk to you back at the hotel. I'm going to text him and buy booze." Sofia said and tell their goodbyes and hung up.
Chris was calling again and Sofia picked up.
"I'm fine, I'm going to the hotel."
"Jesus Christ, Sofia. I was freaking out,"
"Yeah, sure," She laughs bitterly. "Whatever, I'm going to sleep. I'll text your assistant the details for the contract and photoshoot. You still wanna do that?, or I call the whole thing off? no pressure."
"You saw, don't you?"
"Whole fucking party saw that kiss, dude." She said softly, "It's okay, but I don't wanna be in the middle of nothing. I thought you had figured it out and moved on,"
"I did fuck. I'm sorry Sof—"
"Did you? you were just fucking kissing her."
"It took me by surprised, I told her I was with you that—come on, can we talk about it?"
"We are,"
"In-person, Sof."
"I'm tired Chris, I'm kinda drunk and I'm about to enter the hotel lobby." She said softly. "Are you in for tomorrow?"
"Yeah, I'll be there," Chris answered defeated. "I'm sorry Sofia."
"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow." She hung up.
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He fucked up.
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I know you said you never related to characters much, but i really wanna know how donyou relate to characters on certain aspects
It wasn't that I never related to characters, but more like I've never looked at a character and gone, "that's me. That is 100% me." If that makes sense.
So for this, we're gonna make this easy.
LUZ NOCEDA
So I'm not as out going as Luz is. I wish I had her confidence to just unapologetically be herself and decide to make her own happiness. But I wasn't bullied in my younger years, and never felt wronged for being weird in my own way.
We do have a thing or two in common. We do have a similar way of befriending people. We both love helping our friends and try our best to help them out. There's also the thing of fanfic writing. Plus the fact she goes above and beyond with school related things is also me...mine just wasn't as cool as hers. And there's also the matter of wanting to know the life story of those close to me because tbh, I love a good story.
But the part that made me feel for this loveable child is her relationship with her mom. My mom and I don't see eye to eye on a lot of stuff. Rather it be my religious beliefs, my grades and how much effs I give, or how I wanna dress (because apparently graph tees and sweats aren't always gonna cut it). But she loves me and wants what best for me. However there is a wedge between us even though we're at a common ground-ish. I am not at all bashing on Camilia. I love Camilia. I'm just saying the misunderstanding between her and Luz hit a little too close to home if the main topic was switched.
Daisy Johnson (Agents of Shield)
So if none of you are Aos fans then you have no idea who this is. But the one thing you should understand about this character is that she is a main focus point of the found family dynamics in the show.
I would see her and the other characters bond and become this little family and I would get somewhat jealous because when I first saw this dynamic I was 10 and going through a sort of isolation period from some close friends and family (time zones suck) and I only believed that stuff existed on T.V. but fast forward to now and I managed to gain four siblings (all younger) and a best friend for life after we all ended up miraculously living in the same neighborhood and having no choice but to interact with each other.
So I got my found family which isn't something I would've thought possible way back then.
Literally Any Female Disney Villain
According to some, I have a witch laugh when I come up with a questionable idea.
Idk if this next part is considered "relating"
So characters like Eclipsa Butterfly (SVTFOE) and Eda(lyn) Clawthrone (The Owl House) have one thing in common and it's that they became mother figures. (That and the fact they are both powerful af and totally ditched the norm of what was expected of them) This is more what I got off of them rather than how Eclipsa and I are chocolate lovers and Eda's parenting would definitely be me (if my interactions with my younger siblings are anything to go by)
Eclipsa was supportive and had become Star's second mother of sorts. She never ridiculed Star or waved off her problems, and being 14 years old who was having my both my parents breathing down my neck to start caring about the issues they were trying to address to me-I'm not going into detail. But I wanted someone like Eclipsa in my life. Someone who told me it was okay to step outside the box and you can just go for it and let it play out.
As for Eda, well...as far as found mothers go, she is by far my favorite. She encourages Luz's weirdness, and is so supportive and I look at her dynamic with Luz and I want that. I wish I had someone like Eda to tell me it's okay not to be perfect all the time. That you don't have to try and please the system. That I don't want you to change, I want you to be happy the way you are. (Plus Eda is a total mood and I strive to be as awesome as her.)
I've also had a sort of admiration for female characters that dealt with magic or some type of darkness. (I just either found them cool as a character or their aesthetic cool).
Examples would be Hela (Thor Ragnarok), Shinigami (Tmnt 2k12), The Hex Girls (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost) Lilith Clawthrone (The Owl House) Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty as well as the Maleficent movie but not the second one) and The Evil Queen/Regina Mills (Once Upon a Time I 11 yrs old and going through a villains phase))
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The 5000 Question Survey Pt. 1 (attempt nr 283993 lol)
1. Who are you?
I’m Josefin, I’m 21 years old and I live in Sweden. 2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?
1. I’m a hard feminist
2. I work in healthcare and it’s one of my top passions in life
3. I don’t know. This is a weird question. Hard to answer.
3. When you aren't filling out 5,000 question surveys like this one what are you doing?
I’m most likely at work. I work at a nursing home. I’m also studying to become an assistant nurse on my spare time. If I’m off work or studying, I’m watching movies or TV shows, reading, watching Netflix or taking surveys.
4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time).
I really liked religious studies and ethics. Journalism was also fun albeit challenging at times. I also liked English, not because it was fun but rather cause it was easy for me. My least favorite class has always been math. It has always been hard for me and I’ve always found it to be so difficult. I also didn’t like chemistry or physics. It was too abstract for me. 5. What is your biggest goal for this year?
Finishing the orderly part of my education. Other than that, Idk. I don’t like making goals for myself. It puts so much pressure on you. 6. Where do you want to be in 5 years?
I don’t really know. I don’t have a lot of plans in life that aren’t career oriented. All I know is that I’d like to live in Gothenburg or maybe Stockholm and I wanna work at a nursing home or maybe at a hospital. Maybe at a neurology unit, or at a gerontology unit.  7. What stage of life are you in right now?
I’m in my early 20s, though my life doesn’t really look like most of my peers’ lives. I’m not in uni or travelling the world or working at shit job to get by. I’ve found my career, which isn’t very common at my age, I think. 8. Are you more child-like or childish?
Idk. Neither? Ask someone else. 9. What is the last thing you said out loud?
“Bye”. I tried calling Mattias but he was busy. 10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now?
9 to 5? Idk haha. 11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes?
No. 12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same?
My life has gotten better than it used to be, which is great. I used to be depressed with no idea about what I wanna do with my life. Sure, I’m depressed sometimes now too, but at least I know what I wanna do in life.  13. Does time really heal all wounds?
Sure, but some wounds definitely leave scars. 14. How do you handle a rainy day?
Rainy days are not an issue for me since I like staying inside watching movies or something like that.  15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights?
Obviously losing your luggage lol? What kind of question even is that? 16. How is your relationship with your parents? Will you miss them when they’re gone?
Hmm haha. My relationship with my mother is good. We talk on the phone and we get along. I can always count on her. My dad is another story though. He tries hard but I don’t like him. He is selfish and childish. It’s complicated and it’s a long story that I just don’t have the energy to explain. And yes, I will miss them when they’re gone, even my dad. Probably.  17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you?
...Yes? That is what being conscious is like? 18. What is the truest thing that you know?
Men suck. 19. What did you want to be when you grew up?
For a while, I wanted to be a zookeeper. Then I wanted to be a musician. In my early teens, I wanted to be a stylist lol. Was about to attend the stylist program in high school. Thank god I didn’t.  20. Have you ever been given a second chance?
Yes. 21. Are you more of a giver or a taker?
Giver. I find it a little bit hard to take help from people. I have a big need to feel independent.  22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind?
I guess? Idk. 23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?
I broke my arm when I was ten. I remember that as being very painful. Getting braces was also pretty horrible, tbh. Those first two weeks of getting them were insane. I lost weight from the pain cause I could eat. It hurt so much.  24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you?
Being bullied. As a result of that, I’ve been depressed and suicidal too which is very painful. 25. Who have you hugged today?
No one. 26. Who has done something today to show they care about you?
Nothing. I have barely talked to anyone today. I’ve been in introvert mode. 27. Do you have a lot to learn?
Oh yeah. I’m so young. I forget that sometimes. I assume that I should know everything by now and I get annoyed at myself when I make mistakes which is stupid cause I’m just 21. 28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be? A. Speak french. I’ve been wanting that for a while. B. Play an instrument, drums in particular. That’d be cool. C. Become confident. I hate myself and I know that I gotta work on myself but it just seems so tiring lol.  29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel?
What other people make me feel, since what people say or do makes you feel stuff. This question wasn’t that thought through, I think. 30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship?
Don’t ask me. I’ve never been in a relationship. 31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die? A. Travel to so many places B. Get loads of tattoos C. Buy a really nice apartment 32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing? A. You mean things I want to avoid before I die? Well, developing a severe disease that leads to death. I want to die naturally without any suffering. Like from a sudden heart attack or something.  B. Heart break. The ultimate thing would be finding someone and then sticking with that person for the rest of my life. But that doesn’t happen. Relationships don’t last forever. C. Going through furter trauma. Like severe trauma.  33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause?
Feminism. Radical feminism. No ultra liberal feminism. 34. What does each decade make you think of: The 19.. 20's: I don’t know. Rough times. 30's: Flapper dresses and Edith Piaf.  40's: World war two and the holocaust. 50's: Elvis and Grease lol. 50s style diners.  60's: Hippies. 70's: Nasty orange and brown furniture lol. Manchester fabric. This swedish  70s pop star called Ted Gärdestad. Also Abba. 80's: Michael Jackson. The fall of the Berlin wall. 90's: Grunge. Nirvana and Pearl Jam. 2000s : Britney Spears, early emo bands and like Paris Hilton. 00s fashion. 2010's: I don’t know. It’s too recent. 35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why?
The 90s cause I love the fashion and I would want to go back to the early 90s to see Nirvana play live. Wouldn’t mind seeing Green Day either in the 90s cause that’s when they made their best music in my opinion. I like the early punk rock days they had.  36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song?
Bohemian Rapsody will always kick ass. 37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country?
I live in Sweden and our prime minister is Stefan Löfven.  If you could say any sentence to the current leader of your country what would it be?
Retire. You’ve been through the refugee crisis and now the pandemic and you’re 63 years old and you should make place for a younger leader that has the energy to deal with all this. 38. What's your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night?
I don’t have channels on my TV. I just stream what I wanna watch. I have a Chromecast. 39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why?
According to a Buzzfeed quiz, I’m Ursula from the Little Mermaid lol. 40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout?
I went to one scout meeting but the tiying of knots made me very deterred lol. 41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat?
Fly cause it’s quicker. I’m sorry, Greta. 42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night?
The sun and the moon and the planets spinning around each other and shit.  43. What does your name mean?
It apparently means “the beautiful soul”. That’s nice.  44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space?
The depth of of the ocean, definitely. There’s so many weird animals down there that we haven’t even discovered yet. Space is just way too spooky for me and it’s also way too complicated. 45. Word association What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word: Air: airplane Meat: Beef. Different: Neon Pink: Barbie Deserve: Warmth White: Winter Elvis: Presley Magic: Witch Heart: Love Clash: Punk Pulp: Fiction 46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be?
Easy. Kurt Cobain. 47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive?
Uhmm... That’s harder. Thinking of an earlier answer, meeting Greta Thunberg would be pretty interesting, actually. 48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it everyday?
Idk if I wanna watch it every day cause that would most definitely make it less of a good movie but Pulp Fiction. 49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do?
Oh my god just the thought of that makes me panic. I’d bring my phone so I could watch stuff. Hopefully, there’d be a socket in there. Maybe a book too. 50. Have you ever saved someone's life or had your life saved?
No.
51. Make up a definition for the following silly words... Fruitgoogle: A website full of fruit facts? Ambytime: A hangout spot for ambiverts? Idk. There’s one side of the room for social situations and then another side of the room where they can go and close themselves off and be introverted lol. Asscactus: A synonym for idiot. 52. What was the last thing you made with your own hands?
Coffee? Does that count? 53. What was your favorite toy as a child?
I had my stuffed poodle that I borught with me everywhere. Though I didn’t necessarily play with it. It was more of a comfort blanket. Oo I loved those Littlest Petshop figures for a bit when I was like nine! I collected them. 54. How many TV’s are in your house?
One. 55. What is your favorite thing to do outside?
I love to sit in a park and read a book in summer. I also enjoy skiing. Taking a nice walk with a friend is also great. 56. How do you feel when you see a rainbow?
It’s nice to see a rainbow. I don’t feel any big emotions about them though. 57. Have you ever dreamt a dream that came true?
No. 58. Have you ever been to a psychic/tarot reader?
No but I kinda want to just to see if I get manipulated by it. 59. What is your idea of paradise?
Death. I don’t want to end up in another universe when I die. I just wanna disappear and fall into a deep sleep that I don’t wake up from. 60. Do you believe in god and if so what is he/she/it like?
I don’t. 61. Do you believe in Hell?
No. 62. What one thing have you done that most people haven't?
I don’t know. I haven’t done anything super unique. 63. What is the kindest thing you have ever done?
Jesus, I don’t know. 64. Are you a patient person?
I like to think so but I don’t know actually. 65. What holiday should exist but doesn't?
I don’t know. Can’t think of anything. 66. What holiday shouldn't exist but does?
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t thanksgiving problematic? With the colonialism and stuff? 67. What's the best joke you ever heard?
No idea. That is a hard question to answer. 68. Where is the most fun place you have EVER been?
Hmm... I really enjoyed London when I was there. Ooo and going to The Met was amazing. Though “fun” maybe isn’t the best way to describe it lol. I am also a huge fan of theme parks.  69. Is your hair natural or dyed?
It’s natural. Though I kinda wanna dye it a little bit darker... 70. Do you have any deep dark secrets or are you pretty much up front?
I’m not up front at all. I have a lot of secrets. 71. What is under your bed right now?
The huge box that my TV came in. I want to save it for when I eventually move cause it’ll be easy to transport in. I keep it under my bed since I don’t have a storage unit, which sucks.  72. If you were in the Land of Oz would you want to live there or go home?
I’d wanna go home. The land of Oz wasn’t great, was it? 73. If you drive do you frequently speed?
I don’t drive. 74. What is the world's best song to dance to?
Hmm... Recently stumbled upon Break My Heart by Dua Lipa and that’s truly a good song to dance to. 75. What song was on the last time you danced with someone?
I bet that was at work. Every friday, there’s a music party thing where our activity organizer Andrea puts on music and they sing and dance.  76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers?
I’m not a huge Disney fan so I’ll go with Warner Brothers. 77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo?
I don’t support zoos. 78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic?
Haha, not at all. That’s probably the last word you’d ever connect to me. 79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off?
No. It would just be very dark and cold at some places, and hot on other. Or? 80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it?
I would definitely sacrifice things to see my best friends. 81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one right or freedom, but you could pick which one everyone had to lose, what would you pick?
Hm. Oh easy. The right to buy a gun. In America, that is. Stupid country. 82. If you had to choose would you live on the equator or at the North Pole?
The equator. I think I prefer sweating over being cold. Or maybe it’s just me being sick of winter by now? 83. Would you rather give up listening to music or watching television?
Watching television, easy. Music is important to me. 84. What do you think makes someone a hero?
Standing up for others and their rights. Showing radical empathy. 85. What cartoon would you like to be a character in?
Hm. I don’t know. 86. Name one thing that turns your stomach:
Saliva. I would rather deal with diarrea than saliva and mucus. Trigger warning for a nasty saliva story. I once had a lady on my unit who during her last time in life got these mucus attacks in her throat once and while but they were pretty easy to get rid of, but I remember one morning when I came to work and I heard something that sounded almost like an engine revving and I entered her apartment and she was convulsing and there was just yellow mucus bubbling out of her mouth like a jazucci and the SMELL. It was insane. I was standing there trying to scoop it out and I was just on the verge of throwing up constantly. Probably the nastiest thing I’ve ever experienced at work. Luckily, she could get a mucus desolving injection that calmed it down. I felt very bad for her. 87. What was the last thing you paid for?
Groceries.  88. Are you a coupon clipper?
No, but I do go onto my local ICA:s website to look at the weekly offers before I go grocery shopping. 89. Get anything good in the mail recently?
Nope. I’m waiting for this art print that I ordered from Etsy in January. I messaged the seller an she said that the post takes much longer time to arrive in times of covid so I hope it’ll arrive soon. I hope it hasn’t gotten lost or something. 90. Which would you rather take as a gym class...dancing, sailing, karate, or bowling?
Maybe karate. I’ve always sort of wanted to try martial arts but not enough to actually go to one myself. I’d do it if someone forced me lol. 91. In Star Trek people 'beam' back and forth between different places. What this means is they stand in a little tube and their molecules are deconstructed and sent to another tube somewhere else where they are reassembled. Only problem is when the molecules are deconstructed the person is dead. When they are put back together it is only a clone that has all the dead person's memories. So...
Is the person who gets beamed the same person on both ends?
Yeah, basically. 92. What insects are you afraid of?
Centipedes are nasty. Cockroaches too. 93. If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say?
Idk. It most likely exists already. 94. What's the most eccentric thing you have ever worn?
I remember having these shoes when I was like 16 who had a plastic platform with glitter in water inside the platform. I also have a huge leopard coat that I like to use. Though that isn’t super extreme. 95. If you could pick one food that you could eat all you wanted but it would have no effect on how much you weigh, what food would it be?
I’m a huge fan of baked goods. Love donuts and cinnamon buns and pastries. 96. What are your parents interested in? 97. Have you ever caught an insect and kept it as a pet?
Yes haha. I did that all the time when I was a child. We had those desks with a lid on it so you could put school books in there and there was several times when I put insects that I had caught in there. Very nasty. Have you ever caught and tamed a wild animal?
No. That is just purely unethical. 98. What is more helpful to you, wishes or plans?
You don’t get anywhere by wishing. Planning is where its at. 99. When do you feel your life energy the strongest?
When I feel successful at work. 100. You are spending the night alone in the woods and may bring only 3 items with you. What do you bring?
A knife, a tent and a sleeping bag. Or maybe a sword even lol. I am not getting attacked by anything.
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Amethyst #1: A Riveting Reboot
I could say Amethyst #1 written and illustrated by Amy Reeder is a work of art and you’d all be like “no duh, gidge. comics are half art” but Amethyst #1 is also clearly a work of LOVE. I’ve been reading and flailing and feeling like I should review, but have been uncertain where to start. So I shall try to simply pick 10 delights that stand out to me.
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1. Her mom and dad. Amy’s origin has clearly been restored from the left turn at Albuquerque that was the nu52. I love that Reeder shows right out the gate that Amy’s adoptive parents are supportive yet struggling with raising a daughter that spends more and more time in a magical realm they can’t enter. Or can they? We will see what the rules are as we go.
In the original series, anybody who didn’t have magic risked getting lost and stranded between realms if they tried to cross between the Gemworld and earth. That doesn’t conflict with the glimpses we’ve seen in YJ, exactly, so we’ll wait and see how things unfold.
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2. One thing that DOES conflict with what we’ve seen in YJ though: Turquoise’s number of arms. Or, the number of arms on anybody living in her entire kingdom for that matter. Might be that Reeder and Bendis didn’t get a chance to double-check those details against each other before committing to their scripts. But who thinks to ask about things like that though? (“Hey, your redesign of this character has the standard 4 limbs or less, not 6, right?”)
You know what? I’m okay with this. We get pretty Bendis/Gleason?/Timms? design and this totally funky four-armed broad-sword user and I think I will enjoy seeing if they actually DO come up with an in-canon explanation of the discrepancy.
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Also, apparently this Turquoise is married? He’s clearly a consort rather than a ruler, and I wanna know more. (All of the bullpen appears on board with avoiding the Amy/Topaz/Turquoise love triangle from the original series and that’s probably for the best. I just hope that we’ll get to see my boy Topaz at some point anyway, even if he’s no longer a romantic candidate for either fair lady.)
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3. Hallelujah! We have a name! I have always loved that Amethyst rides around on a pegasus/pegacorn (another YJ mismatch here, but seems like semantics to me). BUT HE’S NEVER HAD A NAME. HE FINALLY HAS A NAME! IT’S A BADASS NAME. Ypsilos. Greek & unique. I dig it. ‘Bout time.
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4. Her mentors. Granch and Citrine(a) are back! Ok, they’re actually missing, but it was good to see their faces smiling down on itty bitty!Amy. I dug the way “witch mother Citrina” would roll off the tongue in the original series, but it didn’t make totally sense that everybody gets to take the exact name of a gemstone while Citrine gets her name kinda anglicized by sticking an A on the end. Small fix, I appreciate the logic.
I’m wondering if Cintrine is as powerful of a magic user in this story as she was in the original. I mean, probably not, bc of House Amethyst disapearing without a trace, but it will be cool to see how it goes. I dig how Amy notes how much she usually relies on them, and how this sensibly leads to…
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5. Noob ruler, a lil’ tone-deaf. She’s clearly trying. Taking some good speech-giving cues from Braveheart, probably. But this scene shows she IS inexperienced and bc she’s still in training, she doesn’t have a lot of trust from her neighboring common people. PEOPLE IN THE CROWD ARE MISSING LIMBS. Turquoise warned her about this. These people clearly HAVE been fighting. They aren’t turning her down bc they lack courage. They’re just insulted that this tiny neighbor princess showed up in a BALLGOWN royal-splaining warrior grit to them.
I gotta admit, I was a bit worried when Amy Reeder’s interview (also at the back of the comic) came out, and she talked about Amy Winston having a “little miss perfect” personality. There were some character details that never got fleshed out about 80′s Amy, but I’m relieved that this new iteration actually has some of the original character flaws shown.
She’s a lil’ presumptuous. She gets her ideas from watching Earth movies and TV. Sometimes it pans out, and she’s like “Of course it did! You backwards middle ages people are so quaint. No worries, I will bless you with my high school knowledge of democracy and vaccination.” But she lacks the foresight to see when and why a youthful earth-style plan won’t work in the Gemworld’s environment.
Re-worked Amy just gets really lucky here that Nameless Warrior of the Cool Haircut and Rad Caterpillar Creature sees that she’s such a tiny summer child and decides to assist, impugning of honor aside.
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6. Monsters vs. Innocent Creatures. This was always a fun aspect of the Gemworld! Is that a terrifying monster or a cute critter? Maybe it’s both! Or maybe its not a monster at all, and you’re just biased. Nice to meet you, Stan.
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7. Living birth parents? That’s a twist (Or, it still CAN be.) In the original series, Amy’s birth father was revealed be the host of a Lord of Order (If that sounds familiar, it’s a Dr. Fate thing.) That meant she technically had an original living parent, but… that’s where the writing went South and turned obnoxiously edgy and tangential. But this implies that both her bio mom and dad are plain-ol’-fashioned alive. Which is new and an intriguing dangling plot-thread. Cool cool.
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8. He’s just… so evil. It’s great. I’ve already blubbered about the pleasant simplicity of Dark Opal’s villainy, but I also appreciate that his funky face clasp is back, and I dig the drone-spiders. In the original series, his adopted son Carnelian was the techie, so I’ll be curious to see if there any nods to that in the future.
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9. One seriously solid exposition page. Pretty, concise... and just enough holes to entice. This implies that the events of the first Amethyst mini series have ALREADY HAPPENED in this continuity. But some things are CLEARLY different. (Turquoise kingdom world-building, Amy does not change her age between realms, etc.) That leaves some surprises in store.
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10. First issue parallels. It’s her birthday. Again. Her parents are giving her title-drop jewelry. Again. She’s all gussied up in an over-the-top dress for her mentor’s sake, but it’s completely inappropriate for battling evil which is what she’s gonna have to ACTUALLY go do bc that’s her luck. Again. I do love me some good symmetry.
TO CONCLUDE... I am so, so happy to read this. Reeder has done right by my girl, and I look forward to issue #2. Huzzah!
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☄〔 HUNTER SCHAFER, TWENTY ONE, TRANS FEMALE, DREAM TRAVEL 〕╰ ASHLEY FLYNN just came over half - blood hill . you know , the child of HYPNOS who was claimed two months ago ? i’ve heard chiron say that she is PLAYFUL & EMPATHETIC , but if you ask the aphrodite kids , they’d say she’s LAZY & TACTLESS . i’d say they remind me of sleepy smiles and under-eye bags, messy buns and an unmade bed, running from your problems with bare feet & trying to hard to keep your friends but losing them anyway, especially since she’s FOR THE NEW CABINS . ( ✎ joey , 24 , she/her , bst . )
*insert nice graphic here aka for the love of god someone find me a photoshop link*
hi! its your resident sea witch joey here ready to bombard you with an encyclopedic knowledge of the greek pantheon and uk criminal law?? i guess??? if u dont already know, i’m the one with six (6) cats. i combined my task and intro because im LAZY and bad at intros so i’ll use paige’s stats as a crutch whoops. ash is the lazy laid-back stoner friend everyone needs. she has no trauma because she DOESN’t DESERVE IT so maybe the real trauma will be the friends we make along the way.
𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕔𝕤 .
name :  ashley finn
nicknames : ash, whatever cute names u wanna give her
birth date :  4th february (aquarius squad speak up!)
gender :  trans female
pronouns :  she/her
ethnicity : white
nationality : irish american
hometown : ?? idk american towns SUE ME but she’s from SOMEWHERE in oregon
demigod abilities : sleep manipulation, dream manipulation, dream travel
cabin number & godly parent :  cabin fifteen, hypnos
how did their godly parent meet their mortal parent? :  hlhglkhg so i thought it’d be funny if they met when ash’s mum participated in a sleep research study. i think i’m hilarious.
𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 .
faceclaim : hunter schafer
height :  5′11″
hair colour : blonde
eye colour : blue/green.
dominant hand : leftie!
distinguishing features : her hair’s actually super curly she just straightens it a lot bc curly bedhead is a bitch to brush through in the mornings.
dress style : ugh this is gonna be hard to explain but like. you know those alt hippy stoner girls?? like that. likes baggy clothes and neutral colours. a lot of quote unquote ugly clothes with clashing prints. band t-shirts and whatnot.
𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕡-𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 .
go - to  weapon : HAH implying she willingly participates in capture the flag. she’d go for a xiphos because it’s the most basic dfkjg
ambrosia :  garlic bread. yeah she’s that kind of bitch
favourite camp location :  zephyros creek!
their opinion of their godly parent :  really unbothered tbqh. but she’s a very laid-back person to begin with. a ton of her school friends had absent dads. if she hadn’t come to chb so early then maybe the whole ‘i have powers with no explanation’ would’ve caused some resentment but hey, he’s a god. he’s a busy man. and being raised by a single mum made up most of who ash is, so it’s not like she’d change anything.
age they were claimed :  this year baby!
how they were claimed :  look dad’s timing was off but as far as he was concerned he claimed ash when percy made the deal. ash kinda always knew it was gonna be him so it was no surprise.
stance on the new cabins : for  the  new  cabins.
their opinion on lyssa pentelute :   as far as ash is concerned, lyssa’s whole shtick is just an excuse to shit on the kids who don’t have to suffer the same way she did. so, uh, she’s kind of a bitch? i have this in a bit more detail down below.
quests :  i’m gonna tentatively put no for now (unless anyone else on quests decides they’d like to have dragged ash along!)
𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 .
positive traits : playful, empathetic, laid-back, friendly but not a pushover, patient
negative traits :  lazy, tactless, aloof,  spacey, struggles to express said empathy, lack of focus
mbti :  Iinfp-t, the mediator
alignment : neutral good
hogwarts house :  hufflepuff
kinsey scale : JUST ASK IF SHES A LESBIAN OKAY?? THE ANSWER IS YES.
archetype :  somehow she matched equally with the innocent child and the wise old man *insert so what is the truth meme*
what candle scent are they :  vanilla
goals & desires :  well this one was tricky bc ash is a simple girl with simple needs and really just doesn’t want anything to change. she wants a life without the pressures of work and commitment, but that’s just not gonna happen, is it? her short-term goals are to practice fighting that urge to stay in bed all day and try to be a bit more productive. it’s not going well.
fears : explained more below but basically she has a fear of destroying all her relationships due to a lack of connect with the world
hobbies : when she’s not napping? probably gaming, going on nature walks, baking treats.
habits :  biting nails is the worst one. spacing out. you know that thing where you just?? stop focusing your eyes?? but you’re still tuned in to the conversation? that.
𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 .
so hear’s the short version kfjglkdfgjd ( for NOW ):
ashley’s mum, niamh, is third-gen irish immigrant. ash didn’t have a luxurious life or anything. they mostly lived off benefits or whatever niamh could pick up from her extremely lucrative dog-walking business. how she met hypnos was a literal joke. they met when she participated in a fucking sleep study and i guess they hit it off. typical story of dad fucks off/single parent yadda yadda. there’s no real ~~trauma~~ to ash. yeah, transphobia sucks and high school really sucked all but her mum’s been super supportive since she first came out and no one at chb has given her shit yet. niamh’s still around and ash goes back home every couple of months to visit her. they have a pretty good relationship. it’s all cool.
i feel cliche saying she was a ‘dreamy’ girl but dreamy or spacey really is the best word for it. mixed with your typical demigod adhd you get a kid who really struggled with school. well, it’s not like she struggled - ashley’s a smart gal - but the teacher’s struggled with her. i guess it was hard for them to understand that ash actually does her best thinking when she’s asleep.
struggles to keep friends - maintains a persona of aloofness and apathy but actually cares way too much. the narcolepsy hinders her ability to form proper connections ( although she’ll argue the sCiEnTiFiCaLlY pRoVeN fAcT that napping with someone for half an hour does more to build trust than anything else ). and no one’s really that fond of ash popping into their dreams. maybe they shouldnt have so much to hide, huh?
her biggest ‘’’ inner struggle ’’’ shall we say is the pressure to be productive. let’s face it, she IS a lazy bitch, and that’s pretty much an inherited nature. getting a job sounds like hell, she sucks at combat training, she really could NOT be bothered with camp politics and god wars and whatever else. why can’t she just sleep and dream walk all day? monster’s are out there man, she’s gonna die some point soon anyway. but that doesn’t mean  she doesn’t feel guilty about it all. it’s kinda hard not to.
so, moving on to the ISSUE AT HAND. so when you walk through dreams and you sleep for 20 hours of the day, it’s not hard to figure out who your dad is, even if he never turns up. like, seriously, who else would it be? so yeah, sure. she was only claimed a couple of months ago. but she wasn’t completely in the dark like some of her other campers, and she respects that, truly. she got the luckier end of the stick and its not hard to understand the resentment among the minor demigods and the unclaimed.
HOWEVER, she’s very much FOR the new cabins. as explained above, lyssa’s a bitch whose taking her mummy issues out on others. ash loves bunking with the hermes kids but she’d like a space of her own and at the end of the day who the fuck is lyssa to make that decision?
𝕖𝕩𝕥𝕣𝕒 .
pinterest! (its a wip there’s not much IM SORRY)
spotify (now this is the one thing i will never let u down on)
wanted connections coming soon!
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V3 Girls + Sandwich Stealer
HOW would the V3 girls react to a large bird snatching their sandwich away from them?
Hey who wants a stupid fact? I didn’t know you didn’t spell sandwich without a T until like sixth grade, so I was just eating a lot of witches who like sand.
Poor Himiko...
-Mod Shuichi
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Tenko Chabashira
Her.
Her sandwich.
Kirumi Tojo made that sandwich.
You degenerate bird.
She lets out the loudest warcry she can before she goes on the attack towards that degenerate bird, luckily enough their in a dome so they both can’t get too far.
With enough screaming the bird finally lets go of her sandwich and a... couple of other sandwiches alongside it, she looks forlorn at her sandwich... wasted... she wipes a tear from her eye.
The bird flies down to try to pick it back up, she almost glares at it but Himiko comes by immediately going to capture the bird in her witch-hat. “M-My dove went missing! I was looking for her everywhere... thanks Tenko...”
Tenko feels her heart grow lighter rubbing the back of her neck, not even bothered at the now-ruined sandwich in her hands. “... N-No problem! Himiko...”
Thank you, you degenerate bird.
Himiko Yumeno
She chewed at her sandwich just minding her business, and then one of her doves came down and swooped it straight from her hands... She looked up feeling her lip quiver.
That... she... she made it herself... it was so tiring to make too... she almost cries...
Until she realizes that’s her bird, that makes her want to DOUBLE cry...
She picks herself up, taking her hat and some birdseeds out. “Coooome baaack! Nyeeeeh...! Noooo...”
She hesitantly follows along letting out a whine and some complaints too, she gets to...! That’s her sandwiiiiich... nooo...
She finds Tenko a good while away, Wait is that...? She rushes towards her pushing forward with all the muscles in her legs, it kinda’ burns... what a pain...
Angie Yonaga
Angie stares up at the bird who fled away her sandwich within it’s little beak, she clasps her hands together.
“Atua shall enact their heavenly revenge on you, Angie sees! Thank you Atua! How heavenly~!”
She goes to find Kirumi so she can find another sandwich to eat, one that won’t get stolen.
When she finds Kirumi and asks her to make a sandwich! She agrees, this was the easiest solution to such a problem y’know? Should’ve expected it.
Kaede Akamatsu
When the bird catches her sandwich ich within it’s beak she looks a little surprised but there’s honestly no need to cry over spilt milk is there? Of course it’s a pain, especially since Kirumi made it but... Kirumi’s in the kitchen, so like a responsible person she...
She should go to Kirumi for another sandwich, why... really! Good for the bird who ate it, but isn’t that Himiko’s dove?
Oh well...! It’s not like they won’t catch it soon, yeah?
Iruma Miu
...
She’s making an invention, a pesticide for damn birds. She grumbles at the lost of her lunch with a grimace, her stomach rumbles...
Her brilliant mind shouldn’t have to go through this, her goldren brain cells burst whenever they have to deal with BULLSHIT like this...!
She’s groaning the time throughout as she goes by to her lab to create a bird pesticide, why... hell! Why not make it cool? Like a gun.
Yeaaah... Bird-Gun! What a genius invention!
Miu can’t help but to smirk, her genius brain has done it yet again!
She holds out the gun, she made it perfect for gettin’ rid of birds! Kehehehe!
Tsumugi Shirogane
“Ah! What a plain shame... Well I wasn’t that hungry anyway.”
She just doesn’t care, it was just a sanwitch and nothing more...?
Tsumugi isn’t even that hungry.
Yeah alright, she’s fine.
Maki Harukawa
Maki grumbles lightly looking down at the sandwiches Kaito has made to show his two best sidekicks his appreciation!
They don’t... even look bad, they look good, really good considering what an idiot he is...
“Yep! These are sandwiches made with allllll of Kaito Momota’s love for the two of you, I was gonna ask Kirumi but she already made snacks for everybody else! Didn’t wanna disturb her.” Kaito says pressing his fists together, with that cliched grin.
“This is really good Kaito... I... I didn’t know you could cook...” Shuichi’s already biting into the food, he looks happy. “R-Really... almost as good as Kirumi’s...”
“... Heh! I know, told ya’ I put a hella’ ton of effort into this! Anyway, whatdya’ think Makiroll?” Kaito with his big idiotic smile turns to her for her reaction, she sulks.
Maki doesn’t even try to say some snarky comment, she just goes in for a bite with a huff.
...
Then a bird snatches it away before she can even take a bite, Kaito and Shuichi watch it fly away...
Maki stares at it fly away, Kaito lets out a gasp and Shuichi looks dumbfound.
“Oh’ shit... sorry Makiroll...! Guess you won’t get to try my cooking, but I’m pretty sure Kirumi’s taking requests again so there’s no needta’ fret-“ Kaito can’t even finish.
Maki walks away from the scene her face having gone dark, a threatening aura spilling out of her.
Can Miu make her a gun? It’s the only way she’ll be able to reach that damned bird....
Maki sulks all day.
Kirumi Tojo
Kirumi watches the bird fly away, ah that’s one of the doves from within Himiko’s lab. Did she accidentally let them loose? That’s not the issue, that bird is flying around without care... how unsightly, that’s not even the worst of it, it even took away the sandwich she made for herself for her break...
Kirumi pats at her dress, she should try to find something to get it down from there, so she scurries off inside.
While it appears she’s gained more duties to fulfill, Angie walks up to her asking for another sandwich which takes little to no time to prepare so she decides to finish that off before the bird problem, she goes to get to work done in the kitchen.
She’s rather surprised to hear the bird problem’s been solved when she leaves the kitchen, yet nobody bothers to explain what occurred... she doesn’t press on the issue.
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And here we are, the other post I promised and totally didn't stall on putting out because lazy.
First, I'd like to address something. One thing that bugged me in my favorite list was that I put characters that didn't even appear in the comic on there. This was kind of unfair in my opinion. I rather give characters a chance to shine and not just go off of a few pictures and a bio. I rather see them in action first. This is why I will be excluding any characters that did not appear or have a prominent role in the comic. Hell, to put this in perspective, if I just went off of Damian's character sheet and not his role in the comic, he wouldn't be my favorite character.
And just in case you guys wanna know what my favorites list would be like if I excluded those that didn't make an appearance, here you go:
Honourable mention, Carrie. 5, Cameron. 4. Mackenzie. 3, Addison. 2, Jack. 1, Damian.
We good? And before we get into the list proper, let me say that I don't hate these characters. Some on here are characters that I like. I just like them the least for some reason.
Also, here are some unmentionables (aka, characters you probably expected to be here but aren't )
KAYLA: yeah, yeah, I went on an unnecessarily long tangent about her introduction (which I'm not proud of and plan to re do). I also said that I hated her in arc 2. I just wanna clear something up, I don't hate Kayla. I dislike how she ended up being written, but ultimately her problems came solely from her being the victim of a bad introduction, not the character herself. So, I'm leaving her off the list.
DAPHNE : I know, she's a femin-nazi, everyone else hates her, I ought to hate her too. Daphne, however, only made a brief appearance in the comic. She didn't even get any lines. I want to see her in action before I declare her a least favorite.
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NOW onto the list! I will warn you all that since I limited this to characters that played a role and had more then 2 lines of dialog, there are going to be entries that you are NOT going to like. And I apologize for that. I didn't have fun putting some of these characters on here, so let's suffer together. First, a dishonorable mention.
DISHONORABLE MENTION :
ADDISON WOODS
Yeah guys, I wasn't kidding when I said that I was split on Addison. Look, there is plenty to like about him, and after the headcanons, he's grown on me. And he was an alright character in the comic. Not impressive, but alright.
Then came chapter 5.
Oh boy.
Guys, let me ask you a question. Have you ever come across a character who, no matter how many stupid or irrational decisions they make, they never get called out for it? Their dumb decisions never backfire on them? And like that, I think you know where I'm going with this.
A lot of us know by now that Addison was created by Xirxin, and that they do try to recapture him, and that he knows they're after him, right. So, Addi. ... WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU GO OUT WITH SOMEONE YOU BEARLY KNOW!? Don't you have some sort of PTSD from being experimented on that is triggered by people touching you? Well, maybe not because you clearly aren't concerned about being recaptured by Xirxen. If you were, you wouldn't be heading out ALONE with a stranger. The funny thing is that, despite what Addi is doing by going on a date with Gustav, the story treats Addison like what he is doing isn't stupid. At most, Damian is made out to be irrational for being against this whole thing, and at most, Addi's mother only gets SLIGHTLY concerned about this.
Oh yeah, and there was that incident with Mackenzie. Look, story, I get it, no one likes Mackenzie, but are we just going to ignore that Addison attacked her when she was trying to help him? She didn't know about his PTSD, and yet not only does Addi not apologize to her, characters like Gustav act like Addi did nothing wrong. It's just brushed over as a meltdown. Um, I'm sorry, but no. Addi might have some issues, but Mackenzie didn't know, and is blamed for the incident by others instead of Addi because she committed the awful crime of trying to help. Kill me.
5.
SAHARA
Look, I love Sahara. She's cool, and I love clumsy witches. The problem here is that she's kinda forgettable.
The issue is that not only has she not really done something no one else could do (no, really. Her role in arc 2 could've been anyone else, and nothing would have changed), out of her, Addi, and Dame, Sahara is the least interesting of the group.
Granted, she is going up against Mr." I was created in a Labratory, evil scientists are after me, and I'm cute and sassy" and Mr. "I am literally the anti christ and if ch 3 suggested anything, it's that I have issues and I'm somewhat sociopathic since I can torture my cousin and not give a damn". And besides, Sahara could still be compelling if given a striking personality by the comic. As my buddy, lillysash97, pointed out to me, there are some things here and there we can use to read between the lines and get an idea of who she is.
Still, what puts the nail in the coffin for me is that Sahara's lack of a compelling personality and story is made worse when you put her beside characters who have a lot more going on with them, and even vivziepop has called Sahara "that one friend no one gives a crap about " . Vivz realises that Sahara isn't as interesting as Dame and Addi, yet nothing is done about it.
I personally believe that Sahara is underrated, but at the same time, I get why not as many people like her.
4.
ZECHARIAH
Again, love this character. Especially love his moments with Cameron. However, when I started analyzing zoophobia for my rewrite series, I realized that Zech actually makes some of the wierdest decisions in the story. For instance,
In arc 1, he goes on about how horrible it is that Cameron was not informed about safe haven and what it was. He then proceeds to have her not know what safe haven is until CH 3, where she had to yell at people to get answers.
Also, Zech knows he has a demon as a student in school and that demons are outlawed in safe haven. And yet he apparently never tells the SH authority that Damian is attending school and is allowed to be up here. Kay then.
Look, Zech, love you, but for someone in a position of power, you might want to start making better decisions.
3.
GUSTAV
Now we get the characters I really don't like.
Not too much to say about Gustav here. I wish we had gotten more then just straight up douche before CH 5 for him. When he appeared in ch 2, he was just kinda there and didn't contribute much. When ch 5 rolled around, it was like "who's this guy again? "
Also, can we talk about how he treats Mackenzie. It actually makes no sense. In arc 2, he kicks Mackenzie off for wearing an odd costume. Gustav, you're in the theater world. How is a Fucking cat hoodie wierd to you? People dress up in much weirder things for Broadway musicals. Also, in ch 5, not only does he blame Mackenzie for Addi attacking her (victim blaming is definitely going to make people like you Gustav, totally ) when she was trying to help Addi, he says that he would've reacted worse. Gustav, please tell me you wouldn't have stabbed someone if they accidentally spill paint on you and then tried to help you. Oh, and apparently tripping is a terrible thing to do, and anyone who does it should be ashamed.
Even when Gustav defended Addi from Tom, I couldn't help but feel that the only reason he was acting nice now was because his smol baie was in trouble.
Basically, Gustav is a straight up douche. Apparently we were going to learn more about him later on in ch5, so maybe he might get better.
Oh yeah, and thus far, he hasn't become that interesting, but at least he isn't one of the main cast and hasn't had almost 2 chapters to star in. So maybe we can overlook him not being too interesting for now.
Oh yeah, and speaking of the character I was referring to just now.....
2.
ZILL VALDEZ
You guys remember how I said that Jack and Dame were interesting characters that had a lot going on for them and how both had strong introductions and were entertaining to watch?
What if we looked at the complete opposite? We'd get Zill.
Look, I'm sorry, but Zill is not that interesting. His introduction barely sets up his character. In ch 2, the most interesting thing involving him was the vampire attack. We get subjected to his and Kayla's relationship problems without being given a reason to care, and in ch 4, all we get is that he can sing, he is a good guy who does good guy things, used to be a womanizer, is in love Kayla and is drifting away from Jack. To once again reference something my buddy lillysash97 mentioned, it's disappointing that we can read into characters like Sahara who hasn't had as much time to shine than Zill.
Also, you have to admit, ch 2 made Zill seem like the most oblivious fucker on the planet. When Kayla dumped him, I couldn't help but feel that he kinda deserved it. I mean, is Jack really the only one who knew about the anniversary? We see Kayla telling Vanex about it, and since Sahara clearly knows about it, clearly there are other people who know about the anniversary. Are you telling me no one asked about or mentioned the anniversary to Zill in a week? I don't think Damian locked every student in ZPA in a locker. Either by some magical coincidence, no one brings up the anniversary to Zill, or Zill is so oblivious, he doesn't know that people aren't talking about the talent show.
Maybe Zill will become more interesting later on. At least he isn't a FUCKING WASTE OF SPACE -- --
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HORRIS THE WINDY FUCK.
......
Why.
Why did this bird show up? Not only is he kind of annoying, he had no reason to show up. Just have Vegenza f stuff up, leave him out, and nothing would change.
Even as I look more into zoophobia, I don't get why this character exists. Look, a character can be boring. They can be a terrible person. At least they'd probably have a reason to be there.
But this character. ...
Why?
And that's all I have to say.
Feel free to ask questions and tell me what you think
I apologize for wasting your time
- ATOUN
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songwritingswift · 5 years
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If I’m being completely honest, I was really sceptical about reputation when it first came out. It just wasn’t what I was expecting and it always takes me a really long time to get used to things, get used to things that were a surprise. But after listening to it and listening to it, I suddenly found myself in love with it. I have a much more complicated relationship with it than I do her other albums and I don’t relate to it as much as I have earlier albums but then I tend to relate to them more strongly when I reach Taylor was when she wrote them so there’s still time. But regardless of all of that, I love it and I’ve learned a lot from it as a songwriter.
… Ready For It? – Such a powerful opener to the album. It sets the scene so richly, especially lyrically. We’re plunged into this brand new world without time to think about anything else. 
Favourite lyric: Every love I've known in comparison is a failure
End Game – Probably my least favourite but only because I’m not a Future or Ed Sheeran fan. I love Taylor’s section and I think it has some of the strongest lyrics of the album in it. 
Favourite lyric: And I bury hatchets, but I keep maps of where I put 'em
I Did Something Bad – I will never forget hearing Taylor say ‘shit’ for the first time... I love how empowering this song is. If I need to hype myself for something, this is one of my go to songs. I would love for Taylor to expand on the burning of the witches at some point. 
Favourite lyric: If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing // They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one
Don’t Blame Me – I love the darkness in this track. I think, at some point in the secret sessions, Taylor said that this one was based around the idea that the three things that can really change a person are love, drugs, and religion and so she tried to incorporate that into the song. I can definitely feel that. I love the gospel like quality to the last choruses.
Favourite lyric: I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your daisy
Delicate – Ugh, the production in this one is so clever and I love a good anti-chorus. The use of the vocoder throughout the album is a really cool way of creating a cohesiveness to it but I also like the way it’s used less and less as the album goes on. I also love how, in the bridge, she sings on all the off beats, creating a really different feel to the rest of the song.
Favourite lyric: Handsome, you're a mansion with a view
Look What You Made Me Do – My brain always assumes I don’t like this song but it’s just the chorus that I don’t really like - I don’t like the spoken-ness to it. But I think it’s SO clever and I love the lyrics in the rest of the song. 
Favourite lyric: But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time
So It Goes… – I feel like this song is not appreciated enough. The symmetry in the lyrics, the imagery, the production... It’s its own world inside a song.
Favourite lyric: But, honestly, baby, who's counting? Who's counting? 1, 2, 3...
Gorgeous – I didn’t really fall in love with this song until I heard it live. Hearing an entire stadium singing it together and it just clicked: I loved it. My one issue with it is that the line ‘unless you wanna come along’ sounds so out of tune to me. Does anyone else hear that?
Favourite lyric: You should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong
Getaway Car – I love everything about this song. Everything. It’s a feature film in four minutes. The storytelling is incredible and the imagery is stunning. 
Favourite lyric: THE WHOLE SONG // Should've known I'd be the first to leave, think about the place where you first met me
King Of My Heart – I love the rhythm of the pre chorus and the tension that is then released in the chorus. It’s so clever and creates that feeling of relief that’s mirrored in the lyrics. And I love how the choruses just get bigger and bigger throughout the song. 
Favourite lyric: And all at once, you are the one I have been waiting for
Dancing With Our Hands Tied – It took a while but now I absolutely love this one. And the songwriting behind it is so fascinating. I love the repetition of ‘I had a bad feeling’ throughout, like that was a constant anxiety. It kind of reminds me of ‘Out of the Woods.’
Favourite lyric: I knew there was no one in the world who could take it, I had a bad feeling // I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us
Dress – I’ll admit I was shocked by such a bold statement but now I appreciate what went into it and what it means to make that statement. It’s somewhat fitting that this is one of the most honest and vulnerable songs on the album.
Favourite lyric: Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes, even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – I love how sassy this one is. I live for unapologetic Taylor. Again, I think this one is so clever (I mean, who else has used the phrase ‘therein lies the issue’ in a song?!) and I love the last chorus and outro. It was perfect for the tour closer. 
Favourite lyric: And there are no rules when you show up here, bass beat rattling the chandelier
Call It What You Want – THE LYRICS in this one! They’re just amazing. It gives us such an insight into her relationship and that’s really special. 
Favourite lyric: My castle crumbled overnight, I brought a knife to a gunfight, they took the crown but it's alright
New Year’s Day – I love this as an album closer. After all the glitter and the fanfare, we’re left with the heart of Taylor’s music and that is her songwriting. It’s gentle and sincere and pulls you into it’s own little world, one more time before the album finishes. And I love that it’s so simple, production wise; a more complicated arrangement would almost detract from it.
Favourite lyric: Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you, and I will hold on to you
There’s so much more I could write but that’s all I can do for now. Ever since the album came out, I’ve wanted to write a huge, in depth thing about everything in it but I just haven’t been able to. I’ve been so unwell this year and had so many bad experiences with medications that just getting through is all I can manage. I’m grateful to have had reputation through it, even if I can’t say it as eloquently as I would like to. Thank you @taylorswift.
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Follow Your Arrow Pt.1 (Trixya) - Pichitinha
A/N: I am back with even less plot than the last two times! I bet you didn’t think that was possible, but it is. Anyway, Trixie’s an aspiring country singer and I am obsessed with Brandy Clark ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s on AO3 as usual and you can find me here as @pichitinha. Enjoy!
Katya has spent the entire afternoon checking the clock behind her every five minutes, yearning for it to go faster, to reach 5pm soon so she can log-off her computer and get the hell out of the suffocating building.
It’s nearing 7:30pm when she manages to do so. She’s tired, all the muscles in her body hurt from sitting down on her horrible chair and her mind has practically given up at this point. She’s angry, she hates the place and the job and, okay, she doesn’t hate the people because she doesn’t really hate anyone but by god are they boring and no help at all in making the day any better. She’s also sad, she’d been looking forward to going over to Alaska’s so they could watch the new episode of their reality TV show together but she’s missed it because one stupid client had kept her for over two hours longer than she needed to stay.
She wants to quit so bad. She really wishes she could.
As soon as she hits the sidewalk and looks over to the bus stop where she’s supposed to go, she sees her bus there already, the last passenger climbing in. She makes a motion in its direction, considers running and yelling and raising her arms to call the driver’s attention, but she’s a bit far and knows the chances are small. Her body aches and she doesn’t have it in her. She settles for the fact that the next one will take at least thirty minutes and that she’ll be home in just a bit over that if she walks, so she starts walking in long strides.
She’s never walked home from here before, but she knows the city and she knows the way. She takes this opportunity to look around, to see what’s changed in the streets she’s known since she was a child but hasn’t visited in a while. She’s surprised by the amount of new stores and bars and clubs in what she remembers being a fairly residential neighborhood.
She comes to a stop in front of a bar. It looks like it’s themed, part sci-fi, part medieval, sort of steampunk style. She can faintly hear the sound of music coming from the inside and it sounds live. It’s a man and he has a nice voice and he’s singing some sort of acoustic version of a song from N'sync.
She can’t say she isn’t curious.
Usually Katya avoids bars, thinks it’s easier to not tempt herself even though she’s fairly grounded in her sobriety for a long time now and can easily be around alcohol with no issues, but she needs to go in and see what this place is about, thinks about having a cool new place to bring her friends one day so they’ll stop saying her outing choices are always weird and the same. Maybe then they’ll just be weird but new.
She enters and she immediately loves the crowd around the bar. It looks like a regular bar - as in, non-gay, which is a type of place she hasn’t visited in a while - but everyone seems weird which is something she appreciates and it makes her feel at home. There are people dressed in steampunk costumes, there’s a crowd on the biggest table that is all in cosplay and Katya thinks they’re celebrating something, and around the bar there are people dressed in all possible different styles.
Near the stage she sees the sign: Variety Amateur Cover Tuesday. The guy on the stage is finishing his cover of Bye Bye Bye as she sits down and soon a girl in punk clothes comes in and starts singing something that Katya thinks is from The Clash, but she might be wrong. She figures that that’s what variety means, that they have all different musical styles, and Katya looks around to see that everyone is there for that, that everyone is simply enjoying all the songs from different styles and she smiles.
She orders herself a ginger ale, decides to sit in for a few songs before heading back home to take the shower she so desperately wants and needs, and upon closer inspection she sees that there’s a list close to the bar with the names of the people that’ll be performing and what musical style they’ll be doing. She figures which one is the girl singing right now, and if she’s right the next one will be country.
That’s a drastic change. She hopes the girl - Trixie Mattel, says the paper - will be able to hold the crowd.
Soon enough the girl is leaving the stage to a round of applause and oozing country style comes in the person Katya assumes to be Trixie. She has her guitar on her hands, she’s wearing blue cowboy boots that don’t quite go but don’t quite clash with her yellow dress either, and her hair is definitely going for full Dolly Parton fantasy.
“Hi, I’m the gal that’s not here a long time, but I’m here for a good time, Trixie Mattel!” she says to introduce herself and fixes her guitar on her lap as she sits on the stool, and Katya can’t help but laugh at her remark. “Despite the hair and the style I will not be doing Dolly today. I hope you enjoy, though.”
Trixie adjusts her short pink nails on the guitar strings and starts a slow but catchy melody. When she starts singing, Katya is blown away by her voice. She doesn’t know the song, has no idea who the artist is, but she finds Trixie’s choice good because the lyrics are incredible. She sings with emotion and Katya finds herself wondering how much of the song applies to her own life.
“- it’s been a forty-hour week, and it’s only Tuesday -”
“Uhuh,” Katya hums in agreement to the words and raises her glass slightly, and she’s mildly surprised when she realizes that Trixie notices it and smiles a bit at her as she keeps on singing.
“- she lights a cigarette out on the balcony
When she gets a couple minutes to herself -”
She raises the tone at that, the words leaving her mouth in a beautiful strong tune, and Katya nods again, but this time Trixie’s looking down at her guitar, her fingers looking agile and natural on the strings as she keeps singing to the crowd, never once faltering.
When the song is nearing its end she stops playing the instrument and follows the rhythm using only her voice, and Katya knows that that’s a fairly common practice for singers, but as someone who sounds like a strangled eagle, she’s in awe.
“- So she’s a mom and a dad and a taxi driver
When the baby’s sick, she’s an up-all-nighter
A hand and a shoulder and a referee
A real life hero if you ask me
‘Cause those kids ain’t gonna raise themselves -”
She plays a couple of final notes on the last verse, lets the sound end together with her singing, and Katya finds herself clapping louder than anyone in the room when she bows. Trixie’s eyes turn to her and she smiles one more time, and then she’s leaving the stage, going on the opposite direction from Katya.
Katya bites her lower lip and looks down to her watch. As much as she wants to get home, it’s still early and she can spare a few minutes. She looks around, checks every corner to see if she can find Trixie, but the singer is nowhere to be found. Soon the stage is taken again, this time by a guy to whom Katya pays no attention at all as she orders another soda and keeps looking around, convincing herself she’s not waiting for Trixie to appear again even though she most definitely is.
The guy on stage finishes his R&B - in the back of her mind Katya thinks he sounded good and she claps, but she’s not really sure - and the next person on stage seems to work for the bar as he’s giving an announcement.
“Hi, everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the songs, we’ve been getting really good reviews on our Tuesday night variety shows. Please don’t forget to vote on your favorite artist of the day when you leave, we wanna know who to invite back for our other shows. Enjoy the rest of your night!”
Katya glances around the room one more time, and when she fails to see a high blonde Dolly Parton hair, she drinks the remainings of her beverage and moves to the exit. She sees the voting poll on the wall, and looks carefully for Trixie Mattel on the list.
Check.
*
Katya has never, ever in her entire life worked late unless she absolutely needed to, so when she insists to her coworker that she can stay and finish her report on the following Tuesday, everyone thinks she’s going crazy. She shrugs though, doesn’t want to explain because for one thing they’re not her friends, and also she feels a bit silly.
Katya’s never, ever willingly listened to a country song before either, but as Three Kids No Husband remains on the repeat, she guesses things can change - although this is not the version she wishes she was listening to, no matter how good the singer’s voice is or the fact that the song is in fact hers.
She leaves around the same time as last week, just a few minutes early just in case, and speeds up to the bar. She looks for the same spot on the counter, it has a good view of the stage, and glaces at the list of the day. She figures they’re at the person right before Trixie, and she sighs in relief at not having missed her, although she immediately scoffs at herself. What is she, a teenager?
She claps as the person on stage finishes her song and soon Trixie appears. Her hair is a lot different this time, it’s tied on a messy bun - the kind that for sure was made to look that way, as the front frames her face perfectly - and the rest of the outfit fits together better. She has on yellow cowboy boots this time and a cute white dress with yellow ribbons on them. Just the same as last time her lips are pink, and she brings them to the mic to greet everyone.
“Hi, I’m the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, Trixie Mattel!” Katya doubles over laughing and it doesn’t seem to go unnoticed by Trixie. “I hope you guys enjoyed last week’s song because I’ve got another one from the same artist. Thanks for voting for me!”
She once again hits the strings with dexterity and Katya notices they’re not painted this week. She starts singing and her accent seems stronger in this song, which starts slow but soon builds up and, as this time Trixie’s standing up, she starts swaying to the sound. It’s incredibly cute and Katya’s hypnotized.
“- There’s no crime of passion worth a crime of fashion
The only thing savin’ your life
Is that I don’t look good in orange and I hate stripes -”
Trixie doesn’t sing only with her mouth, she performs the song as the words leave her and the face she makes in the chorus is so perfect you’d swear that said cheating guy from the song is right in front of her at the moment. Katya is once again wondering how much of the song applies to her life, doesn’t think anyone can sound so sincere without relating to the words to a certain level, and she really, really hopes that today she manages to at least say hi and ask her that.
When Trixie finishes singing she claps loudly again and Trixie still makes a point to let her know she saw it. She leaves the stage and Katya finally looks at the bar, realizes she hasn’t ordered anything and asks for a virgin cocktail, her mind to focused on where Trixie could be to fully care which one.
As the bartender hands her the glass, though, she feels a tap on her shoulder.
“Call me out on stereotyping but you do not look like a country enthusiast.”
She turns around fast, recognizes the voice, and in the fast motion manages to spill part of her drink on her own hand.
“Oh! Hi. Uh, yeah, I guess I’m not really a country fan. I like your renditions, though.”
Trixie smiles again, and maybe it’s because she’s close, but it looks so much more honest now. It’s at the same time smug and shy and Katya finds herself smiling back.
“I’m Trixie,” she says raising her hand.
I know, Katya thinks. “I’m Katya.”
“Well, Katya, can I join you for one drink? I gotta go soon, but my throat is really dry.”
“Of course.”
Trixie orders her drink and only once she has it in her hands that she turns back to Katya, who’s sipping on her straw and staring at her like an idiot.
“So, you like my shows?”
“From the bad jokes at the beginning to the last strum of you guitar.”
“Don’t pretend you don’t laugh, I see you from up there!” She’s laughing as she says it and it’s the first time Katya notices she has dimples. She loves them. “But anyway, I love when non-country folk like my country music. Well, not mine, but you know.”
“It’s quality music, though. You sound very sincere when you sing it, almost like you’ve lived it.”
Trixie smiles lightly at her, takes a second to sip her drink and Katya can see her thinking about what to say.
“Well. There’s definitely no husband, but there are no kids either. And I’ve definitely never found my boyfriend with another woman in our bed. But I do think I look bad in orange.”
“I doubt that,” Katya replies without thinking, then clears her throat quickly before continuing, doesn’t give time for Trixie to reply to that. “You have a boyfriend, though?”
Trixie laughs so hard that her head falls back and no sound escapes her mouth.
“Oh. Oh wow. No. I most definitely don’t.”
Katya knows that tone. She knows that laugh, knows that look, understands perfectly what her body language is saying. She recognizes every bit of her actions in herself, many many times before.
“Cheers to that,” she offers raising her glass, hopes Trixie will get it and that she’ll be as excited as Katya is right now.
She smiles and raises her glass, her blue eyes as clear as day. “Cheers.”
*
Katya has a total of six blouses, three skirts and two pairs of pants that she uses to go to work, combining them absentmindedly every morning, not really caring much whether they match. She sits behind a desk all day, shoulders down in boredom, and the only people that see her daily outfits are the bus driver, a few people on the streets, and the receptionist.
So, yeah, she feels a little self-conscious when it’s Tuesday morning and she’s wearing a dress. It’s not a fancy dress by any means, and it’s definitely not new, she wears it quite often to all types of events such as visiting her parents or having friends over to her place. She’s never worn it to work though, and she wonders if anyone will notice. She hopes they don’t, she hopes no one asks what’s the big event as she knows they normally do, because she can’t really find it in herself to say that she wants the country singer from the weird steampunk bar to notice it.
She does, though. She really hopes she notices it. And she feels a rock at the bottom of her stomach at that thought, that feeling. How long has it been since she’s felt interested in anyone beyond a mere sexual attraction? Real fucking long.
She plugs in her earbuds as she steps out of her house and for the first time since she got this job and started making this route to the bus stop she doesn’t hear the sounds of the city around her. She never listens to music on her way to work, always minds her surrounding and the life going on around her, always pays attention. Today she has a deep country singer blaring two songs on repeat on her ear, and she closes her eyes to see if she can hear Trixie’s voice over it.
The day itself drags, uneventful as usual, and Katya is ready to leave by 5pm even if she knows she’ll probably be waiting for over an hour at the bar just to see one performance. She waits for maybe half an hour but finally gives in, tries to walk calmly towards the bar and wonders where this infatuation came from when she’s never been one to develop feelings before being with someone. She’s much more of a one-night-stand-turned-into-relationship kind of person than a pining-for-ages-before-sex.
She likes adventures though, likes the unknown, the mysterious side of life. She’s excited about this, and she doesn’t let its uncertainty deter her.
She enters the bar and it’s a lot earlier then she usually arrives; it looks like it literally just opened. They’re setting up the stage and the ambience music is pleasant, and either way Katya takes a moment to once again appreciate the crowd, takes a deep breath as she sits down and decides to eat something while she waits, doesn’t want to hang around for so long just waiting for Trixie to appear.
She can’t stop herself from looking around, finishes her food and her drink and tries to move her eyes away from the door where she thinks she’ll come in unless there’s a back entrance for performers. It’s still early and she’s anxious, so she exits quickly for a cigarette because she’d need one anyway but also because she wants to calm down a bit.
She’s almost done with her cigarette when she hears the faint sound of a guitar. She curses and runs back in, can’t believe she sat there for so long just to almost miss her now.
She comes in in time to see Trixie start singing, she’s once again standing up and she has on a pink dress with a full skirt that dances around her legs as she plays and sings, and Katya doesn’t miss the way that her eyes keep moving to the spot where Katya was sitting the two weeks before.
She also doesn’t miss her smile as she sees Katya by the entrance, bites her lips as she considers whether or not she imagined that wink.
“- There ain’t no mall - no Waffle House
But there’s always something to talk about -”
Trixie doesn’t falter though, whether she winked or not, and she actually laughs a little at the lyrics as she sings them, as if they bring a story to mind. She imagines it briefly, a town with nothing going on, one school and one factory maybe, wonders if that’s the kind of place Trixie grew up in and how she presents herself so poised and outgoing on stage if that’s the case.
“- Yeah, it’s a big day
In a small town -”
As usual, Katya doesn’t even notice she’s clapping fiercely until everyone quiets down around her and she only stops her palms when Trixie looks at her before leaving the stage. She looks for the closest seat, doesn’t want to move and have that as an excuse for Trixie not finding her, and wonders if - hopes - Trixie will come find her.
She does and she has a big smile that makes Katya’s stomach give a somersault - but she also has two drinks in her hands, which makes Katya’s stomach drop.
“Hi, Katya.” She sits down as she slides one of the glasses to her and Katya takes one second away from her dread to consider that Trixie remembers her name.
“Hi!” she says as she takes a hold the beverage, but doesn’t near it to her face. “I missed your entrance joke.”
Trixie squints her eyes mockingly. “It was on purpose, wasn’t it? Don’t lie to me.”
“Of course not, how would I know if your jokes are improving if I miss them? Duh!”
Trixie laughs and sips on her beverage, and Katya knows she should do the same, but she keeps her hands steady on the glass, both resting on the table.
She might as well just say it, right?
“Uh, thanks for this.” She nods towards the glass. ” I don’t drink, though.”
“Oh.” Trixie raises her eyebrows.
“I just-”
“You don’t have to explain. If you don’t drink, you don’t drink. I’ll order you something else.” She moves her hands to take the glass back to herself but Katya holds it possessively, not really sure why.
“You don’t have to-”
Trixie just rolls her eyes. “Tell me what you like, I want to buy you a drink.”
Katya’s in the middle of protesting, but closes her mouth shut at that. I want to buy you a drink. She gulps and lets go of the glass, which Trixie takes to herself.
“A virgin version of whatever that is will be fine.”
Trixie nods and goes up to order it and Katya feels herself relax again.
Is this a date?
Trixie sits back down with a new glass now in front of Katya and she takes it thankfully.
“So, are you from one of those small towns you were singing about, Trixie?”
Trixie considers her, gives off a tiny smile before looking at her again.
“I don’t know, would you say that an hour drive to the nearest McDonald’s would qualify it as such?”
“Oh my god.”
“Oh, yeah. I mean, to be fair I’m from Milwaukee. But like, the middle of nowhere part of it.”
“Hah! Of course. How did I not notice it before.”
“I mean, I’ve lost my accent, so.”
She says it seriously and Katya isn’t sure whether she’s joking or if she really thinks she did, so she tries not to laugh. She fails though, finds it adorable the way she flushes a little and smiles back as she giggles.
“Humf, don’t talk to me about accents, miss Boston.”
Katya leans in. “If you must know, I’m Russian.”
“No, you’re not.”
“Da.”
Trixie squints her eyes. “Are you serious?”
Katya nods and sips on her drink, searches for Trixie’s face to see if her eyes are following her lips. She thinks they are, but she’s always been one for projecting. “I moved to Boston when I was three, though.”
Trixie rolls her eyes and slaps Katya’s arm playfully, and so what if she thinks she feels sparks where their skin touches? “That doesn’t count!”
It’s easy, natural talking with Trixie. Flirting, she considers - maybe. It’s been so long since she’s felt this immediate type of connection with someone, she’s not sure if she’s seeing to much into it.
She sips on her drink again, smiles around the straw at Trixie, and her heart’s as light as a feather when Trixie does the same.
Oh boy is she screwed.
*
Katya ends up leaving the bar much later than she intended for a Tuesday night and still when she gets home she realizes she didn’t ask Trixie for her number. She feels like an idiot for the rest of the week, walks past the bar a few times in hopes of running into her, but apparently she really only goes over on Tuesdays. She settles for the fact that she’ll only see Trixie the following week, isn’t exactly comfortable with how sad she is at the thought, thinks it’s completely crazy she’s already this deep into something - is is even something? - with someone she’s practically only spoken to twice.
It had been for hours though. So much laughter, so much in common. It’s rare that people will get her dry humor so effortlessly, that they’ll laugh so hard and give her all that attention. She wants to repeat that so bad, wants to sit at a bar for a few more hours and then maybe a restaurant and then a café and then anywhere really.
She might want to date Trixie. God, what is happening to her.
Next Tuesday she gets to the bar early again, but this time she refuses to get up from her seat. She won’t miss Trixie’s entrance again, wants to hear every word she has to say and wants to be very attentive to her eyes. She hopes they look at her.
She’s looking so forcefully to the stage she almost misses it. But there’s no way to not notice her pink jumpsuit and long wavy beautiful hair. She’s stunning and Katya’s is unsurprised.
“Hi! I put the pal in high school principal, Trixie Mattel. My first song of the night is going to be a sad one, so please forgive me.”
First song? Katya sits up straighter at the thought. There’ll be more.
She starts the first few chords and the tune itself already saddens Katya. She doesn’t know what Trixie will sing, but she knows she’ll get emotional.
Trixie’s voice is raw as it runs over the words, it’s pain and it’s earnest and Katya knows Trixie’s said she doesn’t always relate to what she sings but that just makes it more awestrucking, really, that maybe all of this emotion in her voice might not be real. How does one fake that? And how could Katya possibly know when she’s being real considering this?
“- Since you’ve gone to Heaven, I’ve struggled with goodbye
And broke a lot of promises I made the day you died
Wish I was more like you, less like myself
And I wish that I could talk to you 'cause I could use your help -”
Katya can’t particularly relate to the words at this moment, thankfully has her entire family living close by and finds happiness in their presence. She can imagine it though, what would be like if a tragedy like that were to strike. She wonders briefly if Trixie’s lived it. The thought saddens her.
When she finishes singing she comes down by the front of the stage, doesn’t bother with going backstage to drop her guitar or whatever it is she usually does in there. She makes a beeline for Katya and sits down by her side, her lips curved in a beautiful smile that makes Katya almost forget all of the sorrow that her words just cause her seconds ago.
“Hey! I’m glad you got here in time to see my first song.”
She’s glad Katya’s there. Maybe it’s not so bad that she’s infatuated.
“I’m glad I did, too. I didn’t know people could convey so much emotion through a song.”
Trixie blushes slightly, almost imperceptibly below her makeup, and Katya is delighted at the sight.
“Yeah, well. I went to drama school.”
“Oh? So you don’t really relate personally to the song?”
Trixie chuckles a little, and Katya knows that whatever joke she’s about to say, it’s gonna be sort of depreciative. “I don’t even have a dad!” And she laughs awkwardly, as if that’s ok as opposed to just not.
“Oh.”
“I had a step-dad growing up. But it wasn't… let’s just say that the chances of my brother being an alcoholic were higher with him than without.”
Katya remembers those lyrics in the song, something about a brother not being sober, and she gulps down the lump in her throat. Trixie doesn’t notice though, for the first time seems to be solely focused on herself, and she takes Katya’s silence as an indication that she should tell more.
She doesn’t have to, but Katya’s happy to listen.
She tells her things that Katya thinks she herself would never tell a stranger, maybe not even a friend, if she was in her place. Tells her childhood traumas and long lost dreams and the hardships that she went through before finding herself in a city she still can’t call home.
And she’s real, she’s so real. Katya can now see the difference between the stage honesty and this by a million miles. It’s astonishing really, it’s beautiful and heartbreaking the way she’s holding herself now, so vulnerable and sincere, and Katya keeps thinking back to how true she sounded as she sang earlier. Goosebumps raise on her arms.
Katya gathers the courage to touch her arm, decides to share a bit too because it seems only fair, but right then they announce Trixie’s name on stage and she remembers that she’d said she would perform again tonight.
“I… I’ll be right back, if you’ll stay?”
She looks uncertain as she asks, sort of in a hurry as they’re waiting for her upstage, and it baffles Katya that she even has to ask. She’s deviating from her regular way, putting on nicer clothes, listening to country music. She’s not leaving that bar before Trixie finishes performing.
“I’m not leaving this bar until you finish performing.”
She’s lost control of her mouth apparently, but as Trixie simply laughs before dashing off to the stage holding her guitar, Katya can’t help but giggle to herself.
“Ok, so this one will be a little more chipper than the previous one. I hope you enjoy it!”
Katya knows she will, is convinced that Trixie is somewhat a sorcerer for getting her hooked up on country music, and she can admit she’s pleasantly surprised at the topics of the songs Trixie’s been choosing.
She loses it when Trixie sings “rolls herself a fat one”, though. This might just be her favorite.
“- You know life will let you down
Love will leave you lonely
Sometimes to only way to get by
Is to get high -”
Katya can’t stop her smile as Trixie sings, almost laughs because yes, she agrees wholeheartedly, but also because Trixie definitely doesn’t look like the type that does.
Katya enjoys the song throughout, and she’s pleased to realise that so does the rest of the bar, as they clap and agree as she sings, send her off with a round of applause at the end. This time she goes to the back of the stage, probably off to put her guitar away and drink some water, but before she does she searches for Katya’s eyes, as if confirming she’s still there.
Katya feels her gaze at the bottom of her stomach. She readjusts on her seat.
Trixie is back within minutes, seems happy that Katya’s still there. She’s happy, too. “I should’ve known that the way into the audience’s heart was to talk about weed.”
Katya laughs but feels a bit ashamed because she also felt more enthusiastic today. Instead, she deflects, “Well, which one are you? The woman getting high on her kitchen table or her teenage self that’d frown upon it?”
Trixie shrugs. “I mean, I got high once.”
“Once?” Katya wants to hide her surprise, but she really can’t.
“Yeah. It was stupid, I was trying to impress this friend. It made me impossiblyhungry-”
“Yeah,” Katya agrees, but apparently Trixie’s not finished.
“I mean, horny.”
Katya almost falls off her chair. “What?”
Trixie doesn’t seem to notice how dry Katya’s mouth has gone, only nods as she moves the straw around on her drink. “Yeah, like, full-on horny. If I were ever to have a threesome, that’d be the day.”
Katya can’t do much but stare, does not want to picture Trixie being high and horny, but can’t really help it. She gulps and focuses on her drink, hopes Trixie can’t tell how bothered she is at the moment, hopes further that if she does, that she’s not uncomfortable with it, but when she finally manages to look back at Trixie, she can’t help her surprise when she sees her smirk.
Oh, okay.
“How about you?” Trixie asks when Katya still can’t find anything to say.
“Thanking god everyday for the mary jane.”
She laughs, but doesn’t break their gaze. “Maybe we could smoke together, someday?”
Katya’s breath catches on her throat, her hands freeze around her glass.
It made me impossibly horny.
Maybe we could smoke together.
She looks inside of herself for the Katya that usually doesn’t get flustered and that goes to bars and can easily get a girl. She really wants that Katya to help her now.
“Absolutely. I always have a joint at home.”
This time Trixie’s the one that stares, her eyes searching and considering. Finally she grins and sips on her drink.
“I guess I’ll have to come over.”
*
Trixie doesn’t come over that Tuesday, but Katya didn’t expect her too. And she’s not too bothered when they part ways, because Trixie tells her she’ll be performing there Saturday as she won the weekly polls and she invites Katya to watch her. And Katya manages to agree immediately and to offer her phone number just in case.
Trixie says she’ll text her so she can have her number too, but she doesn’t, and it’s not until Thursday that Katya realizes she’s an idiot who managed to give her old number.
She gets to the bar Saturday on the agreed time and looks for Trixie everywhere, wants to explain herself before she goes on stage, doesn’t want that stress roaming on her head stopping her from enjoying the show.
Then she sees a short pale blue dress and massive wavy blonde hair and she knows she’s found her. She tries not to stare at her figure as she strides over, wants to reach her before she disappears.
“Trixie! Hi!”
“Oh, hey.” She seems uncertain when she sees Katya. “I didn’t think you were coming.”
“Of course I came. I fucked up last time and ended up giving you the wrong number, that’s my old phone. I’m sorry.”
“Oh!” Trixie exclaims, readjusts the guitar strap on her shoulder. “That’s fine, do you want to-”
Whatever she was about to say, she’s interrupted. “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, Trixie Mattel!”
She looks over at Katya, bites her lip, but Katya just reassures her.
“Go on, I’ll sit down somewhere.”
She watches her go and then she looks around. It’s a full house - it is a Saturday - so there are no tables, but there’s an empty stool on the counter and she hops on it.
“Good night everyone. Thanks to all of you who voted for me on the weekly cover night. I’ve been singing songs by Brandy Clark and today I’m just gonna shift a bit and sing a song she wrote for another singer. I hope you enjoy.”
The crowd cheers and Trixie smiles and Katya can’t help but smile, too. It’s another cheerful song, still undeniably country, and Trixie’s voice once again takes the room in stride.
The lyrics are great, too, and Katya feels confident today when Trixie looks over at her when she sings the chorus.
“- Make lots of noise
Kiss lots of boys
Or kiss lots of girls
If that’s something you’re into
When the straight and narrow
Gets a little too straight
Roll up the joint, or don’t
Just follow your arrow
Wherever it points -”
She orders herself a water, drinks it without stopping to breathe and orders a second one.
It’s today.
When she least expects it Trixie’s saying her goodbyes and leaving to the back of the stage. Katya straightens her back, waits for her to appear. She’s there quicker than ever, looks for a stool and when she can’t find one just stands leaning on the counter really close to Katya.
“When the straight and narrow gets a little too straight?” Katya asks her, watches the small dimples appear on her face again as she laughs.
“I’m not really a fan of straight things.”
Katya laughs. “Me neither.”
Right then the person on the stool next to Katya gets up and Trixie sits down, ordering a drink.
Katya’s not backing down.
“So, kissing lots of girls?”
Trixie shrugs, Katya sees her trying to stop her smile. “I’m more interested in kissing this one particular girl as of recently, actually.”
Katya nods, swallows down the nervousness. “Yeah, me too.”
“Maybe we could roll up that joint, now?” Trixie offers, looks expectantly at Katya.
She takes a deep breath and smiles. “We definitely should.”
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My headless oc and universe
a lot of people have been asking and i’ve been too busy with commissions to ahve proper time to explain and repeat to different people the same thing, since yeah i’ll repeat the same thing, so i cut some conversation stuff that i had with @doodlejinx and @og-magnus and some others, and some severe influences by the amazing @starshardfragments and wonderful comic by @videntefernandez!
Remember, it’s a casual conversation i had, it’s literally messy and broke and most are just babbling chat by me, so uh, yeah
also. it’s super long.
with @doodlejinx
i had bad idea for ocworld: magic and stuff is fairly common, yet not THAT common but in 20 classmates at least 3 are witches and one is probably a werewolfthe oc: a regular human with bad touch for magic yet atracts a lot of spirits, not harmful oneshe lost his head. he has no head. but he carries it on a supermarket bag or soemthinghis best friend is a ghoulthey speak ASLhe sleep curling onto his own head
just it, he used to be an pharmacy student but had to quit was hard to work without moving the head that's not on his head anymore
now he's doing arts because he loved it and since he has no main dream he's following it, he's a bit bad but he's doing good with learninghe likes sleepovers with his few friends because he can do his own hair
in the end he got used to it, at first he carried his head with all care but at this point, after a few years, he just puts in supermarket bag
he was extremly vanilla to ever think about that, his mind was full of depression and confusion
then after some years he just gave up and he's like, nice, he can see how he's dressing up and do the dishes and tv at the same timeand since magic is fairly common, no one really stares a lot
there are ghouls around, some visible spirits, full dressed witches going to work, sometimes a 100% transformed werewoman playing clash royaleone day he sleeps and forget his head on the subway
the cats may not present as animals, but mostly do when trying to get dealsand it's a common rule
and almsot a law, no deals must be made other way, if the cat's on streetmaybe Daniel followed the crow? doesn't really matter how he lost his headthere are many cat-like entities, yet there are a lot of cats who are just catscat's are absurdly common, the cities are crowded with them and no one can tell if they're cats or entitiesso they are all respected like entities dog/wolf-like entities, different than expected, ahve their own rules about how they share the spot they protect or make dealsdon't talk a lot, but arent enemiesookamis really hate ghouls
ghouls aren't evil, they are just like people with motor disorder, they can do everything, just not look graceful, they can drive, write, everythingbut their joints is just most stiff and look zobie like but they are finebut can't speak wellyou learn asl on class like you learn english and fae
since there are many entities who cannot speakand yet many can't sign as well, so there's faebut it's only used in rare momentswith fae, you never knwo who listens tonever request or beg in faealways speak clear and never suggest a requestyou don't know who listen
it's common for universitary hourses, to be just the smallest hall ever, with 20~30 doors. and just it. the door only, and the owner is usually a fae creature, who charges nothing for the the stay butthe room is an extra dimension, it'll feed on your magic energy, that everybody have in some extentyou can pay with money if you're bad with energydaniel ahs to use money
it's also not recommended for creating a child-like or dependable one, you're responsable for them until they can care for themselves, if they cannot you must love them until you pass, or thembut you need to present a request and sign so many papers
some universitary teachers make those bodies for the ghost studentsthey're not the good bodies, they're simple and have to be given back, but when the student needs somehting he can use the bodyit's nto common, making those bodies is incredible hardand most of them results in... ghoulsghouls are an umbrella term of those who died and cannot pass yet, those who died while possessing a body, those who were murdered by specific magic, ressurections who were made without permission, homunculi that were created without loveeven deals that involved lifetime, it's a matter of respect never asking a ghoul what the fuckin the 90's the witches where phoibited to fly higher than the cars, for police rules and fairness unless they have special permitbut they still angry that doesn't apply for the angelic ones, who can fly as high as they want
details, plants are REALLY common, they are visible anywhere on the streets, even on the most city-like ones, on the windows, anywherethe sky at night is purple. a very deep purpleand last rule, if a crow rests on yout shoulder, you're not allowed to shoo it awayit gets to stay as much as it wantseven go to your house 
unless you offer them the herbs they require, usually hard to have and most advanced witches have, but most of times they just wanna hangwhen they sits on your shoulder you don't shoo, but once they do you can offer them head, the hand, play with it if it wants, it doesn't have to STAY therethey'll be with you as much as they wantif they have the third eye opened, there's someone trying to sell you a cursed itemand since they gave you this information, you tell them a secretthey're good keepers 
it's a world that our world and the fae somehow got mixedand it's fineand take care with merfolk, they eat humans
they're cool, but like human foodlike having a pig as a pet? you love it and still eat their kind?they'll be friends liek anyone else
but they'll still eat humans somehwre, human meat isn't that hard to findand it's legally obtaineddan ate but he didn't like that much, he said it was too firm and hard to swallow, the ghoul signed that he doesn't have palate anywaythose are stuff you learn in middle schoolnever give a crow a namenever invite a cat to your house, you don't know if it's an catthose stuff
and hospitals are really scary placeslike that comic on tumble, that has some gorelemme try to findhospitals merge with other realms other than fae, the nurses are actually a wAY more respected than the doctorsso does the pharmaceuticsthe reasons to go to one goes from cuts, surgery, hunting spells, curses, mispellings on deals, whatnot
tw gore and body horrortho the hospitals aren't sentient on my worldbut are "haunted" placesthe ones hu haunt there aren't dangerous and most of them are surprisingly helpful
he went to an hospital to check his head issue, the nurse said it was there and he'd be fine, but she couldn't identify if it was a curse, joke or bad deal, he's have to remeber more, and with fairy sparkle he saw that under the head, there was the white invisble image of his body, and his head over the body too, but wasn't able to touch or seeit was weird but harmlessand defnitly not the first case 
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with @og-magnus
he's average by description
body, average, not fat neither defined
cute, but average, not enough to be handsome neither ugly, just ok
dick, also average, not too thicc neither thin, neither long or short
tho he's uncut
 i always end up drawing my average chars too pretty
he's the most bi af
tho mixed with fae world gender is merely a concept
not even humans show only 2 genders, who can say about the other fae creatures
humans with afinnity to magic? the withches? the halflings, crossed with the faes?
people couldn't care less
 sOUNDS NICE, i LIKE IT
 ssholes about the purity oh the human magic, that they insisted that were different from the faes, like the KKK disgraceful ones
but even those care very little about gender
he likes to present very masculine and is cis, but when it comes to dressing and stuff, neither he or anyone mind at all, he just likes large stuff, he says it comfy ad i agree
 tHAT'S SUPER CUTE
 if u look again, all his clothes are meme and large, most of them are old so the tshirt look tigh because it was M but he got fat a bit
so they seems tight
but pajamas
he loves it
give him pajamas and socks and he might cry
 he could but no he's just thicc, not strong
actually he's quite sedentary
make him run 5 minutes and he'll almost have a heart attack, like me
 He sounds like the sweetest boy
 mace an oc for this universe
that is the same of ours with our shitty disgraceful leaders and rising of facism but has fae magic and world mixed
 and at the night the sky is a deep purple instead of a dark blue
yes!
 tho the merfolk don't really like the humans at all but some of them go to study on university on the ground
 IT'S PERFECT
 he can either use an spell/deal/ritual to have legs or look human or wellchairs that are a way better than the ones we have
or even "float" around like the air was water but that would require a very deep connection with magi
magic*
but he can rent this spell lol
yes you can rent spells
 Neat
 like Daniel's house
he lives with a ghoul and is an art student at university
the place is a rented place for universitaries, the room's size is based on the magic you have on you
daniel is a disgrace with magic
he can't do the basic light flicker
he seems to have nothing of magic on him
and the ghoul, Marta, doesn't too because she's a ghoul
so they pay the rent with money so someone makes it, what's normal since not all faes have magic
 Oh ok, you've put a lot of thought into this haven't you?
 you ahve no idea
marta has background
daniel too, the laws, the cats
every cat's color has a bg too
 That's great!
 even the place he sleeps and the interaction with other fae creatures even the fact that spoken languages aren't so commo0n so as much as you learn english you also learn ASL
marta is a ghoul, very 80's zombie, she can't speak since she has little coordination of her tongue
but she can sign
and dan can read just fine
also even in elementary schools there are small classes of understanding, accepting and using small amounts of magic
daniel coulldn't use any at all
he's not the choosen one, it's a known issue, rare, but known
he's not the only one to really have 0 ability with magic
it's like having extremly rare disease
tho having magic power in harry potter like level is really rare
in a crowd of 100 ppl maybe 3 can
it's common, yes
but not natural
those are the withces
withches*
Aaaa
 Ok I see, so most people can do basic stuff but either end of the spectrum is quite rare
 yep
it's more rare having no magic contact, it's a magic world after all
there's no dishes washing itself, it's less magical than it suggest
but even a regular human can feel when a cat is a cat or an entity
or feel intentions, if they're trained to understand what the aura gives
but dan cannot really feel those
even marta who's dead can
she's not a zombie she's a homunculi, and there's a lot about homuncili that i wont start it's so long
 just know that they're either
- dead, who were wrongfully ressurected - failed or illegal summonings - uncertified and illegal creation of life, which the crator is now bound to make happy and live at it's fullest - dead who'se sold their soul or for any reason didn't pass to other realms - deals. bad deals. oh boy.
caniballism, ressurection and artificial human life are a thing that isn't ilegal but almsot no one can legally perform
 you need so many papers signed and permissions and witnesses
also it's extremly illegal and is punishable by the locking of the soul the creation of artificial life for slavery and servitude
so is the creation of a homunculi that wont be loved, tho they are see as our legacy and your child, they cannot eb created without love
or... they'll b a ghoul.
soul lock impedes you of trancending the realms until the soul you imprisioned or created are finally ready to pass as well
 and trust, the homunculi aint powerful, they're humans like us that were not created by sex or those, or even deceased child who couldn't born die miscarry, whose parents contacted the soul and brough the child back
in those cases, you cannot force a soul
that's why it takes months to be performed and is watched closely
 so is canibalism, which daniel is somehow very into
the fairies and merfolk specially are really needy of human meat, like it was an craving dish
the deceased and suicidal ones leave their body to eb consumed, the burial isn't really a thing
the being part of something bigger is
a meat adquired by murder or cowercion tastes bad and rots too easily, it also goes for animal meat
oh man i build a lot
i'm ranting
 I'm gonna try to fit my Triton into this I'd be interested in knowing more about them.
 What would you like to know?
Where do they come from/live?
 Mostly seas, very hardly rivers
And depend on where they live
 So there are town all over the world then?
 The entities are like, onis from Japan, headless horses and snakes from Brazil
There are faes that are exclusive from some places
Ye
All over
They despise humanity for their pollution on their realms, you know how Japan was closed and not discovered? So we're merfolk, but they were discovered much later, in the 1700s
They are wary of humans and distrust other faes
Speaking generically of course
 They live in another ruling setting and are still very closed
But as hard it is to spot albinos it's hard to find them
But some visit and even live on the surface
they use elemental magic mostly, there are many types, but spiritual and elemental are the most commons
followed bu demoniac and holy, as cliche as it is
the hells aren't open enither the ehavens, tho the concept here is absolutly different than chatolic
it's almost impossivle to spot demons or angels
it's almost like they cannot survive on earth
 more about gender: 90% of the merfolk known are absolutly intersex, they may or may not prefer one of their genitalia or even present none
and the "known" is because the deep abyss is still a mistery, even tho some merfolk helped, still unexplored and no one knows it's cryptids
and now that i'm back on pc
the inspiration for the cats and fae interactions, and why danel wanted to be a nurse, based on another thing
this would be up to you
maybe yes, maybe not
 lemme get the links
http://starshardfragments.tumblr.com/post/159915922140/how-to-deal-with-street-cats
this for the cats
many entities do not react or present their will as humans could read, some are triksters
you never know if a cat is an entity or just a cat, they're numerous and are common in cities as pigons
i'ts so common that dealing with them is something your parents teach, it's just like they etaching like to draw a smiley face
most people have a tingle on the spine, even the low magic ones when it comes to those, they cannot be sure if it's a cat or not, but they will get wary
daniel can't even be sure it's a cat at all
now the hospital: (tw gore, blood, mutilations, murtansts whatsoever gore)
http://videntefernandez.tumblr.com/post/159578140848/im-really-thankful-to-my-patrons-for-making-this
the hospitals are more modern on my setting and less 'sentient' but they are still a place that is absolutly mystical
the nurses are hierarquically more important than the doctors, hence they are the ones who deal and welcome all sorts of stuff
from car crashes to bad deals and bizarre magic, it's a place for curses and modern medicine
daniel wanted to be a nurse, but he was forced out of the gradutaion since even he was really interested, a nurse must ahve some contact with magic
and he was shit
so he folowed his second passion, that is arts
but he's broke since he just started artign at 23 years old, and his dreams were into the blender
he works on a bodega
 Aww, and the hospitals are neat
 they are!!
they're super neat and they're like
what's the name of those schools where you live at?
they become your house and your coworkers your family
you don't just work there, but you also live there (in the residence inside the area) and be a part of it
specially the cleaners and service people
they're often the oldest and wiser, since the cleaning of what happens on those places is pure madness
and they're either too young or too old, since a young is getting into and the older endured the madness
spirits and ghosts are a thing, they cannot be easly spotted since they're a flicker between realms, but they go to university and even live in manequins once in a while
the manequins are built for them to be present in the material world
most of the witches can see them
they just can't be part of the object or place for too long, or it becomes cursed
but they're just like us, sharing memes on internet
 just depend on why they still on this realm
the fact they didn't pass is always their secret and only
isn't it absurdly rude to ask a transgender person if they changed their genitalia? it's as rude to ask a ghost why it still here and to ask a ghoul how it turned into a ghoul
it's their and their business only
oh man the universe is so huge i could spend the whole day rambling
 It's sweet that you're so invested tho
 just last detail, all law problems ARE solved with truth spells
it's an artifice of the law to use it since an innocent has nothign to hide
the judges and witnesses are also under it
so even murdering has little incidence, since there's almost no get away, but instead, it's a nasty thing the "accidents" and bad deals
people lost when following cats, people locked and dying inside cursed houses
doors that lead to nowhere, people find their way to crime
and the "truth serum", that can be bough, isn't really a truth spell, but an sort of energetic that makes a person less inclined to lie, till, they can lie
and it's considered a crime using one without conscent
 this world has a lot of fae rules, and most of them consist on deals
a deal makes you agree or not on using your energy, aura, soul or what you feel like calling it
if you're unwilling, there's very little things that will work
since the energy is pure and reflect the feelings
using forced one is almost like trying to eat a man who didn't want to die
the meat will be hard, frim and will spoil easly
you can buy human meat at the supermarket, tho it's really impossoble to find, it's not like milk, you don't find caviar at all supermarkets
it has to be specialized ones
oh, it's more a comment about how this world is cetic and somwewhat too serious
and about daniel, losing head like this is VERY rare, but yet was seen before, tho the reason depends, could be curse, could be heritage of some fae and entities? could be a lot
sometimes it limbs, most common it's organs, like heart specially
some take their own heart by spell to hide somwhere
daniel dunno how it happened to him
he doesn't mind
 happened when he was seventeen
yet he has the feeling it'll never be back to his neck
 Guessing it's hard to reattach stuff?
 yeah, there's somehting they don't know that impedes it, and he could use an improvised stuff to hold it there, but the edges repel, like two magnetes on the same polar
it's meant to not be there anymore
 like, he can rest with the neck parts touching, but if the intent is to keep them connected, somethign wont allow it
he went to hospitals and no one could tell, since daniel himseld had no clue
if he followed a cat, could a an deal he made without really realizing
enemy? an curse?
he doesn't know, just woke up like this
and he's not really seeking to solve, deep inside he knows there's no solving and no explanation will really make him happy
he's ok, it's like a limp. a nuisiance, but you live on
he doesn't mind anymore
 Well then, seems like he's doing alright ^^
 oh, he is! he totally is
it's far past the point where he cared
it just bothered on the first months, explainign it to people who knew he had a head there
but since i'ts a mixed with fae world, it's not liek people stared at him
no one ask at all
it's rare and most of them never saw it
but so is a lot of stuff that happen
the crying image of him is mostly... he is always lost, he doesn't understand a lot, his dream was crushed by his lack of magic, that no one can tell why it happens, neither seem to solve
he's afraid, he doesn't understand a lot of things
he always feel liek he's being left behind, that he doesn't understand a lot of stuff, that he's not as smart as everyone else
he does have depression, a bit anxious
sometimes he just feel too scared
he really wanted to be a nurse
and very little creatures are watched on this world
vampires are one of them
they're SUPER rare, and they drink the blood? yes, but isn't the blood that feeds them
it's the life itself
all vampires have an bracelet that identifies them
since they're one of the unique creatures that manipulate minds without an satruggle, even by accident
their will is powerful
they may manipulate by accident
most of nurses and judges and enforces of law are watches as closely as the vampires
and artists too
all cameras are heavly certified, to be sure they wont hold your soul on the pictures
so many details
they are extremly influential on the life of the individuals they interact
but it's a world of deals and trickster
they have to be watched
therefore, there's a job for ghosts who want to
it's common sense: someone is always watching
and furthermore: never ask anything to the wind
someone also listen
they live pretty much like us, except that nature is everywhere
not like, futuristic
but everyone have plants, the streets are full
you can easly find a witch
their houses often look like jungles
since not only herbs and mixes they cultivate, but the trees and plants are more than just plants
marta, the ghoul, cultivates rare sorts of plants on the very small room they share
she makes her living selling them
extremly rare, some joke she's a ghoul because she sould her soul to lay hands on those
 Oh that I really like
 it's higly requires, since witches use a LOT and those who have their magic touch also use once in a while
anyone can put seeds on pots, but they're not magic because of this, they're weeds
it's how you plant them
and marta has her own secrets, she knows how to plant them and nourish them, she has more than a green finger
she's really good at
 I think my character has got to have something to do with keys
 and fun... she cannot speak, and yet she speaks with the plants, daniel doesn't understand she damn she explaines more than 10 times, detailed
ohh
keys!
on the subject, key is anything that locks a thing
they can or cannot be material, often are
but yet
it's another job that is respected, they key makers, for any doors
there are whole university graduations on keys
a soul lock requires a key
justice files require keys
 That's what he's in the human world to study then
 he can meet daniel!!!!
same class on design of artefacts: reading, understanding, feeling and categorizing
canibalism is not that common, it's a thing you do like... twice a year if you REALLY into it, and daniel is atrcted to it even eh doesn't know why... it's a nagging feeling he can't shake, a driven will that seems not his
but damn he'd do the joke
everone do the joke
and he's the type of nerd who types LMHO insteaf of LMAO
 laughing my HEAD off
 he's an absolute dofus
he puts his head with the milkshake on the same bag
so he can walk and drink
cute dork
so many head ouns
puns*
shirts with head related lines
people who know him, every single time sigh because they KNOW the pun is coming
 dan is extremey curious, he's almost obonoxious of how curious he is
he's extra intrusive and have very little limits
 since he really do not understand a lot
whenever a fae entitiy is around, he finds his way to ask form what is like being an entitie of X stuff and what's your favorite reptile
 they would have an awkward start because oh boi he would be intrusive
easly dismissable, but persistent
 oH
OMGJFGHGJKEFDHGJKW
DANIEL LOVES COOKING HE'd be so happy to show it
and since he's a good artist even he's a new one, he'd help him with the proportion of paitings and how the oils and saturation worked on dry ambientes, if sygg needs
 he would ask to touch his skin, how is to live underwater, how it feels to be under a spell to live on eart and so many and so many endless questions
 well, dan respect the share of knowledge he's so often deprived due his lack of magic
how sygg stays on eath? how do you imagine it tho?
he floats around? like air is waterw
 there are rulings but they mostly resume on the speed and high you can swim but those won't bother him then!
dan would be mesmerized
 and even he was, dan wouldn't understand anyway, but having the knowledge seems to be enough for him
sad, but enough
he's fine with it
 how attached to hugs and touch dan is, dan really feels alone most of times, like he was detached from people as his head form him
 he hold hands with strangers if they allow
he let them carry his head if they ask
 the fact you can lower his head and only at sygg at his wishes? you corrupted me i blame
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The Zegba Chronicles- Chapter 9
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    Zegba was in and out of consciousness for the next few hours. The first time he stirred he heard Nara arguing with Greyson but he couldn’t make out what they were saying. The next time he was being bounced around. He realized that he was on Moonbolt but who was riding behind him. When he woke up the third time he heard Nara yelling at someone. “You have to let me in. My friend is dying and he needs to see a healer right away.” He blacked out again before he could hear a response. 
   The next time he woke up he was laying on a bed. He looked around but he didn’t recognize where he was. He guessed that he was in an infirmary based on all the beds lined up. He also noticed that Nara was asleep in the bed next to him. At first Zegba was terrified that something had happened to her also but then he realized that she had just fallen asleep watching over him. He tried to get up but he was still very weak. One of the healers noticed him staring and came to check on him. She was an attractive young woman with a warm smile. “How are you feeling, Mr. Walker?” For a second he was confused on why she was calling him Walker but then he realized that was the name Nara must have given them.
   “I’m still feeling weak but otherwise ok.” he said with a smile. At this Nara began to stir and when she realized that Zegba was awake she bolted out of the bed. 
   “You’re awake!” she said excitedly. 
   “ Aww were you worried about me.” Zegba said playfully.
   “No, I just couldn’t let you die saving me. If you wanna go out and get yourself killed I don’t care.” Nara claimed. “I guess now that I know you’re going to live I can leave.” 
   Zegba grabbed her hand as she was turning to leave. “Seriously, thank you for saving me. I owe you one.” he offered.
   “I was just returning the favor.” she admitted. They looked at each other for a few moments before they realized that Zegba was still holding her hand. She pulled her hand away and walked towards the door. She turned and looked back for a second before exiting the infirmary. 
    Zegba watched her leave and locked eyes with her when she looked back. He gave her a small smile before she turned and left. Zegba turned back to the healer who had waited patiently. “You are going to be just fine. It will take a day or two for you to get back up to full strength but other than that there should be no issues. Please let me know if you need anything. I’m always happy to help.” she said with a wink. After she left he fell back to sleep for a few hours. When he awoke he was feeling much better and his strength seemed to have returned. He asked the healer if he was allowed to walk around and she said that was fine but to take it easy at first. Zegba decided to go sit in the courtyard to get some fresh air. After a little bit the healer from last night came out to check on him. She sat down beside him and asked how he was feeling and checked on the dressings he had. After she was done checking on him, she stayed to talk to him. They talked for a long time, mostly about the adventure that he was on. They had been talking for about an hour when Zegba told her about finally getting the fire started without Nara help. “You must really like her.” the healer commented.
   “Who? Nara? No, why would you say that?” Zegba asked.
    “It’s just you have been talking about her a lot and she was the one that brought you in. She also refused to leave your side and was thrilled when you woke up so I just assumed.”
  Zegba thought about this for a few seconds before saying, “I mean she is cool and a great adventurer but I don’t think she likes me.”
  “That’s not what I asked you.” she said with a smile, “I asked if you liked her but clearly you do. I should go check on the others.” She stood and started heading for the door but turned and said, “You should tell her how you feel… once you figure out how you feel.” Zegba sat there for a long time after that trying to figure out how he really felt about Nara. He still wasn’t sure when he went back inside. 
    That night the whole party came to see him. They told him that after he was hit with the lightning, Nara finished off the witch doctor. The group checked on the merchants while Nara was trying to stabilize Zegba. Nara wanted to rush him to Lionsguard but Greyson felt that they should load him on the wagon and take him with the rest of the mercents that were injured. Nara thought that was going to be too slow and that he needed help now. So she loaded Zegba onto Moonbolt and took off for the city. Zegba was shocked that Moonbolt had let Nara ride her but he passed it off as Moonbolt just being worried about him. Greyson and Shuri searched the orcs before they left and found about 500 gold and a ring of protection. Greyson told him that they would go into the party fund and it would be divided evenly when the quest was over. 
    Next they told him about meeting up with the local man to get directions. The man was happy to tell them the path they should take once Greyson flashed some gold pieces. Apparently it would take them about a day and a half to reach the area of the dragon’s lair. The man didn’t know the exact location, just the general area it was in. Greyson was confident that they would be able to find it without too much trouble. They would set out as soon as Zegba was cleared to travel again. Zegba was eager to get on the road. He hated sitting around all day. The healer told him he was clear to leave the following morning. Greyson arranged for Zegba to meet them at the start of the road heading towards the mountains past daybreak. Nara told him that she would continue to take care of Moonsault, as she called her, until then. Zegba thanked her with a smile. Once all the details were worked out the party headed back to the inn. Zegba had nothing else to do so he decided to eat his dinner and head to bed.
   The party was waiting for him when he arrived at the road the next morning. He jumped on Moonbolt and headed out. While they were traveling Zegba thanked Moonbolt for getting him to help so quickly. When Zegba looked up he realized that he was riding next to Nara instead of Shuri who he normally rode next to. They talked the whole ride until they stopped for lunch at the base of the mountains. Everyone fell into the normal routine of Zegba making the fire while Nara skinned the animals she had caught and Greyson and Shuri took care of the horses. Zegba and Nara continued to talk as they worked on their tasks. The party ate lunch and went to prepare the horses for the second half of the day's travel. Shuri commented to Zegba about how him and Nara seemed to be getting along a lot better today. All Zegba said was he guessed so but he had noticed it as well. He could get used to this side of Nara. It had been so easy to talk to her when she wasn’t teasing him. He was actually looking forward to the second half of travel. 
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