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♡﹕𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓, 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓! — PROLOGUE

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A/N﹕YAY I FINALLY FINISHED THE PROLOGUE FOR MY FIRST SERIES!

This is the first full fledged fanfic I have written in a long time, I hope anyone who finds this finds it enjoyable, I had a fun time writing this prologue chapter and I currently have around a 10-12 chapter vision for this series as it stands, but if this proves to be something you guys like I will be happy to extend the series! I do plan to create a tag list, if you would like to be added shoot me a DM and I will add you to the list! As always any replies will be made through our main acc @caravan-mad!

This prologue pretty much gives most if not all the information about the reader aside from important plot details. I wanted the reader's demon form and time period to be as ambiguous as possible and limit the use of Y/N, the reader in this story has allegories to butterflies.

Not all chapters will have warnings nor does this one, however the full fic will contain dark content and will be under the dead dove do not eat tag.

Some content will include but are not limited to: Unhealthy relationship dynamics, N.SFW, Unrequited love, Yandere themes, Dubcon, and pretty much any tag youd find listed in Hazbin Hotel tbh

𝐄 × 𝐌/𝐅 × 𝟐.𝟔𝐤 × 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 × 𝐀𝐎𝟑

♡﹕Bored at work performing repetitive choreography and pleasing faceless demons, you find yourself reminiscing on life, death, and limbo.

♫ envy baby ~ ♫

“Lights clear? Sounds clear?”

“We’ve been fucking over this Steven! We’ll know it’s clear when they finally stop tuning our shit-”

“Anne chill, we still have six minutes till airing. Don’t waste all your energy on the roadie.”

“That crowd doesn’t seem to be getting any quieter does it…” The little imp’s observations were now only being met by eyerolls and silent treatment by the two drummer girls as the completed instruments silenced in countdown.

Lights crew above, sounds crew from behind, and effects team surround. The way every single backstage member of your cast would run and scurry around you to get their various tasks done always made you think of little mice, rats even, so worked up making sure everything was in perfect position before those curtains had a chance to stop separating you, from them.

It was cute enough to make you laugh as though you were still a highschool girl.

“Broadcasting live in 60 seconds!” Dark blue scene lighting begins to fade your entire surrounding to a pitch black, and among doing so freezes your little mice into statues all around. Only the tiniest crack in the fabric ahead illuminated the space with a sharp vertical line down the curves of the figure that stands as the adorning center piece of this particular attraction. Roaring bass brings about a quake to the stage beneath your feet, queuing time for you to give your puppies a treat.

“Awwwe~ Did we leave you waiting long?” The volume of pure passionate devotion always rang to your ears louder than any electrical speaker could achieve.

The wave of the new future adorned in electrical inventions was something you’ve always been prepared to face; why even in the faint blur of the overworld it was all the grown ups could ever yap enough of! No, that wasn’t where that bitter taste came from.

In the full truth of things, you just never knew you’d stick around long enough to bear full witness to its infection of mankind.

Oh come on. Who are we kidding right now?

“Hi. I wanna people save, all right? ”

You’ve never been more liberated.

“You’re in m-my way!!”

Your eyes have but a second to adjust to the flood of bright neon before life hits play once again. The choreography you, and and the other 4 devils fanned out beside you have programmed into your bodies for the past months flow across the stage with ease. among the camera men you can make out the mass of waving pen lights stirred ablaze after the long anticipation, oh how you love they always use the color dearest to your heart…

“The tightrope falls, broken by others”

Once you felt the rushing high of the stage the first time around tolerance for it subsided immediately after. You’ve seen the looks on those poor saps down in the front row, each one hyper fixated on every movement you make wishing they could be you, or be up here with you.

And of course, you all flash them bright smiles, longing gazes and praise them with verses of purity more fitting for the angelic souls looming up above. Customer service is the utmost desired, as they say!

“What a lady, she’s gonna jump

towards the light and shatter humiliatingly”

Actually, can you even remember when your first performance was? How old were you even? All of this came from a cheap shot of gaining a few quick pennies back in the day. Landing yourself a handsome and rich husband with the filth you wore on your back was the first childhood dream you found dead on arrival, but what you were cursed in status you were blessed with the cuteness that made kittens hiss in envy. To say you had “the voice of a goddess” would mayhaps be a bit too presumptuous, but who were you to refute the compliment when it came your way?

Well, maybe trying to parse through finding the day your career debuted or took off was a fool's errand, but the moment it ended certainly still remains as a burned film stuck to your mind. You stopped caring about the “Oh woes me~ what did I do to deserve this~” a long time ago. Still, the punishment you received in death far exceeded what you ever did to earn in your eyes, more so than your sentencing of eternal damnation.

“High and without care I’m lonely, lonely”

Right on que, as always every time you reach exactly 32 seconds into your first song the intrusive memory flashes the same images of the past over your current reality it almost feels as if you were stuck suffering that fate again each time.

You wish there was more to say on the matter of your demise, but there’s only a brief two second window between staring down some heckling loud mouth making a scene in the crowd and a bomb beneath the stage going off before your soul is falling down under the earth’s crust as a blazing comet onto the asphalt below.

And two days before your 21st birthday too are you serious?! UN-Fucking believable!

“From their idle words, the clown becomes a prisoner”

The only thing you wanted to do was scream in the immense burning agony you were suffering until the whole world knew the kind of pain you were in, but each time you cried not even a croak could get past your scorched throat

Even after the blazes subsided and your charred cocoon was all that was left behind, the inferno decided your vocal chords were going to be its payment.

…. That was it?

This was your payout…

And after all that work…

“It’s the same love as always, no way I’d have regrets”

Surreal didn’t even begin to describe what became of the following weeks, months, you haven’t a clue. The construct of night and day seemed to mean jack in the bizzare wonderland of maddness holding you, only so much telling what shade of putrid red in the sky was darker than the same shade of fucking red from two hours ago! What a productive way to spend your newfound endless time!

Every aspect of this place made you absolutely sick, enough so to have you still praying you just were drugged and having the worst trip of your fucking life, but the horror in maddness is the consistency that lies between the lines. You’re certain that damned illuminated “WELCOME TO HELL!” sign and the stranger you befriended in the mirror was that line that made you finally cave.

“Hey, it's a amazing.”

Honestly, you couldn’t say what specifically led you into the epiphany you had, all of a sudden one day you heard a sudden snapping sound in your conscience, and like that everything made sense to you. Why your life was snuffed before you could emerge from your cocoon, why your makers deemed this your new home, and why that bomb taking your life just wasn’t enough to deem your afterlife a hell.

There was a certain liberation that came with hell that you were never going to get being the glowing little diamond you were in human society, through terrorism, cannibalism and bloodshed one thing would remain a constant throughout devil society. No one would ever give a damn about anything.

Hell became your fucking playground by the time your first extermination came around, and keeping on the move while broke as shit was a cakewalk this time around, but your first encounter with an overlord after catching your foot in the grave in the casino humbled your inflating ego. Chaos for society did not necessarily mean chaos without hierarchy, and going without a voice to call your own put you at an extreme disadvantage.

“LA-LA-LA!”

The crescendo of the opener is right around the corner, for the leading front and center of your group your vocals and choreography had primarily remained reserved for backup. The primary color of lights among the crowd made the obvious clear with who the majority of these demons were here to see, your manager was aware of this more than anyone else.

Your fans tended to be aware of this for a majority of your shows, your parts in particular tended to stand out even as mere background vocals.

“I’m ready for this this lover baby!

My garden of love is in danger from a drawing hand.

Truly, this this lover’s crazy!

In the garden of harm, the bud of a human is a lie-ai-a!”

Sinners rejoice once the solo everyone was edging towards drops with the bass of the loudspeakers and the flares of the strobes above. The pitches your vocals were now capable of hitting and the frequency you were able to synthesize between notes wasn’t just inhuman, it was impossible for any singer whose notes carried on oxygen.

Your manager always made it a note in the writing room or when creating your setlists that overfeeding wolves with delicious treats would dull the taste over time, your solo singles often did well enough to prove this didn’t need to always be the case, but whenever it came to the business decisions you always put your full trust in him. Where you are standing right now is more than enough proof in your eyes that he knew exactly where and when to move his pawns, and in doing so he turned you into a valiant queen.

“Ah! I love you and even things about you I probably shouldn’t love

I love you too much, on a count of one and two

Lie-lie loving you, such words

and doing such things, you’re in m-my way!”

Survival was of the least of your concerns after so much time had passed, but survival was all you could find yourself able to do in your forced retirement. Where you yearn for character in sound you were able to temporarily find when turning to radio, but living vicariously only quenches so much before greed starts cozying up within.

Plausible excuses for your laziness were wearing thinner by the day, even the last sane smolder of human morality trying to keep itself sparked wanted nothing more than to argue you weren’t supposed to be living to the fullest in hell, but the mute silence in your throat was beginning to phase your memory of the voice your inner conscience called its own too, and you'd sooner go mad trying than wither away again a fucking waste.

“Here comes the love maniac who never misses,

Stack up all the whining,

Fall in a high-fi love lie-ai-a!”

Overlords were still beings that had you nauseous upon first glance, your first meeting of one of these overlords had you vowing to never end up in the claws of one again, should you find yourself in a deal you can’t unbind yourself out of. Pride stuck thick to the roof of your mouth and there was nothing more you wanted to do than stick to your morals and prove use on your own, but reality had pelted you with stones throughout your entire afterlife.

You were going to need to write out a loan before you’d find yourself with any ounce of power to call your own, not like you didn’t have options for whom to choose! Even so, you needed to keep a steady head and an even sharper nose. In your ponderance you'd come to realize there was only really one option for you to go to this whole time. Maybe that gambling kitty taught you a valuable lesson on staking bets in the long run.

“Copy their acting and keep the truth hidden

Stacking three and lonely, lonely

You’re surely a clown, a prisoner”

A bet on the future was what you were going to stake it all on.

“Copy their acting and keep the truth hidden

Stacking three and lonely, lonely

You’re surely a clown, a prisoner”

Everything about how the world operated changed so rapidly from the days walking in the sunlight to your eternal party in the redlight, the wave of the future had finally hit with the promise for a solution to everyones problems. There couldn’t have been any better timing, if technology was going to be the way of the future, who's to say you couldn’t prove what was achievable? Like that, you had your sales pitch. The hardest part on your end was complete.

“Hey, it's a amazing.

LA-LA-LA!”

“So you were a singer in life and lost your voice in death, and just what the fuck made you think I was the man to go to for this?” Those were the magic words you were waiting for, with his composure shaken it wasn’t long before he was the one asking the questions and allowing the ball to move into your court. Your fingers dance on the illuminated tablet laying on the table once again before you flip it over toward his direction.

~Have your inventions not made it to that level of advancement yet?

Hook, line, and sinker. You had a hunch a passive aggressive challenge toward the ego would be what ultimately won you over with any overlord you chose, but the speed in which he stood from his desk and held out his hand, it felt almost too easy.

“If it’s a new voice you wish to invest in, consider your stocks opened, Monarch!” Finally…

“I’m ready for this this lover baby!

My garden of love is in danger from a drawing hand.”

“Now for what you have to offer me,” You don’t care. “I hope you weren’t planning on extorting me out of a generous gift and then making the big bucks with it, hm?” These overlords just love to hear themselves go on.

“Truly, this this lover’s crazy!

In the garden of harm, the bud of a human is a lie-ai-a!”

“I suppose I could just issue a royalty for your voice, after all you wouldn’t be making a sound without my tech. Lucky for you, I’ve been having fleeting thoughts of entering the music industry. So why not invest in each other instead~”

“Ah I love you and even things about you I probably shouldn’t love

I love you too much, on a count of one and two”

Being owned by an overlord in the end wasn’t so bad, or maybe this is the fated “stockholm syndrome” everyone seems to be crying about these days. Either way, the biggest price you had to pay in the end was just having someone else do all the “business” part in show business.

Naive maybe, but rosey eyed you weren't. For all that he’s done you still fail to see how your end of the deal has in any way repaid what’s given, which can only lead to one thing down the line. You were going to have to give him your everything.

… Yet, how could you find yourself ungrateful to someone who fulfilled your afterlife dream and still continued to provide for you?

“Lie-lie loving you, such words and even such things, they’re in m-my way!”

The audience went absolutely ballistic at the final group pose signifying the end of your opening set, some of the really hardcore fans in the front row you swore passed out the second eye contact was made.

Yet when you turn your chin upward to the VIP section after performing your tricks so well, all you’re met with is a turned back and a schmoozed up producer instead of a tasty bone.

“Thank each and every one of you for coming to see us tonight!!” No, you only wanted him to come out to see you.

Only you.

Hey, Vox?

Can you just turn your stupid flat head this way?

#Hazbin Hotel #Hazbin Hotel x reader #Vox #hazbin hotel vox #vox x reader #hazbin hotel fanfiction #vox smut #vox x reader smut #hazbin hotel vees #the vees #Hazbin hotel smut #hazbin hotel x you #mdni #🍓My one and only!#🕊Dead dove do not eat!#💔I’ll leave you be…#next next!

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chaseprice · 8 days

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hi!! hope i’m not a bother. i just came across u and i wanted to ask something,,,

basically, i joined the life is strange fandom in 2018 so i never got to experience the pre-bts era, meaning i didn’t get to experience what rachel was like to the fandom back then or see the different interpretations of her.

i did some digging and i found some fan content of her from 2015-2016 & i’m absolutely infatuated with all aspects of the fanon version of her, especially her personality & how she looked. i totally wanna embody her. also the love is strange vn was so interesting to play, i love how she was written. i’d love to know more!

i stumbled across ur blog while i was doing my digging and i saw an old long post of urs saying how bts didn’t live up to the fandoms expectations, as almost everyone perceived her differently.

sorry for all the yapping LOL but what i basically wanna ask is,,, how *exactly* did the fandom perceive rachel back then (2015-2016). what were some popular headcanons for her? things you guys even considered to be canon? what were some of your own *personal* headcanons? (can be silly, realistic,,, just anything you thought resonated with her)

do you have any favorite arts from that time period that you thought really captured her? what were your hopes for the prequel/rachels character before it was released? what did you want to see in terms of story? was rachel’s style, appearance, & personality extremely different than what you expected? what did you expect?

i assume that rachels treatment in the fandom was different then than what it is now. whether it’s better or worse, i’m not sure. i was hoping u could answer that too😞. recently i’ve just been seeing constant hatred or lack of care for her character so i’m starting to think that if bts was written differently and based on the fandom’s interpretations instead, the hate now wouldn’t be this bad.

from my digging it seems like you guys had alot of fun sculpting rachel’s character on your own, and the interpretations were probably more realistic than what decknine put together.

anyway i’m sorry for the yapping essay on this random saturday, most old lis accounts are dead & i didn’t know who else to ask☹️. just trying to relive what you guys experienced the best i can. hope i’m not bombarding you with this. thank you so much if u respond !!

hiii u def did not bother me, i am not in a position to answer all of these questions, but although it makes me feel ancient, it's cute to see so much passion for rachel and pre-BTS fandom opinion, so i'll try answer some and for the rest (art, hcs, etc.) im just gonna have to direct you to my archive* (will continue under the readmore)

*(tumblr archive is so broken on mobile so you gotta go on pc for this, but also there's so many gifs from that time so it will Definitely slow down your browser). i was insane and 17 years old so like, just excuse all of the cringe content i guess. you can click tag and filter it by either #lis #rachel amber #amberprice or whatever to try and find stuff like art. and i got into lis sept 2015 so that's like, as far back as it will go, but i was fully lisbrained from 2016 through 2018)

to be honest, in alignment with pre-bts thought lmao, rachel is whoever you want her to be. there was less of 'this is a correct objective fact about her personality/history' and more 'yeah, this is an idea the fandom really likes and has become fanon, most likely because it is a nuanced and entertaining and realistic interpretation of what we have seen of her character in lis1' which means people whose opinions conflicted with that might've be contested/laughed at/unpopular, but they weren't wrong per se. there were plenty of people i'd criticise (and ridicule) back then for implying that this teenage girl was evil, and being a teenager myself back then, i'd call them morally reprehensible and cancellable and whatever, but tbh, as an adult now, i can just see that it was simply a boring interpretation of her character informed by misogyny

i'd disagree with the notion that fandom treatment of rachel's character was better before bts, back then there were plenty of people seemingly excited to characterise her as emotionally manipulative, a cheater, deserved what she got, etc. as well, bc tbh, the story did leave room for that interpretation, but it left room for so much more as well. i feel like bts just really locked in on a certain story they wanted to tell plot-wise, and didn't choose to explore a lot of the questions fans had about rachel as a person. it's hard to turn the ambiguity of a friendship turned situationship over a period of 4 years into a playable experience for an audience - so they didn't. regardless, it got people thinking about rachel more, putting a spotlight on her, hence increased attention both positive and negative. i feel like there's just a fundamental difference between what lis1 fans enjoyed about the potential for her character and how she related with chloe and the world around her, and what deck9 wanted to portray in bts (yes they hit the astrological headcanons, the charmingness, her rebellion, the emotional conflicts... but it personally felt hollow, contrived sometimes, i suppose). but there were a lot of people who loved bts (i enjoyed a lot of parts of it!). just, in my opinion, some of those were quite different people from who loved lis1, and with that wave it brought a lot of emotional immaturity to the fandom (like... ship wars, really? that was an insane change to fandom dynamics for me lmao, but maybe i was just spoiled by surrounding myself with people whose takes i respected)

anyway i highly recommend also that if you're hungry for that kind of content, read fanfiction on AO3 by the old fans - by Mogatrat (TON of rachel centric ones there), explosionshark and tippytypewriter, chicknparm (though Cusp is written post-bts, it's informed by pre-bts characterisations), vicepoint (me hehe), def many more good ones out there those r jus my friends so they come to mind first, e.g. i liked homecoming by kriegersan back in the day, but you could def find some more by sorting the lis ao3 page by kudos and reading the older ones that are highly rated featuring rachel. and lastly, my gf wrote a beautifully worded blog post called "The Assassination of Rachel Amber by the Cowards Dontnod and Deck Nine" which gets into some of this from a media crit perspective (not about fandom) in a very eloquent way thru comparison w twin peaks and i highly recommend that

rachel hcs that def started way before bts: skater rachel, stoner rachel, punk music listener rachel (but also like, fleetwood mac cranberries cocteau twins grungy hippy stuff rachel too), rachel's parents being distant and still living in california, curvy thick rachel, things that i've accepted as canon but were def created by diff people: bri explosionshark hc'd that rachel paid for chloe's sleeve, mogatrat (i think) hc'd that rachel initially went to get her nips pierced with chloe (that's a longtime fan hc now idk who started that one) but chickened out at the last minute, i think she also hc'd that chloe made the earring for rachel which is cute too

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dracomort · 1 month

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I'm sorry if I have hurt you in any way because that was not my intention. I don't really mind who you ship or what you ship. It's just, I open my Tumblr and the first I see is someone calling something I like a crack ship while talking about their favourite ship. My point is why talk badly about something/someone else's ship when you're also shipping something which is also very unrealistic? Like I get it you have a favorite, but you can talk about your favourite without saying someone else's ship is not possible/crack for that matter. My bad if I made you feel bad because I really didn't want to do that. I just didn't want to the see someone bashing my ship as the first thing I see when I open Tumblr. I just don't get why people can't ship their own things without calling others' ship crack. Either ways, I'm sorry you felt attacked honestly; I really respect you as a person and a writer. And that's why I was sad to see you say those stuff. I really liked your fics as well and I love how you write Tom, I really do. That is why I was so surprised to see that post on my feed, but oh well. I do hope you have a good day and again I'm sorry if I made you sad in any way.

I appreciate the apology. I understand that it's not fun to see something that you interpret as critical toward your ship on your dash, however, I did not put that post in the Tomarry tag. If those kinds of posts are upsetting to you, then consider unfollowing me, because when I receive asks, I will answer them with my honest opinion. Coming into my ask box like that is not appropriate.

I'm just scratching my head here, because tbh that wasn't an anti post? To say that Tomarry requires a reimagining of canon or that there are plenty of things they could dislike about each other is not me saying it's a shit ship. Drarry's my OTP after all, lol, hate = spice. I also didn't call it crack, though I don't think crack is an insult either. Most Tom ships are crackish to some extent, especially ships that require an AU for the characters to even be the same age (Tomarry, Tomione, Taco, etc.). Harry Potter x the dude who tried to kill him a bajillion times is pretty implausible to most people, but that doesn't make it a 'bad' ship. You can make any ship work and there are many, many writers who have brought more life to Tomarry than Canon Hinny received from JKR (before someone else comes for me, this isn't a Hinny critique either, this is a critique of JKR's ability to write romance lol)

This is what I've said on Tomarry and Taco previously.

^FYI this was a joke

Finally, it isn't your ship vs mine. I've shipped Tomarry longer than I've shipped Taco. I'll ship Tom with a pair of snakeskin loafers if I thought they'd have chemistry. I can ship something without singing its praises endlessly. In fact, I reckon I've said way meaner things about Taco on here than Tomarry lol. I've said that Tom would loathe Draco under most circumstances and that he would murder him for sure since lil bro can't stop yapping. I've also said Draco is ugly an acquired taste and Tom has no game 💀. My DAD has come to Draco's defence over some of the things I said about him as we were watching the movies. Roasting is my love language, pls don't misunderstanding it.

#asks #anon #draco cant stop yapping and neither can i #✌

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tianshiisdead · 10 days

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(here to fight) Nichu would never sail as ship because if China went for any East Asian country it'd be South Korea (and Japan is stuck on Italy)

HELLO ANON!!!!!!! thank you for taking my fighting offer kiss kiss 🙏 I love fighting

warnings i am going to be arguing for nichu and against itapan (as gently as I can) so please be warned!! i will not put it in the tag, do scroll if you like it and no hate to you <3

Honestly I don’t disagree there’s relatively (RELATIVELY) less bad blood between China and SKorea, and I agree that nichu wouldn’t ‘sail’ necessarily in modern day, but I do disagree that makes it less real than itapan or korchu (despite being a korchu shipper myself) purely because it’s a ship rooted in such a deep set history and national identity!! Like, okay, ships are always subjective, and as someone who’s quite history and nation brained, who enjoys the study of history and people and society, I do have that bias when interpreting ships and characters. I tend to treat hetalia canon as important but relatively more supplementary I think so that is going to affect my argument. I won’t argue too much against Korchu because I am fond of it as well but I do think that like… China is equally likely to go for either Korea or Japan because while he hates Japan, he um , likely disdains South Korea/is irritated by him, for not being grateful enough and for being beholden to The Enemy (the US). Like I think China dislikes Japan more but he also, in modern day, respects Japan a lot more…. and same goes for South Korea tbh. For the Itapan… I honestly can’t say much more than ‘I disagree’ JKLFDGFH I see what the shippers are putting down and I’m happy for them, I think the countries have a neat little history together, they have a cute bond in canon, but it’s not necessarily deep enough for me to be very interested in it. Of course they have a bit of history as nations but I don’t see it as much of a compelling one past fun facts and basic relations you’d expect fairly nations to have over the centuries of knowing of each other’s existence. It’s a cute ship but it doesn’t have the same level of historical basis as Nichu imo, Japan being fond of Italy in canon (which is a joke series that offers a certain flexibility to the characters + also has plenty of china-japan main moments) isn’t really enough to sway me, as someone who takes Hetalia fully as nation personification. China and Japan are nations who are paralleled and have thousands of years of history… which I will now elaborate on.

Nations are funny things, they are constructed through power and reified through these things such as contrasting one’s own social community with out-groups, so on and so forth. The concept of the nation after its birth, in order to remain relevant or alive in any sense, must constantly be reinforced, made physical and negotiated by its members as they pass through a world where the porosity of physical boundaries bleed into less physical national ones. I think of Hetalia, of nation personification really, as an extension of that. The nation is born through its history, their identities are shaped by their interactions with power, with each other, and with humans. They are systems made real, a physical manifestation of nebulous and ultimately artificial categories. I mean, identities are created things right? What makes a nation, a nationality? Is it your passport, your blood, your community? I’d argue no, all of these are aspects of a larger system that connects many separate things, but that system is only seen as one piece because of the fairly modern concept of the ‘nation state’ which we privileges as the ultimate unit of human groupings. Our cultures and nationalities are created things, and our building of our identities, our interactions with each other, all of these things continue to shape our nation itself, which in large part rests on our acknowledgement of it.

Now that I have my yapping out of the way I want to establish why this is important to Nichu. Nichu is, to me, a ship of national identity, a ship about the way systems interact and bleed into each other, about the movements of power between humans and the systems they live within. Japan and China have defined themselves with each other and defined each other through the years. Their systems, cultures, languages, legal systems, etc are all intertwined through thousands of years of history good and bad, and yet they lack the common roots and blurred founding myths that might make them meaningfully related or might make them feel like sibilings. No, their individual identities and histories are simply too strong to allow them to have that sort of tie, and yet, and yet, they nonetheless see each other as if looking through a mirror… Somehow, they’re totally separate nations who became intertwined throughout the passage of history.

Initially China taught Japan, and Japan as the periphery defined itself through a set of comparisons, through similarities and differences with China. As a nation on the edge of the sinosphere that floated in and out of being a tributary, Japan is a nation who had eras where it imported products and intellectual ideals on a massive scale from China, and eras where it sealed itself off from China. To China it barely existed, but to Japan China was this massive force right, much like Rome was to Europe. But then… later on, there came a time when Japan had ambitions to take over mainland East Asia: first the Imjin War and then later the colonial era. In that early modern period, China fell from its position of power centre and instead became a periphery, an object of colonialism, and many Chinese intellectuals travelled to Japan to study and learn and model China off of Japan’s East Asia modern in an attempt to raise the nation up. This is both similar and different from traditional western colonialism right, like of course the movements of intellectual class and adopting of foreign ideas is normal but this sense of closeness that Japan and China felt despite it all is very much a product of their shared history. Japanese and Chinese intellectuals put so much emphasis on this, China was learning from Japan because Japan was East Asian! Because it offered a formula for East Asia modern that took western ideas - but adapted them to what was thought to best suit East Asian peoples and cultures! This isn’t to say that should be taken at face value, the unequal relationship influenced everything and the concept of greater East Asian unity was in many ways copium, and colonialism was on the horizon, but it speaks to I think a sort of closeness, even if its a closeness that China itself also resents (for a good reason). Like… this is a reversal of roles and it also speaks to the ways nations from outside the west cope with a western modernity. It’s a way that teachers become students and students become teachers, a way power forms itself through relations. Japan… has always known of China, and in many eras focused on China as the hegemon. China has never viewed Japan, or at least very rarely… but in the modern day you find Japanese held within China’s modernity due to the way modern history played out, many political and technological terms and even early modern nation building and policy were mapped off of Japan the way Japanese nation building was once mapped off of China. It’s this ever intertwined relationship, their modern selves truly cannot exist without the other, driven ever closer and ever farther away.

I guess I like to think of it as a sort of chase, a tragicomedy, Japan who was always relatively more isolated than his mainland neighbors, lonely due to being an island reaching the height of his empire and falling, China who’s always returned to power and rolled his eyes at even his conquerers, but then suddenly being brought down to the role of student. An essay on a Meiji sinologist that I’ve quoted before puts it best I think, it’s one of my favourite quotes: ‘In colonizing its cultural ancestor, Japan lost a vital element of its own identity’. Isn’t that so interesting? Japan who had always chased after something only to lose that thing before he even gets his hands on it. China who can’t shake the ways his former student has shaped him in both policy and also through rage and pain. I’m endlessly fascinated with them and the ways they can’t quite pull themselves apart from each other. It’s not all hatred, they’ve shared many quiet moments as student and teacher and then teacher and student, there’s a familiarity to someone so close, who even while you speak different languages you can still make out the gist of each other’s writing due to a shared character-meaning system. I don’t know if these immortal nations would approach romance the way humans do, but whatever it is Nichu’s relationship is a deep and strange thing that is too strong to just put aside.

Aside from that really heavy stuff I think they could be cute in modern day as well <33 Of course we had a sort of honeymoon in the 1980s where Japanese investments meant a lot of cultural exchange, but even now… I do think they could go for karaoke and hook up afterwards or smthn idk

#hetalia #ask #anon #kiku look away #<- for u kiki… mwah #nichu

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cyberstevie · 8 days

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thank you for the tag my lovely friend @holographicbutch! i was going to do my favoritest guy shrike but decided my sour little lemon man would be more fun!

5 words to physically describe your OC: bright, comical, sharp, silly, dread

Who inspired your OC?: lemon was born from a very bad drawing of danny phantom with claws, but has retained almost none of his personality. a lot of him is honestly pretty close to qibli from wings of fire, but he pulls a lot of inspo from real-life comedians like randy feltface, ben schwartz, and bo burnham

Give me a song to define your OC: oh boy theres so many. i think i decided awhile ago that his main song is the main character, but other good ones are thumbnail, nothing to say, and art is dead (<-that last one is HUGE)

If I met your OC on the street, how would they greet me?: warmly! maybe almost too warmly. he'd yap and yap at you and if you do not respond in the way he is looking for he will not let you leave the interaction until you give him some indication that you like him and find him funny. he needs you to like him.

Can your OC be your best friend? Why?: i really dont think so tbh if i met someone like lemon irl id want to avoid them most of the time. hes very high energy and requires a lot of patience to be around.

1 adjective and 1 noun to describe your OC: false face (because hes. and also the. because. and hes a changeling. so its.)

tagginggg my beautiful @z-nogyrop and our friends @subsequentibis @felineevil and my lovely mutuals @phantomstory @gilfrespecter

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scuderiahoney · 19 days

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Ahhhh I thought that the blurb said he'd help her dye it blue if they get past play offs my badddd (its 🍄 IM BACK BABYYYY)

I hope we get to see Maxie dye Bunny's hair

I just had a couple questions

Why name the fic in motion? is that a hockey thing?

Would you ever introduce more OCs? Like a gf for Max or Lan? Make a whole multiverse outta this universe

Also lmao fun fact I always have to remind myself of your name coz to me you're Honey ykwim?

you’re good bb! he def did promise he’s just gotta win a championship first. it remains to be seen if that’ll happen or not. (at least for all of you guys. i know 😈.) added a read more bc wow i rambled

for part 1: hehehehe so! while i was trying to brainstorm name ideas, i knew that Oscar & bunny were going to have a class together & that it would be physics. and i started playing around with the concept of “objects in motion tend to stay in motion.” for a while the chapter titles were all going to be physics related actually! but then i remembered the song Motion by Luke Hemmings and said hmmmmmm!

so the fic title & all the chapter names are all from songs off his first album! the only one that sort of relates directly to hockey is starting line, which could be a reference to the first line of a hockey team (the guys who are on the ice first).

in general, the concept of being “in motion” is sort of a theme in the story- it may not be said explicitly, but i thought about it while planning it. you stay in motion until you’re forced to stop by something else- bunny’s injury, Oscar’s team issues, etc. so yeah!

as for question #2: 😏😏😏

i think, as i’m wrapping up in motion, i will likely take at least a small break from the universe & take the time to write some other things! this has been my main focus writing wise for weeks now & as much as i love writing it, i don’t want to get burned out on it. however. i do have thoughts on where they go after the fic ends… and a spin off concept for a certain someone…

(it’s max. i had a hard time not turning this one into a max fic sometimes tbh)

also you can call me whatever you want tbh! i did fully make honey a part of my “brand” lol- both my main blog & my hockey blog use it in the urls! & my writing & rambling tags are honeywrites and honeyrambles. so i think it’s my fault, not yours!

anyways, tysm for asking these questions! i love to yap about fics & the writing process tbh so thanks for giving me the chance and let me know if you (or anyone who’s reading this) have any more questions!

#box box #anon #🍄 anon

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petrichoraline · 2 months

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We Are Ep.2 thoughts in chronological order

what peem did in the car trying to convince phum to part their ways is what the youth calls ✨a yap sesh✨ (he tried ig) (this is what this post is as well)

we're probably never seeing phum use those things he bought ever, he'll just keep hanging around in his engineer shirt

peem has so many ppl ready to square up for him including his auntie and he is recognised by tan as someone who loves his friends very much (which makes the fact tan has sold him away for time with his crush TWICE even worse lmao)

i don't really get phum's insistence on not telling anyone about being phum's "slave", not even tan who got him into the mess or his best friend but it's just his ego ig (aside from plot reasons)

i find pun more relatable now - tags along for the funsies and gets happy around fire

not convinced the beans and pork scene wasn't an ad but im not sure how cause i didn't clock any labels

the scene where peem brings in food and laughs with q feels like improv or breaking left in lol

fai missing cause of upset stomach might be some sort of foreshadowing and i'm a bit worried bout her

the professor is handsome <3 and could pas off as chimon's sibling in a show

q absorbing those noodles was very satisfying idek why lol

peem and q's friendship is in the background but the show still constantly makes it a point that they are really good and loyal best friends

i thought "oh theyre gonna make the sharing food a thing in the future" so when boys showed up i was like "ah, we're doing it immediately? bit boring" but then he didn't share!! joey never shares food!! i think he will in the future though, him being a foodie is a constant thing so i'm guessing we're using it as a sign of compromise in the name of love or smth

satang playing this type of character felt a bit much in the first episode but i think he's getting more comfortable with the role as the show progresses and it look more natural; i'm glad his character isn't the googly eyed mentee and he actually teases a lot and snaps back but knows when to stop playing because q isn't the most patient person. (matt having to jump in like "bro he's serious" was so funny cause i hadn't clocked that either hahah)

the way we can see q flustered at certain points but seemingly unbothered at others is fun because his reactions aren't entirely predictable at this stage as we're still getting to know him. also it's mad cute when he clearly doesn't know what to do with himself

idk how he hasn't asked toey bout why he's in art yet, ig they're just now starting to properly get to know each other

toey took one look at q's back and decided "that's a cool ass aura to base my entire future around!" and tbh that's very young adult of him

q regularly asking about peem's work being submitted, he's honestyly worried <3

the way i cheered for peem burping in phum's face and then went "oh he came back :(" bahah

phum is definitely already planning his day and schedule around peem, i don't think he'd ever tell his friends because he wants to actually keep it going so one of the reasons is to not run into his faculty friends including tan and the second is to have lunch with his unconscious crush AND I AM VERY HAPPY WITH THIS STUPIDITY

thought peem could overhear the convo behind the car and realise what he was exchanged for but nope, he just dipped; i think that might be a plot point for later

phum not knowing tan has a crush on fang is so weird cause he genuinely acted like he knew while taunting tan, i don't have an explanation for that

fang is their p'!! i was so conviced he was the little brother, ig because of his big round eyes and the way phum acted all protective (that just makes phum cuter tbh)

what is the age difference between bar owner and prof cause i ship it

it took me a bit to realise the nongs were there instead of the full arts gang and i was glad to see toey and q together (also the green sweater is beautiful on toey, hope it makes a comeback)

i was ready to believe fang had some sort of falling out with tan with the way he treated him but tan beaming and enjoying a dreadful setting (no talking, awkward sitting around in a bar with mid music and alcohol) shows that man is glowing just from being in fang's presence (i hope he reaches ridiculous levels of lame for him)

i was screeching when i realised where things were going with wasted peem and seeing him n the bench outside had me exctaticcc (ofc he didnt book a taxi. and ofc they cant just order one for him noww could they)

phum cockblocks but he kinda has to cause there's no reason for fang to be there otherwise; once the ridiculous proposition of him taking peem home comes up he doesn't really fight it at all - he wants to be with peem, sure, but i think he's also pretty okay with tan and fang being a thing

the way i was screaming "just buy the flowers rich boy!!! he wants to go home" and then the kid went to get more lol

ofc he couldnt just leave the flowers in the backseat, peem just has to have them in his lap.. and the seatbelt scene was so predictable but it's too much of a classic with all "figuring things out" parts of a romance that i can't complain

it makes absolutely zero sense aside from people liking people (cause fang knows what he's doing too) that phum would drive peem to his house - a place where tan has sleepovers at all the time and phum hasn't been to before. fang is his brother and they can sleep at the same place as well even if they don't live together but nope. also THAT CAR HAS EMPTY BACKSEATS, if phum wanted to he would've forced them to ride with him to keep an eye on tan

fang is probably planning to launch a big revenge attack on peem and that'd be so funny, those four can get way too entangled, i could get DRAMA out of their plans and schemes (this show is more hidden agenda than hidden agenda was)

tan's energy with fang reminds me of the duracell bunny lmao it's late at night and they've had a few drinks but his mind and body are all focusedon wooing fang (who is playing nonchalant but has probably had a crush on tan as well)

also no way he was just gonna leave tan on the street lol

toey and q aleady work so well together, toey knows his effect on q more or less and q doesn't shy away from being at least a bit vulnerable as of rn; i think they can be one of the best if not the best couple if they have a proper storyline; im certainly enjoying it the more than i thought i would

the fake blush on both toey and peem is ridiculous esp up close but ig they're cartoonishly drnk anyways

auntie took note and now doesn't do facemasks at night, otherwise it would've been an amazing first meeting

"he likes to whine" and she's the one who can't leave the room from complaining sm lol auntie is so cute

ahh, the mandatory "a look around the room shows me you're truly passionate about what you do and you're deeper than i thought" scene..thankfully he didn't mutter "you like painting this much, huh" to nobody cause i was ready to yell HES AN ARTS MAJOR like he kicked you in the balls for a reason doofus

theyre giving us so many closeups of these two and i keep thinking "this is so drama/y im embarrassed" but i have no shame, if it's fun it's fun (and it's pondphuwin, youre not gonna hear me complain about looking at pond's face for too long or from too close)

reaching out to touch his face was a bold choice thoughh i lost it

man down badd man down baddd he was called an asshole and started gleaming like a light bulb

#we are the series

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stfrancisprayer · 2 months

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ALBUM TAG GAME!! 🧀

6 ALBUMS YOU'VE BEEN LISTENING TO + ONE TRACK FROM EACH ALBUM YOU'RE ESPECIALLY FOND OF thank you for the tag @dontirrigateme <3 if there is one thing i LOVEEEEE talking about it's the music i'm listening to...i'm a notorious single-track listener so i will provide you all with some thoughts about six of my favorite albums. YAPPING under the cut...

20 AÑOS - LUIS MIGUEL (1990)

💿 NOW PLAYING... ORO DE LEY i could actually gab about this album for hours...i have the CD ANDDDDD i heard some of it live 😈😈 all of the songs on this album scratch my brain just right and you know i love a little 80s revival moment. asking me to pick a favorite song from this album is like asking me to pick a favorite child but i've been on an "oro de ley" kick as of recently (especially the chopped + screwed version) so she gets the spotlight...but i am partial to any of the songs where luismi rey does his little "wooooAAAHHHHHH" which is like all of them. reccomend "alguien como tu" from the same album as well.

FOR YOU - TATSURO YAMASHITA (1982)

💿 NOW PLAYING... SPARKLE unfortunately most of his songs are not on streaming or youtube, but here's a soundcloud link to a full CD rip of the album. if you listen to this album and like it, promise me you'll listen to "melodies" (1983) next. tatsuro has yet to miss and what i love about this album is that it feels like midday summer driving with the windows down, hair still a little wet from a morning spent at the beach, when you look at the guy in the car next to you at the stoplight, he smiles and you smile back. absolute genius opening the album off with "sparkle", which feels like opening a window, and then you get hit with "music book", which is like dancing in the kitchen, the patio door is propped open, you've forgotten what you're cooking but who cares.

THE PERFECT RED VELVET REPACKAGE - RED VELVET (2018)

💿 NOW PLAYING... KINGDOM COME another album that i could talk about for hours. this is like an album that has fundamentally changed me....kingdom come is the kind of song that you kind of listen to with your whole body. red velvet INVENTED the word genre versatility, what i love about this album is that it hops back and forth between upbeat and mellow but the whole "velvet" rnb vibe they have going is bumping throughout the entire album. other favorites from the tracklist include "moonlight melody" and "i just", among others... i love the ReVe festival trilogy but in my fair and honest opinionné they have yet to top this. if you don't mind k-pop i'd seriously recommend this album, NO skips to be found and i checked everywhere.

SATURATION II - BROCKHAMPTON (2017)

💿 NOW PLAYING... SUNNY the relationship i have with brockhampton songs needs to be studied tbh...they were my lifeline during the thick of the 2020 p*nd*mic. love love love the bearface outros but when they do songs like sunny (think: swim, sister/nation, team, etc) they HIT....complicated thoughts here because i feel like the saturation trilogy kind of haunted the band after its release and you feel it in their music. that convo is for another post though. but i love sunny because it's one of those sun is setting, life is kind of shit right now but it's looking up sort of vibes. sat ii > sat iii > sat i, if you were curious. god save the boy band....

HIT VIBES - SAINT PEPSI (2013)

💿 NOW PLAYING... BETTER another album not on streaming but thankfully you can listen to it here! i had an EXTENDED future funk/city pop moment back when it was really at its peak and i still come back to it every so often. "better "is a really fun listen, it feels like a party condensed into a song to me....the sound effects are what really make it for me. saint pepsi is one of my more consistent future funk faves, check out "cherry pepsi" and "private caller" too, they've bot got that sort of mellow bump rythm to them and the bass is NASSTYYYY.....found myself checking out some of the samples just to listen to them isolated as well, he does a great job of picking samples might i add...great listen.

DECIDE - DJO (2022)

💿 NOW PLAYING... HALF LIFE i told yall i love a little 80s revival moment!! another no-skip album, mr. joe keery makes the chord progressions his BITCH and i think that's what really makes this album. gives notes of tame impala but is very synth electronica....i also love daft punk's "discovery" (2001) so this album speaks to me. i think that there's a persistent longing present in these songs and you can really feel it. still waiting on the tour to happen. tiktok has recently got a hold of "end of beginning" but i listened to this on the day it came out. so. stream "chateau (feel alright)"

thank you all for listening...if you made it this far i'm sending you a virtual cookie. paging anybody who has not been tagged to do this yet, tell me about your favs and tag me!! i love discovering new music i'm not very picky when it comes to genres. actual hbowar stuff coming soon, i promise. much luv

#🧀 ; yapping

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silly--fangirl · 2 months

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so about me:

HIIII i'm alexa (if you're from 🇵🇱 call me Ola <333)

i LOVE books, mostly fantasy, but sometimes i'll read something else

series that live in my head rent free:

got, tog, the deavabad trilogy, soc duology, acotar??????, and much more

my beloved characters:

Nesta Archeron, Darayavahoush e-Afshin, Sansa Stark, Daenerys Targaryen, the whole Martell house, Lucien Vanserra, Gwyneth Berdara, Emerie, Nahri e-Nahid, Jude Duarte, Cardan Greenbriar, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, Dorian Havilliard, Manon Blackbeak, Elide Lochan, Lorcan Salvaterre, Gavriel, Fang Runin, Lidia Cervos

also a quick claryfication: if i say something about some of my prefered ships I MEAN FANON

i also love: crocheting, painting, drawing, going to the gym, writing, poetry, tbh most forms of art, cooking, baking, EATING THE FOOD I MAKE, doing gel nail extentions (i'm proud of this one), complaining, annoying my friends, summer, autumn but only in theory (as soon as the weather gets cold i loose my will to exist), hot girl walks, taylor swift, just overall listening to music and MANY other things

i also like to make my own life miserable by choice sometimes (TRYING NOT TO DO THAT A LOT, but chaos just CALLS to me), rn it's just a whole mess kept together by a single thread. i'm not in a very positive place in life, but i want to figure it all out so keep your fingers crossed for me💖💖

i am usually thirsting over fictional characters (or this one tall hot guy from my town who doesn't know about my existence)

my romantic life is almost non existent tho, so there's not a lot of tea on it

i'd love to move out of poland in a couple of years and i'm contemplating canada, scotland, denmark and norway (leaning the most towards canada and scotland because i have family there)

i would love to become a tattoo artist and i hope i finally take steps toward it

posts about my personal life or shit posts will be tagged: #alexa's yapping

i sometimes feel like i have one braincell (and share it with my friends)

but hey at least i'm fun right

i don't know what else to put in here so yeah!! but if anyone has read it up to this point, love you, you're amazing!!

#about myself #about my blog #alexa's yapping

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twistedyapping · 4 days

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my relationship with tumblr

i feel like i should do a yapping session bc i havent in a while and this topic keeps popping up in my brain so im gonna take u thru a journey of what my relationship with tumblr has been like for the last. Eons.

to start, right now i fucking love tumblr so much- i have genuinely never enjoyed posting on an app more and like don't get me wrong im sure this one has its issues, as does every social media app, but this one to me is at least the most tolerable.

my relationship with ig is mid at best, i like it but it's kinda lame and posting on it???? Bro i post like MAYBE once a year at best.

my relationship with twitter is pure hate and also non-existent bc i got so sick and tired of it that i caved and uninstalled it like a month or so ago and haven't wanted to go back on it since.

my relationship with tiktok is also mid at best, posting is closer to a chore tbh even though i dont do it regularly at all- i also get stressed trying to keep up with reach and stuff so i kinda just dont 😵‍💫

my relationship with facebook is non-existent.

my relationship with pinterest??? God bless that app but i dont post on it- i just go there for editing content and silly content, that's it.

This app tho??? God bless. I barely even scroll on it- i mostly come here to post, which makes it the only one of it's kind on my phone (90% posting, 10% scrolling)

but when i do scroll on it, it's so refreshing- i just see pretty space pics and stuff bc that's what i wanna see. i dont see argument after argument or cancellable offense after cancellable offence like on twitter, i dont see lame stupid stuff that im not interested in like on ig, and i dont get over/understimulated out of my mind like on tiktok.

However! This was not always the case for me with tumblr. in fact, it used to be quite the opposite!!!!

i used to hate tumblr with every fiber of my being- if i ever came to it, it was out of desperation. desperation for silly content (which funnily enough is kinda what drove me back to it after all these years)

it was overcomplicated, i hated the vibe of everything i saw, i hated how public it felt, etc- But ofc this was way back when i had a horrifically foggy head on my shoulders and barely knew who i was so 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

it felt claustrophobic for me back then, like literally somehow- and now it feels very comfy and i love the idea of just sitting down and writing a post on astrology or posting my image edits or even my fallout photography or sumn-

it just feels like the perfect place for me somehow- Like i can write abt whatever, write abt astrology, post photography, post edits, look at space stuff, whatever!!! it makes me feel more like an artist bc it gives me a space to do everything i wanna do

and omg dont even get me STARTED on the customization for each blog u can have BROOOOOOOOOO that's literally my favorite part- i fucking LOVE changing my whole blog's vibe down to the FONT dude it genuinely makes me so happy 😭😭😭😭😭

and who knows!!!! i might even end up with another blog at some point for like writing short stories or something bc i do love doing that- definitely wouldn't fit in with this yapping blog tho But another blog means another one to customize!!!! Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

and my posts on here- well not so much on this blog tbh i think i havent found the right tags yet But on my other 2, my posts actually do pretty well, especially the astrology one- and it's such a switch from ig's shitty algorithm and tiktok's inconsistency-

this one is actually like. Kind of consistent. and it makes me feel like im doing something right by posting here tbh and probably even if my posts did ass, i would still make them- bc like. It's fun. 😮‍💨

anyway ya that's abt it- i wanted to do a yapping session before bed yknow- this one's a little shorter than most But that's ok 🥳🥳

- 🌙 -

#yapatron5000 #yapping #me when i yap #my thoughts #rant #rant post #writing #yapping session #rambles #ramblings #writers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #tumblr

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serenagaywaterford · 5 years

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random thoughts:

jsyk, Serena swam in the place my dog poops. I hope Fred stepped in it. Die Fred.

(spoilers obvs)

NOT. ENOUGH. JANINE. the only time i cheered out the entire 3 episodes was that one glimpse of janine.

I got to see my girl Alma though which was lovely.

OMG. Can... I just... that scene with Emily walking through the hospital was the dumbest fucking, most American stupid scene ever on this show. It was so fucking cheesy and absolutely 10000% unrealistic. Who actually thought it was a good idea? They should be fired. Or sent to go work on Grey’s Anatomy or something. Not even that shitshow aka SVU would do something as painfully cliched and cheesy as that. Firstly, this show is fucking stupid. Okay. If all this shit was happening, Canada would have got like MILLIONS of refugees. Seeing the cops escort some raggedy refugee would be common af. Maybe it’s the baby thing? Still, Canadians aren’t gawkers like that. We also don’t like embarrassing displays like that. It’s so American it hurts. NOBODY CLAPS LIKE THAT IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL. It’s a quiet place, okay. Also, why don’t any of these doctors have anything better to do? Anyway. I hated that scene so much.

Nick is so boring. So boring. He’s just a wet doughnut. I sorta liked him getting angry at June but also I wish I cared about anything he has to say. Bye Nick Bland. Good riddance.

Lawrence’s one liners? Funny. Lawrence? Disgusting awful psycho. I hate him sfm.

Fred? Also disgusting. I hate him 10000x more. Everything about him is repulsive. He’s so much worse this season. I hate everything about his entitled, poor me, manpain. I hate hearing about any of his feelings. Fucking die already. I found him interesting enough as an antagonist in the show before but no longer. Redundant.

Beth. Too good for Nick. Too good for this world.

Too much staring. I AM SO SICK OF IT. It wastes time. Is redundant af at this point. I’m bored. Stop it.

Moss... um. Honey. I love you but... what the fuck was up with all the over-acting? 302 seemed particularly bad. Like I just can’t take it anymore. Who directed 302? They should be fired too for making her do that. Also, lady from Transparent, what the fuck was up with her acting?

Luke is useless. Like, I get it. I get why he’s a huge damp sulkbaby but I mean. I don’t want to see it? I’d rather just not see him at all cos literally I can’t recall a scene of him not being fucking useless or ignorant. Or half-assing it. I want to like Luke, honestly. But I just... don’t. I love the shit outta Moira and Erin, and I adored Moira/Emily interactions. But Luke? Miss me with his manpain.

Once again, I hate Lawrence. He is no good. He’s so fucking creepy and gross. I do not understand why people like him? And I don’t mean, “I don’t know why people like this character.” I mean, “I don’t understand why people like this person.” As a character, sure, he’s interesting and revolting and does his role well. He’s even got some funny lines and Whitford has great delivery. I mean these people who LIKE HIM. As a person. They think he’s great and a good guy. I don’t get it. Are we watching the same show? He’s a great character and a terrible person. That said, he’s still a dude and I’m not about to say he’s such a great character that I want to know all about him. Nah, bros. I wanna know all about Emily, Moira, Serena, Janine, Alma... and June I suppose but we already have quite enough of her. I don’t care about Lawrence’s backstory or emotional turmoil. I don’t need his perspective cos I’ve seen it before, I know it already. It’s in so many movies, books, and TV. So, he may be a well-written character but he’s not a fascinating one. If we wanna dig around in the psyches of bad people, Serena and Lydia are far more fascinating cos bad women’s stories are so much rarer to explore in any depth.

So, June got her feet lashed to shit again. And then she’s just walking around like no biggie next scene? Did the writers forget the first season when June couldn’t walk at all? All I’m asking is a bit of a limp?

June going straight to the house that just housed the handmaid that ran away with June’s baby seems... well, like complete bullshit. Never.

SERENA ISN’T WEARING HER WEDDING BAND. She’s done. She hates that man and I hate the fact everyone is pushing her to just get over it. Fred... is horrible in literally every single way. Every. Single. Way. (And sure Serena is horrible in some ways, but not nearly the same ways as Fred.) I just want Serena to be free of him. I want her and June to murder his ass. Graphically. That is the only violence I want to see on this show in the future. OMG, I can’t actually explain how much I hate him and I vomit in my mouth thinking about Serena having to get back with him. Even if I know she has to in order to survive. Ugh.

UM. Okay, the “blood against the snow” bit was really interesting. I don’t recall Offred saying that in the book but Atwood brings it up often when talking about red. It was clever to include her own words, just like last season with the “men are afraid women will laugh at them...” bit.

But speaking of weird inclusions: Lawrence reciting book!Offred’s line about how easy is it to invent a humanity for anyone. It was curious they had Lawrence saying that to June, whereas it’s Offred in the book thinking that about the Commander. “He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.”

My wife, when Nick showed up in 303: “Oh, this prick again!” Just out of nowhere cos we don’t talk about fandom shit. She has no idea the extent of my sick obsession with this show. She doesn’t know how much I loathe Nick lol. She’s completely casual and even she can’t stand Nick. Which is so lovely. And then when he was yapping about going to the front, she just muttered, “Hopefully he’ll die there.”

OH MY GOD. I HATE MEN. That whole Commanders meeting scene made me want to throw up multiple times. It started with the words “shipment of females” and just got progressively worse with every passing second.

Except... LMAO. June: *sees Fred at a meeting* Fred: Hello. June: Hey you see Serena? How’s Serena? Is Serena okay? Serena’s tough. She’s great. She’ll be okay. I love her. *proceeds to do the world’s worst cringe-inducing seduction* I think on some level even Fred knows it’s bullshit.

I love comparing June’s seduction of Fred to her seduction of Serena. They’re very interesting contrasts. She’s so painfully fake with Fred. And only sort of insincere at times with Serena.

Man, Sylvia is a dick lol. LOOK RICHMOND IS HARD ENOUGH TO GET ACROSS WITHOUT YOUR LIME GREEN CAR BLOCKING THE ONE MOVING LANE OF TRAFFIC!!!!!! Jokes aside... I actually really liked that scene of Emily finally calling her. That was touching and the closest I came to actually getting sniffly. Actually no. Traffic on Richmond is no joke. I’m not kidding. That was a dick move, Sylvia. LOL.

June saying Nichole gets her politicianess thing from Serena absolutely fucking slayed me. I don’t even care if she was emotionally manipulating her af, it seemed genuine in parts of that convo. TWO MOMMIES. June used her flashback!June voice at one point. Honestly, these two actresses run this town. You can tell how broken Serena is tho cos she’s oblivious to how manipulative June is being. She’s been aware in the past as soon as June does her whole “Say nice thing, bond over babies, ask for something” method and called her on it. It’s June’s only trick. It’s transparent af. And Serena knows it. Yet, she seems completely wooed now and not at all suspicious. So, when she gets her wits together again, I suspect Serena won’t be so malleable.

I’ve said a bunch of stuff about June/Serena stuff in my tag rants so I won’t repeat it. I just fell in love with it all.

PRAISE BE!!! We didn’t actually have to see a Nick/June sex scene. Behold His miracle! I was so relieved. And then... curiously they continued that love-theme-y music all the way over into Serena’s scene with June and that was not a coincidence.

I know people really like that Boomtown Rats song being the music to the fire... And it’s a jam. But... it’s about a real school shooting and I feel like that’s just a little... off? (Not to mention Tori Amos’ version is better, imo.) I mean, okay, I did some drama courses in university and I did a thing about that song so I researched it all and it just to me doesn’t fit at all. A 16-year-old girl shot up an elementary school. And somehow, call me crazy, but that’s completely inappropriate to use in this scene. I get female rage, etc etc. I get they didn’t want to go super obvious and use a song about burning houses. But considering how EXCELLENT a song they chose for 3x03 with that Roy Harper track you’d think they’d find something better for the bed/house burning. Not only that but the motive for Spencer was ... literally nothing. She didn’t like Mondays and thought it would be fun to kill a bunch of kids--which is the complete opposite of Serena’s motivations. It just devalues it.

I want more of Emily’s journey. This is the first time I’ve actually been interested in Emily tbh. And Clea Duvall is a treasure.

I want a Moira/Emily BROTP. Honestly Moira just seems like the best friend anybody could have?

WHY IS NICK A COMMANDER?! WTF????? Was I just not listening carefully enough? Is he? Cos I don’t really pay attention when he’s onscreen tbh and the wifey was like “Why’s this guy a commander now?” And I was like, “What do you mean he’s a commander?” Honestly, Nick is just like a piece of furniture. I barely notice him onscreen lol. Okay, this has nothing to do with my dislike of him. It honestly does not make any sense. We saw that other Commander only got promoted because his wife got pregnant. WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY PROMOTE NICK? What on god’s green earth has he EVER fucking done well? Why the shitting hell would they promote a Guardian who, under his watch, has had one handmaid kill herself, another one escape/”get kidnapped”, wife cheat on him then get executed, allow a BABY to get kidnapped, the house get burned down????? All those things seem like Very Bad things and put all together seem like something that would put him on the Wall for being such a shitty employee rather than someone who deserves MORE responsibility. There’s literally no reason to make him a Commander. Just conscript him to the Chicago front. You don’t need a reason. He’s a grunt. Eye or not. I DO NOT GET IT. Fred gets demoted and Nick gets promoted? Nahhhhh mans. Not buying it.

So little Nick. I love it. I want zero Nick, but this’ll do. I’ll even put up with him being a Commander (LMAO) if it means he goes away for a while.

Lawrence calling out June’s terrible seduction technique (it is really bad), and calling Fred stupid = :}

OK BACK TO THE BURNING WATERFORD HOUSE... i cannot abide how SLOW June is ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME. Like, she shows up in Serena’s little pyromaniacal bedroom inferno and is like “COME ON!” and pulls her out of the room in what appears to be a hurry. Then as Serena and Rita are rushing out June just fucking stops and starts staring at all the smoke as if she’s on fucking shrooms. Then there she goes on her bullshit... Hey, bish, the house is literally burning down cos your crazy ass soulmate set fire to her own life and maybe you should leave. No? Not interested? Sure, stand there. Feel up the walls like I did once on MDMA. Makes total fucking sense. TAKE YOUR TIME WHY DON’T YOU? Why not? It just reminded me of 2x13 when Rita was saying “You gotta leave NOW!” and June just took it upon herself to carve a bunch of shit onto the wall for no goddamn reason.

OKAY. I WAS RIGHT. The other night when I was like, “I think I know that beach.” I do know that beach!!! My dog likes to take dumps right where Serena was. (I clean up after him, don’t worry.) I can point out that beach on a map if you want. There are also heroin needles and ticks in the bushes. There is literally a water treatment plant 200m away. I go swimming exactly where Serena was and once a dead fish floated by and I had to wrestle my dog away from it. I have been swimming there a lot. It’s nice in the summer. HOWEVER, poor Yvonne in her drysuit doing that in fucking November or whatever. This lake is fucking cold even in summer sometimes lmao. Like, I’ve spent so many hours right in that spot... cos well, I used to live right up the road so duh. Of course now that I don’t live there now and it was winter so why would I take my dog swimming, that they decide to film there. OF COURSE.

Speaking of filming, not that anyone cares, they were at the St Lawrence Market at one point. It was so obvious. Wasn’t really paying attention to any of the other locales tbh. If I watch again and pay attention I prolly could pick out a few more but honestly the only person that entertains is myself.

I still can’t believe Serena was being reborn on dogshit/dead fish beach.

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jason-todd-deserved-better · 6 years

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Getting a Husky - Jason Todd x Reader Headcanon

Requested by @multifandombackpack , “ do you think you can write something with Jason and the reader with a very vocal husky? tysm!❤️”

A/N: I had seriously had way too much fun with this request, I love dogs (got four of them) and this honestly made me really happy. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy, and also send in some more requests! (Got one in the works at the moment, so look out for that!) Can’t wait to hear what you guys think!

~Okay, so Jason was never one for animals, not that he doesn’t like them or anything, he’s well meh about it.

~You on the other hand, well that is another story altogether. Let’s just say that you really like animals, especially dogs. (That’s an understatement TBH)

~Now Jason had been out of the country for about a week, and he was going to be gone for a couple more. You always hated these missions because there was very little contact between the two of you, and you wouldn’t hear anything from him till everything was done and over.

~You were hella stressed to say it simply, but life must go on and you needed groceries. That’s what led you to walk out in the really cold Gotham night.

~It was so cold, that it was even starting to snow when you were leaving. (You went back inside and got a thicker jacket, you weren’t dealing with that crap.)

~While leaving the supermarket, all plastic bags held in your arms you saw a box on the edge of the sidewalk, and you could have sworn you saw the thing shake.

~If Jason saw what you were about to do, he’d have a hernia, because THAT COULD BE A BOMB WTF ARE YOU DOING, DOLL?!?!

~Be thankful he was many many many miles away doing vigilante stuff, because you checked out what was in that box and you saw a pair of clear blue eyes attached to a fluffy white and black body.

~At first, you screamed because OH MY GOD FLUFFY HUSKY PUPPY and then OH FUCK IT’S HELLA COLD WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUTSIDE IN A CARDBOARD BOX?! (Be happy that for once, there was no one outside to watch you lose your sanity.)

~You looked once, you looked twice and no one was outside. So clearly, the person who put him in this box was a cruel asshole didn’t want the poor baby.

~So you made a decision. You put on all the bags on the ground and picked up the little guy. You didn’t like how cold he was, and was really small too, you could feel his bones under his skin and he was just shaking uncontrollably. So you unzipped the top of your jacket and put him in there and zipped it up with his head popping out.

~You grabbed your groceries and walked right back into the store, and came out with five more bags filled with puppy stuff. (Food, bowls, a super cute sweater, and a lot of toys.)

~The whole time the little guy was licking your face and making little yips. Let’s just say he was an overload of cuteness.

~You took him back to the shared apartment you had with Jason, gave him a nice helping of puppy food and gave the both of you a warm bath. (He didn’t like it, which led to you taking one as well because you were soaking wet from how much he was trying to get out.)

~The next day you took your little guy to the vet, they checked him out, gave him his first puppy shots and he was all set.

~Two weeks pass, and your little guy has definitely come out of his shell. (He even gained weight, so yay!) One thing that you noticed and were kinda expecting was how vocal he was. It was insanely cute for the very reason that he would howl whenever he wanted your attention and that was pretty smart to you, which led you to name him Akira, (You looked up cute husky names on google, and apparently it means smart.)

~You were in your room cleaning up and didn’t hear the door open, but Akita definitely did and ran straight for the door barking like crazy.

~Asking yourself what the hell got into him you walk out of the room and see your boyfriend staring down at the puppy jumping all around trying to scare him and failing miserably because he’s a little dog trying to intimidate a six foot something vigilante.

~He was back early and was pretty excited to see your beautiful smiling face again. He wasn’t expecting to see a fluff ball yapping at him.

~You patted Akita’s head, which shut him up and hugged Jason.

~He hugged you back but was just staring at the dog (Akita was also staring at Jason relentlessly.)

~“I can see you were busy while I was gone, Doll.” He wasn’t amused but he could tell that you were now attached to the puppy and didn’t want to upset you so he let you keep him.

~Either way, Akita grew on him and he would never admit it but he seriously loves that dog.

~He has a video on his phone with you and a 10 month Akita on your lap (that dog got HUGE in the time he spent with you guys, and he was a lap dog stuck in a big dogs body so the contrast was there)

~He was howling, and it was one of those howls that sounded like he was saying “Mama!” Paws were on your shoulders and head tilted back in the howl.

~You were dying of laughter, Jason was hiding his laughs (and failing), and everyone who saw it at least smiled. Even Damian was smiling.

~Speaking of Damian, when he found out you had a puppy, he demanded asked to meet him and to have him meet Titus.

~Jason was like an overprotective father who didn’t want, “The demon spawn and his crazy dog to corrupt their child.”

~You were touched that he called Akita your child but you thought he was being over dramatic with Damian and Titus. (You got along with both of them very well.)

~Damian loves him and Titus and he are the best of friends. (Plus they were one of the best tag team buddies ever.)

~Either way, everyone loves your guy’s dog and he is so well behaved.

~Well except for bath time, when he was little you could handle him no problem, but as he got older you couldn’t even keep him in the tub. Which led to the responsibility falling on Jason’s shoulders.

~That dog seriously hates baths. He senses it in the air and hides under your guy’s bed, Jason already knows where he is and has to pull him out every time.

~Akita is basically limp, and crying/howling the entire time

~You swear that you hear him say “No!” while Jason carries him through the hallway and into the bathroom.

~The entire bath, he’s crying loudly, breaks Jason’s heart but geez that dog stinks and the bath must go on. Even if Jason gets soaked to the bone while doing so.

~When the bath is over, Jason, you, and even Akita let out a sigh of relief.

~You have towel duty though, and you end up getting soaked, while Akita is now dry.

~Let's just say that you and Jason decide to “Save water” and take a shower together after Akita gets kicked out of the bathroom.

~Back on topic, Akita thinks he’s just a furry person and is literally one of the most spoiled dogs you had ever seen. You don’t care.

~He is your and Jason’s child, and while Jason is out, he is your protector.

~No one is allowed to mess with his Mama.

~Whoever does, gets their ass bit by a very angry husky.

~Jason is very proud of his son and feels better leaving him with her when he’s out on patrol.

~Either way, you both got a very loving dog that is extremely vocal.

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asteriasdaydream · 7 years

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92 Truths

Rules: Tag 20 people

Tagged by @sassyunicorns2 .Thank you very much!

THE LAST…

1.Drink: water

2.Phone call: mama bear

3.Text message: My friend Nadine

4.Song you listened to: Too Much - Loco (Feat. DEAN)

5.Time you cried: Last night while writing the update for Speak Softly, Love. lol.

HAVE YOU EVER…

6.Dated someone twice: no

7.Been cheated on: No

8.Kissed someone and regretted it: Shamed to say yes.

9.Lost someone special: yeah.

10.Been depressed: Yes

11.Gotten drunk and thrown up: Yes... only once. It shall be the last.

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS:

- Pastel pink, white, blue

15.Made new friends: yes.

16.Fallen out of love: yep

17.Laughed until you cried: this happens a lot bc I think everything is funny

18.Found out someone was talking about you: too many times

19.Met someone who changed you: yes. the person was a bad influence though...so it wasn’t a permanent change.

20.Found out who your true friends are: yes.

21.Kissed someone on your Facebook list: .....yes

GENERAL…

22.How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: 99% since most of them were people from school and university. However I’m actually friends with probably 2%

23.Do you have any pets: yes! I have one little cute dog, his name is Rex and he’s actually really old but he’s adorable.

24.Do you want to change your name: I wanted to.. but nah not anymore. I’d change my surname though.

25.What did you do for your last birthday: I went out with my parents.

26.What time did you wake up: around 9am

27.What were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping.

28.Name something you cannot wait for : There is something I want to do after graduation. If it works out then I will be very happy about that.

29.When was the last time you saw your mother: Just now.

30.What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: I wish I worked harder at school so I could have studied what I wanted to when I got to university. I’m currently doing something I don’t really care much for tbh.

31.What are you listening to right now: Sing For You - EXO

32.Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: YES. Actually have been friends with him since 2003, but I haven’t seen him since the last day of high school in 2015.

33.Something that is getting on your nerves: There are a few things that are getting on my nerves, but this is a positive blog so I shan’t say ^^

34.Most visited website: tumblr and youtube.

35.Elementary: ✔

36. High School: ✔

37.College/university: Currently

38.Hair color: My hair is weird. It’s a dark brown after it’s washed. But a few days after it turns a bit lighter. But that’s my roots. The rest of my hair is bleached a disgusting blonde colour that I can’t wait to get rid of by dying it some unnatural colour (Still deciding on that)

39.Long or short hair: My hair used to reach my butt, but then I cut it short... so I want to get the length back, so rn its around mid-back...I think?

40.Do you have a crush on someone: Does Oh Sehun count? There is nobody at university that I’m interested in at all...sad..

41.What do you like about yourself: My writing ability...is that a thing?

42.Piercings: Normal ear piercings.. I used to have a cartilage piercing but I took that out after waking up in my own blood one morning. Not fun.

43.Blood type: A+

44.Nickname: don´t have one.

45.Relationship status: Mentally, dating Sehun. Realistically I’m a sad loner.

46.Zodiac sign: LEO (side note that my VIXX bias is Leo ;))

47.Pronouns: She/her.

48.Favorite tv show: Running Man. Literally just watched an episode before doing this.

49.Tattoos: none. I used to want one, but not anymore.

50.Right or left hand: right.

FIRST…

51.Surgery: never had one.

52.Piercing: 3. but its two now bc no more cartilage piercing ha.

54.Sport: Soccer. Watching and playing. But funny I was in the hockey team in high school and I don’t even like hockey.

55.Vacation: I could list a whole lot of places i wanna go to.

57.Eating: I’m about to get a good plate of pork chop, ribs and chips from mama bear.

58.Drinking: Nothing.

59.I’m about to: eat a feast.

60.Listening to: EXODUS - EXO

61.Waiting for: my food.

62.Want: There are a lot of things that I want.

63.Get married: Yes if Sehun is the option.

64.Career: Hmm... even though I’m at university rn I could go 4 different routes with the stuff I’m studying so I’m still deciding... but I actually want to study something else after I get this degree... It’s a secret bc I don’t wanna jinx myself lol.

WHICH IS BETTER…

65.Hugs or kisses: they are both special in their own ways.

66.Lips or eyes: both.

67.Shorter or taller: taller. bc everybody is taller than I am.

68.Older or younger: older.

70.Nice arms or nice stomach: It doesn’t matter to me tbh

71.Sensitive or loud: both.

72.Hook up or relationship: relationship.

73.Troublemaker or hesitant: a little bit of both?????

HAVE YOU EVER…

74.Kissed a stranger?: No. I’m not bold nor confident. I’m too awkward for that.

75.Drank hard liquor?: yap.

76.Lost glasses contact/lenses?: no.

77.Turned someone down?: yep. I was hated for a straight 5 years for that.

78.Sex on first date?: NO

79.Broken someone’s heart?: yeah. I feel bad eh.

80.Had your heart broken?: yes, by ex-friends

81.Been arrested?: nope

82.Cried when someone died?: yes

83.Fallen for a friend?: yeah

DO YOU BELIEVE IN…

84.Yourself?: Absolutely not.

85.Miracles?: Yes

86.Love at first sight?: dont believe in it.

87.Santa Claus?: no. My parents were so bad at trying to get me to believe tho. bless them.

88.Kiss on the first date?: no. where is the date?

89.Angels?: yes. My saint name is Michael bc he is God’s strongest Angel.

OTHER…

90.Current best friend’s name: NADINE WHERE YOU AT

91.Eye color: green.

92.Favorite movie: rush hour 1,2 and 3

Now to tag 20 people…I don’t have 20 people to tag hahahahahahaha most of them were already tagged... I always never have people to tag, so whoever wants to do it can! :)

#about me #tag game

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