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fandomwave · 3 months

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"No Guys I Swear You Have To Go Out Of Your Way To Find It!" And why I don't love this take

This is about the Ha Ha funny Coffin Game which includes but isn't limited to topics of: Cannibalism, Murder, and the core topic of this little rant, Incest.

feel totally free to skip this if that's a hard pass from you! No shame in knowing what you're about including things you'd rather not engage with.

"I know what I'm about"

Good! So this entire little rant? Vent? Observation? Comes from the recent uptick I've seen of posts in the Tcoaal tag where people come in to defend the game with more or less this argument:

"No no guys the incest is really easy to avoid. You have to go out of your way to find it. The game even WARNS you that this is a bad route. Its nowhere in any part of the game beyond this. Honestly it's just not there actually"

And I get the want to defend the game as being more than 'The funny Incest Game'. I agree that The Coffin Of Andy and Leyley is WAY MORE than just the funny incest game. To reduce the game down to that would be a disservice to the writing that went into this game. Andrew and Ashley deserve way more and Numlie themselves deserves better credit than that.

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However, I think it's also doing more harm than good to try and sweep their dynamic under the rug as something that is 'easily avoidable' and 'totally optional' I hate to break the news but Andrew's romantic inclinations towards Ashley are pretty obvious in Chapter 1. They certainly aren't as obvious as they are in Chapter 2, I'll give everyone that. But they are there, and to act like they aren't... Not to mention the defense EVERYONE gives so readily is that 'The Game Warns You This Is A Bad Thing To Do' is a lot more complicated than it might appear on first blush. First and foremost the 'narrator' is the one to say: "Somehow it seems like a highly questionable idea to take this route"

which imho is a far cry from "This is the bad end" "This has incest" "you are probably a bad person for taking this ending" that some seem to argue is the 'warning' you get. Secondly we should remember it isn't 'you' the narrator is talking to here. Effectively it's still Ashley first and foremost. When Ashley responds 'I know what I'm about' that is also the game showing us that Ashley knows what this means and still wants it.

Enthusiastic consent if you will

So what's the point to this little post eh?

Well I think it's doing a little more harm than good to both the story but also anyone interested in checking the game out who might actually be genuinely triggered by such topics. Tcoaal has the siblings romantic inclinations laced into the story from point A to B. It's impossible to avoid actually. You can go the entire game ignoring any acts of kindness towards Andrew as Ashley or Ashley as Andrew, and you'll always get the scenes of Andrew playing with Ashley's hair. You will always get the text informing the player that Andrew fakes panic attacks to share a bed with Ashley. You will always get the CG of Andrew's hand in Ashley's belt loops. You will always hear the voicemail 'You think you're better than me because you can fuck him and I can't' from Ashley concerning Andrew. You will always get the hints from Mrs Graves that she knows they are too close but did nothing to curb that behavior.

It is wholly unavoidable no matter what route you take. Burial, Decay, Questionable or not.

I think to argue that it's just a silly little ending you can get does a disservice to people who might genuinely be upset by that, and I think more than anything a game that is at the very least talking about incest rather brazenly deserves the warnings it earns!

I love this game to bits, anyone who's been within ear shot of me has had to deal with me talking their fucking ear off about the Sibling Abuse Simulator. I've gone on in excruciating detail how I think Tcoaal's writing has been done dirty by saying that Andrew and Ashley's romance is just a 'ha ha shock ending', comparing it to the siblings ending in something like Corpse Party (a game where the incest ending is 100% totally avoidable, and the story has exactly nothing to do with incest as a topic, and is only brought up if you trigger that ending. One where I agree with the argument that it's just there for shock value)

Anyways I see where people are coming from, I can understand the want to defend the game as more than the sum of it's parts and I agree that it does suck that this seems to be the thing everyone is hyper-focusing on in terms of it's breach of containment. I get it man, I really do. It deserves so much better than being reduced down the way it has by the greater internet.

But to say it's avoidable.. I dunno it's like taking the dragons out of Game of Thrones. The story as a whole about so much more than the dragons.. However you'd have a fundamentally different story if they weren't there, wouldn't you?

#the coffin of andy and leyley #Tcoaal #Sorry to all my followers: I see horror game with fucked up topics. I play horror game with fucked up topics.

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pearldog30 · 1 year

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Rodolfo (Rudy) Parra head Cannon

Since my last HC in my personal opinion did well. I was not expecting to get any hearts or anything (which I really appreciate it, and thank you all so much. people don't realize how much it really means to new writing like myself.) I'm making another one, and I'm making it on a character that I don't feel like gets enough credit our boy Rudy love him so much! This is also on the more realistic side I try with all my HCS to make them realistic.

Master list

Warnings| none that I know of, and as always let me know if I got the tags right.

1,000% his love song (if the link doesn't work cuz I know sometimes it doesn't it's all of me by John legend slow and reverb)

youtube

I feel like out of all the cod men he would be like the least "abusive" one. he would actually go out of his way and take precautionary measures to deal with his trauma/PTSD and all the shit he has to see cuz let's be honest. not a lot of people can handle what he sees on the daily.

He's also insecure about the scars on his body, from fights. not only do they bring bad memories, but he also doesn't want to scare you with them.

Concentrated to popular belief. he's not that emotional since he's always going to therapy, and dealing with his emotions, he's very much mentally drained. (but in a good way. And that's why you're there to give him a warm hug, and just let him lay there and soak in the moment to gather his thoughts.) he would also love it if you went with him, just so he can prove to you he's actually doing very good in therapy and making a difference.

he's also the most easy to earn his trust, and get to know him and get to be a part of his life. (but if you backstab him. or any of the people he loves, and mistreat his trust, there will be hell to pay you don't fuck with him. or his loves ones people learned that the hard way.) but don't be mistaken there's still that little wall he has up due to his job.

Also I feel like there'd be barely any fights, but if there are (because let's be honest no relationship is perfect) he straight up ignores you, and gives you the silent treatment. until y'all can go your separate ways, clear your heads and then have a conversation and talk it through, he wholeheartedly believes on communication is key.

He's also high key the most patient one, and level-headed out of all the guy's. despite him being Hispanic.

With him being so patient he's the one you need the most when you need to vent/rant/etc. and he'll help you through it rather it be giving you ways to deal with it, or just listening to you, he's there. (you will keep putting him in a trance because he's so in love)

I feel like he's also gotten taken advantage of in past relationships so he's clingy as hell.(he's low-key got abandonment issues and has a terrible anxiety about you leaving him because he isn't "good enough")

Also high key A MAMA'S BOY! (you cannot tell me otherwise.) and with him being a mama's boy he treats you so goddamn well, Straight up Queen treatment. Accidentally got you the wrong thing at the store, oh he'll make it his mission like the world's coming to an end. and will go back and get you the right one even if you beg him not because it was just a misunderstanding mistake.

With him being a mama's boy if you earn her trust, (if you thought earning his trust was hard, OH BABY. you have no idea how hard it is earning his mama's with his job she's always low-key looking out for him rather it be partners/job/day to day life.) and if she falls in love with you. OH HELL YOU BETTER WATCH OUT he ain't ever letting you go.

He's also an amazing cook. like man's straight up grew up in the kitchen with his grandma, and Mama. (cooking is like a sad, but good memory for him. since his grandma passed away it's a way for him to honor her.) oh you want some soup💥 BAM💥 it's right there in front of you. you don't even have to be sick just you alone mentioning you're hungry and he's right there on it.

He lowkey sometimes smokes after a rough mission. (nobody knows about it other than the guys, not even you he doesn't want you worrying about his health.)

Love language, words of affirmation, physical touch.

If you read all this thank you so much! I'm sorry this one wasn't a long one. But I hope it was good I tried my hardest. Reblogs and comments are always much appreciated 🖤

#rodolfo parra #cod rudy #rodolfo rudy parra #rodolfo cod #cod #modern warfare 2 #mw2 headcanons #cod mw2 #call of duty rodolfo #head cannon #rodolfo mw2 #rudy mw2 #modern warfare #Youtube #call of duty headcanons #call of duty mw2 #call of duty modern warfare

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lovova · 2 years

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Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I love your writing style and the characterization of Kokichi and Kaito in your stories. You are seriously so talented and I wish you all the best. Ohh!! also is Video Game Cruelty Potential an oumota fic or nah? Cuz I know the setting is quite morbid but I genuinenly love their chemistry.

Anyways, stay safe and healthy 🌻💕

Spoilers for the Video Game Cruelty Fic below, if you don't want the above question ruined for ya. Aw, thank you dude, I appreciate that! The characterization isn't accurate, my Kaito especially, but I put my all into making the versions of them I have a good time to read! Glad it pays off~ As for Video Game Cruelty Potential... ya know, it's probably a spoiler, but I think readers might actually enjoy the experience more if they know that Oumota is NOT the relationship end goal. I LOVE the ship, it's easily one of my favorites and I love to see it explored in all shapes and versions of it. But for VGCP specifically? I don't plan to end the story with them as boyfriends. Will the relationship be explored? Yep, which is why saying that is a spoiler, and why it's still tagged. But I don't think these versions of the characters in this setting, after everything that had and will happen, would make each other happy. And I personally don't believe every explored relationship needs to end with them staying together to make it a happy ending. (As an aside rant: Honestly, I LOVE yandere/abuse/horror-relationship stories. I think they're entertaining and fascinating, the more gruesome and horrible the better. And I think from those stories?? The ones that have haunted me the most over the years are the ones that end not with the two getting away from each other, but for some last act plot device to show 'why all that abuse and horror didn't count and they'll totally be happy together now, guuuuys'.... which is, honestly, MOST of them. Being horrified by the endings of these 'abuse-turned-love' stories has super influenced my own writing.) (Actually, now that I've written that? It might not be inaccurate to say that the whole damn fic is me venting my feelings about those kinds of stories, in the various forms I've seen them in. Huh.) So, yeah, that's the big spoiler. Oumota's not the end goal. But a happy ending for both characters is! I hope that's not too disappointing. [That said? Watch, Lovova a thousand chapters from now is going to sit down and in the act of writing it out realize 'oh shit no I think this ship could actually work', making this whole post look really stupid and pretentious in hindsight XD ah well, we'll see.]

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golbrocklovely · 1 year

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I cannot tell you how much it hurts my heart to read your feelings about your mom. I lost a very close relationship with my brother because of the extreme right lies and trump crap. I don't think i have spoken to him in a year outside of birthday and holiday wishes. As a mom of 4, ages 16 to 23, I have 1 that has come out as bi, 1 as a lesbian, 1 is straight and my oldest says labels are for soup cans. I'm not your momma, and I wouldn't want to budge in where I don't belong, but I am proud of you. You are a hard working, sweet, intelligent young lady who genuinely cares about others feelings. I have seen posts from you where you could've dived into the mud and dragged people and you don't do that. You take the high road. You are patient with repeated questions and still answer each one no matter how many times they come up. I have yet to see you make someone feel stupid. In times like now, these characteristics are rare. Most people don't want to show they care at all. Being bi is just part of it. I wish I could tell you it will definitely get better and your mother will come to her senses, but it could take a long time or never happen at all. But she could have an epiphany. I admit I rage verbally at the news, sometimes I rant and rave like a mad woman. but I don't think politicians, the government and the church have the right to decide how human a person is. I know you didn't ask for all this, that you were venting. But I hear you. And I accept everything about you.

thank you so much for this ask. your kind words made me tear up. i appreciate you reaching out to me to say all of this. it's nice to see something like this unexpectedly.

i will say outside of politics, my mom and i get along really well. she's been my best friend since i was a kid, even more so now since i don't have any physical friends. it's just when it comes to politics we do not agree AT ALL. which is why i do my best to remind her every time she starts to talk about politics that i just don't want to hear bc it just becomes a screaming match.

i just wish at times i knew how to debate better, or had all the facts. bc i usually just get too angry to even speak and just have to walk away bc i don't want to scream at my mom. and she likes to act like she knows everything and that i know so little when in reality i'm paying attention to the news just as much as her, the difference is i just don't watch fox news and don't listen to whatever bullshit they're trying to make ppl angry about now.

i will say my saving grace is that while my mom is republican and likes trump, she isn't a maga person. she's not all about him, and she's not devoted to him like some of his followers are. she's just a somewhat-conservative, republican. she isn't into qan*n and all that shit, thank god. she's mostly level headed, she just…. watches way too much fox news. and i do also have the benefit of my brother, who is very good at debating and is on my side for the most part. i wouldn't say he's a leftist like me, but he doesn't agree with her and ngl i kinda always love hearing them debate bc he says all the shit i wish i knew how to word. he points out a lot of her hypocrisies.

as i mentioned in the tags of my post, i think once my father passed away, her jadedness for life just... grew. i think she lost a lot of her empathy for ppl when he died since that was her soulmate. and it breaks my heart to see her change like this, but i understand her hurt. she was like this too back when her father passed away, but i was four or five when this happened, so i never noticed. but her and my dad talked about it before as i got older and how she just stopped caring for a while. so i'm kinda hoping things will swing back around eventually.

and growing up, i had a really good home life. a safe one too, which i know a lot of ppl (and a lot of my ex-friends) couldn't say the same so i'm grateful for my parents. my mom had a really hard life, and life hasn't been easy for us in a very long time. i get her frustration, i get her anger. however, she's taking it out on the wrong ppl and it's just easier to punch down than up. so i try my best to give her the empathy she doesn't give others anymore.

my life hasn't been easy either. i've had depression and anxiety since i was 13, and have tried to end my life twice. all the financial struggles my family has had i have had. but i think what sets me apart from my mom is that i don't want to be angry. i don't want to hold onto that stuff the rest of my life. i know i won't make it if i do. the pain and anguish i've dealt with makes me understand ppl, not wish others feel the same as me. i don't want ppl to suffer like i have. and i don't want to grow envious of those that have it easier than me.

one of the worst things she ever told me growing up was "once you get older, you'll understand how the real world works. you'll be just as jaded as me and your father." and i made a promise to myself that would never happen. and so far i'm sticking to it. i just find it strange that the ppl, the person, that taught me to be kind isn't kind anymore. or at least is decidedly kind, which is almost worse in my opinion.

(and as i said in my previous post i don't feel unsafe to come out, i just don't want to deal with the hassle of having to explain myself. i'm a grown adult, if i want to fuck somebody and that somebody is a woman, or even identifies as something else entirely, it really doesn't matter what my mom has to say about it. i'm not a teenager anymore hoping my mom approves. tbh i just want her to know and to accept it as normal so if it ever happens it's not breaking news lol)

#ask #personal

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kyliafanfiction · 2 years

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Can I ask what the point of your vicious, passive-aggressive "vague blogging" is? You can tell by the fact that literally no one ever likes your posts that everyone else is disgusted by it. It's insulting, condescending, and makes everyone who sees your posts uncomfortable. Consider stopping it. Or just post "privately" so no one else has to read your juvenile, middle school level attacks on other posters.

....can I ask why you care?

Secondly, I have to ask why you felt the need to put vagueblogging into scar quotes like that. It's a pretty established term on social media at this point.

Vagueblogging is a common thing, it's a form of venting/ranting. If getting likes was actually relevant (and I do get periodic likes on some of my posts, though generally not my venting posts). If I cared about the fact that I didn't get many likes on said posts, I'd have stopped a long time ago. And clearly it isn't everyone because I have 256 followers, and while some may be bots, I do try to cull bots who follow me pretty quickly. Which means presumably ~200 people don't find my posts that uncomfortable. (That, or they get off on being uncomfortable, and who am I to kinkshame?)

I do have to ask: What, if anything, on this blog, has ever convinced you I give two solitary shits if people like me or what I post? That popularity has ever concerned me as a general principle or target to am for?

Calling my vagueblogs insulting and condescending isn't even an attack, that's just a description of what many of them are. The whole point is that I'm annoyed by something, but I don't have the time, energy or inclination to take it up with someone directly. (Hence why I rarely name names, hence the whole point of a vague/nonspecific blog) Often because, while it annoys me, it doesn't bug me that much. (I am very easy to annoy, much harder to upset). If I took my annoyance out on the cause every time, I'd be at it 36-hours a day, nine days a week.

So to save my sanity, and to not make my easy-annoyance everyone else's problem, on my own, personal blog, I make vagueblogging and nonspecificblogging, etc type posts. Where I (almost) never name names and try to avoid spilling into the tags of the relevant ship/character/fandom/etc, so I don't go clowning in someone else's house. The point is to get the thought out of my head, and move on with my day. Which, frankly, usually works. (sometimes, it doesn't, and the thought lives in my head rent-free all day).

The thing about your message, anon, is that this doesn't really speak to your maturity, regardless of your beliefs that my comments are 'juvenile' and 'middle school level'. if my comments make you so uncomfortable, you should stop following me. One of the hallmarks of maturity is knowing that you aren't comfortable and setting boundaries - or in this case, leaving. My blog is my space, and while you can reblog me over specific points, or request that I tag triggers, or the like, and I can respond as appropriate from there, blanket requests that I stop are not setting boundaries for yourself, but trying to control and corral my behavior. Such requests must be submitted, as outlined under the current version of the Rules of the Crazy Train™ (v2.02)

all requests for @kyliafanfiction to shut up (or variations thereof) must be properly stamped and sealed by the ‘I Don’t Care What You Think™” Department, and the “It’s My Blog I’ll Say What I Want™” Desk. Then you must present your request, in triplicate, to the “Do You Really Think This Will Work?™” Office, which is located in the seventh basement, behind the stairs and through the trapdoor that’s guarded by a rabid tiger. Once it is received, it will be handed over to our specially trained team of infinite monkeys to copy out fifteen more times, buried in a snow bank for six years, and then dug out and finally, a formal advisory opinion will be issued by our “Director of No™”.

So as you can see, your request that I stop simply can't be accepted as presented.

If I make you or whoever else you speak for all that uncomfortable, please, please leave. Unfollow me, block me, blacklist my username. I highly encourage you to do so. I certainly can't be held responsible for you choosing to come into my house, as it were, and looking at my content when you are under no obligation or requirement to do so.

THAT SAID, if you if decide to remain here, I would love to hear specifics about what vagueblogging-type posts I made that pissed you off so much you decided to don sunglasses, turn yourself into a little grey ball and send me this message, because then I can make sure to make more of those posts.

The way I see it, either it drives you away and you leave/block me/etc (I win) or you send me more hate (I win), or you annoy me enough that I block you (I win).

I see no downsides for me here.

So please, anon, enlighten me. I am fascinated by your choice to send this message, and it has genuinely made my day brighter.

Send Me Your Hate

Oh, and 4/10. I'm in a good mood, so I'll grade your amateurish pseudo-concern trolling better than the rehashed, recycled and tired arguments you're using really deserves.

#Asked and Answered #Kylia Rates Her Haters #All Flames Will Be Used To Roast Marshmallows #Though full disclosure I don't like eating marshmallows roasted or otherwise but I do like roasting them #The Kyliafanfiction Complaints Department™#I do so love these infrequent love letters you guys send I just wish you'd send them more often

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butshesgotthespirit · 2 years

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I'm not in the best state of mind rn but I'm feeling angry feelings so I'm venting about it because that's what blogs are for. The angry feelings aren't even about this specifically - since I'm upset about something else, it bleeds into everything else I could be upset about. So I'm more upset about this than I think is rational.

What is it I'm upset over, you ask?

Little red dots.

This is the name of someone in my COM-120 class. This week we all picked an aspect of communication to study and now we're doing reports on each other. It is an illogical organization of letters. As illogical as any other name. As illogical and nonsensical as "John Brown". But it has little red dots under it, which means "you spelled it wrong", "this isn't right", "somehow you messed up".

No? I didn't? This is their name.

The alternatives Word proposed to Nikithasree are "NetShare" and "Nighthorse". The alternatives Word proposed to Challuru are "Chalara", "Chiller", and "Chalerm". All of these alternatives are as random an organization of letters as Challuru. The issue is that Challuru comes from a language that's attached to a culture that Word hasn't been programed to recognize. Why?

The next name I had to type in was Collin Edwards. These words have no meaning in the English Oxford Dictionary. They are placeholders used to attached a label to a person. They are, technically speaking, as incorrect as Nikithasree Challaru.

And yet.

No red dots. Because Collin Edwards comes from a language that's attached to a culture that Word has been programmed to recognize.

It's an insignificant thing to be mad about, little red dots under words. But what angers me is the blind spot this technology harbors. It probably wasn't done on purpose. The developers of Word didn't all collectively agree to make little red dots appear under Nikithasree Challaru. It simply never occurred to them that that's something they would have to account for.

How many people have we wronged because of things we didn't think to account for? Didn't ask whether we have to account for?

And when I think about the magnitude of it, it's a silly thing to be mad over. An entire team of developers - and each developer is an individual, an individual with a family and a history and a philosophy, uniquely intricate and unknowable - simply didn't account for Nikithasree Challaru because they've never had to. Never thought they had to. Never been asked to.

Are we an entire nation of people who don't think about different people? Are we?

But maybe I'm mad over something silly. It's just little red dots. Little red dots that have never shown up under my name.

What I'm really trying to get at under this nonsensical rant is that injustice is fostered largely by unknowing participants, and it's so big that unless we all collectively agreed to adhere to the same standard of critical thinking, it will never go away. And that makes me sad. I hope there are some people here that can understand what I'm really trying to say.

And I'm not going to yell at Word for all of this, because even as I type this up, I notice they've added a feature to their spellchecker. Some of the alternatives Word suggested for Nikithasree had [No reference information] under their name.

Which leads me to think that they've added these alternatives into their database because other people have clicked "Add to Dictionary". NetShare isn't part of my vocabulary - I've never even heard of it. And Nighthorse sounds like something out of an 11-year-old's first fantasy YA manuscript. Word is using its users to expand its dictionary. And now maybe Nikithasree is part of that dictionary.

Which leads me, unexpectedly, to a little silver lining in this rant.

Injustice will most likely be undone by small, everyday gestures that stick until it's become a culture. Until a generation of people have set a precedent for others to follow.

May injustice die with its people.

also pls read the tags

#well that was unexpected #injustice #angry rant #longer than expected #i hope the people reading this don't take this post as an opportunity to spiral into anger.#i really don't #what i want is for you to read this and take your anger and forge it into deep compassion for all people #take your anger and forge it into will. a will that seeks to do right by the people around you #even in small ways #be purposeful in your anger #be purposeful in your kindness #in your understanding #in your knowledge of how to acknowledge those around you #but do not take your anger and forge it into a weapon with which to hurt people #please. set your jaw in determination. but not to tear down the world. to lift the people in it.

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mysticalmusicwhispers · 3 years

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✨ I hate the US ✨

#for so many reasons #psa if yall don't want to see vents (mostly rants against the US) block the tag 'negative'#history class is making me so mad its great #a classmate said today 'oh it was really surprising to hear about eugen1cists in the us because it always felt like a n@zi thing'#(paraphrased)#like bruh the us has a multitude of skeletons in its closet is it very surprising #we are just a bunch of ✨ Hypocrites ✨#and don't even get me started on fucking covid rn #and the us and other countries hoarding vaccines #and how they said 'please dont suspend the patent laws because it'll quote stifle innovation unquote' *smiles sweetly*#and consequently forcing other countries to buy vaccine from big pharma instead of being able to make it themselves #or our stupid education system and allowing states to whitewash their own histories :))))))))#this is the kind of asshat stuff that raises racists because i will bet southern states do not teach people about the lost cause and how it #was literally made up to glorify the Confederacy after the civil war #and then we turn around and go 'yo china you should stop putting propaganda in ur textbooks' like yes they should but why are you not tellin #telling this to japan as well my guy #and why are you not looking at your own damn textbooks #stop only putting the awful history in AP US history which isn't even offered at all schools WHY DONT YOU #if you are in the US and don't know about the lost cause and civil war myths look it up and feel rage #someone said 'let's standardize education at the international level' PLEAsE a) the us can't even standardize its edu at the domestic level #and b) so many things will be whitewashed if the countries in power rn are the ones to create an internat'l education syllabus #like racism and colonialism still exist #there would be so many problems #do not get me wrong i like my classmates and respect the ones bringing this stuff up but PLEASE i think yall need to know that the us is abo #about 78% subtly evil #and has so many problems #we just cant see them because we live in a suburb that is well off and are not targeted as much as some groups #ramblings #Full of Loathing day :)#delete later

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agendercas · 6 years

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i like how the russo brothers can sit there and say tom hiddleston is too old to play loki, a god who is well over a thousand years old, when tom's literally younger than both of them by about a decade

#anti russo brothers #rant #ignore the tags i need to vent #i'm really upset #like???#why the hell are you picking on someone who is ten years younger than you??#grow the fuck up #like there are so many actors in this franchise who are older than tom or about the same age but nope it's just tom #and he doesn't look that old either #sure he looks his age but like he was able to look the same as the first avengers movie which was 6 years ago so tell me how 'he's too old'#yet he looks the same in the flashback in avengers 4 #i'm never going to let this go #i hope everyone realizes this #even if loki comes back (which isn't going to happen because of these chuckle heads) i'll still be mad #because they made a stupid decision personal #they went for tom when he has done nothing wrong #he's not a diva or anything and he has poured his heart into this character and this is what you say about him #but you know it's ok he's still going get roles and be fine because he's a good actor and he's not too old #i'm still seething about this #i hope everyone thinks i'm crazy and can't let anything go because goddammit you're fucking right #i complain a lot because that's who i am #i will not sit here and be quiet #i don't care that this isn't my issue but it angered me so here we are

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shade-romeo · 2 years

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It's no longer trans day of visibility, but I'll be honest I missed it by accident and I'm thinking about it now. Happy late Trans Day of Visibility everyone♡

Also let me know if anything in here needs to be tagged♡

Tldr; a vent post about my personal experience with being afab transmasc + a rant about how being trans isn't a lonely experience

I've never identified with the word "Man" not fully. Maybe it's because I haven't fully seen myself as a man yet. I know I'm male, but I'm not "a man" yet, if that makes sense. Boy feels better, but not by much. I'm just so out of touch with my own body that I can't call myself a Man or a Boy without this intrusive sliver of doubt in the back of my head.

So I wouldn't call myself a Man, or a Boy, rather.. a He. I'm a He/Him. That's really all I can say without doubting my own words and getting hyper aware of all the traits that make me "feminine"

I'm luckier than most, I have a large build, wide shoulders and a strong jaw, and I have such a hormone imbalance that causes me to grow facial hair without any outside help. I look at myself in the mirror and I see nothing but a round face and a large chest, I've been slowly trying to force myself to notice my more "masculine" qualities.

And most days I can direct my focus to my face, fix my hair and tilt my head every which way to look at my jawline, and I can confidently say that I'm a Man. But sometimes I look in the mirror, even as soon as a few hours later, and I tilt my head every which way, yet I still can't find the handsome guy that I just saw not even a few hours ago. I've always had a disconnect with the image of me in my head with the image of me in the mirror. I look and I don't see myself, even on good days. It's hard to imagine myself in the future looking and feeling like me when I hardly ever feel like me.

One thing I will always be proud of is my hair. It's soft and long and when I'm feeling good it adds that extra touch to make me feel like me.

The year before i found out I was trans I was trying to grow out my hair because I wanted to see it long, but then I realized and panicked, chopping it all off at once. And at the time I was so excited, because I was finally getting a "boy" haircut, and that was me! I'm a boy! But then I realized.. short hair sucks. It's easy to manage sure but it didn't feel right. And so a year later I shaved the sides and let the top grow out, and here we are. I recently got a haircut, chopped off all the dead ends, and it went from past my shoulder up to my chin. And hear I am as happy as I could be with it. It's perfect.

Basically what I'm getting at, is there's no real way to be trans. I may only have my own experience with being afab transmasc but I know that my experience is, 1. Not universal, but also 2. Not entirely all my own either. You may be reading this rant and finding things that you relate to, or finding things that people you know have spoken to you about.

So I'm not alone in my experience, and neither are you, I may not know you but we're in this together. We'll get through this. And you might not believe that for yourself right now, in all honesty I don't think I do either, but I'm holding out hope that it'll come true for both of us. To all my trans siblings, I love you all so so much, and I hope you find the right combination that makes you feel like you. I love you, seek help if you need it, and please I'm begging you, go tell the people you care about that you love them. No particular reason why, it's just nice to see them light up when you remind them how much they mean to you.

#transgender #trans #transmasc #trans man #trans men #afab #ask to tag #vent post

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marshmallowprotection · 3 years

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I really need to rant this out somewhere. I feel like there's a sudden burst of fics where the twin MC has been dating dies/gets taken away and to "cope" with that MC gets together with the other twin to "fill the void".

I just came across another one where Saeran had died and immediately after that Saeyoung was "coping" with it by making out with MC, and MC gave in because "he looks just like Saeran". I don't know, I just feel...like that's not only very OOC from Saeyoung who would be devastated if Saeran was gone and his first thought definitely wouldn't be to make out with MC who had just been dating his brother just to "make the pain go away", but it's also just...it feels so disrespectful towards both of the twins. It's like they're saying the twins aren't individuals. Like oh, hey, if one's suddenly gone, that's fine because there's the second option who looks exactly like him!! Are they not individuals? It's...I don't like it, it feels disrespectful because it's like they're saying that they only like the twins for their looks. Not because of who they are as a people.

There have been so many fics after the AE's release where Saeran dies in a bad ending and MC starts dating Saeyoung instead to fill the void, and I cannot help but view that as disrespectful towards both twins. I also can't help but think that it can't be healthy for anyone involved. Finding a new romantic interest after losing your previous one is fine of course, you don't need to stay single forever, but I feel like there's a difference between finding someone new and just immediately replacing your previous s/o with their identical twin "because they look the same" and thinking of that twin as them.

The thing with Saeyoung just caring about making out/dating MC after Saeran has died is so incredibly OOC when he sees his whole purpose in life being making sure Saeran is happy. And when Saeran isn't there anymore, well… We saw what happened in V's AE, if he found out that Saeran had died, he would be devastated and heartbroken.

Maybe this odd trend of Choi twin fics could work if it was shown that it's an issue to just replace someone like that and not see them as individuals, but in all the cases I've encountered, it's shown as a good and romantic thing. Like it's cute. Like these people want to date their favorite twin even in the other twin's route's timeline. Like the other twin never cared about the other's happiness or that he'd always had a crush on MC and was just waiting for the other to not be in the picture anymore or something, and seeing that portrayal hurts.

Maybe I'm being too sensitive. I mean, I don't know, do what you want but please, the writers who are out there writing these fics, please just at least warn at the start of that fic that that's what the fic is about. I would've loved living my life without reading one like that on accident, the whole thing made me so repulsed and upset that I had to let it out like this.

I’ve seen a fic or two like this in my life and honestly, they’re just not my kind of fic to read. I understand why people may write something like this, and while it may be their cup of tea, it’s not my cup of tea so I just avoid stories like this in general because if they’ve labeled it properly, then you can just avoid it like the plague if it bothers you.

You can write whatever you want but you need to tag warnings such as “death, trauma warning, and anything else that you think may be upsetting to someone else.” It takes two seconds to tag something with a warning when you’re adding them on AO3 or Tumblr. I mean, you have the right not to tag them but at the same time, I don’t see why it’s difficult to expend two seconds to warning your possible readers what they may encounter. It’s not a spoiler warning to tag one word like “gun” or “car accident-related PTSD”, for example.

These fics are like often vent-fics for the author or maybe they just want play around with what that might be like. I personally don’t enjoy the concept of one of the twins ultimately dying and their MC replacing him with the other twin. It’s just in poor taste. Not to say that these events don’t happen in real life, and two people fall in love for a good reason after a grief event. But, like, using someone to fill the void and pretending that they’re their twin is just.

So many shades of wrong.

That’s wrong to Saeran and that’s wrong to Saeyoung. They’re twins, but that doesn’t mean they’re the same person. I will say that while Saeyoung would be horribly upset and broken if Saeran died, he would hit rock bottom, yes, but at the end of the day, he would continue living his life so that Saeran would be able to see everything through his eyes. They’re twins, and their souls are connected in such a way that he would live doing things just for Saeran to feel them in the afterlife.

I strain to see if Saeyoung would be with the MC romantically like that. He would probably support the MC and always be there for them because they were there for Saeran when he wasn’t. They would be close and lean on each other, which I see as a friendship, a close one, but not really romantic. If they naturally were to fall in love after that, okay, sure, whatever you want to write, but if you’re using this as a device like I said earlier to treat Saeyoung and Saeran without respect to them?

Just replacing one twin with the other?

Could you tag a warning on your fic or make it clear what’s happening because yeah, this topic can be very upsetting to some people. Have fun with writing, you can write whatever you want, and I’m always happy to see people exploring new ideas and writing things that make them feel better, but just be aware that when you share your story, warning people may not be required, but it’s in good taste to try to do that.

#discourse #anon #ask #mod kait #saeyoung choi #saeran choi

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hhhgreggpanasonicbluray · 2 years

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I posted 277 times in 2021

20 posts created (7%)

257 posts reblogged (93%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 12.8 posts.

I added 311 tags in 2021

#noah's reblogs - 171 posts

#rp - 36 posts

#noah speaks - 22 posts

#noah's friends - 21 posts

#save - 21 posts

#important - 11 posts

#:d - 9 posts

#signal boost - 7 posts

#dsmp - 7 posts

#!!!! - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 84 characters

#he just keeps bugging me when i told him i didn't want to really talk to him anymore

My Top Posts in 2021

bonjour, bitch

my name: noah or nolan

my pronouns: he/they

my gender: trans mannnnn

my sexuality: g,,,girls,,,feminitny hhhhhhh (gynesexual)

my age: none of your business

my interests: hot fictional guys, girlsss, TWF, DSaF, FNF, Transformers, DSMP, Sanders Sides, marvin the martian, HHGttG, cartoons (ask if you want to know more [which you don't]), LBP 1 & 3, pringles, alt fashion, pastel goth, gore, body horror, picrews, reddit, femboys, Undertale, Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, DanTDM, DHMIS, Danganronpa, John Mulaney, and PM Seymour

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#noah's reblogs - self-explanatory

#noah eww - pictures of myself

#noah speaks - self made posts

#noah's friends - reblogs of moot posts

#noah's shitty doodles - art by me

#noah's vents ARGH - vent posts/rants, usually deleted later unless i forget about them

#the sounds of noah - audio made by me

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IT'S TODAY

TODAY'S THE DAY

BILL CIPHER

SIMPSONS

IT'S OCTOBER THIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD

I'M SO HAPPY

FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I'M GOING TO WATCH THE SIMPSONS AND NOT BE BORED

14 notes • Posted 2021-10-03 16:08:53 GMT

"naming the addisons"

these guys????

orange, blue, pink, yellow?

their names are clyde, inky, pinky, and pac man and no i will not take any criticism

16 notes • Posted 2021-10-05 01:37:41 GMT

hi yeah what the FUCK is a TEHM? saw JFK from clone high on a blog called tehmoftheday and i didn't think it was that bad until i saw the tags "terfs please interact" "terf safe" and bullshit like that. then i went to the "tehm" tag. worst. idea. i've. ever. had. all of it was tagged "terf safe!" "terfs do interact!" and talking about how gay men can't date bisexual men and all of this absolute bullshit INCLUDING THE TAG (oh boy, my favourite!) "lgb drop the t". I'm, so sorry, what? can someone please tell me what a TEHM is because google doesn't seem to have the slightest inkling. thanks for your help and FUCK TERFS

23 notes • Posted 2021-09-14 03:47:05 GMT

new tumblr sexyman.?

ok so this may be the "bug fucker" (as bun so eloquently put it) in me, but why isn't mr. grasshopper, a.k.a. old green grasshopper, not a tumblr sexyman?

he's tall (i'd say 5'9" - 6'2")

he is cis

he is not human but neither are half the tumblr sexymen!

he would probably be white if he was humanised

he wears very dapper clothing

in conclusion

MR. GRASSHOPPER SHOULD BE A TUMBLR SEXYMAN.

31 notes • Posted 2021-08-25 01:06:07 GMT

Get your Tumblr 2021 Year in Review →

#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #IM GONNA CRY #PEOLE WONTS STOP REBLOGGING THAT DAMNED JATGP POST #I DONT WANT TO SEE IT ANY MROE #PELASE NO #NOOOOOO'#NO MORE #glad that naming the addisons got third place tho that was a funny post #imo

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janiedean · 5 years

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It really sucks how judgmental you and some people in this fandom are of anyone who doesn't interpret the text the same way as you or who you deem as intellectually inferior to you. I agree with so many of your ideas about the characters, but I hate how high and mighty you are about those ideas. Someone isn't an idiot if they interpret Jon or Cersei differently than you.

......

lmao

okay anon, thing is: one thing is being high and mighty, one thing is telling you that you’re not reading the text.

like. I read yesterday someone being like ‘omg I read someone dared saying C. abused people and murdered someone before puberty HOW STUPID CAN PEOPLE BE’. it’s textual evidence that a) she molested tyrion sexually and that’s even without taking account my opinion re lann*ncest, b) that SHE KILLED MELARA WHEN THEY WERE TWELVE THROWING THE POOR GIRL DOWN A WELL, which means that whoever said it cannot fucking read the text because it’s black on white that she did both those things and refusing to accept it is Not Reading The Text. that’s not even text interpretation, that’s basic textual reading.

now: never mind cersei who gets a pass for about every fucking shit she pulls because she’s a woman, and don’t tell me she doesn’t because if she got as much shit about robert’s fifteen bastards that she ordered dead without even blinking as theon got for two kids that he’s felt guilty about since it happened then we could discuss it but she doesn’t and that’s not even the beginning of it. now: do you see me tagging my opinions? like, honestly, if I think something shitty about cersei, do you see me tagging it? I didn’t even tag the one time I ranted about the valonqar prophecy with her, I only tagged it with the prophecy/meta/the two characters I thought were the v. and the younger and more beautiful queen, because in the middle I said that imo cersei only cares for herself and I know ppl on her tag aren’t into reading that opinion. so: I didn’t tag it. now: how many people came in my inbox informing me my opinion of c. sucked, was biased and so on never mind lann*ncest never mind actually harassing me for it? well, enough that I had to shut down anon to avoid feeling like shit for two days about it. so like, I’m so high and mighty that I keep my opinions about people I don’t like untagged even if I think that the other side can’t read. but okay.

now, about jonc: listen, fact is, there’s exactly ten people in this fandom that I know of who give a shit about jonc period and three of them are fanartists who show up once in a while. like. exactly TEN. I made peace with the fact that no one gives a fuck about jonc, I 100% embraced that if I want content I have to do it myself, fine, whatever. but what I’m really getting sick of is that every goddamned fucking time I see the jonc tag updating (as in, five times each month if it’s a good month), it’s someone informing us of how selfish, pathetic, useless and dumb he is FOR THINGS THAT ALL OF THEIR FAVORITE CHARACTERS ACTUALLY DO ALL THE TIME and for which fandom at large praises them. or something about how him being in love with R is the most horribly pathetic thing that’s happened to adwd, or how he’s an idiot because he apparently hasn’t understood that aegon is fake because his eyes aren’t the same color as R’s when not even dany’s or viserys’s are, but no one says they aren’t targs for THAT now, do they? and sorry but reading that this dude would treat either rhaenys or jon snow like shit when this is canon:

Last night he'd dreamt of Stoney Sept again. Alone, with sword in hand, he ran from house to house, smashing down doors, racing up stairs, leaping from roof to roof, as his ears rang to the sound of distant bells. Deep bronze booms and silver chiming pounded through his skull, a maddening cacophony of noise that grew ever louder until it seemed as if his head would explode. Seventeen years had come and gone since the Battle of the Bells, yet the sound of bells ringing still tied a knot in his guts.

Others might claim that the realm was lost when Prince Rhaegar fell to Robert's warhammer on the Trident, but the Battle of the Trident would never have been fought if the griffin had only slain the stag there in Stoney Sept. The bells tolled for all of us that day. For Aerys and his queen, for Elia of Dorne and her little daughter, for every true man and honest woman in the Seven Kingdoms. And for my silver prince.

now: it’s there black on white that he feels guilty for BOTH elia’s and rhaenys’s death, it’s not interpretation, it’s what is fucking written in there same as you can’t interpret that ned’s head got cut or cat’s last thought before she died was about ned loving her hair. so excuse me but I’m tired of going into a character who’s in my goddamned top ten and have to always, always run into people assuming he’s a pathetic selfish asshole (and the one time I tried to argue that there’s no way he’s *selfish*, maybe all the contrary to a pathological degree, the answer was basically ‘lol cannot hear you’ and not even a reblog but nvm that) rather than actual content because any of those people who have a obvious hateboner for jonc can’t just fucking tag it with *anti* jon connington. no, they have to use the character name and it’s never *content*, it’s just this drivel over and over again. and since I don’t do it with characters I don’t like, I’d appreciate if I could have the same courtesy spared for this asshole.

that said, the situation is that *one* single person (that I blocked but that’s apparently not enough for tumblr to spare me from seeing them on the tag) has asked that question to multiple blogs which all agree on jonc being shitty which means that it has popped up on the tag a whole lot in the last month and like....... if you don’t like that character why do you care so much, IDEK, but wow, I wrote one post, that I tagged with the character only, saying that ppl don’t bother to read his chapters (btw, one of the people who replied that he’d have been shitty to both jon and rhaenys was someone I ended up blocking because they were on the tag like ‘lololol grayscale I’m sure elia is laughing from the afterlife’ and when I told them it wasn’t funny and if they could avoid tagging that stuff I got told to fuck off but fine I guess, that was me being holier than thou I suppose...) which is true because they don’t, they only base their reading of jonc on that ONE line about elia which is a) obv. proof he’s jealous, b) way less bad than anything cersei and barristan think about her just to say two but lmao I don’t see them getting dragged for it, but everything else? what? two full chapters? do they exist? tyrion’s chapers? never knew them.

like.

anon, tbqh at this point if you wanna think I’m holier than thou just think that because while I like to think I’m not, if there is one thing I know I’m good at is text analysis (okay, last time I said I got two degrees based on text analysis I got told ‘ah okay so if she studies she’s obv. bragging so she knows nothing’ by someone whose main theory was robb stark is the unsung villain of these books but lol I mean having studied this counts for nothing, right???) and it irks me that in a fandom based on books/text analysis I have to read **meta** which is obviously made by people who haven’t read the text and then when given a counterargument ignore it. but even with that, do you see me engaging with it? nah. I can 100% assure you none of the people I would like to see out of the jonc tag actually go on the jonc tag nor follow me, so they will never know that I think their opinion is shit unless they go looking for it. and this because I might have engaged with at least two of them on the topic once - and nicely, not *judgmentally* - and no one gave a shit or reconsidered their stance, so like, excuse me if once per month I write a post on my own blog venting about how imo a character I like gets a shit treatment.

and for the love of god, anon, sorry, glad you like my opinions, but the fact that you’re coming at me assuming I am judgmental when I come from a fucking month and a half of people literally harassing me on anon over my fucking triple-tagged opinions on c/ersei and lann/incest and ignoring anything I said about how uncomfortable it was making me just because I happened to, in the most generous explanation, WRITE A META WHERE I C/P-ED CANON QUOTES WHERE C. WAS AWFUL TO J. WHEN IT CAME TO HIS DISABILITY which GRRM wrote, certainly not *me*, and it happened to get reblogged by asoiafuni, is really, really rich.

like, I tagged that shit to hell and back so people who aren’t interested in jb wouldn’t find it, I made sure to warn every time, I even tag anti-c/antijc posts so they don’t show up on mobile search in case ppl don’t have the anti tag blacklisted because I’m THAT invested into making sure other people can blacklist if they feel like it, but I can’t fucking say on my blog that I think some people in this fandom pull their meta out of their asses and haven’t even read the chapters of the character they’re supposed to discuss? like... really?

also, I’ll tell you a secret: I don’t remember 90% of what happened in dany’s adwd chapters and I don’t remember about 60% of what happened in her got-asos chapters. zero. now: do you see me meta-ing about dany and/or discuss her arc if not in extremely broad terms unless asked? no, because while I don’t particularly like her, I also don’t think it’d be fair for me to meta about her BECAUSE IF I DON’T REMEMBER HER CHAPTERS THEN I’D BE PULLING OPINIONS OUT OF MY ASS, and I don’t go judging anyone’s opinion re dany beyond the basics because mine is that her chapters are so boring I can’t even remember them. at most I’ll discuss the show version and I can swear to you that even if I’m not a fan or anything I’m still more lenient with her than about 90% of people who aren’t fans, and since I don’t pull meta out of my ass for people whose chapters I haven’t read, I would be extremely grateful of the rest of this fandom paid jon connington the same damn bloody effort, especially when he has TWO of them and hating on him that way is like... why would you, just ignore his fucking existence and let us ten ppl into him have a decent tag.

btw, the ONE time I dared say on a post that wasn’t tagged to hell and back to avoid people finding it ‘it’s kind of hypocritical that people fight themselves over bi!CHARACTER headcanons *because asoiaf doesn’t have lgbt POV CHARACTERS* when they ignore jonc exist and he actually is an lgbt pov character so maybe it’d be nice if they cared about the rep’, I got someone like WELL HE ISN’T LGBT REP ENOUGH, and on the other side I’ve had people actually giving me shit for liking him/writing him content because I’m straight so how do I dare writing a gay dude, and like, idk, since I can’t like him in peace in that sense, can the universe allow me to at least not see bullshit on the tag or is that too much to ask?

and to end this rant: anon, not to be that person, but fyi I’m hardly the person who dictates how the wind flies in this fandom unless we count maybe theon/robb fandom as a ship, my opinions aren’t nearly as popular as opinions belonging to ppl who imvho don’t read these books and that’s fine, I don’t particularly care beyond cultivating my garden as voltaire used to say and see if anyone else wants to come and see the flowers and in case they’re more than free to take some, but like...... the idea that me expressing an opinion about the fact that people in this fandom don’t use the same standards when judging characters and some haven’t read the book or forgot it and assume they know anyway is somehow being high and mighty when I also don’t tag that shit 99% of the time (with jonc I do it just because I know no one but me and ten other ppl goes on that tag) when there’s people in this fandom who outright deny what’s written black on white and actually literally harass you on anon for it when I can 100% swear to you that the only times I’ve gone on anon in my entire life were for a) memes that required being on anon, b) sending people headcanon requests, c) sending people I ALREADY KNEW and who KNEW IT WAS ME personal things that I didn’t want ppl to attach to me because I don’t owe 100% of my life history to tumblr dot com and I always put my face to my opinions.

like, glad you like my opinions, but honestly, if you think this is me being judgmental, fair enough but maybe I’m also tired of having to read stuff that’s based on not having fucking read the book.

thank you.

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #i mean IDK MAYBE SOME OF US ACTUALLY LIKE JONC BUT THAT'S LIKE TOO WILD TO ASSUME #idek #ch: jon connington #anti-cersei lannister #anti-cersei #anti-lannincest #anti-jaime x cersei #long post for ts #anyway jonc would <3333 any kid of r's thanks for coming to my ted talk bye #Anonymous #ask post

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mellow-yellow-nutella · 6 years

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Remember that Fantasy!AU I made? Well...

I drew them all in their traditional outfits that they usually wear. I'll probably draw any outfits that are a bit more out of the ordinary from the story if I happen to have the time.

Here is my demiboy Patton- a bit cubby, petite, and absolutely adorable. I decided to give him rounded glasses because Patton having round glasses seems a little bit more fitting for him, instead of the box-square ones Logan wears. You can also see a small demonstration of his magic: he's a culinary magic user, mainly using it to make sweets and pastries. He uses his magic to mix things at an impossibly fast rate, heat things up with his hands, multitask and use multiple kitchen utensils at once. He can even make small candy, (like above), appear in midair, though it doesn't taste very good.

I'll also have you know that in my AU, those who wield magic usually have two colors for their hair- the color representing their soul or possibly their emotion, if an emotion magic user.

Next up- Logan.

Logan is not a magic user, but is the Royal Adviser and official handler of Prince Roman. He has a clipboard that he uses when in times of stress to help write down facts, to organize papers, and to scribble down any thoughts he may have. He's very tall and actually quite muscly, but that's mainly because he lugs around Roman's dry-cleaning and does a morning workout. He's very big on schedules, and so when Roman isn't on time, he's furious.

Speaking of Roman-

Roman is the eldest adopted son of Talyn and Joan, the rulers of the kingdom. He has little idea of where he comes from, though with his tan skin and thin build, he would say he's from a foreign, hotter kingdom. He has little idea of how he (and his younger twin brother Remy) got adopted by them, but he does know from Talyn's stories that he was a small toddler who was crying in a small alley, screaming for his momma when a young woman named Valerie took him in and eventually turned to the Royals to ask for money and a home to raise the child, as for Valerie was homeless and had very little money. The Royal's then decided to take him and his brother in and made sure Valerie got a job as a maid at the castle. Roman was glad to know someone cared and that he was in good hands now. Talyn and Joan really are one of the best parents he could ask for, no matter how awkward or shy they may be. Because of this, he technically grew up with three parents, two of which are extremely creative and philosophical, and the other an adorable one who taught Roman that whatever came out of Joan's mouth should be taken with a grain of salt- especially the swearing. Talyn mainly took on the role of "mother," though Valerie was given plenty of time with her ex-adopted son. Joan is mainly "father" of the small family, constantly chewing Remy out. Roman has learned to have a good smug smirk thanks to many of these sessions as he watches from the background.

And to conclude, last but not least, the muscular wallflower Virgil.

Now, I know what you're thinking- "why is he a hunk?? Shouldn't Roman be the muscly, hot dude?" I have a lot of answers for this, so strap in, kiddos.

Why is Virgil bulky? - simply, being a stable master all by yourself with large, royal horses that need to be maintained and fed professional is a hard job to do if you're skinny. He has to haul hay, drag wheelbarrows of manure and dirt, hoist bags of corn and flour over his shoulders, and let's not forget how difficult it is to get water from here to there without breaking your back. He also has to have the speed and strength to pull a horse by it's reins to make it stop if trying to escape, or if a horse is stuck and needs to be pushed through a doorway/passageway. His job would just be too difficult to do without being muscular, and even if he started out scrawny before (which he did) he's quickly have to learn to be like this to do the job. It's just a matter of maintaining physique for his job, not because I wanted an excuse to turn the tables and make Roman the slim, lean one. Heh, that would be silly! Yeah... yeah...

Why is Roman lean? - another easy answer is that, frankly, Roman has very little chores for him to personally do. All he works out is his wrists from writing or doing fensing. He still learns how to protect himself from the palace guards and his instructors, but it's not expected for war to be happening soon, so it should be fine if he skips out on a few classes, right..? Roman's heritage also comes into play, where the place people theorize he's from is somewhere in the Cuban country, a town inside it named 'Estonios' after the person who first founded it having features very similar to him. So, yeah.

Why did you pick stable master as Virgil's job? Shouldn't he be a mage or something, guessing by the hair? - nope, Virgil isn't a magic user.. well, not a magic he'd like to use anyway. All he can do is inflict large amounts of fear and panic into a specific person by looking at them. Virgil doesn't use his magic at all unless absolutely necessary, which hasn't been in use ever since when he was younger and explored his powers more. Anyway, Virgil is the stable master because the physical appearance of someone shouldn't matter, as long as the personality and speech patterns are recognizable. Virgil is still an insecure, nervous mess who loves his friends and horses more than people could ever know, and he's still shy and handsome in his own way. He just in a different body than normal, and that's fine! I also made him stable master because he can vent to the horses and they could just listen while they're brushed, it becoming some sort of gossip circle. Virgil thanked the gods that there was no-one with an animal interpreter magic that worked anywhere near his field- he'd be a dead man with how much he rants about Roman and Logan and even the Royal's themselves, though those times are usually subject to misunderstanding and are quickly resolved.

So yeah. I'll be making some offhand pictures of Thomas, Valerie, Talyn, Joan, Terrance, Remy, and Deceit some time later in the month. I'm really proud of these pictures! Thank you, and good night/evening/morning/day.

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