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yayakoishii · 9 months

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Thoughts on Black Clover, so far!

Finished the anime till Ep. 65 / Spoilers if you haven't watched till there!

I'm really loving the show so far, especially the last 3 episodes (63, 64, 65) like they all are personally some of my super favourites in all that I have seen.

The characters are great, well-written and rounded, which I love. The Black Bulls are growing on me with time and backstories, and I really like Vanessa now! She's amazing.

One thing I noticed is the way Asta refers to the female members of the Black Bulls – and how it's different from the male ones. It's usually Magna-senpai, Gauche-senpai, Finral-senpai, etc. with them but in the girls, it's just

Charmy-paisen (exchanging the positions of the kanjis of sen and pai) It's adorable!!

Vanessa-neesan (term for older sister, with respect) and it suits her so well! She's like a caring older sister crossed with a crazy wine aunt attitude 😂

Also, I keep getting minor crushes on all the members everytime a new backstory is revealed lmao.

That's not to say that there are no characters that are just not to my taste. My feelings for Noelle are iffy at best; the tsundere attitude is cute only to a certain extent and definitely not enjoyable when she's hurting a wounded Asta because she is embarassmed about something. I get that it's probably light-hearted humour but it's a little irritating for me.

Also, surprisingly, Yuno. I liked him before, but thinking of certain things he did before, I don't like that he's kinda rude at times. Not in an obvious way, but in minor ways that you can see when he's interacting with Klaus and Bell. He's totally normal and great when it comes to Asta, but I have certain frustrations about him being so closed off to his own teammates. It's fine if he doesn't want to open up his heart, but Klaus is still his senior and if your senior has told you to act in a certain way, you're supposed to follow it. There's a hierarchy in squads for a reason, and Yuno just blatantly disregarding his orders without explanation is a sign that he's either careless, rude or not a team player at all.

Which would be fine, if he wasn't a Magic Knight in a squad. He has to know how to co-operate and co-ordinate with others instead of just doing whatever he wants. I get that superiors and seniors are not always right, but in that case, you're supposed to explain to them why your plan is a better alternative. You're supposed to talk shit out!!

I'm a little disappointed in Yuno for that, but I really hope that in the future episodes, he does learn to do this. He's a super contrast to Asta in that sense, who has by now fought multiple battles in co-ordination with his teammates. All of Yuno's fights (rare as they are) are solo and while he is strong enough to handle things by himself, there will be a day one day when he can't do things by himself. Closing off communication with your teammates will definitely not be helpful then :(

I'm just gonna end this unasked for rant post with a hair down Magna because,, I apparently tend to fall for characters who slick back their hair but look way hotter with their hair down. (side eyes Nishinoya)

#black clover #asta black clover #vanessa black clover #charmy pappitson #yuno black clover #noelle silva #magna swing #I'm not hating on any character btw this is not a hatepost #it's just my thoughts on what I have seen of them so far #and is very much open for change with due developments #character study #i think #yayarants

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markantonys · 2 years

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Gareth bryne hate anon here lol. Yes individually his character is rn just like whatever to me but his relationship with siuan is just gross. Siuans arc with living without her powers is interesting to me but i am so annoyed with a) her looking like a young woman/girl instead her age (hate that trope) and b) her fucking relationship. Nothing i despise more than their dymamic with her being forced to serve him and then him being interested in her which compels him to keep her in service etc etc... like literally vomiting why jordan why 🤢🤢

And yes to all min conversation!! In foh u really notice how different her narration is compared to for example nynaeve and elayne. They will miss and think about lan and rand as is normal and fine, but they have their own like arcs and things that interest them and drive them and shit. Like elayne wants to go help rand and be with rand but she will not let that thought drive all her behaviour. They also develop relationships with characters around them, friendships, allies, enemies etc. Which was so jarring compared to when reading mins pov like she was so detached from everything siuan/leane/logain were doing, didnt have anything else to drive her behaviour except for rand. She has such interesting power too and she just like doesnt give a shit 😂

Ok this turned into another rant lol hope u dont mind

haha i don't mind at all i love this rant, we are totally on the same page! ugh yeah siuan visibly de-aging when she was stilled made me SO mad!! i feel like if anything she should've looked older and closer to her true age now that the aes sedai agelessness has been stripped away. aes sedai agelessness in and of itself annoys me, i feel like it's this fantasy of "powerful older women but they actually look young and hot" although i will say that it's been a relevant plot point many times that there's a way to visibly recognize an aes sedai and they have trouble hiding who they are. also hate the whole "aes sedai don't marry because few men would be into a woman who's more powerful than them" like if rj wanted it to be a thing that aes sedai don't marry, he could've just said that aes sedai are so wholly focused on their duties that they have no interest in marriage, or that aes sedai aren't allowed to marry because the white tower made a rule, and i would've been fine with that. and i feel like siuan getting her romance only after losing her powers feeds into the idea in a way i hate, like she's not allowed to fall in love until she's put in a position where the man in question is more powerful than her.

and yes to everything about min! when their love interests aren't currently with them, nynaeve and elayne think about them like 5-10% of the time and min is a solid 95% and i am not exaggerating. you're so right she truly does not seem to give a shit about siuan, leane, or logain or what any of them are trying to accomplish, she's just looking for a way to get back to rand. she has no relationships with other characters, i cannot list a single friend min has except for elayne (which is more told to us than shown, as they have very little screentime together). she DOES have a cool power that could've been used to affect the plot and/or her character arc in a meaningful way, but no! her sole goal in life is to make rand love her! especially frustrating when compared to how layered and three-dimensional the other female characters are and how many goals and ambitions they all have. but min truly is just rand's sexy lamp.

#anonymous #answered #wot book spoilers

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zalrb · 2 years

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overall thoughts on heartbreak high? im curious on what you think of the characters, none of them like left an impression on me but i think they were fine, harper was the only one that actively annoyed me. and of course darren CARRIED the show

OK so I've been thinking about this and, like, the good things about it were the actors had the appropriate chemistry with each other -- Amerie and Harper as best friends? Totally believe it. Quinnie and Darren as platonic soulmates? Sold. Quinnie, Darren and Amerie as a fast-forming chosen family? Yes. Dusty charming everyone from Amerie to Harper and some charged moments with Malakai? Pulled it off. Malakai and Amerie? Adorable. Darren and Ca$h? Sold. Quinnie and Sasha? Cute. Which is why I was disappointed how they devolved. Jojo and the dynamics with her students? Yes. I was like, this is the chemistry you need in a cast, no one felt uncomfortable unless they were meant to, I didn't felt inherent distance. Plus the cast was actually racially and culturally diverse, although I do wish we had a Black female teen. Autism representation? Great. Non-binary representation? Great. Ace representation? Great. The way sexuality is treated like a spectrum and not a big deal? Awesome.

I also liked that Darren and Ca$h didn't go the typical route of Ca$h bullying Darren but also being in love with them because Ca$h is working through his shit because that's tired and it's one of the reasons I didn't get invested in Eric and Adam in Sex Education because I already had my fill of that dynamic with Mickey and Ian in Shameless so I was like great, cool.

But when the show tried to go beyond the incest map and delve into deeper issues like Malakai and police brutality or the kidnap/attempted rape of Harper or Harper's father's mental illness, it didn't do any of that justice and it got bizarre. Like, Malakai deserved so much better than how they handled that storyline, Sasha and Missy telling Harper it was fucked up to sleep with Malakai after he was assaulted became about Harper betraying Amerie and somehow got to Harper feeling slut-shamed and I just kept being like OK but how is Malakai not centered in this situation? And then when they try to deal with Malakai's trauma it's pushed to the side and I kept being like so where are your parents exactly? Everyone who saw what happened was angry and indignant and suddenly Malakai is simply the butt of a joke? Amerie's feelings and their relationship somehow becomes the central focus in this storyline? I would just rather not have it, I'm sure there could've been many other ways to fracture Malakai and Amerie's relationship that leads to him having sex with Harper and Dusty.

And even with Harper, like even though what happened to her and what happened to her and Amerie's relationship is the central mystery of the season and we're supposed to see the way that Harper is acting is her trauma from the entire situation, I still don't think it was handled well, I felt like if you're going to do that, it deserves to be a full exploration and not really a central mystery that we figure out in full detail at the end of the season to be like OH that's why Harper is acting this way because Harper does cause emotional damage throughout the season and I don't think the point is to show the ways in which people have been traumatized can spread damage but more like a justification for her behaviour as well as a way to show that we're seeing things mostly from Amerie's perspective and I was like, no we should've seen what happened and seen the unhealthy ways Harper is coping with what happened parallel to each other from Day One. But she really did annoy me throughout the season.

So, I just kept watching it like, these are odd turns and choices that the show is making.

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saltypiss · 9 months

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Honestly when they added letters to lgbt I could only ask why not just make a different brand name at that point.

The idea of it was fine when it was kinda fun to say, but adding...honestly I don't even know? to the end was just poor PR. Totally agree with inclusivity, but I'd also like a cool name again. And not an actual joke. A literal, factual joke of a name.

You cannot look me in the eyes and tell me to take professionally: lgbtqia++???

LGBT had a Punch to it. But realistically, the inclusivity basically made the same problems politics in america have now, there's 2 sides, and only one of them allows other opinions and options.

You also made it easy to remove anyone letter when the fanbase became too big to handle. Of course T got kicked out, you included women's issues, ask a woman and their opinion of men tends to be traumatic, no shit it was going to happen.

Which is why LGBT needs a new name. A new presentation. Something that doesn't have seperated characters standing next to each other able to be removed and forgotten by the 6th letter.

It shouldn't be cutesy shit either, it needs to stand respectably, not as another internet pun, not as a series of disconnected letters, a name, a real, actual logo. Stop with the rainbow shit too, straight up, it's gay, and not in either way you're thinking, it's just for gays, trying to make flags for every sexuality is harmless fun made too seriously. The Trans color scheme is literally so girly it's not even recognizable as anything but male to female.

It also needs, desperately, to have better cohesion, it was a terrible idea to try and run a democracy under an expansive ideology of thought. Of course everyone can help everyone, but when you go from helping people with different sexualities, to different genders, then jump to the complex issue of women's problems, PoC, bruh it's just dems vs repubs. Literally you just made american politics.

Of course again, I want to stress, everyone, can help, everyone, but they need to focus on their specifics, because then you have cohesion, you have goals you can work on and not stack over and over again.

Let's also be honest, LGBT never, ever, held the modern LGBT community together. It's been people. Which is why the disbandment of LGBT is best, in order to make organized groups, that work together, while having seperate goals, is the only real way to fix alot of problems that are only growing thanks to republican propaganda.

Realistically splitting groups into Sexuality, and gender, PoC, Women, just takes an already uniquely vague label, and give them actual verbal punching power.

As it stands, LGBT really does just mean Democrats to well, everyone, really. A massive MASSIVE umbrella of ideas fighting one cohesive train of hate, and nobody under the umbrella agrees.

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cas-rivaille · 3 years

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HELLO, DEAR!

Undertaker here! How are you today?

I was thinking the other day and I remembered an idea of mine I requested some time ago to another blog and I wanted to see your point of view as well, if you're comfortable with it ofc! I'll change it a bit because I have more ideas about it than before.

What if, hear me out, Obey me!MC was Sukuna's vessel??

I was thinking about a Female!MC but if you want you can keep them gender neutral (I don't mind!). So let's get into it, shall we?

Some facts about MC before the Devildom:

- They've already eaten all Sukuna's fingers

-But they are able to keep him calm inside themselves because over the year they've been together, MC decided to approach him more (Ya know if you have to die with/for someone, at least know them better)

-Sukuna took a liking to the MC, even though he would never admit it. (I mean- They always visit him in his domain to talk to him, read together, play cards (yes. You heard me. The king of curses loves Poker and UNO) or chess, they always ask him where would he like to go eat something, offer him some of their food to let him try new things, ect. Sometimes, but only SOMETIMES, they let him take control (not fully but they both can talk from the same mouth and he has control over one side, while MC has control over the other one))

- Having said that, Sukuna's still a stinky sassy bastard King. He's still rude, acts like he doesn't care about them and always finds a way to let them down when they're too happy. If they're sad though, he doesn't hurt them more. Sometimes MC even asks him advice whenever they're in doubt and after his bulling he actually gives pretty good advice (if you consider extreme violence a good advice that is)

Anyway, MC was going to get executed when suddenly they fell into Devildom. Their file didn't mention Sukuna at all and MC noticed that because when they arrived covered in talismans and chains the demons were confused about it. So, they kept the King a secret until lesson 16.

After Belphegor's crushing hug, while MC (the one from the original timeline) is in Mammon's arm, before Barbatos Thanoses the other timeline, Sukuna heals them and takes fully control of their body (the tattoos, the fangs, the long black claws, the other pairs of eyes and arms appear).

Now, HOW would the brothers, Diavolo and Barbatos react?

If it is too much or I did something wrong, feel free to ignore this! It's okay! Love you and have a good day!

OH MY GOD ?? THIS IS FANTASTIC THANK YOU OMG !

(i think i'm gonna do it hc style for the individual characters feelings but also some dialogue n stuff and each hc thing for each character is written as like in the game like they all like MC except belphie for obvious reasons)

tags: swearing, lesson uhhh smth spoilers ?? i think like 16 ?? (lmk if i need to tag anything else)

also hi ‘taker🥺🥺 i’m good today,, had a bit of a rough morning but i got to see my partner so i feel better !! how are you ? :D

and without further ado..

MC who is Sukuna's Vessel

- hold up

- hold the fuck up

- it was confusing enough when there were two MCs and one of them was near death in mammon's arms

- but now the injured MC gets healed and comes back to life ? but has another set of arms and eyes and is covered in strange tattoos ?

- then the other MC disappears ?

- when the demon MC starts talking, their voice is different and what-

"What the fuck did you to do MC?" Sukuna hastily spits out, checking the body for any other injuries. MC's voice is back and talking out of the same mouth.

"Sukuna, stand down," MC says.

"But he almost killed you ! Without me we wouldn't be standing here right now !" Sukuna argues back.

"I'm aware of that, but we have to be civil about this and talk to them," MC responds sternly.

"Then I want to be present for it. I'm not letting anything happen to you- I mean me. Yes me because I die if you die and I'm too godly to die," Sukuna rambles out before retracting the other set of arms but leaving the tattoos. He opens one of the eyes and forms a mouth on MC's right cheek to watch and participate in the conversation.

All the brothers and Divolo looked stunned at the scene that just happened.

"Questions ?" MC jokingly asks.

Lucifer -

- what ?

- questions ? is MC joking ?

- who the fuck is talking out of MCs body and what jurisdiction does he have

- isnt MC supposed to be human ??

- what does this mean for their relationship ?

- why did MC keep it from him ?

- he looks at dia and barbatos with the most confused face

- looks back at MC equally confused

- def hurts his pride that he didn't know

"Explain"

Lucifer's confusion turns to anger because that's the only way he knows how to cope/react to this.

Sukuna starts talking.

"Show a little more respect. I'm a king after all."

"Don't be an ass," MC shoots back. MC looks at Lucifer a little embarrassed.

"Uh, so this is Sukuna. He's the king of curses ? We kind of share a body because... uhh... it's a very long story but i mean the gist of it is I ate his thousand year old fingers ? There was 20 of them because he had two sets of arms like you saw before- it was very gross- but i had to because of the energy they posses ? When you brought me here and I was covered in seals and chains, was when I was about to be executed because I have all of Sukuna in me. So,, he can do stuff like heal my body and give me cool powers ? I don't really know what else to say." MC rambles using awkward hand motions and finishes by scratching the back of their head.

"Way to make me sound like a total fucking loser," Sukuna glares at MC.

"For the love of god stop talking-" MC shoots back.

Mammon

- huh ? someone has been sharing a body with his MC the whole time ?

- were they present the whole time ?

- did they see him acting like an idiot in love ?

- was sukuna there during e v e r y conversation he's ever had w them

- never felt more insecure and betrayed tbh

- why wouldn't you tell him ? he was your first

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- wants you all to himself

- doesn't want to share you with some four armed idiot

"So he's just, there all the time ?" Mammon asks.

"Not really? He has a headspace and he usually just chills in there but he can watch what's going on if he wants to." MC responds.

"That makes me sound lazy," Sukuna complains.

"Well if you don't like how I describe you then maybe you can talk about yourself. You're very good at it," MC smirks.

"Fine. I can do whatever I want. We can trade who has control over MC's body. I have a large supply of cursed energy and will beat the shit out of the next person who touches MC," Sukuna glares at Belphie.

"Yeah beat them in poker maybe. But not mariokart. You suck at video games in the headspace," MC laughs.

Leviathan

- was that how MC was so good at video games ?

- because they spent hours on end with this guy in their head playing video games ?

- why didn't MC come to him to play games ?

- why is MC okay with sharing a body with Sukuna ?

- why can he be the one to share a body with MC ?

- why was MC playing video games with literally anyone else ?

"So let me get this straight, you are his fingers and now you share a body ? How does that even work ? That sounds like something out of the manga 'My best friend ate some ancient object and now shares a body with an immortal warrior'" Levi questions MC.

"Okay so, Sukuna lived a really long time ago. When he died, the only thing that survived were his fingers. They each hold an incredible amount of cursed energy and it's only his fingers so from there you can imagine how powerful he was with the rest of his body," MC explains.

"Okay but that doesn't tell me why you ate the fingers ?" Levi raises an eyebrow.

"Oh. So I went to a high school for Jujutsu sorcerers, which are people who can manipulate cursed energy, and once I ate the first one to save my friend from dying, my choices were to die now or eat all of Sukuna and then be executed because he would die with me," MC says as if them dying was nothing.

Satan

- why has he never heard about Sukuna in any of the books he's read ?

- he historically doesn't exist in anything the devildom has book-wise

- so who is he ?

- needs to find out everything he can about him

- is there a way to separate MC and Sukuna ?

- his blood is boiling at the thought of MC sharing a body with someone

"So you've basically had super human powers this entire time and elected to not tell us ?" Satan glares at MC.

"Well, when you put it like that it sounds bad. I just didn't want you all to meet Sukuna because he has a lot of anger issues and is quite an asshole and I was trying to avoid this entire conversation that is happening," MC sighs.

"Rude," Sukuna says.

"Anger issues. You think we couldn't deal with this ? Are you serious right now ?" Satan asks.

MC shrugs their shoulders nervously.

"How much do you actually know about what sharing a body with him does to you ?" Satan asks while looking at the small mouth and glaring.

"I mean, I get these marks because he had them when he was alive. He was also so powerful to the point he had four arms and another set of eyes, like you saw before. I get those when he takes over mostly, but I can kee him restrained. But the eye thing is why I've always had slits under my eyes because the eyes are the most common thing to show up. The arms don't really. But it's entirely painless so don't worry," MC somewhat calmly explains.

Asmodeus

- those marks make MC look so good wtf-

- not the time

- so this Sukuna person lived a thousand years ago ?

- what was this about jujutsu sorcery ?

- what even is that ?

- asmos not the brightest on the block but from the looks on his brothers faces none of them know what the fuck MC is talking about either.

- they've explained a little bit of it b there's still some missing info

- what is sharing a body really like

- how much of MCs body can change to be like Sukunas ?

"So how much of your body can he control ? What can he heal ? Could he bring you back from the dead ?" Asmo curiously asks.

"He can't control much because it's my body and I have a lot of raw power by myself. I don't know if he can bring us back from the dead. I don't think so though or else the Jujutsu school wouldn't have tried to execute me. He used to be able to bring us back when I hadn't eaten all of his fingers, but now I don't think he can," MC explains.

"So why do you let him live in your body if he can't do much for you ?" Asmo questions.

"Well one, I don't think there's a way to get him out-"

"I'm still here you know," Sukuna interrupts.

"You've made that clear," MC says before continuing, "And two he can do stuff for me. It's like a symbiotic relationship. I give him a host and he protects me."

Beelzebub

- protects MC ?

- that's his job

- why is someone else protecting MC ?

- overall confusion

- even tho MC has gone over it multiple times, he doesn't get how or why Sukuna is in MC's body

- maybe it's the shock

. was this why MC could challenge him to armwrestling and almost win ?

"So how long has he been in you ?" Beel asks.

"About a year," MC responds.

"Can he make you live longer aside from healing you ?" Beel asks hopefully.

"I'm sorry, I don't think so..." MC says while looking at the ground. They cross their arms. They look small, as if they aren't small enough compared to him already.

"So, what does this mean ? Now that your secret is out... are you going to stay in the devildom with us ? Or do you have to leave ?"

" If I leave I'll surely be executed when I go back to the human world. If I stay I don't know what will happen to me, but it's not up to me. It's up to you guys if you want me to stay. I understand if you want me to go, I was harboring a big secret and it's probably unnerving to know that you're never truly alone with me, but Sukuna actually cares about my boundaries even though he acts like he doesn't. There are some pluses and there are some drawbacks but ultimately you have to decide." MC responds, looking from brother to brother then at Dia and Barbatos

Belphie

- MC ? dead if you back to the human world ? doesn't bother him

- he doesn't care

- he hasn't known MC long enough to care

- diavolo may have told everyone that MC was a descendant of human Lilith and he told everyone the events that actually happened, but why should he have any attachment to MC

- MC isnt Lilith, and MC sure as hell doesn't like him after the events that happened today

- from what he's heard, MC dying would be good for the human world

"I say send MC back. What happens to them isnt our problem any more," Belphie says while under his magical restraints Diavolo put on him.

"Of course you would say that," Satan glares at him.

"Shut up Belphie !!" Mammon and Levi yell.

"You don't have any right to an opinion in this matter." Lucifer states.

"Belphie that's mean," Asmo says.

Beel frowns.

"I vote they stay. I like MC regardless, and if all I have to do is adjust to Sukuna then I'll do it," Beel says while looking Belphie dead in the eye.

There's a beat of silence.

"Me too," Mammon says.

"Hey ! I was going to say that !" Levi protests.

"Oooh~ Count me in !" Asmo says with a smile.

"I also think they should stay," Satan says and looks at MC.

"My personal preference is also that they stay, but Lord Diavolo it's up to you," Lucifer says and looks at Dia.

Diavolo

- he knew there was something off, but couldnt place his finger on it

- he also constantly got a powerful vibe from MC and this explains it

- he was very fond of MC and enjoyed their presence

- he knew what he was going to do

"Barbatos, what do you think ?" Dia asks him.

"The decision is up to you m'lord," Barbatos responds.

"Well Id also like the input of my trusty all knowing butler," Diavolo laughs.

"Then, I see no reason to send them back to the human world. They can live out their lives here and safe from the school that wants to execute them. It also wouldn't be an issue to get anyone from the human world here if MC so desired," Barbatos replied.

"Then it's settled ! Welcome to the devildom for the rest of your life MC!!" Diavolo smiled and welcomed MC with open arms.

MC smiled and accepted the hug.

Barbatos

- he didn't know all along, but he know when the timelines crossed and he had to erase the other

- MC was very near and dear to his heart though and he wasnt about to let them be killed

- just wants to keep MC safe

I HOPE I DID A GOOD JOB AND THANK YOU FOR THE REQUEST REMEMBER TO FRINK SOME WATER ILY TAKER <3

- mars :)

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thewistlingbadger · 3 years

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The flash (cw) is queer.

I made an essay about the monsters inc franchise being gay and i really enjoyed doing that so as i was watching season 7 of the flash, I've decided shit's kinda queer. Minor spoilers for the show. I won't really go into detail about the plot and character arch's I'm just going off of their energy :)))

Let's start with Frost

Frost is a lesbian. 1, she definitely has the most style out of everyone. You see those bracelets?? She's constantly wearing a bunch of a necklaces and rings... Her hair is sliver and she's constantly got makeup on y'all. She's sarcastic, very much dry humor. Hell, even her hero outfit consists of leather. SHE DOES ART! She didn't want to share bodies with Caitlyn after they split, WHY? BECAUSE SHE KNEW CAITLYN WASN'T GONNA BE OK WITH HER GETTING IT ON BC THEY SHARE A BODY AND CAITLYN'S NOT REALLY DOWN WITH THAT! Not to mention that she chose her own name...trans femme vibes AND the fact that she's always been a part of Caitlyn and she had to hide her experience for literal decades. 💅

Moving on to the next lesbian, Allegra

A jacket wearer, like frost, she's also sarcastic and another thing that she has in common with Frost is that she was introduced as a villain then eased to anti hero then just normal hero. She had a hard time with her powers. She probably uses she/they pronouns. Also just her relationship with nash was like Jim Hawkins and silver from treasure planet.

Nora West-Allen!

Is a bisexual. She's a speedster like her dad but her color is PURPLE??? and as we all know, purple is the queerest color out there! Purple is in a lot of pride flags, including the bi flag. She's got leather, she's got the bob, she's even got the mommy issues! Does it get more queer than that? And if i remember correctly, she has a female roommate? AND THEY WERE ROOMMATE'S????

Jesse Quick

Lesbian.

Wally West

His actor is queer and that's enough for me. Pretty sure he had daddy issues, his color is yellow and what flags have yellow? THE PANSEXUAL AND NONBINARY FLAG! I REST MY CASE! Also, he was besties with Jesse you gotta love that queer solidarity

Ralph Dibny

What??? A tall quirky white man??? Yeah big shocker he's a whole ass fruit roll up HE'S THE ELONGATED MAN! HIS POWER WAS LITERALLY THE ABILITY TO STRETCH! He got along well with basically everyone and he loves a good mystery

Cisco Ramon

Now, based off the picture alone, i don't need to explain myself. But i will. He's smart, he's funny, he's geeky, everything you could hope for in your local gay man. He's also got style, and some trust issues. Over the course of the show, he's had like 2 girlfriends but one of them was DEFINITELY pegging him plus it was low-key toxic and his current gf is super nice and wholesome, but also gives off sapphic vibes. Speaking of vibes, his superhero name is literally vibe. What's gayer than that. And god his hair!? It's looked so good after all these years. Plus, his friendship with chester p runk?? They're more than friends for sure

Iris west

GIRLBOSS! She started her own new report thing idk what the proper term is. She's a badass, she quite simply too fine to be cishet. Her outfits are ALWAYS on point she's CONSTANTLY wearing trench coats and every other season she cuts off all her hair which is just, super queer. If you look up pictures of her her fucking STANCE. girl please she's a queer icon

Barry Allen

I don't know what it is about him, but asexual. Maybe aro. Because he's only ever shown interest in iris and they've been best friends since childhood (which is gay in itself) but also she's just like one of those people were you're like "if i can make it work i can totally make it work with her"

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unslicited · 2 years

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roasting the shit out of you based off your aot ships

but it's actually not all aot ships because i'm lazy. also if you're easily offended and would cry yourself to sleep, scroll past. i don't want to see you complain in the comments, you baby

eremika

━⠀you either don't contribute/participate a lot to the fandom or you defend the shit out of your ship. either way, you're so basic, get well soon xx

━⠀there's a 99% chance that the reason you like the ship is because your favorite character is eren and you don't give a single fuck about mikasa which is also a disease. get well soon xx (2)

━⠀you either treat armin like garbage or he's your scrunkly son, there's no in-betweens

━⠀if you're a cishet male and this is your favorite ship, please stay at least 50 miles away from me. you fucking suck

━⠀if you have twitter account dedicated to them also stay 50 miles away from me. i just know the purpose of you creating those account is to shit on another people's ship which is so fucking embarrassing. get help bae

aruani

━⠀oh my god. you're the most basic human to ever exist that you're so boring

━⠀mmm another 99% chance that you're white or straight. or even worse; both. get well soon xx

━⠀you cannot see two people of different genders looking at each other or you would ship them even though they have no chemistry, also a disease

━⠀i literally don't know what to say anymore, that's how bland you are

erehisu

━⠀what does it feels like to be the stupidest person with the worst reading comprehension ever?

━⠀yeagerist. /neg

━⠀you are a walking red flag. please don't interact with a real human, you would send them to a mental institution just by talking to you

━⠀you hate the ending which is fine BUT you're the mf who makes cringe alternate endings with the whole “historia is pregnant with eren's kid!” ordeal. which is a bad thing btw

━⠀historia is not pregnant with eren's kid and she's a lesbian. get over it, you redditor

ereri & rivamika

━⠀oh what's this? why did i put the two of these shippers together, you ask? because they have something in similar! mental illness.

━⠀you are the one of the worst person to ever exist in the aot fandom. you make the fandom a worse place. stay unsafe, i'm hunting you down

━⠀“b—but, fiction doesn't affect reality! 🥺” it sure as hell doesn't, but you're just straight up being a fucking weirdo. please never speak to another human being, they would absolutely hate you

━⠀you are a cringe levi fangirl, but this time, with even more mental illness!

━⠀genuinely, get help you weirdo. incest and pedophilia is not sexy, you sad and pathetic excuse of a monster

levihan

━⠀if you see hange as a nonbinary then i have nothing bad to say to you, you're okay & you don't have to read this <3. but if you see them as a “female”, you're the worst kind of human to ever walk on this planet and that's the nicest way i could word it

━⠀you're a cringe 13 years old straight levi fangirl... i don't know what could be worse than that

━⠀your ideal partner is someone who genuinely hates you and would beat the shit out of you, but you take that behavior as a “tsundere uwu” shit...

━⠀your understanding of erwin's character is totally off and you purposely think that way because you're in denial that erwin is the most important person to levi, not hange. get over it

━⠀looking for drama with eruri shippers is your hobby, you are a horrible person

eruri

━⠀you are the saddest person to ever roam the earth. are you okay? do you need my therapist's number?

━⠀delete those shit tons of sad playlist, it makes you look like a loser

━⠀you make liking eruri your whole personality which is a horrible thing btw. get over it, erwin is dead, they will never be canon

━⠀you overanalyze every fucking thing to the point you just become paranoid over small things. you should just become an english literature teacher at this point

━⠀there's a 70% chance that you're a lesbian who watched aot because you wanted to see the lesbians, but end up getting obsessed wih erwin. you relate to him in a certain level, but you don't know how to word it. btw relating to erwin is /neg

━⠀your ideal relationship is something really tragic and sad, you want to have some kind of impact to your partner for the rest of their life. you are not right in the head

yumihisu

━⠀okay 99.9% chance you are a sapphic yearning for love

━⠀you either have never been in a relationship or is a fucking whore—you've been in so many relationships, you lost count of your exes. btw, that's because you hold way too high expectations for your partner. get well soon xx

━⠀you either didn't expect aot to have lesbians or you watched aot BECAUSE the lesbians. there are no in-betweens

━⠀you're tired of the fandom's bullshit and just want to enjoy some cottagecore lesbians content of yumihisu. and honestly, i can't blame you

━⠀okay this wasn't really a roast since most of yumihisu shippers are the most wholesome people in the fandom so. yeah. you're safe, bae <3

are you offended now?

no? good.

yes? even better.

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limenysnocket · 3 years

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The Plan

Summary: It's your birthday (hooray!) and you still have to work (not so hooray). Nevertheless, you can still count on your friends to cheer you up, but not as much as your loveable boyfriend who insists you spend your birthday with him and a romantic dinner, rather than at a party your friends set up.

Warnings: Swearing, drinking, Taika (yes, he gets his own warning), some content may be explicit-ish.

Request: @whatwememeintheshadows

A/N: So people are actually planning their fics nowadays???? Did I not get the memo or something??? These come straight from my head????

THIS IS SO LATE I'M SORRY. Happy (very) belated birthday.

Tags: @honorarytenenbaum @olyvoyl

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Okay, so maybe work was less of a bitch today, you had to admit. People were nicer to you today, you got an extra thirty minutes added on to your lunch break just because, and, of course, you got a couple of dirty birthday cards and some cash, but that really shouldn’t matter, should it? What did matter, is that you would get to have some you-time, all by yourself, with your vibrator, a couple of movies, and some nice, low calorie ice cream (that tasted like total shit). At least... That’s what you thought would happen.

“You should totally come party with us! I’ve got the booze, Jess has the men, and we’ll make a whole night out of it! Alcohol, strippers, and dancing! How does that sound?” your friend, Enid, reiterated everything for you at least one thousand times today.

“If I wanted a stripper, I’d ask Taika to dye his hair, shave himself everywhere, and oil up a little. That’s the only sight I’d be happy to see, thank you,” you huff and smile. You appreciate the effort to get you out and about, possibly be a little frisky, but your heart just wasn’t in it, and that was much to Taika’s luck.

“Oh, come on. Taika can’t have that much of a grip on you! He has a lot of ‘female friends’, so what’s wrong with you having some ‘male friends’ hm?” Jess cooed to you, but you immediately whirled around, insulted that she would even suggest that you would do such a thing. And you were sure Taika had female friends, yes, but they were just friends. Nothing else. Although, his flirtatious behavior scared you sometimes, at parties. Some of the women would just swarm him, and you feared any one of them would catch his fancy more than you did.

“No. I don’t want strippers at whatever the hell you’re planning,” you stated again, firmly this time. Your two friends whined again, Jess lowering her head in defeat.

“Fine, but can we still bring booze? Invite a few more friends to party?” Enid asked, setting a hand on your shoulder and pleading to you with large eyes.

You chew at your cheek and think for quite some time. Your friends want to throw you a genuine party, and God knows how long it’s been since you’ve hung around a group of unfamiliar faces, especially since you started to date a Hollywood writer. Maybe it was just what you needed. Taika was supposed to be busy for the night, anyway.

You succumbed to the pressure, and nodded. “Okay,” you agreed. “But if we get any noise complaints, your talking to the cops for me.”

“Hell yeah! You’re not going to regret this! Just you wait! Go home and clean your place up a little. I’ll be by in an hour or two to get things set up!” Enid clapped her hands together in mischief, and Jess suddenly looked more spry. You gave her a warning glance, and she only grinned back, before skipping away, chatting gayly with Enid at her side.

You can’t believe the shit you just got yourself into, and you still wouldn’t believe it, the moment Enid and Jess arrived with their arms full of cheap liquor, streamers, finger foods, and a bunch of colorful-looking lights that look like they just came from a Wal-Mart Christmas sale. As soon as you gave them the go-ahead, they started tearing shit open. Between setting up, your phone started to ping over and over again, as well as your friends’ phones. Apparently, just a few hours was enough time to notify everyone in LA about a party, who it was for, and where it was going to be at.

You just sat back and sipped on frozen margaritas (meant for the party, but it's your party so you didn't give two shits), until the party started and there was a heavy flow of people rushing into your home. Invited or uninvited.

When things started getting wild, that's when a pact was made. Enid and Jess would be cleaning up your house after this was over. You were already stepping over beer cans as it was.

You can't even say you were having fun there. You barely knew anyone. Most of the people there were just randoms looking for a good time, and unfortunately you saw some of them getting that good time in a dark corner. You made an excuse to run upstairs and lock all the doors of the bedrooms before anyone could think about getting there. That's what you thought, at least.

The party was getting to be too much, too quickly. In haste, you locked yourself into your bedroom, and took a step back. You could still hear the muffled voices and loud, posh laughter on the other side of the door. Those girls would pay. You rush over to your window, overlooking your backyard and see people divebombing into your pool, creating waves and getting people outside of the pool wet. People were leaving their trash everywhere, and many red, plastic cups floated in the (for now) clear waters. You didn't know how much more you could take. Maybe parties weren't your thing after all. Especially with strangers.

You sit back on your bed and you don't even bother looking out the window anymore. It was best to stay inside your room, if you didn't want to be molested or assaulted by some dumbass who thinks it's okay to anonymously grope women in crowded areas. Your face buries in your hands, griping to yourself how this would be over in a few hours. Right?

There's a subtle knock on your door, and you jump. It's in the regular, stiff-three order, so you are very hesitant about going and getting it. Then, there comes the "shave and a haircut" tune. Not a very good one, and kind of slurred, guessing by the way there was a loud thud at the very end, the person knocking was shoved against the door. Damn you and your pity.

You're quick to move, despite the strong feeling telling you not to. You just knew some poor soul was being smooshed out there. Fuck, you were nervous. This was screaming bad idea, but you were going to pull through anyway. The plan in your head seemed childish, but it should work fine if the person was desperate enough to get in. One quick swipe of the door, and you're golden! Surely...

You flick the doorknob lock and gulp, keeping a tight grip. On the count of three-- and after having to restart because another desperate knock jumbled up your thoughts-- you sent the door flying open. Sure enough, a heavy body came tumbling in with it, tripped, tried to balance, then ended up crash-landing cartoonishly into your bed, bonking their head a tad on the wooden post at the end of the frame. You hissed a little bit, then closed the door again. You rushed to their aid as the person looked up.

"I thought you liked private parties more than this," a soft, kiwi accent cooed at you, obviously through unbridled pain. This bewildered you even more.

Taika was sitting on the floor, legs extended out in front of him, making him look like a giant from your angle, and he was dressed in a blue tux, black dress shirt, and polished black shoes. Well, they seemed a little scuffed now.

"Shit, Taika-- what the fuck are you doing here?" you drop to your knees and cradle his aching head. He winced at the touch, but was too happy to see you again to deny it.

"Well, I came to take you out on a surprise birthday dinner. Maybe pick up a bottle of wine and go dancing with my favorite person, you, under moonbeams and twighlight," his head bobbled from side to side, which didn't help his animated character, "but it seems to me you have company... and a lot of it."

You sigh and brush an unkempt curl back into place while he cheekily grins at you. "This wasn't my idea," you murmur. "Friends set this up. They'll also be the ones to take it down. I didn't really want to spend my birthday with anyone this year. Makes me feel old."

"Well, you seriously should have known someone was about to stop you from taking another bite of that shitty ice cream in your freezer. They dished it out in shot glasses down there. Even a sober chick couldn't handle the taste," Taika snorted playfully and you rolled your eyes. He seemed to be taking this situation surprisingly well. It was weird. "But it was much to my misfortune that your 'friends' got to you before I could. Maybe I should have settled on a birthday lunch, but that didn't sound too appealing to me."

"Would have been much better than the chicken salad and dry-ass piece of cake I had for lunch today," you fired back. He sighed again and stood up with a groan. You followed with him.

"What now?" he mumbled, stroking the stache on his upper lip, then letting the tips of his fingers wander down to his smooth, freshly shaved cheeks.

"Well, we're both stuck here, so I suppose we settle in for the night and wait it out." You plop yourself down on your bed again and just stare up at him. He doesn't move, however. His eyes were focused on the window, more specifically the lock on it, and he was nibbling at his bottom lip. He was thinking. Some people might call it strange to watch him think sometimes. He really was like a cartoon. With one tap of his foot, he spun around on his heel and faced you.

"New plan," he clapped his hands together. "Get dressed."

You were confused for the next fifteen minutes or so. He helped you pick out a deep blue dress that would somewhat match his and black heels. He was escorting you all over the room with his hand on your lower back. He even tried to do your makeup for you, but he was so inexperienced, you had to take over. The last time he had to do someone's makeup was on the set of the original, five-minute What We Do in the Shadows film.

While you finished your makeup, he was practically smooching your window. He was staring at it like a dog asking to go outside. It made you a bit nervous, seeing the cogwheels turn in his head. He took your hand and lead you to the window, unlocking it and pushing it up.

"Want to go first?" he said behind a proud smile. When he only received silence and a pure, "what the fuck," stare back to his face, he shrugged, and stepped out the window himself. Luckily, you knew fully well he wasn't about to fall flat on his face and die on the pavement below. You had a screened back porch, with a roof over it's head as well, since the seasons tend to get very hot and sticky and mosquitoes just love to lay visits. He stepped onto the roof, trying not to bring too much attention to himself. Once he had bounced down, he brushed himself off, then looked up at you, expectantly.

"Come on, then! Don't have all night!" he hollered and waved to you. "Need me to catch you?"

You gulped, not bothering to answer him. You gently scooted your lower half out the window and taking your heels into your hand. You didn't want to break an ankle on the landing. "Lord, give me strength," you muttered, squeezed your eyes shut, then took a leap of faith. You tried not to squeal as the rushing air flew by you like sticky wind, but before you knew it, your feet touched slanted ground. You felt like you were about to tumble, but strong hands met your waist and kept you up.

"Beautiful!" Taika beamed and kissed your flushed cheek.

"I hate you sometimes," you slapped his chest and made him laugh. He took your hand and started leading you to the other side of the porch roof, and came to the end, where your driveway supposedly was. Parked dead center was Enid's big, black SUV. Tall enough to just be a little hop away from the roof.

"One more, leap, dear?" Taika was on the move again, but you grabbed his sleeve before he could actually make the jump.

"Taika, no. That's Enid's car. She already spends so much on gas, think of how pissed she'll be if she has to remove dents from her roof!" you explain, nervous from the outcome of this little plan of yours.

"Sweetheart," Taika said airily, turning his full attention to you and taking your hand again. "If she was a good friend, she would have known a massive party like this would have pissed you off. Plus, I don't think just cleaning the house is going to get even with this God awful day. So, why not put a few dusty footprints on her car, hm?" Taika was back to grinning, and before you could say anymore, he had leapt away and landed on top of the car with a large thud. He motioned to you with a swipe of his hand. You were in way too deep with him to give up on him now.

You followed through, heels swinging in one hand, and he caught you again like the perfect, Maori prince charming he was.

Car hop, after car hop, he lead the way and made sure you were okay with every stop, until you reached a small enough car to hop down, scale the lawn and make it to his jeep.

"That was," you said, breathless. You couldn't find the right words, and Taika just chuckled at you.

"Exciting?" he filled in the blank space on his own, cocking an eyebrow.

"Yeah," you laugh, fanning your chest and brushing a single strand of hair back. "That's a good word for it."

"Well, excitement doesn't stop here," he opened your door into the jeep for you, bowing respectfully and playing everything up for you, like you were royalty. "I have everything set up for you to have a great night with yours truly. As long as everything goes according to the plan this time..."

#taika waititi #fanfiction #taika waititi x reader #what we do in the shadows #taika waititi imagines #taika waititi imagine #taika waititi x you #taika waititi/you

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thechangeling · 3 years

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Ok @the-wckd-powers inspired me to make this. These are my tsc neurodivirgent headcannins based partly on my observations from the books and also partly just vibes.

I'm not including the canon stuff like Ty bring autistic or Jace having C-pstd because.. it's canon or at least basically canon.

Christopher: I know he's cannonly nd but I personally hc him as autistic/adhd.

Lucie: Listen I personally feel like she's also autistic/adhd.

Alastair: We saw this one coming. C-PTSD. I also feel depression as well. Also someone said he's autistic and now I can't unsee it. My boy is in fact autistic. Argue with the wall.

Matthew: Depression. I wouldn't say any ptsd because I just don't really think that's the case. He has trauma sure, but trauma does not equal ptsd. Also someone who has bpd said bpd and I totally see it. For those of you who don't know, bpd is categorized by difficulties in regulating emotion. (As I understand it. I'm not diagnosed.) Also by very intense often stormy interpersonal relationships.

Clary: I hc as autistic/adhd with very minimal evidence just vibes. Sometimes you look at a character and are like... yeah you're not nt.

Alec: MY BOY IS AUTISTIC! ARGUE WITH THE WALL!

Magnus: Oh yeah he definitely has C-PTSD. By the way if you didn't know, c-ptsd is complex post traumatic stress disorder. It is categorized by exposure to REPEATED trauma, as in continuous abuse or neglect. PTSD is just for one single traumatic event.

Will: He definitely experienced depression throughout his teen years. He seems to be fine now in tlh.

Jem: I can't decide on PTSD or C-PTSD. The thing with his parents when he was s kid was one event but you could argue that living with the disease for years after was traumatic enough to give him C-PTSD. Idk. But he doesnt really show many signs of trauma after TID? (This is my issue with CC's portrayal of trauma btw. It ends when their story arc ends or they get together with their love interest. But whatever.)

Henry: Listen, I know everyone says autistic but personally I feel like he has adhd on account if the fact that he is hyper oblivious to most things and has the ability to hyper focus on his experiments.

Charlotte: GAD. Generalized anxiety disorder. Look, this women has been running the institute since she was 18, looking after Will and Jem, and Jesse's ungrateful ass. Then she became the first female consul at 23 and now she's dealing with all the misogyny from the Clave as well as being a mother of two boys. Matthew is....Matthew and Charles is.....Charles. There is no way this women didn't develop an anxiety disorder. Argue with the wall.

Kit: ADHD and C-PTSD. Obviously. I could also make a case for depression too.

Mark: ADHD. As for as I'm concerned this is basically canon. C-PTSD as well.

Kieran: Ok here's a bit of a wild card but to me it makes sense. BPD. Bpd is the result of trauma which tracks. Kieran's emotional needs were definitely not met as a child which could definitely result in emotional dysregulation as well as an intense fear of abandonment and the desire to do anything possible to prevent that abandonment.

Cristina: GAD. No evidence just vibes.

Ty: Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia because yes I am projecting but also they are both comorbid with autism. Ty is also cannonly really bad at math and has issues with writing, often pressing way too hard on the pencil which is a dysgraphia thing. Also I'm pretty sure he along with the rest of the Blackthorns are supposed to cannonly have ptsd but I don't really see it with him tbh.

Emma: PTSD.

Julian: C-PTSD.

Tavvy: Actually I would argue he has C-PTSD because he kept being exposed to terrible shit at such a young age.

Dru: C-PTSD.

Ash: C-PTSD.

Helen: C-PTSD obviously and also depression. I just get the vibes.

Jaime: I see him has autistic. I could be projecting but to me he's just giving off vibes.

Livvy: Autistic. Ty can't be the only one in seven siblings I call bullshit. Also it just makes sense go look up @the-wckd-powers and I's asks about this. Also ngl I don't feel C-PTSD for her either tbh. The twins are def traumatized but they don't seem to have PTSD.

Ok that's it. As far as I'm considered everyone else is nt. I might change my mind later on though.

@littlx-songbxrd

#tsc #tda #tmi #tlh #tid #nd headcannons

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irrelevantsunarin · 3 years

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things people need to stop saying in fanfiction

this first part if mostly about explicit or mature content so if that bothers you you can skip to the end - I will label it in pink!

"wet cavern" - does not sound like it should be describing a mouth (and so overused)

globes of flesh (usually in reference to a butt) - yucky

plush lips - no thank you

on that note, also: surging forward into a kiss - totally fucks with the flow of the story every time, and just makes me die inside

"mound" - bad in any context except a pile of dirt

"heat" (usually in the context of "his/her/their heat") - I think this one is pretty self explanatory

Two in one:

and on that note, please keep words for crotch bits simple - if I see one more fic that uses a different word every sentence I'm going to shrivel up and waste away. it's cringe, please stop.

some common ones that annoy me are as follows:

member

length

shaft

core

heat

hole

if you're gonna write p*rn you really should be comfortable enough to talk about the peepee parts without avoidance. you don't have to say p*nis but please avoid the ones that make people (read: me) gag.

I feel like this one goes without saying but... anything about "pain and pleasure" whether the pain turns into pleasure or both at the same time - it's terribly overused and I honestly don't know if anyone still uses it anymore outside of wattpad (but I just read it in something so I guess it's still relevant)

I just want to point out one thing that bothers me specifically - I see a lot of kissing scenes go like this: kissing passionately with mouths closed -> someone gasps, allowing the other one to sneak in some tongue and force the other person's mouth open -> full out frenching - like, correct me if I'm wrong but making out usually happens with mouths open even before tongue, if their mouths were closed it would just be a lot of mushing faces together

making things anatomically correct is important

where did the idea come from that lady cum is sweet and dude cum is bitter/salty? - I've asked friends about this and I don't think it's really a thing (it could be more bitter or taste different based on what you eat) but I think comparing it to food flavors doesn't really make sense... which brings me to another, more uncomfortable topic. abo fanfiction. for whatever reason, it's always in weird animal/abo shit where they take this stuff to the next level - slick always tastes like some specific pastry or food and the character's scents are always described like mall candle scents. to clarify: people secretion tastes and smells like people, people don't smell like specific things (woodsmoke, freshly cut grass, etc) unless they are often around those things and their genitals certainly shouldn't taste like them

I apologise, that last one was a little nasty, but now...

this next part is about general stuff and not the dirty

"the _____ boy/girl" (the blue haired girl, etc. I've even seen it using character distinguishers referencing the story like: "the explosive boy" - bakugo from bnha) - please, it doesn't hurt the story to just use their name or pronouns (and if you feel like you're saying those too much you should probably take a step back and talk about something else other than the characters)

adverbs! - not inherently evil but I would like to remind you all that GOOD adverbs are ones that contradict whatever they're describing (ie. killing me softly instead of harshly or what not) otherwise, use them sparingly

please don't describe skin colors with food words - it's disrespectful and kinda gross, especially because it is usually only used for POC characters (ex: chocolate, caramel, mocha, coffee, etc.)

"something more" - in literally any context (a promise of something more, [x] wanted something more, it felt like something more) you know what just don't say "more" in any situation like that - find another way to say it and it will be better I promise

i feel like these are all cliches that everyone makes fun of but i'm putting them in anyway:

[insert color] orbs - just say eyes, it's fine

blushing (this includes turning red, flushing, and any other way to describe it) - there are other ways to show embarrassment

when a female (or more feminine) character is described as a lot smaller and physically weaker than the male/masculine character - glorifies and fetishizes the stereotypes of feminine people being submissive and weak. basically it's gross.

I have seen a lot of people talking about the phrase: "they let out a breath they didn't even know they were holding" - and while I agree that it's overused I don't think it's unrealistic. it is a thing that can happen in a particularly stressful situation and it does a good job of letting the readers know that the pace of the story is changing and that they too can stop holding their breath at whatever wild thing is going on. definitely don't overuse it but once isn't the end of the world.

smirking - no explanation necessary

s-s-s-stuttering - when people stutter from nerves they tend to repeat whole words, not just the first letter.

This:

Also remember to please use line and paragraph breaks and don't write in first person unless you're really confident because I have never in my life read a good fanfic that was written in first (or second) person

#fanfiction #fics #fic advice #writing advice

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movienotesbyzawmer · 3 years

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April 6: Rocky

I have learned that the six Rocky movies (so all of the Rocky ones but not the Creed movies) are available on HBO Max. I was looking for a new watch-and-take-notes-and-post-the-notes project, so yo. Check it.

I've seen all six of these movies. I saw most of this one in the theater, like, back then! I was terribly terribly young! Maybe 7. I remember my friend Greg really wanted to see it, but our parents wouldn't let us. So we had them drop us off to see Capricorn One, but Greg made us sneak in to watch Rocky instead. He was so excited about it he wanted to play-punch afterward, but it hurt and I didn't like play-punch. I also didn't care about the movie. You know what movie is decent, though? Capricorn One. Although the supporting performance from O.J. Simpson might throw ya.

Anyway, since its release the reputation of this movie has remained very strong. It won Best Picture in an extremely competitive year. It is very much the Rocky Balboa of that year's awards contenders! But I'm pretty sure I'm going to be watching this first movie and admiring its scrappiness, then watching the subsequent ones and rolling my eyes at their formulaic-ness.

The opening fanfare sets the atmosphere really awesomely actually.

Oh also I don't care at all for boxing. And yet it seems like the idea of it is good drama fodder, I mean the idea of a sport of just two people punching each other until one of them is the winner at that.

So the first scene is a boxing match in a little church somewhere. Some people are in attendance who apparently like to pass the time watching punching. Rocky is bloody and hangdog. After the fight, which Rocky won, both fighters convalesce next to each other in a back room, kind of indifferently. But we have learned that punch-sport is a part of Christian life.

Rocky walks home through the gritty streets, past his friends who sing rudimentary a capella music on a street corner. They should work on the complexity of their harmonies.

Rocky is home and his home is gritty also. Atmosphere. He has a tank with animals in it. I cannot tell what the animals are. He talks to them. Personality.

He has a mirror he looks at and the mirror is decorated with pictures of Young Sylvester Stallone. They are totally pictures of him as a boy and young man. But Sylvester Stallone was not in character as Rocky Balboa when he took those pictures. It is a little jarring.

At the pet store the next day we are introduced to Adrian. That is the spelling, I checked. She is very very very shy-acting. The director told her to act shy, and she was like OH I'M GOING TO MEET AND EXCEED THOSE EXPECTATIONS.

Rocky's next stop is The Docks. I am surprised that Philadelphia has a dock area with such large ships, but I guess that's real. But I'm also surprised that he's there on the business of being the muscle for a loan shark. I didn't remember about that side of Rocky's complex, complex personality.

That scene just ended with a very 80s-teen-movie moment; a fellow thug rolled down his window and bullyingly yelled, "so long, meatbag!" We feel so bad that Rocky doesn't have the respect of his coworkers in the loan shark gang.

After getting dressed down by his gangster colleagues, he then goes to his gym and there's this whole thing about how the coach guy is so sick of Rocky's boxing mediocrity that they gave someone else his locker. It seems like that wouldn't happen. On his way out, the other boxer taunts him by saying he's pumped to be in receipt of Rocky's locker which is a very fine locker. We saw it, though. It was just a locker.

Adrian again. Broad caricature of an introverted person. I don't buy it maybe. Then a scene in a bar and the conversation with the bartender is also dumb fakey acting.

He later came upon a bunch of jerks on a corner, but among them was an awkward teenage girl that he knows. He makes her leave with him and tries to give him avuncular advice, but that scene ends with her telling him, "screw you creepo!" The exposition of this movie has a very opaque strategy.

0:30:00 - A scene with Apollo Creed does some more very unnatural exposition, setting up the premise that some local underdog is going to get a chance to fight him. This doesn't seem like an acclaimed movie. This seems like a scene in a cheap romance movie where the Handsome Man confesses to his best friend that what he's really looking for in a woman is someone not so pretty.

AC is flipping through a straight-up book, looking for a good boxer to fight on January 1, 1976, to celebrate the bicentennial. I'm a little "wha?" about some of this. He chooses Rocky Balboa because of his catchy "Italian Stallion" nickname and remember because Columbus was Italian so

Rocky and Adrian go on a date. It's Thanksgiving but that happens anyway. It does not bristle with romantic energy. It reeks of social obligations. It seems like the beginning of the kind of loveless relationship your grandparents began in the 1940s in their dustbowl-decimated agrarian community.

They are back at his little shithole apartment and he is a persistent man and I do not root for this relationship.

Things escalated kind of quickly. Rocky got invited to an agent guy's fancy office and offered a chance to fight for the World Heavyweight Championship. The next scene, everyone knows about it and he's on TV. He seems like a dumb lug. How can he possibly succeed. Good job contrasting his character with the big celebrity, though.

Burges Meredith is oddly appealing as this surly, pirate-talking boxer-coach-manager guy. He comes to Rocky's apartment sucking up, and Rocky isn't receptive, I'm pretty much buying BM's different emotions, and Rocky's.

1:11:24 - Pretty sure my friend and I talked a lot about this scene when we saw it back then, he fills a glass with raw eggs and drinks it up. All one shot, baby.

This scene with Paulie, Adrian's brother who is Rocky's friend, I don't like. Paulie is a bad friend. That scene ends with Rocky beating up pig carcasses. They should have just had that part.

His hands are bloody when he punches the meat things. That's his blood, right? That's not like animal flesh?

We just had a very melodramatic scene with Rocky and Adrian and Pauly, and Pauly just went nuts. This time, at least, Rocky and Adrian react to him the way you'd think people normally would.

1:30:55 - Famous training montage. I think as this movie series progresses these montages get more stylish. As it is, it's going for just a rousing moment of "he seems confident as he trains", as the music pumps you up with the profound lyrics, "trying hard now" and "getting strong now".

They have actually explained almost nothing about the specifics of boxing. I realize that now as Rocky says "no one has ever gone the distance with Creed". Which I think means something about going all 15 rounds, right? But the point is that I haven't had to hear much about stuff like that, and I honestly don't mind that.

1:44:30 - Ew, some actually kind of bad stock footage of the crowd at the fight. Oh, but then a cameo by actual Joe Frazier, probably.

As the fight begins I gotta say I have been effectively made to root for this underdog hero. I've been indifferent to most of the movie so far, and I'm indifferent to boxing, but ferrealz I'm excited to watch this fight.

It's cinematic with lots of angles that you don't see when you're watching actual fights (I assume), but also the actual fight-acting by Stallone and Carl Weathers seems like they're getting it right. That can't be easy, right? I mean, it's punching! Faces!

1:54:11 - Oh shit I remember this ahhhhhh his eye his eye, his EYE is swollen shut and he tells them to cut it open! That, like, what? He's going to go back out and fight with his eyelid literally slashed open WHAT

They weren't even that careful doing that slice

I thought they would be relying more on the commentators as narrators to tell us what to feel, but it's really all the cinematic storytelling that is getting it done.

But the aftermath of the fight is like opera, everyone is passionate and yelling and it doesn't work on me as well as it must for most people. I don't even exactly get what the outcome of the fight is (partly because I don't understand boxing). But that's the point, at least a little bit; in the heat of passion he just wants to tell Adrian that he loves her. That works well for this movie. And the way it just ends in that swirl of excitement, no denouement, it's really effective.

So overall there are lots of things about this movie that I don't care for, but there are some things to appreciate. It's not a fancy movie, but it seems like they did a particularly good job with the final boxing match feeling like exciting movie drama while also seeming like authentic boxing. As if I know anything about authentic boxing.

I don't agree that it should have won Best Picture over Network, All the President's Men, and Taxi Driver.

One last observation: looking back, I'm pretty sure that scene with the teenage girl is a result of the observation that the movie greatly lacks females.

(next: Rocky II)

#rocky

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marvelxwinchester · 5 years

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B is for Baby

B is for Baby Booties

Pairings: Steve Rogers x Reader, Bucky Barnes x Reader, Avengers x Reader

Summary: You and Steve have been trying to have a baby for a year when finally those two little pink lines make an appearance.

Word Count: 1,526

Warnings: Fluff, Tears of Happiness, and some swearing

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It had been a few days since you had found out you were indeed pregnant and since then Peter had not stopped hovering around you. Everywhere you went there he was, the only time he wasn't with you was when you went to the restroom or when you went to bed.

Natasha and Wanda were more stubble about it, making sure when you all went down to train the only things you were doing were the punching bags and treadmill to an extent. And of course when they all spared to make sure no one cheated.

That was until of course Steve and Bucky had gotten back from their mission and the three of them then began to set up the plan.

It was a cold March morning when the two arrived back at the tower, their mission was a success without any casualties.

Of course, when the jet had landed you were the first one to greet the two men. Pulling your husband into a hug and then your friend glad both were safe.

The entire time you had a giant smile on your face excited about the news you were going to give, it took everything in you not to scream it from the rooftops as it is.

After the two were showered and changed they joined the rest of you in the common room to chill for a bit.

You had cuddled into Steve's side on the loveseat while the others had thrown on a movie deciding to have a lazy day which you totally were up too.

Halfway through the movie, you were hit with the sudden craving of pickles and pizza. The thing with that was you didn't just want regular old pickles you wanted pickles covered in peanut butter.

You ignored it for a few more minutes until you stood up making Steve look up at you as you did.

" Where are you going doll?" He asked as you began to walk.

" To get some grub, " You replied before stepping over Tony's outstretched legs.

Tony jerked his leg up a bit trying to make you stumble but Natasha's glare made him put it back down.

" Come on Female Rogers just because you're married to an old man doesn't mean you get a free pass to be slow, " Tony said as you blocked his view from watching the action movie he had seen hundreds of times.

Your head snapped up and in his direction narrowing your eyes to the point they were slits.

" What did you just say?" You asked glaring at the Billionaire.

Tony rolled his eyes and mumbled under his breath, " You've lost your hearing too, next thing you know we'll have to get you a walker. "

" What the fuck did you just say to me Stark? No need to mumble were all open-minded and friendly. Go on, " You said fuming at this point.

" Y/n sit down I'll get whatever you need, " Peter said standing from his own chair.

" No, I can get it myself, Peter, " You snapped at him turning your glare to him as well.

He sat back down with a nod, " Alright."

With that, you walked out of the theatre room into the kitchen getting into the cheese pizza on the island, then moved to the refrigerator where the big pickles were, and then finally to the cabinets where the peanut butter was.

You let out a happy sigh as you gathered all of the items before walking back into the room. The movie was at a very tense scene so, like any pissed off female you knew would you slowly walked in front of Tony purposely.

As soon as Tony's eyes landed on what you were carrying in your hands he let out a gag, " What the hell are you eating and why those items together?"

You turned towards the man with narrowed eyes as he paused the movie allowing everyone to look at what you had concocted.

Everyone's eyes widened and some wore faces of either amusement or disgust or even both.

" Lady Y/n, " Thor called cautiously looking at the items, " Is that even edible?"

You turned your gaze to the Norse God before giving him a sweet smile, " Yes Thor it is, don't worry."

"Yeah right, you're going to end up with food poisoning Y/n! Just eat the pizza and have the spiderling take the pickles and peanut butter back."

You turned towards Clint and narrowed your eyes as you had at Tony, " Watch it Bird Shit or I will not hesitate to snap your arrows, before shoving them up your ass so far up you'll be sneezing pieces of them for the rest of your God damn life."

The group of Avengers looked at you in shock. You weren't a violent person unless you were seriously ticked off or if someone was threatening your family.

This was completely out of character for you and no one had ever seen you this pissed off.

You let out a sigh before looking back at the archer, " I'm sorry for snapping at you Clint."

He gave a nod, " It's fine Y/n."

You gave a nod and continued back to the couch where you were sitting and opened everything as the movie began again.

Snuggling back up into Steve you let out a sigh and began to eat your "snack" and before long you were out like a light.

Once the movie was over Steve gently lifted you up and walked out of the theatre room to the elevator then exited on your floor. As he stepped out he headed towards your bedroom and gently laid you on the bed, as he started to move away you grabbed his hand gently.

Sleepily you raised your head and looked at him, " I have a present for you."

He was confused for a second because it wasn't his birthday or your anniversary but decided not to question it and sat down.

" And my I acquire as to why I am being given a gift?" He asked with a smile moving a piece of hair out of your face.

" Nope, " You said popping the 'p' before getting up and moving towards your closet, grabbing the yellow bag that held his gift.

Sitting back down you handed him the little baggie that had a small sun on it that was smiling. Steve smiled at you then at the little bag before looking back up at you.

" Well, what are you waiting for?" You asked him with an excited grin, " Open it!"

That was all he needed before he gently removed the purple tissue paper setting it aside so it could be dealt with afterward.

Looking into the bag he let out a small gasp before his head shot up and his eyes met yours.

" No." He said his eyes wide as he looked from inside the bag to you then to your stomach.

" Yes, pull them out." You said nodding.

Still, in shock, Steve reached inside the bag and pulled out two sets of hand knitted baby booties one pink pair and one blue pair that had a note attached to it.

" Read it!"

Steve nodded and gently pulled it from the booties before reading it out loud.

"You're already a superhero and a good one at that but every superhero needs a sidekick no matter how small! Lucky for you in nine months yours will be arriving!"

His voice cracked at the end and he looked up at you his blue eyes shining with tears.

" How far are you...?" He asked putting a hand on your stomach.

" Banner says about two months, " You replied watching as the tears finally began to fall from his lashes making you tear up as well.

" I'm going to be a dad?" He asked his voice wavering.

" Yes Steve, " You said finally letting your tears loose as well, "You're going to be a Dad finally."

He let out a laugh and pulled you into a hug grinning ear to ear, " I'm going to be a Dad!"

" Shh!" You said looking at him, " Only you, Banner, Nat, Peter, and Wanda know the rest don't."

" Wait how do Peter, Natasha, and Wanda know?" He asked.

" They were there when I found out, " You explained watching as he nodded.

" When are we going to tell the others?" Steve asked as he set the booties back into the bag and laid back with you.

" Soon, I had a few ideas I think would be good..."

And so with that, you began to plan on how you were going to tell the rest of the team that you were having a baby.

Soon though you fell into a peaceful sleep dreaming about the little human you and Steve had created, and how excited you were about finally being a Mother.

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amy-the-fairy · 2 years

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I need to search more ace history really.

But I don't think it's only about being ace, it's also the cult of beauty that lead to this focus on everyone's appearance

For example I really envy how male characters are always allowed more freedom. Wether it's in manga comics or BD (bande dessinée aka french or Belgium comics). Because outside of female media (that nobody cares about hahaha) men don't HAVE to look attractive

But for female characters it's a prerequisites everywhere, even though there's more variety of beauty compared to who the audience is.

It make me think of post about body positivity and how we totally missed the point and it's true. People's appearance shouldn't matter. You should respect people no matter how they look.

But people can't help but look. And we don't really teach people to keep this little opinion to themselves and not let it change how they act.

Which lead me to think that we just don't teach people to respect each other as a prerequisites.

Like no matter how old someone else is, treat them like a human being with thoughts and feelings of their own. Even if their vision of things may be very different, because how culture or even illness.

I would say even more for illness anyway. It doesn't matter that this person may be stupid to you and you'd think they're too stupid to even feel bad that you make them feel stupid. They will feel it. And actually even if they don't, your principle shouldn't be so flexible that you'd take advantage of someone mentally challenged that you think to be stupid so not worth your consideration.

But we are out of two millennia of people searching any excuse to treat the other like shit. And we still do it actually it's just that now the target used to be the oppressor so on surface it seem fine.

And I don't see the idea of respect itself still getting around, it's just about love while love is a feeling that you don't control.

Respecting someone which is something neutral that you can perfectly control seem to fly over everyone's head

When I was like 11-12 I remember witnessing the vote for gay marriage in France and protest against it, and it was the first time I was directly facing the bigotry that other could have against each other while until now it was something I just read in books

I remember writing "I will stay in my room and wait until you guys learn to respect each other". I remember being mad because I couldn't wrap my head around being against bigotry until hmmm I don't like these people so they shouldn't be happy

You can't escape how cruel the world can be when you're black, because that used to be very trendy to hate us in all Europe and US

Am I doing my Atlas by trying to find a solution to the universal desire to treat someone else like they are nothing? Totally. I don't understand why I am even doing that honestly since it's not like I will solve it all by myself

I write book too because somewhere down the line I hope to make the world a little better but a pandemic kind of make you realize that there'll need to have more to change the world. That or I become the next JK Rowling in term of popularity haha.

But since most people won't relate to what I write, I know that it's fucked anyway

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getmemymicroscope · 3 years

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So, if you go in with expectations that it will hold a candle to Hungama - even a mostly burnt, essentially done-for candle - you're going to be highly, highly disappointed. To put it lightly.

On the other hand, if you watch the trailer and think "okay, there is absolutely nothing funny in this trailer," you might be pleasantly surprised, because there are a few (like, count them on 2 hands, maybe) moments where you do actually laugh.

Luckily, I fell in that second group - so I did walk away thinking "that was better than I thought it would be." But that's not the praise you want it to be. Because, while there are a few funny parts (thank you, Tiku Talsania and Ashutosh Rana, sort-of), there's also so much cringeworthy and crap stuff that you just want to shake your head and ask everyone what they were thinking.

Like, Shilpa Shetty decides to make a comeback with this movie - in 2021. And sure, it's based on a previous South Indian movie so maybe it borrows some of it's lines from that. But like, holy shit this movie is so 80s/90s Bollywood (and not in a good way) with it's super sexist and horrific dialogues and horrific treatment of the female characters. There are numerous failed attempts at jokes about rape; Shilpa Shetty's 'comeback' role is literally just her being constantly under suspicion for cheating on her husband, which, sure was the biggest carryover from Hungama (oh, also, dancing to Chura Ke Dil Mera); the sister is literally there to be bossed around and made to play messenger (and also to be unnecessarily insulted, multiple times, by Meezaan Jaffrey and also by the horrific young kids); and on and on.

The other actress decides to get care for the young daughter, and I guess some sort of validation for her sister, by the most pathetic means necessary: she decides to go all out and defame Meezaan's character and destroy his life, because his brother is a bad person and therefore by association he must be too.

Paresh Rawal carries over the feelings of the original Hungama in being suspicious of his wife, but aside from there, there is so little 'Hungama' present. Johnny Lever gets a pointless guest appearance that just confirms that the kids are horrific people, further confirmed when they decide to let the young daughter get hurt by the fireworks. Rajpal Yadav has a moment, but nothing like his turn in Hungama. In fact, he's the only person that really suffers anything at the end here - which is ridiculous, because his character is also the most innocent of this nonsense (sure, he is paid to participate, but he eventually has enough and blurts it all out, so at least he's repenting to some extent).

The best bit, by far, was Tiku Talsania attempting to explain the paternity test to the family. In fact, his character is easily the best in the show (the next best bit is him explaining the 'fall from the 1st floor'). Ashutosh Rana is good too, but also gets annoying in bits and his complete lack of belief in his son right from the start is just insane.

The kids are horrific - it's almost like they're trying for a Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke or Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic turn, but they're such horrible kids from the start that you don't really buy it. It's not funny at all. Meezaan Jaffrey is fine as an actor, but the dialogues they've given him do not fit this current day and age at all. Especially after his marriage breaks off. The other actress has noble intentions, I guess - but her actions and her stupid assumption, without even asking, destroys all nobleness of her desires. Paresh Rawal's internal monologue bit is repeated too much and quickly gets old. Akshaye Khanna - man he looks old. And that twist at the end is so, so, so dumb that you want to punch your TV.

This movie, like so many of Bollywood's 'spiritual sequels,' absolutely destroys everything great about Hungama. Even the ending totally lacks the typical Priyadarshan hungama-rich ending (see almost everything he made back in his heyday).

There are more funnier moments than the trailer would lead you to believe (only a few, but they do exist), but everything else about the movie - the degradation of women, the horrific kids, the stupid-ass ending - absolutely crush that good will. And then, in the ending, after everything, when it all just ends 'happy' for her after everything she pulled (they go with the idea that 'noble intentions' justify any actions, no matter how harmful to otherwise innocent people), just ruins it for good. What a mess.

Just stick with the original everything - Hungama, Chura Ke Dil Mera, Johnny Lever and Rajpal Yadav and Paresh Rawal comedies; everything.

#movies #gmmm does bollywood #movieblr #gmmm does movies

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