#cd: Humor and Memes

[bardic-tales]

5.How well would your oc fare as a teacher? What subject would they be best at teaching? What about the worst? (Because I love Professor AUs lol)

11.What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to your oc?  Do they still feel ashamed for it? Were there any witnesses?

Hope you have fun with these asks!!

Thank you so much for the ask. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Professor Aus are life! lol. I think that was the first AU I made in '99? All I remember is that Sephiroth was a math teacher. It's one of those 'hot for teacher' fics. lol. And it is in the boxes in storage with all the original notebooks for the stuff I wrote in '97 to 00. 😂

"Souls do not have calendars or clocks. They do not understand the notion of time or distance. They only know how it feels right to be with one another. This is the reason why I miss you so much when you are not here: the other half of me is missing." - Bianca Moore

I was wrestling which OC I should answer for this, but in the end, I choose Bianca. Bianca Moore is the protagonist of Fantasy Worlds Collide (FWC). She goes from the expectant hero to the irredeemable villain, as her story mirrors Sephiroth's in a way.

The following answers are from her FF 7 FWC character arc. This is a celestial who has fallen and accepted her destiny as a 'Priestess of Jenova' and an 'Angel of Vengeance': or that's what she calls it.

How well would your oc fare as a teacher? What subject would they be best at teaching? What about the worst?

Content Warnings: PTSD, trauma, medical trauma, vivisection, dissection, surgical procedures, genetic modification, psychological distress, panic attacks, dissociation, emotional shutdown.

Bianca as a teacher would be complicated. She wouldn't have the patience for students who don't grasp what she is teaching. She would be one of those teacher's who runs their classes strictly. That said, if a student did show promise, she would encourage them to refine their abilities and knowledge.

She's be best at teaching literature, specifically romantic and tragic themes in storytelling, giving her career as a published novelist and her deep understanding with themes like love, obsession, and how love sometimes destroys a person.

The absolute worst subject for her would be science, specifically biology or anything medical-related. Due to her trauma with Professor Hojo and Ravenclaw's experiments, being around medical equipment or discussing anatomy in a clinical way would trigger her PTSD. Any mentions of dissection (especially having to teach it), vivisection, surgical procedures, or genetic modifications would either send her into a rage or make her shut down completely.

If she was forced to teach a science course, her reactions would very. The most extreme reaction would be she'd freeze, start to sweat, and curl into a ball against a wall, trying to protect herself. She might start to talk and plead for her safety as if Hojo and Diana were there. The lesser reaction would be she'd either walk out mid-lecture or start giving the students ominous warnings about the horrors of experimentation.

What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to your oc? Do they still feel ashamed for it? Were there any witnesses?

Content Warning: Body horror, existential horror, surreal imagery, mild dissociation, humor involving bodily disfigurement, mild teasing/bullying dynamics, references to past trauma, reference to FFVII’s Nibelheim Incident.

There are many incidents Bianca would want to erase from existence, but one particular moment in the North Crater stands out. It's absurd. After the Nibelheim Incident and before 0007, Bianca was helping Sephiroth to perfect how to manifest in the clones. For this, they used SC-X, the Sephiroth Clone that Sephiroth had assigned to see to Bianca's needs in the North Crater. The process was slow, and Sephiroth's form kept flickering between states. Sometimes, he would have his head but SC-X's body. Other times, it was vice versa. There were times when he would be solid, sometimes spectral, and other times just a floating, ominous eyeball in a mist of black smoke since the manifestation went wrong. Those were the times he refused to answer her questions. He can be really frustrating at times.

One day, she was kneeling beside the mako pool and he thought it was a good time to 'surprise' her with how much control he had over SC-X. She felt his presence strengthen behind her. Turning, she was greeted with what should have been his moment of truimph: successfully controlling SC-X and manifesting correctly: except his body wasn't fully there.

His usual imposing presence was undercut by the fact that only his upper half had properly materialized from the Lifestream, leaving him floating awkwardly in the air, shirtless, with his long, silver hair. Unfortunately, his lower half wasn't quite there. Inside of his usual leather-clad legs and lower torso, there was just a mass of mist swirling with purple lines where his legs should be, making him look like a bizarre ghost which was caught mid-loading screen, like those early porn pics when people were waiting for images to load.

most likely no-legged Sephiroth and his expression^

Poor Bia and her histrionic tendencies. Despite herself, she burst into laughter. I think anyone would really. She tried to stop -- swear that she did. But after days of watching the crater and making sure no one disturbed their space or his reforming body, the sheer absurdity of seeing this fearsome, godlike Sephiroth hovering like a half-finished render was too much for her. The jokes. Oh the jokes. 'You look like a cursed desktop icon with just your torso', 'No. You're a malevolent JPG', 'A Sephiroth.exe that just won't load properly', 'Should we wait until you finish loading?' She shouldn't have done the next thing really. She attempted to reach out and poke where his legs should have been. Her hand only passed through it.

Sephiroth was not pleased. He was determined to show her, so like a stubborn fool, he stayed in that form for hours, giving her the silent treatment. She poked at the air below his torso again, which was met with a 'when I regain full control, you're gonna to regret this, Bia'.

Even now, even with Creation destroyed and remade long after the events of FF VII, she still teases him about the time when he was just a hovering torso and some mist. It remains one of the few moments where she had the upper hand over him, and how she still relishes in it. But she kind of wished she never had to see Sephiroth as a torso or how funny it was, seeing his damage body after his fall into it at Nibel Reactor (Last Order: FFVII) was enough.

For the Redemption!AU (Which I love to write about)

Content Warnings: Embarrassment, social anxiety, mild teasing, stubbornness, implied romantic tension, sparring-related exhaustion

One of Bianca’s most embarrassing moments happened early in her relationship with Sephiroth. After an intense sparring session, she was exhausted but too stubborn to admit she needed rest when Seph called her out. She wanted to impress Sephiroth with her endurance, so she kept pushing herself and pushing herself in their sparring: only to suddenly pass out face-first into his chest mid-sentence.

When she woke up, Sephiroth had caught her and was holding her effortlessly, staring down at her with his usual unreadable expression. Instead of saying anything, he simply quirked an eyebrow and asked, "Are you done saying you're not tired?"

She immediately bolted upright, trying to act like nothing happened, but she was so mortified that she avoided eye contact with him for the next hour. To this day, Sephiroth occasionally brings it up just to watch her scowl. She claims she isn’t ashamed of it, but if anyone else were to mention it, she’d probably threaten to skewer them with Noctemaris.

The witnesses? Sephiroth, of course. But unfortunately, in this AU Angeal was brought back with Bianca's magic and Genesis is part of their former SOLDIER faction. Both Genesis and Angeal had walked in right after she face-planted into Sephiroth's chest. Gen smirked and called them love-struck fools. Angeal said nothing but shook his head, as he knew how stubborn Bia is from training with her, himself. Bianca wanted to die right then and there.

From the 'OC Development Question' ask game here

tagging some fellow mutuals: @themaradwrites @whatwedointhecraft @megandaisy9 @watermeezer

@prehistoric-creatures @creativechaosqueen @chickensarentcheap @seastarblue

@inkandimpressions

[madame-helen]

[geraltgwynbleidd]

[retrogamingblog2]

[white-fanged]

[deadgirlcasper]

[alicerader]

[wmlz]

[queenofdumbfuckery]

I'm a gen z and I can say I watched my dad burn the whole of frozen for me on a CD so I know how to do that. That was a happy memory for me.

[andre-and-cal]

hiii!! this might be a stupid question, but do you have any headcanons on how andre + cal would act online? like would they have their own webpages, and how they would chat and stuff like that :p

also, i love your writing so much <3

Hii!! :3 That’s not a stupid question at all !! And TYSMM IM SO GLAD :D <33 These were fun to make, I hope you like these!

Andre and Cal Online Headcanons,,

Andre’s username on his favorite social/chatting websites is @ak47_0717, while Cal’s is @gunslinger83. The reasoning behind their usernames, first of all, is that Andre’s initials are AK. Because of his unsettling interest in firearms, he’s bound to be interested in one of the most popular guns in the world— the AK-47. He likes having his initials similar to the “AK” in AK-47. The four numbers at the end of his username are his birthday. Cal’s username is pretty self-explanatory; he calls himself a gunslinger, and the ‘83’ at the end of his username is the year he was born.

Andre and Cal talk to each other on AOL, which was one of the most popular online services for internet users at the time. They also chat on MSN Messenger, and they used to communicate on ISQ, which was more popular in their middle school years and early high school years— the late 90s.

With Blogger having been established in 1999, Andre and Calvin created accounts. They follow gun blogs and blogs dedicated to books, movies, and bands they like. Also, Andre follows— although he doesn’t really interact with— the Iroquois Track Team and Science Club blog pages. Cal follows the school band’s page. Despite following different blogs, they don’t really post much on Blogger; they like to stay relatively quiet and unnoticed. Andre does leave hate comments on posts from people he doesn’t like. Since anonymity wasn’t as robust as it would come to be in the mid 2000s— the years following Cal and Andre’s deaths— he made an alt account with a fake name for the sole purpose of hating on the Iroquois Wrestling Team blog page… for obvious reasons having to do with Brad Huff. He also leaves hate comments on Rachel’s posts. Cal mentions this mysterious user to Andre sometimes, mentioning how Rachel talks about how this unknown person on the internet criticizes her posts. Andre plays dumb and acts uninterested, yet he listens intently, replying with soft “Mhm”s, as well as a “Damn, that sucks”. He doesn’t want Cal growing suspicious.

They play girls’ flash games both for the hell of it and for the irony. They get relatively entertained from these online dress-up, salon, and cooking games, with Cal being aware these games are aimed at girls. He intentionally makes his character look ugly and goes into hysterical laughter over it— he absolutely laughs at the stupidest shit. However, Andre actually tries and is surprisingly concentrated on the game, face frozen with stoicism and focus. Andre would never admit it, but with his family having a cat, Mel, he finds pet care flash games to be genuinely fun.

Andre and Cal illegally download music and share it with each other by Napster or by email. They’ve sacrificed their computers for the sake of copying a System of a Down song onto their files for free, instead of physically buying the CD. In 1998, when Andre was still a freshman in high school, he ended up getting the CIH virus (Chernobyl virus) which practically wrecked his software and ruined his computer. Whole Calvin teased him for getting such a destructive virus on his computer, he ended up informing his parents. He’d told them that Andre needed a new computer, and he suggested that they pitch in to help Andre’s parents buy him a new computer for his 16th birthday in the summer. Because for the time being, Andre would have to use Cal’s.

Andre and Cal share similar humor in most areas. And since internet memes were beginning to rise in popularity, the two boys send or email each other dark humor memes and chuckle at them.

If they were alive in 2003, they would have used 4chan !!

Andre uses all types of different acronyms when chatting, such as but not limited to “ROFL”, “LOL”, “LMFAO”, “BRB”, “ILY”, “IDK”, and “BTW”. He often capitalizes the first letter of his messages and types faces like “:-)” and “>:(”.

Cal, too, uses many acronyms online. He also types with no capital letters, and he often takes shortcuts when he’s chatting with Andre. He creates little faces with the keys on his keyboard and copies and pastes special symbols online. When he’s typing to Andre first, his first message is usually a simple, “hi” of some sort.

They both play Doom together, considering how 1993 Doom was multiplayer when it first came out.

GeoCities !! Cal and Andre created their own website for the Army of Two. They didn’t necessarily say much on the site, and they didn’t give the site name to anyone they knew. But they still specified who they were and their interests without giving away their last names.

In addition, Andre and Cal used GeoCities to make a screamer site, and they made different alt emails to troll Brad Huff by sending the link to him, without him finding out who they were.

Sometime during the final week before Zero Day, their last few days of being alive, they’d both typed up a short, lovesick letter in their notepads— two messages they’d always wanted to tell each other but never got the chance to. Cal had gone on a tangent about how much he enjoyed being Andre’s comrade, how much he enjoyed Andre being his. Also, he was saying his goodbyes before their final mission and how he loved Andre and hoped he’d see him on the flip side. Whereas Andre was saying how he was looking forward to escaping the school with Cal and how he hoped they’d have a better life together, even while they were wanted from the cops. He mentioned how he loved Cal, too, but with his own phrasing of that declaration. But that ended up being an unrealistic expectation on Andre’s end.

[bardic-tales]

Bianca & Sephiroth Arguing

Sephiroth: "You are being unreasonable." Bianca: "You are literally trying to merge with the Lifestream and become a god." Sephiroth: "And?" Bianca: sighs "Fine. Just eat something first."

[madame-helen]

[geraltgwynbleidd]

Roach being Roach...

[mowowow]

imagine u have a shitty old car that doesn’t have Bluetooth so pick 7 albums u play on CD!! (Or tape!!!)

tagged by @thestralsofspinnersend and I’m in despair because 7 is too few lmfao I did a 50 albums thread on bluesky some months ago and I was already like!!! leaving some great ones out!!! LOL but I tried to focus on... being in a car and how it reminds me of traveling every few months with my dad when I was a kid? cause driving itself is sth I hate/haven’t done in 15 years but I’ll pretend I’d be alone on some sort of magical road trip where there are no other cars around

also I’m not picking my fave albums ever, just the ones I think would fit being on the road. which is why most of these are not even on my bsky list because the criteria I used there was one artist - one album (for instance... my fave by Bey is Lemonade, Reny is #2)

1. Beyoncé - Renaissance

I mean? Talk about a great sing-along masterpiece, I’d be blasting the trifecta that is CUFF IT/ENERGY/BREAK MY SOUL with those smooth transitions and go even louder with CHURCH GIRL/PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA/VIRGO’S GROOVE

2. Iron & Wine - Beast Epic

This was harddddd because I also think that Our Endless Numbered Days should be here but anyway! Iron & Wine is the definition of road trip music if you're in the countryside, especially if you’re going through places full of trees all around. I’m thinking especifically of this area close to my city where the trees on both sides create an arch over the road where you can barely see the sky, it’s amazing

3. The Beatles - Revolver

This is mostly nostalgia. I barely listen to them these days but this is my fave Beatles album because for me it was always about the fun/cheesy songs with them and not the so-called “masterpieces” lol (though nowadays I know Run For Your Life, for example, is the type of lyrics I’d hate) and like, my relationship with my dad is not what it used to be but I still have the memories of us looking up Beatles lyrics on my computer when I was a teen so we’d both sing along to them. my dad is the one that made me start studying English when I was 14 (I hated it before that) and a lot of what I learned was through music and lyrics back then

4. Skank - Ao Vivo em Ouro Preto    

This is a Brazilian band that has some of the most beautiful and fun songs in our popular culture imo, so I’d get to blast the most romantic tracks like Balada do Amor Inabalável (roughly translates as “Ballad of the steadfast love” but of course it loses its beauty like that lol) and have fun with the lyrics of Saideira (Last Round... of drinks... where the chorus is basically all the ways you can call a waiter at a bar) and Garota Nacional (National Girl lol)

5. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet

OH I LEAVE QUITE AN IMPRESSIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN 

the perfect sing-along album too and I looooveeee her sense of humor!!!

MY GIVE-A-FUCKS ARE ON VACATION

6. Arctic Monkeys - AM

I mean. I MEAN. I don’t even care about cars but like? This is IT, y’know, lmao. Just think of the R U Mine music video. SO. MUCH. FUN. to sing along to this in a car. and I did that with my dad and sis last time we were on the road together, cause luckily for me at least some of what my 15yo sis listens to aligns with my taste lmao. I already talked about this album/era in another music post a few weeks ago but also let me just say I include Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You because what do you mean that didn’t make it into the album

7. Dir en grey - THE MARROW OF A BONE

again, not my fave by my fave band (that’d be DSS) but I absolutely LOVE this album. Great for when you’re angry or sad or just wanna vibe with the great fucking bass riffs like Toshiya you are a GENIUS (they all are) and this is from the era where there were SO MANY memes and parodies also this album is just great live. GRIEF is only second to umbrella as my fave live song by them

Honorable mentions: Lianne La Havas’ self-titled, Rihanna’s ANTI, Sara Bareilles’ live at the Fillmore, Roxette’s Greatest Hits, Britney Spears’ Blackout

tagging @mortalscience @oh--youprettythings @kellykadesperate @jonny-versace @impishtubist @languagelessonswolfstar @outromoonyy

[goth-apoca-lips]

~ ⋆｡°✩ To the Stars and Back HCs! ⋆｡°✩~

⋆⋆ Vincent Gallagher chronically offline addition ⋆⋆

YES, Vincent is chronically offline. He is BEATING the screenager allegations, HALLELUJAH! (unlike me, a chronically online 22 year old)

He spends his phone time going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, watching weird Defunctland-esque video essays, and looking up guitar tabs

Never texts in the group chat. The gang is lucky if he reacts to a meme they send.

At most, he randomly starts responding at 3 am to talk someone through a venting session, but will inevitably ask them to just dm him. The boys wake up to Vince's messages in the chat and start freaking out that they missed him.

Reacts to nudes with a thumbs up emoji and a "cool". Doesn't save them.

Only uses Spotify (or any other streaming site) to track their band analytics. If he wants to find new bands, he uses Bandcamp or good-old-fashioned flipping through records and CDs at his local music store that's definitely going out of business soon.

Will burn Felicity's playlists onto CDs so she can build a "physical media collection"

Doesn't find internet brainrot humor funny, leaving Jonas & Midas completely baffled.

Doesn't use instagram or social media in general.

Goes outside.

Touches grass...

Is still depressed so phone usage doesn't even really make a difference 😞

[aph-japan]

A.K.A Me on X-mas

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