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namusthetic · 1 year ago

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Marauders' Era

The Slytherin Skittles

From the Marauders' Era fandom. Decided to lounge about in the Slytherin common room? Join the Skittles for a late night Slytherin chat.

Regulus A. Black

"From far away I wish I'd stayed with you, but here face to face, a stranger that I once knew.

I thought if I wandered I'd fall back in love. You said distance brings fondness, but guess not with us."

- Astronomy, Conan Gray

Doesn't ask for help

Overachiever

Covers his deep insecurities with a god-complex

Abandonment and trust issues

Suffers panic and anxiety attacks, the others know exactly what to do when it happens and huddle around him, holding hands and grounding him, until he starts breathing normally again and stops shaking

Protective of his chosen family

Instead of fighting to keep people in his life, he lets them go because in the end he thinks he's never enough to stay for

Hates loud noises and making noise when moving or walking

Deeply misunderstood

Tries to remain detached and cold as much as possible because knows he'd end up caring too deeply

Self-isolates when he doesn't know how to deal with his feelings, luckily, whenever that happens, the others storm his usual hiding spots and force him to go outside and enjoy himself

Escapes from his own thoughts by reading or listening to music compulsively

Barty Crouch Jr.

"I used to like liquor to get me inspired but you look so beautiful, my new supplier. I used to like smoking to stop all the thinking, but I found a different buzz.

The world is a curse, it'll kill if you let it I know they got pills that can help you forget it, they bottle it, call it medicine, but I don't need drugs. 'Cause I'm already high enough, you got me, you got me good."

- High Enough by K. Flay

covers his need for attention and approval with loudness and chaos

Fear of missing out

Afraid that people will forget about him and leave him behind

Avoids talking and thinking about his own feelings

Cannot control his emotions when overwhelmed

Hides it when deeply hurt

Clingy drunk, cries if left by himself

Has a soft spot for pets, especially dogs (once he even accidentally cuddled Padfoot without knowing it was actually Sirius)

Hopeless romantic when in a serious relationship

Incredibly intelligent, he just doesn't want to please his father in any way so he acts out

Jokes about his trauma in public, but ends up sleeping in Evan's bed whenever he has nightmares

ADHD kid

Makes dirty jokes all the time but is afraid of having a stable relationship and not being enough for his partner

Evan Rosier

"And hey, you, don't you think it's kinda cute that I (I) died (died) right inside your arms tonight? That I'm fine even after I have died? Because it was in your arms I died.

I cry in the afterlife, I cry hard because I have died, and you're alive. I try to escape afterlife, I try hard to get back inside your arms alive."

- Arms Tonite by Mother Mother

Calm and collected most of the time

Silent anger

Insomniac, spends the nights reading and listening to chill music

Deadly afraid of spiders, always asks Pandora to take them outside

Energy drinks and caffeine

If looks could kill

Tries to keep everyone from getting in trouble together with Dorcas

Doesn't pay attention in class but gets good grades anyway

Grew up too quickly

Joins Barty and Dorcas whenever they are tipsy and start a singing contest

Likes nights out with friends, randomly walking with no precise destination, a few drinks in hand and the warmth of chosen family around him

The observant, silent one

Always carries small perfume vials since he can't stand smells (sweat, cigarette smoke, etc.)

Pandora Rosier

"You don't have to be like everybody else, you don't have to fit into the norm, you are not here to conform. I am here to take a look inside myself, recognize that I could be the eye, the eye of the storm.

I am not my body, not my mind or my brain (ha), not my thoughts or feelings, I am not my DNA. I am the observer, I'm a witness of life, I live in the space between the stars and the sky."

- Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land by MARINA

Already figured who was going to end up in a relationship with whom years before it happened

Has a private gardening spot where she grows their own plants (especially herbs)

Follows the lunar calendar instead of the solar one, they all celebrate both new years with big parties

Wears long airy dresses with flower patterns and a dozen crystal necklaces and rings

Talks enthusiastically about everything she's passionate about with no restraints (and everyone loves listening to her talk)

Knows weird knowledge nobody knows from where

Walks Hogwarts' halls singing and with a spring in her step

Spends afternoons in the forest sketching fantastic beasts and feeding them treats

Loves making flower crowns, Regulus wears them whenever she makes one for him and hexes anyone who dares say something about it

Always has paint on her hands or face

Dorcas Meadowes

"Say my name, as every colour illuminates. We are shining, and we will never be afraid again.

And when we come for you, we'll be dressed up all in blue, with the ocean in our arms, kiss your eyes and kiss your palms.

And when it's time to pray, we'll be dressed up all in grey, with metal on our tongues, and silver in our lungs."

- Spectrum (Say My Name) by Florence and The Machine

Hates small talk and superficial friendships

Direct, immediately cuts straight to the point

Politically active against all kinds of discrimination and violence

Strong and determined to achieve what she wants

Ready to argue with anyone, anytime, anywhere

Knows exactly what she wants

Stays up late to read and listen to music in the common room

Has everything planned out

Neon lights and cocktails, loud music and cherry flavored lip balm

Travels a lot but is ready to return home immediately if one of her close friends needs her help

Elegant style, always impeccably dressed

Storms out of the dorm and takes a long walk whenever she feels she can't control her anger

Loves to listen to true crime podcasts

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So I love the Marauders' gang, but (I don't know if you guessed it) I really have a soft spot for the Skittles. To me they feel like the ones who never really even had a chance to be saved, who were left to fend for themselves and to die just because of their families and house. They were damaged as much as the others but found no one to help them but each other.

#aestethic #slytherin skittles #regulus black #the marauders era #moodboard #character aesthetics #types of people #tag yourself #tag your aesthetic #slytherin #dorcas meadowes #barty crouch jr #evan rosier #pandora rosier #pandora lovegood #song lyrics #rosekiller

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batsplat · 11 months ago

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I’m gonna sound like a boomer but we’re never gonna get any rivalries on par with vale’s feuds or actually any pre late 2010s feuds anymore. and I think social media is definitely one of the major reasons why. now you have to watch what you say bc it’s gonna be immediately broadcasted and some your 253655665 followers or insta or twitter are gonna overreact and go hurl abuse in another guy’s comments. and this is so lame.

right there with you anon. I've been wondering about the 'why are athletes these days so boring' question for years (not in motogp specifically) and one theory I've seen touted is just the increased professionalisation of sports, how much more all-consuming it is from childhood onwards - essentially suggesting athletes today don't have the time to develop a personality or cook up feuds lol. and I think there's probably something to that theory - the current demands of professional sports are inevitably producing some singularly single-minded athletes, far more pr-friendly and moulded into being acceptable to the average consumer... but the other part of the equation just has to be the incredible levels of scrutiny they're subjected to. social media and the rabid fanbases it helps cultivate have to be a part of that

I'm always wary of speaking too definitively about the vibes of an era I wasn't around to experience - obviously controversies back then were also, in fact, controversial, sometimes athletes had to walk back their comments, fanbases certainly were rabid... but it's all a question of degree, isn't it - and how relentless the content consumption is, the ferocity of the news cycle, how inescapable everyone's opinions on everything end up being. if you look at the general tone of the alien era, I just don't think that kind of thing would be possible nowadays. it really wasn't just valentino either, and it's always worth remembering the context of the time in which valentino rose through the ranks. his first major feud, after all, was with a notoriously abrasive rider who was hardly beloved by his non-valentino opponents - and let's not forget how he was physically threatened by two riders after his very first grand prix (to be clear, I am not endorsing threatening seventeen year olds and think it's probably quite good they don't do that anymore). god, if casey said some of the stuff he used to come out with nowadays, and not just about valentino either... the discourse, it would be bad. the jorge/dani feud too would surely have reached cataclysmic levels of toxicity

and there's a lot of people who say, 'well, why don't you think competitors can just be respectful to each other, why can't athletes just be tough in competition and friendly outside of it, why do you need everyone to hate each other' - look, I think it's fun! sports is supposed to be about extreme emotions, heightened emotions about these artificial contests that feel larger than life. in one sense, it really isn't that serious, but on the other hand it obviously couldn't be more serious. more important than life or death, as the cliché goes, or that orwell 'war minus the shooting' quote mat oxley is ever so fond of - but that's only because we ascribe it meaning. which allows it to exist in this fun zone where we can live out these bizarrely dramatic stories that are high on emotional stakes, but for all intents and purposes are rather less high on material stakes (certainly for the fan). it's a release of a kind, sometimes an escape. now, personally, I enjoy my drama with a little bit of edge, of nastiness, which I understand is a personal preference but don't think (as is sometimes suggested) means I am any less invested in the sporting side of the equation. it is the substance of the sport that provides the scaffolding for the human interest stories it generates, but fundamentally nobody would give a shit about sports without the human interest element - and to me, a feud is simply an extension of that principle

another probably controversial critique of the 'why can't everyone like each other' stance is that I just fundamentally believe it to be dishonest. or, look, maybe there are some competitors out there who can feel nothing but warmth and love in their hearts for the opponent who has just beaten them - which is very lovely for them, they're clearly far better people than I am. but I don't buy everyone feels that way and I also don't buy this is something that has changed with a generation or two. obviously, the norms within any given sport end up shaping how the athlete approaches competition, what they believe is acceptable to say or do, or even to think or feel. the emotions might be visceral, they may even resemble hate, but the question is to what extent we allow them to be expressed. if these people don't like each other, if they think uncharitable thoughts towards each other, then, y'know, let them have at it as far as I'm concerned. respect is overrated. and even when it's not just earnestly felt emotions, even when they really are just playing games, attempting to fuck with their rivals... well, that's the other question, is it. is it acceptable to deliberately attempt use 'psychological' tactics, perhaps even intimidation, to win a contest or not? to me, the answer is 'obviously yes' and 'that's how sports works', but I accept not everyone agrees lol

I have particularly little patience with this stance in motogp, I think, because the belief that 'riding in a manner that could physically hurt another human being' is an acceptable element of competition but 'not conforming to social niceties afterwards' is not feels viscerally absurd to me. now, the former just has to be countenanced to some degree or other as part of the moral calculus you are performing in even engaging with the sport, because fundamentally you cannot 'objectively' determine how much risk riders can acceptably put each other in before it crosses a moral line. as far as I'm concerned, then, you might as well have at least some patience for the latter too - we're already morally firmly in the grey here. and intimidation still happens, after all, mind games are still all the flavour... but there's this constant need for subtlety, to keep the nastier side of competing hush hush, that I find deeply tedious. sure, sometimes subtlety can be nice, but at this point it feels less like a personal preference and more an ironclad requirement. and this is the thing, right. sometimes, people are arseholes. professional athletes certainly are. sometimes, just like their fans, they feel violently extreme emotions. especially if they've just been competing. but of course, if every single controversy attracts such out-sized vitriol from fans, a moral referendum on everyone involved, a boiling pot of feverish partisanship... well, it's unsurprising if athletes try to steer clear from all that, isn't it

I also don't think we're going to get another feud that can get mentioned in the same breath as valentino's offerings any time soon, though perhaps next year we can have a good go at it. (ironically, of course, this is still an extension of one of his feuds - you have this built-in vitriol which I reckon at times allows it to worm its way past the filters all of these people have developed.) which, you know, I don't need them to artificially cook up feuds just for the sake of it. beyond broader trends between generations, obviously this is also a question of individual personalities and how they happen to interact with each other. if valentino's feuds are as good as it gets, I can live with that - I do still enjoy the sport plenty, am grateful to valentino for providing me so much good archival material to pour over and dissect, and don't want to ask for too much here. god knows, the current version of motogp is still highly dramatic by the standards of my main sport, and unfortunately I still watch that shit all the time. but it's still a bit of a shame that competitors don't seem to get a lot of choice in the matter these days. and it's a bit of a shame that fans seemingly prefer it this way, going by the vitriol they heap on athletes over any and every offence. it's also a bit of a shame that it feels like there's no real escaping the relentless partisanship of online fan spaces. personally I'm not all that into discoursing about whether things are 'good' or 'bad' and more into establishing whether something's 'interesting' and then thinking about it some more, which doesn't feel like much of an option if you for some reason ever get struck by the desire to interact with other fans online. but it is what it is, y'know. at least we'll always have that time valentino put a curse on a guy

#//#brr brr #batsplat responds #//currt

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henrysglock · 28 days ago

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What do you think of that one tfs theory in which the play is Max in Henry's head, looking for info on Vecna / The Mind Flayer / Henry / Whatever, trying to find out how to beat them. In other words, that the play is the truth - it's what actually happened, not what V / MF / H says, and that the play is actually through Max’s POV, which effectively is also that of the audience.

The theory posited that because at the end the cute little Netflix thing happens before Max's song plays (Running Up That Hill). The song Max used to keep her rooted in reality when Vecna was trying to pull her into his. It would also connect to likely theory that tfs abbreviated in season 5 will be done specifically through Max while she’s in her coma - creating a pretty clear through line between both mediums, only now explicitly through Max's POV in the show and hinted at in the play.

The theory was basically built around tfs playing Running Up That Hill as the lights go on being something more significant than, "here's that song you guys like” and was an interesting idea to stumble across - though not nearly as elaborate as some of your own theories on tfs. Sorry if you’ve already discussed this theory before and I just didn’t realize it, I only just learned about it and was curious if you had any thoughts on it!

I haven't discussed this one; I actually had no idea this was even an conclusion people came to. It's definitely interesting, though I think I'd find myself more inclined to give it credence were it not for everything about TFS that doesn't line up with details that lay outside whatever One/Vecna said or showed people.

Case in point: Henry being 12 per the papers in filmed canon and per the VR game, but him being 14 in TFS...or Patty never being mentioned even tangentially in filmed canon, but then a) having this leading role in Henry's life and b) appearing in the papers for her own disappearance after the theater accident. Hell, the theater accident itself, as well as Mr. Newby's accident, don't appear in filmed canon in the papers surrounding the Creel murders. The dates on the Creel murders themselves don't match, either. So on and so forth.

There are a multitude of details that don't add up, the sources of which lie outside One's monologue and Nancy's vision, which makes it very difficult for me to believe that it's TFS that's meant to be the truth.

My other disagreement is regarding TFS being told from Max's POV, simply because of this statement from Kate:

Given that she managed to make this dream into reality for Broadway, I'd say that TFS is being told from the perspective of the Mindflayer, which is the audience. See: Bob/Joyce/Hopper pointing their flashlights into the audience and going "I think we found the source" as compared to ST3's focus on the "source" re: flayings.

As for Max's song playing during the end credits...I never experienced that any of the times I'd seen TFS, London or New York. It was always the Stranger Things theme from the TV show. If that's different now, then that's an interesting change...but I still disagree about any of it being strictly from Max's POV.

Brutal honesty moment: I think it's a flimsy piece of evidence that's outweighed by other/more concrete details. Playing a song could mean any number of things, be it

"This is the recognizable song re: Vecna and ST4"

like you mentioned, or

"This might be a hint regarding where/what Henry and Max are trapped in in ST5 re: Mindflayer visions and simulations"

"Playing this recognizable song from the 80s era signals that we're transitioning from the 50s to the 80s because we just saw baby El, the same way the songs played before TFS set the scene for the time period play going into Henry's story"

rather than

"The audience is Max (contested by Kate) watching the real events of 1959 (contested by major discrepancies re: canon) in hopes of finding info that will let the Party defeat Henry and the Mindflayer".

I'm not saying it's impossible, but...it feels unlikely. Hell, I could say the exact same thing about any of the songs that are played before TFS begins. Did TFS begin from the POV of someone's whose tether song is Spurs That Jingle Jangle? Because I've got about as much basis to claim that as I do to claim that Running Up That Hill means the entire play was from Max's POV. Or maybe it's just a song from the era.

I'd also like to know where, besides the song, Max is hinted at at all in TFS? Like I'm genuinely curious what other supporting evidence there is for this theory outside of "Running Up That Hill played".

I'd almost be more inclined to think that El is the one being shown things, given the fact that a) she saw almost exactly the same thing with Billy and the source in ST3, b) she has far stronger ties to both Henry and the Mindflayer, and c) she physically appears in TFS.

So no, sorry, I don't think we're seeing through Max's eyes when watching TFS. If anything, I think it could be an easter egg about where Max is, what she's trapped in, that Henry may be trapped in there too, and how to reach them.

Final note: If you know me, then you know that I don't think anyone's going to be "defeated" other than the US military. [Patty voice] "Screw the US Government!" Seriously, though...the US Military started and prolonged this problem. The problem being: holding parts of the Mindflayer hostage. I'm pretty sure if they all just sat down together and talked about it, they'd be able to figure out a non-violent exchange wherein the Mindflayer gets the pieces of itself back and then leaves. It doesn't seem to be in the RSU of its own volition (in fact, it sounds like it may have been inadvertently kidnapped), nor is it particularly suited to our environment. I'm 90% sure that it just wants to go home. E.T. phone home, and all that jazz. Yeah...I don't think we're "defeating" anyone other than the power-hungry DoD.

#asks #st5 speculation

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nugatorysheep · 5 months ago

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Damn....why all this hate on you? I thought you did made it clear of your characters and stuff. (Or is this not about them-)

Genuinely there's like two or three people out there who have whack ass one-sided beef with me specifically that are trying to make it seem like it's a morality thing and not just fandom pettiness and bigotry lol

like it's very telling that I'm getting weird bouts of anon hate for "reposting underage nsfw" art and not the person who... supposedly made the art i reposted. Or alternatively, people being upset that I've made NSFW of characters that are very clearly adults. I've unironically had people call Druid of all characters minor-coded before. yknow, the 1500 year old man. it's just silly. There are many, many people in this fandom who do the same brand of NSFW I do and no one is being this level of unhinged in their inbox. this is peak petty on full display

(also for the record, no, i havent reposted or made any underage anything. i've been pretty vocal about being squicked by loli/sho. i dont care if other people are into that but it ain't for me. even if i did like that type of content, that's... that's not... what being a pedophile is. if the bar is that low all the weebs of the world are in trouble).

It's not even hard for anyone to check for themselves. my discord server is public, any verified adult can see the 18+ channels and look at the explicit art i've made. spoiler alert, it's real underwhelming as far as internet standards go

For the most part it's just kinda funny to see this hate train crash and burn. Most of it I've been ignoring or giving meme replies to cause anyone who is taking that shit seriously already made up their mind about me, I aint wasting my breath on that lmao

I do wanna talk about this anon hate I got in my strawpage the other day tho:

My first thought was "low effort rage bait? on MY wi-fi?" because I'm hardly just "tolerated" by the fandom. if people didn't like me they would just say that, and plenty of people have before.

Im not here for a popularity contest, im here to be autistic about my blorbos. if i wanted to be popular I'd exclusively make fanart of the canon characters on twitter or do low-effort text posts with screenshots from the show (and i know that works cause I've done it before and WOW look at those notes)

but numbers /= meaningful interaction and I care about THAT much more. People do know what I do, of course they know I'm a freak, I don't keep it a secret, this aint news to anyone who follows me. Secrets imply I've got something I'm ashamed of, and that ship has sailed. I'm out of my people pleasing era and have been for years now. I may hide the specifics because, quite frankly, i dont see a point in flaunting the spicer stuff on main. But as far as my art and interests go, I'm an open book

The other thing is, the creator of this show is a freak. Every few years people find out about the Ed, Edd and Eddy art and lose their shit. That Amethyst and Sadie art? That was her. That Pearl x Greg art I shared on Twitter that was every chronically online lesbian's 9/11? Yeah she made that too. She literally reads my AU. the bar for freakiness in this fandom is on the fucking floor, dawg

But the reason I wanna talk about it is for the sake of other people who are following me, not just to satisfy this guy's weird hate-boner.

I'm sure that some people are seeing the stuff I'm getting sent and are scared to be more open about what they enjoy because they dont wanna deal with this kinda shit themselves. I have pretty thick skin at this point- after being online long enough you just have to- but not everyone is willing to take a pounding like that. I get it.

thing is, pretending to be "one of the good ones" is not gonna make those around you actually like you. They like the fake version of you, not the real you, and those kinda folks are not worth being around. it's best to rip off that band-aid sooner than later. In the moment it'll suck, but in the long run it's more than worth it. It's better to have a few ride-or-die friends than a large group of fair-weather friends. You may also find that there are folks out there who are more accepting and based than you think. I've certainly been surprised by a few!

the only people who send anon hate like this do it because something in their life sucks and they feel the need to take it out on others. ya ever notice that these type of people never show their face? it's cause they're scared. scared that they might actually have to step out on the front lines. scared they might have to get their hands dirty. By just just being out and open you've proven to be braver, bolder, and stronger than they will ever be.

Don't be afraid of losers in sunglasses. They aren't worth your fear.

#seriously though i could not be more into that old man if i tried #i regularly get bullied about it by my friends lol #honestly this is probably cause im the largest and most vocal artist in this fandom about shipping stevencest #like other people have been transparent about it but i've been the least apologetic about it on main #and i'm the only one with a server that allows minors to have a place to post about it #ask #anon

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mundanewill · 7 months ago

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A Grocery Shop With Me

I made this because I realized that the mundane and human isn't glorified much anymore, and I wanted desperately to make something you'd see on a geocities back in the day before everything posted on the internet became a contest of virality or trying to hold people's attention. This post is long and boring and human. Thanks for checking it out.

I ask my dad to drive me down to the grocery store. It's Sunday, a bit after 5PM, and the last bit of light from the sky is disappearing. I'm apologetic to him for asking to go so late - driving in the dark is dangerous, especially with nocturnal megafauna often wandering into the road - I mean moose, by the way. It's January 19th. Despite living in Alaska, it's really warm this winter. Dad saw through his Facebook memories that this happened 10 years ago, too. I'm wearing a hoodie and PJs because I didn't want to take any longer to get ready. I'm surprised it's warm enough, which is a pleasant surprise, because I haven't been able to dress this lightly and be comfortable for awhile. I'll not a fan of heavy or unbreathable clothing that winter wear tends to be made of - for good reason, it keeps the snow out. I'm fashionable enough that I don't feel ashamed to go out like this, either - I always wear bright colors and flashy patterns if I can help it. A lot of people tell me I cheer them up on dreary days.

As my dad drives down to town and the warm orange lights of the town street lights come into close view - hey, come to think of it, we don't have bright blueish LEDs yet, I wonder why that is? I'm thankful all of the sudden for that. - I think about how the world has changed recently with this whole TikTok ban thing happening.

I won't go into politics, so don't worry. This is supposed to be a relaxing retelling of a mundane trip. But my mind does wander in places I think can be challenging for some others to hear. This is my post and I'll talk about what I want to.

I think about how before the digital age of filming and camera - for you youngin's out there, this was about the introduction DVD era, probably the mid 2000s? - everyone looked a bit more blurry on physical mechanical cameras. There was less stress about flawless skin back then.

The 80's was a golden era of masculine body types on American film, in my opinion. Me and my boyfriend have been watching them non-stop lately, and it's become the highlight of my every day. Action stars didn't look as dehydrated, fat was over that muscle, body hair too. Actors were more often allowed to have acne scars and sometimes even blemishes.

I think about how the change to the digital era of film and pictures should've been an improvement. We were getting closer to seeing what people looked like in person, in high HD detail - but then we tried to go back. When photoshop got popular in the digital era models were digitally airbrushed more and more, and a lot of phone cameras now blur details on the face by default. I think about those AI filters that the TikTokkers love that change their face completely to look like some sort of 3D cartoon Disney film. It's a fun gimmick, but somehow it seemed like we've been trying harder and harder the more technology gets better to get further away from our own humanity. Airbrush it away instead of being glad to see humans being human, flaws included. I don't even want to call them flaws, they're just normal.

My boyfriend tells me a lot of my flaws are normal. I'm thankful for that, for him. He's definitely out of my league in terms of normalized societal beauty standards, but I believe him - I'm beautiful too, in my own avant-garde way. I wouldn't have it any other way. I dress like this, after all.

But yeah, back to TikTok - folks are joining RedNote instead. Double-edged sword; queerness is heavily censored in China, and the exclusion of queers in the "new app" feels scary to me as a normalization. On the other hand, Americans are starting to realize that China isn't a faceless terrifying boogeyman that our American propaganda machines have been telling us for decades. Despite having a massive Chinese immigrant population in America since forever, I'm amazed this is still such an issue.

"Where are we going first?" my dad asks. I tell him unfortunately I need to go to two different grocery stores in town today, since one has things the other doesn't. One of these grocery stores is of a massive chain that I always feel miserable going to due to the lack of workers, poor management and overcrowding.

We go to my favorite grocery store first. The parking light is sparse. I remember it's Sunday - I love shopping on Sunday.

When entering the grocery store, I always make the same route;

First, I grab a wet wipe near the front door. Even though most people have moved on from the covid pandemic, they still have this - I'm grateful. I wipe my hands off, then wipe down the handle of the grocery cart. There's a tiny trash can I dispose the wipe. Today, somebody left an apple core in one of the grocery carts. It's not my job, but I pick it up with the wipe and throw it away in that little can. I don't want the workers to have to do more work than they do. They treat their workers good here, there's never not enough staff and they seem happy to hire minorities too. My state is a red state, unfortunately.

I always go through the first aisle to get to the "edge" of the grocery store. The main central aisle of the store has a lot of foot traffic, and going around the side is usually the best way to avoid it. Even though it's incredibly quiet today, I still go this route - it'll "feel wrong" if I don't.

This aisle has all the limited-time holiday items. Even though I went grocery shopping the day after Christmas, they didn't discount the Christmas candy because of the population of Orthodox Russians who live nearby that have their Christmas in apparently January. I wasn't sure exactly when that was, so by the time I came back after, they were putting out Valentine's candy instead. Dang, no discount on Christmas stuff for me.

That's probably for the best. A major part of the reason I went to town so late today was because I developed a sugar headache from eating too much sugary breakfast cereal that I was saving for my birthday. I had already opened up the bag to share some with my mom as an apology for being difficult one afternoon, and I couldn't help myself - no, I couldn't stop myself from eating it like crazy. Chocolate rice crispies are the shit, man.

Sadly I was probably binge-eating a little because I had lost a lot of weight recently. I need to be careful about that.

I walk past the valentine's candy and make my way to the "edge" of the store, next to the wall. I walk towards -

Wait a minute, was that a DVD of Romeo and Juliet on the shelf? My grocery store sells cheap DVDs for a dollar in this unknown corner. I wonder if it's the same version of Romeo and Juliet my mom is obsessed with, but I figure she probably already has that DVD already. We try to collect DVDs we like when we can in case of the apocalypse when the internet goes down. Partially joking, partially serious.

If it is the Romeo and Juliet version she loves, I hope another person picks it up and likes it too. The last time I was here, I looked through the films and got what I wanted - the films I knew were good but didn't need I put in the front to entice other shoppers to pick up. I hope everyone keeps buying and keeping DVDs.

The next aisle I always go into is the aisle full of cheap organizational items and school supplies. Usually stuff in this aisle goes for less than 5$. I think it's because a lot of the stuff this grocery store gets is surplus from Costco. I don't have much money right now so I don't plan to buy any organizational items, but I feel I still need to go through it because that's what I do every time I come here. There's no organizational items in my preferred colors on the shelf this month. Maybe next month. They change it out seasonally. Today, it's red and green for Christmas, dark blue, and white. My mom likes dark blue but she told me to stop buying her these, she has enough. For 1 dollar a piece though it always feels worth it.

I then go into the juice aisle. They still don't have Langer's Raspberry Cranberry. It's the best flavor; every time they have a shipment of it come in, it sells out fast - probably because, like me, other shoppers buy several whenever that happens to stock up for the next drought of the flavor being unavailable.

Don't worry, I drink it heavily watered-down. That much sugar would kill me if drank straight.

I weave around the aisles in a bit of a daze; the headache makes it hard to think, I feel like it's stuffed with flem. Don't worry, I wear a mask still. Don't talk to me about this, it's not what this blog post is about. This is about grocery shopping.

I read my shopping list closely and go from there. I used to make my shopping lists in my Notes app on my phone which is something I highly recommend; it makes it easy to reorganize each item on the list by pressing and dragging, so you could sort the items based on where they are in the store. Foolishly I've been instead preferring to use my physical notepad in my kitchen that's attached to the wall with a magnet. I'm not sure why this is; maybe it's because I get so easily distracted on the phone nowadays or because it's fun to practice my ridiculous vaguely-Coca-Cola-inspired handwriting. My notepad paper is cute, it's bordered in pink with little pretty simplistic art of fruits. I should try to get back into the habit of making shopping lists on my phone though since I'm so often in bed anyway and my notepad paper is slowly dwindling at this point.

It's mostly restocking cash items this trip. I need to get paper bowls, disposable forks and spoons, toilet paper, and paper towels.

All these things are technically unnecessary (except the toilet paper, of course) and I do feel bad for the environment for using these, but I'm disabled, and they really make my life a whole lot less difficult when I just don't have the energy to wash dishes or do washcloth laundry non-stop. Maybe one day when my body is in better shape, I live in a better environment, and found meds that help me better, I won't feel cautious enough that I feel I need these for emergencies. It's better I eat instead of put off eating indefinitely since I don't feel like doing dishes. My brain does really not put my survival first, which is unfortunate, but just the reality of my life.

I follow my previously made instructions closely, glad that I don't have to think too much.

I do stop for two things I didn't have on my list - I look for thick bonito and Chinese five spice. The former I don't find, but even if I did, I'd be hesitant to actually pick it up since I already have the less thick variant and that shit is expensive even if worth it. The latter I do eventually find after staring at the huge wall of spices like I'm a Ferris Bueller character in a museum but end up not buying because I forgot what YouTube Shorts recipe I saw it in, and I should probably not buy anything that I don't have a recipe planned for in advance first. I tend to eat the same things every day and it's hard to summon the energy to break that habit and try something new, not to mention the dozen and a half medical food intolerances I have to make sure I'm not fucking with in the recipes I pick.

Gluten free flour will never be one-to-one with gluten flour no matter the mixture to me, sorry bozo.

The amount I get overall in my cart isn't too bad. I keep being tempted by candy bars and sweets I see around the store while simultaneously feeling like I never want to eat another sweet thing for as long as I live - it seems to just be a habit of mine to leer at them regardless every time I come in even though I rarely ever actually buy any. The kid me would be disappointed in my adult palette where more than one candy bar or soda in a day just feels like too damn much. I genuinely find fresh berries and flavored Greek yogurt plenty as a sweet treat, which I eat with breakfast every day. I only justify paying high for them because need the vitamins and shit.

The cashier seems like a cool guy. I've never talked to him much, but he always has a toy lightsaber on his belt or some other nerdy accessory with him at work. I'm not a star wars fan (I never saw any of the movies growing up, but I also have nothing against star wars and do plan to watch them eventually) so I feared talking to him about it in case I'm put into the awkward situation of having to admit I don't know anything about it. However, he's been bringing his toys to work for years now - I really respect him being a weirdo (a word used affectionately in my family). I'm glad nobody's mean comments has stopped him, if anyone ever did say something mean. Despite my town being right-wing, the population is overall pretty polite.

Dad is waiting in the car. I don't know why, but he insists he doesn't mind waiting for me to shop. I've become pretty efficient at shopping because of this. That doesn't mean I don't constantly tell I'm grateful or sorry though. At least his car has fantastic heating, and he has a smart phone to play with nowadays when he gets bored.

Onward to the grocery store I hate, the big chain. I'd never go there if I could help it, but when you're broke, you go to where the cheapest deals are. When we pull in the parking lot is almost empty! Which is something we almost never see. "I love shopping on Sunday." I mutter. "Especially on Sunday evening!" dad replies. Sunday is the quietest.

I don't hate people. I think after the start of the pandemic, a deeply ingrained dislike of brushing shoulders with strangers or smelling their breath never disappeared. It's unfortunate but it's kept me from getting any colds that weren't really mild for the last few years. I have other reasons why crowds and close proximities with strangers make me uncomfortable, but let's not get into that. Back to shopping.

No gluten free vanilla cake, still. I wonder who else bought it for it to go out of stock. Huh. Well, I still have chocolate saved in my freezer for my birthday. Was thinking of getting both flavors so I could share some with family, but they're not expecting much anyway, I'm sure. I'm not having a party or anything.

Even though I shouldn't eat gluten, I still look at the case of fresh donuts every time I come here. They never have custard-filled anymore. I wonder why they don't make more, since it's obviously the most popular kind. If I could find a custard one once, I might cheat on my diet for it. Mom likes them too, I could get her one at least. If there was only one custard-filled donut, not two, that one would be for her. I hope she still likes them. They are a bit on the too-sweet side, though.

Cinnamon sugar looks good.. I should try to make a gluten-free donut with cinnamon sugar one day. Not worth cheating on my diet for, though. Moving on.

My favorite flavor of greek yogurt is lemon and they're of course out - this store has been out of a lot of things lately. Maybe the roads the truckers use have been especially bad lately, I hope they're alright. The lemon flavor tastes just like lemon pie filling. Despite that, it has the least amount of sugar of the flavors from this brand. For some reason Strawberry has the most sugar in it. I wonder why that is?

I buy raspberry flavor even though I'll mostly be putting it on top of fresh raspberries. Raspberries are probably my favorite berry or even fruit, maybe because I grew up picking raspberries with my family every summer. Huge literal buckets of raspberries I could just eat handfuls of. Getting fresh fruit in Alaska for a affordable price is very difficult - it's probably at least twice the price as you experience, whoever's reading this. :( But it makes it feel all the more luxurious and valuable.

No cashew milk... it's my preferred milk for my coffee since I can't drink dairy. My eyes look over the milk section again. Then again. How could there be 5 different brands of Almond milk and not one for cashew? I look even closer - I can't even see where the cashew milk price sticker is, I eventually realize it must've been removed. Does that mean they're not going to stock it any time soon, maybe stop stocking it altogether? That's really unfortunate.

Even the creamers, not the milk, are all based on less fatty plant milks. Oat milk? Are you fucking serious? RICE MILK? I'm trying to be healthy and figure the creamers probably have some artificial shit in them to thicken them up. Not worth it. I'll look around in the coffee aisle, maybe something there.

I get my berries for my yogurt. Not much on sale, and the regular selection hasn't been available for over a month now. I do some math in my head to figure out what the best deal is in packages of berries - mixed or unmixed - I even weigh a box that seemed a bit light on the fruit scale to discover someone pilfered a little from it. I ended up buying discounted blueberries and, of course, raspberries. I regret not buying the raspberries at the last store which were 50¢ less despite them being a bit more on the dangerous side of ripe. The chain store usually has more fruit sales and better quality control so I prefer to buy fruit here, but the idea that I'm giving money to this shop instead of the more local one does give me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. If I ever get rich, I'm shopping more ethically. I'm still mad after finding out the fancy icecream I bought here in the past on sale was still being sold for 7$ less at the local grocer. Yeesh. Gotta make sure I keep price comparing. Should I start writing it down?

Right. Dad's waiting for me. I already wasted too much time trying to find cashew milk. The coffee aisle is full of almond milk too. Macadamia nut milk isn't bad, but over 7$ for a tiny half-carton makes me wanna gag. No cream for my coffee for awhile. Damn. Might just prefer to cut coffee out of my diet, really.

I get into the car. Dad offers me a pastry from a tiny box he apparently went into the store and bought while I was shopping. Despite my fear of sweet things at this point, I accept it because I'm just so excited to get a treat from my dad frankly. It's a bite-sized pastry that has sugar glaze and raspberries inside. It's one of the best things I've ever tasted. My headache doesn't get worse, thankfully.

He asks if I want to go anywhere else. I tell him it's not important even though it is to be - I want to go back to the grocer I like and get milk, but it can wait for the next trip.

He says he'll do it, no problem. I run in and out fast. No cashew milk there either, but I got coconut cream and extremely cheap almond milk for about 5$ total. Not bad. We make do. Almond milk for flavor, coconut for fattiness.

As we're driving home, I remember that my boyfriend said he wouldn't be available to call tonight. He lives in Poland and my evening is his morning. He's having fun with his brother visiting, and I told him to have fun. It's a bit sad not having our daily evening call to look forward to, but I can also do something else by myself instead when I usually don't have the opportunity to.

When we pull into our little rural neighborhood, the neighbor's dog Sandy is walking around the road in the dark. Dogs walking around freely isn't unusual in my neighborhood; almost all of them are trained farm dogs that protect and herd free range livestock, and since we're outside of city limits laws regarding dogs on leashes don't really apply. It's unusual to see her out, though, and when my dad parks his car she comes right up to my car door and lets me pet and scritch her soft little head as I put my ice cleats back on my boots.

I walk down the driveway and grab the family's sled before returning to my dad's car and loading up the sled with my groceries. I thank him again and tell him I love him.

My cabin is at the end of a long trail that's inaccessible to cars. I pull the sled up to my doorway and bring in the groceries and a big water bottle made for water coolers since I don't have running water. We refill them regularly with free drinking water spots, one of which is in front of that very chain grocery store.

The rest of the evening is pretty uneventful. After putting my groceries away, I heat up some leftover chili my mom made me and send her a message thanking her for it. I play a little FFXIV, browse tumblr, then lay in bed to rest my back. While shopping earlier, my ankle started to cramp up. I broke it pretty badly by slipping on ice a few years ago. It reminded me to stretch and exercise it a bit more. I move my ankle a little before I get distracted with some stupid YouTube videos and phone games. Putting on a Hollowtones stream vod, I fall asleep into a nap.

I wake up after midnight, my headache finally gone. My boyfriend sent me a message enthusiastically telling me he took a shower this morning. I'm proud of him. Life is hard.

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magmagicstyle · 8 months ago

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Hey! Can you help me win a writing contest? Pretty Please 🥺❤️

Hi! I would appreciate it a lot if you liked my work and shared it to help me win hahaha

You only have to enter the link and leave a like (if you want to comment or share it so other people leave likes, it would help me a lot)

Disclaimer: This doesn't mean that what Voldemort did was right. I'm just trying to portray how he could pretend to justify it if he had a heart. (Please don't send me hate, I'm just trying to win a contest... ❤️)

TRANSLATION:

VOLDEMORT: “For the Common Good” - The Effects of Child Abuse

The night was gloomy and the fog felt too heavy, almost suffocating, but Voldemort, amid the darkness, did not blink. He stood alone, having had his followers leave after what everyone would consider a triumphant return. There, standing in the middle of the graveyard, surrounded by silent gravestones that had seen better days, his mind was racing a thousand miles an hour. He was breathing, aware of every breath his lungs took, of every part of his regenerated body that seemed to adapt to his new physical form. The scent of damp earth and raw magic hung in the air, but his mind was far away.

“They don't understand.”

The thought came suddenly, heavy as a stone crashing against a glass house. No one understood him, not the people who remained indifferent, not the people who were against him, not his own followers. He, along with a few others who had also been silenced in the past, had seen what others did not want to accept: the fragility of the peace that the magical world had.

Wizards, though powerful, were always outnumbered by Muggles, especially in recent years. And Muggles, with their ignorance, their fear and their horrible ability to create weapons of destruction and devastation that were beyond the imagination of innocent wizards, were capable of any monstrosity in the name of the common good… The common good… It was funny how the people who had hurt him the most were the ones who used that excuse for their actions. The horror, the pain… Wizards lived in a bubble to the point where they didn't understand what Muggles could do. Only Voldemort and a few others could understand, and that was because they had lived it.

Ever since he was a small boy, he had felt the contempt of the Muggles in every look he received at the orphanage where he had been abandoned. Having a keen mind and always hungry for knowledge, he had read about the persecutions, the burnings, the lynchings, the horrible tortures that Muggles had provoked in favor of their ideals and following banal excuses such as religion and politics. From a very young age he had seen in the eyes of Muggles that spark of hatred that caused fires greater than any spell.

“Wizards are superior.”

It was a fact as plain as the blood that coursed through the veins of every living thing. It was not an arrogant phrase or an idea to justify discriminating against other people like Muggle politicians had used so many times in the past. No. Wizards were superior by the fact that at an evolutionary level they had abilities that could lead them to be considered superior in comparison to Muggles. After all, wizards, unlike Muggles, had the ability to cast spells that prevented them from relying on tools that Muggles had created to compensate for their shortcomings. But despite the logic behind this thinking, the world refused to acknowledge this, saying that thinking about the superiority of wizards was just a form of discrimination against Muggles. It was horrible how deep this feeling had gone. For, because of this, nowadays, even among wizards, there were those who bowed to Muggles, who sought to mingle among them, ashamed of their origins. Were they so deluded that they could not see the danger this posed?

Voldemort closed his eyes for a second, taking a deep breath to calm his anger and despair. In the back of his mind, he knew that one of his motivations was the fear of what might happen if Muggles decided to turn their weapons against wizards. They were brutally crafted tools of destruction that promised only extermination of entire races. If from the time they were children, they expressed hatred against other people and were not punished for their cruelty, what could be expected from adults? If Voldemort did nothing, if he did not take action, it was possible that all wizards, at some point, would suffer what he suffered in his childhood.

“If they can't respect me, they had better fear me…”

For fear, though most did not understand it this way, was a weapon that promised protection against the enemy. If your enemy was afraid of you, if they feared the consequences that your anger might bring, then, they would think twice before trying to do something that might anger you. That was why, if Muggles truly learned what wizards could do, they would not dare rise up against them, now or in the future. If they knew that a single wizard could wipe out their armies, their governments, their countries, their lives… perhaps, then… they would learn to stay in a place where they would not pose a danger to wizarding existence.

Although Dumbledore was desperate to convey this message to the other wizards, Voldemort was not really seeking power just for the sake of having power. He was seeking control… Control to ensure that no one else would feel the contempt and pain he had felt since he was a small boy. Control, to prevent any wizard from ever again ducking his head in front of a Muggle due to fear of the consequences.

“It's not cruelty, it's survival and being able to live peacefully…”

The thought was a way of trying to convince himself of his actions. Of course, that he couldn't deny that a part of him, deep down, was seeking justice and a little revenge. He was seeking to vindicate the wounds they had caused in his past, and also, with this, to make sure that no one could forget him, that no one could ever leave him again.

Taking a deep breath, feeling the air filling his new lungs, he opened his eyes and looked at the grave in front of him. The angel of death staring directly at him, his father's name right in front of his bare feet, almost like a taunt from beyond. The life he had regained was only a means to an end…to a greater good…a common good, as Dumbledore would say. The world was going to understand, or would learn to understand what he had learned during his years watching the cruelty of Muggles. Wizards had to see a way to show others that they were superior and that they were no longer going to bow down to the cruelty of mere Muggles. It didn't matter if they called him a monster, if they were afraid of him.

He would do what was necessary because only he had the vision and the strength to protect wizards from true monsters.

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t1meslayer · 1 year ago

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Trying something a little different today.

Inspired by the incomparable @alchemicallymoon, I'm going to do a postmortem commentary on my latest fanfiction. If you haven't read "Stone-Cold Lovers" Chapter 3 on AO3, now's your chance!

I've done similar things in the past, with my Pre-Preparation of Shiver post for "Splatoon B-Mix," but I'm really testing the waters to make this a more regular occurrence — possibly even going back to older works. If you enjoy, let me know!

Tons of rambling beneath the cut. You've been warned <3

Alright. I can't think of any better place to begin talking about "Stone-Cold Lovers" than to mention it's a classic piece (in the era sense, though also in the literary sense). I started publishing fanfic in 2019, right around the time I was graduating from college. A bunch of pieces I wrote are still exclusively available on FanFiction.net, but I've slowly been transitioning them with a fresh coat of paint.

"Stone-Cold Lovers" was the sixth story I published on FanFiction. As I mentioned in Chapter 1 of the AO3 version, it came back to mind after Pokemon Masters EX introduced a Halloween alt for Roxanne.

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Pokemon Crystal was my first "real" video game (not counting educational content like Sesame Street games), but Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire began my infatuation with the series. This was partially due to the fact that I could read the text on my own, which meant I could keep replaying to do little challenge runs.

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Fun Fact: One of the most prominent challenge runs I can recall involved catching a full team of Wingull. I named the Pelipper of my team "Sergeant," and the rest had other army designations. I would later copy this idea using shiny Ambipom and Aipom in HeartGold and SoulSilver that I obtained through entirely legal means for a rare item Pickup group.

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More Fun Fact: My favorite challenge run to this day is completing Pokemon FireRed with a single Clefable. I always really liked how many TMs a single Clefable could learn.

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All of that is to say I seared Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald into my brain by playing it all the time on the schoolyard and at my grandparents' house in Florida. It remains my favorite region to this day. However, I didn't fall in love with Roxanne until the Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire character designs came out.

Important note: I have shipping charts for basically every character-heavy... Anything. Something about pairing people up always makes my brain go brr. My body of creative writing speaks to many of the headcanons I've whipped up over the years. Similarly, I have headcanons about which Pokemon protag serves as the "main character" or "rival" in each title.

Yes, you can ask about my opinions. I will undoubtedly answer.

Brendan and Roxanne came into this framework because as much as I also love Brendan and May, I quickly fell into the rabbit hole of Brendan Champion/May Contest Idol, and therefore I'm legally obligated to ship May and Lisia. My original FanFiction Author Note says I'd been thinking about the idea for "a while," but frankly I don't remember where exactly it originated. All I know is that my goal was May scolding Brendan for being an oblivious dope.

This is not autobiographical.

As far as I know.

My truest sense-memory regarding this piece is writing the Rustboro opening in a Barnes & Noble parking lot at night, on the same night that I scored a new freelance gig (it didn't last all too long in the end). However, I helpfully noted that the Brendan and May banter was inspired by a FanFiction story called "Critical Hit" by Alphinia (it's still live!) and Carly Chaikin's Darlene from Mr. Robot. That was ending in 2019. Pokemon Sword and Shield were about to come out. The timeline lines up.

It's also very funny to imagine May as a raunchy, tomboyish smartass who also happens to love the fame that comes with princess-y Pokemon Contest shenanigans. Good headcanon.

The seeds of an idea for a date follow-up existed back then. My first inkling was to do a scene where, essentially, Brendan fucks the whole thing up by using Sandstorm in the middle of a food court because he's trying to impress Roxanne. Most of the set dressing around that, such as using ORAS' Street Thug trainer class (here portrayed by Shio — after ramen to reference the naming scheme of every trainer in Mauville Food Court), came later.

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Fun Fact (again): This is the first piece I've written using a new program called StimuWrite by Eve Harms, which was suggested by my beta reader. I liked being able to put my brain somewhere other than a blank white page, though all of the extra bells and whistles aren't all that necessary for me. Plus, I wound up jumping back-and-forth between the page and my 20 tabs of research anyway, so...

We'll see where this tool lands.

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A lot of my decisions regarding the style of "Stone-Cold Lovers" Chapter 3 were based on concurrent reading; I recently joined a book club, and we just finished Babel by R.F. Kuang. My experience with Zine editors such as @kiliofdurinsline (Shrapnel) on Homemade in Hyrule (still available to pre-order!!!) helped me focus on creative writing structure and clarity rather than the more "vibes" based approach I leaned on. But Babel's rich descriptions suggested that I perhaps moved too far in the direction of snippets. So, here I tried to more robust scene-setting.

The bit about Gardevoir reading Brendan's emotions is being back on my bullshit trying to capture "vibes," though. I'm often a proponent for Psychic-types having full telepathy, especially Gardevoir given its canon emotional connections, but I decided the silent implications were more fun to play. I'm also a big proponent of leaning into the medium by using all of AO3's formatting HTML for things like Gardevoir's text. Hence my abundance of italics, or even the House of Leaves-style page falling apart for Arven's nightmare in "Paradiso."

Another note from Shrapnel that I took to heart: Give each character a stable of description types to help them emphasize their personality. That's why Gardevoir's movements use ballet terms (many of which I had to look up, like "bras bas").

One bit that I thought about a lot was Roxanne's response to weather talk. I knew that she should flirt by saying any weather would be great alongside Brendan, and the verbiage "would that it were" stuck. A bit of Googling revealed that the phrase doesn't mean what my brain thought it does — it actually refers to wanting a better reality than you currently have. But it rolls off the tongue... So, I decided to play with that disparity by having know-it-all Roxanne correct her old professor, even when recounting a heartfelt memory.

Also, I'd be lying to you if I said goofy teenager who can't speak French wasn't an integral part of my planning.

The battle scene is pretty straightforward, it was mostly fun to incorporate the idea of Brendan being over-leveled by having him immediately wipe the floor with this tough guy, Shio. This especially goes well with the Mauville Food Court gimmick of finishing your battles within set time limits. Hopefully little descriptors like the space-warping Boomburst help make up for how short it is.

But with all of that said, there's only one place left to go:

Roxanne's outfit

That's right! Brendan wears his contest attire, but Roxanne wears an entirely unique creation. I did something very similar to my experiments with Shiver by digging around Tumblr tags for specific outfit pieces to cobble together as part of Roxanne's preppy and academic wardrobe.

I essentially wanted to put Roxanne in an "elevated" version of her typical uniform. For example, something with a nicer blouse. When I saw this post by stiefel-rock-bluse, I knew it was the one. That ruffled 'V' is perfectly suited for comparisons to a fossilized ribcage.

Had to tuck that blouse into a nice skirt, too. I did toy with the idea of going full suit-style with slacks, but Roxanne feels like a skirt girl to me. So I settled on this pleated skirt shared by zoesrepository, at least in-part because I wanted a brown-and-white motif to reflect... Rock stuff.

Having exposed legs also introduced the opportunity to describe a bit of Roxanne's obsession with fossils. If I get callouses on my hands from doing ceramics, she can have some scuffs on her legs from digging in the dirt.

My inspiration for her off-the-shoulder draped jacket is largely me doing silly cape shenanigans with my jackets, but for the style I went with this cover image from an article by The Girl From Panama:

In brown, of course. That really emphasizes the idea that it looks like strata.

Because rocks.

Unrelated to rocks, I was originally toying with a different idea for her jacket, one based on this image of Kendall Jenner uploaded by disarmluna:

Ultimately I liked the draped idea better, but I kept on the idea of it being corduroy. Also, I took Roxanne's "loafers" from here.

For accessories, I riffed on one of my favorite pieces of lore introduced by Pokemon Masters EX: the idea that Steven Stone is in a club with all of the Rock-type experts who love collecting shiny rocks. Steven knows how to give some specialized gifts, and in this case I gave Roxanne a single earring, as shared by gemville, because 1) red; 2) flowers; and 3) stalactite. I went with one rather than a pair because I think it's a cute asymmetrical thing.

Then, of course, I imagine her nails alternate blue and red ala Nosepass/Probopass. Finally, Roxanne's elevated school uniform look had to retain a tie. What better way to keep that tie in place than with a clip inspired by the one, the only, our boy: Anorith.

If the Yanma inhaler from "Peaks and Caverns" is anything to go by, y'all know I love to invent kitschy merchandise that will unfortunately never be acknowledged by Game Freak/The Pokemon Company.

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That's about all I've got. I'm not sure whether I'll return to this story again — the five-year pipe dream is already a big accomplishment in my book. But I'm really glad I finally closed the book on a longstanding idea in celebration of Valentine's Day! And I'm sure one day, if I can get through the rest of my insane backlog, I'd be happy to write further shenanigans between these two Hoenn lovebirds.

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sammygender · 10 months ago

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Choose violence ask game. 16 and 21. ❤️

ask game

thank u sm for enabling me to be a hater

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing

well dstiel obviously though i do understand why people like it so much. it's because they're stupid.

aside from that.. oh wait this one is so random and no hate whatsoever (in fact only love) to people who like it but i don't really like transmasc dean in a canon setting. as an au it's incredibly interesting but i see it as occupying similar space to a cis girl dean au in a way where it definitely is..... an AU. in canon like. yeah no. that's NOT a trans guy im sorry. trans guys can be annoying dont get me wrong. but you'd have to be VERY special to be annoying the way he is. also he wouldnt transition for ages cause hes dean winchester and he likes to conform to and in fact play up his expected role. so he certainly wouldve not transitioned in the canon when we see him.

i dont feel this way at all about transmasc sam however. he'd be the same pretty much. as would transfem sam who we all know i adore. anyway i'll probably change my mind in a week and get obsessed with transmasc dean and post 20 times in a row about it and you are all allowed to pelt me with rocks.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

this was surprisingly hard. in the interest of being interesting and not just going for 'destiel' or something, i'm actually going to say kripke era. it IS my favourite era!! its objectively the best in terms of writing, atmosphere, plot, characterisation. like no contest, obviously. in fact when i recommend the show to people i tell them just to watch the first 5 seasons (while planning on baiting them into continuing after swan song by going 'but its suchhh a bad ending for sam :(( dont you want to see what happens next.....').

so i use 'overhyped' very loosely to mean that despite me recognising it as objectively superior to the rest of the show, i don't actually hugely enjoy a lot of it that much more than i enjoy later on? a lot of my favourite parts of supernatural are heavily built on in the later seasons, or even introduced then. sam & lucifer's cage dynamic and everything resulting from it. the gadreel violation and in fact most of sam's..... everything. ofc this is all present in kripke and it's explored much Better and thematically and gothically and its just more atmospheric and intentional-seeming. whereas late seasons is kind of like this hodge-podge by different writers where you get these insane and intentional gems amid a bunch of white noise. but i just.... im a late seasons kind of person!! i loved buffy s6!! i enjoy works jumping the shark and i enjoy what art becomes when it already has so much to build on. shrug emoji.

like. ok. what first made me compulsively obsessive over supernatural (after the dean daddy issues, which i HAVE to admit hooked me........this is why im the ultimate critique of deangirls, because i was one for 3 seasons <3) was sam & azazel, the metaphor & violation present in his whole demon blood storyline. obvi this is kripke era. and i have to give kripke era credit for it. but a lot of what i consider fundamental to sam & this theme of uncleanliness especially in regards to assault and violation in some way is just soo built on post kripke. his cage trauma in s7. 8x21's "i'm not clean" speech. every compounding incident that happens to sam and his body, from gadreel possession to chuck in s15................

BASICALLY this is to say not that kripke era is really overrated but that so much credit is given to it at the expense of late seasons, when the domestic horror, cycle-of-abuse-sitcom, gabriel's tv show style thing it becomes is actually such a huge part of my enjoyment of spn. and wow i never thought i would be saying this. but i watched riverdale so idk what i was expecting. sigh. but really. what other show is giving us toxic polycule made up of brothers and an Angel of God coparenting the devil's child... also the devil happens to be brother #1's (sam is brother #1) abusive ex.... and hes currently fighting the polycule for custody rights. also the kid was born last week and hes 15. like sorry this is so fundamental to my supernatural. i could never rewatch and stop at s5. i rewatch late seasons eps all the time. ALSO LATE SEASONS SAM WINCHESTER. LIKE. COME ON. EARLY SEASONS SAM IS OVERRATED COMPARED TO LATE SEASONS. <3

#spn #ofc i have loved transmasc dean fic... so #oliver talks #asks #ask game #thank you 4 ask!! <33 #transchesters

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With everything being over and enough time having passed—in Alfred's opinion—he chose to approach.

"I wish i could have joined, it would've been fun to fight by your side again." A confession slipped his lips as casually as the smile that accompanied it. Alas, war seemed to be the last chance they got to fight side by side. Since Alfred had gotten so busy settling down not only to his new profession but also the office that went with it, he did not get the chance to join. "You know, if i tried i'm sure i would have been able to juggle the effort both things needed... buuuuuuut something tells me you would be unhappy if i overworked myself, so better that i didn't!"

With what his friend right here had to witness at the ball, probably it was for the best he took it easy. So that wouldn't repeat now, or ever, really.

"I did grab my chance to sit down and watch the moment i was a little free and you did great! The enemies seemed really tough but you and your team did amazing on the last round!" Well, maybe he saw Rafal be a clearly not expert at what he did at first, but he could let that slip. Softness settled on his tone further with a side dish of tease, as a hand that would've given a shoulder rub remained suspended on air. "You have a supportive and kind soul, don't you, Lord Rafal?"

But now that he thought of the last round...

"I have to admit the last outfit you wore suited you nicely," He would have liked to witness it at a closer distance and without a battle in the way, but Alfred kept those thoughts to himself. "Not sure if it was comfortable to move around in though."

But as nice as the sight was, it was just that, a sight he could only enjoy at a distance and it was only fair it was that way.

This time human allowed his hand to rest on a dragon's shoulder, a friendly gesture bordering into a light massage—not a long lasting one. "You have to spare me a sparring session, only when you' think you have rested enough. I don't want to be the one worrying for you this time."

Alfred, revealed as witness to both his glories and to his blunders, and yet nothing of the latter quite seemed to matter. Rafal was in fine and impervious spirits, on the high of a promising final victory that transitioned next to a friend. The prince's approach dubbed itself his seeming reward, signaling the first since their bygone era of troubles and returning them to a friendly pattern once missed. Even the Atoning Dragon could find it in himself to brighten with a small smile.

"You suspect correctly, Alfred. Your duties and mine are wholly different, you ought concern yourself only with recovering. Next time, you may have the privilege of joining me on the battlefield." In fortunate timing, reconvening in this way allowed also for his simultaneous observation, scouring over him in scrutiny of his condition. Proper at that; the other appeared to be in good piece after the near disastrous Ethereal Ball. But shortly, his attention drew back to him; Alfred, revealed as witness to both his highs and to his lows, and something of the latter somewhat seemed to matter.

Of the many suitable qualities that could be attributed to Rafal, kind and supportive scraped only the utmost bottom of the barrel, and to learn that he had paid special mind to his unorthodox apparel was a sore layer of humiliation. At least it wasn't an unfavorable statement; he wouldn't have been able to contest any attack upon his appearance in that obscenely frilly costume.

"Kind and supportive? I-Impossible. Your choice of words is foolish, but indicative that your recovery has yet to finish. I would advise you to take a good, long rest in pursuit of better descriptors." His instinctual protest; a thousand windows mistaking his circumstantial power for kindness, and a thousand of his curtains in turn. The grousing dragon folded his arms, but did not relinquish the smile that Alfred's presence had made, or shake off his outreached hand. "But a spar would be agreeable." It had been a while. "I will have you know, next we clash the only worry will be for your defeat."

#◜ ₊ — 𝓡 ˚ ₊ 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 ╱ askbox.#floreix #toaarena2024summer #“he would have liked to witness it at a closer distance and without a battle in the way”#alfred voicing all his invasive thoughts that only i can read #and i agree with op!#'kind and supportive' freddy is right tho :3

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A Book Review That No-One Asked For

Don't mind me I'm just in my book era . Here's a random book review that no one asked for.

The book I am reviewing is a novel by the name of Grown written by Tiffany D. Jackson. I am going to start off by saying this was a good book. It was written very well and I enjoyed it. It was the first book I read in awhile and I wasn't disappointed. However, this story is oddly similar to the R. Kelly story. If you've ever seen Surviving R.Kelly the documentary then you've read this book. Simple as that. It's so similar in fact, the author's note was a matter of fact statement about how the book was indeed NOT about R. Kelly. That tells me that more than just myself has made that comparison. Half way through the book I literally asked myself Is this book about that one girl's parents that came forward and basically started the whole Surviving R. Kelly movement? Once That idea popped in my head I couldn't read the book the same.

It follows a young lady by the name of Enchanted. She's 17 and wants to be a singer. She has one hella of a voice or so her swim teammates state every time they pressure her to sing on the spot for their sheer entertainment. Enchanted has this one friend name Gabriella. She seems to believe in Enchanted and encourages her to do something with her talent. She talks her into trying out for a singing contest. Which she goes too. While there she meets this "musical legend" Corey Fields. He pumps her head up a little bit while also playing the "Mentor" roll. They start texting and stuff. Mind you she's 17.......and he's 28. I think... yeah 28 ...something nasty like that. He invites her to his show . She goes backstage with her parents . Corey distracts her parents with meet and greets from celebrities and later on with money. All while he pushes up on their teenage daughter behind their backs. Enchanted starts going to the studio with him. He's filling her head with fake dreams and empty promises. He starts over stepping his boundaries like showing up to her high school unannounced and releasing video footage of their studio sessions without her or her parent's consent. So what does her parents do ? well... they let her go on tour with him . If things weren't already inappropriate they surely got inappropriate. one thing led to another and she was living up in his house in Atlanta. And by living in his house I mean living in a single bedroom in his house. Not allowed out to use the bathroom. And you know if she can't use the bathroom she sure as hell couldn't use the kitchen. He was starving sis.

It was really sad because like I stated earlier this sounds a lot like the stories that the many women who came forward about R. Kelly told. The end of the book was great. The twist was defiantly twisting. In conclusion, I give the book 4 stars out of 5. I recommend it !

Okay Bye !

#random #books & libraries #urban fiction #review #tiffany #Jackson #books and reading #black authors #enchanted

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Fear of Music: the incredibly long list

Below the fold, all the songs I'm considering as best of the 21st century so far.

The project is #FearOfMu21c (pronounced: fear of music), a follow-up to last autumn's #Uncool50. It's devised and run by Arron, @[email protected].

Between 1 October and 19 November, I present the 50 best singles (in my personal and highly subjective opinion) released between 2000 and now.

A few notes:

Whether it's a new rule, or I missed it last time, a single in the performer's home market is eligible. That allows an awful lot of European hits and more than a bit of CanCon. Good.

Arron uses the long 21st century, anything first released as a single on or after 1 January 2000. Album tracks released in 1999 and as a single in 2000 are eligible. Singles first released in late 1999 are not eligible - Santana's "Smooth" (released October 99, peak April 00) is the major casualty.

Remixes of 20th century tracks are not eligible; re-recordings are. If the performer has gone into the studio again, it's eligible. Nick Kamen's "I promised myself 2004" falls foul of this rule.

50 songs in 24 years is a high bar, and I don't think any one performer has more than a couple of brilliant moments; Arron limits us to five per performer. Performers get roughly one longlist entry per ten years of activity starting in 1995. One Direction gets one entry, Adele's considered for two, Pink is entitled to three.

Eurovision Song Contest is effectively a double album every year, with Junior Eurovision adding a third disc to the box set. Respecting the spirit of Arron's rule, I'll limit songs made famous by the contests to a maximum of five places on the final list. I've put no limit on other songs by (J|S)ESC performers, or those from broadcaster finals.

Songs from #Uncool50 are automatically considered for the longlist, and you may reasonably assume they'll be in the final 50. Two were replaced - after my host gave feedback "Let me blow ya mind" was replaced by a different song from Texas 2001; and "Wildest dreams" is replaced by "Blank space" in a blatant attempt to consolidate the "1989"-era Taylor Swift vote.

No space for pervs, racists, and horrors: songs performed or written by R Kelly, Lostprophets, Kayne West, Dizzee Rascal, Chris Brown, Xavier Naidoo, Cee-Lo Green, and Hedley were not considered. Had they been better members of society, at least four of those acts would have made the very long list.

Knowing the likely voters, the majority of songs other people vote for are performed in English, Poplish, or some close approximation thereof. Songs in foreign languages are going to have to be excellent to make the top 50. At some point, I'll present a month's worth of songs in Any Other Language.

WTAF is a single in the 21st century? I've used these rules of thumb:

2000-2004 - released as a CD or vinyl single anywhere in the world. 2005-2014 - promoted as a standalone download to radio in the performer's home territory; or a chart single on a major chart. 2015-2023 - promoted with a video or to radio in a major market; or a chart single on a major streaming chart.

(My biases: major markets are Europe or anglophone. I don't have enough exposure to Asian music.)

In the lists, songs are noted like this:

11 - likely to get a bonus - one of four ELF POINTS or the singular DOUZE POINT! for the best song of the decade. (And you can assume it'll be somewhere in the 50) % - featured on #Uncool50 ~ - replacement for #Uncool50 track £ - mentioned in dispatches during my #Uncool50 writeup € - not anglophone

Stars and Elves are at the top of the annual list; the rest are presented roughly as I remembered them. Years are approximate, and I've not (yet) checked to confirm that each track meets the criteria for a single.

2000 %My star - Brainstorm %Reach - S Club 7 17 again - Eurythmics Never be the same again - Melanie C ft Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes Goodnight moon - Shivaree I hope you dance - LeeAnn Womack & the Sons of the Desert Gotta tell you - Samantha Mumba Tonight and the rest of my life - Nina Gordon €Fuoco nel fuoco - Eros Ramazotti

2001 ~Drops of jupiter - Train Invalid litter dept - At the Drive In Over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy Where I wanna be - Shade Sheist - r&rap Superman (it's not easy) - Five for Fighting Turn off the light - Nelly Furtado Fallin' - Alicia Keys It takes a fool to remain sane - The Ark Sailing off the edge of the world - Straw Resurrection - PPK Virus of the mind - Heather Nova

2002 11%*The middle - Jimmy Eat World £Freak like me - Sugababes Home and dry - Pet Shop Boys Addicted to bass - Puretones (blatantly ripped off by Girls Aloud) Skater boy - Avril Lavigne Envy - Ash Breathe your name - Sixpence None the Richer All the things she said - Tatu With or without you - Scala & Kolacny Brothers (.be) A sorta fairytale - Tori Amos

2003 Year 3000 - Busted Bring me to life - Evanescence You're the storm - Cardigans Hip teens don't wear blue jeans - The Frank Popp Ensemble Girls keep secrets in the strangest ways - Ephemera Twisted little star - Bertine Zetlitz Lady Stardust - Lisa Miskovsky Hey ya - Outkast €Outlandish - Guantanamo Defying gravity - Wicked OCR

2004 %Take me out - Franz Ferdinand %Chewing gum - Annie Toxic - Britney Spears Somewhere only we know - Keane Nearer than heaven - The Delays (electronica, soaring vocal) Get some sleep - Bic Runga Dog song - Nellie McKay (coffeehouse piano bop) California - Phantom Planet Four to the floor - Starsailor Float on - Modest Mouse Perfect wave - Barlow (eligible?) Eighth world wonder - Kimberley Locke Save a horse (ride a cowboy) - Big & Rich (bro country) Talk shows on mute - Incubus €Forza - Nelly Furtado Books - Belle & Sebastian Don't go (girls & boys) - Fefe Dobson €Mourir demain - Natasha St Pier & Pascal Obispo One thing - Finger Eleven €Amerika - Rammstein Alpha beta gaga - Air The promise you made - Kate Ryan A love that will last - Renee Olstead (smokey piano ballad) You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve - Johnny Boy

2005 The world is mine - Hooverphonic Destroy rock n roll - mylo €Le souvenir de ce jour - Jenifer (chanson) €Ma philosophie - amel bent (dancey chanson) Shiver - Natalie Imbruglia What's in it for me - Amy Diamond (inspiration for EVERYONE AT JESC 2019) Going missing - Maximo Park See you as I do - Trijntje Oosterhuis King of the mountain - Kate Bush Soul meets body - Death Cab for Cutie Coin-operated boy - The Dresden Dolls First day of my life - Melanie C I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys Song For Lovers Flopstars All about us - Tatu

2006 U + ur hand - Pink Nature's law - Embrace Welcome to the black parade - My Chemical Romance Hips don't lie - Shakira Pull shapes The Pipettes €Aimer jusqu'a l'impossible Tina Arena €Nolwenn ohwo! Nolwenn Leroy I Belong To You - Eros Ramazotti ft. Anastacia Everybody's Gone To War - Nerina Pallot breaking free - zac efron vanessa anne huggens Sing To Me Lisa Miskovsky €Baila morena Zucchero One Mary J Blige & U2 It's not that easy - Lemar Portions for foxes - Rilo Kiley Röyksopp's night out - Röyksopp Walking backwards - Angela Ammons Low happening - Howling Bells The adventure - Angels and Airwaves Once and never again - The Long Blondes That old pair of jeans - Fatboy Slim Ocean size love - Leigh Nash Speljet (Mr nice guy) - Trine Dyrholm Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken - Camera Obscura

2007 %Grace Kelly - Mika 11%*About you now - Sugababes 11% When we were wolves - My Latest Novel My best friend - Hello Saferide Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne My idea of heaven - Leigh Nash Summer wine - Ville Valo & Natalia Avalon (murder ballad) €Ein stern - DJ Ötzi The sweet escape - Gwen Stefani Close your eyes - Racoon (emo ballad, properly sung unlike Lewis Capaldi etc) Treehouse - I'm From Barcelona Young folks - Peter, Björn & John Thou shalt always kill - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip €Heul doch - LaFee Potential breakup song - Aly & AJ €Divine idylle - Vanessa Paradis With every heartbeat - Robyn Foundations - Katherine Nash from Wealdstone Pony Club Amaranth - Nightwish The balance - Fiona Bevan Ah Mary - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Brooklyn's on fire - Nicole Atkins Jolene - Jill Johnson (the cycle of Aaron's music challenges)

2008 %This is the life - Amy MacDonald Up - The Saturdays €Dégénération - Mylène Farmer (reinvents herself) New soul - Yaël Naïm Time to pretend - MGMT €Le menage - Stanislas (timeless fairground la-la-la) 11%0,000 nights - Alphabeat Shut up and let me go - Ting Tings LES Artistes - Santogold Crying blood - VV Brown White winter hymnal - Fleet Foxes One step at a time - Jordin Sparks Numb - Honey Ryder (crushing stately girl band) Don't call me baby - Kreesha Turner Heartbeat of the city - Kendi (rap & semi-classical break) €Allein, allein - Polarkreis 18 Politics in space - Kate Miller-Heidke

2009 11%*Bulletproof - La Roux Bad romance - Lady Gaga Rabbit heart (raise it up) - Florence & the Machine The climb - Miley Cyrus The fear - Lily Allen €Eisblumen - Eisblume Give it to me right - Melanie Fiona February air - Lights (ultra-chill electronica) It's a sin - The Jade (glam rock) So human - Lady Sovereign (Jools MF remix, interpolating "Close to me" Cure) I didn't just kiss her - Jen Foster (reply song to Katy Perry) My canvas my skin - Soulcage (emo-rock) Release me - Agnes The show - Lenka Jiggery-pokery - The Duckworth-Lewis Method We are the people - Empire of the Sun Goodbye - Kristinia DeBarge (empowered crushing breakup) Remedy - Little Boots Fools - The Temper Trap First train home - Imogen Heap Fireflies - Owl City €Krieger des Lichts - Silbermond (power ballad) Meet me on the equinox - Death Cab for Cutie I got nothing - Chartjackers (BBC Switch demonstrate how stupid it is to try and rig the chart) Cry me out - Pixie Lott According to you - Orianthi (snotty breakup with uselessbloke) New York - Paloma Faith All the right moves - Onerepublic

2010 %Say you love me - Voodoo Hussy (got a dj sacked) Neutron star collision (love is forever) - Muse Cry me a river - Michael Bublé Wavin' flag - K'naan On a mission - Gabriela Cilmi Need you now - Lady A. Home - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Bee - Lena (jazz-pop) The flood - Katie Melua You and I tonight - Faber Drive (totes emo) Two sisters - Emily Portman (proper folk ballad) On your head - Tiffany Page Paris is burning - St Vincent All time low - The Wanted Born free - MIA Get some - Lykke Li Christmas lights - Coldplay Firework - Katy Perry

2011 11% Downtown - Saw Doctors / Petula Clarke (joyful!) Sister wife - Alex Winston (squeaky indie) Pumped up kicks - Foster The People Uncharted - Sara Bareilles (loud piano banger: Tori Amos x Chas 'n' Dave) Clementine - Sarah Jaffe (angsty rock, folk tinge) Price tag feat B.o.B - Jessie J Moment 4 life (feat. Drake) - Nicki Minaj (haunting rap) My body - Young the Giant Sing it loud - k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang (21st cent kd i'm most comfortable with) The edge of glory - Lady Gaga Something in the water - Brooke Fraser (jolly clip-clop country song, different from Carrie Underwood's) Sunset in July - 311 Swagger jagger - Cher Lloyd Hide and seek - Christina Novelli (songwriter phase) Learning to ride - Caitlin Rose (multitrack angel vocals) New age - Marlon Roudette (Europop with dark tinge) Red solo cup - Toby Keith Anti-hero - Marlon Roudette (emo rap)

2012 £Closer - Tegan & Sara Stronger - Kelly Clarkson Anything could happen - Ellie Goulding Youth without youth - Metric Never go back - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Somebody that i used to know - Gotye Call me maybe - Carly rae jepsen We are young - Fun. Next to me - Emeli sande Good time - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen Black heart - Stooshe Spectrum - Florence + The Machine Alone again - Alyssa Reid ft Jump Smokers (Heart's "Alone" + rap) Dance with me tonight - Olly Murs Video games - Lana Del Rey €Ai se eu te pego! - Michel Teló (flamenco, chantalong) Blow me (one last kiss) - Pink €Avant qu'elle parte - Sexion D'assaut (gloomy rap) Girl on fire - Alicia Keys Guardian - Alanis Morissette €Lila wolken - Marteria, Yasha & Miss Platinum (more gloomy rap) Girl like me - Frances Wood €Le sens de la vie - Tal (poppy bop) Tage wie Diese - Die Toten Hosen Last night - Lucy spraggan Concrete angel - Gareth Emery Whirring - Joy Formidable We were children - Tribes Loveless - Said The Whale Superhero - Bigkids Safe and sound - Capital Cities

2013 Feel the love - Rudimental Best song ever - One Direction (waves at Stacey-Mae Anaïs) Pompeii - Bastille The days - Avicii ft Robbie Williams (covers two stars in one hit) Royals - Lorde A thousand years - Christina Perri €Papaoutai - Stromae (absent fathers) Wings - Birdy €Whatever - Cro (skater pop) Here's to never growing up - Avril Lavigne Am I wrong - Envy Work bitch - Britney Spears Selfies - Nina Nesbitt €Un angelo disteso al sole - Eros Ramazzotti Boys With Girlfriends - Kate Morgan Make A New Dance Up - Hey Ocean! (chirpy pop) Hold on we're going home - Drake f/Majid Jordan Falling - Haim Don't Look Down - Boxes (uplifting indie) Get Lucky - Daft Punk wicked games f/anna naklab - parra for cuva

2014 ~Blank space - Taylor Swift (repl Wildest dreams) 11% Take me to church - Hozier Calm after the storm - Common Linnets Something in the water - Carrie Underwood (about her experience in the mikvah, right?) I will never let you down - Rita Ora (big career from singing basic love songs in a contemporary style) The heart wants what it wants (nervy, glitchy) Happy - Pharrell Williams Rather be F/Jess Glynne - Clean Bandit Waves - Mr Probz Ghost - Ella Henderson Budapest - George Ezra Hideaway - Kiesza Chandelier - Sia Prayer in C - Lillywood & Robin Schulz Nobody to love - Sigma Let it go - Idina Menzel All about that bass - Meghan Trainor Cool kids - Echosmith Punks don't dance - Crystalyne €Atemlos durch die Nacht - Helene Fischer The man - Aloe Blacc Habits (stay high) - Tove Lo Say something - A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera Somebody to love - Sigma She looks so perfect - 5 Seconds Of Summer Geronimo - Sheppard Wild heart - The Vamps Girls chase boys - Ingrid Michaelson

2015 %If you love someone - The Veronicas 11% New americana - Halsey Not my soul - Destiny Chukenyere Black magic - Little Mix Send my love (to your new lover) - Adele €Est-ce que tu m'aimes - Maître Gims Running with the wolves - Aurora Shut up and dance - Walk The Moon Lean on - Major Lazer Ain't nobody (loves me better) - Felix Jaehn f/Jasmine Thompson Bills - Lunchmoney Lewis Never forget you - Mnek & Zara Larsson Runnin (lose it all) - Naughty Boy f/Beyonce Fight song - Rachel Platten One last time - Ariana Grande €Avenir - Louane €Christine - Christine And The Queens Follow your arrow - Kacey Musgraves Don't be so shy - Imany Live forever - The Band Perry Makeba - Jain

2016 %Can't stop the feeling! - Justin Timberlake €No degree of separation - Francesca Michielin The arena - Lindsey Stirling Believer - Imagine Dragons This one's for you - David Guetta & Zara Larsson Under the influence - Elle King My church - Maren Morris Cake by the ocean - Dnce If love was a crime - Poli Genova This girl - Kungs vs Cookin' on 3 Burners Don't let me down - The Chainsmokers f/Daya Stressed out - Twenty One Pilots Stitches - Shawn Mendes Perfect strangers - Jonas Blue f/JP Cooper I hate u, i love u - Gnash f/Olivia O'brien In the name of love - Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha The sound of silence - Disturbed Lost on you - LP Better - Hezekiah Walker Sink like a stone - Naomi Pilgrim Best kept secret - case lang viers Feel like fallin' in love - Madison King & Rhett Miller Sit still look pretty - Daya Starving - Hailee Steinfeld

2017 Castle on the hill - Ed Sheeran Chained to the rhythm - Katy Perry ft Skip Marley Issues - Julia Michaels Symphony - Clean Bandit f/Zara Larsson Be mine - Ofenbach Call on me - Starley Stay - Zedd & Alessia Cara Rooftop - Nico Santos Blinded by your grace - Stormzy f/MNEK Get what you give - Felix Cartal Lights down lox - Max f/Gnash Guys my age - Hey Violet €Chocolat - L'artiste €Millionär - 187 Strassenbande

2018 %IDGAF - Dua Lipa €Anyone I wanna be - Roxie Weigel Make your own kind of music - Paloma Faith This is me - Keala Settle Flames - David Guetta & Sia Friends - Marshmello & Anne-Marie Meant to be - Bebe Rexha Eastside - Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid Strangers - Sigrid Shallow - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper €OK ou KO - Emmy Liyana €À nos souvenirs - Trois Cafés Gourmands Broken - Lovelytheband €Bella ciao - El Profesor Baby shark - Pinkfong Candy cane lane - sia Feel it still - Portugal. The Man €Mayachki - Yulianna Karaulova (breathy Russian pop) €Dicke Lippen - Katja Krasavice (jittery neu-deutsche rap) €Sand - Molly Sandén (delicious ice mountain) €Perta - Manw Call - Francesco Yates (horny hookup disco) Sweet but psycho - Ava Max

2019 Arcade - Duncan Laurence How would you feel - Krezip Rollercoaster - Danny Vera Skyward - Davina Michelle Bad guy - Billie Eilish Don't call me up - Mabel €Con calma - Daddy Yankee & Snow Break up with your girlfriend - Ariana Grande What lies ahead - Kensington €Blauwe dag - Suzan & Freek Some say - Nea Let nature sing - RSPB Better - Lena & Nico Santos €Cordula Grün - Die Draufgänger €Alles is nog hier - Og3ne Into the future - Chef'special Acapella - Mikolas Josef Summer girl - Haim €Banshee - Anna Kearney You're somebody else - Flora Cash Uh huh - Jade Bird

2020 Release me - Hooverphonic Underdog - Alicia Keys Symphony - Sheppard €3sex - Indochine & Christine and the Queens €La fièvre - Julien Doré €Svag - Victor Leksell Death bed - Powfu, Beabadoobee Someone to you - Banners Lost in yesterday - Tame Impala Husavik - Will Ferrell & My Marianne If you think this is real life - Blossoms €Soms is het te laat - Wies The watchman - Eimear Quinn Water witch - The Secret Sisters Blinding lights - The Weeknd €Punk fu! - Daria Zawialow Wap - Cardi B My silver lining - First Aid Kit Ra's song (When you're mine) - DC Super Hero Girls OST (voice: Jason Charles Miller) At this table - Idina Menzel

2021 New shapes - Charli XCX ft Christine & the Queens, Caroline Polachek My heart goes (la di da) - Topic and Becky Hill Island - Alice Merton €Adem je in - S10 Hypnotized - Purple Disco Machine & Sophie And The Giants Wellerman - Nathan Evans €Lose my mind - Myra Granberg €Blijven slapen - Snelle & Maan Treat people with kindness - Harry Styles Don't shut me down - ABBA Abcdefu - Gayle Serotonin - Girl in Red Up - Inna Ik wil dansen - Froukje Strangers - Laura Tesoro And Loïc Nottet That's how it goes - Zoe Wees

2022 11%*Snap - Rosa Linn Anti-hero - Taylor Swift Secrets from a girl (who's seen it all) - Lorde €L'enfer - Stromae (depression) She's all i wanna be - Tate Mcrae Multicolor - Son Mieux We don't talk about Bruno - Carolina Gaitán/Mauro Castillo/Adassa/Rhenzy Feliz/Diane Guerrero/Stephanie Beatriz Ufo - Roxen €Meisjes van honing - Pommelien Thijs The wexford carol - Anuna Numb little bug - Em Beihold €Solas - Sophie Lennon Christmas in L A - Olivia Rox Bring on Christmas day - Joss Stone

2023 Flowers - Miley Cyrus Vampire - Olivia Rodrigo Runaway - Onerepublic €Pardonne-moi - Louane (silky pop) Thumbelina - Lizzy Hilliard €Stiekem - Maan/Goldband Boy's a liar - Pink Pantheress Bittersweet goodbye - Issey Cross Six feet under - Smash Into Pieces Over & over - Only The Poets Strangers - Kenya Grace Not strong enough - Boygenius My body - Coi Leray Cinderella snapped - Jax Dance the night - Dua Lipa

Now to slim these 457 tracks down to 50. Wish me luck!

#fear of mu21c #fear of music #uncool50 #uncool 50 #music #pop music #21st century #massive list of great songs #working post

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idontwanttospoiltheparty · 2 years ago

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I feel like you should rank the Speak Now songs on the basis of how McLennony they are, in honor of the joint holiday. (Although it's entirely possible that you've already done this at some point.)

THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK!!!!!!

I'm not sure I can *rank* them but I will rate them on a scale plus give an explanation for each.

Mine: 11/10 CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

Sparks Fly: 3/10 this one feels too girl-coded lol, but YMMV

Back To December: 8/10 actually. ACTUALLY. bonus: "And when you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry"

Speak Now: 6.5/10 also very girl-coded but Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Band Of Mine so.

Dear John: NaN* I Don't Like To Think About It Lol

Mean: 4/10 kinda Paul-coded and I guess it could apply to their divorce era but the vibe is off idk

The Story Of Us: 10/10 THIS IS LOOKING LIKE A CONTEST OF WHO CAN ACT LIKE THEY CARE LESS BUT I LIKED IT BETTER WHEN YOU WERE ON MY SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never Grow Up: 2/10 no I don't think so lol

Enchanted: 7.5/10 "Counter all your quick remarks like passing notes in secrecy" :(

Better Than Revenge: 6/10 the OPPOSITE of Mean. the content doesn't really fit (Well–) but the vibe is Correct.

Innocent: 8/10 thinking about Paul relating to this one now makes me kind of insanely :((((( it's too much

Haunted: 9/10 it works at TWO POINTS in the timeline (thanks I hate it)

Last Kiss: 8/10 I never planned on you changing your mind :(

Long Live: 10/10 :((((((( hold on to spinning around……………

*coder joke for you folks at home

#ask #ohblahdo #swiftles #taylor #jp

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verybadatcardgames · 2 years ago

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I love your Sightshipping HCs! I have to say, I've never really thought about it before, but it's a pretty interesting ship. ^-^

What about Joey for 002?

Always happy to have an excuse to spread some Sightshipping headcanons around :D

Onwards to the character ask!

Joey

How I feel about this character: I really do like him and think he's complex character. This guy is a true "ride or die" friend, yet he's played often as comic relief among the main cast, and he also gets treated like a punching bag throughout the series despite the hard work, effort, and integrity he puts into everything he does.

Holy shit, the wringer this poor guy went through during Battle City and Alcatraz, then for Mai to fixate on him and blame him for her troubles during Doma because... he can't read her mind halfway across the world and help her?? Yes, we can place some blame on Dartz and the Orichalcos stone for twisting her mind, but there wouldn't have been something to be twisted in the first place if Mai didn't have some sort of grudge towards him. I'm not downplaying Mai's trauma by any means and have many of my own thoughts on her Doma era and the PTSD that was inflicted by Malik, but I don't think it was very fair of her to put all of this resentment and expectation on a 16/17 year old boy who by all means considered her his friend and would have done, and did do, everything he could to help her once he realized how badly she'd been affected by the whole ordeal.

Then everyone (not just Seto!) proceeds to take a shit on him during the Grand Prix arc, like he didn't also help save the world for the third or fourth time in the previous season?? Come on!

I know he started out as Yuugi's bully and antagonized him, but he's long since paid his penance and he deserves more respect.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: I'm an old-timey Polarshipper, though I vastly prefer this ship when Jounouchi has some more life experience under his belt as an adult and can approach Mai from that growth and life experience.

Wishshipping is cute, and I also like Buddyshipping. I'm a sucker for friends to lovers sometimes.

Can't remember the ship name for Rishid/Joey but I like that as both romantic and/or platonic friendship.

I also like Puppy/Violetshipping, because I am also a sucker for enemies to lovers. Or just enemies to enemies who fu

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I bro-ship him with Vivian Wong. I know it makes no sense but hear me out

They're both athletic jocks who are hot tempered and are wholly capable of throwing hands and holding their own if a fight were to break out in a bar. They'd be right at home in a John Woo flick.

And I ship them both with Mai so they can bond over their impeccable taste in the same woman.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I just said I polyship Joey/Mai/Vivian. That's about as unpopular of an opinion as it gets.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: A whole episode where he gets separated from his group during the Ancient Egypt arc and meets a woman with red eyes that turns out to be the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, but she's more well adjusted and has a sense of humor compared to Kisara. She's aware of the stuff going on, but she actively makes an effort not to get involved because who wants to deal with that? But she ends up getting dragged into world altering situations anyhow because sometimes life just be like that and you gotta roll with the punches. Amiright?

my OTP: *points to everything above*

my cross over ship: He would totally fawn over Kumiko Yamaguchi from Gokusen.

He would also fear her, immensely.

a headcanon fact: He still likes to dress up as Marylin Monroe when he's by himself.

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He would like to get a gig singing covers of his favorite songs at a classy night club in a sparkling sequin dress, but he's low-key haunted by the poor reception he received from the popularity contest in high school and talks himself out of it every time the thought crosses his mind.

#ask #joey wheeler #jounouchi katsuya #jounouchi #joey #yugioh #ygo #toei #dm #duel monsters #mai kujaku #mai valentine #vivian wong #gokusen #crossover #season zero #season 0

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captainderyn · 2 years ago

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OC Tag Game

Ehehehe thank you for the tag @tiredassmage <3

Favorite OC:

Oh man...oh how can you ask me to choose my favorite? In all honesty it kind of rotates depending on what game I'm fixated on that most that day/week/month lol. The usual havers-of-my-fixation are Five, Ryn, and Raenor & Wulfwryn (they come as a pair, fight me).

(But, just between you and me goers-of-tumblr, Five and Raenor are pretty tied :P)

Newest OC: I'm not going to count my Ryder from ME:A because I haven't introduced her here yet, so I'd say Roslynd. I wanted to create her in theory for awhile but then I got bit by the agent bug thanks to @tiredassmage and finally actually created her!

Oldest OC (length of time you've had them): As far as some form of their existence in the source material, probably Wulfwryn. I created her waaay back in...oh man...2011/12 when my Lord of the Rings hyperfixation was really sparked. Though I was an early middle schooler at that point, so naturally Wulfwryn was a thirtheenth walker insert and also far less developed and nuanced its a good thing I didn't post in the internet

However, in any iteration, probably Emeldir and Wren. They've been two of my longest standing OC concepts that have kind of bounced from universe to universe from old RP forums, to LOTR, to SWTOR. Though they're very, very different now. Emeldir used to be a wolf shape-shifter and Wren used to be far less of a WLW boss ass bitch.

Emeldir is my oldest SWTOR OC though, he was my first character way back in 20...uh...2015/16 when I first picked the game up.

Meanest OC: See, I'm really bad at making mean characters so I'm not sure xD Wren is probably the one who gives the least fucks and is more likely to put you in your place. She is a Dark Counselor after all, she's got to have an edge to her to succeed.

Softest OC: Raenor my bby boy (affectionate, that's a whole ass 500+ year old elven man). He is absolutely my softest OC who gets dragged into The Plot. He just wants to love Wulfwryn and create his music but instead Things Keep Happening.

Most Aloof/Standoffish: *trying to card through all my OCs, I have too many, especially Dragon Age ones I haven't talked about in awhile). I would say Five, only because that's how he is with basically everyone except Roslynd, Era, and his junior agents in the Cipher Division.

Dumbest (affectionate): This one probably goes to Ien, but I haven't talked about Ien in awhile he's fallen off the radar :') my idiot freckled blueberry smuggler. He's dumb as rocks (by choice).

For OCs I talk about regularly(ish) that has to go to Emeldir. He very book smart, but very young and naive at the start of the class story and very much NOT what you expect from a smuggler's personality and so many times Risha has to keep him from getting scammed because "NO they aren't being nice, they will take your money, no they don't actually need your help."

Smartest OC: Five and/or Ryn no contest. Five is smart as a whip, he needs to be and he's very logic-minded.

Horniest OC: *sigh* V. This woman cannot stop being horny for Judy even when we have plot to do. She's singularly minded, that one.

Ryn is also surprisingly horny but neither she nor I understand why she's attracted to turians, if she's actually attracted to turians at all, or if Garrus just Got Her With That Voice And Personality and the rest just kind of happens. So let me correct myself, she's *VERY* horny for Garrus, I just rarely write it because I don't understand physically why.

OC You'd Bang: *bisexual panic* Ha..ahaha...quite a few of them. Let's see, Five I accidentally projected My Type Of Man onto so definitely him. And also Ryn...very much Ryn, I mean *c'mon* yes Shepard hold me in your buff arms.

OC You'd Be Best Friends With IRL: Probably Emeldir ngl, he's so nice and chill and really just a quiet guy and by proxy that means I get a token extrovert friend in Rielay. I would love to be friends with Era but I definitely feel like she'd be way cooler than I am IRL.

Tagging... @storyknitter @queen-scribbles and @greyias if you'd like to join!

#captainderyn memes #me with my many ocs but only a small handful that ever come out of the toybox

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