#i just got curious and wanted to check out the old stuff on my blog and im crying

[asleepygremlin]

I was looking at my old posts and realized I accidentally put in misinformation

In this old post I claimed that Kieran’s Japanese name, suguri, which is the Japanese name for currants, meant “hope and forgiveness” but apparently that was just the title of a blog post with no mention of currant symbolism whatsoever

Lesson learned: Always fact check your stuff

So to try and fix this, I actually searched up the proper symbolism of currants and found a flower language site with a page on currants with symbolism so that’s better than the last post that had basically nothing

Even with all I said in mind, you should do your own research instead of believing everything you see on the internet like idiot old me and please fact check me if I got anything wrong

The site is in Japanese so you have to use google translate to read the page. According to the symbolism section, it says “あなたの不機嫌が私を苦しめる” and “私はあなたを喜ばせる” which is translated as “your grumpiness makes me suffer” and “I make you happy” but considering it’s google translate, I decided to crackhead translate it myself using wiktionary because I wanted to make sure myself and I basically got the same sentences as the google translated ones and roughly got “your unhappiness makes me worry” and “I want to make you happy.” Which means that google translate was actually right and I did ALL of this for nothing _(:3」z)_ well I’m glad I went to seek out the answer and google translate doesn’t take tone into account so someone could phrase it more correctly than my crackhead translation

Here’s how this relates to Kieran

So if, and only if, this is accurate and actually true, this explains and foreshadows a lot of the scarlet and violet dlc. The first sentence of “your unhappiness makes me worry” is literally what happens near the end of the teal mask and all of the indigo disk, Kieran constantly comparing himself to others and the player especially and causing both Carmine and hopefully the player to worry about him. The second sentence “I want to make you happy” is even more explicit with the blueberry academy cast, Carmine, and the player wanting to know what is up with him and how to make him happy again.

Below is the toil of my efforts if you’re curious

(I was going to link the wiktionary pages to each kanji but it didn’t let me so here’s wiktionary if you want to do extra research but you have to either copy paste the kanji itself or use a Japanese keyboard to find the exact results)

I’d also like to put here that kanji has multiple meanings and isn’t always read as they are the sentences provided so this isn’t necessarily a kanji lesson.

First let’s take “あなたの不機嫌が私を苦しめる” in which the Hepburn romanji is “anata no fukigen ga watashi o kurushimeru.”

Anyone can probably recognizes watashi/私 and anata/あなた which are the Japanese personal pronouns for I/me and you respectively if we simplify it

The hiragana no/の is generally used as a particle to indicate possession. ex: watashi no kaban/私のかばん would translate to “my bag”

The kanji fu/不 according to wiktionary is commonly used as a prefix for un-, non-, in-. Basically it’s a negative prefix like the in- in insecure. Or it can be used to describe something as bad

ki/機 means a lot of things depending on the kanji paired with it which leads into the next kanji, gen/嫌 means disagreeable or unpleasant by itself however when both are combined, it reads as kigen/機嫌 which translate into mood or feeling and other kanji is usually meant to be placed in front of it

This makes the phrase fukigen/不機嫌 which if translated literally, it means bad mood. And according to its wiktionary page, can mean unhappy or despondent.

For brief explanation, Japanese uses particles to refer to things instead of word order like English which pop up a bit in the sentences

ga/が is used for multiple things but the most relevant meaning when looking at the full sentence is that its being used to refer to the subject of a sentence

That makes what we currently translated so far, anata no fukigen ga/あなたの不機嫌が could be read as “your bad mood”, “your unhappiness” or something similar

Finally onto the second half, watashi o kurushimeru/私を苦しめる. I already explained 私 so I’ll move onto o/を which can be read as wo and is usually used to indicate an object of a sentence.

The last part of the sentence is kuru/苦 which by itself means bitter taste, pain, suffering, and other synonyms. When combined with the hiragana, it means to cause worry or to cause one to suffer on its wiktionary page. Which means the second part roughly translates to cause me to suffer or worry.

That means that the full sentence, “あなたの不機嫌が私を苦しめる” means roughly “your unhappiness makes me worry” or something along those lines.

Onto the next sentence. “私はあなたを喜ばせる” has the romanji of “watashi wa anata o yorokobaseru.” I already explained Japanese pronouns and particle を/o so I’ll briefly go over wa/は which is usually read as ha. は when read as wa in this sentence, is the particle referring to the subject or topic so the subject is I/me and the object is you

Finally onto yorokobaseru. 喜/yoroko by itself is an affix meaning joy or to be pleased. And now we run into Japanese being weird, I couldn’t find what baseru meant until I realized that one spelling of yoroko was yorokobashii/喜ばしい so I searched up seru/せる by itself and it’s a suffix that is often conjugated which explains the structure. The definition that makes the most sense in context is the one “to make”. So that makes the final sentence roughly “I want to make you happy” or along a similar phrasing.

Conclusion: Dear god this was longer than I thought. I got way too lost in the sauce trying to brute force learning Japanese but I hope you enjoyed it i guess? I wanted to make up my blunder but ended up info dumping but this is tumblr so maybe it fits idk

[mozart-goes-woof]

I should probably make a pinned post or something so here goes. MINORS GET THE FUCK OFF MY BLOG RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Ok now that we got that out of the way. Hi!!! I'm Mozart! A 27 year old slutty guy (he/him please) with a penchant for hypnosis and sadistic ladies. I've also realized that joys of pet play lately and VERY MUCH try to be the goodest boy! ☺️ While I am primarily submissive, I occasionally switch and service top.

May or may not post some lewds of myself on here as time goes on. I am an exhibitionist. For my friends who know me from my previous blog: yes I still have the display trigger, feel free to use it. However I'm probably not going to be advertising it on this page. If you're reading this and are curious... Please reach out and say hi!

DM's are open, so be polite please. Although I am into CNC and covert things, please have the decency to negotiate with me BEFORE doing anything like that. It'll make everything so much more fun!

I play with some folks IRL and online, but am not in any serious relationship, romantic or D/s. Nor am I looking for anything serious. Just trying to be a happy horny hypnoslut and enjoy my time with cool and depraved folks! 😁

Likes, limits and tags below

Some general likes

Hypnosis - (9 years of experience as a subject, 2-3 years of experience as a hypnotist)

Using my mouth to worship my superiors

Obeying

Dumbification

Bondage

CNC

Hard Limits

Financial Domination

Sissification

Feminization

Blackmail

Toilet play

Blood

Food play

As a result of bullying from one of my friends, I am ATTEMPTING to use tags now.

#dog goes woof - my posts/writing/thoughts

#dog's favorite treats - my favorites

#V - posting about local play partner

#save - stuff I've saved bc I like it or bc I want to check it out later

#spirals - any spirals or flashy gifs,, use this to filter them out

#induction: Hypnotic inductions I like

#dog in the flesh - for pics of me if I ever post them

#woofs and whimpers - for audios of me if I ever post them

[ducktracy]

How did you became a fan of looney tunes, particularly the porky and daffy shorts?

SO! THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG ASK because i get asked this a lot (and have talked about it pretty frequently lately), and i feel every time i answer i have 80 explanations. all of them are true! but i kinda want a repository so i can reference back to my thoughts if and when the question comes up, because i love talking about it. saying this now because usually when i intend to answer an ask quickly, that's never how it goes.

TLDR for both is: i was bored one day, saw Boomerang was airing the shorts, remembered hearing good things about the shorts and was immediately swept away. a series of rabbit holes clinched my obsession. as for Daffy and Porky, i find them intensely interesting and they're also some of the most i've ever found myself reflected in a fictional character, Daffy especially.

NOW THE LONGER ANSWERS!

SO. as i mentioned above, there's about 80 different explanations i could give for what got me into Looney Tunes. (this is not true and heavy hyperbole, but it is true that my interest was clinched in a number of ways). the most objective of those is that, i was very curious about learning the history and production of cartoons, especially because i had aspirations of making my own cartoons one day and working in the industry. at the time, there was (and still kind of is...) a popular animation blog by a, uh, let's say disgraced cartoonist. said disgraced cartoonist had a blog where he would discuss animation technique, history, and in spite of knowing he was disgraced and very publicly disavowing him to the point of overcompensation, i drank the Kool-Aid and fell into the trap of reading his blog pretty religiously and absorbing a bunch of information that i have now spent years unlearning and have no interest in returning to.

BUT ANYWAY. said cartoonist's blog discussed LT quite often as a pinnacle of great cartooning. i never actually went out of my way to check out any of the shorts mentioned--it was just sort of an understanding of "oh wow, these are important. got it." and not putting the research in

come September 2019 (the 13th to be exact because i'm neurotic and memorize dates). i'm home alone for the weekend and bored out of my mind. channel surf. see Boomerang is showing LT shorts. think, "hey, i've spent years reading about how good this stuff is, i didn't watch it very often as a kid, let's see if the rumors about this being good are true." AND THEY WERE! the first short i saw was Bob McKimson's Upswept Hare which is actually not one i go out of my way to watch often, it's whatever, but i thought it was amazing that i was able to watch cartoons from 1953 on my TV. even though my obsession with golden age cartoons is recent, i've had a lifelong nostalgia affliction--i've been interested in things that are old for as long as i can remember.

after that was Rabbit Transit which, wow, 1947?? that's even older! and even COOLER!!! and it's true! Friz Freleng's Bugs is now my favorite director's interpretation of the character. i was amazed at how funny it was, how fast everything was, how lush the music sounded and how intricate the animation was. i genuinely did not know animation could be that smooth and lush. it was seriously mind blowing. likewise, seeing these McKimson and Freleng Bugs shorts defied the notion i had for the longest time where i only thought Bugs was just a terminally bored beacon of invincibility, since those were the shorts i remembered most from my childhood. Rabbit Transit ends with Bugs being dragged away by cops kicking and screaming--i thought it was HILARIOUS and so different than what i was used to. i really wanted to see more Bugs Bunny and see how my notions of what he was continued to be challenged.

another short included in the line-up was A Pest in the House, which is one of the major dominos in this entire domino effect. i didn't watch very much LT as a kid (only just on DVDs during road trips, but i recall seeing a few on Cartoon Network or Boomerang at some point in my life), but i do recall having a particular dislike towards Daffy since he was mean. also, he was not a cute and cuddly cat and/or rabbit like Sylvester and Bugs, which did not appease my child mind, who loved cats and rabbits. (my childhood cat looked like Sylvester so i've always been fond of him, i do recall owning a Sylvester balloon on a stick at one point as a small child, so yay?)

needless to say, my hopes were not very high. Daffy Duck, who cares, whatever. so, of course, finding out that Daffy is small and cute here and acting amicably, smiling, and being obnoxious was VERY surprising and novel to me. the bit where he's cracking up and can't even tell the poor hotel patron a joke because he's too busy laughing and sobbing and screaming and then FORGETS IT was my canon event. my "oh god, i have never related more to anything than i do right now in this moment." (this is still true, as this exact thing happened to me on a Zoom call recently and i was literally sobbing cracking myself up at a stupid joke i thought of that literally isn't funny at all, and i kept thinking of that scene which just made me laugh harder).

that, in conjunction with this scene and how QUICKLY IT MOVED, how SMOOTHLY, how ENERGETIC the music is, the hilarity that is Elmer's "?" above his head... i HAD TO SEE MORE. i was so interested to learn that Daffy wasn't just a self-obsessed greedy miser all the time. i had no idea cartoons could move this way. you can time the action to the music?? that's GENIUS! so A Pest in the House was a very big break through moment for me and kickstarted my infatuation with Daffy Duck.

another breakthrough was watching Falling Hare for the first time thanks to Boomerang as well. it was the first Bob Clampett cartoon i saw as a cognizant adult, and i knew to look out for it because this disgraced cartoon creator certainly loved to make his bootlicking of Clampett very, very, very well known. i thought that it was amazing to be seeing a short from 1943 on TV!!! SO ANCIENT! so old! who knew they made cartoons that old! and, most importantly, who knew they made cartoons that old THAT MOVE AS GORGEOUSLY AS THEY DO HERE!!!! GEEEEEEZ, you wanna talk about never seeing cartoons move like that before... and not only that, i loved the humor, i loved the characterizations, i loved even the most hokey gags in it. i decided that to really jumpstart my interest in LT, rather than waiting around to catch Boomerang airings, i'd binge the entire Clampett chronology. i did indeed do this, and it wasn't until i got to around 1942 or so that i finally began to branch out and watch other directors

THERE ARE STILL MORE BRANCHES TO THE STORY! SOMEHOW! while i wasn't much of a LT fan before this, i WAS a Tom and Jerry fan. was a very big fan as a kid. i didn't go out and watch the shorts as an adult, but i did listen to the soundtracks. i recall listening to one of the soundtracks, and a comment on it talked about comparisons between Scott Bradley, who did the MGM scores, and Carl Stalling, who did WB's. i was like "huh, wonder who this Stalling fella is" and looked up one of his music compilations. found one from the '30s, went "there's such a thing as Depression-era music scores??" and listened to it.

one of the comments on that video gave a timestamp and mentioned a Porky's Romance. i went to the timestamp, listened to the song, and thought it was one of the most beautiful things i had heard in my life. i still have a screen recording saved in my camera roll from when i first listened to it. i thought, this is so gorgeous, i have to see what cartoon this is from.

and lo and behold, the cartoon about Porky Pig offing himself because he got rejected in his marriage proposal was the first Porky short i saw as an adult. similar to my Bugs and Daffy revelations, there were SO many things that intrigued me. largely: I HAD NO IDEA THEY MADE THE CARTOONS IN BLACK AND WHITE! seeing these beloved cartoon characters in black and white was the coolest thing to me! i had to learn more! likewise, i never knew that Porky was fat! or that these shorts would deal with such dark subject matter! or that they could be so representative of their time with the music styling and background design!

SO, all of these sort of culminated together. i wanted to see more LT, i wanted to see more cartoons that challenged my perception of them. i wanted to see more old things. shocking things. beautiful things. my main path into LT was binging a bunch of the Bob Clampett cartoons, which coincided with my interest in seeing more Porky shorts and more black and white shorts since the first 4 years of his career were nothing BUT black and white Porky cartoons. i also recall checking out Porky's Duck Hunt around the same time i watched Romance for the first time, but i'm not sure why. i think i was reading up on the Wikipedia article for A Pest in the House, learned that Daffy used to be crazy, and wanted to see it for myself. i also fell in love with the novelty of seeing him HOOHOO and jump around and act a fool, as well as the very present 30s-isms in that short.

i began to branch out to other directors, a lot of my introductions boiling down to "i saw this on Google and it looked interesting" (i know that's how i discovered Yankee Doodle Daffy). there was a period in early October 2019 where i was beginning to lose a little interest and fixating on other shows instead, but i watched Porky in Wackyland for the first time and, well, HERE I YAM! likewise, seeing praise about Baby Bottleneck and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery got me to jump ahead in my self imposed Clampett chronology and watch those for the first time (October 18th, 2019, a day that will forever live in infamy). needless to say, it was one of the smartest decisions of my life since those are two of my favorite cartoons of all time. Baby Bottleneck impressed me so much that it literally gave me heart palpitations SO SEVERE i genuinely considered calling my parents to tell them i might need to go to the hospital. i seriously thought i was having a heart attack. no cartoon has ever made me feel like that since. that was a defining "i need to do this" moment for me. again, i reiterate, talk about not knowing the possibilities of how animation could move.

and from thereon out, i continued to go on my little rabbit holes. i started my reviews in December 2019 as an excuse to motivate myself to see every Looney Tunes cartoon ever made (which is a mission i completed on December 31st, 2022.) i've seen and even own some of the animation art from the cartoons themselves in person, i've had relatives of the directors praise my work, i can directly owe my job to LT (and am known as the LT person--specifically, the pig and duck person--by my bosses, coworkers, and peers), i've received job offers from Warner Bros... all because i got bored one day and decided to channel surf.

it's been nearly 5 years now. September 2019, i was in a very low point in my life. i was recovering from a very messy and rather traumatic break-up, there was some related drama affecting my friendships, i had just started college and was missing all the friends and relationships i'd built in high school, and i was really grappling with my mental health as a result. this introduction couldn't have come at a perfect time. i went from being despondent and listless and depressed to actively looking forward to waking up and discovering a new cartoon to watch because it meant i'd learn something new. i really look back on that time fondly. i cringe at a lot of what i was saying and doing back then, as i've learned so much more and matured a lot since then, but i'm still so lucky to have had that time in my life. and even though i'm 5 years in, and even though i've calmed down in a lot of aspects, that excitement never really goes away and i don't forsee it doing so. i can tell this is going to be a lifelong fixture for me. i don't have any doubt about it. calling it a "hyperfixation" or "interest" seems to temporary and diminutive; too many areas of my life have been affected by it and it's really just ingrained in me now, and will continue to do so. i'm so lucky for that.

SO! TO GET COMPARATIVELY LESS PHILOSOPHICAL BUT STILL RELEVANTLY SO, answering your question about Daffy and Porky specifically

as i talked about above, much of my investment in them comes from really identifying with the both of them. Daffy a bit moreso, but certainly Porky as well. i find myself in Daffy's exuberance, passion, impulsiveness, his emotionality, his... shall we say "neuroticisms", always living life at a high frequency, being a very all or nothing person, his often fleeting attention span and endeavors, his obnoxiousness, good humor, his charisma (this feels so conceited of me to say but i've had multiple people told me i'm charismatic--i don't entirely believe so but i think it is worth bringing up, if nothing else), his at-times overly trusting demeanor. all of these descriptions are more in line with the 40s Daffy rather than the Daffy most folks know, though there is some overlap and i can't say there aren't some traits of the later Daffy i don't see myself in either. namely impulsiveness, a tendency to be a bit overbearing, etc... that's why i can relate so much to him, because he's not just a character who i relate to for positives.

Porky, i can relate a lot to his idiosyncrasies, his stubbornness, his obliviousness, a general awkwardness, [usually] good heart, innocence, occasionally hare trigger temper (i do not consider myself an angry person thank goodness and i'd definitely consider myself more optimistic than most, but if i am mad i am very mad and have a very hard time concealing it), which leads me to my next point in also being pretty transparent, a little bit of a stutter, and so forth

me being able to relate to the both of them certainly does help in pushing them up the ranks, but my enjoyment doesn't hinge on that because i'm thankfully able to see them as their own characters (and i think if i just saw them as reflections of Me the whole time, it'd be a bit uncomfortable). that's the biggest draw: their dynamic is so intensely interesting to me and unlike anything else offered by any of the other characters in the cartoons.

i'm mostly interested in the cartoons and the people behind the scenes rather than the characters, which is funny to say since character and characterization is super important to me. maybe this'll change! but as of right now, i don't really care to think up any headcanons for The Tasmanian Devil or Pepe le Pew or what have you. i'm namely interested in the characters if it directly relates to their context with their creators. i was just saying the other day that i tend to be averse to things that have the LT cast in a big ensemble, even if you remove the "oh they're a happy family" aspect from it. i worded it more succinctly here:

Daffy and Porky are the only real exceptions to this, and it's likewise because they're some of the only characters who weren't bound to a certain director. Tex Avery only ever directed 3 Daffy cartoons, and Friz Freleng, as much as i love the Porkys he did direct and wish he did more, didn't seem very interested in pursuing Porky the same as he did with his other characters like Yosemite Sam or Sylvester (both of whom being some of my favorites, Sylvester ranks behind Daffy and Porky for me in terms of favorites. amazing character.) this likewise offers them a lot of freedom, as they're subject to more interpretation by more directors

their dynamic is the most varied out of any, and i love that. some shorts they're roommates and work together. others, they want each other's blood. my favorite is a good blend of both. but, no matter what dynamic they're in, they still feel like Daffy and Porky. they're flexible and malleable but not completely lost in who they are. i've expressed many times that they're the only two characters who can have a genuine sort of camaraderie between them in the shorts where they do and have it feel natural rather than "get a load of these guys teaming up!". in my eyes, they have the best chemistry, they play off of each other so well. my favorite Porky shorts and my favorite Daffy shorts are always the ones where they're with the other. there are genuinely no Porky and Daffy shorts i dislike outside of the sadly usual "this is racist garbage", but thankfully that's only limited to a very select handful.

much of it likewise comes down to novelty. when i first began getting into their shorts, i was AMAZED that i had never heard anyone talk about their dynamic before. granted, i probably wasn't looking, but all my life it's always been Bugs and Daffy Bugs and Daffy Bugs and Daffy--i still, maybe selfishly, think the Porky and Daffy shorts are 50x more interesting and fun to watch and it was just MINDBLOWING to me how i'd never seen anyone bring this up! how is nobody talking about how varied their dynamic is? why is nobody talking about how well they play off each other here? why is nobody talking about how funny this is? it's a feeling of sort of stumbling into a hidden diamond mind. i really like that feeling. it's why the '30s and '40s shorts are my preferred favorites; they're less talked about, which means i have more room to shill them and maybe give someone the same reaction it's given me. i love that aspect of exploration.

i've been typing this out for nearly 1 hour and 25 minutes straight, and so my steam is finally beginning to run out. there's more i could say on just how much Porky and Daffy mean to me, but that's the general jist. i identify with them both a lot, i sincerely love their chemistry, i think they're one of the most interesting cartoon duos of all time, i want more people to discover them, and i just love watching them. Mel Blanc's Daffy voice is one of the most beautiful sounds i've ever heard and i'm not even exaggerating. i have so much fun picking apart Porky's stutter and seeing how it varies depending on the voice directing, and i love catching certain stutters that Mel Blanc does that feel very true to life/like something i've heard out of my own mouth before. i love how they have a bit of an underrepresented past (Porky moreso; i've really fallen in love with the Joe Dougherty era shorts). they're just so interesting and offer so much, no matter what your interest is.

WOW. this may have been the lengthiest ask i've ever answered. but, ye ask and ye shall receive, so i hope ye received!

[sailorsplatoon]

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About me!

Hi! You can call me Lily, LilyMoon, sailorsplatoon, sailor, or whatver you want, idc.

My pronouns are she/they/fae (if you need help understanding the neopronon set I use, feel free to ask! I am happy to explain it)

I am a minor (17 years old), so no NSFW interactions on my blog please.

I mostly post about Splatoon, but I'm in a bunch of other fandoms as well, so you might see an occasional post referencing something else.

You're welcome to tag me in anything! I love getting tagged!

About my blog!

This is a bit of a Splatoon ask blog depending on the asks people send. A lot of it is centered around shipping and my ocs, so feel free to send me an ask about them, or an ask about something else if you want as well. Also I recognize that my blog can be very difficult to understand if you don’t have all the lore, so if you have any questions about anything on the blog at all, just send them over and I’m happy to answer them!

I like all sorts of ships, but my OTP is Acht x Agent 4 (or dedfour as I like to call them). I post about them a lot. You can check the #dedfour and #acht x agent 4 tags on my blog if you’re curious what I’ve posted about them in the past!

I post a lot of oc x canon stuff too, which you can find under the #oc x canon tag! Currently there’s Marie x Shina, Shiver x Birch, Frye x Elle, and Callie x Elita. If you want to know more about a specific one, search my blog for a tag of the canon character.

Another one that I've talked about a little bit is a polycule QPR that I've been calling bittersweet pancake, it's between Captain 3, Agent 8, and Big Man. You can find those posts under the #bittersweet pancake tag!

I also now have an oc named Nita, who is in a relationship with @/sniffingcinnamon's oc, Basil! More info on her can be found here, and more info on Basil can be found on cinnamon's blog!

Most of the relationships also have children that I post about frequently, so here's a post with a short guide to all of them! And here is a REALLY long post with a little bit of lore about all of my ocs!

Where to find me!

I have an ao3 account that I post fan fiction on, I also post the same fanfic here on Tumblr!

You can check out my pronouns page if you want to read more on my preferred terms and pronouns.

You can check out my alt blog here! This is mostly just for my personal use and random posting.

I just got a bluesky account! I am still getting used to the site, so there's not much to see right now, but I plan to use it more than I do Twitter. (There's also a good chance I use it frequently and just haven't updated this post since then)

I also have Twitter, but I’m not as active there as I am here.

My fanfiction!

I wanted to put a little list of all the fanfictions I've written so far! If you're curious, give them a read!

This Forgotten Melody is an Acht bacstory that just so happened to be the first fic I ever posted! As a result, it doesn't have a specific tag on my blog, nor is it in any way canon compliant... but you can find it on ao3!

Watch The Sky With You is the Dedfour fic that my blog is based around! You can find it on my tumblr under the tag #Watch the Sky With You, or you can read it on ao3!

I write a ton of very short oneshots on here too! I've archived all of them on ao3 if you're curious. All of these come from writing requests, so feel free to send one if you're interested!

Lastly, there is my ongoing fanfiction called An LED Light at the End of the Tunnel!!! This is an Agent 4 angst fic in which Four gets lonely enough to consider turning to the hypnoshades.

Anyway thanks for checking out my blog! Bye!

[hexenmeisterer]

I went to my first furry convention last weekend! I had so much fun. since then I've been poking around learning more about the fandom and its history -- turns out it totally shares a close lineage with media fandom, because they both were born out of science fiction fandom / convention culture!

a highlight of the weekend at FC was when I ended up popping in on the Ask A Greymuzzle Anything panel (initially I wanted to go to the Furry Studies panel but it was very tragically cancelled 😭) but yeah we just wandered into this room where Rod O'Riley was speaking, and he talked a lot / very lovingly about his late husband, Mark Merlino, and showed a bunch of his art, and talked about what cons were like in the early days.

Later after I got home, I watched this documentary (The Fandom), which was a great general overview type thing. I was surprised to see Rod O'Riley and Mark Merlino heavily featured there as the people who started the first furry gatherings (room parties at Westercons)! They were also very involved with starting the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, which was the first Japanimation/anime fan club in the U.S. (I was also surprised that anime fandom directly grew out of science fiction conventions/was perceived to have "taken over" them for a while before they differentiated!) check them out hanging out with Osamu Tezuka in this capacity here.

(WAIT also random detail -- further below, in the "convention history" video, they describe how these early anglophone anime fans screened anime. because there weren't subtitles or dubs, they passed out programs that described the plot of what you were watching, and also had someone stand up next to the TV and narrate lol! they cite this practice as an origin point for AMV culture, I'm curious to learn more about this! this also tickled my brain because I recently learned about Benshi, Japanese performers who provided narration for silent films both foreign and domestic.)

Then I found this recorded panel of furry fandom historians talking about their work (I got something like the furry studies panel I'd been hoping to attend after all!) it's full of great stuff. They think about so many of the same concerns that show up everywhere in fandom history about the urgency of preserving ephemera, obtaining artists' permission to archive their art (especially when they have reasons to not want it archived), and the challenge of interpreting fan-generated survey results/stats.

They also talk about this (kind of miraculously preserved) archive of fursona art from the 90s! there's some beautiful stuff in there. it's all just listed in order of image name, so you just gotta click around and see what you find! I really like a lot of the artist Grey Wolf's art, and they mark their files with .gw at the end. I'm curious to find out more about who they are/were in the fandom, but tragically grey wolf is the least googleable name ever 😭

One of the panelists runs Fang, Feather, and Fin, a lovely furry history blog/archive. so far I've read their "This Old Fursuit" profile of JD Puppy, which was so sweet! excited to explore more.

Another one of the panelists runs Convention History, which I hope will be a book someday soon! But here's an incredible recorded panel they did about the entire history of fan conventions, starting in 1939 with the first Worldcon. They've made this amazing graphic "family tree" of cons, which I want a high res image of sooo bad. but I might have to just email them for it or something.

It ends with a rad 7 minute compilation of convention music, from classic union songs sung by the futurians to filk to wrock to furry and brony music.

actually there's a video that's just the music compilation! here:

[candiid-caniine]

Hi there! You are such a good boy for us! Normally I would be too shy to reach out but I’m high and I kept thinking about your gender post for like multiple days. I’m currently really ‘struggling’ with gender, and probably wanna be a girl, honestly I wanna be a girl so bad some days. So it makes me really happy that you wanna be such a good boy cause then it means I can take good girl, because I really like it when people call me that. Oh right and you also like being called puppy, which omg you are such a cute puppy boy. Ahhhhh I’m so high rn but you are just such a cute puppy with how subby and desperate you get, it’s adorable! I wish I could give you little scritches on your head and/or chin, I love it when people do it to me.

Umm I just hope I didn’t say anything bad, I’ve been following your blog for a long while now and I love your stuff and I don’t wanna come across as weird. Also ummm if what I said was totally fine, for like months now I’ve thought about that post you made where if your friend group knew about you being a puppy and you would be exposed and degraded and what not, and honestly it was really really hot. Did you know you are such a good writer puppy? I hope you know that <3 but the reason I brought it up is I was curious if like… you would be up to me writing up something and submitting it to you, like more ideas in that vein? Because it really got me going and I know you like it when people submit stuff, but I guess I didn’t want to send it unsolicited.

Thank you for reading my long message puppy You are a very good boy for us

-GG (good girl)

Ps) if this post is too dumb or rambling but you are interested in the puppy stuff you can just say something about a good girl can totally write a thing for you. I’m sorry if this is dumb, I’m quite high rn

omg hi my sweet anon friend!!!

this is *such* an old ask at this pt, idk if you're still even checking here, but 1st of all YES pls feel free to submit to this blog anytime!! this message made me nostalgic for all my old writings, i may have to get back on that soon ;)

i'm so glad anytime my blog is uplifting/helpful for those w complex or developing gender identities, and u ARE a very good girl, just for the record!! eeee i would love being given scritches as well lol this ask just. it has such a Vibe to it that makes me feel cozy and squirmy and super puppied out. i like you a lot. if yr still around, pls pls feel free to submit/ask/interact in any way u want!

[eyfey]

GQuuuuuuX Episode 2!!!!

I watched the movie in theaters, so this is technically my 3rd time watching these episodes right now. But it's importance for the sake of Blog.

The movie version immediately opens with the episode 2 stuff, and I gotta tell ya... when I was in the theater I thought I had accidentally walked into the wrong movie. I was expecting to see colorful gundam Anime(tm) girls but everything looked and sounded like 0079. I was not expecting to get immediately Char jumpscared.

Like I had to double check my ticket to make sure I didn't accidentally purchase some sort of special Gundam Anniversary Remaster instead of the GQuuuuuuX movie.

But also the thing is even if I did walk into a different movie, getting to see a Char's Special Episode would be a good and fun and grand old time.

it really is insane they just left their special war weapon out in the open. Keys in the ignition. Wrapped with a bow.

Like???? No one guarding it??? no one even WATCHING it??? your SPECIAL new extra powerful weapon???? Char just WALKS in!!!! Not allowed! not allowed! not allowed!!!

This really is just the season of "steal whatever u want"

a lil wild for mr "all red" to say this things.

except ur Char so you can do literally anything any time with no repercussions.

I haven't watched any of the other AU Gundam Series so I dunno if this is the first time they've done this or not, but having an alternate universe of "what if Zeon won the war?" is a p interesting concept. Even if only because it means we get a whole bunch of zaku (love those lil cyclops mechs)

they really did hit this old man with the dandyfication beam just to give watchers someone to ship Char with this season huh (yaoi only) Actually Wild they didn't bring Garma in for this role. Someone is cooking something and I'm sooooo curious to see what.

Always loved Kcyllia's super villian outfit. Cobra Commander lookin-ass.

So when they did this scene I was SO sure they were isekai-ing Char into future/GQuuuuuuX world and we would be watching Machu and friends run around while Char did shenanigans in the background

OR that they were going to do a "characters trade places" type deal where Machu also got sent back in time to the 0079 war

Honestly I'm 7 episodes in and I'm not convinced they're not gonna pull out this plot twist in the later half. There's no way we're getting away from Char that easy he's GOTTA be coming back.

[plague-stricken-marionette]

So! I feel like rambling and gushing about everything I love about this comic which means... y'all know what time it is

Below the cut is my passionate ramble which is stupid long (and took three hours to write according to my drafts if you were curious). You have been warned before you open that

I got to The Dummy's Dummy pretty late all things considered because I came in after Season 2 wrapped up (at the time of writing this, there is no Season 3 yet so I will be exclusively gushing about everything that was shown up to the Season 2 finale). I found out about it because a close friend convinced me to start checking out some Webtoons they love and started going through their rec list

I've really enjoyed all the ones I've read so far and have a lot of thoughts about them too (maybe I'll dump those in a different blog one day), but THIS ONE- This one has just completely gripped my brain with the force of a vise grip. I'm in love with everything about it to the artwork, the plot, the character design, and of course the characters themselves

I love Paris and Yumi and Lily. I really do. I love all three as individual characters but I love them even more when they're all together because I love their dynamics together and how it progresses over the course of the comic

Lily is absolutely hilarious at times and such a freaking mood too which makes her super fun to watch- And she's so good with Yumi too from keeping an eye on her to backing her (and Paris!) up when crap hits the fan

Yumi is adorable in a lot of scenes, but she also gets up to a lot of cool stuff too. And scary stuff! Poor kid is eleven years old (at least according to the old canvas/tapas version of the comic) and basically has the weight of the world sitting on her shoulders right now because she also happens to be a psychic who gets premonitions of people that might get hurt soon or die

And then there's Paris. The damn puppet that's consuming most of my free braincells

I'd be lying if I said Paris isn't my blatant favorite character, but make no mistake that I still love the rest of the cast too. Paris is so... His design aside, he's just fun to listen to because of the way his dialogue is written and he's- an extremely complex character that has a lot of layers to him. He's not a good person (or at least not a perfect paragon of good/a selfless hero), he even says so himself during the comic, but he's not evil either. He's so perfectly morally gray imo and he's- well- he's learning

A lot of his behavior is hardcoded into him by virtue of how Ivan's curse works and how it animated Paris (though even then, even more of his personality was shown to be influenced by his past experiences), but you can see that he can do kind things and he grows even kinder and perhaps a tiny bit softer over the course of the comic as he comes to care about Yumi and Lily and they start to break down a lot of the walls he's built up around himself

And I think that's beautiful. I love a character that isn't the perfect embodiment of good or evil. It ironically makes him very human and I think the storytelling is great because of that on an individual character arc level

That's not to say the overarching plot isn't good though because, make no mistake, it's incredible too. Yumi went seemingly her entire life seeing things that terrify her but when she meets Paris, she realizes that she can use those powers of hers to save people

And that's a lot of what the plot is. A lot of the early plot is them dealing with the things she has premonitions about until the big bad is introduced. BUT EVEN THEN- There's just so- So much going on and it's scary and it's terrifying and that's why Paris and Lily's dynamics with Yumi is fun

Paris and Yumi sort of settle into this big brother-big sister relationship and it's just... God it's so sweet. It's everything to me. Yumi trusts Paris completely and she worries so much about his wellbeing and wants him to be okay. And she calls him her hero!! HER HERO!

And Paris is just... He worries about her too. He admits with his full chest that he was just using Yumi for her psychic abilities earlier on, but by the time he admits that in the comic? He follows it up with the fact that he now cares about her so much to the point where he'd rather be destroyed than see her hurt or let her get hurt. He cares SO MUCH even if he's struggling with and/or refusing to admit that

And that's so... So... It plays into the last time he really cared about a human (his creator) and everything that came out of it. ESPECIALLY given how things ended with Ivan by the time Paris was put into that trunk for 80 years and left to be found and freed all that time later by Yumi

That's all just gushing about Yumi and Paris too. That's just touching on the two characters we see the most of. There's so many more unique and colorful characters in this comic I haven't even touched on yet- Like Lily!

I mentioned Lily already but I need to deep dive on her for a minute too because she deserves it as much as Paris and Yumi do. Lily is Yumi's babysitter which is how she winds up as involved with the other two as she is (besides the fact that they had to rescue her from a scary situation too)

And because she's her babysitter... That means we get a lot of big sister Lily vibes in there too because she's absolutely ready to kick ass on Yumi's behalf and protect her from creepy things. She routinely voices the fact that she's creeped out and scared by all of this weird creepy stuff and ghosts and possessed toys and all of that but she keeps putting herself out there anyway because she won't let Yumi go it alone

That extends to Paris too! Lily and Paris definitely have a rivalry in the beginning and Lily absolutely does not trust Paris at first when it comes to things with Yumi. But she comes to care about the guy too because she rushes straight into danger on Yumi's behalf to save Paris' life later on

And that's not even counting the way she immediately jumps to Paris' defense when everyone is talking after an encounter with the big bad and Paris is telling his backstory. Without even hesitating, she jumps right in to his defense to tell him that he's not broken for having the choice to act how he wants to act. That he's not broken for being a person with thoughts and feelings

I just- I can't with these three. They all work so well together and their friendship is something to behold. I need so much fanart and fanfic of these guys together and doing stuff as a team

AND THAT'S JUST THE THREE MAIN CHARACTERS- All of that rambling and gushing is literally just for the main characters. Even the freaking side characters have a lot going on with them or have a lot of depth to their characters

Let's take Darla and Dorothy there as an example. The Darling Dolls. Dorothy in particular has a lot of interaction with Paris and proposed a major character defining moment/question to Paris in the past, but we see some of Darla too and what we do see of her is just...

They both got mixed up with the big bad, right? Our introduction to them is that they're mixed up with the big bad. Dorothy is helping the big bad because he threatened Darla. Darla, her sister, who outright told Dorothy to run and bought her time because she didn't want Dorothy to get hurt too

So there's some big character stuff right there. And while we're on the topic of the big bad...

Even he's got a lot of depth behind him and his motives if you start to read between the lines and think about some things based on other plot clues we get. He's horrifying and he very much does pose a threat to our main characters as well as everybody else around him, but...

He's not pure evil either. First of all, he's dealing with an absolutely terrifying situation of his own (that I'm not sure if he even fully understands what's happening to him) which does drive the villainy he's getting up to, but that's the thing. He's being driven to do what he does because he is- Uh- He's not doing great actually!

And second of all- The big bad was made by the same guy that made Paris and the rest so in a way... The big bad is as much of a victim as some of the others in the sense of Ivan's curse took him and twisted his mind and made him turn out the way he did

Because the kicker is that the big bad guy thinks or at least thought he was doing good and bringing justice to people. He says he was designed and specially created to be a hero, so anything standing against him has to be evil, right?

That makes for... a really complicated villain of the story if you sit there and put all of these things together (and interpret them the way I am, at least). Just like how Paris isn't the picture perfect of good, this guy isn't the picture perfect of "evil villain without a cause" either

Personally, I don't think Ivan helped either. It's clear that he wanted to stop his wayward creations from hurting people (read: other humans) which is why he created Paris. But... I think in his doing that... He managed to hurt people like Paris and our big bad by failing to see them as the complicated and complex people they are too

And that gets into even more morally gray stuff because Ivan wants these toys rounded up before they can kill humans... but his insistence and way of going about it kind of bulldozed the people he created and was using to get the job done. You can absolutely draw connections between present Paris' behavior and cageyness to his experiences with Ivan in the past once the backstory reveal comes up

It's just an absolute mess. The whole backstory with Ivan and Paris and our big bad is just... It's just a mess and I don't mean that in a bad storytelling kind of way. I mean that in a good storytelling kind of way because it's so freaking emotionally complicated and hard to pin the blame on any one person.

Do people deserve blame and should they take blame for how some things turned out or what some of their actions were? Oh absolutely. But it's more complex than just "this guy was bad and only ever bad"

That whole stretch of backstory episodes is just... exhausting to read in a good way. At least if you're the type that really sinks into a story and empathizes with the characters like I do. It is draining and it hurts and it is beautiful in its tragedy

And that's all just what we see in the first and second season. I don't know what's going to happen next in the comic but that's everything I've seen thus far

I may think of more thoughts to add to this later or make a second post to ramble in, but I think I got it all out for now. This comic is just... It's gripped me in a very strong way and I want to talk endlessly about it and make a lot of fan content for it

Anyway ahem yes this is basically my long winded way of saying you should go read The Dummy's Dummy if you haven't already. It's 100% free to read and costs nothing but your time to read it

[miercolaes]

howdy fiends, this is vero possessed by wednesday herself speaking! besides some essays that need to be written, i'm officially free which means i'm slowly returning to all my blogs! below the cut you'll see what i'm up to if you're curious and, if you're not, i just want to remind you that the torment will begin since i'm back. i almost feel sorry for you all.

wednesday was and always will be my numero uno priority, but i'm also going to be around my multi and barbie. rn i'm sorting through my 70+ drafts which include stuff i couldn't check out but saved for when i'd officially return. that being said, once i get my drafts under control (~40 drafts) i shall log on my multi and on barbie.

my mind is a weird place and i want you all to know it. i feel like i can't respond ooc to you if i have so much stuff saved in my drafts most likely for you. so responding to ooc messages will take a while bc someone's overwhelmed and i'm sorry you have to bare witness to this weird noggin of mine. but i will get to you, even if discord or tumblr ims have failed me. please bare with me!

are you familiar with the saying help me help you? well, after finishing my internship, one of the feedbacks i got was about continuing to work on my graphics skills. therefore, i want to keep learning and evolving but the only way i can do that is by doing things for you. i will create a sideblog to this blog and everything, but i want to help you with anything that you need, for free of course! whether it is stuff like headers, pfps, pinned images, dividers, icon borders, even psds, it's all open for you! i can also try to help you figure out an aesthetic or if there's anything you need help with around tumblr and the rp experience. this will make more sense once the sideblog is made but this is it in a nutshell!

i missed you. i missed writing here and i'm glad to see some new and old frens in my following list. i'm looking forward to writing with you, idc how many threads we have or how many memes you send or i send you. i'm glad you're here and i hope you have a fantastic day ahead of you. i'm manifesting that. oh and thank you for being here and helping me. whether we talked on private or you're writing with me, know that you make a difference (for the better) in this world. at the very least, in my little world. i can't wait to torment you all soon.

[secretlywritingstories]

I just remembered the personal blog I used to have. I started writing on it the summer at the end of my first year at university and I stopped posting the autumn I'd handed in my master thesis. It followed me through ups and downs for over five years and looking back at it now feels strange.

It's coming up on the 10 years since I started that blog. I just opened my first post to check it out and immediately noticed a dumb spelling error. And oh, how naive and unsure I was back then. Just 19 years old thinking that I was becoming an adult.

To be fair, I was but I've spent most of the last decade becoming more and more adult and I'm not sure I've reached "proper" adulthood yet. If such a thing ever exist.

But it was a curious thing to see what took up my heart and mind. Lots of university struggles, spending time with my horse, writing and setting myself writing challenges, dealing with anxiousness and stress. Perhaps not all that different from my life now (if you swap job with uni) but somehow, contradictory, also vastly different.

In the five years that the blog has sat abandoned (my old age of 24 sitting in the banner as a marker), I've gone through a lot. As a human I've grown immensely, even if many of my interests and the way I engage with the world is still similar.

My very last blog post was about handing in my thesis and then having to do an oral defence a couple of weeks later. I finished on this: I don't know if I have ever been more scared. It was that anticipation of what my life would look like when I was no longer a student.

I had been a student my whole life, jumping from one form of education to another. Ten years of school. Three years of gymnasium. Six years of university. Almost two decades of being in school in some shape or form and the anticipation of what came after was so scary. I would lose all of my structure and crumble, I could feel it in my bones.

In some ways, I did. But in other ways, I also have been very fortunate. It took me over a year to find a job. I had to go through a pandemic that only made it harder. The isolation was gutting but it also made me find an online community that are now some of my closest friends. I started working a reception job only to be able to move into a department related to my field after ten months.

I've kept past friendships from schools, I still have my horse, I'm close with my family, I daily chat with my online friends and we've been (and will go) on trips to meet up. I've got a good salary, I like my colleagues and boss, and I get to try new exciting things, even if that sometimes scares me. I have written and published almost 100 fics since that last blog post and my writing has only gotten better and better.

My brain still trips me up. I didn't dare dive into some of the more mental health related posts I made at this moment but I think I'll see present me echoed in those too. Even if I've gotten better at dealing with stuff in some ways. I'm going to try to continue to improve on that front.

Five years is a long time but somehow, in the span of a full life, also a short time. For five years, I wrote on that personal blog. It's been five years since I've touched it. One version of me started it and another version finished it, and me looking back on it now is yet another different version.

I don't share like that anymore on the internet, but I do still keep a journal I write in every single day. And well, then there's these "my tumblr dabbles" a way to give myself permission to post tiny parts of me and my thoughts online still. Crack myself open and see what flows out onto the page that I want to share. Thank you for everyone who indulges them.

[lil-melody-moon]

Year summary #1

Carouselambra playing in the background How the fuck do I even start this?

I had to begin from changes that took place in this year and from what I know and recall, a few took place. So maybe let's start from the one that made impact on my personal life and that is a better relationship with parents.

I was working on that since the last year, but it kicked off good in this year. Got more into old music, got into The Beatles and parents started to be such curious little shits that dad started coming to my room to check what albums I bought and I've convinced mom to watch The Beatles' movies with me - I don't remember her laughing this much since I've made her watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with me. Dad even started asking me about stuff, it turns out that now I'm showing my mom old music, not the other way around like it always was. I keep a list of albums to play her when the summer comes around in the next year and there's actually quite a lot already XD

I'm so happy from getting on better terms with dad, it fills me with joy *sob sob*

I also started buying more albums, bought some pins even and since they opened a band accessory shop I've asked about posters. They don't sell them yet, but the guy asked what I'm looking for, I told him and he said that he can get them if they'll be selling posters. That can mean that maybe I'll get lucky to get a Led Zeppelin's or The Who's poster - I'm mostly keen on The Who's one <3

With this year passing I also feel that I want to go to work, but I need to be patient. This library degree is very tiring, it's not as easy and chill as the last one was. I literally wonder how I will pass upcoming exams, especially from one subject that only one person gets? This professor isn't explaining anything, like, she teaches something she doesn't understand, I mean... Why are you teaching then?

I also started learning chords on my guitar slowly, very slowly, but it's going somehow!

One thing that changed, with me working on myself was putting a serious blockade away. Not entirely, but I started clowning around with friends and it's one of the best things to do. I even clown around with mom and dad, mostly mom though. We get stupid sometimes and it's fun!

So that would sum up my personal life I think, from what I want to say. And now to this blog...

It changed again, because all heavy metal bands disappeared and this blog became classic rock oriented. That's because I stopped listening to this genre. You can say that I kinda grew bored of it? Or that I noticed I'm getting a headache from it, but like, there was this one day when I drove with my dad and the album by Led Zeppelin ended and Metallica began to play. I listened and I was honestly bored. It just hit me that there's nothing special in it. Lars is still a good drummer but like... I heard better ones and didn't find anything interesting in his playing this time. It repeated with every band I was listening to so I just dropped out of that, deciding to stick to older music. That was a good decision, honestly.

But the biggest change on here that happened is the fact that I got so many mutuals this year that I can't wrap my mind around. I won't tag anyone here, because I might skip on someone and I don't want that to happen, but I love you all. You're making this place a lot better and honestly? Classic rock fandom is like a big family and I'm happy to be somehow a part of it. Never had I thought I will find such supportive people on Internet and yet, there you are. I'm glad I've met you all <3

That would be all for this one then. Tomorrow's one tho... Fucking hell, this will be a ride...

[delilahprofitt]

Sorry I'm basically blowing up your inbox today 👉👈

I know a few of the Mrod blogs on here were femslashy. Especially when she was dating Cara. If it wasn't about them, it was about Rain and Alice or Luz and Miss San Antonio. The het stuff definitely dominated though and it was definitely Vin's fault. Part of me is now morbidly curious about that poetry

Ahhh I have a rant locked and loaded for the majority of Mrod's movies. That outfit was terrible! I HATE when writers think motherhood has to completely soften and suck the personality out of character. It's always a blouse or a cardigan I swear to god. It's not a big surprise that female characters in a series about zooming cars around get the short end of the stick but that doesn't make it any less annoying. Elena having Dom's baby instead of Letty is one of the less stupid decisions imo. I'll have to skim back through F9 again to get my thoughts all back in order brb with that full rant. Fuck Hobbs and Shaw why can't we have a true Letty and Mia focused flick!!

Yeeessshh no worries. I was born the year Girlfight came out ✌️ Talk about Frank's cock all you want

That clothing line would be a problem for my wallet I'm not sure it could handle. The interviews were generally a little painful but I must have watched most of them anyway

The nice thing about the Resident Evil series is that most of the fandom now is femslash because Alice has homoerotic tension with at least one character in every movie. There's a part in the third film where she blatantly checks out Claire Redfield's ass when she walks away and she runs across a room to pet Rain's hair to comfort her in the first one. Quality cinema

don't you dare apologize!! i'm hanging on the telephone. i never realized how much tumblr asks could resemble my preferred method of communication (long rambling emails) and i've had a hard time getting people irl to do that instead of just texting me :/

the mrod poems were written by "bryan s. coe" (who i just googled and discovered is perhaps a digital marketing strategist in detroit these days). the two i still have links to are titled "poem to a hottie on a zip line" and "euphemistic poem to a woman with sub-machine gun" and are about nikki from breed and chris from s.w.a.t. respectively. i feel this stanza from the second one needs to be shared:

while everyone takes cover and protects their body i spy around the corner and see a special weapons hottie those sure are some special "weapons," wouldn't you say kind of appropriate that s.w.a.t. ends with a t and an a!

and it goes on in that vein. extensively. i mean, come on, dude. the meter is all off!! you need to cut "and see" from the second line and "that" from the fourth. also that is a very liberal definition of "euphemistic"

i like the idea of just generally defining time in mrod movies. *guy living in a dystopian future where that's all that remains of our civilization voice* "yeah my great great grandmother was born the year girlfight came out"

personally i thought i got blue crush but that's 2002 :/

i agree that they were right not to knock letty up. the only tragic part is i think she's probably too old to play pregnant now and i would have liked to see that just as fuel for some letty/mia fantasies :(( i can't even imagine what they would have dressed her in. considering you would think mia's 75% sundress wardrobe would be pretty transferable to maternity clothes and they still put her in that ruffled yellow abomination

i kind of wish it hadn't even been dom's kid though. like wouldn't that have been more in keeping with the family-goes-beyond-blood thing? dom could have still done all that crazy crap to rescue elena and her baby. i also hate elena dying. i really did not like fate of the furious in general and it didn't have mia so what was the point anyway. i kind of recognize that objectively f9 might have been the nadir of the franchise but it gave us letty and mia's tokyo dinner date so i'll always love it

also mia going in for the hug just grinning like hey! letty! it's great to see you! and then it cuts to letty, like, closing her eyes and huffing the scent of her hair. baby this is why in my head you've been hung up on her for decades

they need to do a mia & letty spinoff and i feel like there's no way it's actually going to happen. vin's too much of an egotist he would shove himself in there to present himself as the king of feminism or something and then the movie would just be his big dumb head like always. i'm holding out hope they'll kill him in the last movie for pathos but it's probably in his contract that they aren't allowed to

last note on f9 is that i love how after all that backpatting for finally having the gals share a scene it STILL doesn't pass the bechdel test because they exclusively talk about han, brian, jacob, dom, and little brian in that order. i do like when mia says "you'll always be my sister." i hope letty got off to that furiously and guiltily in the shower and then cried

don't even get me started on how the franchise butchers mia. my whole ao3 presence is basically a 750,000-word manifesto on how badly i think they screwed her over. i'm not even asking for that much but just let her be a fucking doctor you'd think with eleven million bucks she could afford to go to med school

[bulletsmustdie]

hello there.... welcome!

my name is BULLETS, i'm a 16 year old freak who likes music probably a bit too much for my own good. i go by any pronouns!! just preferably he/they. australian right here... and no. i do not ride kangaroos to school. no tone tags needed or used, if i really feel i should use them i will. thanks!

NOW!

what am i doing here on tumblr?

i am an artist. i draw things and sometimes animate things. this blog will also probably contain a lot random ass posts from me. like project designs and stuff, this'll be sort of like an art journal for me.

what kind of stuff do you draw?

i draw a lot of different things. im a huge bandom fan, i'm in tons of diffferent fandoms for bands, mainly my chemical romance. most of the art that i post on social platforms are rough sketches and 'memes'? if that makes sense. i do create official works and have done so for a while, they just aren't as frequent as i'd like them to be.

any warnings/other things we should know before following?

mostly just profanity warnings as in language, blood and gore might be present sometimes but not always. my art changes a lot, like a lot a lot, including my style and colouring patterns, so not everything i do is in concrete. thats why i dont usually make official pieces of work. i love experimenting with my work :)

cool! are asks/commissions/requests open?

yes! commissions are open at the moment, aswell as asks. requests are a bit iffy but if i feel like it i will. so lets just say asks are half half. if you want my commission info, dm me! i'm happy to answer any questions about it. i can draw just about anything but nsfw and extreme gore.

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i've got tons and tons. so many its insane.

bands im into: my chemical romance, brand new, nine inch nails, foxing, car seat headrest, born without bones, madonna, joy division, she wants revenge, modern baseball, soul asylum, paramore, pierce the veil, slipknot, jeff buckley, the smiths, frank iero, linkin park, radiohead, foo fighters, heart attack man, leathermouth, weezer, basement, fall out boy, the hotelier, new order, no doubt, pink floyd, the caretaker (💀), sports., the used and sooooooo many more........

games:

lethal company, minecraft, undertale, silent hill, terraria, phasmophobia, fran bow, and just a lot of random games you can find on itch.io are usually super fire

other random interests:

i play guitar, bass, drums and i sing. i absolutely love to jam and if you wanted you could check out my spotify profile if you were more curious as to my music taste :

@ bassdaddy07 @ (my spotify) .

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my dni list.

BASIC DNI STANDARDS!!!!! no weirdos. if your a weirdo get the FUCK out of here!!!

if i feel like youre creepy and weird, you're blocked. also just a quick clear up, i say like "youre done" and "yorue blocked" a lot as a joke, you'd be able to tell if i actually mean it tho. anyways.

thats about it!!! i think.... have a lovely day and once again....

WELCOME!!!

[pokeblogingalar]

Introduction Post

Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name's Callister but you can just call me Cal and my pronouns are he/him.

I was born here in the Galar region so I basically lived here for my entire life. I'm currently studying at a pokemon school in Hammerlocke so I can get my degree in Pokemon veterinary. I want to become a Pokemon vet when I graduate. I also work part-time at a pokemon cafe called Alcremie a la mode. I might even drop some special deliveries so make sure to keep an eye out for that!

More about me

My dad is a pokemon ranger that's currently on a business trip for a few weeks and my mom used to be a water type gym leader in Hulburry before the current gym leader Nessa took over. I also have a younger sister. She's five and adorable. I got my starter when I was 10. I joined the Galar league at 12 years old but quitted mid way because I thought it wasn't quite right for me. I have a penpal in Hoenn name @coordinatorsunny. She's super cool so please check her out!

My Pokemon

I have a lot of but my team consists of 5/6 pokemon. I may not have a lot of human friends but my pokemon are the bestest friends that I can ever ask for but on my team and not my team!

Obsidian the Corviknight ♂️

My boi and my starter! I got him on my 10th birthday as a present from my dad. Not only is he my starter but he's also my best friend! There is not a single day where I don't cherish him!

Crash the Drednaw ♂️

I got this guy from route 1 when I started my journey. Even though he seems scary on the outside but he's actually quite nice. Just a bit of a grump that's all. He also likes to nibble on my toes just for fun. It's kinda cute. Named him after a famous wrestler in Johto name crasher wake.

Drew the Dragapult ♀️

Caught her in the wild area when she was a dreepy. She's a cheerful and precious girl! She's also curious too about human stuff. Like one time I was just slurping on some instant ramen and she was just staring at me for 10 minutes straight. Oddly cute for some reason.

Spicy the Centiskortch ♀️

Also caught her in the wild area. She's loves battling other pokemon and absolutely crushed the first gym battle. She's very serious but she's also quite sweet too. Named her Spicy because I was craving for spicy curry at the time lol.

Diamond the Glaceon ♀️

Last but not least we have Diamond! But me and my family just call her Dia for short. Caught her in Turffield when she was a eevee and evolved into a glaceon when she touched a ice stone in Circhester on accident. Still happy for her though! She's really shy and might act cold to strangers but she becomes less shy and more friendly once you get close to her.

Other

Spike the Toxtricity (Amped form) ♂️

I got spuke when he was toxel from a pokemon nursery. He's really friendly and chill and get's long well with my main team. He's decent at battling but I didn't add him to my team because he's more interested in music than battling so I just let him do his own thing.

Bianca the Blissey ♀️ and Abby the Audino ♀️

I got these 2 cinnamon rolls (whom I love so much) from my medical teacher to help me with my studies in Pokemon veterinary. These 2 are absolute angels! They really help me a lot for my veterinary studies and always help me relax whenever I get stressed from my studies.

Rules:

The Rules will be the same.

-No cyber bullying (or any kinds of bullying), no xenophobia (racism), no homophobia, no any kinds of harassment, no spamming, no nsfw content, and respect each other's opinions.

-Also my Oc Callister isn't as energetic or bright as my other Oc Sunny since he is supposed to be the more calmer and aloof one. He may also be a bit socially awkward so please excuse that.

[venusinmyrrh]

I used to work at an occult store, and while this wasn’t my area of expertise, I have some recs! I'll preface this by saying that generally most astrology texts are self-help books, in the sense that astrology is a field designed to give you a framework to understand and improve yourself and your life, and if it doesn't do that, there's no point. That being said, it sounds like you're looking for something with more depth and information than your average Cosmo article. Understandable! Most people aren't actually curious to know the ins and outs of the discipline, they just want to know what they can blame their poor communication skills on. (Usually themselves.)

The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest is by far the most highly recommended book I've come across. It’s praised as accessible, thorough, and well-organized, and I know multiple people who say this was their gateway to astrology. I think it might be exactly what you’re looking for.

(If you like his style, or any topic in that book piques your interest, here's the link to his other, more specific books.)

Ada Pembroke is the astrologer who put me onto Steven Forrest! She writes excellent blog posts that focus on using astrology to tell the story of you and your life, which was extremely helpful for me once I’d gathered all my chart info but didn’t know what to do with it. She’s active on her blog and on Instagram, and if you find yourself stuck in your studies, her Tea with an Astrologer sessions are a great place to turn.

Austin Coppock is an old-fashioned astrologer in the style of Copernicus and Dee— he’s got it all down to as precise a science as it can be, with endless calculations that are dazzling in their complexity. He does have a book, as well as several lecture series on various specific astrological topics, but this stuff is pretty advanced, and to be honest most of the time I have no goddamn idea what he’s talking about. Still, his work is the hardest science you’ll find in this field, so if that’s what you’re into it’s worth checking out.

I also can’t NOT recommend Kaitlin Coppock of Sphere & Sundry. She’s a creator and purveyor of magical materia in collaboration with her husband Austin— he calculates and recommends the most auspicious astrological elections, and she creates and performs the rituals to infuse their products with magical energy. Each of her product lines focuses on a specific placement of a planet or star: Jupiter in Sagittarius, Mercury in Gemini, Exalted Venus, etc.

The products are good (I’ve bought them myself!), but imo, the real gems are the extensive essays Kaitlin writes to explain how each series was created and what it’s meant to do. They are incredible. You have got to read at least one. It’s like attending PhD-level college courses if the lectures were delivered in the style of transcendental meditations. I adore them, and they’re so full of information I feel like I’m getting away with something by accessing them for free.

(Note: I know many of these astrologers are Selling Product, but there’s a difference between scammers and people who are extremely knowledgeable making their living profiting from that knowledge. I promise all these folks are the latter.)

Hope this helps! If you’d like any more, I can ask around my old friends from the shop!

Does anyone have any recommendations for...I'm trying to think how to put this...guides to astrology that don't require a lot of buy-in from the reader on all of that stuff being true?

Like, books that explain, in detail, what having any given sign in any given planet/house (I don't know all the terminology; this is why I want the guidebook) is alleged to indicate about a person's personality+future, maybe with extra notes about the effects of various combinations/interactions, but frames it a little bit more like a mythology the reader is trying to learn about, rather than a belief system they're trying to internalize?

I don't mean stopping every two pages to go "Obviously this isn't true." I don't even necessarily mean that the author can't think it's true. I just mean something that's more textbook than self-help guide.

[checkeredscarfs]

I just checked this blog for the first time forever and I’m wheezing.