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(dream wedding headcanons)
mimi st. james has had thoughts of her wedding since she was very young. she has attended a LOT of weddings over the years, so she's gotten a taste of a lot of different things, to know what she does and doesn't like. she is jewish, so that's incorporated into parts of her wedding ceremony too.
what mimi's dream wedding looks like for her... she's going to have a big wedding, simply because of who she is, and she doesn't really get much of a say in that. but she's a very classic girl when it comes to certain things. pretty, classic white gown for the ceremony. very classic silhouette, long train, all that jazz.
and then something different for the reception, more unique and hers... potentially vintage or even archival, if not custom designed for her like the ceremony dress is. this for example- chanel spring 97 couture. pretty, dainty, flowers... not obnoxiously floral, but- it's more unique than like- her GORGEOUS but very classic ceremony gown.
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that juxtaposition throughout the wedding tbh, the ceremony is very much feels v classic, soft details, the flowers tied with satin or even that ribbon wrapped with lace, that sort of thing. the reception is less constrained, more fun and lots of dancing and generally enjoying yourselves. there are themed tables with cute little decorations, signature cocktails, etc. she's able to actually let loose and enjoy herself. versus the ceremony is more classic and restrained, because the focus there for her is on the getting married, not on the Event of a wedding. she knows it's going to be in magazines, but for her the wedding ceremony is about marrying her partner. she wants that love and bringing a family together to be what people are focused on. she looks beautiful and she knows it, and so does her wedding party, but this is her day please and thank you.
idk if she'd want a destination wedding necessarily, unless her partner had somewhere in mind, but since she typically marries an american, no matter where they get married, it'll mean Travel for a good amount of people, and that will all be covered for their guests, and especially the wedding party. her father will be paying for everything. he frankly insists because that is his baby and she will get the perfect wedding day bc like- she only gets to do this once. that said- her planner, hired by her parents, takes care of a lot of the things for her, which she really appreciates, bc she gets her voice heard in what she does and doesn't want, but she also doesn't have to Handle it. she has a lot of conversations with her wedding planner, alone, but also with her mother and soon to be mother-in-law. family is very important to her, and that's very much a part of the wedding for her.
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i'm going to stop now because i could go on all day tbh. this was a fun thought exercise
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one thing i noticed (form personal experience and by observing other artists) is that the longer you draw and create, the more boring it gets to simply replicate references, especially when it comes to characers' fashion choices.
with bnha, i keep mine pretty simple and basic because teens ARE very trend-loyal, but mainly im just lazy lol, but when i AM motivated, i love to think about characters' personal style, what could influence them, but also more trivial things such as budget into account, which is why i love to draw Deku in basic tees or clothes provided by his school (while bakugo gets to wear ed hardy and shoto wears arcteryx). i also love to limit the items like its just more realistic to me when someone as ordinary as deku wears the same 5 crewnecks all the time
which brings me to my actual point, namely that the more frequently you draw, the more you learn to do research andto combine your findings into sth new rather than staying faithful to one reference, and i think that's what makes good art so good, being able to draw inspiratioin from all kinds of niches and creating something that feels very authentic and suspends the spectator's disbelief. sometimes i see art and i know exactly which fashion editorial or which kpop idol was referenced, and I'm not insinuating these are bad things i do that too (less frequently now but i sure did!), my point is it's kind of nice to see how ALL artist start out with rather derivative art but eventually move on to create more authentic art that is less about drawing beautiful and perfect people and more about trying to individualize them and that ALSO means giving them weird clothes, scars, asymmetric eyes, a receding hairline etc. like drawing the same beautiful character 200 times gets so boring and it's just more fun to try and make them a bit more human
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one thing that always gets me whenever i read inuyasha modern au fics is that inuyasha is supposedly "the slacker" or the guy who doesn't try hard on anything academia related, and that always struck me as odd bc you're telling me inuyasha wouldn't be competing with, say, koga for rank 1? that he wouldn't study his ass off in the subjects he's actually interested in? that he wouldn't pour his everything into extracurriculars he cares about? he has his aloof moments in canon but ultimately he's a hard worker and i think that trait should be reflected in aus!
plus if we're thinking about the setting here, inuyasha's canon behavior is greatly influenced by his upbringing (and later lack thereof). putting him in an environment (modern au, lack of youkai discrimination) where his talents are cultivated instead of looked down upon would give us a very different character. it's always interesting to me whenever i see canon-typical inuyasha behavior in an au where his mom is alive because it suggests that his mistrust and gruff behavior are just part of his personality and not largely a result of childhood events. i feel like modern aus are an opportunity to see how he might have grown if not for the death of his mother + father & the consistent threat looming over him as a child. what would his personality be like then? how would his first meeting with kagome go considering that? his dynamics with his older brother? his goals? it's something that could be explored in a fic taking place in the feudal realm but it's kind of difficult to just subtract the discrimination aspect that comes with that setting...just things to think abt ig!
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idk if this is still the case but when i was really In It in animorphs feelings a couple years ago because i was unemployed for the first time in my adult life / temporarily living alone in the last house my family lived in / freaking out about climate change / generally Going Through It, and like poking around the animorphs scene on tumblr, there was this notion commonly expressed that rachel and tobias were "toxic," the major piece of evidence for which was the scene in 33 where she "tries to trap him in human morph." which like first of all i'm SOOOOOO SORRRY that the fucking fifteen-year-olds secretly fighting a guerrilla war in which their greatest threat is the mind-controlling slugs they're trying to save humanity from but their second greatest threat is the diminishing hourglass of their collective sanity as they all have to work steadily harder and more desperately to not just completely lose their shit entirely from all the violence and literal 24/7 constant threat and murder that is happening, like i'm sorry two literal children who have managed in this ongoing horror show to forge a bond of loyalty and affection and care and attraction and understanding that can act as a kind of solace neither of them have any other way to access, sorry those actual murder babies sometimes have some communication problems. lmao. but also it's insane to me that people read that scene (in which they're dancing to, i'm not making this up, iris by the goo goo dolls - i mean they don't tell us the song but it's a slow goo goo dolls number that even tobias knows, so - they're dancing to iris by the goo goo dolls at a school dance that is not going well because they are both awkward about the newfound public Officialness of their relationship and rachel who is the only one of them who has ever been capable of socializing like a normal person is in a particularly bad mood because of the emotional hangover of her starfish adventure [great concept executed terribly in the previous book], and then like after two entire minutes of letting himself feel some nice emotions tobias spots the clock and starts leaving to go demorph and then rachel runs after to him to awkwardly attempt to share that she is very fucked up about how insane she has become and she wants to hold on to things like school dances and also this is all happening in a hallway by a student poster on red tailed hawks that states their lifespan of a handful of years in the wild, it's so good) as rachel trying to trap tobias in morph, when like, first of all, "good thing happening -> time to punish myself for feeling nice for 5 whole seconds " is like THEE tobias thought pattern because he's the number one kidlit trauma baby of all time, like truly the first time i dove back into the series i was struck by how well his narrative voice captures Child Of Insane Family Dysfunctionality, he is NOT a reliable narrator on this, but also second, and more saliently, like, believing this scene is rachel attempting to trap tobias in morph requires that you believe rachel, all by herself, made a plan in advance and then attempted to execute it, which is a skill we literally never see her demonstrate even one fucking time outside of the comfortingly familiar hunting ground of the mall
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As much as I totally get that the Master was being shown as a domestic abuser as much as they were allowed to for a family program in ‘The Last Of The Time Lords’, I choose to instead believe that he was just extremely reactive due to, you know, having just run away from a war that scared and traumatized him so severely that he disguised himself as a human at the END OF THE FUCKING UNIVERSE in order to hide from it, and Lucy just tried to hug him from behind or something when he didn’t know she was there and so he immediately threw a punch on reflex; because it is infinitely funnier to me that way.
Lucy: -walking up behind the master- good morning hone- :)
The Master, an extremely anxiety-ridden and traumatized war veteran who just escaped said war: AH- -throws a punch on instinct-
Lucy:
The Master: DON’T FUCKING DO THAT
Lucy:
The Master: -clutching at his hearts as he tries to calm down-
Lucy: that’s it i’m shooting him
Like it’s just so much funnier to me that way. Free my man he did everything wrong but I don’t care.
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Random appearance headcanons for Wei Wuxian, Yiling Patriarch, Mo Xuanyu, and Wei Wuxian as Mo Xuanyu
Wei Wuxian:
- Wavy hair, messy but also kinda neat
- Hair is in a high ponytail
- Jewelry that Jiang Yanli probably gave him
- Light tan
- Roundish relaxed eyes, a light grey
Yiling Patriarch:
- Same hair as Wei Wuxian except it's not in a ponytail
- Still wearing the jewelry Jiang Yanli gave him
- Gucci eye bags to hold the recently acquired trauma and accidental fatherhood
- Eyes relatively relaxed but also tired, more a stormy grey
- Pale skin
Mo Xuanyu:
- Fluffier hair than Wei Wuxian, is as messy as he is
- Wide terrified amber eyes,
- No jewelry
- Pale skin and makeup messier than his hair
- Messy bun
Wei Wuxian as Mo Xuanyu:
- Same hair as Mo Xuanyu but in a messy low ponytail instead
- Makeup is gone, skin is clearer than ever
- Still no jewelry
- Relaxed, tired eyes. They are now a stormy grey like Yiling Patriarch to show that Mo Xuanyu no longer occupies the body(eyes are the windows to the soul and what not)(in aus where Mo Xuanyu and Wei Wuxian share a body, the eye colors switch between the two)
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