#AGAIN SORRY FOR REPLYING SO SO LATE

[markthemannequin]

blinks at some of the asks /lh

But waves hi “British” anon here what are some of yer favorite headcanons you have of mark? :]c

OOC

wringing my hands together evilly

Honestly I haven't given him a ton but he has a few !!

(don't ask for further explanations on these because i could NOT tell you what compelled me to think of half of them)

— REALLY allergic to cats (and cat adjacent things) nonstop coughing sneezing dying fits when drretro, jermbo, or gnarpy enter the elevator

— not the best at picking up social cues and can't for the life of him comfort people (he tries but rarely succeeds)

— since he likes weird al i also have the feeling that he'd enjoy oingo boingo (im projecting 😞)

— despite canonically being 5'9, im convinced he's short (like 5'4 - 5'5 maybe) I think this is purely because he reminds me of engineer tf2 and that guy's SHORT

— speaking of engineer tf2, that's his voice claim in my mind,,, I love you, insane country men

— forklift certified 🫡

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ty for the ask british anon, I love yapping 🙏

[bloggingboutburgers]

Ughhh I'm in that phase again where my brain keeps doubting if I'm really aroace (specifically the ace part)

The thing is that I don't know what sexaul attraction is like so whenever I see something like that I just get very uncomfortable and then my brain thinks that is what sexual attraction feels like, even though I *know* it isn't.

Idk all of this is so stupid, I feel like my head is just split in half with one side being logical and pulling up all sorts of facts about why that isn't true but then there's this other dumber side that keeps trying to convince me that it is and I've just been feeling really bad the entire time and I just really needed to let it out. I know I'll be fine soon but like.. it's days like these where I low-key wish that sex and romance weren't real just so I wouldn't have to deal with them lol. They're such a hassle 😭😭

Aaah, yeah, I see what you mean to a degree... It's honestly so difficult to have to rely on your own brain to feel certain and validated in a world that keeps making the ace experience confusing at best and invalidated completely at worst... I'm honestly sorry you have times like those, I wish there was an easy way out but there probably isn't considering the nature of the thing... I'm so sorry, I hope you're doing better now T^T

[flowerakatsuka]

Do you have a fave hesokuri au or skit au and have you kuroba’d them 👀

HI EVAN, THANK YOU SM FOR THE ASK!!! 😊✨

and yes, i do!! a few actually, heh. i've talked a little bit about the youkai & denki mystery aus i have for kuroba before and i really love those, but i think my favorite might actually be their royalty / prince au. which i haven't really talked about before so uh. i hope you don't mind, but i'm gonna use this as a excuse to ramble about it.

i'll put my infodumping under a cut bc it might get long, but here's their designs for the au. 🤭

SO. kuroba comes from a commoner household, but because their grandfather was the royal gardener to the matsuno family and they acted as his apprentice, they've basically lived their entire life on the castle grounds in spite of their status. they've gotten to meet and come to befriend quite a few people of a higher social status than them, the most notable being the 2nd prince of the matsuno royal family, karamatsu.

they first met as children, when karamatsu ran away from his caretakers to hide in the gardens and cry by himself. kuroba had been helping with cleaning up the rose beds that day and stumbled upon him. they've always been the meddling type and can't leave others alone when they're upset so they sat with him and tried to comfort him to the best of their ability, ( even if it was just providing him company and a hand to squeeze while he cried. ) after that, karamatsu became very curious about kuroba and would often visit the gardens in the hopes of spending time with them. the two became very close over time, with him following them around the gardens as they worked and running to them whenever he needed a shoulder to cry on ( which they were always happy to provide. )

they're still very close as adults despite some things changing, like karamatsu adopting a more flashy personality to stand out more amongst his brothers and kuroba taking over their grandfather's role as royal gardener. a lot of the things stayed the same, though.

however, their close friendship starts posing some issues within the royal counsel. one of the princes having such an intimate relationship ( and obvious infatuation ) with a commoner is unsightly in the eyes of the nobility and could make them question the integrity & stability of the crown. so iyami, ( who's a sketchy noble adviser to king matsuzou, ) proposes that karamatsu be engaged to duchess dobusu to help quell the rumors going around about kuroba and him. matsuzou agrees and even though he tries to protest it, kara eventually agrees to go along with it for the sake of his family and kuroba.

when karamatsu tells them the news, kuroba takes it pretty well and congratulates him with a smile... or at least, that's the reaction he gets out of them. in reality, they're fucking devastated because they've been harboring feelings for him for years at that point. they already accepted the fact that they could never be together, but that doesn't make the reality of the situation hurt any less. still, they want to support karamatsu and be happy for them so they're taking the truth about their feelings for him to the grave. ( that's what they planned on doing, at least. )

they slowly drift apart after that ; karamatsu's visits to the gardens become less frequent, kuroba stops personally delivering fresh arrangments to karamatsu's quarters, they barely even greet each other when crossing paths. it doesn't help that iyami got into kuroba's ear, warning them that they should keep their distance from kara to preserve his reputation and not lose their job — which they really can't afford as the main breadwinner for their family. neither of them are happy with how things have changed, but there's not much they can do about it.

as karamatsu and dobusu's engagement party draws closer and kuroba has to help with the decorations, their discontent really bubbles to the surface. one of their noble friends, ( i haven't decided who yet lol, ) finds them crying and tries to comfort them, eventually convincing them to sneak into the party and dance with kara so they at least have one unforgettable memory of him to hold onto. with their help, they manage to do it with their identity hidden behind a mask.

things seem to go off without a hitch ; they'll be able to have to moment with karamatsu all for themself and basically no one will be the wiser. that is until they slip up and speak while dancing with him. they start to leave when he almost says their name, but he stops them and gives them the pine-shaped brooch he was wearing before letting them slip away. to make matters worse, iyami sees this all go down.

the events after that are a lot less plotted out, but i imagine some standard historical fantasy romance webtoon bullshit going down. like karamatsu trying to confront kuroba about that night, but them telling him to stop and leave them be. it's be some wild melodrama, which i do kinda live for.

the climax would probably be iyami staging some villainess-esque condemnation event to expose kuroba for sneaking into the party and get them kicked out of the castle. but queen matsuyo and some of the nobles kuroba had befriended come to their rescue. basically, they argue that if there's someone who's willing to be with karamatsu's annoying ass, then why would you force him onto someone else? none of the other nobles want him, please let kuroba have him so they don't have to deal with him. this includes dobusu, who agrees to give the royal family her duchy's support if they break off her engagement with karamatsu and let kuroba take him off her hands. so after getting matsuzou's approval, they live happily ever after theeeeeee end. there's probably other factors that could play into them getting together at the end, but yeah.

anyways thank you for coming to my rambling, i am so sorry it got this long. this is one of the aus i've thought about A LOT so i ended up having a lot to say. 😭

[kevinsdsy]

hiii it’s the Kevin day jacob elordi anon (unless tumblr ate my ask)

I still don’t really like jacob elordi as a fancast but I did have an epiphany after sending that it would be so funny if a fan made a thread comparing Kevin to princess diana like they did with jacob and I would love to see how people in the socmed au react to it teehee

WAIT NOOO IM SO SORRY i totally thought i had replied to your inbox already because the princess diana comment moved me so much and i wanted to say if kevin day was real i would 100% call him princess diana but i totally forgot to reply due to being a bit busy with finishing up my thesis and all before graduating omg 😭 so pls accept this as a reply to both inboxes:

honestly i totally get what u mean because i don’t really see jacob elordi as kevin day BUT then there are a few pictures of him that could definitely pass omg like the one i used in this picture hehe

anyways i got you and made the reactions for the socmed au hehe but it didn’t fit in this post due to me putting your other inbox here too, but i posted it here

also i wanna give some context to sheena’s princess jokes hehe this is one of my favourite extra content insides it’s so funny to me life kevin day is a certified princess y’all

[unicornpopcorn14]

omg so like, Dazai and the shipping container incident with him getting shipped overseas got me thinking... (I am super late to reading it 😭)

Chuuya, unaware of what happened in the moment because he had been sent overseas himself for an international mission, and he had to go out and scout a foreign shipyard for illegal weapon shipments.

AT THE SAME TIME, he conveniently receives a message forward by Mori to be on the lookout for one of their own agents because a Port Mafia member had been taken hostage around the location Chuuya was in.

Chuuya's ??? because why hadn't he been notified that someone was also either on the same mission as him or had managed to be such a bumbling fool that they got caught by foreign enemies. ANYWAY, he keeps an eye out for anything suspicious while still working on his own mission when he sees a particular area of the shipyard had been surrounded by armed foreign criminals, so he's ready to go bust some ass when they all swing the shipping container doors open and barge in to see Dazai there.

Chuuya just facepalms himself in disbelief because he can't believe Dazai followed him all the way to another country (even though it was totally coincidental) but also, he's not even surprised that Dazai managed to get himself caught by the enemy. Again.

They kick some enemy ass and Dazai gets shipped back home on the next plane back to Yokohama, and Chuuya overhears Dazai complaining to Mori on the phone: "What about my home?!"

Omggg you read my silly shipping container fic hehe *hidesss* /silly

Thank you so much for this omg <333 I genuinely cackled. There really is no end with the shipping container shenanigans huh jknfjew

Lmao Mori telling him to be on the lookout for an agent without specifying that it's DAZAI so Chuuya can take this seriously pffff

I can imagine Chuuya's shocked then angry as heck face when he spots Dazai like,,, he'd probably do a double take at first being like "is that really who I think it is?" and it quickly turns to "Fuck it is who I think it is..."

Dazai would be adamant that that was part of his plan (when it really wasn't) and complain that Chuuya's ruined it and it is somehow Chuuya's fault that he has no home now fjsbfkjebaf

Which will earn him a (justified) kick to the head 😭😭

[bleaksqueak]

Was wondering why my eyesight was so shit today, only to just now realize I never put my glasses on... WELP.

[shalomniscient]

I AM HERE TO DELIVER! The only reason I came up with that idea was because my oc is a researcher in the fatui and I wanted the role to fit her in the au so here are what I came up with until now! Every car has one main generator directly underneath the driver, with a smaller one at each wheel to give the car the balance it needs on the water surface. The drivers don’t have to worry about auqaplaning in the middle of the track since the gravity field is already pushing the water away. But since every driver has their own strategy, own driving style, own customized car etc. these generators have to be extremely carefully calibrated to avoid any complications for example I hc Furina to have an extreme sneaky driving style with little to no collisions and a rather light car, while I think Arle would drive more recklessly and aggressive but still extremely calculated, maybe nudging a few cars here and there throughout the race but is actually in full control. Her car would be HELLA heavy. Now furinas gravity field would never be able to hold up Arles car especially while driving 330kmh, just as Arles generators would make furina loose control of her car and result in a deadly crash, that’s why reader has to measure every driver, their car etc and be present at every test drive, consult with their strategists and is also in charge of designing the route of the track. Also if Arle happens to drive in childes car for example, she would deadass ruin his generators since they’re just simply not fit for her style and strategy. OKAY I TALKED ENOUGH NOW I’M GOING TO BED, GOOD NIGHT!

you really went into the engineering, this is genuinely really cool. i like that with this concept each car can have its own ‘personality’ in a sense, reflective of the driver. furina being non-confrontational, arle being pretty much the exact opposite. it lends well to narration and themes as well. i really like it! i don’t think i’ll necessarily include it in my own f1 au, since it’s your idea, but i do really like it! maybe tag me in any works you make for your own f1 au, i’d love to see it 🫶🫶🫶

[cheeseburger443]

hi cheese, how are you doing. I saw the post of your before the hunch back of Notre dame movie preheadcannon and I was wondering what is the funnest thing frollo has ever done in the preheadcannon you created :D. I really enjoy this headcannon you created by how frollo acts like a over dramatic drama kid lol. Hope you have a good day :D

He set his school on fire and got away with it. 🧍🏻

(He accidentally dropped the candles on the the floor while falling asleep in the library and voilà 👁️👄👁️)

"My favorite book is still in there......... Anyway 🚶🏻🚪"

[muuurder]

HYELLO I WOULD LIEKT OKNWO ABOUT CYBERPUNKNART you know what im leaving those typos actually also did u know i love u?

I love you too anon. Also hi hello sorry, I did not forget about this ask I have been busy with my job.

Anyhoo, here is that wip.

I have not gotten super far but it’s my Naruto au that follows cyberpunk aesthetic ( not the game. I’ve never played it.)

I have original characters I made for this au as well because I love injecting ocs in things and had the idea of ‘ok so what if someone just had a gun in Naruto’ and ran with it.

I’m still working on this piece so hopefully y’all will see it soon.

[sukunasweetheart]

ugh, so many thoughts abt sukuna w a cosplayer!s/o...

he doesn't give a shit when he finds out about the hobby, that was the weird idol shit aoi todo was into or something, right? he doesn't care, he just wants to go home after picking you up from your photoshoot with your other cosplayer friends.

then he sees you, in the dress of that new character from a new series, a dress that didn't show off a lot, but showed off all the right parts to get him excited. he arrives at the shoot a little earlier and he sees just how much you transform and take on a character like shit, when did you have this side to you? could you look at him like that sometime? you look hot in that costume btw, drags you off somewhere private as soon as the shoot's done, oh- what was that? this little costume of yours was expensive? shut up, he'll buy a replacement for every one he rips, so just let him ruin your pretty cosplay, alright? maybe he'll finally buy that couple costume you've wanted to try, he'll be sure to buy 2 pairs ofc...in case something happens to the first one~

or maybe like, soft tired shower sex after sukuna grumpily helps you remove your makeup as ypu two return to your hotel room after a convention...

imagine the powertrip sukuna gets holding you close to him while these filthy weebs could only glance at you dressed as the latest, hottest character...and he's dressed as your love interest and it pisses them off even more as they leave after asking for photos...sukuna forever smug that you are his..

so many thoughts...

dragging him w you to see barbie lmao

- mari

PLEASE this would be such a dream </3 i am a big fan of the 'sukuna picking you up after your day out' agenda, pulling up in his expensive car, wearing sunglasses

but also him being actively involved with ur shit is so good too omgg he'd look so good in anything plssplpslspls

and ofc he'd always be there to fend off the creeps <3<3 11/10 maybe he gets a lil too aggressive w it sometimes so u need to stop him b4 he wrings someones neck out

shower sex???? hell yea bro, nothing like getting your back blown out after another tiring, but fun day... thinking abt making out under the warm running water...

on god he would be disgruntled abt going to see barbie but hes like perfect for that shit with his naturally pink hair ngl

[a-cakehound-or-critter-a-day]

I NEVER REALIZED HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS BLOG UNTIL I CAME ACROSS THIS THANK U IM 🥺🥺🥺🥺💖💖💖💖🥺💖💖💖💖

THANK YOU!!! That's so sweet of you to say!!! qwq Wishing you a very lovely day!!!!!!

[dailyfigures]

Have seen a few people asking about tips for keeping figures clean but haven’t seen this recommended:

Hand pump dusters are fantastic when used proactively. If you use them once every week or 2 you’ll never see dust building up on your collection. Unlike compressed air they are lower pressure (less chance to break delicate parts), don’t contain caustic chemicals that can interact with the paint on your figures, and are MUCH cheaper since you can buy one of these for about $5 and it will last through years of use.

They won’t do much for really caked on dust, but if you start fresh after cleaning your collection with a blush brush, and consistently use the hand pump, it will deliver fantastic results!

oh that's such a great tip, i haven't seen anyone in the figure community talk about those before! i think i'll get one of those myself too! thank you so much for sharing :)

[stormyoceans]

https://x.com/i/status/1807374773350990094

i want to talk about it so much but idk what to say. aou is so plastic i can't🙂

IM SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY ANON I WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT ON ACCOUNT OF BEING DEAD ON ACCOUNT OF THIS

I WOULD LOVE TO HELP YOU TALK ABOUT IT ANON ALAS MY GRASP ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS TOO MINUSCULE TO EVEN ATTEMPT TO SAY ANYTHING ON THE MATTER OUTSIDE OF WHEEEEEERE IS MY AOUBOOM MAIN SERIES WITH AOU AS A STRIPPER AND BOOM AS THE UNDERCOVER OFFICER WHO IS SENT TO THE CLUB AOU WORKS AT TO FIND PROOF OF DRUG TRAFFICKING HELLOOOOOOOO GMMTV CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[malumae]

@oneireth ( cont. for shion. )

“please, do go on. explain to me how you breaking it is not your fault.” amusement lingers within the tone of his voice, laced into the words he speaks when he starts to slowly pace around the scene. it is indeed broken, pieces of scrap that must have fallen off littered across the ground in an almost perfect circle around it. broken and dim, clearly without its usual gentle light. this is not how he expected his day to go but any surprise, good or not, is a welcome distraction these days. ren crosses both arms over his chest, looking up to face the other. 

“i wouldn’t bother trying to fix it unless there is a good reason for your desire to solve it in the first place?”

[lurking-loaf]

Happy birthday Loaf ‼️‼️‼️

Hope U don't mind that I stuffed your fridge with balloons

Oh oh and can't forget the cake!!

enjoy your day and thanks for existing 🫂💗💥✨💖‼️‼️‼️

I'm not gonna lie, finding those balloons in there was a real surprise, but at least the fridge kept them nice and fresh. And what a fancy cake! It even has my favorite filling, fresh strawberries! Thank you Starrie for the birthday wishes! I did end up having a enjoyable day at home where I got to draw, chat with friends and spend time with family.

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

it doesn't have to be that way.

okay

I need you to know that I've been thinking about this ask non-stop for the last 3 days. This song came for us all and took us under its wing. I live here. It's a gem of a song. (This reply will get very long.)

My first time hearing it was live, as it was for a bunch of us as the album release was at the beginning of the tour. To set the scene, I was obviously really excited for any new songs I'd be hearing that night, and then Russell introduced the song like this:

"This is another brand new song for any of you who feel like maybe you're not on the right course. [He pauses briefly.] It's a song that's called 'It Doesn't Have To Be That Way'."

I was already nearly in tears, and then it started:

They always said that you cannot change your mind, Do it once and you're defined, do it twice and you're divine

...

It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

Every line of the entire song hit me like a brick while also being the most comforting thing I've ever heard. It was beautiful. And coming from the guys who for over a decade have been my personal champions of "things not having to be that way", the guys who are my people, who have by their very existence been telling us all this exact message for all these years. And here it was, in words, aimed at all of us.

They always said that you need to have a plan, Doesn't matter, any plan, any plan they'll understand, It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

... They've not been known to go for songs that bring people to tears, and I'm not known to be the kind of person to listen to songs and cry. And yet here we were.

While I can write an essay on every verse, a part that's especially meaningful to me, as a queer person, as an aspec person, is this:

They always said that it must reflect your life, And incorporate your strife, maybe mentioning your wife, It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

These *are* lines that seem to reflect their life (the entire song seems to, just as it does ours), and they're all things I've always loved so much about them, things that have paved the way for all of us. But I'm going to especially highlight the "maybe mentioning your wife" line. Here we have two (likely) heterosexual men, but they don't bring their love lives to the public eye - very consciously, and by choice. What they do with their lives is all about their music. Their lives are highly meaningful, to them and to so many people, and you don't need amatonormativity or the nuclear family to have a beautifully meaningful life. They show that every day, in all they do. Their work has always attracted many queer people of all sorts for obvious reasons, and it's been so easy to find aspec people among the fans which is a real treat. While they likely both have partners, the beauty is that we don't really know. We don't know that part of their lives and we don't need to know to know them, if they're not telling us it doesn't concern us. There's a lot of people who don't understand this though, people who feel like they don't know who Sparks are as people because these people feel like in order to know who a person is, they need to know their relationship status and whether they have a family. (In reality these people are looking at the wrong things, they're trying to classify and understand life in the only way they know, and therefore they seem to be unable to see what's there.) The added beauty of all this is that it doesn't just gives Sparks some privacy, but also it creates a safe space for all of us who aren't looking to live that way, who aren't looking to build our lives around a romantic partner, for whom the ideal life isn't one where you build a family, or for whom that do wish to live that way but where it isn't the thing that defines you. You don't have to mention a partner or make your life about that. It doesn't have to be that way, okay?

And then there's those parts of the song that go,

I may be wrong, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it,

No chart-bound song, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it,

No sing along, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll pay for it

Which can be read and felt in a number of ways which all mean so much to me ... There's their own lives in it, where they've always done things their way, where people may tell them to not do things that way, and where it might not work out - I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it. Theres our lives, where we equally all make our decisions, try to just live our own ways to the best of our abilities and where we make mistakes - I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it.

And then, thirdly, to me, there's the feeling to it where they've got our backs. No chart-bound song, no sing along, that can be about an album not becoming the success it was hoped to be, but if you just look at No sing along, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it, to me there's also an aspect of not wishing it upon another - instead carrying it for you, don't sing along. (This feeling feels further supported by the ending of the song, how 'bout a drink, I'll pay for it, it's been too long, I'll pay for it, which to me reads as paying for that drink for your friend so no one has to go through it alone nor without support.)

I'll look uncool, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll look the fool, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll look too schooled, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for it

I'll pay for it

The price of authenticity, the price of following your heart and your beliefs. And we all felt that.

As you can tell, this is one really really special song. It had so many of us in tears. We all spoke about it for weeks, I'm still talking about it. It's kind of like Sparks' life concepts we all already understood, that drew us here in the first place, got beautifully distilled into a song. (So much of this recent album has that quality, and it was felt all throughout the entire tour too.)

Every night Russell gave the song a slightly different introduction that hit people right in their heart. There's a quality to it performed live that makes it hit even harder than on the album. I recorded it at every show I've seen. Here's two of them:

... it especially hits hard when you're near the front, looking at these guys with your big eyes, locking eyes for a second and you know they know. (I also did a quick shot of Ron's Jordans here, seeing him wear them was always a dream of mine and here I was, stood right in front of him seeing him wear Jordans.)