#SG madness

[essektheylyss]

I don't understand how some folks, both people who like and don't like shadowgast, seem to still want me to believe that Liam "caved" to Caleb and Essek being in a relationship because of fandom pressure and continues to go along with it halfheartedly only because of that even though he secretly hates it.

And meanwhile we have entirely unprompted asides like "Imagine two wizards—" "I do. Often."

[seasidefae]

LEWIS AND MAX ARE STARTING IN SINGAPORE WHERE?

[justambrosia]

bruh who woke kittyGrace up?

shes not happy...

[spamgyu]

warning: annoying fashion girlie ready to ramble on about LV SS25 Menswear bc i love fashion so much and i love Pharell and the direction he is taking LV Menswear

this is gonna be messy bc im just literally going to type out my thoughts and we all know how i froth at the mouth whenever fashion is mentioned. anyways

i loved every show since pharell has signed on to be the creative director at louis vuitton but GOD i love the most recent SS25 runway show so much.

let's start it off with the title of the collection: "Le monde est à vous" which translates to "The world is yours"

this collection celebrate the human beings of the world and it's very fitting that the show took place at UNESCO headquarters

AND the collection composing of earth tones (not just bc green and camo is def making a comeback in the fashion cycle)

lv is known as a luggage company and UGHHHH the way it is so fitting !!!! the bomber jackets with prints resembling of the globe, the flight jackets, and other aviation inspired pieces and accesories.... like i dont even know how much more i can froth in the mouth over this show....

AND AIR AFRIQUE COLLABORATING WITH THIS SHOW because if we all studied origination of all humans inhabiting this earth.......... GOD wowowowowowow

those who are not familiar with the Negritude movement, this is such a wonderful addition because this show is SET in paris and this movement took place in the early 1900's in regards to African and Caribbean artists against the French policies and ugh ugh im such a whore for history and even a bigger whore for fashion tying in with it

i highly suggest anyone who has the time to watch the quick 20+ min vid of the show (link)

i think it's super awesome that they invited minghao, a representative of UNESCO and LV, to the show... as well as other artists from all over the world - not just the typical western artist ...

anywaysss here are some looks that i lovedddddd from the show hehe

anyways i just LOVE how this collection is able to appeal to a broader demographic in terms of different fashion styles - we're able to see the typical formal wear as well as great street style like pieces and the not ONE PIECE has that GAUDY monogram that lv sometimes has..... it's just so so so so good

that is all

thanks for getting through this whole post of me rambling lksfjaslksfjs

[puthyflapps]

Y’all don’t love this song like I love this song. You’re not listening to it the way I’m listening to it. You’re not getting it like I get it 🙄😤😤

[inkblot-inc]

lunch arrangements made me think: what if the receptionist called security!?! imagine wanda seeing Skitch being dragged out by this huge man uuh she would've lost it

The security guard is just doin his job, but with Skitch being calm and insistent (so things don't escalate further for no reason), I can see security being like, "Lemme just call the boss to be completely sure 🤨" only to be glad he did when Wanda's fuming at Hannah immediately after.

Security guy was spared Wanda's wrath for real 💀

Now it was a miracle miss thing didn't get fired in Lunch Arrangements, but if this had gone down? Hannah would be out of a job for sure

Literally Wanda @ Hannah after settling the situation:

[transingthoseformers]

Actually I was thinking about SG Rung now and I'm adding him to my list of nemeses because damn to me? Me specifically? The concept of an evil therapist just strikes a nerve in me lol

[autobotmedic]

( the one who burns the witches always ends up in the flame )

l o c k your d o o r s she's coming back to even o u t the s c o r e vengeful spirits do her dark commands in the d e v i l ' s hands now the fire's in her BREATH s c a r l e t v o w taken by the one who y o u cast o u t you're not the only one with chants to sing or a prayer to bring but her patron saint is DEATH

[virescent-v]

I always thought I’d be the “black cat” but she makes me feel like the “golden retriever”

[thewild--flower]

Code: Realize Wintertide Miracles ~ Special Epilogue: Saint-Germain Route

[bwurnt]

CRYING SOBBING THROWING UP

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[blonding]

gary i need more sideblogs….

[clarabowmp3]

HAHAHAHA NO I MEAN the ice cream guy outside the primary school 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 ALSO WHAT???? i thought meals in school canteens were like 1-2 dollars ??? oh my god that’s such a huge rise

oh my god the day my mother told me about coes my mind was blown lmfao. we’ve never had a car so i didn’t know but like why is that even necessary 😭😭😭

BESTIE THANK GODDDD 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i didnt have an ice cream guy outside my pri school (i think thats the exception tho, it was very weird, almost a gated community + surrounded by landed houses) but I had one outside my sec school but never got any from him LOL and i think the prices of the meals in my jc were like 3 ish dollars average? but it was worth it, they were full, hearty meals + fruit, it wasnt so bad (but still a substantial spike)

and yeaa teh coes thing is just the govt trying to get ppl to drive less for the env etc which yea noble intentions but also not entirely feasible for families like mine where my dad lives too far from his workplace to take public transport regularly. and at least we're fortunate enough to (somehow) afford it, else the alternative is just work urself to the bone till u die which is getting to be a very tiring rhetoric

[kelin-is-writing]

kelin may i hear more about rockstar touya \(★ω★)/

I was planning to post other headcanons before going for these, BUT I’ve got some for Rockstar!Touya that are pestering my mind these days and your asks come in the right moment, so bear with me please 🤧

࣪𖤐… ROCKSTAR!TOUYA

The first time Touya knew that he wanted to become a rockstar was in middle school, right at the age of thirteen, his influent CEO of a father was trying to mold him into a carbon copy of himself to rival Yagi Toshinori’s Enterprise. While taking a break from studies, he saw his sister watch on TV a rock concert of “Loudness” and to say Akira Takasaki is his role model is the least. That’s a true legend to him.

After “Loudness” and Akira Takasaki, he discovered “Metallica” and Kirk Hammett which made him go like “HOW??? HAVE??? I??? MISSED??? ALL??? THIS???”, scolding himself for taking so long to fall in love with the electric guitar and its sound. The next week he’s blasting full volume “The Final Countdown” by Europe inside the Todoroki Mansion like the good old stamp rock fanatic he is, getting himself scolded and grounded by Enji who is a fan of traditional Japanese music so yeah…

At one of the Todoroki family gatherings during the weekend, he was scrolling down his phone looking first of all where to take guitar lessons and second for a guitar to buy, but he knew his father would never agree to get him one. That’s when his grandfather, peeking at his grandson’s phone, butted in and asked Touya if he’s interested in music. He wasn’t sure if it was a good thing to answer that question, since he’s the father of his father, but he did and hell has it been the best thing he did!

On his fourteenth birthday, Enji’s father bought Touya his very first electric guitar, a good old Fender Stratocaster CUSTOM MADE for him. It’s snow white like his hair and has a his name engraved on the bottom left side of the guitar, while on the other side there were engraved tiger’s fangs, all in turquoise… The color of his eyes. And this has been by far Touya’s best birthday ever.

After finishing Middle School he choose to attend an Art School, taking the music classes as main classes of course; he may or not have done it to piss off and raise Enji’s blood pressure from how mad he got for choosing something different from Finances and Management. Oh his father was livid and Touya was so proud of himself for that.

He has formed a rock band, of which he’s the guitarist and vocalist, with Tenko Shimura (Bassist&Vocalist) and Shuichi Iguchi (Drummer) called “The Villains”… Are we even surprised about this name? Really? Because I am not. Tenko suggested, Iguchi supported strongly and Touya just went with it because complaining and thinking about another name was “Too much effort”. He likes it a lot but will never admit it.

At the age of nineteen, Touya owns a Fender Stratocaster (Custom Made), an Elite Stratocaster, an ST-83-80 Japan (1983) black, Lone Star Strat, IC350 black, IC50 black, ICHI00 white, Gibson SG Standard mahogany and a Jackson Pro Series DK Modern HT6 MS. He also owns four acoustic guitars for songwriting, like a Martin GPC-X1E, Martin 000-28 Modern Deluxe, Taylor GS Mini-e Rosewood SN LTD and a Taylor AD22e. Did he pay all them with Enji’s credit card? Hell yeah. Did he do it out of spite? Absolutely. Did he care about his father’s blood pressure rising even more? Not even remotely.

His favorite groups are Loudness, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Europe, Scorpions, Slipknot, Three Days Grace, Green Day, Skillet, Linkin Park, The Rasmus, L’Arc-En-Ciel, UVERworld, Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses and Evanescence to list some, because there are many more he adores honestly. He isn’t a picky ear as long as the song gives him chills and inspires him, being someone who’s driven by emotions that’s what makes him likes something he hears.

Atsuhiro is their homeroom teacher, at the Art University they attend, who introduces them to Giran, a friend of his, who has an agency for new talents and after they sent him six of their songs wants to launch their very first album by August to make them debut at the “Rock In Japan Fes.”

Touya, being the emotional driven type of musician, is the one put to write the lyrics for the band’s songs and most of the times are hits, especially because his and Tenko’s voice brings to life the emotions of the lyrics in a way that it reaches the listeners right into the heart and soul.

You will never catch Touya’s fingers empty, there’s always rings decorating them and some rings are even custom made by his cousin Geten, who owns a Jewelry shop that he promotes a lot on his social media. One of his most precious rings is the one that he got made for him, with his birthstone carved in it, when he turned eighteen.

He has three earrings on his right ear: an helix, mid helix, conch and low helix. Four on his left one: two helix, a low helix and one on the lobe, plus three nostril piercings on the right side of his nose.

After “The Villains” debuts and proving his father that he could succeed through music without his help nor his name, Touya owns now a black card that he lets Fuyumi and Shoto use to their heart content.

Last, but not least, be ready to be the muse of Touya’s songs the instant he falls head over heels for you. The moment it happens everything, and I mean everything, to him becomes about you driving Tenko and Iguchi to pure exasperation.

[librarycards]

Today, I'm in conversation with my beloved friend and colleague SG Huerta. We discuss Failure to Comply (goodreads/storygraph), and with it, noncompliance in the face of eugenics, settler colonialism, & attendant restrictions of/on the collective imagination.

An excerpt:

[Failure to Comply] is an artifact of the bodies and selves “I” have occupied over the course of our –– myself and all of the others –– lives, especially as lived during the time of first-drafting. It is not the novel I would write if I were to write it today, and this is not a value judgement in any direction. This is a novel written by someone who is and is not me, who had and does not have breasts, who had and does not have a uterus. It was written by someone who, over the course of its creation, has become exponentially more disabled, not by their-my own choosing; it was written by someone who chose and continues to get more queer, more trans, more noncompliant with each passing day. Perhaps most distinctly, it was both written and not-written by someone who, as I mentioned in another answer, believed they had done the readings, but had in fact hardly scratched the surface. Just today, I read La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind, a really complex, astute book of textual criticism that has itself given me an entire reading list. Sitting out there on my porch, I couldn’t help but laugh, because Bruce and others point toward a living, breathing lineage of creatives whose Madness exists in every aspect of their craft. I do not wish I had known the extent of this at seventeen, or even twenty-one. I am so glad I entered this territory unprepared, because this novel is also about me learning (that is, de-learning, un-learning) how to write Right.

[kuekyuuq]

Supercorp - Rehashing the Fallout once more

Today's menu: Kara Danvers' Double-Standards.

I am rewatching Supergirl, and it occurred to me why I am with Lena on the "you lied to me" point. (Not the brain-wash the planet or taking a year to get over herself and realize her own - horrible - mistakes parts, though.) Not because of the lie itself or its content, but its context with Kara's very own history!

Let's take a walk...

In the pilot Kara gets mad at Alex for her having kept her double-life as a DEO agent secret from her.

Kara is utterly disappointed and distraught at the secrets her parents kept from her (Medusa, Myriad), some of which affected her directly (Krypton's impending destruction).

Kara finds out that James is Guardian before he told her and she was pretty upset, explains it's because they are humans throwing themselves into danger.

When J'onn explains to Kara how bonded Martians share their minds, Kara expresses how she thinks the “no secrets, no lies” sounds “beautiful”.

Kara ends their relationship with Mon-El over him lying about his true identity (and him being the Prince of a cruel society), ignoring him when he said he tried several times to tell her. When Mon-El let himself into Kara's apartment to apologize, he BEGS for forgiveness

but Kara says she deserved better than being lied to… Yes, she secretly forgave him at this point but still breaks up with him (Rhea told her to do so) and cries over it.

Music Meister teaches Kara (and Barry): “Love is about letting yourself be saved, it's not just about saving other people.”

Trust.

Lillian tells Kara, she doesn't need to spill SG's identity, because when Lena FINDS OUT, it'll be so much worse.

(And Lillian was SO on point!)

When Kara and Clark spar and have a heart-to-heart, Kara wonders if she can have it all, Clark assures her about the most important people make keeping the secret worth it and how letting (only) those important people in IS enough. Later, asked the same questions, Cat tells Kara that women have the guts to be vulnerable, lists her accomplishments.

Kara does not take Lena possessing some of Lex's Kryptonite nor the whole Sam/Reign-secret kept from her well. Gets even angrier when Lena creates her own Kryptonite (in her quest to fight/cure Reign …and cancer and other human ailments).

Or Mon-El hesitating to tell and keeping from Kara about his time-travelling, marriage and his actual mission…

That is up until mid-s03 and not even counting the many times how the show also taught us through Alex', J'onns and Lena's lenses that lying and pretending to be someone one is not to those important/close to oneself, is harmful to their (romantic and platonic) relationships and themselves.

Do I need to go on?

...Kara is clearly fully aware at that point that secrets (even her own) do not bode well in any type of relationships she would like to have and keep.

And, yes, I am fully aware of the "point of no return" argument, in all its validity, that at some point the lies had stacked up so much, that the hurt was inevitable, the fear of rejection more and more founded, of Kara wanting to be "just Kara" with Lena… Every season, every in-show year that passed and Kara kept her secret(s), it became impossibly harder to come clean. But, re-watching the show, it just seems so… irresponsible? And the more often Kara makes a point herself being lied to is a bad thing, even …hypocritical.

I am not saying any of the people who lied to or kept things from Kara were in the right or wrong - a totally different discussion that would require individual assessment. But, Kara, making the same point over and over again? Several times about the very topic of hidden/fake identities and double-lives… But then proceeding to keep her proclaimed best friend in the dark about herself, still?

Yeah, that bugs me. A lot.

IMO, after the whole Mon-El returned thing Kara would or should have had an epiphany about telling Lena the truth about herself… but then Reign beat her into a coma and all kinds of hell broke loose.

But… Yeah. Not even for Supercorp reasons. But internal logic.

From a story-writing perspective; you have your (main) character face a (similar but slightly different) situation a couple times before they learn their lesson. You plant the seeds (in this case: identity reveal) and then have it play out, based on what the character had learned(!) this far. And you have them deal with the worst-case-scenario backlash, if you need any for drama's sake, but it should make some level of sense… Instead they had Kara learn nothing, had her lie to Lena for another two years, and turned Lena into a spiraling madwoman. And Kara… well, now in Mon-El's shoes, could not quite understand how Lena (in Kara's former shoes, but with much more tainted personal experiences) was deeply, intimately hurt, devastated, and struggling.

Kara saw this coming - but tbh, when Lillian spoke so (unintentionally) truthful, Kara should have focused on the implied "if someone ELSE but you tells her", and when talking to Kal, realized that he didn't keep his secret FROM his most important people (Lois, James…) to protect them. Taken Cat's advice to have the guts to be vulnerable to reap Lena's long-term trust instead of settling for "for now this works, right?".

Not to mention that the whole show over and over stressed, that Kara could "have it all" without revealing herself to the world (the 100th episode even making a point that telling the world WILL put her loved ones at risk) or deciding on one half of herself, but then the show ended, and… yeah… I guess, some sort of witness protection for everyone?

No more casual strolls for "just Kara" through the park…

I adore the show, but… continuity?

It's just a bit painful to re-watch the show and watch Kara fault and shame others over and over again, only to go ahead and do the thing herself... Aware, yet oblivious. And NOBODY calls her out on it. (The one time Alex asked her and Kara was all like "I had to take the dog to the vet" is too little too late.)

Thankfully the fandom is so amazingly creative <3

#Kue out.