#Ted doesn't give a shit about plants

[orangesartblog]

Traintober day ONE it counts it's still day one in like America or Australia

Free day!

My first thought was immediately Henry's forest.

I wanted to do something with halftones, cause I think in the original inktober you're not supposed to colour? but fuck that everything else I'm doing is coloured cause while I love the look of halftones they are a ball ache LMAO

I went into this not knowing how to draw Henry, and came out not knowing how to draw Henry.

[hlficlibrary]

✤ Secret Relationship Fics ✤

A series of posts with the top five fics of each category by kudos plus five more hidden gems from that category! Remember to leave kudos and a comment on the fics you enjoyed to show your appreciation! You can find our other recs here.

- Top 5 H/L Fics -

1️⃣ Fall Into Your Gravity by @zarah5 (E, 74k)

AU. In which Harry is an overnight pop sensation and Louis steals plants, Zayn pulls Liam's proverbial pigtails and Niall's really just pleased there are more girls for him.

2️⃣ Emperor's New Clothes by sunsetmog / @magicalrocketships (E, 92k)

The fact that Louis’s most precious belonging was a cat with a face like thunder and an uncanny ability to cover every single inch of Louis’s clothing with cat hair was something that Louis chose not to think about too much.

or: Harry’s a pop star and Louis isn’t, and there’s a non-disclosure agreement where there used to be a relationship.

3️⃣ Hands Clasped Tight  by @afirethatcannotdie (E, 44k)

“What am I looking at here?” Harry asks.

“This, my friends, is a ‘proof’ Instagram account, run by your students,” Liam announces.

“It’s got all this stuff about how the two of you are together,” Niall adds.

“I heard about that,” says one of the math teachers. “Confiscated a kid’s phone today when they were looking at it. I have to say, the evidence that you’re dating is pretty damning.”

“Really,” Louis says dryly. “Do you think being married for three years might have something to do with it?”

Or the one where Harry and Louis are high school teachers and their students have been playing matchmaker for over a year. Little do they know, Harry and Louis are already married.

4️⃣ Learning to Breathe by youcomecrash / @drunkharrystyles-blog (E, 110k)

He’s playing football at one of the top universities in England and he should love everything about his life right now, but instead he’s moving backwards. How does your past fit into your present? Louis is still figuring it out.

5️⃣ so keep my candle bright by whisperdlullaby (E, 78k)

louis returns to his hometown after four years to find that the reverend’s son has done some growing up of his own.

HIDDEN GEMS:

💎 Caught In Your Gravity by @lululawrence (NR, 62k)

It felt like the blood froze in Harry’s veins even as he got a bit lightheaded. He hadn’t even made it two practices, only one of which he was remotely in charge of, without giving it all away and now he and Liam were both absolutely fucked.

“Shit,” Harry breathed out. “Who all have you told? Does everyone know? I thought I covered it better than that…”

“No, no,” Louis said quickly. "They’ll figure it out soon enough, though, because they’ll get used to you changing things up, but you’re only going to trip over your so called Americanisms for so long before they realize it’s because you don’t actually know fuck all about football.”

Harry sighed. “Yeah. I figured. I just need to bullshit for long enough to allow Liam to get the situation figured out from his end.”

“Right, which brings me to my entire point. I think we can find a mutually beneficial arrangement with all of this.” Louis leaned forward. “You need to learn the ins and outs of the sport incredibly fast. I can help you with that.”

“What do you want in exchange?”

Or, an AU inspired by a 30 second trailer of Ted Lasso that doesn't actually have much in common with the show at all.

💎 Old Photographs & Times I'll Remember by @jaerie (E, 54k)

Carefully he set that negative down and lifted the paper to see there was another beneath. This one again was a young man, this time posed against an antique car. He lifted a few more negatives out one by one, each a portrait of the same man with various backdrops. The man in a meadow, in an office, leaning against a doorframe — even one in his underwear grinning at the camera. On the edge of each negative printed in slanted, handwritten characters were the initials and date. H.S. 1924.

He quickly but carefully packed them back into the box and buzzed with excitement. He couldn’t wait to develop them to see exactly what had been captured in the images. It was a find that felt like a puzzle to piece together.

H.S. was likely the man in the photographs as well as the owner of the suitcase. Who was he? Why had his suitcase found its way into Niall’s attic? Was he still alive and well somewhere in the world?

A camera, a suitcase, and a relationship forged through time.

💎 On Thin Ice by @neondiamond (E, 16k)

As the goaltender for one of the best hockey teams in the world, Harry never expected participating in his second winter Olympics would be so eventful. His hidden long-term relationship with the captain of their biggest rival team may have something to do with it.

💎 I Can Build Your Heart A Home by LiveLaughLoveLarry / @loveislarryislove (T, 10k)

“I was just thinking," Niall says. Did you know that Louis came out as gay last year?”

Harry nearly chokes on his drink, just barely managing to swallow. “Hrng,” he manages, trying not to cough. “Um. Yeah, I think I saw it on Facebook. Good for him.”

“Well.” Niall shrugged. “I figured it just made sense."

Harry feels goosebumps rise on his arms. “What do you mean?”

“I just think you and Louis should date,” Niall says. “I think you’d be good together, you know? You were friends in high school, weren’t you?”

“Erm.” Harry swallows. “Friends isn’t exactly the term I’d use.” Niall doesn’t need to know what terms he would use.

Or, Harry and Louis kind of secretly sort of dated in high school. Now it's two years later and they're both back in town for Christmas and it's awkward. Until it isn't.

💎 Battle Of The Balls by bluegreenish / @greenblueish (M, 5k)

“Rim of the hole, Haz, really?” he gazes at the camera again. “This is getting demonetised and honestly, rightfully so. How are we still allowed to make videos? YouTube, why don’t you just do yourself the favour and delete our channels?”

“After everyone sees that I win this game though,” Harry winks, dimples still showing. 

or, the one where YouTubers Harry and Louis play Golf With Friends, go to the pub with Niall and return home six hours after posting the video.

[karineverse]

you may not have drawn them all but you did so well! They all turned out so nicely.

omg the way there's art - in the form of butterflies all around Ink with the red lighting cast upon him. It's like he's in his own little world doodling away! Very well done! Expresses his creativity like he's creating life with his silly tongue sticking out because he's so concentrated

and then the messing with Error?? So funny. Error's silly eyebrows caught my eyes because the little squiggles are so squiggly. Makes him almost seem like he doesn't mind Ink pestering him so much!

Ink staring into the mirror is still slightly funny because of the face he's making in the mirror. I think you meant for it to come off as sad? Since pure white space coupled seeing himself bare would likely remind him of not so fun times

Dream holding the little candle like he's about to go somewhere in the middle of the night. He looks so tired. The lighting you did is well done and pleasing to look at. Even though I am worried for the state of Dream's sanity

If I add the Dream getting the unwanted visitor to the candle lighting practice you did, it creates almost a story. Like, he hears the knock and instead of turning the light on right away. Maybe his old mannerisms kick in and he lights the candle and walks downstairs to go see who's knocking? And that's why he's so tired. Man, someone please let him get some good sleep. He looks so done with everything

and then and then and then, my favorite you did HAS to be Dream holding the lizard. He looks so happy to be holding the little creature and the colors? MWUAH. THANK YOU FOR THIS MASTERPIECE!!! Happy Dream is best Dream

Thank you for coming to my ted talk (aka gushing about how much I love your art)

OH MY GOD thank you so much 🥺🥺🥺 I can see you actually looked at it and aaaaa thank you 🥹

Ahem here we go

I wanted to try a different thing with every drawing! Though I tried the same thing on two of them they look completely different!! And yeah Ink was doodling plants and bugs so I figured out I should add it as a background instead of showing his work.

Ehehe I'm glad you like Error's eyebrows 🥺 maybe he's not that bothered by having a bit of someone else instead of himself.

Look it looks like that cuz I suck with perspective okay??? 😭 I fucked up the mirror thing and it just looks very... Weird at very least... But yeah!! He is the only colorful thing on the picture, the whole room is while and empty and the only thing there is a mirror that only reveals that he's just like the room (see how that sounded really cool while the drawing looks like shit?) I also forgot a scar I wanted him to have and other details but I'm not gonna even stress about it.

Ok so, I like to talk about this a bit... Ahem. I draw Dream like that (tired, a bit sad, nervous, and all that) both because their face is literally just like that and because they are actually tired from all that he's been gone through, specially since he had to deal with ALL THAT after being a stone for 500 years (plus he was a child before). He doesn't sleep properly (he could go days without sleeping but it does help), and the anxiety won't let him just be in peace for a damn second, but still his face is also just built like that. And thank you for giving me a reason to draw a candle again, I kinda like drawing those :].

Lizards are the most precious creatures ever, I know.

Thank you for giving me such fun drawing prompts AND talking about them in details AND letting me ramble about them too!!!!! You're the best anon goodnight 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[spidey-bie]

So, the nicknames "Roses" for comic!Hobie came from Moxie painting them. It's the thing of they don't people, physical bodies or the shit infront of them. They are distantly native, and with that comes the belief that everything that lives has a soul. Moxie doesn't paint their muses faces, they paint the soul of their muses. Hobie is a complicated ass character, with many complicated ass things to him. He's a dork, but if you meet him in the street he'll only threaten to beat your ass. He cares like hell about everything, but he's the quietest in the room until you start fucking up and he has to step in to beat your ass. When the social climate fucked up that people couldn't have the means to live, and that's pretty fucked up ngl, He beat the president's ass. All while hiding under his little punk song references. You're catching Moxie's vibe here? There's one main consistency in behavior and emotion with him. He's a sweet dreamer who has a big ass chip on his shoulder in a capitalist hellhole that wants to kill him for caring about anything other then himself and money. That's a rose. No fucking seriously, think about it. Roses (At-least in america) are no longer a commonly wild plant. Their roots are so weak that they need to be grafted new ones just to survive through growing. They're beautiful, sure. It's the fact that they are beautiful that gets them killed. We only want to farm and chop them down to make shit like Ornament gifts or plucked their petals for people to fuck on. Yes, we also use them for a food produce, but is that your working class experience? The working class is most a country's people. They get farmed and butchered for the fact they had the misfortune of being pretty to another species. The only thing they did was exist. That fucking sucks, man. The tools that they use to keep themselves safe are stripped (thorns) and they are put on display just to watch the life they have left wither away in a day. If you can't tell, Moxie considers plant life apart of important life. They also find it very disrespectful themselves to be gifted flowers because they have the opinion it's basically saying "These were pretty, so I murdered life for you!" Thank you, Ted Bundy. (Still the character's opinion) What they painted the first time Hobie came to them was a willow tree, full of colorful roses. The willow part is because many animals in an ecosystem rely on them to rest, to make homes. They were ancient pollinators for bees, they are known in tribe's for pain relievers. Typically historically they are known as biofilters for important water sources to filter out pollution and shit. Put both of those together and you have something beautiful and dangerous, yet important for a living environment. Something that single-handedly makes the water run clean for animals to drink. Something entire cultures build their wonder around because of it's ability to exist. Admiration was always there, from day one. Mutually. Hobie is a wild-grown rose. Something that defied all systems in place to prevent them from flourishing. Here he stands, Beautiful. (Moxie speaking)

(Yes this painting is the one hobie stole, that lead to moxie being able to inter-dimensionally teleport and lead to them re-meeting. It's a very important narrative painting.) (No, they don't have a ship name but we'll make one up and pretend like we always had one in our back pocket. Bullshitting, GO!)

IM FINALLY GETTING TO THIS WOOOO

GO COFFEE ADRENALINE

OOOOOO love that for them. The essence of the soul is captured by their brush and not their physical form. That's wicked.

OMG THE SYMBOLISM OF HOBIE BEING A ROSE. Putting a show of being beautiful and harmless but underneath it all lies thorns. LIKE UGHHHH.

Oh my God I should've kept reading before I wrote that paragraph because your thought process is even better than what I came up with. DAMNNNNN just putting that into perspective is amazing. We give so many things value and yet instead of enjoying its presence and just leaving it be we exploit it.

Bro not you not having a ship name 💀. (Idk man paintpunk, colorpunk, soulpunk, the punk and the painter just spitballing here.

[marinerainbow]

I hope you dont mind me bothering you about Jim 😅😅 I have a thought and I have to share!! XD

Headcanon- the nurses working in the emergency room all know him. Why?? Because he is always there. Like, he should get frequent emergency points or a card with the words 'Every five visits your medical treatment is free!' on it XD

Because he doesn't just put his life on the line where crocodiles are concerned, no no. Crazy old nutbag thinks he's invincible (Which is a possibility honestly). Some dumb things he has done:

Put Christmas lights up in rainy, snowy, stormy weather causing him to get electrocuted (This is seasonal occurrence. He has burns)

Attempted to step from his roof to the next door neighbours roof. Its close, and they wouldn't shut up so he wanted to give them a scare. Well... he misjudged the distance. (Was hobbling around with crutches for a long time)

Climbed onto the roof to try and trap a racoon (Needed to get his rabies shot+a sling)

Tried cultivating a bush of some very dangerous plant (To sell for Big Bucks, obviously), saying he'll be fine as long as he keeps his mask on and doesn't breath it in!... but took the mask off to talk to a neighbour who was asking what the hell he's doing. (Poison control had a field day)

etc

His neighbours are also quite familiar with the local emergency services operator XD Constantly calling them like 'Hi Ted. How're your studies?... uhuh... oh good... yeah... yeah... Oh, yeah, its Jim. See you in 10' and then just going back inside Jim can waive them down himself, from the ground. His arm is fine.

Oh you don't need to worry at all!! I love it when you get excited about your favorite characters, and I'm more than happy to see your thoughts/headcannons/imagines/whatever about them! (This applies to everyone else too ^^)

And all of this? All of this is canon. No I will not take any other answer. No one can beat perfection XD

All this AND THEN SOME has happened. Jim is the ultimate menace; being a chaotic little shit not just to others but to himself XD

Also yes. He is immortal. He survived getting mauled by one of those alligators, and every other accident he's gotten himself into thus far. At this rate, Jim is an immortal cryptid in his own right.

[ratphilosophy]

Reading this with the CJtheX book club.

Chunk one includes the below writings, and here are my partially digested thoughts on each essay in this chunk.

Skywoman falling

"they could not even imagine what beneficial relations between their species and others might look like?"

I don't blame her for approaching the creation narrative in Genesis with this take, but it doesn't sound at all like Eve was banished just for tasting the fruit. The biblical scholars from whom I have learned have always maintained that this was the only fruit she couldn't have, and that she was tricked into it, and that not trusting God and his word was the sin. But Eve had been placed in the garden not just to be banished, but originally to be a gardener herself.

And then when she was later an exile, it didn't seem like it wasn't still gardening that she was supposed to do - it was just now a more unpleasant gardening.

This all reminds me of the Make Gifts for People advice that John Green gave in his one video a while ago.

I saw a video that then pushed me to a Ted talk about how we all can learn from indigenous people, but the speaker also said that being indigenous was not the thing that the descendants of colonizers should aim for. And I was confused by that, but accepted it as a consequence for the sins of those who came before me and whose actions I now benefit from, at a cost to others' ancestors.

For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.

So when Kimmerer says this, I'm sort of lost. As a descendent of colonizers (or at least of white people who were favored after the Initial Colonizing),I don't really know what I'm supposed to do.

The council of pecans

Love the idea of mast fruiting. Interesting science there. I don't have much more thought on that particular essay though.

The gift of strawberries

For the plant to be sacred, it cannot be sold.

The connection between a gift and something sacred is category expanding for me. Will have to dig into why.

Hm. Ok. I recently received some birthday money in a card. I hate cards, and don't know how to handle them, because they are usually a decent paper and are sometimes quite pretty,but they have generic poems in them and I don't really want to keep a box of generic poem papers around just because they were once gifts. So when the money came and the cards came (and I had a shit birthday, but that wasn't important) I just grabbed the cash and recycled the cards, as has become my typical response to unwanted paper. And that felt shitty, but I didn't really know why. And I wanted to respond to my gift givers, but I didn't (and still don't) know how. This validated that conviction I had that it was shitty, and has me resolved to go call my grandparents.

The idea of a gift economy sounds like heaven. It feels like the early church's impromptu socialism, and like when I get to give lots of candy to kids on Halloween. It makes me sad that we don't practice it.

The Lewis Hyde quote about gift economies, where he notes that it is more in harmony with how nature itself behaves, it snagged my attention for a bit.

I struggle to understand how geese are offering their lives as a gift to us when they are shot down and hunted. It totally makes sense that she calls it a theft of the life of a chicken in a factory farmed cage, but is it not theft of life to kill and eat a wild goose? (Not a vegan out of lack of energy, but I totally understand how those with the executive function to be vegans would come to that conclusion. I can console myself that at least I don't eat a ton of meat myself, but it's not like that absolves me by any stretch.)

Much philosophy out there makes me think of what kind of World we have. This book has me thinking about what kind of World we should have cultivated, and has me more convicted than anything else, more aware of the need for justice and restoration. In light of this, it's hard to feel satisfied by any worldview that doesn't bring what we've done to our world back into line.

The commodity economy has been here on Turtle Island for four hundred years, eating up the white strawberries and everything else. But people have grown weary of the sour taste in their mouths.

An offering

The coffee feels like a tithe

The concept of ceremony bringing our attention to a part of reality is part of what has me still attending the Anglican church, even now, as I'm not certain whether I really believe in Christianity or if I just received it from our culture and assimilated to try to fit in. I could have forgone church entirely, but I was too frightened to totally do that, and anyway there's something about the ritual that feels Real in a way that the goddamn non-denominational church's worship didn't.

What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself?

Asters and Goldenrod

I feel a parallel, in my autism and how I felt as a teen, to her experience of having her love of plants and desire for botanical knowledge get crushed because she didn't know the right words to communicate what she knew deeply. Something about that story and her emotion calls me back to wanting to study psychology because I care about people (when really I was lonely and wanted to understand them so I could not be lonely anymore. Also, special interest) and being told that wasn't a viable career option. Ugh.

Science as a way of knowing is too narrow for the task... I should have been told that my questions were bigger than science could touch.

I feel like this essay speaks to my thirst for understanding and concrete foundational truths about religion and worldview. Science is too narrow for it, but also I needed a time of testing what science (or I suppose, skeptical philosophy) is capable of doing for us in the area of worldview, and it has also been a great new environment in which to be absorbed.

I received some Goldenrod in my garden last year just by random chance. This has me wanting to put asters in as well, replacing the invasive honeysuckle bush that threatens to overgrow every few months.

Learning the grammar of animacy

The idea of scientists naming things has always brought my mind back to the Eden narrative, where Adam is assigned the task of naming the animals. Naming and gardening were the two things we were asked to do. It makes sense that science and art would be so captivating to us.

What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.

The boarding schools thing has me, a very left human, feeling like we need less government so they can never do something like that again. (But I know that's an emotional reaction - not really a solid national plan.)

I envy her ability to teach herself a language so important to her.

Fuckin love that Yawe means "to be" and sounds like Yahweh - "I am".

[werewolf-witchboy]

Tokoyami Fumikage X Male Reader

Being A Witch Boy And Dating Tokoyami

WARNINGS: none uwu

Being a witch has nothing to do with your quirk, you just like practicing the dark arts and witchy things.

I'm not going to mention what your quirk is, so you can imagine that you have whatever quirk you want, or you can imagine yourself as someone without a quirk.

💀 Tokoyami had been fascinated with your hobby of witchcraft ever since he met you. He was most fascinated with the fact that your actual quirk has nothing to do with how your witchcraft works.

🕯 He had already thought you were cute before, and he had been in that time of his life where he was starting to question his sexuality a little- but after you showed him your witchy interests, he fell hard for you.

💀 He may be a dark and edgy birb boi, but he's also quite shy and awkward. He probably would have never confronted you about his crush if you hadn't told him your feelings for him first.

🕯 When y'all started dating, literally everyone was like "FINALLY!!" cuz it was super obvious that the two of you were meant for each other.

💀 When it comes to what type of witch you are, i'd say you're a witch of all traits.

-You love dark and spooky things, but you also love pastel colors and nature.

-Your room in the class 1A dorm is most likely full of plants, candels, a variety of antiques and trinkets, and shit that you can't buy at stores until it's around Halloween time.

🕯 Tokoyami likes to ask many questions about all of the different types of things you do, and he actually pays attention and is super interested. You'll even teach him some new things, and show him how to do them himself.

💀 You love Dark Shadow as much as you love Tokoyami himself. Though they're both very different in personality, you find them both charming and adorable (despite them both saying they're not "adorable," they're dark and spoopy lmao).

🕯 He also loves your animal familiar.

-Your familiar rarely comes out of your bedroom. Since you're dating Tokoyami, you allow him in your room (which means a lot more than he probably thinks it does, cuz spaces where witches do their magic and recharging are very sacred to them) so he gets to see your familiar quite often.

💀 It's rare for familiars to show affection to anyone that isn't their bonded witch, but your familiar absolutely loves Tokoyami.

-They'll hop onto his lap immediately as soon as he sits down in your room.

🕯 Both you and Tokoyami thrive in the darkness, so there are often times where you both hang around in your dimly lit room cuddled up together just talking all day (or even sometimes laying there in comfortable silence).

-You'll be in there together for so long that all of your friends will start questioning where you're both at, and not even realize that you're just in your room.

💀 He obviously likes you a whole lot, but he's super bad at saying it with words. He's just shy and bashful. BUT THEN DARK SHADOW EXPOSES HIM LMAO-

-You'll be standing there looking super cute, and Tokoyami will just stare at you and want to say something so badly. Then Dark Shadow appears and is all like "wOw yOu'Re sUpEr hOt" and Tokoyami just dies right there in the very spot he's standing cuz he can't believe that just happened.

🕯 That's another thing- Tokoyami stares at you a LOT. He even did it before y'all started dating, but now he doesn't even try to hide it.

-You barely noticed at first, but once you started noticing how often you catch him staring at you, you can't help but tease him a little.

-You'll stare at him back, directly in the eyes, and he'll get super flustered and embarrassed.

-Then to calm him down and make him feel less embarrassed, you'll giggle at his flustered-ness and give him a lil beak kiss...which just makes him even more flustered.

💀 He's definitely the type who wants to be a total romantic, and speak all poem-like to you, and shower you with praises, ect. BUT he gets so flustered when it comes to affection, and second-guesses himself when it comes to his ideas of showing affection.

-He's scared of coming off too strong, or seeming to clingy, or even not doing enough, so he never really gets the chance to act out any of how he wants to show affection- and to top it all off he can't help but be absolutely smitten every time you give him affection of any sort, and he'll not know how to react to it.

🕯 You never call him out on his shyness or how he reacts to your affection, you're not offended with any way he reacts to you. You think it's super cute how innocent he seems when it comes to all of this, and of course you encourage any time he gets a little bit of confidence to hold your hand or compliment you (without the help of Dark Shadow lol).

💀 His feathers get all ruffled when he's flustered, and OMFG it's too cute. 🥺😭

🕯 Something that he loves so much is when you borrow his clothes. Because for him, it's kind of a way to show affection towards you without being super direct about it.

-So him being like "you're cold? here, wear my sweatshirt" translates to "TAKE EVERYTHING FROM ME, KEEP IT FOREVER, I LOVE YOU FJSKDJFHR-"

💀 Don't come @ me- Tokoyami listens to death metal, but he'd totally vibe with something like kpop if you introduced him to it.

-He's definitely a Loona stan.

🕯 Highkey though, now that I think of it- he probably also listens to Joji and Billie Eilish.

-Like, really moody sad boi hours indie music.

-He'd have Will He playing in his headphones, and he'd be all edgy and in his feelings, but he'd also be doing something like baking cookies at the same time lmfao.

-He'd have a playlist named "songs to cry to," but he'd be listening to it while knitting sweaters for puppies or something.

💀 No, you didn't ask me what kind of music that I think Tokoyami listens to, but you got it anyway. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

🕯 If he's at a store, and sees something kinda spooky looking that makes him think of you, he'd quickly get it and think all day of giving it to you, and he'd want to watch you add it to your collection of lil trinkets and antiques.

-....But he'd chicken out so hard I stg.

-This poor baby would rehearse how he'd give it to you in his head over and over again, and then when the time comes to give it to you, he'd get suddenly so tongue-tied and worried if you'd actually like it or not.

-But, of course, you love whatever he gets you every time. Your always super surprised when he gets you something, cuz it's not your birthday or any special day, and you never expect gifts from people.

-Every time you accept a gift from him, you always want to squeal, tackle him, and shower him with kisses- but you resist doing so with all of your being, cuz you know he'd malfunction.

-Instead you very profoundly thank him many times, and give him one especially loving kiss.

-Seeing your extra surprised and happy reaction always relieves him so much, and it makes him want to do it all over again and gift you a whole shop full of trinkets. His lack of hundreds of dollars is the only thing that stops him.

💀 You're the type of person who wears a lot of black, and scatters bright colors here and there within your look. Your style ranges from goth to pastel e-boy.

🕯 You don't like to change other people's styles or tell other people what to wear, but every once in a while, Tokoyami expresses an interest in dressing like you- which you go NUTS over.

-You'll let him borrow your pastel sweaters, and he'll let you put bright colored hairclips in his feathers.

-He now even owns some pastel colored clothing of his own, that you either gifted him or he secretly bought himself at some point.

💀 He used to be shy about changing up his style every once in a while at first. Whenever you'd take pictures of him wearing bright clothes, he'd softly ask you not to show them to any of the others.

-Eventually he became confident enough to go out in public those rare days he'd wear bright colors, and everyone is always super supportive of the different style.

🕯 He had never been in a relationship with another guy before he started dating you.

-He started questioning his sexuality around the time he started high school, but it was never a priority at first because he was more focused on working hard to get into U.A. and thinking about his future being a hero.

-aNd tHeN hE mEt yOu, and now we're here lol.

-ANYWAYS, y'all go to pride parades together.

-Something he isn't shy about is his sexuality, cuz as soon as he realized how he felt about you, he was all in and that was that.

-Y'all go all out for parades with face and body paint, and shirts with your flags on them, and even sometimes bringing signs and flags to hold up and wave around.

-Some of your friends will come with the two of you, whether they're there because they're also lgbtq+ or just because they support it.

-It's the most social the two of you are the entire year, cuz your both introverted lil emos that don't really talk to many people outside of class 1A.

💀 So yeah- I think Tokoyami is highly underrated and I'm extremely soft for him. He's an emo birb boi, what is not to love.

-I believe in emo birb boi supremacy.

-Rise all Tokoyami stans, we shall take over the entire anime world someday.

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Story time! (ALSO SPOILER ALERT!)

Jeremy and I started casually watching How I Met Your Mother (referred to as HIMYM from here on out) and while it was great from an entertainment standpoint and at some points from a feminist standpoint (bc Robin busts her ass working all these crazy jobs and decides she doesn't want kids long before she realizes she can't have them and Lily wrangles 3 kids a career and a man-child husband who likes to make major life changing decisions without consulting her), there was so much about it that was just violently problematic. Ted has NO SENSE of self-worth, like at all, in any way. He takes whatever jobs come his way and he takes whatever girls come his way - and it's not like there's a shortage of them! In 9 seasons Ted gets around A LOT (which is fine!! Consenting adults having a good time is FINE PEOPLE!) BUT it seems like every single one of his "friends" are in some way or another out to get him or using him and honestly, Robin's the worst. But I'll get to that in a second.

So, let's start with Lily and Marshall, who on several occasions decide to just barge into Ted's personal life and shake shit up because they think they know what's best for him - encouragement and talking to your friends is encouraged, of course, but planting fake jewelry to make Ted's girlfriends think he's cheating? Seriously? Or how about when they told Ted they didn't want to hear any more of his drama because they had a baby so he straight up stopped talking to them about his life because they made him feel like HE was drama. And then there's his super problematic parents who would rather lie to him and infantalize him than admit that he's a grown ass man with a grown ass life and can handle things like a divorce much better if it doesn't seem to come from literally nowhere. And Barney, despite seemingly being the only one who actually considers Ted's talents (like sign language) to be cool he still abuses the shit out of Ted with "The Bro Code" for nine straight seasons, then throws a hissy fit when Ted wants to move to Chicago.

And then there's Robin. It's not her fault that Ted hung onto her so tightly - except that it is. She wouldn't go away, wouldn't give him the space he needed to move on from her (REALLY MOVE ON) and even made a deal with him to marry each other as a back-up plan if all else fails. Like really?? Really girl? And even when she moves out of the apartment she has to leave one final reminder that she was there and she had his heart the whole time - she left the blue french horn sitting by the window. In fact it wasn't until Ted married Tracy that Robin finally left him the hell alone, and she was MARRIED to Barney.

And like, seriously, how often did they make Ted feel bad about his "Nerd" stuff? He could speak Italian for fucks sake, and the whole character list of HIMYM treated him like a joke. Youngest architect to build in the NYC Skyline and he's being yo-yo'd by his friends all the time no wonder he was looking for validation in women.