#anika's rambles

[bronzetomatoes]

Wish I could be a photographer bc do you ever see something from the highway so beautiful that it makes you a little sick and as you're passing by you wait for the exact moment where your point of view puts the scene perfectly in frame and angled in a way that in itself could make you believe that the earth is a collection of landscapes painted by God Himself but you don't have the time or the equipment to capture the moment the way your eyes do in that perfect split second so you need to get by with a couple of phone camera photos from the backseat of a moving minivan. Or is it just me

[anika-ann]

So, you're writing a dark dark AND niche fic you're not sure anyone will read.

...ah well.

[sorrowwrites]

A glimpse of Kingdom Salome and its culture ;

Salomine (sah-low-min) people are diverse, and very spiritual. They have priests and priestesses, alters and praying houses.

What do they worship? By worship, they mor so believe that being respectful to nature will bring good fortune and good luck. They “worship” the earth, the skies, and the conceptual being called the “Mother of Nature.” This is what their house/Sigil is; a mother of nature. A mother made of wood, that nourishes the land with her roots deep within the ground. Many outside of Salome believe the Woman to be a myth, a false story. Salomines have only heard of her through an old and aged story, it said that the Salome brother was blessed. That the tree was so infatuated with the Salome brother, she blessed his land to be the richest in fertilizer and crops. That she was forever in the Salomes debt due to whatever mighty thing Salome brother did.

Little do they know, the story is completely distorted and twisted.

Salomines love festivals, and have the best markets in all of Guardiant. They are rich with seasonings, every type of food, and more. Many travel far ways to get a slight taste of the food Salome has to offer. The best bakeries, inns, and restaurants are noted in the heart of Salome.

They are seen as the most peaceful; never to break war first. Salome was the one to have initiated the truce between the three brothers after the Great War. So, taking on that stigma of kindness, the people here are very welcoming.

They’re most noted for their wines!

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

【Update】

hello everyone (хдх)ﾉ♡ this is for anyone who might be looking forward to Li Zeyan’s top-up SP and summer SP translations.

i’m here to inform you that your soldier has fallen severely ill 🤧 fever’s not really budging much from 104°F+ / 40°C+, and there’s then cold and migraine🧍‍♀️so, as much i want to get to the translations asap before uni starts in full swing, i really can’t right now. however, i will translate both cards, and kid you not she has so many things to scream about HHHH 😭 only halfway through the year and two more cards are entering my god-tier list aksksks 🙇‍♀️

anyway, please be patient as i’ll have to take my time with them. also, my twitter account got sh*d*wb*nned (!again) 🙄 after posting ASMR smh ✨too much quality✨ for them lmao once the ban is lifted, i’ll share my translation tidbits as i usually do~ 🫶

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[sorrowmoons]

Ugh I was in a silly and good feeling mood and I doodled the main gals <33 while Anika is in the air of lore development, regardless of what I pick… They are so sisters. (BTW this is a silly modern depiction of em heheh)

Def listening to this song

[undyingmedium]

"Fine, fine. Who am I to be your guard anyway? Do what you feel like, I know we'll still be around for the other, that's how we are."

[lunarthecorvus]

Me when I check the Anika/Pim tag on AO3 and there's no new fics

[icaruscreates]

I wonder if they’d notice

[wellflower]

WE ARE SO BACK!! I missed you tumblr. also my #anika rambles tag is rebranding I just don’t know to what yet

[bronzetomatoes]

i do think oh so frequently about the dsmp fandom's response to c!Tommy's trauma, but it just works so well as an exaggerated example of what happens in other fandoms. like. the idea was that he was villianised by fans for turning angry and mean after being abused, which was seen as an inherent flaw rather than a trauma response, right? because it didn't fit into the way fictional abuse victims are treated like objects of pity in fandoms.

and a lot of ppl thought this was happening bc people who turn bitter and angry and lash out due to trauma are never represented in media, but... they are. lol. i can name like 3 off the top of my head, one of them being from a show made in the 70s-80s. it's just that they either got the same treatment on a smaller scale (because the DSMP fan culture was essentially a 10-year fandom compressed into a year or 2), or they just. ignore it. they pretend that they were the "perfect victim" all along, mischaracterise them in the popular fanon, turn their anger issues into a palettable sort of anxiety disorder, morph their PTSD symptoms into something sympathetic rather than what they find to be too mean or scary.

they'll insist that they're misunderstood, but what they mean is that their actions "weren't that bad" or "were perfectly justified". there's no middle ground lmao bc they can't accept that the sympathetic traumatised character could have done bad things due to said trauma without their victim deserving it. c!Tubbo didn't deserve to be told that he was worth less than the discs, but c!Tommy is not an irredeemable monster, nor was he justified in saying that. Zuko was a 16-year-old boy living in the shame caused by his abuse, and he was absolutely horrible to his crew, burned down suki's village, and constantly turned on people who were only kind to him. like this feels like such a stupid thing to type, that people can do awful things that you don't need to justify but you also don't have to hate them forever. like.

ik this felt like a DSMP-centric issue bc it was a lot of ppl's babys-first-fandom (both the ppl defending and condemning ctommy, though more of the latter), but isn't it obvious how people were filled with sympathy for Hawkeye and disdain for BJ? how this has always been a problem?

[anika-ann]

No feeling like seeing someone go through 144,681 words of an insanely emotionally charged fic, wistfully waiting for at least a single reblog.

There's been so much written on this subject.

Likes are nice, I guess. I always appreciate them.

But please consider letting the author know you are a human being and maybe reading made you feel something. That you think maybe it's worth sharing with others by reblogging.

[anika-ann]

Okay, okay, but hear me out🤭🤭

Tony sets this up for him, which has Steve mortified. He's even too embarrassed to tell his girl, aka you.

You learn anyway, before it happens - and you are just as much of little shit as he is and you've got friends in convenient places. You spring into action.

Filth and crack-ish fun ahead, people, that is why it's under cut. Also, there's like zero editing to that 700-word thing.

The day of the interview/shooting, you just kiss goodbye in the morning, pretending you do not know Steve is going to do this kind of a public appearance, because he hasn't specified, too ashamed.

Then, you sit to the live feed, virtual or literal bowl of popcorn in hand.

Your boy looks as gorgeous as always, and despite the fact you know he can spew quite the filth in the bedroom or bathroom or kitchen, or the closet at the party, he's allready blushing.

And then he starts.

"He's so pretty I want to cry. Oh that is actually sweet. Please don't cry though."

"His..." he clears his throat, "his ass just won't end-- uhm, thanks." More blush to his cheeks. You grin.

"The thighs on that man, I swear, I want... I want a ride. There are taxis...?"

You can't but chuckle. You knew this was him putting on a persona. He knew all too well what the author of that tweet meant.

"His shirts are so tight I want to kiss his stylist. And then his... chest."

You almost aww. You liked taht one. You also know 100% that the word chest was not what was written there. 103%.

"...wait what do you mean now the spicy ones are coming in? Wasn't--- right. Alright. I'm doing this for the charity, just so you know-"

"Title of your sex tape," you mutter under your breath, wiggling in your seat in anticipation, maybe a little too amused.

But you simply can't help yourself, all giddy.

"Okay. So... he's as american as an apple pie but I'd like... a different kind of pie from him?"

You burst out laughing at his genuine confusion, taking a note of teaching him about this one.

"His face is so pretty. Those eyebrows of justice, lips of freedom,... thank you? I think. Uhm, and don't get me started on that nose. I want it to bump my--- as I-- and soa--- I'm not-- I'm not reading the rest of that tweet! I--- people actually put this out on the internet??" he sputters, horrified, the second prettiest blush you have ever seen on him adorning his face (the most beautiful one was when you were making love).

Your poor boyfriend has practically jumped from his seat, eyes all wide. He's fiddling with his microphone, refusing to continue, his dextrous fingers all fumbling.

He's a picture. He's perfect.

And you died. Of laughter.

You ascended to another plane of existence. But the best part was yet to come. You know it.

You know it, just as you know what the rest of the so-called tweet read - because you wrote it. You wrote all those fake tweets and called your friend, one of the producers, setting Steve up.

"Actually, they don't" sounds from behind the camera, causing Steve to stop toying with the mike, casting a confused gaze towards the person.

"I don't... understand?"

"They're fake. We'll tell you who wrote them off camera. Sorry to blindside you, Captain Rogers."

Steve is dumbfounded.

Except he isn't.

He looks directly to the camera and he might as well be staring into your soul. He knows.

He knows it was you and the ripple of excitement and fresh burst of laughter nearly tears you apart.

There's a comemrcial break lasting a whole minute.

While you giggle to yourself, you feel your phone vibrate in your lap.

Oh doll, just you wait until I get home. You'll get all those rides and bumps you wrote about. And you will beg for me to let you soak just about anything. Better eat up, you'll need the calories.

Gulping, you read an then reread the message, heart hamerring in your chest, coil in your belly already forming at the filthy promises - and you nearly jump when Steve's voice sounds from the screen again.

He's picture perfect; the blush barely there, million dollar smile of a golden boy, speaking in conciliatory manner about how he is not mad and he's happy to do it.

For the charity, of course.

He's innocence incarnate, his blush intensifying as he reads the real tweets.

The show runners weren't the only ones who could blindside someone. And you're not the only one who can be a little shit.

You squirm in your seat as something hungry flickers in Steve's eye at a particular tweet, just for you; and you know, he added it to his mental list of ways he will ruin you tonight, much to your mutual pleasure.

You should prepare snacks.

You feel like you really will be needing those calories.

I--- my hand slipped and fell on my keyboard? Repeatedly? 🥹🥹

I hope you ahd fun, I definitely did 😂

I'll tag some folks later maybe 🤭

someone stop him

[weightedblankettt]

I DONT KNOW WHEN YOU STARTED FOLLOWING ME ON NUMBERONEANIKA BUT WERE MUTUALS NOW. HELLO

OH MY GOFODDD HI HRU ANIKA?? I FOLLOW ANYONE THAT FOLLOWS BACK OR INTERACTS OR THAT I LIKE THE CONTENT OF SO WE’RE MOOTIES MOW

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

【Update on extended hiatus】

i published this on X/ Twitter and am sharing the same picture without any edits lol as a gist of the situation~ 🙇‍♀️

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[sorrowmoons]

Watching Caseoh and I’m just LAUGHING at this Au idea for my Ocs

Hear me out.. Streamer/YouTuber Au?? Ugh Dakota is so Caseoh/Korey coded and it’s so fun watching them DUDEEEE

Dakota would probably have NO FANCY SETUP WHATSOEVER she just has a poor quality mic and shouts all the time because she sucks at horror games

Skye is mainly a drawing steamer, but when she plays games she’s mostly playing random ahh games OR plays with screaming Dakota

Anika plays Minecraft or those calming games or something IDK

I’m just imagining them playing Dandy’s world together… this brings me peace

[fina1girls]

fighting the urge to watch scream 6 for the 4th time ..... currently losing .......