#being human event

[thorsiffe-dragonheart]

Forgetful minds, watchful eyes

For: @makena-harris Location: The Spirit Festival

Thorsiffe had been one of many to volunteer at the spirit festival. Candles were not their customary way of honoring their ancestors and the spirits of the world, but they had never been one to close themself off to the customs of others. To them, the most important thing was that these rituals were held and celebrated as a community, and as such they were more than happy to not only participate but help out as well.

The mysterious mark that had appeared upon their chest had dampened their mood though. Like a cold fog rolling over the hills, filling your nose and laying thick upon your tongue, before dawn's light could reach warm your skin and bring color to your eyes. They had no idea how it had appeared upon their chest. Gwen had not either, even though she had gone to sleep next to them the night it had found its way upon their chest.

Looking at it, just thinking of it, made them feel uneasy. As if a predator was skulking just outside their vision. A predator whose face they should recognize, but couldn't.

They'd pushed all those thoughts to the back of their mind, to the best of their abilities. Rather than letting the cursed mark ruin the festival, Thorsiffe wore it on full display. An act of defiance against the mark and how it made them feel, in some esoteric way.

They wore a low-cut crop top. Aside from the strange mark, the tattoos covering most of their torso were proudly displayed, and that knowledge brought some further comfort and courage to Thorsiffe. The cold had never bothered them either, and they were smiling from ear to ear as they were handing out candles, no matter the looks their odd choice of attire might've earned them.

A familiar face joined them behind the stand, and Thorsiffe's smile curled up into a grin. "Makena, hey! Nice seeing you here."

[salmankhanholics]

★ BEST Human…Salman Khan with Sarika and Rajesh Jaju at Being Human Event in Mumbai!

-October 30, 2023

[lady-crytia]

Human AU: the businesswoman trying to buy back her soul

Name: Helena Crytia Age: 31 Occupation: Lawyer

About

Moved to VC after law school to make her fortune.

Made said fortune by helping corporations avoid any and all accountability for any immoral or illegal actions of theirs.

She worked this job for several years. Helena excelled at it, and climbed the corporate ladder rather quickly.

Had a revelation of sorts when Eri had his meltdown, and seriously reconsidered what it was she was doing with her life.

Helena ended up quitting her job as well, and turned her life around. She now uses her funds to invest in and help out small, starting, and/or struggling business.

Arguably more importantly, she now works at a firm that investigates and helps prosecute corporations.

Ideas for connections

Former colleagues, acquaintances and friends from her corporate job. (Eri, Matthew)

Rivals from her former job.

People she's helped since her change of heart.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This baby remained under the rubble for six hours. Read it again. By some miracle, he survived and he was rescued. But his mother who was holding him didn't. He looks like he's in shock, you can see tears coming out of his eyes but no expression or any sound to indicate his pain.

We are not numbers. Make an effort to end this.

[st-hedge]

What was that really beautiful wording used to describe characters I like— ah that’s it, sad sacks of issues. That’s this guy right here

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[lotus-pear]

regret

[bearotonin-international]

Floofs for a Free Falasteen 🍉

[creepycoffins]

I said he was unpleasant, he said I was a louse, and then we took to quarreling round the house

[starrysharks]

winter assassin outfit

[thorsiffe-dragonheart]

Human AU: the exchange student & troublemaker

Name: Thorsiffe Nielsen Age: 23 Occupation: university student; exchange student from Norway doing a minor in art history here in VC.

About

Grew up in a small town in northern Norway.

Moved to a city to attend university (exact city is TBD), majoring in Scandinavian culture and history.

Has always had a great variety of hobbies, including HEMA, glima, sailing, and several different martial arts throughout the years.

Started competing in martial arts tournaments in their teens, but never got very serious about it due to the remoteness of their town and them fleeting from sport to sport.

Started competing more seriously in MMA in university, and were quick to start combining a career in the sport with their education, causing them to take a couple years longer with it.

Applied for an exchange program that would allow them to study abroad in VC for a year; they, alongside some friends from their hometown attending the same uni, got in.

They're known to have boundless energy, somehow combining their studies with their many hobbies, and still having time to get shitfaced at any party they can get themself an invite to.

A really good student but stubbornly refuses to obey rules they disagree with on an ideological level.

Politically active; often found at rallies, protests, and marches. They were a bit of a celebrity in the region of their hometown for it.

Ideas for connections

University, troublemaker, and/or training friends

Favorite teacher

Restaurant or store employee or owner who they befriended

Literally anything

[salmankhanholics]

★ BEAUTIFUL Human…Salman Khan at Being Human Event in Mumbai!

-October 30, 2023

[always-a-joyful-note]

Enstars sure is an experience. Did I miss anything?

[jabberwockprince]

my blorbo now, he has melanin so i'm giving him more and some earrings <3

[kahluah]

*puts hand up* sorry I’m very new here what’s the context with what’s happening with the tag war??

Alright, I will give my run down, but I will not be naming any blog names on either side even if I have the info and the action was net positive. I just like to use my blog to scroll and reblog for the most part and refuse to embroil myself in the drama more than just giving my view on it as a bystander. One that definitely has an opinion on the events, but also as someone who would rather curate my own experience than fight.

So all this fighting that is going on, it used to just happen in the normal "Jiang Cheng" tag because back then there was no "canon Jiang Cheng" tag; it had not been created yet. (By that I mean it was not a tag used as a tag, Tumblr's shitty search algorithm might still show posts if one typed it in to the search bar because those posts had the words 'canon', 'Jiang', and 'Cheng' in the tags separately, but there would not be posts with "#canon Jiang Cheng" because nobody normally creates a post with a tag like that when "#Jiang Cheng" was suffice. Sometimes I see irrelevant posts in the canon Jiang Cheng tag, but the actual tag isn't on the post, the tags just happen to have all three words in them. Those I ignore because that is Tumblr's fault, not the poster.)

The fighting was between people that like the character and prefer to see the good in him and the interpretation of his character, and those that may or may not like the character (just because you like a character does not mean you need to defend their every action after all) but do not share that opinion of his character and have a more neutral or negative portrayal by contrast. The former also tended to favor or have only read the novel as it is the source material for all other adaptations.

Now things really came to a head when hate and threats were being thrown about on posts that were just quotes from the book showing the negative actions of Jiang Cheng. The people posting the quotes were basically told "if you hate the character why don't you just tag the post as anti-JC?!" but is it really right to call those anti posts when they were posting how the character acts in the source material? That is the character. That is how he acted. Look it is in the book! The character really did that! It is not somebody's negative headcanon that the character may act like that, it is something the character actually did. Personally I can not consider that as an anti character post, and neither did the people who made posts like that.

But things did get heated enough that some people finally took a step back and said "Fine. You want us to make our own space to make these posts so that you do not have to see us talk about JC this way? We will. It will be #canon Jiang Cheng and you can block it if you don't want to see the posts." Was the name picked in the spirit of schadenfreude? Very probable, but it is also not an incorrect name as the people who wanted to use it base their opinion on the novel. But the point was that the tag was created so that people now had their own space to make the posts they wanted and those that did not want to see it could block the tag. Curate your own experience; we can block tags on this site for a reason and advertising tags to block is a courtesy. (Because as said previously, the search here sucks, because the posts contain the character's name they are still likely to show up in the main tag, but block the newly created tag and you will not see those posts either way). Could the other people come into the tag in good faith and make arguments with textual support? Yeah, that was welcomed, but in the spirit of debate they should expect rebuttal. Was that what happened? No.

No instead what happened was basically this meme

They did not like the name chosen for the tag. They read the novel too and still believe that JC is good, so they should be able to use the tag too! Never mind the fact that the tag was made so they could block the posts they didn't want to see. So that they can go on with their days no longer having to deal with the people they constantly fought with. No. Instead of curating the experience of this website, they would get so hung up on the fact that there was now a tag called #canon Jiang Cheng in use that they had to use it too to defend JC from the people that post 'negative' things about him; even if it is novel text!

So while the fighting didn't stop, it did get slightly better because not everyone felt the need to jump into the new tag to defend their fave. Some people actually did curate their experience. Plus there is a block button and people do use it, so things got to a point where I would say it was relatively stable even if there was still fights here and there. (But once again I lurk, I do not participate. Things may not have been the same for more outspoken people).

But then a certain muskrat bought Twitter and a chunk of the fandom there fled here. That's when the main push to "reclaim the tag" and the new influx of people hopping into the tag to argue and defend their fave appeared. These people did not know why the tag was made, they just saw blogs that they liked telling people about the "JC-antis" that made it and how with the new people pouring into the Tumblr fandom from twitter, they had a chance to flood it and reclaim it. And since then the fighting has not really stopped.

As for what has happened in the past few days, you have JC defenders flooding the tag with fan art (not canon), screen caps from CLQ (not canon), and screenshots of a sentence or two from the novel (canon, but usually out of context or lacking additional lines that go on to rebut what was previously said) in the tag and the people who made the tag for a specific purpose getting mad about the spam. (I block so I have no clue how big the influx was or whatever but there was definitely like at least 3 new people I had to block). So when they made posts venting the anger, you got JC defenders coming back to them and going "But I never sent any hate or harassment! I just used the tag to talk about the canon character!" And perhaps they didn't, but these people in their defense always ignore and never respond to the question of why they are in the tag instead of blocking it because that is what the tag was made for. Instead they come back with "Well if you want to talk about JC that way, why don't you post in the anti tag or make your own tag!"... Remember that meme picture I used above. Yup.

The tag war began because people did not like negative posts about JC in the main character tag for JC. When told to use the anti tag or make a new tag, a new tag was made, but instead of curating the experience the stans of JC got so tilted at the name of the tag that they decided that they would come into the tag and continue the fight instead of just blocking it. Twitter fallout made the fighting worse. And now we have come full circle to the JC stans once again telling people to just use the anti tag or make their own tag.

[blackhholes]

teen wolf meme: [1/5] motifs -> fire

You find the girl wearing that necklace, she's your arsonist. Murderer. Excuse me? Arson happens to property. This girl's a murderer.