#boxing womann

[ahhhh-118]

I’m going on a trip so there’s gonna be a bit further delay with the next pages of ‘the Rattlesnake and the Jester’ comic, hopefully I’ll have it done around early June or so 🥲

I’m the meantime, I decided to introduce you guys to a new LackaOC :> it’s a friend of Maríanne and her brother since the start of the Rattlers!

Meet Delilah Everlorn

Little facts:

- She’s from the UK ✨

- She taught Maríanne how to box (her father taught her, but she claims she’s self-taught)

- Cuts her own hair

- Born on October 29th, 1897

- Her design is based on a Scottish Fold

Hope you like her :>>

[allieebobo]

Hi Allie!! The update was really gooooodddddd! Anw, ive been stalking and reading through the asks & while I’m enjoying those, i don’t think anyone has asked u about urself yet. Or maybe i miss it but I’m interested to know more about the author who wrote 2 of my fave IFs. Just general questions like;

1. which part of SG were you from?

2. Fav food?

3. Fav place to lepak?

4. Pri/sec school (if you were educated in sg)

5. What made you migrated to USA?

6. Where are u currently based in?

7. Are u still a student or a full-fledged career womann

8. One place in sg that will always carry beautiful memories for you, now that u’ve moved abroad.

9. What sparked your interest in writing these IFs?

Hehehe. If some of the questions are abit personal, you don’t have to share ur answers. Have a good day ahead 🤍

Ooh!! Anon, these are great questions hehe!! Sure, we can do a get-to-know-me session!

I will answer a couple, and get back to the rest at some point, OK? If there's a question that I didn't answer that y'all are really curious about, you can send me an ask with the number and I'll get to it sooner rather than later.

(P.S. no, none of them are too personal, I just think it'd take me a gajillion years to reply if I tried to answer them all!)

Got long, so the answers are below the cut!

1. which part of SG were you from?

Redhill/Bukit Merah! There's a moment in Merry Crisis where MC talks about it, and that's directly from my life! West side, best side! If me and my partner were entitled to a subsidized public housing flat (we aren't, for so many reasons including we're queer and she's not Singaporean), I'd absolutely buy a flat in the exact same neighbourhood.

2. Fav food

Wow... I can't really choose one, but if I could cheat and pick a whole cuisine then Peranakan food, hands down. Petai (stinky bean) with ikan bilis is one of my fave dishes—and it reminds me of my grandma. Otherwise, ban mian is a big comfort food for me, and so are red chili oil dumplings. I also love kaya toast with eggs for breakfast. Herbal bak kut teh and teochew fish are things I love but wouldn't eat every day... All of these might show up (the fish already has I guess!) in the game at some point!

For non-Singaporean food, I could eat udon, all kinds of pasta, and som tum all day every day.

3. Fav place to lepak

<Lepak is Singaporean/Malaysian(? I think) slang for like, 'chill' or 'hang', btw.> As you can already tell I added a lot of my own experiences/things I love into Merry Crisis already, so I'm going to have to go with Labrador Park and Sentosa. As a kid my mom would bring me and my brother to the rocky coast in Labrador after school with a box of Sarpino's pizza and we'd play in the water and eat and get really sandy. Sentosa back in the day was less commercial/touristy, and we'd just park in the carpark for $2, and spend the entire Sunday just chilling on the beach (yes, I'm a huge beach person haha), and my dad (not a big beach person) would be napping under a big tree probably wishing his wife weren't such a big beach person because it's been inherited by his kids and now this is how he'll spend his weekends for the rest of his life.

6. Where are you based in? 7. Are u still a student or a full-fledged career woman

Have a full-time job, sadly. I've been working as an urban planner in Singapore for three years now. (Think that answers both questions at the same time.) So yeah, I plan the city. Mostly I make sure future generations have enough housing, even though I'm not entitled to one myself. 🤷‍♀️ I enjoy my work and I think it's fulfilling, but it's also tough and my hours are too long. One day I hope to write full-time but I really don't think it'll pay the bills. Maybe if I live somewhere cheaper than Singapore!

Quite excited to answer 8, 9 as well, but maybe those are for another day?

[rosiemissfandomchaos]

I accidentally had someone drag themselves to Simp Nation: a compilation of a Discord Friend’s messages over simping over a lady

yeah the list is so long I decided I should do a read more

anyways-

"I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY SIMPS EXIST"

"IM RIFNFN RUNNING OUT OF WORDS TO EVENNEN DESCRIB"

"WE ARENT EVEN TALKING AT THIS POINT WE'RE BARKING"

varietys of "WOOF WOOF WOOF"

"HOLY SHITHSI HOLY FUCK HO HFLLFF F"

the emote ":flushed:"

"SHE STILL PRETTY BUT I WANNAN SEE THEH H"

"WAIII I WANNA BRAID HER HAIR FOR HER AS SHE TELL ME ABOUT HER DAY SOFT HAIR IERNR LONG HAIR WOOWOFOFOFO HE TICKIN ALL THE BOXES THEHRHEHHREH WHITE HAIR ANDNND LONG I LIKE WHITE HAIR OR LIKE PALE BLONDE OR DARK IITHEI OWOO"

"MAN SHE PROBALB YNM SMELL LIKE LAVENDEr"

"GHRGHRNGRHGNRHGNRH"

"DIDNT EVEN KNOW I LIKED PURPLE THIS MUCH SHE REALLY GOT ME OVER HE"

"BRBGRBGBRBGBRGBRBGRBGBRBGBRBGRB"

"IM MELTIn"

"DIDNT KNOW I LIKE PURPLE SO MUCH UNTIL I SAW HER"

"I DONT PLAY THIS GAM B NOW WI WANNA BC WO ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?"

"WAIWITAITIW EVIL PRETTY WOMAN THEY ARE METTING AL MY STANDARDS"

"WHAT DO I LOOK UP TO SEE EVIL KYOKO"

"[before this all started] WHOO IS THAT"

"[before this all started] WORLD STOPPED SPINNIN"

"i WAN LIKE GRBGJRB WHEN WOMEN I WANANNA LET THEM REST THEY HEAD ON MY LAP AND I CAN RUN MY HAND THROUGH THEY HAIR CUDDLE"

"WAITIWAITITIITIT ITIWITIAWJITIJAWJTIIJWAT HO :flushed:"

[when I showed off her F.F. outfit] "HGHGHRghRHGhrghr WOOF WOOF WOOF wOOFOFOWOFWO" [my message here] "WOFOWOGOGOGOGOFo"

"RGBBGBRBGBRB I DONT EVEN PLAY THIS GAAAME AND THIS WOMANN"

"EVERY SHUT THE FUOC UP HER DRESs" [a few messages here] "GHRHGRHGn"

"im going fucking insane over a game i don't even know anything about bc there are pretty women"

me: "WOMEN" them: "^^"

“PINK WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME WHAT DID OU DO“       -in what I replied back “IDK       YOU JUST ASKED ME       FOR PICS OF PRETTY DR WOMEN       AND YOU JUST       WENT AFTER [KYOKO KIRIGIRI]       HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO FIGURE OUT THIS WOULD GO THIS         FAR“

this gif

“I DIDNT EVEN KNOW HER LIKE 20 MINS AGO“

and finally:

“me and pink bond over pretty women being pretty“

[bubblebathtime]

Beautiful Girl, You can do Hard Things

A friend of mine’s boyfriend, now husband, once said that it was hard dating a strong independent woman. His then girlfriend, now wife, is strong and independent. She is somewhat of a force that goes where it wants to and aims for what it wants to achieve and never would it limit itself on account of its femininity.

I think of his sentiment when the incredulous look flushes my face everytime I hear a man talk about how they’d want to protect a woman - particularly when the woman in reference is me. Like, I swear my body temperature rises. I do not get it.

There she is: a smart, beautiful woman, full of life and self assured. She has made it through the number of years that she has lived protected by her mother, anchored by her family, looked out for by God, and you, you think she needs your protection? How?

I go neurotic when masculinity presents itself as a knight in shining armour, here to guard femininity from danger and lead her safely to a castle. How did she make it so far before you arrived? Who carried her through the jungle to this point? How do you suppose that you would not need her protection? She crossed crocodile infested rivers baby and where it was impossible for her, God made a way.

Then there is this strange street culture which if I do not get above, it will drive me psychotic. It appears to me that to be a woman walking alone, sitting alone, is an invitation for some brave male company. Look, I enjoy interacting with people and trust me, you and I can have a decent conversation but if your entry point is this whole “I’m going to try my luck and sway her off her feet attitude” then baby you are in for a pleasant surprise. I am going to sway YOU off your feet. I will tell you how handsome you are and what a beautiful body you have and how your life will be changed if you hung around a woman like me. If you insist on getting my contact details then baby that’s not a problem, I have three email addresses: one professional, one social and one that I give for anything I think should end up in my junk box. I’ll gladly give you one of them. While we are on this, just because I accepted your invitation for coffee or whatever, does not mean that you now gain free access into my contact list. If I feel that we do not have much more to talk about, I will guiltlessly refuse to give you my number, even when you've settled the entire bill.

Before we move on, there is something else I just do not get. It appears to me that men think that the words “you are beautiful” or “you are different” are compliments. They say the sentence and there follows this dramatic silence like they expect you to fall off the chair completely undone by the words. Most times I feel like looking him straight in the eye, keep the suspense for a few more seconds and then say ‘okay’; because really what he has just said is a statement of fact. Just like saying “it is sunny today” or “your eyes are brown” or “this country is South Africa”. Uhm, okay.

You know, the situation gets so bad that it crosses the mind to wear a ring on the second finger on the left and just flash it at any brave soul that believes that I need to be chatted up. But no. That would be to affirm the thinking that a woman without a man by her side or a ring on her ring finger needs to be asked out. How ironic that we find ourself in a culture where women “need” men to protect them from other men.

So I will not. I will walk around bare, unguarded by a man and unprotected by a ring, complete in my womannes and simply watch how my big hair, my coloured lips, my warm smile and my short skirts give men the boldness and the courage to kneel at my feet. Sometimes unfortunately, being so bold, and so courageous as to stroke my cheek or touch my waist with their dirty hands… leaving me feeling violated.