#general aquarella

[elizabeth-dicewielder]

Aquarella for ship bingo!

Generally see them as pretty cute and fluffy however I am now imagining a more vengeful Cinderella with Aqua who would kill for her without hesitation and slowly lose her core beliefs in the process, losing all sense of self and purpose 🥺👉👈

[katlimeart]

Made in 2023

If you've seen this anywhere else, I posted it back on my deviantArt when it was made.

Mario girls cosplaying as villains from the Pokemon franchise

Zossie

Soliera

Dim Sun Grunt

Lavanna

Go-Rock Squad Grunt

Tiffany

Team Rainbow Rocket Grunt

General Aquarella

Team GO Rocket

Sierra

[vampiric-impidimp]

The fourth Phobos Battalion general and Pokemon Trozei boss, Aquarella! She is the leader of the fourth Phobos Mobile, the Phobos Submarine, and her level uses mostly water type pokemon.

Another favourite.

So… when they wrote her dialogue… Did they know? They must’ve known, right?

Here’s her in her level!

[embraceyourdestiny]

Ships

Thoughts?

Oh so many. I’ll give you my ships and you can ask about specifics if you want, like how I feel about them or even ones I didn’t list!

My tops:

-sorikai

-rikuroku

-sokai/soriku

-rikai

-rikuven

-terraxel / terraisa (moon rocks) / terrarium + the four of them as a polycule

-rokushi

-ROXNER MY BELOVED!!!! (Also the only fan of rikuroxner)

-roxas x twilight gang in general (and also a big fan of penrox)

-aquarella / elsaqua / larxaqua

-vanitas x self love

-ROKUKAI

-vanikai (though mostly platonically, still a little bit romantically)

-XEHAQUS

-isalea was so obvious I almost forgot them

-namixi / rokunami a little bit / rokunamishi

-strifeheart / cleon + terra

-zakuraterra

i also like ienzo and riku together, mostly platonically but i do ship them romantically bc ienzo is from what i can discern about a year older than him i really can’t see him being older than 19

Unless you meant ships as a concept and by that clearly I like them a lot I just like to have fun w my lil ideas :) I do think ppl take it a bit too seriously on both sides tho

[dreamdripdistance]

Aqua for the ask game?

YEAAAH LETS GO!!!

Sexuality Headcanon: im a sucker for lesbian or aroace aqua

Gender Headcanon: shes such a transfem icon to me

A ship I have with said character: i dont rlly ship her with anyone tbh! im not against terraqua or aquarella, theyre just not my thing tbh!

A BROTP I have with said character: terra, ven and aqua ofc but i also think aqua and vanitas would have an understanding of each other, same with aqua and riku

A NOTP I have with said character: do i even need to say it?

A random headcanon: so u know that diy wolf cut trend on tiktok where people put their hair up in a tall ponytail and cut it like that, thats how i imagine aqua cuts her hair HFBDKDBMD

General Opinion over said character:

[disneydreamlights]

For the controversial ship meme - ALL symbols for Persona, Kingdom Hearts, and Hatoful Boyfriend.

You really out here wanting me to die tonight for my opinions.

Persona:

Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

SHUAKE FOR LIFE. God I love Shuake. Enemies to lovers in general just gives me life but the fact that Akechi and Akira were made to be foils to each other is just good shit.

Ship that you’re indifferent to: 😑

Honestly most Phantom Thief shipping I’m pretty ambivalent to, but if I had to pick the one I’m like...truly the embodiment of “meh” about I’d probably say Ann/Akira. I don’t love it or hate it, it just kinda exists.

Ship that makes you sad: 💔

God I’ve got two: Akiham and Fool Moon. You want depression? Great, take these ships and run with it. And if you thought the fact that Shinji dying made Fool Moon depressing, how about the fact that if you romance Aki you can’t save Shinji, so he’s lost his parents, his sister, his absolute best friend in the entire world, and now you too.

...Akihiko deserved better.

Ship that you find disgusting: 💩

KEN/MINAKO CAN GO DIE IN A HOLE BYE.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

I don’t really ship it but of the female confidants and Akira, ShuMako is definitely the cutest.

Ship that you secretly like: 💚

I will never own up to this again but Ann/Ryuji actually lowkey is kinda cute, and while I’m not super into it I’d definitely get behind it.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

None really? For me to dump a ship at OTP status you gotta cataclysmically fail as bad as Lotura and have a fanbase worse than some KH ships.

Ship that you find most sexy:👅

I got held up on this for like ten minutes because I’ve never actually thought of this in regards to Persona...I guess probably Shuake? All my other ships I see as sexually incompetent to some degree. 

Ship that you can never see happening: 👎

Any of the kid/adult ships. Also Futaba/Akira, the two are practically like adoptive siblings and that’s just weird.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

n/a. The only canon ship in Persona is Junpei/Chidori and that’s...good.

Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘

...Honestly Ann/Ryuji I’m pretty sure is unpopular. Also anything P3 because the fandom is too quiet.

Ship that is taboo: 💦

Shuake? I can see this ship being classified as taboo given I had to leave a server over hate for it.

Ship that pisses you off: 💣

...Ken/Minako please fuck off.

Ship you’re curious about: 👀

I would love to see more of MakoHaru, it’s got a lot of potential but not a lot of attention and that’s a real shame.

Ship that needs more love: 💖

Every one of my P3 ships. Give Akiham more love, give Fool Moon more love, give Mitsuru/Yukari more love. Give Junpei/Chidori more love.

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

Shuake is misunderstood even by its fans because too many of its fans white knight Akechi and erase his wrong doings when half of the interesting things from the ship come from Akechi growing from everything he did wrong and that’s the tea.

Kingdom Hearts:

Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

I always crossfire my OTPs but I guess if I had to pick one to top all of them it would probably be RikuShi? Hard to say.

Ship that you’re indifferent to: 😑

Tequa. I want to like Tequa, I really do. I just can’t bring myself to care about it that much, and that saddens me.

Ship that makes you sad: 💔

Hey canon SoKai absolutely broke my heart, crushed my dreams, destroyed my soul, and I want to cry.

Ship that you find disgusting: 💩

I sat here for like an hour because I genuinely wanted to avoid naming the ship and in the end I decided I’m tied between Ak*R*ku and Ak*Shi. The age gap plus the fact that Axel feels more like their dad just makes me uncomfortable, that being said if the arts good I’m still gonna reblog.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

There are a lot of good high crack combinations out there like Sora/Ariel, Sora/Rapunzel. I also admire R*kuShi from a distance but the fanbase kinda turned me off pretty bad given the ship wars between them and RokuNami.

Ship that you secretly like: 💚

Terra/Cinderella is a ship I will never talk about shipping but it’s actually genuinely really cute and I blame Talia for making me ship it.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

Once upon a time back in 2018 I was a huge S*RiK*i shipper. Then KH3 came out and well...

The behavior of some people has kinda turned me off big time from a specific third of the ship and if you don’t like all three parts then what’s the point of OT3ing.

Ship that you find most sexy:👅

Vanqua. Which I feel weird saying but you know what, that would one hundred percent be it. The rest of my ships completely lack sex appeal but Vanqua has Aqua in it and she’s literally the most attractive character in KH.

Ship that you can never see happening: 👎

Well of my own ships...Vanqua, but of the other ships...

You know what, for my own safety, I’d rather not say.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

Well I ship the canon and implicated canon ships so...

Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘

GULAVA HAS THREE SHIPPERS AND YOU KNOW WHAT I WILL PROUDLY BE ALL OF THEM.

Ship that is taboo: 💦

Vanqua. Big taboo here.

Ship that pisses you off: 💣

...

...

...

Look.

I don’t want to die Perla.

You already know my answer and why.

You know how much I hate that one theory and hate the fandom’s attitude and it’s made me legitimately angry over a ship.

I think you know the answer.

Ship you’re curious about: 👀

Aquarella looks real cute. So does NamiXi but not enough content.

Ship that needs more love: 💖

RokuNami needs more love, the ship’s fallen into quietness, but also my eternally rare pairs of GulAva and RikuShi and Vanqua and XehaEra need more content and deserve to be fed.

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

VANQUA

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST GUYS THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH AN AGE GAP BETWEEN A SIXTEEN AND EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD STOP PORTRAYING IT AS GROSS THERE ARE UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS TO CALL VANQUA BAD AND A REASON I WOULD NEVER WANT IT CANON BUT THE AGE GAP DIFFERENCE IS NOT IT.

Hatoful Boyfriend:

Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

My oc x Yuuya because Zoe and I rped that and it’s one of my top ships period. Sakuya/Ryouta is honestly a very good ship and 10/10 would ship again.

Ship that you’re indifferent to: 😑

Honestly most ships? There’s just not a lot of birdie combinations I’m super into in general.

Ship that makes you sad: 💔

Hiyoko/Ryouta is particularly tragic, even if I’m not a shipper of it, once you take into account BBL.

Ship that you find disgusting: 💩

Yuuya/Sakuya

Fuck off with that incest.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

I’m not super big into Anghel/Nageki but it’s real cute anyways, just not enough canon substantiating it.

Ship that you secretly like: 💚

N/A. Don’t really had any of my Hatoful ships.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

None? Same deal as P5 there was no fuckery in the fanbase to turn me off. It’s a nice chill fanbase over here.

Ship that you find most sexy:👅

...They’re birds.

Ship that you can never see happening: 👎

Shuu/Yuuya. I know there are people who ship it and no.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

N/A. No canon ships.

Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘

...I’m not involved in the fandom enough for this tbh.

Ship that is taboo: 💦

None I’m interested in tbh.

Ship that pisses you off: 💣

PEOPLE WHO SHIP EITHER SETS OF BROTHERS. JUST NO.

Ship you’re curious about: 👀

Anghel/Nageki. Let them interact more in the next game.

Ship that needs more love: 💖

...All of them. This fandom is tiny give the game more love before its ships.

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

None that I can think of?

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Tricky Trickster Tricked

For Mike it had always been easy, a quick flick of the wrist, a stealthy sleight of the hand and wallets, watches, glasses, rings and any article that could be sold for any kind of money would slide straight into his skilled hands. Others called it luck, he prefered to call it a “blessing”.

From what or whom? Mike didn't have the slightest idea, or so he said.

He leaned against the wall on the corner of a street packed with tourists, an amorphous sea of white and red all craving consumers that hopped off luxurious cruise on the docks. Coffee and a cigarette was his oral hygiene routine for every morning, “Keeps away the street preachers”, he would often say.

He wasn’t a local, he considered himself to be one, but after twenty years living in the island who wouldn’t consider himself to be a local? His skin wasn’t as pale as the tourist’s but compared to the brownish tanned locals he looked like a cotton ball. A thin black moustache seemed to be suspended over his almost non existing lips, he combed it with his finger every now and then.

The thin line of smoke floated upwards unbothered, the ocean breeze seemed to have gone elsewhere that morning. He took a drag, then a sip of coffee, he let the smoke out with a sigh. There was something about these people that made him literally sick, he felt the urge to spit away his coffee. He put the cigarette out against the wall.

“Let’s get to work”, he whispered to his hands. His eyes glistened with the spark of whom is about to experience something amazing, an spectacle.

Mike took a another sip of his coffee and gracefully swam across the sea of people. He liked to stalk on his preys for a little while before pouncing on their belongings. He squinted his wrinkled eyes to have a better look, the sun was always scorching in this part of the island. He moved under a coffee shop’s canopy, the shadow was cool and he got a good view of the whole street.

His hands twitched nervously inside the pockets of his jacket, it was as if they craved to come out. They scratched against the fabric as trapped spiders, he struggled to keep them in.

“Patience”, he thought to himself.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he whistled as air came out of his mouth.

For a long moment there was only pitch black darkness on his mind. Then it happened, “the magic” as he called it. Dim glowing orbs moved in front of his darkened vision, the glow intensified as long as he kept his eyes shut. After half a minute the formless glow took shapes, the shape of a watch, shape of a wallet, shape of a recently bought expensive souvenir, shapes of possible preys floated all around him. He opened his eyes and the glow stayed in his vision,  if you could have seen through Mike’s eyes, it was a marvelous sight.

Rainbow colored strokes swirled around and through the crowd, imagine giant strokes of multicolored aquarella floating gracefully in the air.  The ray’s of the sun dimmed to a more tolerable level. “Exquisite”, was Mike’s description of it.

“Ok girls, your turn!”, Mike said and pulled his hands out of the jacket.

He took a step into the street and everything around him slowed it’s movement in a dramatical way. It was like watching a movie in slow motion.

An old european guy passed him by, his right hand swiftly slid in his glowing right pocket and took his cellphone, not even a second passed between the moment his hand sprinted out and when it was putting the phone it away in the safety of Mike’s jacket. In the blink of an eye his left hand was picking a couple american dollars out of a woman’s purse, then from her husband the wallet.

Next to them a Korean couple would miss their professional camera terribly. The same would happen with the hipster chick that had just lent him her phone indefinitely. His fingers moved faster and faster, sometimes they’d take strange angles, non human movements.

For Mike it felt like reaching nirvana, a higher state of mind, communion with his unconscious mind. But no one could witness his face for  he moved too fast for the human eye, you’d merely feel a gentle breeze or quick but almost not perceivable pull on your pants. He would collect enough to fill his pockets and then put it all in a trash can he bought himself, just to start all over again, until sundown.

When he dumped his last batch of stolen goods in the trash can he did a quick calculation, he had at least three thousand dollars in cash, gadgets and jewelry. Mike couldn't hide the wide grin on his face. It had been a really generous day. He kissed both of his hands and started putting things inside a backpack and a dirty sack he used to not be the center of attention carrying all that.

He filled his bags well and walked with them on his shoulders. The street was way more quiet though the city’s nightlife was pulsing ever younger.

He strolled down the old colonial roads, taking alleys and shortcuts, evading police officers that picked on the beggars for fun. If they found out what he had in his bags they’d lock him up for good couple of weeks.

The smell under the bridge was nauseating, years of trash being tossed into the river had made it an unofficial city dumpster. It always made Mike gag at least three times before he would get over the feeling.

He poured the content of his bags on the muddy shore, all that shine, gold and luxury thrown into the filth. He sighed, then walked back and sat on an old industrial paint bucket.

Then he waited. Patiently.

The water’s surface was placid, plastic bottles and organic human disposals floated adrift. Suddenly something started to stir in the river, ripples of water caressed the filthy shore, faster by the second. Then came the bubbles, right in the center of the river where the stir began. A fetid effervescence that let out a cloud of fog, a putrid slow moving fog that floated over the river towards the shore. Something else came behind the fog, the bubbling was moving closer to the shore.

Mike tried to cover his face as he always did, everything in vain. The smell was always strong enough to make him vomit, and so he did, until there was nothing more to throw out.

The odor intensified as a brownish mass of garbage and organic matter crawled out of the river and into land. More and more of it appeared making it grow in size and smell.  It grew until it was four times the size of Mike.

Mike’s eyes teared up badly. He couldn’t help it, it was always the same.

“Good...Good night your Majesty”, Mike stuttered.

The gigantic blob let out some kind of blurp, some water sprinkled over Mike´s face. It smelled like the water that drips out of pierced trash bags. He gagged.

“Ri...Right”, he stuttered again. “Good night, Oh your Majesty King of the River Bank, Giver of Pardons, Patron of those who are Lost. May your stench endure forever more”

As Mike spoke the mass on the blob moved from the center outwards, as if it was expelling something. A  face came out of the mass, then a man covered in filth levitated in front of Mike.

“That’s better!”, said the man.

At first glance he would have passed as an ordinary man, but if you looked closely at his hands you would have seen his webbed fingers and toes, his teeth are sharp as blades and his eyes are as black as the darkest void. He was the King of Filth.

“Always outdoing yourself Mihalka, well done my child”, the creature clapped.

“My name is not Mihalka anymore, it hasn't been for years now. So keep it to yourself”, Mike turned his head and spat.

“I know, i know. But today is different kind of day Mihalka”, the King of Filth laughed.

“Don’t call me Mihalka. What are you talking about?”, Mike looked confused.

“Is this my tithe?”, asked the creature.

“Yes, your majesty”

“Good. Perfect”

“Take it already”, Mike said.

“No Mihalka, we have to weight it”, Mike knew something odd was going on when the grin on the King of Filth widened and he showed that line of sharp teeth.

“Is there any…”, Mike tried to speak.

“Shhh, silence my child. You know the procedure.”

The blob behind the King of Filth engulfed the bulk of goods and money, swallowing it into its depths.

“Oh, oh, oh. It seems Mihalka didn’t get the message”, The King of Filth’s eyes were like glistening mirrors were Mike could see his own confused face.

“Hey. Wait. What?”

The King of Filth got on his four limbs and in a swift movement slithered behind Mike.

“Oh my, oh my. It seems Mihalka has been abusing the human liqueur”, he put his mouth next to Mike’s left ear. “Don’t you remember Mihalka? My child”

“What...what are you...talking about your… your Majesty?”, Mike was getting nervous. He knew better not to infuriate the King of Filth. Everybody knew that.

“Three days ago Mihalka. Three days ago at night i left the comfort of my waters to pay you and the others a visit. Double the tithe i asked, double it will be you said”

“No...your majesty. I’m sorry, but that’s not true”

“Oh yes? You are calling your King a liar”, the creature looked to both sides as if looking for a witness.

“No sir, it's just that i don’t recall it”

The King of Filth grinned one more time and raised his hand to caress Mike’s forehead.

Flashbacks came one after the other, hitting his head like a sledgehammer.

He was drinking, it was rum, a really cheap one. Caribbean moonshine you might call it. Three nights ago. He sat on the sidewalk when the dizziness took control of his movement. Something totally out of the ordinary happened, out of the corner came the King of Filth, naked and leaving the usual trail of fetid filth behind him. He grinned as usual and kneeled next to Mike.

“Double the tithe my child, or pay with your freedom”, he had said.

“Whatever you say”, Mike answered.

Mike really swore it had been a dream, some kind of hallucination caused by the alcohol.

But it wasn't.

“Sign the contract”, said the King of Filth.

Mike shook his hand and green tattoo like mark glowed in his hand for a couple of seconds, then disappeared.

The King of Filth dropped his hand from Mike’s forehead and the flashbacks stopped.

Mike opened his eyes. Something called his attention, there was something on his right hand. A mark, glowing with a green tint.

“No, no, no!”, Mike sprinted away from the King.

“Yes my child! You are coming back home!”, the King of Filth laughed.

Out of the water came three bullfrogs the size of a mastiff.

“No!”, Mike screamed.

“Your Majesty”, the three frogs spoke at the same time. It was as if they were the same creature.

“You may read him the sentence”, the King of Filth nodded.

“For the crime of not paying the “Double Tithe” to his Majesty, King of the Filth and Protector of those who are Lost. You, Mihalka the Trickster, are sentenced to go return home!”, the frogs said again.

“It seems you won’t be needing that anymore my child”

The King of Filth flicked his wrist and the giant blob jumped over Mike. It first got both of his hands. Mike screamed, it was the scream of a man in excruciating pain.

“No, no. No reason to cry”, said the King of Filth. Flicked his hand again and it was as if he had muted Mike. He screamed and twitched but there was no sound.

The mass of filth wrapped his hands completely and fume came out, it smelled like rotten burnt flesh. Mike fought and pulled, but he couldn't shake it off. The blob let go of his hands, or at least where his hands were supposed to be.

His hands had been eaten to the bone, just strips of flesh remained hanging from it. He looked at it and almost passed out. Streams of tears ran down his face, this time it wasn’t the smell.

“No. Get me his eyes too”, said the King of Filth.

The King ordered, his followers followed. The blob jumped to his face this time.

“Now that you are at it, get his tongue. We don’t want him speaking about this for the next hundred years”

When the putrid mass was off his face there were no eyes in his sockets, pure black emptiness. Mike opened his mouth but there was no tongue for him to use. He plummeted to the floor and moaned.

“Come my children, we are late for the feast”, the King had his feet already in the water.

“What feast your Majesty?”, asked the three frogs at the same time.

“Your brother is back, we have to give him a royal welcome”, he grinned. “Bring him Gurlak”

The gigantic mass of trash slowly engulfed Mike, he was still crawling away. Trying to escape the inevitable.

If only he had not drank that night. He knew better, or so he thought.

The mass engulfed him completely and slithered back into the river.

Oh poor Mikalha, he should have read his contract twice.

[vampiric-impidimp]

If me talking excessively about pokemon trozei teaches you anything (other then that I have something wrong with me) I hope it's that General Aquarella has some gay thing going on. I know basically no one played this game and ive never seen a single piece of fanart or fanfic or whatever but I refuse to believe I'm the first person to think her and Lucy should kiss.

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The Best New Menswear Pieces To Buy Right Now

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The Best New Menswear Pieces To Buy Right Now

Les Basics x Novesta Le Running Shoe

London-based, Portuguese-made brand Les Basics does exactly as it says on the tin – aka the basics made as elegant as the French do them. Here, the label hooks up with Slovakian sneaker maestros Novesta for a plush running shoe with a leather upper and a suede overlay so you get two luxurious fabrics for the price of one in an opulent creamy stone colour.

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Superdry Orange Label Softball Ringer T-Shirt

We reckon this gold and green long sleeved tee from Superdry looks a lot like the get-up worn by ordinary teen turned crime-fighting vigilante Kick-Ass in the film of the same name (if you’ve not seen it do – it’s a modern classic). Looking like a superhero is never a bad thing, and in 100 per cent cotton too – that’s a roundhouse kick right in the style chops.

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R.M. Williams Chinchilla Boots

Despite the name, no chubby rodents were harmed in the making of these Chelsea boots. Instead what we get from the Australian boot-maker is a beautifully burnished leather shoe handcrafted in a sumptuous range of shades – Bordeaux or cognac, sir? We’ll have the whole case.

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Oliver Spencer Theobald Clarendon Navy Jacket

It really is rather difficult to get a navy unstructured blazer wrong, but it’s even harder to get it better than the rest. Oliver Spencer has somehow managed it time and time again, exemplified by this new update on its classic Theobald model. It’s still incredibly versatile – pop a tee under it and you’ll look like you woke up this chic, wear a shirt instead and you’ll be sorted for a summer wedding, while the sweat-wicking wool and cotton blend means you won’t overheat on the train as you go to and from the office.

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Salvatore Ferragamo Sunglasses

Sun’s too bright? Better put on the shades. Had too much to drink last night? Shades, duh. Just seen your ex across the street? Quick, whip those shades on pronto. Sunglasses can sort out any and every situation and so it pays to have some good ones to call on. Just as well then that luxury Italian fashion brand Salvatore Ferragamo has released a men’s eyewear capsule collection for such necessary moments. With a vintage design and the iconic backwards horseshoe logo on the hinges these shades are so nice, you’ll be wearing them in a pitch black room.

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Maison Kitsune Jacquard Dream Amplifier Socks

The AW18 collection for undeniably hip French label Maison Kitsune (they’re also an indie and disco record label – case closed) is everything you could want for when the leaves start to fall and the weather starts to cool. Sleek windbreakers, wool sweaters with foxes stitched into them, stripy scarves – you name it we want it. But it was these two-tone socks with a funky space rocket design that really caught our imagination – to autumn and beyond.

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YMC x Stan Ray Fanfare Blue Painter Pants

Collabs – they’re like catnip to us and we’ve just caught a whiff of another one bound to whip us into another frenzy. This time it’s impossibly cool, ready-to-wear brand YMC, which is partial to a catnip collab every now and again, and family-run workwear brand Stan Ray with an update on the classic YMC painter pant and shorts in two new colours. There’s an eye dazzlingly bright white and this overdyed turquoise.

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Fila Carter T-Shirt

Brand repping has reached a whole new stratosphere with the current logo trend, although for sportswear-meets-streetwear brands the look never went away. Created in Italy and now based in South Korea, Fila has been manufacturing sportswear since 1911, and its vintage style suits the trend well, as exemplified by this massive, yet still measured and precise logo tee that gives the name away from miles down the road.

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Aimé Leon Dore Logo-Embroidered Sweatshirt

The streets are rife with high-fashion streetwear but it takes a rare breed to get it down to a tee. New York label Aimé Leon Dore has certainly perfected the art, with millennial friendly sloganeering – the first part of its name means ‘love’ in French – mixed with timeless style. Case in point: this cotton-fleece sweatshirt with an ultra preppy red striped trim.

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A.P.C. Cologne Candle

As if cult Parisian label A.P.C. wasn’t satisfied with conquering the world of denim (seriously, you need its selvedge denim jeans in your life) it now wants to light a flame in the world of, erm, candles. Sure on paper it makes no sense but wave its cologne scented candle under your nostrils and then try telling us you need any other candle in your life.

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KJUS Soren Solid Polo

Golf attire can be shapeless and sweaty work on a muggy summer morning, so what you need is something moisture-absorbing, preferably with built-in UV protection to prevent that deadly golfer’s tan and stylish enough to wear for the obligatory post-round pint. Lucky then that sportswear brand KJUS have a new line of golf polos that tick all those boxes. That’s what we call a hole in one.

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Citizen Eco-Drive World Perpetual A.T Watch

When it comes to value for money watches you get a great deal of bang for your buck with a timepiece from Japanese watch brand Citizen which has the legacy and technical innovation to more than warrant a glance away from those made by the Swiss. This summer update on its flagship model, the Eco-Drive, not only looks like a watch leagues more expensive than it actually is but it can also sync the time up to 26 cities around the world which are carefully detailed around the bezel.

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Men-ü Matt Refresh & Moisturise Set

Besides making you down an inordinate amount of water, flight restrictions have probably also seen you cruelly torn away from your favourite toiletries. Remember, if you’re going to carry it on the flight it must be no more than 100ml although if you would rather not have to remember such tedious info, we recommend a flight-friendly dopp kit from Men-ü. This particular kit has a face wash, refresher gel and moisturiser to provide you with everything you need to fight the jet leg – at least as far as your face is concerned – as soon as you land at your destination.

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Frescobol Carioca Aquarella Swim Shorts

From patterns designed around the street mosaics of Rio de Janeiro to swim shorts that have been inspired by the incandescent spirit of samba, Frescobol Carioca knows how to give its top quality beach wear a top quality backstory to boot. And so we get these dazzling shorts named after ‘Aquarela do Brasil’ one of the best-loved songs from Brazil’s famous bossa nova movement, which has been covered in English by the likes of Kate Bush and Arcade Fire.

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Topman Pink And White Stripe Shirt

Fancy looking pretty in millennial pink this summer? As an entry-level starter to the shade, you can’t go too far wrong then this vertical stripe shirt from Topman which offsets the bold colour in a lighter, pastel hue with some calming white. Pink works well with grey so pair it with a relaxed trouser in that colour below the waist and some white sneakers for breezy summer style.

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Brooks England Pickwick Linen Bag

When it comes to making bike saddles Brooks England has got it down, which is just as well seeing as it has been making them for nearly 150 years. It also does a fine range in cycle bags that are designed to stay cool and light while playing piggyback on your tail end but we can’t be letting all those lycra-clad, Bradley Wiggins wannabes have all the sack carrying fun. Invest in this dapper linen carrier that can certainly lay claim to the yellow jersey.

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Nike Air Max 1 Premium Beach Camo Trainers

Since it was first released in 1987, there has been more iterations and colourways of the Nike Air Max then tears shed at England’s knocking out from the World Cup. And while we’re not best pleased with the latter, we can’t hide our glee at yet another version of the former, with this retro sneaker now being pumped out in a beach camo colour combo that, dare we say it, is arguably one of its best versions ever released.

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Tommy Hilfiger White and Green T-shirt

Trump, Clooney, Southgate. There are just some second names out there that don’t even need the first and Hilfiger is certainly one of them. So emblazon it across the front of a baseball inspired crew neck in a zingy fresh green and white and you don’t really have to say much more besides – Tommy knows best, and when it comes to summer tees, this one is up there.

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Mango Man Striped Cotton Jacket

Jackets are real troopers. You spend all winter relying on their comfort and then as soon as summer comes around they’re consigned to the desolate darkness of the back of the wardrobe, spurned like a used-up lover. So let’s give the jacket some summer lovin’ past the month of May, with this featherweight and sunny striped version from Mango which is all cotton, and all you need to be wearing up top this July.

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Clarks Originals Weaver Ocean Blue Shoes

The man who invented moccasins knew how to do summer right (apparently their origin lies with the Native Americans) and when it comes to shoes in general, well, you can never go too far wrong in Clarks. So we’re as happy as Larry to see the shoe retailer put out its new set of weaver shoes, with a classic moccasin structure and made out of top grade suede in a range of eye-popping colours they also have a raised crepe sole to elevate them above the moccasin crowd.

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