#i hope that helps

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

i just have one simple question for you why gabriel ultrakill? what is the appeal behind this angel

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[asukiess]

i got on tumblr after weeks and miraculous is trending??? what happened

season 5 finale. nathalie is a disaster bi.

oh and everything was resolved after gabriel threw up ash (as per usual on your standard Saturday morning cartoon). and then adrinette got married. but definitely after the whole throwing up ash thing.

[gin-juice-tonic]

convinced that you were somehow secretly alive in the 60s/70s. what sort of secret historical resources and/or time machines are you using to expand your knowledge of decades past

Ha ha, I dont feel I do a particularly great job, but I always find myself getting into googling sprees when I just wanted to post about something simple. I'm always checking if x thing was invented yet, or popularized yet, and I end up learning a lot of new things... So I would say the best way to expand your knowledge is to ask a question about One thing, and let the research take you around in circles to answers you didnt ask for.

I talked more under here but it got long. Im putting it under a read more and bolding key words like an ace attorney game.

As for specific resources I've looked at... hm... I've gone through a lot of the old sears catalogs. There's websites out there that have ones dating all the way back from 1940 to 2017. That can give you ideas about (some) styles of clothes and furniture popular at the time. There's also websites dedicated to explaining certain decades of american fashion. Sometimes I read old popular science magazines, mainly because google books has every single one of them archived and available to read for free...

Youtube has a lot of videos of old advertisements, those are good ways to both get into some pop culture and see societal attitudes. I've watched a lot of infomercials and employee training videos for stan in particular lol. If you have specific places you want to know about you can search for videos of them. Tourism videos work well if its a famous area, if not some people upload their home movies onto youtube as well.

If you really want to, you can read books (or skim books) that were written, or had been popular to read around the time. Or advice/guide books for specific occupations. Biographies of people of different ages are great as well to learn about what life was like more in a daily way...

This is long, so I'm just going to list some things now. Blogs dedicated to histories of certain things (music, sports, gay history, 5 string banjos, columbo, whatever!), TV shows and Movies from the time period you were interested in, old comics, redditors who want to post old photos of their favorite old hangouts, and lastly, you could also just talk to older people. I've bothered my parents asking about disco, I've bothered asking my grandma about pads in the 1950s. Most people like to reminisce or complain about things from their youth lol...

oh. And I almost forgot. I've used Cassell's Dictionary of Slang a few times. Usually just to check if a phrase that I want to use existed yet. But then in the course of my search I end up finding something I think is funny

[thenightfolknetwork]

Hi im a different annon from earlier but just wanted to ask in relation to theirs what should we do if we think our ask has been eaten by Tumblr glitches send it again or ask about it etc

[OOC] I'd actually prefer if people didn't chase up specific letters or resend them. The issue is that I also just don't have the capacity (or inclination!) to answer everyone's letters.

Sometimes a letter isn't appropriate for the blog for any number of reasons. Off the the top of my head, those might be: it's too complicated to answer well in this format; it's too similar to something already answered here or on the podcast; the subject matter veers into something I'm not comfortable addressing; the writing is otherwise inaccessible (I'm not a stickler for grammar but a lack of spelling and punctuation can make it very hard to read); or I don't think the response will be interesting, either for me to write or for others to read. And unlike the podcast, I can't edit the submissions before I use them!

Also, sometimes I just don't get around to someone's letter for a while for other reasons - I might love the idea and want to do it justice, but don't have time to pay it the attention it deserves, or there's actually been a few of the same creature recently and I want to change it up.

At the end of the day, I neither want to have to explain to people why I haven't answered them, nor want to establish a culture where people expect everything they send to be answered, or answered in a specific time frame. It wouldn't be fair on anyone, myself included.

[whaledocboi]

the girls are fightinggg - pre-canon

(continuing this post, but i added the first one in for more context anyways)

the OCS break into a random warehouse for a mission and a next thing they know is that they're being ambushed by a very unhappy 17~something y.o, who apparently has an entire little flat set up there and is not at all flattered that these strangely dressed people are violating her space

lilith is rude and short tempered (wants to get over w/ this already), camila is also rude and short tempered (they broke into her unofficial home), so they go at each other before shannon and mary could even begin to talk it out like civil people

[boobpancakes]

all my beautiful moots and their gay male ocs and i'm the feral lesbian chewing on all of them

[moregraceful]

ac... activates what?

LMAO the way I saw this ask before I saw what got spit out of my queue. I was like what did I say this time, I am innocent!! No I'm not. Poetess and prophetess of our time @drunktuesdays got me hooked on activated as a phrase....though she means in a sexy way, I use it to mean anything from "starts my creative engines revving" to "engages the impulse to indulge in my worst behaviors" to "gets me horned up on al gore's internet". In this case Trea Turner's delicate ankles and knobby knees in his compression leggings make me want to [a giant hook pulls me off stage by my neck while an air raid siren goes off]

[anxious-witch]

do u have that pic of npc bojan? the one where he's holding a beer I think? I think it was by Dean but I can't find it anywhere:(

I don't have the og picture but I shamelessly stole this from @seokoilua bc I remembered she posted it few days ago, so you can crop it

[nonbinary-niki-bog]

WAIT HOW DO YIU SUPER BOOP

i wanna super boop you🎉🎉🫶🫶

you have to let the boop spin for a bit and then press boop. i don't know if it is just a desktop thing or not.

[literaphobe]

Yes pwease

“Is she pretty?”

This isn’t a question he expected. He didn’t expect her to ask a question at all, actually.

“Who?”

“Who else?” She scoffs. Weirdly, he could really get used to this. He shouldn’t like it, hates how much he loves this display. “Her. Y’know. The friend you slept next to.”

“She’s beautiful,” he says, because why lie? Marinette’s gorgeous. More than easy on the eyes. He’s not trying to get a rise out of Ladybug at all, not trying to push her buttons in the slightest.

“Oh. Well, that’s just great.” From the looks of her face, it seems like awful information to receive, actually. “Of course she’s beautiful. Why would she not be…”

She seems to take offense at finding all this out, at the fact that Chat Noir did not lie about the attractiveness of his ex-girlfriend.

“Why does it matter whether she’s beautiful or not?”

Like a tree meeting a woodcutter’s axe, this stumps her. Left, up, center, do her eyes go. No matter where she looks she can’t find the right excuse.

“Because…” she gives up with a snap, a twig getting stepped on. “Whatever. It’s nothing.”

“No, really. I wanna know,” he insists. “Hardly seems like it matters. You’ve mentioned—only over and over—that what we’re doing here is a one and done deal. So why would you care if I think my ex is pretty?”

[slashingdisneypasta]

Hello,

I have a question that may be sensitive so do ignore it if you don't want to answer, I am asking out of really wanting to learn and understand. What is it like being aromantic? How can you be aromantic and also like or crush on characters? Or is it because they are fictional so they don't apply? Any way I send you live and appreciation ❤️ If you do respond thank you for helping me learn

I love the way you've asked, so gentle and respectful ^^ Thank you for being lovely! ^^

Its hard to explain. I guess (romantic) love is just not something I've ever really wanted? I mean when I was little I of course had little 'crushes' but they were always villains and I think thats definitely, at least partly, because I know they're not gonna love me in the traditional way back. If a guy liked me when I was like, 6-14 I'd appreciate the attention for a minute but very quickly it felt very wrong 😅 I guess its cuz I don't understand those feelings, my brain does not work that way, and I don't want to be perceived in a way that I don't understand?? Feels uncomfortable??

What I feel for fictional characters is probably more akin to a silly 'squish' (Platonic attraction. Like a crush but you don't want to be romantically involved- you wanna be friends) XD I want them to be friends with me!! But also... ~sexual things~ So like, a queer platonic squish XD

Of course, everyone's experience is different though.

[asexual-means-no-attraction]

I know you don't like the split attraction model, but what would you personally call someone who is attracted to people only romantically but doesn't like sex? (sex repulsed or otherwise) /genq

A man who likes men, wants to date them, but doesn't care for sex = gay

A man who likes men, wants to date them, and wants sex = gay

It's... It's really that simple. Whether you have sex or not doesn't determine your sexuality. Kids at 13 can come out as gay. They've never had sex, and they might not even be interested in it cuz you know, they're 13. But they still know they're gay.

People who are virgins still know their sexuality. People with low libidos (whether naturally or cuz of meds) still know their sexuality. People who are closeted or forced to marry someone of the opposite gender still know their sexuality. People will trauma and touch aversion still know their sexuality. The act of wanting/enjoying sex is useful in figuring out sexuality but it's not the sole determiner.

And frankly, I think it's pretty homophobic to claim that a gay man who doesn't want sex is less gay then one who does (cuz saying he must be on the ace spectrum is saying he's not fully gay). Cuz sex isn't the end all be all of relationships, nor is it a requirement. If you have attraction to someone you aren't asexual. Sexuality is about attraction not about whether you like sex. Plus, there's more to asexuality than "not wanting sex." Wanting/not wanting sex isn't a sexuality. And the SAM revolves around that idea.

Sex is a personal thing between you and your partner(s). If you're attracted to them, that's what's important.

So to answer your question, I'd call them what they are. Same sex attracted = gay/lesbian. Opposite = straight. All= bisexual. No attraction = asexual. Cuz whether you want sex or not, your attraction stays the same.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

ok i'm sorry i just got super confused by your last post, could you kindly explain the whole Christian/abortion/normal person thing before I start picturing horror film lesbians cults (it's ok if you don't feel like explaining yourself, just wanted to try and understand the situation)

So basically this guy sent anon hate to me which I found fundamentally absurd. He was like. Damn it's crazy you talk like a normal person or one of the Lesbians on here who blog about horror films when you're actually Christian. Which is such a dumb message to send because a. Christians ARE normal people and his implication we're not is so weird. And b. It's also so weird he seems to be dividing all people into the categories of "normal," "Christian" and "lesbians who like horror films" which are such random niche categories I find it so funny those are the ones he appears to divide everyone into based off the message.

The abortion thing is separate, basically I'm pro-life and they didn't like that.

But yeah basically this guy was trying to dunk on me for being Christian by saying it's so weird I've like, infiltrated into the website I guess? By talking like a normal person. Or horror film lesbians. Which are such arbitrary categories I find it so funny.

[kazza-desu]

What brush do you use?

I mainly use this soft brush for like literally everything (sketching, colouring etc):

Other brushes also includes this which is something I use for clothes mostly:

I like its blocky texture when I colour in the folds of clothing (it's basically the same as the previous brush but rectangle). I used it as a sort of sketch here:

AND MY FAVOURITE: Textured Brushes

I use a random sort of textured brushes to add some spice. DONT BE AFRAID TO USE MANY BRUSHES YALLS. These are just mainly used in subtle places like here:

[fabbyf1]

what does cherry blog mean help

[ghouljams]

Hello! May I ask what exactly a darling is?

Darling is my shorthand for love interest/POV character. I usually use it in a possessive context, ex: Ghost's Darling, to show that I'm talking about a certain POV character. I use it because I never know what to call reader characters and hate using y/n, but I also use it to refer to and OC I'm shipping with Canon characters.

I don't think we've used the term in a while since we haven't had any new Darlings without callsigns. But since fae!Price is on the brain the term is back in practice because I don't think his Darling will get named.