#is this oddly specific? yeah

[merriclo]

the LU Chain as things that i did on my school’s orchestra trip to Universal

Time: defended gingers

Warriors: learned my ex was a neonazi

Twilight: bought a cat plushie and didn’t let go of it for the rest of the day

Sky: took an obscene amount of photos of pigeons and other birds

Wild: chugged two 16 fl oz redbulls in the span of 12 minutes while having a cardiac disorder

Four: read Death Note manga while waiting in line for a dr seus ride

Legend: went “fuckin hell” without realizing that a six year old was standing right next to me

Wind: cried while petting a stingray

Hyrule: found a busted up walgreens shopping cart on the side of the road and sat in it for like an hour. also kept rattling off Jurassic Park trivia completely unprompted

[unhinged-prosody]

Current headcanon I'm obsessing over: Kim knows how to play the drum. I don't care if he still plays the drum, if he used to play when he was younger or if it's one of those things he really wanted to do but never got to experience (like the pleasure wheel or becoming a pilot) but my boy know how to lay a sick, loud and thrashy beat and nothing can convince me otherwise.

[queen0fm0nsterz]

thinking about the Lady again and she actually is the Character Ever.

Starting off with her design. How ridiculously simple it is, right? Her yukata is plain brown and has a single layer, her wig (and yes, I am positive what she wears is not her hair but a wig soley because of how easily it comes undone... that kind of hairstyle is meant to STICK when done with actual hair) has no decorations befitting a woman of her powerful status and her mask is nothing but... empty. You could mistake her for a mannequin and you wouldn't even be wrong. It's by design, after all: she is as insanely important, as a figure, as she is anonymous as a person.

But then, it's with amusement that you note that that boring, unexpressive mask is called the "Rascal's mask" when unlocked. It's such an oddly affectionate nickname stemming from a person so utterly despicable. And then you notice her hair. Her long, black hair that should be hidden under her wig, as the hairstyle goes, but are instead hanging out freely. Not very traditional at all, right? You could almost read it as a small act of defiance of... something. Now, what that thing is, I doubt even she knows. Maybe it's just her way to seek individuality without having to step into zones she does not want to touch.

And then, of course, the lack of shoes. It's not uncommon for people to wear slippers in the house - especially for the Japanese - but she just... doesn't. In that small, small way, she is similar to Six - and every other child in the Maw running around barefoot. Except she's above running, of course. She's got the privilege of floating like a ghost so that she may never touch the ground.

(The only time when this rule is broken is when she fights Six, poetically enough. You can see her visibly step back.)

These strange little things are the first things that push you to wonder about her as a person. Not the title, not the Lady of the Maw: the individual behind the mask. Who is that person? What is she like? Is there a way to answer these questions? I think yes, if you know where to look - but is it worth to ask these questions considering what she does?

That depends on you. Me personally, I think there is narrative worth to be found in what she has to hide. Her foil, Six, finds value in the aspects of herself she does not hide: she is very unapologetic in her selfhood. The Lady isn't, for the most part.

(I wonder if that would make her envious of her younger counterpart in a different context?)

Frankly, looking back on her choice of attire, the fact that her personal bedroom is barely decorated is not surprising. She only has the essentials: a bed, the vase with the key, a few pictures of importance (of people long forgotten, herself included no doubt) and... an ungodly amount of misplaced clothes all over her quarters. All the same yukata, repeated over and over, maniacally folded and arranged in towers, but never where they're supposed to be.

A bedroom is the reflection of yourself. Of your inner world. The fact hers looks so barebones is quite telling about who she is. Or isn't. She herself may have some trouble trying to figure that one out.

I think that, in a vacuum, it's easy to assume that the reason she's so displeased by her reflection is soley out of vanity. That is definitely part of it, but I don't think that's all there is. Because after seeing the mannequins that all look just like her, the four women in the picture who also wear her same exact clothes... and that hidden quote.

This quote, which is from Alice in Wonderland. Specifically from a conversation in which Alice expresses how she doesn't recognise herself anymore because of how many times she grew big and small during the course of the day. She is not the same person she was before entering Wonderland.

I find the way she clings to the dolls and the music box to be much more... sombre when keeping this in mind. In a way, that scene is reminiscent of Monster Six clinging to her music box in the chaos of the Tower; an attempt to attach to something safe. For the Lady, it's even more personal. Those are her toys. Her song. No one can take them from her and claim them as theirs. These materialistic tomes are physical proof of her identity. She likes dolls, and she likes to sing that song from her music box. Surely, that much is something.

But a ceramic toy and an old music box are not really enough to placate the inner turmoil. Hence the broken mirrors, the hidden statues... the hung down portraits with their eyes scratched out - from times of the past. There is a person looking back in the mirror which she does not recognise. That can't be her, right?

It isn't. The reflection is but a faux image of her outward appearence. The inside, however... much like this concept art shows, she is melting away. Rapidly decaying no matter how much she tries to stick to her youth.

Because at the end of the day, that's what she's doing, no? The toys, the music box, her appearence... all of it, just to cling a bit more to the person she used to be. Point being that I doubt even she remembers what she used to be.

You'd think a person like this would be inclined to feel at least some sympathy for all the lost children wandering the Nowhere. A sense of kinship, perhaps, or even just... basic human compassion. She has proved to have very human emotions, after all. This is where she proves you wrong. Whenever you think she's stepped the lowest, she always goes lower.

In her humanity, she is brutal. Relentless, ruthless. She offers no sympathy to anyone and has no empathy to spare either. She is very much aware of what's going on under her roof: she not only allows the Maw to continue being the way it is in spite of having the power to change things, but she actively engages in its despicable practices. She has petrified children in her quarters, as well as their ashes - of which the use is unclear - and then she is responsible for the Nome population and exploitation being so large and so eerily heavy. She's twisted necks, broken bones, murdered innocents.

The Shadow Children are, to me, one her greatest offenses. I don't think they serve any particular purpose other than... being there because she wanted to make them. Children ripped away from their life because of her whims. Not even in death can they rest because she can get her hands on their souls. They're nameless, forgotten shadows with blank masks: they're just like their creator, in that way. Ripped of all individuality and devoid of everything.

Everything she sees, the Lady devours. Not a creature is safe from her shadows and her wrath, especially if they come and actively intrude in her activities. She's twice as aggressive if the Maw is at stake.

The Lady's personal bedroom has another motif piece which I did not previously mention: the Maw wallpaper. While Roger and the Chefs have wallpapers that portray them with her, the Lady... does not. She only has the Maw. She's not part of that picture.

The Lady can't let the Maw change its ways. She is the Maw. The Maw must survive: so must she. To change the Maw would mean challenging herself enough to bring about a change; to her, who does nothing but lament what she lost, that would be too much effort. Too outside of the comfortable zone where she can survive in peace. Miserable, but unbothered.

... For the most part. Until Six comes around.

[tiger-is-a-certified-idiot]

Okay i know i keep doing this and im sorry (im not) but IF I HAD A NICKEL for every time ive consumed a piece of media in which a man named Jo(h)n characterized by dark skin, dark graying hair, weird eyes, Being God, bringing about the apocalypse, being queer, and having a weird thing with cows that the fandom locked onto and pushed harder than it necessarily was in canon... i would have two nickels. Which isnt a lot. But ITS FUCKING WEIRD THAT IT HAPPENED TWICE, RIGHT???

[ender1821]

cast a spell on my heart

Posted on ao3: read here!

Standing in front of the town’s record shop, now fully redecorated to appear as though it’s a magic shop, Pearl has started to feel just a bit too out of her element.

She cranes her head awkwardly to the side to read the sign out front, which displays the words ‘The Crystal Cliffs Emporium’. Apparently, it’s where she’s supposed to go to find the next key item for her quest— collect three magical stones to unlock the seal on something called…a Rune Blade…?

So, Pearl might not be the best person to LARP with.

— — —

(In which Pearl is absolutely clueless on how to pretend as a Queen and discovers that flirting works just as well as actually roleplaying. — For @mcyt-yuri-week Valentines day 2: Royalty/Knight)

[haveihitanerve]

guys pls i need help

so theres this one TFF interview i remember watching a while back and i cannot for the life of me find it now

but its a couch interview- roland and curt are sitting on a couch- and roland is wearing his blue jacket and curt is wearing his brown one and at one point roland leans over to curt to like, not correct him on something but just ask if he remembers like this one portion of a story or smth i honestly dont remember but it was really cute and yeah. if you know which one im talking about please help

[turtleplushi]

hi

[xinyuehui]

Guangyan's senior that helps with Lin Yongchuan's body, do you know the senior's name?

Hi anon! We are talking about this guy right?

According to his lab coat, senior's name is Lu Qun, the actor is called Da He! (Full name Lin He Xuan)

In Secrets in The Hot Spring (2018) he also played a character called Lu Qun.

(Lu Qun on the left)

Yo!!??! Oh No! Here Comes Trouble and Secrets in The Hot Spring happens in the same universe ( •̀o•́)???? (literally only realised this now)

[the-acid-pear]

Honestly I always mostly just think of the [looks at notes] 3 managers Harry was friends with when thinking of what he lost but considering he's that old and has been jumping between franchises so much and also the fact Every Fucking Phoney (save for 3) got scrapped by the time we meet him; how much as this man lost? How many people he cared about has he seen die gruesome deaths again and again? Has he managed to find time to process this to grieve or has he just desensitized himself to the situation entirely? I wonder if some vague memory or reaction from how he dealt w this while in the war is how he keeps it at bay. Though it's rich of me to take his formality at face value when he has shown to not be a stranger to strong emotional reactions. Much to think about!

[dykedvonte]

Love your Benny posts but I thought I might help clarify something. You wrote -> “He goes on benders according to Swank so he really isn’t above all the “missing the tribal days” syndrome all the other Chairmen have.” Tommy Torini is the one who mentions Benny goes on benders. However that’s not actually the case. Benny is actually using the secret escape tunnel in his room to leave The Strip without anyone knowing. Everyone assumes he’s on a bender because he locks himself in his room. Tommy even mentions Benny usually is gone for a couple a days but this time his bender was a month long. We know Benny wasn’t on a month long bender because he was killing and taking the platinum Chip from us. Anyway love your Fallout New Vegas posts sorry to ramble!

Oh I forgot it was Tommy!

But what I was implying was that this behavior wasn’t unusual enough in the first place that people were suspicious from the start. Swank has been handling all the casino business stuff and he talks about it in a way that it makes it seem like he’s used to it, but is gotten harder since Benny started his plan (unbeknown to everyone). I’m aware of the tunnel but I was mostly filling in for the before stuff cause even when you get to the Strip, Benny is just stsnding around doing jack shit and not helping. I can imagine he is slightly less of an opener hater to the other parts of the Strip and visits. I mean people gotta have met the dude at least a few times to have such a universal hatred for him.

The tribal nostalgia is really directed towards his odd adherence to Boot Rider traditions in a Chairman way. The only thing we really know about out their specific hierarchy and structure is respect and honor are valued greatly and were at least expressed through sparring/combat a lot (how Benny became chief and how grateful he is if you choose to take him to the pit). I’d also like to point out the Khans are the ones that just wanted him to shoot the Courier with the bag over their head and Benny insisted they didn’t.

It’s inconsistent and it’s why I harked on them cause Benny is insistent on moving away from the past and the game shows it with how hard it is to get any real detail about what anything pertaining to other aspects of his past.

[anatheyma]

i know my tumblr presence's deranged horny as fuck and so i'm prepared for anons to act the same way but please please please i'd love to answer more casual weird invasive questions

[wanders-in-stars]

WAIT WE CAN MARRY GORE??? I-- ASLKDJASLKFJ BYE I HAVE A DIALOGUE TO SELECT

[smile-files]

(click image for better quality!!) golly i love thinking about clover's hair... i imagine she has really voluminous wavy strawberry blonde hair that she dyes green and wears in many cute hairstyles!! :D

[hystixia]

heyy dont get your hopes up because im extremely shit at this, but i may be writing a jeff mason x reader fanfic lmaoooo but heres the catch (totally fine if you dont want to do this) i always chicken out and overthink the characterization of jeff- i need some tips from THE jeff mason writer jgdgdfkjgnd like how u write him is so perfect *swoons*

I FUCKING LOVE HOW I HAVE SO MANY TITLES AND THIS IS A NEW ONE OMG OAODKADKEO “THE jeff mason writer” you’re so sweet omgomg im kissing you sm right now AKDOWOFOGKW

honestly though i just imagine what his mannerisms are like if that makes sense ?? i watched his case file so many times i could literally picture different ways he’d act in certain scenarios in a fic if i ever wrote one ( which i eventually did MAODOWODEO ) writing dialogue might just be the hardest part abt him though. cuz his dialogue ( at listen visually looking at it on a screen ) is written differently compared to how i’d normally write for “jeff the killer” ( this is just my own take and personal preference on writing his dialogue btw. you do not have to try what i do. it’s just to give a little more detail to him and it itches that one part of my brain when i read my own fics.) if that makes sense. whenever i’m writing for him, i make sure i can picture him actually saying/doing whatever im writing in my head ( kinda like watching a scene of a movie play out in your mind ) or else i try to rewrite it to sound more like jeff mason. im really bad at explaining shit because all i can really say is watch his case file and really focus on what he says and how he behaves to get a grasp of his character. and then mess around with dialogue until you think or know it sounds like something he’d say !!

[fideidefenswhore]

If only Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon counted in Catholic eyes, does this mean Mary wouldn't theoretically consider any of his other wives 'real' stepmothers, as such? If she did, how would she rationalise defying the Pope's will, whilst upholding the papal authority to sanction the marriage of her parents?

She probably never did, based on the wording of that Act in question. Her attitude towards papal authority during her own reign was...contradictory in other ways, however.