#it's white boy of the century btw

[pedgito]

JOSH HUTCHERSON as MIKE SCHMIDT FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S (2023) dir. Emma Tammi

[shelfperson]

iwtv writers room: so our mission statement is ‘memory is a monster’, which is a poignant examination of the lies we tell ourselves to sooth our own guilt or absolve the guilt of others. of what can be lost in translation after decades and centuries, and what truth even means when only one or two deadly immortals are still alive to tell the tale.

y’all’s goofy asses: yah louis lied about his domestic abuse 😘 because my perfect white boy lestat would never 😭 and daniel hallucinated his entire first wife and child 😳 because there’s no way there’s more nuance to this situation 🤪 and why give characters flaws and autonomy when armand the Scary Mind Control man 😈could just say ‘it’s mind control time’ and start mind controlling all over the place 😱

and btw these theories are somehow always about which old man is fucking 👉👈 and not claudia, who’s entire Thing is how she’s robbed of autonomy even in death because of louis’ willful ignorance and armand’s obfuscation 🤷‍♀️

[erijuice]

My Revision of Wish

As someone who loves the concept of Wish, I thought it was a decent addition to the Disney Animation Canon. I enjoyed the songs, the gorgeous hybrid artstyle, and the homage to Sleeping Beauty's wide cinemascope aspect. Unfortunately, the more I think about Wish, the more disappointed I was with the final product. For what was supposed to be a celebration of Disney's legacy, it ended up being shot with the blandification ray by the studio itself, because they had a lot of interesting concepts planned for the film. It's just impossible for me to hate Wish like everyone else on the internet, because I know there's passion behind this idea, it was just muddled and screwed over by the despicable corporate side of Disney.

Now, while I did love the final product and was also simultaneously disappointed over what it could’ve and should’ve been, I wanted to showcase my version of the film with a heavier emphasis on the wishing star’s untold origin story. This is actually an updated/edited version of my original draft, and I added a little bit of characterization as well.

SPOILERS FOR THE ACTUAL FILM BTW

Wish (in my version) is fully 2D-Animated, and contains music, orchestration and lyrics from Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, with additional output from Julia Michaels.

Cast:

Alycia Pascual-Peña as Asha

Chris Pine as King Magnifico

Amara Le Negra as Queen Amaya

Roman Banks as Orion (Star)

Summary: 

“Have you ever wondered how the legendary Wishing Star was born?… Set in a time centuries before Snow White wished by the wishing well, or Geppetto wished for his little wooden puppet to become a real boy, Wish takes place in the medieval city of Rosas, a fantasy kingdom off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea where your wishes can literally be transformed into reality. The kingdom is ruled by King Magnifico (Chris Pine) and Queen Amaya (Amara Le Negra), respected by all as the kingdom’s sole wish-granters. They live happily in peace with their royal daughter named Asha (voiced by Alycia Pascual Peña), who was set to take her parents’ throne once she turned 17. 

Princess Asha is sharp-witted and wildly smart beyond her years: a young philosopher in the making, who believes that the stars are always there to guide her. She's a shy bookworm who is very creative, she draws animations in her notepad and paints with watercolors all over her bedroom, much like Rapunzel. Asha also wants to be a musician and to inspire the people with her music. While being devoted to her goal to ensure that everyone gets their wish to come true, Asha also struggles with poor leadership skills, and she doesn't know how to be a good leader to her friends, or her kingdom. Her parents seem to make it look easy, and sometimes Asha prefers to rely on them to make her dreams come true. However, Asha believes that a bigger and stronger wish requires a much more difficult journey, and in order to achieve her wish, she must confront her own parents, two of the fiercest and most powerful villains the Disney universe has ever known.

King Magnifico is almost the same as his canon depiction, except he has no backstory of him losing his family to destruction which would've make him more sympathetic, and does not mesh well with him being a villain. He uses his magic to remove wishes from people's hearts and keeps them in his own "wish orbs" for personal keeping, but we don't find out what he does with them until the first act. Before he praticed magic, he was a philosopher who believed in the power of the stars in the night sky, inspiring Asha to develop her belief that there is magic in the stars.

Queen Amaya is a female villain who is madly in love with Magnifico and pressures Asha to be a perfect royal daughter, much in the vein of Yzma and Maleficent, with shades of Mother Gothel. She is a black dark-skinned Latina, and Asha's birth mother. Queen Amaya owns has a pet cat assistant named Cleo, who is a callback to Maleficent's crow Diablo, or Lady Tremaine's cat Lucifer.

Alright, now back to the story!

On her 17th birthday, during a beautiful royal ball, Asha notices that her parents have wondered off from their thrones, and she uncovers a dark truth about both of her parents and how they want to keep the wishes of the people for themselves. Even worse, she peaks through the cracked door of the throne room to witness that the King and Queen are crushing the people's wishes, and infusing their energy, in order to make their own magic more powerful, and thus manipulating the townspeople and giving them the false hope of their wishes being granted. Asha tries to keep what she saw a secret from her parents, but she argues that the wishes must be free and sent back to the people. After a heated argument with her parents, she runs to the forest and makes a passionate cry for help to the stars, in the hopes that they will give her guidance and strength to help her entire kingdom. (‘This Wish’ is staying btw, but with adjusted lyrics) Her plea pulls down the brightest star out of the sky and transforms it into a glowing ethereal humanoid being without a name.

Here is where we meet Orion. Orion is THE wishing star of legend. He is a glowing, Black-coded, humanoid boy around the same age as Asha. Newly formed, he has no name and no sense of right or wrong, much like Pinocchio, but he reveals himself to be a powerful shapeshifter with magic celestial powers. The starboy is aided with the tiny, Luma-like canon version of Star, named Little Dipper, as his personal companion. Little Dipper is more mischevious than Orion, but it's also a powerful wish granter in a tiny celestial body. With a reworked, more orchestral version of "At All Costs", Orion takes Asha on a gorgeous flight, explaining his purpose to help Asha, as the duo sings in harmony above the stardust-sprinkled woodlands, with Little Dipper setting the scene. After the song ends, Asha tries to name all the constellations off the top of her head, and ultimately names the starboy Orion (serving as a subtle callback to Kiss the Girl). Asha brings Orion back to the kingdom, and she tries to teach him how to grant the peoples’ wishes. As the two plans to give the wish orbs back to the people, Asha notices that her parents are angered over the townspeople praising Orion’s descend, hoping that he will grant the wishes of all the people. Feeling threatened by Orion’s presence, the King and Queen scheme to use dark magic to kill Fate and steal her magic, so that they will remain as the only wish-granters in Rosas, but at the risk of permanently being surrendered to the dark side. (This Is The Thanks I Get, except it's reworked into a grand, badass, orchestral villain duet with Magnifico on the first verse and Amaya on the second verse)

Desperate to warn the kingdom about her parents’ true colors, Asha disguises herself (a la Sleeping Beauty) as a peasant girl, while Orion tries to disguise himself as a normal human boy. As the two try to grant the wishes of the townpeople who haven't given their wishes to the king and queen, the town descends into chaos with some wishes spiraling out of control. While it is a moment of hilarity, Asha and Orion come to a realization that some wishes should never be granted in the first place, as they're more likely to cause harm and chaos than pure good. The two comes across a group of seven teenagers modeled after the Seven Dwarfs, Asha's longtime team, and Orion starts to get to know each one of them, before planning a rebellion against her parents, and yet, Asha is secretly hesitant to disobey her parents, she confesses to Orion - in a short reprise of At All Costs - about how she used to be perfectly obedient and a perfect princess to her people. Meanwhile, Orion reveals to the Seven Teens that he’s still learning to grant wishes, but they also end up horribly wrong, but he comes to a realization that he shouldn't grant wishes that could cause harm, no matter how much they beg for it. The Teens make a promise to Asha that they will protect her secret, as well as Orion's. The duo and the teens team up to stop the King and Queen, with a reworked version of "Knowing What I Know Now."

During the epic climax, Orion and Asha create a diversion, with Asha freeing the wishes with her team and learning to be a good leader in doing so, while Orion shapeshifts into multiple forms to battle the King and Queen and distract them away from the castle, but they capture Little Dipper into the scepter, and use Dipper's magic to transform their cat Cleo into a giant dragon (akin to Maleficent's dragon form) that flies them to the top of the castle, with Orion chained up. The parents chain Asha to the top of the castle where the battle occurs, and they force their daughter to watch Orion suffer. Engulfed by the pain of losing her protector, Asha breaks into the This Wish reprise, as do the other residents of Rosas. The King and Queen try to push Asha off the castle to her death, but the townspeoples' voices lift her up, as does Orion's, and he uses his magic to make her float above in mid-air. Everyone's hearts beginning to glow and attract their wishes back to their hearts as they sing in unison. Orion transfers most of his celestial powers into Asha, who uses her temporary celestial powers to free Little Dipper from the scepter, and blast the King and Queen to their death, while Orion simultaneously creates a powerful sword to throw into Cleo's heart, killing her as well. After a moment of silence, Asha breaks down into tears and feels bittersweet that she’ll never have her parents again, but more optimistic about being the ruler the kingdom desperately needed - someone who will choose only the best wishes to come true. Orion comes down to Earth to comforts Asha with a hug, and the kingdom rejoices with the evil King and Queen gone for good.

Cut to a few months later with Asha hosting her first royal ball for Rosas, and dancing with Orion, similar to the endings of Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. Before Orion flies back to the night sky to become the Wishing Star, he gets Little Dipper to create a magic wand and grants her the role of a honorary Blue Fairy guardian, transforming Asha’s purple queen gown into a beautiful, glittering, baby blue gown. Orion informs to Asha that Asha will be reincarnated into a true Blue Fairy after her time on Earth comes to an end, but Orion will descend back down to Rosas every now and then to help Asha. As a final gift, even though he admits his magic is not perfect just yet, Orion finally grants Asha’s wish and creates a lute for her to play for her people, but Asha realizes what her true wish was all along: To be a good leader to all of Rosas.

After Orion forms into the glimmering Wishing Star in the night sky above Rosas, Queen Asha looks down on the townspeople of Rosas with hope in her smile and she looks up at the wishing star above her, with a hope that everyone will have a wish to come true, because now, Queen Asha knows that there is no force, no magic more powerful than the power of a wish, for a wish is more powerful when it’s inside your heart.

Cut to a few nights later, after the credits have rolled, when Asha walks out onto the balcony above the kingdom. She pulls out a music sheet, and begins to play ‘When You Wish Upon A Star’ for the stars, as an homage to Orion.

My version of Wish will also contain hundreds of Easter Eggs that all pay tribute to ALL 61 FILMS in the Walt Disney Animation Studios library, all worked seamlessly into the context of the story, not just containing the ones that inspire the film like Sleeping Beauty or Snow White. Anyway, all I’m saying is that Disney should’ve hired me and put me into the writers room, because as a Disney fan, I know how to make this story work and how to make it even better, and I hope you guys love this version of the story! Oh, and also, screw Disney for donating to a genocide. Goodnight Kingdom of Rosas!

[pixiesbrain]

MY 3 REASONS. | my descendants dr version

little note: this is just a fun motivational post for me to get back into my dr’s more and present it to you as well!! i’ve seen it go around shiftblr and i’m not rlly sure who started it but creds go to the person who did!! also i feel like people don’t really read long posts on here but oh well

THE PLACES.

first reason: this might be my favorite part of any dr i’ve ever had ever. i’m a big disney kid at heart and disney channel basically raised me. so makes sense i’d have a related dr. i’ve basically incorporated places from different disney movies and shows (also disneyland!!) into my dr — this is part of the reason why it’s my comfort dr as well (the idea comes from tiktok btw it’s not mine but i find it super cool!!). i can’t wait to go to these places with my friends and family ❤️‍🩹

i’ve also transformed some of them for example, the v8 café became a roller rink/café soo there’s that LMAOOO

THE NEW KIDS.

second reason: i wasn’t about to forget the core 4 now. they literally are the most supportive friend group i could ever have. they’re everything. what more can i say, i’ve found some of my best friends. also i gotta say, i don’t agree with the way they were brought up in the movies, i felt like auradon really didn’t give the isle any chance for redemption so in my dr, auradon has an efficient prison system that aims for a fair chance for all so it’s different cuz we understand nuance here, not everyone is all bad & not everyone is all good. (it means the isle isn’t as impoverished and unsafe as it is in the movies)

i don’t have any other ways to describe the auradon and isle of the lost dynamics better than a sims 4 comparison so it’ll have to do: auradon is giving britechester and the isle has grown to have a foxbury vibe (iykyk)

MY BOYFRIEND.

third reason: i’ve seen someone on here compare their s/o to the "final push" in a shifting attempt. they’re not the entire reason why they’re shifting to their dr but still, they’re the element that helps them get there.

and tbh i agree! more seriously my s/o is purely a childhood crush that i re-discovered while i was deciding to shift to this dr. and he really adds to my life there. he is literally everything to me. everytime i feel bad or stressed literally just THINKING of him soothes me. and poor baby he’s been so under appreciated in the movies, i had to restore his status as the smartest, most compassionate mf in the whole kingdom ‼️ white boy of the CENTURY in my book 💁🏾‍♀️

[momo-de-avis]

I am eternally amazed at how sensitive the portuguese are at the subject of colonialism. The idea that we practised some sort of soft colonialism is so ingrained in our minds people will be fighting for their lives to defend this idea (which, btw, is still a remnant of Salazar's propaganda). Brazil's colonialism is such a hyper sensitive topic you can see the vein popping on the neck of the average Zé when someone even lightly mentions accountability. I dead ass remember my 7th grade teacher telling our class that Brazil's colonialism consisted of "jesuit priests playing music, which enticed the natives" and that was it (flutes too, to be precise, for some fucking reason) and everyone has just blindly believed this and refused to accept the actual horrible history we're a part of. Portuguese people will be fighting for their lives on technicalities. Say "The portuguese invented the slave trade" and Salvador over there will jump from under the table to explain that akshually african people were the ones to sell their own people as slaves!!! And askhually, slavery goes back for centuries!! You know what they mean, you know what needs to be discussed here, but my boy Salvador is on a mission. He doesn't even care that he's regurgitating fascist propaganda that was entirely built on ahistorical facts that specifically sought to promote colonialism and imperialism as a progressive idea, no, none of that matters. It matters that we are miserable people who will perpetually long for the past, look back on something utterly atrocious and willingly ignore the brutality of it, because we cannot come to terms with the fact that today we live in a country that's ripe with corruption, unlivable wages and high cost of living; we cannot come to terms with the fact that we did all this colonialism just to be a poor fucking country that's being exploited by digital nomads; in fact, we just cannot tolerate the idea that we're just a summer resort for americans and brits and have absolutely no economical relevance in the world, not even cultural, but hey, cultural meaning can be invented. So we look back, we wail and cry and look back at these centuries when we pillaged, enslaved and destroyed because at least we meant something, because we once divided the world in two with Spain, that's how big our balls were once, and because once people knew who we were, they our name beyond the one football player. We purposefully disregard the horrid shit. We coast through life without ever, ever acknowledging it ever existed. We're taught in school colonialism was soft core at best, tell some bullshit about some priests with flutes and be done with it, and then when someone finally confronts us for our history, on god, we'll be fighting with everything we have to prove to you that our colonialism was just fine, and we, white men of the 16th century, showed these countries the meaning of civilisation! Orgulhosamente sós, am i right bitches

[stromuprisahat]

Disgusting old man, pure innocent heroine and the boy she’ll end up with

As mentioned here, I’ve read Angela Carter’s variation on Bluebeard’s wife and some passages remind me of how are we supposed to perceive Darklina, Alina as a heroine and her amazing endgame:

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

~> Morozova’s collar anyone?

And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

~> Heroine corrupted by a piece of  jewellery around her neck?

And there lay the grand, hereditary matrimonial bed, itself the size, almost, of my little room at home, with the gargoyles carved on its surfaces of ebony, vermilion lacquer, gold leaf; and its white gauze curtains, billowing in the sea breeze. Our bed. And surrounded by so many mirrors! Mirrors on all the walls, in stately frames of contorted gold, that reflected more white lilies than I'd ever seen in my life before.

~> Don’t forget girls, if he wants to fuck you on a huge bed in front of a mirror, he’s secretly evil.

I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me.

~> Alina’s feelings for Aleksander in a nutshell.

I could not take refuge in my bedroom, for that retained the memory of his presence trapped in the fathomless silvering of his mirrors. My music room seemed the safest place, although I looked at the picture of Saint Cecilia with a faint dread; what had been the nature of her martyrdom? My mind was in a tumult; schemes for flight jostled with one another ... as soon as the tide receded from the causeway, I would make for the mainland--on foot, running, stumbling; I did not trust that leather-clad chauffeur, nor the well-behaved housekeeper, and I dared not take any of the pale, ghostly maids into my confidence, either, since they were his creatures, all. Once at the village, I would fling myself directly on the mercy of the gendarmerie.

But--could I trust them, either? His forefathers had ruled this coast for eight centuries, from this castle whose moat was the Atlantic. Might not the police, the advocates, even the judge, all be in his service, turning a common blind eye to his vices since he was milord whose word must be obeyed? Who, on this distant coast, would believe the white-faced girl from Paris who came running to them with a shuddering tale of blood, of fear, of the ogre murmuring in the shadows? Or, rather, they would immediately know it to be true. But were all honour-bound to let me carry it no further.

~> Less chaste Winter Fete with no Baghra in sight. The monstrosity of her spouse is discovered by the heroine herself.

The door slowly, nervously opened and I saw, not the massive, irredeemable bulk of my husband but the slight, stooping figure of the piano-tuner, and he looked far more terrified of me than my mother's daughter would have been of the Devil himself. In the torture chamber, it seemed to me that I would never laugh again; now, helplessly, laugh I did, with relief, and, after a moment's hesitation, the boy's face softened and he smiled a little, almost in shame. Though they were blind, his eyes were singularly sweet.

~> Gods, I wish this was Malina. This girl’s better choice is shy, sweet, blind piano-tuner. She’s a pianist btw.

He took my hand; he pressed his arms about me. Although he was scarcely more than a boy, I felt a great strength flow into me from his touch.

~> Little comforts between the endgame couple.

'Oh, madame! I thought all these were old wives' tales, chattering of fools, spooks to scare bad children into good behaviour! Yet how could you know, a stranger, that the old name for this place is the Castle of Murder?'

How could I know, indeed? Except that, in my heart, I'd always known its lord would be the death of me.

~> “In my heart, I knew that Baghra was right.” The Darkling also has a reputation full of horrors.

I pulled the curtains close, stripped off my clothes and pulled the bedcurtains round me as a pungent aroma of Russian leather assured me my husband was once again beside me.

'Dearest!'

With the most treacherous, lascivious tenderness, he kissed my eyes, and, mimicking the new bride newly wakened, I flung my arms around him, for on my seeming acquiescence depended my salvation.

'Da Silva of Rio outwitted me,' he said wryly.' My New York agent telegraphed Le Havre and saved me a wasted journey. So we may resume our interrupted pleasures, my love.'

~> Good thing we have Baghra to save us from this. Shadow and Bone never even got to pleasures...

'Go and get them.'

'Now? This moment? Can't it wait until morning, my darling?'

I forced myself to be seductive. I saw myself, pale, pliant as a plant that begs to be trampled underfoot, a dozen vulnerable, appealing girls reflected in as many mirrors, and I saw how he almost failed to resist me. If he had come to me in bed, I would have strangled him, then.

But he half-snarled: 'No. It won't wait. Now.'

~> Unfortunatelly Alina lacks agency and could never openly use her sexuality as a weapon. Closest we get is when she uses the Darkling’s longing for company at the end of Siege and Storm, but that's very chaste, suicidal alternative.

The evidence of that bloody chamber had showed me I could expect no mercy. Yet, when he raised his head and stared at me with his blind, shuttered eyes as though he did not recognize me, I felt a terrified pity for him, for this man who lived in such strange, secret places that, if I loved him enough to follow him, I should have to die.

The atrocious loneliness of that monster!

~> The Darkling... do I need to explain?

'You do not deserve this,' he [the boy] said.

'Who can say what I deserve or no?' I said. 'I've done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me.'

'You disobeyed him,' he said. 'That is sufficient reason for him to punish you.'

~> The irony of Alina’s true sin being “I’ve done nothing.” and certain people claiming it’s disobedience... 

My lover [the boy] kissed me, he took my hand. He would come with me if I would lead him.

~> You are my nation, you are my flag..

On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

We lead a quiet life, the three of us. I inherited, of course, enormous wealth but we have given most of it away to various charities. The castle is now a school for the blind, though I pray that the children who live there are not haunted by any sad ghosts looking for, crying for, the husband who will never return to the bloody chamber, the contents of which are buried or burned, the door sealed.

~> Once the monster’s slain, they life of charity and caring about others.

No paint nor powder, no matter how thick or white, can mask that red mark on my forehead [done by magical tainted key]; I am glad he cannot see it--not for fear of his revulsion, since I know he sees me clearly with his heart--but, because it spares my shame.

~> At the end of the trilogy, Alina remains physically untainted. Unlike the piano-tuner, Malyen had no problem feeling disgusted by Alina’s involvement with the Darkling, although the retcon tried to persuade us otherwise.

[strangestcase]

Also idk why (I actually know why) but every “what if Jonathan was in the League AU” ends up with the following tropes:

-Nemo and Jonathan have racist interactions. The level of racism is up to the creator but it can go from “haha Nemo feeds him tikka masala” (which btw. Didn’t exist back then. It was invented by a Scottish chef in the 20th century) to “Nemo shaves him because Jonathan is such a chad” as if Nemo wasn’t an evil prince that fucking hates the British.

-Jonathan tries to beat up or threaten Jekyll/Hyde for being mean to Mina, nevermind he’s much stronger than he is and would turn him into a fine mist. Why the fuck would Cocaine Lobotomy Man be scared of a boring white boy?

-Jonathan is glued to Mina, as if she didn’t have a life of her own. She stops being Mina and turns into Jon And Mina. He overshadows the literal protagonist of the comics.

All because he’s… a white man. Hmmm. Just an observation.

[voyeur-clairvoyant]

It's already 1 am in Mexico so as the perfectly healthy person I am, I decided to check #Tarot in TikTok because why not! It's not like I need to sleep or something like that. I took some notes from many videos and I want to share some thoughts:

The sanitization of fortune telling.

How in the sweet hell is so common to find the WILD statement of «Tarot cards are not for divination». Excuse me?? Are we talking about the same fucking deck of cards that has been used in cartomancy for at least 4 centuries?? Are you being fucking serious?? Hahaha.

The Tarot community is divided between pseudo-psychology and witchy-witchy-stuff and believe me, even when the witchcraft side and I are not in the best terms always there is something deeply wrong (and deeply stupid HAHA) happening with the people that think that a tarot deck is more-or-less a psychology degree you can buy in almost any library and fit in your pocket.

Not only these bitches dare to appropiate tarot cards, they dare to appropiate psychology and spirituality concepts AND THEN kick out fucking fortune telling because it doesn't fit within their «Law of atraction, healing your soul, evolutive psychology» strict white clean ''professional'' circus.

Fortune telling is vulgar and common. It speaks of love and loss, family members, friends, enemies, success and tragedy. And oh boy, fortune telling is nasty and they know it. It's made from the same awkward magic that turns bread and wine into flesh and blood and the same shitty vibe of the street magician that asks you to choose a card for a trick. Do they think (speaking after and before the New Age) in their sanitized heads that they are ''saving'' their Bible 2 from the gross hands of the common fortune telling tradition? That they're saving it by appropiating it as part of a High-Magic/Therapy context?

(Is different to use it as a tool in X practice than claiming it to be ONLY for X practice).

Tarot cards need to be clean and palatable apparently. We can't talk about loss because Death is not death. We can't talk about supidity because the Fool is not foolishness. Cups are not cups and swords are not swords because cups are water and swords are air and so on. Everyone knows that the REAL deal behind tarot cards is to contact with your subconcious for guide and therapy and obvioulsy the deck came from Egypt and it has mystical codes and secrets inside.

We have been SOOOO blind all this time using them for our foolish divination purposes! But hey! They are here to teach us how to use it ''the right way''. (SARCASM).

«Tarot cards are not for divination». Be welcome to the house but don't you dare to kick out the fucking host.

(Btw I know that not ALL the people that do this kind of readings have this mindset and that's ok. I mean, is their practice, not mine. However the spreading of pseudo-psychology techniques is triple harmful for psychology, fortune telling & magic practices and the people that seek for help in them).

Superficial tips & Random conspiracies

This one is more superficial than the one before hahaha but is still something that I find kinda weird and slightly dumb and they are the tips that are offered to bond with your cards that are just stuff like "sleep with your deck" or "pass card by card above a candle", "focus in the clothes and the number of letters in the names".

Like, do you know that without studying all of that is useless, right? HAHAHAHA. It doesn't matter how much you sleep with your deck. Come on! You can eat it if you want haha, none of those things are gonna help you if you don't do any level of invEstigation. They can be useful? Yes. But never just by their own.

Also the tendency of focusing in ALL the details of the card except for the fucking card itself is making me want to bath with my toaster ahshasa. WHO cares if the book of the Popesse has that many lines. Who cares if the flowers in the fucking marseille style decks are in one way or another. Pamela Colman Smith made an EXCELLENT work with the symbology of the RWS deck (credit where it is due) but jesus fucking christ the symbology goes AFTER the hierarchy of allegories.

We can't have another Jodorowsky right now saying shit like "yeah, the lighting in the Tower is a fetus and there is a egg in the Poppesse and the World that means...". We can't be giving more focus in a reading to the fucking clouds or the colors of the clothes than the fucking Allegory that the cards illustrates. Sometimes a letter is a letter and sometimes some flowers are just flowers. Follow KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid 😘💋.

[emblemxeno]

Sorry, I have returned with another heavy representation related question

Do you find it odd that the push for black characters is disproportionately higher than the push for black culture?

Aside from all the interesting history and cultures in Africa, there's aboriginal Australians and Afro-Brazilians who invented an entire martial art to escape slavery and fight off colonizers. Capoeira is awesome btw

Why represent black people, but ignore black culture?

Good question!

I don't know if I have a great answer to this, but if I were to start anywhere, it's that part of it is definitely because of just how significant the U.S. is (or at least is treated) in how culture moves, shapes, and released. In the risk of sounding like a baby leftist eager to use buzzwords all the time, honestly it all ties back to capitalism. What sells, generating profit, buying out smaller companies for their better critical acclaim-to-commercial success ratio.

And a notable cog in the capitalist machine is what U.S. corporations do as, despite being an extremely young country, it is a superpower with massive amounts of land and wealth that it hoards. It stands to reason that anything that comes out of the U.S. can and will be marketed and capitalized off of if it reaches a certain point of popularity and/or notoriety.

Black American culture is one part in that American capitalist cog, where, despite being a proported bastian of modern day human rights, the U.S. values the dollar of the world's citizenry over actually making efforts to improve the damn planet they live on.

And true to that type of attitude, that resulted in Black American art at first being mocked ("a Negro wrote a book? yeah and pigs can fly haha"), then the 'emancipation' happened (ignore the fact that slavery technically still exists under the 13th amendment as punishment for crime and doubly ignore which racial population is drastically over-arrested and accused for crimes of which they either didn't do or have outrageous sentences compared to the crime committed e.g. weed posession, the U.S. doesn't want you to think about that) /s

After mockery, came mockery+profit, such as minstrelsy, and later whitewashing and theft of cultural aspects (music is a big one) at the expense of Black Americans not getting their due.

Then the Civil Rights era happened (ignore how socialist MLK was that's not good for the money making machine) and with that led to a more rapid dissolution of segregation, and that meant Black people can be on screen and can sell stuff to other Black people. Later, Black culture started becoming really cool and hip to non-Black people in America. White boy hip-hop, white guy and gal R&B (Timberlake, P!nk's first album), whatever the hell X-tina was doing with those damn cornrows lmaoooo.

And this corporate co-opting of the culture has proven to be a major money maker for the past 5 decades, and is still perpetuated today. Any accusation, claim, or slander of "Gen Z/TikTok/Stan Twitter" language is how Black Americans have been talking for decades upon decades (I wish I could remember there was this show from early days of color tv that had a black cop do a "white to black" translation as a joke on the show and he said "my partner wants the tea on the old bird" cuz that's really a big indicator of that fact.)

The double edged sword of this, is of course that this is a way of speaking, culture, art, and lifestyle that a group of people live, and despite it continuing to be marketable as trendy and cool, Black Americans are still not really getting the lion's share of praise for it, because well... the U.S. is still systemically racist and any trend that starts from a non-lighter skinned cultural/ethnic group that can be whitewashed, will be in order to sell more. Unconscious bias as a result of being raised in a country built upon injustice and genocide is something I don't imagine will be undone for even the next century or two.

Getting to the actual point you asked about, it's because of the topics in my aforementioned ramblings why it's most likely harder/less seen for Black culture to be pushed over just Black/dark skinned characters.

On one hand, yes, I did mention how Black culture has been commercialized and commodified, but 1) lots of overt racists still exist and celebrating or even explaining something adjacent to Black culture can and will set them off cuz "THE WOKE AGENDA, STOP PREACHING IN MY FAVORITE FRANCHISE GRRRR" which means a not-insignificant amount of money can potentially be risked since those types are in more spaces than you'd expect, 2) there's extra work to be done now as to not offend the particular culture being portrayed, which is a good thing to do, but sadly often results in said culture just being cut from a character to avoid the work because time spent on sensitivity can be taken as time wasted on not improving other parts of the product, and 3) I know this is a big accusation to make, but... people consume more subpar and shallow stuff than they're willing to admit. Obviously there's nuance to stuff; enjoying a children's show with black characters in it as a kid and thinking it's good representation is no problem whatsoever, in fact I encourage it more because diverse cartoons set developing kids' brains up extremely well for a progressing society.

But there's a very noticeable deluge of applause from even mature audiences when there's a major involvement of a Black person in general that rings hollow because there's usually nothing significant about it other than the produce may not have had Black involvement before. I myself am not immune to this of course, because my favorite game series' are Fire Emblem and Xenoblade, and only in the most recent entries of both did they feature unambiguously Black characters inspired by either cultural taste aesthetics (Timerra and Fogado from Latin America) or physical features (Taion's hair, nose and lips), and I basically fucking cheered cuz those are my babies and they look so cute. BUT, again, those were the most recent entries in series where characters darker skinned than a paper bag (or gray-ish brown) that weren't just insignifanct NPCs were hard to find, and in FE's case got outright fucking offensive (Danved/Devdan).

I suspect this is a similar sentinment with non-American Black culture as well, as since Black American culture is still a controversial celebration, African, Carribean, Black Latin, or Aboriginals of Australia have the same reputation except exacerbated by xenophobia, weird fetishy-exoticism being placed on them, or flat out being unknown to the greater zeitgeist at the moment. Certainly doesn't help that the major powers of entertainment are located in the places that ruined or exterminated those same Black cultures :/

TL;DR: Capitalism profits off of culture, but not too much because that risks losing more money than its worth, so the compromise is usually slapping a "they're black" sticker on whatever they're trying to sell and unfortunately it works a lot of the time because being an uncritical consumer is something we've been raised to deal with as a part of life.

[f4nd0m-fun]

Double Isekai Cryptids

@puppetmaster13u

Some images at the end BTW

@hallowsden helped me with this idea but basically...

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Gotham is a piece of Faerun that got warped to Earth decades if not centuries ago. While it's not connected to Faerun as much as it used to be, anyone there is more 'forced human' than 'actual human', at least in a general sense. If anyone happens to find themselves in Faerun though, their truer form or forms unlock, which can certainly be surprising for most. But as long as they're on earth, they seem almost entirely human, although it's best not to stare at a gothamite for too long, especially a stressed child (as those have the easiest time accidentally showing their truths).

Of course, Gotham wasn't the first planar warp, and wouldn't be the last. After all, the LoA were tied intrinsically to this as well, once a long proud line of demons, reduced to immortal humanity. No wonder Ras sought Bruce as a son-in-law, both his skills and his ties to the Before.

Alfred has technically been around since the planar warp, he just happened to decide to explore this 'new' world a few times, and see what it had to offer. Perhaps the closest equivalent to what he would be might be along the lines of an 'arch changeling' (essentially just an arch fey though).

What Thomas and Martha were, no one is really certain of, but after what happened with their first son, they tried for another. Unbeknownst to them, it died shortly after, and Alfred replaced the dead child with one of his own in an attempt to make his partners happy.

Bruce is a changeling. His parents suspected something was different, but didn't care to dig, they were just happy to have him. But when they died, his form glitched out, a partial change, the poor traumatized child being found by Gordon who was quick to wrap him up and out of sight until he calmed. Eventually, Leslie found out as well, but Bruce didn't find out for years.

Slade is a vampire. Not of the DC variety persay, but similar, just dampened by the lack of access to the Before. Due to this, his actions towards Dick caused the boy to be a hidden Dhampir, although his family already had a long line of dampened elven blood.

Jason is a Duegar, sturdy and good at tinkering, but quite used to darkness, although he may even have a little surface dwarf in him. It's not certain, but perhaps this is the true origin of that white streak he has.

Cass is a drow, showcased in her elegant movements and affinity for the darkness.

Tim is a probably a gnome, well known for their inventiveness.

Steph is a kenku, although that can change.

Duke is undecided.

Damien is technically a tiefling, altho the human in him is merely a mimcry due to the nature of his father.

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The exact reason is unknown, but Bruce and his children get scattered around Faerun during the events of BG3, Bruce taking the place as Tav. Due to the isekai plus tadpole alongside the fact that everyone got de-aged roughly a decade (time in the two realms runs differently), he has minor amnesia. As a funny not-funny, the Guardian takes the appearance of Joker, and Bruce is not happy. He's not entirely sure why he hates the figure but he knows he will annoy him as much as possible. He starts as a rogue, adds monk, focuses on monk, and then happens to notice he's apparently a warlock out of the blue? (more on that later) Idea is to have him Monk 5 Rogue 4 Warlock 3 (before any extra levels from mods).

Bruce 31, Dick 13, Jason 9, Cass 9, Steph 8, Tim 7, Duke 5, Damien 1

Jason and Cass are found in the underdark, and, even afterwards, keep (sorta jokingly) playing the twin card. Cass keeps calling Jason 'little brother' and he keeps telling her, and others, that he's older (saying how many weeks or months apart as minutes instead).

Dick and Damien are found at Last Light's Inn, having been kinda taken in by Jaheira. Dick still doesn't realize he's a Dhampir, just that he's been eating a lot more red meat. Meanwhile, Damien is far from happy in such a 'tiny, useless body' and gets into a habit of biting people (if he could speak fully, he would insist he's not teething, he's just defending himself!).

Not sure about the others.

Alfred, meanwhile, has been in a form much closer to his proper fey form recently. He spend a few Earth weeks letting the kids get up to whatever, then popped over and forced a warlock bond. Because of family among other things, it wasn't that hard to do without Bruce's explicit permission, and this way he can keep a better eye on his son. He's rather friendly with Withers, who likes to say that the After has made him soft. At the endgame party though, he shows up, and promptly drops into a more human looking form, although he feels comfortable enough around his family to keep a few otherworldly features.

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Human Alfred is slightly overweight and about 5'9; He has some wrinkles and hair that's peppered with grey; His eyes are a dark hazel; He looks like a standard human elder.

Mildly fey Alfred is a bit skinnier than would be healthy for a human and is roughly 6'5; He has a face of a man several decades younger and his hair has no grey; His eyes are an almost-glowing yellow; With double pointed ears and sharp nails, he looks even less human.

Changeling Bruce (mod) sticking as close to the appearance he knows, with some absurd proficiencies, still not sure how I ended up with such wild profs but it fits him. Starting as a rogue, with noble background of course.

Joker Guardian, Brucie will not be trusting him very much if at all.

[rhythmgamer]

last reblog (about the "speaking from a place of privilege). the last point i made about including Christians when i say "religious minorities in India" just reminded me of Tatsumi and how the western fandom tends to treat him. like ik the west is predominantly Christian it's common to them and it's EASY for them to treat Tatsumi how they'd treat an average heavily Christian white person.

but you need to understand. Christianity was brought into South Asia and SEA by Westerners. it's not a homegrown religion, it's a religion forced upon the locals by colonizers in the regions they annexed during the colonial era. I can't speak about Japan, but in India, oh boy so many people hate Indian Christians cus they get associated with colonizers from over 2 centuries ago. it's like. they're always treated as if they have some ulterior motive and want to "brainwash" people into Christianity (yeah...as if 2.3% of the population can brainwash like 80% of the population (Hindus only btw). i come from a nation where Christians have been KILLED for being Christians. because people mistrust them simply for having a religion radically different from Hinduism.

now, i know Japan is nowhere this unsafe like India. but you need to understand me. Tatsumi belongs to a religious minority. he is oppressed because of his religion. no matter what religion you are, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, if your religion is not the same as the majority religion it's NOT completely safe for you to live there.

I have a close Muslim friend here in college. fae isn't religious at all, but holds the identity of being Muslim close to faer heart. because of the things Muslims have to go through on an everyday basis here. you have to understand that both my friend and Tatsumi consider their religious identity an important part of them, not because they are the religious fanatics you hear of in the West, but because both of them are minorities who have had to suffer due to their religious identities. so leave Tatsumi alone (side note if i hear another queerphobic Tatsumi joke i WILL break their arms and legs idc who it is)

[alan-p-49]

If anyone ended up noticing uh I'll tell you anyways even if you didn't notice but purple hearts has been deleted

I've decided that if imma make a sequel the romance between Jason and Zaccharie it would more be a sub plot rather the whole point of the story

Basically the new planned sequel is gonna be an anti copaganda. The only two non asshole cops in the police department are the two protagonists (which if i say who they are will spoil what i wanna do for blood boy but one of them is Jason). Haven't decided if the chief officer would be an asshole but it would depend if i decide them to be a cis white straight man or an enby (if they're an enby i won't make them an asshole). The forensics and cyber forensics analysts will not be assholes but rather get tired bc

They're the only forensics team in the whole town

The asshole cops may want them to do something fucky wucky/not taken very seriously bc the majority of the cops think fingerprint analysis works exactly like in cop shows (which they don't)

I hope I'm going to be a cyber forensics analyst by the time I get to properly write this sequel so i might end up putting in my own experiences so prepare for me talking about EnCase and hardware write blockers and all kinds of nerdy cyber forensics shit (you gonna learn a lot :D) or any other police station drama that isn't exactly the same I'll experience (tldr imma be biased)

The whole plot idea is that there are many different crimes happening and popping up one by one that are all connected to a single mastermind. If i don't end up killing off Lily Applewhite, that would be her. If i do i might think up someone else but it would be way easier if she doesn't die in blood boy so that I'll kill her in this story bc this bitch omg she can just noclip out of solitary confinement in a supermax prison.

Ik the universe of blood boy is fucking ridiculous but like it has its own ridiculous logic and that includes omniscient aliens that can noclip in and out of reality while 15% of the human population has some kind of super power (which omniscience and noclipping is not available to those humans). Don't get me started on the geopolitics in that universe since 2030 and 2054 and the fact my baby girl Tricia accidentally Thanos snapped Jupiter one time but she put it back together so the gravitational harmony was restored before the whole solar system went into shit

Also there's aliens on Titan. They're called The Boys on Titan. They low-key look like centaur version of this pokemon but with six legs

No they're not actually call themselves that, "the boys on Titan" is the term used by humans (mainly Tricia who isn't a human btw) along with just the term "alien centaurs" or just "centaurs". They don't like going to earth bc they'll either boil alive or evaporate bc 70% of their body is methane (as a liquid btw) and they know aliens exist bc humans like to have a little light show called cities since at least the end of the 20th century but no we live in a boiling hot planet

I'm rambling sorry

[wikifuck]

My WIPs

I have 3-ish WIPs atm:

Puppylove 1-2

The main active one is a sequel to my published 1st draft/novel, Puppylove. The first book is about the main characters Alejandro and Fetcher meeting and starting to date and Fetcher's family drama and how Ali helps him deal with (or rather, run away from) it. The sequel is about Ali taking Fetcher on a trip to a vampire party (he is a vampire, Fetcher is a werewolf) and meeting Ali's dad and essentially book 2 is about Fetcher helping Ali deal with his family issues, except this time they actually deal and don't run away instantly!

After I finish working on the outline of book2 I'm planning to go through book 1 and pretty much rewrite it to reflect my current skill level. The story itself won't change much, just wording and I will add depth to the characters if needed. That's it.

Spirits and Bleach

The project I was working on before this was Spirits and Bleach; my first attempt at dabbling in mystery novels. It's a story about Bleach, a witch/exorcist who gets roped into investigating a murder with a random ghost they find and who at first thinks he developed a crush on them, but they end up in a QPR by the end and travel the world together. I have an outline and I started writing it out but burned out, and I don't know atm if that is because the outline was lacking or if I just needed a break from the project. I can't wait to get back to it tho, I love Bleach and I can't wait to show their story to the world.

Dino People

My 3rd project is known as DinoPi, or Dino People. It's a mess. The general point is that it's a fantasy world, maybe or maybe not with futuristic technology, where people can turn into dinosaurs. That's all I know lol. Originally it was sci-fi and the dinos were a science thing, then it was magic. Originally the story was a romance taking place in a civil war, where a spy sneaks over the border and falls in love with a good Christian boy who arrests him for sneeking over said border. Now I'm thinking of changing the genre entirely to something else. I had written like 10k words of the original plot before I got stuck and had to scrap it bc I simply had no ideas for the story. I wanted the leads to kiss, but they hated each other. I don't do enemies to lovers, I'm not skilled enough yet to make it not sound abusive. Now I'm toying with the idea of the story starting with them married and about to get a kid. Yesterday a friend asked for an idea for a movie poster to draw and I wrote down this idea:

"Well since I'm kinda stuck on the dino theme, I had an idea of the vocal point being a dude either leaping through the air to catch a falling laughing baby or holding said laughing baby in one arm and holding a gun in the air with the other, a lil like that example with how he holds the lady, and in the background are dinosaurs fighting."

said example: true lies action movie poster

Concept: Bruce wants a baby and Joker ends up being the cool spy dad bodyguard protecting the baby from bad guys (the baby is special or something. The concept is silly already so just go with it, make it stupid)

If you want a taste of what their vibes are, I made a spinoff short story called Office Work

Rep

When it comes to representation, I want to do my best to bring in diversity. I mean, even if it weren't just the moral thing to do (which it is), it's just good writing to have more than one type of character and perspective. Hence, I have the following intentions/plans for these WIPs:

Puppylove: have ace rep through Ali and auDHD rep through Fetcher. Also, Ali is black and has lived for two centuries in a world with a history similar to ours. I want to have a realistic approach when it comes to his trauma from the shit he has had to see, but I'm not going to promise any specific themes. I'm as white as can be and a lot of this will be dependent on how willing of a sensitivity reader/person who will smack me if I do a stupid I can find. Applications are open btw.

Spirits and Bleach: have ace aro and nb rep with Bleach and I'm not yet sure what their friend might bring to the table, but I sure know he isn't straight lol.

DinoPi: As I said, the story is a mess, but I have for the longest time known Joker has some sort of a disability that causes chronic pain. My thought has been he is an ambulatory wheelchair user. I don't have personal experience with this, but I have a friend who is happy to help me with the chronic pain part at least.

General gay rep you can always expect since I seem to be incapable of writing anything that doesn't have at least one gay dude in it.

[malrie]

I do look back on the depiction of calormines by lewis to not necessarily be purposely offensive especially by the time the gear shifted to focus on them in horse and his boy but I’ve also seen way too many people absolve lewis of his pretty caricaturist depiction of an arab-inspired nation over the years with very long reaches at times. just bc aravis is well-depicted, who btw at the end of the book doesn’t even really participate in her culture anymore in so she’s “safe” in the narrative, doesn’t mean that lewis’s work doesn’t have. A LOT of things that need building upon if it’s actually to be adapted in the 21st century. otherwise it really can be interpreted as just another christian white man saying she’s one of the “good ones”. this is being said as an adult who can say aravis and shasta’s story really formed me. I know not every critique on it is even exactly spot on bc I do believe there is nuance to lewis’ depiction in a way but he definitely isn’t some perfect nonracist figurehead of literary writing. I can’t say too much on this because the last time I picked up a narnia book was definitely a while ago so I have no notes to cite lol this is just a late night thought. I’m sure if I began reading again I can pick these out pretty quickly

last thing. I feel like some fans I’ve seen just don’t get that it’s ok that it has these kinds of dated narrative flaws. it was written in 1954. you will not die if ur fav classic book by a white author is dated and depicts cringey racial depictions common to the time. Just accept the flaws and move on I promise nothing will happen to u….

[vole-mon-amour]

IWTV, 1x03, part 2.

Speaking of normal nails in ep3. Lestat's suddenly got shorter? Huh? The hell changed?

He's already jealous, but the reaction and the acting are hilarious. I need gifs.

Queen.

Another difference from the book: Louis' mom suddenly figured out Louis is immortal? While in the book his sister and mom (?) were visiting his grave, thinking he was dead? But that was after the fire so IDK. But they didn't figure out he was a vampire. They didn't know. I feel like the Mother has way much of a role in this story. It wasn't like that in the book.

You're so precious when you're jealous and drunk. :') "I thought we can have an orgy. You can fuck them, and I can eat them." You go, silly boy. Can't wait to learn more about your history and the abuse in your past.

White nails again? That is some serious inconsistency. I doubt that he found a way to have his nails black and white over the century and then he didn't know how. Lestat was more than 200 and his nails were always white. This IS an inconsistency.

*heart eyes*

BABY, NO! :(

Never thought I'd agree with Lestat, but yes. This. What did 'Louis' think life as a vampire would be? Yes fucking humans. Steal blood from blood banks, for god's sake. I'm tired of him. And I'm even more tired before Claudia shows up because that's where he kinda starts killing again for a while, but it's not that Claudia & are they even going to Paris together? Are they?

Oh, and btw, contact lenses are sooo bad. Jacob looks more or less ok, but Sam with them? Big yikes.

I think I might be here for him only. He's the real doll in this mess.

Yes. Also, let's not forget that it's not out of respect for 'Louis' (if there's any real, idk with this show), but simply bc Lestat is not interested in running it in the slightest. He already has "all the money we need", wherever those came from, so he wouldn't even start running a whoring house. He wants all the fun and killing, not whatever this is. Which I find very interesting 'cause in the book he was literally threatening to kill Louis if Louis let slave go and sell the plantation.

ahhh.

Wondering how the story would went if they both were white, like in the books. "You two pale lovers"?

Oh to be praised and loved by Lestat. I admit, they could've had so much fun. While I can empathize with book!Louis, this one? "I did it for my people, for my city." Girl, who are you lying to? Mehhh.

King. Queen. I think I'm starting to understand the 'gender envy' phrase. I think I'm both attracted to him and want to be him.

Are you your own person or is Lestat your actual master and you are his slave? Stop blaming him for your decisions. I'm so tired of you.

You can have fun with this dude every night, but nooo, you choose to be broody and miserable about it. I don't like both Lestat and Louis in the book, so I'm glad to enjoy at least one of them here. Where's that iconic "There's still life in the old lady yet!"? Give me fun.

Baby boy. Baby. Deserves better.

"My light. My Claudia. My redemption." (checks where the ending of the book is coming for theatrical purpose) I'm gonna fight you, Louis. I'm gonna fucking fight you.

Now 'Claudia' is 14. And it's not her mother who died but her aunt, apparently. Sure, let's rewrite the entire canon. What's the point of aging up a character if you're not going to do anything about it? The entire struggle of her age is that it's an elder woman trapped in a body of a five year old that loved Louis her entire life. What's the point of aging her up if there's not going to be any romance. WHAT IS THE POINT. Not to mention that Claudia slept in Louis' arms in the book. In here? Apparently, it'd be too weird.

Y'all are cowards.

The episodes feel sooo long, but the Inside the Episode is like a very short version of it. Tempting to just go through those. x)

[ittosandwich]

! How they react when you admit that you have a crush on them !

Starring: Zhongli, Kazuha, Childe, Xiao, Itto, Kaeya

No set pronouns or gender it's literally genderless

It's kinda fluff lol

It COULD possibly be a little ooc sometimes tho pls dont kill me lol

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Zhongli

He is a little flustered but it's not a big deal to him

The Geo Archon has lived for so many centuries, it's not the first time someone has a crush on him and has the courage to admit to it

He actually likes you too but kind of not the same way you like him

He likes your passion for things but he doesn't necessarily see himself in a relationship with you

but after you told him that you like him he has developed a little habit of patting your head and sitting closer to you whenever you guys are together

Sometimes he will hold your hand when no one is around but only sometimes. It's not even real hand holding more like hands touching? Something in-between that

You are a little confused and your crush grows even more desperate but you are so happy about the little gestures. Very happy.

Xiao

The man is very confused. VERY confused

His reaction is mean and he definitely turned you down

You kept overthinking about the way he yelled and deprecated your feelings but you tried to get over it. Takes a lot to get over it tho.

The adepti is very good at ignoring you now.

After a while when you show up at Wangshu-Inn for the good food at a time where its not very common for him to be there you found him taking a seat on the stool opposite of you (he definitely waited for you)

He isn't looking at you and you are just blushing and can barely eat your food

After a while he will just do his typical "hmph" and just hiss out a "the food is good ha?"

You're choking on your food and he dares to look at you. Obviously worried if you're actually choking because what if you just randomly die because he said that??

He actually kept overthinking a lot since you told him about your feelings

You are really uncomfortable but you're even happier he even dared to accompany you. It must be good sign right?

Anyways he is willing to "discover" some feelings because he seriously likes you. He's very loyal and he would never turn you down if you ever need help. The cold person he is and the endless decades he had to go through lonely and full of hatred and anger really tire him. You admitting your feelings was really a change for his mental state. He actually thinks about different things. Like you.

After a while while of letting himself allow to feel thungs like you feel for him, He will even do things like holding your hand at some point or look at the stars from the big balcony of wangshu inn

Ends up being your cute and sentimental boyfriend sorry for spoiler (i am willing to do a whole post about xiao as boyfried btw in case anyone would want that js lol)

Kazuha

He blushes

He didn't expect you to admit something like that when you asked him to accompany you for a quick walk after you guys spent days on Beidous ship together traveling from one side of Teyvat to the other. You guys did this a few times afterall

He smiles and you're worried he will turn you down since he doesn't even say anything

He will just keep walking and leave you a few steps behind because you're not moving since you feel like you really really messed up the friendship of you two. Just this big drop of "oh shit" feeling in your stomach.

The white haired guy turns around to ask you why you're not moving since you guys left for a walk. Not a stand (sorry this was so bad😭😭)

After you moved towards him to continue the walk you catch him still smiling

Quickly after you feel his hand holding yours and he feels how confused but happy you are about that

Y'all find a bench just when you thought this "quick" walk became a little too long. You guys were just walking and holding hands. Not saying a word. Just smiling and maybe looking at each other quickly.Just you two in the nature of Liyue. Nobody is around. Actually very romantic.

He doesn't seem as nervous as you but oh boy he is.

That bench you guys just discovered in the middle of nowhere. He asks you to sit down with him and requests to actually keep this quick walk as a long one.

Now you two are just there. Your head resting on his shoulder and his head on yours, holding you hand tighter

At some point he asks you if you want to make it a thing. Like something committed or if you just wanted to admit your feelings.

He WILL be the best boyfriend you just know

Childe

Oh boy, is he making fun of you?

He laughs. But why???

He knows you are very straightforward but he never expected tp see you as flustered and flushed red as you are right now

He pats your head and leans down to look at your lowered head that you tried to hide from him because you're so embarrassed, his hand resting on your shoulder

He would ask why you're so embarrassed and leave out a quick chuckle, only making you even more flustered

He tried to reassure you by saying its alright and that he thinks you're actually cute too

You're not sure what that means..is he friendzoning you??? Is he turning you down??? Does he feel the same??? What does that even mean????

He REALLY enjoys seeing you like this.

"Why don't we spend some time together tonight? After I'm done with work for today you know" he requests, only leaving you in even more confusion

What does this mean??? Is he trying to sleep with you??

Literally no idea. He has no idea himself. He is surprised too. He knows he wouldn't use you for your body but he wants to collect his thoughts until the evening when you guys should meet and continue from there

He asks you to wait for him at Wanmin restaurant and of course you will

(What happens next? Even author doesn't know. I am open for for requests tho i wanna continue this LMAO)

Kaeya

This man is such a tease!!!!

He chuckles, only making you more insecure

You're not sure if Kaeya is a person of big feelings anyway but you still admitted to the feelings you have for him

Lowkey highkey he knew all along

The way you blush when he talks to you even if its a simple greeting or something has made it very obvious for him

He likes to walk you to your place when you and a few other people had a little after-work fun at the tavern. He would make sure not to get too drunk when he knew you'd join and usually you would anyway if you're free because your crush is there obviously

As tipsy as you are you would always look at him and listen to him talk and get absolutely mesmerized by the way his lips move and his hands gesticulate when he's talking. He will glimpse over to you a few times too making you feel all dizzy from not only the alcohol but also the butterflies

This night you're drunk from drinking too much and of course the gentleman he is he will walk you to your place

Just when you two reached your place your drunk self admitted it to him.

As mentioned he chuckles and and just leaves out a little "oh?" and has the most charming expression ever

He just asks you if you're sure?? It was really tiring for your drunk self so answer because it just slipped out of your mouth. With dedication but it did slip.

After confirming you're sure which he knew already he requests to continue you this conversation when you're sober

You're literally on the verge of tears now because you really don't just want him to leave and you're slowly realizing what you did

A little "please don't leave me like this now" leaves your lips as you lightly hold on to his sleeve

And a teasing "how do you want me to leave then?" follows from him with a smile

All you want is a little passionate kiss if you're honest but as drunk as you are you're still aware enough that you shouldn't say that aloud

He got it though

He leans down painfully slow and gives you a kiss on your cheek. Purposely so close to your mouth so your lips touch a little

"Is this alright? Can i leave you like this now? He asks TEASINGLY!! why is he such a tease T T

You're paralyzed because this was even better than the passionate kiss you were craving a minute ago

You slowly nod, not daring to look at him, your hand letting go of the fabric you were holding as he leaves with a smile and a chuckle

Itto

He sure is very surprised

The big oni is very very surprised

He scratches the back of his head and holds your hand again

Because when you admitted to him when no one was around you decided to hold both his hands

You guys were very touchy with each other in general so it wasn't very weird that you two held hands like this. You two are very close friends afterall

a nervous "heh" leaves his mouth as he isn't sure how to respond

You follow with a worried "what?"

He's even more nervous than you. He's always so confident and now he's so nervous. it's cute.

"I, eh, like you too actually, haha.." he then says

A confused "you do??" Follows from you

He confirms and laughs and continues by saying how nice this is

A few seconds pass without saying anything and he finally asks if you would want to be his girlfriend T T

You nod and stand up to kiss him

He was surprised at first but quickly closed his eyes returned the kiss

The gang members saw you two from afar and when you had a meal altogether that evening they obviously teased you guys with it

It was annoying at first but you two are obviously happy like this

A/N

Hey guys!! Just leaving this here!! I hope you'll like it. It took me hours to write this and I'm not super happy with it but i really wanted to post something nice T T