#its very sweet of you tho ♥️

[hakucho-art]

free pass to talk about touken

HAHA, you're really indulging me huh

Ohhh what to talk about. It's funny, they occupy my brain 24/7 but as soon as someone asks me about them then there's nothing in that little head of mine. I guess I'm just gonna ramble lol.

Today I've been headcanoning about Touka sitting and waiting next to Kaneki while he's in his coma. Saiko and Urie being next to her as well and Saiko asking her who she is since she and Urie shouldnnttt really know her iirc. She introduces herself and also says that she's nekis wife (I will never get over her "MY HUSBANDS WAITING FOR ME UP THERE" MY GOD, I DIED AND ASCENDED HEAVEN THAT DAY) and saiko and urie getting shocked at that.

Saiko gets sad about the fact that she missed the wedding (calling her mamans wife from then on 😭♥️) and Urie mutters "First Takeomi, now Haise......." which catches Touka's attention. Since they visited yorikos wedding, she probably asked Kaneki who the man is she's marrying and what he's like. So if they know takeomi then they should also know what happened to yoriko!

And she freezes up because since she found out about the execution, she probs completely avoided thinking about it nor engaging with the topic in any way. She already did canonically with Kaneki but he knows how she feels and how that is and can give her comfort in the nights when the pain is too much to bear. Touka silently crying while Kaneki hugs her and kisses her trying to ease the pain if not at least a little 🥺

She is too scared to even ask if yoriko's still alive, too afraid of the answer. And while she starts trying to form the question, she unconsciously holds kaneki's hand enclosed between her two hands and squeezes it. Trying to find the strength to ask that question.

Urie starts answering before she even finished forming her sentence, assuming maybe she wants to ask where they are and tells her that they left the city (IIRC LMAO).

She falls forward, relief going through her whole body and holds kanekis hand against her forehead. Saiko and Urie ask her if she's okay since her body starts shaking but she says that she's fine. Knowing that Yoriko is alive and well and away from all the insanity that is happening right now in Tokyo, she couldnt be more happier about it. Now she only needs the person in front of her to wake up.

Gahhhh, I'm just.... soooo damn soft for hurt/comfort AND THATS LITERALLY TOUKENS WHOLE THING. Makes me think about the way Kaneki was nervous about seeing Hide again after all these years and going for Touka's hand, wanting to hold it in order to ease that nervousness 😭🤲🤲🤲 THEY ALWAYS GO FOR EACHOTHERS HANDS WHENEVER THEY ARE IN NEED OF COMFORT.

Although I also really like the thought of Kaneki needing lots of physical comfort and touka needing emotional comfort while the way that they give comfort is both the opposite, Kaneki giving emotional comfort and touka giving physical one. Perfectly aligning <3

I AM SO. DAMN. SOFT ABOUT TOUKEN

THEY ARE A SET, DO NOT SEPERATE THEM. LIKE HINAMI SAID, ONEECHAN AND ONIICHAN ARE BETTER TOGETHER.

I LOVE THEMM SO MUCHHHHH

[whateverisbeautiful]

♥️Reveling in Richonne - TOWL

#42: The Fuel (1.04)

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Even when everything crashes down around them, Richonne's love always prevails. 🥹

And now that they’ve recentered on what truly fuels them, Richonne then gets every type of fuel they need to finally go home. So we gotta close out this masterpiece of an episode with the breakdown of ep 4's final glorious moments. 👌🏽😇

The fact that we were really spoiled from literally minute one to the final seconds of Episode 4 - I have to thank Danai one million times for writing this thoughtful Richonne love letter episode and forever thank Andy & Danai for performing every part impeccably 🙏🏽💐...

After deciding to go home together in such a well-earned way—which, that's another thing - the fact that Danai didn’t even need an extended episode to convincingly craft an arc where Richonne could start off more at odds than they’ve ever been, and then not just beautifully, but also believably and organically, bring them back together by the end, leaving them feeling more bonded than ever before. She’s an illustrious talent. 🤩

So now Richonne is ready to head out because this building is on its last legs. And as they walk, Rick is finally out of the CRM gear and in casual apparel for the first time with Michonne. And I loved seeing that. The hold the CRM had on him is finally removed. 😌

The temp controller announces another malfunction and says the elevator only has ten minutes of reserve power left. Which hearing that...it’s wild Rick and Michonne still used that elevator…even tho I’m glad they did. 😏

As they make their way to the door, they stop for a moment and I love the way it’s filmed with us being able to see them between the panels. Rick gets his blade ready and then he looks at the real source of his strength Michonne.

And then you already know I absolutely adore that Rick leans in for them to share a kiss before they head out of this place. It’s the sweetest thing. 🥰And it immediately lets you know Richonne really is back.

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That kiss is pure gold and highly ranked for me, y'all. Like as quick as this moment is, it’s still so special and romantic. I appreciate any and every reminder that Rick and Michonne are each other's baby and that kiss was definitely giving that.

Also, I just have to reiterate that Danai wrote such a quality episode of television. I love how at the top of the ep we see Michonne first exit the apartment alone and in pain, and then later Rick exits the apartment alone and panicked, and then at the end they show Richonne leaving the apartment together and healed because they’re finally operating like the honest unit they’re meant to be.

And again, it’s impressive how earned it all feels with Richonne starting the ep more at odds than ever and then truly being on one accord and one being again by the end of the hour.

It's sweet that as they’re about to re-enter the walker-infested world they want this reassuring and comforting moment of connection as this kiss just communicates that they’re in it together no matter what they face outside these walls.

Then he whispers ready and she nods and Rick opens the door for Michonne to go through first. Bye, Apartment 👋🏽, you were very very good to us, chile. But now it’s time for Richonne to go home. Won’t He do it. 🙌🏽

So then once they enter the hall they have one of my favorite action sequences. I love the way it's choreographed for them to be so in sync through this whole thing. This action sequence said let us remind you who are the two baddest to ever do it. 😌

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I love the way it really is like they’re killing these walkers as one in the way they’re tag-teaming. Michonne steps out the hall first but then Rick is ready to get the first one and then they just take them down like only they can and it’s a great sight.

And Rick loves the sight of Richonne in action too the way he takes a moment to look at Michonne as they walk forward. I love that it's always clear Rick is invigorated by the fact that he and Michonne are a power couple. And again, the merging of the red and blue light as it comes together to make purple is great and gives TOWL a fresh different vibe than TWD. Seeing Richonne walk in the purple light just feels like they too have blended back into one again. 😌

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And then that elevator...😏

Y’all, let me express some gratitude for this elevator right here. It gave us some absolute gold, honey. 😇

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They approach the elevator and work together to get a walker out of the way. And then once they enter, Rick kicks the walker's arm, and Michonne, serving with her stance, realizes hey we have some time while this elevator goes down so naturally she looks over at Rick with that 'my man, my man, my man' look.

Then Michonne grabs the strap of Rick's backpack and pulls her into him and we can see him rushing into her just as the blood-stained elevator doors close. I love it. 😋 Look at frisky Michonne wanting a piece of her man right now lol. 🤭 Who can blame her?

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And when I first watched I thought that was gonna be it. Like they were just going to imply that they make out in the elevator. But no being a Richonne stan means being hella spoiled and so we actually get to see this all play out. 😊

They cut to Richonne making out inside the elevator and it’s just so good.❤️‍🔥 Also, it's funny how you’d never guess that Michonne was the one who initiated this the way Rick so quickly matches the energy and throws her against that wall. Rick can't quite be outhungered when it comes to Richonne kisses lol.

Like Michonne's always on the same page with that intense immense love but Rick's always going to be the more extra one by a little bit. Here for it. 😋

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They were real into it in that elevator and had themselves another moanversation. I love that they are always on the same timing and both crazy enough to be so unconcerned with the fact that this building is about to come toppling down. Like they are just passionately present in this hot moment and it’s great. 👌🏽😋

Richonne are really and truly irresistible to each other and I love how their desire is always on display. And you can just tell Michonne loves Rick’s assertive affection as he practically consumes her and she slides her finger down his face. And as for Rick...he's addicted to his wife in the best way. 😊

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Also, I always like seeing that “Failure is never an option” sign because I be needing that reminder in life and also it just feels like a thesis statement or something as to why Richonne is always able to win. When they refuse to fantasize about failing they always come out on top together. 👌🏽

So they manage to pull themselves off each other enough to run and kill more walkers and make it out of the building as they make a run for the vehicle. I remember in 2023 there were those set pics from this outdoor running moment and it felt so nice to now get to see what that all was from. Little did we know it was filmed for the greatest Richonne episode of all time. 🤩

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With Richonne outside we continue to get insight into the destruction going on inside the apartment, including the death of the temp controller I believe. RIP, to the narrator of Richonne's ep 4 journey. 

And then Richonne make it to that yellow truck and let me tell you Richonne + cars is undefeated. 👌🏽 It’s always going to make for a golden moment and this one here of course is no exception. 😏

They run into the car and I adore the detail of Rick holding that book that Michonne said Judith would love. A whole FATHER. 😭🙌🏽 And this just goes to show that everything Michonne said to Rick when he had those walls up at the top of the ep was absolutely resonating with him even if he wasn’t fully letting on at first.

I mean, Rick always hangs on Michonne’s every word so of course everything she said stuck, especially about their children. (Also, it just hit me that that’s likely part of why Rick was thinking about getting a gift for RJ in the next episode since he knew they’re bringing the book as a gift for their daughter. 🥲)

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So they get in the car but then Rick realizes there’s a slight complication as he tells Michonne it’s a “Stick shift.” I love the way Michonne looks at him and smiles when she realizes that means her little amputee cutie won't be able to drive this particular vehicle.

And y’all, since she has to drive that means Rick and Michonne have to switch seats. 😏 It's great how even a car being a stick shift can lead to Richonne gold, because this next moment is top tier. 🤩 Richonne stans, we ate good with TOWL, honey. 😇 Practically every second in this miniseries is rooted in Richonne’s romance. 🙌🏽

Also, I heard it was the episode's director Michael Slovis who had the idea for this next golden part, and I gotta take a moment to give Slovis his tens too. He did an outstanding job directing this Richonne love letter episode. 👏🏽💐

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So Rick and Michonne have to switch seats and they’re not gonna just get out of the car and do that - no, instead they attempt to just quickly climb over each other but, I’ve said it once I’ll say it 1000 times…Richonne are magnets. 🧲 So of course they couldn’t be that close to each other and not just start going to town again and making out. I love our hungry little couple that stays starving for each other. 😋

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When Michonne is on top of him you can see the determination on Rick’s face to turn this into something lol. And of course she’s on the same timing as they start making out. Like this building is really going to fall in mere seconds and they don’t give a damn. 🤭

They’re so happily distracted by their love and I’m here for it. They said that whole ‘love on each other as hard as we can while we can thing’ starts effective immediately. Also, only Richonne could make switching seats hot lol. 🔥

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Then it’s sweet to see the Roomba still going til it can’t go anymore. It’s resilient like Richonne. 

Also, it was really smart to put a sort of timer in the episode, and a high stakes timer at that, with the fact that the ep took place in a building on the verge of collapse. It's symbolic of how Richonne had to come the closest they’ve ever come to wondering if perhaps their relationship is on the verge of collapse as well. But of course like the Roomba that just won’t quit, they emerge from the building together and stronger. Richonne isn't the building, they’re the Roomba.

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And then y’all. Y’ALL. You already know what I’m about to address. It is now wonderfully canon to know 🗣 MICHONNE CALLS RICK 'BABY.'

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I know I was previously in the camp that heard Michonne call Rick 'baby' earlier in the bedroom scene but that one I didn't hear on my first watch. This 'baby' right here in this blessed yellow truck tho - undeniably clear. And so great. 🤩

They cut to the two still making out like it’s the only thing on the agenda, but then Michonne knows that it actually is coming down to the wire with the building about to fall. So she whispers to Rick, “Baby, I gotta drive.” 🫠🤩🫠🤩🫠🤩

From “You want to drive?” to “Baby, I gotta drive.” What a journey. 😭🎁

I didn’t know how much I needed to hear Michonne call Rick 'baby' but when I heard it I was like oh I’ve needed to hear this all my life lol.

So y’all, can I happy dance one time? Because hearing Michonne call Rick 'baby' makes me ridiculously happy. 😋

Now whenever I see any pre-canon TWD moments between Rick and Michonne I just stop and think wow one day she’ll call that man her baby. 😭 Like that’ll just be their norm because the way she says it and the way he responds, it’s clear he’s used to that. It’s so sweet and fitting. 🥰

I know we often like to wonder about Richonne pet names and I think it’s so cute that she calls Rick baby because really that is her baby. When I first heard this, y'all, I rewound it so much to make sure I didn't just imagine it lol. It was perfect. 😇

(Also since this kissing moment wasn't scripted and it was something Slovis suggested they do while filming, I'm assuming that would mean the 'baby, i gotta drive' was improvised as well. If so, I love that these talented creatives know just what to do and say with these characters 🙌🏽😊)

And I love that Michonne has to remind him that she has to drive because if she didn’t Rick would have been down to make RJ #2 up in that car. Like he’s lost in her yet again while their making out and of course, the moaning has returned. The man can’t help it. 😊

This whole lovely kissing moment further proves that for Rick the world can wait when he’s with Michonne. And the way Michonne says the line you can tell that the only reason she’s stopping is cuz they literally need to go. If they didn’t have to book it out of here right now…she’d be down for whatever too. You already know. 😋

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I love how Richonne’s favorite thing is kissing each other breathlessly and how they prove time and time again that the magnet thing might as well be literal. Also, the fact that they kiss during every phase of this exit - at the apartment door, in the elevator, and in the car. Real lovers are back. 😍

And they are never beating the adrenaline kink allegations, y’all. But I love how they, like us, are very cognizant of the fact that Richonne in fight mode is a sexy thing. 

And then I love that after she tells him 'Baby I gotta drive' they both laugh a little knowing how easily they get caught up. And then Rick is so refreshingly looser and more himself as he says, “Right. They made a stick shift electric car” and then he looks back and sees they left tanks of ethanol in the backseat.

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Let me repeat - The universe is a Richonner. 😋 The second Richonne got it together the universe was like here we’ll provide the fuel (and the food 🍜😉) and all the logistics.

I love how they both get excited learning the car is a hybrid. It reminds me when they were excited about those MREs in Say Yes. 

So then Michonne notes how they have to thank the innovators for the hybrid and how those people clearly thought they could do anything and Rick says, “Yep but we can. ‘We can make this whole world ours if we want to.’” Do you know how much of a loverboy you have to be to quote your wife’s words from a DREAM? 🫠 Most swoon-worthy thing ever and I’m so here for it. 🙌🏽

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I love that Rick is back to believing in Richonne. 🥰 Also I always laugh when I think back to when I first watched this because I remember just being like 'Aw he’s quoting her from the proposal dream ☺️' and then I gasped and was like 'oh that is a clear sign that he’s going to give her a ring in TOWL 🫢.' Like Rick quoting Dream Michonne in this car made me know for sure a wedding ring was coming cuz he's thinking about that particular '5 Pizzas & a Wedding Ring' dream. 👌🏽

I love seeing playful Rick again and Michonne brings that out of him so often and so naturally. And Michonne’s reaction is great when she looks at him like 'I agree but also...what??' I love that she affirms it tho saying, “Yes we can. That sounds like something I’d say.”

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And then Rick all contently says, “It is.” Y'all, i'm crying. 🥹 What a touching, lighthearted, and meaningful way to close out this episode's dialogue. 👏🏽

I love that Michonne knows she’d say that phrase and that Rick knows it full well too. He’s like baby, my dreams of you are extremely accurate, trust me. And the way he studies that woman of course they are. 😊

It’s just so special that those dreams at one point were all Rick really had of her and now here he gets to refer to them with the woman herself after she’s loved him back to life.

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As they get the car going there’s a little jump scare when a walker hits Rick’s window, and seeing them both jump and then be like okay let’s go - if they got any cuter my heart would not be able to take it lol. And the fact that Andy improvised that jumpscare reaction. Love it.

Rick and Michonne were just so back. Like they’re back to being the Richonne that’s playful, and flirty, and fully connected. A clear weight has been lifted off them and they're so in tune with each other again and it fills my heart with joy. 🥰

They drive and then it feels very poetic to see the building finally fall. I love the way Danai described the building as a cocoon that would determine if Richonne really can come out butterflies. And they soared out beautifully. 😭🦋

It also feels very symbolic of the way the walls Richonne had up around their hearts at the start of the episode have also officially fallen as they're back to being one in every way.

So having served its purpose of helping Richonne reconnect and bloom, the building could now come down. It’s almost like all the hard things they expressed and went through get to tumble down with the building as they head into a brighter horizon.

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Having made it out just in time, Michonne watches the building fall from the rearview mirror and just smiles knowing she and Rick are finally back on track and on their way home like she's long been wanting.

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Then as Michonne smiles she has this loving look over to Rick and of course he’s already looking her way. 🥰 I love how his look over at her was such a loud and clear 'I love you.'

You just know that as he looks at her he knows he’s gonna be getting down on one knee with a ring the second he has a chance.

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And then the way he looks down with a smile. 😭 At this moment I really think ‘I’m so in love with her’ is the direct quote from his mind. That and “How’d I get so lucky finding you again.” 

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And Michonne can feel the love as she has her own 'I love you' smile at Rick and looks forward. That's the smile of a woman who knows good things can happen when you and your husband take a plunge out of a helicopter. 👌🏽

That’s also the smile of a writer who just knocked it all the way out of the park writing this brilliant episode. 🔥👏🏽

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And a surefire way to make me happy is to see Richonne happy, so I absolutely adore that this stunning episode ends with Richonne’s smiles. They’re together. They’re happy. They’re in love. All is well. 😌

As they drive off, I adore the Asibe Happy song they use. I love that it feels like a homage to Danai to have it be music from the motherland. And just the lyrics are so fitting saying We're happy/We're in love/They tried to come between us but they failed. The vibe is so different from TWD in a really cool way and it’s just a great choice. 👌🏽

It’s funny tho because my extra self had this song stuck in my head for a few days after the episode aired and despite it having a positive vibe I could not stop getting choked up when hearing it. 🥲 Like now for me the song represents Richonne overcoming and driving off into the sunset and it’s so beautiful and feels so much like a happily ever after ending that the music was constantly making me want to shed tears. 

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But while it could have easily felt like this was the end of the story and Richonne was driving off into the sunset for good as this masterful episode faded to black…we still weren’t done yet. 😌

TOWL still had two more episodes of Richonne gold to give us with some very wonderful developments in their relationship. 👌🏽

But before we head into the final two episodes of TOWL, let me just conclude the 'What We' posts by saying Wow. This is how you do a moving, meaningful, and masterful episode of television.

What Danai so thoughtfully created with this episode exceeded expectations and truly shined the brightest light on why Richonne is so very special. Why it’s my Roman Empire. Why it’s my favorite depiction of love of all time. 😍

Never have I written so much about one TV episode, but I knew I’d have to go all out for Episode 4 because it’s what this important experience deserves. Every emotion, every scene, every choice, was pure excellence. 👏🏽

Andy and Danai have some of their greatest performances ever and I love that this episode was so packed with riveting dialogue and so focused solely on the two fascinating characters of Rick and Michonne and their extremely compelling relationship. It really gave Andy and Danai the space to again solidify why they're the best in the business and why Richonne is the greatest TV couple of all. 👑

I’m so grateful to them for giving their all as the people who bring Richonne to life and to Danai for writing something so inspiring and exceptional. 🔥

I’ll thank her 1000 times for lovingly and diligently crafting a Richonne episode that is food for the soul and delves into love, pain, trauma, and triumph with such honesty, creativity, and care.

This franchise and fandom are so fortunate to have such an astronomically gifted actress and writer share her gifts this way. 💯

Episode 4 was immensely heartfelt, hot, humurous, healing and profoundly human. It'll stick with me forever. It's embedded in my heart and I wouldn’t have it any other way.🥹

It's not every day you get to see your favorite thing reach its peak of perfection but that's what this episode was for me - capturing the mesmerizing depth and beauty of Richonne at its absolute best. So I'll cherish this shining treasure of an episode always.👌🏽😌

[harlequinoccult]

I promise I'm gonna stop.

But no seriously WTF tho. How is this page not blowing up Slaughter Squad lives rent free in my head!

And I'm ashamed I'm only following your tumblr now.

(Which in itself means you are gonna get bugged by me alot from now on.. sorry not sorry.)

I am absolutely obsessed with your IF. Your writing is wonderful and I love that you did a valentines special for us. THANK YOU! you didn't even need to. But the fact you did was so sweet. I reallllllly realllllllly love this IF so much.

Ps as a MC that's is very much alil infatuated with the Host aswell i don't think it's too much even for MCs who don't like them like that. But give me a slightly Yandere RO and you've bought my love for life. 😭♥️

Thank you! 🤗 Not everyone is a fan of horror, or romance, or romantic horror, but most of the anons i've had have been sweet, and its nice to see people that are passionate readers.

There's a lot i wanna do with this story and my fucked up little slashers 💖

[allineedisonedream]

Hey i just wanted to say i adore ur tangled au ♥️ its just so sweet😭

Ive noticed ur going chronologically but i was kinda hoping u’d touch on a bit of the backstory on how dick got sick and Bruce’s reaction and also how bruce even got dick?

No pressure tho if you don’t feel like answering

Aww, thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear that. 💖

aaaand some of your questions may actually be answered in a later chapter, very briefly. Mostly concentrated in other chapters, though, so nothing too detailed.

[literatureloverx]

Hearing people's family dynamics through MBTI is always fun. And your brother... sounds like a scoundrel. But I was always like that to my younger brother more than he was to me (a prick) so I can only say he's having a great time tormenting you, stay strong 🫡 (although my brother and i are more harmonious in our typings, me an INFP and him an ISFP. But i was still a nuisance... sometimes. It was playful tho & we were both fine with it)

Bonus question, because I like asking them and you're cool: What are your favorite movies? Any genre you're drawn to? Settings? Moods? Themes?

-🎪

Oh, he definitely is, 🎪-anon!♥️ Honestly, I can’t quite understand what’s so entertaining about pestering your sibling—maybe you could enlighten me?😭♥️

You’re so sweet for thinking I’m cool; you’re a very cool person yourself! (I saw your request about Fyodor identifying with the color white, and I’ll hopefully get to it tomorrow!)♥️

What are my favorite movies? To be honest, there are many. I really love all Ghibli films, with The Wind Rises and Howl’s Moving Castle being my favorites.

I also enjoy historical movies adapted from books (like any Jane Austen adaptation) or plays (especially Shakespeare adaptations), as well as films that represent the Naturalism and Realism eras.

I’m really drawn to aesthetically pleasing movies—I’m quite the sucker for beauty.

Old Hollywood movies are fun to watch too (no specific favorites here), along with old Disney movies—I really LOVE the aesthetic of Sleeping Beauty, it’s dark yet romantic. I’m also drawn to movies like Labyrinth by Jim Henson, where I can make my own interpretations, and the Star Wars universe, where I love analyzing the politics and human psyche (especially Anakin’s).

As for genre, I find that sadly, not many films satisfy my interest in philosophical depth.

I enjoy movies that explore the human psyche and its struggles, though films often miss the mark on this. Historical, romance (the tasteful kind without an overload of unnecessary nude scenes), and mystery are genres I enjoy. Horror, however, isn’t for me.

Have a delightful day/night, 🎪-anon!♥️

[cerosin]

Hi! Cero, its almost been a month of 2024 now. u hanging in there? how are you doing?

hope you have a even more great year!♥️🥰

Hi!! Oh this is so sweet, thank you so much. I'm super sorry for the late reply. I've been doing fine! I got offered a very secure job (well, status, that is - basically I can't be fired, no matter where I work lol). although it's not in a field I'm passionate about it's preferable for me to have this "safety net" in this day and age 😩

I like my new living place and the area around me, although living somewhere so remote has its downsides. The views alone are worth it tho.

Got a few things in the back of my mind but I'm appreciating the slow pace of my life, genuinely. Overall I've been doing great. I'm wishing all the same for you, thanks again for your message. I really appreciate the thought! ♥

[breadnabreadd]

I'm curious why Sam would accept such a dangerous role.

I assume there are other characters from the books, what are her interactions and relationships with then like if she meets then frequently? Does she spend more time in the human world or Wonderland?

✦ Howdy! So...

Sam accept this role not because she wanted to but she needed to. If she wanted to live peacefully and be freed from these Jabberwocky Creatures and keep the realms safe and balanced, she needed to accept that role. In the beginning she didnt agree on this, since she isnt ready for such responsibility and thinks she is not the best person for it (and she also thinks everyone on the Wonderland are completely bonkers, which she isnt so wrong about it). but slowly she started getting used by it and accept it, and kinda started to enjoying her magical and mad adventures between the two worlds a little bit. And of course she doesnt enjoy when she almost dies in a big fight between a jabberwocky creature--

✦ AND HOHOHO!! LETS TALK ABOUT THE OTHER CHARACTERS A LIL BIT!!!

In fact the "Into the Borderland" world got the characters from the books! And got other characters I've created because... oh, well, why not? :3c

Mostly of Sam interactions with the Wonderlandians are almost similar with the Alice interactions with the Wonderlandians in the original book. Almost. I cant explain it without showing some examples, so how about I say how it is like Sam's relationships with two Wonderlandians and their personalities?

Let's start with the first Wonderlandian she meet with, and surprisingly it wasnt the white rabbit. It was the Jack of Hearts!

♥️🃏 Jack of Hearts are a member of the royalty of hearts in the kingdom of hearts, call him Jack or just Hearts. He is kinda the adopted son of the Red Queen of Hearts (The Queen of Hearts got three children if we count with Jack).

Jack was the person who saved Sam from a Jabberwocky Creature attack after she crossed into the borderland (eyy) between the two worlds accidentally, so she didnt even had any idea of what was going on and who was him. He knew that Sam wasn't no ordinary human so he convinced her to go to the wonderland with him so she could figure out what was going on. He teached her how to survive around wonderland and understand it's rules, and yadda yadda. He is always helping her to fight and make plans against the creatures in a way to defeat them.

Jack's age is around Sam's age. They dont got much age difference, its probably about a year or 2. He is very proud of himself, full of self confidence but he is a gentleman and a really sweet dude with a good heart. He is kinda of the theatrical kid, always looking for the dramatic. Sam find him a little annoying and a few times reckless, but she doesnt mind much tho. They two are good friends.

A funny thing about him is that sometimes when he tries to look cool and then fails successfully, he tries to hide it by faking it all was a part of his plan and have a winning smirk on his face. He also got feelings towards Sam and acts a little romantic towards her but she doesnt even notice him.

Sam: "Oh my god! Did it hurt when you fell???"

Jack: "When I fell over my knees for you?"

Sam: ... *inhale.*

Sam: "... HEARTS YOU LITERALLY JUST FELL DOWNSTAIRS—"

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And now... let's go to the most mysterious and smiling Wonderlandian, the Cheshire cat.

💜☁️ The Cheshire Cat is a normal looking cat, well, if you assume a pink cat with a big wide smile as a normal cat characteristics then, yes! He is a normal looking cat.

Remember that in wonderland you dont find Cheshire, he is the one who finds you.

When someone is lost in the Wonderland, the Cheshire cat appears and tries to "help" the lost person to find their path (Well he actually makes the person confused and in the end the own person finds their own way, so... I guess he helps a little bit???). And one time when Sam lost herself from Jack and doesnt know how to leave the woods, the cat showed up to her. They two had a interaction very similar to the books and the classic disney animation version of it. Sam doesn't seem to understand what is up with that weird cat but she tries to not to think too much about it, after that everytime Sam is feeling lonely or is "lost" (In both meanings, like losing herself from her path or not knowing what to do) Cheshire shows up to her and helps her in his own kinda way. He also randomly shows up just for funsies because he can.

Cheshire: "He went that way."

Sam: "...Who?"

Cheshire: "The white rabbit."

Sam: "Really?? Where did he go?"

Cheshire: "He who?"

Sam: "The white rabbit."

Cheshire: "What rabbit?"

We dont know much about his magical abilities or his real power, we only know he can change his form, teleport around and be invisible.

And that's all for a few relationships she got with the Wonderlandians, in the future I can tell about her relationship with others.

✦ And for the last and not least... I would say she stays in the two worlds like the same much? I guess so. :'3c

[literallycryingggg]

Its a good photo and you look really nice.

You look very cute!

However I don’t see the bad bitch in it 😅

I see a very sweet bitch tho ♥️

this feels like an insult lmaoo

[yichimi]

Hai! May I request. The Twst Dormleaders reacting to shy!reader getting pissed at someone and clapping back? Soft aura does a 360° flip (bonus if the switch is jarring af) (no angst, just chaos)

Ex. Student (Ace probably): "that sounds like a you problem" Reader: "It'll be a YOU problem in a minute" *glaring back*

Thank-you in advance.!

✨ Thank you for your request and patience✨

Dorm leaders reacting to shy S/O getting pissed

RIDDLE ROSEHEARTS:

Ohhhh how he loves your calm and sweet shy nature

Its just very good for him yk you calm him down, help him relax. Its just great for his own good and he's greatful for that

But NEVER would've he thought one bit of you getting angry

When Ace again, to no one's surprised, did something Riddle was about to explode again

But before he could you already did-

"Im sorry! Please don't hate me!" ace pleaded almost getting onto his knees for you. "I don't hate you, but rn if you'd be in fire I'd care shit!"

Yep-ace almost broke your phone don't ask me why but luckily Grimm catched it before it touched the stone ground-

Riddle is just as surprised as ever and is just speechless ngl-

Does he think it's actually hot? Mhm you better do!

But when he's angry you take care of him, and he does the same for you

Nice catch there Y/N!✨♥️

LEONA KINGDSCHOLAR:

Hes easy to piss off and so it's even better you're always calm him down when needed

Youre shy, and he likes it, you make no trouble, you aren't loud, it's great!

But here and there Ace starts to get in trouble and sometimes pulls you in there too without you wanting it

And now he really crossed the Line-while you both are walking in the halls, Vil right in front of you with his new shoes, Ace accidentally dropped his soda-and boom, Vils shoes are ruined-

Out of panic he said it was you-of course vil was angry to no tomorrow and while he lectured you Ace made a run for it leaving you by yourself

And the next day you saw him (Leona was with you) you lost your shit

"What the fuck was that yesterday?! Running away like a coward, and then blaming the shit on me?" "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry MC!" "Awww you're sorry? it still won't fix it!"

Ace was surprised, AND HELL WAS LEONA

Smirking? YES AND ITS SEXY

Did he just feel for you more than he already was? Bet ya ass on that! Damn he's proud!

AZUL ASHENGROTTO:

Chill couple of NRC

You both are calm, keep yourself out of trouble. Well-Azul has people to deal with his trouble honestly if something ever happens-

And Ace again happened to do something, idk in nit creative let's say he borrowed your only phone charger and broke it

Borrowed without....your knowledge-

And when Ace told you about this Azul was with you. Still didn't stop you tho when you were yelling at him

"Im sorry MC, but shit happens" "also said your mom"

Azul: *speechless* ⊙.☉

Ace...well he's shocked-

But back to our baby Azul! He was actually worried for you you can't protect yourself to well, but now all his doubts are gone

Gurl, you are ✨ Fabulous✨

KALIM AL-ASIM

he took you out of your little shell a lot

The fact that you're shy never changed his feelings for you yk

But he also never wanted you to change either

He just found it very cute-even tho he's cute himself-

And when Ace once (poor ace btw he gets blamed in this one way to often-) asked for you to give him your homework you did it

Its not a big deal he's just gonna copy it

No-

He brought it back dirty and ripped...and scribbled on it. All in all, what was on that paper is now unreadable

And you're mad, course this fucking whole page you wrote there took a lot of research and work. Hours you could've spend with your bf or friends

Of course you kinda like....lost your mind there because it really is something that would made most angry-

"Seriously?!" "....uh....yes-" "Are you to stupid to treat a piece of paper right?!" "....yes"

And before something more could happen Kalim jumped in and tried to calm you down

He never saw you like this and actually fared you angry like Ace does. He just hopes he won't ever experience you mad at him-

But how could you be mad at this adorable boy!

VIL SCHÖNHEIT:

Tbh he kinda has a temper himself-

As a German i can say, we do get mad pretty easily so....yeah XD

You were always there to calm him down when Epel just makes him lose his mind

Or when other Pomefiore students decided to walk out of their dorms with not perfectly did hair

Hes very greatful to have you by his side, and he puts his greatfulness into taking care of you

That your shy never bothered him, it just makes you shine afterwards more!

But what he would've never expected is you getting mad on poor ace so much

Even he was scared for his life a bit-

So, long story short, for

a ✨ Emergency✨ you needed to cancel your date with Vil...the date you waited so long for

What was the emergency? Riddle forbid him from eating or stealing out of the kitchen because he stole food again

So yiu had to bring ace something to eat....

Now you were standing in Ace's dorm, cake smeared over him (you threw it right in his face) and he looks like a poor kicked puppy

Vil with you cause, Drama✨💅🏻🐔

"Your stupidity starts to effect my life!" "You look cute when you're mad" "I'm about to get fucking adorable for you then!"

Vil? Just shocked don't mind him💅🏻

Is actually right on his way to prepare a spa for you...you need it after it-

IDIA SHROUD:

gosh I'm so bad writing him-

You both can be shy...i mean it's cute

And its not that he would mind either yk XD

Youre just so adorable he can't help but simp hard

You don't wanna know how hard he started to simp after you showed him your temper-

So Ace, yes-did something...what a not so pleasant surprise

Idk let's say he broke your phone....yes that is a very good reason to be mad

How did it happen? Its ace what do you think, it happens faster than you can blink

So with ace, pulled on his ear you ran to Idia and (you would never dare to shout at your sweet bf) asked if he could fix it

While he was just ⊙.☉ yes maam- Ace and you had some business to be done

"Did it had to be my phone?! Next time i break yours and your legs if you do that again!!!"

Ace could just nod-he wasnt used to it like Idia who still kept the ⊙.☉ look on his face while concentrating on reparing your phone

Ace lefty, phone fixed by this genius, you slowly calmed down and dropped into Idias bed

"...you good?" "Come cuddle"

And he did, gladly

Still...he hopes you won't get mad at him-he doesn't wants to know what happens when you find out he hacked your phone to kinda like stalk you-

MALLEUS DRACONIA:

Ohhh he never got mad, you never got mad. It was just perfect

And if really something happened he was there to calm you down, and of course the other way around too

And in general, nothing really happened and it's good like that

You both are always calm....and then a wild ace showed up and decided to ruin your day by asking for your food cause he didn't had anything, and then took your whole bento box-and ran away

You were in pure disbelief-

So you got to Malleus cause you were... starving yk

And he was like....*le gasp* no he didn't (☉｡☉)!

And you slowly started to get angrier and angrier by every second

And in the next second you knew you were standing by Ace's tabel, Malleus with you and you, and you yelled at him

"If you were hungry you could've used your damn brain AND BRING FOOD WITH YOU" "I know-" "Then why didn't you?! Where you to stupid to make your own food?!"

It wasn't really a argument just you yelling and him saying 'i know' 'yes' 'youre right' all the time cause he didn't know what to say

Like Malleus-

"my dear...are you alright?" He asked kinda careful-he didn't wanted to get yelled at too

But you wouldn't and deep down he knows it and takes the opportunity and calms you down the best he can

But tbh-youre hot

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[stormblessed95]

Hi storm...♥️

I jst love ur blogs nd the way u explain things...i jst love it...♥️

Today i want to talk to u about a moment which happened nd I nvr seen anyone talk abt it THAT much....nd for me...it's a very cute, beautiful nd also little telling moment (for me)....tht they r more thn friends or Bros.....when BTS covered d song "fix you" ....at d end of d song jungkook faced jimin nd waited fr him to look back in his eyes....this moment is beautiful fr me bcz ....

1- this song is so emotional nd touching....

2- jimin nd jungkook sit beside each other bt d thing is jimin was d sitting at d first corner nd all d other members was sitting beside jk....like( jimin,jk,suga,tae,jhope,Jin nd last RM..) BUT the first thing tht comes to jk's mind at d end of d most loving nd emotional song....was look at jimin nd waited fr him to look back at him in his eyes....I mean may b it's nt a big moment....but for me...IT IS ....bcz all d members wre jk's left side in d line....he can look at any of thm if he jst want to look nd his stare was nt related to the song....bt still he looked only at jimin....there is no one beside jimin...

3- So basically,if they r jst friends ...thn y nt he's looking at all of thm...they were 5 more people in his left side bt he chose to look at his right side where only one Person was sitting???? plus at d end of d most emotional song???? I dnt knw may b m mad for jikook...thts y even this little moment is telling fr me....

I jst dont knw how can I explain this moment...bcz I dnt hve any exact words to explain tht how this little moment is important fr me....hope u can share ur thoughts abt this moment pls....(nd sorry fr my bad English tho,it's nt my first language..)

Love u storm...love ur blogs....💜💜💜💜

It was a very sweet little moment

But I mean, we know exactly why they do it though too. Jungkook literally told us

They connect. They feel that connection very deeply together. They click. They seek out that connection. That safety. That Euphoric feeling of killing a performance and they want to share that feeling together. Its... very special 🥰 It's a moment where they feel like their hearts are connected.

[taylors-fourth-cat-meow]

Okayy here is the snippet i was talking about. Well ig it's a lil longer than a snippet but not long enough to be in two parts? I am srry I suck at this? Lol.

Before you go in a couple of things. This fic isn't for you if you hate Tamlin so please go away. I will not tolerate any Tam slander. This isn't a Tamlin "redemption" au it's a healing one. It takes place around 5 years after the first calamnai in Acotar. (Donno how much time it is since Acosf will have to see). Tamlin is very close to the Summer court.

PS: This is just an experiment to see how ppl react to my writing. Like depends if I will continue this (I really want to tho). This is first time I have ever put anything I have written out in the world. So pls be kind ♥️

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Part 1: A Very Wintery Winter Solstice

The thunder cackled sinisterly in the weeping sky of the longest night of the year. Yet that didn't stop the people of the Winter Court to dance and revel in the freezing temperatures. Women with their lavish silk gowns soaking wet, twirled in practiced circles. While the men drank their weight in the corners, admiring their significant others from afar. 

The castle looming behind shone as bright as a fallen star on earth. Down below in the courtyard, the music and laughter roared as loud as the thunder high above. The entire arena painted in every hue of blue and white one's eye could comprehend. The glow of the faerie lights bouncing off the ice like iridescent glass, illuminating the area in an incandescent light. 

 The royal family of the Winter Court were seated on a little balcony overlooking the gigantic compound. As regal and elegant and happy as ever. To a balcony on their right sat the Autumn's heir. Two beautiful maidens half-dressed even in the frigid, tending to him as he nursed an absurdly large glass of liquor. To the left of the High Lord and Lady of the Winter Court was an empty balcony, where the High Lord of Summer and the Princess of Adriata were to be seated. But it seemed the cold was too much for the children of Summer.

And beside them sat the High Lord of Spring, his head laid back, eyes closed and basking in the cold of the night. He had found that he had started to quite like the Winter Court. The hard cold of its weather. He felt a sort of familiarity in it. It's how he felt on the inside. Always. Gone was the sweet, unpredictable wildness of Spring. She had taken it from him. Taken away what made him the Lord of Spring. He mourned it. Not her. Not anymore. But he did mourn himself. Who he was and what he lost. 

The High Lord opened his eyes and looked into the night sky above. The silver moon looked back at him. He had always found it quite interesting as a boy. Always wondered where it had come from, or who had placed it there. What spell they had bound it to, that it only showed in the dark. That is until his mother had told him that it was The Mother's Land. Where souls went to spend unending eternity after their time on this earth was over. Although he had matured enough since then to realise that wasn't true in the least, he still chased that innocence. That time when his mother's word had been the law, and hence he had spent countless hours talking to the moon after her death. Hoping she'd hear him. But not now. Not when the night sky only reminded him of her. Of what she had returned to after she had left destruction to him and his in her wake. To where she lay at night, warm and comfortable and happy after she'd left his people battered and homeless. So now looking at the moon, only brought back memories Tamlin wished to bury deep, deep within. So he mourned it too. 

It's her birthday

It didn't matter. 

"Ta-amlin" a voice called out from behind. 

Tamlin sighed heavily at Tarquin's quivering voice and excused himself back past the curtains into the guest room he had been staying in. 

A gush of warmth caressed his skin as he stepped onto the warm lush woolen carpet in the living room of the gigantic suite. A roaring fireplace sat on the far end of the room, with two armchairs and cushions laid down. A table of dark wood was situated in the centre of the sitting area laid out with liquor, those absurdly large classes and cups of the Winter Court and some tea. To his left lay the bedroom which was accentend in dark sombre colours and he had been grateful for it. He hated brightly coloured walls, definitely unlike his ancestors and their architects who seemed intent on giving him a seizure one day. It had been one of the first things he had done when he became High Lord. Repainted his living quarters. Well, he would be wrong to say that was the only reason, they were covered in his parents blood after all.  

Viviane, it seemed, had taken great care of his lodging arrangements. No brightly coloured walls, no silly vases, no paintings of half naked people doing shit and flying around and a small dish of cashews on his bedside table. 

She had been his friend. Before everything. A very good friend at that. He still remembered the first time he had seen her. A young adolescent who blushed as red as apples almost all the time. He had met her and her family at the Autumn Equinox ball. His first as a High Lord. Though Autumn had stopped hosting soon after their youngest Prince was born. Lucien. He did visit sometimes. But it wasn't the same. Tamlin didn't think it would be. And he wasn't sure he wanted it to be. Not when he could never be sure if Lucien's loyalty secretly lay with his mate's family. 

"Hey!" Tarquin snapping his fingers in front of him brought him back from his thoughts. 

When green eyes fell on the boy in front of him Tamlin pressed his lips together to bite back a laugh. The High Lord of Summer was ridiculously wrapped in layers and layers of woolen blankets and fleece lined shawls, only his opal eyes visible. 

"Are you cold?" Tamlin asked, his eyes twinkling in mischief.

"You think?" Tarquin sneered

Tamlin let out a laugh and guided the High Lord to the fire. It didn't surprise him anymore. Laughing. Smiling. Finding little moments of happiness. He kept those close to his heart. Protected them with all he could because he knew they were fleeting. He made sure they were. He didn't dare be too happy. Because if his 507 years on his earth had ever taught him anything, it was that the Mother wouldn't stand seeing him too happy. She'd take it away. Probably some kind of balance. He didn't know. He didn't care anymore honestly. He cared about very few things these days. One of them sitting beside him on the armchair, his teeth clattering audibly.

"Tarquin, if you are so cold, we can go home." He sighed. 

"N-no."

Stubborn boy.

"Fine." Tamlin huffed. "Let Crueseda go home at least."

"S-she did".

Tamlin held back a groan. "Then why aren't you?"

"Are you serious Tamlin? This is my first Seasonal Gathering as High Lord. I have to stay through it."

The Seasonal Gatherings. Gatherings of the royal families of the Seasonal Courts: Autumn, Winter, Summer and Spring. Each court hosted one every year. On the Autumn Equinox, the Winter Solstice, the Summer Solstice and the Spring Equinox, which was known as Calamnai, respectively. A tradition started almost a millenia ago during the Prythian Civil War between the then known as Northern Prythian (Solar Courts) and Southern Prythian (Seasonal Courts). There was something about partying during wartime. It was a show of power and indifference. And a way fashioned by the High Lords to show where their loyalties lay. His brother, Felix had told him it was a "fuck you" to the enemy. Tamlin had found it utter foolery. This was the first gathering since Amarantha banned them fifty years ago. 

"Alright. But at least let me ask Eris to warm your room up a little more"

"No! I don't want you to ask anything of that smug twat. I don't want him knowing I am suffering"

But Tamlin wasn't listening anymore. He was watching the roaring fire. As the twigs snapped and burned. That sound. The sound of a neck breaking. Feyre's neck. Even though he had taught himself to forget almost everything about her, except what she had done to his people, that damned sound never left him. The blood gushing out of his chest, as he clutched the throbbing wound where she had daggered him. That madness and anger and pure lunacy he had seen in Amarantha's eyes haunted- 

"Maybe we should go home." Tarquin said softly. As though knowing what was going through Tamlin's head. 

Tamlin nodded. He hated it when things like this happened. When he got lost in his memories. Especially around Tarquin and Crueseda. They'd always insist that he should do something about it. Get help. It was a never-ending argument. But, if it made the stubborn silver-haired boy leave before his teeth either fell off or froze, Tamlin didn't hate it all too much. 

And perhaps it's nice being reminded someone cares.

Tarquin stood on his feet clutching the blankets tighter. "I think I will stay at the Willow House tonight. Changing from extreme cold to hot might make me ill. Spring would be a nice reprieve." 

Lies. It takes more than temperature change to make a High Lord ill.

"That would be lovely" Tamlin spoke, willing that aloofness into his voice, his eyes downcast. The perfect imagery of someone broken and tired, who desperately needed to get home. Tamlin didn't particularly like using his predicament to his advantage but the children of Summer could be very very stubborn. "I'll go say goodbye to Viviane and Kalias. You head home."

"If you insist" Tarquin said before winnowing away as fast as he could and Tamlin fought the urge to roll his eyes. 

Tamlin walked out into the corridor but not before silencing the wretched fire with a wave of his hand. 

[wonwoosthetic]

Fashion design is literally so time consuming but like right now im taking courses actually not full on studying because im trying to get a lot of stuff down and like im from bulgaria but ive been studying italian since i was in third grade so im gonna be studying in milan(not giving away where oops im paranoid even tho its highly unlikely for anyone to find me but still)

SECOND that pedo is so fucking creepy like before i take my dog out for a walk i have to peek out the door to make sure hes not waiting for the elevator so i make sure that im not getting on it with him like hes just creepy and always reeks of vodka or rakia

AND ILY Literally youre the best person ive found on this goddamn app together with berryshortcake and multi-kpop-fanfics i love yall three youre literal sunshines

Oooooh, you’ve got quite something big planned, fingers crossed everything turns out well👏🏼🤝🏼 but I’m sure it will, you sound like a very dedicated and hard-working person, good things will come♥️♥️♥️ (if you want me to delete this ask bc of the mention of Milan just let me know🤗)

EW, wtf😖 I… I have no words for people like that istg. They just make me want to punch them so hard fr. We (at my grandparents place in Poland) have a family, where everyone knows the dad has sexually abused his daughter AND EVEN HAS A KID WITH HER, and no one does anything… they literally even go to church… I’m disgusted

THEY‘RE LITERALLY SUCH CUTIES AND SO SWEET🤍🤍🤍 I’m very happy to be one of those people that make you happy my dear♥️

[retelling-of-ragnarok]

I don't know if this has to be said anonymously but idc I'm bold enough to say things without hiding 😤

I don't remember exactly how I found your blog, but I do remember that you appeared in my dash (interacting with someone or even recommended) and the first thing I noticed was the first sprites of Gwen like HOLY MOLLY?! There weren't many people who dared to draw their own sprites yet and seeing your fantastic art fuckin' blew me away 🤧💞

Then I started noticing how WELL you write, damn it, if that wasn't poetry then I don't know what it is. Bitch, you were partly one of the people who influenced my own style of writing and that's why it's so changed to my beginning 😩😩 But I didn't decide to change it until much later tho

And last but not least. THE LORE MAN. THE GOD TIER LORE.

There was so much information and you created your own world within the Diabolik Lovers universe, but you even managed TO CONNECT IT AND MAKE SENSE. Although some things have changed, your world is still a real wonder, and I am here to keep appreciating how you develop and progress everything 🙄🤚

Besides that you gave me very good vibes, and I sensed that you were a person with high energy 💅🛐

❆ okay first of all before i even say ANYTHING— YOU WROTE ME SO MUCH?!? you didn’t have to write this much but i’m vv grateful that you did 😭🤲♥️. OKAY NOW TO ACTUALLY TALKING ABT WHAT YOU SENT—

i always would love to draw my own sprites, even if it did take me fucking ages 😭 bc Gwen’s design is so specific, that it isn’t really anything i could capture well enough with a picrew or use an existing character face claim. plus i liked the idea of having a consistent style between my character(s) and the scenes i’d draw them in. (even though my style changes like a million times a month).

AND TYSM— AND THE COMPLIMENTS BOTH FOR MY WRITING AND MY LORE. i’m glad that it made sense to read, and that the changes i’ve made haven’t thrown others off :’). i’m always looking to improve my writing though— but i’m glad you enjoy the way that i write. >< IM ALWAYS SELF CONSCIOUS W IT BC ITS LIKE “hhhhhh is this well written enough.”

AND ITS SORTA THE SAME WITH THE LORE IDEAS I PUT OUT. IM ALWAYS LIKE “hhhhhh what if this is DUMB.”

but i’m super glad you found my blog, and im glad to be a mutual of yours. :’). and thank you, sosososoo much for this ask T-T it was so sweet and def made me more confident abt the things i post. ❆

[laurentspup]

Hey um….imma need you to pls continue that fic concept you had about Damen being a single father and that baby thinking Laurent is Jokaste and they spend the day at the theme park and then Damen asks him out on a date at the end of the day—-ITS SO GOOD

I beg ye 😭🙏🏼🍑♥️

oohh anon i am planning to write that fic in the future!! hopefully during thanksgiving break because i have a week off my school and job T-T so i wanna take a crack at thus fic bcs it’s running in my mind right now calling me mama like the toddler with laurent hehe c:

here’s a few more bullet points about it tho!!!

- the toddler ((i’m thinking right now might change still)) is a baby girl and i might have used “he” in the original post bcs i change my mind all the time and i just decided that i want the idea of damen tying his daughter’s hair in pigtails or braids, wearing princess dresses with her, and having tea parties with her so yeah she’s a girl for now. he would still definitely do this with his son if his son wanted but imagine damen as a girl dad!!

- also please imagine laurent and damen and the baby waiting in the princess line because this theme park has princess lines and honestly it’s disneyland. they’re at disneyland

- damen and laurent and the toddler with MATCHING MICKEY EARS T-T

- laurent is the sweetest, kindest, greatest man in this fic. no past abuse nothing!! he was loved and pampered by hennike and auguste and aleron like he deserved. and he got to grow up sweet and bookish and still witty and bitchy c:

- with that said, he definitely judged damen tho for being negligent with his child, but when he saw the untied shoelaces and this dad with two bags running after his child all worried, he couldn’t help but think oh no he’s not negligent he’s just a stressed single dad 

- one of the replies said bcs damen has untied shoelaces, he faceplants in front of laurent AND I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH THAT HE SHOULD FALL FOR LAURENT LITERALLY THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TROPES so thank you for the person who replied with that idea!!!!

- damen brought a stroller but his baby girl hates riding it, so he parked it somewhere and he’s lugging around a backpack and a baby bag. and bcs laurent sees this, he insists to carry the toddler the whole day they’re together because the toddler won’t let him go anyway and refuses to come back to damen haha. still, damen keeps telling laurent if he’s tired just let the baby walk or ride in the stroller or let him carry her but laurent is 100% a-ok with carrying the baby bcs he’s a softie and the baby doesnt wanna let him go even after they explained laurent is not her mom, she still LOVES HIM!!!!

- and not just the baby, even auguste’s three children (plus nicaise he’s alive too!!!) LOVES laurent who’s the cool and fun uncle but they make fun of him for hating the adrenaline inducing rides. but still they enjoy his company and this is a fic where everybody loves laurent i am making it law.

- lil side not about jokast and damen’s relationship: the baby misses jokaste very much but she’s been gone for a month for her work which includes traveling a lot. she and damen are friends still and the reason damen has full custody is bcs jokaste doesn’t want that responsibility yet and loves her job too much and all the opportunities and damen’s like, go live your dreams. my dream is this baby now. so u know?????? T-T

- okay back to the theme park, the whole day damen and laurent and baby ride the chill rides like teacup (half chill, laurent hates it so does the baby but damen is laughing the whole time. baby pukes on damen tho, not laurent. laurent laughs then.)

- then they ride the boat rides with the sceneries like storybook land. and laurent is pointing the cute little houses to the baby girl and telling all sorts of stories and damen is staring at them and taking pictures w/ laurent’s permission and the whole time damen is just thinking “wow i want to marry this man even tho i just met him”

- OF COURSE THERE IS A PARADE AND FIREWORKS!!!!! since damen and laurent and baby have already exhausted all the twelve rides they’re allowed in, they find a good spot and wait there for four hours because that’s how it is in disneyland if you want a good spot gotta reserve it early. that’s when damen and laurent Have A Conversation tho and Fall for each other HARDER !!! all the while laurent is putting the baby to sleep T-T

- damen, even tho it is unsafe and stupid, leaves the baby with laurent to grab them food. and he knows it’s crazy to just leave his baby with this man he’s only met today but like... he’s given laurent all his heart and trust already he knows his baby is safe with him. okay and also bcs theyre in his line of sight when he bought the food bcs you know i still want him to be rational lol

- anyway auguste and family join them later during the parade and gets introduced to damen and he gives laurent the Look because DAMEN IS LAURENT’S TYPE TOO OKAY and laurent is like shut up i am here for the baby but is he really hmm

- so the parade and fireworks start AND WHEN I TELL YOU THE WHOLE TIME DAMEN IS JUST WATCHING LAURENT AND HIS DAUGHTER INSTEAD OF THE SPECTACULAR SHOW BECAUSE FOR DAMEN THEY ARE THE VIEW !!!!!!!!!

- and that whole time the mulan scene is in damen’s mind you know the “do you want to stay for dinner/do you want to stay forever” yeah he’s fallen Bad

- the fireworks end, auguste and fam and laurent actually invite damen for dinner first and they all eat together. and the tired baby girl sleeps in laurent’s arms so it was easy for damen to take her back so they can go home with less tears. and this is when damen gets laurent’s number and asks him to a dinner. again. in the future.

- and laurent agrees. 

- this might be a two part series or three but this is all i have for now aaaahhhh

hope you like this. and i know maybe if i just started the draft now i wouldve been done already but LOL 

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Heyyyy maybe you remember me!!

It’s awesome you selfship with Tom—I used to have a big crush on Edd myself!!! Seeing your posts is very nostalgic :)

BRIAR OF COURSE I DO!!!!!! IM NOT OVER OUR SILLY LITTLE RAMBLES OF LUPI.N AND LAE.TITIA ILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THEM!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

dude. dUde AYOOOO that's so cute to hear AADAHDJARJAII I feel so glad to have people recognize this dumb show like it's so silly with its humor but I'm so glad I got mutuals to talk about it 😭😭 I DEFINITELY SEE THE APPEAL IN EDD THO HES SUPER SWEET!! I'm honestly glad I decided to revisit the show (I keep saying this but it's because it has a special place in my heart huhu!!!!) I can rekindle how much I loved tom 😭😭😭 and to share it with u all!!

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Hello ( ・∇・) I have come to haunt ur inbox

I was wondering if you could tell us a bit about Brazil? I recently finished a course in Latin American history and am very eager to learn more about just what life is like where you live, bc tbh the public Canadian education systems don’t do a very good job of teaching outside of Europe and even uni courses don’t feel quite...personal enough. Do you have three favourite things you like about ur region? Something ur frustrated by? Anything will do I’m just curious (ﾟωﾟ)

Also if u wanna: thoughts on Brazil the character? Do u vibe or nah

Tysm ♥️

Rein, you enable me ;_;

I have many thoughts on Brazil, I wrote a whole essay but it got too big haha so this is the redux version and it's still stupid big.

There are three main pillars in Brazilian culture: Indigenous, European and African.

Before the Portuguese bumped into our shores and brought their chickens with them, Brazil had various indigenous populations, with wildly different cultures. The Portuguese befriended some and helped their favorites win wars against the other tribes so they could still come and go. The Portuguese weren’t like the Spanish in their colonization, they didn’t come and imposed their settlements right away, they were mostly focused on trade, and so pretty much until the beginning of the sugar plantations there was very little European presence around here.

But yeah, after they figured they could grow sugar here instead of buying (*gasp* pay money for a commodity!) from India, they introduced it here and from then on we became Portugal’s nº 1 sugar colony.

(sidenote: sugarcane is one of the most HORRID crops to grow, its leaves are super sharp and it’s a terribly hard process to cut them down and process the canes, which is why enslaved labor was (and still is to this day, 2021!!) employed. And since sugar *IS* more addictive than cocaine, it’s incredibly profitable.)

(sidenote sidenote: the Portuguese had no refining plants in Portugal, they were mostly the middlemen between Brazil – where sugar was grown – and Flanders (Belgium and the Netherlands) – where it was refined into white sugar.)

(sidenote sidenote sidenote: People who usually moan about how we would have been better off under any other colonial power, 1) usually do not understand how colonialism works, and 2) keep comparing us, a sugar colony, to the US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand, all of which were not sugar colonies, instead of comparing us to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and Suriname, all of which were sugar colonies of the other European colonial powers.)

But things changed when Napoleon decided to pull a Roman Emperor move and try to unify Europe under a French banner. The royal family escaped to Brazil, yadda yadda, and we were elevated from sugar colony to seat of government, capital of the empire. While Portugal was being invaded and sacked, we were getting new roads, sweet new landscaping and even universities.

Unlike other Latin American countries we were relatively stable and wealthy after the Napoleonic Wars ended. We annexed Uruguay, which was a major dick move since they had just declared independence from Spain (they kicked us out in 1825 tho), and we were in good terms with Britain. So much so that when Portugal demanded us to give back their royals and go back to being a colony, the cat was already out of the proverbial bag and we declared independence with British approval.

There was a bit of a war, but, by the end of it, Portugal was tired, so they conceded our independence as long as we paid their debt to the British, which we did, interestingly enough. Most Latin American countries ended their independence process with massive debt and terrible credit scores, but we not only did ours mostly bureaucratically, we also had a good credit score and were considered a good investment by European bankers.

So what’s a young nation to do with a lot of money in its pockets to try and impress their European counterparts? We tried to find the mythical national identity.

Most of our literature up to this point was borrowed from Portugal, but from this point forth we innovated and began borrowing from other Europeans, like the French. We wanted to be seen as “European” and “enlightened” so bad, most of our Romantic literature sucked really hard.

You have José de Alencar’s Iracema and O Guarani, both of which had brave and naïve noble savages who fell in love with white settlers and thus created the foundation of the Brazilian people. (I don’t like these books, but they were a sensation at the time and O Guarani was later adapted into an opera by Carlos Gomes – in Italian, obvs, can’t have opera in any other language apparently – and which every Brazilian person knows by heart because the overture plays at the beginning of the government-mandate radio program Brazilian Hour (Hora do Brasil) that still plays every day (most people just turn off their radios when it airs, I have never met a single person who listens to it)).

After exhausting Romantic literature, we jumped into the far more interesting Realistic literature, where Machado de Assis went from being a boring Romantic writer to being the most brilliant writer of our entire pantheon. I’m definitely biased, but if you have to pick a Brazilian lit book to read, I’d recommend Epitaph of a Small Winner and its far less known but equally good sequel Quincas Borba. Machado, himself a black man, really knew how to portray the hypocrisy of the Brazilian elite and how hard we tried to seem cultured and European, while under the surface being very much not that.

Politically, we were more or less stable, Pedro I had to go back to Europe because of Miguel’s coup, and he left his 6-year-old son, Pedro II, on the throne, while we were governed by regents. There were a few local revolts, all suppressed, and the Paraguayan War, which was... a lot.

Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery, which was only ever possible because of the work of black activists and external pressure from the British. Brazil was and still is a country ruled by landowners, so when faced with the prospect of having to *gasp* pay for labor they were all very reluctant. So slavery was abolished, but no compensation was given to the people who, for generations, had worked on the land (how dare they want freedom AND rights?).

From literary Realism we split ways into the bucolic Parnassianism (again copying the French), our national anthem is an example of Parnassian poetry btw, and into our grittier Naturalism phase, and O Cortiço (The Slum) is AN AMAZING book, really really good, 10/10.

After slavery was abolished and Pedro II was so deep in depression he didn’t really give a fuck about ruling anymore, the First Republic was proclaimed. There’s an amazing line in Machado’s Esau and Jacob (I’m quoting from memory here) in which the characters pass by a bakery called Imperial Bakery, and the morning after the proclamation they see the owner changing the name to Republican Bakery, which is SO emblematic of how things work in this country. Politicians push their papers and change things, and we just shrug off and go on living much the same way as before only with a new name slapped on top.

The First Republic was very oligarchy-y. It’s also called the Coffee and Milk Republic because the richest states – São Paulo, a state known for its coffee production, and Minas Gerais, a state known for its milk production – alternated presidents in power. It’s during this time that we bullied Bolivia into giving us Acre, and rubber became one of our major exports.

Brazilian government, again, ruled by landowners, was now faced with two options in face of the growing economy: hire back the people who knew how to work the land and pay them living wages, orrrrrrr import cheap (white) European labor from famine-ravished countries in Europe, and, surprise surprise, they went with the most racist of the two.

European immigrants came mostly from Italian and Germanic regions, but there were also waves of immigrants from Portugal, Hungary and Poland, as well as Japanese, Syrian and Lebanese immigrants.

In 1922, we have a cultural schism. A group of young intellectuals gathered in São Paulo and they took a long hard look at the Brazilian national identity in order to publish the Anthropophagic Manifesto. Anthropophagism, different from good old cannibalism, used to be practiced by some indigenous tribes in Brazil before (and a little during) colonization and it’s a custom in which, after defeating an enemy tribe, the leaders believed that consuming the flesh of their greatest warriors would grant them their strength and they would thus become much more powerful. Culturally, this meant that we should stop trying to emulate Europe, but consume its culture and transform it into our own. This movement begins the radical thinking that our culture was good actually, and we weren’t inferior to Europe. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it decolonized thinking, but it really was a moment when Brazil began looking back at its indigenous roots with pride.

It’s also around this time that anthropologist Gilberto Freyre published The Masters and the Slaves (1933), in which he states that, and please read this with as much sarcasm as you can muster, shockingly, there was no racism in Brazil, because we’re all one big race, the Brazilian race (except some are more equal than others obvs).

Then came WWII and the Cold War, and the US tried (and succeeded) to control Latin America so we wouldn’t fall prey to evil Communism. Most dictatorships here were US-backed, and ours was no different. American products began to flood our market, as well as American films and books and culture. Some of our best artists and writers went into exile abroad, and only came back after the end of the dictatorship, in 1985. Which also happened mostly bureaucratically, with politicians pushing papers and hiding the evidence of their crimes, pardoning everyone forever before leaving Brazil a bankrupt mess.

Our film industry became mostly non-existent, with most professionals having to make ends meet shooting pornography, our literature had taken a heavy beating from the censorship and was barely standing, but our music! Oh, boy, our music soared!

Samba, born from poor black communities, protested against racism, discrimination and poor living conditions. It praised the work of black women, their hardship and their strength. It glorified African ancestry, religion, language and roots. MPB is cool and all, but samba slaps hard. Composers like Cartola, Nelson Sargento and Dorival Caymmi are all emblematic of this.

We, as a society, are still coming to terms with what it means to be Brazilian. Racism is still deeply ingrained in the structures of our society and our native indigenous peoples still have to fight tooth and nail for their right to exist. We have flirted with fascism in the past and are now witnessing this alarming rise of neo-fascism in this country, which, given everything, is so STUPID.

And yet we are moved by a blind hope that things will be better, that Brazil can still be good.

Other really good books that I didn’t mention:

The Patriot/The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, by Lima Barreto

A estrela sobe (Rising star), by Marques Rebelo (not sure if there’s an English translation, he’s one of the least known authors)

The Violent Land, by Jorge Amado

Sergeant Getulio, by João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Every single play by Nelson Rodrigues, but most notably: Boca de Ouro (has a great film adaptation), Toda nudez será castigada (has a good film adaptation as well) and Vestido de Noiva.

Films that everyone should watch:

Black God, White Devil - Glauber Rocha (1964)

Rio, 100 Degrees F - Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1955) (p.s. it’s 40ºC in the original title XD)

São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima - Luis Sérgio Person (1965)

They don’t wear black-tie - by Leon Hirszman (1981)

Twenty Years Later - by Eduardo Coutinho (1984)

Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho (2019)

TL;DR: I love this country with the power of a thousand suns and I still hope to live to see it getting its shit together.

I'm from the south (famous for our cattle production and racism), so three favorite things are: being close to Uruguay (my beloved), local wine is cheap? idk, the food is good. I don't have a whole lot of good things to say about my region, it sucks a lot most of the time.

In terms of Hetalia, I like writing Brazil as being a true political animal down to his core. We joke that there's only one law governing this country, which is Gerson's Law (Gérson was a semi-famous football player who did this cigarette commercial in which he says "why pay more if *this brand of cigarette* gives me everything I need? I like to take advantage in everything."), or, as it is more commonly known, the Brazilian jeitinho. He can be very intense with his personal feelings, but he covers it with a thick layer of emotional armor, always making jokes (memes) at his own expense to hide the fleshiest parts of him. He was still pretty young when he looked at Port, tangled in his union with Spain and riddled with problems, and stopped seeing him as this god-like parent figure and started seeing as just... another person, deeply flawed and human. So he mostly learned how to go around him and sweet-talk his way out of trouble. The only people who can see right through him are Port (when he can get his head out of his ass), Uruguay and Argentina. His rivalry with Argentina goes beyond football (but let's be honest, Argentina has a knack to fostering rivalries pretty much the same way as France does). I don't have a fixed ship for him (I like him single ready to mingle), but I like Brazil/Uruguay and Brazil/Uruguay/Argentina. Brazil/Argentina is also good and I enjoy it a lot.

This is stupid long haha but thank you for asking!! I love talking about my sweet dumpster on fire of a country ;____;