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kishimoto-did-us-dirty · 4 years

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Naruto Arts School AU

Reposting bc I love this post and bc I can lol

Character

- major

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Naruto

-Drums

okie nobody can deny that our main boy over here is a loud soul, however, he can also carry a damn good beat that compliments his band mates’ music really well. Tbh, he sucked at music to begin with and had trouble matching rhythms and listening to his band mates when they played, however he eventually became a really good rhythm maker.

Sasuke

-Guitar (lead)

He’d be assigned to the same band as Naruto, and that’s how they met. This boy is a damn good guitarist y’all, but has attitude problems™, and used to not be able to deal with Naruto’s haphazard beat making, thus perpetuating a rivalry between the two. He constantly feels overshadowed by his elder brother Itachi, a piano major.

Sakura

- Dance

Ya girl fucking demolishes every single dance routine. Initially starting out with a focus on ballet (pre-shippuden in canon), our pink headed queen soon realized that she wasn’t getting the full experience of what it meant to dance. Her point shoes were her loves, however they hurt and nipped in places not just physical. She realized that she didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a genre of which she would be inhibited by standard, and rather to dance so as to forget technical perfection. Thus, what would partner with post-shippuden Sakura in canon, Art School AU Sakura got into hip-hop. And bitch, she goes hard. A lot of the other girls who she used to dance ballet with admire her for her absolutely BODYING her dance routines, but also for never sacrificing her femininity to dance and not taking BS for being a girl who goes so hard in a male-dominated genre. (Some people believe that hip-hop is heavy hitting and a little metaphorically “dark” so to speak, which Sakura is not. So obviously I expect a little disagreement regarding this, however if you look at people like Delaney Glazer or Kaycee Rice, that is how Sakura would dance).

Hinata

- Creative Writing

Shy and bookworm-like, Hinata can write the best poetry, romance and adventure pieces out of all the creative-writing majors. She’s especially good at writing character relationships and development, and has such a subtle sense of intelligent wit in her writing, that if you blinked you would miss it. However should you catch it, you’re sure to chuckle. Her only struggle is that she tends to drag on in important scenes, stretching them against the regular flow of the rest of her writing. Needs validation for her writing through an IV drip.

Kiba

- Drums OR Photography

Drums for obvious reasons (loud and obnoxious), although ruff boi looks good with a camera, too. Great at landscapes and street photography.

Shino

- Creative Writing OR Photography

I could definitely see Shino having fucking beautiful handwriting, and being a beast at writing anything within the sci-fi realm. I could also see him doing some journalism, and writing for the school paper. He’s very good at the logic of his sci-fi books and coming up with logical but enrapturing stories, that intermingle knowledge and mystery. He’s a very specific type of read, however, and may not appeal to all, however if you enjoy anything similar to Star Wars or Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, then Shino is your author. If this doesn’t float your boat, though, try photography-major Shino. He can get the best angles of bugs he sees, and has an extensive portfolio with entomology-related snapshots.

Ino

- Dance

Like Sakura, she, too, began with a focus on ballet, however began to branch out into contemporary ballet a little later than Sakura. This is another reason why Sakura switched her focuses, as she and Ino had always had a fierce rivalry for dieting (ballet dancers are pressured to be as thin as possible) as well as battling for technical perfection when they were ballet focused. As the two grew, Ino focused more so on contemporary, but can certainly do some hip-hop with Sakura every now and then, just as Sakura occasionally takes a contemporary class with her. The two still have a rivalry, however, just not to the previous extent as when they were actively competing against each other. They’re more like sisters.

Shikamaru

- Guitar (bass) OR Creative Writing OR Architecture

Smart boy’s a tricky one. He would either be a bassist, a mystery and historical fiction writer, or, of his school offers it, be great at architecture. Idrk.

Choji

- ermmmmm….. maybe graphic design? Tech theatre (props)? Vocal???

Choji is hARD dwnccnpc (that’s what she said). I could see him behind a computer screen, animating and designing games/covers/posters or whatever. He could also do something in theatre, but I don’t think he would do anything up on stage. Something like props would suit him. He might do something in music, tho???? Can he sing???? Help???

UPDATE: Choji is a band kid. He plays tuba or some shit. Big boy got big lungs.

Tenten

- Dance

Always has been, and always will be a hip-hop dancer. She wanted to be like Tsunade, a legendary dancer and followed in her footsteps, taking up hip-hop. (that’s why Sakura focused on hip-hop, too, because Tsunade mentored her and taught a few of her classes, too). Tenten is fast and can keep up with any beat. Not only is she a great dancer, but she’s also athletic, and does track and field (cross country), football, and softball at another school too, since the arts schools doesn’t offer it. Overall great dancer with styl. She’s really looked up to by some of her underclassmen for her cheery, but badass style and skill.

Lee

- DANCE (hip-hop, too)

It’s sweat. It’s burn. It’s energy. It’s Lee.

Neji

- Violin

First chair violinist in his freshman year for the school’s philharmonic orchestra. He be extra like that.

Gaara

- Guitar (bass)

He had a lonely childhood with neglectful/abusive parents, and rock music really helped him with that. Emo music is emo and often made fun of, but the songs have messages and Gaara related, so self-taught himself the bass guitar to help cope, and bring him closer to the music that salvaged him.

Kankuro

-Art

Specifically sculpting. For obvious reasons.

Temari

- Acting

Girl can make you cry with some of her monologues. Total lead. Has a seriousness in her acting that makes her believable, however can falter on the less-serious roles. She may also double-major in whatever Shikamaru does. And she’s better at it than him.

Itachi

-Piano

Boy could play any etude at age 7. Performed at Carnegie Hall when he was 10. And no, he didn’t pay to play there. The hall invited him. Began composing at 9. Has perfect pitch. Owns international awards. If he’s not at school it’s because he’s traveling to play for crowds. He excels at classical and baroque, however has an ear for romantic, and enjoys playing/composing pieces either written or inspired by romantic pieces. Enjoys Schumann, Debussy, and Tchaikovsky. Hates modern classical music, though. Can only take cinematic pieces composed by people like Williams, however can’t stand Prokofiev at all. He does like modern music, though, so long as it’s outside of the orchestral/classical music realm. He likes R&B. He would have liked to do film with Shisui, particularly producing, however his parents pressure him with piano, so he helps Shisui with student films and projects outside of school (will probably pursue film after graduating, tho).

Shisui

- FILM / VIDEO PRODUCTION

Fight me on this!!! THIS BOY IS SO GOOD AT CINEMATOGRAPHY MY FILMMAKING ASS CAN’T EVEN. AS SOMEONE WHO IS IN LOVE WITH FILMOGRAPHY, TRUST ME, SHISUI HAS IT™. THE IT™. HE’S GOOD AT EVERYTHING. CINEMATOGRAPHY. DIRECTING. SCREENWRITING. GRIP-WORK. EDITING. PRODUCING. HE’S SUCH A FILM NERD TOO, AND WATCHES OLD FILMS ALL THE TIME. HE’S JUST TOO GOOD AT IT. DOES STREET PHOTOGRAPHY TOO. HE’S OVERALL A GENIUS WITH CAMERAS. Does film with Itachi outside of school and teaches him, and the two are overall geniuses at filmography. They want to start their own studio together (they do, and it becomes huge). He becomes a leading director, while Itachi becomes a producer and directs sometimes too.

Sasori, Deidara, and Sai

Guess.

Kakashi

- Saxophone

It’s the only thing that suits him and it suits him so well. Has suave.

Obito (omfg his arms y'all)

- Not to say drums or anything, but…. drums.

Narutard 2.0. But he also dabbles in other areas of music. Like, he can also play guitar and sing. He’s also pretty good at music production. Makes R&B sometimes. He wasn’t always the best musician but proved to be a late bloomer, and really harnessed his potential. Tries to be as suave as Kakashi and his saxophone. He isn’t.

Hashirama

- Vocal

OkaYYYYYY. VOCAL GOD. CAN DO RIFFS AND RUNS AND HAS PERFECT PITCH. ALSO THE SWEETEST GUY??? WAS A CHAMBER SINGER AS A FRESHMAN. EVERYONE LOVES HIM, GOOD BOY ENERGY.

Likes to belt.

Madara

- Piano

Total prodigy, but hates classical music. Once was accompanist to Hashirama for a solo vocal performance and hasn’t been left alone since.

Tobirama

- Viola or Cello

Some sort of string instrument and takes it very seriously. Probably plays cello because violas are violas and that’s lame (if you know, you know). Has almost as many awards as Itachi and Madara, but hates his usual piano accompanist, Izuna.

Izuna

- Piano

Also a piano god. The uchihas breed them. Hates being accompanist for Tobirama. They’re secretly best friends though, don’t tell anyone.

Karin

- Tech Theatre.

Idk why. Probably started out with props and made her way up to TD (technical director) in senior year.

Suigetsu

- Tech Theatre

Fucking hates theatre kids. Assistant TD. Karin hates him.

Jugo

- Visual Art

Paints landscapes and nature. Really good with oils and gouache respectively.

Yamato

- lmao Trumpet.

Met Kakashi since they both play brass, but boy he ain’t got that suave. That’s why he plays trumpet. Lmao he plays the fucking trumpet anjdwcnojdnn.

Rin

- Vocal

Sweetest voice and could also play the acoustic guitar when she sang. Died in a car accident junior year. Kakashi was at the wheel when they got hit by a drunk driver. Obito saw the whole thing.

Kurenai

- Visual Art

Can create dream like paintings that almost seem like illusions.

Asuma

- Cello / guitar

Used to play cello because of his parents, but loves to play guitar. Can sing but his voice is raspy from smoking.

Gai

Who the fuck do you think teaches dance?

Jiraiya

- Guitar (lead)

Used to major in lead guitar. Sucked at first. Probably has a couple, casual Grammy Awards (they’re actually not that hard to be awarded with, The Recording Academy award many people outside of mainstream media. My school has a few). Now teachers as head of the Band department at this school.

Tsunade

-Dance

Legendary dancer. Probably toured with a few famous people. Now teaches. Mentored Sakura, and mentored Ino but for a shorter time.

Orochimaru

- Idk, didgeridoo, or some shit

Definitely a wood wind. Flute maybe??? Teaches now but no one knows what he does. Pedophile. Has a thing for Sasuke.

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prpledusk · 3 years

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PSA: Kids please fucking stop.

In regards to recent events I just wanna go ahead and make something clear about where I stand on certain subjects, I dont have a lot of followers and for all I know I might actually lose a couple by writing this but eh. Fuck it, its tumblr.

So my oppinion when it comes to children the internet. Kids are fucking stupid.

I say that not to be mean spirited but more in the sense of "Kids do stupid shit when given the power of anonymity."

Specifically they do stupid shit when it comes to nsfw content.

Throughout my time on Discord and tumblr Ive come across muiltible sitations involving both children and adults as well as controversial and nsfw content, from a child lying about their age to gain access to said content, to adults posting minor/adult content under mine and my friends noses, to someone actually attempting to groom a minor. Its the Kingdom hearts fandom, we've had problems with preditors, and people spreading things like noncon fics since the early 2000's! Put simpley Ive seen some shit. And have a zero tolerance when it comes to Minors on the internet for reasons dealing with experience and also for the fact that I have a daughter and plan to teach her Internet safety when she becomes of age.

So here's a few bits of advice to help those in the fandom and maybe to assist in understanding why children shouldnt be posting or activly participating and comtributing nsfw content.

Children are not permitted to post pornographic content online. Ya'll can write and draw it sure but do not share it or post it online. Its illegal and can get you in serious trouble.

Do not write noncon as it not only helps in the spread of rapeculture but its insulting to actual victems, especially in cases where you may not be cappable of understanding things like nuance or lack the world experience that would tell you w h y its bad. To top it off, most of the time these fics are written by children whove never hhadto experience such a thing and see it as just an edgy way to get their kicks which again, just rubs salt in the wound.

Kids dont have to tell you their age, but if ever theres something that requires age identification simpley say "I identify as an adult/minor". Or just dont identify at all and stay away from adult areas. Easy peasy kill me pleasy.

If someone says "no" or "Im uncomfertable" please. Back the fuck off. End of discussion.

Do not post, contribute, or even dabble in minor/adult things. Yes Im looking at you Akuroku fans. I wish you all a very perish. By comtributing any minor/adult ships all your doing is helping pedophilia and MAPs become more normalized and for a minor online that is definatly not a good because it increases the chances of you becoming a VICTEM of those people.

The amount of times I had to call out adults for thinking theres nothing wrong with minor/adult things is staggering and I want to swallow glass and grind my own bones because of it, but its worth it if it makes a safer inviroment for the children around you. That being said, adults reading this: call that shit out. You obviously dont have to if you dont want to but you'll be shocked how many people you end up helping because of it.

If a minor has been getting nsfw from you, block them and cease contact. Its really the best thing you can do, and Minors? Please dont interract with adult artists and writers, you wont face any consiquence for getting nsfw from an adult but the adult can be legally charged with distribution of porn to a minor you have the potential to ruin someones life and you do not want that on your conscience.

Kids? Please do NOT share porn with other kids? Thats distribution of porn to a minor, which a minor can be charged with.

This list may be subject to update but ya'll get the picture. Back when I was a kid I made a lot of mistakes and yes even I wrote some things that I wish I never did but the difference is I kept it all PRIVATE. I made certain that Only I ever saw that stuff and never ever posted any of it publicly, and dammit it hurts to see kids who already remind me of myself when I was younger make those same mistakes within the same fandom no less.

I remember demyx time and how it consistantly made noncon jokes at the expense of minor characters, I remember Saix puppys :You got served! and how the characters where constantly sexually harassed and molested for the funnies,

I remember the near constant stream of noncon fics and how NO ONE was ever calling out this behavior in the fandom but times have changed. The fandoms changed and most of those kids have grown up and are now highly against all of that bullshit from the past and are currently calling out shit behavior and irresponsible posting but thanks to those mistakes of the past kids today see things like pressuring people into things they dont want, gaslighting, guilt tripping, and streight up minor/adult ships are fine and should even accepted. Hell proshippings apparently a thing and the more I think about that the more I get the Frenzy status.

I want this fandom to be safe. I want peoplr to come to my blogs and feel safe. I want people to talk to me and feel. Safe.

So I guess hopefully people read this and try to understand the basic do's and donts of being a kid on the internet.

In conclusion

Kids need to practice basic internet safety and creepy adults need to fuck off into the abyss.

#psa #musings #rambles #kill me #kingdom hearts #pokemon #iunno if someone reblogs this they can add other fandom tags I aint ya papa #this is why we cant have nice things

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leia-organa-fics · 3 years

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aftermath (part III)

I know it´s been forever and there are still open asks in my inbox, but this wouldn´t leave me alone, so I had to write it. I hope you enjoy.

You can find part II here.

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Before he could get lost in his thoughts again, Leia hectically entered the lounge. “The proximity alarm just went off,” she stated.

“Damn it,” Han cursed and ran to the cockpit, Chewie and Leia hot on his heels. He sat down on the pilot´s seat and started checking the sensor alerts. It wasn´t just one ship in their near vicinity, it was a whole kriffing fleet. Twenty-one ships. Three of them were only freighters, but the rest was equipped with enough weapons to be battleships.

“Are they Imperials?” Leia asked.

“Doesn´t look like it. Probably just scavengers, but we can´t risk them recognizing our ship. We need to get outa here.” Easier said than done. They needed to leave the asteroid field before they could enter hyperspace, but the fastest way to do so would have them flying directly towards the approaching ships. All other routes would lead them through thousands of miles of asteroids, something their shields and hence they would not survive. The ships had effectively cut off their only escape route. That left them only one option.

“Prepare the ship for a jump into hyperspace, Chewie!” Han yelled before yanking the ship around. He would rather take his chances with the fleet than with nature´s force.

Leia didn´t seem to share that opinion. “What are you doing?” she hissed. “You´re heading directly for them.”

Chewie, the traitor, gave a warning roar, too.

Han didn´t even look at them. “Have a little faith, will you.”

“Oh, I have absolute faith in your ability to get us killed.”

“Didn´t they teach you in princess school that it´s not nice to talk about people like that?”

Leia snorted. “Telling them the truth you mean?”

“Thought you politicians don´t do much of that anyway.”

“I´m not a politician anymore. I´m a rebel.”

“That you are, sweetheart,” Han said. “Are you gonna let me concentrate on piloting now or do you actually want us to get killed?”

If she replied, he didn´t hear it because he was too focused on avoiding asteroids. He tuned the rest of the world out. All there was, was the Falcon. The line where he ended, and his ship began was blurred. It was an extension of his body. His hands had melted into the steering panel and all he could think about was dodging.

It took an eternity and mere seconds at the same time, but then, finally, the field started to thin out. There was more and more space, but that also meant that the ships were now right in front of them.

As of yet, they hadn´t fired though. That had to be a good sign, right? Or they wanted to capture them alive …

Behind him, he heard Leia gasp. “That are Alderaanian Battle Cruisers,” she cried.

Chewie gave a distressed roar.

“I don´t think so,” Han answered. “What good would it do the Imps to hijack Alderaanian ships?”

“They must have patrolled the sector, when…,” Leia trailed off. She seemed to be in shock. “Can we contact them?”

Han grimaced. “It might still be a trap.”

“Or it might be my people in need of help.”

He turned to his co-pilot. “Is the jump calculated?”

Chewie made an affirmative sound.

“Alright,” Han said. “But at the first sign of trouble, we get out of here.”

Leia´s hand was already reaching for the comm unit before he had even finished talking. Typically. She jammed in the frequency and send out a signal. “This is Princess Leia Organa. I wish to talk to whoever is in charge of the approaching fleet. Please identify yourself.”

For some seconds there was only static silence, then a man´s voice sounded. “Princess Leia?” he asked incredulously. “Is it really you?”

“Commander Rieekan!” Leia seemed to be just as stunned.

“Princess, I am so glad to hear your voice, but how is this possible? Word of your death reached us almost two weeks ago.”

“Lies of the Empire. They boarded the Tantive IV and detained me, but with some help, I was able to escape.”

“Do you know what happened? Alderaan …“ The desperation in the man´s voice was palpable and Han felt for him. One more person who had lost everything.

Leia sucked in a pained breath. “This is not a conversation we should have over comm. I´m afraid our ship does not have enough space for guests, but may I come over?”

“Of course,” Rieekan said. “We would be honoured to have you.”

With that, the conversation ended. As soon as Leia had cut the connection, Han spun around to face her. “What do you think you are doing? Going over to their ship? It could still be a trap!”

“It´s not a trap,” Leia answered calmly. “This man has served our family for decades. I have known him all my life. He would never betray me.”

“You may think so, but his planet was destroyed because your family dabbled with the Rebellion!” He regretted the words as soon as they had left his mouth – and not only because Chewie gave him an angry shove and called him some very colourful names.

For a second, Leia looked absolutely shattered, then a controlled mask slid over her face. He knew that something between them had just broken and it was his fault alone. Where before she had to a degree trusted him with her emotions, there now was only her political training. The hurt would recede – he hoped so, at least, because some wounds never closed, and he had just worsened one that was already too deep – but gaining her trust back would be one hell of a job.

He wanted to apologize, but before he had the chance, she said, “Riekaan´s loyalty lies with the Rebellion as well. He won´t betray me.”

“Okay,” Han conceded. Because what else was there to do? “But you´re not going alone. I´m coming with you.”

“That´s not necessary.”

“It is. You´re our passenger, I am responsible for your well-being.”

Leia shot him a glare. “I can take care of myself; not that it will be necessary this time.”

“Just humour me, princess, alright?”

“Fine.” She seemed still annoyed with him but at least she agreed.

Rieekan´s ship broke away from the rest of the fleet and approached them. Han, still wary, watched its every move but nothing seemed out of the ordinary so far. When the two ships were close enough, Han steered the Falcon to the cruiser´s docking bay. The two ships connected.

“Be prepared to take off any minute,” he said to Chewie, before joining Leia at the docking bay.

The door that separated the two ships opened. On the other side stood only one man. He looked maybe fifteen years older than Han. He was wearing a dark blue uniform with lots of shiny orders pinned to the jacket, but the material was rumpled, as was his hair. His face was pale and his eyes red-rimmed. All in all, the man – Han assumed it must be Rieekan – looked thoroughly haggard. Still, his face lit up in genuine delight when he laid eyes on Leia. “Your Highness,” he greeted her. His voice spoke equally of graveness and relief.

Leia pressed her lips together. A motion that, as Han had learned over the course of the last few days, meant she was trying not to cry. “Just Leia,” she said after a couple of seconds. “Titles don´t matter anymore.”

Rieekan´s face twisted into a sad smile. “On the contrary, Your Highness,” he said. “Now, titles matter more than ever.”

Leia shot him a questioning look. “What do you mean?”

“We have been robbed of our home. The few of our people who have survived are dispersed all over the Galaxy. They need something to rally around.”

“And you think that something should be me?”

“I didn´t mean to overwhelm you, but you have been the voice of our people since your inauguration as a senator. Now they need you to be their heart as well.”

Leia took a shaky breath. “That´s a lot to ask of a single person.”

And it was. Han´s expertise may not have lain in politics, but even he could comprehend how much this Rieekan person was asking of her. After the loss of Alderaan, he wanted Leia to become their people´s new centre of gravity. Han believed she could do it, no doubt, but even the brightest suns burned out. What if she imploded when hit with the full weight of the remaining Alderaanians´ grief? It hadn´t even been a week. She had barely had time to deal with her own loss …

“I have known you all your life, Leia,” Rieekan said. “You were meant to do this.”

Leia nodded. She seemed to be deep in thought, but Han couldn´t tell whether she agreed with Rieekan´s words and had thought so herself all along or whether she was just bending herself backwards to meet this man´s expectations. He couldn´t decide what would be worse.

After some seconds, Rieekan finally broke the uncomfortable silence. “My apologies, Your Highness. I did overwhelm you, after all. Perhaps we should continue this conversation somewhere more comfortable.”

“Of course,” Leia answered. Then she turned to Han. “Please forgive my rudeness. This is General Rieekan. General, this is Captain Han Solo. He helped me escape and is now escorting me to the Alliance.”

Rieekan looked at Han as if he had just noticed his presence. There was a flicker of … something in his eyes. Maybe it was surprise, maybe even scandal. Then he extended his hand though. “I owe you my thanks, Captain.”

Han took his hand and shook it. He couldn´t suppress a smirk. “Don´t worry. The Alliance already compensated me accordingly.”

“He can´t accept that he´s one of the good guys now,” Leia said exasperatedly. “His co-pilot is a lot more tolerable though.”

Han shot her a wounded look. “And there I was starting to think your princess manners were finally extending to me as well.”

“You were the one who insisted on being friends with me.”

“The last week has undoubtedly proven that my judgement is not what it once was.”

Leia ignored him and turned to Rieekan instead. “You said something about going somewhere more comfortable, General.”

“Of course, if you´d like to follow me.”

He led them away from the docking bay. The few crew members they passed on their way all seemed to be still in shock after what had happened to their planet. That didn´t prevent them from reacting to Leia´s presence with awe though. All of them bowed and greeted her respectfully. Inwardly, Han shook his head over their behaviour. No wonder she was so bossy when people had treated her like that all her life.

After reaching some kind of conference room, they were equipped with some refreshments before finally continuing their conversation. Again, Rieekan didn´t beat around the bush. “Do you know what happened to Alderaan?” he asked once they were alone and behind closed doors. “We were at the other end of the sector. Our sensors could only detect some kind of explosion and then it was just gone.”

Leia was staring at the wall behind Rieekan when she answered, “The explosion you noticed was caused by a weapon. The Empire created a battle station with enough firepower to destroy a planet. However, a weapon like that is only feared when people know that it works. I would have never imagined … “

Rieekan´s face twisted in anguish. “The Empire did this?”

“It did.”

Silence fell over them. Suddenly, Han felt very out of place. He wasn´t from Alderaan. He couldn´t relate to their loss (and hopefully never would be able to). Back on the Falcon, when it had just been Leia, Chewie, and himself, that hadn´t been a problem but now he felt like an intruder who was disturbing their shared grief. It was too late to back out though. He was stuck in this room with them. The thought of what the conversation he would witness could entail made his stomach churn.

As if he had read his thoughts, Rieekan whispered, “Why Alderaan? There are countless uninhabited planets. How did we deserve this?”

“We didn´t,” Leia answered icily. “Not one sentient being that was on Alderaan when it happened deserved that fate.”

“Why did they choose Alderaan then?”

Again, Leia couldn´t meet anyone´s eyes. She kept staring grimly at the while and her voice was hoarse when she started to talk. “A small strike force managed to steal the battle station´s blueprints. They sent them to us, to the Tantive IV, during the battle of Scarif. We tried to get the plans to the Alliance, but Vader caught up to us near Tatooine.” Leia took a shaky breath. “Before he boarded the ship, I sent two droids out in an otherwise empty escape pod, to bring the plans to an old friend of … my father´s who lived on Tatooine. They got away, but Vader took me prisoner. He wasn´t exactly happy about not finding the blueprints. Neither was Tarkin. So when I refused to give up the Alliance´s location and they were in need of a target …” Leia didn´t finish the sentence. She didn´t have to. “I´m so sorry,” she whispered instead.

Rieekan remained silent. He seemed to need some time to take in all the new information. Han couldn´t blame the man. Even his own head was swirling after hearing all that and he had already known a big part of it beforehand. Suddenly, Leia´s behaviour made a lot more sense. She was blaming herself for what happened to Alderaan. She´d had to stand by helplessly while the Death Star had destroyed her planet and Han could only guess that it had destroyed a part of her as well. He wondered what she had been like before. Somehow, he couldn´t imagine her as carefree and wasn´t that just awful?

He snuck a glance at her. She was still wearing the same stoic mask. Han couldn´t help himself. In contradiction to his earlier resolution to not intrude on this conversation, he said with all the conviction he felt, “It wasn´t your fault.”

That jerked Rieekan out of his stupor. “He´s right,” he said. “It wasn´t your fault, Your Highness.”

Leia took a shaky breath. “If it had been someone else who had brought the plans, they would have destroyed another planet. The only reason they chose Alderaan was me.”

Rieekan´s kind gaze held something fatherly when he answered, “That still doesn´t make it your fault, Leia. You did everything you could. Your parents would be proud.”

“We will never know, will we? They´re dead.”

There wasn´t much that could be said in response and definitely nothing that would have made a difference. There were a couple seconds of silence.

“What are you going to do now?” Leia finally changed the topic.

“I can only speak for myself, but my place is with the Rebellion.”

Leia nodded as if she had anticipated that. “Everyone who wants to join is welcome with the Rebellion and if I have anything to say, we will still provide help to anyone who doesn´t.”

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fandomsnfluff · 3 years

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10 random facts about me!

i stole this idea from aceoftrashies and i wrote most of these on my 16+ hour drive home from florida. CW FOR MENTIONS OF SELF-HARM, MENTAL ILLNESS, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, & EATING DISORDERS

im from new england and i was born there, but i did live in the south for around 7 years. im an NE baby to the core and i love being up here, as beautiful as the south can be in the summer.

im learning japanese! im around the beginner to intermediate level threshold, and while i can’t understand it very well when i listen to it, i like to listen to videos where people speak it so i can learn how it sounds.

im a music student who is majoring in viola performance and education. i also played piano when i was in 1st-2nd grade but only for a year since one of the parents at the recital took my music away and i was kinda traumatized by that so i didn’t want to go through that again. i’m kind of an intermediate level piano player right now and i’m not great at sight-reading, but if i really commit to learning a piece i can get it under my belt within a few weeks depending on how much i practice. i also enjoy singing from time to time and i have a pretty wide vocal range (spinto soprano all the way down to baritone). it’s approximately from E3-E6, but ive gone as low as an A2 and as high as an E7.

(CW START!!!) ive been dealing with a plethora of mental illnesses for most of my life, the earliest signs of anxiety and depression presenting themselves around when I was 5-6 years of age. i was formally diagnosed at 16, and through a couple more years of therapy i found out i also had ADHD (runs in my family and it’s rather severe, symptoms have been around since middle/high school so it’s strange that i didn’t decide to get it treated until this spring), dyslexia, PTSD (triggered by a car accident in 2019 and is set off by any mentions or details of vehicle trauma), body dysmorphia (set in when i was old enough to be conscious of my body and its shape which was around age 5), gender dysphoria, and i was diagnosed with an eating disorder last summer that‘s characteristic of periods of bingeing and severe intake restriction. it got better with therapy but i still struggle with it from time to time, and the symptoms have been around since elementary/middle school. i also went through a rough period in high school where i went through periods of self injurious behavior, i didn’t get the proper therapy for it though so i still have really strong urges. (CW END)

im adopted! my twin brother and i were when we were only 6 months old and we don’t have much of a memory of what it was like before or who we were around. we still have connections with the family despite it being a bit dysfunctional and kind of abusive, but my birth mother is a really kind person and someone i feel like i would be able to connect with. a bunch of physical disorders and disabilities do run though, like heart disease, diabetes, chronic bronchitis, and a shit ton of other things which sucks.

i really love driving! ive had my license for about 2 and a half years and im a very safe and observant driver (likely attributed to the fact that i got it in a state where it’s difficult to get a license anyway). i just got my first car last month which ill be sharing with my brother until we have to get a fourth car so i can take one to school my senior year of college. funny how much i love it when i have so much trauma attached to it 😅

ive traveled internationally twice, and my parents weren’t with me for either. in 2018 i flew to germany with a friend to perform at a music festival, and less than a year later in the spring i went to italy with my high school latin class.

im really into personality tests! i find the myers-briggs test to be rather interesting, but ive also studied enneagram, temperaments, and aspects of my own astrology. for example, im an ENFJ (mbti), 2w3 with a 295 tri type (enneagram), phlegmatic-sanguine (temperament), and taurus sun, capricorn rising, and taurus moon (astrology).

i like to make drinks and bake in my free time! i make a lot of coffee drinks and i can make an iced matcha latte from scratch, and i like to follow recipes for desserts and other carby snacks. i also like to make breakfast foods like eggs, omelettes, and pancakes. trust me, ya boy can make a mean cheese omelette 😉

i sometimes like to paint and draw, and with the watercolor set i use i like to use reference images. i’ve been drawing since before i could walk, and right now writing and reading are taking over as my main passion, but i had an art phase that began in my pre-teen years all the way to my mid-teen years. i still have all the skills but i don’t dabble in drawing as much as i did five or so years ago.

#noah rambles

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star-wars-multishippers · 3 years

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Get to Know Me(me) - The Members of SW Multishippers!

This was an event hosted on the Discord server to do a sort of re-introduction of both old and new joiners to the server. Everyone who wanted to participate filled out the survey below to share a little about themselves and about their faves in fandom.

Survey (for anyone who wants to join in below in the comments):

Who Am I? - Name, username on other sites, mini bio if you'd like Where do I fit into the SW fandom? - Prequels, Sequels, EU, etc. What do you do? Fic, art, lurking and reblogging? My Top Faves - 2 or 3 max please! My Own Stuff - 1 or 2 max please!

MBlair

Who am I?

MBlair both on Discord and on AO3, maggzblair on Tumblr (MBlair, maggzblair)

Where do I fit into the SW fandom?

Mostly lurker/reblogger/occasional writer, mostly Original Trilogy and Sequel trilogy.

Fics I Love to Rec

Of Queens, Knights, and Pawns (and associated fics) by chancecraz

Hand of Fate by sweetestcondition

My Fics I Love to Rec

Reyuxmas 2019

A Wonderful Winter on Hoth

I’ll Love You ‘Til the Suns Burn Out

feckyeslife

Who Am I?

Feckyeslife#2003 on Discord, firelord65 on AO3

Where do I fit into the SW fandom?

I'm pretty solidly a Sequels fan, but I have a special place in my heart for the Prequels. I'm a fic writer who dabbles mostly in canon universe AUs, what ifs, that sort of stuff. Primarily my fics have Rey with a tendency to focus on the First Order characters and plots.

My Top Faves

A classic Reylo fic from an old friend - Beneath the Facade. It technically has a prologue fic before it in the series, but this piece was the one that I really enjoyed way back in the EARLY days of Reylo.

Because I'm an insufferable Reylux fan, I have to rec at least one. This piece by @every-day-is-star-wars-day a oneshot that ever so masterfully crushes my heart every time - Thread

My one Original Trilogy rec, this is a beast of a long fic but so, so good - Dark Times

My Own Stuff

Reylux, medieval AU - La Vita Primus - is the first in a small series of this AU

Reylo, TROS Fix-It - Oh but it's a dark future, my star. Oh but it's a soft morning for us soon.

apple-au

Who Am I?

Call me apple. she/her/hers. I’m gold_pen_leaps on dreamwidth, ao3, and pillowfort. @[email protected] on mastodon. I am doing my best to boycott tumblr, but I've been known to use a tumblr link embed on pf from time to time. (gold_pen_leaps (DW), gold_pen_leaps (AO3))

Where do I fit into the SW fandom?

I’m mainly into the Sequels and the Mandalorian. I joined the server for Hux/Kylo/Rey and all the combinations of the characters in my ot3. I can edit better than I can write. Sometimes I comment on fics.

My Top Faves

A Dance of Titans by @lucidlucy is a really long reylux fic. The delicious slowburn makes all the flavors combine in an amazing way. Love how they battle the main villain!

My Own Stuff

I helped give feedback on the second part of a series. Does that count? This is knight_of_dance's fic. It's really cool to see writers' takes on Modern AU, and this one has influenced my ideas of what sort of kinks those characters have. :smirk: Switch Up

Mizz

Who Am I?

hi! tho im much more...a lurker around here im mizz (she/they/he). im badarmada on tumblr, badwrong-gimme on pillowfort, gimmemrss on twitter, badwrongprincess on ao3 (i have so many usernames XD, ive got a dreamwidth, wordpress, and art insta too if youre interested lol)

(@badarmada, gimmemrss (twitter), badwrongprincess (AO3))

Where do I fit into the SW fandom?

i liked the prequels as a kid (still do kinda), rouge one, i do like clone wars tho i havent finished it and the sequels (well tfa and tros tho only one of them is good imo) i reblog stuff mostly and read fanfic, tho i write some stuff too. finn is my fav and pretty much my center character (ie the one i focus on the most) and i like most finn ships (favs being finnhux, finnlo, finnrey)

My Top Faves

the things we do for love by glare is an unfinished finnlohux fanfic that i love a lot

worlds are built for two by synergenic (Losseflame). this is a poefinn fic from finns pov

My Own Stuff

um...im still working on this fic -(Be More Chill, Hux) very slowly this year has been super hard on me writing wise and ive been drawing ocs and for another fandom mostly but I will finish this one day!

Arsanimo - Marion

Who Am I?

Hi, I’m Arsanimo, self taught artist and nerd from Germany that’s mostly lurking. You can find me with this username on tumblr, twitter and instagram. I draw mostly Reylo at the moment. ( @arsanimo, Arsanimo (Twitter), Arsanimo (IG))

Where do I fit into the SW fandom?

I‘m in my thirties and an OT fan since birth, because my dad was obsessed with Star Wars and we watched it a lot as kids - they are the go to christmas movies in our family. Even as a very small kid I loved Vader. I didn’t like the ST quite as much when it came out in cinemas but still watched them multiple times. I’m much more fond of them now. But my love for Star Wars really got renewed with the ST. I really liked TFA and TLJ a lot. Not a great fan of TROS though, but to each their own. I recently started watching TCW, if you haven’t go watch it! The Mandalorian is also great and feels more like the OT for me, which I love. Oh, and R1 was awesome, I loved that one! Solo also was good. I think I will be a lifelong fan because it’s such a rich universe and everybody can pick a favorite. I’m also good at ignoring the parts I don’t like, lol. But I‘m mostly exhausted about all the drama on social media, so at the moment I take a bit of a break from social media and only post from time to time. And I’m of the firm believe to ship and let ship and if the art and fics are good, you can also find me enjoying ships outside of Reylo (honestly, some Kylux art out there, woah... and Finnrey is always so tender but Stormpilot has two hot guys in it... and don’t get me started about Finnrose! You probably get the gist)

My Top Faves

It’s hard to name so few, there are so many good artists out there. But Winter of Her (Twitter) has some outstanding art in her own style. Than I really like the style of Khallion (Twitter), check her out.

My Own Stuff

And last but not least two pieces of mine that turned out pretty good

https://twitter.com/arsanimo/status/1275789997426311173?s=21

https://twitter.com/arsanimo/status/1258757927910989825?s=21

Knight_Of_Cookies

Who am I?

Allo allo, I go by many names but many know me as cookies here. Lol I'm from the US and I've been a lifelong A+, gold star , nerd my whole life. I love writing among 5 million other hobbies. I am on Tumblr and A03. (@knight-of-cookies, Knight_of_Cookies (AO3))

Where do I fit into the SW fandom?

It all started with the prequels which I fell in love with and even wrote my first fan fic on. (I dragged it from fanfic.net to A03 for my own form of personal torture) I dropped out of star wars until I was in Japan and a close group of friends got me to watch Roque One and play a star wars based table top role playing game, which dumped me back into this fandom hardcore. I fell in love with the sequel trilogy and now I'm stuck forever. Lol

I have been writing on A03 for around 2 years now for star wars and it's been the most productive and progressive work I've ever done thanks to ya'll.

Also, hey, I created this multishippers discord, because multishipping rocks and everyone should do it. :P I know I've never active enough but I love this space and the people in it! My fav part about multishipping is how I'm always discovering yet another ship that is awesome. It never ends. ^^

My top favs - (of things no one should be surprised by)

Beastie by @feckyeswriting. It spawned a written series(multiple actually)

Glutton by Witchoil. Just very good dark and wonderful kinky smut. Always go back to this one.

In the house that skywalker built by @aicosu. This story got me into Reylux in a way I'll never recover from.

My own stuff

Nothing but Themselves - This is my favorite beast of a story I've ever written and it will be beautiful when I finish it. One day. Lol

Tanzaku - One of my most polished pieces thanks to the Reylo Anthology. My best combo of: insert culture nerding here and captive Ben as personal tropes.

#Get to Know Me(me)#Server Event #Fic Recs #Art Recs #Star Wars fic #Star Wars fanart

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I’m too goddamn curious and love your work too goddamn much for my own goddamn good so: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33

You can just answer whichever ones you feel like lmao

thanks so much!!! i have no self control. i will answer all of them.

5 - whats the fic youre most proud of?

my immediate answer to this is always this is not what they thought purgatory would be, despite the idea starting out as a glorified shitpost. i just think i got the characterisation down well on that one, and i for one find it fuckin hilarious

6 - what element of writing do you find comes easily?

sometimes i just have a really clear idea of where i want a scene to go in my mind, but in general i'd say dialogue. like hell yeah these guys sure are Saying Things

7 - what element of writing do you struggle with most?

remembering to describe the setting. where are these dudes you dont know and neither do i

8 - which character(s) do you find easiest to write?

emma perkins. idk why i jut get her vibes

9 - which character(s) do you find most difficult to write?

took me a while to be comfortable writing paul but other than that i cant remember having too much trouble, apart from maybe xander but thats mostly because theres only 1 scene to go off of

10 - what's your favourite genre to write for?

hurt/comfort with or without the comfort. i will unaplologetically fuck up my lil guys but sometimes they get better. as a treat.

12 - tell us about a wip you're excited about

lab 4. its the clearest idea ive ever had of how a fic is going to play out and im looking forward to laying out all the breadcrumbs for people who dont already know where emma came from :)

16 - any guilty pleasure trope(s)?

i dont think so? im pretty open about everything i enjoy/write and i cant think of anything i'd call a guilty pleasure

17 - a trope you'll never, ever write for

i feel like 'never ever' is a bit strong but there are some things im definately currently uncomfortable with. though ive dabbled in kidfic more than i ever thought i would with fisher, i dont think id ever write a pregnancy. and probably not a wedding either. idk, something about them is just uncomfy for me.

25 - side adventures/spin offs of fics

oh i was hoping someone would ask this since i have. a few. a pair that go together that i like are smoke and feathers, but either emma or zaz is a kid. with emma being a child, she got lost in the whitchwood and zaz saved her life by keeping her warm, and decided to look after her after that. with zaz being a kid, she somehow died very young and emma is now the unlikely caretaker of a mischevious child ghost.

26 - is there anything you've wanted to write but have been too scared to try?

i dont think so. im a reckless bastard i will try Everything

27 - what is the nicest comment you've ever recieved?

theres so many!! fun fact i typed up some of my faveourite short comments on my typewriter and stuck em to my wardrobe. but to pick, ive been getting some long comments on lab 4 theorising about it, and they just make my fucking day. really motivating too. thegreatsnail if youre out there i owe you my fucking life.

32 - sumarrise a random fic of yours in 10 words or less

local woman somehow evades zombies for weeks, gets publicly executed

33 - is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing/writing process?

not really something i wish peope knew, but a fun fact i guess: i have a google sheets doc to help me keep track of when i last posted a chapter of each fic and also what extra scenes i have to add to an assortment of additional scenes. looks like this:

#thanks for the ask :)

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Arty’s VGC 2018 SG Open Team- 2nd Place Finisher

Anyway I figure since I FINALLY LEGIT PLACED WELL AT A REGIONALS-LEVEL EVENT even if it was just a 38-man regional sobs I’m just gonna write a summary of a team I’m proud of even if they’re technically not that good oops

Put under cut because it’s long haha I put a lot of thought on my pokemon vgc teams weeps

So I haven’t had a lot of success in VGC 18. Not since the actual VGC 18 format, anyway. I’ve struggled to find a team composition I feel comfortable with, and I’ve had a lot of trouble relearning all my forgotten skills and regaining confidence in myself, especially since I was Out of Action for like... 2 years. But then after watching Brazil Internationals, I realized a lot of the standard ‘meta’ teams had this really gaping weakness to Bisharp and... I really missed Bisharp a lot. So then, I popped onto Showdown, placed Bisharp onto a team I was working on which was then Kangaskhan/Zapdos/Tapu Fini/Snorlax/Gothitelle/Landorus-T and then realized if I replaced Goth with Bisharp I needed another setup sweeper. I remembered back in VGC 13 that Volcarona was a good partner for Bisharp (or vice versa tbh) and I played a few games and then a month later I was in the top 100 on Showdown. And after staring at the team for a while I realized it had a strange resemblance to my 2015 team (Kangaskhan/Talonflame/Sylveon/Bisharp/Landorus-T/Rotom-Wash), which would explain why I was strangely comfortable with it. So then I ran it in a few tournaments, top cut a few MSSes, had a friend talk me over my mental blocks, and got 2nd at Singapore Open. Anyway, a breakdown of the team: Potato Kangaskhan @ Kangaskhanite Ability: Scrappy Level: 50 EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD Adamant Nature - Fake Out - Double-Edge - Low Kick - Ice Punch

Throughout the season, people have been telling me since Jan 1 2018 that Kangaskhan Is Bad. And after a whole season and 38 teams of Kangaskhan, I can finally come to the conclusion that yes, on paper, Kangaskhan is a Bad Mon. Kangaskhan, as a mon, just isn’t as good as in 2015, when she was the overwhelming force of the metagame. The Parental Bond nerf has seriously hurt her damage, and Psychic Terrain makes it difficult for Kang’s primary support option (Fake Out) to be completely useful. The loss of Power-Up Punch, and the general increase of offensiveness in the metagame, and Kanga’s neutral matchup towards Intimidate Incineroar have all been factors in why Kangaskhan, in theory, does not work.

But to be completely honest, whenever I used another Mega I’d just run straight into the stuff they’re automatically weak against and the thing is: Unlike the other Megas, Kangaskhan has technically no matchup that she automatically loses. It just feels a lot easier to put Kangaskhan into a position where she can do work, and I can accept the shift of her role from Primary Attacker to Offensive Support, relying on her to deal constant damage for the team and providing Fake Out support.

So a breakdown on Potato. I’ve tried all sorts of Kangaskhan, and for the longest time I was convinced that Jolly was the only way to go because without the max speed investment, you’d be unable to outspeed stuff like Tapu Lele and Charizard. However, Jolly Kang always ran into the problem of being outsped ANYWAY since Tapu Koko, Kartana, Mega Metagross and other random fast pokemon exist, and without any investment in her HP she can’t take hits that well. So after trying out my friend’s team, I finally decided on the Super Bulky Kangaskhan with 0 speed investment. I’m still not content with the bulk-speed ratio on Potato, but with the way that the metagame is so matchup dependent, I feel like it’s safer to be bulky than not. In fact, after recent battles, I think if I had to improve Kangaskhan, it’d be to actually drop her attack (since you’re still going to get intimidated to Kingdom Come anyway) and invest in her bulk some more.

Anyway, on to the moves. Fake Out because Kangaskhan is still, in my opinion, the best Fake Outer in the game, especially with Scrappy to hit ghost types (Hi Mimikyu!) and the ability to outspeed the other premier Fake Outer (Incineroar). Double-Edge for the consistently painful damage that OHKOs stuff like Tapu Koko and Charizard Y, Low Kick to deal 70% to Snorlax/almost OHKO Stakataka/random heavy things like Tyranitar and 4hp Heatran, and Ice Punch to still OHKO 4hp Landorus-T even after Intimidate. Potato functioned more as cleanup, or to clear certain threats that my main sweepers didn’t want to fight.

Cernunos Landorus-Therian @ Groundium Z Ability: Intimidate Level: 50 EVs: 20 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def / 4 SpD / 228 Spe Jolly Nature IVs: 0 SpA - Earthquake - Rock Slide - Protect - Knock Off

Landorus-Therian is, arguably, the best mon in all of VGC. In fact, in VGC 2018, it’s only matched for utility with Incineroar, who’s also another Intimidating Cat. It’s also been constantly placing at the top (or near to the top) of all the usage stats, and it’s been said that the Best Way to check a Landorus-Therian is to use your own Landorus-Therian. In fact, it’s gone so far that some Landorus-Therian have switched the special scarfed Hidden Power Ice variants I also really liked the scarf Landorus-T variants since that would have helped my matchup vs Metagross+Tapu Lele/Charizard Y and random fast mons like Gengar a lot. However, given that I only have one other Ground-immune (Zapdos), I opted for the Groundium-Z variant, WHICH OHKOS INCINEROAR AFTER AN INTIMIDATE HAH TAKE THAT YOU STUPID CAT and does a bunch of other neat stuff like being a really powerful nuke, being a single-target ground attack (even if only for one turn), and has the ability to P R O T E C T. Being base 91 speed has its drawbacks, sure, but I hoped to mitigate that somewhat with Tailwind, and once you get an unintimidated Landorus-T on the field with the ability to switch moves+a nuke+x2 speed, it’s definitely a huge boon on your side.

So Cernny’s set is actually something Coach gave me. Jolly to abuse as much of that fast speed as necessary, attack to maximise the damage output, and the rest in split defenses for some ‘bulky’. His moveset was Earthquake (of course), Rock Slide (for the flinchy flinchy and Charizard Y/Zapdos), Protect and Knock Off because I hate Snorlax and any other mon that uses one of the Super Healing Berries, as compared to the lack of Steel/Normal type mons that you’d usually run Superpower for (and let’s be real, Superpower doesn’t OHKO anything of worth anymore, and without a scarf it didn’t really make sense to run Superpower).

Castor Bisharp @ Life Orb Ability: Defiant Level: 50 EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Adamant Nature - Iron Head - Knock Off - Sucker Punch - Protect

I’ll be honest, Bisharp is pretty much the glue holding the team together. The ability to gain attack boosts from any status drop, and the ability to pull out a powerful priority attack with those boosts can utterly cut through teams that are unprepared for him. All it takes is an Icy Wind or an accuracy drop from Muddy Water, and Castor can go to town. Especially since most teams rely on Intimidate to control opposing physical attackers, Defiant/Competitive users like Bisharp and Milotic can do a lot of work in the right conditions. Moreover, dark is an extremely good attacking type, even now, and with the ability to hit Fairies super effectively with Iron Head, Bisharp has almost perfect neutral coverage for most of the metagame (with the exceptions being idk Blaziken and Lucario).

I was running Adamant Nature with max speed and Life Orb because that was the damage calculation/spread I was used to since 2015. Bisharp’s moveset is Iron Head for comfortable STAB, Knock Off to take out berries and also potentially KO weakened Cresses/other bulky mons/stop Snorlax before their berries trigger. Sucker Punch is priority, which helps me pin and maneuver around faster mons, and Protect is Protect lol. At max speed, Bisharp outspeeds most spreads of Tapu Bulu/Tapu Fini, Heatran, and also my own Kangaskhan, which allows me to make some silly plays like Knock Offing a Porygon 2′s Eviolite before Double-Edging into them, destroying fairy redirectors like Togekiss, or limiting Cresselia’s Ally Switch utility by taking out the supporters before Kang attacks.

Curry Volcarona @ Firium Z Ability: Flame Body Level: 50 EVs: 4 HP / 92 Def / 192 SpA / 220 Spe Modest Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Quiver Dance - Heat Wave - Giga Drain - Protect

I admit I named Volcarona Curry for certain very blatant biases BUT ANYWAY. I haven’t actually used Volcarona that well in VGC at all, dabbling in it only at the start of 2018 with a Salamence/Azumarill team that Did Not Work because I always felt that Volcarona was better off setting up Quiver Dance and sweeping than playing Rage Powder. Remembering that VGC 13 had a Volcarona+Bisharp team working super well for my brother, I decided to try it in VGC 18 because why not. Volcarona had 135 SAtk and with a Quiver Dance, I bet Inferno Overdrive would be extremely spicy. The other item choice that has been recommended to me time and time again is a Super Healing Berry, but to be completely honest I’m perfectly happy with having a secondary nuke in case I can’t land Tectonic Rage for whatever reason.

Volcarona pairs well with Bisharp, Kangaskhan, and Tapu Fini, being able to clear steel/grass types as well as luring in stuff like Landorus-T into the battle (which its teammates can then take out before Volcarona starts quiver dancing). Volcarona is not a ‘good’ mon; it has far too many weaknesses and requires a lot of ifs to set up properly, and even then it’s main stab is Heat Wave and its defenses are, to put it mildly, shit. However, with most of the metagame being physically defensive, being able to set up a powerful special attacker that gets boosts in speed/special defense/special attack can seriously nuke a lot of teams to oblivion.

So, Volcarona ran Quiver Dance, Heat Wave, and Protect. Modest 192 SAtk was to maximize my Special Attack as much as possible, but I do know that at +1, in the Sun, Volcarona’s Inferno Overdrive has been able to net OHKOs on Charizard Y of all things. 220 Speed was to outspeed modest Tapu Lele, 4HP/92Def was to survive a -1 Spread Landorus-T Rock Slide. Giga Drain was run to have a better way to deal with Tapu Fini and Milotic, but even at +1 Volcarona will still die to Hydro Vortex so that’s something to keep an eye out for.

Vegetable Zapdos @ Iapapa Berry Ability: Pressure Level: 50 EVs: 28 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 220 Spe Timid Nature - Thunderbolt - Heat Wave - Tailwind - Sky Drop

Zapdos has been something I’ve slowly grown accustomed to over the season. Without Talonflame, I’ve been searching for another Tailwinder that provided the sort of support/pairing ability with Landorus-T that I just couldn’t find elsewhere. While I am more used to the Misty Seed/Roost version, I just felt that it was far too passive and didn’t really feel like it could help contribute to the team with a low speed stat that the Misty Seed variants run (ie, set up Tailwind before dying to a Charizard Y Overheat). In the end, I decided to try something slightly different- not the Gigavolt Havoc Zapdos, but the fast speedy Tailwind support with Iapapa Berry. While it worked somewhat well, I realized that my team had issues with Azu+Redirector support, so I decided to toss Sky Drop onto Zapdos (something I learned from playing Hawlucha earlier in the metagame).

Sky Drop easily opens a lot of doors for my team, being able to stall out Trick Room, Tailwind, deal with redirectors, and force mons into not being able to Protect the next turn when they’re dropped. While my Zapdos spread meant that it was actually exceedingly frail for a Zapdos, it’s also an extremely good utility mon, if used properly (Hint: I still haven’t completely figured it out yet).

Thunderbolt for obligatory STAB. Tailwind helped support my team a lot, since the majority of them were slow and would greatly appreciate the speed advantage. Heat Wave was chosen over HP Ice because of the great Kartana weakness I seemed to have, as well as being able to threaten the 3hko on Mega Metagross. And Sky Drop is... Sky Drop. (Fun fact: I still haven’t completely understood all of Sky Drop’s mechanics yet, isn’t it fun?)

Ultimately, Vegetable started off as a mon I didn’t really like, but it is incredibly necessary for this team to work. If there is one thing I would change, I would drop its Satk and try to figure out a bulkier spread and go max speed Timid simply because I am tired of not having the ability to speed tie Charizard Y.

Melusine Tapu Fini @ Mago Berry Ability: Misty Surge Level: 50 EVs: 236 HP / 4 Def / 196 SpA / 12 SpD / 60 Spe Calm Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Scald - Moonblast - Calm Mind - Protect

So finally, the Tapu of my team. Tapu Fini easily loses out to ALL THE OTHER TAPUS of the metagame, but it also has one of the best terrain abilities. Immunity to status? Yes Please. Also, being the slowest Tapu (barring some really slow Leles/Bulus), it is almost guaranteed Terrain Control on turn 1.

I opted for the Calm Mind variant of Tapu Fini because I Like Setting Up, and also Fini just doesn’t do enough damage otherwise. Calm Mind also helps shore up its special defense, giving it a chance versus Tapu Lele and occasionally Tapu Koko/Charizard Y/MGengar/other random powerful special attacking mons. I’m using the standard CM Tapu Fini EV spread, which allows it to outspeed slow Bulu while dealing some really nice damage with its STABS.

While most Tapu Fini opt for Muddy Water, I’ve lost far too many games from Muddy Water missing, so I decided to go for the more reliable and slightly more powerful single-target Scald. Thus far, I have not regretted that decision. Moonblast for fairy STAB because you need Fairy STAB somewhere on your team to deal with Kommo-O, and Protect because this should be totally standard by now.

AND I HAVE SPENT 2 HOURS WRITING A LONG DRAWN SUMMARY OF MY TEAM. I’M EXTREMELY PROUD OF HOW WELL THEY DID, OF SOME OF THE BATTLES I’VE MANAGED TO PLAY WITH THEM, and while I’m not certain if I want to bring them to Worlds, I’m glad that this is the team that finally helped me overcome my own weaknesses and gave me my confidence back to play.

Tl;dr: I really love pokemon vgc and I really love this team

#arty's vgc 18 ramblings #pokemon vgc

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2017 Writing Reflection

@heart-attack-harry has tagged me to reflect on my writing from last year, so here we go! (lots of questions, so it’s under a cut for the sake of your dash lmao)

i. list of works published this year.

Every single piece (minus the 3 in the Firsts series and Let Me Be Your Goodnight) on my Masterlist was written in 2017. So that’s 31 published pieces and give or take 20 more that have since been taken down.

ii. work you are most proud of (and why): Rings of Saturn. I had been completely unable to write over the summer, which through me for a loop because I had so many plans for writing. I was finding it very difficult to write in second person, but I had this idea that I really, really wanted to put out there. And then Phoebe came to me and I had to write about her. I struggled with RoS, I really did. But I never gave up on it, and I wish I could bottle the euphoric feeling of publishing that oneshot because I have truly never been more proud of myself.

iii. work you are least proud of (and why): Probably Let Me Be Your Goodnight. It was second person/you/Y/N fic I had ever written. I didn’t really know what I was doing. I like the concept a lot but hate the execution.

iv. a favorite excerpt of your writing: This bit from You love me, right? really sticks out to me. It felt real to me while writing. I could feel the gut-wrenching disappointment.

“Must have big windows, mustn’t have neighbors close by,” Harry listed over lunch, and you caught the gleam in his eye that said I know it sounds like I’m kidding but I’m not.

“What about a spiral staircase?” you asked. “Always wanted one when I was little.”

“They are pretty,” Harry agreed. “But not very practical for when we’ve got little ones running around.”

Your heart sank. Little ones. He’d said it so nonchalantly, too. Like he’d known forever that you’d be the perfect mother to his future children.

“Little ones?” you squeaked.

Reading the expression on your face, he smiled and placed a comforting hand atop your own. “Not anytime soon, love, but eventually, yeah? Just don’t want us to buy summat and fall in love with it, and then once the time comes to start addin’ we realize s’just not gonna work for raisin’ babies.”

A lump the size of a softball sat in your throat. A clammy, sick feeling was washing over your entire body. How had this never come up before? The two of you had been dating long enough to have many conversations of all types. You knew each others hopes and dreams, darkest secrets, and guilty pleasures. You knew Harry’s favorite foods and just how he took his tea. He knew your favorite authors and the way you liked reread books until they were so tattered and worn you couldn’t even make out the title. But neither of you knew how the other felt about having children. It’s like, you were perfect for each other in every other regard, how could that one not be the same? Why ask the question when you feel like you already know the answer?

Because, well…sometimes feelings are wrong.

v. share or describe a favorite comment you received. There was so much kindness sent my way for Rings of Saturn, I don’t think I could even choose one comment. Just the fact that people embraced it even though it’s not a Y/N fic really meant a lot to me and has inspired me to continue working on OFC fics.

vi. a time when writing was really, really hard. From about July til just a few weeks ago, writing was a chore. I wasn’t happy that I wasn’t able to produce chapters in a timely matter, and it honestly kind of bothered me that I’d get so much attention for Y/N fics and blurbs and hardly any love for the characters I poured my heart and soul into. So I dabbled and tried to write some of the other ideas I had, but just couldn’t connect to a faceless character. The Rings of Saturn got so much praise, I felt like I no longer needed to torture myself with a style that just wasn’t working.

Now, I’ve finally got my mojo back. I’ve written 20k words in a week and a half for my new fic. I’m excited and inspired to write it. I haven’t felt like this about writing or had this much fun writing in ages.

vii. a scene or character you wrote that surprised you? In the now-deleted This Only Looks Like Love there was a scene where Winnie basically causes a scene at the front desk of Harry’s building. At one point, she’s clinging on to the desk and the woman she’s arguing with is yanking her by the legs to get down.

I had no plans for that to be in the chapter. It just happened. I was typing and let the characters take me down their road and I think the end result was a lot of fun.

viii. how did you grow as a writer this year. I learned that if I enjoy writing it, people will enjoy reading it. I spent so much time trying to squeeze my writing into a box to appease an audience I didn’t give much credit to. But having my best work--that was very, very different from anything else I had written--so well received showed me that I need to have more confidence in my readers.

ix. how do you hope to grow next year. I want to finish a massive idea. As I’ve started writing this fic, the gaps between the action of the main plot have been filled with a lot of fun sub-plots. The fic is growing rapidly, and I am bound determined to finish it this year.

x. who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer or beta or cheerleader or muse etc etc). I’ve got so many, it’s hard to name only a few. Firstly, anyone who has ever liked, reblogged, and/or commented on my writing is a massive influence to me. Yes, I write for myself, but knowing there’s someone out there enjoying my work really inspires me to keep going.

@haroldsbee was the best cheerleader throughout Rings of Saturn, and I’m so excited for her to beta my new fic.

@permanentcross and I have had so many chats about writing, and each time I come away having learned something new about myself and with some wise advice.

@70s-harry and I bounced so many ideas off of each other and one of them even became a full blow series (Rotation).

i admire @roseonhissleeve so ridiculously. her writing is the kind that makes me feel like a better writer for having read it.

and i would be nowhere if it weren’t for the constant support, yelling, and actual friendships with both @hotpinkharry and @therosatour. whenever i have a new idea, these are the two i tell. whenever i’m feeling like my writing is the absolute worst, they both have their own ways of helping me look at it in a more rational light, and build my confidence up.

xi. anything from your real life show up in your writing this year. so much stuff i couldn’t even begin to point it out. i’m not completely sold on the idea of having children, so my worries came out in the form of You love me, right? i’ve been left feeling broke and used and abandoned like Bubbles in Rotation. i have a crazy love for astronomy and if i were better at math, i’d be the astrophysicist Phoebe is studying to be in Rings of Saturn. i think writing is the best when writers put a little bit of themselves into the pages.

xii. any new wisdom you can share with other writers. Don’t force it. If something’s not working, take a step back and try again later.

xiii. any projects you’re looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year. Princess and the Popstar! everyday we’re one day closer to it’s big reveal and i honestly can’t wait to share it with you all. i’ve genuinely never been more excited or more proud of a piece and i can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

ixv. tag three writers/artists whose answers you’d like to read.

@bribe-the-door // @queenmestyles // @bxdlvckcharm

#about me #i was tagged #writing #rings of saturn #rotation #popstar

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bronzeflower · 7 years

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Who The Fuck Writes A Ten-Page Rant?????

Also on ao3

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Chapter 9: A Suit And Also Something About The Future

-- turntechGodhead [TG] began pestering tentacleTherapist [TT] --

TG: rose

TG: rose lalonde

TG: rose insert middle name here lalonde

TG: what is your middle name anyway

TG: i dont think ive ever learned it

TG: do you even have a middle name

TG: did you ever just make up a middle name for yourself

TG: like every time someone asked about it you just threw a random name that could possibly be your middle name at them

TG: one person asks and youre like yeah of fucking course i have a middle name its alexandria

TG: but then a completely different person asks and your middle name is suddenly irene

TG: or are you one of those people with like a bazillion different middle names

TG: rose

TG: answer me

TG: i know youre not idle because it hasnt given me that message that youre idle

TG: rooosse

TT: I do have a middle name.

TT: It’s Violet.

TG: what really

TT: Yes.

TT: Why were you being so persistent in attempting to contact me anyway?

TG: did kanaya tell you that i needed to be at rosemary today at two

TT: Yes, she did.

TT: …

TT: Oh.

TG: yeah

TG: i would have gone by myself but i had a feeling you would want to go see kanaya again

TT: I appreciate your consideration.

TT: Should I come pick you up or would you rather us meet up at the store?

TG: you should come pick me up

TG: its ten times easier than trying to get to the store at the same time

TT: Will do.

TT: I’ll be there soon.

-- tentacleTherapist [TT] ceased pestering turntechGodhead [TG] --

You wait around for a few minutes until Rose knocks on your door.

“How are you doing, my dear brother?”

“Rose, you messaged me like twenty minutes ago. You know damn well how I’m doing.”

“You make that sound as if something horrible is going on in your life. And here I am, remembering how you messaged me recently about going shopping with Karkat.”

“And we’re going now. Come on. We don’t have much time to lose. If we don’t get to the store soon, reality is going to cease to exist. I know this may sound bad, but it’s true, so we’re going to have to go off into space towards Venus. And by space I mean road and by Venus I mean Rosemary. If we don’t, then reality will come apart bit by bit. First, all the details of everything will start to fade, and we won’t even realize it at first because the fucking details are so goddamned tiny, and who even takes notice of them anyways? Then, shadows start fading away until everything looks 2D, but everything is still in 3D even if it doesn’t look like it. Afterwards, shitty jpeg artifacts will spring from the void, and this will keep on happening until our reality is indistinguishable from the void.”

“Perhaps I will get to meet Cthulhu. They do, after all, reside in the void.”

“I’m pretty sure that Cthulhu is the mightiest of all the fucking horrorterrors. You might have to meet each of the lesser horrorterrors, like, I don’t know, Fluthlu or something, before you even start to think about meeting Cthulhu.”

“Of course. How could I be so blind as to not be able to realize that it was required for me to meet every other horrorterror in nonexistence before I, a mere mortal, am able to even begin to comprehend Cthulhu’s power. However, I must say that it is appealing to meet Fluthlu and to hear his call, even if it means any joy I feel will be lost forever.”

“What the fuck? You mean Fluthlu is an actual thing? I was just making shit up.”

“Yes, Dave. Fluthlu is an actual thing, although he is the smallest and weakest of all the horrorterrors.”

“How big is he exactly?”

“Larger than the tallest skyscraper. If you wish, I can lend you the Grimoire for Summoning the Zoologically Dubious so that you may get somewhat of a grasp of the monstrosities that reside in the furthest ring.”

“No, thank you. I am a okay over here where I am. I have absolutely no desire to subcom to the forces of the rulers of the void.”

“Maybe one day I’ll be able to be given orders from those from the furthest ring so that I may carry out their demands.”

“Jesus.”

“No. The opposite, really.”

“Jesus Christ.”

“Like I said, I don’t believe Jesus has anything to do with submitting to the Gods of the Void.” Rose parked the car, and the two of you entered into Rosemary.

“I would very much appreciate it if you would stop licking the clothes. Right here is a sign that we put up just for you.”

“Karkat! You don’t have to talk like I don’t know you!”

“As much as I would love to use more colorful descriptions of why you should not lick the clothes, I would prefer to stay professional while I am at work.”

“Wait. Do I smell?” Terezi went towards you. “Is that you, Dave? I haven’t smelled your face in ages!”

“Holy shit, Rezi. I was wondering why this place had a sign that said not to lick the clothes. Have you been getting into a shit ton of trouble recently?”

“As a lawyer of my standing? Of course not! There would be hell to pay.” Terezi cackled. “Anyway, what is a cool kid like you doing here?”

“He’s here to get fitted for his suit.” Karkat answered for you. “Also, I think Kanaya and Rose have already gone back there, so go back there before they start doing things that none of us want to hear.”

“Will do.” You finger gun towards Karkat. “Sorry that I have to cut this meeting short, Rezi, but I don’t believe my ears can handle the sounds of two flighty broads going at it.”

“Apology accepted. I’ll just annoy Karkat some more.”

“No, you won’t.” Karkat interrupted. “Because you literally just had an appointment, and you should therefore be leaving now unless you are able to behave yourself in this establishment.”

“Wow, way to sound like a mom, Karkat.”

“Just…” Karkat rubbed at his eyes with one hand. “Go get your fitting done, Dave. And, Terezi, don’t lick the clothes. We have gone over this one hundred times.”

“One hundred and three, actually. Specific numbers are important in court.”

You go to the back to get your fitting done, despite wanting to see how the conversation would play out.

When you got to the back room, Kanaya and Rose were giggling about something or other, but, when they noticed that you were there, Rose gave Kanaya a smile and left the room, presumably to look around the shop. That left you with Kanaya by yourself.

"While I do love spending time with Rose, I feel as if it would be unprofessional to constantly be distracted by my girlfriend while doing my work, so I requested that she go look around the store while I do your fitting." Kanaya got out a bunch of stuff and asked if you would try on the suit she made.

You put on the suit, and she began to busy herself with making marks and holding the fabric aside to see if it would fit you better if it was like this or like that.

"So, how have you been doing, Dave?"

"Oh, you know. Same old, same old. I'm still doing videos on Grubtube if you were wondering. That hasn't stopped being a thing. I actually got a huge spike in viewers after I reviewed Karkat's rant, so I suppose I have that to thank him for. He'd probably be horrified though. Might spur him on to make yet another scathing rant."

"I'm sure it would be just as amusing as the first rant he wrote."

"That's a guarantee. I don't think I've ever met anyone as creative with words as he is. Does he do any writing? He should. He would probably be really good at it."

"He does dabble in writing." Kanaya said. "Although, I believe I may be understating it. He does a bit more than just dabble in writing. It's similar to a second job for him, except that he's more passionate about writing than he is about his job here, even if I do everything I can to make sure that Karkat enjoys his job here."

"That's nice of you. There are so many business owners who take advantage of all the poor kids who need money so badly that they are willing to work a shitty job for minimum wage and attempt to live off of that."

"Yes. It is really awful. I do pay Karkat and my other employees a living wage, and I give them various job benefits."

"Sounds like a fucking dream job."

"For some, it is. It isn't the case for Karkat, however. He simply works here because he needs to money, as he hasn't exactly gotten much in terms of royalties for his writing."

"What does he write, anyway? Has he published anything?" You ask.

"He mostly writes romance novels. I assume he has already informed you of his interest in romance?"

"Oh, yeah. He only talks my ears off about how these two's relationship in this novel is absolute shit, and that guy should not be within one hundred feet of the other person, and that it's a mutually unhealthy relationship, and they should really just break it off now."

"I'll take that as a yes then. As for if he's published anything, he has published a few short stories, but he has yet to feel satisfied enough with the novel he's working on to publish it. It's actually kind of a shame, since it is a phenomenal story."

"What's his story about?"

"I think Karkat explains it better than I do, so you might want to ask him. Afterall, it is his story. It's possible he'll even let you read it, but try not to get your hopes up."

"I'll keep that in mind."

"Alright, I've finished. You can change back into your normal clothes. And do you mind giving me your contact information? I'm afraid I forgot to ask you when you were last here."

"No problem."

You got out of the suit in order to put on your regular clothes before trading chumhandles with Kanaya.

"Thank you. I'm going to talk to Rose for a bit about the suit, so you can go out there and roam around the store or talk to Karkat about his novel."

"Alright. Should I get Rose for you?"

"That would be greatly appreciated."

You leave the room to go find Rose, who you find quickly.

"Yo, Rose. Your girlfriend wants to talk to you about the suit or something in the back."

"Alright."

Rose left, and you glanced around the store a bit before making your way towards Karkat.

"So, Karkat, I heard you like writing. That's pretty cool."

"Yeah. I don't think you would be very interested in what I write though. It's mostly romance."

"What, no. If I wasn't interested, why the flying fuck would I be asking about it? I may seem like a complete insufferable prick, but I do actually have a heart that is capable of appreciating a well-written romance. I've gotta have my emotional fix of romantic content every once in awhile instead of rejecting any semblance of such a thing because some people don't like it when boys enjoy romantic things. It's like, jeez. Why can't a guy just be given flowers for once? It's not hurting anyone for a guy to love and appreciate his significant other showering him with love and affection."

Karkat smiled and chuckled.

"It sounds like you're not as much of a douchmuffin when it comes to romance as I first thought."

It takes you a moment to respond because Karkat smiling at you caught you off guard.

"Oh, yeah, I guess not." You finally manage to scrounge up the words to respond to him. "So, anyway, Kanaya mentioned you were writing a novel. What's it about?"

"Well, like I said, it's a romance, so, of course, you have to have the main character and their love interest. But there isn't really much actual conflict in the book. It's mostly just about two guys who become friends and eventually get together to have a healthy, mutually beneficial relationship." Karkat sounds like he's holding back, but there's this soft passion in his eyes that make you want to ask him more about his novel.

However, before you can do so, Rose comes out of the back.

"Are you ready to go, Dave?" Rose asked.

"I guess so. Hey, Karkat. Tell me more about your novel over pesterchum, alright? It sounds really interesting."

"Okay." Karkat looked kind of dumbstruck, but you were already being dragged out of the store by Rose.

"What's the rush?" You ask when the two of you make it to the car.

"I just learned that Kanaya's birthday is coming up." Rose had a grave look on her face. "I don't have any idea what to get her."

"Maybe you could try getting her something simple but heartfelt." You suggest.

"How can I just get her something simple when she's so..." She paused and stumbled over her words like a highschool girl with a crush. "Beautiful? Intelligent? Deserving of an amazing gift because she has blessed the world with her existence?"

"Okay, that's fair, but I don't think you have to worry about it so much if that's how you feel about her. Kanaya will probably love whatever you get her. If you don't believe me, I can give you Karkat's Trollhandle so that you can contact him. He would know better than anyone other than Kanaya if she would like a certain gift or not."

"I guess that would be a simpler solution. What's his handle?"

"CarcinoGeneticist. I could write it down if I had some paper and pen, but I guess I can just do that real quick when we get to my place."

"I would be grateful for that."

"Sure, anytime. But I still think that, no matter what you get Kanaya, she will love it. Speaking of her birthday though, I should probably get something for her. Huh. It occurs to me now that I don't actually know her that well since I don't talk to her that often. Then again, I could always just contact her when I get home because I got her Trollhandle while at the store. That is, if she doesn't contact me first to talk about when she should be able to get my suit done. Wait, wait, I won't be able to contact her once I get home because she'll be at work, so I would have to wait a while. And I can't talk to Karkat immediately because he is also at work. Well, shit. Guess I'll just have to play the waiting game."

"I guess you will. What were talking about with Karkat? I didn't get to talk to him much while I was out there because he was speaking to Terezi, who I know about as well as you know Kanaya."

"We started talking about a novel he was working on. It's a romance novel, but I didn't really get to learn much about it, but Karkat looked like he wanted to say a lot more about it, but he didn't, which is kind of sad because I really wanted to know more about it. Obviously because I want to be a good friend and shitty friends don't listen to their friends when they talk about shit they love."

"Of course not. Anyway, we're at your place now, so could you grab a piece of paper and pen in order to write down Karkat's Troll handle."

"Sure thing, Lalonde." You quickly go inside your house and write down carcinoGeneisist on a piece of paper before giving it to Rose.

"Thank you."

"No prob, Bob."

"Please never say that again." Rose requested.

"Righty tighty, sounds alrighty." You finger gun at her and leave before she can tell you off for saying that, if the disgusted look on her face is anything to go by.

You were now at home. What to do.

Pester your friends, of course. You haven't talked to your best buddy in a while.

-- turntechGodhead [TG] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] --

TG: yo egbert are you there

EB: yeah i'm here.

EB: what do you want to talk about?

TG: i dont know man a guy cant just pester his best friend for no good reason at all

EB: well, i guess he can!

EB: but you usually have something in mind to talk about when you pester me.

TG: i guess a conversation usually does require a topic to talk about to actually have some kind of conversation

TG: but there are plenty of conversations that take place in this world that are absolute bullshit and nothing ever gets done or said

TG: but seriously

TG: we havent talked in a while

TG: hows it going

EB: it's going pretty good!

EB: i'm getting more popular, and i think some of my jokes have become a meme?

EB: i can't remember which ones off the top of my head, but some people are beating a dead horse.

EB: like, i get it, my jokes are funny, but is it really necessary to repeat them until even the mention of a single word from it sets off laughter from anyone who hears it?

TG: it is most certainly necessary

TG: thats how memes live

TG: and that is how they die

TG: it is the way of the meme

TG: youve gotta get to the point where an outsider looking in wont be able to decipher all the fucking nonsense coming from the internets

TG: even people who know the meme inside and out will have to stare at the meme for a bit of time before they finally understand

TG: the meme will die when the people say it dies

TG: but the meme will live on forever in peoples hearts

EB: that sounds excessive.

TG: the world is excessive john

EB: that doesn't even make sense.

TG: listen

TG: the world is big

TG: its got so many fucking things in it

TG: people plants animals and a shit ton of other things

TG: they all live on this one planet with the sun shining bright in the daytime and the moon hung overhead threatening to destroy us at night

TG: All these things that our big ass planet has

TG: but there are planets that are so much fucking larger than our planet

TG: and they have a bunch of shit on them as well

TG: and then there are stars bigger than our sun

TG: and they have a bunch of shit in them

TG: and our universe expands and retracts like its some kind of giant frog idk

TG: the universe is excessive

TG: the world is excessive

TG: our entire existence is excessive

TG: all is excessive

EB: okaaaaaaaay........

TG: you may not accept it but it is the full truth

TG: anyway

TG: is there anything else interesting that is happening in your live currently

EB: well, there is this one thing that keeps happening to me

TG: lay it on me

EB: recently, there has been this one person who's been coming to a lot of my shows, but all they do is boo whatever i say.

EB: it makes people laugh, so i don't usually pay it that much attention, but it's been the exact same person every time.

EB: it's starting to get pretty annoying.

TG: obviously what you gotta is retaliate somehow

TG: like come up with a gold star quality comedy act about how they come to every fuckin thing you do and just boo you

TG: thats some comedy gold all by itself dude

EB: i've thought of that, but wouldn't that be kind of mean?

EB: what if the person doesn't want that kind of attention?

TG: dude if they have been to so many of your acts only to boo you every time you say something funny then they are clearly after attention

TG: it all depends on where you want this to go

TG: if you want to feed them then you can go ahead and feed them

TG: but you also have the choice to just leave them alone

TG: nothing is stopping you from doing whatever you want to do

EB: i guess?

EB: maybe i'll just leave it alone for now.

EB: they might stop if i ignore them for long enough, right?

TG: probably

TG: but i hope you realize that the trope of ignoring a bully will make them stop bullying only works if you really dont actually care

TG: the main question here is how do you feel about this person booing you at your comedy acts

EB: it's mostly just annoying.

EB: like, yeah, they boo pretty often, but, at the same time, they're cackling like my joke was the funniest thing they've ever heard in their life.

EB: at this point, it's kind of enduring.

TG: well shit

TG: if thats how you feel then you should definitely do a comedy act based on their cackling at your joke while also booing at your joke

EB: i'll think about it.

EB: enough about me though.

EB: how have you been doing?

EB: i've just been talking about myself this entire time.

TG: mostly ive just been kind of doing the usual

TG: but rose recently forced me to go get a custom suit from this place

TG: and i met this guy there that i became friends with

TG: and rose started dating the lady who owned the place

EB: how long ago did this happen???

TG: well it happened within the span of about two weeks maybe more because rose had been talking to the owner before i went there

TG: but they started dating within that two week time period

EB: i feel like i should have been informed of this sooner.

EB: i have to tell rose that i'm happy for her!

TG: she probably would have told you herself at some point

TG: no need to get any sort of backwater information from her twin

EB: still...

EB: but aside from that, what's your friend's name?

EB: and what's he like?

TG: his name is karkat and hes pretty angry but hes nice when you get to know him and he likes romcoms

EB: you know karkat????

TG: you know karkat?????

EB: of course i know karkat!

EB: he sent me a long rant about how my jokes were dumb and idiotic, but they still made him laugh for some reason.

TG: what a coincidence

TG: he sent me a long rant about how pointless and confusing my channel is

EB: ...

EB: is this just a thing he does?

TG: i honestly have no idea

TG: i have not heard anything about him sending long ass rants to people other than me or you but who really knows

TG: what made you contact him

EB: he seemed kind of funny, so i just emailed him back, and we eventually traded chumhandles.

EB: what about you?

TG: so remember how i said i met him at the store rose dragged me to

EB: yeah?

TG: i didnt know he was the one who made the rant at the time and i may have ended up giving him my chumhandle

EB: you didn't know he wrote the rant when you gave him your chumhandle?

EB: how did you not recognize the tone almost immediately?

TG: he was at work and being all professional and shit

TG: it wasnt until later when he contacted me that i found out

TG: apparently he originally got my chumhandle from tz but didnt contact me because he thought i was a douche

TG: but he changed his mind when he met me in real life

EB: you're as much of a douche in real life as you are on the internet.

EB: which is to say, you're a huge dork, and there's nothing you can do about it.

EB: but your first impressions do tend to make you seem like a prick.

EB: no offense!

TG: none taken

EB: so why would he not think you were as much of douche as he thought you were?

EB: you only don't act like a douche for first impressions unless it's someone you find attractive.

EB: wait.

EB: oh.

EB: dave, did you flirt with karkat????????

TG: what no

TG: maybe

TG: there is a possibility that a little bit of flirting was done

TG: but shhh

TG: no one can know

EB: we all know you have feelings, dave.

TG: shit my secret has been found out

TG: whatever am i going to do

EB: maybe you'll have to stage your death.

EB: the shittiest death you can possibly think of.

TG: oh shit what would be the shittiest death

TG: like what is the most idiotic way to die that you can think of

EB: i don't know.

EB: i think once a guy died because he was trying to find wi fi, but he ended up falling off a building.

TG: ouch

TG: that was way shittier than what i was thinking of

TG: and i wasnt even thinking of real people that actually died in stupid ways

TG: i have been blind to the possibilities

EB: clearly!

TG: no need to get smart with me egbert

TG: i was merely over here thinking about how fucking dumb it would be if i died by dogs

TG: like two dogs manage to ahold of a knife or something

TG: and they start stabbing me in the ankle or the leg

TG: i guess it would depend on how big the dogs were

TG: if they were big dogs it would be a little less stupid

TG: but can you imagine how goddamned idiotic it would be if i were to die by little itty bitty dogs like fucking chihuahuas or some shit

TG: it would be so fucking stupid

TG: cause i would be over here giving them love and affection

TG: and then they stab me in the leg

TG: and i would be like awww

TG: youre trying to stab me you little cutie

TG: and then i would die

TG: because i was being an idiot who didnt realize that i should not trust any lifeform with a knife

EB: chihuahuas are pretty angry though.

TG: youre right they are

TG: big dogs are so goddamned sweet

TG: like jades dog

TG: hes just big and fluffy and friendly

TG: everytime i visit her i just get a face full of slobber

TG: bec looking so goddamned happy to see me

TG: dogs really are the good in the world

TG: and roses cat hates me

TG: well he doesnt really hate me

TG: he just

TG: ignores and avoids me as much as possible

TG: i have no idea why

TG: he could at least be clawing at my face

TG: pretty sure i smell like birds and dead shit half the time

EB: why would you smell like birds?

TG: dude

TG: have you seen how crows just fucking flock to me

EB: not really.

EB: then again, we don't really hang out that much in real life.

TG: shit youre right

TG: the next time you come around here we have got to hang out and catch up

TG: anyone who sees us will be jealous that they dont have a bro as great as you

EB: no.

EB: anyone who sees us will be jealous that they dont have a bro as great as YOU!

TG: bro

EB: bro.

TG: youre the best bro any bro could ever ask for

EB: come here, bro.

EB: i'm going in for the rare bro hug.

EB: we're doing this man.

EB: we're making this happen.

TG: john while i appreciate the gesture that meme is about seventeen thousand seven hundred seven six years old

EB: it's not that old!

EB: i mean, it is pretty old, but it's not that old.

TG: i made that joke when i was thirteen john

TG: thirteen

TG: its time to retire the meme

TG: how did you even become a world famous comedian if you dont know when to retire a meme

EB: it's because i started the memes, dave

TG: shit youre right

TG: how could i ever forget the impact you have had on the meme industry

TG: and yet here you are

TG: reusing memes that are what

TG: like fifteen years old at least

TG: and its a meme that i started

TG: and is only limited to our friend group that is made up of like four people

EB: we have a larger friend group than just four people!

TG: not when we were thirteen we didnt

TG: we just kind of messaged each other because we were lonely kids who didnt really have any friends

TG: thank god we actually managed to become adults

TG: its a fucking miracle

TG: and now we are just living our lives and talking to new people and having an okay time

TG: so all i can think of now is just

TG: thank god we lived

EB: ...

TG: ...

TG: well this got weirdly personal really quickly

TG: i think its time to terminate this conversation before it gets any more reminiscent of things that may or may not have happened in the past

TG: i might talk to jade about how her plants are doing or something

EB: we should really contact each other more often.

EB: so, don't be a stranger, dave!

TG: of course not

-- turntechGodhead [TG] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB] --

-- turntechGodhead [TG] began pestering gardenGnostic [GG] --

TG: yo jade

TG: how are your plants doing

TG: what stuff do you even grow during the fall

TG: like pumpkins and shit

TG: or does it even matter where you live

GG: hey dave!

GG: im pretty sure it does actually matter now, especially since i dont live on a tropical island anymore

TG: oh yeah

TG: i almost forgot about that

TG: how is society treating you

GG: i dont know how you forgot when ive been living in society for around ten years, if not more

GG: <_<

GG: as for how my plants are doing, theyre doing well!

GG: ive been growing some cauliflower and broccoli

GG: im looking forward to being able to eat them!

GG: and possibly sell a few since people seem to love freshly grown vegetables

TG: sounds fantastic

TG: people must be clamoring to get even a single taste of the famous homegrown vegetables made by the one and only jade harley

TG: youve become internet famous what would you like to say to your fans ms harley

GG: as much as i would love to give my vegetables to everyone, i only have so many

GG: and i also want to keep some of them :p

TG: there you have it folks

TG: not all of you will get the freshly grown vegetables youve been waiting for

TG: better luck next year

TG: or next season

TG: or whatever time you decide to grow more vegetables

TG: or they can grow their own or something like that

TG: who really knows tho

TG: maybe they have the worst green thumb known to man

TG: like the last time they tried gardening they ended up burning the house down

TG: nobody is actually sure how that happened

TG: but goddamn if it didnt happen

GG: i think someone burning their garden down would be unlikely :/

TG: and yet it happened

TG: it could totally happen

TG: maybe they were misinformed on how to properly take care of plants

TG: like they were told they had to set fire to the plants to give them nutrients

TG: or they came from an alternate reality where people had to give fire to plants instead of water

TG: so just imagine a person waking up and going up to fire up their plants only to find that destroys them

TG: they would be so confused and probably super terrified

GG: i kind of feel bad for them, since they probably spent so long taking care of their plants, and then their garden goes up in flames because they woke up in an alternate reality

GG: :(

GG: its just so sad!

TG: yeah it is super sad

TG: but afterwards they probably figure out that they woke up in an alternate reality

TG: and then they either try to go back or figure out how to take care of plants in the new universe they woke up in

GG: :)

TG: can you imagine the person in the other world

TG: they get up to water their plants

TG: only to find that kills the plants there

TG: maybe the two of them communicate with each other

TG: it would be super fucking awesome if someone were to build a machine that enables us to talk to people from other dimensions

GG: that would be pretty awesome!

GG: but what if the person from the dimension you were talking to was evil!

GG: do you think they could find a way to our dimensions

TG: they might

TG: that is if one of the other dimensions doesnt do it first

TG: there are probably plenty of other dimensions that would be able to figure out a way to the other dimensions

TG: it could be like a constant throughout dimensions that humans want to figure out as much shit as possible

GG: it would be boring if we suddenly just decided to stop learning things about our world!

TG: it would be

TG: that reminds me

TG: are you doing anything with your sciency job

TG: hows that going

GG: its going really well!

GG: we are currently trying to make an artificial intelligence for cars

GG: weve run into a few bugs but we are working on them

GG: we are also trying to make them environmentally friendly!

TG: thats super cool

TG: youre super cool

GG: thanks!

GG: how have you been doing?

GG: done anything interesting?

GG: met anyone new?

TG: shit did rose tell you

GG: maybe

GG: but she didnt tell me that much

GG: she didnt even tell me the persons name

TG: okay so yeah i did meet someone new

TG: hes small and angry but also really nice

TG: his name is karkat

GG: i know karkat!

TG: shit does everyone know karkat????

GG: i guess :/

TG: jesus christ like rose was the one who introduced him to me

TG: and then john knew him

TG: and you did too

TG: am i really the last person to know of his existence???

TG: i feel cheated honestly

TG: that yall would neglect to tell me about such a fantastic and angry individual

TG: people always say that opposites attract

TG: well im super chill and hes super angry its like we were meant to be

TG: ...

TG: that was not supposed to sound the way it did

TG: i meant like platonically

TG: platonically meant to be

TG: no homo

TG: except maybe a little cause im bi as heck

GG: alright cool kid we get it

GG: youre at least a little bit gay for karkat

TG: well yeah if youre not at least a little bit gay for your friend than what kind of friend are you

GG: im not sure if it works like that

TG: okay so maybe it doesnt but still

TG: gotta put so many layers of irony between me and myself that the moment it all goes down im just a blob of a human being

TG: like if you dont have a skeleton

TG: just laying there in a pile of your own sweat and blood and skin

GG: thats super gross!

TG: thats just the facts jade

TG: you wouldnt be able to have any sort of structure if you didnt have a skeleton

TG: shit be one of the most important parts of the body

TG: wait which body part is the most important

GG: i think the heart or the brain seems the most likely!

TG: youre probably right

TG: but the question here is whether the heart or the brain is more important

GG: im not sure really

GG: contrary to popular belief, i dont actually know that much about the human body!

GG: which is why i work with robots instead

TG: and i only know about random historical dead shit

TG: like archeology shit

TG: which reminds me that i havent talked to ara in probably a few months

GG: who was ara again?

TG: shes was one of my friends in college who actually became an archeologist

TG: although to be fair the only reason i havent talked to her for so long is because she does not have much free time

TG: spends all her time digging shit up and figuring out what it was for

TG: kicking sexist and homophobic assholes to the curb with her superior knowledge that people were still gay and shit thirteen thousand and four years ago

GG: oh yeah!

GG: i think i remember her

GG: we didnt really talk much :(

TG: huh

TG: i thought you two would have hit it off really well

GG: i think it was more due to our respective schedules than any sort of apprehension of talking to each other

TG: oh yeah

TG: you two were both super intense when it came to your major

TG: like more so than most other people

GG: i would say we were passionate :p

TG: well that was definitely clear as a cloudless day

TG: like clear as when you go to a super fucking remote area where there isnt any light for miles and miles and miles

TG: clear as the motherfucking night sky in that particular area

TG: but yall were also a bit obsessive

GG: i wouldnt say that!

TG: you forgot to eat and sleep for an entire day because you were working on a project that you were passionate about

GG: ...

GG: i have finger reminders now!

GG: i havent forgotten to eat in a while now!

TG: it is amazing that you came up with a system to remind yourself of things

TG: and that it actually works

TG: i tried it once and i forgot what the pink ribbon on my right pinkie finger first notch meant

TG: you practically made a language out of bits of colorful string and ribbons on your fingers

TG: though it is kind of odd that you didnt put the reminders to eat and sleep on sooner

GG: i had better things to worry about

TG: jade

GG: dave

TG: jade

GG: cool kid

TG: you had better things to worry about than completing an action that would kill you if you did not do it

GG: having a body is inconvenient most of the time

GG: the only things it is good for is petting dogs and making robots

TG: that is fair

TG: but consider that there is no way out of your flesh prison so you need to take care of it so that you can pet more dogs and make more robots

GG: hmmmm

GG: i think you might be right

TG: you think

GG: yes!

GG: i do, in fact, think, dave

GG: its kind of a thing we humans do

TG: what is this human you speak of

TG: i never heard of such a thing

TG: is it a disease

TG: should i be worried

GG: no, no, silly!

GG: humans are a sentient life form capable of communicating with each other in complex ways

GG: they are typically characterized by their determination to improve themselves and their environment

TG: sounds terrifying

GG: yeah :/

TG: do you have anything on this planet that is not scary

GG: dogs!!!

GG: we have dogs!!

TG: and what are dogs like

GG: they are friendly and good!!!

GG: they are also fluffy and you can pet them!!!

GG: and you can play with them!!

TG: sounds like my kind of thing where do i sign up

GG: you can adopt whatever dog you like at the pet store or an animal shelter

GG: make sure you can take care of them though!!!

GG: if you dont take care of your pet, i will personally come to your house and shoot you with my rifle!!

TG: ill be sure to keep that in mind

TG: anyway do you want aras chumhandle

TG: or troll handle

TG: god all these different compatible platforms are confusing

GG: they are a bit confusing :/

GG: i think jane still uses betty bother!!

TG: what really

TG: that shitty thing

GG: yep

GG: but yes i would like aras troll handle

TG: it is apocalypsearisen

TG: so you can go contact her now if you want

GG: ill be sure to do that!

GG: thank you!!

GG: im going to go do that now

GG: see ya!!

TG: bye

-- gardenGnostic [GG] ceased pestering turntechGodhead [TG] --

Well shit. If Jade was pestering Aradia now, then that means that you can't contact her right now. Unless Aradia decides to talk to you at the same time as Jade, but that's just annoying for everyone involved. Besides, someone else was pestering you right now. Er, trolling.

-- gallowsCalibrator [GC] began trolling turntechGodhead [TG] --

GC: WH4T'S UP COOL K1D

GC: 1 H34RD YOU HUNG OUT W1TH K4RKL3S TH3 OTH3R D4Y

GC: HOW W4S MY GRUMPY FR13ND??

TG: how did you find out about me hanging out with karkat

GC: D4V3

GC: YOU SHOULD KNOW BY NOW TH4T 1 H4V3 4 V4ST N3TWORK OF P3OPL3 TO G4TH3R 1NFORM4T1ON FROM

GC: 1 KNOW 3V3RYON3 4S W3LL 4S HOW L1K3LY TH3Y 4R3 TO B3 GU1LTY FOR 4 CR1M3

TG: oh yeah

TG: right

TG: thats not creepy at all

GC: 1'M 4 L4WY3R D4V3

GC: 1T 1S MY JOB TO F1ND OUT 1F MY CL13NT 1S GU1LTY OR NOT

GC: 4ND 1F TH3Y 4R3NT 1 M4K3 SUR3 TH3Y DONT G3T PUN1SH3D FOR SOM3TH1NG TH3Y D1D NOT DO

TG: good business practice

TG: wait question

TG: i feel like i might have asked you this before but here it goes anyway

TG: how do you know karkat

GC: K4RK4T 4ND 1 4R3 CH1LDHOOD FR13NDS

TG: oh shit

TG: never would have guessed that

TG: you two just seem so different that it never even occurred to me that you would hang out with each other

GC: H3 3V3N H4D 4 CRUSH ON M3 1N M1DDL3 SCHOOL

GC: 1T W4S JUST 4S 4WKW4RD 4S 1T SOUNDS

GC: MOSTLY B3C4US3 1 D1DNT F33L TH3 S4M3 W4Y

GC: 4LSO B3C4US3

TG: because what

GC: C4N YOU K33P 4 S3CR3T??

TG: of course i can keep a goddamned secret who the fuck do you think i am

TG: someone who says every single thought that comes to their head regardless of how private that thought is

TG: dont answer that

TG: but yeah i can probably keep any secret you tell me

TG: lay it on me

GC: 4LR1GHT SO YOU KNOW HOW TROLLS H4V3 4 D1FF3R3NT ROM4NC3 SYST3M TH4N HUM4NS

TG: yeah

TG: yall got like quadrants and shit

TG: entirely too complicated if you ask me but whatever

TG: continue

GC: W3LL K4RK4T N3V3R F3LT TH3 NORM4L 3MOT1ONS 4SSOC14T3D W1TH TROLL ROM4NC3

GC: H3 V4C1LL4T3D L1K3 CR4ZY

GC: WH1CH M4D3 1T V3RY D1FF1CULT FOR H1M TO HOLD DOWN 4NY CONCUP1SC3NT QU4DR4NT

GC: DON’T T3LL H1M 1 TOLD YOU TH1S

GC: H3’S V3RY S3NS1T1V3 4BOUT 1T

TG: i can see why

TG: he really fucking loves those romance novels doesnt he

GC: Y34H

TG: …

GC: …

TG: …

GC: …

GC: W3LL 4NYW4Y TH4T W4S 4 FUN CONV3RS4T1ON BUT 1 N33D TO GO NOW

-- gallowsCalibrator [GC] ceased trolling turntechGodhead [TG] --

Well, that conversation got really serious really quickly. You can’t remember the last time you had a even the slightest it serious talk with Terezi. Maybe this was the first. Does that mean that you two aren’t as close friends as you thought you were, or are you two simply content with sending each other shitty memes and joking around?

Reasonably thinking, it was the latter, and you are just overthinking this entire thing, but neither of you really knew how to react when you two reached a topic that you couldn’t really brush off or joke about.

Should you talk to her about it? Would she be comfortable with that? Would she rather you just be that friend that she can be silly with? Would it be awkward to bring it up?

And what about you? How do you even feel about this? You’re kind of torn between wanting to be silly friends with Terezi and wanting to know how she is in actuality. Which, you guess, is basically the definition of being close friends with somebody, but you don’t know if it breaks any troll bro codes.

You were interrupted from your thoughts when your computer dinged, signaling that someone was contacting you.

-- apocalypseArisen [AA] began trolling turntechGodhead [TG] --

AA: hello dave!

AA: its been a while

AA: jade told me that you wanted to contact me so here i am!

TG: that was nice of her

TG: how did your conversation with her go

AA: it was nice

AA: i look forward to speaking with her in the future

TG: thats cool

TG: how have you been doing

TG: with your job and all

TG: are you still up to your tits in shit to do

AA: of course

AA: thats kind of what i signed up for when i got the job

AA: i even direct expeditions occasionally!!!

AA: its really hard work but it is very rewarding

TG: well im glad youre wherever doing and enjoying your job

AA: what about you

AA: surely you got some sort of job

AA: even if it isnt the job you had in mind when you got your degree

TG: yeah i do have some sort of job

TG: i make grubtube videos

TG: and do commission work on the side

TG: some of it is actually good while others ask for ironically shitty things

TG: being able to draw both good and shitty things is a skill not many can appreciate

AA: thats simultaneously something i would not have expected and something that was bound to happen

AA: i hope that you get enough money to live off of from doing that

TG: oh yeah i make plenty of money

TG: especially since my channel got really popular because one of my videos became a meme

AA: oh!

AA: well thats good

AA: which video was it if you dont mind me asking

AA: not that i know what your channel is

TG: my channels name is cogsinthegodshead

TG: and the video that became popular was one where i review a large rant that someone sent me

TG: ...

TG: ara??

TG: you still there???

AA: oh yes

AA: i just took a minute to look up your video

AA: it is amusing and reminds me of a certain friend i used to have

AA: but i havent actually talked to him in years

AA: i wonder if he still thinks im dead

TG: what

TG: what do you mean if he still thinks youre dead

TG: did you like fake your death or something???

AA: its an inside joke we used to have

AA: about me doing things that would have more likely than not ended with my death

AA: i used to be very reckless you know!

AA: :D

TG: how could you have been so reckless that you had an inside joke about you dying

AA: i was very reckless

TG: i got that

TG: jesus

TG: what was your friend even like

AA: he was a very angry person!

AA: he was always shouting

AA: but it was more shouting at us to take care of ourselves rather than anything with malice

AA: like he would yell at us to get more sleep and to eat something

AA: he was probably one of the more well adjusted people in our friend group

TG: okay one more question

AA: shoot

TG: what was his name

AA: his name was karkat

TG: goddamn it

TG: i knew it

TG: how come everyone i know knew karkat before i ever did

TG: like im just today finding out that a bunch of my friends are friends with karkat

TG: and now you

TG: i havent even talked to you in a few months and yet

TG: here we are

TG: apparently you were also friends with karkat

TG: were you childhood friends with him like terezi was????

AA: yes but terezi knew him since kindergarten

AA: i didnt meet him until middle school

TG: shit they knew each other since kindergarden????

AA: they did

TG: holy shit

TG: thats a long ass time

TG: you know theyre still friends right

TG: like they still talk to each other and all that jazz

AA: thats certainly surprising!

AA: i havent talked to either of them in years

AA: in fact i never kept contact with any of our old friend group except for sollux

TG: whos sollux

AA: hes my matesprit!

AA: he also is one of karkats current friends

AA: at least from what i hear

AA: apparently they still talk occasionally

TG: huh

TG: i guess it would make sense that i havent heard of him if they dont talk that much

AA: they dont talk that much now but they used to be best friends

AA: i assumed they grew apart slowly so now they dont talk that often

AA: maybe i should encourage them to spend more time with each other

TG: wait

TG: are you and sollux in a long distance relationship

AA: i guess you could say that

AA: my job requires me to travel quite a bit so i dont often stay in one place

AA: sollux on the other hand prefers to stay in one place even if he could do his job while traveling

AA: he works from home

AA: kind of like you do!

TG: what kind of work does he do

AA: he does programming and i believe he is currently working on a game

AA: he doesnt want to share the details of it with me

TG: well why not

AA: he told me it was a surprise

TG: that seems suspicious

AA: it certainly does

TG: what are you going to do about

AA: i could wait but

TG: but what

AA: nevermind

AA: it wasnt really a very good idea

AA: especially since he has explained to me why hes keeping the details a secret

TG: shit why

AA: (its supposed to be a surprise for me)

AA: (i think he knows that i would try to find out what it was if he didnt tell me at least that)

TG: (oh shit)

TG: (what do you think it is)

AA: (i dont know)

AA: (i just know that it is for me)

TG: (aside from that)

TG: (why are we putting our text into parenthesis)

AA: it was supposed to be a visual way to show whispering

TG: thats a pretty good way to whisper

TG: ive got to use that in future conversations with people

TG: make sure that any secret is kept safe inside the parenthesis of void

TG: that way nobody can figure out what information is being kept inside them

AA: why void

TG: because void is like emptiness or some shit

TG: and it can hide information apparently???

TG: i honestly dont really know i just remember my older sister talking about it

TG: she was kind of rambling on about void or whatever

TG: rambling seems to run in the family who would have guessed

TG: surely not every goddamned person to ever speak to a strider or a lalonde

TG: rose wont admit it but she rambles on pretty often

TG: its just more intelligent sounding than everyone elses rambles

TG: except for dirk

TG: dirks rambling sounds pretty sciency and shit

TG: apparently he works with robots like jade does

TG: but instead of working on the ai and actual programming of the robots

TG: he does the actual building of the robots

TG: he might do some programming tho

TG: like occasionally

AA: thats pretty interesting!

AA: i dont know the people you mentioned though

TG: ok so quick rundown

TG: rose is my twin

TG: dirk is my older brother

TG: jade is a good friend of mine

TG: they are all super smart and do a bunch of smarty pants things

AA: it sounds like you are proud of them!

TG: hella

TG: i mean sometimes i think about how i could have probably done something like that

TG: but its just not something i wanted to do

TG: you feel??

TG: like its just not something i could see myself spending my entire life on

AA: you dont have to you know

TG: what

AA: you dont have to do one thing for your entire life

AA: you can do a bunch of different things

AA: you have so much of your lifespan left and not everyone wants to do the same thing over and over again for years at a time

AA: you can shake it up

AA: so maybe one day you could decide to dabble in some programming or writing

AA: if you decide you dont like it you dont have to keep doing it

AA: i probably sound a bit hypocritical since i have dedicated so much to my passion which im sure i will want to keep doing for my life

AA: but i recognize that its not the same with everyone

TG: ...

TG: huh

TG: i guess i never really thought of it like that

TG: we get told so much that we need to do one thing with our life

TG: and we are expected to be satisfied with that

TG: i just never really thought about it

TG: being middle aged seems like a muddle of a lack of planning

TG: its difficult to imagine myself at that age

TG: maybe

TG: ill be a museum curator

TG: and ill look at artifacts and write little blurbs of information on each one that no one is going to read

TG: and ill lead tours around the museum

TG: and ill answer little kids questions no matter how ridiculous they are

TG: like asking if dinosaurs were made of stardust

TG: and id be like fuck yes little jimmy

TG: dinosaurs were made of stardust

TG: and so are you

TG: ...

TG: or maybe ill continue doing my youtube channel

AA: it sounds like you put a lot of thought into being a museum curator

TG: i guess i did

TG: maybe its not too late to do something like that

AA: of course not!

AA: but you have to make sure to go after the things you want

AA: if you dont you mind find yourself at your deathbed regretting not doing something

TG: i guess youre right

TG: ...

TG: thank you i guess

TG: for the advice and the conversation

AA: its really no problem

AA: we should talk more

TG: we definitely should

TG: just like contact me if you are ever free and feel like talking to somebody

AA: ill be sure to do that!

AA: it was nice talking to you too

-- apocalypseArisen [AA] ceased trolling turntechGodhead [TG] --

Whew. That conversation was exhausting, but also kind of nice? You just feel worn out now, and you also realize that it's getting pretty late, so you decide to go to sleep. It was probably one of the best sleeps you've ever had.

#homestuck #davekat #dave strider #karkat vantas #rose lalonde #kanaya maryam #rosemary #kanrose #jade harley #john egbert #terezi pyrope #aradia megido #aradave #johnrezi

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-Guitar (lead)

Sakura

- Dance

Hinata

- Creative Writing

Kiba

- Drums OR Photography

Drums for obvious reasons (loud and obnoxious), although ruff boi looks good with a camera, too. Great at landscapes and street photography.

Shino

- Creative Writing OR Photography

Ino

- Dance

Shikamaru

- Guitar (bass) OR Creative Writing OR Architecture

Smart boy’s a tricky one. He would either be a bassist, a mystery and historical fiction writer, or, of his school offers it, be great at architecture. Idrk.

Choji

- ermmmmm….. maybe graphic design? Tech theatre (props)? Vocal???

Tenten

- Dance

Lee

- DANCE (hip-hop, too)

It’s sweat. It’s burn. It’s energy. It’s Lee.

Neji

- Violin

First chair violinist in his freshman year for the school’s philharmonic orchestra. He be extra like that.

Gaara

- Guitar (bass)

Kankuro

-Art

Specifically sculpting. For obvious reasons.

Temari

- Acting

Itachi

-Piano

Shisui

- FILM / VIDEO PRODUCTION

Sasori, Deidara, and Sai

Guess.

Kakashi

- Saxophone

It’s the only thing that suits him and it suits him so well. Has suave.

Obito (omfg his arms y'all)

- Not to say drums or anything, but…. drums.

Hashirama

- Vocal

OkaYYYYYY. VOCAL GOD. CAN DO RIFFS AND RUNS AND HAS PERFECT PITCH. ALSO THE SWEETEST GUY??? WAS A CHAMBER SINGER AS A FRESHMAN. EVERYONE LOVES HIM, GOOD BOY ENERGY.

Likes to belt.

Madara

- Piano

Total prodigy, but hates classical music. Once was accompanist to Hashirama for a solo vocal performance and hasn’t been left alone since.

Tobirama

- Viola or Cello

Izuna

- Piano

Also a piano god. The uchihas breed them. Hates being accompanist for Tobirama. They’re secretly best friends though, don’t tell anyone.

Karin

- Tech Theatre.

Idk why. Probably started out with props and made her way up to TD (technical director) in senior year.

Suigetsu

- Tech Theatre

Fucking hates theatre kids (I feel that (I used to be one so don’t come at me)). Assistant TD. Karin hates him.

Jugo

- Visual Art

Paints landscapes and nature. Really good with oils and gouache respectively.

Yamato

- lmao Trumpet.

Met Kakashi since they both play brass, but boy he ain’t got that suave. That’s why he plays trumpet. Lmao he plays the fucking trumpet anjdwcnojdnn.

Rin

- Vocal

Sweetest voice and could also play the acoustic guitar when she sang. Died in a car accident junior year. Kakashi was at the wheel when they got hit by a drunk driver. Obito saw the whole thing.

Kurenai

- Visual Art

Can create dream like paintings that almost seem like illusions.

Asuma

- Cello / guitar

Used to play cello because of his parents, but loves to play guitar. Can sing but his voice is raspy from smoking.

Gai

Who the fuck do you think teaches dance?

Jiraiya

- Guitar (lead)

Tsunade

-Dance

Legendary dancer. Probably toured with a few famous people. Now teachers. Mentored Sakura, and mentored Ino but for a shorter time.

Orochimaru

- Idk, didgeridoo, or some shit

Definitely a wood wind. Flute maybe??? Teaches now but no one knows what he does. Pedophile. Has a thing for Sasuke.

And that’s that!! Feel free to send in more requests!! Tell me what you think~

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‘I’m like a secret assassin’: Poo Bear on writing for Justin Bieber, Skrillex and Sam Smith

The songwriter aka Jason Boyd has been writing hits for more than 20 years, but his collaboration with Bieber on Where R Now? made him an overnight sensation. It literally changed music, he tells Elle Hunt

You may not have heard of Jason Boyd, better but not widely known as Poo Bear, but youve heard him.

After more than two decades as a songwriter and producer of mostly R&B and pop, his fingerprints are on hits for an array of artists including Usher, Chris Brown, and Lupe Fiasco.

Peaches & Cream by the R&B quartet 112, which spent 25 weeks in the Top 40 in 2001, is one of his. So is Caught Up, Ushers fifth single from Confessions. And Work, one of Kelly Rowlands most successful solo works.

Poo Bear was 14 and still in high school when he co-wrote his first hit, Anywhere, for 112; he is now 38.

He considers his low profile the secret to his longevity; people tire of the same old songwriters and producers. It might not mean that your music isnt great anymore; it might just mean they might just be over it, he says. For me, it was a blessing to stay under the radar so they couldnt really get tired of me … Im like a secret assassin. You dont even know its like, oh, Poo Bear did that.

His star is in fact the highest its ever been, thanks to a boost from a musician whose own could not have fallen much lower. Poo Bear was instrumental in Justin Biebers turnaround from one of the worlds most-loathed celebrities to electronic dance music superstar, co-writing much of his 2015 album, Purpose.

Just weeks after Bieber brought his megatour-stroke-victory lap to Australia, Poo Bear is in Sydney for the world premiere of Afraid of Forever, a documentary about his career, produced by Red Bull.

Softly-spoken and earnest, with the trademark greeting happy birthday (because youre supposed to feel like that every day), he seems a little bemused by the attention.

Poo Bear: Ive watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that Ive written hits for come and go. Photograph: Dustin Downing

Ive watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that Ive written hits for come and go, he says, speaking to Guardian Australia at the Star casino on Wednesday morning. But to the world, it looked like Justin Bieber was my first success.

When Bieber and Bear were first introduced in Las Vegas in January 2013, they bonded over their shared love of R&B, with Bieber a fan of many of the artists Bear had written for.

Both were raised by single mothers in low-income, religious homes, and both entered the music industry at a young age. As Bieber once put it, they kind of just vibed on a personal level.

Poo Bears parents divorced when he was eight; two weeks later, a tornado destroyed the family home in Connecticut. He and his mother and brother spent nine months homeless before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, for a fresh start made possible by a donation of $4,000 from their church.

Bear signed his first record deal four years later. Bieber was the same age 13 when he was discovered on YouTube by his longtime manager, Scooter Braun.

Braun disapproved of Bear when he first started spending time with Bieber, concerned he was a bad influence at a time when the young singers star was already in a nosedive. (Bear did once characterise his early friendship with Bieber as making bad decisions with a minor smoking weed and getting into trouble.)

[Braun] did try to separate us, and that brought us closer. Over time, I understood it … This was a kid hed been raising since he was 13 if I was in that situation, I probably wouldve been a little overprotective too. (Braun is now Bears manager as well.)

Poo Bear and Bieber eventually collaborated on Journals, an unassuming compilation of mostly R&B singles released at the end of 2013. It was never intended to be a commercial hit, says Bear; Bieber was exercising some creative freedom and taking tentative steps out of child-stardom a transition to which Poo Bear proved crucial.

People always say, I wasnt really feeling Justin, but it wasnt really for them. It was always for kids and little girls. When Journals came out, it opened up the world to this other side of Justin that we never knew existed.

Most Top 40 hits are collaborations between producers, who make the beat, and top-line writers such as Poo Bear, who come up with melodies and lyrics. Photograph: Dustin Downing

At that time, Bieber was almost exclusively known for abandoning his pet monkey to customs officials, spitting on fans from a balcony, and urinating in a restaurants mop bucket.

Theres no time for failure; theres no money for failure, the producer Scott Storch, with whom Poo Bear collaborated closely between 2005 and 2008, says in Afraid of Forever.

Compared to the songwriting-by-committee approach and safer bets such as the Swedish hit-making powerhouse Max Martin Biebers insistence on working with the relatively unknown Poo Bear constituted a risk, and at a time when his future was at stake.

The foundations for Biebers comeback were laid in a whole campaign devised by Scooter Braun, says Bear: The [Comedy Central] roast and everything that was all Scooters idea.

Poo Bear and singer-songwriter Justin Bieber at Poo Bears Grammy Party at Serafina Sunset on February 10, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. Photograph: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images

But public relationships could only do so much: it would take a hit to cement Biebers return, and that pressure was on Poo Bear.

The breakthrough was Where R Now?, imagined by Bear as a piano ballad. Then Skrillex turn it into a movie, he says, almost with awe.

Skrillex and his fellow producer Diplo had heard the demo of the track, and expressed interest in it as a single for their upcoming collaboration as Jack .

In their hands, the wistful ballad became springy and cinematic, with a throbbing beat and a dolphin-cry chorus that was revealed to be Biebers voice, digitally manipulated beyond recognition, in a slick New York Times video about its production.

Its influence is inescapable now; in February 2015, when it was released by Jack with Justin Bieber, it was utterly new. It literally changed music, says Bear. It took a while, but it ended up catching on. It was played, oh my God, so much on the radio.

Where R Now paved the way for What Do You Mean?, the lead single off Purpose and co-written by Bieber, Poo Bear and just one other. It was an immediate hit the first number-one of Biebers half-decade career and introduced to the charts the Caribbean-influenced tropical house sound now so ubiquitous, even Ed Sheeran has dabbled in it. (Its like, out of all the people, I would have thought you would be somebody to do something different, says Bear, slightly accusatorially.)

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Two more number-one singles followed, while Purpose itself debuted at number-one on the US Billboard 200 album chart. It topped album charts in 11 other countries, and was nominated for album of the year at the 2017 Grammys.

Bieber was back.

It was done, says Bear. Nobody could take it away from him. I dont know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.

With the momentum behind Bieber came unprecedented attention for Poo Bear, who gave the first extensive interview of his career to the New York Times in October 2015; at the time, he didnt even have a Wikipedia page.

At the same time, he is under no illusions that he is now a celebrity.

I like going out and having very few people coming up to me because they read the credits and they know, he says. I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and its great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, its a sacrifice of your own sanity.

He has, however, quadrupled his pre-Purpose fee in a bid to retain some exclusivity in the face of increased demand. Now he is working with Skrillex and UK singer-songwriter Sam Smith on projects that, he hopes, will throw out the sound he pioneered 18 months ago and which has been widely aped since. (He makes a conscious effort not to listen to popular music: its not inspiring.)

Finally, Ive reached a place where if Im working with an artist, they allow me to just do whatever I feel, he says. Growing up it was like, we want another Peaches and Cream. Then you realise … why would you want a 2001 Mercedes Benz when Im making 2018 Benzes?