#ramblings of a cloud

[chaoticcloudcommand2]

Both Lucifer and Satan are softer then all of ya'll say they are. The proof is in the cannon. They actually can be so sweet and gentle with MC it melts my heart 🥺

[acloudthatneedspraise]

It's really hard to find good MHA smut and I think it's because the fandom is full of a lot of young people and teenagers who lack expirence in everything. MHA is most young people's Homestuck. I understand and try to be patient as I remember my homestuck days but like! ughahhs... I just wanna read some good aizawa smut. Somthing not obviously written by a child. Something that doesn't involve the students. Something that's not an imagine with a bunch of charecters names at the bottom. I don't want a Twitter link. I want proper smut.

Ps. I could write it myself but that would take forever and I'm soo lazy.

[chaoticcloudcommand]

Can someone who actually worships or works with Lucifer, Asmodeus, Lilith, or any of them tell me what they think about the game Obey Me bc like after the fanfiction I have read about their namesakes I can never work with them.

[volos-wish]

Old not-vampire man struggles with technology and gets help from his boyfriends fursona

[beatrixblog]

I did the annoying pigeon meme..but with cookies….aaaaa

[rosy-crow]

Every time we joke about Sephiroth not knowing crass slang, I’m like “Hahaha yes this is joke” but then I remember that this kid….

LITERALLY DIDN’T KNOW THAT WHISTLING TO ROUND PEOPLE UP WAS A RUDE GESTURE FDGBHJS

I shouldn’t laugh because it’s horrible and clearly Hojo didn’t teach him how to socialize normally, but it’s funny how the “not being familiar with crass slang” thing would probably have been pretty accurate actually. He’s apparently suuuper polite speech-wise in the Japanese translation as a kid, but not as formal in CC, so hopefully Gen and Angeal taught him slang and whatever else.

[yukipri]

Solar Eclipse - April 8, 2024 - 90%!

Turns out slightly cloudy ended up PERFECT for Eclipse photos!

Did y'all see it?

[dreambutdontsleepx]

as a possessive, jealous Eddie Diaz truther I actually thing the jealousy switcheroo in buddie is incredibly appropriate.

buck can have other male friends besides Eddie, and he's completely fine about it, cause he's sure of his place in bucks life. he know he's buck's best friend, and would never replace him. he knows that besides Maddie, and the kids (Chris and jee) he's the most important person in bucks life.

When is Eddie jealous? when bucks gets a new girlfriend, when he partners up with Taylor for the treasure hunt instead of him. We see him being actively hostile. Cause that's a position Eddie doesn't fill in bucks life, a romantic partner (even though he wants to), so he's unsure of himself.

When is buck jealous? when Eddie gets new friends, we already saw that with Lena Bosko in season 3, cause buck is insecure of his role in Eddie's life (in pretty much every single life of his friends and family), he fears abandonment. He fears that someone will take his place as best friend. But when Eddie is with Ana, buck is calm in my opinion, he's stressed just cause he can see that Eddie is not happy.

all these words just to say that Eddie Diaz knows he's in love with his best friend, he's known for a long time, that's why he's jealous when buck has a romantic partner. while buck still has his eyes covered to the truth, and in his mind what he and eddie have is a totally normal besties relationship. that's why he's jealous and anxious when Eddie gets a friend.

[getvalentined]

So the imageset I posted of this really doesn't get Vincent's response across clearly enough, the way he flinches at Barret's comment is honestly heartbreaking. We can assume that Barret has no idea what he actually just said, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant for Vincent to hear.

Taking into account Barret's earlier response (wherein he called Vincent a "damn freak" and immediately starting shooting at him), plus the fact that none of the security systems in the Manor seem to even notice he's there (implying that he registers as a resident monster the same as all Hojo's other specimens, something I'll go into when I have the spoons for a big Hi Vincent I Love You Vincent post about Rebirth), this is...rough.

[sketchy-tour]

WH spoilers below the cut I just need to scream about it some more

BUT I CANT GET OVER THIS COMMERCIAL AND ITS ART STYLE ITS SO CUUUUUUTE AAWAAAAAAAH!!!! IM GONNA STARE AT IT!!! STUDY!!! I wanna draw Dandy in this sort of style so BAD!!!!!

ITS SO ROUND AND SQUISH SO PRECIOUS

[cloud-the-forgotten]

I love this game :D

[chaoticcloudcommand2]

This is my backup account!

Have you been wondering? "Hey! Wtf happened to Cloud? They dropped off the face of the earth!?" Well I assure you dear friend I am alive and well. My original account got terminated and I am having trouble getting it back.

Everytime I get banned from tumblr I'm gonna make the Dumpster fire larger

Cloud And Dumpster Fires

Hi, this is Cloud and welcome to my blog!

My original account was @chaoticcloudcommand and @acloudthatneedspraise so if you followed either of those accounts please follow me here as this is where I will be posting from now on until tumblr gives me back my original account (assuming they give it back).

Here you will find a ton of reblogs. I ramble. I create. There will be fanfic, fanart, and posts about my daily life. I'll laugh, I'll cry, maybe you want to join me? I don't take this blog very seriously so neither should you. I am not a serious person.

I reblog alot of things so to keep it all organized I have a tag system that I sometimes follow. Self tag is #cloud speaks. Shit posts will be tagged with #shitpost. Under #Ramblings of a cloud, my thoughts on various fandom related things. I tag my own fics with #Cloud's Fics for now until I get a masterlist going. Any asks are tagged with #Cloud Answers. I do my best to tag things accordingly.

Blog Rules bc apparently I have to have these:

🔞 Minors DNI. I don't care if you are 17 and think that is close enough. It's not. Please have your age in your blog bc if you don't I will assume you are under 18 and block you. I often post and reblog adult content and I am uncomfortable with the idea of children interacting with it through me.

If you are "pro-life" DNI. Get away from me with that fascist bullshit. You're a fascist and amoral person I hope you get swarmed by bees.

DNI if you are a TERF or any sort of LGBT+phobe.

DNI if you are or think "MAPS" Aka fucking pedos is a valid sexual orientation. It is not. I will physically fight you over this. If you are one of these types of people I sincerely hope you choke on a cock and die.

I will block anybody and everybody for the dumbest fucking reasons I do not give a single fuck. I once blocked someone because they said they didn't like pizza. I blocked someone last week because I didn't like their vibes. Don't get into an argument with me bc I will argue back and I will inevitably win bc I control the block button. No one is safe.

Masterlist

Sorry there is nothing here I lost my previous account so now I have no more fanfiction but im working on it.. I have to either rewrite it or just move on. Probably should've been smart and wrote it on Google docs or somthing first but it's too late now 🤷‍♀️

[chaoticcloudcommand]

I don't really consider the brothers as real "brothers", ya know? Like I don't think they're actually related. I think of it as like how the Greek gods are all related to eachother. Their relationships don't actually matter. I guess the best way to describe it is that I think they're a found family, battle buddies after the war. With the exception of beel and belphie bc they are explicitly described as twins and Satan and Lucifer bc homie literally birthed Satan out of rage but I digress.

[syrena-del-mar]

Dead Friend Forever Is More Than Just A 90s Slasher Film Imitation

Oh man, I went in thinking I would just get a whole lot of gore and murder, and instead I'm getting a buttload of social class distinction, parental issues, mental health crises, organized crime, and a highly-likely revenge plot line.

The thing about Dead Friend Forever is that it starts unassuming, almost like an copy of all other teen slashers from the 90s. A group of friends, up in a cabin and suspects to a potential murder, become hunted one-by-one. A cliche slasher plot if I ever heard one. Until it’s not. This show is taking up a very big corner of my brain, so I’m going to delve deeper into it.

If you haven't watched episode 6 yet, spoilers up ahead.

Pulling inspiration from 90s slasher re-inventor, Scream

The first four episodes really set up the expectation that DFF was going to be another slasher, seemingly particularly influenced by Scream (1996). Scream was a turning point for slasher movies, signaling a shift in from the movies of the 80s to that of the 90s. It was the first of many movies to allow for the characters to be self-aware of what genre they're working in, where the characters knew of the slasher-movie tropes and attempted to do everything right to survive. Scream is also the first slasher to truly humanize the killers, and I don't mean by making them empathetic, but rather the killers were human, so they made human mistakes. Prior to Scream, the antagonists in slasher films were usually this supernatural villain that was just murder-hungry. But in Scream, the killers are all just regular people and would often make mistakes on their way to kill the protagonists, like a normal human would. It's why Scream was scary, the killer could be anyone, it wasn't this supernatural being. And even when you're making the right choices to escape, you still end up dead.

In Dead Friend Forever, we're getting so many of the same tropes that Scream had subverted. The group is working understanding exactly what they're facing; Fluke warning to not pull out the stake inside Por, Top wanting to split up in the temple while Phee, Jin and Tan veto against it expressly stating it would be like the horror movies, White not wanting to be left behind in the cabin. They all know what they shouldn't be doing while there is a killer on the loose. Also, it's why there's these funny little moments of the killer in DFF (i.e. having to steal the motorcycle to get back to the cabin). I'm not completely convinced that there isn't any paranormal activity or at least some type hallucinogen-component at play, but the way the killer acts is very human-like. Not to mention the parallel of Barcode (arguably the most popular actor in the show) getting slashed in the first minute of the show, eerily similar to how in the opening scene of Scream, Drew Barrymore (the most well-known of the cast) gets killed immediately.

The Benefits of Series Format versus Movie Format

The series format is where I think Dead Friend Forever is really shining the most. @wen-kexing-apologist made an awesome post on the directorial direction this show is taking, particularly in how since the first four episodes we have very little context as to why the killings are occurring or even the state of everyone's relationship, we're freely able to form opinions on each character. Similarly, prior to getting to know what happened to Non, I also thought Tee was the better one of the group. But here we are, two episodes later and I find him to be the most detestable of the bunch (which says something, when Por and Top are competing in this category).

We're seeing and experiencing the absolute hell that this friend group had actively made (sans Jin and Fluke that suffer from the bystander effect) Non's life out to be. In a regular slasher movie, especially ones that model themselves after Scream, we find out why the Killer is doing what he's doing to the victims in the last quarter of the movie, but the emotional value is a little skewed. The little amount of time we spend learning about what the victims did to the Killer usually still leaves you feeling at least a smidge of pity for the victims and some joy that the Final Girl made it. Here, the mass consensus is that each and every one of them should die.

And it comes back to the luxury of spending several episodes in a flashback to what lead up to the killings after the game of cat-and-mouse has begun. We're introduced to Non as an outsider, where everyone, but Jin, has already formed a bad opinion of Non. They already have a brutal nickname for him (read @forkaround's awesome analysis on the term 'Greasy'). They already established that he's an outsider in the classroom, but they make an active point of only referring to him as 'Greasy' and Non just accepts it. We see the friend group frame him, causing him to spiral twice to point of suicide, proceed to prey on him into a money laundering scheme, get him caught in a criminal investigation, all while already undergoing mental health treatment. We're given that time to know and see the pain that Non is caused, the manipulation that he is put under, and ultimately the devastation that they've caused.

Dead Friends Forever is more than just another teen slasher, because it has time. And it's using its time wisely, giving us bits and pieces of information in the beginning before delving into something more sinister than the killer on the loose, the original five. Run-of-the-mill bullying has turned into framing, assault and other criminal activity, even murder. And yet, while Non is the one that has disappeared (or died), the other five have been able to make a life for themselves without suffering any of the consequences. It's showing exactly what they have done to deserve everything that is coming to them.

Final Thoughts

Man, Be on Cloud is truly blowing it out of the water with this show. I'm actually a bit sad that it's only barely starting to get the recognition that it deserves, because in my opinion, it's just that good, BUT I also understand why it's had a sleepy start. It's in an place, a BL in one sense, but not exactly a BL in any other. I've said it before, but no matter what you think of BOC as a management company, the stories that they tell are unique and they have the artists that are competent enough to deliver. Be on Cloud has, allegedly, allowed the writers take the reign on the show, even if this means messing with the couples, so even more chaos is going to occur. This is, frankly, exciting to see and experience the story as they want it to be told.

I said this when I first saw Barcode in KinnPorsche deliver that heartbreaking cry, that boy knows how to cry. He was a newbie and his stole that scene. Now this is his third show under his belt and his acting chops only continue to improve, I truly can't wait to see what more he is able to do here in Dead Friend Forever. I love that Sammon is also enjoying what Barcode has able to bring forth in Non and that all her worries have been eased. I truly think that Barcode is going to have an incredible career ahead of him, whether in music or in acting.

Ta, on the other hand, also deserves his share of accolades. I wasn't sure of how to read to Phee in the first four episodes, but with the information that episode 6 has given us? The picture has cleared significantly and now, having rewatched his scenes, everything makes sense on why he seemed to be conniving. Episode 6 had some of the strongest performances and yet the biggest gasp I made was in the last minute. The singular tear rolling down Phee's cheek after having to perform the two-finger method, to have Non throw up the pills, and holding him in his arms? Quite literally jaw-dropping.

Sammon has a strong repertoire of shows, so I have complete faith that she knows what she's doing for Dead Friend Forever. I hope this becomes as much of a cult favorite, much like Manner of Death and Triage.

Anyways if you need me, I'll probably be stuck thinking about PheeNon for the next week until episode 7 airs.

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

I had to make a height lineup for some art I’m planning called “characters that had huge impacts on me as a teenager” and I just had to stop for a second because like this

this is. very funny to me

[turning-the-kaleidoscope]

I love that mp100 is a story about self-acceptance and not self-love.

self-love is a loaded concept and it’s very, very hard and I’d dare even say impossible for most people to attain. and even if you attain it one day who’s to say it won’t be gone tomorrow? What does it mean to “love yourself”? I tried to “love myself” for many, many years and consistently failed not just to achieve it, but also to explain it. And even within “self-love” there were always parts of myself that I hated.

Self-acceptance is more neutral than that. Self-acceptance is “yeah, I do have parts of myself that I wish were different and that I might work to change. But I am this person and this person is me—and that’s okay. I don’t have to love it. I don’t have to hate it. If I love it that’s okay. If I hate it that’s okay. I can just be me, honest, and move forward in the ways that seem fit.”

It’s a more hopeful outlook on the self. It’s an attainable outlook on the self.

Self-acceptance lets us move forward.