#reposting old art but i will never not make fun of her for her incredibly pretentious opinions about the local mall's architectural design

[egophiliac]

Okay so I've been wanting to tell you that you're literally my favourite twst artist 😭🩷

So my question is, how do you manage to come up with these funny comics? CUZ I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

(P.s: Lovin' the art style ✨)

oh geeze, thanks! 💚💚💚 I'm really glad people enjoy my stupid sense of humor; mostly I just draw things to make myself laugh, and if it makes other people laugh too, then bonus points! usually it's just one joke or mental image that gets stuck in my head (every time I saw Fellow spin his cane, all I could think about was him go-go-gadgeting away on it...) and in my quest to justify it, it picks up other jokes and bits along the way and usually doesn't even end up as the main focus anymore. entire narrative arcs have spun out just so I could use a single bad pun in a throwaway line. this is a terrible way to explain it but I'm not sure how else to put it into words!

and sometimes it's just "weird things my sister has said that I make fun of her for"

[moeblob]

I normally don't repost my art like this but since most of these are just posted as one picture I also don't wanna reblog a lot of posts. So! Please look at my Dream Wardens. I love them so much.

For the outfit meme thing btw, I would like to point out they don't really need sleep and they exist to work so no need for fun outfits. HOWEVER! Marcus and Colette's ties are the other's eye colors. Sil and Luce have gray ties because Luce was more recent (still a hundred years of partnership) so it's pretty much "you're being scored to make sure you can keep the job" and they eventually would get ties to match the other's eyes color.

The basic premise is! They live in a realm filled with dreams which they have to keep watch over to make sure don't escape. Whether dreams or nightmares, they must be contained. So it's kind of like a prison - each person has a cell that contains their dreams. There are.... a lot of wardens. But each "floor" has eight wardens and it's a circle where the wardens work in pairs. So Marcus and Colette are the focused pair and then they make rounds, they'll end the shift in a rest area where they either hang out with Luce and Sil or Sophia and Ruby. Those are the four they interact with while those four have another duo that they meet on their rounds.

The wardens cannot die. Literally impossble. They can get injured but it heals really quickly. So while Marcus would prefer to not be impaled (again) it wouldn't actually kill him. He'd just be sore.

They also just do not age. So they're centuries old. That said, for a while Colette had a different partner who retired and she got Marcus... and Marcus was incredibly quiet and reserved and scared of messing up for like 10 years before he started to warm up to her. (Time do be feelin' different there) And then he opens up a bit to Sil and Robert who was his partner at the time. And then hundreds of years pass and Marcus is super comfy with them (Sophia and Ruby still intimidate him a bit but that's different) and suddenly! No more Robert. Now it's Luce. And Marcus spends five years avoiding any and all conversations with him because oh no he's hot. Sil gets interrogated by Luce because "have I offended him in some way? he won't even look at me" and Sil is just "dude's shy. took him ages to warm up to me and my previous partner" and eventually Marcus laughs at something Colette says and Luce is like "ohhhhh nooooo I'm doomed he's so cute". While the entire time Marcus has been refusing to attempt conversation because "no he's handsome I'm doomed since I'm bad at conversations".

And they mention Robert sometimes (Colette, Marcus, and Sil) around Luce and Marcus seems chill about it. But then Marcus gets a serious injury that will recover but it would impact his job too much to patrol without a head so they send a temp replacement and it's Robert. And Sil is like "oh oh trade you Luce for my old partner give him" and Colette "are you kidding? you had him for sooooo long I wanna patrol with Robert now! it's only gonna be a little while!" and Robert just .... doesn't wanna be there. And when Marcus is fit to return he begs the people in charge of their routes to NOT LET ROBERT LEAVE until he can say hi and they let him. Unfortunately it involves Marcus busting into the break room saying "ROBBIE ROB!" and Robert sighing but standing up and extending his arms for a hug. Two pats on Marcus' back. and "okay bye". Luce is left in absolute despair cause he's never seen Marcus that happy oh boy.

Anyway my dream wardens mean a lot to me and I really miss them now.

[outerexpanse]

downpour headcanons + designs :)

Thoughts on each under the cut, some contain direct spoilers. (Lots of writing)

Note for pronouns listed: These are just my HCs, use whatever you prefer or see fit. :)

Gourmand: She/He/They Full of love and oh so happy with life. Simply went out into the world for FUN and to learn more, why not? Respected and highly regarded at the Home Tree as one of the smartest slugcats around. Coming up with ways to make meals more filling is always important with so many slugcats! Gourmand returns with many regions mapped out, and thus gives way to more slugcats to explore as groups and create homes for themselves. Teaches about the taming of lizards, and to take care when doing so. What was an incredible enemy can make a greater ally. All around a very positive, happy-go-lucky slug to me.

Artificer: She/Her I wanted her to design to be .. fire-esque with the markings like flames in a way. Obviously very troubled, so incredibly lonely because of it as well. She's afraid of connections, what if the past repeats? It would hurt too much. That SAID.. she will find her way to Outer Expanse and be welcomed with open arms. Prior, I think she was apart of a small nomadic family of slugcats so the Home Tree is something else entirely new. Arti could, in this scenario, take on the role of a community mother in a way. There's still fear of the past coming back in new ways, but in this she begins to open up more and becomes adoptive mother to slugpups whose parents have been lost in some form. I just think!! She deserves the world!!! She gets to relax. No more Situations.

Rivulet: She/He/They Somewhat based on how some aquatic animals have a whiter tummy to blend in to creatures below them in the water, and a darker upper body to camouflage to those looking down in the water. (A bit difficult with all the pink, I wanted to keep that on her though..) Very kind :) she loves to bring gifts to Moon, and periodically pays visits to 5P for as long as he still lives. I like to think they also lived with Moon until they passed themselves. Spent a ton of time listening to Moon reading the pearls he found out in the world, and exchanging stories (perhaps via writing..??) that they both have. Softanthiel still hangs around, primarily used as a way to gauge the danger of potential threats to the tree.

Spearmaster: It/They/He Definitely Looks like a slugcat but with something Wrong (on the wrong blueprints in a way). It is taller and longer than the average slugcat. Leaning more into the bodyshape it has in game (bowling pin looking ass) I’d say it has a harder time retaining fat through a liquid diet and constant movement as a messenger. Built quite sleek, I’d picture it with an agility somewhere between Artificer and Rivulet. Spearmaster has nasty little "spots" on his tail so why not give him little freckles too? SRS did not give SM a mouth, so, to me I think that he would be taught sign language. ASL (Ancient Sign Language) would no doubt be something stored and memorized on various pearls. Given its time around an Iterator it would also know how to read/write in the Ancient's language. I feel like they'd be quite a bit lonely.

Saint: They/He To me, they are a distant descendant of Monk. Their fur is very soft, almost like downy feathers in a way. Absolutely vital to their survival in the now frigid wasteland. Keen to grooming themself like a cat would! The echoes are old friends, a familiar warmth. Seeing them is like visiting family, of which Saint no longer has now. Definitely nomadic, never stays in a den for longer than three cycles. Lanterns are tucked into fur for ease of travelling with free hands. :) He's round and spotted because I love him so much!!

WHEW ok thats all. feel free to share your thoughts :)

note that i dont mind these designs being used or designs inspired by them but i would like my art to NOT be reposted.

[angeli-marco-writes]

Ann’s Old Masterlist

UNUSED AS OF JULY 2021 - Current masterlist here

Rules for my page. PSA.

All works are original and legally my own. Do not repost. More works coming soon: each Saturday currently, schedule will change.

Please read the warnings at the top of every post: Items marked 18+ are mature/smut, and I don’t recommend you read if you are under eighteen, but it’s up to you to mediate your media consumption. The warnings you heed are entirely your responsibility. 

Disclaimer: I do not know any of the people I write about, nor do I claim to, and I simply write about fictional figments of them. The fictional worlds I write within (the MCU, Harry Potter etc.) I do not own either, I do not own the characters or the settings, but merely write about a further fictional figment.

I currently only write Fem!reader. Works marked Ღ are the most popular. My inbox is open to requests but they may take a while to get a response.

Ann's TS 200 blurb event! (Mini Masterlist)

Regulus Black

Romeo, Juliet & Quidditch

Summary: One very eventful Quidditch final can do more than Regulus and his Juliet ever imagined; strengthening family ties, Y/N's mind, and Reg's feelings all at once.

Charlie Weasley

Secret. (18+)

Summary: You have a secret regarding the dragon taming Weasley. The only issue is that he sees you as the child you were a few years ago. When you become legal, he seems to seek you out wherever you are. Maybe he has a secret too.

Couple Blurbs

Lily & James Potter - First Kiss.

Summary: When Lily sees a new side of James, she thinks maybe falling for him isn’t so bad after all.

Albus & Scorpius - Before You Go.

Summary: At the 5th year prom, Albus and Scorpius find they can’t hold back their feelings anymore. Just one dance, before you go

Bill & Fleur - Our Spot.

Summary: After the final task, Fleur finds herself in despair, and goes to the only spot she can think of to unwind, not expecting to be approached by a handsome stranger.

Dean & Seamus - At Last.

Summary: Years of tiptoeing around one another and hidden feelings come to a head when Seamus finds a stack of art beneath Dean's bed. At last, something might happen.

Doctor Stephen Strange

ᲦBaby Blues & Tattoos (18+)

Summary: After a tiring mission, the last thing you want to do is have to crash at a hotel, especially with the cockiest man alive. Will things change with the fact there's only one bed on such a sleepless night?

Loki Laufeyson

ᲦDress.

Summary: This dance between you and Loki has been going on for far too long. The night of the palace ball gives you the chance to make your next move, wearing the dress you bought only for him to take it off.

Peter Parker, Spider-Man

Everything Happens for a Reason.

Summary: Stark!Reader x Peter Parker, post endgame. Months after the death of your father, your aunt, and your uncle, you find yourself in a sticky situation, and to make it even worse, your childhood crush doesn’t even recognise you now. Then again, doing most of your growing up while half of the population is dead doesn’t exactly bode well for your love life nor your commitment issues. When things finally start to turn around while learning to live with a disability, will you still be taken away to live with your step mother, or will love pan out at last? After all, everything happens for a reason.

Steve Rogers, Captain America

Promise? (18+)

Summary: Being an apprentice at the Avengers Tower is never easy, especially not when you make a promise to your favourite person there and fail to keep it, through no fault of your own. In a matter of seconds, your world comes crumbling around, but Steve seems to come around in order to pick up the pieces.

Clint Barton, Hawkeye

Rough. (18+)

Summary: After the snap, you never think you’ll see Clint again. Hanging around the tower alone day in and day out becomes tiring, especially when your hormones are in overdrive and you can’t stop thinking about the one avenger you haven’t yet had in bed, until he walks through the door more attractive than ever. (Seriously read the warnings for this, it’s very kinky).

Tom Hiddleston

Ღ BAFTAs.

Summary: Tom thieves your panties after you rile him up the night of the BAFTAs, and he doesn't anticipate the consequences of keeping underwear in his pocket on the red carpet. (Definitely mature with heavy implications, but no explicit smut)

Ღ Stripped Sunday

Summary: Sunday's are always the best, especially when you and Tom walk around the house nude, but it's been a while. Too long a while. So, obliviously, you take matters into your own hands...

NSFW Alphabet. (18+)

Summary: An incredibly explicit NSFW alphabet about Tom Hiddleston, detailing his deepest fantasies and darkest truths; or how I imagine them to be, at least.

Tom Holland

Just Friends?

Summary: You and Tom have been best friends for a long time, and inseparable for just as long. The boys welcome you as one of their own, and you’re basically a part of the family. That’s your main issue, because when you begin to harbour feelings for your best friend, you’re not sure if he feels the same.

Harrison Osterfield

Quarantine. (18+)

Summary: Quarantine with a bunch of sex deprived twenty-odd year old boys isn’t your idea of fun, especially not when the only one you want refuses to pay even the slightest bit of attention. Taking measures into your own hands is only simple until you get caught.

A Happy Day (& A Puppy)

Summary: Today is the day you and Haz get a puppy. It's the next big step in your relationship, and despite your anxieties, you know it's a happy day.

Sebastian Stam

The Ballet Teacher.

Summary: Ballet teacher!reader. Sebastian's daughter attends a very prestigious ballet school, but when she's late out one day, the last thing he expects to happen is to meet her wonderful new teacher, who has him head over heels.

Timothée Chalamet

Ღ Concerto. (18+)

Summary: At a classical music concert, the last person you expect to meet is a young man as charming and suave as Timothée. And the last thing you expected is for him to invite you back to his flat. Turns out music really is food for the soul, and other things...

Fair Game. 

Summary: Your boyfriend, Tim, has hurt you for the last time. You didn’t realise you could ever feel this broken, especially because of someone you once loved so much, but maybe, just maybe, it’s for the best.

Tom Felton

Risk.

Summary: After your break up, one that pained you to the bone, you try to escape and you find yourself taking that one risk you always thought you should, travelling. A simple day out, and the one person you don’t want to see is the one person who can help you with your car troubles. Could he help with your heart troubles too, over a reminiscent dinner perhaps?

Baby on the Brain.

Summary: Visiting Tom’s brother and his new baby should be a walk in the park, really, but some unwitting truths come to ahead that you can’t refute. You’ve always wanted a family, but does Tom? (Request for Tom Felton: you guys meet his brother's new baby and then decide to have your own.)

Elizabeth Debicki

Gorgeous.

Summary: Elizabeth is gorgeous, just look at her, the world can see it. A drunken night leads to some tipsy confessions, but does Elizabeth feel the same?

Christmas Morning. (18+)

Summary: Christmas morning in a hidden wintry lodge is everything you could’ve dreamed of. Then again, it’d be perfect even without the setting and the heating, because all you want for Christmas is Elizabeth, and that she gives you. Wholly.

Reunion Revenge. (18+)

Summary: At first, when your brother roped you into attending your high school reunion with your wife, you hated the idea. Now, all eyes are on you, all the focus on your career, and maybe this is the revenge you always needed, of course aided by Liz's quick thinking and hidden surprises.

Hailee Steinfeld

Live.

Summary: The first night of Hailee's tour, you're a guest singer... and her girlfriend. Everything will go to plan, surely, even when she looks that good and sings that well...

Sherlock Holmes

Ღ Kiss Me, Mr Detective. (18+)

Summary: After a fight with John leaves Sherlock feeling particularly down, he calls on the one person who is always there to support him. Only tonight, it’s different. Feelings come to a head, exploration ensues, but is this just a one time thing? That depends on whether she stays the night…

Chuck Bass

Safe.

Summary: A small British village version of Constance & St Jude’s. The aftermath of your drive home from Saturday’s house party becomes haunting and brings out a new side in you. Not that you’re complaining, especially not when you have the well-versed Chuck Bass as your friend and safety. 

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[bulletballet-arch]

REALLY LONG  CHARACTER  SURVEY. RULES. repost ,   don’t  reblog !    tag 10 ! good  luck ! TAGGED. I took this from Minnie’s archived Bioshock blog. I’ve been looking for this meme all this month. TAGGING. @hammurabicomplex. @bluuxriising. @ Me - for Sal on @bulletsoverbensonhurst​. @immaterialed (charlie) @soypeor (bella) @svmmercmance​. @mrflayed. and you!

BASICS. FULL  NAME :  Eve Delores Littlejohn NICKNAME : Evie, Little Evie (by her maternal side of the family), Delores, Didi NAME  MEANING / S  Eve is from the ancient Hebrew name  חַוָּה (Chawwah), which was derived from the Hebrew word חָוָה (chawah) meaning "to breathe" or the related word חָיָה (chayah) meaning "to live". Delores is a variant of Dolores, meaning "sorrows", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows." Littlejohn is a surname that has historically been found in England and Scotland. With potential origins being either ‘to distinguish a beloved child that was not the eldest.’ Or, ‘a contradictory nickname for a large man.’ HISTORICAL  CONNECTION? : She’s named after her grandmother, Evelyn Hollins.

AGE : 42 BIRTHDAY :  June 2 ETHNIC  GROUP : Black-American. Meaning she’s mixed with a lot (Some of her relatives are respectively Creole and Italian) but uses Black as a catch-all term. NATIONALITY :  American LANGUAGE / S : English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, some French SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :   Bisexual ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION :  Biromantic RELATIONSHIP  STATUS : Verse dependent, usually married -or connected- to Salvatore Scozzari in some way. CLASS : Upper-Class HOME  TOWN / AREA :   Brooklyn. Spent time between Bedford-Stuyvesant - with her paternal grandfather and Park Slope - with her maternal grandparents.  CURRENT  HOME : In her childhood home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. PROFESSION : Ballet Instructor. Former Professional Ballerina. ( Other verses see her as a professional thief. )

PHYSICAL. HAIR : Black. In terms of her natural hair, Eve has springy, 3C hair she seldom shows off because she was raised in a family where straightened hair was deemed presentable and professional.  EYES : Thin almond eyes. Dark brown. NOSE : Straight and small. FACE :  She has a prominent, high forehead, that’s accented with high cheekbones and a pointy chin. LIPS :  Full. COMPLEXION : She has a light brown (tawny) complexion.  SCARS : None major. TATTOOS : None. HEIGHT : 5′4″ BUILD : Eve has a slender build. One of those people who have been small and petite since childhood. Despite this, she also stays skinny because she is obsessively conscious of the food she consumes. The older she gets the more she weighs, however. USUAL HAIR STYLE :  Her hair is cut short. Reaching her shoulders in a neat, even bob. She either curls it in a retro fashion or curls the tips. For work she wears it in a traditional, pinned bun. USUAL FACE LOOK : In public, she appears stoic for the most part. Any emotion shown (such as the length of a smile) is carefully calculated. She has to seem perfect.  USUAL  CLOTHING : Form fitting dresses. Incredibly chic and fashionable for the time. Shoes include heels - never open-toed, unless she has on stockings. Extravagant earrings. Jewelry that can include either necklaces, crosses, pearls, or dainty rings. Prone to wearing black sunglasses in public.

PSYCHOLOGY. FEAR / S : Thunderstorms, airplanes, creatures like weasels, snakes and ferrets, break-ins, men she doesn’t know, harm coming to her children ASPIRATION / S :  Formerly wanted to become a major [black] ballerina in the elite world of ballet, now she just wants to expose more [inner city children] to dance through her job. Personally, she wants her children to change the world in some form or fashion, too. Eve also has good ideas on improving the community, but at the moment has no idea how to go about these ideas. POSITIVE  TRAITS :  Generous, compassionate, patient, protective NEGATIVE  TRAITS : Strict, sullen, hard to read, represses her emotions, secretive MBTI :  Advocate - INFJ-T ZODIAC :  Cancer TEMPERAMENT :  Melancholic ANIMALS :  Lioness VICE / S :  Pride & Lust FAITH : Christian. Grew up Baptist, but Catholic influences have been around her since childhood. Attended a Catholic High School in Park Slope, her grandmother Evelyn was also a practicing Catholic.  GHOSTS ? : Yes and no. She feels that objects formerly owned by the deceased posses the essence of their previous owners and that they essentially live on through these pieces of property. AFTERLIFE ? : Yes. REINCARNATION ? :  No, but it’s a romantic concept. ALIENS ? : No. POLITICAL  ALIGNMENT :  Democratic ECONOMIC  PREFERENCE :  She likes being where she’s at now. But honestly, being upper class is all she’s ever known. SOCIOPOLITICAL  POSITION : Bourgeoisie, basically. The Littlejohn’s represent The Historical Black Elite.  EDUCATION  LEVEL : College level. FAMILY.

FATHER :  William ‘Bill’ Littlejohn MOTHER : Linda Littlejohn ( nee Hollins ) SIBLINGS : None EXTENDED  FAMILY : Amos Littlejohn (paternal grandfather) Liza Littlejohn (paternal grandmother) Evelyn Hollins (maternal grandmother) Giuseppe D’Aietti (maternal grandfather) and a wide host of cousins, aunts and uncles.

FAVOURITES. BOOK :  Night Song by Beverly Jenkins. The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Some sort of old, French erotic novel that was published before she was born. MOVIE : Eve watches films along the lines of...Waiting to Exhale, Beaches, The First Wives Club and Fatal Attraction. She loves Made-For-TV movies from the time period. In regards to plays, her favorite one is Sunday In The Park With George. 5  SONGS :  Meet Me On The Moon / Essence of Sapphire / No One In The World / People / The First Time I Saw Your Face  DEITY :  Persephone  HOLIDAY : New Years Eve, Christmas, Thanksgiving. Major holidays during the colder season. MONTH :  October SEASON :  Autumn PLACE :  The dance studio she works at. WEATHER : Sunny, but cool. SOUND : The voices of Anita Baker and Sarah Vaughn. A skilled hand running over piano keys. Soft trumpets. Running water. Cats making chipper little meows. SCENT / S :  Perfume, floral scented lotions, her partner’s cologne TASTE / S :  Caramel, the tang of dark chocolate, strawberries coated with either chocolate, or sprinkles of white sugar. Light Vinegar.  FEEL / S : Performing in front of an audience. Hot water engulfing your skin after a long day. Satin - whether it be the fabric of her clothes or sheets, your fingers tightly intertwined with another’s, feeling your significant other’s chest raise and lower against your skin with each breath they take. ANIMAL / S : Cocker Spaniels, Afghan Hounds, Cats, Birds - she loves all ( well, a majority ) of animals. NUMBER :  Doesn’t have one. COLOR :  White, Pink, Gold.

EXTRA. TALENTS :  Dance, Eve is trained in ballet when it comes to her main verse. She has attended ballet classes since the age of eight and ever since then she placed all of her focus into it. Similarly, Eve has always had the makings of a good artist - as a child she enjoyed drawing and had informal art lessons with a man who lived in the basement of her grandfather’s brownstone, but she never invested into that half of her. BAD AT : Singing, Being interviewed, Public Speaking (as in Speech Giving), Decision Making TURN  ONS :  Charisma, Leadership Skills, Temperature Play, Phone Sex, Heavy Kissing, Light Roleplay TURN  OFFS :  Public Sex, Tearing [ Her ] Clothes, Threesomes, Cruelty, Senseless Violence HOBBIES :  viewing plays & some musicals, reading romance novels, shopping, working out (she was into the whole celebrity VHS tape exercise trend), playing tennis, decorating AESTHETIC :  Vintage Black Glamour, Black Ballerinas, Champagne and Wine Glasses, Paintings by Melinda Byers and Edward 'Clay' Wright QUOTES :  "I'm bad with words, I hope you're good in reading eyes." / "There are truths I haven't even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys."

FC INFO. MAIN  FC / S : Lynn Whitfield ( A Thin Line Between Love & Hate ) ALT  FC / S : Kylie Bunbury ( Twisted ) OLDER  FC / S :  Lynn Whitfield ( Greenleaf ) YOUNGER  FC / S : N/A VOICE  CLAIM / S : Lynn Whitfield

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   if  you  could  write  your  character  your  way  in  their  own  movie ,   what  would  it  be  called ,  what  style  would  it  be  filmed  in ,  and  what  would  it  be  about ?       A1 : Recently I decided that if/when I try to write anything serious about Eve again, it’ll center on her being a jewel thief because it presents me more fun, and emotionally diverse, opportunities. That and I have a very specific cover image in my mind. Ideally, her adventures would be a series of books. I have no title in mind, no idea about how ‘it would be filmed’ ( although a style replicating 90s films would be excellent, film grain and all. ) but, I do have a bunch of plots in mind that I really don’t feel like typing out here.  

Q2 :   what  would  their  soundtrack / score  sound  like ?         A2 :  Her score would have a vintage sound (or a jazzy Spike Lee sound, if you will) with instrumentals by Dorothy Ashby (a Jazz Harpist) the Ahmad Jamal Trio, Pharaoh Sanders, Yusef Lateef and Tarika Blue. For music with lyrics, the soundtrack would include the likes of Julie London, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dionne Warwick.

Q3 :   why  did  you  start  writing  this  character ?   + Q4 :   what  first  attracted  you  to  this  character ? A3 :  Whenever I make NPCs for my character’s lives I actually can’t just let them just be NPCs. I start thinking about them too much. Developing them too much. And then I’m like, ‘wow! I really like this character!’ Eve was a different character when I began writing her, and likely wouldn’t be considered the same character as she was previously, if I told someone in real life who knows about my writing (like my grandma) about all the changes she has undergone. Originally Delores was a university professor, because I thought it could lead to interesting interactions with college-age muses. And her previous history with the mafia was also something interesting to tap in. But then I started thinking about what was realistic, what wasn’t realistic, what did I feel comfortable/interested writing? What didn’t I feel comfortable/interested in writing?  So as time went on, things would alter about this character. And the new things I came up with attracted me more. 

Q5 :   describe  the  biggest  thing  you  dislike  about  your  muse.         A5 :  I have a love/hate relationship with Eve’s quiet demeanor. On one hand, I think quieter characters need love and the ability to be fully dimensional but on the other hand, writing louder characters has always been more fun for me. But really, Eve’s guarded behavior makes writing her stressful in some cases with others because sometimes...if I’m going to be honest...people don’t know how to carry a thread and interact with someone of her demeanor effectively. 

Q6 :   what  do  you  have  in  common  with  your  muse ?       A6 : We’re both black, we’re both into art (although our exact interests and aesthetics with art differ)

Q7 :   how  does  your  muse  feel  about  you ?         A7 : Realistically she would think I need to take better care of myself.

Q8 :   what  characters  does  your  muse  have  interesting  interactions with ?   A8 :  We skippin’ this question.

Q9 :   what  gives  you  inspiration  to  write  your  muse ?       A9 : Films such as, “Waiting to Exhale,” “The Kitchen” and “Widows.” Books by Alice Walker, like “The Third Life of Grange Copeland” as well as her short story, “Roselily.” The historical mob figure Stephanie St. Clair.

Q10 :   how  long  did  this  take  you  to  complete ?       A10 : A few hours.

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get to know the mun ~!

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———  basics! ♡

(PEN)NAME: hannah / red / raven

PRONOUNS: she / her

ZODIAC SIGNS: virgo sun, scorpio moon

TAKEN OR SINGLE: hella single

———  three  facts! ♡

i horde art-of books like a dragon. current count around my art desk is 42 but i have maybe 4 or 5 over in my bookshelves that won’t fit in my desk drawers. if i hear an artist i love/follow is kickstarting a book, i’m on it. and i’m currently trying to slowly collect the Spectrum: Fantastic Art series as well as the annual Illustration series published by Shoeisha. in addition to art-of books, i also love collecting enamel pins and old fashion keys. i really love keys.

my favorite pokemon types are ghost types, and i tend to prefer sticking to the first 2 generations (though i have a handful of later generation pokemon i like, the designs just don’t tickle my quite as much). my FAVORITE would probably be haunter, if i had to choose. also i’ve had pokemon: moon for... cripes, 3 or 4 years? and i’ve barely gotten past getting my rowlet because i kept starting the game over because i really wanted a female, goddamnit. she’s mine, now. ...i just gotta actually give myself permission to play the actual game l m a o.

my webcomic is totally gonna give it away but i have a fascination with forests, trees, and especially old/ancient trees. i can’t quite put it into words, but the concept of a living thing being so MASSIVE and looming, winding, tall and beautiful whilst being thousands of years old... like... what stories can you tell? what have you seen? what have you lived through, felt, sheltered--just... a really love trees and what they can symbolize and/or bring to a story. and the idea of an old forest... auhaufhdskgd.

———  experience ! ♡

been RPing since ye ol’ neopets days (i wanna say i was 11-13?). went from there to RPing in various chat spaces on deviantart, then mostly did one-on-ones  with my bestie, JM, over skype and nowadays discord. think i joined the tumblr RPC early my freshman year of college? with this blog, actually (the original blog is now archived but same handle, same muse). aaaand a decade later i am stillll hereeeee.

———  muse preference !  ♡

can’t say i have one, really? i’ve written a super wide range of personalities over the years and tons of canon AND OCs alike. most of my tumblr muses have been canon, but this is mostly because OC blogs tend to take more leg work (icons, detailed bios, etc; seriously you guys are badasses) and since i started RPing around here in college going forward i generally just... don’t have the free time anymore to dedicate to the stuff OC blogs need. my free time goes toward my comic and other art because i really would like to make THAT my career, and i can’t justify to myself spending time i could be putting into that into an RP blog. --and i really hope that doesn’t come off as “dissing” OC blogs because seriously you guys are fucking incredible and in a lot of ways i do envy you because i wish i had the time and headspace to write my OCs around here--i love dol, but christ, sometimes it comes to the end of the day and you realize he’s not your own actual character and it all just feels super hollow lmfao. i continue to be in awe of the OCs i encounter around here. one of these days i’m gonna write a strongly worded letter of love.

———  FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT! ♡    

FLUFF: fluff is my shit. let me write disgustingly wholesome sweetness all day. i’ll give all you bitches cavities. you’ll hate me for it. my blog doesn’t come with dental, i’m so sorry, i’ll make it up to you somehow. GOD, i’m fluff deprived right now.

ANGST: i’m chill with angst so long as i get breaks. >xD it’s great for development and character exploration and all that jazz but as soon as we get grimdark for grimdark’s sake, i start checking out. i just. i can’t. i’m too tired, the world’s on fire, how ‘bout yours, that’s the way i like it and i never get bored.

SMUT: my willingness to write smut is 100% dependent on my relationship with the other mun, tbh. i was a bit looser with this when i started RPing and i kind of regret that in the sense that i think i let myself get pressured into it because tumblr RPing was newww and my partner and i were excited about our shiiiip and suddenly things were happeniiiiing, and now i’m like. ...idk, i just need to feel completely safe and in transparent communication with the mun before we can do that. it doesn’t help that i’m sex-repulsed and, while there’re some aspects of smut that i don’t bat an eye at there are others that’ll squick me out real fast. i got nothin’ against how often or unoften anyone else partakes, but ya gurl just needs that solid ground on a mun-to-mun level, y’feel.

PLOT / MEMES: i’m totally grand with either, my guy--i love plotted stuff with a basic “outline” of events that we just let our characters find their way through like they were on a roadtrip OR just ... throwing them to the wind and seeing what happens organically. sometimes meme-starters can take real interesting character turns, sometimes plots just up and die... LONG AS WE’RE HAVIN’ FUN.

tagged by: stolen from @aemiliiu​ because eeehhhhHHHHH??? it mundai.

tagging: i stole it, you steal it

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Okay but it literally, LEGALLY, isn't classified as sim cp. You don't have to look at it if you want. And none of those things on that list are okay: antis shouldn't be sending death threats, babes shouldn't be either. Name calling is also out of the window because its childish and stupid. And making fun of people or invalidating their identities is wrong too. But I dlnt think you understand that /both/ sides do all that. You cant sit here and have a double standard like that.

oh i understand perfectly well

i just dont think you do

yeah the behavior in both sides can be pretty crummy but if you literally think that people shouldnt be called out for tolerating this sort of behavior that is literally harmful to so many people myself fucking included like oh fuck would i have loved to have never had to look at the content but its all the fuck over the place and so many of the shippers are so fucking entitled and so conceited that they are actively ASKING for it that one chicks ask box is a fucking taunt she lives for the attention good or bad

at this point I have a side that i favor because the other side sent my friend death threats sent me threats of violence belittled my mental health stole my friends art and maliciously reposted and edited their artwork that same side made incredibly upsetting artwork about causing harm to an actor i

the same side that bullied a fourteen year old after they had the nerve to speak up about the shit going on the same side that came for me for not knowing every single detail of said fourteen year olds very complex and not at all my business mental illness

the side that took something that gave me so much comfort and happiness and made me remember the abuse i endured when I was thirteen i hate that the internet is still such a ducking shitty place to be a lonely kid who just wants to be liked

the same side that writes romanticized rape and writes a black lgbt+ character being a subject of abuse the same side who thinks stories of characters of color need to struggle and endure pain for it to be a valid piece of writing or the side that talks down to young people and minors and then turning around and writing graphic content involving a teenage girl

a side that includes a transmed guy who is so vile that i honest to god use the word hate to describe me feelings for him

but yeah the side that pointed out that maybe saying that you basically only view women as sex objects in that you would perform sex acts for compensation with them but not actually pursue relationships with is a problematic statement or maybe the jewish teenager who asked someone to stop throwing the term nazi around THOSE are the real villains of the story theyre the ones that need to be taught a damn lesson jesus h christ

if you are still talking about the rae biphobia fiasco literally none of us ever said she wasnt bi that I know of i know i didnt we simply pointed out that what she said was an inherantly biphobic statement being lgbt+ doesnt mean you cant belittle other identities look at nasti and how he feels about the trans experience as if he owns the damn thing ugh fucking hell you made me mention these people by name thats how cranky i am

basically on top of all the shitty things done to me and my friends I dont want people using their shit triggering content to hurt people like i was hurt

also in the United States simulated cp is only okay if it passes this thing called the miller test and buddy pal chumbo nearly all the work ive had the great misfortune fails at least one of the three prongs of the miller test the whole area is very murky and not well defined but our neighbor nation of Canada (if youre in the us) is full stop no cp of any kind no ifs ands or butts

why dont you go tell nasti to shut his yap about solar or tell rae to gather her cronies and fucking chill and stop bugging me because im getting very sick of having to tell people how i feel and why i do what i do if you really think both sides are that bad why do t you go try and talk to them because im not budging that shit is wrong and i wont sit by in silence as if it isnt

if youre a beetlebabe shipper trying to get my to badmouth antis fine yeah we can be a bit intense and yeah there have been antis who’ve done shitty things in the past but if anyone is caught being shitty its over dude you are ejected from the good graces

and if youre a neutral youre doing a great job at being neutral but it is making me very angry and neutrality is comparable to complacency so im not in your camp at all

thanks again for writing in im not really sorry for being harsh but i really am sick of this shit so maybe go try talking to someone else for a little bit like literally any beetlebabe and see what they say back to you id love to see it

editors note because i couldnt fit this anywhere but if an anti does something wrong in the same vein as the beetlebabes and i hear about it im done with them full stop they dont get my support or anything and i wont state publicly who they are but there are several people that have been cut off because of their behavior

the thing is i dont seem to see the bad stuff they do or maybe i just dont see what they do as bad because in my book telling someone pedophilia is wrong isnt harassment its just a statement of fact anyway if you have receipts of antis being as hateful as babe shippers* im all eyes pal but dont give me the same stuff ive covered because ive made my stance on those things quite clear

*threats of violence belittling mental illnesses harassing a mentally ill 14 year old making fun of eating disorders and many other bad things

(Note: pointing out the inherant biphobia of a phrase is also not harassment)

bye

[rem289]

Q: Why are you writing this post?

A: Because during the Christmas holidays I started to receive attention from the Zootopia fandom which led me to re-discover some concepts that I thought I had made clear, and since this didn’t turn out to be true, I am forced to reiterate them.

Q: What happened?

A: I discovered that someone had reposted, obviously without my consent, an old comic of Aoimotion and mine on reddit, a site I don't like and on which I had already said not to publish my actually and old contents. This repost "reminded" this fandom of my existence, and after this event some people came to ask us questions such as "when Nick and Judy would reappear in our work?" and the like.

You can imagine how much it bothered me, so I went to reddit and wrote to immediately delete the content. Unfortunately, doing this I couldn’t help but notice how the post had become a place to waste insinuations and insults aimed at me and Aoimotion. In particular, the comments of three users stood out: @ggctuk , @owningsuperset7​ and @hammytotherescue

Q: Why did these users get your attention?

A: ggctuk, which I have no idea who they are, have proclaimed themselves as the narrative voice of the events that have taken place between us and the fandom, providing a lot of incomplete and, in the worst case, completely wrong information, about why we left the fandom and about the alleged "abusive behaviors" we had against translators.

Owningsuperset7 spoke about us (like he does every time the occasion presents itself to him), defining us ungrateful towards the fandom "that had fed us". But "fed" in what sense? It seems to me that we have been those who have definitely "eaten" very little… or likes can be monetized, just like the views on youtube, and I didn't know it? Did they break the keyboard in order to put those likes on our works? If it’s so, I'm sorry, but I certainly wasn't the one who pointed the gun at their head to follow my work. Always remember that paying attention to a work is always and only a reader’s choice. No creator has power over these phenomena, we just create and publish, the rest is always an unknown factor. So expressing yourself as a seduced and abandoned lover on an old and free work doesn’t make you a victim, it only makes you ridiculous. Anyway, I know the subject, who had already decided in the past to talk on DeviantArt before I blocked him, and I decided not to tell him anything in that moment, also because, what can you say to a person who clearly has problems that go beyond fandom? Sometimes ignoring is the kindest choice you can make.

Hammytotherescue instead claimed that he and I were friends in the past, before the duo formed by me and aoimotion became toxic. Since I had no memory of this person and I hate when someone alludes to relationships with me that don't exist, I wrote to him privately on Tumblr asking him if he could kindly refresh my memory about this "friendship" he was bragging about.

Q: How did it end?

A: The conversation, which I report below because I, unlike him, have nothing to be ashamed of, is as follows:

As you can see, Hammy never replied to my last message . But in reality the story was not over. A few days ago, in fact, I discover that the user in question "vented" in the post of reddit, not under my comment (so that I received notification of his reply) but in response to another comment that had been left to me. Showing, as always, the incredible maturity of these people.

After reading this comment, I decided to act by reporting the user on reddit, but the answer I received can be summarized as: "since you are a content creator, you deserve insults regardless." In short, a response as useful and smart as the people who gave it to me. So don’t worry Hammy, you won't be banned from reddit because the only braincell shared by you users agrees that defining a toxic and manipulative person is, to quote one of the wise moderators I talked to, "a fairly typical level of criticism". All is well that ends well.

Q: You mentioned "concepts to reiterate". What would they be?

A: Let's start by denying what ggctuk wrote in that reddit's post, given how much popularity his comments have gained.

My split from this fandom started because I simply lost interest in Nick and Judy and preferred to do something else, something of my own. Black Jack gave us the opportunity to invent many original characters and they was those I wanted to work on. We have never worked for ulterior motives other than having fun together. When we recognized that we no longer have anything to give to this universe, we declared it openly and closed this chapter of our "artistic life". This split could take place in a peaceful and calm way, I would have taken my own path and you yours, since it was obvious, since BJ times, that you had very little interest in our original contents. You also reiterated this between the lines of these last comments, so really, I make a terrible effort to understand your logic of contents belonging to your fandom. It's not your fault, don't worry. You have been spoiled by this entrenched habit of creating any anthropomorphic animal and attributing it to your precious and super-nutritive fandom. Once you labeled this attitude at heresy, now everything is fine as long as it helps you keeping this universe going, honestly, I just pity you. However it seems that your obsession with me prevents you from accepting the fact that my life would have continued even without this fandom and that I would have lived very well even without the amount of likes that fanarts could give me. Indeed my life would be even more beautiful if I didn't have to waste time like I am doing now.

Both me and aoimotion together gave you a lot, and in the end we simply got it back. Jack is a prime example: yes, he is a character born from the scratches of Zootopia's artwork, but thanks to our work he has evolved to the point of becoming a completely original character. This fandom has not been able to accept it and until the end has tried to claim him as its own, and even now it can’t accept that we have instead taken him back, and even less can you bear that we are successfully using him in our original works, which is why you insist so much on his "Disney" origin, as if this defines his identity, and for months you have made fun of us saying that we were claiming something that belongs to Disney as our own. Unfortunately, beyond a doodle and a hint of a hypothetical background, Disney has absolutely nothing. Whatever weight you have attributed to "Jack Savage" is only thanks to our work, Disney has nothing to do with your mania and it has nothing to do with everything we've built up over the years. Still, you took our job and stuck it over the "Disney" label, and that was even when Black Jack was long gone, so don’t use that excuse anymore. You even tried to attribute Cynthia to the Disney universe by calling her "Skye", since you are so desperate to keep your fantasies going, and when you had nothing more to say, you said that my art style was "clearly inspired by Disney". Did you think I could condone such an attitude? I suppose these statements derive above all from the certainly very poor culture that you have of the world outside the fandom (or fandoms), however there are artists who WORKED for Disney, who TEACHED drawing techniques at the Disney Academy and who work at own productions with that style, without anyone attributing anything to the major. If you don't believe me, try using the web for something constructive, like doing some in-depth research on the subject.

As for the matter of our alleged abuses on translators, I will only say two things: the translations started because of my naivety, and we prohibited them because the translators abused their role and went out of control, acting as if the comics belonged to them and / or as if there was a special relationship of complicity between me and them. I'm sorry I gave false hopes to these people, unfortunately I didn't have time to realize the misunderstandings that were being created and how our work was being used. There is a clear difference between the fan content and the original content, so now more than even, less our work passes into the hands of others, the better it is for us.

Now let’s analyzing the brilliant messages of Hammy, both on Tumblr and on reddit:

In both cases, what I see is a desperate need to cling to Rem's "pretty" facade while simultaneously demolishing the person behind Aoimotion. These insinuations suggest that the only possible Rem to conceive for your narrow minds is the kind and lovely one, and everything I say and do that does not fall within this definition is the work of aoimotion.

I will never go into detail about the dynamics between me and her, because frankly it’s not your business and I don’t want to give you further ground to cultivate your absurd speculations and your degenerated ideas. If you have decided to treat us as two two-dimensional characters of some fourth category fan fiction born from your fragile minds and then feel disappointed or offended by my attitude or a severe response I can give you, you cannot help but blame yourself and not who is my friend .

But you have to get it into your heads that when you talk about us in a personal way, you refer only on the basis of two web profiles. You don't know us personally and above all you don't know me. Being an extremely reserved person, I always decided to use social networks to share my artistic side or my interests related to entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. "Rem289" has always been only a blog, a showcase on the web, I’ve never attributed a real emotional and above all personal value to it, even before Zootopia. For the rest I prefer to live my personal life off the web. Unfortunately, you have been so careless as to decide to hit my personal sphere, my friendships and my affections. So no, Aoi didn’t take over between you and me, but the person behind Rem289 took over and you paid the consequences.

Still on the subject of aoimotion, it seems that the moment this comment was written on DA has remained particularly impressed: https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/765376682/4647911119

This great insult, which among other things is attributed to her as if I didn’t think the same (if not worse) about you, has become the new reason why aoimotion is ugly and bad and is the reason why she deserves to be insulted and disparaged at the slightest opportunity, even during a conversation with me in which she’s not involved in any way.

Now, since this term seems to me rather dated to be used as a matter of indignation during your debates, and since I still find it rather ”soft” to use to outline my intolerance towards you, in order to give you another thing to think over, I will give you an attribute which seems more correct to me: you are sick. Confronting you is like talking to someone who has been brainwashed. You are a broken record that always says the same things over and over again. I can't even feel sorry for you, what I feel is just a great sense of unease. (Of course there are people that still participate in this fandom and are perfectly normal, but those are exceptions and they already know we think good of them.)

And it’s precisely your illness that prompted me to dissociate myself so violently from the fandom. Not aoimotion, as you have been saying for months between an insult and another that you address to her because perhaps you are too afraid of me to address them directly to me, which is rather contradictory since I should be the sweet and pretty one of the duo. After all, it's better to treat me like a poor brainless fool who lets herself be manipulated rather than admit that I also have my own ideas and that, you don’t say, you don't like them.

Q: In any case, you have no right to deprive your fans of old content they love so much, you just want to be spiteful! Why did all your old WildeHopps comics disappear from the web?

A: The decision to delete the contents created by me relating to the fandom from my web platforms or those shared with my partner was not born in the least out of spite or "punishment" towards the members of the fandom. It was a decision made to dissociate my name and my current work from fandom, because unfortunately it created difficulties for my image and real difficulties for readers to understand (you can go on and say that if people think your work is still Zootopia-related is not a big deal, but I assure you it is). All that came after, are only and exclusively speculations built on purpose to find the most sinister reasons of why it happened. Publishing content is only an accessory part of the job itself, a percentage of the process. Deciding to publish, not publish or cancel a publication is at the pure expense of the author, and no consumer has the right to impose his will on the creator. I understand that they are perhaps too complex concepts for you, since it’s clear that you are used to measuring the value of things based on the likes they receive, but this current of thought also exists and I hope it will be useful to you someday, in the remote possibility that decide to take moments of deep reflection (which would be more and more useful than tapping your fingers on the keyboard).

(Little curiosity: in the last few weeks we have forwarded about twenty reports to various sites to remove our old contents posted there without our permission. Not only all twenty reports have been accepted, but the contents have all been removed in less than 12 hours from the date of reporting. This is to remind you that if we don’t want our content on the web, we have them removed and it’s the reposters who pay for it, not us.)

Q: Well, however you can't force us not to talk badly about you or aoimotion, in fact, you can't stop us from believing that she's been manipulating you for years. Almost certainly it’s she who is writing this post without your knowledge, isn't it?

A: The people of the web are notoriously lazy and are therefore often uninformed and constipated in developing their own concepts. They spit sentences without even knowing what they’re talking about, they choose "comfortable" truths, such as the fact of attributing to aoimotion every not nice word that comes from me, and when this phenomenon is reflected on real persons, unfortunately it’s quite difficult to manage.

We are attributed with labels, words, concepts, faults, relationships that don’t belong to us and that are difficult to get away from. A simple comment or a wrong statement towards a person can spread like wildfire and end up marking them for life. Needless to say, these conditions often prevent these same people from continuing with their activities, which instead are healthy, in a serene and peaceful way. Even now, instead of drawing, I’m writing this latest post to defend me and my partner from your sick slanders. Those who allow themselves the luxury of damaging the "active personalities" of the web are people who fully enjoy anonymity behind a screen, and often people who have the matter of regulating them (like the reddits moderators, who are a joke at best) limit themselves to considering certain behaviors "ordinary” in the creator / consumer relationship. The mere fact of normalizing certain behaviors doesn’t smooth out the rules of civilized life, makes these "authorities" complicit and therefore only adds a problem. It’s more than evident that some people are not yet able to distinguish the boundary that exists between objective opinion and direct and personal insult, but from people who lose sleep at night because they have been defined as “lunatic” I don’t expect anything less. Who knows what you will do now that I have called you sick.

I conclude with a message to the interested party:

@hammytotherescue​: I don't know how old you are, however, judging by what you write and how you write it and how you act, I deduce that you should not be more than 14-15 years old. Unfortunately I regret to tell you that the fact you are a minor doesn’t mean that you don’t have to take responsibility for your actions, and if you still have doubts about understanding where you have gone wrong I advise you to ask your parents for advice. I gave you the opportunity to confront me but you ran away to cry on a public platform. Hasn't anyone taught you that real life doesn't work like that? If, on the other hand, you are an adult, I sincerely feel sorry for you, I say this from the bottom of my heart.

I know how comfortable it is to hide behind a group or in this case a fandom to vent one's dislikes towards the individual. This time you and your friends have received the same treatment, you have not caught generic appellations addressed to the fandom but I decided to speak to you personally. My only advice is to use this experience to learn how it behaves on the web, and when you have learned it, you could teach it to all your friends, perhaps starting with @owningsuperset7​.

For @ggctuk: I hope you will appreciate my effort in writing this long post, as so the next time you talk about us again, you can use it as a reference to explain how things went 🤗

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Moon Taeil

➳ promesas ; college!au/long distance relationship!au

    ✎ taeyong once told taeil to never fall in love for an exchange student, for those relationships always ended in heartbreak after said person was gone. taeil promised himself that he was just going to give this one student some instructions to get to her class—funny, now they are dating and time is ticking for them.

➳ when the moon calls the sun ; call center worker!au/meeting through the phone!au

   ✎ with his life turned into a mess of romance and divorce papers, taeil doesn’t really think a phone call is going to make him feel better. but it does.

Seo Johnny

➳ fall and catch ; soulmate!au (in which your soulmate can draw over your skin but it can wash off with water)

    ✎ one would love to believe that their soulmate is mature enough to draw romantic pieces of art on their own skin for it to show on the other’s and highlight their day with happiness and excitement. johnny is the exception of the rule, and an incredible annoying one at that.  

➳ con él ; non!au

    ✎ mornings are always better when they are with johnny, even when he is not a morning person.  

➳ smeared champagne ; office!au

    ✎ she should be easy to forget, like a champagne stain on his white button up, but johnny compares her to something stronger. insomnia, tattoos, red wine, a memory that replays in the back of his mind as he ponders if soulmates really exist.  

➳ it’s a match! ; tinder!au/photographer!au 🌙

   ✎ ten has a slight obsession with his newest dating app: tinder. it is only convenient that he gets his single friends into it. johnny, personally, thinks of it as a way to release stress and get a good laugh, but when one of his tinder matches ends up being one of his clients, things suddenly change for the two of them.

➳ what lovers do ; married in vegas!au/accidental marriage!au 

  ✎ the eve of new year’s is ruined when she realizes that one drunken night makes her a married woman. johnny seo doesn’t sound like a bad option to have as a husband, but she barely knows the man! could they get a divorce before the year ends?

Lee Taeyong

➳ baby, don’t stop ; bad boy!au/college!au/enemies to lovers!au/fuckboy!au

    ✎ out of all people in this world, she hated lee taeyong the most—he was cocky and thought he had everyone wrapped around his little finger. although, he only cared about having one person looking at him and that was his own enemy…that, on the long run, he actually considered his friend.

➳ seek, find, hide ; office!au/friends with benefits!au

    ✎ taeyong shouldn’t be hanging around with his assistant so much…but when has he ever listened? after all, they are just friends or a concept very close to it.

➳ for those who haven’t fallen in love ; first love!au/baker!au/seamstress!au 🌙

    ✎ in which taeyong falls in love for the first time and it tastes as sweet as the pastries that he makes at the bakery he works in.

➳ with a kiss, you’ll know ; writer!au/fan!au 🌙

    ✎ taeyong likes to hide in the corner of the library, picking up his favorite romance novels and gushing about them in the silence of his privacy. however, there is this one writer that touches his heart in the most excellent of ways, and somehow, he feels like he is connected to this person. the problem? the author’s anonymity.

Nakamoto Yuta

➳ hearts of smoke ; resident!au/doctor!au

    ✎ hearts of smoke are souls that were never meant to meet, but like smoke…they linger with a scent that you will never forget. like clouds in the sky or the smoke of a cigarette, a person like yuta lingers in her brain and intoxicates her lungs with the need of his attention. it only so happens that he doesn’t even look at her…will he ever turn around and realize that she was there from the start?  

➳ sunflowers ; office!au/unrequited love!au 🌙

    ✎ there are relationships that grow without words, soulmates that meet without knowing so and people who are just meant to enter your life. however, sun and flowers never reach the coldness of an office…but yuta was able to bring it to her workplace with just one of his smiles.

➳ 욕심 ; mafia!au

    ✎ yuta is greedy to have someone’s love even when he is unable to give it back to the person he likes. one day, he learnt the bad way that everyone deserves a little love…and she wasn’t the exception.

➳ the ice before the rainbow ; figure skater!au  🌙

   ✎ yuta’s dream is crushed after an injury, leaving in absolute turmoil, until he realizes that the rainbow always follows after the rain.

Qian Kun

➳ save your words ; non!au

    ✎ kun is the mix of palm trees, the faint sound of water and sand touching people’s skin. she’s winter, cold and uninteresting, but so mesmerizing. if kun dares to touch her or get close to her, would he freeze?

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

Kim Dongyoung

➳ human pillow ; college!au

   ✎ cuddling is the best factor that unites two people, but cuddling a complete stranger sounds like the most ridiculous thing in the world. however, maybe it’s not so bad when the stranger is kim dongyoung.

➳ a million tries and then, you ; matchmaker!au/office!au/enemies to lovers!au 🌙

  ✎ working for a dating app as a matchmaker was a very difficult task, much more when she is unable to get a date herself and there is one coworker named doyoung stealing her clients. just how disrespectful could he be with that cynical personality of his and that sweet smile?

➳ unintended consequences ; interviewer!au; actor!au; enemies to coworkers to lovers!au 🌙

 ✎ after her interview with an actor she doesn’t know goes viral, her entire life comes tumbling down and the blame falls on one man: kim dongyoung. it is up to the actor fix what he had initiated.

Ten

➳ sugar and spice ; college!au/friends to lovers!au

 ✎ his lips were cinnamon and his words were chocolate, but she only wants a taste of him.

➳ café con leche ; barista!au

✎ ten’s only fun activity to do at work was people-watching and he is pleasantly surprised when, for once, there is someone cute (and not over sixty years old) there. yet, ten is never too good with hiding his embarrassment.

➳ hard to understand ; pool boy!au/pool girl!au/coworker!au

✎ ten enjoys two things: being shirtless and being a piece of shit. how did she end up liking both of those things about her coworker? she doesn’t know.

➳ atlas and axis ; enemies to lovers!au/jazz!au/trumpeter!au/dancer!au

✎ scientifically speaking, the atlas and axis need each other to work perfectly, but humans take longer to realize that.

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

Jung Yoonoh

➳ my answer is you ; poet!au

✎ jaehyun likes poetry and he also likes another woman, but she can’t help but dream those rhymes he writes will be about her one day, not too soon, but maybe sooner than she thinks.

➳ hi, young love ; soulmate!au/enemies to lovers!au

✎ soulmates shouldn’t exist, much less in the way that she got to discover that jaehyun may fit the role of her soulmate a little too well.

Dong Sicheng

➳ instagram ; model!au/photographer!au/social media!au

✎ fingers hover over pictures with the doubt of pressing the heart button, following someone suddenly is the first step of a friendship...everything changes in the era of social media, but the term instagram model is foreign to a lot of people. dong sicheng was one, a really cute one.

➳ the language of hate ; designer!au/assistant!au/enemies to lovers!au 🌙

✎ dong sicheng wants to work in the fashion industry, so when he sees the opportunity to get hired as the assistant of one of the most respected young women in the business, more specifically a designer, he takes the chance. once he gets to know her, however, he realizes just how much he hates her. little does he know that he would be the one capable of changing that egotistic, narcissistic and stereotypical rich kid into a nice person.

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

Kim Jungwoo

➳ in the name of roses ; fairytale!au/beauty and the beast!au

✎ jungwoo is known as the most beautiful young man in the land, the only thing that makes him different from everyone else is his love for baking and gardening. his explanation for it is that he has a deep love for roses, but he is actually in love with the most beautiful rose in the land. some call her a beast, but he thinks she is just perfect for being herself.

Wong Yukhei

➳ please, try again ; non!au

✎ yukhei never thought that something like ethnicity, race or culture could lead people to judge someone, but now that he is secluded from his girlfriend’s love because of it, he is starting to think that there are bigger wonders in this world that he doesn’t know about.

➳ prince of hearts ; prince!au 🌙

✎ people were aware of how beautiful and funny the prince could be, but they weren’t aware of how annoying he was with his devious smirk and teasing words. wong yukhei is a nightmare, but he can win hearts easily.

➳ question mark ; chinese restaurant!au/cook’s assistant!au (ft renjun) 🌙

✎ upon liking one of the waiters in the restaurant her friend, ten, works at, she decides to ask him for help to get this waiter’s attention. ten’s idea sounds marvelous–giving him a fake fortune cookie that makes renjun talk to her. actually, it becomes a terrible idea when wong yukhei is the one receiving the fortune cookie.

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

Mark Lee

➳ i might like you too ; soulmate!au. you hear your soulmate’s thoughts inside your head since the moment you/they are born.

✎ mark is young, to the point he doesn’t care much about soulmates and the entire concept behind them. however, once he realizes that his soulmate might be closer than he thought she was,  he starts to wonder if he wants to meet her or not...yet, there is still a problem: they could hear each other’s thoughts.

➳ confidence 101 ; college!au

✎ in which mark feels the need to protect her, but she doesn’t need anyone...other than him.

➳ peripeteia ; office!au

✎ in a turn of events, she finds herself falling for mark lee, her best friend.

➳ 평행 ; college!au/best friends!au 🌙

✎ they are at the same distance from one another, but they can never connect, never meet...never love each other, no matter how badly they want to.

➳ taste of you ; arranged date!au/rich kids!au/racer!au 🌙

✎ for her to go out on a date with goody-two-shoes mark lee was her family’s dream, much more if the date led to a possible relationship. her irresponsibility makes her finally accept going on this date, but mark is a lightweight and too much of a blushing mess.

Xiao De Jun

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

Wong Kun Hang

➳ let’s dream in reverse ; archer!au/best friends!au/unrequited love!au 🌙

✎ best friends last forever, some say, and love does too. kun hang shows her that there is nothing bigger than that lie, when he breaks down those two.

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

Huang Renjun

➳ searching for the impossible ; twitter!au/ex-boyfriend!au/summer love!au

✎ a tweet that says ‘twitter, do your thing’ and a few pictures of her ex should be enough to get him back, right?

Lee Jeno 

➳ action, romance or comedy? ; cinema worker!au/accidental texting!au/strangers to lovers!au

✎ jeno hates college and loves movies more than he should, so when he is reminded at eleven at night that he has a project to complete and it is worth a big percentage of the final grade–he texts whoever he has been paired up with. two bad things happen: he texts the wrong person and he fails that class, but the good thing that comes from that event is comforting enough.

Lee Donghyuck

➳ hello stupid ; high school!au/soccer!au/college!au/fuckboy!au 🌙

✎ you never expect people to change, but she had never expected lee donghyuck, the guy from her soccer team of her high school, to change so drastically. inside her head, he’s still the same stupid boy who would tease her.

Na Jaemin

➳ through a screen ; twitch streamer!au 🌙

✎ when mark lee invites her to play videogames for his stream, she never expected to be laughing out loud at someone’s jokes. that voice without a face was one that she could not easily get out of her head.

➳ the broken arrow ; cupid!au 🌙

✎ jaemin’s aim isn’t the best and when he shoots a broken arrow at a young woman, he makes her unable to feel romance. what could he do in this situation to get his poers back?

Liu Yang Yang

➳ the love diaries ; valentine’s day special  🌙

[blckthvrns]

Have you seen ATHENA BLACKTHORN? THEA is in SOPHOMORE year. The ACTING MAJOR is/are 20 years old & is a ARIES. People say SHE is/are OUTGOING, TENACIOUS, QUICK TEMPERED and CALCULATING. Rumors say they’re a member of CALLOWAY. I heard from the gossip blog that SHE CONVINCED HER HISTORY PROFESSOR TO LEAVE HIS WIFE FOR HER, AND THEN LEFT HIM.

(repost for the new acct, she hasn’t changed she’s still awful)

❣ . STATISTICS

name : Athena Rosaline Blackthorn

nicknames: Thea, T, Thena

age : twenty

school year : sophomore

major : acting / film studies

date of birth : 2nd april

zodiac sign : aries

sexuality : pansexual

+ traits : outgoing, tenacious

- traits : quick tempered, calculating

❣. PERSONALITY :

Thea is outgoing to a fault, the first to raise her hand in a lecture and one of the last lingering at the end of class, chatting to her classmates.

thrives being in calloway, loves the elitism of it all, the romanticism of secret letters and iron clad gates of society secrets.

a mix between cher horowitz, blair waldorf, veronica sawyer & a hint of eve polastri

likes who she likes and hates who she doesn’t, always one to veer sharply one way or the other. Indifference isn’t something she often feels towards people, though it’s usually due to the fact that to her, it means they’re just plain forgettable.

can be incredibly easy to get along with when she wants to be, insufferable the next.

probably considered more often than not a drama queen by most, one of those out there acting majors who craves a spotlight and a table to dance on.

❣. BACKGROUND :

Athena is one of quite a few blackthorn children, all born to leander and apollonia blackthorn. She and her brother were born together on a cloudy night in early April, Thea born first, desperate to make her way into the world with a wail of strong lungs and tenacity.

the blackthorns themselves have a bit of a tumultuous history, scarcely heard of before their rise into the ranks of the wealthy in 1921. Very Kennedy-esque, prominence now runs in their blood. But power and wealth always come at a cost.

Some call their family cursed, whether it be the will of a scorned witch or karmic justice balancing the world once more, living and loving as a blackthorn was never intended to be easy.

& while Thea doesn’t want to believe in the curse, it’s hard to ignore. Blackthorns die, or their loved ones die, it’s all one big circle of death and heartbreak and she can’t exactly deny it. If anything she points it out when it’s convenient to her, an excuse, a reason, a justification for behaviors she indulges in.

In her own mind, her version of the curse upon them is unforgivable. Is it a worse curse to lose the ones you love, or to never feel that grip of love to begin with? To never truly be lovable keeps her alive and well sure, but that chasm in her chest remains unfilled.

Growing up in a family where competition was as common as breathing made her stronger, if not smarter. Named after the goddess of war, to her it was a blood right. She learned to outwit to get what she wanted, what she lacked in stature or strength she had tenfold in wit and charm. Innocent eyes and a conniving little need to have her way. Her brother, while her other half, was all the heart, where she remained the head. It worked for her, in most ways.

went to a boarding school in europe for most of her early education, spending winter breaks and summers back in romania when she could.

Thea thrived on attention, and tried out a few hobbies and extracurriculars before acting became her passion. It was fun to her, to become other people with emotions and dreams so different from her own. It was fun seeing what those characters brought out in other people. If she didn’t like what she was given, she could shift, change, become someone better. Maybe just maybe, you never knew her at all. try again, look at the surface once more.

convinced her parents to allow her to attend of all things, a public school in manhattan. LaGuardia School of Music & Art to be exact, too many gossip girl fantasies interwoven with the knowledge of the stars its campus produced, she begged and pleaded and argued until she got her way. truly her biggest con to date.

Thea spent those years diving into becoming unending versions of herself. Took in the world around her, a city that never slept full of millions of souls to bare. She went out, partied, discovered, lived the life free of chains of her own making for once

The fact that she HERSELF was never discovered and whisked away to stardom she chalks up to another result of her curse. To be adored, but never truly loved. To be wanted, but never feel that love within herself for someone else. Was she unlovable, or just incapable of feeling it? She could scratch up every emotion under the moon in a second for performance. Anger, grief, passion. But love? Thea wasn’t sure she’d ever feel it.

She dated of course, various boys and girls at school or those whirlwind affairs on her summers home. But nothing ever lingered, ever stuck. She was always meant to be a little too much, yet never quite enough to hold on to. But the rush of feeling like someone’s entire universe was quickly an addiction.

Lust, was something else entirely. Lust was primal, immediate, and something she could cling to. She slept around and had her fun, but never let it linger, never stayed after to see whatever would soon cloud her partner’s gaze,

Coming to Yates was in part for the theatre department, but mostly for the whispers of the existence of the societies mentioned by her brothers. Call it a terrible fantasy, but visions of dark academia aesthetics and elite college life pulled her in. In her eyes her big break is still on the horizon, just a little further than anticipated.

Which brings us to last fall, her first year on campus. Met her history professor, noticed the way he couldn’t take his eyes off her. It was a new kind of thrill, having a weird sort of power over a grown man. He called her his ‘little goddess’ a term she found a bit condescending but whatever, the attention was devoted, almost reverent. It was easy to see how far she could stretch it, gifts he would give her, sweet nothings of their could be future if he just did something about it.

& After a while of doing nothing more than exchanging messages, having secret coffee dates out of town, he mentioned leaving his wife so they could start over, be the love story he envisioned them as.

That was when Thea realized what it would entail, how the rest of the little fairy tale would play out once the fun little scandal of it all faded. Doting housewife to a history professor, step mom to two teens who sounded already annoyingly perfect on paper. All mapped out. Gross, in summary. So he made his plans, and she made hers. Her plans left him in the dust, even as his divorce papers were signed sealed, delivered.

So she’s newly single-adjacent, though not sure where it’ll take her next. Her focus is back where it belongs on her and her alone, where she hopes it stays.

❣. HEADCANONS :

she loves being loved. It is a part of the reason she’s so quick to fall into another ‘role’ for others, tweak her words, expressions, make herself the most lovable version in their eyes. There has never been a moment where she’s felt it in return but to receive

Moments of adoration and appreciation fuel her like nothing else. She’s an actress, she needs applause and validation to live.

While her relationships with her siblings have always been incredibly complex in her eyes, her relationship with her twin brother is the one that’s faced the most hardship. Connected at the hip for their early years, incredibly distant in locations the rest, she wonders if he truly loves the person she’s turned into. If any of them are capable of loving who she is now.

she’s smart, genuinely very bright and just uses that fact for her own devices. Playing dumb might get her where she needs to be in some occasions, but she plays the long game. being named after a god of war is something that sticks with you after all.

watching terrible reality tv is her comfort, often spends half the show critiquing the wardrobe and the other half exclaiming how much better an option she’d be if it were her in their place.

loves to party, loves to drink, though drugs scare her. Something about the possibility of a complete loss of senses or control is something she’s never been able to repeat after a really bad trip back in new york.

drink of choice is fucking cosmo bc, carrie bradshaw.

❣. POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS :

a best friend! whether they met in new york or when she got to yates, someone who’s her ride or die friend who sees all of her shit and loves her despite it.

someone who is very much just not that into her. girl can bat her eyes and smile that smile and still?? nothing. probably drives her insane.

one night stands, ex hookups, current hookups. sometimes she gets around, we been knew. maybe even an ex bf or gf? maybe once things got serious, she killed the relationship before they inevitably realized they didn’t want her.

a fwb solely for when they just need a little fun? Can be very little feeling involved beyond thinking the other is attractive. Probably don’t even see the light of day in each other’s presence.

straight up enemies, hate each other on sight, probably drag each other to pieces

a verbal sparring partner?? girl is full of opinions whether it be in classes or life in general. someone to knock her down a peg or three and enjoy it. Could also be weird intellectual foreplay?? who’s to say.

literally anything else! come at me, let’s do some shit.

[ninaninndraws]

OK, I’VE GOT AN IDEA

So, I normally have like a LOT of story ideas, so im just going to leave a little idea of what I have in mind. 

Even if nobody cares, this is just so i can show my family that I DO have ideas!!

So, yeah:

The thing is that we are in a weird universe, where in some places we are still in the Middle Ages, and in another places we are already in Modern Age.

Maybe we are in between.

we are in a little village in the mountains, far from any city, and there���s a war (but far, so they think they will be fine)

spoiler, they are not fine. the war arrives and then all the young men between the ages of 15-49 are sent to the war, our hero is a female, so she doesn’t go, but maybe love interest does??? whaat???

So the characters I have right now are:

 Claire Jenkins,15 yo (protagonist): Likes calculus and maths and solving problems with logic. That is not normal, bc women are supposed to be dumb??? Her father left when her sister was a few days old, said he had to do something, and never returned.

Henry Blake 15 yo(childhood best friend of Claire and possible love interest) prefers arts, like painting and writing poems. that's bad, bc men should be intelligent and they dont care about artistic intelligence bc yeah. Head over heels for Claire

Mrs. Blake, adores her little babies (Henry and his sibilings, they are 5 in total), likes how independent Claire is, is thinking about marrying his sons with nice girls from a city.

James Blake 16 yo (Henry’s older brother ), teases Henry about Claire doing his homework, likes teassing her too, jokes how she is their father’s favorite child.  “Nah, he just likes having someone to talk about maths with, bc you r dumb”

Mr. Blake (the father) he’s an university teacher, he basically taught Claire all about calculus that she knows (which is a lot), but doesn’t show up a lot, bc of working in a big city away from the fam

Cristine Blake 23 ( older sister) a very nice young woman who is going to marry a very intelligent but kind of a jerk dude, everyone feels sorry for her, but she assures he is just shy and likes to have a shell of rudeness, this guy has a kind of friendship with James? Maybe.

Martha Blake (younger sister) 5yo girl who likes to read and sings like a little angel, she loves Claire, and she is going to make her life mission to make her brother marry her, she still doesn’t know what brother but... she will.

Charles “Charlie” Blake ( youngest brother) 2yo baby who is just a cutie.

Mrs. Jenkins (Claire’s mom) her family has got a bakery for generations, but probably will end up selling it for Claire’s little sister’s medicines. Loves Henry as her own, Claire jokes how her mother wants them to marry so she can legally call him her son.

Emily Jenkins 7 yo(Claire’s little sister) a literal sweetheart, has been sick for weeks, and now she can’t even leave the bed.

Caroline (a friend of the duo, new in the town) kind and smart, get called out a lot bc of it, does not give a fuck about it, calls people out on their incompetence and stupidity. 

so Claire does Henry’s homework and he’s so glad he can focus in his art, and their families are very supportive of their respective hobbies, as long as they go well at school and help at home.

James is kind of a lazy jerk, so his mother would like him to find a girl like Claire, so, yeah, ship wars happen at that house.

Claire not liking marriage and saying she would never doblegate herself for a man to like her, her mother finds it unpleasant.

boys like to make fun of her just so she calls them out. Pretty popular with boys without knowing??

at class she is really quiet, teachers are pleased with her, bc w/ one word she can make all the boys shut up.

Swears a lot

like, yeah, she will never swear in front of an adult

but with her best friend??

please

she loves her village, but they need some feminism medicine for the men, so she packs her things up (including Herny), and leaves, she takes all her money with her and starts learning maths at the big city when the only female teacher of a school challenges her with an incredibly difficult problem that not even herself could have resolved it in less that a week

wich she resolves in, like an hour.

she gets an scholarship.

but also works in a bakery near the school so she can send the money to her mother and some cheaper medicines from the city

Henry starts working in a little art studio as the apprentice of a great artist, and learns from him

ends up being quite famous himself

attracts the attention of a ot of girls, but he refuses every one of their invitations for dates

war arrives

they run away together and try to get to their village before the war arrives.

they can’t make it, so the deserters take them away from there

but James was called for the war.

they and their new friends the deserters intercept the team of soldiers where James and other boys are and take them to the new base

James tells them that everyone is fine, but that Claire’s sister is worse everyday, and they forced her mother to close the bakery and the woman of the village now are practically slaves for the soldiers, cooking and cleaning for them, some were forced, and the children were taken away in a camp of refugees, where they should find everyone.

They find the refugees, but they can’t do a lot, and the children are quite fine, but the oldest boys are terrified, bc it will be their turn to go there soon.

the answer is clear

they make a trap and knock out every soldier from the camp and the village by putting some venom somnifers in their meal.

and they run away, taking their stuff.

Mr. Blake is back!!!

He comes with the army, looks like those weren’t the friendly army, but the enemies trying to set a trap on them!!

they catch them and free all the men, who have to accept they were released thanks to the women

the bakery is destroyed

the war isn’t over, but is really far, and going even farther, they are winning territory!

maybe a kiss between Claire and Henry?

there’s totally a kiss between them

but not all the endings are happy, and this one isn’t

Emily dies

Claire’s mom has to leave and find somewhere to stay in the city

she tells Claire to go with her, but she refuses

hugs and tears, a lot of people will do as Claire’s mother bc ther buisness are ruined/they lost their families and have some relatives far away from there

the Blakes lost someone too

their son in law

Cristine is heart broken and tries to kill herself

she cant, the doctors say they are lucky the baby was alright

BABY??

looks like she is pregnant, so she gets over her husband’s death slowly and painfully, but with a lot of help she finds herself with a beautiful baby in her arms

“Welcome to the world,Harry, it’s a wonderful place, dangerous too. But don’t worry, we all will take care of you”

the Clair-Henry weddding like five years later!!

James finds himself being the bestman, and ‘has Caroline always been so freaking adorable?’

yes, yes she has, you idiot

Mr. Blake walks Claire to Henry and whispers to her ear ‘Good luck, daughter’

a lot of cries

now im sentimental too

it gets to the newspapers, “Great artist and famoust matmatician, getting married at the village they saved five years ago, congratulatios to the couple!”

maybe Claire becoming the new teacher at the village??

my babies just got married, ok??

they grow so fast...

That’s it, if you got ‘til here thank you so much!! I just need a title and i will officially write this as my first novel!!

Feel free to reblog, but don’t repost.

If you like it, I will probably do this with the next story idea I have!!

[morganyevans]

My Blackalicious Chief Xcel Imani Vol 1 New Noise Hip Hop inty

Reposting this from the vault to honor the passing of the great Gift Of Gab (RIP).

Blackalicious: Gotta have "Imani" By Morgan Y. Evans Special thanks to Micah Blumenthal

"You never get to a point where you know everything, and if you ever do that is the point where it all ends." - Chief Xcel

It was a straight up honor to talk to someone as innovative as Chief Xcel of hip hop's mighty Blackalicious crew, back in a time that needs them more than ever to deliver the ambitious Imani Vol. 1, the first part of a stupendous trilogy and their first LP in a decade. Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel remain fluid, astute, sharp, culture rooted and funky on this banger, which features a range of guests from  Amde of The Watts Prophets to Lateef, Zap Mama, Imani Coppola, Lyrics Born and more. The Swahili word for "faith", Imani will spark your faith that hip hop and real soul can never die as long as it is alive in the hearts of people of good will.

Gift of Gab has the fluid and fast skills you can hear in someone like Shad, Weerd Science or Vulkan The Crusader these days, but with that O.G. veteran's delivery and knowledge that carries extra gravitas or playfullness in lighter tone moments, while Chief just kills with production that looks all directions at once, through a prism of what hip hop was, is and can yet be.

It is colorful, as real art and life experiences ache to be.

1. You guys got Prince crazy on this record! You have three records in the process. This one already has so any textures and sounds. Really inspiring, right out the gate. It sets a great tone set against what's going on right now.

Chief Xcel: Indeed, indeed. Thanks, man. I really appreciate that.

2. I am an Upstate, Ny white dude who grew up in Woodstock. I'll never say I understand the plight of the African American. I can try and have empathy but I wont say that "I understand". I appreciate hip hop culture and this is the kind of record that can create unity. What was it like having this outpouring of creativity?

Thanks, I appreciate that. For us, every time we come together to make these records they're all learning processes, y'know what I mean? Gab and I early on in our careers decided we want to take the attitude of the student. Music is infinite in the directions you can go or the directions it can take you. Infinite. You never get to a point where you know everything, and if you ever do that is the point where it all ends. For us we always wanted the passion and tenacity for learning new things, trying new things...just being vessels for the creativity. You get to a point where you realize there's a force beyng you and much bigger than you. Common had a line in one of his songs that said "Affected lives is where the wealth and merit is" and it's really true. When you step into it with that humility, that's when the most power comes out of it. So that is our coach, creatively. That spirit, y'know?

3. I relate to what your saying. If Miles Davis was content he never would've made Bitches Brew, which totally changed his sound, y'know?

Yeah, totally. Totally. You work to establish a body of work way beyond one record. When you realize you are trying to establish a body of work, you keep evolving. You never want to stay in the same place. Miles is the quintessental example of that.

4. One thing I've loved about you guys, Tribe or even early Jungle Brothers, it was about quality. You guys still have an old school flavor, old school funk and modern twists. I loved "Ashes To Ashes". Really cool. You bring the soul in and feeling, the real street funk I feel like people responded to so well in the new Kendrick record To Pimp A Butterfly, not just studio pop.

Yeah, you know...I mean, we just try to make soul music, man. Know what I mean? We have no intentions or desire to be retro on any kind of level. Our method from day one has been something rooted in the foundations but always trying to expand. That's just how we get down. We strive to sound fresh and hold up, stand the test of time. I want you to hear Blazing Arrow today and still love it the same way as when you first heard it (author's note: I still love that Harry Nilson sample from The Point). Nia or The Craft, take the same thing away from it.  

5. I think you succeeded on this one. The collaborations you pulled in amazing people like the song "Imani" with Zap Mama on the end. It rounds things out in such a beautiful way at the end of this installment.

It was just such a blessing to work with her. She is a creative genius and beauty on every level. When people say Marie or Zap Mama, the only words that can come to mind are amazing and incredible.

6. It seems your creative wheels were really spinning. I know you had challenges but how many things happened you never could've planned, like synchronicity?

We are always working. We're in the zone. I'm so deep into the development of the tracks. We're working on Volume 2 now. Gab is writing. The second movement of the story, since Imani is three movements. We really haven't had the opportunity yet to sit back and be like "wow". We're still moving forward.

7. The cover art has this eye candy, pop art but classic album and funk feel. You want to stop and look at it. It makes you feel something. Bright colors. You wanna put on headphones and lose yourself in it.

That's Bret Rollins, the visual art member of Blackalicious. All the U.S. releases since the start, at least, have been designed by Brent. An unsaid member. What I love about working with him is I'll give him any record and say create and that's what he does every single time. From, y'know, the very first one Melodica to The Nia cover to Blazing Arrow and The Craft. It's funny you mentioned it because I was just talking to him the other day and I want to put his pieces on big canvases. They're art, not just a record cover.

8. How fun was it making "On Fire Tonight"? I like the rapid fire flow and the "ba-ba-bum" horns. It feels live. Like you are watching it happen even while just listening to a stream of the song.

Yeah, that song is really...if there's any sort of like Big Daddy Kane infused songs in our catalogue, that is a nod to his greatness on "Wrath of Kane" or "Raw", where the beat is hard. I just kind of set the stage for Gab and let him go. It's what people love to hear him do. We just try and start with a concept and allow a story to tell itself as we're creating. That's always been our thing. I've always felt like the song will tell you what it needs. We just try and listen.

9. That's cool. Some people try and force it. I think maybe that's why your songs feel complete, even when telling part of an album's story. You don't want to skip a track. How did "Blacka" come together? It's an anthem track.

"Blacka" was one of the first songs we recorded. We'd recorded like sixty songs for Volume 1, we just narrowed it down to like 16. "Blacka" was like the actual first thing we recorded. It set it off.

10. My friend Micah works with O Positive Festival which is about trying to get health care for musicians. He is one of the bigger hip hop heads I know and had a question for you. He said ," hip hop, unlike most forms of music, is a culture. A way of behaving. A way people define themselves, for better or worse. It's become synonymous for African American culture and even for youth culture, regardless of skin." You have a diverse sound that maybe is outside of the mainstream sound that gets sold to African American youth. How does it feel to have the legacy but maybe not fit in sometimes? Where do you feel you fit in?

I feel we are icons within a genre. I feel like we have our own way and have worked hard to build our own lane. That's what happens when you make things on your own terms. It's kind of funny because the biggest song in our catalogue rose to prominence just in the past 6-8 months. It's a song we did fifteen years ago and people from 13 to 83 know at this point. What is mainstream in this day amd age? It had a meaning when there was one outlet, which was basically the radio, but with the true coming of the information age, mainstream is so many different things to so many people. We're really blessed to have a lot of fans on every continent. No matter where we are, Chicago, Oakland, Capetown, Sydney, Paris...I always feel blessed when people come up and say they put our record on and it made their day a little bit easier. I always say ,"Damn, this is what it's all about."

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Meet the Duckipliers!

Don Iplier, an exasperated creator, has never found success in anything despite his hyper-focused life style and incredible skills. Over time, his obsession with his characters and creations looses him his friends and his family, many of whom he based his characters on. After a freak accident, however, when he looses everything for good, Don realizes that his troubles have only just begun because, quite suddenly, his every character has come fully to life. Now, he is uncle, nephew, and surrogate father to 5 incredibly independent and naive ducks, and must learn to live, not only back in the world after his own shut-in life, but teach these headstrong characters to do the same.

“Darkie”

One of Don’s new “nephews”, Darkie is calm, collected, and eager to understand how the world works, so he can control it all that much quicker. He was created as a “spawn-of-satan” child trope, but Darkie really just wants someone he can trust, and maybe one day Don will prove that he’s that duck.

“Huesty”

To counter Darkie’s craftiness, Don designed Huesty as a “blind judge” type, who can always see through Darkie’s games. In fact, Huesty can see everything, and this knowledge of the unknown has sparked his need to understand it, so while he is clearly aware of what is going on around him, he’s too interested in his books to do a thing about it. Don relies on him quite a lot for advice and level-headed judgement.

“Dr. Dewiplier”

Since the other two nephews were too wrapped up in their own plans and often forgot to take care of themselves, Don suffering the same fate himself, the third nephew took on a doctor persona. He’s frightful and hyper-aware of every potentially dangerous situation around him, so Don has to work hard to help the duckling embrace his inner bravery and help his family.

“Webford”

Webford, or Webby, was never meant to belong with the nephews, always standing in her own maniac and delightfully detached foot prints, helping Don unwind and escape his own obsessive tendencies once in awhile. Now, Don has taken her closely under his wing to protect the others, protect the duckling herself, and help them both realize that responsibility may not be fun, but does make the wold turn a little more easily. Some times.

“Scroogle”

Don always needed a helper who was able to take charge and be an adult when he couldn’t, and since both him and the ducklings constantly had tons of questions and needed a firm hand of discipline in their lives, Scroogle became the perfect combination of “cranky old, no-nonsense great uncle,” and “helpful and organized android.” Unfortunately, the two sides aren’t exactly compatible, so Scroogle is usually the first whose short temper shorts out. 

I hate this AU, haha. But really, I love building headcanons and drawing AU!Ducks so, you know, this is how it works, I guess. :)

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Top 10 Most Beautiful Colleges Around the World

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Top 10 Most Beautiful Colleges Around the World

(Source: University of Oxford)

Do you drag yourself to school everyday? Get sick of having to be stucked in the library all day and night, praying that you have crammed enough information to survive your end of term examinations? I will bet you that if you study in castle-like buildings, having huge, long hallways, libraries that look like that came right out from the Victorian era, and never ending patches of woods and greens, you wouldn’t think of ending school so soon! Here are the top 10 beautiful universities around the world that will make you want to go back to college.. or maybe change to another one.

  1) University of Sydney 

(Sydney, Australia)

University of Sydney as its name suggests, is situated in Sydney. This is Australia’s oldest university and it was founded in 1850. Its beautiful neo- Gothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings were designed by Edmund Blacket and completed in 1862.

@reniindrawan.photography put her sleeplessness to good use, capturing light drizzle on the Quad. #usydhereicome

A post shared by University Of Sydney (@sydney_uni) on Jan 15, 2017 at 2:14pm PST

  2) Coimbra University

(Coimbra, Portugal)

This beautiful university is found in Coimbra, Portugal. It is established in 1290 in Lisbon and moved permanently to its current location in 1537. Besides being the oldest university in Portugal, it is also one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world!

#repost_uc @ayumi_tokyo ・・・ Coimbra University is one of the Unesco World Heritage Sites of Portugal 🇵🇹 It is located on the top of hill with a breathtaking view ✨✨✨✨ #portugal #portuguese #portugal🇵🇹 #unesco #unescoworldheritage #worldheritage #worldheritagesite #coimbra #coimbracity #coimbrauniversity #universidadedecoimbra #sky #blue #bluesky #beautifulsky

A post shared by Universidade de Coimbra (@ucoimbra) on May 6, 2017 at 3:22am PDT

The alluring Joanina Library, built in 1717 is the main tourist attraction of the university. Even though the library is a few centuries old, it is incredible to know that the bibliographic works here are preserved to its best condition. The meticulously built vault, stable environment and oak wood (which repels insects) allow the books here to survive through the centuries.

#Repost_uc @tinner_12 ・・・ Third stop 🇵🇹 #Coimbra #Portugal #universidadedecoimbra #library #books #antique #igers #sightseeing #colors #university #old #architecture #art #architecturelovers #beautiful #holiday #fun #tourist #SpringBreak

A post shared by Universidade de Coimbra (@ucoimbra) on Apr 12, 2017 at 8:59am PDT

  3) University of Bologna 

(Bologna, Italy)

Bologna, Italy is of course the home to the oldest university in the world, University of Bologna,which was founded in 1088. This university is filled with beautiful red bricks and stones linked by miles of porticos.

Happy #Monday to all! #day1 • #900BO #900th #Anniversary

A post shared by Università di Bologna (@unibo) on May 16, 2016 at 2:49am PDT

  4) University of Oxford

(Oxford, England) 

If anyone like me is feeling devastated about not receiving an owl sent acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there is another option (albeit not much easier) -studying at University of Oxford. This university is so majestic, it looks like it came right out from the books. As it is, most of the library scenes in the Harry Potter films took place at the Duke Humphrey’s library. The design for the Great Hall in the films was also based on the dining hall in Christ Church at University of Oxford.

Although there is no known date of the foundation of the university, evidence of its teaching as far back as 1096 makes it the world’s second oldest university in operation. Also, University of Oxford is also one of the most followed universities on Instagram!

The days are getting longer, but the view at dusk from the top of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin is just as magical. #inspiration #architecture #motivation #uk #history #picoftheday

A post shared by The University of Oxford (@oxford_uni) on Feb 11, 2016 at 8:41am PST

This fantastic library is @bodleianlibs Duke Humfrey's. It was built 1450-80 to house 281 manuscripts donated to the library by Humfrey of Lancaster. Thanks @krishan.chauhan for the fantastic image. #inspiration #books #library #study #architecture #interior

A post shared by The University of Oxford (@oxford_uni) on Feb 1, 2016 at 2:04am PST

  5) Kenyon College

(Ohio, United States)

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Ohio, United States. This college is founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. As Ohio’s oldest private college, there is a preservation of many traditions such as taking a Matriculation Oath before entering class on the first day of school, and also being given a Matriculation book that dates back to at least a century.

Summer blooms burst with color near Ascension Hall ☀️🌼 #KenyonCollege

A post shared by Kenyon College (@kenyoncollege) on Jul 15, 2016 at 11:46am PDT

  6) University of Otago

(Dunedin, New Zealand)

As the oldest university in New Zealand, University of Otago does not lose out in term of its architectures. There are a number of distinctive buildings in this university, including this 19th century neo-Gothic clock tower that lies at the heart of the campus. If this isn’t romantic enough, you can always stroll along the picturesque river right beside it!

The iconic #clock tower #repost @jono.young #student #study #studynewzealand #otagouni #universityofotago #otago #sun #summer #sunny #newzealand #dunedinnz

A post shared by University of Otago (@universityofotago) on Feb 2, 2017 at 6:28pm PST

  7) University of Glasgow

(Glasgow, Scotland)

I don’t know about you, but I would be the first to go to school everyday if I am studying at University of Glasgow. This university was founded in 1451 by Papal Bull along with University of Edinburgh (whose building is, to be honest, equally impressive!). Glasgow itself is a city with a rich heritage of Victorian architecture dated back to the 19th century. The main building of the university is designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

Love this photo of UofG by @k_sandilands 😀 #UofG #UniversityofGlasgow #GlasgowUni #Glasgow #Scotland #University #College #Campus #UofGlasgow

A post shared by University of Glasgow (@uofglasgow) on Jan 11, 2017 at 2:47am PST

  8) Princeton University

(New Jersey, United States) 

If you talk about Princeton University (beside it being insanely hard to get in of course), its hallmark, Ivy-grey stones will come to mind. It is one of the oldest university in America, with Nassau Hall being built in 1754. The grounds of Princeton University are filled with modern sculptures and works by Picasso and Henry Moore.

We're approaching the time of year when our campus community can enjoy the nice weather outside. #Princetagram

A post shared by Princeton University (@princeton_university) on Mar 2, 2016 at 8:57am PST

  9) Trinity College

(Dublin, Ireland)

The Trinity College which name is also used synonymously with the University of Dublin since it is the only constituent college of the university, was founded in 1592 by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth I. It is Ireland’s oldest operating university and one of seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland.

Best of luck to everyone sitting their exams this week! Thanks @visualjungle for this lovely shot. #Trinity #TrinityCollegeDublin #TrinityCollege #TrinityCampus #Campus #University #Dublin #Ireland #FrontSquare #Campanile

A post shared by Trinity College Dublin (@trinitycollegedublin) on May 2, 2017 at 4:19am PDT

  10) Royal Roads University

(British Columbia, Canada)

Royal Roads University is completed in 1908 but only became a public university in 1955. With its numerous parks, waters and hiking trails, you will feel like you are taking a walk in a jungle. Oh, and if its main building, Hatley Castle looks familiar to you, it might be because you have caught a glimpse of it in movies such as X-Men, Smallville and Arrow!

Beautiful afternoon for a fragrant study break in the Italian Garden! #royalroads #wisteria #explorevictoria #explorebc

A post shared by Royal Roads University (@royalroadsu) on Apr 26, 2016 at 2:53pm PDT

The universities on this list are of course down to personal preferences. As you can probably already tell, I adore gothic revival style of architecture. Though to be fair, who doesn’t want to feel like they are living in a castle when they are going to school?

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Top 10 Most Beautiful Colleges Around the World

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Top 10 Most Beautiful Colleges Around the World

(Source: University of Oxford)

Do you drag yourself to school everyday? Get sick of having to be stucked in the library all day and night, praying that you have crammed enough information to survive your end of term examinations? I will bet you that if you study in castle-like buildings, having huge, long hallways, libraries that look like that came right out from the Victorian era, and never ending patches of woods and greens, you wouldn’t think of ending school so soon! Here are the top 10 beautiful universities around the world that will make you want to go back to college.. or maybe change to another one.

  1) University of Sydney 

(Sydney, Australia)

University of Sydney as its name suggests, is situated in Sydney. This is Australia’s oldest university and it was founded in 1850. Its beautiful neo- Gothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings were designed by Edmund Blacket and completed in 1862.

@reniindrawan.photography put her sleeplessness to good use, capturing light drizzle on the Quad. #usydhereicome

A post shared by University Of Sydney (@sydney_uni) on Jan 15, 2017 at 2:14pm PST

  2) Coimbra University

(Coimbra, Portugal)

This beautiful university is found in Coimbra, Portugal. It is established in 1290 in Lisbon and moved permanently to its current location in 1537. Besides being the oldest university in Portugal, it is also one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world!

#repost_uc @ayumi_tokyo ・・・ Coimbra University is one of the Unesco World Heritage Sites of Portugal 🇵🇹 It is located on the top of hill with a breathtaking view ✨✨✨✨ #portugal #portuguese #portugal🇵🇹 #unesco #unescoworldheritage #worldheritage #worldheritagesite #coimbra #coimbracity #coimbrauniversity #universidadedecoimbra #sky #blue #bluesky #beautifulsky

A post shared by Universidade de Coimbra (@ucoimbra) on May 6, 2017 at 3:22am PDT

The alluring Joanina Library, built in 1717 is the main tourist attraction of the university. Even though the library is a few centuries old, it is incredible to know that the bibliographic works here are preserved to its best condition. The meticulously built vault, stable environment and oak wood (which repels insects) allow the books here to survive through the centuries.

#Repost_uc @tinner_12 ・・・ Third stop 🇵🇹 #Coimbra #Portugal #universidadedecoimbra #library #books #antique #igers #sightseeing #colors #university #old #architecture #art #architecturelovers #beautiful #holiday #fun #tourist #SpringBreak

A post shared by Universidade de Coimbra (@ucoimbra) on Apr 12, 2017 at 8:59am PDT

  3) University of Bologna 

(Bologna, Italy)

Bologna, Italy is of course the home to the oldest university in the world, University of Bologna,which was founded in 1088. This university is filled with beautiful red bricks and stones linked by miles of porticos.

Happy #Monday to all! #day1 • #900BO #900th #Anniversary

A post shared by Università di Bologna (@unibo) on May 16, 2016 at 2:49am PDT

  4) University of Oxford

(Oxford, England) 

If anyone like me is feeling devastated about not receiving an owl sent acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there is another option (albeit not much easier) -studying at University of Oxford. This university is so majestic, it looks like it came right out from the books. As it is, most of the library scenes in the Harry Potter films took place at the Duke Humphrey’s library. The design for the Great Hall in the films was also based on the dining hall in Christ Church at University of Oxford.

Although there is no known date of the foundation of the university, evidence of its teaching as far back as 1096 makes it the world’s second oldest university in operation. Also, University of Oxford is also one of the most followed universities on Instagram!

The days are getting longer, but the view at dusk from the top of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin is just as magical. #inspiration #architecture #motivation #uk #history #picoftheday

A post shared by The University of Oxford (@oxford_uni) on Feb 11, 2016 at 8:41am PST

This fantastic library is @bodleianlibs Duke Humfrey's. It was built 1450-80 to house 281 manuscripts donated to the library by Humfrey of Lancaster. Thanks @krishan.chauhan for the fantastic image. #inspiration #books #library #study #architecture #interior

A post shared by The University of Oxford (@oxford_uni) on Feb 1, 2016 at 2:04am PST

  5) Kenyon College

(Ohio, United States)

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Ohio, United States. This college is founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. As Ohio’s oldest private college, there is a preservation of many traditions such as taking a Matriculation Oath before entering class on the first day of school, and also being given a Matriculation book that dates back to at least a century.

Summer blooms burst with color near Ascension Hall ☀️🌼 #KenyonCollege

A post shared by Kenyon College (@kenyoncollege) on Jul 15, 2016 at 11:46am PDT

  6) University of Otago

(Dunedin, New Zealand)

As the oldest university in New Zealand, University of Otago does not lose out in term of its architectures. There are a number of distinctive buildings in this university, including this 19th century neo-Gothic clock tower that lies at the heart of the campus. If this isn’t romantic enough, you can always stroll along the picturesque river right beside it!

The iconic #clock tower #repost @jono.young #student #study #studynewzealand #otagouni #universityofotago #otago #sun #summer #sunny #newzealand #dunedinnz

A post shared by University of Otago (@universityofotago) on Feb 2, 2017 at 6:28pm PST

  7) University of Glasgow

(Glasgow, Scotland)

I don’t know about you, but I would be the first to go to school everyday if I am studying at University of Glasgow. This university was founded in 1451 by Papal Bull along with University of Edinburgh (whose building is, to be honest, equally impressive!). Glasgow itself is a city with a rich heritage of Victorian architecture dated back to the 19th century. The main building of the university is designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

Love this photo of UofG by @k_sandilands 😀 #UofG #UniversityofGlasgow #GlasgowUni #Glasgow #Scotland #University #College #Campus #UofGlasgow

A post shared by University of Glasgow (@uofglasgow) on Jan 11, 2017 at 2:47am PST

  8) Princeton University

(New Jersey, United States) 

If you talk about Princeton University (beside it being insanely hard to get in of course), its hallmark, Ivy-grey stones will come to mind. It is one of the oldest university in America, with Nassau Hall being built in 1754. The grounds of Princeton University are filled with modern sculptures and works by Picasso and Henry Moore.

We're approaching the time of year when our campus community can enjoy the nice weather outside. #Princetagram

A post shared by Princeton University (@princeton_university) on Mar 2, 2016 at 8:57am PST

  9) Trinity College

(Dublin, Ireland)

The Trinity College which name is also used synonymously with the University of Dublin since it is the only constituent college of the university, was founded in 1592 by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth I. It is Ireland’s oldest operating university and one of seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland.

Best of luck to everyone sitting their exams this week! Thanks @visualjungle for this lovely shot. #Trinity #TrinityCollegeDublin #TrinityCollege #TrinityCampus #Campus #University #Dublin #Ireland #FrontSquare #Campanile

A post shared by Trinity College Dublin (@trinitycollegedublin) on May 2, 2017 at 4:19am PDT

  10) Royal Roads University

(British Columbia, Canada)

Royal Roads University is completed in 1908 but only became a public university in 1955. With its numerous parks, waters and hiking trails, you will feel like you are taking a walk in a jungle. Oh, and if its main building, Hatley Castle looks familiar to you, it might be because you have caught a glimpse of it in movies such as X-Men, Smallville and Arrow!

Beautiful afternoon for a fragrant study break in the Italian Garden! #royalroads #wisteria #explorevictoria #explorebc

A post shared by Royal Roads University (@royalroadsu) on Apr 26, 2016 at 2:53pm PDT

The universities on this list are of course down to personal preferences. As you can probably already tell, I adore gothic revival style of architecture. Though to be fair, who doesn’t want to feel like they are living in a castle when they are going to school?