#sorry im rambling mb

[shyhandart]

🌸🍓 leucistic fawn girl 🍓🌸

Sb: $35

Ab: $150

Comment or dm to offer ty for your interest mwah 🫰

[songofsaraneth]

you know who i miss? :mrgreen: . he was one of the early emojis (before we even called them that... they were just smileys...) who was everywhere... he was the same as the smiling face but a beautiful emerald hue. what happened to him. why did modern technology take him from us. the internet we crouch and cower inside now is but a shadow of the civilization we once had.

[aroarachnid]

various moodboards i made for aro day ^-^

lmk if u have any requests! <2

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[anothersquarenoodle]

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Silver-haired characters

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INTRODUCTION

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Everybody knows that if a silver- or white-haired character appears in any piece of media, it's highly likely that they will be somebody important, whether that be as a protagonist, supporting character, or antagonist. Usually, the white hair is symbolic of a character's purity, wisdom and/or divine relations because they are a vessel for higher powers. I'm sure that at least one of your favourite characters has silver or white hair because it's definitely true for me.

These silver-haired characters don't have to be the protagonist, but they definitely have some connection to the protagonist if they aren't it themselves. The hair colour is close enough to real life platinum or white-blonde hair that it's not unrealistic yet still sets them apart from the majority. It usually signifies that these characters are special and will be important for furthering the plot.

Unfortunately though, modern uses of the silver-haired character fall flat or cause the character to become boring because the feature isn't applied creatively enough to set these characters apart from literally everyone else. This is most evident in YA fantasy novels as the authors use this trait as a "coolness factor" or a way to show the audience that they are "not like other girls".

I want to discuss my opinions about this since the trope on its own isn't particularly bad, but it can feel overused or make characters appear to be copies of other characters. Please note that all of this is based on my own observations and is no way intended to come across as some kind of fictional ruling system.

VISUAL MEDIA

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Silver-haired characters from visual media are able to use the concept of visual storytelling to aid the audience's understanding of them as powerful or important people in the story.

For example, Gojo Satoru in the anime/manga Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) is a special grade sorcerer believed to be the strongest one of this generation. He acts as a mentor figure for the protagonist Itadori Yuji, but has a large enough fanbase that he might as well be his own main character. His "snow-white" hair and blindfolded light blue eyes make it clear to the audience that he is so powerful that lack of sight won't affect his skill. Being visually animated allows the audience to also see Gojo's own feats and understand why he is the most powerful sorcerer of this age as there is clear evidence to support his greatness.

Similarly, Princess Yue from Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) has silver hair because the moon spirit shared its life force with her when she was a child. This silver hair is symbolic of her divine connection with the moon spirit, which she eventually becomes after the death of Tui and her sacrifice to save the moon spirit. Through visual storytelling and the events of the plot, we know that she was also the princess of the northern water tribe and had a great sense of duty for her people, hence being a special character.

As with both examples, the silver/white hair is used as a plot device to tell their own story while also simultaneously furthering the stories of the protagonists. They share the spotlight without taking it away from the message being delivered.

LITERATURE

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Due to literature requiring the audience to imagine the appearances of the characters based on descriptions, visual storytelling is much harder to achieve since everything that is explicitly mentioned must have a purpose. However, visual storytelling can still occur, but requires a specific choice of words to convey the same thing a picture would. For example, silver and white are not the same in literature, but can be used interchangeably in art or animation.

Geralt of Rivia, from the series The Witcher, is a legendary monster hunter known as a witcher (hence the series name) and also has white hair. This white hair is a result of mutations witchers experience as they are subjected to intense alchemical processes and intense training. This sets them, and Geralt by extension, apart from normal humans as they are physically and magically enhanced to be more suited to monster hunting. In this case, the white hair is a side-effect instead of a biological trait, and it allows the audience to easily recognise other witchers in that world.

Unfortunately, due to the rising popularity of modern YA fantasy, some characters simply have silver/white hair because it's just a cool trait that sets them apart. The characters Mare Barrow (from Red Queen) and Violet Sorrengail (from Fourth Wing) both have brown hair at the root that becomes silver towards the tips. This colour doesn't signify anything for Mare except that she is a Red who masquerades as a Silver for plot reasons, and for Violet it's supposed to be the symptom of greying hair caused by her (implied) Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Other than this we are just told, usually by other characters, that these protagonists are smart or cunning and simply better than others, but we don't exactly see this in real time, we are either just told it happens offscreen or the plot bends to make it happen. The only thing that could be considered unique and linked to their white hair is that both Mare and Violet are able to wield lighting powers, where the lighting itself is white.

Yes, the silver/white hair usually signifies the great power of the character and how it makes them unique to the world, but that also needs to be supported by the character's own personality and actions, otherwise they are at risk of simply having that trait for the sake of ticking a box.

PERSONAL OPINIONS

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As an artist I truly love giving characters silver or white hair, especially if it comes with magical powers like controlling water/ice or lightning or some other power that has colour symbolism of any kind because it's fun to design around visual storytelling as well as how many things you can tell about a character based on how they look and the things they wear.

As a reader and (sort of) writer I also love the worldbuilding and lore behind these things because it puts things into perspective and I like to imagine that if I were to be a person in that world it would make sense to me. It is also fun to imagine a kind of world that is different yet similar to our own.

That being said, I do find that to execute such intricacies well, the creator (whether that be the author or animator or otherwise) must take small details into consideration and link different parts of the story together in a way that is organic and would make sense if that world truly existed. Most YA fantasy novels I think fall short of this because as long as they tick the boxes of specific tropes and character appearances, their books would sell regardless of their quality. Don't get me wrong though, it's definitely ok to like and enjoy those books while still finding them poorly written.

Because of this "fast fashion" style of fantasy writing, even cool and timeless designs such as the silver-haired character can feel boring or some copy of another more famous story. Sometimes the debuting silver-haired character feels exactly like another recently debuted one because they are written for the same trope or are made to be blank slates so the reader can imagine that character to be themselves. Having silver hair and immense power will mean absolutely nothing if the character isn't even a character.

Personally, I would love to read stories where the author has used the white hair to subvert the archetypes and tropes that saturate the fantasy market without stereotyping or romanticising facets of the real world. I definitely feel that creativity in writing is a rare find these days and it should be valued especially for storytelling.

FINAL NOTES

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If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading and to be honest, I didn't think that voicing my thoughts would take this long lol.

I hope that this ramble/essay was as thought provoking and entertaining for you as it was for me. If it wasn't, thats ok too and I hope that it at least you learned something from me regarding this topic <3

[gncrezan]

obsessed with @idrellegames so i’m adding to the pile of drawings of people’s wayfarers (alongside some tiny sketches n doodles) !! genuinely one of the best written IFs i’ve had the chance to play, and an amazing beautiful UI as well ❤️

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Maybe I should. Erase the save file I haven't opened since 2022.

[constelco556]

okay

but

if crosshair's chip was removed

then what the fuck did they do to him in ep-

ok hold up update

he did have his chp at the start of the show but it prolly got removed after whatever the fuck happened on Bracca-

mb sorry guys 💀

[stardustloserdoll]

i was wonderin if u could like write smth where the reader has really bad adhd (always fidgeting, troubles focusing, always talking/moving, ect) and tom gets a little annoyed but when she explains it he feels kinda bad for being annoyed? idk if that makes sense mb

tom with a s/o who has adhd

when you’re rambling about anything, he’s always listening he finds it cute

sometimes he’d get a little annoyed if you weren’t listening to him, and he’d wonder why you were always moving so much

which ended up with him yelling at you to stop and to pay attention... but when you told him why he was like 😃 “oh.. im sorry.” and felt really really bad

he apologized many times and took you out to eat as an apology and kissed you a lot

he’s super patient and always listening to you

if you like reading but you have trouble on reading big paragraphs and you lose focus, he’d be reading it for you as many times you want

when he notices you’re fidgeting or if it’s from being nervous he’ll hold your hand

if someone is telling you something and you weren’t paying attention he doesn’t mind telling you again

if you are fidgeting a lot he lets you play with his fingers

tom also has trouble concentrating so sometimes you both zone out together

“do you know what they said?” “huh? no..”

if you forget anything that is important he always reminds you

[riotlain]

HII been looking at ur content for a while /pos and love it sm especially bcz u write for male reader 🫶 that being said can i get billy / stu (poly or seperate! anything is okay ^^) with FTM s/o who’s a little ditzy? if your uncomfy with that it’s completely fine!

meow i unintentionally made reader a bit of a bimbo/himbo guy

like instead of a little they a bit mad ditzy💀💀 mb

im sorry this feels short😭😭

THIS IS A NWLNW BLOG!! WOMEN DNI

Poly Ghostface

Honestly they just like the fuck with you at this point

Like your reactions make them laugh

 “What's your favourite scary movie?” "Well I've always enjoyed the Halloween movies. But also the one with Chucky is fun to watch! Omg Jason is probably one of my favs too. blah blah blah-"

They find it funny to sneak into your house and rearrange your shit. Bc then you look silly to them when your running around looking for whatever youre missing

At school they probably eventually get you to hang with them

Randy doesnt really like you. He says youd be one of the first to do in a horror movie bc if your behavior

"Girls like you would die first or second in the movie!" "Im not a girl so it cancels out"

ANYWAYS SKIP TO YALL 3 ACTUALLY DATING

They tried to keep the whole ghostface thing a secret from you but you found out

You end up finding their ghostface stuff on accident and when you ask it kinda shocks them💀

"Soo like I kinda know you 2 are behind the whole Ghostface stuff. LIKE I DONT REALLY CARE! But just wanted to let yall know🤭🤭"

If you take T (shot kind for this idk if theres others really) they help you with the shots

If you hate needles they try to talk you through it but Stu sucks at it💀💀

"And then BAM! The couple got cut by Jason!" "Stu, shut the hell up."

Stu Macher

Stu was interested in you first

You were in a few of a his classes and he saw you in the halls alot

He noticed your habit of tripping over nothing, rambling a bit too much, or dropping stuff you were holding

He could tell you were probably not the brightest person ever but he still fell hard for you

That led to him talking (going on long rants) to Billy about you

He invites you over alot

Doesnt mind you talking and asking questions during movies

Loves when you cling to him when anything scary happens

Man finds you so cute! (in a probably pathetic way but anyways)

Loves to scare you

Stu just loves to see you jump away like a scared cat ok!

Billy Loomis

Heard about you from Stu and decided to check you out (stare at menacingly from afar)

You probably noticed he makes it a bit obvious

He likes that you talk to your friends about him alot

"Omg that guy keeps staring at me! He's kinda cute. A bit scary though."

You somehow didn't know who he was

He's the one to make the calls as Ghostface to your place

Stu would be the one to chase you around but that usually doesn't happen since you'd go on long tangents about whatever

Also finds you cute in a pathetic way

Has he killed people who dared make fun of you for being trans? Yes. Definitely. Absolutely

[safety-pin-punk]

HI PUNK IM ALIVE MY COMPUTER BROKE WHATS UP HOMIE HOWS MOUNTAIN BOY

LMAO, no worries 😂. BUT ALSO OH NO YOUR COMPUTER I AM SO SORRY

And uuuhhhhhhhh. Yeah so. Mountain Boy is my boyfriend now 😅. But we are both insanely busy this month so our ‘official’ first date is gonna be mid October (*cries*). But is okay cause we’ve been trying to do a bunch of little things inbetween

He bought me ice cream last week, and then this week we went and watched airplanes land at night after work. Idk what we are gonna do this week, but I wont see him until after the weekend anyways cause hes out camping with his dad and I’m going to oktoberfest with some friends from the thrift store (its nice knowing they haven’t forgotten about me since I got a new job lol).

But it honestly doesnt feel like much has changed between me and MB? Maybe just cause we haven’t gotten to go on a date date yet? Or maybe cause we’ve kinda been dating without dating for years anyways? Idk. But like. Its not stressful and Im happy when Im with him soo (usually anyways lol - he did royally piss me off way earlier this summer but we’re good now). And yeah apparently all it took to actually date him was to first date a different guy who was also an asshole and then MB just got jealous. And also drunk mario party helped but that was back in June and apparently has stuck in his head since

Okay Im done rambling lmao. HOW ARE YOU????

[notahorseindisguise]

sorry dont mean to,critique you on your tags srkfkk n i am sure you didn't even mean it this way but there are many genuine reasons to care about the vietnam war !! none of them are the reasons people get uppity about respecting the vets though.

just kinda jarring to see even knowing you didnt mean harm by it, like yea it's still an incredibly traumatic event that colours the lives of people in vietnam and its neighbours to this day (im also touchy cus part viet and a bit drubk :3) but yeah no harm done just important to be conscious like mb "imagine caring about vietnam vets you lost get over it" or something is more clear n accurate n doesnt run the risk of people misunderstanding you know :o) ♥

also not trying to be passive aggressive in case it comes off that way !! jus a genuine reminder even if it seems like a small thing it makes a big difference especially for people who don't have a western perspective ? like the west understands vietnam as a waste and a failure, which isn't really wrong, but the rest of the world understands it very differently and much more acutely

rambling cus drumk i hope that makes sensf x) n yeah again not mad at you, just a good thing to be aware of and consider, n there was an opportunity for a teaching moment :3

all good ! yeah i know it was a terrible thing and its effects are still felt throughout vietnam and thats why i think its fucked that vets still care about it. they still talk about it and people still act like its a good thing and like anything was won. which nothing was by any account

[majormeilani]

The thing is. Mafia boss is never treated as sympathetically as any other bosses. Directors are just some celebirdies and Snatcher gets BFF contracted. It is some mafia goon that clings to the ship and not him, and it isnt that he is there and he doesnt have a speaking role like Cooking Cat (unless im blind), he isnt present in the scene in any capacity, no one is holding his jar. Even in the cut cafe scene he is like HEY?? I DIED?? and no one gives a darn. He willingly causes harm like Snatcher EXCEPT Snatcher doesn't seem to hunt people outside, its fae hospitality bullshit but he stays on his fucking lane. Mafia Boss' backstory, his motivation is that he got bored so he invaded an island and At Most Charitable Interpretation mass deported its locals.

Fuck, the fact you can even offer the time piece is enough evidence that Mu is in the right but thats where we leave off!!!!

i'm not in particularly sure what post of mine this is responding to (if at all and it's maybe just a random rambling!) so i'm gonna try and assume this was something i said about mafia boss' character but if it's not what i think it is i apologize-

but if this is about how mafia boss' character doesn't get much of anything compared to the other characters, i do for sure agree. like i am not heavily invested in mafia boss' character myself (he's mostly just a funny bastard guy tm to me; i don't necessarily hate him by any means just what he did i'm not a fan of bc. i love mu gjsfjafjjcwjc) BUT i do think it's lame as hell that compared to the other antagonists he gets very little to his character and doesn't really have much a motivation for anything beyond like. being bored one day and maybe the mafia's population problem. and like, if we're talking cut content, he also had one interesting aspect to his character which was literally ONE LINE before his boss fight that mentioned he saw the time pieces a long time ago and for some reason the devs cut it? but left grooves' line IN about how he saw one a long time ago?? weirdly inconsistent and rather unfair. (tho that like mb says is canon in my mind still)

and yeah, everyone else is also treated as though they are worth sympathy too but he's kinda cast aside! which on one hand i'm like okay this game is just being silly but also it does make me feel a lil bit bad for him tbh.... even though i do think he deserved some consequences for what he did (like i think all the antagonists do)

i definitely feel really sorry for mafia boss fans how dirty his character was done and i'm honestly all for people giving him more depth too. unfortunately i personally can't say what i think about the depth of his character is for me because if i'm honest, i don't really think much about him as a character on that level. but it really does suck that he's usually treated as just the butt of the joke by the game and not taken seriously as a character (despite the severity of his actions and also what he ends up being punished with)

[unidentifiable-body]

Hihihihi I'm being annoying 2 u now, bc I got 2 thinkin' of my ahit au, and dumb cat brain thought of our aus meeting how chaotic that'd be.

Kelpie and Hattie being a extrovert adopting a introvert, Tabby and bow (I don't remember ur bows name sorry) just having a normal fuckin conversation surprisingly, the two Mu's talking and HM!Mu just ramblings about flowers

Romeo would NOT like ur mb, especially since he seemed to hurt his kid making her run away Romeo does not stand by that (even if it was a accident) Cc needs 2 make sure he doesn't fuckin kill him.

HM! Snatcher would bully ur Snatcher,, no reason just vibes (my Snatcher is a dickhead lol). HM! Vanessa would try to get along with ur Vanessa the best she can.

Also the birds are just chilling, gay old men meeting trans fem & trans masc hostility? Yeah they'll be great

Sorry not sorry for babbling heheho :3

YESYESYES!!!

WE HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED KELPIE AND HATTIE ARE BFFS!!!!! SISTERS EVEN!!!!!!!

TABBY AND BELLA (her full name is Bella Beatrice Von Bonebelle Cook) ARE LEGIT THE ONLY CALM AND COLLECTED ONES. LEGIT.

MY MU WOULD GET SO ATTACHED YOU HM!MU ITS INSANE. THEN MY MU IS ALL LIKE "O btw im a eldritch horror and this isnt my real form, wanna see my real one?!?!?"

HOLY SHIT YES ROMEO BEAT ALESSANDRO'S ASS. (Thats my Mafia Bosses name!!) *insert Alessandro hissing at Romeo cause hes a fucking cat lol* ALESSANDRO WOULD FIND CC TO BE A LOVELY WOMAN AND TREAT HER WITH KINDNESS AND RESPECT AHAHAHA

My Snatcher would be so fucking done with HM! Snatcher BAHAHAH My Snatcher gets pissed off SO fucking easily so like there would be a teeny weeny little itty bitty fight lol-

If it was my PAST Vanessa pre-jealousy then yeah yeah HM!Vanessa and her would get along great!! If it was DEAD Vanessa then uhuhuhuuhuhhhhh.......No. no not at all. BAHAHHA

YES YESYES THE BIRDS ARE CHILLING. MY DJ IS TRANS AND CONNIE IS ALL LIKE "Trans? Mate, what. OHHH are you talkin' about TRAINS??? OHOHOHOOH I LOVE ME TRAIN SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL GAL AND-"....my Connie is a lil stoopid ♡

Ur florist and my florist....lets just say bad things happen.

ALSO YES KITTY PESTER ME MORE!!!!!!!!!!! MOREMOREMORE!!!!!!

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

YEAH!!!!!!

[shervso]

Hello!!

we haven't talked for a while, what topic would you like to talk about?

Some topics probably came up, like plants for me (i am kinda starting an indoor garden) and I would like to ask about them in detail, you don't have to tell about very deep, but like naming the topics, and I ask about them

Sorry for ramble-y message.

No its fine! I actually love when people ramble to me

Also sorry that we haven’t talked in a while, mb

Anyway (im not very good at asking in detail sry) which one of your plants feel the nicest texture wize