#taste ask game

[hcguesstheauthormessageboard]

Was’x’aan tléighu probably. It’s the right time for them sort of.

—MMA

(Salmonberry)

oh we’ve got salmon berries where i live!!! sometimes i like to walk in the forest and pick some.

[redstonedust]

thinking about it do current day young children even like minecraft that much? id been under the impression that current gen kids mostly like roblox and weird mascot horror games and minecrafts biggest fans are the people who started playing it as kids 10 years ago, so marketing anything minecraft exclusively to children is kinda missing like 2/3rds of the demographic.

[emry-stars-art]

(Op of the text post is no longer in the fandom/no longer wishes to be so I didn’t tag, and I’m hesitant to say to flood their notifs! Let’s be respectful but I wanted to give this its dues lol)

I literally have been thinking about this text post for a full year and it’s FINALLY TIME. Happy Halloween 🎃

[blu-ish]

hihi Blu! Idk if this is appropriate or not, but I have a tag game for u

you have to name your top five favorite songs, and tag people you'd like to get to know better! It can be as few as one or as many as two hundred people lmao

and btw you can do a closed circle by sending each other songs without mentioning anyone else!

hope it's will be fun, have a great day 🤗🤗🤗

Omg!! Thank you sm! I love tag! and tag games hsjshsj xD (THIS IS SUCH A HARD CHOICE I HAVE SO MANY FAVS 💀)

These are my favorite songs as of recently:

OUCH by Nxdia.

SUCKER 4 GREEN by LIL TAY.

PUNK TACTICS by Joey Valence and Brae.

Bathroom Floor by Sophie Powers.

Great Time to be Human by Jagwar Twin.

(honorable mention since I'm listening to it rn lmao, Safe Place by Tony22.)

Tagging my moots and anyone else who wants to join! @jeysecretive @corffee @sonicthehedgehogunofficial @oddogoblino @urunclesonic @shadows-coffeebeans @silentwolflily @fleshbook @paracosmicessence @niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian @the-void-is-a-disappointment @milkfroggo @kingsnooz @thebluebafoon 💞💖💖💞💖💞💖

[codename-adler]

musing about jeanaaron rn.... what are your thinkings about them tell me anything

an exception from my to-do list for u orpheus and my loves Jeanaaron <3

- the height difference is EXQUISITE. 5ft vs 6ft2 😍😍😍

- backliner duo backliner tension backliner sync backliner soul

- i understand and read Aaron as a very no bullshit guy, but like, that’s it. he’s not mean about it, not cruel, not condescending, not teasing, not fake, not anything. (unless u are Neil Josten) i think that it’s very refreshing and fascinating to Jean? to meet someone who really has no ulterior motives whatsoever, in life and with his person. very trust material in Jean’s eyes methinks. the very just middle between overly sweet positivity and stabbing despair? idk, i just think Aaron shared Andrew’s honesty, but in a more neutral, idgaf way. does that make sense?

- Aaron tends to Jean’s woundssssss like no one ever has before and there is so much less pain!!!

- Jean cracks Aaron open right down the middle where nobody ever bothered to lookkkkk and there is so much more understanding!!!

- i like the Kevaaron vibe of revenge, like: you took my forever partner, i’m stealing your twin! or; you chose that moldy ginger snap, i’m choosing the same brand of bastard but he is TALL! it’s funny to me :)

- the patience they have for one another is infinite; they feel no rush, no pressure, no resentment. they would wait eternities for just one smile from the other, even if that’s all they would ever get.

- the quiet is important. silence without anticipation? a reprieve of the noise inside and outside? freely? i think they’re both silent people, but with one another there’s no forcing words, no expectations, no waiting for the other shoe to drop. the safest place where everything just stops and all is okay.

- CUDDLES. they are both hardcore heavy duty octopi in bed. holding tight tight tight tight no space all warmth. intertwined like bonsai roots.

- they looooooove to judge people together!!! especially their teammates and classmates. but the grocery store and airport are fun places too.

- i think they should learn to play instruments together. it would be very sexy. and angsty.

- i imagine them taking turns cooking, always one manning the kitchen, and the other sitting on the countertop. the kicking-against-the-cupboard-or-island length varies, but not the domesticity and intimacy of it all.

- Jean is the best teacher Aaron has ever had. for studying AND Exy. Jean is the best backliner, yes, but has that je-ne-sais-quoi that just gets through to Aaron, that just gets Aaron

- Aaron is also suchhhh a sucker for validation and making Jean proud is his #1 kink

- i think Catalina is so much like Katelyn (and woah would u look at that, such similar names 👀) that she instantly takes a liking to Aaron too, and Aaron as well right back despite his best efforts, and Jean is so touched that his bestfriend has adopted Aaron like she did with him, like he truly can have everything 🥹

- Jean immensely appreciate that Aaron is among the very very few people who does not shit on Kevin, but doesn’t worship him either.

- for what Neil did for Jean, Aaron truly starts to resent him less and less thanks to Jean offering a less idealistic vision of Neil that Andrew and the Foxes all share, but showing him Neil’s true colors that can also be good despite their violence.

- Jeanaaron on the motorcycle??? tiny beefcake plastered to Jean’s muscly broad back??? HELLO???

- back to the honesty think, i think where Jeanaaron differs from Kevaaron and is instead more similar to Andreil, is that the walls have to be taken down very painstakingly; Kevin and Aaron already know each other and have seen each others worse, there’s no armour to go through; Jean and Aaron don’t know each other at first, but they understand each other like no one, so it’s a game of truth too, one at a time, tearing down those barriers and touching that soft true heart behind; what makes them panic, what makes them scream, what plagues their nights and days, what lures in their past… it’s a whole new process of dealing with your trauma when no one else could ever handle it, much less want to look at it and kiss it better anyway.

also dusting off me old old playlist i had made for them, just for you:

take me home + 100 bandaids are really my jeanaaron anthems

[poetrysmackdown]

what makes a poem a poem? does it have to be written in a certain way? is this question a poem if i want it to be?

Fun question! This is just my personal sense as an avid reader and less-avid writer of poetry, but for me it’s useful to distinguish (roughly) between poetry as a genre and poetry as an attitude or philosophy through which language and the world can be understood. And of course these two go hand in hand. I see poetry the genre as essentially a type of literature where we as readers are signaled, somehow, to pay closer attention to language, to rhythm, to sound, to syntax, to images, and to meaning. That attentive posture is the “attitude” of broader poetic thinking, and while it’s most commonly applied to appreciate work that’s been written for that purpose, there’s nothing stopping us from applying that attentiveness elsewhere. Everywhere, even! That’s how you eventually end up writing poetry for yourself, after all. There’s a quote from Mary Ruefle floating around on here that a lot of folks have probably already seen, but it immediately comes to mind with this ask:

“And when you think about it, poets always want us to be moved by something, until in the end, you begin to suspect that a poet is someone who is moved by everything, who just stands in front of the world and weeps and laughs and laughs and weeps.”

Similarly, after adopting the attentive posture of poetics, there’s plenty of things that can feel or sound like a poem, even when they perhaps were not written with that purpose in mind. I’ve seen a couple of these “found poems” on here that are quite fun—this one, for example. The meaning and enjoyment you may derive from the language of a found poem isn’t any less real than that derived from a poem written for explicitly poetic purposes, so I don’t see why it shouldn’t be called poetry.

That said, I do think that if you’re going to go out and start looking for poetry everywhere, it’s still important to have a foundation in the actual language work of it all. Now, this doesn’t mean it has to be “written in a certain way” at all! But it does mean that in order to cultivate the attentiveness that’s vital to poetry, one needs to understand what makes language tick, down at its most basic levels. It will make you better at reading poetry, better at writing it, and better at spotting it out in the wild.

Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook is an extraordinary resource to new writers and readers, and a great read for more experienced folks as well. Mary Oliver’s most popular poems are all to my knowledge in free verse, and yet you might be surprised to find her deep appreciation for metrical verse (patterns of stressed/unstressed syllables), as well as for the most minute devices of sound. In discussing the so-called poetry of the past, she writes,

“Acquaintance with the main body of English poetry is absolutely essential—it is the whole cake, while what has been written in the last hundred years or so, without meter, is no more than an icing. And, indeed, I do not really mean an acquaintanceship—I mean an engrossed and able affinity with metrical verse. To be without this felt sensitivity to a poem as a structure of lines and rhythmic energy and repetitive sound is to be forever less equipped, less deft than the poet who dreams of making a new thing can afford to be.”

In another section, after devoting lots of attention to the sounds at work in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, she writes,

“Everything transcends from the confines of its initial meaning; it is not only the transcendence in meaning but the sound of the transcendence that enables it to work. With the wrong sounds, it could not have happened.”

I hope all this helps to get across my opinion that what makes a poem a poem is not just about the author's intention, and not just about meaning (intended or attributed), but also about sound and rhythm and language and history, all coalescing into something that rises above the din of a language we would otherwise grow tired of while out in our day-to-day lives.

I'll always have more to say but I'm cutting myself off here! Thanks for the ask

[puppyeared]

43. For the ask game

43: Sexiest person that comes to my mind immediately

going straight for the jugular arent we

[queer-lovebot]

I’m not sure if you ship kevjean or not but how do you think Jean would react seeing someone flirt with Kevin

I’m a Kevjean enjoyer but I have yet to cross the threshold into making my own content! I feel like I don’t have Enough of Jean yet so I leave him to the professionals

That being said Jean feels like one of those “oh no it’s fine! It’s fine. There’s no problem it’s fine” kind of guys when it comes to Kevin. If he feels like Kevin is uncomfortable then he’ll politely interject, but if it’s mutual flirting? Guy who is jealous and bitter but Knows that’s His Problem and is trying to handle it. Jean will sit there and be nasty fit the rest of the night. He can’t help it. It’s not his fault and we’re shouldn’t blame him.

[hcguesstheauthormessageboard]

Black licorish. And maths is pineapple to me. For reasons unknown.

-dragon

black licorice! alright! i don't really eat sweets all that much because i've kind of got... the opposite of a sweet tooth? it just doesn't taste good to me.

and maths is much crunchier than a pineapple to me. i'd describe it being very rich in flavor, but i do like the acidity of pineapples correlating to maths.

[soupforsoup]

Tag Game: do this picrew and share the last song you listened to!

Thank you to @miyagi-hokarate for tagging me!! 🌸🏵🌻

I SWEAR I DON'T NORMALLY LISTEN TO IMAGINE DRAGONS ON THE REG I SWEAR I'M COOL PLEASE DON'T KICK ME OFF OF TUMBLR DOT COM FUCKK

I'm inviting: @brainless-tin-box @abracazabka @skysister @fivenyssateganadric and anybody at all else who wants to do this!! ✨💚✨🌸✨

[whatwooshkai]

2?

(important context in tags)

Dani sucks in a breath, and prepares for the worst. "There's no way you're fitting in that."

Blades gives her a blank look, the dress halfway up his thighs. "Huh?"

Even if there weren't love handles spilling over the waistband of his boxers, there's no way in hell Blades is fitting into anything Dani owns. He's taller than her, his shoulders are broader, and he's far more filled out. "You're not fitting in that."

"Why?" Blades asks, seemingly genuinely curious.

Because you're fat, is on the tip of Dani's tongue, but she holds it. Blades isn't even human on most days, she shouldn't subject him to human problems like body image issues. "We're not the same size," she settles on, tapping a beat on her arm. "You're bigger than me. And I'd rather you not rip that dress."

Blades' frown gets deeper, but he shimmies out of the dress and pulls back on the old tshirt and jeans from her dad, the only clothes they had that would fit him. "I could get smaller?" he offers.

Dani shakes her head. "No, you can't," she tells him. "You're not... y'know."

"Right," Blades mutters, crossing his arms over his chest. Dani can see the outline of his stomach through the shirt. How can he not be insecure about that? "But I don't like these clothes, I like your clothes. Your dad has no sense of style."

Dani cracks a smile at that. "No, he doesn't. But, uh..." she shifts, staring at the dress crumpled on the floor. Maybe she should've let him stretch out that dress. She always looks a little off in it... "I could take you shopping," she offers, and Blades absolutely lights up.

"Really?" he says, grabbing her hands. "Can we go to the mall? Oh, I've always wanted to do that-" he cuts himself off suddenly, eyes growing wide. "Oh my Primus. You have to buy me a pretzel."

Dani bites the comment on her tongue and forces herself to match his energy. "Of course!" she promises, squeezing his hands back. "You should enjoy your time as human!"

Blades' grin lights up the whole room.

Dani sighs when he turns away, babbling about all his plans and gathering up the clothes scattered on the floor to get an idea of what he wants. He's so excited, Dani wishes she could genuinely match that energy.

Maybe I could stand to learn a thing or two from him.

[emry-stars-art]

Hi, i just want to stop by to tell you how much I love your art and even more your Royal au

I hope this is in no way an offence but I found this post https://www.tumblr.com/gatorparade/721685064988131328 and immediately thought of you and His Highness Prince Andrew.

I wondered if on a walk Andrew stopped to freshen up and Abram, in keeping watch, found himself observing him from afar and what thoughts he might have, not so much at the Prince’s splendid figure but how much he manages to convey a calmness to him that he never had, a kind of serenity that radiates, that he can read in Andrew’s eyes when they finally meet.

Feel free to ignore this if it doesn't inspire you, I love everything you post regardless, you cannot know how much your blog brightens my days ✨

Okay im FINALLY HERE

I wish I could have done this more justice but this is what I got, I love the idea of Nathaniel/Abram first seeing the little bits of humanity and vulnerability (only the barest bits but it’s much more than the Moriyamas ever gave) from Prince Andrew and like. It jumpstarts the idea that Palmetto is really and truly different than Evermore or something TT

anyway the linked post [here] is first off gorgeous (it’s an oc if I remember, pls go give the artist some love if you can we appreciate ocs in this house) and second I LOVED THE VISION. Im sliding a little writing snippet under the cut so thank you for the ask :DD

Find the royal au masterpost here 💕

The prince said he just wanted to acclimate Nathaniel. His short, matter-of-fact way of speaking was still unfamiliar - he sounded as if he was being transparent, but Nathaniel knew better than to take royalty at their word.

It wasn’t as if he had the choice to refuse.

He accompanied the prince on his ride of the outer courtyard. There wasn’t much for Nathaniel to do; unfortunate, because he couldn’t distract himself with real work. The prince was bringing him deep into the untamed grounds, through thick trees and bushes. Secluded and private. Still, Nathaniel said nothing.

After countless minutes of what should have been easy silence, they reached a creek. The prince guided his horse to a stop and considered something, lost in thought until Nathaniel had dismounted and approached. It took more effort than normal to remove his glove.

Nathaniel’s hand moving into his space seemed to jog the prince. He blinked, took a heavier breath, and held a little too tightly as he always did to slide from the saddle.

Despite Nathaniel’s every anxiety, he brushed right by without a word. Nathaniel watched dumbly as the prince shook his hair free of its tie, combing it out and kneeling at the creek bed. He splashed his face with water and ran some over his scalp to combat the midday heat.

He didn’t seem to be watching his back. He wasn’t hesitant or afraid for Nathaniel to see him in a state like this. Easy, casual. Even now Nathaniel was playing the possibilities in his head. All the ways the prince could be harmed in that moment. How easy it was for Nathaniel to see it and know the royal family wasn’t as infallible and godlike as they claimed.

But, then - the Minyards had never claimed godhood. Though the water made the prince’s hair sparkle.

Prince Andrew didn’t think himself as far above Nathaniel as Nathaniel had assumed.

The prince straightened then, turning a look on Nathaniel as he retied his hair.

“You seem rather heat stressed,” he said flatly. “Are you certain you don’t need some water?”

Nathaniel was certainly stressed. Just maybe not from the heat. He hesitated before gesturing aimlessly with the reins he held, one horse in each hand. He’d gotten too distracted to tie them anywhere.

The prince met him at his own horse’s head, taking both reins without a word.

“Go,” he said. Nathaniel forced his mouth closed when he found he couldn’t speak, and the prince gave him another unimpressed look. “That’s an order, Nathaniel.”

So Nathaniel let go and stepped back, still hesitant to let the prince hold his horse when it should only have ever been the other way around. But the prince had already turned his attention to GS, stroking the white blaze of his nose with as blank an expression as ever. Nathaniel wondered briefly if the prince’s face ever changed as he went to obey.

(Also thank you for your other kind asks AM, I cherish them and you 🥰)

[duck-in-a-thrift-store]

Hey, I've got an idea for a tag game!

Tell me

one artist/band you know at least one entire album by

one artist/band from whom you know literally two songs

>optional: include the name of the album and the song titles

I'll go first~

Know an entire album- Lewis Capaldi

Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent

Know literally two songs- Earth, Wind & Fire

"Let's Groove" and "September"

I feel like this is a pretty generic one- and the first I've ever started lol- so I'm just going to tag some of my moots, but if any of you don't want to participate that's totally fine, and anyone else is welcome to join!

@aceing-on-the-cake @redley-of-many-noodles @euryvices @tommy2020 @nonyanae @moreover-clover @misty-inferno @andiv3r @integer-0verflow @aaand-mitsuba-is-dead-again @broken-faucet-of-feelings

[riddlerosehearts]

tagged by @panbelle for 5 songs i've been listening to a lot lately! ty for tagging me! 💖

Sugar We're Goin' Down by Fall Out Boy

Faint by Linkin Park

Thank You For the Venom by My Chemical Romance

Venus by Sleeping at Last

I See The Light from Tangled

tagging @transriddlerosehearts @deweyduck @ihrtmichael @the-blue-fairie @nerdalmighty

@part-sadist @prince-kallisto @fruixtii @lanoireparade @yourstormthlaylirahh -- and if anyone else wants to do this you can just say i tagged you!

[eddiegettingshot]

genuinely thinking clipboard buck must do it for eddie a little bit because why was he smiling like that. why wasnt he bullying him when in other situations he does not hesitate to be a menace

NO LIKE I LITERALLY THINK YOU'RE RIGHT I THINK CLIPBOARD BUCK IS A GAME TO THEM. I'M SOOOOO SICK UHHHHHHHHHH

[ghelgheli]

🔥 unpopular fruit/food opinions

people are, of course, free to have whatever affective responses they may to (concepts of) foods. it isn't blameworthy to feel disgust at a particular food. but i think it is a very common move to then endorse this disgust as containing a truth about the food, to move from the observation "i feel disgust at this food" to "this food is disgusting" (including when they attempt to express the former and come out with the latter). and i think this demonstrates a failure of imagination. in general, people tend to eat things because they think they are worth eating; in general, a food cannot be essentially disgusting and commonly eaten by a group at the same time. considering how much disgust is bound up with class, race, etc. a lot of people are way too quick to commit to their food-icks as something beyond the personal. you are free to feel disgust at something i eat but if you start declaring that disgust as though it is a fact about the world i will find you tedious.