People often cast others as the villain but leave out their role in creating them. It's easier to blame the villain's reactions than to face how their own actions shaped the story.
EPISODE 8 IS HERE! Short and Sweet check us out on Spotify & Youtube! Todays episode I talk about my experience with the noble & magical experience! This one is about not underestimating yourself! 🤍🤍🤍
I sat in the chair of a swanky salon in Yorkville, assuring my hairdresser that I was ready for this. I’m going back to the dark side. I’ve been blond for over a decade, ever since my high school boyfriend told me I’d look better ‘light’. I bleached and highlighted my natural black hair into a perfect shade of honey-blond. Don’t get me wrong, I liked how I looked. They say that going blond is every Asian girl’s right of passage. A villain era or an “I want to party carelessly and have no plans for the future” era in my case. The high school boyfriend was long gone, but the blond hair stayed. It stayed through many more boyfriends. But it also stayed through 4 years of university, at a program I had no interest in. It stayed through the drama and gossip of my sorority, the death of all four of my grandparents and the biggest depression of my life. The blond was both my armour and my sword. I chose to present the easygoing, flirty, sexy side of me to the world, so the real me could stay hidden. The roots gave me away. My natural hair stayed its course. Stable. Unbothered. It made its way to the surface every month like clockwork. The jet-black was never really gone. It may have been bleached and toned, blowdried and curled, but it never left. And now… it was screaming for air. I couldn’t stay blond for another day. There wasn’t a specific event that triggered the appointment. Rather, a gradual buildup of growth and transformation. I outgrew and outpartied my college friends. I found my true calling in psychology and I finally started writing again. I wasn’t going to bleach any more parts of myself. I realized the hairdresser had already coloured most of my hair. I looked at myself in the mirror. It was like meeting your online friend. Oddly familiar with a dash of distance. The jet-black changed my aura, my vibe, if you will. It was intense, striking, almost… It was me. I had a brief moment of regret. Did I just make a mistake? Am I not pretty anymore? I can colour it back anytime. Immediately, I felt a pinch of guilt. Saying goodbye to someone you knew for over a decade. Meeting someone you’ve long lost touch with. Mixed Feelings. And I’m not talking about hair anymore…
Here’s why I think a lot of people are stepping into their “Villain Era” right now … Cosplaying as the villain, personally, gives me more confidence 🖤 Villains are HOT - there’s a reason people are attracted to the “bad boy” (bad person) aesthetic. The rebel without a cause. The willingness to do whatever it takes to meet your end. It. Is. Sexy. 🤍 Villains are shameless. You have to have a certain confidence to go for what you want without shame. Is that confidence or… recklessness? I think maybe you have to be delusionally confident to behave recklessly??? ❤️ It’s the attitude for me. The audacity. The sheer knowing what they want and then going for it just because they FEEL LIKE IT. Because of the above, I find that when I’m in a villain cosplay, I’m able to bring out these qualities of going FOR IT just because. So maybe your villain era is really just your stepping into your POWER era. I’m not saying it’s good to BE a villain IRL, I’m saying it feels good to PLAY one. And that play breeds natural confidence, at least for me. How can you bring “villain energy” into your every day life to step into your confidence? Have you ever cosplayed a villain? How did it make you feel? 📸 = @dozenfingers_photography Venue = Cosplay Winter Wonderland party 🎉 . . . . . . . #villainera #disneyvillain #disneyvillains #cruella #cruelladeville #cruelladevil #cruellacosplay #cruelladevillecosplay #cruelladevilcosplay #disneycosplay #curvycosplay #curvycosplayer #cosplayersofinstagram #cosfam #cospositive #cospositivity #nerdgym #funworkout #getyourgeekon #effyourbeautystandards #achieveyourdreams #goalhelper #fitgeek #fitnerd #funwithfitness #fitnessfun #feelgoodfitness #healthnerd #healthgeek #geeknasium (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoDohVjLoTB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Posting this as a reminder seeing as being a cancerian I’m apparently in my villain era and that goes until the end of next year (Scorpio and Capricorn you’re with me too 😅) I’m interested to see what happens for me after that if this is me in my villain era 🤣 #bekind #alwaysbekind #youarenotweak #livinglife #villainera #cancer #scorpio #capricorn #qotd #quotestoliveby #quotestoinspire #quotestoremember (at Happiness) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkcOygVJGoV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Make no mistake during this episode, Mew was showing what Boston has been saying all along about him. Mew is their friend for a reason and he ain’t the naive cinnamon roll mask he wears. Boston knows the real face beneath. Every interaction this episode he’s been targeting those that ruined his happiness. It ending with Ray is no coincidence and it’s gonna devastate Ray when VillainEra! Mew confesses it was to destroy him.