#was told i should post this and i agree 😤

[astonmartinii]

hi!! i really love your blog: i usually stay silent and only like the posts but i thought today should be the day i request something!

would you be open to write a social media au with lando Norris x y/n where the reader is a marine biologist? or a surfer? or something ocean-related lmao

feel free to disregard this request if you don’t like it or don’t have time!! xx

just add water | lando norris social media au

pairing: lando norris x fem reader

first fish ruined his appetite, now they steal his girlfriend?

yourusername

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yourusername: perks of the job but back on shore i clock in to my full time job of missing lando

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user1: can we have the hair routine cause miss ma'am is in the sea every damn day and her hair is still healthier than mine

user2: REAL

landonorris: f1 is just my day job, talking about you is my passion and career

yourusername: babe even the whales in monterey bay know about you

landonorris: they better be mclaren fans

yourusername: eh i think i heard super max (whale edition) the other day

maxverstappen1: conquered all of f1 and the seven seas so real of me

landonorris: THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SAYING THE RISING OCEAN TEMPERATURES ARE FRYING THEIR BRAINS

yourusername: babe don't joke about that :(

landonorris: sorry :(

oscarpiastri: can you please come to the next race i may put my head through a wall if i have to watch this man go through his camera roll again RETELLING me all of the stories

yourusername: didn't realise we were so annoying 🧐

oscarpiastri: don't get me wrong you guys are cute but sometimes i wanna nap after practice in peace and not hear about whale shit

landonorris: i SEE HOW IT IS

alexalbon: no oscar is right i've heard about when had a baby seal on her surfboard about seven billion times

yourusername: HEY that was cute

user3: okay but lando could talk to ME about y/n's adventures

user4: i want to hear ALL of it for real

user5: lando and y/n podcast when?

alexalbon: do not give them ideas they’re already number one and two yappers in the international waffling championship

yourusername: yapper and proud 😤

landonorris: healthy relationship communications and boundaries? no. yappers? yes!

alexalbon: has anyone ever told you guys you’re annoying?

yourusername: yes 😃

user6: they’re so annoying i love them

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landonorris: does this girl own a pair of trousers? real question.

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user8: i actually don't think i've ever seen a man this down bad

user9: ALL men should aspire to be this whipped

yourusername: i wish you would join the no trouser revolution, give the girlies something to look at

user10: i agree

yourusername: okay back up babe that ass is all mine

landonorris: it's okay babe you can admire your (my) ass all the time if you come home PLS

yourusername: sorry babe the ocean doesn't sleep and the whales need me

landonorris: but i need you too :(

maxverstappen1: WAH WAH I'M SICK OF YOUR FUCKING WHINING

alexalbon: THANK YOU FINALLY

landonorris: erm why am i being victimised in my own comment section

maxverstappen1: you are doing my fucking nut in mate yeha i get you miss her but kinda your fault for having a cool gf with a cool job

yourusername: omg thanks 😊

landonorris: Y/N???

yourusername: babe no offence but he's a three time world champ i'm gonna take the compliment

landonorris: i guess so :(

user10: just one normal comment section, please that is all i ask for

oscarpiastri: maybe i should get on this whole j.peg business cause my photography is doing some heavy lifting here

yourusername: i didn't take you for a stunt queen miss rookie

landonorris: where is the peace, love and positivity ?? you guys are such haters

oscarpiastri: proudly

yourusername: no cool shells for you mr piastri

oscarpiastri: I TAKE IT BACK

landonorris: you people are such flip flops

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yourusername: i promise we do actually do work

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user14: why am i now considering a marine biology degree for a sick ass instagram feed

user15: and protecting the sanctity of ocean life?

user14: yeah sure throw that in there too?

landonorris: i hope you slapped the FUCK out of that stingray for steve irwin

yourusername: babe we all know violence is not the answer

landonorris: you said you'd break the knee caps of any driver that took me out?

yourusername: i do not recall this

landonorris: steve irwin is a national treasure, you should've done it for oscar

oscarpiastri: i'm sure it wasn't that exact stingray mate

landonorris: you don't know that

danielricciardo: i see you've forgotten about the other aussie you were teammates with ???

yourusername: i wouldn't have that if i were you daniel

landonorris: y/n??? you're meant to be on my side

yourusername: say sorry to larry and maybe i'll gang up on daniel with you

danielricciardo: Y/N???

landonorris: i'm sorry larry ... and daniel i guess ?

danielricciardo: if my hand weren't broken right now...

user16: okay i think lando is having y/n withdrawals

yourusername: his bitchiness is a symptom of separation anxiety

landonorris: sorry not sorry

user17: mclaren pr praying for y/n to come to a race soon

maxverstappen1: p says pretty please can she bagsy the pink shells?

yourusername: most definitely she can !! i'll even be on the look out for more

maxverstappen1: thank you y/n you're my favourite - p

yourusername: that's it i'm coming home rn

landonorris: am i a joke to you?

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landonorris: reunited and it feels so good oh and a double podium, pretty sweet

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user21: obsessed with how lando said that y/n is clearly his lucky charm and the "dumbass" ocean won't be getting his girlfriend back

user22: there's levels to hating and lando's level of hating on the ocean??

user23: his hatred of fish makes so much more sense right now

user24: either he hates anything to do with the ocean or y/n convinced him they deserve to live 😭

landonorris: i'll say it's number one but realistically it's two greatly helped by the fact that it tastes gross anyway

yourusername: I'M SO FUCKING PROUD OF YOU

landonorris: i know hhehehehehehehe

yourusername: i love you stupid

landonorris: i love you too dummy

yourusername: as much as i enjoyed this race i am ready for home time (after karaoke, you promised me karaoke with yuki)

landonorris: AHAHAHAAH TAKE THAT OCEAN Y/N COMING HOME

alexalbon: bro has beef with the ocean 😭

georgerussell63: bro had to share his gf with WATER 😭

maxverstappen1: bro is being ... torn apart here KEEP GOING LOL

oscarpiastri: no keep going cause i just want a nap before debrief and some people are being WAY TOO LOUD

carlossainz55: i think that's probably why you guys are getting away with bullying the little goblin

user25: oscar out here just confirming that lando and y/n are ... for lack of a better word up to no good?

user26: y/n didn't lie when she called him a stunt queen

landonorris: i can't hear y'all LALALALALALA

yourusername: they hate us because they ain't us

landonorris: period 💅

user27: i hate (love) them your honour

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yourusername: so he had the whole proposal planned out but got a bit too excited at suzuka ... if anyone asks we got engaged on a boat in the mediterranean not in his driver's room. aside from that, HOLY FUCK I AM ENGAGED TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE I LOVE YOU LANDO I CAN'T WAIT FOR FOREVER

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user30: HOLY 😭 FUCKING 😭 SHIT 😭

landonorris: can we agree on no more like three month placements pretty please?

yourusername: baby the whales need me

landonorris: i need you more FIANCE :(

yourusername: gosh you are convincing, no more retreats for more than a month

landonorris: yay !!

yourusername: you need to put up more shelves for our shells though

landonorris: on it, i love you (i'm calling my dad to do it)

yourusername: i love you too baby

danielricciardo: enchante tease on the engagement post and for free ??? love you two

yourusername: at least you have the prettiest model ever for it

landonorris: I'M BLUSHING

danielricciardo: i'll deal with this because i'm happy for you two

mclarenf1: double podium and an engagement, suzuka really delivered this year

oscarpiastri: i guess i take back my comments about being loud in the drivers room... i'm so happy for you guys you deserve it

landonorris: ahaha i knew you were a softy really pastry boy

yourusername: i always knew you loved us really oscar, you're just sassy and we respect that

landonorris: .... sure

maxverstappen1: did he propose at sea in one final power move over his arch nemesis the ocean?

yourusername: have you considered he did it at sea because i'm a marine biologist and i love it out there and he loves me?

maxverstappen1: well now i look like an asshole

landonorris: the sea 0 - 1 lando

yourusername: lando 😭

user31: well this has all been a rollercoaster

fin.

note: i've been kinda mia on here and i'm super sorry this request has taken so long lol. wanted to get this out now though cause lando had a horrid day today but i'm glad he's okay !! enjoy, i'm in my second week of a job so might get less busy xx

[nowis-scales]

Hello!! I absolutely adore all your fates headcanons! They’re always perfect for each character, they feel so canon to me 😤 Thank you for sharing :D

Just out of curiosity, do you have any echoes headcanons 👀 There aren't any birthdays in the game so I realized there wasn't an opportunity for your fun character birthday posts, but I figured I'd ask!

Oh my gosh, thank you so much! That’s very kind of you to say!

Hopefully you are able to enjoy some of the Echoes ones I have just as much. As I’m not quite done the game yet, I can’t say that they’re 100% totally and perfectly canon, but nonetheless I hope they satisfy!

Also, quick special thanks to @fayesdiary for agreeing to read these over for me even though I never actually made them do it lol. I still appreciate the willingness!

Now without further ado, the Echoes headcanons:

1. Potentially a pretty popular headcanon but… I definitely feel like Tobin is gay. The only thing is, is that by the start of Echoes, he hadn’t fully come to terms with that yet. Some time around the ages of fourteen to fifteen, he’d probably realized that he was starting to have some… feelings regarding other guys, but repressed it because, well, Gray and Alm both liked girls, and Kliff never really seemed to care. It would be weird for him to be the odd guy out, right? So he told himself he liked girls. As he grew older and began to grow feelings for other men, I think it definitely bloomed into him deciding that okay, he’s bisexual, but he still likes girls, right? Might even like them best, yeah. But by the end of the war, he knows he just can’t keep denying who he is, and finally decides to announce to the world who he is. He’s a little nervous about telling his friends, but they’re very supportive — especially Alm, although he’s a little bit embarrassingly overzealous about it sometimes.

2. When Clive was older and travelling around, he always made a point to bring back souvenirs for Clair. Whenever he got home, she used to always sit down with him and ask for stories about the world that he saw. Of course he’d indulge his beloved little sister, telling her everything he could think of — sometimes even going as far as writing down specific things he thought she’d be interested in while he travelled, so he could tell her later. Then, he’d always end off his stories with the souvenir present just for her. Sometimes it’d be something like a glittery hair pin from a large city, and other times, it would be something as simple as a bag of homemade cookies from a family’s store in a small town. Nonetheless, Clair always loved and treasured them, and looked forward to it every time.

3. Lukas is amazing with little kids. Being a knight, they already tend to flock to him thinking that he’s a cool hero, but his chill demeanour and patience meshes well with them. He’ll listen happily as a little girl tells him stories about the adventures her dolls take, walk with a toddler as they stop to show him every single stick and rock and bug that they find, and he’ll even teach the kids a few basic fighting moves if they ask. I don’t know if I’d say that Lukas is the kind of guy who would necessarily want to have kids, but they do like him and he likes them, so I think it overall just ends up being a very positive, reciprocal relationship.

4. Alm was very prone to getting injured as a child, not because he was clumsy or anything, but because of impulsivity. Gray could say, “Hey, Alm, you should go do this!”, and Alm would just… do it. If he succeeded, it would be funny, but if he didn’t… it often left Gray trying to comfort him while Mycen tended to his wounds. After Alm got stung by an entire nest of bees, eventually Mycen had to lecture the two boys on not doing stuff like that anymore. Occasionally, though, they might still do it — for old time’s sake.

5. If and when Mae and Boey are ever to enter into a drinking contest against each other, there would never be any actual winner. Neither of them would be all that willing to relent until they were like, totally hammered, so they’d just end up having to call a truce. That is, if they even remember that they were having a drinking contest. They could just as easily get so engrossed in having an argument or spirited conversation that they’d forget. Still, no matter what happens, Celica and Genny still have to make sure their stumbling, silly derrières get to bed safely.

6. Faye wasn’t always as intense as she is about Alm in the main game. It got steadily worse over several years. When everyone was little, it just started out as a simple crush. She liked to be around Alm, because he was nice and funny and he always made sure that the other boys included her. However, after the incident with Slayde happened, she became more interested in the idea of Alm as a hero. Soon she fell in love with him as more of an idealized Prince Charming figure, and her obsessiveness towards him just seemed to grow from there. He was perfect in every way and he saved her in her moment of need, and he would always be there if she needed him. Between her original crush being pretty normal and her sense of security now tied to him, she doesn’t quite gather that her actions are kind of creepy.

7. Saber would definitely try to play it off like he’s not, but he’s honestly a little uneasy around wyverns. Something about their beady little eyes… he doesn’t know why, but there’s something about them he doesn’t trust. Not to mention that a mouth full of sharp, scary teeth? No thank you. He’s not afraid to be near one, of course, but he still won’t get really close if he can help it. The wyvern can stay over there and he’ll approach it if he wants to, otherwise, he will not make eye contact. He is also VERY adamant that he is not afraid, to the point of being just a bit overly defensive.

8. Rinea has a really complex relationship with Berkut. Once upon a time, she really was madly in love with his charm and demeanour, but his fascination with war always made her uncomfortable. At first maybe she thought it was a matter of perspectives, and that maybe through discussion, they might be able to achieve better conclusions and solutions. However, as time went on, it became clear that neither of them would change their point of view. War is Berkut’s pride, and the more he immerses himself in it, the less she feels like she can trust him. Every time she tries to tell him how she feels, he shuts her down or ignores her, so she feels like she can’t talk to him about it. It leaves her wondering if she should go through with their engagement after all.

9. Palla, Catria, and Est probably all gave their pegasuses matching nicknames. Think like Tic, Tac, and Toe or Sun, Moon, and Star. Naturally, it was Est’s idea, but her big sisters were happy to indulge her just this once. Like the girls, the pegasi are bonded to one another, so it ended up making sense that their names all match together. The pegasi also have bonds of trust with each different sister. They will obviously prefer theirs, but because of this trust, they will let the other girls ride them if need be. If Palla were to be stranded somewhere without “Sun”, but Catria could get to him, then “Sun” would happily allow her to board so they could handle things. It’s like they’re all family in some way!

10. When Celica and Alm lived together in Ram, they used to have bad pun competitions. Usually at the dinner table. Some of them were really bad. At first they thought that Mycen was just indulging them by not saying anything, letting them have their little moment, but then there was this one night where Alm was stumped on coming up with a retort to something that Celica said… and then, out of the blue, comes the WORST pun you’ve ever heard from Mycen’s mouth. Like the single BIGGEST dad joke. Alm and Celica were shocked into silence for about thirty seconds, until they erupted with laughter. They agreed that nobody else at the table could win that night other than Mycen. They spent the rest of their time together trying to top that one — years later when they’re married, they’re still probably trying.

11. Genny has always been kind of shy, and is grateful that Celica, Mae, and Boey all spend time with her. There was no way she was going to get away from Mae without a little bit of friendship, and of course Celica would want to be kind to her at all times because that’s just Celica, and Boey would feel the need to apologize if Mae ever got overbearing… and then, it was like Genny blinked, and suddenly she had all these friends! She’s still pretty shy around other people — when Celica’s army joins up she mostly hangs around with any of those three people if she can get in there — but she’s definitely pushing herself to do a bit more when it comes to friends. It’ll just take some practice!

12. Leon has superb judgement when it comes to romantic partners. Is it important that your parents approve? Sure. But does your Leon approve? Because if something’s wrong with them, he’s going to be able to tell right away. It’s like his sixth sense. When he initially told Kamui and Valbar of his special talent in the area, they didn’t believe him. Yet, the next time they spent the night in a town during their travels, he identified couples that would break up and who would be the cause. Sure enough, they later left that village only to return later… and quickly discovered that most of the separations had come to pass. Kamui and Valbar were totally floored.

13. Though she insists that she’s never had any lessons, Sonya is quite possibly the best ballroom dancing partner than anyone could ask for. She’s so graceful and gentle, and incredibly patient, that others just can’t help but find her a beautiful presence when watching and a comforting presence when partnered with her. In all truth, it was her sisters who taught her when she was a girl, after reading about romantic tales from storybooks. Dancing alongside them, the two of them guiding her movements so kindly… she tries to do that for other people as well, and give them a dance worth enjoying. After all, the act always fills her with so much warmth. They are some of her most precious memories.

14. Celica is very sentimental, and will keep just about any present she is given. She still has sloppily-made friendship bracelets that Mae made for her, a plush bunny that Faye sewed for her when she was living in Ram, and many of the books that were passed down to her from her teachers at the Novis Monastery where she grew up. Anything you give her she’ll treasure, and it’s very sweet, but it also means she has a hard time getting rid of some things. That flower crown Alm made for her three weeks ago might be wilting and falling apart, but he made it with love! Surely she can’t just throw it away, right? Right? Okay, perhaps it is making a bit of a mess…

15. Mycen, while strict, is the local Grandpapa. He didn’t really ask for it, either, but after settling in Ram, the children seemed to just sort of flock to him as a war hero. It’s how the other kids all ended up befriending Alm, because they were curious about Mycen. He doesn’t mind his status too much when it comes to the kids, but it always feels a bit weird to have the other adult villagers eyeing him in any particular way. He’ll mostly keep his distance from the adults where he can, but he’ll always have time for the kids. Even years into the future after the war is over and they have moved out of the village, he would still welcome them back to see him if they want to come.

[yukihime242]

I did tell myself that I should be more discipline and not post and concentrate on my exams... but I'm so bored! Why does the exam got to be next week?!

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Anyway, let's get onto the topic of this post.

So, recently, I saw a post on the FB Community for Genshin regarding players disliking Paimon.

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The post was basically asking players to not hate her "for no reason" and to be accepting towards her... generally...

The only thing that came to my mind after reading that long post was that this guy must be a new player...

Well, I am not saying that it is wrong of people to dislike a character and I am also not saying that that original poster was correct entirely. There were also some valid points in the comments section. So, I thought, we should just clear the air about Paimon.

1️⃣ Paimon talks too much. LITERALLY TOO MUCH

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Paimon, for one, talks too much. Like even when we are fishing, she makes noises.... And here I thought fishing was meant to be peaceful and relaxing...

I mean, it was even addressed in the game by Paimon herself, asking why the Traveler doesn't talk, to which the Traveler replied that Paimon was already saying everything that they wanted to say...

I highly doubt so...

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Anyway, as much as Paimon can be annoying, there is a good reason why she does all the talking.

First, we need to remember that the Traveler is not from this world, hence, the common tongue of Teyvat is not the Traveler's native language.

And I know you people will argue "but the Traveler speaks to the people of Teyvat!"

Yes, I know, but that does not mean that the Traveler understands everything. I mean, by now in Fontaine, the Traveler's grasp of Teyvat's common language should have improved significantly but it's still possible for the Traveler to have difficulty understanding certain terms.

Which brings me to my second point, that although the Traveler seems to be coping well in conversing with the people of Teyvat, it does not mean that the Traveler fully understands every single word. This is possibly the reason why Paimon always does a recap with the Traveler after learning some new things.

To explain about that point would require me to write an entire research paper, so, short answer is so that the Traveler is on the same page as everybody.

2️⃣ Paimon is dumb!

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I really have no idea how to put it in a much nicer way but it is one of the reasons why players dislike Paimon.

Truth to be told, one of the reasons I dislike her is because her intellect seems to be going downhill as the game progress... it could possibly be just me.

The reason I say this... compare it with the beginning of the game. For some reason, I just feel that Paimon at the start of the game seems to be smarter than the Paimon in the current patches. I don't expect her to be a genius, but to have some level of decent smartness. I... really don't know how to explain this but it's just what I felt...

But to counteract this "dumbness" of hers, she is a literal child... I believe 🤔... Still 😤

You'd notice that most of her interactions and reactions are like a child. You could say, to some extent, she has a mind of a child. Minus away the exceptions, you would never expect a child to know the Pythagorean Theorem, or that almost everything in this universe is made out of atoms, break it down and you have protons, electrons, and neutrons.

While I do have my personal opinion about her intellect, and also with whatever I have written, Paimon is still a child in some sense. So, no, she's not "dumb".

3️⃣ Her voice is annoying

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I have to agree to a certain extent...

Many players may have gotten used to her voice being extremely high pitched, but she was actually much lower at the beginning of the game.

You can refer to the links below to compare Paimon's old and new voices.

Old voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqQMNFysdc&t=6s

New voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFct8477oOM

I don't expect you guys to be watching the entire video but just the first few seconds to compare her voices 😅

Anyway, her now high-pitched voice combined with her personality could be the reason why she annoys many players in the community. While I am not sure if it is true, there is intel that the reason why Paimon's voice is so high-pitched now is because the company in-charge of doing the voice-overs for Genshin are betting to see how high can Corina (Paimon's VA) go for Paimon.

And speaking of Corina, this also brings me to my final point of Paimon...

4️⃣ People disliking Paimon because of her VA

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It's no surprise that there will be people not liking Paimon's VA, Corina, for whatever unknown reasons... Not everyone will like a celebrity even though they are famous and popular, right? To emphasize the point, some of you may not like Adele, or Ed Sheeran, or Taylor Swift, or Charlie Puth, or Sam Smith.... It's all down to personal preference, yeah?

It is the same with Corina here. While there is no one openly claiming to dislike her (and share their reasons), my only guess, and based on the FB post, was due to her latest antics.

Some of you guys may remember that Corina claimed to not be getting paid for her voice acting work for Paimon. Whether it was true or not (sorry, I didn't follow up on that news), it was very skeptical because no other VAs were speaking up about it. Just based on this alone, I surmised that it was most likely a disagreement between just her and the company in-charge.

While it was incorrect of her to give the wrong impression that all of the voice actors were not getting paid, it is also kind of like the whole hating Tighnari character thing again... I am not going to elaborate it because it is a very sensitive issue, but the point I am trying to make here is that while we may have our own personal reasons for disliking a character, we should not "hate" on a character simply because of their respective VAs or representative.

Well, it's quite a tough topic to touch on so I am just going to leave it at that...

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So, there we have it. While this doesn't change my opinion of Paimon, that is being a super annoying and irritating emergency food, it also points out that Paimon is just being Paimon with good reasons. May not be the best reasons, but it is legitimate. In some sense, i guess.

[petite-madame]

Hi! You mentioned in a reply to another nonnie that you’re thinking of working on The LoBB again but it sounds like that thought is a little overwhelming to you. My personal thought, but I have a feeling many others would agree with me, is that you should do what brings you joy in your art! The LoBB is a massive, beautiful project and we all love it dearly, but don’t want you to feel any anxiety about keeping it going just for your fans. If your hiatus is months, years, or slowly becomes forever, you should be proud of everything you have created and poured into that work. The thing is, we love all of your art and are so thankful that you share any of it with us. Take time to explore new projects, and feel freedom to come back to LoBB when and if the time is right for YOU. Sending you love!

Hi anon ^^

You mentioned in a reply to another nonnie...

“nonnie”!

I haven’t heard/seen this word in years! You must have been on Live Journal back in the days!! Amazing! 😁

Anyway 😳

Thank you so much for you very very kind message and for your understanding regarding  the situation of The Life of Bucky Barnes. I went into hiatus because I was extremely tired, that the artworks were becoming more and more complicated (too many details and characters) and the captions longer and longer. I mean, I could only blame myself: nobody asked for this but the more I was working on this project the more I wanted it to be perfect (which is completely silly 😅) so it became more time consuming and stressful too. I’d like the point out that I was the only one putting so much pressure on my shoulders (because I’m a total idiot 🤓) and that nobody never pressured me into posting more or felt entitled to a certain “schedule”. My beta reader, Vegetamochi, was the most patient and kindest person ever during the writing and when I was on short hiatus, I was actually receiving messages from people who wanted to know when the account was coming back BUT they always told me to take my time and wished me good luck.

But anyway, I stopped for a while because I was exhausted. HOWEVER, this big hiatus is leaving a bit of a bad taste in my mouth because 1) I really want to finish this project and 2) I was SO close to the end. I mean, I drew about 600 artworks for The LoBB and I stopped at maybe 30-40 drawings before the end. I feel like a marathon runner who gave up at 20 yards from the finish line. In addition, I already drew about 7-8 drawings that were never published. It pisses me off because I still ship Steve and Bucky (hard 🤓), it’s not even a question of losing interest. Now, I just have to find the right amount of energy and inspiration to get back to it!

Me getting back into shape to start working on The LoBB again. I’m going to be honest, drawing series of 18 artworks that take two months to complete isn’t helping either.

Anyway, thanks again for your kind words and I hope that one day I’ll be able to announce that The Life of Bucky Barnes is out of hiatus! 😤

[y0itsbri]

I was discussing with @gallawitchxx and they said I should tell you my hc-

Tami, Mickey, and Sandy are DEEPLY invested in RuPaul’s Drag Race, they meet weekly (usually at Ian and Mickey’s) for beers and Drag Race. It’s highly emotional for them all and they discuss every detail on a group text. Ian tries to get in on the fun and Mickey insists that he use the time to hang out with Lip.

Thoughts? ✨

omg hi anna! i’m so glad to came to me with this 🥰

i absolutely love the idea of tami, mickey, and sandy watching drag race together. they all definitely have strong opinions and love to drag the queens and each other when they don’t agree with their choices. (‘how the fuck does that fit the theme?!? that shit is ugly as fuck!’) they have actual monetary bets as to who sashays away each episode. so far tami is in the win and mickey is Pissed about it 😇

i’m laughing so hard at the idea of ian being like 🥺’please can i watch with you guys’ and mickey being like 😐 ‘no go hang out with your brother’ and ian is just ☹️☹️☹️ until mickey caves. but the whole time, ian just sits there like 🤨🧐 and makes off color comments and about halfway through the episode, sandy literally kicks his ass out. gallaghers just don’t get it and that’s a fact 😤 (although i bet debbie would enjoy it — there’s a fight when she finds out sandy had been watching it without her. lip doesn’t even try to understand)

i’m also loving the idea of like mickey being teary eyed when one of his fav queens gets sent home and tami posting a picture of him to her private story. ian pulls it up later when it’s just the two of them and is all teasing like ‘see, it’s bad for your health, babe. i just worry about you’ and mickey is like 🙄🙄 ‘yeah, yeah you just want me to cry over your ass once in awhile. that shit’s not gonna happen.’ (mickey is a liar and we know this)

hmmm i can’t decide who tami and sandy’s fav queens are but i know for a fact that mickey loves bianca del rio because he told me himself 😌❤️✨

feel free to add anything — i’m having so much fun with this!! 🕺

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Chapter 3: How To Destroy A Friendship Group In 10 Seconds Or Less: A Guide!

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

The people are clamouring for My Response™️ to this situation, and by god they’re about to receive one.

I spend well over an hour drafting My Response™️ to be as inoffensive as possible. It’s so blandly polite and milquetoast it could easily land me a job as the PR manager of a particularly controversial company. YouTubers wish they had my writing talents on hand for their apology video scripts.

Of all of the radfem leaning members of our friendship group, I’m the closest to the Inner Circle. They consider me a good friend. They even love me. Erupting Scrote has even been asking for my response to the situation. If anyone’s going to get a reasonable reception to radical ideas, it’s me.

If I have one regret, it’s not sending a message to Scrote privately before posting my public response. I’m not sure it ultimately would have made any difference, but it would have been less of a shock for him when The Response™️ went up.

11 pm rolls around, and I deem My Response™️ ready for public appraisal. In one fell swoop, i singlehandedly destroy a friendship group, as well as, depending on who tells it, the entire modern trans movement. I make a peach post, which here, I include in full:

The replies we’re shall we say, not understanding:

But this is nothing on the flood of public posts made on the situation, and the messages I and my friends personally receive. All of them make several dramatic peach posts about how betrayed they feel (though I will not be including too many screenshots due to the photo limit).

Milk Pervert doesn’t get in touch with me at all, but posts this on his public twitter:

For reference, Cat is the ex, REDACTED is the “friend with bad vibes,” and I’m the friend who has been indoctrinated. I think that’s the thing that annoys me the most about this tweet. None of those people viewed me as a full human being with autonomy or a mind of my own. I was their cute little pet who smiled and agreed with everything they said and did. Even in committing my ultimate act of Evil, Milk Pervert denies my agency and puts in on “indoctrination.” The joke’s on him anyway, I’m the one who indoctrinated Cat 😤 (But I will say, we have absolutely started calling ourselves the TERF Trio, the witch vibes are out of this world).

Herb messages me: “this is all i have to say- not that you seem to care about how any of us feel but i want you to know this has been one of the most devastating nights of my life and i am truly hurt. if you don't want to listen to us you don't have to, but you should care about the fact that people who considered you such a close friend feel this hurt and betrayed. all of us do.” — Not to be spicy, but this is incredibly emotionally manipulative? Also, completely out of proportion considering what I actually said. Though I will say, Herb had the decency not to immedately block me, and we actually stayed in contact for several weeks afterwards to have a conversation about the situation, and ultimately parted ways on not terrible terms. (Having said that, over the last week, Herb has made two (2) Facebook posts regarding #MilkGate, both of which fuelled my urge to make this writeup).

While this is all going on, some poor innocent bystanders are dragged forcibly into this mess against their will. Here, I finally introduce Flower, Crystal, Crow, and Jam. On the morning of the 15th of August, Scrote sent out three identical messages: one to Flower, one to Crystal, one to Crow. This information, I learned secondhand from them. I am not privy to the full message, but from what I’m told the message went something like: “do you henceforth renounce all association with the witches discovered within the good town of Salem, and stand with us goodfolk against evil?” Flower, who had recently suffered a family tragedy and publicly announced that she was taking a break from social media, left the message on read and never responded or talked to those people again. Crow, who read the message at work, replied that she was currently unable to form a proper response and would get back in touch later (this was deemed as too non-commital, and she was quickly tossed onto the burning pyre with the rest of us Evil Transphobes). Crystal, however, went the fuck off. I don’t know exactly what he said, but he’d decided that enough was enough and he didn’t want to put up with this shit anymore, so he sent Scrote a long, angry message expressing his disgust and blocked him.

The real devastation comes from Jam. I’m not so upset that she chose to side with the TRAs, that’s her prerogative. It’s just that, before MilkGate went down, REDACTED and I had begun to form a fairly lowkey lesbian-only group in our city, and we had invited Jam to join the committee. We wanted a safe and discreet place for fellow lesbians to meet and share our experiences, away from non-lesbians. What annoys me is that, according to Crow, who was still in the group chat at this point, Jam TOLD everyone in the chat about it. She described it as a “secret TERF group,” and Milk Pervert went on to post about it publically on twitter. All of the hard work we put into setting up this safe space lesbians ruined by a bunch of petty children who don’t want to acknowledge that basic fucking biology has an impact on women’s lives!

But the real kicker comes from my interactions with Erupting Scrote. On facebook messenger, he simply messaged me to say: “i just read your post on peach and i want you to know my heart is broken” before promptly blocking me everywhere. Now, Mr. Scrote had been my best friend for four years. I genuinely loved him, would have done anything for him, even by that point, when I was feeling so much unspoken bitterness resentment. For better or worse, I was not going to let that be our last conversation. So, I sent him a message on whatsapp. (I will summarise the conversation, rather than reposting it word for word, as it is rather long).

On the night of the 15th, I sent a long message basically saying that I would understand if ES didn’t want to see me again, but that I was sorry for hurting him and wanted, if nothing else, to offer a proper goodbye.

He replied the following evening. If Herb’s initial message was emotionally manipulative, Mr. Scrote took it a whole new level of toxicity, to the point that in hindsight, it’s actually deeply funny. He sent several messages over the course of the next five minutes, but I think these are my personal favourite:

Motherfucker had the audacity to give me a time limit! Some deep, hidden, unexplored part of me reared it’s ugly head, and it simply said

Fuck That

Something clicked in me, and I realised, after all this time, that my best friend was a massive fucking dick. This was A Dick Move. More than that, he’d been treating me like crap for years! And so, with every fibre of spite I had in my body, I sent the bitchiest possible reply I could in the 12 minutes so graciously left to me. The possessive behaviour, the infantilisation, the shitty way he treated my friends, the fact that he wouldn’t notice an act of misogyny if it danced the cancan in front of him, all of that bile came pouring out. In that moment, I was Elphaba, and this was my No Good Deed. I was wicked through and through. And then, with four minutes left on the stopwatch, just as he sent that bitchy fucking “so I’m going to block you now,” message, I sent my reply, and I blocked him before he could block me. Vindication was mine.

Now, after all this, the days and days of lactation induced drama, a situation which effects even me now, 3 months later, one must wonder, is there anything to be learned from this?

No!

[mugiwara-lucy]

So if you guys remembered, I made a post on my favorite and least favorite Army Wives episodes and in it I said that Season 6 Episode 5 True Colors was my least favorite episode of the series so I figured I could at least go more in depth with my thoughts with a separate post entirely.

Now in this episode, Roxy is asked to be an FRG leader. The problem? Jackie has a problem with Roxy’s fashion (despite no one else seemingly caring) and so she goes to Denise who tells her she needs to change her fashion and Roxy being understanding pissed off goes to vent to Claudia Joy who says (albeit with way more consideration and not offensively unlike Denise. C’mon Denise you say to Roxy “your outfit doesn’t say FRG leader” and “you’re an officer’s wife so dress like one” so how the hell do you expect her to react?) that how she dresses matters as an officer’s wife and she has to change her wardrobe and as such, Roxy is made to dress more conservatively.

My problem? Roxy Leblanc is NOT the stoic, conservative type. For god’s sake her name is ROXY after all and her fashion fits her to a T and no one really seemed to mind. (Not counting folks like Lenore Baker but she is an antagonist so who cares what she thinks?)

And for Jackie, Denise and sadly even Claudia Joy to basically tell her she needs to change her wardrobe is complete bullshit for two reasons.

1.) I have a friend’s mom who’s an FRG leader who DOESN’T have such an outlandish dress code where everyone must dress conservatively. As long as no one was naked, no one really batted an eye. Not to mention, earlier in that episode Denise and Jackie were saying how they were having trouble getting more people to be FRG leaders. With such a dumbass dress code, no one people would be turned away.

2.) What makes this unbearable is just how OUT OF CHARACTER all of this is. ESPECIALLY for Claudia Joy. So you mean to tell me the same women who was unfazed when Roxy came to her tea party in barmaid’s clothes as well as coming to a golf tournament in a T shirt saying “I have crabs” is now agreeing with Jackie that Roxy needs to change her clothes?? And I also have a hard time believing the same Claudia Joy who rolled her eyes at Lenore Baker constantly scrutinizing Roxy for her fashion as well as going to hell and back to get Roxy’s bar back is this same Claudia Joy who’s basically telling her to suck it off because the army is always right. The ONLY thing that saved Claudia Joy from being on my shit list was how kind and understanding she was and actually listening to her ranting rather than just expecting her to change with no problems unlike Denise and her moment of “Regardless of what you wear, you’ll still be the same Roxy underneath, thank God!” But….if that’s the case, why change her clothes? She’s the same Roxy regardless of whether she wears a longer dress or a tank top. And this REALLY contradicts her speech to Roxy in 4x02 on how she loves her BECAUSE she’s so unique which last time I checked included clothes also!

Ugh. It makes me wonder how it would have gone had Pamela been there and she was told the same BS. Would she have conformed or fought against it like Roxy did originally?

At least Claudia Joy seemed to give a damn unlike Denise who came off as Lenore Baker 2.0.

Not to mention it makes it seem as if all those snobby bitches in season 1 were right for looking down on Roxy.

Also i wish Trevor would have called Jackie or Denise out on their BS because as I said conservative dressing is NOT Roxy Leblanc 😤

Ugh. Season 6 NEVER should have been made and Jackie Clarke really did cause a downgrade to the show it never recovered from….