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[magpiereplika]

for a blog with a toki pona url i do not toki very much pona

[transmascanakin]

For the varmitech bro au

1. Does Martin remember Chris? Does he know how he could've/should've looked like?

2. How brainwashed is Chris? How much does he actually believe?

3. Do the Kratt parents take any role in the au?

4. Can we get more Tortuga crew??? How does Martin deal with missions alone, how do the others react to him?

Ty for the ask anon ! Honestly some of these questions are things i originally wanted to include in the explanation post but ended up deleting because i didnt want to make it too lengthy so Im glad to talk about them now!

1. Martin doesnt remember Chris clearly, he has some blurry memories and flashes but its mostly the feelings he remembers if that makes sense. Like how he was close with Chris and loved him a lot, the feeling of fear everyone felt when Chris went missing and the despair when no one could give them closure, how lonely he felt after.

He doesnt really know what Chris could look like, maybe he likes to imagine, but you cant really get accurate answers like that. Also with cases like his you often see detectives constructing images of what the missing kids could look like now years later and I thought about Chris getting one of these done but he probably would only do that if he sorted through everything else because while Martin thinks his brother is alive, Chris firmly believes that he died a long time ago. He doesnt really think the image would be useful

2. Hes half brainwashed and half doesnt remember a lot of things naturally because of a traumatic reaction. What he has been told was that they have been through a traumatic accident (like a car crash) of some kind that damaged his brain temporarily and thats why he barely remembers anything from his early childhood and has some memories that never actually happened (the memories of the Kratt family) and he believes thats true because frankly, he has no reason not to. Maybe he questioned it when he was younger, but as an adult your childhood memories get really blurry (especially if youve been through something traumatic) so he kind of just accepted the car crash excuse to be true. He suspects there's something hes not being told but he doesn't even think of him being kidnapped as a possibility

3. A little, yes ! The reason Martin wanted his brothers case to be investigated again was actually because of how bad it affected his parents even after 20 years, which is just the sad reality of missing child cases. This part is unfortunately not that well developped yet, but maybe the Kratt brothers father fell really ill and Martin was worried hed have to pass away without knowing what happened to Chris, or maybe they got divorced after not being able to move on from the incident evem after all that time, ill have to think about it but whatever happened motivated Marin to contact detective Chris.

Either way I do have 2 scenes in my head that include atleast one of them ! The first one is where Chris and Martin go back to Martins childhood home to search the area again, and they briefly talk to mama Kratt who still lives here, and she takes one look at Chris with a mothers eye and thinks "wow he looks exactly like Chris" and although she doesnt believe its actually him she does think its some sign from the universe or idk something sentimental !! I just rhink itd be sweet of her. I also think itd be interesting from the pov of Chris because this is a maternal figure who treats him really nice and he just cant help but notice how different his mom is from Martins yk sad feelings...

Also Chris gets to reunite with his parents after everything goes down :)

4. Hell Yeah!!

Martins missions here are a bit more professional as he doesnt really have anyone to goof around with but he still has fun because he gets to gush about animals to the team.!! (He definitely wishes he had someone with him out in the field) Also i guess the villains are also interesting here because dealing with them alone causes confrontations to drag out, and they also become harder and more serious, especially with Zach as he got a big advantage with 'the crawler'. Aviva does jump in to help a lot but shes a bit limited because at this point she hasnt finished making her own cps yet (this might become relevant later i havent decided yet.)

In the last part I assume you were asking about how they feel about Chris, and they do meet a lot while Martin and Chris are working on the investigation, and Koki actually helps them a lot with her computer skills. The crew also grows pretty close to Chris, i mean he kinda just clicks with them, and he latches onto them a lot as he hasnt really had proper friends before. Like ever. Basically theyre just found family i love them. !!!

Sorry for making this so long haha I just love talking about this au... I hope these answers satisfied!

[magicdefendorwolf]

Yan Yan (Yanqing) with someone who's very touch starved and clingy RAAA

STOP BC I TOO,AM TOUCH STARVED LETS GOOO

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Okay so first of all,he doesnt mind your clinginess at all,if something he finds it adorable,because he's lowkey clingy too

As for the touch starved part,it would take him awhile to notice that you're touch starved

And if you just told him straight up he would be like "oh okay" and make a mental note to be more touchy with you

But i dont think you're going to be touch starved while dating him any longer,because he literally thrives off of your touch,presence, and praise

Whenever you're around its like he has newfound motivation to keep going,to do better,for you

Whenever you praise him for anything,whether its his looks,swordsmanship,or sweet behaviour,he appreciates anything and everything

And most importantly and what we're here for,touch,hugs after thought training sessions,cuddles after long days or even weeks

Whenever he's exhausted he'll just snuggle with you,with a death grip around your waist and he'll just nap in order to recover his energy

After long days of training and duties he'll come and hug you tightly and just sit there for awhile

And knowing that you're touch starved he'll always make sure he holds your hand,or brings an arm over your waist or shoulder to keep you physically close to him in public

Kisses,definetly lots of them,he loves peppering your face in short and fast kisses while he cups your face

Speaking of which,he'll mindlessly cup your face and admire you,during naps,random staring sessions,or evem when you're doing absolutely nothing

And he also needs to physically feel you next to him or that he has an arm over you to feel safe

I feel like physical touch is his secondary love language

So as i said in the beggining you wont be touch starved for long,especially if he knows

You'd need the whole Luofu and the general to pry him away from cuddling with you

And about being clingy dont worry about it,he's just as clingy,he feels the need to constantly be in your presence

First thing in the morning that he thinks about is how he wants to see you again,to hug you again,to cup your face again,argh! he has to focus on his duties,but sneaking off to see you for abit wont hurt anyone right?

Becaue of the amount of time you two spend together its a daily occurence for the locals to see you two together to the point that its weird not seeing you two next to each other

Of course you can have your personal space if you need it,but otherwise he's spending all of his free time with you

And if your ever come to him asking him to hold you,your hand,or just give you any form of physical touch he's willing to comply,no matter who's watching ot if he's in the middle of training,you're his priority after all

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I had fun writing this i hope you enjoy it! Sorry about the gap between posts,finals are around the corner

[hawkgirlz]

Hi,

I'm a fan of DC comics and I got into it by watching justice league unlimited as a kid and always liked the character of shayera though I was always a wonder woman fan first so I don't know the lore of hawkgirl as much. I was just wondering why you dislike the shayera version of hawkgirl? or if you don't dislike that version do you just prefer kendra saunders version?

oooh we might be here for a while so prepare for a long post.

dcau shayera is to me, a fantasy that men clearly wrote because they didn't want to actually interact with her political side. i alreadyade a big post about why i hate the john/shayera pairing but when you compare her writing in the dcau to her comics, it's just really bad.

her appearing as hawkgirl even though comic shayera hated the hawkgirl name and never went by it post crisis was the real thing that agitated me. it purposely confused people who wanted to read the hawks comics and it spoiled kendra's chances of being her own character in a way that didn't mean being a dcau shayera replacement. pushing a white redhead as hawkgirl when kendra already existed and was confirmed to be latina + was clearly somewhat brown just caused insane damage. even the actresses who play kendra get racist hate for not being a white redhead when she's not even playing shayera.

another stupid thing is that shayera's last name is hol but her husband's name is hro talak. but the thing is, post crisis shayera went by shayera thal because it was a reboot and she was no longer married to katar. WHY did they keep shayera's last name hol when she's not married to katar hol???? it's like these writers were high when reading her comics. i've genuinely never seen a comic character get this badly adapted that they mess up BOTH of her names.

let's start with her beef with wonder woman pre-starcrossed. her beef with wonder woman was originally because of an arc that addressed feminism. shayera's purpose was to basically be the man obsessed woman who says the thanagarians are sexist and her reasoning for all of this is. sex. literally just sex.

now in comics, shayera was a human trafficking victim, a victim of sexual abuse, etc. and when she interacted with diana in comics, they would make fun of men together. so to portray her lime THAT, on top of her main trait being cheater is just. really not a good look at all. i mean all of her storylines revolved around men. she never even defeated the villain in starcrossed and needed a john stewart who didn't evem have a ring to save her. it's also funny to me how the male writers claimed she was masculine or not like other women because she growled or whatever and it's like. comic shayera was wearing a suit and tie to galas. dcau shayera wears crop tops when comic shayera said they made her feel naked. like what masculinity are we talking about here lol.

another thing i remembered is that during this arc, shayera was shocked when she found out arisia was an orphan and was like "oh the pain she went through must have been unimaginable" and it's treated like a joke for batman cause he's sitting right there. but the thing is..... shayera was literally an ORPHAN in comics. comics literally never make you forget she's an orphan, she's always talking about being raised in the slums. on top of never getting her actual origin in the dcau minus that super orientalist bad take on ancient egypt, we NEVER get her origin.

and on top of her writing just being so bad. comic shayera was indoctrinated into the thanagarian government and agreed to spy on katar for said facist government, yes. but like. comic shayera literally KNOWS these people aren't good. and that's what made her so complex and she later realizes she's in the wrong and gets exiled from thanagar abd becomes more progressive.

the dcau version on other hand is just so insanely watered down. even though she's ordered to find out the jl's weaknesses, she somehow didn't know they were planning on destroying earth and wanted to build some FORCEFIELD. like what???? genuinely how can you be that stupid???? especially when dcau shayera literally says her planet is about war which would obviously mean her friends would get hurt. i just can't fathom this plot, there's no way she was that dumb. it just made her look bad like atp i don't blame diana for hating her.

also in comics, it was shayera's thanagarian father behind the original thanagarian invasion, he was a military general. not an evil hawkman rip off. so once again, another interesting plot removed for cracskhip romance drama.

[anyoldfandom]

Genuinely not trying to vaguepost my last reblog bc this has been something I've seen a lot of but like...y'all get Lae'zel is a complex character, right? Like Larian didn't just phone it in for her just bc she isn't as forthright about her issues at first doesn't mean she isn't interesting.

It'a not a coincidence she has so many things with Shadowheart. They were both raised by cults. Lae'zel has been taught all her life that her queen is infallible and been taught that murdering her peers is acceptable and that every other species is weak and not worthy of her time or company. It's something she's proud of bc for moat of her life, she has been isolated from other species. She has only known this conflict from the day she was hatched, she is what she was shaped to be.

Like...do you also think it was a coincidence that Shadowheart was expected to kill to become a Dark Justicar, and that Lae'zel was expected to kill a mindflayer to be seen as a worthy member of her society? One murder is objectively worse than another, but also their stories have to go in opposite directions.

It's so important to look at Lae'zel as someone who was raised by a cult, though. It also explains why she's so reactive, antagonistic - she's scared, and when she needs the world to be soft, it's sharp and cruel back. Shadowheart can hide that she's a follower of Shar, and does at first, until she feels like she has to tell you. Lae'zel cannot do that, bc as far as Faerûn knows, her entire species is the cult. And people are valid to be suspicious of Githyanki, since they do do atrocities! A lot of atrocities. Those atrocities are not to be ignored. But we, as players who come to see the whole picture, shouldn't just dismiss an abused person unlearning the ways of her cult bc she's mean. She wouldn't have survived this long if she WASN'T. Lae'zel could not have known better bc she is a literal alien who would have been killed if she thought any different than what she'd been taught. Which we know bc we see ome Githyanki kid question things in the creche, and be told he has to fight to the death for wanting to be less violent.

Like, does this seem like the words of someone with a healthy childhood?

She was literally born to fight. It's right there. Sje was born to be a warrior and she knows no other way.

Also, in all this, people forget that Lae'zel is the most scared of all of the companions. She's terrified of turning into the dame monster she's sworn her entire life to kill. Her people were enslaved by the mindflayers, and she was supposed to kill them, not be captured. Not to be turned into one, to belong to them again.

And with all this, even with all this, in Act 1 she still wants to save you. She still grows close to the party and is adamant you come with her to the creche. She says we must find the creche, she assures you that you will not be hurt inside, that being with her will protect you, when that is so clearly not the githyanki way. She leaves your party evem when you don't go bc to her, you are throwing away the opportunity that she is trying to give you, an olive branch of care. And in her eyes, you throw it away - and she knows only to treat what to her is a sign of aggression with aggression.

Like, again, does this seem like something someone who doesn't care about you will say when you die?

She screams Halsin's name. She curses when the Tav and Minthara fall. She is directly contrasting what she was raised for by caring about all of you.

And, finally, when you're a Dark Urge, and you try to kill her in Act 2 after not killing Isobel, she basically just outright says she cares when you tell her to kill you.

Outright, she refuses to consider it. Even though you're explicitly a threat to her, even when she threatens you while you're feral.

I don't really have a good ending to this post and there's defo things I've missed (hell, I'm not even into Act 3 yet) but like. I've seen do much ignoring of Lae'zel and so much slander that I will not stand for.

[pinkiepartypopper]

babe please tell me you can at least tell the difference between a work of fiction that happens to have darker plotpoints and the pwp fanfiction someone made specifically about that dark plotpoint because it's their fetish. please tell me you know one of those things is worse than the other

please tell me you understand authorial intent changes the context of the work whether it's a fanfiction or a mainstream work

I do, how do you know who wrote it with what intent though?

How do dp you know who had what for authorial intent?

Most Authors start as Fanfiction Writers as well!

I, personally, only read fanficition about dark topics because they are interesting and portray dark themes.

Yet I get attack for being a "Pedophile" and or habe "weird Kinks" or "am into incest"

I am Asexual and prefer not to have Sex in any way with anything like that.

The difference is, that people get attacked because people assume these are their Kinks.

People assume their Intention. (Oh you write Fanfictions? That means everything you write is something you like in real life and your intention is to post your weird kinks online. No???)

People assume they are harmful, abusers or whatever because people can't be sure if that is the case or not.

Antis attack anyone that doesn't fits their view, be it evem other antis.

Fanficition is in the concept the same like big popular books. It just focuses on existing fiction.

And just because tou know the Name of the author and can read stuff about them online, doesn't makes the stranger from the internet any different.

It is the assumption the Profiction is entirely Bad that is the problem. As you said, people that have weird kinks and live them out.

Oh wait... Then the problem is the people and not the concept of Profiction?

So if you have a problem with these people, block them. But do not assume anyone else who is Profiction is the same.

It would be just the same how some people say "oh but this transwoman was a predator" doesn't makes anyone who is trans a predator. Just this woman.

And I am not "comparing Profiction to transpeople" I am comparing the way it is treated, stating an example.

Mainstream Work is just more superficial as Fanficition. Just the people who write it are different in resources and "rank". Likenthe Author is most likely more Popular and has more money then the average person. Fanfictions is not as popular irl and is Internet Culture.

But that doesn't make the Person any different from what best selling authors are. Just their possibilities, their resources are lower. And the fact thay any average Person can write. Every.

Because everyone is capable of telling fiction and reality apart like the mainstream.

Only the people out of the ordinary can't.

And you assume anyone who is Profiction can't do this. Just because they enjoy darker themes as well.

Being Proficition is normal. As I said, liking Horror Movies makes you profiction by definition! Just because we also exist in internet culture doesn't mean we are any different. Just people that like as example horror movies. That's already profiction.

Profiction by definition is just this.

It has nothing to do with Kinks or anything.

It's definition is being able to enjoy, like or find anything in Fiction interesting. That no matter how dark it might be, that it in the end of the day: It is just Fiction.

That it doesn't affect the average Reality.

What is the truth. People can ne affected ny reality, but the average is not.

And Antis assume we are all predators because they don't know if it affects our reality or not so they assume the worst. And so they be their worst.

A Person that wrote Fanficitions turned into a best selling Authors.

Where they a Predator before because they wrote age gap things as they still wrote Fanfictions? And now they aren't anymore because they are "popular" and became a Mainstream?

Please tell me you can tell me apart from a Predator if you see one, because what do I do to deserve being called that? Write shit on the Internet that just happens to be not Mainstream and so I must be a weird kink driven rapist?

You have no Idea who is behind the account, so do not assume the worst and attack people? Not saying you do that, since I have no idea who you are.

But just pointing it out, because that is the Problem. Assuming others are their worst because they are mot Mainstream.

If you are so concerned, find proof first before you send death threats. Actually, never send death threars.

And with proof I mean proof that the police would require, because only like this you can be 100% sure the person is and abuser and will reach prison, and is not just a guy that tries to express his creativity in dark themes.

And yes, I know alot of people do Kink Fanficition, write about their Kink's.

That is a whole different thing in its own.

We shouldn't Kink shame people. No matter how gross it is. They write their things for whatever reason.

But since this is the internet, the whole world connected in a digital space.

There isn't much that we can do about it. Curate your own experience, block Kinks mentioned in Fanfictions that you do not like! The best way to avoid it is to Block. And not engage, otherwise the Algorithm might give you more of this content.

And NO, Paraphilia's are NOT Kinks. I do not mean these. Those are a whole a different thing.

[mikeellee]

You know scenes such as Aoyama's traitor reveal, Izuku vs 1-A, and Shirakumo's reveal? Well those are scenes that are supposed to make me feel things, but I don't I've seen how terrible these characters are, and how badly paced the story is that it doesn't allow me to process what's happening And it's like, I WANT to feel for these characters! I HAVE emotions waiting to come out! But it's all fabricated because these scenes are HOLLOW!

Hi. Funny you mentioned that bc I was thinking about Shig and his own backstory, actually, the time he stayed with afo.

It is all thanks to a wierd post saying how Shig has cavid and smells bad "hahaha he has no hygiene" and while I know is bs....we never saw the "mundane" part of Shig's life.

Not that I believe in shit as "hahaha he is an incel and never bath" but we never saw him in his off days. AFO(if we go by this stupidity of him wanting to steal Shig's body) would want Shig to at least be healthy to survive and carry his missions.

He took showers and whatnot...not bc "its a luxury. He used the finest products for his body" but bc it was a necessity.

But we never saw how Shig acts in his off days- or if he evem have one of thoses- Shig making food for himself, taking a shower, watching smth on tv non related to heroes or villains....could actually help make us understand him, at least a lil.

The same goes to Izu. He can't catch a break...if he does smth awsome, he wont get credit and shall never be mentioned....and we are supposed to be ok with this.

Its not as if I want people to grovel to Izuku, but I want him to get credit for his good deeds, for his good work. But Hori cant have this...pain, and more pain are in the course for Izu....and it doesnt help the story.

Like suddenly Hori went "Spinner is oppressed bc he is a mutant oh no" who the fuck cares for Spinner at this point? While his own MC still thinks his life worth less, his abuser wont suffr any consequences and class A1 is ruined for me.

That scene where BK guide them and even circle Izu as if they were attack him...like what happened in Aldera...was gross. Really gross. It serves to nothing...and BK demonized AM to save his face.

Aoyama is quirkless and a spy and this is so dumb...

1) how Aoyama talk to AFO without anyone knowing?

2) who Aoyama answers too?

3) anyone here really care for Aoyama?

4) The spy storyline went to nowhere. What was the point?

Note how Hori prefer to make Aoyama quirkless then explore what Izu had to endure with BK and Aldera...bc he can't make BK be the bad guy, ever.

God Hori is a horible writer.

[fuck-yeah-nalu]

what is the content the mods would post about? and is it just reblogging, or is it other things as well? like, what is the purpose with the blog, that for example the nalu archive doesn’t already do? genuine questions, because i’m considering applying as a mod :)

Hello and apologise for the late reply!

FY-nalu has been around for a very long while, so I have no idea what “nalu archive” does.

Fynalu is hosting the naluween week, is reblogging absolutely every post people make about nalu, including happy, Nasha, Lucy and Natsu as separate individuals, but as a family/couple as well.

We do have affiliations with other blogs who asked us in the past for advertisment (idk if they are still active or not) including other Nalu pages, but also other FY pages like gruvia, fraxus, and evem some EZ pages.

The reblogs and own posts all have to follow certain tags to make it easier to browse and FY nalu is usually also posting the news FIRST. Meaning, any Nalu news we see on twitter, Mashima’s arts or comments regarding Nalu and so on.

We also promote other weeks (such as nalu week, angst and fluff week and whatever new has appeared, if those weeks still exist)

We also have 2 categories with Nalu moments from both manga and anime, which will need to be updated, especially in the manga one. Unfortunately none of the active mods kept in touch and I definitely didnt follow the spin off so I wouldnt know what new moments are in the manga, but I am sure they appear!

You can find the manga category right here

Hope I answered everything. I believe other blogs such FYN started when we became inactive. But there is no competition between the blogs! 🫶🏻

[melanielocke]

Queer book recommendations/new books

Although it is sad Chain of Thorns was initially supposed to come out this week but didn't, there are plenty new books to read that I think many of you would enjoy to pass the time. Two of which actually came out November 1st, the same day ChoT was originally supposed to release.

Here they are!

I'll start with a Taste of Gold and Iron, which came out this August. It's an adult m/m fantasy romance featuring prince Kadou and his body guard Evemer. After an incident with a powerful ambassador, Kadou has to prove his loyalty to his sister, the queen, and investigate a conspiracy involving counterfeit coins in a world where certain people have the ability to touch-taste precious metals with their finger. It's a slow burn type of romance between a prince and his body guard. I really liked how Kadou's chronic anxiety was depicted. Evemer, on the other hand, is very stoic and duty driven. He tends to be quiet. He can go entire days only saying "yes, my prince" and "no, my prince". The book has both their POVs and includes discussions about ethics and a very intimate (not necessarily sexual) bathhouse scene which may have inspired a similar scene in my Trojan war AU from Alastember.

Next up is a Marvellous Light and a Restless Truth. These are the first two books in a historic fantasy romance trilogy set in the Edwardian era. Book 2 came out this tuesday and I just finished it. The first focuses on Robin Blyth, a young non magical man who is accidently given a government post to do with magic, which leads to him finding out magic is real. The magic society would just erase his memory and replace him with someone who knows magic, except that he gets cursed by the same people who killed his predecessor, and now he and his grumpy magical coworker Edwin Courcey have to get to the bottom of the conspiracy and also undo the curse. The second book continues the investigation in the same conspiracy, but instead stars Robin's sister Maud, who accompanies an old lady on a journey from New York to England on a ship. Except the old lady dies on the first day and now Maud has to investigate who killed her with the help of a scandalous magician called Violet. These books are a lot of fun, especially book 2 had me laughing a lot. Be warned there's a lot of sexual content in this series, more so than the other books. Book 2 has a lot of emphasis on sexual self discovery and involves Maud buying a suitcase of what is essentially the Edwardian era version of very explicit fic.

I cannot tell you a lot about Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell because it just arrived and I haven't read it yet. Like a Restless Truth, it came out November 1st. But it's very pretty and I wanted to show it anyway. I don't know if it's good yet. I did read Everina Maxwell's first book, which is Winter's Orbit, the book the Stars Collide draws a lot of inspiration from. As far as I know Ocean's Echo is not connected to Winter's Orbit, but is set in a completely different part of the same universe, where some people have developed mind control abilities. I'll tell you more about this book once I've read it, but as of right now I'd definitely recommend Winter's Orbit and have high hopes for this one.

Finally, I have Prince of the Sorrows and Lord of Silver Ashes by Kellen Graves. I put them on top of each other on the picture because the cover of the first book won't fall flat and otherwise it'd look stupid. The first book came out in March, while the second just came out last week. It's an indie published m/m fantasy romance series. Right now there are two books out, the second one came out just last week and arrived today. There's going to be more of them, but it's currently not set how many, though I did read the author might make it an eight book series. I guess that depends on if people buy it? I haven't read book 2 yet, since it just arrived, but I did read book 1 and really liked it. Saffron is a human changeling living in a fae world, and he will be sent back to the human world once he gets too old, unless he can get an academic endorsement to keep studying there. He accidently learns the true name of prince Cylvan, a brooding fae prince, and makes a deal with him to help him remove the power from his true name in exchange for an edorsement. At the same time, other human servants are getting killed and Saffron has to find out what's going on before he's next. I'll probably have to reread book 1 before starting book 2 because I don't remember enough, but I'm excited where this is going.

I hope this helps and let me know if you want more book recommendations in the future or if there is anything specific you're looking for!

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[ms-m-astrologer]

The Week Ahead: December 26, 2022 - January 1, 2023

Lunar Phases

Monday, December 26, 2022, 14:54 UT - Crescent Moon, 19°48’ Aquarius

The key phrase for the Crescent lunar phase is to “gather and mobilize resources.” Aquarius-type resources to be specific. Ordinarily I would recommend technology, but with Mercury about to station retrograde that’s probably not a good plan! Instead, let’s look for allies - those who share our goals.

Friday, December 30, 2022, 01:21 UT - First Quarter Moon, 8°18’ Aries

The key phrases for the First Quarter Moon are to “take action” and to “build new structures” to support our New Moon intention. Aries is done with planning - it wants to act, to blast full speed ahead. There’s a lot of energy, along with some danger of imprudence, impatience, and/or using more force than we really have to.

Void of Course Moon

Monday, December 26, 2022, 18:19 UT (Aquarius) - Tuesday, December 27, 2022, 07:34 UT (Pisces)

Thursday, December 29, 2022, 06:21 UT (Pisces) - 10:36 UT (Aries)

Saturday, December 31, 2022, 12:44 UT (Aries) - 17:08 UT (Taurus)

Retrograde/Direct/Etc.

Pre-retrograde shadow: Mercury/Capricorn (until Thursday the 29th), Ceres/Libra

Retrograde: Mercury/Capricorn (beginning Thursday the 29th), Mars/Gemini, Pallas Athene/Cancer, Uranus/Taurus, Eris/Aries

Post-retrograde shadow: Jupiter/Aries, Saturn/Aquarius

Transiting Mercury stations retrograde on Thursday the 29th, 09:32 UT, at 24°21’ Capricorn. If you have to exchange a present, get it done before then!

Et Cetera

There is one Opportunity Period this week, from Wednesday, December 28, 22:05 UT - Thursday, December 29, 10:36 UT. “Mercury is moving slowly, but you can use this excellent time for creative ideas, fun, social activities, and mind expansion.”

The week begins in a mellow mood (I think those of us in the US will be trying to thaw out), but when the Moon enters Aries we’re suddenly champing at the bit to go do things. Unfortunately, Mercury stations retrograde only one hour before the Moon goes into Aries - and of course Mars, Aries’ ruler, is also retrograde.

What a weird way to start 2023, with both Mercury and Mars retrograde. Yikes.

That said, it is also kind of nice to start a calendar year under a First Quarter lunar phase. The combination of “take action,” and January 1, is a very productive prospect. Evem better is that on New Year’s Day, that First Quarter Taurus Moon will be trine the Sun in Capricorn. Quite auspicious.

[swashbucklery]

Book Rec/Review Post: A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Jacket Summary: Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court—the body-father of the queen's new child—in an altercation which results in his humiliation. To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. In Arasht, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin.

My Thoughts: OK overall: very very good, despite my grievances about the edging/slowburn to gay sex ratio they do get there and the worldbuilding was truly stellar. The author’s got another pirate-themed novel coming out in the same world that sounds great.

The romance is MLM, so you have to be into that, but very lovely and queer. There are a lot of politics around the central romance and around relationships in general, which are eye-wateringly complex and made more complex by the fact that the main character has clinical anxiety and overthinks as he narrates, but the queerness itself is never an axis along which things are problematic - it’s more about the politics of heirs and affairs of state and who should be seen doing what. It is dense, and I would say if you can get over the hump of the first 50-100 pages to get your head into the worldbuilding, it’s very engrossing from there. Lots of lovely slowburn tropes and forced proximity tropes, if you want an ao3-style taglist I’m happy to share but don’t want to throw in spoilers in case you want to read it and be surprised.

[thebaileyam]

I have known my friend M since 6th grade. It has been 12 years. I introduced her to our friend K. I have known K for 19 years. When M got married I knew that our friendship would cool down as she had kids. She would get busy and my place in her life would get replaced. I dont hold it against her or the kids. I just wouldnt fit in anymore. We could see each other in a couple years.

What I didn't think would sour our relationship would be my autism. She had her first kid in April. The last time we talked on the phone was March. We have only seen each other 3 times. I thought she was just busy. But M is always talking to K who is my roommate. They evem get together a lot.

K told me that M has been avoiding me. M is upset that I am not excited enough about baby stuff. Not that I am not supportive, but not excited. I have never liked kids. She is upset that I dont want to hold her baby. I dont like touching people. Before the baby was born I said I wasn't interested in babysitting a baby. Then talked about fun things we (including the baby) could do together. What she heard was that I dont want to be in her or her kids lives. Instead of talking to me about this she just cut me out. And K knew all this. A lot of her problems with me and her babys relationship are caused by her or just my autism. Both M and K are not happy with olmy relationship with the baby. I am not treating the baby bad. I am just not 10000000% in love and always wanting to touch the baby. I have only met the baby 3 times. M and K know I have trouble making emotional connections with people. I dont have an emotional connection with my aunts, uncles, or cousins THAT I SEE MULT TIME A YEAR. When M, K, myself and the baby got together I was constantly pressured to hold or touch the baby. K even played this fun game where she would push the baby at me and laugh as I avioded touching the baby.

I am not mad at M for not talking to me as much as we have in the past, or for not seeing me as often. She had a new baby to deal with. I am not mad that she had trouble reaching out to me as I know (not from her) that post pardam has been kicking her ass and that she cold turkeyed her meds. I am not mad that she though that K could give her the emotional help she needed. I am not mad that K gave her what she needed. I am mad and hurt that they both forgot who and what I am. That when they set those goals that they forgot we are not all playing the same game. I am hurt because 12 YEARS of history and knowing who I am did nothing. I am mad that they forgot that I am autistic. Both M and K are neurodivrse. M has dyslexia, ADHD, and bipolar. K has ADHD and her sister is on the spectrum. I dont understand why those who would normal advocate for autism have suddenly forgotten it exists. I know I can be hard to deal with. That I say things that arnt ment to me rude but is. What I ask is that you tell me when I have fucked up so I can fix it. But they didnt and almost a year has passed. March 17 was the last day I talked to M on the phone. About a month before the baby. Its like the birth of the baby was going to magically make me allo.

It hurts that I am the one expected to fix all of this, when the only thing I did wrong was be autistic. I know that if I say I need time, I will be the bad guy. I have spent my life learning not to care when people judge me for my neuordivergence. I have seen it in the eyes of other kids when I dont do things in the ways they all know. I have seen it in the eyes of teachers who cant understand why I am having so much trouble. The eyes of my grandmother when she cant understand why I cant just do better. The eyes of my mother why I have once again forgotten something that I should of remembered AGAIN. In my father's eyes when I dont socialize like him ir others. I just never thought that of the few people whose opinions do matter, I would still fail in the way I always have.

I dont expect M or K to see this. M left tumblr long ago and K was never on. But for once I hope my thoughts can reach you in a way that you can understand them without you reading past what I have said.

Thank you to any who read. I just needed to fet this out somehow.

[luckynumbersevenseven]

Note in my phone last night..when i go on social medias that i have not become desensitized to (not facebook ig or tumblr or like..youtube. But reddit tik tok twitter etc.) this is consistently i feel

Oh MY god the suggested twitter feed makes me want to blow my actual self into oblivion. I dont even say the whole kms shit lightly. It makes me actively want to die. Well i guess passively but. If i read it more often i probably would combust. I only read like 15 tweets in like 3 minutes starting w elon musk saying something about media manipulation and censorship and then a bunch of tweets about aging gracefully instead of turning into an embalmed muppet like madonna who clearly has so much plastic surgery that she looks bloated and shiny and terrible and one person posted a pic of her mom at 64 compared to madonna at 64 but her mom also clearly still has a lot of work done..its just more subtle and she was like look my mom is aging gracefully. And then theres someone comparing the chinese spy balloon that was shot down recently to a “raiser of a junkie son”???? What evem?how did u possibly make that about hating addicts? Idk. Thats like the fallback feed. That they show u before u follow anyone. So sick. Celebrities tweeting like theyre politicians politicians tweeting like they are celebrities ew! Everyone with their petty bullshit hot take two sentences. These are the people that control the globe! Ew!!!! Who cares! Everyone! Thats the worst part. What is this weird fucked up game we r all playing? Feels like a k hole

I want to scream i did just whisper scream at my phone and kick my legs in bef and said oh my god stop stop stop reading about the amazon forrest dying!!!! Its slow and painful! Fucking just explode the earth. What the fuck. What the fuck. The world id burning. The anthropocene needs to end!!!! Crumble!!!! Now!!! Things will go on without us. Our own iceage holy fuck tho it is torturous living through this descent. The apaocolyps is now!

The colorado river is drying up. The amazon will soon be brushland. California is burning and crumbling away into the ocean. Childhood obesity. Inflation. Kids starve and the celebrities refuse to touch their feast to maintain their surgically modified figures. Women in iran are being tortured and executed based on what? For standing up for their rights as humans. What are our rights as humans? Who decides? Women in america have their faces surgically altered based on the current trend. Quietness drives people insane. Migrants flee death through death to an imminent and slower death. We are sending weapons to them to kill them before they kill them and then us. Computers scan our faces without warning. But just to keep us safe! Of course! I was not born for this world. Who made this place this way. I did not. Was life on earth ever abundant and joyful? There was always loss and death. Idk. Feels like it is absolutely overpowering.

[ineedacalicocat]

Jungkook is pathetic. He didn't support Vibe on social media but he goes live to mock the lyrics and laugh with his new best friend V. And then jikookera dare to say that Jungkook loves Jimin lmao. It's Jimin that loved Jungkook. Jimin was really a good friend and he still supports Jungkook because he is a good person. Jungkook is petty and he doesn't like Jimin. He only likes to making fun of him. Taekook are the worst. Bullies and cowards.

Yep. They were always like this. But at some point in 2016-2018 i really thought jungkook had a nice personality. But he changed. I really dont give a fuck about them. But as you said jikookers are so stupid and pathetic like why would you want your idol to be miserable and have friends like this? Im sorry but if taekook my friends and acted like this that would be the last time they would speak to me. I wouldnt even say hi to them. They would be just coworkers for me. And no fucking posts about them would be there. They are lucky jimin is a reaply fucking nice person. Cause i wouldnt care about them. They can suck some balls. They are really koreans. Bullies. I mean its normal isnt korean society also like that? Always judging bullying. Thats what they know what theyve learnt from their society. Its such a cintrast jimin didnt end up like them. I mean having a loving parents doed that to you i guess. Enviroment is the key and important but also self knowledge or self improvment is also the key. I think jimin has both. He grew up in a good enviroment with people who trusted him was good towards him thats what he learnt from his parents and also carrries on with ut. But i cant say the same things for tae. Didnt he grow up with his granparents of grandmother? Something like that? I heard he didnt evem spend time with his sister. I think he has sister or brother but no one knows. Some say that he didnt spend time with her so they are like strangers. To me they are so toxic. Suga tae and jungkook are so toxic in my eyes. Jungkook became more lately. I think he has the potential to be a nice person but he always surrounds hinself with people like tae. So thats his loss. I mean not just tae you can see his friend choices. I mean even the fandom is not happy. But i dont care.

[rek1s-headband]

hi! figured i’d drop a request for you :))! Maybe some general bf hcs for reki and langa? Just in general how they would be as a boyfriend or how they would act in a relationship?

Hi!! Thank you so much for your request, I’ve been excited to do one of these. I hope you enjoy it!

➯ random boyfriend headcannons

➯ characters: Reki Kyan and Langa Hasegawa x gn reader

➯ warnings: none! Just some fluff for these two boys:)

Reki:

-Literally the most enthusiastic person you’ve ever seen. He’d be happy to just sit in silence with you because come on, it’s YOU. There’s no one he’d rather be wasting the hours away with.

-Your biggest hype man, EVER. You post something on Instagram? Get ready for a flood of comments, all from him. You could put your phone down for two minutes after posting, and you’ll come back to 99+ notifications of just reki commenting along the lines of “woah suddenly I’m on one knee” “DAMNNNN” and many, many more.

-Never leave your phone unattended around him. He won’t snoop, but be prepared to come back to your camera roll flooded with just zoomed in pictures of his face, his mouth, his eye, ANYWHERE. Mf is spamming your whole phone with pictures of him for you to come back to.

-He has to always be touching you in some way. Whether it’s holding your hand, your waist, a casual arm around your shoulder, there has to be something. He’ll put his hand on your ass sometimes while you walk in public.

-Honestly doesn’t even think PDA is anything out of the ordinary. Like, you’re his s/o??? Yes you’re in his lap, yes you’re in the middle of the skatepark, so what? You’re his, and he’s happy he can make everyone aware of that.

-I saw a post on here that said he would peel stickers off fruit and stick them to peoples’ foreheads, and I fully stand by this. However, it doesn’t just stop at fruit stickers. Anything remotely sticky, whether it’s tags from clothes, tape from a food box, even random sequins and bits of glitter he finds around, it’s immediately being stuck to some part of your face.

-Loves casual dates. Stopping by food stalls, browsing in clothes and game stores for a few hours, and skating around with you until it’s time to go home is a dream for him. Be prepared for day-long dates, because he will clear his entire schedule just to spend the day with you.

-His family adores you. His mother is always goading him to bring you over more, complaining that she misses her "honorary son/daughter/child". His sisters love you too. Any time you come over there’s immediately three tiny bodies shooting at you, grabbing you by the waist and dragging you over to wherever they’re playing. Reki tries to drag you away, wanting to have you for himself, but you always try and stay for at least five or ten minutes. Secretly, he loves that you get along so well with his siblings, going soft at the thought of how you would act with children of your own.

-He loves playing video games with you. Sitting in his lap, the two of you could spend hours switching from game to game. One minute you could be burning down a village in Minecraft, the next complaining while Reki whoops your ass in Mario Kart. His mom brings you food for your breaks between games, and she’ll even stay for a few minutes to talk to you while Reki shifts underneath you, glowing red from embarassment.

-If you can’t skate, he would beg to teach you. If you accept, he goes all out. He’ll make you your own customised board just for practicing, making sure it’s absolutely perfert for you to learn on. But if you can skate, get ready for endless races and competitions to see who can nail a new trick the quickest.

-Adores when you come to S to support him. He loves looking into the crowd and seeing you there cheering him on before he goes into a beef. If he wins, he’ll race over to where you are in the crowd, picking you up and spinning you around, kissing you without a care in the world. However, if he loses he’s thankful you’re always there to pick him back up and make him feel better afterwards.

-Loves cleaning you up after a big fall, kissing your bruises and cuts better. He’ll carefully wrap each injury with care, telling you how brave you are, no matter how small the cut. Secretly, he loves when you baby him after he falls himself. Seeing you wipe away the blood from a new cut and place a small plaster on it with such tenderness melts his heart in a way only you could.

-Speaking of plasters, this man has one for every occasion. Princesses, pirates, aliens, cats, dogs, sparkles, stripes, you name it, he’s got it.

-The type to sneak you out at two in the morning to get a slushee with him. Honestly, he’s up so late making boards for people he just has no perception of time.

-Spams your phone with TikToks or other funny things that reminds him of you. It could be a very specific thing, or a flower or cloud. If he thinks of you when he sees it(which is fairly often), it gets sent to you.

-Talks with his hands a lot. He’s a very expressive talker, so when he’s telling you a story it feels like you’re right there in the story with him.

-Please just kiss him. His cheeks, his forehead, his hand, his shoulder, his temples, his lips. Anywhere, he’ll melt under you. Mf is touch starved to the max.

-Always knows how to make you laugh. His laugh is infectious, it could get you out of your darkest moods.

-Sleeps with his head on your chest, and one hand in your shirt little perv.

-His social media is like a SHRINE for you. His highlights, his posts, his stories, EVERYWHERE. He’s just so proud to be able to call you his that he wants the whole world to know.

-Kisses in the rain while you run home, skateboards in your hands after the weather forecast failed you once again. He’s just so happy in the moment that he can’t contain himself, so he’s pulling you into him in the pouring rain, kissing you hard while your hair gets drenched.

-You don’t need to steal his clothes, he will literally give them to you because “you just look so cute wearing them”. Occasionally, he’ll take one of your hoodies, and even if it doesn’t exactly fit him, he’ll still keep it near him while he sleeps so he can keep your scent close to him.

Langa:

-This man is so oblivious to obvious hints, but still manages to pick up on the smallest of details? It’s incredible, honestly. He could describe the exact colour of your eyes with the most insane detail, but he still won’t notice when you try and hint that you like him in the first place!

-You two have a bit more of a low-key relationship, but you’ll make your usual appearance in his Instagram posts, or on his Snapchat story with a casual caption like a simple heart, or “my love<3”

-Not very big on PDA, not because he doesn’t like it, but because he doesn’t think of it. However, when he does feel like he’s being too physically distant, he’ll link pinkies with you as you walk along, or rest his head on your shoulder while you watch a video on your phone.

-His mom adores you, which is why Langa despises bringing you to his house. You always seem to leave with seven of his baby photos from his time snowboarding in Canada, a new recipe from his mother that you complimented, another one of his hoodies, and more miscellaneous stuff that you don’t even know how it ended up in your bag. He has a little shelf in your room specifically for this random stuff, and he always adds to the collection when he comes to your house. He’ll leave a keyring, a small toy, a Polaroid, anything honestly.

-Loves dates that you can experience. The movies, aquariums, museums and the zoo are common dates for the two of you to go on, but other than that, he adores going skateboarding with you. He’s been improving, and he loves when you notice little things he’s been picking up on, whether it be a new trick or simply how he balances himself on the board.

-Adores old Disney movies. Yall will binge a ton of them in one day, having full-blown musicals in Langa’s living room. When any of the romantic songs come on, like “So this is Love” from Cinderella, Langa will stand up and offer his hand to you, as the two of you waltz around his sitting room, humming the tune of the song.

-Study dates are frequent with the two of you. If you happen to stay up late studying and fall asleep on each other, his mother will cover the two of you with a blanket, tidying some of your books and leaving with a smile, happy with the knowledge you were making her son the happiest he’s been in quite a while.

-Slow dancing in the kitchen while you cook is a regular. When a particularly sappy love song comes on while he stirs the pot, he’ll turn around and hold you close to him, twirling you around the kitchen.

-Reki constantly jokes that he is a third wheel, poking fun at the two of you, Cherry and Joe, and Shadow and “his little girlfriend back at the flower shop”. He’ll hang out of Miya, whining about them having to stick together since they’re the only two “lone wolves”. He’ll usually get a well-earned thump into the back of the head from Miya, but it’s still funny to watch the whole thing go down.

-Tends to be shy when giving you clothes, so instead of asking you to wear them he’ll leave them out in places he knows you’ll find them, or he’ll come up behind you and plop it in your lap, murmuring about how cute it would look on you.

-Please do this man’s makeup. He will sit so still for you, waiting patiently while you dab eyeshadow at his eyes, trying not to blink so you don’t mess up his mascara. He’ll sit there mesmerised for a few minutes, taking in how he looks, and simply whisper “you do this every day?”

-Evem though he’s not a very openly affectionate person, he is stuck to your hip behind closed doors. He’ll lie in your lap for hours, staring up at you while you mess with his hair, pulling it into little plaits and pigtails.

-I can’t even describe how the two of you sleep. It’s simply a mass of limbs, and no one knows exactly what belongs to who. Somehow one of yall will end up upside down, and-why is Langa on the floor??

-He could talk about his time in Canada for hours, and you’d just lie on his chest and listen to him. Every once in a while he’ll look down at you to see if you’re still listening, and his heart will melt a little every time he sees you staring back up at him, eyes wide with interest.

-This man NEVER gets jealous. You’d literally have to cling to another man for it to click in his brain that Oh. He doesn’t like that.

-He’s not big on texting, but if you call him he will stay on that call with you for hours, even after the two of you fall asleep.

-Whenever he falls(which is quite often), you’ll always have plasters on hand to help fix him up. He always flushes bright red when you kiss his cuts better, and never knows just what to do with himself afterwards.

-When he skates against tough opponents, you’ll always give him a kiss for good luck. Of course, this doesn’t stop you worrying, but you know Langa wouldn’t go out of his way to get injured. And if he does, well, at least he’ll have you there to kiss his bruises better.

[alcoholandcakes]

𝓼/𝓸 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭-𝓾𝓹 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓷

<𝓐𝓽𝓼𝓾𝓼𝓱𝓲 𝓝𝓪𝓴𝓪𝓳𝓲𝓶𝓪, 𝓓𝓪𝔃𝓪𝓲 𝓞𝓼𝓪𝓶𝓾, 𝓡𝓪𝓷𝓹𝓸 𝓔𝓭𝓸𝓰𝓪𝔀𝓪>

Atsushi Nakajima

- my little baby <3

- first before you two got together,he didnt know it

- you weren´t talking about zour part-time job

- but he noticed that you very easily made jokes about everyday things

- you also knew how to make Kunikida laugh, Atsushi was SHOCKED

- when you guys got together, you just said

- "Atsuhi, i am going to the bar"

- first he thought that you are going to be unfaitful

-then you invited him to go with you

- he loved it

- he tries to go to all your shows

- but whenever he is too tired to go you record it for him so he would be happy

- you live for his laugh

- but you sometimes need to explain the dirty jokes to him

Dazai Osamu

- he suspected it

- all the jokes you make, you always know how to make people laugh

- but when you made a joke about double suicide with him

- HE FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU AT THAT MOMENT

- when you guys started dating he always wants to hear your jokes

- he always goes to your shows, no matter what

- Free wishkey for him from the bartender

- he doesn´t sleep much , now atleast he has entertainment when he can´t sleep

- plus he hates the thought that some drunk man from the audience would follow you or harras you

- he is there to protect you too

Ranpo Edogawa

- he knew it

- even before you two got together

- he knows what joke you will say, and he starts chukling evem before you say anything

- the bartender looking at him like ,what you lauhjing at,

- first he didn´t really wanted to go

- just because of him, you asked the head of the bar to have all kind of candy

- you first thought that he wouldn´t come, but he knew what you did for him

- he even dragged Fukuzawa with him to not get lost

- With some work related jokes you made Fukuzawa chukle

- after the show was over Fukuzawa brought you and Ranpo home

a/n: heyo, finally i had some time. I hope you enjoy

be happy and healthy love you guys

Posted:26.12.2021 - Cali