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@trickaybeats I foundd this cnew spit ndowm by that Stereet we susallu graffit at and wai was woundering if You wanna Go checck it out sometime asnd tag somettbing?

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soo... i'm sorry to disappoint, but all i really have are a bunch of half-coherent ramblings and (way too many) plot ideas in my docs, a cute little scene of Sebastian trying to teach Ominis how to kiss and another thing that i'm taking to the grave (anonymous posting ftw).

i am working on something, though! let's see where it goes (fingers crossed that i finish it). thanks for the ask. <3

i want to talk about jeanne and jeanne alter. first off white woman (laugh track so loud it shakes the building) ok now that thats out of the way what I really want to talk about is how interesting i find the dynamic between the two because for all that jalter is this 2 kool 4 skool edgy jeanne born from a grudge the truth of the matter is that regular jeanne is far more insane than her. jalter is very much this tortured soul born from gilles’ agony but the fact of the matter is that shes actually quite easy to understand. The moment she and her anger are validated she immediately chills because yeah, she was someones idea of what jeannes anger would be, in every respect she is a fake of a fake because the regular jeanne is so insane and inhuman that she feels basically no remorse guilt or resentment for every wrong she committed and was committed against her. jalter is a counterfeit, a fake who unlike every other faker in the series doesnt really aim to surpass jeanne as “jeanne d’arc” (nothing says a faker cant surpass the original), but rather exist entirely independent of jeanne d’arc because her idea of surpassing jeanne is entirely rooted in being jalter instead. Its why in every subsequent appearance she went around jumping between hobbies, learning how to read and write and generally trying to ingratiate herself in every clique she could, she doesn’t want to be just the fake alter of jeanne, she wants to be recognized as her own person separate from jeanne.

and the reason thats so significant is because the original jeanne gave up every bit of herself without a single regret. it’s brought up by mephistopheles in her interludes but the reason why jalter was such an impossible idea to exist is because jeanne is so committed to god and her cause that mephisto considers her lacking in humanity. jalter refers to herself as a mercy born for jeanne because shes someones idea of jeanne having been avenged, jeanne having given in to human anger at being betrayed and thrown away. But jeanne in having never broken was also hollowed out, by her own hand no less. anyone halfway familiar with the apocrypha novels knows that jeanne is genuinely kind but also merciless when needed: she has no issue striking down the children jack creates because they are already forsaken and jeanne knows she cant save them alone, she tells atalante to her face that while god is merciful she very much isnt, jeanne freely admits that she believes humans are ultimately evil despite being capable of good, she doesnt even consider herself a saint because as much as she would have liked to remain a farmgirl she threw herself into a war knowing the death it would entail and was not even phazed by it. jeanne heard gods lament but she was not aided by god, she did everything because she was helping god, and had no issue having a cruel and pitiful death for that. which causes mephisto to call her fucking insane! mephisto in her interludes doesnt try to break jeanne by having her face every horrible thing in her life, what mephisto aimed to do was simply have jeanne admit that she did feel some kind of emotion about it, any anger, resentment, even despair, because jeanne at the very least deserved that. but she never does, which in turn terrified mephisto because he’s someone who ultimately values humanity and in his eyes, jeanne was freely throwing hers away. despite every atrocity she faced, jeanne still did hold hope for humans and was fine throwing herself away for their sakes.

But it’s also why jeanne is so kind to jalter in turn. jalter is the human jeanne wished she could be but ultimately isnt, the version of her who was allowed to be human. jeanne is too unshakeable in her principles to ever let herself break or be broken, but jalter doesnt have that commitment, that sense of duty or even that discipline. jalter, for all that she is an impossibility, is free to be herself, more than anything she allows herself to be free when jeanne never did. jalter might on the surface be the evil version of jeanne but truthfully she is the kindness that jeanne was never afforded, and while mephisto couldn't really break her, at the very least he was able to get her to admit that even if there was no resentment, she did hold a wish to live. and above all, there was nothing wrong with that wish. jalter forces jeanne to acknowledge her because even if jeanne didnt let herself stop and always ran towards her end, there were people who did grieve for jeanne, people who cared about jeanne d’arc the human and not the symbol. when jeanne first meets jalter in orleans, the first question she asks is if jalter has any memories of their past, because those memories of simpler days and simple happiness were enough for jeanne to fight for. and when jalter told her no, and yet in turn forced jeanne to acknowledge her, jeanne had decided to give that simple happiness to jalter.

jalter is not jeanne d’arc, she could never be jeanne d’arc and she doesn’t even want to be her, but jeanne wants to be kind to jalter, because it would also be allowing kindness to herself. and for all that jalter is abrasive towards jeanne, she also knows that her existence hinges on the fact that someone did care about jeanne on an individual level, so no matter how annoying she might find her “original”, the truth is that jalter existing and being happy as herself is also the wish and the validation for jeanne to be happy as herself. jalter might be the dark reflection of what jeanne could have been, but the dark reflection is not an admission of evil or the possibility of revenge, its the idea that jeanne could live for herself and have individual human happiness, and it ties back to what jalter always establishes about herself: once something is born, it cant ever be erased.

once the impossible idea of jalter was born, so too was the impossible idea of jeanne d’arc allowing herself to live as a human.

while i hate cringe culture, there is one undeniably unbearably cringe thing in this world. and that is people thinking they're too cool for something. "i won't listen to a kpop song!" "i won't vote in a poll that includes mcyt characters!" "i won't play a cringe game like animal crossing!" 2 kool 4 kpop. 2 kool 4 minekraft. 2 kool 4 animal krossing. 2 kool 4 skool, no doubt. is there any limit to your coolness, or does it just stretch on infinitely? genuine question.

I never thought I'd see toxo/pregnancy mentioned alongside pro-life. Like I understand the brain pathway, don't get me wrong, it just caught me so off guard... As someone who miscarried due to toxoplasmosis, a miscarriage which was riddled with complications that lead to the loss of my uterus on top of it all like some vile prank it's just UGH.

It's been more than six years now. I just wish I could look the "owner" in the eye and tell them how their simple negligence had absolutely shattered my very being. And I wish that I didn't boil and break at any reminders. I haven't learned where to put this anger, yet.

Alongside the anger there's the fear I hold for the sake of others. This shit could happen to anyone but! No one wants to talk about how detrimental their "fur baby" can be to both humans and wildlife. As if it's a personal attack. As if they hold no responsibility as an owner. As if educating yourself on your own pet isn't necessary. As if you're 2 kool 4 skool and caring about the well-being of others is a weakness.

Anyways...

Pro-lifers aren't a crowd that cares about the well-being of others and by lacking this basic capacity, I seriously doubt something pet-related could ever warrant a second glance. Controlling people is the priority, not pets.

(I apologize for how winded this may come across, I have certain tags blacklisted and yeah, a previous post was a shock. I hope this topic will be taken more seriously in the future, and it's certainly not going to happen with pro-liffers)

people laugh it off when I speak about toxo, it’s very poorly researched and we don’t even know if miscarriages are the only major complication. It firms cysts in the brain that completely change the behavior of prey animals, and we have no idea what the implications there are for humans.

Even if miscarriages are the only complication (I doubt this), that isn’t really an “only” because that has horrible effects on real human beings.

Ki’s 2 Kool 4 Skool- A Nishimura Niki smau

★ SYNOPSIS! Nishimura Niki, a boy who’s apart of one of the biggest boy bands. Obviously he’s still a teenager so he is still in high school. Now he’s quite famous at school himself. Niki thinks he’s 2 cool 4 skool. He wasn’t interested in school until he seen you sitting in his music class. Arguing about how you weren’t gonna sing. Finding out that you, yourself were in a band aswell. But in one of his rival companies. What are you gonna do when the most popular boy wants to be your friend?

PAIRING ꕀ rockstar!niki x fem!reader

꩜ WARNINGS / GENRE Swearing, inappropriate jokes, lots of bantering between friends, social media au with some written parts, a lot of angst, slow burn between relationships, fell first but fell harder, bullying, insults, racism and maybe threats.

FEATURING ➮ Enhypen! Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Jungwon and Sunoo. G-idle! Yuqi, and Soyeon. Lesserafim! Chaewon. Black swan! Fatou. TXT! Beomgyu, Yeonjun, Soobin, Taehyun and Huening Kai.

STATUS- Active! (231108-?)

Taglist: open! Just ask to be added.

┊note This is my first smau. Please if you have anything negative to say about this smau please kindly keep it to yourself! Everything that is said and done in this smau does not affect the idols life in real life. None of this is REAL! Please do not use my work and claim it as your own either!

00. profiles- Chatz with the Bratz💅🏽. | Paw patrol🐶 | Gossip Boys | Extras

01. Misfits on the first day? + Written

02. WHO IS THAT???

03. What’s wrong with being black?

2 KOOL 4 SKOOL is the debut extended play by south korean group BTS and was released under BIGHIT entertainment on JUNE 12, 2013. the ep contains SEVEN songs with the title tracks WE ARE BULLETPROOF, PT.2 and NO MORE DREAM.

TRACK LIST . . .

OO. INTRO: 2 COOL 4 SKOOL (ft. DJ FRIZ)

OO. WE ARE BULLETPROOF, PT. 2 [ YOUR LINES ]

OO. SKIT: CIRCLE ROOM TALK

OO. NO MORE DREAM [ YOUR LINES ]

OO. INTERLUDE

OO. LIKE

OO. OUTRO: CIRCLE ROOM CYPHER

ERA LOOK . . .

Y/N’S THOUGHTS . . .

“i kind of hated this era, but mainly because of the outfits they had us wearing. it was very cringy and i remember getting laughed at at school because of how we looked. i was happy to debut, but all the other memories i associate with this album just makes me feel sour.”

ERA NOTES . . .

debut!y/n was such a precious baby despite the hard image bighit had given all of them

a lot of baggy clothes and fake designer this era and a lot of netizens referred to you as a “teenage boy” because of how well you blended in despite being the only girl

many were surprised by the fact you debuted in a male dominated group and you received a mix of both hate and concern from netizens

most were surprised by how sweet you were when off stage yet your stage presence was complimented at being great especially for how young you were and for also being a rookie

like stated above, you didn’t like this era because of how people treated you and you would rather not talk about your debut days

Ryybyn may be 2 kool 4 skool but they are never too cool to show how much they love the stickers Alison makes for them 💖💖💖

@thedansome made “certificates of excellence” from his character to the others, each featuring a unique sticker. It was a really cute and fun tradition of the campaign and this was a way to pay tribute to it :D It was also some experimental shading which I never attempted ever again lmao. 2020-04-30

We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry

4/5

I enjoyed 92% of We Ride Upon Sticks and that’s mostly because I approached it with the right attitude: it ain’t that deep.

This novel is best appreciated as a lighthearted and goofy romp down memory lane. The marketing blurb compares it to Stranger Things and that’s an absolutely delusional comparison; both works trade in 80s nostalgia, but that’s where the similarity ends. It’s better to think of We Ride Upon Sticks as a teen comedy with a faintly supernatural flavour, like Ouran High School Host Club, Derry Girls, or in my mind especially, British comedy St. Trinian’s. Everything, from the supernatural to the interpersonal, is to be jeered and mocked with 2 kool 4 skool teen swagger. And that’s a lot of fun.

I enjoyed the book on its own terms — it’s a genuinely heartwarming picture of teenage friendship and rebellion, and I did indeed laugh at the jokes — but I also liked it on a meta-level. It’s nice to have an unapologetically queer and feminist high school comedy without it being bogged down by mawkish emotional problems. I know I was once a teen constantly beleaguered by mawkish emotional problems (twas the era of Fall Out Boy and 21 Pilots), but as an adult that isn’t the part I look back on fondly. In other words, the art style of Heartstopper is very cute, but manzo do they have problems. We Ride Upon Sticks nails how irony-poisoned and allergic to sincerity we were as teens, and for some reason that meant a lot more to me than teenagers working through their emotions using healthy coping mechanisms and clear communication.

The only thing that really bugged me in the majority of the novel was the unceasing reoccurring jokes. Quan Barry loves a running gag. They come back so constantly and with such absurd regularity that it came back around to being funny for me (through I think a less easily entertained reader might find it simply unendurable instead). But that’s the majority of the book, and I want to move on to the 8% of We Ride Upon Sticks that I didn’t enjoy: the ending.

An unavoidably huge part of this novel is that it is socially conscious. It wants to do right by the feminist, queer, and BIPOC struggles of 80s teens and it wants you to know in the clearest most thoroughly explained language possible. Some readers might find this sanctimonious, but I thought it was fine. One weakness of this approach, however, is that it is always very obvious when the author fumbles the bag.

In this case the bag is the character Corey Young, formerly ‘boy’ Corey.

Spoilers for the ending of We Ride Upon Sticks.

The novel ends with a flash forward to our characters reuniting as middle-aged women so we can see what happened to the Danvers Falcons in adult life. I liked the idea and I liked the fact that for more of the characters their formative years continued well after high school graduation. The one I didn’t like was boy Corey. In the intervening years she has come out and fully transitioned. Now, I know a lot of trans people in real life and also I understand obvious foreshadowing, so I saw this coming a mile away. It was not a Reveal. Problem is the book so desperately wanted to treat it as one. We get this super long fake out scene before the book reveals that Corey is a woman now! Surprise! Were you expecting a man! I found that kinda tasteless.

What bothered me more is that while we hear a lot about the team’s anxiety about reuniting with Corey — will they say the wrong thing? Did they made transition harder for her? — we never hear anything from Corey herself. I’d put this down to a lack of authorial confidence. It feels like Barry is a lot more familiar with how it feels to be friends with a trans woman than how it feels to be a trans woman. That’s not a problem in and of itself, but I felt we needed to hear Corey’s side of things too. Is she excited to reunite with all her friends as her authentic gender? Is she apprehensive about spending time with people who only knew her pre-transition? This book is all about centring marginalized perspectives, that’s why it spends so much time explicitly calling out the ways the characters themselves fails at this — that it was disappointing for it to end by cantering a bunch of cis women’s anxiety about being accepting enough over a trans woman’s thoughts. Since this is what the book is All About, the comparatively small detail has an out-sized impact.

I already didn’t like the specifics of the reveal, and its general effect didn’t work either. It is one of a whole bunch of fake outs and twists in the flash forward section. There are so many that it fucks up the pacing, since the story is now being told essentially in reverse to accommodate the dramatic reveals. It ends on the note that the Danvers Falcons’ success was never the work of the devil, the idea of supernatural intervention just gave a bunch of teenagers the excuse they needed to work hard and band together. I thought that was really sweet, but it takes so long to get there that I was just ready for it to be over.

On balance, this is a recommend from me. I like that it’s fun and lighthearted, but it is also a queer novel that isn’t afraid to be ironic and crass. I enjoyed the absurd 80s references and the overplayed jokes. I liked that sports fiction can be for girls sometimes!

Let the hairspray wash over you and don’t worry about what the long term effects of all those CFCs will end up being.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏

❥ 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐍𝐨𝐞𝐥𝐢’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐓𝐒

✯✯✯ 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ✯✯✯✯

2 KOOL 4 SKOOL is the first album by the South Korean group BANGTAN, also known as BTS.

They debut song was "NO MORE DREAM".

The album has 7 tracks, with the main titles "WE ARE BULLETPROOF PT.2 and "NO MORE DREAM".

The album was released on June 12th, 2013 under Bighit entertainment.

ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ ʟɪsᴛ . . .

• 01. INTRO 2 COOL 4 SKOOL (ft. DJ Friz)

• 02. WE ARE BULLETPROOF

• 03. SKIT: CIRCLE ROOM TALK

• 04. NO MORE DREAM

• 05. INTERLUDE

• 06. LIKE

• 07. OUTRO: CIRCLE ROOM CYPHER

ᴇʀᴀ ʟᴏᴏᴋ . . .

Her thoughts during the Era :

✰ At the beginning of the era I was very hyped, being so young made everything even more exciting!!

✰ Although I didn't notice a lot of things as intensively as my older members, I quickly noticed that many people found it strange that there would be "a boy group with only one girl" and judged us as a result

✰ Because I prefer light colors, the vibe wasn't what I liked either. Most of the time we have to wear baggy clothes and so I felt trapped because I couldn't wear what I wanted, it was very difficult at that time because they wanted that I look more like a „teenager boy“

✰ In general, however, it was the start with Bts and I am very grateful that we got through everything together.

✰ Even though it was one of the most difficult trips, it was also the start of our big journey

Just wanted to let you know that your icon showing up next to a notif liking my post makes it look like you're giving me a thumbs up. Very swag. 2 kool 4 skool

2 kool 4 skool

[ID: a digital drawing of louise belcher and millie frock from bob's burgers in a semi-realistic style. louise is a white girl with freckles and missing front teeth in a green dress and a pink hat with bunny ears. she is looking over towards millie and laughing with her hands in her pockets. millie is a pale white girl with curly blonde hair in pigtails and is wearing a light purple shirt and darker purple shorts. she's looking skeptically at louise and drinking from a metal water bottle. she's holding a purple backpack. /END ID]