#and ppl try to say these guys aren’t related
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Okay this is every text I sent one of my friends while listening to the first two eps of the Magnus protocol
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Two eps!!! And oh my god it’s 40 mins long
Alex insulting ppl who have listened to every ep lmao
The intro music oh my god
Oh my god is that Jon (it’s not)
Omg I think it’s Gertrude
Nvm her name is Alice
There’s so many characters help
OIAR (what is that??) office of incident assessment and response
The beep is not a tape recorder i’m going to cry (my life is ruined)
Oh my god this is being recorded on a computer how does it come around everywhere
The statements are emails??
Dolls comma watching or dolls comma human skin lmaoooo (we love the Eye and the Stranger)
Omg it’s set like today
Oh my god Alex I can hear Alex oh my god MARTIN ITS THE ACTOR OF MARTIN
I have to listen again
IT REALLY IS
So it’s reading out the real statements
Naming the voices Norris, Chester, and Augustus I can’t
Okay my guess is Norris - Martin
Augustus is 100% Jon
Who tf is chester (like who could it be??)
Oh maybe Chester is Jon which Augustus is so pretentious it’s probably Elias (could it be?)
Oh my god are they trapped in a computer
Okay so the Stranger? Yeah I think
Yes god it’s definitely the Stranger
‘Arthur is that you?’ ‘Some of it’ LMAO
Yeah that was pretty tame
I like Gwen
Oh my god if they’re in the computer they could be in all technology right bc this has to be a different computer
STATIC ‘no one is forcing you to stay here.’ Mhm. Totally
THAT WAS SO DEFINITELY FORCED OUT OF HER
Is this boss related to Elias (no, Gwen is)
I really like Gwen
Help this beep is really annoying I want the ‘click’ of the tape recorders
We’re in the cameras rn aren’t we
I like Sam
This sounds like blinking there’s so much Eye
I feel like the Night Shift would be such a vibe
JON
JON JON JON JON
I HAVE TEARS
MAGNUS INSTITUTE
JON
MAGNUS INSTITUE
2022
JONNNNN
‘Magnus institute ruins’ is throwing me off
Wow it’s weird what a fucking surprise
Wow you’re paranoid what a fucking surprise
Foot went through the floor (worms?)
All the papers taken out, all of the statements???
CREEPY MUSIC PICKING UP
Symbols? Like eyes? Suspicious stains? Like worms?
The photos are disappearing. Interesting
Distortion. It literally said the word Distortion.
Red canary isn’t going to reply are they
‘Canaries should stay above ground’ what a fucking surprise guess who’s definitely dead
I WAS RIGHT ITS EYES
Poor Sam I don’t want him to become an Archivist
What sam has history with the Magnus institute
Okay so who is the most pretentious - Elias
Argh all these beeps idk if I like this
*me trying to work out if she’s joking when she’s says ‘looking for my next victim’*
Sam no what’s happened I like him
He’s ill?
Are we at a supermarket??
Okay who tf is this guy
SKSHDKJD THE MUSICCCCC
THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL IS A PODCAST OH MY GOD
Distributed by rusty quill and licensed under a Creative Commons attribution non commercial share alike 4.0 international license >>>>>
Bro this music is so good holy shit
Okay ep 2
Not as long :(
Who are Christian and coco?
Oh my god Alex’s intro holY SHIT
the music is so good
Computer whirring yay (not tape recorder *cries*)
Sam don’t do that don’t decode it
Gwen and the other guy that’s not Sam are giving tim and Sasha
lowriii
She plays Melanie’s therapist right. So… she’s still a therapist
Okay so the Stranger?
Maybe the Flesh
Wasps?? Corruption?
Mm not Corruption
STRANGER ITS STRANGER
Noooo Flesh its Flesh.
God this sounds like the old statements it makes me so happy, classic tma horror
Lmaooo bosses can’t be respected in this universe
What specific choice made us only able to hear one side of the convo. Who is the other person? Is it like georgie? say hi to ‘smth’ for me. Oh it’s a guy okay idk
Sam no don’t research
GWEN BOUCHARD???? WHERE IS ELIAS
Oh my god do I have to wait a week now that’s horrible
#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol#chester#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#Norris#help where are the tape recorders#elias bouchard#gwen bouchard
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Its interesting to me how Gojo's english VA rejects or simply doesn't see the subtext StSG has but he's so open about his admiration for GJHm because he apparently pulls the same pranks on his wife like Gojo messes with Uta. And he even went as far as to say "C'mon guys, they're best friends" in regards to people being vocal about StSG relationship.
i’m gonna be honest, i’d rather listen to what the Japanese VAs have to say about anything jjk related (but especially about geto and gojo’s characters and relationship) considering the English Dub’s blunder with toji in season 2.
if u aren’t aware, the English Dub scriptwriters took liberties with a certain translation—in the manga toji says, “oh…i remember now. megumi. the name means blessings. and i’m the one who gave him that name.” meanwhile, the english dub of this scene became, “oh, speaking of blessings. that’s right, i almost forgot. i named my cursed spirit megumi.”
to twist a translation so badly that it takes away from what the actual scene was supposed to portray (toji remembering his son, megumi)—of course, whoever wrote the script is at fault here, not the actual VA, but it makes me doubt their commitment to the story’s authenticity. i’m not sure if this happened bc of lack of research or if they were trying to paint toji in a certain light.
i mean, language is fickle anyway; there’s so much cultural subtext that gets lost in translation and perhaps that could be the case here. but it could also be internalized homophobia, or just blatant homophobia.
i’m a big advocate for shipping whatever u want and respecting ppl’s boundaries! if someone dislikes or is uncomfortable with a ship, then don’t talk to them about it. in a similar line, if u dislike or are uncomfortable with a ship, filter, mute, and block! but to try and pass off ur biases as canon? bc of ur own lived experiences/personal values/trauma? c’mon now. preferences are preferences—none of our ships are canon, anyway (at least for now, but even then, that’s never stopped ppl from shipping characters in a confirmed relationship with other characters—and that’s fine!)
there is some nuance in situations like these, if we really wanna get into the nitty gritty. men can be close friends, sure! but if u bring a woman in to counter someone’s gay ship/hc, then u’re doing it in bad faith and ur obviously biased. queer subtext will almost always be ignored by a straight audience anyway, mainly bc they’re not familiar with it, and they might even be uncomfortable with exploring concepts that don’t fit their worldview.
again, if u a wanna ship gjhm, by all means, go ahead! just don’t be headass about it. don’t deny the possibility of other ships, either—specifically stsg bc that ship alone has more canon “proof” (that’s what they call it) than any other ship with their characters. don’t go and pull dumb excuses or justifications out of ur ass to dismiss other ships (or ship dynamics) bc u’re gonna look stupid. like what u like and don’t go to war with other ppl for liking different things!
(also, i’m using the universal “u/you” here, anon! i’m not accusing or addressing u in these paragraphs!)
(also also, if this VA pulls the type of “pranks” gojo pulled on utahime on his wife, i’m a little concerned. those aren’t pranks. gojo genuinely thought he was better than her in the hidden inventory arc. in gojo’s case, he wasn’t wrong bc he was and still is the pinnacle of jujutsu, so he would’ve called anybody weak regardless of their circumstance—he’s much more tactful about it nowadays, anyway. in the VA’s case? umm…but that’s none of my business.)
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Hi! I’ve been following this blog for a bit and I love that you are having a HH phase, bc same. Can I get a matchup for the event?
★Gender and pref: I’m a he/she and choose how I present myself based on the setting bc I’m not that open with ppl (yeah, I think it’s important to express yourself but realistically that won’t get me far in certain settings in my country); no gender pref but I’m not too fond of some writing choices when it comes to women in Viv’s works, depends on a character though
★Style: kinda rockstar gf vibe? Sometimes softer colours too
★Personality, hobbies: I’m social and extroverted. Usually that leaves me as a leader of whatever group I’m in. I have a little bit of a hater in me, but I don’t show it if ppl don’t encourage it. I do like when it’s being enabled though. It’s not convenient when you’re in a position where ppl ask you for opinions and actually follow your guide, yk, if I manage an event I’m not going to go around shit talking everything. It feels nice to have someone who does that though, makes it easier to join in and not feel like a jerk (or at least be jerks together I guess??). I write my own songs and am in a band as a backup vocal. Kinda proud that it’s my band but I need to get better until I step up as anything more. I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I like to tease ppl if given the opportunity. Others say I’m flirty. Bold with it at that. I’m ambitious too. Kind of a big thing but I have npd (if you want to look it up without reading scientific papers, go on tumblr, bc the rest of the internet is filled with ‘demonic narcissism’ bullshit) and it influences the way I am. I care lots about my image and don’t have a ton of empathy. I don’t go kicking puppies, but it’s noticeable how I lack in this department. Sometimes people say I’m ’too nice to have it’ cause i do well with kids and do all the youth group volunteering. Also, I do some martial arts and other sports. Kinda sceptical of romance at this point cause I had lots of it and I don’t mix well with a lot of people, but maybe I could do something serious for once if I had the right person. I try to be responsible and respectful but I have no issue finding my place at a wild party or something. I'm pretty chill in general, but I can be soft-er if I want, like with children or if the few ppl I actually am close with (I've got many friend groups but I struggle to make meaningful connections) need me. Usually I just stay my highly analytical, laid back self and say my silly little comments every once in a while. Heard I’m pretty funny if I want to be. My love language is acts of service. I like small things and I do them a lot. I can do words too, but I don't care for them in return. Like, you can be an asshole (up to a limit, I know my worth) and it’s cool with me if I see you have your ways of caring like putting on a song I like in the car
★❤️&💔: love movies like Fight Club (my fav), American Psycho and Donnie Darko; hate sharks, they freak me out; my fav book is The Catcher in the Rye; hate it when people push me to open up and be emotional; love music and I unironically had a few guys play songs AT me and I actually like that too, tho I get why ppl clown on that
★My type: I like people who are more negative than me and aren't afraid to shittalk everything. Just saying whatever, not caring if they offend ppl (up to a point, some issues aren’t debatable ik). Don't really care for morality (to a certain point, again) if you're charismatic and fun to be around, I’m along for the ride and happy to support whatever you get yourself into. I think I would get along with someone who had a little npd too, I like to be able to relate to my partner a bit. If they work somewhat similarly, I don't have to struggle with understanding some stuff, bc I already know how to manage an ego or grandiose behavior. As for looks. Idk, I don’t have a set type. I think ppl that are bigger than me maybe? I’m pretty athletic so it’s not hard, but I guess that’s been a pattern? Also, I do enough of leading as is so in relationships, I don’t mind watching from the side and supporting whatever my partner is doing
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I love that for us anon^^
I match you with...
Husk!
Man is definitely a hater too. I can definitely see both of you just talking shit about whoever you don't like.
Doesn't mind your flirtations but don't really expect him to reciprocate unless he's out to fluster you.
Silently supportive of your hobbies and your band. He likes that you're a perfectionist but won't let you overwork yourself to the point you forget to take care of yourself.
Demonstrates he cares for you through little things, he won't make a big fuss about it.
Watches whatever movie you like and is there to listen to you if you want to talk about it.
He's pretty chill with anything so you wouldn't have to worry about being judged.
I feel like you would definitely understand each other, he has toned down a lot since his overlord days.
Likes having you sitting at the bar and just be in your presence. If you shit-talk Alastor in front of him he's yours forever.
Hope you enjoyed it and I didn't mess anything up (feel free to reach out if so).
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i came across your account and i notice the takes about the ship, but as a bi latine myself, shipping luz and hunter is NOT problematic at all. them being siblings is not canon and pittwins is just a popular headcanon and it does not mean you have to force that headcanon to everyone. i know what luz meant during that scene bc it’s so common in latine culture to call someone family that isn’t related. a lot of black and latine fans spoke up about this and majority of you just silence us and also keep in mind, the show is literally about found family!!!! you know which sibling is canon?? luz and king bc king literally called luz his sister on screen (king’s tide) and see her both as a friend and a sibling, but i don’t see many of you talk about that (and it’s ridiculous that titanlights (duo name for luz and king) is not even much talked about when they both are the main characters and have actual sibling dynamic). “ppl try to make luz and hunter straight” “shipping a bi girl character with a guy makes it alot harder to confirm them as bi” that is so biphobic to say and i saw your other comment that you aren’t bisexual so what do you know what makes it harder for us? you know what makes it harder to be bi? erasing our sexuality and always have to prove our identity by dating the same gender. we deal with internalized biphobia to prove our sexuality when sexuality is about attraction and not your dating history. we don’t have to date the same gender to prove to be bi. ppl are just erasing luz and hunter bisexuality (even eda) and that does not surprised me by how biphobic the fandom is, a lot of you don’t acknowledge bisexuality at all. also, it would not be “sapphic erasure” when luz herself is sapphic bc she’s bisexual, we are still sapphic when dating men or other genders. you’re the one doing that sapphic erasure by erasing and not acknowledging luz bisexuality. luz was also liking guys in the show, she was blushing on edric and even flirting with nevareth, are you going to say that’s “sapphic erasure” too?? 😭 i really need ppl who are not bi, black and latine to not silence us and speak over us, bc it’s tiring by how many times we have to say about this. bisexuality isn’t to be used as an aesthetic or something, it’s a label. im not even a lunter/huntceda shipper, im a big lumity shipper but as a bisexual latine, im so tired with the biphobia. lumity is canon in the show, huntceda or any other ship is not going to take that away. ppl have no problem with shipping luz with other girls (ex: willow) but when it’s with guys, it’s a problem. in fact, it makes me feel valid to see ppl acknowledge bisexuality and shipping her with other genders (that is not problematic ship of course). it’s also an experience of mine i had as a child when i ship characters with other genders and helped me discover my sexuality and feel comfort and valid.
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ballad appreciation post
i’m so happy :D. i’ve watched ballad twice this week. the second time i watched it w my brothers i didn’t have anything to say about it bc i was mostly just on edge about not getting kicked out of the theatre but since i teased a breakup over this Boyfriend was on his best behavior so i actually got to watch the movie without anyone asking a million question a scene. in related news we have another lucy gray truther on our side. here are some of my thoughts
1. tom blyth opening screen …. i still got jumpscared seeing him in the nude
2. the way they pronounce lucy grays name still catches me off guard. i’ve been ignoring the “i” completely and just say “bard” in my head (yk bc she’s The Bard). with that being said i know the mayor was in like 2 scenes but i think he did a really good job picking out lucy grays name he looked crazy
3. hunter schafer is my eyebrow inspo. also i’ve mentioned this before w the bathing suits having a 1920s and 50s vibe but she’s giving 1940s to me. but obviously glamor 1940s not war ridden 1940s
4. watching this w someone who hasn’t read the book is so enjoyable. when lucy gray dropped the snake down mayfairs shirt Boyfriend got SO tense “waitwait did she just try to fuckin murder her??” god forbid women do anything
5. okay sorry but the first time i watched it i was trying not to smile (in a laugh-y way) when lucy grays singing part came on. when i read it i thought that part ate but actually seeing it was so different for some reason. i think this feeling might be amplified if you’ve never read the book bc my sister felt the exact same way she said it was kinda fuckin cringe. idk if it was just bc we were at home or she was just feeling silly but she started singing that one camp rock song that’s like “we can’t back down.” which ok yeah that was kinda lucy grays song in a nutshell but it kinda did piss me off bc the “you can kiss my ass!!!!” part was coming on soon and i was stressing over them missing it. also didnt lucy gray have a full on dance break in the book?? god. they should have kept that in
6. okay that scene where she bowed and d12’s nasty ass coal industry being in the background is still one of my fav scenes. ugh loved it
7. wovey idk what it was this time but when she was like “im rlly good at climbing” i almost burst into tears. guys she’s really good at climbing
8. hunter schafer literally killed this. i’d argue that tigris is just as much of a product of her environment as snow is but i don’t rlly know how to articulate that
9. speaking of the reading vs watching thing i mentioned earlier: it rlly jumped out with grandmaam. idk why but when i was reading it grandmaam was SO scary and intimidating to me but watching her so frail and skinny and slightly senile talk about how lucy gray is a killer just seemed so crazy. especially since we know snow believes her
10. “they’re gonna get bombed aren’t they” wtf i walk into every movie clueless how are ppl straight up predicting entire events. but again w the reading vs watching i was GAGGED when they got bombed in the book but in the movie it seemed weird?? like “get the camera on her” and then it just feels like they’re trying to take up space until the actual bombs land. but whatever im being so bitchy i wasn’t surprised bc i literally knew it was gonna happen
11. “i want coral making my latte” and i want tanner on the grill
12. i think it was tanner, but i rlly liked his outfit. i liked all their outfits actually. i’ve been watching so many reels abt the costume designer explaining her inspo for the costumes (like tigris and her 1940s glamor thing going on)
13. okay seriously why did they cut out the kiss… and then when they actually did kiss why did they have lucy gray pull away at first…… i know francis lawrence saying this was a love story was icky but he did a bad job at portraying that so maybe we were worried for nothing (jk we were worried for all the right reasons bc if i had a nickel for every time someone said “i thought they were gonna get married!” about lucy gray and snow i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice). also not to be a hater but snowbaird fans actually fucking irritate me. like the fans that are like “but what if it was wholesome 🥺🥺” what if lucy gray tried to kill him and he tried to kill her back? what if he managed to track her down and she bit him again? what if they hate each other so much that they’re only together bc they wanna see the other person suffer? what then
14. tbh seeing billy taupe made me feel a bit guilty 😭😭. almost terminated my ao3 acc but i get that feeling every time someone mentions something im obsessed w in a very casual way so it wasn’t rlly that serious. also someone either on tiktok or insta was like “was i the only person who preferred snows curls to his buzz cut?” and i genuinely couldn’t tell if they were joking bc like. everyone prefers snows curls to his buzz cut. even snow prefers his curls to his buzzcut. with that being said billy taupe needed to lose the cap
15. ngl the ballad of lucy gray baird actually did make me cry a bit… lucy gray was only 16 she needed to be on tumblr
16. where’d she get that guitar from tho
17. i wish they would have kept in the tributes death parade. that part was icky
18. okay there was a scene where lucky had a drink and then he flicked something off it and pup (i think that was his name) flinched cos it landed on his neck that was so fucking funny i hate that this was the first time i noticed it
19. okay seriously why did they make dill get poisoned. also that cornocopia scene. hmph
20. the first time i watched it i remembered being really confused why lucky called mizzen Merciless Mizzen. but omg after he tried chasing lucy gray down in that vent i understood that was crazy of him. and it did seem like he was an actual teenager which actually made it more unsettling. i feel like rachel zegler has a baby face (i actually think she was 17 in west side story and she looks the exact same now) but mizzen’s actor sing singing her name was perfect
21. lamina at the beam… didn’t she manage to kill someone in the book??
22. “does this mean we get to go home??” god i wish
23. but also “please lucy i can’t have killed all of them for nothing” i liked that she didn’t call her lucy gray that was a nice touch. but also. what a crazy thing to ask. i wonder if she thought lucy gray would be chill w that
24. take this with a grain of salt i haven’t read the books in so long but when snow snuck up on lucy gray in the meadow didn’t she level her guitar at him and then be like “sorry lol i still have one foot in the arena :P” they should have had her hit him in the face w it
25. the old therebefore still hits. i wish they would have included scenes where snow is shown to genuinely dislike her songs like in the books. in the movies he seems more disinterested in what she’s doing which is still bad but also it doesn’t seem as overt as him literally hating on her for no fuckin reason. which i guess is bc we have no insight into his head, like i think someone pointed out that in the book and movie he cried over sejanus being dead but in the book we know it’s bc he was scared it was gonna be him next but in the movie it just looked like he was sad. which i get it he’s perceived as nice by other people but the audience is not supposed to be other ppl we know what his motives are. im not sure how that’d be solved, cos i guess it would be pretty annoying to have him voice his thoughts and you also don’t wanna spoon feed ur audience but like. idk. seems like something you’d wanna make super clear bc to me it didn’t seem like you were supposed to like / sympathize with him, but the way it was done kinda seemed half baked
26. speaking of that… Boyfriend did not get the memo that snow was fucking crazy. “i thought he was gonna marry lucy gray in d12” WHY? like why would you even think that. were u not paying attention during the hunger games trilogy marathon where would lucy gray fit into that. since my sister thought the exact same thing she tried being like “see? it’s confusing” but it actually isn’t. that’s still a better reaction than my brother he was actually being a fucking weirdo about it cos when snow found lucy grays scarf in the woods and then the snake bit him this mfer went “she tried to kill him” no!!! but i think there might be something to be said about how snow, completely sober, came to the same conclusion as my brother, who was so high he couldn’t even remember who sejanus was
27. okay that’s a lot of sibling lore so atp i think i better end the post. bye
#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#long post#i can finally stop posting about my damn rainbow dress now i wore it and it was very warm
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Can I get a romantic matchup from Hazbin? Here are some informations abt me
Gender and pref: I’m a he/she and choose how I present myself based on the setting bc I’m not that open with ppl (yeah, I think it’s important to express yourself but realistically that won’t get me far in certain settings in my country); no gender pref but I’m not too fond of some writing choices when it comes to women in Viv’s works, depends on a character though
Style: kinda rockstar gf vibe? Sometimes softer colours too
Personality, hobbies: I’m social and extroverted. Usually that leaves me as a leader of whatever group I’m in. I have a little bit of a hater in me, but I don’t show it if ppl don’t encourage it. I do like when it’s being enabled though. It’s not convenient when you’re in a position where ppl ask you for opinions and actually follow your guide, yk, if I manage an event I’m not going to go around shit talking everything. It feels nice to have someone who does that though, makes it easier to join in and not feel like a jerk (or at least be jerks together I guess??). I write my own songs and am in a band as a backup vocal. Kinda proud that it’s my band but I need to get better until I step up as anything more. I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I like to tease ppl if given the opportunity. Others say I’m flirty. Bold with it at that. I’m ambitious too. Kind of a big thing but I have npd (if you want to look it up without reading scientific papers, go on tumblr, bc the rest of the internet is filled with ‘demonic narcissism’ bullshit) and it influences the way I am. I care lots about my image and don’t have a ton of empathy. I don’t go kicking puppies, but it’s noticeable how I lack in this department. Sometimes people say I’m ’too nice to have it’ cause i do well with kids and do all the youth group volunteering. Also, I do some martial arts and other sports. Kinda sceptical of romance at this point cause I had lots of it and I don’t mix well with a lot of people, but maybe I could do something serious for once if I had the right person. I try to be responsible and respectful but I have no issue finding my place at a wild party or something. I'm pretty chill in general, but I can be soft-er if I want, like with children or if the few ppl I actually am close with (I've got many friend groups but I struggle to make meaningful connections) need me. Usually I just stay my highly analytical, laid back self and say my silly little comments every once in a while. Heard I’m pretty funny if I want to be. My love language is acts of service. I like small things and I do them a lot. I can do words too, but I don't care for them in return. Like, you can be an asshole (up to a limit, I know my worth) and it’s cool with me if I see you have your ways of caring like putting on a song I like in the car
Likes and dislikes: love movies like Fight Club (my fav), American Psycho and Donnie Darko; hate sharks, they freak me out; my fav book is The Catcher in the Rye; hate it when people push me to open up and be emotional; love music and unironically had a few guys play songs AT me and I actually like that too, tho I get why ppl clown on that
My type: I like people who are more negative than me and aren't afraid to shittalk everything. Just saying whatever, not caring if they offend ppl (up to a point, some issues aren’t debatable ik). Don't really care for morality (to a certain point, again) if you're charismatic and fun to be around, I’m along for the ride and happy to support whatever you get yourself into. I think I would get along with someone who had a little npd too, I like to be able to relate to my partner a bit. If they work somewhat similarly, I don't have to struggle with understanding some stuff, bc I already know how to manage an ego or grandiose behavior. As for looks. Idk, I don’t have a set type. I think maybe ppl that are bigger than me? I’m pretty athletic so it’s not hard, but I guess that’s been a pattern? Also, I do enough of leading as is so in relationships I don’t mind watching from the side and supporting whatever my partner is doing
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I match you with...
Husk
~He likes listening to you sing
~He doesn't get flustered much but he has a couple times by you
~Both of y'all are skeptical about the whole romance thing, But y'all are trying
~Likes watching movies with you
~Yall are both a bit emotionally stunted, that's okay though
~He loves your style
~He prepares drinks for you
~You do a lot of the talking between you two
~Yall shit talk together
~He likes your sense of humor
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obsessed with everyone on that post like "not true! there's never more than one woman in the media!" 1. that's literally the type of excuse the post is trying to shut down. 2. that's. still misogyny. like that's misogyny on the creator's end but it's still misogyny. 3. have you tried maybe reading something other than shonen manga and watching something other than a marvel movie, because idk your choice of media could be part of it. like it's actually INSANE to me that you can be on tumblr where shows like spop and the owl house and atla are popular and think there's truly NO MEDIA with good characters. like those aren't the only examples of course it's more than just kids cartoons but. seeing as these people probably don't watch anything without an established tumblr fandom
REAL Also the adamant denial on that post that there’s any piece of media with well written female characters??????
Ppl are also discussing how it’s bc “most ppl in fandoms are attracted to men” like. have u never seen a lesbian in a fandom space.
There’s also been several examples listed of fandoms with shows that have majority female characters and STILL the mlm ship is more popular so that debunks most of the arguments anyways
it’s literally not possible to apply all the excuses ppl are coming up with to every single piece of media??? And more often than not now when female characters are poorly done the male characters are too bc the writing is and all around, or even if it’s just the female characters that’s once again: a different only semi related issue (still misogyny too tho like u said) and not applicable to every show or movie ever??
And once again STRANGER THINGS, which is a very popular well known live action PG-13 TV show has relatively well written female characters (there are some issues but the women in the show are written with care and complexity which is way more than a lot of shows can say, it’s the fandom that tries to take the complexity away) with chemistry yet the most popular ship is steddie, and even byler, another mlm ship, is not as popular as the mlm ship between two dudes that had like 3 interactions, much less ronance in which the two characters in the ship had a whole arc together and one is canonically a lesbian.
And the way ronance and elmax were both voted out on that poll before jopper bc everyone was so quick to sacrifice them.. like Ik it’s Reddit but still this is a FANDOM SPACE I know you guys aren’t choosing a straight ship over sapphics 🤨🤨 the only scenario where I actually prefer a straight ship to a sapphic one is lumax over elmax and that is a rare, rare occurrence
Anyways, rambled, but ur so right and the fact that this is literally a phenomenon in almost every single fandom but ppl are still trying to excuse it for anything other than what it is like come ON.
Oh and fyi this is the post I’m talking abt if anyone is seeing this and extremely confused
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this has Nothing to do w greys anatomy and i havent even been active here (but hey, this season is back so i just might be too) but i need to vent somewhere and i can’t do it on main cause irl ppl follow me there. i don’t even mind them knowing these things like its not a secret or anything but idk it’s weird
i owe ab r$ 130.000 to my university. every year i Don’t Pay the bills and owe them a huge amount of money and then they let me pay like 1/5 or even 1/6 of what i owe to be able to enroll in the next school year. i’m currently starting 4th year of med school (it’s 6 years long). this time they said they’d only do that thing where i pay a fifth of what i owe now and leave the rest to pay “later” if i use a credit card, which i don’t have — all my payments have always been thru debit yk. and i can’t get a credit card cause i owe the bankS (plural, i owe money to like every bank in the country) like over 200k from loans i’ve taken before, which i’ll never pay them back probably (it’s okay, i don’t have anything to my name so they can’t legally take anything from me cause of it). which is why i obviously also can’t get a loan.
i currently have about 40k. i’m selling my shitty car for 7k, i have a solid buyer, so i guess i have ab 47k. i’m trying to sell a shitty studio apartment in a bad neighborhood for 70k, even though it’s worth ab 120k, just to try to get it sold as fast as possible. i work a part time honest job for less than a minimum wage and i use that money to “pitch in” and help pay the bills (i live w my mom and she pays for everything but sometimes we fall short).
and i sell stuff on the side. how much i sell is directly related to how much extra cash i need that month, but it’s usually around 1k. if i really put myself out there i can make much, much more, and i usually avoid that so i don’t get too well known™, but recently (since like november) i’ve been doing that, and making ab 5k a month (which is how i’ve been saving money these past few months), and i’m currently facing the opportunity of expanding that further and maybe even make up to 10k a month from selling my stuff alone, but i’m not sure if i’ll do that cause i think people are already getting too comfy introducing my services™ to other ppl, and i even got a street name. that was sort of a wake up call for me. i sometimes get texts from strange numbers that’ll be like “hey, [insert friend’s name] gave me ur number” and i check with that friend if they’re cool before selling etc, but lately those ‘friends of friends’ all started calling me dr. hu, and it sort of caught on, and ppl who aren’t in any way connected to those ppl told me they’ve heard my “name” (dr. hu) being brought up by strangers in a couple of hang out spots in my neighborhood, and that really made me rethink the whole thing. it’s okay, my neighborhood is pretty chill, there’s not much activity here, there’s only a few parks where young ppl go to have fun, there aren’t any territorial gangs or anything, so at least i’m safe from that. but still.
also, “dr. hu” is a reference to this guy (i didnt get it at first, i thought they were saying dr who first few times i heard it):
ANYWAY. back to the point. i’ve been going to class even though i’m not officially enrolled in this semester yet, cause that’s what my lawyer told me to do, cause we’ll try to get a judge to demand my uni to let me pay in installments w debit or cash or a fucking check like it’s fucking 2007, whatever, just not credit. (idk if it wasn’t clear before, but they let me pay in cash if i pay the entire amount at once, i just don’t have that rn). but if we can’t get a judge to do that (we should find out by next week), my only way out would be if i can sell the apartment until before my exams start — and they start on march 15. otherwise i won’t be able to take the exams and i’ll automatically flunk all my classes, so.
my second option (if both the apartment thing and judge thing fail) would be to transfer to a different uni. that would hurt me deeply cause i like my uni’s curriculum better, it’s the best in the state, and i know i’d be transferring to a uni that isn’t as good. and mostly cause i’m already so integrated in my uni, i have my friends and my academic leagues and i’ve been a pharma TA (which gives me a 20% scholarship) and intended to keep on it, and i write papers for it and i had big plans to write ab some of my special interests in pharma (yea drugs are a special interest to me fr lol) and get to show them in medical conferences etc.
and there’s my bf. he’s the best thing ab uni to me tbh, he’s the reason i wake up in the morning exhausted but still excited to go to class cause he’ll be there. and it’s hard for us to see each other cause we both have jobs that demand a lot from us (i work as an “assistant” to er doctors — they pay me directly to do their work part time so they can sleep or study for residency undisturbed during part of their shifts, and he works with politics). so we only rly see each other out of class like once a week; and it’s fine cause we see each other in class almost everyday and we skip class to get high and make out on campus sometimes (like fucking teenagers ik ik), but all of that will be gone if i transfer. i’ll be lucky if i get to see him for a few hours a week. and it kinda feels like my world will colapse if that happens. i know it’s dramatic but idk, he’s kinda the light of my life rn. i know i’d get over it, i’d get over him if i had to, but i don’t want it to come to that, i really don’t, cause i’m in love & i genuinely believe we could have the life of our dreams together soon enough
anyway. transferring would genuinely be horrible but i’d get used to it. i’m already getting used to that possibility. yesterday it felt like it was the end of the world, i sobbed like a child just for considering it for a second, it felt like when ur a kid and everything gets taken away from u and u find out the world is a cruel and unjust place for the first time (i got sent to an international boarding school at age 6 man idk that’s how it felt like). but now i’m already more accepting of that possibility. i’d survive it, i’ve survived much worse, and i’d learn to enjoy it (in a bittersweet way). i’d probably lose touch with my best friend from uni (which SUCKS ASS cause he’s one of the best friends i’ve ever had, friends like him are hard to come across yk), but i’d make new friends eventually. maybe i’d find a way to make my relationship work. and i’d get to Not pay 130 thousand reais to my uni; bitches didn’t let me pay my way, they ain’t ever seeing money from me again. which would be pretty nice
and my third option, my worst option, is taking a gap year. just pausing everything. i finished 3rd grade in 2022, and i’d start 4th grade in 2024. a gap year. it’d come to that if the couple of unis i’d consider transferring to need me to take extra classes (essentially “repeat” some classes i’ve already taken) because of curriculum differences. it’d suck so, so much, but i’m still tryna prepare myself mentally for that possibility. honestly med school is my life. idk how i’d cope without medicine. honestly i skip class all the time and i hate some of my classes and i hate working with clinical medicine (which i’m required to do as a student) but still, my life kinda revolves around the fact that i’m on my way to becoming a doctor. it’s kind of what i live for. i’m not a straight As student, i’ve never been a pleasure to have in class, i get Bs and mostly Cs and i don’t study for my classes like i should, i don’t turn in my assignments, i’m essentially a very Bad student, but medicine is still my life. pharmacology and anesthesiology are my special interests. reading the entire goodman & gilman book for fun several times kinda thing. and i feel like that’s what i’m worth. i know it’s not healthy, but my entire sense of self worth is based on my academic life. which is ridiculous cause i’m not even a good student! but having mediocre grades and only studying for the few classes that i actually enjoy somehow is enough for me to feel ok ab myself. not great, i don’t have awesome self esteem, but okay enough yk. but my self esteem will go to zero so fast if i simply don’t have an academic life anymore.
and what would i do with a gap year? i’d probably work more, and maybe sell more, and maybe, just maybe, i’d work on myself. study more ab the things i’m interested in, go to the gym, help my mom w her garden. but the truth is i’d probably fall into a self destructive pattern of sleeping all day and binge eating and doing drugs. letting dirty dishes pile up all over my room, wearing the same set of pjs for weeks, not washing my hair like ever. eventually stop going to work, never leave the house. start getting social anxiety, avoiding all my friends, shutting down completely. going days without eating or seeing a single person irl. it’s happened before more than a few times, i know how i can be. i’ve had enough clinical depression episodes. and i think it could go harder than ever before (the worst one i’ve ever had was in 2017, when i spent 2 months in bed).
ok i kinda spiraled there. maybe that wouldn’t happen. it probably wouldn’t happen. and one good thing is i’d definitely find a way to make more money, so i could actually spend some on something other than bills. i could finally get the tattoos i want. ok but that’s the only silver lining i can find. and even if i didn’t fall into a depression™, would my relationship survive it? cause yea, i’d have time and money to see him, work around his schedule since he’d be busier than me, but i’d feel like shit. i’d feel like i’m worth less than him because he’d be too ahead of me academically, and i’d be stagnated. i can’t explain it.
#and i can’t even go to my happy place with oxy cause i’ve built up some tolerance so staying sober for like a week isn’t cutting it#i’ll need to detox from opiates for like a month for the high to be good enough again#might shoot up morphine tmr though. KWNDSK#or do ketamine. i’ll let my bf decide what we’re doing#cause he’s never shot up and he’s never done ketamine and i don’t wanna push him into doing anything#tw#vent post#giocore
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I have a question that I need to preface that if this weren’t coming from a stranger online and we were talking IRL, the tone would be calm and friendly and the intent is to genuinely have a dialogue.
I don’t care much if Austin and Kaia are PR or not. So I’m not angling in either direction. But I get creeped out why both sides are SO obsessed about their living situation. Where someone lives and who they live with is so personal and that’s only amplified for public figures. If they wanted us to know that business, they would confirm it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Being a little less close to it, I see circumstantial evidence from gossip sites and small clues that could mean something or be red Herron’s to throw ppl off the scent. It seems like they aren’t interested in confirming too much about what goes on behind closed doors, so even if you think you’re doing them a favor and defending them against the “dark other side of the fandom” it’s just magnifying an issue they seem to want to keep private. How is this debate not intrusive and stalkerish and why can’t their privacy be respected until they confirm? Like, why don’t fans on either side respect their privacy while going on and on about how Austin has anxiety and his privacy should be respected. It feels kind of hypocritical- sorry I’m not trying to be mean but I am genuinely confused on this point.
I know that last part sounds snarky. I don’t mean it that way; I just didn’t have a better wording without being too allusive. I’m genuinely asking from a place of peace and curiosity because I’m confused by the disconnect of respecting their privacy but not. What am I missing in what feels like a disconnect?
hi! no worries at all about your tone, you don’t come off as aggressive or anything. and like i said in my short answer before i had to run to class, talking about house related anything *is* a very thin line to walk. that’s not to say that i say the right thing (or keep quiet on the right thing) 100% of the time. but i do try, and i think an important part of that is sticking to what is made public. like the little house related things on his cake- and the all the ‘julian stuff’.
austin allowed julian the photographer to photograph him in his home and post those photos. he (or kate on his behalf or kaia) didn’t have julian remove the mention of kaia from his thank you caption, and i was honestly thinking at the time that he/they might. that to say i think austin is comfortable with people knowing a bare minimum of his like- home decor style choices, and the fact that kaia and milo (imo) live with him.
and of course that’s all pre move to wherever they live now stuff. but another good example here is maybe the whole someone on tiktok showing up at “austin’s house” debacle? that isn’t his house as of current day, it was a house he once lived in with vanessa. something people figured out because there is a publicly posted photo of a landscaper posing with them outside of it. and i wanted to share that to comfort people with the knowledge that at least no one was showing up where austin currently lives. but at the same time, i felt a little creepy being like “well ACTUALLY guys he doesn’t live there now that’s one of his old houses here’s proof!”. even though the photo of him and v was public i just felt…very much the way you seem to feel on the topic. while at the same time feeling an obligation to let people know that austin was safe/not being physically stalked at least by that girl.
i occasionally receive anons with house related info (important: this is not something i have ever asked for, nor do i know how people find it) that i wouldn’t ever post over my dead body because said information is crossing the line of reasonable celebrity privacy. and admittedly, i could do better with letting my hotheadedness get the best of me when it comes to people trying to argue with me over if they do or don’t live together. because like you said, when you strip it down we really are just arguing about where someone lives. which is really not the best use of anyone's time!
thank you for giving me/us something to think about here. and i hope my take on all this makes sense.
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Related to the werewolf predator thing, I like to imagine that both types of werewolves can and used to straight up eat vampires as a fighting tactic. Like if Paul was to take a chunk out of a vampire in wolf form the acid would dissolve the flesh before it could regenerate or try to attack them from the inside, and THAT was how the shapeshigters used to kill vampires primarily before they just figured fire was easier. It would be a useful skill, and it would mean they dont need to shift back into a vulnerable form to kill their prey.
(This sorta segues into how my ideal addition to the twilight universe is the idea of literally any species other then the wolves being adapted specifically to lure and attack the supernatural predators. I wanna see some vampire try to attack some rando and the guy just fuckin eats em. Would both counter the vampires OPness a bit AND provide an extra villain if need be. The shapeshifters kill vampires but only to protect themselves but something like the above would be prone to straight up violence unprovoked. Tbf most ppl say they enjoy the small world of twilight supernatural since it isnt really crowded tho, so I'm probably alone there.)
I DO like the small supernatural world of Twilight. I have a hard time getting into fantasy that has like dozens of different creatures each with their own powers and weaknesses and rulers because then it feels more about the species and powers than the characters. I’m also glad that Twilight doesn’t have like, a secret vampire world that humans don’t know about or something, that it just takes place in the actual world and their capital city is just a regular city and you don’t have to go through a magic portal to get there or whatever.
So generally when people are like “I wish Angela were a witch” or that they wanted more creatures in Twilight I’m like meh. The last minute addition of actual werewolves already made me kind of roll my eyes because it felt less like careful worldbuilding and more that SM realized she was writing herself into a corner with Caius hating ‘werewolves’ and the shapeshifters standing with the Cullens over the Renesmee mess so “haha whoops they aren’t actually werewolves, teehee!”
HOWEVER, I am HERE for some vampire-hunting entity. The idea of human-looking creatures that bite back is hilarious and frightening and it would help so much if there were some real threat to the vampires (although we’d still have the Edward and Alice problem, but maybe Alice can’t ‘see’ these beings?).
Ooh, what if HYBRIDS could eat vampires?! That would relate to the classic dhampir folklore where most offspring of vampires became vampire hunters. Since they only know about five hybrids (Nessie, Nahuel and his sisters) maybe they aren’t aware of this ability, but there could be other hybrids out there who are vampire hunters/can kill (and eat?!) vampires.
Or else, yeah, let shapeshifting wolves eat vampires. It is kind of ridiculous they have to turn back into human form to burn the pieces.
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Thirteen Era Rewatch: Once, Upon Time
I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on.
When S13 aired I made a posts similar to this after re-watching each ep before the next one came out. The Once, Upon Time post can be found HERE.
I love the first scene where we find out what 13 is thinking. Pretty cool
This scene has always shat me up bc I feel like we barely ever see Yaz laugh and here she’s fully laughing idek. I know it’s not Actually Yaz which ofc adds to why her vibe is different but idk something about it gets me
One time someone genuinely said that this moment was Chib spreading some kind of agenda about how there’s something wrong with ppl who aren’t married and I was like…she’s clearly just messing with him/flirting a bit are you actually braindead
Yaz why is your coworker getting all up in your business like that hm
This actually kills me
I love when the Tunnel guy rocks up ngl
So Yaz is defo in her future house, right? I wonder if it will come back in PotD or if will end up just being a potential future of hers and she doesn’t actually end up there. I think seeing it again would be really cool tbh
Cutting between 13 and Fugitive is cool. Also showing Fugitive while saying this line was a Choice if ever I’ve seen one
I kinda wish we saw more Fugitive in that scene, like once it’s established that 13 is there re-living it, we cut to seeing Fugitive all the time but also I do like the cutting between both so meh it’s not the end of the world
Old swarm looks gross as fuck tbh
I love that switching between 13 and Fugitive kinda shows the differences in them. Like when 13 is threatening Swarm and Azure she comes off as way more aggressive whereas Fugitive is just calm as fuck saying what needs to be said idk. It’s cool
Not to be going on about missing shots lmao but there’s no way all those Cybermen missed their shots AND Bel managed to kill them all. I’m not a freak so idc that much but I do think it’s kinda funny
I like that we know why Vinder was sent out there and I like that part the Grand Serpent plays in it but idk why the GS needs to be in the series anymore than that tbh. Idk. I can’t fully remember what part he plays in the next few eps so I guess we’ll see if I change my mind
Obsessed with how desperate she is here. Also the way Yaz says ‘all right’ after. Ugh. Like we know Yaz has been getting annoyed with the Doctor this series but she’s still trying her best to help even tho 13 keeps shutting her out
‘Reintroduced’… So, she was the one who let Swarm escape? Is that right? Am I dumb? Bc when I watched 13.01 I was like well why did he choose now to escape, like what changed. But I guess this is it lmao
Do as you’re told !! Also love that Dan doesn’t listen to what she says straight away bc he doesn’t really know her and like doesn’t care as much about what she’s telling him to do
I don’t get what’s funny/bad about this line ngl
I also don’t get how she hasn’t seen Vinder in ages but she is pregnant and not even showing. Like I know she’s not human so maybe it works a bit differently but idk, it’s a bit off
This ep has never been my fave of the series but idk. I don’t really have anything massive to complain about. It’s cool. I think it does pretty good at switching between each memory. At one point I used to think Bel and Vinder’s story was a waste of time bc it’s not massively plot related and part of me does still think that a bit, like I know that’s how serialised shows work, introducing different stories, but like, it’s not fully necessary is it. I don’t mind it too much tho bc I do agree that not every story NEEDS to be related massively to the plot and I do like the stuff with Bel and Vinder but
lso time taken away from 13 Yaz and Dan is never gonna be 10/10 in my book
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Anonymous asked: Could you explain The Vampair series to me? What is it? A show or a set of music videos trying to tell a story? Is there a story? Also, since she doesn't have one, what voice do you give to Missi when writing her?
Alright anon, I finally got to answering this cuz I finally remembered to do so.
Kay, so we got to get a few things straight right off the bat (vampire puns lol)
Vampair Playlist
Threnody Playlist
1. Vampair is not owned by Voltair, it has no relation to him, nor is he affiliated, he does not do anything for the series and frankly barely acknowledges it’s existence lmao. Do not assume this is his series. Holy shit I’m sorry for coming off as agro at the start but this is not his series
I cannot tell you how much it pisses me off to see people crediting Voltair for Vampair’s creation, throwing the actual creator under the bus when he thinks animation isn’t worth his time, Duke sure might have been inspired partially by him but that’s it, that’s all there is. They share a voice and that’s where it ends. It’s why in EVery single vampair video it says “FAN ANIMATED�� because its not made by him. I’m sorry to go off at the start but please for the love of fuck Daria gets NOTHING from her videos, it’s all copyrighted music and goes to voltair (which is why she relies a lot on the commissions and patreon, please check it out) who doesnt have anything to do with production, funding, or anything but i could go on a whole rant about that later. Basically:
Vampair was thought of, created, animated, and fully belongs to Daria Cohen
now that that’s out of the way
2. Vampair works in a hand-in-hand way with a second series. Threnody is a story made by Missmi, Mina Rose on Youtube. The series, while feature different characters, take place within the same universe and MUCH of the lore from Vampair comes from Threnody with only some minor differences here and there as every creator has a right to have.
To fully understand Vampair/Threnody world I would watch BOTH series because major plot points and explanations for questions might easily be answered in Threnody so please, DO NOT IGNORE IT JUST CUZ IT’S NOT FULLY ANIMATED LIKE VAMPAIR. Yall are literally missing out on so fucking much by ignoring Threnody not to mention so many characters from Threnody are really great and Mina also puts a lot of work into her series as well.
3. Vampair is more than one episode. I know most people have seen “The Night” but GUYS, THERE’S A SECOND SEASON. IT DIDN’T JUST STOP AFTER THAT ONE EPISODE LIKE COME ON. SO MANY PPL TELL ME THEY JUST STOPPED WATCHING AFTER EPISODE 3 AND IM JUST SCREAM
So for the rest to actually answer your questions I’m going to put under a read-more since I’m going to go on for a while.
Could you explain The Vampair series to me? What is it? A show or a set of music videos trying to tell a story?
The Vampair Series is an independantly animated series made by Daria Cohen and her small group of cleanup artists and background artists. It is a Music Video Series where it tells a story through a musical aspect, animating to songs to tell it’s story.
I wouldn’t say “trying to tell a story” because it does tell a story. Saying “try to tell” feels almost insulting? As if music-video based chapters and series aren’t legitimet ways of storytelling which is rude as you wouldn’t nessessarily say that to a song writer who writes stories in their song. Would yo usay “they’re trying to tell a story” or that “they’re telling a story”? IDK semantics, just feels like “trying” implies it is failing in some way which i dont think it is a tall.
Is there a story?
The Vampair series, as of now, follows the story of Duke (no known last name) and Melissa Dumarias (no they aren’t related)
Duke, who appears to be in his 20s-30s is a vampire who at the start of the series had in his possession The Anger Cane, a powerful artifact that the ruler of vampires wields. It bestows the one who holds it with a power to make deals with the entity living within it, granting them immeasurable power while enhancing their own special unique talents. Duke, at the start of the series, was heading off to do something as he normally would when Melissa Dumarias decides to enter his castle.
Entering the home (presumably) to read her book and escape from her home (speculation) she meets Duke who decides to derail his previous obligation to mess with Melissa. Melissa, fearing for her life, runs around the castle hopelessly trying to escape him as he toys with her. Duke, unbeknownst to Melissa, wasn’t going to actually harm her and let her go when he had enough. Though due to her fearing for her life, realizing he was a vampire, leads him on and seduces him to the point he lowers his guard and she can take the cane.
With the cane in hand she uses it as a psudo-bat to hit him into open sunlight and kill him. With him gone she obtains the power of the cane which turns her into a psudo-vampire. While still human under her skin, so long as she uses the power from the Cane she is vampire in all appearance (though I canon divert a bit).
As of now, Missi, in an act of revenge, resurrects Duke who had been living it up in the Underworld somehow becoming it’s ruler. Once he is back to Earth being mortal Missi tortures him in the same way he had done to her, ending with her kicking him out of his house she takes. By now she has also obtained a feline familiar named Minose.
Duke, back on earth with not much to do goes to the graveyard and meets a zombie prostitute and gets zombie STDs becoming a vampire-zombie hybrid. Along with that he meets Vanessa, Melissa’s (now known as Missi) sister. He tries to sleep with her, though due to the zombification his dick tears off (no im not joking this is canon) and he leaves Vanessa with the tip of his dick.
Meanwhile in the castle the same night, Missi has a complete mental breakdown seeing the cost of power having gotten to her. Breaking down and hallucinating various things in her surrounding she can barely tell reality from hallucination and she is driven to hallucinate herself ripping out her own veins in an attempt to rid herself of monsters she believes lives under her skin.
This act causes her to throw away the cane, which without contact turns her back to being human and she almost chooses to leave. Until she sees Duke standing outside the castle yet again and her anger pushes her back to the cane. accepting it’s insanity and delusion for it’s power.
After some undisclosed time, Missi and Duke finally have a “final” showdown between them where they mostly just dance and sing, until Duke tries to poison Missi and she rejects it causing Duke to fly into a rage and hit her. Retaliation after retaliation it ends with Duke grabbing a silver-bladed axe and coming after Missi as she defends herself with the cane. They both exchange equal blows until Duke si able to successfully grab the cane from her hand and use it to stab out her left eye. In retaliation Missi grabs the silver axe and and cuts off his right thumb.
Aftermath of it, they agree to a sort of “truce” where both are still abusive and hurt one another physically (and emotionally) but they realize being together even in their twisted ways, is better than living alone.
Season 2 starts off showing us Duke at his mother’s funeral where his father barely looks at him and leaves as soon as he can without paying any mind to his mother’s death or the child leaving him to walk off into the woods alone.
season 2 episode 1 shows Duke and Missi getting along better, Duke’s past of being negleceted by his father growing up, being bullied and hurt to such an extent he ran away from home only to meet Artemis (from Threnody) who turned him into a vampire. Missi and Duke are shown getting along much more than before even if she is still drinking heavily, they haven’t resorted to beating each other nearly as much.
and that’s the story as of right now, congrats you’re all caught up :D
what voice do you give to Missi when writing her?
Honestly? I’m kinda wiht Daria on this one in that as for Vampire-Missi I don’t have a single voice I use
I more or less just use a variety of songs I associate with her that I feel could work well for her voice depending on what kind of “tone” she’s trying to put on. Her vampiric persona in my eyes is something she plays up on and as such she performs differently depending on the mood she wants to give.
As a default I kinda have the voice from “Hooked (Addicted you might say)” in my head
But also “My Alcoholic Friends” works well as well to me
For more happier tones, I think more of The Dismemberment Song singer. TBH I’ve thought about making an animatic to this of “if missi won the showdown” AU where she would just tear apart Duke and put him back together especially now as he’s a zombie she could have a lot of fun dismembering him and putting him back together and studying him
But also songs from Lily Allen work as well since Daria has used it before, especially in Smile
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truly recommending the Lens of bodily autonomy in general
for example like, sexuality / gender. if you’re just kind of throwing shit at the wall to invent a more radical analysis then it gets results like: arguments that can’t have any definite conclusion about prescriptive language, the hypothetical results of which would be [???] anyways; pokemon types damage chart analysis on intracommunity issues to further [???] hypothetical results; new pitches for biphobia / transphobia every 5 min; inventing guys to get mad at (hypothetical Infiltrators / Interlopers) & other “i’m one of the real ones” other side of the coin to “i’m one of the good ones” variations; making up the theoretical qualifying Universal “True” Lgbtq Experience; etc
and, naturally, the years consumed by ppl positioning ace exclusionism as Radical while apparently the actions taken via that stance were all about like, being able to enjoy the “i could’ve been good at pwning nerds in high school too if only homophobia hadn’t made Me a nerd to pwn” amusement, since Arguments were mostly about, not asexuality directly even, but like those made up guys who’d Claim it to get to feel special or bother gays or something, just like those damn kids who get to just Say they’re not cis without getting certified by Any external assessment & validation from proper not cis people....but then the vector hasn’t even really been the “debates” about whether asexuality isn’t queer enough or whatever, it’s just been like, people discovering their I’m Thee Cyberbully penchant for how asexuals are cringe. and then really the “arguments” therein just become a nightmare of like, again reinventing some biphobia, transphobia, ableism, really connecting with all other forms of bigotry and just so happening to consistently side on the “””just common sense””” Normal Correct arguments that come in handy when you’re trying to create a border that in turn creates one group with authority and the Other group. and a classic sort of argument behind The Stance being this made up idea that all Real lgbtq people underwent some specific experience that hinges on how cishet people in their lives reacted to them & enacted some sort of violence about it. and that Nobody Cares and actually cishet parents would love it if their kid came out as Asexual, as if that lines up with what actually happens in reality (but the ace people are probably lying / exaggerating) or even In Theory
the issue of Sexuality / Gender as one of autonomy absolutely means that the matter of having gay sex is for real in essence that of not having any sex, potentially. gay sex threatening the institutions of Marriage and The Family aren’t because gay people don’t want to have partners or children, as would theoretically cut it as a counterargument otherwise, but b/c those institutions require there being one group which is Men and another group which is Women, everyone immutably belonging to said groups, and women's defining Experience being: property of men to provide children, care / labor, and sex. and men’s defining experience being that they’re the default normal ideal People who get to own the property that is A Woman. wherein it’s inherently Emasculating for women to stray from “normal” gender roles, which in itself is a manifestation of the personal power a woman would still have to Choose that if she wants, and that power disparity Is what defines that gender binary. people can exist outside of it by not “””naturally””” adhering to and maintaining Any of its tenets; attraction / desire that even Can be between the “wrong” genders is a threat, see also: bisexual people being Untrustworthy simply because of the Possibility to be attracted to someone of another gender than that of any given partner, rather than that they supposedly don’t even have that “choice.” of course being asexual doesn’t necessarily guarantee anyone has any specific experience re: whether they have ever, do ever, will ever have sex or not, their relationship with attraction / desire / sex drive / sexual arousal/stimulation/gratification, their relationships w/others & the forms of intimacy therein, etc, but looking at Sex as a matter of consent and autonomy, not as something anyone has a Right to, is threatening, so anyone having that full bodily autonomy when they make choices about sex independent of anyone else’s power & what they’re “owed,” that is threatening, and that certainly includes choosing anytime, and/or all the time, to not have sex in certain ways, or at all
of course with Formalized ways in which there’s, e.g., encoded laws validating state power to control sex, it’s going to be a lot more straightforward to forbid Acts That Occur than it is to try to forbid Acts That Never Occur, such that you know, there’s antisodomy laws. but then, naturally, that in common law women did not have the “right” to not have sex w/their husbands, such that a man would be wronged by his wife not having sex w/him, a woman would not be wronged by her husband having sex w/her b/c he wanted to. and that matters like sodomy weren’t like, really being enforced through preventing any sex acts directly like, a stakeout sting operating bursting in only when anal sex b/w men is happening like okay we have proof & etc, but being the cited justification behind like, cohabitation being effectively the issue instead. neither having sex in certain ways or not having sex in certain ways needs to be Actually Known To Be Happening at certain frequency in certain proportions or whatever, it’s about people’s Ability to exercise autonomy over sex. freely choosing not to have it is just as much about the Threat Of Actual Autonomy as happening to freely choose to have it; people who’d argue about “well it’d be okay to be gay so long as they don’t Act On It” aren’t Actually hypothetically supporting asexuals, b/c people aren’t ace because someone told them they couldn’t have sex, it’s b/c that’s who they are & that’s their relationship with themself & if they have autonomy they can be asexual. the essence of what opposes the desexualization / denial of sexual agency of a group = the essence of what supports asexuality, because it’s about Autonomy in both cases, not what the most correct prescriptive form of “how to have the best Individual Sexuality as political action” is, which is going to deny autonomy as well if you go “well i think people being trans masc aren’t fighting misogyny / supporting trans men means seeing them as misogynist & being the arbiters of whether their discussions of their experiences is correct” or “well i just don’t think cishet people are bothered enough by asexuality / i’ve decided that the most intrinsic root of homophobia is ‘people thinking gay sex acts are gross’ so ace people not wanting to have any of those sex acts? feels a little thinking emoji” or like some idea that because someone might think they’re ace for some time and then change their mind, asexuality is dangerous, b/c absolutely none of us ever thought we had a different identity than the ones we might’ve settled on now, including possible lgbtq labels we tried out, so they’re all scrapped too then? (clearly actually not, and there was never a concrete, cogent argument about ace exclusionism, just like, various What Ifs & just like, deciding it’s cringe)
all that to say that like, you don’t have to go “well okay so what, would it be better to focus on Supporting Asexuality as the helm of lgbtqosity. scoff” like, not the point to swap out a standard definition of “i’m one of the Realest ones” for another b/c that’s not The Root Of The Issue. the root isn’t “cishet ppl think certain sex acts b/w certain bodies is too nasty” though that may be a motivation & justification to be sure. the suggestion here is looking at it as a matter of autonomy vs power/control. people don’t have autonomy over sex, and that goes amongst even Cishet people of course b/c issues of sexuality & gender apply to everyone, not just people who’d be deemed to belong to, or identify as belonging to, the group that is [not cishet], not just re: any individual’s choices or wants for one’s sex life. linking together attacks on abortion access to attacks on trans people’s existence, both of which are about autonomy, and wherein even with the former limiting it to an issue for Women, which fails to account for women who would not be affected or people who would be affected who are not women, involves accepting part of the premise of what defines A Woman, which involves not only what’s prescribed to someone’s body but what is demanded of that body, that all women should have a capacity for pregnancy. versus denying that trans people can exist, should exist, shouldn’t be more vulnerable and have that vulnerability leveraged to force them to be closeted, that they even have the autonomy to describe their identity rather than having it prescribed with required gender norms & roles fulfilled, the rhyming attitudes & arguments of “but the label of asexuality is a problem b/c gay people might find it easier to be ace, but they’re really not & it’s internalized homophobia” and “but gnc girls might find it easier to be trans masc, but they’re really not & it’s internalized misogyny,” that anyone could Claim to be queer & infiltrate queer spaces just like anyone could Claim to be a woman & infiltrate women’s spaces, that oh trans/ace people just might have something wrong with them b/c that’s not normal & if you can cite individual pathology it can’t be Real or Good and oh trans/ace people might be found in higher proportions amongst autistic people so it’s something wrong on either end, an autistic person sure as hell does not have the autonomy to have their autonomy acknowledged, they don’t know their genders or their sexualities, in fact they too are probably more dangerous in their weirdness & wrongness so as to be sexual threats, rather than being more vulnerable to abuse themselves
anyways the point is how often The Consistent Thread, beyond veneers that may easily (or with more difficulty) reveal hypocrisy b/c they’re Not the actual underlying, fundamental ideology / issue, like even blaming Nature or by extension god or some other theoretical third party’s requirement, take it up with them not me, don’t shoot the violent crusading messenger, because if you shoot me i might not be able to crusade violently around, for one....anyways lmfao the consistency, the foundation, as denial of someone’s autonomy & the means & methods by which that denial is enacted, sustained, taken advantage of....who gets to define and thus delineates one group from another when the one group is the Default and thus the Ideal and the other is the Others who are deficient / defective, how is that delineation created & then maintained / enforced, which are in turn questions about analyzing power & control....who is the subject of extraction, and again, the question of power & control and how that extraction is enforced by the vulnerability of the disempowered party being leveraged, whether something so direct as like, you or your loved one at the point of a weapon, or something so supposedly neutral as someone simply being afraid of potential loneliness / rejection / isolation if they don’t do what they have to to continue participation in some interpersonal relationship. the loneliness / rejection / isolation leveraged on a state level when existing & socializing & maintaining connections easily requires money, thus likely a job/s, private transporation & housing, the forced further isolation if warehoused in various institutions including a prison, the potential compounded isolation within such an institution....all the mirrors b/w ways there can be organized state sanctioned use of force to deny autonomy as can be leveraged between individuals with a personal relationship (who nevertheless also live in a world and have perspectives on that world shaped prior, during, & afterwards by Everything outside of themselves) and plenty of intersections & overlap, and that’s its whole symposium of indefinite length
the point is like hey, looking at Any Matter re: issues of oppression on the basis of gender & sexuality, and class and race and culture and disability and what gets to be defined as the “norm” (thus the Correct & the Ideal) for physicality and behavior and other externally assessed qualities, and upon what basis is there a definition / metric for who is Lesser and thus less deserving and thus their autonomy being denied because of this justification and the power / control leveraged via strategies and systems to those people’s detriment, still justified thusly, where to accept those justifications even in part can lead nowhere like if you’re going “well. the extent of my anti misogyny analysis is that i define Being A Woman as being someone who men are shitty to. what do you mean that that effectively reinforces misogyny in the first place as men getting to be shitty to women, while i’m being feminist by focusing on how women’s individual choices can be criticized as at fault here. but only in terms of misogyny and not questions of how women in some social positions can leverage power over others as deputization in other systems of [who is property]” because the denied personhood and, as is argued, thus the denied autonomy of anyone, as an individual or as a defined group, is something that always needs active maintenance through force and the threats of that force / people’s vulnerabilities becoming compounded into greater precarity / becoming further risk and/or further realized harm, because imbalances of power and suppressed autonomy are situations that also have to be Created in the first place through someone directing the literal or figurative weapon point, regardless of intent even, no individual nt person has to Mean to be hurting anyone or consciously scheming to exert control over someone else nor think that they’re doing so in any way, but nd people generally have [trauma] in the mix even from their most “everyday” “neutral” experiences, when “norms” make nt people the Correct Default Ideal ones and validate their feelings & behaviors & judgment of others’ as likewise Normal, and disabled people’s treatment as inferior is normal and justified, see: the Personal Responsibility to totally just learn & then choose to act nt. as soon as i was in preschool i had a sense of anxiety about playing with some toys b/c i thought they’d be Too Good for me b/c if someone else wanted to play with them instead they Would inherently deserve it more than i did. my first Friend was like, a kid who decided they’d interact with me & was basically having fun by Being In Charge / i did have that sense that i always had to play by other people’s rules to interact with them & if they said i was doing it wrong, i had no recourse. also had a bit of handshake there re: gender lol.
all this about distilling things & i’m like, what’s the tl;dr? suggesting these lenses & questions rather than going like “hmm i think that first and foremost i want to feel like i’m of The Political Vanguard(tm). i also want the medium for that to be individual personal expression" like, does it seem to be the case that at the heart of any matter there’s [people’s ability to exist & act autonomously has to be undermined via these Categorities], does controlling (preventing) access to certain resources, more abstract or more concrete, facilitate control, is there exclusively afforded power to some to exert control, in what ways is it exerted and those with the greater power’s choices enacted, what’s extracted, who is dehumanized & thus their autonomy denied / their status as property/resources/tools for others asserted & justified....and as a potential like, prioritized perspective to choose, what would Facilitate and Support people’s autonomy / their ability to exercise it, how are people's greater vulnerability created and then exploited, how could they have support so as to be less vulnerable....and along the way there just might be some Clarification in how to detangle analysis of and approach to some matters, like that, for example, what would support asexual people is perfectly congruous with what would support any lgbtq people (which also happens to be what would Truly support people who can & do identify as cishet, since like. the supposed “ideals” and requirements of cishettery are bad for Everyone, they also cannot Actually be autonomous w/o threatening the systems of power as is, nothing more “natural” and “superlative” and “just how it always is, without interference” than what has to be continuously desperately obsessively demanded & enforced upon everybody with as much interference and scrutinizing and punishment as anyone can muster) because it’s autonomy vs some people’s “right” to exert power/control over others
addendum that then it’s like, what are the results of the like five year experiment there of being more Radical by being like “ace people are too cishet >:)” like, starting point, i think everyone can see that in practice it did fuckall but, at the very best, and that’s a generous phrasing, have a bunch of people spinning their wheels wasting time & thought & energy on it. rather than, idek what would be the logical “ideal” conclusion of the effort, because the actual logical conclusions sure was that of you know, more bog standard manifestations of bigotry, including to be sure intracommunity like again with the continually reinventing takes of [biphobia] and [transphobia], which is great, like weird shit about trans mascs or that Some people should just Choose to pick a side (the correct one) wrt their sexualities, i just don’t know why they wouldn’t, unless they’re shittier than me, cough....How About Thinking Of Issues Of Sexuality / Gender through that lens of everyone’s bodily autonomy vs the denial / undermining of that autonomy for the supposed (self sabotaging) benefits of wielding a power imbalance. and how the matter can be connected to other defined groups & their experiences as a matter of denied & undermined autonomy as well
i dunno, thesis statement of another Unprompted Political Monologue Hour? read it again. snapple fact as a reward for even skimming is that patti’s luposting was a fucking scourge the other day. or i guess her posting & then her turning around & getting a quick exclusive article to compound the bullshit. thanks
#long post ///#idk can always ask to tag from the four people in this echoey auditorium. ft. humorous sfx of like occasional coughs or food wrapper rustles#thanks for dropping in i will be here all day
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#and ppl try to say these guys aren’t related#give it up already#I have a whole HC for how this could work#idc they’re all a fucked up family#this is canon#bye#pokemon#silver pokemon#rival silver#mars pokemon#team galactic mars#Pokemon hgss#pokemon dppt
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i appreciate the ppl pointing out how much mitski’s race has been erased in white tumblr/white tiktok’s consumption of her work but some of those posts feel.. misguided? for example, a few weeks back i saw a post saying that “strawberry blond” is not a love song, it’s a critique of whiteness and the pain that comes from trying to reach for it, and it just brings to mind how some critics said “your best american girl” was entirely a metaphor for mitski as an artist of color trying to fit into the white indie rock world, to which mitski said “I wasn’t trying to send a message. I was in love. I loved somebody so much, but I also realized I can never be what would fit into their life.” like, obviously, the conflict in the song comes from mitski being japanese-american and the guy being all-american white, but it’s a song about how her experience of being in love with this boy was informed by her race and his. yes, absolutely, mitski’s race is essential to our understanding of the song, but the idea that a song can’t be a love song and is instead a racial allegory that is not at all about love just because the artist’s race is important to said song doesn’t make sense to me.... when part of my crush on some guy in my english class started because i related to what he said about asian parent expectations, that didn’t make my crush not a crush! and when “strawberry blond” has mitski looking at white lines and aching because maybe she isn’t white enough for her blond love interest, it doesn’t mean he’s a metaphor for something else or that she didn’t love him! ugh
tl;dr the “mitski’s songs aren’t love songs, they’re about race!” narrative skips the idea that we should be pushing instead - that in some love songs from an artist of color, understanding race is essential to understanding the relationship dynamics in the song. there are ways to acknowledge that an artist’s race influences their work without making race the entire point of their work
#mitski#also no hate to the op of that post from a while ago- u brought up some good analysis#i'm just. grrr#okay to rb
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aot 139 rant bc i dont think ppl r understanding this chapter lmao
i’ve been seeing a lot of people hate on this chapter and call it a bad ending and everything so i’m here to break it down for the ones who aren’t understanding what’s going on and think it was a shit ending LMFAO
okay so first i think the issue is that a lot of people fail to realize that the way eren acted all throughout season 4 isn’t eren really, that is him putting his emotions at bay so that he can complete something that he laid out for himself for his friends.
eren from season 1-3 still exists, and that’s lowkey the eren that was talking the whole time in chapter 139— you can see the how he cares for his friends, you can see the desperation again, the compassion, everything in between.
so lets break down these panels;
panels 1-13 consists of the whole talk with armin. eren basically tells armin that everything that happened wasn’t by will, it was laid out for him, it was the path he needed to take in order to free his friends and free ymir.
think about this— this was destined for eren from the beginning.
his plan wasn’t to have the rumbling destroy the whole earth, it wasn’t for any of his friends to die (he wasn’t even aware that some of them died), it wasn’t for anything besides for them to defeat him so that they can be free.
he sent a titan out to eat his mom because bertholdt dying would’ve fucked up the plan, he would strategically send memories down to his younger self, armin getting the colossal titan, eren telling mikasa he hated her, everything was according to plan— it was a part of the script that he needed to follow.
panels 14-16 consist of eren talking about mikasa. eren basically tells armin he doesn’t want her to move on form him, and he wants to live a long life with his friends and her. and that he doesn’t want to die.
people say this is out of character for eren— people don’t think that he has ever had feelings for mikasa, and it’s hard to see, i’ll give you that.
but people also fail to realize that relating back to panels 1-13, eren had something set out for him to do, the last thing he was thinking about was love. of course as a kid mikasa came off as overbearing, and she was, he had other things to worry about other things to accomplish— there was no time to reciprocate feelings.
that doesn’t mean he doesn’t love her, because he does, and i don’t even mean so in a romantic OR platonic way. the gist is he loves her period, and her love is reciprocated in the best way he can.
and you have to remember that eren knows he’s about to die when his time with armin is up, he’s getting frantic and desperate— everything's dawning on him, he gets a little time to actually sit down think and talk about mikasa.
eren loves mikasa whether it be platonically or romantically, and that kind of hits him in that moment, and this is coming from someone who hasn’t always shipped eremika.
panels 17-21 consists of eren basically saying to atone for his “sins” it’a only right for him to die too and that armin will be the one to save humanity.
pretty self explanatory, but once again this was planned out, eren was gonna paint the eldians to be the heros, and eren did his whole mass murder plan for their sake, not his.
panels 22-39 eren completes his mission, the curse of ymir is broken, and im sure that at somewhat the same time that he was talking to armin through paths he was sending the same message of what he was doing to everyone else— since all eldians are connected through paths. that’s how they all found out and that’s why they all resonated with eren. it needed to be let know that he isn’t a bad guy, especially with real people running around thinking he is LMAO
panels 39 and onward, everyone moves on, they’ll live out their lives with the freedom that eren granted them.
this is mikasa’s character development, she’s finally able to move on and live her life without eren. she’s allowed to mourn, she’s allowed to be sad, hell— they’re about to have eren’s funeral, that’s one reason she’s there.
i say this is her character development because the first time eren died she was ready to die herself, but now that eren has actually died she’s not trying to go out with him— she’s mourning, and she misses him, but she’s trying her best to live her life with the freedom eren granted her.
she grows out her hair again that she always kept short for eren. to me that says a lot albeit how minor that detail is.
i’m not gonna say eren necessarily got reincarnated as a bird but i’ll say that these birds we see in attack on titan represent eren, and that’s why the bird tugs on her scarf, it’s like eren letting her know that he’s still with all of them and that he’s happy that they’re happy.
it’s tragic, that our main character who sought freedom the whole entire time doesn’t get to experience it himself, but it shows how sacrifices have to be made, that shonens don’t always have to be about winning. that there are tragic heroes, and everyone has a story to tell.
attack on titan teaches you lessons, it gives you an insight on life— and if you let this ending ruin the whole series for you because you fail to grasp the whole concept, every character, and every plot element, that is on you.
so thank you, isayama for creating and sharing such a beautiful story, because this series will live in my heart forever, and so will eren— he’s such a complex well written character and it’s sad to see that not everyone can understand him.
anyways ty for listening to my rant if you made it all the way through, gn <3.
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