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yamujiburo · 3 months
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Some of this might sound intentionally hostile in text and I apologize.
I'm saying this as an abuse survivor mind you - don't throw "abusive ships" under the bus so easily - at least, so long as they're not actually glamorizing the abuse. I lived that irl and I personally find someone overcoming it, slowly having enough of that bullshit and getting out over time, and the other person having to wipe their own butt for once after they've made the damn mess, very refreshing. Maybe that's not a ship in the traditional sense. It's no happily ever after bc it shouldn't be, but I find stories like mine shyed away from so often because even the portrayal gets considered a "canon ship". ... that's just how media works now, I guess? I very rarely See a fictional relationship not called a ship in literally any context now so that's the definition I'm running on.
I wish more people were willing to portray the hardships of finding acceptance outside of "whoever you can find will accept you" very much, and finding the better things after. I wish people weren't terrified out of portrayimg situations like mine.
Jessie.. is not a good person in canon. You expect me to believe she moved into to hanamusa seamlessly, without falling on her ass? I never see you talk about Jessie's abusive tendencies in canon. You never talk about the inherent meanness she needed to get over to get there. She's quite aml lot like my ex in canon, actually.
What do you mean you're going to just remove from the character that she is abusive to those around her. Jessie hits people. She takes her own junk out on others all the time. Do you even like the character then, are you actually invested in her growing, or are you just making an OC at this point?
Idk. Do you, boo. But you are posting about a character who, whether you like it or not, is canonically abusive. I just don't buy that dating Ash's mom alone fixed her. That isn't... How that works. It would be excellent if it did. Part of my love of hanamusa is that it signals Jessie's change - but she could have changed for anyone before now.
What makes Delia different? How is she specifically a turning point for Jessie? Because Jessie's flaws go well beyond just bossing people around.
I would love if my abuser had the same outcome as your Jessie. I adore your portayals of hanamusa, where she's still flawed but still strives to do better. That's all I ever wanted from my ex.
What the fuck got her there tho.
Anyways I've been watching a lot of Bojack Horseman lately -
I agree with you! I don't think abusive relationships (or any tough subject matter in general) should be shied away from in media. It can be powerful when executed well and written by folks who are equipped to tell those kinds of stories. I do think it's sad when people treat it as off limits. But the ask I got was definitely more about which ships I have where I actually like the relationship between the characters. I think the semantics of the word "ship" are kind of vague or rather, over time, got so specific to only mean "absolutely love together and want them as endgame" (for most people anyways). So that's usually what I take the word to mean when people ask me about it.
I can 100% appreciate how an abusive relationship is written and handled, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna ship an abuser with their victim (that falls into the glorifying you're talking about). Love Bojack Horseman! Big fan! I think the way they handled Bojack and Sarah Lynn was beautifully and tragically well written. But does that mean I ship Bojack and Sarah Lynn? Absolutely fucking not.
I've talked about Jessie's character plenty on this blog and the way she's handled in earlier seasons specifically. This is kind of a summary: If we look at it on surface level, yes we can say she was abusive. But I think it's important to acknowledge and take into account the medium, time period and culture. Slapstick and cartoon violence was HUGE in anime and animation in the 90s (and prior to that too). Characters were always cartoonishly slapping each other around with giant mallets, folding fans, etc. Looney Tunes style. These slapstick bits were always distinct from real abuse and hurt (for Pokémon, Jessiebelle comes to mind). Mean slapstick wasn't a character trait exclusive to Jessie either. We saw it in Misty, James, Meowth, characters of the day and pretty much any character who got mad. It was a visual shortcut to show anger.
This type of slapstick has since (thankfully) died out and it hasn't really been a part of the Pokémon franchise since the early 2000s. However, Jessie was a notably special case. One of my favorite fun facts about the Pokémon anime is that there was a point in the series where Megumi Hayashibara (Jessie/Musashi's seiyuu) told the writers that moving forward, she no longer wanted Jessie to be violent or to be shown hitting James or Meowth (source: her memoir "The Characters Taught Me Everything"). She thought it directly went against the vision Takeshi Shudo had for Jessie, James and Meowth, when he created them, which was that they are good natured villains. If you watch from DP and on, Jessie never lays a hand on either of them. I think it was a such a good move on Pokémon's part to change her character like that and I'm forever grateful that Hayashibara said something! Whenever I write Jessie now, I always keep that in mind. She's mean, shouty and stupid but would never genuinely hurt those she cares about.
From then, her character becomes much more bearable. She's still bossy, mean and vain (typical cartoon villainess attributes) but I'd hesitate to say abusive. She'll still yell at James and Meowth, they all yell at each other, but in more of a sibling way (imo) rather than a "i'm actively trying to hurt your feelings way". The show makes a point especially in later seasons to show that Jessie, James and Meowth are not beyond being redeemed. From conception the whole POINT of the Team Rocket trio was that they are redeemable but their persistence and obsession keeps getting in the way of them seeing that there's a better life for them out there.
I won't deny that Jessie was unsavory in earlier seasons, but when I write her, I choose to write the version that Takeshi Shudo and Megumi Hayashibara had envisioned from the get go. She's still incredibly flawed and makes plenty missteps but wants to be better as you stated! My favorite part about Jessie is that she's a piece of shit LOL and I enjoy writing the changes she goes through to be better (but then still showing her default so some of her evil tendencies). In this AU, Delia doesn't fix Jessie. Jessie fixes Jessie because she is with someone makes her want to be a better person. She's already in the middle of turning over a new leaf before even meeting Delia, after leaving Team Rocket. Writing Jessie as legitimately abusive I think could work, but that's not my story to tell and if someone who were more equipped to tell that story did, I'd be very interested to take a listen!
I hope this doesn't come off as trying to deny or invalidate your experience. If you see that in Jessie, I hear you! This is just how I've interpreted her character over the years, having watched every episode of Pokémon and reading Japanese interviews from the cast and crew. She's such a compelling character and I love how messy she is
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baechira-is-my-love · 11 months
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blue lock boys when you bring home a stray kitten
hii again >_< i'm a huge cat person!!! so i wrote these headcanons about how bllk boys would react if you bought home a cute lil kitten! i would personally prefer a ragdoll/persian mixed kitten but most of the strays here are tabbies!! anyways i don't mind since i love all cats 💕💕💕
also thank you sooo much for my last post!! even tho it was my first post i received a lot of reactions <333 ilysm guys!
this includes: isagi, bachira, rin, sae
gn reader!!
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Isagi:
You come home, after a harsh and tiring day of work
with a smol surprise :3
"Hey baby, I'm back home. Where are you, Yoichi?"
As soon as he enters, he sees the little kitten in your arms.
boy rlly said ":00000"
he rushes to you, taking a look at the kitten in your arms.
the kitten hissed at him obviously as a defense mechanism.
"it's okay, baby" you cooed at the tiny kitten as you held it closer to your chest.
"i found it on the streets, poor thing was roaming around, crying for food!"
you eventually get the kitten to like yoichi
you go to the store and buy lots of cat food
bath with the kitten and isagi!! <333
"interrupt my play time and i'll interrupt your breathing"
sometimes when you're not paying much attention to yoichi (cuz of ur cat) he'll try to grab ur attention
but he gets scratched instead lol
Bachira:
One day, you both were on a date to the park.
You heard some meowing nearby, and decided to go check it out.
Bachira decided to tag along with you.
There, you saw a hurt kitten
It was so thin!
So you decided to take it in! <333
Bachira ended up getting scratched 7 times, but hey! we bagged the baby!!!
on your way back, you bought some cat food <33
as soon as you got home, you both gave the kitty a bath to get it cleaned up
you both made sure to always give it lots of love and care
eventually it warmed up to u both <333
bachira would always play w it after he came back from his practice sessions!
and show it off to everyone!
Rin:
would question god
"what is that?"
would glare at the kitten
which was safely cuddling in your arms
"it's a baby cat, rinnie!" you said with a small pout.
"why would you need to bring it here?"
"it was lost on the streets! it's still a baby, rin! how can it survive alone???"
he seriously doubts if the kitten actually likes you
but no
he rong
it likes you very much!!!
in fact
it never leaves you!! you have to forcefully lock it out of the bathroom when u bath or use the washroom
and u gotta hear its sad cries :(((
but he! he's frustrated with that stupid useless animal!
he doesn't even get any attention, he's so jealous!
Sae:
one fine day, he came home from practice.
but instead of your warm hugs, he found himself face-to-face with a tiny kitten!! <3333
he looks at it quizzically.
"baby, a cat is at the doorstep. is it a stray?"
you poked your head out of the living room
and you explained how u found it so hungry at ur doorstep!
and it was so thin, the poor thing just needed some food!
so you took it in
and rushed to the grocery to buy some food for it
he seriously doubts whether you can actually take care of a living, breathing animal
turns out, he's right.
you function on half a braincell (like me)
so instead he does 90% of the job
buying food, cleaning the litter box, playing with it, giving it a good scrub, feeding it, taking it for a walk
you always try your best to help him
but alas, he shoots death glares at you
kinda opposite of what happened w rinnie
the baby gets too attached to sae
if u guys have an argument you're definitely getting scratched
after seeing sae act lovey-dovey with you, the cat eventually grows to like you
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97keanu · 7 months
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Keanu characters + couples Halloween costumes:
John Wick:
John wants to say he doesn't do costumes. He complains, gently, saying he's too old to dress up anyways, but he can't say no to you in the end. He thinks you're funny when you suggest being a nurse since you're always patching him up all the time, but he also can't deny the image of you being a sexy nurse either. You also joke about him being a literal baba yaga and he finds that less funny. In the end, you two go as something that's actually as far from his work as possible, something simple and cute that ends up leaving John feeling happy he can have a moment of fun. Even if that is just staying in, watching cheesy horror movies, and giving out candy with you.
Kevin Lomax:
Unlike John, Kevin would totally go for the obvious with an angel/demon couples costume. He might even ask to be the angel just to throw people off, not to mention seeing you in a sexy devil's costume (especially if you're typically an innocent!reader) would really turn him on. He also likes to keep the costumes a bit higher class, so what you're wearing is not coming from the corner store or the mall. No, Kevin is buying you louboutin red bottoms to match a skin tight Alexander McQueen red dress. And, well, maybe the devil horns and tail do actually come from the mall...
Neo:
Neo doesn't want to admit how badly he loves dressing up. He likes being able to be someone else from time to time, just to get away from his typically boring on the surface life. He likely is asking you to be in 90s nerdy pop culture cosplay for Halloween, maybe even leaning onto the more goth side of media. He would take inspo from movies like: The Crow, Blade, Underworld, and maybe even end up asking you to be the Sally to his Jack.
Ted Logan:
Ted would love any outfit that he could easily pull off being stoned in. Think Shaggy and Velma (bill might even tag in as Scooby). Another great one you two cook up is Garfield and Hello Kitty, but Ted also adds that, Garfield is also, of course, stoned. There's also a possibility for you two to get into a lot of silly innuendos costumes as well, but with Ted's mind they would likely not make much sense. Possibility for you to convince Ted on a historic costume and getting him to take you back in time for period accurate clothing. Also, don't be surprised if it turns into a thrupple costume with Bill.
Evil!Ted Logan:
He would think couples costumes are stupid at first, and maybe even berate you about it (crybaby!reader watch out!). His mind would change when he sees there's slasher Halloween costumes at the mall, and he decides he and evil!bill can probably get away with more mischief if they're masked. He would probably try to talk you into being either the final girl from a slasher to reenact some fantasies, or ask you to be a sexy ver. of Ghostface or Freddy.
Constantine:
Constantine doesn't do costumes. He will likely not even end up breaking like Wick, and instead is a meanie about the whole thing. He shows up in that damned suit he always wears while you're out here in your cutest sexy girl outfit (think angel, playboy bunny, cat woman) and only ends up feeling bad about the whole thing after you storm off and cry. He apologizes the best he can, and ends up trying to make it up to you by being more social at the party, and telling your friends that he's dressed as "Vincent from Pulp Fiction" or some other character that comes to mind that wears a suit. Next year, you make him promise to actually dress up, and when you two do it's totally cheesy ones he hates but allows for you, such as Joker and Harley Quinn-esque.
Jonathan Harker:
This ones fun because you two are going to a masquerade! You get the most gorgeous gown with all the frills you please, with a gothic touch of course. Jonathan isn't usually one who dresses overboard, but tonight he has dressed to the nines for you! He looks sleek and dark, stunning in an illusive mask that for some reason has you feeling more of his dom side. Jonathan actually ends up really getting into it, and he charms you all night long as if he's almost another man entirely. The beauty of the masqurade conceals and invites freedom to be someone you're typically not, and by the end of it, you can't wait to take him home. He can keep the mask on tonight.
♰ Please send any costumes you think would work for keanuverse characters, I'd love to hear them! Especially anyone I missed ʚ♥︎ɞ
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kazumist · 7 months
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3 hours, 27 minutes, and maybe around 2 seconds. no, miya atsumu is not going insane. what do you mean? he's perfectly calm. but with the amount of missed calls, ignored messages, and attention that he's been giving to the time right now, maybe—just maybe—he's losing his mind a bit.
he had no idea what he had done wrong to deserve this. of course, there was the possibility that you slept in since it is currently a sunny saturday after all, but between you and atsumu, he was the one who would usually sleep in until god knows when.
atsumu had made prior plans for the day. and that was to go out on a walk with you (a quick date to a café as well), go back to his place, and either play video games with you and osamu or watch some movies while cuddling. a perfect plan for a lazy saturday if he had to say so himself, if only he didn't fail at the first step: asking you out for the day.
well, technically, he didn't fail. it's just that you have been responsive as of now. atsumu is at least 90% sure that he did nothing wrong. when he walked you home yesterday, you were quite fine! you even gave him a quick peck on the cheek before going inside your home (that made atsumu actually go to bed while smiling like an idiot, but of course you don't need to know that).
it took him another 5 minutes of waiting before saying fuck it, and getting himself ready to check up on you himself. (actually, he made sure to stop by a convenience store first to buy a few snacks to bring you.)
the moment the door in front of him opened, he expected to see you. but the one who greeted him instead was none other than your younger sibling. "are you here for (y/n)?" your sibling asked him. "uhm. yeah, i am. they haven't been responding to me at all," he says.
"sick in bed, so they've been there ever since this morning."
oh, so that's why you haven't been responding to him.
"can i come in then?"
your sibling opened the door more and stepped aside, a sign of inviting him, which he gladly accepted. he started heading to your room, a plastic bag filled with snacks still in hand. he gently knocks on your door, waiting for a go signal to get in.
"yes mom, i already took my medicine!" he heard you say in a sick voice. from what he could tell so far, your nose was probably clogged right now, which was why your voice sounded a bit different than before.
"i didn't know i was your mom now." atsumu chuckles.
"tsumu?"
"the one and only, baby."
"you can come in." your boyfriend gladly opens the door and waltzes into your room. however, he didn't expect you to be so wrapped in your blankets. "sorry about earlier. mom has been nagging me a bit about my medicine."
atsumu places the plastic bag on your desk nearby. "i tried reaching out to you everywhere, but you weren't responding, so i got worried and decided to check up on you," he says, proceeding to sit on the edge of your bed. you pull up the blanket on you, covering half of your face. "sorry about that, my phone died on me last night. it hurts me to move around right now, so i haven't plugged it in." 
"it's alright; you shouldn't move around that much anyway," atsumu replies before getting up and plugging your phone in right after. he was about to go closer until you stopped him. "wait! don't come closer."
"what? baby, why?"
"i might get you sick as well if you do," you pout.
he chuckles at your words: "my immune system is pretty strong, you know?"
"but still…"
"baby, it's fine." he kisses your forehead. "i got you some snacks, by the way, but with you being sick right now, i don't think you can eat 'em."
"awe.. just one bite?"
now, don't look at him that way. not when you both know he's weak to that pleading look on your face, especially with those pouty lips that he'd love to kiss right now if you weren't having a burning fever at the moment.
"fine… just one."
yet one turned into two, two turned into three, and so on!
if there's one thing that could make miya atsumu weak in the knees, it's you.
(by the time your boyfriend got home, he was sneezing, and when the time came, it was your turn to take care of him now.)
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a/n: i dont like this one bit tbh... i also forgot to change the you and your to ya and yer 😭 probably ooc atsumu but this is just pure word vom 🧍‍♀️
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zepskies · 8 months
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I had another idea about soldier boy…🙃💞
Imagine his partner dragged him to a 90s night at a club…LIKE DRAGGED HIM. He didn’t want to go, he didn’t wanna see anybody, he didn’t want the entire get-up and actually having to pretend to enjoy himself. Then after he steals his girlfriends Gin and downs it, he just lets loose and doesn’t give an F.
Hello, friend! I love this idea!! 🥰
This one intrigued me. I dug deep into my '90s music playlist for inspo! And if you want to know something about my writing process, I often write with music in the background. It sometimes drives the tone and feel of what I'm writing.
But anyway, getting into this imagine!
Pairing: Soldier Boy x Female Reader Word Count: 1,000 Warnings: 18+ only - just to be safe.
Imagine: Taking a reluctant Ben to a ‘90s night at the club.
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You love spending time with Ben, living together, sharing your lives and your space. You've been helping him catch up on TV shows and movies he missed, helping him adapt to the ways things have changed.
He really hates all the self-checkout screens and shit at the grocery stores now. (Like for fuck's sake, he's just trying to buy his beer and coffee creamer in peace. Everything's a touch screen nowadays.)
Even the damn McDonald's has an order screen. His hand once broke straight through one out of sheer frustration.
But anyway, when Annie invites you to check out this awesome club with her and Hughie and Frenchie and Kimiko, you're sold the moment she says "'90s theme night." However, you also know that convincing Ben is going to be a nearly insurmountable task.
"That sounds dumb as fuck," he tells you.
You frown at him, hands on your hips. "Come on, Ben. It'll be fun!"
Ben likes to have a good time. Lord knows. But you also want to look the part — dressing up for a decade he had no part in.
The '90s weren't exactly a fucking party for him. In fact, he tries harder than you know to block out that entire decade, as that's when the Russians started to get truly creative on that compound...
Sensing you're losing him to his memories, you grab his hand and stroke his cheek. "I promise, if after an hour you're still not having a good time, we'll leave."
You give him those eyes. You ply him with sweet and tantalizing kisses. And you show him what outfits you're considering. (One dark green dress in particular already has his dick twitching to attention in his pants).
So that's how Ben ends up caving. For you, and no one else. (As usual.)
For a while he just sits at the bar with you while you catch up with your friends. You're so damn excited, he can tell. The inside of the club is interesting, he supposes, with dim lighting and a DJ on the stage with a very sophisticated looking setup that Ben finds wholly unfamiliar.
The music, however, is ass so far. What the fuck is this, Hip Hop? Rap? R&B? He can't tell, and he doesn't know any of the songs. It sounds like a bunch of fucking whining. And don't get him started on whatever you call grunge.
The bottom line is, this entire thing is not his scene. It makes him feel out of place...it makes him feel old. In a way that he doesn't truly feel all that often, even when he's with you. So he really wants to fucking leave. But he doesn't.
He just downs his entire whiskey and then another. He sees you're still nursing a gin & tonic beside him while you watch your friends head out onto the dance floor. Hughie, that moron, actually seems to have some moves as he shakes his ass around his blonde girlfriend. Ben rolls his eyes and shakes his head.
"Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoe comes on, and you light the hell up. You're smiling and bopping to the music.
And you look beautiful tonight. The short, dark green dress is eye-catching even under the dim lights. Your hair is wrapped in a tight but messy bun. You've got some tall black boots on and a black velvet choker around your neck. You're adorable and sexy all at once.
Ben can tell you want to join your friends on the dance floor, but you're nothing if not loyal. You did promise to stay with him. And you give him a flirtatious, teasing smile, bumping your shoulder with his.
"How're you doin', babe?" you ask.
"Fine," Ben replies, with his usual stoic front. Your mouth quirks. But when "No Diggity" by Blackstreet comes on, not only are you excited, but you also get an idea.
You slowly slide out of your seat and move in time with the beat, just vibing, dancing near your boyfriend.
You give him a little show, twirling under his hand, brushing against his side and letting your fingertips slide against his neck, down his thigh. Your touch makes small zings of sensation run through Ben's body, teasing, arousing. You know exactly what you're doing.
"Shorty get down, good Lord. Baby got 'em open all over town. Strictly biz, she don't play around. Cover much grounds, got game by the pound…"
Ben watches you with rapt attention. The smooth, sensuous way your hips move to the beat. You remove the pin from your hair and shake it out in front of him, then beckon him with a hand.
"Come on. Come dance with me."
You continue to roll your hips nice and slow. Teasing him with the curve of your ass, as well as your smile.
"She's got class and style. Street knowledge by the pound. Baby never act wild, very low key on the profile..."
Ben finally realizes that you don't see him as "the old man in the club." You invited him because you want him with you.
And what, is he afraid or something? Like he cares about what the rest of these damn pantywaists think of him.
Fuck it. He takes your gin & tonic from the bar counter and downs it all, a nice burn down his throat. Then he reaches out for your hand and firmly takes it.
You lead him onto the dance floor, where you guide his hands onto your hips and he draws in behind you. You reach back, your hand gliding up the back of his neck and into his hair.
"You're blowing my mind, maybe in time. Baby, I can get you in my ride..."
Ben knows how to dance, but this is different from what he's used to. So he follows your lead at first.
"I like the way you work it. No diggity, I got to bag it up (bag it up, babe)…"
But then, he lets the smooth beat infiltrate his body and he just lets go. His feet and his hips and his hands on your body — he turns you around and pulls you in close, flush against him so he can feel every part of you where you fit just right.
Your chin tips up and your lips brush against his. "Having fun yet?"
Ben smirks. When he gets you home, he's fucking you in nothing but the boots and that little velvet choker. But for now, he's having a good time.
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AN: Thanks so much for this ask! I truly had so much fun with it. 😊
Next time:
I've got an imagine from a friend of mine. She requested some clothes shopping, some jealousy, and a whole lotta Soldier Boy being himself. (I added in some dressing room shenanigans for good measure. 😏)
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littleeyesofpallas · 5 months
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So there is a certain character type that I cannot for the life of me pin down a word for... It's yakuza adjacent, but often not explicitly part of the actual gangs. a kind of shady businessman, but not the overly clean and corporate type. sort of a scammer or a conartist or grifter, but not as small time as that sort of makes it sound? I want to say it's a look associated with loan sharks, but I can't quite substantiate that.... I swear it's a thing you see in the context of Japanese crime fiction all the time, especially set in the 80s or 90s, yet I can't really point to any characters that really fit the bill off the top of my head, as they're almost always background characters. Somehow the only one I can think to pinpoint is that one random villain-of-the-week in Kill la Kill?
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The persona itself actually has a shocking amount in common with, like, the classic American used car dealer, especially on the east coast either around the New York/New Jersey tristate or down in like Miami, usually with a hefty bit of Italian or Jewish racism mixed in... The style though, the gold chains, the tacky superficial try-hard glitz and the pushy rough around the edges attitude, very self-made and informally educated businessman, surprisingly successful but still not really a "big" success, and just like this Japanese counterpart I'm thinking of, almost always technically in business with local organized crime without ever being "part of the family."
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Like it's such a cliche that it's literally cartoonish, and it's funny how almost perfectly beat for beat the US and Japanese counterparts mirror eachother, except that the Japanese character type, as far as I can recall, isn't associated with used car dealerships,
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anyway point is... That's what Marechiyo and his dad are supposed to look like. That and a bit of yakuza/delinquent in the case of his dad when he was younger. Notably his dad straight up has a punch perm in the present day, which was The quintessential yakuza look in the 80s. And his younger version seems to also have a perm but also a regent style pompadour that's a little more youthful delinquent aligned than outright criminal, and again a look that has become so cliche as to become cartoonish to the point of being a costume you can buy in a store.
Although whatever the hell Marechiyo has going on in the new hell arc, i cannot identify.
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But it's interesting that it's a different kind of yakuza look than what Iba has going on. His dark shades, the tight perm, the laborer's bellywarmer, his zanpakutou being a tanto sticking out of it, the overall posture with the one shoulder out of his kimono, even that his sword is alternatively either a Yakuza style tanto tucked into a chest wrap, or a seemingly normal katana but without a crossguard is to evoke the classic yakuza image of using a shirasaya --a plain white wood sheathe with matching handle and no crossguard or wrap-- rather than a more traditional katana. And of course his dog-like loyalty to Komamura are all iconic stoic Yakuza romanticism. The hardboiled, honor bound, manly man ideal of the folklore-like reputation of the yakuza. The thing you'd see in countless old movies or pulp thriller style seinen manga, sometimes even published by yakuza family magazines themselves.
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His mother also plays into this, even in her barely existent appearance in the MASKED databook, as she's a pretty distinct play into a very particular matronly character type generally typifying either a proprietress of a traditional inn or a yakuza boss's wife --both drawing from traditional roles of a head of manor or estate.
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I dunno where i was going with any of this. But between these character types and Kensei's biker gang thing, I think it's funny how much of Soul Society's classically japanese vibe is just organized crime. Also i don't know what to make of the idea that the Shihouin have endorsed the Omaeda family like this over the years, especially when they're role among the royale houses seems to be to safeguard various treasures and relics. Between that and apparently being at least two generations of heads of a division of the secret police, it's hard to imagine the Omaeda were just independently wealthy unrelated to all that.
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yellowhollyhock · 8 days
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raph vs a volcano day 20
The 1987 episode plot:
Donatello's health scanner predicts Raphael has only 24 hours to live. Raphael goes around doing good deeds and taking ridiculous risks because he's gonna die anyway. Meanwhile Donatello figures out his machine didn't work right and means to tell Raphael, but you see he is distracted doing good deeds and taking ridiculous risks. It culminates with Raph inside an active volcano (trying to stop it from erupting? bro??) and his brothers have to come rescue him.
I love this episode. For so many reasons.
1) What an interesting way to give Raph his role while keeping him in character within the new role they gave him for this show. Because Mirage Raph is the guy who always wants to help without pausing to think about whether they can. He's known for sometimes being impulsive and always being protective. And not just of his fellow turtles! He sees someone in trouble he wants to help. But usually in Mirage that's expressed with violence. So for the show they made the "crazy one" express the same traits through sarcasm instead and he became the witty one, and I love how future Raphs are both. And I especially love when 1987 Raphael himself is both
2) This is such a classic plot. It's like... the tribbles spoof/tribute or 'character gets kidnapped but acts so annoying they get released.' You know the kinds of plots I mean right? Our style of storytelling has changed (it's always changing) but tv shows in late 80s early 90s especially had these. You could pretty much guess the plot from the title because you know the characters and you know the story. The exciting reveal is mostly the jokes. There are words for what I'm saying but I haven't had an english class in a few years, so take this ramble and trust me. It's a beautiful example of whatever this is. And!
---2a, It doesn't have the classic resolution that 'character thought they had one day to live due to a misunderstanding' would have on a kids show. There isn't a 'moral' about seizing the moment and using your time wisely. There also isn't a moral about communication, so instead of the miscommunication being annoying like it would in a preachy episode, it's gloriously hilarious to watch
3) Speaking of that, the obligatory 'he tried to ask' scene is Raphael watching Michelangelo cry on Donatello's shoulder because "I'll miss him so much" "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do for him" it's the oven. The oven is broken. Michelangelo is sobbing in Donatello's arms like his world is ending because they're going to have to get a new oven because this one's beyond fixing. And Raphael fully believes that Michelangelo is begging Donatello to fix him, when this version of Donatello is so very none medic. Like I don't even know how to describe why and how much I love this scene. I think I killed english
4) The scene of Raphael in the volcano. I just. He's so funny. This episode really captures what I love about the whole show, which is that I am absolutely buying into it and feeling deeply about it, and simultaneously enjoying it ironically. Does that make sense? When you can put your whole heart into unironic enjoyment but your brain at the same time gets it's 'make fun of this' treat. So both types of fun at once.
---4a it's not trying to fix the plot holes it's enjoying that in this format you don't have to. I feel like this is severely under utilized in modern cinema. make things not make sense on purpose for fun. don't explain about where they are, how they carried that object with them, why there were not other consequences for certain actions. The fun thing about stories is they don't have to be realistic unless you want them to
so for today I had intended to write a Rise version of this episode. I think it would work well for them. Plus, Raph and Donnie bonding. However. That is going in drafts and will be coming. later (march for raph is my opportunity to collect drafts for the rise turtles apparently.) I'm actually still debating if Donnie would make a health-o-meter or if something goes down in witch down, but either way, ❤️💜
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kyojuuros · 6 months
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I feel like I haven't been here in ages 😭
I wanna be more active again but my queue is gonna be slow for a while until life gets less crazy. Focusing on content creation has been near impossible for me lately.
Some of my family are pulling together to help me essentially buy a house (though it will be in my dad's name for now). My grandma recently turned 90 and she's been concerned for me that I am still stuck renting and haven't been able to achieve home ownership. Truly I can't thank her enough for being willing to do this for me. And my dad for being willing to put that debt into his name until I can conjure up a down payment to buy the house from him.
I didn't realize how utterly time consuming and mentally and emotionally exhausting this process was going to be. Probably made even worse by the current state of the housing market. We found a good, solid house that just needs some fresh paint, new flooring and general updating... but we had to go above our price range to do so because everything that would be equivalent to my current costs were all "handyman specials" or had really bizarre layouts, or crumbling foundation, or were just too damn small for my needs. So that means money will be tighter which... contradicts the fact that there is work that needs to be put into this home to make it a more proper living space, and how I want it to be. So we'll see how that ends up working out. I'm also stressed about how my furniture will fit in the space because I just... don't even think it will lol
But, on the flipside, the location I'm moving to will be a lot better with easier access to all the places that I regularly go. I will have a kitchen that actually has space and room for me to cook in and store things. I will have space to actually enjoy leisure time with friends and family. I'll be able to paint it however I want, plant a garden. I'm gonna have a garage??? I've never in my life had a garage. I can remodel any room I want when the money is available if I so choose to. The possibilities feel endless and it's such a relief for me. Oh! And storage space!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, life update I guess. I've been quiet lately because of all this and will probably be less active for a while until we get everything tied up and I can get in that house and really roll up my sleeves to make it mine.
Bonus for the fact that this will hopefully be the last time I ever have to move. At least for a long, long time. I'm so tired of moving.
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aprillikesthings · 6 months
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I run into people--online, IRL--all the time who seem to think I'm this exotic brave creature for traveling alone and going places alone.
And, to be fair, there are places/events I do not enjoy alone!! Movies at the theater by myself aren't as fun. I've gone to a couple of concerts/shows alone and while in many cases it's better than not going, it's not as fun as going with friends. (Except for classical music concerts. I don't know why.)
And, also, I am an extrovert; and for me part of the fun of traveling alone is meeting and chatting with new people, even if just small talk.
(Lol that has come up more than once on forums/groups/etc for people who do solo travel--the actual introverts who don't want to talk to people and that's why they travel alone, getting grumpy that most of us are social and like meeting people!)
And obviously: it's fun to go places with friends or my partner. Showing my fave places and events to Daci will never get old and I still have a long list to get through! Like Astoria and Seattle!
But! I love going places by myself.
And I keep realizing: I've always done this?
I was the oldest kid and only girl among my siblings. I also often had few friends. So I went places alone or I was stuck in the house. So sometimes I just wandered around, to the extent I was allowed to do so, lost in my own thoughts, playing pretend in my head.
In Iceland as a kid (living on the American military base) I would walk around just because. I would go to the USO and drink Lipton tea and read a book because...why not? In Virginia Beach I'd walk to the store and flip through all the magazines and buy a Snapple (it was the early 90's lol) and walk home. I'd bicycle around aimlessly (not that I was allowed outside our subdivision). I would've gone to the beach or the mall alone if I'd been allowed!
My parents were considered overprotective, and I still got to do all those things. Wild to think about, now.
Moving to the Portland area, that first summer after high school I'd take the bus to Barnes and Noble and buy a frappe at Starbucks (they were NEW at the time lolll) and browse the books for hours alone, bouncing off the walls with caffeine and sugar. That fall I got my license and realized I could drive downtown (or drive to a light rail stop and take that) and nobody could stop me. I would poke through vintage clothing stores and Powell's books and nobody would hurry me along or complain that they wanted to go somewhere else. It was bliss!
And I think it was like, ten years ago or so, when I found out a fairly common source of like, anxiety? fear? -was eating at a restaurant alone. And I still cannot wrap my mind around the idea. Like....why. What are you afraid will happen? Nobody is paying attention to you. Nobody cares. Like. What?! Just bring a book.
But I've had so many people tell me I'm brave for going places alone and I just don't feel brave at all? To me being brave means being a little scared and doing it anyway, and while I'm always nervous when traveling about SOME things (taking public transit in a new place, especially when you don't speak the language; is intimidating at first), the general concept of going to a place alone is just exciting to me.
I don't have to worry about anyone's needs but my own. I can eat whenever/wherever I want, do whatever I want, go wherever I want. It's so, so freeing.
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izzy-b-hands · 27 days
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15 QUESTIONS FOR 15 FRIENDS
Tagged by @sherlockig, thank u Alexz!!
Under the cut bc I got wordy and rambly as per usual lol.
ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Kind of? In that I more or less named myself after Izzy from our flag lol. Not that I'm going to tell everyone I meet that, but it is a big part of why I stuck with it after trying it out (that, and I've always wanted a name that had the letter zed in it, silly as that may seem.)
One of my middle names (that I had been using as a first name for a few years) is after my grandfather and aunt who also have that name as their middle name.
My deadname was after an actress famous in the 90s (tho tbh my mum apparently didn't choose it for that, she chose it bc she didn't find out my gender until I was Out and then was like 'aw fuck I don't have a name for this situation' and went with the first one she saw in a book of names a nurse gave her. It was only after that she remembered the actress when I was like. 4. that she changed and started telling ppl it was after that instead.)
And technically Holden is after the book character, but mum never actually read that book (and after I described it to her, said she has no interest in doing so lmao), she just liked how the name sounded and that was the one solitary name she for sure had on hand when I was born apparently. Could have saved us all time had she just used that one for me anyway!
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Couple of nights ago. I'm doing better abt missing my cat Nisha, but my phone will toss up compilations of pics of her to mark the year/month/etc and sometimes those still get me. It popped up just before I went to bed that night and I was already so tired that I just. broke down. Bc I know she's v loved and looked after w/my mum, but I do miss her goofy lil self a lot. She was my first cat that was given to me and meant to be mine alone, and there's something abt that first pet bond I guess.
3. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Nope, and it's not a likely thing for me. I've said before that that happening would be in a very specific situation, wherein I'm with someone who wants to dedicate the rest of our lives to raising a child, or god forbid more than one, tho I think I'd max out at two if I managed one at all tbh (and that's not even getting into the very complex for me thing of would I want to actually be pregnant ever (probably not, absolutely terrified of dying in childbirth and don't see myself getting over that easily), we have the funds to make that happen (and give the kid a good life, not just a decent one or 'could have been worse' like my own), and we feel stable mentally, emotionally, and physically (as much as one can outside of Life Happening of course) bc having a kid means putting allll of that first for them, ahead of yourself. Or at least I think it should mean that lol.
But that situation is incredibly unlikely considering my bigger goal in life is to wind up being a third for multiple couples while also fucking any of my friends who are down for it in a big poly ENM sort of thing for lack of better/more detailed definition (I know it sounds unrealistic and maybe it is to a degree, almost definitely is lol.)
I can admit I just. don't want to uproot the life I've been trying so hard to build for myself in so many ways, to have kids. I'll happily help babysit the kids of any friends tho and be the fun uncle that buys them junk food and lets them stay up late to watch movies. I think that's about the level of parenting of any kind that I can handle for now (also tbh I burned out on parenting bc my family admits they parentified the fuck outta me with my three younger cousins. It by far could have been worse, but I spent my teens spending most of my days after school helping look after them from the newborn years and on. Unless my above uber specific scenario happens, then I've probably had my fill of parenting for my lifetime.)
4. WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?
I played volleyball for a few years in elementary school, and we were made to participate in a multi-school track and field thing for most of middle school every year, but I was never amazing at them. Housemate and I have figured out I likely have undiagnosed asthma tho (turns out running or going out in too cold or hot weather shouldn't instantly make you gasp, struggle to breathe, and make you taste iron in your mouth, who the fuck knew? Not me, genuinely) so I think that might have a lot to do with it.
I also enjoy tennis and badminton and would love to try rugby, but I've never played any of those beyond a hobby with family/friends.
5. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
I do! Probably too much and not always in the best situations, but I've been working for years to hone when and where it should be used so I think/hope I'm a lot better with it than I was when I was younger. Tho even then, I did get adults who found it funny when I was sarcastic bc of how adult I seemed to a lot of them (their words, not mine lmao.)
6. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
I genuinely don't know. Usually I'm too busy running my script for meeting new ppl in my head and trying to maintain Common and Expected Etiquette to really notice much right away. I have found that after a bit of time/after the initial meeting has passed, I tend to notice colours ppl wear more often than others if I see them often enough, or hair colour. But I don't know if it counts towards this question at that point lol.
7. WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?
Kinda blueish grey? Some ppl say it's too grey to be blue, others that it's too blue to be grey. I had a lady at the ND DOT freak out abt not being sure if I should have blue or grey on my ID a few years back, and she finally just told me to put blue so 'she could stop feeling so confused.' Was a weird day and the first time I realised apparently they really do have a blend of both colours, enough for it to be upsetting lmao.
8. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
I can't choose between the two; I like both! I also like mixing them together when I write (a scary story with a happy ending, an ending that seems happy but is actually terrifying, so on and so forth.)
9. ANY TALENTS?
Writing? Maybe, I always list it bc it's something I know how to do and to (usually) do decently well. I can sort of draw? But not well enough that I think 'talented' would be accurate to describe how I draw lol. I'm not sure of anything else off the top of my head tbh.
10. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
In California, USA! We were there bc dad was in basic training for the Marines and then just got stuck at Camp Pendleton for years lmao (or that's how he always talks abt it anyway lmao.) Only was actually there until either: a. I was 3 months old, b. I was 6 months old or c. I was actually basically still a fresh newborn. Depends on whether you're talking to my dad, mum, or grandparents as to which answer you get, and at this point I'm genuinely uncertain as to exactly when mum left and took me to North Dakota but 6 months seems the most potentially accurate lmaooo.
11. WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?
Writing, drawing, reading (not enough but I'm trying to remedy that), napping, watching movies/fave shows, and giffing.
12. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?
Kind of? My cat Nisha had to stay in North Dakota after I moved, so my mum and her bf are looking after her now (and got her a little sister, a kitten who is getting so big already!, named Bella.) I help Housemate look after aer two cats as well, and I'd like to think the boys consider me like their fun uncle lol (aka I bend over backwards for them and let them steal my spot on the couch all the time, and will break out the treats if needed to corral them now and then. In my defense: they are the cutest lil baby boy cats and they deserve the world, even when they're being little gremlins lmao.)
13. HOW TALL ARE YOU?
Approximately somewhere between 5'3 and 5'4ish? I can't recall the last time I was actually measured, and most of the ppl I've been around were somewhere between those heights and I'm usually either slightly shorter or slightly taller than some of them, so??? I put 5'3 on my ID tho lol
14. FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?
English bc it was easy and I liked almost everything we did in that class. All my general and more specific history courses were a close second, and my foreign language classes a close third.
15. DREAM JOB?
Ideally, I'd love to not have to work. But who wouldn't, so that said, probably something in a library or museum. I'd love to be a library page again, or help work the front desk/docent duties of a museum. Working at someplace like Mystic Seaport would be amazing too; I'd be happy to learn how to help repair/repaint ships that come in or just help do tours or look after artifacts and stuff (tbh they could hire me just to type up any random data entry work they need done for any/all depts and I'd say yes to the job offer lol.) Unfortunately there's fairly significant roadblocks to me achieving any of these jobs rn, but I like to keep them in mind, just in case.
Also, if I can have one dream job that would be even more unlikely and is slightly TMI probably but: paid third for a rich couple. I show up, look nice, [redacted], make sure they're both good for the night, then go back home to Housemate (if it wouldn't be a night they'd want me to stay over, which I wouldn't be against but also. That would require some overtime pay lol.) The chances of this one are...so unlikely it's stupid funny, but a man's allowed to have dreams right lmao?
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shiroselia · 8 months
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Okay since we're now talking about clothing prices and shit, here's my general tips on making money in this game as someone who hit 4 max JS during the western festival due to basically just dailies alone
First: If you don't have time to play, this isn't gonna work, and make peace with that, nobody expects you to get everything you want without spending star coins if you can't play, that might be frustrating but you Will have to live with it, and it's okay to miss out, don't let FOMO ruin your life, if it's an event item it'll come again anyways, it's okay, make peace with missing out
Second: If you don't want to spend star coins, you're gonna have to pick and choose, this is also frustrating but as I said, you're gonna have to, welcome to real life, if you don't wanna spend star coins, you're gonna have to not buy some items, and that's Okay, decide what is most important for you to get and get items in order of how much you want them, Not in order of cheapest to most expensive, cause you wanna save cheaper items for later because those are easier to get, but most importantly, while you have time, make sure you get what you actually want (I say prioritise tack and shirts, because stuff like gloves and shoes just. are not as important, and while it's Nice to have full event sets, it's not at All necessary) I'd also say a good question to ask yourself is what will you actually use, JS grinding for things you're only gonna have in your wardrobe is just. not worth it. So plan and pick and choose and once again don't let FOMO rule your life, it's Okay not to get everything
Okay so here's my general tips for money grinding:
a) You're gonna have to do a champ, 200 JS + 75 JS for the daily champ daily? That's 275 free JS for just doing a champ. And you don't have to win. Just participate. That's a lot of JS and it builds. Actually my generally best money grinding tips is to DO CHAMPS. You don't have to win, but those things Stack Up. You just have to participate, 200 JS is a Lot when you're going for max JS.
b) Silverglade dailies!!! AND ESPECIALLY FRIDAYS. These guys give 70 JS each, and that Builds. It's all about building a stack of JS really. But please do the Silverglade dailies that rotate based on days, and if you're gonna do Any day, Fridays (Vineyard + also a little bit of Goldenhills) are the best.
c) Collect trash for Bonny's daily 80 JS. 15 trash daily isn't that hard, and it's worth it because 80 JS for basically just running around? Good shit.
d) MARY'S LOST ANIMALS. 90 JS per animal? GOOD. You don't even have to do all of them but like. if you wana grind JS, this is where to go.
e) STABLE CHORES. 90 JS per full stable, and we have a lot of stables. Like please do not forget stable chores they're so easy and take no time and they give you a lot of JS. Do stable chores.
f) You have any horses to level? LEVEL THAT HORSE. Leveling is one of the best ways to make money, because 20 JS per race Builds, considering we have like three trillion races. And you'll thank yourself because now you have a horse at lvl 15! And it takes like 2,5 days if you minmaxx and barely over that if you're just like. Hanging about. Like it's fast, if you commit it builds money. Level your horses.
g) Actually if you don't wanna level your horse atleast do the new hillcrest race. That's 75 JS for just finishing it. And you're close to the new hillcrest stable whose stable chores give 150 JS if you remember tip e).
h) Archaeology! Specifically only Epona and specifically only Epona's rare finds. And I think there's a guaranteed rare spawn per area a day so and just getting it gives you 50 JS I think and exchanging those rare finds for items that are Basically made to be sold because it's filler items and ugly clothing Gives you money. Do archaeology.
TLDR: Play the fucking game. If you have the time to play the event, you have time to use the Massive amounts of good JS sources we have. It's gonna be annoying, yes, you're fucked if real life dictates you can't play, but that's just the nature of playing games. And it's not gonna give you Every item, but that's why you don't let FOMO rule your life. Make peace with missing out.
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mlobsters · 10 months
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supernatural s5e13 the song remains the same (w. sera gamble, nancy weiner)
sometimes forget they banged in the impala, but then i'm like why is dean being so soft and familiar with her? oh right. anyway, kind of sweet this little interaction in dean's pg-13 stripper dream.
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when he wakes up, there's a little chime that sounds just like a doorbell that's been muffled (in my house specifically to try to keep it from waking up a sleeping infant). anyway, the sound design on the original score is rarely very creative, kudos to them. startles the shit out of me every time, but good job on something interesting
ANNA Sam Winchester has to die.
this surely is going to end well for all parties involved.
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there was a boy in my high school who had a fucking gorgeous late 70s black pontiac firebird trans am, god the rumble on its engine was delicious. i think i somehow got a ride somewhere with him at one point. he was a cute and smart boy but honestly the car was it.
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DEAN So, what, you're like a Delorean without enough plutonium?
CASTIEL I don't understand that reference.
tell him, cas! i just complained about the number of references they use in this show a few episodes ago
cas sure folded like an ugly tan trench coat. "i should go alone" dean: "🥺" ok zap
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SAM He's breathing. Sort of.
the line about buying microsoft stock reminds me when i was in middle school i think? there was a project where you had to "buy" a stock and then track its price in the newspaper over some number of days/weeks. imagine that. using the newspaper to check stock prices. ~it was the 90s~
all right so wasn't cas's point back when dean met mary to begin with that you can't change destiny? so isn't this all moot? when does #TeamFreeWill become a thing
JOHN Shut up, all of you! Look, not another word, or so help me, I will turn this car around!
DEAN Wow. Awkward family road trip.
SAM No kidding.
just like home, right, guys?
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he reminds me of a combination teen wolf derek (tyler hoechlin) superman (henry cavill variant). one tv superman+one movie superman=young john winchester
SAM Pretty much forever. My dad raised me in it.
JOHN You're serious? Who the hell does that to a kid?
SAM Well, I mean, for the record, Mary's parents did.
JOHN I don't care. You know, what kind of irresponsible bastard lets a child anywhere near—you know, you could've been killed!
SAM I, uh...came kind of close.
JOHN The number it must've done on your head...your father was supposed to protect you.
laughing out loud. i'm sorry sera and nancy, i will always appreciate any and all john winchester shade, and especially unknowingly delivered by john winchester -- but i believe 0.00% late 70s generic straight white man has the emotional intelligence for this thought process / willingness to speak on it / willingness to talk shit about someone's father (a stranger no less) to their face
and i do not appreciate that it caused sam to come rushing to john's defense. gross child neglect, bro. y'all wrote this story and you gotta live with the consequences of how horrifyingly awful of a parent you made him be. just say no to the rehabilitation of john winchester
DEAN You have no other choice. There's a big difference between dying and never being born. And trust me, we're okay with it, I promise you that.
have they talked about this? they're both totally chill with never existing??
DEAN Team Free Will. One ex-blood junkie, one dropout with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose over there. It's awesome.
oh, well. there you go
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MARY Ohh...quite a kick there. Troublemaker already. It's okay, baby. It's all okay. Angels are watching over you.
so did michael scrub her brain but also leave some pro-angel bias in there? she said there's no such thing previously about angels. just how much did he scrub? i wonder how much is retcon and how much was actually planned. i imagine i could find the answer if i looked but i kind of like consuming this show in my little bubble the way i do. also, effort
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bramble-scramble · 1 year
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Happy Friday all! I need a mood boost and y'know... I was thinking, we love putting Woodrow through even more suffering around here, so why not imagine some happiness for him!
Therefore I decided to write out some cozy loving headcanons for my favorite rabbid crackship. The story I'm writing is about how they meet and come to know each other, fraught with pining and angst, but below are some imaginings of them as an established couple, nice domestic fluff and why I think they'd make such a good pair. Enjoy some soft artsy bunnies today if you would like!
I present to you.... Happy Phandrow Things!!
Phantom is very well off due to being a celebrity musician, and still has plenty of funds after losing his singing prowess. Woodrow is.... a poor poet who has always barely scraped by (have you seen his house?). So Phantom loves pampering his darling in every single way he can, buying him things, taking him to fancy restaurants, going to plays and musicals and operas with him. Woodrow is kind of dazzled and overwhelmed by all this as Tom was really excessive about it at first, and eventually it evens out as they both realize they enjoy the quiet moments with each other most of all. (Phantom is still pretty indulgent and they still go out together very often though; Woodrow used to basically never get off Palette Prime but now he does.)
Also they don't NEED to go out to have a really nice meal, because Phantom is actually a talented chef (as we can assume from that one puppet video)- this was mainly a new hobby he took up to cope with the damage to his voice, and now he loves cooking for his poet who can't cook for himself, because Woodrow cooking is. A bad idea. A really bad idea.
Due to his spooky ghost nature, Phantom would be basically nocturnal if not for having had to adjust to other people's schedules. As it is, he usually stays up really late and sleeps really late into the day and his peak energy hours are twilight into around midnight. Woodrow meanwhile is very attuned to nature and is an "up when the rooster crows" type of person. However he also stays up pretty late due to just having insomnia and difficulty sleeping so he doesn't sleep all that much, period. Or he used to not, anyway. Having someone to fall asleep with has helped in this regard so he has been sleeping better since being with Phantom.
On that note, they often do stay up late discussing art and poetry and writing and theatre until one of them falls asleep, 90% of the time it's Woodrow first falling asleep in Tom's arms, who carries him to bed and takes off his glasses etc and snuggles in with him.
This would go for pretty much anyone you'd ship him with but Phantom is totally the Gomez Addams "kiss up the arm and cover them with kisses" type, but because Woody has such long arms and is a long boy in general he has a lot of real estate to work with here-
Phantom has a massive collection of different pet names in different languages, different ways to say darling/beloved/sweetheart etc and is always changing it up. For Woodrow he especially likes calling him variations of "my lucky one" or "my good luck charm" in different languages (i.e. portafortuna in Italian). He is constantly telling Woodrow how lucky he considers himself that he gets to be with such a wonderful poet even despite the misfortune that may happen to them, and this is very very validating to Woodrow, as this is a total reversal of how he had always viewed his existence.
Phantom is very resilient due to his spectrality and just being a big tough boy (he was a boss, gosh dang it!) and in fact can still make himself totally invulnerable with enough effort. So he is indeed a very ideal person to put up with all the caveats that come with dating a jinxed person, and can usually laugh off the way he himself is affected, and also help protect and heal/nurture his poet from things happening to him. Woodrow sort of sees him as a guardian angel. An Angel of Music, you might say!!
Woodrow doesn't think of himself as a good singer, but this is largely based on when he was younger and a normal-sized Rabbid, when he had a different voice that he wasn't very fond of in general. He has a deeper voice now but has never really tried to sing much with it, and Phantom coaches him to become a better singer. This at first helps Tom deal with his own damaged voice as he is able to pass a bit of his skill onto someone he loves. When/if he is able to get his voice back, they duet; it's not as stunning and impressive as him and Bea's but it's very lovely all the same.
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exrankluck · 10 months
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Dear Vocalist Wired Momochi Translation – 夢幻泡影 [track three]
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disclaimer: this is 90% AI-generated transcription and translation, some things might be inaccurate or awkward.
カレはヴォーカリスト CD「ディア ヴォーカリスト Wired」 エントリーNo.5 MOMOCHI(モモチ)
cv. Toshiyuki Toyonaga 利行 豊永
Hello?
You're late.
You barely made it in time before the third ring.
Can you come out faster?
I'm busy, you know.
…So?
You're at my place now, right?
Then come right away.
Okay -
Huh?
“You're not at the bar?”
It's the office. The office.
What? Is it bad that I'm at the office?
Then come here right now. Oh, and don’t actually come into the office.
Isn't it obvious? There are still some people here, and it would be troublesome if we run into unnecessary people.
When you arrive, just wait outside the main entrance until I come to get you.
Make sure you hide properly so that no one sees you.
Got it?
Hm, see you then~
[01:30]
I'm really sorry. Even if I was fighting with my girlfriend, I shouldn't have taken it out on everyone.
You guys are good, it’s me who…
Mm, you’re right. We have a new song and a Fes coming up, so let's work hard together again!
That's right~ Let's do it! The usual, everyone together.
Yosh, let's go! Veronica, hey! Hey! Oh! Hehe.
Ah, it's already late, so everyone be careful. Bye-bye!
[02:26]
Hm? Wow… you were really waiting and hiding properly, huh? That's impressive~ For you, at least.
It’s cold... What's up with today? It seems like it might snow, even though it's still this time of year.
Hehe, are you shivering? Well, I guess so. You've been standing here waiting for a long time~
…Hm?
Ah, are you talking about the members?
If you were listening, you should already know, right?
There’s no helping it.
This time, I worked with them.
It's not like I'm trying to make up with them or anything?
I just decided to give them one more chance.
It seems they finally realized they need my singing. Since they figured it out on their own, maybe they're a little better than the previous Veronica members?
So, for now, I'll perform with them until the Fes. Oh, of course, what happens after that is up to them.
Those guys will just end up abandoning me anyway.
It's not like I'll be troubled, and in fact, without getting annoyed by unnecessary things,
a lot of things will be much easier for me than they are now, right?
Ah.
You're the same.
Why are you surprised?
It's obvious.
After causing me so much trouble, did you really think you wouldn't be abandoned?
That’s impossible.
If I seriously thought I didn't need you, I'd drop you in a second.
But even if I did that, I wouldn't change.
I would just go back to who I was before meeting you, doing whatever I wanted on my own.
The only person I believe in is myself.
Hehehe.
Is that a shock to you? You're making a terrible face.
If you don't want to be abandoned, don't ever go against me again.
Just do your best to keep me happy.
If I tell you not to leave the house, you can’t leave no matter what happens. If I tell you to wait outside, you have to wait, even if it's freezing cold or snowing, for as many days as I ask you to.
If I tell you to buy something, you have to get it for me right away. But don't bring anything that I didn't ask for, it's annoying.
Because it's a bother.
If I tell you to come right away, you need to come right away.
It doesn't matter if you're far away or taking a bath, or even if I'm in the middle of a live. If I say "right now," it means right now.
Also, I think you already know this, but if you look at anyone other than me, I won’t forgive you. Actually, just don't look at anyone at all.
You love me, don't you?
If that's the case, then you can do it, right?
What's your answer?
Hm?
If so...
For now, I'll stay with you.
[06:29]
Wow, you're so cold. How long have you been out here?
And why did you come out dressed so lightly?
It's obvious that you'll be cold like this.
Hmm, you rushed to come here.
I said I'd come out soon.
Hehe, but I ended up making you wait. I'm such a bad person.
But I don't dislike you being such a good girl.
Actually, I think I don't mind doing this for you at all.
I love you. *kiss*
[07:19]
Aren't you cold?
Then just stay still. *kiss*
I told you to stay still for a moment.
It's okay. Nobody is around anymore anyway.
I checked before coming out.
I said I'll make you feel hot. Can't you be happier about it?
Instead of apologizing, why don't you do it right from the beginning? How many times do I have to say the same thing?
You're actually happy, aren't you?
Hehe, that’s right. If you obediently listen to me like that, I'll be kind to you. *kiss*
Even in this cold weather, I'll take care of you.
It's up to you to whether I’ll keep loving you from now on.
I really love you.
For now, at least.
Don't be shy, get closer to me. We won't warm up at all like this.
Yeah, put your arms around me.
That's it, that feels good, hehe~
Be more desperate and desire me, otherwise, I can't get into it.
I can't get completely immersed in it unless you do.
After all, I want to have a dream that I won't wake up from until I die.
You too, right?
Both you and I.
*kiss*
夢幻泡影 (mugen houyou): “a fleeting or illusory dream or vision."
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rjalker · 7 months
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Feel free to reblog this by the way. All my posts are rebloggable unless stated otherwise (usually because I haven't written the image description yet or need to fix a typo)
Conservatives will be like, "I am a master debater! No one can win against my perfect logic and reason!"
And then what's actually happening is they constantly interrupt you and are consistently raising their voice louder and louder with every moment that passes until they are literally trying to shout you down and drown out every word you are saying while pretending that really, they're just being so perfectly logical that you can make no response, rather than the fact that they are literally fucking shouting you down and not letting you say a single thing without being interrupted.
Anyways my mom's husband has absolutely no fucking clue what he is talking about, ever, but no one else will tell him this because he turns even the most normal not at all controversial conversation (like...the duration of a year's pass to a fucking museum) into a "debate" where he is just pulling out the most random fucking shit you've ever heard for no reason ("Well if it's a year's pass, if we went this day (when we got the year's pass) next year, that'd be a year and a day! So we can't go this day next year!" (Literally no one was suggesting we did, and also, that's literally not how calendar's work!)) and raising his voice like it's a life or death situation and this is the hill he's going to die on.
The hill called "we bought a life's pass for the museum because it's cheaper than paying for a single visit as a group and now we can come back later with everyone". That's the hill he's gonna die on now, for no fucking reason other than he has no fucking clue how to have normal conversations with people.
Arguing with no one for no reason that a year's pass to a museam won't actually last 365 days because that would actually mean it's lasting a year and a day because he doesn't actually give a shit about logic at all, and just wants to turn every conversation into a debate that he will "win" by literally shouting down the "competition" (our mom, usually) and being so fucking hostile about shit that literally does not matter and is not up for debate (That's literally fucking now how calendars work!!!!) that his "opponent" finally just has to stop to put their hands over their ears and ignore him.
This man is so fucking poisoned by far right bullshit online that he has become a fucking troll in real life and literally no one besides us is actually willing to tell him he has no fucking clue what he's talking about, because 90% of the time he is just doing this shit about things that do not matter in any way, were not up for debate, and are things no one who is not on an eternal quest for Something to be Outraged By™ would want to argue about.
Like whether or not buying a year's pass for the museam would mean you can go there in exactly a year on the same day you bought the pass. Which everyone who uses actual logic knows you would be able to. Because we don't fucking celebrate birthdays the day before you were born.
So then when he starts trying to use these tactics to shit on trans people, he is fully fucking unprepared to have actual facts thrown in his face that he has to actually counter with other actual facts because we literally will not let him keep raising his voice and interrupting us.
He starts raising his voice? We tell him, the way you'd tell a five year old, to lower his voice and use his inside voice, and keep repeating this instruction until he does, shocked either by our audacity, or the fact that he'd raised his voice so high in the first place.
He interrupts us? We say, again, the way you'd tell a five year old who doesn't know what manners are, "It is my turn to talk, stop interrupting me. When other people are talking, we don't interrupt them. I am talking, it is my turn to talk, do not interrupt me" until he shuts his fucking mouth, looking absolutely fucking bewildered. Probably because no one besides us has ever demanded he use the kind of manners a five year olds are taught.
And now, when he is forced to keep his voice at a normal conversational level, when he is not allowed to interrupt every word you say, when he is forced to provide actual, factual evidence for the claims he's making, he is left to flounder, with no way of reacting to what we are saying, because he doesn't actually know how to have a conversation or a real debate.
Because he doesn't have any facts on his side, nor any logic. He doesn't actually know how to argue with reality on his side, and the constraint of not behaving like a five year old having a tantrum, because he spends 90% of his time "arguing" with his wife about random shit that has nothing to do with anything that she's not even pretending to entertain.
(But, it's important to note, she also can't be assed to tell him he needs to stop picking random fucking hills to die on, because that would require more than the bare minimum of effort of communication and commitment. And she's incredibly fucking lazy and doesn't care about fixing bad behaviors as long as she can ignore the behavior in relative peace. This is also why both her dogs are insuffurably untrained and bite and jump up and destroy shoes for fun. Because letting them do these destructive and dangerous things is less effort in her mind than simply training them to be well behaved would have been in the first place. She still gives them her old shoes as chew toys on purpose. I'm not joking.)
We've had these sort of "debates" with our mom's husband before. Last time he was spouting off about genderfluid people who change their pronouns every day and will blow up at you if you use the wrong ones. He was very blatantly just repeating the same shit the people on his shitty podcasts say.
We pointed out the most basic logic of this hypothetical situation -
If someone changes their pronouns every day, they'll tell you what pronouns they're using that day. They want people to use their pronouns, so they'll tell people which ones to use. No trans people expect you to be able to read their minds.
His mouth fell open and you could almost literally see his outraged thought processes screeching to a halt now that the wrench of logic had been thrown in.
If this fucking jackass weren't constantly listening to shitty podcats by people whose names I can't remember to constantly be radicalized and getting spoonfed Outraged Rants about trans people, it'd be really fucking easy to show him how absurd the shit he's being told is.
The ability to use actual logic is there, as is the ability to stop being a raging bigot.
Unfortunately, listening to podcasts by far-right bigots who want trans people dead is a lot more accessible for him than listening to trans people. Because if you're not the sort of fake trans person that exists in the Outraged Rants on his podcasts, then you're not really trans, so you're not actually an expert on the topic and you don't know what you're talking about.
Because in the little bubble of conspiracy that exists in far-right people's minds, if you're not a pedophile who grooms kids, you're not trans, because you aren't convenient to their arguments for why trans people should get the death penalty, and any normal, non-pedophile trans people who exist online are actually all just AI generated and not real. Because you can't trust anything to see online, but you can trust the bigots on his podcasts who are claiming that a school is being sued for not letting a catgender kid use a litter box instead of the bathroom.
Anyways. We're turning one of the sticks I found into the woods into a Talking Stick and whoever is holding it will get to talk. So that we can continue forcing him to behave like an adult who is forced to use actual logic and facts instead of just repeating the same Outraged ideas he keeps hearing on his podcasts.
Anyways did I mention that he was the one willing to use my name and pronouns until our mom got to him and persuaded him to stop? Lofl. Well now my doctor is going to be using my correct pronouns, so she can deal with it.
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c1028h · 9 months
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fighting games thoughts
so im writing this waiting for my bus to go to work but I just don't really have anyone to dump my current obsessions so I'm just gonna write here instead. a few months ago I stumbled upon a tiktok video of the game guilty gear strive, but I didn't pay much attention except the fact that the game had some really interesting characters. now, fighting games were always a part of my life, it was a way of connecting with my father since he really enjoyed them too, a few that really stood out in my childhood were killer instinct, mortal kombat (a bunch of them, but mainly the ps3 one),
street fighter, the teen titans game on the cartoon network website, anyway, I loved them. but sometime in my life I stopped playing them and forgot about it, I always saw people playing mortal kombat when the 10 released, and then when the 11 released, but it never sparkled the joy in my to play again (also this thing was expensive as fuck). a few weeks ago I stumbled upon guilty gear strive again on my tiktok, but this time since I'm working I actually have the founds to afford a game on steam lol. I looked it up about some fighting games and got interested in a few of them.. guitly gear strive, tekken 7 and street fighter 5 or 6. now, even though street fighter has some characters I really loved like chunli, cammy, menat, juri, vega, it didn't really sparked anything in me.. tekken at the time was a little strange to me since the game is in 3d and the characters kinda looked like the sims ngl, so the option i had was guilty gear strive, it had some characters I thought it looked cool like bridget, testament, i-no, axl, anji, zato-1, may, anyway, you get the point, the game was also in 2d, which was a little more comfortable to me since all the experience I had was in 2d games, it had a big community of people that could teach me and play with me, so I bought that, the expanded editions to be fancy~. the game is really fun, it has some really cool machanics and its making me see fighting games in a way I never did before, all I did before was smash as much buttons as I could and hope my opponent didn't smashed the buttons before me, but now I'm starting to understand the fundamentals.. blocking, punishing, countering, frame data and all of that, I'm not good by any means, actually I started the online part at floor 6 and now im in floor 3, but thats part of the process I guess.. the problem is, I didn't stopped searching about other fighting games, and that made me regret a bit not buying tekken 7, the community was a lot bigger, it had characters that looked cool but not in a supernatural way, in a normal fighting way, like xiaoyu, lili, leo, katarina, asuka, eddy, hwoarang, lee, zafina, anyway, the list was gigantic, so after a week of debating if I should buy tekken or not I bought it, yesterday.. I didn't had any time at all to play since im in the end of my semester and working everyday on the afternoon (I'm fucking exhausted).. (I did a pause on writing, this is two nights after I started), so.. like I said I bought tekken 7 to try out since the idea of playing was really cool, and it is really cool, but like I said I don't have any fucking time ri3848u83.. but my semester is now ending and im a little free, so I'm using this time that I have to play Yakuza 0 and guilty gear strive, today I started playing with milia rage and I'm kinda obsessed.. a woman that can fight with her hair? that's peak pop diva queer icon to me.. she's like madonna of fighting games tbh.. I'm now really invested in playing more games, I bought the Yakuza collection on gog cause it was extremely cheap and mortal kombat x + 11 at 90% discount, gotta make the pennies I got as a salary count, after that I wanna play resident evil, I used to play re4 with my cousin he was kinda obsessed so we would play a whole weekend of re4 and tony hawk's lol.. I also wanna play devil may cry which is I game I used to own but never played.. anyway I just wanted to dump all these ideas somewhere and thought maybe this is the most appropriate place? I guess..
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