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a quiz for the people whose horrors never end
with my equally fucked up buddy @moonhugsyou
#just a bunch of weirdly specific questions#to analyze the traumatized little guy(gender nonconforming) in you#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#aziracrow#good omens 2#interview with the vampire#iwtv#lestat de lioncourt#louis de pointe du lac#loustat#uquiz
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Intellectual property is the currency of the modern age. If you’ve got a brand, a mascot, a cute little doodle you did one day while you were bored at work, it is completely essential that your rights as a creator must be protected. Unfortunately, the way that those rights are protected is that you have to sell it to a giant corporation, which jealously hoards it for centuries after your death. Are you gonna get paid, at least? If you’re lucky, I guess.
If you have a regular job, like zookeeper or assassin, it’s unlikely that the bourgeoisie will continue to exploit you after your death. A dead zookeeper is only good for at most one more tiger feeding, for instance. Corporate artists are going to be admired, emulated, and profiteered from until the sun burns out or future executives figure out that they were weirdly and specifically hyper-racist after all.
Ever since there has been a creative industry, there have been rich people milling around the artists, trying to turn the droppings of their diseased minds into trading cards that can be offered to the shadowy beast that is global commerce. Back in medieval times, this was almost a friendly relationship: a rich person would come by, and pay you to make some shit out of marble. Chances are, they’d stop paying you and then have you murdered as you approached completion of the project, which is why artists evolved the ability to procrastinate, but that’s a whole other story.
Nowadays, making copies of something is a lot easier than going out and hiring a bunch of teenagers who can carve a replica of a marble statue. And that’s got the rich-person class in a tizzy. What does it mean to own some cool shit, if the person who made it can just make a bunch of copies of it and give it away for free to whoever asks for it? How can they be expected to derive some genuine, authentic joy from what is basically a selfless act of creative expression, without getting to charge money for it in all perpetuity? These are the questions of our age, but only because the rich people also control the machine that makes all the questions.
What’s the moral of the story, if you are a creative person selling your efforts to an enormous corporation? You have a duty to be super weird. Whatever is wrong with your brain is not wrong with the profiteers’, according to society, which means you have to be a little more creative in your subversive acts. The ideal goal is to render the thing unusable, like a General Motors product, after at most one generation of humanity. Not only are you getting revenge, but you’re helping future generations: they won’t have to write a sequel to your hit franchise, and can instead make weird shit of their own.
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Why Is Druid?
Say that like ‘where is Wizard Hut?‘
I love the 4e Druid. This is a marked change from how much I liked the 3e druid, or how often you might see me playing a druid in a Baldur’s Gate game. Back in 3rd edition, the druid, despite being very powerful, never really engaged me, in part perhaps because I was always trying to find something exploitative and powerful rather than merely accepting the juggernaut of a toolkit the game just left in the Player’s Handbook. You couldn’t get clever with the Druid, you just had to pick it up and use it, like some sort of society of creative anachronisms where one of the anachronisms available to the players was has gun. Valid, but hardly sporting.
The Druid in 4th edition is different. Wildly different. Weirdly different, and different in one of those ways that shows what I think of as a seam in the design between 4th and 3rd editions of D&D.
The Druid was one of 3rd edition’s great mistakes, a full spellcasting class with healer capacity to serve as a pinch-hitter healer in a group that wanted things a little more varied, addressing an enormously complex potential build from its earlier edition, 2e, and all in the process, resulting in some deeply confused mash up of abilities that attempted to address confusion with volume. The druid of 2e had a special unique set of rules compared to the Cleric — for example, at a certain level, you passed into a specific category of Druidic ability and now you were technically a Hierophant, and Hierophants had seven extra spells of every level. Of course there was a limited supply of Hierophants in the world, so there was a question of if you could level up if another one existed, and maybe there’s a one-in, one-out policy? First in, first fired?
Anyway, I can’t speak to how it played, but I am at least aware, on the edges of it, that the 2e druid was odd. It had a lot of things it could do, but much of how it worked, reading the books, seemed to be interesting but challenging to manage. You could wild shape, you could heal, you could cast utility spells, you could even fight with some melee weapons — personally, I didn’t see any of it worth it, because none of the things it could do it could do very well.
3e addressed this seeming difficulty by instead taking all those different options and bringing them all up to the same level. Wild Shape worked by checking traits of monster units, which meant that you weren’t limited to specific reinterpretations of animals and instead could do what a druid feels like it should do — you know, turn into an animal. The spells were rebalanced and shared across different classes, which meant that they tended to work in a more standardised way. Armour rules were aggregated, and weapons were made less terrible.
The result was that the 3e druid went from being ‘decent’ at a bunch of things to ‘good’ at everything it wanted to do. The problem of the druid then became about picking the thing you wanted to at every opportunity, and doing a good job of it — you’d have druids carrying wands of healing so they could dedicate their spell slots to more important tasks, like Flame Striking opponents, or messing up the battlefield with roots. You’d also see druids keeping the ‘best’ list of animals on hand, and every new monster book presented a new chance for druids to develop a new best form.
It also created the strange question of What does the druid do?
The answer was ‘everything.’
The 4e Druid, in comparison and contrast to these designs is something very different that touches, at best, on the periphery of what the 3e Druid could be. I mean it stands to reason, you can only ever touch on doing everything when something you’re working from is so powerful. 4e with its role system of Defender, Striker, Leader and Controller, and its reliable, reusable balance math suddenly was confronted with fitting an elephant into a shoebox.
How do you represent something busted that could do everything in the context of a new system that sought to explicitly prevent that? I joked when the game was new that the four roles were Defender, Striker, Leader and Miscellaneous. That any class too powerful, with too much stuff it could potentially do, got thrown to the Controller role as suggested by the first Controller we ever saw being the Wizard. Oh and back in Player’s Handbook 1, the Wizard had a few builds that were pretty ridiculously pushed — the pinball wizard, I’ll talk about it sometime — and that meant that it was easy to feel like the Controller Does Everything.
That impression diluted through experience, of course, and eventually it came to that while yes, the Controller sure has some Miscellaneous vibes, the core of what the Controller was there to do was to attack the enemy action economy. Nice and obvious to a non giga-nerd, right? Okay, how about this: The leader lets you do more things, the controller stops them from doing more things?
And into this space, they poured the druid.
It works beautifully, for my tastes; the druid needs to do lots of things to feel properly druidy, but you need to make sure the doing lots of things doesn’t unbalance the game. Controllers have the widest variety of things they can do and ways they can do them – inflicting status conditions, changing enemy position, preventing specific action types, making areas on the battlefield inaccessible, these are all ‘controllery’ things, and that means there’s a lot of different ways you can flavour them. The Invoker is most famous for making zones in the play space hard to deal with, the Wizard has a build that slides things all over the place, and the psion controls people with immense penalties to their damage rolls.
Obligatory pause where, while reading this aloud, for either Fox or I to comment on how amazing it is that Dishearten is an AOE power.
Anyway, the druid was designed to be a mode switcher class. That is, there are two ways a druid can do things. One is a melee controller that makes a single target’s life harder, the other is a ranged controller that makes a large group of enemies’ lives harder. This mode switching then adds a new element to the class that your powers can interact with, where you now have control powers that can add a mode switching element to them as well. This is your Wild Shape – you transform into some kind of nonspecific beast, which can use your Wild Shape powers. Each form has fewer powers to manage, and you can build your druid to specialise in one or the other or do a mix.
This lets the druid do the ‘a lot’ without letting them actually do everything. You have a lot of choices and a lot of ways to play with those pieces, but even just how often you use the mode switch is part of what the druid does to control the battlefield. When I first played a druid, it was not uncommon to start a fight out of wild shape, use the first turn to make some kind of area control power, then shift into wild shape for the rest of the fight kicking people into that area control power. There are druids builds that work like wizards and only ever shapeshift to get away from problems, and make a hit while scuttling away, or to sit on a specific type of problem. There were druids who focused on summoning monsters and using them as kind of turrets on the battlefield, positioning allies in a way that benefitted them around those summons.
Lone artillery combat encounters, where you have a bunch of stuff in front of a long-ranged attacker? Druids love those. Even at level 1, that artillery is spending their days completely stuck underneath a Fire Hawk power.
Problem is, of course, that if you want to do Everything doing a Lot is going to miss something. That was what led to the subclasses of the druid, the ones that added healer elements to the druid, because the druid back in 3e could do that. It added animal companions, because the druid back in 3e could do that. Now I don’t worry too much about these things because if I wanted an animal companion on my Druid, I’d take a theme for that, but also because these changes were introduced in an Essentials book.
Which is to say, they’re crap.
They’re not crap crap, like I try to defend Essentials as giving players a choice for simplified character builds, but in the specific case of the Essentials Druids, in order to work with the simplified choices, these Essentials druids with their animal companions and their healing powers have to look at all other Druid powers and not use them. The only use they get out of their animal companion is using the specific subset of powers that make them work, and that makes combat more samey. But again: That’s a thing you probably want if you want a simplified build.
Still, it gives rise to my favourite joke – I mean like, funny thing, not really a joke, there’s no subversion of reality or anything here – about the Healer Druid. See, every Leader in the game gets an encounter power, usable twice a combat at level 1, that heals an ally with a bonus. Every class gets their own version that lets them distinguish their class specifically and add some interesting detail that shows how this Leader differs from other Leaders.
The Healer druid build gets Healing Word.
The Cleric power.
Literally, the same power, same name, listed as a Cleric power.
Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!
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A call for aid from Firefox Users
I have absolutely no fucking idea how to solve these problems, and there are asks with no answers all over the internet elsewhere that are years old.
There is a weirdly hostile atmosphere on Reddit's Firefox boards to asking questions about features Firefox doesn't seem to have. And obviously, official support forums are about as helpful as they ever are.
Given that I've seen and reblogged countless extremely informative posts about Firefox stuff on Tumblr, I just have to hope one of you guys knows answers to some of these issues.
Because I want to move away from Chrome. I really, really do. It is a constant source of stress and fear at this point.
Google is an insanely evil fucking company and I despise them, and admire Firefox's stances on privacy and commitment to user security.
But I cannot use a browser that lacks so many of the organizational elements I'm used to using in order to deal with my extreme neurodivergence and inability to process information all at once combined with my tendency towards flitting from one train of thought to another constantly.
Using Firefox (I've tried to switch five times over six or seven years) in the past has been overwhelming and stressful and completely devoid of certain features I could use to control those feelings on browsers like Chrome, Opera, and even Safari.
So if anyone has any solutions or suggestions for the specific issues I describe below, it would be an enormous weight off my shoulders, and help me feel a lot safer than I do now.
I'll admit that my tab fever is insane, and I've regularly racked up 2000+ tabs on Chrome.
But I can sleep/unload just about all of those tabs constantly, making it so I can keep my trains of thought completely paused without the slightest impact on my computer's performance while I work on something else, and come right back to them without having to dig through the Bookmark system.
And the way I generally keep that insane number of bookmarks organized is with separate windows and TAB GROUPING. Bless tab grouping, the saviour of my sanity.
With that feature, I can have a completely organized tab tree with color coding, searchable groups, easily group and ungroup tabs or move them to different windows, and I can manage all of them from the same UI I'm managing ungrouped tabs from.
This is a feature which Firefox appears to fundamentally lack, despite apparently having had it implemented fully at some point.
I will say that I tried several addons before making this post, specifically Simple Tab Groups, which was atrocious, and Panorama View actually looks fantastic, but also.... Firefox has placed a security warning on that one. Great.
So if anyone knows of a hidden browser settings option, an overlooked tab grouping addon, or some other way to implement that feature on Firefox, I would be eternally in your debt.
I just do not have the ability to process or work on a browser that I can only have like forty tabs open without losing track of everything I'm doing because they're all on a single ribbon. Or completely overloading my RAM.
On that note, is there any setting to make the browser use less memory? I've had the core process run up to almost a dozen gigs of RAM with only twenty tabs open, and there's absolutely no way it needed all that processing power for four YouTube tabs and a bunch of settings pages.
Lastly, there are a number of times while I was using Firefox that I lost power or the program crashed (and it crashed a LOT) and I lost everything. Every tab, every bit of work I was doing at the time, with no way to recover them.
I've had that happen with Chrome too, but WAY less often, and when it recovers all my tabs it does so while PRESERVING MY TAB GROUPS, and it also doesn't load every tab in until I actually move to that tab. Firefox loads every tab it's recovering all at once, which usually completely locks up my computer.
At this point I'm pretty much only using Firefox to watch YouTube videos past the adblock, despite desperately wanting to transfer literally everything over to a browser that I KNOW is the safer and better option.
But every time I've tried, the total inability to organize like I used to, losing all my progress and being unable to regain it whatsoever, or just using up four times the amount of resources that my browsing would on another platform has drive me away. I don't want to be driven away. I want to solve this, but I've had to accept that I can't do that alone.
I greatly appreciate any help or advice anyone can give. Even if just only one of these questions gets answered or only one of these problems gets solved, that's a win in my books.
And thank you for reading, even if you don't have any of the answers I'm looking for.
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a little crush
(ot11) when he has a crush on someone (specifically, you)(request hehe thank you!!)
notes: headcanons yet i write a whole FIC for each of them LMAO sorry!! and for the anon who requested like a whole month ago IM so sorry i am working on it, i didnt see it until yesterday :(
word count: 2k
sangyeon
the tough guy
believe me when i say that this dude will put on the dumbest tough persona on
like as soon as he realizes that he has a crush, he cannot handle any of his feelings
so whenever he’s around he just… sort of puffs his chest out and does that stupid deep voice thing
“oh yeah i definitely enjoy that movie.” his throat is STRAININGGG “we should you know… *coughs* see it together some time.”
“is your voice okay?”
like bro already has a deeper voice and he makes it lower?? to seem cooler? like man you sound like kermit the frog but okay
but other than that, since his love language is acts of service, he utilizes that so much
almost too much
like if you’re thirsty, he suddenly shows up with smoothies of every single flavor
and if you ever question why, he says some dumb thing like
“im rich”
like ???????? okay????? good for you????
anyway, just know that he tries to put this tough guy thing on but if you ever so give him any affection, he will melt into putty
jacob
the overthinker
he’s just so sweet i don’t even know how to describe it
like when he realizes, it doesn’t really change anything for him. he just thinks oh!!! that’s why i was sweating around them haha
but i feel that he starts to overthink everything
because he likes a person of course he wants to treat them 10x better
but hes scared
he wants to hold your hand! and so he does. very. slowly.
like he’s um that sloth from zootopia. and you notice and you stare at him weirdly like
“do you want to hold my hand or something?”
“what!!! no!! definitely not!!” and then he will blush and pout ADORABLY. “maybe i do,” he would whisper under his breath
and it’s so hard to resist him so you just grab it for him. and he kind of just explodes
and as you’re walking together he will STILL overthink
like he’d bombard you with questions. “is my hand too sweaty? too hot? do you want to let go?”
maybe shush him up with a kiss (WHAT)
anyway, he just panics a lot, i think. so best to soothe him or he might just combust
younghoon
the softy
initially, when he thought of you just as a friend, he liked to tease you a lot. like a bunch of jokes and insults
but after he comes to the realization that he might have a crush on you, he starts treating you with utmost care
and it kind of scares you at first
“aren’t you supposed to be bullying me?”
“me? no never! who said?”
“said the same younghoon like a week ago.”
but it doesn’t mean that the caring side of him isn’t the cutest thing ever. like it’s so cute that you might just question how much sweeter he would be as a… boyfriend
what!! snap out of it!
he’s just naturally a very observant person and knows exactly what you would need
if your eyes are drooping from exhaustion, he would shyly lend you his shoulder to sleep on
a really great pillow. falling asleep on him is now your guys’ new thing. and he loves it
sometimes he’ll take a selfie of you asleep on his shoulder and he’ll stare at it for hours
hyunjae
the jokester
when i tell you that hyunjae is the opposite of younghoon
at first, he’s a bit more serious. of course he has his jokes, but he’d rather treat you with politeness
but once he figures out that he might have a crush!!! he kind of loses his mind
he knows that he’s not good at hiding his feelings, his blushing, his sweatiness, his everything
so how does he cover it up? jokes. very obnoxious jokes.
like bro will not leave you alone. of course, he never does anything downright mean, but he does enjoy teasing you
but always after the teasing, he’s completely genuine again
like if you dress up one day he’ll say “look who’s dressed up? trying to impress someone?”
and when you get bothered or flustered, he will give you a sweet smile and he’s quick to reassure you
“you look very nice today. im sorry” he will blush and laugh sheepishly
sometimes though, he gets a bit too much
like if he’s getting really really loud, all you have to do is lean closer to him
his eyes would widen and he will be quiet REAL fast (gotchu!!!!)
he will stutter and pull away and he will not talk for the next 30 minutes with how dazed he is
he gets dazed very often. if you laugh he’s in a trance. you smile and he’s smiling back with GOOGLY EYES (like how he does to chanhee LMAO)
juyeon
the clumsy one
he’s such a fool
like that’s just it
when it comes to him that he likes you, oh he doesn’t know how to act
and since he’s already clumsy, when around you he’s like 100x time clumsier
like if you guys are walking together and you laugh or smile, he’s so busy staring at you that he trips on the sidewalk
and then he has a bloody nose
and then he’s overthinking so much he’s like oh my god oh my god my crush hates me now
but once you reassure him that you still like him he will relax again. in fact he’s just too cute to resist
he definitely tries his best. sometimes he wants to get you something good to eat. he will spend so much money for you
and when he gives it to you, you’re allergic. nothing works out for him and he’s spiraling again
“i’m so sorry” he would whine. “i didn’t know”
“shh it’s okay” you would laugh. bonus points if you press a quick kiss to his hand and he will be stuttering forever
kevin
the natural lover
he is the most natural out of everyone. when he figures out why he’s been so nervous around you, he doesn’t actually change much
he’s still nervous but he isn’t going to fall down stairs for you or anything
but he is going to start giving gifts a lot more. like anything that reminds him of you he will be buying
especially his art!!!! (yk how much i love artist kevin)
like you know how artists don’t tend to draw other people when asked? if you ask him oh he will gladly oblige
he will have you posing so ridiculously and he will be drawing to the best of his ability
“you’re so focused that you’re tongue is poking out.”
he would laugh nervously “oh really? i just… want this to turn out good.”
and when he gives it to you it’s just so beautiful. like it’s so beautiful and colorful and it makes you wonder is this how he sees you??
okay so now he’s blushing. it’s his art what would one expect?!
but compliment his skills and he will definitely be giggling himself to sleep.
his sketchbook is full of you from every angle btw
chanhee
the moment capturer
chanhee seems to be a lot more somber about it
he’s genuinely not so sure if he would ever have a chance with you
so yk what he does?? he takes pictures
he loves to take pictures of other people with his camera
so when he realizes he has a crush, he will bring his camera with him whenever he’s with you
“smile.”
“you took like fifty pictures already!”
“never enough” he would stick his tongue out
he loves capturing you doing anything. eating, smiling, anything
and once at home, he will look through the pictures and laugh to himself about how nice you look
sometimes he’ll send some to you and you’ll tell him to delete them
he keeps them anyway
and at some point if you ever so leave him, at least he’ll have the memory
bro someone needs to tell him he has a chance
he’s so hopeless TT
like it isn’t the end of the world, he just needs to confess LMAO he's just scared
changmin
the runaway
when he realizes that he has a crush he will flee from you immediately
he’s afraid and doesn’t want to take it face on
so whenever you try to be near him, he will flinch away
he doesn’t want his feelings to interfere with you, he doesn’t want to bother you
but don’t worry!! as soon as you talk to him about it, he will be ALL OVER YOU in a second
though of course, he’s still a little bit more cautious then before, he puts more feeling behind his touch
he used to only hug you as a joke or to bother you
but now, he hugs you when his feelings are too strong
“wh-what are you doing?” you ask when he suddenly pulls you into a tight hug
HES SO ADORABLE he’ll just bury his face into like your shoulder and BLUSHHHH
“im just… happy with you.”
AWWWWWWW he becomes so genuine
same thing with holding hands. he used to grab it to pull you closer from a passing car. but now he does it because he believes your hands are cold without his
it’s summer time.
but don’t remind him
haknyeon
the treater
haknyeon’s love language is showing you all the places he enjoys
he already does this with you but that would be like a weekly thing
after realizing, oh boy it becomes a daily thing…
like everyday, he shows up at your place and is like
“let’s go i know a good ice cream place”
“it’s like 6 am”
“but there’s usually a long line there!”
he just loves treating you to things. when he treats you to food, he will watch with an adorable smile when you try out his recommendation
or when he takes you shopping, he will always give you compliments when you try on clothes
and after, he will buy it for you !!!!
no matter if it’s super expensive or not, he just wants to see you smile
when you catch onto the change in his behavior, he will not deny it
he will definitely be shy about it but eventually he will tell you the truth with a shy smile
sunwoo
the shy boy
ik that a lot of peoples impression is that when he likes someone, he will be a big flirter
but really he’s only flirty when he thinks of you as a friend OR when hes already dating you
in between, where he has a crush on you oh my god hes the shyest cutie youll ever see
like say he’s handsome and he cant breath for the next hour
or if you ever so smile he will be sitting next to you trying to hold in his giggle
“*covering his face with his hands* you’re so…. AGH” and you stare at him like he’s insane
you may be confused but it slowly becomes more and more obvious
like just test it out! grab his hand and he’s biting his lip so hard to hold in his smile
like once he was smiling so hard he fell backwards in his chair
he was MORTIFIED
eric
your best friend
this dude is genuinely the most confusing guy you’ll ever meet when it comes to feelings
like he has a crush on you but hes also a huge coward
so yk what he does
he friendzones himself
like BRO??
like if he does anything remotely romantic he will literally be like “oh this is what friends do!!”
like one time he literally kissed the top of your head
you ask why
“its because we’re best friends” HUH??
like no two bffs do that cmon bro fess up
but if you confront him he will never lie
hes not capable of lying hes like an honest puppy
so he will slowly begin to stop friendzoning himself
like when he intertwines fingers with you
now he says, “i enjoy being with you.” with the sweetest smile
#the boyz imagines#the boyz reactions#the boyz fluff#tbz fluff#the boyz x reader#the boyz headcanons#tbz imagines#requests 💞#headcanons 💞
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given how you have talked about succession and race before, do you have any thoughts on the recent interview by Juliana Canfield in Vulture? The main gist of the Jess scene in the last episode being meant to be funny, according to one of the (white) writers. (Quote: "Three weeks later, a bunch of us went out to dinner and one of the writers, Lucy Prebble, was like, “We’re cutting together episode eight, and the scene is funny.” I was like, “It’s a funny scene?” It had never occurred to me that it was written to be funny. I saw it as deadly serious, existentially chilling, and reminiscent of the 2016 election.")
so, wrt that scene in particular, it's not totally clear to me what prebble thought the joke was, and imo that would make a difference. to me it read as a very dark joke aimed at greg, who's clearly torn between thinking mencken is 'bad' in a very distant way, and wanting to please his boss and do his job. jess's lines i did not think were delivered or played as funny, and the overall effect of the scene, to me, was to shift focus to the people who work for waystar but cannot really be said to make executive calls: assistants, underlings, &c. i read jess as feeling like she's been complicit in what atn was doing this entire time, and trying, too little too late, to stop it. her field of action is obviously very limited because she, like everyone else on the show, is still operating within waystar's orbit, and within capitalism.
more broadly, i think this jess convo is a little bit frustrating in some of the same ways the sophie stuff has been. it's a very last-minute shift for the show, to actually address head-on (sort of) jess and sophie as women of colour and what that means for them as people who are involved with the roys in different capacities. it's hard to do this well this late in the game, and especially in a season where by necessity the siblings' grief is so central. we still haven't spent any time with jess alone, and we've never really gotten into her head---also a problem with sophie. so, just as the sophie scenes work mostly as kendall characterisation, the jess/greg convo does a lot of its work as greg characterisation, and kendall's remarks to jess earlier in the season about atn covering african politics also tell us much more about how kendall sees jess, himself, and racism than they do about jess herself.
none of this is a new problem for succession; it has always been pretty clear that it's about its white characters. so, these last-ditch gestures toward more commentary on race can read as a bit tacky at best. with the election night thing, i don't mind a joke at greg's expense (it's continuous with him trying to claim he has "principles" in s2), but it is true that in that scene the show is using jess and her race (implicitly) to do that. the show's premise has always foreclosed a lot of potentially interesting questions about people like jess and in jess's position: again, disempowered, but also benefitting in some way from the company and from selling reactionary politics. that could make an interesting avenue to explore, but it's simply not one that this show has chosen to go down. again, it's not clear to me from that interview exactly what prebble thought the joke was so i can't really say much more about her specifically, but the scene itself in the show is part of a larger pattern in how the writers handle race (usually weirdly ignore it, sometimes use it to explore their white characters' psyches).
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Hiii!! I'm new to this fandom and I'm also a sucker for good sibling relationships
Do you know where I would be able to watch the videos Alex and Marc did together?? I did a generic search but to no avail 😭
Thank you so much!;!!!
welcome to the fandom anon!! so glad to have you!!! <3
okay so I'm not sure if you're looking for specific videos or anything but I'll compile a few links to the challenge videos here :) tell me if you meant sth else
¿Quién sabe más? ¿Marc de Alex o Alex de Marc? (one of my fav comfort videos, literally 15min of two brothers being silly answering questions about eachother)
whisper challenge (if you are like me and don't speak spanish you won't understand them but if you are really like me you will just enjoy them speaking words and cracking eachother up)
5 second rule challenge (this whole video feels like one big inside joke between those two they are just cracking up the whole time, very nice show of their dynamic tbh, also you will learn why alex does not have a gf lmao)
Who said it? (cute, thats all I can say)
What´s in the box? (I think about "el tuku tuku" every day, big rec this one)
fishing (listen I wanna talk to whoever at motogp thought up this content cause it cracks me up they really sent these two dudes fishing, looking so out of place, weirdly calm?? and then they haul this massive fucking fish?? the heck?? love it tho)
and then they did this interview afterwards (or before idk I found it randomly) basically talking about cohabitation and living with their parents, its cute
edit: lol I forgot this is also where the interviewer asks when marc took the valentino posters down
making their own hand sanitizer (during the pandemic obv, they make them mix a bunch of stuff to make hand sanitizer and surprisingly they managed it, plus marc being a star pupil knowing all the pandemic rules)
there's other people in this fandom who have been around muuch longer so anyone is welcome to add to this!!
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TMAGP EP7 and TMA spoilers!
Heya everyone! So, while listening to the Magnus Protocol episode 7., one cannot but wonder what all of the little things mean because trust me, there is plenty to Dissect.
In this post i would like to focus specifically on the contents that were brought into the building in the recounting of happenings kindly provided to us.
What the weird people bring inside includes:
Plant in a pot shaped like a shouting skull
Bear skin
Chandelier of dark glass
Oversized gramophone and records with religious praying songs
Crudely carved rocking horse
Old grandfather clock leaking dark fluid
Vandalised set of Encyclopedia Britannica
Abstract canvas artworks
Pair of soiled crinoline dresses
Chaise lounge with cushions full of sand
Taxidermy vulture
Rusty antique printing press
Recently used medical equipment
Leather kite
Weirdly curved telescope
Wheelbarrow of shifting fossils
Armful of swords
Lengths of rope
Bathtub full of mouldy food
Stack of old dental retainers
A brace of half-butchered pheasants (a brace is a unit of measurement)
Jars with pickled hands
Ancient diving suit full of sawdust
Picnic hamper full of china
Imperial coins
🔥🔥 F I R E 🔥🔥
(Hilltop road itself???)
(Security guy???)
And I know we are not supposed to analyse TMAGP through the lense of TMA, but please, indulge me for a minute. Let's try and look which fear could use each of these items.
The Eye
Encyclopedias
Curved telescope
The Spiral
Abstract paintings
Shifting fossils
The Flesh
Jar of hamds :3
Stack of dentures
The Lonely
Chaise lounge (sand->lonely beach)
rocking horse (incredibly lonely toy)
The Vast
Diving suit
Kite
The Dark
Chandelier
Gramophone? (Callback to the cult of desacrated host)
The End
Clock
Antique printing press (It's old and rusty?)
The Desolation
The fire?!?? duh?
China hamper (she stepped on it and destroyed it)
The Slaughter
Bunch of swords
Medical equipment
The Hunt
Pheasants
(Security guy???)
The Corruption
Tub of rot
Dresses (They are soiled)
The Stranger
Bear skin
Vulture taxidermy
The Buried
Skull pot
Imperial coins (She literally got buried in them)
The Web
The lengths of rope
(Hilltop itself???)
I personally find it to be very convenient that all of these would be so neatly divided into groups of two, with very distinct fear allocations, with only a few such as the gramophone necessitating a bit of a leap in reasoning.
Few more notes
Hilltop road could probably be counted as the web as it is the hole in spacetime on which the mother of puppets resided but also through which the fears got pulled through/out
All for a good cause? Such as bringing on the apocalypse??? It is a good thing that need more than just to have a bunch of stuff in one place for that.
That boss of hers taking a vacay for who knows how long, who knows where? Very Gertrude-coded
The new girl in the OIAR definitely knows something... very specific questions she asked
#tma spoilers#tmagp 7#tmagp spoilers#tmagp#Thank you to my dear friend M. for being my brainstorm buddy#the magnus protocol
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Update
Hi hi, everyone. I know it's been a long time. I was actually typing up a message to @prince-infidel because of an ask they sent me, but I realized I should probably just make it a post. So I guess this is an update.
Okay, short version: The end of 2022 and the entirety of 2023 was horrible for me. A lot happened, and 97% of it was not good. Now to get into a bit more specifics.
While all of this crazy stuff was going on, a friend of mine really needed help with their company. They were just going through a ton, and I jumped on to help them while they were trying to figure that stuff out. Turns out that I was a good fit. So I've completely changed careers currently. Also, with all of this crazy shit going on, I stopped drawing entirely. That's a first for me. No matter what was going on, I always had my drawing as an outlet. It was very new for it to be gone. I actually only recently started drawing again, and when I say recently, I mean last week. I haven't even finished anything and my progress comes in very small doses. Baby steps I guess.
Now the stuff you're actually probably interested in. Even though I haven't been drawing, I have been making art.
- I've been putting crazy amounts of effort into making costumes. It's really fun and I've level grinded a lot with sewing and fabrics. I made an entire Victorian costume on my own. It was cool.
- I weirdly started working on dolls? I have no idea why I started doing that. I hate dolls.
- I started making weird... sculptures? I don't know how to describe them. It's basically recycling and turning materials into monstrosities for my own entertainment and to scare random people.
- And I've delved more into my hobby of SFX makeup.
I have been being creative, it's just a bunch of stuff that no one cares about. It makes me happy and that's all there is to it really. Which brings me to the long version, because I have no idea how to continue this without going into details. I can only assume all of this answers anyone questions who might be curious. Time to get a bit more specific.
I don't know how to start this, so I guess I'll just say that my interests have completely moved. I think everything above should make that clear, but when I'm referring to interests, I mostly mean the things that inspire me. This is actually typical for me. I love fiction and am a fan of many, many things. I get really involved in a fandom for a while, get bored, then move on to one that is piquing my interest more. Eventually I come back and the cycle starts over. I always keep up with all of my interests simultaneously, it's just that one usually dominates the others. The thing is, comic books have completely lost my interest currently.
There's a lot of factors. I'm not going to repeat stuff that you've probably heard a thousand times from other people about the current state of the comic industry, comic writing, the movies, the video games blah blah blah whine whine whine. I think one of the big things though is that this last year has really changed me. I'm just a really different person now. I'm not that happy-go-lucky nerd I was before. I think my major concern is that I honestly think it would be fucked up if I continued to post here.
People started following me here because of my art and my posts. It would be fucked up to switch that around on them and just show back up as this different person with different art, different interests etc. I've thought about making an update on here a bunch of different times, but I never did because of stuff like that. However, in a way, it's been really nice. It's been nice to just do whatever stupid art project comes into my head, and to do it just for the sake of making something. I think dropping drawing all together (not by choice, mind you) turned out to be good for me. I think I got in tune with a creative side of myself that I'd lost a long time ago. It's been pretty neat.
I've thought about just leaving this tumblr to history. I honestly think that I should. It can be a weird time capsule of this specific fandom in this specific time period. I've thought about just making different social media accounts so that people who want to see any of my new, awful creations could if they wanted to. I don't know though. I'm just all up in the air all the time now lol
I get this isn't an "all questions answered" kinda post. Not that most people needed them, but I know that there are people who just liked my art in general and I knew they must be curious. So I hope I at least answered some stuff and gave some clarity.
#updates#text post#I've read through this a few times and I think it makes sense#I'm currently very sick#I hope this isn't just flat out nonsense#I also hope it isn't needlessly dramatic sounding#whenever I try to type this stuff out it always comes across so intense lol#I'm also going to be a dick and post this in the middle of the night#if I leave it until morning I'll forget it exists
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15 questions for 15 friends
i was tagged by the wonderful @johaerys-writes, thank you so much!
ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: nope! my mother found a book of rare names, wrote down a whole bunch, and my father only liked one of them. fun fact, only three people in the entire world have the same first name as me ⭐
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: oh man in terms of like any tears at all…like this morning because my PMDD is hitting me hard at the moment and i saw my dog being cute and it was all too much for me but in terms of a big, proper cry…probably a couple of weeks?
DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: i am actively filled with repulsion and dread at the thought of having children so it’s a good thing i don’t
WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: i used to play hockey, netball, tennis and rounders at school and then whatever they made us do in PE but i’m not a huge sports person, especially not teams ones!
DO YOU USE SARCASM?: too much. i realised in my teens that if i’m deliberately deadpan and sarcastic all the time, people just think it’s funny and don’t look at me weirdly when i’m having an especially autistic day and can’t mask well because it just blends into my usual demeanour. everyone at work thinks i’m very dry and sarcastic when actually it’s mostly just me failing to understand social cues.
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: gosh honestly i really don’t know. although i do pay a lot of attention to people’s smiles, i think you can learn a lot about a person by how they smile. whether it’s forced or natural, if their eyes smile too, if they hold their happiness back or let it come out unrestrained, etc., so i’ll go for smiles!
WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: boring boring blue
SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: can we not have both? i’ll always have to pick scary movies though because horror is my favourite genre, but i love a final girl ending!
ANY TALENTS?: ooh this is tough because for me a talent is something you’re just naturally good at, but the things that other people would probably say i have a natural talent for are my hobbies which i’ve worked at for a long time so i wouldn’t be able to say if it’s an innate talent or just a skill i’ve honed. i think i’ll probably say playing the double bass (or upright bass in the USA) - i tried it out at a musical open day thing at my school and decided i liked it, and then twelve weeks later i sat a music exam for it and passed with top marks despite it usually taking several years to get to that point!
WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: england. i was doomed from the start.
WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: my main ones would be writing, reading, gaming, obsessively researching and then yapping about my special interests, and baking! i also do some crafty stuff when the mood strikes (i’m not really very good at it, but that’s chill, because it’s just for fun) and i’m not sure if it counts as a hobby but i love going on the trampoline!
DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: i have my dog who is simultaneously the reason i get up in the mornings and the reason i don’t want to get up in the mornings, and also a crested gecko who mostly just vibes doing her own thing.
HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 5’7”/1.70m
FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: this changed so drastically over the years! when i was younger it tended towards history, then when i started secondary school i still loved history but classics became my main area of interest, but after i decided i didn’t want to pursue a career in that field i cast about a little bit and realised that while i hated, like, plant biology and chemical reactions, i was really into specific aspects of science and that’s what i’m studying at uni now!
DREAM JOB?: forensic anthropologist, i’m undertaking my master’s in this and i really hope i get to have a career in this one day, it’s my life’s ambition.
Tagging (i barely talk to anyone on here lmao so it's definitely going to be fewer than 15! also there's with no pressure): @stressedanime @royalthorned @a-good-sandwich @toy-soldiering @claudiadiary
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My Theory for Tears of The Kingdom's timeline placement
This post does contain some spoilers. I will not be discussing the ending of the game or major story twists with the exception of one late game spoiler (which I will clearly mark). Other than that I will reference some details you get in the memories and the stone tablets.
The TLDR version is that the ancient past in Tears of The Kingdom occurs after Skyward Sword, but before Minish Cap. My specific evidence for this:
The stone tablets and Mineru herself reference doing research into methods to help the hero and describe raising the islands into the sky. If it's not too long after Skyward Sword's history, this kind of action makes perfect sense. The idea of Skyloft would have been well documented.
We hear Fi's theme playing in some Master Sword cutscenes and the sword 'talking'.
Skyward Sword Zelda never actually founded Hyrule as a Kingdom, unless I'm misremembering. I believe she just wanted to protect the triforce. This leaves room for Hyrule to be founded later.
If Sonia is herself a Hylia descendant, it actually makes perfect sense that she would have initially been a priestess in this scenario, if the main role involves protecting the sacred realm. It also makes sense that her name isn't Zelda as that convention wasn't really a thing yet.
Rauru and Mineru are explicitly the only Zonai left. Now, Hylia raised the hylians into the sky. The Zonai appear to worship other gods. Plus with their technology they could have independently gone to the sky as a race. We don't really get enough of Rauru's backstory to go much further.
I also believe the Zonai could have been present on the surface before Skyward Sword happened as it would perhaps explain the Lanayru time stuff. I mean… a bunch of robots mining a special type of ore eventually left abandoned?
Koloktos also makes a LOT of sense in this theory. In fact the entire ancient cistern weirdly gels perfect with Zonai motifs (lotus especially)
The actual rock in the Breach of Demise area of the map looks suspiciously like the stone texture found around the depths.
Hyrule castle is not yet built. So Rauru being the 'first king' could be a situation like how people consider William I the first king of England, even though there were many, many before that. Essentially, the kingdom is re-established.
Now. The Ganondorf of it all calls this into question. My explanation for this is that, even according to Breath of the Wild's lore, calamity ganon arose after being reincarnated and then defeated on multiple occasions until eventually assuming the malice form. This, to me, makes it possible that the Ganondorf we see in Tears of the Kingdom is NOT the same man we see in Ocarina of Time, in the same way not all Zeldas and Links are the same character. The precedent for this also exists in Four Swords Adventure which features a different Ganondorf. If Tears of the Kingdom past takes place before Ocarina, it also explains the lack of triforce. At that point, nobody really knew about it because it was sealed and hidden in the sacred realm. We don't see it in the cutscenes because Zelda is drawing from a different power source, whereas in the Zelda's Awakening cutscene in Breath of the Wild, it's explicitly the triforce we see on the back of her hand.
I still believe Breath of the Wild takes place in the Downfall timeline as it makes the most sense to me from the standpoint of beast form ganon. However, Tears of the Kingdom actually provides a perfect way to re-combine the timelines and finally explain the lore inconsistency.
MAJOR TEARS OF THE KINGDOM SPOILER WARNING FROM HERE
If the ancient past is before the timeline split, but Zelda originates from only one of the three branches, this creates a paradox. In that, she would also be existing as an immortal dragon in the other two branches where the events leading to her birth never took place. This would create some sort of rift forcefully combining all the timelines. Therefore, the presence of all timeline references in BOTW makes sense. It would be like Hyrule's own version of the mandela effect.
Yes, I know it isn't perfect, but to me this is the closest we might come to a sensical explanation.
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(Major KHDR and KH3 spoilers)
I love how Dark Road clarified that Eraqus being weirdly forgiving of his best friend who did terrible, irredeemable things to both him and his loved ones is like, not just a bit of confusing, illogical writing but rather an intentional character trait of his that persists throughout his life. Eraqus tells Xehanort that he can’t lose Baldr after Baldr has already killed a bunch of people (two of whom were Eraqus’ CLOSE FRIENDS) and Xehanort’s like “Even knowing what he’s done?” and Eraqus is like “YEAH????”
This guy can’t stand to lose his friends even if they’ve done horrible things to other people he cares about and since he never learned how to properly move on from old relationships he just...has this chronic tendency of letting his evil best friend back into his life like nothing happened. He’d rather believe that the heart’s natural state is to be full of light and that his friends can always be redeemed rather than face the painful truth that Xehanort isn’t trustworthy anymore, a selfish, delusional act which results in Terra, Aqua, and Ven falling victim to Xehanort’s schemes.
Of course, under the specific circumstance of the universe being threatened, old man Eraqus will absolutely Kill A Loved One Without Question, but otherwise he’s quite willing to let bad deeds slide if it means maintaining a relationship he doesn’t want to lose (see: KH3′s ending).
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no fear response, and more that it’s been turned nearly all of the way down.
I headcanon that it’s a similar situation with their feelings of romance or sex. That it’s not completely gone, but that it’s nullified just enough for them, under the right circumstances (a.k.a never truly interacting with baseline humans), to not feel those feelings ever. Because you can’t have your killing machines questioning their loyalty and running off with some mortal, right?
So I this brings me to the thought that a space marine can feel romantic or sexual feelings, it’s just that it’s probably got to be under some very specific circumstances. And that most of them would have no idea what to do when they get a crush on someone. Yes they’re grown adults but new emotion?? New emotion that is affection??? Affection that isn’t platonic or familial?!! Confusion!!!!
Cue a bunch of different reactions to this. Ranging from trying to impress their object of affection by showing off how well they can fight (“Check out how strong I am!” “Well yeah, you’re a space marine.” “Oh… right.”), to deciding to avoid them completely, or being weirdly obsessive/possessive of them because they never want to lose the person that made them feel this way, or getting angry at the baseline human for distracting them from their duties (even though they probably didn’t even realise the space marine had feelings for them), perhaps even deciding to do what they do best and bringing their human trophies of the enemies/heretics/xenos they killed like some kind of giant catboy.
Space marine: 7 years ago I had a crush on a serf in my chapter and I didn’t know how to deal with it, so I wrote her a letter that just said “leave this place immediately”
(first part of the ask because dumblr cut it off)
Putting this ask on my fridge because you understood the fucking assignment.
Astartes start their transformation at around 10-13, so basically their entire formative years are taken away from them. How are you expected to know what a crush is or love or really any complex emotion if you’re too busy having a bakers dozen of extra organs shoved in you and running through the Tunnel of Terror?
'Yeah I didn't have a girlfriend I was too busy getting acid spit'
I imagine that having to deal with an Astartes who's figuring out how an entire array of emotions work is going to be, a handful. He ends up knocking someones lights out while sparring just to show off, or you end up with the hide of an entire Tyranid Warrior. What do you say to that? Thanks? Them being hyper vigilant of you being around other Astartes, almost obsessively. Also all this depends heavily on the chapter. It would probably be much easier with a White Scar, Lamenter( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), Ultramarine, or Blood Angel( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) than an Imperial Fist, World Eater, or Black Templar (I love my wall husbands but their heads are filled with concrete).
[PENDING COMFIRMATION LOL] And, some of this is actually canon! In a book, a space Marine thinks about how weird he feels when looking at an attractive young woman who’s a refugee they saved. I KNOW this is a thing but I cannot remember the source so I’m going to try and find it. I believe he was a blood angel. If I can't find it please take all this with a grain of salt.
And anyone who manages to land themself an Astartes BF pretty much got themself the himbo to end all himbos. Because while Astartes are super smart and have crazy fast reflexes, they’re fucking dumb as rocks in other regards. (Examples being any emotion that isn’t anger or respecting your superiors, stupid infighting between chapters, Talos Valcoran)
Also in the 41st millenium they’re pretty much mildly worshiped as 'angels', so you have a literal trophy husband. Congrats. Please keep him on a leash the guardsmen are very scared and he has no trigger discipline.
#Misty's book club#at the end of the day it comes down to a human/Astarte relationship being the -he don't bite- -YES HE DO- meme
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It’s me back in the ask box again for another super important question:
What “cringe” fandoms would the mekadan have been into as kids. Like we know Marry was a black butler girlie but I need to know the rest. Who was deeply invested in the fnaf lore, who was cosplaying as homestuck trolls, who was shipping creepypastas. I am desperate for answers only you can provide.
EXCELENT question. i ADORE this question.
ayano is into homestuck. used to role play warrior cats. loves the marvel cinematic universe, and just any superhero comic book stuff in general. canonically into jojo.
kido's is BANDS. specifically bands considered emo back in 2013 or something. my chemical romance. blink 189. black veil brides. that was their shit. also im sorry but they were a superwholock. sorryyyyyy i also think they'd be into medical dramas like grey's anatomy and dr house LMAO
i dont think seto did or does fandoms. i think seto goes outside too much. he's the only one who has no idea what being in a fandom is like, also the least online definitely (I'll get to mary)
kano would be into youtubers/celebrities. he's so into celebrity gossip it's impossible to talk to him he knows of names youve never even heard of.
like u said mary is a black butler girlie but i guess she could like other mangas... i also think she'd watch medical dramas with kido. BUT she doesnt internet so she has no idea about any of it she just lore dumps everyone instead about any book she's reading. she finds out black butler is actually animated and forces everyone to sit down and watch it with her
momo was the one shipping creepypastas btw. i also think she's a sims girlie she's obsessed with its lore and loves making ocs in there and ends up obsessed with her own sims families (commissions haruka a bunch)
shintaro is into magical girls animes. like any of them. but i also think he'd like some popular cartoons like steven universe LOLLL he was probably furiously defending pearl online. also i think he used to make youtube poops and sparta remixes when he was like 14
haruka and takane are the fnaf lore guys especially haruka i seriously think he arrives to school one day after he stayed up all night watching fnaf lore videos and told takane all about it. they're the ones lining up for the movie rn. they also probably roleplayed undertale together in highschool. also i think takane likes analog horror which is horrible for haruka bc i think he hates horror but he's also weirdly fascinated by it so he's watching through his fingers anything takane puts on lol. they tend to share their fandoms especially in hs because haruka was furiously googling anything takane mentioned to have conversation topics with her
hiyori's obviously into idols. i think like kido she loves bands too but she's from the directioner bts stan vibes. and hibiya i LOVE to make jokes abt him being into whatever 12 year olds are into (fortnite, among us, fnaf) and seriously i do love that and i think gamer hibiya is possible with the power of him making the effort to learn to use his phone and the internet bc all his friends live far away and in the process learns abt all that. but before that he was like seto he has no idea what it feels like to be in a fandom and cannot understand hiyori's visions. he's still not SUPER online though
i loved this question. more questions like this i beg
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(Also while I have you here I have to ask - what's the general fandom vibes around watching Wheel of Time without reading the books? I know fandoms can vary in that regard (Outlander fans are divided into Oldlanders and Newlanders and let me tell you, they make clear who is better) but the WoT gifsets look awesome and I am intrigued.)
So I'm gonna just point out that I have a lot of WoT blogs blocked because I found them annoying at some point in the past so maybe there's a bunch of wild ass stuff on here that I don't see.
BUT in general ON TUMBLR, book readers are chill and like seeing the responses from non-book readers. like there are criticisms of the show and all, but I see very few people just outright trashing it and I only ever really see people excited to see how show only fans are reacting to things.
However, you have to be very, very careful about spoilers. Not everyone will tag spoilers about the books (most who do use 'wot book spoilers' when talking about stuff from the books) and even some people who think they aren't being spoilery, will overly explain things they shouldn't be explaining to show onlys that have questions. Most people are good. Some people need to be told to chill. Some people will also comment on things assuming that everyone has read the books. It was more a problem last season than this season on here, so hopefully its not happening in general.
outside of tumblr, is a different story. I, someone who has read all of the books multiple times, refuse to look at the WoT fandoms on places like reddit and facebook because they're just a bad time in general. Twitter is just not my vibe so I stay off. Weirdly I see a lot of show only fans on youtube say that the fandom there is great and that they specifically love WoT because the book fans are so nice to them. But tumblr is where I find the WoT fandom the most chill and the most likeminded to me, and so that's where I stay.
I will say that if you do end up watching the show, do not google anything about any of the characters. If you have questions, its probably honestly better to just ask those questions on here and note you're a show only, or send an ask to me or someone else. Like its a meme that google will just immediatley spoil the biggest moments in the book by just searched characters' names.
All this to say that in general the vibes are good just be careful about spoilers lol
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Starter for @xamassed
A couple of weeks had passed since her meeting with Tamaki, and one more after the most exciting event in her life since she moved to Tokyo -- being saved by a professional hero.
Both events had left a strong, yet different mark on Haruko. After her encounter with Fat Gum, she had started collecting any newspaper mentioning her saviour, holding her breath whenever he appeared on TV and asking her parents to turn the volume up when he spoke. Her mother obliged with a smile, while her younger brother, Keitaro, answered with an eyeroll while Haruko listened to her hero with her lips pressed in a tight line and her eyes shining at the sight of his wide grin -- the same he had dedicated her on the day she met him.
At school, she had found out Fat Gum was popular among girls, but not as much as other pro-heroes. Her female classmates liked to fawn more about guys like Hawks or Best Jeanist -- Fat Gum had a different kind of charm, to them.
"He's cute," they agreed, "kinda like Totoro!"
"Yeah! He's all big and cuddly, right?"
Haruko nodded, not too convinced. To her, Fat Gum was way more than cuddly -- he was valiant, reassuring, bright, charming... And whenever she recalled being in his arms, her heart started racing like crazy, making her cheeks burn.
Ever since he had promised her he'd visit her at the Coffee Bean, Haruko's head kept jerking up and her heart missed a beat whenever the bell on the door announced a new client walking in. But day after day, her hopes started vanishing, and she kept lowering her head with a sigh and a disappointed pout when the face on the door wasn't the one she wished to see. She had been a stupid for really hoping for him to pass by; he was a pro-hero, and certainly a busy one too. It made sense for him to be short on time, and he was certainly not going to dedicate her the little spare one he had on hand.
Tamaki, on the other hand...
She hadn't seen the shy boy in a while, but their meeting had rooted in Haruko's head in a surprising way, making a hundred questions bloom inside it. She kept wondering about quirks, how strong they could get, how they could be trained... And even more weirdly, she kept coming up with questions about his quirk specifically, so much she even kept a small list of them under the counter, where she noted them down each time a new one popped up in her mind in the hope to discuss them someday. She was looking forward to seeing him again, to asking him more about his skills... But Tamaki hadn't showed up again. And while she could understand he might be busy too, just like Fat Gum (he was his pupil, after all, as she had found out), she also wondered if she maybe hadn't put the shy boy at unease without realising it, and maybe that was the reason why he hadn't shown his face at the Coffee Bean anymore. The mere thought made her stomach twist with guilt and disappointment -- she had hoped she had made a friend, but clearly, she had read too much into it.
So, after some days, Haruko had stopped perking up with excitement whenever the door to the cafe rang open. And it felt just as an ordinary, dull day when, one afternoon, her boss called for her while she was busy preparing some mixtures in the back of the store.
"Are you busy?" He asked. "A bunch of clients just arrived, I think they are looking for you."
"I'm coming," Haruko replied, without particular enthusiasm, too busy dosing the juices to notice the amused grin under the man's moustache.
But when she walked back to the counter, her heart did a sommersault -- no, a double sommersault. Because not only Tamaki was back, but his whole squad was with him. Fat Gum included!
"I... Uh..." Haruko stammered, face burning bright. "We-Welcome to the Coffee Bean! What can I serve you??"
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