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churchyardgrim · 2 years

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I, STRAHD, by P.N. Elrod

[intro post]

rubs my horrible little goblin hands together hello yes it is time

IT IS HALLOWEEN AND IT IS TIME

this book is, unironically, the best thing i've ever read. almost nothing in it was new information to me, bc i was halfway through a CoS campaign at the time, and also Vampire of the Mists gives a pretty comprehensive cliffnotes version

but the important thing is, imo, knowing whats going to happen did not decrease my enjoyment of it one bit. this aint Game of Thrones dear reader! mind-bending twists are not what this book leans on!

there are some significant differences from the (much shorter) account in Vampire of the Mists, but honestly those i can chalk up to Strahd straight up lying in his diary

because yes, this entire book is Strahd's fuckign diary, and its beautiful

we begin our sordid tale with Strahd taking formal possession of Castle Ravenloft, and thus Barovia, with his best friend i mean lover i mean right hand man Alek Gwilym and a handful of other nobles sworn to his service

this is pre-vampire Strahd, but you wouldn't know it from looking at him! the man's an obligate goth and dresses like a depressed raven while everyone else in his family wears colors, for shame, he drinks beef gravy in the mornings instead of coffee, and fuckign bleeds on the foundations of the castle to claim it as his

i shit u not, there's a line that is verbatim "but i like wearing black!" i cannot make this shit up

they've also given him this sliver of dry humor that i fuckign love actually, these tiny little jokes that you don't notice till they're already half out of sight, it's delightful

anyway the book continues on with Strahd complaining about the minutiae of running this country what he worked so hard to get, ferreting out an assassin in his cohort, and starting his charming lil collection of magic spellbooks

three years later and guess who's coming to live with him! baby brother Sergei! baby brother whomst Strahd has never met, bc he left home for The War before Sergei was born lmao

there's also Your Middlest Brother Sturm, who avoided the entire ensuing cockup cascade by virtue of staying home and becoming an accountant. in this house we love and respect Sturm.

but yeah Sergei is this chipper lil golden child, 20ish and slated for priesthood as is tradition, bouncing around Castle Ravenloft being all optimistic and pretty and good at swordfighting and it makes Strahd sick

this man is so jealous of his kid brother you guys. he devotes whole paragraphs of his diary talking about how he's gonna have to start dyeing his hair soon, about how depressed he is by the weight of years wasted by war, about how Sergei is everything he never got the chance to be

just god. christ. get a grip i'm begging you.

and then of course comes the last straw. Sergei, precious lil vanilla bean Sergei, brings home a girl. not just any girl either, no, but the prettiest most empty void of personality that ever had the name Tatyana. Strahd takes one fuckign look at her and is Immediately Obsessed.

this, imo, is the weakest part of the whole story by a country mile. point the first, Tatyana just…. isn't a person. she has barely any lines, takes literally no action anywhere in this mess, and even her physical description is vague and unhelpful. in my brain she looks like Keira Knightly.

and i'm willing to let it slide, by virtue of i'm almost positive this is on purpose. P. N. Elrod is, in fact, a woman (with a very butch author portrait i might add), and she definitely knows what she's doing here. Strahd is a selfish and myopic person, and while he shows no overt misogyny and sure appears to respect the women in his army, all that goes out the window as soon as the woman in question becomes a potential romantic object to him. and given this is his diary we're reading here, unreliable narrator is the name of the game. we only get his perception of Tatyana to go on.

point the second, however, is one i have less tolerance for; Strahd's infatuation with Tatyana is not foreshadowed at all. he bemoans his youth lost to war, and the ever-closer advent of his death, and broody brood goth brood, but at no point does he express any desire for a family. prior to this moment, romance or companionship just do not seem to matter to him. and now they're all he cares about? i think not.

if i were rewriting this for my own nefarious purposes, i'd make the Tatyana thing a side-dish to the main course of his jealousy of Sergei. that's what's foreshadowed and given ample narrative support, i think that's what the clusterfuck that happens next should be leaning on.

but you know, at the end of the day i can forgive this book for a lot. the above is nothing so egregious that i can't put my quibbles aside for a generous helping of what i like best, and what i like best is overdramatic goth men messily murdering ppl in order to become vampires.

which leads us into the meat of the story, Strahd's Big Oopsie!

the day before Sergei and Tatyana's wedding comes, and Strahd has, of course, devolved into scouring spellbooks for something, anything to break the two of them up. this is a completely sane and rational thing to do, he promises.

the hour grows late, the candles burn down, and Strahd has… a bit of a moment. Death comes to speak to him! at least, something that Strahd identifies as Death, and which doesn't seem interested in disabusing him of the notion.

the bargain offered here is simple; his heart's desire, in exchange for just a few eensie murders, and a smidge of arcane ritual. naturally, Strahd accepts.

what happens next kills me, always and completely, because Alek overheard this. Strahd sees his friend on the walkway outside and practices the famous Barovian sport of longjumping to conclusions, assuming that Alek intends to sound the alarm on him; Alek is forced on the defensive, the two of them swordfighting in beautiful dramatic fashion on a parapet in the rain, before Alek gets lucky and mortally wounds Strahd.

Strahd, now having even less to lose, returns the favor, and we get a scene to rival every wartime "bro dying in ur arms" moment in film history

Alek would have helped you you idiot! you could have had an accomplice! but noooo you had to be a suspicious motherfucker and rush to kill the witness and now look where we are. stupid.

but it's fine, everything's fine, bc Strahd's deal with Death requires blood. so Strahd cuts his friend's throat and drinks the man whole, ascending to lyctorhood i mean kickstarting the whole vampire process

it's extremely sexy and extremely emotional i'm not compromised you're compromised

anyway. Strahd then panics bc oh shit i gotta hide this body and stashes Alek's corpse in his closet. conqueror of nations, everybody, still a fucken chump at not getting caught at murders.

Strahd manages to pass out and has to go through the whole next day pretending he doesn't feel like shit, paranoid and twitchy and waiting for his chance. bc of course one dead friend isn't gonna be enough, no no. he's gotta axe the source.

so he waits, and the hour before the nuptials, he goes to give his babiest brother Sergei a wedding gift of stabby stabby murder.

shock! horror! everyone saw this coming! Sergei's blood finishes what Alek's had started, and Strahd watches his own reflection vanish in the mirror as the mists start to close in on the castle

Strahd goes to claim his prize i mean Tatyana but uh, Strahd, buddy, idk how to tell u this, but she's just not that into you. the absence of her fiance, what you blamed on a mysterious assassin, is not gonna just make her go "oh well i guess i'll settle for the next best thing" it doesn't work like that my dude.

a lot of things happen at once here; people start yelling, Tatyana goes into grief conniptions, more ppl have died? apparently?? this is news to Strahd and distracts him long enough for Tatyana to make Rash Womanly Decisions and literally sprint off a cliff about it

istg someday i'm gonna write something that does this woman justice bc none of the established lore has, ever

anyway this is the point where Barovia as a whole lands with a lurch squarely in the dread domains; the first dread domain, actually, cemented in place and sealed off from the outside world by Strahd's Terrible Awful Very Bad No Good Day

it turns out that someone else picked this night to spring a trap, too! Leo Dilisnya, one of Strahd's lieutenants and a man whose name compels me to picture him with cat ears, had initiated a coup at pretty much the exact moment Strahd was busy murdering his brother. what a coincidence!

the good (?) news is, they haven't yet figured out that Strahd's not exactly human anymore, so they're proceeding with the coup as planned while their primary target is in fact recovering from all the arrow holes they put in him, and is also realizing exactly how tasty everyone around him suddenly looks

long story short, Strahd gets what little of his crew is both still loyal and still alive out of Castle Ravenloft, and slaughters literally everyone else

thus ends the cockup cascade of the century, leaving Strahd lording over an empty and now extremely haunted castle, with no brother, no girlfriend, and maybe five people in the whole world who he can still expect to rely upon in the future, cue five year broodfest

seriously, he spends the next however many years sulking, only sticking his head out the door to collect taxes and maybe eat an outlaw or three, and boy, if you thought he was bad before his ultimate goth makeover…

i shit you not, he spends an entire page complaining about how his coffin, what he pre-ordered two years prior to All That, has brass fittings instead of gold. and then he complains about how his custom made black marble plinth is HELD UP IN SHIPPING

i love this man so fuckign much. i want to trap him in a locker and steal his lunch money.

he also disguises the fact that he's got no fuckign staff left by pretending to be his own chamberlain whenever he has to deal with People, Ugh, and you can just tell how much he loves talking about himself in the third person

anyway Ol' Leo got away after his coup hit a vampire-shaped snag, and Strahd's been too depressed to track him down for like… thirty years at this point

the entirety of your universe is now twenty miles across, Strahd, i think you could have found him before now if you put your back into it

but he finally gets around to it and we get a frankly hilarious bit where Strahd waltzes into the abbey where Leo's been hiding out, confident as anything, and Immediately walks into a fuckign faraday cage of holy symbols and nearly gets his ass staked

but it's cool, it's fine, he gets his man, and then has to clamber over the abbey wall while carrying a corpse and it's a comedy of errors from start to finish istg

it's ok Strahd bb, you'll get the hang of this vampire thing sooner or later

anyway in a stroke of cruel genius he buries the dude in a cement tomb, lets him revive as a vampire spawn, and then fuckign leaves him there to starve

real mansplain manipulate malewife moment right there, 10/10

and such is life for our resident tortured goth overlord, until, until! guess who he runs into

fuckign Tatyana! again! fifty-plus years after her impromptu basejumping attempt!

yes we're dancing that old chestnut, the object of obsession reincarnating every few decades only to tragically die inches from Strahd's grasp, again and again and again ok we get it can we pack it in now

this lady really gets a raw deal here! she's not being punished for anything, she's just kept in her own bespoke loop of suffering for the sake of making the guy who murdered her fiance even more sad

(there is an argument to be made that the Tatyana that Strahd keeps finding and losing in the world's worst game of Where's Waldo, might not be the real Tatyana. the Dark Powers have set president for replacing the real people best suited for twisting the knife in given Darklords with constructed facsimiles, so it's not impossible that Tatyana's soul isn't trapped in an unending nightmare of death and resurrection through literally no fault of her own. not impossible, but also not likely. yes i am mad about this.)

anyway that's our lot with this one, and hoo boy did this one get long. sorry to the four of you who made it this far, but also not sorry bc this is my favorite book of all time

and i know that's a weird thing to say immediately after bitching about how it treats The Sexy Lamp Named Tatyana, but hear me out. i did say i could forgive this book for a lot of things, and Tatyana's whole deal is one of them. make of that what you will.

but aside from its bugbears, this book is fuckign fantastic. it's what i wanted when i read Dracula for the first time and spent the whole read confused and annoyed about who the hell are all these english twats. the writing is delightfully dry when it's not heartwrenchingly gothic, Strahd as a character is absolutely written tongue-in-cheek by someone who knows what she's doing, and it's just [chef kiss] delicious all around. i can't wait to reread it next year once it's faded somewhat and i can reexperience it all fresh and tasty again

if you can spring for the price tag of $40-$60, depending on where you look, i absolutely recommend it. there's also an audiobook, but i can't vouch for the narration quality there. but if you can, read it! consume this book whole like a ravenous python! that's what i'm doing as we speak!

#church's ravenloft reviews #i strahd #GUYS THIS IS UR HALLOWEEN GIFT #JOIN ME IN THE SPLENDOR OF THIS BOOK

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leafsgarbage · 3 years

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favorite crime | m.a.

A/N: I’m literally so sorry LMAO. I have some characters I find it easier to write for and Atsumu is my top one. He’s also the best to fit this scenario imo. I was either gonna do him or Iwaizumi soooo. Also this is incredibly inspired by Olivia Rodrigo’s song favorite crime. It is my interpretation of the song so I’m sorry if I ruined the song for you or messed up the meaning. I live in the US, so in the state I live in, dating 20 and 17 isn’t illegal but people joke about it.

Synopsis: He was everything you wanted and everything you couldn’t have.

Genre: Angst (oof much angst), fluff (I’m not a monster D: .... jk lol), absent parents

Pairings: Timeskip!Atsumu x f!reader

Song rec: favorite crime - Olivia Rodrigo

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pt.2

Know that I loved you so bad

It was simple really. You befriended Miya Anka your first year at junior high. Her brothers were recently graduated and off at high school, so Anka was left alone. She found a great solace in you.

You two became inseparable since and joined the volleyball team together. You didn’t know much of the sport, but found yourself in love with the libero position.

I let you treat me like that

I was your willing accomplice honey

You saw her brothers every now and then as they were busy with volleyball as it was their first year at Inarizaki. The two of you attended their games and they always thanked you for the support when you did.

The twins were happy their sister found someone she could trust and have by her side. You were 12 then, them being 15. These interactions were minimal, but you still couldn’t help but admire the setter from afar.

His attitude on and off the court astounded you. He was so confident on the court and was always working at 100% there. Once he got off, he was a shy and bashful guy, no matter what. You think that’s what you liked so much about him.

Despite popular belief, he was also incredibly attentive.

Atsumu was probably the only person who really saw how upset your parents not being there got to you. Anka comforted you and assured you that all you needed was her. Meanwhile, Atsumu would give you a hug and tell you that you were strong and that you would be ok no matter what. Osamu baked you whatever you wanted if you stopped crying, lord knows he doesn’t understand crying women.

You and Anka were often used in the twins’ schemes when they wanted to order food or be allowed out. Their parents just couldn’t say no to their youngest and you, it was damn near impossible.

Atsumu and Osamu always treated the two of you to ice cream when you have succeeded in a crime.

And I watched as you fled the scene

Doe eyes as you buried me

Going on to high school, she insisted you both go to Inarizaki to follow in her brothers’ footsteps. The twins were happy for the two of you and you both celebrated your graduations at the Miyas’ house. Your parents were not there, as according to them, they had much more important matters than celebrating their only daughter’s step towards adulthood.

You loved that the Miays adopted you into their family, you can hardly remember a time when you weren’t at their house. You were grateful really, if not for them, where would you be now?

The twins and Anka would always make you laugh, but who knew it would soon be so seldom. They each left and went on their way to follow their passions, and all you could do was smile with tears threatening to spill as they left with the biggest smiles and prettiest doe eyes. You just knew those two would make it.

Over the course of high school, you and Anka still remained the best of friends and hung out all the time, especially because of volleyball, but your circle just grew. The bond between the two of you would always be stronger than any other though.

You would text her brothers every now and then to check up on how they were doing. Osamu was a bit stressed from being unable to find investors on his business, but you just told him to take out a loan and go all in. Anka reassured him that if anyone could do it, it was him.

Atsumu on the other hand, was a nervous wreck during the beginning of your third year at Inarizaki. He recently got signed with the MSBY Black Jackals and was afraid that his teammates wouldn’t like him. It would be his first time on a team without Osamu.

“Hey! You’re so cool Tsumu, I don’t know why yer stressin’.” You shrug with the phone pressed to your ear.

“So ya think I’m cool?” He teases.

You smile. “I think you’re the coolest.”

This was a turning point in your relationship. A pivotal moment one would say. The day everything changed.

The things I did

Your texts with Atsumu were more frequent and more personal. You would often wake up to good morning texts from him.

Atsumu: Good morning booger, have a good day at school and don’t slack off in volleyball! >:)

You would often indulge him in his banter.

You: D: I never slack off! Good morning Tsum. Have the best day at work, don’t overwork yourself. Take care <3

At night, you would try to stay up because when you were both in your beds alone, he called you to talk in the night. You would recount your day and he would tell you about his. The two of you would laugh till your stomachs hurt or have serious conversations about life and what makes you happy.

You sent him letters because you told him it is easier to write things out and tell him rather than on the spot over the phone. He appreciated them and began to write back when he received one.

Just so I could call you mine.

He jokingly said over the phone that you should visit him, so on Friday afternoon, you left your house and took the train to go to Atsumu. You told Anka that your parents were taking you with them on some business endeavor. She was surprised, but didn’t question it. You felt bad for lying, but you didn’t have a title for what you were or what you’re doing.

You two simply enjoyed spending time in each others’ presence. He made your heart soar as you two would go walk out on the town, hands brushing against each other, itching to hold the other.

The things you did

When you slept over he let you have his bed, but you insisted to sleep on the couch.

“Y/n, yer my guest! A pretty one too, I’m not lettin’ ya sleep on the couch.” The two of you settled on the bed together on opposite ends. Your heart was pounding in your chest, how would you sleep like this?

Some time throughout the night, Atsumu fell asleep and reached out for you. He engulfed you in his strong arms, your back to him as he nestled his head on your neck. You turned bright red, but didn’t bother to try to get out as your heart pounded relentlessly in your chest.

You didn’t bring it up, but Atsumu had the biggest smile on his face in the morning.

When you got back home, Atsumu even started to send things to your house. He would write little letters attached to them.

Y/n! I found these amazing snacks and I thought I’d share the wealth ;)

Or cute ones.

Hi y/n, I missed you and found these matching bears for us. Love, Atsumu.

You can’t remember a time when you were so excited to get the mail.

One day, Atsumu actually invited you to meet the guys from MSBY as his friend. You didn’t mind because the two of you never really settled on making anything official.

“Oh, so this is the girl you bug us about?” Sakusa remarks and Atsumu wants to kill him.

“Omi!” He yells before chasing him around the

You and Bokuto laugh at the pair as Kiyoomi desperately tries to get away from his setter. “Is Sakusa-kun on the team yet?”

“He’s still playing at the college level but he said he’s looking into MSBY so he’s around a lot.” Bokuto explains. “What are you planning to do after high school y/n?”

You nod. “Probably more volleyball, it’s really all I know and I can’t fathom doin anything else ya know?”

Bokuto smiles at you, glad you have such a heart for the sport. “Why don’t you play a game with us.”

“You guys are professionals! I couldn’t keep up.” You laugh at his offer.

“Come on, one game?” Reluctantly, you accept the spiker’s request and he gathers teams of six on each side. You have Kiyoomi and Barnes, and others you haven’t met while the other team has Atsumu, Bokuto, Meian, Thomas, Inunaki, and one more.

You end up losing 3-2 but Inunaki compliments your skills as a libero. It makes you feel more confident in your position.

Before you left, Bokuto slapped Atsumu on the back and made a comment. “Just don’t catch a case alright.” He said jokingly as the two laughed it off.

You couldn’t help but think,

Well I hope I was your favorite crime.

You never wanted to lie to Anka, but you also didn’t want to face her and tell her you fell in love with her brother who’s three years older than you. It seemed like the ultimate betrayal if anything, but you decided to be brave and let her know.

She took it better than you expected. “I mean, do I wantcha with my stinky brother not really, but if he makes you happy y/n, then I’m happy for you.”

You started crying, feeling so overwhelmed with the kindness your friend has showed you. “I love you Anka.”

Anka hugs you back and says that you deserve the world, but you don’t need the world if you have her. “Did he at least ask you to be his girlfriend? Although I guess he’d want to wait till we finish school. Ugh my brother is annoying.”

The two of you talk about everything as you normally do, but getting this off of your chest was definitely worth it.

You used me as an alibi

This is when your world started to shift again. Atsumu would begin to cancel a lot of your plans or ask you to tell his sister that he wasn’t coming home on certain days he was supposed to. It was odd, but you were assured it was just for work and nothing more.

Online you found that Atsumu began to get more recognition by the media. There were people who loved him or really hated him, so you were worried about his well-being.

You and Anka travelled to him to see how he was doing. When you got to his door you heard pretty loud music. The two of you opened the door to peak inside only to find everyone dancing and Atsumu in a corner talking to a group of people smiling and laughing.

Before you could get recognized, you both left and headed back to Hyogo. “I thought he was busy working.” His sister muttered annoyed, already pulling out her phone to text Osamu.

“Me too..”

I crossed my heart as you crossed the line.

Prom was coming up soon, as was your birthday, and Atsumu promised that he would be back for your birthday and attend prom with you and his sister.

“Yer gonna look beautiful.” He said over the phone and you blushed hard.

You never brought up the incident, chalking it up to a misunderstanding. He could have been socializing for work so you didn’t want to be seen as immature and make problems where there don’t need to be.

A boy in school came up to you at your desk, he was actually your lab partner for physics and you greeted him. “Hi y/n, can I talk to you outside?” He asks. You nod and follow him out to the field. “I’ve liked you for a really long time and just wanted to know if you would like to go to prom with me?”

For a moment, you’re so lost. He would always roll his eyes at you and call you dumb in class... how? “Umm, I’m flattered Haru, but I already have a date, I’m sorry.”

He wasn’t upset about it, he was just sad he didn’t get to you in time.

When your 18th birthday came up, Atsumu and Osamu came back to celebrate. “Happy Birthday!” They said while bringing in gifts and food for you. Oh how you missed Osamu’s food.

While Osamu and Anka went to the kitchen, you looked over at Atsumu’s phone. He was tapping away at it with a smile on his face. “Who is it Tsum?” You ask resting your chin on his shoulder.

He shrugs and tucks his phone away, but not before you can get a glimpse at it. “Just someone from work. Hey, I can’t stay the whole time, I’m sorry.” You assure him it’s ok and he kisses your cheek, thanking you for being so understanding.

Atsumu joins his siblings in singing happy birthday to you, and you plaster a smile on your face when all you want to do is cry.

And I defended you to all my friends

“Wait, you saw what?!” Anka exclaimed angrily as you told her about why you think Atsumu had to leave early.

All of the girls were stretching before you started training, listening to you intently. “It was some girl named Alisa and she asked him if he was going to the party that day, and he said he wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

Your teammates stared with disapproving looks, and Anka looked the most pissed. “Y/n, in my opinion, you have to drop him.” Your captain said. “If he loved you like he should, he wouldn’t leave early on your birthday to attend a party.”

Anka nodded with your captain. You’re not even sure if you have ever said I love you to each other. “I don’t know if he has to do them for work ya know, build relationships and stuff.” You don’t want to be seen as immature.

“Girl no.” Anka said. “He’s my brother so I could massacre him if you want me to, jail is just a place.” That made you chuckle and you shook your head while your captain slapped her on the back.

“Thank you guys, but I’m just going to leave it right now.” They weren’t very happy with it, but respected your decision in your own relationship.

That night you call him and hope he picks up. “Hello?” He says through the phone.

“Hi Tsum.”

“Y/n! How are ya?” This feels odd. Your conversation has never been so basic like this.

You hum into the phone. “Tsum, do you love me?”

There’s a pause before he chuckles. “Of course I do, why would ya have to ask?”

“Just checking.”

And now every time a siren sounds

I wonder if you’re around.

It was prom day when you got the phone call. “Hey y/n, I’m so sorry I won’t be able to make it today, but send pictures! I know yer going to look gorgeous.”

Safe to say Anka was not happy and neither were you. While she was angry with her brother, you were utterly disappointed. You had this beautiful dress on with cute makeup Anka did for you and cool shoes, but you felt so worthless.

“Let’s go y/n, ok?” She said trying to cheer you up. “You and me, we’re going to have such a great time!” You knew her date was coming to pick her up and you’d feel bad for third-wheeling, but agreed anyway.

She wanted to stay by you the whole time, but assured her that you wanted her to have fun and you would be ok at the table.

As she went off and danced, you stayed at your table drinking the spiked punch all on your lonesome. Until your lab partner came up to you. “Hi y/n.”

You were actually happy he did. “Hi Haru.”

“Would you like to dance?”

You’re not sure if it was the incredible hole in your heart or the punch that made you say yes, but you don’t regret it. You and Hiro dance next to Anka and her date and you’re all laughing as the guys attempt to B-boy on the dance floor.

You are all a bit intoxicated when you leave prom so you just opt to take the bus back to your houses. Haru is tying up your hair because you couldn’t reach it in your dress. “Hey y/n.” You hum in response. “Would you like to hic, hangout some other time.”

Yet again, you’re not sure if it’s the alcohol or the joy you felt from hanging out with people you really like. “Surrree, hic let’s do it again, hic.”

When you get home your phone rings. “Hello?” You say trying to sound not drunk at all.

“Y/n? How was prom? Ya didn’t send me any pictures. Also I’m on a video call, can ya take me away from yer ear.” He chuckles.

You remove the phone to see Atsumu with disheveled hair from a recent shower. “Oh, hiiiiii Atsumu. Prom was gooooood hic.” You smile innocently at the camera.

His eyebrows furrow. “Were you drinking?” You shake your head no. “Don’t lie y/n.”

You groan at him. “Come onnnn Atsumu, hic it’s just for prom.”

“That’s irresponsible of you y/n.” Maybe he was saying it from a place of concern, and maybe if you were sober you would see it that way, but being drunk seemed to have just triggered all these emotions you sought to bury.

To hell with being mature. “You know what’s, hic, irresponsible of you, Tsumu hic. It’s making hic promises you can’t keep.”

“What are you talking about-”

“Don’t act like you don’t know! Hic. Y-you promise to be at my birthday and you leave to hic go to a party. You promise to take me to prom and probably go to another party. You don’t call me, don’t send me anything, don’t text me cute messages, and don’t tell me what we are. What are we Atsumu? What are we doing? You claim you love me and then ghost me hic. W-why?”

“Y/n-”

“A-a-and you know! I always defended you, and never wanted to make you feel like I was too young, o-or immature. But even though you’ve hurt me so much I still love you... cause you know, I would do it all again.” You were tired. Tired of being lied to, tired of being unappreciated.

“I do love you y/n, but my job-”

You shake your head. “No, fuck your job, fuck your excuses. Just tell me, please, just tell me.”

And so he did.

Oh, the things I did.

You left him little voicemails when he wouldn’t pick up the phone or leave messages that often got left on read. But you were just glad he knew he was appreciated.

Just so I could call you mine.

Then, on the rare chance he did answer, your calls were still cut short as he told you he was tired. “Goodnight Tsumu, I love you.”

“Goodnight y/n.”

Oh, the things you did.

He told you about how he had to host parties for some publicity and ended up meeting this woman who was very big on the social media scene. At first it was strictly business, but he found himself enamored by the older model and fell in love with the way she loved her passion as much as he did.

You slid down the wall of your living room, tears falling along with you, one hand covering your mouth so you wouldn’t let out the sobs that had your body shaking.

“I’m so sorry, y/n.” But his apologies were void at this point. “It wasn’t our-”

“Well, I hope I was your favorite crime.” And you hung up, blocking his number, his social medias, everything.

You wanted to erase him from your life, but he tainted your heart and you think that’s why the pain in your chest is so strong as you sob out into the empty house.

With the little amount of strength you had, you made your way to your room, tore off your dress and cleaned off all of your makeup as well as loosened your hair. You plopped into bed and cried yourself to sleep.

Falling in love should be a crime. No one should ever have this kind of power over someone.

There was knocking on your door and you headed to open it. There stood the man who had the power to make you fall to your knees in pain, and they almost did had it not been for the door. You quickly close the door, but he keeps it open with one foot through the door.

You open it and allow him in. “If you’re here to apologize some more or ask me for forgiveness please don’t bother. It’s my fault for falling in love with you.”

“Your favorite crime?” He asks what you meant over the phone. “You didn’t give me any time to explain, y/n. You think I would play with your feelings just for the fun of it?”

You nod. “Yes. Your sister’s best friend, someone you shouldn’t go after but did anyway. Why?”

“Because I thought you were the only one who cared about me when I was alone-”

You cut him off. “Right.” You start to laugh. “You were feeling homesick, and I was worried about you, so I talked to you and look where that got me. Now you have adoring fans, thousands of people who love you and a beautiful girl too. You can go now Atsumu, I don’t want anything from you anymore.”

“Why do ya keep cutting me off, and now letting me say anything! You just keep coming out with these conclusions.” He says upset.

“Am I wrong?” You ask, finally looking into his eyes and you see the bags under them, but it’s not your place to care anymore. He doesn’t respond so you just nod, accepting what you have already known to be true. “Get out.” You open the door and point to it. He hesitates before sighing and grabbing his things to head out the door.

“Your favorite crime?” He asks again and you nod with a sad smile.

Cause, baby you were mine.

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vivithefolle · 3 years

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I just wanna ask, and don’t get mad at me cause I’m genuinely curious, how do you stan Ron? Like, I like him, but he is definitely misogynistic (slut shaming Ginny, treating hermione like she owes him something and being mad that she kissed someone years before, always objectifying Fleur, and acting like girls who aren’t pretty aren’t worth much). Like, by DH I feel like he definitely has mostly grown out of it, but still 6/7 books he’s kinda unbearable IMO

how do you stan Ron?

Like this:

OH MY GOD HAVE YOU SEEN. HAVE YOU SEEN HIM DID YOU SEE MY BABY OH MY GOD. WHEN HARRY’S ARM HAD GONE KABLOOIE BECAUSE OF LOCKHART AND HE. RON. HE WAS. HELPING HIM GET DRESSED???? OH MY GOD BABY???? HHHHNNNNGGGG. AND. AND. AND ALSO WHEN HE. OMG. WHEN HE WAS PUTTING FOOD ON HIS FRIENDS’ PLATES LIKE. MOM FRIEND ALERT MOM FRIEND ALERT MOM FRIEND ALERT. AND THE WAY HE’S ALWAYS BLUSHING AND BEING EMBARRASSED AT THE SLIGHTEST PRAISE BUT ALSO HE’S SO DESPERATELY SEEKING IT BUT HE KNOWS HE CAN’T TAKE IT AND EEK EEK EEK THAT’S SO CUTE SOMEONE HOLD ME IT’S ADORABLE RONALD WEASLEY YOU ARE SO GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE THIS CUTE!!!!

Ok and then.

he is definitely misogynistic

No. And here’s why.

slut shaming Ginny

Yes, that was wrong. And guess what, that’s also something he probably - scratch that, definitely - picked up from his mother. And also his brothers, recall how Fred and George too don’t like to see Ginny go around with boys. There’s also something to recall: Ron was there when Ginny was taken into the Chamber of Secrets and learned later that it was because she had trusted an older guy. You seriously wouldn’t be paranoid about who your sister dates after that? It was wrong. Yeah. And he more than learned his lesson when Ginny clapped back by virgin-shaming him and basically told him that he was childish because he hadn’t have a relationship yet. So would that make Ginny sexist too? Or is it just for Ron?

treating hermione like she owes him something

..................... uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh... when? When the fuck did anything like that happen?

He made a prat of himself at the Yule Ball, that much is obvious. But he didn’t tell her anything like “you should be with me” or didn’t insinuate anything of the sort. He was a jealous bitch but kept attacking Krum, not Hermione.

If you mean in sixth year when he treated her with “icy, sneering indifference” for the course of two weeks, yeah that was bad but that’s not “treating her like she owes him something”, the fuck?

being mad that she kissed someone years before

Yeah. I know. And that was bad, ooooh you got me to admit Ron did bad stuff, that’s what you want to see, right? And I reckon he was also mad that she hid it from him, and that he had to learn it from his sister of all people. We see Ron handles what he considers betrayals terribly. I have some meta discussing the possibility that he has a form of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria.

always objectifying Fleur

Um... no, he doesn’t. He makes a stupid comment about her once in GOF then stops. Let’s also fucking remember that Fleur is a Veela, she literally makes guys stare at her as part of her powers!! I’m not blaming her because she’s literally born that way, but you can’t blame someone who is under magical compulsion either.

acting like girls who aren’t pretty aren’t worth much

So tell me why he was friends with Hermione then?

Because Hermione wasn’t Emma Watson the super hawt sexy model goddess. Hermione was Mrs Generic. Until this once at the Yule Ball when she got the pretty princess perfect Mary Sue makeover but then stopped because she had to remain ~relatable uwu~.

Again. Ron made stupid sexist comments. But it’s actively shown that he doesn’t follow up on them. If he did indeed live by the motto “girls who aren’t pretty aren’t worth much”, explain to me why he wasn’t simping and drooling all over Padma Patil who is explicitly stated to be one of the prettiest girls at school when she was his date? Why exactly did he ignore her and was a miserable twat the whole evening instead of basking in the joy of having snagging a girl that was “worth it”? Well surprise, it’s because HE ACTUALLY ISN’T LIKE THAT AND WHAT HE SAYS IS MAYBE SHIT HIS “COOL OLDER BROTHERS” SAY AND HE THINKS THAT BY EXTENSION IT WOULD MAKE HIM COOL TO REPEAT IT. MIMETISM, THAT'S BASIC FUCKING HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY FOR FUCKING TODDLERS MY FUCKING GOD.

Like, by DH I feel like he definitely has mostly grown out of it,

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so. so why. so why wouldn’t you. use that. as a reason. to stan him.

like.

fuck all the “hurr durr ron weasley the boy who made it out of the friendzone!!!!” bullshit, let’s start going with “Ron Weasley, the Boy who became a Man, and not one of those 'uugghh im such an alpha male’ ones but one that’s got the balls to say ‘hey love, I’ve got an idea, what if you kept doing that job you love and feel passionate about while I support you and do the majority of the childcare while also working a smaller job on the side so we’re never short on money’“

Why you people gotta be “yeah I like Ron BUTT” when you know full-well this fucking awful fandom will rake him over hot coals over the slightest mistake he does - worse, will actively go out of their way to interpret his positive moments in the most negative way possible??? Fuck off with that bullshit. Ron dared to say bad stuff omygah big deal, he was forgiven for it all and you’re just all cowards looking to feel “pure” by telling yourself “oh yeah but he was problematic once uwu”. FUCK. THAT. NOISE.

but still 6/7 books he’s kinda unbearable IMO

And IMO he’s not, funny how that works

So.

I guess it’s impossible to stan Ron because he was problematic uwu.

Ok.

Then I hereby decree that it’s impossible to stan Hermione Granger because:

“I’ll bet you wish you hadn’t given up Divination now, don’t you, Hermione?” asked Parvati, smirking. [...] “Not really,” said Hermione indifferently, who was reading the Daily Prophet. “I’ve never really liked horses.” She turned a page of the newspaper, scanning its columns. “He’s not a horse, he’s a centaur!” said Lavender, sounding shocked. “A gorgeous centaur . . .” sighed Parvati. “Either way, he’s still got four legs,” said Hermione coolly. “Any-way, I thought you two were all upset that Trelawney had gone?” - Order of the Phoenix, ch 27

wow casual use of a racial slur yay!!! A+

And it’s also forbidden to stan Harry Potter either since:

It was raining hard now, and she was nowhere to be seen. He simply did not understand what had happened; half an hour ago they had been getting along fine. “Women!” he muttered angrily, sloshing down the rain-washed street with his hands in his pockets. “What did she want to talk about Cedric for anyway? Why does she always want to drag up a subject that makes her act like a human hosepipe?” - Order of the Phoenix, ch 25

and

“Harry! There you are, thank goodness! Hi, Luna!” “What’s happened to you?” asked Harry, for Hermione looked distinctly disheveled, rather as though she had just fought her way out of a thicket of Devil’s Snare. “Oh, I’ve just escaped — I mean, I’ve just left Cormac,” she said. “Under the mistletoe,” she added in explanation, as Harry continued to look questioningly at her. “Serves you right for coming with him,” he told her severely. “I thought he’d annoy Ron most,” said Hermione dispassionately. “I debated for a while about Zacharias Smith, but I thought, on the whole —” “You considered Smith?” said Harry, revoked. - Half-Blood Prince

Victim-blaming! Nice Harry, nice. Always classy.

Ok, Ginny stanning is already cancelled because she virgin-shamed Ron, right, so who’s left, who’s left... ah yeah:

“There you go,” said Fred proudly. “Best range of love potions you’ll find anywhere.” - Half-Blood Prince

Selling date rape drugs proudly ouh là là. Bye Fred.

"Do they work?” she asked. “Certainly they work, for up to twenty-four hours at a time depending on the weight of the boy in question...” “...and the attractiveness of the girl,” said George, reappearing suddenly at their side. “But we’re not selling them to our sister,” he added, becoming suddenly stern, “not when she’s already got about five boys on the go from what we’ve...” “Whatever you’ve heard from Ron is a big fat lie,” said Ginny calmly, leaning forward to take a small pink pot off the shelf.

Assuming that only girls use love potions, and only on boys. Men never rape in JKR’s world, only women do, you heard it from George Weasley here folks, I’m just passing on the message. Ah and I hope you’re also starting the Fred And George Hate Club given how he’s also slut-shaming Ginny.

“What’s this?” “Guaranteed ten-second pimple vanisher,” said Fred. “Excellent on everything from boils to blackheads, but don’t change the subject. Are you or are you not currently going out with a boy called Dean Thomas?” “Yes, I am,” said Ginny. “And last time I looked, he was definitely one boy, not five. What are those?” She was pointing at a number of round balls of fluff in shades of pink and purple, all rolling around the bottom of a cage and emitting high-pitched squeaks. “Pygmy Puffs,” said George. “Miniature puffskeins, we can’t breed them fast enough. So what about Michael Corner?” “I dumped him, he was a bad loser,” said Ginny, putting a finger through the bars of the cage and watching the Pygmy Puffs crowd around it. “They’re really cute!” “They’re fairly cuddly, yes,” conceded Fred. “But you’re moving through boyfriends a bit fast, aren’t you?” Ginny turned to look at him, her hands on her hips. There was such a Mrs. Weasley-ish glare on her face that Harry was surprised Fred didn’t recoil. “It’s none of your business. And I’ll thank you” she added angrily to Ron, who had just appeared at George’s elbow, laden with merchandise, “not to tell tales about me to these two!”

Ah, good on you for defending yourself, Ginny, but remember, Ginny stanning is prohibited because she’s been problematic in the past and is gonna be problematic in the future and that’s baaaaaaad. Careful kids, don’t get ideas. It’s problematic to like people who’ve done problematic things.

So I guess nobody can like anything or anyone now. Sorry guys. Liking things is evil, what if the thing you liked had, OR USED TO HAVE, *gasp* flaws, can’t take that risk, ohmygah.

#vivi answers #ask #ron weasley #ron weasley defense squad #ron weasley defence squad #hp fandumb #hp fandom #harry potter #harry potter series #fred weasley #george weasley #fred and george #ginny weasley #hermione granger #problematic content

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michaelmilkers · 3 years

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Can I ask for help, I’m not sure if I’m pan or bi. I know they are very similar but pan has awful origins (fucking Freud) yet in bi’s origin it was considered the two sexes and it was the overlap which is what the purple meant BUT I know these meanings have change. Yet I’m not sure either fit because I don’t feel gendered attraction. Like I lack it so what does that make me? I’m just into people in general so does that make me bi or pan or polysexual? I’m just so lost

i'm none of those things so i can't really help you with personal experience but like. just whatever fits you the best? there's also no reason why you can't go by all of those things, or omnisexual or just multisexual or something else entirely.

the origin of the words should not really affect your decision making though imo because the origin of basically every single longtime gay term outside of i think lesbian (since that just means 'of the isle of lesbos' where sappho lived) came from some kind of medical diagnosis or description. this includes homosexual and bisexual. like thats just how it was yknow.

but pansexual also has a long history of usage in between freud coining it and someone making a blog in 2006 saying that pansexual means 'men women and trans people' though it was differently used from what you associate with it today. it was more used to describe a lifestyle of sexual fluidity, like for example david bowie was described as pansexual in the media once or twice because of his androgyny, and before that (like in the 60s) when it was used it was essentially used interchangeably with bisexual. polysexual was also used in this way (as a synonym for or variation of bisexual, or just a word meaning sexual freedom in general), along with other words like omnisexual and ambisexual (ambi as in 'ambiguous'), but not as frequently as pansexual. so if history is important to you theres also that. obviously not implying bisexual doesnt have history because it SUPER DUPER does but its pretty well discussed and documented on tumblr

or just pick the flag you think is prettiest lol

#flags in order: pansexual bisexual polysexual and omnisexual #apparently theres also an ambisexual flag but its just the bi flag with a gradient so i didnt include that one

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arofili · 4 years

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Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Who is the fairest of them all?

Whilst rereading the Silm, I got incredibly sidetracked and compiled this list of every time someone is referred to as “fair” or “beautiful.” Every quote here is stated directly by the narrative itself, unless otherwise indicated.

Disclaimers: This is from a keyword search for “fair” and “beautiful” in the published Silm, not anything from LOTR or HOME. The linked edition of the Silm does have some typos, so that may mean I missed a couple.

I only included people or groups of people, and not places or things.

I’m sure this has been done before, but what the hell, here it is again.

And finally, it’s often not clear whether Tolkien is referring to beauty or hair color - though I did not run across anything that seemed to specifically be referring to skin tone.

Alright - here we go...!

Elves!

The Quendi are “fairest of all earthly creatures.”

The Eldar are called “fair and joyful.”

The Vanyar are “the Fair Elves.” Probably referring mostly to their blond hair, though.

The Noldor are called the “fairest of the children of the world” but this is specifically in the “Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age” section so that seems to me that they’re the fairest ones left in Middle-earth at that time.

The Teleri are the “fairest singers;” the Sindar specifically have the “fairest voices” save Maglor, and are also the fairest of the Moriquendi.

The Host of the Valar are in “forms young and fair and terrible.” Later, the Last Alliance is called “fairer and more splendid in arms” than any host since, and only the Host of the Valar was greater.

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Lúthien Tinúviel, more fair than mortal tongue can tell...

Lúthien is the fairest “of all the Children of Ilúvatar” and “of all the Children of the World” (the second said by Beren); she is also “more fair than mortal tongue can tell” (again said by Beren) and called “the fair”; her song to Mandos is the “most fair that ever in words was woven” (which makes sense considering the Teleri and Sindar are both called the fairest singers).

She is also the most beautiful “of all the Children of Ilúvatar” and “of all living things” (this last said by Daeron). That’s four distinct times she’s called the fairest or beautiful, plus being called “the fair” and having sung the fairest song ever and being called too fair to be described in a mortal tongue - seven references to her beauty in total.

Extending that to her descendants...

Dior is called “the fairest of all the children of the World, of threefold race” and personally I think that’s more impressive than his mom, but either way he’s at least a close second. He’s also called “the fair” and “the beautiful.”

Elwing is called “the fair.”

And going back to Lúthien’s dad, Thingol was stated to be fair before meeting Melian but afterward appearing as “a lord of the Maiar,” so...even sexier? Or possibly now he’s eldritch?

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Noldor time!

Finarfin is the fairest of the sons of Finwë. This could be referring solely to his golden hair, but I’m not convinced of that. Either way, he gets it from his mother Indis, who is called “the Fair.”

Fëanor is called “tall, and fair of face” and while I personally reject the tall!Fëanor canon because I love imagining him as tiny and full of rage, I will accept that he’s sexy.

Celegorm is called “the fair.”

Aredhel is specifically said to be fair to Eöl.

Idril is fairer than Gondolin.

Finrod is called both “the fairest of the house of Finwë” and “the fairest of all the princes of the Elves.”

However, Galadriel is stated to be “most beautiful of all the house of Finwë.” What is the truth, Tolkien!!!

Later, Galadriel is called “the fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth” in the Third Age.

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Men!

Túrin is said to have a face “more beautiful than any among mortal Men, in the Elder Days.” He’s also called “fair and strong.”

He must have got it from his mom, because Morwen is called “most beautiful of mortal women in the days of old.” No word on mortals, men or women, in later days.

The Númenóreans are said to be getting fairer each generation; later, they are called the “fairest of Men” by the Messengers from Aman.

Tar-Míriel in particular is “fairer than silver or ivory or pearl.” Those are all white or silver, so that makes me wonder about her skin tone or hair color - I do think it’s referring primarily to her overall beauty, but silver-haired Tar-Míriel in an echo of the original Míriel Þerindë is something I am now very much into.

It’s worth noting that Túrin and Morwen are both compared to Elves in their beauty - Morwen’s epessë “Eledhwen” translates to “Elfsheen,” and Túrin’s epessë “Adanedhel” translates to “Elf Man.” And the Númenóreans are descendants of Elves, including Lúthien “most beautiful of all living things” Tinúviel. So it seems that Men only have a chance of being called fair if they’re very Elflike.

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Now we get to the bad guys.

(Well, mostly Sauron.)

Melkor is only called fair once - when Fëanor sees through his “fair semblance,” which implies that any beauty he has is fake.

Sauron, however, is called “noble and beautiful” in appearance; he’s also said to have a “fair hue” twice - once specifically “fair and wise” in his form as Annatar, though that is called also a “fair-seeming,” which calls back to Melkor’s “fair semblance.” Again he’s said to appear “wise and fair” to the Númenóreans. Alas, good things can’t last forever, and after the fall of Númenor he can “never again appear fair to the eyes of Men” (no word on Elves, though) because his “fair semblance had departed for ever.”

That’s a total of six times Sauron is called out for being sexy! He’s second only to Lúthien - although unlike her, he’s never called the fairest of anything.

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In sum, Lúthien’s claim to fame as the “most beautiful of all living creatures” pretty much tops anyone else...but IMO, Sauron is a close second.

Plus, Finrod and Galadriel fight it out for the title of “prettiest Finwëan,” with no clear winner!

#silm #silmarillion #the silmarillion #luthien #luthien tinuviel #mairon #sauron #<tagging the characters who are canonically Most Sexy #oneringnet #silmarillion meta #silm meta #my meta #tefain nin #my writing #if someone comes into my inbox to tell me that the original quote is actually 'magic mirror on the wall'#i think i'm going to pull a feanor and spontaneously combust #I Know. But This Sounds Better And Is Part Of Pop Culture Now.#mirror mirror on the wall...

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I can't decide whether to ask Supernatural or Wynonna Earp for the fandom asks, so you pick!

[Caption: "Both. Both. Both. Both is good." reaction gif from The Road to El Dorado.]

SPN

the first character i ever fell in love with: way back when, when I watched some episodes of season 3 with a friend, it was Ruby in 3x01-3x02. I was intrigued by her and then she was revealed to be a demon and I went 😍😍😍

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: tbh with this character isn't as easy as stopping loving/being interested in them lmao (especially since my head is in multiple seasons simultaneously, between rewatching to make gifsets, or writing fic set in older seasons, etc. So, I really hate late seasons Dean, but I think of other times and am just as interested as I was initially. I can’t stand Sam after he got Jack trapped in the box, but I write about s4 Sam and adore him. Etc. etc.). I'm gonna say Crowley, who just was never as good as he was in season 5 IMO.

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: not really given my mixed feelings, but I will always say Destiel got worse with Carver's, then Dabb's era lmao. It peaked in s6 afaic tbh. Sastiel also gets worse in the last batch of episodes, sns (first putting Jack in the box, then the attitude towards Castiel in early season 15... smh).

my ultimate favorite character™: Castiel, tragically xD. Bela and Ruby are also on Stanning Levels, especially the more I write about them.

prettiest character: there were sooooooo many pretty women in this show... but you all know Rowena is at the top for me LOL. Before her it was Meg 2.0, who has one of the prettiest faces I've ever seen.

my most hated character: Dean, although again, It's Complicated xD

my OTP: Megstiel.

my NOTP: John/Mary. Fuck cupids.

favorite episode: The Man Who Would Be King is the first that comes to mind. 4x16 or 5x10 are strong contenders too.

saddest death: *lists every beloved female character evah*. Bela and Meg's are very very sad, while Ruby's mostly annoyed me because of the wasted potential, for example.

favorite season: I am obligated to say season 3 because it had Bela AND Ruby (plus the plot with Dean's slow death is really, really good). The misogyny jumped out even more than usual in it though ¬¬

least favorite season: season 14. I had to implement a reward system to myself to get me to finish it lmao.

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: Dean is the one I get as far as hate (also love. Again, complicated). Although I must say there are a lot of fandom darlings I'm either indifferent to or even loathe. For indifferent, see Charlie or Benny. For loathing, see Victor Henriksen, who was misogynist AND tried to pressure Dean and Sam's lawyer to break privilege ¬¬. The fact that this fandom calls him cinnamon roll is proof that some people just want ~progressive fandom points without actually paying attention to the writing rme.

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: Dean xD. And I mean, I guess Castiel is a war criminal and Ruby had kinda inconvenient goals from humanity's point of view xDD

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: Jack :))) and Kevin. Also Claire. All the Wayward girls lol. Alicia and Max. And so on lol.

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: Samruby I guess, but I feel no guilt. Dean/Alastair is also yikes, but I find it compelling sooo.

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: idk if I'm capable of this, whenever I think about a ship I'm lowkey interested in for too long I get invested LOL. Lately I've thought often about Castiel/Mary because of how hilarious I found the concept from a crackfic point of view (imagine Sam & Dean's reactions LOL)... but now I'm like hmm. Could be nice though. I partially blame @angelfishofthelord ¬¬

WYNONNA EARP

the first character i ever fell in love with: it’s been a long time but it was likely Wynonna. I think it was on the pilot, when she was completely disarmed when Dolls talked about demons like it was nothing after all she’d gone through (up to institutionalization) whenever she talked about it. I Felt That.

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: n/a. My likes were constant lol.

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: n/a.

my ultimate favorite character™: Rosita is My Everything.

prettiest character: Rosita is pretty but MY GOD did the styling department did its best to hide that lmao. Waverly was gorgeous too. And Wynonna was hot.

my most hated character: I didn’t hate him, but tbh I never cared for Doc. I could tell he was getting more and more space and that was part of why I dropped the show: I just wasn’t interested in that.

my OTP: Rosita/Waverly.

my NOTP: n/a, really, but I also never cared for Doc/Wynonna.

favorite episode: the one with Rosewaves’ kiss or the alternate timeline one :DDD

saddest death: Willa’s :(((

favorite season: season 2.

least favorite season: I didn’t watch it but I’m gonna say s3 on principle xD

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: again: not hate, but I really don’t get the hype about Doc. He is, also, Just A Guy xD

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: frankly I wouldn’t call any of my faves trash here, even jokingly. They’re good or have very limited choices!

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: frankly, Willa deserved better. Waverly is obviously the cinnamon roll lol, but Willa’s storyline is so tragic and frankly, poorly handled.

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: none, really, but I’m gonna drop a mention to Rosita/Wynonna, since they did a couple fucked up things to each other xD. Glad they ended in a good place with that hilarious s4 cameo, though :P

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: n/a.

#casa neurotica #replies #talking to the void #my thoughts #spn thoughts #wearp thoughts #wearp #supernatural #thank you!

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Wozmzbxb why dont you want a white love interest at all? The goal is equality isnt it 🤣 not no white women ever. I think were going to meet at least two more love interests? Also id get if youre saying you dont want him to have a white bf. But there are some attractive white women left. (imo) wait ohhh what if liz comes back? 😍 okay shes the prettiest of all women ever

there’s been enough white love interests in media, i’ve had enough. i never said white women werent pretty i just want romance to be filled with darker woc

also i think liz has great villain/anti-hero potential (i think there’s a comic where she was one) but like i’ve said: they were so bad at writing romantic relationships for peter so maybe with better writers if they’re considering rekindling that but i think they’ve pushed the petermj thing 😕

laura is SO pretty ur right i actually do wanna see her come back but only if they write liz better

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epic-potato-crisp · 3 years

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AjinWeek21/2

Day 2: Favorite minor character/ cigarettes / sin

Notes: A combination that just screamed Ogura, imo. More of a character study than a ship fic, but some sad-adult-trio undertones.

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For all intents and purposes, Ogura Ikuya was dead.

It’s not that his heart had stopped beating, or he had stopped breathing, or even his synapses had stopped firing.

Physiologically, he was in an impeccable condition. Minus a few broken bones, but hey. With all the cigarette smoke he kept inhaling, he had made peace with the fact that he was here for a good time, not necessarily a long time.

To the American government, he was dead. To the Japanese government, as good as, with a handful of exceptions that knew better and were currently keeping him kidnapped at a hideout in the countryside.

Was it even kidnapping, at this point? It better not be Stockholm Syndrom, Ogura thought with vague amusement, noticing how relaxed and carefree he felt despite his situation.

The animosity that had been there between him and the others initially, had started to dissolve into an air of ambivalence, that slowly began resembling a sort of kinship.

Hirasawa might have broken his fingers, but he was an interesting guy and Ogura enjoyed hanging out with him and his crew after work hours. Especially when Manabe brought generous amounts of booze.

And there are, well, there are others.

Shimomura Izumi is one of the smartest and one of the prettiest women he has seen throughout his entire life. One that could easily take you down, if you weren’t careful.

It’s quite obvious that Tosaki is aware of that too, as much as he tries to gloss over it with bureaucratic terminology and the constant air of being stressed.

He has a fiancé, that much Ogura knows. She’s comatose, but even with Tosaki’s character deficiencies, he’s aware that the man would rather give an arm and a leg than to be unfaithful to her.

It’s almost ludicrous how it is exactly this determination that makes him so appealing to Ogura. The waves of hatred he feels coming from the other man are just a bonus, the cherry on top of a large sundae. He itches to get under his skin, to unravel that cold exterior, to unclench that beautifully chiselled jaw. And if Izumi were to be there, in the same room with them, well- wouldn’t that be a lucky coincidence?)

(He leaves these fantasies at the door. Some nights. Others, he replays them over and over.)

Ogura is a man of many talents. He has a doctorate in the sciences, a senior position at a prestigious research facility and a fluency in three languages. But now, more than ever, he has time to kill, so out of necessity, he expands his hobbies.

He keeps himself updated on his colleague’s research by anonymously browsing the main publishing hubs, and on American politics in general. He refamiliarizes himself with Tetris. He third-wheels Tosaki and Izumi at every possible occasion, as it is both hilariously entertaining and another petty opportunity to exact revenge on the ministry worker that had ordered his fingers to be broken. These bones might heal themselves, but that would take time and copious amounts of physiotherapy he was not able to receive, let alone have his insurance cover - yet another regrettable downside of being considered deceased. This was nothing Tosaki’s laughably insincere apology could fix. And yet, he can’t bring himself to be too hard on the man.

At least, he, Ogura, is free to do as he pleases at the hideout. Aside from answering any of the group’s burning queries on IBM research and voicing his opinion when the time came for making plans, he doesn’t have much on his plate. It’s not him that spends half his day going about his governmental dayjob and the other half running an illegal resistance operation that included quasi-babysitting two immortal teenagers.

Ogura had always known he was suited far better for the role as the fun uncle that would smoke with you and talk about physics, or more recently, ghosts made out of invisible black matter. Nagai Kei takes advantage of the opportunity, often coming to him with an remarkable amount of questions at quite the impressive level that he genuinely enjoys answering. He doesn’t connect with Nakano Kou as easily – to be fair, it is hard standing out next to Nagai – but soon discovers the teenager’s need for some remedial English lessons, which he has no trouble delivering. If he happens to teach him several swear words while doing so, it is nothing but a happy coincidence.

“Can I interest you two in another evening of bad decisions?” he says, one evening, mischievously gesturing with a tequila bottle and three glasses.

He’d walked in on them sitting half-dead in their meeting room, which was becoming a regular occurrence.

Izumi gives him a tight-lipped smile: “We’re not playing “How many drinks until the IBM manifests” again. Remember what happened the last time?”

Ogura remembered, in fact, he was sure everyone did. That had been one of the most entertaining evenings of his entire summer. Izumi could certainly hold her liquor, if four drinks were anything to go by. That was usually how long it took for Kuro-chan to go wild.

“Aww, see, and here I thought I was in for a treat.” Ogura says, sighing theatrically.

“Just get out if you’re going to waste our time.” Tosaki grumbles. But then, he clicks his tongue and holds out his hand expectantly.

“You can at least make yourself useful.” he says, averting his eyes.

Ogura raises an eyebrow in surprise, but then obliges, pouring him a glass.

The man is walking enigma. One that is a but a day away from ending up as clinical burn-out patient.

“Drinks for the lady?”

Izumi graces him with a withering glare, but then she too nods in defeat.

“Hit me up.” she says, a smile tugging at her lips.

“As you like it.” Ogura says, grinning, as he settles down to join the saddest party of his entire life.

After all, it would be nearly a sin to pass up such an opportunity.

#ajinweek21 #ajin #ajin demi human #ogura ikuya #ajin fanfic

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non-sequitura · 3 years

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Non-sequitura Disney in-depth analysis (after making a tier list)

Warning: SUPER longform. If you don’t know a movie well, you should skip the summary. I tried to be light on spoilers, but they’re there.

I went chronologically from favorite to least favorite. So S tier is, in order from fave to least fave, The Incredibles, WALL-E, then Zootopia.

S tier (Something I consider high quality AND a movie I greatly enjoy. I would love more Disney movies be like this.)

The Incredibles - one of my favorite movies of all time, possibly THE favorite. Rockin social commentary, epic action scenes, memorable characters, not a minute of screentime wasted, great take on the Fantastic Four, hilarious parts for both adults and children, an interesting villain, etc.

WALL-E - I love how social commentary was done here. Also skies above, what a beautiful love story. Really blazed a trail in non-verbal storytelling (especially given it was an animated kids film!) Robot animations are particularly delightful.

Zootopia - another social message delivered excellently and entertainingly. I love Judy and her persistence, I love the expressiveness of the faces and the epic city setting. I love Judy and Nick's banter. This movie deserves to be remembered longer than it has been so far. Admittedly, not one of my fave villains, which makes it my least favorite of the Ss.

A tier (either super high quality or something I greatly enjoy and deem of at least reasonably good quality)

Mulan - this movie did everything right. Truly feminist protagonist, an icon for strong Asian women, fairly culturally accurate (tho Mushu confuses me), GORGEOUS and iconic music. Lets a relatively natural romance develop. I frickin love the action scenes, I love the emporer. Sadly, this movie just didn't lodge its way in my heart as well as Pixar did. Pixar just has some magic, yo.

Cinderella - my gosh what an underrated protagonist. Her family straight-up abuses her and she never loses sight of her goals for a better life. Iconic visuals helped bring Disney out of bankruptcy. A gorgeous alto singing voice.

Wreck-it Ralph - alright alright ppl don’t crucify me for this. I honestly can’t think of much wrong with this movie. Vanellope and Ralph’s vitriolic best buds relationship is adorable, her forgiveness of him is heartwarming and (relatively) deserved, rockin’ Owl City song, epic visuals that mix together bc of all the different games. ALSO ONE OF THE BEST DISNEY VILLAINS NO CAP. One of the only twist villains I like. And we stan the romantic pairing.

Tangled - I’ve talked about this a lot, but Rapunzel deserved the whole world after what she’s gone through. That being said, Gothel is not some shallow monster she needs to escape from, but an intelligent, well-defined monster with backstory. I could totally see this story happening if the world of Tangled existed. Epic love story, hilarious dialogue. Music is… good but much of it is less memorable to me. Visuals are good but not quite at the level/creativity of many other disney films.

The Lion King - they really put Hamlet in Africa and pulled it off lol. But in all seriousness, no one took the premise of this film seriously at the time and it became sooo iconic. I love Scar and his eventual downfall, I love how Simba grows emotionally, I love the sad moments that don’t overpower the overall feeling of light goofiness. And music so memorable it was one of the first Disney musicals.

Coco - not a super unique story premise. But an incredible culture to explore with such creativity and sensitivity. I love the themes of death not being the worst and music being so central to the story. Twist/twist villain was memorable and not expected. And yeah, it did make me cry, so props there.

Ratatouille - the most recently watched of these films for me. This movie is soooo unique! Back when Pixar was truly super out there with their concepts. Super Parisian visuals and soundtrack. It somehow starts goofy (THE OLD LADY TRIES TO KILL REMY WITH A SHOTGUN WHILE WEARING A GAS MASK) but really drives home the message that you can truly do what you want regardless of who you are. Colette can get it. And the monologue by Ego at the end is one of my favorites in film.

Frozen - Anna is one of my favorite Disney protagonists. She’s so resilient and loyal. Elsa ain’t bad either but she experiences… less character development. The film is a tad too pleased with its own self-awareness for my taste, but there’s no denying how iconic the music and visuals were.

Inside Out - Alright, this movie hits home for me bc I tried to run away after moving. A super thoughtful, heartfelt depiction of (potentially depression? imo) with great moments of humor. Riley’s inner world is so creative and lovely. Also realistic depictions of Minnesota/California culture.

Tarzan - Jane! is! smart! and! adorable! Her scientific curiosity makes her very endearing. it’s so cute to see her and Tarzan learn from each other. Also Tarzan’s “found mother” is epic. Solid score. Solid film all around. To quote Lily Orchard, “This film is what Pocahontas tried to be.”

B tier (one of my favorites but has a few significant flaws that bring it down (or not quite as memorable to me, but consider good quality))

Peter Pan - Haven’t seen it in a hot sec, but I remember being super charmed by this as a kid. Just going out, having incredible adventures, and returning to a warm home at the end of the day. Tinker Bell is hilarious and beautifully drawn. Gets major negative points for the depiction of Native Americans tho.

Big Hero 6 - I was super charmed by the protagonist, his family/friends, and the setting. The plot/villain’s motivations are a bit of a mess, though.

Princess and the Frog - This movie has so much flavor to it! The visuals/music are lovely and unique. Tiana is incredible but it’s kinda annoying how EVERYONE keeps trying to shoehorn her into romance. The thing is, her goals are entirely reasonable. Focus on her restaurant, then look to settle down. But they’re like “nooo you’re ignoring the important things in life” smh. Also, epic villain, woohoo! The movie dragged significantly for me when they were in the bayou. Charlotte is delightful.

Winnie the Pooh - don’t remember it super well, but I think it was charming and occasionally dark, which is an addictive concoction.

The Little Mermaid - MAN ppl roast Ariel way more than she deserves. Visually, it was… fine. idk. This movie is good. I don’t have much else to say about it.

Snow White - the one that started it all. Visually, super impressive. Musically, lovely. I find the romance a bit… off. Well, more than a bit. What is it with Disney and kissing sleeping people?

Alice in Wonderland - a nerdy acid trip. Right up my alley! I also like films where ppl go on incredible adventures and return to the status quo, but THEY changed bc of it. Epic. SUUUUPER creative visual interpretation of Carroll’s book. Brave - gosh I loooove films where a parent and child learn to understand each other. Never got why ppl hated this movie so much. The Scottish flavor is present and fun. Merida made one mistake and made it up. The arrow scene is iconic.

Cars - a fun ride! (hahaha puns.) We love seeing Paul Newman as a car.

B-minus tier? (same as B, but problematic, or weaker story-wise.)

Hunchback - man… settings-wise, this film might be my favorite. I also love Esmeralda and Quasimodo as characters and as a duo (though the sexualized depiction of Romani ppl is not epic.) I also don’t find the discrimination against Esmeralda/Quasimodo jarring bc it matches the time period. Frollo is super interesting as a villain. The gargoyles are… def not necessary. Basically, this film doesn’t know what it’s doing with tone.

Sleeping Beauty - Aurora was my favorite when I was younger because I thought she was the prettiest, and that still defines how i feel about this, basically. Visually lovely - everything is kind of elongated and gothic. Maleficent is spiteful and epic. I have no issue with the fluffier parts of the movie, like the music or the fairies. RIP for lack of consent being a plot point, though.

Hercules - Megara is incredible. one of the only Disney “princesses” who acts like an adult and has cynicism as a major part of her personality. I love her and Herc’s progression where she learns to trust him (yes, he is genuinely that sincere, it’s not a front.) Muses are unique, whoever came up with them was high on something and I’m living for it. I just think the plot itself was somewhat unrealistic/ weirdly-paced. There are some memorable songs, some less-than-memorable songs. Art style is cool but I’m personally not a fan. EXTREMELY inaccurate depictions of the original Greek gods.

C tier (entertaining, but I don't consider it a great movie)

Bolt - I watched this like 11 years ago. It was fun! A cool concept about those put on a pedestal learning their worth even without celebrity boosting them up. Animation was… fine I think. not super memorable to me.

Frozen 2 - They really took any scrap of character development Elsa had in the first movie, threw it in the garbage and set it on fire. Anna deserved so much better. Songs are bombastic and impressive, have the occasional interesting lyric, but are really weirdly placed and none are quite as iconic as the first movie’s (except Aurora, she does great work here. Also the song Anna sings after she thinks Elsa died.)

Not a big fan of the vaguely homeopathic theme. Not a big fan of Olaf’s WEIRD character development. Not a big fan of the suuuuuper awkward dialogue and the animations that imply not only that Kristoff is into his reindeer but that Elsa and Anna are into each other (if you’re questioning if they did that, yes, they did, I can find screenshots of some really weird expressions/moments. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO PANDER TO YOUR WEIRD FANS, DISNEY.)

The voice actors did great work, the animators did great work (look at the details on their clothes! Look at how Elsa’s posture changes to be more confident! look at how they're animated while they're singing!) Some weird costume/makeup choices that make Elsa look like an aging starlet, but she also has some gorgeous moments so eh. It’s a wash for me.

They really did not know what to do with Kristoff this movie, huh. The only thing that happened to him was singing a cheesy 90s ballad and marrying Anna, both of which were admittedly epic. Also, the trolls got 0 appearances despite being literally psychic. Probably could have helped with a lot. I'm not a huge fan of lore/worldbuilding, and thee was a lot of it here. Overall neutral on it.

Also a big theme in this movie I don’t love - **** TANGIBLE CONSEQUENCES TO OUR ACTIONS!!! The danger is Elsa’s death, the elements, colonialism, and Arendelle literally being destroyed. None of those end up playing out, so I was left at the end going “this film had literally no stakes.”

Monsters U - same as above - entertaining at the time! Not super memorable. The ppl we were supposed to dislike kept switching. Doesn’t really match the canon of Monsters Inc (I thought they were supposed to have known each other since childhood so why did they meet in college?)

Cars 3 - so apparently, everyone HATED this movie! Fun! I never watched Cars 2 (yes watched Cars 1 if you haven’t been paying attention to this list), but I didn’t think this movie was bad at all. Well-acted, some fun chase scenes, the scene where Lightning fails at driving in the simulation is genuinely hilarious, and some interesting perspectives on teachers getting the spotlight for their skills for once.

Incredibles 2 - I liked this film at first, but then it was… just okay in retrospect. I love me some good family dynamics. The plot here makes not a lot of sense. THEY BUILT UP THE UNDERMINER FOR NOTHING AND THEN FORGOT ABOUT HIM. I was surprised by the villain swap, but it happened so last minute I never really understood their motivations even after they explained them. Tried to tackle waaaay too many messages.

D tier (I didn't enjoy these or consider them mediocre)

Finding Dory - Maybe I should have put this higher? Like C tier at least. Ah well. Wasn’t a huge fan of the body/physical comedy (not my thing), but it was entertaining and awww finding family is heartwarming.

Finding Nemo - I remember nothing about this movie.

E tier (this film has significant problems)

Beauty and the Beast - *sigh*… I want to love this movie. The score is gorgeous. Visually, they could have made it more distinctly Rococo-era France but didn’t (why?) The voice actors did good work and I think Paige O’Hara is SUPER underrated here.

The Beast is emotionally manipulative with an awful temper that (for MOST of the movie. He doesn’t change.) That’s the main reason this is in E tier. This movie shaped so many generations of people thinking they can change the behavior of someone who treats them badly through the power of love. But you can’t. She learns to “love” the beast under coercion. It’s not Stockholm syndrome - it’s a trashy romance novel. Big fan of Gaston as a villain. He’s an archetype ppl can recognize and it’s so satisfying to hate him.

F tier (I think this film actively harms the industry and would rather it not have been made. Both the one in E tier could be considered harmful to the industry, but I think they had significant enough artistic accomplishments to scrape above that. I'm also generally a fan of "lack of censorship bc it's better to teach what not to do.")

Pocahontas - this movie took real historical events and romanticized them AND sexualized one of the only Native princesses they’ve had. Boo. Nothing wrong with animation!Pocahontas as a character, it’s just people put her in a story that doesn’t represent history well at all (and these historical events, unlike those in say, 14th-century Germany, had super relevant effects on people alive today.) And they portrayed the Native Americans and colonial settlers as equally in the wrong. (though I like Governor Radcliffe as a potential villain and love the line “see how I glitter.” I can’t NOT laugh when I hear it.) Lovely music, though. Nice animation, but the colors are weirdly… muted?

Bad Garbage (I don't wish this film had never been made, but I wish I never had to see it.)

Planes - this movie was ridiculous. I remember not much about it except that I kinda hated it and that it was super cheesy with tension one could see right through that immediately resolved itself via one twist or another.

Haven’t seen tier: Recess, A Bug’s Life, A Goofy Movie, DuckTakes Movie, Lilo and Stitch, Pinocchio (actually i have seen this but I remember nothing about it), The Nightmare before Christmas, Toy Stories 1, 2, and 3, Up, 101 Dalmatians, The Great Mouse Detective, Cars 2, Moana, The Good Dinosaur, Pete’s Dragon, Fantasia, Peter Pan Return to Neverland, Fantasia 2000, The Black Cauldron (read the book, though!), Bambi (or I did and remember nothing about it), The Rescuersm, The Rescuers Down Under, Planes Fire and Rescue, Bambi 2, The Fox & the Found, Oliver and Company, Atlantis, Treasure Planet (I want to, though), Piglet’s Big Movie, The Jungle Book, the Emporer’s New Groove, The Jungle Book 2, Chicken Little, Brother Bear, The Three Caballeros, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, Dumbo, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Aladdin (seen parts but never the whole thing), Strange Magic, The Sword in the Stone, James and the Giant Peach, Frankenweenie, Lady and the Tramp, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Doug’s 1st Movie, Monsters Inc. (want to, though), Meet the Robinsons, Dinosaur, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Tigger Movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, that pooh movie at the end without the title on it

-11/21/20

#blog #non-sequitura-blog #11/21/20 #november #2020 #longform #analysis #disney

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transfemmbeatrice · 5 years

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*chanting*Psych Psych pretty pleaseee? (Joking, only do it if you feel like it)

you and @zaxal both sent me psych bc y’all are predictable af but i love you and i love to talk about my fambly so here we go

the first character i ever fell in love with: its been so long i can’t actually remember but like. shawn right? it has to be shawn. he’s so charismatic and absurd and lovable.

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: i love everyone, altho henry is perpetually on thin fucking ice, but late season shawn gets on my fucking nerves which is why i haven’t watched the later seasons in years

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: marlowe/lassie probably? when i first watched the show i was just so excited for lassie to finally have a romance! and honestly the set up for it is good! we could have had great development and shit from lassie having to confront his biases as he is in a relationship with an ex-con but they just then never did anything with it.

my ultimate favorite character™: it’s lassie. obv. this requires no further explanation.

prettiest character: this is literally impossible don’t make me answer this

my most hated character: this is hard bc i love everyone, even the people you’re supposed to hate, bc they’re fun to hate??? probably Yin. but again, henry has some fucking Moments and it would be cool if he owned up to being a shitty dad.

my OTP: the ot4

my NOTP: lassie/heterosexuality (he’s pan, he can have relationships w women ofc, but i wish it had be an actual part of his character instead of an easter egg)

favorite episode: shawn takes a shot in the dark is the first one that comes to mind

saddest death: M A R Y

favorite season: its hard for me to separate them into seasons bc im always binge watching them, but basically 1-4 is what i go back to the most. later seasons have some of the best episodes (the Clue episode is so fucking good) but overall i just love the vibe of the earlier seasons more

least favorite season: the later seasons are hazy? but i think it was 7 that had the jules finds out the truth plotline and i fucking hated that, so

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: This Character Does Not Exist I Love Everyone (not a character but the real answer here is sh*les)

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: shawn and lassie are both garbage in different ways but i love them, but in an effort to get away from the main characters.... Woody and Yang also fit this.

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: BURTON GUSTER DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER IM GLAD THEY FINALLY GAVE HIM A LOVE INTEREST BUT TOO LITTLE TOO LATE IMO

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: all my ships are valid

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: i have never been lowkey in my LIFE!! but i guess despereaux ships i’m not AS invested in?

#i'm glad my Brand is still working bc i always get psych for these adskfjsl;d #psych #mypsych #asked and answered #coffeesugarcream #zaxal

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shiyonasan · 5 years

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After several days, I've finished the first anime for Inuyasha. 167 episodes is a lot, but it didn't feel as long as it is. Here are my thoughts:

I'm not going to judge the main plot of the series too much for now, because the second series, The Final Act, wraps up everything in Inuyasha. I'll give my thoughts on the main plot after I finish The Final Act.

I will start off by saying that I do think, in the first 50-60 episodes, the story feels a bit disjointed. There's times where the story seems to be a bit unfocused on what is going on.

Now, granted, some of those episodes introduce major characters, and those episodes are fine, but there's a lot of random "fight this demon today" type of episodes that almost feel...unnecessary. It provides opportunity for the group to gain more camaraderie, but that's about it.

To me, 25% of this first anime could've been cut out, with most of that coming from the first half of the series. I'm okay with fighting demons to save a village or whatnot, but I'd prefer a better sense of progression in the story in doing so.

Now, that being said, I am a bit mixed on the storytelling in this series, because although I do think Inuyasha early on feels disjointed and unfocused at times, I do commend Rumiko Takahashi for trying something different in a shonen series.

It's different from "fight this bad guy for an arc, and then move on to next bad guy for another arc" type of shonen series storytelling, which I think is good. While there is the Band of Seven/Mt Hakurei arc, pretty much everything else isn't bound to an arc specifically.

I feel like I'd have to watch this series again to fully appreciate the story as it progresses. That being said, I feel like it could've been done better. I feel like Inuyasha was Rumiko Takahashi figuring out how to write a shonen series, and she got better over time.

One thing that is written well is the characters. Of the four major Rumiko Takahashi series that I've watched so far (Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha), I enjoyed this group of major characters the most.

Every protagonist feels important to the story. Inuyasha and Kagome are good male and female lead characters with strong and hard-headed attitudes, Miroku is a good 3 dimensional character who, while he does have a bit too much interest in women, still knows when to be serious...

...and Sango is a complex character with a tragic backstory who also is strong and has a big heart. Even Shippo and Kirara feel important as they are not only given their own episodes, but they can fight when they can and when necessary.

Myoga and Totosai are great humorous old men characters, Kaede is a great old woman character who is important to the story, and Koga, while he has a not so good introduction imo, becomes slightly better over time and doesn't overstay his welcome. He appears just enough.

While I'm not super intrigued by Naraku's character, he is a pretty good bad guy. His lackies I feel are stronger characters, who are often risen from the dead or come into being from his own person.

Kagura, in particular, I like because of her slowly revealing her intent to betray Naraku. Kohaku, who is forced to stay under Naraku's control, is also fascinating being that he's Sango's little brother who is regretful over his alliance.

I like Sesshomaru’s neutral character. I feel like he's Sephiroth if Sephiroth wasn't completely bad and had an imp demon and little girl following him around all the time.

I won't delve deeper into who the characters are, but I'll just say that the cast of major characters is well written, developed over time, and fascinating to watch on screen. Props to Rumiko Takahashi for making a great cast of characters for Inuyasha.

The biggest thing I can praise Inuyasha for is it's animation. Sunrise did an outstanding job on the cel animation and digital animation work for this series. If there is one reason I'd recommend this series, it's for it's animation.

I didn't know how well I'd like the digital animation, but I can say that the digital animation is some of the prettiest looking artwork and animation I've seen in a TV anime series, from the defined character artwork to the aesthetically colorful landscape artwork.

The cel animation is super pretty too for the same reasons. There's only a few episodes that look a bit meh: I would say about 95% of the episodes are super pleasing to the eyes.

OST for this series is pretty good, though there is one track that I feel is a bit overused and distracting when it does play. For those familiar with the series, it's the one that's meant to be creepy with the low and quiet strumming violins accompanied by the wood instrument.

Only other things I could say about this series is that the voice acting is well done (especially from Kagome's voice actress) and the opening and ending songs are pretty decent (though there are pretty to look at).

Overall I do have mixed feelings on this series because I do love the animation and characters, but I think the plot is a bit lacking and unfocused at times. The plot's certainly not bad, but I think it could be better. However, I enjoyed it for what it is: action packed and fun.

My rating for this first Inuyasha anime series: 8.5/10. A solid B.

Also, Sango is best character in Inuyasha. Convince me otherwise.

#shiyo's inuyasha watch-through

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yuckubus · 6 years

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disclaimer: i love all my mutuals and respect their opinions, y’all will be missed if you decide to unfollow after i pour my judgmental heart out

1. the most well-rounded member of bts, is hoseok. yall can argue that it’s jk, but i said what i said

2. minghao with a mullet is godtier; out of all the male idols with mullets, he is The king.

3. speaking of seventeen, a lot of their songs are very edm-inspired but it works really well for them

4. woozi deserves recognition for the songs he produces, like i really hope he gets an award for his production skills bc he’s amazing

5. i feel like most wonwoo stans, stan him for his beauty and not his talent (which, he’s not a bad rapper)

6. that being said, i wish he (wonwoo) played around a little more bc his flow is kinda predictable. not only that, but he can do more than just rap lowly and get loud.

7. seokmin/ dokyeom > jungkook, in terms of vocal ability. he’s just better

8. imo, in terms of like younger groups i guess? leader wise, namjoon is the best leader. im not saying other group leaders like scoups, for example, are bad at their abilities to lead, but i think nj really is.

9. spring day, don’t leave me, the truth untold, best of me, and whatever else yall try to advocate as good songs...are not good. they dont do anything for me. sorry

10. also just one day is the superior rnb bts song.

11. house of cards didn’t deserve all the hype it got. like, its good but it hasnt done anything for me since i heard the full version.

12. while im not as into got7 as i used to be, ya’ll took all the stuff that happened with got7 and RAN lol like yall really went in on them and still do and it’s sorta.. annoying? like i get why people do not like certain members (i really do!!) but its tired now. it has been for a while

13. speaking of got7, if they did more stuff like just right (since it worked so well for them) and the flight log trilogy, ESPECIALLY turbulence, it would be effective

14. I dont know why people think lucas from nct is so dumb, he just has moments

15. speaking of lucas, i dont see any purpose for him in nct. he doesn’t provide anything special or new except some personality and physical beauty.

16. sm either needs to get rid of some members of nct, or really talk to these niggas bc he doesnt seem to care about anyone but mark, taeyong, jaehyun, and doyoung...and sorta lucas

17. jungwoo is a product of taemin. either that man is his father, or he’s a relative.

18. in terms of like newer and young rappers, mark lee is the only one with some potential; sometimes, he lacks, but he really is the only one

19. jaemin and jeno ended and revived kpop with their verses in Go!

20. chanyeol and sehun go off in some exo songs, especially forever. they’re still not great rappers.

21. exo has the better vocal line and bts has the better rap line. i just ended every pointless, unnecessary fanwar.

22. the exo l x army beef is so..stupid like all of y’all look childish. deadass. it’s never that deep unless both sides really said some serious shit and, most cases they dont so literally shut up lol

23. astro’s danceline are amazing

24. JEALOUSY BY MONSTA X? SLAPS. HARD

25. kihyun’s voice is absolutely beautiful and deserves that recognition bc he really has such a beautiful voice

26. Pentagon’s first album is THAT first mini album. if you havent invested time in it, please do

27. like the wonwoo thing, mingyu and wonho stans only stan these boys for physical attractiveness. I see something all the time (on twitter) anout wonho’s body and not really much about just him. this sounds fake deep, but forreal

28. stan twitter in general has great memes and stuff, but they are quite literally, the worst set of fans i have ever seen. facebook fans and instagram fans are just evil too but stan twt is satan.

29. in terms of talent level in twice...there’s 9 girls and only 4/9 really do something. i do love them though

30. tzuyu is great and shes so pretty but that’s it. the personality and everything else, where is it

31. imma be honest, i think chaeyoung is the prettiest

32. kyla isnt coming back to pristin, we all know this. it’s just time to face it

33. people only care about like 5 members of pristin, and theyre all in pristin v...there was a reason for their creation lol

34. miss shannon, aka sungyeon, of pristin? she’s got lungs and deserves to be seen as more than just her round face

35. MISS JOY is That member of red velvet

36. i dont think this is unpopular, but all the good rapper idols would be so much better if they just didnt sink into a niggaboo phase

37. ALL MEN WHO RUN ENTERTAINMENT COMPANIES (I.E. JYP, SM, YG, HITMAN BANG, AND WHOMEVER ELSE) ARE EVIL. IDC

38. i dont,...really care for jennie; she overdoes the cuteness sometimes

39. rose would be so much more powerful if she dropped the sza syndrome (I hope this isnt offensive, if it is please let me know)

40. if wendy wasn’t the leader and main vocalist of red velvet, her ass would have already been gone for that crap she pulled again

41. girl groups? are just as low down and dirty with their racism and antiblackness but that stuff gets hidden really well unless you look it up...or are mamamoo

42. IOI SHOULD HAVE LIVED LONGER THAN WANNABE. no one wants to hear that shit, ioi was giving us bops but after that year was up, they couldnt wait to get rid of them...but wannaone still exists. ok

43. all the my idols are gay legends stuff is kinda annoying now... like...you dont know their actual sexuality, so stop trying to justify your weird ass argument with proof from 1997, it’s not cute (this could be said about yoongi, but i mean in general)

44. people dont see holland as more than his sexuality, and what i mean by that is, a lot of people dont care about him or wont until he starts interacting with male idols, so people can start shipping them with him

45. kpop stans do women involved with male groups so fucking dirty, like ya’ll cannot wait to tear them down due to your insecurities as a fan. You’re not marrying any of them, so pipe the fuck down

46.nonblack stans, especially on twitter, dont really care about black issues lol yall do that fake oh my god im so sorry :( then use some form of aave with ?????????? and then move on.

47. IF KPOP GROUPS WOULD JUST ACKNOWLEDGE AND PROPERLY APOLOGIZE ABOUT THEIR PAST ACTIONS, MAYBE WE CAN LEARN AND MOVE ON; BUT THEM AND THEIR COMPANIES REFUSE TO. it’s like trying to feed a baby who doesn’t wanna be fed

48. people are allowed to still be upset about an idol’s past actions. it is valid ESPECIALLY if you are a fan of color. You are also allowed to unstan and not explain yourself bc no one’s gonna beat your ass for it.

49. these idols and their companies dont really care about their fans as much as they want y’all to believe. i believe they care to a degree, but it’s exaggerated

50. none of yall are family; you can say it a million and six times, but you really only believe that if you are not a person of color.

51. ya’ll do not know these idols like you think you do; they choose what they want you to show, even in their “RAW” shows; they are not going to let you see them in their 100% real self, ya’ll are strangers to them

52. being on kpop social media is exhausting, and idk how any of yall are able to do it 24/7. kpop is not that interesting enough for me to be around all day and all night.

53. Idol groups that play instruments deserve the world

54. that being said, i hope that n.flying, day6, and the rose get recognition because they’re out here being multi-talented, funny, and good looking.

i have more opinions but these are ones i could think of. anyway, hope yall enjoyed my ranting.

#if i find this anywhere near twitter im fighting #mine #kpop

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You seem to like production costumes very much, and I think you understand me at one point: Sansa, in general, has always had costume problems with GoT. To this day I get irritated to see there is not much creativity in the season 3, most of her dresses were purple and .... only this. They all looked the same, and Clapton said it was because Sansa did not want to show support for anyone in KL, but someone who works in that area should know more about colors and dress patterns, no?

I have to say that, unfortunately, the costume design (specifically the women’s costumes) was the first thing that disappointed me in GOT. Perhaps it wasn’t quite fair to the show and the costume designer, who was, I think, trying to make the show its own distinct “thing” but…

I was convinced to watch the show by a few friends who said that I’d love it because it was “medieval fantasy”. When I hear those words, a certain image comes to mind… a certain aesthetic… and when I finally did watch the show (with my head full of expectations of gorgeous medieval inspired gowns such as we see in the LOTR films) I was seriously let down. I didn’t like the style they went for with the women’s clothing at all… It seemed very anachronistic and just “wrong” within the medievalesque European setting they were trying to create and putting them next to the male costumes only highlighted how strange and out of place they seemed (the men’s costuming is mostly pretty good imo, with only a few glaring “anachronisms”).

The design for the women’s clothing seemed to have been based on how easy and quick it would be to take off if a character has to have a nude or sex scene… and honestly, seeing how ridiculously quickly these women got naked on screen (the fact that none of them, other than under-age characters like Sansa- and only while she was under-age- seemed to wear any kind of “underwear”) just completely took me out of the thing… You have men walking around in layers of clothing and armor, but most of the women are constantly in flimsy wrap around dresses, with no shifts or girdles or stays of any sort underneath, that basically just fall off when you untie a ribbon… Right…

Never mind “historical accuracy” to the medieval period (a time before bloomers, knickers or panties were invented… though they did definitely still wear shifts, chemises and… there have even been findings that indicate they may have worn an early version of the bra!) in the ASOIAF books women also wear “smallclothes”, which seem to be some kind of loincloth affair. So the show was essentially ignoring both historical accuracy and book accuracy with their lack of undergarments for women…

But anyway, back to women’s fashion in the show’s version of Westeros… The costume designer also ignores both actual medieval fashion (which she definitely could have drawn from more, even if she altered it to make it more “fantasy”) and the more typically “renaissance” fashion Martin describes in the books. The women’s clothing largely seemed quite bland and boring to me right from the beginning (with the exception of some of Dany’s and Missandei’s costumes which were very pretty, though often entirely fantastical-not that that’s a problem in a fantasy series- and fetishistic-more of an ongoing problem in GOT- with a strong whiff of orientalist exoticism about them…).

When it comes to Sansa’s costumes in particular… I feel the same way about them that I do about the other Westerosi women’s costumes in the series; what a waste of an opportunity to create stunning medieval/renaissance inspired dresses. That said, I wouldn’t count her season 3 dresses as particularly ugly… just mostly boring… with the exception of that absolutely awful wedding dress with the short sleeve and metallic hip ornamentation (honestly, what the hell was that?). The colours chosen for Sansa before the end of season 4 were also non-offensive in my opinion (the palette of pale blues, rosy pinks and shades of purple all suited ST and highlighted her youthful beauty in contrast to the more mature female characters around her).

It wasn’t until the end of season 4 that things got truly dodgy, beginning with that ridiculous black feathered “Darth Sansa” dress (honestly, what the hell was that?). Then we had the next wedding dress… I suppose it was somewhat less ugly than the first but that’s not saying much… It was definitely not the prettiest thing they could have made with their budget (maybe it wasn’t supposed to be pretty because of the terrible situation? Not according to the aftershow commentary). Season 6 brought a bit of hope with a costume that I actually found believable for Sansa to wear (in a colour and style that was quite complimentary and which boldly declared her pride in her family)… but then in season 7… well let’s say Sansa wasn’t the only one to fall victim to the idea that almost every female character in Westeros had become some kind of futuristic goth (I think the competition for the worst dressed in season 7 has to be between Dany and Cersei; Dany for the generally unattractive designs and Cersei for hilarious anachronism- the cardigan!-… but Sansa comes in a close third).

So yeah… here you have it, a rant on why I don’t like most of the female cast’s costumes on the show. On a positive note, I’ll just say once again that I actually do like most of the men’s costumes and only really take issue when they do ridiculous things… like giving someone what is clearly a modern leather jacket.

#GOT #the show #costumes #medieval #fashion #anti-got #I guess?

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I Love Me.

A Short Story:

Two bridesmaids in their late 20s gather around a mirror in a fancy bridal suite. They have just gotten their hair and makeup done by professionals.

Bridesmaid 1: “I need to just wear fake eyelashes all the time. I literally don’t have eyelashes. They are non-existent.”

Bridesmaid 2: “Tell me about it. Ugh, I hate this lip color on me; it’s drawing too much attention to my pencil-thin lips. I need lip injections. How much do those cost?”

A third bridesmaid enters the room and lets out a heavy sigh while looking in the mirror.

Bridesmaids 1 & 2, in unison: “OHMYGOD, you look gorgeous!”

Bridesmaid 3: *scoffs* “Um, OK, I literally look 6 months pregnant. This dress is NOT flattering on me and is really highlighting my flabby stomach.”

Bridesmaid 2: “At least you have boobs to fill this thing out; I have the tits of a 9 year old girl.”

Everyone laughs. At that moment, Bridesmaid 4 walks in the room and catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror and smiles.

Bridesmaid 3: “Aww, you look so good!”

Bridesmaid 4: “Thanks! I actually feel really pretty. I LOVE my hair like this!”

Bridesmaids 1, 2 and 3 are perplexed. Shook. Kind of even repulsed to be honest? Hearing a woman speak highly of herself just...does not compute.

Bridesmaid 1, under her breath: “Full of ourselves much...”

This ain’t right. But sadly, it’s reality. As a society, seeing women being self-loathing and self-deprecating is acceptable; welcomed, even. Listening to a woman berate herself might bother us and we might not agree with what they’re saying, but we are OK with them saying it. Why? Because WE say it. We talk about our flaws -- in our appearance AND personality -- but wouldn't dream of doing the opposite.

But I don’t think it’s a matter of women not loving things about themselves. Rather, it’s about the stigma attached to announcing it. We’re comfortable talking about our cellulite, our big foreheads and bad skin, but wouldn’t DARE say we think we have pretty amazing arms.

YES GURL.

So, I got an idea. I reached out to a few of my favorite female bloggers and posed a challenge: tell me what you love about yourself. Don’t hold back, don’t use negative terminology, don’t downplay. Don’t think in order to say something nice, you need to also say something negative (no “My nose is crooked but I still like it!”). THIS ISN’T AN EASY EXERCISE, but we doin’ the damn thing.

It’s important.

I now present you, 6 beautiful, intelligent & amazing women -- and what they love about themselves.

Who: Stephanie, from the blog Life According to Steph

I am fierce with myself and allow myself to be who I am, warts and all. I know my strengths, I’m not afraid to acknowledge my weaknesses, and I’m not interested in perfection.

I encourage and empower others, especially women. There’s room for all of us to shine.

I do what makes me happy, not what society tells me I should do.

I am an excellent nail painter (my own, not yours).

I work hard at being a good and contributing member of my community.

Who: Emma, from the blog Emma’s Thing

I love that I have no filter. I think life is too short to not speak your truth, tell it like it is, ask awkward questions, or tell someone they have a booger in their nose. I love that I'm upfront and let almost whatever's in my head come out of my mouth. Sure, it's caused some heartache but it also makes life interesting IMO.

I love my facial skin. I get compliments on it all the time and, even when I'm having a bad week with random acne or some weird, non-descript rash, I know I still have it very good. I thank my mom for the good genes.

I love my hair! It took me forever to love it, truly. My hair is very very curly naturally and, for years, I had no idea how TF to handle it. But once I figured it out, I finally learned to love it. At this point, IDK how I would fare if my hair suddenly changed on me. I wouldn't know WTF to do. I also love that its natural curl lends itself to not having to be washed very often, and I can wear it in crazy, messy ways without being questioned.

I love that I'm good at so many things. I can get sheepish about the fact that I can write, act, dance, sing, do comedy, have a good photography eye, etc. I'm not sure why — probably because it feels like bragging and showing off. But the fact of the matter is, yah girl has talent! I'm a Jill of all trades, if you will.

Who: Christine, from the blog Simply Stine

I am a giver and I always have been. Nothing makes me happier in life than doing random acts of kindness for others. I am in a position where I'm able to bring joy to other people and nothing makes me happier. It could be sending random packages in the mail to friends and family or sending flowers out of the blue. Doing things for other people is just something I've always done and loved doing.

I love my eyes. They're this beautiful blue and they just pop in the right lighting. I've always loved them.

I love that people come to me for all kinds of advice and support. I love listening and helping people, no matter what the situation involves. I want my friends and family to know that I'm always there for them and I'm always willing to sit down and listen to them. I think we all need that person in our life that we can go to, right?!?

I love that I'm finally happy with myself as a person. It took me a long time to understand that being "different" isn't a bad thing and that it's so much more of a positive than I ever realized. I am ok with being me and everything that comes along with accepting myself. Why did it take me over 30 years to realize this?!?

I'm a full-time Blogger and I love it. People don't always understand what it is that I do, but it's the best job. It's hard as hell some days and it isn't always fair, but it's so rewarding being able to have something that I'm in charge of come together and be a source of positivity and inspiration for others!

Who: Lindsay, from the blog Bourbon & Lipstick

I love my desire help others - be it those less needy, or something as simple as helping another blogger or blog reader.

I love that I don't take bullshit.

I love my big butt.

I love my work ethic and that I consistently strive to do/be better.

I love how I'm not afraid to speak up.

Who: Emelia, from the blog Dream Big & Buy the Shoes

I'm extremely goofy. I make up songs and rhymes and make a lot of weird noises. I enjoy it- my kids laugh and it keeps life interesting. One of my favorite things I say every day at some point...to my daughter is "Are you ready? Ready spaghetti? Is my little Betty spaghetti ready?" Not sure where I came up with it- but she smiles, and so do I.

I love my eyes. They're green- but sometimes look hazel, sometimes look grey. I get compliments on my eyes a lot, and it makes me happy because I feel that eyes are an interesting part of a person. Someone's eyes can tell a story- and maybe mine do that for people.

Determination- I have lots of it. I've been through some rough stuff in the past 34 years and I always come out the other side. I'm determined to make sure that my family is taken care of and that we are the happiest we can be so I persevere as much as I can in every situation.

I will do anything for my children. It's hard to be a parent- there's no clear cut instruction manual. There's a lot of judgements and opinions- but you need to figure out the path on your own. I'm extremely proud of the Mom I am to Ethan and Bella. Every day isn't perfect, but we make it the best we can.

I can multi-task and love being productive. I am someone who can not sit down to relax until everything is done- but hell if I can't get it all done in like 20 minutes. I will be sweeping the kitchen floor, starting laundry and loading the dishwasher while entertaining the baby and checking Instagram- HA. But for real, I have always had very busy jobs that require me doing a lot at once and I think that helped me as a person be very productive. Being busy and productive and getting things done is a great personality trait in my opinion- work work work work work!

Who: Allison, from the blog AA (ya know, the one you’re reading right now?)

I have a good eye. Whether I’m putting an outfit together, decorating a room or taking a photo, I love that I just know what looks good. If you see me in action doing any of those aforementioned things (especially photography; my second love after writing), you know I’m serious about it.

I have long, naturally muscular legs. I was born with long legs (thanks mom) which makes me appear taller than my actual 5 feet 4 inch stature, but years of walking in heels is likely responsible for some serious calf definition that I’ve always loved having.

I love my sense of humor and quick wit. It comes across in my writing, but in “real life” it’s there, too. I’ve always said I’d rather be the funniest person in the room instead of the smartest or prettiest, and I stand by that. Humor is SO important to me. AND I’M A FUNNY BITCH.

I’m true to who I am, always. I’ve never adapted, changed or downplayed anything about myself to appeal to or appease anyone else. I stand by my convictions and I’m proud of the woman I am and will stand up for what I believe in any day of the week.

My one dimple. One is better than none, and I have a pretty big one on the left side of my face that enhances my smile and normally causes someone to poke their finger in it when they see it, which sounds weird when I type it. I love that it’s kind of a “trademark” thing I have.

OK ladies (& gents, of course!) -- your turn! Leave what thing(s) you love about yourself in the comments. I’d love to hear!

#love #body positive #positivity #self confidence #self love #confidence #women #beauty #selflove #iloveme #i love me #humor #body image #self-love

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