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sant-riley · 2 years

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[ More task force 141 × OFC! reader headcanons] [pt2]

A/N: thank yall so much for all the love on the last hcs!! I hope these live up to yalls expectations <3 please tell me which ones are yalls favorites <3!!!

CW: She/her pronouns, Codename is Teddy, Simping, crude humor, Age gaps, cursing, British slander (if I miss anything, let me know!)

If you dye your hair, Ghost helps you dye it when y'all go on extended leave. The military doesn't allow unnatural colors so when you have a few weeks to a couple of months, he'll be the one to ask. "Cm'ere, I got the bleach already."

The guys like to go with her when/if she gets tattooed. Do they know what she's getting inked? Nope, but they like to keep her company and will go get her food if needed.

Teddy vocal stims,, alot. She has picked up on "Fuckin' hell" and it has yet to leave her brain and Ghost just stares in amusement. You can hear her echo it back to them once he says it on a mission.

Teddy is her codename but her nicknames vary from who's talking about her!

Ghost: Ted, Teds, Sweetheart, Runt

Soap: Bonnie, Rascal, Barra, Lass

Price: Rookie, Dear

Gaz: Love, Darling, Hun

They get on her ASS for being an American. They will poke fun at her every fucking chance esp if she speaks in slang.

Price shakes his head and tries to teach her the "proper" way of speaking but all she does is mock the accent. He has since given up.

The first time they see her off duty, it's shock. She looks so different when she's not in uniform, (if you have it: dyed hair, makeup) her normal civilian clothes. Soap is almost convinced it's not Teddy until she smacks him upside the head and calls him an asshole.

Being the first one to see Ghosts face because you're having a breakdown about all the murder and bullshit you've gone through, crying profusely and no one knows how to help bc everyone just shoves it down and represses it.

He trusts you, he knows he does so it doesn't take him much to take you into a secluded room and expose himself. He will say that seeing you silently stare up at him with awe made his feelings grow for you. He will not, but his heart definitely would.

Soap actively teaching you how to curse in Gaelic bc he thinks it's funny with your accent. Too bad you can barely understand when he tries teaching you so you're just kinda staring at him dead eyed.

Soap plays with your hair, alot. It soothes him to run his fingers through it or simply to yank it bc he's a little dickhead. He's the kind of person who'd let your hair routine and learn how to help you take care of it.

Ghost and Price straight up rustle your hair and thinks it's funny when you shove their hand away and get all huffy lmfao.

HELPING SOAP SHAVE HIS MOHAWK, there's no barber on base so you're the next best thing he has. Many of the team have walked in with Soap sitting between your legs bc he's way too fucking tall for you to cut his hair comfortably. Ghost walking in with you holding a razor to Soap's neck and just turning around and walking out immediately.

Price has given you a cigar to smoke, he knows for a damn fact you cannot handle it and laughs his ass off when you sputter. Top 10 favorite moments of his.

Gaz likes to give you British foods to try, he knows for a damn fact you will not like it.

"C'mon love, just one bite?" "I am not fucking eating beans on toast, you're insane." "It's a good meal!"

He gets so fucking mad when yall go to Las Almas and you devour the food there. Literally pouts bc he sees you with Alejandro and Rudy eating food and laughing together.

You play video games alot when on leave, please imagine trying to teach Ghost on the newer games that are out now. You make fun of him calling him an old man but he actually fucking wins potg/apex most of the time and looks at you smug as hell.

No one knows why you're called Teddy, so they all make up their own stories but you neither confirm nor deny. Soap says it's bc you're cuddly and cute like a teddy bear while Ghost says its bc you can maim someone like one. Duality of man.

Speaking of cuddling, it's not uncommon to have to huddle for warmth on missions. They all manhandle you to them and they all slightly do it differently.

Ghost sits you front to front with your chests touching While he sits up, arms around your waist with him playing with his knife, staring past your head and at the wall.

Price presses you into his side, a arm wrapped around your shoulders as he tells you stories about missions gone wrong, the smell of cigar smoke flooding your senses.

Soap also sits you on his lap with your back against his front while he buries his face in your hair. He tells you stories about his childhood and growing up with his mom, he wants yall to meet one day.

Gaz is usually the best prepared and has either a sleeping bag or a blanket, so he wraps it around yall making sure you're more covered than he is and sits close, yalls legs intertwined.

They worry so fucking much about you, you're young and while they have come to love and appreciate you, they can't help but wish you were anywhere else but here risking your life.

"You're too young to be here Kid." "And you weren't?" Ghost has to swallow down how much he wants to scream that he just wants you safe but he knows that's not his place, he isn't your boyfriend or husband.

Alejandro has doubts when everything goes to shit if they can trust you, since he hadn't seen much of you like he had with Ghost and Soap. But then he sees the way they speak about you and how these two burly strong men get a tender look in their eyes. He finds it funny but also feels great respect to you. It is not easy to get task force 141 to care so much about a new member but hey, you did it.

Alejandro takes you out dancing and drinking when you go back to visit Las Almas. He knows how to dance so fucking well and it's always a good time. He always has his hands on your waist and always makes sure you're okay with it. Perfect gentleman 10/10

Now Graves thinks that you're just some stupid kid but realizes quickly that while you can fight your own battles, you never need to. Just one look at Ghost staring daggers into his forehead is enough for him to swallow his tongue less it gets cut out.

Laswell treats you like her own kid, especially when she finds out if you have a bad home life. She always makes sure you're stocked up on necessaties at the base and invites you for lunch along with her wife often. She is the first one you call when you have anything personal to speak of and she is the mother figure you have while on missions.

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arogustus · 2 months

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Splatband Analysis - Wet Floor

(Disclaimer: This analysis is based on what I get out of looking into the character descriptions we have of the splatband characters. If you disagree with what I say, that is fine, we are all beheld to our opinions. Just don't be a jerk about it.)

Watch out, the floor is wet. Cause I’m about to spill the tea on Wet Floor all over this floor. Get it? You probably do.

Wet Floor was the Squid Squad of Splatoon 2, what with the previous one falling apart due to the leader and the bassist attempting to kill each other. They’re not a band I think about often, but hopefully this analysis changes it. It helps that, as the main band, they get privileges such as a section in Splatune 2 where they get interviewed, meaning actual dialogue from these people! Which also reminded me that I missed the one for Squid Squad… I think once I’m done I’ll do a compilation post of all information I missed for some of the bands, and maybe even some stuff you guys pointed out!

The band

Wet Floor formed through the magic of social media connections, and were evidently recently formed before the events of Splatoon 2. At the time they weren’t used to crowds or live performances. Their main motivation is to spread more kinds of music in a world dominated by pop stars. That part is said in Kagi’s twitter blurb, but from the interview it’s clear the opinion is shared between the whole band, even if at different levels. They use docs to write their songs. The process we’re given is that someone writes a riff on the doc, and everyone adds to it on their own time. Compared to Squid Squad, there’s a pretty clear level of communication going on between the group, they all seem pretty close, and just have fun together in their work. Outside of Tsumabushi, none of them are morning people.

Kagi

Kagi here’s the founder, and really the one with the whole motivation of restoring indie dignity to Inkopolis. Wet Floor are his like minded peers, discovered thanks to social networking. Likely he wouldn’t have met them any other way considering he seems pretty shy. He prefers being in a studio over performing, and prefers the others take the lead over him.

Rather famously, his skin is a particularly unnatural tone of teal compared to the natural skin colors we see in other inklings. Unlike Yoko, who has her mutation addressed, no attention is brought to it anywhere for Kagi. It might have something to do with how Inklings look when young, where they’re a uniform color of their ink before eventually gaining their kid forms. Maybe Kagi’s mutation made it so that his body never formed fully? It probably bears noting he also lacks an eyemask too. What an enigma.

Mizole

Compared to most Splatband characters, Mizole’s descriptions lay out a fair amount of his personality in front of us. He’s shrewd, cynical and prone to making cutting remarks, and is mainly motivated by a desire to either subvert or exceed people’s expectations. Despite that, he does get along with his bandmates as seen in the interview, he banters with them without being actively rude to them. That said, his relationship with Ryan is more vitriolic. The two work together, but are prone to bickering due to conflicting viewpoints (Ryan is a fan of Squid Squad, he’s an enemy of Squid Squad, though obviously there’s more to it than just that), a frequent enough occurrence that Kazami is perfectly fine watching the two argue without having to intervene. Again, outside of that, the interview shows the two do get along, and music wise, when they work together, the results are magical.

He’s got a personal rivalry with Squid Squad, which influences him more than he wants to admit. We don’t know if Squid Squad were aware of this (they were busy with other stuff), so it’s likely to be entirely one-sided. His name, Mizole, comes from Mizore, the word for shaved ice. Get it? Cause he looks like a cone of shaved ice? His hair is at least semi-transparent, since you can see his eyebrows, not to mention an almost snow-white skin tone. Is it a condition or perhaps something regarding his species of squid?

Ryan

Ryan is our last inkling of the band, and co-vocalist with Mizole. She’s a faithful follower of the church of punk rock, quote the Haikara Walker, explaining her style and interests. A particularly big fan of Squid Squad, which causes friction between herself and Mizole. That seems to be what her descriptions focus on, her relationship with Mizole, so we don’t get much about her outside of this belief. It wouldn’t be hard to view her as an opposite of Mizole, since that would naturally make the two contrast each other more Diss-Pair style, but that’s speculatory talk. Sorry girl. Not much else I can get out of you.

Kazami

Unlike the others, I like her english name, Candi. It’s cute. She’s the youthful type, someone who comes off as “spontaneous and right-brained”. Right-brained here means she comes off as creative and artistic, but secretly she’s very serious about her performance. She’s very self-critical about her performance when she listens to her recordings. I mean, read this quote of hers from Haikara Walker, she says, “That didn’t sound cool, ‘cause I sucked so bad.” What the hell.. She might have self-esteem issues, but she refuses to let the others know about it, probably to maintain that cheerful vibe she gives off. That’s kinda sad… At the very least she’s having fun when she plays, especially when Ryan and Mizole bicker, so she loves herself a little chaos. It’s her favorite pastime.

She and Tsumabushi have a friendly rivalry going with each other, and are overall pretty close, to the point of even secretly training with each other. Ooh la la.

Tsumabushi

Lastly, the bassist of the band, and an archetypical one, I.E. he’s a supporter. He’s described specifically as a big brother. He’s probably the type who wakes everyone up during mornings, especially since he’s outright stated to be the only one to work well during them. Goes at his own pace, so probably a relaxed personality type. A very talented bassist who only needs to glance at the sheet music once or hear a tune to get it down. I wonder if he has arms?

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Wet Floor is not my favorite band, but I’m beginning to see their appeal now. My main criticism is that none of them have gotten involved in any kind of drama since their debut. How can you be the lead band of a game when you haven’t committed an act of plagiarism or tried to kill each other, come on people, step it up.

Anyways, if you guys have any questions or wanna point out something I missed, I’m gonna open asks to let y'all toss your thoughts at me. See you guys next week.

#splatoon #splatbands #splatband analysis #wet floor #kagi #mizole #ryan #kazami #tsumabushi #my work

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mikesbasementbeets · 2 years

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i’ve been thinking a lot about elmax recently and how it seems like the show is genuinely setting them up romantically, while also consistently establishing max and lucas as a romantic pair

keep in mind, this is the show that has been setting up byler since season 1. they seem to know what they’re doing when it comes to queer coding, so i refuse (for the purposes of this analysis at least) to believe they’re unaware of what they’ve been doing so heavily and blatantly with elmax, and also with max in particular (el too, but i’m focusing on max).

i've talked about why i think mike wheeler is gay. this is why i think max mayfield is bi. and elumax should be endgame.

queer coding of max mayfield

right off the bat: her name. max. just like el was at first, due to her shaved head, max is mistaken for a boy by those who don't know her. first the party, who see the name madmax at the arcade, and later dr. owens in season 4 (he might even assume that she's el's boyfriend). when she's first introduced by mr. clarke using her full name, maxine, she quickly corrects him. it's max.

this leads into the larger point of queer coding around max. her androgynous fashion sense, the way she carries herself, distancing herself from performative femininity, ie, playing video games ("girls don't play video games,"), skateboarding, making friends with an all male friend group, her general "tomboyish" presentation and attitude - all of it reads as heavily queer coded to me. i'm not saying that any of these things is necessarily queer, or mean that a person in real life is queer, but the way it all comes together in max feels like a purposeful character choice.

i'm not an expert in queer coding so there's probably a lot i'm missing, but one of the biggest signs for me is max's constant association with rainbows. the other characters have their color palettes, and max has rainbows. literally. as many times as mike and will have been coded with rainbow imagery, max is drowning in it.

and then there's the most important piece of queer coding... her relationship with el. i'll come back around to that though, because i want to talk about boys first. because clearly, max does like boys.

this shot is largely played for comedic relief, but it actually does something important for the narrative i think. it establishes again, with a max that has (once again) broken up with lucas for reasons she doesn't seem to have really explained, that max is attracted to men. my optimistic reading of it is honestly, "hey, we know what we've been doing here with max, so just in case you were thinking she's a lesbian... she's not." ...or if you want a different fun read of it... max realized she likes girls recently (i'll get to that) and is just making sure she still likes boys. ladies dig it? do they steve? oh, wait, yeah.

she's also talked about other boys with el in the past, showing pretty unambiguous interest in them

(these scenes are still so gay though seriously... "you must be an angel".... contrasting milven's scene where el didn't like mike's singing... rainbowsrainbowsrainbows... talking about kissing and then emulating a spin the bottle game, later introducing el to wonder woman while they're in bed together, waking up together always rainbows come ON)

and of course, the other most important part of this, her relationship with lucas, which is shown continuously to be one of real, romantic attraction. in season 2, this was mostly established through contrast with her relationship with dustin, who also had a crush on her. max and lucas start off by becoming close as friends, and then begin to develop a romantic connection. max and dustin, meanwhile, are established several times as not clicking in the same way that max and lucas do. they have heart-to-hearts that feel intimate and genuine, and, as steve and dustin discuss, are layered with the kind of "electricity" that denotes mutual attraction.

at the same time though, while we understand that it's genuine on both sides, we're shown that max and lucas' relationship is far from perfect.

for a couple that reads as endgame and has parallels with several of the other endgame couples, they also parallel a lot of the obviously not endgame couples. i'm gonna come back around to that too. first, the other thing.

romantic coding of elmax

elmax. honestly, i can't even get into everything i want to, because it's literally everything about them.

first of all, the start of their friendship is byler romantic coded

"i just walked up to you and i asked... it was the best thing i've ever done."

this sequence in particular though. this is. so bi coded i'm going insane. (also rainbows rainbows rainbows)

not hopper, not mike. you. (there's more to life than stupid boys. *HOLDS HER HAND*)

the next sequence is also pretty gay imo but is also kinda just gals being pals, so i'm gonna focus on the song, Material Girl by Madonna. this is definitely meant to be about eleven here, finding herself, away from mike (and it's also just a great shopping montage song), but the shot layout also subtly indicates that it applies to max and lucas too.

"some boys hug me, some boys kiss me, i think they're okay." and what about girls, max? what do you think of them? el? opinions?

(the clothes are emulating a literal rainbow flag behind her ok red yellow blue green purple and max is the orange she's part of the flag like shut UP i can't do this anymore)

and. okay. look, i'm not going to fully explain this one but i need to point it out.

getting back at the straight girl bullies (shown flirting with a boy) in front of a burger king. max taking off her sunglasses (we've talked about the symbolism of mike's shades in season 4) as they run away holding hands. taco bell coming soon. "there's more to life than stupid boys." like. am i reading way too much into this? (yes)

even back to their first meeting though, i'm seeing the seeds being planted. go ahead and read this as purely platonic admiration if you want, i don't care, but there's no way in my mind, especially after seeing seasons 3 and 4. like imagine you're a young bi teenage girl who's been hearing stories about this awesome girl with superpowers who saved everyone's life and then mysteriously disappeared, and then she suddenly mysteriously reappears, saves your life too, and walks in looking like this

personally, my tiny gay heart would stop.

yeah

but let's actually move on to season 4 for a minute.

season 4 was setting up canon bisexual max

i'm going to argue something here that i don't have a ton of actual evidence for: i think one of the reasons max broke up with lucas after season 3 is that she realized her feelings for el. max's arc in season 4 is all about her dealing with the trauma of last season, and guilt for her role in what happened. the guilt is extremely important to this. it's a big part in why vecna chooses his victims: not just kids with trauma, but kids who feel shame surrounding their trauma. most of that for max obviously has to do with billy's death. but i think there's something else that max is dealing with too.

as soon as i started season 4 i was struck with strong “queer max” vibes. first of all, her more feminine and rainbow splashed outfits from season 3 have been replaced again with the more tomboyish, androgynous style of season 2. and then there's the first sequence we get to running up that hill (which starts, funnily enough, on a scene of el walking down the hall at school, upset). the first time i watched this i was literally shocked because it read so explicitly queer to me.

first, max looks at group of girls (thinking about el, most likely)

her gaze trails after them, and then, next shot, max looks at a couple kissing

and then max looks at lucas

only after watching it again did i realize it didn't necessarily have to be queer coding (if you take it as max missing her friend and then, separately, her ex-boyfriend) but holy shit, if that's what they meant, they did NOT have to put the couple making out in between those two shots, with further shots of max looking away almost guiltily. we all know that lucas was max's boyfriend. they didn't have to precede that shot of him with the shot of the couple. that's already their established dynamic (and we haven't even learned at this point that they've broken up).

what's not been established yet though, is the idea of max and el as a couple. and i think..... that's possibly what's being hinted at here through max's perspective. the sequence of shots is so telling: 1. girl friends, 2. couple kissing, 3. ex-boyfriend. guilt. what i'm getting from this sequence of shots is that max's friendship with el is something she's thought about in a romantic light. max is making this association. and feeling guilty about it when she looks at lucas. whom, despite their closeness still at the very end of season 3, months after starcourt, she has since broken up with. the reason the show establishes for this is that max has been pulling away from everyone since billy's death, dealing with the fallout in her family, her mother's emotional absence and alcoholism, etc, and her own grief, guilt, and trauma around it. that makes perfect sense, and i'm not saying it's not true. but i think el moving away was also a factor.

it wasn't until season 4 that max was shown to have really pulled away, after el moved to california. maybe it's a reach, maybe it's nothing, but max as a character is so similar to mike, who was shown to have exactly this response to the byers' moving away: isolating himself and pushing away his friends, suffering his depression alone, and talking to no one about it. meeting el in season 3 showed us a new, bubbly happy side to max (that, yes, probably also came from the rest of her friendships and lucas, but el's is the one we were shown). max and el spend almost the entire season together, and max is undoubtedly going to be affected by her best friend moving away. especially if, like mike, it feels like she's losing more than a friend.

it's not just those shots though. when lucas tries to talk to her later, telling her he knows something's wrong... as soon as she turns around, there's a rainbow.

"right, yeah, there must be something wrong with me because i broke up with you."

then in dear billy, lucas confronts her again. and the language reminds me of karen's speech to mike in season 1. and jonathan's to will in season 4. "you know you can talk to me, right? i'm here for you."

guilt and shame are a big part of max's plot this season. the two characters most associated with that for max are billy and vecna - max feeling guilt over billy, and vecna using that guilt against her.

and those scenes also feel intentionally queer coded to me.

and then there's the dear billy flashback sequence.

while she's trying to escape vecna using her happiest memories, max is also comparing her relationships with lucas and el. they are both friendships. and they are both romantic. she thinks of them in alternating flashbacks. lucas, then el, then lucas and dustin, then el, then max's face, then lucas and dustin, then el, then max's face, and then this particular sequence: lucas, el, mike.

this may a reach, but... if she has feelings for el, she's probably feeling guilty around mike, too. this is the only shot of mike in the sequence. after this, in quick succession, it's lucas, then lucas, then lucas, and then el.

then lucas, then lumix snowball kiss, then max's face, then high fiving el, then her eyes open, and she breaks free

there are more shots of lucas than of el, but that's just the thing: max keeps trying to just think of lucas (because, as shown by the shot of mike, the way she's thinking about el makes her feel guilty, which is the opposite of what she wants), but el keeps coming back in. she thinks of her first kiss with lucas, and then thinks of high fiving el after they "dumped their asses." and that's the shot that breaks her out.

(and the song itself? 1. birthdaygate coded, 2. ROMANTIC. baby, darling, angel. you must be an angel. the voice of an angel saving victor creel from henry, el saving max. i'm reaching again. but. seriously.)

and then the flashbacks in episode 9 (and i'm not even touching el's flashback montage here). it's so difficult to be brief about this because they're literally doing SO MUCH here. i'm might have to make a separate post with every shot in this sequence because it's so good. (edit: here)

literally just. go back and watch the entire thing if you need to, but i need to go through this. elmax is unbelievably romantic coded this episode. there is no getting around it.

max chose the snow ball as her happy memory to hide from vecna in, but it didn't work. when vecna finds her, he says, "you can't hide from me, max." max turns around and, with a determined look, closes her eyes. closing her eyes almost seems like she's trying to keep hiding, but facing the door where venca is feels more like defiance. she's not going to try to hide anymore...

in the first shot, she spins the bottle in her mind, and her memories flicker from her first time meeting lucas, to the movies with lucas, to the start of her friendship with el, back to the spinning bottle, and then. the last two shots repeat. movie date with lucas, el approaching her in the street. but the lucas shot flickers shorter, and the el shot lingers, and then it's max's mom tying her hair too tight for the snow ball.

like maybe... this wasn't her at her happiest. forced conformity is killing the kids, right?

and the bottle flickers in again and it's el. it's max dancing in el's room, you must be an angel...

and then we come back to max's face and there are rainbows reflecting in the light

"is mike a good kisser?" el laughing, more rainbows

after that, she gets distracted by vecna and broken out of her memories, and when el shows up, max asks,

"are you real? did i make you?" she was thinking so strongly of her memories with el, she thought that it had worked.... and everything is romantic coded, there's nothing even to argue for here, it's just. there. seriously, like. just watch the episode. it's elmax.

after this the focus goes back to el mostly and it's still extremely romantic but i can't get into it anymore, i need to focus on max.

the way it all ends brings me back to the elumax question again. because right here, i'm clearly seeing elmax/byler vs. lumix/milven. paralleling mike's love monologue failing to help el, lucas' protection, both physically and in her mind, was not enough to save max.

that was el. that was el that saved her. (of course, she saves your life because of "friendship")

el's love for max is what saved her. not mike. not lucas. elmax.

going back to the latter half of season 3... el and max's relationship progressed very quickly through shared trauma, and max is the one there for el all season... and when billy dies, el is the one who holds her.

season 3 also made it clear that max's relationship with lucas wasn't without flaws.

all of the romantically inept things that mike was doing with el? lucas was doing them first, max was breaking up with him, and lucas was later advising mike on how to fix it. and especially by the end of the season, max seems much more like she's in el's corner than lucas'.

why i think it's possible max and lucas might end up as friends

after she's broken up with him in season 4, lucas spends most of the time just trying to be her friend again. he doesn't even seem bothered by their breakup (although we don't know how long ago it was), he seems to really just want her in his life again, to talk to him.

and, yes, they spend season 4 rebuilding the relationship in a way i think would be beautiful to see work out romantically. but i don't think it's inevitable. (remember that they also rebuilt stency this season.... as much as they might like each other, we've been shown in past seasons that their romantic relationship was flawed.)

i wish i could get into all the parallels, because they're the biggest part of what confuses me on the show's endgame goals but i really can't because it would take up an entire post. the duffers love parallels, obviously, it's one of their main narrative techniques at this point. and i think they usually work really well, because they're not trying to show that each of these characters or couples is exactly the same. they use parallel situations to exemplify the small details that make each character and relationship unique.

for example, milven and stency often parallel each other, but they're not quite the same. i don't think mike ever had genuine romantic feelings for el. he thought he liked her, but ultimately he's gay. nancy, on the other hand, did genuinely have a crush on steve (hc her as a lesbian if you want, i fully support that, but i think the show thinks she likes boys). that is the show's example of a teenage crush that sparks and then fizzles, not turning into deeper love.

whereas lumix, which also sometimes parallels these two ships (for example, their habit of sitting across from each other rather than beside. not always though... they're inconsistent), i believe is an example of a love that is real and genuine... but might not be meant to last forever. because in addition to those other two, they also parallel byler, jopper, and jancy, which i believe are endgame ships.

to be honest... all of this makes me believe even more firmly in gay mike too. because unlike mike’s complete lack of romantic feeling for el, or nancy's naive crush on steve, this is a narrative that sets up genuine, but possibly not everlasting love. a bi character discovering her sexuality by falling for her best girl friend while she’s dating a guy she also really likes. i think lucas is max’s first love, but not her only.

however

all this said, i also think it's very likely that lucas and max will end up together, and el might end the show on her own. lucas and max are NOT milven or stency, and whatever flaws they have don't necessarily spell out a doomed relationship. there's a lot of good there too, i just didn't get into it here.

and el's whole character arc has been about family, friends, and finding herself outside of other peoples' influence. i think this could still work if she were with max, since max has always been the most supportive of el's independence and self-fulfillment, but i can really see the show ending with el on her own, and it being a natural and positive conclusion to her journey

either way though, i think with everything they've been doing, they might actually confirm in canon that max and el have romantic feelings for each other (...or indicate it so obviously that they think it’s undeniable and then later confirm in interviews when most viewers don’t get it because they’re too subtle for their own good)

anyway, here's how elumax can still happen

look, i don't really trust the show to be able to pull this off, mostly because it just. isn't something that's done. not in popular media like this. but honestly, it's hard for me to grasp all of this because it feels like the show is telling me that max belongs with both el and lucas. i think most people assume she will end up with lucas after the way their relationship was rebuilt in season 4, and i think that absolutely makes sense. but i truly think elmax has been built up just as much, just a lot more subtextually. it's just that no one expects it to actually happen. 1, because lumix not ending up together would feel pretty disappointing after all this build up, and we don't want to see lucas, who truly loves max, end up alone. especially when max loves him too. and 2, because of heteronormativity - most people assume elmax are only being set us as friends, regardless of whether they're picking up on the romantic coding. and the "norm" is one romantic partner per person. but max needs el just as much as she needs lucas, and the ending season 4 proved that. lucas holding max in his arms, thinking he's alone with her, but then we see that el is actually there too. right alongside lucas. el saved max's life after she died in lucas's arms.

i could just give up and assume that elmax is platonic and they're giving max both a romantic and a platonic love story, but as i've already talked about, max is queer, and her dynamic with el is romantic. (theres so much evidence of this from el's side too that i just didn't get into)

going into season 5, max is in a coma. we already know that lucas is spending his time at her bedside. and i think it's fair to assume, based on el's priorities after the pizza dough freezer, ignoring mike completely to stay with max and lucas, and to revive max, she's going to be very focused on max too.

this is already way too long but i'm almost done, i want to briefly talk about lucas and el's dynamic from season 1. of all the party members, lucas was the most skeptical and deeply wary of eleven. he didn't trust her, and she ended up inadvertently hurting him when he fought with mike. but over the course of the season, they both learned to trust each other, having moments together than felt just as important as el's friendship with mike.

if season 5 is a return to season 1 dynamics, especially seeing the way season 4 left these two characters (sharing the same priority - max), i think lucas and el will spend a decent amount of time in season 5 together, or at least share a plotline (around max?). now that they're finally being given the chance to actually spend time together, i can see them growing much closer next season, maybe even leading to a mutual understanding and acceptance of both of their feelings towards max (maybe even falling in love?). and if max wakes from her coma to discover that the guilt and shame she's been suffering around her feelings for these two people is actually unnecessary, and that they can all be happy with each other, in whatever way they decide, even if other people might not understand?

*slides the duffers $5*

that would be an absolutely iconic ending.

#elmax #max mayfield #byler #honestly though i would sell my soul for canon elumax #if they could pull that off in season 5 i could die happy #also i'm giving the duffers a LOT of credit here i'm just choosing to give them the benefit of the doubt #this got SO LONG i'm sorry #mikesbasementbeets posts

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Fanfiction updates and excerpts 04.01.24

Guess who's back after 40 days of fast! I've tried to come up with an April's Fools joke, but nope, seems my brain is reeling from going from very little internet and then a lot of internet at once. I am currently knee deep in Fear & Hunger and Silent Hill walkthroughs, and am in a nice mood despite a tension headache.

Thank you to those who have supported my work in these weeks, it means a lot, especially during dopamine withdrawal 💙

Here is the list with the works I am focusing on in the coming month(s). So much Micah lol ... And blanket warning for NSFW.

Main works:

Salt.

Colm/Micah, sugar daddy precanon AU, dark content. Currently at part 9, in Arc 2, soon to go over in arc 3. Ohh this SOB of a fic ... Not because it's hard to write, quite the contrary, it just grows and grows. I'm having fun with it though. Part 10 should be up this weekend :) It's going to be like 80% smut. Here is an except from it:

"Last round. Your fourth, yeah? Remember to keep it in."

"I can't," Micah said like an amateur ventriloquist, cum tricking out of his mouth.

"You wished me good luck," Colm said, faking disappointment. He dug his nails in where shaved skin ended and unshaven skin began.

Micah visibly steeled himself; he seemed to expect another harsh handjob. He ceased breathing when Colm bent down between his legs, face hovering above his poor, half-erect cock.

"Tell me no," he said slowly, his grin opening, mouth filling with spit.

Micah could only stare.

xxx

The Damned and the Redeemed

A motorcycle gang AU set around 1990-2010, like in GTA 4: The Lost and the Damned, with the RDR2 main cast as bikers and their horses as smaller pets. While out riding, Arthur gets tasked with recovering Micah, who has been missing from the clubhouse for a few days. /// I am currently sulking because it's kind of hard to recreate Fast & Furious in text form, but about half of this is written.

"Easy, boy. Easy. It's just me," he said as he put his helmet down on, and carefully opened the door. "You remember me, don't you?"

About a third of the orange lamps inside the RV worked, but he saw the shadow of the Pitbull, the muscles breathing under thin black and white fur, like a miniature motorcycle no less vicious in its ability to break bones. The dog stood still, quieter than the police radio, sounding like ghosts due to the RV being far underground. If Arthur hadn't had experience with Baylock, spending time in the clubhouse kennel, he might've mauled him through the MC protection.

"I'm just here to check up on Micah. Easy, easy," Arthur kept on repeating, keeping his voice friendly, moving into a crouch. He removed his glove and presented his hand.

Baylock did not move to sniff it.

xxx

Cata Doxa

Set in the same AU as TDatR, as a kind of epilogue. My attempt at a realistic, redeemed!Micah/Arthur. The motorcycle gang has disbanded, and Arthur and Micah live together in an old safehouse with a dog named the Duchess and a cat named Patrick (Bateman). Part 1-2 is filthy domestic Morbell smut, but ends on a bittersweet note. Part 3, which is unwritten, is hurt/comfort, and includes the cookies actually getting baked in a nonsexual sense, more Duchess & Patrick, and a talk on how it is like to grow older when one did not expect to survive. OLD MAN YAOI ALL THE WAY --

"You stirring?"

Arthur tried. There was something laughably pathetic about those small jerks of the wooden spoon against the wet dough and bowl. He laughed at himself, his shaking hands. "Shit," he said.

Micah pulled away, and the air was cold on Arthur's ass. Biting his lip to stifle a needy sound, he looked over his shoulder. Micah was still on his knees, looking up with a lewd grimace. "Shit? I sure hope not."

Arthur frowned, then did an intense eye roll. "Are you four years old?"

"Point blank range," Micah said, giggling, "But I guess," he drew out the words, savoring them, "I like to live dangerously …"

When Arthur rolled his eyes again, they stayed up, vanishing beneath his lids. The mouth had returned with a vengeance, thumb fucking into him while Micah licked around it. It slid deeper, and Arthur nearly dropped the bowl.

xxx

Slug

Same universe as TDatR, but is standalone, and far darker. NONCON & VIOLENCE. Four parts, O'Driscoll Gang/Micah, Colm's brother/Micah, Colm/Micah. Includes foursome, duct tape, spider gags, drugs, vibrators, gang rape, forced feminization, circle jerk, bukkake, boot worship, overstimulation, watersports, mindfuck ...

Micah is caught when robbing a O'Driscoll Gang hideout, disguised as a derelict gas station. What follows is six hours of horror, varying in intensity and depravity. He tries to manipulate the power structures within the gang in order to survive - when he's not screaming, that is.

Micah reached for his guns, only to be pulled backwards until he was flat. Leather fingertips dug into the hair roots and the swollen flesh beneath as more men swarmed him. They held his arms and legs down using thick gloves and thicker boots, applying pressure until he stilled. He swore his bones creaked under their combined weight. He looked up like he was stargazing among neat hills, and not in a ditch surrounded by helmets and with the stars hidden by city smog.

"Let me," said a second voice from above him, and another face came into view, so pretty it was near angelic, covered in a halo of reddish blonde corkscrew curls. Upside down, he looked to be smiling, friendly if not for the baseball bat hovering between them, covered in rusty nails. "Let me kill the little thief."

"Not yet. Bosses are near. Wanted to have a look."

xxx

And that's what I'm focusing on! But other fics might appear sporadically, like my Morbell fic Anhedonia did.

Hope everyone is having an alright Easter, if they celebrate, or otherwise just having a good time :)

Of all the seasons I dislike spring the most, so sending some extra love to those going through a tough time, April and May can be cruel.

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officialtayley · 10 months

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Can you tell us the meaning behind H's tattoos. Just curious

- chad initials covered up w black squares

- spongebob teeth (bc of her gap tooth) & AL tattoo the whole band have for the album

- heart outline matching tattoo with dakotah

- wayne's world mirthmobile matching tattoo with her sister erica for her 18th bday

- razor with "shave me" written on it which she's said "On the Warped Tour a few years ago, if I wore shorts or if I wore my pants rolled up, someone by the end of the day would have written ‘Shave me’ on my ankle. So I was like, ‘I’m going to have to get that tattooed so you guys won’t have to do it anymore." & also "I have this ‘reminder’ tattoo on my leg. Sort of a tribute to my days of touring and living like one of the boys. It says ‘shave me’ in a neat little banner… but I don’t think it’s going to help this time!"

- burst heart HHT tattoo "This is from a tour that I did,” she says, “our band wasn’t on it, but I just hung out. With New Found Glory, I mean all kinds of bands, a lot of my friends." & the artist said this "I actually did the patched heart on Hayley. I was on that tour [NFG Easycore tour in Fall 2008] and we all just got a hurtin’ heart. The letters are HHT for hurtin’ hearts tour. The “M” is actually just a burst behind the right side of the heart." & this is what HHT means "'Hurtin’ hearts’ is a term Ian from NFG would say when people were being mean or rude to each other on the tour."

- accentuate the positive eliminate the negative it's a lyric from the johnny mercer song "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" and she said "Kept this one to myself for a while. A Johnny Mercer lyric/life philosophy."

- bars hayley, taylor & jeremy got matching tattoos to represent the 3 of them and the people around them

- warped cloud hayley said this "My <3 for warped tour. (minus all the horrific bands on this year). 2 years ago [2007] in Cleveland we almost died in the storm on Warped!!! and our fans stuck around and waited for us for at least an hour. We went on anyways and played one of the most fun sets of the whole tour. So memorable. Then this year, we got to surprise Warped in Cleveland. The weather was perfect. I wanted something to remind me of some of my best Warped memories. No more “tour/bro” tats for me after that one!"

- cross hayley said "my faith is the only thing that never fails me."

- love letter hayley said "To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That’s what this means to me."

- tcb tattoo tcb was elvis presley's motto, it means "takin' care of business" and it was also name of his band. he also would wear a necklace with the logo. hayley and all the women in her family would wear replica ones, they had TLC on them for "tender love and care" and all the men had TCB ones. hayley said this "Finally got my TCB today. Been wearing the necklace for years… All the men in my family have TCB (taking care of business) and the women have TLC (tendler love and care). Now I’ve got both… And one of them is permanent! Think Elvis would be proud?"

#anon #answered

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September Sky Chapter Seven, Part 4

"Chad! Chris!" Someone shouted at us and we both turned our heads to see a girl with a shaved head waving us over.

"What took you so long?" She asked as she gave Chad and I friendly hugs.

"Bad directions." Chad said with a laugh.

"I thought you lived in the city, Chris?" Alana said. She sat down, letting her black overall style dress puff up from the force slightly. A smaller mouse of a girl sat next to her, sipping on a plastic cup of beer.

"I know like four blocks around my house and a few random paths to the lake and convenience stores," I said taking a seat next to the mouse girl.

"Guys, this is Emma. My girlfriend. Emma, this is Chris," she pointed at me, "and that's Chad." She pointed to Chad. Alana had come out as bisexual in high school, and was one of the very few girls who wasn't just doing it for extra attention.

"Hey," she said quietly, weakly waving. She seemed just as out of place as I felt. I guess I just hid mine a little better. Alana sat down, pouring both Chad and I a cup from a half empty pitcher of beer.

"I'll grab the next one," I said, taking the cup and drinking the quickly warming liquid deep. Alcohol ruins inhibitions. It removes insecurity and replaces it with confidence in yourself. Alcohol made me normal. At least until I over did it and found myself screaming at god with my head in a porcelain throne.

"Add another round that you owe us," Alana said. She took Emma's hand and squeezed it. It was kind of cute, in it's own way. Then I realized this must be what my dynamic with Addison was like. An extrovert and an introvert. Maybe that thing about opposites attracting had some truth to it.

"Ok. Wait, why do we owe you?'

"For being so late. Why didn't you call? I probably could have figured it out. Or at least could've looked it up on my phone."

"I fucking did try calling you. You never answered." Chad said loudly.

"You did not. I never got a missed call."

"I swear, I tried to call you."

"He did. I can vouch for that." I said.

"I can prove it," he fiddled with his phone and then held it out for all to see. It was his call log, showing he'd called Alana.

"Weird. I wonder why I never got it. You guys know you can call more than once, right?"

Both Chad and I burst out laughing. Neither one of us had even thought to call again. It's like we had just crossed calling her off our list. We may have been laughing, but inside I was feeling quite stupid.

"Yeah, that might've worked,"Chad said wiping a tear from his eye. For being two individuals who were somewhat proud of our intelligence, it wasn't all that rare for us to lose common sense.

"It's like when the two of you get together, you only have half a brain." Alana said. Emma just watched the conversation. Her eyes would volley to whoever was speaking. She even cracked a smile as Alana made fun of us.

"If I only had a brain," I sang, loudly and not even in any known key.

We talked through the usual catching up business, which always comes before the conversation becomes in the now. It turns out nothing much had changed with Alana since the last time I saw her. Other than her moving to Milwaukee, starting the path towards being a drug abuse counselor, and her girlfriend. And in all honesty, not one of those things came as really shocking news.

Emma and Chad were talking. Chad never had a problem starting a conversation with a stranger. It's a skill that I wish I still had sometimes.

I looked around the bar. People were still coming in with smiles and waves to friends. A DJ was starting to set up in the far corner. Groups huddled around each other, having loud secret conversations, where only half the words are heard. I recognized a few faces from shows in Riverwest, but nobody that I actually could say I knew.

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Hanging Up My Heart | Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers Band)

ship: Duane Allman x fem!OC

warnings: drug use/smoking, promiscuity, sexual references

summary: Duane gets a shave from his favourite groupie.

word count: 3544

a/n: Bit of a niche subject, but I hope everyone enjoys it! I spent a stupid amount of time making the timeline add up to their actual Autumn '69-Summer '70 touring schedule, which I know doesn't really matter to anyone but me, but y'know. I also did a fair bit of digging to find any recordings I could of Duane speaking out loud, and I found an album on Spotify called Skydog Tales, which is like an hours worth of radio recordings of his voice. So if you're curious just have a look for that. Anywho, thanks for reading!

written by @ganymede-princess

Cigarette smoke and incense mingle into a mind-melting haze in the stuffy hotel room den. Gregg perches on the vanity, talking low and quiet to Astrid who stands in between his knees, their eyes locked together as twin blue flames. Berry languishes on the seat by the window, menthol between his teeth, plucking a melodic bassline on the lower strings of an acoustic guitar. Laying on the bed beside me, Lorelai snorts a line off her pocket mirror with a dollar bill and shakes her head in satisfaction. I let a contemplative drag filter through my lips and ash out the cigarette butt on the tray on the side table.

"Hey, Tammy?" Lorelai stretches out and rolls onto her side. "When do you s'pose you're gonna leave the tour? 'Cause I know some of the guys from Traffic and I think I'm gonna join with them at Cosmic. I could get you a spot with them if you want to come with me."

"Oh, Lori I..." I reach out and run my fingers through her silken hair. "I don't know... That's so soon."

"Oh c'mon." She rasps. "Traffic are far out. It'll be fun... and I'll miss you if you don't."

"I dunno, I'll think about it." I lay back and look at the ceiling fan as it spins. "Steve Winwood is pretty cute though."

"Oh my god, he is! He'd be so perfect for you."

"You think?"

"Uh-huh. You gotta come, he'd love you."

"We wouldn't think you're disloyal or anything if you went." Berry flops down onto the bed and lays his arm over Lorelai's waist. "It's all love."

"It's not really about that." I bite my lip. "I mean, you guys are my favourite band, yeah, and obviously I care what you think, but... it's just something I'm dealing with personally, okay?"

"Shit, mama, is it terminal?" Berry grimaces.

"No, no, I mean... maybe." I giggle. "It's not gonna kill me, it's just..."

Lorelai grabs my hand, concern written across her face.

"Baby, are you pregnant? Is it Duane's?"

"No! God, no! Duane and I never even... not with any of them-"

"Well, what the hell do you do when you're alone for so long?"

"Talk."

"You talk to him?" She gasps. "Just talk? You never..."

I shake my head.

"Well, baby, what kind of groupie are you?"

"An interesting one."

We collapse into a fit of giggles. Berry has clearly grown bored of the conversation and begins working his lips against Lorelai's neck.

"Just promise me you'll think about it." She groans, already getting distracted.

"Sure."

I prop myself up on my elbow and lay a soft kiss on her lips. Our mouths move together in a familiar motion and her hand finds the back of my neck as she deepens the kiss. We keep it up for a minute or two, lightly moaning and squirming around for Berry's benefit, until a low whistle interrupts us. I look over to see Duane leaning up against the doorway, arms folded; his red-gold chops are a lion's mane, and an ever-present smirk lights up his face. Lorelai tugs my hair, silently asking me to re-join the fray, but I push her away.

"Hey, Skydog."

He says nothing to begin with, just letting his eyes roam across the scene before him, expression unreadable. Then, he smiles.

"Miss Callaway, I wanna see ya in five."

"You're not the boss of me, Duane."

He laughs and holds up five fingers, winks, and then slinks away into the hall. My body prickles deliciously with uneasy excitement. I make the move to follow him, but Lorelai catches my hand.

"You want some blow before you blow him?"

"Lori." I scoff.

"Your heart is probably beating hard enough already!" She cackles before Berry engulfs her in a frenzied embrace.

"Shut up." I mutter, opening the side table drawers in search of a downer.

"You won't find anything in there." Gregg grumbles. "Willie locked 'em up 'til after the show. Lucky Dick had that 8-ball o' cocaine up his ass."

"God damn!" I cringe. "You're kidding."

"True story, he- mmph!" His response is muffled by Astrid crushing her lips against his.

"Ew, dude."

I shuffle out of the room, taking a second to catch my breath in the hallway. My heart races as a hundred imagined scenes run through my mind. Trying to find peace, I rake my eyes across the cracked popcorn ceiling, smoke-streaked floral wallpaper, and faded carpet. I think of all the similar hallways we have left behind, and every dingy hotel bed I laid in next to Duane, talking for hours about The Lord of the Rings, harmonica blues, and native peyote rituals among a slew of other topics. I think of his low drawl and the humorous spin he puts on even the darkest conversations. I think of the first time I saw him on stage last November, back home in Macon on my twenty-first birthday. My first gig since my post-Woodstock, post-Rick Danko heartbreak, hibernation and freak out. Duane glowed with a cosmic energy unlike anything I had ever seen, and I felt my heart thaw out as he sang to me through his guitar. Though we didn't have the chance to talk face to face, I found him occupying my thoughts for months after. I think of the first time we spoke by the side door in Atlanta in the crisp March evening, our voices hushed and fleeting, the way my hands shook as I scribbled my number on the back of a pack of fries, and the way my name sounded on his lips. I tremble, plunged back into the memory for a moment.

"Fuck outta here, Gregg!" Berry's shout snaps me out of my reverie, and moments later Gregg and Astrid come tumbling out of Berry's room, lips and hands still locked onto each other.

I duck out of the way and retreat a few doors down to Duane's room. The gentle sound of the blues trickles under the door, drawing me in like the Pied Piper. I inch the door open, peering in to see Duane sitting on the loveseat under the window noodling away on a beat up acoustic. The summer breeze filters into the room, shifting his rusty hair and disturbing the stream of smoke emanating from the cigarette between his teeth. He hums lowly, a rare sound from Duane since he's grown shy about his singing voice. He looks up calmly, still humming, then grins around his cigarette.

"Hey, peach." He purrs in his southern drawl, laying the butt in the ashtray on the windowsill. "C'mere, listen."

I gingerly pad over and sit down beside him, and as I do, he takes my chin in his hand and kisses me soft and quick. His moustache tickles me when he smiles against my lips, and he parts from me before I can deepen the kiss. He pecks me repeatedly on the cheek, making a low, sweet noise in his throat, and when he's satisfied, he begins to pluck a soaring melody on his guitar. Still breathless and seeing stars, the sound sends my mind rushing to another realm. I close my eyes and let my spirit fly out of me like a wedding dove into the beams of brilliant golden light emanating from the strings. As he finishes, I let my eyes open slowly and return to myself. Duane looks up at me with expectant puppy-eyes.

"It's beautiful, Duane." I breathe. "Absolutely beautiful."

"Thanks, sugar." He sets down his guitar with a bashful smile. "You want a smoke?"

"Sure." He lights us both a menthol and lays his arm out behind me so I can rest my head on it.

"Does the song have a name yet?"

"It's barely a song." He grumbles. "I guess Gregg'll name it after he writes the words."

"Hmm." I take a ponderous drag. "It's so pretty it could just be an instrumental."

"You think?" He quirks an eyebrow.

"Yeah. It's kinda catchy as it is, so you could just build on it with the other instruments. Maybe you could add a b-section too, I don't know. I kind of imagine it like Elizabeth Reed but more mellow, y'know?"

"You're onto something, girlie." His eyes crinkle when he smiles. "Why don't you play me your own songs?"

"Mm." I scowl. "I already told you, it's too embarrassing."

"What if I died tomorrow?" He deadpans.

"Duane."

"What if?" He blows smoke in my face. "Huh? I'd be dead and I'd never have heard-"

"Duane!" The cheeky grin drops off his face. "God damnit, shut up!"

"I'm just kiddin' around, ya sourpuss." He mumbles dejectedly and gives my shoulder a squeeze.

I take a deep drag of my cigarette and let the smoke out with a shuddering breath.

"Lori wants me to get off with her in Atlanta." I admit, desperate to change the subject. "She says she knows somebody from Traffic who can get me a place on their tour."

If Duane is hurt by the idea, his steady gaze doesn't show it.

"What did you tell her?"

"I said I'd think about it."

"Well," He itches his sideburns. "What do you want to do?"

I look into his blue-grey eyes, trying to glean some sense of what he is thinking, but Duane is, as always, unreadable.

"I wanna stay here." I cave under the weight of his gaze. "But I feel like I've outstayed my welcome."

"What makes you say that?"

"I've been on tour with you guys for two months already, and since I haven't been fucking anyone, I feel like a bit of a dead weight. I'm not really doing my job."

"You don't have a job." Duane teases.

"Shut up, you know what I mean."

"Peach," He kisses my temple. "I assure you, you're not a dead weight."

"Yeah? 'Cause I figure there's six of us and six of you, so surely one of you isn't getting any."

"You really don't fuck anyone?"

"You know this, Duane." I assure him. "Unless you count Lori, but that's just us blowing off steam."

"Hmm."

"Gregg's still trying."

"I bet he is, the jit." Duane snorts.

"Part of me wishes I could just cut loose and say yes to him," I admit. "But I'm not sixteen anymore. I can't just... let things wash over me anymore. I have grown-up feelings now."

"God awful, ain't it?"

"Oh it's the worst!"

We share a quick giggle before a comfortable silence takes over. We finish our cigarettes by the dim lamp light, relishing the warm Floridian breeze.

"You wanna do me a favour?"

"Here we go." I tease.

"Forget I asked."

"No, no, no, what is it?"

"I need a shave and a haircut." He runs his hand over his chops. "I'm gettin' scruffy."

"I like scruffy."

"M'yeah me too, but not this scruffy."

I did have to admit, his chops could use some work. They were so long they were hanging halfway down his neck.

"Well, you picked the right girl for the job." I say. "I've been cutting my little brother's hair since he was six years old."

"I know, you told me."

"I did?"

"Mm. We were talking about your grandparents' ranch, and you mentioned Bobby had long hair like a girl, and he caught it on fire setting off a rocket, so you had to cut it, and you did so well that you've been doing it for him ever since."

"Damn." I squint. "I really did tell you, huh."

"Mm. I don't forget."

"Okay, well, go clean up and get your razor out and I'll do it for you."

He pecks me on the lips and disappears into the bathroom. I lay down on his bed and watch the ceiling fan spin. Three months in and my heart still races at the slightest hint of his affection, and I'm beginning to hate it. I curse my total lack of foresight in joining this tour, and the fact that I cave to his every demand. I should have known myself better, known that basking in the glow of his soul would quickly become an addiction. I should have known that he would be another knife in me. I wipe away the tears that leak from the corners of my eyes and sigh, steeling myself against the trial of touch I will have to endure.

"Alright, alright." Duane pops his head around the door, grinning like always. "I'm ready."

He disappears back inside, and I grit my teeth as I follow him. He sits on the closed lid of the toilet, shirtless, with his hands on his knees and a towel around his shoulders. My stomach squeezes at his rough beauty, the rusty hair on his chest and the way his lean arms are slightly toned from carrying his equipment. Noticing me staring, he smirks and flexes his arms.

"You like these guns, huh?" He kisses his bicep. "That's all muscle, baby."

"Tshhh." I pick up the can of shaving cream and pretend to read it. "You wish."

"I been trainin'." He deadpans. "Pretty soon I'll be able to swing Gregg around by the ankles."

"Yeah, bet." I keep looking at the can, swallowing my laughter.

"By the end of the tour we'll save a ton on fuel 'cause I'll just push the bus around."

"Uh-huh."

"Peach, it's shaving cream not the Declaration of Independence."

Giggles bubble out of me before I can stop them.

"God, shut up!" I cover my face. "So stupid."

"Yeah, you love me."

"Yeah." I realize what I'm agreeing to a moment too late, so I put on a flamboyant Boston accent in a futile attempt to distract him. "Sowh, Mistah Awlman, what cayn Oi do fowh ya?"

"Just a trim, sweetheart." He drawls, suddenly quiet. I tremble inside as he strokes the front of my hair. "Do this thing for me too, where it kinda falls closer at the front."

"A little blending?"

"Mmhm." He runs the back of his fingers over my cheek, leaving it hot and tingling.

"O-hokay." I clear my throat. "I'll see what I can do."

"I want the chops up to my chin, too." He tilts his chin up and runs a hand down his neck. "And clean up the hair under here."

"Anything else, your highness?"

"Clip my moustache. It's too long, keeps gettin' in my mouth."

"Are you gonna say 'please?'" I quirk my eyebrow.

He takes my hand, kisses it, and smiles.

"No."

"You're a bit of an asshole." I scowl, beginning to comb his fine blonde hair.

"Can't fault you there, sweetheart." He chuckles. "But you do love me."

"Yeah." I mutter reluctantly.

He closes his eyes and groans lowly as I pass the comb over his scalp. His hair is so soft that the tangles melt away with the slightest touch.

"That feels good, sugar." Blushing, I turn away to grab the scissors. "Why'd you stop?"

"Shh."

"You're awful quiet."

"I wish you would be."

"I don't know what you're antsy for all o' sudden." Duane rolls his eyes. "It's a damn drag."

My heart is running like a thoroughbred, and I'm surprised he hasn't heard the hoofbeats thudding through my chest. Keep it together, Tammy. I lose my breath for a second as I take a lock of rose-blonde hair between my fingers. A snowfall of gold floats away as I begin clipping.

"I can't focus with your yapping. You'll look like a one-eared hound dog if you don't shut up."

Patient as always, Duane leans over and kisses my hand, then makes a lip-zipping motion.

"Thank you."

Relishing the way his silken hair slips between my fingers, I keep cutting until it sits just below his chin. When it is time to blend the front, and clip his chops and moustache, he closes his eyes and hums softly as my fingers brush against his cheeks. I battle against the animal urge to straddle him right then and there. When it's done, I take the razor and shaving cream from the sink. Duane looks at me with half lidded eyes.

"Don't cut me now, peach."

"I didn't say you could talk yet." I huff.

"Too bad, sugar, I just did." He straightens up and stretches. "Be careful, my face is my greatest asset, I'm sure you agree."

"Oh, for certain." I nod, tilting his chin up with my finger and patting some cream onto his neck. "Definitely not your sense of humour, or your talent..."

"You think I'm funny." I want to bite the infuriating smirk off his lips.

"And talented. Now, don't talk or you might actually get cut."

I drag the razor slowly up from the base of his throat to his chin. He sighs lightly, his breath warm against my hand. Suddenly, the world feels closer, as if Duane and I are alone in our own tiny universe. His eyes are like the sky before a rainstorm, yet life shines through them like a Jacob's Ladder. Emboldened, I slip my hand into the hollow of his cheek and keep shaving. As I finish the next stroke, Duane takes my hand off his cheek and kisses it, long and soft. As the razor slides up his neck, he rubs his calloused thumb over my knuckles. I feel his gaze on me like hot water. I finish up the last stroke and rub off the rest of the shaving cream with a wet towelette, taking a moment to appreciate my handiwork. As I pat some lemony aftershave onto his soft skin, he takes my face in his hand, tracing my lips with his thumb.

"Stay with me." His voice is rough as gravel. "I want you here."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah." He smirks mischievously. "Who else is gonna stay up and listen to me talk about Tolkein for hours like a goddamn speed freak?"

"You're right," I struggle against the waver in my voice. "I'm the only one who can tolerate you."

He rolls his eyes, but soon after his face softens and he suddenly seems vulnerable.

"Peach, I..." He looks away, cheeks reddening. "You know I dig you, right?"

I nod, biting my lip. He sighs and looks up at me.

"I gave my black book to Gregg last week. I want you to be my girl. Exclusively."

"Like going steady?" I blurt out.

"C'mon, peach, I'm being serious! This is heavy shit I'm laying out here."

"W-well, I am too." I wring my hands. "You really got rid of your book?"

"Uh-huh." He takes my hands, forcing them to be still. "Peach, I... Tammy, I love you. You're... you're spectacular. You're beautiful, intelligent, fucking hilarious. I mean, you listen to me bitch and moan all goddamn day and you still have a sense of humour about it. Hell, you're the only woman I've ever seen shotgun a Jax. I just... Every time I see you I can't get enough of you. I think I'd walk into hell with you if that's where you needed to go. I think you're probably my best friend, and... shit, peach, I been lookin' for home for a long time, and... and you feel like home. Please, just give me a chance."

"Oh, Duane." My throat tightens as tears tumble down my cheeks.

"Oh, no, peachy, don't cry!" He frets. "I'm sorry, I'll never mention it again, I swear."

"No, no, Duane, I-" I swallow thickly. "I just never- I didn't think... I been through a lot in my life, y'know, and, and Rick Danko and..."

"Hey, hey, shh." Duane stands up and pulls me in against him. I lay my head against his chest and try to still the breathless weeping. "Shhhh, you don't need to tell me now."

"Duane." When I finally speak, my voice comes in a squeak. "I been hung up on you since the day I saw you."

"Atlanta?" His face lights up.

"No, Macon." I dry my face and itch the back of my neck. "I saw you back in November at the City Auditorium, but I was still kinda buggin' from all the shit Rick put me through, so I didn't talk to you. But I swear I stared at you all night."

"Surprised I didn't see you." He chuckles, wiping my tears away with his thumbs. "You light up a room."

"So do you." I put my arms around his neck and get on my tip toes. "I love you too, y'know. You drive me wild."

"In a good way?"

"The best way."

I lean in, and after a lingering moment of almost-touching, Duane thrusts his lips against mine hungrily. Finally unafraid, I part my lips, letting him kiss me deeper than he ever had before. His hand firmly on my chin, I am at his mercy, and it feels perfect. As my knees tremble, his hands move to anchor to my hips, holding me up as he relentlessly kneads his lips against mine. When he's finally satisfied, I almost collapse in his arms.

"Sorry, sweetheart." He locks his arms around me. "You okay?"

"I love you." It's the only thought left in my head.

"I'll take that as a 'yes,'" He chuckles. "I love you too, peach."

"Are... are you okay?"

"I feel about ready to fly out the window and do an airborne lap o' Tampa." His laugh is like music to me. "Now, c'mon, I gotta get down for the soundcheck or Willie's gonna beat my ass."

"I thought you said you're strong enough to swing Gregg around by the ankles." I follow Duane out to the bedroom where he promptly starts rifling through his luggage.

"This is true." He tosses a silk paisley shirt onto the bed. "I could fold Willie like an accordion, but then we'd be up shit creek without a manager."

"I think you're full o' shit, Skydog."

"Oh, yeah?" Before I know it, Duane has tossed me over his shoulder, spun me around, and dropped me down on the bed.

"Not fair!" I exclaim breathlessly as he hovers above me, his hair a golden halo in the lamplight. He lays a kiss on me, deep and ferocious. My head spins until he eventually relents, moving his lips to work against my neck. "D-Duane, what about... soundcheck?"

"Fuck soundcheck."

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Biweekly Media Roundup

- The Adam Project (Movie) - This sure was a movie huh. It wasn’t so bad that I feel like writing a dissertation on it but boy it wasn’t any good either. Everyone in the movie just spoke in that Ryan Reynolds quip humor which I have liked in the past but here it was way too much and not particularly clever or funny, and really got in the way of any sort of emotional depth or realism the story was trying to convey-Everything just felt forced and unnatural. The story also didn’t make much sense, I like time travel stories as a whole, but the characters were time traveling to prevent time travel from being invented which?? Maybe you’ll stop it from being invented at that specific time but if it's a possible phenomenon then someone will invent it at some point dude, I don’t think this is solving anything. They also pull the “I can’t tell someone that they're going to die cause that might change the future” despite the fact that everything they are doing is actively and intentionally changing the future. I think the only thing I was impressed by was the protagonists house which was this incredibly nice open-air Cabin in the wood, wish I lived there. Anyway, don’t watch this, you can find better things to do.

- Buddy Daddies (Anime) - The only non-sequel anime I decided to watch this season, I am having fun with Spy X Family Gay Dads addition. I can’t say it’s doing anything unexpected but if you like this kind of thing it’s competent enough, and I do really like the perpetually tired half-shaved updo character design of the darker haired father. The ending theme is quite cute and the comedy is solid so far, my main hopes going forward are that the child character is allowed to have some depth outside of “cute toddler” and that we get more backstory/interactions between the male leads and what their deal is. Good wholesome show for now.

- The Vampire Dies In No Time (Anime) - Hey it’s back. I’m actually surprised it got a sequel season as I didn’t think the first one did that well but hey, I’m happy it’s here. The comedy can be hit or miss and even actively cringey sometimes so it’s hard to recommend, but I really enjoy these characters and their unconventional family. There’s just no other series I can go to where a guy comes over to his arch-nemeses house to show his roommate a PowerPoint Presentation he made of why that guy’s the worst. It’s stupid in the best way possible. Can’t wait to see more of Best Boy John as well.

- JJBA: Stone Ocean (Anime) - People turned into Snails last time, that was fun.

- The Greatest Estate Developer (Webcomic) - I’m so tempted to just read the webnovel for this, as I do plan to eventually, but I told myself I would finish ORV first so it might be awhile. It’s just the perfect comfort food though, I love the asshole best friend's dynamic of the leads and the continuous betterment of society Lloyd brings to the World. We’ll see if this will motivate me to finally finish ORV or if I’ll just cave first.

- Demon Slayer (Anime) - Don’t have much to say, rewatching this with my sister, it’s cute with good animation and nice characters, I enjoy it a reasonable amount.

- The S Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) - Successfully got my sister into this now which I consider a win.

- Sense8 (TV) - Yup.

- Persona 5 Royal (Video Game) - Okay so here’s what I’ve actually been doing all week, this game has consumed my life. I’ll save most of my thoughts until I’m closer to the conclusion but for now I really adore the visuals and stylistic flair of the game as well as the character interactions-I appreciate that the Phantom Thieves actually hang out and feel like friends, it’s surprisingly common for media to just have the cast say they’re close without ever actually showing them spending time together so I’m grateful. The music's also solid, though 50 hours in it’s starting to haunt my daily hours as well. I’m going to make this my whole personality in February, watch me.

I also watched the first episode of The Last of Us, though I’ll hold off on judgement for now. Demon School has also gotten better so I’m keeping up with that too.

Listening to: Persona 5 OST, Troublemaker by Olly Murs, As It Was by Harry Styles, Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift, Tangled Up by Caro Emerald, Hell’s Comin’ with Me by Poor Mans Poison, Kaibutsu - AmaLee cover, The Fine Print by The Stupendium, Do It All The Time, Waste by Oh Wonder, Stay by Reinaeiry, Black Magic by Little Mix, Kiss Me Son Of God by They Might Be Giants

#weekly roundup #My posts

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okok bear with me but the hair symbolism in stranger things is either so good or i’m insane.

we can start off with the obvious which is el’s hair. in the beginning of the show when she’s still in her mindset of being relatively new to the outside world her hair is is shaved off. the more comfortable she is to the outside world the longer her hair is. (i haven’t watched past dear billy so bear with me) when she’s getting her powers back her hair gets shaved again which shows how she’s going back to how she used to be.

will’s hair is a little bit more fun. his bowl cut has stayed the same throughout the seasons to show how he never got the chance to truly grow up. he was a child in the beginning of the show and he never actually got his childhood after that. he wants everything to be the same as he left it because he never got the chance to have his life. ahhhh it’s so fun but i don’t make sense at all.

i think mikes is kind of fun because he has the bowl cut bangs which show how he’s still trying to hold on to the past, but the longer bit shows how he’s growing away from will and into more of a rebellious streak. (idk about this one)

i think lucas is taking the stereotypical black hairstyle in 80’s media in order to make himself seem more normal so that he can like be popular and likable. (side note: he’s just tired of being bullied stop hating on him for wanting to be popular)

idk i think that’s it but lmk if i’m missing anyone who’s hair seems significant. also i know i’m reading into this way too much but this was fun especially the will bit.

#stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #lucas stranger things #hair #symbolism #i’m reading into this way too much #sleep deprived

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Plastic Skies - Model 1: MiG 21

Alright, here’s part 1 of the proper How I Got Back Into Aircraft Model Kits journal. You can find all the setup over HERE if you missed that, but don’t worry, there’s still a bit of setup left before we get flying.

So after my fourth or fifth run through AC7′s campaign, and with my birthday coming soon, I decided to just go for it. I reached into my memory and plucked the location of a hobby shop near my old high school that I used to walk past a lot of times, and on a cool Saturday morning, head over there with a simple plan: I’d grab the cheapest model I could find, put it on the counter and tell the store owner to just give me everything I needed to get it done. To get it ALL done. Paints and all. It was go time.

The owner perfectly understood where I was coming from and led me to a scalpel-style blade for cutting the parts off the sprue and shaving leftover plastics, a bottle of modeller’s glue, two pencils (one wide and one point) and the main event: a couple of Revell acrylic paints, black and gray. Or to be more precise, “Mausgrau 36147″ and “Anthrazit 36109″. Looking back, I wish I’d picked a lighter shade of gray, but this was a test run and I was more than open to suggestions.

Those suggestions also gave me my first revelation about this hobby: model kits have been around for a while and there’s an entire host of tools made exclusively for it, in both simple and fascinating ways. So for example, the modeller’s glue I bought (which I’m still using) comes with a tiny metal tube for putting the glue into the small places, and is also made with some kind of weird chemical make-up that makes it impossible for my fingers to get stuck. It’s universes away from the store-bought general use glue we used as kids.

The paints were also something of a revelation. Their tiny boxes come with a little bowl on the inside of the cover, which means you can flip the box over closed, wait a few moments, then flip it back up, open it and have enough paint on the bowl to get cracking (after putting some water for thinning, as the owner explained). It was and still is deeply interesting, but more importantly, it made me feel very confident about the possibility of Doing This Thing. These were not complex tools with mysterious uses, these were facilitators. They existed to make things easier. And it took me actually seeing them to realize that.

As for the model itself, the shop had a whole bunch of cheap kits for about six to nine dollars each, which was exactly what I was looking for. I figured, if I was going to absolutely ruin a model with clumsy rookie mistakes, it was better to waste less than ten bucks on it. Plus, I’ve always liked the good ol’ MiG-21, and I’d just come out of a very fun run with it in AC7. And looking back, I think it’s also interesting that it was very much NOT a model me or my brother had built during our first run. It wasn’t something I was thinking about when I bought it, but in hindsight, the spirit of “I wanna try a new thing” was there.

Building the model was mercifully easy. There were very few parts to it, and I’d already learned the value of painting the small ones directly on the sprue first. I did mess up a couple of key things, like the cockpit which ended up a little too much to one side, which in turn messed up the landing gear. In fact, all the landing gears ended up looking pretty clunky. And I also did an absolute shit job of gluing the tail stabilizers, which means looking at the plane from the front or the back makes me want to cry a little.

But once that was done, it was time to face my demons and paint the damn thing. And that was when a decision was made, one that revealed one of the key aspects of the hobby that are incredibly obvious but I guess I still needed to experience for myself. See, the owner had given me two paints, with the intention that I use gray for the fuselage and black for wheels and maybe some inner parts. But once I had the thing mostly assembled, I looked at my two options and thought... why not? Why not follow Mick Jagger’s advice? Why not paint it, black?

That was, I think, where everything finally started to click with me. In one fell swoop I learned two important lessons. One, that model kits are for you, that they can be about trying to mimic reality as closely as possible if you want, but they can also be about painting a MiG in the blackest black possible just because you think it’d be cool. And two, that painting was way, way, waaaaaay easier than I’d ever feared. Watching paint dry might be boring, but seeing all the little details in the fuselage slowly reappear after a coat that I was terrified had drowned them was a weird kind of thrill. As was seeing the finished product and realizing the plastic looked like it was black to begin with. I even took the trouble of painting the wheels and the tires in different colors, a clumsy attempt that still ended up looking shockingly OK. It was riveting. It was a mess and there’s still a couple of places where you can see my inexperience, but that meant nothing in the face of the increasingly cool shape my little plane was taking on.

And that was, in a very conscious way, the secondary objective of this whole idea. I wanted to get back into modeling because I was falling back in love with planes, sure, but I also thought it’d help me deal with a bit of a mental hurdle I’ve been working on for a while now. It’s that particular brand of perfectionism that a lot of people share where I try something for the first time, and if I fail at it in any way, I immediately lose all motivation to keep trying. My brain just puts it in the “Welp, we suck at that, let’s never try that again” cabinet and padlocks it away. It’s something that had kept me away from trying a lot of new things, but during 2022 I’d been slowly trying to find ways to overcome it, to learn to live with failures both big and small, to be more patient with myself and the process of gaining experience. And above all, to internalize the value of something done 90% or 80% or even just 70% well. To be happy with imperfection.

And that MiG-21 was hella imperfect. Especially once I tried decaling. It only had eight decals, six of which were red stars, and I hilariously misplaced all of them. To my credit, none were destroyed, and the numbers on the side of the nose were pretty OK, but the rest are just all over the place and I didn’t have the courage to try to dampen them and try again. I chose to accept them in all their messy glory. The one error I couldn’t accept, though, was that the construction had left this MiG very tail-heavy, to the point where every time I laid it down, it’d pop a wheelie.

The problem turned out to be an easy and even fun little fix that, again, taught me two important lessons: one, every issue you ever face while building a model has at least twenty tutorials on how to fix it online, and two, making model kits involves a frankly ridiculous mix of extremely specific tools made for this task and this task only, and then a bunch of homemade recipes and random items for everything else. In my case, I went down to a fishing store and bought ten tiny balls of lead, then glued like five of those inside the MiG’s nose. Which was kinda overkill and led to an ugly warping of plastic, but whatever, yay imperfections!

And that’s how I finished my first new model, which I completed on the exact morning of my birthday. I showed some pictures of it to my family, who already knew I was planning to get back into it and were all pretty supportive of it. To my great pleasure, my older brother really liked what he saw. It made me happy to see him reunite by proxy with what had once been his hobby as well. But I also admit, there was a small part of me that was also inordinately proud that I’d “beat” him at finishing a model, paints and all. We’ve never been competitive, him and I, but on this very small, decades-old contest that we never knew even existed, I’d overtaken him. And I’m still in first place.

As for the MiG, it sits snugly on my shelf, the first of several, full of mistakes and imperfections but still somewhat impressive in its anthracite coat. I’d go back to it a couple of times once I learned a few more tricks, but for now I was satisfied with it. I was happy. And the best part of it was that I wanted more.

#My Stuff #Hobbies #Journals #Looking back #I kinda wish I'd asked for #A metallic paint #For that cool shiny chrome look #But to be honest #This soon in the game #I didn't even know those paints existed #Still #If I ever do another MiG #It's getting chromed super hard

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keefwho · 11 months

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July 10 - 2023 Monday

11:14 PM

I’ve been slacking writing about my day. The whole point, as much as it might feel wrong sometimes, is to treat myself like my day mattered enough to write down. I did stuff that affects myself and others and I deserve to broadcast it, even if to no one.

This morning I was still recovering from last night’s horrible tummy issues. Breakfast kinda sucked, I made soup but didn’t really like it. I was SUPER tired from getting poor sleep but did half of this guy’s commission stream anyways. I’d say it went well. Before my shower I shaved because I was getting tired of my pubes tbh. Not that they were that bad but I’m starting to hate even a little hair. I skipped my workout on account of being too tired and had a good nut in the shower. Lunch was some decent Rice a Roni and during my afternoon work, I idled in VRchat for a little bit. In one Black Cat instance, I got kicked within 30 seconds for being a furry. I was finding VR to be distracting because I wasn’t really satisfied with the worlds I was finding so I kept hopping. Eventually I settled in my own world in a group instance under the Furry group but no one joined. I swear that world is cursed to never get traffic. Maybe if I updated the thumbnail, something about it could be putting people off for some reason. While working on my world for an hour, I got very focused which was nice. I had fun and made an animated sink. In the afternoon I joined a friend’s server for just a little bit and had a nice short chat before leaving. I wanted to hang out with someone else but they seemed busy and I really think I need to work on being myself more anyways. I’ve had trouble being on my own today because it’s hard to stop thinking about that one thing you want to do. I played some Zelda and watched MoonMoon stream. Earlier I got into a futa mood because Daisy had a dream about it which was very hot. She also cucked me with AI Sidon a little which got me totally cuck brained. I was super into it for a bit, I don’t know what it is that I like so much. Maybe it’s just a special kind of humiliating, and I like my humiliation. I also had a drink tonight since I didn’t have one last night, made the night a little more fun. After Daisy called and went to sleep, I found an excellent IRL cuck video that I utilized.

I’m thinking maybe I could try journaling throughout the day if I remember to. Sometimes I want to rant about something in the moment but not at the end of the day when I just wanna go to bed. I also want to evaluate how I might have done today differently or what could have made it better. Asking Daisy for time this evening would have been nice, even if she said no. I have a habit of worrying I’m being too much so sometimes I try to reign myself in even though that means I might be missing chances to fulfill my social wants because they might want to hang out just as much as I do. I don’t actually know until I ask. I also wish I had focused more in general but I always wish I could do that. It sure would help me to stop thinking about certain things sometimes and would benefit self exploration since I’d be able to take in new information better. If I had remembered before I started shaving, I could have attempted to workout despite how tired I was. Now I have to make up for it tomorrow.

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sunshine-in-your-smile · 1 year

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Q1 Empties & Declutters

let's see what has left my possession. most is skincare because duh I use that like twice a day everyday. we start with my proud empties and lead into the shame that is my declutters

e.l.f. Cosmetics Jelly Pop Luscious Lip Mask - this smelled so heavily like artificial watermelon flavoring? Felt like I was smearing melted candy on my lips. It was a fine lip mask though. I don't like my products to have any scent at all so even if I was given the chance to repurchase, I wouldn't. Pretty sure it's discontinued anyways.

innisfree Dewy Glow Jelly Cream - It's a gel moisturizer. A while ago I had some samples from innisfree and I hated pretty much every moisturizer since it was just too rich for my oily skin but this is good, doesn't take like six hours to dry down like some of their other products.

Dear, Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream - I'm going to miss this. I had the tube version which I think(?) had more product than the jar. It did what it said it would, it was hydrating and soothed any irritation in my skin. Pretty pricey though so maybe I would buy it again when it goes on sale.

VUE DE PULANG Frozen Cream - I really like this! I stick it in the freezer for a few hours but you could use it at room temperature. If frozen, it's kind of like scooping shaved ice and it melts into the skin. Nice chilling sensation that lingers a bit. It feels hydrating and dries down even if you slathered on a thick layer. My second tub actually, might opt for a third, might not. Probably not because I get bored with products easily and like switching things up.

Jin Jung Sung Soothing Moisture Skin Essence - It's a thick liquid in a nice glass bottle, I don't refrigerate it but it feels nice and cool nonetheless. Makes my skin feel nice and soft. Might repurchase or use again if my mom has a spare stashed somewhere

e.l.f. Cosmetics Holy Hydration! Daily Moisturizer Mini - What's the difference between this and the face cream? Other than texture? Fuck if I know. This has a noticeable fragrance which I hate with a burning passion, it smells like how Airheads Candy Bites (Original Fruit, Watermelon) taste which,,,, might be a hyper specific reference but my brother got gifted a box of them and I've been chipping away at it. It's fine. Not the candy, that's good, I'm talking about the moisturizer. Will I buy the full size? No, not unless there's a fragrance free version, it's on sale, and I need a new moisturizer ASAP.

e.l.f. Cosmetics Pure Skin Moisturizer Mini - Huh. I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this that's for sure. How did I even get a moisturizer to be streaky? You need to really rub this in to get it to not look like you dipped your face in paint. Also sometimes it stings when my skin's extra irritated. Anyways this feels like nothing on the skin and leaves me matte which I guess could be a good day cream situation. I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to get this but it's ight. Maybe I just need to stop being so fucking aggressive with my hands who knows

AOA Cherry Blossom Lip Oil (Avocado/Cherry) - Scent isn't overwhelming (it's there but like. Only a little though) and it applies just fine. The flocked applicator you usually see with lip products seems like an odd choice since it do be soaking up product but to be fair a lot of other lip oils are packaged with that kind of brush. I don't know if I just go through lip oils quickly or if there really isn't much product inside (probably both) but this really didn't take long at all. I like using an oil as a base before putting on balms/creams because my lips really are that crusty as to need this many products slathered on. Maybe a repurchase, maybe I'll try other lip oils. Can't beat $1.88 though.

Florence By Mills Hit Snooze Lip Mask - Fuck no. The texture was fun, felt like jello kinda, no noticeable scent or anything but it dried my lips out and putting on a thicker layer just made it worse. Wish this worked for me since it's a pretty good amount and again, it's fun to touch but I can't be bothered with lip products that don't immediately improve my lips. This was in one of those holiday gift sets with a tinted lip balm I also hate lol live and learn.

Florence By Mills Oh Whale! Lip Balm (Candy Cane) - I don't have beef with the lip balm portion, I just don't like the color. It's a bright bright hot pinky red that I think looks bad on me and also doesn't vibe with my preference for darker, grunge lips.

The Creme Shop Permanent Popsicle Lip Juice Stain (Eternally Grapeful) - Yeah no I couldn't handle the grape scent. Call me weak I Do Not Care. Once you open this bad boy up it hits you like a truck. I described the smell as artificial grape candy but now that I think about it that would imply it's at least a bit sweet. This is cough syrup. I will miss this color but also it's nothing revolutionary, I can find a purple elsewhere. Probably in my collection already too. This hasn't soured by opinion on The Creme Shop entirely (just the lip products) so I'll keep an eye out for anything else from this brand.

Euphoric Sun Winter Mochi Lip Gloss (Rice Ball) - I really tried to make this work but why am I in 2023 choosing to suffer with products that don't work for me? Like with The Creme Shop's lip tint, it's gotta go.

e.l.f. Cosmetics Retro Paradise Dream On Lip Gloss (Strawberry Daquiri) - My BH Cosmetics gloss in a similar shade is going unused because I want to tough it out with this.... the applicator sucks idk why I was adamant about keeping it this long

e.l.f. Cosmetics Cookies 'N Dreams Lip Gloss (Brain Freeze) - I can't handle the cookie scent. Too heavy for me. I have other clear glosses that don't have any smell

e.l.f. Cosmetics Mint Melt (Mint Sparkle) - Same reason as the one for Brain Freeze, it's a really pretty shimmer but it is also scented. More chemically but still overwhelmingly sweet? It's weird.

BH Cosmetics Mrs. Bella Lip Gleam (Golden Peach) - Just not a fan of corals or metallic finishes

Pony Effect Galaxy Lip Gloss (#Cosmo) - See above.

Profusion Cosmetics Lip Dazzlers (Daring) - I don't need another sparkly pinky nude gloss nor do I need a bullet lipstick in a pretty common color with a fragile little cap just waiting to be broken. Sure I don't have this color technically, but I have other lipsticks I can mix. Not to mention I've never been in a situation where I ever thought of this over my other lip products.

NYX Professional Makeup Liquid Suede (Alien) - It uh started to smell weird so I think I'm going to have to switch to the Euphoric Sun black tint. A little thin and patchy in the expected areas anyways so maybe it's for the best. But also maybe I'll pick up the black in their Lip Lingerie XXL formula.

Focallure All in One / 5 in 1 Multi-Use Concealer Palette (#01) - My mom was looking to try color correcting so I passed this along to her. Hopefully since they're not pure correcting shades it's more forgiving to a beginner. It was just waiting to be used so probably a better idea to give it a new home where it could be used year round. Crazy how my mom's been wearing makeup for decades yet I have to teach her a lot of basic concepts and techniques. Also is it really a new home if I still live with my parents so it's technically just in the other room?

Coastal Scents Original 88 Color Palette - Too many colors. My pea brain couldn't keep up. Choice fatigue is real. I have blues I already like, neutrals are a dime a dozen, I have the pinks and purples I'll use, I don't like oranges, I like deeper reds, I don't wear green or yellow enough to warrant keeping this for that alone... there's just no reason for me to have this. Sure there's colors that I don't have but if I don't have them already that's probably a sign I'm never going to start wearing them.

UCANBE Precise Definer Liquid Eyeliner (Brown) - This fell apart on me lol the cartridge sticks to the cap and not the barrel component. I very rarely use brown liquid liner, and even if I did, my mom has backups on the AOA Artista Fine Tip Liquid Liner I'm sure she's willing to part with.

NYX Professional Makeup White Liquid Liner - I've decided I'm above really long skinny brushes, both in makeup and in art. Also I haven't felt the need to draw on any lip highlights since I got it. I like pressing and rubbing my lips together, that's not going to survive it. I have face paint as a last resort.

Ulta Beauty Full Coverage Liquid Concealer (Light Warm) - This just got too old and started separating on my skin(???) so it had to go. Probably not going to repurchase since I think I found my favorite liquid concealer already (The Saem) not to mention I have a couple of e.l.f. ones to go through but maybe when those are gone I'll revisit it.

Qibest Multitasking Cosmetic Stick (#03 Contour Stick) - I really did like this but my mom wanted to try contouring and her skintone is lighter than mine so I thought this would fit her better. I have the AOA one to fall back on and it has a pointed edge so I don't have to awkwardly angle a stick or try to load up a brush and paint it on my face anymore.

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