sand and stardust

Mianmian | 32 | she+they+he | queer • ao3 • artblog • perpetually floundering in life • space lover • Maul Enthusiast • absolutely Completely Normal about Ezra Bridger • Cdrama fan • Bangtan • Star Trek • multi-fandom blog with lots of other bits thrown in • expect a lot of Star Wars! mostly prequels and rebels but I’m pro SW in general :)

[cross-d-a]

FAQ & FICS

hello! i go by mianmian or cross :)

i write fic and meta. sometimes i draw. i love sci-fi, found family, music and animals. i'm an anxious, forgetful boi but i love answering asks :)

frequent tags:

cross talks (my posts)

cross meta (my meta, usually star wars)

my fic (anything about my fics)

favourite (any posts I really love)

wholesome (anything feelgood)

sw fic info below the cut :p

GUIDE TO MY STAR WARS FICS:

All Our Yesterdays (hurt more than I can say): Cody & Obi-Wan Kenobi, teen, time travel, wip

Cody is grey and grieving when the Force gives him another chance.

AKA old Cody ends up back in time and accidentally adopts initiate Obi-Wan Kenobi

blood upon my brow: Jaster Mereel/Original Alien Character, Original Alien Character & Arla Fett & Pre Vizsla, mature, canon divergence, wip

Everyone knows that the original Taung Mandalorians have been extinct for thousands of years. Then, during the height of the conflict between Kyr'tsad and the Haat Mando'ade, a Taung warrior appears bearing both beskad and jetii'kad. And in their wake, a gaggle of fiercely loyal (and terrifyingly feral) ade follow. It's little wonder that Jaster ends up falling buy'ce over boots for them.

AKA I needed an excuse to write more of my Taung OC. lots of worldbuilding, mando/jedi appreciation and found family

Ezra Bridger Fucks Up the Timeline (but Unfucks the Galaxy): Ezra Bridger/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ezra Bridger & Shmi Skywalker & Anakin Skywalker, teen, time travel, wip

When Queen Amidala and her contingent land on Tatooine, unexpected help comes in the form of one Ezra Bridger.

AKA a year after ezra and thrawn end up in wild space, they ALSO end up a bunch of years in the past and IMMEDIATEY fuck up everything. for the better.

The Fall: Xanatos & Obi-Wan Kenobi, teen, canon divergence, complete 3k

In a moment of inner-turmoil, young Obi-Wan Kenobi seeks out his Padawan-brother despite any misgivings.

AKA Xanatos is a beloved blind crechemaster and Obi-Wan kinda hates him

for want of a nail: Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul, explicit, canon divergence, rako hardeen arc, wip

When Obi-Wan is declared dead, Commander Cody isn’t sure he’s ready to face the rest of the war without him. Then Jedi Master Maul Ambana is assigned as the 212th’s new General.

AKA Maul gets saved as a baby then grows up as a Jedi and Obi-Wan’s best friend

a fragile warmth (cupped in my palms): Alpha-17/Xanatos, Alpha-17/Dogma/Fox/Wolffe/Xanatos, explicit, abo, canon divergence, wip

Wars are rather inconvenient when you're just trying to fuck your omega through his heat.

AKA Xanatos is the omega to a clone pack

he fell in the night through shadow and storm (a bright hot light): Obi-Wan Kenobi-centric, teen, time travel, 6.2k, part 1 of sand and stardust series

In which Obi-Wan Kenobi has lived his life. Has died. And lives again.

AKA Force ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi ends up shunted back into his 10 year old body. Panic ensues.

Homecoming: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, explicit, smut, complete 3.2k

Obi-Wan wakes up to find that Anakin has returned from the front a little earlier than expected.

AKA very self-indulgent fluffy smut

hurricane on the edge of oblivion (with nowhere to go): Obi-Wan Kenobi & Xanatos, Feemor & Bruck Chun, Feemor & Qui-Gon Jinn, mature, disaster lineage feels, time travel, part 3 of sand and stardust sseries, wip

In which Obi-Wan acts in the only way he knows how after a lifetime of regret and self-sacrifice. But the thing with that is this: Obi-Wan has thought himself to be alone for far, far too long. And he is not the only player on the field.

AKA Obi-Wan thinks that his best chance at changing the future is becoming Xanatos’ bodyguard. In retrospect this is actually a terrible idea.

i was (there when) the crown (was) placed upon his head: Din Djarin/Ezra Bridger/Jaster Mereel/Luke Skywalker, explicit, time travel, wip

Luke has enough on his plate, what with building a New Jedi Order, figuring out the dynamics of siblinghood, trying to ignore how desperately in love he is with the new Mand'alor and also trying to deal with this new asshole Jedi who just appeared out of karking nowhere. He doesn't need to add time travel on top of all that. Luckily for him, he doesn't realize he time traveled. Unluckily for Jaster Mereel, he's about to fall in love with the three biggest idiots in the galaxy.

AKA my excuse to write my OT3 and explore Jaster Mereel :)

An Interlude: A Study in Love and Loss (and their beginnings and ends): Obi-Wan Kenobi-centric, teen introspective character study, complete 1.8k, part 2 of sand and stardust series

Obi-Wan thinks loss starts with love. And maybe sometimes love starts with loss, too.

AKA Obi-Wan is meant for infinite sadness, etc. etc. etc.

like (the slow collision of) warm-bright stars: Yord Fandar & Jecki Lon, teen, jedi as found family, may turn into canon divergence so my babies can live, wip

When Padawan Yord Fandar is assigned to work in the crèche, of all the things he was expecting to go wrong he never considered he’d get into an actual physical fight with a youngling half his size.

AKA acolyte killed off my fav duo and I needed to find my happy place

mother of the sands: Shmi Skywalker & Tusken Raiders, mature, canon divergence, Tatooine culture & customs, wip

After Anakin saves a Tusken Raider, Shmi Skywalker ends up finding family in a handful of Tusken Raider outcasts. Then they incite a slave rebellion. Oh, and Maul shows up. Threepio might just have a conniption trying to keep Anakin's mother alive.

AKA my excuse to save shmi skywalker and finally do something about my obsession with Tatooine

mountains where none dare go: Fern & KB & Jod Na Nawood & Neel & SM-33 & Wim, teen, time travel, wip

Our intrepid Skeleton Crew find a lost Jedi Temple, accidentally get flung into the past, then run into a young Jod Na Nawood and his Jedi Master. And yeah, Jod may suck, but it also wouldn't be very Jedi-like of them to sit back and watch his Master die. So yeah. Maybe they save Jod. He can thank them later.

AKA my fun little story involving these adorable kids and my beloved SM-33. Just another excuse to play with time travel with minimal angst

Pretty-Petaled Death: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, hanahaki disease, sort of finished sort of wip, 31k

Obi-Wan doesn't remember much of his parents. Just the warmth of a hand brushing his forehead, the glimpse of a broad smile, and a soft voice telling him: "Do not give your heart to another, my dear one. Not unless they love you back. You are far too precious to lose to pretty-petaled death."

But he's too young to understand, and the Jedi don't heed his mother's warnings.

Years later, Obi-Wan wakes with labouring lungs. Tiny, pale-gold flowers curl soft and delicate on his tongue and he knows— There is no saving him.

AKA my attempt at an angsty fix-it before realizing that Obi-Wan really is meant for infinite sadness. Also, he falls in love with exactly the wrong people. Main story finished with alternate ending chapters :) Second chapter is definitely a fix-it!

quench your lonesome grief: Feemor/Din Djarin/Ezra Bridger/Luke Skywalker, explicit, time travel, canon divergence, wip

There’s a reason why Obi-Wan Kenobi never heard of Qui-Gon’s first Padawan.

Or: When investigating a long-abandoned Jedi Temple, Feemor touches something he shouldn’t. As Jedi so often do.

AKA Feemor gets shunted 50 years into the future and I force him to deal with the trauma and grief of losing your entire culture and everyone you love in one fell swoop. Plus my fav disaster trio gets a new boyfriend.

A SecUnit’s Guide to Finding Family and Falling in Love (*partially endorsed by Murderbot (you know which part): Jaster Mereel/Mace Windu/SecUnit 3, mature, crossover, canon divergence, wip

SecUnit 3 just wants to save its people from slavery (it's a slow, painful work in progress). But when its ship winds up in the neighboring galaxy, suddenly its new immediate priority is saving the small human who calls herself Shmi Skywalker.

(Falling in love with the two humans intent on helping SecUnit 3 find its family? Well, no one tell Murderbot, it might just try to puke its brains out.)

AKA Murderbot grabbed me by the throat and told me to write this

Stray Moon, Stray Child: Shmi Skywalker & Rey & Anakin Skywalker, teen, time travel, complete 3.3k, part 1 of desert children series

The child comes from out of the Dune Sea, just after a terrible sandstorm that swept Mos Espa for days. Little Ani has been dreaming of the girl's arrival for a week. Even though Shmi is terrified of the way the dreams (more like nightmares) leave Anakin gasping and weeping, she's learned to trust her son's judgement. So when she finds him standing at the edge of the city, looking out into the endless desert, she decides to wait with him.

And she appears. A girl called Rey.

AKA I knew Shmi Skywalker would absolutely adore baby Rey and adopt her the second she gets the chance.

these ruined hands of mine (they seek out you, always you): Feral/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Feral & Darth Maul, mature, canon divergence, Savage and Feral are Jedi, wip

When Feral is young enough to remember the muggy heat of Dathomir but not old enough to remember much more than that, Savage looks at him and thinks: I can’t lose another brother.

So Savage takes him and runs.

AKA the feral and Maul are twins au. Plus, Obi-Wan is hopelessly in love with his childhood friend.

Two Suns’ Worth: Luke Skywalker/Bodhi Rook/Ezra Bridger, Luke & Leia & Han & Chewie, canon divergence, complete 14.8k, part 1 of your smile series

Luke finds Bodhi in the medbay after the Battle of Yavin. The man is battered and bruised but sweeter than anyone he’s met so far in the Rebellion.

He doesn’t run into Ezra until he finds a quiet corner of the bustling base, finally able to take out his lightsaber and reverently give it a few swings. Bridger takes one look at him and karking laughs.

AKA everybody lives and Luke develops two rather unfortunate crushes

we rise: Ahsoka Tano & Rey & Anakin Skywalker, missing scene, complete 2k

It's about legacy, it's about love. It's about the simple fact that Ahsoka will always be led by the desire to do what is right. But when Ahsoka feels that Rey needs her help, even from a galaxy away, it's mostly about Anakin.

AKA I had a lot of feelings and opinions about rey communing with the spirits of lost Jedi in TROS. Ahsoka and Ezra aren’t dead. Din and Grogu get their cute appearances.

the weight of regret: Feemor & Obi-Wan Kenobi, Feemor & Darth Maul, Feemor/Mace Windu, explicit, time travel, wip

Feemor Aylward dies by his Clone Commander’s hand, then wakes up 24 years in the past. Feemor has no idea what’s going on, but he’s going to do his damned best to fix whatever the kark just happened. Too bad he was never really involved in that whole Skywalker mess. Guess it’s time to actually get acquainted with his crazy disaster lineage.

(Sidious is just confused about how all his pawns keep slipping out from beneath his thumb.)

AKA Feemor accidentally ends up back in time and adopts baby Maul. Then he becomes the Disaster Lineage emotional support tooka.

Xanatos du Crion’s Home for Wayward Younglings: Xanatos & Darth Maul & Ezra Bridger & Fox, Xanatos/Jango Fett, teen, time travel, wip

Xanatos does not Fall. Instead, he realizes that family is more than blood and that home is more than an empty house waiting for you to return. Home, he learns, is built from love. It is a pair of open arms, ready to catch you when you fall. It is teasing smiles and kisses pressed upon your brow. It is reassurances and promises fulfilled. It is someone willing to tell you the truth even when it hurts, and it is someone who will be kind to you when the whole galaxy is not. Home is someone who loves you. So much so, that they’ll let you go.

So no, Xanatos does not Fall, and he thinks it’s all going rather well up until time-traveling younglings start falling into his lap.

AKA Xanatos prevents the tragedy at Galidraan, has a lot of trauma about it, then ends up adopting some equally traumatized time traveling kids. Except for Maul. He doesn’t time travel. Xanatos kinda just- trips over that kid along the way.

you’re the (sweet taste of) seasalt upon my lips: Bruck Chun/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bruck Chun & Anakin Skywalker, mature, canon divergence, wip

Bruck Chun is annoyed about a lot of things: like how the Temple refectory only bakes sweet buns on Taungsdays, and how Master Feemor doesn't mind Master Windu getting a bit too handsy, and how he ruined his favourite set of tunics two missions ago, and how his new little Padawan sister is a bit of a brat, and how he somehow managed to kark up the best thing in his life by being a big stupid idiot and kissing his best friend.

But right now, he's mostly annoyed about how this whole Naboo mission has gone so horrifically wrong.

AKA my foray into phantom menace aus. Bruck gets his chance to shine. Also, he’s horrifically in love with Obi-Wan Kenobi. It’s kind of embarrassing. Mostly for him.

[yutaan]

Ghost lotuses.

[yutaan]

It's a print now! \o/

[yutaan]

I remembered liking the lineart in Jiang Cheng's hair and sleeves for this one, and being a little bummed that the piece turned out to look better overall with those areas filled in with solid black. So now, for your viewing pleasure: The Secret Lineart!

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[bbbrianjones]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT - 02.05 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. DAVENHEIM

DAVID SUCHET and HUGH FRASER as HERCULE POIROT and CAPTAIN ARTHUR HASTINGS

[avontarrant]

[iggyfing]

absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

[figtreeandvine]

The thing about Denethor is that he not only succumbed to despair, he wanted to ensure that Faramir succumbed with him. Similarly, a lot of people now are not only succumbing to despair, they're actively proselytizing despair, trying to convince others to join them in their hopelessness. Despair is apparently lonely and they want company in their self-immolation.

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

btw denethor succumbed to despair bc he was doomscrolling on the palantir. Sauron tweaked his algorithm so he only saw bad news, and he fell into the trap of thinking the world couldn't be saved.

[tamsinswriting]

Best description of what happened to Denethor that I've seen.

[saltshroud]

scavengers hand ……. left reign of darkness i don’t know man it needs workshopping

[tboytummmy]

Ocean date

[humanoidhistory]

TV factory in Radeberg, East Germany, 1954. Photos by Wolfgang Schröter.

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[ionomycin]

protect the little one

[pencil-line-deactivated20241029]

method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

and yeah i believe it. ^ this is the face of a guy getting shot at by arrows

[lysenkoite]

[weaselle]

[abz-j-harding]

i can't cope

[humanoidhistory]

"Imperial City, Alderaan -- city floats in gray clouds." Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the original Star Wars, a design revived for The Empire Strikes Back.

[ufonaut]

He purposely set the movie in the Midwest, in fictional Greenleaf, Indiana—“a conservative, family-oriented small town—that seemed almost more of a challenge than another story set on the East Coast”—and didn’t hold back on its coming-out narrative, even though he realized that might come as a shock to unsuspecting audiences. “I know a lot of people who saw the trailers assumed that it was going be a mistake—that he’d really be straight, and that would be the source of the movie’s comedy,” Rudnick explains. “So when they went to the movie and realized no, no, no, this is a movie about a gay man, that was a surprise.”

In & Out (1997, dir. Frank Oz) // 'How In & Out “Blew the Roof off the Theater” 20 Years Ago' (Interview with Paul Rudnick for Variety, 2017) // 'Playboy Interview: Kevin Kline - Candid Conversation' (Playboy, March 1998)

[aikawaforehead]

aikawa my beloved... yep i made him a TOOL fan

[irlpretear]

100 trans/genderqueer musicians

Bands

Against Me! (rock, folk punk) (x)

The Oozes (punk) (x)

The Hirs Collective (metal, grindcore) (x)

GEL (hardcore punk) (x)

Urn (hardcore punk) (x)

The Black Dresses (noise pop, hardcore hyperpop) (x)

Party Ghost (rock) (x)

Lagrimas (hardcore punk, scream punk) (x)

Doll Skin (rock) (x)

Dazey and the Scouts (rock, indie) (x)

G.L.O.S.S. (hardcore punk) (x)

Dog Park Dissidents (punk rock) (x)

She/Her/hers (rock) (x)

Deli Girls (hardcore electronic) (x)

Dream Nails (punk rock) (x)

Sarah and the Safe Word (rock, dark cabaret) (x)

Pinkie Promise (punk rock) (x)

B. Fraser (emo) (x)

Newgrounds Death Rugby (emo) (x)

Scowl (hardcore punk) (x)

Feminazgul (black metal) (x)

Sports Bra (dream pop, light rock) (x)

Club Sofa (indie pop) (x)

The Cost ov Living (grindcore, harsh noise) (x)

Kuromy (punk) (x)

The Sonder Bombs (indie, pop) (x)

Lidocaine (rock) (x)

I'm letting unseen forces take the wheel (cybergrind) (x)

Gum Disease (punk) (x)

Cam Girl (rock, trash rock) (x)

Gully Boys (grunge pop) (x)

Arcadia Grey (sparkle punk) (x)

Schmekel (folk punk) (x)

Destructo Disk (punk rock) (x)

User Unauthorized (hardcore punk) (x)

The Spook School (indie pop) (x)

Pinkshift (emo) (x)

Glass Beach (emo) (x)

Butch Baby (light rock) (x)

VIAL (indie punk) (x)

Sister Wife Sex Strike (folk punk) (x)

homewrecker. (metal, hardcore punk) (x)

Mega Mango (indie rock) (x)

Keep For Cheap (prarie rock) (x)

Steam Powered Giraffe (cabaret, steampunk) (x)

Thotcrime (grindcore, cybergrind) (x)

Whirlybird (indie pop) (x)

Kampsport (hardcore punk) (x)

Um Jennifer? (alt-rock, punk) (x)

Scarlet Demore (alt-rock) (x)

HappyHappy (folk, folk-punk) (x)

Queen Zee (punk) (x)

Grumpy Plum (slop pop) (x)

Cheap Perfume (punk) (x)

Pollyanna (power-pop, rock) (x)

Ballista (metalcore) (x)

Faetooth (fairy doom, metal) (x)

Lacerated (death metal) (x)

Fortuna Malvada (hardcore punk) (x)

Peach Rings (bedroom power-pop) (x)

Solo Artists

Laura Jane Grace (rock, folk punk) (x)

Left at London (pop) (x)

ZAND (pop, ugly pop) (x)

Ada Rook (hardcore electronic) (x)

Ms. White (pop) (x)

Rett Madison (indie, folk) (x)

Murder Person for Hire (folk) (x)

Backxwash (rap, industrial hip hop) (x)

LustSickPuppy (electronic, rap) (x)

Babylungs (electronic, rap) (x)

Human Kitten (folk punk) (x)

Harley Poe (folk punk) (x)

Ewy (emo, folk punk) (x)

Averstaskta (instrumental) (x)

Andie Schoen (indie) (x)

Elliot Lee (dark pop, electronic rock) (x)

Urias (hip hop, ballroom) (x)

Twink Obliterator* (cybergrind) (x)

Rio Romeo (cabaret punk, indie) (x)

Knife Girl (art pop, indie) (x)

Alexander James Adams (folk) (x)

Starmaxx (pop) (x)

Sofya Wang (pop, alt-R&B) (x)

Boy Jr (indie/alt pop) (x)

Medusa (revenge pop, hip-hop) (x)

Mal Blum (singer-songwriter, folk) (x)

Gina Young (riot grrrl) (x)

Petra Fiyd (indie pop) (x)

awfultune (bedroom pop) (x)

Quinn Hills (alternative pop) (x)

Femtanyl (electronic) (x)

Vivivivivi (electronic, glitchcore) (x)

Lilac Boy (glitchcore) (x)

Rosie Tucker (indie rock) (x)

Ryan Cassata (singer-songwriter) (x)

Pain Chain (noise, synth) (x)

In Love With A Ghost (electronic, lo-fi) (x)

Alice Longyu Gao (hyperpop) (x)

Prophetic Nightmares (ambient synthwave) (x)

Saint Wellesley (indie folk) (x)

[phantomrose96]

Hiromu Arakawa’s genius is obvious throughout all of FMA but her first and biggest leap of genius was in how she crafted her protagonist. 

Arakawa realized the burgeoning youth of the early 2000s wasnt interested in another plucky spry optimistic young shonen protag. Instead she gave us a short ugly egotistical asshole smarter-than-you atheist with so much money and power that people could no longer best him in arguments by telling him “dude shut up ur literally like 12″ 

Five pages in we’re told Edward’s famous and rich and powerful. Five more pages and he’s calling some girl stupid for thinking God exists. Five more pages and he’s proven right. Five more and he’s kicked an evil priest’s teeth in. And no one can tell his mom on him.

Hiromu Arakawa figured out the dream of every edgy young weeb discovering internet arguments for the first time and she cast them an idol made of gold.

[phantomrose96]