Pastel Sith

Currently into: Star Wars, BJDs, Roosterteeth, and RWBY! I'm a programmer by trade and a disaster by talent

[hotvampireadjacent]

[bananaquilava]

[chamacafeahorrible]

getting into the shower: evil evil evil

being in the shower: there is no past and there is no future, there is just the here and now, i am alone but i am not lonely, i am calm and one with the universe, existence is sublime

getting out of the shower: evil evil evil (wet version)

[muchymozzarella]

Whenever people try to tell me to ship “moral ships” I like to think about how inherently immoral it is to flirt with service workers at coffee shops where they’re obliged to be nice to you so… many coffee shop AUs are like. Immoral. But given that they are a fantasy where this is instant romance without the fear of trapping a service worker in an uncomfortable situation that’s tantamount to workplace sexual harassment, I enjoy the cutesy coffee shop AUs immensely.

And that’s basically my attitude towards all fantasy. There’s lots of things I enjoy in fantasy that wouldn’t work IRL. Enemies to lovers. Sudden kisses. Miscommunications in relationships. Codependency. Fight sluts who physically assault each other while emotionally connecting.

Once you start ascribing your morals to the fiction you consume, you tend to miss the issues in even the most innocuous, innocent seeming scenarios. It’s easy to judge other people’s fictional enjoyment until someone points out your innocent coffee shop AU is romanticised workplace harassment.

But it’s all fiction. It’s a fantasy. That’s why it’s fine.

A lack of education around things like consent, healthy relationships, self respect and respect of others, bodily autonomy, etc, has made people think they can rely only on fiction to tell them what right - but that’s dangerous. And unsustainable.

[mihai-florescu]

Sometimes a fanon interpretation shared by so many people will gaslight you into thinking YOU're not smart enough to understand it when, in reality, no, the collective of a fandom can indeed just be misinterpreting a character beyond parody. It's not you, it's them

[mylittleredgirl]

playing a new game where i talk about fandom using words that belong on corporate powerpoint slides like:

✨ we have to align our headcanons to authentically reflect our strategic mission and meet quarterly margin objectives ✨

sorry to everyone who understood that

[coraclavia]

as per my last 5+1,

[wrenchwenches]

Hello team, 

With all due respect, I cross-checked your references with Kakashi from accounting, and the error in your fics was statistically significant. Every fic published in our “Enemies to Lovers” tag after the most recent episode’s air date needs to be updated and reviewed due to new policies issued by the author. 

Please re-aquaint yourself with the source material before next week’s meeting and prepare to discuss the changes. 

Cheers!

[mylittleredgirl]

you guys are really good at this game

[159edn]

While I certainly appreciated your iniative in writing this AU, I feel it might be more appropriate to your skillset if you leveraged a canon approach.

[mylittleredgirl]

more of today’s greatest hits for your nightmares

and of course

[dazaaaai]

THIS BOY CANONICALLY HAS AUTISM.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Last chapter makes this panel a thousand more funny btw like. Dostoyevsky is not making that face because Dazai outsmarted him or because he’s in trouble or anything, he’s making that face because despite having a backup plan perfectly ready he didn’t want to get wet

[starstuc]

he is guilty of 138 counts of conspiracy to murder, 312 counts of extortion, and 625 counts of assorted fraud, among other crimes.

[purrfectlycontent]

dazai and fyodor’s english vas giving us the scene we deserved

[sskk-manifesto]

HE SAID THE THING

[philzokman]

TEARS IN MY EYES WHAT DO U MEAN THIS IS TECHNICALLT OFFICIAL ART LMFAOFOJSKSDN

[taxolotl]

tossed the key and - locked it

[iwowzumi]

chuuya’s role in bsd is so funny to me. you’re watching this show and every 10 episodes or so this pretty guy drops in, and he’s the coolest most OP guy in the show so he can really only hang around for a few minutes before he makes any conflict obsolete. and he’s supposed to be part of the villains but he never really does anything that evil and is mostly helpful? he just appears and does something badass and fucks off again. and this is all already really weird but also every time he shows up it’s clear that he and one of the other main characters have like, definitely fucked, which adds a whole other layer of absurdism. and the best part is he accomplishes this in maybe 11 total minutes of screen time.

[christianstepmoms]

[treecitysessions]

[3liza]

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

[3liza]

[3liza]

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

[applesforhela]

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

[problemnyatic]

sorry every age gap is problematic now. yeah the only ethical relationship left is twincest it's the only way to avoid a power dynamic

[darthpastel]

Ozma Revived: Subject O26-131 AU

So as some of you have seen, @lieu-rey did some amazing art for my AU I shared in the Ozasis Discord a few days ago. People seem to like it so I’m gonna try to put all my thoughts down about it where people can see it. I’ll make each post themed around certain events and we’ll start with…

The Beginning - The Lab

The Doctor performing the experiment is named Dr. Ferra, after one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite fics, The Shining Beacon.

The reason she started performing this experiment is she got drunk one night with an archelogist friend who was telling her about an almost human skeleton found in a tomb.

Ozma’s skeleton is very well perserved for a few reasons but that’s another post about my “Salem and Ozma’s tomb” hc.

The experiment started 34 years ago and Subject O26-131 (Ozma) is not the first clone. There were previous clones that didn’t last very long but his immediate precessor was Subject O26-169-14 that “lived” for about 14 years before dying suddenly in the tube.

All the clones were grown in tubes, think the Mewtwo lab from Pokemon 2000, vaguely sciency scary

Once every few months, Ozma is removed from the tube so Dr. Ferra can take measurements.

The Beginning - The Awakening

It starts with Oscar collapsing in the middle of training. He begins to glow gold and it looks like some energy is attempting to leave his body. (It is, it’s actually part of Oz’s soul moving over to his new(old?) body)

Ironwood promptly, as most adults do when children randomly collapse, begins to take him the military hospital not too far away. Qrow is closely following behind bc at the moment, he’s Oscar’s guardian and can make medical decisions for him while he’s unconcious.

While this is all happening, Oz wakes up in the middle of Dr. Ferra getting measurments.

Both people in the room are very very confused.

Oz has an intense, frantic feeling he needs to go somewhere he doesn’t know where but he needs to be there like now. Not exactly using his best judgement, Oz begins to fight his way through the military hospital. (Note he doesn’t hurt anyone, just causes a fair amount of property damage)

The first time Ironwood sees Oz, Oz is glowing gold, is floating a few inches off the ground (sue me I love the floating thing people with magic do) and is almost enraged. Once Ozma and Oscar are within a few steps of each other, the glowing and frantic feeling stops.

“Who are you? Why are you wearing a hospital gown???”

“James? Where am I and why am I wearing a hospital gown? Did I die again??”

From behind Ironwood, Qrow lets out a choked “Oz?”

Cue dramatic music for scene change!

The Beginning - Clothes and Hellos

Ironwood gets Ozma an atlas military uniform. Oz is not amused by the implication that he is part of the military and his personal school/kingdom pride is a bit hurt.

“I was the Headmaster of Beacon and the King of Vale, I can’t wear an Atlas uniform!!”

Ironwood assures him it’s a temporary situtation, while snickering at how huffy Oz is about it.

Oscar, Ozma and Ironwood all meet in Ironwood’s office and I know there were no chairs in the show but lets pretend he brings in chairs when he’s having smaller grouped meetings. There is also some hot chocolate for the members of the meeting. Oz is very happy about this.

They talk for a bit, try to figure out what is happening

After a good talk, Ironwood invites Winter, Penny, the Ace-Ops, and the kids + Qrow to his office.

Team RWBY walks in a freezes, staring at Oz in pure confusion. Team JNR is confused until Ironwood and Oz start explaining

“This was my first incarnation, apparently my original tomb was found and someone thought it would be a good idea to clone me. No, we don’t understand any how this works and are making it up as we go”

From there, Ozma is part of the team (kinda, sorta, some people still have issues to work out with him and he has some issues too but they are all at least in the same room)

Next up- Training and the Ace-Ops

[darthpastel]

Reblog because someone had an ask and couldn’t find it