#wig asks

[jacobsbadwig]

just popping in to say that your tags on literally everything always make me laugh so hard, thank you for being around

(this was inspired by that 'not a braincell in sight either' tag on the post abt the cullens, which made me choke on my tea, but you're always great)

@the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis thank you so much! I am always just trying to start a conversation in the tags lol!

[jacobsbadwig]

dumb thought but like, i rmember some1 basically making an essay that boiled down to 'jakeward was a thing because taylor and robert are fun to watch argue' and i think thats a take to share

The thing about the whole Romeo and Juliet situation Twilight falls flat because Bella and Edward aren’t really separated because their families are feuding or anything of that nature. They’re not starcrossed lovers either because the audience learns about several humans who were turned to be with their vampire lover. Edward is just a self righteous prick in the context of the OG canon. (I will mention Midnight Sun but it’s not canon because it’s a sad cash grab and it is a sad attempt to retcon an already completed series.)

Look….when I was a dumb teenager I definitely shipped Leah and Edward (don’t at me. I get it) because it fit in more with that theming. You have two peoples from factions/families who are feuding with each other. Unfortunately (mostly because of Midnight Sun and rereading the series with a deeper understanding of implication that a fourteen wouldn’t necessarily grasp in its entirely), It’s hard to do something of that nature in the context of Twilight but absolutely other series have/probably will handle that werewolf/vampire Romeo and Juliet thing better.

As for the Jakeward aspect, no offense to Kristen Stewart (except for the fact she’s a Woody Allen supporter and should be held accountable for that and that’s why I mainly don’t fuck with her and the fact that her fans have been racist as fuck to FKA Twigs when Twigs and Rob dated) but the script didn’t do her justice. But honestly, that’s mostly because Bella and Edward don’t have romantic chemistry at all, nor did Kristen Stewart have chemistry with Rob Pattinson on screen. She has amazing chemistry with everyone else, though.

Jakeward is really a matter of the Romeo/Juliet aspect actually existing and being fueled by their hatred and that is the type of chemistry that can translate easily into a full plot and on screen. But with an interesting reflection on those themes of duty, love, separation, family, and hostility with the added turmoil of two people in a certain (and recent) era that was and in some case still hostile to the LGBT community. Those are strong enough to carry a story. While some people may disagree and Jakeward is a dumb ship (ignoring the problematic writing of Smeyer at this point), I think it can and does work. That’s just my opinion.

[jacobsbadwig]

ok but...what if i want to hear the shit you have to say right now...(if you don't mind being distracted, lol)

@the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis

With the upmost respect to a lot to fic writers, especially Twilight ones, I feel like at this point a lot of us just go ahead and write that vampire Novel that we wish Twilight was. I mean I’m a writer and literature professor by trade and in training, so it’s in my nature to critique work. I see all of these concise criticisms, but what a lot of non English or writing majors have to understand that works also have to be in conversation with other works. So if we don’t actually publish our work for the masses, then the conversation doesn’t leave our circles. And for those who don’t want to publish or just enjoy writing fics, I understand that this is just your pleasure time. But I personally have realized a lot of my energy that goes into talking about Twilight is no longer from a fan pov. I went to school to write. I am at this point a fellow writer: my beef with the series is now purely from an academic and writing standpoint. This is all to say that at a certain point, if I have to strip this series to its basic structure, revamp all the characters, and do all of this work that the OG author didn’t do. I’m just going to write something better and new to be in conversation with a work that I feel fell flat. I will still talk about Twilight, of course, because its influence on vampire culture has taken form and authors of vampire literature still are in conversation with it.

Tl;dr at this point I’m just writing an original vampire novel because I’m putting in the work. Plus being in conversation with a work that made you for better or worse is part of what writing is. Also being in conversation means publishing your novel or academic essay touching on what a work failed to do and doing it or taking out the shit you don’t like.

[jacobsbadwig]

Okay, I'm officially asking abt your bear story 🐻! Are you from Appalachia? (leahclearwaterdefensesquad)

Yeah, so I grew up in a little town between Knoxville and Gatlinburg Tennessee. Hometown area of Dolly Parton,  Emmett Cullen, and some of the best fucking Sweet Tea you’ll ever drink. As a kid who grew up in the lower Appalachian mountains, it was not uncommon for bears to come into town or your backyard since we and the bears shared a backyard so to speak. If you know, you know.

@leahclearwaterdefensesquad

THE GANG GETS MAULED BY A BEAR

Side bar: one thing people don’t realize with Smokey mountains, is that it can get pretty damn hot and humid from all that sweet sweet altitude, and the seasonal change is more apparent.

Anyway, so it’s the end of my Sophomore or Junior year (I can’t remember which because I had this teacher, three semesters in a row because he taught English and creative writing). For context, if it were my Junior year, that means Eclipse would have came out that November before the semester I’m talking about.  It’s fucking 90 degrees outside. (It very well may have been a few weeks before the annual May showers which turned our area into the hottest shower you could imagine). I bring up the rain because we also got a lot of flooding, and our school had its own trailer park full of portable classrooms. And when the weather was too severe, we could go into an inclement weather classroom. This idea will return later.

So it’s the beginning of fourth period, and it’s just hot as fuck outside, and we’re in our portable classroom like we have been all semester. Now, the thing I forgot to mention is the portables didn’t have a working bathroom and usually one side of the portable had heat and the other side had the air conditioning. Our side of the portable had the heat, which was great when the semester began, but it’s fucking May at this point. The other thing is you had to walk into a door and then the doors to the classrooms would be on either side with their own classroom doors, so we couldn’t actually prop the doors open. There is no fan to circulate air either, and if I’m not mistaken, The windows didn’t open.

So it’s Mid-May, mid afternoon, 90 degrees inside of a proverbial oven, and my friend Jessica gets light headed. She goes to the nurse because she’s starting to pass out, and the rest of us are start to sweat like crazy. The problem with being hot is you can only take so much off before it breaks the dress code. Then other students start getting sick. My Yeah fer Mr. P is like ‘fuck it, we should just go outside to the gazebo.’ The intercom goes off, and the lady says “Everyone please stay in your classrooms until further notice.” Shit. So he calls up to the office and tells them “yo, my students are hot in our portable. We’d go next door but they are having class this period. Can we go to our inclement weather classroom?’ While he is on the phone, a few of my classmates are coming in from getting water or using the bathroom. The head office makes it clear we must stay in our classroom until further notice. Don’t let anyone out. They will see if we can go to our other classroom except that classroom is also in use. 

My teacher who is a dude in his early 30s and works out is like ‘fuck it. Everyone if you can strip down to a layer above your underwear, go ahead. Do whatever you want today. There’s no way we can have class it’s so damn hot.’ So we’re chilling and about a few minutes of everyone being on their phones. Someone gets a text that there’s a fucking bear in front of the school, and it’s been there for the entire class period. At this point, it’s about thirty minutes before the bus bell rings. And there’s a fucking bear that the office didn’t bother to tell anyone. Apparently, this baby bear has been roaming around our front lawn since the end of third block, and they were worried that the momma would eventually come around looking for it (which she did). The Middle school is also in the same gate but they had their own parking lot. So our school essentially put us under a lockdown drill without telling us “hey, don’t leave your class room so you don’t get mauled by a fucking bear!”

TL;DR: I almost got heatstroke or mauled because our school didn’t tell us for 1hr30 mins that a bear was in our front lawn.

[jacobsbadwig]

fallout theory, you me, and our ex girlfriend, deadfaced, burn out

I have decided to structure these asks like synopses Synopsis: A polyam triad breakups right before the a nuclear diaster and have to seek shelter together in a fallout shelter with a relationship counselor and his relatives and their social circle. By gaining insight into their own relationship failings, the triad learns to cope with lost, death, and the meaning of unconventional family.

send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it

[firewolf826]

I have long wigs of Remy hair can I use this hair to repair other wigs or wig it snarl?or tangle up when reversed?

I’m a little confused by this question. You can definitely use loose hair or wefts to add into another wig. The process depends on whether the wig hair is already wefted or if it’s just loose.

For loose hair, you can make your own wefts (meaning it’s like a long strand of hair that connect along one edge). There are two common methods: sewn wefts or no-sew wefts using caulk.Here are some example tutorials:SEWN METHOD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeSgP4IISD8 (video)http://dugfinn.proboards.com/thread/68/wefts-ribbon-sewn-method

CAULK METHOD:https://youtu.be/9bIwd7tQUxA (video)http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/blog/2015/01/26/how-i-made-that-dwarf-wig-part-1-making-wefts/http://birdewilliams.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Reuse-Wig-Fiber-149821000

If you are saying you have full wigs you want to reuse the wefts from, you can carefully seam rip the wefts from the wig base. The wefts run horizontally through the wig and are attached along the vertical ribbons in the wig. Be careful not to seam rip the threads that are holding the hair on the weft itself.

This is a good method to make a very thick wig– take two wigs of the same type, deconstruct the wig and add the removed wefts into the adjacent position on the other wig.

(I’m not sure if I answered your question appropriately. If not, please restate it and I’ll try again)

[d-o-llf-a-ce]

where do you buy your wigs? like good ones not crappy ones.

I get my wigs from assorted places.

I have found that Arda wigs, found here

And animestuffstore, found here

both have pretty good wigs

they are soft and they are really nice

otherwise I get them off of ebay

[otterbelle]

hey, out of curiosity, is the color on the picture of the red, long wig it's actual color or did the photo mess it up a little? uwu and how long is it?

Here’s a picture I took of me wearing the wig. Its definitely past my shoulders. I don’t have a whole lot of specifics on it since I’ve had it for a while.