Hii friend! You can call me Riley! I might interpret your messages wrong so sorry in advance. I also dissociate often so please don't expect me to have a perfect memory or for me to be completely involved in stuff </3
I'm Melanesian-mixed, plus cis girl and aroace! Also low-key broke since I'm #unemployed so I can't really donate anything :(
No DNI list, but I can and will block freely if I don't catch your vibe.
Also, hello moots! I'm always free to interact! I was low-key bored of my old layout so I switched it up to my aesthetic!
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My active fandoms include: The Mandela Catalogue, Midnight Mass, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, The Magnus Archives, GRACE, Malevolent, Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist, The Glass Scientists, Chonny Jash, Vita Carnis, and Nerdy Prudes Must Die.
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Time zones are fucked so I could either be in honk mimimimi land or listening to my teachers yap. but i'll see your DMs sooner or later don't worry your pretty little head.
Adults are welcome, but not really encouraged as i'm a minor
Yumeshippers and objectums welcome!! ily guys so much
I'm a Roman Catholic! i go to church whenever i can and i attend a catholic school. i'm completely fine if you're a part of a different religion because that's none of my business, but you can tell me about it if you wanna! i love theology :3
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Wonderful question! Because I don't know either. My avaliability is bound to change depending on the school calendar, my own emotional status, and also if I just don't feel like sitting in front of a blue screen 24/7 talking to people.
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hate it when you see something in media that has great kink potential so you skedoodle post-haste to ao3 only to discover there's none fic left beef and then you have to sit there going oh I see I'M the pervert weirdo I'M the problem with society and everyone else in the world is going to heaven with a hundred innocence dollars preloaded onto their ole fashioned wholesome funtimes themepark fast pass card like fuckin oath man
The instinct when seeing some shit to say "who the hell put this on my dash" and then scrolling up to see beloved mutual's name and icon. And looking the other way peacefully.
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I'm not a catholic and have never even seen one up close, but I think the pope should start excommunicating people on the reg again. Just start publicly going "you know what, fuck you, you can't sit with us. You're not allowed in church or heaven on the grounds of being JD Vance. Eat shit and go to hell."
Stir shit up a little. What's the point of being the mouthpiece of god if nothing you say has consequences.
i am very very very very very lacking in self discipline. i have very much started to give zero fucks about anything and everything. i don't fucking care if i drop out of college and do nothing but doom scroll and consume media for the rest of my life
obviously, this is no no no good
so. why not do an ol' fashioned notes game. did one of these on my old acc and it got loads of notes so eh maybe. i do have like almost 500 more followers on this acc. will accountability fix me. hmm
lemme see. knowing how likely people are to spam (which im perfectly okay with btw. gimme all the spam i need to fix myself), i needa make it somewhat difficult
red - unreached
orange - have hit the note goal/in the process of doing
green - completed
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< 1 > - i pet my dog :> i love my dog
< 6 > - i take a sip of water
< 51 > - i spend at least 15 minutes outside without a screen or music (not including driving or walking to and fro places i have to go)
< 101 > - i will have my teeth brushed before 11 pm every night (currently a struggle to motivate myself to do so)
< 151 > - i will ask my mom for a proper water bottle and put way way more effort into drinking more water (she already says i needa do this)
< 201 > - i will be lights off, in bed, on weeknight, by 11:30 pm
< 251 > i put effort into going onto everydollar and making an account and budget (i rlly needa do this so ik how much i can spend)
< 301 > - i put effort into reading the king in yellow/cthullu mythos (wip bc i got a lot of work im not motivated to do rn)
< 351 > - instead of doing a shampoo only wash, i put time and effort into taking a full on shower every single time
< 401 > - i will put effort into a face washing routine
< 451 > - i'll cut back on my impulsive spending (also cuts back on my soda/caffiene intake which is quite ridiculous)
< 501 > - i will be lights off, in bed, on weekend night, by 11:30 pm
< 551 > - i put effort into editing that outfit styling video i did and making it somewhat palatable
< 601 > - if i have time, i eat a meal for breakfast instead of smfh insufficient (may change since my diet issues exist)
< 651 > - i try my damndest to go on a recreational walk AT LEAST every other day. gonna fucking try for every day.
< 701 > - i will put effort into reading a book not associated with my fandoms
< 751 > - i finally deal with the issue of my car probably needing an oil change and smth else bout it being wonky idk idr lol but ik its wonky
< 801 > - i clean up my room at the end of every day and if needed, do a weekly load of laundry. just tryna tidy up
< 851 > - i spread out my college readings/assignments (mostly for history) across the week instead of doing them all on the wknd (procrastination is a bad thing of mine)
< 901 > i find some way to bring an actual lunch to school every day instead of just a bag of chips or smth
< 951 > - i put effort into getting good enough at art to actually draw charlie dowd. this is my mission in life
< 1,001 > - i will wake up at 7 pm sharp so im not as rushed/can maybe eat breakfast
< 1,501 > - i put effort into actually making my malevolent fanfic list (a list where i organize every single fanfic ive read [gonna be based off of my bookmarks] for those who want quick access)
< 2,001 > - i will be lights off, in bed, on weeknight, by 10 pm
< 2,501 > - i start actually watching my history lectures instead of just taking the notes on the slides and actually try to learn (used to do this then lost motivation) (may be temporary since school ends next month)
< 3,001 > i will force myself to write at least 100 words of some sort of recreational something every single day (unless i have a school paper due)
< 3,501 > - i'll move my wake up time on shower days to 6:30 so i have extra time in the morning for work.
< 4,001 > - i put some actual effort into changing my diet from shitty junk food for the better (my mom has been doing this for decades so i can ask her)
< 4,501 > - whenever i have time, i finish one of the wips in my drafts/on ao3
< 5,001 > - i figure out some sort of exercise to do daily/some way to get my heart rate up (this is a wip)
< 5,501 > - i try to get cbt/some way to deal with my social anxiety (very likely the disorder kind) because right now im just considering running away from society to avoid small talk)
< 8,001 > - i finished at least next chapter of my s&co x malev crossover. (idk about finishing it all - that will take a while) (stressing me out bc i fear writing ooc)
< 10,001 > i find some way to convince my mom to let me buy a binder (shes phobic as fuck) (im sure i can find one thats not labeled as trans) (or i could just buy it myself) (tbh i don't need one but i want one)
< 1,000,001 > i become friends with a complete stranger (the amount of notes for this is completely fucking realistic btw. social AD is not a joke)
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if you're looking at this and thinking "why does ____ have so many notes? that's not that diffcult" just know that not everyone is you and you are not the standard
also, if this one doesn't seem as important or interesting or whatever as the ones u see around discussing eds and sh and sui n the such, please realize things don't have to be life-threatening to be worth changing
but yeah. thinking about actually trying to make these things better lol. none of this is the end of the world, but still
edit: help last night i was so motivated now i don't wanna do any of this
second edit: fuck it. fandom tagging this so my common fandom moots see it
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watch me get emotional about grace chastity in the most normal way possible
I just can't help but feel so sad towards Grace. All throughout the series she's painted as some evil stuck up Christian prude but nobody actually talks about the sacrifices she had to make to literally save everyone, or how the events of the musical affect her. They treated my girl so badly I don't know how to feel.
First was Max's harassment and coercion towards Grace in the first act. I know it's supposed to be comedy and 'the forbidden fruit' but as someone who's experienced the same thing I just can't bring myself to find it funny. Do you know how mentally debilitating it is to be treated like that as a joke? Just for fun? And when she was in the bath masturbating and having a wet dream about Max. Do people not pick up on her reaction at the end? How scared she was? She was only 18. She didn't know any better. It's so downplayed because 'ohhh she needs to grow up and learn this is what happens' No. Do not even talk to me like that. Grace was so scared and didn't know what was happening to her and it was played off as a joke.
I guess the next talking point would be how downplayed her sacrifice was. Everyone always talks about Pete's fakeout death and the potential loss of Pete and Steph's relationship ALL WHILE IGNORING the fact that Grace had survived her beliefs and morals AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HER VIRGINTY, and people like to downplay HER sacrifice. She willingly sacrificed her last bit of innocence to save her friends!! AND NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THAT!! Do you know how she would feel??? She most likely felt awful after!! Most likely thinking again "what would my parents think? how could they see me as their daughter like this? what would God think?". And it's downplayed as "haha! funny sex scene with a ghost!" NO!!!!!! They took a serious moment. A soul shattering moment that would traumatise the average person. And played it off for comedy.
And when she was crying in front of Steph and Pete before, do you know what they said? Do you know what they said to my girl? "Don't comfort her, she's fucking weird." AND SHE STILL SAVED THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WERE REMOTELY NICE TO HER AUGHHHHHHHH.
She abandoned her innocence that she worked to hard to keep and cherish to save the closest things she had to friends. She let Max's ghost take away her virginity and spoil her soul. She did so much and she's still hated and clowned on by the fandom. You people ask for more sexual assault representation and you can't even handle Grace Chastity.
Waves my little flag. Number one Grace Chastity defender don't you mess with me.
Are you taken? If they have tumblr, tag them! - woaah i have 2 actually @xx-h0tel-c4lifornia-xx + @11-crash-test-dummy-11
Favorite book? - papergirls ‼️
Favorite movie? - ough uhhh not sure 😭
Top three fandoms? - ok so 😊 stranger things, only you ( my pfp ) , my bfs ocs ok? Ok.
Favorite music artist(s)? - conan gray, diva bleach , etc!! Ask me bout music guys
Who inspires you? - id say my adoptive parents , my friends elliot and hydra, hmmm rn thats it
If you're an OC creator, name three of your OCs! - betty, leon , parker .
TAGs, feel free not to do this i was just bored :p : @xx-h0tel-c4lifornia-xx @11-crash-test-dummy-11 @thewolfreturns @mothsupremacist uhh any moot i have who sees this hi ! :7
Are you taken? If they have tumblr, tag them! - Not romantically, but queerplatonically by @rins-batcave and @/silly-fox-and-its-stuffies
Favorite book? - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Favorite movie? - Serendipity
Top three fandoms? - uhm, not a very fandom person but most recent is the stuff I talk about ? so uhm, Castlevania (show), Heavenly Official's Blessing (show but I mean to read it soon) and Interview With The Vampire (books)
Favorite music artist(s)? - Lorde, Hozier, Aurora, The Crane Wives, Conan Gray, Tessa Violet, Amelie Farren, Ricky Montgomery, Mother Mother, Maneskin, AR Rahman, Sid Sriram
Who inspires you? - A lot of people; my friends, strangers, anyone really idk
If you're an OC creator, name three of your OCs! - Elijah, Artzryn, Karasu
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So as annoying as this disclaimer is every single time, it bears repeating: People should ship what they want. My vague frustration that the unlimited free content on a fandom website features a character I don't like does not mean i think that people should stop making it. This isnt like a DNI thing. I don't want people to think that the size of this post is representative of my level of distaste. I just love talking about my relationships to art and have a tendency to write big dumb essays.
This is not meant to convince anyone, and if you're in danger of having the ship ruined for you i'd actually suggest not reading this at all. We're all playing dolls on the internet here theres no way to be 'right'.
Negative nellying under the cut
Part I - The Ick
Arguably the only valid reason. It gives me the ick. Makes my skin crawl. I don't like it.
The reasons why are a combination of ace feelings and fandom wank that I'll explain better later, but the important part is how it makes me feel. A very minor ick.
The problem with very minor icks, however, is that they become larger the more you're exposed to the icky thing. Joelthur is pretty popular and most of the recent E rated uploads involve Noel. What starts as a 'hm! Not for me!' turns into a 'we need to find noel in threshold so we can finish the job.' I've actually scrapped bits of art I made early on for Joelthur back when i was feeling more positively towards it.
I've posted vaguely about this before but I could feel my ire towards Noel growing In Real Time the longer I spent in the fandom. While people expressing Whatever The Hell They Want in no way bothers me, its prevalence unavoidably starts to feel like its being shoved in your face. It isn't. I want to clarify that it isn't. This is all optional. But when most of the artists and writers I enjoy will inevitably post Joelthur and there is seemingly no corner of the fandom I can retreat to avoid it, it starts to feel suffocating.
You start to look for reasons to justify this feeling. Which leads me to:
Part II - Ace Blues
I am an aroace gob who has struggled all its life to establish meaningful connections whilst dodging the ever-expanding hydra that is romantic expectation. The society I live in is so baked around the presumption of romantic partnership that it is difficult to imagine belonging to a family unit without it. You have two options, live alone or have a partner. Children, long term cohabitation, joint finances, medical advocacy, they're all gatekept by romantic partnership. Building your life long term with a friend is considered a secondary option afforded to the pathetic. You are encouraged to abandon platonic partnerships the moment you want to fuck somebody else.
In real life, this is resolved through communication and queer expression. Finding that person in the ocean of allos who wants the same connection that you do.
But in fiction, I just like the fantasy of not having to have that conversation.
There is a level of intimacy that I've described before that comes with symbiosis. Having things that are private between you and your fleshmate that transcend romance and friendship at once. No one would ever expect for Jarthur to place romantic entanglements over each other. The biological reality of their situation avoids the hierarchy of relationships. John gets to be 'just a friend' but still occupy the unspoken security of a long-term partner.
Now Noel is in an interesting position in the show where he intentionally intrudes on that privacy in order to reach John. its a great moment! I liked it in the show! But what I didn't like is how so many people then jumped to romance and sexuality.
It just sorta feels like being emotionally vulnerable to a new friend and then they immediately lean in for a kiss. It feels sticky in the way romantic entanglements always do, that you can't express any affection, allow any intimacy, without worrying about a romantic interpretation.
I am especially repulsed by people who depict John as 'simping' for Noel because he's the one guy who has ever placed John's autonomy over Arthurs. I don't see anyone presuming that of Lilly, because people can accept that John is too new right now to make sense of these relationships. His love for people is fluid and ill defined, he didnt grow up like a human and these boundaries dont come naturally for him. Having him take a long time to untangle what his 'mother' and his best friend mean to him, but just intrinsically understand Noel as an object of sexual and romantic desire is normative in a way that irks me.
Part III - Jingling Keys and the Lack Thereof
Noel's the weakest part of season four and possibly my least favorite character overall.
I skirt around saying that so upfront because its you know. mean. But its kinda unavoidable in discussing my priorities. There is no moral or ick reason I hate Noel, he just that he fails to meet the requirements that I specifically need in order to care about a character:
Cohesion, challenge, and emotional reality.
An issue I had with Celia in TMAGP where her only sin was taking up a lot of screentime for a storyline that I've seen before. But at least Celia had something ive seen before. Noel is just a bunch of plot hooks that are dismissed as soon as they're introduced.
There is nothing that I could have learned about Noel I didn't prefer to be explored with Oscar. Oscar acts as aggregate towards the core point of conflict between John and Arthur in season 4. He forces John to look at himself and his situation in a way he hasn't before. He forces Arthur to reconsider his repulsion towards spirituality. Even when he is abandoned it is in a way that increases tension. Arthur suggests it out of his desperation to not acknowledge his suspicions, and John accepts it knowing that it wont help because he can't discuss the real root of the problem until they find the greystone.
The decision to leave Oscar behind is narratively dense and fascinating, then is immediately undercut in the next episode by Noel.
Not even 30 minutes later they have a new friend who means everything to them and this time! John doesn't mind him! Yayyy! The ways in which Arthur makes unreasonable sacrifices to put a band-aid on their situation is sidestepped. John being unable to verbalize his true feelings is sidestepped. The problem ISNT that their dynamic is frought with betrayal and codependency. They just fumbled that interaction specifically. If Arthur had just been upfront about John it would have been okay. So that means we can go back and befriend Oscar again right? Because we've acknowledged that it wasn't to do with him and John isnt even that mad at him? No? Aight. Whatever.
Now this would be fine if Noel was an interesting expansion of the seasons themes. If he represented some aspect of John and Arthur's failings like Oscar did. And I think they sooooort have tried that? Oscar acts as foil to Arthur in that he was abused by the same system but tries to use that system to improve the world he lives in. And John might act as foil to Noel because... uh. He's trapped? He suffered in the prison pits too? I guess?
The thing about Noel's backstory is that he's an unambiguous victim. He never hit bedrock the way John, Arthur, and Oscar have. Hell, even Marie killed her fucking husband, and expresses remorse about her pride having left her bored and lonely in her twilight years. They were all pushed by malevolent forces into acts of violence, and have to find a way to live their lives in a way they can be proud of despite what they've done.
The one thing that does give tension to Noel is that he doesnt know who John is. The kindness he offered to John was intended for someone else, just as the kindness offered by Lilly was intended for Arthur. This is something that will be addressed by John further on, and isn't supposed to be resolved until season 6. that people seem to only be able to love him as proxy for something else. the fear that his true self is inherently unlovable because of what he used to be is what pushes john to make his worst mistakes.
And then that's dismissed in a single line of dialog in the next episode. Dont worry kid. I understand. Not only am i not bothered about you being the elder god that ruined my life, but also im not mad you lied about it. It's not like I have any internality that makes this inconvenient to you. Its not like my experiences make this act of kindness a profound struggle like it would for every other important character in this show. It's not like im affected by my trauma in a way that matters.
I'm scared of the King in Yellow? Arthur tells me to get over it and I say ooookay. John doesnt want to kill the king in yellow now? My desire for revenge is dismissed as irrational I say oooookay. I find out the person i decided to trust WAS the fucking king in yellow? Again? No hard feelings. No hard anything.
It's hard to give a shit about a person who doesnt give a shit about anything. Like how will he shake up their dynamic if he bends like a reed about the only thing we're told is important to him? Nothing about Noel is sacred, he has no hard line he wont cross, so including him in the dynamic wont challenge them. He's just there to be a tragic sacrifice, to give John love shortly before being killed.
But then it turns out he's not dead actually, and has been promoted to Princess in Another Castle. We have to save our wife! She's so good and beautiful and doesnt exist outside of what she makes us feel! No one refuses to take up space like she does! We'll never find someone so convenient again!
I guess its equality? Noel feels like a sexy lamp despite being an older gruff male character. Ive spoken to people who actually like that about him as a subversion, which i respect, but its not enough to be compelling to me. I hope he stays missing until the very last episode of threshold so we dont have to actually talk to him.
Part IV - Fandom Wank
This one's just stupid.
Its inevitable that every character will undergo a smoothing in fanon. They will either be dismissed by fans who dont really think about them that much, or actively defended by fans who relate a lot. This is not only fine, its what makes fandom fun! Every piece of fan content is like a question towards the original. I like asking questions. I like reading my friend's answers.
But when you do this to a character who I don't think is even that textured in the first place, there's nothing left over. Fandom Noel is similar to Fandom Georgie in that he's relegated to being the Mom Friend. The one with the braincel. The guy they talk to in the fic to help resolve their misunderstandings.
And again, thats fine. It's okay to not care a lot about Noel, I don't care a lot about noel, but it then is baffling to me when the author tries to sell him as a romantic option anyway.
I can't really imagine Jarthur being happy in a relationship with someone whose just better than them. Noel's role in this throuple would just be to validate their eccentricities and micromanage their dynamic. It sometimes reads as wish fulfillment, the author wanting to give Jarthur the support they'd need to become the best versions of themselves, but that does leave Noel as the only adult in his relationship. I've been told that this was a thing in homestuck tho, so its prevalence across fandom is probably a feature not a bug. Still. It reminds me too much of when my aceness delegated me to being the 'orgy butler' to my ex nesting partner, so it makes me uncomfortable.
And then thers the sort of uncomfortable accusation that it does not escape my notice that there was an uptic in Joelthur immediately following John's decision to give up on having his own body.
There was a lot of bickering about Jarthur being romantic vs platonic while the the show was running. Fans crying 'queerbait' as if them physically having romantic sex is the only way for it to be queer. But then the moment the show expressed its intention of depicting Jarthur as a united entity, fans fell over themselves to find someone for that entity to be monogamously gay married with. The goalposts just shifted.
Its that same kind of suffocation i mentioned earlier. That we always need to have two bodies and wedding rings and missionary sex in their double bed every friday night. How are we supposed to explore this dynamic as erotic if there is no paenus to go in ass???? It makes me kind of defensive when polyship comes up, because it feels like the sexuality I have in real life is being used as an excuse to not engage with the dynamic that was presented in the show. And I like the dynamic presented in the show. Thats why im here.
In Conclusion
...Its just not for me. If you made it this far wow. Why. but also I hope I havent offended anyone. I have a tendancy to act more aggro for comedic effect which i TRIED to dial back here. if any of this feels needlessly mean i hope someone will point it out to me.
That said, there are versions of Joelthur I fuck with. Not enough to want more of it, but to still be able to enjoy the content when I see it. I particularly like Sweetmapple's depiction. I'm also really fond of any version where Noel was just. not who he said he was. what if we scrapped noel's established character and did something completely different. what if he gets to have all the bitter, resentful feelings I'd expect from someone in his position.
Ima be keeping the tag blocked tho. Especially once Noel reappears in Threshold, god help me.
Imagine this, it's eve, people are spending time with their loved ones, there's firework outside and Derek is laying dead on his desk, a content smile on his face.
On another dark room, Avery is staring at his computer screen, completely hopeless.
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youre very whimsical and exude such a volume of joy I could never muster myself. what's your secret
I do cocaine and i get like a million ideas at once it's AWESOME!
juuust kidding ! don't do drugs kids
but to be more joyous and jolly you just can't be afraid, that's the real ticket. the one thing that will ruin someones life is fear, being scared is the only bad thing thst has ever happened. yeha im pretty sure that's right
ljke just be carefree and let your mane down♥️♥️right now my phone is on 14% and my headphones are on even tho im not listening to anythin & they're about to die and im gonna LET THEM becaude i am FREE !
i thiink what's most scary is thinking "what if people don't like me" and never being able to think "what do people like about me" becayse then you're losing yourself and you don't even know if people like the version of you which is fake. and i think thaaat if someone is so scared of being disliked that most of the time they're focusing their efforts on NOT being unlikable instead of being likable, and most of the time everyone's most likable quality is being themself. nobody looks more beautiful than when they're wearing a big smile becaude they get to talk about something that makes them happy, when you look at someone and you see that they're proud of the outfit they picked out today, or when you see a group of people and they're messing around & sure it's just another day for the rest of the world but for them this could be one of those good memories that they replay over and over when they're feeling down. or maybe they're usually that happy, and i think that's just as beautiful.
i guess it's scary to think of saying something corny or whatever and everyone notices, but it's not like that, not really. a lot of people are too focused on their own lives to do anything except forget it immediately. i actually tried to do a test one time, some girl in my 7th grade class accidentally spilled her lunch on herself, and i wanted to make myself remember it since i knew that would be one of those memories that kept her up at night, & i wanted to see if it would really make the impact on the ppl around her that she would imagine it did. but. i really cant even remember what color her hair was or her name, even after putting in so much effort to remember it, because it just wasn't important to me so my mind made me let it go in exchange for good memories. and i don't think anyone else is doing this experiment, so any time you fuck up they're probably forgetting that even happened in the same day.
nobody's going to remember it, or even care, if you spill your lunch. but i do remember every person who's held a door for me, i remember every little compliment given, and i remember every silly joke my classmates would make to make the school day a bit less dull. maybe those jokes are corny now, but they made my day a bit better at the time, and that's what i really remember. and i hope when these strangers think about their lives, when they think them over, they can feel the care and love i hold for that memory, and hold the door for another person.
OOPPS thst got really long i have this problem where i don't know exactly what words to say so i just keep hitting my keyboard until my point gets across somewhere in a billion words. uum. live laugh love!
