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✶ Hello! I'm N, a random teenager here to share my art with the Tumblr community. I love jazz, rock, lo-fi, and early 2000's music artists like Poe. Cool colors and jewel tones are my favorite on the color wheel (I don't play about navy and purple). I'm bilingual, ✹Kurdish✹, and I plan to major in architecture once I enter college.
If I get to grow up, that is.
Lord, have mercy :')
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✶ I'll be posting just about whatever: random thoughts, headcanons, OCs (maybe), theories, fanfics (if I'm in the mood to write), and everything in between.
Don't expect me to keep my word when it comes to requests and stuff, though, my brain moves on from things faster than I can write.
Knowing me, I'll probably be inconsistent as hell with posting, so just bear with me, okay?
But my inbox is open, so if you have a request, question, or something silly to say, go ahead!
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✶ 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐈'𝐦 𝐢𝐧:
1. Supa Strikas
2. BULLY
3. The Outsiders
꙳ Though right now I'm obsessed with SS the most.
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✶ 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞:
꙳ Milk chocolate (and sweet stuff in general. Tres leches, anyone?)
꙳ Pretzel sticks (salty things in general, but pretzel sticks just hit different)
꙳ Antiques and tiny trinkets
꙳ The smell of books and gasoline
꙳ Photography (especially of scenery, like forests)
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When Skarra reminisced on his time with Shakes back when they were younger I teared up, I never thought reading something could make me so emotional. Not even the books I've paid for with my own money have had such a strong emotional impact on me as much as this, I'm not even exaggerating.
And even if I sometimes wish your head be put on a stick... I like how raw you write emotions, and how you make the reader live in the characters' emotions rather than explaining it to them. Showing and not telling is difficult to implement into your writing, and I find it extremely impressive how you've managed to not break it. Just the way you word things is admirable, and I hope to maybe write like you one day.
I hope to see more from you... I know the amount of drafts you have saved up, you better finish them. I'm watching you.
Also if you ever publish a book, 50% of the profits will go to me, okay? Okay, have a nice day.
Shakes learned how to braid hair back in his teenage years so that he could braid Nandi's hair for her instead of their mom having to. Since she already had a lot on her shoulders (two jobs and all), he wanted to lessen chores around the house as much as he could for her so that she'd have proper time to rest, and he and Nandi ended up bonding together a lot as a result of this too.
I can imagine he and Nandi used to be huge Grimmies (well, Shakes used to be, at least, Nandi created a whole Grimm fanpage on Natter after he left for the SL), so just picture eight-year-old her walking over to a very busy Shakes one day like:
"Brother."
Shakes looks up from his studying desk. "Yes?"
"I want to dye my hair raspberry red." (She emphasized the "p" in "raspberry" a lot so it sounds like "RASP-berry".)
Shakes blinks. "'Raspberry red'? "
"Yes."
"Why that red specifically?"
Nandi points to the giant Grimm poster beside Shakes' window (opposite to his desk). "Because I wanna be like them."
"Anubis?"
"Yes."
So poor guy has to head to a beauty store and talk to the clerk for twenty minutes straight cause he doesn't want to bleach her hair to get the color to be that strong, and then opts to only bleach her ends to give the illusion that her hair was a bright color.
It did not work, but hey, what matters is that it became one of Nandi's core memories; along with all the other times Shakes braided her hair....
He still does it for her anytime she swings by his house, cause she's no older than the girl who'd knock on his door in the middle of the night because of nightmares in his eyes.
... And yes, in my AU their age gap is a lot more drastic (it's like, seven years). Rather than her already being born when Shakes was six, his mother was actually pregnant with her at the time instead, and she was born a month after Shakes' seventh birthday... After his father was already gone.
I imagine Shakes was the one that named her as well, as "Nandi" is a Zulu name meaning "sweet" or "strong-willed".
Wait, hold on, I have an idea:
What if Nandi's name was how Shakes figured out his father wasn't actually his real one in "Strika Chord"? Like during dinner at Matador's, they're talking, and then Jomo's lookalike slips up and is like "so how's Nandi?" I just know he kicked his ass out faster than Tiger could twist.
Although since the lookalike got his information from Vince, I wonder how Vince spied on Shakes' family after Jomo's disappearance and got that info...
Actually him having eyes on Nandi despite her not having any significance to the League is so creepy, oh my god. Imagine he uses her as bait to make Shakes do his bidding, because he knows he has a soft spot for her?
...Let me not escalate further, I'll just leave it like this
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Sometimes I wonder how the show would've turned out if Shakes' teammates from rookie season kept in touch with him, or if they still held some form of significance after he joined SS.
Like, I know rookie season was entirely made up for UNICEF and all, and it wasn't really a thing in the comics (and that the show's episodes were mostly based off those comics, that's why the timelines are so confusing), but can you imagine how cool it would've been to see them all grown up (let's just pretend they're all around the same age as teen Shakes and Skarra please, I know they be looking grown as hell)? Like, it would've been so amazing for them to flesh out the world more rather than just the Super League teams, the drama that could've happened outside of the SL would've been so entertaining.
Like, it would've been so nice to see Justine become a martial artist, or for Snazzle to pursue a career in music or something.
Now that I think about it, we don't know shit about them.
How do they seem to you guys? What special interests do they look like they have, and what teams would they root for?
Nikhil looks like he's a tech-savy guy to me (weirdly enough I always imagined him to have glasses, I don't know why), he's also pretty enthusiastic, and I feel like that fits the vibe of Technicali players, so maybe he likes them (ahem, J⁴).
Angie seems like a rather nice, friendly person, so I feel like she'd definitely be one for Barka.
Billy seems like a chill but also serious dude (or Esmodica. Esmodica's likely his last name or something), don't really know enough about him, but I feel like he'd love Iron Tank.
For Justine, I think it's obvious :')
Snazzle gives me, like, kinda show-offy vibes, so maybe she likes Cosmos? I feel like she'd like Cosmos.
There's also these two that go unnamed:
First guy's a backup goalie I'm guessing, and the second is a defender (petition to give them names, please).
But I don't know, what do you guys think? How would you incorporate them into the show, and what roles would they fulfill?
Yes, I know the comics came before the show, I'm not an idiot, I just thought it'd be funny to make this.
And yes, I had to sneak matajoe in, it was necessary! Don't judge me.
One of the screenshots that I used (in the "who the fuck is Chippa? Have you heard of Chippa?" Part, where I zoom in on Chippa's face) was taken by my moot @cinnamonswirlmacaw , so shoutout to her for sending it to me and giving me the idea to make this video in the first place.
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Lowkey I get why my dad wants me to read classics, because this shit has got me THINKING.
No, I still don't know if I'd kill someone if it meant fulfilling a good deed. Either way, there's still going to be consequences.
I'd probably do it, but I'm too cowardly to do it. Because say I'm killing a rich person because they're too stubborn and lost in their own greed to give their money to the people who need it most, you gotta do something about it, right?
But I'll get in trouble with the authorities, with the government, because what I did was unjust, but who decides what's just? The same people who withhold this system are the only ones who benefit from it, they keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting poorer. They're the only ones who can bypass their own system because they have the money and know the loopholes to keep their system from turning against them.
But at the end of the day, I'm still killing someone. Murder would lead me to insanity, so either way this cruel deed I executed wouldn't make me any better than it does the person who did the same deed ten times over to get the position they are in now.
(Just a disclaimer that this is a very long rant about the show —specifically about Vince, Coach and Jomo— and my AU and how I need help with certain things. So if you're willing to take time out of your day and read all this to learn a few things or to maybe help me, continue reading!)
I feel like a large problem within my AU is Jomo's role, since he already feels like an extra piece as is in the original show. His character messed with a lot of aspects and plot points, especially after rookie season rolled around. He was meant to be the answer to some, if not all of our questions (especially about Shakes), yet his presence just left us with more questions than we already had.
His connection with both Vince and Coach feels like something the writers made up on the spot to make Shakes seem special, like he was always meant to be a football player like his dad and carry on his legacy (to which we all say "bullshit"). It puts this sort of pressure on Shakes that's left unacknowledged, and we're just sort of expected to accept it without question.
Because of this connection, there's a huge plot hole within the show that makes you question just how horrible Jomo and the others were. Coach was already a coach by the time Shakes was born, and going off of the average salaries of Premier League coaches, we can guess that Coach was making 1.4 million USD minimum at the time (23 million max, hell, maybe even more). He had more than enough money to help fund Shakes' struggling family, yet he didn't because... Because...
Shakes' mom cut contact with him after Jomo disappeared? That's a rather cheap reason to not send them money and help out with their financial situation. You know where they live, don't you?
And the fact that Vince was the culprit behind his disappearance makes everything so much more confusing and random, because you'd think he'd be going after Coach for getting a Supa Strikas contract first. We know from rookie season that Jomo wasn't exactly pleased with Coach's position himself, and we never got word of when Vince got accepted into IU or why; so for Vince to target Jomo when he wasn't a threat to neither him or Coach (and never had planned to do anything in the first place) is the most perplexing part of it all.
Had Jomo done or said something to Coach or Vince that the writers never bothered to tell us? In Shakes' flashbacks during rookie season, we see Jomo and Coach together with no sign of Vince, yet Coach states in season 7 that Vince knew Jomo better than anyone else did.
And it's not like Jomo had done anything impressive enough to have his head be at the end of a crosshair, he'd only helped Coach name the fourth fundamental of football (also the fact that every important aspect of the show leads back to Supa Strikas is annoying, let the other teams play a part in the SL too, it's not just SS!).
That begs the question, why did Vince target Jomo? Did he have something that Vince wanted, or was he in the way of something?
Jokesters will say that Vince was jealous of what Jomo and Coach had (Vince/Coach mentioned, or maybe Vince/Jomo, but you'll never know), but he implies that Jomo's still very much alive, as said in season 7.
I'd love to know what kind of theories you guys have on this, and if you have a suggestion, my inbox is open!
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Now, about the main topic I'd like to discuss...
I'm currently working on an AU of my own for this show, and by "currently working on" I mean adding to and changing stuff about it in my head: timelines, ages, events and what not, just for daydreams and stuff; and one of the most gear-turning parts of it is Jomo's connection with Vince, how he disappeared and why.
"N, you know you could just not add that in since it's your AU, right?"
I know, but for Shakes' character in my AU to make sense, I had to keep that aspect; for Jomo's absence is what drives Shakes to do certain things or react in certain ways. I find that a missing figure in Shakes' life, especially one as important as his father, would lead him to be hyper independent and "more mature for his age". He'd bite off more than he could chew because he'd think that's what he's supposed to do, and his reluctance for help from others is what would make him not fit in with his team.
It'd be a perfect arc for him, because he'd not only learn that getting outside help is okay, but that his destiny isn't to carry on a legacy he was never told to keep alive.
That being said, him finding out that his father was actually accepted into IU instead of Supa Strikas would challenge that belief, especially if he's close to changing for the better, and Vince would play an important part in making him dig his hole deeper.
In my AU, it's just Jomo and Vince. Coach is in another team and has only heard of their names during games (prior to getting into the higher leagues). And while this solves the plot hole of "why didn't Coach just aid Shakes' family financially instead of leaving them to fend for themselves?", what I'm still stuck on is what leads up to Jomo's disappearance — or in more specific terms, death.
I have this story that's still in the rough drafts (for it to work I'd have to finish the world building first), but the simplest way I can put it is that it all stems from Vince's envy and relies on Jomo's pettiness.
Basically, out of Jomo and Vince, Jomo's more skilled when it comes to soccer. But he isn't the type of person that sees a person for who they are, but rather whom they're related to (you can blame his father for making him think that way. Grandpa also put Shakes at the head of the dining table when he was 7 and is the reason the poor boy went into religious psychosis at 16, because why the fuck not. We hate you grandpa).
He cares a lot about last names, is what I'm trying to say.
And because he was so focused on "Mashona" he didn't put in the effort to learn Vince's first name. He was also very self-centered, so he'd lash out on and criticize people whenever they'd interrupt him during his working hours.
Vince didn't exactly hate him, but he was envious of his skill. And when he found out that Jomo got a contract from IU, he was less than pleased — but of course, he hid it for the sake of keeping their friendship.
That was until Jomo told him that he'd signed an aleatory contract (correct me if I'm using the term wrong) with the Super League incase something happened to him. That his role as a player would be passed down to "V.M" if he were to resign or, in the worst case scenario, die.
And you know, since he never learned Vince's first name, the "V.M" referred to Vusi Mokena — Shakes. But the SL didn't know that because of how vague those initials were, and Vince saw this as an opportunity to finally get a place in the League he'd been dying to be a part of for so long because that brute didn't think to write names properly.
And when push came to shove, he could just use his family's money to get his way and satisfy himself. He was old money for Christ's sake.
So basically the plane crash was staged by him to kill Jomo and to finally get into the higher leagues, since he was the only one in the system with "V.M" as initials at the time, so he's basically a fraud.
And now that Shakes is in the SL and is part of Supa Strikas, he's thinking "hey, why don't I just kill two birds with one stone and make him join my team?" Because he'd be getting probably the most strategic and lethal player in the League onto his team and the feeling of power would rush through his veins anew; and technically it was what Jomo wanted, so it's a win-win, right?
So Shakes kind of gets lured into his office and he bearly makes it out alive with Skarra because why not.
...
Also I don't know how to fit Shakes' mom into all of this because in my AU she becomes a police officer three seasons in cause she wants to know what the hell happened to her husband and why the authorities dropped his case out of bull fuck nowhere.
My only problem with my version of Jomo and Vince's story is that the characters, especially Vince, feel very one-sided. Like he's just doing evil shit for the fun of it instead of having a good reason behind it. It could be excused with the power-hungry trait I gave him though, since it makes him feel like he's in control... And that's what he's after.
But yeah, I just have a problem with it, I don't know why.
...
Also Shakes immediately figures out that Vince killed his dad cause the first thing that catches his eye in his office is a bronze ring his dad used to wear with a teal jewel embedded into it.
But let me know what you think, cause the edges of good and bad writing are starting to blend into each other in my eyes and now I don't know if this is good or bad.
I feel like I've left something unaccounted for, but I just don't know what.
My art has regressed so bad guys, I think Klaus might've cursed me.
Either that, or it's because I know nothing about how Sketchbook works (I hate drawing apps). I was just randomly splashing colors everywhere and prayed it looked good.
Can you guess who this is? I hope so.
(...Also he drew the mole on himself, it's not part of his face.)
Mind you, this is the second time they've done this, and the worst part is that we can't even complain because the comments are turned off for YouTube Kids!
Whoever's locked up in their company building to keep this show alive is on my kill list, mark my words that person won't be spared by me.
Someone get the animation team back into the office, we're all getting food poisoning from this artificial slop!
So I was looking through my old Ibis Paint projects a moment ago, and it whipped me back to March of this year, where I was so confused by Shakes' apartment layout and size that I tried to estimate the size using him 😭
(There were like, three teal Shakes lined up in the first photo, idk why he ain't there.)
Also took a bunch of screenshots throughout all the episodes where his apartment is shown and I made a lot of little notes on it:
There were more photos that I analyzed, but I've hit the 10-photo limit, so I can't show them all :')
Even made a whole document in my Notes App dedicated to it, here it is:
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• Shakes' apartment width = 17 feet
• Shakes' apartment length = 23 feet
• 17 x 23 = 391 Square Feet (sheesh, no wonder the other Strikas say it's cramped)
Needs to have:
• 2 Balconies
• A living room
• A small kitchen
• A bathroom
• A bedroom
Extra info:
• This is an apartment at the end of an apartment building.
• Has a brick wall separating the living room & kitchen.
• The bedroom has a window.
• The door is said to be opposite to the balcony connected to the living room, but with the property being at the end of the building, that makes zero sense. So it'll be beside the TV with a few extra feet on the side for a hallway.
• Breakfast nook should be 5ft long and 4ft wide. Main balcony connected to the living room should be 6ft long and 5ft wide.
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I still, unfortunately, haven't finished the floorplan :')
Those notes are only the beginning, I was so determined to make it accurate, that I analyzed each piece of furniture and looked for the ones that looked exactly like them online to find their diameters. I'll spare you on those, though...
Have a nice night... Or day, depending on your timezone.
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that teen sharra thing made me have emotions hlw dare you (i love it so much)
Shakes was the golden boy: innovative, intelligent, religious. A prosperous prodigy. He was what every parent wanted in their own child.
But he wasn't exactly religious, per se.
From fourteen to sixteen, he'd left the church altogether. Not because of some rebellious phase, but because of Sam.
He'd only go to church whenever something was wrong, to seek comfort in a father that he couldn't see, just like the one that had left him — but Samson brought all the comfort he needed. He could speak Zulu freely with him, even though it wasn't Sam's first language (Shakes' family moved into a city that mostly spoke Afrikaans, and he only knew a few phrases, so he'd usually speak english since it was a language he knew and most could understand). They'd talk about life and smoke together, sometimes crack a joke or two when Sam would mix up certain words that completely changed what he was trying to say.
Sam was the strongest anchor grounding him to the burdensome life he was born into, he gave Shakes something to look forward to in the morning, even when he'd be sleep deprived from the all-nighters he pulled to study.
He never considered going back to the house of God, even when his prom date tried to convince him. "Your connection with God should be your top priority!" She said, but he just smiled and nodded.
He loved Angie, he really did, she had been his crush for years, but he just didn't want to head back.
The only thing that convinced him to go back was when Samson turned the corner that night, leaving him there drenched in rainwater.
Not because he felt like something was wrong in his life, but because he felt like something was wrong with himself.
A fear built up in his throat. He should've felt something about that kiss, disgust, hate, repulsion... But he liked it, and that disgusted him more than anything he'd ever seen and felt in his life. It wasn't natural. It didn't fit the cutout that his family made for him.
That growing self-hatred followed him even after he joined the Super League; its wings casting a dark shadow over him once he noticed Skarra on the opposing side of the field, because it could sense his desire.
It isn't to say that Samson didn't share that fear, that was the exact reason why he ran from him that night in the first place. Shakes looked mortified after he pulled back, and he knew that meant his cover was blown.
He blocked him, cut contact after his family moved. He had to leave the past behind, even if Shakes took a part of his heart with it. His affection began to get covered in a curtain of disdain, seeping through to the surface, confusing him on what feelings were real and what were a cover-up for how he really felt.
He hated his true self more than anything in this world, and if he ever came to light, his days of fame would be over. His team was aggressive and ruthless, love wasn't worth risking his safety and dignity.
And while Shakes came to terms with himself after his team's support, his confusion still gnawed at him.
And he knew for certain that he wouldn't let him run away this time.
that teen sharra thing made me have emotions hlw dare you (i love it so much)
Shakes was the golden boy: innovative, intelligent, religious. A prosperous prodigy. He was what every parent wanted in their own child.
But he wasn't exactly religious, per se.
From fourteen to sixteen, he'd left the church altogether. Not because of some rebellious phase, but because of Sam.
He'd only go to church whenever something was wrong, to seek comfort in a father that he couldn't see, just like the one that had left him — but Samson brought all the comfort he needed. He could speak Zulu freely with him, even though it wasn't Sam's first language (Shakes' family moved into a city that mostly spoke Afrikaans, and he only knew a few phrases, so he'd usually speak english since it was a language he knew and most could understand). They'd talk about life and smoke together, sometimes crack a joke or two when Sam would mix up certain words that completely changed what he was trying to say.
Sam was the strongest anchor grounding him to the burdensome life he was born into, he gave Shakes something to look forward to in the morning, even when he'd be sleep deprived from the all-nighters he pulled to study.
He never considered going back to the house of God, even when his prom date tried to convince him. "Your connection with God should be your top priority!" She said, but he just smiled and nodded.
He loved Angie, he really did, she had been his crush for years, but he just didn't want to head back.
The only thing that convinced him to go back was when Samson turned the corner that night, leaving him there drenched in rainwater.
Not because he felt like something was wrong in his life, but because he felt like something was wrong with himself.
A fear built up in his throat. He should've felt something about that kiss, disgust, hate, repulsion... But he liked it, and that disgusted him more than anything he'd ever seen and felt in his life. It wasn't natural. It didn't fit the cutout that his family made for him.
That growing self-hatred followed him even after he joined the Super League; its wings casting a dark shadow over him once he noticed Skarra on the opposing side of the field, because it could sense his desire.
It isn't to say that Samson didn't share that fear, that was the exact reason why he ran from him that night in the first place. Shakes looked mortified after he pulled back, and he knew that meant his cover was blown.
He blocked him, cut contact after his family moved. He had to leave the past behind, even if Shakes took a part of his heart with it. His affection began to get covered in a curtain of disdain, seeping through to the surface, confusing him on what feelings were real and what were a cover-up for how he really felt.
He hated his true self more than anything in this world, and if he ever came to light, his days of fame would be over. His team was aggressive and ruthless, love wasn't worth risking his safety and dignity.
And while Shakes came to terms with himself after his team's support, his confusion still gnawed at him.
And he knew for certain that he wouldn't let him run away this time.
