#tea asks

yes, yes, ive been here a while and had no intro post 💔 (blog made august 7th, 2025)

to anyone who's new here, welcome!! no clue why you want to be in a place like this, but it's whatever. uh uh im gonna put some about me stuff, my tags, my moots, and my fandoms below, please read them

Name: Aled/Caspian

Acceptable nicknames: Cas, Casper, Allie, Als, or Tea ( boston tea party if youre @thetendolla , tea man if youre @ashishere0w0 )

Age: I'm a minor (under 17). I don't care if you're freaky in my inbox, just don't be ridiculously disgusting.

Pronouns: he/him only!! I am a MAN. (raging gay boy faggot man)

MY WIFE: @journal-of-janus

her tag(s): #tea and his janus / #Janus and her tea

My/Our QPR: @petercanparkacar

My Child: @marigold-solis-harp-player (package deal, came w/ my wife?)

What you may find here: Fandoms. Lots. Art, and things I write. Lots of reblogs 💔

Fictionkin!! Will Solace and Aled Last and Silas Bell and possibly Jimmy Kaga-Ricci.

❗DNI IF YOU ARE:❗

Homophobic, racist, transphobic, MAGA, pro-life, ableist, sexist, a TERF, someone who uses ai for "art", or a dick in general.

If you interact with me/my blog and I see you as something on that list, you will be blocked.

If you are a dick to me, my mutuals, or their mutuals (if i see it), I will block you, possibly report you (depending on what i see), and strongly advise you to get offline and take a goddamn walk outside. We're real people.

Now that that's out of the way...

My Fandoms/Interests/Things I Like:

BOOKS: Percy Jackson (whole Riordanverse), Radio Silence, Carry On, Felix Ever After, I Wish You All The Best, Ace of Spades, I Was Born For This, Hunger Games, Divergent, Hell Followed With Us, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Outsiders, Never After (Melissa de la Cruz), Red Queen, Don't Let The Forest In, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Project Hail Mary

WEBTOONS: Castle Swimmer, Play Pretend, To Be Honest, Heartstopper, Boy Next Door, True and Me, Daybreak, Boyfriends, Hyperfocus, Spicy Mints, Star Catcher, Lore Olympus

SHOWS: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Ever After High, Stranger Things, Alien Stage, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, The Amazing Digital Circus, Lackadaisy, My Hero Academia/Boku No Hero Academia, Wednesday

MOVIES: Hunger Games, The Outsiders, Beetlejuice (1 & 2), Kpop Demon Hunters, Hamilton, Wicked, Casper, Zombies (1-4), Descendants (1-4)

MUSICALS: The Lightning Thief, Into The Woods, Hamilton, Wicked, EPIC, Illium, Hadestown, Heathers, Ride The Cyclone, Beetlejuice, In The Heights, Newsies, Frozen, Mean Girls, The Book of Mormon

MUSIC: Conan Gray, Olivia Rodrigo, Cavetown, NOAH FINNCE, Will Wood, Nirvana, MARINA, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Eminem, Dazey and the Scouts, Alien Stage, Mitski, Laufey, Rio Romeo, TV Girl

MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY RP BLOGS:

@questions-for-alex <- Alexander Hamilton rp blog

@jax-t0y-0ut-the-b0x <- Jax rp blog (interaction wanted)

@will-solace--w-a-s--here <- Will Solace rp blog (please interact with him 😭)

@al3d-sees-st4rs <- Aled Last rp blog (just starting off)

My Moots!! @ashishere0w0 @thetendolla @itsa-thing @no-one-offical @bisexual-kitkat-offical @gustastrophe @childofelite @tsuyu-is-my-child @purple-dinosaur27 @w1tchang3l @irish-farmer @mikeandwillsweddingofficiant @skifftheshark @oops-i-guess-i-did-a-full-180 @still-em0 @masaki-komi @destinaesworldd @sharks-are-better-than-people @cheshire-smiley-fries @machineidnull @musiicpix3l @googoopoop / @poopoogoop

Tags!! I haven't done tags in the past, but things change I suppose. #tea's time - just me yapping (thoughts, moot convos, the like) • • • #tea asks - my questions for other people! (other's inboxes, random questions, the like) • • • #tea answers - stuff from my inbox! • • • #tea's doodles - my art! • • • #tea reblogs - take a gander why dontcha? • • • #tea talks about wish - my stupid clone 😔😒 • • • #fag factory - the group chat between soda, me, and wish • • • #tea talks about soda - my brother(not putting his name out) • • • #tea has a fic idea - what do you think? • • • #tea writes - i wrote smth lol

Link to my post where a bunch of neat people gave me pirating methods -

https://www.tumblr.com/genuine-tea-addict/

Wowie!! That should be it... I'll update this if I missed anything!

Thallon has a hat.

Thallon loves his hat.

Thallon cannot keep his hat on his head to save his life.

So can you sketch Jericho and Sauda flirting with each other?

That's for my ask of the day lol

I kind of like the idea that his moon is in the Haven somewhere.

I can see him having an accent.

I headcannon that he has a Dazzle but her original beast body, not little deer girl.

He, much like Titan, likes to be entertained. He probably makes the people he torments run through challenges and games that he designed.

You know those little syrup bottles from Cracker Barrel? He has a LOT of those.

I like the idea that he has his Eclipse as his servant or "advisor" and that they're close. Or were. His Eclipse is actually cares for Tyrant but doesn't like who he's turned out to be. Probably plans on running away or killing him but he keeps seeing the "good" in Tyrant and stays. Tyrant knows and orchestrated all of it just to keep his Eclipse by his side. He could just threaten him but this is much more... entertaining to him.

Aw yeah aw yeah <- my opinion on all four of them

No really though I have come to love these characters SO much. The depth and sadness and realness of them. The way each of them is figuring out what it means to have faith—in their gods, in other people, in themselves. And each one is coming to a different conclusion and going down a different path about it.

FAULKNER

Ohhh this boy has sunk so many costs and keeps on sinking them. Brother Faulkner you have so many problems and you KNOW it and you don’t know what to do about it!

Of these four, Faulkner is probably the character I’m least invested in—he’s most interesting to me when he has Carpenter there to interact with and bounce off. The Parish’s internal politics and schism is primarily interesting to me as it pertains to the broader politics of how the whole system is crumbling. But I just listened to the episode with Faulkner and his dad and it had me so emotional. He knows he’s betrayed everyone who ever loved or trusted him, or been betrayed by them, and he doesn’t know what to do about it. He spent so, so much effort becoming the person he wanted to be, and now that he’s there it’s an unsustainable thing to be.

CARPENTER

One of my favorite characters of All Time and I’m not saying that lightly!!! Carpenter is a survivor who doesn’t know what she’s surviving for. She doesn’t have anything to look forward to, but she also very much doesn’t want to die. So what’s left? She keeps going anyway. Even she’s acknowledged this and wondered what the point of it is, but it’s not like she’s going to stop. She’s been a killer for her faith, she’s been a killer for her friends, she’s respectfully buried the dead and tried to honor them as best she can. I love how, where I’m at now, she doesn’t super believe the Many Below how much of a signature, but she’s lost her faith in everything except other people. She’s very Wooden Overcoats in that regard: other people is all there is. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to actually like a lot of them very much, and isn’t liked by a lot of them in return. And that doesn’t matter for her dedication to save the people she can and bury the people she can’t. Because what else is there?

And despite all that, she’s funny. She likes to enjoy herself when the opportunity allows. She likes coffee and pancakes. She can’t get them very often, she keeps being foiled in her attempts, but she keeps trying. She’s able to joke with Hayward and be snarky with Faulkner. She is carrying so, so much weight, so much regret, so much fear it’s kind of sublimated into resignation, but she’s alive, and she doesn’t mind enjoying it when she’s allowed to. (She just doesn’t get the chance to very often :’) ) She doesn’t like herself very much, but she is trying so hard to become a person she can live with. Gahhhhh I love her.

Also, she is so immensely refreshing as an aromantic character who was written to be an actual character, a MAIN character, and not a didactic object lesson.

PAIGE

Paige!!! Oh man. Paige. Paige saw the same choice Carpenter gave that scientist—can you really do that? Give it all up, walk away from your life, say no to the whole system and mean it?—and Paige said YES. She did that! And it is so hard and she is second-guessing herself the whole time, sinking into resentment and self-loathing and fear that she’s made a horrible mistake and given up everything for nothing. Paige is looking me square in the face and asking me why I haven’t slashed the tires of every Raytheon delivery truck yet and I’m coming up short trying to answer. When she created the Many Below I was hype along with her that she could enact real change, and now I watch her spiral into guilty and doubt as she watches the Wound Tree turn out just as hungry as any other god and it breaks my heart as much as hers. She believed in this so much. Paige is inspiring and heartbreaking and I want her to be happy and I’m afraid she’s going to die dramatically and self-sacrificially.

HAYWARD

My initial thoughts about Hayward were “lol get rekt divorced cop man” he did in fact get rekt and go through the wringer and I can’t believe how much I’ve come to love him. Even from the beginning, Hayward was torn between trying to be a Good Cop and trying to be a good cop, and that was his undoing. Thrown under the bus and cast out as a criminal by his department after a catastrophic failure Of Capitalism that was not really his fault, because he was always on thin ice for trying to do things right and trying to believe that he was doing the right thing. Gotta feel for a man who has lost everything and hit rock bottom and also got his head bashed in at one point. Him latching onto Paige as someone he can truly believe in, the way he finds her worth believing in, is genuinely sweet, and also I want him to dramatically sacrifice himself to the Wound Tree and Paige to be traumatized and sad about it.

Carpenter was right when she said

God, I really didn’t want to end up liking you, Hayward. … I mean, where does it end? Seriously. You turn out to be a decent sort, maybe everyone’s good at heart.  What a dreadful outcome that would be. There have to be some monsters, don’t there?  Because otherwise how could all of this be happening? Why wouldn’t someone have put a stop to it yet? How could we possibly make sense of the evidence of our eyes if there was kindness and courage buried deep in all of us and all we had to do was listen to it? Wouldn’t it be just truly fucking awful if it was only people out here and nothing else?

also, this is very uncharacteristic of me to say but I am really here for Paige/Hayward as a ship. These hets are valid. That said, I really love how the two main character pairings we get aren’t romantic, and are engaging with each other in complex non-romantic deeply emotional ways.

😂 it is a choose violence game, let's play with fire 🔥 three Kim characterizations i don't much care for:

writing Kim as really old

like. hmmmm. i feel like a lot of fic out there is just really bad at characterizing young 20 yos, there are a lot of stories that write Kim's vibes like he's 38 yo or something. it's. bizarre. 21/22 yo is still so young. there's still so much uncertainty at that age and so much self-discovery to come. i've complained about this before so i don't want to just rehash that but. yeesh. some people really kinda suck at writing "kid in college" aged characters.

not letting Kim be playful

honestly, this one kinda follows on the previous point? there's a very annoying trend of writing ~older~ characters as only ever very serious. and like, aside from the irritation at the way people are really bad at early 20s vibes, people never outgrow playfulness. in canon, i'm pointing to Porsche trapping Kinn under the sheets and farting or them huffing their morning breaths in each other's faces (i love u canon ❤). but people still do ridiculous shit at 40/50/60/70/80/ALL THE AGES too. 40yo sisters who greet each other by punching the other in the boob. the 60yo neighbor who tells me my shoelaces are untied every time he sees me in sandals. the 50yo uncle who flicks popcorn in the mouths of anyone who falls asleep during movie night. there's no age limit to this sort of thing!

but while some of the ultra seriousness seems to be a weird age thing, it's like people also missed that Kim is playful? he's very intense when he's in mafia business mode and he's a nightmare to the guards (❤), but he plays along with Khun. he teases Chay. he has a good rapport with other university students. he can be more lowkey playful than others, but Kim's not made of stone, he has his fun too.

Wik being a burden on Kim

this one starts running into differences in headcanon-- like personally, i'm looking for fics where Wik is Kim's home. i've cried about this elsewhere so i'll keep it short, but Wik is the life Kim poured blood, sweat, and tears into to build up brick by brick. Wik is the life Kim wants, it's the parts of him he thinks are the best of him. i actually make the MC of the ep4 university one of Kim's best friends (i call him Green), and one of my favorite headcanons i've come up with for them is that everyone thinks Green twists Kim's arm into doing outreach events, but actually Green is Kim's connection to university news because he loves doing them but never knows who to ask. Kim desperately wants to be a source of good inspiration to others and have purpose outside of violence, and Wik is his way of doing that. Wik is not a burden on Kim (in fact, i'd argue Kim all but said he is a burden on Wik, but i digress).

so, that's my personal preference for Kim's relationship with Wik, but obviously not everyone's going to have the same characterization and that's cool. where i start to get annoyed is when people write him as very...hmm. dismissive? of it. or otherwise seems like he doesn't like any aspect of it. i straight up back click on any fic that has Kim fuck up the name of some popular musician. this is not a specific call out, but for example-- i remember reading something where there was this offhand line of Kim being like "and there's a request for a show with some other musician, wangson jack?" and just. no. back click, goodbye, nope. shit like that really starts to bug me. some of it is personal irritation at how awful a lot of english speakers are towards asian artists (which like. random fandom people are not at fault for the crimes of USamerican music reporters. but maybe consider that until people overall are less shitty and dismissive towards them, one off lines referencing real life musicians like this are better off deleted). but over all i just...really, really dislike disrespectful attitudes like that (esp for something related to the arts) and i don't want to read them in my favorite character. Kim is pursuing a career in the music industry for himself--Kim being, u know, Kim, he's going to take it very seriously and with that, also hold a lot of respect towards his fellow musicians generally speaking. at the very least, he's going to be cordial and pleasant with them because no one likes working with an asshole and Kim is trying to keep his mafia bullshit far away from his Wik goals. not everyone's going to have the same characterization headcanons i do for how much i think Kim would pour himself into music and love it, but i really don't vibe with any take where Wik is a burden on or a drag for Kim.

and a bonus ☕ because i luv u too anon: anything where Kim doesn't love his brothers or sees them as actual competition instead of the ones he wants to protect the most. this is not a surprise to anyone here, u all know how much i love brothers, but i've noticed that fandom gets kinda caught up in the chess metaphors sometimes. and to that i say: 1. Terry Pratchett yall: sin is when you treat people like things. 2. Terry Pratchett again: chess is a stupid ass metaphor for real life. 3. kp canon agrees with that. Korn is shit at playing chess. (the fucking. ep1 game. omfg. Chan is all but eating his pieces to let Korn win. i'm still howling over the scholars mate in ep5.) Korn is noticeably shit at all his hobbies that are metaphors for controlling people. which is the point! the boys fail every time they try to play his games, because you cannot play people like you would a game. every triumph is rooted in overturning the game board completely.

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