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raniiiii <3 you absolutely live up to your name!!! tysm for your kind words, they mean a lot to me! ilysm also @unitlead!

brown girl rep (and asian girl rep) is super important to me and that goes all the way back to my childhood, teenhood and young adulthood and is now a pivotal part of my adulthood as well.

that said, there's more than one way to tell a story and therefore i want to shout out some characters of color that i absolutely hold near and dear to my heart and a handful of blogs that people should follow if they don't already:

@enchaentales: aurora is so creative and it shows. truly, from characters like venus conejo to sistine chappell, i'm always just in awe of aurora's creations and i immediately want five movies and eight books about them. that's how much i love those characters. they just take you away and pull you in and you know what? good for them. it's their world now, i'm just living in it.

@silencedrage: arrow has a gift for creating characters that stick with you long after you've read about them or interacted with them. because yes, i love kevin ma and i want the best for kevin ma and i would fight the entire world for one (1) goofy person who works at the arcade (even though i'd probably break my hand). but it's not just kevin ma, it's other ocs too like austen herrera and daya ray and kai tamaki and jacqueline feng. like, oh my gosh, just ten out of tens, a+, no notes across the board forever and i mean that so sincerely.

@dulcetbloodmercy / @heroicxvixen: mercy is canon in my head and heart and would have made btvs so much better, just because mercy as a character pushes the envelope; she's exactly the kind of slayer who would get the plot moving and not only that - she fits within other shows of that genre (think tvd et al) as well. truly, i would have loved to have seen a character like mercy on my screen while i was growing up. i think it would have been tremendously positive experience for me as a person. that said, i'm glad to have her in my life now, though.

as for medina: she gives me quiet and contemplative energy and reminds me of those beautiful botanic gardens and i can't wait to get to know her better!

@daemondaes: you know what? ragdoll is one of my favorite heroes ;) no but seriously, i would love five movies, three seasons and a podcast about one (1) cherry as well as the other muses on that blog and in cherry's life. it would make for such good tv, i know it. everyone knows it. cherry as a whole is such a breath of fresh air and i love reading all the shenanigans that she gets up to. plus: you can never go wrong with cherry colored hair, yeahhhh!

@escapedartgeek: i love zora andrews. actual loml right there. z is so cool! so effortlessly cool. and they slot in anywhere, too. partially because of the powers they have, but also because z just feels like one of those characters that's able to be the missing piece in any piece of canon and slot in accordingly. they fit in sci fi threads, they fit in superhero threads. they fit in slice of life threads. they are like a kaleidoscope of a character in the best possible way. atp, i'm manifesting a comic book adaption for z: they deserve it and so do you and i love their story so much <3

@bewitchingbaker: chris feels best friend coded but he also feels friends to lovers coded and i love him very much indeed. i feel like he gives the best hugs. i also love that he just gets pulled into so many shenanigans - not all of them by his own making - and just rolls with the punches as well as he does. i want the world for him, genuinely.

@yearnstarved: so many great characters on this blog but elly!!! my dearest darling elly!!! i see so much of my younger self in her. i just want to wrap her up in a fluffy blanket and give her hot cocoa and a hug. i also love the different variations of elly that you've got on your blog but throughout all the au's, elly's core stays the same and i think that's a testament to your writing.

@thrownsoul: alice agamah has been a constant on my dash(es) since pretty much 2015 and i'm so glad to see you back on my dash(es) again. alice as a character feels so much like someone who welcomes you back home after you've made a long journey but also someone who would make the journey alongside you. i love alice a bunch and i can't wait to see where you'll take this character next!

@soulmissed: august collins? more like auggie, the bestest and brightest! he is so near and dear to my heart. not just because he's a kid but because he is one of the few characters i came across who's got dyscalculia as well so i'm very familiar with some of his school related struggles. ruben balances auggie's innate sweetness and his grit very well. it's a delicate thing but ruben absolutely manages.

@starfoam: i need everyone to know that i adore lorelei snow! i also need everyone to know that i wish that lo would slow down sometime but i don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. anyway, i would let luminous save me anytime and esme, i hope you're so, so proud of yourself and what you've created because lo is such a shining star of a magical girl and such a main stay on my dash.

@moonaffair: virote srisati! the man of the hour! vi is genuinely one of my favorite oc's because he's not what most people would expect and i love that. i would say he's like someone you would run into on the streets but idk if he'd ever come to rotown lmao. all jokes aside, one of my fondest rp moments will forever be vi having one (1) convo with udyati and him just changing her entire outlook. sidenote: i think vi might've changed my outlook as well that day. i carry him with me. i've literally thought "what would vi do?" in real life during tough moments. i'm forever hoping and manifesting a happy ending for him. i hope he gets the man of his dreams because if anyone deserves that, it's vi. diren writes this moon god splendidly and with a lot of verve.

" Do you think you can get a look ? " she whispered as softly as she could. Her own angle detrimental for catching a glimpse of whatever (or whomever) was the source of the sounds at the end of the hall. Ones that were getting uncomfortably closer. Her fingers rested on the handle of her stationary ray. ( @unitlead )

Questions // Still Accepting @unitlead asked: When did this start? For Brian.

As his finger traced across the faded ink scrawled within a leatherbound journal, Brian Barnaby couldn't help the shiver that ran down his spine. He could still feel the indentations and scratches left behind by the author's pen, even after all these decades. It felt ghostly, almost mournful in a way.

Brian swallowed hard as his gaze lifted from the page, his ever-wide eyes focusing on Doctor Stewart instead. For a moment, he was unsure of how to answer the question. While there was an objective answer, his aching heart told him to wax poetically. In the end, he settled for something in between. He wasn't good at detachment.

The voice grabbed her attention, sat on the low wall as she tried to wrap her head around everything that had happened. 

“Oh-” The jacket is warm, like it’s just been taken off and Mel isn’t going to refuse it. The breeze is cold…and she’s left in the aftermath of whatever the hell it was that had happened here. 

If she is going to be honest, Mel doesn’t understand what has happened. She had just been in the park and all hell had broken loose. It sounded odd to her, to say that she had been in the right place at the right time, but for the people who had been hurt that was very much the case - for her, it was a nightmare. 

Strange, Mel wasn't entirely unaccustomed to such events, she just usually was an active participant in the aftermath rather than the actual incident itself. Now the place is crawling with people in uniforms and…they’re not ones she recognizes entirely. There’s just enough context for Mel to figure out they are military? Or something military adjacent?

the  time  machine  thrums against  reality,  engines  wheezing  in  offended  bursts  as  the  blue  box  slides  sideways,  corrects  itself,  then  somehow  bounces  out  of  the  time  vortex  &  skids  to  a  halt  on  the  pavement  outside  UNIT  headquarters  like  a  sulking  animal  refusing  to  sit.

the  doctor  stumbles  out,  catching  himself  on  the  frame  as  the  TARDIS  gave  one  last  indignant  clunk.     “ oh  don't, ”   he  grumbles,  turning  back  to  glare  at  the  blue  box,   “ don’t  you  dare  pretend  that  was  my  fault.  that  was  a  perfectly  reasonable  landing  vector  &  you - ”   he  waves  his  hands  in  an  incoherent  circle.   “ you  decided  to  redecorate  gravity. ”

the  TARDIS  responds  by  making  a  noise  that  sounds  suspiciously  smug.  both  hands  are  dragged  through  his  hair  as  the  timelord  takes a  breath in,  forcing  calm  that  didn’t  quite  stick.  something  is  off.  he  can  feel  it;  a  pressure  behind  his  eyes,  a  wrongness  in  the  air  that  had  nothing  to  do  with  UNIT’s  ever-present  security  scanners  sweeping  over  him.  &  he  turns,  finally  taking  in  the  building.

UNIT  HQ.  solid.  defensive.  alert.  &  humming.  not  audibly,  not  to  humans.  but  to  him,  it  felt  like  standing  too  close  to  a  live  wire.

“ oh,  that’s  why, ”   he  breathes  out,   “ sulking  because  you  don’t  like  what’s  under  the  car  park.  well  join  the  club. ”

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💎 : a blog whose content you treasure

🌟 : someone who always motivates you to write more

❪  🐺  ❫　⸻　@unitlead.

🌙 : a mutual whose aesthetic you adore. @vulpesse ! bunnie's graphics, the way she formats her posts, even her tags are pretty, and it all blends in so well with the way that bunnie writes ahri as well.

💎 : a blog whose content you treasure. @gospul + literally all of dru's blogs. they are a staple on my dash, and i always get excited whenever i see posts from them or they add a new blog / muse to their roster.