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Black People and Affinity to Bright Colors Stereotypes?

I’d be more concerned with your characterization of how to write a Black man.

For some reason, I associate Finn with the color orange and I don’t know why. We look good in bright colors and that’s not a bad thing. 

Maybe Finn wants to express himself after wearing black and white his entire life.

~Mod Brei

He can have all the nice things!

I don’t see a draw towards colorful clothing as a bad thing or a stereotype at all. Additionally, a lot of cultural clothing is bright, across races and yes, particularly in Black diaspora and African cultures too.

Bright colors pop against dark skin tones, making it a stand-out and appealing choice for many. Personally, I get the most compliments when I’m wearing yellow or a rich purple.

Look at these beauties and how glorious the bright colors look against their skin!

(From left to right: Lupita Nyong'o, Colman Domingo and Wunmi Mosaku

Sources: Reuters DailyMail, Getty Images, Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Go forth and embrace the bright!

Your action hero just got shot in the shoulder, stitched it up in a motel bathroom, and is now running through a forest. I need you to know that a shoulder wound severs muscle, nerves, and sometimes bone, and the human body's response to that is not "mild wincing followed by full range of motion." here is what injuries actually do to peoplee...

⊹ Adrenaline is REAL and it does allow people to do extraordinary things immediately after injury, BUT it is a loan, not a gift. you borrow the function and you pay it back later with interest. Your character might genuinely be able to run for twenty minutes after being stabbed. and then the adrenaline drops and everything the body was delaying arrives all at once. the collapse is NOT weakness. it's biology collecting its debt. write the debt collection. it's more interesting than the heroic sprint anyway.

⊹ Blood loss changes cognition before it drops you. you don't go from "fine" to "unconscious." you go through a whole middle stage of confusion, poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, a strange calm, tunnel vision, difficulty forming sentences. Your injured character making a bad call, saying something they normally wouldn't, becoming suddenly and inexplicably gentle--that's blood loss. use the middle stage. it's dramatically rich and almost nobody writes it.

⊹ Recovery has a timeline and the timeline is long and boring and inconvenient to plot. a broken rib takes six weeks and during those six weeks sneezing is a genuine emergency. a concussion means no screens, no reading, no bright lights, and symptoms can persist for months. a stab wound to the abdomen means weeks of infection risk, limited mobility, and a specific kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. Your character being sidelined and frustrated and useless for a long time is not a narrative problem. it's the story.

...a few more pics from sewstine's March ball, along with one of the dresses that served as inspo...

👈👉 already answered here

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

Oh there’s always more blood cult thoughts :D

In my most recent addition, I really loved the imagery of Rumi feeling like a dragon! Just very fun way of describing that specific kind of satisfaction

I’ve also really enjoyed writing the little issues into the way they’re cohabitating—Minji and Celine making food and thinking Miyeong’s issue is just “people making a mess in her kitchen” or Zoey trying to help Miyeong research and getting hit in the RSD. Hedgehog problems

There’s a whole groupchat full of behind the scenes info and backstory, but you’re in there, so I’ll stick to only a little (anyone else with questions or curiosities PLEASE ask I would love the excuse)

This au came from me overhearing a show a housemate was watching where someone had been, like, cask of amontillado’d and starting to think about other sealed up beings and people, and next thing I knew I was in @frozenwolftemplar’s dms like “okay so Rumi’s the ancient hero they think is an ancient evil, and Zoey’s the sacrifice, but where the fuck is Mira?”

We actually went through a few rounds of what Mira would be—one where she didn’t intervene and get beaten but was with the cult unwillingly and a few where she was just descended from the original group that locked Rumi away and had varying levels of involvement with Magic in the current day—before settling on the version we ended up using!

And, ofc, my favorite backstory element that we’re going to work in eventually, somehow: Jinu’s! In this au, since he wasn’t a demon, we had to come up with a different way for him and Rumi to be connected

@grundpfeiler came up with the excellent concept of him having been kidnapped into the demon realm as a child and partially grown up there, which became him having come home and killed the changeling who replaced him (which was the central shame he never told Rumi, as he learns from her that said changeling… wasn’t actually evil probably)

FIC BE UPON YE!!!!

♬♪♫ > ᴗ• ♬♪♫ [OBNOXIOUS SMUG HOONMOON GIGGLING]

For some context for anyone who is wondering what the honmoon is going on- we were having a FUN DERANGED TIME in the comments of the original post above (check it out and make sure to admire noodlejags awesome art first!) and now here we are... here's a bit of it for the historical record!- see the original comments section for continued derangement

whitebeltwriter I have enough wips, please, don't make me wanna write Celine running into the next generation and how her eyes twitches worse every time she does. because she EXPLICITLY gave up on this shit, and she keeps traveling around the world so WHY DOES SHE KEEP FINDIBG BABY HUNTERS?! AND WHY TF ARE THEY SO SMOL?! was she this small?! she had to have been Meeting rumi had been her own fault for visiting Korea. Zoey had been getting picked on and so she had to step in (older kids had been playing jeep away with one of her notebooks) and the girl AND the honmoon lit up when Celine asked what was in them. and Mira. Celine had looked in enough mirrors since she left sls to know what anger masking hurt looked like and like with zoey she couldn't just Not help

yaketysmax She is trying so hard to be ALOOF and yet she just cares too much. The original lovergirl-that's where Mira learned it from

whitebeltwriter @yaketysmax Celine, looking around frantically after clocking Mira needed help: Can anyone please adopt this child? Anyone BESIDES ME?! Anyone? No? … Damn it, I have to adult now… Mira, witnessing this: A…good adult? That's a real thing?! … Mine now, no take backs.

yaketysmax @whitebeltwriter /( ╹ ᴗ╹)?? (≖_≖ ‶ \ ♬♪♫ > ᴗ• ♬♪♫

Mira, spotting an adult lovergirl in the wild: "be my mentor. I've imprinted on you like a little baby chick but with better hair. Teach me the lovergirl ways of being seemingly aloof but secretly the biggest softie ever and PINING"

Celine: tired sigh

The Honmoon giggles obnoxiously in the background

whitebeltwriter @yaketysmax it's us. we're the Honmoon giggling in the background XD

yaketysmax @whitebeltwriter // ,,⩌'︿'⩌,,) ♬♪♫♬♪♫♬(≖ᴗ≖)♪♫♬♪(˘ ˘ ˘)♫♬♪♫ Celine wonders when the Honmoon got so damn smug

whitebeltwriter @yaketysmax Probably about the same time its hunters decided to shove their heads up their respective asses instead of just TALKING TO EACH OTHER

yaketysmax @whitebeltwriter Honmoon's like "LADIES I AIN'T DONE"

whitebeltwriter @yaketysmax lol more like "we're done when I say we're done, and so long as at least one of you is breathing then we're not"

yaketysmax @whitebeltwriter (≖﹏≖ ‶ \ ♬⊙ _ ⊙ ♫♬♪♫ ♬♪♫ "i can see you over there Celine"

whitebeltwriter @yaketysmax Celine, looking up into the sky as WELL as away from whatever direction S Korea is while flipping the bird over her shoulder: "No you can't"

I can now firmly believe that after trying to draw her back with the cuties #1 and 2 (Zoerumi) the Honmoon cracked their knuckles and pretty much hurled pathetic wet kitten Mira at Celine at Mach 10

yaketysmax @whitebeltwriter "initiate sad wet kitten meets sad wet cat protocol" ♫♪♫ ♬♪っ'ヮ')╮----> /( இ﹏இ) (°ロ° ‶ \ "Honmoon don't quit"

It isn’t until Rumira get into a veritable screaming match that reaches its pinnacle with,

“Having a baby ended my mother’s life, Mira! Excuse me for wanting all of us alive! To hell with a baby!”

that Zoey comes running in between them to stop anyone from saying anything else. Mira and Rumi are nearly chest to chest, breathing hard with tears of frustration pricking at their eyes when Zoey inserts herself and forces them both back a few steps.

There was many land mines in that conversation and playing Switzerland hadn’t saved Zoey from the explosion anyway so she says, “We either talk about this in therapy or we don’t talk about it at all,” staring Rumira down in equal measure until they relent.

With a huff, Rumi and Mira turn in opposite directions to leave but Zoey’s not done.

“Stop.” They freeze. “Apologize. Both of you.” They glance at one another and promptly look away.

“You two let the argument get out of hand enough that I HAD to step in as mediator so no one is going anywhere until I see some hugs, a kiss, AND some apologies.”

Given how fraught the situation was, Zoey let them get away with derivatives of “I love you, I’m sorry”s but usually she’d have them say what they were sorry for and how they were gonna change in the future.

And while she did promise to let them leave after the apologies, she changed her mind at the last second. She drags them to their shared room (formerly Rumi’s room) and gestures to the bed, “Actually, it’s mandatory cuddle time. Rumi will hold Mira for thirty minutes and then you’ll swap,”

Rumira both begin to protest but Zoey’s answering glare is enough for them to change into something more comfortable and start their cuddle sentence.

It takes all of five minutes for Mira to lose the tension that had been bunching up her shoulders while snuggled into Rumi’s collarbone. Rumi playing with the hairs at the base of Mira’s neck didn’t hurt either.

When they swapped, Mira just shimmied further up and rolled over, pulling Rumi on top of her. Rumi was fond of curling up when upset so she ended up with her knees parallel to Mira’s torso and her head tucked snugly under her chin resting squarely on her chest. Mira’s hands snaked under Rumi’s shirt and trailed lazily up and down her spine until she was suitably boneless, fighting off sleep and failing.

When Rumi’s soft snores clued Mira in to her unconscious state, she spoke to Zoey though she couldn’t see her while flat on her back.

“You were right… we needed this.”

Zoey appeared to the left of her, Chesire like, “You don’t say?”

Mira would’ve rolled her eyes but she couldn’t trivialize what Zoey had done or how much Zoey hated having to do it in the first place.

“I’m sorry, jagiya.”

“I know sweetie,” Zoey brushes a hair out of Mira face before dropping her phone on the side table and snuggling up to Mira’s side.

“I just-” but Zoey’s hand covers the entirety of her mouth.

“Therapy or not at all. And definitely not while Rumi is asleep.”

Mira kisses the hand covering her mouth in acquiesce and Zoey lets her go.

There’s also that fic by whitebeltwriter (one-shot), “All the Mamas” which is an AU where Zoey is adopted into Rumira’s existing family (Rumi, Mira, and AU child) as another mom. It’s very funny and endearing.

As for this premise, I would prefer that the girls never become parents at all. Pregnancy trauma aside, it’s sort of refreshing to have a TINK (triple income no kids) dynamic where Polytrix could dote on other people’s kids (say Zoey/Mira’s relatives or Bobby’s kids, if he has any) and maintain their child-free life.

Zoey 💚:

i knw im late!!! trffic sucks!!

im sorry!!!

gf will drop me off there

if thats ok!!!

Rumi sends back just a thumbs up in reaction to Zoey’s last line and leans back in her chair, taking a sip of her coffee as she looks out the cafe’s broad window into the street. It’d be a lie to claim she wasn’t curious about Zoey’s girlfriend — her other girlfriend.

Reminds me of this:

Royal Society reveals best nature pictures of the year

Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of injured and dead wildlife.

When a fireworks display occurs near a wild bird roost, the birds simultaneously explode into the night skies in utter panic, which can lead to huge numbers of deaths, usually because these birds either smash their skulls or break their necks as the result of flying into trees, fences, billboards, houses and other solid objects that they cannot see in the gloom and ensuing chaos.

Many of the startled birds who take flight fly at much higher altitudes and for much longer durations than they’re used to to escape the noise, which is energetically costly and physiologically stressful.

Small birds and bats can be knocked from the air and killed by the sonic shock. In 2010, 40 dead sparrows were discovered dead under a roost in a nature reserve after a local fireworks display. The manager of the reserve witnessed a tawny owl fluttering and convulsing on the ground after a particularly loud explosion. It died shortly after.

In Arkansas in 2010, some 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, common grackles and brown-headed cowbirds suffered blunt-force trauma after colliding with cars, trees and buildings, an ornithologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission would tell National Geographic.

In 2008, federal officials showed that seabirds in the northern California town of Gualala abandoned their nests after a fireworks show, leaving their eggs vulnerable to predators.

Each year in Austin, Texas, the Congress Bridge bats can be seen fleeing the fireworks display en masse on weather radar, and emergences from their roost diminish noticeably in the days following the Fourth.

In 2018, the Galapagos banned the sale and use of pyrotechnics. According to the BBC, conservationists said that fireworks caused elevated heart rates, trembling and anxiety in many animals. 

The threat to wildlife doesn’t stop at startling lights and sounds; fireworks also have the potential of starting wildfires, directly affecting wildlife and destroying essential habitat. Litter from firecrackers, bottle rockets and other explosives can be choking hazards for wildlife and may be toxic if ingested.

So what do you do if you want to watch fireworks responsibly? Experts say municipalities are more likely to be aware of these dangers than private consumers. Their best advice is to stick to the shows put on by professionals and local governments, which tend to follow guidelines put forth by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others, about animal safety.

The National Audubon Society offers similar guidelines: “Commercial fireworks are concentrated in one location, rather than in several locations at once, which is what often happens in neighborhoods. This allows birds to take off and land again in a ‘safer’ location rather than continuing to flee noises coming at them from all directions.”