Sorry guys, istg I’ll get back to actually being alive. But. Funniest thing I’ve ever done to an oc was have his friend say ‘actually, I don’t think you’d be down with this plan (mass murder at age 11) you should go home’ and he actually WAS down for mass murder but he’s a prideful 11 y/o so he just. Moves universes and pretends to be an Angelic Prince until he has the most iconic bl story and falls in love w/ a demon prince. He shows up back home at age 19 with his Demon Boyfriend just as his old friend is about to get caught for the Mass Murders and also necromancy. He’s still not normal about not being included in the mass murders, but he’s coping.
Went to the downtown area today and took a bunch of pictures I’m proud of. Only thing that felt like it made sense with the vibe of the day was Still Woozy. One of the artists that helped me break out of my musical rut.
“My heart, oh my heart is stone. Melting just like honeycomb.”
love too see people looking respectfully at the shotput athletes. shotput as a sport having wildly attractive people partake: 100% success rate, scientists are baffled
Gong Lijiao is a 35 year old shotput athlete who won gold in the 2020 olympics in Tokyo (and has three olympic medals in total). She also has a record eight medals at the World Athletics Championships. She has fought super hard for her achievements and is such an amazing athlete overall.
There is a lot of pressure for women to conform to gender roles and to be thin and feminine, even if they are world class athletes. Gong Lijiao was asked in an interview: “You used to be a masculine woman for the sake of shot-put. But moving forward, can you be yourself?”.
Doesn’t this woman look like she IS herself?? She is completely in her element, she looks comfortable and confident. On her social media, she wears comfortable clothing and just seems happy and… HERSELF.
Of course she was caught off guard by that comment in the interview. “If I don’t train later on, then maybe I will lose weight, and then get married and have kids,” she said. “The path one must walk in life.” Basically saying that yea.. if I don’t succeed, I’ll probably be forced to do that and not follow my dreams anymore.
She was pushed further and asked if she had a boyfriend, what she was looking for in a boyfriend and if a male partner had to be able to beat her at arm wrestling.
This is from a new york times article at the time: “One trending post stated that men were simply not good enough to marry Gong, adding: “Discourse about women isn’t limited to marriage and physical appearances. There are also dreams and success.”
Gong responded to the post from her official Weibo account. “This completely says what I’m thinking!” she wrote. “Thank you!”
Chase Jackson appreciating post cause I can never find anyone on tumblr talking about her and I think she looks cool and some are saying she’s the fave to win gold for shotput.
Part of me is looking at this and nodding in accomplishment. The other part thinks it’s cringe. However I love it either way! This is Shotput and I’m putting the context for this under the cut!
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So, Shotput is one of my shipkids from Eternal Ashes! He’s Killer and Dream’s only son, and he’s really only a sudecgaracter to EA, but he’s got a special place in the story too lmao.
Shotput (his real name is Shooting Star but he stopped responding to that name around age 10~11) was best friends with Reset, the main character of EA. Shot was meant to be a sort of bringer of peace, a child between former enemies, and a good influence for everyone around. Of course, Killer still worked for Nightmare and, while he no longer fought Dream directly, he still caused a lot of chaos. His loyalty laid with Nightmare. So, Dream (and by Dream I mean the combined effort of any AU who could babysit + Dream) raised Shotout practically on his own. Shot barely knew Killer, but he looked up to him a lot, because Killer did all the fun things that Dream said were bad. But even while Killer did ‘bad things’ he was still nice.
So, idk, I just thought this would be a fun way to bring my young!Shotput design to life before I went back to doing my Orchid piece (<- Orchid and Shotout canonically were made around the same, so they’re nearly twins, even tho they’re cousins. They hate eachother.). Killer loves Shotput, and later on in the story they get to bond more when Shotout moves to live with Killer, but at the point that this clip is meant to show? He doesn’t get why they (the adults) all seem so angry with Killer all the time! (<- it’s Because Killer, like, killed people. They don’t want the lil guy around him lmao-)
And side note: Shotput has beef with Orchid because not only does Reset (his supposed bff) choose her over him to plan and hang out with, but Killer chose to stay with Night in Shot’s youth, and Killer knows Orchid better than he does Shot. He resents Killer when he’s older, but at this point he’s just Baby!