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growing pains
It’s only been nine years. They’re not in their thirties yet—and won’t be for a while—but it’s worth noting that things are different. Maybe it’s them, maybe it’s the boardwalk, or maybe—well. Logan is a different person than when he was a high schooler. He’s less assured than he was. That could be it. Louise is almost certainly different than she was then, but even now she still hates his guts. Maybe some things don’t change after all.
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Main Episode Outfit Variations
Louise would be into layering, I think. She’s multifaceted, practical, and resourceful. Harsh structure in conjunction with more layered pieces; tendency towards color blocking, but she keeps it sharp. She’d be into casual, pragmatic clothes. If not very structured, she has loose-fitting, draped fabrics like sweatshirts or heavy pants (cargo material, corduroy, denim?)—draped and bulked, but not baggy. Something easy to run and move in; sneakers or combat boots.
Not opposed to dresses. Keeps it compact, simple lines. No frills but does lean into triangle shapes or rectangular blocks. Color blocking => neutrals will take up negative space, highlight colors are accented.
Sticks to main colors (green and pink) for consistency, but relies on neutrals like beige, black, and brown. Less cool-toned than Tina, either spring or autumn coloring. Bright colors are muted with exception of a highlight, usually pink (hat or laces). Green varies from lime to olive to sage to forest, etc. whichever tone is appropriate.
Occasional purple or blue in reference to the snowball fight/sled episode with Logan (he was in blue, Louise was in purple). Louise could lean into purple (imposing, mysterious, feminine but still intimidating) for off-episodes. Not frequent, though; too similar to Tina’s color palette.
Hairstyle options include braids, pigtails, or just loose. I’m growing partial to braids; they feel utilitarian, almost boyish, useful. Could emulate the bunny ears under the cap.
Beanie vs. Baseball Cap. I like the beanie, but to me it lends to this aspect of laziness? Not the worst, but i like the structure and sharpness of the baseball cap. Also obscures the eyes occasionally, or could be worn backwards.
Timeline + Basis
Loosely, 9 years post-canon timeline (ambiguous). Louise is 18, Logan is 25. The age gap is too big for them to feasibly be in high school together, so the second storyboard shot by the lockers is him visiting the high school for some errand (maybe Cynthia needs him to deliver something, maybe he’s got a younger sibling by now?), Louise passes by him in the hallway and doesn’t move to accommodate him (almost slams into his shoulder) and he almost looks back at her but continues on. He recognizes her when he visits the diner, which he later frequents because it’s one of the closest places in town that has good food that’s affordable and keeps him out of the house.
That’s one of the reasons, anyway. He isn’t conscious of it, although Gene picks up on it early on an often gloats to either Louise or Logan, both of whom are baffled or irritated at first. Linda is overly supportive of the idea to the point of humiliation, Bob doesn’t want to think about it and refuses to see it, and Tina writes extremely detailed romance novel drafts about it.
Logan becomes ‘aware’ in the following year, then feels really gross about it and avoids the diner for months until confronted (member of the family is up for debate). Realistically, nothing ‘tangible’ happens between them for three years (kiss? Weird face touch? Jealous outburst? Freudian slip? Something fun, idk [Louise: 22, Logan 29]).
I think Louise regresses at this point, and tries to distance herself like that episode of iCarly when Sam realizes she’s in love with Freddy and literally institutionalizes herself in a mental ward. Very much LALALALALALALALALA I can’t hear you, that didn’t happen. Logan is not feeling great at this point. Heart-to-heart with Bob snaps her out of it.
One more year of slow burn, actual relationship starts (Louise: 23, Logan 30).
Logan gets married, eventually, in his early thirties. Gene is an unintentional omnipresent narrator.
Additional Notes
Keep Logan in primary colors (mostly red or blue), but keep him out of dark neutrals/monotones (no black or charcoal gray), because it’s too heavy of a countermeasure against Louise’s color blocking—too unbalanced.
Decent height difference, although it varies depending on Louise’s shoes (sneakers or platform boots, she’s usually in sneakers in the restaurant). She’s right over his shoulder (?)
Concept comparison of them both around the ages 14-16 are for comparison only. Their ages do not coincide.
Occasional pet names, always mockingly derogatory.
Montage shots of her leaning over the counter while they talk. He used to sit in the booth seats but eventually began sitting at the counter instead. No reason. It means he can talk to her more easily and bother her with less effort.
They’re the kind of couple who publicly argues over the pronunciation of ‘egg’ type beat. Bickering keeps it exciting for them, but they make it a point to apologize in any serious disagreements, usually by the end of the episode. Similar difficulty in admitting when they’re wrong, often attempt to compromise by sharing/taking on blame in some equal capacity. Sometimes this is healthy, sometimes it’s more de-facto.
Mother-in-law beef goes crazy
Werewolf Jesse!! Au made by: @mrcr1ms0n Tysm for helping me on the lighting!! @xxwebbylifexx
Unlikely simultaneous historical events
A poster on Reddit asks: What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have?
lol soooooooooooooo
i ran into @karmaluck and their adorable lil dragon venessa and had to draw herrrrrrrrr
check out the artist! theyre super talented!
There was a JadeRose week and I was sad that literally no one ever draws Rose taller so I made some sketches :)
Artfight 2023
Ran out of time to post to artfight
I cannot believe I made this for a college class and turned it in for an actual grade. #filmschool
Flipped
pairing; Chenle x reader
genre; enemies to lovers au, ‘American high school’ au, angst, fluff
word count; 10.8k
summary; ‘The moment you laid eyes on Zhong Chenle, you had flipped.’ You had known that you were in love with Chenle, your next door neighbor, since you were 7 years old. Chenle wanted nothing to do with you. Until of course, ten years later he starts to realize that perhaps there’s more to you that meets the eye, unluckily just as you began to realize, perhaps Chenle was less than you had chalked him up to be.
warnings; insensitive language regarding illness, death, female reader, heavily inspired by the movie flipped, some scenes are near word for word from the movie, so credits to the movie for those parts, although parts of the main narrative differ, as well as scenes. A large majority of the characters are not similar to their real life counterpart.
tag list; @sunflowerhae @byunbaekby @mikasrecs(if you asked to be on the tag list and i didn’t tag you, i’m very sorry, i was terrible at tracking who was on it cause im an idiot)
a/n; Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon Appetit.
It all began in the Summer before second grade. In Zhong Chenle’s eyes, it was the beginning of a decade of strategic avoidance, awkward encounters, and a lifetime worth of what he deemed to be, discomfort.
For you, it was true love.
The moment you laid eyes on Zhong Chenle, you had flipped. It was something in those eyes, those dazzling brown eyes which bore into you. Or maybe it was something about his smile. There was something about him which made you realize that at 7 years old, you had met your soul mate. His family had just moved into your neighborhood, a long cul-de-sac of identical, modern two-story houses, the majority of which had the same identical clean cut lawns and typical nuclear well off family who owned the house and prided themselves on how their petunias were better than the house across the streets. That was except for yours, of course. Deemed the ‘embarrassment of the neighborhood,’ the yellow paint on your house was flaking off, the grass dry and grey and the fence encasing the yard, which had at one point been white was now a dull grey, not to mention falling apart in some places. This was attributed to the fact that your father simply did not have the time. As a painter, he had to work extra hard to provide for his family, especially considering your mother’s situation.
It was a hot summer’s day, the day Chenle moved in. You could remember the feeling of the sun on your face as you basked in its warmth, the pavement on which you sat almost boiling as the moving van pulled up to the house opposite yours. You had recalled that your father had told you to always be kind and helpful, which is why you had thought it appropriate to skip across the road to the nice looking family and offer a helping hand.
Little did you know, your help was unwanted. Chenle remembered watching the girl skip – skip? As if anyone had done that since kindergarten – from the odd-looking house across the way and when she confidently stated,
“Hi, I’m (Y/N) (Y/L/N). Need any help?” He looked to his father for confirmation that this girl was strange. He noticed the judgmental look which was written on his father’s face as he surveyed the girl with the messy hair and grubby clothes, no doubt from playing in the unpleasant yard which she came from that juxtaposed with their clean, green yard. He recognized the exact moment that his father deemed them better than her, a switch in his face where he knew where she stood on the social ladder. Acting according, he too looked at the girl with disdain.
“There’s some valuable things in those boxes. Don’t touch them.” His father had scolded as you reached for one of the boxes that were stacked on their lawn.
“What about this one?” You suggested, reaching for another one. This was the moment that Chenle had realized that this girl could not take a hint. His father had pushed the box away with his foot before you could even touch it.
“Maybe you should run home? Your moms probably worried about you.” He sneered, staring down his nose on you. Resilient, you stared back.
“My dad knows I’m here.” You had replied simply, before turning to Chenle.
“Want to push one together?” You asked, pointing at one of the heavier ones. Chenle scrunched his face up at you, looking to his father for answers.
“I think your mom wants your help in the house, Chenle.” His dad had replied, not so subtly winking at him, as if to say, ‘escape from the crazy girl while you can.’
He seized the opportunity, turning on his heel and running towards the house, where his mother stood in the doorway, when the most ridiculous thing happened. Not only did (Y/N) (Y/L/N) follow him, but you grabbed his hand.
“Oh, hello! I see you’ve met my son.” His mother had called out, a small smile growing on her face as she observed the sight of the two 7-year olds connected by their hands.
Chenle, having no clue how to escape the situation, did the most mature thing a 7-year-old boy could do. He hid behind his mother.
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It’s not vanity. It’s worship.
[images used as basis can be found when you click on the individual images]
Harry Potter AU where there’s no Voldemort, everything is only an allegory for racism and LGBTQ-phobia
Harry is famous and gets stared at because he was born intersex, and his medical files were published by a careless and enthusiastic doctor; soon after, his parents died in a hate crime at the hands of someone who suspected that they had magically experimented on their child.
The Basilisk petrifications were a row of depressive episodes and attempted suicides due to discrimination:
For example, Colin Creevey tried to kill himself at the ripe age of 11 because he fell in love with Harry Potter and felt incapable of dealing with Muggle hatred, antisemitism, and homophobia all at once, except it’s actually magically impossible to kill oneself on the school grounds
Hermione and Penelope Clearwater (a massive nerd who skipped a grade and thus was only 14 at the time) had sort of a secret relationship. They were too young to do anything but hold hands, but they had a lot of study dates in the library. Still, Penny was too afraid to come out and break up her straight facade with Percy (and admit that she was dating a second-grader, probably); so after a few miserable weeks of secrecy and paranoia, Hermione ended it because she knew she deserved someone who would be proud to be seen with her.
Justin Finch-Fletchley? Light-skinned, muggleborn black boy who felt like he belonged nowhere
Nearly headless Nick? Gay and closeted since 1456 and feels like a total failure for it
Gilderoy Lockhart, super bi but flaunting his attraction to women to avoid being outed, privately suffered with the students and tried to console them; but the public attention on the school with regards to LGBT issues that followed the crisis scared him too much, so he resigned.
At the end of the year, Dumbledore held an inspiring speech about solidarity and tolerance.
Rumors began spreading that something was going on at Hogwarts and solidified over the years; someone at the Ministry of Magic brought up Dumbledore’s homosexuality, which had been low-key common knowledge for decades, and spread accusations of impropriety and/or “turning kids gay”. He was thus removed as headmaster and replaced with ultra conservative Dolores Umbridge, a believer in conversion therapy.
In response to this, queer students formed Dumbledore’s Army, an LGBT+ Alliance firmly defying Umbridge’s reign with civil disobedience. Harry, already famous for not fitting heteronormative standards, became the - at first unwilling - head of the organization; other poster children included the couple Angelina Johnson and Katie Bell, Padma Patil, and Cedric Diggory. Stealthy support flowed to the group from lesbian staff members Madam Hooch and Madam Pomfrey. At first the focus of the group was clearly on activism, but more and more, debates among students ensued on general critique of society.
Inspired by the growing politization among the students and only a few weeks after the creation of the DA, the Magical Ethnic Minorities Student Alliance formed, uniting Muggle-born and -descended students with students of color. From the beginning, ties were close with the DA, due to great overlap in members and even leaders. Members included (mixed race) Hermione Granger, Angelina Johnson, Cho Chang, Parvati and Padma Patil, Dean Thomas, and the Creevey brothers, with Rubeus Hagrid as their excited weekly host and honorary member.
At first, Slytherin students of color formed their own, pureblood-only group; however, as the group started meeting in PoC-only spaces, they quickly found that most of them had long felt alienated from dominant Slytherin doctrine of “pure-bloodedness”. So, the Slytherins of Color, led by Blaise Zabini, eventually merged with MEMSA, demonstrating solidarity with muggle-descended students, and thus bringing about a long-needed revolution of Slytherin microsociety which eventually put an end to the pure-blood rule.
After Fred and George Weasley dropped out of school to pursue entrepreneurship, their awestruck sister Ginny huddled together with her friends Luna and Neville and came up with a business plan for their own. Combining Ginny’s talent for Charms, Neville’s Herbology knowledge, and Luna’s ingenuity, the three began producing potions and accessories helpful to minority students: Magical binders that didn’t hurt, gender-swapping polyjoice variants, prototypes of hormone treatment, … (In the process of this, aroace gender-neutral Luna and asexual Neville became best buddies; they later got married and stayed together for life.)
Meanwhile, in the trio’s personal lives, Harry found himself objectified by Cho Chang, who was only “curious” about his intersexuality and backed off in repulsion once things got too serious between them. Hurt and bewildered, he channeled his feelings into his activism and really owned his position as leader, which in turn greatly advanced his personal growth.
Ron on the other hand never got over his childhood crush on Hermione, which he deemed to be entirely hopeless since everyone including him and Harry considered Hermione a lesbian; after all, ever since the Penelope incident she had been very outspoken on sapphic love and sexuality, and was also an esteemed leader of both the DA and MEMSA (where she also finally found a platform for Elf Rights). Though often frustrated and dejected, Ron never faltered in his support of his friends and campaigned extensively for the DA despite being the proverbial Straight White Cis Male Ally and, once again, gaining very little recognition for his work.
During Harry’s sixth year, he discovered the Half Blood Prince’s potions book, written by a trans-male student who had, among other things, fervently worked on developing potions for his own transition. Harry passed these on to his by-then-girlfriend Ginny, and she combined them with their earlier work to build perfectly painless and convincing sex-change potions. The Half Blood Prince, whose identity Harry never revealed even after he learned it, became a celebrated hero among queer students; in fact, they even raised a statue of him in the Ministry of Magic once their generation of students had filtered into government positions and formed a thriving Department for Minorities.
It would take until their seventh year for Hermione to come to terms with her bisexuality, come out to the DA, and reveal her feelings for him to an overjoyed Ron, who lost no time in asking her to marry him since they had “practically been together for six years”, as he put it. She said yes and never regretted it.
Anoter major long-term achievement of MEMSA, next to the revolution of House Slytherin, was the eventual fulfilment of their demands for non-European magical traditions to be included in the Hogwarts curriculum; the year after Harry left the school, a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher was appointed: A Haitian woman trained in voodoo.
All those students who are known in canon to pursue careers as Aurors actually became activists for minority rights.
I propose this as the new bi flag.
For reasons why I think we need a new one, click here.
Specifically, I like that this design highlights diversity among bisexuals, abolishes the 50/50 standard, and focuses on actual bisexuals (as traditionally signified by the purple area of Michael Page’s design) rather than giving 80% of the space to homosexuals and straights ppl, while still preserving some contiuity with the cherished old design.
I took the outer two colors from this post by @dogsbeesandhalloween (please alert me if you mind that I used them; if you do I will take this post down and come up with slightly different hues).
Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
Just now seeing u posted this on tumblr too bdnwnfknska
Y'know what I never post my art anymore so here's this from a week ago
Microsoft windows core type beat
Me and the besties @cosmic-chronologer @shandycandy278 @onlyplatonicirl
Original post by @beckaboi
Monster of the Week OCs, Tarry (blonde one) is mine, Quinn (green one) belongs to @tiredandangry