*Blink Twice If You're Being Held At Gunpont*

Bdubss Hermit a day may day 7!!

Nahh the light made the moss look blue

SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Pride - Grian

Gluttony - Scar

Wrath - Joel

Envy - Cleo

Sloth - Scott

Lust - Pearl

Greed - Martyn

Pride: Pride fits him for a few reasons, watcher lore and general character. By common watcher lore iterations he is an escapee of the watcher realm. His refusal to go with their schemes gives him this role. Unrelated to the watcher lore, he has never been one to go down without a fight. His 1v4 in secret life, the killing of bdubs when he and Scar betrayed him etc. He is a fighter, and he won't give up even when the odds are against him.

Gluttony: Scar has always been known for his terrible trades, seeming to never have enough. He's always opting for more and more, not caring what it'll take to get it. Even if it means screwing over his “friends”.

Wrath: In reference to my Life Series Curses post; his being the Bloodbath Curse; it fits his slow descent to madness and thirst for destruction as each season progresses.

Envy: Someone overlooked, being dubbed the “Fake Winner” by many. Envious of those considered as “real” winners.

Sloth: I considered pride for Scott but I think it fits Martyn more and sloth can be affiliated with the fact that he won by not doing what he was supposed to do as the boogeyman.

Lust: Each season, Pearl has been heartbroken or betrayed (I think I don't quite remember but I'm quite sure Scarlet Witch was born from her divorce from Scott) so I think it fits(?).

Greed: Greed for Martyn fits I think cause he's always thirsty for a win, for something to happen. He is careful with what he has and is a very tricky character.

Alternatives:

I actually thought of wrath for Martyn because of his naturally chaotic personality but I thought Pride suited him more because he refuses to go down without a fight. A proper one.

I thought that lust would suit scar a bit because of what he said when he won secret life, as well as his relationship with grian (desert duo I miss you pls come back TvT) but in general terms I think gluttony suits his overall character more.

Grian was very tricky since he could fit in with and wrath as well cause he can be petty when he wants to i.e. killing of Jimmy in wild life but settled on pride cause it's more general.

Pride can work with Martyn as well cause I think it would make sense for his win in limited life as he refused to go with the fair fist fight in favor of ensuring himself the win. But I think it suits grian more idk. I kinda just put him in greed cause I like which else to give him TvT.

Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!

even more popstars for tonight's lineup : life series winners edition

see the opening performance (griande and scarpenter) here

bonus scott under the cut (warning, a lot of skin... and me losing my sanity)

someone requested sabrina scottpenter... here you go (theres so much skin im sorry)

im ashamed to say how long i spent thinking about the nicknames. just have this mess if a scratch page . im going insane i think

*taps mic* hello i am once again here to discuss the subversion of gendered tropes in the apothecary diaries when it comes to jinshi and maomaos growing romantic relationship and I'm surprised I didn't say this before bc its one of the most obvious examples but

can we talk about the way Jinshi just like... follows Maomao's lead? essentially. like not to say he doesn't take initiative or take charge of things but like.... can we talk about how he observes her (before she starts observing him too is what I'm referring to) and it's crucial to how he falls in love with her so much so that it's the one constant you see in official art; him watching her as shes inspecting plants, him literally following behind her. he learns from her not only about plants and poisons and medicine but about how to navigate the world outside of palace walls yk or how ppl outside the palace (esp women) live

and its so distinct bc usually in these historical dramas its always the WOMEN who learn from men. like its always the women who live sheltered lives and learn from men about the "real world"

jinshi is not afraid to be guided by her or learn from her, or even recognize that she may know more than him in certain situations, he values her intelligence even tho he's not only a man but a man of royal birth like literally who is doing it like him for real for real

At first I said "Tommyinnit is the flower husbands' long lost lovechild" as a JOKE.

But guys.

I don't think It's a joke anymore.

It's growing

Chapter 15

Happy valentine's day!! :9

The first few song additions, by series:

- Last To Fall by STARSET for Last Life

- Young Love by NIGHTCAP for Double Life

- Down To Zero by Downplay for Limited Life

- The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy for Limited Life

- A Matter Of Time by Foo Fighters for Limited Life

- The Pretender by Foo Fighters for Secret Life

- Slo Mo by Vinyl Theatre for Wild Life

- Wild Wild Life by Gideon for Wild Life

- DOA by Foo Fighters for The Life Series

- TRIALS by STARSET for The Life Series

- The One Who Laughs Last by Downplay for The Life Series

- How Did You Love by Shinedown for The Life Series

- State of My Head by Shinedown for The Life Series

- Awaken by Breaking Benjamin for The Life Series

OH MY GOSHH AAA

We've had a quality upgrade! (More of that to come now that I can focus on digital art again) Please feel free to leave comments or ask about the future of the story!