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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>It’s a pleasure to meet you, I’m sure. My name is Alex, I’m a nineteen-year-old quirkyalone lesbian and cosplayer. I play Vexen, but I also play Riku and Shadow Link. If you follow this blog, be prepared to see a lot of Kingdom Hearts, Mother, Quantum Leap, and web comics. Speaking of webcomics, my userpic is Janet from an amazing webcomic called Gunnerkrigg Court. Look it up!</description><title>Time Travel and Ghosts</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @nikanaiko)</generator><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>nnnnnnno stop</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f48a2239fb76c0ac75ec9e0f8a2fff77/tumblr_mokoh4bCwK1qedj8ko1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;nnnnnnno stop&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53257802924</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53257802924</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:35:56 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I don&amp;#8217;t know what&amp;#8217;s wrong with my brain.
I started out the day with crying over the shit...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t know what&amp;#8217;s wrong with my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started out the day with crying over the shit my mom did to me (which is, unfortunately, more common than you&amp;#8217;d think)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And at some point, my brain was like &amp;#8220;Hey, I know you&amp;#8217;re sad about your mom and your past and the fact that it basically affects your every waking thought in the present, but you know what&amp;#8217;s even sadder?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Mickey Mouse is &lt;em&gt;dead&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And since that moment, I&amp;#8217;ve just been sitting here watching Mickey Mouse cartoons and having feels about the late, great Wayne Allwine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started off with the Three Musketeers, which I&amp;#8217;ve been wanting to see since I first played Dream Drop Distance. Oh, god, when Mickey and Minnie had that &amp;#8220;love at first sight&amp;#8221; moment, I just felt this wave of sympathy for Russi Taylor wash over me because &lt;em&gt;she had that and now her Mickey is gone.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now I&amp;#8217;m just watching shorts with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8230; Damn it, I miss him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/4ebb335c400cf0e374459eeca3db7182/tumblr_inline_mokhisimMz1qz4rgp.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;LONG LIVE THE KING&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53245298265</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53245298265</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:28:25 -0400</pubDate><category>mickey mouse</category><category>wayne allwine</category><category>i'm sorry</category><category>i'm just</category><category>i miss him more than any fan should ever miss a celebrity</category><category>should i tag this as kingdom hearts?</category><category>probably not</category></item><item><title>I don&amp;#8217;t think I&amp;#8217;ll ever stop missing Wayne Allwine.
Just &amp;#8230; Every time I see 90s...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t think I&amp;#8217;ll ever stop missing Wayne Allwine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just &amp;#8230; Every time I see 90s era Mickey Mouse cartoons or early Kingdom Hearts games, I remember how amazing he was and I remember how much I miss that, and every time I see newer Kingdom Hearts games, I get sad because the voice actor isn&amp;#8217;t Wayne Allwine anymore because he can&amp;#8217;t be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the only celebrity who&amp;#8217;s died who I actively miss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mickey Mouse should be immortal.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53228104749</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53228104749</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:23:39 -0400</pubDate><category>disney</category><category>mickey mouse</category><category>wayne allwine</category><category>kingdom hearts</category></item><item><title>I think part of the reason schoolwork stresses me out so much is the fact that the entirety of high...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;I think part of the reason schoolwork stresses me out so much is the fact that the entirety of high school was spent with a strict father constantly reminding me how terrible my life would be if I didn&amp;#8217;t focus on my education and an abusive mother constantly pressuring me to drop out because I&amp;#8217;d be a failure anyway so I might as well be more productive and get a full-time job instead of wasting my time with education.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53225169182</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53225169182</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:43:42 -0400</pubDate><category>personal</category><category>tw:abuse</category><category>tw:emotional abuse</category></item><item><title>Light and dark reside within every heart.: People that say Soriku isn't canon</title><description>&lt;a href="http://lightanddarkkh.tumblr.com/post/53161934206/people-that-say-soriku-isnt-canon"&gt;Light and dark reside within every heart.: People that say Soriku isn't canon&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lightanddarkkh.tumblr.com/post/53161934206/people-that-say-soriku-isnt-canon"&gt;lightanddarkkh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If soriku isn’t canon then neither is sokai, sorry to break it to you. Every single fanservice moment for sokai has happened for soriku.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Hugged&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Cried&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- “My important person”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- “I like you”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You want to know why?? Because technically Neither is canon because they are all &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FRIENDS.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(With lots…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53164280622</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53164280622</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:49:30 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>impersisfluff:

らくがき詰め

NO WHY IS THIS SO CUTE</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e3101c60f8efd233b028b6cca5356e5c/tumblr_mo04dnNk8F1rfbawgo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://impersisfluff.tumblr.com/post/52349250926"&gt;impersisfluff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&amp;illust_id=36194090"&gt;らくがき詰め&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NO WHY IS THIS SO CUTE&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53146202851</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53146202851</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:33:21 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>luckstergal:

circus-princess:

niaro:

mechanicbird:

rats808:

...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/9841493" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://luckstergal.tumblr.com/post/53091557430/circus-princess-niaro-mechanicbird"&gt;luckstergal&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://circus-princess.tumblr.com/post/53064540322/niaro-mechanicbird-rats808-a-snake"&gt;circus-princess&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://niaro.tumblr.com/post/52900601975"&gt;niaro&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mechanicbird.tumblr.com/post/52895583771/rats808-a-snake-escaping-from-its-meant-to"&gt;mechanicbird&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://rats808.tumblr.com/post/52841318935"&gt;rats808&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a snake escaping from it’s meant to stay in&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i lost it at that little flop when it hits the ground&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok, this was funnier than it has any right to be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;omg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;just falls and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thund&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t know why, but I was expecting a little snake and then BOA&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53144785725</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53144785725</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:13:30 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Parents: be yourself&#13;</title><description>Parents:  be yourself&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Me:  -is self-&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Parents: wait no</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53144170336</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/53144170336</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:04:53 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>protobutt:

robots who aspire to be human (´◠ω◠`)
robots who are totally cool with being their fab...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://protobutt.tumblr.com/post/51698782218/robots-who-aspire-to-be-human-robots-who"&gt;protobutt&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots who aspire to be human &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(´◠ω◠`)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots who are totally cool with being their fab robot selves &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(◠ω◠✿)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots who look totally human &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(◡ω◡✿)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots who don’t look human at all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(◠△◠✿)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots who love and love intensely &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(◕ω◕✿)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots who don’t even know how to feelings &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(⊙ω⊙✿)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;robots &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(◡‿◡✿)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ～『✧~*ROBOTS*~✧』&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Except Boxbot. Boxbot sucks.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52956397566</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52956397566</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:08:06 -0400</pubDate><category>gunnerkrigg court</category><category>no one but gunnerkrigg court fans are going to understand</category><category>inside joke</category></item><item><title>
i-understandwichreplied to yourpost:And so the routine continues. Nightmare about my&amp;#8230;
-hug-...</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="hide_overflow"&gt;&lt;a class="username" href="http://i-understandwich.tumblr.com/"&gt;i-understandwich&lt;/a&gt;replied to your&lt;a class="notification_target" href="http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52951802768/and-so-the-routine-continues-nightmare-about-my"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="colon"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52951802768/and-so-the-routine-continues-nightmare-about-my"&gt;And so the routine continues. Nightmare about my&amp;#8230;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-hug- -rubs your back- &amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t like crying first thing in the morning and it happens so often CAM HELP&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52955044455</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52955044455</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:45:27 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>And so the routine continues. Nightmare about my mother, wake up, remember dream, start thinking...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;And so the routine continues. Nightmare about my mother, wake up, remember dream, start thinking about abuse, think about how the abuse has affected me, start crying, try to stop, get up, get breakfast &amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52951802768</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52951802768</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:49:54 -0400</pubDate><category>personal</category></item><item><title>I think the reason &amp;#8230; that I hate that my father doesn&amp;#8217;t call me by the name I&amp;#8217;ve...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;I think the reason &amp;#8230; that I hate that my father doesn&amp;#8217;t call me by the name I&amp;#8217;ve used for the past thirteen years is because &amp;#8220;Whitney&amp;#8221; is this imaginary friend he made up in his head. Whitney likes swimming and green apples and orange juice and is a Christian and isn&amp;#8217;t afraid of dogs and doesn&amp;#8217;t choke on the word &amp;#8220;alcohol.&amp;#8221; Alex hates to swim. Apples hurt her teeth and don&amp;#8217;t satisfy any hunger. Orange juice is fine every once in a while, but not her first choice. She&amp;#8217;s agnostic, will scream if suddenly faced with a dog, and is seriously methyphobic to the point where being in a room where people are drinking is more than enough to make her start crying.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whitney loves to read. Alex reads sometimes when she&amp;#8217;s in the mood, but often has trouble finding a book that suits her interests.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alex likes radishes. Whitney hates them. Whitney likes hot chocolate at Starbucks and Alex thinks that the grainy sediment at the bottom of the cup is so disgusting that it&amp;#8217;s not worth it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whitney likes to watch sports. Alex would rather die.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whitney enjoys quality time with her extended family. Alex doesn&amp;#8217;t even know most of their names.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whitney&amp;#8217;s good with kids and will probably have at least three someday. Alex has never once been interested in the idea of having children and has zero maternal instinct.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It feels like I&amp;#8217;m Sam in Quantum Leap. I know I&amp;#8217;m Sam. Al knows I&amp;#8217;m Sam. Gushie knows I&amp;#8217;m Sam. Tina and Donna and that little girl and that psychic and that single mother trying to get a medical degree&lt;em&gt; all know I&amp;#8217;m Sam&lt;/em&gt;. But everyone else around me seems to think that I&amp;#8217;m someone that I&amp;#8217;m not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tom Stratton is not my name. I don&amp;#8217;t know how to fly a plane. I don&amp;#8217;t know the people I work with. What I do know is how to stop a pregnancy, but no one believes me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve leaped into someone named Whitney and I&amp;#8217;ve been stuck in this leap for thirteen years. I just want it to end.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52899522879</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52899522879</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:25:24 -0400</pubDate><category>personal</category><category>quantum leap</category></item><item><title>My father gave me a judgmental look because he only learned today that I don&amp;#8217;t like to swim....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;My father gave me a judgmental look because he only learned today that I don&amp;#8217;t like to swim. It was the first thing I lost enjoyment in when my depression became a noticeable problem and I never got it back. I can&amp;#8217;t figure out what I used to enjoy about it, so when I&amp;#8217;m forced to go in water, I just stand in one spot because I&amp;#8217;m not sure what else to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Imagine a girl who really loves shopping for shoes and does it every chance she gets. Now imagine that girl losing her legs. Shoe shopping is obviously not going to give her any joy anymore because she has lost the part of her that made shoe shopping fun. Saying &amp;#8220;You used to love shoe shopping&amp;#8221; isn&amp;#8217;t going to change anything, and forcing that person to go shoe shopping is only going to depress her.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#8217;s me with swimming. I used to love swimming. I lived at an apartment with a pool and went out to it as often as I could. I specifically remember the last time I had fun in the water, too. I was floating around in the pool at night singing Beatles songs. The next time I tried to go swimming, I put on my bathing suit, got in the water, and something was just &amp;#8230; gone. I felt cold and I just gripped onto the ladder and stared at the bottom. I just thought it was because I had made some cool friends and they had to go back home (which was states away) and I was lonely and I thought the enjoyment would come back. It never did. I came back for weeks. I tried diving, swimming to the bottom of the pool, jumping, splashing, doing laps &amp;#8230; Nothing. I was reunited with those friends years later and thought maybe swimming with them would bring the enjoyment back. It didn&amp;#8217;t. Whatever I had inside me that enjoyed swimming was amputated when I was twelve, and nothing will ever bring it back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So stop fucking trying to make me swim. No matter how many times you try to make me do it, it&amp;#8217;s not going to change anything. I&amp;#8217;m still going to feel like crying the minute you put me in the water.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52897345565</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52897345565</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:54:49 -0400</pubDate><category>personal</category><category>depression</category></item><item><title>walpurgisswag:

Guess what kids, Tumblr is a website full of lots of incredibly toxic people who...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://walpurgisswag.tumblr.com/post/46057818295"&gt;walpurgisswag&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guess what kids, Tumblr is a website full of lots of incredibly toxic people who glorify mental illness and fetishize homosexuality, not to mention the fact that death threats get thrown around here every time anyone says an opinion on anything, whether or not its popular. We did it kids. We climbed this whole mountain of human garbage wow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52888251948</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52888251948</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:50:04 -0400</pubDate><category>actually participated in a conversation about how people on tumblr fetishize homosexuality just now</category><category>with a fellow gay person</category><category>it is offensive and please stop</category></item><item><title>Sometimes, I really love my own hair. I just curl my braid up a little and bury my face in it and...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I really love my own hair. I just curl my braid up a little and bury my face in it and it&amp;#8217;s smooth and soft and I&amp;#8217;m just aw yiss&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52885690512</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52885690512</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:14:02 -0400</pubDate><category>personal</category><category>no one fucking cares</category><category>hair</category></item><item><title>therothwoman:

feminspire:

alyssakorea:

Tumbling over the past...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/41025a64e3b436ae03863c0a7566d9c1/tumblr_mnw7hdhPfg1r715rxo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a31165f38447a2b4708dcb4c70b3f4d9/tumblr_mnw7hdhPfg1r715rxo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5113f735ff0f82a2ec7ae670b7b1e095/tumblr_mnw7hdhPfg1r715rxo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://therothwoman.tumblr.com/post/52189544266/feminspire-alyssakorea-tumbling-over-the"&gt;therothwoman&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://feminspire.tumblr.com/post/52185000790/alyssakorea-tumbling-over-the-past-year-and-a"&gt;feminspire&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://alyssakorea.tumblr.com/post/52177171059/tumbling-over-the-past-year-and-a-half-has-made-me"&gt;alyssakorea&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is awesome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That first one is a problem for me all the goddamn time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As someone who has recently begun to make OCs based off of the Keyblades from Kingdom Hearts, I actually think a lot about these questions while I’m designing my female characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I only have … four female characters so far, I think?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oblivion’s design involves very skimpy clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ultima is very … shall we say lithe? … She’s thin as a rail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rumbling Rose is a stereotypical “female warrior.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But, regardless of the fact that I’m only drawing these characters, I have tried to flesh them out and show their personalities in their designs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ultima, for example? She’s thin, yes. She’s also completely bald and has extremely pale skin. She’s very feminine and graceful, but intimidating as hell. I’d be lying if I said her design was completely devoid of inspiration from the way Kida looks near the end of Disney’s Atlantis. She is very serious and doesn’t care about the way she looks at all. She’s far from loyal (owing to the fact that she’s been in every single game and usable by most playable characters) and considers her only purpose to do her job until she’s handed over to someone else.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And Rumbling Rose? Yes, she’s bulky and would probably challenge you to wrestle her within minutes of meeting her, but she also loves maintaining a feminine appearance. She likes the way she looks in make-up and a nice hair style, but she won’t let the possibility of messing it up stop her from getting into a fight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is Lea’s Keyblade a very flat character? Yes. Probably because we’ve only seen that Keyblade for a few seconds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And have I made a chubby female character? Not yet. But that doesn’t mean I won’t. I’m just drawing what comes to mind when I look at the keyblades. (Hence why Rumbling Rose is more buff. HAVE YOU SEEN THAT KEYBLADE?) Maybe Counterpoint would make a good chubby character. Or Sweet Memories. Or Gullwing. I don’t know yet. I’ll think about it when I get there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aaaaand ohlookatthatistartedramblingagain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANYWAY all I’m trying to say is that there’s nothing wrong with making characters wear skimpy clothes or have big breasts or whatever because, surprise! People with that body type who would want to dress like that exist! Just … Don’t forget about other body types and styles, too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That also goes for men. Less muscle-bound Adonises, more chubby guys! More scrawny guys! &lt;em&gt;And not for comic relief!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52883649671</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52883649671</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:44:05 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>death-by-lulz:

future-robin:
This is honestly one of my...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8cea3744c77b3a9a9ed653b74683c660/tumblr_mo3rnyoxb71qb5gkjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/13d0421f530802792957105f49f0beaa/tumblr_mo3rnyoxb71qb5gkjo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4ff67f16a16b5a421c79332a08256e56/tumblr_mo3rnyoxb71qb5gkjo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76ff686ff8a501c85216a5e5e2c868f2/tumblr_mo3rnyoxb71qb5gkjo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8d9153b3733da4c5e70dd0401b2bfe0f/tumblr_mo3rnyoxb71qb5gkjo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://death-by-lulz.tumblr.com/post/52874225976/future-robin-this-is-honestly-one-of-my-favorite"&gt;death-by-lulz&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://future-robin.tumblr.com/post/52762173512/this-is-honestly-one-of-my-favorite-spongebob"&gt;future-robin&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is honestly one of my favorite Spongebob moments. Can we take a minute to realize how clever the writing for this show used to be? &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PATRICK’S HEAD&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52881427612</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52881427612</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:10:14 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Depressing Riku Headcanon (With gifs. Because I put too much effort into this.)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;We all know that Riku went on a little soul-searching journey at the end of Chain of Memories.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/906e8dc07851dd96d50a13368213dab9/tumblr_inline_mocehnYABP1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He had declined Namine&amp;#8217;s offer, the one to let him sacrifice his memories of Castle Oblivion in exchange for the ability to keep his darkness locked away indefinitely, possibly forever.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/25452a034f177a47a15816dc6608edc6/tumblr_inline_moceioty7k1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He had a little more acceptance of his darkness at the end of Chain of Memories, but not enough control to make him feel confident that Ansem would never crawl out of his heart again. He went on a journey with Mickey to try to gain that control.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/4ea7b50e4f9783ff8584109bb6e7eacc/tumblr_inline_mocejiUN4v1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/47f3339f6d2b89dcaeba6bc3b39ed5fc/tumblr_inline_mocek4NxP71qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/c8f81eb1966fa8c3bce2cd86d5ce81fa/tumblr_inline_mocel2Bjin1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You know, searching for the &amp;#8220;road to dawn.&amp;#8221; One of the most memorable lines from Chain of Memories, if not the most memorable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/2a746b813945da6265d1b6e338500f1b/tumblr_inline_mocemk6kRv1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Something else that we know is that Riku returned before he accomplished what he set out to do. In fact, he was worse off than when he left, the only thing keeping his darkness from transforming his body being a blindfold over his eyes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/1650f66f9764e8bb1787520909c2cd8e/tumblr_inline_moceruKGuH1qz4rgp.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So the question here is &amp;#8230; why? Why did Riku return so quickly? It&amp;#8217;s possible that he was summoned once Namine ran into a dead end with trying to restore Sora&amp;#8217;s memories.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, there is something that tends to slip the minds of many fans about this period in the series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sora wasn&amp;#8217;t the only one who lost memories. Everyone he forgot also forgot him. That includes Riku.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s possible that the memories of Sora lost were comparable to the memories others lost of Sora. Because of that, it would make sense that Riku would remember Sora the most, second to Namine, because Sora remembered Riku the most. (Tends to be hard to forget someone when his clone is popping up all over the place and waving his face in your, ah, face.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But his memories were still affected. There&amp;#8217;s a line in Kingdom Hearts 2 where he&amp;#8217;s talking to DiZ about that very subject. &lt;span&gt;(&amp;#8220;Are the holes in your memories starting to fill in?&amp;#8221; &amp;#8220;Yes. The haze is clearing.&amp;#8221;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We don&amp;#8217;t know how much Riku&amp;#8217;s memories were affected. They could have gotten a little hazy, a few memories disappearing completely while the rest were just fuzzy &amp;#8230; Or he could have lost everything but the most basic emotions. He could remember that he is very devoted to Sora, but he&amp;#8217;s losing more and more reasons to explain that devotion as time passes. So it&amp;#8217;s entirely possible Riku returns to Sora&amp;#8217;s pod because he&amp;#8217;s afraid he&amp;#8217;ll forgot where Sora&amp;#8217;s pod &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;, or, worse, who &lt;em&gt;Sora&lt;/em&gt; is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR,&lt;/strong&gt; the way I see it, the reason Riku returns to Sora&amp;#8217;s pod so early on can be one of four reasons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;1) DiZ and Namine contact him somehow to ask for help retrieving Sora&amp;#8217;s missing memories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;2) Riku realizes that his darkness is starting to get to control and returns to the only place he isn&amp;#8217;t afraid to show his face because he&amp;#8217;s realized that his attempts are futile and he just wants a haven of sorts to return to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;3) Riku gets impatient and returns to see how close Sora is to being released.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;4) Riku realizes that his memories of Sora are slipping away and he returns to Sora as soon as he can because he&amp;#8217;s afraid that he&amp;#8217;ll lose Sora for good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52881308749</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52881308749</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:08:23 -0400</pubDate><category>riku</category><category>sora</category><category>namine</category><category>diz</category><category>358/2 days</category><category>kingdom hearts</category><category>soriku</category></item><item><title>So, I have a friend who actually calls me &amp;#8220;Dad,&amp;#8221; and every time he does it, I just think...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I have a friend who actually calls me &amp;#8220;Dad,&amp;#8221; and every time he does it, I just think of that scene from Fairly Oddparents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Hey, Dad!&amp;#8221; &amp;#8220;Well, that&amp;#8217;s my nickname, Stranger. My real name is *HONK HOOONK* but everyone calls me Dad.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52870200821</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52870200821</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:00:32 -0400</pubDate><category>fairly oddparents</category><category>fairly odd parents</category><category>father time</category><category>dad turner</category></item><item><title>Cute scene that precedes EVERYTHING GOING TO SHIT.
also these...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5e0ef12adb8e5347223cba2bbf82e91c/tumblr_mnube2m0FD1rtfqu0o1_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5d652bf051571d913a8311ee7dc5cfb0/tumblr_mnube2m0FD1rtfqu0o2_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bfacb893ff71e66e246a376be212e254/tumblr_mnube2m0FD1rtfqu0o3_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d35afa46272be5db26c232e1b9dd95b/tumblr_mnube2m0FD1rtfqu0o4_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5473f9efd2acbd335065e059a6587cec/tumblr_mnube2m0FD1rtfqu0o5_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0189e87f2ade141e9dab32ff486df7db/tumblr_mnube2m0FD1rtfqu0o6_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cute scene that precedes EVERYTHING GOING TO SHIT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;also these characters really like touching each others faces ive noticed&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52821322760</link><guid>http://nikanaiko.tumblr.com/post/52821322760</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:40:01 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
