#(i mean i love it but what a mindfuck 😭)

[wasabi-gumdrop]

erejean ft. Jean Kirschtein’s camera roll

#so i’ve watched all of aot and I don’t even know where to begin #(i mean i love it but what a mindfuck 😭) #all i know is that i love Jean!!! #and Eren is … well he’s Eren #and for whatever insane reason i ship them together #i am not taking any questions at this time #just have this stupid doodle 😔 #erejean #Jean Kirschtein #Eren Jaeger #aot #snk #wasabi doodles

[khaleesiofalicante]

Ok so as far as i understand, in the other timeline, there is no crimson king, lance destroys everything (the stuff lucifer and azazel were talkin about) and then 700 years later, Max (Other max) discovers time travel, comes back to the present timeline and helps kincaid be born in order to… what exactly?

Even if time travel is real, you can’t change the past…You can only manipulate the past to change the future.

Right so other Max can’t change his past, the one in which the prophecy comes true, so now he’s manipulating this past, our current timeline to change the future (and possibly prevent the destruction of everything)?

Also does he know the future of this timeline after he manipulates it? Because i remember him saying something about kincaid and he’s also told david so many times that lance will be fine so it makes sense that he would but i don’t understand how because technically he should know only his 700 years of past, right? He wouldn’t know this future, the one after he changes a couple things (like helping Kincaid be born)- unless he does???

And whyyy was he dreamin of disneyland?? 

idk if any of this makes sense thinking about time travel for too long always makes my head hurt 😭😭 I feel like that one pepe silvia meme 😭

And also what other differences does this timeline have to ours?? I didn’t notice anything except Max having david’s name tattoo on his wrist instead of his chest, the piercing and Victoria not having a baby (though this one was hard to miss) i love the slight mindfuck I had once I realised it was not indeed our timeline

I love a good mind fuck. Don't you?

You seemed to have a good idea of most things so congratulations lmao.

Other Max definitely knows how different the Other Timeline/Future is - because he remembers what it used to be like and when he returns to his own timeline, he notices the changes.

I'll give you a small (inconsequential) spoiler since you've been smarty pants.

In the Other Timeline, Max and David lose the NY institute (if you noticed, Max only is able to save it with Other Max's help). So in the Other Timeline, Mavid move out of the institute into a regular home. But after the day Other Max specifically helps change that event (Preventing moving out of institute), when he goes back to his own timeline, he'll notice his that his mundane home would no longer be there (because he manipulated the past - which then changed his future). If that makes sense to you.

More examples here.

Another thing:

So, in the Other Timeline, we know Lance destroyed Idris and Kincaid didn't exist. But just because Kincaid is born, it doesn't mean Lance won't destroy Idris. So, the day Other Max sold the angel blood to Kyle and returned to the Other Timeline, nothing would've changed - (except maybe Knightstorm bloodline is there or something?). More on this later.

The Disneyland dream was completely random. I couldn't think of anything else lmao. But maybe it was because he's been watching. a lot of cartoons with David because they're excited for the baby (I can see them doing this).

PS - Max has always had the tattoo on his wrist (in lbaf). He got it on his hand because he wanted to remember David when he used magic (his left hand). You can read this scene in Max's short story in LBAF 3. I changed it into a tattoo over the heart in the aus because that made more sense.

#lbaf #lbaf timelines

[beautifulpersonpeach]

BPP,

TWO WORDS - PARK JIMIN!!

Look I know you're still processing what we've seen so far right now but I feel like you're the only one that can explain what it really means when a producer like PDogg says

"Park Jimin will end K-pop in 2023"

That is a statement! I mean no pressure, Jimin because he is definitely up to the task, but for that to be said by PDOGG! Please can you use your eloquence to break down fo us how much of a statement that really is in Kpop (or maybe I'm overrating the significance??)

We're down to hours and counting.

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Ask 2: The new teaser yt short is even more insane than yesterdays?! How is this possiblr?! My hype is so real and my expectations are so high I’m actually scared of beinh disappointed and not liking the full song BPP 😭😭😭 This has never happened to me before ?!! How do I do this how will I cope 😭😭😭 JIMIN WHY ARE UOU SO GOOD AT THIS 😭😭

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Ask 3: Someone sent you this ask ages ago - on why you don’t bias Jimin when he clearly is you find his visuals the best and you love his dance and his voice.

I’m going to ask again - BPP, are you ready to Bias Jimin now? 😄

But on a serious note, that itsy bitsy teaser is Jimin declaring war. The beat, the drums, the dancers stomping and the Jimin battle cry at the end. It’s a declaration that he is coming for us, not to dominate or conquer us (even though that is going to happen), but instead to make us see, to set US free.

Jimin knows what it means to be an idol. He knows how the Kpop stans are; and I don’t mean the internationally fans. No. I mean the locals, Japanese, Thai, Chinese…I mean, those who consume Kpop content way more than international (US/UK) fans do. He knows the restrictions of the industry. He knows how he is expected to be a certain way. He probably knows everything written about him, reads it, has internalised and battled it. Lived with it, cried about it.

Hence, I suspect this Album is a way to respond to those expectations, for those who will seek a deeper meaning/understanding to it. It his his way to Set Us (his fans, the audience, the people who consume Kpop content) free, From the preconceptions and perceptions we have of him, from the ideas we want to shove on him, from the lenses we see him through. He wants to show us his face, so that we can face him.

I suspect this is Jimin drawing his boundaries through his music.

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Ask 4: 1) twitter com/jjimlove1013/status/1635659805653352448,,, Fudge! Park Jimin, you're unreal! Can't stop listening to the teaser. It's SO good. 2) I need to give a standing ovation to bts's commitment to dance and synchronization. The unimaginable amount of bs&t (lol) that must've costed them. The dancers in the teaser were ok but I couldn't help noticing their unsynchronized limbs and angles. Reminded me of the dancers in JK's Dreamers stage. Really, I'm in awe of bts every time.

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Ask 5: Tu sais quoi, tu as toujours eu raison. Personne ne devrait sous estimé Jimin. Et cela se voit très bien durant ces dernières semaines. A dancer today said : the king is coming” et je te jure tout le monde devrait avoir peur.

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Ask 6: Do you know what the date in the mv teaser or other mvs mean?

Like for Set Me Free teaser it says 2023.03.06 but it was released today and the mv won't be released until Friday.

Also, I live in those 32 seconds now.

Thank you.

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Hi @ejassy and Anon(s),

Your link, Anon in ask 4.

You know, I don't do this often, but I am prepared to listen to Set Me Free Pt 2, in two states of being today - sober and not. Not to dull my senses but to split or fracture them. With this release, Jimin deserves to have our full attention, and every inch of my consciousness for the first few listens will be focused on Jimin.

I want to be completely and brutally mindfucked by Park Jimin. I'm expecting maximum damage to whatever ideas I've had of him till now. I need his voice of honey-coated serrated steel, of glass and velvet, to render me incapable of speech for 1.4 hours, at least.

@ejassy, it's out of character for PDogg to fanboy like that. That's all I can say, because it's not like he said something we don't already know.

"Park Jimin will end K-pop in 2023."

We know. He's fucking Jimin. The Park Jimin.

PDogg just lost control of his emotions for a sec. That's it.

And maybe, maybe the man is feeling a bit proud of himself. Proud to have created what already sounds like a masterpiece, with Jimin. Maybe it means he is proud of Jimin, proud to know and have worked with him till this point. Sometimes I think about the first promotional clips of FACE, of Jimin lounging about and working on the melody and lyrics, sometimes with PDogg.

(Killer moment for me is 0:44 btw)

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The above footage includes scenes older than the past year. Which is to say, Jimin has been writing music for a long time. He's had experiences where he "...has internalised and battled it. Lived with it, cried about it." as you say Anon in ask 3. PDogg has been watching this process in Jimin for years, been present for a lot of it, and this album is the result of a relationship they've cultivated for a decade.

I've said before that I rate PDogg as a producer and enjoy his stylistic choices, with some exceptions. He's going to do an exceptional job in FACE, so good in fact that he believes nobody in the industry will beat it for the rest of the year.

And that's a ballsy thing to say. But it's more than doable, because the artist is Jimin.

And so, he might as well have been saying "water is wet."

Anon in ask 6, I don't know what those dates mean. I've seen situations where the date coincides with the release date, but most times that date on screen differs from the release date. I think it's possible for the artist to choose what date shows on screen, but I also think it could be linked to recording or intended distribution dates. But really I have no idea. If any of my followers know please say what it is in the replies.

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Anon in ask 3, this was so well said:

"He knows the restrictions of the industry. He knows how he is expected to be a certain way. He probably knows everything written about him, reads it, has internalised and battled it. Lived with it, cried about it.

Hence, I suspect this Album is a way to respond to those expectations, for those who will seek a deeper meaning/understanding to it. It his his way to Set Us (his fans, the audience, the people who consume Kpop content) free, From the preconceptions and perceptions we have of him, from the ideas we want to shove on him, from the lenses we see him through. He wants to show us his face, so that we can face him.

I suspect this is Jimin drawing his boundaries through his music."

I agree with you. In this album he's going to describe the world through his eyes. Jimin is the Jimin of BTS - the biggest band in the world. And Jimin is nothing if not direct. That he's using a prison - the most severe and most universally understood representation of 'loss of freedom' - as the metaphor in Set Me Free Pt 2, is already the first indication he isn't here to play around. In the last 10 years Jimin has experienced a life, a world of changes, only a handful of people have ever experienced, and they have happened to someone with as interesting a temperament as his. This song and the rest of his album is a sonic expression of what that world looks like to him now.

It will be beautiful.

I so can't wait.

#jimin #park jimin #set me free pt.2 #jimin FACE

[varyagated]

independence day (1996) liveblog part 1

it’s the 4th of july in America which honestly creates mixed feelings for me. I love America, but it doesn’t so much love me, my nearest and dearest, or people like me. My family always watches one movie on the 4th, which is Independence Day (1996).

immediate thoughts on this movie:

I think this is a genuinely good movie that encapsulates 1990s America 

Will Smith, national treasure and publicly polyamorous/open which means a lot to me as a polyam person 

Jeff Goldblum, national treasure and playing a sad divorced environmentalist nerd 

Bill Pullman (hot)

all kinds of representation of women 

there is a golden retriever (lab?? idk)

aliens 

catchy lines you will repeat until you die

I’ve probably watched it 31 times or more in my life

Women rly used to wear makeup like this. It’s a look?!?! God the soft, brown, muted tones. I was taught if you wear a bold eye you can’t wear a bold lip. The hair is quintessential 1990s blowout too. I bet this woman knew exactly what her makeup color “season” was/is

whatever happened to curtains like that?? they only exist now if they are permanently dusty. Also Bill Pullman: still hot. That scratchy voice!

“What are you waiting for...my social security will expire, you’ll still be sitting there.” Jeff Goldblum’s Dad in this 🤣 also nothing more quintessential American than old people playing chess in the park by the NYC skyline

This movie also has another treasure Harvey Fierstein (great voice, voiced Yao in Mulan)

the other thing this movie rly succeeds at is showing all the different ways Americans live, like LA to trailers in rural CA to Washington DC to NYC

*aggressively hits item to fix it****

truly nothing more American than living in a trailer

another mainstay of American culture: unexamined alcoholism

babes that’s my hometown!

pls explain to my millennial ass how this look came back around (center part)

this chick is so hot and powerful. into it. I forgot she’s Jeff Goldblum’s ex (he’s still wearing her ring three years after they broke up)

alien spaceship darkness falling over LA

this kid is way too cute. The child actors who played in this are all grown up which I don’t know why this surprises me since they are only slightly older than me. The President’s daughter is also Mae Whitman which is an inexplicable mindfuck I never noticed

motifs in this movie: dolphins (the bottle of perfume). also lmao at the dialogue in this scene Will Smith asks “it’s an earthquake?” and Vivica A. Fox says “not even a 4 pointer go back to sleep” A++++

i s2g every disaster movie has the statue of liberty defiled or darkened in some way i love american iconography tbh

Will Smith so young in this Vivica A. Fox so pretty. Also motif continued: dolphin earrings

kiddo fighting aliens

motif: dolphins on left

extremely american images

adore how this First Lady looks, she could not look more “90s First Lady” esque

“Once again the LAPD is asking Los Angelinos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.”

Jasmine’s wedding ring 😭

forgot there’s like an accidental gay “confusion” scene played for laughs but the witnessing guy just smiles puts his hands up and walks away...pretty ok tier for DADT era

tbc!!!

#independence day #independence day 1996 #independence day (1996) #varya liveblogs #varya liveblogs independence day #usa! usa! #varya thoughts

[absolutebl]

Why does every relationship in the HIStory series have to be a bit weird?? I just want to watch my BL and be happy that Taiwan has legalised gay marriage. I don’t want to think about the 12-year-age-gap, stepbrothers, VERY DUBIOUS consent relationship that is happening. How hard is it to write an at least semi-healthy relationship? 😭😭 Like, come on, if UWMA can get 90% of the way there without even trying, you can do a little bit of work.

Oh that’s an easy one. 

1. Country Connections

Taiwanese BL owes its narrative heritage to EXACTLY what you would expect: a combination of early Japanese live action yaoi and Chinese BL pre 2016. Dark troubling narratives full of dubious consent (well, rape) and obsession (to the point of kidnapping), also forget stepbrothers, they went straight into incest. Well, not straight. 

You know what I mean. It could be A LOT worse given the history of BL in the two countries most culturally impacting Taiwan. 

Thailand doesn’t have the same heritage. It’s BL comes from its own Y-novels (which were informed by yaoi but not as much as you’d think). It’s actually one of the BL industries most removed from the yaoi roots - and associated tropes. Also it’s produced so many BLs for so long now, it’s shifted away from what weak connections it did have even further. It’s had time and bandwidth to do so. 

Frankly I’m really grateful Taiwan gives us happy endings at all. We could be in for A LOT more HIStory 3: The BL That Shall Not Be Named. By rights we should still be getting darker stuff from them, given how young and small their BL industry is. 

They pretty much did a primitive streak on their BL evolution, and are way ahead of anything we’ve any right to expect. I certainly didn’t anticipate gems like We Best Love and Be Love In House: I Do, not to mention Papa & Daddy in one year. I mean I HOPED for them. But I thought it’d be a couple more years of HIStory 4′esk mindfucks first. 

2. Size & Writer Pool 

Of all the BL industries we talk about, Taiwan is the smallest. They have 22 BLs total. TOTAL. Thailand produced that number LAST YEAR alone. So give ‘em a chance to grow up a bit, they’ll get there. 

Also Taiwan doesn’t adapt from novels or mangas, not much anyway. Because they are TINY, they don’t have a yaoi or y-novel industry to pull from, and they don’t have the money to option from Japan’s vast array of offerings (sadly). So it means story is always going to be their weakest element. An industry low on writer talent falls quickly back into old-fashioned tropes. 

3. Taste 

Taiwan has a queer axe to grind and we love that but they combine it with a very specific story taste that is pretty old school so far as certain tropes are concerned, even as they let go of others under the weight of queer reality and at least our boys end up together 70% of the time.

Japan is likely to go a little dark and a little kinky with their romances (or really dark and/or really kinky). 

Korea is likely to go the purity root with slow burn low heat. 

Thailand is likely to beat the dead horse of strongly heterosexualized seme/uke even into something as enlightened as Lovely Writer. 

It’s many things, but also taste. Like popular music. Or what’s considered fashionable. 

Romance is about taste. Het or BL or truly queer. Cultural taste on screen is a reflection of what we find socially acceptable as masculine and feminine, as gay and straight, as romantic and sexy. In a drama we push those boundaries to make the narrative more exciting and edgy. There’s always going to be a slight test to see “what can we get away with?” Thailand likes to do this with trans characters, evil female archetypes, and punching down humor. Taiwan likes to push taboo (so does Japan), it’s their thing. 

As watchers sometimes we react better or worse to certain tropes, or categories of tropes. I happen to be deeply mad at Devil Judge right now because Korea is doing the pre-Feminist classic “strong & powerful women must be either hyper sexualized seductresses or bad mothers” and in both cases = evil. On the other hand, I don’t mind age gaps or stepbrothers. Age gaps I find kinda hot, to be honest, it’s the only het romance I regularly consume. 

All of which is to say, yeah the HIStory franchise is whackadoddle but ho boy is it hot about it. Or at the very least... to my taste. 

#taiwanese BL #asianbl #asian bl #thaibl #thai bl #History 3: make our days count #History 4: Close to You #HIStory 3: Trapped #the HIStory franchise

[lopez-richter-fangirl]

Final shows 😭

It’s always still bizarre seeing them in person but when Brian said hi as he was going in right after I watched him do the tcb stream that was a mindfuck moment 😂

Clark also said hi in the lobby he was so nice (it feels so stupid to say that because duh but they’re just all so nice 😭😭)

OKAY SO then Denise and Bob were talking to Amy at the merch stand right next to me and I’m not saying Denise was DELIBERATELY matching with her daughter but she was wearing a leopard print shirt knowing full well what Lauren’s costume was 🙃

And it got worse, they were sitting two tables in front of me and then Shashona and Alyssa were sitting at the table right in front and then Nick lang came (🥺) and then June and Amy sat with them too so you can imagine it makes it a lot harder to focus on the show 😂 It was so cute watching them take pics and videos (Denise particularly of her kids ofc 😭 And by that I mean not only Lauren and Joey during priceless but also Lauren on her own 🥺🥺). But Shashona did try to take a picture of Dylan with her flash on lmaoo. And her and Alyssa were both VIBING the whole time it was great

Lauren just was not doing well with wigs lmao, this time her party girl wig almost fell off and god her face was ADORABLE I love her

Then in priceless after Brian mentioned it I couldn’t not notice the thing he had going on with Joey I love those dumbasses. But I really had had enough of the hand on her stomach by that point. I think the high note got the loudest cheer yet though and god it’s just the most incredible thing. Also what was cute was when Dylan and James came through the back Dylan put his hands on Shashona’s shoulders 🥺 What was not cute and was actually awful was that the song made Bob and Denise cry but I’m fine I’m fine I’m fine

So then very last show I got front row 😭 And as I was remembering what parts happened where on the stage I was like oh FUCK I’m gonna be literally *inches* from Lauren so I was almost hyperventilating already lmao

Okay little fun thing every night in AJ’s preshow they’ve had Britney sing christmas or 80s songs replacing the lyrics with a christmas carol word or phrase and having people guess but the very last one last night was GOING BACK TO HOGWARTS and it took me a sec to recognise it and I was NOT the only one so that was very funny we’re bad starkid fans lmao

But yeah the Brian Lauren hug spin happened right in front of me I 😭😭 And you know your girl got video if it’s not on the digi tix and I’ve already watched it an embarrassing amount of times (I really didn’t get much else because I just wanted to enjoy the show but that was a NECESSITY)

And Brian H and Lo have the christmas present interlude (which is fucking hilarious btw but no spoilers even on this spoiler post lol) but that was when she was literally SO close to me in her sparkly party girl outfit and I dieddd, and getting to watch her dance that close too when she always looks like she’s having the time of her life?? 😭

Christmas electricity was really cute though, Lo was grinning directly at Clark and Brian and Joey did a little hand slap (which I think someone mentioned before?) and then Brian and Lo shared a little smile I love them

And priceless god I can’t even begin to describe how fucking in love they looked 😭 It was the closest I’d been since the first night and then I was just trying not to completely lose it but their faces 😭 And the whole number is just the fucking most perfect thing I’ve ever seen and watching them perform live together for the first time since they got engaged really was a dream 😭😭😭 But whatever the fuck they did this time on “this soil is rich” I did not need to see they left it in no doubt what they were going for with that stomach holding. I thiiink he might have forgotten to say honey this time though if so I guess 1/5 isn’t bad 🙄

They were being dumbasses again at curtain call but then 😭 Whoever mentioned us getting tin can fam excluding Corey CURSED me because they called him up on stage and Lo got SO fucking excited literally *jumping* and grabbing at him and hugging him I 😭 And he touched her shoulder as she left stage and then BRIAN stroked her back so all in all best and worst final thing to go out on 😭😭😭

Anyway the sadness hasn’t fully hit me yet and I think it probably will reliving it with the digital ticket next weekend but then I get to experience it with y’all and I can’t wait 🥺