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listerbirdloml · 13 days

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this was probably from ages ago but some fun asks for you; favorite lister headcannons? [I]

OOH idk man i’m shit at head cannons ALSO THIS WAS SAT IN MY DRAFTS FOR AGES IM SO SORRY I THOUGHT I POSTED IT

- well in my mind i always read him with a northern english accent and i’m not sure why. i know he’s from kent like Rowan + Jimmy but he just gives off northern vibes idk. and after learning that his dads scottish i can also see him using lots of Scottish slang terms.

- i think he’s a slag for a bit of pop too. Britney, Ariana, Taylor, Reneé, you name it. he gets a bit embarrassed though so he turns off his AirBuds when he wants to listen to girly pop music. he has the widest music taste out of the ark, so his Spotify wrapped is always mental. he posts them every year and not once has the same song appeared in his top listened to

- ik he’s not like blonde blonde but i think his natural hair is a lot darker but he’s been dying it blonder since he first met Jimmy and Rowan. when the ark are on hiatus he lets it grow out to his natural colour for a bit.

- he tried to grow a stache one time but Rowan shaved it while he slept. Also he didn’t know how to shave when he first met Jimmy and Rowan, so Pierro taught him. Pierro also taught him how to tie a real tie rather than use a clip on one.

- Joan LOVED lister. she would always fuss over him when he would come over. When he’d come round he would help her in the garden, but really he was terrible and Joan would always have to fix his mistakes. when he told her about how he and his mum would listen to albums together when he was little, she began showing him her collection of old records from when she was a teen/young adult. when she died she left Lister a few of his favourites. Lister keeps them hidden at all times so when he was hosting parties there was no chance they’d get damaged. after they stopped having so many people over Lister kept them displayed in the living room.

- i think that before he and Jimmy got together he had healthy and fun relationship with someone unrelated. it’s not anything ridiculously serious but it helps him see what he should realistically be looking for and what he deserves. it’s not like he’s using the person though, and he actually really likes them. they eventually end things amicably though, and stay good friends.

- it says on the WIKI article alice wrote for him that he has three half siblings. as far as i can think there’s no canon information about them other than that, so i like to HC that they are all from his dads second marriage and they don’t talk much since Lister hasn’t been to visit his dad in years. the ages are;

1.) Lister (19-20)

2.) a sister who’s like 17ish, she’s super embarrassed about the whole ark thing and is reluctant to rebuild a relationship with him again when he reaches out to her post IWBFT, because she remembers how he used to constantly fight with their dad when he’d come over for christmas / two weeks in the summer holidays. when they do start to reconnect and get closer she helps him bond with their dad too. (maybe she’s called Maya?)

3.) a younger brother who’s 13ish and a total TWAT. they look really similar and he’s just like how Lister was in school but he’s hilarious and really admires Lister. somehow he’s stupid smart though, even if he’s class clown. i think he reaches out to Lister when he’s still in the hospital after the incident. i also think it would be funny if the younger brother’s celebrity crush was Jimmy but his image of jimmy is completely shattered when he meets him properly. (i call him Brodie in my head)

4.) his youngest sister who’s like 7 who barely remembers lister but once they get closer she has him wrapped around her little finger. he almost bought her a horse once but Jimmy and Rowan had to remind him that a 7 year old who lives in a city centre can not logistically look after a whole horse. (i think her names Eilidh)

- the ark move from the flat into a house just outside london and he makes sure they all have a room so they can visit whenever they want to.

- after getting to know them better, he gets really close with Angel and Juliet. the three of them and Bliss have “girls” nights in the arks flat. when Listers hair grows they teach him how to pleat it. he gets really good and when he starts seeing his half siblings again he pleats his sisters hair for them)

sorry idk man i yapped a bit 🤷‍♀️

#this was so much longer than i intended it to be #but you brought this horse to the water and by god was she thirsty #answering asks #i was born for this #iwbft #osemanverse #alice oseman #the ark #jimmy kaga ricci #lister bird #rowan omondi #bliss lai #juliet schwartz #angel rahimi

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juyeonszn · 5 months

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Moots you would ship tbz members with as besties or soulmates? + associate them with a tbz and tell why with a genre (hope it’s not too much. It’s okay if you don’t do it!)

OKAY ANON. i’m here. i know this is long overdue. but i’m here. i’m reusing the tropes i had the last time if that’s okay! also im assuming u want me to associate them with tbz songs!! <3

- okay first, we have miss lovely @winterchimez + sangyeon. im associating them with mutual pining and candles bc idk it’s christmas-y and i’m imagining the confession scene while it’s snowing and they’re both crying a little and it’s just so cute and straight from a movie

- next is the whole academic rivals to lovers sitch with @sungbeam and changmin with whiplash!!!! bc they give each other whiplash!!!! literally with the back and forth!!!

- ok now we have @itsbeeble and hyunjae’s enemies to lovers/one bed trope moment and i’m associating them with russian roulette idk IDK don’t ask any questions

- next bff @zzoguri and sunwoo with their childhood friends to lovers and ALL ABOUT YOU BC THAT SONG SCREAMS CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO LOVERS TO ME AND I LITERALLY LISTENED TO IT 50 TIMES LAST WEEK i’m not joking btw like my airbuds was like hey girl this was ur #1 song of the week 😍

- ok miss rina @kumoseiza u and jacob are totally the bf extremely down bad for his gf trope yk? like she fell first he fell harder type beat. also i pick timeless as ur song bc idk i hear the melody and i think of u

- @mosviqu & eric with the brothers best friend trope and fire eyes??? thoughts?? bc i’m like imagining it’s the summer. it’s night time. ur at the beach with all ur friends. fireworks are going off. and eric is only staring at U. bc he’s Down Bad.

- @heemingyu and chanhee being best friends to lover with espionage as their song bc they’re in love with each other undercover yk?? LOVE LIKE AN ESPIONAGEEEE ITS LIKE AN ESPIONAGE GIRLLLLL

- ANNDDDDD @littleroaes and juyeon’s strangers to lovers moment with blah blah as the song bc 1) it’s fits the little scenario i had given and 2) i will never not associate blah blah with dora 😭

#✉️ — asks #♠️ — user.anon #🖤 — moots

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toriisasimp · 21 days

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my bestie literally texted me and said “egon would be proud 😌” after i was the #1 steamer of she blinded me with science on the Airbuds (social music tracking) app 💀 HE RLLY DID BLIND ME WITH HIS SCIENCE

#egon spengler #ghostbusters #ghostbusters afterlife #ghostbusters frozen empire #peter venkman #winston zeddemore #ray stantz #she blinded me with science #egon my beloved

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knightyoomyoui · 1 year

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The 1% Of Chances | TWICE Jeongyeon x Male Reader Fanfic: CHAPTER 5

After a couple of months of hiatus due to my phone's unfortunate malfunction, we're back on the track! Finally got my whole plot outline for this book recovered, so might as well work ahead already for a new update!

The next day, your departure with the girls and the managing staff quite took a hold when Dahyun suddenly shouted just as when everyone are about to walk out of the dorm.

"W-wait!"

You who is standing near to Dahyun was the first one to face yourself at her who is scrambling through her bag.

"Is there a problem, Dahyunnie?", you asked her with concern.

"M-my customized airbuds. I can't find it here.", Dahyun said as she still kept on digging down through her belongings inside.

"Wait for us guys!", you shouted for the rest who are on their way to the elevator.

"Why, what happened?", one of our senior and higher ups in our team who is handling Tzuyu named Tendo asked you curiously. He was the one also to press the door open.

"Dahyun lost her earbuds.", he said as you looked back on Dahyun who is now flicking her head back and forth trying to guess where could it have been. The girls heard what you said.

"Weren't you using it yesterday, unnie?", Tzuyu said; approaching the confused Dahyun. She can see what Dahyun has been doing yesterday since after all, they are dormmates.

"N-no, I was using my earphone rather."

"Are you gonna use that today, unnie? Just use your earphones instead.", one of her another dormmate and her "bro" Chaeyoung suggested.

"I will but you know that earbuds are special to me guys right? It's our customized design imprinted on there plus I made it for our Japan merch.", Dahyun explained the real downside of losing that object.

The girls nodded and "oh"-ed in guilt, knowing that they forgot to think of that part.

"Have you perhaps... remember where did you last placed those?", you asked Dahyun.

"N-no...", she shook her head.

"Guys!!! We have to go now. Time is running!", Sadness reaalarmed everyone, pointing down on her watch. "Cmon, Dahyunnie. You can find it later, okay? Today's a heavy schedule for all of you girls.", she persuaded.

They began entering the elevator by group. You looked at Dahyun's frown and felt bad for this girl. It can be replaced by buying again but the thought that it wasn't broken yet and only missing is just too waste to hear if it'll end up just being let go without even trying something for it to recover.

That positive mindset had you enlightened with another idea to help Dahyun.

At the very last second, you looked at them and shouted.

"Go ahead, I'll just take Dahyun myself there!"

"Wait, what? YN-"

"JUST GO! WE'LL TRY TO FIND IT FIRST!", you urged them to proceed as you interrupted Sadness's protest. The elevator doors closed, leaving only you and Dahyun alone.

"Oppa, you didn't have to do that.", she looks at you worriedly.

"Don't bother, Dahyunnie. I don't want you to go to work like this, so I'm helping you to find it but we'll be really quick okay?", you assured her. Dahyun stared at you for more until she gave up with a nod.

"Okay."

You smiled in relief. "Okay. Well, I just think of... where are the places you've been at the whole day yesterday?"

Dahyun shuffles and revisited all of what she did yesterday then started enumerating it. "Well yesterday it was my day-off. I just took a rest here in the house. Did laundry, took bath, read some books, skin care, practice dancing then I played piano after-"

"Wait stop.", you gestured her by showing her your palm. "Let's try going in your private studio."

Dahyun didn't spoke and instead followed you from behind as you entered the dorm then went straight to the room.

You looked around and you didn't had to duck on some narrow spaces and search for it through some closed containers when you definitely had your eyes locked on it.

Walking forward, you stepped in front of the piano. There, you smiled at the sight of her two earbuds unmovable on top of her piano.

Dahyun saw it too and gasped, quickly taking the things in her hand.

"Oh my God, finally.", she sighed and opened her hand, showing her customized cloud designed earbuds of hers. "H-how did you know oppa?!"

You chuckled and shrugged. "It's just simple anyway. I tried to analyze what would you like be if your earbuds would be involved in those areas you listed along what what you did there."

"You don't usually play music while you're doing chores as what Jeongyeon told me, so I crossed out the laundry. If you'll gonna listen to music while taking a bath then ofcourse you will be using speakers rather so no bathroom either.", you elaborated to Dahyun as you count it with your fingers.

"Skin care, nah. Reading a book? Definitely a no. You don't like being disturbed, Chaeng told me that she was once had you annoyed when she just barged in on your bedroom without granting permission and you were literally reading a book at that time. That left me with the last option- that private studio you girls had. Using your earbuds there can be applied while you're dancing and playing a piano there so, yeah."

Dahyun just blinked her enlargened eyes unbelievably as you finished your entire narration of review through all of what she just shared to you from your key question.

You laughed at the stunned reaction of Dahyun clearly obvious at the impression you made at the idol.

"I-Wha-How... DID THEY REALLY-", Dahyun stuttered, unable to process clearly how did you managed to take all of those interesting infos about her.

"HAHAHAHAHAHHA yeah. Those were part of the mini stories they shared with me in our get along together times whenever they're not doing something and we'll just end up talking randomly about everything.", you laughed.

"I really thought I was the one who told you about that... or even you've seen me through all of that.", Dahyun touched her chest in surprise. "You sounded like a stalker for a moment there, oppa."

"Yeah I can tell.", you sniffled another laugh. "But you can ask the girls, especially Chae and Jeongie. They'll make you know."

Dahyun nodded. "Well, I don't need to do that anymore. I know you ain't like that oppa. But I hope you really don't because as our manager and our friend, I trust you already. Even the girls do too.", she said to you hopefully.

"If that so, then I really don't have intention to spy on you girls and end up breaking into your privacy. You girls forgot one more thing from me. I don't just have trust also for you girls: I bring respect."

You and Dahyun exchanged smiles at each other before you gave a pat on her shoulder. "Let's go, they must be in the middle of the road now. We have to follow them right away.", you said to her as you make your way out of the dorm again with her.

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Arriving in JYP Entertainment building, you and Dahyun entered the Michael Jackson dance practice room where the members are doing their respective things while waiting for one of their member who thankfully had shortened their wait as they saw her thanking you again for the drive, greeting their choreographer and placing her bag onto the couch.

As they began their schedule by doing warm-ups, you decided to stroll around the building with the managing staff; Tendo, Sadness, Pinky and the rest of the crew.

Returning back to the room after hours of allowing them to maintain focus on rehearsing their dance choreography for their upcoming lead track of their new album, Jihyo was just in time to announce the break on the girls.

Jeongyeon, who is one of the only girls who walked out together with Nayeon, Jihyo, Dahyun and Chaeyoung as she told you to join her receiving her ordered food from online by meeting the delivery guy outside of the building.

As you and her reached the lobby, Jeongyeon was still busy tracking the location of the rider on her phone when you saw the familiar idol entering the area and walking at the direction towards you and Jeongyeon with all smiles alongside with his own manager.

"Jeongyeon-ah!", he called Jeongyeon after recognizing her quickly when she looked at you and told you that the rider finally arrived based on the notification popped out on the screen.

"Oh! Young K!", she waved her hand gracefully. Your face shuddered in awkwardness and distrought, having yourself inserted again in the midst of interaction between these two that were giving you strange feelings difficult to get rid of.

"Good morning! What's your sched today? Are the girls with you right now or just you?", he asked. Seems like they about to brought theirselves into their small talk against without bothering to notice your presence around near them so you just did what you usually do in respect and shame for them: stay still and shut up.

"Good morning! A-ahh... yeah. They're with me today. We're having our break as of now from our dance practice.", Jeongyeon answered with a grin. "How about you, oppa?"

"Well, I have to meet JYP nim today.", he answered. That made you look at him for a second because it kinda suprised you atleast. "I have a work... proposed by him that I definitely agreed on.", he smiled.

"Can you tell me about it?"

"An ongoing collab song. I'm going to be composing with him.", he proudly replied.

"Woahhh! Really?! Congrats, oppa! Can't wait to hear your song with JYP oppa!", Jeongyeom clapped celebratingly. It earned a soft laughter from her bestfriend... you weren't sure if that's the correct term to call him for Jeongyeon yet.

"I have to go now, Jeongie. PD nim might cancel our project if I make him mad for being late.", he joked. "Bye!"

"Bye oppa!" The two high fived. You just had to watched them do that without any rights to disturb or prevent them from talking happily with each other as your heart sunk inches by inches beneath seeing your crush acting suspiciously again with someone very close to her.

Meanwhile, two people were keeping an eye on you from the distance as they hid on the wall of the hallway leading to the right.

As they ended their convo, you directed Jeongyeon on the glass wall of the entranceway where the reflection of the Seoul exterior can be seen, including the motor that is parked on the side where it is owned by what it seems to be a delivery rider checking his phone to keep in touch with the customer.

"Jeong, I think that's yours.", you pointed assumingly to it. She followed where you're pertaining to and agreed after. "Looks like it is."

You were right. You exited the building with Jeongyeon and approached the rider where it was confirmed that the idol's ordered food is there with him. She claimed and paid it after, repaying gratitude towards one another before you helped her carry it and enter the place again with her.

Later in the night, the girls successfully finished arranging their entire choreo from begginning through the end as it was declared by their instructor.

"Good job everyone! Come back here at 10AM tomorrow okay? We will attempt to polish and familarize the moves now. Rest well ladies!", the instructor announced to the exhausted girls sitting and lying down on the wooden floor, now satisfied and relieved that the draining practice is over.

We all clapped in respect for the girls hardwork again which they returned with an appreciation and gratitude too along with a flashy, lively smile like the humble and wholehearted people they are.

As you opened my tablet and checked out their completed schedule today before you reviewed their upcoming ones tomorrow and days following by, Jeongyeon came to your side and brought her bag there to fix it on your side.

You looked at her and she smiled back, which definitely caused an uncontrollable flush and embarassment on your behalf, too weak and instable to contain her lovely looks.

"Oppa, please join me tomorrow at the mall after we left from practice.", she requested while shutting close her bag's zipper.

"Sure. Going shopping?", you gladly accepted accompanying her as if that's not a part of your job as her personal manager.

She nodded in response.

Standing up from your seat, you brought her back for assistance as you let her be with the girls while you joined your fellow managers walking down through the ground floor to reach the exit and go to the parking lot where your car and the company's van are kept.

During the ride, you heard something from them that won your interest; discreetly listening at the words they're mumbling at the back while you paused your task at your tablet.

"Agh, I'm so hungry. I'm craving for some bulgogi right now.", it was Jeongyeon expression her eagerness to taste some delicious famous Korean dish.

"Same unnie, should we order?", Tzuyu agreed and suggested.

"We'll just cook, I guess. I want it to have a homecooked taste also.", Jeongyeon declined.

You smirked as these poor girls gave you an idea to do for them tonight.

Reaching their apartment building, after a not so long drive; you escorted them to enter at Nayeon and Momo's dorm which you assumed that they are indeed serious to be the ones cooking their meal for tonight.

It was left abandoned though when you excused yourself to your roommates Tendo, Heungson and Yeongsu that you'll be back in the dorm for longer.

In their surprise, you entered their room too; and Jeongyeon and Momo who are about to wear their own aprons left their arms raised in their air as they watch you head to the kitchen with them.

"O-oppa, what are you still doing here?", Momo asked curiously. You just smiled and voluntarily removed the lace of their apron on their grasp before you hanged it back to where it was placed, leaving Jeongyeon, Momo and the rest clueless.

"Take a rest. I'll be the one cooking for tonight.", you smiled nicely at them.

Momo and Jeongyeon got shocked. "Thank you oppa!!!", they both went to you and hugged you on your side while the girls cheered and shared their own thank yous at you.

"Oppa, could you please do-"

"Beef bulgogi, right?", you interrupted Jeongyeon. She was left speechless and only able to nod with a fluttered state as she tightlipped her stucked words instead.

"Now go and rest. You girls shouldn't be doing this, all of you are tired enough already. Save some energy for tomorrow. Let me take control of the kitchen."

The girls all responded with a "Yes!" before they went on to rest in their own ways, watching TV, scrolling down on their phone, lay down on the couch and the carpeted floor as they let you move around in the kitchen, starting to work on cooking the preferred dinner of this night mostly by Jeongyeon.

You weren't even aware that your preoccupied self preparing the ingredients prevented you to notice repeated admiring glances of Jeongyeon's sparkling eyes to you. It had made her see you like truly a perfect boyfriend/ husband material from her sight.

Minutes have passed, you ordered them to gather around the table. The owners of the dorm, Nayeon and Momo helped you prepare the plates, spoons, forks and glass to be distributed for each of everyone present.

You transferred the bulgogi from the pan to three bowls before placing them on the tray and deliver it to the table, now presented in front of the girls who were left in awe at how mouth-watering its look and smell.

"Beef bulgogi, everyone.", you clapped your hands once; confidently showed your own cooked meal to the girls.

The girls cheered happily like little kids. It warmed your heart and soul as they sounded like they were your nine precious little daughters finally given granted by their loving father to cook their favorite food.

"Thank you so much, oppa!" The girls chanted again enthusiastically at you, except for one of them who sent her own in a unique manner.

Jeongyeon, who was next to you from the right, grabbed your wrist and pulled it a little closer to her, so that she can cuddle your arm and show you her melting smile and adorable greeting at you.

"Y-you're welcome, Jeongie.", you patted her on the head, earning a giggle from her which you huffed and sighed at how your heart must be beating so damn fast right now all solely because of this woman.

The rest who are witnessing this did a teaseful coughs and other sounds to portray that there's something interesting going on here. "What was that, Yoo Beep Beep huh?", Jihyo playfully asked which was effective to mnake Jeongyeon startle. "Yah I just hugged him because I really liked that she cooked us the food I've been craving since earlier. What are you thinking again, Hyomas?", Jeongyeon lets out her typical pouty duck lips. You glared at them and shook your head before defending your position. "Stop it, I know those antics girls."

"Somebody's defensive.", Sana winked and smirked at you which caused a laughter from all of you. Yes, even you who are getting teamed up here just to get linked closer with Jeongyeon as a tandem.

"If you do, can you tell us what do we mean by that?", Nayeon also smirked as she challenged you. Oh no, you got what she's trying to do. You quickly swapped it away and switched it with a different topic to escape. "Don't mind them oppa, they just love to misintepret and make fun of us again.", Jeongyeon encourages you to disregard and move on.

"Aish, let's just pray to get started. The food's about to be cold now.", you acted annoyed as you heard them still trying to contain their laughs. Jeongyeon on the other hand, was blushing like a tomato while find it hilarious on your part that you're getting targeted by these bunch of crackheads again.

After finishing the dinner, Dahyun and Chaeyoung who loves this specific household chore ever since back from their Twice Private Life rookie days ; are the ones who volunteered to wash the dishes.

Some of them began returning back to their respective rooms. You bid goodbye and goodnights at them for a sweet and peaceful sleep before also doing the same, opening the door and putting one foot out of the doorframe...

... not until in your utter astonishment, a pair of hands from the unknown groped your shoulders from behind and pulled you with force; which avoided you to leave the room for good.

#twicejeongyeon #twicejeongyeonfanfic #twicejeongyeonau #twicejeongyeonmalereader #twicejeongyeonmreader #twice #twicefanfic #twiceau #jeongyeon #twicexreader #kpopfanfic #kpopau #the1%ofchances

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mellotronmkll · 15 days

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Im mad asf cos airbuds hasn't popped up and told me I'm in the top 1% of 10cc listeners but I know I Must be like I Must

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sakiye · 1 month

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just got into the top 1% of sade listeners on airbuds after listening to one song of hers for a week. listened to the song for the first time literally last week

#sruthi's silly sentences #literally crazy #anywayyyy HIS EYES ARE LIKE ANGELS BUT HIS HEART IS... COOOOOOLD

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buticanfixhernoreallyican · 7 months

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the #1 way to get your feelings hurt and overthinking thoughts proven correctly is checking someone’s airbuds activity

#“oh they haven’t been answering their texts but i bet they’re listening to music”#and i was right!

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selescope · 8 months

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hello mel. you said you wanted something to talk about so

1. What is your favorite vegetable?

2. Are you scared of any bugs?

3. Do you prefer headphones or earbuds?

4. Have you seen the movie Airbud?

5. Least favorite season?

6. Favorite season of television?

7. Thoughts on cacti?

8. Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?

9. Favorite type of tea?

10. Have you ever jumped off a diving board?

Thank you and i eagerly await your responses!! !

oh goodness this is plenty of things to talk about!

1. I think my all time favorite vegetable is broccoli, but it has to be cooked in some way. I don’t like raw broccoli very much at all.

2. I’m scared of quite a few bugs actually! I don’t really like spiders, or mosquitos. Or anything too large or spindly.

3. Earbuds all the way. Headphones can give me headaches sometimes, and earbuds make me feel like the music is inside of my head. Which I really like.

4. I think I have? I know I’ve seen movies from the series. I think I’ve seen it in school at least once.

5. This is a hard one!! I like each season for individual and very differing reasons, but my overall least favorite is probably spring. I get horrible horrible allergies in the spring.

6. I don’t really watch TV because I drop shows SO easily. It’s something I wish I was better at but I really just can’t stick with series.

7. I like cacti!! There’s a craft kit in my room right now where I can make a little cactus out of yarn and pom poms. Maybe I’ll have to do that soon.

8. I have not but I would really like to someday.

9. My absolute favorite kind of tea was this vanilla rose black tea that I had a tea shop once. I liked it so much that I bought some to have at home. I have sadly finished that tea but I hope to get more at some point!

10. I have lots of times! I used to really like swimming. I don’t as much anymore.

#thanks anon!#mailbox

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hotdxealsusa · 1 year

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HONOR EARBUDS 3 PRO

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luxshine · 2 years

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Moon Knight Primer, Part 8

Moon Knight (2014) #1-17

Prologue, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII

Ok, so… I am going to do the whole vol. 7, misnamed the Ellis arc because Warren Ellis only wrote the first six issues, which have art by Declan Shalvey, in one part because, writer issues or not, the art is gorgeous and I want to give you guys as many examples as I can from them.

THIS is the actual run who gave us both Mr. Knight and Dissected Bird Head Khonshu dressed smart and every artist here did their A game when it came to working with both. THAT alone? Makes this run worth it although I can’t recommend buying the first six issues, the ones that Ellis actually wrote, because I don’t want that man getting more money from royalties.

Hell, I kinda hate he created Mr. Knight, because I adore Mr. Knight but Ellis? Ellis is trash.

And I don’t mean this as a writer. In fact, and credit where credit is due? His six issues are amazingly good and have very little problematic stuff. Unfortunately? The man is a sexual predator, who hurt and coerced and manipulated a lot of women, having sexual relationships with some of them at the same time without the other’s knowledge or consent. He helped ruin the career of one of the strongest woman in comics I know, a woman who has fought for women in comics her whole career, and emotionally abused and gaslighted her (and many others) while pretending to be her friend. More than 100 women have come forward with their accusations, and , as always, most of the industry went “but he’s so talented!”. So yeah. Despite the fact that I do work in the comic book industry professionally, despite the fact that I want to work in the big leagues? I can’t not point out that Warren Ellis is a creep and shouldn’t be working anymore in any capacity with strong properties. Wanna read these six issues of Moon Knight, because Death of the Author and all that? Pirate the shit out of them. And then donate the equivalent of the cover price to the HERO initiative, or to the women who were hurt by Ellis. THAT is what Mr. Knight would do. (Also, as a parenthesis, while yes, Ellis gave Moon Knight this new identity? The writers who followed gave him a lot more depth so here, yeah, we can do Death of the Author. Hell, Oscar Isaac gave more depth to Mr. Knight by the mere choice of making sure we knew that it’s ALWAYS Steven the one who fronts when the guys are wearing the white dress suit, something that is not clear in the comics)

Ok. Sorry for interrupting the primer with that. But it was kind of important. Because I seriously don’t want to give the wrong impression about what kind of person Ellis is. I mean, he did some good writing, but he is a horrible person… and he was a bit ableist as a writer too, only not on the “every single person in the room calls Marc crazy” variety.

So the first thing we have to address, and the first thing Ellis addressed, was exactly how much the general public knows about Moon Knight’s mental issues. And his choice was to make every single person in the Marvel Universe aware that Moon Knight, who is an illegal vigilante, also has DiD. Well, “is rumored to have DiD”.

Because the video Echo took in the Bendis run? Well, it went public and everyone saw him yelling at invisible people.

Now, I know that in OUR world seeing someone talk to someone who is not there? Sign that they may have mental health issues and need help…. Unless we notice they have airbuds on, in which case, they’re just having a very heated phone conversation. But in the Marvel Universe? Invisible Woman is a world famous superhero, model and adventurer! And an Avenger! Not only that, it is general knowledge that there are mutants who can turn invisible, who can turn other people invisible, who can make illusions that are not recorded, oh, and that every army in the world has cloaking technology that rivals Sue Richard’s powers.

What I mean to say is… Moon Knight yelling at an Invisible Captain America should not make people jump to “Oh, he hears voices”. But they do.

And that’s how this series start, with everyone and their dog knowing that Moon Knight is the “Crazy” superhero, while there’s a new consultant in town, the elegant Mr. Knight, whom on occasion can be called by Det. Flint to help in cases.

Absolutely NO ONE who sees Mr. Knight is fooled into thinking that is not Moon Knight in a fancy dress, but as Det. Flint points out: He’d be forced to arrest Moon Knight if he saw him, but he’s not seeing Moon Knight, he’s talking with his new friend Mr. Knight, so no one has to get arrested and the crimes can get solved.

Here we see a very different Mr. Knight from the one we met back in Secret Avengers. He’s a lot more talkative, more methodical, and very strategic. His first scene? He could’ve been Sherlock, from the BBC series, the way he analyzed every clue. Where he got that skill, and who is fronting at the time? We have no idea but he’s hot. He also doesn’t like to fight. While he faces the issue villain? He makes sure to not throw a single punch in his direction, just avoiding getting hit until his actual plan can work out. Later writers will undo this a bit, but I personally like the idea that Mr. Knight just doesn’t like to get his hands dirty (and this makes him the perfect Super Hero identity for Steven, the one who doesn’t like the violence of their job, even when in the comics? It’s almost always Marc who fronts as Mr. Knight). This changes later, as soon as issue 4 when Mr. Knight does punch the villain, but it seems that he reserves that violence to really horrible people (The guy whom he punched was a man who killed a homeless man accidentally as part of a scientific research… then wrapped him up and buried him in the building where the research was made just to hide the problem. So yeah, I’d have punched them too). At some point he drops at helicopter to a bad guy, but the bad guy survives. Also, he has a very dry sense of humor, which I love.

This run also introduces the Black with Silver Plate Armor suit, the one we see in the Sailor Moon Memes. And the… uh… Ghost hunting Special Khonshu Armor which… you have to see to believe. I put it in the “Good” part just because I am 100% sure that it helped inspire the cool details of the TV show suit.

But then… the bad.

While The guys seem to be more stable than ever? Ellis made the puzzling choice to declare, through a psychologist character who is treating Marc officially, that Marc doesn’t have DiD. No, you see, he is brain damaged. How Warren Ellis thinks this is a better thing, or that one cancels the other? I dunno. In any case, the doctor declares that Marc was indeed revived by Khonshu, who is NOT a God, but an Other dimensional creature (and again I wonder why Odin, Zeus and co are allowed to be Gods but the Egyptian Pantheon have to be Other Dimensional creatures and the only reason I can come up is not very patient with the writers) , but that in order to keep their connection, Khonshu had to made changes to his brain and now Marc reflects Khonshu’s personality, which happens to have four aspects: The Pathfinder, the Embracer, Defender and Watcher of the Overnight Travelers AND the “Secret” aspect that is “the one who lives on hearts” which is Ellis’s excuse for the blood thirsty Fake-shu we have been tolerating for years. (By the way, Oxford comma man. The first time I read that? I thought that the four aspects were Pathfinder, Embracer, Defender AND then Watcher of the Overnight travelers, which makes SENSE, but then adding the evil one, which again, damn it Ellis, way to play the stereotype, would make FIVE aspects, not four. Then I checked Wikipedia, and apparently, I wasn’t the only one who thought the four aspects were Pathfinder, Embracer, Defender, and Watcher, as that’s how they’re listed and “the one who lives on hearts” is completely ignored. As it should be. But again, then Ellis fails at math because those are five!). On the other hand, we will learn that the doctor is full of shit so, I feel free to ignore “the one who lives on hearts” as soon as we’re done with this run. Khonshu is Egyptian, not Aztec -and I am Mexican, I can make this joke. The doctor claims that Marc’s brain was “colonized” by an alien entity and that is what created the Alters, which prompts Marc to later hallucinate/see Khonshu calling him “my son” for the first time. It also explains that the cycles we’ve seen between when Marc fronts, when Steven fronts, when Jake fronts and when Moon Knight goes off his rocker in the violence scale is because of the cycles of the Moon and Khonshu’s own personality, not really because of DiD, since the “alters” are the result of the human brain adapting to the changes made to it. Of course, Lemire’s run will destroy this idea, but I find it… kinda offensive in ways I don’t have the words to express. Any Systems reading this may feel different, and are welcome to correct me or add to it in the replies or reblogs.

Marc also has no support system anymore. No Crawley, no Gena, no Ray, no Marlene, no Frenchie. In fact, al lof his vehicles are now self-driven, including the Spktor-licenced limo, which I am sure makes Jake cry inside because we know Jake likes to drive. His only living contacts are the occasional conversation with Det. Flint, which is pretty much just shop talk, and his doctor. In fact, in the last Ellis’ penned issue we see a cop (who is stupidly trying to become the new Black Spectre because he feels offended that Moon Knight is more respected than him), we do see Marlene, now Fontaine as she went back AGAIN to her ex-husband and refuses to talk about Marc, and Frenchie, whose restaurant is back in track, and is now married to Rob so not having to deal with gay bashings every five issues DID wonders to his life, but Frenchie is back in the “Everyone who goes near Marc gets hurt”. He also posits the idea that Marc can’t actually die, that he was made immortal by Khonshu. And Marc’s self esteem is so,so low? That he thinks that the reason why he’s good as a hero Is because he knows no one can love him. In fact, the lack of support extends to Steven and Jake, as they NEVER talk to Marc during the Ellis penned issues. They just glare at him in judgment.

There’s also the insinuation that Khonshu KEEPS getting control of the body whenever he feels like it, because Marc realizes he has bought like, a TON of Egyptian relics, including Mummies down at his mansion/apartment/wherever he’s living at the time, and he DOESN’T remember buying any of those. And then Khonshu (Who I think may be finally real Khonshu, as he’s no longer in the blood train) replies with “perhaps you weren’t supposed to remember” which… not good.

This is it for the six Ellis issues. The rest of the series followed his steps, and had some consultation from him, but it was not written by him, so, in order to keep some semblance of who did what? I will separate now into the next writer, from issues 7 to 12 with Brian Woods. He did some damage to Marc, but nothing that was too bad. Issues 7 to 12 also have some of the best art, as it’s Greg Smallwood (Whom we later will see in the amazing Lemire run) so yeah, at least it looks very, very, very pretty.

So where Ellis was building off a story through pretty much one shots, Wood goes all out with a single story that is actually seeded in the Ellis run. See, the Psychiatrist that Marc is seeing, Dr. Elisa Warsame, tends to be drawn as an incredibly creepy woman when she talks to Marc. This comes to an end when Marc stops an assassin from killing a former mercenary and general from a country named Akima, and discovers that the one who paid said assassin was the Doctor, who, in a very weird trip through both Marc and hers mindscape, explains that she was a poor girl in one of the countries the man, General Lor had destroyed, and she wanted vengeance for her slain parents. She insists that Khonshu would want that, while Marc argues that killing the man 20 years later, AFTER he had done a lot to repent and beg absolution for his sins was not vengeance but pity revenge and murder. And then she reveals that she wasn’t telling him her story to convince Marc, but to convince Khonshu to get a new avatar, namely, HER, and she manifests the, still really ridiculous, Dream Armor, leaving Marc alone in his mind. And when I mean alone in his mind? I mean it. Not only Khonshu is gone, but so are Steven and Jake, proving the doctor’s theory that they were only created due to his link to Khonshu.

(I will mention that this is stupid, as the doctor doesn’t develop three alters to go with Khonshu’s changing moods, nor she speaks outloud to him, but I digress)

The doctor also manages to blame Marc not just for the attempted murder but also for blowing up her house (which was her attempt to kill him), and apparently, tell Det. Flint about Jake Lockley while Steven tells Det. Flint to call him Mr. Grant whenever he’s in the Mr. Knight suit, which is incredibly odd as they are usually more careful about their secret identity. In fact, this series pretty much blasts that to outer space because after what the doctor did, it seems that every single person in the Marvel Universe knows that Marc is Moon Knight, that he has DiD and that he worships Khonshu.

Marc manages her second attempt to kill her target, by literally stepping in front of the new killer (an hypnotized cop who really doesn’t want to kill anyone), in front of cameras without a mask on. See what I mean about no secret identity anymore? And then gets arrested in the least possible legal way and put in a flying prison without real charges made because if there are no charges, there’s no trial and if there’s no trial, he can’t go free.

By the way, THIS is the run that gives us “Jake Lockley is the violent personality” idiocy, and it does it in a single LINE by Dr. Warsame: “The Lockley persona, I think. That WAS who I saw breaking limbs on the 88th floor of the World Trade Center, yes?” And that was IT.

So we finally know who is to blame for falling into the “Systems must have an evil Alter” stereotype after almost 70 years of the character existence, Brian Wood. On the other hand… well, it’s a relative early addendum, so better writers who hopefully do their research can undo it (I am not holding my breath, as I know what comes after Lemire for the guys and… is not pretty, sorry to say this. On the other hand, Maybe TV synergy will make things better. I’ll just say right now that Marc’s last appearance in the comics is not a good one for system representation… or for Moon Knight fans in general)

In fact, the only good thing about all this is that Khonshu goes back to talk to Marc, who states that he is not worried that much about the doctor’s target, as he is worried about Khonshu. Yes, the man is worried for his god, because he fears that the doctor is manipulating the old bird.

Here I make a stop to point out that the whole message of this mini is really damaging as it is “don’t trust psychiatrists”. Which… uhm… terrible message to be giving? In general, I mean, not just for neurodivergent people.

The only “good” thing about this, in case you were wondering why I hadn’t pointed out how problematic it is to make a victim of war for profit become an immoral psychiatrist who wants to murder a man who has repented for his crimes? Is that the doctor is not a victim of war. In the very last issue, as a saving throw, is revealed that she was in fact the daughter of the REAL dictator who had destroyed her native country, that the man she was trying to kill was a revolutionary who helped free her native country, and that the only reason she was trying to kill him indirectly at first was because she knew her assassins would fail and so she would kidnap him to force him to reveal where her father’s money was. Oh, and create enough chaos to re-start the war in her native country and profit from it.

Still problematic and racist, but in a different way.

By the end of the Wood run, the new sort of status quo is that now every person in the Marvel universe knows about Moon Knight’s secret identity, even if most don’t believe about his connection with the “fake” god (and again, I wonder why Egyptian gods are considered fake when frigging ARES was an avenger by this point, and Earth has an ambassador in Aasgard as it is recognized as part of the 12 realms! (Said ambassador, in case you’re wondering, is all around badass Jane Foster)

With six issues left on this particular volume, we get Cullen Bunn in writing duties, and art by Ron Ackins.

Here, the status quo goes weird. Marc abandons both Grant mansion and the apartment he was keeping in New York for an abandoned building that is filled with ghosts who are begging for his help. Once again, people know who he is, so the mask becomes more a matter of Marc feeling comfortable with it rather than him needing it, and he is talking to the STATUE of Khonshu, rather than Bird head Khonshu. He also seems to have some powers now because not only he can see ghosts clearly, even if others can’t (A thing that happens in the MU, sometimes Ghosts are just people who happen to be dead and may or may not be intangible, sometimes they are invisible to the normal human beings), but he can also see the trail of their suffering in the form of bloody footprints. Unfortunately, he can’t talk to them. Khonshu also fluctuates between calling Marc his son, and calling him his Priests.

This series works more on the Pathfinder, Embracer, Watcher and Defender roles, as we see now OTHER gods, such as Anubis, come to ask for help so that Marc will free their followers, and it would be all nice and good, and a return to form of Khonshu working as a god of Justice and Protection rather than vengeance, until of course we get the issue where child killing monsters ALSO pray to Khonshu and Khonshu retires Marc’s protection when fighting against them because Marvel can’t just let Khonshu be a good god, just as they can’t let the System be a non-stereotypical neurodivergent character who doesn’t go horribly violent for no reason.

And then… the Cult of Khonshu reappears, this time masquerading as one of those religious cults that “help” the homeless but are in fact hiding that they pick some of them up to be sacrificed to Khonshu. The guys find out, go and fight the scantly clad priestess who swears she is Marc’s destined wife, and it would be a lackluster issue if it didn’t end with Khonshu helping Marc walk out of the building that he just set on fire to destroy the cult that was also mind controlling everyone inside. Classic Khonshu, the one who wore the cape and MAY, I repeat MAY not be a pigeon head god since we only see him from the back so we may hope the old Killing Khonshu days are over. We will be wrong. While the very worst of Khonshu is far behind us, as we will never see cartoon blood thirsty pigeon again, he still will do some very bad things once we get back to pigeon head. But that is for part 8 as we finally, FINALLY, reach the amazing Lemire’s run.

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