#I love quartets most

[comfortablecomfort]

#shitpost #I'm bored #I love quartets most #groups of four are so fuckin iconic to me #especially if they're all guys

[crimeronan]

one big thing about polyshipping for me is, like. you know how some people will have their eyes opened to homoerotic relationships in media bc they'll realize, "wait, if these people were two different genders, i'd 100% assume they're into each other. i have a double standard that i never noticed"?

there's a polyamorous equivalent in certain media that's basically just. "if you didn't assume this character is monogamous, you would 100% believe they have crushes on & are dating all of their friends." OR, "if this character wasn't dating somebody else already, you would 100% interpret this new friendship of theirs as a crush/budding romance."

usually the creators of the media aren't thinking about polyamory when they make it! usually the creators of the media are thinking "i want this character's friends to be as important to them as their romantic partners, we don't get enough of that in media," which is great and true and also EXACTLY WHY IT WORKS AS A POLY NARRATIVE. people will be like you don't Have to polyship why can't you just let platonic relationships be important ugh 🙄 & i'm like i did my years in the "why can't two men just be friends why does everything have to be gay 🙄" trenches. you're not doing this to me. we're not doing it about polyshipping. we're skipping over that whole discourse cutscene because i am Too Tired For It. don't even start

sometimes characters are so full of love and affection and joy for so many people that i start gnawing off my hands about how polyamory isn't normalized. because i'll watch/read certain media and i'll be like. listen. this is a polycule. i know you don't know this because your creators don't know this and that is totally okay but you are a Wildly polyamorous person who's ambiguously trapped in the 2000s/2010s with Big Monogamy psyops eating your brain. please let me free you. please i can give you Everything .

PLEASE KISS YOUR FRIENDS

#what i'd give for more mainstream toh art of the lavender winter quartet that doesnt pair them off together ignoring the others in favor of #their canon romantic partner. what i'd give for explorations of relationships between close friends that arent just #'we have convos about how much we love our canon romantic partners who arent here 💕' #LIKE IT'S CUTE AND HARMLESS. BUT IT MAKES ME FEEL SO LONELYYY #most days i'm fine with no one in mainstream fandom loving the way i do or feeling the way i do. #then some days i wake up thinking about hunter and luz being each other's Types (TM) and feel like ive eaten drywall #aside from the trc ot6 theres like NO polycule that's more desperately 'YOU GUYS WOULD BE CANONICALLY ALL TOGETHER IN A DIFFERENT TIME #PERIOD' than lavwin. IT TORTURES ME. THEY ARE ALL IN LOVE #anyway. i gotta get some more sleep. #thanks for listening everyone. think about the big monogamy psyops in your life and add people to their relationships. it's hilarious

[matchandelure]

i fear that the undercover top secret government assassins are growing on me (cp9)

#I HAD ZERO THOUGHTS ABOUT THEM AT FIRST #IN FACT I WAS DEVASTATED THAT THE WATER 7 QUARTET WERE ACTUALLY CP9 #BUT THEN??????? I READ CP9'S INDEPENDENT REPORT AND. I!?!??!?@?!? #the thoughts are endless ive been having one piece dreams every night for the past few days and they have all been cp9 related the brainrot #is so bad. i am sodgjkadhg #i love one piece there are so many characters with each new arc i get to i get some new characters to obsess over i love it i feel so alive #ive been fighting tooth and nail avoiding spoilers for the latest episode BUT GOD IM SO SO TEMPTED TO. TAKE A PEEK #anyways last night i was once again doing a wiki deep dive and i found some silly things on cp9's pages #JABRA AND LUCCI ARE THE SAME HEIGHT!!!!! THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY #CAN YOU IMAGINE?!?!?! the kid you've had beef with since he was 13 (maybe even earlier since lucci alreayd knew him when he was 6) who you #used to have a whole head over is now at eye level with you i would actually be so embarrased #KAKU IS FROM EAST BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS OS IMPORTANT ACTUALLY!! THE MOST IMPORATNT FACT EVER!!!!!!!!!!! #so he knows the strawhats are...also from the east blue right?!? right??????! and ik the wg steals these kids early on to train them so i #doubt he has lingering attachments to his home sea but i still think this so both so so sad and so important :'(( #also not getting over how oda's depiction of tiny kaku has him holding a toy boat BC ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!?! ARE YOU K IDDING ME #kalifa and jabra's favourite dishes are both lamb based!!!!!!!!! silly because her animal motif is a sheep haha #BUT ALSO considering how her father was also cp9 and she's probably been conditioned since birth to also follow his footsteps and how jabra #holds seniority in the current lineup id like to think that these two have known each other a very long time and there were influences #the most dysfunctional fcked up family ever. cp9 #blueno and jabra are both from the north blue!!!!!!!!!!!!! and that one falshbakc we see that the two of them plus 6year old lucci trained #together but also it would be so fcked up if the two actually knew of each other before being roped into the governemnt #idk how the wg works do they just??? routinely scout around and pick up a bunch of kids ata time???? were jabra and blueno taken together?? #also wondering if ... kalifa jabra and kumadori knew each other the longest as fellow agents or soemthing #i feel like im entertaining a gazillion thoughts all at once its so hard ot balance but we know both kalifa nad kumadori have #parents in the governemnt/assassin profession that also influenced them right #idk maybe one thing they can bond over #cp9 to me is just a fucked up family of some sort. they are not found family they are like some weird forged family where they were all #forced together and somehow made it work and they all love lucci and care for his wellbeing enough to raise all that money to get him to a #doctor and they cared about each other enough to get off enies lobby together without leaving anyone behind and they went cafe hopping and #shopping and bowling together and they all care for each other in their own way

[chancellorxofxtrash]

Ziin: I am learning to have a more healthy relationship with my blorbo, and I'm learning to respect his wishes, and even letting him go if that is what he wants

Kyuun: I offered to run away with my blorbo

Beroba: I think my blorbo ditched me tbh

Kekera: I will kickstart my blorbo's character development with my own two hands if I have to possibly even if I have to commit murders to do so

#kamen rider geats #geats spoilers #can't believe ziin is ending up being the most well-adjusted out of the disaster quartet #love him dearly #well i love all four of them #they are fantastic

[bisexualsfromouterspace]

ok i will say ONE (1) thing about bridgerton and its that i can forgive so much but i draw the line at the strings covers of pop songs during crucial moments it takes me SO FAR out of it

#they're having the most fuck nasty sex in the garden and the vitamin string quartet version of how deep is your love is playing #how could i possibly take this seriously

[antisocialgaycat]

composing! duets! is! so! fucking! fun!

#just a load of garbage #due to technical issues (i dont wanna)(but also technology) i am incapable of sharing it with my partner #i guess i gotta do the whole thing by myself then #teehee #i genuinely love this so much like this is the most fun ive had in years #i might try compose a quartet after this is due #just for funsies

[pumpkinsouppe]

Utter disappointment… the new little mermaid movie didn’t use any of the songs from the musical 😔

#I’ve only checked the Spotify but I am truly so disappointed #not one step closer or her voice or beyond my wildest dreams or she’s in love #I knew the quartet was a long shot but come on T-T #what’s the point of making a live action movie about an animated movie if it’s not going to be based on the musical #I think I’m most upset about one step closer bc that song perfectly uses music from the soundtrack to make such a sweet song ough #the little mermaid

[uraniumwriting]

fellas is it gay to magically dry the clothes of the woman you're escorting on a mission to hopefully get her sacrificed (instead of bringing her to the king to be put on trial for failing her sacrifice the first time) right after being rightly accused by her of trapping her in the inn's room with you so she can't run and get you in further trouble with the guards as you're already disobeying orders?

#writeblr #writing #morgane is doing a type #the unwanted sacrifice #sacrifice wip #every time i sit down to write this draft it gets gayer and more toxic and i love it #this isn't even describing the most toxic character out of my main quartet either

[condescendingbench]

The Smythe-Smith Quartet Fancast:

Marcus Holyroyd - John Boyega

Honoria Smythe-Smith - Amita Suman

Daniel Smythe-Smith - Dev Patel

Anne Wynter - Beebadobee

Hugh Prentice - Thomas Brodie Sangster

Sarah Pleinsworth - Geraldine Viswanathan

Richard Kenworthy - Sean Teale

Iris Smythe-Smith - Ambika Mod

#I’m happy with this fancast #Daniel took the most deciding #but I back it #again everyone is British #except Geraldine but I feel like she could get away with the accent #technically haven’t finished this series yet #just started on the last book #the sum of all his kisses #was my fave so far #although I did also really love Marcus & honorias story #but Hugh has become potentially my fave Julia Quinn man #aside from Andrew rokesby & Gregory Bridgerton #fancast #mine #the smythe-smith quartet #the smythe-smith quartet fancast #smythe-smith #Bridgerton

[diagnosed-anxiety-disorder]

Shostakovich Jazz Suites by beloved <333

#all of them make me happi #Jazz Suite No. 2 IV. Waltz 1 *holds gently* #ik his 2nd waltz is his most famous one but plzzz more appreciation for waltz 1 #AND THE LYRIC WALTZ. MY. GODS THAT ONE IS BEAUTIFUL #i love shostakovich sm #insane string quartets and all that jazz #dmitri shostakovich #russian composers #classical music

[yuukei-yikes]

What’s your opinion on Harushin (Haruka and Shintaro)? Can be either platonic or romantic

i love that u had to clarify who they are LMAOOO

hmm well i don't like them romantically. when it comes to the yuukei quartet ships I'd put them at the bottom 💔 mostly cuz i just dont ship haruka with anyone other than takane (but for some reason i pass takane around like a blunt) and also it means a lot to me that the reason haruka recognizes he loves takane is bc he defines shintaro as a friend but feels sad putting takane in the same category bc of the different feelings she entails.

and I HAVE THIS PET PEEVE that is a bit silly and nuanced. and it implies a lil bit of jin bashing so TOTAL AND COMPLETE DISCLAIMER i love jin's work and his characters and i immensely respect everything he's done for this franchise he shares with us and clearly loves. that said fuck his misogynistic fucking writing

i could go on and on and on abt that but to answer this ask specifically, i just HATE that shintaro is so nice to haruka and he's just a total ass to ayano and takane for no goddamn reason. takane was SO nice to him at first, could u imagine the good buddies they would've been if shintaro was fucking normal. and shintaro LITERALLY stands in a 2 hour line at the festival just to insult her😭😭😭 he didn't even KNOW her. he's like "u act like this big shot bc all these ppl fawn over you" as if takane hadn't been literally sobbing miserably the whole afternoon precisely bc people were fawning over her and she found it mortifying. bc ofc he didnt know that!! LIKE WHAT WAS THE DAMN REASON HE DID THIS HES CRAZY i will never know what was going thru jin's mind writing that bit but ig all i can do is imagine shintaro was like GIRLS CANT PLAY GAMES *SHAKING* i know im always talking abt shintaro and takane's friendship and how much i love them but god the writing in the hs days is just inexcusable like shintaro is so damn unlikable. i hate when they put him and takane in the same level of irrational arguers bc truly takane is just fucking defending herself. how would u treat a person who didnt even give u a damn chance and just says all that shit to u first meeting. and she's also speaking for ayano too cuz her ass wont defend herself. and also haruka wont say anything. like takanes fighting for her life in here i 10000% support her actions as ene cuz man fuck that guy i find it insane she still cared for him anyway

and it pisses me off that then we see him in novel 6 being totally capable of being a decent fucking person to haruka. like seriously what's his damage. also idk japanese but i THINK shintaro speaks in a polite manner to haruka and not to ayano and takane. obligatory joke im gay not bc i like men but bc i hate women etc etc etc

i could rly go on abt how much it annoys me haruka and shintaro's friendship is super developed opposed to ayano and takane's pathetic dynamic that doesnt pass the already stupid bechdel test (i actually ranted a lil bit abt it on my side twitter a few days ago if you wanna read it LMAO) (it starts as a thread abt harutaka but then i get sidetracked cuz...yeah) BUT THIS IS ABT HARUKA AND SHINTARO SO. yeah u could excuse it with shintaro being the protag and ofc getting a lot more focus on his relationships but still. i kinda resent this aspect of their dynamic so i don't like the ship teehee i just... i think haruka is way too good for him sorry shintaro my man. i say this while shipping shinaya i know but to be fair i make them go through hell in my mind before they can properly be happy together if at all. bc when i start going off abt all this stuff i also start resenting shinaya LMAOOO sometimes i say i like it out of nostalgia but then their whole story together and how theyre literally always destined to find each other (holds head) ok. thats aside the point. i have a complicated relationship to shinaya. it's all abt drawing the line between author and creation and how much u can say augh author is being annoying and augh character is just an ass on purpose. and compared to the pov of all the other kagepro characters, u can indeed see that sexism shit in all of it (i could whip out examples in a second)but on shintaro it is noticeably worse LOL

and again im not blaming fictional characters for author's misogyny, like someone is writing this duuuh which is why haruka never points it out but FROM MY insane perspective i interpret it as haruka recognizing the pattern but he's so damn spineless he can't bring himself to stand up for ayano and takane. he probably makes some comments that shintaro just dimisses and haruka is too nervous to bring them up again *me going off abt the internalized misogyny of fictional characters headcanoned based on the author being misogynistic*

ERM. ANOTHER REMINDER I LOVE KAGEPRO AND I RESPECT JIN FOREVER BC HE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS. but also lol. doesn't mean i cant point out some of this stuff yknooooow

uhhh soooo platonic wise i love them. but its also not my favorite dynamic to explore, id repeat some of the stuff ive already written, it does bother me shintaro is Normal to haruka and not to ayano and takane and haruka acts like nothing. it's just a big thing that annoys me generally abt them lol and i find it tough to separate from author like i normally would with these weird things he includes because this bit is just a whole dynamic you know?? i could.... go on abt this but um. sorry ive been talking for a while. its definitely something im kinda bitter about in the writing.

but still they're definitely sweet, and i understand the appeal completely!!! these are just My thoughts i think its 2023 and i wont get death threats for not liking a ship anymore but also haruka is shintaro's bisexual awakening that is for damn sure. i like entertaining the onesided concept. shintaro being like hahahaha what if we kisssed like ayano and takane apparently did and haruka is like No thanks.

#ask tag #you: what do u think of this ship #me: SHINTARO HATES WOMEN BRO #its funny except when it isnt #i love exploring his dynamics but then i start going abt this and im like fuck the yuukei quartet its a trio now #throw shintaro in a river #sorry. i dont meant that. i love you shintaro. #most of the time at least. #kagenalysis

[xianyao-villainousquartet]

I headcanon that Su She was from an aristocratic family and was a black sheep due to his disability, basically having the least unfortunate past of the Villainous Quartet because he seems to be the most “well adjusted”.

But then that got me thinking what if he had the most FUCKED UP background.

Xue Yang: Wait what?

Su Minshan: Huh? Oh yeah, I was born as a slave in a clan of cannibals at a different country. I was supposed to be eaten one day to please a death god that would consume my soul into its stomach that held a hellish realm where I would absorb every sin and misfortune of my killers, so they could remain pure. But then war ravaged the country, but nothing really changed because the famine made everyone else cannibals, but only some of them made a cult out of it. I just didn’t get eaten because I was one of the victims of the plague. I survived somehow, and was chosen by a random cult to become a sacrifice for a god of food. They threw me into the ocean from the top of a cliff. And that’s how I arrived in Jiangsu where an old lady took me in because she didn’t have grandchildren. After I buried her, the Lan sect was scouting for servants, and since I had experience being a slave, I passed with flying colors.

Mo Xuanyu: Wait, doesn’t that mean that the cannibal clan you were tending to were aristocrats?

Su Minshan: How else would they afford to farm humans?

Jin Guangyao: As disturbing as all of this is, I have to ask, how did you become a Lan disciple?

Su Minshan: By accident. I was mistaken for a student because I was cleaning really good one day, and It would be wrong to correct my superiors so that’s how I became a disciple. 

Jin Guangyao: ....

Mo Xuanyu: .....

Xue Yang: ....How fuckin’ dare you.

#Su Minshan #Su She #I've been trying to decide which Su She background I liked #And I wasn't satisfied with a normal one #I just love the trope where the most normal one is the most fucked up one #Su Minshan has anger issues because he just lived through a war #NOW HE HAS TO GO THROUGH A SECOND ONE?? #villainous quartet

[koopakeki]

Is anyone else sorta....mourning Brendon Urie right now??

With the kind of music he's been putting out since PFTW and just his general behaviour that I no longer wanna associate with, looking back at old vids and listening to older music almost feels like looking back on memories of someone who just isn't around anymore.

Especially with how the emo trinity/quartet fandom was pretty much an integral chapter in my formative years. 🥴

#i mean its nothing new #someone you love quickly sours before your eyes #everyone has at LEAST 5 people that fit that criteria #but Brendon Urie hits differently than most other famous people I no longer like #also if you DO still enjoy Brendon and Panic don't get on my ass 😭 #enjoy what you want idc #koopa speaks #emo quartet #emo trinity #patd #p!atd #panic at the disco #panic! at the disco #brendon urie #emo

[sanstropfremir]

not kpop but you said you’ve done work in theater/musical theater right? what are some of your favorite shows?

my undergrad degree is in production design, i don't just work in theatre i went to theatre SCHOOL lmao. i did musical theatre for all four years of high school too. my fave musicals are hadestown, chess, phantom, and i looooove the original version of cats. i'm also kinda partial to the lord of the rings musical. and i know it's a mess but you can pry love never dies out of my cold dead hands that show is GORGEOUS. oh and roméo et juilette: de la haine à l'amour. favourite shakespeares are mackers, the tempest, and twelfth night. i've unsurprisingly seen (and read) a lot of plays; a small selection of the ones that were very formative for me are sarah ruhl's eurydice (saw a production that singlehandedly convinced me to go to theatre school), tennessee williams' cat on a hot tin roof (i love this play so fucking much, i did it for my third year directing class), and tom stoppard's arcadia + rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (read both of these in high school lit class). there's a ton of really small scale stuff that's been very influential on me also, but i won't get into that bc it will either doxx me instantly or no one will know what i'm talking about.

#i've been doing theatre for over a decade at this point. like twelve or thirteen years? #i also watch a ton of dance and opera bc i am that type #non kpop questions #chess 🤝 lnd: the most INSANE quartets with bangin titles #i read like a hundred plays in my first semester of my masters and i found some realllllll funky shit #i love french spectacle musicals from the 00s they are really something else #duo de desespoir some of THE greatest staging of all time #i think all of both retj and chess are on youtube actually #they are! #WAIT SOMEONE PUT ALL OF LE ROI SOLEIL ON YOUTUBE ALSFJA;;LASKDJF #i love that one too its so fucking ridiculous #only musical i know of that involved zorbs #i do not even want to talk about the play time je fais de toi mon essential got on my ipod in like 2009 #also ce qui me touche from cleopatre like sometimes a sappy love song will get you!!! #kamel ouali pulling a hamilton ten years before hamilton #i think kamel ouali also did an INSANE adaptation of dracula in like 2011 or something #WAIT MOZART L'OPERA ROCK IS ALSO ON YOUTUBE NOW A;LSKDJF;ALSF OH MY GOD AND ITS IN SORT OF HI DEF??!? #anyways french spectacle musicals. 10/10 would recommend #text #answers

[supercantaloupe]

i know his purview is stage music and before anything else i do want to hear more stage music from him but i would also be so curious to hear dave malloy try his hand at writing for an instrumental chamber ensemble

#sasha speaks #octet was wonderful. he CAN write for chamber voice. and i know he's listened to caroline shaw #(very obvious listening to octet even if you don't look at the program notes and see partita listed in the inspirations lol) #and he orchestrates most of his stuff himself too #and some of his orchestrations for like comet and quartet and moby dick are quite nice #(want to have a word with him about the practical range of oboe lol but regardless) #would love to hear his attempt at a purely instrumental work...

[goldieclaws]

Also not gonna do this right away or anything lol I have enough projects to worry about rn but I'm wondering if I should cut down on my comic ideas and just turn them into visual novels or short stories.

Out of everything I have dedicated time to, comics take the most amount of effort (plus they can feed into my perfectionism the most I feel and my fear of wasting my time and life on something I know can take years to finish) and I have 4 long-term comic ideas (and one short-term) I want to make, which really isn't substantial at all.

And, right now, I only want to dedicate time when I can to two: My AldrichxDelta comic (bc I already starting posting about it publicly lol) and Prelude (especially Prelude bc as it turns out, realising you have the ability to draw a story that has been living in your head for 10 years will make said story practically demand it get made).

I'll have a think about what I feel fits each story best, I just really want to show off some of these projects bc I put way too much effort into the storytelling lmao.

#goldie speaks #just a few thoughts #i love being a creator but also my brain has no off switch #BUT I do feel much better when it is finally out of my head #I can think clearly and it's a great feeling #the mountain's song is most definitely not abandoned lol #blue bones just walked into my life at the perfect time and I haven't been the same #I got so many actual standalone stories before I started tying them to set universes #so it's a weird back and forth of wanting to get the standalones out of the way so i can work on my Blue Bones and Quartet universes #but also wanting to work on those two universes so I can build a community/interest in said universes #also prelude has my favourite coke and mentos couple so haha u know