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hon3ymo0n · 8 months
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Hi again 💜 I recently made a post trying to analyze this very short video clip of Jikook and I would like to hear what you think.
https://www.tumblr.com/lajikookbolala/723922693355864064/the-best-jikook-video-ive-ever-seen?source=share
You seem like a really funny, chill and down to earth person and it would really mean a lot if you told me your thoughts on this. Am I crazy? Am I totally right? Am I a total idiot and they were talking about something else all together? I have no idea but it would help if I heard someone else's opinion lol
ty 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
(Also a little bonus meme for u:)
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Hi dear @lajikookbolala ☺️💜! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind words. They mean so much to me! You're not crazy, you're not an idiot. You're not wrong. If you are, I'm coming with you. And bring these funny af memes with us cuz I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN.
Sorry for the wait, but I wanted this post to be specific and well explained, because, this video is... a lot. Maybe one day a new army or jikooker will come across this post, and I want them to have clear ideas.
It is not some slow motion analysis, or a stupid compilation mentioning things that are not even there. It is objective, full of details and observations, and it's rational. I like being rational with these things so that we can really understand how fucking serious this Jikook thing is. Someone rescue me. Let's dig into it.
This is the link. For those of you who didn't watch it, if you want to, do it. Then, if you're interested in my opinions, come back here. Or, you can just watch it through my point of view: I have A LOT to say.
1: SEPTEMBER 2016, PUMA FANSIGN.
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So, a fan noticed that Jimin had a plaster on his finger and asked him why. Jimin said "Jungkook gave it to me". Jungkook had a plaster too, and when they asked him the same question, or if he got hurt, he said "I just wanted to put it on".
In the same year, some months before, the famous rapper Zico released a song called "I am you, you are me". In the videoclip of the song, the lovers wear plasters as a symbol of their love. I'm sure you'll agree with me on this: the timing and the reasons why they were wearing them are such a weird coincidence. They behaved like the couple of a music video which was released in that same year. Interesting, isn't it?
As for Jikook's timeline, there is literally no way, unless they tell us, to know for sure when they started seriously dating. If they tried things out first, and then went deep with it, or if they just started dating and never stopped. There is no way to know their specific dynamics. Based on what we saw during those years, I can say that 2016 was obviously a turning point year. Something changed between the two of them, whether it was one of them confessing, an unexpected kiss, physical attraction exploding, or not. This year matters to them.
The plaster detail is cute to me for one specific reason. Not only it is obvious and naive, like, such an innocent gesture; but it also was their only way, at the time, to express their love for each other in public. As I always say, they learned to leave their relationship out of the spotlight, and they need no external validation anymore. But, even though they resigned and understood that the public eye would be dangerous for them, it's still hard to hide or pretend.
It's hard now, so imagine how hard it was at the time. An 18 and 20 years old man approaching love this way. Falling in love with their band mate, in a conservative country, at a very young and unexperienced age. You do "childish" and little things that bring you joy, because you'd love to do them out loud and you can't.
This is when "I am you, you are me" and Serendipity became their things. Their love language. It was not a coincidence.
There are a lot of Jikook moments which can be filtered with the "coincidence" card, but this one is obvious because they were young. They were living a completely new and anomalous experience. They had no idea how bad the world worked and were consequently more explicit about their feelings.
This is so Jungkook coded. A young, sweet and unexperienced boy giving his loved one a plaster. It was his way to tell the world "this boy is not just a friend", but also a way to tell Jimin. "You're not just a friend to me anymore".
They couldn't wear rings, anyways. They just couldn't.
This just connects with 2: JANUARY 2019, RUN BTS EPISODE 61.
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They talked about it together and made it their thing. Jungkook says "I told you: you are me, I am you". When or where he told him, I guess we'll never know.
3: BTS LIVE, SEPTEMBER 2017
For this one, you need to look at the clip. RM asks to pick a favourite track, Jimin sings and so chooses Serendipity.
For those of you who don't know, Serendipity means finding something you weren't looking for while looking for something else. They were looking for success, they wanted to achieve their dreams and goals, and ended up meeting their soulmate.
They ended up together, out of infinite combinations, choices, possibilities. They ended up in the same band. They ended up loving each other while looking for people's love.
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Jungkook's reaction is so telling. He was flustered, but in a cute and "in love" way. He brought his head down and smiled, all shy. What's interesting here, is Yoongi's partecipation. Our 🏳️‍🌈 community ambassador. Minute 3:35. He whispers "Jungkook-ah", and Jungkook stops his smile. Or, I should say, struggles to stop smiling. I swear, it's always these lives where Jungkook is behind Jimin and they hold the camera up.
Now we get even more what Yoongi means when he says "Jungkook is all grown up". He's one of the oldest and he saw the youngest struggling, cringing, smiling and crying in so many different occasions. I'm sure Jungkook had that conversation with Yoongi. If you know what I mean.
Thank you, Suga, for making this moment possible as well:
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Now that we're done with the Serendipity chapter, let's move on (metaphorically). The video finally talks about the Tokyo Trip.
4: GFC TOKYO
I know, we already know everything about it. We know it was Jikook's excape from the daily and oppressive idol life, before becoming so damn famous and being unable to have a cute and relaxing trip together. We know Jungkook was there with Jimin, but made the whole thing a Jimin-devotion video. We know he chose "There For You" by Troye Sivan as background music, and made sure the lyrics matched with the clips. We know they wanted it to be intimate, private, and special. And we know it was memorable.
I recently came across this post, tho, and I'd love you to give it a read, if you didn't. It talks about the Osaka video as well. Again, the lyrics of the song (Best of Me by John K) match with Jimin's clips, saying "I don't wanna hide no more, I don't wanna lie no more".
Here we go again with the coded language and naive gestures. These were the only ways available for them to express their love out loud. They had to express it through metaphors, songs lyrics, images, plasters, clothes, hastags even. Matching jackets on Valentine’s Day and cute posts on birthdays. Subtle things.
These videos are not subtle at all, tho. If you actually watch them, they're so damn loud. If you don't feel the love while watching them, watch them again. Watch them on fucking repeat.
I'm actually so glad to know that a lot of people appreciated these videos, GFC Tokyo in particular, and interpreted them with deeper meanings and intentions, not just as a cute trip vlog.
This was what Jungkook wanted. This was his way of saying "if you're able to see it, stay on our side". A lot of non-shippers recognized these edits as special and with a double intention as well. For the first time, maybe, Jikook received love and support for a clearly explicit and romantic gesture.
The 5: ABEMATV BTS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL is worth mentioning as well. It was 2 months after the Tokyo trip. Jungkook talked about the "Most memorable moment during the Tokyo trip", and he talked about Jimin staying up till 5 a.m. , playing with his phone, and missing the plane.
Dude. Maybe the most memorable moment is way too romantic and explicit to be shared? Just lie, then. But don't treat us like idiots.
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The trip was so special that it was mentioned in the book, in the chapter named Real Love. Opposing to BTS’ song "Fake Love".
As for the GFC Osaka, there are so many similiarities between Jungkook's edit and the one called "Love In Laguna Beach". You can find it on YT as well. This is just speculation, honestly, and its correspondence with reality does not affect the deepness and importance of the video at all; but, you know, it could explain Jikook's reaction to RM saying "Laguna Beach" in that famous interview, way back in February 2019. Not a big deal, just a curiosity.
Now the video you sent me goes really way back. It goes to our sixth moment.
6: 2014 JIKOOK VLOG.
Debut years Jikook is a soft spot for me. It has a special place in my heart. This is worth mentioning when we want a comparison with the 2018-2023 Jimin. As soon as success, pressure, risk and love grew, he became less explicit as well.
Jimin says "Why do I like you so much, Jungkook?" (you tell me JM) and caresses JK's head. Jungkook gasps, or something like that, following Jimin's hand movement running through his soft hair, and smiles.
Jimin gets so caught up by Jungkook's reaction that he goes like "whoo-oh". LOL.
And then he proceeds with saying "These days I've been going crazy because I like him so much".
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This is such a good moment because there was nothing between them yet. I think they even were in the pre-flirt era. Maybe Jimin silently started asking himself why he felt some type of way towards Jungkook, but he didn't completely accept and realize that he had a full blown crush.
Until 2016, Jikook were the kind of friends who couldn't be left alone in the same room. They were in a state of costant tension, and with tension I mean curiosity. Interest. They felt how special and different their bond was, and they were totally aware of how strong their feelings were when the other was around, but they interpreted it as “strong friendship”.
They were the type of friends who sit on each other, hug each other, sleep together and almost kiss, have showers together and get platonically intimate, and then call themselves "good mates". Something was happening when the door closed and none else was around. I'm not talking about kissing, not even more than that. Not yet.
There was just tension. Sexual tension as well. But it took them time to deepen those "weird" dynamics and understand something more was going on.
7: EPILOGUE LIVE, MAY 2016.
Here we go again with 2016. This live was so confusing, honestly. When Jimin was trying to leave, and Jungkook stopped him, Jin's face was straight and lost. Something was already going on and the members started wondering too.
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As for that picture, I saw a long, long, long time ago, someone on twitter saying that the real "menace" about that picture was not the red spot on Jungkook's neck. They didn't proceed with explaining more, so I'll stick with what's proposed in this video.
Jimin didn't want that picture to be published. He didn't want JK to publish HIS. PERSONAL. SELCA. We all agree on this, I think: his reaction doesn't leave room for any other assumption.
We don't know why. We don't know what was making Jimin so obedient. My question is: if the probable hickey on Jungkook's neck was the problem, why was Jimin so afraid of it being shared? Did he think people were gonna reconnect it to… him? Assuming he gave it to Jungkook?
Or was he just jealous?
It's clear to me how sus and different things get with time. There is no such a thing between any other two members. And this level of "secretness" and mistery is still preponderant in and only in Jikook's dynamics.
When I tell you that 2016 was an important year and a dynamics shifter, I mean it. And here's the umpteenth proof.
8: OSAKA VLIVE
Things get sus even before Tae's entrance in Jungkook's room.
You can hear Lana del Rey's "Body Electric" playing out fcking loud (Alexa, play Pillowtalk by Zayn: so we'll piss off the neighboooors🎶🎶🎶), Jungkook saying a word which sounds like "Jimin" (some words in Korean might sound similiar, but K-Armys at the time heard Jimin as well), and panicking. Jungkook was panicking. He screamed, a mix between mad and worried.
It took him a lot of time to open that door, just to let Tae in and tell him that "he needs to tie his bathrobe". What did you do all this time, sir?
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Jungkook was surprised. He's a generally self-controlled person, so he was trying to find the best and most polite way to ask V why he was there, why he didn't let him know he was coming.
Lights were off as well. What's really interesting, is Jungkook's clothes on the floor, next to his case. Jungkook is such a tidy person, or, at least, he was at the time. He liked his clothes nealtly folded, monochromatic, not wrinkled. Those clothes on that floor don't sit right with me.
Maybe I just need to try eating naked with no lights on and Lana playing. Maybe I just need to try that and we’re all being dirty minded.
As for Taehyung, he was young. They all were. And this is foundamental. His personality has always been kinda "rebel" and messy. He's very likely to disobey or tease. In this case, it was not intentional.
I bet he didn’t mean to interrupt anything or ruin any moment. And when he realized there clearly was someone else in the room, and we hear someone saying "You scared me”, Tae plays along. He acts like nothing happened. He knows, at some point, what is going on, but he acts cool with it. He covered them up as far as he could. He could have left, sure. But that would’ve been weird, inappropriate, disrespectful towards armys and most of all... questionable.
At some point, Tae tells Jungkook he sang with every member except him. Jungkook asks him "are you sure? I think you're lying". And he smirks.
This is the part which makes me believe Jimin was there. Not the phone, the clothes, the shoes: Jungkook was sure as hell that not every member was available for Tae’s live, that night. He was sure as hell.
Jungkook was like "no bros before hoes tonight”. And I get it. I think at this point they were FRESH AS HELL. And they had the right (as much as they do now) to enjoy each other’s bodies and get into it. Fully. With no shame or holding back. Don't blame them, love made them crazy.
This behaviour reminded me so bad of this live:
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Members were out of place this time too.
When Tae finally leaves, the door immediately closes. Jungkook was way too far to close it by himself, so given that he was not alone at all, who is the only other member, who didn't sing with Tae yet, who could've been with JK while he was naked, with smudged makeup, no lights on, and a sexy song playing?
We do hear someone whispering later on. And Tae says he forgot his room key and mutters "what's wrong with me?".
In this case, I don't completely stick with the video. I do think he interrupted something and could've warned (the question is: would Jikook have answered?), but Jimin or Jungkook would have never got mad at him for "ruining their night".
The next day live explains what I mean.
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(He looks like sex already)
Jimin, considering his attitude and personality, was a little bit more pissed off and showed it more. But then he tells Jin that "Tae forgot his room key yesterday too", so we know that Tae looked worried and scared not because he had been scolded, but because he was out of his room. Lol.
Jimin wants to tease Tae, so he doesn't let him in that easily. The dumpling incident duo is a planet unto itself. They work differently and have their own dynamics and behaviours.
This is the only plausible reaction from young Jimin, if we think about Tae interrupting his wild night. Not Namjoon, Suga, Hobi: Tae. Was it too much? Was it too mean? Was Jimin salty? As for the last one, sure. As for the others, maybe. I don't think so, but I get V-stans questioning Jimin's actions. But Tae perfectly fits with all of this too. He would've done the same at the time. They're not saints, and this interaction was so friendly and overall teasing. They're just Vmin.
Staying on the "fruity vlives" track, the video talks about 9: BTS LIVE IN TOKYO.
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This is so funny to me because Jimin was like "Lemme do this for a while, even though it's obvious I'm up to something else. Then I'll just say bye and mind my business".
Anygays, Jhope goes to Jimin's room. He introduces Jimin's room without showing it on camera. Jimin hugs him, and JHope side-eyes the entire room for five times or something, before actually turning the camera around.
Hobi is their protector, I'll stick with this to death. I honestly don't know if he came to know about Jikook before the other members, but he was the closest to them and their dynamics. He has always been. This deserves a whole separate post, lol.
Jimin looks worried. Maybe worried is not the right word. He's just checking the room up. He's making sure nothing sus or questionable is visible. The table full of food for 2 people could not be removed, lol.
Then this happens.
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Now I know how open minded and playful the members are with each other. Considering that Hobi was basically covering Jikook up, it would be absolutely plausible for him to tease Jimin about his wild time in these damn hotel rooms.
Being rational, tho, it could also be just teasing. We'll never know if he was actually referring to Jungkook. But what we know is that another member, who even took a picture of Jimin (we hear a camera sound) and who could not be shown on camera, was in that room. It's up to our imagination what and who Hobi alluded to.
This live showed us Jimin's ability to pretend nothing is going on. His ability to play that cool and nonchalant part even when a lot of people already understood what was going on behind the scenes. And this skill just gradually improved with time.
10: BTS SUMMER PACKAGE 2018, SAIPAN.
Jimin played it cool here as well. He was the only one visiting another member's room, and was caught on camera in 4K, but he shrugged it off with a random "nice room".
When he leaves the room, he says:
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Now we know where Jungook's daily checks' habit comes from.
11: BANGKOK LIVE, APRIL 2017.
Jungkook wants Jimin's attention. He's needy, and we know that, but this live was way too explicit about it.
Jungkook basically played Jimin's "Lie" (I ascend just talking about that song) at maximum volume, showing some concern when Jimin was not coming, and laughing SO BAD when Jimin arrived. Like, he laughed his lungs off.
Tae's here again, LMAO. They were Jikooking all over the place but Tae accidentally broke their eye contact.
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Now this live is worth mentioning as a "big" Jikook moment not only because of the way they look at each other, the way Jungkook's eyes smile before his mouth and face, but also because of the whole dynamic that attracted Jimin towards Jungkook's room.
This was the sweetest teasing ever. Jungkook supporting Jimin's song, playing it out loud so that Jimin would come to him. And Jimin knew what Jungkook wanted. He know Jungkook needed him there, he needed some sort of reaction from him. And he just gave it to him.
Of course, they ended up staring into each other's SOULS. Nothing changed, even after years. When they're next to each other, their eyes are like magnets. And we become third wheels.
The teasing is spicier during the 12: JIKOOK LIVE, 2017.
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What I love about it the most is not only their freshness, the way they try to fit their senses of humor and play with each other, but also Jimin getting so shy that he gently hits Jungkook on the chest. It is sweet, out of embarassment, and is so crush coded. We all gently hit our crush, at least once in life. A gentle push, a little slap on the shoulder, everything with an hysterical laugh on our face. Don't we?
The gently hitting kinda remindes me of the "ARMY" spelling game. "One day I'm gonna be your boyfriend". And Jimin throwing a tissue against Jungkook’s body with all the strength he has in his. You felt called upon, Jimin?
13: JUNGKOOK CALLING JIMIN "DANGSHIN".
The video talks about this as well. In my opinion, I think this is ambiguous, but could be friendly explained, considering that we've seen other members using it with each other, non just Jikook.
They do it because they’re closer and intimate, but I wouldn’t point this out if someone asked me “Are they a couple? Why?”.
Anyways, I’m not Korean and I don’t speak the language. I just talk based on native speakers’ opinions and thoughts shared on social platforms. I don’t want this to be offensive or arrogant, but for what I know about it, I think the drop of honorifics and the tone they use with each other, the informal one, is way more significant. The way they interact, the intimacy, the domestic vibe. Oh, and of course, when they call each other "baby". I think these things are more relevant. Correct me if I’m wrong.
14: PEOPLET TV INTERVIEW, MAY 2018.
I'm sorry, but I guess I kinda disagree on this one too! It's just my point of view. Feel free to share yours.
I just don't actually believe Jungkook was hinting to Jimin. He was talking to the interviewer, and he was pointing in front of himself just to make the wait and the tension stronger. By the members' laugh and reaction, the first time I saw the clip, I interpreted that "I LIKE MY..." in a COMPLETELY different way. I guess this is not so relevant, after all. Jungkook likes Jimin anyways and we know it.
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15: PEOPLE TV INTERVIEW, AUGUST 2017.
This People TV Interview got better with time, lol.
I know a lot of you won't believe me, but I swear. I swear. I looked at this clip once: the first time I came to know it. And that's it.
I watched it. I heard Jungkook saying "Arrest me!", opening his arms. I felt the silence, the cringe, the awkard smiles on the members' faces. I literally twisted my face, and never watched it again. Even this time, watching this compilation, I was not brave enough to do it. That's why I have no screen for this one. Sorry, sorry, sorry. It's too much for me. I feel like I'm the one saying "Arrest me!". Ugh!🙏🥹🥶
16: BTS SWEET PARTY IN HARAJUKU, JULY 2018.
I left this for the end because I want this moment to stick in your memory.
Jungkook's already smiling. He already is. He asks Namjoon: "I have to say what I like the most about Jimin, and then Jimin goes with Hobi, and so on?". Ladies and non ladies, I call this hesitation. Shy, unprepared and flustered hesitation.
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Spot the couple.
That "shameless" is tattooed on my fucking forhead. I have it on my glasses.
You can feel it when you watch the clip. You can feel how much effort it requires JK to say something like that while looking straight (the only straight thing here) into Jimin's eyes. He's been bold and shameless as well.
The tension is palpable. And it explodes when Jimin says "is this the reason why you like me even more, nowdays?". And Jungkook just nods. He nods.🫠
They stare into each other's souls for a long bis ass period of time. And the other members just keep talking, to divert the focus. Spoiler: that didn’t work. Once the Jikook is jikooking, it’s hard to stop it.
Finally, as it was not enough, Jungkook says "he takes good care of me". He smirks the hell out of his face. And Jimin, who had been staring at him and smiling with his hand over his lips, loses the game and breaks the eye contact.
Jungkook wanted to say something else or more, I’m sure about it. He was holding something back. Or, maybe, that “shameless” was referring to something more specific and detailed only they know about. And with that stare, he was hoping for Jimin to get the words he couldn't say.
This moment is gold.
This whole video was gold, actually. It was a good reminder of how strong and unique their relationship is.
I don't know how they handle it. I'd already gone crazy.
Thank you so much for sending me this ask and sharing this video💜 and again, you didn’t have to be this kind to me🙏. It was such a long and beautiful ride. Have a good day!
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vamptastic · 1 month
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real circlejerk on here of goyische leftists reassuring themselves that those conniving zionists are all lying about and exaggerating antisemitism in the anti-zionist movement and only bring it up to weaken their cause. fucking annoying being an anti-zionist jew and also having seen people i used to respect reblog from straight up nazis or regurgitate extremely antisemitic talking points over the past several months. doesn't help that the people being the loudest about it are jewish zionists. don't want to ally myself with them but ive seen such a depressing dearth of care from anti-zionists. everything but the absolute most blatantly horrible examples gets ignored and excused and brushed off and then a couple weeks later it's back to posting about how leftist antisemitism is a psyop term or zionist dogwhistle or whatever because you've only seen zionists give a fuck about it.
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sanjisblackasswife · 1 year
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I’m going to grammar check it tomorrow but this fic I just posted is my new personal favorite however I Lowkey wanted to make an alternate ending to it but I was contemplating because it was kinda sad lmao:
Like at the end of it where Sanji brings back Y/N to the ship to show everybody there was a survivor on the island for 2 years, and possibly try to convince Luffy to let her join the crew but everybody looks at him crazy.
Sanji looks back at them also confused because nobody wants to greet her,
“What Girl are you talking About Sanji?” Nami asked dumbfounded.
“What do you mean what girl? This!—-Y/N?”
Sanji looks back and feels no weight on his shoulders, the clothes he let her wear were fallen to the ground. She wasn’t anywhere in sight.
“Why are you half naked you ass—“ Zoro butted in walked past him.
“BECAUSE I MET A GIRL IN THE WOODS SHE WAS THERE WE EVEN—“
Sanji didn’t want to finish his sentence exposing what he has been doing the past few hours. He tried convincing them he met a woman by the lake, and that she was like a woman he had never seen before—his soulmate even. Robin over heres this and Nami gives him a worried look.
“What?!” Sanji panics. “Why don’t you guys follow me she was there I swear her name was Y—“
“Y/N, yes. I’ve heard of her. …Sanji…” Nami walked over to him to sit him down on the deck. He was so confused as to how the hell she could have disappeared from her just being on his back the whole time?? “Sanji, ive read about Y/N L/N. She was a wanted pirate in her hometown, she was very infamous for killing many men a couple years ago—“
“Wait what??”
“Yeah, she was finally arrested but escaped on a boat and landed here. However a Marine found her…and he was so afraid seeing as she had already killed the 2 men that were with him, he shot her. She died right then and there. I’ve actually read her ghost still remains in this very island. Hoping to leave…”
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IDK THO IDK HOW TO LIKE MAKE THIS IDEA COME TOGETHER SO I DIDNT INCLUDE IT IN THE STORY CORRECTLY N I DIDNT WANT SANJI TO BE SAD SKDHDJDIEKS BUT HOPEFULLY YALL GET WHERE I WAS GOIN W THIS
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iamthenerdqueen · 8 months
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The Red String of Faith - Chapter IV
Idol!AteezXOCs Soulmates!ot8AteezXOCs OCXOC Slight Social Media AU!
slight twigger warnings: Polyamory, group of 10, two OC's -feel free to replace one OC with yourself if you'd like- ,eventual smut, listen this is an idea me and my best friend had and is something for fun read at own risk, not edited as always, also we are starting to explore themes such as bxb and gxg if thats not for you, this story may not be for you.
Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Next
A/N: enjoy :)
No one could convince Lyra that packing was an enjoyable thing. Trying to decide what was supposed to go with her for the next couple days was more stressful than the phone call with her mother the day after they had made it home from Atlanta and telling her everything that had happened. 
In the past few days, a lot had changed and yet at the same time, nothing had changed. Everyday went on as it had before finding out about the other 8 people in their tether. What was really different was the near constant communication with the boys.
As soon as they had gotten inside their apartment after arriving from the hotel, Lia had called Hongjoong which then turned into a facetime call which lasted until nearly midnight. All of them, just going about their business, but on facetime.
Everyday since they had texted constantly, well near constantly, there were times when the boys had schedules and obviously when they were on stage plus Lia had a strict rule about not looking at her phone while on stream. And the one thing that had sent their daily routine into a bit of a spiral was Lia’s announcement to bunnies. 
The day after they got home, Lia decided that during her normally scheduled stream, she was going to let them know she was planning to take a break in the near future. More specifically, she told them that from April 1st to June 1st, she would not be going live because she would be moving to the other side of the world. 
The cover story, as they had agreed on and what was told to her fanbase that it was so Lyra could follow a job opportunity. This was the exact same thing Lyra told her boss on the same day, in writing setting her official last day at the library as Friday, April 1st. Were both of these announcements very early, yes. Was this the easiest way for the girls to do it, also yes. 
To them it was like ripping the bandaid off and didn’t allow for either of them to ponder on the situation or try to back out. Lia promised bunnies two things that would happen during her break. One is that she would be pre-filming a special Sims series to post once a week to her youtube channel through the months she would be gone. Second was she would be posting some vlog style videos of the things she was doing during the break and those would be posted more sporadically. 
Bunnies were up in arms for a couple hours after the announcement, but eventually everyone calmed down and wished her well. And now, both girls were trying to figure out what exactly to bring with them. 
Both would consider themselves overpackers, but for very different reasons. Lyra was convinced that something would go horribly wrong and ruin her clothes so everything needed a backup. Lia also had this fear, but was more concerned with the fact that she would probably hate at least one outfit she put together by the time she was supposed to wear it, so each one had a backup. 
Currently, Lia was debating on just how many pairs of underwear were too many.  Not feeling up to yelling across the apartment to Lyra who was in her room trying to finish shoving things into a carry on, she decided to text her instead
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Chaos. Pure unhinged chaos was the only way to describe the group chat between the 10 of them. In the seven days since they had seen the boys they had all gotten comfortable, at least speaking over the phone. 
Currently, their favorite thing was for the girls to call them before they went on stage. Everyday, the girls would facetime a different member's phone about an hour before they were set to go on stage and together the girls would wish the entire group good luck for the show. 
The girls had no idea just how much it also meant to the boys to hear from them and to know that they were routing for them even though they were separated. 
Then each night, the girls would call a different boy, trying to get to know them on a personal level too. They had each fallen asleep on the phone with six of the boys in the past several days, as the first night they were on a giant group call and in just a few minutes they would be on their way to the airport to rejoin their darling boys. 
To combat this, they had promised to sit in between the boys they hadn’t gotten to call during their second flight from Dallas to LA. 
Lia was going to be sitting between Jongho and Yunho during the flight while Lyra was going to be sitting between Mingi and Hongjoong. The other boys had been pouting on and off about it since the day before. Everything was still new and they wanted to spend as much time together as possible. 
The boys had also grown comfortable enough to show their affection for each other in front of the girls. It was Lyra’s favorite thing to watch how each of them had a different way of showing how much they cared for each other. Some were more reserved, only giving a quick kiss to the cheek or pecking someone on the lips while some were more than happy to makeout, sometimes forgetting they were on facetime. 
When Lia had been on her call with Yeosang the night before, Wooyoung made a surprise appearance and thank god for Lia reminding them that they weren’t supposed to give hickeys before a concert because Woo is a biter. 
Time seemed to drag, even though the girls only had a few minutes before Lyra’s mother would be there to drop them off at the airport, it seemed like they had been trying to put the finishing touches on everything for half an hour now. 
Like a mind reader, Hongjoong sent a text checking up on them. They had sent the boys their flight information and knew they were keeping a close eye on them until the were in the air. 
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In the back of Lyra’s mind she wondered how they had gotten this shy bean to turn into a flirt that was almost as bad as Lia, but there was a part of her that also knew this part of his was probably reserved only for his soulmates. 
It was odd to think that they got to see a hidden side to the boys, well maybe hidden wasn’t the right word. A special side of the boys and in return, they shared a special part of themselves with them. 
It wasn’t even a minute later that both girls could hear a series of honks coming from outside their apartment building. It was a distinct pattern of honks that only belonged to one person, Lyra’s mother. 
With that the girls did one last scan of the living room, grabbed their bags and set their alarm before heading out the door. 
“Hello Ladies!” Lyra’s mother, Jamie, said from the driver seat as the girls got into the car. 
“HI Mom”
“Hey Jamie!”
After everyone was buckled in, they headed toward the local airport, which was only about 20 minutes from the apartment. Jamie had offered to drive them and pick them up so they didn’t have to worry about leaving one of their cars at the airport. 
“So, tell me again why i’m letting you both do this? I get that y’all are all soulmates, but neither me nor Ange (Lia’s mother) have met them.” Jamie was a protective mother, and as someone who had never found her soulmate was reluctant to just let things happen. 
“Well, we’re grown, so you can’t stop us. But besides that, they’re schedule is not flexible at all. Almost every moment of every day is planned for them, plus they’re currently on tour, Mom.” Lyra and her mother were close enough to be brutally honest with each other. 
“She’s right, Jamie. We can’t interfere with their schedule.” It has taken years for Lia to get comfortable enough to drop the Mrs. from Jamie's name, but she had never been afraid to match the blonde woman's energy. 
“I just don’t like the idea of the two of you going across the world because of some guys. If something happens, we can’t be there for you two. Y’all will be leaving your families behind.”  
Lyra didn’t think she could roll her eyes any harder than she was currently, maybe they would get stuck that way. 
“Mom. We’re only going to LA tonight. And you know just how offensive it is to refer to them as just some guys? Do you think we are stupid enough to decide to up and change our entire lives for some random dudes?” Lyra’s tone had gone from passive to stern with her mother in an instant. She knew her mother always had something to say, and she loved her for it, but right now her mother wasn’t even trying to see the whole situation. “Listen Mom, I understand you have a very particular viewpoint on soulmates, but the situation is what it is. We have two months before we leave for Korea and in that time I promise you will get to know them in some way, even if it's a couple phone calls. But a time comes for everyone when they have to make a choice in life, to take the chance at happiness or to be complacent. Frankly, we don’t want to give them up and the chance at feeling whole with the people we are destined to be with.”
With that, Jamie had run out of words and arguments. The truth was, she didn’t have anything against the boys. From the little bit of research she had done into them, they seemed like good people, but this was her daughter. In her mind, both girls were her daughter even if they weren’t romantically involved. She was scared at the thought of her youngest child being on the other side of the world. She may have never found her soulmate, but her children and their soulmates, the makeshift family they had all created together, was her whole world. 
“It’s all going to be okay, Mom.” Lyra said as she came to a stop to let them out of the car as they had arrived at the airport drop off. 
“I trust you both, and love you both. Just please be careful in LA and call me when you land in Dallas.” Jamie got out of the car to hug them both around the neck and watched them walk into the airport before pulling away. 
Overall, Jamie had been the most stressful part of the whole check-in process at the airport. That was one of the good things about it being a small airport was that there was barely anyone there. They would go from Columbia to Charlotte with only a twenty minute layover before going from Charlotte to Dallas. 
They wouldn’t really even get the chance to call or text anyone during their layover at Charlotte as their plane had arrived late and they had to run from Gate A2 to Gate C14 with only 10 minutes before their flight was set to take off. So, their flight planning skills were less than brilliant, oops. 
It was just under 3 hours from Charlotte to Dallas, and thankfully this plane left on time and arrived about 5 minutes earlier than scheduled. That last walk from the plane into the terminal was nerve wracking. The girls knew they would be meeting Hajoon there before going to a private lounge, yet neither of them could stop the jumpiness that set into their bones. 
Lia saw Hajoon first and helped guide Lyra, who had gone ahead and called her mother toward the manager. 
“Hello again, Hajoon!” Lia put on a blinding smile as she gave a small wave to the man. He nodded in return, offering his own hello. 
“Can I help either of you with any bags or help you carry anything,” Hajoon asked quietly as they walked toward the lounge. Lyra was still on the phone with Jamie, but shook her head at him with a polite smile before mouthing ‘i’m okay, but thank you.’
“It’s okay, we only have one bag each and our purses. We’ve got it, but it’s very nice of you to offer. Really, we’re very grateful for you helping us with all of this. It’s been more than we could have ever asked for.”
Lia’s words were true. Hajoon had gone out of his way for them countless times, not only the last time they had seen the boys but in the last week he had helped them with the NDA KQ had asked them to sign. It had nothing to do with their relationship, but it was very strict and clear that they weren’t supposed to talk about any unreleased music or content coming out for Ateez. 
It was surprising, all of the higher ups were more than pleased that the boys had found the last two in their tether. They were behind them in this as much as they were behind the boys. It was heartwarming to see how close they were with their artists and how much they truly cared for their well being. 
Lyra finally got off the phone and properly greeted Hajoon as she caught up with them. 
“Lia now would probably be the best time to film in this airport, just so you don’t have to leave the group later on.”
“Yeah, hold on let me get my camera out, it is okay if we go a bit slower Hajoon? It’ll let me get some decent footage of the airport.” 
“Sure, we’ve got time to spare before take off and have to cross the airport to get to the lounge. Get what you need.” He was no stranger to content needing to be filmed and how to stay out of the line of the camera. 
Lia spent the next few minutes as they navigated their way through the airport speaking to her camera, getting some shots of her and Lyra here and there. It wasn’t very intense filming as the vlogs were very casual and wouldn’t be regular content through the break. 
She finished up as they were passing the cluster of restaurants that was dead center of the airport.
“Have you all eaten? The boys, you and the other staff?” Lyra asked Hajoon, she knew that her and Lia had very little time to sit and eat through their long day of travel. 
“Oh, we all had lunch and the lounge has some finger foods. We’ve been slightly off schedule today, so we will probably get something for everyone soon. Why? Are you hungry?” 
Lyra couldn’t help but grin at Hajoon’s instinct to take care of others first. “I am hungry, but I was asking because we’re right here. I’m sure you would know what everyone would want to eat, it’s on me tonight, so let's go ahead and stop.” 
“Oh no, it’s my responsibility to take c-” 
“Hajoon. You take wonderful care of everyone, even me and Lia who are not your responsibility. I know buying food and treating people to food is very important in Korean culture. This may not be a large meal out with delectable meats, but please. Let me show our gratitude this way, until we can take you all out to a wonderful dinner.”
Hajoon was touched at the effort the girls were making and after a little more arguing, gave in and let Lyra buy the food for everyone. They settled on buying fried chicken for everyone who was currently with them as a large portion of the staff had already made their way to LA. Those who were flying with them were mostly managers, security for the boys, and one of the stylists. 
All of the staff on tour had been notified of the soulgroups situation, and upon the return of Ateez to Korea the rest of the company who needed to know would be informed. The girls were hesitant for so many people to know, the boys were private people and this was their livelihood. Who knew what the reaction would be from fans if someone told them when the boys weren’t prepared to address it. 
Hajoon and the boys let them know that everyone who worked at the company was contractually obligated to a strict level of confidentiality. It was apparently so legally binding that if someone were to leak information on the boys, about their music or personal affairs, they would not only be terminated but may also face legal repercussions as a violation of privacy in Korea. It was intimidating, just the thought of how much went into this new life they were stepping into. 
But even just the week of talking to them over the phone was more than enough for them to know it was more than worth it. 
After giving the poor workers at the chicken place a heart attack with their order, they were off once again and at the lounge. Hajoon had taken Lyra’s suitcase from her to make it easier for her to carry the bags of food. 
He entered the lounge first and every one of the boys whipped their head to the manager. In seconds they were all standing trying to crowd around the door as the girls came in after Hajoon. 
“Wow, I knew you guys liked fried chicken, but damn. I didn’t know it was enough to get this type of reaction,” Lyra couldn’t help but make a joke about the boys reaction to them entering the room. Affection was hard for her, it was one thing for Lia to show her some affection and be excited to see her. It was still hard for her to think that any of this was real, and they were just as overjoyed to see her as she was to see them. 
She placed the bags of food on one of the tables in the lounge and told Hajoon to get the staff so they could grab some food first then they and the boys would get their food after. 
“YA! I don’t care about the food,” It was Wooyoung who had wrapped his arms around her from the back pulling her into a hug, “I’m excited to see you!”
Lyra gently grabbed his hand that was resting around her waist and squeezed it before turning around to give him a proper hug. Wooyoung was only three inches taller than her, so Lyra’s head fit perfectly into the crook of his neck.
Over his shoulder she could see Lia getting pulled into a hug by San, him picking her up off her feet just slightly causing her to let out a little yelp. At that Lyra let go of Wooyoung so she could go see the other boys and give them their own hugs. 
As she let him go, she turned her head towards his and was met with him doing the same. Their faces were so close that even one small tilt of the head the two could be kissing, but instead she just grinned at him. 
“I missed you,” Wooyoung’s voice was quiet as he spoke the words to her
“I missed you,” Lyra had a brief burst of confidence as she kissed his cheek before heading over to pull Mingi into a hug. 
Lia had already been able to see San, Hongjoong, and was now in the arms of Yeosang. Yeosang had a death grip on Lia, he didn’t say anything as he held on to her just savoring her being there. The playful persona he had taken up with them slipped for a second, but before Lia could even process that she felt his hand go from her lower back to her ass. Then he squeezed. 
“SIR! THAT IS MY BEHIND!” Lia was not quiet in her words causing a few eyes to turn toward the couple and particularly to where Yeosangs had was still on her butt. 
“I am very aware. It’s nice and soft.” He gave it one last squeeze before letting her go and flashing her a smirk. 
“You, specifically, are going to be the death of me.” Lia said to him over her shoulder as she went to hug Jongho. 
Some greetings were longer than others as some boys were more comfortable with physical touch at this stage. The same with the girls, Lia thrived on physical closeness but Lyra was more hesitant. It wasn’t something she was accustomed to receiving from anyone other than Lia and even then it was mostly just her holding her hand or generally being close to her. 
Lyra tended to show her affection through her actions or words, which sometimes worked out and sometimes didn’t. 
“Get some chicken, please. I’ll go last, I really don’t mind.” Lyra and Hongjoong had been going back and forth for a minute or two now about who would go last in grabbing their food. 
“You choose first, I am okay taking whatever is left.” Hongjoong tried putting on his leader's eyes in a silent attempt for her to give into him. 
“Sweetheart. If you don’t get you food right now I will not be a happy camper. I know you all had practice today and you’re all exhausted. Get all the food you want, there will be more than enough food for me after you’ve gotten all you want.” Lyra challenged in her own way turning on her stern southern lady voice in that moment. She was smiling at him and her words were confusing to him, but her eyes left no room for argument. 
To the surprise of all the boys, and the staff who were secretly invested in the small bickering of the two, Hongjoong gave in and went about getting his food. 
“Wow, how did she do that?” Mingi wasn’t sure if he was more scared or impressed that Lyra had just pulled that move on their captain as he asked Lia to explain. 
“She can be very persuasive when she wants. She very rarely takes charge like that, but she kinda like a mama bear sometimes. I think she’s used to taking care of people, she took care of her dad her whole childhood and has taken care of me anytime I get even slightly sick since we were teenagers.” Lia was eating her chicken beside Mingi and looking at him. 
“You get sick?” Seonghwa asked from the other side of her. 
“I have a crappy immune system, so I catch colds easily. Like this past week I had a pretty constant headache and Lyra was making sure I had everything I needed or keeping me from overworking myself.” Lia was casual in her response, not realizing the concern she had stirred in the boys sitting around her.
Lia was focusing on her food when she felt a hand start playing with the back of her hair before carding through it. It was Seonghwa, playing with her hair and looking intently at her.
“Please, don’t be sick. I don’t want you to be unwell, especially if I can’t be there to take care of you.” His words were so gentle.
Lia smiled at him softly before speaking, “I will do my best to be healthy, but that means you and everyone else have to do the same. Don’t think me or Lyra are blind to how tired you all are right now.”
Seonghwa smiled at her and nodded, still playing with her hair. Everyone was settled around the room just waiting until they were to get on the plane, some of the boys seemed to be fighting off sleep now that they were fed and all their soulmates were in the same place. 
The time came to board the plane, the boys and security went first. Then the staff and the girls followed. Almost all of the first class was full of KQ staff and the soulgroup save for one or two empty seats. 
Take off was Lyra’s least favorite part of a plane ride, the feeling of leaving the ground made her whole body hurt. It was like being on a rollercoaster, as the plane took off Lyra grabbed both Hongjoong and Mingi’s hand in hers and squeezed hard.
This caused both boys to turn their heads toward her, seeing her eyes closed tight and her jaw clenched telling them what they needed to know. Her grip lessened as the plan steadied itself in the air. 
“Are you okay?” Mingi asked Lyra from her left
“I’m okay” she answered still holding both of their hands
“You sure?” Hongjoong asked on her right
“As long as you’re all here, I’ll be okay,” she was smiling at them now, but made no move to let go of their hands. 
A row back, Lia was between Jongho and Yunho. She was playing with Jongho’s hand and had pulled Yunho’s hand to sit in her lap for now with full intention to play with his next. She knew she would fall asleep before long, the calming hum of the plane always got to her. 
LA was only a few hours away and then they would get three whole days together. Well, as together as they could be with the boys schedules and concerts, but they would be there nonetheless. 
A/N: Hello all! I am back again :) Also, like always this is something me and my best friend are doing, so it might not always make sense but its just to make us happy lol. Shout out to my best friend for the text convos! I got asked about a tag list, so if you're intrested please let me know! The next chapter will probably have our first bit of smut ;) so get ready for that.
Tag List: @babyhailey819
P.S. If y'all see a spot where i any of Ateez's names are wrong please let me know cause my computer HATES me and always changes them.
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ihateeveryone357474 · 2 months
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Party girl
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This is my first thing ive written in like almost a year.this lowkey is kinda ass but I wanted to post this to get feed back and to see if you guys like it so please tell me all yours thoughts!this is also not proof read😝
Also I have a pt 2 writing so tell me if yall want that
That’s all enjoy loves🩷
I was in my room sitting at my vanity finishing my makeup. I was getting ready for the party my bestfriend nick invited me to,I’m not usually not a party person so I’m not to thrilled to be going. A bunch of drunk people dancing sloppily and throwing up is not really my scene.
But Nick would be lonely without me so I kinda have to go for him and secretary i wanna go just so I have an excuse to dress like a slut for matt to see.
Me Chris Nick and Matt have been
friends since 9th grade. Chris and Nick always felt like brothers to me but with Matt it was different. There was always this tension between us just wanting to be broken. I always found him attractive but these past couple months have been different, every time is see him I just wanna jump him, I could just imagine our body’s tangled together mouths moulded together tounges slipping in between our lips, fitting perfectly together like we were made for eachother his hands goin-“Y/N!”
I heard my name being called by Nick snapping me out of my thoughts.”ARE YOU READY!” The same voice rung, I was ready I looked good, a tight leather mini skirt with fishnets hugging my glistening legs, And a black strapless top that hugged my chest perfectly.
I go downstairs excited to see Matt’s reaction to my slutty outfit.
I’m putting my boots on when I hear breathing behind me. I look back to see Matt looking at me with his eyes wide.i realize that I’m bent over with my Lacey thong on display. “What you looking at perv” is all I manage to get out not wanting to start anything. “Nothing” Matt mumbles I can hear the smirk on his face as he is walking away.
“Your just friends y/n stop think like this”
I say to myself.
-at the party-
I find myself immediately wanting a drink. I’m not the type to drink a lot or go crazy but I just wanted to shake off this weird tension in my chest from Matt.
I was up against a wall observing the dancing drunk teenagers in front of me.
Bringing my red solo cup to my lips and downing the liquid that was in it, I feel a pair of eyes on me as I look over to see Matt staring at me with an unreadable expression. We held eye contact until I feel a hand on my shoulder. I jump taking the cup that was resting on my lower lip away from my lips. When I see a man in front of me I had never seen him before and he just smiled down at me. “Fuck you scared me” I sighed out breathing a little heavy, “I’m sorry gorgeous” he spoke with a laugh making my stomach twist but not in a good way.
All I could think was of Matt wishing it was him calling me that name.I snapped out of it still seeing the boy looking down at me. I didn’t get that butterfly feeling because he was looking at me with dull dark brown eyes. I could get lost in Matt’s eyes forever his blue eyes.
“What’s your name gorgeous” he asks, staring at me like he wanted to take a bite out of my face. “Y/n” I say with a soft friendly smile.
“What’s yours”I ask trying to wrap up this conversation fast.
He was starting to open his mouth to speak when I look over to where Matt was earlier just wanting to see his face.
Thankfully when I look over I see Matt staring at me.
His jaw was clenched and his stare was sending shiver down my spine,He looked like he was ready to pounce on this guy like a fucking tiger. I was getting turned on just looking at Matt, i needed to get away from this guy
I was about to wrap up the conversation when I feel my hand being grabbed and I’m being pulled away from the wall I was once leaning on.
I looked up to see who I was being literally dragged upstairs by its Matt.
 “Matt?” I whine out from the tight grip on my arm starting to burn.
“Matt?” I ask again but he didn’t even look at me.
This is short asf lemme know for pt 2 it gets better I promise😝
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change-the-rules · 4 months
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I like to think that post-cheryl and the gang graduating, cheerleading ended up becoming like riverdale's stereotypical euphemism for lesbianism ya know like softball so by the time the river vixens get revived it's like
'i'm trying out for the cheerleading squad' 'oh huh didn't know you flipped that way' kinda stuff
and whilst it is important to me that it's not Because of cheryl in a Super Intentional way, more like part consequence of cheryl's HBIC energy magnifying her Big Gay Energy, coupled with a preexisting higher percentage of on the DL queerleaders already on the squad (I'm looking at you early seasons backwards snapback vixen and 1950's closeted couple who came out the second 50's cheryl did, betty and veronnica also count retroactively fite me) with just a dash of influence from choni's Epic Romance
it is equally important to me that toni and cheryl have been all but like Mythologized at riverdale high particularly to the queer students that follow
like c'mon A Blossom and A Southside Serpent ensured the rumor mill would always pay attention but then they went ahead and had their first kiss during a rescue from an illegal conversion therapy operation for the love of gaia, Absolute Legend behaviour
and its like even without the high stakes backdrop of gangs and cults and serial killers and lethal rpgs and atrcious parenting coloring their narrative
they are undeniably The riverdale high Power Couple, president blossom and first Lady topaz? never met a seat they couldn't share? officially the first sapphic prom queens in riverdale history?
Like the impact of all that and more doesn't get erased in 7-8 years and it's not at all outside the realm of possibilities that there are vixens on the team who have older siblings who were even in school at the same time as choni
which brings me to the main dumb reason this post exists which is i just desperately need a bunch of the vixens 2.0 to be queer and fucking here for the frenemy ex's Drama cheryl and toni are serving in 5.07
like it would be a travesty if there weren't a single Gay^TM to witness this absolute masterpiece of an interaction
from the record scratch music stop at cheryl's entrance (that ive just now decided was absolutely real and done by one of the cheerleader's gf's (who helps out with the tech side of stuff and is sitting on the bleachers recording practice for later analysis) armed with a radio remote control and the impeccable dramatic timing of a queer theatre kid) to toni's self-satisfied greeting from successfully pushing cheryl's buttons
'well,well,well'
'miss winchester herself'
'Another Surprise Visit'
Elton fucking John
'the bitch is back in town' self-referential 😘
'ThIs SqUaD iS mY BiRtHrIgHt'
'wrong' the divorced parents are fighting over the kiddddd
HUN
'so what are you going to do about That?'
the dual HBIC shirts (like Of Course cheryl has a red HBIC shirt in the practice uniform style but toni ALSO got a fucking maternity dress custom made like c'mon mfeo)
The intense eyefucking and insane crackling energy of 2 people who can be anything but indifferent to each other no matter how hard they try
Just All of The That above between them being seen through the eyes of gossipy little high school shits who find themselves actually kind of ridiculously invested in their front row seats for a new installment of the choni saga
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I believe the first "proshipping" term was orginated from the term "pro-life" and "anti-censorship", which mean you can ship whatever the hell you want as long as you can: differentiate the real life and the online world, acknowledged that all of couples/characters you ship are pixel characters and doesn't equate nor relate anything in real life, and all of the kinks and fics and fantasies you see on the internet are imagination, it does not judge the morality of a normal human.
Proshipping used to go with the term for a long time, especially in asia fandom culture, i think, until the western fandom culture adapt it and decide to change the term "proshopping" to "problematic shipping" because of the puritan belief, the belief of "educating pornagraphy" and the mindset of equating online pesonality same with real life moral standard ( means if you ship incest, means you support incest irl, which actually is against of what original "proshipping" term stated ). And it got too much popular and out of hand that it overlap the original term of "proshipping"
This have led to nowadays that people will harass anyone saying they are proshippers, apart from it, still lots of fandoms and fans try to bring back the orginal of proshipping term. I think this is all i can explain, as an asian fan who participate multiple of culture fandoms and have been in asia culture fandom for very long times. lmk if you wanna know more
ooh thats interesting! thank you for your answer if you want i would like to know more >< that reminds me that ive seen a lot more of richard siken on twitter lately from some of my mutuals and i remember him spn posting about wincest to which people responded that he was being a proshipper or whatever the fuck despite the fact he said he was purely interacting with fiction and none of that indicated this actual views on incest in real life. regardless of how ppl feel about any of that irl its a pretty dangerous sentiment that there are only certain ways to interpret fictional media because if we did that we're closing doors in a lot of cases for people to engage with and continue to produce the media we consume idk
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do you have any noir book reps,. ive seen you read them and id like to get more into the genre
(being fucking normal) a couple!
i lied to you anon. i lied to you under the read more. i'm not normal about this at all
anything by dashiel hammet, dorothy b. hughes, lot of staples in there. if you come across a noir from the 40s/50s chances are it's based on a book and chances are that book is pretty fuckin good. i've got my friends into reading those books and the ones that've made them go 'oh i get it now' have been anything by raymond chandler, and i'm including myself in that group. the first two i read were for research, the other five i tore through because i had to see them. i'm on the last one, playback, and i can't bring myself to finish it because then it will be over. i will, i'll get there eventually, but i'll be very sad because it means my first time reading them will be done. i've read books where i've gone wow, what a turn of phrase, i've very rarely read books where every page has like, seven. me and the girls were posting excerpts in the gc going 'can you fucking believe this'. of his books, the big sleep, the little sister and the long goodbye are considered the best, but if you want my opinion i'd start off with lady in the lake. not that they're hard reads at all, i just think it's the easiest to vibe with if you're only just getting into them. it's a good barometer to see how you feel about the whole thing
“I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on. "That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.”
i mean jesus christ. fuck
if you're looking at something contemporary, i'll have to admit to a slight gap in my knowledge, i'm mostly into the stuff written from, say, mid 20s to 50s. don't take that as a mark of quality, 'it was only good back then!' or something, more of a taste thing on my part. neo-noir is a cool (if a little nebulous and hard to categorize sometimes) take on the questions noir raises, but there's something interesting to me about seeing the first stabs at it. saying that, akashic books has a collection arranged by location, city, country, so that might be something you're interested in
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what's happening in your city? probably some terrible events that leave lives in shambles! that's like, the most interesting kind!!
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emrysthirteen · 10 months
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ive seen many complaints about the way the new Tumblr mobile update has handled pictures. but i have only seen a couple people talking about how deeply inaccessible it is. and i want to go through it.
first I'll explain the changes for anyone who is new or who uses desktop because I'm fairly certain it's different there.
before when you were scrolling on your feed and you tapped on a picture to view it, if there was a margin around the picture it was black. if you double tapped the picture, it would zoom in. you could do this twice and the third time would return it to normal zoom. if you scrolled up or down, it would close the image and put you where you were on your feed before opening the image. if you scrolled to the sides, it would scroll through any other images that were on the same post.
now when you open the image, the margins are filled with a zoomed, cropped, and blurred section of the image. when you double tap, it likes and zooming is difficult. when you swipe up, it gives you a different post, generated by an algorithm to be similar. if you scroll to the side, it brings you to the posters blog. both of the swipe functions also do this when you are zoomed in as well.
i can only speak to my own accessability needs, but there are several and i know i can't be alone in any of them. for context the relevant things are that i have low vision which requires high contrast and photosensitive migraines which require low brightness. as you can imagine, this is a very specific balance of things that is easily made difficult.
firstly, the background of the image. i used to open the image specifically because of the background. increasing the contrast around the edge of the image and removing irrelevant details made it significantly easier to see. there were frequently posts that i straight up couldn't see properly until i opened them. with the new background feature, images that i have opened are impossible to see clearly. i can barely tell where the actual image is and where the background is. i functionally understand the aesthetic value of the change but there are regularly posts that i straight up can't see anymore because of this. there should be an option for high contrast backgrounds available so that people who need it can still have it.
next is the zoom. the double tap to zoom was one of my favorite features. because when something was small or hard to see it was easy to make it visible and i didn't have to change how i was holding my phone. now if i need to zoom, i have to shift and the pinch to zoom is very buggy. it is difficult to get the zoom where i need it on the image and it regularly causes glitches that alter the image. and i have to zoom out and back in to move when i am zoomed in to or else the new swipe features engage. this is hard on my eyes and hard on my hands that have fucked up joints because it requires a lot more small repetitive motions to do the same thing. this change seems to be mostly conformist to be more like other sites which is disappointing for the hellsite, bit it could easily be made at least accessable if there were an option to have the double tap zoom or even if the bugs on the pinch zoom were fixed.
lastly is the swipe feature. while this is mechanically and aesthetically obnoxious to me i will hold my focus on accessability. it interacts very poorly with the zoom feature, making it hard to navigate the image viewer when zooming is needed. from a dexterity standpoint, it also makes it more difficult to see what i want to see. if my hands a shaking i will sometimes open an image and get an entirely different one because of the algorithm swipe. I've had to scroll back up to three times to get what i actually clicked on because the swipe function is so sensitive and buggy. it is also more difficult to close the image. i often have to give it multiple attempts to close the image because when i swipe down, it doesn't go away and i can't get my back button to come up without it going to a new post. the bugs should be fixed and it needs some mechanical fixes, but this should also be made optional.
tldr for @staff: the new image viewer is deeply inaccessible for visually impaired people and people with dexterity issues and the bugginess makes it so much worse. all of the new features around the image viewer should be made optional for both accessability reasons and aesthetic reasons. i understand the attempt to streamline the site to look and feel more 'modern' but please don't forget that disabled people still want to use this site
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Moots game!
Pair your moots with members of txt you feel like they'd be most suited with <3
so i got this a few days ago ( perchance a week) but the thing is like, im bitchless ( excuse my crude language.) so basically, i have a few moots but like I've never really interacted with them to know them bc im scared of initiating convos. but now like I know a lot (there's like 5-6) of them not bestie level yet ( im waiting!) —so hear it goes!
✸ @itz-yerin — straight up beomgyu, and that's not even because he is her bias. but I genuinely they will vibe sooo good together. like yerin is chill, but also has her moments where she's like super duper bright and she has a very cool, and calming sort of vibrations about her which i think would stimulate beomgyu enough to be hyper also not make him feel like he's being too much to handle, so he can be himself with her.
✸ @mintxts —high key the most softest and cutest person ive ever seen in this hell hole, like so so so empathetic! that's why i believe hyuka and her would be so cute together bc they jusy give off like those radiating sunshine couples who has nothing hut good words for each other and genuinely bring each other and people around them up.
✸ @mazeinthemoon — she is so incredibly talented, and like so cool. i also love how confrontational and so comforting she is, which i think taehyun would love too! ( great segue wi) but like really I think taehyun would really appreciate those qualities, and it would probably make him feel like he has a place where he could get peace. (?) [im an empath i know how taehyun feels]
✸@ox1-lovesick —okay she's fr hilarious and she quotes tiktok a lot ( assumption lmao [i post headcanons for a living you can't take assuming things away from me!]) but i feel like she would, which is why I was like. okay hyuka but they is giving hella best vibes, thats why I wanna pair you up with soobin and just watch him try to like get in the vibes and roll on them cool tiktok trends only for him to bring his radio and bust down I got you by bebe rexha sunbaenim! no but the pair would be so funny to see fr!
✸@1800-beomgyu —omg so freaking nice?!? and for what and so polite while coming off like we've been born on the adjacent hospital beds! (i was a home birth) but as i was saying just so cool and so easy to get along with, she would vibe so well with yeonjun, and might even be nice to him! if she is with her, guys we might get the cocky yeonjun back! honestly would make him feel so welcomed, like yk even in close relationship one might feel like they need to act in a certain way to feel accepted, and that won't be the case with her.
✸ @wezbin — we haven't talked a lot, but she seems so nice and genuinely cute. I've gotta give hyuka to them , they would so cute together. might raise plushies or do those very infuriatingly cute things!
lol and that's a wrap! and ik it's not a tag, but id love to see people do this! im a sucker for this kind of games, like i might just start a rank txt from least to favourite late night ramen cooker and pass it around the community for fun. i love conversations like this!
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stemmmm · 7 months
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i got back from a week long trip so now i've had plenty of time to ruminate on things and im finally ready to see what the fuck this guy has been trying to cook
episode 7 post
ep1 ep2 ep3 ep4 ep5+6
i think i saw a drawing of this guy earlier today except he had boobs
so lion's pretty obviously supposed to be the baby from 19 years ago, right.
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ay ay aY AY AY
oh bah, the way it started out as just the last word in caps for a couple lines made me think dlanor was disguised as shannon or something but nah shes just like a robot or possessed for something.
i feel like ive been told explicitly 15 times that beato was the original beatrice's daughter who kinzo believed was her reincarnated, as if this is the first time im being given this information
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damn bro you look hideous
alright so we're positing that original beatrice was enough of a fascist that she stuck to mussolini even after the rest of the country gave up? ok.
alright alright alright we're talking about whether the axis were cowards based on whether or not they surrendered and how alright.
REALLY FUNNY FOR THE V/O TO STILL BE FULLY JAPANESE WHEN HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE SPEAKING ENGLISH. OH BUT "I CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH" IS?
interesting that this beatrice is using the baby beato voice. I've been trying to get the logic of it, and the best I can figure is that its just... to differentiate? differentiate WHAT exactly, whether its between human beatrices or just the humans and the witch im not sure yet. but I miss her other voice :( the flashback we got of her earlier that I didn't mention also used this voice even though im fairly certain the original version didn't.
i get that its for plot contrivances because beatrice had to get here somehow but WHY on EARTH would someone bring their daughter on an armed military vessel in the middle of a massive war. also because i touched on it earlier i'd like to clarify, i get that the participants in war are not necessarily people who agree with any of it. and even then, your circumstances of birth and pressure from your family will put you in situations out of your control (given, thats what this whole thing has Been About). idk i dont want it to come across as i don't get what's going on or like im an idiot or something. i may also be a bit defensive because i haven't really enjoyed the reading process terribly much in a while and didn't appreciate some of the feedback i've gotten in regards to "just keep reading, you'll like it, youll understand" because i dont think its properly come across that i think i Do understand, im just squicked the fuck out by a lot of things in part 6 and so far haven't seen anything that would allegedly turn my opinion around that much. but there's still a lot left in this to go. im just. bored honestly.
REALLY funny how much "bice" comes off sounding like bitch. all my friends at home call me bitch
oh my god also hilarious. the golds in the submarine isnt it.
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EVEN IF ITS A TOP SECRET BASE WHY THE FUCK DONT YOU HAVE A DOCTOR?
anybody else have to stop and hold their head for a minute every time wildly specific gun specs are listed for no reason whatsoever
anyways this fight over the gold is fun, i figured something was gonna have to happen that got everyone else off that island and left the gold, so this makes as much sense as anything. and feeling the drive to live despite it all after seeing genuine bloodshed for the first time is a little overdone but just fine.
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*curb your enthusiasm theme starts playing* well at least he insisted on taking her to a doctor
ohhhhh we're confirming beato is really and for true kinzo's biological daughter *head in handssss*
PLEASE STOP PINCHING THIS MAN'S ASS!!!
oh my god, first acknowledgement that battler isn't here. i kinda figured since he's always been kinzo's mirror of sorts, he wasn't gonna be here because kinzo was alive. like there's no reason for that to be the case, but to me the logic felt sound. battler and kinzo haven't been in the same place at the same time, at least not in 1986. and it seems that will continue to be the case !!
STOP PINCHING EVERYONES ASSES
lion sucks, actually. wretched personality.
i was holding back on making a joke about how maria talks about beato the way christian billboards exclusively go on about how there's "evidence god exists" or whatever, but now she's reciting the bible word for word so i dont know what to do with my point but i have to share it now. i do like that her point seems to be that because maria doesn't have a father, she is jesus. good for you girl.
BEATOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. and with the voice! ok so definitely that's the witch's voice.
alright this whole scenario can be argued as maria having an imaginary friend about it but if that piece of candy that beato told her to keep as a souvenir and not eat is still in maria's bag, magic is fucking Real.
also beato telling maria to practice basic hygene as her witch traini-- *has a jimmy neutron style brain blast and remembers the 1 (one) shinto shrine i've visited* OH, NO THIS IS A SHINTO THING. OK HELL YEAH. more of beato the "western" witch using japanese magics. i see i see i see.
fellas i may just like witch beato
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Hiiiii !!!
How are you? ^^
I just saw your post from a few months ago ( this one https://at.tumblr.com/a-small-tired-lonely-potato/hi-ive-seen-some-of-your-posts-about-mairuma-and/6c7a5uv63rvk) and since you said that we could ask you about your opinions of different characters I wanted to ask, what do you think of Balam ?
I only watch the anime so I'm not up to date with the manga but I really like him, he's adorable and seems like a really good teacher too !!!!
Balam Shichiro is my favorite Bird Teacher.
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He is one of my favorite characters in the entire show! And I would adore sharing my thoughts on him.
(note, sorry to all for my absence, Christmas time was chaotic and my batteries were hella drained, even doing things I liked doing took waaay to much outta me, hopefully when I finish moving in my mojo will come back)
When Balam first showed up, like when we first meet him in class, I thought he'd only be a teacher with a couple odd quirks that the gremlin side of the fandom would froth at the mouth for.
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I wasn't entirely wrong about that, but I was wrong about him being only that.
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"I showed everyone your wings, not out of malice but it still probably sucked showing people something you might be embarrassed about, and I'm sorry, so you can see something I'm embarrassed about so we can call it even." I thought that was a very sweet gesture to give someone, because Iruma was worried about showing his back, not in the way Balam was thinking but still.
It was just such pure kindness, then we got Iruma's sudden confession after being shocked by that kindness and Balam's reaction just sealed my love for him immediately.
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At first his excitement gets the best of him, I mean if I spent my whole life hearing that the study I was invested in wasn't even real and that I was crazy for spending so much time on it, only to have living, breathing, Talking Proof! I might get overexcited and almost pass out too.
And then he immediately turns on his teacher switch, realizing that Iruma was in incredible danger and had no way to defend himself if the truth came out to someone who shouldn't know and he should be keeping his humaness a SECRET and that Dumb Naive Boy just up and decided to out himself!!! For What??!? TEA!? KINDNESS!?!
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And ends up chastising the boy for hours
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And you know what? I'd do that too, That confession scene gave me a heart attack Iruma, what in Delkira's name were you thinking?! Thank God you stumbled upon the ONE demon who wouldn't immediately eat your dumbass.
And after that my love does nothing but grow every time we meet, he has such pure honest dad energy
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I adore his vibes.
The first thing he does is make sure no one else knows so he can guarantee Iruma's safety, for no other reason then Iruma is his student and is an endangered precious species and he has a responsibility to keep the boy safe and help him grow.
He makes picture books for Iruma when he hears he's having problems with studying so he can make sure he has the knowledge to survive the demon realm, and from there on becomes Iruma's closest ally and confidant, at least in Bablys.
He can't tell any of his friends or his other teachers about him being a human, and while Grandpa Sully is sweet he can't always be there for Iruma, neither can Opera. So Balam becomes his de-facto guardian, and then also becomes someone he can talk to when he's unsure.
And while I loved him in the Walter Park Arc my favorite moment of him comes much later.
There are spoilers ahead so I'm gonna make a block in orange so you can skip if you dont wanna get spoiled for it.
~~~~~~~~DONT READ! HERE BE SPOILERS!~~~~~~~~~~
So after the HeartBreaker exam Balam calls Iruma to his office to give him a full check up (He's probably become his doctor since he's the closest thing the demon realm has to a human expert now that i think about it) and after checking up on him he drops some bitter truth on our boy.
He brings up the attack by one of the teachers, and that even though two other students were attacked with one being injured, the teacher was primarily searching for and targeting Iruma.
He brings up that the teacher more likely then not, has figured out that Iruma was a human, and he gives Iruma two options going forward. Either seek out the Border Patrol to send him back home to the human realm, or stay by Sulivan's side under lock and key for the rest of his lifespan.
Iruma, when faced with two options he doesn't like, does what he usually does, and makes his own option. He decides to devote himself to getting stronger so he can stay with his friends and be safe.
Balam then admits it was a test of Iruma's conviction, and to make sure he understood the danger he was in.
And it just melted my heart, because he truly cared about Iruma at that moment, and wanted him to be safe, but also wanted him to follow the path he wants.
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Other then that, his relationship with Kalego as being each other Best Tolerants (I fully believe Kalego would die before he admits to caring) gives me life, and I love how different their relationships with Opera are!
The one problem I have with Balam isn't even with Balam himself, It's with Sullivan, Because Balam's Bloodline Magic is BUZZER, A lie Detector Magic. Didn't think maybe Iruma might've wanted a warning about the One Demon who could for SURE out him?!? No heads up on that??? Thanks For Nothing you useless Grandpa.
Balam's protective nature and kind demeanor coupled with his immense power and frighting appearance reminds me of my Father, Whom every single person we meet is terrified of because he's 6 feet of pure muscle and his resting face looks like death, but he's really just a big teddy bear! Anything that reminds me of Dad is great to see in manga because usually dads in anime and manga suck so Balam gets all the love points!!
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Very Dad Behavior, well done.
I love his closeness with Sabnock and Azz-Azz when he becomes their personal tutor in the Forest arc, he really shows how much he cares about his students. He just wants the best for them.
And yeah! I just adore our Bird Teacher, he's the best and can do no wrong. We stan a King.
Thank you for the ask! I love blabbing about WTDSIK and am hoping to get back in the saddle on answers! Love that people are enjoying my incessant long ramblings!
Peace out Babes!
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carcass-confessions · 7 months
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Soooo I really have no idea fully how the tumblr ecosystem works and idk who would even benefit from hearing this, but
I'm still pretty new here (a lil under 2 months since i joined). Apparently, as ive discovered from a lot of posts on my dash, every awful change that's been made was with the intent of bringing in new people like myself.
I hate the layout on desktop. I can only tolerate the layout on mobile (although idk if it was changed at all because I haven't seen as much about it.
Besides a couple cool people I've met here, the (and I can't emphasize this enough) ONLY thing that's keeping me here is the naive hope that eventually whatever person or team that's in charge of keeping the site Running and providing Fun Updates finally realizes that everything that's been changed has totally removed the things that, in my experience, drew people to the platform at all in the first place, and change it back.
I've never used twitter, Instagram, tiktok, or reddit because the formatting and aggressive ecosystems (mostly follower counts and all that, and also generally being perceived so intensely) drove me away, but of course I finally make a tumblr and wouldn't you know it I joined right when the desktop format was made identical to twitter
side note whats uhhh,, whats up with the nsfw bots? i thought yall didnt like nsfw??? why are there nameless boobies following me in my notifications????
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vamossainz55 · 7 months
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So glad we’re in agreement on the parents topic! 😄
I think those people who hold what Carlos’ parents do against him are mostly the same group of people who hate Carlos on principle, nitpicking everything he does or says 🤷‍♀️ I imagine they want to be bullies in real life but are too afraid of consequences so they resort to social media to live out their mean girl fantasies online where you can say anything without any repercussions (unless you’re a celeb I guess). It’s the sad reality we live in. He gets hate when he’s realistic in interviews about ferrari’s results which somehow means he doesn’t have a champion mentality, but when he says he wants to win - he’s totally delusional. Like, pick a struggle, people haha. Or like drama the other day, that he hasn’t been a Ferrari fan since birth therefore isn’t as worthy of support as Charles. Just all these stupid things that make my head explode every time I see it. Why would anyone waste their time posting obsessively about someone they don’t like? I will never understand.
Again, I’m not talking about all Charles fans of course, just those hardcore stans that dedicate their socials to Carlos hate more than to supporting their fav. I like to believe that in a couple of years they’ll look back on what they were doing and be ashamed and learn to never do it again to anyone, celeb or not.
I also want to say that I’m sad that Carlos barely posts on social media himself but at the same time I hope it means he doesn’t see all this stuff, because when this kind of animosity is directed towards you over the silliest things, I think it’s harder to get over it in a way, because you can’t explain it logically to yourself…
so so glad we are in agreement about the parents thing too, i feel like so many people lose touch of reality and forget that theyre humans who have family, friends, that arent a full representation of them 😫.
you might get me introuble w the whole charles thing but… i agree. some (not all at all) are very questionable. i do think they actively as you mentioned spend more time talking abt carlos then their fav which ? why 😭 (ive mainly seen it on f1twt tbh). like the online hate is ridiculous- i also recently realised its really reserved online? i had this perspective that so many of the tifosi disliked carlos but the whole monza weekend he was so so loved. i was so surprised until i realised its literally a problem that mainly exists online 💀.
but im gonna be honest as well, charles as well gets quite a bit of hate. after monza i saw it increase a bit, which i do not stand for and i think overall that those people online should take their heads out of their ass and focus on bringing their favorite driver up than tearing another one down. you can support your favorite driver without rooting for the downfall of another. can your driver only be good/better if the other driver is shitty? is that the image you want? i also agree anon, they’re probably repressed irl and need to release negativity through comments.
i really miss how active carlos was on social media, im sad that i missed his mclaren era and just posting for fun. ofc we get the occasional post here and there but the vibe is really different. but yeah- at the end of the day it might be better that he doesnt see the hate but at the same time i dont think it changes much bc hed still be online… just not posting as often. im just kind of sad we see less of his personality more than anything else ):
anyways this ended up soooo long hehe. hope it wasnt too much but waa i love these types of discussions
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No but fr. Kandrew win. Let me EXPLAIN Gansey and Ronan to you (the characters that post is about) so you can know how much
So Richard Campell Gansey III is a fancy rich boy who believes he has a Destiny™. He died once and a ghost told him has to find a Lost Ancient King and so he built his entire personality around that. Also he is going to die again but that's nbd
Ronan Lynch is an ANGRY rich boy. His dad was murdered a couple years back and his life has spiraled out of control since, including the dreams/nightmares he kind of brings to reality once in a while, and a lot of drag racing and other general bad ideas.
They are BEST friends. They go to the same private school. When Ronan was on his self-destruction spiral, Gansey saved him from being killed by a nightmare and they have been attached at the hip since. Ronan goes on countryside walks to satisfy Gansey's obsession. The only time Gansey, a famously moral person, did shady things was to keep Ronan on school and therefore by his side. He also punched a man to defend him once. They would die for each other.
There are more parallels than this but it would get too long. You can even cast Adam as Neil.
The best part of trc is that literally every relantioship is too unhinged not to be a little romantic. They are all canonically in love with each other
HAHA THIS WAS SO SERIOUS AND PASSIONATE youve convinced me anon youve already convinced me on the first line i believe in you! dearly and honestly!
because of this i did pick up trc again! i do have some thoughts so far and youre right adam can be cast as neil because they have a very interesting brand of self-flagellation and snark! also very observant and somehow detached from it? can't quite explain it but i really see it!
gansey oh well ive always liked him :) reading trc now ive really only grown more fond of him, hes smart and beautiful and gentle........ i dont know yet about him being anything alike kevin but i do really see how his little gangly pack of mutts' loyalty for him is alike to how andrew and neil (and jean!) look at kevin..... i think perhaps gansey is a manic pixie dream girl-fied version of kevin, which is not quite how he is in reality, but is definitely how the remains of the perfect court see kevin! so in a way they are the same. but more so kevin is a shadow of ganseys shadow if that makes sense
and for ronan i was surprised at how much i actually liked him! ive seen him going around on tumblr and well i need you to know i dont trust bald men or even men with buzzcuts so in my first read of him back in 2020 i didnt like ronan at all. now that im older and more mature and such i do like him a lot though! he is angry and child-like which i see in andrew, but because he is so undeniably 16 years old about it there is an earnestness to him andrew has since lost. nevertheless i really see how he trails after gansey like a puppy on a leash so yeah in the end. kandrew
as a final and perhaps funny consideration i think kevins trcsona might actually be blue.... a little gruff and clumsy and moved by a lot of guilt (im only on book one!) but still with a lot more bite than youd expect..... im not yet sure though. just throwing ideas around. for now lets stick to gansey
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heartsick-honeybee · 1 year
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@skye707 tagged me! Hopefully that means I'll catch a stray Riddler..
CMON Arkhamverse, fingers crossed! Jkjk.
Ten of my favorite movies in no particular order!
This was hard af actually because as soon as I read it I forgot every movie ive ever seen. Suddenly, all cinema ceased to exist. Thanks brain.
That being said I did my best as-per my recollection and am probably missing things I quite love. Woopsie.
Rules: post 10 of your favorite movies and tag 10 people.
#1: Fantasia (1941)
This one has been my favorite since I was 2 years old. Beautiful art, Disney, and Classical music. It's just a win.
#2: The Phantom of the Opera (2005)
This is all of nothing like the book and my 15 year old emo ass really wanted Christine to go with the phantom despite all the red flags.
Now that I'm an adult I think they'd have been a lovely poly couple, and Erik needs counselling. That being said it's still one of my top favorite movies ever.. Who knew Emmy Rossom and Gerard Butler could SING?
I still love to play it and sing every word, the absolute chagrin of my daughter.
#3: Queen of the Damned (2002):
Anne Rice, Vampires, a soundtrack that quite possibly shaped my entire music taste for life--
This movie is honestly terrible, but in a SO bad its GOOD way. Cult classic 100%.
For an emo 12 year old in the early 2000's this was the best shit EVER, right there beside MCR.
#4: Pride and Prejudice (2005):
SOMETHING ABOUT ME: I love books. I love THIS book. and I love this movie based on this book. -- Mr. Darcy, you are a charmer.
#5: Yellow Submarine (1968):
Another one that's been a top favorite since I was only 2 years old.
I grew up on Beatles, and before I was emo (Around 9 years old) I had a hippy phase where I only wore tie-die and listened to 60s music, with Beatles being my top. This throws me back to them days every time.
#6: Minority Report (2002)
Let's get this out of the way first: Tom Cruise is batshit crazy as a person. I completely acknowledge this. That being said I think this movie is very well done and has a very valid moral that can forever apply to society and social justice as a whole.
It also had a very short run TV Mini series in 2015 (Without Cruise) that was a continuation/sequel of the movie, which I ABSOLUTELY loved just as much. There is only 10 episodes and I was SO sad it was cancelled
#7: Encanto (2021)
By far the newest one on this list.
Good music.
I'm in love with a 50yr old RAT man.
What else can I say?
#8: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Another book turned movie,
ANYTHING Shakespeare is always iconic, but I think this version is absolutely my favorite. Perfect casting, perfect acting, and Dr. Willson from House is one of the main characters! (You may also recognize Professor Trelawney and Professor Lockhart from Harry Potter as your two main characters. <3 When HP first came out I can tell you I was SO excited for something different than what everyone else was because It was awesome to see them together in the same movie again, for me, since I loved this farrrrr first.
#9: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
a 90s classic, and ALSO a modern adaptation of another Shakespeare story: The Taming of the Shrew.
It's was very well done, modernizing (For the time) while still sticking to the story. Great cast, great acting, and an icon of the 1990s despite being a story of the 1590s.
I think this movie hit home in a way that other modern Shakespeare adaptations (Such as Romeo + Juliet (1996) and She's the Man 2006)) Missed the mark on. (Although, did you remember Channing Tatum was in that? I didn't! Haha.)
#10: Digimon: The Movie (2000)
Why? I can't tell you why. When this came out was at the height of me being super into Digimon. The art is different from the show in a way that I just vibe with. The entire movie just has a VIBE to it and it brings back good memories. ALL THE GOOD VIBES.
Honorable Mentions:
Counting these as ONE:
Batman (1989) Batman Returns(1992) Batman Forever (1995) Batman & Robin (1997)
SO despite having 3 different Batmans and only two being directed by Tim Burton, these movies ARE supposed to go together.
They are hokey, and for the most part I consider them a comedic AU, HOWEVER, that will never override a few things:
Firstly, these movies are what got me into Batman and Batverse originally, before the animated series came out.
Secondly, the animated series came out BECAUSE of these movies, and was at least loosely based on them (Which is why Selina was blonde in TAS, to tie in, though they later rectified that in TNBA)
And three, the ENTIRE aesthetic of the movie AND the musical scores being by Danny Elfman are their own works of absolute art that I will ALWAYS appreciate.
@caesariawrites @pharoahkittylover @arttimeoccasionallyimtired @just-an-enby-lemon @finzphoenix @geislieb @coffeeandconundrums @ednyxmatic @sh4pes-4nd-colors @spookyvoid
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