#but then I’m gonna play every video game at the same time and also write and also read!!!

[thatdeadaquarius]

Topic: Genshin impact.

au: Sagau.

idea: So what if you had the powers of every character you played as in every game you played and then get isekaid into genshin impact with imposter au. I imagine it goes smth like

Zhongli: “I will have order!”

reader, Who played Roblox as someone who lagged the game (explanation: I’m pretty sure ping is also how time works in games. If you can control the flow of ping you can control the flow of time in games.): “ZA WARUDO!”

Heyyy!! Thanks for waiting for the reply/response from my slow ass :0

So they did clarify what they meant/expand so imma just copy paste that here!

“k now I remember. So basically imma write it here since it’s easier: Basically you don’t have to (but you can) transform into the character that has those set of powers but if you do those powers are enhanced.”

Sun: Reader (”you”/they/them)

Orbit: Headcanons-ish, Light Imposter AU (as in, NOT Yandere/Dark), mild crossover elements bc Shapeshifter Shenanigans™️

Stars: bro idek

Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: mild cussing, genshin typical mild violence, & Trigger Warnings: none known.

Please comment if I missed any. /gen

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so fair warning,, ive never seen jojo bizarre, but i appreciate i come off well-read/watched? LMAO

so im just gonna kinda,, guess? like just cycle thru diff. random media, and im hoping both me and you reading this will have a fun time (as this is a little challenge, but i like it so ill give it a shot, dont kno if its a good one but- 😅)

so to set the scene, of how u got to this point, ykno of running like ur life (maybe?) depends on u running around different teyvat countries,

u thought it was weird everyone knew a little too much about you?? (ofc theyve heard u during gaming, they know u the same way we all know Markiplier, get it?)

then a bunch of NPCs/Vision users/Archons?? were REALLY invested in talking to you, which freaked u out even more

and by the time you saw Zhongli, yknow, just the oldest god in game, making a fast-walk towards you, ykno the retired god who didnt move an inch when an old water god attacked Liyue for a test, is now hurrying to you???

ur logically get so fucking scared sm shits abt to go down, u just start running

it isnt until ur reaching for a ledge and some webbing shoots out of ur arm (from a glitchy little spot on ur arm, where it could be coming out of ur skin, but sometimes its a blue and red bracelet)

it latched onto the nearest building, and thats how u find out u can grapple ur way, literally Spiderman style, out of the harbor

and bro, idk if it would be fun, or confusing and stressful, or maybe both?? to just find out u can use any video game power from any game youve played before as you go running from countries bc for some freaky reason they know too much abt you/are pursuing you-

dUDE- they had small statues of you in like every little section of their cities

u head to Mondstadt and as Venti comes screaming and flying at you (in excitement, but ur freaked), u go to hold a hand up and suddenly ur holding a heavy stone tablet that unleashes some holographic yellow chains that freeze him in place-?? why is this familiar-

oh my god u have the sheikah slate from Breath of the Wild,

and as ur booking it out of there, u manage to get ahold of a sword, and u know exactly how to use it to knock back favonius knights trying to stop you (they are concerned for their god who is just unleashing random powers on ppl, pls let Grandmaster Jean just talk to you Your Majesty-!!)

by the time you teleport ur way to Inazuma, (bc u still have this worlds access to ur player/traveler’s powers), ur trying to find a nice place to stay for a little bit

at least in that sweet spot of the Raiden not noticing/finding you, while things cool down on the main continent, before moving on,

and u get some tools to help fashion just a little shelter, bc u dont have any money/mora rn, and ur able to literally build a house???

a mailbox pops up and thanks you for renting with Tom Nook???? As in Animal Crossing-

and rlly if the BOTW/slate thing didnt clue u into video game powers, then this definitely would tbh lmao

right as u see Yae Miko circling ur house, with an armful of books? ..is she planning to thru them at you??, u get the hell out of dodge before her favorite god can follow along

(she knows ur prefrences in books and got authors/trends to start so youd have plenty to read, and she was making sure it was ur house before politely dropping them off! how was she to know thatd spook their favorite God, Ei?!)

u get to Sumeru and think ur safe, hiding in an abandoned forest watcher outpost (1 person treehouse rlly) when Nahida shows up in ur dreams,

and u just,

walk out of the dream, into reality, and possess a nearby ruin guard so u can sleep in peace, bc she cant access a robot,

that one baffled u as you re-possessed ur own body before realizing-

Five Nights at Freddy’s. 💀

U cant do that forever, so u try Fontaine, hoping Neuvillette/Furina wont rlly give af abt you, plus theyre the latest region, so maybe they have the least exposure to whatever the other archons didnt like abt you??

u get there and are immediately summoned to court, and right as the mekas show up to escort you, jfc they have a mecha army

(meanwhile, theyre thinking, yknow. high profile guest/our god of gods. ofc we need state of the art mekas to escort them, its only polite-)

meanwhile ur cape has now become wings, and a mask covers ur face as you glide and fly ur way over the city in an attempt to get to where u assume Snezhnaya is

it doesnt occur to you the game until ur running out of stamnia and catch ur reflection in the waters of fontaine, Sky: Children of the Light

u hope the Tsaritsa’s dislike for other gods/Celestia doesnt extend to ur otherworldly presence so ur just hoping for the best atp tbh

tbh youd forget what all powers you have, and the absolute chaos ur causing urself as u try to desperately rememeber what games youve played thru ur entire life is NOT helping to reduce confusion when u randomly wake up with elf ears (legend of zelda/botw) or get dragged into another ruin machine when u fall asleep/faint/do smth u guess mimics death lmao- (fnaf) 💀

…

(meanwhile the Tsaritsa does get wind ur coming this way, and just, makes the people have a parade/festival to celebrate you coming,

she did also have to get Pierro/Captaino to physically restrain some of them from going ahead to meet/escort you to the palace, she’d heard how the others scared u off, and was, ironically, hoping the warm welcome would clear things up)

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well that was, something. 😃🫠

sorry lil car, that was such a fun idea idk if i did it justice!! i thought itd be too op to include every media youve consumed ever, so i kept it to video games, (which, could u cheat the system if youve played smash bros??)

i hope it was at least a decent read, and sorry im half asleep so i was not v funny this time around, but, again, hope u got smth out of it 😭

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on another note, im having my wisdom teeth surgery this friday, send whatever u got my way, prayers, blessings, good vibes, ill take anything im nervous 🙃

have a good week guys!

Safe Travels Lil Car,

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[moralesmilesanhour]

Ooo hi, can you write something with gamer/streamer Miles G? Maybe he and the reader just chill and play games talking about life or whatever.

streamer miles!

Ok this went in a sliiightly different direction but the general premise is the same i hope that's ok lmao (also lowkey trying a new writing style/approach)

A/N: comment which animal crossing villager you think miles would like if u want 🫶🏾

You only really see a fraction of a person online. 

The messy, disagreeable thoughts that don’t fit into a neat little post, every time you’ve ever tripped over something and ate shit, all of your worst outfits - none of it exists if you don’t make it known. If you decide you’ve never stumbled over your own feet a day in your life, then it’s so. No one’s gonna claw their way through your screen and check.

For example, you had never seen Miles Morales smile with his teeth before until you clicked on his livestream, and none of his viewers would ever be able to guess.

He was laughing at some joke being made in the chat. 

“Y’all are terrible,” he said, wiping a tear from his eye.

Miles’ stream had been recommended to you by the ever-mysterious, totally-not-creepy algorithm ‘based on your location’, and the thumbnail with his dimples on full display piqued your curiosity.

He’d been passing by once when you accidentally dropped your books and folders while rushing to class. He knelt down and picked them up without a word, dropping them into your hands in a much neater stack than they had originally been in, from largest to smallest. 

Your eyes met for less than two seconds, but you could’ve sworn that there was a softness to them that couldn’t be caught from a distance. 

“Thanks!” you called out as the late bell rang. He only nodded before turning away, not bothering to walk any faster.

You never spoke to him again, having no idea what you’d even say. He rarely spoke outside of class, but you had assumed that based on the way he skulked down the hallway and the permanent ‘I’m bored’ look on his face, that he’d be playing something a little more…serious? ‘God of War’ maybe, or ‘Last of Us’. Or some sports-related game that you couldn’t understand.

Certainly not ‘Animal Crossing’.

Tentatively, your fingers hovered over the keyboard as the stream of comments began to slow, and you wondered if he’d be more likely to see it if you commented this instant.

–Who’s ur favorite villager?

There, nice and simple. Inoffensive.

Miles squinted his eyes at what was presumably a second monitor.

“Who’s my favorite villager?” His brows furrowed in confusion for a moment before he put two and two together. “Oh! You mean the li’l animals and shit. Um, the blue penguin? Ace? I like him.”

You sat back and watched him play for another fifteen minutes, most of which were spent figuring out what direction a couch sitting inside his virtual home should face. His voice was low and almost raspy, but…muted. As if someone had turned the volume down on it like you would the radio. He was fortunate to own a decent microphone.

–You got your own PC? 

It seems you got lucky a second time, and Miles paused to read your comment aloud once again.

“Yyup,” he answered proudly. “Put it together myself. I’ll do a tour one day. My setup is wavy, you’ll see!”

He continued going back and forth with the comments in chat, occasionally thanking some for making small donations. The fact of him making anything at all just from playing a video game was impressive. 

Miles remarked on the ‘classical style’ of one of the buildings on his island, and you snorted. Nerd.

–bro thinks he’s an architect

This made him giggle. A light, breathy sound that you would hardly expect to come out of him.

“You’re a hater, man. Watch me get hired as soon as I’m outta college and build yo’ next apartment building.”

You looked down at your phone and realized it was nearly one in the morning. With a yawn, you said your goodbyes in the comments and left the stream.

-

The cafeteria was full by the time you got downstairs, leaving not a single space on the white benches save for two completely empty ones near the back. 

Well, not completely empty.

As you weaved in between students carrying trays of slop with milk cartons, a familiar pair of cornrows came into view.

It’s now or never.

Timidly, you slid onto the bench right beside Miles. Focused on his meal and the tattered sketchbook he carried around, he looked up at you with just his eyes.

“Hey,” you tried to greet him casually with an awkward smile. “I saw you ye–I mean, I…I saw you. In general.”

His blinked slowly. “We all go to the same school.”

You cleared your throat.

“...Right. We-uh, met in the hallway.”

“You dropped all your books on the floor.”

“Yeah!” you replied a little too loudly. “I just, um, wanted to say hi.”

“...hi.”

There was a stretch of silence as you sifted through a list of topics to rescue the conversation, and a lightbulb went off.

“Do you have any hobbies? Other than drawing, I mean.”

Miles gave up on sketching and answered, “Video games.”

“Which ones you been playing recently?”

“Uh, Mortal Kombat, 2K,” he counted on his fingers, “and Animal Crossing, just to see what it was about–”

“Oh, you’re really good at that one!”

You both froze. Uh-oh.

“And how exactly do you know that?”

“I-I mean, you just…look…like the type?” 

You started frantically chipping away at the remaining nail polish on your fingers. Not even you could believe that one.

A tiny grin played on his lips. 

“Sure, let’s go with that.”

Soon the bell rang, saving you from making any further incriminating comments.

“See you in class?”

“Yeah, see you in class,” Miles replied, before tilting his head. “Or wherever I see you.”

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[pickles4nickles]

So I’ve been watching playthroughs of Yakuza games for a while now, but when I saw that the newest game takes place in Hawai’i, the place where I was born, raised, and have lived in for nearly 30 years now, I knew that this was something I had to have first-hand experience with and not let some guy tell me how to feel about it, to put it bluntly.

I went on a month and a half long journey to finish this game, so I sat around for a bit like

Jesus Christ I should write a review on it.

So if you’d like to read about 5k words on what I thought about The Video Game™, here you go.

Overall, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a really really good game. However, as Hawai’i local it was kind of hard for me to turn my brain off to some of the cultural inaccuracies and as someone who tends to play smaller indie games, I clocked in about 110 hours on this and I burned out a little towards the end.

GAMEPLAY

Let’s get into Gameplay first because I think I have the most positive thoughts about it. If you haven’t heard my thoughts about Pokemon lately, it mostly boils down to “It’s the only RPG I’ve really been playing in recent years and the gameplay has been very watered down and I yearn for a decent PvE experience.” This game definitely scratched that itch in more ways than one.

Infinite Wealth’s turn-based combat system revolves around positioning. Some moves have an AoE of either a straight line or a circle. Positioning a character next to an ally will proc a combo move with them and positioning them near items will proc an item attack where you can beat a guy to death with a traffic cone or something.

The job system is robust. Every character starts off with a default class- Ichiban’s is Hero, an all-rounder that can pretty much do anything; characters like Nanba and Eric (I know the game calls him Tomi or Tomizawa, but I’m not the game and “Fuckin’ Eric” sounds way better than “Fuckin’ Tomi”) are magic-oriented, so they’re basically wizards by default. You can change their class to other jobs (Desperado is my favorite because it’s basically gun mage), which unlocks new skills as you level them up. You can also change jobs as much as you want and skills carry over between them, so there’s a bit of moveset mixing and matching that makes my brain feel good.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, (the Yakuza devs, which we’re just gonna abbreviate to RGG from here on out) have always been REALLY good at asset reuse (again, I cast a dirty look to Game Freak). They’ll make a whole-ass map of a region and reuse that same map for several games down the line. Not only do you spend a significant time in Ijincho again and not only do you go to Kamurocho for little bit… AGAIN, but there are two… what I can only call “macro” games that have the best asset reuse I’ve seen in, like, maybe anything ever.

DONDOKO ISLAND

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes with a whole-ass Animal Crossing clone that’s also kind of The Sims called Dondoko Island. In this, you rehab an island that’s being used as a dump for some trash pirates (no, seriously, they’re actually pirates, yar har and everything) back into a five star resort. There’s a whole-ass crafting system where you go around the island, harvesting resources, to build furniture and facilities, which include whole-ass buildings which have appeared in past Yakuza games. The crafting system is GREATLY improved over Animal Crossing: New Horizon in that you can skip the goddamn animation and craft multiple of the same items at once. You don’t even have to have all the materials in your inventory, it’ll take it from your storage. Placing items in the world is also in an overhead view and the only grievance I have with the system is that placing paths is really weird and you can only place a limited number of them. But overall, Nintendo, was it really that hard to put into the video game. Why did you make AC:NH disrespect my time in that way?

Once the island has been cleaned up enough, you can start inviting guests over, which all have their own set of preferences for the vibe of your island (rustic, pop, sleazy, etc), their lodging quality, and how much of the island’s flora and fauna (and minerals, I guess??) you’ve discovered.

I really really liked Dondoko Island because who am I to say no to a management mini/macro game with decoration elements. I mostly really appreciate that it doesn’t waste your time. I wanna say I finished it in like less than 20 hours… which is not short for a game within a game (actually, that’s insane for a game within a game), but for a game of this genre, it’s pretty short.

There’s also an entire separate mini-island that further helps you with efficiently running your island by passively collecting resources over time and just being a general stockpile of bugs and fish to catch. But I can’t talk about this part without talking about…

SUJIMON

A returning character voiced by Keith Silverstein in the English dub – yes, that Keith Silverstein, who voices Masayoshi Shido of Persona 5 and Zhongli of The Genshin Impact™ is a professor who documents the behavior of weird and often hostile middle aged men, called Sujimon. When Ichiban goes to Hawai’i, he asks him to also document the native Sujimon there as there’s a prominent Sujimon scene there. Mans wasn’t kidding as there is an underground, more or less ilicit Sujimon fight club called The Sujimon League with its own Elite Four called The Discrete Four.

In the previous game, Sujimon was just your bestiary (literally called the Sujidex), but now it’s a whole-ass game, which I can mostly only describe as simplified Yokai Watch, but a glorified card game. Just so we’re not here for forever talking about middle-aged men cockfights… because I can talk about the mechanics and inner workings of middle-aged men cockfights for a hot minute, Sujimon League basically operates on a 3v3, with an additional bench of 3, rock-paper-scissors kind of system. You’ll need strong Sujimon to get through this macro game and you’ll recruit new guys through four ways- through random fights on the map, through literal Pokemon GO raids, through a gacha system, and through combining Sujimon of the same type into stronger Sujimon (don’t think too hard about that one). I had a LOT of fun with this and, again, it scratched an itch I’ve had for a while. Almost all of the Sujimon are just guys you’ll fight in-game, so, again, an excellent use of asset reuse.

Sujimon smoothly integrates into Dondoko Island in a way that makes Palworld look even more balls-less than it already is. You know that little island I was talking about a few paragraphs back? That’s Dondoko Farm. You can put your Sujimon to work on it! As you’re running around on Dondoko Island, letting it consume your life, your Sujimon will grow crops, scrounge around for resources, and earn some cash for you. The island also has some resources to help with Sujimon League by leveling them up with a small investment of some dondoko bucks and your time, but also a Pokemon-Amie type mini-mini game that helps strengthen the friendship of your current Sujimon team.

Yes.

This game lets you pet-

The sweaty, weirdo middle-aged men.

Don’t think about it too hard.

Especially don’t think about it too hard when you have a Sujimon on your team that uses Xander Mobus’ voice clips.

Anyway, there’s also another minigame called Sicko Snap, which is basically Pokemon Snap with Sujimon. It’s a good one, too.

STORY

I guess… the best way I’d explain my feelings on Infinite Wealth’s story is

Objectively, this is an okay story. Like, it’s par for the course for a Yakuza game. I have a lot of personal grievances with this plot which I’ll fully unsheathe my blade for in the next section, but for now I’ll just say… this game is basically Hawaii Five-O crammed into a Yakuza game and that was an emotional rollercoaster ride that I’m not sure I enjoyed.

Like a Dragon’s main theme is “Even if you hit rock bottom, it’s never too late to get back up again” and that’s something I hold near and dear to my heart.

They have used this theme to my benefit and to my dismay as this also apparently means it’s never too late for ~*Romance*~ which, sure, yeah, okay, true, but did it have to be Ichiban and Saeko?

I’m trying to give the game the benefit of the doubt because… to me, it’s mostly one-sided (as in, like, Saeko’s willing to give him a chance, but isn’t as crazy for Ichiban as he is for her) and, like, dude is allowed to have a crush. But from what I have seen… because I never got around to finishing her Drink Link (I was gonna but I’m like really burned out on the game), they kinda strap C4 to the Bechdel Test and raze a village to the ground with it when it comes to Saeko’s character arc because most of her dialogue and interactions are about The Incident with Ichiban, which sucks because she had more character than just a romance interest for the protagonist in the previous game. If you’re also REALLY not into this plot point like I am, the story DOES NOT let you forget that this indeed happened as it seems to be a plot thread that might continue into the next game as well.

Needless to say, I don’t ship it, and I don’t get to block tags and just walk away from this one.

The game also kinda keeps nudging at, “Hehe, Chitose’s pretty cute too, right?” to which I say

Yes I understand she’s of legal age but she’s only like 21 AT MOST and Ichiban’s like 40-something you stop with that.

It doesn’t feel like Ichiban really had a character arc in this… unless you count “proposing on the first date” to “saying I love you on a redo and then being weird about it again” as character growth. He went to Hawai’i, had some shenanigans, found mom, got backstabbed again, fought the cult (which I’ll be really salty about in the next section), went back home to help Eiji’s character arc. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just… Ichiban went on another adventure. And it was ok. I think maybe the game was sizing him up to, again, take Kiryu’s place and be The Hero, but… we already did that already? And I’m not even sure if the game was able to complete that message by the end of the game.

Kiryu probably got the most character development out of this game and talking this over with my friend Andrew, he brought up that it kinda wasn’t fair that this is supposed to be Ichiban’s game, but he had to share half of it with Kiryu. And I agree. His sections were also really hard to get into if you haven’t been a longtime fan. Again, I have a decent amount of Yakuza knowledge, but with Kiryu’s memories, a LOT of it went over my head.  It seems like RGG’s been trying to retire him as a protagonist for like three games now and MAYBE this time they’ll actually do it after this victory lap they’ve given him. But he did learn that “my friends are my power” and “never ever give up, you still have time to do better.” And you know what, that’s rad.

As far as the villains go, just, I dunno, they’re fine? Ebina and Eiji are very “okay bitch, stay mad, then,” and it’s. Fine? My only complaint is that Ebina’s arc felt like it was under-seasoned before they put it in the oven to cook and they could’ve peppered it on a little earlier in the game or something. Bryce’s entire deal I may have taken a little too personally, but that’s for later. Dwight was literally just Danny Trejo doing a villain role and I have absolutely no qualms with it. He was fun to watch.

The supporting cast was fun as always. Eric I hated at first, but he grew on me in the same way that, like, I’d bully a friend. Chitose I also kinda hated at first, was very sus of, but then she had a character arc that was pretty good. The Yokohama gang didn’t really have character arcs to them, but they were still fun to hang out with nonetheless. We got to learn a little bit more about Seonhee and she’s really fun. Both her and Zhao, who is my favorite for several reasons, are really really fun characters as they are both crime bosses (former, in Zhao’s case) who are BIG FUCKING WEIRDOS and I love them for it.

Joongi Han becomes a party member WAY too late in my opinion that, in a way, he’s technically an optional party member, or at least like getting a Dratini right before the Pokemon League in Gold/Silver/Crystal. He had some fun character moments, but felt kinda like an afterthought.

But also, ain’t no way he got his Hawai’i clothes at Hilo Hattie. There’s no way.

To wrap up my thoughts on the main story, I’d just like to say: the plot point that they sailed to Japan on a little tugboat in a handful of hours as opposed to WEEKS is peak Hawaii Five-O vibes and it infuriates me, but everyone kept telling me “it’s okay, the coast guard picked them up, like, halfway” and I will sit down and not start a fistfight over it. And just. That was the vibe of the game for me. Just… alternating between a J-Drama and Hawaii Five-O.

I don’t really have much to say about the substories except that they’re either almost Oscar-worthy material or they’re a snoozefest that I just tabbed through. I can really only think of three substories off the top of my head that were EXCELLENT, though - Nancy and Olivia, the artificial snow quest (THIS ONE IS EMOTIONAL WHIPLASH), and the traveling aquarium one. The rest I mostly just tabbed through because they were just……. Eh. But I think I’m okay with that since we have Sujimon and Dondoko to make up for it.

THE CULTURAL GRIEVANCES

So as I type this section out, I run my hands over my face to remind myself and say

This is a game that takes place in Hawai’i from a Japanese perspective, written primarily for a Japanese audience and I assume that certain things may come from a place of ignorance, but not maliciousness.

Hey Tumblr.

I want you to read that first bolded sentence again.

Because I know how you guys are with reading comprehension.

But that being said, as a Hawai’i-born Chinese person, there’s quite a lot about the Hawai’i cultural aspects of this game that I have problems with. If you wanna see me roast this game, you can stick around, but if not… Here is your chance to bail.

I’ve tried my best to write this in a way where I look at the thing that pissed me off and ask myself,  “Am I taking this too seriously or do I actually have a problem with it?” and write more or less objectively, but some of it might still come off as overly caustic. Just. I tried.

And after a deep breath,

Ho brah,

We go.

WHAT IS HAWAIIAN CULTURE, ANYWAY?

To start off, I’m not sure if RGG knows the difference between being a Hawai’i local and actually being of Hawaiian blood…? The game mentions at the very beginning that Akane is half-Japanese… and half-Hawaiian, which makes Ichiban one-fourth Hawaiian, which makes ME kinda… squint. Like, we’d need to know more about Akane’s backstory, but if you know anything about indigenous cultures, finding someone who’s half native is HARD nowadays. Akane also looks pretty light skinned for someone who’s allegedly half-Japanese, half-Hawaiian but that’s just my tiny nitpick?

I’m also… not sure what kinda research RGG did on Hawaiian last names because some of the ones I see on random enemies are kinda… 

Who is that

What is that

I have never seen anyone named that in my entire life

Sure, my worldview is a little shut in, but, no, what IS that?

Mililani is not a last name, that’s a neighborhood, why’s she Lani Mililani?

WHAT IS THAT?

The pidgin in the game is also there, but… small kine hit or miss. For those of you who don’t know, pidgin is Hawai’i’s creole, which came from a bunch of cultures who don’t speak the same language eventually falling into a kitbashed language system that works for everyone. Looking at the VA listing in the credits, they did hire some local people (they have Hawaiian names) and some of the VO performances work really well like Obispo in the restaurant side story and the cab driver dialogue that ONLY comes up in the Japanese audio version of the game for some reason. Others… are… hm (I don’t know what’s going on with Jeff the taco truck guy). I feel like the voice director got the intonation on the line reads down pretty well, but on the localization side, the syntax and grammar are a little off. Pidgin tends to come off as “broken english,” but it’s technically not since it’s its own language system with its own rules. So you have a lot of line reads that are in the right inflection, but the way it’s written is wrong for pidgin dialogue.

And it just doesn’t sound 100% right to me.

There’s also some… small pronunciation nitpicks that I have. Ukulele is pronounced the white way - it’s not Yooka-Laylee like the Chameleon and Bat, it’s ook-oo-leh-leh like Tapu Lele, the Pokemon. Some characters pronounce Hawai’i as huh-why and not ha-wuh-ee, which is more right (it’s SUPPOSED to be ha-vai-ee but I’m not native Hawaiian and this is kind of an axolotl situation so, y’know).

But shout-outs to the “Whatchu lookin’ at?” line guy.

Because that one is just, no notes, perfect.

NOTHING CAN BE NORMAL, I GUESS

Something that rubbed me the wrong way in this game is the mystification of a culture that’s foreign to you, that is, taking a culture that’s not yours and describing or representing it in such a way that it sounds so deviant and hard to comprehend compared to the one you’re used to. Think of that one tweet where someone describes hamburgers like a white person would describe asian fruit.

There's the lei substory where the girl needs to make a lei with blue plumerias (which does not exist by the way) because there’s an urban legend that if you give a blue plumeria lei to someone, it’s a way of confessing your true love. Lei are just… things you give as, like, a “congrats!” kind of a thing. Or if you wanna be touristy about it, a “welcome!” kind of gift. There’s nothing mystical about it, most grocery stores stock a few that you can just pick up, grab and go style. 

The entire game mechanic of “shaka to make friends” was so?? Like maybe after 8 hours into the Hawai’i map, I was like, okay, I’ll just… fine. I’ll accept it. But my god did I not appreciate it when Kson came up to me and was like “what’s a motherfucker gotta do around here to make some friends” and told me how FRIENDLY the Hawaiian people were and how you can just throw a shaka to make friends; while me, probably the saltiest, introverted Hawai’i local that throws stink-eye at tourists who can’t watch where they’re going, playing the video game on that day was like, “We don’t fucking do that, hello??” I don’t even know why we shaka?? Most people you ask that question will just be like “idk it’s the local thing, they do it at the end of the 5pm news on KHON2.”

There’s a substory in this game with a character named Nathan, but we were all calling him racist Alpharad because he kinda looks like him (ALPHARAD HIMSELF IS NOT RACIST OR IN THIS GAME I WANNA CLARIFY THAT) and he’s basically, like… a weeb. He’s recording what seems like a PBS special on Japanese tourists in Hawai’i, but he’s kind of a shitter about it. He makes Ichiban choose between local foods and cold-ass rice and becomes upset when he chooses kalua pork over the rice since it wasn’t The Japanese Option. It escalates to making Ichiban play darts with shuriken and when he loses, he tells him to “live up to his dishonor,” slides him a knife and board, and asks him if he wants to take a finger or hara-kiri. To which Ichiban goes “dude, I get you like Japanese culture, but you can’t treat people this way”

To which I look back at the game like

You clearly understand how this feels, so why are you doing this to Hawaiian culture?

Again, I understand that a lot of this game was written with maybe just ignorance, and not malice, and this isn’t really a call-out post to RGG or anything, but BOY…

Okay.

Now we get to my biggest gripe with this game.

PALEKANA CAN SUCK MY NUTS

I’m kinda disappointed in their choice to use a Hawaiian cult as a plot point. It’s not quite a native savages kind of a vibe, but… In the year of our lord 2024, I thought we would know better than to portray an indigenous religion as a bloodthirsty cult? I also don’t like how they’re conflating the Hawaiian religion with what’s more like a Christian/Catholic cult in this.

Palekana is portrayed as “cultists who worship a goddess who lives in a mystical land, forbidden only to her chosen and maybe one day we’ll be worthy of her blessings.” Hawaiian religion is… not… like that at all? They did get the part about “giving back to the community” correct as a part of Hawaiian culture is mālama ‘aina, meaning, you need to care for the land you live on, which is… reasonable? I guess the other basic idea of Hawaiian religion is that certain places, things, and times that are important, and you shouldn’t touch it unless you wanna fuck around and find out. But the game just kinda wildly overboils this.

Like, I don’t claim to be an expert, I’ve only scraped the basics from what I learned in school (a year’s worth of Hawaiiana lessons in middle school, a semester’s worth in college; went to a private Catholic school, took two world religion classes in college), but Palekana has a very Catholic European religion kind vibe instead of a Hawaiian one. And I really, really don’t like that the game conflates the two. The Palekana cultists wear hoods, which is a distinctly European thing (it’s too hot for hoods here!). The beaded necklaces also seem more like rosaries, which, again, very Catholic. The idea that a god-figure will save you is also a VERY Catholic idea. I’m also assuming the goddess Nele that they use in the game is an expy for Pele, which… okay, like, you can do that with locations. Ala Moana Shopping Center represented as Anaconda Mall in the game hurts me a lot, but… to change up the name of the most prominent deity in Hawaiian religion is like

Dude, I’m not Hawaiian, but I know better than to shit on Pele?

Maybe I’m taking this a little too seriously, but it comes off as a little(??) disrespectful.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe RGG wrote this plot point in this way to be like, well, they’re the villains, so we’ll write them so hyperbolically evil and wrong so people won’t mistake that for the actual culture? But my gut reaction is that they’re only writing from what they’ve seen in the movies and they wanted to make a story like that.

This was my least favorite part of the plot because not only does the cult aspect feel like it’s in bad taste, but it’s SO MUCH of the story and you REALLY can’t get away from it.

Alright. So now that I’ve aired that out of my system, I’m finally capping off this section with the part of the game that hit the closest to me and that is

CHINESE IN HAWAI’I

Listen. Again.

This is a story about Hawai’i, written by a Japanese team, for a Japanese audience.

Yakuza is a series that often talks about the racial conflict between the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. And I don’t expect them to portray any of these groups in anything more than a neutral light in this game about Gang Crime.

But ohhhhh my gooooood did they get the Chinatown section so wroooooooong.

Right off the bat, the big glaring problem I have with this game is. All the guys speak Mandarin. I think they might just be reusing voice clips from Yakuza 7, which, sure, fine, I understand that video games are hard to make and expensive.

In Hawai’i, like, real-world Hawai’i, not the bizzaro Hawai’i this game takes place in, we’re definitely starting to see more Mandarin-speaking immigrants show up, but most of the town speaks Cantonese.

Most of the people here a generation or two above me come from Guangdong or Hong Kong, which are Cantonese-speaking areas. It’s an entirely different dialect that’s really only been represented in small bits in media I’m familiar with, like in Jackie Chan Adventures (the uncle’s chant is basically “no more ghosts, get out of here” in Cantonese) and Digimon Tamers (“Moumentai” is “it’s okay/don’t worry about it” in Cantonese), and it seems really hard to get VAs that speak it, so I’m not… really that mad about it.

BUT. Then there’s Wong Tou.

Wong is the Cantonese pronunciation of 黄 , Huang or Hwang in Mandarin.

So like… clearly they knew?? But?? Decided not to go all in on it??

(And then Daniel Dae Kim is his face model and I just??? Bro’s Korean, hello?????)

And then there’s the name of Wong Tou’s gang. The Ganzhe.

Which is a stupid name.

The Chinese dictionary gives me 甘蔗 which translates to sugarcane, which. I get it. The plantation times. The Chinese and the Japanese and the Filipinos and the Portuguese and whatever all used to work on the cane plantations.

…But you’re out here calling your BIG KNIFE GANG “Sugarcane??”

My guy, you could start a reggae band with that name instead.

SPEAKING OF REGGAE-

No one knows how to pronounce Ganzhe properly besides Eric’s VA apparently? All the other VAs pronounce the gan closer to “van” when it’s supposed to be more like a “gone.”

Yes. That’s right.

Ganzhe is pronounced more like ganja.

You know.

The Marajuanas™

I’m a Hawai’i-born Chinese, first-generation local on my mom’s side and third-gen local on my dad’s. I grew up in Chinatown, so this was a section of the game that was near and dear to my heart. So I THINK and HOPE you’d understand my frustration to see that work needed to be done on the representation of my culture in this game. It was definitely a little fun to see my hometown modeled in this game- they got Maunakea Marketplace and Keikaulike Mall down pretty accurately and some of the motifs on the buildings made me do a double take because they were so familiar to me. BUT, man, this cultural aspect of the game needed A LOT of work.

SO TO FINALLY CLOSE THIS OUT

Japanese people love Hawai'i a lot.

I think Japanese people love Hawai'i more than Hawai'i locals do.

But as for portraying it accurately, I understand that no one can do it as well as a local islander can. Did I personally think they did the best they could?

………………ehh

Like, if you turn your brain off, it's fine??

If you turn your brain off and not let Palekana get to you, this game is fine.

It can be a little campy.

It can be a little Hollywood.

It can be a little Disneyland.

And despite my four pages of bitching about it, at the end of the day. It is fine.

So with that, I’ve hit like ten full pages on this Google Doc. Despite half of this review being me complaining about what they got wrong about Hawai’i culture in this game, I liked it a lot! When the game didn't have me strapped down for an episode of a J-drama or Hawaii Five-O, I liked running around town, fighting guys, making other guys fight other guys, and managing a resort island. If anything, this game actually motivated me a little to make more local-themed stuff, because as I notice people getting older, there’s less and less people to correctly preserve highly specific culture stuff like this. So a lot of that responsibility falls on me, y’know?

Thank you for making it to the end of this review! I know it was a lot. I don’t know what happened. I do recommend this game, but I ask that you do NOT finish the game with the takeaway that you have learned everything there is to know about Hawai’i.

I’ll fight you with a lawn chair (in Minecraft, for the FBI agent reading this) if you do that.

Other than that, I think you’ll have a lot of fun but also take your time because this game is, like, a 100 hour commitment. Not Persona 5 Royal long, but a commitment nonetheless.

#like a dragon #like a dragon infinite wealth #pickle art #sure uhh I guess I will put this in the tag #IF YOU FOUND THIS VIA THE TAG AND YOU REALLY LIKE THIS GAME #HI HELLO I DO TOO I JUST HAVE SOME STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT THE CULTURAL ACCURACY OF MY HOMETOWN #PLEASE DON'T YELL AT ME YOU CAN STILL ENJOY IT #anyway I've had this sitting around for like... most if not all of march #and I finally got the spoons to put the finishing touches on it #and come to terms that I'm probably not opening the game back up anytime soon

[luffyvace]

hiii can i request hairo x male reader romantic texts?

sure love!! The romantics texts are pretty fun to do since it’s all in quotation marks 😋

I’m happy to be writing more hcs for him tbh bc i have more ideas for him

🔥🙏

。。。。。。<3 。。。。。

“Do you wanna come play tennis with me?”

”are you gonna watch me play tennis after school?”

”are you gonna be able to make it to the tennis tournament?? I hope so! It would fuel me to see your support from the crowd!! 🔥🔥”

”would you like to come over for dinner? My mom wants to know”

“When your done with your homework do you wanna go for a jog? Our goal could be the dog park so we’ll feel motivated to go pet the dogs!!”

”im going to go to the gym this weekend 💪💪 can I have your support?”

”im gonna move up in weights again :) it will not be easy but the gain will be worth it! 💪☝️“

”Nendo is a formidable opponent! I challenged him to a tennis game, are you gonna be there?”

”how big do you think the gap is between me and nendo when it comes to physical prowess?”

”I’ve noticed your muscles have gotten bigger lately! Keep up the good work m/n! It’s paying off!! 🔥💪🙏”

”do you wanna go out with me, Saiki, kaido and nendo? They invited me out for noodles so I was wondering if you wanted to join!”

convos :P

”how about we start off tomorrow with some laps around the school? We could both get up at 5 and meet up”

”uhh I’ll meet you there at 7”

”your only gonna do an hour? Come in m/n I know you can go longer than that!”

”ive seen you run longer when getting chased by a vicious dog! 😁🙏”

”uhh yeah thanks for that reminder….I’ll be there by 6:30”

”that’s the spirit! Push your limit always!! 🔥🔥”

convo 2

”hey hairo I found an online tennis game do you wanna play?”

”even when playing video games your still playing a sport! How admirable! Of course I would! What’s the name of it?”

”I knew you’d like it :) it’s called tennis clash!”

”downloaded now! What’s your user?”

convo 3

“My aunt is moving and she needs help, do you think you could help carry the heavy stuff?”

”of course! I would more than love to both help you and work out at the same time!! 💪💓”

”thanks hairo!”

”you can always count on me m/n!”

convo 4

“My mom would like you to come over for dinner once again :)”

”sure her cooking is great!”

”she also wants you to invite your parents”

”alright I will! We’ll all come over!”

”okay! Can you come over now so we can play that tennis game you found?”

”ya! I’ll be there in 10!”

”sounds good!”

convo 5

“awww man this homework is so hard! Do you get it??”

”come over I’ve got an idea!”

“What is it?”

”for every question you get wrong we’ll both do an exercise for 5 minutes! That’ll motivate you to get the questions right, relieve stress and build muscle simultaneously!”

”that’s a well thought out plan but with all the questions I’m getting wrong idk If I can do it 😭”

”we’ll be excerising all night and I know you can’t stay up past 8”

”besides you ranked fourth in exams! Can’t you help me? 😭”

”yes you can! you can do it m/n!”

”I’ll stay up as long as it takes! 😼”

”of course I’ll help! But we still have to do an excerise for every one you get wrong!”

”look on the bright side we’ll be doing it together!”

”alright fine 😭😭”

convo 6

”hey hairo I know something that’ll motivate you to stay up past 8!”

”what is it? 😄”

”let’s have a competition! Whoever falls asleep first has to carry the other on they’re back on the way to school then do 5 laps around campus when we get there! 😼”

”wow!! That’s a great idea! Even if I loose it’s still a win because I’ll be getting exercise!”

”yeah! Ya see? Come over for a sleepover tomorrow and we’ll do the challenge”

”you bet!”

convo 7

”my mom wants me to go grocery shopping for her will you come?”

”yeah sure :) which store?”

“Street goods, but not the one near the gas station”

”let’s jog all the way to the far out one!”

”come on I know we can do it!”

”promise me we get to walk back and if I get tired your carrying me and the groceries“

”challenge accepted!! 💪☝️“

Convo 8

”how much weight can your father lift?”

”huh why?”

”because today my new goal is to lift more than a grown man can!! 😆”

”😭”

”okay well I’ll ask em”

”right!”

”now that I think about it how come you didn’t ask your dad?”

”oh I would have but he’s at work so I didn’t want to disturb his grind!”

”he works on Saturdays?”

”it’s voluntary but still admirable!”

”ohhh”

”well he says he can lift around 280 last he checked”

”wow!! A worthy goal! Thank you! And tell your father thank you as well!”

”of course hairo :)”

”tell him I said we should work out together some time! 280 isn’t a weight just any man can lift overnight!”

”you should join us as well!”

”I’ll let em know :) but idk if I’ll be able to lift 280 😅😂😂”

“Of course you can m/n! With enough dedication any weight is able to be lifted! Whether that’s by 100,000 people helping or one man who is very strong!”

”thanks, I’ll do my best‼️“

”Always! And glad to hear it!”

“Is he available Sunday?”

”he says yes”

”great! Hope to see you there too!”

”depends! 😋”

convo 9

”I’m going to make a low carb sandwich for lunch tomorrow at school, would you like me to make you one?”

”sure! I appreciate it!”

”no problem!!”

Convo 10

”I’ve found a 100% healthy restaurant where they’re target audience are those who want to eat healthy and build muscle! Isn’t this great!?”

”if your free can we meet at *distant location* tomorrow??”

”wow that’s a very diverse restaurant! I’d love to go!”

”the walking distance tho..😭”

”yep! It’s a great way to build muscle on the way there! 💪”

”cardio is great when paired with a healthy diet!”

”it’ll be like working for you food”

”well I’m sure it’ll be worth it by the time we’re there so why not! :)”

”happy to hear your on board! It’s a date then :)”

convo 11

“I'm going to hit the gym! Will you be there to hold down my feet on sit-ups?”

”as always 🙏”

”thank you!”

”don’t mention it 👍”

convo 12

”your mother’s cooking from last night was very fufilling and nutritional! May I ask if you could send me her recipe?”

”sure I’ll ask her!”

”can’t wait!”

” *recipe* ”

”thank you! And tell her I said thank her as well! The meal was delicious and bursting with flavor and I felt extra energized to do my before bed push-ups!”

”and for the recipe!”

”LOL np, and she said the same”

dude idk how or why but my ideas for hairo pop out like poop, like it’s just infinite!

I have another 2 requests to do, then some stuff I wanna write for fun then I’m back to my list of characters I wanna write for…man I haven’t worked on that thing in a while

#anime #anime and manga #luffyvace #anime headcanons #fluff headcanons #fluff #hairo kineshi #saiki kusuo #saiki k #the disastrous life of saiki k #saiki k headcanons #saiki x reader #saiki k x reader #tdlosk #saiki k fandom #saiki headcanons #saiki #relationship headcanons #fluff prompts #fluffy #x male reader #male reader #masc aligned

[nogenderbee]

I’m the anon that asked for teen!Mc trying to dye her hair like thirteen

maybe Lucifer, Levi, belphie and Thirteen (If you write for her ofc-)

Hello! Thank you for coming back and yes, I do write for Thirteen ^^ This actually was pretty fun to write (because I'm OBSESSED with colorful hair) I wrote 2 reactions for every character aaand I'm rambling again so let's just go into it and I hope you enjoy <3

Teen!MC dyes her hair to match with Thirteen

⊱ Lucifer knew you really liked girl with pink-purple hair, and he often used it saying that you can't meet with her untill you to your homework and stuff like that

⊱ you didn't got hurt while meeting with her yet so he didn't ban you from meeting with her, although it hurt his pride that you look up more to her than him...

You ask him to dye your hair:

⊱ when you asked him to dye your hair, he immediately disagreed saying that you're still too young and you can just ruin your hair

⊱ it's really impossible that he'll help you do it because as he says "you're too young" and it also hurts his pride a little as well

"No, no and again no. Don't ask me that again because my answer will stay the same."

You surprise him with new hair color:

⊱ if you surprise him with your new hair, then you better run fast and hope that he's tired today

⊱ of course she quickly realizes that this hair color is based on Thirteen and let's just say he's not a big fan of it and you're just going to be grounded for some months or untill the dye comes off

"I think I was clear about you dyeing your hair and you didn't listened to me. And now you're grounded for at very least 3 months."

⊱ Levi knew you would prefer to stoned time with Thirteen than him, after all he's just a gross otaku!

⊱ so it wasn't a surprise to him that whenever he passed the two of you, you were absolutely amazed by her, sure he didn't knew what exactly you saw in her but he knew she still was better than him!

You ask him to dye your hair:

⊱ when you asked him to help you paint your hair, he agreed as long as Lucifer won't kill him for that, so as long as you have his approval or you can lie well, he'll help you

⊱ he quickly understands why did you picked pink and purple and not any other color and let's just say he's tiny bit jealous... although he promised to paint your hair, so he'll do that

"Done... are you sure you want that tho? You can get bored of it and Lucifer will surely kill me if I help you again."

You surprise him with new hair color:

⊱ he was waiting for you to come to his room to play some video games, and when you first entered his room, he only saw pink-purple hair so he was surprised that Thirteen somehow got into his room

⊱ but he quickly realizes that it's you and he's absolutely jealous, he knows he's gross but if so then why are you even coming here to play?!!

"Thirteen? How did you- YN? You dyed your hair to match her...? Why her tho?!"

⊱ Belphie saw how much you like Thirteen and let's just say that he wasn't necessary a fan of it... but he usually was sleeping through all your interactions with her so he didn't noticed anything off

You ask him to dye your hair:

⊱ when you asked him to dye your hair, he was a little shocked that you asked HIM! I mean... he wouldn't be even surprised if he would fall asleep midway

⊱ but if he somehow doesn't fall asleep and you convince him to do it, he doesn't noticed the meaning behind those colors

"Alright I think I'm done. It was really tiring so I'm gonna take a nap now, goodnight."

You surprise him with new hair color:

⊱ he's too sleepy to notice the colors but once he finally does catch on that you just wanted to match with Thirteen

⊱ he honestly didn't get it... why did you choose her?! But he's just too tired to tell you anything about it so he just says it's alright when you ask him for his opinion

"It's alright, I guess... Zzz..."

⊱ Thirteen always saw how excited and how you looked up to her which she was really proud of! She absolutely adored this little part of you

⊱ once you asked if you can just study her hair a little bit and of course she agreed as long as you won't tangle it

You ask her to dye your hair:

⊱ when you randomly asked her for help with dying your hair, she immediately agreed and asked you what color do you want to dye it

⊱ when you told her you want the same hair color as she has, she immediately agreed to dye your hair and she did a very good job doing it

"Don't worry, I'll make your hair look as good as mine does"

You surprise her with new hair color:

⊱ she thought that you just enjoy playing with someones hair but how shocked she was when on the next day you came with pink-purple hair

⊱ and when she saw you she immediately went to give you a little head pat, saying she's proud of you

"I see you're following the best style! That's my little human!"

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#obey me #obey me teenc mc #obey me x reader #x reader #lucifer #levi #leviathan #belphie #belphegor #thirteen #obey me lucifer #obey me levi #obey me leviathan #obey me belphegor #obey me belphie #obey me thirteen #platonic #headcanons #obey me platonic #obey me headcanons

[stardewsnail]

Not the same anon, but those jealousy hcs were so good! Do you think you could write some for the bachelorettes? 👀 Please and thank you! 🖤

Snail’s directory 🖤Jealous Bachelorettes 🖤

🖤 Emily 

Emily tries to be connected to her emotions. She acknowledges the jealousy, meditates, maybe talks to Caroline for advice. She’s working through it consciously, letting herself feel before letting it go…

Except she can’t let it go.

Because every time she closes her eyes and tries to concentrate on her breathing, all she can see is the farmer’s red-stained face as they offered Leah a basket of wild spring onions. 

She will go around and around the jealousy trying to work it into something more productive

Eventually she’s just going to talk to the farmer, albeit indirectly

Might get Haley to help her gather intel on who the farmer has a crush on–Haley isn’t a gossip, but she is nosy. 

Over all Emily tries to handle it maturely, but she’s crushing hard and it’s making her act a little goofy

This will end with Emily shooting her shot and just confessing

🖤 Haley

Haley doesn’t get jealous. That would be totally beneath her—girls like her have no reason to ever be jealous.

So when the farmer came bouncing in front of her house she was certain there was about to be a knock at her door. But no, the farmer stopped in front of Skater boy, a cactus fruit held triumphantly in their hands. Sam lit up, of course, taking the gift and inviting the farmer in. She turned, storming back to her bedroom and slamming the door with more force than probably necessary. She had film to process anyway–she was much too busty to waste time on the farmer.

she’s absolutely seething and doesn’t know what to do about it

She’s never liked someone so much that she was actually jealous, this was a new feeling

If Haley and the farmer aren’t together then Haley is gonna end up regressing into a bit of a mean girl again. She might even snap at the person “stealing” her farmer (poor Sam doesn’t know what the fuck he did and he’s already a lil scared of Haley) 

If they’re together, then Haley isn’t nearly as mean but she gets pouty and extra needy but like…she just passive aggressively sits on the other side of the couch until the farmer notices and slides over to give her some love

Catch the farmer getting her something special from the mines the next day and taking care to spend a little extra time with her

🖤 Leah

Leah channels all her jealousy into her art. She knows she’s jealous—she’s passionate and she likes that about herself. Jealousy is just another emotion that needs to be felt and processed. She really doesn’t bring it up with the farmer unless they’re actually together in which case it would be a conversation along the lines of Leah saying 

“Hey I wanted to talk to you about something—I’m feeling insecure about x and I just wanna check in”

I think she’s one of the older bachelorettes and she’s had enough crappy relationships and post relationship therapy (she’s a big advocate that everyone needs therapy) to handle it directly and maturely. It will be fine as long as her partner can match her calm energy. And also I think Leah would, out of all of them, value platonic relationships just as much as romantic. She doesn’t want to stop the farmer from giving gifts to their friends; she's just asking for a lil reassurance. 

🖤 Abigail

Pre-relationship

Abigail will both hide away in her video games and be a little extra vicious in the mines. The big thing though, will be how hard she’s hitting the drums at band practice—it’s noticeable she’s playing out some angst. She’s absolutely not going to talk to the farmer about it, but she will vent to Sam and Seb. Sebastian offers some good advice, and Sam decides to take matters into his own hands and the next time he hangs out with the farmer he not so subtly asks about their dating life

The farmer misunderstands and basically says they’re flattered but that they like someone else

Sam quickly guesses that it’s Abigail with a huge grin, and tells the farmer that Pierre will have bouquets in stock soon

He reports back to Abigail who is mortified and quickly goes to the farmer to talk and clear things up (without a plan tbh she was just running on caffeine and panic) 

just imagine the farmer awkwardly holding a bouquet that Abigail doesn’t notice until she’s rambled for at least five minutes about her and the farmer and some esoteric commentary on the nature of relationships

at some point the farmer just holds up the flowers and Abigail stops short, red as a tomato

I don’t think Abigail would be significantly jealous once she was in a relationship. 

🖤 Maru

I imagine Maru is the most inexperienced in love when it comes to the bachelorettes. I HC her around 20 and as having been mostly home schooled. 

Pre-relationship

She absolutely over analyzes and tries to think her way through her emotions rather than feeling them

Fortunately she has Penny to talk to–and talk she will. It will take a lot of talking before she actually realizes she’s jealous because she likes the farmer. 

This realization is a crisis. It’s a panic. Maru does not know what to do. 

She spends extra time staying up at her telescope (she’s just as nocturnal as her brother) like the stars will have answers 

She will be completely oblivious to the farmer liking her back for the longest time

Relationship

when she gets jealous she tends to try to talk to her partner indirectly? Like she will be talking around the whole thing and her partner will go “i think I’m understanding what you’re saying, and I want to reassure you that you have no reason to be jealous”

And Maru will sit there frozen for a moment while she processes (give a girl a min to buffer) and then they’ll actually talk about the issue. 

🖤 Penny

Penny doesn’t get jealous, Penny gets sad. She withdraws and begins to pull away, insecurity getting the best of her. She gets quiet and fidgets when the farmer asks what’s wrong. Be patient with her and eventually she’ll open up about feeling like the farmer likes someone else. Like Haley, she needs reassurance—wrap your arm around her while she reads, bring her some tea, kiss her temple whenever you pass her—these little actions make her feel cared for and secure. Eventually she’ll be confident enough to bring up her feelings on her own. All she needs is to know she’s wanted. 

#Stardew Valley #sdv #sdv bachelorettes #sdv haley #sdv maru #sdv penny #sdv leah #sdv abigail #sdv emily #snailwrites #sdv jealous

[mybelovedwoo]

in which all you want is a little attention and a park date

~ wooyoung x f!reader

~ fluff, established relationship / wc: 1k

~ warnings: a little teasing ( just some wooyoung things)

~note: this is my very first writing here, and I’m super nervous about how you guys like it. 

Sunday afternoon, a really hot summer day, and here you go again bored in your own apartment with your beloved boyfriend. Most of the time, when he has days off, he spends those days with you. But usually, you guys do something fun. You're not sure how long have you been in this specific position clinging to your boyfriend's side to seek some affection from him while he's playing his video game with his friends. Also not so sure if he's so mesmerized by the tv screen in front of him that he completely forgot about you or just teasing you as per usual, and not giving you any attention just for his entertainment.  

You sigh as loudly as possible, but it's not your boyfriend who finally notices your suffering being, but his friend San. You can hear clearly in his headphones what he says because you cannot be any closer to Wooyoung and his volume is all the way up so there's no way for him to give in to you.

"Hey don't torture her that much, she's going to get bored of you sooner or later..." San scolded him, but all he does is smirk and say "there's no way".

How on earth can I stand this evil man in my life, I could quite literally wipe that smile off his face but at the same time love it to the point that I could do anything for him. He knows me so well how could I ever get bored of him?

"Don't worry Y/n, I'll kill him and he is all yours" says another voice from his headphones.

His eyes widened and his fingers got faster on the controller but he had no luck whatsoever, he needed a couple of minutes to process what happened.

"Thanks Yunho, you are the best" you couldn't be more thankful for him. It seems like you got the last laugh once again.

-

"Baby, please wait for me" Wooyoung was trying to catch up to you, as you had the mission to get the best place for your blanket at the park, trying to get there before someone else takes it."I don't get it, why is it so important where we sit, we're gonna sit on the goddamn dirty ground anyways..."

"It does matter! Do you want to melt in the hot sun or sit close to that weird group of guys? I don't think so." He just smiled at your desperation and helped you fold the blanket evenly.

"It's really nice here, isn't it?" you asked as you were laying down next to each other gazing at the clouds in the blue sky.

"Yes, but not because we are in the park or because the weather is nice, but because I can be with you, that's the most important thing for me, that's when I'm the happiest" you swear your heart just skipped a beat and when you looked at your love, you realized that he was already looking at you. He took you in his arms, and now your head rested on his chest, you basically can hear his heartbeat.

"Yeah, the same goes for me here, but you know I get bored easily, I want to do the most when I'm with you to make some memories together, so you're never gonna forget me" you said with a little pout on your face, that your boyfriend liked so much, that's one of the many reasons he likes to tease you, just to see you all pouty, he could kiss it off every time from your face. "Baby, how could I ever forget you, when we're going to be together forever, I don't think it's possible" he laughed at you. Here he is making fun of you once again, but you know what he actually meant, that behind his words nothing else but love.

"Well, we better be, because I love you a little too much to live without you" you said looking up at him, he took your face in his hands, you could barely hear it, but he said a really faint "I love you too" as he moved closer and closer to your lips, just to stop before they could have touched. That smirk on his face, you just know this man is going to be your death. "Are you gonna kiss me or what?" he didn't expect that, he thought he can make you all frustrated by his action but he is the one whos all red and nervous this time, he just can't handle it when someone teases him back.

You got used to his teasing and little games over the years, you know how to deal with him. For someone who doesn't know the dynamic of your relationship it could be a bit weird, you both know that, but you guys are not just a couple but best friends too. Wooyoung is actually really caring and sweet, he is very affectionate, sure he likes teasing and flirting, but he would never do it if he knew you don't like it, all he wants is for you to be the happiest.

He is not the shy type of guy, of course, his not gonna deny his love's kiss offer, so he finished what he started, no more teasing, just a soft and loving kiss, a truly passionate one. You are the first one to pull away, if it were up to Wooyoung he would never stop kissing you, he just hates the distance between you.

"We should get going, I'm getting really hungry" you said as your stomach rumbled, it was almost dinner time.

"Do you want to eat out or do you want to cook?" we both knew what he meant with the second option, that he cooks for you while you do absolutely nothing, well at least not cook, it just never ends well when you end up in the kitchen. But you always pretend that it's a teamwork.

"Mmm...cook. But we should go to the store on the way home."

"Why? What would you like to eat? Something is missing for dinner?" he asked, but he got up without even thinking and helped you too.

"Oh no, I just want some chocolate."

#wooyoung #wooyoung fluff #wooyoung drabble #wooyoung scenario #wooyoung imagine #wooyoung fic #wooyoung x you #wooyoung x reader #jungwooyoung #ateez fluff #ateez scenarios #ateez imagines #ateez fic

[buggxd]

RORY KEANER X GN! READER

The reader in the story is gender neutral soo yeah this is rly bad I wrote this when I was half asleep soo yeah :0 ALSO this was longer than expected ☠️☠️

I’m making this at 5 am and it’s ass I’m bored and can’t find anymore Rory fics on here or Wattpad or even ao3 soo yeah. Also kinda off topic but his hair is so cute in the movie🫶

Summary Ig: Rory has a crush you and gains enough courage to tell you how he feels with a letter.(THERE IS A TIME SKIP WITH HIS AGE BUT THIS IS A FLUFF!!)

Rory and you had been friends since grade school you’re both now in your sophomore year and he’s slowly been growing a crush on you for about a year or two now quite a while he honestly thought it would go away like every other crush he’s had but it hasn’t he really feels like he’s grown a connection with you.The two of you are really close you always hang out and cheer him up when Benny and Ethan don’t wanna hang with him or when he’s feeling down and he does the same with you, Your both always there for each other. He’s been feeling more attracted to you lately the way your hair bounces when you walk or your hand when it brushing against his fingers as you both walk to each of your classes or the way your leg touches his when you sit with him at lunch or the way you meet him every morning and smile or hug him tightly before taking the bus home or the way you call him late at night just to talk about the most random things he can go on forever thinking of all the things he absolutely loves about you and the things you do, He honestly feels as if he needs to tell you his feelings towards you. It was Sunday around 3:23pm and Rory was thinking of how he was gonna confess to you he thought of a couple different ways like texting you,telling you on the phone, telling you in person and meeting up before or after school or even on the weekend but he finally thought of something that would help him fully express himself using his words, he was gonna give you a note! He was gonna write how he felt about you and then get an envelope and draw hearts and stuff on it and then he could just get to school early and leave it in your locker. He got his school binder a blue pen and crayola markers he started to write down all the things he likes about you, or well most of the things and then he started to draw little random things on the bottom half where there was already 5 lines left he drew cats Hearts stars smiley faces and a ton of random things and then drew you and him as little stick figures holding hands once he finished he folded the paper and got a baby pink envelope and put the note inside and wrote “to:y/n from: Rory AKA R-dog!:)” He glued a paper heart the was a pretty red color to seal the envelope and neatly in one of his backpack pockets being careful not to crumble it at all after he zipped up his backpack and started to play some random video game to pass time until he eventually fell asleep. The next day he woke up extra early and made his way to school there were maybe four to 6 people roaming the halls he made his way to your locker which was conveniently next to yours he took the envelope and tried to slip it into your locker through the hole/slit (idk wut their called?? If they have a name) he looked around the halls making sure no one was in there and tried to get it in again he finally got it after struggling for quite a bit after he was done he went to go find Benny and Ethan to tell them his plan but waited a bit since he got to school a little too early After finding the two brunette boys and telling them his idea Benny and Ethan stayed quiet for a second and then they started to laugh Rory went from a smile to a slightly annoyed face “what?! Why are you guys laughing?!?” He asked half annoyed half embarrassed “she DEFINITELY doesn’t like you back man” Benny said “yeah her with you?! She probably like you like a brother type friend y’know?” Ethan said slightly out of breath “C’mon guys she DEFINITELY is into ME!!” Rory said sounding for embarrassed and sad this time “yeah sure ‘r-dog’” Benny said laughing a little and emphasizing on Rory’s nickname “forget it!” Rory said annoyed and walked to his locker and saw you already had opened the letter and we’re smiling ear to ear with the darkest shade of pink on your face while reading it he walked away slightly nervous to approach you he ended up walking into the bathroom. Soon the bell rang and you made your way to your 1st period class along with other students you walked in and saw Rory sitting in the spot next to your usual seat.

You smiled at him and sat down class was going by painfully slow your 1st period was math and you had a sub and the class working on a stupidly easy math packet for extra credit it had about 4pages and you finished mid way/almost the end of class you had seen Rory was struggling so you gave him you packet and he gladly copied once he was done you asked him to turn in both of the packets he did as you asked while he was turning them in you pulled out your notebook and a pink ballpoint pen and started to doodle random things onto the paper and when he came back at peeked over and complimented you’re mini doodles “hey y/n/n can I borrow a pen?” Rory asked you nodded with a slight smile as you reached into your bag and pulled out a blue,green and red ball point pen and placed them down on the desk you both drew on the paper and you had an idea you tore a little piece of a different paper and wrote ‘I like u 2 :)’ with your pink pen and drew you and Rory as stick figures holding hands and drew hearts around them you had leaned your head over the desk so your hair and shadow was blocking the pierce of paper once you finished you folded it and waited til the bell rang to hand it to him once you did he read it immediately and his face felt so warm and he felt all nice and fuzzy inside.

TIME SKIP TO LUNCH!!

Rory got his lunch and sat with you the two of you talked and ate your food and all of a sudden Rory said in a soft happy voice”sooo.. you like me?” You looked at him “yeah” there was some silence before the blond boy spoke again “wannagooutwithme” he said all in one breath “of course!!” You said a little too loud out of excitement he schooled closer and the two of you held hand and talked til lunch was over, Throughout the rest of the day the two of you were super close holding hands giggling and blushing and overall being one of those cheesy couples but neither of you cared.

I HATE THIS SM BUT IM RLY BORED AND THIS TOOK SUPER LONG AND IDEK HOW TO END A ONESHOT TBH OR FF OR ANYTHING☠️ ANYWAYS YEAH UM THIS PROBS SUCKS LIKE RLY BAD BIT WHATEVER IG ANYWAYS UM BYE IG ?!?!XP

#rory keaner #mbav #my babysitters a vampire x reader #rory keaner x reader #fluff

[wibble-wobbegong]

Mike Hostage Theory (Rewritten)

I went back recently and realized my original theory was very based on narrative evidence and concepts, so I wanted to make a refined post that included evidence from the show as well as more effectively explaining the narrative evidence I gave originally.

Normally I’d write a thesis highlighting my main talking points, but I’m just gonna write some bullet points because this post is gonna be really long

Show Evidence

Mike being watched by Henry

DND games

Set design

Narrative Evidence

Mike’s POV

Mike/Will role reversal

Henry’s advantage

Show Evidence

Mike Being Watched

So, for starters, I want to show the fact that Henry has been watching Mike specifically.

@strangersynth has some fantastic videos highlighting the cinematographic choices that show him being watched!

The thing that really hammers this idea home is the timing of the Chrissy’s death and Mike leaving for California. That was no coincidence. If we consider the fact that Mike has impeded every single attack that’s happened in the show, Henry has to be aware that Mike is an issue. Even if he wasn’t directly involved in the MF’s attacks, the memories of the MF would have been given to Henry just like they were given to Will because he’s a part of the hivemind.

Henry is well aware of the likely consequences that come with attacking while Mike is around. I talk about Mike’s impact on the supernatural storyline here, but Henry generally has a lot of motivation for waiting until Mike leaves to attack.

How does this play into Mike being held hostage? Well, since we know that Henry specifically doesn’t want Mike around to prevent his interference, we don’t have any reason to believe that has gone away. Mike managed to worm his way back into trying to stop Henry even though he was halfway across the country and spent most of the season in the back of a pizza van. Now that he’s in Hawkins and can be more directly involved, he will become a problem again. Henry can’t have that happen. He needs to be able to achieve his goals now that he’s finally made progress and opened the gates. He can’t afford the risk of having Mike around.

Given the fact that he’s watched Mike before, and that Mike is likely to isolate himself again as a result of Eddie’s death, he’ll probably be watching him again and waiting for another opportunity to get him out of the picture. All he needs to do is wait for Mike to be alone, which is a situation I’m betting will be occurring in S5.

Henry watching Mike, waiting for him to leave, is hinting towards Henry removing Mike from the situation again.

DND Games

Moving onto the DND games, I want to emphasize that they are our most reliable source of information in the show. DND consistently predicts future events without fault, so taking information from the games is vital in understanding potentials for S5. With that in mind, let’s talk about the Hellfire game.

In the game played at the end of 4x01, something I find to be a huge sign of Mike having a fake death is this moment:

Mike’s role leads to him supposedly dying, but the character Eddie knocks over instead is the wizard he’s facing.

That could be interpreted in many ways, but what kills him is his dice roll failing. We never actually see what number Mike rolls.

I wouldn’t question it as much if he didn’t use the red-on-black dice. The other Hellfire members roll with the black-on-red dice, except for Dustin and Erica. They also roll with the red-on-black dice, and that’s important because when their rolls get focused in on in the same way Mike’s is here, the numbers they land on are important; 11 and 20.

I’m sure you guys are familiar with it, but just for recaps sake, Dustin rolling an 11 is a prediction of El not being able to kill Henry. Erica’s roll suggests that Henry will be killed, but by something more than just El.

So, Mike’s roll not being shown is on purpose. Whatever he rolled was indicative of a future event. The number he rolled had to be hidden, which makes me think that the number would’ve been far too obvious and would reveal something the Duffers don’t want us to know yet. The number also had to be low enough to lead to Mike being killed by a lower-classes enemy. Combining all that, what number applies to each of those categories?

1. Mike rolled a 1, and it led to his “death.”

But, a fake death doesn’t guarantee that he’s being held hostage. That’s where I want to jump all the way back to the ending of S1 and reference the final game the Party plays.

At the end of the campaign, there are three flaws the boys point out; the weird flowers in the cave, the proud princess, and the lost knight.

There are small hints in S2 that suggest Mike being the knight and Max being the princess. For example, we get confirmation that Mike plays as a Paladin when he isn’t being the DM, and nobody else plays a knightly role. We also see Lucas and Dustin fight over Princess Daphne from the Dragon’s Lair, and Lucas says, “Princess Daphne is still mine,” which predicts Lucas winning Max’s heart.

I point this out to show that this line is applicable to these characters in ways we don’t have exclusive evidence of yet. I have some thoughts about what ‘proud’ means for Max, but I wanna talk about Mike being ‘lost’.

There are a lot of possibilities when it comes to having a fake death, but a majority of them don’t involve being lost. Except, we have seen one before. When Will went missing, it was suggested that he got lost in the woods when we learned later that he was being held in the UD.

For Mike to go through with both being the lost knight, being ‘killed’ by Henry (One), and having a fake death, I believe we’ll be getting a situation that heavily parallels the events of S1. The Duffers have also confirmed that we’ll be going back to some S1 dynamics, which further cements this possibility for me.

Set Design

I’m not very great at noticing set design tidbits, but @causeineedu made notice of this set choice back in S2.

Yes, El is being referenced as the key in S2, but in her post she also points out the colors of the key and the lock. The keys are yellow and white;

The lock is blue;

Both Max and Mike are represented by blue in S4, and the lock being blue could be hinting at both of them. They’re often parallels, and Max’s mind being locked away at the end of the season could also be an indication of something similar happening to Mike later on, like this color-coding suggests.

If Henry were to hold Mike as a hostage, he would be physically locked away. I don’t think he’d lock away Mike’s mind, because he needs Mike to be found at some point and by doing that it would become much more difficult to lure out El and Will.

Narrative Evidence

Mike’s POV

Mike’s POV, or the severe lack of it, is something that has to be addressed in S5. For multiple seasons, we’ve been almost completely deprived of Mike’s perspective until the very end (which often involves his feelings for Will). Now that we’ve reached the final season, the things that have been hidden from us by blocking Mike’s perspective need to come to light to give us answers.

We need to understand why Mike’s behavior seems to change so drastically between S2 and S3, we need to know if Mike reciprocates Will’s feelings, and we need to explore how Mike has been impacted by the things he’s been experiencing both emotionally and supernaturally.

Henry’s ability to reach into people’s mind and expose them for their truest, most hidden thoughts is the perfect device for giving us the missing pieces of Mike’s POV. Narratively, it makes the most sense for Mike’s POV to be revealed through an already established creature which can reveal such things. It also gives an opportunity for us to understand Mike without his perspective being revealed to other characters, which is necessary because Mike needs to be making progress in many of his relationships himself, rather than by force of his feelings being directly revealed.

If Henry were to take Mike and put him under a trance in the UD, it would take time to find him. There would be plenty of time for Mike to go through an emotional confrontation if he’s kept under a trance for longer than any of the other characters we’ve seen; more so with the fact that Henry wouldn’t be doing this to kill Mike, but rather make it impossible for him to get directly involved in the situation.

Mike/Will Role Reversal

For S5, there have been a ton of hints that Will and Mike are gonna be switching their roles at some point. Will has already been confirmed to be a central character to S5, and he’s had a hero arc built up since S2. Those are both traits of Mike in S1. Since the Duffers have confirmed we’re returning to S1 dynamics in S5 and Will’s story likely won’t be paralleling his journey in S1, the dynamic Mike and Will fighting for each other will most likely be the aspect that stays the same.

There’s also the thing about Mike being the heart, and that without heart the Party would fall apart. In S1, the Party starts to fall apart without Will as they search for him. When Will moves away, the Party falls apart completely. If what Will says is true about Mike, then we’ll likely see the Party fall apart again in S5 because even if Mike isn’t the Party’s heart, he is most definitely Will’s;

“…and that’s what gives her the courage to fight on.”

I mention something back in the section about DND games, about how Mike’s kidnapping would be a direct parallel to Will’s kidnapping if this theory comes true. That possibility only adds onto the idea that Mike and Will are going to have reversed roles in S5.

If we put together Mike’s kidnapping with the Party falling apart, we’d get an exact parallel to S1. Will gets kidnapped and the Party starts to fall apart because of Mike’s insistence on finding Will. If Mike gets kidnapped, Will is not going to stop looking for him despite the danger, which might divide the party once again. As much as the other members would want to find Mike, all three of them have also witnessed the consequences of this stuff first hand through Max and Eddie’s deaths and are going to be much more reluctant in accepting going into the UD. It’s possible that we’ll get the same divide that we got in S1.

Narratively, that fulfills the dynamic match of S1, puts Will’s hero arc into motion, and incorporates what DND suggests about what could happen to Mike in S5.

Henry’s Advantage

How is Henry kidnapping Mike and holding him hostage more beneficial than just killing him? If he truly just wants Mike out of the way, why not make it impossible for him to come back?

Henry needs Mike in order to give himself the upper hand. He needs Mike because once Will knows where he is, it’ll draw him to him. What Henry wants is to get Will to join him in order to accomplish Henry’s ultimate goal (link). Will would never simply accept Henry’s offer, and he can’t take Will by force (Will was able to resist the MF, and Henry is not nearly as strong as it). To simply reach out to Will and cross over into the Rightside Up is something Henry isn’t stupid enough to do. The UD is Henry’s home turf and it gives him the advantage, so he has to lure Will into the UD.

If Henry holds Mike hostage, he acts as a lure and a bargaining tool; if Will works with Henry, then he’d spare Mike’s life and let him go. Killing Mike eliminates that possibility and gives Will even less of a reason to join him, but using Mike in an exchange would be much more up Henry’s alley. It’s the smarter choice to make, strategically. It gives him the advantage.

[thesupreme316]

darius martin x female reader? headcanon or imagine! the reader & darius are best friends and the reader does the tiktok challenge where you kiss ur bestie/crush and that’s how they get together???

Electric Love (Darius Martin X Fem!Reader):

Word Count: 907

Summary: You set up a TikTok in order to confess your feelings to your crush, Darius.

Supreme Speaks: (as usual sorry I took so long) teehee OKAY I have one more request to go and i completely cleaned out my inbox so please if anyone has more ideas or any request please don't be shy and ask me. @hooks-martin thank you for being patient and allowing me to write your requests (please lemme write some more for you in the future) Also I hope everyone is doing well and please remember that you are loved and appreciated.

Warnings: none, not really proofread

Taglist: @hooks-martin @hookerforhook @triscillal @wwenhlimagines @sheinthatfandom

Okay okay I had to look up the trend cause I’m lonely BUT HERE YA GO…I’m following the Electric Love trend where people kiss their best friend/crush randomly and abruptly

I think you got built up nerves about this

On one hand, it could go right and you live out the fantasy that’s been playing in your head for weeks

Or on the other hand, it could go horribly wrong and you just ruined your friendship

…you’re hoping for the first option…

You found yourself developing a crush on Darius Martin, your best friend

You being the person you are, you thought you were keeping it hidden

BUT NO SWEETHEART oh no

It was just as obvious as the sky is blue

Everyone could see your crush growing cause every time you saw him, you had a “deer in the headlights” look as Hangman said 

But if it was obvious, why did it seem like Darius didn’t know?

Maybe you thought, he was just nervous as you

Or maybe he didn’t like you

After all, you did call each other best friends

You two would laugh with each other, comfort each other, cuddle (*wink wink*) each other

To the point of everyone asking you two if yall were dating

To which both of you scooted away from each other while nervously laughing

Dante: So….do you like like my brother?

You: Dante, I will chop you in your shin. Shut up-

But how could you not like like Darius??

He’s just so sweet, handsome, caring, and funny to you

Darius always seemed to put you before anyone 

It only seemed natural that you developed a crush on him

After being essentially bullied into doing so, you decided to confess your feelings

But you couldn’t take rejection nor the embarrassment of the silence if something happened

So you were trying to figure out a plan to avoid it all

SOOOOO naturally you went to TikTok

Either the algorithm caught up to you or your phone heard your conversations cause your FYP was filled with this trend of people confessing their feelings to their crushes

For the most part, it was successful with mutual feelings prevailing

The other part? The other person didn’t feel the same

BUT the person ended up using the “film a TikTok” as a believable excuse

You decided it was a perfect plan (if you succeed, great! If not, play it off as a prank)

So after a day of hanging out with The Lads, you asked Darius if he wanted to play a video game later on 

To which he agreed

So as soon as you got to your room, you brushed your teeth, fixed your hair, and set up your phone (hiding in plain spot it is)

You waited as your palms got sweaty (knees weak, arms are heavy)

At first, you thought he wasn’t gonna come until you heard a knock and him say, “I hope you’re ready to get Molly whooped in Street Fighter” in a sing-song voice

You giggled before hitting record on your phone

With a smile, you opened the door to Darius’ handsome face and smile

He entered the room, talking trash about how he was gonna beat you as you took a deep breath

“I practiced a lot since last time! So there is no way you’re gonna beat me-“

He couldn’t finish the rest of his sentence because you cut him off…with a kiss...

You kissed…your crush…Darius Martin…

YOU JUST KISSED YOUR CRUSH DAMN IT

At first, he was surprised and in shock that you were kissing him

But when he felt you pulling back, Darius held his hand on the nape of your neck, pulling you back to him and giving you a passion-filled response

You wrapped your arms around him as the kiss got steamier, making his arms go around your waist and hips

You pulled away and opened your eyes to an even bigger smile on Darius’ face

“I always hoped I would get to kiss you.”

“You’re not mad or anything??”

“No! How could I when the girl of my dreams decided to give me the best kiss I’ve ever received?”

“Cause I recorded it…” You said pointing to your phone that was still recording

Darius looked and started laughing before kissing you again, quickly this time 

“Well good, cause I wanna replay this moment forever and ever” He said giving you another passion-filled and steamy kiss

Later on, you decided to upload part of the video to your TikTok page

Which blew up and you got an unexpected amount of likes and comments supporting you two from fans and coworkers alike

Some even created a ship name for you and Darius or commented “I KNEW IT”

Even Dante texting you:

“So I take it that you like like him?”

And as you looked at your best friend (now boyfriend) who fell asleep after you beat his ass in Street Fighter…

You can finally say out loud

That you like like Darius Martin…

…Maybe...you even love Darius Martin…

#aew #all elite wrestling #aew imagine #darius martin #top flight #darius martin imagine #darius martin x reader #all elite wrestling imagines

[redburrowrights]

My previous post about this wasn’t great, so I’m doing this again. While I hold the same opinion, my previous post was poorly written, and contained some inaccuracies that I’m gonna try to correct here. But first, let's get this out of the way: This is an opinion piece, and not a popular one. You are free to ignore it, block me, do whatever you want. You are free to disagree with my points. But if you think me disagreeing with you about a video game character is a good reason to harass me, insult me, or just generally be a dick, fuck off. And if you’re gonna dismiss what I say because you disagree with me on entirely unrelated  topics, also kindly fuck off. I don’t tolerate that shit. 

Anyway, that said, I think Arven is a pretty poorly written character in a poorly written game, and I like complaining on the internet, so I’m gonna talk about it.

Let's get to the big thing first: His dog. His dog being hurt is a horribly written sympathy play. When the player finds out about the fact that he’s trying to get the herba mystica to heal his dog, you can ask if he’s tried potions or pokemon centers, and he shoots it down by saying “Nothing seems to help” and “They said this isn’t any regular old illness”. I find this to be fairly lazy writing. It’s never elaborated on what was wrong with mabosstiff, what kind of injury it was, or why they couldn’t help. I find this to be pretty lazy because pokemon healthcare is, well, kinda magic. 

Now, in my original post, I blamed the injury on Miraidon (or koraidon but I played violet so i'm just gonna use that version for simplicity). I then went on to talk about miraidon’s in battle stats, and how using it in battle shows you can heal after getting hit by it no problem. Both of these points were pointed out as being incorrect, and that’s true, and I appreciate the corrections. However, the way they were posed felt like gotcha questions to shoot down my point. I’m not sure why, considering both of these make Arven look way worse when corrected for.

Looking at the pokemon present in area zero, the location where mabosstiff got hurt, canonically the strongest pokemon down there was miraidon. That is, except for terapagos, but considering it was dormant in a cavern only accessible by the zero base’s secret sub basement, I’m gonna guess it wasn’t terapagos. My point was that looking at the strongest pokemon mabosstiff could’ve gotten hurt by shouldn’t have been able to do this damage, so it doesn’t make sense that it can’t be healed. But considering that Arven never actually says it was miraidon, and miraidon is right there, it would seem that it was a different pokemon. Which means that mabosstiff got hit by a much weaker pokemon, and REALLY shouldn’t be this badly injured.

The other point is that the in-game stats are game mechanics, and are not necessarily reflective of a pokemons canon power. This is also true, and my use of in game stats and battle mechanics was a mistake. However, what the stats were in reference to was miraidons ability to inflict damage, which is actually nerfed when looking at battle stats. Miraidon is canonically much more powerful than its stats reflect, because the in-game battles need to be balanced. The same goes for every legendary. The larger point that all this was in favor of, was that the player faces powerful legendary pokemon in literally every game, and then go to the pokemon center to be healed. Miraidon is, in terms of legendary pokemon, pretty low tier power wise. It’s strong, but it's not “rip holes in space time” or “unleash the unbridled power of the sun or ocean” powerful. Looking at something like diamond/pearl, where we’re facing creatures that can warp space time, we fight them, take hits, and get healed to perfect condition at the pokemon center afterwards. While we can argue semantics about what exactly happened during the battle, or exactly how the pokemon healing tech works, it is canon that the players pokemon fought these creatures, and that the pokemon center was able to fully heal them afterwards. The pokemon center machine is not a game mechanic, it is a canonical piece of tech that has remained consistent in its existence and function since the beginning of the franchise. You stick your pokeballs in, and the pokemon get healed. If that tech can heal my pokemon after a battle against palkia, groudon, kyurem, or any other legendary, why can it not heal Arven’s mabosstiff after a fight with a much less powerful pokemon? This is a poorly written plot point that is hand waved so that Arven can have a hurt dog for the story. But it so blatantly contradicts the established canon, and it honestly broke the whole story line for me. He says the pokemon center couldn’t heal it, but we know for a fact that they should be able to heal much worse injuries, so my only assumption can be that he’s for some reason lying about it. 

I talked about my head canon being that Arven is just against modern medicine, and that he lied about the pokemon center cuz you wouldn’t help him if you knew he was an anti-vaxer. This was a point that a lot of people pointed to as my whole take being bad. I admit it’s a ridiculous extrapolation, I mostly used it because I thought it was funny and attention grabbing, and I guess I was right. The bigger point is not that I literally think this fictional child is an antivaxer, but more that when a story makes vague excuses that don’t make sense within the story, the viewer can extrapolate out points to fill the gap left. That’s what head canons often are, the viewer filling in details that weren’t explained. For this one, it’s looking at the fact that there’s no reason the pokemon center couldn’t heal the dog, the fact that no pokemon in area zero would be stronger than pokemon we know the pokemon center can treat wounds from, and that arven is looking for mystical herbal remedies, which sounds like something an mlm would try to sell you. The story could have and should have given an explanation for why the herbs were needed, and why the magic healing tech that’s existed since the 90’s wasn’t enough. If you want a more reasonable headcanon, maybe he was attacked by a paradox mon, and it carried some kind of paradox virus that our healing tech isn’t compatible with. Of course, that comes with its own problems, like why that virus wouldn’t infect any of our pokemon that fight paradox pokemon, but it would’ve been pretty easy to write in. But I think mine is funnier, so there’s that.

TL;DR, the plot point is weak because it’s never explained why Arven couldn’t use a pokemon center. They just say he can’t and move on, even though he really should be able to.

The other major point is that, in my opinion, Arven is an incredibly unlikeable character throughout the game. In your first interaction, he’s incredibly rude, then the next time you see him, he immediately demands that you help him fight a bunch of dangerous pokemon. He’s also very mean to miraidon, a pokemon that the game makes very likable, and thus makes Arven look particularly cruel. After the first titan battle, he doesn’t even want you to feed it. Seeing that he’d been the one to entrust you with the pokemon, being upset that you gave it food seems like a pretty dick move.

I had originally thought that Arven was mad at Miraidon, because the other miraidon had hurt his dog and he was confusing the two, so he hated it. But as pointed out before, miraidon wasn’t the pokemon that hurt mabosstiff, so he has no reason to be so mean to it. It’s explained later that the actual reason was that his dad neglected him to study miraidon, so he resents miraidon for it, even though it didn’t actually do anything. He does eventually admit that he was wrong for this, but to me it felt too little too late. Especially during the final act, where he still blames miraidon for ruining his childhood. Being abused and neglected isn’t an excuse to act like an asshole. It felt like his redemption as a character was based around the revelation of his trauma and abuse, but the dog plotpoint was weak, as I’ve already gone into, and his dad neglecting him never gets properly developed or paid off, so I don’t really care that much about the relationship of these characters. He was a mean character with underdeveloped motivations and a clumsy, shallow redemption arc.

This doesn’t get any better in the dlc epilogue, where Arven’s first words to another abused child with self esteem issues, is that he’s the player “absolute BEST friend”, and then refer to him as “the enemy”, despite kieran also being a friend of the player they Arven was specifically invited to meet. This makes Arven feel like a jerk, who only came on this trip to put down one of your other friends. Kierans arc in the dlc is a whole other mess I’m sure I’ll get into some other time, but at the very least I find his character to be much more likable than Arven, so having Arven be so defensive and rude to him for literally no reason really paint’s Arven in a bad light.

The final part of Arven’s story I wanna talk about is the final descent into area zero. My main issue with this portion of the story is that Arven really should’ve been involved with it. Arven being called by his dad is the whole reason you go into area zero in the first place, so you’d think he’d be pretty important to this portion of the story, but he’s just not. He drops some exposition, but he’s pretty sidelined the whole time. The player and Nemona are the muscle, and Penny was brought to hack the terminals to open the zero lab. Arven is there cuz his dad asked him down there, so you’d assume he’d get a big payoff, but he really doesn’t. He’s not present for the revelation that his dad is dead, or for any of the explanation of what his dad was doing down here. He walks into the room halfway through the climax, and really doesn’t have much to say. He has a few lines after the AI professor goes through the machine, but it’s all pretty surface level “I’m sad cuz my dad died, but not really that sad cuz I kinda felt like that was the case.” The way the game presents it, Nemona almost feels just as affected as Arven, despite having no connection to the professor whatsoever. The AI prof was more than happy to do the battle with the player, despite calling Arven in the first place. And he already knew about the player from the start because they had miraidon. You could have entirely written Arven out of the climax of the story entirely by just having the player find miraidon’s pokeball with it on the beach at the start, then having the professor call the player instead of Arven after they’d finished the other two story lines. You should not be able to do that with this character. All you’d miss out on is some pointless exposition and a handful of lines about “I’m sad my dad died but not that sad really.”

Overall, I find Arven to be a pretty underwritten and unlikable character. I don’t find his story compelling, and I found his personality to be unpleasant. I think he’s a complete waste of what could have been a strong character, had gamefreak actually put in the legwork to make his story actually function as a narrative, rather than being shallow and broken. Like most of this game, I think it could have been very good if handled with more care, but it’s clear that the team behind this cut corners, and it severely hurt both the game, and Arven’s character.

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet

[tainbocuailnge]

the average young-ish dutch person is gonna respond to someone wanting to learn dutch with “why bother though” because if you speak english to the average young-ish dutch person they’ll immediately respond in english. i know a lot of native dutch speakers who consider dutch silly and inelegant and just prefer english. and based on the anecdotal evidence of my personal experience it’s in large part bc a lot of us grew up on english language media, because the dubbing scene in the netherlands was miniscule (i don’t know the current state of it but hopefully it’s improved since my childhood where every pokemon movie had a different VA for ash) so we’re just not used to engaging with most things in dutch, especially online because the online spaces where people primarily speak dutch boil down to like, your bigoted extended family members on facebook. several universities give their courses in english because university graduates are one of the primary export products of the netherlands. so dutch ends up designated and dismissed as an unrefined language among dutch speakers bc many highly educated dutch people just don’t often speak it in contexts where more refined language is required and most of their experience with formulating critical thought is in english (which is the case for me too, i often slip into english while having arguments in dutch for this reason). 

which isn’t to say dutch doesn’t often sound silly and unrefined (i like to describe it as drunk german) but it’s not like english can’t also sound dumb as hell and there’s a massive amount and range of dutch literature that wouldn’t have nearly the same amount of elegance or charm or impact in another language. radio stations that proudly focus on dutch music will more often than not play 90% lame tearjerkers and carnival music but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any good or elegant or skilful dutch lyricism out there (and some of the tearjerkers are really good!). it’s kind of a vicious cycle because the interest in dutch language media being so small means there’s less incentive to make more of it means there’s less actually good dutch writing means interest drops even more. and speaking for myself I doubt i’d actually use dutch language options in video games and the like because i’m so used to everything digital being in english. but it’s not because there’s something inherently bad or lame or stupid about dutch it’s a culmination of many cultural and socioeconomic factors. my point i guess being if you want to learn dutch don’t let dutch people telling you not to bother deter you because i bet at least half of them only think it’s lame because the last time they critically engaged with the language was to write their high school book reports on literature they didn’t understand

#anyway i love cuchulainn #en lees 'het leven is vurrukkulluk' als je zover bent #ik las die 10 jaar geleden voor de leeslijst en denk er nog steeds aan. echt zo'n boek wat voor een reden een klassieker is

[eunchancorner]

Honestly Genocide is my favorite character now :)) I loved the Erasermic family thing! I hope you’re having a great start to your week. For this one I was thinking that you could pick whatever ship (romantic or platonic) you wanna use for it (: Maybe Person A gets caught doing something really cute/ out of character and it Person B wants to help them feel less embarrassed. Ex: caught playing with stuffed animals or having a solo dance party or whatever. Lysm! -Olive

I’m gonna use this as an opportunity to say I think Ojiro watches a lot of Hamilton like me and loves singing along but he’s super embarrassed about it, and I had to spin a wheel to see who’d find out.

  Ler Izuku, Lee Ojiro

Warning: none lol

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”Let me tell you what I wish I’d known, when I was young and dreamed of glory. You have no control, who lives, who dies, who tells your story…”

Izuku followed the music through the halls, listening closely to the voice he couldn’t recognize singing along. He had heard the same kind of music for a few days now, always from the same part of the dorms, and today he was finally going to find out who was the huge, apparent Hamilton fan.

”Who lives, who dies, who tells your story…”

He snuck around, for fear of his singing friend hearing him, being careful to be as quiet as possible, which also helped him try to determine who’s voice he was hearing. Though it was still difficult as he approached the door slowly.

“Every other founding father’s story gets told, every other founding father gets to grow old…”

He came up to the knob, starting to recognize the voice a bit better, slowly he turned it as he heard the music grow, his brain starting to register where he was as he opened the door, his eyes widening as he saw who was singing, just as a slow, sweet ”Eliza….” rang out in the room.

“I put myself back in the narrative,” Ojiro sang out, small tears of emotion in his eyes, fully immersed in his imaginary role, not noticing the greenette.

“I stop wasting time on tears, I live another fifty years, it’s not enough…”

”Eliza…” Izuku mouthed with the song.

“I interview every soldier that fought by your side…”

”She tells our story…”

“I try to make sense of your thousands of pages of writings, you really do write like you’re running out of ti- IZUKU!!” he screeched as he noticed the greenette, quickly wiping the budding tears from his eyes as he went to pause the music.

“W-wait Ojiro, that was amazing!” Deku quickly assured him, the compliment causing Ojiro to stop in his tracks. He noticed the small blush on his face. He could tell compliments still embarrassed the heck out of him.

“Y-you really think so…?” the tailed blonde asked nervously.

“Yea, of course I do, you’re an awesome singer!”

“Heh, that might have just been my voice blending with the singer’s…”

“Even so, it was still really cool how you know the song well enough to time it perfectly!”

“I-it’s not like it’s some sort of video game challenge…”

“Still! Now I kinda wanna hear you sing, just you, without any music.”

This got Ojiro to cover his face with his hands, his tail thumping on the ground. The compliments made him so happy but so flustered and he just couldn’t bring himself to let Izuku see his blushing face.

Izuku smiled a little at him, before poking him in the side, meaning to get his attention and flinching when Ojiro squealed and his arm shot down to his side. It took him a couple of seconds to register what he just saw.

“Ojiro, are you…”

“No!!”

“Are you ticklish?”

“NO!!”

“Aww, you don’t have to lie, Oji! It’s ok, most of us are, and something tells me you have a cute tickle laugh~” Deku cooed, giggling slightly as he saw the signs of a wobbly smile forming under Ojiro’s hands. He raised his hands and curled them into claws just as Ojiro dared to peek at him, earning a nervous squeal that the greenette thought was adorable. He noticed how his tail floof poofed up, and it gave him an idea.

He suddenly pounced on the nervous blonde, earning a sudden excited squeal. He quickly straddled him and pulled the hands away from Oji’s face, silently admiring the quickly growing blush, the wobbly smile, the wide, bright eyes. He could also hear Ojiro’s tail thumping quietly behind him, which only fueled his theory.

“Alright, Ojiro, we’re gonna play a game!” the announced, smiling widely down at the pinned boy.

“W-whaht game…?” he mumbled, a short giggle escaping him.

“We’re gonna see where your tail wants me to tickle you!”

“Wh-wh-what- EE!” he squeaked as Midoriya’s hands curled into claws and hovered over his body, the thumping growing louder and faster.

“Ooo, I think this might work! Hmm… let’s see, does your tail want me to tickle… your sides?” the greenette teased, wiggling his hands over Ojiro’s sides and smirking as the thudding sped up again.

“Hmm… or maybe your ribs?”

Thump thump thump thump

“Ooo, or, maybe your hips…”

Thumpthumpthumpthump!!

“Or maybe your little tummy tum tum?”

THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP

“Oh, your tail really likes that idea! What do you think, Oji? Should I tickle your little tummy?” Izuku teased, his hands hovering dangerously close to said spot. Ojiro giggled and covered his face, trying desperately to still his tail.

“Hmmm… let’s see…” suddenly hands were digging into Ojiro’s belly, fingers kneading and squishing the soft skin there, causing the blonde to buck and squirm, laughter flowing from him in waves as his tail wagged violently.

“NAhahahaha nahat thehehere!! Nahat my behehelly!” he pleaded, pushing at Izuku’s hands half-heartedly.

“Oh yes, your belly, your tickle-tickle-ticklish little belly! And… hmmm” he smirked as he got an idea from the music that still played in the background, a more upbeat song after the playlist had looped. 

“I am not throwing away my, shot! I am not throwing away my, shot!” he belted out along with the phone in the background.

“Whahat are youhu dohohohoing?!”

“Sing with me, Oji! I’ma get a scholarship to King’s College! I probably shouldn’t brag but dag, I amaze and astonish! Come on!!”

“Nohohoho plehehease!! I cahahan’t! Tohohoo ehebarrassihihihing!”

“Then I guess I'll just have to tickle you until you do!” he said, squishing at the small bit of pudge just under his belly button, causing him to squeal.

“EEEHEhehehehe okahahay! Ihi’ll do ihihihit!” he gave in, giggling as the tickling stopped and the phantom sensations danced across his belly, Izuku’s singing causing him to giggle louder.

“Only nineteen but my mind is older!”

“Every word and every disadvantage I’ve learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish, I walk these streets famished!” Ojiro began to sing along with him, their voices creating a beautiful duet.

Together they sang the rest of the song, Izuku collapsing onto Ojiro at the end in a giggling fit.

“Ohoho, and one more thing, Ojiro.”

“Yeah?”

“Don’t be embarrassed by the pure quality that is your singing!”

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That went a little off track but I think I fixed it! Also Ojiro’s fave song is Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story prove me wrong

#eun writes #mha #bnha #mha tickles #bnha tickles #mha ojiro #bnha ojiro #mha izuku #bnha izuku #izuku midoriya #ojiro mashirao #ticklish!ojiro #ler!izuku #lee!ojiro #ler!deku #deku

[thekidsarentalright]

ok ok i’ve started to process the album but honestly cant stop yelling enough to write a coherent ask so here’s a whole bunch of stuff that has me going feral:

the title track. i think fob just released one of my fave songs ever, it went to my top 5 from them so fast!!! it reminds me of how much the pandemic fucked up for everyone… “thought we had it all” fr!! but like. the strings??? the choir at the end?! SUNSHINE OF MY LIFETIME REPRISE?!?! SHUT UP FOREVER!!!!! (also my bday is the “day after christmas past” so i nearly screamed when i heard that line lmaooooo… followed immediately by “my pain isn’t cool enough”?! literally almost fell over at that point. that felt like an accidental shoutout and then getting punched directly in the gut 😭)

flu game is absolutely my second fave!!! the “youuuu” in the chorus just hits my brain a certain way i’m obsessed!! also i relate to it a little too much 😭

what a time to be alive!!!!! soul punk vibes fr <3 also that bridge goes so hard i think screaming it live would fix me 😭 WHEN I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE THIS ISNT QUITE WHAT I MEANT!!!! GOT THE QUARANTINE BLUES BAD NEWS WHAT’S LEFT!!!!!

the strings in i am my own muse?!?! patrick is just flexing at this point (as he should) <3

my synesthesia went crazy with heaven iowa… it’s this beautiful deep blue/indigo/purple situation and i want to live in it <— totally normal thing to say abt a song

so good right now gave me whiplash right after heaven iowa but it’s so fun! i went from crying to dancing so fast lmao

in general i love space and this album delivered w the references!! i caved and bought the glow in the dark stars 😳

and the living even though it’s painful and scary, especially when it’s painful and scary vibes… fob always knows what we need to hear i swear!!! ur post abt the themes on this album is so so true <3

patrick dressed as a chicken playing the piano… i love him so much it’s stupid <3 also that music video nearly killed me. couldn’t see the screen super well when they were on fallon and didn’t process that the costume was like… a muscle suit for a solid minute. my brain literally shut down lmaooo 😭

ik there’s like… lyric parallels and stuff i got rlly excited abt but am totally forgetting rn! i’m sure it’ll come back when i listen to the album again (which i’m probably gonna go do rn) but… yeah!! so glad we get to be insane abt all this on here together lol <3 peace and love in fob world ☺️

- 🧋 anon

YESSSS the title track is INSANE with how good it is and how much is in it like. i swear every lyric hits Hard, the reprise absolutely breaks my heart it is so. Perfect. so so so valid for it being in your top 5 fob songs of all time already it is genuinely That Good!!! and made for you Clearly with that birthday shoutout!!! even with the gut punch after. every lyric feels like such a gut punch i swear kfgjdhfkjs

flu game is ALSO one of my top favs, i could not rank this album yet even if it would save my life kfjsdkfj but i know for Sure flu game is in like. top 5 territory. i'm obsessed w it for the same reasons fr it is. too relatable thanks pete (haha i said the thing!)

REAL i need them to perform what a time to be alive live SO bad literally just so i can scream that bridge i think that would fix me fr fr. also just love how dancey it is while having. incredibly depressing lyrics. vibe of all time fksjdhfks

patrick is flexing w his arranging skills all over this album but Esp in i am my own muse and i hope he keeps flexing forever bc it is. so good!!!!

OUGHHH heaven iowa being purpley blue it so pretty... to me it's like... idk a very warm song, orange/yellow/golden so. the opposite of you KFJDSK but still pretty i Also wanna live in it. we are So normal for that bff <3

they are literally sick for putting so good right now right after heaven, iowa it was Such an intense tone shift fsdkjfsh i Love so good right now tho it's slowly becoming one of my favs i think

i absolutely love how jam packed this album is w space references, i was anticipating it but Still am like. fuck yeah space fkjdshkfjs i'm still debating on getting the glow in the dark stars tbh... is u getting them a sign i should too... much to think about

but yeah the albums themes are SOOOO. like. i think what the world needed to hear right now, also what i needed to hear rn, what You needed to hear like. they always know!!!! it is just so cathartic to hear that things might not be okay or better but that you can still live and be fulfilled and have love Despite Despite Despite!!!!

and lastly fr i. didn't process it was a chestplate/muscle suit at first either so was like. ready to die over patrick looking like That lmao honestly i still am he pulls off that look way too well. also pulled off the chicken costume imo <3

#LOVED hearing ur thoughts on all this if u have more. processed ones KFJHDSK i would love to hear them too <3 #so fun to go insane over fob w u and everyone on here tho its the best <3 these last few days have been SOOO fun on here <3 #asks #🧋anon

[iamafanofcartoons]

Media Criticism is DEAD, there are no more good critics. LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!

One of my pet peeves is that a lot of the time, people hating on X thing will just regurgitate whatever video essay they got their opinions from verbatim, so you get the same, tired criticism play out every time. Yes, I've seen the hbomb video, and its garbage!

I used to have a friend who basically just parrots certain opinions and it's super annoying because you can literally see him change his own opinions to suit critics, like at least have some original opinions man!

Its genuinely exhausting that everyone today is a mini critic. Every new game, movie, show, ect has to be criticized to the ends of the earth, even if some of those criticisms make no sense at all. even before a new game is out, people have to say it'll be shit with no evidence. can't even discuss a new game coming out in a discord of people who play the first game because they're all 100% CONVINCED without a shred of evidence that it will suck and the devs will fuck it up beyond belief, despite the fact that the only thing we've seen so far are concept arts and 2 trailers. Nobody can be fucking positive about anything anymore and its god damn atrocious. I'm so sick of it.

I'm really sick of people cynically criticizing everything over the most minute details, and it's exhausting talking about media with people like that. 

Obviously people can criticize things but a lot of the time it feels like people are trying to use criticism to make their opinions "objective" instead of just... not liking it. 

You can't just say "not for me" anymore, you gotta write a video essay on why this thing is actually bad.

If you say "I think RWBY is really good" of course people are gonna disagree and that's fine.

 But what I find annoying is that you'll go "Hey this RWBY fight/character is cool" and you'll get flooded with "RWBY BAD WATCH THE HBOMB VIDEO!!"

Imagine spending 2.5 hours watching bald neckbeard cinemasins take a giant dump on a passion project, but somehow you don’t have 5-10 minutes to use google search to see if any of what he said was true. Spoilers? Most of it was slander and libel.

And these are the same people that never recognize forced straight ships that pander to heterosexuals.  Examples?  Sorry, I don't have the time to list 95% of all media with a romance that aren't romance genre.

God forbid someone wants two fictional women to kiss...or two men for that matter.  LGBT media is always criticized more harshly than shows with no representation at all.

It especially sucks because I do think people should have the right to criticize things, and that no piece of media is above criticism, but when everything is 100% criticism 100% of the time it just… doesn’t even mean anything anymore.

It's also hard to criticise things like this when something actually is poorly written, because the worst bigots and haters come out of the woodwork and latch onto your criticism as a "look, we're right" kind of thing. It makes it hard to actually critique progressive media a lot of the time.

A lot of folks just want to hide their hatred for LGBT and for women. I guess I’d rather have poor representation than no representation at all.

Let people enjoy things instead of being a pretentious killjoy who's never had fun in their life unless they're shitting on someone else's fun.

It gets tiring to hear the exact same criticisms of a character I like every goddamn time I bring them up. It may be new criticism to people saying it, but it's mentally taxing hearing the exact same points a hundred times.

#media literacy is dead #media criticism #media literacy #media criticism is dead #critics #hatred is not criticism #what is criticism #rwby is enjoyable #rwby is a good show #let people like things #let people enjoy things #let people be happy #let people enjoy stuff #iamafanofcartoons

[og-danny-dorito]

Second of two match ups I wanted to ask about

Fandom: BNHA

Preference: SFW AND NSFW

Zodiac: Pisces

Pronouns: She/Her and They/Them

Sexuality: Bisexual

Hobbies: Singing, Reading, Playing video games, making Loom band chains, and most recently, baking cookies, bread, and cakes.

Appearance: I’m a bit more on the chubbier side, 5’4 and have very short curly black hair. I usually wear glasses for being near sighted but forget to wear them all the time. I have dark brown eyes and I’m curvy. Have scars around my chest from two reduction surgeries

Personality Traits: Extremely Empathetic, Loyal, Hard headed, Sensitive

Facts about myself: I tend to put others way before myself, to the point I don’t care for myself as much. I have ADHD and Social Anxiety Disorder, and I come from a family of Brazilians and Porto Rican’s. I tend to have a soft spot for children and end up being an unintentional babysitter/older sister type. Rhythm games are a big part of my life and Greek mythology is a big thing for me. Turned stress eating to stress baking to try and help with weight loss.

Of course!! Sorry about the time this took, I had some things to take care of but I hope you like them regardless!

𝙸 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑… 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚊 𝙰𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚠𝚊!

𝚃𝚆: explicit sexual content in the 'NSFW' area [minors do not interact]

𝙲𝚆: breeding, riding

𝚂𝙵𝚆:

i'm gonna keep it real with you he's just as quiet as giyuu but he's a lot more withdrawn

like yeah he does the same thing where he notices when you're lying about being ok when you're not, but unlike giyuu he doesn't hide the fact that he thinks you're bullshitting

there isn't an ounce of subtlety with this dude and its partially cause i headcanon him as neurodivergent

as a neurodivergent person i've found it a lot easier to communicate and be in relationships with people who are also neurodivergent, and even though i headcanon him to have ADD i think that he thinks about things very similarly to how you do

it means that you two probably operate better together, and one of the main ways you hang out is by staying in the same room while doing separate tasks

like for instance; he isn't too into videogames, but he'll still look over to check out what you're playing even though he's grading papers while you two are laying in bed

a good activity to do together is watch tv though!! the only issue is that you might end up falling asleep on one another once you fall into that comfortable sort of silence that people usually do while watching tv, but lord knows both of you need the rest anyways

loves to cook and bake with you though!! he's not particularly good at baking, so most of the time he does the cooking for the day while you make the deserts and other associated items

he's always kind of had an issue with intimacy, so little moments like the listening to music and trying to figure out how to make mantecaditos on a sunday afternoon are the ones he really holds close to his heart (mantecaditos are one of my favs btw i love the guava in them fr)

he honestly just loves seeing you in your element and hearing you talk, and so it's not uncommon for you to be talking about an interest of your and his eyes to get all starstruck

its one of the few times you'll really see him unknowingly smile, and when you call him out for looking at you like that his face gets all red and he starts grumbling like a little kid that's been caught red handed

BUT YOU JUST MAKE HIM REALLY SOFT FOR SOME REASON LIKE... i think since ya'll would cook for each other ya'll would probably pack each other little lunches from time to time

every time he cracks one open during his break his heart melts a little

like theres this time that you make him chili soup for the winter with little cat-shaped breads to dip in it, and you attach a note saying 'Hope you have a purr-iffic day! Love you, take it easy on the kids.' and hE CANT HELP BUT BLUSH A LITTLE CAUSE ITS CUTEEE

like yes he fucking loves the shitty cat pun scrawled in your messy ass writing and yes he loves the fact that you went out of your way to make him lunch even though you knew there was a high chance he would be too busy sleeping or working to eat it but it makes him fall in love with you just a little bit more

he has to hide it just as mic barges in though otherwise he's gonna have an earful about how he's 'not as scary as he looks' or something LOL (he's not)

but overall i think ya'll just make each other really soft and he loves you a lot

like anytime you voice an insecurity or something it hurts him personally because he feels like you don't see yourself the way he and others do, even though he understands it wholeheartedly

he sits and listens to you regardless though, before assuring you that without a doubt you're just as pretty and sweet and worthy of love and attention as anyone else, if not more

RAUGHGHGH HE JUST LOVES YOU TO BITS IDKK

𝙽𝚂𝙵𝚆:

pretty sure everyone and their momma's said this before but this dude 100% has a breeding and size kink i dont care

i mean shit he's like 6 feet tall and built like a buff lightpole, how can he not use his size as an advantage over you??

aizawa s a very soft and slow lover, but he isn't afraid to take the reigns and blow your back out if the situation calls for it

hates to admit it but he is somewhat jealous; and if you two are on a mission and you have to act all nice with the target or some shit you best believe he'll remind everyone who you belong to once you get behind closed doors

and god knows that when this man gets in the mood he goes HARD

like most of the time he's very soft and slow like i said before, but when he's aggravated it's just something else entirely

i feel like he likes his partners with a little bit of bite to them too, but i dont think he'd be like a brat tamer or anything

he's too lazy LMAO

its why most of the time he'd rather just lay back and watch you ride him, taking the reins right before your realease a sort of subtle form of edging you so you can finish together

he hates to admit it but hes kinda sappy so most of the time he'd rather you two finish together

isn't like, terribly opposed to the concept of having kids but would probably want you to take plan b until you've had a discussion about it

doesn't mean his brain doesnt tell him to breed you tho 💀

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