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#but well! that flag is pretty as hell lmao
mogoce-nocoj · 15 days
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extensive gig reports, Berlin 12.03.24 + Leipzig 13.03.24 💕
they got kinda long oops
Berlin
queue curse: missed jure walking by and nace and kris laughing at the queue for turning up the volume of cha cha cha because of looking for a public toilet and getting food respectively 🫠
jc stewart also walked by like four? times and people only started noticing around the third time or something, sorry jc stewart
bojan said that they love playing in smaller venues during soundcheck which made me laugh because of the downgraded berlin venue
kris ngvot but he looked so unenthusiastic about it and only did it after talking to bojan who I guess talked him into it? sorry kris, you were amazing though
bojan loved the shirt @zadig-fate made for him ❤️ he's such a nerd for being obsessed with eurotrip and was so excited to be like “this is a eurotrip quote!!!” lmao
bojan got a harmonica, said he couldn't play it, and then still played the wedding march on it because of course he was able to do that
bojan's slut leather(?) shirt 🫠 I hope damon suggested he should wear it because you could see his chest very well and he was moving so much and jfc
ended up on kris's side and since this was a no barrier stage he and his pants and ass were so close to me that I felt awkward directly looking at him 😭
jan just doing jan stuff. annoying jure and hitting his cymbals. casually sitting down onto the piano chair during umazane misli while continuing to play the guitar. this guy I swear
bojan got so emotional during EW that it actually made me emotional too. and the panic attack cheer 😂
the fact that the song can stay “schlager” for us german audiences and bojan yapping something about imagining that we're at an old people birthday party or something idk
the guys were very confused about the berlin flag 😂 jan was kinda holding it, very unsure, then went over to kiki, then went over to nace and they were just kind of. looking at the flag and then jan turned to kris and mouthed "berlin??" and kris signalled him a yes which was very funny
just. the vibes of the crowd. everyone was so respectful and we genuinely had an amazing energy. berlin crowd I love you so much
vita said they got the stage measurements beforehand and knew that racik's art wouldn't fit on the stage lmao. she's also super sweet and so easy to talk to. love u vita thanks for all the photos (selfishly glad she's pausing her studies for this)
hugged teya before she had to leave and didn't get to talk to nace and kris but managed to catch jan afterwards and had him sign in my gig book and it was? such a nice crowd? everyone was waiting and chatting for a bit and then when we were all finished jan was hovering there a bit awkwardly before saying bye and leaving. it was amazing and so chill (again. berlin crowd I love you.)
Leipzig
jure was walking by and we waved and a person turned around to see who we were waving at and let out a very loud “oh my god” after spotting jure. absolutely hilarious, we all burst out laughing
while the queue was being organised, kris, jc stewart with jure, vita, and nace behind them were walking down the street next to the queue and nace waved at us but no one paid attention (busy with the queue) so he kinda. stopped lmao
literally like ten minutes after that, jan seemed to try catching up to them but didn't know where to go so he just stared very intently at his phone and stopped in the middle of the street, turned left and walked right by us, then apparently went to far and had to turn back. top ten janči moments
kris walked into the soundcheck with a mug in his hand and left pretty quickly again after soundcheck was finished, he's just so funny to me
bojan said that it was a nice change that the EA crowd were mostly germans which like. ok.
the boys came down to us to talk and take pics with us after the soundcheck??? so nice of them but it confused the hell out of me (I wasn't prepared and was very intimidated by suddenly having a bojan directly in front of me)
a friend I was with asked bojan about the jo travel curse and munich because it's been horrible at least for us living in germany (snow chaos for munich, snow chaos when trying to travel to esns in january, train strike on the day of the berlin gig) and he just kinda forgot about munich until he was like “oh yeah right. it was still an amazing gig though.” 🥺
okay so. now we come to what was an absolutely insane concert
first we saw the eyeliner jure pic and went “oh my god??” and then he actually came on stage like that and we lost it. and then bojan came on stage with that lace shirt and we lost it again. not kidding when I say my favourite insane moment was me turning around to grip @itskrejsaitsparty's hand as I was trying to comprehend what I was seeing. Just. jfc.
bojan asked who had never been to a JO gig before and from what I could see it was around 50%? so there were a lot of new people which is probably also one reason why the energy was insane like that
bojan couldn't stop holding his belt and thrusting his hips, what the fuck 🫠
since I was in the middle I was also privvy to many cute jance looks and moments, they really are just like that on stage
the nace solo because someone requested a bass solo?? and how nace started and everyone joined and then bojan's “let's go nace” just. what even was happening at that point
everything surrounding metulji. first bojan giving jan that pic to “get him in the mood.” jan pretending to kiss it. it falling down making us all giggle and bojan already being on the brink of losing it and then losing it completely and jan stopping to just play different chords on the piano while bojan was trying to get it together. we really broke him 😭 and he was trying so hard to get back into the sad metulji mood and then he apologised for it afterwards like “i'm sorry this was so unprofessional of me” like dude. the was the best moment I've ever seen on stage
bojan was so keyed up that when kiki came to him to switch guitars he just bounced around him and started saying stuff to kiki and leaned his face towards him (I wouldn't be surprised if he expected another cheek kiss but shhhhh)
bojan AGAIN because he was jumping over the barrier and back on stage right next to me after umazane misli and I was like. what do I do. Do I, like, help him??? Can he do it by himself??? what if he topples over and I'm right next to him. Gah. In the end I just pressed myself back into @braveheart1418, stared at the back of bojan's lace shirt in slight horror and let Kiki do his thing 🫠 (I need a bojči break now I'm too anxious for any of this)
the gig went by so quickly because of all the stuff that happened that it was such a surprise when they said it was nearly over
I literally sank onto the floor after the gig because I couldn't understand what had just happened. so many memorable moments. I'm glad everyone just went down onto the floor with me, love you ❤️
everyone (except kris) came out to talk and take pics afterwards but bojan left quickly because of his health. and also, you know. damon baker. what a sweetheart. with all the stuff that happened, being able to talk to him about his art was such a lovely moment and I still can't believe that he was there
In the most funniest turn of events I managed to have everyone including damon baker sign in my gig book except for kris which is hilarious to me and so very fitting for him
I'm still trying process everything that happened but thank you so much to everyone I met and talked to and who made stuff for me, in particular @zadig-fate, @izpira-se-zlato, @braveheart1418, @esskuesli, @occhi-verdi-come-il-mare and @itskrejsaitsparty 💕💕💕
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ystrike1 · 10 months
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I Thought I Didn't Have Long To Live! - By Ari Choi (8.5/10)
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A funny romance protagonist. What a breath of fresh air! Funny girls don't usually mesh well with yanderes, but it works here. Our heroine is obsessed with finishing her bucket list before her early death. So, she ignores all of the red flags. She marches up to the Legendary Monster Duke, and she says she wants to date him casually. Just for the hell of it.
Lariette is a good daughter. She does paperwork. She helps her father hold up his failing family. She puts up with her bratty brother. The problem is her family doesn't value her. She's pretty, so they try to sell her to an old rich guy. When Lariette gets diagnosed with Too Much Mana disease she knows she's doomed.
So, she beats up her ugly fiance and she leaves.
Lmao.
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She's super good at purification magic, so she decides to sell her marketable skill...wait. Purification wizards are not in high demand. Healers are easier to use. So, she's broke. Lol. Her bag gets stolen too. She gets saved, violently, by a handsome man.
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Asrahan is a Weird Duke. He got cursed when he was really young. A witch gave him rotting flesh, and the eternal stench of death. He's handsome, but his cursed body is repulsive. He's very lonely. Only a mega strong purification wizard can save him, and he hasn't found one. No one is willing to go near the living corpse.
Lariette isn't affected by his aura, because she's even more powerful than she thinks she is. She's good with fire and healing, but she doesn’t know she's on par with the pope.
She asks him to date her. He says no and she offers a purification contract instead.
He accepts.
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She sees her relationship with him like this.
Her efforts to seduce him are all fun and games to her.
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He sees their relationship like this.
Try to think about it from his point of view. People have been vomiting in fear at the sight of him since he was like seven. Now, a gorgeous woman sings his praises daily. Plus, she makes the smell go away. It's a slow process though, because his curse is a nasty one. They get even closer because of it. Purification is super draining. He appreciates the pain Lariette goes through for his sake.
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Poor Asrahan turned to violence as a young man. His mom died too (of course) so he went to war to be surrounded by other corpses. He is the strongest guy around. His nasty aura makes him a hard opponent to beat too. It is sad though. Asrahan gets along great with his butler, but he has no friends his age and zero experience with women. Even though he's twenty seven. That's rough.
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Lariette's old fiance tries to punish her for leaving. Asrahan immediately beheads the men he hired. He cuts off the old man's arm as a warning too. Asrahan doesn't completely accept his feelings for a while. He really sees himself as a monster. He isn't going to let Lariette leave though. Every time he thinks about becoming pure and free of the curse...he isn't happy because that means she'll leave.
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Priest Doha is a great character, because he's not a real yandere. He's possessive because Lariette is special. He does fall for her, but his attraction is rooted in selfishness. Asrahan doesn't think he's good enough for Lariette, because she's so wonderful. Plus he also slices heads off. He beats priest guy no problem. Lariette chooses him. There is no contest.
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Lariette rushes their dating life. Asrahan gets jealous of Doha and they start dating. Lariette wants to do it all before she dies. She also thinks Asrahan is experienced, with lots of past girlfriends. She can't comprehend how scary the corpse thing is, because she can't sense it. Asrahan doesn't handle being in lust for the first time well, but he tries his best. Consent. Cool!
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Every other character sees Asrahan as a cold guy. Just because he killed thousands of men and his skin is purple and he sometimes goes into berserker rages blahblahblah. So judgemental.
I'm kidding.
Lariette realizes she messed up when the doctor says she's fine. She got misdiagnosed. Immediately after that she has to face the consequences. Asrahan is very kind to her....and that’s it. He doesn't need anyone else. He's so used to being alone. Having love is more than enough fulfillment for him, which is bad. She's got a life to live, and she won't get any freedom if she stays with her corpse boyfriend.
What a pickle!
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altruistic-meme · 1 year
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Am I the only one who actually likes Marcus in the beginning? Like I thought "oh he seems like a nice dude I want Simon to be with wille but this isn't so bad ig" and then when Simon tried breaking up with him his response????? Was so WEIRD? like it just felt off to me that he refused to hear Simon and just went on saying that they should still be together and brought up his dad. Like that was weird as hell. Maybe I'm wrong but if someone's breaking up with you you should just ... Accept it? And let them? It's one thing to try and convince them to stay bc you're so heartbroken, which is acceptable, but with Marcus it felt like different, like he was lowkey being manipulative. It felt like he wasn't listening to Simon at all. And I mean I'm not blaming him for Simon cheating on him with wille but dude you know this guy doesn't really wanna be with you lmao what did you expect
hello anon i love you. 
Trust me, you are NOT alone! This was literally my exact reaction as well. I actually kind of like Marcus at the start, and then during that argument my opinion completely flipped. Because you are very right: it was pretty manipulative of Marcus, and it wasn’t the only time he exhibited that behavior either. 
For the sake of “I’m not here to start drama”: I’m going to speak from personal experience and about my personal opinion on Marcus. I am always open to hearing other peoples thoughts on this as well, if you agree or disagree, just please be respectful about it. I have been witness to two different, incredibly manipulative relationships. I’ve done quite a bit of research because of this. So that’s where I’m coming from. 
Now, you sent me this right before my first rewatch of s2 which means i was paying lots of attention to Marcus when i watched it and I definitely took notes for this so let’s go!
Episode 1 (around 37:00): my first red flag in Marcus’ behavior was how he was pretty instantly overly-friendly and familiar with Simon despite the fact they’d only had 2 interactions. He greeted him with a hug, kept getting very close to him, and was hanging off of him during karaoke. Which isn’t always a red flag, because sometimes people are just Like That, but I still think it’s worth noting considering his later behavior. It just rubs me the wrong way that he is putting himself into Simon’s space so quickly. 
Episode 3 (around 22:40): the actual argument that you mentioned
Like you, I was perfectly fine with Marcus until this scene. I got bad feelings pretty early on.
Simon tells Marcus that he “isn’t ready for anything serious” and Marcus tells him that it’s okay, but then proceeds to immediately twist the situation in his favor. He pretends to accept what Simon says to begin with so that Simon won’t just shut down, but he does still put up arguments.
“I’m not like [Wille] … I won’t hurt you.” Bad Sign Bad Sign Bad Sign. Saying that he isn’t like Wille to catch Simon’s attention and to build trust. Simon’s trust in Wille is broken, and Marcus seems to understand that, so he’s using Wille as a gateway to establish a trust that he would otherwise have to earn. 
Simon basically telling him “that’s not what it’s about, it’s not about you, I just can’t do this now” was another chance for Marcus to step back, but instead he continues to push the issue. 
Him bringing up Micke was a trick as well. Telling Simon that he doesn’t really understand how relationships should look gives him free wiggle room. Because it makes Simon lose trust in his own judgment, and now he will look to Marcus to see if what they are doing is good and healthy. 
TOUCHING HIS NECK during the conversation made me furious actually. It built a connection between them, something intimate, again to build Simon’s trust. 
Reinforced by hugging him as well. 
“I know you don’t want to destroy something this beautiful” is also a very bad sign. Because now he’s telling Simon that what they have is healthy and good, piggybacking off of the doubt he created earlier in Simon’s judgment. 
“Let’s just take it slow” now he’s repeating this, telling Simon what his own terms are while actively ignoring Simon’s decision to end it. 
And finally for this scene, he gives a “reward” for Simon’s agreement. He offers to go cheer Simon on at the competition. 
Episode 4 (around 7:45): he expresses no interest in going to the ball, which is fine on it’s own, but it’s him shutting down what Simon wants immediately followed by proposing what he wants instead, to go to his house. 
Also Episode 4 (around 36:00): last one, this one also is a huge thing imo. “[Wille] seems nice. He’s not at all stuck-up like when he was shooting with Felice.” this is a direct attempt to paint Wille in a bad light. It’s an attempt to make Simon believe that Wille was only nice to Marcus because Simon was there, and that he is entirely different - even rude - when Simon isn’t there to impress. 
This is all to say that, whether it was intentional or not, I think Marcus was absolutely trying to manipulate Simon. So much of his behavior can kind of be waved away (“oh some people are just overly-friendly” “maybe Simon needed to hear that” “Wille did hurt Simon” etc) but also one of the major aspects of manipulation like this is that it can be easy to wave away. The person who is being manipulative doesn’t want to be clocked manipulating someone, it’s not supposed to be overt and noticeable. But it’s still there. In many little things and sometimes in a few bigger ones. 
This was something I noticed on my first watch, and the rewatch only further cemented it in my mind. Do I think Marcus was all bad? No, absolutely not! But then again, neither are most manipulators. I did enjoy him as a character as well, and the actor did a wonderful job. But yeah. I don’t think he did Simon any good. 
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#1 with rooster bay bee <3
tell me why i've never in my life been more scared to write a blurb LMAO i hope i did him justice<33
1. losing something and the other picks it up and calls after them
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You couldn’t remember the last time you’d seen the Hard Deck this packed. As you and your best friend tried to squirm your way through the crowd, you felt an unusual wave of claustrophobia press in on you from the proximity of everyone around.
“Is Penny having an event or something?” you called over your shoulder, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
“Not that I remember,” your friend called back. “Must be a new wave of aviators—I guess there’s a mission coming up or something.”
You nodded in reply, trying to squeeze between two burly sailors, but they didn’t even notice you. As you stumbled back, your friend steadied you and said, “Listen, this place is a zoo. I’m gonna go try and find us a table—or even just a chair to share. You get us drinks. Sound good?”
You nodded, more frustrated than anything, and tried again to squeeze past the sailors. This time they did see you, and quickly shifted out of the way with some gallant, mumbled apologies. After what felt like ages, you finally arrived at the shiny, lacquered surface of the bar, slamming your palms down and claiming a space there. One of the guys next to you jumped at the sudden sound, doing a double-take, but you didn’t spare him a glance.
“Penny!” you yelped, flagging her down as she ran past. “What the hell is going on?”
You could tell it was busy because Penny had her hair pulled back with an untidy claw clip. Loose strands fell all around her face, and she was flushed, but smiling. Recognizing you, she quickly grabbed two bottles of you and your friend’s favorite beers and started to uncap them, saying, “TOPGUN called back a bunch of graduates, and they just succeeded in their mission with zero casualties. Seems like everybody and their Uncle Sam wants to buy them a congratulatory beer.”
You bit back a snarky retort, always mindful of the sign over Penny’s shoulder—specifically, the warning against disrespecting the navy. Instead, you said, “Well, cheers to that. I’ll have to give one of them a pat on the back.”
“I’ll take that pat,” said a voice next to you, and when Penny threw her head back and laughed, you knew you’d somehow been set up.
Bracing yourself, you turned to face the aviator next to you, and when you saw his face, all you said was, “Oh.”
He was tall and strong, and his brown hair was carefully trimmed and styled—all typical signs of an active-duty aviator. Even the mustache on his upper lip was pretty standard fare with navy men, though you had to admit you hadn’t seen it on anyone younger than your father in…ever, actually. But the thing that really made this man stand out was his clothes. He was wearing a basic white tank top tucked into a pair of blue jeans, with an extremely loud and obnoxious floral Hawaiian shirt worn on top. In all your time hanging around Fightertown and the Hard Deck, you’d never seen a detachment where ‘island tourist chic’ was part of the uniform.
If you’d been able to pull it together quicker, you’d have said something smart and impressive and witty, like, “Nice kit, lieutenant.” But he was looking at you with gentle brown eyes and a look on his face that left you dizzy, like the worst kind of cliche. And the last thing you’d said was, “Oh.”
Which was apt.
After another long moment where you were incapable of doing much else than stare dumbly at the pilot next to you, he broke into a smile—of course that just made him more gorgeous—and chuckled. “So I guess that’s a ‘no’ on the back-pat?”
“Congrats,” you said dumbly, and you watched as your hand, seemingly operating separate from the rest of you, reached out and clapped him soundly on the shoulder. He laughed again, and your face burned. You half hoped the floor of the Hard Deck would open up and swallow you right there.
You glanced back towards Penny, hoping for a lifeline, but of course she’d moved on to serve someone else.
“I haven’t seen you here before,” said the pilot, leaning closer to make himself heard over the crowd in the bar. You tried to play it cool and act like his proximity wasn’t sending excited chills up and down your spine.
“Then you must not come by very often,” you shot back, grinning. “I’m in here all the time.”
He wrinkled his nose like he was embarrassed, and it was your turn to chuckle, taking a drink from one of the beers Penny had given you. The pilot reached into his pocket and deftly pulled out a credit card, holding it between two fingers. He said, “I feel like that’s a fumble on my part. Can I buy your drinks?”
Out of the corner of your eye, you saw Penny starting to walk back towards the two of you. Moving quickly, you set down the beer, grabbed your wallet, and scrambled for your own card, saying, “I’m perfectly capable. Thanks, though.”
You immediately regretted it when you saw his face fall incrementally. Great. He totally thought you’d just rejected him. And you had just rejected him. Ugh, this was not going well.
Penny took your card and then was gone again. Wanting to hurry up and escape this awkward interaction with this very attractive aviator, you shoved your wallet back into your pocket and picked up both beers with one hand, reaching out to take your card back when Penny returned. 
“My friend is over there,” you said, gesturing vaguely in a direction. “I should probably get going. Nice to meet you, though. And congrats on the mission.”
“Yeah,” he said with a nod, looking distracted. “Thanks.”
As you started to worm your way back through the crowd, you fought the urge to smack yourself on the forehead. How could he possibly have talked about fumbling? You were the one who had just fumbled! You had half a mind to turn back around, push back through the crowd, and forcefully introduce yourself, but something told you that’d just make it worse.
Oh, well. A few more beers and the handsome stranger in the Hawaiian shirt would be long forgotten.
You spotted your friend sitting out on the back deck and waved with your free hand, squeezing out the double doors at the back of the bar and stepping out onto the wooden boards. You opened your mouth to start talking about the flirting catastrophe at the bar, but realized your friend’s eyes were focused on something behind you.
Then you heard your name being called.
Oh, you have got to be kidding. 
You turned around just as the pilot from the bar squeezed out the doors and jogged lightly towards you, his Hawaiian shirt flapping gently. He stopped in front of you, his cheeks the slightest bit pink, and held out his hand. Glancing down, you saw your ID.
“What—?” you said, bewildered.
“It fell out of your wallet,” he explained, a little breathless. “When you were rushing to reject me.”
“Oh my god,” you whispered, putting your free hand in front of your face as white-hot embarrassment flashed through your upper body. In spite of it, you couldn’t help but giggle. “I’m so sorry.”
“It’s okay. I just figured you’d need it.”
“Thank you so much,” you sighed, taking it from him gratefully and tucking it into your pocket. “Listen, about the bar—”
“It’s really okay,” he interrupted. “I shouldn’t have been so pushy. You were just trying to get a drink, it was busy and loud. I get it. I don’t want to be just another guy—whoa, what are you doing?”
You stepped close and reached right into the pocket of his jeans, pulling out his phone and holding it towards him. “Open,” you ordered.
He did as you said and stammered, “What—uh—I mean—what are you—what’s going on?”
“I’m putting my number in your phone,” you said, hoping you sounded cooler than you felt. “This way we can talk somewhere that isn’t an overcrowded navy bar.”
“Like…a coffee shop or something?” he asked, his voice almost hopeful.
You smiled shyly. “Something like that. Here.” You handed him his phone back. “Use that so we can get a do-over.”
“Okay,” he said, really grinning now. “Okay, great. Cool. Awesome. I’ll call you.”
“You better,” you said.
He started to walk back towards the bar, looking down at the phone in his hand. He waved as he went and said, “See you later!”
“I didn’t catch your name!” you realized suddenly.
He shook his head, a teasing glint in his eye. “I didn’t give it.”
You bit your lip to keep from smiling too much and finally turned away, walking back to your friend with the beers that had seemed so important not that long ago. They watched you with a knowing smile, and when you sat down at the table, they asked coyly, “Who was that?”
“I don’t know,” you said honestly, taking a long drink. “But I think I’m gonna enjoy finding out.”
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multitrackdrifting · 9 months
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Well I didn't write my thoughts on the last ep cause I was playing FF16 but I'll explain why I didn't like the ending (despite loving a lot of the episode) under the cut
There's a lot of ways you can end a political sci-fi story (which Mobile Suit Gundam tends to be) and some of the worst ways it can end is a bleak "and nothing got better" and that often is the resolution for a lot of them, but it's not that bad when it's clear that the isolated conflict would just be covered up and whatever amidst the conclusion of that story. The very grounded and "realistic" stories in UC might fall into this kind of area.
I am of the opinion that more often than not it's bad practice to criticise what isn't there, that is unless you have a legitimate reason to feel that way. In this case, I feel that they brought up the earth subplots and kind of just used to thrust the story forward without actually having anything meaningful to say about Earthian emancipation or even validate that the companies in the story made that place a fucking hell hole in any meaningful fashion. You hear about a lot of the going-ons from people from Earth for sure, but you barely have it in your periphery for the majority of the season except for about 3-ish episodes.
My greatest fear as I've expressed to many friends and other people I talk to about G-Witch is that they would hand-wave all the problems away with a time skip and sadly we got literally this exact thing.
The spectacle and wonder of the family conflict tying up nicely & the canon lesbian relationship is pretty heavily overshadowed for me by the complete dismissal of the very subplot threads they opened in order to describe just how bonkers the Benerit group is/was.
OF course, I am labouring under the assumption that there is no season 3, and IBO didn't even announce theirs till like 4 months after Season 1 ended on a massive cliffhanger but this story did not end on one.
There's no seething and spiteful earth orphan in the epilogue, or any inclination that the story will in-fact continue and that leaves me feeling all the way wrong about how they handled this especially since I have to wait half a year potentially to find out if they plan to make more (which I imagine they will if not specifically to sell more Gunpla).
Of course, you might say that "oh this is a more personal Gundam story" and I don't even really feel like that's a good explanation of why the ending almost feels antithetical to the story itself like, yeah Benerit got dissolved and all was well and eveyrone became friends which is acceptable in your average shounen story but this pretty much felt like an ass-pull in some ways especially when you take in that they neglected to do anything with Earth except => guel gets kidnapped and goes to earth and briefly helps orphans and guerillas => miorine accidentally helps stage a false flag attack and pretty much nothing else?
Like that kind of irks me in the same way that playing FF14 Stormblood and there being almost nothing about Ala Mhigo irks me.
Of course, I am happy that SuleMio is a happy family not just with Prospera, but all of her daughers including Eri.
It's just... way too neat? I seldom call something an ass-pull but hand-waving that Earth is still in strife and barely any consequences were faced by the broader corporations outside of the dissolution of Benerit would be a compelling point if, like Hathaway, it had something to stand on top of (which is that in UC, fucking nothing ever changes, Unicorn happens and Hathaway's Mafty Uprising still happens in spite of Banagher's wager on possibility lmao)
I dunno, I feel happy that they're happy but really upset that they really just dumpstered everything to do with Earth and it just swept so many of the real questions that the very story we watched each week implied it would even try to answer.
I'm really hard to annoy, I love meathead shounen, I love serious and nuanced political writing in anime (e.g. MSG UC & Eighty-Six) but it's not the space magic that annoys me, I'd be a hypocrite to love Gundam Unicorn and hate it here - it's how they just time-skipped everything to a neat and tidy conclusion.
Of course, maybe a S3 announcement (which I have firmly held is probably coming) would change my mind, but yeah this was a great episode but a terrible finale.
Honestly, I even felt irked by the fact that Suletta accepts her mothers choice so plainly and I get it - the parental bonds thing is somehting I don't take for granted, anyone who has had complicated feelings about their own parents understands how a person can come to be like "you've hurt me and the people around me, and yet I still care for you" - I get it! But I really do not like how inconsistent it feels to be cleaning up the bodies of her classmates one episode and kinda shrugging everything she did off in a time-skip but this critique specifically is down to the jarring pacing that others had been complaining to this point - I suppose I am guilty of getting caught up in the spectacle but I almost snapped my neck at how hard this ending veered off
Of course, the natural commentary for this will be "selling off Benerit's assets and aiding Earth is a functional and practical way to help Earth" except that it almost feels like it comes out of nowhere due to the lightspeed pacing of this finale.
They really fumbled writing Earth in this story - yeah, there are nice subtleties in the ending but it still feels way too rushed and jarring for me to like actually find it enjoyable. Bodies don't make a good gundam ending (see: Gundam Unicorn), and space magic doesn't make it bad either (also Gundam UC lol), they just brushed off way too much.
The "incremental change" argument holds decent weight if there was any explicit inclination to continue the story from the time-skip (which I would like to see, preferrably with an Earthian protagonist at the centre of their emancipation struggles).
It was indeed nice to see the Earth girls integrated into Miorine's company, and Sabina does comment that they're not sure if it will amount to what they want - and Mio, far more mature than her younger self, steps towards that future bravely and that's cool.
I like the characterisation of the ending - but yeah, how they kinda just blitz the Earth stuff does not sit right with me.
I did like seeing all the kids being friends & being together after all they've been through, and that is a nice way to tie-up the story, but the way they kinda just use that to justify why they barely explain the rest is wild.
Course, I know I'm probably in the minority here - but pacing doomposters were right - this was a pretty abysmal ending because of how little time they had to work with.
I loved every single episode of this season, except the ending. Loved the first half of the episode, but the latter half is just way too neat and that's not because it needs bodies or something - it really does just feel like "and then it got marginally better".
I know the ending itself explicitly acknowledges that nothing may change, but as I said previously, that only works if you have something to lean on which this story does not since it's unclear if it's even going to get another season.
Systemic change, in reality, is quite incrimental and often feels infinitismally small - and that notion might be more compelling in this bittersweet epilogue if the story had taken more pains to actually explore the earthian-spacian conflict.
Yes, they discuss conflict-sharing/war-partitioning on the different segments of Earth, but they do nothing with it at all other than laud it around as a talking point without making the viewer ever face it except when Prospera attacks Earth. I feel like so much of the Earth-side of the story is left in the abstract, and do not argue to me that it's in the subtleties of Earth house and the things that they say.
I felt like the fella in Plato's cave hearing about something and the only time I actually felt the human side of that story from the people that live on Earth was when Guel was a prisoner of war for an episode and when Miorine has to face the disappointed people who realise they're being attacked.
I had faith the ending would not go "and then it got better", and I know many people will hate that I choose to take that interpretation, but that is pretty much the summation of my feelings about how rapidly they pushed this aside. I love this series, I ahve been gassing this series every single week since like episode 3 - but this ending was unsatisfying - it's not enough to make me hate the series but yeah, I wish we had something more substantive to look toward with future stories or more time spent stressing the "other side" of this conflict.
Yeah, the Benerit group at large is on trial on TV, and there's signs that the world will change & we see future generations of kids on Earth, but I don't think it hit quite right for me. It's not a lack of grit, it's just like, you're enjoying the payoff without the adequate build-up and I feel like I'm possibly not alone in thinking this.
Earth was just a bargaining chip and an elusive idea in this season, and I really do not like that so much was left in the abstract. You can "subtext" anything into existence, but no amount of referential dialogue is going to make up for the lack of a grounded and meaningful representation of their struggle since Sophie and Norea got axed (I did not mind this at the time), and they portrayed every other Earth character outside of Gund-arm as a villain.
I really feel like this aspect of how the story was structured was ultimately quite disappointing and thus, I am annoyed at the resulting payoff.
The romance side of things was cute, and I thoroughly enjoy how thing were tied up with them - especially that Suletta loved her family despite everything (this does not boggle my mind).
But yeah my gripes with the lack of idk time to talk about Earth actually boggles my mind beyond belief.
It's incredibly difficult to feel the actual weight of "yeah Benerit was dissolved and assets redistributed lol" while being presented with next to zero context for what that means and what it could mean. Way too much is left to the imagination and while that's fine in certain kinds of stories, in one wherey ou barely even grapple with the Earth context that you've described to this point it's kind of bonkers.
Yes, I get a lot of people will feel catharsis with this ending because what they're watching for and what I am watching for may be different - that's perfectly okay, but I'm not gonna act like ti didn't disappoint me that we got the most explicit form of a hand-wave (a time skip) to end out an otherwise fantastically written series.
I do not like that one bit and I do not apologise for believing that either.
Here's another scorching take: the next season should focus on Earth, not how the Samayas heal as a family - there might be room for both, but with how neglected Earth felt maybe it's time for a POV change in this world bc they really did FA with that.
In conclusion, I sitll like the show, but this ending was really unfulfilling. I know that winning a battle is not winning the war, but the story took pretty much no pains to eloquently depict the struggles of Earth properly this season despite me thinking that the vast majority of episodes were absolutely fantastic in spite of that.
I think Suletta, Mio and Guel were quite well-written and most of the supporting cast too, but this flaw in the narrative structure is insanely glaring for me and call that pretentious if you want but I genuinely believe what I said here
Edit: I guess, the ending just doesn't say anything super daring that that's pretty disappointing.
Edit 2: I completely forgot to go on a rant but, that the use of a WMD (space laser) was not even a point of intrigue for a future conflict is also wild.
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The Science of Staying Awake Review 👁️
TL;DR: Sleep is often for the weak, but having, what is likely but claims not to be, a hallucination being violently in love with you is something that is not for the weak. Apparently, it's not for the living either...
Game Link: https://viscereye.itch.io/the-science-of-staying-awake
Notable Features: Gender Neutral MC, Unnamed MC (referred as "You"), Yandere LI, Choice-heavy storyline Spiciness: 0/5 -- Not exactly wholesome because violence but no option to buss it open so no spice LI Red Flags: 1.7/5 -- Physically abusive, Crosses boundaries...other than that, he be's a touch starved boi who just wants cuddles
Wanna know more? Well, let's get into it!
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Before I say anything, I just want you to read this:
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Let me tell you, I had no idea how accurate that description was until I played it. That is a damned accurate description, and quite frankly, the only way to describe the experience that this was.
Anyways, I had ran across it when going through my game files, and I was like "Oh yeah! This game exists!" and decided to write a review on this one. I played this game many moons ago, and frankly, I don't see many people talking about or referencing this one; I honestly feel like more people should know about it, because there is a game to be played here. I mean, how many people are actually going to run across this review, I have no idea, but shit, hopefully it'll get a few extra downloads, because as "cheesy" as it may look, this was actually a pretty damn good game!
Honestly (and respectfully) speaking, you know how you look at a game, and you're like "This is probably going to be bad, but I'm curious"? From looking at the backgrounds they used, the description itself, and how they described the game as "cheesy" and a "creepypasta fanfic", I honestly thought this was supposed to be one of those "intentionally bad but funny as hell" games for jokes, but...yeah, no. If it was meant to be that way, I didn't get that at all.
I'll explain more in the actual review portion, but I'm going to go ahead and cut to the chase. As always, I give you the disclaimer that -- and those that have been vibing with me since the start of all of this already know -- I'm going to tell you as much as possible about the game without ruining the game itself.
Just as a side note, I think I do say that verbatim every time I write a review -- between that, "so boom", and the whole "drink water, don't be dumb" thing lol. I might switch it up one day, but that's honestly how I talk in real life. Like, can you not tell that I type the way that I speak? I mean, if it was something for college or work or something, yeah, I'm going to code switch, obvi, but for stuff like this? I'm pretty much talkin' to y'all like y'all are the squad because...well, y'all are lol.
Anyways! Enough chitchat, let's get summarizing.
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So, boom (lmao ya see?).
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We're in class, and we're tired as fook. Like, it's not even that "Damn, this class is boring" type of tired; it's that "I deadass haven't slept in 2 days, and I'm starting to hear colors and see sounds" type of tired. That "Ayo, why does this hard ass desk feel mad comfortable all of a sudden" type of tired. That plain and simple "a bitch is TIDE not tired" type of tired. Anyways, we recognize this as a current problem, and we know that we've gotta do something about it. Expeditiously. So, we hit up the vending machine, get something to wake us up a little, and then head on home.
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When I say that it took everything to get up those stairs and to our bedroom...listen.
Like, as soon as we got through the door, we dropped that backpack to the floor, and we dive -- you hear me, dive -- into that bed. Now, with the way that we were feeling, dreamland should've been immediate. To be real with you, we were probably asleep by the time we were mid-air, but like, when we landed, we landed on something, and this something -- or rather someone -- goes "Ow". Like huuuuuuuh?
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Again: Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuh? Fuck you mean, "Ow?" Like who the hell is yooooooooou?!
No, like, we literally ask who he -- ...it? --- is, because clearly, he was not here when we left, let alone just chilling in our bed, but he's just super casual about it, like, "Oh! I'm Vance!". Like, oh, right, Vance; that suddenly makes this whole situation totally normal and nothing to worry about -- as if that were even slightly true.
Here's the thing though, oddly enough, it actually is kind've true. See, we're not scared of him as a...whatever he is, but something about him is just...not right; something is very clearly off. Like, when he had introduced himself, he had shook our hand, and we immediately got this mad intense feeling of dread that we couldn't describe, and something about it just kind've made us feel like we were, quite literally, spiraling into insanity.
Naturally, we pull ourselves away from him and step back -- that spiraling feeling and anxiety is instantly gone. As you've probably guessed, it didn't take us long to put together that it's not good for this "Vance" creature to be too close in proximity, let alone anywhere near us.
He kind've picks up on this, and he's adamant that he's not going to hurt us. Still, we try to explain to him that, while we're not really threatened by him, we get this weirdly intense feeling whenever he's nearby, and he essentially needs to stay a little more than an arm's length away at all times; frankly, the further away, the better. Well...
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He didn't take that well, and now, we feel threatened by him.
I hadn't mentioned this before, but Vance was already pretty upset that we wouldn't really let him come near us, let alone cuddle with him, but now he's extra pissed because we're essentially rejecting him altogether, even though he's, quite literally, driving us insane.
So, now that he's like this, we've got to get the hell out of there because, now, we aren't sure if he's still on the whole "I'm not going to hurt you" energy like before. That being said, we completely bolt, and he's like "Nah, bring that ass here, boi". Panic. Big panic time.
So, we do. We run off, but it does no good, because he finds us.
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Granted, he doesn't know exactly where we are, but it doesn't matter because we're completely cornered. What are we going to do?
Well, let me rephrase that I know what I'm going to do; better yet, I know what I did. Now you guys on the other hand? Lol, I'll guess you'll have to play it for yourself to see what y'all are going to do.
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I had honestly forgotten how good this game was until I had replayed it to grab some screenshots and to get a refresher on what actually went down. I'm not even kidding about that. My love for the game had literally re-sparked, and I can't believe that I forgot how good it was. If you've read my past reviews, you know that I mentioned at one point that I become an absolute slut for a choice-heavy game -- this is a choice heavy game and a damned good one. Speaking of choice-heavy...
Just to get off topic very slightly, you know what was crazy? When I went to replay it, apparently, I had done something different than when I had first played though the game and lmaoooooo, do you know that I had ended up finding THREE more endings? Wanna know something even crazier? One of them was a secret ending that I didn't even realize that I had gotten to!
Now mind you (lol you know the story is about to get a lil' spicy when that's said)! I had already unlocked like...if I remember right, like, 14 endings at this point, so when I found these other endings -- again, by total accident because, at this point, damn the review! I'm legit replaying the game for me, now -- I was now sitting at a grand total of 17 endings. So, now, I'm like "Ayo, what the hell?". Like, my mind is blown, because I was so sure that I had found all of the endings and completed the game. Remember, I hadn't touched or thought about this game in literal months because I was that confident that I had finished it. So, it's like, how many endings are there if I'm still managing to find more?
Naturally, I sprint to the dev's game page to conduct research on this burning question, and I am reading everything that there is to offer, but there was nothing. No "hey, this game has x amount of endings", no walkthrough map, no nothing. Did that stop me, though? Nah, because surely someone had experienced something similar to what I just had and was also like "Damn, how many endings are there...?". Lmaooooo well, I was right. You know what the answer is?
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19. There are nineteen endings in this game.
I already knew the answer, but I go back to count the amount of endings that I have; there's 17. I dig into the game files for some more hints, and I find two icons (you'll know what I mean when you play it) that I've never seen before. Oh, okay. So, it's confirmed, but let me make sure that I've got the details straight:
Are you seriously telling me that, not only had I incorrectly assumed that I had all of the endings and finished the game because I had gotten all of the achievements, but the fact that I found three other endings -- again, by accident! -- doesn't even matter because I'm still missing two more because there's NINETEEN ENDINGS total?!
Wild. Chaotic even, and you're damn right that I'm here for it all. I LOVE that there are so many endings. I love even more that I have other endings to look for because I'm totally in love with this game all over again. Even though, lol, it was the deadpan, nonchalant "19" from the dev for me. The dev said "I said what I said, and what about it?". We love to see it.
Anyways, I'm a huge advocate for this game. If you've got some time, definitely give it a try. I highly recommended, and Vance is a pretty sweet dude, if you can find that side of him, I mean. Also, just for a very light spoiler but not really, the real ending was so sweet to me. Like something about it, it just...I don't know. It was just a warm feeling that washed over me when I had read it, and I was just like "That was actually really cute?" Bittersweet, even. Like, ugh, I am honestly really pushing for more people to play this game. It was genuinely so good, and I hope that the dev comes out with more visual novels. I truly forgot how in love with this game I was until I replayed it. This has, highkey, been a great experience.
Anywho, it's time that I stop my rambling and end it here. If you'd like to give this game a go for yourself and discover all 🌟nineteen🌟 endings -- which I highly recommend that you do -- a link to the game is at the very bottom of this post as well as at the very top. Hell, I'll even put the link right here so you can get to it quicker. If you're feeling extra motivated, visit the dev's page and post a comment telling them how great of a job they did and give them that extra validation to let them know "Hey! You're pretty good at what you do! You should keep doing the thing!". I didn't see where you could donate to them, but assuming I just missed it, remember that monetary validation is always helpful as well.
That's all from me though! Drink water, don't be dumb, and hope to see you around~!
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crispy-bonnie · 1 month
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Hi! May I please request a scenario when members of the Payday Gang met their s/o?
Here's how it goes: Business as usual one day, robbing and etc. They point a gun at s/o, but s/o is not phased one bit. Then, they tell s/o to open their bank account and give up all their money.
S/o does what they say, but then they see that s/o's balance is in literal negative numbers. Like -10,000+ s/o is broke as f***
Then s/o starts crying because they're so broke. How does the gang react?
okay i'm gonna add a few changes to the prompt but like hELLO I LOVE THE IDEA JAJDJSB
and also , these hc's will be written for the main four + bain rather than individual heisters , so apologies if it's not what you're looking for
oh and another thing , these are VERY poorly written bc i'm just now getting back into writing again lmao
You're broke as hell - The PAYDAY gang
I'm gonna tell you right now
The gang has absolutely no fucking clue what's comin'
All they know is that you have ties to someone/something important and they need to get the point across to whoever or whatever they're targeting
Bain figures that robbing you while you're at the bank would be the best bet. Plus, it could get them some extra moolah if they go after the vault too
What they don't know is that your ties to the fuckers their after only have to do with financial things
More particularly, money loaning
You couldn't seem to keep up with their demands for payment with your minimum wage job as well as your need for basic necessities, your bank account never having money because of it
As the place is being shot up, you're escorted to another room by Dallas where you're held at gunpoint to open up your bank account
And I tell you what, everyone, including the heisters, when they saw your bank account's numbers in the negative
And you're not even phased either
You just go 'Damn, sucks to be you'
You can hear faint sounds of Bain and the others speaking through Dallas's earpiece despite the gunshots and screams echoing through the rest of the bank
"The FUCK do you mean their account has no money!?"
"I don't know gang! I didn't see this coming at all! But we're not leaving empty handed! That vault still has a mountain of cash for you to take, so get to it gang!"
With one final look from Dallas through his American flag mask, he runs off and leaves you there, where law enforcement swoops in to get you outta there
Days later, you're scrolling through your email (which mostly consisted of threats from your loan sharks) and find an encrypted message from someone
Having nothing to lose, you click on it
It contains a cryptic ass message, saying that if you provide info about the loan sharks, they'll get rid of your debts and get you some sweet cash in your bank account
You knew damn well that this was that gang that robbed you days earlier, as your lack of money was only known between you and the loan sharks
Again, having nothing to lose, you accept the offer and give as much information has possible
Another couple days go by, and you find yourself finally freed from your debts, those threats coming to a sudden halt and your bank account suddenly having enough money to sustain yourself for a while
Even after the whole thing, when you're pretty much set for life, more surprises keep coming your way
You get raises in your paycheck, packages containing stuff on your wishlist end up at your apartment door, stuff that you typically considered a miracle
And you knew just who to thank for it all
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ju-ji · 2 months
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This is not the thought I had when I started writing this post but I think, in retrospect, last twilight was never as magical as I once thought, and furthermore I think that the magic was actually jimmy and sea the whole time. I would maintain that the story started off strong and the blossoming romance was extremely well executed, but there were always flaws in the writing and it was always shown that day had a lot of work to do and. well. wasn’t doing it. I don’t think I was picking up on it because sea made day so unbelievably endearing even as a supposed asshole that I either didn’t notice the red flags or ignored them. You have to understand, I was not a jimmy nor sea nor jimmysea fan before I started watching last twilight. I had not already seen vice versa and wai was so long ago that I don’t even remember having an opinion of him. I had never heard of the first show sea was in. I had not been anticipating this show since the pilot trailer and wasn’t even planning to watch it. I didn’t watch it when it came out. I think I waited like two weeks before I started it. I went into it with no feelings about jimmysea, I had seen criticism of jimmy’s previous performances and I didn’t know anything about sea other than him being jimmy’s branded partner so if anything I was… prepared for them to not do all that well. I wasn’t expecting much I guess. This is the first time I put on my clown makeup. Like I said, sea as day was so endearing to me from pretty early on, maybe not ep 1 but by ep 3 I was like that’s my baby!!! I don’t know why or how but he made me fall in love with day so bad, and nothing day did (until… u know….) ever made me love him less. I really can’t describe what about him I found so lovable especially when he was definitely an asshole and wouldn’t stop with the “u have zero tenderness in your body” nonsense lmao. I think sea just has some je ne sais quoi about him or something that’s like captivating. I did watch vice versa at some point while last twilight was airing and I found talay endearing too. Even though he was more mature or like. didn’t have such a spoiled baby quality to him, so I think it’s just something about sea idk. Hell I’m already endeared to his character in the trainee from bts footage and promo pics alone 😭 ok hopefully point made bc this post is already really long and I have a lot more to say lmao.
*I promise I know how to write proper paragraphs I just am trying to type what I wanna say before my brain moves on to a new thought lmao but let me give a line break for readability*
Let me try to talk about jimmy without waxing poetic. I had pretty low expectations for him bc I had seen ppl criticize his work before so how did I end up loving him so bad!!! The answer is he’s just good at what he does!!! Was he always this good? I didn’t have any qualms about his performance as puen and I can’t remember wai. I think he was also a minor character in enchante but I didn’t watch that. Anyway, if he used to suck he doesn’t anymore!! His growth is especially impressive bc acting isn’t even his main profession!!! I don’t want to harp a lot on why last twilight disappointed me bc I want this to be a jimmysea appreciation post first and foremost but the problem with mhok that jimmy obfuscated was he really didn’t have much to him. He had a tragic backstory that was never fully explored but aside from that it was just day on the brain all day every day how can I serve day how can I help day how can I care for day how can I make day smile like girl stand up 😭 jimmy somehow managed to make mhok (to me but I’m biased) the most compelling character in the show with just his eyes!!! His eyes held SO MUCH EMOTION that it made mhok feel like a much more substantial character than he ended up being. Trying to be short and to the point now bc this is getting out of hand but I want jimmy on my screen forever, he is so special to me!!!
Last point: mhok and day did not have en equal or super healthy relationship so why did it hurt sooo bad when they broke up? Again, it was jimmysea magic masking the flaws. The chemistry was undeniable and they seemed so in love! They were always so happy to be together that you almost didn’t notice how one sided their relationship was becoming. Their comfort in each other was so real and believable bc evidently that’s not acting! It’s clear that jimmy and sea enjoy their paired roles and enjoy working together in general. I’m not thinking of anyone in particular but I don’t think all pairs could sell this natural comfort as effortlessly bc they are not…. this naturally comfortable together lmao. Jimmysea’s innate charms are exponentially amplified when they are together. I firmly believe that if jimmy wasn’t mhok and sea wasn’t day then last twilight would not have been this loved (until it got to where not even jimmysea magic could salvage it 😭)
TLDR it was jimmysea magic that masked last twilight’s flaws so well that we were dumbfounded by that ending
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⛵︎ Anyone want to be internet friendssss? ⛵︎
lololol ok so I might delete this later out of pure embarrassment, but theres so many awesome people out there and I want to hang out with you ;3;
Soooo, I'm 🇨🇦, 29, She/Her, in the lgbtq+ community (Ace but still figuring out the specifics) I sometimes make digital art and sometimes write tiny fanfics. Mostly I rant about various ships (all genders but I tend to like m/m more) and share cute and occasionally nsfw art of them that I find.
Oh man I'll watch/play/read anything if there a ship in it XD.
Keep reading for moooooore.
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I love dogs, and will probably share too many photos of my pug Obi! I hope to see your pets too!
I am a huge fan of animation and am amazed over how smooth people can make it, and how creative it can be, movies like wolfwalkers and kubo are so damn well done I cant get over it.
I make a zillion OC's in my head and am always happy to ship them with your OC's, or make up new ones together, or just plot them out even if they never get made. Im more than happy to rp or write about or make art about oc's and ships if the motivation muse will hit me hard enough! (oc or fanart 🤍)
I watch youtubers like CallMeKevin, Drew Gooden, Danny Gonzales, Game Grumps, RubberRoss, Mothers Basement, Negative Legend, Izzyzzz, Pushing up Roses.
I follow just an insane amount of art accounts across all social media, and I love to read twitter threads for mini fanfics and comics.
Games I play? I work alot so I usually stick to pretty casual ones, but if I really love the story I'll get into it or watch it on youtube. Kinda snuck into nu carnival late but still loving it 😅
Final Fantasy XV is one of my favorites, particularly for the characters and a good good OT4 ship lmao
Zelda games, especially the new ones! I adore Link and attempt to draw him all the time! I'd love to try some rp's in the zelda world!
Stardew Valley! Oh man, pretty much any farming game and im into it, and if theres a romancing element then yesssss! Also a huge fan of rune factory and harvest moon games!
Genshin Impact - Oh I am lost to the world of Teyvat, I try to play most weekends and sometimes in the evening if I have the energy. Im on the American server and main the sweet edgelord that is Xiao. I will ship everyone with everyone in that game, my brain has no god damn limits! Some of my top picks are Aether/literally everyone, Venti/Xiao, Itto/Kazuha.
Shows??? Oh hot damn what dont I watch? I enjoy any type of show, live action, anime, cartoon, k drama, chinese anime, hell yeah. Some of my go to's are
Yu Yu Hakusho! Its a nostalgic one for me, I love it and all of its old anime vibes, then as I got older I found the shipping fandom and now I love it even more 🥰 other great anime I love are Buddy Daddies, Trigun, NGE, MHA, xxxHolic,
Big City Greens, if there was ever a show to cheering someone up its this one, just all around good fun! Its right up there with The Owl House and Gravity Falls for me!
Murder She Wrote, yessss, I love Jessica and her wild adventures. Its not shippy like the Witcher or Our Flag Means Death (also favorites) but I fucking loooove it. Ohhh oh and Stranger Things. Man, Eddie hit me hard in the heart, I even have a hellfire shirt.
Spiderman!! I cant, I just cannot explain how much I love spiderman stuff. Like way too much, the spider verse movies are just 👌👌👌👌, Tom Holland has been fantastic, the Spiderman and Deadpool comics are damn hilarious. Just YES.
Reeeeeeeeeading? I have too many books, way too many fanfics saved, and just an ungodly amount of manga and webcomics on the go. Literally always ready to start a new one at the drop of a hat!
AFTG, The Foxhole Court books are one of my all time favorites, I re-read them often and even though theyre fucked up I just have so much fun reading them and then checking out the tags for all the amazing fanart! I also love Rainbow Rowells stuff, How to Survive Camping, and mosy YA m/m fiction.
MXTX Books! I started reading Heaven Officials Blessing back when it was only a fantranslation online, and ever since canada has started getting the printed books I pick them up and anything else put out under the danmei section! Will I ever get to all the others? Who knows but Im devouring Hualian like a starving woman.
Webcomics! I bounce around a lot of them, but Im currently reading Agents and Kings, Castle Swimmer, The Hunt, Heartstopper and I love Batman: Wayne Family Adventures!
Uhhhhh, so yeah, XD I mean I'll probably overshare because I kind of immediately jump into conversations like we've known each other for ages! If you want to chat like this and I'll send a message, or if you want to say hi go right ahead!!
Come and enjoy gay shit with meeeeee ��️🤍♥️
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Thanks @sebchal for tagging me!
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
Oof. 57, damn that's a lot, what am I doing with my life?? 53 of them in F1 (I know it says 52 but one of them is on anon lmao)
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
GUYS I JUST COUNTED AND APPARENTLY I'VE PUBLISHED AROUND 477K FOR THE F1 FANDOM??!!??! SEND HELP (there's another 100k in my wips rn)
3. What fandoms do you write for?
F1rpf, although I have a fic for The Sandman and one for Our Flag Means Death (let's forget about my works for spn lol)
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
So the first one is Odd ducks, the fic I wrote for The Sandman, which is pretty normal since the fandom is bigger. After that, only F1, with Let's try something else (sewis fake dating feat Seb and gay panic), A Change of Habits (my lonnnnnnng chewis fic following the 2022 season), Your Crush is Showing (Brocedes, the first long fic I completed. Lots of smut.) and finally, Remember to forget (me), brocedes lewis!amnesia fic. I am very proud of the last one, mostly because it's super angsty and I torture Nico so much in it lmao
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I do, actually, but usually I procrastinate on it, and I took ages. It's just, like, I feel it important to thank everyone for the comments, but it can feel a little repetitive and so I just tend to... Push it back to the next day, again and again. When it's on a multi-chapter fic, I reply before publishing the new chapter usually, but if it's a one-shot or the last chapter... Well. You'll get an answer but god knows when ahah
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Oof, that's between Losing it all, a really dark fic about Nico, and Too Late, a bad ending 3344 fic based on Monza 2021 :)
(be careful about the tags if you go and read them btw)
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Damn, that's a difficult question, I love writting sappy endings... But actually I think it's the ending of Welcome in the family!
It's a cute fic about Kimi/Tonio/Minttu, and the ending is definitely what I consider one of the happiest, mostly because of a little time-jump that allows to see the future ^^
8. Do you get hate on fics?
I did once, actually, on the 3344 fic I mentionned earlier. I think the person was just a max fan and didn't appreciate the way I make him suffer... I had put the write tags and all, so idk why they clicked on it. Anyway, it was scary and upsetting and I'm glad it only happened once ^^"
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Hell yeah. Go have a look, honestly, there's no way I can summarise it. I write way too much of it, I think (and most of it hasn't been published yet I think)
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
Nope, but I should, it could be fun! Actually, I'd like to write a Lewis/Lil Nas X one day, so who knows. That's not at the top of my list, though.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
I... Don't know, actually? How do you even check that? I hope not ahah ^^"
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes! Someone offered to translate one of my fic in Chinese!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I DID, The Prince and the Knight, with my wonderful @feuerspirit !!!!!! And I don't want to spoil, but me and @metheevilgenius miiiiight publish a little os at some point ;)
14. What’s your all time favourite ship?
Oh, such a hard question... I'll go with brocedes, but it's really mean to make me chose only one. They're just.... *siiiigh*
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
Definitely this BDSM seb/charles/mick and lewis/pierre I have started. I didn't publish it and it's like 20k long but I'm completely stuck and haven't worked on it in a long time. Not totally happy with it either ^^"
16. What are your writing strengths?
Uh, good question? I don't know, I get compliments about the characterisation... But other than that, I like to think I have a pretty good sense of humour and I'm able to make people laugh (or like, I hope. I make myself laugh, which is a good begining)
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
The fucking dialogues.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I like to use petnames in other languages cause petnames always feel more personnal when you use it in your own language. So with the F1 drivers, it's nice cause not all of them are english! I tend to put some German or some French sometimes in my fics for full sentences, but I try not to do it too much. If you don't understand the language, it can be very frustrating.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Time to dig up my old ff.net account lmao
Nah, actually, I remember very well of my first fic. I was 15, it was two pages long, I was feeling bad about writing a fic in the first place although it didn't involve any romance. I deleted it a few hours after posting it, ahah. It was for the fandom of a french youtube show called Aventures. It's like, people playing a dnd style game, it's pretty cool and I was really into it for a long time.
20. Favourite fic you’ve written?
The fic I love the most of is definitely Up or Down. It's one of my favourite fic I've wrote. It's one of my early work, so it's a little clumsy and far from perfect, but I have good memories of myself writing it. I was in vacation in Rome at the time, alone, and I spent my time wandering in the city and thinking about my fic, it was amazing. And well, the content of the fic is also nice I guess XDDD
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noooo idea who did this thing, and who didn't, so ignore if you've already done it or don't want to! I tag @feuerspirit @n-ico-ando @sunshinesebby @sionisjaune
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happyinjection · 1 year
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Episode 12 is THE CHAOTIC MESS THAT I ORIGINALLY SIGNED UP FOR LMAO I can’t stop laughing the entire episode... THEY REALLY PUT THE HIGH IN HIGH CARD?
Chris and Finn are now legally buddies or gay or whatever like there’s literally no straight explanation... but I support!!! Finn go save and knock some sense into your immortal man!! Chelsea helped too!!!! Now BAN KLONDIKE is into Chris as well!! 
It’s insane how the entire show is legit about him and his dramatic little feelings but we forgive him... because he’s Chris (and he looks so pretty when he’s crying).
I get it, we are ALL into Chris Redgrave! Our favorite BAKA ROMANTICIST!! The reddest of all red flags! The entire Fourland can share him!!!
That aside I’m growing a terrible soft spot for Leo Constantine Pinochle oh my god I really wish I can read his novel right now... He deserves the world and everything! That’s our HIGH CARD LEADER!!! OUR ONLY BOSS!!!!!! MAKE WAY
Also it’s really nice to see Lovepi-chan again... I’ve seen Lovepi and Arya and Sugar and Nhat and now I can safely say that I love women. More please...
In the end, with the combination Finn’s resolve (obsessive love for Chris, I can’t defend him anymore), High Card teamwork (somewhat, but also fueled by obsession with a certain man), Bernard-jiichan and MOST IMPORTANTLY Vijay being the only sane guy for the -nth time (why not just do that from the beginning and save everyone the trouble, you ask), everything ends well(?)
See, I’m frankly not a big fan of deus ex machina and happy endings but I can see that there’s gonna be more materials covering High Card found family shenanigans and I love those so I’ll let it slide! And props to Massun for the emotion he put into that “Play, X-hand” line, that’s literally the only moment I could take this episode seriously (teared up).
Now into serious business we go! A 2nd season is already confirmed and I don’t see why they would make us wait for too long (especially when things have been planned ahead), so if I had to guess, 2nd season would be airing 2023/2024?
I hope they will show more of what the hell’s going on in Klondike and Pinochle and whatever they’re beefing about, Finn’s past, Tilt, and... please!! What’s the deal with the sunglasses that Chris gifted Finn! I need to know!!!
As we wait for S2 please gush out your fanfics, my Monday nights are gonna feel empty for a while...
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Hello from the fishbowl!
IM FREE!! IVE BEEN CURED OF MY SICKNESS!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 It took a week and one of the worst fevers of my life but I’m finally sickness free!! I hope you’re doing better as well I’m sending my cured vibes your way!!!
To answer the question, not 100% sure if this is really a red flag but when a VN overuses the “You’re mine” or “I own you” type lines. Like if it’s done once or twice then I mean sure okay some people are into that I can just cringe and move on but when it’s done so much I just get the ick and have to stop playing, only exception is if it’s a yandere vn, those kind of lines are pretty much a yandere’s whole deal so it gets a pass
(Also when a vn advertises itself as being inclusive to people of all genders but the player-insert protag is very clearly a girl or really feminine, as a transmasc guy that’s just- not fun-)
Ngl a lot of my “I’m not gonna play this” otome red flags are like really subjective and specific since they usually pop up when I’m in the middle of playing a vn as opposed to when I’m just looking at it on the store page it’s on. So 🤷
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I'm glad you're cured! Cause me ? I'm still sick as hell- ( gonna see a doctor today cause my coughing got worse )
The first one yeah, that line made for Yandere keep it for Yanderes....
second one: I HAVE A FUN THING ABOUT THIS TROPE. So you know the arcana ? Yeah, the company had an app with other games in it like the very good queer fantasy otome last legacy but also the very bad Heirs to Love and Lie game.
Htlal (on top of its racism) had one big problem: It treated the MC like a girl regardless of your gender. This was the only time I played using he/him for the story and when I tell you the compliments were like .... "Oh you look like you're grandma in that dress, you know this very feminine pretty woman, you look like her, you look like that woman, you look like her and her in a dress you look like a pretty woman, have i said you look like a woman ?"
htlal is funny because it's bad and the fake ending when the li kills you was actually better than the real ending lmao- It was clearly coded as a straight dating game trying to market itself as queer but with no efforts put in the queer-
That why one of my green flags is the pronouns option at the begining of game nowdays. Always nice to not be misgendered and guys and fellow enbies can self-insert.
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laas-yahnir · 2 months
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tagged by @phosphoruskim (not this being how I realized you changed your url 💀 thank you for the tag!)
Last Song: I have Like Real People Do by Hozier stuck in my head, and I want that to be the answer... the true answer is I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys because, spoilers, that's the song in the last "do you like this song" poll I reblogged 🤪
Currently Watching: More like "just finished watching", because I'm in between stuff now, but I just 1) got to the end of the season of The Amazing Race I was watching and 2) did a full rewatch of Blue Eye Samurai.
Three Ships: CATRA X THERAPY >:P
No lmao, obviously Catradora. Hit me like a freight train in a billion different ways and it's my second most populated tag on this blog after She-Ra in general. I have an art/pin board dedicated to them; I have plushies of them; I have shirts (multiple) with designs revolving around them; I have a calendar dedicated to them taking a year to travel Etheria; I think the majority of my the entries in my reading log for the last three years are long-form Catradora fic.
Korrasami and Caitvi/Violyn (I LOVE Violyn as a ship name btw; I've been too lazy to change my ship tag but I may yet) are probably the two other ships I blog about the most these days, but I really don't have the brainrot for them like I do for Catradora. It's going to be difficult for anything else to come close.
Favorite Color: It's so funny, I would have said purple my entire life up until very recently... I think it may actually be pink now. I think the lesbian flag got to me.
Currently Consuming: ... nothing, and I probably should be, I'm definitely dehydrated and I gotta have dinner at some point
First Ship: I almost definitely encountered the concept of shipping in the Fandom That Shall Not Be Named first, but the first ship that really MEANT something to me was Zutara. "You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun" are you kidding, you expect twelve-year-old me to hear that line and not lose her shit
Relationship Status: 🥴🥴🥴🥴 -- which is to say, at the risk of getting aggressively personal, single, yearning for married-with-a-kid life pretty goddamn hard, texting my best friend who is also single about it all the time, yet well aware that my needs revolve far more around community than romantic relationships right now
Last Movie: No Hard Feelings, which my mom and stepdad and I watched on New Year's Eve -- and it really has been that long since I've wanted to sit down and watch a movie, huh
Currently Working On: An overarching technical-writing-related project for my day job, music for my upcoming symphony gig, remembering combinations and motions for ballet, a sudoku book, my own queer timeline for some vague possibly-memoir-adjacent purposes, a very loosely defined comparative reading project for all the editions of Sappho's works I can find for, um, the hell of it
Also like... getting back out into the world, in conjunction with the "my needs revolve around community right now" thing, again at the risk of getting aggressively personal -- this would be better articulated in a more serious personal post than in a tag game 💀💀 But I think integrating myself into the community/ies I have around me is the "project" I have on the brain the most acutely at any given time.
I tag: @sarah-dipitous and @baronmagikcarp, if ya wanna 😌
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jalluzas-ferney · 3 months
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I will never uundertanad how people care about like..inclusive language. Like in the way that they act bothered by it. Like mf why does it bother you? How does it affect you? It always feels like people simply feel attacked by the simple inclusion of other people into a conversation or anywhere really. And that applies to many other things. Like when people start calling a video game woke or whatever cuz you can choose to have a same sex relationship or there’s a person of color. Hell even a little lgbtw flag or whatever. It’s like when people say all lives matter when somone brings the BLM subject in. It’s like…mf this isn’t an u. Stop taking everything personal.
And going back to the language thing. Like as a cis girl. It does not affect in a single way if someone uses any kind of gender inclusive language? Like if someone says “person w a vagina” like sure? Idc. Like I reaaallllyyy don’t care. Don’t careee. I’m a person. I have a vagina. Yeah they’re referring to me. I still feel like a woman. I feel sure in my gender. I feel strong in my identity. Like damn cis people have to learn to be sure of their identity. Be more confident in your gender bruh.
Like duh people who get offended by inclusive language are really just simply bigots but I feel like it’s still happens with people who claim to support certain groups- but then act annoyed if someone talks an inclusion as if it’s a personal attack on them or people do it for the sake of annoying ppl. I remember I was in this shitty theatre class where instead of theatre kids there were a bunch of popular kids who joined to not do anything- and the teacher walks in- he was very weird btw- like in the way he thinks he’s super wise and he makes you think he’s wise but then a year later you like damn what a fraud - anyways;
He walks in and he’s like - “oh, now we are not allowed to say ladies and gentlemen because it’s not inclusive “ or smth like that, and the rest of the kids are like “uuughh🙄🙄🙄😒😒” and I just stood there like- girl? 💀
I know damn well you pulled that out of your ass cuz no one is forcing you to not say ladies and gentlemen. Ik damn well the school doesn’t give a fuck and neither of the parents. He probably saw it on the internet and took as “oh now I’m FORCED to say NOT ladies and gentlemen 🙄 wow the audacity of these annoying humans” like bro no one is putting you at gun point.
And even if someone said, “yeah you should change the intro and say smth else other than ladies and gentlemen” is it really that deep? Like to complain? It’s an intro. I really dgaf. Again. As a cis girl. I’m already included so it doesn’t nessecarilly affect me. But neither does anything else. Mf just say welcome students teacher and parents or whatever? Bruh I dunno it really isn’t that deep to groan ab- it simply respect 🤨
It’s like those Disney adults complaining ab doesn’t saying “welcome dreamers “ ….like yeah it’s pretty on theme. And again. How does it affect you. Your a dreamer, aren’t you? Unless your not lmao which if that’s the case that’s pretty miserable ngl.
Anyyywaayssss
Sorry for the rant but like I just keep seeing it everywhere and I just needed to blow some steam off. It’s so stupid. It really is .
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colderdrafts · 3 months
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Hi! I love your works and I’m absolutely in love with your Underground Visitor series!!
If you don’t mind me asking, I was wondering who Dren and Morgan would react if the human that came to their world was wholly capable of protecting themselves? Like they came from a different world than the current protagonist, making them a cyborg or something. Basically a reversal of the dynamic, where the human turns out to be even bigger and scarier than the drider haha
This ask mainly comes from the want to protect Dren and his eggies!! Morgan, too, even though they’re such a red flag, I just can’t help but feel like I want to dote on them and protect them XD
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy! <3
Well, that's certainly one way to turn things around! Reader who can and will give an efficient knuckle sandwich >:)
I think if they were a cyborg or something both of them would be hesitant to approach, unsure if they could still fulfill their role, or if their abilities would even affect them. Depends on how far cyborg..y? they are, I guess. Dren would approach them much the same as normal, casually talking to figure if they're a match or not. Putting out some feelers, so to speak. Morgan would wanna watch from a distance a bit longer to figure out if it's worth the risk.
If they get along and start a relation, Dren would probably be a lot calmer, I think? Knowing that they would be 100% capable of breaking someone's arm from looking at his eggs funny would bring him a lot of peace of mind, lmao. He'd appreciate the advantage that you can shift who's looking after them if necessary - that he doesn't necessarily always have to pick up the fight if they can hold their own just as easily. He'd be hesitant to leave them to it, though. He's still got that overly protective instinct, even if it's not needed. He'd probably be a little worried he's not holding his end of the bargain - that's he's supposed to be defending them- and will want to check in now and then so that's he's not gaining more than he's giving. Other than that, he's pretty much the same, and will want to build a strong and healthy relation with them. Also, please do a sparring session with him. He'd love it as a way of bonding, you'll both benefit from the exercise and it's been a loooooong time since he's had a fun fight.
If they figure they can still affect them, Morgan wouldn't know what to do at first. Being feared and seeming more powerful is one of their main strategies in life to get to their goals. In the beginning they'd up the ante, they're not gonna back down just because the sentry seems to know their way around a fight too. Depending in their behavior, they might actually get in a fight with them. Hell, they might even come to enjoy it. They'll use their abilities to make sure the sentry can't purposely kill them while it's going on, getting close enough to make that effect permanent. If they're stubborn, Morgan might leave them alone for a bit, remaining close but out of sight. They'll patiently wait until the pain of loneliness sets in. They'll probably try and spin the story so that they won't like other common-folk, and vice versa. It's Morgan or no one. Or, if they have those rose tinted glasses and wanna defend Morgan of their own accord, well. They'll be happy to be your partner in crime. Conjoined bloodshed can be a great bonding activity <3
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Wally anon: Huh, that's interesting to me cause I have not run into that much, but I guess that's cause I mostly keep tabs on Harringrove circles fhdjd. Entitled fans of shit like that are annoying as hell, though. Even if I can appreciate Steddie when the time is right, let's be entirely honest wth ourselves that Joseph Quinn is the main reason Eddie managed to be as successful as he was cause as soon as that man showed up, he was THE. most blatant of the "Well, THEY'RE gonna die" ST characters, so it was difficult to be wholly invested. But I can see why you're torn on Steve's survival with this context. I feel similarly about h o w forced S4 tried to throw him & Nancy back together when it's like...they are in totally different places in their lives rn & if other characters have to tell us they're into each other a thousand times instead of...showing the chemistry, it don't hold up under scrutiny. ❌️
Oh, yeah, that I agree with. I meant he wouldn't react in a creepy way. But he'd be flustered for s u r e. 👍
lollllll yup @ thinking about raising the grade. He would fully be into the fantasy if he was already that distracted & looking for relief & then get self-conscious the next time he went to class cause he couldn't help but think about it. He is a committed one that way. The really part is imagining him trying the book/backpack strategy cause Wally/Milo is tall as hell, so there's no way it would look natural with either, especially rushing for privacy. 😭
Exactlyyyy. The reader thinking they're crazy & everything before seeing him in full glory of what he's specifically doing at whatever place in the school he's doing it & them not knowing what to do because it's like ???? but also 🥴 Apologies? if this ends up inspiring you to write something else haha (although also not cause more Wally/Milo >>>>).
(Also: very appreciated you getting silly with it. There's a time & place for it, but this is one of those occasions.)
For real!! I knew he was gonna die from the first episode. Like, was it that surprising? It’s the 4/5 season and the cast is already pretty full, he’s definitely not making it to season five😂 Joseph has charm but the way he played him was just a big red flag about Eddie’s short term stay…
Oh, believe me, this is giving me the motivation to write Wally/Ryan/Zed/Milo any one of his roles and more 😩 don’t apologize for that i’m so serious
Wally definitely isnt creepy, just a confused lil guy (big guy tho because Milo is 6’3 🫣… did someone call for some size difference? a giant?) stuck in a time where he had to be stereotypical. I mean, his whole character in season 1 is about how he was expected to do all these things when he didn’t actually one to do them to begin with. Or, he wanted to try them, found out it didn’t make him happy, and couldn’t move on to try something else. I forget how he phrased it in the show.
I WAS PICTURING THAT😭 I used Jacob Elordi’s height when he’s carrying a backpack/textbook in euphoria as a reference in my head because he’s like 2 inches taller than Milo, and… yeah it looks silly😭 But it’s a good type of silly, because he has the charm to play it off in a comedic way before he gets down to the serious business.
We fr think we’re hearing things, maybe high school is making you delusional lmao. The lack of sleep, stress, something except that it’s a real thing happening in front of you. But it’s totally real. And it’s even funnier if you guys made eye contact but he doesn’t think you actually are looking at him because no one’s seen him before, so you think he doesn’t care and it one brave mfer for doing it💀 (<- him)
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