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inchidentally · 4 months

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I think it so easy to forget just how young Lando was when he came into F1. At eighteen, you are still trying to figure out who you are. With both Carlos and Daniel, he was always trying to mirror their energy and following their lead in social media. But in the last year he seems way more comfortable in himself and in expressing his true personality. Oscar didn’t know him as the young shy 18 year old who came into F1 so unsure of himself, and instead as the more mature young man who feels more comfortable in his place in the team and F1. With Oscar, at least in what we see in social media stuff, it feels like he’s allowing his true personality through, the more playful, silly, sarcastic but kind person. It seems like with Oscar he feels like he can be his more true self. It reminds me of Daniel talking about Lando’s “microphone voice”. It feels like with Oscar he doesn’t need to use a microphone voice and instead can just use his own voice.

oh but can I weave in here a couple of things? I so agree with you for the most part but just:

to me, the Carlos and Daniel eras represent Little Lando and he was always going to grow up and change from that. but I totally agree about him mirroring them bc if you remember his first interviews before and soon after starting his rookie season he was paaaaainfully shy. he spent half of them hiding behind the neck of his coat. it was so easy to just react to Carlos and then Daniel and turn to them whenever he got stuck or tongue-tied. it's why I'm a little hmmmmm when ppl say they want that Lando back. bc that "Lando" still didn't know how to let his personality show and he was just giggling and being a little bratty for fun. it was super cute and we got some classic content out of it but zero substance of who Lando was as a person. the only place we saw the more serious/authentic side of him was his own content and even there he was still in people pleasing mode.

the other thing is that we now know Oscar knew a LOT about who Lando was by the time they became teammates. and unlike Carlos and Daniel, Oscar was exactly the right age to watch a lot of Lando's streaming content and get him on that gen z level. thing is, we can see in all of Oscar's pre F1 media that he's not actually as quiet and lowkey as he's seems and that he actually had a real knack for memes and funny social media content. so to me, Oscar consciously decided to drop all of that and allowed himself to be as focused and quiet and nervous as he needed to be for his rookie season. he also was clearly pretty awed about being Lando's teammate and spent so much of that dry first half of the season staring at him and trying to interject the odd sentence so that Lando wasn't solely providing the content. and I think that's where Lando surprised everyone because apparently having a rookie to look after (and a rookie who had a celebrity crush on him) clearly worked great for grown Lando! he's looked non-frenetic and more genuine than we've ever known him in interviews and media and he's been incredibly mindful and pointed in making sure Oscar gets noticed and taken care of. Lando just looks... at ease with his role in a way he hasn't before. and the way Oscar's popped up all over Lando's content (and apparently recording even more we haven't seen yet) like someone showing off a new puppy is just <3

I feel like we've seen in real time how Lando's friendships with Carlos and Daniel turned from him being their little fanboy to being his equals professionally and grown up friends. it's why it's a little awkward when ppl try to car|ando their interactions now the way they were back when Lando was basically a kid. they're two men shooting the shit and having dinner and sure there's still a lot of jokes, but it's not all about Carlos and Lando doesn't need him to lead anymore. and obv Daniel experienced that growing up in real time a little more uncomfortably lol. but they're all good now.

but because Lando remembered how recently he was in Oscar's shoes - and esp when he realized how respectful Oscar was of him and how much he hung back to give Lando the rightful spotlight - the difference has been that Lando can put himself in Oscar's shoes in a way Carlos and Daniel couldn't with him. it's that thing I call The Yearning in a landoscar rpf way but in reality it's a very sweet thing of two young guys who are like 'toxic masculinity we don't know her?' so they're openly watching each other closely every time they interact and are so genuine about slowly building their relationship bc they just care so much. it matters to themselves, it matters for their working relationship and it matters for the team. who cares if it's not meme material or big laughs every time for viewers bc that's so far down on both their priorities.

and in that different relationship, you've got to love that Lando is standing up for himself and sometimes to journalists and the public even saying "I'm not happy with myself right now and sorry, I won't bring fun and jokey Lando out to play for you to make this easier to watch." and that as always, he doesn't take a single bit of that frustration with himself out on his team or his teammate. the Monza moment happened, got cleared up by him, and went away just as fast. I'll gladly say goodbye to cackle factory little Lando to acknowledge how responsible and proud Lando is about his role and his job now.

#inchreplies #landoscar

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spinnysocks · 4 months

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young tlg crocodiles aus

i didn't realise i couldn't save ask answers as drafts! :( but anyway, @devilsrecreation asked: So what exactly are your ideas for the baby crocs in The Lion Guard I’m really curious 👀 so here's my response!!

as she already established in her hcs, pua is basically everyone's adoptive dad! in this context to makuu, kiburi, tamka, nduli and neema! he has different relationships with all of them but he's closest to makuu and kiburi for sure

i like to think that makuu is older than the other four; i was going to say don't question me on ages but i just found out it takes ~12-15 years for nile crocodiles to reach full adulthood! so it checks out that makuu could be a year older and still hang out with them. there's probably so many non-mature members of the float that they have younger groups within it

speaking of that, i actually think makuu didn't get along very well with the other crocodiles his age. but, one day, he briefly interacts with the younger kiburi's group and gets to know them really well. he kind of becomes their secondary charge behind pua. no danger was gonna get close to those four lmao

i think crocs are pretty wholesome & innocent when they're babies but get more into the crocodile way as they mature. it's just really cute to think of baby kiburi, tamka, nduli and neema innocently interacting

there's this song i fell in love with while coming up with the mjuzi nduli au called little fang by avey tare! for me personally it fits my ideas for that au, i think it's also sweet as a lullaby/poem that pua sings to the five kiddos. i really recommend it it's an adorable song

i'm a sucker for crack/uncommon ships, i saw pua x basi once and it kinda stuck with me. i'd just enjoy seeing their dynamic as two leaders who work together when it's the time of year for the crocs to share with the hippos. because of their bond (platonic or romantic idrk), i imagine one of the reasons beshte is so friendly is bc he grew up around and got to know the crocs when they'd share big springs with the hippos. he says "I know it's crowded, Kiburi. But it really is a good spot" because he remembers the crocs' younger years and knows they can be reasonable, but things changed that weren't under his control and he couldn't do anything about it.

he feels kinda dissapointed about how things changed, cuz to him the crocs were like the neighbour's family you get to know really well. to stir up some more sadness, it's almost always beshte who's kicking out kiburi's float. beshte sends them back to the outlands himself so they don't hurt his friends, even though he remembers when they were 'good' or more understanding/just before makuu and kiburi's rift in general

since it takes so many years for crocs to mature, i imagine the younguns would spend ALL THE TIME playing. pua has a soft spot for the five of them so their playtimes and adventures become kind of like a bluey episode where they learn something valuable. kiburi listens to him more than anyone, while makuu's a bit more like "Yeah, yeah" bc he thinks being older means he doesn't need to learn anything new

one of pua's lessons would be not to judge or underestimate someone for being different, such as neema for being mute or nduli for not being born in the float (my own hc is that he's from an outsider float that was really struggling which is why he's so small. he was found by pua really young and his parents agreed he'd have a better life in the pridelands)

pua taught the five a lot of good lessons but obviously not all of them stuck. i haven't come up with what caused the rift between makuu and kiburi exactly, but i think kiburi's float would still want to be friends with makuu, and even more so after he redeems himself. despite being fully grown now they still kinda see him as a cool older brother that they can learn from but they'll always stick with kiburi because, at the end of the day, it's them four against the world lol

whew. that's it for now! i could write for days about these guys. and i probably will make a follow-up post at some point

#the lion guard #tlg #tlg outlanders #tlg crocodiles #pua #makuu #kiburi

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polaroidcats · 2 months

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that is SO COOL that 13 yr old did that with your diaries. I'm jealous! are there any particular insights you get from reading what past you had to say? and/or teenage wisdom that we grown ups could use a reminder of?

hehehe thank you!! I love that diary so much, you have to imagine 13 year old me who was not like other girls (spoiler: yeah she was), who had just read sophie's world by jostein gaarder and thought herself a great philosopher (good for her), listening to "Conversations with my 13 year old self" by Pink on repeat (thought I was SO CLEVER with that), slowly transcribing all her old diaries into a new one, making sure that her comments are in a different pen colour (purple) to the original diary text (blue-black fountain pen ink) and that all the entries from the different diaries were in chronological order.

some of my favorite things are:

the whole first page is just me complaining about not finding the purple pen I wanted to use originally, so I had to use another purple pen, and then I go on about how I really should clean my room more often.

the next page is me finding the pen and actually starting the first letter to myself, telling me to ONLY READ THIS WHEN YOU'RE GROWN UP and explaining how I wanted to document what I was like at 13 in case I ever look back and wonder why I was the way I was or what I thought about certain things. I remember feeling so different at 13 than I had at 11 or 12 and being scared of change and of losing the way I felt at the time so I had this very strong urge to write down all my thoughts. This was also definitely influenced by sophie's world, bc the author talks about how children are the best philosophers and how we lose that ability as we grow up if we're not careful.

Even now, I keep going back to that diary every few years to add a little letter to future me in the back, so now I have a collection of letters from 13, and then 18-now, I love reading through it!

11 year old me lied about her "first kiss" (peck on the cheek at spin the bottle), and wrote a different guy's name who technically was my "second kiss" (peck on BOTH CHEEKS PLUS A HUG at spin the bottle.. that game ESCALATED QUICKLY and 11 yo me stopped playing when we got to the kiss on the mouth round haha bless her). 13 year old me called 11yo me out but still wrote a wrong guy's name LOL

13 year old me talks about what a boy-crazy partygirl 12 year old me (went to 2 boy-girl parties in one (1!) year!!) was and how NOW AT THE VERY MATURE AGE OF 13 I don't care about parties anymore (I stopped being friends with the cool kids and wasn't invited to any parties anymore) and I READ BOOKS ABOUT PHILOSOPHY NOW AND SPEND ALL MY TIME THINKING ABOUT PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS. (13 yo me truly was a philisopher, but also the queerness and alienation from my peers was showing and I was compensating in an aggressive not like other girls kinda way)

#ask #ramblings #about me #hehehe thanks for sending me this #idk if this is a thing in other places (it should be bc its so fun) but where i live there are sometimes diary slams #like poetry slams except people read excerpts from their old diaries #and one of my friends is always trying to get me to sign up for one with that diary hahah #maybe one day #jamesunderwater

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oivsyo · 1 year

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Why I’m still creating for Narutoverse?

The thing is, thanks to one particular thread on Twi, I’ve figured out that I only watched Shippuden until episode 54 in my teenagehood. Now I have watched it selectively up to the end ofc, but I think this fact is the reason why I didn't give up on Naruto and it still inspires me. I grew up during the best years of Naruto and skipped the downfall of the story, so I mostly have positive memories about the story and characters.

It all started when I was 14? (now I don't remember exactly), and my friends brought me anime titled Naruto on a flash drive, because then I didn't have the Internet yet. They said 'try this, you may like it'

OG and the beginning of Shippuden were very good. VERY GOOD.

OG is generally my favorite part of the story, the characters shone in all their glory and developed very logically. It's no surprise that these characters have made so many people fall in love with them. Also in OG, the tone of the story was completely different. The world was more cruel and gloomy, more realistic. In the first OG arc, there are two ambiguous antagonists who die dramatically in the end. The fights were about taijutsu, weapon and strategy - exactly what you would expect from a ninja story. Yes, even in OG there are many inconsistencies and plot holes, but this story IS fascinating. The Chunin exam arc is still one of my favorite arcs of all Naruto.

The space on the flash drive on which the episodes were brought to me was very small, and I couldn’t watch many episodes in a row. So I have watched many of them over and over again. I remember that before the start of the summer holidays, my friend brought me episodes with Neji VS Kidomaru. I've been tormented for 3 months about not knowing if Neji would survive. With the beginning of the new school year, my friend brought me new series with a sequel, and it turned out to be Shippuden right away.

Shippuden started very cheerfully and confidently. Euphoria that I experienced bc my favorite characters returned was beyond any words. Characters matured, their designs changed.

Sakura immediately became my goddess because the growth of her character was very much felt compared to all the others. From a useless and annoying crybaby, she became strong, strong-willed, skilled, she became a real kunoichi. I’m sad that her development and training were not shown properly, but even so the impression was very good. It's not an exaggeration to say that Sakura from early Shippuden, was a role model that I wanted to look up to as a teenager.

In the first arc team Gai was shown. Neji’s redesign won my young heart, probably it‘s Neji to blame that I’ve developed a crush for long haired men. Even though his interactions with Hinata were not shown in the beginning, it felt like he had changed a lot and softened up towards everyone.

I also really liked Hinata's design, but I remember at that moment I thought - ‘ how could she grow such long hair in such a short period of time? Apparently the Hyuga clan has some special recipes for hair care’. That was one of the reasons why in my AU I decided to make the timeskip longer - 4years instead of 2,5.

I really wanted to see how the grown-up Neji and the more self-confident Hinata interact with each other. I was sure that it would be an arc dedicated to the Hyuga clan and how the two of them, with the help of Naruto ofc, change the clan. Unfortunately, my aspirations were not destined to come true.

Ep 41 where Naruto loses control and hurts Sakura - is a chef's kiss. The fox feels like an absolute evil with which such a sunny and good person like Naruto has to deal with. Aand ofc Naruto wa supposed to loose control bc this evil is too much for him. Naruto being possessed by the demon and hurting his beloved ones is a theme that I like and I'm very sad that it was wasted.

An intriguing and long-awaited meeting with Sasuke - a moment that is well engraved in my memory as one of the last ones I watched.

Then I abandoned watching Naruto and anime in general for reasons I can’t remember, but probably it was because of graduating from school. Some years later I heard the news that Hinata confessed to Naruto and that Neji died in the manga, but at that time it didn’t make a big impression on me, firstly, I wasn’t already involved that much, secondly, I had a premonition for a long time that if Neji and Hinata are not supposed to be a couple at the end, then one of them will definitely die - most likely Neji, bc MC needs a girlfriend. So when I found out that Neji died protecting Hinata and Naruto, I just thought "NejiHina is canon and now it’s confirmed". But it didn't become a traumatic dramatic experience for me. I also remember everyone hyping that the Naruto manga was over. I even read the last chapter. I felt a slight sadness at the sight of Hinata at Neji's grave and that story that had a strong influence on me when I was a teenager is over. That was it. I again forgot about Naruto for a very long time.

Two years ago, in a rather difficult period of my life, I experienced an irresistible urge to watch Naruto. And I did it. I had a very mixed impression of what I saw.

Perhaps the last arc that I liked was the arc when Asuma was killed. I liked the villains, I liked the drama of Asuma/Kurenai, of InoShikaCho and Shikamaru’s personal growth. It was good.

Then I witnessed the degradation of the plot, the characters - of everything. I don't know what was the reason, but the series just got boring. Previously interesting and deep characters have turned into cardboard mannequins.

The more Shippuden developed, the more villains that “were not villains” appeared. There was no one comparable to Zabuza and Haku or Orochimaru from OG. A breath of fresh air for me was Hidan and Kakuzu, who simply enjoy making a fuss, torturing and killing.

The whole atmosphere of the series has become somehow very sterile and toothless. Naruto as a character became very shallow and at times even annoying for me. Becoming stronger and gaining new powers he at the same time stopped developing as a charater. Probably the only time I liked Naruto in late Shippuden was when Naruto got depressed because of Sasuke in the Land of Iron.

The fights bacame more spectacular, but were no longer as interesting as in the beginning, now everything has turned into “who has a bigger and stronger technique”.

Kaguya as a villain is just nothing. She is just a doll, very powerful, but a doll. Moreover, even such a powerful doll was subsequently weakened for the sake of the plot. In general, this "for the sake of the plot" is what characterizes Shippuden, especially the later episodes. The characters do and say what is necessary for the sake of the plot, because of which they feel like fools or cardboard for me. New characters appear to replace the old ones, which are not developed enough, the final battle of the war, where the villains hatch one from the other almost saying "It was me, Dio!" and “I’m stronger than the previous one!”

For example, I know that a lot of people like Madara, but for me he is almost never remembered, just one of war arc villains. Although I can’t deny that the intrigue about him was built up really well. And i like his design.

Akatsuki, who made an impression of a very serious opponent for the characters in the OG and the beginning of Shippuden, in fact turned out to be just an unorganized group of people who weren't so scary. It’s still not very clear for me why many members of the organization are there at all.

Itachi.... He used to be one of my favorite male characters. But the “the truth is that he is a good guy’ seemed far-fetched to me. Probably because it wasn't planned from the beginning so his previous actions contradict a lot with his intentions. Therefore, none of his good intentions forgive his asshole attitude towards Sasuke in OG. The fact that his "ingenious plan" worked is only due to the fact that it was necessary for the plot. To me, he was a very cool protagonist, but trying to make him an anti-hero only ruined him. However, I still think Itachi looks awesome.

I have not much to say about the events after Shippuden. I watched the Last. By the way, over the past year I have watched it as many times as probably no average fan of TL has watched it (I want to redraw some scenes and need to understand the logic of the original plot very well), and my opinion about the movie has changed - for the worse, unfortunatly.

I watched Boruto a bit, 15 episodes or so and I must say that I even liked it. I’m not joking. The characters are quite interesting. The focus is not on the main character (as it was in the beginning of Naruto). I liked that the academy period was shown. Although sometimes what is happening is absurd and too fanservice, Naruto really lacked this. Because of what, it seemed that 1) the OG characters did not learn anything at the academy 2) they did not communicate with each other there all 6? years of the academy, and only after graduation, becoming genin, they began to interact.

In Boruto I especially liked Chocho, she is a beautiful goddess and I kneel before her. This girl rocks with her awesome self-esteem. I also liked Shikadai.

However, the attitude towards the old characters and the lore of OG and even Shippuden leaves much to be desired there. When I managed to ignore the fact that Boruto is a continuation of the story for more than 500 episodes, then it hass become ok to watch. I think this is the reason for the difference in the perception of the old audience that grew up on OG and Shippuden, and the new fans who watched Boruto first. These are really two different works and it’s very difficult to perceive them together, because in some places they simply contradict each other.

And probably someone will now think - ‘well, since you don’t like everything and you complain so much, why the hell are you staying in this fandom?’ and the answer is actually quite simple - there’re a lot of things in Naruto that I really like and that inspire me. If you want a metaphor, I choose grains from a mountain of husks and this grains inspire me a lot. I have critical thinking and imagination, what’s more important - I don’t know how to love unconditionally and don’t consider this a manifestation of pure love. I see a lot of flaws in Naruto as a story, plot holes, inconsistencies, wasted characters, etc., but I still like Naruto a lot. I prefer to focus not on what I don't like, but on what I like. Such things have a greater weight for me on the scales. And thanks to this approach, I continue to do what I do with great pleasure, it keeps me productive. No, I'm not bothered that 'it’s not like this in THE CANON!!!’(c), NEJI IS DEAD(c), and even more it doesn't bother me that someone thinks about it and that there are some ppl who don’t like my art. I like the concept of multiverses and for me Narutoverse is kinda Minecraft where you can create different stories and events useing bricks that were given in the canon. And I enjoy doing it. That's all.

What is the conclusion of all this? Well, nothing in particular, I just shared my story about Naruto bc I felt like sharing. The only thing, perhaps, if I continued to watch Naruto back then 1) most likely I would be disappointed and quit watching, the series would leave a bad impression on me and I would hardly draw Naruto after so many years 2) I had been more involved in what was happening, then Hinata's confession and Neji's death would have hurt me more, as well as many other fans who left the fandom after these events. And I just don’t take it that seriously. In general I have a rather chilling attitude to the canon, I just want to have fun and nothing else matters to me. Probably because I didn’t watch the entire series in my youth in my vision of the characters based on OG and early Shippuden images of the characters and I use them in my drawings ideas for drawings.

#personal?#i guess

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khaoray · 9 months

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top 10 kdrama couples? and top 10 romantic kdramas? (i wanna watch something with good romance haha)

oh nonnie this is gonna be a challenge but i will do my absolute best. one thing you need to know about me and my taste in romance is that i'm really not here for straight up fluff. i need a bit of melodrama and angst to keep me invested. gonna stick it under a read more bc i feel it's gonna get lengthy asdfghjk

couples:

ji ho and jeung in (one spring night) - they invented being in love and facing your problems with maturity and they're just so important to me.

kang doo and moon soo (just between lovers) - if there's one thing i love in my romance it's angst and hurt people learning to heal together and literally no one does it like them. kang doo remains my favourite junho role too, so.

kyeo rye and yeon joo (if you wish upon me) - similar to jbl tbh kyeo rye is such a broken man at the start of the drama and watching him slowly fall in love and heal from years and years of trauma destroyed all of my emotions.

gong myung and se ra (into the ring) - THE childhood friends to rivals to friends to lovers ship!!!!! no one does it like they do honestly they're THE standard when it comes to emotional maturity.

joong gil and ryeon (tomorrow) - listen if you were around last year then you know just insane they made me. soulmates defying literal fate to end up together after centuries of trauma they make me so sick.

cheoljong and so bong (queen cheorin) - THE standard for enemies to lovers. nothing has ever been able to replicate the buzz they gave me week to week.

seon gyeom and mi joo (run on) - the softest couple on this entire list actually i think. they're just so sweet and cozy and safe and i love them so much.

taejun and taeyang (love all play) - my babies!!!! the drama itself kinda sucks but theyyyyy. one of the most mature relationships i've ever seen in a drama actually like we love a couple that actively talk about their issues and try to overcome them together.

vincenzo and cha young (vincenzo) - enemies to coconspirators to lovers excellence honestly who is doing chemistry like them. they're just so sexy.

dong jin and woo joo (call it love) - hi hello it's another instance of two traumatised people falling in love and finding happiness together what can i say i have a TYPE.

dramas:

one spring night - i've already talked about why i love this drama so much so i won't do it again but just know. i love it so so much it's so important to ME.

just between lovers - another one i've talked about a lot at this point but outside of the romance, this drama is just so GOOD. it deals with a lot of heavy themes so i'd advise discretion but it's so worth it imo. but just 10/10 experience wish i could go back and watch it again for the first time.

if you wish upon me - i love it for a lot of the same reasons i love jbl they're very similar imo. also. kyeo rye is the most character of all time i genuinely don't think ji chang wook is ever topping him.

into the ring - underrated!!!! underrated!!!!!!!!! underrated!!!!!!!!!!!! y'all slept on this one so hard and i still haven't forgiven you. i love romance between two grown adults who actually act their age and don't fall victim to stupid tropes.

run on - this drama makes me feel so cozy and safe and fuzzy idk man it's just pure good vibes for my soul.

call it love - if you love dramas that are slow, where a lot is said with very little dialogue and where the colour grading tells you a lot about the characters emotional states then boy do i have the drama for you.

witch's romance - can i interest you in twinky park seo joon in love with uhm jung hwa??? bc that's what this drama has to offer and it's so fun. it might be a bit dated now bc it came out in 2014 but i had such a good time when i first watched it.

queen cheorin - aside from the last half of the last episode i had such a good fun time watching two absolute idiots fight tooth and nail against falling in love with each other. when are we ever getting that level of chemistry again???

moon embracing the sun - alright i'm gonna be honest i don't actually remember all that much of this one anymore. i only watched it because kim soo hyun's in it. but i watched it as it was airing and it emotionally destroyed me so that's gotta count for something.

first love hatsukoi - yeah yeah it's not korean it's japanese but it's also the best show i've watched in the last year so!!!!! y'all can just take my rec and live with it. please please PLEASE watch it it's one of the most beautiful dramas i've ever seen and all four of the main actors are absolutely incredible in it.

#vic.txt #ask #thank you nonnie!!#coming up with ten dramas was hard bc like. i don't actually watch pure romance very often #or it's not good enough for me to include it amongst my faves asdfgm #or my favourite couples are in dramas that i wouldn't even consider being romance #anyway i hope that at least somewhat gives you something new

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notsodailycake · 2 years

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Happy Birthday Dork

Yep! Today's my birthday! This gal right here is turning 16! (Now time to change my age in all my bios💀💀)

And i decided to draw these two gals. Now of yall weren't following me back in 2020 on insta, then yeah, you have no context to who these two are

The blond one is well, Cake, my oc/persona, and the ginger one is Brooke, an oc thag belongs to @/ molzysketch on Instagram. I wont go into full detail, but we basically ship these two. We made them during the fall of danplan, Brooke was supposed to be Ann for molzy's pirate au. A group chat was made to make theories of what would happen on the next part of the au, but the next day the fall happened. After the fall we revamped them as ocs tho, and everyone in the group made their own ocs and we role played with them

I'll add the version with no text under the cut, plus bonus info and ramblings boyt my art :>

This all are kinda redesigns of them really. Brooke was redesigned by her own creator molzy of course, but i worked on the colors by the end 😌

On another note tho! To make this drawing an even better birthday gift to myself, in the middle of doing this i realized how similar it was to an old drawing of these 2

This one was from July 2020, it was the last time i did a proper drawing of them in their pirate self

But honestly, looking back the old drawing i did of them, god am i happy with my progress. You can see they actually grew up too, the old one looks more soft, childish and now they seem to have grown up! It's more mature, has more personality to it, to the characters!

I'll keep it short, but basically, I'm happy with how my art and the characters grew. They actually feel like pirates, and Cake feels like how i wanted them to feel, and Brooke now actually seems like Brooke and not a revamp of Ann. Which props to Molly for that!

Also, i tried out a new shading technique here, which i love! But hate it just as much, bc of how many layers i had to use, and how slow it gets when you leave or come back to the drawing 💀

Also really time consuming, but it's worth it bc it looks epic. And honestly it's way more fun, with how free i am with it and messy i can get with it

And yeah, the similarities between this snd the 2020 one, it was PURE coincidence. I started to work on this mostly testing out a technique i saw on a reels and it turned out great, the bodies, didn't know who to use it with. After a while decided to use Brooke and Cake, was gonna draw Brooke holding cake, but the body better fit Cake so i did them instead. And only when i was sketching Cake out did i realise it

I miss these gals, and i wish to work with them more. Hell i actually am re working on Cake's story now. I plan on maybe changing their name to Cory, tho I'm yet to fully decide

Tho idk how the og crew's story is now, but honestly, it's alr i can still have fun with it XP

#just sum rambling about the past i suppose #and yall get to see some of my old roots i guess XP #it's fun and god i loved how this turned out #and the improvement as well I'm so so happy with it #best gift i could give myself really #cake talks #cakes art #nsdcakeocs #oc #ocs #original character #original characters #pirate #pirate oc #pirate ocs

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thefunniestguy · 2 years

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Any thoughts on the hall of egress :] ? /nf

OMY YEAH OK OK WHERE DO I START ,,,,,,,,,, (also throwing this real quick in case i forget , THANK YOU FOR SENDING THIS IN ILY /GEN /P)

so !!! i had watched a video on it , since it's such a great episode , and even now i think i understand it , but there's so much i feel like i don't get fully ! but , the guy put it as (something along the lines of) "the episode where finn grew up" and i think that puts it WONDERFULLY!!! before I rant about the more in-depth (i guess?) stuff , i've got to say that MAN this episode makes me so emotional. even thinking about it makes me tear up and i dunno exactly why ???? i've just got a weirdly strong emotional connection to it SJNFOSNF,,, also it's just very pretty in general . that bit at the end , the one where "something's different" is probably the prettiest methinks !!! it somehow captures a lot of emotions and beauty and aaahhhh,,,, ANYWAY !!

first of all , in my opinion, i think this may be one of the scariest adventure time episodes? maybe not scary as in visually or whatever, but just thinking about it kind of scares ya. putting yourself in finn's shoes and whatnot is absolutely terrifying !! like MAN imagine !!!! you get stuck in a practically never-ending loop, waiting months at a time, scared to open your eyes because you'll just be back where you started. waiting until "something's different" is so vague !! how do you know when something's different? what if you're wrong??

bringing back the "episode where finn grows up" thing, i do believe that was intentional. bringing up the dungeon train was also intentional , which is a bit more obvious ! the dungeon train featured a young , more immature finn . before he "grew up" ! this episode has a more "mature" finn. a finn who can learn, and has learned, to rely a bit less on others. i'm not sure how much this episode is "finn growing up", but it feels kinda like "showing how finn has grown up." he thinks, he tries to figure things out, and eventually has no choice but to rely on himself ! it also , i think , showed finn's determination !! the "no more egress" line enforces that methinks , showing us finn's determination to never run from a problem. there's no escaping it , so he's facing it head-on. in general , it really shows you so much about finn's character that you may not have gotten to see / realized up until this point . it's an episode where you may realize "oh man. this isn't exactly the *same* 12 year old boy we started off with."

OH MY GOD ALSO , THIS ISN'T MY ORIGINAL THOUGHT BUT IT'S SOMEHTING I READ AND NEARLY LOST MY MIND WHEN IT WAS POINTED OUT ,,,,,, BMO !!!!!! is so important in this episode , for reasons other than i think it was them who said the whole "something's different" line !! bmo's childish , it's their entire character - heck , the ending of that episode where we meet mo points out that that's the POINT of bmo to an extent (emphasis on "to an extent" bc obviously there's more to bmo than "child") - and there's so much emphasis on that in this episode . bmo being a nervous little kid , like finn was at one point , and a part of finn that most likely will never leave . bmo serves almost like finn's conscious . like intrusive thoughts , almost ??? their asking so many questions , some of which are understandable , yet still ,,, their questions work to almost *try* and keep finn from changing . jake even plays into it , to an extent (and if i remember correctly.)

ALSO i think this episode has a lot of things people can personally relate to !! while maybe not everyone has had a particular moment where you realize "something's changed", when you think about it , you probably do realize it . there's also the confusion and even frustration of no one around you believing you , which i mean , i hope not many people experience , but it's unfortunately relatable at times . it doesn't mean those people don't love you or don't want to believe you but - aaaaaaahhdhfoasifn,,,, it just , showed how alone finn was . which is also , very much a relatable feeling .

#holy moly dude this brought out the hand flaps for real /lh /pos #also . i really like the line 'at the seashells center lies the cornucopias smallest door' but i have no idea what that means and #won't even attempt to analyze it . my analysis skills are awful SUNFOINGS #however i think i'm about to watch a video on it i found ...... yayayayyy #THANK YOU AGAIN this is probably very hard to read BUT THANK YOU #i feel like i could add more but honestly i dunno what to add ... this episode is just so good and aaaaaaaa /pos

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okay so im a 23 year old woman and recently I have been feeling more infantilized by others than ever before, which seems to go hand and hand with sexualization. when I was younger I was obsessed with growing up fast and everyone would remark on how mature I was. now everyone seems to remark on how much I look like a baby or make other comments on my appearance. i work at a fancy bar and people often assume i’m not knowledgeable or just a waitress or make comments when I wear braids or pigtails about how young I look. i am currently dating a man who is 10 years older than me (who i have known for a while, all my friends are older too) and i feel like it has changed peoples opinion of me. the strange thing is I feel myself leaning into it a bit, but I could go without the weird comments and condescension. so what if I like to look cutesy doesn’t mean I am not a grown ass lady who is independent and competent at her job. i guess im curious as to your thoughts on agency, infantilization, sexuality and relationships with men. much appreciated ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ̀ˋ love your blog<3

Cont: following up to the last anon… i find myself interested in older men for a variety of reasons (men my own age are too immature, older men are generally more sexually competent, I am just around them more, etc) i feel respected by my partner and enjoy our dynamic and feel very comfortable being myself (which is to say very girly and cutesy- I love skirts and pigtails and pink and ballet and flowers) i am just wondering about the psychology behind leaning a bit into infantilization in the bedroom when it bothers me so much professionally.

Ok so I should probably address the fact first that it is a bit of a red flag for a 33 year old man to be dating a 23 year old. Obviously I don't know either of you, so I won't preach about it, I'm sure others have mentioned this to you but I have to say it. You are so young, and a man that age dating so young reflects a desire for control that I find alarming. However, you are your own person and an adult, so far be it for me to dictate what you should do. You may want to consider the way the dynamic of your relationship affects your self esteem bc I have experienced that while having that feeling of approval from an older man can be really exhilarating, it can be equally crushing if it is rescinded. I'd be a hypocrite if I advised you not to lean into a hyper feminine and submissive role in your relationship, but I would warn against letting it bleed too much into the rest of your life. Make sure to practice saying no whenever needed, and I mean that really seriously!!! As for your friends and coworkers, I would say don't worry too much about being underestimated, just make sure to hold onto yourself and dont let it get you down. I've been underestimated bc of how I look my whole life and I've learned you can't really keep it from happening . its not worth changing yourself or your aesthetic to avoid judgement. But be sure to stand up for yourself consistently!! tell people to fuck off when you need to. Overall I really relate to what you are going through. My main advice is to make sure not to lose yourself. Best of luck to you💖

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nxtsnw · 1 year

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THANK U!! i’m hyperfixating on this man of my theme so much it’s actually pretty ridiculous. ANYHOW!! i’ve been normal. surprisingly so? like i don’t feel super depressed lately due to my changing of schools from government to international. i have my perspectives changed so much from like 2 years ago vs now. new identity change aka just realising that i really like it/its pronouns. i now write for manhwa characters bc finally. i’m also more academically better to myself?? like i’m not forcing myself to be the best, but just saying “try exceeding the limit, however if you truly can’t, then stop and prioritise the important things. when you’ve grown, you can try once more and see the difference” really i’m just being mentally healthy this year. of course i still have my ups and downs (especially about a certain topic about myself) but other than that i’m pretty much okay!!

what about you!! how have you been my dear??

ely this message is so full of life and happiness! I can feel all the serenity hidden in this. I'm extremely grateful that things are going well, you deserved it. I'm thankful that the change of school has been just that positive, and how's it going with the new classmates? And after your thought, we can see how you've matured over time, and I'm sure young ely would be proud of you ;) Ohhh changing the theme is always almost like modifying a little part of you!!! Now that you can also brag about your manhwa knowledge with your writing skills I feel that a part of Ely has shown itself!! I love it mwah mwah ( ˘ ³˘)

I have felt some endless days, always because of the school that has absorbed(?) me as always. But things, in general, are better than last year, and I'm grateful for it :) I'm also part of the school newspaper, and I'm in charge of managing book reviews!! I feel audacious to be part of something like this; I usually stay away from social stuff; but at the same time, I am thankful that I will be able to take care of the part of the books that are the things that I love most!! Thanks to this winter break I count I have time to organize myself for the best (if I fail, at least I will rest!). Because of my friend, I started watching romance kdrama, and now I'm obsessed with them </3 I hope to start writing again soon after this long break!! Honestly, I can't complain either, in the end, it's not all that bad. !!

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#ely<3 #my lovely moots

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golbrocklovely · 2 years

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to be honest, i disagree. Colby is extremely immature for someone that’s closer to 30 than he is to 20. all she did was say she had a crush on him - she didn’t say they had sex, they kissed, she didn’t expose anything, she simply said she had a crush on him. instead of him putting on his grown pants, he opted to block/ghost the girl in the most fuckboy-ish of ways and avoid the thing entirely. that’s a gigantic neon red flag showing Colby has no emotional responsibility. you can ghost someone when they��re annoying you, bothering you, harassing you and so forth but ghosting them simply because they said something you don’t agree with or have a crush on you is, imo, extremely immature.

he could’ve simply sat dow and talked to her. could’ve said he wasn’t interested and could’ve asked her to not talk about it anymore because it made him uncomfortable and if she managed to ignore his boundaries, then that’s an entire different story. but if the story played out like that and all she truly did, with no prior warning, was say she had a crush on him and he immediately ghosted her… yikes. talking it out and letting things on the clear is better than simply disappearing because he’s emotionally selfish and unprepared. we’re only taking in consideration how Colby feels but we never really stop to think how those girls feel. i know i personally feel like shit when someone out of the blue starts ghosting me. i hate it and i always prefer the truth, even if it hurts. he only thinks of himself and only acts according to his needs and to me that makes him an extreme menace to the point where he simply can’t tell a grown woman he’s not interested in her and instead likes to leave them wondering while he runs away or likes to keep ‘em hooked so he feels better about himself. that shit stinks to me. and if that’s “who he is”, then he should change asap bc honestly karma is a bitch and he won’t like it very much when the same is done to him. like that situation is just shady when i think abt it and if he acts like that to this day, it’s honestly better he stays single tbh.

while i agree he could have been more mature about it, i'll never argue against that, at the same time… imagine if it was reversed.

if he openly said in a video "i'm into jazmine" and she didn't feel the same way, imagine how uncomfortable she would have felt. we wouldn't be arguing about this if she unfollowed him in this circumstance.

and again, that's all he did. he unfollowed her and assumingly ghosted her. he didn't badmouth her, he didn't say anything about this situation at all. she did. she's the one that brought it up in the first place that he unfollowed her and only recently followed her back in that video. otherwise, most fans wouldn't have known this information in the first place. and thus we wouldn't be talking about it now.

and while it would have been better for him to just say he wasn't interested, his actions showed he wasn't. and personally, if someone makes you uncomfortable, you're allowed to act however you want to (within reason of course). he didn't like she did that, so he unfollowed. he might have ghosted her, we don't know. but he unfollowed, that's for certain. that's not really a crazy immature response in my book.

i've been ghosted before too, it sucks. but what would have sucked more is if he would have strung her along, or pretended to not know she was interested in him. that feeling is WAY WORSE than being ghosted imo. he laid it out, plain and simple, that he wasn't interested by unfollowing her.

also, they weren't even that close. they were acquaintances at best. partying coworkers if you will. he doesn't owe her an explanation or maturity. doesn't mean he should go balls to the walls and be an asshole, but that's not what he did. she made him uncomfortable, he unfollowed. she told everyone about it. that's all that really happened.

#ask #personal #cb ll

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jamzandbamz · 2 years

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Live recap: overall, I feel like very little was actually discussed. I felt somewhat disconnected, but I'm not trying to burst his bubble lol. 💌 I've organized it a lil differently bc there was a lot of repetition lol

(Note-- check the ****'d bit for my theory on why he's talking this way lol could be dead wrong tho)

-They're uploading the edited version on Monday morning (to yt I believe)

-The energy was unlike anything I've seen from him. The bottom line I'm getting is that he is basically high on romance. He repeated many, many, many times throughout the 2 hours that:

He is a new man, a *grown* man (so many times), he's "matured decades in past week," "a lot has changed in the past week," feels like he's outgrowing the boys (kinda laughed after), not doing house music intros, that he's "liberated," "more open minded," that "material items mean nothing," "there will be no more cursing on the show," no more dick pics, this is the "new me," that he's high on life, "I'm in control of my mind," not on drugs. Over and over. It was the entire theme. He was very uninterested in the questions. I could go on lol

-worth saying that he kept repeating "Anything that can be fixed with medication can be fixed with meditation" 🤣 even when he called his parents later, did it again

-sunglasses on the whole time

-All the comments in the chat were this: idk how to react to this version of Jeff, this is crazy, cult is gonna unionize and walk out, Jeff this is too calm, he's so zen he's not even letting us bully him, anyone else confused

-even kyle said "idk what going on anymore"

-and even Steven was like "I'm scared right now" 🤣🤣

-so he basically/clearly attributes these changes to the girl he's seeing. He said "I have a woman in my life now who's teaching me to lead a holistic lifestyle," they meditated together (he didnt like it initially), he only uses hydroflasks now

-he attempted two meditations LIVE y'all haha 😶‍🌫️☁️☁️

- "Ok I'll be honest, I knew the girl, that I met, already for years"

-when asked for info about his coachella fling, he said: "It wasn't a fling, it's still going on"

-not bf/gf "yet"

-****(me wondering: if it's the girl who is older than him (??), maybe that's why he brought up maturity/being mature/being grown up so much?)

-basically she is Mexican, reads books in the park, is athletic (he didn't sound overly convincing), hikes, has a sense of humor, doesn't watch YouTube, doesn't know what Patreon is/something like that

-said, "Maybe I'll come back with a whole diff attitude" next week, maybe this is a phase, he's regurgitating a lot of what he's hearing on a meditation app so it might be a new ballgame next week

-called his mom, told her about this girl bc he hadn't talked to her. Kept saying that he's going to have kids with her, multiple times! Like, delivering the baby in a "bathtub in his house."

-Something even about her being the "love of my life" but it was vague, hard to read the tone

-at one point said he wanted to be open about everything, then later said that he's thinking about not sharing any of this stuff, "live my life in private"

--------- everything else unrelated to girl:

-Tossing and turning at night, hallucinating?, hard to sleep w/o ambien, melatonin gives him nightmares

-Jorge Janko gave Steve advice to not overstep. Steven barely spoke tho 🥺

-said his "biggest flex in life is that my parents are proud of me" (pointed to awards to show they didn't matter)

-❗️Going to NY next week, doing pop up shops with the products in stores, with the crew, "signing autographs" 🤣🤣

-"Johnny depp" came on lol, with the hair part, mustache, jewelry...it was Ryan, i barely paid attention, comments were "SCAM FM" "cap fm" and "I cant"

-Initially thought poop on bed situation was hot (girls who are nuts), but basically not any more..

-when asked about his new motivation, "whats next" bc of this girl, he said: Writing! He wants to write a book, turn it into a show (not like mike's/jail) it'll be a self-help book. 💗💗🤧 Also still into youtube ufc/boxing/mma anything (starting to get jokey)

-Hung out w Vince the other night

-Thinks girls hit him up bc they want to fix him (mental problems)

More was said but these are the most, most relevant!! 💗💗💗

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We need to talk about the guts that BigBang as a group have, personally I don’t stan them but Jesus Christ the little things they let out are so big for me if u take the fact that they were the group who helped to pave the way for what K-pop is today. Bc for me TOP speaking about being treated as a slave for his company is such a dangerous thing… out of the top three I think YG is the most dangerous one to be involved with bc if u do ur research u KNOW that the CEO is a big fish in Korea… I would be shaking in my boots every time I slipped something out.

Tbh, I get where you're coming from 100% but TOP only said that cause he had the luxury to say it because he's old now, nobody on a grand scale is or was ever particularly checking for him, and the times have changed where it's more apparent now than ever that youth runs everything. It's a social media game now and the industry works differently than how it did when he was BTS age working and coming up. Once you age out of your field and your career slows past its peak (icon or a regular artist with no hits) you can pretty much whatever the heck you wanna say. I believe people only extend this grace to and expect it from has been or people who fell off and lost a lot.

Let's pretend TOP was in Parasite or a top Oscar nominated movie and was sweeping awards in career as well as America, I don't believe he would have 100% been so gutsy to say it. He may have still said it cause America eats that up and America is open as well as encouraging of stars saying controversial things with no filter whether its true or not. I believe top said that freely cause he has been personally scorned in some ways (although he isn't lying) and he internalized it a lot back then i.e it affected on an emotional level as opposed to a lot of stars who probably felt the same way but let it go or don't speak on it cause they've lived their lives in ways where it's not hindering them on any level professionally or personally.

I just think he said it cause he could afford to say it, he feels some type of way about it, he's already been through scandals and is from a company rife with them so it's not gonna immediately blow up if he says that and cause he's not in a peak phase of his career anymore and under a contract where he has to watch what he says.

I still follow her but although I don't really like HyunA anymore, to me she's the real ballsy idol cause she had major balls to undermine her agency heads and dispute the statement they put out about her dating then pull a younger talent out of the company to go join her for dating, on top of having her group disband and most of that ending cause she had too many solo responsibilities on top of prioritizing dawn over them in the end.

He told the truth though but I feel while it healthy and I'm so glad he exposed how trash the industry can be, only delusionals and young people or saesang/ Otaku fans are oblivious to what the truth of the industry is. Like how I mentioned hyuna for example, she too shed a lot of her peak image and everything she said she wasn't is what she is now.

You don't have to shake in your boots when your career has concluded. He's not an idol anymore. His fanbase is grown now or parents and he has to focus on mature markets or core old head fans who still pay attention. If he drops an album he won't be on music bank or any of those music shows promoting it then doing the whole press run like younger acts or older acts who care. It's like memoir speak at this point.

Love top down and I'm glad he told the truth but aside from liking the rest of that interview, he played into that toxicity and didn't speak against it when he was still active plus he reaped major benefits from it. He's not really saying anything we don't know. It's brutal hell but you get a makeover, plastic surgery access, connections access, money (if you make it and chart) and other things that you can't get without being an idol.

So it's like the pot calling the kettle black.

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Re: b1a4 being b1a4/sticking to kpop… I think more than anything, if they still want to release music/sing bc that’s what they love, I’d want them to do it more maturely and less “young kpop”.

SNSD and Super Junior for example, they’re much older now and you can really see that their music and image has grown up with them. I think b1a4 does have that more mature sound now but they seem stuck trying to relive their bubblegum pop aesthetic days when they first debuted.. maybe it’s the lack of proper management now so they’re kind of just flopping around art direction wise and doesn’t realize it’s ok to evolve your aesthetic. As an example, sure SM has more money and is a bigger company than WM but SNSD’s comeback last year.. you can see that their styling fits the year we’re in/they’re age, the fact that they’re now senior idols celebrating 15yrs, even their outfits in music shows are much more sophisticated/elevated. Same for SJ. They aren’t stuck with the ‘shticks’ that they had when they first debuted bc they’ve grown up and their tastes have changed.

As an aside, I’m actually excited to see how GC will do in this webtoon drama bc the posters look good and it feels like a “legit” acting role if that makes sense. And if the others want to explore branching out like that too in whatever avenue, I’d love to see that for them… maybe they just don’t want to be as active anymore (and that’s fine too), but sometimes part of me thinks it’s bc they’re being neglected where they are and aren’t getting the best opportunity so I’m worried about them looking for other agencies.. it pains me to say this but with baro for example, he hasn’t really done much / hasn’t done many projects as the lead, it feels to me like he’s still trying to start over and is still at that stage where he’s being cast as a minor character/guest role for an ep or two idk, when he was the one who really wanted to be an actor (but maybe he wants to be low key, we don’t know). So just based on him, I’m worried for the other 3 when/if they decide to go switch to another agency. But also that has to be better than what WM is doing for them now no??

See, as far as your first couple points, I feel like initially things were looking ok-- just taking their only main comeback following the split, they were styled really well (at least in my opinion lol). Though something that is also interesting about all this, is that the comeback was prior to WM Ent. being acquired by RBW... because following the acquisition is where we had the solo fanmeets of CNU and Gongchan were they were dressed... not great, lol (see the discourse here and here and here) along with a bunch of other examples of them not being styled well. SO I think that's maybe where there is a disconnect in how you feel aesthetic is? Because when they style themselves they don't look like bubblegum pop boys at all.

But this also could possibly tie into your last point about neglect? Because obviously things have seemed to take a turn for the worst as far as the care, effort, and money put into their events or lives or whatever. And I can partly understand this, in the sense that they are an older group and RBW is going to invest more in their 'own' groups, or a group that still has a more youthful energy and potential like ONF for WM groups. But of course, I've been a BANA for over 11 years and I hate to see this, no matter how much I know it just happens from a business perspective.

That being said, there are better ways they could smartly spend money on them so that it doesn't look like last minute shit thrown together. They just need the staff willing to be a bit creative and sit down with them because I'm sure the boys have their own thoughts and opinions on what they want (and who knows, maybe RBW doesn't like what they want, hence why they're not doing too much for them.)

Also though, I do feel that there isn't that much of a concern for them to be super active. But in regards to your remarks about Baro, yeah, I'm a bit 😕 about it because I'm still waiting on him to catch is break in the acting field too. I just wish we saw more of him overall, idk. I miss him lol but I know that's also because I don't keep up with k-dramas so I'd have to really go out of my way to watch what he's in.

#this is one of those times where i have a lot more to say but #lol idk i don't want to come across as too negative either #we don't know what's really going on between them and rbw #albeit from the outside looking in it sure doesn't seem to be positive #i hope they do leave i'll keep saying it until it happens lmao #b1a4 #baro #cnu #gongchan #gongchan solo fanmeet #cnu solo fanmeet #wm entertainment #rbw entertainment #text #ask #reply

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lesbiancarat · 2 years

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sadlkjfa;sdfj it's ok! i actually would have been really interested to hear your thoughts on the dichotomy of dark vs cute concepts. i also believe that ppl have a weird obsession with very clear cut, distinct concepts. but at the same time these concepts can be a bit boring as we start seeing the same ones over and over again? it's not that i dislike them, it's just that i'd love to see much more creative concepts!

also that weird thing of dark concepts have to be dark and cute concepts have to be cute is reductive and doesn't allow for more nuanced concepts! for example, some people were shocked about onf's beautiful beautiful bc they expected a darker song to match the cyberpunk theme of the mv, but i wasn't? idk this is starting to get kinda long asdjfkl;

dfkjh mostly i was just going to say that i feel like there's a number of kpop stans that only classify songs as either "dark" or "cute/fresh", leaving no room for songs that don't fit in either category. i feel like most people who think this way have self-prescribed themselves as a die-hard fan of one concept or the other, and therefore any song that doesn't fit into that concept/genre they like must belong to the other category (people probably don't think this explicitly, but more that its a subconscious thing that comes up in the way i see some people talk about songs)

for example, pre-fear era there were a lot of carats wanting a dark concept, and some of those people (definitely not all) advocated for it by saying things like "svt are grown now, they need to stop doing cute concepts all the time". which like, completely ignored the fact that dwc/home/thanks/clap are all songs that, while not dark, are far from cute. and it makes a false assumption that for a concept to be "mature" or "grown" it has to be dark and sexy, which imo is not the case

but yeah i also love to see variety and creativity when it comes to concepts. i think when there's variety in the industry, that's when the most people are happy, because everyone gets something they want. i think variety also helps people appreciate other concepts and genres outside of their comfort zone. like, if you're a fan of really dark, loud edm, concepts you can probably still appreciate cute bubblegum pop every once in a while. but if bubblegum pop is the current trend u might start getting annoyed bc you feel like you can't avoid it

that being said though, i feel like a variety of concepts within a certain group can be tricky. there's a certain extent you can switch things up and still stay within the groups brand, but straying too far from the concept that drew most fans in in the first place is bound to be controversial. for example weeekly's recent comeback or svt's fear. it baffles me that people are surprised that others don't like those songs--they're both groups that built they're fanbase with fresh concepts, of course there are going to be a lot of fans that don't like darker concepts. if they did they'd probably be stanning different groups. and like, to be clear i'm not saying those songs are bad or they shouldn't have been released. ultimately its up to the group/company to release whatever they want. but there has to be the understanding that an extreme concept change up will always be controversial, and it may lose fans, even if it gains others

i also totally get what you're saying about nuanced concepts. like bubblegum pop with bright colors and flowers and heavy edm with grungy city aesthetics aren't the only concepts to exist! like there are so many more interesting things that can and have been done! certain visual aesthetics aren't relegated to one type of music!! i feel like i had a similar experience in the last year or so of ppl not feeling like a song fit the concept aesthetic but i didn't see the problem. can't for the life of me remember what it is though lol, but i definitely feel your frustration dfkgh

#melia.ask #anon #long post #this is what happens when yall encourage me!#i end up writing 5 whole paragraphs about concepts dfkjg

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theteapotofdoom · 3 years

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i think bnha is a story that's carefully constructed so when the reader pays enough attention to the details, they will be able to see a map to where the plot is going. instead of dropping something out of nowhere, the plot twists are carefully planned and delivered, and i think that's why we're able to predict/theorize about them. i know it's the bare minimum for good storytelling but hori is truly nailing it. also it's refreshing to see this bc popular media these days focuses more on shocking

Yes, I agree completely with this!

You're right, it's so refreshing to see an author who worries more about telling a good coherent satisfying story than "subvert our expectations".

This is why I'm always a little confused by hot takes like "Deku won't save Shigaraki because this is too predictable and there are too many clues leading up to it" like ... yes? This is how storytelling works? It's true that nothing is certain yet, but it's so odd to see people thinking that carefully planing out the endgame of your story is a bad thing.

It doesn't mean that you have to LIKE everything of course. I personally think that the Touya reveal dragged for a little too long, to the point where I started to think that there would never be a true revelation and that it would just be implied the whole time. But that's just my personal take because I'm not overly invested in the Todo storyline as a whole, I still think that it was objectively beautifully executed. Even if I didn't vibe with it as much as most people did, I'm still very happy that Horikoshi planned it so carefully and took his time with it rather than dropping it out of nowhere and too early!

I would also like to point out that having his whole story carefully planned out doesn't stop Horikoshi from making a few changes here and there, which is GOOD! He has been writing this story for SEVEN YEARS now. He has grown and learned as a writer, so I'm glad that he feels comfortable moving things around a little if it fits better.

I talked about this a few times before (especially concerning Shigaraki) but I think that Horikoshi is very good at balancing the "I have a story planned out and I'm following the clues and beats meticulously for a satisfying pay off" mindset AND the "I've been writing this story for seven years now so I'm not afraid to let it grow and change organically as I get better at writing" mindset.

Just looking at Shigaraki, you can see that Horikoshi had his whole backstory and characterisation figured out as soon as he was introduced in the USJ arc. I already made a post about this, but A LOT of people immediately picked up on the fact that Shigaraki was being abused as soon as he showed up. Everything as about his relationship with AFO was already there in that first arc.

But I also think that Horikoshi allowed himself to make Shigaraki more and more likeable with time. He was always meant to be sympathetic, but Horikoshi also made him likeable. I lot of people like to bring up one of Horikoshi's early comment when he said that he didn't want to reveal much about his villains to make them as scary as possible. Of course, maybe he was just straight-up lying to avoid spoiling the story, but I think it's also possible that he simply changed his mind as the story continued. Shigaraki is clearly one of his favourite characters, and I think that he has been in his head rent-free for a long time now (probably since his one-shot "Tenko" in 2007). So I think that he always had a plan for him, but also that he got more and more comfortable writing him through the years if that makes sense.

Other people pointed this out, but I like to think that Horikoshi kind of "tricked" his audience early on, by making the story overly wholesome and following all the classical shonen beats. "Tricked" is not a good way to say it, but it's likely that he always wanted to tell a more mature and complex story than just "superhero school" and that he waited for MHA to be a safe success before pulling out the big guns. Kind of like a Trojan Horse trick! It doesn't mean that the kids of UA aren't important of course, but now we clearly see that Horikoshi's focus was always going to be on the Shigaraki + Deku + All Might + AFO conflict, and on the failures of hero society.

So yeah! I feel like I've kind of derailed from your point a little bit! But like I said, I agree completely. It's true that A LOT of media are completely obsessed with breaking the codes and surprising the audience these days, to the point where good storytelling and coherence almost become secondary. So you're right, it's so refreshing to see Horikoshi planning his story so carefully without worrying about it being too predictable. Again, considering that Horikoshi has been writing this story for seven years now, I'm truly amazed that MHA as a whole manages to still be so fresh and coherent at the same time.

King shit if you ask me.

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