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jcforsapphics · 2 years
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If I had a nickel for every time a character was headcanoned as gay, and later on started being shipped with kourtney, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
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cannonball5 · 9 months
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Why fans of HSMTMTS might like Anime: An essay
With the final season less than a month away I decided to introduce something that just might help fill the empty space it leaves behind, anime. Now there’s some who may think that anime is all about screaming and yelling in Japanese, and there are certainly shows that fall into that category, but anime is so wide reaching that there are shows about just about every topic you can imagine. There are action anime, horror anime, romance anime, and everything in between. Also if you think anime is too nerdy I’d remind you that the majority of this fandom practically salivates over a show about high schoolers performing various Disney songs, so be careful about those stones in your glass house.
Now as a Rina I know that a good portion of shippers here love a ship that’s all about subtext and the thing is most anime ONLY have subtext when it comes to ships. One of the most popular anime in the world right now is My Hero Academia, the show has an ensemble cast of interesting and memorable characters, and more ships than the US Navy. Almost every character is shipped with almost every other character, but it’s a superhero anime so romance takes a backseat so, with a few exceptions, almost every romantic relationship comes down to subtext.
Do you like crackships? Anime’s got more than you can handle. There are shows with little to no romance at all and still have rabid shipping fan bases. Some examples are Haikyu a sports anime about high school volleyball, which is about hard work, determination, camaraderie, and friendship, has so much shipping going on it’s insane. There’s also Blue Lock, a soccer anime, where a bunch of high school boys are locked in a high tech building as they all try to become the best soccer player in the world. So many ships.
Do you not like subtext and prefer to be told who’s going to get together? We got those too. My Dress Up Darling, a confident girl who really wants to get into cosplay is assisted by a shy quiet boy who’s really good at sewing and they fall for each other. Spy X Family, a super spy is tasked with creating a fake family to get close to a target, adopts a little girl and marries a woman with secrets of their own. Love After World Domination, the leader of a Power Rangers-like team falls in love with an enemy general and they cover up their dates with monster attacks so no one finds out.
Fair Warning: Anime ship wars can get INTENSE. They can make the Rina-Portwell-Rini discourse seem like a water ballon fight in comparison. So be cautious.
If you really just like music, anime usually have several opening sequences and closing sequences over the course of their show, with music done by really good Japanese bands. If you’re just interested in that you can easily find them on YouTube, but the show themselves usually have really good background music as well (I recommend a song called ‘You Say Run’ from My Hero Academia if you don’t believe me.
Seriously, I can almost guarantee there is a show out there that will peak your interest. That said anime can get REALLY weird just by the nature of there being so much of it (there’s literally an anime coming out about a guy who dies getting crushed by a vending machine only to be reincarnated as vending machine in a fantasy world) so if you find it’s not your cup of tea that’s fine, this isn’t to pressure anyone into watching anime (maybe it is a little bit). I know it hurts losing something that’s dear to you, so I’m just hoping someone maybe can find something to fill the void left behind.
If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading my ramblings. Obviously the anime I’ve mentioned are pretty good starter anime if your interest has been peaked. Some additional ones, Fairy Tail, Black Clover, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Hopefully some people will mention some other anime in the comments or in their reblogs. Feel free to ask questions I’ll do my best to answer them.
Also if you want something a little more western I highly recommend ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ on Prime. It’s based on anime but is a wholly western creation.
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noreasonjustbored · 2 years
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I Can't Name What I Feel For You
This is a sort of prequel to my other fic I Can't Seem to Let You Go that explains their nicknames.
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“Eughhh” Kourtney groans with her eyes closed.
She feels a light kiss on the back of her neck while a hand wraps around her midsection to pull her body closer to their front.
“When did we even fall asleep?” she hears a deep, scratchy voice ask in her ear.
“I don’t know but we should probably get up. What time is it?”
“Five more minutes.”
She chuckles. “We shouldn’t have gotten any minutes. We were supposed to be running lines.”
“And we did. Seems we just ran out of steam there.”
“I knew we shouldn’t have laid down to run lines, I was already tired from studying for that chemistry test the night before. And you were tired from staying up on FaceTime trying to distract me from studying for that chemistry test.”
“I can teach you about chemistry" he quips and bites the shell of her ear.
"Stopppp" she says while giggling.
"No but seriously, I still think you went overboard with studying. I'm sure you aced it. You know the material as well as you know me” he says while dropping a series of kisses on her collarbone.
“Is that so?”
“Yep.”
“And who says I know you that well? I’m not even sure I know what color eyes you have, to be honest.”
Halting his ministrations, he gives her an incredulous look. “Really Kourt? As much time as I spend looking at you? You know what color my eyes are.”
She turns in the bed to face him. “Fine, I was just kidding about the eyes thing but there’s still so much I don’t know about you. I mean, what does EJ even stand for?”
“Guess.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, guess. I bet you’ll never get it.”
“Hmmm. Eli Jordan? No. Elijah James? Noooo. Eric John. Final answer.”
“John is right. Eric is not.”
“Okay, okay. Halfway there. Ethan?"
“Nope.”
“Emmett?”
“Uh uh.”
“Evan?”
“No.”
“Ezra?”
“Ew.”
“Babe just tell me.”
“But if I tell you, you might stop calling me babe.”
“If you don’t tell me, I might not call you ever again” she replies in a singsongy voice.
���How about this? If I can guess your middle name, then you still have to figure out my first name.”
“What? How is that fair?”
“It isn’t.”
“Are you really not going to tell me?” she asks while pouting.
“Stop giving me those puppy dog eyes, it won’t work” he says but still closes his own eyes in order to resist caving.
“You are so annoying.”
“Maybe. But I don’t see you leaving this bed” he says while getting in her space and gently kissing her on the cheek.
Kourtney rolls her eyes “Whatever. But you have three tries to get my middle name right or I’ll make you spill.”
“Really?”
“Uh huh.”
“And how will you do that?”
She runs a hand up his chest to cup the back of his neck and bring him closer to her. She whispers directly onto his lips, letting them brush only slightly while holding eye contact.
“I have my ways.”
She can feel the tiny shiver that runs through his body in response to her teasing and pulls back to see his pupils blown extremely wide. She giggles and that breaks him from his lust induced stupor.
“You don’t play fair Ms. Greene.”
“Never forget that Mr. Caswell.”
“Fine, three chances. Woo! Let me think.”
“Umm Kourtney Marie?”
“Nah.”
“Uhhhh, Kourtney Nicole?”
“Do I look like a Nicole?”
“No. You’re right. Ooh! I got it. Kourtney Renee.”
Shocked that he actually got it so quickly, she sideeyes him. “Did you see my license or something?”
“So I’m right? Yes!”
“Seriously, how did you know?”
“I didn’t cheat if that’s what you’re trying to imply Ren.”
“Ren?”
“Yeah, like short for Renee. Do you hate it?”
“No, I kinda dig it. But spill. How did you get that so easily?”
“I have my ways” he parrots with a smirk.
Kourtney took that as a challenge and swung one leg over his hips and shifted her body to straddle him.
“Your ways huh?”
“I- um. I- ”
“What was that?” she mocks then leans forward and presses a kiss below his right earlobe. “So tell me the truth, you looked at my ID didn’t you?” she asks directly in his ear.
“Nope. I just got it like that.” EJ snakes his arms around her back to pull her flush against him.
“Fine.” She says in what seems like concession. “Color me impressed.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah” she then kisses him on the neck and the jaw before moving to his lips.
They lock lips for all of ten seconds before she pops up and moves off him abruptly, getting completely out of his bed.
“Well, I got to go. See you later.”
“Huh?” was all he could manage while his mind was still foggy from her kiss.
“I should probably get home and finish my homework and stuff.”
“I thought you were gonna do that here and then eat dinner with me?” he swings his legs over the side of the bed to face her.
“I was but I don’t know. I’m not really feeling it anymore” she says while grabbing her Beauty and the Beast script from the floor and packing her bookbag.
“Are you serious?”
“Possibly. How did you guess my name?”
He scoffs, amused and a little annoyed that she would take it as far as leaving to get the answer out of him. “You’re so ridiculous.”
“You’re the one who said you didn’t see me leaving the bed. I’ve left it. Tell me.”
“Fine. You evil, gorgeous genius you.”
“Thanks.”
EJ chuckles at her response. “I didn’t look at your license babe, I was telling the truth about that.”
“So how then?” she prompts him.
“Like a year ago I was in class and we were talking about names. I don’t even know how we got on the subject to be honest. Then we started talking about middle names and Aisha said something about how the middle names Renee, Nicole and Marie went triple platinum in the black community. It was funny so it just stuck in my head.”
Kourtney laughs, “You remember the most random shit ever.”
“I guess” he shrugs. “So, are you staying for dinner Ren?”
“I think I will Johnny.”
He smiles at the nickname and grabs her hands, pulling her in between his legs. “You’re lucky that your dramatic ass is fine.”
“Is that so?” she asks with a shit-eating grin.
He pulls her down by her chin and kisses her squarely on the lips.
“It’s so.”
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aamirmitchell · 2 years
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nah because let me find out y’all really out here shipping kourtney and ej
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homemade-ghosts · 2 years
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omg isabel even spoiled the rewind i didnt even know about that one 😭😭 queen tbh. arth (sayruel on twt) literally posted a tweet talking about some of the things they leaked all the way back in april and looking back at everything listed is crazy. they should have been here for s2 so i could prepare myself for when it all went wrong
I didn't hear about it until around a week before episode 2 came out, but yep. & Yesss, Arth is king (whenever I'm off Twitter for awhile I just go to his page & scroll to see what I've missed lmao)
Ugh, I wish. Leaks for s2 could've saved me a lot of heartache and the embarrassment of having multiple tweets that mention how EJ & Gina are only ever going to be besties and Tim isn't stupid enough to pair them up together 😭
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kourtney-greene · 2 years
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Kourtwell, Jetney, Kourtlyn you will always be famous
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underscore-jude · 2 years
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ppl see EJ let Kourtney drive his car despite knowing she is a terrible driver and it accidentally revives the kourtwell ship
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laylakeating · 2 years
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what are your thoughts on kourtwell?
i was a big fan of them as belle and the beast (rip all that potential) but now i am firmly on the no thank you side of things because like. fuck ej man. 
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rinisbowen · 2 years
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I don't believe a word that comes out of matt's mouth I'm sorry 😭😭. I remember him saying someone about a rivalry between ricky and ej before s2 and practically saying the exact same thing he said about val and ej's relationship but about portwell 😭😭
hey anon, thanks for the ask!
tbh i have very similar feelings. he was very intent on saying there was only a friendship with ej and gina. and on top of that matt also said ej had no romantic plotline at all in season 2- which at that point i think some people were still thinking it could be him and kourtney (idk if anyone remembers the kourtwell as belle and beast era, but i think it was kinda fun).
like could he be telling the truth? maybe. but i don’t think everyone has to or maybe even should take any of that stuff he says at face value either.
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chenoahchantel · 3 years
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You know what I always find interesting about ensemble shows? They can always find another black person when they need a love interest for their token black character.
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I know you ship Rina but I am just curious what other HSMTMTS ships are you a fan of besides Rina if there are other ships you like?
I mean Seblos is cute. I'm team Jennzara though i don't really care for the adults on the show at all. Redlyns ok, i have no real feelings toward them lol. 2 ships that would've interesting though, Redky and Kourtwell. Lastly #let Nini have a girlfriend 2022
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does anyone have any kourtwell, redky, or rj fics? I’m in that mood for the fandom, slightly crackhead, not many people consider them, type of ships rn and there’s like zero content about these and any content that does exist I think I’ve already read. plz I’m fanon content deprived.
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leo-suter · 4 years
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what i would like to see in season 2 (and 3 tbh) of high school musical: the musical: the series
nini goes to YAC. she has to do it or all that she has been preaching about being her own person and not being so boy-dependent during season 1 will be even more in vain. she leaves but she and ricky decide to try long distance, because they just got back together and don’t want to lose each other again so soon. although he doesn’t say it to her or show it when they talk/facetime, he is devastated. he is lost. he needs someone to understand what it’s like and the only person who can do that is gina, who is so used to moving all the time and is now back at east high, staying at ashlyn’s. at first he is a little bit reluctant, as he was in the season finale, because he doesn’t trust people to come back in his life, he’s one of those “everyone always leave” kind of person. after a while though he lets her back in, because he needs her and because she doesn’t stop trying to be there for him, because she knows. and they bond over that like, a lot. they become closer and closer, they hang out all the time, and gina slowly starts to catch feelings for him (or better the feelings she already had but pushed back to make him happy at the end of the first season grow deeper). she doesn’t say a word until they perform in the musical and she realizes she can’t hold it anymore: she goes to find him and tell him how she feels but finds out that nini is back, like for good. so she gives up, this time for real, which leads to gina finding a boyfriend in season 3. seeing them together and being actually back with nini makes ricky realize that he doesn’t love her anymore and the girl he actually has feelings for is, in fact, gina.
meanwhile, kourtney and ej, who are the leads of their rendition of beauty and the beast, bond and find comfort in each other - and eventually fall in love - over nini’s departure. but when she comes back, she kinda bursts their bubble and angst between the two ensues, as well as a rocky relationship between nini and kourtney, which ends up in the latter finally standing up for herself. nini will have a little bit of a hard time between this and her relationship with ricky but it’ll be what she needs to finally find herself and be who she really is.
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noreasonjustbored · 2 years
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I Can’t Seem To Let You Go
What if Kourtwell had a secret thing after he and Nini broke up? But then *they* broke up before he got with Gina?
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“Hey Kourt?”
Kourtney freezes while taking a sip of water after practicing her big solo alone in The Barn.
“Yeah?” she turns to see none other than EJ standing at the entrance. “What’s up?” she wonders apprehensively.
“Um, do you have time to talk?”
“Sure…what about?”
“Us.”
She looks around the room to confirm that they were indeed the only two present.
She grabs his arm to pull him further into the room. “Us? EJ, there is no us. Remember? We agreed.”
“No, you agreed. I just complied.”
“Stop.”
“I’m just saying that I didn’t want to break up.”
“Break up? We were never together.”
He takes a step closer. “That’s because the night I was gonna ask you to officially be my girl, you called the whole thing off.”
“Hu-huh? You were?”
“Yeah I had the whole thing planned too. Then you sprung it on me that you couldn’t handle the guilt of going behind Nini’s back anymore and called it off. Just like that.”
Kourtney looks exasperated and slightly conflicted.
“Why exactly are you bringing this up now?”
“I saw his hand on your shoulder.”
“What?” she asked, feeling like she was missing a context clue.
“Jet. I saw his hand on your shoulder earlier. And your hand was stretched up to touch his. That was quite an intentional choice, don’t ya think?”
She scoffs “Why does it even matter?”
“It just does. Do you like him or something?”
“You have a girlfriend.”
“Irrelevant to the question. Do you have a thing for Jet?” he asks, coming closer still.
“Who, by the way, has become a really good friend of mine.” Kourtney continues.
EJ sighs “I know.”
“I���m not doing this dance with you again.”
He chews on his bottom lip and stares deeply into Kourtney’s eyes.
“So you do like him.”
“Johnny…”
“Just tell me. Do. You. Like. Him?” he says while stepping even further into her orbit.
“Maybe? I don’t know, okay!”
“Ren…”
“Don’t call me that.”
“Oh but you get to call me Johnny?”
“You’re right. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry, be mine again.”
Kourt’s eyes ignite with anger and frustration. She whispers angrily under her breath.
“You have a girlfriend.” She punctuates her statement by poking him in the shoulder.
“I know but she’s not you.”
“Why are you doing this?” she asks incredulously.
“I don’t know! I can’t help that I can’t forget you. When you broke things off, Gina and I got closer. And I thought that I was moving on but I was just trying to get over you.”
“Eej, I-” she starts shakily.
Gina walks into the room, cutting off whatever response she was going to give him.
Kourtney takes a small step back inconspicuously, needing the space to breathe.
“Hey guys! What’s up?”
“Nothing!” Kourtney says in a too high-pitched tone.
She clears her throat. “EJ was just giving me some notes on how to channel that angst for Elsa. Very informative” she says while glaring at EJ a little.
“Huh” Gina answers, picking up on the weird energy in the room.
“Well, I gotta go. See you guys later!”
Kourtney practically lunges for the door as she hears Gina address her boyfriend.
She takes a final look back as she’s stepping across the threshold to see EJ staring at her.
They lock eyes for a moment.
EJ breaks their eye contact to answer some question that Gina posed with a distracted “Yeah, sure babe.”
Kourtney shakes her head and continues on her way out.
Damn you Elton.
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klausalvatores · 3 years
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thoughts on kourtwell? (ej and kourtney)
they used to be my crack ship but then portwell happened and they made me forget about them.. i still want them to become besties
i remember a couple people were entertaining the idea of kourtwell back in s1 lol. maybe that would have been too messy, with nini’s best friend dating her ex? i mean with gina… it’s prob still weird for her but she and gina aren’t bffs the way nini and kourtney are y’know? but i’d be down for a kourtwell friendship.
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sourpringle · 3 years
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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ricky Bowen/Gina Porter, Ricky Bowen & Gina Porter, sort of Ricky Bowen/Nini Salazar-Roberts, Ricky Bowen & Nini Salazar-Roberts, E.J. Caswell & Gina Porter, Gina Porter & Ashlyn Caswell, Ricky Bowen & Kourtney Greene, maybe kourtwell? Characters: Ricky Bowen (HSMTMTS), Gina Porter, Nini Salazar-Roberts, E.J. Caswell, Ashlyn Caswell, Seb Matthew-Smith, Carlos Rodriguez, Kourtney Greene
Summary:
“Look. What you’re in right now isn’t some dream. It’s real.”
 “Wha—”
 “No, let me speak. You’re back here for a reason. That reason isn’t Nini, Ricky.”
 “What are you trying to say?” Ricky tapped his foot on the cement of the sidewalk.
 “You need to fix the mess you created with Gina. Six months. 180 days.” Kourtney jabs her finger into his chest.
(Or, the one where Ricky is sent back in time, and has six months to fix it.)
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