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bbangsoonie · 3 years

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just u

member: sunwoo genre: fluff word count: 1,903 synopsis: sunwoo thinks you’re a flirty drunk but doesn’t notice you only flirt with him.

a/n: oc’s facial flush after drinking alcohol is mentioned once in the fic

Eric: giant sleepover at hyunjae’s tonight

Hyunjae: this is news to me ??

Eric: be prepared to pull an all-nighter because we are doing everything from watching movies to playing games to ✨drinking✨

Sangyeon: his house is also my house ???

Eric: y/n, can you pick up some snacks and drinks with sunwoo?

You: sure

Sunwoo: this is news to me as well ?

Eric: see you all at 6! i know no one has classes today and tomorrow’s saturday so i expect full attendance :)

Juyeon: again, our house is not just solely hyunjae’s ???? younghoon and i live here as well ;-;

Eric’s impromptu gathering was in no way organized but he knew everyone would go along with it. Your group of friends consisted of the most spontaneous people you’ve ever met. They were always down for anything, anytime.

That was how you ended up going grocery shopping with Sunwoo and Haknyeon after you stopped by campus for your professor’s office hours. You ran into Haknyeon there who wanted to tag along to make sure you bought his favorite snacks.

“Any requests for chasers?” you called out to the boys who were an aisle away. You scanned the shelves of sodas in front of you, trying to recall who liked what drinks.

“Chasers are for babies,” Haknyeon scoffed as he made his way over to you.

“I’m baby,” you proudly pointed at yourself.

“Are you referring to the Kirby meme right now?” he blinked. When you nodded, he pretended to gag, making you slap his back.

“Do you guys think this is enough alcohol?” Sunwoo arrived with a cart full of bottles. You almost laughed at the amount of cases. Anyone passing by would think you were shopping wholesale. Which honestly didn’t sound like a bad idea for a group of 12.

“Should be,” Haknyeon shrugged, taking over the cart. “Now time for the good stuff!”

You and Sunwoo watched as he threw in bags of chips and jelly into the cart. You only picked out one or two for yourself since Haknyeon was essentially just getting everything. There was a wide variety for you to choose from anyway. Sunwoo had to physically stop him from adding more stuff, insisting that there’d be dinner as well.

With Hyunjae in charge of ordering food, it was no surprise that you walked into his house smelling like chicken. Eric greeted you from the kitchen and you hollered out a “hey” before joining Changmin and Chanhee in the living room. They were in the middle of an intense round of Super Smash Bros and by the looks of it, Changmin was winning. When the game finally ended, Changmin shrieked with laughter while Chanhee dejectedly collapsed onto the sofa.

Jacob and Kevin walked in not long after, exchanging greetings with everyone else. Sangyeon, Juyeon, and Younghoon emerged from the staircase after finishing their assignments upstairs in their own respective rooms. With the whole group together, Eric gathered you all in front of the TV to have a Super Smash Bros tournament.

“Only people who suck at playing games pick Kirby,” he yelled as you picked up a controller.

“I do admit I suck at games and love Kirby,” you stuck your tongue out as you chose your character, making Chanhee groan.

“All you do is spam down b!” Kevin whined.

“Well no one wants to teach me other moves or how to play other characters,” you shrugged.

“I tried,” Hyunjae sighed. “You’re an impossible student.”

“That’s because everyone kills me off while I try to learn!” you huffed.

To your amusement, you won the game by avoiding everyone in the air while they battled amongst themselves. Then you constantly attacked Younghoon with the same move until he eventually died. He screamed in frustration when your victory flashed across the screen.

Unfortunately for you, everyone decided to target you in the beginning for the next round. After easily finishing you off, they enjoyed what they called a “true fight” that Eric ultimately won.

The long night officially began with the mountain of boxes of chicken in the kitchen. It was easily demolished before Changmin won rock, paper, scissors to put a horror movie on. Before the film was even chosen, Sunwoo was complaining about how he hated jump scares.

“Bro just say you’re afraid and move on,” Eric snickered.

“I’m not scared! I just don’t like being surprised,” Sunwoo insisted.

“Pft, if you’re a true man you can watch it,” Chanhee teased, unaware of his embarrassment to come.

The next couple of hours was chaotic. Chanhee screamed at every noise, making everyone else scream as well. Haknyeon and Sunwoo ended up watching the movie with their ears closed and Jacob gave up entirely by trying to nap instead. You had the unfortunate seat next to Younghoon and became his ragdoll that he clung onto and shook every time he got frightened. You didn’t even get to react to the movie because he kept screaming and grabbing onto you.

Eric and his mischievous instincts spent the whole time trying to startle Juyeon who ended up chasing him around until he promised to stop. Changmin, Sangyeon, Hyunjae, and Kevin were the only ones who truly enjoyed the movie.

When the lights came back on, Chanhee and Sunwoo pretended that it wasn’t scary at all. Hyunjae laughed, reminding them of their reactions to which they feigned oblivion to.

“I need a drink,” you groaned. “Younghoon stressed me out more than the ghost did.”

“Everyone go slow and steady,” Eric warned. “I want to be playing until the sun comes up.”

“My body is too old for this,” Sangyeon mumbled as he began taking the alcohol out of the fridge.

“Hey, Y/n, can you pass me a bottle?” Sunwoo asked. You felt your heart skip a beat when his fingers brushed past yours to take the drink from your hands. The exchange made you blush and you quickly took a shot to mask your tinted cheeks with the flush of the liquor.

Spending the night with your friends meant that you would be spending it trying hard to not fall in love with your budding crush. You tried your best to keep a safe distance from him, relying on Chanhee to be your trusty barrier.

After a series of drinking games (that mostly resulted in your loss), you were beginning to feel the effects. With Chanhee and Haknyeon by your side, you were slightly swinging in your seat. You were all sitting on the floor in the spacious living room to start whatever game Hyunjae had suggested. His words had gone in and out of your ears while you were finishing your last punishment drink.

“So basically one person will ask another person a question and that person will say their answer out loud. The answer has to be the name of someone in this room. Those who are curious about the question will drink to hear it,” Hyunjae explained.

“Can I go first?” Kevin excitedly asked. With the majority agreeing, he happily went up to Jacob to whisper in his ear.

After hearing his question, Jacob thought for a second before saying your name. The boys teasingly “ooh”ed, making you roll your eyes. Sunwoo, Eric, and Changmin were the only ones curious enough to drink for the answer.

“Aw, Y/n, you don’t wanna know why he picked you?” Kevin pouted.

“By the look on your face, I think I get the gist,” you chuckled. “Any questions involving girls only leaves me as an option. And to be brutally honest, I don’t really care what he thinks of me.”

Jacob, faking pain, clutched his heart.

“Ouch,” he joked.

Jacob asked his question to Younghoon, who answered with your name again. This time, you were slightly intrigued.

“Me again for the second time in a row? Now I’m kinda curious,” you pretended to think hard.

Eric drank again and eagerly asked for Jacob’s question. Trying to elicit a response from you, he acted shocked and grabbed Younghoon by the collar. Laughing, you gave in and drank to hear the question.

“He thinks you’re gonna be the first to get cuffed,” Jacob whispered to you.

“Ah, unfortunately no,” you shook your head at Younghoon, sitting back down.

This time, Younghoon asked you a question. He asked who you would date if you had to choose from the friend group.

“Sunwoo,” you said almost immediately. His jaw dropped at how fast you made your decision and he gave you a smug look.

Again, Eric couldn’t hide his curiosity. His reaction made the rest of them interested and everyone ended up drinking to find out what Younghoon had asked you. Hyunjae hooted but the alcohol in your system left you unphased by all their teasing.

After their excitement died down, the game continued until each person had a turn. It ended with Eric drunk crying thanks to Juyeon picking him as his most cherished friend. Seeing him cry made Sunwoo cry as well and Changmin was having a blast laughing at them both.

Not wanting Sunwoo to also turn into a crying drunk, Sangyeon took his cup away from him. He reminded him to keep his pace, prompting him to sulk. As soon as Sangyeon looked away, however, Sunwoo stole it back and downed the rest of his drink.

“Sunwoo, no,” Sangyeon groaned.

“Sunwoo yes!” Sunwoo exclaimed with glee.

The group then split off into subgroups to take a break from drinking. You, Younghoon, Juyeon, Changmin, Sunwoo, and Eric propped a phone up to make TikToks together. Meanwhile, the rest of the boys were just chilling on the couch, laughing as they watched you embarrass yourselves.

Subconsciously, you ended up with your arm wrapped around Sunwoo’s neck for most of the stupid 15 second video. You honestly weren’t sure what you were filming or why you were so close to your crush but you were having too much fun to care.

Chanhee, on the other hand, definitely noticed. He smirked as you rested your head on Sunwoo’s lap and Sunwoo’s face reddened. He nudged Jacob to point it out and made fun of how oblivious you two were.

Before reconvening, you stepped outside to get some fresh air. When you didn’t return after 10 minutes, Sunwoo was sent to retrieve you. You lit up seeing him join you on the veranda and beckoned for him to sit down next to you.

“It’s cold out here,” he said. “Let’s go back in.”

“So then you should hold my hand to keep me warm,” you giggled, holding out your hand.

“You’re drunk,” he commented as he raised an eyebrow.

“Drunk on you,” you winked, making him shyly look away. He cleared his throat to rid himself of the awkward tension between you.

“You know, you’re a flirty drunk,” he mused.

“Only to you,” you shrugged. “Haven’t you ever heard of drunk actions reflecting sober thoughts?”

Taken aback, he stared at you in silence. You pouted at his lack of response and got up to go back inside. Before you could open the door, he finally spoke up.

“I’ll think about it if your sober actions reflect your drunk thoughts,” he said.

“Really?” you beamed.

“As long as your drunk self is only flirty with me,” he teased.

“Oh please, have you ever seen me like this with the other guys?” you laughed. “I only like you. Just you.”

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nixotinix · 3 years

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Uh-oh! It looks like it's ✨Heartless Headcanons✨ time except this time it's ONLY two really long things for Alastor Creed because tiny evil man refuses to leave the few brain cells that I have left.

Alastor Creed (and any other characters) belong to @abd-illustrates !

Also this is gonna be stupidly long, so feel free to scroll past!

TW for the backstory section: Murder

The Office (not the show)

So, because exactly one (1) person showed interest in my headcanon for Creed's office, and that person happens to be an amazing individual and/or rodent royalty, I am obligated by law to elaborate.

So Creed's office consists of a main room and eight other rooms. When you enter, you are given a key to room 8. When you enter room 8, you find some files and some sort of puzzle. When you solve the puzzle, you get a key to room 7, where you find more files and another puzzle which leads to you getting the room 6 key. As you go through each room, the puzzles get harder and the information inside gets more and more valuable. In Alastor's eyes, if someone can solve his puzzle, they're worthy of seeing the information the next room. Of course, he has his own ring of keys so he doesn't have to go through every room to get to room 1.

Speaking of room 1, the pattern continues until you reach room 1. You'd expect room 1 to be the last room, but no. There's another, near-impossible puzzle. If you somehow solve it, you get a key to a supposed room 0, but there is no room 0. So not only do you have to solve the puzzle, you also have to find out where on earth room 0 is. Only Creed knows where it is. And there are a few other rules too- no leaving a room with a file in your hand (unless you're Creed) and no leaving a room with more than two keys on your person (unless you're Creed).

Now, anyone getting a hold of the files in room 0 would undoubtedly lead to the death of The Jury as a whole. I've thought of three files so far: Number one is Alastor's medical files. For backstory reasons. The only other copy belongs to Dock and is only to be used in an absolute life-or-death scenario. And the other two files go hand-in-hand: How to give someone a Curse, and how to take away a Curse.

The Backstory

This part of the headcanon has gone through about 5 iterations in my head, but this is the current one and I'm pleased with it. Subject to change.

So before Alastor's conception, his parents (henceforth called Mr. and Mrs. Creed) made a deal with some bad guy wizard. They offered to trade the wizard their first-born child in exchange for wealth and fame. Cliche, I know, but you usually see this with the hero and not the villain. So they got their fame and fortune, but when it came time for them to uphold their end of the deal and give the wizard their first-born son, who they named Alastor, they refused. The wizard was furious and placed a curse on the child. This curse would give him a permanent intolerance to any and all forms of Magick. He could not be around wizards, could not have Magick used on him, and could not wield it himself, otherwise he would become deathly sick.

It was later found out that Alastor himself was a wizard, so this curse would kill him slowly from the inside out for the rest of his life. When Alastor was about five, his parents took him to a doctor to see if there was any sort of cure for his curse. They'd tried before, but nobody could help. But during this visit, the doctor found out that Alastor had somehow developed an immunity. Any wizard standing within a 2 meter radius of Alastor could not use their magic at all. Later on, he would learn to hone this ability so he could fire it off in controlled blasts and make the radius of the affected area much larger. And because he only developed this immunity because he was cursed as a baby, he started calling it his Curse. I headcanon that he was the first and only person to ever develop a Curse naturally.

Now, Alastor was a sweet kid. But kids are impressionable, and his dad was barely around and his mum was an ass. She taught him early on to take advantage of his wealth to use those beneath him, as well as teaching him that if he doesn't like something, he should get rid of it. This action will have consequences later. He was also very sheltered and isolated as a child due to his illness. He wasn't allowed to go outside at all until the night that he turned 18 and the night of his parents' untimely death. So he had a lot of free time, and he used this free time to study anything he could get his hands on; Law, medical studies, industry, engineering, anthropology, you name it, he probably knows about it.

A little later on, when Alastor was about eleven years old, a new maid began working at the Creed Manor- a 17 year old girl short on money at the time. Her name was Lorelei. She was quickly assigned as Alastor's personal maid, since Mrs. Creed had fired the previous one. Lorelei quickly realized the situation that Alastor was stuck in and would answer to his every beck and call.

And a few years later was around the time when Alastor Creed wanted to find out why he had his Curse. Or better yet, find out if he could give someone else a Curse. And with a bit of research and studying and more research, he found his answer: simple genetic mutation. It's similar to Plasmids in Bioshock. Over the course of a few years, he was able to make a chemical brew that could take someone's highest skill (i.e.: Lorelei's singing, Bandy's sleight of hand, etc) and amplify it to be on par with a wizard's Magick. And since he already had a Curse, he needed a test subject. He eventually landed on Lorelei, and it worked like a charm.

Now, both of Alastor's parents were very rich, but his father moreso. And in Mr. Creed's will, it stated that Alastor was to be his sole beneficiary and would gain access to all of his wealth. Because Alastor's parents were so wealthy, they wanted him to get married to someone equally as wealthy so he could double their riches. So they planned his wedding for the night he turned 18. But, of course, Alastor didn't want to. And about 3 paragraphs ago, I said that his mother taught him that if he doesn't like something, he should get rid of it. And that night, he truly didn't like his parents. So the day of the wedding, he snuck into the kitchen disguised as an attendant, grabbed a kitchen knife.. and got rid of his parents. His father for the wealth and his mother out of revenge.

But there was a witness to the murder. A young maid by the name of Lorelei. She was rightfully shocked, but Alastor pulled her into the room and convinced her to keep quiet about it. He knew that if he stuck around for too long, he'd be caught red-handed. So he smooth-talked Lorelei into fleeing the manor with him. They both moved to a separate kingdom and started a small organization called The Jury. And we all know what happens next.

Hoo boy that was long as hell. I've never had the opportunity to type all this out in one spot, so it feels good to have a backlog for myself. And even tho I doubt any of this will ever be canon, a guy can dream 😌 hope you've enjoyed my somewhat deep dive into Alastor Creed!

#abd illustrates #heartless #mr illustrates i beg of you get alastor creed to leave my head hes been here for months #alastor creed #tiny evil gay #i have been fleshing this out in my head since the villains video came out and i fixated on creed #i had to stop myself from just calling him Creed so nobody got confused hhhh #anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk

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prorevenge · 5 years

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My homophobic English teacher...

I saw a post on here recently about someone's horrible English teacher, and it reminded me of my own experience. TL;DR at the bottom. Doing this requires a quick lesson on the Australian high school system (I'll keep it short, don't worry). Basically, there are 6 years of Australian high school, from grades 7 through to 12. 7-10 are prep years where your grades don't carry over, then grades 11 and 12 are your big bad years with huge exams similar to the American system. When entering grade 11, you get to choose whether you want to pursue a path to university- doing this requires you to do ATAR subjects, which are the hardest subjects available. Your final grade in your last year is what universities use to decide if you get in. Basically, you have one year to really make it count. Grade 12 is the year to finally show off everything you've learned after your whole life at school. It's basically do or die, the hardest year of your life.

So, to begin this story, let me explain that I am good at English. Like, really good at English. I won awards and got accepted into state recognised programs for how good I am at English. It was the one subject I could guarantee to get an A in. So, naturally, I chose ATAR level English- I'd always wanted to get into some kind of English based university course. When I entered my grade 12 class I was greeted by my teacher, who we can call Mrs Slug, since she looked like a fat slimy slug. This was the kind of teacher that just handed out worksheets and sat behind her desk for the class and didn't actually teach. It was frustrating since this was my final year and I wanted my grades to be as good as possible, but I was confident in my ability to just pick it up on my own, so I didn't complain about it.

Then it came time for the first assessment. It was a creative writing piece, and short stories are my shit, so I wrote a short story. I followed the marking key carefully while also adding my own flare to the story to make it really entertaining and thought-provoking. The story was basically a dark romance told in first person, where the gender of the perspective character wasn't revealed until right at the end, thus revealing the couple to be gay. I specifically kept the main character's gender ambiguous until that point, since I wanted the reader to assume it was a girl then have a shock at the reveal. I contacted some of my friends from my high-level English programs and they all loved it. So I happily submitted it. I didn't think too much of it- I was interested to see how my ability held up in the highest level of school, but I wasn't expecting anything below a B. Then I got my result back.

Failed.

I couldn't believe it. I was genuinely confused. There were absolutely no marks on my paper, no red pen, no details as to why I failed, just a big fat 8/20 on the back of my paper. I was really upset, obviously, since I'd worked hard on it and it was the first time I'd failed an English assignment ever. I went to Mrs Slug and asked her what was wrong with it. She fluffed around and gave me an answer that essentially boiled down to, "I didn't like it." That was it. She had no reason to fail the story, she just didn't like it. News flash, that's not how marking creative writing works. If it'd been any other year, maybe I would've just blown it off and moved on, but this was grade 12. This failure could be the difference between getting into university and getting rejected.

So I went to the head of the English department at my school and requested a regrading. I didn't tell him that I'd failed it, just that I wanted more feedback. He gave it back to me as an 18/20. I then slammed my failing grade onto the desk and asked him to explain. Clearly, Mrs Slug stood by her grade, because instead of just changing my mark, they sent my writing to the top school in the state to get remarked again. It came back 19/20. Needless to say, my mark was changed to an A.

The next few assignments went relatively the same. Even when she passed me, I asked to be reassessed and my mark was always made higher than what she'd given me. Eventually, I complained enough times that they started rotating which teacher marked my work so no one could sabotage it. Even still, I always knew when Mrs Slug had been the one to mark it, because there was never any feedback on it, just a barely above average mark that eventually was changed to an A. I didn't get below 80% on any assignments for the entire year, and bare in mind, she hadn't taught anything in her class. I basically taught everyone myself and did the work at home so my peers also wanting to get into university had a shot (most of them did get in, can I add). I didn't understand why Mrs Slug didn't like my story (or me) until one day a discussion on politics came up in my class.

She's very, very right wing. A Donald Trump supporter. In Australia, that's super rare, since most of us think he's a dickhead. It suddenly hit me then. She didn't like my story because I'd done exactly what I'd wanted. She'd assumed the main character was a girl, then when it was revealed he was a guy and it was a gay relationship, she suddenly realised she'd happily been reading and enjoying a story about a gay couple. That must've infuriated her. She failed it for no reason other than her homophobia. After I realised that, I started to mess with her.

My first project was to test Donald Trump's persuasion tactics on her. My next oral presentation, I specifically used Donald Trump's speech style- the way he repeats words, over exaggerates, dehumanises, etc. I know she was the one who marked it (again, no feedback), but this time it was a 19/20. That was the highest mark she gave me all year. I couldn't believe it. The Donald had been right.

Next, I wrote a strongly worded, very opinionated article on how I was bisexual. This was the first time I'd touched LGBT topics since that first story, and I knew it would infuriate her. But she couldn't fail me at this point. It would look way too suspicious if a student who got 80%+ on assignments suddenly got less than 50%. I don't think I ever got the article back (I have a feeling it got passed around the English office so many times they just forgot) but I didn't care that much. I saw on my final report card it'd been 18/20. It must've made her angry, I hope, that she'd read my article and no doubt tried to fail it, but at this point, everyone was aware of her bullshit and prevented her from doing it. I got some dirty looks for the next few classes.

But there was one final straw that made me snap. See, my state holds a huge writing competition for high-schoolers every year. It's a massive deal, and people who win this competition often get sponsored or get scholarships based on it. Tens of thousands of entries get submitted. Obviously, I wanted to win it. Even getting shortlisted would do wonders for my uni application. Part of the school writing program meant that any short stories submitted over the year would automatically get entered in this competition, but I knew Mrs Slug would try and do me dirty. So I went to her directly, requesting to put in another version of the story I'd made with the feedback I'd gotten from the remarking. She told me, to my face, that she'd already submitted my story, so I couldn't change it. Fine. As long as it was submitted, I was happy.

I didn't get shortlisted. That hurt, a lot, since I'd really wanted it. But I figured the competition had been really good, so it was only fair. My little brother, however, got shortlisted for his year (he came in second), so I went to the awards ceremony with him.

Mrs Slug was there.

She looked shocked to see me. A little panicked, even. I was curious as to why she was there, but the answer revealed itself pretty quickly. One of the girls from my class had been shortlisted. Now listen, I'm not a bitter person. If someone genuinely writes better than me, I'm more than happy to accept that. But what I found awfully suspicious was that this particular girl had been given the highest mark in my class before I got reassessed. In other words, she had been Mrs Slug's favourite story. And her story had gotten 15/20. I know grades don't count for everything, and maybe my story had in fact been worse, but I was beginning to get a hunch as to what had happened.

As I said, I'm state recognised for my English ability, so I was able to get into contact with one of the people who had marked the competition. I asked, ever so innocently, if she'd read my story. She replied that she hadn't. I asked if she could check to see if any of the other markers had read it since it was a pretty distinctive story. The answer came back as I had feared. No one had read it.

Mrs Slug had lied through her teeth to my face. She hadn't submitted the story at all. She'd deliberately pulled it out of the submission pile because she was salty. This competition was a /huge/ deal to me- like I said, it would've been a massive part of my uni application. And she'd sabotaged it. She wanted me to fail.

I was fucking fuming at this point. Even today, I get angry thinking about it. I couldn't let this rest any longer. I was beyond pettiness. This was time for real revenge.

My parents both work in education, and my mum, in particular, was pretty high up in my area. She's also a bit of a tiger mum. When I told her what Mrs Slug had done, she was pissed. Like, so pissed. The idea that her kid might not go to uni because of a prejudiced teacher does not sit well with tiger mothers. She marched straight to the principal's office, and since he knew her, we were heard out almost immediately. I explained what happened, how I'd consistently been marked too lowly and my competition application had been removed without my knowledge. My mum was able to kick up a pretty big stink about it, ranting about how Mrs Slug shouldn't even be qualified to teach at all, let alone grade 12 ATAR English, and she needed to be removed immediately. The principal copped an earful, then the head of English did too. Both of them cowered in fear before the rage of my mother. There was nothing they could use to defend her, either- I had proof of the undermarking and the removal of my story application. Statements from my classmates confirmed she hadn't taught anything all year. It wasn't looking good for Mrs Slug.

She continued to sag behind her desk like a festering cancer for the last few weeks of the year, giving me stinky looks. I just quietly did my work, helping other people study for the final exam. I knew I'd done enough. In Australia, you can't just fire government workers, but you can move them. Sure enough, at the end of the year, she was relocated to the middle of fucking nowhere, to a school of fewer than 100 kids, where I hope she rots to this day. It's the closest you can get to being fired.

I got into university, by the way, and I'm now studying my English course. I should also mention that I got into the most competitive university in Australia, and I still get 80% and above in my short stories. That 40% she gave me was total bullshit, and I'm glad I made her suffer for it. No teacher should be able to get away with sabotaging their students like that, especially when it's their future on the line. I can only hope that the few students she teaches now don't have to experience the same thing.

TL;DR: my homophobic English teacher tried to fail me on my assignments, then sabotaged my chances in an important competition, so I got her essentially fired.

(source) story by (/u/millochi)

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astarlightmonbebe · 5 years

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10 Kdramas I Recommend part 2

Hey~I’m back again with a part 2! I finish kdramas so slowly, so this took me a while to get to. Sorry if I ramble.

Here is part 1.

1. Life

Year of Release: July-September, 2018

Cast:

Lee Dongwook as Ye Jinwoo

Cho Seungwoo as Cha Seunghyo

Won Jina as Lee Noeul

Lee Kyuhyung as Ye Sunwoo

Yoo Jaemyung as Joo Kyungmoon

Synopsis: Ye Jinwoo is a doctor at Sangkook University. One night, the hospital director dies. Though his death is ruled as a heart attack, Jinwoo believes otherwise. Koo Seunghyo becomes the new director of the hospital, despite being a businessman. He sees the hospital as something to profit from, and decides to forcefully transfer three departments, including the emergency medical center, where Jinwoo works. Jinwoo and the other staff members protest this and start to scheme to have their new director removed.

Thoughts: I went into this for Lee Dongwook and Won Jina only, and only thought it sounded vaguely interesting. I’m not much for hospital dramas and politics, but this drama really ended up piquing my interest! Not only were the actors amazing, but it shaped up a really good story. It showed the bad and good characteristics of everyone, even the so called protagonist and antagonist. I did find it frustrating at times, but only to the point that I felt that I had to watch more to make sure everything got resolved right. From a writer’s standpoint, the ending of this was wonderfully crafted, though watchers might have found themselves deeply sighing.

Rating: 8/10

2. Healer

Year of Release: December, 2014-February, 2015

Cast:

Ji Changwook as Seo Junghoo

Park Minyoung as Chae Youngshin

Yoo Jitae as Kim Moonho

Synopsis: Kim Moonho is a famous reporter who enlists the service of a mysterious night errand boy, Healer, to find and protect Chae Youngshin, a junior reporter who he believes is connected to a decades old mystery surrounding five friends. The three become intricately connected as they navigate their shared past, the mysterious incident, and current day politics as people in positions of power try to cover that incident up for good.

Thoughts: I LOVED THIS DRAMA! I watched it in around three weeks (it’s a 20 episode drama), and loved every single minute of it. It was the fastest I have ever watched a kdrama. I thought about starting it many times, but always pushed it off because the summary never sounded interesting. Yet after watching a trailer and deciding to see how it was for Ji Changwook, I was instantly tossed head over heels. This drama is thrilling. Secret identities, reporters, mysteries, romance (!!! y’all there’s this one cute scene that really makes me squeal), trauma, pain, and everything in between. You will seriously not regret watching this.

Rating: 10/10!

3. Come and Hug Me

Year of Release: May-July, 2018

Cast:

Jang Kiyong as Chae Dojin/Yoon Namoo

Jin Kijoo as Han Jaeyi/Gil Nakwon

Heo Junho as Yoon Heejae

Kim Kyungnam as Yoon Hyunmoo

Yoon Jonghoon as Gil Moowon

Synopsis: Namoo and Nakwon were each other’s first love in high school, until Namoo’s psychopathic father, Yoon Heejae, murdered Nakwon’s parents. Twelve years later, the two meet again--with Namoo as a police detective who goes by Chae Dojin, and Nakwon taking after her late mother as an actress by the name of Han Jaeyi. She suffers from severe PTSD. Together, the two of them navigate their rough past and try to move forward and heal, even as the past threatens to return to their present.

Thoughts: I can’t begin to stress how much I like this drama. It is a drama with a darker theme, but I really liked how they focused on Nakwon’s PTSD and a) how people reacted to the rumors of her mental trauma, b) how they didn’t end up pushing that it made her weak, but rather showed how she grew through it. Every single actor in this was fantastic, especially the child actors! I was really glad to be introduced to Jang Kiyong and Jin Kijoo! They looked so great together :). If you’re a fan of healing dramas with a touch of serial killer, you should definitely check this one out. It checks all the romance boxes, but also all the fun, crime filled ones too.

Rating: 9/10

4. Descendants of the Sun

Year of Release: February-April, 2016

Cast:

Song Joonki as Yoo Shijin

Song Hyeko as Kang Moyeon

Jin Goo as Seo Daeyoung

Kim Jiwon as Yoon Myeongjoo

Synopsis: Shijin is a captain of the special forces, and Moyeon is a doctor. They meet at the hospital, and decide to date. Unfortunately, it does not work out, as they realize that Shijin as someone who takes lives and Moyeon as someone who tries to save them are not a good pair. The two part ways, but it seems like fate is looking out for them, because eight months later they meet again when Moyeon is assigned to go to Uruk with a medical team, where Shijin is stationed.

Thoughts: DOTS is a drama classic, and a must watch. I went into watching it expecting to to be very different than it was, but I was not disappointed in the slightest bit. It delves into a lot of topics on morality and making decisions in the midst of a life and death situation. The Song-Song couple’s chemistry was off the charts (and they got married in real life, too!), plus the second lead couple was awesome too! Each character brought something unique to the show. DOTS made my heart leap and feel all sorts of things--especially when Onew (he played a doctor) was crying his eyes out, like dude, I wanted to bawl. This is a classic you cannot pass up.

Rating: 10/10

5. Romance is a Bonus Book

Year of Release: January-March, 2019

Cast:

Lee Jongsuk as Cha Eunho

Lee Nayoung as Kang Dani

Jung Eugene as Song Haerin

Wi Hajoon as Ji Seojun

Synopsis: Cha Eunho is a popular writer and editor who works at a popular publishing company. He is close friends with Kang Dani. With a twist of fate, Dani--who used to be a popular copywriter but has recently fallen upon hard times--manages to get a job at Eunho’s publishing company by lying on her resume.

Thoughts: Any drama with Lee Jongsuk is going to be good (well...most dramas), and this drama was the perfect mix of funny, romance, and a dash of mystery. Dani’s character was very relatable. She’s awkward, kind, old timey, and genuine. I loved getting introduced to Wi Hajoon as an actor through this drama. He and Jung Eugene were great second leads/supporting actors. The rest of the cast are each very unique in their own way, and lots of kudos to the writers for showing us little slices of how they live and their own problems without making the storyline messy.

Rating: 8/10

6. My Strange Hero

Year of Release: December, 2018-February, 2019

Cast:

Yoo Seungho as Kang Boksu

Jo Boah as Son Soojung

Kwak Dongyeon as Oh Seho

Synopsis: When Kang Boksu was in high school, he was falsely accused of school violence by his friend (Oh Seho) and his girlfriend (Son Soojeong). Years later, as an adult, Boksu has the opportunity to return to school and graduate. He takes up the offer with the idea of getting revenge, as Soojeong has just become a teacher there, and Seho is the new director as he battles to take control of the school from his mother, the chairman. However, things don’t go as Boksu plans, and he soons find himself tangled up in a major school corruption.

Thoughts: Okay!!!! I usually get tired of hearing the same old corruption spiel since apparently kdramas love to point out the problems with Korea’s school systems (while nothing changes), and while Chairman Oh definitely made me want to slap her straight across her dumb face, it wasn’t enough to make me completely stop watching. First off, I love all three main actors (or I did as soon as I saw them in here). Yoo Seungho is always enjoyable to watch, and Boksu and Soojeong were sweet and fluffy and balanced each other out perfectly in the relationship. I also fell for Oh Seho! I know a lot of people found him a terrible person...and yeah, he was definitely a prime example of like an anti-villain, but he also had a great redemption arc and I just...wanted to give him the hugest hug.

Rating: 8.5/10

7. Cheese in the Trap

Year of Release: January-March, 2016

Cast:

Park Haejin as Yoo Jung

Kim Goeun as Hong Seol

Seo Kangjoon as Baek Inho

Synopsis: Hong Seol is a hard working college student and Yoo Jung is her good looking, smart, and rich sunbae. Over the course of college, Seol and Jung eventually start a delicate relationship despite other obstacles in their path. However, a friend from Jung’s path, Inho, returns and also starts to fall for Seol.

Thoughts: This drama...I actually only watched it for Seo Kangjoon and he’s the only reason I finished it. This has the biggest second lead syndrome you will ever find. Personally, he’s the only reason this is making it to my recommendation list (that and the fact that I’m horrible at finishing dramas). On the other hand...let’s just say that I hated Park Haejin for so long because I could not get over how much I disliked his character in this drama. It was an interesting character, but I couldn’t stand how manipulative he was. CITT is based on a webtoon, so maybe that’s why it’s so crazy, but it took me so long to finish this. It took me a year because I stopped watching it so many times. This show seriously drove me crazy. There are only a couple things that get me genuinely riled up when I have to talk about them, and this show is one of those things. I don’t know, some people really liked it, but while there were good characters and some nice parts, in the long run it was just really not that good.

Rating: 6/10

8. Bad Guys

Year of Release: October-December, 2014

Cast:

Kim Sangjoong as Oh Gutak

Ma Dongseok as Park Woongcheol

Park Haejin as Lee Jungmoon

Jo Donghyuk as Jung Taesoo

Gang Yewon as Yoo Miyoung

Synopsis: In order to combat the rise in violent crimes, the Police Detective tasks Detective Oh Gutak with putting together a group of criminals to take care of the problem. Gutak, who is currently suspended for excessive violence, puts together a team consisting of gangster Park Woongcheol, hitman Jung Taesoo, serial killer Lee Jungmoon, and Police Inspector Yoo Miyoung. Together, the team tackle the rising crime rate and dangerous criminals.

Thoughts: This show was only 11 episodes, maybe why I was able to watch it so fast. It’s violent and dark--the perfect fit for the crime/mystery genre. I also like to call this Park Haejin’s redemption drama, because after this you know who I liked x.x. There were also a lot of plot twists that made me need to watch the next episode immediately. There’s a sequel to the show with a new cast but the same premise, but I’ll warn you that that show has definitely more violence and blood and death and stuff (I’m still watching it; I’m kind of stalled out right now since a certain episode made me lose faith in that entire show, ahem episode 8).

Rating: 8/10

9. Kill It

Year of Release: March-April, 2019

Cast:

Jang Kiyong as Kim Soohyun

Nana as Do Hyeonjin

Roh Jeongeui as Kang Seulgi

Kim Jaewon as Philip

Synopsis: Kim Soohyun is an elite assassin who is searching for clues to the past he cannot remember. Do Hyeonjin is the adopted daughter of an important congressman who is a new Police Detective. She is still searching for the killer of her boyfriend, even though nine years have passed. Soohyun and Hyeonjin start to cross paths, finding a connection from their past that leads to a growing relationship.

Thoughts: Sounds like every au ever, right? Jokes, it’s my favorite au of all time and I freaked out when I found out Jang Kiyong was going to the lead. It sounds cliche, but I swear it’s very good. I love the fact that there’s not really a romantic relationship between the two, like it’s not supposed to be romantic, but rather focuses on the platonic, friendship between them. It’s a dark, twisting drama, another one showing how deep corruption runs in the government (that’s always a theme because you know, it’s a thing), and the ending freaking killed me but you know :((.

Rating: 9.5/10

10. He Is Psychometric

Year of Release: March-April, 2019

Cast:

Park Jinyoung as Lee Ahn

Shin Yeeun as Yoon Jaein

Kim Kwon as Kang Seongmo

Kim Dasom as Eun Jisoo

Synopsis: Lee Ahn has a special ability, psychometry. When he makes skin to skin contact with someone, he sees their darkest memories and secrets. He dreams of becoming the first Police Psychometrist. Yoon Jaein has been running her whole life, ever since her father was charged with the arson of Yeonsung Apartments, where Ahn’s parents died. The two first meet in high school, but their connection is cut short, only for them to reunite two years later and start to solve the mystery behind the fire and the other crimes that connect to it, along with Ahn’s non-biological brother, Prosecutor Kang Seungmo, and Police Detective Eun Jisoo.

Thoughts: OKAY, let me take a deep breath before I get into this one. He Is Psychometric is one of the best dramas I have ever watched. It’s right up there on my top five, I reckon. I didn’t drop this or anything; I watched it from the moment it started airing to the time it didn’t. Fair warning that if you expected happiness, this is not the drama to go for. It’s so twisty and has so many turns, like everytime something was uncovered there was still more threads to follow and it was insane but amazing. Especially for me, being a huge psychology fan, I loved digging into these characters and how unique they each were. The relationships, bromance and romance alike, were so intricate in this drama. I went through a million feelings and emotions in the span of a minute. This drama is also one that you can’t see coming. You can theorize (and believe me, I theorized the heck out of that thing) and guess, but it manages to blindside you almost every time. This show will break your heart and how you think of the world and humans and for that, you have to at least give it a try.

Rating: 100/10

#kdramas #my recommendations #kill it #he is psychometric #come and hug me #descendants of the sun #cheese in the trap #my strange hero #healer #bad guys #romance is a bonus book #life #kdrama recommendations #i love these!!!!#so many thoughts #hopefully this is more organized than no 1 #hopefully i made no typos!#here you go: my rambly mess of a self condensed

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@likos064

This is from another blog discussion @likos064 responses in italics and then my thoughts. The other thread was getting long and the tumblr kept timing out for me.

‘Personally, I have no interest in Mulder or Scully/Other. Regardless of whether it is before they met, during the show pre or post relationship, though I ignore any breakup because I find it redundant, even though I understand the limitations of a TV show and Drama 101. What I cannot ignore, however, are double standards when it comes to writing these Other-relationships. Generally, when its Mulder/Other, regardless of whether he and Scully are involved or not, Mulder is portrayed as the bad guy. Excepting pre-X-files, but even that might be a stretch.

Conversely when it is Scully/Other she is portrayed to be in the right, a woman who is simply being true to her desires and taking what she deserves. It doesn’t matter whether she is involved with Mulder, at the cusp or committed she is still entitled to have sex with whoever she wants. But this only applies to her. Even in fics portraying a breakup she is allowed to move on while he has to wait for her to come back, if he wants companionship. And at that point, I don’t want them together any longer.

Retrograde as mentioned above is a good example. I don’t want her anywhere near him and I find it preposterous that he is completely alone so that she can prey on him in his weakness. People can write, like and headcanon what they want. But I am disturbed by the abuse that is so often encouraged towards him. Why make her as damaging as Phoebe and Diana?’

I agree with pretty much everything you said above and perhaps that’s why the ‘break-up’ eps have bothered me, I have trouble with getting into Scully’s mind – perhaps that’s a result of male writers? And no ‘show bible?’ I am a Mulderist through and through and I try not (I might not always succeed) to ‘cut’ Scully down in order to praise Mulder.

Through the seasons I think there have been hints as to Scully wanting a relationship/family – at some point, and it’s actually hard for me to pinpoint when she really chose Mulder – although running away with him in the Truth was a pretty good statement. Jersey Devil, Revelations (her instinct with Kevin,) Home are 3 right of the top of my head. (What’s wrong with a woman who doesn’t want children?) In the back of my mind I think I could always see Scully as being the one to move on and be just another person who left Mulder.

Mulder I think does want a family, I just don’t know if he thinks he deserves it? He really is so good with children in the eps – is that due to his psychology background – maybe? He didn’t ‘bond’ with Kevin in Revelations partly I think due to the Religion aspect although he doesn’t naysay Scully when she wants to keep Kevin with them either. In Home Mulder is telling Scully a happy memory of being a kid, baseball his sister – that dialogue stood out to me as well as the remarks about the kind of home he’d like to settle down in. Cliché it is, but I think he’s was searching for the family he lost the day Samantha disappeared. Even if he hadn’t believed it was Aliens I think Mulder would have kept searching regardless.

‘You’re right she did want to be with him. However, I don’t view the desire to be the same as action though there is definitely emotional cheating on Daniel’s part. A Platonic Romance can be just as threatening to marriage as one with a sexual component. Nevertheless, the fandom interpretation takes the relationship in a direction far different from the one that Gillian intended and that’s what I thought of when you complained about Scully’s involvement with a married man.’

Hmm… I could be wrong, but I thought GA said in several interviews that she intended for it to be obvious Scully and Daniel had been lovers. Even though she knows Scully’s character is Catholic and had been brought up to respect marriage it was one of Scully’s rebellion’s? GA doesn’t have a strict religious view point, so I thought this part of AT was more GA than Scully especially since she seemed to scoff at her sister Melissa’s more open / nature new age beliefs. At the same time within the ep I could view it as did knowing Mulder allow her to open up to other religions? Ideas? IMO it would have been nice to let Mulder know that occasionally.

I will confess that I too have some reservations over her behavior in all things. According to Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter, Mulder and Scully are already involved in all things. The scene at the beginning with Mulder in bed was to indicate an ongoing sexual relationship not the start of one. Gillian knew this and still wrote Scully as deciding to leave Mulder, per the original script, only to change her mind again.

Well unfortunately we can’t take what FS or CC says for granted. I would love to read those statements though the only one I can recall is Frank S. reminding fans that AT wasn’t the first time M&S were in each others apartments overnight. How many times were we told William is Mulder’s son. For me that rankles as just another way to hurt Mulder, regardless all those years he thought he had a son out there.

‘My issue lies more in that this confirms Mulder’s fears, something that I see him being mocked over consistently; primarily when he runs away from her in Detour. I see numerous complaints about how he waited too long, but I always interpreted it, beyond TV show limitations and the patterns that existed in the 90s, as her not being ready for a relationship. Nor did I see an invitation of wine and cheese as a guaranteed sexual offer.’

I agree with this, I also wonder how much the whole experience with Scully almost dying affected him and wanting to be more, and of course Bill’s reaction I’m sure dug a little spot in his mind too. What is dying but another form of abandonment in a sense. I didn’t like ‘3’ either, but that was much earlier in their partnership so it was a little (very little) more palatable.

‘Nevertheless, I’m curious about your aversion to Scully’s attraction to older authoritative men. I don’t understand why you think she’s too smart for this. I always saw it as a father complex, an extension of the affection and more importantly approval she so desperately wanted from her father. Similarly, I viewed Mulder’s attraction to older women as a mother complex rooted in the affection his mother deprived him of following Samantha’s abduction.’

I know my aversion is mainly from a life experience and a friend’s story. I only took one college class and you could just see the professor eyeing up every girl that walked in until it landed on my friend. She was a straight A student, she wasn’t shy or outgoing we all thought her feet were planted firmly on the ground. He praised her, but you could also see subtle ‘put downs’ – you shouldn’t do it that way only an infant would things like that some worse. And all of us were shocked when she started a relationship with the professor who was 17 yrs older I think. Long story short he was married had 3 or 4 kids, she got pregnant he dropped her like a hot potato, she got an abortion and tried to commit suicide. We ended up finding out she’d been sexually abused as a child by her father or step-father. She moved and I haven’t seen or heard from her in over 30 yrs.

I know there wasn’t any hint of that in Scully and her father’s relationship, but the whole older-man/daddy issue has just always made me angry/disgusted in general.

’I see Daniel as an authority figure as well as a teacher who values her intelligence and makes her feel as though she matters. While Jack has a more obsessive quality towards his work, like her father who prioritized the navy over her. Both would have given her approval because they were teachers and she did her assignments. She mostly met their expectations. Until she didn’t.’

I agree with some of that. Mulder is different than those two men, I don’t see that many similarities. In NA when people say Mulder was treating Scully like her boss – jerk is the term I see most. Well technically he is the dept. head and he could assign her things. When they jointly investigate cases it makes sense to split up when their particular skills are better utilized – he thinks outside the box and she provides the facts/science when possible.

I always saw it as how much trust had formed that Mulder knew Scully would handle things. When he sort of scoffs at Scully handing off the case, I don’t take it as him not trusting/believing her – I think he was looking for any excuse to come back – I could be wrong.

And as I recall Scully has made jokes about Mulder’s dating or ala Jersey Devil Mulder’s “I have a life” reply to Scully. It seems okay when she does it but when he does it’s wrong.

‘Phoebe was manipulative but her mind games could still lead to rewards.’

I’m curious what rewards do you mean?

‘Diana I see as terribly accommodating but just as manipulative as Phoebe.’

Groan – I just hate the character of Diana for so many reasons. I hate when shows just drop in a character for shock value. I can’t believe in almost 5yrs of working together Diana’s name never once came up. That Scully never saw her name in a case file. That the LG never mentioned her before either you’d think there’d have been a comparison of the two, unless DF wasn’t a ‘work’ partner.

This is the man who opens up to Scully on their 1st case together and tells her about his sister in a very intimate way - even though he initially thinks she’s sent to spy on him. Yet when DF appears – initially its just generic basics about her, she gets shot and FTF come out with the whole ‘almost kiss’ scene. I’m sure DF would be too confusing for the ‘new’ fans Fox/CC were hoping to entice.

Then the Beginning – no mention of a kiss – Mulder appears so frustrated with Scully, but he trusts her completely with Gibson and it makes sense she’s the doctor. In the other eps with DF we never see Mulder seeking her out, yet he doesn’t seem to be sharing with Scully why he trusts Diana or the audience. To me that whole season (6) was Mulder making a choice to be with Scully at work and after work on cases like Dreamland.

I think the perfect time to introduce a new set of agents would have been right after FTF, are we to believe scientists worldwide wouldn’t have gotten notice of seismographs going off - tremors in Antartica they wouldn’t be down there investigating the cause.

Maybe that’s one of the problems with XFiles trying to straddle that line Aliens – but also real world cases happening in real time?

‘In both cases, Mulder’s need to please and be acknowledged would’ve been satisfied. I feel that Mulder and Scully partly satisfy these complexes in each other. Mulder is in a supervising role and Scully does want his acknowledgment and unless the script says otherwise, see Never Again, she gets it. Likewise, Scully acknowledges Mulder and appreciates him, unless the script calls for otherwise, like in all things. And if you decide to acknowledge the season 10-11 breakup.’

Quite the difference in DD and GA’s script(s), especially in the Unnatural it’s all about learning, a connection to someone, something even though neither M or S are in the ep, but for 7-8 minutes. I know some still get mad for the ‘ticking of her biological clock’ reference, but that is a common saying and Mulder was using it in that light-hearted way. Hollywood AD was a quirky ep and one of the ones that it’s hard to put in the XF ‘case’ universe, but even it had some poingnant moments and again M & S spending time outside of work together enjoying each other’s company.

And then AT – all about Scully, more of a character study. Mulder is flirty with his projector in the beginning and she’s stabbing her salad and snapping at him. I definitely didn’t care for snarky Scully. In the whole ep the only section I like is their conversation on the couch, the way DD plays Mulder and the way he looks at her – that man is in love, period.

S10-11 Breakup = stupid. As per the ratings immediate drop from week 1 to week 2 and kept on going. The idea that Mulder had to choose Scully over going back to work for the FBI – if that’s what he wanted to do is just wrong. And Scully just happening to work for a hospital and one or more of the patrons/dr.’s happening to experiment on his own children. There would have been the perfect ‘case’ to draw Scully back to working on the X-Files with Mulder and if they’d set up those other agents in S6 who knows how the series would have ended.

One other thing that bothered me as the show progressed is what I call the dumbing down of Mulder. In Deep Throat Mulder has the line about his hotshot pilot friend and asks a technical flight question in other eps he also would pull facts both unusual and technical out in dialogue. Then it seemed that slowly faded. Was it to prop Scully up as being smarter? I don’t know I just missed those little moments of Mulder’s brilliance.

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By its cover | 01

Characters: Hoseok x Reader

Word count: 4.6k

Synopsis: Your annoying little brother Jimin accepts a dare and summons a demon into your living room. There are multiple problems with this. 1) Demons are the most hated species on earth. 2) That demon happens to be Jung Hoseok, the most popular guy on campus 3) The fact that Jung Hoseok is a demon is his biggest secret and 4) Jung Hoseok hates your guts. You’re in for a wild ride. Demon!Hoseok, magic-university!au and enemies-to-lovers!au

Notes: I wrote this because I couldn’t shake how funny it was to me the idea of Hoseok being a demon. Like he’s just so happy and sunshine-y... how could he be a demon? And thus, this fic was born. It’s entirely prewritten and will update once a week :)

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Part 1: Summoning

The whole ordeal begins because your stupid little brother Jimin accepts a dare from his friend Jungkook. The bratty werewolf Jungkook wouldn’t have known the meaning of the word consequences if it slapped him in the face. And your younger brother, childish and eager to prove himself, does not know how to back down from a dare. The dare is to summon a demon.

It’s a stupid dare because its incredibly rude to just pull a demon from whatever they are doing through a summoning circle just for one’s own amusement. But it’s also stupid because demons are the most despised species in the world. People hate them because there were one too many demons in the past with too much power and a propensity for misusing it. It is only natural to fear beings with such chaotic power, but it also means they are horribly mistreated in society. Of course, Jimin doesn’t have the maturity or understanding to realise why it’s so wrong to attempt to summon a demon into his own living room, and if you or your father had picked up on his intentions earlier, you would have gladly explained it to him. But neither of you do.

Your father is busy preparing for a month-long business trip- a great opportunity for his thriving glamour potion business and your hands are full with your studies, and that’s how Jimin is able to execute his mischievous plan without detection. Why would anyone notice him secretly gathering supplies, or pouring through magic texts when you are all so busy with your own lives? It is far too late when you finally detect something amiss- when you return home from dropping your father at the airport.

You walk in at probably the most opportune and inopportune moment. Opportune because had Jimin attempted a summoning spell without you present he surely would have died. This is because summoning circles are like vacuums you can’t turn off. They suck any available magic in the immediate vicinity out of the air until they have enough to achieve their purpose. Jimin, at a mere 14 years of age and a with a meagre magic supply to match, would have been completely drained and no doubt died of magic exhaustion. Inopportune because summoning circles are magic vacuums. So when you walk in at the exact moment Jimin finishes the magic incantation, the summoning circle instantly latches onto and begins draining your much larger magic supply rather than his.

“Jimin!” You screech, taking in the summoning circle in your living room, the various magical supplies he no doubt stole from your father’s shop and the eerie glow that is filling the room as soon as the circle leeches from your magic supply. “You’re summoning a demon? Dad’s gonna kill you!”

“Jungkook dared me!” Is all Jimin can shout in his defence while you attempt to shoo him out of the room to safely. But the magic circle drains a little too much of your magic for you to handle and you promptly pass out.

When you regain consciousness, the room is filled with smoke and Jimin is also passed out. Immediately concerned, you crawl over him, braving through the wave of nausea that washes over you at the action of sitting up. You breathe a sigh of relief when you feel the comforting thrum of his pulse beneath your fingertips, and you roll him onto his back. He is pale but seems to be just sleeping. You doubt the magic circle required Jimin’s magic as well, given the ample supply you had as an adult witch. It is more likely the pressure and sheer amount of magic in the air that knocked him out. But with your brother’s safety confirmed, you turn to face and apologise to the bigger problem in the room- whatever poor demon your brother summoned, the one who is currently screaming his head off in terror.

But when the smoke clears and you glance to the figure now standing in the middle of your living room, you find yourself wishing you were still unconscious. For the figure staring in complete shock and horror at you is none other than your campus’ beloved Jung Hoseok.

Hoseok’s gaze flickers down to where his dress shirt is half-buttoned and hangs open. He must have been in the middle of getting dressed when Jimin summoned him. His eyes widen and he goes to fix it but it is far too late. Already you have seen and registered the brand that sits just below his clavicle, the brand that all of his kind and their descendants are forced to wear, to mark them as different and alien and dangerous. Your father says the brand is a reminder of how hateful and awful society can be towards an entire species. If the fact that Hoseok is here because of a summoning ceremony weren’t enough proof of Hoseok’s true identity, then the brand your gaze is now anchored onto certainly is.

It is the mark of a demon- which means Hoseok is a demon, probably the most hated species on earth. The scream dies on his throat.

If it weren’t embarrassing enough that because of Jimin you would have to apologise and help whatever poor demon Jimin had jerked out of their daily routine, the fact that it is Jung Hoseok of all people makes it a million times worse for two reasons.

The first is that Hoseok hates your guts. You never did learn the reason why and most people you disclose this little tidbit of information didn’t believe you. No one really thinks Hoseok capable of hating someone, but he does and it’s you. It’s not an overly obvious, antagonistic hatred which is why it’s so difficult to convince others that he does. No, Hoseok is subtle- ignoring you, turning away from you when you’re in the room, sometimes glaring at you for no reason and most importantly avoiding you at all costs. You might have been able to write this behaviour off as shyness were you not aware of who Hoseok is as a person. The joke around your campus where Hoseok is concerned is actually that Hoseok is sunshine on legs. Though his species wasn’t known to anyone, the general consensus has always been that Hoseok, with his bright and sunny personality and subtle good looks, was probably something like a sun sprite or a water nymph. Something gentle and beloved, with powers that could only heal and protect and a kind and loving nature to boot. No one would have ever guessed he is one of the most reviled and hated (and underprivileged according to your kindhearted father) species in the world. So while it turns out the speculation about his species is wrong, it doesn’t change the fact that if kind, extroverted, happy Hoseok treats you like you have some sort of disease, then he must really truly hate you for some reason.

Which brings you to the second reason, the only reason you could provide for Hoseok’s odd disdain for you. And that was that you and Hoseok had history. If it could even be called that. The story starts in highschool. Even back then, Hoseok’s bright personality and kind demeanour had sucked people in, left them vulnerable to his charms and you were no exception. The strength of your crush is humiliating for you now to remember. So when your friend has insisted she had convinced Hoseok to go on a date with you, you had been ecstatic! A date, with the guy of your dreams? You would have been a fool to refuse.

Only when you had showed up at the movie cinema at the assigned time, it hadn’t just been Hoseok going to see the movie with you. Rather than just tell you she had been dating Hoseok, your supposed friend had felt the need to very publicly stake her claim. And so you had endured the most humiliating movie of your life while she and Hoseok engaged enthusiastically in public displays of affection, wondering why she hadn’t just told you she was dating him. It hadn’t ended there, and when she showed up to the restaurant where you had you first ever part-time job as a waitress, you hadn’t hesitated in not-so-accidentally dumping her pasta all over her lap. She had always envied you and you suppose that the way you had been so vocal and open about your crush who happened to be her secret boyfriend had driven her to extreme measures.

The fact that the pasta incident hadn’t fully been an accident was a fact your ex-friend made known to nearly the whole school. Rumours of your intense jealousy and desire to bully her had spread quickly, easily slaughtering your social life. You had long since recovered from what you felt was a huge injustice, but lingering feelings of humiliation and misery still lingered whenever you looked at Hoseok and remembered what has transpired.

That particular incident is probably why Hoseok hates you, but to hold a grudge for so long over something so petty doesn’t seem consistent with his character. Yes, you dumped pasta on his highschool girlfriend’s lap in a petty rage, but apart from him having been your crush at the time, it hadn’t really had much to do with him and had been more to do with the betrayal you had felt at her actions and inability to properly communicate. Maybe his demon origins explain this unnecessary grudge-holding, but your dad had always stressed to you the fact that it is not the species that determines a person’s character. And you love and respect your dad above all else and if he insists that demons don’t deserve the discrimination they receive, then that’s what you will insist as well. So that means something doesn’t add up with Hoseok’s unexplained dislike of you, you just don’t know what.

Still, those two reasons combined are the reasons you generally try and avoid Hoseok. Yes, you went to highschool together and are among the few students from your school who had chosen to attend the local magic university, but you had been determined for that to be the end of your connection. With your farewell to highschool and avoidance of Hoseok, you had thought you had successfully distanced yourself from that turbulent era of your life.

Yet here you are, your brother still unconscious, magical components scattered around your living room, the remnants of a summoning circle permanently burned into the living room carpet and Hoseok half-dressed. He looks like he’s trapped in his worst nightmare. So you blurt the only reasonable thing that comes to mind.

“Jimin did it!” You accuse, pointing to your brother who is slowly starting to rouse. It takes a few goes but Hoseok finally recovers his voice.

“(Y/N)? You summoned me?” He cries out in horror as the reality of his situation dawns on him.

“No!” You protest. “It really wasn’t me! It was him.”

Jimin, who had been subtly trying to make an escape while your attention was fixed on Hoseok, freezes mid-crawl. He sits back on his heels.

“In my defence I didn’t know it would actually work!” He complains, glaring at you with only the audacity a fourteen year old who has done the wrong thing can manage.

“What did you think would happen? Why wouldn’t a demon summoning work?” You argue back, and then your eyes go wide as once more you are struck with a realisation. “You...” you say, turning slowly back to Hoseok. “You’re a demon?”

Hoseok winces at your realisation, and flails around wildly before wilting in resignation- his secret is out and there’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.

“Obviously!” He exclaims and the open flaps of his shirt shift when he waves his arms in emphasis, once more exposing the demon brand. “What did you think you were summoning? A horse?”

You open your mouth to protest.

“Again, it was Jimin- Jimin you brat if you leave this room I’m setting your video game console on fire.” You hiss, and Jimin freezes with his hand on the doorknob and says a word that would definitely get him grounded if your father wasn’t currently on a plane to the other side of the world. You grab him by the back of the shirt, pinning him in place while you turn your attention to Hoseok. “Anyway, I’m sorry my brother is like this. Don’t feel like you’re stuck here or anything, he was just acting on a dare.” You tell Hoseok in a cautiously polite voice. He just looks around, antsy and stressed, before sighing in resignation.

“I wasn’t planning on staying.” Hoseok tells you as the shock of the situation settles in. He finishes buttoning his shirt and glances at his watch in distress. “But it would be great if you could tell me where you live?”

When you inform him his current location, his eyes bug comically out of his head.

“That’s on the other side of town from where I need to be! Public transport won’t get me there in time!” He almost wails. You blink, confused at his devastated reactions.

“D-do you have plans?” You inquire hesitantly. Falling to his knees, Hoseok nods.

“A date.” He admits quietly. “A really, really important date. Of course something like this would happen today- and with you of all people, of course! Of course it has to be you.”

Were you younger and less jaded by your past, you may have been disappointed to hear that your first ever crush currently had an important date, and a little offended at his implication that you are the cause of all the trouble in his life but you are proudly past that stage of your life. Instead you now have the capacity to be the bigger person.

“I... can give you a lift? It’s the least I can do after Jimin summoned you here- which I will be telling Dad about just so you know.” You hiss at your brother. Hoseok pays no mind to the death glares you and your brother direct at each other, and instead contemplates your offer. He looks like he would rather do literally anything else, but a quick glance at the antique clock your father keeps over your fireplace confirms he doesn’t really have a choice.

With a promise to Jimin that you will be doling out consequences when you get back, you and Hoseok hop into your car and set off for the location of his date. It’s near your campus, on the other side of the city, and it’s most definitely going to drain the power crystal supplying your magic to your car. You almost go to complain at Hoseok- magic crystals aren’t cheap, but one look at the frazzled look on his face has you shutting up.

The car ride to the restaurant is awkward and silent. It is Hoseok who finally breaks the silence.

“Will you tell anyone?” He asks softly. You frown.

“That you’re a demon?” You ask. “I wasn’t planning to... does anyone know?”

“No. No they do not and I would love to keep it that way.” He says softly, almost timidly.

“Then I won’t tell anyone.” You answer sincerely. Hoseok doesn’t respond but you think you may hear the slightest relieved exhale from him.

The rest of the trip is silent apart from Hoseok’s occasional instruction of what lane to be in and whether to turn left or right. When you finally pull over, you don’t bid him goodbye as he scrambles out of your car, legging it for the restaurant entrance. He doesn’t even bother to shut the car door behind him. With a sigh, you prepare to leave, leaning across the console to shut the door he rudely left open. You are fully intending on never acknowledging Hoseok ever again and pretending this whole incident never happened, when something strange happens.

Hoseok makes it maybe 20 meters from you when you feel the sharpest pulling sensation on your whole being. It’s not just physical- it’s like your whole soul is being yanked on and you are jerked forcefully across the console in Hoseok’s general direction. Alarmed, you look up to find Hoseok flat on the ground like he’s tripped. Slightly concerned, you try to get out of the car, only to find yourself unable to move in that direction. But you are free to move forward, and so you clamber over the console and out of the car on the passenger’s side.

“Hoseok!” You shout, running over to him. He sits up, looking slightly dazed like he’s just crash into a brick walls. “Are you ok?”

He glances at you, disorientated, but gradually horror dawns on his expression.

“I’m fine, I just…” He says slowly, as he tries to comprehend what just happened. “Hey… (Y/N)… What kind of summoning circle did your brother make?”

You blink, contemplating the circle that was still burned into the carpet of your living room.

“Well, off the top of my head...” you say sarcastically, before frowning. “I would say demon summoning circles aren’t exactly my area of expertise.”

Hoseok looks pained, and he glances skyward as if he’s praying for patience which is ironic given his demon origins.

“I need you to stand here, (Y/N).” He instructs you, getting slowly to his feet. “I just need to test something.”

And just like that, he is walking away from you. For a second, you think you’ve been rudely rejected, and just stare after him in disbelief. But then he comes to a halt about 20 metres away from you. His fist comes up and starts waving in the air like he is knocking on a door rather than air. Then he is hurtling towards you at full speed.

You flinch as he skids to a stop in front of you, eyes wide and panicked. He plants both hands on your shoulder.

“Walk that way!” He pleads. “Please.”

You are confused, and for a second you want to refuse. You have no duty to this rude demon, especially when he’s been nothing but unfriendly to you for almost as long as you’ve known him. Also, he’s been deceiving you as long as you’ve known him! (Admittedly with good reasons - demons weren’t exactly accepted with society but you’re being petty now is the point)

But then you look at his desperate, pleading expression. The clock is ticking- his date could arrive any minute and something strange is going on. With a sigh, you turn around and begin to walk away from him.

You make it about twenty metres, much like Hoseok did, before you find yourself stopped. By some sort of invisible barrier.

Suddenly panicking, you bang your arm against it and it’s solid as a brick wall and smooth as glass. Are you… trapped? It seems to be a moving barrier, and it seems to affect Hoseok as well… what on earth did that summoning circle do? Horrified, you whirl back to where Hoseok is standing 20 metres away only to find him talking to a girl you recognise as always being around him when you happen to see him around campus. He catches your eyes over her shoulder and even at this distance you know his gaze is just as desperate and pleading. Slowly, he turns, as if to walk away, and just pauses, waiting for your answer to his silent request. You glance down at your attire, before glancing at the restaurant. You’re wearing jeans and a tshirt, not exactly appropriate for the fancy restaurant.

Hoseok is beginning to panic, and you sigh as you realise there’s really only one way out of this, for now.

Looks like you’re sitting in on Hoseok’s date.

“He was supposed to be here an hour ago.” You say forlornly, staring at the two dishes set in front of you. Yours is half eaten but the other is untouched and has long gone cold. “He said it was really important.”

The waitress and waiter standing beside you let our devastated sounds of sympathy.

“You poor thing! Have you tried calling him?” The waiter asks. You nod your head sadly and you’re so into your lie that your eyes began to tear up.

“I did- it went straight to voicemail! I even thought about casting a location spell but I couldn’t betray his trust like that.” You nearly sob. The waitress is near crying on your behalf.

You aren’t sure how your lie got elaborate enough that you ended up ordering a second dish to keep up the ruse. It started because you were too confused and embarrassed to admit the truth- that you’re stuck here like a fool until Hoseok’s date finishes and you didn’t want people thinking you were a loser who came to fancy restaurants by yourself in a tshirt and jeans. You aren’t sure why it is such an important date but Hoseok sure seems nervous. So far he’s spilled a glass of wine on his lap, stabbed himself with a fork and his date is slowly getting more and more agitated. You shoot a glance at him to see he’s holding a napkin to his hand, trying to stop the bleeding. You wonder if you should wonder over and offer to heal him but his girlfriend may recognise you from around campus and ask questions.

Not that you seem to have a problem at lying when asked too many questions! The waiter, so sympathetic to your lie, has summoned a dessert from the kitchen and levitated it onto your table.

“It’s on the house- the chef here got left at the alter and is super sensitive to when people get stood up.” He tells you seriously. “Do you want me to pack this for you?”

Panicking, you deliberate for a second. You can’t leave once it’s packed! You’re stuck here until Hoseok finishes his important date. A glance at his table confirms that it’s getting steadily more disastrous- he’s accidentally sent a piece of steak flying right into the eye of the cyclops who is serving their table. Gritting your teeth with second hand embarrassment, you summon your highschool drama skills from deep within.

“I’d love if you could pack it... but do you think I could wait a little longer? He might still show up! I thought... I really thought tonight was the night, you know?” You stay, and the tears of humiliation are real this time- but just because you’re so embarrassed that you’ve taken the lie this far, rather than having thought your imaginary boyfriend has been about to propose.

The fairy waitress shakes her head.

“No way, girl, I’m making an executive decision.” She says, planting her hands on her hips and fluttering her wings indignantly. “You’re going home! What’s the use in waiting around for a useless guy who doesn’t have the decency to call?”

She waves her hand, and the bill appears- you panic, swiping your magic signature across it. In the next moment, she’s pushing you out of the restaurant, your takeaway dish levitating behind the two of you.

“W-wait!” You protest, coming up against the barrier that stops you from going home at the entrance to the restaurant. “Y-you’re right! I... I just have to call my lift home. I’m just gonna wait here.” The waitress pauses, giving you a soft, concerned expression, before acquiescing and leaving you to stand pathetically at the entrance.

It is because you are waiting outside by yourself hoping Hoseok’s date will end soon that you bear witness to the scene that follows. You’ve probably been milling outside, grateful for the warm evening, for a half hour when Hoseok’s gorgeous elf girlfriend comes racing out of the restaurant looking like she’s on the verge of vomiting.

Hoseok comes skidding our behind her, his eyes pleading and desperate. The top button of his shirt is undone, exposing the dreaded brand on his skin.

“Wait!” He cries, grasping at her hands and tugging her towards him. She flinches, looking horrified.

“Let go!” She screeches. There’s no one on the street but you, but you’re kind of huddled in the shelter of a stone pillar, so she doesn’t seem to have noticed you. “Don’t touch me!”

“I thought you loved me!” Hoseok cries, still gripping her hand. “Were you lying? Does my species change how you feel about me?”

“I don’t know!” She exclaims. “I didn’t know you were one of those when I said that!”

Hoseok drops her hand like she’s burned him, his eyes going wide with hurt.

“Y-you don’t mean that.” He says softly, though his eyes fill with tears. You wonder if you should leave to give them some privacy but you’d be lying if you said that the drama scene unfolding on the street in front of you wasn’t entertaining, as awful as a person as that makes you. “I... I love you.”

She scoffs, and her next words suddenly make the scene less entertaining.

“Can demons even feel love?” She asks scathingly. “You don’t have to worry about your secret- I won’t tell anyone. I don’t want anyone knowing I was dating one of your kind. Goodbye, Hoseok.”

Your heart actually breaks a little for him as he just gapes after her, frozen in his hurt and pain. Finally, he turns slowly and sees you standing stupidly in the street. He glares.

“Did you enjoy the show?” He asks coldly. You shake your head.

“Hoseok...” you say slowly, though you haven’t the foggiest idea how you could comfort him. His demeanour softens just the slightest bit.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to be rude… I just… today was our one-year anniversary.” He admits softly. “I thought I could tell her what I was and that she loved me enough to accept me... but I... but I...”

His voice cracks and hesitantly you raised a hand to comfortingly rub along his shoulders. He clears his throat and sighs heavily.

“We’re stuck together, by the way. That’s what that barrier is.” He informs you. “Your brother performed a binding circle and so we are stuck like this until we figure out how to undo it. Its called ‘soul-binding’ and no, I do not know how to undo it. And thank you for sitting in on dinner. That was… nice. Not a lot of people would have put up with what you have tonight.”

He just stares forlornly in the direction his date left in after that, and you only pluck up the courage to speak to him when the silence becomes too much to bare for you.

“Hey… Why don’t we go home and we can sort out this whole mess in the morning?” You suggest, ushering the heartbroken demon into your car. “We’ll stop off at yours and you can grab some stuff. We have a spare bedroom. You can sleep off whatever just happened and we’ll deal with everything then, ok?”

The car ride back to your house is silent. When you arrive at his place he doesn’t say a word- he lives out of home in an apartment by himself and so there’s no one for him to answer to or speak to or inform about his unusual predicament. He just gets out of the car and returns with a duffle bag and some sunglasses. You almost ask what the sunglasses are for, especially when he puts them on. It is, after all, the middle of the night. But then you spot the tears that trickle down Hoseok’s cheeks the whole way and you realise why he’s wearing them.

You choose not to say anything.

#hoseok fic #bts fic #bts fluff #jhope fic #jhope fluff #hobi #hoseok #jung hoseok #jhope #writing #demon au #magic university au #enemies to lovers au #enemies to lovers

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insertclassyusernamehere · 5 years

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True Life: I worked for a Sociopath

In early 2013, I started a journey with a company that I loved. I was hired on as a sales associate by a strong, powerful and amazing store manager who literally taught me everything I know. She promoted me 6 months in to a lower level management role, and when she got an offer to move onto bigger things in the company, she helped push me into a fulltime management role. Her assistant manager at the time ultimately ended up filling her position as she left, and to be honest, I had no idea what I was in for. I hadn't worked too much with this particular manager prior, and didn't have much of a real raport with her at all. I truly was excited about the change, and everything felt like a new beginning. The first year was pretty rocky in general, but we just chalked it up to us all being new in our roles, and pushed through it until we got onto a schedule. The assistant manager at the time and I were incredibly close, and it was pretty clear to me at the time that she was being bullied and demonized by our store manager, but I thought maybe it was just some kind of personal bad blood between them. The store manager (we will call her Sarah) would talk to associates and other managers behind her back, calling her names, and pointing her fingers at her for anything going awry in the store. Finally, our ASM snapped, and left the company. Sarah told us all that things would be SO Much better without her there "creating hostility". Most of us knew that the former ASM wasn't the problem.

With the separation of our ASM, I was then ushered into the role as a replacement. I was excited. I was excited about a raise, about more responsibility and the growth that I had worked SO hard for. To give you just a little information on my character: I'm a fiery personality, but I'm also incredibly compassionate. I'm a giant mama bear, and I looked at all my employees as my little cubs. With that being said, I was always doing everything with theirs and the stores' best interest in mind. Now at this time, Sarah had A LOT of personal stuff going on. She always did, to be honest. The personal shit never stopped. But, unlike most people who put themselves in a store management position, she used her power to work everything in HER favor so it didn't conflict with her super dramatic life. This meant breaking every rule along the way. She scheduled herself only opening shifts, on a consistent schedule. Every single Sunday off. And when any small thing happened in her life, she just wouldn't show up to her shifts. She would expect me to come in on my days off to cover her shifts on a monthly basis. She made me work doubles covering her shifts more than a few times. If you were not flexible with her, she would tell you that you just needed to take one for the team and would punish you with a cold attitude and talk shit about you behind your back to the rest of the staff. She bullied everyone in the store, but especially the management team. On the other hand, if you were sick and tried to call out... she'd refuse to cover your shift and make you come in anyways. When she wouldn't come in for a scheduled shift, she would just code in PTO for herself and move on with her day. When she was there, she didnt do anything at all. One time she passed out in the back room from pills while our sales lead was on the floor by herself. As fulltime managers we were assigned DORs (departments of responsibility). There was Operations, Talent and Merchandising and they were split between the 3 fulltime managers. My last year with the company, I was working 2 of the 3 while Sarah was doing none. I took more than half of the conference calls. I planned our entire fiscal year. I made ever schedule, did every interview and every new hire onboarding. I was training our keyholder in the merch DOR. When I say that I was literally running a 1.6 million dollar store with no help from my SM, while only making $13hr I AM NOT KIDDING. All the while, anytime I tried to initiate positive change, and enforce standards I was immediately shot down and told "I am not the Store Manger". So essentially - we were failing. At this point I learned that on top of everything I was doing, she was telling everyone else in the store than I was a horrible manager and did nothing. She called me names to people, and even lied to them about crazy shit she claims I did. When I confronted her, she would tell me it never happened. All our employees were quitting left and right because she was literally crazy. She would yell at them on the sales floor and make them cry, force them to stay past their scheduled shifts and the few times she did make the schedule she would schedule them outside of their availability and fuck us over with coverage on the weekend. She manipulated every single person on staff. I left work crying every day.

Now here's where things got fucking psychotic. My keyholder and I had to drive to Tampa for a training certification class, and one thing led to another that ended with us spilling only a small portion of the crazy shit going on in our store. The manager training us empowered us to go to our DM. I spent the night writing and incredibly detailed list of everything she had been doing with help of the rest of the store staff and management team. The next day I called our DM and she was floored. She told me that she was going through HR to get it figured out (this was in august) and while she got in a small amount of "trouble"for a few small things, Sarah was still our store manager and she was bullying us worse than ever. Sarah immediately assumed that I was the one that got her in trouble (even though every single person on staff contributed) and she took it out on me in the worst ways. She denied all of my request offs and had my working every single weekend. Things hit rock bottom after Hurricane Irma hit us on October 2018. We had an emergency close the day before the hurricane touched down because our entire staff was living in evacuation zones and were running out of the state to stay safe from the storm. The night we closed it was me, Sarah and an associate who we will call Ashley. Things were totally normal, low stress and went fairly smoothly. When we arrived back after the storm everything seemed normal. Another week passed, and my husband and I were driving down south to his parents house when I received a call from my DM. In this call she Informed me that my CRAZY BITCH SM told her that on the night of the emergency closing I told her that if we didn't close the store I was going to KILL HER AND HER FAMILY.

WHAT THE FUCK.

She also made the mistake of telling the DM that the associate was a witness. And the DM told her that she needed to have a conversation with me and ask me why I said that. The DM (thankfully) warned me that this conversation might happen, but neither of us thought this bitch was crazy enough to actually lie about something so serious that she claims I said TO MY FACE.

BOY WERE WE WRONG!

She called out of her next shift with me, but then proceeded to come in before hours at 8:30 AM as I was opening the systems, cornered me alone in the stock room, and this bitch looks at me and says "Kianna, do you remember saying anything inappropriate to me during the emergency close?"

Me: No...

Her: Nothing... at all?

Me: Nope. Nothing at all, why?

Her *yelling*: SO YOU DONT REMEMBER THREATENING TO KILL ME AND MY FAMILY??!

ME*completely shocked that she literally said it*: No, Sarah. Seriously? We both know I would never say something like that. I literally dont even use that kind of language jokingly.

Her: Just admit you said it and apologize.

Me: I'm not going to admit to something I didnt say.

Her: Ashley was working she heard you!

Me: Oh really? Ashley happens to be my opener. Let's ask her! If she heard me say that, I will apologize and just accept that I somehow said this horrible thing and blocked it out.

Her *hesitantly*: oh... okay.

When Ashley arrived, we sat her down and Sarah asked her the same uncomfortable question. "Do you remember Kianna saying something incredibly inappropriate and threatening the night we emergency closed?"

Ashley: Uhh... no?

Sarah: So you don't remember her threatening my family's life?

Ashley: UHM, DEFINITELY NOT?!

Sarah: UGH, WELL I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY, ASHLEY, THAT SINCE YOU WON'T ADMIT THAT SHE THREATENED ME THAT I WILL LOOK LIKE A LIAR TO MY BOSS!

Turns out she then tried to groom Ashley into lying for her by offering her a raise if she lied. Ashley told our DM this. SARAH WAS STILL OUR STORE MANAGER. By the end of October, 3 MONTHS AFTER TURNING HER IN, I was done waiting. I turned in my notice, found a better paying job and left that toxic situation. I left because I felt unsafe in my work environment and despite all my evidence and her threats and her literally lying in hopes to get me fired and arrested I WAS STILL BEING FORCED TO WORK WITH HER.

The day I turned in my notice, I found out I was pregnant with my son. Leaving that toxic environment was the best decision I ever made. KNOW YOUR WORTH, GUYS.

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tactileconsensus · 6 years

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I love writing, but my writing process involves a lot of procrastination because 1) I’m lazy, 2) I tend to ramble, and 3) I’m not actually that creative lmao

Regardless!! Kurtox’s academy life is extremely important to his character, and it’s also a thing that i’m really proud of. For the longest time, I’ve been meaning to write about this to explain everything... Looks like i finally did it! It’s all under a readmore because I know it’ll get long and I don’t want to clog your dash

TL;DR - Super smart, super charming Kurtox Galwes is a legislacerator in training who hates law and has no friends. We’re all very sad about this but, y’know, it’s not like he made things easier so we get to be a little less sad about this whole ‘loneliness’ thing he’s got going on.

For those who might not know Kurtox’s character very well (probably due to the considerable lack of plotting and headcanon-ing on my part), Kurtox is a dude who got himself into a prestigious legislacerator academy because he thought it was the “right” thing to do as a teal blood, since the best legislacerators tend to come from his caste. He was also encouraged by his lusus. Probably.

"Birdad” fell into a deep slumber shortly after the two finished building their hive. Kurtox, who is creative and really good with science, has actually managed to keep him alive through medicine of his own creation, but he still doesn’t know why this happened. He doesn’t know whether his dad will ever wake up either. Dad could die at any moment and Kurtox struggles with this.

Living without a lusus and friends (we will get to that part soon) can be lonely; thankfully, Birdad can sometimes communicate with Kurtox telepathically, though he only seems to do it for important situations as it does seem to take a tool on his already poor health. One day, while wondering if legislaceration was the right path for him, his lusus came to him and encouraged him to join the academy. Well, at least that’s what Kurtox assumed he meant. His lusus always speaks in riddles, after all, so it can be hard to tell what he wants. The point is, his lusus tempted his health to provide insight on this issue. Naturally, Kurtox valued what he understood from it.

And so, Kurtox started his adventure. He didn’t know much about law, and his true passion in life has always been science, but Kurtox likes learning new things and he was convinced this was the right thing to do.

These academies start training young trolls (6 sweeps and up) who get in through suggestions or a series of tests. Kurtox was tested and passed with flying colors, being admitted to Ykrat Academy of Legislaceration.

He got into it wanting to be the best, mostly for reasons of pride. While Kurtox managed to ace whatever the academy threw his way, it didn’t even take him 1 whole “human year” to realize he really hated law and law school. He had to memorize theory, watch a bunch of grown ups work, and do their paperwork. Go to sleep, wake up, repeat! Maybe even spend the weekend doing this really troublesome essay that is almost entirely a work of research and compilation and doesn’t actually require you to think about the subject at all. Classes were repetitive and time consuming. The bounty hunting aspect of the job didn’t interest him either. Kurtox started to care less and less about his duties as a legislacerator in training, already thinking about dropping out.

Naturally, his grades started to suffer. His teachers were infuriated. It’s common for the best of the best to be recruited as soon as they finish the course (it’s why the students of the academy are so competitive), and it’s all because of the teachers. In what may or may not be a series of shady arrangements, the teachers make deals with highly ranked professionals, or negotiate to have the graduates for themselves. Kurtox’s teachers already had plans and expectations for him. They would never allow him to be anything but excellent. The meaner ones even threatened him with the possibility of culling, since many of them negotiate with highbloods. A young Kurtox (who, to this day, is extremely afraid of death) was intimidated into staying and excelling, despite his complete lack of passion. Having to wake up everyday to sit in a class you hate, only to have another you hate even more after that one... It’s hard being a kid and growing up. It's hard and nobody understands.

Kurtox is really easy to befriend, okay? He’s fun and charismatic. When school started and he got to meet his classmates for the first time, he quickly became friends with pretty much all of them. Everyone was smart and witty in their own unique way, so even if they knew they would be each other’s competition in the future, it felt like they were all starting on even ground, all of them evenly matched, which is a healthy way to establish friendly rivalries.

Sadly, tests, essays and assignments eventually started happening, grades coming shortly after. Kurtox wasn't just excelling in one or two things, he seemed to always find himself at the top no matter what. His colleagues didn’t know how to react. Most wanted to feel happy for their friend, to be supportive of his achievements, but Kurtox was frankly heartbreaking to watch. The problem wasn’t just that he was getting ridiculously good grades; it was that, despite all their ambition and hard work, they still never managed to beat someone who obviously lacked the passion they had. He made it seem so easy too!

Kurtox could feel the tension build between him and his friends. Slowly, as the sweeps passed, their conversations consisted of more and more bickering disguised as innocent teasing. Imagine a bunch of teenage lawyer-wannabes trying to outsmart the smart kid out of spite, with the smart kid talking back because he’s also an idiot and doesn’t like to stay quiet. Yeah, that.

Growing tired of having his motives and abilities constantly questioned and teased by the people who were supposed to be his friends, Kurtox got increasingly more direct with his replies, still playing along with a fake friendly demeanor but knowing just what to say to sting the other troll into silence. In the rare cases it got someone angry or aggressive, he’d still call it a ‘win’, since he looked like the better troll to an unknowing audience. This led to a few black relationships that went nowhere (more on that later... hopefully), as it made his friends want to pay Kurtox back in his own coin.

While Kurtox’s friends created the rift that ultimately separated them, it’s worth mentioning that Kurtox made matters worse. He never once tried to understand or be patient. He never went out of his way to help them improve. He assumed they were just jealous of him and unwilling to work hard, and he never refused to talk back, simply because he’s that prideful. Kurtox can say whatever he wants about his class but it’s obvious that he can be just as chatty and insufferable as them.

The friends he’d made in his class were no more, and he couldn’t get along with trolls from other classes either. Rumors about him had spread around the academy, as it tends to happen to anyone who stands out from the rest for whatever reason.

Most people don’t actually care about what’s being said about him, only indulging in the gossip because talking shit about others is fun. When the concept of 'the ideal student' is just some random guy who might not even be all that great, it's easy to dismiss it. This, however, doesn’t mean that those people don’t act strangely around him. Kurtox tends to approach others in a charming & flirty way; he’s heard “do you think you’re that interesting just because others gossip about you?” quite a bit, and it became boring after a while. Included in this group are those smarter ones that hear someone’s a rude fuck and stay away just in case.

Some others value the gossip, choosing to believe he’s a terrible guy who happens to be a genius. Whenever he meets someone like this, they usually speak like they’re expecting the self-important asshole to make an appearance, which isn’t exactly a great starting point to a relationship.

Once, a pretty girl approached him with no cares for the negative gossip going around, and the two got on marvelously. This eventually led to a red romance that also ended poorly (i’m also leaving this for later... hopefully... I will say her name was Coruna, tho).

After all those failed attempts at getting along with trolls from other classes, he pretty much stopped seeking their company, at least seriously. Currently, Kurtox does have a few decent relationships with trolls from other years. Still, while he manages to have civil conversations with them, he seems to keep them at a distance so they don’t get to hurt him like his first friends did.

Kurtox has accepted that there’s very little about the academy that he doesn’t dislike.

Well. At least the canteen ladies are nice and cook well.

I THINK THAT’S IT??? fuuuck this got long. If you got this far I’m just... Amazed? And touched. Hopefully I’ll manage to make these more interesting instead of hitting y’all with the info dump. I’ll try, at least! :’)

#v long post about teen drama #for those confused: kurtox does have to work to get good grades- he just doesn't have to work nearly as hard as his peers #just kurtox things

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ciceroisthefamilycat · 3 years

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My Fiery Heart reread response (my Indigo Spell one here, my first-time Fiery Heart one here from 7.5 years ago)

before I get into it, I remembered looking up the Iolanthe coven name Sydney used; that wasn’t something I looked up until after reading it the first time though, so I didn’t realize the fairy court connection to Sydney recommending Zoe do her literature assignment on Midsummer Night’s Dream... I’m very certain it was an intentional reference to that opera now (even though the purple flower meaning was enough on its own)... if they get around to adapting this one, I half want to see Amberwood Prep put on a production of MND where Jill is helping with the costumes and Zoe gets to play Titania or something; I never got around to reading Richard III (Zoe’s original pick) but it’s interesting that free will/fatalism is apparently a major theme, and that Richard contrived to have his brother Clarence sent to the Tower of London...

also, I’m not sure if I cared about “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane all those years ago, but I got a thrill seeing it referenced this go around.

we get the first namedrop for Cicero (though we had heard about his propensity for killing birds and some other mention in the earlier BL books ETA, 7/19: “My family had a cat back in Utah that I was pretty sure was more responsible than Angeline” pg 31 TGL

Anyway, gosh Sydney makes bad decisions in this one. And it’s not because she has too much to do- she has no real outside strenuous challenges to protecting Jill or her group this go around. The friend group actually had to decide “yeah let’s go hunt down a Strigoi in LA” for there to be a major action scene. I realize she’s in her late teens and the burdens put on her are unfair, but she’s a great example of someone who thrives under pressure and falls apart when she’s given too much free time.

The switch to dual narrators was unnecessary. It wasn’t bad, but it was clearly only to set up for the big cliffhanger at the end, and so feels a bit pointless in this one. Btw, Rose didn’t lose her spirit link into Lissa’s mind after Lissa went on antidepressants. Now admittedly, the chemicals in Adrian’s mood stabilizers would have probably worked differently, or maybe Richelle was trying to retroactively make things more consistent (since alcohol could affect the bond), or maybe it was “Adrian and Jill’s bond is less established, so Jill can’t break through like Rose could”... but the sudden decision mid book (with no repercussions- Adrian doesn’t even bring it up to Sydney to be like “hey, one of your main concerns about having sex is taken care of”) is so pointless and really goes to the minimal page-time of the larger ensemble. I said it the first time I read the book, the absence of Kristin and Julia, and Micah, and even more important characters like Angeline or Trey is so frustrating. I realize Richelle couldn’t write a book that was 900 pages long, but I would have gladly taken any of those characters instead of the completely unnecessary Terwilliger/Malachi romance. Especially to see Jill’s reaction to getting to be a more typical high school human, since I think she would have gotten even more attached to Amberwood than Sydney did. I also just... really, the Alchemists decided to have Sydney’s bio sister on campus... pretending to be a cousin... while she was playing sister to Jill? I get they kind of backed themselves into a corner, but weird. That being said, I was happy to have Rowena and Cassie around. (give me Adrian and Rowena being wlw besties excellence to make me really happy)

Sydney’s coven initiation taking place in chapter 2, then she meets Inez (who gives her the books on charms)... and we never see a witch other than Jackie again in this book? Honestly, why bother with writing the initiation at that rate? I still like the cloak they made Sydney though. On reread, there’s the randomest bit where Trey’s like “is Neil even really British” and I wonder if that was a dropped storyline where Neil was faking. Olive and Nina are still pleasant characters, and I liked that they had a “unique” background, but knowing how those stories end was kind of a buzzkill on reread. Olive, especially, deserved better.

This is another one where I forgot quite a few events- Adrian getting drunk and the pawnshop (I think I remembered that obliquely, but not so much on it), or the trip to Texas (which actually came before the pawnshop but oh well). I was happy to finally get some actual Christian content again, although I regret we didn’t get more from Sydney & Rose or more Sydney & Lissa. On Adrian’s mental health storyline... I am less impressed by it than I was the first time (though I didn’t remember being super-impressed, but according to my first review?). I do actually like Adrian being insistent, once he’s started taking meds, that he’s going to continue, but the diagnosis of bipolar disorder doesn’t actually feel like it fits? I will say, I find Adrian’s “chicken or egg” pondering over whether spirit causes mental illness or mental illness means a predisposition to specializing in spirit is fascinating (though it’s probably for the best Richelle never actually answered it).

The way Adrian spoke (or thought) about Zoe really pissed me off. Like, one, you’re an adult, stop antagonizing the sister of the girl you like and just be cordial (which is less suspicious than suddenly acting like you and Sydney don’t get along at all), and two... Adrian’s super protective over Sydney after realizing the emotional abuse Jared heaped on, but somehow doesn’t realize that this fifteen year old has been spending time with said father’s attention solely focused on her for ages now, and he has no sympathy for her? Instead of seeing Zoe being like “Sydney shouldn’t have to provide for you all the time” and being like “aww, that’s a nice protective sister instinct even if she needs an attitude adjustment” he taunts a 15 year old about drinking from her the way he did to 20-something actual-predator Keith. He could have engaged yet another Sage sister in talking about his awesome car on the drive over, or at least made other good faith efforts.

The dabbling stuff made me more uncomfortable this time around (I think). Especially Sydney comparing her getting Keith’s eye ripped out to Adrian’s assault of a human girl... that was some real false equivalency on Richelle’s part. But other parts of it, like “oh here comes Adrian to save the day and at least he’s changed from these guys he used to hang out with (oh, look at that convenient statement that even back in the day Adrian wasn’t on the same level of bad as them)” was really frustrating, or the fact that Adrian was very deliberately withholding information from her in his own chapters and it made me question his trustworthiness in her chapters. Or the “oh, hey, he made the concession of getting treatment for his mental illness, so all is forgiven” handwaving. Like, Richelle brought this in to be an obstacle to their relationship, but it’s addressed so quickly (with maybe a pittance effort of later being like “oh, at least Adrian didn’t take advantage when Sydney accidentally absorbed some Moroi endorphins- he learned his lessons!) that it doesn’t merit the actual consideration of so important a topic Idk. I do feel like I enjoy the Sydrian relationship more in this book than the others, but I also have some huge issues with it.

Adaptation-wise, I think genderbent Adrian would definitely mean a change to the dabbling storyline (yes, women can be sexual predators, but I don’t think this storyline would be maintained with different social expectations). Honestly, give me an Adrian who, instead of having victimized someone, doesn’t immediately fully grasp how upsetting this idea of vampires preying on her species (and risking exposure) is to Sydney... Adrian being like “it isn’t sexual, those guys would never consider sleeping with a human” but the consent even to give blood still being critical to Sydney. And you know what? Let Lissa “compelled a guy to almost hit himself over the head with a baseball bat for molesting a Feeder” Dragomir have a spirit freak out moment of rage and go off on these subjects of hers the way that was deserved (and then once she cools down, maybe she can’t punish them fully, but she uses it to leverage their royal families’ agreement to the Family Rule amendment). And just finish that law by the end of the season, so that when the Alchemists pull out Sydney and Zoe, they’re actually closing down the whole Palm Springs operation in a rage. (if I remember correctly Alicia kidnapped Jill between books 5 and 6, but that was a stupid plotline imo- let Sydney and her coven take care of Alicia in the downtime of this book instead) Let Rose figure out that Sydney and Adrian are in love- she’s smart and she would pick up on that; let her celebrate them and encourage them to be happy together. Also the “Sydney and Adrian get three days at an inn to sex it all up” was stupid... like I’m happy for them but am I really supposed to buy that they could afford all that time away from Palm Springs?

As bad as I feel for Syd, and Adrian, and Eddie, and Jill, and Jackie at the end of TFH, I do remember that I’m going to feel worst for Hopper. I’m sorry that demon dragon Calistana has my heart and I remember one scene from Silver Shadows featuring the little guy prominently...

#I'm a VA girl

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brianna-lei · 7 years

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Butterfly Soup Asks #16

This time including the squad as DnD characters, Liz facts, Noelle getting her yaoi education, and more

I’ve only played Dungeons & Dragons once (1) in my life so I’m no expert! I’d consider my thoughts suggestions (like with my takes on the charaters’ MBTI types, which I’m not an expert of either):

Noelle as a Wizard sounds right, since she definitely can’t do anything reliant on physical strength. She would be an asshole and attempt things like building a Clone Army

AKARSHA THE BARD. Rogue sounds too cool for her

Diya: I actually want to say she’s a Ranger because the Wiki on 5th edition says “The Beast Master archetype forges a connection between civilization and beasts, allowing the character to interact with animals in certain ways including gaining an animal companion to control.“ Fighter and Knight also sound plausible though!

Min: Barbarian with high Strength and no Intelligence and Wisdom

I don’t want to say too much because I want to save things for the sequel, but here’s some stuff:

She actually played against Diya in youth leagues before she transitioned. That’s why she recognizes Diya+specifically approached her to sign the baseball club form while Diya doesn’t recognize her. At the first club meeting Liz tells her “I was at one of your games when you were little” -- This is purposefully ambiguous/misleading (sounds like Liz was just watching) because she passes and doesn’t want to out herself to a bunch of club members she doesn’t know well

After transitioning she quit baseball and switched to softball. It was weird being the one trans girl on a team of cis dudes, and additionally when she was younger she sort of felt like she had to prove she was a girl; she naturally has feminine taste, but she’d overperform it by 25%. It wasn’t until she got close to Chryssa and found out she also liked baseball that she reclaimed her interest in it

She has a nice resting face so strangers tend to ask her for directions

Sunburns easily

Yesss check the FAQ guys! Fangames are fine as long as you explicitly say it’s a fangame!!

I’m almost mad I didn’t think of this myself. I’m one of those people who overuses “spoopy”

All art in the game (including the title screen) can be downloaded here!

NO!!!

Noelle. The day the others find out will be the End of her

Akarsha was reading some yaoi so it came up in conversation, and since Noelle had never heard of it Akarsha gleefully educated her (to Noelle’s horror). Noelle was extremely scandalized that Akarsha kept sending her inappropriate images, and Akarsha was like “i’m doing this out of the kindness of my heart! it’s for ur education!! me: Master Teacher. call me sensei”

Following this Akarsha changed her chat name to YAOI SEME as seen at the beginning of the game

Diya and Noelle: Never tried it

Min: Has tried it

Akarsha: She constantly makes weed jokes but actually only does it rarely

Yes, I’m planning on exploring this more in the sequel!

Diya; Dee-ya. Rhymes with “See ya”

Min-seo: Korean way, but most characters like Diya pronounce it like Min-so, with the “Min” rhyming with “win” (not like “mean”). The “so” is one syllable (not like “see oh”)

Akarsha: uh-KAR-sha

Noelle: No L

I was planning on making the sprites blink! I’m still a bit sad I didn’t end up doing it

It’s supposed to be fall 2008 when they’re in high school, but I took a LOT of artistic liberties when it came to the references. For example, Akarsha makes a Durarara reference even though the anime didn’t come out until 2010, and there’s a lot of modern memes that ended up in there too...I couldn’t hold back...

The IGF trailer video is especially modern-day meme-wise -- since it broke the 4th wall, it was like, all bets are off. Don’t think too hard about it!

I wanted to put a lot of 90s and early 00s hits in the game for the nostalgia factor, like Complicated, Rock Your Body, Dilemma, etc. I think it would’ve made the experience even more surreal for players who are around my age!

I don’t own the rights to all the music so I can’t distribute it around for people to download! Here’s where you can find everything:

Thought Projection by Ketsa

Holding Your Breath by Ketsa

Thoughts of You by Ketsa

2011-13 by Ketsa

Miyauchi Yuri/110515 (miltata remix) by Miltata

Night Tourist by Miltata

Sound413_Images(short) by Miltata

Sound429_Floating Cloud (draft) by Miltata

Side by Side by Miltata

Blooming by Miltata

Romaras by Miltata

Little Circle by Miltata

Daydream by Miltata

Calling Project 2 by .que

Flame of Love by YOSHI

Valar Morghulis by Bloodgod

Overflowing by Tatsuya Kato

My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland

At one point Diya finds out what it means on her own. After she finds out, she uses it for the actual meaning :) (added this to the FAQ now)

I can totally relate to all of them, but I’d say Diya! (added this to the FAQ now)

that sounds a bit alarming

(I added this to the FAQ page now, thanks for reminding me) I’m fine with people shipping whatever!! The only thing I can think of that’d make me uncomfortable is incest and shipping Diya and Min with male characters – other than that, go nuts

Oh noo im sorry, that must’ve been stressful! For those who don’t know, I chatted about my game for a few minutes last week with MEGA (a USC club I used to be in!). I’ve adapted them here with what I assume what the questions were:

1. Is that your cat on your Skype icon?

yeah it is!! it's burrito

(people think it’s a cute name)

LOL glad you guys approve

2. Was the game made in Renpy? What do you think of Renpy vs. Twine?

yep! it's made in renpy! I actually started out in twine -- twine is impossible if your game is like longer than an hour and is image heavy. the engine started lagging so bad it would take 30 secs to do anything

2. Would you eat a tiny 2 inch man for $100 million?

LOL it's hard..it's a lot of money. I don't think I would

(but you could use that money to save many more lives! utilitarianism)

it's a real dude tho! i'd feel awful for him haha it's hard when you have to physically do it LOL

3. How long did it take for you to make Butterfly Soup?

FOREVER. I thought of it in my junior year over winter break

4. Was it for school (like an assignment)?

nah! just on my own

(people saying that’s impressive)

yeah!! self motivation

5. What’s your favorite part of the game?

hmmmmM I like the "date" with min in the dream. it's so fun, with the dog park

6. Which character do you relate to the most?

diya!! social anxiety queen, so relatable

(people comment on how she runs around when anxious)

i really did that before my sat once, ran 2 miles at the school's track

7. Are you from the San Francisco Bay Area

yeah i'm from the bay! east bay

8. Which year did you first come up with Butterfly Soup?

winter 2014 i think

(people trying to calculate which year was my junior year)

i graduated a year early so junior year was also senior year

9. Are you making a sequel?

yes!! once ihave more time. i have a lot of ideas for stuff that goes after

10. Was this a prequel to Pom Gets Wi-Fi? Or maybe spiritual successor?

this is a prequel. i dunno about spiritual successor tho, they're a bit differnt

11. Any tips on how to balance schoolwork and working on personal projects?

hmm...i honestly sucked at this and could only work on it on breaks lol...if you can try to work it into your school projects, like some bit of it...

other than that i cant think of anything LOL it's hard

12. How did you organize yourself making such a long game? Any tips?

it was SUPER hard to organize, i was really lost until i split it into 4 sections with each character. so if you're planning on making a game this big definitely think about forcing yourself into sections like that

the art was the most confusing to do bc of how many assets there were. i was going to say "have consistent naming conventions" but that's literally impossible LOL it'll always become inconsistent no matter how hard u try

13. What part of the game took the longest (writing? art?)

writing, actually, despite how much i complain about art assets. it's really hard making sure the structure and themes come across correctly. like pacing is so hard. art is like #2 biggest time sink

14. How early in did you write the Akarsha/Min skateboard scene?

that came pretty late haha i put it in at last second

15. Are the characters based on real people?

they're all inspired by combinations of ppl i know! i wouldn't say based on them, tho. for example min is like a combination of 3 friends i have, strategically arranged to play her part in the story

character design is design so u still gotta be deliberate about it

16. Who’s the other cat on the computer? (they’re referring to the cat on my desktop wallpaper)

that one's maru! he's a famous japaense cat. he's super photogenic

(people speculating that he’s the “tube one”)

the tube one? probably. he's famous for going into stuff

17. What was your favorite aspect of working on the game?

definitely getting to put specific Asian-American experiences into it

i was like HAHOH i can do this and no one can stop me! it was really fun getting to do this without any creative direction from like, a studio or anything. so i could just go bonkers. i hate pitching stuff so

18. Any writing advice?

definitely have other people beta your writing as soon as possible! they always catch stuff you missed. also this is like a cheat, make your characters really extreme. like find one aspect of yourself, and turn it up to 11 and make it into a character. that way they'll be relatable and memorable at the same time. i think most people don't make their characters extreme enough so they're all kinda samey

19. (I can’t remember what they asked me here, sorry! They were asking if a specific meme was in the game)

LMAO nah it's not. i did briefly think about it though, i will admit

20. Would you eat a Gusher the size of your hand?

that would be pretty cool. i don't think i could eat it all at once tho...i would try to save it. like half

You’re welcome, I’m really happy to hear it helped the game feel relatable!!

Thank you! I hope you have a good day too!!

haha I feel like my game is almost propaganda bc so many people wish they had girlfriends after playing it! the agenda...Thank you for waiting for the sequel, it makes me super happy to hear people are looking forward to it!

You’re welcome!! I’ll do my best!!!

You’re welcome!!!! :>

You’re welcome!!!

same I’m really happy so many people find them relatable! you’re welcome!!

You’re welcome!! my kids can never get enough love im very happy

I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for the support! TT_TT

#briANSWER #ask #my post #Butterfly Soup #socialpoison

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sweet-taiyaki · 4 years

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Sin City Sour

Warning: Some violence, sexual themes, angst, gun violence, language

I was celebrating how I managed to smuggle in illegal drugs with my team. All of a sudden, I was approached by these men, that were armed. “Get dressed, we have to take a ride. The boss wants to meet you.” Oh, how romantic. Nothing like being blindfolded by a bag, hands zip tied, and legs strung together by rope. Unfortunately, I’m in this situation more than you think. Don’t tell the bad guys, but I’m actually a CIA agent undercover. My real name is Vincent Hawthorne and today I’m playing the part of Benito Salazar, a member of a Spanish cartel shipping an illegal drug to the States. I basically feel like an infamous citizen at this point by all the missions I’ve done. I barely even know who I am anymore.

The men tie me to a chair and remove the bag from my head. I can see my gun, my burner phone, and my speedo. There were two men on each side of me with AK-47s. They seem poorly built though. “The boss” comes out of the shadows and starts laughing. “Out of all the idiots in the world, this is the top Spanish cartel leader? ¿Cuál es tu propósito? (What is your purpose),” he asked. I stood silent. This guy seems like an amateur leader that just wants to move up in the cartel hierarchy. My job is to prevent that from happening. “Mi equipo no puede ser derrotado. Decidimos matar a cualquiera que se estorbo. (My team cannot be defeated. We decided to kill people that get in the way),” I said confidently. My Spanish is okay, well actually all the languages I’ve learned are okay. I just basically know the gist of killing people and it seems to work. His guys grip their guns. They seem pretty intimidated, or angry. I see my phone go off, Costa was the name of the contact. The boss looks at my phone. “Yo no respondería (I wouldn’t answer that),” I said. The boss answers it anyway. The first bombs go off as warnings. “Puta madre!” I bust out of the zip ties and run as I get shot at, but then I set off the second set of bombs that blow up the place. I jump into a properly timed CIA squad car as I peel away the prosthetics and got away before they could escape the building.

“Nice to see you again,” said Ivy. “Just because you are a princess that can’t break a nail, it would have been nice to have some back up,” I said to her as she rolled her eyes. Ivy was an undercover agent, but then she moved up to the head of Intelligence and Foreign Affairs, so now she’s my boss. “I’d love to sit and chat, Vince, but I have another assignment for you.” Spoiler alert, Ivy and I had a small fling when we were on an assignment together, and I think she still has feelings for me, but reading a woman is so hard. “Do you overwork me because you hate me, or you actually give a shit about these citizens? To be fair, I haven’t been called Vince in over 5 years by the amount of undercover work I’ve done.” “I put you on because you’re the best at it,” she said, “At the end of the day, you give a shit about saving the people in the end because you created a relationship with them.” Great. So, now I’m a superhero that comes and goes for people because they ask for help.

Ivy drops me off at my apartment. “See you at 7 am,” she says and drives off. I live in New York. I sleep in this crappy apartment, but the view at night overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge. You would think I’d date, but I can’t by working all over the world from bad guys.

I woke up at 6 am, showered, and stared at myself in the mirror. I almost didn’t recognize myself. The Spanish cartel mission lasted a year and I had my tattoos covered. I had a black wig, but my hair is brown. My nose and jaw were made of prosthetics and I wore brown contacts when my eyes were blue. I almost cried, but I got ready for work to meet the HBIC.

I sat down in a chair, drinking my coffee, then I was approached by this intern that seemed to be starstruck by me. This kid was almost on the verge of hyperventilating. “You’re Vince Hawthorne! I’ve heard so much about you and your work,” he said. I felt like I should play with the kid. “No, no, sir. My name is Fabio. Parli italiano,” I said. The kid seemed in shock. “Oh, I’m sorry, Fabio. I thought you were someone I read about.” Ivy stood up in front of the podium.

“Good morning, everybody. I’m sure you may have heard that the Spanish cartel has been shut down and have been taken into custody. However, we have another mission, and it’s gonna be a little different. This one will only last a month at the latest. Our citizen’s name is twenty-three-year-old, Hayley Fay. She also goes by the name of ‘Rosé’ since she strips on the side without her parents knowing. Fay lives in Las Vegas. She met a client that was acting creepy, bouncers kicked him out, found out he was one of the hitmen to kill her. The mission is to save her from harm and put an end to her creep stalker. Mr. Hawthorne will be with the citizen to keep her safe and I will organize a team to assist him in Vegas in 48 hours. Thank you.”

All the men approach me so they can go to Vegas with me. I immediately find Ivy. “Ma’am, with all due respect, please pick the right people with me. I don’t want these low life, creepy middle aged men working along side me.” She stopped in her tracks, “You really believe that I would do that to those girls, no way. I’m organizing a team strategically. You’ll find the results on your flight. Here’s your identity.” She hands me my passport and state id. Ryan Sparrow is my new name. “Thanks, I appreciate that you put in my love of Johnny Depp in there.” She smiled then said quietly “Captain” as she walked away.

I get on the plane and found out that I’m with the intern. I mean, he was younger than me, but I think the kid is 21. Of course, he sat next to me. “Vince—” “The name is Ryan. Nice to meet you kind sir.” I grabbed his hand and pull his ear to my face. “I realize that this is your first gig, but we are undercover. You reveal my identity, you die.” He was scared and intimidated. We lift off into the air and I took a nap. I woke up and the kid was still a deer in headlights. I roll my eyes, but I knew I had to do something. “Hey, kid. I’m sorry. I’m just in the mode and I don’t want any of us to get hurt.” He nodded and started to realize that this is the real deal and that people could die if he didn’t keep his mouth shut.

We land in Vegas and check in to the Cosmopolitan. My team consisted of 6 guys, we decided to take a bachelor party approach. Jake, the groom; Chase, the best man; Hunter, the little brother of groom; Dylan, childhood friend of groom; Tyler, the kid and coworker; and myself, friend of groom. We got to our rooms and we had the view of the Bellagio Fountains. “Boss, did good,” Chase said. I get a call from Ivy. “Well well well, does this remind you of when we were in Paris,” I smirked. “Enough, Vince. I have cars for everyone that is in the garage. You’ll find the keys in your room. Everything you need for the mission should be in the car. I’ll be on the first flight there if anything goes wrong.” She hung up and we made our way down to the garage to find Mustangs in different colors. The guys got all excited, but these are nothing compared to Lamborghinis. We found burner phones to keep in contact, some pistols fully loaded, earpieces, beer and liquor, and some essentials. Ivy even gifted each of us a designer suit for the occasion.

Unfortunately, I’m the only one in the group that has been to Vegas, so the guys don’t really understand the lifestyle. Tonight, we plan to let loose, so they know the ins and outs of Vegas. Hopefully, they will remember it all. We pregame with shots of liquor, then hit the strip. The guys were in awe how women would just flirt with them. I got a table at a club, which is instantly a chick magnet. The guys picked a girl to flirt with and I went to the bar. “A Boston Sour, please.” The bartender seemed surprised. “Any preference on bourbon,” she asked. “Whatever you like,” I said confidently. She smiled and made the cocktail. “It’s nice to make something that isn’t White Claw or a vodka lemonade,” she said. “Now I know what to order next.” She laughed and served another guest. I do some surveillance of the club. There seems to be a good amount of security around the club, but then I found out that there was a table across the club that had men in suits that didn’t want any women at their table unless they stepped on the dancefloor. I looked away before they could notice me. The group of men left the club. I told the team that I would follow them through the earpiece.

At this point, I sobered up and was in the mission. I followed the group of men to a strip club, which happened to be Harley’s workplace. They went inside, but I decided to take a detour by going around to the back door. Fortunately, I found Hayley before her shift started. She worked the graveyard shift, midnight to 6 am. Hayley and the dancers looked over to me. “Ms. Rosé,” I said. “Out of all the girls, you pick Rosé,” a woman said as if she was insulted. “May I have a word? Just a few seconds, no favors or anything. I just want to talk,” I offered my hand. She took it, but she was kinda nervous. I pulled her out to the alleyway. “I don’t have much time to explain, but my name is Ryan Sparrow. There is a group of gentlemen that are here to kidnap and kill you.” She immediately got scared. “How do I know that you’re not one of them,” she panicked. “I like to think of myself as the ‘superhero’ character. Usually people don’t say that they will kill you. They just do. I’m hired to protect you. Do you trust me?” Hayley looked me and she nodded. I stuck her in my car and drove off.

The last few guys from the group of men saw that I took Hayley. “Ah, shit,” I said. The men got into their SUV and chased me. Of course, they were armed. I knew my gut was right about these group of guys. I tried calling my team to help me out, but the car kept shooting at me. No one answered. I tried to lose them by going through some alleyways and difficult turns, but they didn’t seem to lose their speed. I released some small bombs to pop the tires, but not injure the people around the car. It worked and all four tires were popped. It created a small explosion, but not enough to kill them. The guys continued to shoot at my car, but I ended up losing them, for now.

I got Hayley back to the hotel. She looked around to see all the technology I had set up. She looked at me and started laughing. “So, you must really be my superhero,” she said in a flirtatious way. “Kind of. I like my job and saving lives. I just want to make the world a happier place.” Hayley leaned into me. “Well, you came to the right place. How can I be of service for you?” She stuck her fingers in my pants and ran them across my waistline and crotch. “Hayley,” I said. She stopped and looked at me in shock. “No one calls me Hayley, but my parents. Did they send you to look over me?” She started getting angry. “No, I told you that I’m here to save you. I’ve never met your parents. My job is to get rid of the bad guys so you can be safe,” I said, pretty much like a father. Dammit. “At least your parents are alive. Mine were killed in front of me and I couldn’t react because it would have blown my cover and true identity. After years of being undercover, I don’t even know who I am. I became this robot to save people because I give a shit about justice and doing the right thing. It fucking sucks that I see people die and I can’t have any emotion when all I want to do is bury myself and cry. But I wasn’t put on this Earth to cry. I knew that I wanted to help people.”

I can’t believe I just confessed that, but I knew that it would reel her in and trust me. “I never said that to anyone, and I don’t want to lose you. So please, stay with me and I’ll keep you safe here and get rid of these men out to get you.” I got up as she looked at me and I looked back to her. “You’re gonna kill them,” she asked. I chuckled. “It’s either them or you, and it won’t be you.” She got up, kissed me passionately, and wished me luck as I left the hotel room, which was kinda unexpected.

It’s around 3 am. I get down to the lobby and I found my team completely wasted. I tried to keep my head down, but they recognized me. “Hey man!” They all shouted. I grabbed everyone by the bathroom. “Guys, seriously. Don’t enter my room, the citizen is in there. She’s quite scared so please just act professional.” The intern looked at me and knew that I was serious. “Don’t worry, Ryan. I’ll make sure no one goes in your room.” I gave him a pat on the shoulder and it looked like he was gonna cry. I moved them away and continued my mission to find the group of men.

Surprisingly, I was walking through the Circus Circus casino and saw one of the guys. I stayed hidden, but followed him to the hotel room, assuming the boss would be there. I knocked out the guy I followed after he got to his floor, out of the camera view. There were two big guys chatting outside a room with double doors. A group of girls came to the floor and saw the guy I knocked out in front of them. “Sorry, my friend can’t hang,” I said. The girls laughed and I smiled and winked at one of them. They were going towards the room with the double doors. I follow them and was stopped by the two guys. They closed the door. “No men allowed, turn the other way, pretty boy.” I knocked them out and snuck my way into the room. There was a party going on with a DJ, liquor bottles everywhere and another guarded door.

The guards see me and I make my way to them. “You wouldn’t want to traumatize these women, by a blood bath, would you? Kill me in private, or even take me to your boss.” They patted me down, found my burner phone, and let me in. The boss was covered in girls. All of them were laughing, drunk. I closed the door behind me and the room went silent. “Ooooo he’s cute,” said one of the girls. The boss took out a gun and shot her. The other girls ran out in panic and the boss came up to me. “Pretty boy with the mustang, huh. You tried to save your whore,” he looked me up and down. “She is so beautiful, and out of all the women I’ve bought as my slave, I wanted her. She would have been a great showpiece in my collection.” I started to get angry, but I knew if I showed any emotion, it would blow my cover. “Actually, Mr. Barsotti, I’m a man like you. I cum in girls all day. And when I’m your age, I’m gonna be just like you, buried in women, wanting me. I’m inspired by you and thought that you could give me some tips. No hard feelings. I just want the best and I knew the girl I got was the best.” He laughed and patted my shoulders. “Atta boy, you could be my apprentice. Would you like to join the team?” I nodded and he gave me an M-15. “Do you know how to use it,” he asked me. I looked at it nervously. He pulled a gun to my head. “Well now you do, go out there and—”

I heard gunfire outside the room. I dropped the M-15 and punched Mr. Barsotti. He fell to the ground and his two bodyguards pointed their guns and me and started shooting. I took cover, but I knew they were coming closer. I escaped through the vent to the other room. I saw my team in the room. They killed the door guards and started to help the other women escape. I go back to the room with the bodyguards and fought them. One of them had a knife and managed to slash my right arm. Thankfully, I have even strength in both arms, but both of them were too strong. My face is covered in blood and they wouldn’t stop beating me until they knew I was dead. I could barely move and I knew this was probably the end. I saw them take their guns and point them at my face. I closed my eyes and I heard four guns shots.

“Ryan, Ryan” I heard faintly. I was outside the casino with police cars and an ambulance early in the morning. “Are the girls safe,” I said. “Yeah, they’re safe and Mr. Barsotti was taken into custody. We thought we lost you, man.” My arm was bandaged, and my face had some stiches, but I was okay. “I couldn’t have done it without you guys. Together we gave those women a future.” They all smiled at each other.

I decided to go back to the hotel to pack up and leave. I brought some coffee and a fruit cup for Hayley. I got in my room and she was sound asleep, knowing that she was safe. I woke her up, gave her breakfast. “You’re free, you are safe now. The boss was actually holding women hostage as his slaves and we saved them. So it’s like a double win.” She sighed in relief as she rolled out of bed. “Thank you, Ryan. Do you mind if I call you for all my stalkers? Oh my God, what happened to your arm,” she panicked. “I’m fine, I’ll escort you to your house, if that’s okay.” She nodded.

I took Hayley to her parent’s house. They hugged her as soon she opened the door. I walked back to my car when I heard a ‘wait’. “Please, may I call you,” Hayley asked me. I laughed, wrote on a piece of paper, and gave it to her. She opened it. “Seriously, 911?” I laughed and said, “I can’t always be there for you, unfortunately. I have more people to save. I hope it inspires you to save people.” She turned around to her parents and looked at me, “Thank you, Ryan.” She got back into her parent’s house. “It’s Vince,” I said softly. I drove off and left on the first flight back to New York.

I got back to work the following day. Ivy approached my team and congratulated them on their success defeating Mr. Barsotti and his cartel. “Hawthorne, see me in my office, please.” I sighed angrily. I was not ready to take on another mission. Thankfully, this last one was pretty short and sweet, but I felt another long mission ahead of me. She closed the door behind me and I let loose. “Ma’am, with all due respect, I am exhausted—” “Stop, that’s not what I called you in here.” I was confused, if it wasn’t about work, then what would I be in her office for? “Vince, you save lives, plenty of lives. And I know that what you’ve gone through is definitely not easy. I know you can’t save everybody, but you definitely make the world a better place by taking the bad people to justice. With that, I brought you in today to be yourself.” I laughed. “Be myself, what kind of advice is that?” She rolled her eyes and I know she was trying to be genuine. “We are giving you three months of paid time off. You deserve it after being my partner years ago to now. You are an incredible agent and this is my present to you so you can get back to your normal life.” I contemplated what she said and I know her intention was sincere and caring. “Thank you, Ivy.” We got up and hugged each other. “It’s good to have a friend like you,” I said as I left her office.

I celebrated with the team at a bar. We watched some sports, got a couple rounds of beers. This was me. It just felt right. I saw Ivy come into the bar with a guy and saw her join a group of their friends. I saw there was a ring on her finger, and they kissed. She looked at me and I raised my glass to her. She smiled. Dammit. I lost her.

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Book 22/2017 - Ride the Storm by Karen Chance

I’m like a month late to the party, but anyway, here goes. I read it twice because I didn’t have time to write about it after the first time (that’s a shame because God have I waited for this book) and I’m glad that I did because I missed so much on the first time through! Like how Artemis is still kinda around and might be back (and Roger, too, I guess, since his soul is still there and that’s enough for a clairvoyant/necromancer like Cassie), and how it was Arthur who really killed Apollo and Ares? I should have known, I always get distracted by the action scenes with these books (although thinking about it, not noticing Arthur’s deicide was probably due to another kind of action^^), so I normally need a reread to catch the finer details. RtS doesn’t feel enough like a standalone book to talk about it in my usual fashion, so I’ll comment on some things I found noticeable instead.

1. Chapter 3, Rosier giving Cassie a pep talk I think the point Rosier is making, basically fake it ‘til you make it, is something Cassie really needed to hear, and something she should remember more often. It’s in every book of the series so far, but in this one it really struck me how negatively Cassie thinks of herself, always telling herself and others how much of a screwup she is, how she never gets anything done and is never able to save anyone. I get where it’s coming from, unfinished business just keeps on piling up in front of her and every time she jumps back to save Pritkin, she’s quite sure it’s her last try - talk about pressure. What she doesn’t notice, and what’s so great about Rosier’s little speech, is that everyone is making do with what they’ve got. We don’t know much about how the bad guys operate, but even the most respected and powerful leaders of the (supposedly) good side like the Consul and Jonas improvise more often than not. They lose people, they are taken by surprise, and they’ve made their fair share of mistakes. Compared to them, Cassie’s track record looks pretty good, and even more so considering her lack of experience, knowledge about the supernatural world, and also authority (although that is finally getting better). So I think it would be good for Cassie if someone else continued in the same vein as Rosier, because in all likelihood she won’t see how well she’s doing herself.

2. Chapter 7, Rhea being heroic This is one of those instances where Rhea acts more like a classical hero, but what I think is really important about her character is that these moments when Rhea turns into a fighter are not (only) what make her admirable for her bravery in Cassie’s eyes, and a great female character from a reader’s perspective. She does have scenes that show her martial side, and those are great, but she’s more of a caretaker than a warrior and thereby fulfills a traditionally female role. She represents a type of womanhood that doesn’t require its role models to know 100 different ways of killing a person but none of making an omelette, be loud and outspoken all the time, only have male friends etc. = features that are generally associated with maleness and inherently superior and more admirable than “girly” ones like knowing how to prepare healthy meals or comfort crying children. This type of womanhood doesn’t force women to become practically male in order to deserve respect, thereby abandoning all her other instincts that make her appear weak because they’re associated with femaleness. It doesn’t assign a gender to certain characteristics, and it doesn’t rank them. Rhea (and also Tami) is a good example for that because while displaying some martial qualities, she is mainly celebrated because of her personal strength and her ability to hold the Pythian Court together. In a universe that has many male characters, and even more from both genders who are respected mainly because they are good fighters, it’s nice to see a diffferent type of a strong female character.

3. Chapter 13, Cassie calling her vamp bodyguards family I knew Cassie cared about her bodyguards, but I think this is the first time she openly calls them family (and does it again later, then including her court and Tami and the Misfits). I don’t think this principle of hers that she can’t care about anyone never truly worked out for her, but in the first few books she kept insisting that it did at some point, and wondering why it didn’t anymore. It’s great to see that she finally abandoned this mantra, and for so many people at that, and it shows how good a leader she is: she feels responsible (even too much sometimes), she gives and inspires unconditional loyalty, and she doesn’t care about people’s backgrounds or species as long as they stay with her. She even offers a war mage a place, although she really didn’t have good experiences with them, because she thinks it’s worth a shot for the protection of her family and because she judges people by their actions instead of their previous allegiances, and only after they joined her group. So it warms my heart to see her calling her bodyguards family, and I hope she gets to spend more time with them and her court now that she doesn’t have to spend all her time in medieval Wales anymore.

4. Chapter 14, Cassie and Caleb arguing This is where she talks about a gulf between her and everybody around her, so the exact opposite of the family thing... yay. I can see Cassie’s point here - she really doesn’t have much help to deal with all the crap that’s flung at her, so I get that she feels like she has to do everything on her own because no one’s going to want to help her anyway, at least not without terms and conditions. But it has me worried for her that she barely seems to notice how she is running herself ragged, and that her death would be about the worst thing that could happen regarding the war. She doesn’t see how important she is, and naturally she doesn’t act accordingly. Of course she couldn’t have just quit the mission to save Pritkin, and finding out about the gods’ weapons was important, but her dying because she is too exhausted doesn’t help anyone either. The bad thing is, I don’t see a solution to this problem, so I’ll just fantasize for a moment and imagine that the next Cassie book starts with her spending two weeks in a remote mountain spa without reception, supernatural or otherwise, so that she can recharge again. She’s definitely earned it, so... pretty please?

5. Chapter 22, Cassie and Pritkin trying to define what they are to each other I miss their banter so much, especially since this book in my opinion was the darkest one so far and mainly consisted of running, fighting and suffering. And I like it that deep down they both think their relationship is of the “It’s complicated” kind (even though baby!Pritkin doesn’t know the half of how complicated it is), but that it’s Cassie who says it first. This book shows Cassie coming to terms with her feelings for Pritkin, and light as this conversation may be, it’s definitely progress from her being deliberately obtuse when it comes to her and Pritkin.

6. Chapter 31, Cassie and Mircea “talking”, part 1 Because that’s the thing: They don’t talk. And it’s not just that he never tells her anything, it’s the same the other way around. It doesn’t show as much because normally, when Mircea asks Cassie a question, there’s a few pages of interior monologue on why she can’t answer his question so that you forget that there was a question in the first place. At least I do. So they both have no idea what the other has been up to for the last few books (no idea how much that was in real time, I’m confused) and the only time they get in touch with each other is when one of them wants something, ideally right now and no questions asked, thank you very much. I certainly don’t think Mircea is without sin, his behaviour especially concerning Cassie is not great (which is why I really want them to break up because this relationship seems to bring out the worst in him) - but I don’t think he’s the only one to blame that it didn’t work out. Communication goes both ways, and with each other, they both suck at it. I had high hopes for this book, I thought they were finally going to break up for good and say out loud that it just didn’t work out, but well... next one, hopefully.

7. Chapter 32, Cassie and Jules talking I liked this chapter because 1. I like Jules, especially this new confident version of him, and 2. because this conversation between Jules and Cassie offers a rare perspective (in the Cassie books) on Mircea by someone who isn’t Cassie, and therefore not tangled up in their mess of a relationship.Not that Jules is entirely objective either, but since he’s human now and not bound to Mircea and the family any more, I think he’s a trustworthy source on how people who are not Cassie view Mircea. According to him, others think of Mircea as quite trustworthy (for a vampire) and also very capable when it comes to strategies for the war. And Jules himself says that Mircea would be sorry and apologize to the baby vamp he accidentally shut up permanently if he realized what had happened. These snippets show other sides of him - reliability, a sense of honour, experience, a conscience, a disregard for hierarchy etc. - that for me as a self-declared Mircea fan are very refreshing to read.

8. Chapter 49, Cassie and Pritkin talking about “the rival” This is exactly what I want, right here. They are talking. No obvious change of topic, no one disappearing, but a real conversation about real feelings with a real result, uncomfortable as it might be. Thinking about it, (with Cassie) Pritkin is actually much less cagey about personal stuff than Cassie is, although for him she’s finally trying hard to explain herself and be honest. The younger version of him is pretty straightforward anyway, which makes sense because that seems to be one of his basic characteristics and at that stage he didn’t have that much to hide yet. But once the modern him starts trusting Cassie, he’s very honest with her, too - she can ask him pretty much anything and he’ll answer, no matter how painful it might be for him to talk about his past. He even got very close to telling her he loved her, which is huge considering the whole Ruth story. Cassie, in comparison, still has strong flight instincts until pretty much the end of the book - not because of shame, I think, but rather because of habit and a lack of self-worth? I’ll have to think about this. But anyway, that’s why I liked this mini-scene, and that’s why I was so so happy to read that Cassie was the first one to say the three words in the end. First, because it’s a huge step forward for her, and second because I think Pritkin needed that to deal with his own lack of self-worth. And to relax enough to have sex that was hot enough to kill gods. Destroying the god of war with love... How very poetic.

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[COMPILATION] 170521 YoonA Birthday Party Fanaccounts by itnw0628

Outline: 1. Song - I Like You (Original by Weather Forecast) 2. Greeting 3. Cake Cutting 4. Q&A 5. Song - Hero (Original by Okdal) 6. Inside YoonA's Brain (What YoonA is thinking recently) 7. Yoongstagram (Pictures of 'The King Loves') 8. Additional Q&A 9. Greeting (YoonA walking around the audience seat, taking questions directly from fans) 10. Photo Time 11. Song - Deoksookung (Original by YoonA & 10cm)

- YoonA said her solo SM Station song will be released in a couple months, likely after full SNSD comeback. - YoonA treated us so well omg I just can't even describe. She came down to the audience seat, walking around and received Qs - YoonA talked a lot, took a lot of Qs from fans. I might have to stay all night to translate them lol but I'm happy. She was amazing. - YoonA said she told her manager about this birthday party from March. She told him she'll do it no matter what. - YoonA said she was counting how many days left for this birthday party recently. She was really looking forward to this event. - YoonA sang total of 3 songs. 'I like You' by Weather Forecast, 'Hero' by Okdal, and her own 'Deoksookung' - YoonA said she might do IG Live for the first time on her birthday so stay tuned. - YoonA changed the lyrics of 'I Like You'. Original is 'Hello my angel', she sang 'Hello my SONE'. - YoonA at the beginning. "I was at the waiting room, feeling nervous (of conducting bday party) even though it's already my 3rd time." - YoonA, "Because of drama shooting, I couldn't prepare a lot of things for this birthday party, unfortunately. Therefore, I would like to have a lot of conversations with you today." - YoonA, "I wanted to do what you want me to do, and many said they want to see me sing. That's why I opened the party with the song." - Before cake cutting, YoonA, "Should I wear bunny headband or sunglasses? I guess you'd prefer bunny, right?" then put it on. - YoonA, "I told manager oppa that I'll hold birthday party, because I had overseas schedule but didn't have many local schedules. Therefore I thought Korean fans might feel sad about it. That's why I wanted to hold this birthday party (for you). According to manager oppa, today is the only day I can set the schedule for birthday party, though it's a bit early." - After cutting the cake, YoonA asked fans if she can take bunny headband off. Fans said no, so YoonA replied "OK, I won't." - YoonA, "I heard Sunny unnie's birthday party was awesome." Fans said yes. YoonA, "It gave me a lot of pressure." Fans laughed. - YoonA, "I asked Sunny unnie what exactly she did for her party. Sunny said 'Not much....but I feel a bit sorry for you.' Sunny unnie actually said on our kakao chat room, 'How did you prepare this for every year? You're amazing.’” - YoonA, "Though mine might not be as funny as (Sunny's), I'd like to make this party to show my charm." - YoonA, "Perhaps I stayed in the mountain for far too long, it still feels a bit awkward (doing this)." then laughed. - YoonA, "I think Q&A section is the most interesting one, since we don't have much time to interact with each other besides this.

Q&A Portion

Q1: How many times did you watch 'Confidential Assignment'? I believe you look so natural in the movie even for you. “It was really fun shooting the movie. It was my first movie, and fortunately I met a lot of good sumbaenim and staffs. I wanted to start my movie career with this sort of role, not the main role. I think I chose the right one. Compared to my previous ones, I acted different for this role. I did it more comfortably. I still keep in touch with a lot of actors/actresses until now. Oh, and about the scenes which draw a lot of laughter, many of them were actually ad-lib. E.g., there was a scene which Minyoung told Chullyung 'My room is here.' I thought she would say like that so I added it. It wasn't planned, but I think the director thought it was funny, so he included the scene. Also, the scene which MY and her unnie talking about unnie's husband (played by Yoo Haejin), I added the line 'Yeah, you should've cared more about the appearance when choosing your husband. I was really surprised.' Director said the line is really funny, so he included that one, too. That whole conversation had a lot of ad-libs.”

Fans asked about the most famous scene, 'Do you still love that woman?' was also an ad-lib. YoonA said that script was planned.

“The scene MY watch CY on the news and being hit by her unnie was planned, but the line 'Wow he's so cool!' was an ad-lib. It was really fun shooting the movie. I'm glad many fans like it. Thanks.”

Q2: Hair style or color which you want to do someday? "I guess many fans are really interested in my hair." then laughed. "My hair isn't growing, it's more like getting cut every day." Fans went silent. YA, "You don't have to look that sad." laughed. "I bleached my hair 4 or 5 times when doing Party promo, and after that my hair got weaker. But I don't regret doing it at all because it was really satisfying. I heard that many fans like my black hair? But dark black is not my favorite color, unfortunately." Fans shouted, "YoonA is meondeul" (Whatever YoonA does, you're awesome), then YoonA suddenly started laughing. "Actually I said the same line while shooting movie. Then they trolled me by saying "Oh, so you're meondeul? Hey meondeul!” “For my hair, I want it to be long. And the color, I don't like too fancy one, dark brown might be my choice as of now.” YoonA asked fans, "Which style do you prefer?" Fans said "Everything!" YA replied, "Though you say so now, I know you'd complain! Even though I dyed my hair once, my hair got cut so fast it almost feel like I dyed again." then laughed.

YoonA: "Why did you guys write about Ooh-La-La so much?" Fans shouted "Because it's 10th anni!" YoonA: "Then we should talk about ITNW?" Fans shouted: "We want to see you doing narration on the song!" YoonA laughed, said "I can't even remember it." Then YoonA laughed weakly, said "I just remember the line after I said I can't even remember it." Fans laughed. Fans shouted "Please sing Top-T-O, too!" YoonA, "What is Top-T-O?" Fans, "Top Secret-Trick-Oscar." YoonA: "OK, I'd suggest the idea. If one of those songs are included in the future concert, please remember it's because of my work!"

Q3: Your favorite nickname? And have you tried ticketing for your own birthday party? "Is ticketing for Yoong Party tough?" Fans said yes. YoonA: "Good." Fans laughed. YoonA: "Makes me feel like I'm popular." laughed. "I haven't done the ticketing. I thought about doing it in a bigger venue, but it's hard for me to be the exception." YoonA jokingly added, "And what if the seats aren't full (when I hold the party at a bigger venue)?" then laughed. "My favorite nicknames are 'Dre-Yoong' and 'Yoong-phrodite'. Describing me with dress on, I really love them. I also like the simple one such as 'Yoongyi'. "I think it's time to say goodbye to nicknames such as 'Him-YoonA', 'Deer', 'Lim-Choding'" then laughed. But, if many fans still want to call me like that, it's OK. "You can call me meondeul" then laughed.

Q4: Do you know your aegyo video is still being played on Weekly Idol? "I know! I should've done it better if I knew it were going to be played like that! "Perhaps I should collect my appearance fee for that." then laughed. "I'm curious about the reaction when they watch the clip, so I search for it. It's funny." then laughed.

Q5: Role you want to do in the future, and the one that you like the most so far? "I know what you want me to do. The character should be born rich, a bit sassy. Or, her job requires license, such as doctor." Fans roared. "Cop? Well, we have Kang Sojoo for that, she looks so natural with it. I actually received two scrips yesterday and one of them was born rich, though I didn't read it carefully just yet. When I looked at the script, I thought 'Well, fans would like the role if I do it.'" then laughed.

Actually, my favorite dramas are 'Discovery of romance', 'I need a romance', and 'Oh Haeyoung Again'. I'd like to do a romantic comedy like that, though I don't have any particular character in my mind. But, I don't like the horror one."

Q6: Do you have anything curious about SONE? "I got a lot of questions for you, but the problem is, when I ask you something, you always say 'Everything!'. Such as, 'Which style do you prefer?' then you say 'Everything!'. It's always like that!" then laughed."

OK, then. When I'm thinking of you, which thought and feeling you want me to have?" Fans jokingly said, "Everything!" YoonA replied, "You can't say everything on this question." So fans shouted a lot of things, such as "Happiness", "Reassuring", "Resting place", etc. YoonA listened every single thing carefully.

Q7: You've been our happiness for 10 years. To you, what are we? "I actually thought about it and put it on the letter I gave you before the party. Consistently cheering for me for 10 years, that's not easy. I can be myself because you've been here. I feel so grateful. Put it simply, you're the one who made myself now. I got a lot of strength by reading your comments."

Q8: What do you feel when you act 'San'? "It's tough, but also fun. Historical drama is the first for me, but I didn't feel much problem. Tough part is, since it's being filmed in various places, manager oppa has to drive a lot. I feel sorry for him."

Q9: Which smartphone game do you play recently? "Recently, not much. But there is a game I'm playing now. It's 'Swipe Breaking Bricks'. First time I saw manager oppa playing it, I said 'Why do you play such a game?'. But now I'm playing it. It's addictive.” (Link for the game: here)

Q10: How was your feeling when you filmed 'Give Me A Meal'? Fans shouted, "Highest ratings!" YoonA replied, "Yes, right. Thanks to you who watched it, I felt very proud. It was really fun. To be honest, I didn't expect to be rejected that many times." then laughed. "But I actually liked it. I know some fans felt sorry for me, but those things make better TV. Since I didn't film the variety for long, it was so good. And I was really hungry, I ate quite a lot." then laughed. "They didn't let me eat anything before that. I received some snacks from kids in the town, but staffs didn't let me eat them."

Q11: When do you feel your love towards SONE the most? YoonA without hesitation, "When you give me food, and when you say my pics on IG don't look worn out." Fans laughed. YoonA complained cutely, "Well, I found others' pics look as worn out as mine. You're especially harsh on me!" Fans laughed.

Then YoonA explained to fans why certain pics can't avoid being looked worn out. She was really cute lol. "And why do you dislike pic with frame on?" Fans replied, "We want to see you big." YoonA: “Then you can zoom in!"

Fans asked YoonA to take a pic closer. YoonA, "Ah, it's very hard to make cute face and take a pic myself. It's embarrassing." Fans, "You're pretty as you are." YoonA, "You're gonna call me 'Sel-Go' (person not good at taking selfie) if I take it naturally!" YoonA complained cutely, "You're so picky, it's really tough to satisfy you!" Fans laughed.

Q12: Boo-Meok or Jjjik-Meok? (FYI, BM means person who pours sauce on Tangsooyook, JM means person who dips each one into the sauce) "I'm Jjik-Meok. I like it being crunchy.

Q13: Do you like the color of the wristband of Yoong Party? "Wristband? Oh, that one. It feels like we're in the club together. Don't take it off when you go home. I heard you had to take a proof shot for Sunny's birthday because you lost the game. She's really good at games. I wrote one for Sunny's birthday party game, and I think I wrote it way too easy. I didn't know it'd be used like that."

Q14: When will your solo album release? "Actually I have a song to release, but since I'm shooting drama recently, I have to concentrate it first. So I'll work on it after finishing drama shooting. I want to put my voice on the song of which style I like. It's a fan service for you, and also for me." then laughed.

It's not an album, just a Station song. So there's not gonna be any promotion for it. I'm planning on writing lyrics of the song together with other writers."

Q15: I found you have similar clothes, so what is your criteria when choosing them? YoonA firmly said, "I know what you mean when you say 'similar clothes', but each and every one is different." Fans laughed.

“I don't have any particular criteria. I just think about the time and places when selecting which outfit I should wear. But I do like the simple style. Perhaps that's why my wardrobe looks rather limited. I know which style suits me well, and I think my stylist knows it, too but sometimes we feel like trying something different. I wish fans don't get stressed too much (about my clothes). You know what I mean."

Q16: Voice of 'Station~' on the SM Station Trailer, is it yours? "Yes, it's me. It was really fun to see fans arguing whether it's my voice or not. I was like, 'It's me~'" then laughed." (Link for the SM Station trailer, YoonA’s voice at 0:28 mark: here)

Q17: What do you want to do with fans the most for SNSD's 10th anniversary? "I want to ask you back. Which one do you want to do with us?" Fans shouted lots of things, including reality show.

"Oh, reality show. I guess we can make it work? With Channel SNSD team? But, I'm not a manager, so..." then laughed.

Q18: Do you still feel difficult on running social medias? YoonA said quietly, "No, but if I do this, you say something, and if I do that, you say something..." Fans laughed. YoonA continued quietly: "But it's not difficult. I'm doing great and I'll keep doing it." Fans cheered. YoonA suddenly raised her voice, "Well, I (jokingly) said so because I wanted you to feel sorry about that." then laughed. "(Jokes aside), Please keep cheer for me."

Q19: Which role among the ones you played is your favorite so far? YoonA asked back to us, "Which one do you like the best?" Fans shouted various roles. "I think when San comes out, you will lover her quite a lot."

Q20: How about singing Ooh-La-La, Etude, and My Child for 10th anniversary concert? "Since so many fans requested Ooh-La-La, I'm thinking about actually doing it." Fans roared.

"But first, I should persuade unnies. And I believe they will hate the idea, saying 'Why do we sing Ooh-La-La!!'" then laughed.

"But it's gonna be fun. I should do it. We don't need to dance the choreo, though, right?" Fans complained. "You know, (unnies) won't like to practice choreo." Fans, "But it's 10th anniversary!" YoonA weakly said, "Oh, you're right."

Q21: When you did pre-election voting, why did you wear normal clothes while other actors wore drama outfits? "We agreed to do the vote after lunch. I already changed clothes when I went to eat lunch, but other actors didn't. They said they'll vote with drama outfits on. I wanted to change it again but it was quite far, so I couldn't."

Q22: How do you feel about younger girls? Hmm, I don't know why you ask this question to me. I like dongsaengs. At this point, one fan shouted "Then date me!" YoonA burst out laughing when she heard it.

Q23: Which song do you want to sing for the concert? "I'd suggest singing Top-T-O."

Q24: 1+1 aside, please do 'Oppa-ya' and 'Unnie-ya'. (FYI, this fan meant 'Oppa-ya' by Shin Hyunhee & Kim Route.) YoonA sang the first part of 'Oppa-ya' for us. (Link for the song: here)

Q25: Your solo promo plan, and full SNSD album plan? "I think my solo song will come out after finishing full SNSD promo.

Q26: What does stripe T-Shirt mean for you, and how many do you have in your wardrobe? YoonA laughed weakly, said "Really..." then passed on the question lol

Q27: Since you only follow SNSD members on IG, don't you feel inconvenient when looking others' account? "Yeah, sometimes it's inconvenient. I thought about expanding it, but I came to the conclusion that right now is the best. If I follow others, then some might complain why I don't follow SNSD members only." then laughed.

"I got my way to read others', though. I tag my staffs when posting pics, so I can go to their accounts by the tags. And if someone told me fans posted something, then I search it and go to the account to see it. Yes, I'm telling you now to post a lot of things (about me)." then laughed.

"If I expand followings more than SNSD members, is it OK for you?" Fans said yes. YoonA, "OK, then I'll start following others. Everyday I'm surprised to see number of my followers improved a lot, very quickly. You're making me 'Shoo-Seu (superstar)'" "Fans shouted "Im-Shoo-Seu!". YoonA, "Shoo-Seu...I like it. Im Shoo-Seu, I like it."

Q28: Songs you like to listen (recently)? "I love listening Korean songs and English songs. Oh, Chinese songs, too, for studying purpose. If I have to pick one song I really like recently, it has to be "Gejji" by 2LSON. I like that type of song." (Song link: here)

Q29: Are you preparing SNSD's 10th anniversary album well? Please tell me the concept of new album. YoonA playfully said (almost felt like trolling us), "I don't know it yet. It's not decided yet."

Q30: If you didn't do idol, which job would you pick? You must be known as the one who's as pretty as celebrities! "Many people told me I would find a way to be the celebrity no matter what." then laughed.

Fans laughed, too and YoonA awkwardly said while laughing, "Just saying. I just wanted to read this question."

Q31: To you, which choreo is the coolest / toughest among SNSD's. "You know the answer for the latter one, right?" Fans all said, "CMIYC" YoonA, "Yes, right." then sighed heavily. “And the coolest one is, to me, it's Karma Butterfly. Idea of using chairs was cool, and the song was also great. Other SNSD members love it, too. When we did SMT concert, we asked staffs for letting us perform Karma Butterfly but we couldn't. I think it's the coolest. And it has SNSD's vibe. I think Genie and Hoot are typical SNSD-esque songs, and KB has it, too. But I like CMIYC and IGAB, too.”

“Problem is, I haven't danced for a while. Speaking of dancing, I remember funny episode with Hyoyeon unnie. It was an event show, and Hyo bragged, saying 'Hey, you guys haven't danced for a while, right? I've danced every day!’ It was so funny. But seriously, Hyoyeon unnie really loves dancing. It's cool.”

Q32: Please show us your pretty face more frequently. "Yes, I will. To show you myself more frequently, I'm shooting the drama very hard."

Q33: "How can I do everything so well?", is this real? (FYI, this fan is talking about YoonA's answer for Sunny's Q on her birthday party) YoonA asked back to us, "How do you think?" Fans said, "Yes, it is!"

Q34: When do you think 'Yeah, I'm really pretty.' while watching your video? YoonA couldn't stop laughing after reading this Q. "Actually I received the exact same Q when shooting Confidential Assignment. Director and Hyunbin oppa asked me the same question. Well it's more like they trolled me, but anyway. So I jokingly said, 'Do you know how my fans tell me about this question? Do you know when I'm the prettiest? They asked me when. I said, 'The answer is 'tomorrow', that's when I'm the prettiest.'" then laughed.

“Then they burst out laughing, even mocked me for that. They trolled me for that when doing interviews as well. But, I like that one, too. 'Tomorrow'."

(END OF Q&A Portion)

Talk about songs - YoonA said she never sang both 'I Like You', and 'Hero' before. But she picked those songs because of the lyrics. - YoonA, "Just like last year, I thought about the lyrics the most when choosing the songs, because they're for the fans." - YoonA, "I could pick a song which I can sing more comfortably, but considering everything, I think this song (Hero) is the right one." - YoonA, "This song contains the message I want to tell you & the one I want to hear from you. Please listen to the lyrics carefully." - During the 'Hero' stage, YoonA fist pumped when the part 'You're my only hero.' came. Original song: Link Rough trans of song: Link

Inside YoonA’s Brain - After singing 'Hero', next section was 'Inside YoonA's Brain'. She categorized her interests and talked about them. - FYI, YoonA put this drawing in front of her and talked about each category.

(Above photo cr @k_to_ri on twitter)

1st topic: The King Loves 'The King Loves' takes biggest shares, so YoonA started with that one. YoonA, "I started shooting The King Loves from January, and now it's May. 90% of my schedule was filled with it."

2nd topic: SNSD’s 10th anniversary album YoonA, "I was a bit worried that drama shooting might affect preparing ‪SNSD's 10th anniversary album. We're preparing the album step by step, and I'm looking forward to see how ‪SNSD's 10th anniversary album comes out. It's been a long time we did album promotion, so I'm looking forward to it, and I think it'll be exciting. I'm really curious to know how ‪SNSD's 10th anniversary album will come out, and which one will be the title number." then laughed.

Since I already received many requests from you for ‪SNSD's 10th anniversary, I will ask if some of them can be reflected.”

3rd topic: Travelling & Vacation YoonA, "Well, I can fill all of my brain only with these. Travel, and Vacation." then laughed. “I really want to travel somewhere, and I need a vacation so bad. That's why I described 'work' by the small dot. It's my reality (but I want to avoid)." then laughed. “Since I did K2 and The King Loves without break, in my mind I want to take a (little) break. So if I tell you I'm taking a break, don't be surprised. Because that means I'm preparing something!" then laughed. “But in reality, I don't think I'm taking a break." then smiled.

"About travel, I got 2 themes. Vacation spot (place you can rest your body) or the place u can feel something, like Italy, etc. I checked Yuri unnie's IG and she went to Europe. Jealous. I was like, 'I want to take pretty pics there.'" then laughed.

4th topic: Shopping YoonA, "Since I'm mostly staying in the mountain recently, I got no time to put my own clothes on. So I want to shop. I'm thinking about shoes recently. Or accessories. Speaking of shoes, my feet aren't that huge. But sometimes, fans gave me shoes of which size are too big. Sad thing is, those shoes are very pretty. But I couldn't put them on. Anyway, my interest is now on shoes and accessories."

5th topic: Wine YoonA, "My specialty (among alcoholic beverages) is wine. Not that I'm being luxurious." then laughed. "Maybe talking about alcohols won't be accepted fondly?" Fans said "It's OK." YA, "I was talking about the company." Laughed

"To me, liquors with strong smell, such as soju, whiskey, etc. are difficult. But wine is fine. Especially red wine. I love it. I'm thinking about studying wine when I have free times. I'm not a strong drinker but I'm not a weak drinker as some think. Though I have to admit I can't compete with Soolkyu unnie. Yeah, I think there are members who are weaker than me. I think I'm in a higher tier. At least that's what I like to believe. You know, we got 'Al-Sseu' (person who is very weak at alcohol), right?" then laughed. "Mostly, our members like the atmosphere, not alcohol itself. So I want to study more about wine when I have some time off."

6th topic: Golf YoonA, "Recently, people I met constantly told me that I should play golf. At first, I considered golf is for elder people, but I was wrong. Nowadays, many (young) people also play it. So I thought about learning golf, but I couldn't make time to do it. But I want to learn it someday. Since I'm not an active person, I think slow sport like golf suits my style. I also like to breathe in fresh air outside. Also, many people can enjoy it together at the same time, I like that part. Even some of SNSD members play it."

Fans asked "Who is the best golfer among SNSD members?" "Actually never seen any of them playing yet. Fun thing is, when people learn golf, they always take videos of themselves swinging the golf club, then brag 'How about my form? Isn't it look great?' So all I saw were those videos." then laughed. "I think I saw Yuri and Hyoyeon unnie uploaded the videos before, and most recently it was Sooyoung unnie. Anyway, I'm thinking about learning it."

7th topic: Birthday party YoonA, "As I told you earlier, I was wondering about the things I'd do for this birthday party. I thought hard about it. I even had a crazy idea. 'How about putting a glass of wine for each and every seat? We all drink and hold drunk bday party!' But the problem is, alcoholic beverage is prohibited in this hall. That's why I couldn't realize it. Oh, and among audience there are certainly underage ones, that's one of the reasons I couldn't do it. After that, I had a hard time thinking of interesting ones. So I thought I'd make the theme as 'interacting with fans'. Then, boom! Sunny's birthday party happened." we all laughed.

"I was wondering if I can still do it with this (boring) theme. But, I will think of better ones for the next birthday party. Since you come here & spend your precious time with me, I didn't want to disappoint you with half-hearted effort.”

8th topic: Game YoonA, "I'm interested in VR. I'm thinking about buying it after finishing drama shoot. There are plenty of games I want to play, not just VR ones. I always wanted to learn 'Winning Eleven' (Pro-Evolution Soccer). Nowadays, when drama shooting gets tougher, I thought about games that I'm going to play, and it made me endure. Speaking of games, I know I talked a lot about Sunny unnie today, but I have to do it again." then laughed.

"When we visited Vietnam recently, I asked Sunny unnie about VR, since she already owns one. She said it's really interesting. Then Sunny unnie said she also got Nintendo Switch, suddenly took it out and bragged, said 'You need to play Nintendo here.' So I asked her which one is more interesting. Sunny unnie was like, 'Well, it's a different species, you can't pick one.'”

9th topic: Yoongtizen YoonA, "The reason I put this one on the board is, I still couldn't quit doing it." then laughed.

"When I'm bored or want to see my videos/pics, you fans are the fastest. I'm enjoying being Yoongtizen. I think fans' reactions are different by regions. Searching for them, it's interesting. I also got strength because of them. I searched fans' request about my birthday party recently, but unfortunately, I couldn't find many. So I was like, 'Why you guys don't tell me in this situation, so that I have to agonize.'" then laughed.

“As Yoongtizen, I look around literally everywhere. Do I look like a person with nothing to do?" then laughed.

"But, if I don't do it, then how should I know (what you want)? It's not like we can meet & talk like this every single month. And when such meeting happens, I think if I know what you like or dislike, I can make a better conversation with you. Yoongtizen has the biggest share of my internet activities." then laughed.

"Therefore, please post a lot of (good) things about me." then laughed. "But, I don't get hurt by bad comments anymore. If I can't handle it, then I should quit being Yoongtizen." then laughed.

Fans asked her which site YoonA look around. YoonA, "Every one. I mean it." "Major portal sites, I go every one of them. If you think about certain site now, yes, I go there, too. Even the ones you want me not to go, I might go." then laughed. "I'm getting a lot of strength, so Yoongtizen will continue. If someday half the seats of birthday party are empty, then I might quit being Yoongtizen. Please don't let it happen." then laughed.

Yoongstagram - YoonA showed us pics which were taken when filming 'The King Loves' with explanation. - YoonA showed us total of 13 photos.

Photo #1 First photo was YoonA sitting at the set, waiting for something. She said her make-up artist took the pic without her noticing it.

Photo #2 Second ones had two photos, and cat filter was used for both ones. YoonA said those are taken by her make-up artists as well.

Among those two pics, first one was YoonA wearing light red drama clothes. Second one was YoonA sleeping with white clothes on.

YoonA said the character (San) is quite boyish, yet she doesn't disguise as a man.

About white outfit on the 2nd pic, YA said if she hadn't changed to normal clothes on the early vote day, she would've worn that one.

Photo #3 Third ones also had two photos. First one was the photo of scripts, and the second one was YoonA passing out with her script.

YoonA, "TKL has total of 20 ep & we're shooting around 16. Many sunbaenim and staffs told me I will gain a lot by doing this drama. Since we have many actors/actresses with similar age, we got a Kakao chat room. We're getting along pretty well. It's fun."

Photo #4 Fourth one was YoonA standing on the guardrail of the bridge with wire on. She wore sky-blue outfit.

YoonA, "It was a wire scene, but it's not like I'm flying or fighting in the air. Just a precautionary purpose. I guess I'm more athletic than I thought. Director said I'm very good at learning martial arts. I got compliment of doing combination work very well especially. I guess practicing choreography has to do something with it. Tough part is, director requested me to do more martial arts scene because he thought I'm quite good at it. I was like, 'Please…'" "I think you can see me doing martial arts as early as episode 3."

Photo #5 Fifth photo was YoonA with Hong Jonghyun. YoonA wore white clothes, and it looked bottom part of the outfit was covered in blood. In the photo, you can see a lot of lamps. YoonA said those lamps look really pretty in real.

YoonA, "Hong is a good actor, and he takes care of me very well. And he also has a very good wit. His character is very cool."

Photo #6 Sixth one had two photos. First one was YoonA wearing sky-blue headband and clothes. Second one was YA wearing light sky-blue dress.

In the 1st pic, YoonA looked boyish, and the 2nd pic she looked more feminine. YoonA, "1st pic was taken in Jeju when I did the first shooting. I believe you will see cute San a lot in the scenes filmed in Jeju. The reason I took the 2nd pic was, I wore skirt for the first time in a long time, I just wanted to leave it as a pic. Problem was, it was inside the car and the bottom part of my body couldn't be shown on the pic. So I just took a selfie. "

Photo #7 Seventh one had three photos. YoonA put a mask on all three of those pics. She's put red blanket on, and eat Hobbang with the mask on.

YoonA, "If you read the original story, you would know that San puts a mask on. There's a reason San puts a mask on. But, it is very inconvenient. When I put it on, because of the moisture, it gets wet. I was putting the mask on and at that time, snack (hobbang) arrived. So I just ate it without taking the mask off. Only thing good about the mask is, it covered my face, sometimes I could sleep without being noticed." then laughed.

Photo #8 Eighth photo was YoonA wearing the same outfit (light sky-blue dress) with 2nd photo of the sixth. But this time, it was a full shot.

YoonA, "I know some fans will complain that the outfit is not fancy compared to other historical dramas, but there's a reason for it. I asked my make-up artist to take a pic of the sky because it's pretty, then she said 'You're prettier.' and took a pic of me."

Photo #9 Ninth photo was YoonA with an actress who plays her servant. Both of them put the masks on.

YoonA, "She is 4 years younger than me, and according to the director, she was cast because she got similar image with me. And more I see her, more I understand what director means. She is so nice, and her voice is very feminine. "Please cheer for her, too. I told her 'When the drama is aired, some will say you're prettier than me, so stay confident.

Photo #10 Tenth photo was YoonA with an actor Lee Kiyoung, who plays her father.

YoonA, "He really takes care of me so well. He also gives me a lot of advises about acting. He always calls me 'daughter'. And he's the one who told me that I will gain a lot by doing this drama."

Photo #11 Eleventh photo was YoonA with Hong Jonghyun and Im Siwan. YoonA was wearing a crown-like thing made by flowers on her head. YoonA, "AKA Won-San-Rin. Main characters of TKL. Im Siwan oppa constantly played tricks. Because of that, he didn't look good on this pic, unfortunately. Both Im and Hong take care of me so well. Always ask my intention first. Both good actors. Such nice guys. Two characters got such different charms, I believe many fans would argue whether San should be with Won or Rin.

Photo #12 Twelfth photo was YoonA with four other actors/actresses including Im Siwan. YoonA was wearing drama outfit but only partially.

YoonA, "It was taken after drama shooting, before we're going home. This pic is not the prettiest, but I love the air, that's why I picked it. We're shooting in a very friendly mood. The situation was, 4 of us including myself finished shooting that day so we're off, but Im had to shoot more. So we're like 'We're done yay!' while Im was like 'Dang I'm not!!'. He even sang a song with his lines, it was so funny."

Photo #13 Thirteenth photo was YoonA with three actresses and Im Siwan. All 5 of them wore white clothes. Im was positioned at center.

One of the actresses on the pic was Jang Youngnam, who played the role of YoonA's older sister on Confidential Assignment.

YoonA, "Im said he never had a drama shoot with this many actresses, so he needs to leave it as a photo. That's why we took this one.

- YoonA, “This is the first time I did pre-production drama so it was a new experience for me. I know you loved Minyoung a lot, and I wish you do the same for San. I hope your favorite character (that I played) changes every time I do a new drama or movie."

Additional Q&A

Actually, Yoongstagram was the last section YoonA prepared. She was going to take a pic with fans and wrap it up. YoonA, "What time is it?" fans, "6" (beginning time) YoonA, "Six? Hey, you guys really surprised me!" we all laughed. It was actually around 8, but fans constantly shouted "6", "5" to make YoonA stay more. So YoonA asked fans, "Do you have more Qs?"

This is why 'additional questions' section was inserted. It wasn't planned. YoonA just wanted to spend more time with fans.

Fan: "Do you have any plan to visit your photo exhibition next week?" YoonA, "As far as I know, there will be two photo exhibition for me, right?" Fans said yes. YoonA, "I know everything." fans laughed.

"Not sure I can be there (because of the drama shoot), but I certainly thought about going there. I was like, 'Should I go there under cover? Or just go there and say hello to everyone?'" then laughed.

YoonA, "Problem is, I don't even know my schedule for tomorrow. Speaking of my schedule, you sent support for me, the coffee car. They said now it's OK (to receive fans' support). Among the support you sent me, hand fans became the most popular one for everybody. Everybody used those hand fans, said 'YoonA is making us cool.' So I was very proud, thinking 'Our fans are this great.' Anyway, I would like to go to the photo exhibition, but I can't be sure. Actually, I already saw some of the pics which will be displayed on the exhibition. If I don't have schedules at that time, then I will visit those photo exhibitions.”

Fan: "Any languages you want to learn?" YoonA, "First, I want to master Chinese which I've been learning from my middle school days. Then, I want to master English. After that, I haven't thought about it. But if I have to choose one additional language to learn, then I want one which is not commonly picked."

Some fans said, "How about Arab?" YoonA, "You know, Middle East Asia is coming. No, really." YoonA, "If ur thinking about learning Chinese, then Arab might be a better idea (cuz there are alrdy many ppl who can speak Chinese). It's my prediction, so mark my word. If I'm wrong, then forget about it." then laughed. When I was a student, I had to pick between Chinese and Japanese. I picked Chinese, because many people picked Japanese then. When I filmed K2, I thought about learning Spanish, too, but it's very difficult. So right now, Chinese and English.”

Fan: "Are you gonna have a birthday party with ‪SNSD members on your birthday?" YoonA, "I'd love to, but unfortunately it's very likely that I have a drama shoot, even on my birthday. I might be able to meet other members for album work, but for my birthday, I'm not sure yet. But we did talk about meeting on early June. No particular reason, just we haven't seen each other for quite long. So I guess we'll meet then. If so, then we will be able to celebrate Seohyun's birthday." then laughed.”

Fan: "Between 'God of War Zhao Zi Long' and 'The King Loves', which one is more memorable for you?" This fan asked YoonA a very long question, so YoonA jokingly said, "You're not a journalist, right?" then laughed.

YoonA, "About GOW ZZL, because of the language barrier, I think I couldn't fully describe my character. I feel a bit sorry about it. But if I do it again now, then I might be able to describe the character better (because my Chinese is improved). ZZL and TKL have similar aspect because both drama gave me a feeling that I'm acting double roles. Difference is, I think ZZL was more splendid. Since they do a lot of historical dramas, accessories and costumes were fancy.”

Fan: "Do you have any plan to hold an overseas fanmeeting?" YoonA, "Are you from China? Oh, you're the one who came and support me at Baeksang Awards. But I'm sorry, I don't have a plan for China fanmeeting as of now. But I know CHN fans really take care good care of me. I'd like to visit (and hold a fanmeeting) there, so please wait for me.”

Fan: "What is the most memorable birthday present from ‪SNSD members?" YoonA, "Hmm, I don't know. To me, being together is the most interesting thing. Talking to each other and having fun. Most of the time, me and Sunny unnie's birthday parties were held together. I think Sooyoung unnie's birthday party produced more memorable moments than mine. I really wanted to join SY's birthday party this year, but I couldn't because of the drama shoot. I told SY unnie that I could've worked a perfect retro concept. She said, 'Whatever you do, you won't look funny at all.'”

Fans: "What are you drinking now?" YoonA, "This? It's water. From SUM Cafe. When we do team promotion, manager oppa has to prepare different colors of bottle cap (to avoid confusion). We could choose one of the bottle caps. Every single time, I could hear the distant shout "PINK! PINK! MINE!" from someone. (Because of that someone) I don't even look at pink. Even picking a color isn't easy for us." then laughed.

Fan: "Which food did you cook recently?" YoonA, "I got no time to cook recently. French toast only?" Fans, "Ooooh" YA, "It's an absolutely easy one." then laughed.

Fan: "Have you thought about taking a villain role?" YoonA, "If there's a good one, then yes, I can think about it. But do you want me to do it?" Fans said yes. YoonA, "OK, let's assume I took a villain role, but she's not a protagonist." Fans, "That's a NO!" we all laughed. YoonA, "There you go. Hard to find a protagonist villain." One fan shouted, "Sympathy For Lady Vengeance". YoonA, "WHAT?" we laughed. YoonA, "But I'll think about it if there's a good role."

Fan: "How many comments do you read on your IG post usually?" YoonA, "I read them as much as time allows me to do. After I write IG post, I push refresh button couple times to check how many comments were made, yes." then laughed.”

Fan: "Why do you post IG so late, almost after midnight?" YoonA, "Sorry, I guess I woke you guys up because of the IG notice on your phones. But I usually go to bed quite late. I tried to sleep early, but most of the time I couldn't sleep too early. It's my habit. Plenty of times I thought about uploading IG post but gave up because of the time period. (too late)”

Fan: "Do you have any intention to do IG Live?" YoonA, "I do, but right now I don't have anything to do (for IG Live) since I'm usually at drama shooting nowadays. Oh, birthday? Yeah, I thought about doing IG Live on a special day. Birthday sounds good. I'll try to do it.”

Fan: "Which camera apps do you usually use?" YoonA, "B612, Camera 360, and sometimes Pic-X (note: Not sure which app she meant for the last one)"

Fan: "Among Taeyeon's new songs, which one is your favorite?" YoonA, "'When I Was Young', and 'Make Me Love You'. Especially the latter one, I love it.”

Fan: "Is 10th anniversary album a full album?" YoonA, "That's...a secret at this point."

Fan: "What do you usually talk on your kakao chat room?" YoonA, "Recently, we talked about ‪SNSD album.

Fan: "Concept wise, which is your favorite ‪SNSD song?" YoonA, "Genie."

Fan: "How do you feel being that pretty?" This question made YoonA burst our laughing. YoonA, "It's a happy feeling." we all laughed.

Fan asked YoonA a question regarding TY's Persona concert. YoonA pretended being bitter, "I couldn't go there. I envy you!"

Fan: "Among shooting locations for TKL, do you have any recommendation for us?" YoonA, "Hapcheon. Flower garden is very beautiful there."

(The place YoonA referring to) – Pic cr @Kuru_mm on twitter

Fan: "How much do you like SONE?" YoonA pointed a balloon, said, "Whole amount except for that small balloon." We cheered but one fan, "Why take out the balloon amount?" YoonA, "If I just say 'This much' then you might think I'm not being sincere."

Fan: "Do you have any plan to join a variety like Crime Scene?" YoonA, "Sorry, I'm not that smart." then laughed.

Fan: "Do you have any plan to do twitter?" Many fans screamed "No! Not twitter!" lol I think they (jokingly) meant that YoonA shouldn't find out what they're doing on twitter. YoonA, "Why? Why no twitter? In fact, I'm not interested in twitter, but why? That place must be protected? From me? Do you write some bad stuffs about me there?" fans laughed. "

Ending

While receiving additional questions, fans asked YoonA to walk around between audiences just like last year. YoonA, "You want me to do it again? But it's too late, already over 2 hours. Time is up for noraebang (karaoke)." One fans shouted, "Service Service!" then others shouted, "Even noraebang gives additional time for free!" YoonA laughed, said, "OK, I'll do it." then she moved down from the stage, walked around the audience seats and received Qs there. OK, this is it for additional questions. I might have missed some questions because some questions went by too quick, but anyway.

After receiving additional questions, YoonA took photo with us, and sang 'Deoksookung' with fans. And the party is over I like the fact that Deoksookung unofficially becomes a fan song for YoonA. Fans singing 10cm part while YA singing her part sounds so good. There will be no more updates about ‪YoongParty. I think it's my longest one so far anyway lol. Well, though it took a lot of time, writing a fanacc also helped me reminding how nice and awesome YoonA was. I enjoyed doing it.

YoonA’s version of I Like You – Download Link YoonA’s version of Hero – Download Link (Two songs download cr to @_19900530 on twitter) Deoksugong Stonewall Walkway by Yoonaya - Download Link

All fanaccounts credits go to itnw0628 on twitter, download links & pics to respective owners credited above :) Compiled by mystarmyangel Download in word doc: here

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