#so fucking fantastic i hate it and i love it sooooo so much

[aq2003]

ive been emotionally put through the washing machine and i rly have nothing super coherent to say abt wild blue yonder rn other than a) this is one of my favorite doctor who episodes of all time and b) david and catherine are two of the most talented actors on the planet

#like i said i wanted it to be tonally midnight/turn left and GOD. I FUCKING GOT IT. AND IM LOSING MY MIND #midnight/turn left are abt the horrors of the doctor and donna being apart from one another #wild blue yonder turned it on its head and went what if the doctor and donna are their own horrors. #so fucking fantastic i hate it and i love it sooooo so much #dr who #dw spoilers #the way fourteen kisses donna's head at the end . what if i die what if i die WHAT IF I DIEEEEEE #AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #14 era

[foreos]

hatchetfield characters rated on how much they like sonic the hedgehog

- paul matthews: 7/10 i think just based on his age and personality he played like sonic adventure one as a kid and enjoyed it but hasn’t really thought about it since. if he were to play a sonic game again he’d be like “oh i remember this guy! silly :)” he does not like the chaotix.

- emma perkins: 5/10 i can see a young emma being Violently Opposed to sonic and never playing it or engaging with any content. and then at some point ziggs or even paul has her play one of the games with them and she’s like “Oh Wait This Is Fun” but idk if she’d ever consider herself a fan.

- bill woodward: 1/10 he cannot remember sonic’s name. he is completely ambivalent because he doesn’t know what that is. he’d have an appreciation for tails if he knew he existed

- charlotte sweetly: 0/10 he creeps her out. i think there’s so much going on in her life that there is no room for sonic the hedgehog.

- ted spankoffski: 10/10 he also played the games as a kid and still enjoys him though he does not advertise that at all. in college he and jenny did smoke and play the entirety of sonic 06 together. he probably hasn’t really played them since at all since it contrasts with the new everything. he watched sonic underground.

- henry hidgens 0/10 he doesn’t trust sonic.

- melissa: 11/10 she loves sonic and you can interpret that however you want

- john mcnamara: 0/10 i cannot imagine this man with a game controller in his hands.

- tom houston: -10000/10 he is a technophobe and sonic frustrates him. he finds the characters annoying and tim keeps having to beat the levels for him and he doesn’t know why sonic is looking at him like that at the end of every level.

- becky barnes: 8/10 she just thinks he’s the silliest guy. i think becky would like sonic and the black knight and get a kick out of the gimmicky motion controls. i like to picture becky having stupid fun it brings me joy.

- lex foster: 0/10 no time for that also that’s kind of dumb also also where are his clothes.

- ethan green: current 1/10, potential 10/10, ethan has never touched a sonic game in his life but i think if he did he’d be hooked.

- hannah foster: 5/10 she has never touched a sonic game and isn’t really a video game person but she has nothing against the guy.

- frank pricely: 9/10 i think frank watched SatAM as a kid and the franchise is special to him even if he doesn’t really engage. probably drew pictures of sonic and tails as a kid.

- linda monroe: 1/10 it’s beneath her. linda probably doesn’t like video game and i think she’d find everyone really fucking annoying. river likes sonic though :)

- sherman young: 1000/10 but he’s not fun about it. if you like something he doesn’t then you’re fucking stupid. why does sonic have a sword. why is sonic in a car. i don’t know sherman. he refuses to play a lot of the games and is very much a purist about a lot of shit. he hates silver the hedgehog sooooo much.

- zoey chambers: 0/10 would shame sonic likers.

- miss holloway: 5/10 sonic is too nineties for her eighties but some of the kids she’s worked with liked it and she has nothing against the guy.

- duke keane: 8/10 i think like becky he would enjoy stupid fun.

- ziggs: 10/10 i think ziggs is a sonic fan. and i’m not saying that just because they’re a furry i think they’d genuinely like it. they are not good at most of the games though, they usually can’t make it past the typical sonic late game difficulty boost. ziggs hasn’t read the comics but they might have watched some of the cartoons, you know?

- rose: 6/10 i think she would have a lot of fun if she played the games but it’s never gonna be something she gets super into. sonic games do tend to have fantastic soundtracks so maybe she’d eat that shit up.

- daniel (stopwatch): 100/10 he really likes sonic. sonic is his kind of guy. i think daniel is a big shadow fan.

- sophia (spitfire): 5/10 she has nothing against the guy but she doesn’t know who blaze is or why daniel keeps bringing it up.

- pete spankoffski: 12/10 he inherited ted’s old games and LOVED them. he doesn’t really engage with the non game media but i think he’s played like most of the games.

- stephanie lauter: 2/10 what’s this nerd shit? weird :/. i think she’d like it if she tried it.

- richie lipschitz: 10000/10 he loves sonic. he loveeeeeees sonic. he has read the comics he has seen the shows he can name all the characters. richie knows the lore. richie used to have a crush on sally acorn. richie can go on the worlds longest rant about sonic forces okay it just never ends. he thinks shadow is The Coolest Guy and he embraces the franchise wholeheartedly.

- ruth fleming: 1000/10 she likes sonic a lot. she knows so much about all the games and she loves going so so so fast. i think she also read the comics and watched the cartoons and i think her and richie argue about it like all the time. she does have a thing for rouge the bat AND shadow and i think she has a little plushie chao keychain on her backpack.

- grace chasity: -10000000000000/10 she HATES sonic she hates him so much. he fills her with so much rage she fucking hates his ass. number one sonic hater.

BONUS:

- wiggly: 0/10 this game is hard to play with tentacles

- blinky: 5/10 he doesn’t really care but watching the hedgehog go zoom is fun

- tinky: 10/10 he loves this shit he wants sonic to go FASTER

- nibbly: 0/10 he doesn’t care he eated his controller

- pokey: -10/10 he thinks sonic is an attention whore and only he gets to do that

- webby: 100000/10 webby would like sonic do you see the vision do you see it. i think webby eats that shit up.

#hatchetfield #starkid #long post

[deathsbestgirl]

@calimanc okay the william part. i know this won't be popular but i also love it lol (surprise, surprise)

i completely understand why people hate that scully gave william up, but i just don't see any other choice. if mulder didn't leave (because dd sucked lol) it may have worked for them to keep him. but children on a show like this really change things.

it's so freaking bittersweet seeing scully & mulder with william. it's something they both wanted more than they ever let on, than they ever dared to voice.

mulder is william's father, i really don't think there's any doubt about it. they were sleeping together, they were in a romantic relationship, they love each other beyond what anyone can understand. they're two people filled with miracles and this time, they got one they wanted most. it's fucking beautiful. it may undermine her struggle with infertility, like so many other shows do, but this show is built on the impossible & the fantastic, the paranormal & miracles & magic & science. imo, it's perfectly in line with everything else. mulder & scully are the light in dark places, and they desperately needed some light themselves at this time. it's so painful once they're back together and they don't have william, but the logistics would have been so much harder with a baby on the run.

and the truth is, i think it was the only way it could really go. i don't think there was another option. scully would never give up her baby, except when she thinks it's the only way to keep him safe & ensure he lives a full life, a normal life, the possibility of a happy life. it's something she never recovers from. it's the only thing, besides losing mulder, that would break her. it takes scully two decades to face it, and not until she's forced to when they find william. scully is so avoidant of her trauma and she can only face it when she has mulder to put her back up against. mulder lived in his trauma for most of his life. by the revival, i think he's finally started to move "past" it. but william is a deep wound for them both. they lost their chance to be parents, to be a family. to experience their version of normal with a child they always wanted. i can't even comprehend the pain & grief & loss & trauma of this. but somehow, i think this made mulder more stable. he had to live with consequences of it, and grief & some guilt, but not the same way scully had to. if there's one thing these two are good at, it's putting the other first when they need it. mulder sets aside his own because scully can't be rational, can't be strong the way she's always been. this is her weakest spot, her mother mentioning william is what made her absolutely lose it when maggie died. it's sooooo painful, literally beyond comprehension (for me) but i've always been a sucker for pain & grief & angst. it's one of the most human experiences and ddga are just. so good at portraying it.

(csm is a LIAR — it's possible he had a hand in it, given en ami. but he did not impregnate scully. i know people go on about the medicine & science, but like. it's sci-fi. the science doesn't need to be real or accurate. like how many medical dramas are out there with inaccurate medicine lolllll anyway, i do think it's a possibility he gave her some kind of medication to reverse the effects of what they did to her before OR the chip finally healed her. the chip caused her to go into remission, and it's a possibility the technology of the chip is what that guy was trying to give scully. the cure to all disease. anyway. that's just my two cents on that.)

#the x files #william arc #txf meta #mine #mulder and scully #dana scully #fox mulder #csm #en ami

[minijenn]

Just finished Breath of the Wild as part of my huge Zelda marathon to prep for Tears of the Kingdom, so I guess I might as well rank all of the games that I played for it! Keep in mind that was I bit pressed for time so I had to skip a few entries. For this marathon I did not play: Zelda 2, the Oracles games, Minish Cap, the Four Swords games, Triforce Heroes, or Age of Calamity. As for the games I did play... Here’s how I (personally) think they stack up: 

1. Breath of the Wild: Wow, completely not surprising that my favorite game of all time is my favorite Zelda game too! But honestly this game just... hits in all the right places. I love exploring its massive world, finding its little secrets, just basking in the immersive environment of it all. I love its story and how its told to you little by little, how we get such an interesting take on Zelda and her relationship with Link, I love the champions, both old and new, I love the gameplay, the atmosphere, all the little tools and tricks the game gives you to play with, I love almost everything about it! Only thing I’m meh on is the shrines but that seems to be everyone’s opnion. Other than that, its a fantastic game, still at the top of my list and the top of my heart. 

2. Skyward Sword: STOP BEING SO MEAN TO SKYWARD SWORD GUYS ITS A FUCKING MASTERPIECE I LOVE IT SO MUCH no but seriously Skyward Sword is sooooo special to me. It just... fills me with so many raw emotions in a way that few other video games can. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me experience its beautiful, tragically simple story on such a lovely level. I love how it plays, how many items it gives you, how it has the BEST dungeon design in the whole series, I love Skyloft, I love Groose and Ghirahim and Fi and how this game probably has my favorite Link in the entire series (he’s so precious your honor I love him). It’s soundtrack is godly, everything about it is beautiful. If you dislike this game, you dislike fun and joy. I don’t make the rules. 

3. Wind Waker: Always in my top three, Wind Waker is such a delight. It also falls into the category of games that hit me in the feels. Its story is so simple yet it hits so right, its art style is simply lovely, exploring the sea is great, the dungeons are great, this version of Link and Zelda (or should I say Tetra) are great, the MUSIC IS SO GREAT (my favorite soundtrack in the series imo). I just love it so much. Only reason is isn’t #2 is bc I got hit so hard in the feels by SS this time around ahahah. 

4. Ocarina of Time: I know, very traditional. But the more I think about it, the more I just have to put it in the top five. OoT is just so fundamentally... Zelda, ya know? It established so much of what I love for the series, the lore, the asthetic, the gameplay, all things the series still follows to this day. Its story is honestly one of my favorites in the series, its music is just iconic in every way, its dungeons are (mostly) good, its overworld is really fun to explore, I adore it, always have since I first played it on a shitty emulator when I was 12. 

5. Spirit Tracks: Ok So hear me out please. I know this is an insane take but... I fucking love Spirit Tracks??? Like a lot? I love this version of Zelda so much she’s so FUN and I love that she goes on the journey with you. I love riding around on my silly little choo choo train, I like the dungeons well enough and the music? fucking peak. Honestly I just... got so immersed in this one while I was playing it? It just hits the right spot for me, I don’t know what to tell you. It gives me serotonin. 

6. Majora’s Mask : So I actually used to really hate Majora’s Mask? Crazy, I know. But playing it again this time... I don’t know. Something happened. It just geled with me in a way it never had before. Don’t get me wrong, I still have a bunch of problems with it. The time limit stresses me out too much, the dungeons are fucking awful, the bosses suck, the music is kinda meh, but then also like??? the sidequests are the best in the series, Clock Town is the best hub in the series, the masks are fun to collect and play around with. The game is fun. I can no longer deny it like I used to before. I like Majora’s Mask. 

7. Link’s Awakening: So this has and always will be my favorite top down Zelda. I love how it plays and I love the setting so much. It comes across as such a cute little game but there’s this underlying layer of tragedy that just... hits so well. Its music is great, the dungeons are fun, the sidequests are fun. What can I say? Just a really solid experience all around. 

8. A Link to the Past: Fun fact, playing ALTTP for this marathon was the first time I ever beat it! And I really enjoyed my time with it! Its much like OoT in that its a series trend setter but for the 2D games and it does a great job of that! The soundtrack slaps, the dungeons are very well designed, the story is nothing to write home about, but the overworld is very fun to explore. I liked it a lot! 

8. A Link Between Worlds: I gotta say I was... somewhat underwhelmed this time around with ALBW. Idk what it was it just... didn’t do it for me? Don’t get me wrong, I still like it, but it really did just feel like a Link to the Past but with a few new mechanics thrown in. And those mechanics are fun and well executed, but... idk. Underwhelmed 

9. Hyrule Warriors: I hesitate to say this even counts because its not a “traditional” Zelda game. But when push comes to shove, as much as I like the fanservice and sheer silliness of this game, the gameplay loop is very... samey and boring? Outside of this and AoC I’ve never played another Warriors game so idk if that’s a series standard but still, AoC does the concept a lot better and if I had time to play it before ToTk I would but... eh. 

10. Twilight Princess: Ohhhhh boy I can see ya’ll freakin out now. Just cool it for a sec and let me explain. My most recent playthrough of TP was... fucking abysmal. I did not have fun with it. I hated the dungeons, I hated how dry and dull the gameplay loop in general was, I was very bored with the world and the music. Hell, the only things I actually liked in the game were Midna (of course) and surprisingly, Wolf Link? Idk I just thought it was a nice break from the norm. But outside of that, i dunno man, it just frustrated me. By the time I got to the final boss of the game, I was so burnt out and ready to be done with it. Guess my grudge is lasting even still.

10. Phantom Hourglass: Oy. I was dreading this one and I can safely say its just... Ok. Not good, not awful, just... Ok. The Temple of the Ocean King fucking sucks asss, and the world as a whole is generally umemorable but there are other things about the game  I enjoyed like, uh... Linebeck. He was cool. And... that’s about it. :| 

11. Legend of Zelda: I don’t enjoy the NES Zeldas. I think they’re too fucking archaic and cryptic for their own good. There I fucking said it. Leave me alone. 

#so yeah ahaha jen once again dishing unpopular zelda opinions #here's hoping totk blows all of these out of the water #i wanna be wooed again #legend of zelda #jen plays

[heretherebedork]

Love Mechanics Vee and Mark are sooo messy, but I love it sooooo much!!! I dunno know, I can't even explain why, but I feel so connected to Mark and I even can somewhat relate and understand Vee too. After Vegas/Pete, Vee/Mark is my second angsty couple this year (lol), who are just, outwardly so not-perfect for each other, but on a deeper emotional level are literal perfection together. Like they just make sense.

Vee gets a lot of hate and I do agree, that sometimes he is total wuss. But the thing with Vee is that he is NOT a selfish jerk, even though sometimes he acts like total jerk. Like when he knows he is wrong, he never shies away from accepting he is wrong. And he realises his own shitty actions pretty quick, too, and doesn't sit on it like a coward. I think he feels like he needs to people-please to the extent even if it doesn't bring him any joy. Even with Nuea he never picks a fight publicly or confronts in a way to hurt Nuea (one reason is of course, he doesn't wanna come out of the closet), but then again, he doesn't even hint or say anything hurtful or something that would break Nuea's heart, at all, even though Vee is sooo jealous. Never once does he try to push Nuea away or anything... And the same goes for Ploy. Vee hurts himself rather than hurt someone else. But the thing is he has emotions too and trying to please everyone, and always hide away his feelings is bound to leave himself and the person he loves the most absolutely heartbroken.

Mark on the other hand is fucking amazing. I love and relate, to how fiercely he loves, how steadfast he maintains boundaries, to even the complete shattering of himself he allows, whenever he fails achieve what he wants. From stopping to pursue Bar when Bar gets into a relationship seriously, to never allowing Nuea to cross a line, to telling off Vee, (whom he is in love with) clearly and bluntly. Mark is such complicated, affectionate, fireball of self destructive soul in a tiny, cute body. I can't help but root for him.

Vee needs Mark for strength for expressing his own needs and wishes to the world. Mark needs Vee for his support, for comfort, to be worshipped. Them together just works for me!!!

(Also War is such an amazing actor. His microexpressions are to die for. I don't want Mark to be hurt anymore, but damn War is such a beautiful crier. Like watching him cry is like watching art. Sad Mark= Devastation of my heart.)

They need each other but the problem is that how they need each other is also destroying themselves right now and that's the real beauty of the messy that we were brought by this show.

Because Love Mechanic sat down and showed up strength as weakness and kindness as pain and love as agony but also weakness as power and kindness as love and love as the great joy and the way that every part can be good and bad and every action can hurt and heal.

Vee is an amazing person in so many ways but his want to keep everyone happy at the detriment to his own happiness leaves him constantly hurting people and his fear of coming out is also keeping him trapped in this place where he keeps hurting Mark despite loving him and wanting to do nothing less... and yet he also can't let go of Ploy because he feels an obligation to protect her, just like he has an obligation to stay polite with Nuea and to originally talk to Mark and make sure he was both leaving Bar alone and okay.

And Mark is just fantastic. He's such a deeply emotional character who has boundaries but also feels every single one of those boundaries in his soul. He loves Vee but he won't let himself be subsumed to that love, he won't just give in to him and let him run roughshod over him no matter how much it hurts him.

They are opposite sides of the coin in that regard.

Honestly, I worry for both of them... but I worry much more for Vee.

Because Mark does have boundaries and he also had friends who know how serious he is, how hurt he can be, how low he can go, and they're all looking out for him and aware of his pain.

But Vee?

Vee's friends, for the most part, accept him at face value. And even when they don't, they don't take his pain as seriously because he does tend to give of himself to the point that he loses himself and he smiles and I think they've all mostly accepted him at face value and he's shockingly good at hiding pain because he wants to make everyone happy and doesn't worry about himself.

Mark will react big and he'll suffer but his friends know him and they'll be looking out for him and chasing him and calling him but Vee's friends... they'll worry but I don't know if they will see his pain the same way.

Mark may cry and we may ache for him but Vee drinks and I fear for him.

#love mechanics #love mechanics the series #vee x mark #thai bl #bl drama #thai drama #thaibl #thai series #bl series #veemark

[talonflamee]

talking a little about pokemon black and white:

i finished White the other day and i feel Sooooo Normal about it. yup :)

some background info: i played White on launch back in 2010. i didn’t like it too much. haven’t touched it in 12 years and I remembered very little about it, so this was basically like playing it for the first time again! overall i enjoyed it very, very much and i’m SO glad i replayed it!! here’s a quick review of the stuff i liked and disliked:

what i didn’t like:

- many of the new pokemon: there are no previous gen pokemon available until you finish the main game. this would’ve worked great if the new pokemon were. like…… good? i don’t hate all of them, but overall i think gen 5 has some of the worst designs in the franchise. (i’m not a Vanillish hater btw, that guy is awesome)

- the wild encounter rates: ABSURDLY high. sometimes i was getting a wild pokemon every single step, even when i wasn’t running

- the sheer size of the maps: i think this is a positive for most people. but for me, some of them were just wayyyy too big, most notably castelia city and twist mountain. i just wanted to get out of there lmao

i think that’s pretty much all my complaints! now onto the good stuff!

what i loved!!:

- THE MUSIC!!!: good god…. so for me personally, music is pretty much AS important as gameplay, sometimes even more so. honestly, i think i’d now say gen 5 has my favorite pokemon music of all time, next to gen 3 and gen 4/PLA. it’s fantastic. and the adaptive music!!!! this is SO cool!!!! when i got the piano and drums to kick in in accumula town, i knew this game was gonna be something very special

- trainers who heal on long routes so you don’t have to walk/fly back to a pokemon center i love you so so much

- the art/animation: ah, our last 2D main game… i miss it terribly. each and every sprite was painstakingly and lovingly crafted and it looks SO good. they also really wanted to show off the 3D environments and it still holds up pretty well! neat dynamic angles and of course. bridges

- the story: an in-depth story with fairly heavy themes! this went over my head as a kid, but as an adult i quickly recognized team plasma as just like. a literal cult. this game also addresses some moral questions fans have had since the beginning, like “do pokemon actually enjoy battles?” and “are humans forcing pokemon to fight for them?”

- the post game: hey wow actual post game! i thought swsh had a pretty abysmal post game, so this is super refreshing. i haven’t finished it yet, but it’s pretty great so far! i really like that you go back to important areas in the story to uncover more details about team plasma

- the characters: really fun characters and designs! as well as a villain that is genuinely intimidating and fucked up. i’ll take a goofy villain like guzma any day of the week, but there’s definitely something to be said about one you want to hit with hammers many times in a row

- N: oh boy... i’ll be honest, i started replaying white for ingo and emmet. i was extremely impressed by most everything about this game, but especially N. i remembered him the most from my last playthrough (literally 12 years ago) but i didn’t really understand the hype for him at the time. replaying as an adult… yeah man. this guy absolutely rules.

he’s a wonderful character and i’m writing a character study on him at the moment!! so look out for that if you’re interested!

#overall i give it a 9.5/10😳 #talking #pokemon #black and white #long post #maybe new tag #game reviews #lost 5 followers for this 😭😭

[slutforsnow]

Heyyyy sooooo uh... I've been in a shit hole and trust me, I want to do the south park requests, but i fell off that hyperfixation and now am in a chokehold of ITSV/ATSV 😅 I have drafts but rn no motivation for sp and I am SORRY😭 While you wait, here's chapter 1 of my story on AO3, called

The Blue Note

If anyone wants to give me ideas to make the background for the title. That'd be appreciated too😭

Anyways, this fic was inspired by @feyhunter78 's very own Pink Pastels, on AO3. It's a Miguel x y/n fic and ITS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. Go read it, now./nf

Anyways, The Blue Note is an OC x Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk fanfic and it's going okay so far and I hope you like it!

She frowned. Where the hell was it?! She was on a mission for her father and he would not be pleased if she returned empyt handed.

"For the love of the GODS! WHERE IS THE FUCKING THING!!?" She yelled, yanking her mask off her face.

It was the Death Realm, AKA Earth 666, where she born. She had scourged the whole place for a STUPID rock 20 times over already and she still hadn't found it.

It was pissing her off more than the time Lyla had caught her daydreaming. She was the heiress to the Spider Society and WOULD NOT be caught daydreaming about some man. That is an entire level of Hell in itself as she was aroace.

Getting fed up, she typed into her watch, allowing a portal to open up and she walked through it, passing a new comer and heading straight for her father's office/lair thing.

"Koton. You're early," a plain and daunting voice greeted, not looking down at her.

"Yes, I am. I was pissed," She replied hotly. "That place is very angering."

"I am aware, but you need to control yourself there. You know that," He told her. Koton clenched her fist. He just didn't understand.

"I know that, Father. But my subconscious-" She tried to say, only to be silenced when he raised his hand.

"Enough. Go to your room and get your head cleared. You can try again later as right now you're shaking, much worse than last time. The memories coming back must have been worse than last time."

Koton froze, hearing him mention her shaking. She hadn't told him that, nor had he turned to face her. Sensing her surprise, Miguel chuckled and glanced behind himself, and gestured for Koton to come up to onto the platform.

She disappeared into the darkness, then reappeared next to him, looking puzzled. Miguel gently placed a hand onto her head, causing her to semi-relax and she leaned into his protective touch.

"You're my mija, Koton. Even if I don't look at you, I'll always know when you start to panic."

A small smile started to appear on Koton's face and she nodded.

"Okay, papá," She simply said, feeling him pull her hood off to reveal her face to him. She had a few cuts on her face and her eyebags had worsened. Miguel hated sending her to the Death Realm, but she needed to go.

"Now go get yourself cleaned up and take a nap. Your eyebags are getting worse," He told her, earning a small nod from her and she disappeared from him. The last thing he saw before she disappeared in black mist were her blood red predatory eyes flashing against her pale skin.

#miguel spiderverse #astv hobie #hobie spiderverse #adopted #lyla spiderverse #miguel o'hara #spiderman 2099 #hobart brown #spider punk

[tc-doherty]

I love Chinese media lot! I got obsessed with that silly Great Wall movie (I still love it honestly), and then I got obsessed with Thunderbolt Fantasy, and then I found the Mo Dao Zu Shi novel and that was the final nail in the coffin LMAO

but here are some of my favorites (under a cut because it's literally just me rambling a bit):

Novels:

You would probably assume MDZS but no! Although yes, I am obsessed with it and it is my favorite of MXTX's books. But!

My actual favorite Chinese novel is 反派白化光环, a.k.a. The Villain’s White Lotus Halo. I love this book sooooo much. Every chapter renders me incapable of doing anything else except thinking about it. Unfortunately it's not fully translated yet, so it's not accessible to other people. Even worse, a lot of what's available seems to be machine translated which is just awful.

I do think it's very funny that a few years ago some people accused me of being an MXTX apologist because they didn't like my opinions about another famous Chinese author who I will not mention here, but I literally have a signed post card by the author of White Lotus Halo on my pegboard in my office and I paid extra to get that with a box set of one of her other series. Clearly, if I’m an apologist for anyone, it's TP. Anyway.

I also really like 泾渭情殇, a.k.a. Clear and Muddy Loss of Love. To be fair I hate the ending, the last few chapters are awful. But everything up until then is 10 out of 10. I just pretend the last few chapters never happened. This one is fully translated, and I think the translation is still available.

Manhua:

Anyone who knows me knows that I have one manhua that I love above all others, and it’s 我家大师兄脑子有坑, a.k.a. My Senior Martial Brother Has a Pit in His Brain. What can I say? This story is so hysterical to me. I'm over 400 chapters into it, and I love the donghua as well. Every episode of that (except for the 1st one???) has English subtitles but afaik the comic has never been translated outside of the what I've done (which isn't very much).

Donghua:

Aside from the above, I really like 时光代理人, a.k.a. Link Click, which I don't have to talk about because everybody already knows what it is. It's excellent, I'm ready for the 2nd season LMAO

A less well-known show I absolutely adore  is 风灵玉秀, a.k.a. Sunflowers a.k.a. Soulmate Adventure a.k.a. Spirit Wind Elegance, whatever you want to call it. It's currently the only GL donghua in existence and although it can be a bit rough around the edges, it's super cute. It needs more support and love! You can watch it with English subtitles on Bilibili’s youtube channel and we’re also getting a 2nd season, yay~

There's 天宝伏妖录 , a.k.a. Legend of Exorcism which is very funny to me and can be watched on Netflix

Honestly so many more? I watch a lot of donghua. I'm really waiting for information about 六爻, a.k.a. Liu Yao. Hello? It's been so long, is the production team still alive? 

Dramas:

香蜜沉沉烬如霜, a.k.a. Ashes of Love made me fucking yell! Literally made me yell "oh fuck” out loud. Show is insane. It's on Netflix, I highly recommend it.

There's also 镇魂, a.k.a. Guardian which… Look. I hate the book that this is based on but the show is absolutely bonkers and it is so funny, and I was in the middle of re-watching it and it got taken down from everywhere that I can access and I'm so mad about it.

延禧攻略, a.k.a. Story of Yanxi Palace is so good. Every single episode makes me scream out loud. Again, literally.

招摇, a.k.a. The Legends. I will admit that the very beginning and very end of this show are not great but 80% of what's in the middle is fantastic and I loved it.

Movies:

Other than The Legend of Hei, I really like 姜子牙, a.k.a. Jiang Ziya. So good, and the animation is beautiful.

I have to mention 哪吒之魔童降世, a.k.a. Nezha because it got a very limited release in America and I literally drove 3 hours each way to see this movie in theaters.

And I also like 新神榜：哪吒重生, a.k.a. Nezha Reborn, which I think is super fun. Although I feel like people in the circles that I was in didn't like it as much for some reason.

Honestly, I love Chinese media. I read a lot of novels, watch a lot of donghua and animated movies, and a lot of c-dramas. And if you want recommendations for any of those things I'm happy to provide ahahahaha

#I just love stuff

[phoomwhoosh]

ALRIGHT. So, I have some thoughts about season 5 of Cobra Kai. This will be under a cut because I am not a heathen.

So, I have watched season 5 twice: once all of the way through and then a second time just for Daniel’s arc. And not because I am only a fan of Daniel. I do love a lot of these guys. Daniel’s arc, though, man...

Anyway, I guess I’ll start with some of my favorite bits/characters:

LOVED Tory this season. Her scenes with Devon really were nice. Frankly, her whole arc and such was fantastic. I HATED that she was forced to break her damned hand, holy shit! I actually had to look away because it was so horrific. I do like how she caught onto Kreese’s bullshit and straight-up went, “Fuck this.” I also like how she mentioned Daniel getting hurt because of their antics and her genuine shock when Kreese was like, “That bitch got what he deserved.”

Sam’s sequence in the nightmarish pod. I like how well it showed her internal struggles and all of the labels she’s been forced to live with. I liked Sam a lot this season.

I actually liked Mike. I totally love that he turned his life around and we got to hear his story. Also, him apologizing to Daniel? Gold. I loved that. I also loved how he interacted with Chozen and Johnny. Him stealing the party limo was just...yeah, that was definitely great.

Daniel’s former rivals (the core three, at least) coming together to help him? Hell yes!!!!!

Chozen was KILLING it this season and I love him so much. I was so, so worried he had died and was gonna legit cry if he had. Also, I adored how he trained the kids and just…man, he was amazing! And his SHIRTS! Once more, I find myself wanting to steal his wardrobe.

Amanda being Jessica’s cousin? LOVED it more than anything. I saw somebody mention on a post that it makes so much sense that Daniel met Amanda through someone else and it really does. As kind as Daniel is, he very clearly doesn’t have a whole lot of friends.

Jessica telling Amanda more about Terry? That was fantastic. I saw someone else say that it was good for Amanda to hear that from someone that wasn’t Daniel and I agree 1000%. It would’ve been hard for Daniel to explain since it would’ve basically just been him heaping blame on himself for things that weren’t really his fault and it wouldn’t have helped matters at all. Whereas hearing it from Jessica, from the outside perspective of someone who was around while it was going on and who was actively involved at several points, yeah. That was better for Amanda. Really love how they handled Daniel and Amanda this season.

There were more things, I’m sure. XD

And now for what I didn’t like:

The teen drama. It is sooooo old to me. Maybe it’s because I’m 30 now and I’ve reached my limit with this stuff. But for real? At this point, it feels like the teens are dating for no reason other than they have to because the writers are holding them at gunpoint. Don’t get me wrong, SOME of them are cute but others are just…yeah.

I wish Sam hadn’t befriended Moon and Yasmine again. I miss Aisha. I honestly wish that those two had been written-off and Aisha’s potential as a character had been realized in full. (I know she left forever ago but listen...I will miss her every season.)

I wasn’t a fan of how Kenny continued to assault and bully Anthony. Yes, I understand why he hates Anthony. However, during that water park scene, they could’ve made Anthony crack his skull open on the edge of the pool and/or drown! THAT is when THEY should have been kicked-out! That shit is dangerous!

I don’t feel like getting into the Mexico plot line or Johnny only getting Miguel and Robby to make-up for the Redacted (not going into that one either) because I feel like enough people have already talked about all of that. Just know that I too am disappointed in some of the things that happened with Johnny this season.

I’m gonna talk about Terry and Daniel probably in a separate post because, honestly, my most favorite parts of the season were the ones involving them. I apologize in advance for when I find time in my life to go feral over that.

#ck spoilers

[mrschwartz]

things i loved

jonathan knowing about will being gay and letting him know that he loves his brother unconditionally. that whole scene was fantastic, they both brought in their A acting game. i love that it was never stated explicitly, but they both knew what the other was talking about. Very realistic

eleven not accepting brenner's bullshit "apology" and leaving him to die

lucas beating the shit out of jason and the rift splitting the motherfucker in half. that came out of Nowhere, i audibly gasped and i Loved it

murray frying the fuck out of the demogorgons. i'm obsessed with how that was the catalyst that weakened vecna and allowed them to fight back. narrative payoffs baby!

speaking of fire, steve and robin throwing the molotov cocktails!! very badass. nancy shooting him too, but i thought the one in s3 was even better, so

the real genuine scare of max's bones breaking and the fact that she didn't end up 100% fine in the end. some plot armors apparently can be made of glass and i'm here for it

we're Getting our protagonist!will storyline back in s5 ladies!! we win

eddie playing master of puppets fuck yeah dude

my favorite line from a show from here on out: "i piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer"

some of the best acting i've ever seen! shout outs: millie doing eleven's piggyback thing and while vecna was talking to her; noah forever and always, everything he does all the time; sadie and caleb while max was dying; joe quinn and gaten while eddie was dying, and gaten while he was talking to eddie's uncle

things i hated

their overdone trend of introducing loveable new characters just to kill them off as a way to protect the protagonists. eddie was so good, they're so lazy for not keeping him and trying to figure out a way to resolve his being wanted for the murders

I'm Not Here ‼🚫🚫 for stancy. this is a stancy hater zone, i hate everyone involved in this show for reviving it. 1) i don't care for jancy, so i refuse to accept they made me sit through a part of this show i don't care about just for it to be unmade. 2) technically the best for nancy is some time single. 3) that is Such a peewee weakass """resolve""" for steve's character. let him move on ffs, there was a very satisfying way his arc could be heading (was heading!!) and this is not it. he's one of the best parts of the show and it's definitely not because of his relationship with nancy, it's because of his chemistry with the kids, with robin, and his want/need to be protective of them. it's fine that he dreams of having a family but him telling that to nancy and saying she's the one was sooooo ooc. ew

the pacing was 😐 questionable. some strange cuts while some scenes lingered on foreverrrr. i def 1.5x-ed a lot of that shit

i've always been team "will likes mike who knows but doesn't reciprocate" so with that in mind mike's characterization this season doesn't make any sense. why was he weird about will? wasn't will his first and best friend in the world? soooo weird that mike lives and breathes for eleven now and has forgotten how much he and will meant to each other, romantic feelings or not

speaking of eleven, i was really hoping that the strength she would find to fight back would come from within herself, since her arc was building up towards her finding herself, and not from mike saying how she's his superhero

back to the cali gang, i saw someone say how everything they did this season was give pep talks and that's so true. jonathan > will > mike > eleven. such a waste of once the core of the show

+ the very 🤨 moment of will's feelings for mike (in the way will verbalized them to him) being used for mike to verbalize his feelings to eleven was very sus. an embarrasing lack of tact by the writers there

#stranger things #st4 spoilers

[thecoolertails]

ok since i got all caught up with idw i decided to jump back into the archie comics where i left off. id stopped right after the mecha madness special (between #39 and #40), and now im right before issue #55. some notes:

- this shit sucks akdhkshsksh sorry like overall there is so little to like

- ken penders is so misogynistic it's painful and the other writers don't do nearly enough to counteract that. the way sally's character was used during the endgame arc was so ass and it's made even worse by knowing that penders wanted to kill her off for real. sally never gets to do anything cool and the other female characters barely even exist

- except julie-su, she's here now and i love her so far, she's great and spaz did a fantastic job on her design. she's one of the only comic-exclusive characters so far that actually has a good design that looks like she belongs in sonic

- and then there's fucking geoffrey st. john i fucking hate geoffrey st. john he gets sooooo much focus bc he's penders' special boy he gets sooooo much more screen time than most of the actual game and satAM characters. sometimes amy gets to stand in the background of a panel or two but not geoffrey st. john it's ALL ABOUT geoffrey st john he's always here he's always important i fucking hate him so much i wish he was roadkill

- i hate stupid king acorn stupid ass i hate the worldbuilding surrounding the kingdom of acorn i hate this giant emphasis on this monarchy bs it sucks its so lame. sally makes a big deal in satAM abt how she's not any more important than anyone else and how the only 'royalty' is mother nature but the comics are like no actually the monarchy is everything sorry

- and don't even get me started on the stupid echidna lore. why does the comic make such a big deal about oh they gave up their technology no they fucking didn't they live in a modern techno city still like they drive cars and have computers and shit. and all the guys have stupid penders names like hawking steppenwolf archibald dude the one canon echidna at that point is named KNUCKLES why the fuck are they named like this. why do they all look exactly like knuckles (except for julie-su) like they're not even different colors most of the time and when they are they're other shades of red. if it was just his relatives then fine but no it's all the echidnas. why's knuckles dad such a stupid secretive asshole. why is knuckles moms boyfriend dressed like that

- i just wanna get to the good part pls i wanna get to the good

#my posts #pls say it gets better at some point before 160 please #i cant do this for over 100 more issues #archie sonc

[scariercnidaria]

Gotta do izzy for the ask game

YEAH YOU GOTTA

~ on the works better as a dynamic one because. Man he does not function on his own he simply doesnt. ergo without being part of a dynamic he literally doesnt work at all... hes gotta be yelling at someone or being yelled at like when hes on his own i imagine he just sits there shaking

hes such a bitch hes girlbossing hes wifecoded. Do you think izzy hands had girl power. Do you think he effectively utilised girl power by attempting to murder stede bonnet. ofmd doesnt(?) pass the becdel test so liking izzy is the closest thing to feminist praxis that you lot get. suck my dick hes so gender

ALSO hes sooooo autistic and transgender and if you hate him it sbecause youre ableist and transphobic

id say that idk why im Like This about izzy but its. its because i literally made the decision to actually watch the show in the split second i saw con oneill in a gifset (im so sorry gay people fans but theres something wrong with me [doesnt watch shows {gayer than you}]) (its not my fault im like this i literally only go here because one of my friends was gay for con oneill and now i am too)

HE WANTS TO BE BETTER HE JUST DOESNT KNOW HOW!!!!!1

hes so fuckin polarising he does something to my brain. i hate him i love him i love to hate him i love to love him ill just be sitting there understimulated at work and my brain just starts going "<3 izzy hands <3"

WHY DO YOU HATE HIM (knows exactly hwy, feels the same even) KILLING AND MAIMING MAIM BITE RIP TEAR KILL

ohhhh hes a bug in my microscope ohhhh i dont have to defend him cause fuck you ohhhhhhhhhh im kissing him so gently on the forehead/mouth/pussy. genuinely blackbonnet doesnt compell me nearly as much as little pathetic little man cause like i said theres something wrong with me. also the porn is fantastic

#imgoing to make a playlist one day and its gonna be soooooo incomprehensible to anyone but me #eatig seaweed right now. gonna eat some more i think #ask #anon #izzy hands #izzy hands apologensia #ofmd

[flowerslut]

I'm sooooo excited for one fell swoop!!! i loved loved loved the snippets! do you already know when you are going to post it?? also, could you give us a context about the story?

if you have more snippets i wouldn't complain yk

ahhhh! this makes me so excited! I'm also sosososo excited to finish and edit and share it!!! I always laugh thinking about this post where I shared pieces of the old draft for it (scroll to the bottom to read it on the reblog) and this specific thing I said back in 2019 makes me laugh:

it might not be for another decade but a girl would like to return to this idea! maybe!!! she’d have to rewrite the #yikesheavy one-shot first. but like. you never know..... i’ll hit y’all up again when i’m in my 30s.

well jokes on me because I turned 30 this year and have 70k of the first draft written now lmfao. #yikesheavy one-shot included. I have NO clue when I'll be posting it but not a single piece of it is going up on Ao3 or FF until the entire thing is finished and polished to perfection baby!!!! I will eventually post the first chapter of it on tumblr exclusively sometime in the next several months (yes even before I finish) but not until I throw a few more tens of thousands of words onto the 1st draft first 🤪🤪🤪

[context + a special lil treat under the cut! 😌]

I summarize the gist of the story fairly well in this answered ask from october, so it's just as I explain it there.

when the story starts we meet jasper, a 21-year-old freshly-relapsed addict who is sprinting towards rock bottom. this girl, alice, quite literally stumbles onto the scene. she's a rude little amnesiac and the most well-off homeless girl jasper's ever met (not that he has a lot to go off of). very quickly jasper finds himself stuck trying to keep this damn girl from getting herself killed while he barely wants to be alive himself. it oozes codependence! unhealthy relationships! and they make just! about! every! bad decision you can make in their positions! it's great honestly. they're having a horrible time but I'm having a fantastic time writing it and it's pretty much a super-long rewrite of the first twilight fic I ever wrote back in high school! 🤩

if we're lucky I'll be able to split my time between writing this fic and writing roots and hopefully at least one of them will be done and ready for posting by summertime!! no promises, but fingers crossed! 🤞🤞🤞

anyways here's a tiny snippet from chapter 8 since this ask just got me soooo excited to get some writing done this winter!!! enjoy!!!

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It was as he was rearranging Alice’s clothes on his arm when someone smacked him on the back of the shoulder. He stepped forward, dropping the clothes to the ground and ducking. Spinning quickly, he pulled his fists closer to his face, readying himself.

“Relax, fuck!” A man stood a few feet away, hands lifted in front of him in surrender. “I didn’t even hit you that hard.”

“Peter,” Jasper gasped, shocked to see his friend. “What are you doing here?”

“I could ask you the same thing, motherfucker,” usually Peter’s tone was good-natured but today it held a hint of ice. “You’ve been ignoring my calls all week.”

“My phone’s been off.” He glared, straightening himself back up. He felt a little embarrassed at reacting so severely to a clap on the back, but since getting back into town a few nights ago, he’d been especially anxious. “What are you doing here?”

“I saw your car outside. Why are you in Kohls? And,” he glanced around Jasper, his jaw going slightly slack. “Are those women’s clothes?”

“I’m shopping with a friend,” Jasper growled, turning his back to the white-blonde man and picking the clothes back up. “What do you want?”

“Just checking up on you, God,” he defended irritably. “You fell off the face of the fucking planet when you got fired from Paul’s. Forgive me for fearing the worst.”

Jasper glared down at the pile of clothes as he shuffled them back onto his arm. He hated that Peter—the only person who really knew him—would apparently just know how he’d react to news like that.

“I’m fine.” He lied.

“Then why’d Charlotte see you pulled into Maria’s driveway last Friday?”

Fuck.

“I thought you weren’t in contact with her anymore,” Peter accused, his voice low.

Jasper understood the man’s anger.  Being caught seeing her again was a shameful thing. And knowing that Peter knew about it made him feel worse. The self-hatred that fell over him in that moment was almost suffocating.

“Those aren’t for her are they?” Peter asked, voice still hard as he stared at the clothes Jasper held.

He turned back around and shook his head. There was nothing more he could really say. He was embarrassed. “Are you going to lecture me?” He asked, finally looking his only real friend in the eye.

“Depends,” he folded his arms. “How high are you right now.”

“I’m not,” he muttered. He wasn’t going to admit the fact that he wished he were, because that was a given.

#one fell swoop

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

playboyy ep 3 rewatch stray thoughts

- intro was about cops abusing their power and a politician getting blackmailed with their sex tape it seems

- first consistnatly losing it over the idea of being abondoned…. anyway

- AHHH PHOP WITH NANTS LAPTOP and figuring out his password ??

- nant had spotify

- AHHH SCARED OF WATER BY KIKORU?!?!?

- captain not knowing shit about shit and still being so confident about it i love him

- porsche gets upset when captain asks “nant” to bring his bf cause he thinks it’s prom ooooo this is delicious

- porsche once again pushed to the outskirts of the group… when they try bringing nont into their orbit…

- zoueyfirstcaptain are still everything to me

- nont jump scare skdjdiehe he’s so freaky at the beginning

- wait do we never find out where phops dorm is?!?!?!?

- the audio team loves that one string tremolo moment for drama skejejjrjrj

- puens hair feels diffferent here……

- do you think puen took one look at captain and was like “ah another one”… like i would be too scared to sit like that at try outs… you are not serving straight boy realness captain….

- the “no sexual activity allowed” sign is so funny

- i forgot how much i shipped them. still need them to hate fuck

- the trauma of this scene is so real it’s still hard to watch. poor captain. this is part of his villain origin story tbh

- captain as a character is done such a service by the actor being baby. like it makes HOLD IS THIS AMBIVELANT THOUGHTS BY MAGNUS RINGBLOM?!?!? IT MADE ITS FURST APPEARANCE WITH CAPTAINKEEN AND NOT NUTHPHOP?!?!!? OH FIRSTSOONG ARE HERE NOW TOO anyway

- i get first i really do that’s why he’s my baby

- AG NANT JUMPSCARE I FORGOT ABOUT THIS

- i hope this is where first becomes zoueys baby

- nont is no longer even trying to serve nantness like he’s just being off putting and bizarre in the same room as the baddies djdjjrurj

- interesting detail, nont pulls his shoulder away from captain and the camera cuts to porsche miming it…

- damn

- captains sleuthing outfit andjskfjejdu

- teena’s love for zouey is so atrocious i love him with all my heart

- baddie bunch interactions are so good i love them

- is nont catfishing with zoueys actor or am i losing it

- NUTH gets introduced to shattered mirror by jon algar- a piano ballad

- nont asks nuth what he thinks about when he’s straight jorking it and nuth says “twins and wearing a mask” oh im sure….

- i know this is “part of the investigation” but i feel like nuth and nont lowkey bonded here….

- that’s absolutely crazy imagine you’re about to come and you see the face of your (abusive?) ex pop out of nowhere….

- teena is kinda the man of all time… i know he’s kinda lying to zouey rn but still

- zouey being like im ready to be boyfriends and then starting to take off his clothes and teena stops him like we don’t have to have sex to be together and then zouey being like no i want it screaming i love them

- these two are sooooo screaming i love them

- “don’t mock me if i come too fast” “why would i mock you” awwww

- captain is such a bitchy little boy i adore him

- why did i forget about the blindfolded keen part…

- oh no

- zouey looks so sad 🥺 he really hits different as a character on rewatch

- “if we’re gonna be a couple we’ll have to do it someday” welp

- playboyy lighting team had the time of their lives with zoueys room. i like it

- “you’re using sex to not be in a relationship with me” is a fascinating take away like did i miss something

- i love the visuals of this scene so much thank you glowing green cube on zoueys desk

- first with a bedazzled chain

- soong thinking first would still be there when he got back… firstsoong enthusiasts were put through so much NOT THE FUCKING FLASHABCK

- captain getting hit with the quences and still not GETting it… this boy

- the lighting of the locker room scenes is so fantastic

- the cut to puen when the teams being homophobic, i like the way the camera tells us he’s gay before he gets to tell us through his actions

- captains “i’m straight. i like girls with big boobs a smooth(?!?) ass and a small waist” and then being surprised when they don’t believe him…. he thought he wasn’t clockable my little baby

- captains brain catching up to his mouth 29 seconds late will never not be so real

- “even if i started it. if i wanted to stop but he didn’t want to, is it considered abuse” hmmmmm first saying “if you both consented and you didn’t use the safe word it’s not abuse” and then zoueys eyebrows get scrunchy…

- zouey and first telling him he’s never felt that way so he doesn’t get it and porsches “who said i never felt this way?” AT zouey screaming screaming

- also this being when zouey and first think something’s up with porsche cause he hates the car wash but is always there….

- why is captain always eating plain bread…. i forgot about this fish… captain tech wizard era??? actually hold on he doesn’t take an actual bite of the bread he’s just holding it in his mouth?? you know what whatever makes my boy happy

- oh wait i forgot nant got chocked by doggo… kinda like how he was chocked to death….

- oh nont….

- “you’re acting like you’ve never been here before” prom was having the time of his life teasing nont jejrjriieiru

- “i thought you’ve changed enough to drink wine” promnmmmmmmmmm

- the “i’ll make you moan like a dog” coming from both prom and nuth and both end up having a dog mask….. they were really setting things up for us and i was sitting there like maybe it was teena…..

- is prom teasing nont about the video rn or is it just a coincidence oh prom loves his lil leashes huh… i worry about flat buckles being leashed but whatevs

- prom villain framing…. obsessed with him

#playboyy the series #abe watches #playboyy rewatch

[always-andromeda]

hi meda!! i hope you're having a great story time tonight 🥰

so i went to a suuuuuper religious mormon high school in the middle of utah (because there's no other kind lol). it was a public school, but everybody was mormon. like 98% of the student body, which caused sooooo much drama.

most of the drama was caused by the seminary, which is like another class mormon high schoolers take. for most people who don't live in utah, they have to do early morning seminary at 5 am, but at my school we had release-time seminary during the school day, and they had a building right next to the school so there was a bunch more influence ig.

anyways, the seminary would have 'morningsides' once a month at 5am, and it was a BIG DEAL if you like slept in and forgot. also, i didn't start driving myself to school until my junior year, so my mom had to wake up and drive me 😭 they were honestly kind of boring and i hated to go, but people were so bitchy if they didn't see you there so. and then, just to make sure everybody knew you were at the morningside, you had to wear your church clothes for the rest of the day. it was literally the stupidest thing in the world.

also every month the seminary building would have F.E.A.S.T.S, which stood for "friends eating at seminary together" and you were supposed to get your lunch from the school and then go to the seminary to eat it. they would pack like 400 kids into these tiny rooms and we'd have to sit on the floor while they told us that looking at porn would turn you into a rapist. all the actual teachers would get super mad too, because they ALWAYS went long, and so like more than half of the class would show up late and be like, "oh i was at F.E.A.S.T 🥰" and then get mad when they got marked tardy.

i fucking hated seminary 🙄

I am having a fantastic time, anon!! Hope you’re having a great time reading alone with these too!! ☺️

First of all. My condolences on going to a mostly Mormon school. 🥲 I wasn’t raised Mormon, but a decent chunk of the folks in my family are from Utah and are super Mormon so I heard a fair amount of Mormon weirdness on occasion.

I ALSO had a fat crush on a guy in high school who was Mormon so he was doing a seminary course as well!! I remember my dumbass would listen to him talk about Mormonism all starry eyed (I was attracted to lots of different flavors of religious boys in high school lmao). He’d show me BYU youtube videos in class and I’d be all like, “Ugh, he’s so cute!! 🥰” GIRL, he’s probably trying to convert you.

But you gotta love when that moment when you realize just how many of those teenage religious shindigs are so very performative?? Like no one wants to be there but everyone is there anyways because if you aren’t, that makes you a bad person. 🥲👍🏻 Props to your mom for driving you at five every morning though, that shit had to be so exhausting.

#˚ʚ ask meda ɞ˚ #˚ʚ anonymous ask ɞ˚

[thisdogpaystaxes]

The Definition by Jon Bellion: Album Review

i love this man and this album so particularly much. even the thought of this album makes my soul relapse into the same euphoric orgasm of reminiscing on mr.bellion's sweet sweet melodies.

the soft intro of munny right.. like eases u right into the album. his voice comes in so fucking crispy. the fucking high note so early, its like just wait- he finna rap! just salivating at his fucking beats and his lyrics and his voice. im literally about to throw up. THE BEAT SWITCHHHHH UGHHH LIKE THATS SO GOOD U KNW HE WAS HEAD BOPPING! this sooooo me, im gona get my munny right like u mr.bellion sir! i love how this is such a represention of his success, not just lyrically but its like, he worked for it and never gave up and hes so fucking obviously talented. mfs like this are the reason why i am so enamored with music.

carry your throne. first song i ever heard by jon! i heard it in a vine and was like :00 and thats how i found him actually. i really love this song. and frozen reese's cups. i think this is also a really cool metaphoric song, comparing an undying, raw love for someone to having a kingdom. its powerful too, the instrumental and its upbeat tempo. really cool and passionate.

pre fucking OCCUPIED. i loooove this fucking weird flow in this. if you isolated the lyrics and instrumental i'd be like ..... :/ but together its fucking GORGEOUS. so fucking complementary. its a really cool way to show that they are meant for each other. like you can usually tell when one was made to complement the other. but not this song. GOD MADE ME A FULL BLOWN GEEEEENIUS ',:^[ luvvvvv this song. blaque keys is also such a rad feature on every track w jon, his flow is consistent and smoooooth. his voice also has this really good cohesion w jon's instrumental. he's a ride or die feature. beautiful mindddd

human. wow. love u so much. this is a song he obviously wrote the lyrics first, to add to the proof for my point about pre-occupied. he's a good little vulnerable guy, and i appreciate that his music is specially crafted. his instrumental and adlibs will never downplay the emotions in his voice, just beautifully complement. "lauren call me when you hear this on," makes me like cryyyyyyy. like that was fucking raw. the bridge is the best fucking part of this song, especially the acoustic version. tell me why i still feel looooost, like yes dude fucking SING IT! i genuinely believe finding music like this and kid cudi when i was young are genuinely why i am emotionally heightened.

RUN FUCKING WILDDDDD.. I LOVE THESE LYRICS OH MY FUCKING GOD. i fucking will scream this shit forever. he's so fucking real!!! MY SOUL IS IN LIMBO LIKEEE YEAH U KNO HUH! these lyrics are really dope for providing imagery, like its really cool and along w the relatable lyrics, because while personal still ambiguous, its a fantastic story of why this person has a broken heart.

a haunted house. fucking hate the yeah at the beginning :D this song had to grow on me my first time hearing this album, i did not appreciate the contrast it brings to the album until i took the time to read the lyrics. its nice and tucked in. and its again that dope lyricism of like "this is a metaphor, you've felt this but also this way you can see it" like yeeaaahhhhhhh thats fucking dope. and normally i hate little parts of "na na na's" but this song uses it to bring to life the euphoria of healing from your past and being in love again. beauuutiful song.

JUNGLE IS MY SHIT. I LOVE HOW HE SAYS "YOU'RE TOO PRETTY" LIKE I TAKE IT PERSONAL WHEN I HEAR THAT SHIT. THIS IS A SONG I WILL NEVER SKIP. u sound so effing cuuuuuute.. like jon i need u! or someone i like that likes me to listen to this song and think ofme idk! the COUNT UHHHHHHH LOVE THE BEAT AFTER SO MUCH. very passionate about this track can u tell!?!!?

bro i adore simple & sweet. its really cute and i enjoy him saying "no yeah" bc i always do. representation! BUT IF THINGS GET COMPLICATEEEEEEED-- like he absolutely smahsed it on that contrast. its made to be this way. the beginning is soooo slow and hes like- nuh uh, lets add a whole different beat and tempo. and it WORKS. and it shows the tenderness of being so in love, but also the euphoria of it too.

an immigrant is so good. the switch up is fantastic. i love this SONG. coffee on my j dilla vinyl!!!! like u can tell he missed this chick. i really really love this ditty. been head bopping this whole time. i love the "i miss you" and "i still love you" tucked in. its always been my favorite part of the album.

ooh is one i didn't like at first. but the chorus is what tied me in, and i stayed bc jon is meticulous with his features and this is proof, like blaque keys. like he absolutely has the vision for the songs immediately. and her voice is not one i'd care for alone, but its a slight compliment to his and it rly adds to the passion.

luxury is also a fantastic song, its a really beautiful outro the the album. a grand finale. such an awesome feature too. meticulous god damnit! like that shit just adds to the magnitude. feelings practically religious.

i needed to listen to this album again, i haven't for a long time but when the songs come on separately when i shuffle, im like :0! i love you jon, pls make new music i am begging you pLEASE

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