#the group is in the members’ hands

[bomnun]

today shinwon shared that he hasn’t formally renewed yet and is technically a free agent, but unless something huge happens very soon he is staying, they just haven’t finalized the contract yet. he says it’s both for group and solo activities, and my assumption based on his words and tone is that it’s important to him to have a future plan and not total unknown when he comes back from the enlistment. he’s probably enlisting in december or early january.

#shinwon #pentagon #reading that (I didn’t catch this part earlier) I was like…um…are you allowed to say all this #but I guess he is since he’s not even technically signed to cube rn 😹 #also makes it quite clear to me that cube has gone very hands off on them #they’re the ones managing pentagon’s career as a group now even though cube at least for the time being owns the trademark #the group is in the members’ hands #cube manages the members signed to cube as members of a group under cube but they’re not gonna do any group schedules for them #they may still do stuff like ny/chuseok greetings (probably not a seasons greetings package) #bc if they don’t they have to turn them into soloists or switch them to the acting team and I can tell that’s not happening #they’re all too strongly tied to the group (by their own choice I imagine they fought hard for that) #and it’s cheaper for the company anyway ugh imagine the hassle of funding at least three solo albums and rebranding one person into an actor #this way they can get away with only giving hui a solo hkgkfjhw #sorry too much talking #edit: I’m linking the tweet where I read most of these #it’s a translation from korean to japanese #I haven’t seen anyone write about it in English

[101-zigzagoons]

oh THAT'S why ivy wasn't surprised to see lucy alive- she just assumed lucy had finally given in and let ankarna resurrect her, and that she was fully on their side again

#also explains why kipperlilly is so calm about merking her own party members. I thought it was just because she sucks. #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #so it seems like what happened was maybe #kipperlilly pushed for the group to get a spring break assignment that was way above their skill level #bc she wanted a 'challenge' #and they were wildly underprepared for actual combat bc they'd only been fighting rats or w/e #so some of them went down #I don't think it was a TPK bc lucy wouldn't have come back but it was probably enough of them #that she didn't have the resources to resurrect them herself #so they let ankarna bring them back instead #definitely kipperlilly probably ruben and oisin potentially jace(?) #if any of the others survived they could have been pressured into it later but eventually #the rest of the party is serving the rage god and lucy is the last holdout #so they kill her thinking it'll force her hand but it doesn't work #I also think it would explain why kipperlilly was so confident the bad kids would fail the last stand #if HER party nearly got wiped out being overwhelmed by monsters and they were obviously way more capable (/s) #and it would really twist the knife for them to not only survive but completely ace the exam #anyway many thoughts head full etc etc

[spittyfishy]

Guys there’s nothing wrong with these kids, they’re fine—

#I had to redraw the like only cannon group shot of the remnants in despair #it was a must #sorry not sorry for putting Kaito in the middle #he’s a blorbo now I had no choice #also I tried to pair everyone up with the 77 member they’re most like #like- Kaede is where Ibuki is in the actual screen shot and such #except kiibo bc there weren’t enough people so I just free hand added him in lol #v3 remnant au #ndrv3 #remnants of despair #danganronpa #kaede akamatsu #ryoma hoshi #kirumi tojo #angie yonaga #tenko chabashira #korekiyo shinguji #miu iruma #gonta gokuhara #kokichi oma #kaito momota #kiibo #tsumugi shirogane #maki haruwaka #himiko yumeno #suichi saihara

[carrotkicks]

hi hi hi please do share ur reverse au thoughts. especially would like to hear about fukuzawa :]

I think Fukuzawa's not unlike his canon version. He's honorbound and whatnot. There's this whole thing during the very beginning of the main storyline he's trying to avoid getting involved with the ADA, out of respect to his old buddy Mori, of course that goes down the drain when the mafia and ada eventually get pitted against each other.

Misc thoughts:

Fukuzawa eventually joins the Port Mafia as a hit man, Untold Origins never happened so he eventually became disillusioned with his moral code. And being in the mafia kinda messes up your moral code.

He starts climbing up the ranks of the Port Mafia, gets to around the same level as Hirotsu.

He and Mori do their Double Black thing a little later, Natsume approaches them specifically because of their prominence in the Underworld

he meets Ranpo, when the kid's gotten himself involved trying to "solve" one of the Port Mafia's hit jobs. Fukuzawa saves him from trouble because 'he's just a dumb misguided kid, he doesn't deserve to get hurt. Ranpo immediately latches onto him and eventually helps with some thing he's been working on and he's like. Well i guess I have a son now.

Eventually he makes it up to being the Old Boss's personal bodyguard

Asassination time with Fukuzawa and Ranpo!

#mori and fukuzawa's leadership techniques mirror each others but also contrast #where fukuzawa doesn't want to get his groups too involved mori makes EVERYTHING mafia business #fukuzawa is a hands off leader while mori makes everything HIS business #they both will do anything for the best possible solution (sacrificing members. traumatizing children etc etc) #reverse au

[andromeda3116]

rereading order of the stick (again), and greyiew is only in a few comics so far but man do i love this nihilistic wolf

#order of the stick #yes i know it hasn't been terribly long since i last reread it but #i've been desperately trying to get my dnd group to read it and i just had to go back and go through it again #and again. the first 250 strips or so are pretty cringey and there's aspects even later that make me wince #but fuck once you get to the soul splice arc you've read the last bad oots comic #''utterly dwarfed'' is fucking *incredible* #i am both incredibly ready and incredibly not ready for the climax #i bet durkon will live and i'm sure haley elan and roy will #o-chul i'm leaning ''survives'' and lien i think will make it #minrah will probably make it. i bet serini is doomed. #belkar is obviously doomed #i'm 100% on the fence about v #like straight-up 50/50 both ''live'' and ''die'' serve strong narrative purposes #but as to how it all plays out? #v still owes the fiends 23 minutes meaning the order can't rely on them to back them up in the clutch #so on the one hand it would make the most sense for them to hit as hard and fast as possible #but on the other - if the fiends *don't* call in the debt for their own purposes #they will have burned out their most powerful member too soon #burlew is too clever and too good a writer for a traditional battle scene as the climax #more is going to happen. *something* massive is going to shift #serini turns? redcloak turns on xykon and gets eaten by the mitd? #i can't tell! i'm going to flip tf out whenever it does happen though #hnggh this has been 20 years in the making and the climaxes have not failed a single note yet #burlew is goddamned *good* at rising action and nailing the climax of a story arc #it's gonna be fucking incredible ugh

[twilight-shitposting]

#twilight-shitposting #twilight shitposting #originally on facebook #credit to group member #twilight #the twilight saga #twilight meme #twilight memes #youtube #edward cullen #you stOPPED THE VAN #you pUSHED IT AWAY WITH YOUR HAND #yeah well no one’s gonna believe you

[cinnabell2]

Himmel Debut performance! and since there would be 7 of them now I dub them 7ebels!! 💙✨ (and sorry I am adding noise to my art for protections against AI) timelapse and no bg ver under the cut uwu

#cinna arts #genshin impact #nameless bard #timelapse #himmel would probably be the OG member #yall sleeping on him being a part of the group #genshin imapct #would be so happy to know he's your fav member #would cherish you so much !! #over shadowed by venti and scara alot :((( #but yeah i tried empasis on tried to draw a stage #caved and bought a 3d modle LOL #sorry i am not your strongest artist #i did hand draw the buildings tho #but ngl most proud of this piece omg #sorry its been so long since a new art ngjkfdngjfd

[yumeurl]

never being interested w going thru the books until now i still find it shocking how im able to mark alot of drarry interactions even in just one book? like i already accepted that draco doesnt really have much role in the grand scheme of things, he did get Something aside from being an attention seeker for book6 and book7 but for everything else his existence isnt that much necessary for the plot

but now i have to deal with their little interactions like how they watch each other across the great hall, arriving just to say an insult and leave, harrys disgusting thoughts like not wanting to embarrass himself in front of draco, regarding this 12 yr old kid who has not done instigated anything physical his archnemesis. like at worst hes a verbally racist parrot, maybe im just old but i just cant take a word he says seriously and yet these two dance around each other for some reason

#in the hands of a competent writer hed have a zuko arc and be the annoying unwanted 4th member of the group #in the hands of a competent writer his aversion to violence and how he feels ashamed for not liking it unlike his father as well as #not rly understanding the beliefs he parrots #would be explored #but we live in this world and all i have is my mind #hp #drarry #yumes hp reads

[immamapletreekid]

instead of grinding for finals i lost hours to a one piece wiki spiral

#IT ALL STARTED...WITH CP9S INDEPENDENT REPORT #in the most predictable fashion. ive yet again fallen for the “dangerous murder bot villains are actually a found family and genuinely care #for one another“ #PLSSS THE WAY THEY ALL WORKED SO HARD TO EARN THE MONEY TO TREAT LUCCI #thinking so hard about how they are one collecfive unit. they move together they work travel live thrive together #giggled so hard at kaku giraffe slide #SOEAKING OF WHICH I JUST LEARNED KAKU IS THE YOUNGEST OUT OF CP9 #HE WAS 18 WHEN THEY PLANTED HIM AND THE OTHERS IN WATER 7 #im not ok im ripping my pillow to shreds punchjng the wall screaming shaking good GOD DJFJ #KALIFAS DAD WAS IN THE PREV GEN OF CP9????? SO SHES RRALLY BEEN THERE THROUGH IT ALL #thinking about lucci and jabra and blueno trio... #yes i originally was devastated to discover my favourite shipwrifjts were actually undercover government assassins but like #the found family.....maybe not found family but FORGED FAMILY THEY MADE IT WORK #i still think it's so silly that. kaku is the youngest but hes second ij terms od power and he speaks like an old man #in my ideal world cp9 brutally murders spandam and they live their best lives after doijg whatever #attention span for stats and cs??? nonexistent #but yea sure i can spend 2 hours memorizing the key detaisl from the wiki entries of all cp9 agents and making a chart and timeline #maybe this is a sign...that i need to fix this before it causes bigger issues #rambling about stuff #wait omg no last thought is how when all the cp9 members reunite after 5 years and firsg thing they do is immediately check their doriki #and jabras upset by how both lucci ajd kakus are higher than his now but then u think about how hes the oldest in their group #heck five years ago when they were sent off to water 7 those two were 23 and FUCKIJG 18 YEARS OLD #OF COURSE HES UPSET THESE TWO FUCKING KIDS ARE STRONGEE THAN HIM #who holds seniority over them. im actually devastated and extremely entertained #the last time u see the youngest of your group hes some 18 year old kid you could best in a spar. maybe even leave some words of wisdom for #then he goes and leanrs how to build ships for 5 years and comes back stronger than u #they are a family to me... HE COULD HAVE ABANDONED TJEM?!?! THEM ALL HAD THE CHOICE OF LEAVING THE OTHERS BEHIND TO SAVE THEMSELVES #BUT THEY DIDNT. HE STILL GAVE KALIFA HIS SHIRT AND CARRIED KAKU ON HIS BACK ALL THE WAY TO ST POPLAR #biting my hands hitting the wall scratchijg the floors screaming shakijg not normal about these guys #THE WAY JABRA HAS A PET CHICKEN TO COUJTER HATTORI

[no-brand-gays]

if i became a school idol and the other members made my image color gray i would try to take down the group from the inside

#i’ve never said it but i’ve always thought it and i think a lot of people have given all the attempts to pretend kotori’s color is green #i do actually think it works for yoshiko but just for me it would feel so much like the short end of the stick #like everyone else is wearing sakura pink and sky blue and warm orange and i’m over here in a gray costume like yes this was my first choice #the reason I’m thinking about idols actually is that it took me 2 months of living in japan to realize i can go see idols #more specifically it took 2 months and the member of an idol group to hand me a flyer on the street and like very persistently and cutely #ask me to come until i was like okay yes ofc #i had literally just gotten off the bullet train i was wandering around and there she appeared #i love idols dude I really love idols so much #kpop is so much more accessible between fandom loudness and content more regularly being available for free but jpop!!!!!!!!! #jpop is my first love!!!! #i saw that live Friday and they said they were performing again Monday and o just happened to be staying in akiba again #so guess what i did last night #i am not immune to idols also you get to take pictures with your oshi as a thank you for your first and second time coming #so after both shows i got to talk a little w the member who found me #ik it’s their job but she remembered me the second time around and also the performances themselves were so fun and cute #it just really reignited the jpop flame in me i love idols so so so much #personal #hope you are all having a nice start to your week!!!

[whatareyoudoingwithamaserati]

princezam in trad goth makeup. roshambogames with corpsepaint. there is corn starch all over the team awesome base and mapicc keeps having coughing fits

#in the scale of heavy makeup alt to no makeup alt to me mapicc is the group’s designated metalhead where his only thing is to stand around #with long hair and a band shirt. nothing else #he can’t take his teammates ANYWHERE #because I know more about corpsepaint than anything else I can so very safely say there WOULD be hand motifs all through Ro’s #the hands are inescapable and so is my desire to see alternative clothes on every single lifesteal member at least once #mapicc the type of guy to say he only likes niche metal bands and then he owns cannibal corpse and slipknot shirts #I’m so torn between having him be an obnoxious metal purist or that fucker who only listens to obscure music like it’s bragging rights #zam had me torn between pastel goth hippie goth and trad goth for AGES but I think the painted white face black contour pointy eyeliner #combination and teased hair is Way too cool to give up #i dont have too many thoughts about ro. just corpsepaint #ok and the fact that he feels like a lorna shore / gimmick metal ass motherfucker #that’s It that’s All i am going to stop blending special interests now (I will not be doing that) #cats.txt

[shuruzy]

some of my characters from overcome the labyrinth have like 2 info and 3 art (mainly the Alliance Guild), & I only really did an "art summary" for Yun bc I saw his tag was COMPLETELY empty.

But then you have characters like Alverion who technically didn't have a lot art in his tag, but the amount of untagged art was like a dlc triple deluxe expansion pack.

#like on one hand the alliance guild is one of the least consistently present group of characters in OtL #on the other hand they're the only other 'important' guild in the empyreans PoV so i should consider drawing more. #BUT ALSO THERE'S LITERAL *EMPYREAN* MEMBERS I DONT DRAW ENOUGH. LIKE RUKI & KOR. WHAT HAPPENED TO SHAME. #not counting characters who haven't officially become members of the empyreans yet. who also have little art

[wishmemel]

chan hating himself is my roman empire

#how can someone so strong and capable and talented and gorgeous hate himself so much #like my god he’s so devastating #everything about him is laced with tragedy #the whole idea of loving him from afar (or any idol at all) and watching them say things like that about themself #and just not being able to. do. anything? #it’s so frustrating that the only way this works is that he has to put in the effort and realize his own worth but we don’t know if he does #or even will #because you can’t force someone to love them self or fix themself right #you can only love them through it and hope it’s enough #but it’s just sooo frustrating i’m #head in my hands he’s so devastating #i wish he was different #:(( #he’s so beautiful and so precious i’m so ill #i wanna give him the world #and the way he always stands in the back and observes the group as if he’s detached from this whole reality #as if he’s somewhere else completely #the way he once said that if it weren’t for the members and skz he wouldn’t even be alive #like he got a second chance at life #like he was saved all because of them #the heartbreaking way he said ‘you don’t care about me’ to minho like he really believed that #oh i wish someone would just grab his face and drill it into his head that he’s loved and he’s important and he matters !!! #he’s so me i’m so him #maybe that’s why i find him so tragic #it’s a loop #waiting to find the thing that saves me #or maybe it’s just the small things around me that i’ve been taking for granted #꒰ soon you'll get better. ꒱

[andro-dino]

shogun steel main gang hcs bc I’m thinking about them atm and how much I love them

- I’ve said this a billion times before but I’ll keep saying it until I die, they are very affectionate with each other. Of course, it depends on the specific people and how their feeling at certain times, but they will take any opportunity to cuddle or hold hands or just generally have some kind of contact with each other for comfort. idc if this is ooc canon is what I make of it

- Ren and kite bonding over being petty third wheels to Zyro and Shinobu is an idea that is so important to me you have no idea. They will argue with each other and be dumb any other time but instantly bond over hating on those two being losers

- This is one of my hyper specific projection moments but ren specifically any time she sees them being remotely affectionate to each other at all will immediately turn to the nearest person and go “get a load of these guys”

- underrated duo dynamic is ren and takanosuke being wlw mlm rivals/besties/gossip buddies. you just know they share the most scalding of tea while training with each other

- actually I just really appreciate their dynamic as a whole. they’re both very ambitious and headstrong bladers who are constantly working their hardest to grow and improve and I think they’d really bring out the best in each other. They have some great friendly banter thrown in there too. neither of them are afraid to throw in some really funny disses

- maru is such a creechur I really cannot appreciate that enough. she has adopted everyone as a big sibling and there’s nothing they can do to stop it, she just perched on their shoulder one day and there was nothing they could do to stop it

- the only exception to this is with kite and eight, because eight and maru are like two cats who don’t like each other being mutually stanced up and staring each other down in anticipation for one of them to pounce

- eight once was showing off a bunch of skateboard tricks and Zyro was like “psh that’s easy I could do that” and immediately ate shit and died and eight laughed at him for hours and has never let him live it down since

- kite likes to pretend he doesn’t care about any of them but takes really careful notice of their likes and dislikes and makes sure to accommodate for everyone when he can and gives them really banger gifts on special occasions but frames it as him being like “I know I know I can make and find such amazing things that’s just how it is for mr perfect” and the others are like “kite holy shit this is so kind of you thank you so much????” and he tries really really hard to pretend like he doesn’t really enjoy hearing that

- sakyo does not know how to interact with any of the main gang on his own outside of beyblade but he and taka are a package deal so he tends to tag along whenever takanosuke hangs out with any of them and he’s like the awkward cousin at a family party who just sits in the corner silently bc he doesn’t know how to approach anyone

- I think it would be funny if eight randomly started hanging out with him in that way that little kids do when they just decide they like you all of a sudden and sakyo just has no idea how to deal with that but ig he’s got a snarky little dude hanging out with him now and asking if he’s got any games on his phone

- benkei does not hide the fact that ren is his favorite child. he loves all of his kids dearly but ren is his daughter and hes very attached because he sees a lot of himself in her and wants her to be less dumb than he was when he was younger (may or may not be drawing a comic with this exact premise atm)

- this one’s kind of off track but I’ve thought abt it a lot in the past and started thinking abt it again. Kenta takes a shining to sakyo and kinda takes a bit of a mentor role over him accidentally and at some point Sakyo’s like “you act like you’re so much older than me but our age gap isn’t even that big (bc I hc sakyo as like 15-16 and ss Kenta as 18-19)” and Kenta’s like “well yeah but im the adult here?? I kinda just figured???” idk it’s just a neat dynamic I like a lot

- Shinobu and Ren go clothes shopping together. Ren likes spending Shinobu’s money and they bond over what they like, stuff they could share if they wanted to, and also shit talking stuff they think is ugly

- all of them get in really stupid arguments over the dumbest things. they’ve had big group debates over which flavor of ice cream is the best or whether or not cilantro tastes like soap

that is all for now they r very important to me thank you and goodnight

#axel’s silly little thoughts #the hyper specific one is something I genuinely did to my two friends who are dating at one point lmao #holding all of them so gently in the palms of my hands #REN AND TAKANOSUKES FRIENDSHIP IS SOMETHING IVE THOUGHT ABOUT SO MUCH THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT TO ME U HAVE NO IDEA #I’ve drawn this before but in a lot of their chat seshes taka talks a lot abt sakyo and at some point rens just like #‘takanosuke i am going to throw you if you don’t stop talking about this man I swear to god’ #taka and sakyo are honorary members of the main gang but it’s funny bc I like to think that a lot of them dislike one or both of them #for one reason or another #Zyro is their common ground that brings all of them together #if it weren’t for him their entire group would be in shambles #also also didn’t touch on this much but benkei Madoka and Tsubasa parenting them together is something I hold so close to my heart #and if I said they were qpps- #I’m gonna be thinking abt that now

[stellarhoxy]

not part of kpop fandoms, but i'm gonna keep it short and sweet.

If Garam goes to acting and never returns to Kpop, please still support her. After that horrendous mental beating anyone would be hesitant to rejoin the idol industry. She might not be ready or have lost passion or become too traumatized to develop further as an idol, or she could merely be enhancing her acting skills. Don't smear her if you want her to become an idol. Don't smear her if you want her to come back to LE SSERAFIM instead of acting. Don't join smearing her for any reason. The rumors have proven to be false. Believing in them now is just enjoying drama and refusing to see the truth.

Let a kid pave her own dream to her best effort. She will be struggling enough as-is. Don't make it harder.

#kim garam #le sserafim #lsfm #you can find most of the info on allkpop #Was interesting to see the upvoted comment section go from “we hate garam” to “we support garam” Once info was out #Even though HYBE DID make a statement at 20th May 2022 listing literally everything she said but no one listened #They tried to keep Garam #but did not know how to raise their voice #Its questionable whether them raising their voice would do anything #I see them kicking her out as a pure business decision done with tied hands #They've even apologized for not doing better #I hope there is no shady conspiracy vehement to keep her from the industry #I saw a compilation of hate she got and almost all of it is fake or a photo that could be anyone #I just honestly hope she can land an acting gig #because it would be sad if she couldn't #also lets be real #the probability of her returning to le sserafim is quite near zero #not zero but near #lets just support lesserafim as a 5 member group and not dream of what could be #dont force it on anyone #ive been voicing i want garam back because i genuinely miss her voice but like... #i think its best if i dont say it anymore? lsfm trying their best out here and garam might not even WANT to return anymore #also - Please don't extend this into any R//PF I hate it I hate it I hate it prime reason I don't set foot into kpop fandoms #anyway her case's just been making me a little bit sad

[bamgamronpa]

Now I feel bad for iklo and your friend but trust me when I say I am interested. Lore dump me anytime whenever you're ready for malice🫢

But yes 2021 surely is peak for kiibouma content I can agree :'(

they said “you should” for the first part tehehe

and i would lore dump but its a very collaborative story (4 ppl working on it) and we all have our own secrets abt character lore and we have to keep rping it … this is all u need to know abt iklo rn

#i remember being in like multiple kiibouma gcs when it was more popular here. i miss that #i still have a good handful of friends from a kiibouma server too even tho it gets messaged in like once every two months #<- not open to new members tho since its become a friend group server basicallh #but i enioy malice i enjoy maiming. thank u for the silly msgs :3 #bamgam.txt #ask #bamgam.art #technically. tagging it just for iklo