#theyre sooooo compelling

[mazeyphaedra]

There’s a moment where you see there’s still deep attraction here.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice // Brennan Lee Mulligan, Fantasy High: Junior Year // Lev St. Valentine, THIS IS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU // Lev St. Valentine, HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS. // Mitski, I’m Your Man // Siobhan Thompson, Brennan Lee Mulligan, & Ally Beardsley, Fantasy High: Junior Year // Trista Mateer, You Couldn’t Just Leave? // Steven Espada Dawson, Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother’s Heart // Natalie Diaz, Wolf OR-7 // Ally Beardsley & Brennan Lee Mulligan, Fantasy High: Junior Year

#well i did it #theyre sooooo compelling #WOLF OR-7 IS SO TRACKERBEES IT’S INSANE #in hindsight this was not so much ‘messy lesbians’ as ‘lesbian exes’ #but OH WELL #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high #fh #fantasy high spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 #kristen #kristen applebees #tracker o'shaughnessey #trackerbees #ww #webweaving #uh oh! #spideryna

[dizzybevvie]

what’s fantasy high ?^^

Fantasy High is a DnD show on yt ^^!!!!! its like, small town queer mystery, found family type shit about 6 teenagers in a school for adventurers!!!! <33

season 2 used to be behind a paywall but since season 3 is on the horizon (NEXT MONTH AHHH) theyre releasing s2 on yt now tooooo!!!

#its soooo fun and also so beginner friendly when it comes to dnd #it does have slight Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated vibes in some ways /pos #the character arcs are insanely well done the relationships feel well developed and real despite it being improv #its a lot shorter compared to a lot of dnd shows (cough cough critical role) and iiiii love it #2/3rds of the girls are in wlw relationships and theyre done WELLLLL #ALSO RIZ GUKGAK MY BEST FRIEND RIZ GUKGAK. SO AUTISTIC CODED AND ALSO LIKE THE FIRST AROACE CHARACTER I SAW IN MEDIA EVER ILY RIZ GUKGAK #not to say that the queerness of thw show is the main draw bc its NOT the mystery is compelling the worldbuilding is cozy #it really does just feel like a cohesive stoey #and then s2 is batshit INSANE but the mystery is still sooooo good #this is me not so subtly pitching Fantasy High to u btw Bdksbdj #chex tag #beverly says stuff #fantasy high #asks

[jihyunspipe]

i WILL say that any GE!v fanon where he and the mc get together immediately after he gets back to korea is nuts.

they are THE slowburn of all time. like they take an additional 6 months after his return getting to know eachother again and it literally takes every other member of the RFA to be like "you've literally already said that you're in love can you just fucking kiss already and stop making it our problem" before they finally do anything about it

#im even torn about this though bc im weak for the idea that they have a moment of weakness and hook up once before he even leaves #and then im ALSO weak for the idea that at the party theyre like. 'ok we'll take this slow' #and then smash cut to them unleashing 2.5 years of repression in a janitor's closet in the party hall #v's route and its themes of love as a corruptive force are SOOOOO compelling it makes me insane #jihyun kim #mysme v #op

[perenlop]

also following up with cursed mlp posting with cursed warrior cats posting but apparently people are upset bc some uwu nice boy character might be actually be a twist villain and i really hope it happens just to make people angry

#i want to watch the world burn a little #everytime the fans get mad that uwu kind boyfriend character is actually terrible (even though theyve actually always been gross) #i am vindicated in having been like ''um this is creepy'' #even tho thats not the case here really but its like. idk wc fans relearn the same lesson with every book #also its very funny to see people say ''youre reading into the text too much its not that deep'' when ppl criticize the racism and misogyny #but then theyre like ''um.... maybe this guy.... who hates women.... is actually like... an unreliable narrator and meant to be a critique #and you all are being sooooo mean by not analyzing the text and caring abt how his drama is so compelling actually and not giving it a chanc #chance'' #like when its to a character they actually like like which is it. is the series held up by scrap paper or is it misunderstood literature #echoed voice

[kindaorangey]

sooooo fascinating to me that of all forms of fiction, plays are the ones that are the most subject to reintepretation/transformative adaptation. like by their nature they are ephemeral because the original productions (esp. in cases of shakespere and euripedes😭lol) were not recorded and like even if they were those recordings are never going to be as widespread (or compelling!) as the original script & what a fresh pair of eyes can glean from it . AND the actors perform it differently every time depending on revisions behind the scenes or even something small like how theyre feeling on the day. a different delivery of one line could change the way you feel about the story entirely!!!!!!

#thunder rambles #id love to read an essay about this or anything related to this genuinely #made this post cuz im reading a rupert x giles fic. no i will not elaborate on how B led to B x

[sunnnfish]

WAIT. TERUKANEAOI.

TERUKANEAOIIIIII !!!! Fun fact i used to be a bit of a Terukane hater. I think cause i just liked akaneaoi more…? Don’t really remember why i just remember i was a hater. Privately of course. But thats in the past now theyre fucking CRAZZZYYYYYY and throwing aoi in there too it’s PERFECT !! Like. Terukane is just insane people central. Should explore each others bodies to let off some steam or something. Akaneaoi is sooooo Orpheus and Eurydice it makes me sick. And TeruAoi are like. Hater central. Curse of being a popular person. They’re also just insane They’re all insane. And it’s really so good. Oh yeah Makes sense Compels me etc etc. and then if you put them all in a room together they undergo nuclear fission i think. It’s also one of those things where like. I wouldn’t call it dating. Yknow. They’re not boyfriend girlfriend theyre something much worse. There’s like not even any loving stares. There’s akane’s fucking obsession Oh my god. Putting a pin in the thought i just had.* anyways theres akane’s obsession with aoi which like is love but isn’t. Loving? I dont know if this makes any sense. Like he LOVES her so much. Orpheus and Eurydice and all that. But its such a different kind of love than what i feel most people consider. And i dont know how to put it into words. And then teruaoi dont kiss. I think teru just doesnt kiss in general.** Cant imagine it. But they DO pretend to just to piss off akane. They think its cute. And then aoi goes and gives him a kiss on the cheek and teru smiles at him and he has officially short circuited and gone through the stages of grief. Ohh just had another different thought Put a pin in it.*** anyways Terukaneaoi so compelling in so many different ways but also in ways that i think the majority fandom doesnt get. They do all need to explore each others bodies but its not like in a traditionally loving way. Or something. Does this make any sense. Probably not. It’s hard to put vibes into words. Like they dont date they dont hold hands they dont say i love you. Well aoi does. No she doesnt. I dont know. But They do look at each other and get struck by lightning meteor god about it though.

*this is just like senamakoto

**amending this. He will kiss people on like. Anywhere but the mouth. Cheek head arm hand etc etc. only goes mouth when it gets sloppy style Who said that.

***these three are just like prev pres tashiro hanzawa……. The mind games man. Prev pres teru. Tashiro akane. Hanzawa aoi. You get it.

#THIS DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE TO ANYONE BUT ME PROBABLY…? #like. man. i cant imagine them in traditionally romantic settings/situations yknow #whatever #sunnfish.ask #ask game #sunluvclub

[rose022]

ive seen like three people do this so heres my prsk units ranking

1. niigo obv

like in every way possible, stories, cards, songs, characters, i love them so much. only unit ik all the vas too lol. literally amazing tho like in everything.

2. leoni

look their story was so good i had to stop myself from just reading those and not gonin order of eveyone. plus amazing characters and cards. and most importantly their music is good. has the most bops aside from niigo. i love rock sooooo much guys they need more rock songs.

3. mmj so closely tied with the next

theyre cuties idk. their story doesnt compell me as much as some of the others but like. without that i love the characters personalities and interactions. also they are soooo pretty i love women i mean i lobe their designs. lot of good songs i think. minoris voice is just usually irritating to me. so sorry girlie. i love you so so so much tho.

4. vbs sooo close to the last sorry

tbh only akty songs bop besides like machi and gekokujo so sorry.. also. hate to say this but story wise i onlybcare about kito and touya. im not too far on the story maybe it gets better tho prolly.

5. wxs ...sorey all my friends here ik u love them so much

tbh i do love their story a lot and emu and rui are so interesting and nene too its just like. idk i dont like the vibes. not my thing. same with hhw i just. eh. i dont really like all of nene and emus songs. the covers are great but. idk. i like them more than i used to at least?

#rose rambles

[roughentumble]

the fact that TWO shinigami fell in love with and died for misa misa. the fact that one of them was a woman. the fact that misa's brain is so fucked up that her response to "a death god died to keep you safe" is roughly "YAAAYYY pyon~ ଘ(∩^o^)⊃━☆゜im soooo happy you all think im so cute, and now i get this cool death note!" the fact that she is crazy committed to Some Guy. the fact that everyone in her life is sortve like a stepping stone and she barely actually feels anything for any of them. she's MY fucked up best friend she's my It Girl she's my female manipulator she's my death goddess. misa i love you, your brain is soooooo fucked up, i love whatever bullshit is going on in the misarem dynamic. she mostly just seems happy to have a supernatural bodyguard. she cares for rem in her own way. she will never love anyone like she loves light but even that isnt real love its all twisted devotion to a cause. does she feel anything for rem? WOULD she if she had never gotten twisted up in light? who knows! does it even matter when whatever theyre doing is sooooo compelling. she's a popstar she's an idol she's so used to accepting devotion she feels devotion to light so deeply that she doesnt even think it strange someone else wants to die for her. that's just the way of her world. feelings that are so big you would die at the altar of them. she's insane. misa misa you are my best girl my everything you are soooooo fucked up in the brain you are so weirdly in lesbians with yor death god <3 <3 <3

[sleepii-moth]

ok so ive had this outer wilds playlist i made sitting there for a while and wanna share it but i feel compelled to explain every song so here i go- might add more to this if i find anything that fits but this is all for now :)

island song- i like to think about this as sort of hal and hatchling's friendship when they were kids

everything stays- this one is very solanum and the rest of the nomai- something about the way so many nomai settlements changed through time but also didnt, in a way theyre still the same as they were all those years ago just frozen in time

echoes of the eye, travelers encore, last dream of home, outer wilds reprise- these are just outer wilds songs i like

still feel- very much hatchling at the beginning of the time loop to me- the thrill of dying but still being alive. searching for answers with reckless abandon and excitement

ends of the earth- this one makes me think about hatchling trying to get gabbro to go with them around the solar system and reciprocate that desire for discovery and exploration

until the night turns- literally a song about the world ending.. i think thats all this is to me djfnsjfn

frozen pines- reminds me a lot of the hearthians and their relation to the nomai + some bits that make me think of the time loop in there

way out there- this is mostly just hatchling in the time loop to me

no matter what- i feel kinda silly putting an su song in here but whatever. you can think of this as hatchling and gabbro, or if you wanna be sad it can be hal and hatchling before the time loop :)

somewhere out there- this one makes me think a lot about the nomai's search for the eye + the hearthians relation to it and how hatchling got to the eye because of the nomai

twenty long years- VERY hatchling in the time loop- the way its presented also makes me think of it from an everyone lives au perspective and how the time loop affected them, its also got some campfire song vibes so i like to think of it as something hatchling could sing too :)

the stranger- EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ONE IS JUST PERFECT FOR THE STRANGERS!!!! the LYRICS the NAME its sooooo outer wilds dlc, its also like the last one in making me think about it as a song hatchling could sing and as something written from their point of view

the night we met- this ones just kinda a little love song i like to apply to ships, my go to for this one is usually thinking about the time buddies singing together and also to make it sadder- them singing together to distract from the fact that one of them is dying before the loop ends, in those scenarios i usually think about it as a hearthian folk song that they both just know the lyrics to

#ow spoilers

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

the penumbra podcast (specifically the juno steel stories) theyre sooooo good, my fav of all time. Juno steel is a private eye on mars in the future, has some run ins with an homme fatale, eventually a found family story, its so good all around, very compelling

added!

#submission #not a poll

[honeybeekao]

Oh you finished secret service do you have any Eden thoughts about it or is it mainly madra related

90% of my SS screenshots are madara or kohaku however oh my god i didnt truly get how funny ibara is until i read this. like my thoughts on him are he is an evil little creature who for some reason has so much power it's insane

BUT HE'S ALSO SO PETTY? amusing. that's the word im looking for he amuses me a lot. the comedy of them both silently thinking here gets me, madara is so intuitive i adore him

(translation by hyenahunt) SS spoilers ahead

he's smart but the fact he didnt see madara betraying him from a mile away... okay girl. (side note MADARA WHY DO YOU. LAUGH IN YOUR INNER MONOLOGUE IM GOING TO GET YOU /loving)

also i generally like jun already ive read like so many random little stories so already being acquainted with him, hes my best friend. think the eden dynamic makes my heart melt theyre sooooo fun to observe. i understand why hiyori is like that in textposts now also love him I DONT HATE ANY ENSTARS CHARACTERS so my opinions are either positive or neutral. i NEED to see more im so bad at reading but i promsie to read Gang n conquest Soon jfdfjfxj ANYWy Umumyny i just???? secret service was so enjoyable. So so good, ignore i binge read all 30 chapters at 3 am on no sleep

NAGISA. THE WHOLE CONSPIRACY ABOUT THE GODFATHER BEING REPLACED i think i had to reread it like 3 times because what the Fuck. enstars LOVES replacement subplots. i also didnt really know much about nagisa before, i'd seen the eden anime eps and my first 5* in 2020 was his dream of the wasteland card. i find him really endearing, and and see.. unlike madara, /i/ can understand his ramblings <33 eden are just very compelling i think, theyre the most keychain-core of the cast i would get eden merch. have i mentioned kohaku yet no i haven't um okay so he's actually my favorite character in SS ngl

the way he genuinely does care about madara and sees right through him

You've got it rough,

Madara-han. That's exactly why I can't leave ya alone.

his entire role in this story feels a little protagonist-like. wanting so Badly to just fly around the world to find madara because the guy won't answer a single message and he's tied down by the preliminary regulations that Somehow rinne has decided they're following. he worries about mama getting into trouble but equally thinks about his life in general. how madara sacrifices his own happiness and dreams for the sake of working for the lesser-evil of justice. constantly on the move and he's never got his guard down, always pretending.

kohaku's inner monologues are just so, profound and thoughtful, i adore him. he's very caring

"Once I rip off all those masks you're wearin', I know I'll be able t'see the real you."

ALSO HIS ANALYSIS ON THE IDOL INDUSTRY??? i hate that this 15 year old is so eloquent he makes me insane.

OH MY GOD AND i loooved kohaku's interactions with eve. learning about how their respective units contrast eachother— but they both have similar roots of "everyone involved has a rough past"

"I'm a living corpse."

gatekeeper as a villain is also amusing to me good god. i wanna see the entire temple scene animated do you understand how much i wanna see madara kick gatekeeper away then IMMEDIATELY be in a staring death match with kohaku? THEIR ENTIRE FACADE FIGHT IS SO FUCKING GOOD it's so good i love the words shot at eachother.

"You're a nice kid. There's gotta be some psychological barriers that'll stop you from killing me."

as the expert in the skill of murder that he is, i personally would not be able to handle even a 10% chance that kohaku was serious. MADARA COULDN'T FULLY TELL BUT JUST HOPED HE'D GOTTEN HIS MESSAGE. theyre both silly fools and the fact that hiyori just had to watch like "What . is going on Huh". one of my favorite scenes in enstars ever

i could ramble sbout how kohaku's instincts to scold madara like a mother is so intriguing to me but i should do that in its own post probably. gosh he's the coolest kid i love kohaku

#enstars #this isn't an analysis i just really enjoyed secret service #translation by hyenahunt #kohaku oukawa #madara mikejima #ibara saegusa #nagisa ran #alex 🥔 #secret service es

[izupie]

In order to get back on your good side, ship bingo for touken? 🥺👉👈

Hehehehe

Touken my beloved ❤️

Theyre such a enemies to friends to lovers and there's even the added amnesia thrown in there and UGH

POWER COUPLE

They had a Canon Slow Burn and I am living for it. The way they grew and evolved was so compelling.

They were my OTP for sooooo long I have so much fondness for them

#i have some old touken fanfiction i never published somewhere #and i still have my tiny kaneki and touka figures in my room #i left the fandom but their legacy lives on #*salutes* #thanks for this one it was fun revisiting my love for them #izu replies #ask games #ship bingo #hakucho-art

[scattered-winter]

🔥+ YA novels and/or love triangles

i like ya novels most of the time but theyre on Thin Fucking Ice because most of them are like. the exact same story. Special Chosen Girl who falls in love with the Tall Dark and Morally Ambiguous Guy and they have to Defeat The Bad Guys and blah blah blah. the really really good ones are unfortunately pretty hard to find because its a 1 in 7 chance of actually getting a good one because there's SO many that are just. not good.

and LOVE TRIANGLES. hoooooo boy. i HATE those things. SO much. idk if its just because stupid romance tropes always annoy me or if its genuinely a bad plot device but i haaaaaaate them. the one exception to this rule is the hunger games, because the love triangle wasnt about LOVE. it had DEEPER THEMES AND IMPLICATIONS (gale as war and violence, peeta as peace and healing) that contributed to the overall theme of the story. but as with everything else, other ya authors took the concept of a love triangle and shoved it into their work with none of the things that made the hunger games love triangle sooooo insane and compelling. overall i hate them so much and if a story is starting to set up a love triangle i nope the fuck outta there

an honorable mention for love triangle i didnt mind was jesper, wylan, and kuwei in six of crows for several reasons. 1) it wasnt reciprocated on all sides. 2) it was only a very, VERY minor part of the story. like. it was in 2 chapters at most. and 3) it was fucking hilarious

#im sure the love triangle wasnt INVENTED in thg but like...that's def what kinda popularized it #and made other ya authors try and use it. but not very good. #gah. love triangles (derogatory) #ya fiction (also derogatory) #its all so romance-focused that i dont even really try to read them anymore because its SO hard finding something #that doesnt repulse the fuck outta me #piff 🍁

[banghwa]

i really hate to disappoint but demian isn't niche in korea, it's in their literature syllabus for schools 😭😭 but it's still very cool that so many kpop idols reference it and it's even cooler when they show that they have an actual interest in books (like rm and def taemin!)

its not disappointing rly ive heard hermann hesse is quite popular there ! its still very interesting tho bcs even if it may be their equivalent of our great gatsby or wtv that doesnt mean its less valuable just bcs its more popular...the story is sooooo intersting and compelling, there is a reason some books are used in school, its bcs theyre challenging and thought provoking ! demian is also just soooo taemin and im so excited to see how he uses it as a framework for his future concept(s)!!!

#💌 #anonymous

[ocdhuacheng]

i get that people genderbend male character to be female in mxtx stories (esp if those ppl are wlw) because the majority of characters are male and it is focused on mlm content. so i support wlw simping over cool necromancer lesbians you go girlies, but in general i tend to stay away from genderbend stuff because sooooo much of it is made by cis ppl and it can be a bit transphobic? it also a lot of the times falls into the cishet gender stereotype shit of "women big boobie slim waist small big lips big eyes, men big buff strong macho 8 pack square" which is! oh no cringe!

yeah EXACTLY like my thoughts too. bc the vast majority of genderbending made by cis ppl really is just. like you said. biological gender stereotype shit. i feel like most trans people i see are made pretty uncomfortable by this, and i can totally see why, so i am too. but at the same time i DO understand wlw who want more content with girls/wlw characters esp when there are so few to begin with. so like im kinda willing to give wlw the benefit of the doubt in this case even though i dont rly like to interact with it myself. but also, my beloved sisters in christ... baihe exists

the only genderbending ill really interact with is works with sqx, he xuan*, and hua cheng like since theyre the ones that are shown to or mentioned to change gender in canon. (ling wen too, tho tbh i dont rly care about male!ling wen lmfao, just for the sole reason that, well. i am a lesbian. tho i do have to say the lore behind her male form is actually rather compelling and i think if mxtx were more skilled and open to writing analysis about gender, it could lead to a very thoughtful and nuanced discussion of how ling wen views herself, rather than just if she looks like a cis woman shes a woman if she looks like a cis man shes a man. because iirc she only shapeshifted to get the extra power she had in her male form? that doesnt mean that she is now a man, but in those scenes the book automatically refers to her as such. would love an extra about ling wen's self image and gender. but no, we had to get the statue sex and weird underage amnesia stuff 🙄)

BUT ANYWAY like idk if it really counts as genderbending in tgcf's case? but either way i know mxtx made that ~gods and ghosts can change gender at will~ thing just as a haha comedic relief thing like i think them having the power to do that is totally cool but i do not think it was done respectfully at all, especially with sqx, since mxtx kind of either intentionally or not sends the message (at least to me) that you can only be trans if you pass as cis. ive said it a million times before and ill say it again but the way sqx is never referred to as a woman (by the characters, the narrative, and even THEMSELF) after they lose the ability to LOOK like a cis woman is so so infuriating to me. like theyre not going to just STOP being genderfluid/trans just bc they cant change their appearance. and also not to mention throughout the book they were just kinda treated as being silly and immature for wanting to change their gender in the first place, so, another win for transphobia i guess. though i can appreciate having a canon trans/genderfluid character, they definitely could have been written better in that regard

*while i love fem!he xuan... it did leave a kinda dirty taste in my mouth when mxtx had to make sure we knew that he xuan only did it to appease sqx, and actually hated being a woman. and the way it was talked about too like 'oh he was forced to be in a womans body so OF COURSE he was super pissed the entire time' like i cant explain it but it was just kind of upsetting. kinda transphobic and misogynist. one might even say,..... transmisogynist 🤔

this answer kinda ended up going on a tangent but yea lol thanks for the ask ^^

#what the fuck ever. my canon now #he xuan nonbinary legend #also the thing with hua cheng is even tho we never see his female form ive just kinda always headcanoned him as genderfluid #and since he changes his skins like by the hour lmfao it just feels kinda natural to me? #idk #and as a disclaimer #idrk my gender? i dont really think im cis but also i dont really think i can call myself trans either. #so apologies if im wording things in a problematic way at all #asks #.txt #agenderenvi #tgcf #<- just for my blog organization even tho the ask wasnt specifically about it i just ended up talking about it a lot

[blinder-secrets]

Last night I watched 2 x 01 and I loved it so much too! :-) I'm very intrigued about Richie//Sydney dynamic after what happened. When they almost ran into each other in this episode I held my breath lmao

god i love syd richie like i just find them sooooo compelling to watch. even if they hate each other and even more when theyre getting along like i lurveee to see it