#( ava & nini )

[heartfe1t]

@inspotlight

"you’re out of your fucking mind.”

ava raises an eyebrow, staring at nini pointedly.   ❝    i'm out of my mind? because i'll say it again nina.   ❞    she bites off her words, as sweet as she almost sounds in her tone of voice.   ❝    you're not the only girl in this room who knows what he likes. and i think if you're going to be talking about this little outfit situation out loud with your friend on facetime, i may as well offer my opinion.   ❞   she shrugs, there's no sense trying to get this girl to like her, she doesn't care if she does or doesn't. besides, she'd pretty much burned that bridge with ricky, though things had been arguably mostly amicable on the split itself. his now girlfriend... definitely isn't going to like her. they just have to put up with each other a little while longer, rooming together for the competition out of a coincidence of fate...

[melodyplucked]

ricky's skating partners -

ellory peterson (sadie stanley)

ricky's first serious skating partnership. they started properly skating together when he was 14 and she was 13 years old. they went on to go to the olympics together when he was 16 and she was 15, after two years of seriously training together. they medaled bronze, but it was exceptionally close to being fourth place. they went to a few more invitationals together, but her family made a cross country move for her dad's job about five or so months after the olympics, after her 16th birthday, and right before ricky's 17th. they did cross some significant lines into romantic territory in those last two months she was in utah, though she'd had a crush on him for quite a while before, and she is pretty certainly his first girlfriend, whether they'd officially put that label on it or not. her leaving his life so soon into things definitely compounded his whole thing about his mom leaving... which is fun.

ava kincaid (sydney sweeney)

started skating with ricky when they were both 17, him freshly so, about a month after ellory left utah. this was supposed to be their plan going forward, working towards the next olympics around 3 and a half years down the line, if her former coach wasn't still poking her about her decision to stop skating singles... did she maybe specifically want to skate with ricky... possibly. there was a lot of talk about that for sure. was she serious about skating pairs... yes. but her coach was very disappointed she didn't want to stick it out skating alone despite her prior performances being good but not as great as they should be if she wants to really do this. she's a lot happier as a pairs skater, working with jenn and ricky... and they end up a couple after a good five or so months when a late night alone at the rink turns into eating pizza in the back seat of his car and a night he was glad his dad reminded him to always keep jumper cables in the trunk. she wasn't mad though- and pretending to be his girlfriend to get the guy who helped them jump the car to stop looking at her like that turned into a bit of a what if that put them on their way to something...

the reason their skating partnership ended right around two years in, was because of a few things- but if you were to be totally honest, it started when her ex boyfriend came back into the picture. he kissed her after his hockey game, and while ricky doesn't know the full story, he saw the photo on instagram before he heard it from her- and she had been pretty much his girlfriend for almost a year and a half at the time... they stopped seeing each other within a few days, because despite her telling him that he just caught her off guard she didn't kiss him... he knew she was kind of happy her ex had kissed her. and frankly he felt cheated regardless and didn't want to chance anything else happening. they skated together another month or two, but whether it's due to her then boyfriend's jealousy of her skating with him or her old coach getting extra pushy about her skating singles being better, she did go back to skating singles. at which point he had about a year and a half to the olympics to find and train with a new partner, after being so set with ava for two years already and planning on going with her...

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emma williams (daniella perkins)

started skating together when he was 19 and she was 18. this partnership lasted about a month before she managed to end up with the blade of her skate in her leg ala the first episode of spinning out. they weren't skating together long enough for anything at all to really transpire between them. they'd just begun their partnership, and she had just moved to utah a few months before they paired up, so it wasn't like they knew each other. she's cool though, and had been a great singles skater at 16. unrelated to ricky, but she ends up doing commentary after she recovers from her injuries. speaks well of him when asked despite how briefly they skated together.

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nini salazar-roberts ( @inspotlight )

started skating together when they were 19 years old, a year and a few months out from the next olympics. i could say so so many things about how emotionally tumultuous their partnership was to start, but they'd loved each other since they were sixteen and when they got it together and admitted it, they never looked back. they went on to win olympic gold together at 20 years old, after securing the two preceding nationals wins. they go on to medal at 3 more olympics after that, getting married in between, before she finds out she's pregnant with their baby. he does skate at one more olympics after this, but his skating partner is inconsequential by that point. nini is his partner in all things. and they get to bring their baby with them to the olympics to come see what brought them together in the first place which is amazing.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Note: Don’t worry about if your client is actually guilty or not. Let’s just say that there’s a 50/50 chance your client is actually guilty. Just focus on defending them!

[misteriios]

avalyn thought the library would help her find the reason why she was alive again. she barely had slept since returning. all she could think of was the day her oldest brother went insane. she did not recognize him ❝ i uh ❞ she looked down on the floor. didn't know what to answer because she had not read the books. heard of them, but never have had time to read other books than grimoires ❝ i have not read either of them. why not start with one of them first? and when you have finished it you can read the other. i have no idea who these characters are ❞

adjusting to washington was taking much longer than nini would like to admit — she hated being in active crisis, more accustomed to helping others than asking for help herself. that's why she was ignoring it altogether. a little delusion didn't hurt anyone, right? she was currently at the library, hoping to find a book that would further help distract her from the reality of her situation. "... do you think the chronicles of narnia or the lord of the rings would be a better avenue of escapism? i always did have a crush on legolas, but i could say the same about caspian, too," she mused aloud when she spotted someone in her peripheral. "normally i only really read plays... or non-fiction books about plays."

@hiddenstarters

[bikinibottomdayz]

NOVEMBER 10, 2024 RELEASE

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This release includes: Romeo + Juliet, & Juliet (cast change), Death Becomes Her, Moulin Rouge! (Aaron + JoJo), Ragtime, Safety Not Guranteed

& JULIET October 27, 2024 (E) | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.56GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Maya Boyd (Juliet), Alison Luff (Anne), Drew Gehling (Shakespeare), Megan Kane (u/s Nurse), Paulo Szot (Lance), Justin David Sullivan (May), Philippe Arroyo (Francois), Ben Jackson Walker (Romeo), Phil Colgan (s/w Crosse/Bathroom Attendant), Andrew Chappelle (Lord Capulet/Sly), Virgil Gadson (Augustine), Makai Hernandez (Richard), Najah Hetsberger (Lady Capulet/Nell), Joomin Hwang (Kempe), Khailah Johnson (Judith/Rosaline), Ava Noble (s/w Titania), Jasmine Raphael (Imogen), Matt Raffy (Gregory), Bex Robinson (Charion), Tiernan Tunniclffe (Eleanor/Benvolio) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of cast change performance! Final performance for Philippe, Justin, Ben, Phil, Andrew, Virgil, Megan, Jasmine, Matt, Bex, and Tiernan. Minor obstruction that blocks off some action on the right but is worked around well. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Includes curtain call and the post-show speech, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBPL3Y | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL MAY 2, 2025

DEATH BECOMES HER October 23, 2024 | Broadway (Previews) | 4K MP4 (10.07GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Megan Hilty (Madeline Ashton), Jennifer Simard (Helen Sharp), Christopher Sieber (Ernest Melville), Michelle T. Williams (Viola Van Horn), Marija Abney (Ensemble), Lauren Celentano (Ensemble), Sarita Colón (Ensemble), Kaleigh Cronin (Ensemble), Natalie Charle Ellis (Ensemble), Taurean Everett (Ensemble), Michael Graceffa (Ensemble), Neil Haskell (Ensemble), Kolton Krouse (Ensemble), Josh Lamon (Ensemble), Sarah Meahl (Ensemble), Ximone Rose (Ensemble), Sir Brock Warren (Ensemble), Bud Weber (Ensemble), Ryan Worsing (Ensemble), Warren Yang (Ensemble) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of this show’s first preview! Minor head obstruction on the far left and on the bottom, doesn't block action except for a few moments. Some short blackouts scattered throughout the show because of people getting up and walking the aisles. Increased wandering / readjustment and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBPwL6 | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL MAY 2, 2025

MOULIN ROUGE! October 2, 2024 (E) | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.43GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Joanna "JoJo" Levesque (Satine), Aaron Tveit (Christian), Patrick Clanton (s/b Harold Zidler), David Harris (The Duke of Monroth), André Ward (Toulouse Lautrec), Alexander Gil Cruz (Santiago), Sophie Carmen-Jones (Nini), Nicci Claspell (Arabia), Jacqueline B. Arnold (La Chocolat), Jeigh Madjus (Baby Doll), Nick Martinez (Pierre), Giovanni Bonaventura (s/w Ensemble), Cameron Burke (s/w Ensemble), Aaron C. Finley (Ensemble), Bahiyah Hibah (Ensemble), Kamal Lado (Ensemble), Heather Makalani (Ensemble), Kaitlin Mesh (Ensemble), Jenn Stafford (Ensemble), Brooke Taylor (Ensemble), Alex Varcas (Ensemble), Frank Viveros (Ensemble), Cole Joseph Wachman (Ensemble), Michael Bryan Wang (s/w Ensemble), Jordan Wynn (Ensemble) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of the show’s 1500th performance! Three short blackouts, lasting 90 seconds near the end of “Sympathy for the Duke,” 30 seconds after “Nature Boy,” and 25 seconds after “Backstage Romance.” Action on the far left and on the walkway is somewhat obstructed. A railing is also visible and occasionally blocks off action but is usually unintrusive. Some wandering and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call, and encore, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBL7yf | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL MAY 2, 2025

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ROMEO + JULIET October, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.1GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Kit Connor (Romeo), Rachel Zegler (Juliet), Taheen Modak (Benvolio), Gabby Beans (Mercutio/Friar Laurence), Solá Fádìran (Lord Capulet/Lady Capulet), Tommy Dorfman (Tybalt/The Nurse), Daniel Velez (u/s Paris/Sampson/Peter), Nihar Duvvuri (Balthasar), Jasai Chase-Owens (Gregory), Daniel Bravo Hernández (Abraham) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of this star-studded revival! Minor head obstruction that doesn’t block off anything. Action that takes place on the catwalk and on the far sides of the theatre (not on stage) are mostly uncaptured. One blackout in both acts lasting 40 seconds each. Some moments of wandering / readjustment and unfocusing. Includes curtain call, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBQ9bx | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL MAY 2, 2025

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[themurderrose]

Omegaverse pronoun post

I'm writing a fic with a lot of in-verse lore and this is the first of many outro posts to support the word and worldbuilding im doing.

In today's post: Pronouns & associated words [in my head at least]

Omegas : dey/dym/deyr/dymself. An omegean parent goes by dam (dimminutive: damma) An omegean sibling of your parent goes by eam (old english) An omegean parent of your dam would be your damdamma or dam squared, damma squared etc (dam of your dam) An omegean parent of your sire would be your damsenna (dam of your sire but damsire doesnt sound as good) or similar An omegean parent of your nari would be your damnari or damnini or sometimes by children your damini (dam of your nari)

Alphas : ae/aer/aers/aerself. An alpha parent goes by sire or senna or the diminutive sisi An alpha sibling of your parent goes by ava (from avus) An alpha parent of your sire would be your siresenna, siresire or sire squared etc An alpha parent of your dam would be your siredam or siredamma or sennadamma or whatever An alpha parent of your dam would be your sirenini or sirenari or sennanini etc etc

Betas : ne/nem/nir/nemself. note that of all dynamics betas are the most likely, although it's still under 1%, to use genetalia specific pronouns such as he/him and she/her, and in those cases the following words are often not used. A beta parent goes by nari or nini A beta sibling of your parent goes by nia (from irish) A beta parent of your nari would be your narini, or your nari squared, etc A beta parent of your dam would be your naridam, ninidam, or similar A beta parent of your sire would be your narisire, narisenna, ninisire, or similar.

Note that it is the norm these days to move away from traditional terms for your parents parents and to simply say grandsenna or granddam or grandnari, or grandparents in the collective. This is, of course, up to the individual in quesiton.

Siblings: While words do exist for older and younger omega, beta, and alpha siblings, it has become the norm to simply refer to your siblings by their age in relation to you. If they're older we use sister and if they're younger, brother. If someone really needs to know what dynamic they are, that's what pronouns are for.

Children of your siblings : any dynamic of sibling and any dynamic of child get nibling.

Children of the siblings of your parents : any dynamic of sibling and any dynamic of parent, and any dynamic of child get cousin.

Group Pronouns because if it works for the french it'll work for me

Mixed dynamic groups: they/their/they're/themselves

All omegean group - deys/dyms/deyrs/dymselves.

All alphaen group - aes/aers/aers/aerselves.

All beta group - nes/nems/nirs/nemselves.

If you can't tell from context whether aers refers to one or multiple people, simply ask.

[the-conversation-pod]

The VIIB Awards 2024: Top Tings

Continuing with Part 4 of 5 of the Very Important Internet BL Awards, we are handing out our awards for our favorites!

We will be awarding our Best GL, Best Genre Romance, Best Workplace Romance, Best Second Chance Romance, Best High School Romance, and BL of the Year.

Join us today and for the rest of the week as we continue tomorrow with our Special Class Awards. Tell us your winners in the notes!

Timestamps

The timestamps will now correspond with chapters on Spotify for easier navigation.

00:00 - Welcome 01:23 - Introduction 02:29 - Interlude: The very best in nosy neighbors from Big Eden (2000) 03:02 - Best GL 05:03 - Best Genre Romance 10:18 - Best Workplace Romance 16:02 - Best Second Chance Romance 21:20 - Best High School Romance 34:45 - BL of the Year 40:09 - Outro

The Conversation Transcripts!

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00:00 - Welcome

NiNi

Welcome to The Conversation About BL, aka The Brown Liquor Podcast.

Ben

And there it is. I’m Ben.

NiNi

I’m NiNi.

Ben

And we’re you’re drunk Caribbean uncle and auntie here sitting on the porch in the rocking chairs.

NiNi

Four times a year we pop in to talk about what’s going on in the BL world.

Ben

We shoot the shit about stories and all the drama going into them. I review from a queer media lens.

NiNi

And I review from a romance and drama lens.

Ben

So if you like cracked-out takes and really intense emotional analysis…

NiNi

If you like talking about artistry, industry, and the discourse…

Ben

And if you generally just love simping…

NiNi

There is a lot of simping on this podcast…

Ben

We are the show for you!

[fanfare sound]

01:23 - Introduction

Ben

And we're back. It is now time for the final segment.

NiNi

That's the Top Tings, and I know that you just said the final segments and not the Top Tings because you can't say “the Top Tings.” It makes you feel weird. [laughs]

Ben

I feel like I'm making fun of my cousins to the south if I say it!

NiNi

You get a pass this one time. [laughs]

So, we have changed, actually, our entire Top Tings segment from. Last year, we did awards by country, and we had a long discussion this year about what would be the most effective way to award the best of the best. Based on just the sheer volume coming out of Thailand, it would neither be fair nor appropriate to segment this section by country. So we have revamped and reworked the segment. We’re looking at sub genres within the BL genre.

02:29 - Interlude: The very best in nosy neighbors from Big Eden (2000)

Widow Thayer

“Yes, that, that Thanksgiving business.”

Bird

“You're wasting your efforts, Pike.”

Pike

“My efforts? My efforts! I'm just cooking food here!” 

Jim

“If only that were true.” 

Pike

“[sighs] I… I just want things to be… nice for him. I—I know it sounds foolish, but I just want things to be nice for him.”

Jim

“Thing is, Pike, uh. We want things to be nice for you too, buddy.”

03:02 - Best GL

NiNi

We start with a sub genre that is not in the BL genre, but it's still an important genre to us, and that is Best GL. 

Y’all, we were so excited for GL this year and then basically, very little GL actually happened, so there isn't actually really much to award this year. We've got one award to hand out—no runner up. 

So the winner of the Best GL this year is GAP the series? [fanfare sound]

Ben

It really is the only show.

NiNi

It was the only GL this year that we saw that we truly thought made the grade, that took the genre seriously. So GAP, what can I say about GAP? We cried. We laughed. We cackled towards the end. Ben suggested that somebody use somebody else like a bat. It was just so much fun, and that was what I wanted out of the first big GL to come out of Thailand. I wanted to have some fun. I wanted the girls to be gorgeous. I wanted all new tropes that had nothing to do with BL. And we got all of those things in GAP.

Ben

We did. We got “Let me taste the lipstick that I just put on you.” That's great. Good job, girls.

NiNi

Fantastic. No notes. [laughs] 

GAP was so fun. It was so fresh. It felt so different. It didn't feel like a BL in GL clothes. It felt like a GL. And, so, it wins the Best GL of the year. 

Hopefully next year we do better.

05:03 - Best Genre Romance

NiNi

Moving on. Our next category is Best Genre Romance, and this is a category to award romances in the action, horror, mystery, sci-fi and fantasy realms. 

The runner up for best genre romance is Be My Favorite. [applause sound] 

I am the resident Be My Favorite cheerleader. Ben likes the show, too, but I am the resident Be My Favorite cheerleader of this podcast. Really, what sells this is how Be My Favorite utilized its core conceit: its time travel element. It was so legible. It was simply designed, and it tied into both the structure and the characterization.

Ben

For me, in a genre story, the conceit matters to the way the story is going to unfold. It can't be an incidental part, and the way that time travel mechanic informs the story that's unfolding is really one of the stand out plot devices of the year. They never use it as a cop out, and I think that is one of the reasons why I was positive about the show more than anything else.

NiNi

It's not a cop out. It's not a deus ex machina. It is a Macguffin, but it is not a useless Macguffin. It is an incredibly impactful mechanic. There's two points in the story where it really stands out as an excellent use. The first one is when Kawi goes forward the second time, and his life is completely changed and he's miserable. And the second time that it's used, I think to incredible effect, is when Pisaeng travels back in time. The time travel mechanic itself and the way it was used in the story really resonates. 

So the runner up for best genre romance is Be My Favorite in the sci-fi subcategory for its time travel mechanic. 

Ben, who's the winner?

Ben

The winner of best genre romance this year is The End of the World With You [fanfare sound] because they used an impending apocalypse story as a way to do a really fucked up second chance romance. 

The world is ending and the characters we have are so messed up that they don't care or despair about this at all, because they have all stopped living in one way or another. They have given up, and so the fact that this story is about those characters choosing to live while staring into the abyss… It's just really so, so good. 

I really like that The End of the World With You uses this really well-executed end of the world coming soon setting to force these characters to reckon with the harm that they inflicted upon each other and themselves, and recognize that they don't just want to give up on life because they had a bad run of it. Your first losses can be really, really difficult. I don't want to ever downplay anyone's pain or suffering. But we're still here. This is our shot. You gotta take it. You have to get up. I don't know what getting up looks like for you, but you gotta get up. It's not over.

NiNi

Just thinking about The End of the World With You always makes me incredibly emotional because it is about the desperation of hope. It's so easy to just give up, and to give up in the face of what feels like absolutely impending doom, and then instead to say, “Actually, no, I'm not going to give up,” and then to have that work.

Ben

It's funny because we award Be My Favorite for doing, like, hard science fiction really well, by having a very straightforward conceit and following the rules of that conceit. But here we're awarding this show—we're kind of doing, like, a soft magic thing, where it doesn't matter what the rules of Yuma’s powers are. It's just he is a teenage boy with the ability to rewrite reality, and helping this teenage boy manage his own angst is how you save the world. [laughs] So fun.

NiNi

Save the world by becoming gay dads to a teenage boy who, along the way, falls in love with somebody experiencing gender. It's fantastic. No notes.

10:18 - Best Workplace Romance

NiNi

We're looking now at Best Workplace Romance, and I gotta say, I think 2023 was kind of the year of the workplace romance. There were a lot of them this year. Some worked well, some did not. [laughs] But I think what we have here is two of the best, and again, I'm going to engage in a little propaganda for one of my favorites. 

So for me, the point of setting a workplace drama is that you're either gonna be examining power dynamics, diverging goals and motivations, or queerness at work. To me, the best workplace romances in the BL genre deal with all three of these, and that's how I picked the winner. But before we get to the winner, I'll let Ben talk about the runner up.

Ben

So the runner up for this year is going to be Love in Translation. [applause sound] I generally do not like that most workplace romances are about the power differential between the boss and their employee. It irritates me to no end. It's a form of wish fulfillment that feels a little grounded in a dynamic where men make more money than women, so you're trying to romance your boss to kick up your social status a little bit. It feels a little heteronormative in BL, and it's rare that I feel like the queer dynamics of this are explored well at all. 

Love in Translation really works for me because the show goes out of its way to make the two characters equal by using Thai law to make that happen. And the two of them have to work together to make this functional. Working towards the goals they have for why they even agree to be part of the business enable them to grow closer with each other, and recognize that the thing that they're finding in each other is probably what's more important for them at this point. And the show ends by turning the whole franchise into a worker collective. How cool is that?

NiNi

I enjoyed Love in Translation and I definitely understand what the things are that you're looking for in a workplace BL, but for me, if you're not examining what it means to be in a romance at work, then the workplace just becomes a setting. It's not integral to the subgenre at that point. It's just a backdrop. I appreciate that, of the three things that I said that I'm looking for in a workplace romance, what Love in Translation does explore is this idea of divergent motivations, because they both want the store to succeed, but they have different means of doing that and they have different reasons for doing that. And sometimes their reasons, butt up against each other. That to me was a fascinating workplace element of setting this in their little store. I thought it was really neat. I thoroughly enjoyed that, and I think it absolutely deserves the runner up. 

The winner—the controversial winner—of the Best Workplace Romance Award. It's gotta be Step by Step. [fanfare sound] If we're talking about these three elements: examining power dynamics, looking at divergent goals and motivations, and looking at queerness at work, Step by Step does all three, and I think it did them remarkably well. In fact, the parts of Step by Step that I thought were really well done were the parts that had to do with the workplace dynamic. 

The workplace dynamics and the workplace setup of Step by Step mattered. The fact that this romance was happening at work, it mattered. The way that work came in between Pat and Jeng in the end, that mattered. The way that for Pat and Jeng to reconcile, they had to move away from the workplace, that mattered. That resonated, and I think that that was all incredibly well done, and that's before we even get to Chot. What Chot represents in the workplace. 

One thing I will say about Tee—of that darling angry little man. When he wants to talk about queerness and capitalism, queerness at work, power dynamics and queerness, he gets it. And so, to me, the Best Workplace Romance for 2023 has to go to Step by Step. Flawed as it is—and we did give it a Girl You Tried award this year—it was still the best workplace romance that we saw this year.

Ben

I'm giving it an award as a workplace show, not as a workplace romance.

NiNi

[laughs] Ben’s in the corner here, grumpy.

Ben

We had a lot of discussion about this particular category, because there are quite a few shows set in workplaces this year. We ended up eliminating them for specific criteria reasons, but I do hope that the workplace becomes a more effectively used setting going forward. I'd like to have a different conversation next year about shows set in workplaces.

16:02 - Best Second Chance Romance

NiNi

Our next category is Best Second Chance Romance. Second chance romance was also a pretty hot topic this year. Usually when we get into the second chance romance well, it is time fuckery versus head fuckery, but it is all head fuckery here at the top. Second chance is really also divided into. Romances where people didn't take the first chance, and romances where people fucked up the first chance. 

In terms of romances where people fucked up the first chance and our runner up, it is The End of the World With You. [applause sound] As a second chance romance, I find this incredibly powerful. Masumi and Ritsu had such a rending when they broke up. Masumi's entire life has been conducted in the wreckage of Masumi and Ritsu’s breakup. Masumi hasn't really been living since then, and Ritsu has been—we find out at the end of the show—living with serious regrets about what he did to Masumi. The way that the apocalypse gives them both the space to, in a way, seek each other out because, again, we find out at the end of the show that Ritsu deliberately went to the library because he knew Masumi would be there and he might run into him. And I think that Masumi subconsciously went to the library because he told Ritsu that that would be what he did if it ever came to the end of the world. I think that these two wanted to find each other again. I think that they wanted something to give them the space to reconnect and the apocalypse did just that. There's so much in the structuring of The End of the World With You. We know that Yuma technically caused the impending apocalypse, but there's also some argument as to whether Masumi and Ritsu brought it on. as well. 

It's an incredibly good writing of the second chance romance trope and the way that it ends up playing out in terms of how these two come back together, how they make their apologies, how they forgive, and how they reconcile. I just think it's so cool.

Ben

Moving on to our winner, the Best Second Chance Romance this year is Our Dating Sim. 

[fanfare sound] 

This was the winner. There was gonna be no debate about that. Second chance romance is the gayest subgenre of romance because gay people have to have second chance romances because of homophobia. It's Lee Wan’s inability to believe that Shin Ki Tae could feel what he's feeling, and then he panics in the moment and runs away. Under BL considerations, Wan is the uke who wants to be pursued by Shin Ki Tae. And he essentially punishes both of them because he confesses, which is not his role. The seme, realizing what he was supposed to do late, does not give up on the uke and spends seven years looking for him, and then meets again and then aggressively pursues this time. 

From a queer standpoint, Shin Ki Tae was not necessarily fully aware of his feelings for Wan when they were kids, but then discovers it very quickly after Wan runs away. Struggles with this realization and then resolves to find him again. What happens when people who were together once before get back together, they kind of regress a little bit, and they start going back into the dynamic they had before to try and figure out what was there. I really loved that the end of one of their dates was them hanging out and playing video games and reading manga because that's what they did as kids. And they talked about how there was maybe a gay thing going on even then and exploring what that means and revisiting some of the earlier moments that they have with each other properly. There were a couple of attempts at second chance romance this year that spent way too much time in the angst of it all and not in the second chance of it all. This show, with the least time, did it best for me. Particularly because it doesn't pretend that everything is okay. One of Ki Tae’s issues is that he has a fear of abandonment when it comes to Lee Wan that he will be working through for quite some time, and I love that the show played that out. 

This was an excellent example of what gay second chance romance should look like that also plays with some BL trope expectations.

21:20 - Best High School Romance

NiNi 

Moving on to Best High School Romance. Now, it seems like BL is always in here, but when we look back, BL doesn't actually touch on high school that much. I feel like a lot of the reason that people think that there's a lot of high school BL is because they tend to flash back to high school? That is a pretty well-worn trope. I think that a lot of people have conflated those flashbacks with high school romance stories. 

Ben 

Almost every goddamn BL [laughs] flashes back to high school at one point or another.

NiNi 

Exactly! And I feel like that gets conflated with these things being set in high school. It gets tarred with the brush of, “Oh, there's too much high school BL,” when actually there isn't that much. Anyway, all of that to say, one of the reasons we wanted to do a high school romance category is we think there were some really good ones this year. 

High school is becoming more fertile ground for some good romances. As a person who had a fairly typical high school experience and feels the nostalgia, I guess, radiating off of some of this stuff, I enjoy high school romances. Ben has slightly different views, I think. 

In terms of what I'm looking for in a high school romance, to me, a high school romance requires some of the coming-of-age, loss-of-innocence elements to be included, along with falling in love. And it's supposed to feel outsized—big dumb love. That's what I am looking for in my high school romances. 

Ben, what's your criteria when you're looking at high school romance? 

Ben 

So…I went to an all male Catholic school and I was a refugee for a full year of high school. I was also deeply in the closet. I don't remember high school fondly, particularly when it comes to romance. The bubbly version of high school is not what I remember? I remember the angst. I remember the crises I was having about what this truth about myself meant for my life. The bubbly version of high school is 100% fanciful to me. Sometimes it hurts to watch that—you go, is that what I was supposed to have? Why didn't I get to have that? 

So, we went into this category with very different lenses. We ended up really struggling with awarding in this category. The things that NiNi is connecting to are very different from the things that I am connecting to with the two projects we ended up settling on when we were trying to decide who to award. 

NiNi 

I think this is the first award that we've ever come down to where we genuinely considered a tie [laughs] just because what we were looking at was so different and not really reconcilable. But in the end, we did choose a runner up and a winner. 

So Ben, I will let you tell us. Who is the runner up for Best High School Romance? 

Ben 

The runner up for High School Romance goes to I Cannot Reach You [applause sound] from TBS in Japan. Many pointed out that we don't get a lot of high school romances in BL, actually. We also do not get friends to lovers that often. Most of the time the boys are not really friends, they're just dating. The big thing with friends to lovers is that there are stakes. The friendship you have is an important relationship and wanting romance and or sex from that relationship. does strain it. In the concept of BL, you're talking about people being gay, being gay is going to change the way you interact with the world. Part of why I Cannot Reach You works for me so much, is Yamato doesn't want to inflict queerness upon his friend, despite how deeply he wants to be with him. And it's very rare that a show captures that properly. 

The show has Kakeru’s exploration and accepting of Yamato's feelings and what that means play out in a way that is really earnest. And even though there's this whole breaking point with them where you can't go back, Kakeru later admits that he wasn't upset about it. He was just surprised, which is also a very real boy conversation. And I like that the show ends with things they get together, but they fight a lot, because they're friends. They are still going to be sorting out their relationship for a while. Because they have other baggage they bring to it from just how they've gotten used to knowing each other. 

I Cannot Reach You and our winner are two really special projects from this year in terms of actually exploring what it means to be young and trying to deal with some of this shit. I am always going to be more sensitive to the shows that are willing to stare directly into the hellishness of being gay and young. Because I try to be fun and entertaining for all of you, but I was a very sad little stressed boy throughout my adolescence, and I like when BL is cognizant of what it means to actually be gay and young and trying to sort your shit out. 

NiNi 

Ben is right that the best high school romance takes you back to what it felt like to be young, and to be dealing with this shit. For him, that skews in one direction, and for me that skews in entirely another. 

Our winner of Best High School Romance is My School President. The realism for me, from my perspective, of having a group of friends at the end of high school. There is so much coming down the pike, but you got one last year that one last chance to just be a bunch of dumb fucking kids and maybe, maybe have a dream come true before you go out into the real world and it kicks you around. To me, that is what My School President captured. 

I mean, these kids are idiots and they are still allowed to be idiot kids at this point in time. That's not gonna last forever. There's a sense of things being there and not at the same time, of this idea of youth slipping away slowly and quickly, all at the same time—this idea that things will never be like this again and so you kind of have to grab what you can—that permeates My School President. And I found it just the quintessence of what a high school story should be in that regard for me, anyway. That wave of love and nostalgia that takes you over that sense of impending doom that's happening at the same time, that excitement for the future and at the same time, the fear of it looking back at the things that you may have done or not done, because this is sort of the first big reflection point of your life, coming to the end of high school. And for that to be happening along with the first real love. They cooked that shit up in a lab just for me. 

Gun and Tinn, to me, are the perfect high school romance because it is that mix of innocent and serious, that sense of them being kind of playful puppies, but at the same time there are these very deep, very real, very serious feelings that need to be treated in a deep, real, serious way. I tend to talk about how important I think love is—if you are a person for whom romantic love is important—how important it is at every stage of romantic love at every stage of life and every way that romantic love happens to you. And again, if romantic love is something that is part of your identity. People tend to dismiss first loves, young loves and all of that because these things don't tend to last very long. But to me, just because something doesn't last, just because it is a short lived, beautiful thing, doesn't make it any less real. 

And one of the things that I really appreciate about the couples in My School President, particularly Gun and Tinn, is that Tinn has had this crush for a really, really long time on Gun. Gun is in a journey of self discovery, and he finds something in terms of how he feels for Tinn. And even if this doesn't actually pan out, even if this doesn't last the summer, even if this is something that doesn't go beyond or too far beyond the end of high school. It's still real. It still matters. Everything that they felt, everything that they said to each other, it's still all there. It still all matters. It's still all incredibly real. I really resent young love and first love being treated as less important. I think actually that your first love is incredibly important. Because it sort of sets up how you are going to conceive of love going forward. And I think that in terms of setting up particularly Gun and Tinn, and to some extent, Sound and Win, as first loves, you kind of get a sense of how the future trajectory of these characters’ individual love lives will go, whether they stay together or don't stay together after high school is less relevant. What happens with the romances now? What happens with them in high school? How they fall for each other, how they talk to each other, how they treat each other? These are all things that are being set in them for the future, and to me, that's, like, the big part of high school romance. You're learning how to be in love. You're learning how to treat somebody in love. It’s bubbly. It makes me feel good. They're so cute. Cute as a big part of high school romance to me as well. It has to be adorable, and My School President was. It's a winner. 

Ben 

With Gun and Tinn, part of why I am amenable to My School President is Tinn is doing the thing that little gay overachievers [laughs] always do. He doesn't know how to romance Gun except by just trying to support him. And I think that that is genuinely really sweet. The question for you always is why are these two little homos gonna be together. Tinn just likes to see his little loser boyfriend try really hard at the things he likes, and is willing to go out of his way to help him with those things. And he likes the determination that Gun brings to the table, and I could appreciate that. And I like for Gun that part of his journey is accepting that he will need someone else in his corner besides his mom. There's a sense that since he lost his dad, he's been missing someone else in his corner. 

I liked both of these shows, and it was really tough to award this particular category. 

34:45 - BL of the Year

NiNi 

Moving on to BL of the year. Whoo! We argued a bit. 

Ben 

For, like, months! We've been arguing about this since April. 

NiNi 

And we were arguing, really, right down to the end. And in the end, the reason that the winner wins is because I went back to last year's BL of the year. And I listened to how we conceived of and discussed BL of the Year. So the main crux of the argument that we had this year about the BL of the Year is about whether this award is about the past or the future. Is this an award about pioneering? Or is this an award about perfecting? The award, in the end is really about influencing the future of the genre. 

The runner up for BL of the year is My School President. [applause sound] Everything that BL has been doing from Love Sick in 2014 until now, this first decade, has come to a head and been truly perfected in My School President. I think all the churn, all the experimentation, everything that BL has done in the last decade came down to this. This is the first wave BL. This is the proto BL and that's why for me it was the runner up for the BL of the Year. 

So Ben, who's the winner, who has pioneered their way into winning BL of the year this year. 

Ben 

Let's talk about the role of pioneering here. I come from a queer cinema lens. The genre is always advancing. My School President doesn't exist without the work that came before it that pushed the genre to be something other than it was at the time. I like to focus on the work that I think is challenging the genre itself the most. 

The winner of BL of the Year for pushing the genre is La Pluie. [fanfare sound] La Pluie is special for me because it's the only show this year that pushed me to write every week for eight weeks beyond just doing my normal Stray Thoughts reactions. I felt a need to advocate for this show. One of the struggles that I've watched long time fans have is we bring too much genre expectation to it. La Pluie was so legible. More than anything, La Pluie was asking about the nature of romance itself. 

So much of what's wrong with all the characters in this show is romance itself. Tai is a goddamn mess because the boy reads too much romance. He's got too many issues about his parents not having the perfect romance that they were supposed to have. This also impacts Saengtien, as well. He's kind of got similar hang ups about how he thinks things should go. Maybe he doesn't express himself the way he should because he also brings a lot of presumptions to this. But La Pluie asks you. Are you willing to do the work to be in the romance? Like, if you see the tropes lining up for you perfectly and you're vibing with somebody? Are you gonna show up and do the work to be in that romance with them? Or are you just gonna get mad at them for not doing what you expect them to do because you've watched 200 BLs [laughs] and now you feel like you understand romance and what human interaction should look like? 

My favorite thing about La Pluie this year was they never faked out when it came time to deal with sexual tension. Like, and then, the fact that they were releasing the sexual tension led to more interesting complications and things to unpack in the relationship. It is so much more interesting when we let the characters have a little bit of sex and then deal with the outcomes of what that means and what the sex signified to those characters. In a show that's about romantic desire that plays around with sexual desire, that is super important for me. 

So congratulations to the entire team at La Pluie. I saw what you all did and it was fantastic.

40:09 - Outro

NiNi

Hoo! So Ben, we've gotten through our Top Tings. I think that the people will have noticed that there were a few things missing from the awards. That's not because we didn't see these things or we're not going to talk about these things. We've got a bunch of Special Class awards coming at you tomorrow—again, if the editing holds up—tomorrow [laughs], we're going to be talking about our Special Class awards in three categories. We've got Honorable Mentions, we've got a very special actor award to give out. And we have got our Standout Queer Narratives of the Year. 

Look forward to that coming at you tomorrow. Until then, we out! Say bye to the people, Ben.

Ben

Peace!

[heartfe1t]

    ❝    you're real mature, aren't you?    ❞    she laughs, another roll of her eyes.    ❝    whatever planet i came from- are we nineteen or twelve?    ❞    but then, she can tell ricky's happy. maybe she doesn't like that- on some level. maybe there's some regret there, with what happened... or maybe she just- doesn't like nina- nini... whatever.    ❝    cool. i'll be out of here long before that, trust me.    ❞    as she gets comfortable in her bed, not even looking at the brunette girl besides briefly as she reaches over to the nightstand to grab her eye mask.    ❝    if you're not going to let me put the lights out now then you're going to have to do it yourself when you're done.    ❞    and with that she rolls back over onto her side, pulling the mask over her eyes, and pulling the covers up. nini can talk about her to her boyfriend as much as she wants as long as she keeps the noise down. they both just have the discomfort of knowing he was ava's too at one point.

❝    i    don't    know    what    manipulation    tactics    they    taught    you    on    whatever    planet    you    came    from.    ❞    she    says,    fingers    tapping    away    quickly    at    her    phone,    a    wall    of    text    being    typed    out    to    ricky.    she    hated    that    she    always    had    to    room    with    ava.    it    was    getting    old.    the    farther    she'd    fallen    for    ricky,    the    more    she'd    hated    the    girls    who'd    dated    him    before    her.    ❝    you're    right,    though,    i    don't    care.    ❞    well,    at    least,    she    tried    not    to    care.    it    was    hard    not    to    care,    though.    she    loved    ricky    so    much    and    even    though    she    hadn't    liked    him    very    much    while    he    had    been    with    ava,    the    hurt    the    girl    had    caused    him    felt    personal    to    nini.    like    she'd    have    been    able    to    prevent    it    had    she    just    gone    to    ricky    and    asked    him    if    he'd    actually    hooked    up    with    sadie    that    day.    ❝    our    practice    starts    at    noon.    ❞    she    says    as    she    sticks    her    airpods    in    her    ears    and    hits    the    button    to    dial    ricky's    number.    she    was    much    quieter    as    she    said    hello    to    him    and    snuggled    down    into    her    bed,    telling    him    she    just    wanted    to    fall    asleep    with    him.

[ideas-universe-nsfw]

Nini is being chokeheld by the smuggler Bradley Hunter, barely able to fight, his eyes closing as the smuggler has the neko down and out, his arms flopping to the side, defeated.

Bradley Hunter wanted to smuggle something different as he took Nini to Ava’s blimp.

[heejinci]

hi loves! ig u came here from clicking the earth emoji on my pinned post or checking my reblog acc :3?? anyways welcome to my info page this post will be about me!!

my name is nini , grace or sylvie. I'm currently a high school student who finds making mbs as a fun hobby for myself! im currently focusing more on my life and studies at this moment♡ i also really like nct dream, girls generation/snsd and illit, both of the groups are my #1 ults! my ult bias in those groups are tiffany + wonhee & minju + haechan! im a huge nctzen and lilly, I also stan other groups (such as ive, red velvet, txt, enhypen, woo!ah!, kiss of life, newjeans etc) I would love to be friends with people who stans the same groups as me too! i listen to some other artists too (sza, beabadoobee, ava max, pink patheress, thuy, kets4eki, keshi, wave to earth and much more!)

and I'm also available on another other platform, discord. you may add me as a friend since I'm looking for some! (user: miffurii) ♡

that's it for now, idrk what to add next but ty for reading loves!

[cookie12sposts]

It took me a while to finally finalize my characters' ages and I don't know why lol, but here we gooo. This is in order

Kate/Kara/Lilith: 2,222

Rina: 30

Iris: 29

Allie: 26

Lorina: 20

Amika: 19

Chara (My version of her): 19

Frisk: (My version of her): 19

Ariella (Ari): 19

Tina: 18

Nina (Nini): 18

Claire: 17

Alicia, Simon, and Myka: 16

Bella and Laura: 13

James: 12

Jacob: 11

Riley and Layla: 10

Eric: 8

Alvin: 6

Jessica: 5

Matthew: 6 months

These are my milfs and their ages in order

Imani: 2,522

Himana: 1,000

Vanessa (Vanny): 330

Sylvia: 310

Gina: 300

Yuna: 299

Alissa: 99

Cassandra (Cassie): 70

Ava: 60

I kid you all not, I don't focus on all of my characters as I should, and I have more than these, but these are like.. the main ones to be quite honest XD. And yes, all of the minors do have adult versions of themselves.

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[melodyplucked]

♫ — tag drop one — ♫

♫ — i can't be everything to everyone ( musings )

♫ — see your face almost everywhere ( visuals )

♫ — is a moment enough ( study & headcanons )

♫ — you keep playing games but the rules are always changing ( memes )

♫ — doing anything we can just to feel something ( starters & starter calls )

♫ — sign our names into the sand so we remember ( edits )

♫ — i can't help but think of all the things that i would say ( threads )

♫ — if i showed up at your doorstep ( answered )

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♫ — a soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever ( nini )

♫ — ( ship | ricky x nini ) you're all i've ever dreamed of having

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♫ — don't go wasting your emotion ( npc | heather altomare )

♫ — karma's a relaxing thought ( npc | lianna redmond )

♫ — like these silver nights ( npc | ellory peterson )

♫ — flown too close to the sun ( npc | ava kincaid )

♫ — like time we just passed each other by ( npc | emma williams )

[rwizakakiza]

Tumaini Jipya Ndani ya YESU KRISTO

Ni

KUISHI UONGOFU /WOKOVU KWELI.

BWANA YESU anasema,

"Amin, nawaambia, Msipoongoka na kuwa kama vitoto, hamtaingia kamwe katika ufalme wa mbinguni"

>Kuishi UONGOFU (maisha ya toba) kila siku ndilo jambo linaweza kukusaidia kufika mbinguni

Kwanini YESU KRISTO alitoa mfano wa mtoto mdogo?

>Mtoto anatabia kuu tatu ambazo ni

Mosi

IMANI

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>Mtoto mdogo huwa anapangiwa namna ya kuishi..... Avae nini.... Ale nini.... Aoge saa ngapi.... Alale saa ngapi....., Mtoto anakuwa hana haki ya kujipangia ila anapangiwa namna ya kuenenda.

>Na MUNGU anachokihitaji kwetu ni unyenyekevu, kuishi kama Yeye anavyotaka, sio tuishi tunavyotaka maana tutakosea.

Tatu

KUSAMEHE NA KUSAHAU

>Mtoto mdogo akipigwa na mzazi, hataifadhi kinyongo, wakati huo huo, atasahau kwamba kapigwa na kumkimbilia mzazi wake

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>Mwamini MUNGU, Nyenyekea kwake na Ishi maisha ya Msamaha, utaishi UONGOFU vyema hapa duniani, na kufika mbinguni, Amina.

Rejea

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[dredreadsdrawing]

Doodles of my Sloth Imp, Nini, and the human they make a promise to. Long story short, Ava was born with a facial deformity that only got more noticeable with age. She was bullied horribly as a kid, and became agoraphobic, trapped in her family home for the rest of her life. Her parents died and all that was left was her sister, who married early and left, but still visited nearly daily to make sure Ava was alright. They loved eachother, but unfortunately, her sister died a year prior, and Ava's only connection to the outside world was cut off.

Now it was only her, with the occasional food her sister's husband would bring her. Ava felt she had nothing more to live for. As the anniversary of her sister's death came closer, Ava decided to summon a demon. She got Nini, a weak imp with very little power. The deal was, Nini would stay with her as she stepped outside for the first time in decades. Thats all they had to do, stay hidden under her jacket and help her as she made her way to the cemetery. To see her sister one last time.

It's an emotional trip. Ava was terrified and skulked in the shadows. She ran into a group of laughing children and had a panic attack. She hid in an alley and cried, clutching Nini, who was lost in what to do and could only stroke her hair and encourage her to continue. She had to. Ava got up and continued walking, jumping when people talked to her. Expecting cruelty.

But no one, even once, ever commented on her appearance or made her seem out of place. Everyone minded their business. An old neighbor remembered her and gave her food. A florist was taking out her dead flowers and offered some thay were wilting to Ava. People were kind as she stumbled her way to visit her sister, Nini bearing witness to how humans can be good.

She made it to her sister's grave with pastries and flowers. Snow began to fall. A promise is a promise and Ava smiles as she unzips her jacket to let Nini out. She thanked the tiny demon for giving her courage. Nini thanked her for being their first human. They held each other's hands as Ava remembered her sister and the town. She disappeared with a smile, and Nini had to go back to Hell. Nini keeps the memory close to them; they want to visit again. They want to see more of humans and the world.

[brokenbowen-a]

… three kinds of people ( ft. @jealousypushed​, @sodisney​ & @gotspirits​ )