#(The two most recent hires and me) (I'm not on it by choice I hate being in pictures) (Very relieved they're cool about it tbh)

[somegrumpynerd]

Tomorrow I am going to print out a picture of my work I have drawn Sans into and stick it up on our picture board and see how long it takes everybody to notice

[wangmiao]

oh, man (gender neutral), i can't believe they are actually making a three body movie?! back in may, the movie project was already announced, and filming was scheduled to start in 2025. and just now, it was announced that zhang yimo will direct this film. he is for sure one of the most famous directors in china, but many fans are doubting if he's the best choice for the scifi genre.

interestingly, in a past interview, liu cixin was asked about how he felt about zhang yimo. he said the director's works were pretty far from scifi, but they seemed to share similar aesthetics. he looked forward to seeing zhang yimo making a scifi film.

that's all we know about the movie project for now. we don't know for sure if the movie will be about the 1st book (it probably will be), but a lot of fans sure feel that we don't need a third live action adaptation of the 1st book since most are happy with tencent's tv series. EDIT on june 22nd: according to three body universe's ceo, the film will focus on the 2nd book.

btw, back in 2016, there was actually a three body movie made. however it was never released. rumor says that there were two higher ups in the administration agency who were liu cixin fans. this movie turned out to be really bad. the higher ups hated it so much and didn't allow it to see the light of day. when tencent was about to make the tv series, the production team was actually invited to watch this movie as a warning lol. rumor says they made ye wenjie and a trisolarian fall in love lol...

ok...i'm going to ramble about casting which has not been determined at all below the cut. feel free to ignore if you don't care about actor stuff. edit: you can ignore this since my rambling was about book 1 cast (eg. shiwang), but now we know the film is going to focus on book 2, so it's not relevant anymore.

=====rambling starts here=====

man, i feel so conflicted about casting. i do want the main cast from the tv series to be in the movie, but in actuality, i know it probably won't happen. AND it's actually good to not have any overlaps between the movie and the tv series. the movie script will likely be very different from the tv series', and having the same cast will make things too weird.

also director zhang yimo definitely has a group of actors that he loves to use. he's so "enamored" with lei jiayin in recent years, and zhang yi is definitely another one that he likes to use too. while i like these two actors, gosh...please don't cast them as wang miao and shi qiang...

another thing is zhang yimo actually really likes yu hewei as well. i watched 3 zhang yimo movies in the past 6 months or so, and he really made yu hewei the star of 2 of the movies...so he might go for yu hewei again which is actually problematic to me, because i don't want to see yu hewei's version of shi qiang being with a wang miao that doesn't have zhang luyi's face lol. the idea of yu hewei being shi qiang and lei jiayin being wang miao is terrifying.

i mean we want this:

but not this:

BUT considering when zhang luyi went to the premiere of under the light, he actually promoted himself (very shyly lol) and asked zhang yimo to consider hiring him. i know this is kinda out of character of him, and a lot of people felt that maybe yu hewei encouraged him to say that. so idk...we might have a very slim chance of getting the tv version of shi qiang and wang miao in the movie...

lastly, considering the shooting will start next year, maybe yu hewei won't have time because he'll probably use most of his next year shooting the dashi spinoff and the dark forest...

lol i warned you this is a bunch of messy rambling...idk where i'm going. i guess i've always wished that yhw and zly will work together in a movie, and zhang yimo seems to be someone that can make this happen, but it might not be the three body movie. i guess as long as i don't see yhw's shi qiang with another wang miao, i'm fine. also I really hope zhang yimo can go beyond his comfort zone with casting.

[the-invisible-queer]

Writer Truth & Dare game: 🛼🐇📚🥝 :)

🛼 - describe your latest WIP with 5 emojis

Are we talking what I'm planning on posting or just what I'm working on? I'll do both

📝💼💔🥃💏

💏💔🍆💏💒

If you can guess these two - I feel like I've talked about both of them enough online

🐇 - do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts or a mix of both?

Original characters. I hate /reader so fucking much. I only tolerate it to read because I have no choice most of the time.

📚 - what's the last thing you wrote in your notes app?

An unfinished scene for my Entourage fic between Lloyd and my OC. Here's a snippet:

"Don't act like you don't have feelings for him, Valerie." "Says who?" "Why'd you kiss him? Why did you go to his nemesis after he dropped you? You wanted a rise out of him." He asked. "I hired Amanda because she's hot and actually believed in me. In my work." "Why did you show up when he called you last night?" It was a valid question. "Why did you even pick up his call at three in the morning?" "Because- he needed me. You didn't hear him. You didn't see him. I've never seen him so broken, Lloyd. Maybe I do love him, but that's out of the question." "See. I knew it!" "I- I'm-" Val sighed. "I don't know what I'm doing, Lloyd." "Follow your heart as you've been doing." "But what if it's wrong?" "Impossible."

🥝 - do you lie a lot? What's the most recent lie you told?

I wouldn't say I lie A LOT

But sometimes

Last night I told Eddie it was cool if he doesn't want to hang out today but I actually do wanna hang out and spend time with my brother LIKE A LOSER

But he's had his plate full and I don't want to be a burden on the guy

[firespirited]

Today was derailed (in a good way) I was doing futher desk buying research as the stuff I'm seeing online looks kinda flimsy and M was passing by and goes "hey I don't like my desk, can we swap?" so I spent the day on the floor dismantling desks.

Lily the dog insisted on hazardously getting in the way of any and all furniture moving including a point where we all got trapped in the tiny corridor and had to lift the item and gently kick the dog forwards.

She was furious when I closed the door on my room which could only be navigated like one of those sliding puzzles. Pretty sure she thinks she's the foreman and doing important supervision. I love having her around but she likes to nick dremel bits and screws.

I'm too sore to say if the new desk (it's actually super old) is any better so it'll be a few days but at least it's another size to try in case I buy later. M's happy with mine at least.

The finale of Quantum Leap left us on a vague single sentence cliffhanger. I was starting to enjoy it and the cast but it was only 8 episodes. Hope it gets renewed, the format is great for tuning in to a different story and perspective every week.

Decided to not watch Warrior Nun, I'm burnt out on the binge watch season with cliffhanger episodes. There have been some great ones this year: Midnight Mass and Paper Girls are just the most recent but I remember thinking "oh hey it would actually be more fun-fun and less pushy-stressful-fun to rewatch something like Stargate Atlantis."

I'm thinking about the GdT curated Cabinet of Curiosities or Archive 81, it fits my current taste for the episodic and might have some decent smart horror. I really enjoyed the Monsterland anthology in 2020.

Speaking of, Something In The Dirt from the Benson and Moorehead cosmic horror and very relatable characters universe is out, go see it if you can. It'll be on streaming at the end of the month but I just know it'd be amazing on the big screen. Watch The Endless on netflix if you want an idea of what these two storytelling friends do on a budget.

Will put together small postage and parcel postage posts of baldies and unfinished projects after the second more agressive sweep. Below cost or for trade: black saran, vivid or pastel hq nylon colours, nylon strands for building a swatch, good acrylic paint and medium, new gloss as mine is old and seems to break down a few weeks after painting when I've used watered down paint. Maybe interesting textured or coloured yarns for when I get to be able to do 40 mins an hour at a time. Yikes, We're not even close to rebuilding my lower back yet lol I'm already planning how to get back to creating.

I've talked a lot in the past about how I dislike twitter for how it made me feel and having to navigate back through the quote tweets to get answers feels like in jokes you have to learn (this is a feature missing from mastodon because they believe it promotes dunk/cringe content culture instead of direct communication) . But I hadn't really talked about the fascinating people who used to study twitter, large scale moderation, harm reduction on current events (think 'not naming school shooters guidelines' but for a host of issues). I really hope some of them get hired by tumblr on how to engage hate speech and put them into contact with deradicalization programs, not just nazis but the gender essentialists of the terf, pro choice and red pill types are in cult-like communities.

Love to everyone who's feeling the autumn in their joints and american friends not looking forward to the ungrateful work of making thanksgiving happen. ❤️🌸❤️

[laynemorgan]

I'm sure you've already provided it, but I'd be curious to hear your road to becoming a staffed writer. What first got you interested in it? Does it go back to school days?

Man it goes back far. I mean, I guess in some ways it doesn't. Since you asked more about what got me interested in where it goes back to, I'll give you the lest technical and more biographicl explanatin. My first goal was just to become a writer. I've been writing since I was a really little kid. I actually recently found journals from like the elementary and middle school days just filled with them. And it was never small scale, I'd always be planning out the whole fucking setting, how all the characters were connected, full universes. I made a fake fantasy. land in my backyard because my parents live on a lot of land. I called it Teleterania. I remember very little about it besides that that was the name hahah but I did do it!!! Everything I read only made me want to write. Everything I watched made me want to write.

Sometime around late middle school and early high school, I started watching more TV. I found soap operas and was OBSESSSED with their flare for drama. I found BTVS, Charmed, Smallville, Veronica Mars, OTH, etc. And all of those shows really got me actually looking at TV in a way I had never before. I got obsessed with their worlds and into their fandoms. I became the liek TV guy in my high school. There was even a group of girls I never got to really hang out with that would always call me over to their table to ask about what I knew about OTH stuff hahaha and 17 year old me thought that was awesome. Before my sister passed away, she and I took a road trip down to North Carolina to tour the One Tree Hill set. OTH was like the one thing that she and I agreed on. And it was so awesome. For me it was a first look at what the industry actually looked like, to see the sets and what went into it and all of that.

But I don't think my eyes really opened to actually WORKING in tv until college. I went to school for English Lit and Creative Writing in New Hampshire. My school had a great writing program and I was right at home there. i still credit my first writing professor who was only a grad student for really teaching me what I know about writing and editing and reading my own work for error and she passed me on to her favorite professor which was a hugely flattering moment for me. AND THEN -- I fell in love with PLL. And for me, that was really where shit started. I didn't realize it at the time and it wasn't even the show that did it it was what the show showed me. Through my tumblr at the time which had very little to do with fandom, I actually wound up running into Patrick Adams and Troian Bellisario. We all were always sharing each other's posts and at the time I was working for a journalist covering random TV out of a shitty free magazine in Boston doing work for peanuts. But I was going out to LA to meet up with a friend and we all decided to meet for lunch and they let me interview them for my magazine and stayed really rad people. They also helped boost my PLL photo recaps which I was doing at the time and those got the attention of the Director, Normal Buckley who asked me out to coffee and talked to me about my goals and what I was doing. He was the person who first really helped me understand that there's an approachability to the TV world that to me had always been this like magical hollywood bubble I didn't understand.

I went home THRILLED about LA, dropped out of college and set out to go to film school. From there, I hated film school because it was too technical adjacent, dropped out again, spent all the money I had on that move twice, and went home to boston broke and lost. I spent two years after that maybe more saving money, working in fandom, and waitressing while I went back to college online. That era wasn't super writing focused but it's where I found myself. I realized I was queer, I came out, I got into tumblr rpg, I met my fandom friends, I found tumblr fandom in a way I hadn't before. And then a couple years later I found tl100.

From there, the rest is kind of wonky. I had a big fan blog for the show and talked a lot about it on my twitter which lead me to many interactions with the writers who then invited me to dinner at comic con one year. I had a long talk with Shumway abut my goals and what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I wanted to be in TV somehow. I knew I wanted to be in writing somehow but I couldn't figure out how those two things aligned. I was doing a lot of journalism and critic stuff because that felt like the clsoest way to be both a fan and workin in the world I loved but it was really Kim and Shawna that opened my eyes to the ability to just .... be a TV writer. Film school had made me terrified of the wrtiing side but I think it was because film school was so much more about writing for film which I learned isn't my thing. But TV is a writers' medium, unlike film which is more fo a directors medium and suddenly I was like -- MIND BLOWN. It was everything I wanted in a career and married all of the things I loved. It was something that had previously felt like unattainable but they made it seem human and approachable.

They helped me get my first WPA job, I saved up 3 grand working and with the help of some friends and moved to LA to start that. And suddenly I was in a whirlwind of catching up on everything I felt like I had missed. I was reading scripts, learning what the process looked like, doing everything I coudl to figure out what being a TV writer looked like. After that job, I got another WPA job at Millar Gough on Into the Badlands and later Shannara.

THEN I got hired on Daybreak which I can fully credit with being a huge stepping stone for me and changing my life in a lot of ways. Aron was the best showrunner. He was educational and he taught us shit, he let us in the room, he let us write stuff, he let us pitch and try and fall on our faces and never judged us for it. My second season there he moved me up to writers assitant and patiently walked me through all the stuff I didn't know yet because he had faith in me and my voice and my ideas. He let me writ e afreelance episode that year and pitch it in the room and do all the things that real w riters get to do.

So after Daybreak season 2 got cancelled I was pretty ready to spend my next year or two just writing, finding an agent and moving forawrd. And then I got an email to go and work for Moira Walley Beckett. She was looking for an assistant with serious room experience to help develop something in a small room and stay on with her later. I took the job becuase she's MOIRA and I was stoked to learn from her and work for a woman for once. I ernded up very fortunate becuase a month later we were all surprised by the covid mess and I was fully employed that whole year while many people weren't which was a huge help. Moira was a STELLAR boss. I had thought I was ready and what she taught me was that ther's always so much more to learn. She walked me through the process of applying notes and taking notes and changing draft after draft of your story. SHe walked me through breaking a whole season of television. We had a great partnership for the year and I'm so grateful. And then that project didn't end up seeing hte light of day and we our separate ways as well.

Cut to a few months ago, I was still at home in Boston, post-covid, having been sick for most of january. My friend Rachel dared me to write a spec in a weekend for the Warner Bros fellowship deadline. So I did. It was a Legacies Spec. Given that we didn't have access to the WGA library because of the pandemic, Legacies was an easy and obvious choice. I had already seen it inside and out and didn't need as much access to learning a show from scratch. So I wrote what I loved, wrote a season 2 legacies spec that embraced my favorite things about legacies: the high school soap of one tree hill, Lizzie doing wild dialogue, buffy-esque monsters, and themes of grief and humanity.

AND THE REST you know.

Here we are. I'm still lost as fuck. I'm still running full speed through a world I don't always feel like I"m ready for. I'm still a perfectionist and an obsessive overworker. I still take notes I don't need to take and do work at 10pm and come in early and stare at the story boards. There's a whole journey in all of this about representation and coming to find myself and queer media and wanting to make more of it but that's one I don't feel like I can fully get into until I'm decades out of it and the world is truly made better. But I'm here. And it feels like the end of a journey and liek I'm standing at the edge of a brand new clif because I've only just started.

[frogeyedape]

Got some anons recently hating on me for disagreeing with terfs. Well. Good for you, I've blocked you! I continue to disagree with terfs.

What is interesting to me is that their arguments are in such bad faith that it's clear they completely overlooked half of what I was saying.

So I'd like to say it explicitly.

The patriarchy privileges and hurts, without regard to whether the target was previously privileged or harmed. Same with white supremacy, and sexism, and any other power system.

Who benefits in a patriarchal, white supremacist, sexist, capitalist community? Anyone who is more male, more masculine, more white, more conformist, stronger, has more capital. Anyone who is less colored, less female, less feminine, less weak, less considerate. And you only have to beat 1 person to benefit in this system. You only have to beat the next person down and you benefit from their weakness or femininity or poverty. So if you wanted to measure it out, in the whole community, there's one person who doesn't benefit, who has no one in the community who is beneath them. And then they can say, but the outsider is worse! I'm better than an outsider! And so they benefit from the harms done to immigrants and those dirty foreign nations that it's morally correct to wage war against. Everybody benefits, just a little, from this system. And they're all hungry to be the person at the top, the one who benefits the most.

That hunger? That's the root of the harm, maybe. Because everyone who's hungry is willing to drag down the person above them and stand on their head to get a little higher. Just a little higher. Doesn't matter much who you trample in that system, especially if they were actually always weaker than you, and how could they end up beneath you if they weren't? And there's that fear, that you're weaker than you think, deserve less than you think, that you'll be the one torn down next. That you're as worthless as all the other nobodies all around you.

So you see, while everybody benefits, everyone is also harmed by this system! The benefits and harms don't cancel out. Let's build a person as an example.

Chris is a white-passing Hispanic woman, with a solid middle class job, a husband, and two kids. Her husband, with mixed Black and Hispanic heritage, has a blue-collar job, and earns less than her despite being five years older and ten years further in his career.

Who's benefiting from the way society is set up? Who's being harmed? Chris -- short for Christine, but she chooses to go by Chris professionally -- has a male-passing nickname, which is really handy for job applications. She benefits from better access to jobs than an otherwise equal Christine who chooses to go by Christine. She also is potentially harmed, because now her choice on how to name herself is influenced by her need to be marketable to a hiring manager. Her choice has been restricted; there is a very tangible cost to adding the "tine" back to her name.

I could go on practically forever with the possible benefits and harms. Benefits: Chris is lauded among friends and coworkers for her ability to juggle work and family; she is praised as the breadwinner; her friends are jealous of her once-every-three-years 4-day vacation lifestyle; her kids' teachers respect her work ethic; her parents are proud she's settled down with a family. Harms: people look down on her husband (and by association, her, for having chosen him) for earning less than her; she has to deny her Hispanic heritage to maintain any privilege that comes with being white-passing; she has to swallow the indignity of others ignoring or refusing to believe in her Hispanic heritage; she still remembers the taunts from boys and girls alike on the playground because she had a boy's name (non-conformity to her gender); she loves her husband and doesn't care if he makes less than her but it's still a trouble spot in their relationship; she can't afford to get sick; she can't afford to come home and relax because after work there's Being a Mom.

People, individual people, are not monolithic any more than a group of people is. We are all, each of us, remarkably complex. We all benefit, we all are harmed, in complicated webs of interaction. The benefits don't cancel out the harms. The harms don't cancel out the benefits. Imagine a bunch of orange and green stones. One benefit equals one orange stone; one harm equals one green stone. Gather your pail of stones. How many orange? How many green? Are the green worth it if you get to have the orange?

If you mix additive pigments orange and green, you get the color gray. (red and green makes brown, orange and blue makes brown, but orange and green is gray). Are any of your stones gray? Is your whole pailful a sea of gray, or is it stone after stone after stone, each green, or orange, each separate and distinct? Maybe a lot of your stones are tiny; they're like grains of sand; they do mix; and you get gray sand. But if you put them under a microscope, you still find no gray, just orange and green.

I'm not a fan of the patriarchy. I'm AFAB, feminine-leaning agender. It sucks. I also benefit from looking white, from speaking "well", from my parents' rise through the middle class to a working-class rich. (Oddly enough, they're still pretty much paycheck to paycheck. Hence the working class part of it). I benefit when I lean into my femininity because to do otherwise would disrupt people's understanding of gender. (Please stop acting like I'm gonna bite your head off when you see me and call me sir and then my voice comes out all high and you realize I'm "actually" a woman. I could like being called sir if not for that reaction). But liking or disliking the patriarchy isn't my point. My point is, everyone, everyone, everyone, both receives benefits from, and is harmed by, our lovely little society.

Who benefits, and who is harmed, when you compare a lower working class white man with an upper middle class Black woman?

It's not a simple question. Throw down some ideas yourself. Toss it around. Think about it. The world doesn't exist in black and white, but it's not all shades of gray, either. Look at your pail full of green and orange stones, and remember that it's not a competition. It's supposed to be a community. Which means we need to actively, consciously decide to stop trying to drag other people down, to stop stomping on the people beneath us, and instead lift each other up. The only person you can throw down on is the one who's refusing to lift anyone, and only stomping, stomping, stomping. And then once they're down, unless you want that stomping idea to flourish, you gotta teach the helping hand.

[bngtanah]

I'm (not) With The Band. | Prologue

summary: Adrienne is an indie producer who is hired to help co-produce BTS’ next album alongside their resident producer; Suga. Despite the initial opposition on both ends, the pair spend time together, share a few stories, dreams and aspirations and begin to hit it off really well. Wrapped up in the whirlwind of late nights and heated disagreements and reconciliations, Min Yoongi and Adrienne Rolle find themselves growing closer and closer. One night they decide to cross the barrier between personal and professional and do their best make a relationship work against all odds.

pairing: Min Yoongi  x Named OC

genre: drama, romance, smut

chapters: prologue| o1| o2| o3| o4| o5| o6| o7| o8| o9| 10| 11|

warning: light angst, smut, fluff, workplace relationship, slow burn, sexual themes, ambw, enemies to friends to lovers, developing relationship

a/n: still a fool. still re-uploading.

"It's good money, Adrienne."

Adrienne rolled her eyes quickly underneath her eyelids and switched her attention away from the woman sitting next to her.

"I get that but there is no way I'm moving to Korea, I can't even find Korea on a map!"

Adrienne and her older sister had been having this roundabout conversation for at least an hour and a half with no end in sight since neither side seemed interested in giving in.

"So what are you going to do? Just stick around here and make amazing songs for shitty rappers and musicians that don't wanna pay you?" Danielle's voice was monotone and completely lacking any tangible emotion but Adrienne could understand that this was her sister's way of trying to appeal to her common sense. "An opportunity like this doesn't knock twice, little one."

Adrienne bit back a witty remark because despite how much she didn't want to admit it she knew that her sister was right. She was barely making ends meet with the seedy pool of customers she had now and the select few that actually paid her on time only wanted to shell out pennies for what Adrienne considered high-quality work. There were times over the past few months when the money wasn't coming in and reactions from her clientele had her seriously doubting her talent that Adrienne genuinely regretted not going to college. There was no a guarantee that she would have been any better off than she was now but the constant 'what if' always made her second guess her choices when things weren't going her way. Her life now wasn't perfect but it was comfortable, she rented an efficiency from one of her sister's friends and worked a few odd jobs here and there to keep up with the bills. It was a simple life that she enjoyed and Adrienne wasn't so sure she had the courage to give it up.

"Alright, let's say I go for it" Adrienne stated in a softer voice.

"What happens if I can't keep up or they hate all my songs or they hate me? I wouldn't be able to come back here as a failure and honestly, Dani I don't know if I have what it takes to do this." Her voice wavered with raw insecurity as she nervously she began pulling on the ends of one of her long braids.

If Adrienne was being honest with herself, her own self-doubts were the main obstacle holding her back from just accepting this job. She was reasonably excited about the thought of moving to a different country and Danielle; who was married and expecting a child of her own, was the only family she had left. It was time for her to stop depending on her for so much and start carving out her own place in the world.

"Do you really think they would have contacted you if they didn't think you were more than good enough?"

"To be honest, I don't know why they reached out to me in the first place. All the music on my SoundCloud is in English and I've never heard of this company before they emailed me."

"Because it's good, dumb-dumb!" Danielle exclaimed while tugging on one of her sister's braids. "What's the name of these people again, you know I have to google," She asked with her phone already in hand.

"BigHit, I already looked them up. It's legit"

Danielle nodded but dismissed Adrienne's statement with a flick of her wrist, she needed to research everything for herself if she was going to send her baby sister off to some strange company for a job that may not even be real.

"Seriously, Dani I've looked it up they are an actual music company" Adrienne leaned forward to snatch the phone out of her hands, "They told me that if I decide to work with them I'd be working with a boyband called BTS."

"Boyband? Those still exist?"

"Yes! I was so confused at first but they're the real deal...which is another reason I don't want to go. I've been researching their songs from last year and the year before that and I don't know who's doing their music now but it's really good. Here, listen to this-"

Adrienne tossed her sister's phone back onto the couch and pulled her laptop off the coffee table and onto her lap, "It's all in Korean so ignore the words and just pay attention to the melody like I did" she informed as she pulled up 'Let Me Know', one of the recent tracks she'd been replaying.

Her eyes fell closed gently once she hit play and the first note rang out and Adrienne allowed herself to become lost in the music once again, she couldn't understand the lyrics but even without knowing the language Adrienne knew too well the feeling of heartache and desperation this song was meant to make you feel. That was always something she appreciated about music, no matter where you were from or how old you were a good song could bring people together in ways that words often couldn't. To Adrienne music truly was a universal language.

Once the song finished Adrienne put her laptop aside and looked up at her sister with a childlike stare, anticipating her reaction. "What? It's pretty" Danielle responded and Adrienne's shoulders immediately slumped downward.

"Pretty? Is that all you have to say?" 

"Yup. That's my review, it is a pretty song." 

"You sicken me, do you know that? If you weren't carrying my niece we would be pillow fighting right now." Adrienne grumbled and leaned down to pressed a kiss to Danielle's rounded tummy. She wasn't big yet but she was definitely beginning to show. 

"I keep telling you not to get your hopes up, Lloyd's siblings are all boys."

Adrienne pursed her lips and ignored Danielle then whispered to her stomach. "Shhh, I can tell you're a girl." 

"Stop talking to my fetus and get back up here, I'm not joking with you Andy I really think you should go for this job"

Adrienne bit the inside of cheek and slumped back against the cushions, she was silent for a few minutes as she tried to collect her thoughts and recall all the points that were made in their previous conversation.

"How am I supposed to fly half way around the world and tell these people that I can make better music than what they have now?"

Danielle sighed, her fingertips grazing over Adrienne's shoulder to gain her attention before pulling her into her arms to hug her and rest her chin against the top of Adrienne's head. 

"Do you think you're talented?"

"Yes....but-"

"Butts are for ashtrays, Adrienne. You are talented and that's the end of it, when you worry too much about comparing yourself to other people then you start in with the doubts. You didn't go to them they came to you, that wouldn't have happened if they didn't know that you were more than qualified for this." 

"I don't want to leave you."

"Oh little one," Danielle cooed and kissed Adrienne's scalp, threading her fingers through the younger girls braids, "I am going to be fine, I have Lloyd! And you're going to be making so many new friends you won't even have time to miss me."

Adrienne sniffed and wrapped her arms around her sister in a tighter hold, "You better not have this kid until I can come back and visit" She replied through the few tears that were falling from the brim of her eyes.

"Does that mean you're going?"

"I guess I'm moving to Korea."

"This isn't a joke, right? There aren't any hidden cameras, you're really going to let me do this?"

The excitement in Yoongi's voice was as foreign and authentic as the short happy dance he did in the middle of Bang Si-Hyuk's office before he caught hold of himself and regained his cool composure. 

"Yes I'm being serious" Si-Hyuk answered with a tiny grin "You've been showing a lot of improvement lately and I think you should take the lead on producing the group's next release."

Pale pink lips spread into a wide and almost child-like grin, those were words that Yoongi never thought he would hear. He always appreciated being able to contribute a song or two to their albums but to have the control and relative creative freedom over an entire body of work for his group was a professional goal that he never thought possible so early in his career. It really was too good to be true.

"Of course..." Si-Hyuk spoke up again and Yoongi came crashing back down to reality. 

"With your schedules and other responsibilities, it wouldn't be ideal to leave all the work on your shoulders alone."

"I assumed the producers here would be assisting me"

"Most of them are busy with other projects, we've decided to contract someone from the outside to co-produce along with you."

Yoongi nodded and leaned back in his seat, pressing his index finger against his lips in thought and to prevent himself from speaking out of turn. He didn't like this idea one bit and the previous feeling of excitement he had was dulled significantly by the thought of having to collaborate with someone he didn't even know. He wanted to speak up, voice his opposition before he was saddled with the dead weight of a co-producer who probably had no idea what they were doing. But he knew it wasn't his place to say no to a plan that was already in motion and he didn't want to jeopardize the opportunity he was being granted. 

"Okay, when do we start?"