#Blush Response

[xmasitw]

Japanese Heart Software

ft. Blush Response

Holiday

[viciouscyclesradio]

New LP from Rhys Fulber

The Follow-Up to Collapsing Empires

Balance Of Fear — Rhys Fulber (2024, Sonic Groove) of Front Line Assembly, enlightening us further and turning things up a notch on Sonic Groove Records. Out Now on Apple Music!

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[jadewritesficshere]

Just thinking about s4 but when Alpha!Eddie grabs Steve to shove the bottle against his neck, he doesn't realize Steve is an omega and accidentally scruffs him. And Steve is just boneless, kinda goes down. And Eddie isn't expecting deadweight and almost falls ontop of Steve but realizes what's happening (let's just say he's fought off a few bullies who scruffed members of his pack). He immediately drops the bottle and holds onto Steve, who tries to scent Eddie. Just shoves his face into Eddie's neck and nuzzles it, lets out a purr unintentionally.

[greatgoddyke]

all you ever need is to be nice and friendly

[blkkizzat]

random, and i don't know who needs to hear this, but black girls can visibly blush too. -signed a black girl who can visibly blush and who gets a big fat blochy red mark on her face when she cries. 😘

[starflungwaddledee]

lost a bet with @eliastheownerof0axolotls, so here's today's starstruck shipaganza entry (and also a belated birthday present for elias) featuring his oc flower dee and the rather absurd "blush off":

[carrotsofthepirabbean]

I will say I think part of the reason OG Kirk isn't more popular on Tumblr is because he can't be crammed into the 'If one part of a ship is the unemotional logical one the other one MUST be the bouncy himbo sparkle softboy' cliche. Kirk can be goofy and has a good sense of humor, he teases and laughs, but speaking in Lord of the Rings terms, Kirk isn't Pippin, he's Aragorn.

Which is SO much tougher for the 'must distill every variety of character into the same 5 different people' crowd on Tumblr. There isn't an 'Aragorn' slot because 'incredibly complicated' isn't descriptive enough for cliche. Like yes, he's charming, but it's the quiet sort of charming. Yes, he's a strong athlete and a fighter, but he's fundamentally a shockingly huge nerd and spends his private time reading poetry and thinking about philosophy and what it means to be a leader. Yes, he's haunted, but he has a fundamental hope that keeps shining through. Kirk's got a serious job, and he's a serious person. He's an Adult kind of adult. He's one of the last survivors of a horrific genocide. He's killed people with his bare hands.

Spock wasn't bowled over by how bright and shiny and cuddly Kirk was. Because underneath everything, there's a fundamental sadness and loneliness to Kirk, and a simmering possibility of rage that most people would consider Abnormal. And Spock shares those qualities, though for different reasons. The thing that really shakes Spock (besides Kirk's iron sense of loyalty) is that there are times where KIRK is more coolheaded and professional than Spock is. In everyday terms, Kirk is easily and confidently emotional in a way Spock was always taught was a weakness, but when the shit hits the fan Kirk gets this shine of cold, calculating, James Bond-like brutality/practicality that not only meets Spock's Vulcan control, it will at times go PAST it. Surviving that genocide gave Kirk access to both a level of iron-willed 'do whatever is necessary to live no matter what' and a level of genuinely bloodcurdling rage that, when death is on the line, reads sometimes like a Vulcan on steroids. In a battle-type situation Kirk has absolutely looked at Spock and snapped like 'for god's sake, control yourself', and that is some whiplash a Vulcan doesn't just get OVER.

At the very start OG Kirk is already both wildly famous for and frighteningly good at being a commander, better than Spock is by miles, which forces Spock to confront his self-hate fueled 'Vulcans are better' prejudices over and over again until Spock has a starry-eyed admiration for Kirk that knocks him so hard into love that Spock's teeth rattle. Kirk isn't Some Soft Boy that grows on Famous Vulcan Spock against his will. Kirk is the most talented Starfleet officer in generations- He's Horatio Nelson, except not an imperialist asshole. Spock is (at first) just Some Science Guy who managed to nail one of the most coveted jobs in Starfleet.

Like, what is Tumblr going to do with a Kirk (who is supposed to be the bouncy soft boy half of Spirk) who looks coldly at an alien who is killing people and without hesitation goes 'I am a military man, we have a mission, we don't have time to understand motivations, kill that thing' and calmly walks off? And then Spock, (the unemotional logical one) is the one going after him going 'please, this is a thinking creature, it could be scared or hurt, think of its feelings, at least let me try to talk to it'. And like, the big lesson of the episode is KIRK being convinced by Spock to care more and be more empathetic?

Like, that's not some shit Tumblr can fit into its 'five acceptable personalities for every single ship ever'. There isn't a category for 'one is the logical one and the other one is the guy in charge on the battlefield that the men point their swords at while yelling "to the king!"'

But, it does make me a bit sad, because god, the relationship between Kirk and Spock is unique. Because Kirk is SUCH a freak. If there's a fictional personality grouping Kirk is a part of it's like Kirk, Chris Evans' Captain America, Aragorn, and nobody.

I super agree! AOS Kirk fits the bill more for the ship dynamics tumblr focuses on (and I do really love Chris Pine's performance, not half because it was what introduced me to Star Trek in the first place), but I do find TOS Kirk more intriguing because he has such layers. He's scarily competent, youngest captain in Starfleet and it's not like you get in that position by being a sunshine flower boy - he's got a streak of cold practicality that, yeah, is super apparent in Devil in the Dark. But he's also warm, loving, and physically affectionate with his closest friends, professional with his subordinates and his duties, calculating with his enemies, and overall an exceedingly intelligent individual who does not take his position and responsibilities lightly. And in terms of his relationship with Spock, it was all those things that drew Spock's respect and interest, and not (checks notes) his being a "bouncy himbo sparkle soft-boy". He's just a wonderful character <3

[itz-pandora]

Thinking about Shadow and Metadow and Metamyadow

[madc0w]

"still life" -- blush response

[sweetfoxmojis]

woo I'm back!! did some hugging emojis cuz I had some motivation :D

[realbeefman]

totally normal and heterosexual advice to give to your pet freak best friend that you’re definitely not psychotically irrationally erotically obsessed with

7x12 of House M.D.

[nathanielzalexandria]

Yeah, everybody says that "Steve" is short for "Steven" but my headcanon is that the Harringtons are either rich old money snobs, their new money trying to act old money or the mix where the mother is old money and the father is new money (or vice versa) and they have a lot to prove so there is no way that Steve's given name is Steven or Stephen or if you are spicy Stephan/Stefan.

No, his name is Stephanos or Stefano if you headcanon that the mom is Italian.

Even better, his real name looks nothing like Steve or Steven because it's Steven in another language (most likely because Steve is a first or second-generation immigrant which compounds the money issue). So if you lean into the Harringtons being Irish or Scottish Gaelic it's Stéig or (my preferred) Stìobhan/Stèaphan. Or a french Étienne (Eddie personally loves this one) or a simple Esteban.

Either way, Steve hid it so well that not even the principal knew that his real name was not Steven. There is not a soul in Hawkins that knows to call him that, and he's 85% sure that his parents forgot that his name is not precisely Steve since they also never use his real name when they bother to address him or talk to him at all. Only Robin knows that Steven isn't actually his real name.

So when Eddie randomly calls him by his birth name when they are alone, he freezes. Not only because he knows that name, but because of the sinful way it rolls off the tongue and the right amount of emphasis on the right syllables. He turned around slowly and didn't even bother to try to hide his blush. The blush that was turning hotter when he noticed the teasing smirk on the metalhead's face.

And then he repeats the name and Steve actively watches the name roll off that tongue and Steve realises

He really likes when Eddie says his name.