#I MEAN DO WHAT YOU WANT I GUESS WHO AM I TO JUDGE BRO

[millidew]

more tdi 2023 thoughts babyyyy (mostly s2)

reboot cast....so good...

the voice actors KILLED IT omg?? i wanted to list some i especially liked but it was literally all the contestants lmao

the millie reveal? that was so good for all 3 involved. despite doing nothing except attempted murder in s2, that part lets millie stay pretty high on my tier list. its probably the best 5 minutes of the season

yeah chase made me laugh. HE'S FUNNY I CAN'T HELP IT!!!

i love bowie. that's all i came here to say.

^(but bowemma breaks up permanently but priyamillie gets to make up...i see how it is writing team)

bowie vs julia mlm wlw hostility is peak. KILL EACH OTHER!!!

in s1 during her elimination confessional when axel was like I PUSHED SOMEONE OFF A BOAT AND ORDERED THEM AROUND TO LET THEM KNOW I WAS SUPERIOR. I DID NOTHING WRONG!! that's when i knew she was peak

emma and bowie are neck and neck i think, but bowie edges out by having more screen time and more going on

i did like ripper but i'm not the biggest fan of gross out humor so he was bumped down to ok. i liked him otherwise tho

season 2:

ok there's no way everyone is that mad at bowie. priya, millie, emma, caleb, yeah, probably damien because he's normal, but i know axel does NOT care about priya and millie like that. that being said, his "apology" ("skill issue lol") was funny and i like that raj helped him plan this between seasons

(edit: I was gonna ask why CHASE is mad at him before I realized it was probably for shittalking him and not breaking up priyallie…despite going “LOL chicks am I right Bowie, the gay guy who hates me?” earlier)

raj: i stand with my canceled wife

wayne: i also stand with my bro's cancelled wife

also last season's finale when bowie was instantly like "the others will help us? easy i pick raj" and the moment he can pick teams in s2 he does just that. <3 (also him being weak to puppydog eyes and accepting that he'll give up the strategic advantage for his bf and because he's a changed man or whatever) (i love him)

with no mention of the bowemma friendship and millie not being mentioned again after her elim... yeah the power of friendship was really struggling this season outside of the hockeybros and mkulia

emma. EMMA.... i mean she IS a bad judge of character but she left SO EARLYYYYY NOOO

i miss her

^also what i thought the second bowie left, but it felt right in that one since he was a finalist last time, and we have julia and mk as dual antagonists this time

i still miss him

but! good play from mkulia

the hockey bros randomly being super attached to damien was cute. i like that. good for them. damien was done dirty with that elim even tho it was probably the right time

ripaxel was ridiculous and that's why it's good. good for them. axel found the dumbass boyfriend of her dreams but had to sacrifice half of her pre-existing character to do it

at least we had mkulia which is always good (even tho i feel like maybe mk should've been the main antagonist of the season) (i feel like EVERYONE wanted a damien/mk/oneofthehockeybros finale lmao)

i liked julia well enough in s1 but she's at her best when she's with mk. i admit near the end both her and priyaleb were feeling a little dragged out but thankfully mk came back and julia was great again

they way they hate everyone and rag on each other but never take it really personally <3 one day they'll get married for "tax purposes"

or maybe julia's gonna queerbait her audience for more attention lol. but then she'd be like "no, if i was gonna manipulate my hundreds of thousands of followers, i'd choose a hotter fake girlfriend." <- which is how you know her feelings are real because she decides on mk anyways #toxicyuri

"i am not fucking doing that"

"ugh whatever...i guess i'll just post a rainbow flag or something for pride month like usual"

also mk getting completely battered by t-shirts from everyone in the finale was funny

its ok girl mullets are in right now. it can be turned into a wolfcut later

priyaleb... the way people talked about them i thought it'd be worse LMAO they started off strong but i think it was started getting stale after their second break-up make-up

priya demanding vengeance was great and felt ic lmao but it lowkey made the otherwise really good finale hard to watch. poor caleb man

he really felt like a nothingburger after the secret was revealed... the writers did him dirty. they were cute when they were bonding at the start and he was oblivious to his own flirting, and was willing to be a little underhanded, but... sorry man

i think if they cut back on the romance and focused more on caleb's own morality/want to win it would've worked better, and maybe an earlier priya elimination?

they really just did the priyallie break up again but more drawn out and worse

actually maybe it would've been better if priya's feelings ended up being one sided

but rajbow was peak as always. their conflict about cheating in challenges was good and the finale was 1/3 raynebow trio moments so i'm well fed

wayne and then raj getting distracted by ice cream <3 bowie knowing to get them back on track by acting like their coach <3 raj gushing about it <3 everyone cheering for wayne and no one wanting to shoot him (except raj) <3 raj gleefully shooting wayne (and making a ur mom joke) because they're jerks to each other <3 raj going 🙄 "well guess who was wronggg" when bowie said wayne wouldn't want free t-shirts <3 bowie trying not to let wayne fall to his death while raj basically goes JUMP JUMP JUMP <3 raj helping wayne out of the hole and probably to a hospital <3

also i think the hockey bros somehow got dumber. they can do anything they put their non-existent minds to

raj stop taking your clothes off on international television

wayne is really invested in other people's relationships. he was SO happy that rajbow and priyaleb worked out but even he refused to get involved with chemma. and he was supportive of the concept of ripaxel at least!

also wayne winning WOOOOOOOO THAT'S MY BOY HE'S GOING TO COLLEGE PROBABLY ON AN ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP OR SOMETHING I KNOW HIS ASS IS NOT PASSING HIS CLASSES

wait he and raj have a tutor that takes their tests for them

WHY ARE YOU MAD ABOUT CHEATING WHEN

ok nevermind i don't even think they know that's cheating

[earthtodora]

why is it so wrong that I ask you to make it clear you’re a fixed shipper when that’s what you are??? I didn’t accuse you of anything, you yourself said you’re a top megumi truther only and you can’t ever write him as a bottom, isn’t that the literal definition of a fixed shipper? I’m a switch stan but I don’t mind when a writer has clear preference and that’s what I thought you were, but I just like to avoid fixed shippers and judge me all you want all my experiences with them was bad so sorry even if you’re not toxic, I tend to avoid following or reading the works of fixed shippers. Again my intention was just to notify u that maybe it’s better to be clear about that and I guess I was annoyed that a writer I like was a fixed shipper 😭 you may think it’s stupid but I was literally called slurs by fixed shippers simply for saying that switching makes more sense and yes not saying you are like that at all. I’m just not risking it anymore, and it’s not unheard of so many fixed shippers just put that emoji 🚫🔃 or something else not sure and it’s end of story. Do what you want but just want to make it clear why I asked you in the first place to make it obvious.

but bro, i am literally not that iffy about my preferences, why should i post no switching and disclaimers about me being a fixed shipper and not wanting to read bottom megumi when 1. it's not the case and 2. it has no influence whatsoever on the rest of the stuff i write?

why do you need to know what preference i have? do you tell every writer you're a switch truther and you'd like to read smth where both of them fuck the other? when i called myself a top megu thruther i wasn't making a big deal out of it, if i knew people were going to take it like that, i would have never mentioned it. it's a preference and it's something i enjoy writing, but it's not an identity and doesn't change anything about my approach to the characters, or the way i write the rest of the story.

i don't mind people knowing i'm a fixed shipper, but i don't understand how should i make it "obvious" in the way you're implying it. is it a warning? i don't write bottom megumi fics? my writing is in no way defined by the smut part, or the sex scenes. my focus is usually the relationship itself, the characters' emotions and their personal development.

you're saying you're annoyed by the fact that a writer you like is a fixed shipper, so that's the reason why you want me to put disclaimers on everything? i write the same kind of stuff as i did before this discourse started, so i don't see what's the problem.

i think you're really hung up on your past experiences or whatever happened to you, and i'm sorry that fixed shippers were mean to you in the past, but, personally, this is literally the first time i'm hearing about fixed shipping and the fact that you think all of them are like that is not a healthy mindset to have, in my opinion.

my only issue here is that you mentioned that you were not aware of the fact that i was a fixed shipper. do you know why? because my content doesn't revolve around a specific preference. nor do any of my posts on tumblr. i don't have an issue with anyone who prefers or writes bottom megumi. so why put myself into the "fixed shipper" box and have people like you assume that i'm some sort of asshole who will harass people if they disagree with me?

i don't see the point of this.

[mytalemyworld]

They are the most popular couple right now on social media, actually it's not very surprising since there is no love story happening in other tv shows so it's like there is literally no ship wars or something but…even if there was, I think they could still be at the first place.

You didn't ask for my two cents but I'll tell you anyway. The show is a complete mess. Nowadays the writers just don't waste any efforts on their scripts. This one is no different, there's so much craziness going on that I can't stop judging.

So the main character Yaman (his real name is Ali Soysalan) was kidnapped when he was a child. Then he somehow ended up on the streets, grew up with three homeless children. (Cesur, Asi and Umut. Their names come from their characteristics I guess since they have no identity. Cesur means "Brave", Asi means "Rebellious/Rebel". Umut means "Hope". Yaman means "the person who doesn't give up, is strong") They become a kind of family. One day he finds out his real family and the story begins.

This might be too cliche, I don't care about that, but the problem is if you want to watch a heartfelt family reunion you may be very disappointed. After he reunites with his family, there is no bonding, no family time, no thought about how to spend their days from now on…The family find their kid and act like "so yeah, this is your family, stay in our home, these are your other siblings, let's move on." Come on! As a mother more importantly as a doctor mother, you just have to see the emotional damage and the endless gap between your kids.

And don't get me started on how Mother Soysalan announce the news to her other children: They just find out from the tv like the other citizens in the country.

Nothing makes sense, but let's just forget all nonsense and accept that this story is more like about a lost kid who turns back his home to get his revenge on the bad guys.

Btw, I am usually not that kind of person who comments on the performances of the actors but I don't know why, the lead actor doesn't make me really feel anything. The same actor also acted in Kardeslerim as Kadir a.k.a. the eldest brother, (this already looks like typecasting btw) however he is really not convincing here. There's a lack of chemistry with everyone, but this also might be a directing or a script problem because the other actors can't give any strong feelings in some specific scenes too. In short, I fast forward his scenes most of the time. The fact that his actions are so predictable doesn't help either.

So here comes the problematic part.

They are twins but I prefer calling them Jessie and James from Pokemon.

Since The Council of Radio and Television in Turkiye doesn't care the degrees of violence shown or the importance of right labelling for tv shows, I shouldn't be surprised by how this show is tagged. I, however, will give you a warning. The show is dark, there is drug use, excessive violence, emotional abuse, family abuse, physical abuse…oh my, you can put any warning actually. The worse, they are not handled very well. Law enforcement, is there even such a thing in this show? No. Any law? No. Stupidity ever ends? No. I know they are portraying the underdog people so the violence part might be kind of realistic, but the adults are so frustrating when they can not do anything useful.

And these twins are suffering from childhood emotional neglect. (To be honest the half of Soysalan family must be in prison, the other half should see a therapist.)

Alaz Soysalan, he is one of the problematic characters in the show. The younger sibling of the main character and doesn't like his newly found "big bro" (he uses this word with a mocking emphasis) because he sees him as the main reason for his lonely and motherless childhood. He doesn't know what empathy means, he just doesn't feel the others' pains unless the other party also goes through the same thing he does.

He definitely isn't likeable, but for a tv show where everybody shows acute reactions, his choices blend in the rest. Don't expect anything from him, he is a complete disaster.

I can overlook many of his wrongdoings because that's fiction, but I wish I had never seen the way he behaved towards his twin sister at the early episodes. I think it doesn't make sense since he is overly protective and possesive of his family.

Yeah, let's jump into the shipping part.

She is Asi. Your typical tough tomboy. Thanks to growing up together with a bunch of boys, she knows how to deal with them. She swears, she fights. But she is also loyal and compassionate. She is unfortunately helplessly in love with Yaman. He isn't aware of her feelings and sees her as his family, his sister.

When she first meets Alaz, they don't have any important one-to-one interaction. They just don't like each other and naturally turn into enemies. But this is the slowest burn of the show.

Like I said, he has lack of empathy unless he sees someone is hurt from the same pain as he is.

This is the moment he truly sees her because both of them are suffering from one-sided love. He realizes she's in love with Yaman and she knows he loves Rüya. Unlike the other people in the cell, she knows why he's frustrated and angry. Not communicating at all, they share something here.

I'm going to post more about them. They're the only interesting thing in the show. For the rest...meh. I usually adore family dynamics, but don't have expectations here after having seen the found kid part was badly written.

[mintyisms]

The Game Grumps Play Danganronpa V3

Prologue Starters

"Apologies, I didn't play the demo."

"What is this, slam poetry?"

"Oh, fuck, she's cooking. Let her cook."

"I'm the protagonist."

"Are you going to find me a properly fitting hat?"

"It must be good for your glutes and hamstrings when you kidnap people cause it's a lot of steadying yourself as they try to resist."

"Does it seem like one of my hands is way bigger than the other?"

"Can I eat these vines? I'm gonna eat these vines."

"Come over here where there aren't giant robots."

"This is a classroom, alright. A classroom of BAD."

"I've never known how to pronounce this fucking word."

"If we're plotted in a giant game where we have to kill each other, your piano skills will definitely come in handy!"

"I dreamt I was making a salad and the bowl fell on my head."

"Weird product placement, but okay."

"Do you have a link tree?"

"That's me! The ultimate creepy old man!"

"I like it when people are scared."

"Good news, the bathroom has been completely destroyed."

"There definitely wasn't rampant drug use happening in there."

"There could be more dick-less robots down here."

"Are we not going to examine the green goo all over the floor?"

"I didn't even realize there was another door over there."

"Looks like this door won't open. Interesting."

"You can't disrespect the arcade machines. That would be fucked up."

"At first I'm like who gives a shit, and then you hang out with them for an hour, and it's like I don't want them to die."

"I was in a locker."

"Why'd you get put in a locker?"

"I have beautiful eyelashes. Check it out."

"Outcast? What do you mean? Like the rapper?"

"Maybe that is my talent: to shake off the bullshit."

"Wait, should I not wear pants?"

"The happiest in my life is when I realize I have more sleep ahead of me. Like I wake up and it's four AM and I'm like yes, I get to sleep for another three hours."

"I should have known he was a creep. He's wearing a hat."

"What's he got in the box?"

"[name], this is no time to twerk!"

"I'll bro fist myself if I have to!"

"Remember, I want a woman to step on me. I don't want her to be like 'shall I step on you'. Like, no, just do it."

"I guess he wasn't dead."

"Here we go with that fucking bear again."

"She'll have problems later in life."

"I was going to strangle someone, but now I feel like I'm going to be judged for it."

[penny-the-pissed-poltergeist]

Volume 4, episode 4: Family rewatch thoughts, RWDE/Critical opinions ahead, you have been warned

.It took 3 episodes but Oscar is finally doing something relevant! Yugi Skywalker over here is going to function as a way to expand on Ozpin as the next Ozcarnation... I don't get why he had to be cut off from any of the actual/other (Oscar being an MC or not depends on who you ask) main characters for a whole volume but whatever

.Oscar's aunt and Sora from KH's mom are dating in white void that their writes put them in after they forgot they existed, trust

.Yang's nightmare is done really well, the background audio is straight out of a horror game in the best way and Adam actually feels intimidating here.

.Oh god what do you mean it's this scene!? I was trying to be positive!

.I am not comfortable with Port being in Yang's house. Wait he knew her dad personally and was still gross toward her jesus fuck.

.Haha, isn't it soooo funny that a man was wearing clothes are a "meant" for woman? Wow is SOOOOOO fucking FUNNY, yes this show is "Woke" and "Progressive" BUT YOU HAVE ADMIT IT'S HILARIOUS RIGHT, REINFORCING GENDER NORMS IS FUNNIEST THING EVER HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH.... that was mostly a bit but this still pisses me off

.Does Tai not realize that his younger daughter also wears a skirt? Shouldn't that make the "landing strategy" part less funny to him?

.So Tai just yelled at his daughter and directly made joke about her disability and we're supposed to find this charming? I have to assume "I guess you lost so brain cells along with that arm" was going to be replaced with something less awful like how Ren was going to blame Jaune for Pyrrha's death in volume 8 before getting replaced with that stupid "cheating into beacon" line but they ran out of time.

.Is this were the Tai hate come from? I get it but he's a flawed but decent dad in like... every other scene he's in.

.The other advice feels a bit better, but I'm not sure it's what you should be telling someone with PTSD and/or depression. I feel like it's maybe what you should be telling people with those conditions but I don't know enough to truly judge.

.Also don't have the weirdo who flirted with Yang when she was still a minor be part of it, and calling someones pre-disabled state "Normal" and wanting them to get back to it is something I know for a fact is shitty.

.All things considered, at least we got more Oobleck

.So has Raven also been stalking RNJR or did she only do that in this scene?

."Lucky you" will come back in a really stupid way later, we'll get to it when get to it

.OOF I can tell whoever wrote this was an only child, "bro" and "sis" are bad but it's extra cringe because they're both like 45 and also twins.

.Calling the relic "it" just feels like the writers hand hiding info from the viewer instead of natural dialog

.Wow that "The only way we're beating her is together" line feels weird after volume 7 & 8

.How can he be sure it's the spring maiden and not the summer one? they have the same powers and are both unknowns as for as we know. Wait how can you tell which maiden is which in general? They all have same powers.

.Other then those things I actually kinda like this scene, it shows how heartless Raven is and Qrow has some actually funny lines.

.It's nice to see Yang try the arm on but if I'm remembering correctly they kinda just skip to the end of her recovery after this and that disappoints me.

[deathlygristly]

So I've seen all sorts of discourse about That One Post going around. If you haven't seen it yet: a dude said he got into the alt-right because he saw weird people online being weird about dudes and it made him upset and the alt-right was like hey bro we got you. It was very much written in the style of someone who perhaps had not completely left the cult. It made everyone upset in all directions.

Most of the basic positions have shown up on my dash, and I've only unfollowed the people who get really mad about other people being like hey I see people being weird online all the time and it hasn't made me a fascist, and/or who get really demanding about how somehow we are all personally responsible for controlling the language of all the trolls in all the various leftish leaning cults online but trolls from rightish cults can say whatever they want and that their existence is our fault for not controlling the posts of every single leftish troll on the internet.

My biggest takeaway at the moment is that deradicalizing strangers online is not a job I can do. I guess it's the autism or maybe the growing up without ideology but I really don't get...well, any part of the discussion I've seen.

Like I texted the spousal person earlier about how neurotypical people talk about gender and how it makes me wonder if they're a different species from a different planet. What do clothes and hobbies and interests and emotions have to do with gender?

But then I am married to a guy in his 40s who happily and autistic special interest-ly watches Korean romcoms and who knew all the kpop girl group songs they were playing at the grocery store and who once said he doesn’t feel like he has a gender.

I don’t know, having really weird and esoteric rules about what you and other people can do and being vicious about enforcing those weird made up rules is just….alien to my life and experiences. Why would you care about what other people do if they’re not hurting other living beings?

I guess that’s the main thing. As far as I can remember, my brain has always thought, “Hurting others is wrong.” I don’t think I can recall ever thinking “I should hurt these others because a group of humans told me to.” Or needing to never encounter another human displaying common human behavior like being angry and hateful online in order to not become angry and hateful myself.

Also everyone is saying that it’s about feelings and group membership and that just stating facts won’t work, so that’s me out then. I don’t understand group membership at all and I really don’t understand choosing to believe things that aren’t true because of emotions. I don’t mean that in a rightish cult “Facts don’t care about your feelings” way. I mean it in a “My feelings desperately care about facts” way. In a “It took years and years of work plus an escitalopram prescription for me to not hate myself to death if I found out I had said or believed something that was false” way. In a “Perceiving the best approximation of reality that humans are currently capable of is a core moral tenet for me” way.

Don’t hurt other living beings and do your best to understand reality as clearly as possible are the rules my brain came up with in the absence of rules imposed from outside. Those rules feel like…Me. Like What I Am. I don’t think I can phrase things in words that will change the beliefs of people who are so different from me that I would need a universal translator to have any hope of communicating with them.

Like I’ve said before, all I can do is accept and not judge people for their pasts if I see sufficient evidence that they truly have changed and are doing things to repair the damage they did. Getting them to the point of doing that, as opposed to accepting them afterward…that’s not something I can do, no matter how much people scream angrily online and judge and shame others about it.

[salaciousslut]

Done! Also do you have a favorite tequilla brand? Just curious! 🫣

Technically i have freckles all over my face but i only really count the ones that are darker and in a line under my eyes and over my nose, the other ones aren't prominent enough to call them freckles imo. And i'd feel more than lucky if you did worship me, sweetheart<3

I would love to take you to the gym with me, it honestly helped me with my depression as well! And of course i'd watch over you sweetheart<3 i wont lie, i love to go after dark bc theres less people. And i had the same problem but now i catch myself and try to stand straighter. I mostly lift weights when i work out so I know my posture improved due to needing to have a straight back to lift. Plus its super fun imo!! I miss the gym so bad but i hate going alone. I also miss feeling sore, im a bit of a masochist so i love feeling sore the day after working out🤭

Dont apologize for giving me info<3 organization's overrated anyway. Ive found that girls with glasses tend to be my type🫣 you literally sound so pretty sweetheart<3 i knew i wasnt wrong calling you a pretty princess<3 im kissing the tip of your nose and your forehead rn🥰 you are literally so cute, puppy coded too🥺 ive never had crawfish it seems yummy but im not sure if i should try it! Shrimp ceviche used to be my favorite but then i developed a shrimp allergy to uncooked shrimp and around 17 i had to call it quits bc it stopped being worth it to risk it. Im still pissed but at least i can still eat shrimp its just gotta be thoroughly cooked, not just get cooked through the acidity of lime juice like its sucks so bad i just miss ceviche so bad. Ohh just a butch latina and a pretty asian girl what ever will they do hehe<3 and i knew but not cause you told me 🫣 your dni made it obvious, like yeah im just now saying hey but ive been aware of you for a little bit now🫣 also please lemme be ur body pillow one day<3 savory is good!!! Whats your favorite kind of snack?

Also thats adorable, youre just a cute little puppy that has to get off once a day to function her best<3 i mean if i were stressed from school i'd probably need the same thing🤭

tbh im not too picky about my brands, as long as it gets me drunk, then im happy!! also tequila makes me take my clothes off oopsies i think i should warn u about that!! but if im buying for myself, i typically will get espolon bc i feel like its yummy and reasonably priced!

yes i love feeling sore after a workout!! i am also a bit of a masochist (omg who knew)!! but ive never lifted weights before. all the dude bros scare me and i feel like im always being judged but if we went together i know u would take care of me!! i like aerobics and like calisthenics (i had to google how to spell that word) and love yoga sm!! the burn of stretching feels amazing!!

hehe i am very puppy coded! i used to think i was more kitten coded but now ive grown and realized puppies are sooo fun!! so much energy and just wanna be cherished and loved!! which is everything i want!!

nooooo thats so sad that ur allergic to ur fav food :(( i love ceviche but at least u can still tolerate the cooked version. i know its not the same but its still something!!

ohhh i forgot that i put that in my dni, people are so weird about race here smh i just gotta cover all my bases so i can have fun on this website!! but aww we would look soooo cute together

im a sucker for chips. u know how they say all bi girls do is lie and eat hot chip? yeah all i do is eat hot chip hehehe. not so much lying but hot chip very much so. i also loveee chips and salsa and chicken wings and yeah all the fun savory stuff i guess!!!

hehe cumming is like a lil treat!! a reward for myself for being sooo good you know? but it would be a million times better if someone else was making me cum rather than myself 😳🫣

[tutchando74]

@portugas39

Bro, I don't think that's how you're supposed to do this (the ask my OC with the number thing), but who am I to judge.

Cyn (Split Drones) - What makes them stand out among the others?

They are the troublemaker of the manor. The Elliots want to destroy them, but they never did.

C.O.M (Headache) - If they could have one wish, what would they wish for?

Death.

Human (Humanity) - What is a joke they would find funny?

Someone being silly would be enough to make him giggle.

N-obody (Cursed ownership) - Who would be their cuddle buddy?

Uzi, but she wouldn't allow.

Test N (Test Drones) - Have they ever won a contest before? If so, what for? What did they win?

He won the contest of worst disassembly to be created, so he won the charge of Test Drone.

N-o (Frainkeinbot) - Do they have a job?

Yes, killing runaway AI.

Java (An Error Ocurred to the Virus) - Have they ever been in a physical fight before? If so, with who? Who won?

Yes, Java has been in many physical fights, after the destruction of their universe, mainly with Push and Script. She loses againts Push, but in a hand to hand fight against Script, she wins.

Painter (AU'sed) - What object to the care for the most?

Painter only cares about the well being of the AU's, nothing more.

Dreamer (Afterdream) - Do they have a best friend? If so, who, and what makes them their best friend?

Dreamer is best friends with nearly everyone in the multiverse, because he likes everyone.

Flowey (Blind Happiness) - Do they have a fear of an animal? If so, what animal?

Yes he does, he has fears of goats, because of Momma and Him.

Natural Frisk (Nature's tale) - Are they a quick learner?

Yes.

Determined (Tales from the war) - Who is someone they rely on?

His other 6 friends.

Pines (Reality Falls) - Have you ever drawn them before? If you are comfortable with it, would you post a picture?

No, I never drawn him before, but sure I could, just don't expect it to be good.

Fateless Cat (The Amazing Fate of Gumball) - Can they do magic?

Kind of. He's a cartoon and he surpassed fate itself, so I guess.

Don't worry, I can do that for ya.

Devil (Inicio) - What is something that is simple, but always makes them smile?

Competence.

Blue (Loop) - Have they ever rode a horse before?

No, but they have watched it infinite times.

Medic (Layers of Hopelessness) - What was the last thing they cried about?

Torture.

Enzo (Brazilian Legends) - What is their favorite room to be in, in the house they live in?

The garden, it's quiet.

I (Meaning) - Do they have any artistic talent?

Don't question this fucker with anything, he's trying to be free of meanings, so none of this matters.

Bovic (Cicle of the Broken) - What do they wear to bed?

He doesn't sleep.

The blood angel (Angelic Blood) - What makes them stand out among the others?

The angel of blood is trapped in hell.

Sunny (Kindergarten Nightmares) - Have they ever broken the law?

This fucker has burned children alive, ate them and made the other kids eat that.

[cleverhottubmiracle]

What follows are edited selections from our conversation—a snapshot of an uncertain and very chaotic moment in time in a life that has been uncertain and chaotic for many years now. For much of our interview, Young Thug wore a mask: chain mail, basically, hiding his face. “Only scientists can see UY Scuti,” he said when I asked why he’d covered his face. “I don’t feel like people should see me. I mean a scientist could maybe reconstruct it, do something with the mask and get a clear picture. But I just feel like—hidden scars, and just hiding things.”GQ: Okay, but there’s got to be a vibe or a spiritual feeling or something that is channeling you into this place.Young Thug: I just feel big. I feel like I’m one of the biggest stars. I did a lot: founding this culture and the new rap game that’s happening right now. I just feel like I’m out of this world.Was there a moment when that realization arrived?Yeah, I was actually in court. I was on trial. And I just started looking around the courtroom like, Damn, there’s a lot of people in here. It’s cameras. It’s the longest trial in Georgia history. And even just the things that the judge said when it was over for me. The judge was just like, “Yo, you got to realize who you are.” My lawyer, Brian Steel, he always told me every day, like, “Bro, you got to know. You got to know.” And then me just sitting in the cell every night alone, it was just kind of like, “I’m big.” I always was popular. I was always the big bro, even in my neighborhoods and things, so I’ve never looked at it. I didn’t grasp how it is now because I always was like that.Is that a crazy feeling to be like, I’m this big and I’m also in a cell?I think I’m too big for jail. But I think I’m not too big for God, so God could put the biggest person in there. I feel like I’m taller than the jail, but he somehow could just squish me in there. I think it was like a God thing. Just showing me situations, real friends and who you with, who is with you, and how to move and how to be.Tough to feel bigger than the jail when you’re in the jail.For sure. It’s just like I was treated, how the officers treated me. It’s just like, Damn, I don’t got no bitches here. Like, the fucking officers who work in the jail are fans. They’re 20 years old. It’s like, Damn, you’re a kid! Telling me what to do. Which is not a bad thing. My kids tell me what to do; my girl, everybody tell me what to do. But to actually just sit like—Why I’m on punishment and you guys are my parents? You’re like parenting me and telling me like, “You the fucking one, bro! What’d you say on this song?”And I’m sure in that moment you’re like, Am I ever going to get back the thing that got me here, my career, my ability to make records all day?I feel like when you’re genuine and you’re really artistic and just all around fire, it really can’t end for you. I don’t think it’ll end unless I end it. I don’t think people will ever get tired of me unless I’d be like, “All right, I’m tired of making music.” Just retire. I don’t think it’ll get to the point where people are like, “Yo, it’s over with.”But there maybe was a moment when you’re like, I can’t serve the desire that people want?I still was kind of serving it, though. Just being free, even behind walls. And just being happy and going to court and there’s cameras in the court and people just seeing me and it’s like, “All right, he don’t look like he’s stressed. He don’t look like this. He don’t look like that.” I think God put me in there for a reason. And I’m still trying to figure it out. I always felt like I was a good guy, so it was like, “Why do I got to go to jail for you to show me something? Why you just can’t tell me?” I guess I was just hardheaded. And I think I love people so much to the point where the only thing that’ll make me not love you anymore, or just dislike you, is betrayal. Like real-life betrayal. When your life is depending on it.Is that something you felt like was happening?Betrayal happen every day. Absolutely. You know that. I mean, you got to ask. I feel betrayed. I feel fucking jaded. It’s crazy.Does it feel good to be standing here right now?Absolutely. To be out. But I would talk on the phone with my lawyer—he got houses in the mountains. He’d show me, so I’d be still kind of seeing the scenery. It was two-and-a-half years, though. Going from this to a jail cell is nuts.What can you say about the experience of being incarcerated for more than two years?It was real. Don’t want to deal with it again, but definitely it was real.Were there moments when you wondered if you would ever get out?For sure.In those moments, are you thinking about yourself, your family, your career? Where does the mind go?Family. Kids. Career was, like, last. That was irrelevant.I think it would be human to feel, in that situation, like: A great injustice is being done to me. Did you ever feel that way?Absolutely. Every day. Innocent man.It ended up being the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, which speaks to how crazy those circumstances were. Did it feel personal?Yeah, of course. But shit, we made it back.You may be constrained in what you can say and not say, but you ultimately did decide to plead guilty to six counts. Was that a difficult decision?Absolutely. Just pleading to something you know that you didn’t do is crazy. But you get a chance to keep fighting. [You can] worry about the jury’s fate, or you [can] just go ahead now and go home. It’s like shit. Go home.You had lyrics of yours used against you in court. How’d that feel?It felt kind of crazy. And cool. Because it’s like, “Oh, everybody listen to me.” But crazy. Like, the First fucking Amendment is freedom of speech. Well, third or fourth, but the top five. And we’re talking about lyrics?If I understand correctly, part of the terms of your probation, there’s certain things you can’t talk about on records now, right?I can’t do nothing like gang things or stuff like that on the internet. I can really talk about what I want to talk about in music. I normally rap about cool things. I just got a few lyrics where I just rap about street stuff and those are the lyrics that they tried to use against me. But most of the time I don’t rap about that type of stuff.Does that experience make you think twice about rapping about street stuff?Yeah, because just the impact that you got on the community, the youth. Not because of the law. More so just like realistically kids actually listen to us. Like, all right, we got to dumb it down some. I listen to new rappers now and I’m like, “My kid can’t listen to that.” So I’d be like, Damn. So contradictory.What have you been doing since you got out?Working on my album. Did a little partying. But mainly just working on my album, chilling with the kids, chilling with my girl, chilling in the studio, linking up with other rappers. Just doing the normal.Your girl is Mariah the Scientist—are you guys on the couch watching shows?Absolutely. Sometimes you got to come get me from where I’m at though. Sometimes I don’t want to go home.She was in court supporting you. She’s also on your album, on a song that’s so raw and confessional that I wondered if you guys thought twice about letting other people hear it.Nah, it’s music. People all over the world going through that. As an artist, that’s your job. What else is there to talk about? You want to talk about clothes and shoes or you want to talk about real things that people could feel forever?There is a great tradition of songs about clothes and shoes, too, to be fair.Oh, for sure. Sometimes you got to do that, too. I do that to keep people up to par on what to wear. So the young guys that’s looking up to me that want to know what coat this is and what thermals these are, those guys could be like, “Oh, this is what it is.”You have a big family, I know you guys are close—are you still able to be around them? I ask because, if I understand correctly, part of the terms of your probation are that you can’t go back home to Atlanta except under certain specific circumstances.Yeah. Only for certain things.Do you miss it?Yeah, it’s home. I was already out of Atlanta before this case, though. I’ve lived in LA since 2017. So I wasn’t in Atlanta anyway.Do you feel like you’re in exile?Absolutely. Can’t go home. It’s crazy.What does that feel like?It just feels like abuse.Before all this happened, I think Atlanta was like the center of rap culture. Do you think it still is?Absolutely. We create the wave. We got other places that’s popping for sure. Everybody’s popping now. But everybody still sound like Atlanta or move to Atlanta or rap about Atlanta. You got artists from a whole other place rapping about Atlanta.Even if you’re not there, I assume you still feel like one of the leaders of that city.One of the guys that plowed Atlanta into the rap industry, yeah.Who else would you put in that category?Future. [21] Savage. Lil Baby. Migos. Tip [T.I.]. André 3000. Gucci [Mane].That’s the Mount Rushmore right there.We got a lot of kings in Atlanta. There’s more, too, but just off the top, those people.Have you kept up with rap in general? What do you think of the current state of the art? It felt like while you were away, it was sort of dominated by this Drake-Kendrick Lamar thing—I don’t know if you have a side in that, I know Atlanta got dragged into it by Kendrick.Yeah, he just spoke on people’s name in Atlanta. I don’t know what that was about. I’m a Drake fan.Do you feel rap music in general is in a good place?Yes. I think the numbers could be better. A lot of people are rapping about the same thing and nobody is bringing anything colorful. A lot of people wasn’t bringing something that you can actually watch. You can enjoy the music and enjoy the things that they do, but we used to make movies. I think now it’s just quick. You got to get back to movies, you got to get back to where people respect it.Why do you think they went away from that in the first place?Because it was just a big wave of nothingness running the game. It was just a big wave of super simple videos, not really high-priced videos. That wave came in really strong, so even the people that was doing high-priced videos, they started doing regular videos because that’s what was popping. But I think now we did it so long to the point where we comfortable with that and we don’t want to do stuff like this no more. That take time.You mentioned your own new record earlier, UY Scuti. Did making music feel the same as it felt before?It came easy. I never lost it. Nothing. I never lost it. I listened to music in jail and I listened to music sometimes in court and things like that, so I never lost it. I was still up to par on what was going on for the most part.Did it feel like making other records the way it would’ve felt in 2016 or 2021?No, it is a whole different feeling for sure. Because you’re just in court fighting for your life. And now you’re in a studio at home surrounded by love and beats.One thing I noticed about the record is you can really hear every word. You hear your voice. It’s high in the mix. Was that deliberate?I’ve told my manager: I just want to make music where you can actually hear me. Because I always talk that shit, but sometimes you can’t hear it. Sometimes you’re like, “What are you saying?” So it’s like now, I feel like I’m a new artist. I feel like I just came in the rap game again.What do you remember about your early days as an artist?Just being happy and free.I’ve heard interviews where you talked about kind of bruising, early encounters with the industry. Your deal with Gucci Mane, who first signed you, was kind of weird, right? Or even Lyor Cohen, who signed you to 300 Entertainment—I’ve heard you say that one started out difficult too, right?Yeah. Because we just didn’t know each other. We ended up being good friends.Did you hold those dealings against them later on?When I was younger, yeah, because I just didn’t realize people’s point of view or way of hustling. Now I have some of those similar ways of hustling and points of view, so now it’s just like, “Oh, okay.” The more I got bigger, the more I realized. Because even when we got cool, I still didn’t understand some of it. Even when we got cool, me and Lyor got supercool. He my mentor. Even when we got supercool, I still didn’t understand some of the things that I felt like he did back then. But now it’s just growing older and owning the record label and doing things like that. It’s like, “Okay, cool.” You get it.Did you make a point with your label of maybe doing things differently with artists than the way that people dealt with you?I don’t really be taking money from my artists and stuff like that. I just like to help people. Sometimes it costs and sometimes you just lose, but it really don’t matter.One of those artists was Gunna. You guys did a ton of songs together. He was very successful on your label. He was arrested about the same time as you. I think a lot of people wonder what that relationship is like now.Yeah, I know. Everybody wondering that.What’s it like?I don’t know.I guess that’s its own form of answer, right?You like to plow deep into things, huh?Yeah, I’m a pro.So that whole speech you gave me earlier, like, “Yeah, I’m new to this shit.” All that shit was just cap?Oh no—I was telling you I’m new to the cameras. The interviewing I’m not remotely new to.Okay—I thought you was going to lie. Because I saw you a few times interviewing.Those are the only ones I’ve done on camera! Do you have bigger ambitions for the label going forward?We just pushing positivity. And just going for the gusto. We’re trying to just kill the whole rap game and just do it big and just help people in general. Help society, help the communities we from, and just be so great.People around you have made it sound like you have more than just a label these days.Sports agency. I’m shooting a movie, documentary, clothing brand. It’s a lot of things moving.Speaking of sports, did you see the NFL banned the “nose wipe” celebration?Oh wow. They can’t wipe their nose? No, I ain’t see that. That’s crazy.When you first started out, people would make a big deal of the fact that you wore a dress on the cover of an album, or that you’d call somebody “lover” or whatever. In retrospect, were you trying to be provocative, or was that just naturally the way you came up?I think it was just making people mad. Provocative to a man is crazy. I think I was just doing it, just making people mad.Where’d the idea come from?I don’t know. A lot of my ideas just come from UY Scuti—just come from fucking space.Now, when people write the history of this era, they give you a ton of credit for bringing that super-melodic trap sound to the mainstream of rap. Is that the way you would tell the story?I’m the first to do it. Well, I don’t know. I always think that I was the first to do things, but then I see history and it’s just like, Damn, they did that. It’s crazy.A lot of that early music you made as part of the supergroup Rich Gang, with Rich Homie Quan. Why did that partnership end?I think we just grew and became our own bosses and men, and then we just didn’t want to keep doing the Rich Gang albums. We were getting bigger, so it’s like I wanted to do my own shit.You wanted to do your own thing?I think he did. I was okay with it, because I feel like I love music, but I don’t care about songs. So I’ll have a number one hit record, song, and I’ll put you on it. I don’t care. It’s just like, so whoever goes to the top with you, go to the top. I don’t care. I never was the guy that cared about that type of stuff. So I would’ve been okay with just keep doing it. We still was dropping our own music at the same time as doing that, so it’s just like it really was bigger. But I guess everybody couldn’t see that. So people just do things. Make mistakes.When you listen to music now, do you hear your influence?Absolutely. Don’t want to say everything—the crazy part is I can’t say that everybody do something that I did because it was a lot of things that I did in the beginning that somebody else did, but I never knew they did it. I just did it.What’s an example of that?Wearing a dress. I never saw nobody wear a dress. Then soon as I did, people were like, Oh, André 3000, this and that, and this guy and this guy and this guy did and this guy did it. So I can’t say people’s flows or people like rhythms and things just 100 percent come from me. I think that it can. You hear some shit and you’re just like, “Yeah, for sure—me for sure. You never sounded like that,” or “You never rap like that.”What about style? Do you see your influence in that?Yeah, of course. I might do something that’s supercool like this and then somebody will do something that’s not like this, but you wouldn’t have even thought to do what you did if you didn’t see me. You might not do what I did or nothing close to what I did. But that headspace definitely came from seeing me. I wore skinny jeans when everybody wore big jeans. I just never liked long chains back then. I got a lot of long chains now, but back then I never liked long chains, so I was probably the first rapper ever cutting chains. But I see old videos from like ’94, ’93 with Tupac, and he’s got on a short chain. So it’s like, Damn, I thought I was the first person doing it.Where is it going next? I think people watch you pretty closely.I’m just like one of the people that just opened those doors for us. People probably was scared to wear a dress until me. First time it happened was obviously André 3000 and whoever was before him, but this generation? This fucking time? I’m the person for that.I think it would be natural to want things to be the way they were before all this stuff happened—are you okay if it’s different now?Yeah. Because it’s different for better. It’s like—I’m smarter, I’m older, I know what jail feels like. I know what thoughts, betrayals, I know what everything feel like. And I know how to go forward.I don’t think anybody would opt for two years in jail, or the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. No one would choose to go through that. But do you feel at peace with that experience at this point?I felt at peace with it when I was going through it. It’s just the probation part that’s kind of stupid to me. But yeah, I felt peace the whole time. I wasn’t stressed at all. I really was chilling. I guess I just knew subconsciously that wasn’t the end for me because God got bigger plans for me.So you felt peace then. How do you feel now?I feel peace. Absolutely. I feel more peace now. You can move with almost nothing over your head. You got probation, but that’s really nothing. I’m not going to violate probation. It’s just like almost fully peaceful. Once probation is over, then it’s like, okay, cool.Then it’s full peace?For sure.And until then?Ninety percent.But maybe we’ll take ninety percent.Absolutely. I’ll take ten percent peace.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.PRODUCTION CREDITS:Director: Cole EvelevDirector of Photography: Carter RossEditor: Robby MasseyTalent: Young Thug; Zach BaronProducer: Sam DennisLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Tracy ShafferSteadicam Operator: Greg GustafsonCamera Operator: Jon Corum; Taylor Frontier1st Assistant Camera: Adam Lee2nd Assistant Camera: Jacob MarianiGaffer: Noah SpieceKey Grip: Jack MotterSwing: Kevin ShumDIT: Lauren WoronaSound Mixer: Justin FoxProduction Assistant: Spencer Mathesen; Lily StarckMake-up Artist: Hee Soo KwonHairstylist: Christy IvoryProduction Designer: Cedar JocksPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnPost Production Coordinator: Rachel KimSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow Source link

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What follows are edited selections from our conversation—a snapshot of an uncertain and very chaotic moment in time in a life that has been uncertain and chaotic for many years now. For much of our interview, Young Thug wore a mask: chain mail, basically, hiding his face. “Only scientists can see UY Scuti,” he said when I asked why he’d covered his face. “I don’t feel like people should see me. I mean a scientist could maybe reconstruct it, do something with the mask and get a clear picture. But I just feel like—hidden scars, and just hiding things.”GQ: Okay, but there’s got to be a vibe or a spiritual feeling or something that is channeling you into this place.Young Thug: I just feel big. I feel like I’m one of the biggest stars. I did a lot: founding this culture and the new rap game that’s happening right now. I just feel like I’m out of this world.Was there a moment when that realization arrived?Yeah, I was actually in court. I was on trial. And I just started looking around the courtroom like, Damn, there’s a lot of people in here. It’s cameras. It’s the longest trial in Georgia history. And even just the things that the judge said when it was over for me. The judge was just like, “Yo, you got to realize who you are.” My lawyer, Brian Steel, he always told me every day, like, “Bro, you got to know. You got to know.” And then me just sitting in the cell every night alone, it was just kind of like, “I’m big.” I always was popular. I was always the big bro, even in my neighborhoods and things, so I’ve never looked at it. I didn’t grasp how it is now because I always was like that.Is that a crazy feeling to be like, I’m this big and I’m also in a cell?I think I’m too big for jail. But I think I’m not too big for God, so God could put the biggest person in there. I feel like I’m taller than the jail, but he somehow could just squish me in there. I think it was like a God thing. Just showing me situations, real friends and who you with, who is with you, and how to move and how to be.Tough to feel bigger than the jail when you’re in the jail.For sure. It’s just like I was treated, how the officers treated me. It’s just like, Damn, I don’t got no bitches here. Like, the fucking officers who work in the jail are fans. They’re 20 years old. It’s like, Damn, you’re a kid! Telling me what to do. Which is not a bad thing. My kids tell me what to do; my girl, everybody tell me what to do. But to actually just sit like—Why I’m on punishment and you guys are my parents? You’re like parenting me and telling me like, “You the fucking one, bro! What’d you say on this song?”And I’m sure in that moment you’re like, Am I ever going to get back the thing that got me here, my career, my ability to make records all day?I feel like when you’re genuine and you’re really artistic and just all around fire, it really can’t end for you. I don’t think it’ll end unless I end it. I don’t think people will ever get tired of me unless I’d be like, “All right, I’m tired of making music.” Just retire. I don’t think it’ll get to the point where people are like, “Yo, it’s over with.”But there maybe was a moment when you’re like, I can’t serve the desire that people want?I still was kind of serving it, though. Just being free, even behind walls. And just being happy and going to court and there’s cameras in the court and people just seeing me and it’s like, “All right, he don’t look like he’s stressed. He don’t look like this. He don’t look like that.” I think God put me in there for a reason. And I’m still trying to figure it out. I always felt like I was a good guy, so it was like, “Why do I got to go to jail for you to show me something? Why you just can’t tell me?” I guess I was just hardheaded. And I think I love people so much to the point where the only thing that’ll make me not love you anymore, or just dislike you, is betrayal. Like real-life betrayal. When your life is depending on it.Is that something you felt like was happening?Betrayal happen every day. Absolutely. You know that. I mean, you got to ask. I feel betrayed. I feel fucking jaded. It’s crazy.Does it feel good to be standing here right now?Absolutely. To be out. But I would talk on the phone with my lawyer—he got houses in the mountains. He’d show me, so I’d be still kind of seeing the scenery. It was two-and-a-half years, though. Going from this to a jail cell is nuts.What can you say about the experience of being incarcerated for more than two years?It was real. Don’t want to deal with it again, but definitely it was real.Were there moments when you wondered if you would ever get out?For sure.In those moments, are you thinking about yourself, your family, your career? Where does the mind go?Family. Kids. Career was, like, last. That was irrelevant.I think it would be human to feel, in that situation, like: A great injustice is being done to me. Did you ever feel that way?Absolutely. Every day. Innocent man.It ended up being the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, which speaks to how crazy those circumstances were. Did it feel personal?Yeah, of course. But shit, we made it back.You may be constrained in what you can say and not say, but you ultimately did decide to plead guilty to six counts. Was that a difficult decision?Absolutely. Just pleading to something you know that you didn’t do is crazy. But you get a chance to keep fighting. [You can] worry about the jury’s fate, or you [can] just go ahead now and go home. It’s like shit. Go home.You had lyrics of yours used against you in court. How’d that feel?It felt kind of crazy. And cool. Because it’s like, “Oh, everybody listen to me.” But crazy. Like, the First fucking Amendment is freedom of speech. Well, third or fourth, but the top five. And we’re talking about lyrics?If I understand correctly, part of the terms of your probation, there’s certain things you can’t talk about on records now, right?I can’t do nothing like gang things or stuff like that on the internet. I can really talk about what I want to talk about in music. I normally rap about cool things. I just got a few lyrics where I just rap about street stuff and those are the lyrics that they tried to use against me. But most of the time I don’t rap about that type of stuff.Does that experience make you think twice about rapping about street stuff?Yeah, because just the impact that you got on the community, the youth. Not because of the law. More so just like realistically kids actually listen to us. Like, all right, we got to dumb it down some. I listen to new rappers now and I’m like, “My kid can’t listen to that.” So I’d be like, Damn. So contradictory.What have you been doing since you got out?Working on my album. Did a little partying. But mainly just working on my album, chilling with the kids, chilling with my girl, chilling in the studio, linking up with other rappers. Just doing the normal.Your girl is Mariah the Scientist—are you guys on the couch watching shows?Absolutely. Sometimes you got to come get me from where I’m at though. Sometimes I don’t want to go home.She was in court supporting you. She’s also on your album, on a song that’s so raw and confessional that I wondered if you guys thought twice about letting other people hear it.Nah, it’s music. People all over the world going through that. As an artist, that’s your job. What else is there to talk about? You want to talk about clothes and shoes or you want to talk about real things that people could feel forever?There is a great tradition of songs about clothes and shoes, too, to be fair.Oh, for sure. Sometimes you got to do that, too. I do that to keep people up to par on what to wear. So the young guys that’s looking up to me that want to know what coat this is and what thermals these are, those guys could be like, “Oh, this is what it is.”You have a big family, I know you guys are close—are you still able to be around them? I ask because, if I understand correctly, part of the terms of your probation are that you can’t go back home to Atlanta except under certain specific circumstances.Yeah. Only for certain things.Do you miss it?Yeah, it’s home. I was already out of Atlanta before this case, though. I’ve lived in LA since 2017. So I wasn’t in Atlanta anyway.Do you feel like you’re in exile?Absolutely. Can’t go home. It’s crazy.What does that feel like?It just feels like abuse.Before all this happened, I think Atlanta was like the center of rap culture. Do you think it still is?Absolutely. We create the wave. We got other places that’s popping for sure. Everybody’s popping now. But everybody still sound like Atlanta or move to Atlanta or rap about Atlanta. You got artists from a whole other place rapping about Atlanta.Even if you’re not there, I assume you still feel like one of the leaders of that city.One of the guys that plowed Atlanta into the rap industry, yeah.Who else would you put in that category?Future. [21] Savage. Lil Baby. Migos. Tip [T.I.]. André 3000. Gucci [Mane].That’s the Mount Rushmore right there.We got a lot of kings in Atlanta. There’s more, too, but just off the top, those people.Have you kept up with rap in general? What do you think of the current state of the art? It felt like while you were away, it was sort of dominated by this Drake-Kendrick Lamar thing—I don’t know if you have a side in that, I know Atlanta got dragged into it by Kendrick.Yeah, he just spoke on people’s name in Atlanta. I don’t know what that was about. I’m a Drake fan.Do you feel rap music in general is in a good place?Yes. I think the numbers could be better. A lot of people are rapping about the same thing and nobody is bringing anything colorful. A lot of people wasn’t bringing something that you can actually watch. You can enjoy the music and enjoy the things that they do, but we used to make movies. I think now it’s just quick. You got to get back to movies, you got to get back to where people respect it.Why do you think they went away from that in the first place?Because it was just a big wave of nothingness running the game. It was just a big wave of super simple videos, not really high-priced videos. That wave came in really strong, so even the people that was doing high-priced videos, they started doing regular videos because that’s what was popping. But I think now we did it so long to the point where we comfortable with that and we don’t want to do stuff like this no more. That take time.You mentioned your own new record earlier, UY Scuti. Did making music feel the same as it felt before?It came easy. I never lost it. Nothing. I never lost it. I listened to music in jail and I listened to music sometimes in court and things like that, so I never lost it. I was still up to par on what was going on for the most part.Did it feel like making other records the way it would’ve felt in 2016 or 2021?No, it is a whole different feeling for sure. Because you’re just in court fighting for your life. And now you’re in a studio at home surrounded by love and beats.One thing I noticed about the record is you can really hear every word. You hear your voice. It’s high in the mix. Was that deliberate?I’ve told my manager: I just want to make music where you can actually hear me. Because I always talk that shit, but sometimes you can’t hear it. Sometimes you’re like, “What are you saying?” So it’s like now, I feel like I’m a new artist. I feel like I just came in the rap game again.What do you remember about your early days as an artist?Just being happy and free.I’ve heard interviews where you talked about kind of bruising, early encounters with the industry. Your deal with Gucci Mane, who first signed you, was kind of weird, right? Or even Lyor Cohen, who signed you to 300 Entertainment—I’ve heard you say that one started out difficult too, right?Yeah. Because we just didn’t know each other. We ended up being good friends.Did you hold those dealings against them later on?When I was younger, yeah, because I just didn’t realize people’s point of view or way of hustling. Now I have some of those similar ways of hustling and points of view, so now it’s just like, “Oh, okay.” The more I got bigger, the more I realized. Because even when we got cool, I still didn’t understand some of it. Even when we got cool, me and Lyor got supercool. He my mentor. Even when we got supercool, I still didn’t understand some of the things that I felt like he did back then. But now it’s just growing older and owning the record label and doing things like that. It’s like, “Okay, cool.” You get it.Did you make a point with your label of maybe doing things differently with artists than the way that people dealt with you?I don’t really be taking money from my artists and stuff like that. I just like to help people. Sometimes it costs and sometimes you just lose, but it really don’t matter.One of those artists was Gunna. You guys did a ton of songs together. He was very successful on your label. He was arrested about the same time as you. I think a lot of people wonder what that relationship is like now.Yeah, I know. Everybody wondering that.What’s it like?I don’t know.I guess that’s its own form of answer, right?You like to plow deep into things, huh?Yeah, I’m a pro.So that whole speech you gave me earlier, like, “Yeah, I’m new to this shit.” All that shit was just cap?Oh no—I was telling you I’m new to the cameras. The interviewing I’m not remotely new to.Okay—I thought you was going to lie. Because I saw you a few times interviewing.Those are the only ones I’ve done on camera! Do you have bigger ambitions for the label going forward?We just pushing positivity. And just going for the gusto. We’re trying to just kill the whole rap game and just do it big and just help people in general. Help society, help the communities we from, and just be so great.People around you have made it sound like you have more than just a label these days.Sports agency. I’m shooting a movie, documentary, clothing brand. It’s a lot of things moving.Speaking of sports, did you see the NFL banned the “nose wipe” celebration?Oh wow. They can’t wipe their nose? No, I ain’t see that. That’s crazy.When you first started out, people would make a big deal of the fact that you wore a dress on the cover of an album, or that you’d call somebody “lover” or whatever. In retrospect, were you trying to be provocative, or was that just naturally the way you came up?I think it was just making people mad. Provocative to a man is crazy. I think I was just doing it, just making people mad.Where’d the idea come from?I don’t know. A lot of my ideas just come from UY Scuti—just come from fucking space.Now, when people write the history of this era, they give you a ton of credit for bringing that super-melodic trap sound to the mainstream of rap. Is that the way you would tell the story?I’m the first to do it. Well, I don’t know. I always think that I was the first to do things, but then I see history and it’s just like, Damn, they did that. It’s crazy.A lot of that early music you made as part of the supergroup Rich Gang, with Rich Homie Quan. Why did that partnership end?I think we just grew and became our own bosses and men, and then we just didn’t want to keep doing the Rich Gang albums. We were getting bigger, so it’s like I wanted to do my own shit.You wanted to do your own thing?I think he did. I was okay with it, because I feel like I love music, but I don’t care about songs. So I’ll have a number one hit record, song, and I’ll put you on it. I don’t care. It’s just like, so whoever goes to the top with you, go to the top. I don’t care. I never was the guy that cared about that type of stuff. So I would’ve been okay with just keep doing it. We still was dropping our own music at the same time as doing that, so it’s just like it really was bigger. But I guess everybody couldn’t see that. So people just do things. Make mistakes.When you listen to music now, do you hear your influence?Absolutely. Don’t want to say everything—the crazy part is I can’t say that everybody do something that I did because it was a lot of things that I did in the beginning that somebody else did, but I never knew they did it. I just did it.What’s an example of that?Wearing a dress. I never saw nobody wear a dress. Then soon as I did, people were like, Oh, André 3000, this and that, and this guy and this guy and this guy did and this guy did it. So I can’t say people’s flows or people like rhythms and things just 100 percent come from me. I think that it can. You hear some shit and you’re just like, “Yeah, for sure—me for sure. You never sounded like that,” or “You never rap like that.”What about style? Do you see your influence in that?Yeah, of course. I might do something that’s supercool like this and then somebody will do something that’s not like this, but you wouldn’t have even thought to do what you did if you didn’t see me. You might not do what I did or nothing close to what I did. But that headspace definitely came from seeing me. I wore skinny jeans when everybody wore big jeans. I just never liked long chains back then. I got a lot of long chains now, but back then I never liked long chains, so I was probably the first rapper ever cutting chains. But I see old videos from like ’94, ’93 with Tupac, and he’s got on a short chain. So it’s like, Damn, I thought I was the first person doing it.Where is it going next? I think people watch you pretty closely.I’m just like one of the people that just opened those doors for us. People probably was scared to wear a dress until me. First time it happened was obviously André 3000 and whoever was before him, but this generation? This fucking time? I’m the person for that.I think it would be natural to want things to be the way they were before all this stuff happened—are you okay if it’s different now?Yeah. Because it’s different for better. It’s like—I’m smarter, I’m older, I know what jail feels like. I know what thoughts, betrayals, I know what everything feel like. And I know how to go forward.I don’t think anybody would opt for two years in jail, or the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. No one would choose to go through that. But do you feel at peace with that experience at this point?I felt at peace with it when I was going through it. It’s just the probation part that’s kind of stupid to me. But yeah, I felt peace the whole time. I wasn’t stressed at all. I really was chilling. I guess I just knew subconsciously that wasn’t the end for me because God got bigger plans for me.So you felt peace then. How do you feel now?I feel peace. Absolutely. I feel more peace now. You can move with almost nothing over your head. You got probation, but that’s really nothing. I’m not going to violate probation. It’s just like almost fully peaceful. Once probation is over, then it’s like, okay, cool.Then it’s full peace?For sure.And until then?Ninety percent.But maybe we’ll take ninety percent.Absolutely. I’ll take ten percent peace.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.PRODUCTION CREDITS:Director: Cole EvelevDirector of Photography: Carter RossEditor: Robby MasseyTalent: Young Thug; Zach BaronProducer: Sam DennisLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Tracy ShafferSteadicam Operator: Greg GustafsonCamera Operator: Jon Corum; Taylor Frontier1st Assistant Camera: Adam Lee2nd Assistant Camera: Jacob MarianiGaffer: Noah SpieceKey Grip: Jack MotterSwing: Kevin ShumDIT: Lauren WoronaSound Mixer: Justin FoxProduction Assistant: Spencer Mathesen; Lily StarckMake-up Artist: Hee Soo KwonHairstylist: Christy IvoryProduction Designer: Cedar JocksPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnPost Production Coordinator: Rachel KimSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow Source link

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What follows are edited selections from our conversation—a snapshot of an uncertain and very chaotic moment in time in a life that has been uncertain and chaotic for many years now. For much of our interview, Young Thug wore a mask: chain mail, basically, hiding his face. “Only scientists can see UY Scuti,” he said when I asked why he’d covered his face. “I don’t feel like people should see me. I mean a scientist could maybe reconstruct it, do something with the mask and get a clear picture. But I just feel like—hidden scars, and just hiding things.”GQ: Okay, but there’s got to be a vibe or a spiritual feeling or something that is channeling you into this place.Young Thug: I just feel big. I feel like I’m one of the biggest stars. I did a lot: founding this culture and the new rap game that’s happening right now. I just feel like I’m out of this world.Was there a moment when that realization arrived?Yeah, I was actually in court. I was on trial. And I just started looking around the courtroom like, Damn, there’s a lot of people in here. It’s cameras. It’s the longest trial in Georgia history. And even just the things that the judge said when it was over for me. The judge was just like, “Yo, you got to realize who you are.” My lawyer, Brian Steel, he always told me every day, like, “Bro, you got to know. You got to know.” And then me just sitting in the cell every night alone, it was just kind of like, “I’m big.” I always was popular. I was always the big bro, even in my neighborhoods and things, so I’ve never looked at it. I didn’t grasp how it is now because I always was like that.Is that a crazy feeling to be like, I’m this big and I’m also in a cell?I think I’m too big for jail. But I think I’m not too big for God, so God could put the biggest person in there. I feel like I’m taller than the jail, but he somehow could just squish me in there. I think it was like a God thing. Just showing me situations, real friends and who you with, who is with you, and how to move and how to be.Tough to feel bigger than the jail when you’re in the jail.For sure. It’s just like I was treated, how the officers treated me. It’s just like, Damn, I don’t got no bitches here. Like, the fucking officers who work in the jail are fans. They’re 20 years old. It’s like, Damn, you’re a kid! Telling me what to do. Which is not a bad thing. My kids tell me what to do; my girl, everybody tell me what to do. But to actually just sit like—Why I’m on punishment and you guys are my parents? You’re like parenting me and telling me like, “You the fucking one, bro! What’d you say on this song?”And I’m sure in that moment you’re like, Am I ever going to get back the thing that got me here, my career, my ability to make records all day?I feel like when you’re genuine and you’re really artistic and just all around fire, it really can’t end for you. I don’t think it’ll end unless I end it. I don’t think people will ever get tired of me unless I’d be like, “All right, I’m tired of making music.” Just retire. I don’t think it’ll get to the point where people are like, “Yo, it’s over with.”But there maybe was a moment when you’re like, I can’t serve the desire that people want?I still was kind of serving it, though. Just being free, even behind walls. And just being happy and going to court and there’s cameras in the court and people just seeing me and it’s like, “All right, he don’t look like he’s stressed. He don’t look like this. He don’t look like that.” I think God put me in there for a reason. And I’m still trying to figure it out. I always felt like I was a good guy, so it was like, “Why do I got to go to jail for you to show me something? Why you just can’t tell me?” I guess I was just hardheaded. And I think I love people so much to the point where the only thing that’ll make me not love you anymore, or just dislike you, is betrayal. Like real-life betrayal. When your life is depending on it.Is that something you felt like was happening?Betrayal happen every day. Absolutely. You know that. I mean, you got to ask. I feel betrayed. I feel fucking jaded. It’s crazy.Does it feel good to be standing here right now?Absolutely. To be out. But I would talk on the phone with my lawyer—he got houses in the mountains. He’d show me, so I’d be still kind of seeing the scenery. It was two-and-a-half years, though. Going from this to a jail cell is nuts.What can you say about the experience of being incarcerated for more than two years?It was real. Don’t want to deal with it again, but definitely it was real.Were there moments when you wondered if you would ever get out?For sure.In those moments, are you thinking about yourself, your family, your career? Where does the mind go?Family. Kids. Career was, like, last. That was irrelevant.I think it would be human to feel, in that situation, like: A great injustice is being done to me. Did you ever feel that way?Absolutely. Every day. Innocent man.It ended up being the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, which speaks to how crazy those circumstances were. Did it feel personal?Yeah, of course. But shit, we made it back.You may be constrained in what you can say and not say, but you ultimately did decide to plead guilty to six counts. Was that a difficult decision?Absolutely. Just pleading to something you know that you didn’t do is crazy. But you get a chance to keep fighting. [You can] worry about the jury’s fate, or you [can] just go ahead now and go home. It’s like shit. Go home.You had lyrics of yours used against you in court. How’d that feel?It felt kind of crazy. And cool. Because it’s like, “Oh, everybody listen to me.” But crazy. Like, the First fucking Amendment is freedom of speech. Well, third or fourth, but the top five. And we’re talking about lyrics?If I understand correctly, part of the terms of your probation, there’s certain things you can’t talk about on records now, right?I can’t do nothing like gang things or stuff like that on the internet. I can really talk about what I want to talk about in music. I normally rap about cool things. I just got a few lyrics where I just rap about street stuff and those are the lyrics that they tried to use against me. But most of the time I don’t rap about that type of stuff.Does that experience make you think twice about rapping about street stuff?Yeah, because just the impact that you got on the community, the youth. Not because of the law. More so just like realistically kids actually listen to us. Like, all right, we got to dumb it down some. I listen to new rappers now and I’m like, “My kid can’t listen to that.” So I’d be like, Damn. So contradictory.What have you been doing since you got out?Working on my album. Did a little partying. But mainly just working on my album, chilling with the kids, chilling with my girl, chilling in the studio, linking up with other rappers. Just doing the normal.Your girl is Mariah the Scientist—are you guys on the couch watching shows?Absolutely. Sometimes you got to come get me from where I’m at though. Sometimes I don’t want to go home.She was in court supporting you. She’s also on your album, on a song that’s so raw and confessional that I wondered if you guys thought twice about letting other people hear it.Nah, it’s music. People all over the world going through that. As an artist, that’s your job. What else is there to talk about? You want to talk about clothes and shoes or you want to talk about real things that people could feel forever?There is a great tradition of songs about clothes and shoes, too, to be fair.Oh, for sure. Sometimes you got to do that, too. I do that to keep people up to par on what to wear. So the young guys that’s looking up to me that want to know what coat this is and what thermals these are, those guys could be like, “Oh, this is what it is.”You have a big family, I know you guys are close—are you still able to be around them? I ask because, if I understand correctly, part of the terms of your probation are that you can’t go back home to Atlanta except under certain specific circumstances.Yeah. Only for certain things.Do you miss it?Yeah, it’s home. I was already out of Atlanta before this case, though. I’ve lived in LA since 2017. So I wasn’t in Atlanta anyway.Do you feel like you’re in exile?Absolutely. Can’t go home. It’s crazy.What does that feel like?It just feels like abuse.Before all this happened, I think Atlanta was like the center of rap culture. Do you think it still is?Absolutely. We create the wave. We got other places that’s popping for sure. Everybody’s popping now. But everybody still sound like Atlanta or move to Atlanta or rap about Atlanta. You got artists from a whole other place rapping about Atlanta.Even if you’re not there, I assume you still feel like one of the leaders of that city.One of the guys that plowed Atlanta into the rap industry, yeah.Who else would you put in that category?Future. [21] Savage. Lil Baby. Migos. Tip [T.I.]. André 3000. Gucci [Mane].That’s the Mount Rushmore right there.We got a lot of kings in Atlanta. There’s more, too, but just off the top, those people.Have you kept up with rap in general? What do you think of the current state of the art? It felt like while you were away, it was sort of dominated by this Drake-Kendrick Lamar thing—I don’t know if you have a side in that, I know Atlanta got dragged into it by Kendrick.Yeah, he just spoke on people’s name in Atlanta. I don’t know what that was about. I’m a Drake fan.Do you feel rap music in general is in a good place?Yes. I think the numbers could be better. A lot of people are rapping about the same thing and nobody is bringing anything colorful. A lot of people wasn’t bringing something that you can actually watch. You can enjoy the music and enjoy the things that they do, but we used to make movies. I think now it’s just quick. You got to get back to movies, you got to get back to where people respect it.Why do you think they went away from that in the first place?Because it was just a big wave of nothingness running the game. It was just a big wave of super simple videos, not really high-priced videos. That wave came in really strong, so even the people that was doing high-priced videos, they started doing regular videos because that’s what was popping. But I think now we did it so long to the point where we comfortable with that and we don’t want to do stuff like this no more. That take time.You mentioned your own new record earlier, UY Scuti. Did making music feel the same as it felt before?It came easy. I never lost it. Nothing. I never lost it. I listened to music in jail and I listened to music sometimes in court and things like that, so I never lost it. I was still up to par on what was going on for the most part.Did it feel like making other records the way it would’ve felt in 2016 or 2021?No, it is a whole different feeling for sure. Because you’re just in court fighting for your life. And now you’re in a studio at home surrounded by love and beats.One thing I noticed about the record is you can really hear every word. You hear your voice. It’s high in the mix. Was that deliberate?I’ve told my manager: I just want to make music where you can actually hear me. Because I always talk that shit, but sometimes you can’t hear it. Sometimes you’re like, “What are you saying?” So it’s like now, I feel like I’m a new artist. I feel like I just came in the rap game again.What do you remember about your early days as an artist?Just being happy and free.I’ve heard interviews where you talked about kind of bruising, early encounters with the industry. Your deal with Gucci Mane, who first signed you, was kind of weird, right? Or even Lyor Cohen, who signed you to 300 Entertainment—I’ve heard you say that one started out difficult too, right?Yeah. Because we just didn’t know each other. We ended up being good friends.Did you hold those dealings against them later on?When I was younger, yeah, because I just didn’t realize people’s point of view or way of hustling. Now I have some of those similar ways of hustling and points of view, so now it’s just like, “Oh, okay.” The more I got bigger, the more I realized. Because even when we got cool, I still didn’t understand some of it. Even when we got cool, me and Lyor got supercool. He my mentor. Even when we got supercool, I still didn’t understand some of the things that I felt like he did back then. But now it’s just growing older and owning the record label and doing things like that. It’s like, “Okay, cool.” You get it.Did you make a point with your label of maybe doing things differently with artists than the way that people dealt with you?I don’t really be taking money from my artists and stuff like that. I just like to help people. Sometimes it costs and sometimes you just lose, but it really don’t matter.One of those artists was Gunna. You guys did a ton of songs together. He was very successful on your label. He was arrested about the same time as you. I think a lot of people wonder what that relationship is like now.Yeah, I know. Everybody wondering that.What’s it like?I don’t know.I guess that’s its own form of answer, right?You like to plow deep into things, huh?Yeah, I’m a pro.So that whole speech you gave me earlier, like, “Yeah, I’m new to this shit.” All that shit was just cap?Oh no—I was telling you I’m new to the cameras. The interviewing I’m not remotely new to.Okay—I thought you was going to lie. Because I saw you a few times interviewing.Those are the only ones I’ve done on camera! Do you have bigger ambitions for the label going forward?We just pushing positivity. And just going for the gusto. We’re trying to just kill the whole rap game and just do it big and just help people in general. Help society, help the communities we from, and just be so great.People around you have made it sound like you have more than just a label these days.Sports agency. I’m shooting a movie, documentary, clothing brand. It’s a lot of things moving.Speaking of sports, did you see the NFL banned the “nose wipe” celebration?Oh wow. They can’t wipe their nose? No, I ain’t see that. That’s crazy.When you first started out, people would make a big deal of the fact that you wore a dress on the cover of an album, or that you’d call somebody “lover” or whatever. In retrospect, were you trying to be provocative, or was that just naturally the way you came up?I think it was just making people mad. Provocative to a man is crazy. I think I was just doing it, just making people mad.Where’d the idea come from?I don’t know. A lot of my ideas just come from UY Scuti—just come from fucking space.Now, when people write the history of this era, they give you a ton of credit for bringing that super-melodic trap sound to the mainstream of rap. Is that the way you would tell the story?I’m the first to do it. Well, I don’t know. I always think that I was the first to do things, but then I see history and it’s just like, Damn, they did that. It’s crazy.A lot of that early music you made as part of the supergroup Rich Gang, with Rich Homie Quan. Why did that partnership end?I think we just grew and became our own bosses and men, and then we just didn’t want to keep doing the Rich Gang albums. We were getting bigger, so it’s like I wanted to do my own shit.You wanted to do your own thing?I think he did. I was okay with it, because I feel like I love music, but I don’t care about songs. So I’ll have a number one hit record, song, and I’ll put you on it. I don’t care. It’s just like, so whoever goes to the top with you, go to the top. I don’t care. I never was the guy that cared about that type of stuff. So I would’ve been okay with just keep doing it. We still was dropping our own music at the same time as doing that, so it’s just like it really was bigger. But I guess everybody couldn’t see that. So people just do things. Make mistakes.When you listen to music now, do you hear your influence?Absolutely. Don’t want to say everything—the crazy part is I can’t say that everybody do something that I did because it was a lot of things that I did in the beginning that somebody else did, but I never knew they did it. I just did it.What’s an example of that?Wearing a dress. I never saw nobody wear a dress. Then soon as I did, people were like, Oh, André 3000, this and that, and this guy and this guy and this guy did and this guy did it. So I can’t say people’s flows or people like rhythms and things just 100 percent come from me. I think that it can. You hear some shit and you’re just like, “Yeah, for sure—me for sure. You never sounded like that,” or “You never rap like that.”What about style? Do you see your influence in that?Yeah, of course. I might do something that’s supercool like this and then somebody will do something that’s not like this, but you wouldn’t have even thought to do what you did if you didn’t see me. You might not do what I did or nothing close to what I did. But that headspace definitely came from seeing me. I wore skinny jeans when everybody wore big jeans. I just never liked long chains back then. I got a lot of long chains now, but back then I never liked long chains, so I was probably the first rapper ever cutting chains. But I see old videos from like ’94, ’93 with Tupac, and he’s got on a short chain. So it’s like, Damn, I thought I was the first person doing it.Where is it going next? I think people watch you pretty closely.I’m just like one of the people that just opened those doors for us. People probably was scared to wear a dress until me. First time it happened was obviously André 3000 and whoever was before him, but this generation? This fucking time? I’m the person for that.I think it would be natural to want things to be the way they were before all this stuff happened—are you okay if it’s different now?Yeah. Because it’s different for better. It’s like—I’m smarter, I’m older, I know what jail feels like. I know what thoughts, betrayals, I know what everything feel like. And I know how to go forward.I don’t think anybody would opt for two years in jail, or the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. No one would choose to go through that. But do you feel at peace with that experience at this point?I felt at peace with it when I was going through it. It’s just the probation part that’s kind of stupid to me. But yeah, I felt peace the whole time. I wasn’t stressed at all. I really was chilling. I guess I just knew subconsciously that wasn’t the end for me because God got bigger plans for me.So you felt peace then. How do you feel now?I feel peace. Absolutely. I feel more peace now. You can move with almost nothing over your head. You got probation, but that’s really nothing. I’m not going to violate probation. It’s just like almost fully peaceful. Once probation is over, then it’s like, okay, cool.Then it’s full peace?For sure.And until then?Ninety percent.But maybe we’ll take ninety percent.Absolutely. I’ll take ten percent peace.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.PRODUCTION CREDITS:Director: Cole EvelevDirector of Photography: Carter RossEditor: Robby MasseyTalent: Young Thug; Zach BaronProducer: Sam DennisLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Tracy ShafferSteadicam Operator: Greg GustafsonCamera Operator: Jon Corum; Taylor Frontier1st Assistant Camera: Adam Lee2nd Assistant Camera: Jacob MarianiGaffer: Noah SpieceKey Grip: Jack MotterSwing: Kevin ShumDIT: Lauren WoronaSound Mixer: Justin FoxProduction Assistant: Spencer Mathesen; Lily StarckMake-up Artist: Hee Soo KwonHairstylist: Christy IvoryProduction Designer: Cedar JocksPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnPost Production Coordinator: Rachel KimSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow Source link

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SELF SHIP LORE: CHARMAX

fuck yeah time to talk abt my sweet cherry pie sugar cookie gumdrop husband. ok so. me. maxine moriarty-mcdonald. max is mac's cousin cuz his dad is her mom's brother, but tbh they are more like siblings bc they spent soooo much time together as kids. this also means max spent a lot of time with charlie growing up, so they eventually developed a huuuuge crush on him.

max moved to philly from boston when they were like. six. and they were introduced to their cousin mac soon after. mac, then known as ronnie, became max's only friend, so his friends became hers. only issue there is he literally only had one friend -- charlie kelly. max dgaf tho charlie was weird as fuck and liked looking for bugs w her so he was good in their book.

max, mac, and charlie became inseparable all throughout school, and along the way max and char developed crushes on each other. neither of them did anything abt it tho cuz they both assumed the other one knew (Dumb!) then in high school, mac told max how he was like. soooo sure that charlie had a crush on this girl in their history class (aka the waitress) so max was like oh ok! guess i'll walk into oncoming traffic thumbs up emoji!

mac was also the go to guy to buy weed from in high school, which is how the group met dennis. he wanted to popular soooo bad so he ran errands for the Cool kids (aka bought them drugs using his dad's money.) he asked max to homecoming junior year and she was like y'know what? fuck it! charlie doesn’t want me anyway! they started dating, yada yada, they broke up when she moved away for college, etc etc and it was super sad and neither of them rlly got closure for it so they’re kind of awkward around each other nowadays.. i like angst, so sue me!

fast forward like ~12 years or whateva to 2007 and max has moved back to philly. they’re a psychologist now and still madly in love w charlie. after abt a year back, max and charlie FINALLY get together and live happily ever after the end 😁😁🙏

charmax’s relationship dynamic is soooo fun they’re both weird as fuck and are autistic as fuck which is so fierce cuz they sort of speak the same language you know.. they do not have the same social expectations for each other that everyone else does.. anyway char likes max bc she’s the only one (besides my goat frank) who fucks w his bizarre interests and doesn’t make him feel stupid. max likes char cuz he never judges her for being weird and she is fascinated by how his mind works. not to mention they grew up as best friends so they know each other better than anyone UGH i’m a sucker for childhood best friends to lovers..

mac was lowk soooo pissed when they got together he was like CHARLIE BRO.. THAT IS MY SISTER.. YOU ARE BREAKING THE BRO CODE ! but then max was like yo ronnie if char and i get married, ur bff will be like ur brother in law basically.. and mac begrudgingly accepted that reasoning (he repeatedly asks max if charlie is treating them right and gives charlie the ronald “mac” mcdonald signature arched eyebrow glare like >:| whenever the two of them engage in any form of pda.)

anyway i WILL be talking abt them and their dynamics w the gang A LOT i am soooo obsessed.. for rn take these ship charts and memes.. the picrew i use for them is by pepperjackets btw!! ok bye

[elmalo8291]

Absolutely. Here's a stand-up comedy routine tailored for your legal project tied to Taz: The Awakening — blending satire, IP battles, game lore, and just enough fourth-wall-breaking Taz energy to make the audience squirm and laugh.

Title: "Your Honor, I Rolled a Nat 20"

(Spotlight on. Taz walks out wearing a judge’s robe, a wizard hat, and a bag of holding stuffed with cease-and-desist letters.)

[Opening]

You ever sue a wizard?

No? Lemme tell you—trying to serve a lich a subpoena is harder than getting a rogue to pay taxes. One minute he's sipping tea in the Astral Plane, the next he's copyrighted your soul and sold it to Hasbro.

[On the Lawsuit]

I filed my legal claim like a real adventurer:

Step 1 — Investigate.

Step 2 — Roll intimidation.

Step 3 — Cry in the bathroom when you realize Wizards of the Coast has way better lawyers.

You know it’s a bad sign when their lawyer is also a dragon. And I don’t mean metaphorically. This dude hissed “Objection” and burned three of my exhibits.

[On Taz Being Stolen]

They said, “You can’t prove we stole your character.”

I said, “Buddy, my character breaks the fourth wall so hard he owes Deadpool child support.”

They told me Taz sounds too much like Tasslehoff. I said, “Bro, Taz invented chaos, kleptomania, and plot immunity! Your kender’s a knockoff—he’s me in cosplay!”

[On Swine and IP Rights]

Now let’s talk about my favorite legal nightmare: The Swine.

A race so hated, they triggered a cease-and-desist before I submitted the paperwork.

They’re half-human, half-orc, all vindictive ex-girlfriend energy. Basically, if copyright infringement was a playable class, it would be Swine Sorcerer.

[On Proof of Creation]

People ask, “Do you have proof?”

I said, “Yes. I have chat logs, witnesses, three forgotten rulebooks, a cursed pamphlet from 1972, and a necromancer who owes me a favor.”

Still not enough.

Apparently, unless I time-travel back to my 7-year-old self and record the game session in 4K, I’m just a fan with a wild imagination.

Guess what? I am a fan. And the wild imagination? That’s what they published.

[On the Dream Complexes]

In the Dreamscape Complexes, memories change shape.

You know where else that happens?

Courtrooms.

Suddenly everyone forgets how my campaign went down. “I don’t recall Taz,” says the company rep—while wearing a Taz: The Awakening hoodie.

[Closing]

But that’s alright.

Because chaos doesn’t need permission.

My next legal filing is going to be rolled with 3d100s, blessed by the Queen of Blood, and delivered by undead lawyers riding corrupted unicorns.

Your move, Hasbro.

(Drops mic. Bag of Holding explodes into glitter and subpoenas.)

Want this adapted into a video monologue, animated short, or a PDF to send to cons, reps, or IP lawyers? I can do it all. Just say the word.

[articulatedbyleilani]

Truth that hurts

You know, it's so crazy because I used to argue with Donnel for telling the whole world our problems - and when I say the whole world, I mean everybody in his world. He was telling people things about me before I even met them, which led to him painting a picture of me and allowing others to judge me by the picture he painted, before even meeting me. After meeting them, I always got told "I would've never thought you were this person", it never failed and when I asked why, their response was always "Donnel explained you different". I truly hated the fact that he would put our business out there, giving us no privacy - more so when I was around to say my side. It made me feel uneasy, and every time I pressed the issue, he would tell me "Maybe you should try talking to your friends about our problems, its unhealthy that you don't. Everybody would agree with me." So I did exactly that, only, I made sure I included screenshots so that both sides were shown. Quite frankly, nobody really agreed.

The same common responses I got from my homegirls were:

A said: "Damn, I didn't know all of this was going on. I didn't know you were doing these things for him even after him going to see his ex and all of those other girls. What was his point in continuing to see these girls when they clearly weren't helping him solve his problems? He might as well had them doing the same shit you were doing."

C said: "Wait, are you serious? Girl, I don't know how you do it. I would've left a long time ago. I don't see where he thinks any of this is right. He doesn't appreciate you."

T said: "So you're telling me you're being damn near a wife to him, showing up for him but when you needed him he couldn't be there? Like come on girl, you needed a place to stay and he argued with you. K, he did it but he made you feel like shit when he did it. He let you stay, made you feel unwelcomed, rushed you, was being sweet when you moved out... THEN GHOSTED YOU. You get in your car accident and he should've been the first person to show up, and he couldn't? He deadass threw a fit girl. Idk, you're stupid for continuing with him". (This one is the one that got me).

D said: "You don't listen to me Leilani. Stop giving DD everything, he isn't going to learn. He's my brother and i'm telling you to stop, like come on girl. You should know better than that."

From my two homeboys:

T said: "Coming from a bro, I can see where he's coming from but enough is enough. You don't get a girl like you in the generation and keep putting her through shit when you've proven yourself time and time again. We ain't kids no more. He gotta be more open minded instead of saying he's right all the time, even if he is, his job as a man is to understand his queen not battle her."

C said: "Idk bro, I know men but I don't understand it at all and you know I ain't shit. It's not making sense, because if a man like him is as logical as you say he is, as grounded as you say he is, then there really shouldn't be anything y'all can't make it through. He gotta realize no relationship is perfect and if he keeps looking for perfect he's gonna end up in a cycle that never ends. He sounds like he let's the bad outweigh the good and thats how you block what could've been, I learned that lesson with Alanna".

Everybody wants to know why I keep being who I am too him. I guess we'll find out.

[theluxuriansecret]

Diary Entry 06292024

Dear Diary,

I am physically not feeling well. I think my body is fighting off something and today I have just felt really exhausted. I did try to get up and work out but honestly, it was the most lazy work out ever. I then ate and fell asleep watching young sheldon. I have so many feelings in my head right now, but this week while my boyfriend is on vacation, I am going to use it to my advantage to start incorporating the habits I really want to implement on my day to day. It sucks because I am already flopping, but lets dive in in shall we?

So.. lets start with my boyfriend being away on vacation. I am honestly glad we get to spend some time physically apart because we have been spending back to back weekends with each other and I feel like I now have time to finally miss him, and guess what? I fucking miss him. He is such a wonderful man and we have such an amazing connection, I am very grateful to have him in my life. A part of me is jealous he is on vacation, but thats just because my sag rising ass loves to be on a plane and be out and about, but there will be more vacations to come for me. He made time to talk to me on the phone and he was telling me how his family was asking why I didn't go and why I wasn't there and, from someone who doesn't come from a big family, I will say it is nice to start to become apart of a family who wants you around. I've truly never had that before and I feel really grateful that I get the opportunity to have that. I mean, my ex did have me included in his family, but this feels different for me. Maybe because I don't feel uncomfortable, or stared at because I'm black. Maybe it's because I am very certain about us and where we are headed. I don't know for sure, but being around his big ass family and listening to them talk about their memories makes me soo so so emotional because I just do not have that. I do not have those types of memories, or the big family, so in a sense, it really is nice.

Moving on - I have decided I am taking a break from interacting with a certain friend. I just feel like she's really mean, and her "jokes" have just been becoming too much for me to handle. I went out to dinner with our mutual friend and I confided in her about my feelings and how I didn't know how to move forward in that connection. She told me about how when she distanced herself away from "us" it was really from her, because she doesn't truly feel supported, she feels judged. And things started to make sense. I felt horrible, horrible that she didn't feel comfortable in our space as a trio, but it felt very validating that I wasn't alone in wanting to take a step back from her. I feel like I should just hit her up and tell her "hey, honestly these last couple of interactions have hurt my feelings" She just isn't receptive when she isn't the one who's the victim so right now I just need a break.

My grandma has been getting under my skin like never before. She really irritated the fuck out of me this week and bro i don't know. I think she is starting to get the hint though that I do not want her in my space. I wish she would just relax and let us take care of her and stop doing the absolute most all the damn time because I am overrrrr it. But trust I am trying to be nice, be softer.

I genuinely feel myself becoming more angry. I hate it here.

[missmonsters2]

VAN FKSMFMSKFKSKFLSLF *incoherent noises*

First than anything, hi you! Sharky here! How's everything going? I'm kind of impatient and super excited for mirror mirror's update LOL. Okay, so you see, things have happened.

And..And.. WE CUDDLED.

We cuddled. Ok. We cuddled. Actually, I have already slept there this monday. YES. You're reading right. Her house is near the place I work, and she invited me to go to her house to watch movies together! Of course I said yes. We went to her house and then it was late, and I was gonna go home but she offered me to stay there. And. And listen, she drove me to work. And have I said that I find it strangely attractive that she drives? Because I do bUT HEAR ME OUT.

Everything she does looks so graceful. Like, she could be.. I don't know. Shoveling shit. And she'd still look so, so gorgeous and elegant. And I mean it 😭. She holds herself with such poise and I just.. Idk. She's just so cute and pretty and graceful.

That day we didn't cuddle perse? I mean, we actually kind of cuddled already, you know. A few times actually. While we watch movies or stuff. But I mean cuddling while we sleep. And.. well, that day I was kinda sick, and we slept super close but I was kind of burning up a bit and it was pretty damn hot so I just slept outside the blankets.

Thing is, yesterday I went to her house again after the gym. And we kind of cuddled in the couch while we watched the whole Hunger games saga by her request and she offered me to stay at her place again. And when we went to sleep she cuddled me and held me so close and she was like "this okay?" And I was like about to foam in the mouth lIKE YES LKVE SUPER OKAU KJFKSJDKSKDJ. And we just cuddled the whole night. And I'm so fucking gay

I might just be falling for her already who am I kidding. IT FELT SO GOOD. She was so warm and so so soft and kfkwkfkekfke I loved it.

I mean, I was awkward asf at first because I didn't know where the fuck to look at or how tight should I hug her but at some point I just relaxed and it felt so natural. Today I woke up and sweet sweet Charlie made mE TEA. (Oh yes, yet again it was so awful but the sweetness of the gesture erased away all — if that's how you spell it — uggliness). And guess where am I now, dear dear Van.

Oh yes. At her place. Yet again.

We've been playing just dance together and I don't think I ever laughed this hard KFKAKFKSKD. Such poise and yet she looks so stiff (I tripped and almost fell 2 times but I'll still judge her). Though I have to say that she had some moves KFKSKD. Or maybe I am a crazy simp already.

We sang sooo much in the drive to her house and I had kind of a dejavu of that ✨magnificent✨ moment of mirror mirror where Wanda screams her lungs singing enchanted because at some point all too well started reproducing and MAN. I HAD SOME HARDCORE MEMORIES COMIN' BACK. I almost ask her to play the 10 min version god I'm so pathetic

Well, yeah, that's the update. This weekend we'll have another date. Her surprise date, Van KDKSMDMS. Also.. I should mention that she asked about my family? Thing is, heh, my family is kinda small, only my dad and uncle, and.. Well, my dad's girlfriend put a restraining order on my dad for domestic violence and sexual abuse last year 😃 and I've been ignoring him all this time and my uncle kind of hates me because I'm gay and whenever he used to comment something about it I rubbed in his face that I'm an ugly, despicable lesbian so we haven't talked to eachother in years 😃 and the rest of my family is dead so haha omg I've got no family to present her to KFKSKFKSKD HELP. I don't want her to pity me but I kind of pity myself already so KFKAKDKE LOL. And she has a large, supporting family and this is gonna be so damn awkward if I ever meet her parents like daAMN. My girl's got two dads and a mom and I got none bro JAKDJANDN. I know this is so random but lemme tell you a joke.

An orphan goes to McDonalds. What does he order? A family combo 😂 it's not laugh it's tears. ALRIGHT. Enough drama for today it's enough folks. Thank you for your endless support Van! I'll make sure to come back with more updates after our next date!!!

-🦈

hiiii sharky!! Thanks for waiting for me to replyyy <3

you are truly living your best life. I love watching movies and cuddling LOL were you still sick?? and you had a sleepover?!?! The girls do move quickly and i love this LMFAO

You are so down bad and i know this bc no one looks good shovelling shit. There's just no way. Even if it was lizzie olsen, I love her, but she could not make me think shovelling doo doo is sexy.

I love that you have a new gym buddy from this as well LOL like you are THAT couple that works out together. She really clearly loves your company!!!

So are you gonna tell her that her tea is awful or is it gonna be me LOLL how long can you subject yourself to that???

AhhH you guys are doing such fun activities like just dance and singing!! I love that you're both not afraid to be goofy in front of each other.

So....your whole family sucks....i am ur family now. I am the big sister u can present her to, no worries! I will be on your side for the wedding LOL but real talk ur dad is scary, i hope you are safe!! I love that her family sounds lovely though. You have gained the found family trope!!!! (i am pointedly ignoring ur joke. i love u but no <3)

I hope your date went well. You'll have to let me know what she planned!