#I think she changed a lot of people's brain chemistry

[uwudonoodle]

[sieglinde-freud]

my confession is that i love peri fire emblem and she is one of my absolute favorite fates characters. yes she is poorly written. yes everything about her character contradicts corrin’s army’s values. yes she does drag almost all of her support partners down when they talk (not u laslow stay safe bby). yes she looks like a 13 year old’s edgy oc, dual colored hair and heterochromia with a red eye that she has. but you all fail to understand that that’s literally camp. like fuck it she literally ate!! “im feeling stabby!” girl you are psychotic. i love you. xander gets me, literally hired her bc you know what, crazy IS hot and we need to stop pretending like its not. i made her the queen of nohr and didnt look back. its MY sandbox fire emblem game and i’ll do whatever the hell i want thank you very much.

[ifwebefriends]

My thoughts during “The Sign” [SPOILERS!!!!!]

ID in ALT

More thoughts under the cut

So I think most of us can agree that this is the best episode of Bluey so far. It was so emotional and satisfying in ways that are kinda new for Bluey. It answered so many questions while giving us a few new ones. I’ve been waiting for this episode for months and it did not disappoint in any way.

This is just a Chekov’s firing squad of an episode. As in a lot of stuff that was set up in earlier episodes all pay off in this episode. I kinda understand why people love soap operas now lol. I will say that this episode was a tad overwhelming for me in the best way possible. As in I had to pause and rewind every 30 seconds or so so I could emotionally process what was happening before moving forward (but that’s a me thing). There was just so much going on and I’m happy about that.

Now onto individual thoughts about specific things:

The callback to Baby Race (“you took your first steps in that house!”) really got to me because Baby Race was the first episode of Bluey that I watched and it immediately made me fall in love with it so it just got to me.

When Chilli said “Frisky and I came up here as teenagers to…um…think,” my mind started racing immediately with “what the FUCK happened at the Lookout?” “Who hurt Frisky and/or Chilli?” And I’m just so curious about what made Chilli say that line like that but we’ll probably never know what happened.

So yeah that scene at the end when the music was playing and Bandit ripped the sign out of the ground and Chilli tackled him to the ground ABSOLUTELY CHANGED my brain chemistry y’all. I can’t articulate my feelings any more than that.

I know some people were upset that Brandy ended up getting pregnant but I thought it was great for her! I’m happy for her! And I think that even though she got what she wanted in the end doesn’t negate the feelings she had about her infertility earlier. But I think we’re all wondering who the father is and I don’t know if the show really needs to answer that.

The whole message of “we’ll see” in terms of if something is good or bad is such a mature message that I never really thought of like that so I will be taking that philosophy forward in life. Congratulations Bluey, you managed to teach a 22-year-old childless person something new and insightful about life that I don’t think I’ve learned from another show.

I want to know more about what Bob was going through and feeling and why he went to India, but again, we’ll probably never know.

I just love how the wedding photos were beautiful but imperfect. Like of course we’re not perfect and nothing will ever be perfect but it’s beautiful and worth remembering anyway.

So many little jokes and moments were so funny in a mature way (I.e. “are we allowed to do that?” And Nana thinking there was about to be a baby announcement) were just so funny and memorable.

I think some people would say it’s a cop-out to end up not selling the house after building it up for 2 episodes but I don’t know, I think it works. I think Bluey and Bingo learned a valuable lesson and Bandit (and Chilli kinda) learned it’s not always about making their kids lives “perfect” in their eyes. Also I’m just personally glad they didn’t end up selling the house and I also kinda like that it wasn’t entirely their choice to keep it.

On a more serious note I think this episode has some interesting commentary on like gender roles and gender relations in straight relationships. In this episode Chilli and Frisky (both women) have to deal with their male significant others pressuring them to move with them far away from what they know and love. In the end they don’t end up moving and the men didn’t seem to have like malicious or selfish intent with it, they were just kinda basing their choices off their jobs instead of what’s best emotionally for their loved ones. But I think it’s interesting to have this conflict where gender is kinda brought up in a way (“because your husband is making you”). It kinda plays into the traditional idea of like men are the breadwinners and the family has to move with them regardless of what they actually want. And this episode kinda like deconstructs that and says “no, it’s not always about the job or money, it’s also sometimes about connections and emotional attachment.” And I’m not saying that you should never move or whatever, but really weigh your options. I just thought that it was interesting that this episode kinda touched on that.

So yeah that’s kinda the main thoughts I had on this episode if you made it this far thank you for reading my rambles and have a good one!

[foone]

Do you ever get the almost-writers-block feeling where your brain gives you an idea but then completely deserts you when it comes to actually fleshing it out or writing a story with it?

Mine came up with "a future where people subscribe to patreons for body models, which they then can wear"

So like you would pay 5$ a month and now you have the body of the person you subscribed to.

And all I can think of is some complications:

* if you stop subscribing or they end their patreon, you're out a body. You gotta find another one, fast. Your clothes might not fit anymore! You bought them for that body!

* the person who actually owns the body has to maintain it, as any changes will be reflected on all their patrons. Get a tattoo? Now hundreds or thousands of people have the same one. Dye your hair? I hope everyone likes being blonde! You'd probably have, like, polls for this sort of thing. Monetized Democratic body choices.

* what if they get hit by a car? A thousand people suddenly break their legs at once?

* licensing differences for bodies. Like, plenty of body patreons to have a "no doing porn" clause (because it'd be visually identical to the owner doing it), but some restrictive ones have "no having sex" (or "no having straight sex", in one notible example)

* you can subscribe to multiple body patreons and swap between which one you use on a daily basis

* pirated bodies on the darkweb

* police trying to solve crimes when the face that shows up on the cameras isn't the perp, it's some instagram model from Atlanta.

* society gets even weirder about fat shaming because anyone can wear the body of a person who weighs less than a sack of flour. Men on social media saying you gotta get her to show you childhood pictures so you can figure out if she's "really" fat.

* "we'd talked a lot online and she seemed really nice and we had great chemistry but when we finally met up, it turns out she always wears the Caitlin body!" "oh no, isn't that what your ex wore?" "exactly! And you know I've still got trauma from everything she put me through..."

* lotta young trans people figure some things out really quick. Forget "trying out crossdressing in secret" or "asking if people can use different pronouns on discord", how about trying having a different gender's body for a day?

* weird hackers trying to figure out how to modify the body-rental system so they can be dragons or elves. Speaking of which,

* people with body modifications to make themselves look less human being very popular. You can be an elf, thanks to that guy in Bowling Green, Florida who got the surgery to make his ears pointy. Apparently it paid for itself within 6 months.

* body reviews. People try out bodies and review how they are in looks and flexibility and stamina and any random aches and pains they might have.

* imagine reading one for your body. Someone walked a mile in your feet and gave a review of how your body looks and feels.

* weird couples who both wear the same body. Worse, polycules. They get together for a big cuddlepile and it's just 7 of the same body, and it gets difficult to tell where one begins and another ends.

* getting a bunch of information when you rent a new body, so you can know how it works and any odd things you gotta watch out for. Plus makeup tutorials and such, to know how to look exactly like how that body looked in certain photos

* everyone goes back to passwords on their phone. Fingerprints and facial recognition are no good, since someone could just rent the same body and now they have the same fingerprints and face.

* a subculture of disabled people who rent specific bodies not for their looks so much as their painless functionality. One of the most rented bodies amongst them is a woman from Minnesota who is definitely no model, but she's a 26 year old with no aches and pains and body that has plenty of energy and flexibility.

* oh so much drama about if it's ethical to rent bodies from other races. Predictable scandals where it turns out some musician or TikTok star is a white guy, despite their appearance as someone non-white. People get a lot madder at the white people wearing blackbody than the ones wearing asianbody, for reasons.

* a little post-it note inside a Starbucks where the customers can't see it, counting how many of a given body they've had in that morning. Someone named Stephan had 12 tally marks, and Lauren has 8. It's only 9:32 am.

Anyway yeah I have writer's block and can't do anything with this concept. Clearly.

[shadow4-1]

Would you be interested in writing another part for dark Johnny where Ghost finds out he has been fucking his wife? Would he be angry or be neutral as long as it’s helping Johnny?

Yes, I think I might actually make a part 2 to that post!

I'm currently making a post detailing my headcanons on Soap's behavior/brain chemistry post-bullet. Certain regions of the brain are responsible for a lot and It'd like to delve into exactly how that'd change Soap (for the better/worse).

I don't know how a part 2 would go yet, but if you really think about it, this would be one of the most fucked up things to happen to Ghost. It's on par with being buried alive and having his whole family murdered. I mean, think about it.

Ghost's best friend is shot in the head but his wife is able to save his life. She then commits herself to his non-stop care because Ghost asked her too. Then, when he comes home from a months long mission, he finds his now terribly twisted friend fucking his not entirely consenting wife on their bed.

How is he supposed to feel? Hurt? Betrayed? Angry? Ghost could kill him, probably really wants to, but Johnny doesn't care about consequences anymore. Johnny's just happy to finally have the two people he loves the most back in his life together.

And as his wife what do you even say? There's a part of you that wanted no part in sleeping with Johnny, but another part who let him take whatever he wanted because he needed it. And the worst part is...it felt good. How could you ever explain that to Ghost?

[cogniizaant]

Does everyone else love Froggy as much as I do? These are my hcs of Froggy dating a mad scientist like reader.

Kinda self indulgent. I'm on the road to becoming a scientist. Also, I'm a yapper, so they're all long. I hope you enjoy.

You scared him a lot when you first met. He thought ENA was crazy. And she is, but you’re on par. He watched you laugh maniacally while creating some crude ammonia out of expired hair bleach and mildew remover spray to take out a colony of wasps after one stung your pet. And then use the deceased wasps as a compound for your next experiment, radioactive chickens. No animals were harmed in that experience minus the wasps. The chickens were actually thriving and happy, which made him more scared. How did you manage to carry that out ethically? So, yeah, for a while he avoided you like the plague. But his efforts to stay in good health unfortunately were in vain, as he soon succumbed to the plague. Once he got a gnarly cut and this little drama queen acted like he was on the verge of death. But once he ceased his groveling on the floor he was met with the glorious picture of you standing above him like an angel reaching down from heaven to pull him up. Nah, you were holding out a bandage that you somehow curated from scratch and some also homemade disinfectant. Those white feathery wings were really just your lab coat blowing in the wind, and that halo was the gleam of the sun reflecting off your goggles. It doesn’t matter to him, though. He fell really hard. A few weeks later when the horoscope read something promising and the date finally wasn’t the unlucky number of the day, he asked you out. Though he didn’t actually stay to hear your response, so you had to call him later to confirm your agreement with the arrangement.

He’s still scared of your experiments. Some of them are cool to him, though. It will take a lot of persuasion to get him to join you in doing anything. He’s scared it’ll blow up in his face, or he’ll turn green and glow like your chickens. He thinks you’re insane, and don’t get him wrong he still loves you, but his opinion on that is not changing. So, trying to reassure him with words alone won’t really do much to ease his concerns. You greet him with your hair (if you have it) burnt at the tips and soot covering your face, and you have chemical burns basically everywhere. He canNOT take your word for it, so if you demonstrate it for him first to show him it really is a harmless experiment, then reluctantly he will join you.

In the beginning of your relationship, if you ask him questions about his anatomy or anything of that such he might look at you strangely. Mainly because your scientific language is straight gibberish in his brain, but also because he’s unsure if he’s gonna wake up one day strapped to a metal table while you get ready to dissect him like those poor frogs in old school chemistry classes. Though, after a while he’ll be able to discern your look of analytical intrigue from your look of genuine interest, and he’ll be less wary towards you.

He really admires your intelligence. Some of the words you use do make his head spin. Like, who in this day and age slips alcoholysis and chlorofluorocarbons in a sentence? He’ll ask you how your day has been and it turns into a chemistry 101 lecture or an introduction into biomedicine. But, it astounds him nonetheless. How can one person have such an extensive field of expertise? Are you sure you’re not the descendant of Einstein or one of those other smart dead people? You can tell him that it’s your special interest or the subject that managed to captivate you the most, but he’ll still be thinking you’re some secret intellectual of a higher power.

Expect him calling you to make him remedies for any ailment he may be suffering from that day. Or even to take out his enemies. “Hey! Some guys at the bar looked in my direction weirdly! Turn them into bugs for me!” And he questioned your morals. Whether or not he’s serious and whether or not you actually go through with it is up to the two of you. He could have a mild cold and react like a Victorian child until you give him something to fix it. You can hand him a cup of tea that you heated in a bunsen burner and he’ll genuinely believe it’s the product of alchemy.

Would totally brag to you to the others. Any chance he gets. Someone praising the so-called Genies? “Ah yeah yeah. So cool. My partner is way cooler than some Genie, though.” Someone complaining about a job being difficult? “Meh. My partner could finish this easily.” Everyone knows about you at this point. Even those who’ve never met you. The receptionist has gotten sick of hearing Froggy’s pandering. Dratula and Kane both think you're a myth.

He will try his best to impress you. You wow him too often with your experiments and smarts. He can’t let you have all the spotlight. It’ll probably end up being something he asked ENA to retrieve from another realm that he thought you’d like to dissect or a magic trick that you could very easily debunk, but refrain from because it’s really sweet that he’s trying anyways. Once he was introducing you to his workers and you came across Coral Glasses while she was in the middle of printing something from her scalp. Needless to say you were studying her immediately, asking a buttload of questions about whether it hurt, or whether she needed ink refills. You were giving her whiplash as you switched between offering cures for any migraines she experienced afterwards to asking if you could examine her blood for polyvinyl chloride or carbon to see if that was what pigmented the papers. Surprisingly enough, Froggy wasn’t even the slightest bit envious of how much attention you were giving the sweaty girl. He was happy you were to fascinated by her, because the fact that he was able to impress you with HIS co worker/employee was another win in his book. He indirectly managed to pique your interest.

I think he’d be pretty touchy. If you’re cool with touch, then he’d definitely lean on you whenever he gets the chance. Usually to nap. If you’re shorter than him, he’d totes use you as a headrest. If not, then he’d still use you as a headrest. Just whenever you’re sitting down. He’d probably hug you a lot, but not in public. He strikes me as the type of person to go to sleep in one position and wake up halfway off the bed with all the sheets ripped off, so get used to having your own blanket and getting kicked in your sleep. If you’re a no touching type of person, then I doubt he’d ever fight you on that. As long as the two of you can be beside each other, he’ll be happy.

Overall, with you as a partner I don’t think he’d be too jealous at all. He watches you interact with others sometimes and notices how different you are with other people compared to how you are with him. He’ll catch you writing notes to yourself after conversing or interacting with him, paying extra attention to any mood shifts and correlating them with your responses and the topic. Drawing diagrams of anything he mentions liking, or that you catch him staring at just a bit longer than anything else so you can remember them if you ever come across them. Your interactions with others; especially those you aren’t acquainted with, can be very straightforward or blunt. Not unkind, but professional. You treat casual conversations like a field study. But, with him you’re so careful. You put so much effort into every thought about him that he really can’t find any reason to be envious in your relationship.

Please let me know if you like this, and if you want to see more hcs like this about any character don't be afraid to request!

[nattule29]

My ship opinion/preference has changed since I joined this fandom and since s1 of jwct so I did a redo of the shipping chart by @mangosaurus

(kennly should be purple not blue now)

just for funnies

just me yapping about my ship opinions/opinions on things in general 🔻

Now I know theirs a lot of ships that people hate and I would just like to say I don’t “Hate” any ship even with the fuck no option up there meaning I would personally steer clear.

Now if the ship is actually incest then you need to stop immediately or if the age gap is really inappropriate like a minor x adult cough, cough Darius and Zayna (get off this earth you freaking creatur-)

kennly, back when I was watching jwcc before jwct came I hated kennly so badly. I would constantly talk about how the chemistry just wasn’t there and how it came out of nowhere, how Brooklynn should have been with Darius bla bla bla this and that and I’m happy to say I was wrong and blind at the time. The chemistry had been there the whole time you just had to look for it. The “they came out of nowhere” is not true. It was small but still there. I guess it just got me by surprise. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the fam to be in relationships besides yasammy that goes without saying.

In the end it’s all about opinions and that’s just mine. The only reason I’m thinking about this is because I recently had a talk with some of my friends about ships and jwct/cc ships. Some of them hate ships like benji and kennly (yasammy for a time) ect or love some under rated ships and when they tell me why, I totally get their opinions. Like I’m totally on that Yaz x Brooklynn train so hard now.

it’s funny how my opinions changed. Jwcc, I didn’t really ship anybody that much. I saw potential like yasammy and Yaz x Kenji. S2 of jwcc I knew yasammy was gonna be a thing and totally saw dinostar being end game then kennly came in like a bulldozer. Thought about benrius one time and never thought about it for the rest of jwcc… it’s okay I made up for it by thinking about it for the rest of my life now…anyways, once benji was implemented in my brain by my sister (she really likes benji) I kinda convinced myself it was also gonna be end game even if I didn’t see the liking of the ship or the ship in general at the time.

If you couldn’t tell now though my opinions on ships have changed just a bit now :D

[thetrialsandtribulationsofeb]

it still blows my mind how many times buck and eddie’s relationship is paralleled to the relationships of canonical couples in this show, sometimes even in the same episode

the writers could’ve easily come up with some significant others for buck and eddie and written these storylines for them to show their love

(i feel like they tried to do it with taylor, but she and buck still gave off more of a friends-with-benefits vibe than an actual meant-to-be couple. plus, buck fucked it up when he reverted to buck 1.0 after eddie left the 118 anyway (still think they should’ve broken them up after buck cheated instead of making her the “villain”))

but the truth is, it only works with buck and eddie. like, it’s always been them - because their characters’ stories are so interconnected. they just work together. they heal each other’s inner children

and it’s exactly how it works in real life

sometimes best friends end up together because they realize the person they want most in their life IS their best friend, and there’s no point in trying to find other partners anymore

and it’s kind of the same case with bathena and madney, where they “trauma bonded” and their coupling just makes sense for their characters (though it’s thanks to jennifer love hewitt, because she was the one who wanted maddie to get together with chimney - she had the vision, and she is the queen)

so buck and eddie’s characters really are just accidentally in love

and it’s mind-blowing and beautiful

this show just scratches my brain in all the right parts with how soulmate-coded it is

also, it’s so interesting for me to compare henchim with buddie, ‘cause hen and chimney are great best friends too - they’re partners in crime, they’re soulmates in a platonic sense, they share a lot of cool moments together

but with buddie, there’s always this underlying energy of: “i kind of wouldn’t mind sharing my whole life with you and raising a child together”, “i kind of can’t stop looking at you with hearts in my eyes”, “i kind of treat you like my romantic partner even though i’m officially in a relationship with someone else, because no other person fits into my life as perfectly as you do”, “i kind of hated you when we first met because your body is too beautiful for my taste”

i mean, they explained it themselves when they talked about christopher:

“well, it wasn’t too much different than when he hangs out with one of his guy friends”

“except only in one case is there underlying sexual tension” (and then he does that thing with the fire extinguisher, like, i’m sorry, what??)

like, that’s exactly how relationships work. sometimes you meet people and end up in a platonic relationship with them because there’s no romantic chemistry. and sometimes you meet people and end up in a romantic relationship with them because there is. it’s not really rocket science

but these two idiots are so oblivious and repressed and so close to each other that they don’t see and don’t understand that their case falls under the “underlying sexual tension” category, from the very beginning

they were never ever “just” friends, ‘cause this is the weirdest friendship i’ve ever seen

and i like how they called each other “bros” only two times on screen - ‘cause i guess then they just decided to stop using that word for each other ‘cause it felt weird. like, he’s not my “brother”. he’s my bud. my man. my pal. definitely not “bro”. that feels weird, ew (but this is a completely normal straight platonic companionship between us, yeah. no weird under-the-surface feelings that we can’t describe or define)

it’s like: buddie becomes canon, but they do the same things they did before they officially started dating, except now they also kiss and fuck each other

like, seriously, why would anything change in their dynamic, when they’ve always been like this?

[chondrichthyes-x-mantodea]

It's kinda crazy to me how many people hate their mom, especially since fathers suck so much. Like, I don't think there's many cases where a father has done more than a mother even if she's not #1 mommy robot to everyone (and is obviously a valuable woman because of it!) Yet all you hear is "my ex-mother." It always has a poorly hidden scent of gender bias in it. The emphasis on mother, not the parent aspect of it. A lot of times, it seems the word "mother" is used as an insult by people against their moms, judging by the tone they use it in. Another trend I see with the "mommy issue" crowd is blaming their mothers for their fathers abuse. The constant "she allowed him to hurt me" as if women aren't often being hurt, too. Especially with step fathers. You all focus more on the mother than the stepfather, but change it to father and stepmother, and it's still on the women. And don't get me started on emotional labor. "I was emotionally neglected" and they only blame their mother.... girl.... you do realize your father should've been providing half of that labor right? And that's exactly why they get more angry at their mom. What men lack is pinned on women.

The mommy issues crowd also love to downplay people who have issues with their father. "Well, it's just not as serious. Mommy issues change your brain chemistry 😔🥀⚰️🖤"... like, is this a "✨️trauma✨️" off to millennials and chronically online gen z queers? It just tells me everything I need to know about average parental relationships and gender roles within them. Children hurt moms, and moms hurt children, but the father who throws the kindling into the fire sits back and enjoys the show. The father is the one who hasnt lifted a single FINGER in his life, or when he has its hurt even MORE than the petty things the mother has done.

I used to be in this position. You're told that your mom is the primary parent, so everything falls on her. But I think it takes a certain maturity and self-awareness. When you get to that in between age where you are approaching being thrown into the hellscape of modern heterosexuality, you start to humanize your mother again. Start to see the trap and how she fell into it. Start to see how no human can survive it without cracking at least a bit. It gets dark. You see how you fueled a situation that could very possibly resemble your future life. You see how you saw your mother as a robot. We are taught that she's supposed to be robotic. So when the mommy persona cannot be held up... shes defective. You see how your father was just an audience member. And some women don't wake up like that. The start of internalized misogyny, within all women, is with your mother. Frankly, I'm impressed women don't murder families more than men due to the dynamic, but lord, when they do, you don't hear the end of it. It all reminds me of why I'll never allow myself to be a mother. Youre either a good girl who gets pat on the head or an evil bitch who will rot in hell.

Last time I said something like this I was called a child abuser apologist so 🤷‍♀️ ig I'll embrace it. I dont think there's no such thing as an abusive mom, but that shit is so rare compared to dad's. But yall are absolute silence on that end.

And to add on, it's the attitude with how gender changes a parents role. People see mothers as someone who services, while fathers are someone to be proud of. Mommy loves me and daddy is cool and proud. Women are not cherished within the dynamic, we are just taken from. So, Imma be real, when I hear someone talk about how they cut their mother off because of this new wave of "parents (and by that we mean moms) have to be perfect and you have every right to cut them off!" I automatically assume it's some petty shit. Yall see moms as hivemind maids. Any little screw up means she's not your servant. Meanwhile ur dad could slam you into a wall and he's dad of the year haha you know how dad's are. MOMMY YOU HAVE TO BE MY EMOTIONLESS ROBOT WHILST ALSO PUTTING ON THE MOST RIDICULOUS EMOTIONAL PERSONA IN THE WORLD YOU REVOLVE MEEEEEEE 🥺

[penny-abrams]

WELL! HELLO THERE!

Apparently people like things I make involving Cookie Run Kingdom. That's fantastic, honestly. Cheers to you all for that.

Unfortunately, I also put up a poll. And the result of that poll is... Gonna be wild.

So, it looks like I'm doing this. I'll be trying to color code this, and I probably won't get everything in there, but I have a good few to get out there.

Obviously, this will not contain pairs like Moonlight Cookie × Sea Fairy, as I don't aim for canon pairs. I like to expand on possibilities outside of currently established canon.

Disclaimer: This is a list of MY ships. You can like them, you can hate them, but this is my list. If you have a problem with any of them, focus on the ones you like. If you don't like any of them, sorry, that's fine, it's my list, not yours. — Just be lucky I'm not including the yumeship I have on my list, or everything else would automatically be lower.

With that said, let's get into this —

Penny Abrams CRK Ship List, Early 2025

• 1 - BurningSpice×GoldenCheese — BurningCheese/GoldenSpice

A lot of people call it BurningCheese, but I feel GoldenSpice is a more apt name for the dynamic — if given the opportunity, through her divine radiance, Golden Cheese could refute all of his flawed ideology and show him that Change takes time - with her help, he could become so much better than he ever was. In her radiance, by her side, even his spice seems like gold.

• 2 - DarkCacao×CaramelArrow — DarkArrow/CaramelCacao

Oh, yeah, some people won't like this one. I've heard the complaints before, and I solemnly swear... I don't care. They deserve to be happy. He is a man that is constantly battling with Resolution — so stubborn, so driven, so stalwart in his beliefs, that he will do anything to ensure that it is so. She is a woman that holds her oath to be sacred, and will do anything for her king. She understands him implicitly, and it is so obvious that she would do anything to make his every vision a reality. I mean, even her WEDDING OUTFIT matches his Awakened outfit. Like, don't even take my word for it;

Just Look At Them!

• 3 - ShadowMilk×WhiteLily — ShadowLily

Is it fucked up? Yes. Are they good for each other? Probably not. Does the nuance in their duality get the gears in my brain turning, imagining the kind of combo where one is always being careful and meticulous, while the other is spontaneous and curious? Absolutely. Honestly, I didn't see it, but some artists in the community brought it home for me. Borderline crack ship, but that's where the fine line is.

• 4 - BlackLemonade×Werewolf — LemonadeWerewolf

Insert obligatory LemonWolf joke here — but, no, really. The two of them have such immense vibes. Whenever they talk, she is so supportive towards him. I feel like she could be the music that soothes the soul of the savage beast that lies in wait within him. Always the helpful shoulder to lean on, someone who understands having darkness inside but learning to shine in spite of it. Truly, an electric pairing for me.

• 5 - ShadowMilk×PureVanilla — PureMilk/ShadowNilla

Yeah. Yeah, y'all should have known this would be here. There is a point in which I have to respect that I like me some complications with a pairing. There's a sort of subtext with a lot of their interactions that can be read a very specific sort of way, and I like the dynamic of "goodie two shoes that wants to help" and "loser loner who knows everything except how he feels". Maybe problematic, but I try to look for the silver lining with things, and these two got some sort of chemistry.

• 6 - BlackRaisin×PureVanilla — PureRaisin

Honestly, I think it's pretty obvious that the connection between these two is pretty up there. BlackRaisin goes out of her way for that man time and time again, but he is too much of a himbo to realize that that poor woman has feelings for him. It's kinda cute, and I feel like they really could work well together — provided the blind man can open his eyes to what's right in front of him.

• 7 - PureVanilla×WhiteLily — PureLily

Basically the same as PureRaisin, but this is basically doomed to fail, because both of these bitches are bottoms and too dense to realize that they love each other. But, provided that Vanilla is suddenly smarter thanks to the events of Chapter 8, or White Lily figures out her bullshit in Chapters 9/10, only time will tell. Until then, this ship is a hard 7th Place.

@charlottecbordeaux made probably the best piece of artwork that there is for the two of them, which settled me on the ship, even after all the subtext. (As seen up above — go follow, honestly, you CANNOT find their kind of work elsewhere).

• 8 - WindArcher×StardustCookie — AstralWind

I was galvanized into believing in this ship by the pure amount of propaganda. Plus, I believe that Archer would be more than capable of soothing the Wrath of the Stars more than almost any cookie on Earthbread, just in how attuned he is to all life in the world. The two of them have so much going for them.

• 9 - PersianBlue/Cobalt×Camillia — BlueCamillia/CobaltCamillia

I have never seen two men that give off such vibes of comfortable closeness. Cobalt is a close and trusted friend of Camillia's, and I get the feeling that they have been through a good bit together. Together, these two can face through most trials and tribulations that would obscure their path, with might and charisma in equal proportion. They really just work amazingly well together.

• 10 - BlackForest×WeddingCake — BlackWedding

Look. I understand that Black Forest Cookie loves The Witches. And I love me a fucked up love dynamic like that. But Wedding Cake Cookie and Black Forest Cookie are such a pair, I think the two of them could be literally perfect for each other. Even when transformed, Wedding Cake didn't bat an eye towards her state of being, and instead just told her plainly that she wanted her to be happy. I'm not saying that they should be together just based off of that, but Wedding Cake is one of the only cookies outside of the St. Pastry Order that actually gives a shit about Black Forest, and beyond that, she doesn't have the most likely nefarious ulterior motives of The Order. I just think that they could be cute together.

AND THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

Some people really won't like this list, and that is FINE.

As I said at the beginning — this is my list, and while it's not complete, I didn't feel like running this thing into a two hour long read, while searching through to find more pairs.

For the record, honorable mentions towards my yume ship pairings of

MagicTrick, FaeriesAndCream, and CreamWafer, which are OC×ShadowMilk, OC×ElderFaerie, and OC×Vanilla respectively.

Please, kindly, go and follow @rosycheekedwolly, my darling Wolly — they have such a brilliant mind, and beautiful art, and they deserve the attention.

I'll also have an OC×OC post coming in the near future, once I have proper artwork for that.

[honeyhotteoks]

okay SO... in absolute lusty haze I started to listen to an augustinthewinter audio per your recommendation, got to the end of the free version and immediately became a patreon subscriber😫 I have to know which augustinthewinter audios inspired these yunho fics... i'm too curious !!

I hope you're having the best vacation btw <3

!!!!!! amazing - honestly i love him as a ns/fw creator so much that i am so glad i was able to send any amount of attention from that post.

as far as which audios are inspiring which thoughts....... there's a few in particular i need to write for yunho and for others......... a few that i'd love to get out for kinktober but i'm so behind on writing that atp i can't really make any promises BUT -

distracting your gamer friend over voice chat gets serious (🎧🔞reddit) - yunho x reader. i genuinely dislike almost every gamer fic i've ever read but this audio literally changed my brain chemistry. so i'd love to write what i want in a gamer yunho fic using this audio as a jumping off point. but essentially, gamer!yunho / neighbor!yunho x gamer!reader verbally fuck with each other while gaming and when reader loses a bet he gets to come over to your place and do what he wants to you. fucked by your secret ghost roommate on halloween night (🎧🔞 reddit) - ghost!mingi x student!reader; the idea is essentially mingi used to live in her dorm and died there and he has a lot of unfinished business.... namely he's a virgin (not that he's going to tell reader that). she knows there's a ghost, he's watched her hook up before/touch herself, and she's into that..... but when her plans fall through on halloween night and the veil is thin and mingi realizes he's kind of corporeal? well all bets are off. plus this gives me the chance to write overly confident with his words mingi who turns out to be a subby whiner the minute he actually gets to touch the girl lmao hooking up with a masked stranger at the halloween party (🎧🔞 reddit) - boyfriend!yunho x girlfriend!reader; while august's audio isn't necessarily preplanned relationship cnc, i think that's what i'd be more comfortable writing. but yunho and reader essentially decide to go to a masked halloween party and pretend to be strangers to fulfill one of his biggest fantasies. so she dresses up as the final girl and he dresses up as a psycho killer in a mask..... and the rest is between them and the house party basement. temping your favorite tailor at your dress fitting (🎧🔞 patreon exclusive) - tailor!seonghwa x princess!reader; after years of having a close friendship with your personal tailor and dress designer, you need to take your engagement dress for a fitting. you're about to be married off to a man you don't know in a country far away from seonghwa and everything you've ever known.... and you find yourself alone with him, confessing your fears and your true feelings for him in the middle of your fitting. def a more tragic romantic vibe than august's audio, but you know i'm about the angst.

anyways there's more because frankly his scenarios just eat it up they're the best, but these are the ones i reallllllly want to write some short smutty oneshots for (short like 5k-8k because lbr i can't shut up ever)

also small disclaimer, august has said that he doesn't mind people writing fics/works based on his scripts as long as it's actual inspiration / not plagiarism

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

A Sea Change: My Thoughts After 2 Readthroughs

I'm not really active in the TSC fandom anymore (for reasons completely unrelated to the books, which are my life and still constitute a great deal of my brain space.)

However, Matthew is a character who's uniquely important to me.

I felt a sense of Understanding when I first saw his portrait as early as 2014, and when Nothing But Shadows came out in 2015, I had an epiphany: this kid is my mirror image. Through the years, Matthew and I have lived together. His mental health mirrored mine for the longest time; we ended unhealthy patterns and started to travel at the same time; as of A Sea Change, we've both found love in its best form. We're both blonde bisexuals with unhinged, impulsive tendencies. We have a similar sense of humor and say all the same things. (This actually happened in ChoT; the first time I was reading it, I said 'shouldn't accept that invitation' when Tatiana asked the Institute residents to come out meet their fate. A couple pages later, Matthew said the same thing.) We share a love of literature and plays, of jokes and wordplay.

I love him desperately. I have for over a decade.

So, I have to talk about A Sea Change.

I trusted Cassie to deliver a great story for Matthew. In my opinion, she handled his arc flawlessly from beginning to end. She clearly loves him as much as I do, and it's lovely that he's one of her clear favourites. There is genuinely literally nothing I would change in Matthew's storylines within any of his short stories or TLH. I am happy that my high expectations for A Sea Change were met and that she handled his arc perfectly. My only complaint is that I wanted MORE WHERE THIS CAME FROM!

Anyway:

I don't care what others are calling them, I'm calling Matthew/Sylvain 'Fairlac.' I just am.

I will definitely be writing fics for Matthew/Sylvain in the future, so keep an eye out for them. I don't know when this will happen because I have like a million Dead Boy Detectives fics I'm working on and/or want to write imminently, but they will happen. The first Fairlac fic will probably be a short extension of a scene from ASC so I can get a feel for Sylvain's character (costume room), and the second will probably be an extension of the story where they meet James and Cordelia. At that point I should have a better feel of Sylvain and be able to create and write other new stories about him and Matthew. <3

I loved how grief was handled in this story in a unique way. I liked how it was handled in TLH, too, but it's an interesting progression. We get to see how Matthew's grief looks while actively in battle and fighting for his life right after Kit dies. We get to see how it looks now in A Sea Change. And the new dream at the end was so hopeful.

NOW, THOUGHTS!

THERE ARE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. BE MINDFUL OF THE SPOILERS, WHICH ARE UNDER THE CUT.

I love Sylvain and Matthew's relationship. I expected it to be rushed solely because of the novella's length, but it had a depth that surprised me. They bonded over the theatrical performance and demonstrated shared interests over the costuming. Sylvain laughs at Matthew's jokes from the get-go. They're both vulnerable with each other about grief (for both Lucas and Christopher), and they were able to provide one another with peace. Of course, they had a lot of passion and physical chemistry, but I was very happy that that wasn't all they had.

Sylvain is really funny. "Bitten by a donkey in Mykanos" cracked me up. I think that's when I really started loving him.

(Also, I need to see this man meet Alastair Carstairs. It will be hilarious. They will be a comedy duo.)

Matthew thinking that butchering Shakespeare should violate the Accords.... so on-brand. New Classic Matthew line.

I also think it was really on-brand for Matthew to use some Fancy Cosmetic Powder to cover his Voyance rune while Sylvain used a bandage like a normal person

Sylvain being a Verlac is fun to me. Like, I want to see people play a little bit with this since Ash Morgenstern is descended from Sebastian Morgenstern. They're related to Matthew. And Sebastian sourced his name from... Sebastian Verlac. I don't know why I think that's funny.

If you don't think Matthew cared about Christopher dying even after this story.... I don't know what to tell you, sorry. You're stupid

I SO badly want to see (or, more likely, write) a scene where Oscar and Flambeau play. For science.

It was extremely funny that Matthew referred to him as "celibate" before ripping Sylvain's clothes off not 20 pages later. Again, on-brand. I love that Cassie let the Matthew of it all shine through.

Slight intermission from my unhinged Matthew thoughts because it's time for UNHINGED HERONDAISY THOUGHTS. We got some crumbs in this story, guys. Lowkey we ATE with James becoming fluent in Persian within one year for Cordelia??? He loves her so much it's insane. Was talking to @angeldaisies about this today and I have been ready to bite people like a feral animal once I realized how much work he must have put into it.

(I bet Thomas is fluent now too. Matthew and Sylvain are now the only members of the core TMT+Partners friend group not to know Persian. Will they all abuse this privilege? Vote now)

I also loved the allusions to Matthew's friendships with both James and Cordelia. Cordelia telling Matthew about jewelry names made me inordinately happy, and I loved the way Matthew thought about how how felt immortal when he was with James. GOD I need to see Sylvain meet Herondaisy. They're so important.

I love the story about Sylvain and Lucas, it completely pulled on the heartstrings in all the right ways. He was really layered??? For a 70something word story. Like, damn, Cassie ate here.

Obligatory Jem Carstairs mention was indeed present, but I found this one more funny than anything. Of course we're talking about Jem! This is Cassandra Clare! But it was relevant to the storyline and didn't pop out of nowhere, so it didn't bother me.

WE GOT SOME REALLY AMAZING WILL HERONDALE CRUMBS. Him touching his parabatai rune? The quotes he said to Matthew about grief? I LOVE YOU WILL

I like how the story wove the vampires not to be the bad guys. I also like how Matthew and Sylvain vowed not to cause harm to come to the vampires after hearing Melody's story. It really drives the point home that Sylvain shares a lot of Matthew's values even if he's less flashy about it.

Also, speaking of Melody! TWP CAMEO???? PLEASE?

I love when Sylvain calls Matthew beautiful, because that's what Matthew held onto Cordelia saying to him in TLH as a sort of talisman. Like, yes, get called beautiful!!!! But not by your parabatai's obvious soulmate!!!!

And, my last thought I want to put on this list: "I like my life." This made me cry last night when I read it for the first time, and I was very moved by it the second time around, too. I love him so much. He has come so far.

[theladyragnell]

Have you heard of/read The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy? It’s a romance that I personally find wonderful with really interesting world-building details and a cool overarching concept that seems like it could be up your alley!

I did read this one! It got such a lot of hype in its release year and I had high hopes of it, because I do enjoy a You've Got Mail plot done well and I was excited about the thought of a fantasy You've Got Mail plot. And the worldbuilding was fun!

Unfortunately, this one really didn't hit me the way I wanted it to. I have no objections to the fantasy aspect! Fun on that count, even if I could have used a bit more scaffolding. But the romance fell short for me! Actually this book got me thinking a whole lot about enemies to lovers as a trope and how there are kind of two flavors of it and they're on opposite diagonals of a quadrant.

Okay I made this graphic at the time and I have just updated it with the parentheticals in each quadrant:

So I think there's a tension in enjoyers of this trope between top right quadrant and lower left quadrant. And as you might guess, I am very very fond of top right (when the divergent purpose isn't, like. One of them is Actually Evil, to be clear. I am not defending Nazi romance here, that is not a thing I am doing) and not as fond of the lower left.

I love You've Got Mail because it's the top right! Kathleen and Joe banter so beautifully in both of their personas, and if there's antagonism in the real-world banter, that's imposed on them by the conflict of their divergent purpose, which is clear after their first conversation, before she knows who he is--their "F-O-X" banter is so fun! It's fast-paced and shows good chemistry! The conflict in this romance comes from their jobs, and the ending is bittersweet, and Joe's behavior is pretty shitty and we all hate that The Corporate Store Wins, but that gives the "enemies" of "enemies to lovers" teeth for me.

Hart & Mercy ... like, to be clear, You've Got Mail's predecessor, Shop Around the Corner, does the lower left quadrant! Hart & Mercy is more properly an adaptation of that and I wish it had been marketed as such even if I get why it wasn't, but no shade for that. It's just that I read the book and went "these two genuinely dislike each other. It's not cute, it doesn't feel like sexual tension even if they have weird nicknames for each other like no normal human person has with their nemesis, I think they should probably both date other people" and then there were just very few moments in the book where I changed my mind on that at all?

The 90s romcoms understood argumentative banter that read as collaborative and an actual sign of chemistry, but I feel like a lot of contemporary romcoms that market themselves as enemies or rivals to lovers don't, and for me, The Undertaking of Hart & Mercy missed that mark.

(Which. I am so sorry to write an essay on why a book you very kindly recommended did not work for me. It's just that I'm in the swing of things from doing the opinions meme and now that I've written this all out it seems like a waste to delete it. A lot of people enjoyed this book heaps, that's why it was so buzzy! It just turned on my writer analysis brain and helped me pinpoint why enemies to lovers is such a hit or miss trope for me.)

Anyway, to share a fantasy romance enemies to lovers that DID work for me, The Sorceress Transcendent by Casey Blair is a novella that starts with the tried-and-true "show up on your enemy's doorstep saying you didn't know where else to go" trope! And contains love interests who fought on opposite sides of a war, where the blame comes firmly down on the warmongers who sent them both to war in the first place!

[excalisi]

i dont really follow you but i do stop by every once in a while, and it's bc i really like your naruto fics (there's two now! its awesome!!) anyway i don't have really any specific questions but if there's literally anything you'd like to say about any of your fics i'd love to hear them!! i feel kinda awkward not asking any questions so ill try to brainstorm a few:

do you have any hatake clan headcanons? or ig would you expand on them? you mentioned it a bit in the kakashi & minato fic

was shikamaru any good at carving before making the pendant for sakura, or did he have a small pile of attempts by the end of it?

also in the shikasaku fic, you mention naruto is good with seals. did he learn from jiraiya, someone else, or on his own?

hatake clan headcanons.... my main one is ofc the "hatake eat people" one because i read all of ourliazo's kakashi fics and it changed my brain chemistry irreparably. most of the ones i subscribe to are the usual run-of-the-mill hcs: wolf summons, pack instincts, canine teeth (all the better to rend the flesh from your bones, my dear!), etc etc.

one of my own hatake hcs is that they're just all fucking awful at dealing with grief. the real reason why (in my head) the hatake clan was whittled down to just sakumo and kakashi before sakumo killed himself despite a clan-wide history of martial excellency was because basically all the able-bodied hatake were sent out during the first shinobi world war. it was fine at first, bc they're all batshit crazy powerful, flinging around lightning jutsu like they're tossing candies and mazel tovs at a jewish wedding.

then, one of the pack is killed. all falls silent.

a hatake throws his head back, howls his fury at the heavens, and the skies split with lightning.

basically, it was sort of like a feedback loop; one hatake dies, another goes fucking crazy in a feral beserker rampage to avenge them (killing a whole lot of people bunch of people through sheer proximity to the white chakra crackling around them but ultimately making themselves easier to kill through sacrifice of technique for brute strength and viciousness), and then they die, and now we've circled back to stage one.

sakumo didn't go nutzo bc he fixated on the village. duty and loyalty and preservation of the hearth & home. a wolf forcing himself into the shape of a sheepdog so he'll be allowed to herd the flock. he made the entirety of konoha his pack and, well. we know how that story ended.

so really, by hatake terms, kakashi is positively mentally sound! isn't that incredibly funny to think about? (actually i have tons of thoughts about kakashi and the concept of suicide and how he's only not dead because how would obito see the world through his eye if he was too dead to see anything at all :( but i won't air allat out here lol. this is already too long)

this is less a hatake clan hc and more a kakashi hc, but in my mind kakashi totally started wearing masks because he just wouldn't quit biting people that annoyed him. and as a precocious toddler smarter than all his peers and also quite a number of adults, many, many people annoyed him. it didn't really stop him from biting people, but the scant amount of time spent dragging it down gave sakumo and later minato (though not so much after sakumo died and kakashi turned into a rulebook) enough of an opportunity to grab him before he could lunge teeth-first.

tbh the token thing was totally something i made up on the spot, but now that i think about it, woodworking does seem like a shikamaru sort of hobby, huh? i like to think ino forced him to find one for himself that wasn't cloud watching or shogi when they were kids because she found both horrifically boring. shikamaru likes to whittle while on watch during missions because woodworking + playing a game of mental shogi against himself + paying constant and vigilant attention to his surroundings is probably the appropriate amount of stimulation to a nara mind in focus.

i said naruto was good with seals? where did i say that? i tried to ctrl f it, but came up with nothing. maybe you've got me mixed up with another fic?

anyway, thank you for stopping by, anon!! this was such a pleasant surprise. i love getting asks. 💙

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

Ok. Ok. I honestly have no idea how Chani and Paul's relationship will be handled in the 3rd movie, and honestly? I don't care. I'm confident that however it's handled (so long as it's not some extremely OOC plot with her forgiving him and going back to him willingly, but I'm pretty confident it won't be that) it will change my brain chemistry.

But hold on. hOld on. Because as much as I love the thought of there being a lot of heat and tension and Feelings Feelings (99.9% of which are NOT positive) between the two of them, and it's likely that's the direction the film will go, I'm also somewhat intrigued by the alternative. That there's...nothing. Maybe not at first. But after twelve years, if Denis intends to keep the time jump as written, things fade. No hate, but no love either. As if they'd never known each other at all.

Because it's been twelve years. Nobody knows exactly how old the two of them are supposed to be in the films, but my personal headcanon is like 18/19. Meaning if Messiah keeps that time jump, it would put them in their early thirties. That's...a lot of time. That's a big difference in psychology, in emotional processing, in just...ways of life and ways of living. It's strange to me to assume that both of them would be exactly the same people - on their own or in regards to each other - after all that time.

And of course, that's not to say they'd forget each other entirely. Scars don't fade that easily. Everything Paul went through leaves a mark. Watching your lover succumb to the clutches of power and essentially becoming somebody entirely new, becoming your people's oppressor after swearing to fight alongside you in your rebellion as an equal (and for all you know, that was his plan all along) definitely leaves a mark. But twelve years is still a long time, longer still for people dealing with the level of shit these people deal with in day to day life. Whatever both of them could be up to for all that time leaves marks too, and adds to the pile of shit.

Especially, I think, for Chani. Because her anger and defiance against her oppressors began long before she met Paul. That is her purpose. Paul changed and grew along with her and because of her presence. He is forever touched by her and her memory, and won't, I don't think, ever be able to let go of that. And while Chani's rage and despair and pain at what he did is very real and very much not something I can see just fading away, I could also see her almost using what happened as an excuse to go back to whatever "normal" was before Paul for her. Almost as a coping mechanism. Because Paul did, in her eyes, essentially become a different being after the Water of Life. He's not the man she fell in love with. And maybe it would be easier for her to, rather than engage with that anger directly at him, just...let him fade into the background. He's not him anymore. He's just another evil to defeat.

I've just...realized I kind of have mixed feelings about the thought of her spending twelve years nursing her rage at Paul specifically. Of course it was a betrayal - probably the biggest betrayal she's ever known - and that kind of thing doesn't just go away. But she hated the empire before he was emperor. There's a depressing kind of power in going "ok, I guess it's no different than before, I'll just keep on going the same way I was before any of this happened." As if the months she spent with him were nothing, weren't even real. Just...the thought of Chani as an adult going on day to day with whatever she's doing to fight for her people's freedom, trying desperately to forget that the man who now holds that freedom in a yoke was once one she loved and trusted. And it getting slightly easier every day. Her dreams of her people's political victory mattered long before Paul came into the picture and will matter long after he left. It's not about him, it's still about the emperor. Whos is not the man she loved.

idk I *love* Chani's Feelings after part 2 and all that could come with that, I love it but part of me is also like...if they really do spend 12 years apart does she really have nothing better to do with her time (ESPECIALLY if it turns out she has a child) than plan her revenge against him specifically? Like. as the Emperor Of The Known Universe, yes, because he is at the top of the food chain of oppression she's spend her life trying to bring down. But not as Paul. Not as the man who betrayed her. Because all of that is wrapped up in personal, vulnerable feelings that I feel like to her would seem like a waste of time. She will not give water to the dead, and Paul is dead to her.

And all this would be more tragic because I'm sure, I'm sure that with Paul it's the complete opposite. He cannot forget her. He cannot have a life where he doesn't think of her. And a part of him would be still trying to protect her from his position probably, maybe even hoping in some distant part of his mind that she'll one day come back. Twelve years of grief and guilt cutting a hole in his chest versus twelve years of practicing how to forget.

And then. Again, I doubt this is the route they'll go because it's not as dramatically interesting, at least I'd love to see it in a fic (maybe I'll do it), but it would be so unusual to me to see them meet again, and their story not end in revenge or reconciliation. There's no forgiveness, there's also no surprise killing or coup or anything. Maybe Paul thinks it'll go one of those ways, but instead it's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for lack of a better comparison. His relief at her being alive, the indescribable regret, love that is still there, all of that met with...nothing. Because Paul, kid, it's been twelve years. She's moved on. She's fighting her fight, and you are her political enemy and that is all you are. She can't even hate you, because *you* aren't the one betrayed her. For there to have been betrayal, that would mean she had to have loved and trusted you, and she never did. She loved and trusted Usul, and you're Emperor Muad'dib. The two do no equate. She will never love you again. But she can't hate you, because she doesn't even see you as a person - let alone one she used to love.

@fuckyeahisawthat idk if you have a counterpoint or thoughts or whatever i just wanted to tag u

[chvoswxtch]

nine albums that got me through 2024

thank you so much for the tag @thyme-in-a-bubble 🖤

in no particular order-

deeper well - kacey musgraves

-deeper well was like my anthem last year. a lot of growing, a lot of letting shit go, & a lot of letting people go that weren’t good for me. I actually got to go to this tour this year & it was LIFE CHANGING

the tortured poets department: the anthology - taylor swift

-I don’t think this one needs an explanation lmao. this album made me realize I’ve never gotten over anything in my life & that’s okay. I actually got to go to the black dog in london back in november & the brews were 10/10 & I did miss blondie while I was there

rumors- fleetwood mac

-I also got to see stevie nicks in concert last year & I thought I was gonna pass away. that woman is a literal witch bc I was ENTRANCED. she still sounds exactly the same & is still breathtaking. I literally bawled like a baby hearing landslide live 

take me back to eden- sleep token

-this was a big concert year for me, bc I also got to see them live. they’re one of my all time favorite bands. also vessel is literally a sorcerer bc it started raining during rain

inside- bo burnham

-2024 was a rough year for me, & I found myself playing this album a lot for a multitude of reasons, but especially after the election 🙃

megan- megan thee stallion

-I fucking LOVE megan the stallion. the cobra remix with spiritbox literally altered my brain chemistry. I want a whole album of that. my mood instantly improves as soon as one of her songs comes on. I listen to her music a lot when I lift weights 💪🏻

the rise and fall of a midwest princess- chappell roan

-don’t ask me how many times I listened to my kink is karma & redwine supernova (casual was up there too & good luck babe & basically the whole album)

short n’ sweet- sabrina carpenter

-I couldn’t stay away from this freaky lil polly pocket & I do love espresso 

the great impersonator- halsey

-halsey is my absolute favorite artist, & every time she puts out an album, it punches me right in the chest. I love all the blends of genres & styles on this one. this album didn’t get nearly any of the credit it deserved 

no pressure tags: @itwasthereaminuteago @phoenixe3 @sunflowersandsapphires @realfernmayo @desert-fern @hellskitchens-whore @pleasurebuttonwrites @quakeismyhero & anyone else that would like to join!