#I was crying the entire preview ugh

[thatgirl4815]

When I said I wanted to see Mew get revenge, I did NOT mean for that revenge to involve RUINING Sand and Ray's relationship HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COPE WITH THIS

[reginageorgesgirlfriend3020]

You forgot! (Part 3)

You were at the apartment mixing a song together. You recently got a job in a recording studio as an audio engineer and music producer. You were still pissed at Sam. I mean today is your one year anniversary with sam since you and her have been together for a year. You were hoping to do something romantic for her but you just couldn't focus on that as you were already starting to have trouble focusing on the mixing the song.

Sam unlocked the door to the apartment and opened the door and closed. "Hi baby!" She said. She smiled at you.

"Hi". You said quietly.

Anika and and Mindy were sitting at the table working together. Chad and Tara were watching a movie together. And Quinn was studying.

Sam walked towards you and tried to hug you as she put her hand on your back.

"Don't touch me!" You spat angrily.

Sam just looked at you. "Baby what's wrong?" She asked.

"What's wrong?! What's wrong?!" You yelled. You stood up. "You forgot our one anniversary you ass!" You yelled in front of everyone. Everybody looked at you. You walked away and slammed the door to the bedroom.

"I didn't forget our one year anniversary today is Friday and june- oh my gosh!" Said Sam.

"Sam how could you forget the one year anniversary of your own relationship?" Quinn asked.

"Because I'm freaking stupid". Said Sam.

"And dont forget you forgot to kiss your girlfriend goodnight and give her a goodnight hug". Said Anika.

"Yeah". Said Sam.

"And you forgot to tell your girlfriend goodnight beautiful". Said Chad.

"I dont mean to hurt her like this. Ugh I'm such a bad girlfriend!! I keep forgetting to do so many things for her and she never forgets to do things for me that I love and appreciate. What am I going to do?" Sam asked.

"You could say you're sorry". Said Mindy.

"Sorry may not be enough this time. When I had covid she took care of me. When I hurt my leg at work she helped me feel better. I'm so freaking lucky to have a girlfriend like her and I'm so freaking...ugh I'm so dumb!" Sam said frustrated at herself.

You stayed in the room the whole night watching movies on Netflix and working. You didn't even want your girlfriend to sleep next to you. You threw the pillows and blanket at her so she can sleep on the couch.

But while you were trying to sleep you just couldn't. And Sam couldn't sleep either. You opened the door to the bedroom and walked to see Sam still awake.

"I can't sleep". You said. "Will you come sleep next to me and hold me?" You asked Sam.

Sam smiled slightly. She nodded. "I'm coming baby". She took the blanket and the pillows into the bedroom. You got in bed as she got in bed too. As soon as Sam wrapped her arms around you, you wanted to cry.

"I'm sorry baby. I really am. I screwed up big time". Sam said.

"For our on year anniversary I got you the baseball hat you wanted. Plus a giftcard to Starbucks. It has $50 on it". You said.

"Thank baby. I feel so bad. I feel horrible. I promise tomorrow I'm gonna make it up to you. We can go anywhere you want". Sam said. "I keep screwing up I really am sorry". She said.

Sam held you tight as you hugged her. "I hate not sleeping next to you. I hate not sleeping on you". You said to Sam.

Sam kissed you on your forehead. "I have an idea. Tomorrow let's do whatever you want. What do you wanna do?" She asked you.

"Get iced coffee. Go to the collectibles place so I can buy the football Jersey. And go home and cuddle". You said.

Sam smiled. "We can definitely do that. I'll even take you to the bakery with the fancy desserts. We can eat chocolate cake together". Sam said.

You smiled. "I'd love that. But I'm still not letting you off the hook entirely. But because you apologized heres a little preview". You said.

You put her hands on your butt. "And who knows. Maybe tomorrow you may get lucky and get some lovin. A little sexy time". You said. Then you winked at her.

Sam smiled. "Oooh! Well dont worry baby I'm not ever gonna forget anything important ever again!!". And you giggled as Sam began to kiss you everywhere from your lips to your neck.

You started to moan. "Sam". You moaned as you said her name. "Baby. Our friends will hear us".

"Mmm". Said Sam. "I want them to hear us. I want them to hear you say my name". Sam said flirtatiously.

You smirked. "Oh, trust me. I'm gonna scream your name tonight". You said.

You and sam went from making love to having rough passionate sweaty sex. Sam fell asleep holding you in her arms as you fell asleep on her chest.

[geneeste]

Genie's SG-1 Rewatch: Singularity

Season 1, Episode 15. In which I have a VERY unexpected reaction to the setup to this episode, and then cry.

PREVIEW:

6:42 THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T PUT A LITERAL WELCOME SIGN ON A PLANET ANNOUNCING YOUR PRESENCE JFC “Dear Bad Guys, the SGC has an outpost here on this defenseless planet, please come kill everyone in it and send a doomsday device in the chest of a cute, traumatized little girl to destroy the SGC and all the stuff in a several-mile radius, kthxbai”

6:46 And now I’m getting upset that I don’t think they ever deal with the fact that it’s essentially their fault Hanka showed up on the Goa’uld radar at all And not in a “sometimes our presence has unintended, unforeseeable consequences” kind of way but in a “We were homicidally negligent in our treatment of this planet” way

5:10 Yay Singularity A nice palette cleanser after Hathor, ugh Lol Daniel “it’s black and it’s a hole” This man is a PhD

5:11 I love Sam’s spiraling hand gestures describing the matter entering the black hole Very cute, if dangerous

5:12 “Actually, it’s called the accretion disc” That’s my man, Jack Not just a pretty face

5:14 HEH Daniel’s slow on the uptake there Again, this man is a PhD

5:15 HEE Sam backing Jack’s knowledge up I loooooove it And I love them Sassy squared “Not initially” ew jack

5:17 Okay, hold up though — is this the first (and I’m pretty sure the last?) time we get this like road sign for a planet?

5:18 I am very confused by this thing, because I don’t think you’d want to advertise the SGC’s presence on this planet (HI GOAULD, WELCOME TO HANKA, ENJOY YOUR STAY!) And people from the SGC would certainly know who FROM THE SGC would be there

5:19 What is exactly the point of this highway sign aside from memorializing whoever Douglas McLean is (of blessed memory, I’m sure, not trying to be mean to this person)

5:20 What a weird ass thing to put here

5:22 Teal’c spidey sense is tingling Oh no poor guy I’m glad that they’ve put Daniel through at least some basic emergency protocols He springs right into action there

5:24 So one of the things that Mr Genie and I talk a lot about is that the US military would not send just 4 people through through an alien device to unknown territory

5:26 And I also have trouble suspending disbelief a little with remote bases on other planets because it’s veeeeerrrrry unlikely there’d be just a handful of people in these places ever So like SG1 showing up and wondering where everyone is...is just not something I think would actually happen

5:30 (Another random aside: I also sometimes wonder why they picked the Air Force as the managing service for the Stargate and not, say, the Army — I get it’s the most technology-oriented of the services and I am definitely biased toward them, but the USAF doesn’t really do infantry. I would have expected to see them either hand field operations over to the Army or see Joint Operations established waaaaaay earlier)

5:32 PM Oof they’re all dead I knew that was coming, but still, that sucks

5:33 WHY IS JANET’S HAIR DOWN AND WHY IS IT DOWN OFF WORLD The military doesn’t care if you’re pretty! JFC

5:34 Although yes, damn Janet is pretty Don’t distract me, you’re out of uniform!

5:36 Ugh is that a kid? I hate that (I mean I know other kids must have died but of course it upsets me to see it) 5:37 Do we ever find out if Cassie has any siblings? I wish we’d gotten more of her backstory

5:38 I feel like the story of her life before Sam and Janet was pretty thin considering this calamitous thing that happened hahaha Teal’c is making that face!

5:40 (I always thought it was RDA that said this, but apparently it was Michael Shanks who once took Chris Judge aside and was like, “you’re a handsome guy, why are you always doing that thing with your face???”) TEAL’C IS SO GENTLE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH My heeeeeeaaaaaart 5:41 Oh Sam, please stop telling the little girl who’s entire world was basically just murdered that everything’s okay

5:43 I like that Sam gets to be soft in this episode So often characters like hers don’t get to be soft without being punished in some way for it 5:45 Okay, so here’s the thing though I get why Sam would feel that SGC died for nothing if they didn’t study the black hole BUT I don’t understand the argument she’s trying to make about the rest of HANKA At this point there’s no reason to believe their deaths have anything to do with the phenomena so her curiosity comes across as really callous and selfish

5:49 That was a good bit of camera work, seeing the gate room from Cassie’s perspective It came across as pretty daunting

5:50 Oh my god Sam, why in the world would you think leaving a little girl whose WHOLE WORLD HAS JUST DIED in a concrete room on an unfamiliar planet by herself?

5:51 This isn’t even “never been a parent before” stuff, this is BASIC HUMAN DECENCY STUFF

5:52 why is Janet’s hair STILL DOWN It is way past her collar I don’t know why this is bugging me BUT IT IS REALLY BUGGING ME

5:54 Sam drawing herself into Cassie’s picture so she knows she’s not alone kills me every. time.

5:55 Y’all ever think about Cassie was trapped by herself on a planet surrounded by the corpses of everyone she ever knew

5:57 I hate that we didn’t see the real consequences from that in the show

5:57 PM sighs forever at this shows ongoing inability to handle real fallout on screen like 99% of the time

5:58 PM The scene with Jack explaining black holes to Teal’c is very funny but totally pointless Couldn’t we have skipped this and dealt with emotional stakes instead Did we just need to remind everyone that Jack and Teal’c are still on the planet? Lol

6:01 I love that silly grabby hands thing Sam does to Cassie in the infirmary Very much something I might do to make my kids laugh

6:02 Oh Cassie

6:03 “What? What do I do?” Aaaaahhhh Sam I feel ya honey, it’s the worst

6:04 Why are they doing CPR though? Is she not breathing? They didn’t say Cassie wasn’t breathing I’m confused Okay, so now she’s intubated that was fast Not sure what’s actually wrong here but it sucks all around

6:06 There’s...nothing attached to the breathing tube Why is it there Did they mean to place an airway? I AM VERY CONFUSED BY THIS DRAMATIC MEDICAL SCENE 6:13 Okay, not for nothing, but: if the show had chosen to pivot to Janet and Sam: Adoptive Moms/Life Partners Who Solve Mysteries, they would have had at least one viewer That viewer would have been me

6:14 I know this is a serious moment but this shot with that blue lighting is very flattering to Janet, Sam, and Daniel

6:15 Okay, I’m sorry, hold up again How exactly are they visualizing or trying to remove (or whatever it is they’re doing) Cassie’s chest bomb thing? Did they cut her open??? Is it minimally invasive surgery? What exactly is happening here 6:18 Are we saying it’s an intelligent tumor/bomb I never got this part of the story 6:20 This is a really sweet moment between Sam and Daniel Daniel is actually being kind and supportive and I love him for it Good job, Daniel

6:21 I love that Jack is enthusiastic about studying the black hole But I am a little annoyed that they let him enjoy this without making fun of him for it And that he gets to be proud of his knowledge of astronomy While Sam is so often set up and then mocked for her expertise/belittled for enjoying nerdy things  BUT WHATEVER I’M NOT BITTER

6:42 THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T PUT A LITERAL WELCOME SIGN ON A PLANET ANNOUNCING YOUR PRESENCE JFC “Dear Bad Guys, the SGC has an outpost here on this defenseless planet, please come kill everyone in it and send a doomsday device in the chest of a cute, traumatized little girl to destroy the SGC and all the stuff in a several-mile radius, kthxbai”

6:46 And now I’m getting upset that I don’t think they ever deal with the fact that it’s essentially their fault Hanka showed up on the Goa’uld radar at all And not in a “sometimes our presence has unintended, unforeseeable consequences” kind of way but in a “We were homicidally negligent in our treatment of this planet” way Like, I am kind of appalled now because I can’t unsee it Did they never talk to Cassie about this? Jesus Like holy shit this is several levels of terrible that I never thought about before

6:56 That is some amazing resolution on that telescope (not satellite, lol)  (Apologies, I’m pretty salty tonight)

7:00 And now I’m feeling very conflicted about using this little girl’s trauma as drama fodder for Sam Damn, I am looking at this ep in a whole new way (And also. I don’t buy Sam’s ‘military’ excuse for having to be detached. that doesn’t make sense to me at all)

7:02 Stepping back from the hella problematic setup of this storyline (and HOO BOY IS IT A BIG ONE), lots of potential Sam/Daniel shippyness in this ep I see solid friendship here but I totally get why someone would see a ship instead

7:05 Oh, so now you’re okay with sending additional backup to defend against one little girl but a few guys to protect an entire planet and probably a million dollar’s worth of equipment after you’ve broadcast your location to your deadliest enemy is fine Got it (Man. I am genuinely surprised by my reaction to this ep. Oof.) 7:10 I am begrudgingly acknowledging that this is a good shot of SG-1 I want it on the record that I am lodging this note on their attractiveness under protest 7:11 Heh “What about the abandoned nuclear facility at—“ “Right!” I suspect that bit of dialogue was inspired by military PA’s standard response to questions about nuclear weapons facilities: “I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at ____________.” @sharim28, 7:13 Hahaha yes convenient cut off Very smooth @geneeste, 7:14 So smooth Sam holding Cassie while she sleeps in the back of the truck is legit heartbreaking stahp I don’t want to feel things while I’m mad at you, show 7:16 Aahhhh Sam already knows she won’t be coming back up when Jack offers to take Cassie You can see it in her face That is some great acting by AT and MY HEART And I swear Jack has an inkling too It’s why he’s so insistent about the time 7:17 And that eye contact between her and Jack as the elevator doors close GAH Stupid show.

7:18 “Please, go back to sleep.” STOP IT I MEAN IT

7:19 This really is difficult to watch Poor Sam. Poor Cassie. Poor everybody.

7:21 Ahhhh Sam DON’T CRY SAM 7:22 That Jack switches from Captain Carter to Sam is just chefskiss.gif

7:23 So I love both the fact that Jack is desperately ordering Sam to come back up AND that Sam is desperately ignoring him Also perfection 7:24 (Don’t think I’ve forgotten the shitty thing you did show I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN I’M JUST TAKING A BREAK) Jack’s not leaving MY HEART 7:25 And also I love SG1 but of course Jack wouldn’t leave Cassie’s “I love you” really does feel earned here and that’s hard to do in such a short amount of time A testament to AT’s acting chops because I’m not feeling particularly charitable toward the writing right now 7:26 More great camerawork on Daniel and Teal’c I wonder who directed this ep

7:30 Mario Azzopardi — he hasn’t done much I recognize now. Peter Woeste on cinematography. Good work sirs. More good camera work on the guys 7:31 “We could have been wrong about the time.” “We could have been wrong about what would happen.” I love the drama but I’m mad about it 7:32 He switched to Sam again! I can’t wait to listen to this podcast ep of Chevrons Locked 7:34 PM Yes Daniel’s celebratory slap at Teal’c HA I love it 7:35 Why are we insisting on putting Sam in mom clothes Although I’m loving Teal’c's fashion

7:36 “A mother’s instinct, perhaps.” “Subtle, but no.” That is such a great little moment between Teal’c and Sam

7:38 Jack not so subtlety ushering the dog and the guys away

7:38 So sweet Big old softy Pretty sure that dog is walking Jack, but whatever

7:40 Sweet ending

7:41 I will never look at this episode or the whole storyline leading up to Cassie’s appearance the same way again, though Phew. That was an unexpected ride

7:42 Um. I just looked it up. Katie Stuart (Cassie) is a year older than me. Wut. the actress is frozen in my brain at 13 so this is very weird to discover

[m1ckeyb3rry]

Wait when you say it that way that’s too real LMAOO fr only a small handful of people to choose from in the first several eps but TWO DAYS…GUYS…….

SHSHS I hadn’t fully thought of it that way but stop that’s fr making me sad yukis pokemon being super strong and tough looking because he was training for battling…Lowk makes me want to think of his dynamics with his pokemon too I bet they’re all really protective of him because of it all too

Otoya doing the office stare is too funny imagine mini cuts to office interviews too LMAOO at some point he and Karasu keep doing it and readers like “what, did aegislash get you guys too”

SO REAL no because pikachu but big and gigantamax has gotta be the goofiest shit I’ve ever seen like HUHH also z moves….idk they just didn’t hit the same for me like the aura almost felt a little tacky BRING THE MEGAS BACK I fr would’ve wanted to see a lot more pokemon get megas ugh

HAHAH wait you should give him the mega Altaria im crying itd be funny if he occasionally like hides himself in the fluff and says some stupid ninja art phrase LMAO I’m loving the vibes though otoya entering battle with his giant fluffy cloud in tow

Omg I almost forgot about depressed Barou scene but yeah it’s just different on aiku ig??? I remember seeing that Barou scene and briefly being like ayo idk why it looks sm worse on Aiku LMAOOOO wait actually imagine if depressed Barou is actually what Barou’s dad kinda looks like

FR!! They definitely used to post a little more often I think they mentioned getting swamped by school the memes are always so funny though LOL TOO AGREEABLE wait like they’re working too well with the fic premise or is it something else sorry im being slow today LMAO but omg semi conversion?? Yes that easily rules out Karasu LMAO and Barou id assume…and Reo…? Starting to wonder if this is an explicitly opp fic I’ll wait for the grand reveal though LOLL

Humane euthanasia is sending me the otoya Tullia beef goes crazyyy but also OOO okok I kinda had a feeling it was a scenario specific thing LOL

As long as you’re having fun the fic will fs cook it’s the law of nature trust!!! LMAOOO a classic Mira piece 2k words in and we don’t even have the love interest yet that’s when you know it’s good fr and SAMEEEEEEE it’s actually so insane we’re finally here I’m soooo excited

PLEASEEE ITS THAT DUDE??? I’m crying the interactions you run into are like ACTUALLY insane I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that it’s the same dude??? Pause the Latina assumption is actually crazy in the way that they try to accuse/make fun of you not speaking Spanish?? I bet you had them gagged by saying “yeah well maybe because I’m not Latina” you just had a stacked night LMAOOO

- Karasu anon

SDKLFHSD yeah the choices were fr limited so i had to break my anti ginger streak but trust nagi appeared to save the day 😩 so no more kunigami stanning from me ever since then (i was lowkey thinking when i rewatched in dub that i might convert to kunigami again but ngl i didn’t really see the appeal for him the third time around i was just waiting for nagi and the karasu cameos HAHAH) but OMG i can’t believe it’s literally tomorrow??? actually insane i’m so hype (i’ve been seeing previews and stuff for it and it looks like it’ll be fun!! if anything the edits will be good)

no because since 99% of the time we’re joking about pursuit crack or talking about barou-related angst i feel like i forget that pretty much everyone else also has a really sad backstory SDKLJFHKSD like poor yukimiya (and in a similar vein chigiri) his entire career was actually destroyed because of something out of his control 😓 honestly out of everyone only tullia doesn’t really have a sad backstory…like otoya seems funny and silly but then you remember that he’s only even on a journey because his family is so reviled by society that that’s the only method he has to clear their name 😯 and of course the karasu/yayoi angst + pressure that he’s under, nagi’s LITERAL HOUSE AND PARENTS BURNING DOWN??? bro is straight up homeless which sounds quite goofy and silly but then you think about it more and it’s like hold on that’s heartbreaking lowkey…i think out of everyone yuki’s pokémon are def the most protective of him but in a way of respect?? like hiori’s pokémon treat him the way one would treat a child meanwhile to yuki’s team he is their idol and they’re super quick to defend him (hence when karasu and otoya are shit talking him his pokémon do not mess around and absolutely slam some sense into them)

HELP the way aegislash is just the narrator atp like he is the fourth wall 😭 can you imagine office style interviews just mixed into the drama of pursuit…like we have this intense gym battle going on and then it cuts to otoya being like “yeah i think tullia’s clothes are really fucking ugly and i wish she would change because it’s burning my eyes more than y/n’s houndoom’s inferno” or in the middle of one of reader’s near-death experiences it cuts to karasu explaining smth like “i always have a eulogy ready for y/n because i’m never sure when i’ll have to give it — the only thing i’ll have to change is the cause of death but otherwise it’s good!!”

from what i’ve heard they’re going to bring megas back for the next games (legends z-a) ngl i’m not planning to play but it IS set in kalos which is really cool i hope the game storyline and lore is fun!! and if they do bring megas back that they come up with cool and innovative designs and give them to pokémon that actually deserve or need them (i would kill for a mega flygon i think that would be fire)

i always forget technically otoya has a dragon too 😭 it’s just the prettiest fluffiest dragon imaginable so nothing like garchomp and hydreigon SDKJHFDK ykw would be funny is if hydreigon LOVES otoya’s altaria (they’re in the same egg group so it is possible) and just follows it around everywhere because it’s so obsessed meanwhile altaria wants nothing to do with it…mega altaria is actually really pretty though i think it would be even funnier if he only focuses on getting altaria to mega evolve because he doesn’t know that he has any other pokémon capable of it but then one day aiku offhandedly mentions that ampharos can mega evolve too and he’s like WHAT because this is a whole new world of opportunities (and bullying karasu) that have opened up for him

i think part of why it looks better on barou is because barou is giving that whole depressed dilf vibe that it just kinda works with?? like it fits the aesthetic of the moment whereas on aiku it’s just incongruous because he’s meant to be young and an active soccer player as well as super flirty and outgoing so the stubble isn’t serving the same purpose and just takes away from his character a bit

honestly getting swamped is too real i can’t blame them KFLHSLKJD i’ve not had my full fall disappearance yet (i doubt i will this year ngl) but i def do slow down in the fall so that’s super understandable…trust once december roll as around i will be so productive again most likely LMAOAOA but yeah the character is just fitting the premise of the fic super well!! it’s like hard to describe to other people but when i’m writing there’s some characters that are easy to adapt to any plot or situation (i think i’ve mentioned this before but karasu is one) and others that are a lot more rigid and don’t fit into a lot of different scenarios (such as nagi) and i really like when characters are more versatile because it means i can have more fun with writing them and playing around with what i want them to do for me at any given moment!! sadly this character (you’re right it’s not karasu or barou hehe) is proving himself to be quite amicable to whatever au i place him in which means i SHOULD like him unfortunately for the stans i don’t think it’s enough for me to convert but i do see why so many people write for him now

the otoya tullia beef is my favorite thing ever because unlike most beef i write (karasu vs yukimiya for example) it is very much so two sided SLKDJHFSD like they both mess with each other constantly but ngl i feel like they’re also the first to be on each other’s side too if that makes sense?? one of those “nobody’s allowed to fuck with them but me” relationships where they are each other’s BIGGEST opps but if a random tries to get involved they’re suddenly an iconic duo that won’t take shit from anyone ����

AHAH I HOPE SO it’s taking me a bit to write but hopefully it won’t be tooooo much longer so i can fully focus on season 2 coming out!! LMAO yeah like usual it’s ending up longer than anticipated and i wasn’t even anticipating anything so that’s how yk this is just a me problem 😩 i can’t wait to watch the new ep though hehe trust i will be seated and ready for it with a bowl of popcorn come tomorrow TRUST i can’t wait to see karasu on the big screen (by which i mean my ipad ofc) as well as nagi ofc!! and the others too but those two specifically for obvious reasons

you know what the insane thing is it’s actually not the same dude LSKDJFHSK there were three guys that night contributing to the lore: coke guy who screamed at us and kicked us out of the party, spicy white guy who asked for my instagram and wanted to take me to dinner but never actually asked me out the next day like i told him to (i was just trying to reject him by saying i was too drunk to answer ngl so he told me he’d dm me the next day and then never did), and the linkedin guy LMAOAOAOA so yeah truly an insane night and all of these events happened within the span of three or so hours i think so like you said…crazy interactions all around…but yeah people are either shocked or embarrassed when i correct their assumptions about my ethnicity HAHAH i never really thought i looked like anything but indian so i used to be really confused when people didn’t realize i was??? but considering how literally nobody realizes i am i guess it’s not that obvious…one time an acquaintance of mine was telling me about some event she was going to and i was like “oh that sounds fun what is it for” and she was like “oh it’s just some indian thing” i was like ??? i AM indian bro that’s why i want to know what the event is 😭 and then when i showed up she was shocked i was there and understood what was going on so atp i’ve just given up 😩

[bunathebunny]

It is a bit too early to look back but... well it is December and I will probably spend the rest December crying over a broken heart so better early than never UwU

anyway in 2023, I have written 121582 words in total. Yay!

As you can see here, the top five fics sorted by hits!!!

At the top, you can see one of the zhongxiao fics. Incomplete because ugh... I might have forgotten its existence until today... whoopsie...

Under is a littol preview of the fic. Read it here, if you want.

"Adepti has no need for food," he says. The You knew this went unsaid but not unheard.  "It is as you said," Morax replies, indulgently. Cups his cheek in a stone-breaking hand, all delicately like he is holding a precious, prone-to-bruise flower, and he says: "Adepti do not need food but my dear, would you not do me this little favor?"

And then, of course, we go into my HSR era. *clown noises*

The second in term of hits... a yuanqing fic. An omegaverse one. And I have some fondness for this one UwU

Under, of course, is a littol preview of the fic. Read it here, if you want.

When he was younger, Yanqing used to fall into Jing Yuan’s laps and put his ear against his chest while Jing Yuan read whatever he had on hand outloud to him. The steady heartbeat combined with the warm voice of his master would lull him to sleep and the next thing Yanqing knew, he would wake up in Jing Yuan’s nest, next to his napping master. And the steady beat of Jing Yuan’s heart would be the gravity that tethers him to the world. And the warm voice that dripped into his ears would be the balm against the ache that gnawed at his young body. And the rise and fall of Jing Yuan’s chest would be the sight that Yanqing fell asleep to again and again. But that was when Yanqing was younger. When he had not a care in the world about how he was viewed.

The third in terms of hits... also a yuanqing fic. Also an omegaverse one. I have mixed feelings on it but ugh... I'm glad people like it?

Under is a tiiinyyy preview. And you can read it here, if you want to.

"I can handle a little pain," he says. "It cannot be too different from shedding blood from sparring, can it?" He grins in the same boyish way he usually does before he steps into the ring. The worry, the anxiety that churns almost unseen below the surface is briefly overshadowed by the careless nature of youth.  Flicking him on the forehead with no less fondness than before, Jing Yuan can only be exasperated by the simple line of thought. 

The brashness of youth really is something.

Fourth on the list is... *drumrolls* a renqing fic UwU. My one and only renqing fic. As of now, anyway...

Though yes, it is not well-written. How i portrayed them was very... naive. Very green of me, to be honest. But I do understand that there are good parts in the fic. And very glad people like it UwU

A littol preview. And also you can read it here, if you want.

The General acknowledges his strength and so Yanqing must do his best to lessen his worries. That, of course, may or may not involve chasing down the wanted criminal that the General had refused to grant him permission to chase after. He will recapture Blade, and if possible, immobilize Kafka as well. Then, the General might get a bit angry that he disobeyed his order but even then, he would not withhold his praise when Yanqing has done so well, would he? It is always easier to beg for forgiveness than permission. 

Fifth, and also last of the top five sorted by hits... *duck squacks* lanqing!!! one of my few lanqing fics YooY

If you know me, you know I have a fondness for Lan and Yanqing. In a shippy way, by the way.

A littol preview of this cute fic UwU. And also you can read it here, if you like UwU

The Xianzhou Alliance practices the ceremonial sacrifice of the best trainees among those who seek a place within the Cloud Knight. From each of the six fleets, only one is chosen and from there, the decision is entirely out of their hands. It is their Archer Lord of Fate who chooses the sacrifice. It is their arrow that befalls the one among the six that draws their attention.  And with it, the blessing and guidance of The Hunt rains down upon the Xianzhou Alliance.  To no one's surprise, the arrow of the Reignbow Arbiter seeks out Yanqing. The blinding white arrow falls from the sky and runs through him, leaving nothing and disturbing nothing in its wake. 

And also! Introducing the five longest fics this year!

Of these five fics, three are familiar names. Scroll up to see them.

The other two, however, are among my pride and joy. I wouldn't call it the yuanqing fic that I have ever written but like. Pride and joy.

The second longest one is written because a tweet hit me so hard. It was also the fic that brought me to Yuanqingyuan Clubhouse UwU. I have very fond memories of it.

I haven't replied to the comments in there tho... I just want to hoard them in my inbox forever UwU but I will let them go... oneday.

And so, littol preview of the fic UwU. And also here, you can read it, if you want.

In retrospect, being an alpha would permit Yanqing to lead an easier life in the Cloud Knights. Most of the Cloud Knights are either alphas or betas - social stigmas aside, omegas are often engaged, willingly or not, the moment they present and so, few have the ability to balance between work and personal life, especially in a profession that is as demanding as this. Had Yanqing presented as an omega, however, Jing Yuan would not just willingly wed him away. Yanqing would not agree to that, for one. And Jing Yuan would not have the heart to part with his long-time companion. Even if Yanqing wanted to retire and devote himself to housekeeping like many omegas have chosen, Jing Yuan can still provide for them both.  But Yanqing having presented as an alpha opens up a whole new host of questions that Jing Yuan is totally unprepared for.

Now... the third longest one... *deep breath*

Ok but this one. This one. It is one of this year's masterpieces. And also my lanqing masterpiece. Granted, there's not many competition but also like. The point stands.

Under is a littol preview for the fic. And of course, you can read it here, if you want.

The moment the Lux Arrow hits its target is announced by a brilliant flash of light. Yanqing tries for a few more steps before the shockwave of the explosion shoves him to his knees. His head knocks against the ground and his eyes is blinded from the pain but his fingers find the longevity lock and he fits it in his palm, praying that even if the heat scorches, even if his head is dizzy and his ears numbed, the longevity lock would survive intact - if only so his body can be found and identified and shed light upon his disappearance so his General would have the appropriate closure that, hopefully, will help ease the sting. He lies in the dirt, breathing hard and every breath that he takes, more and more of disbelief sets in. Every moment that he can feel the metal warmed by his body, every tick of silence between the dizziness in his head… Yanqing laughs, squeezes his eyes close and hugs the longevity lock to his chest. Surprised and almost insane from the unbelievable luck.  "You two are alike." He jerks. Jolts to his feet, stumbling on his shaking legs and stares up at the being that looms above. Lan of many names - Reignbow Arbiter, the Hunt - stands before him.

And next, and lastly, we have *drumrolls* the most bookmarked fics.

Again, three of them are familiar names. Scroll up to see them, please.

The first one is... well I have some fondness for it. But like it's not very special in my heart. I think it's mostly because i wrote it too fast so...

Anyway... preview. And you can read it here, if you want.

There is a child lost amidst the remnants of the battlefield. There is a child who takes one look at Jing Yuan and brightens up like a miniature sun.  “Little one,” Baiheng squats down when they finally manage to coax him off Jing Yuan. “Where are your parents?” The little child who has now been coaxed away from hugging Jing Yuan’s middle with all of his tiny body blinks those bright eyes. And with a grin, he says the most discerning things in the usual cheerful voice that children possess: “I don’t know.”

The third one... now... yeah... this is the result of me realizing I also like bottom Jing Yuan. And also Lan/Jing Yuan ehehe :3c

A littol preview for this lovely fic. And also here, you can read it if you want.

Jing Yuan lies in bed, asleep but not free from the torment that the Destruction brought. His injuries seem to have been treated and yet, Lan can see - with the vision that exceeds that of a mortal's - the gold of Nanook dripping out from those gashes. Lan is not one prone for possessiveness. However, they do not cede what is theirs. And Jing Yuan is theirs. Has been theirs for centuries. 

And that, folks, is the end of the special edition of bunny writing 2023 YoY

I will be back with the second part featuring my favorites out of the many fics I have written this year :3c

[cobrakaisb]

top gun: umich

summary: what if would be like to watch said movie with the umich guys

warnings: chaos, very brief spoilers (but nothing from the movie is mentioned except the football scene)

words: 645

“guys, what if we went to see top gun maverick? there’s one in like an hour,” you asked, scrolling through your phone. “i mean we could,” kent mumbled, leaning over your shoulder to look at your phone. “how many tickets are there? can we all fit?” nick asked. “uhm the entire theater is empty. we can definitely go,” you said, showing him the select your tickets screen, where every seat was empty. 

“alright let’s go,” he said, and everyone agreed. suddenly the whole group is walking out the door towards the movies. since there’s a theater ten minutes off campus, you guys just decided to walk. “i’m playing danger zone to get us in the mood,” you announced, queuing up the song. once the opening chords come in, everyone starts screaming the lyrics. 

finally, at the movies, nick and summers go to buy the tickets while everyone else goes to get snacks. “y/n what do you want?” brendan asked, pulling out his wallet to pay for your snacks. “um a cherry slushie please,” you responded with a big smile on your face. brendan nods, buying you the drink, handing it to you when the poor teenager running the concessions gives it to him. “alright let’s go or else we’ll miss the previews,” mark said, grabbing your hand as the two of you ran ahead to the theater. 

it turns out that you guys had the whole theater to yourselves because by the time the opening scenes come on, no one else is in the room. “is this the same scene from the 80s?” thomas shouts. “lame boo! tomato, tomato, tomato, throwing tomatoes!” brendan shouts, throwing some popcorn at the movie screen. “oh my god bren don’t embarrass us,” matty shouts, scolding his roommate. 

“guys stop look at tom cruise! isn’t he so fine?” you shout, pointing to the very attractive man on the screen. “he’s alright,” nolan answers, causing a loud gasp to come from your mouth. “take that back moyle!” you shouted, and more laughs echoed throughout the theater. the movie continues, you guys making comments every once in a while. then, the scene you’d been waiting for came on: them playing football. 

“oh my god she’s literally drooling!” kent shouted, pointing at you. “shut up kent! look at miles teller, he is doing god’s work with that mustache. what do you do? stick out your tongue when you score? yeah, mind your own business,” you snapped, eyes focusing back on the attractive man known as rooster in the movie. “damn kent. you got served,” luke observed. “yeah thanks hughes,” kent griped, arms crossed with a small pout on his face. 

“guys! nick is crying!” nolan shouted. “i am not,” came the captain’s very weak defense. “eddy is crying too!” “so are thom and brendan!” “add owen and kent to the listen!” “oh my god guys, y/n is sobbing what do i do?” mackie asked, a panicked look on his face.

“no way that plane flies!” steve shouted. “shut up steve it’s a movie,” jacob replied, knowing that he would go on a tangent that involved engineering concepts nobody but him understood. 

“how did tom cruise not die?” summers shouted. “ugh here we go!” micheal complained.  

finally, after two hours, the movie ended. “so did you like the movie y/n?” owen asked you left the theater. “hmm? yeah it was great. 10/10,” you mumbled, typing away on your phone. “what are you doing?” dylan asked, coming up next to you. before you could respond, the freshman snathced your phone. “oh my god! guys she’s looking up the nearest base!” he exposed you between wheezes. “how else am i going to find a miles teller? i need that this summer,” you explained, snatching your phone back. everyone laughed as you all left the theater to go home and debrief the movie.

[krappykawa]

Hi !!! can I request oikawa, osamu, hinata (+ whoever you feel like adding) reacting to their female s/o calling them "hubby" (they have never used that nickname before since it's supposed to refer to a husband) to see their reaction??? i just saw this as a tiktok prank and they were like "omg you wanna marry me??? im definitely gonna marry you" and now im sobbing so precious 🥺🥺🥺

reacting to s/o calling them hubby

characters. oikawa x f!reader, osamu x f!reader, hinata x f!reader

note. in every scenario, reader is internet famous & posts little previews of their life on tik tok!

note 2. sorry for not posting in a while,, school started again and i’ve been mentally drained but i will try and finish other requests soon!

OIKAWA.

- you guys are filming a snack review video because oikawa lost all self control while grocery shopping and literally was picking things off the shelf left and right

- he insists that he’ll finish them this time but you know that’s a lie

- but you also decide that it’s also the perfect time to try out this tik tok prank on him so he won’t be suspicious of the camera

- the camera is set up and everything so now all you have to do is say it

- “hey guys today we’re going to do a snack review because my husband bought wayyy too many snacks” cute rolling eyes and cute little smile directed at oikawa that makes your watchers go 🥺🥺

- IT TAKES HIM SO LONG TO REALIZE

- like you’re literally staring at him waiting for him to realize but he doesn’t

- you’re halfway through opening your first bag when he finally realizes

- “WAIT”

- you look to the camera to make sure you’re filming this whole thing

- “you said husband.”

- “i did?”

- “YEAH! you did. i heard you say it.”

- “no i didn’t!”

- “check the video y/n-chan. i heard you say it.”

- he makes you replay the video because he will whine and pout until he makes sure that you hear it

- practically lights up when he hears it again

- “hmm does that mean you wanna marry me yn-chan?”

- “no it doesn’t”

- he notices the small blush on your cheeks points all over your face. “ooo you wanna marry me so bad huh?”

- the living incarnation of the 😏 emoji

- big cocky smile on his face bc he takes it as an accomplishment that you called him your husband on accident

- his eyes are secretly all teary-eyed though because HUSBAND?,$3;!9 💓💓💓💓💖💞💘💞💘

- he decides right there and then that he’s gonna propose soon because he thinks his heart physically bursts at the idea of you calling him husband for real

- the only reason he doesn’t propose right there is because 1. he doesn’t have a ring and 2. his an extra little bitch that wants to keep you on your toes while also making sure that his proposal is so good that you’ll end up crying happy tears

- when you post the video on tik tok oikawa makes sure to like every single comment that says “THEY’RE SUCH A CUTE COUPLE UGH WHY DONT THEY JUST GET MARRIED ALREADY”

OSAMU.

- his ass loves food so he literally lights up at the idea of doing a mukbang

- at first he insists that you don’t film it because he’s lowkey creeped out about the idea of eating in front of a camera just for people to listen to him eat

- he finally agrees to filming it when you promise to make the mukbang have all his favorite foods

- what he doesn’t know is that you’re simultaneously trying a tik tok prank on him

- “hey guys! welcome back to my channel! today we have a special guest, my husband, osamu because we’re doing a mukbang and you will always find this guy with food in his mouth, no joke.”

- he catches your little slip-up right away

- “husand huh? ya got something ya wanna say?”

- doesn’t even care that there’s a camera in front of you (he thinks you’ll just edit it out anyway)

- you play innocent because where’s the fun in telling him it’s for a tik tok right away?? “hmm what are you on about miya?”

- “what i’m on about is that yer telling me that you want to be a miya.”

- WEE WOO WEE WOO OSAMU EYEBROW RAISE WEE WOOO WEE WOO

- “i guess i do like the ring on miya y/n”

- “is this a proposal then?”

- cue shit-eating grin from you. “nah, the man in question isn’t here. you don’t happen to know atsumu’s ring size do you?”

- osamu’s little impish grin drops so quick and now he’s playfully glaring at you

- “ya say shit like that again and i’ll make ‘sumu switch places with me on the altar when we get married.”

- you're laughing into your knee at that point until you make a realization

- “wait. you said when we get married. not if.”

- “i didn’t stutter did i miya?”

- tik tok comments blow up with squealing fans bc OHMYGSOJD

HINATA.

- you’re a proud gf so you’re more than happy when someone asks you to live stream with your volleyball famous bf

- you also thought it might be a good time to pull this prank on him that you saw on tik tok and get his reaction on live camera because it’s bound to be funny since he’s hinata

- after one of his games you run up to him and hug him before telling him that your followers wanted to live stream with him

- “oh ive seen those!! i’d love to say hi to your fans!! do they know i play volleyball??”

- “yes, babe that’s the whole reason they wanted to meet you.”

- “REALLY???”

- you laugh at how cute he is and then turn on the live

- “hey guys, the long wait is over! here i am with my husband, world famous hinata shoyo! he just finished a game and-”

- “HUSBAND?” he interrupts you and he looks kind of giddy at the prospect. “does this mean you want to marry me y/n??” blushy happy hinata because you bet your ass he’s thought about it before but just didn’t know how to go about talking to you about the idea of marriage

- “what happens if i say yes?” you’ve thought about it too, so you playfully entertain his excitement.

- “then let’s get married!”

- you have to do a double take because you didn’t think he was actually serious. “wait really?”

- “you want to right? that’s what you said!”

- “of course i do! i just didn’t think you would propose right here right now.”

- “why not? i love you, you love me. you want to get married, i want to get married. so let’s get married!”

- the comments are blowing up because oh my god you just managed to accidentally capture your future husband’s proposal on an instagram live

- bokuto and atsumu overheard the whole thing and tackled the two of you into a group hug

- let’s just say your live ended on a frame of bokuto’s face close up because he’s so happy that “the student is getting married!!!”

- atsumu pulls out of the hug for a second and being the little shit he is, runs to the locker room and comes back with a ring pop

- “can’t propose without a ring shoyo! where are yer manners??”

- hinata actually gets down on one knee and proposes with the ring pop and you’re so red because at this point the entire stadium is watching

- you say yes anyway

[unnecessary-dinosaurs]

SEASON FIVE SPOILERS AHEAD

so i wrote down my thoughts/reactions to each episode and here they are

s5 thoughts

ep1

they acknowledged kenji’s beard!

MAE I LOVE YOU

10 minutes in and daniel kon is already such a good villain

am i crazy or is brookenji growing on me

THE SLEEPOVER SCENE OMG IM GONNA CRY

ummm mr kon? hello?

ep2

“bro and girlf” kenji what

already hate mr kon

THAT ENDING UGH I MISSED THEM

ep3

the fighting between kash and me kon is so good.

wait never mind kash is dead. whoop.

biosyn??

YES YOU ARE FAMILY KENJI DONT SAY THAT

also that entire episode was just so great.

ep 4

NUBLAR i missed you

WHITE SHIRT KENJI YESSS

THEYRE GOING TO THE PENTHOUSE?!?

THE FLASHBACKS IM DYING

ben talking about kenji making fun of him in s1

DAVE AND ROXIE AND BRAND AAAA IM GONNA THROW UP THIS IS AMAZING OMG HELP

that episode really just went out of its way to be amazing

ep 5

dave roxie and brand all have such a good dynamic

YES DISTRESS BEACON ANSWERS FUCKING FINALLY

no way they brought back the drone from s3 how was that so well thought out

kenji giving toro a fist bump.

ep 6

tim apple is here everyone

this race idea for s’mores is so cute i’m obsessed

KENJI AND BUMPY

kenji protecting bumpy because she’s ben’s

there are dilophosaurs on nublar??

dodgson gettin a little preview of dilophosaurs attacking i see

i should not be this happy that the compys got to eat someone

NO THE KIDS ALL HAVING FUN WITHOUT KENJI

i did not think we’d be spending this much time on nublar but i love it

ep 7

WATERING HOLE CALLBACK

“MORE THAN BEST FRIENDS?” YAZ??? GAY??

YASAMMY AAAAAAA

BENS SAMMY IMPRESSION

DINOSAURS KEEP SHOWING UP RIGHT BEFORE YAZ IS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING GAY UGH

“maybe answering those questions doesn’t matter” no i’m not crying omg

ITS HAPPENING OMG OKAY NO ONE PANIC

literally just the yasammy episode

ep 8

“a camp counselor is basically the same thing as a sibling, except even better.”

NOO BUMPY

KENJI AND MAE

literally mae is such a good character

mae and dave and roxie and brand i will pass away

ep 9

ben is the best wingman ever

YASAMMY KISS OMG AAAAA YASAMMY KISS AAAA HOLY SHIT I CANT BELIEVE IT WHAT THE AAAAAAAA HSKAHSKSNSKASAJIP

ben is literally going to kill kenji

ep 10

YAZ AND SAMMY ARE SO CUTE HELP

the ben/bumpy scene was so saddd

i literally thought bumpy was gonna kill ben for a sec there

KENJI AND BEN i’m freaking out finally some good interactions from them

ep 11

literally forgot i was writing down my reactions because i was having so much fun with this episode. but in short, i cried. a lot.

ep 12

IM FUCKING XRYING SO HARD RIGHT NOW DONT TOUCH ME IM IN ACTUAL PAIN IM CRYING SO HARD

[softomi]

now accepting boyfriend applications.

based on my fic idea: you’ve just become newly single, in a drunken fit, you posted a status indicating you’re accepting applications for your next boyfriend. Oddly, three boys take you up on that; sending in their most professional resumes for the position. It seems there’s some fierce competitors. 

next up: literature

It hurt, why wouldn’t it hurt. Your boyfriend of almost two years dumped you over text message with no warning and his reason? He just wasn’t feeling it anymore, what the fuck. Well, twenty phone calls, a hundred text messages sent to him, and a pretty nasty voicemail. The moment you realized just how crazy you were being was when you began pounding on his door at almost ten at night. His neighbors poking their head out to stare, and it really smacked you in the face how stupid you were being.

So you threw caution into the wind. it’s a Wednesday night, your first class tomorrow didn’t start until noon and you’re literature teacher was more of a lecturer so she probably won’t notice if you’re hung over. If anything, you could always ask the guy next to you for the notes.

Thus, you decide to throw back shots to your heart’s desire, sitting in the middle of your tiny studio apartment, on your bed to scream and cry at the romance movie. Love is dead. You groan loudly when your neighbor knocks against the wall, trying to tell you to promptly shut the fuck up.

Halfway through the movie, your mind is already swaying. Your throat stings just momentarily and you sip your cheap wine in hope it’ll dull the shots you had taken previously. When the male protagonist kisses the beautiful female of his dreams, you promptly chug the rest of the wine in your glass. Upset at their love, you wrap your lips around the tip of the wine bottle, drinking straight from it.

“I can find someone better.” You’ve reached a different point in your post break up sadness, you were mixed with anger, sadness, and an overall feeling of I’ll find someone with a better dick.

It’s never a good decision to post on social media while drunk, but it’s a great decision right now. You were going to post a ‘newly single’ status. Just to be nice and not spam everyone, you think you’ll just post it to your private account for your five friends to see. You’ve clearly neglected that step when you press post and it uploads to your public twitter account.

The urge to hurl takes priority over the sudden notifications on your phone. Your hair disheveled as you’re trying to hold onto the toilet, hold onto your hair, and throw up at the same time. The romance film comes to an end once you’ve fully emptied your stomach. You shove all the things off your bed, food falling onto the floor, empty bottle of wine rolled under your bed, remote lost somewhere. You fall asleep despite your cell phone going off.

The alarm jolts you, it causes you to scream, your palm slapping the snooze button and you aggressively pull the wire so that it comes out of the socket. Your head is throbbing and your cell phone is ringing at the same time. Annoyed, your hand stretches along the bed trying to find your cell. When you come emptyhanded, you sit up. Your hand steading the pulsing of your brain and you spot your phone ringing and vibrating on the ground.

“What?” You spit out, not bothering to look at the contact as you try to block out the sun.

“What do you mean what?” The voice snaps at you, “You post about boyfriend applications all of a sudden, did you guys break up?”

Of course he would be the one calling you, the person who loves gossip more than you do, “Tooru, can you like shut up for a second.” Your brain is dying and he’s over here trying to get the latest dish on your love life, “He dumped me okay.”

“That asshole.” He gasps, “Do you want me to come over?”

You look at the time on your cell briefly, “No. I have class all day. If you’re free later?”

“Of course!”

The phone call ends and rather than getting ready for the class you have in an hour, you’re checking your notifications. You have about twenty missed calls from Oikawa, another thirty text messages from him, he even left a voicemail; god he must have been desperate. Facebook is bland, you spent most of your time on Instagram deleting the photos of your now ex, and rarely do you ever get Twitter notifications. Oddly, you have fifteen notifications; all coming from your public account.

haha, boyfriend applications are official open. only taking serious apps lol

“No.” You sit up.

It wasn’t your post that freaked you out, it wasn’t that somehow it ended up on your public account, no you could delete it and pretend as if no one saw it but people saw it.

Is she serious?

If she is, I’m down.

What does serious applications mean?

Three comments, five likes, and four retweets.

And three unread messages.

Your finger rushes to delete the tweet before it can be retweeted even more by random classmates. All was good now. Your finger presses onto the message icon, you’re confronted with the icons of three of your classmates.

The most recent is from Miya Atsumu, a terrible flirt in your biology class. He chose the seat next to you in lab when his friends ditched him and hoarded their own table. He spun around in his chair, shooting you a cheeky grin when you briefly looked at him.

His first sentence was, “Hey you’re cute.”

And yours was, “I have a boyfriend.”.

You skip over his message upon spotting his use of sweetheart in the preview.

The next icon is of the guy in your intro to business class, Kuroo Tetsuro. The first time you saw him was outside of the classroom, you two ended up accidentally reaching the doors at the same time. He lets you go in first and the both of you chose the seats farthest from the board, and closest to the door. Despite his bed hair that made him look like he was going to sleep the entire class, he was a rather studious guy; chill but smart, he was a business major after all.

“Did you understand anything he was saying?” You murmur to him as you grab your bag.

“Of course!” He states, “I don’t look at twitter on my laptop when he’s lecturing.” Ah, he caught you.

Your eyes briefly scan the preview, he’s saying something about a resume and you think he’s talking about the homework assignment. You’re about to click on his first when the last catches your eye.

It’s from Akaashi Keiji. On the first day of class, you were late due to waiting in line for coffee. You awkwardly opened the door to the classroom, everyone turning to stare, and you lower your head, choosing a random seat that now you’re stuck with for the rest of the semester because that’s just how college works. The professor goes over the syllabus and suddenly announces that the person sitting to your right will be your revision partner for the semester.

“Hey.” You stop him and for a brief minute you feel your heart skip a beat because he was absolutely pretty, “Sorry, I’m Y/n. Since we’re going to be partners, do you want to exchange info?”.

“Uh. Sure. I’m Akaashi Keiji.”

“I’m going to be late for my business class. Do you have twitter?” You were never a fan of giving your phone number out. Before he can answer, you’re scribbling your username onto a piece of paper, placing it on his desk before running out to catch your next class.

His message is brief: Did you get my email?

You click his message first; it must have been urgent if he messaged and emailed you. There’s nothing else to his message, his previous one dates almost a week before his current one, telling you that he finished reading the book you recommended and that he enjoyed it.

The screen is pulled up with your finger, alternating apps to your personal email. The subject of his email simply reads Application.

Curiously, you click the attachment he’s sent with no body text. Your jaw dropped, hand placed over your open mouth and a small scream emitting.

“Is he fucking serious?”

His name is displayed at the top, along with his birthday, star sign, zodiac sign, age, even the pronouns he uses. There’s a short sentence under it. I am submitting an application for the position of Boyfriend. You’re internally screaming, blinking fast hoping that this was a joke but his ‘application’ reads like a resume. It lists his education from middle school to his current, his previous jobs, his skills, and his own personal goals for the future.

Your blushing profusely, you want to pull your hair, scream, even throw your phone but you shove down the feelings that want to have you die of embarrassment. You don’t have the energy to sadly explain to him that you were drunk and weren’t serious; ugh and you’re going to have to continue seeing him for the rest of the semester.

You revert back to twitter; your heart suddenly drops when you think about Kuroo’s message. Quickly, you pull up the messages, clicking his and suddenly you want dig yourself a grave because he’s sent a link to a pdf and it’s simply titled Resume. He probably used a resume template and never changed the title.

And sure enough, it’s a fucking professional resume declaring the certain skills he has to be your boyfriend. In fact, like the professional business major he is, he includes a letter of intent; indicating his reasons of interest for the position. It details the little quirks he finds cute about you. You want to break your phone in half with how red in the face you feel.

As you exit his message, you’re slowly praying that Atsumu’s message is just a random flirty comment that he occasionally likes to throw you once in a while or perhaps you’re hoping that he fell in a ditch and you won’t have to work with him for the rest of the semester since he almost blew up the lab station last time.

Nope, it’s a link to a google document. Oddly, you click it. Your heart has sunk to the pit of the earth because when you open the document, you see his fucking name in the upper right corner indicating he’s still on the stupid document.

Fuck fuck fuck. You’re running away from the document, aggressively leaving the page but it doesn’t help that when you end up back at your twitter messages, you can see the three dots, telling you he’s typing.

Morning sweetheart hope you enjoy the app

He sends it with a flirty wink and you stare at it for five full minutes. Curiosity gets the best of you and you click back onto his link, he’s no longer on the same document and you sigh safely. For someone who’s barely passing biology, his document was rather professionally detailed. Damn, he’s on the school’s volleyball team? Weirdly the page cuts off halfway, you continue to scroll until the next title page boldly states: Bedroom skills.

It didn’t help that you were scrolling a little too fast and caught sight of an image showing off his toned upper body. There goes his professionalism.

Your phone suddenly blares low battery, your screen turns black and now your anxiety is through the roof. You jump on your bed, trying to plug in your phone and you’ve just now realized that it is thirty minutes until your first class starts and it is literature. You’re scrambling to find your laptop, you trip on the bag of chips from last night, awkwardly trying to stand as you reach for your school bag.

“Shit!” You scream. You suddenly remember letting your stupid ex-boyfriend borrow your laptop.

You fall to the floor, fingers pulling your hair as you suddenly think about the deep shit your in. First, your boyfriend dumped you, now you randomly have three guys who sent you applications to be your next boyfriend and you’re still going to have to see them for the rest of the semester if you reject them. Lastly, you’re going to have to go to your ex’s place to get your laptop after having made a scene yesterday, and your phone is dead so you can’t cry to Oikawa about the deep shit you’re in.

[createandconstruct]

can i ask about amarant coral? the monk in red himself~

Can you ask about Amarant Coral? *cracks fingers* Oh I insist that you do. Welcome to my Amarant Appreciation Post:

favorite thing about them: First off best thing about Amarant? His theme. The percussion and the guitar. It’s great and it captures him so well. People out here like “take Amarant out of the game he adds nothing.” EXCUSE ME? You remove the Amarant you remove the Amarant Theme my friend and that is something I do NOT vibe with. 

least favorite thing about them: I wanna know more about him. Now Amarant doesn’t need a backstory or history in the game. In a sense, he already has one that connects him to Zidane and explains his motives and actions and eventual arc. But my issue is, Square never gave him anything else. If you look at Ultimania there’s additional lore about other characters, like Steiner for instance. You learn Steiner was a war orphan who was saved by the Pluto Knights - explaining his devotion to them. Amarant though? Square was like “uh... yeah he was born....? And then he uh got famous...? Idk then he met Zidane. You figure it out.” Square. I hate you. 18 years from his birth until he became “well known”. WHAT WAS HE DOING. WHY’D HE BECOME A SECURITY GUARD. WHAT WAS ON HIS RESUME. TELL MEEEE. Like, okay, what the actual in-game canon gives us on Amarant is sort of enough. He’s a purposely written mysterious “cool-guy” character so we’re given scraps to make him unknown but come on. In the published after-game canon, like Ultimania, we could have been given a bit more. He says he doesn’t remember anything about his origins or parents, but why. Was he another victim of Gaia’s wars? Probably. Was he born on a battlefield? Fighting for his life, living without comrades, taking scraps whenever he could? Was he betrayed when he was young? Is he a supposed to be a version of Zidane had he not been adopted into Tantalus by Baku??? These are questions I deserve answers to, Square.

favorite line: “’I can't just walk away. It goes against my nature...’ You're a real simpleton. Forget it, guys. There's no stopping this fool." I love this. Amarant figures Zidane out pretty quickly after Ipsen’s Castle. Zidane is hardheaded and also an actor. He acts cool and pretends his reasons for doing things are loose but when he’s decided something it’s always for a reason. You don’t need a reason to help people, but Zidane has his reasons for helping Kuja and while Amarant doesn’t give two shits what they are he knows Zidane won’t be stopped because, despite everything, Zidane saved a loser like him. Also this line “Tell me! Why didn't you kill me!?" Because I quote it all the time and it makes myself laugh. Amarant is such a drama queen and Zidane knows it. Zidane’s like “dude... what is your damage, it’s 5 pm on Tuesday in Madain Sari. I ain’t getting blood on my gloves cause you’re having a temper tantrum.” And then Amarant runs away to have an existential crisis. He’s 26 but compared to Zidane, he’s the real teenager with angst.  

brOTP: I could talk about Zidane or Freya with Amarant but instead I’m gonna say the underrated dynamic of Amarant and Eiko (and also Vivi).  Amarant with the kids is truly the greatest gift given by his presence in the game. Amarant has never known true suffering until he became a designated legal guardian of a group of minors. It also kills me how he’s the one to volunteer to carry Eiko and Vivi up the Iifa tree. He looks at Zidane and is like “you have seriously been the ‘adult’ of this group???”

OTP: Gotta say the Freya and Amarant dynamic. I really enjoyed their unlikely friendship in the game but then the content. The fan content. The Freya x Amarant fans out there, you win. Ya got me. You captured me and I am now imprisoned by their banter and begruntled allies to lovers story. Even if they’re not romantic I love them together and really wish the game gave us more of them. But even Lani and Amarant together are valid, though I prefer them as butting head bros. Not much content for my girl Lani out there either, she deserves more.

nOTP: Nothing I can think of. I tend to like platonic pairings for Amarant. The dude needs friends because he can barely define the word friendship.

random headcanon: Before Zidane returns at the end of the game Amarant wanders around a bit, unsure of what to do. He doesn’t feel any place with the others in Alexandria, Burmecia, or Lindblum. I imagine he goes off on his own for a bit like before but this time he’s not after Zidane or a fight. Instead he’s got no particular destination. Yet he somehow always finds himself running into people just like him - or the old him - friendless lonely people who are looking for a fight. He doesn’t go out his way to find these folks he simply runs into them and decides he might as well knock some sense into them. He does however make it his business to go after any murmur of people hatching any ideas of going after the far off little village on the Lost Continent. The home of the genomes and black mages. They were so helpless, so weak that anyone who’d want to mess with them is pathetic in Amarant’s book. Until Zidane returns, no one has the chance to even look at the Black Mage Village the wrong way because in the shadows Amarant lurks, making damn well sure of that.

unpopular opinion: I kinda love that he’s just there for most of the game? While I agree he gets the short end of the stick in the same way as Freya, not receiving additional individual character spotlight (which could have very well been supplied through discoverable lore in the world/npcs or through sidequests) I never considered his “standing off to the side” as a detriment to his character. 

Many would probably agree that Amarant always felt like a bit of a parody of the loner character, or at least the stereotype of the loner character. Amarant is so easily paralleled with Squall and Cloud’s surface-level attitudes because his dialogue always felt like something to poke fun at. As the player we’re supposed to align with Zidane’s way of thinking and how he views Amarant. When Amarant loses to Zidane and pretty much grits his teeth and goes “KILL ME,” along with Zidane we’re supposed to kinda raise our brow at him and go “...really, dude?”

 Amarant’s a character introduced as an antagonist who has more in common with the power hungry villains of the game. Like many of the characters in FFIX, Amarant is in search of purpose in life, which he has never found, because he was always looking in the wrong places - in places of violence and power. Very toxic-masculinity of him. Amarant is “cool” on an aesthetic level but in reality he’s the polar opposite of cool in terms of what FFIX states about the need for others to be intertwined in your experiences so that you can live a full life. 

I sort of love that he’s like a grumpy pitball following a 16 year old and his friends around. Then he sits in the corner when they all meet up and discuss current events acting like he doesn’t care (not to mention he casually walks as everyone is running as fast as they can to escape Terra - made me laugh cry on my first playthrough) He is “just there” but that’s because he has no where else to be, no where else to go, he’s a man without a home. And until Zidane offers his hand, at the point where Amarant is most willing to take it at Ipsen’s Castle, he’s not truly a party member. He IS an outsider for almost the entire game but at Ipsen Castle he joins the party, becomes a comrade, and decides he’ll allow himself to change paths and start a life where he has friends and lives, as well as fights for them. Which is why after that moment, Amarant finally has a victory pose.

song i associate with them: I was scratching my head for so long trying to think of a song or track that had Amarant vibes until it hit me. Outskirt Stand by Tsukasa Tawada (from Pokemon Colosseum). Amarant is so chill, he’s not a bombastic guy, so he needs a theme that drops me in the rocky open desert of the Lost Continent like I’m just lumbering around looking for a monkey-tailed menace. Some other Amarant tunes:  Pyrite Town, The Under, Snagem Hideout tracks from Pokemon Colosseum. This post is just an elaborate call to action for everyone to listen to the Pokemon Colosseum soundtrack. Tsukasa Tawada is so great and he has a YouTube. Check him out.

favorite picture of them:

Yoshitaka Amano’s Salamander Coral. I love him. He had too much power. 

Also everything drawn by @crispy-ghee. Everything. I will think of this Comic forever until I die. Tattoo it on my flesh. The banter, the dynamics, the post-game content, the Zidane prince-consort outfit, the new Amarant outfit, the stuck-in-the-same-place relationship him and Freya have. Perfect. Go read it and consume Crisipy’s stuff. And also check them and their current art out, they just consistently get better and better. Here’s a first panel preview of my fav comic. Read it.

 @hannahlady​‘s Amarant art and their Freya/Amarant art is just ugh. *Chef’s Kiss* Here is another preview because you should go look at it.

Here’s a piece that deserves so much more love by @snackage. I LOVE how they drew Amarant. Here’s a little preview. It’s SO GOOD

Anyway TL;DR: Amarant is love and life and you’ll have to pull him from my little gremlin hands.

[minijenn]

Keys to the Kingdom Preview

Uh just realized I havent really been postin a lot of Keys previews around here lately so here’s my concentrated effort to try and fix that. Have some of Larxene being Peak Bitch and Queen of My Whole Ass Heart: 

The woman offers Sora a broad, snide grin as she flashes a set of small knives between her fingers. “Whoops,” she says, an undeniably haughty air to her tone. “Guess I missed. I was actually aiming for that empty head of yours.”

“W-who are you?” Sora asks, though he’s not entirely sure he wants to find out based on his first impression of her. 

“What?” the woman spits, seemingly offended. “Are you serious right now? Do you really not remember me after–Ohhhhh, that’s right.” She huffs, tucking a stray piece of her short golden hair behind her ear. “Marluxia mentioned you’ve gotten even stupider after what happened at the castle. And from what else I’ve been hearing, more submissive too.” She takes a step closer, walking past the anxious boy as she flicks him hard on the forehead, an action he can’t even retaliate against for the rank she so obviously holds over him. “How’s it feel to be part of the winning team, number thirteen?”

“I-I…. I’m proud to be a member of the Organization,” Sora answers, despite desperately not wanting to. He shakes this bout of forced control off as quick as he can as he fixes her with a distrustful glare, his tone shifting from false loyalty into earnest annoyance. “So, are you are gonna actually introduce yourself or not?”

“Ugh, fine,” the woman rolls her eyes, equally irritated. “The name’s Larxene. Don’t forget it this time.”

“I won’t…” Sora mumbles, unable to refuse a direct order from any of his fellow members. As much as he wants to ask how this wicked woman seems to apparently already know him, Larxene doesn’t give him the chance. 

“Yeesh, and I thought you were a mess the last time I saw you,” she sneers, circling him and “inspecting” him all the while. “What’s the matter, Sora? Too dumb to figure out how to survive on your own? It’s not even that hard; all you gotta do is steal what you need, and the rest is easy.”

“I… I don’t steal,” Sora says quietly, his shameful sights trained on the ground. “Not anymore.”

“Oh, what, are you too ‘good’ for that?” Larxene mocks, ruffling his already messy hair. “Maybe you oughta stop acting like you’re so much better than everyone else. Because news flash, kiddo, you’re not. Not anymore. In fact, after what you just did to that poor, innocent friend of yours, I’d say you’re just about as bad as they come.”

“Don’t talk about him!” Sora suddenly snaps, unable to contain his rising frustration. Especially not after hearing anyone refer to Riku, to what he did to Riku, to how he hurt Riku, so cruelly and callously. Like it doesn’t even matter at all when it’s something that’s shattered every aspect of Sora’s life so thoroughly. 

Larxene barely even flinches as several spikes shoot up out of the already snow-dusted ground around Sora. Instead, vicious anger permeates her wry, cunning smirk as she suddenly grabs the boy by the collar of his shirt, pulling him up and wiping the resistant scowl clean off his face. “Let’s get a few things straight, you little brat,” she hisses, her voice dangerously low as her golden eyes glare into his. “I don’t want to be here any more than you do. But since you’ve been doing so badly at the one job we gave you to do, the old man thinks someone needs to keep an eye on you to make sure you don’t mess up any more than you already have. And unfortunately for us both that someone is me. Thing is, I’m not a babysitter; I don’t do kids, especially not whiny, starving, stupid kids who won’t stop crying about how “sad” they are or how “bad” their life is. So if you know what’s good for you, then you’ll suck it up, shut up, and maybe if you’re lucky, this’ll all go smoothly for us both, k?”

Sora doesn’t answer, instead bitterly averting her gaze when she shoves him away from her. Larxene seems to take offense with his silence though, because out of nowhere, he fist suddenly slams into his stomach, all but sending him to the already snow-covered ground. “Are you deaf or something? I asked you a question,” she snarls, standing over him with a fierce scowl. 

“I-I thought you wanted me to shut up,” Sora replies rather curtly between pained coughs. He does his best not to flinch when Larxene reels her fist back for another strike. 

“Oh, so you’re still a smart aleck, huh?” she huffs crossly. “And here I thought you’d be too busy being depressed to mouth off. But you’ll learn real quick now that you’re one of us that absolutely no one cares about what you have to say.”

“I already figured that much…” Sora mutters tiredly. Because if there’s one thing his masters, his superiors, even his fellow members all have in common, it's a mutual hatred for him. So why would any of them ever want to listen to him, to care about how he thinks and feels? He doesn’t live for himself anymore, he hasn’t for a long time. He knows he should be used to that by now, should expect this kind of harsh treatment, and yet… some small, stubborn part of him still wants to resist it all the same. 

“Now come on, you little mutant,” Larxene turns, already pressing onward through the steady snow. “We’ve got a Key to find. And for your sake, we better find it soon, or else you won’t like me very much.”

“Too late for that,” Sora deadpans before he can stop himself. “I already don’t.”

He can’t help but muster a small, triumphant grin in the seconds before Larxene whirls. She doesn’t strike him herself, surprisingly, but instead, bursts of golden lightning flash out from her fingertips. The electrifying bursts strike Sora squarely, sending a sharp jolt searing through his entire body. It hurts, yes, but the fact that he managed to get a rise out of her, that he managed to land a knick in her seemingly impenetrable pride, still satisfies him, even if it's only in some small, largely meaningless way. 

[roseworth]

i just finished the rise of flynn rider and i have a lot to say so spoilers under the cut 😌

i just said this on discord but as long as i dont think about it for more than 3 seconds it was really good!

lance and eugene 😭 i love them so much the author wrote their dynamic so so SO well and theyre so cute i love them

i think the plot overall was really good and i liked the thought behind it :') also EUGENE SAYING THAT LANCE IS HIS HOME 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 YES IM CRYING

this line made me scream i love him so much oh my gododdddofiasudfdsifjohkas

also all the flynn rider quotes were SO good i loved them all so much and omg you could really tell that eugene based his entire personality on those books lollll i love it

okay now im gonna be really bitter but its not because i didnt like it! its just because the inconsistencies are what stick in my mind the most 😔

first of all i was sad to find out that anthony the weasel was actually his name, ive always thought that everyone else just called him anthony but eugene called him the weasel to be an asshole

ALSO i love having the characters that already exist in the book but like,,, having the snuggly duckling guys working with the baron kinda makes no sense? like they were all thugs but like they should have just always been at the snuggly duckling bc the baron still has his empire during the series but the snuggly duckling guys are clearly Not A Part Of It which kinda confuses me bc like? how and why did they all get out and go to the snuggly duckling :(

also everything with the baron is kinda.... huh. like clearly it is no longer a circus and is actually just like a crime family by the time the series happens so like,.,.,.,,,.,.,...,. why would he make that switch? also he was acting super out of character the whole time and i know that was partially the point but also when he was smiling and hugging ppl i was like "ok damn baron who are you"

ALSO VARDEROS WHAT THE FUCKDKAJFHDASJ first of all the orphanage should've been in varderos second of all they should have at least BEEN to varderos third of all quaid was canonically the first person to arrest them so like Excuse Me Sir What

its fine im fine

also eugenes memory is shit bc he forgot about the snuggly duckling passage, forgot about the tower, forgot about hookfoot, AND forgot about the dark kingdom aksdjhfdkfj

(in fairness though i was complaining abt it to one of my non tangled friends and he pointed out that to eugene its just a random tower and he would have no reason to remember it 10 years later)

also the ages were off the entire time and it was bothering me lmaooo bc eugene turned 26 when rapunzel was 20 so hes ~5 or 6 years older than her so on her 5th birthday he should be like 10 but he was 12 😤 smh

okay last thing i think but as much as i love the two of them being Upstanding Gentlemen and not wanting to steal or anything... booooooooooooo the entire time the only thing they technically stole was the egg and they did it for a noble purpose 🥱 boring. i know were supposed to assume that they start stealing sometime after the book ends but i wanted to see it :(((( let my boys be scoundrels

jk i have so much more to say so the whole thing with the dark kingdom is?????? i remember even from the preview i was annoyed that he knew about the dk symbol and then he knew that the dark kingdom existed and wtffff that doesnt work bestie! he would obv know about it when adira said "trip to the dark kingdom" and he would have at least mentioned to SOMEONE about his parents from the dark kingdom right?? wtf

also stalyan hhhhhhh what how why when. the baron clearly hates eugene and by association stalyan would probably hate him too so when and why would they get ENGAGED ugh

this threw me off even more than no time like the past but at least this i can regard as Not At All Canon akdsjfhad

[anonil88]

Pissed my entire lovecraft country episode 7 liveblog got deleted fuck. But imma try to summarize my thoughts.

My favorite episode of the season so far !

Dee is a badass just like her mom and dad and no matter what happens next episode that lil girl is amazing. She got snaps and claps from me for beating the jiggaboos ass and correcting those crooked ass cops.

"Hippolyta is greek assholes."

Christina and Tic are like Cain and Able. So it makes sense why Christina is so cold, if she cared about anyone but herself she would not be as motivated towards her goal of immortality or ascending magical heights. Because then she would have something/someone who she would have to consider in her decision. Tic is is similar in this way but its the reverse for him. Cousins not brothers but similar.

But lil miss Christina apparently got feeling strong as hell to subject herself to Emmet Tills exact death just so she can have some semblance of the pain it feels when black people look a member of the community so violently.

Ruby finally told Leti she is fucking her enemy. The pipe too good and honey pit too sweet to stop now lmfao.

Ruby had me wanting to cry though before and when that cop pulled up. William/Christina had to be like get off my woman. Which they are bold as hell being so publicly open in an interracial relationship.

That sex scene though:

We finally have seen the transformation from black to white to black Ruby and I wanna say the effects team brava.

The conversation they had about Christina feeling nothing toward's Emmets death anf not caring about anyone else is so crazy good. Everything Ruby said is exactly what it feels like dating a white person as a black person. You want them to relate and be sympathetic but they never will fully understand unless they go through it together. Which as I pointed to she did that.

Ruby is selfish, glad Christina pointed that out so bluntly, cause Ruby did not need to go to Christina after that funeral but she did. Cause she wanted some passionate, some strings, dick to numb her feelings.

I love how everyone could tell Leti was pregnant on Tics side, like pregnancy smelling noses.

Leti and Jiah that table conversation was tense as fuck. Tic is a p.o.s for how he treated Ji-ah and is treating Leti. Learn how to fucking communicate sir. He threw Ji-Ah out of that house like it was his but he don't pay no bills. Thats Leticia fucking Lewis' house. Ji-Ah was trying to help him and he was too dense and dumb to see she loves him.

Wild, that Tic saw the future and his sons book also i appreciate them tying the source material to the show in that way.

Montrose is actually being a good dad which is strange for me, but he never cheated on Tics momma. Also he is helping Tic use magic and is willing to sacrifice himself, there is so much about him that Atticus obviously doesn't know. Which is so sad.

That protection spell on Tic mirrored with the one Christina put on Leti and the baby. Which probably means something.

As I said in my original liveblog the Bible is a book of magic, spells, and faith in ways that people fail to see.

I found it funny that they gave Christina all the pieces she needed and she didn't even force their hands or coerce them, she just left the door open for communication. Which is something they all could learn.

Fuck these cops, fuck all of them. That mark of Cain (which is clever) came in handy completely. I wonder how Christina would react if Ruby had died. Yaknow what no i don't she a lil too powerful and bold for that.

Entirely and completely fuck that chief or sheriff or whatever the fuck he was. Nasty add spit.

So glad shoggoth puppy ripped him and all his goons to fucking shreds.

Speaking of which shoggoth puppy!!! What should we name him, im thinking shogo or crafty.

Does anyone know the significance of the lights being turned off in their town that night?

Next episode preview thoughts: I fucking love this show and I need more like it. Next episode looks wild. Leti is being all protective of her big sister because Christina and Ruby said:

And Montrose is playing captain save a legacy. I need more shows like this with black people ugh I feel so seen as a nerdy black person. Books are great but we shouldn't just be shoved into words without pictures and never seeing ourselves in realities we could only imagine.

[sopranokirstin]

the lucky ones - first listening!!!

i feel like everything has built to this tbh...... this is my first original release on my four years as a fan and excited is an understatement. here have all my thoughts on the album (most of them first listen) right under the cut!

happy now:

overall this song is like mid-tier for me. i do love the lyrics (”it is okay if i drop some of the pressure / have an adventure, give me the keys” is my favorite part!) and i like the changes they did in the recorded version - like, adding mitch’s adlibs at the end. it’s a really charming song! 6.5/10

love me when i don’t:

this reminds me of one part of their home medley... can’t remember what song that was lmao (edit: it’s phillip phillips’ home!)

this sounds very modern but also very... old pop as well?

okay matt!!!

i hear mitch in the background and he sounds beautiful

if kirstie wrote this i’m tearing up bc the theme of a partner who makes you feel loved at your worst is just so..... :(

THIS SLAPS SO HARD.

this was a bop and also made me cry lmao.

i’m checking the credits and kirstie did indeed write this one. cue more crying

8.5/10!

coffee in bed:

this is one of my favorites from the previews and i have HIGH hopes for this one, let’s see how it goes

the effects on this one...... lmao

mitch’s voice is simply the best i’ve ever heard

the superfruit vibe in this is undeniable - and then i read the credits and both of them co-wrote this

in that line of thought i love that the solos are given to the people who wrote the songs!!! did the same happen for the self-titled?

the final chorus is SO damn good ughhhhh

7/10!

be my eyes:

EASILY one of my favorite pentatonix originals of all time. listening to this song for the first time was a burst of happiness i haven’t felt in a long time and it’s very dear to my heart for that same reason. there is NOTHING that i dislike about this song, it’s simply perfectly executed. kirstie’s voice sounds amazing on that range, mitch’s harmonies and then his part by the end really make the entire thing. i love how unique the sound is and how insanely good the production turned out to be. the lyrics are also very heartfelt and i love the metaphors (especially the camera one!!! kirstie said yes i’m in love with ben hausdo and what about it!). if you listen to ANY song in this album, let it be this one. 10/10.

a little space:

HOLY SHIT. DID MATTHEW SALLEE JUST SAID “SHITTY”???????????????????????????????

also this start caught me off guard it’s REALLY good

this is simply so good i don’t know where to begin. matt’s solo??? scott in the chorus??? how undeniable of an absolute bop this is????

mitch’s harmony on the second chorus adds so much to it UGH

again the effects in this one... it’s so 2020

okay what a fucking song this is. the first time i’ve heard matthew sallee swear and it’s immortalized on this beautiful song. 9/10

side:

A MITCH SOLO.

THE VIBE OF THIS IS JUST. SO EERIE. SO BEAUTIFULLY ANGELIC.

also the lyrics are heartbreaking :(

his voice on the bridge!!!!!!!! what!

i feel like this is such a well structured song. mitch’s voice is so perfectly emotional in this and i can feel every word he sings. i love how the bridge transitions so naturally in the last chorus and keeps the feeling on the song right up until the end. also it’s such a change of pace from the first ones!! 8.5/10

bored:

i love how mitch sounds in the chorus, it’s so fun

lyrically this also sounds like a sf song and surprise surprise scott and mitch co-wrote this as well lmao

i’m not particularly into this melody but i do think it’s VERY fun and vibey

i think every song that heavily features mitch gets a higher ranking in my head because he just really knows how to put emotion in every song. his tone is SO enjoyable and i find myself loving every vocal decision he takes!! 8/10

exit signs:

already love this song just by that starting chord alone

UGH whatever they’re doing to kirstie’s voice in the verse... keep doing it

i am so in love with both the melody and the lyrics!!!!! singer-songwriter kirstie is an unstoppable woman

the harmonies in this song!!!!!!!! what the fuck!!!!!!!!

GO OFF HONEY!!!!!!!!

this song appeals to me in so many ways UGH. 9/10

never gonna cry again:

the start of this kinda brings me back to their radioactive cover lol

UM the prechorus is so boppy and so out of nowhere but i loooooove it. this song makes me feel... it’s like. it’s like, this feeling of being at night in a city that you’re really unfamiliar with. and i love that feeling so

the beat going off in the chorus, wow

the harmonies in this song PHEWWWW they’re SO on fire

WOW. i really love how unique this sound is. i’ll also have to take a closer look to the lyrics because i was heavily distracted with mitch’s beautiful voice but i LOVE what i heard. 8.5/10

it’s different now:

i hate that there’s piano in this song, i’m gonna be really honest lmao

like whatever the piano does in the song could’ve been easily done by some dum dum dums in the background. bruh

okay i’ll stop now because i LOVE THE MELODY! it feels like an oldie pop song

same thoughts extend for the chorus. i absolutely love this melody and kirstie’s voice is GORGEOUS

it’s really interesting seeing what the titles of the song actually mean in the context of it. i thought this would initially be about not being fooled in a relationship and merge into a break-up anthem but this is way more about starting a new relationship after being hurt by a previous break-up. and knowing that kirstie wrote this is :( it’s so beautiful!!!

the transition from the strong bridge to the beautiful melody of the verse..... oh my GOD

this should’ve only had kevin’s cello and nothing else period

kirstie’s voice in this chorus is probably the most beautiful she’s ever sounded

UGH. so good. 9/10

the lucky ones:

not particularly crazy about this one, tbh. it’s a nice 5-part harmony song for them but i can’t really connect with the melody and i don’t like the lyrics either :/ 5/10

wow! okay! i am simply so starstruck thinking that i spent so much time wishing and waiting for an original album and it’s here. it’s beautiful. you can tell they’ve matured so much from their first release!!! it shows in the sounds, their voices and their lyrics. my favorite part of it might be how different every song feels from the other, they’re all so individually unique and unforgettable. i think kirstie shines here the most, both lyrically and vocally-wise, and it’s a well-deserved spotlight since my favorite songs off the album are the ones where she played a major role into. i’m so proud of every single one of them and i wish them SO much success with this. i’m gonna be enjoying this album a lot in the future and i’m so honored to live through this era of their careers!!!!!!

[rhapsodyinprogress]

Top 5 musicals?

AGH. Okay this is hard, I love many many musicals, lol. Okay no particular order:

5. Les Miserables - Predictable? Yes. Do I care? No, lol. Les Mis was probably the first musical that hit my radar as a very small child and I’ve loved it for literally most of my life. The songs, the score the (original) staging are all just ugh, perfect in my opinion. I saw Les Mis live for the first time when I was 13 with Colm Wilkinson playing Valjean and when I say that the theatre STOOD and applauded for three full minutes after he sung “Bring Him Home” is STILL doesn’t fully capture the magic of that performance. I got to do Les Lis live on stage six years ago, and I tell you on opening night when those first chords played, half the cast burst into tears. Also it has the world’s most perfect finale, ever in anything.

4. A Chorus Line - I did a big long post at one point about how this show almost single handedly gave me, like, my life as I know it, so there’s obviously a huge personal connection to this one. Also it’s brilliant. There is no bad part, every one of the characters on the line is interesting, the music is sensational, it was hella groundbreaking in how frankly it discussed things like body image and ageism in theatre and LGBTQ+ issues and sex and puberty and, like, pretty much every issue you can think of, but it does it with humour and so much heart. PLUS THE DANCING. Gah. No show does dancing like A Chorus Line.

3. Titanic - YES IT’S A THING. Lol. This is my most oddball choice I think? First, almost no one knows about this one, plus it sounds like a joke, lol. But really, it came out BEFORE the James Cameron movie and has some of the most beautiful choral music ever written. Like go listen to Godspeed Titanic. It’s glorious. The musical had it’s issues, not the least of which being the necessity of staging an massive ocean liner sinking in real time. It features a gazillion characters to show slices of life from all over the ship, which is equal turns lovely - because you get a real scope for how many people were impacted - and frustrating, because it’s hard to bond with anyone (though, for my money, most people will bond with 3rd class passengers Kate & Jim, and not JUST because I played Kate once, lol)

2. Assassins - I don’t like doubling up so I tried to pick just ONE Sondhiem musical, and though I easily could have gone for Sweeney Todd or Into the Woods (both of which I love intensely) Assassins wins out simply because it is SO FUCKED UP. And yeah, I’m weird like that. But really, it’s dark and twisty and very much not for everyone, but it’s also, in my opinion, a work of staggering genius (if you can stomach it).

1. Come From Away - Look, I don’t have any hate on for Dear Evan Hansen, but Come From Away got heckin’ ROBBED at the Tony’s that year, fight me. Okay don’t actually fight me, but god damn I love this show. No, not just because of its Canadian roots, though, yes that absolutely plays a factor I just... I don’t know I love it. This musical came along just at the right time to give everyone good feelings and hope and remind us all that even in the absolutely worst of days there are people who will help, and people who will love you, and I dunno, I have many many feelings. Also, I saw this with the original cast while it was in pre-Broadway previews in Toronto, and I have NEVER had a live theatre experience like that before or since. It was like the entire room was breathing and laughing and crying as one. Pure magic, basically.

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1/2 hello it's korn anon! this episode might be my favorite of the season so far. i LOVED seeing grace start to use her potential and save the day. i think the woman she's seeing is herself in the future, so she knows what to do to make sure they beat supot. i just. trust that she knows what to do and have full faith that she can carry the team to a victory here. the scene for next week showed her saying "you can't beat the future" which is true. that's the only thing he can't control or change

2/3 i can't wait to see him crash and burn. pang hurt me this episode. he's just so tired and defeated and i want to cry. i would like to think he has a bigger plan up his sleeve but it truly seems like he doesn't know what to do anymore and with all he's been through this season i don't blame him (also i can't even begin to think about the fact that pangwave would canonically willingly die for each other like wave WTF that was so romantic don't touch me i'm soft)

3/4 also NAMTAAN i was sooo happy to see our girl back in action! i fully maintain that if she had been here the entire season none of this would have happened. it looks like they're giving ohm more to do next week and i'm so excited for that. also when the trio went to see nate and she helped them escape that made me so sad. you could see that supot def had feelings for her at some point but is also psychotic enough that that didn't matter and he killed her. ugh

4/5 however there were some issues i had with this episode that contribute to the issues i'm having with this season as a whole. it seems like we are missing important scenes that while they aren't techinically needed for the plot to progress, are super important character-wise. my biggest grievance is korn (my namesake!). like since when was he suddenly cured and everyone accepts him again? only pang was told about supot forcing him. did korn tell them himself? it woulda been nice to see

5/5 (ig i had a lot more to say than i thought lol) also wouldn't he also need the treatment that pang and wave need (same with time and third) and wouldn't that cause him to also have to do whatever the director says? and are claire and punn back together? it doesn't look like anything has changed between them. also where is pom? is he okay? is he breathing? i would like to know as soon as possible. overall i really enjoyed it tho! and i can't wait to see next ep! what are your thoughts? x :)

okay, wow there is a lot to answer here (but that’s as to be expected, because this episode was NUTS). 

i definitely agree that she can see into the future and that the lady she keeps seeing is her from the future!! the preview especially helps support this theory. the memory loss is interesting, so hopefully we’ll find out why she has that. she really can be the hope that pang needs (because god...does that boy need it). 

LISTEN. PANG. MY SON. SOMEONE HUG HIM. DEAR GOD, WATCHING HIM IN THIS EPISODE HURT SO BAD. usually with pang, i’d say he’s planning something, but this time...i really don’t think he does. i think he’s given up, and he’s trying to do what will be best for all of his friends. what’s more important to him than getting rid of supot is his friends’ safety. that was on the line, so he did what he thought was the only option. but he’s so tired and defeated, and it pains me to see. he tries so hard and so badly wants to help others, but supot is just so damn tricky.

listen. there is not heterosexual explanation for that pangwave scene. absolutely none. when supot told the gifted kids that if they knew where pang was and they didn’t tell him, they’d have to infect themselves with the virus, HE  WAS LOOKING AT WAVE. HE KNEW. and then wave went to make sure pang was safe even though he knew he would have to risk his own life...g o d, those two.

when i saw namtaan, i AUDIBLY gasped. i was so shocked, but i’m pretty sure everyone was. i wasn’t expecting to see her at ALL, but i’m so glad we got to. if only she was still at the school...all of this could have been solved in like two episodes. 

that scene between supot and nate...i knew supot was a manipulator, okay, i knew. but that was just...that was just so sad. nate has been forced to live under his control for YEARS, all because he essentially told her that she “owed him” for helping her escape the ministry. and then when she did one thing that went against him, he didn’t even hesitate to kill her (because i believe he was controlling her with the virus too; what he’s doing with the gifted kids now is what he’s been doing to her for years, so he finally let the virus kill her). and he has the audacity to say that she never loved lee (i can’t even say a character’s name because WHO WAS HE, WE WILL NEVER KNOW), she loved the idea of who he was manipulated to be, which was supot. sir, i would very much like to bury you so far into the ground--

okay, the korn thing! i was wondering about that too! i saw him sitting amongst the gifted kids, and i was like ??? did they just let him back in, no questions asked? i’m going to assume he told them everything that happened, because otherwise...all of those kids are suddenly very forgiving. as for if korn is still infected with the virus already...i think he is. part of me thinks supot will infect all of class xv, even though he told pang he wouldn’t (because let’s be real, when has he ever kept any promises?).

i don’t think punn and claire are back together, at least not yet. i think they’re both just going about their lives and continuing to be friends. i think after punn’s other personalities showed back up again, they were able to start up a relationship again, even if it is platonic. because at the end of the day, they still very much care about each other. i think if anything, they’re just focusing on themselves for now and growing into the people they’re discovering themselves to be.

as for pom. let’s just say, i hope he’s off with chanon planning absolute revenge against supot for the years of abuse he’s inflicted onto him. but if you want me to be realistic, something tells me supot has him in a hospital room somewhere in the same state he’s planning to put all gifted people in - infected with the virus but enough to kill them, unless they do something to disobey him.

there are only two episodes left, and let me say, i am FRIGHTENED. please, just let all my babies be okay, because i cannot take anymore stress.