#Such softbois” and i dont really like that

[albi-bumblebee]

Snupin

[me-reblogs]

(Writing here that I technically have nothing because I ran out of tags. Which is completely unfair. I had more to say, as you can probably tell.)

reblog and put in the tags a popular headcanon from a fandom you’re in that you dislike

[bleachposting]

woah asian kung-fu generation’s covered weezer’s ‘i just threw out the love of my dreams’

[horrorknife]

handing you the microphone. tell me more about hoffheight.

oh Man. you dont even know what u have done........

ok so um . i think that there are a myriad of interesting ways for them to Meet each other but i think their relationship for the most part stays consistent. i've done a lot of thinking and Rp Writing for this because i am . Insane LOL

at first i just thought they'd have interesting interactions but the more i thought about it the more i realized that they are both a) the Most prey animal of the jigsquad (i count adam by proxy because. he has to be in order for my nefarious deeds to work. but that's a whole other topic i can't get into here lol) and b) the same type of defensive and angry person who is really just terrified at the world around them.

adam's strongest (onscreen) bond is lawrence (altho i am tempted 2 say he is the deepest bond he has. genuinely. lol cant get into that here either tho) and mark's is angelina. both of them are forcefully ripped away from them, and both of them deal w it by turning to Anger. (no one lets adam be fucking mad enough. well enough i say. im here to fix the softboy fandomification of this guy.) i think they could find a good common ground after getting to know each other.

at first i think adam really enjoys trying to poke at hoffman to get reactions, and hoffman is so annoyed but also intrigued because he does Not get this guy. so they treat each other like culture samples in petri dishes for a while. at first its just like smoke breaks or adam (who is actually p adept at engineering after learning some of it) helping mark fix things on his prototypes. they just chat idly or enjoy the silence, and both of them are constantly internally like This Is So Weird But I Actually Kind Of Like Being Around You

i like to think their relationship isn't really romantic but it's not platonic either. if they were NORMAL people it would be a qpr but they're fucking crazy people so it's just a weird situationship. they love and care for each other a LOT a lot a lot. i like to think adam is hoffman's little pet cat and he's always giving him pepper spray and new knives and shit for self defense bc he's incredibly protective of him. i don't think he'd like the idea of lawrence coming around and interacting w adam again because he had to see adam struggle and help him recover from the emotional damage lawrence did to him.

i also think that while adam does round hoffman's sharp edges out just a little, it's much more interesting to explore how mark's influence makes adam More violent (bc hes already predisposed to violence and i think mark could absolutely capitalize on that)

i could say so much more about them adkjfngjkfn but ummmm. to tie this post off have this hoffheight hoffman doodle i did for a warmup last night

edit: oh and i should really mention that they are constantly up and down w each other, those 2 men have such short tempers that they would absolutely fight and argue and yell at each other. theyre explicitly toxic for each other as all saw ships should be. this is necessary.

[robotnuts]

are there any rvb fics you still think about all the time? like i dont think a week goes by without thinking abt qed and how it def changed me on a molecular level, do you have any fics like that?

oooh good question. the most important fic is at the bottom of this post so just scroll to the final paragraph if you only want one, true recommendation of the only rvb fic that really matters.

QED is fantastic though its more of @shotgunslap's thing than mine. the partner to that is also obviously QoQ, the only rvb fic ive been able to make almost all my friends read. i think about the south/north characterization every day of my life. caboose and carolina mean so much to me, etc etc. thats a pretty easy pick though so im cracking into my ao3 bookmarks to look for more niche picks.

i know there was actually a lot of rvb fic that was just posted to tumblr that i think ive gone back and tried to reblog at some points but i never organized it, i should have archived it, people who wrote good femslash and rvb women liked to just post it under a readmore on their tumblrlog and you have to go digging through decades old tags to find it now

okay. the big one i actually do still think about all the time forever and ever is saltsanford's stuff about epsilon/wash's relationship. this is the big one i still think about that centers on their backstory, but also, put my guns in the ground, which is one of the Big fandom tuckington longfics, also has such good washpilon stuff in it and they're so fucking juicy. when tucker asks wash how many times he's broken his ribs and he says four and epsilon says "actually it was five" before realizing How Bad of a Move that would be. Hello? Hello?????? i want them to be forced to reimplant and have weird mind brain trauma sex SO BAD sorry im normal. this is another one that takes place during/after the chorus era

on the spectrum of fics that i actually dont yet feel ashamed reccomending, primtheamazing, who wrote QoQ, also wrote some other good stuff. i am a HUGE fan of this fusion fic, the punchline to the tucker/caboose fusion is HYSTERICAL. this one where grif forgets who simmons is due to temple shennanigans and flirts with him is also very like. trope-y but i like that shit so this goes here too

ok. now onto the stuff that it is actively embarrassing for me to be recommending. but. prim's logrimmons fic is hysterical and was the stepping stone to creating the lolixgrimmons mind palaces with my friends so its worth it just for that. but also its really fucking funny. so is the one where locus has to listen to them have sex and gets himself caught

the truly embarrassing one for me to have here is the piece of softboy grimmons content i participate in. sadly i do enjoy s15 content sometimes for the softboy grif sensitive emotions exploration i will admit to being a hypocrite there and i really liked that one and reread it frequently (just realized this is written by the QED person so! you might already know of it)

and then finally. the most important red vs blue fanfiction of all time, guns are for shooting. it has it all. sarge. washington. sarge again. kismesisitude. grif and simmons acting like rosencrantz and guildenstern (are dead). locus being invisible and getting caught by lopez with a bag of flour. it's written by the person who wrote QED. You want to read it right now. Read it right now. READ IT RIGHT N

wait no the cute bit about sarge declaring war on gravity and upending a bag of flour onto lopez isnt in guns for shooting. what fic is that from

[homestuckconfession]

is it bad that i dont care for really reading into the Homestuck characters personalities and motifs and stuff, or really delving into the whats and whys of them? like theres something in me that just says 'oh no yeah whatever thats too much and i aint reading allat' when i see someone really going into depth about someone? i cant really bring myself to actually read and learn about the characters and like who is putting up a facade and who is doing something to mask another thing about themselves or what have you. is that bad? should i try to actually learn about them and get all philosophical about my faves and why they do what they do? i mean, my thinking is 'oh theyre just characters in a stupid webcomic i dont really need to know the deepest depths of their thoughts and feelings and everything they see and do cause at the end of the day theyre not real and i shouldnt take this stuff really seriously' like is that not a good way to think? is that kind of thinking gonna doom me to eventually believe that John Egbert is an uwu softboi 2013 tumblr gay bean flower crown wearing 'dont touch meh cookis >:3' kind of character? (that pained me severely to type...)

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[ryuseiired]

what do you think of/rate 0309?

ohhh yippee i get a ship to rate back!!!

i have mixed feelings. on 0309. because i think it can be really interesting and cute when done right and when you consider their characters and how they'd interact.

but also, being a popular m/m ship, there is a lot of mischaracterized content out there where people attempt to simply put them into a generic yaoi template. mikoto in particular suffers from this and when paired with fuuta tends to be very... made into some sort of softboy to pair with fuuta's more hotheaded nature. so this makes me kind of side eye it like are you being normal. are we being normal about 0309. or have we forgotten who they are!!! people also often dont play with the fact that they like canonically do not get along at first and i'm like but thats the fun part. guys who dont like each other slowly realizing that oh, oh no, actually everything i thought was annoying about you before has become kind of endearing

i do think they could be a good couple though i don't think they'd get along at first but i really do think they could learn to like each other and work well together... theyd be good at balancing each other out since one of mikoto's biggest flaws is just how willing to sacrifice himself to be liked and successful and normal he is and fuuta doesn't seem to care much about society at large or what it thinks of him. something where fuuta can teach mikoto its ok to prioritize yourself sometimes and mikoto can help fuuta see the value in caring about his life and finding something to do with it a little more. also i love how easily fuuta brings out mikoto teasing him its silly. theyre silly. mikoto deserves to get to relax and banter with someone a little.

tl;dr i enjoy it when its done well some people do it in ways that make me want to eat a brick though god bless them

[wsknbfanaccnt]

Hi! The character is Akashi and the question numbers are: 3,4,14,17,18,24,25,26 from @20akaza0620akashisj1219tbrmsnj02

4 was answered here and 18 and 26 was answered here~

PLS KEEP THEM COMING LMFAO LITERALLY I LOVE TALKING ABOUT HIM IM SO HAPPY WITH THESE QUESTIONS SHSEHJSHESAHF

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3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

This is actually such a hard question lmfao I don't really not like anything about him um- like if i really had to say something i would say that the fact that its canon that his type of girl is "refined"? I mean I do feel like its a bit unlike Akashi but then again HIS TYPE OF GIRL SHOULD BE ME. IM HIS TYPE. IM HIS WIFE. PERIOD.

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

This is also a hard question cuz I think ANY AND ALL AESTHETICS WILL FIT HIM BECAUSE HES SO PRETTY okay either like softboy or dark academia definitely

so softboy would be something like this

then dark academia would be like this

i love my man in collars okay<3

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

A few definitely. Like I like other Akashi ships and dont mind them (except for furihata and momoi EW GET IT AWAY). So they would be like MayuAka, NijiAka AkaKise, AkaMura are a few of them. I like them yes but not my favorites.

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

UGH SO MANY OH MY GOD tbh the reason I like most of my anime boys is that they have some relation to Akashi-

Saiki Kusuo, Levi Ackerman, Gaara and Neuvillette are a few of them from the top of my head LMFAO

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

I LOVE THIS QUESTION LMFAO

I actually hated him<3 (I KNOW IM SO SORRY SEI MY LOVE) then again i remember hating all the GOM one by one and I hated Akashi the most because of the shit he pulled with Ogiwara and Kuroko like honestly what the fuck was that Seijuro you asshole??? Who in their right mind bro but (again) then again he was NOT in his right mind *insert crying emojis*

But now he is the love of my life my pookie my everything I've loved him since 2018 and still i get giddy seeing him or even hearing his voice god this man i love him so much yall have NO IDEA how much i love him like its honestly so crazy how obsessed i am with this man like everything I do im just like "Akashi Akashi Akashi" and I just relate everything to Akashi and I don't think i will ever get over how much i love him because he's mine and he's my husband ANYWAYS I COULD GO ON FOREVER

[latexjester]

I honestly don’t know what tags you’ve been looking through, because personally I’ve seen a lot of great posts regarding the characters in IHNMAIMS that fall way outside of the memes and other content.

With every fandom there’s going to be parts you don’t like, so then I’d encourage you to block those and not engage with them. Telling people to go die because you saw something /you/ didn’t like is just plain immature and really weakens your point about the fandom, because you’re contributing to the unlikable parts of it.

I’ve seen so much love for Ellen and Benny in particular, many people are very aware parts of the characters’ backstories and actions. Nimdok has rightfully gotten a hate for his backstory, as he should, and I agree that portraying him in something like a cosplay is insensitive.

Part of being in a fandom is having fun, and I personally think a lot of the “toxic yaoi” posts are jokes or memes, which will be present in every fandom.

But you’re so right about the AM human designs. In my opinion, he shouldn’t even have a human design, because the entire point is he will /never/ be human.

Just wanted to share my perspective on this.

i think your points are well worded and i will acquiesce that saying Die is a tad bit mean! however i do disagree with you because the majority of the content i have filtered - and blocked! - still gets through my filters. i shouldnt have to block every iteration of a tag for a work of fiction that i love because a bunch of people have decided the cool edgy thing of the month is now a short story that was written to illustrate the horror of humanity, morality, and inhumanity. i saw this happen with cry of fear - which i will say, it was wonderful seeing it get the love it deserved! buuuut then it just turned into simon/david. and thats the majority of popular tags. im seeing this happen with blood meridian! i saw this happen with the stanley parable, half life (and its spin offs), etc etc etc… and i know how this ends. people start callouts, they start doxxing campaigns, and then you end up with a tag so muddied its unusable. when i go into the ted ihnmaims tag, it takes me two dedicated minutes of scrolling to get past the x readers, the uwu softboi schtick, the spam tags now. this time last year half of these people didnt even know what ihnmaims WAS.

again, i see where youre coming from, and i am very much just a pissed off guy ranting about one of my favorite works of fiction, but when all there is is meme after meme after meme after meme…. dont you feel it waters down the source material? arent you tired of “fuck the author, these are MY characters now”? arent you tired of fast fandom, and knowing all these posts will be dust in the wind in six months when the Next Big Thing comes around? arent you tired of “human wheatley - i mean the narrator - i mean AM”? arent you tired of people who havent even engaged with the source material past “uwu flower boi” edits of AM coming in and writing prose about shit they dont know about? that they havent even cared about enough to read? i know i am! i was tired when i saw this happen in 2019/2020 with half life. i was tired in 2021 when it was resident evil. i was tired in 2022 when it was the stanley parable. i was tired in 2023 when it was cry of fear. and im tired now, seeing the same fast fandom people, who dont even care enough about the original work to read it, flood the tags.

tldr; man yells at cloud, i understand where youre coming from, but im tired of seeing niche works of fiction and art get churned into tiktok fads and edit audios and then get called cringe 6 months later. also send me the appreciation for ellen and benny, id genuinely love to see that as i feel theyre often looked over and sidelined

[tsundozer]

HEY ALL I DONT KNOW WHO WILL SEE THIS BUT

I’ve been pretty unengaged personally with my friends and mutuals some time; just been reblogging shitposts and have otherwise drawn away entirely. It’s been a weird year and a big part of it has been doing some processing, and we’ve made a decision, bc it’s been keeping us from talking for some time.

Hi Everyone! We’re Plural!

There’s seven of us all told. About us and emoji we use to denote ourselves online below.

✨Rosie - She/Her, The historic operator of this blog pre aaaaaa the walls came down. Likes writing, poetry, video games. Resident mediator and interpersonal alter amongst us. Frequent fronter. Also aware of most things and helps delegate & keep system aware of surroundings/events. Loves RP and MMOs.

🦮Daphne - They/Them. IDs as a dog. Yes it’s cringe, no they don’t care. Anxious but chill dog. Protector. Likes psychology and sociology, loves learning music. Also frequently out. Huge fan of vintage aesthetics. Did a PhD w/ Clara but dropped out.

📖Pat - He/They. Worker Bee. Handles work stuff and loves organizing and community minded stuff. Also big on homemaking and domesticity. Certified softboy. Loves weird cinema.

🎀 Rosamunda (Rosa) - She/They. Socialite. Theatre kid. Shitpost generator. Here for good vibes and situations that would otherwise be too socially anxious for Rosie. Loves sociology and social Justice. Chaos creature.

🪻Lilian - She/They. Kind of ageless and widened presence. Interprets most emotions domestically as body stuff. In her words “the body is hell the body is hell the body is hell.” Does a lot of conflict resolution when Rosie & Daph can’t keep up, and serves as the Gatekeeper otherwise.

🗡️Clara - They/He. Did a PhD with Daph. Used to ID as a girl, kept the name bc fuck gender and “it’s fun to set let me clara-fy.” Can be abrasive but is generally a voice of reason for our system. Doesn’t really enjoy fronting much.

🐇Buns - Acknowledging because we dont want her to feel excluded, but she’s a small and vulnerable alter and will not be talked about or maintain a presence on this blog.

Anyway. It’s nice to meet you all formally; we’ve masked as Rosie for a long, long time, and a significant part of our difficulty keeping up with friends is different alters, different social relationships, different demeanors. We hope being so forward will make things easier.

Uh. Have a good day and shit.

🦮Daph

[l-na]

how many fucking times have i seen usually white trans men be all "uwu im a harmless little creachure dont criticize me or thats attacking me uwu" like im sorry if youre going to bring up infantilization and not bring that up to you are kinda lying by omission about how infantilization works.

even if we're not talking about transmisogyny its a double edged sword!!! like literally as a trans man isnt it incredibly irritating to be in a fucking community where self infantilization is the norm and you have zero intention of being viewed as an uwu softboy???? isnt that really bad???? no nuance i guess. make fun of me more on your blog idc

[inventedfangirling]

ep 3 thoughts

firstkhao have way too much chemistry to be cast as mere fuckbuddies...what the hell was that domestic shiz in the morning after scene make it stop i dont wanna love them together more than i already do but i also know there's more cute shiz coming and i cant complain cos boi do i wanna see it all

pls that kitchen scene where ray tells sand that he's just teasing him but then asks him if he's okay with it pls?? more of that pls. i love it. i love them!!! also i cant believe im saying this but im having way more fond feelings for sand than ray so far. that being said khao looks criminally goodlooking🤌

boston projecting onto nick by asking him if he likes top too lmao but also im not really getting why he's being so good to nick. why the casual intimacy, the random cheek kisses and shiz when nick seems upset, seems more than what boston is used to doing with others. he clearly developing a soft corner for nick whose deviousness we're just starting to really get into altho ofc the signs were there since ep 1 gawd the mess is just getting started

as soon as i thought that and bam boston has gotten to manipulating both ray and top in very different ways to attain the same outcome, cant wait for when all of this blows up in his face, courtesy nick

oh also cannot wait for mew to find out all the shit thats been happening behind his back and go batshit crazy cos thats gonna be THE EPISODE

ahhh more firstkhao how did i forget about this car scene

um how about you first stop looking so edible then maybe he wont send puppy dog eyes your way but also you arent even looking at his eyes!????

nooooo why did mew have to lose his key i hate that sand finally gave in only to be faced with disappointment why you do that to him ray WHY but also i cant help love that he dropped his makeout session immmediately to go help out his friend eventho its mainly due to his feelings for him, stilll any stray bit thrown to friendship in this mishmash of sexual/romantic relationships i will take.

yikes nick bugged the car pls his expression while standing outside i dieeed

im finally caught up and next week's preview my gawds i really everybody to back off and take my baby sand's feelings into consideration...he is such a softboy people need to treat him with the love he deserves i will RIOT and also as much as i love sandray together i am very excited for ray and mew's kiss next week time for the pairs to mix and match...id never have watched such a mess of a show a while ago but now that i am watching it, i wanna lean into wholly.

can we get more screentime for the lesbians too that would be great kbye, until next week

[keefechambers]

hi! could you elaborate on what do you mean by being fascinated with the response to dante's character from fast x cause im afraid i dont really get it:c

lmao all right like there were a ton of people knee-jerk reacting to momoa's performance with the "well being campy and painting your nails isn't inherently gay so dante doesn't have to be gay" which is absolutely fine

the issue was justifying the "he can't be gay" logic with how he is with isabel saying he flirts with her and therefore is straight

like this isn't flirting and also being creepy to women isn't an exclusively straight man behavior and also bisexuality is a thing

this is mostly like, off-tumblr (aka dudes on reddit. which is why it's so worrying. yall think this is flirting?)

then the equal and opposite reaction of people who interpret dante as queer but they have the tumblr habit of like being afraid to write morally complicated gay people so the fact that he's got fun queer-coding and gender stuff means people kinda side-step the fact that he's a manipulative murderous freak with daddy issues who is terrorizing dozens of people

like brothers in christ he doesn't have to stop being a horrible person to be gay and you can acknowledge his badness while also having fun with the gay/bi of it all

so that's really what i meant just like there are people who think he's straight because of really iffy behavior with 1 female character and there are people who aren't embracing the murderous chaos gay energy

and that's not even getting into doing either "erase aimes from existence despite being dante's partner for 10 years" or "he's a devoted softboy" of it all when he gets brought into the mix. like let them be freaks?? they're fucking freaks whether their relationship is platonic or romantic.

i mean most of what i've seen has been fine and embracing the absolute batshit potential gifted us by this movie but one or two hot takes ive seen in the wild made me roll my eyes and that's all i was referring to lol

[cheekedupwhiteboy]

Hi. not sure if this is a normal thing to ask or not. might just be a lot of work so feel free to just delete this ask.

Forever ago you said this, (paraphrase)“you can construct a version of manhood that is just for you to live in forever. And cis men dont get to do that” and I am interested in what you meant by that. Its not something I agree with at all, and I’ve always ignored the sentiment when its talked about because usually what people are saying with that is that trans men are inventors of this special wholesome version of masculinity cus they used to be women or whatever. But you seem to know that that isn’t really a thing so i was curious about what it you were saying. The short version of this question is could you elaborate on that. 

Also, sorry you’re getting accused of rape(?). That sucks.

that wasn't forever ago, it was about a week! hehe. thanks for the ask, not weird or rude at all. i will try to explain, hopefully my rambling is useful:

i should probably clarify first i don't mean that cis men don't have their own (often fraught) relationships with manhood-- i think everyone experiences some friction where their desires and self-image rubs up against the outside world. BUT! as transgender people we have some special perspective that many cisgender people don't. we know that man/woman/etc are social categories that people made up and can move between and outside of, rather than some kind of immutable biological reality.

when i say "you can construct a version of manhood just for you and live in it forever," i mean you can decide for yourself what living as a man (or whatever else) means to you. if you don't like the way some of your cis peers do macho heteromasculinity, trash it! if you don't like the way some of your trans peers do the wholesome innocent uwu softboy thing, trash that too! be curious about all kinds of gendered experience and borrow what you like from people you admire (eg my rotten shriveled heart grew three sizes the day i realized how proud i am to have something in common with cis dude bears)

i reject the idea that i need to be dmab to be a real man. i also reject the idea that being dfab makes me a diet man who is incapable of sexism or other poor behavior. i'm just trying to chase my bliss and also act at least somewhat responsibly in my male role at the same time.

and thanks for the kind words! i'm not even upset, but it was a very bewildering ask to receive lol

[horrorknife]

idk man i dont think anyone sleeps on adams kindness i really dont…no one wants to interact w the abrasive parts of his character. he Does get softboyed Often by the fandom and i think ppl complain abt this because adam gets boiled down to his Good traits too often. like for me my issue tends to be ship art im sorry! i know everyone likes fluff and softness but i personally realllyyyyyy think everyone just sucks the actual Life out of chainshipping. them being nice and gentle w each other can absolutely be good and enjoyable i indulge in it often. but i wanna see their ugliness soooo much. aint no damn way theyd see each other again and get into a good, healthy relationship. no one wants to make anything messy. well enough of this. wheres the drama. wheres the disdain. where is lawrences entitlement. where is adams misplaced rage. where are the arguments. there is so much life and realism in the way they interact w each other in the movie. why is everyone so eager to strip that away from them

[cyberdragoninfinity]

Ryou Bakura for the character meme??? Or Atticus if Ryou's already in.

RYOUUU my funny little guy....

favorite thing about them: this kid simultaniously radiates the energies of the Most Boring Guy Alive and The Weirdest Dude Youve Ever Met and it's just fantastic. Guy who would collect stamps but also be on taxidermy forums for fun. Absolute dweeb who is just fucking sitting here while the worst things ever happen to him (because of his own piece of jewelry he refuses to get rid of.) he's so fuckin funny.

least favorite thing about them: i just wish there was MORE of him!!!! like the manga he has marginally more screentime but ryou's still a bit second (or third or fourth) fiddle when it comes to DM characters. Ryou needed a tag force route. I would love to walk around a psp game with him.

favorite line: sorry it's always gonna be "Check his pulse, Yugi!" dub lines of all time for me.

brOTP: uuuuu my KINGDOM for an AU or whatever where ryou and YB actually got to talk and interact more and be. well. not friends but guys who can barely stand each other but are forced to get along anyway. disgruntled brothers. I want them to have a Real Talk in the abandoned kmart bakura soul room. AUs where TKB has his own body and has to like. apologize to ryou for everything that shit would ROCK.

OTP: i actually dont really have one for ryou....i think he is simply going to marry some mildly bland guy named dwight from like seattle when hes 38 and he's going to be perfectly content with that. :^) actual ygo guys wise, heart and angst shipping are both really sweet....

nOTP: I Do Not Like Tendershipping Sorry lol.

random headcanon: aro gay guy with enough food intolerances and allergies to fund an entire small health food store. i think when he gets older he's going to ease comfortably into Any Pronouns genderwhatever. You Eccentric Lightly Goth Aunt.

unpopular opinion: people really cling to this "uwu little delicate whitehair softboy who is SOOOO depressed and sad ALL THE TIME" type read on him and it's. not very good lol. All things considered Ryou is a pretty chipper dude! He's not mopey and sad! And he managed to bounce back from being stabbed like. twice. Despite his circumstances he's a hardy guy.

song i associate with them: Hide and Seek by Bug Hunter such a ryou song my GOD. "the ephemeral friend".....waauuughh

favorite picture of them:

ryou from this screenshot is still the cover of my pinterest board for him dfhghdfsg all time favs <3