#also really enjoying my mullet era

[mxwhore]

i am in possession of new, trascendent information

[empty-movement]

sorry but please... post your akio plastic covered couch tweet here... the world needs to know...

Warning: pics of gross shit happening on the couches

I'll do you one better and include the STORY! So, I, Vanna (note: Yasha mostly does the Tumblr and I mostly do the Twitter,) was smoking enough weed to knock out a large horse or put a very tiny dent in my constant back and shoulder pain, as one does when when they're a middle-aged Registered Nurse in the year 2023. (I'm 39 but it's an old 39, lmao.)

Scrolling through Twitter, I stumble on a fanart of Suletta from Witch of Mercury sitting goofily on a white couch. Now I haven't seen this show yet, but the white couch....looked familiar, and I know the show is very much a descendent of Utena in terms of creative teams. For those that don't know, the series is written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the two Revolutionary Girl Utena novelizations...which if you didn't know about before, you know about now, and can read translated on our site here! (Warning: Touga and Miki uh, in the novels...)

Anyways, so I hop onto my own website and start downloading the images that will constitute receipts, before realizing 1. these images are all on multiple computers feet away from me, 2. the couch isn't an identical match, 3. that'd have been weird anyway, and most importantly, 4:

AKIO'S COUCHES DON'T LOOK RIGHT. OBSERVE:

The edges of the armrests have sloppier upholstery than the blanket I have covering my computer desk. I took the time to tuck seams at least. What is this??

Now it could absolutely be leather, I thought. It would absolutely track. But leather upholstery doesn't look like this. It doesn't wrinkle quite this way. It would have cleaner seams.

No. No that's too shiny for leather. So here I am, presented with this strangeness I'd never really considered in how Akio's couch is drawn, and having spent the last few months learning about my Italian-American family history, my chemically altered ass came to the only reasonable conclusion:

Akio Ohtori has plastic coverings on his white couches, like he's a depression era American in poverty.

Fuck yeah, I though, A HIT TWEET, there, at the end of all Tweeting things. (Yeah I'm working on that, stay tuned, lmao. I of all people know when to bail on stupid men with stupid power.) Because I am me, I framed it as semi serious by pulling a context to explain it out of my ass:

I was joking.

But the replies? They were not. And then I thought about it some more. And I've kept thinking about it. Do I seriously think Ikuhara and Co literally are intentionally drawing a plastic covered couch? Doesn't that feel, Vanna, like a bit of a stretch, even for Utena meta?

Listen to that CRONCH when Akio sits down in episode 31, before Anthy is seen by Nanami. Look, the buttons on the back rest don't quite fit, but the rest? Yeah it kinda does. I was high, but not wrong!?

Akio *does* surround himself with a bizarre hodgepodge of Americana as an aesthetic. The arm garters. The piping and cut of his cowboy-ass shirt. His American car. His mullet. His miniature fucking golf. Why not the plastic covered couch? It's a trope of American poverty that would absolutely have fallen neatly into the diet of American pop culture that influenced Ikuhara. (He makes references to E.T. and The Godfather and Suspiria and all kinds of things in his other work, Utena itself is a little less obvious with individual references but inherits HUGE amounts of vibes from the same content--Ikuhara and Co watched Lost Highway in theaters during the production of the Akio Arc and I will not be convinced otherwise.)

So yeah. That's the story, and that's the theory. Do I seriously believe it was deliberate? Maybe. Probably. Possibly. But it fits so well it's headcanon for me, and in the Utena fandom, pretty much all canon is kind of headcanon so enjoy this one.

What an asshole.

[greetingsfromuranus]

Thankyu @doubledyke for tagging me!!! - [Picrew link] -

Hiiii this is me, a decent approximation i'd say, but i did make a couple edits to get it lookin right lol. The picrew didn't have my shorts so I had to draw them on ~w~ (I wear them every day it's important!!!). When I say every day I mean I haven't worn different pants in over a month lol. They're the perfect most comfy shorts I own but they're starting to get holes so I might have to replace them..... orrrrrrrr I CAN START SEWING LITTLE PATCHES OH EM OH SHIT!!!! Also the hair is a lil funky right now I have kindof a mullet growing in, so imagine the image above but just move the back down a couple inches

And the collar is an accessory for special occasions, when it's dogmoding time lol

But yea im just a little guy, my interests include cartoons/anime/animation in general (favs include ed edd n eddy, ojamajo doremi, ichigo mashimaro, any 1920s-50s animation, as well as lots of animation from soviet era Russia! Im not suuuper educated on alot of old animation, but im slowly workin on it with the free time I have lol).

I also like alot of music, I listen to a bunch of genres, I just like anything that sounds good lol. Here's my playlists if you wanna put it on shuffle and see if there's anything you recognize (love or hate): - [bigg playlist] - [songs I basically never skip (WIP)] - [calm/happy playlist for bad mood or migraines] -

This got long QUICK so more interests under the cut ^^

I also like ancient and medieval art, cave paintings are my jam and I love janky medieval paintings, the creatures are so cool and I love all the colors and just the way they choose to represent things! Very cool... been getting into Roman frescos as well, I wanna start painting my room like that but it's my favorite characters and stuff!! I've actually started planning for it already, got all the measurements of my wall, and I've just gotta put it on the computer and start drafting it...

I also like paleoanthropology, evolutionary timelines, anchient animals, etc... I love the weird old fish we come from and the squirrel shaped proto-primates and just seeing the form morph over time to get closer and closer to us, it's really cool!!! I wanna make a cool animation of it one day... it's why I love lungfish so much it's so so so cool

I also like math, but I kinda suck when it comes to the scientific applications lol. Chemistry and Physics tend to kick my ass, and I never was good at circuits in highschool (though now I'm in differential equations and honestly it's not that bad, so who knows). I quite enjoy calculus because for the MOST part everything makes sense and the patterns are consistent and it's not weird and arbitrary and opinion-based like anything language-related tends to be lol (well, language has a LOT of cool patterns but im not gonna nerd out about it right now there's too much to say lol)

I also have hundreds of stuffed animals and I dont plan on getting rid of them unless I move across the country and dont have the money to transport them. I've started learning to sew so i can make clothes and dress them up like characters I like, do repairs, and hopefully one day make actual plushies of my blorbos <3

Tagging sum pals: @plunder413 @avepricots @pravingmantis

[szmaciarz-pospolity]

Quick story of my Michael Afton design

His first ver (wich was a base for all the other ones) was PURLEY based on the fnaf 4 sprite beacuae,,, It's the only Mike design I like besides that pizza sim bear- LIKE SORRY ALIVE MIKE IN SISTER LOCATION IS UGLY AS FUCK and overall I had idea to make him based of Foxy in many regards (such as with thos darn ahoges to represent Foxy's hair spikes). Also here comes the worst part of Mike design that I can never get rid of beacuse I'm wayyyy to attached to it- fleshtooth. I know it's awful you know it's awful I love it

Then I started to doodle him again and then his iconic emo bangs apeared and let's just say,,, these were here for a stay

Then I drew first real art of him and that solidifed the basic purple mike design I would draw the most. It would change slightly later but these changes were mostly based on giving him cooler clothes

Important thing to note on these designs: rather reddish toned hair, those boots (also purple lace if you know lace code you get it) also those fish net stockings. There's no real drawings of teen Michael Afton in this era but I have this gacha model (I'm not doing gacha videos I just liked making characters for fun. I like dress up games ok-) wich tells us a lot we need to know

There's not much imporant things to note here beside black shirt and grey hoodie onstead of gray shirt. This decision was made beacuse I think black shirt suits his edgy teen vibe more and I added the optional grey hoodie to recompensate that. There was also sims 4 model but It was horroble and I don't feel like looking for it. Onky thing notable there were ever redder hair and fishnets making a comeback

Then my fnaf hiperfix ended for around half a year and I came back with this design (also here's still unshaded fullbody in new style)

Notable things with Zombie Mike: No more ahoge, I finally deleted it since drawing it was a pain and it did nothing do enhance the design. he looses a piece of cheek, overall I want to make Zombie Mike look more destroyed. Still tho I want to keeo the general "funky purple monster high oc" vibe since that suits style I draw in more and I enjoy drawing stuff like this more. I litearlly make animatronics into funky furries with bows leave me alone.

Things to note on teen Mike design: Ahoge is also gone, but fishnets make a comeback, same with purple lace comebat boots. He also gets long hair like REALLY long hair. At first I wanted to play around with somehow keeping these bangs but also giving him mullet. However I have no idea how but he ended up long haired but I liked it he looked cute so I kept it.

Final thoughts and bonus funfacts

I totally went with count the ways millie aproach didn't I- But um yeah my Mike doesn't look like this punkish 80's bully boy but like 2000's emo fem but that's okay since that's the aesthetic I prefer anyway 💖 My Mike wasn't meant to be realistic he was meant to be cute and fun to draw ok-

Now funfacts

-Those weird side bangs he has were meant to be a reference to side burns I saw people draw him. But his eyes were too big to make side burns visible so side bangs it is

-He had snake bite pirercing in the first design but I deleted it. Bonnie Bully got it instead to recompansate

-Also Freddy bully gets more of an 80's edgy bully archetype look to recompensate for Mike going the emo way

-His red hair apeared beacuse on his fnaf 4 model I always saw his hair as reddish so I decided to make it evenr redder. It's obviously dyed

-Where it comes to his face he actually looks mostly like his mom, and only has William's eyes. I know this is totally not canon but I just like the irony that feom all things he could have inherited from William, it was his fuckin eyes you know THE WINDOWS OF A SOUL.

-He also gets William's body feutures tho. The only major differecence is shoulders aren't as wide

-His mom was Filipina so he's mixed

-I want him to get a buzz cut and dyed blonde hair during his Mike Schmidt era. I'm yet to design that

-his Foxy mask has a tounge stuck out beacuse of that fnaf 4 foxy teaser

-That light blue tongue while he's purple thing is beacuse I was stupid and while making the first doodle of his design, I acidentaly covered his tounge color with his eye white color

-He propably would wear those fuckin combat boots at the beach. Before you claim me insane to sugest anyone would do that- I litearlly went to beach with someone who wore combat boots there.

-He ripped holes in his jeans himself

-He's so skinny you propabky could count his ribs </3 He's eating alright he's just build this way

-He's tall as fuck

[tenelkadjowrites]

(my signal is acting up, so i'm not sure if you recieved my message, if you got it twice ignore one of them 😅)

thanks for your long answer!

first of all, i got into atz thanks to hongjoong, then had a brief san moment, but hwa was the one who truly captured my heart eventually and he won't let me go lolol, so i relate! i saw atz on their first tour and didn't pay much attention to seonghwa (even tho he was killing it so wtf what was on 🤡), but then wonderland happened and i was gooooooone. he's a fascinating specimen and very very inspiring too

second of all, despite everything i really liked we ransacked the city and re-read it a few times, so you clearly did something right! i do understand you may feel unsatisfied it didn't turn out the way you wanted. for me it's a good one tho!

relatable on the attraction part, i'm ace and probably aro as well, i generally find people visually pleasing, but it's mostly non-men 😅 there are many attractive male idols, but no one hits as hard as hwa, he's really my ideal gender presentation too 😭 a real chameleon and it's insanely appealing to me

i hope people aren't too rude to you or send stupid shit, cause i know it happened to one person who was strictly writing for one svt member. people complained because they wanted her to write about their biases as well, called her a solo stan and whatnot - just overall bullshit.

i agree, i also enjoy your seonghwas a lot! there's something special about the way you write him

hi hi! it isn't your signal, i got the message - i was just traveling all day yesterday and didn't get home until close to midnight so i didn't have any time to sit down and answer anything especially in the manner i prefer to!

atz is the only group where i switched my bias...and i've switched three times. i got into the group the week of debut cuz i saw a gifset of wooyoung, then hongjoong became my bias from say my name era and onward (idk if newer atiny are aware of how much hate and negativity hj originally got for his mullet but it was nonstop almost the entire time he had it on instagram comments etc. i loved how he stuck with the hairstyle for so long because he loved having it and that really leapt out at me and made me appreciate him more.) and then i switched to hwa during fireworks...but hwa has really hit me HARD on a way the only other idol i feel so unhinged over is probably taemin. (most likely because he plays with gender like a toy and i love that so much, both hwa and taemin are probably the most "ideal type" of idol to me. as you said, so many idols are gorgeous and i can appreciate how stunning they are but hwa and taemin are...just beyond for me.)

it's so cool that you got to see them at their first tour. i was unable to because 1. money to travel since they didn't visit my state and 2. personal reasons involving my dipshit now ex boyfriend. i'm always envious of anyone who got to see them so early lol.

i'm glad that you enjoyed we ransacked the city, another person said it was their favourite story of mine. i know a lot of ppl who love it. as the writer, of course you notice things about your own work that no one else will, and i just didn't think i nailed the gossip girl vibe i was trying to obtain there. i also wanted the city to feel like its own character which i believe i failed at. (and i attempted this again with arrow in the dark which i think i achieved more successfully this time around.) but i can look at any of my stories and note things i believe i "failed" at.

i do feel a mild pressure at times to write for other members of ateez but i like to believe that anyone who has messaged me, or read my asks, or even ppl i've befriended thru running this blog knows what ateez means to me. when it comes to groups, they are my ults. i am into a lot of kpop groups but they are my main loves.

i've never gotten any outright hate messages about it. i love every single member of ateez and believe every single one of the members are crucial to the dynamic of the group that makes it so successful. when mingi was on hiatus it was like smiling with a missing front tooth - you could feel the absence without him there. i love each member for different reasons, i just write about hwa 99 percent of the time because he's like...my writing muse and i'm as smitten with him as one can be when it comes to an idol. but nothing gives me greater joy than the group as a whole and i like to believe? hope? that anyone who follows this blog and reads my stuff knows that.

[project1939]

100+ Films of 1952

Film number 118: At Sword’s Point  

Release date: Feb 4th, 1952 

Studio: RKO 

Genre: adventure 

Director: Lewis Allen 

Producer: Jerrold T. Brandt 

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O’Hara, Gladys Cooper

Plot Summary: In France in 1648, the dying Queen Anne assembles three sons and one daughter of the famous Musketeers to save her empire from the evil clutches of the Duc de Lavalle. 

My Rating (out of five stars): *** ¼  

This was just light breezy fun. It flew by at only 80 minutes, and it was less stodgy and easier to follow than some historical Hollywood films of the pre-Enlightenment era.

The Good: 

Cornel Wilde. I really loved him in The Greatest Show on Earth as the dreamy but wolfish Great Sebastian, and he didn’t disappoint here. He didn’t have much to do, however, but smile confidently and fight with a sword. His charisma unquestionably helped the film overall, though.

Maureen O’Hara. OHMYGOD she looked ga-ga-gorgeous in this! I don’t always love her, but in this she is somehow both smokin’ hot and ethereally beautiful at the same time. Whenever she was dressed up as a “man” in pants and thigh-high leather riding boots, I couldn’t concentrate on anything else! 

Alan Hale Jr. as Porthos Jr. Most of us know Hale today as the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island, but here he was the most charming of the sidekick Musketeers. His broad smile and jovial demeanor were perfect for this kind of film. 

The lean fast-paced plot. It just whizzed by like a sword swooshing through the- oh god, I can’t be that cheesy! 

Sword fights! The swordplay wasn’t as good as in Scaramouche, but what is? This was truly entertaining and more than good enough for a fun little film like this. 

I didn’t know RKO made any Technicolor movies, but the color looked great. 

I actually liked the storybook-style painted backgrounds and sets, even if they didn’t look super realistic.  

I enjoyed the playful energetic score, especially the soaring main theme.

The Bad: 

The evil Duc de Lavalle wasn’t well-developed, and that made him less interesting as a villain. 

Princess Henriette was a boring character who was unfortunately not played terribly well by Nancy Gates. 

The plot could be a little too thin and simplistic at times.  

Most of the characters were pretty one dimensional, although you probably would expect that in this kind of film. 

O’Hara is supposed to look like a boy sometimes? Enough to actually fool people? Yeah, no. 

The movie poster lied- we did not get enough shirtless Wilde in tight pants! I also didn’t love the mullet hair he had. But he’s too beautiful for me to complain about it too much. 

[kwon-eunbi]

I do not miss the constant deadlines of academia at all. Like, I loved going to class and learning and filling my head with interesting things, but the stress of deadlines and exams were awful. Being a librarian would be so amazing, would you want to work in a small library or a big one? Or like a community library or an academic one?

It was actually for Chinese linguistics, it was about tracing modern languages back to Middle Chinese and untangling how they evolved. I speak Mandarin, Russian, and English, and I’m supposed to speak French, but I don’t, don’t tell anyone. I lived in Paris and my dad’s partner is French Canadian, but I can only kind of read it. I love learning languages, though, I started Korean for an ex (when we were together ofc) and even though that’s over I keep going back to it because I enjoy the puzzle of sentence construction.

It's a good cover! Sounds basically the opposite of Wooyoung’s, and yet I think both of them capture the emotions of the song and lyrics in different ways.

I have such a soft spot for “Say My Name”, it was when I started listening to them, and I was like look at these kiddos going WILD. “Bad bitch, watch her do coke” indeed! But I do love when Hongjoong dresses fashionably but in an artsy way, if that makes sense, where he uses looks that aren’t exactly pretty as part of his performance, like the mullet in 2019. But honestly he’s just a crazy good performer, he could wear a paper bag and I’d be applauding wildly like YES king you are SO right. And Wooyoung with his little brother vibes off the chart through the whole era (and every other era tbh).

I like their melodic songs a lot, when I get frustrated with a piece on violin, I’ll play a little kpop song as a reset for fun, and “Precious”, “Horizon” and “Inception” are all go-to songs for that. But when I listen to their more melodic songs, I’m digging through there for the harmonies cause I just find those so much more interesting, when San finally gave in and started modulating in their performances of “Turbulence” on It’s Live? Ohhh those got me. He said no tritones on my watch! I might prefer their less pretty music tho? Like “Fireworks” or “Deja Vu” or “The Real”. I don’t know, but there’s not really a wrong answer.

For “Guerilla”, I joked that I wanted a nardcore comeback, my friends told me to be realistic, I said well now I’m gonna speak it into existence, and when Jason Sears possessed Mingi for those thirty seconds I went back to them like What Did You Say To Me. I think I would have liked it more with less pitch correction but I’m very annoying about punk music so ignore me.

I’ll check out Lucifer then! I need a new show for my cardio workouts, and if there’s five seasons then it’ll last a while. I remember what I saw of it was that it was a fun show, and I love a good monster-of-the-week show, so it’ll be great for those early mornings.

Thanks for letting me ramble haha I love talking about music. I hope you’re resting well and getting lots of sleep.

--🎅

hiiiii, sorry for not responding sooner, i didn't have time to sit down and respond properly bc yk uni and my friend came to stay with me so it's just been hectic lmaoo (i literally open tumblr, reblog the first gifset on my dash i see and close it), but how are you doing?? i hope well!! <33

ahhh i so get you about the deadlines. i enjoy going to lectures the first few weeks of the semester too but then i just... get bored of it and i just wanna skip them all but most of them check attendance so i can't skip too much :(( honestly i would just love to work in a library, idec which one just one yk, but in this economy and yk libraries not being such popular places anymore, i would be lucky to land a job anywhere....

omgggg that sounds sooo interesting!! i really love chinese but i don't think i would ever attempt to learn it cause honestly my brain isn't equipped for that so i truly admire you for not only knowing it but also studying its linguistics wow!! and ohh damn you speak russian too, well yk we could understand each other on basic levels cause my mother tongue is croatian. and yess, korean is so fun to study, i really wish i had more time to dedicate to it.

ohhh so you're basically a "veteran" atiny, love that! omg yess hongjoong and his fashion sense and his painted pinkie ahhhh it's amazing trulyyyy, and i agree he's an amazing perfomer, honestly all of ateez are, they're just crazy good it's insane!!

OMG YOU PLAY THE VIOLIN???!? wooow!! i love violin so much i always wanted to learn to play it wow you're truly so talented wowww!! and honestly i agree with you on it all! they truly have a discography to fit your every mood like no joke! btwww did you see the teasers for the new cb??? i caaant wait tho i am a bit disappointed that we're getting only two new songs but yk they've been working too hard this year i wasn't expecting a cb yet anyway but i'm definitely going to enjoy it fully!!

broo i love punk/rock/alternative in general so i'm really loving all of these new songs, like since rocky i was just AHHHH YESSS this is what i needed!! yk even tho i do love their more melodic songs, i hope they go in this punk direction a little longer cause it suits them so well and i definitely love the songs

yess lucifer is amazing and yk some seasons have more eps so it would definitely last you a while hahah

and feel free to ramble whenever you want! soon in the dms too hehe and again sorry for not responding sooner! i hope you're doing well too and getting rest <333

[kwontinue]

hiii!! i was the anon that requested svt picking outfits and you just made me smile and forget my worries that i had :) i was wondering what you thought about svt painting their s/o nails? if you are willing to take anon emojis, can i be 🍊 please? enjoy the rest of your day <3

nail polish

how seventeen would paint their s/o's nails

a/n: hello! thank you for requesting again and i am so happy that you smiled because of what i made. i'm really sorry that this is so short and took so long, i was busy finishing up some requirements for school :) also you can be 🍊 anon!

choi seungcheol

he would buy you expensive nail polish, he's baby needs to be as expensive as him

he recently said on weverse that he wants to learn how to paint or do art (?) so he'll definitely treat this as a learning experience

yoon jeonghan

IDC what anyone says he is the BEST at this

he would literally do gel nails... GEL NAILS

idk why i thought of this, but it feels right...

hong jisoo

would paint your nails to match the beaded bracelet he made for you

lives up to his title of gentlesexy by being gentle in pushing your cuticles back

wen junhui

he would not know what to do,,, help—

he just doesn't know the whole process of this and would be very very confused

kwon soonyoung

you will bleed. there's no way to sugar coat this

i am sorry, he would not know his own strength or how to control nail tools

jeon wonwoo

would be very confused at first but would still do it

actually enjoys it and would offer to do it for you next time

lee jihoon

THIS MAN WOULD HAVE A WHOLE FREAKING ROUTINE FOR YOU AND NO I DO NOT TAKE ANY CRITICISM

HAVE YOU SEEN HIS HANDS????

would literally pamper you so much

lee seokmin

confused bb

he wouldn't know how to do it :((

calls hao for help pls–

kim mingyu

100 % would spill the nail polish everywhere

he would be in so much pain from bending down, yes bending not looking down. the man is 6 ft 2

xu minghao

pls he would pull out all the stops

he's a fashionista and more importantly an artist, your nails would be so amazing if he did them

boo seungkwan

ANOTHER PERSON WITH GORGEOUS HANDS YRBEJEGRHE

this is a bonding activity for the both of you

he would do your nails, you'll do his

chwe hansol

BLACK NAIL POLISH

it will get messy tho bc this man has no sense whatsoever abt nail polish

lee chan

he would get so frustrated since the nail polish keeps on getting to the sides of ur nail ( i hope you understand what i mean, i just can't describe it lol )

want to add more but having a brain rot about how he probably would make you paint his nails for attacca era... LEE CHAN WITH A FREAKING LIP PIERCING, BLACK MULLET, AND NAIL POLISH i will peacefully pass away

[aftertheskyy]

Merlin Throughout the 20th Century

for @gayfirebender!! happy holidays luv!! Just imagine Merlin living his best life through the 20th century while he waits for Arthur. I think at some point he’d travel the world and explore life beyond the shores of Avalon. 

1900s:

Merlin wears a jacket with coattails

I realize they were made in the 1890sh era but he also owns a penny farthing bike

As photographs become more popularized, Merlin becomes worried about being caught and seen repeatedly as more time passes

But he learns to love them and owns like 10 cameras by the end of the decade

He also befriends the Wright brothers at some point in time

And becomes obsessed with the Sherlock Holmes novels

I’d also love to imagine Merlin wandering through any modern city

1910s:

Merlin is totally aboard the Titanic, you can’t change my mind

When World War I breaks out, I can’t imagine Merlin doing anything else except being a medic for those four years

And Merlin develops a love for Irving Berlin

And silent films. Merlin loves films.

He travels all around the world right? So he’s totally part of the women’s suffrage movements

Also imagine Merlin wearing a newsboy hat because yes

1920s:

Merlin wearing oxfords (those black and white ones)

Upon seeing one of the first sound films, Merlin almost loses it. That’s how happy he is

Merlin watching Steamboat Willie

I think Winnie the Pooh was published around here; Merlin loves those stories

And the Great Gatsby

AND FLAPPERS OKAY

Merlin works as a bartender during this time-- I can’t imagine him in the 20s doing anything else

And he’s really good at the Charleston

Also Merlin enjoying Harry Houdini’s work and considering approaching him regarding magic. After thinking it over many times, he decides not to

Loving Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera

1930s-40s:

Chocolate chip cookies were invented here-- Merlin eats at least 5 a day

When Snow White is released, he starts a Disney phase

And I think he would really enjoy Hollywood-- his favorite movie is Gone With the Wind

And he helps with the construction of the Empire State Building

When the Second World War breaks out, Merlin enlists in the army again as a medic

The whole time he’s hoping it’s time for Arthur to come back. He can’t imagine a greater time of need

1950s:

Merlin peaks in the 50s, that’s all I have to say

With the war over, he begins to wear bright colors and sport coats

Merlin becoming fascinated by space travel

He loves Elvis and Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry-- music is a huge component of his life

He joins a barbershop quartet

He buys his first television here and enjoys I Love Lucy and The Roadrunner Show

He attends the Olympics in Australia

Film-wise, he loves Singing in the Rain and Gene Kelly

And he loves loves loves Abbott and Costello

And does a killer Humphrey Bogart impression

Merlin loves jukeboxes and milkshakes, too

He tries growing sideburns-- a friend quickly implores him to stop

1960s-70s:

Merlin is a consistent viewer of Gilligan’s Island, Looney Tunes, the Carol Burnett Show, etc

He loves tie dye and flowers and is thoroughly stoned for about a week

PRIDE MOVEMENTS YOU BETTER BELIEVE MERLIN WAS THERE

The whole time he thinks of Arthur, wishing he could be there

AND WOMENS RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS YOU KNOW HE’S PARTICIPATING

He keeps up to date with space exploration and hosts a bunch of people over for the moon landing

He’s jumping up and down with excitement the entire day

Merlin loving the Beatles and the Temptations

He goes back and forth between light pop music and heavy metal. Everyone’s very confused but he loves all of it

Reading the Peanuts comics daily

He goes to Woodstock with a friend group and is so hyper the whole time

Merlin loving Mary Poppins and in awe of Julie Andrews

He’s an avid fan of the Bee Gees, much to his friends annoyance

He buys stock in Apple (yes he does)

His favorite movies include Star Wars, Grease, and any James Bond film

1980s-90s:

All I can say is neon

He tries to grow a mullet. It doesn’t work.

He’s an avid viewer of MTV

Loves Bon Jovi and David Bowie.

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Obsessed with David Bowie

His new favorite movies are ET, Indiana Jones, and The Breakfast Club

And he’s obsessed with arcade games and everything-- Pac Man, Centipede, Galaga...

It’s very rare that you would see Merlin in the 80s without Ray Bans

And he’s in a Rubik’s cube club, among the first people to create algorithms and stuff to solve them

He brings a boom box to Avalon one day, just like John Cusack in Say Anything

In the 90s, nothing much changes except he has a new love for Britney Spears

He finally buys a computer and ends up sitting at it all day

And soon he becomes a technology whiz

He loves the electronic age

And of course, Merlin jumping on the Y2K trend, wondering if that’ll be the year Arthur returns

[boognish-worshipper]

Midnight City AU

this is an au where the main characters are all young adults!! (or millennials ig? they’re in their 20s basically) i gave a rundown of what’s what on a diff post,, i’m also splitting it up into diff chapters,, so this is gonna take a looooong time to finish. i’m posting this before i nitpick my writing to the max

it’s basically a lot of references to that point in time, artists, pop culture etc. all the chapters are named after songs from that era (including the name of this au bc i love midnight city and what better way to describe LS ‼️), and the lyrics r usually connected to what the chapter’s about, or about a character dynamic :D i hope this isn’t too cheesy, or sounds off ig. any typos in this were probably over looked bc i constantly reread my writing and rearrange stuff and make sure it sounds good 🥳 hope y’all enjoy !!! i’m also including a tag to find the chapters under :)

//Chapter 1: Crimewave

Trevor would never, ever admit it, but he had fallen into the category known as “post-hipster”. This was a strange era that began culminating, taking LS by storm. Whether he liked it or not, he could never avoid it. Even if he swore up and down he wasn’t like them, it was practically a paradox. Saying he wasn’t like them just made him a branched off version of the thing he denounced. Each aesthetic that was churned out as the 2010s rolled in were tied to a style, a sound, and Trevor couldn’t care less. It’s not like people liked what he liked. He didn’t belong to anything in particular, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t like them. If anything, he just became another obscure genre in the mix.

One of his favorite music groups was a Canadian duo called Crystal Castles. He enjoyed a good number of their songs, developing an interest for electropunk and pop punk. There was something unique about the sound, and it made Trevor feel special, like he discovered some sort of hidden treasure. He was into pop punk groups like Paramore too, but it was something about them that was just different. People knew Paramore. He often lingered around Sterling Lake, where other post-irony hipsters and classic hipsters resided, careful not to fully associate with them. After all, he apparently despised them, even though he participated in their strange… “culture”. If you could even call it that. From time to time he would find himself discussing his favorite artists with whatever semi-normal person was there, making a couple friends himself who weren’t the snooty kind he’d grown used to.

They all loved talking about how exceptional their taste in music was, a wide variety of people hanging around with their own cliques. Some liked Fall Out Boy, while others liked Blink-182, and then there were the weirdos who liked groups like Radiohead. Most of those guys were whiny, proclaiming how misunderstood they were. He knew maybe one Radiohead song at most (he definitely, definitely never cried to “Creep” and even if he did, so what) but never found himself willingly getting into their music. Then you had the nosedivr crowd, which consisted of mostly girls, and the occasional hipster guy that defected. Their taste was.. alright. Consisted of artists like Lana Del Ray and Marina and the Diamonds, who were their idols. He found almost everyone there besides the few friends he made kind of edgy, and not in the cool way. But he figured all hipsters and guys like them were kind of uncool. Don’t even get him started on those other indie rock types. God. He still came back as often as he could though, establishing some kind of routine. Most people there avoided him anyway, which he preferred. He had enough troubles with them in the past. There was one day he grew tired of the people gawking at him, and he launched a hipster right into the lake. So yeah, nobody within their right mind so much as looked in his direction. That was just how he rolled.

Today, he sat on a nearby bench in Sterling Lake’s park, watching some ducks float on water. His usual friends had been there too, seeing his clowncore buddy Wade with his cousin Floyd. Wade was extremely different than the pretentious fucks around them. He had a shit ton of piercings, and ICP was his favorite music group. Floyd on the other hand, fit right in. Almost too much, like it was something he was forced to do. But he did genuinely enjoy Weezer, of all things you could enjoy. Wade started waving at Trevor, while Floyd hid behind him. All he did was awkwardly wave back, turning his attention back to the lake. He liked Wade, but the clown stuff he wore sometimes spooked him. He didn’t pay much mind to his relative. Looking back across the water, he saw someone new, observing the area. Some dude a little above the average height, hands in his pockets walking around. He seemed a bit lost, and Trevor figured he should help if he was. After all, what was this guy doing here? New people didn’t show up often.

“Hey bud, you lost or something?”

“Oh uh, nah not really. I’m just looking for this girl I met a while ago, said she hangs out around here?”

“What she look like? I’m here pretty often.”

“Uhh kinda short, dark brownish hair? Wears fishnet stockings, high waisted shorts or whatever those grunge people are into.”

“Let me guess, she into the Neighborhood?”

“How’d you know?”

“Yeah, that’s Amanda, she’s a bit of a regular. Not too fond of me I must say.”

“How come?”

“She’s just petty towards me.” He said with a shrug. He didn’t feel like relaying his encounters with her if the guy was dating her or something.

“Oh… well d’ya think you could help me find her? I don’t really know anybody else here. I could actually use the help, since you know her.”

“Eh sure, why not.”

It’s not like he had anything better to do. The two began to walk around the park, gravel and dirt crunching beneath their feet.

“So.. what’s this place about?” The strange guy asked.

“Hm? Oh, it’s just one of those places the hipster folks meet up I guess. Don’t understand it much myself, nor do I really like them.”

“Then why do you come here?”

“Dunno. It’s relatively peaceful, those freaks keep to themselves.”

The man, who was only a smidge shorter than Trevor, glared up at him.

“Hey man, don’t call my girl a freak.”

“Ehh I don’t really count her in with the generic skinny jean wearing hipsters. More of a.. what is it called.. nosedivr type. Whatever that stupid website’s called. Why do you think she dresses like that?”

“Huh.. Never really thought to ask her.”

As he thought about the stuff Amanda wore, he took note of how the man next to him was dressed. He sported an olive jacket with a black turtle neck, and a plain pair of jeans. He wore beat up black converse to top it off, and a pair of Rimmers sunglasses sat upon his head. He looked simple, yet distinguished with the way he presented himself, hair neatly combed back. He figured the two would look nice standing next to one another. They would’ve made an attractive couple, if they weren’t dating already, the kind that turns heads. Trevor wasn’t like them. He wore a black beanie over his mullet, and his favorite pair of red Dix sunglasses rested on the bridge of his nose. The rest of his fit looked disheveled. He had thrown on a wrinkled top, solid black with little surf boards and cars along the bottom- he was a sucker for Hawaiian shirts. His pants were tan colored but had some bleach stains, with old combat boots on his feet.

“Yeah, we may not like each other but I don’t really consider her a freak like those guys.”

He jutted a thumb in the direction of a circle of guys huddled around a phone. The man holding the phone had strawberry blonde hair and a clean outfit on. An expensive looking outfit.

“Who are they?”

“The people here I absolutely cannot fucking stand. The genuine hipsters.”

“Oh.. and you’re..?”

“I’m my own kind. I’m not like these losers, all uppity and shit.”

“Right. Gotcha.”

They walked around a bit more before finding the group Amanda was with. She sat on a bench, chatting with a few girls who dressed similarly to her. All of them had black incorporated into their style. She herself had a black jumper on, tucked neatly into the front of her jean shorts. Just like the guy described, she had fishnets on under them, skater shoes to match. Loose braids fell on her shoulders, and a small black choker was wrapped around her neck.

“Oh, there he is now! Babe! Over here!”

She narrowed her eyes upon seeing Trevor standing next to him.

“Hello, Trevor.” She huffed.

“Relax, I was helping your boyfriend or whatever look for you.”

Her face softened slightly, but still kept a small glare in his direction. She pressed her lips together tight before replying.

“Thanks, I guess.”

“Yup.”

The man turned to face Trevor, sticking out a hand.

“Hey, thanks for showing me around. Trevor, is it?”

“Don’t wear it out.”

He shook his hand, noticing how soft it was. It was in stark contrast to his own, which was rough and calloused.

“Name’s Michael. I’ll see you around most likely? Thanks again.”

“Yeah, no problem.”

Amanda huffed again, nudging Michael’s shoulder.

“Let’s go hun, Bean Machine closes soon!”

“I’m comin’ I’m comin’!”

The two sauntered off, hand in hand. Trevor stood dumbly, watching them walk away. He was right. They did look good together. He wondered if he would actually see this Michael again, kicking a rock. He went back to the bench he originally sat at, putting his earbuds in, listening to some Crystal Castles again to pass the time. The beat thumped in his ears, and all he could think was how much better this shit was compared to that club music shit that played on every radio station in a 5 foot radius. He sat there, scrolling through his own secret nosedivr account, reblogging some photo of a lit cigarette. Right before a hand touched his shoulder causing him to jump.

“What the fuck- Oh. Ron.”

Ron was another friend of Trevor’s, a guy he had met outside one of the iFruit stores talking about how “they’re tapping the phones they sell in there!” and all that conspiracy nonsense. He was a paranoid guy, but Trevor kind of liked that about him. Those were the kind of freaks he liked. He was shorter than Trevor, sort of frail in stature. He wore a bright red windbreaker over a faded tourist tee that read “I went to Liberty City and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!”, along with khaki colored cargo shorts. It didn’t help that he wore some goofy looking bucket hat, and socks with sandals. He dressed like someone’s middle aged father.

“Trevor! Have you seen Wade around anywhere?”

“Last I checked, he was with Floyd.”

“Did he say where he was going?”

“Uh no, but my best bet is they went to that vinyl shop Floyd’s girlfriend works at.”

“Will ya come with me to find him?”

“Now why the fuck would I do that? What do you need him for?”

“Well I- I uh- um..”

“I uh! I uh! Spit it out Ron!”

“It’s about the Merryweather Night Club.”

Merryweather was a big organization that had a wide range of private clubs all over the country, and complimentary body guards to suit. They were all expensive as fuck, and anywhere they settled jacked up the prices of everything else. A lot of neighborhoods became gentrified as a result, and people actually considered it a good thing. What a fucking joke. Trevor of course couldn’t stand it. He hated bullies, and Merryweather was no exception. He’d been wanting to dismantle the club since they settled in LS, seeing as they only amplified the fake feel of the city. Let’s just say he’s gotten into more than a few scuffles with the club. And let’s just say it ended with someone getting stabbed as a result. The guy had it coming to him anyway. Between bouncers and the clubbers, they didn’t like Trevor or his kind loitering around the joint. It didn’t stop him from plotting some sort of revenge though. Ron per usual was on board, his reason being Merryweather’s violent history that had been swept under the rug. They were rather forceful relocating people who had lived in certain neighborhoods for years, Ron being one of their victims. Wade only decided to tag along because he wanted to be included.

“Ah fuck, what’d those bastards do now?”

“They’re throwing some big party!”

“…What fucking for?”

“All I know some guy’s coming to visit, somebody they labeled important and he’s-“

“Woah woah woah wait, Ron. Who?”

“Steve Haines.” He breathed out, careful not to be overheard.

Trevor’s eyes widened, his gaze shooting over to the posse he had poked fun of before. Steve was talking to the group, all of them doing that fake laugh they always did. God, even their humor was pretentious.

“Those fucking hipsters!” He hissed.

“I abhor them, you know that-“

“I know. I know. But, that Weston guy’s gonna be there with him-“

“Weston? Devin Weston?”

If Trevor hated hipsters, then he utterly loathed rich daddy’s money boys like Devin Weston. He had only gotten that stupid fucking night club because his father paid Don Percival enough money to let Devin do whatever he pleased with the Merryweather body guards. It was an elitist club, and they only allowed the best of the best in there.

“What the fuck’s going on there?”

“Something to do with those guys he hangs out with. I think they’re doing something major, expansion maybe-”

“And him and Devin are working together or..?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t hear much after that, that’s why I wanted to grab you and Wade and-”

“Then let’s fucking go get him, Ron!”

The two rushed out of there, heading for the vinyl store to look for Wade. Trevor knew a shit storm was coming, and he absolutely couldn’t wait.

//the next chapter’s gonna be longer i promise lolz

[watching-pictures-move]

Put On Your Raincoats #21 | Double Chinn Double (Double) Feature (with Hyapatia Lee)

By the time the '80s rolled around, Bob Chinn, best known for his collaborations with John Holmes (the inspiration for Boogie Nights), had been directing movies for over a decade. For much of that time, he'd been making them for peanuts (in an interview with the Rialto Report, he recounts being once asked to make a movie for five thousand dollars, which was handed to him in fifties on the spot), but in the early '80s, he was directing for Harry Mohney's Caribbean Films, working with respectable budgets (by porn standards). Some of these films starred Hyapatia Lee, one of the most popular porn stars of the era and one of the first contract girls. Now, I suspect these aren't necessarily the defining works of Chinn's career, and I do intend to get to some of his movies with Holmes. But Vinegar Syndrome had a sale and there were two double features of their collaborations going for dirt cheap, and because I am weak and foolish with money, they ended up in my cart and a few weeks later in my grubby little paws. How did this happen? Through the magic of Canada Post, of course! Anyway, what I found was that these didn't represents any extremes of artistic ambition. They were neither seeking to elevate the genre, nor were they hackwork. Rather, they represent a happy medium, movies that seek to deliver the genre's goods in a polished, diverting package. Slick cinematography, courtesy of Jack Remy. Catchy theme songs that wouldn't sound out of place if you caught them on the radio. Flashy titles. Lee recounted the atmosphere on set as one of professionalism and engagement, where everyone present wanted to do as good a job as possible. Chinn claims to have been losing interest in his work at this point, but the results onscreen are the result of confident execution by somebody who had been doing this kind of thing for years and knew how to put the production's resources to good use.

The first one I watched was The Young Like it Hot, where the operators at a phone company worry about being replaced by computers. To keep their jobs, they scheme to go the extra mile in helping their callers. As this is a porno, most of this help is sexual in nature, as when Rosa Lee Kimball stays on the line while an obscene phone caller played by Bill Margold finishes. (In an interview on the DVD, Margold says after shooting his scene, he was invited to record additional dialogue. Being the method actor that he was, he insisted on whipping it out during the recording session despite the lack of cameras.) Sometimes they are informative, as when Bud Lee (real life husband of Hyapatia at the time) explains why the perineum is referred to as taint ("cuz it taint cunt and it taint ass"). But the highlight of their efforts are Shauna Grant's increasingly life threatening home improvement advice to one poor sap played by Joey Silvera. Hyapatia Lee is ostensibly the star, and has a certain charisma, playing the supervisor, but this is really an ensemble piece, and she's joined by more experienced actors like Kay Parker and Eric Edwards. The latter I've occasionally found bland elsewhere, but he has a nice obnoxious quality that serves him well as the villainous manager whose idea it is the automate the operators' jobs. The movie reflects a very real concern (that's very much still an issue in the modern workplace), but overall this is a breezy, affable comedy.

A bit more serious in tone is Sweet Young Foxes, a coming of age story whose dramatic parts are more sensitively realized than I expected. The screenplay was written by Deborah Sullivan, Bob Chinn's wife at the time, and this is a case where a movie definitely benefited from having been written by a woman, and it seems like an earnest effort to capture the anxieties and yearnings of its young women protagonists. Lee moves closer to a real starring role, and is joined by Cara Lott and Cindy Carver as her friends, who aren't quite as strong actors as her but do have decent chemistry. I can believe they're friends even if their line delivery can be stilted. (That the movie has a good ear for genuine sounding dialogue also helps.) Kay Parker is especially good as Lee's mother, hitting some of the same notes as Taboo, and has a credibly emotional masturbation scene in front of a mirror that did not leave me unmoved. (In what way? That's none of your damn business.) This was shot by Jack Remy, the same cinematographer who worked on The Young Like it Hot. That movie looked nice and slick, but this one is a little more stylish, with the solo sex scenes in particular resembling magazine centerfolds. There's also some nice new-wave-ish music that shows up on the soundtrack, which I certainly didn't mind. I do wish some of the sex scenes didn't run quite as long (the previous movie kept them refreshingly concise) as I'd prefer more of the runtime was dedicated to the dramatic elements, but what's there is still good.

Body Girls goes back firmly to comedy territory, where Hyapatia Lee and the members of her gym are trying to win a bodybuilding contest despite a rival gym's attempts to undermine them. This comes in the form of a pair of schlubs in yellow tank tops who break into the gym after hours to sabotage their equipment, only to be foiled by Hyapatia and her girls who just happened to be having sex in the locker room as people do. Of course, despite Lee's attempts to teach them a lesson (which depending on your proclivities, may have the opposite effect), they don't give up, and during the contest threaten the judge at gunpoint. Not one to take things lying down (okay, poor choice of words here), Lee finds a way to influence the judge back in her favour. (The judge is played by Francois Papillon, bringing a dopey charm to the character as he fumbles through his lines in his French accent.) Her method is pretty ridiculous and certainly in service of genre requirements, but I did laugh.

Now, there's probably a dilemma in audience sympathy here as both Lee and her rivals are cheating, but Lee's methods are more agreeable and directed at the judge instead of her rivals so I guess we ought to root for her. She's also buoyant, charismatic and has a real star quality, and is joined by such fan favourites as Shanna McCullough and Erica Boyer, all of whom sport wildly different hairstyles. As can be expected given the exercise theme, most of the ladies have toned, athletic bodies (and given the decade, voluminous coiffures), with the exception of Tigr, who brings a wiry punkish energy that stood out to me despite her limited screentime, and she also performs the miraculous feat of making a mullet look cute. (I'd previously been moved by her work in Kamikaze Hearts, the great mockumentary about a porn production and her relationship with Sharon Mitchell. She didn't stay in the industry for too long, but I'd be interested in seeing more of her work.) The screenplay was written by Lee with her husband Bud (who plays the judge's assistant with an agreeable presence that's neither too alpha nor too schlubby) and is full of exercise-related dialogue. Most of this is pretty clunky and calling it wordplay might be a bit generous ("sexercise" features at one point), but I did appreciate the effort. Also as is requisite for the premise, the longest set piece in the movie is an orgy in Lee's gym with the various participants snaked around different pieces of equipment. I must note that one of the male actors resembles Barry Gibb and that Francois Papillon is shown to wear a tiger-striped speedo. Did I enjoy the movie? Yes, but not for reasons cited in that sentence.

At the end of Body Girls, Bud Lee suggests to Hyapatia, "Let's get physical", which is the title of the next movie. (Body Girls also features a character looking at dirty magazine with stills from Sweet Young Foxes and ends with a plug for some of these other movies, anticipating the MCU's narrative and marketing strategies by a few decades.) Now, all of these movies have had decent theme songs, but the one in Let's Get Physical has lyrics that are plagiaristically close to those of Olivia Newton-John's 1983 hit. (The delivery however is more shrill but not unpleasing.) This movie is a drama where Lee plays a dance instructor trying to put together a ballet performance despite her strained relationship with her impotent husband played by Paul Thomas. (In the interview I listened to, Lee speaks well of almost everyone she worked with on these films, with the pointed exception of Paul Thomas. If there was bitterness behind the scenes, it arguably helps their performances.)

Lee wrote the screenplay for this one, and unlike Body Girls with its surface level references to bodybuilding and exercise, the dialogue here feels packed with knowledge of the real thing, which is understandable given Lee's real life interest in dance going back to her childhood. (I looked up "Luigi jazz dancing" after finishing the movie and was pleasantly surprised to learn it was a real thing.) This movie goes all in on her star power, and features a number of dance numbers that seem genuinely interested in the form rather than just leering at the performers. (There is one scene where the song Lee dances to sounds suspiciously like "Beat It".) I did appreciate that the sex scenes were kept relatively concise and tied into the dramatic aspects, although in some cases, the choices made could be goofy, like the scene where Lee makes love to her student Shanna McCullough while Thomas, in a dramatically justified but still awkward gesture, watches from another room and jacks off. (I assume he's playing the audience in this scene. Also, McCullough's character remarks "I've never done this before" when going down on Lee, and yeah, okay Shanna.) Other highlights include a car stunt that may or may not have been lifted from elsewhere but still looks decently executed, as well as a dream sequence where Thomas (or his character at least) plays the piano and sings a song. This is held back a bit by the genre's demands, like when it places a completely superfluous sex scene at the end after Lee's reconciliation with Thomas, but on the whole this is probably the best one of the lot.

[meltwonu]

✨MONSTER MASH S2 INBOX ROUNDUP ✨

Sorry this went up a day late, I was busy suffering irl 😮‍💨More on that later! 

I just wanna start this by saying, thank you SO MUCH for all your support and love with Monster Mash S2! 🥺💕 It means so much to me that you guys liked it and I know the chapter warnings this year on some of them were... um, y’know, out there and I really tried to experiment with some of the fics so thank you for joining the ride with me! 💕

I’ve organized all the asks via chapter to make it easier on me and y’all! I talk about the fics for MMS2 in this, as well as alternate ideas I had for chapters and etc. Needless to say, if you HAVEN’T read the chapters, there are spoilers ahead! 

ps there was probably a cleaner way to do this inbox roundup but I've done it this way so please bear with me ☠️ lmao 

Let’s get started under the cut! 💕

chapter ➀  wrong turn ; vampire!the8 x reader

Thank you so much! 😭💕 I kinda wanted to ease into MMS2 so I thought doing a vampire fic at the beginning would be good but I was worried it’d be a slow start too tbh?? ☠️ LOL GLAD U LIKED IT THO HEHE 💕

aww thank you so much! 🥰💕 I’m recuperating now 😮‍💨 trying to get a lot of sleep in LOL I hope you enjoyed! ✨

😈 the ending didn’t originally have that in it tbh! the original ending was that minghao was going to leave you at the edge of the forest with a warning that he wouldn’t be as kind as the first time 🥴 but then I was proofreading and I was like... well hold on now, let’s get a lil crazy 😮‍💨 LOL and it also leaves the ending more open as well? bc now minghao can just be a regular 😏 

thank you guys so much! 💕😭

honestly... anytime hao has his mullet 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 got me SWEATIN!!! Like when it comes to supernatural fics, I tend to always lean on AN ODE era for visuals bc I feel like that was a solid dark era 🥴 homerun too kind of but mostly bc I loved their hairstyles a lot during that era too lol 

thank you so much ehehe~! 🥸✨

chapter ➁ turn off the light ; incubus!soonyoung x reader 

😈💕 thank you!!! Soonyoung would definitely be the type to incorporate anything and everything he can lbr!! He sees an opportunity and he takes it 😏 

chapter ➂ temporary romance ; werewolf!seungkwan x vampire!reader

HAHAHA 🤪 mine was too I think 🤔 💭 I really pushed the limits on this one hehe 💕

thank you 🥺💕 we don’t talk about dom!seungkwan enough so I thought I'd really just put the works on this one ☠️ I'm glad y’all liked it 😉 I really tried my best with the minimal knowledge I had ☠️ LOL

No but let’s get into this, I’ve never written a werewolf fic up until this one 😭 I was sooo scared it wouldn’t be good so I'm really thankful that y’all liked it because I was literally SOOO nervous to post it ☠️ but like I said in a few other replies, I really wanted to push myself this time around and I wanted to try new things so!! 😭💕 Originally it was going to be another vampire fic and I kept revising it over and over and finally when I was making the final lineup I was like, man fuck it, werewolf fucker time 😮‍💨💕 

chapter  ➃  so shy ; warlock!vernon x witch!reader 

He would literally be so serious about the lecture too 😭😮‍💨 while you’re sitting there squirming the entire time kdjdkshfks

thank you so much! 🥰💕 and yes omg, I bought the carat version of attacca for those jihoon pcs 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

chapter ➄ call me! ; shapeshifter!jeonghan x reader x joshua

🤣💕 thank you so much! this chapter was really exciting for me to write, and I hope it wasn’t too confusing for y’all to read 😭 the formatting for it changed so much because it was literally Jeonghan as Joshua and I'm ngl this one took the longest to proofread bc I kept forgetting to switch names kdjfsfkdsj and I kept deciding if I should’ve even done this concept bc even I was getting so confused but I’m glad it came out as well as it did 😳💕

🥺💕 thank you! this set of MM fics made me so nervous kdjfsfhks and I was also worried bc I seem to write a lot of Jeonghan fics with Joshua but seems like... y’all are okay with that 😏 especially when Joshua joins the dark side heheh 😈✨ I wanna try this concept a few more times, I think it was fun to write! 

thank you so much! 🥺✨

THANK YOU! 😭💕 to think this all started from me watching LOKI and an anon message about it and me going off the rails ☠️ who should jeonghan pretend to be next 😈🥴😳🤔 💭 

chapter ➅ delusion diary ; yandere!scoups x reader  

YES HE WOULD 🥴 he’d genuinely bring you to the edge of passing out and would be so smug about it 😮‍💨😵‍💫 as for yandere fics, i always try to make them non-violent as much as possible 😭😭 i’m still learning what a good balance is kjdfksdh LOL i wanna write one in the future that’s like... really spooky tbh, i didn’t push myself far enough with these bc i’m always scared y’all will be weirded out kjhdkskjh 😭 lol

chapter ➆ galipette; snake-hybrid!woozi x reader | snake eyes au

I mentioned in the notes for that one that I was inspired by a movie where the main lead had a split tongue and I remember thinking it was a little weird but then I was like.... MAN THE ORAL WOULD GO CRAZY 😩😗😵‍💫 and who else but snake eyes jihoon to get the job done right 😗 cause originally there was always going to be a snake eyes au fic for MMS2 but I just didn’t know how to remix it... the alternate plot to this was including mingyu but then I didn’t want it to be too similar to the snake eyes au fic that I had in MMS1 either lol 

chapter ➇ simon says  ; yandere!dino x reader 

YESSS YESSSSS 😩 I had this all done up and drafted before rock with you but THAT image of chan... he could do whatever he wanted to me fam 🥴

I left it open to the reader’s interpretation BUT in my head, what I was going for would be that since we don’t really see a lot of the stylists, he’d technically be pretty unknown to most people... so my thoughts were that he’d wear disguises and meet other fans of (reader) to scope them out if they were like ‘normal’ fans or obsessive fans and then depending on what he felt when he met them... he’d get rid of them if he thought they were too obsessed 😗✌️ because only he can be ykwim 🥸

chapter ➈ mistress violet ; incubus!woozi x succubus!reader  x switch!seokmin

the way I would pay for this fic to be my reality 🧍🏻‍♀️ I ask god every day KJDHFKSKJHFJ 😩 ALSO the original draft for this has seokmin as a sub only tbh... but I was like... No it’s time for switch!seokmin to RISEEEEE 😈 i also had a sub seokmin fic in MMS1 so I was like ok let’s... not do the same thing this year completely lol ☠️

chapter ➉ starlighter ; alien!wonwoo x reader 

you’re welcome 🥰💕 actually this and call me were like,,, my favorite to write kjkshfsdkj idk if it’s just cause I've never written these au’s or maybe I'm just a wh0re 🤔💭 

SOMEONE HAD TO BE THE WEIRDO 😩🤣 and the way i would pay for 2 wonwoo’s.... clones, if u will 😏 not to drag GoSe into this LOL 

imagine being in a throuple with starlighter!wonwoo 😳😵‍💫 MUCH TO THINK ABOUT.... much to want to write about in the future too 😵‍💫

chapter ➀➀ begin again ; angel!joshua x succubus!reader

the warnings on this one made me SWEAT 😮‍💨💕 I WAS SCARED DKSJFKSDHD I AIN’T NEVA WROTE ANYTHING LIKE THIS ONE BEFORE LMAO KJFSKDH I really originally did not have those warnings on this, like deadass, it was going to be more of a vanilla... well, as vanilla as a succubus fic could get ☠️ but it, in the drafts, was more of a sub!joshua fic instead... Um, needless to say it didn’t stay that way in the productions ☠️ I thought that there’d be a lot of tension so I just played it up hehe 

she said SURPRISEEEE SHAWTYYYYYYY ☠️😵‍💫 

chapter ➀➁ tell me it’s a nightmare ; multiverse!jun x reader 

OMG THAT WAS LITERALLY THE ORIGINAL DRAFT FOR THIS CHAPTER HAHA 😆 Originally, it was going to be a bunch of different Jun’s from different AUs all at once, but then I didn’t want it to come off as too similar to starlighter bc I obviously wrote that one first kjdsjdb so I just changed it to be Jun kind of glitching out into different versions of himself instead kjdskjh 😮‍💨 I thought it’d be a bit of a funny concept and I wanted to play around with it jdjjshfj

chapter ➀➌ party ‘til i die ; incubus!hhu 「scoups|wonwoo|mingyu|vernon」 x reader

IT’S LITERALLY SEOKMIN BEHAVIOUR KDJKSHKD he’s the type to do a spin and be like ‘I am the manager’ when people ask for the manager kjdskhdksjh

thank you so much 🥺💕 one of the few times a year where I let myself go really off the rails ☠️ I’m glad everyone joins in for the ride too hehe 💕💕 and yes 😈 we need the address so um... we know where to avoid going 😗😗😗😗😗

thank you so much!! 🥰💕 I am definitely resting rn LOL 

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I posted 359 times in 2021

27 posts created (8%)

332 posts reblogged (92%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 12.3 posts.

I added 172 tags in 2021

#cnco - 42 posts

#joel pimentel - 25 posts

#christopher velez - 24 posts

#erick brian colon - 16 posts

#richard camacho - 16 posts

#cncomusic - 15 posts

#joel deleon - 12 posts

#zabdiel de jesus - 11 posts

#joel de leon - 8 posts

#fanfic - 3 posts

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#i was a camp counselor and a bus counselor and oml some of those songs were stinky

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

My thoughts, watching the Tan Enamorados MV for the first time

Brooklyn Bridge! Ok it's the city (new york/manhattan) santa i know him

I love Erick's outfit

I was originally an Erick girl

Wait why are there fences and barricades inside a building??

The black & white is cool, I'm here for it

I am literally only 20 seconds in this is going to be so long

Ayy Zabdi (he looks like a cholo though, can I say that?)

Oh dang that's a nice car!

Ok there's models in this video & from what I can tell they all look the same

BANDANA JOEL I MISSED YOU

Joel's driving, didn't Chris almost crash the car in a past music video? Am I remembering that right?

Ok yes these girls all look the same no offense

I like the one with the french braids though

Were they doing donuts in that parking lot? We all see those tire treads on the ground 👀

They put Chris in the back, maybe he did almost crash a car idk

Chris looks good too (who am I kidding they all do)

The way Erick leans over the fence in that one shot 🥺

Sorry Richard I'm not trying to neglect you but it looks like you have a mullet in this era and respectfully I am not a fan

Why Zab grab the fence like that

I love when they're lowkey doing weird little dance moves (affectionate) in the background I love that

The way Chris stuck out his tongue oop

I paused the video and it looked like Joel was scratching his ass or somth idk

Richard's voice, that's the tweet

The little head wobble thing he does sometimes

THESE BOYS NEED TO STOP LEANING ON THE FENCE AND ITS BECAUSE THEY LOOK GOOD WHILE DOING IT PLS

Also I didn't comment on Zabdiel's amor mio but that just goes without saying

I jUST NOTICED THE BACKGROUND PICTURES ARE OF THEM WHY DID THAT TAKE ME THREE WHOLE MINUTES

6 notes • Posted 2021-11-29 08:00:52 GMT

#4

I'm sorry but is this man wearing pants??

7 notes • Posted 2021-06-17 02:24:25 GMT

#3

Fanfic?

So I have this CNCO fanfic I’m writing on Wattpad. It’s (unsurprisingly) about Joel. It’s a bit goofy, has some drama and spice, there’s subplots re: mental health and family issues and more. If anyone’s interested in reading what’s already posted and giving feedback or just enjoying it, please lmk and I’ll drop my wattpad username.

I’m really self conscious about my writing, so this means a lot to me. It’s almost like my baby lol. Thanks for reading

15 notes • Posted 2021-05-30 04:21:24 GMT

#2

I just watched all to well... oh my god she was so young. I wasn't expecting her to be only 20 in that relationship.

And the line I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age

Sick. Just sick.

16 notes • Posted 2021-11-15 11:57:51 GMT

#1

The Boys & Getting a Puppy

I’m assuming this hasn’t been done yet, so let’s go! (I’m also including Joel)

Chris

ok so it’s definitely another white little fluffy dog like Ollie

maybe a bichon frise or a maltese

like he would insist on it

“Amor, just imagine having two of them!”

and he holds up Ollie right in front of your face

and you say that they would look like a pair of slippers

not that you don’t love Ollie

Chris just laughs

you end up giving in at the pet store

the new puppy is so fluffy and cute

it just has this look in its eyes

you know when they say the puppy dog eyes? that kind of look

sure enough they do look like little slippers

but Ollie and the other dog are adorable together so it’s ok

Richard

I’m thinking maybe a rottie?

or maybe a mixed breed

he wouldn’t be super picky about it I think

Aaliyah would be so excited, she’d go with you guys of course

you’d probably go with a german shepherd rottie mix

Aaliyah would think it’s adorable

and Richard breaks at the sight of this puppy

“baby his paws are so tiny, and look at those spots above his eyes”

it’s like you’re at the shelter with two little kids

the puppy instantly starts licking Richard when he holds the puppy

and Aaliyah gets a big sloppy kiss on her cheek

and Rich just has the biggest smile on his face

with their reactions, you all know it’s the one

Zabdiel

I feel like Zabdiel is also a cat person so maybe you already have a cat?

but ever since that puppy interview he’s been thinking about it

“Bebe, we should get un perrito”

you’re a little surprised but you agree

so you guys go to the pet store

Zabdiel instantly falls in love with this goldendoodle that’s sleeping

“Zabdi, she’d sleeping just like you”

but he barely hears you because he’s looking at the puppy with heart eyes

so of course you adopt the puppy

as soon as you get home she goes from sleepy to crazy

running around and jumping and trying to play with everything

and she pees on the floor

it’s chaos, but after a while she falls asleep with you guys on the couch

Erick

I’m getting pug vibes from Erick?

like for some reason he just loves their little scrunched up faces

“Erick, they have breathing problems”

he doesn’t care, he just thinks that they’re cute and he wants to get one

you guys go and he instantly falls in love with the first one he sees

“You don’t want to look at any of the other ones?”

nope. this is the one.

he names it something like brownie, idk

I’m getting chill dog vibes

like not super playful but not completely doing nothing either

I feel like the dog is maybe 2, so not a puppy anymore

Erick will just sit with the dog and give scratches

and the pug just rolls over onto its back so he can scratch its belly

and this happens almost all day every day

Joel (bonus)

Joel’s really particular about the dog he wants

like he has this idea in his head of the perfect dog

you don’t completely understand what exactly he’s looking for

you guys go to all the pet stores and shelters in the area

and even look online at breeders

but nothing is good enough for this shit

like just when you think he’s found the perfect one

“no, this one’s not it” literally every single time

you’re convinced that you’re never going to find the perfect puppy for him

but one day you guys are out and you find a little aussie puppy with no tags or id or collar

you guys look for missing dog signs and check the local facebook pages, but there’s nothing so you take him home for a few days

Joel’s hesitant at first, but slowly warms up to the puppy

the day that you’re supposed to take the pup to the shelter, you catch Joel snuggling with him

when he wakes up, he tells you that this is the one

19 notes • Posted 2021-06-14 05:48:36 GMT

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(16) Graveyard

SociallyAwkwardFox’s Spooktober (2018) - Day 16 “Graveyard”

Tim & Damian | Implied JayTim | Implied DickDami | College AU | No Capes | Crack | actual discussion of literature | Dick Grayson was adopted by the Drakes instead of the Waynes | Want to write/create with me? Find the prompt list here!

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"How about four out of seven?" Tim asked with a shrug, winding up the toilet paper roll again.

Damian, his fellow barista, threw his roll at Tim's head, missing wildly. He glared. "You cheated, Drake!"

Tim rolled his eyes as he retrieved Damian's roll and began winding it up too. "How could I cheat at coffee cup bowling, ‘Wayne’?"

"You wind your roll too tightly. It doesn't unravel as much when you pitch it and thus has more mass by the time it hits the cups."

Tim raised his eyebrows. "What are you now, a physics major? That just sounds like strategy, dude. You are free to roll your roll as tightly as you'd like. That isn't against the rules."

Damian fumed. "The rules you made up! This is why I said we should use the rice crispy ba--customer."

Tim whirled on the spot, seeing that, indeed, a paying customer had entered their little, semi-enclosed coffee shop. Outside, a few students sat or sprawled over the sectional couches that filled the large basement of the university student union in which the shop was located.

Tim turned and vaulted over the counter. He heard a quiet "-tch-" from Damian as he walked to the hinged raise-able section of the counter and let himself in.

Tim straightened his apron and stepped up the register with a smile. The customer stood about five feet from the register, head tilted back, studying the menu board over Tim's head with bleary eyes. The guy was like a zombie, he was that exhausted. Tim cut his eyes over to the clock on the wall. 3:45 am. Hell of a time for coffee.

Tim glanced over his shoulder at Damian, who was reawakening the cranky espresso machine with deft fingers. Seven hours and forty-five minutes with Damian "the Demon " Wayne down, only four hours and fifteen minutes to go. Tim turned back to their customer and sighed. This was going to be a loooooooong morning.

At second glance, there was something familiar about the guy, but Tim couldn't put his finger on where he knew him. The guy had pretty teal eyes, but they were reddened and dull, like he hadn't closed them except to blink in way too long. He was also pretty well cut, Tim noticed, with clearly muscled arms and pecs so defined that Tim could clearly see them through the man's sweater. Maybe that's how Tim knew him? Maybe he'd seen him in the UREC weight room?

The guy's most eye-catching feature by far was the white forelock that curled down over his forehead. He was the third person Tim had met to have a whitened forelock like that; the other two were fraternal twins who had had small patches of albinism right at their widows peaks which affected both the skin and hair. Tim idly wondered if this guy's white lock was natural too. In any case, it looked frickin' cool, a lot cooler than his own; the best thing he could say about his own hair was that he could pull off the 90's curtain cut plus semi-mullet well enough that he could go an entire semester on a single haircut.

Tim was drawn out of his thoughts when dude finally stepped up to the counter and began to speak.

"Uh, hi, could I get a large, double-shot caramel latte?"

"Absolutely. How many pumps of caramel do you want?" Tim asked cheerily.

The guy looked up from digging through his overly stuffed messenger bag. "Uhh…the normal four should be fine."

"Okay, that will be $6.47. Can I get a name for the order?"

The guy didn't look up this time. "Uh, Jason. Gimme a sec', I know my wallet is at the bottom of this thing somewhere."

"No problem, take your time. It's not like we have a line, anyway," Tim joked.

This guy looked so dead right now--inside and out--that if he didn't find his wallet, then Tim would probably just buy the coffee for the guy himself. He understood better than anyone the sudden need for caffeine at odd hours of the day. He's not sure how he would have finished half his computer science projects this term without a much-needed double-espresso every couple of hours, to be honest.

The guy--'Jason' apparently--finally fished out a small money clip then handed over a student ID card. "Put it on my Dining Dollars, please."

"Yeah, no probl- wait a minute!" Tim cut off, staring. Suddenly, it had hit Tim where he knew this guy. "Aren't you that kid who always sits at the front of Professor Hyatt's nine-fifteen, Tuesday-Thursday, Modern European Literature and answers all the questions?"

The dude raised an eyebrow. "Uh, yeah. Why…? Wait…" He squinted and leaned in. "Aren't you the kid who once tried to sit all the way back in the AV booth, since, and I quote, 'the back wasn't far enough back'?"

Tim grinned as he swiped the ID card through the register. "Haha, yeah."

Damian moved as if to step up to the counter, the guy's drink in hand, but stopped dead about a foot away. He stared.

"Wait. Aren't you the guy who always comes in, gets tea, and sits in the window over there and reads romance novels?" Damian asked, eying him appraisingly.

The dude huffed. "Yes. My name is Jason--by the way--and they're not romance novels, it's classic lit. Now can I get my coffee?"

Damian handed the coffee over the counter, but raised an eyebrow skeptically. "You mean to tell me Rebecca is not a romance novel?"

"Wait, what!? Do you mean Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca?" Tim asked as he handed Jason's ID card back over the counter.

Damian nodded wordlessly. Tim snorted, then said, "That's not a romance! That's a totally a murder mystery! You must be confusing it with Jane Eyre. I get those mixed up too."

Jason nodded in agreement, tucking his ID away before taking his first sip of coffee. He moaned, his eyes fluttering for a moment as he savored in the sweet bliss of piping hot caffeine at 3:49 in the morning, then he looked at Damian and said, "Well, actually, I'll give you that one, uh…" --he paused to squint at Damian's name tag-- "...'Damian'; Rebecca is a modern romance novel by classification, but it's also a crime thriller just like--whazzatsay?--'Tim' said."

He turned to Tim. "I'm not surprised you'd confuse it with Jane Eyre, considering that a lot of scholars believe du Maurier adapted it from Jane Eyre."

"Wait, really?" Tim said with a laugh. "I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that! Rebecca is like the less boring version of Jane Eyre."

Jason froze halfway into sitting down in one of the arm chairs that lined the wall closest to the door and looked up at Tim as if he had just suggested burning down the library or something similarly unthinkable. "Whaaaaaat?! I can't believe you just implied that any of the Brontë sisters' works is boring!"

Tim laughed again. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I was only twelve when I read Jane Eyre, so maybe I'd enjoy it more if I read it again now--with a mature perspective--but I remember Rebecca being a blast for thirteen-year-old me so…" He smiled, then shrugged.

Jason stared. "Twelve? Thirteen? Jeez. What else were you trying to read that young?"

"I mean, I read Moby Dick the year before that, in sixth grade," Tim admitted, shrugging until his shoulders hit his ears.

Jason gave him a flat stare. "Moby Dick? Moby fucking Dick? You've gotta be kidding me. And lemme guess, you also thought Herman Melville's masterpiece was a load of crock?"

Tim laughed, but shook his head and waved his hands placatingly. "No, no, no. I only understood, like, every fifth word--so.many.whaling.terms!--and it took me four months to get halfway in only to realize there was no way I was going to finish it by the end of the school year--I ended up skipping to the end and guessing for a lot of the AR test questions--but I definitely got the sense that it was a seminal work and that I was just too young to appreciate it. I've always meant to go back and try it again, but I still haven't gotten around to it."

"Why the hell were you trying to read Moby Dick at the age of twelve?" Jason asked incredulously, leaning back in the chair and taking a long sip of his coffee.

"Eleven, but, ah, well, my mom was convinced I had to be The BestTM in everything, so she pushed me to max out my Accelerated Reader level by the end of sixth grade and demanded that I always get the most AR points of anyone in my class, so I read a lot of the 20 point-and-up books." Tim tapped his chin thoughtfully. "I think Moby Dick was 47 points...Rebecca was 25...Jane Eyre was 33..."

Jason stared, shaking his head slowly. "So…what? You're fine with Moby Dick, a romance of the American Renaissance, but a gothic romance of the British Victorian era like Jane Eyre isn't good enough for you? Next you'll try to tell me you think Wuthering Heights is a snooze fest!"

"Well, I mean, I never could get into it, so…"

Jason slammed both hands down on the arms of his chair, incensed. "Okay, Mister, get your butt over here and sit down, we need to have a talk about Victorian Gothic and why, hands down, it is some of the best literature ever written."

Tim laughed again, then bit his lip, considering the offer. He glanced around the nearly empty coffee shop. Then he leaned over the counter and looked out into the lounge--there were exactly four people there and only one of them wasn't completely asleep in their books. Yeah, he could probably afford to humor the man.

He turned to Damian. "Hey, Dames, I'm going to make myself a coffee and take my break. You good to hold down the fort?"

"I told you not to call me that," Damian snapped, but there was no real heat to it; he liked to pretend that he hated the guts of all his coworkers, but Tim knew that he was Damian's favorite. "However, yes, I think I can manage. Go take your damned break, but when you come back I fully expect a rematch in bowling…and don't you dare cheat this time!"

Tim rolled his eyes and groaned, then turned toward trying to coax Ol' 'Spressolino--their affectionate name for the cantankerous espresso machine--into spitting out a double-shot for him. "It's not cheating, but fine, we'll do it your way," Tim replied. "But I'm telling you, you have to buy those rice crispy balls. I definitely don't want to have to explain to Barbara why some of the food on sale looks like it went through the spin cycle in a dorm washer."

Damian grinned smugly. "My pleasure. It will be a small price to pay in order to ensure your swift defeat."

Tim shook his head, grabbed his espresso in one hand and two biscotti off the front counter in the other, ducked under the counter drawbridge, then slid into the armchair across from Jason. He offered one of the biscotti to the other man and Jason accepted the free food with an appreciative smile. He already looked ten times less zombie-like, thanks to the caffiene, and he was honestly pretty damn attractive.

"Okay," Tim said, peeling the wrapper off his own biscotti and dunking it into his bitter cup of joy, "Educate me."

Between sips of coffee and bites of biscotti, Jason began explaining his thoughts on the romantic period of literature, but barely a minute into his lecture, a plastic-wrapped, ball-shaped rice crispy treat about the size of a cantelope whizzed by their feet and crashed into the ten extra-large paper coffee cups arranged in a bowling triangle at one end of the coffee shop, scattering them in a definitive strike.

Jason jumped in his seat and looked around wildly. "What the fuck?"

Tim sighed. "Daaaaaaamiaaaaaaan…"

"Shut up, Drake! I'm practicing. I need to hone my skills and adjust my form so I can thoroughly crush you in our next round," Damian called back. He marched from the counter to the end of the shop to retrieved his plastic-wrapped projectile.

Jason blinked in confusion. "I repeat: what the ever-loving fuck?"

Tim sighed again, then explained, saying, "It gets pretty boring in here during the graveyard shift, so we invented a game, coffee cup bowling. Normally, we'd sleep or study, but Damian finished his exams two days ago and I don't really study for exams, per se-"

"And sleep is for the weak," Damian finished, nodding as he walked past them carrying his sweet, gooey ammunition.

Tim nodded sagely, in agreement. "Sleep is for the weak."

Jason glanced over Tim's shoulder at the coffee cup bowling 'pins' and then over his shoulder at Damian as he lined up another throw. "You guys are insane," he declared.

Tim made a dismissive gesture. "I mean this is my third graveyard shift in a row and Damian here is almost 20 hours into a 24-hour stint. After that much sleep deprivation, you'd lose your sanity too."

Jason tilted his head in acknowledgement. "Fair enough."

"If you want, you're welcome to join us after we finish our coffee and literature talk," Tim offered amiably.

Jason watched as Damian threw another strike, sending one cup so far it landed in the pot of the ficus in the corner, and raised his eyebrows. "You know what…why not." He turned back to Tim with a grin. "I could use a bit of fun before I go back to work on my Native American Lit paper."

"Are you a lit major?" Tim asked curiously.

"I am."

Tim nodded. "That makes sense."

"And you?"

"I'm a CS major--computer science."

"That makes sense," Jason echoed, grinning.

Tim grinned back at him and waved a hand. "Okay, so as you were saying…?"

"Yes, as I was saying…"

Jason continued his little lecture while they continued sipping their coffee and nibbling on the biscotti. When they had finished--the coffee, not the discussion, because Tim was pretty sure Jason would go on for hours about literature once you got him started--they joined Damian in a game of "ten-cup."

It was in the middle of this heated battle of cups and marshmallow-bonded puffed-rice cereal balls that their next customer found them fifteen minutes later. The man, dressed in flower printed leggings and a black hoodie with "Gotham University Aerial Arts" printed across the chest in blue, took one look at them and grinned.

"Oh, hey! Coffee-cup bowling! I love that game! Do you think I could interrupt you guys for just a sec to get some hot chocolate?"

All three of them--the two baristas plus their customer--turned and stared.

"Hot… wait, what?" Jason said, laughing a little. "Man, it's like 4:30 in the morning. Why are you getting a hot chocolate at 4:30 in the morning?"

The man laughed, too, shrugging before he explained, saying, "I don't like tea or coffee all that much, but I just finished a 20 page paper on ethics in police enforcement and I need a pick me up. I need to get my warm fuzzies going again."

Tim rolled his eyes and sighed, moving back toward the counter to get the man his drink. "You're going to end up being the cuddliest cop on the street, Dick."

"You know it, Timmy!" the man--'Dick' apparently--exclaimed, pulling Tim into a bear hug when he made the mistake of passing too close to Dick on his way to the counter. The hug escalated into a full on octopus hug as he lifted his legs to wrap around Tim's hips. Tim, for his part, ignored the grapple, opening the leaf in the counter and hobbling over to the drink bar with the human cephalopod still attached.

Damian and Jason stared. Damian cleared his throat and eyed Dick with poorly disguised interest. "Wait, do you know this man, Drake?"

Tim blinked dully as he turned around, a cup in one hand and a packet of instant hot chocolate in the other. "Yes. He's my brother." Dick made a squeeing noise and nuzzled his head into Tim's neck. Tim sighed. "My adopted brother," he amended testily.

Dick laughed, dropped his feet back onto the floor and stood up. He nearly wrung Tim's neck as he tried to hug him around the shoulders. "Awww, don't be like that, Tim. We haven't seen each other in two whole weeks and I needed my Tim-hugs! Gotta meet my cuddle-quota."

Tim shook his head and handed the hot chocolate back over his shoulder. "You're insufferably, insatiably clingy when you're this tired, Dick. Go home and sleep."

Dick finally released him to take the drink. He took a sip of the hot chocolate, sighing in appreciation. "Thanks, Tim, and yeah, but, only if you do the same. You're just as bad as me when you haven't slept, if not worse."

"Can't. Working," Tim answered curtly, vaulting the counter to escape before Dick's grabby hands could reach for him again. His brother wasn't wrong; Tim was always up for a good cuddle after a long stint without proper sleep, but he didn't like public displays of affection.

Dick took one look at the nearly empty coffee shop, the three of them, their game, and then laughed out loud. "Ahhh, the days of getting paid to drink coffee and make up games at 4:30 in the morning. I kind of miss it."

"Would you care to join us," Damian asked abruptly. Dick brightened.

"Absolutely!"

And so that was how the four of them ended up bowling for empty coffee cups with rice crispy treats the size of spaghetti squash while blasting ABBA’s greatest hits--Dick's terrible, wonderful idea--until the sun rose and their shift ended, at eight AM.

By the time the four of them walked out the door, Dick was trying to convince Damian to join him in the aerials gym before breakfast, and Damian, clearly eager to do anything with the handsome college senior, accepted readily. Jason and Tim, on the other hand, were back to discussing literature over coffee--now focused on the merits and downfalls of contemporary science fiction and fantasy as an art form--and making their way to the East Campus Dining Hall, so they could continue their discussion over breakfast.

Tim snorted softly as he listened to Jason list all the ways Dune defined an era of sci-fi/fantasy, then smiled at the way Jason took his hand--without seeming to realize it--to pull him forward after the crosswalk light changed out of Tim's line of sight. Oh, yeah, this one was totally gay/bi/pan and he was definitely asking him out the minute he saw the opportunity, Tim decided.

He smiled. Who would of thought he'd come out of last night's graveyard shift not only having seen his demon coworker and his older brother hit it off--of all things!--but having met someone for himself too! He laughed, thinking, you never know what crazy things you might see, or the people you might meet, at the campus coffee shop at 4 o' clock in the morning!

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Brian Pillman x Fem Reader- "I'm Gonna Shave You Close"

Despite that I type my fanfics in patterns, today I'm posting not one, but 2 fanfics, the next one will have Brian Pillman AND Scott Putski.

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During a time when wrestlers in the World Wrestling Federation were playing silly, childish, cartoonish characters such as plumbers, garbage men, hockey players, 70's teen heartthrobs, and evil dentists, a wrestler named Brian Pillman made his WWF debut in 1996, and he was a breath of fresh air.

He even for a while had a stint in ECW, which during the 90's, was the edgiest, most violent, boundary pushing wrestling company that was the opposite of other kid friendly wrestling companies, and ECW preceded the WWF's Attitude era.

In a time where, if a wrestler used profanity, a commentator would have to say "we apologize for that!" afterwards, and the WWF was mostly very kid friendly, Brian Pillman pulled a gun out on Stone Cold Steve Austin and the two of them began to brawl in the driveway of Brian's home, where Stone Cold tried beating Brian's head into a cinder block.

Brian shed his Flyin' Brian Pillman character he played; a mullet headed pretty boy, and in 1996, he'd play what he'll always be remembered for playing: an unpredictable, loose cannon nutcase with a personality somewhat similar to Ren the Chihuahua from "Ren and Stimpy" when he goes crazy.

Despite Brian not playing that mullet headed pretty boy he played in WCW during the early 90's, you think Brian in 1996 is a lot sexier that year than during his time as a heartthrob in WCW.

By the end of 1996, October of that year to be exact, when in your opinion that's when he looked his sexiest by far, you were snuggled up next to him in a bed in a motel room, the light switch turned on in the room.

You and Brian were stark naked, your clothes as well as his were scattered all over the floor.

You and Brian didn't have to get naked, but you do enjoy cuddling with him as well as others in the nude.

While you and Brian were lying together in this bed sharing a blanket, your finger was tracing over the facial hair over his top lip, his little moustache feeling like a fuzzy peach.

He grinned while you ran your finger over his facial hair, your eyes looked at him.

Despite that you were cuddling with him, you were trying not to press your weight on him since he had a car accident where he fell asleep at the wheel and ended up breaking his leg.

He actually almost lost his leg and probably couldn't have joined the WWF.

"I'm glad you joined the World Wrestling Federation" you confessed to him, running your finger horizontally down the side of his mouth and shifting it under his chin, where you ran your finger vertically across the hair under his chin.

He's one of the many sexy alumni in that company.

"Really?" he asked, his face lighting up and smiling. "Thanks!"

"You're welcome" you replied, smiling back at him. "I actually think you're way sexier now than when you were in WCW"

Brian's eyes got wide when he heard that, he slightly jumped back hearing that.

"I'm not drunk or high right now" you admitted. "I really do think you're sexy"

"I know you have a crush on me" he mentioned. "Thanks"

"No problem!" you chirped "Even though you do look pretty hot with this facial hair, I've thought of shaving it"

"Why?" he asked, his face now looking confused and puzzled.

"Not just to see what you look like without it" you admitted "But...your facial hair is a little bit of a distraction and kind of...makes me unattracted to you"

He nodded his head, understanding you.

"But I'm a wrestler, not a model" he said.

"I was about to say that" you said. "The facial hair fits with your unkempt look and how you play a nutcase"

"I was gonna say what you said!" he confessed. "We think alike"

"Great minds think alike!" you chirped, smiling while you said that.

You and he chuckled and giggled after you said that, the two of you smiling at each other.

"I'd love to shave your facial hair" you admitted after you stopped laughing, your other index finger tracing across Brian's moustache over his lip.

You said that since you definitely don't wanna shave his hair on top of his head, you love his hair.

Brian isn't sure what to say about you wanting to shave him.

He probably would love it if you shaved him, though he wants to keep his facial hair.

He isn't the only one you'd love to shave...

Leif Cassidy was starting to grow a handlebar moustache at the end of 1996 and still kept it in 1997 despite still being known as Leif Cassidy.

The Leif Cassidy character was meant to be a 70's teen heartthrob, I guess, and teen heartthrobs, males especially, are known for their nonthreatening, pretty boy looks.

Leif Cassidy with that handlebar moustache looked less like a teen heartthrob and more like a serial killer.

And since when do teen heartthrobs have moustaches, especially handlebar ones?

And Leif (as well as what he'd transition to: Al Snow) was one of the many wrestlers who looks terrible with facial hair.

(Fun fact: the man who played the Leif Cassidy character also played Al Snow, yeah, THAT Al Snow that carried a decapitated mannequin head)

Triple H looked like shit with that Lemmy from Motorhead moustache he had in the mid 2000's, so did Raven when he grew that handlebar moustache at the end of the year 2000, and even when Dean Ambrose became Jon Moxley again, although with shorter hair and a beard, he didn't look like that cutie pie you remember from the WWE and CZW.

Plus, Stevie Richards from ECW and WCW didn't look too good with that facial hair he had.

Granted, Al's handlebar moustache does make him look more like the lunatic he played, Triple H and AEW-era Jon Moxley look more manly wrestlers, you could probably even say Raven's handlebar moustache fits his grungy appearance, but Triple H, Al, Raven and Dean had/have such handsome faces under that facial hair.

Even Shawn Michaels looks way hotter without facial hair than with it.

Seth Rollins used to be even hotter when he was an indie wrestler with only some facial hair at the bottom of his chin.

CM Punk in my opinion looked his hottest in the late 2000's.

You even wonder what Test and Val Venis would look like without facial hair.

[sanshine]

SMN…. Hongjoong with that mullet… blond seonghwa….. EVERYONE WITH THE KILLER OUTFITS…… that was an Era!!! OMG SNOW!!!! Im jellyyyyyy 😩 where im from we don’t get snow at all! But I still enjoy the winters lol ohhhh your holidays sound absolutely lovely! I hope you have a wonderful time with all your loved ones (and of course, that you enjoy all your ateez prezzies!!) 😁 for me, its about the same (without the show hahahaha) I love decorating my house and putting up my tree (which I just did yesterday!), shopping, WATCHING CHRISTMAS MOVIES! Ugh Christmas is just the best 😭 I know the circumstances aren’t ideal but I won’t let that take away the beautiful holiday spirit! I HOPE YOU’RE HAVING A WONDERFUL WEEKEND, SWEETIE! -🎅🏼💖

RIGHT!!!!!!!! in this gif series i made “best era of ateez” I REALLY!!! HAD TO HOLD MYSELF BACK TO NOT CHOOSE SMN OR WONDERLAND FOR ALL OF THEM 💀💀😭😭😭

yeah don’t be jealous bvdfhjns where i’m from it barely ever snows and if it ever does like it did the other day it usually melts within 24 hours so i don’t get to enjoy it much anyway vbdhjcnk it looked really pretty when it lasted though 💕💝💘💞💗💗💞💘💕💝💝💓💓

i agree!!!! imo what makes christmas so magical are all the preparations like baking and decorating and enjoying the buildup and yes the christmas movies too!!! 💞💘💘💕💕💝💓💖 it’s honestly a lovely time of the year!! how do you decorate your christmas tree though? 💗💕💕💓💖💘 like what colors and such!! uwu

I AM HAVING A LOVELY WEEKEND THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! CURRENTLY IN A VERY HAPPY AND LOVEY MOOD, ALSO REALLY EXCITED FOR TOMORROW’S MAMA BECAUSE I KNOW ITS GONNA BE GOOOOD!!!! tomorrow has the potential of being one of the best days i’ve had in a while so im really excited about it 💞💝💝💕💕💕💖💘💓💓💗 i hope you’re doing great too and i’ll be looking forward to hearing from you again and to screaming with you over the mama performances!!!!!!