#and it still makes more sense than English

[meylovesmusic]

mey is listening to...

DESIRE: UNLEASH

an album review!~ includes my first impressions of focusing and listening intently to each track on enhypen's 6th mini album ❤️

Flashover - vibey for sure. definitely a track I'd play on loud speakers. gives music festival vibes yk? kinda reminds me of the weeknd

Bad Desire (With or Without You) [TITLE] - honestly not what I was initially expecting for their title track for this album. not my favorite production choices but the song isn't bad, just not my favorite title track. seeing the MV and stage helps with this one. and btw??? NI-KI'S LINES MHM‼️

Outside - OMG let's gooooo !! I remember on the preview this is the one I was vibing with. yeah this is hype. I honestly hope we at least get a small MV or track video for this the visuals would be so cool (as a media prod major)

Loose (Korean Ver.) - still the same vibe as loose english, but it's clear the structure of the lines were written to be sung in english lol :/ not the worst, but english ver. is preferred this time around.

Helium - JAY 😭 honestly this hits. so proud of jay fr. easily could have been a title track imo. the guitar and bass lines‼️ nostalgic in a way?? but that makes sense for jay tbh. honestly a bit static but that's ok

Too Close - the lighter track for the album ok. this is actually such a fun/cute track I love this omg?? this is the kind of song I like on a lighter album, but the lyrics definitely fit the message enhypen was going for this one.

Bad Desire (With or Without You) (English Ver.) - honestly why does the English version kinda hit a little? I just think the production choices suit English lyrics better. there's some portions of the lyrics that aren't my favorite, but the vibe is there. I think the title track generally is actually growing on me atp

Loose - summer chill song mhm 💙 i honestly didn't expect this from enhypen when it first came out, but seeing the stages and listening to it like 40 times in a row made it one of my top summer songs of 2025 for sure. also the guys always talk about how much they actually live this song so I don't think I can hate it <3

~ thoughts under cut! ~

in general, my honest opinion is that this album has good tracks that don't all work on the same album. I watched the Coachella live and thought we were getting freakhypen summer 2025 and we got a surprisingly not freaky album?? I wish they ended up going for a more concrete summer concept for this album if the majority of the tracks were giving "summer of desire" yk? I just think the album wasn't cohesive enough to be as strong as we were expecting. given that loose is a pre-release I think they should have leaned into those vibes for the release more since loose is essentially their primary single for the album.

that said I love the concept photos and a lot of the songs are actually bangers so I will still be buying all the album versions 😭

romance: untold was such a good album that this one seems a bit lackluster in comparison, but the guys have also been incredibly busy! I hope that after the tour ends the guys can get the rest they well deserve <3 I definitely appreciate repackages in this case rather than full comebacks, but only because it limits the amount of preparation the guys actually have to do for a release.

in short this album has good songs, they just don't really fit the image that was marketed to us 100%! that's alright, our boys worked hard during their tour schedule to make this for us so we should appreciate it!

[pharrell-the-formation]

Hello everyone. In honor of Pride Month, I'd like to talk a little about one of my oldest stable headcanons in this fandom: the concept that Marco Legrand might be a closeted homosexual in deep denial. I want to point out right away: don't take everything you read from here on out as a serious theory about the game. I'm well aware that this was not the authors' intention and is just my interpretation of the facts given to us. Harmless fun :)

So, let's start from the beginning. A phrase that has become a point of no return for many.

(Strangely enough, the English translation made it a little less suspicious with him not addresing Evan directly, like he did in the original).

I once mentioned it on this blog, but I feel like it’s too important for us to ignore it here: during the dialogue about Evan's deceased father, Marco will state that he was not uninterested in Caleb... it would be a different matter if he were alive and Evan was a girl. Another dialogue (where he shares a failed plan to seduce Ferguson's imaginary daughter) fully confirms the suspicion that he would be interested in the politician's daughter in that very sense. Of course, for the sake of authority and getting a position in the Ministry, of course!

I do not want to state that everyone who says that they would be together with their friend if they were of the opposite sex are necessarily latent queer people, because in psychology you can't generalize. But this still raises questions, because here you can't say that Marco could respect Evan as a person, since he just met him. But okay, let's assume that he joked like that in the context of his desire for a promotion. Marco is clearly not a person who is distinguished by witty humor.

The more you interact with Legrand in the game, the more you see the idea that he loves to mention women at any possible opportunity. He clearly strives to create an image of a successful, charming womanizer around himself. The problem is that in some places it feels forced. Let's look at this example:

Evan asks the most standard question that can be asked at work, and Legrand for some reason immediately answers that he does not think about the boss, he thinks about girls. I find this extremely unnatural, nothing prevented him from simply answering that he does not care, that he has a negative attitude or whatever, but for some reason he once again drags women into this and the idea that he is some kind of Casanova.

If we draw parallels, then in the series there is another playboy character: Peter Pranger. His situation is even more aggravated than Marco's, he makes remarks towards the fair sex or intimacy with them in almost every conversation with him, but you can see the difference in his delivery. Peter seems ultra-horny, but quite sincerely interested in women. He describes their features, his feelings, reacts to specific situations (he sees Nora - describes her legs. Frank interrupts his plans for a date - he declares this). There are no questions for him, he looks natural in his environment.

What about Marco? Let's talk about Emma.

Emma, ​​Emma... this will sound harsh and possibly rude, but... remind me, why didn't Marco try to make a move on her? In conversation, he gives a very clear reason - Hazer is pretty, and even though he knows about her reputation, she annoys him as a person. In theory, this does not raise questions, normal reason, but

a) Marco knows that Peter, the main sponsor of his entertainment in the office, is in love with Emma.

And Legrand had never been above any pranks before: he even laughed at the time when his victim broke his spine. Literally everything built into his image implies that pretending that he is trying to steal Peter's beloved in front of him would have been a trifle for him and a natural continuation of all the previous ridicule. And yet he never tried to do this. His fourth prank could have been this, but he comes up with a dodgy plan to convince her to seduce Dong and steal his clothes.

And b) if Evan gets closer to Emma in a civilized manner and comes to his friend to share news and an interesting story, Marco, completely unexpectedly, will shift his ground and suddenly ask whether he should sleep with her too. So he is (at least in words!) would be quite capable of this.

I assume that his first admission about Emma is quite truthful, and later he began to adapt to the situation and to his friend's behavior. He is (remember?) a womanizer, sleeps with women, so he must be interested in this, especially since Evan raised this topic. As in other dialogues, he seems to forcibly mention this image. He wants you to know this, to know his stories about his romantic life, where even instead of saucy details, he ultimately concentrates on humor, telling his bro how he brought a girl home and they fed sardines. Is this all? No, not all.

The route where Emma becomes his stepmother.

For me, this is almost the loudest and most illustrative example. Within this route, Legrand receives a call from his father and complains that his father is pressuring him again with marriage and children. He is already fed up with this and comes to the realization that he needs to deceive his father, that he followed his instructions and did what he asked. Logically, we can make a prediction that he will probably find himself a girl, either one of his acquaintances or a bribed one, and convince her to play along with him temporarily. In such a situation, and, again, if he already made a decision to lie, this seems to be the only working option, simple and understandable. But instead, for some reason, Marco turns to his friend, gives him his father's number and persuades him to call and say that, well, I'm an acquaintance of your son, he found a bride, by the way, I'm the son of Redgrave, the very same one, believe me. Just think about how surreal this idea is, even in its concept. Imagine yourself in Henry's place, some stranger calls you, claims that he is the son of a bigwig in the political world and tells you stories about how your eccentric child suddenly decided to mend his ways and to get off the wrong track. Would you believe him? Better tell me at what point you would hang up. Even Evan in the game reasonably refuses this crazy plan, and then the colleague pays him just so that Evan agrees. If we believe his words, he gives the last money he can give.

Let's leave out the fact that somehow Marco's father falls for this masquerade, it doesn't matter now. What's important is that Marco is subsequently completely uninterested in how Evan resolves the situation there. It would be expected that he would at least find out who he had picked as his imaginary bride, but he emotionally distances himself from this event and decides to focus on other matters. I also suggest, keeping everything described in mind, to look at and analyze the ultimatum for the businessman's inheritance, the main motive for Marco's presence in the Ministry from the beginning.

"The demands are still the same - get married and have children. Or get a promotion. But with your attitude towards hard work, getting a promotion is fantastic, so I'm waiting for grandchildren!"

No one, absolutely no one will like the idea of ​​​​forcibly dating someone and by no means will enjoy the unvoluntary conception of offspring. You understand Marco and do not condemn him from this position, and his decision to work seems normal, but here again the details are curious. Lazy Legrand, really lazy guy, this is evident throughout the game in small references and even in his own actions, AGAIN chooses a more complex and confusing path, avoiding a simpler one where all that is supposedly required of him is to show his vaunted charm and flirt, meet or drag into bed some pretty young lady. The game itself gives an interesting detail with the fact that Henry Legrand set this condition for him only because he wanted his son's marriage, he never believed that he will be successful in his career path and clearly does not want this, being more interested in continuation of his family line.

So, in my interpretation of things, everything leads to this idea: Marco does not like women. He does not accept this and hides it, concerned about his reputation, telling tales about his relationships and avoiding those in practice.

Also, taking into account all this background, his attitude towards Evan seems peculiar to me, because at some moments he literally trusts him to the point of stupidity, actively tries to make him part of his secret plans, and at other moments he can suddenly subject him to impulsive, unjustified cruelty. As if he wants to keep him close to himself, but something in him really fights it and because of his inability to deal with his emotions sensibly, he can take it out on Evan and those around him.

(Text on the screenshot - "I see you and Legrand are birds of a feather! Alright, the prank isn’t that bad").

Thank you all for your attention!

[arcticwolf144]

Happy Barricade Day! Have my show notes from when I saw the Paris production in December and my soul ascended.

My view is restricted so I’ll miss some moments

All the cast are fab

Larger orchestra and everything’s so LOUD. Like that was the biggest “one day…moreeere/ le grand jourrrrrrr” I’ve ever heard.

There’s a transparent screen halfway down the stage that raises and lowers. It’s often lowered so stuff can be projected onto like (like fog or snow or a backdrop). It definitely adds depth to the staging. Sometimes other things will be going on behind it while a scene is happening. Makes it seem like the staging is part of a larger world.

The convicts are on a set piece that moves across the stage as they row.

When Valjean turned around there was a projection that looked like an artistically rendered face on the screen. So it was like he stopped and saw himself being watched by God

For the intro to At the End of the Day (using English titles to save time sorry) loads of words from the manuscript were projected onto the screen so it was like you were going through the book to get to the scene (if that makes sense)

Javert whips out a gun during The Confrontation and the nuns are horrified. He then is hunting across the stage for Valjean who keeps hiding from him. When Valjean knocks him down, one of the nuns takes the gun and hides it under the covers of another bed.

For Paris the ensemble came in through the stalls begging for money from the audience

They projected stars onto the screen while Javert was singing. SO cool

Gavroche’s verse is so much funnier in French. I can’t remember the exact wording but he’s basically saying “he thinks he’s the second coming of Christ and he’s singing at stars while I’m doing all the work” lmaooo

Grantaire has a lot of personality. He’s definitely going all out for Enjolras’s attention. When Enjolras grabs the bottle off him he kind of staggers and Enjolras is forced to catch him. R then fake punches E’s stomach as he’s singing his line and tries to give him a hug. E does not look pleased.

Montparnasse…omg. He’s fixing his clothes every 5 seconds, doing everything ✨for the aesthetic✨. He’s trying to throw a rope over the Rue Plumet gate on someone’s back, and then when they run away he ends up practically upside down still swinging his rope.

One Day More was less choreographed and felt more like one massive crowd moving through the city, with all the characters crossing paths.

I do miss Enjolras’ military vest…I’m feeling the lack

Enjolras has so much stage presence

SO many flags

They lift the far screen for the last bit of One Day more so you can see the orchestra.

It’s captioned in French and English but I’m trying not to look at it too often as I don’t want to distract myself. From what I’ve seen the lyrics feel much more from the book than in the English.

The lyrics are often different from the 1991 recording which is throwing me off cause I listen to that obsessively

“We will build our barricade, in front of the cafe where we dreamt” ouch????

The backdrop for On My Own was all blue with lights (van gogh esque)

Eponine didn’t get shot by a bullet meant for Marius in this one, she got shot whilst coming back to the barricade

Joly (I assume) came sprinting over halfway through A Little Fall of Rain with bandages and a bowl and then just stopped short cause he realised it was too late. And then just stood frozen for the rest of the scene

At one point while another scene is going on, Enjolras is in the back kneeling by Eponine’s body. Someone else was blocking my view but I think he kissed her hand like he does with Mabeuf in the books

The loud hailer was actually on stage behind the barricade

As people were leaving the barricade before the final battle an instrumental version of Drink With Me played and everyone was hugging but Enjolras was just standing alone at the front of the stage…

The reactions to Gavroche’s death were heartbreaking. Instead of being shot at the top of the barricade he climbs back over wounded, finishes his song and then just collapses and Grantaire catches him. Marius immediately turns around and is devastated and just kind of flings himself at Enjolras for a hug

Enjolras is the last to die and he was watching in horror as his friends fell around him, then he faced the enemy again, got shot, reached for the flag and waved it until he got shot again. He then fell backwards a-la Aaron Tveit but on the audience’s side and stayed there the whole rest of the scene (I bet that was uncomfortable)

Javert falls backwards off a tall set piece, hangs there just at the moment he’s about to fall, and then a projection of him falling plays on the screen.

During Turning the women are with officials identifying the bodies

For Empty Chairs at Empty Tables Marius is alone in the Musain, and the shadows of the rest of the Amis are moving on the wall. When he gets to the last “seul devant ces tables vides” they vanish and only his shadow is left…

During the wedding when Thenardier goes “maestro…” the conductor turns around and replies “maesTRA” and then everyone clapped the orchestra for a bit before the scene continued

The actor playing Courfeyrac dancing with Cosette…

For the Finale Valjean is actually in a hospital, very reminiscent of how Fantine died

Fantine puts the letter in his hand to give to Cosette

Javert and Valjean shake hands in the afterlife which was just…

He also hugs Enjolras

[nenoname]

i know it's because the episode cant reveal that stanford pines is the author too early and this would be a dead giveaway, but its still so skddkfdjhd that the agents didnt uncover ford having 6 fingers (especially when they managed to get his fingerprints) or a twin after investigating him for weeks

[buttercupshands]

I've been thinking a lot lately

ref to the quote under the cut

under the cut for maybe some people that would like to try and guess *shruggs*

[dingodad]

"june never fought lord english" is definitely the best explanation for what the burning letters mean that I've thought of, but I feel like that just doesn't make a ton of sense practically? like idc if some stuff from the epilogues unhappens to be clear, I just can't figure out how meat can still occur without resorting to "why didn't they just pass the life ring around"isms.

oh yeah I doubt it's going to be as simple as "John is alive and hanging out with everyone else normal-style now". there's clearly some good reason they're making us wait to actually see what the result of that first addendum was... and it's not like they're just gonna throw out the plot thread where Terezi has been hanging onto the dead John's corpse, right? I donno.

[bumblingbabooshka]

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[oceandiagonale]

Actually, Guzman is his spanish name.

OH YEAH some other folks pointed that out too, makes sense since it's an irl Spanish name (probably why I see it around a lot!) 😳

(normally it's a surname, I've only seen it used as a first name once in a blue moon -- but also in the pokemon world it's pretty clear that naming conventions aren't the same lol)

[kitchensinksurrealism]

whenever people talk about what they were like 13 and i'm thinking like "wait that was me when i was 15" or someone's describing a stereotypical 18 year old and that was just me when i was 20. etc etc etc etc so like. although there's no way to be one particular age and everyone ages at different speeds. but idk it all adds up that i always seem to act 2 years younger at any age. soooooo tag ramble

[mylove-thresher]

new mechanical pencils so fayahhhhh

[431989]

more resident alien posting. predictions... spoilers so beware

well. i'm upset that the shows going to have a difficult time having more serious scenes now. and that's probably what it's going to try and set itself up for.

i reaaaally would have loved to see this show do something ACTUALLY different and good. by different i mean in terms of writing and not necessarily drifting from source material. yes i'm still sour over last ep, but i wouldn't be AS sour if everyone on the show didn't treat harry and asta's relationship as "mother and child." and also if the show didn't take such a nose dive into the type of comedy it's putting out.

ALSO? IN A RECENT INTERVIEW? Sheridan going on to state that harry would lose his first """love""" (more like lust. awesome that a show trying to teach human emotion gets those two things mixed up) and then realize there's love everywhere or something? why does this feel like "weird" people are forever left to the role of outcasts. already fucked it up once i guess the guy's trying to fuck it up more. could've just left it at "he'll lose his first love, then he will have to reconcile with his feelings." but he had to drop in that last corny bit.

like. the show's source is already good. i don't understand all these decisions they're making to try and make it seem "unique." and now to get numbers back they're dumbing it way down. WHICH. BY DOING SO. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE YOUR DRAMA? like how am i supposed to take anything seriously in the show. i *could* in season 1 and parts of season 2, but now it's just whatever. it's too goofed up for me to care. and now people who love the goofy won't give two shits about whatever message you want to drop or plot you want to develop. i dont give a shit about the greys!!! i dont care what theyre doing!!!! who gives a fuck if theyll blow up the earth. none of the characters really care anymore either. oh well!!!

also, predictions kind of. i'm not trying to say this will be the be all end all but it certainly could be a turn the show takes. in one of the issues of the comic (suicide blonde i think), harry is investigating the "suicide" of a woman. by the end of the issue, he catches up with her ex-lover and ex-roommate. they were both ladies. and the girl who died had a drinking problem btw. and was constantly seeing boys. i'm all for gay couples on screen as a gay guy myself but it'll feel so cheap to pair darcy and asta together despite the way theyve been played on screen. maybe its doable. i don't know. but i genuinely could care less considering the overall tone of the show's drifted more towards a sitcom than anything else. i think the small handful of 40+ year old gay wine moms would probably love it, but the vast majority of viewers wont. either they'll hate it and say it's forced diversity (there's already people saying that about the gay couple on screen this past episode) or it'll be another nothing moment to a further nothing story. if anything it'd feel one step removed from tokenization, considering they see harry as a manchild. ableism! show's trying to seem fucking wholesome but they can't be bothered to care about their nd viewers. like "haha look we have a main gay couple!!! what do you *mean* our show has rampant ableist tropes, we have a gay couple!"

i'm just so bummed. the show's cornered itself into a sitcom so meaningful moments aren't a thing anymore. plus the comparison of harry to a child is really getting at me. like he's a grown man as a human, and hes a grown alien thing as an alien. it's such a big slap in the face to any person who cherished the witty and unique story telling of the first season... like.... i don't know.... people who would've been fans of the comic too? i have small gripes about the comic, but at least it takes itself more seriously. but the show runners haaate the people who read the comics. why? i dont know. well maybe i do know. probably seen as too nerdy and weird for their idea of the show's viewerbase. despite the fucking basis of the show being weird and nerdy.

they couldve done the darcy asta thing better if they do go down that road. i'm just saying i wouldn't be surprised. they already scared off everyone who would've cared for something like that, so i don't know how they'll manage to find an audience that cares. everything in s1 was so organic and felt real!!!!! now its just!!! nothing!!!!!!!!!!

im also thinking about the fact that after posting that one resident alien drawing i did, i've had to block tons of people because they're freaks. loud and proud conservatives. man this shit sucks.

[incoherentbabblings]

I understand people joking about unintelligible accents/dialects sometimes I do but there is always something really surreal about seeing one that is either yours or one that you understand perfectly well being made the butt of a joke and you'll sit there like what's the joke they're being perfectly coherent!

There are many many many many examples of this but the one that is relevant for myself is the chap in Brave speaking Doric. He's not even speaking that fast.

If he was a wee bit closer I could lob a caber [tree trunk/log] at him, ken [you know]? and It's just nae fair making us fit [fight] for the hand of the quine [woman], it disnae whet an appetite, ken [you know]?

[citrusinicake]

i wonder what their accents are meant to convey

[bmpmp3]

also guess which complainer about cevio/voisona's supposed lack of vocal dynamics controls finally Looked Up. and Discovered.

[semi-sketchy]

The Q&A of the Xenoblade 3 art book leaked and I am. Feeling something.

I think it's annoyance. I don't know if even Takahashi knows what he's cooking at this point.

[anger-and-red-flames]

oha surprise surprise, being in a relationship where you are forced to speak the other person's language almost 24/7 is exhausting?