#and one of my friends is giving me more song and media recs hehe which is like. yes. yes. yes.

[ame-to-ame]

My friends are so nice to me??? I love them???

[leadendeath]

Pardon me, Lead (may I call you Lead?)

I'm curious what drew you to Doom originally! Hearing what got folks into their favorite media is always interesting to me

Yes you can!! -several people have called me that :]

what got me into Doom? well i wish i could remember re: the game... rather than re: the entire Thing as a whole... *major infodump incoming*

so there's NuDoom, 2016-2020, with a lot more lore than the original lore which the original 90s games involved (there was not all that much to begin with, but there was Some story, ya feel? Doomguy gets sent to hell for reasons, he doesn't just wind up there for no reason, etc etc)

and i am thinking back as we speak, and unlocking my own lore which i've almost forgotten about! hehe

i remember now. so a prologue: i'm limited by what games i can actually play due to unfortunate eyesight/neurological/brainproblems, and NuDoom is one of those sadly (lots of bright colours when u kill a demon, complex lotsa-polygon shapes- as apposed to Just Pixels From 30yrs Ago- the modern-day latter of which very sadly do not compute with me noggin', so it's obvious what iteration of Doom i leaned towards (THAT AND THE REPLAYABILITY OF CUSTOM .WADS BASED OFF THE 90S GAMES WHICH THE COMMUNITY HAS MADE... OMFG THE *CREATIVITY* OF THIS COMMUNITY!!! WOOOOOOOOOOW SO GOOD /genuine)

WELL ANYWAY THAT WAS SOME NECESSARY ACCESSIBILTY NONSENSE WHICH IS IMPORTANT TO THE OVERALL PLOT... BARE WIV ME INNIT...

i found (2016) doom through a mashup. here is said song. the very one.

i love mashups. the soundtrack of doom 2016 is by mick gordon. fucken stellar bloke. aussie. need i say more. but you may have heard already BFG Division. as previously alluded to.

i heard that, but mashed up with No Love.

death grips has been pretty much one of, if not Thee Number One Fav Band for me since 2016, coincidentally. i got recc'ed them by a friend irl at the time, back when i was still a Normal level of social and not reclusive. I listened to probably their most popular album, The Money Store, (and then branched out to their other stuff from there because i loved it) which i would recommend to anybody as a "pay it forward" kind of music rec. i think anybody has that kind of music saved in their metaphorical pocket. a must-listen album you'd rec to anyone. yeah, the money store is one of those albums for me.

but yeh. i was juuuuust getting into metal, tentatively, back in 2016. i love it and the many iterations of metal now, but i listened to the doom soundtrack a lot as an intro to the genre. it does help loving OSTs and mashups as music genres on youtube before that generally, but the 2016 soundtrack is definitively the thing what got me into Doom for sure.

i AM old enough to remember dial-up internet and floppy discs and what-have-ya, all that sexy paraphernlia, but my intro to Doom was as an old. i mean i'm not far off being as old as Doom itself! i was 25 when i decided to buy the original doom on steam to give it a try in late 2020, for 2020-related reasons. you know. bit old to get into gaming, but i'm glad i did :) it's opened the door for other games now.

Doom is a gateway drug, let it be known!

[babyboyoonie]

Yoonmin Rec Masterlist

what more can i say,, let’s just GET IT 

Fluff

Thunder | it’s thunder, bitch | don’t mind my tags | Yoongi just doesn’t like thunder much

A Little Jealousy | never kills nobody~~ | well the title is self-explanatory what do you want me to say

housewarming | they’re adorable as fuck | my heart has been reported: soft

In the way you give and take | Jimin’s intense with his feelings | they’re just both whipped for each other

Almond Eyes | coffee shop AU | Yoongi’s super shy | Jimin’s a flirt

Soft Spot | Yoongi’s soft for the maknae line

Coffee and Honey | coffee shop AU | Yoonmin are adorable

You're My Everything | Yoongi is a clumsy cutie | Jimin’s soft

mind is a razor blade | doggo Jimin but not really | Yoongi lens a flower shop

fools | shy Yoongi is shy

If looks could kill... | I’m not gonna say anything | just read lololol

You don't mess with Min Yoongi | in which Yoongi is softer than soft

Impulse | vampire Jimin | childhood friend AU

let's stay like this | morning sweetness | Yoongi’s as needy as he said Holly was

meow and cuddles | hybrid AU but not really | it’s soft and a bit angsty on Minnie’s side but nothing big

sleep and showers | they’re both hybrids | and cute

Away in The Mountains | witch!jimin with his magic kitty Yoon

babies and flowers | kid fic

To Not See Is To Love | sweet n soft

i don't care if you're not sorry, i forgive you | seemingly bad boy Yoongi | he really isn’t and Jimin sees it

Tiny Humans Not Included | yoonmin are adorable ))=| caring for a baby included

Of Potions and Chocolates | dragon slayer Jimin | potion brewer Yoongi | they’re crushing on each other but totally oblivious and it’s sweet

Tell Me Your Secrets, I'll Tell You Mine | post stress after mixtape release | overall cute

Nothing wrong with a little Pride | adorable and funny to bits | the characters are so lovable whoa

For You | comfort

In Bloom | mystery  | just soft

I Think It’s Called, Customer Service | an adorable misunderstanding | cute

Angst

Overdose | sad...but not too much...but sad

Color // Yoonmin | bitch maybe I cried | aaah my heart hurts why am I doing this

Why are you shaking up my heart? | it begins as v sad but turns out soft in the middle | crushing boys having crushes in idol verse

you make me believe in happily ever after | right in the kokoro

if I can laugh with you, my heart will clear up, too | oof be mindful of your heart it’ll clench up so bad

Lead me home | angst fest yeay | Pirate AU

Ashtrays and Heartbreaks (a love song since when)  | soft angst  | dealing with feelings n all that

An Uber-Unexpected Journey | an Uber story

Caught in a Lie | cheating

Confidence | it’s sad but not full blown sad ya know | ends up sweet

Smut

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait | threesome | Yoonminjin | dom Jimin

imma give it to you right now |  ABO | alpha Jimin | Omega Yoongi | cute

you're unbelievable (but i still want it) | funny!! | they’re both very straightforward....

Sleepover | face-fucking | cock-slut Yoongi

Thunderstorm | soft

Lock and key | ABO | porn with plot | dog hybrid Jimin

no rest for the wicked | Taegimin | tired bby yoon

softer than the sky at dusk | Yoonminseok | (((;

things that can't be found on the internet | i don’t even know what to tag | just read it pls it’s good

Let yourself unwind | shower sex | Dom Jimin

Hatred Plays On Our Side | enemies to lover

Cherry Lips  | crossdressing  | Yoongi in pretty clothes

i would throw in the towel for you, boy  | jockstraps? daddy kink? yeah, uh, that

Touch me, Hyung | morning sex

Camera Shy | Plot twist

Slice of life

Don't come closer (I'll bite) | College AU | Jimin is b o l d | Yoongi tries to be mean but he’s a marshmallow so jokes on him | a favorite

Powder Pink (Softer Than Mink) | Car racing AU | smut part contains BDSM

we'll be your escape | idol verse | part everyone/Yoongi | cuddles

rid me of this meddlesome fate | deities AU | ADORABLE

styx and stones (i'm home alone) | ...hell AU? | Jimin is chaotic

Charcoal and Graphite | vampire jimin

Red's Big Bad Wolf | red riding hood AU | Jimin is one yummy wolf okay and really into Yoongi

What Helps Him Sleep At Night | Incubus Jimin | he’s whipped and it’s adorable

Money can't buy happiness (except when it does) | it hurts but it hurts good | v v sweet

Transparent | ghosts AU

We Belong Together  | surprise baby-sitting  | yoongi is good with babies

I kissed a boy (and I liked it).  | or the one where jimin’s yongi’s sex-drive epiphany

Peach Kiss | the 80′s | soft boys in love | so so endearing

Caught In A Lie | Royalty AU

Multi-chaptered

A Cinderella Story: Yoonmin Edition | social media au + some parts written

Two Worlds | ABO | boarding school | Alpha Jimin | Omega Yoongi

at the touch of death | mythology AU | Persephone Yoongi | Hades Jimin

I want you (to want me) | college AU | playboy Jimin

two plus one | idol jimin and single parent Yoongi | they’re cute

I know you want to be my bitch for tonight | Yoongi’s depicted as an asshole in the beginning but it’s explained and it gets better don’t worry

A Little Bit of Everything| chat fic | the interactions are cute!!! | 12/10 would recommend their dynamic | a favorite of @lollifewhatlife

SUN PRINCE | another chat fic | my personal favorite | platonic taegi for life

that's gay | chat fic !! | ...platonic taegi hehe

when you're in love all the lines get blurred | fake dating au | Yoongi’s actually so soft you’ll see

Conflicting Arrangement | 12/10 character development

Solace | bitter sweet | heartbreaking in the most mundane way, it shouldn’t be that sad but it is | it gets better super quick so no worries

Neko Atsume | cat hybrid Yoongi | okay so Yoongi’s really soft and Jimin takes care of him real good BUT Yoongi tops in one chapter (the 77th) | I still rec-ed it bc even though he tops Jimin is still in charge

Soft | trope inversion, Jimin’s the bad boy and Yoongi’s the good one | Jimin isn’t bad at all actually lmao

blow a kiss (fire a gun) | spy AU

Ablaze | dragon Yoongi turning human | spell breaker Jimin | it’s a roller coaster you’ve been warned

Burning Snow | crush crush | unhealthy relationship (not between yoonmin)

[wackus-bonkus-maximus]

i'm so glad you decided to talk about harry potter because hehe now i get to too.

ahh i'm so happy to be that 9 who can give us a good rep <333333 it's also such a joy for me to have made a new 2 friend who's so sweet and openly caring and has SUCH a good heart omg <333 love everything you have to say about all our favorites, even if our opinions differ ;))

nothing in your post came across self-centered at all! it was actually perfect the way you related traits you see in harry and adrien to ones you share in common with them. i mean i did the same in my luka type 9 analysis didn't i? this is how we relate to characters, and why they become so beloved to us. the more you see yourself in them, the better the character they are, right?

ok so, you are SPOT ON about adrien & harry's self-sacrificing tendencies. it's such a core 2 trait that i look at them and think hm, yeah, i could give an essay on why they're type two's an A+. i see so much love in both of them, which is also a trademark of the 2. they really would do anything for the ones they love, even die for them. i love that that was the point of harry's story, and i hope and pray that adrien's goes that way as well.

i'm gonna sound like such a 9 but 😂 i think the value of character analysis through the enneagram is that we can have such diverse perspectives on each person. it's so beautiful to me that people can see qualities and patterns in FICTIONAL IDIOTS and go, omg, they're like ___ because ____. so i can't even call your opinions on harry or adrien wrong b/c you see something in them that really is true, just in a different way i understand it!

"[Harry]'d very much not like to be needed or noticed at all, thank you very much, and would love to live his famous Quidditch wife's shadow (Ginny's an eight; no, you probably aren't going to change my mind) <-- couldn't agree with this insight more. throughout the books i see harry just wanting to chill and learn some magic, and yes be v content to live in ginny's shadow forever. also she's totally an 8. i absolutely love their dynamic because he's a 9w8 which is where he gets his Confrontation Skills and Sass, and ginny's an 8w9 which is why she's so Chill and Cool.

and wow, really?? it was my fic opened your eyes to the nine's???? that is huge lol. i'm glad i did it in an efficient way <333 i hope it helps you understand nines better irl and in literature! actually i hope it helps you understand all the types i use, or at least my interpretation of them. (and btw, i'm so excited to bring nino into his odnlb role. he's the one i have down for 2 so i think you will like what i do with him <3)

gonna go off on a tangent here but some of the best 9's i've seen in lit/media are:

edward ferrars - sense and sensibility anne elliot - persuasion (pls don't watch the 2022 netflix movie) aaron burr - hamilton: the musical nick miller - new girl anne perkins - parks and rec bruce banner/hulk - mcu

also if anyone hasn't listened to the enneagram album by sleeping at last, PLEASE DO THAT. it's absolutely beautiful and i think the songs that resonate with you will make you cry :') also he is a 9 just saying ;))))

gonna end w/my favorite sleeping at last quotes for 2's, 7's, and 9's:

2 - "No, I don't want to talk about myself/ Tell me where it hurts." 7 - "A secret handshake between me and my one life/ I'll find the silver lining no matter what the price." 9 - "Who am I to say what any of this means?/ I have been sleepwalking since I was fourteen."

I'm curious how you perceive Luka in the show. I love what you've been doing with Luka in "one does not love breathing", with accentuating personality traits that we've seen evidence of in the show - Luka lying to Marinette about not knowing Ladybug and Chat Noir's identities, and not speaking up in Ephemeral about knowing Chat's identity, even though it was pertinent to Ladybug's plan (I wasn't too happy about that plan, but it's not relevant here), seem like the inspiration for Luka's whole "stay quiet about what I know because if I rock the boat it could cause harm" stance in your fic. The show didn't really make it clear why Luka made those decisions, but through your Luka's actions, I can better see what might have been going through Luka's head in the show.

My own feelings towards Luka have always been... frustrating. He's a nice, kind guy, no doubt, with most of what we saw of him in seasons 2 and 3 were just him being selflessly enamored with Marinette, but without any of the negative feelings that I'd normally expect from anyone who's pining over an unrequited love. I can sort of see why he was popular for that - he's about as unproblematic of a dream boyfriend as you could get - but I just couldn't look at his depictions and reactions in the show and make him into a full person, with his own thoughts, feelings, problems, and complex internal emotional world, especially since he mostly seemed to exist for Marinette. The big standout during that period that helped to develop him further was that 30 second cameo where he interacted with his sister, since it showed his feelings and interactions with someone else he cared about.

I did get a lot more from him in season 4, with him being frustrated and hurt about Marinette vanishing on him all the time, even if he still took it insanely well. I loved seeing that he can have negative feelings for his own sake, not just for Marinette's, and that he has some emotional baggage of his own, with his mom refusing to mention who his dad was. I still have struggled with understanding him at times - like trying to figure out what he was thinking that prompted him to directly lie to Marinette when she asked him whether he knew hers and Chat's identities - but they do show some more complex character traits, even if I'm not completely sure of what they are. Though I like your idea of what character trait prompted him to do that.

Anyway, I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on what makes Luka tick in the show. I don't see many of analyses of him that I agree with - either they're overly negative and ascribe some form of malice or abuse to his actions (which is nonsense, Luka doesn't have a mean bone in his body), or they're overly positive, and put a spin on his actions as being more wholly virtuous than I think is warranted (like the whole "he sacrificed his honesty in Wishmaker because it would freak Marinette out if he answered her question truthfully, he's so selfless, only thinking of what's best for her" thing).

*cracks knuckles* buckle up breathers and breatheren, it's luka analysis time.

to start off, the show doesn't do the greatest job with consistency. sometimes its own characters will be ooc, especially marinette and adrien. in dearest family, she despairs over stealing galette when she's never had an issue with it before, and adrien dates marinette without telling her is identity in cat blanc (something i really don't think is consistent with his character but w/ever). if you see an inconsistency in my analysis of luka, it might be because of the show's flawed depiction of his character.

that being said, i knew the minute luka learned ladybug and chat noir's identities and decided to do NOTHING that he was an enneagram type 9, just like me. way to put me back on my enneagram shit again. I even have him typed as a 9 in my miraculous enneagram post if you're interested in that.

i liked luka fine in the show until wishmaker, when they finally gave him potential. he then became one of my favorite characters because he became interesting. you look at him on the outside and you see a guy who's easy to get along with, understands everyone's points of view, and will lend a listening ear when you need him. these are what make him such a nice person and probably why everyone in the show likes him. i mean, marinette broke up with him after lying to him for quite some time and still didn't tell him anything, and he comforted her with a hug because he could tell she was going through it. after wishmaker, it is very clear he is afraid of rocking any boat he's in because he's actually really afraid of causing conflict. for luka, conflict = separation (exemplified by his parents' relationship), and if he is separated from people he cares about, he will be alone.

luka is someone who is always trying to make connections with people by understanding them. he likes to listen to everyone's "inner melodies," which i think is just lukaspeak for comprehending people in depth and seeing their perspective. i truly think he gets stuck in other people's perspectives rather than his own, as evidenced by how he refused to speak up about ladybug's plan in ephemeral and how he gently guided marinette to adrien by telling her "knowing the whole other side of someone helped me love them more." it's my opinion that luka thinks he's less important than the people he cares about, and so in a sense "goes to sleep" to his own wants, needs, feelings and opinions. this is why he doesn't tell marinette and adrien the truth in the show, and what i expanded on in odnlb; luka really just did not know what to do, and before he knew it six years had gone by, and he didn't know silence could be so dangerous.

a lot of people said they "forgot" about luka in odnlb until chapter 7, when he was facetiming adrien. i actually really really loved that because it was just so LUKA of him to be forgotten. he doesn't think he's important compared to marinette or adrien, and so he talks to them about their issues and ignores his own need for growth/action. luka's sin is sloth, which might sound like the least harmful of all the 7 deadlies but which i think i've shown can be extremely sabotaging to others and to himself. it's also a character trait i've not seen portrayed too often, but whenever i do the characters are really interesting. those of you who don't have this issue will easily think, "all he has to do is SPEAK." well, that's literally the hardest thing for him to do! because if he does, he's going to rock the boat and lose connection, and that's the thing he's afraid of most.

this was a great ask, @flightfoot! i love all your questions but this has been my favorite so far!