#baffling and amazing to me

[lost-in-fandoms]

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[shinjaeha]

thinking about how gyu ho was quite literally the light and love of young's life. how when they first meet, he's the one that presses that bottle to his mouth and asks if he's okay when young gets knocked down. how he travels all that way to young's apartment just to put his curtains up for him when he sees how the light bothers him when he sleeps. how he's the metaphorical ray of sunlight on young's face coming through the gap in those very curtains when he's counting all his moles.

how he's always smoothing out the crease between young's eyebrows when he's worried, like he's trying to smooth away his troubles. how his acceptance of kylie is so easy and simple bc he knows that it's something that young has opened up and trusted him with. something that he's never told another soul about, and it's understandably something painful for young to be so vulnerable about. how he tells young that he's still the same person with or without kylie. everything about gyu ho is a balm. the way he soothes and reassures. the way he loves.

that scene when they're kissing in the club for the last time encapsulates the very essence of their relationship imo. young doubting and constantly asking what happens if they argue again once they're back home, and gyu ho answering him so easily and honestly with "then we'll make up!" over and over again bc it really IS that simple for him. simple in a way that it's not for young who is never able to get past the doubt and insecurity of it all.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

spop stans: og she-ra’s outfit was so revealing even though she was supposed to be a warrior! it’s not realistic or practical

meanwhile, the extremely protective battle armors in spop:

bonus:

(apparently the horde had prom dresses but not protective clothing for their soldiers)

[jolalibrary]

have I told you all today that i love you? because I do.

thank you for letting me tell stories and have a place to be me; let me take you on journeys to cabins, hardware shops and airport first kisses. I can’t believe that I get to do what I do.

[napping-sapphic]

do NOT have a best friend because you WILL be trying to sleep and then they will text you some of the cutest shit on earth and then you will be so busy thinking about it that sleep gets too hard >:(

[badolmen]

People love ragging on Catholics on this site (fast free and easy like river water socks) but I think it’s extra funny y’all seem to think Catholics are some sort of sex prudes. Like, if a Catholic man does not give his wife an orgasm he is failing his sworn duties as a husband. I did not endure polite insinuations that my parents fucked often and well to have as many kids as they have for you to act like any self respecting Catholic is a celibate virgin. Laypeople have sex in this denomination Kaitleign. What are we, Calvinists? Jansenism is soooo 17th century Protestant Reformation-informed heresy.

[sirlancenotalot]

[dyrewrites]

The hardest part of trying to turn your creative passions into a thing that pays the bills is not worrying if people will hate it.

It's worrying if they will care, and if they do...will it be enough to put money down. Will you be comfortable asking them to?

Unless you 'get lucky' and someone with influence and a massive following happens to see what you're doing and draw attention to you. Or you are someone with a massive following already...

You're unlikely to see much in the way of numbers. Even with a publishing company doing much of the heavy lifting, it takes more than screaming from the rooftops and inundating websites with ads for people to care.

They need their friends to care. They need someone they trust to tell them to look at this thing. Or enough strangers looking at it that they feel left out.

This isn't doom-saying here, this is my attempt to make you appreciate the people who do care. Who do buy your things, leave reviews, comments, tell their friends about how awesome they think what your doing is.

It is hard to put yourself out there, more so to do it alone. The constant focus on bigger and bigger numbers isn't helping anyone. Yes, there are bills to pay, and yes you will need to do something else to pay them because creative mediums rarely do.

But if you hope to keep loving it, to not fall into the money pit of despair:

You need to love your fans too, whether you have one or one million.

[raelyn-dreams]

Okay so Twinkle Kuuchuusen is AMAZING (as expected and I will try to gather my thoughts about it later), but THE SOLOS OH MY GOD THE SOLOS AND THE LYRICS I'M!!!

They both reference 2x2 a lot, and you can see their development so much from their previous solos! There's a big theme of acceptance and both and they're driving me crazy with it!

Hinata's '"street" being bathed in blue and how he accepts it as a part of himself before declaring he's going to light it up with colors because he'll love himself even more!!! The way he doesn't try to gloss over the negative but decides he'll stick to his positive worldview while taking everything in stride! How he knows now that no matter how far they drift their hearts will always reconnect!

And Yuta walking the line between two worlds confidently, not looking back into the shadow of days past and pushing ahead into the unknown! Going all out and no longer suppressing his feelings, engraving them into his heart and making bold decisions as himself! The way he connects their worldviews with their differing light, knowing someone will always be at his back no matter what!

If there was ever any doubt within me about the future of 2wink, I feel like these solos resolved it. They really have come to a temporary truce and peace with each other, they'll stay together while continuing to push and compete in their separate ways. These songs feel like letters to each other almost, about how they're able to move forward with their own worldviews without shame, but will always hold the other close. And even if they do come to that breaking point in the future, after the dust has settled, they'll still be there watching the night sky - in a much better place than where they started.

[ai-the-broccoli]

aaghh I hate health anxiety ocd (or whatever you call it), it's literally doing nothing other than contributing to make my health worse

... wait actually, does anyone have like, tips/advice for that kind of thing? I really think I need some help with this one

[luminisvii]

with how the splat 3 fanbase is acting about splatfests, you'd think there's something real and tangible on the line and not like, superficial bragging rights and a few extra snails. idk why people are sitting here and getting angry at shiver as if she's a real person who has any actual will to do anything and not just pixels on a screen, especially when there are legitimate issues with how splatfests are designed and run in splat3, and that's the devs and nintendo's fault, not shiver. she's not real and she can't do anything to you. and i've seen way more complaining about the concept of "toxic shiver stans who always pick shiver and ruin it for everyone" than i have any actual evidence that these kind of people exist on a mass scale. it really feels like that kind of person is a guy that the fanbase made up to be mad at every time they lose. i agree that there are huge problems with splat 3 but the moment someone lays the blame on shiver they throw all credibility out the window. it's not shiver, there's no evil cult of shiver stans manipulating the splatfests, and don't get me started on how people are talking about the asian playerbase with these splatfests.

[muppetsnoopy]

v funny to me that Can Bake and Can Cook are opposite types of guys but I love that we have one of each in my household. drift compatible <3

[baekuras]

Shoutout to Elden Ring DLC for making me be good at Malenia that I 2 try her after a year of not playing and never having beaten her because I forgor

I didn't even use a different weapon and didn't level it's necessary stats up much either (i went for 60vigor and spread out the rest) but now just using my trusty poleblade

yeah pretty easy in comparison

[chialattea]

lestat is the funniest fucking guy ever. my man makes a big deal out of how it’s totally fine if they fuck other people then has a mental breakdown when Louis hooks up with someone??? I don’t think this man particularly enjoys the consequences to his own actions, or at least doesn’t expect them because he just goes :0 everytime an extremely predictable outcome happens

[mariocki]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"Jane, did you ever stop to think that... if anything happened to me, I mean anything bad, there wouldn't be any money for you? I wouldn't be here to sign the checks. You wouldn't even have pocket money. Did you ever think of that?"

"Yeah, I've thought about that."

[splynter]

@basilthymee They’re arguing again :)