#but holy shit y'all they got me feeling UNWELL

[gonksinlove]

pov: you caught Val's eye at the club... are you joining them for a drink?

[Val Cerise, they/them]

[fallen-gravity]

just got home from seeing moana 2! I thought it was really good, though not even remotely comparable to the first movie.

Moana and Maui you will always be my beloveds, I'm happier than anyone can imagine that they kept their dynamic platonic even though they could've gone in a different direction if they wanted to.

some pretty big spoilers under the readmore, just want to scream somewhere lol

y'all Maui still being the incredibly sarcastic and stoic "i'm great nothing bothers me ever" but crumbling to pieces every time something involved Moana absolutely destroyed my soul, I was screaming my head off in an empty theater at I could pull up millions of islands but if you're not there to land on them...

and god. god. GOD. Maui getting struck down by Nalo and losing his tattoos and hook and his first instinct being to dive into the water to rescue Moana? holy shit. The symbolism? Maui, being tossed into the sea with nothing, just as his mother did to him, diving right back in to save Moana, the person he gives sole cerdit to for the reason he feels like himself again. He has nothing, but it doesn't even mattter.

When Moana was dying in his arms and her ancestors showed up to answer the call of Maui's song there was a brief moment where I thought they were going to take her away and she'd be standing in front of him as a ghost and that I was gonna have to prepare myself for that goodbye

but AUGHHHHHH, her ancestors and her grandmother being the ones to decide that she earned demi-godhood rather than one of the gods themselves took me the fuck out. I'm a mess, don't look at me, if Maui is the demigod of the wind and sea that must make her the demigodddess of bringing others together. i'm unwell. i'm sick to my stomach. I can't believe all of those fics we wrote as overdramatic aus back in 2018 were right. I was screaming my head off. [old friend i'm not gonna tag], your fic in particular came to mind. i hope you're still out there. I hope you see the similarities too. holy shit. i'm gonna throw up.

CAN I GET A CHEE-HOO, ough, welcome back warrior face, i'm so happy they were able to rework and rewrite that song into the sequel, I love moana and maui's dynamic so fucking much and I feel like this song is a great representation of that!!! they're each other's biggest hypemen fr. no moping around!!! hero time!!!! you're the best!!! you're the greatest!!!

and all those instances at the start of the movie where they kept thinking they were seeing each other and went to try and hug empty air. god. maui you gd idiot, you're lucky you went back to Motunui with everyone at the end of the movie or i would've strangled you.

good shit!!! I'm probably gonna end up seeing it at least one more time in theaters before it's inevitably pushed to D+. I get and agree that it won't ever live up to the first one, but as someone who lived around the fandom for ages and read dozens upon dozens of fics that this reminded me of, I had a great time <3 <3

[bellaxgiornata]

I just finished reading You've Been Gone So Long, Baby and holy shit. I literally cried so hard reading every chapter, it was so beautiful and sad but im so happy it was a happy ending. Also a while back when I discovered FFTD, I read the first 50 chapters in 3 days, I was obsessed, I was kicking my feet and giggling everytime time I read it and it truely is such a highlight of my week everytime a new chapter comes out. I want to say thank you so much for your wonderful writing, it truely is fantastic. It's easy to tell how passionate, talented and deticated you are about your work. You actually are one of the main inspirations for me, that made me go for it and start writing and posting my own fics, so thank you again for that. I hope you have a wonderful day and I can't wait to read more of your works in the future!

Ahh omg thank you!! ❤️ I am so glad you liked it!! And I promised a happy ending so I definitely was going to deliver with that one! That story was actually inspired by someone asking me if the Blip occurs or had occurred in FFTD and then I had a thought about doing that to Matt and Reader before realizing that would be way too cruel. But the idea wouldn't get out of my head until I wrote it down--and that's how You've Been Gone So Long, Baby came about!! I got so emotional writing it myself some times because I felt awful doing that to poor Matt 😅

That makes me so incredibly happy to hear that you binged FFTD! I always feel like binging is a huge compliment because I know what it's like to not be able to put a story or a fic down!! I love that it's a highlight to your week ❤️ That means so much! Thank you!

Ahhh you're going to make me happy sob, friend!! ❤️😭 I'm so happy to hear I could inspire you to write! I literally just saw one of your stories pop up on my feed (or whatever y'all call it on tumblr) and I was trying to read it while making dinner!! It was so good! Always love a horn dog Matty (especially doing naughty things in a shower) 🤣👌🏻 Definitely keep writing (as long as you're enjoying it, of course)!!

I hope you have a wonderful day too, friend! ❤️ There will definitely be more works from me (I'm unwell when it comes to Matt Murdock 😅). I hope you keep writing, too!