#but like. idk that post unlocked smth it me it's like. guys please

[bumbog]

Does the Dungeon Meshi fandom suffer from ‘good taste gang’ syndrome?

okay my immediate reaction was definitely like "uhmm no nothing will honestly never be that bad" but like. then i remembered that time that post that was like "dunmesh is SPECIAL bc it was only released EVERY TWO MONTHS which is why it's SO much better than all other animanga" got like 60k notes or some shit as if it wasn't full of misinfo that was easily fact checked so like. maybe??

like while it's not as bad as the good taste gang bs the fandom's most certainly full of people who haven't watched/read stuff outside of the most popular shonen battle series/classic shoujo's from the 00's you know? like maybe this is a real over generalisation so don't get on my ass for this but it definitely feels like there's a palpable section of the fandom that still has that very narrow view of what animanga can do/be?? and like i don't want this to come off as like. me discrediting how phenomenal dunmesh is or me being a pretentious loser but like or me blowing this out of proportion but like. idk i don't think it's crazy to claim that a large portion of the fandom has just come from like j.jk or b.nha and are shocked an amazed that an anime could have better writing than those, without considering how target audience miiiight play a role in this

[thecoolerliauditore]

Your post abt gender presentation as part of character growth is soooo. To me, Joel embracing his femininity is so much. He puts up a giant facade of bravado and strength, he is tall and muscular and strong. Yet if there is an occasion for him to wear a dress he embraces it. Would he need to be this aggressive in life if he was born a girl? A girl doesn't need to be tall and strong, he'd been taught.

Joel likes being a man. But there is an unspoken serenity in femininity in his eyes. Maybe he can indulge, if just for a few hours hidden behind the facade of a joke.

A man wearing a dress is funny, right?

... right?

Sometimes a joke is just so... funny... you can't help but cry.

Anon there are some asks that like evoke a emotional reaction from me that I could swear are the result of momentary possession because I usually do not get the butterflies from posts like this but smth about the timing of this being sent mid joel/scott essay + me having no internet and rewatching my downloaded joel 3L episodes over and over did. something to me.

This post got really away from me sorry. the disease got me. (no really I am still sick and brainfogged please forgive me)

But yes this is so true so true anon. He's so verbal about it all too. handsome, strong, muscular, tall, etc etc. Guy who totally isn't trying to convince himself of his own lies.

I've always liked looking at empires as a sorta vague symbolic representation of the characters' backstories and I have had. So many thoughts about Joel being a prince (specifically one that gets wordlessly hitched to a queen) and a big, tall, manly God. Both are very classic symbols of (forgive me but I really do not know what other term would work) peak masculinity. Of course he would portray himself that way.

And Joel is powerful, he's scary and he revels that people see him that way. But Joel is only human and he can't keep up the facade forever. He spends so much of the death games feeling small and scared. And he hates it so much, he hates feeling emasculated so much that he ends up letting it kill him in LimL in his panic.

His relationship with his own sense of masculinity has inspired like. pretty much all of my Joel art now that I think about it alongside the homophobic gay thing. Most relevantly that wedding dress one. I've always headcanoned him as growing his hair out in HC10 where he feels safe enough to start exploring that side of himself (although he still won't admit it -- if you ask him he'll just make up some excuse about how he can't be bothered).

A big part of that i/me/myself animatic was me thinking about how both him and Scott are the types to think that their lives could be so much simpler if they were born girls, but in more of that misguided homophobic/softcore misogynistic way than a transfem way (that being said I'm like. lowkey shocked I haven't ran into any transfem joel or transfem scott in the wild. I've had bouts of imagining both as well as transmasc joel but I don't think I have anything interesting enough in my head to post).

Very dubious sourcing of headcanons occurring here but I really do think about that one Guess the Build episode where he makes a generic wedding scene and randomly remarks that it looks like him and Jimmy getting married, with himself wearing the dress. Sighs. Whatever, man.

I do really. really like the idea of him starting small with the femininity. I think he's at a stage where he's willing to at least give it a try. I haven't quite gotten ill enough about the WL dynamics to come up with making shit up headcanons but idk maybe his hair is long enough at this point that it gets in his face alot and Gem gets annoyed with his constant complaining and teaches him to braid it. Wait fuck new headcanon unlocked drawing him with a little baby braid from now on.

Also this might be more the gay thing than the gender thing but I'd like to think he becomes more comfortable with how small he is compared to other guys, and his thing for taller men like Etho and Jimmy. Getting more accustomed to physical affection and having the association with his size slowly turn from fear of being overpowered or humiliated to something much softer and warmer.

I love how you use the word "mock" anon because it really is. like that. It's all a joke. A man being gay or effeminate, that's worthy of mockery, of humiliation to Joel. He's internalized these beliefs and as a consequence he believes he will be subjected to that if he lets himself slip into being those things. So he has to keep mocking men like himself, keep insisting it's all stupid and gross, but at the same time doing that is the only time he gets to even pretend to experience expressing those parts of himself.

Maybe a bit of a side note but I've had this idea in my head for ages of like. This but Joel ends up just deciding fuck it one day and trying to feminize himself super hard to attract the men he likes (which is not quite right tm either he's maybe pushing his own boundaries a little too hard and it's uncomfortable but he feels like he has to do this). I usually imagine Jimmy but this could very much be Etho too.

They go on a little date and Jimmy literally could not give less of a fuckk. He's like oh Joel's experimenting, cool. and Joel gets all huffy about the lack of reaction and demands to know if Jimmy thinks this new version of him is pretty, to which Jimmy just says some shit like "yeah but you were always pretty" and Joel explodes on the spot and dies.

[cocozydiaries]

Can you tell me more about your mha dr please?

HIII tysm for the ask!!

noticed two mha related asks really close to each other? anon are you the same person twice🤨

okay okay if ur not new here u probably know i did post about my mha dr before BUT THAT POST WAS AWFUL so now it’s deleted and gone. sorry😞

Honestly with my updated version i’ve just kept most things kinda vague. Don’t get me wrong I love scripting, but i don’t do it that much anymore coz now i just let my subconscious handle it so my scripts are kinda empty.

I do still script, just less but dw i’ll share what i have!! I love over sharing🫶

be warned this is unorganised asf since i wrote it all at like 2am😭

My dr name (spoiler alert i don’t have one):

even tho i think names are very important I haven’t picked a name for myself in any of my drs💀. Partly coz I wanna be surprised but also partly coz just coz i’m lazy.

I did however script that my name suits me and has a nice meaning. I also scripted that my siblings and i all have the same first letter of our names (smth we have here!) but my parents also have different names for each of us, like a sorta nickname (mine is yara coz i have a love/hate relationship with butterflies)

Onto actual stuff related to my mha dr. Also probably the only thing you really care about smh. yeah ik your intentions anon🙄

Quirks!!

soooo basically quirk basically siren/mermaid irl?? tbh idk but the main thing (aside from occasionally cosplaying as ariel) i’m basically able to shape and manipulate water. Very korra coded of me ik but she has always been my favourite.

Me, some of my siblings, and parents mostly have different quirks tho due to that fact that my parents adopted us. That’s a whole different thing tho we can get into later.

I haven’t scripted my family’s quirks because again lazy asf and wanna be surprised. I’m assuming based on their jobs they’re gonna have either powerful or really useful quirks anyhow. Just makes sense

Anywhooo onto actual mha stuff like

UA:

Idk if i’m gonna get in lmao💀 all i scripted is IF i do i’ll end up in class 1A. I did that coz i wanna know if i can get into class UA without scripting it. I mean ik i will but idk funsies ig.

I also changed the uniform coz it’s ugly asf. Honestly i just think dark blue would’ve been so much better than that vomit izuku inspired green.

i also scripted that midnight and mineta are actually chill and normal people. IM SORRY GUYS💔 but mineta is lowkey funny when he isn’t a creep and midnight is so extra i love her. i just don’t like when they’re…. icky. so i scripted that out!

and i scripted that toru gets a proper hero outfit kinda similar to mirio’s thing. makes absolutely NO sense that his hero outfit was made to adapt to his quirk but they leave my girl to freeze? nuh uh

i’ve actually scripted quite a few minor difference or things i want to happen. let me know if that’s smth you guys are interested in!!

Anyways that’s kinda it coz idk what to say… I need y’all to ask me specific questions PLS😭 i suck at answering vague stuff💔

EXAMPLE: “coco” (or yara since you lot did technically unlock a new name) “exactly what are you gonna do when you wake up in ur dr at 5:21am because you heard one of ur rat siblings cluttering around outside ur door while getting ready for school.”

how i’m feeling after checking what other people’s dr intros look like and realising i was only meant to write a couple of sentences and not explain why i picked each thing i scripted for my dr in a stupid amount of detail: 😐

i can drive in my dr btw!! can’t do that here tho. thought you should know. IDK HOW TO

[iron-sides]

for the ask game: 3, 28, 30 (idk if it’s cheating to ask multiple if it is just do whatever will be most fun)

hi!! theres no such thing as cheating in an ask game so you can ask however many you like! recently sent in an ask to an ask game with like 10 bc it was like "tell ppl what u think of their fic" and i had a lot to say 💀

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

oughhh ok ok ok. i have four 😭 my top two are mamma mia!: the movie & now you see me & then pitch perfect & legally blonde trade off for the third top three spot (<- guy who loved comedies & chick flicks)

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

talking to my bestie, the sun on my face, seeing a ladybug, a nice chai tea, complimenting a strangers shirt or smth & them telling me where they got it-- i love the little things :)

28. do you collect anything?

i do!! i used to collect glass soda bottles & i like kind of still do in theory but much slower now than i used to & i collect loona (kpop group) albums! (you have unlocked an unskippable cutscene but ill put the infodump below the cut lol)

ok so first heres the loona collection bc im proud of it >:)

so i only have a few of their bbc era things (thats first six things you see) because the fandom is boycotting so i have to get them secondhand :( but! even tho ive misplaced strawberry rush, i have everything not being boycotted except loosemble's self-titled first album!

basically during bbc era loona were a 12-membered kpop girlgroup who debuted one at a time & then in smalled subunits (like a group within a group), so i have love&live, the loona 1/3 debut (loona 1/3 is heejin, hyunjin, haseul, and vivi), choerry's solo debut (i have the choerry & jinsoul version but it is choerrys solo lol), chuu's solo, and gowon's solo (also the version with chuu but still her solo)!

from loona's ot12 era i have # (their third release), not friends (technically a subunit called loona x consisting of heejin, kim lip, jinsoul, and yves, but its after they all debuted together), and flip that, their last release as twelve before they all sued their management & the boycott started.

from the post-bbc era, i have everything but loosemble's debut. so there's howl, chuu's first solo comeback; version up, odd eye circle's first comeback (odd eye circle were a pre-debut subunit consisting of kim lip, jinsoul, and choerry); K, heejin's first solo comeback, one of a kind, loosemble's first comeback (loosemble are a new unit that formed under different management consisting of loona members hyunjin, yeojin, vivi, gowon, and hyeju-- they'd previously debuted with loosemble, their self-titled album, but i dont have it sadly); DALL (devine all love & live), ARTMS's debut (artms are another new unit under new management consisting of heejin, haseul, kim lip, jinsoul, and choerry); loop, yves's first solo comeback; strawberry rush (not pictured), chuu's second solo comeback; and TTYL, loosemble's second comeback.

i LOVE to talk about this so if ur interested PLEASE hmu i have a whole kpop sideblog over at @astertheworld & most of it is loona lol

[justkpopjokes]

Found You || OnlineRival!Felix

AU: online gamer friends + college + rivals to lovers

Anon: know it's a common au cliché but I've been craving some college au's of felix, maybe enemies to lovers ?? but enemies in a playful, competitive sense of course. I'll leave this vague so that you have more creative freedom, idc if you write in para. style or bullet point, I'll eat up anything you write skskj

A/N: I HAVE RETURNED!! Hope you enjoy this anon~ still can’t believe you’ve been following me since 2017 oml

If anyone else has lowkey specific requests for skz I’ll take them!! It can be any type/medium(?) of writing lol I just don’t want to write elaborate plots rn

You’ve been playing this video game recently

(I’ve been playing Valorant lol so I’m basing this off of that)

you’ve been playing solo for a bit

One afternoon, you match with a nice team that’s doing well

it’s a good game; you’re pretty evenly matched

you end up the last player standing, win a round for your team, & they applaud you for it!

But then—ohoho and then—

—you hear the deepest freakin Australian accent on voice chat

saying “ayy nice!!”

you say a polite thank you back to him

meanwhile the other people on your team are like

“holy crap bro your voice is low af!”

you get to hear this boy speak for longer lol

His username is #1Aboji or BrownieBoi915 or smth idk so you call him Brownie

and y’all get to talking lol

you send him a friend request on a whim because he seems nice

he accepts, sends you a party invite, and you play a few games together!!

Over the course of a couple months, you play together every time you’re online at the same time

(which is often bc ur timezones happen to be the same hehe)

It’s funny because although you’re friendly with each other, you’re competitive af LMAO

most of your games are spent competing for who can get more kills and who can be MVP of the team/entire match

it’s friendly competition but competition nonetheless

eventually he asks for your Tumblr/Twitter/whatever so y’all can chat a bit more :D

his @ can still be @/BrownieBoi915 lol

Brownie’s fun and you share some interests!!

your music tastes are similar too, so he sends you song recommendations, then you yell about them

You’ve been chatting a lot and reply to each others’ posts/tweets often, especially when you’re just posting about weird sh!t happening in your life

But one day… you post about something that happened at your college

something like “icb this ajlsdhf there’s this girl in one of my classes and she just sCALED THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING SO SHE WOULDN’T BE LATE TO CLASS”

less than a minute later you get a text:

“AHJKFLDSA WAIT YOUR MOST RECENT TWEET—

DO YOU MEAN VANESSA??”

and then

wAIT THAT’S BROWNIE TEXTING

HE KNOWS VANESSA?!?!?

So, naturally, you text him back

Then Brownie gets you to agree to another silly competition:

see who could identify the other first on campus!!

the 1 rule is that you have to find each other in-person

(there is a 2nd rule that you can’t ask exactly where the other person is, but that’s pretty obvious lol)

But because of the main rule, occasionally you’ll get a vague text like

Brownie: “Hey are you wearing a red flannel right now”

You: “No I’m not even outside lmao”

Brownie: “Dammit I thought I felt the vibes”

It’s a nice lil challenge because the only thing you know about Brownie is that he identifies as a guy and has an Australian accent

(but that may be unimportant depending on where you live lmao)

meanwhile the only things he knows about you are random details, your voice, and that you have a class with Vanessa lol

And it’s FUN!!

but you both start to get suuuuper competitive

mostly because of the 1 rule

there have literally been times you’ve probably found Brownie when you hear an Australian accent in the distance

however he always leaves before you can get to him, so it doESN’T COUNT GDI

Brownie tho lmao—he’s always putting on his detective hat and trying to track you down on campus

whenever he’s chilling after class he asks for where you are generally

he’ll ask you “Hey wyd”

You: “Studying”

Brownie: “In the library?”

You: “…Yes”

then he starts to narrow down where you could be based on less-specific questions

Of course, that’s not the only thing you text him about

you’ve grown pretty close to Brownie

the competition has helped with that!!

and ofc you still play that game together lol

Honestly, you really want to meet him

he’s just super charming + considerate

Also he mentioned he likes baking

you suggested “we should bake together!!”

Brownie: “Gotta find me first ;)))”

so,,, yeah you daydream about baking with Brownie

you really want to know his name

I mean, c’mon, you’ve gotten his phone number at this point, but you still can’t find him??

it’s starting to get frustrating

to the point where he can hear the frustration through your texts

HIS NAME IS FELIX!!

YOU HAVE A NAME TO WORK OFF OF NOW!!!!

That small piece of information motivates you for the rest of the week

you give Felix your name in return, but he insists that neither of you should ask around for each other

(you can’t ask your friends if they know someone named Felix

but if you hear someone say “Felix” while you’re out and about, that works)

you’re still unable to find him for some time, but knowing Felix’s name makes you feel closer to him

You can’t video call Felix but you normally call him at least once a week

after knowing him for at least half a year, you get this warm feeling in your chest every time his name pops up on the top of your phone

One of your phone calls sounds something like this:

Felix: “Hey, y/n?”

You: “Yes?”

Felix: “Do you want to go out for lunch? I mean, once we find each other.”

You: “As in a date?”

Felix: “Yeah—I mean, if that’s okay!”

You: “Yes please!! So can you find me already istg 🙄”

Felix is itching to meet you too

…so he sends you a selfie

with a filter though! that way you don’t see his entire face

you send him 1 in return (also with a filter)

Felix immediately says “aww ur cute uwu”

and your heart m e l t s

you’d think, hey maybe that’ll help me find him

SPOILERS it doesn’t really help lmao

Your close friends really want to help lmao because they’ve been hearing about this “Brownie” boy you like

however, you & Felix are adamant of winning this competition because the person who wins doesn’t need to pay for your 1st lunch date lol

It’s the last Friday afternoon before you have a week-long holiday, when you’re hanging out in front of one of your friend’s classes to pick them up

you’re standing outside the building chatting with one of your other friends when your phone starts ringing in your pocket

other friend is like “ooOOOH is it brownie boy??”

You: “Oh yeah rip he’s probably calling because I missed some of his texts, give me a moment."

You’re about to pick up when the call drops

so you’re like ?? bruh what and are about to unlock your phone to see what Felix’s texts are about

That’s when you feel a tap on your shoulder

and a low Australian voice behind you says your name

your head whips around to find this cute face with freckles and a giant smile on his face

“Felix?!?”

“Heh, I found you~”

Dude doesn’t hesitate to hug you, pick you up, then spin you around

your friend is watching with a goofy smile but he doesn’t care

after he finally puts you down, you cup his face with both your hands

“The filters always hide your freckles… they’re like stars, Lix”

instead of a lunch date, Felix takes you out for dinner :DD

even though you lost he insists on paying :’))

your friends don’t even care that you’re ditching them ajlkfdhs they literally push you away to go eat with Felix lmao

and you return home with that warm feeling in ur heart still there

needless to say, he will arrange another date so he can bring you some homemade brownies

he is the brownie boy after all!!

[oh-austin]

Aaliyah

Request: Can you do a thing where the reader is friends with Aaliyah but she's like older than her maybe they have a mutual friend or smth and they become close and yn is just super shy and one day their mutual friend outs her that she can sing and she just goes beet red and later Aaliyah invites her over or smth and they just jam out together to random Shawn songs and Shawn has met her before and had her in his vines or smth and he records them and posts it and yn gets like fake mad at Shawn but in reality she doesn't know what to feel and then idk Shawn fluff idk what I want to happen other than a happy ending can you do that please Word Count: 1874 Requests: OPEN

You’ve known Aaliyah ever since she was ten. You were in training to become assistant coach for a local hockey team and one of your many tasks while training was to help out around the arena with the games and players. You hit it off with most of the girls, but there was this special thing about Aaliyah that really drew you to her. She was always ready to practise and was always focused, but that didn’t stop her from knowing how to have a good laugh with everyone. She was one special little girl.

Over time, you and Aaliyah became really close friends and the age gap of four years didn’t matter at all. It also helped that your cousin Grace was friends with Aaliyah at school. You didn’t expect Grace to blurt out one day that you could sing. You always hated singing, you used to have a passion for it, but when some people began to make fun of you for your horrible voice, you became quite insecure. So, when the three of you were hanging out at the arena one day after training doing homework was when it all started.

“You guys want to play secret spill?” Grace looked up from her algebra. “What the hell secret spill?” Aaliyah asked, her eyebrows knitted together. You knew all about secret spill, Grace made it up when she was eight and now at the age of thirteen she had improved massively, even if it was her own game. “Basically, you have to spill a secret about someone else who’s playing, then the other players will decide if it’s worthy of five points all the way down to one. After five rounds whoever has the most points wins” Grace explained. Grace reminded you of a snake in a way, sneaking around, she knew everything about you and that’s why she was so good at the game. “I personally think this game is stupid and immature” You shook your head, continuing with the science questions in front of you.

“That’s only because I beat you every time” Grace argued, “Do you seriously think that kinetic energy and joules are more entertaining than getting to know each other better?”. See? snake. “Come on Y/N, don’t be such a party pooper” Aaliyah poked your upper arm. “Fine” You sighed. After three rounds, it was Grace’s turn again.

“Okay, I’ve got one about Y/N” She began. “Here we go” You raised your eyebrows. “Aaliyah, did you know that Y/N can sing?” Grace turned to the girl. “Boo! One” You shouted, hoping that Aaliyah would agree on the score you chose, so you guys could move on. “Wait you can sing?” Aaliyah’s eyes went wide, “We’ve known each other for three years and you never told me” Aaliyah’s mouth was slightly agape. “Well, it’s not a big deal” You shrugged, wanting the ground to swallow you whole. “Yes, it is! If you don’t want to sing here, you have to come back to mine and we can jam” She suggested. “I- Aaliyah I don’t know if that’s a good idea” You tried to decline politely, but Aaliyah wasn’t having it. “Seriously, we’re going back to mine.”

Going back to Aaliyah’s that afternoon was probably one of the best decision’s you’ve ever made, well best thing you’ve ever been forced into doing. The two of you got back to her place and headed up to her room which used to be her older brother Shawn's. Over the three years you’ve been friends with Aaliyah you have also had the pleasure of meeting Shawn. You two got along and he was always nice to you whenever you came over, the three of you would always camp out in the lounge and have movie nights together while Aaliyah would make jokes about how the two of you should ‘get together’. Shawn was as nice as he seemed and you liked that, he was one of those genuine people.

“Okay, what song next,” You asked, quickly strumming up and down twice, before stopping the sound with your hand on the neck of the guitar. “What about Treat You Better?” Aaliyah glanced over at you before looking back at her laptop. “Are you a fake fan of your own brother?” You laughed at her basic song choice, even though it was an amazing song. “Ha ha, you’re so funny” She rolled her eyes playfully. “You give me the tab notation and I can try,” You told her. Aaliyah quickly googled the chords for the song and then set the laptop right in front of you. “Here we go” You began to pluck the strings for the first notes, while Aaliyah ad-libbed over the top, you wondered if being a Mendes automatically gave you the vocals of an angel because Aaliyah had a great voice. What you didn’t know is that listening in on the other side of Aaliyah’s bedroom door was Shawn and he was recording everything you were singing.

After the song Shawn thought he would make himself known, so he knocked on Aaliyah’s door three times before he was answered with a ‘come in’. “Hey” Shawn walked into the familiar room that he used to own, “Love what you’ve done with the place,” He said sarcastically. “Well, I didn’t like the colour of the walls so I re-painted” She shrugged. “No hug? No, wow Shawn you’ve been gone for a couple of weeks now, I really missed you” Shawn shook his head. “Nope,” Aaliyah shook her head. “Oh, I see, Y/N is here, so you’re too cool for me now?” Shawn laughed walking over to you. “No hug from you either, wow I’m really feeling the love now guys” You laughed at his words, getting up from your seat and giving him a quick hug that he returned. “Get a room!” Aaliyah shouted jokingly. “Calm down, it’s not like we’re kissing off each other’s faces” Shawn shook his head while letting you go. “But, yeah I love you and all. But can you go? Because we’re busy” Aaliyah told him. “I’ve been back home for five minutes and I’m already getting kicked out of my room” Shawn emphasized ‘my. “Sorry to break it to you Shawn, but I don’t think this is your room anymore” You shook your head slightly. “You’ve changed this girl, Aaliyah” Shawn pointed at her before he walked away. The two of you laughed as Shawn exited.

The next morning your phone was blowing up with all sorts of notifications, some were texts from your friends, some were emails from companies, but most of them were social media notifications of people giving their opinions about your voice. You woke up a lot quicker than usual, unlocking your phone and looking at the video that people had been tagging you in.

@shawnmendes: who knew that @y/t/n could sing so well, I like how you’re repping my songs 

Shawn had recorded some of what you sang last night and posted on twitter to his 12.2 million followers. Some people were tweeting about how amazing you are, most were hating on you for either being a so-called ‘shit singer’ and being Shawn’s supposed girlfriend. People knew that you and Shawn were friends through Aaliyah, most loved you, but there was always that line between love and hate. People were saying exactly what you feared. That you couldn’t sing, that you were possibly one of the vilest singers they had ever heard. You hated this and you were going to let Shawn know. You switched all of your social media to private and it got to the point where you reported the video Shawn posted, part of you hoping that it would just disappear.

That day you trudged to hockey training, hoping the world would just leave you alone. You knew that all of the girls at training would have seen the video and probably have the same opinion as the rest of the world. You pushed open the arena doors with the same amount of energy that you had, almost none. The girls were already stretching, something you made it a point for them to do once you became assistant coach last year. The truth was you didn’t know how to feel. Should you feel mad? Probably. Should you be happy that there were some people who actually liked your voice. You didn’t know.

You walked over to the girls and they all attacked you with praise and love. You were shocked at how much they enjoyed the video when most of the people online hated it. “You sounded amazing Y/N!” Eliza, your right wing hugged you. “Thanks, Liza,” You said, your voice quiet. More praises kept coming from the girls from left, right and centre, it made you forget about the whole the entire internet hates me right now thing, it made you feel better. You went out to the spare hockey sticks out of the shed outside you saw a familiar blue jeep.

“Hey, Mr superstar, you and I are gonna have words” You raised your voice when you saw Shawn leaning against his car, he must be picking Aaliyah up, but no matter how cute of a brother her is you weren’t about to get side-tracked. “Ah, did you see my video?” He smiled at you. “Yeah, yeah I did and so did all of your fans that now hate me, so thanks for that,” You said, your voice was dripping frustration. “Look Y/N, I’m sorry, but I thought you sounded amazing so I thought everyone else needed to hear it,” He said, trying to persuade you. “Everyone else should be a group chat or something, not all of you freakin’ Twitter followers” Your voice became louder, “I don’t like singing for other people, Shawn, it was one time thing for Aaliyah” You tried to make your point clear, “I don’t need all of your fan-base telling me I’m shit at singing, because I know, so if you were trying to get the message across, I got it, twelve million times” You referred to his amount of following.

“Who cares what some people on the internet think?” He asked. Shawn’s words took you aback. Who cares what some people on the internet think? And you hated to say this in your moments of anger, but he was right. “The only opinions that should matter to you are the people who love you and are close to you and from what I could see from in there is that all of those girls look up to you, their opinions should matter. Not some trolls who couldn’t care less about you, okay?” Shawn told you. “Shawn I- Shawn I’m really sorry” It took you a minute to get the words out, but they got there eventually. “It’s okay, I should be sorry, I mean I did expose you to every one of Twitter” He laughed slightly, his eyes meeting the ground. “If it means anything,” Shawn’s eyes met your briefly, “I thought you sounded wonderful.” He told you. “Wow, thanks, Mr International Sensation, it means a lot” You laughed and you swore you saw a blush rise to his cheeks.

You made a mental note to thank Grace later.