#but the HARMONIES in easy money my god

[sparrowandthesong]

Guyssssss dEd is soooooo gooooodddd

[foibles-fables]

I have a question. How did you come to the wonderful conclusion that Aloy and Talanah would be a good couple? I can see the appeal in it, but I'd rather hear it from you

[CRACKS KNUCKLES] Watch me try to stay as concise as I can with this post, hahaha.

First thing I'll say is--I'm an absolute sucker for a strong-based friends to lovers ship. The loyalty, the devotion, the knowing each other before and after the world changes them and every stage between, the slow strengthening of feelings, the contending with blurred boundaries, the oh moment, the it was this all along, the I have always been here and so have you and so we will, the settling into even deeper contentment with the other, hoo boy I can go on and on. I especially like it when it comes in a sapphic flavor of the Burdened Chosen One and their Tender, Caring, Supportive Best Friend.

[looks directly at camera]

So you can already see where I'm coming from, here. But--truly, for me--it comes down to 1) the similarities AND innate differences in their life stories/situations and 2) their interactions in HZD. A combined one-two punch that crushed my windpipe and stole my lunch money.

I'm a sucker for a friends to lovers ship, and I'm also a sucker for a ship with compelling parallels. What interests me most about the Aloy/Talanah dynamic is that they're narrative mirrors, but foils in situation. Both are highly-skilled hunters; both driven by their fixation on a parental figure (either avenging or uncovering); both lost their father (figure) to a cruelty much too large for them, with their fathers' shared desire for them to survive; both inheriting new titles (Sunhawk, Alpha Prime) and shouldering the burdens of their deceased parental figure; both proving their place and worth in the world as based on, in Talanah's words, more than the nature of their birth alone; I could keep going. (Don't tempt me.) But here Aloy was an outcast, while Talanah is from one of the noblest houses of her tribe--the difference of change from without versus change from within, and all the ways in which both are complicated. So narrative mirrors coming from opposing situations--how does that make them alike, and how does it make them different? How does it change they way they navigated through the world, and how does it change the way they would navigate one another?

I also love to point out the fact that Talanah is the perfect example of what Rost was trying to demonstrate to Aloy in his final lesson. The strength to stand alone and to make a stand. Her dedication to a selfless cause--ambition not for her own sake, but to restore her family's legacy, and to change her culture. GOD. My fingers are going numb just thinking about it.

What I'm trying to say is that Talanah is in a unique position to see and empathize with the burden Aloy feels post-HZD, and I'm not sure I'll ever forgive the writers for not capitalizing on that during the pivotal time of HFW. Carrying on of your parent's legacy is not easy, and even if Talanah doesn't know it by weight, she knows it by shape. Importantly, to me--Talanah understands--she's lived analogous experiences to Aloy's--but she's also different enough to challenge her. In fact, it goes both ways. There's a mutuality to the way that they make up for what the other has maybe lacked--puzzle pieces instead of cognate shapes, or the same image repeated twice, amplifying itself. There's harmony where there could just be volume.

That got away from me, so I'll just keep on going with how their interactions in HZD fishhooked me. I made a post the other day about Aloy's joy in the Redmaw victory, and that's a major part of it. The rest is just--the sense of ease and understanding that comes out in all of their conversations? And how Talanah always and consistently from the beginning sees Aloy as Aloy, not a Seeker, not a savior, not an oddity, just based on her own merit alone? How she heard Aloy give herself a name--Aloy despite the Nora--says she'll remember it, and then does, TWICE? Every smile she brings out of Aloy, every moment of bare genuineness between them, that giggle from Aloy post-quest? And don't get me started on the "you made this possible, Aloy" parallel. Don't even let me think about "you'll always have a special home here, if you want it." It'll end badly for all of us, category 10 blorbo emergency.

But it's not only what Talanah can offer Aloy (a deep bond of loyalty and fondness, a sense of belongingness, the simple fact of being seen as exactly how you yourself want to be seen)--Aloy gives back to Talanah as well!! Much more deeply than just helping her earn the Sunhawk title and restoring her family's legacy. Think about their pre-Alight conversation: "I won't stand aside while one of mine fights alone. Not again." Aloy has become one of Talanah's--a person who has lost everyone dear to her. Something that must be absolutely terrifying (see my post-HZD Lanah characterization, lmao) but still worth fighting for.

I was lucky enough to read the entire Sunhawk comic directly after the credits rolled on HZD, and that again just blew me out of the water with how much sense they make. The fact that Talanah was the only one to see Aloy leave makes my brain wanna come gushing out of my ears. And how they just--keep running into one another (more on this in the next paragraph). But perhaps the most important comic moment is Talanah's affirmation of "you don't owe me anything" after Aloy apologizes for leaving. That right there is respect to Aloy's agency and personhood (versus instrumentality!!) and the burden Talanah can sense she's under. She trusts Aloy to have told her what was up, if she had wanted her to know. And trusts that whatever she is doing must be important. Even if it's been difficult to be without her, Talanah knows she can't ask Aloy for more than what she is or what she can give.

(that's not to say Talanah isn't hurt. I think she still is--and projects a lot of that hurt and attachment onto another woodsy hermit--but that's a topic for a different post. You can trust and accept something like this while still being hurt by it.)

You asked how I came to the conclusion of THEM, so I haven't really included HFW in this analysis (I was clearly a goner from HZD), but it's there too. The way Aloy just happens to find out Talanah is nearby after her entire worldview is cracked open at Latopolis, how seeking her out and finding her seems to just make things okay again despite everything? (again, the constant finding of each other.) The fondness of their reunion? "It feels good to hunt by your side again"? The easy way they settle into old comfortable patterns of conversation? The tone of You love him, don't you and Really??? and Come here.? It's just all there screaming at me. I can't.

I just. I love them so much. It's so clear to me how they already have helped and can continue to help each other grow. Especially now that the series has placed them in yet another paralleled situation post-HBS. From where I see it, they've been dancing around each other since the beginning. And the way they've both sought things with others (ALSO EACH HAVING PARALLELS TO THE OTHER) only to walk away makes me wanna go absolutely feral. I can very, very clearly see this playing out into an what was I looking for when there was you moment and it might actually be the thing that makes me perish

I'm so sorry if this was totally incoherent. I've got a lot of feelings about this ship and I'm gonna continue to make them your problem.

[gabykatttt]

The Dazzlings vs Velvet and Veneer

Pt 13

Hang on tight Gristly Bridget said putting the motorcycle on speed.

Bridget what are you doing? Gristle said.

This is it girls we can do this Adagio said.

Right behind you Dagi Sonata said.

Whatever Aria said rolling her eyes.

Velvet 🎶🎤

If the top is where you wanna stay

You gotta work hard

To make it look it easy

You gotta live fast

To keep makin' that money

If you want to be as famous as me

You gotta work, you gotta work, you gotta work

You gotta work hard

You gotta live fast

If you want to be as famous as me

You gotta work, you gotta work, you gotta work

Come on girls Adagio said.

Sonata and Aria agreed as they tackled Velvet.

Ow Velvet said pushing Sonata and Aria off.

You guys alright? Branch asked going to his brothers.

Yes but we’re not done yet John said.

Let’s bro Bruce said.

Velvet 🎶🎤

I'm gonna live forever

Learn how to fly yeah

Ugh get off me Velvet said pushing of the Dazzlings.

Ahhhh the girls screamed as they landed on the floor.

Velvet 🎶🎤

if the top is where you wanna stay yeah

baby, remember my name

Dammit she beat us Sonata said.

Great she’s going to kill those poor little things Adagio said letting out a growl.

Not if I do something about it Aria said getting on the stage.

Alright you guys want an encore Velvet asked the crowd.

The crowd cheered for yes as Velvet press the button on her shoulder pad making her sing again.

Floyd would never make it he’s got nothing left Bruce said.

Great he’s doomed Alvin said crossing his arm.

Theodore and Brittany just stared.

Guys Poppy said earlier we don’t have to be perfect harmony we just need to be ourselves Branch said.

We’ll follow your lead Branch John said.

Here I go Velvet said about to sing but Aria interrupts.

Hey get off the stage Velvet said trying to push off Aria.

No it’s for me to shine spoiled brat Aria said grabbing the microphone.

Aria was about sing until Adagio,Sonata and Veneer joined in.

What the hell you guys Aria said rolling her eyes.

What we can sing too Sonata said.

You got a problem with us performing with you? Adagio asked.

I wanna help you girls Veneer said.

Ugh fine but I’m taking the lead here Aria said.

Adagio,Sonata and Veneer nodded as they grabbed their microphones.

Velvet just watched as the song started playing.

Sonata 🎶🎤

My mamma told me when I was young.We're all born superstars

Really Sonata Aria said.

Yes now shut up and sing the damn song without you complaining Sonata said rolling her eyes.

Ugh fine Aria replied sticking her tongue out.

The Dazzlings 🎶🎤

She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on

Sonata 🎶🎤

In the glass of her boudoir Adagio and Aria🎶🎤 (ha ha ha ha)

There's nothing wrong with loving Adagio and Aria 🎶🎤(ha) who you are

She said

The Dazzlings 🎶🎤

'Cause He made you perfectly (ha ha ha ha)

Sonata,Aria (Adagio) 🎶🎤

So hold your head up girl and you'll go far

Listen to me when I say

I'm beautiful in my way (hey)

'Cause God makes no mistakes

I'm on the right track, baby

I was born this way

Don't hide yourself in regret

Just love yourself and you're set

I'm on the right track, baby

I was born this way

Sonata 🎶🎤

Yeah

Adagio and Aria 🎶🎤

Ooo there ain't no other way

Baby I was born this way

Baby I was born this way

Ooo there ain't no other way

Baby I was born this way

Right track baby

I was born this way

Born this way hey

I was born this way hey

I'm on the right track baby

I was born this way hey

I was born this way hey

I was born this way hey

I'm on the right track baby

I was born this way hey

Veneer 🎶🎤

Ain't no stopping us now

We're on the move

Sonata 🎶🎤

Hey

Veneer 🎶🎤

Ain't no stopping us now

We got the groove

Sonata 🎶🎤

There ain't no stopping us now

Veneer and the Dazzlings 🎶🎤

'Cause baby, you're a firework

Come and show them what you're worth

Make them go up, up, up

As you shoot across the sky

Veneer 🎶🎤

And baby,there no stopping us now

Sonata 🎶🎤

No ahhh

Veneer 🎶🎤

We’re on the move

Adagio and Aria 🎶🎤

Ah ah ah

Veneer and the Dazzlings 🎶🎤

Baby, you're a firework

Sonata 🎶🎤

Yes you are

Veneer 🎶🎤

We got the groove

Adagio and Aria 🎶🎤

Ah ah ah

Veneer 🎶🎤

And baby, there ain't no stopping us now

Sonata 🎶🎤

There ain’t no stopping us now

Veneer 🎶🎤

We’re on the move

Adagio and Aria 🎶🎤

Ah ah ah

Veneer,Adagio and Aria

Come and let your colors burst

Sonata 🎶🎤

C’mon let your colors burst

Veneer 🎶🎤

We got the groove

Adagio and Aria 🎶🎤

Ah ah ah

Sonata 🎶🎤

Cause I was Born this way

Veneer and the Dazzlings 🎶🎤

Born this wayyyyyy

Veneer 🎶🎤

Nah ah

Sonata 🎶🎤

Yeahhhh

The song ended as the shattered prison diamond blast everywhere making Velvet fall on the floor from the yacht.

@simplydannie @once-ler-ask-blog153 @horrorartist23 @angixxie @grinnworld @zephyrmars

[bonefall]

Creation Myth; Afterlives

I wonder how humans fit in with your rewrite's mythology with the four gods and stuff, like there is this whole other sapient species running around, how much does someone like Midnight have to do with them? Do they have a known afterlife?

@halogenwarrior

I have a rough draft, but I haven't committed to it yet because I go back and forth on how powerful the Gods of the Seasons (Sharptooth, Sol, Midnight, and Rock for the newcomers) should be.

But here's my thoughts,

The Origin Story

Midnight scoured the island from the sea and crafted the mountains, the hills, the forests, and for each predator, she created a partner. The fox and the badger hunt the rabbits above and below the ground. The wolf chases the sheep and the twoleg is there to catch it. The owl flies by night and the hawk flies by day.

But when she came to the cat, it was too perfect to pair. She could create no equal-- it was her finest work.

So she gave them a special task; to appreciate the world for what it is, to rest and to sample all the pleasures of creation. It's why cats are so hedonistic and think they're so perfect.

But Sol was BORED. There was harmony and nothing ever went wrong, it was too easy. So he gathered up the twolegs and the dogs and taught them about games, and the silly, arbitrary rules that come with them.

They had so much fun they made more and more rules, more and more games, until they couldn't tell their rules from their reality. It's why twolegs seem so crazy, and why dogs don't know how to stop playing.

Midnight was MORTIFIED. He RUINED her hard work with silly lies like money, and politics, and not-England! But worse... there was joy in these new concepts. Cats did the task they were assigned to do and they sampled the pleasures of creation. Midnight has never forgiven her brother Sol for what he's done.

Cats are on the same level as humans-but-not-quite. They have the capacity they need to enjoy the world to its fullest, whatever happens to be IN the world at the time.

So... other answers;

Do humans have an afterlife?

I think all the animals do, but I'm not sure how it works for them since Warriors is about the cats. At the very least, dogs and humans are able to become ghosts.

I go back and forth on how powerful I want the gods to be and how their shifting power works. @troutfur gave me a suggestion a while back about the idea that there is a 'veil' that shifts, and whichever god is in control during that shift has more power than its siblings.

But I do also know that I want gods to be able to easily conjure up "pocket dimensions". Like the Dark Forest, which Sharptooth created while he was One-eye.

Additionally, the human afterlife isn't nearly as powerful as the cat one. That's a given I'm working with. StarClan can make trees grow fast, chase clouds, and make new spirits... but wherever they go, humans don't get to do that.

How much do the four gods interact with humans?

As a result of the story being focused on cats, there has to be some reason why they don't care much about them, right?

The simplest and funniest reason I can imagine is that they just don't like them. They just like cats more. Or, in One-eye's case, he got roped into a bloodfeud with this specific group of cats and he won't just give up because his pride is wounded.

Sol probably plays with humans a lot, but when he met Harry it was just. Magic.

I also go back and forth on how powerful these four really are, if they're truly CREATION GODS or just demigods, like Hercules. If it's just these four, or if there's more beyond this particular landmass.

In any case it's beyond the scope of my rewrite, lmao.

[toranoya]

OC: Archangel Gabriel Morningstar

“Shut your cakehole. You don't know anything about my family. I love my father, my brothers. Love them. But watching them turn on each other? Tear at each other's throats? I couldn't bear it!”

Archangel Gabriel Morningstar of Heaven is a legendary Archangel of the Morningstar family who represents the Virtue of Charity. Known for his boundless kindness, endearing dorkiness, and pure-hearted, head-in-the-clouds attitude, he is one of the owners of the Thrones Industries, a charity organization in Heaven that invents angelic technology and miracle cures to make the lives of humans and angels alike better, especially for the injured. Gabriel being one of the Nephilim angels, is one of the purest and most powerful in Heaven.

Gabriel is also the bearer of a legendary trumpet which can be heard across all dimensions. It is said that he will blow his trumpet to sound the beginning of Judgement Day.

Name: Gabriel Morningstar Nicknames: Archangel Gabriel, Charity, Gabe, Gabby, Daddy's Boy (by Azrael), Jibril, The Messenger Species: True Archangel (First 5) Gender: Genderfluid (Male presenting) Age: Billions of years (chronologically), Early 20s (biologically) Occupation: Archangel of Charity, Creation, Temperance, Revelations and Messengers, Morningstar royalty, Inventor, Founder of Thrones Industries Father: The big G Siblings: Michael, Luci, Raphael, Uriel (true siblings), other brothers would include all other Archangels and Seraphim.

Likes: His trumpet, Inventing things, Harmony, Charity, Jazz, Show tunes, Humans, Coffee, Hot guys, Helping others, Butterflies, his satchel (always carrying too much), cartoons

Dislikes: People suffering, Money, Being teased by his siblings, Their Father being disrespected in any way Swearing, The Extermination, Newspapers that don't have funnies, Being unable to help

Abilities: Archangel physiology, Immortality, Flight, Genius-level intelligence, Supernatural Strength, Supernatural Endurance & Stamina, Extrasensory Perception (ESP), Dream Manipulation (pleasant), Photokinesis, Charisma, Healing, Blessing inducement, Master swordsmanship, Leadership, Teleportation, Cloudwalking, Master craftsmanship, Sealing, Resurrection, Clone Creation

HEADCANON: -Gabriel’s name means "God is my Strength" or "God is my Hero" in Hebrew. -Gabriel’s counterpart in the Seven Deadly Sins is Belphegor. (Sloth. He seduces people by proposing incredible inventions that will make them rich.) -Being a fan of jazz and not liking swears, Gabriel is not a fan of Adam and avoids him as much as he can. -Before Luci’s fall, Gabriel often enjoyed the little gifts his older brother would make for him. -Gabriel tests his inventions and medicines on himself. -Gabriel invented coffee and gave it to humans. -Almost always accompanied by his older brother Raphael ever since the War in Heaven. -One of Luci’s siblings to argue against his execution after his fall. He also persuaded Raphael to vote against the execution by use of unfair “puppy eyes.” -Gabriel is seen as the most “human” of the Morningstars, often spending a lot of time amongst humans on Earth. -Gabriel as seen as the kid brother of the Morningstars because of his youthful appearance and because he couldn’t defeat Belial during the War in Heaven without his brother Raphael’s help. -Dance of Yahweh: The Dance of Yahweh is a technique created by Gabriel. The technique has a clean and pure fighting style, being more of a dance than a battle style. Gabriel with this technique uses clean and smooth attacks, with calm and smooth movements. This technique is perfect for fighting brute attack opponents.

PERSONALITY Gabriel is a charismatic and compassionate archangel who is nice to almost everyone. Gabriel is deeply connected to humanity, often spending time among them. His laid-back and eccentric personality makes him approachable and easy to be around. Despite his relaxed demeanor, Gabriel is incredibly cunning and serious when necessary. He is earnest, community-minded, loyal, and values kindness, innovation, empathy, and justice. As the founder of Thrones Industries, he uses his intelligence to create inventions that help the sick and injured. Gabriel's personality is vibrant, enthusiastic, and confident, with a hopeful and idealistic outlook on life. He embodies warmth and kindness, seeing beauty and renewal in the world, and is driven by a divine sense of purpose that transcends typical human concerns. His sincerity, faith in his mission, and focus on the bigger picture make him a unique and inspiring figure.

APPEARANCE Gabriel has an ethereal and androgynous appearance. He has porcelain skin with twin expansive wings which extend from his back, while his platinum locks and scelera shimmer with a celestial glow. His eyes are blue and a two-ringed halo hovers just above his head.

Like the other angels, Gabriel's true form cannot be seen by humans. They say that his light is so intense that it burns the eyes of those who see it and explodes the eardrums of those who hear his voice. As a True Archangel, Gabriel's appearance shifts to whatever he desires or needs at that very moment. He almost always appears as a slender young man, youthful in appearance.

[bettsfic]

Hey Betts! What are some of the techniques of character, pacing, and conflict that you picked up from brba and bcs that you have integrated into your own writing? Would love some examples, if you wanted to expand on that!

so i wrote some initial cursory thoughts a couple years ago but i have had many more since then.

character/conflict

the biggest lesson i've taken from brba and bcs is the power of character choice.

i don't know how exactly i internalized the rule that you have to *force* your character to act, that if they had to choose between conflict and harmony, they'd always choose harmony because that's the more rational decision. so you box them into corners, put pressure on them, make them move. there are so many stories i've stalled out on because i was trying to figure out a way for the external conflict to pressure my character into acting, as if that's the only reason characters will do something interesting and potentially irrational. not to mention, crafting something like that just sucks. it's hard for my brain to think in that kind of logic. i'm much more interested in characters doing batshit things because they're driven to, and they can quit but they don't.

if your story exists only to build character, then there really is no external conflict. your character makes their own fate. and if your character is strong enough, the consequences of their decisions make the story. peace and harmony is always waiting for them, and they never take it.

it's easy to think of gus fring as an antagonist, but it's walter who remains on the offensive, and gus is the one defending himself. but he's defending himself with a lot more firepower at his disposal and so walt thinks he's the poor little meow meow of the situation.

at any point in brba, walt could simply stop doing what he's doing, walk away from it, and nothing would happen. he'd return to his nice house with his happy family and there would be no consequences whatsoever. but he keeps pushing and pushing, because he's driven to be the Best at something. and because he's an asshole.

in bcs, character choices are compounded because jimmy, kim, nacho, and mike are the protagonists. nacho begins the story by working with tuco, but then goes behind tuco's back to start dealing on the side. not only does he earn the salamancas' ire, but gus's too, because to gus, nacho has committed the greatest sin, the ultimate dishonor: biting the hand that feeds you. not to mention the whole trying-to-kill-hector thing. that really sealed his fate.

(nacho is a very interesting character to me because we ally with him the same way we do with jesse, except in introducing nacho, who is with the salamacas but not a salamanca himself, we have a complicating force within the salamanca family, rather than them just being the bad guys, which would be too easy.)

((god i love nacho. talk about a blorbo from my shows.))

mike gets to a point in the plot where he's laundering his own money back to himself through madrigal, and then he gets bored and shows up one day and starts poking around in security stuff, which gets gus's attention, and that's how he gets roped into being gus fring's right hand man. he could have just stayed home and hung out with his granddaughter, but noooo, he had to go Do Stuff.

kim and jimmy are both given so many outs, but they're both addicted to the grift. jimmy getting stranded in the desert? that's not lalo's doing. jimmy had to *beg* lalo to let him go pick up the 7 mil. jimmy is like walt in that we're supposed to believe he's the little guy, he's down on his luck, we're rooting for him to succeed, but he's just too deep into being a con man. the big difference between jimmy and walt is that jimmy tries to be good. but walt only ever wants to win. in the last episode, we see jimmy and walt in the vacuum guy's basement, and it's a really wonderful moment that feels intentionally metatextual, in that it's asking us to look at the differences between them as protagonists. watching it, i get the sense it's maybe the scene that either gould or gilligan had in mind to inspire the show, the thing to work up to. get jimmy mcgill and walter white in a room together (in their underwear, because it's not a brba show if there isn't a middle-aged man in his underwear at least once an episode) talking about philosophy. and walt says, "so you've always been like this." he's saying, "i fell, but you've always been stuck at the bottom."

another difference is that walt acts selfishly almost always, but jimmy is often acting on behalf of kim and vice versa. on a second watch, i noticed that *every single time* anyone said anything bad about jimmy to kim, they immediately put themselves in her crosshairs and she was motivated to destroy them. kim wexler is far and away the best character in the brba universe, maybe one of the best characters on television. it's so thrilling for me to see a female character who is so fucking feral for her husband she's willing to burn the world for him. there are so many times she physically stands between jimmy and the conflict. over and over again, she chooses him. she admires him and loves him when the rest of the world doesn't. and so it's agonizing when she leaves.

the trick to making a story wholly character-driven, and the reason it's so hard to pull off, is because your characters need to be interesting and developed enough that their shitty decisions are believable.

ever since i started reframing character/conflict that way--character AS conflict, not as separate things--i think my stories have gotten a lot more interesting and nuanced.

pacing

seasons 1 through 4 of brba, standing alone, are a pretty good show. it's season 5 that elevates it, because it's what i call a victory lap. like, they did it, they won a bunch of awards, people love it, now it's the final season, they're going all out and having a good time. and then *all* of bcs is a victory lap. it takes its time. it goes everywhere it wants to go. it feels like nothing is restrained or restricted from us. every little detail accounted for. and el camino does it too, it's a character-focused story that takes its time. i'm particularly drawn to the pacing of el camino because of how contained it is. i can't explain it exactly, but i've always loved stories that have a smooth, slow build up and a payoff and nothing else.

what's really brilliant about this universe is that every character succeeds in their mission. all of them! and the story continues and follows the characters through the consequences of that success. because the characters are so interesting and complicated, their success is complicated too. even lalo succeeds in his mission. he finds the laundry business. he tells hector. but don eladio doesn't believe hector, and don eladio is so well built that we believe it. he's totally aware of gus's revenge plot, but it's so far beneath him it's not worth his time.

i first noticed the success arcs in brba, in the scene where skyler takes walt to the storage unit of money, and she's like, there's no way to count it. no way to spend it. i just make sure the bugs don't eat it. as a banker, i was stunned by this scene, because media never acknowledges the fact that cash in large quantities is nearly impossible to manage. any time you deposit over $10k of cash in a bank in a single 24 hour period, a report gets sent to the FBI. so i loved that the show addressed the reality of cash profit. and on a metaphorical note, it's a great way to see, tangibly, that walter white has won.

by the end of season 4, walt has everything. he's in remission from cancer, he's wealthy, he's made the greatest meth the world has ever seen, he hasn't lost his family, and no one is more powerful than him. the only one who can defeat him is himself. most stories end there, the character getting what they're looking for and everything is great and we've returned to a state of harmony. but when your characters are as messy as these, it's never that simple.

while watching bcs, i actually got pretty mad at my roommate because he's like, "it's season 5 and nothing has happened." and when i said that's not true, he argued with me, and i was like, what you're noticing is a steady escalation of conflict rather than episodic conflict, which is rare for tv to do, considering most shows are fighting for each new season. we're used to seeing each episode of something have a conflict, rising action culminating into a climax. and then we see that reproduced in a larger way across an entire season, every season. but bcs is just one long, seamless story, with no major breaking points until the very end. and that's amazing. throw away the acts. the key turning points. the stages. the story is just all one thing, characters fucking around and finding out.

initially, watching season 6 as it was airing, i was disappointed by the ending. partly this is because i didn't remember any of what happened in the first 5 seasons and so i'd forgotten a lot of the context. partly it was because i was wrongly comparing it to the brba finale. but watching bcs in full a second time, i think the ending is really brilliant, because it completes jimmy's character arc. in the end, he's not saul goodman but jimmy mcgill, and he makes the right choice. all the characters in these shows are so well established and the plot honors them so well. there's so much patience and maturity here, and they also still manage to be funny too. i'm just in awe of them. they inspire me so much.

it's so rare that a piece of media is both genuinely good and widely loved. for the most part, i'm just grateful these shows exist and that i can learn from them and apply the craft concepts to my own work. but a little part of me is envious that i'll never be able to write something that well or that patiently.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Not only one guy asked me about :

"Serious question here. What attracts you in a guy? "

Well, I am a serious person lol again. very serious once totally answer on this post. that I will try my best to find the same answer to all curiosity friends.

By the way, it is very difficult for you to push, seduce and force me not to be serious. Unless I am willing to be funny, and the funny cells in my brain are always out of my control like a madman, for which I am sorry to my parents. 🤭 And I guess they want to send me back to God, oh yes, my children should also want their mother to be normal, but they love me and are afraid of me, which is not against the law, harmony and peace, this is the perfect value of my existence. 🤟

👉 The guy attracts me which parts importantly：

▪︎ Empty his mind anytime. ( For learning New.)

▪︎ Come from old school. ( For keeping the tradition. )

▪︎ Love children, animals and nature. ( For the human best proudly.)

▪︎ Tolerate women's shortcomings, cherish each other's commitment, practice it, and never change it for life. ( For both are not becoming crazy, I know it's not easy.)

▪︎ 「愛屋及烏／Love me, love my dog.」 Especially to love my family importantly. ( For the guy, I do the same way to his dog and family.)

▪︎ Know how to make money, but not a slave to money. ( For the freedom life and wise living style.)

▪︎ All that is a dream. Let's dream together and down to earth. ( I REALLY MISS ONE GUY and He has own all treasures with that. Wish he's doing well now and Have a beautiful life.)

✾ ℒan ~*

📌 ( I will send this answer-post to your private messages and say it again, I am not the right girl to you. 25 yrs old too young you. I can be your mom. understanding?! my son 29 yrs. 🤣 If I tell my son about this question, I believe He will show his empty eyes to look at me and tell me : Mom, Be careful! remember that Now "AI" very popular on internet. lol Thanks 😎)

[2blogornot2blog]

Election 2024!

Okay, folks I know it has been a time since I penned my thoughts on this platform!

There is so much noise currently that I had to step back, collect myself, and evaluate the issues of the day before sharing my thoughts with all of you!

Lately, there is much derogatory information being spread on various platforms maligning our VP Harris' character, intelligence, and her record!

It is fairly easy to access google and pull up her record for yourself so you can stop listening to liars tell you about our VP!

Regardless of which person you like, there is one thing that is abundantly clear going forward, if the orange turd is allowed to run his for-profit business again from the Oval Office, every ethnicity that is not wealthy, straight, white, male and allegedly Christian will be in a world of trouble!

Project 2025 is real people and everyone needs to familiarize themselves with what the republicans are promising under Project 2025!

For all of you women who are still voting Republican, let me know how not having any rights works for you if that orange turd should steal this upcoming election!

All of you currently operating on your racism, ask yourselves some things!

What personally has any Black person ever done to you?

What has any Black person ever taken from you?

Remember, Black people are still the last hired and the first fired, and earn less money than both white men and women for the same job!

When have you known a group of Black people to just attack white people for no reason?

Whites can walk through predominantly Black communities unharmed.

Not because we care more about them but because we know that if one white person is injured in our neighborhood, all of law enforcement will invade our neighborhoods!

They are not concerned about who the perpetrator (s) is/are, they simply get an opportunity to vent their ingrained hatred against Black people enmasse!

When someone Black is injured in a predominantly White neighborhood, we get a lack-luster response from law enforcement. Because law enforcement believes like that community, that it is okay to harm Black people at will without any consequences!

These types of behavior and mindsets must change if we are to all live harmoniously in this land together!

We are not leaving and none of you are leaving.

So it behooves all of us to learn to live together.

To celebrate our differences instead of allowing them to be instruments of division among us!

God made this world not man!

Therefore, all of us have a right to live in God's world without being put upon by any one group, that thinks themselves better than the rest of us!

Start taking some time to reevaluate the things you have been taught over the years that do not fit the truth you confront daily!

We will all do better together than we could ever do divided against each other!

Think soberly about what I have imparted to you! I pray that something I have said, resonates with your spirit and cause you to change how you have always done things!

Peace!

[theorist-influencer-untitled]

12.20.23 Wednesday

2:13 am

I'm riding a bus going HOME... Still,have windblow...

Yeah! I did my contract signing....Now, I understand the bond... But here in Conduent they have a different style of bond money...

My contract is 6 months, there are signing bonus and bonus but if you don't complete or not able to complete the 6 months coz of sickness or whatever you have to return those money on Conduent...

So, I need a job and I'm thankful I have it now... I badly need money... I badly need money...

So, tomorrow my duty will be at 10pm to 7am, it is better...

How am I feeling? What is my deep inside? I really just wanna laugh on something but I have to keep it for awhile... There is still a self-pity...

I still have this self-pity but I will survive I know if I have a job... I wanna get the trainer or product manager position...

Gain friends in a way,mature friends, get a nose perfection if I can get the regularization but that part is not yet sure...

Met some new people, getting to know each other....Thank God one of them is from Cavite as well....

Lu told me why you are still single? I said coz nobody wants me, I mean the one I like doesn't like me? Even Borgy, but I didn't actually mention his name coz it is weird...

I mean yeah! I said nobody wants me that I want coz love must be mutual,right? You can't push a love on someone if he doesn't feel it....If he is not interested... I can't push it to him if he can't return the love that I have... You can't force someone to love you back or to like you back... I'm somehow choosy coz it is my future... Relationship is something serious..

This Jocelyn from Cavite asked me as well the same thing, I said coz I'm bisexual and it is not easy to find a partner.

5:48 am

I'm scared...My right leg suddenly is having cramps and it feels stiff and it turns inward... I still have windblow.....Oh! God please this is just cramp....

2:19 pm

Done, washing some clothes, eating, some cleaning and feeding our dogs specially my son-dog....Cleaning and brushing John's teeth... I need to rest again... Not yet my ideal life but I badly need money.

Still, having windblow... Yeah! No daddy for now but hoping... Still, planning to see sand-dunes, my rock, some plastics rocks and pebbles...

Yeah right... No daddy now...

9:03 pm

Here already in Conduent... Hmm....Drinking my coffee and banana... Well, I need to work....

Wondering,why Jocelyn is not replying... I'm nice angels....Hmm... Something is strange...

Well, I'm here to work... By the way Jocelyn is pretty,angels...

Here in the pantry...

9:16 am

Here home from riding a BUS... RIP Peachy???

Went home with Jocelyn and yeah! She is pretty but wasted today coz I found out that her bf brought her in Manila thru or via riding a motorcycle, it is somehow goodluck!!! So, meaning from "Cavite" she wore her helmet... She got a cute face if she is not wasted... She is having few zits on her face but she is pretty.

Hmm... I wonder who is the killer??? There is something on the elevator and I'm willing to go up having a good harmony.... Was there a crime??? Where is the killer???

Hmm... But I was somehow got scared and alarmed... It can be a real plan of actually killing someone on flesh and put someone on an actual 6 feet below the ground...

Can I wink on someone to check if he is the killer and lifter???

I feel so ugly and fat these days...

Why, are there 4 exits sign inside the room??? There is EXIT sign, why???

There is a covering inside on the right side of the elevator hall way from the main door going inside the Conduent building...

LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES!!!

9:48 am

Still, planning to visit sand-dunes in ilocos...Still, wanna see my rock, some plastics rocks and pebbles...

But be fair, I'm fucking tired...I wanna try the chance of going up in the elevator...

10:34 am

Killer,can I have my foot spa? Whoever is that killer in Conduent?

I need a foot spa please... ;) I'm so SHY...

Was there a killer? If there is a killer, there is lifter??? Was there a crime and more murders to come??? Is there an actual ELEVATOR???

4:05 pm

Still,have windblow .... I hope there will be no negative in Conduent,hoping for positivity....But it seems there are some strange things again but I hope people there must know the word etiquette...

It is weird, we don't have a duty today coz it is Thursday, is it Thursday Crime by INC or some Church Of Christ, I hope all are for positivity and kindness...

So, I need to keep a job now even for 6 months though we don't know if there will be a regularization for me or what will happen to me along the way of these 6 months, all I know is I badly need money and job... If there will be a slide going up, I hope it is a mature act of adult people...

I wanna perfect my nose and remove my "deep smile lines" .... Having this "deep smile lines" it is really painful for me, since having the windblow 2007 and there are weird unfair control on me....

I feel that I'm aging for nothing, it hurts that I can't perfect my nose and I can't remove this deep smile lines.... It is not my ideal life to be simple and not to reach some vanity but of course I'm willing to work if there is no rightful one for me...

Love and Elevator can be at the same time... But if not I can be on Elevator but I want an actual Elevator and mature act... It should be still mutual, right???.

But still ending with the rightful one...

[alengthyread]

At this point, am just trying to do what your request was. Mind you, it’s not easy for me, because I didn’t go to college for this, or that I basically heard it from other preachers. What I do is deal with this modern day world that we’re all in, and relate it to the Old Testament of the Bible, so with the New Testament. Because King Solomon is right in the OT that, “There’s nothing new under sun.” I think we’re only magnified by what our money could buy, because the advertising world make it seem like this new product is going to change your life(?) Am not trying to criticize your life, because what you do could be your trade, and I fully understand that we all need to earn our money. But once you replace commercialism into something that removes you from the presence of God, then you have to ask if this is good to me? You probably deal with me, because you probably have this empty life, perhaps you’ve spent all the money in the world yet feel emptiness. Am not judging, because at the same time, you probably have an amazing life through hobbies and interests. I don’t really know your story, am just gauging it by the way you communicate with me. We live in a fallen world, because God cursed the ground when Adam and Even sinned by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. And the situation prior to the sin and curse was that Adam and Eve lived in perfect harmony with the earth and God. But now that there’s darkness, you see this in the news where the worst thing could happen to you. And some religion think that those things can’t happen to them, because they’re favoured and such, but the Bible will say that the rain will pour both on the just, and the unjust. Everyone will basically run into problems. I have to say that I’ve been running to testing times, the past Christmas last year was a challenge, because I was alone, and Christmas tend to be the worst time of the year. But what I did was went for a walk outside, and started singing a hymn Praise Him, Praise Him. Because before when I was younger, I was more privilege that I could just go to a big church, and watch their cantata. Well, I don’t have that privilege any longer that I have to be creative myself. So I sang and sang Praise Him, and I ended up with an amazing experience. In fact, I was so happy that I posted it onto my Instagram. So that’s also my advice now that we’re nearing the Christmas time again, learn and choose your hymn, and it’ll be an amazing time. While being outdoors with God, I also have to say that I do a lot of walking to kinda’ organize things, I understand that I have to be outside for my colon problem, but I’ve taken this time to deal with Christianity, and experience enough blessings that I need. And I don’t know how you prioritize your time, but just check your inventory, and identify if there’s a spiritual time with Jesus. What I’ve been going through lately was listen to Taya Smith many times (Taya Smith then, she’s married now), and I’ve been dealing with a devotional book. On the other hand, I deal many times with the secular world especially this book by Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings. But say right now, am always checking what can bless me.

[grex-statera]

Chapter 15: Town Weirdos - Summer, Year 1

Krobus took another bite of the wild horseradish Ellie brought him. His delight painted all over his face.

Ellie: Man, you really eat this thing raw?

Ellie and Krobus were sitting on Krobus' spot where his "store" is supposed to be. If they weren't in the sewers, it would've been a lovely early afternoon picnic.

Krobus: Why, yes, of course. My kind has no need for this concept of "cooking" that you humans do.

Ellie: That's fair.

Ellie took another look at Krobus' items. It really was an assortment of rare and exotic goods. Elemental essences, void eggs, weird furniture - he has them all.

Ellie: Hmm... What's this?

Ellie held a purple star-shaped fruit in her hand.

Krobus: That is a Stardrop. It is an ancient and cosmic fruit that will empower your spirit if you consume it.

Ellie: Wow. Sounds like a thing of legends. Must be expensive then?

Krobus' expression changed that to what could best be described as "thinking".

Krobus: I shall sell it to you for twenty thousand.

Ellie: Hey, not bad! Erm. I don't really have that amount of money on me right now. How about I just come back for it?

Krobus: I will hold you to that, Elliot.

Ellie smiled warmly at her strange little friend.

Ellie: Hey, uh, can I ask you something? About the talisman?

Krobus: You may.

Ellie: So... Why did the wizard assign you to safeguard it? Are you friends?

Krobus: Yes. The wizard is an excellent Custodian watching over the harmony between non-human beings. There are others like me - shadow people who wish no harm to humans. But the majority of my kind are not so welcoming. When the wizard had his falling-out with his wife, he asked me to look after the talisman, should he cease to be.

Ellie: Oh...

Ellie thought about this for a while.

Ellie: So are shadow people... Immortal? Like, unless someone kills you, you can basically live forever?

Krobus: Yes, you may say that. My kind is born from the abundance of void essence. We are unlike you humans who are frail and have fleeting lives.

Ellie nodded.

Ellie: Alright, I should be ready for that stupid bug world you told me. How 'bout you?

Krobus finished the last of his horseradish.

Krobus: I can sense that you are a steadfast and strong individual, Elliot. However, I must still warn you of the perils in that area.

He says a short incantation then waves his hands.

Krobus: The entrance is unsealed. Stay vigilant, friend.

Ellie: Thank you, Krobus. Don't worry, I'll be back before you know it.

Ellie walked over to the other end of the platform, near the weird dog statue. The once dead end wall now has a crack on it, wide enough for a human to slip into.

Ellie: Bugs, huh?

Ellie grips her sword firmly.

Ellie: Alright, here we go.

She took a deep breath then slipped into the crack.

+++++

The Mutant Bug Dimension really looked its part: it looked alien and it was infested with weeds and grubs. Ellie had to catch her breath to adjust.

She was never a fan of things that crawled but the Biology degree helped, at least.

She made her way around slowly but surely, dodging, stomping on and cutting up bugs if she had to. At least, unlike in the sewers, the smell wasn't that bad.

Ellie looked carefully for the mark Krobus left for the buried key.

Krobus: It is a simple mark - just a big stick with a tattered cloth tied on it.

Ellie sighed.

Ellie: Krobus, I swear to Yoba if it's not here...

Ellie hacked away on another patch of tall weeds when she saw the mark Krobus had told her about.

Ellie: Oh my god!!

She hurriedly kneeled next to it and dug the damp soil. She found a small chest with the talisman inside.

Ellie: Holy crap! Gotcha!

She secured the talisman chest in her bag and made her way out.

+++++

Ellie: Krobus! I found it!

Krobus: Hello there, friend! That's great news. I was starting to get worried about you.

Ellie took the small chest out and showed it to Krobus who nodded, confirming that it is indeed the item she was looking for.

Ellie: Easy peasy! Didn't even take too long in there.

Krobus cocked his head to one side.

Krobus: But Elliot, you have been there for hours. Did you not know?

Ellie stared at him.

Ellie: What...? It only felt like a few minutes, though. Maybe around 45 minutes at most?

Ellie looked at her watch. It was almost 7pm.

Ellie: What the hell, man.

Krobus: You must be aware, Elliot: time flows differently in other dimensions other than where you belong.

Ellie grunted.

Ellie: Ugh. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. At least I won't have to worry about people seeing me get out of the sewers.

She secures the chest in her bag again.

Ellie: Okay, I should show this to the wizard... But maybe by tomorrow or else I'll be late for my bedtime.

Krobus: Bedtime... Such an intriguing concept.

Ellie: Huh? Do you not sleep?

Krobus tilted his head slightly to the floor.

Krobus: Maybe I should try that some time.

+++++

Ellie made sure to peek first before coming out of the sewer. Despite her attempt at being discreet, she still got caught. And by Sebastian, no less.

Seb: What the hell...

Ellie slowly turned around.

Seb: ...were you doing down there??

Ellie: Ah! Don't freak out! I swear I'm not insane!

The two of them stared at each other, until Sebastian laughed.

Ellie: Dude, I swear I'm gonna get in SO much trouble because of you someday. What are you doing out here anyway??

Sebastian tried to calm down, wiping tears from his eyes from laughing.

Seb: Ugh. Oh, god. I was walking home from Sam's when I heard the manhole creak. So is this the witch's curse you got going on? The urge to just be underground?

Elliot snickered.

Ellie: Hey, mining and sewer spelunking are two vastly different things. Also, I didn't go down there for nothing alright. I got... Stuff I have to do.

Seb: Yeah? Like what?

Ellie averted her gaze.

Ellie: Hey. All jokes aside, though, maybe it would be better for you if you didn't know too much.

Seb: Hmm. Even if I tell you I'm super curious and will believe everything you say and not think of you as a lunatic?

Ellie: More so!!! I-

Ellie felt her ears get hot.

Ellie: I want you to be safe, you know? I'm not entirely sure myself what's happening, but there IS something happening and I don't want you to get caught up in this. It might get dangerous.

Sebastian looked at Ellie, concern showing on his face.

Seb: You're well aware I'm bigger than you, right? I may not be an expert with swords or any weapon but I think if it came to protecting, that should be my job. Dont you think?

Ellie sighed.

Ellie: Seb... I honestly don't know what to say. Just- just keep this to yourself for now, okay? Once I figure out what really IS happening, then maybe I can tell you someday. But right now, maybe not. Just keep yourself safe and look out for the others too, please?

Sebastian started to move closer to Ellie.

Ellie: Uh!!!! You might not want to do that... I reek.

Seb: You told me you don't like the smell of smoke but you hang out with me anyway.

Sebastian stood in front of her, placing both of his hands on her shoulders.

Seb: Listen: you don't have to be afraid. If you need any help, you can come to me - to your friends - and we will be there for you. I know we haven't known each other for a long time but you're a part of the community now. So, dont sweat it, alright?

Sebastian patted Ellie on the back.

Seb: Now go home, relax and uh, take a bath, stinky.

Ellie: Ugh!! Look who's talking...

Sebastian chuckled, giving Ellie's cheek a mild pinch.

[penhive]

December 26th 2022

Again I am lost in my thoughts. A surprising thing happened in my life and it is the  2nd Graders presented me with a handwritten Christmas Card. I felt very touched at their gesture. There were many popups in the card and they were loaded with Christmas gifts and well wishes. I am encouraged with positivity for the year 2023 to come. I was able to win 5000 Rupees for today’s lottery and I am humbly thankful to God Jehovah Jesus for being kind to gift me with the amount. God has been good to me. Saw a feminine mannequin standing outside in a shop. The only odd thing is she had no hair on her head. She was eloquently wrapped in scintillating Indian Kurties (a dress worn by Indian women). I saw the flight of a bird. Its moving wings were a soul of a poem. Its flight in beauty tinged in an orchestra. It was surging melodiously and harmoniously.  I thought of tropes and I realized that tropes exist to ornament and decorate the language. My writing resembles the flight of a bird, the murmur of a brook, and a blossomed flower. When the heart is free, the writer is at ease.  I have been abstaining from sex for long as my wife is uncooperative. How much I long for the poetry of the bed. I was able to complete two epigraphs today and I am including it in the novel that I am writing. My fiction is poetic philosophy and the bard turns my blood into ink. I am 52 years old and I am tired of working and I long to settle in an exotic country in South East Asia preferably the Philippines as my significant other is there and live life contented as a writer. Do legends of people have the power to manifest realities? Yes the legend of Santa Claus comes from ST Nicholas and he makes Christmas merry and sunny. The music I love is classical, rock, jazz and the blues. The body is a melody of love and the heart is a soul of poetry. I have been very generous with money and I expect God to go easy on my wallet and finances. I always ask God Jehovah Jesus: please help me transcend the novelists, philosophers and poets that I have read. Again I write: the heart is the inscription of love. Eroticism is mutually shared. Orgasm is enigmatic music.

[bandluvr97]

mbb 🎅

omg you’re probably right about this being the last comeback before Shownu comes back. I hope there’s a little bit of a gap before the rest of the 93ers leave, I would love to see them have a comeback together before the next person leaves. Minhyuk has to go soon, but I’m pointedly not thinking about that, we’re gonna get another comeback with both of their vocals on it, I have to believe that. But did you see that one song is produced by Changkyun and Wooki???? I am LOOKING!

I like participating in celebrations, even if I don’t necessarily believe. Not barge in uninvited, of course, but I’m always delighted to be there, especially if there’s music. And my dad always makes this amazing date and chickpea dish on Christmas night that I would put up with anything for lmao.

Oh cool! So, do you help with, like, housing or job hunting or financial assistance or what? (or just everything) I know social workers who do emergency help and only work with clients for about a month, and some who do longer term work, what kind do you do? One of my besties is frustrated because they don’t let people “be political” at work, which limits how well she feels like she can help people, how have you been handling big political changes? And you can ask about my work, I wouldn’t give like the street address lmao but it’s not terribly interesting day-to-day.

He really is, we love a pretend vegan king. He’s got such amazing vocals, I can’t wait to hear them again. I’m not usually into ballads, but his voice hits different. He absolutely commands the stage in an easy, casual way, and yeah he has the benefit of being physically larger than a lot of idols, but he’s just so present on stage. No shade to the others, they’re fabulous performers as well, they just perform in a different way than Shownu showing up and just being, if that makes sense. Sorry, once I pick a sweet cheese rotten soldier good time boy I have to hype him up extensively.

Seonghwa’s literally just on another level. His stage presence is insane, his opening to “Guerilla” at Song Festival was just walking and yet he ATE. And his vocals? His register shifts are so good. He and San are two of the most interesting 4th gen singers imho. When will they get live mics smh we all heard San in the It’s Live performances of “Turbulence” like I will save this chord there will be no tritones on my watch and yet he’s stuck fighting the sound techs on stage even though he’s a dykon and doing the most for us lesbians. And Hongjoong is the definition of “standing 5’8, voice 6’5.” The whole Short King Anthem is about him, so small but so powerful and he knows it and thank god he uses it for good.

“God Damn” was just so much omg I could go on forever and I frequently do I have so many opinions. I didn’t love his most recent song as much, but I will take anythingggggg. Give me all the evil slut music you’ve got, Changkyun. I want to Cause Problems. I’m so excited for “Deny”, it’s going to be good, I can feel it in my bones. And his solo contract could be entirely back end and we see no difference, but it’s still cool that he’s negotiating better terms for himself.

You don’t really need to know much about the different techniques, I’ll nerd out about them in a heartbeat but don’t want to bore you. It was just really drilling down into it starting from the very basics. And yeah I used to sing, I always liked chamber choirs with tight harmonies best. Now I don’t sing except for myself and to belt along to the radio with my sister, these small-time producers and rappers don’t want to pay for vocalists, and I don’t do it for free if they’re gonna make money off it. And I rarely traveled for performances, but we’d play in new venues all the time, and feeling it out is ROUGH, especially in the orchestra…

We’re going to see my dad meet the Pope as part of this business trip. He doesn’t care if we’re there for that or not, but his partner is spiritually twisting our ear like “You saw a miracle, your father’s no longer in a wheelchair, you are GOING.” My boss is big mad I’m leaving for a week two months in a row, but I’m like dude I will take care of it, you won’t even miss me. This is like the one good thing about being hourly, let me have this!

Sewing is so cool, it must be gratifying to be able to use something you’ve made like that. Hoodies seem extra hard, but I believe in you! Every instrument has its challenges, I’m just overwhelmed by the idea of the two hands working separately, so I’m impressed. And no shame on playing fun music, I play kpop on the violin all the time, it’s literally just fun.

I’m taking notes on all your suggestions, btw. I’m very familiar with Seattle and somewhat familiar with Chicago, but not at all with Canada, I’ve only been to Vancouver once and that’s it. It sounds like you like going to cities more, is that right? I’ve traveled a lot, it’s been a priority in our family, especially since we’re so spread out. Dad loves travel and swore if he got out of the wheelchair he was going to travel even more, and I guess he’s somewhat fond of us and likes to bring us along on his business trips.

I hope your week is amazing and happy Hanukkah!

Hey love ❤️ happy almost Christmas!! Aw thanks 😊 are you excited for the festivities? Sorry for the late reply the week was a bit crazy with work and figuring stuff out but it’s going better now lol also got two days off next week so that’s a nice break from the hustle and the bustle lol hope your week went smoothly love!!

Right??? It’s a very exciting thing to think about lol but yeah they should do one last comeback as the 6 of them before minhyuk goes away for a bit but I’m sure he’ll be back before we know it lol bruh I was listening to that all week!!! Woooo boy 😂😂 it’s so good!!!! Idk how he does it every time but he slays lol wbu? What do you think about the song? Lol I am looking respectfully through my hands 😂 it’s hard to not look sometimes!!

Ooo that dish sounds delicious! Is it a usual holiday staple in your family? What other meals do you usually make around the holidays? I hope you have an amazing holiday season love ❤️

Yeah I help with making referrals to job programs for clients that want to work and give them forms to find homes and places that rent along other resources that they can use so it’s a nice time 👍 yeah that part of the job is tricky to avoid with some clients that want to trigger some political stuff with workers but sometimes it’s best to just move onto the next question 😂😂 it can also depend on what the client is there fire like sometimes it’s financial help like they just need a cheque to get by (which may or may not work because sometimes people like to use and abuse the system but we catch them eventually 😂) and the timeline is the same with my job where I get them set up for a month and then once a review comes up and things are resolved then send them on their way to a permanent assigned worker 👍👍 lol I don’t expect you to give the coordinates for the job location 😂😂 is it a tough business where you work? Like do you see a lot of things go down like fights or deals or drama with the customers? Have you had to put on the big boss shoes and say I’m here bitches? 😂 Not too sure what to ask but I’m so curious to find out info about your work!! Lol

Darn right we do!! We love a hella smexy part time vegan strong boy who is a total softie and just slapping us one minute with his visuals and vocals and then being a sweetie the next minute 😂😂 like how the hell does he do that? And I totally understand the lazlo reference (what we do in the shadows is amazing btw I’m obsessed with it) and I agree he is an amazing leader and just captures the mood of the group and leads them with ease and composure lol oh absolutely everyone in the group complements each other in their own way BUT we are shownu biased 100000% and I take responsibility for that fact lol

Bruh seongwha did more than ate he devoured the stage and everything else he does! Like you can tell he was meant to be on a stage and preform and be a total sweet cheese good time boy 😂😂 him and san are the mood bringers of the group tbh they create the atmosphere and the mood and get everyone lit and hype (mingi is another level though lol) he is definitely doing the most for the alphabet soup babies and that’s a fact he represents the mood and the team and it’s so true (and I’ve seen a lot of us wear his crop tops and edits and it’s a mood and I have to take a breath sometimes 😂😂😂) and Hongjoon is the definition of the short king anthem like you cannot go wrong with his vibe and energy lol btw you know what gets me- the eye contact that this man has (and you know which performance I’m talking about) is absolutely one of the hottest and scariest things I’ve witnessed on Instagram and Tumblr 😂😂

Lol!!!! Evil slut 😂😂😂😂 he is an evil slut! And yeah even if the song or solo stuff doesn’t work out then it’s gonna be good and it was worth the shot but holy shit he’s doing amazing stuff! ❤️❤️❤️

Lol your not gonna bore me love I am fascinated with new things! Bring on the ted talks and the vents! I am here for it ❤️❤️❤️that’s so cool that you sing!! Even if it’s for fun now it’s still an awesome thing to keep for yourself lol if anything it makes you unique ❤️

Really?? Your dads going to meet the pope? That’s so cool!! What kind of business trip is it? Agreed like let me have this time to myself and to spend time with the fam please l!! Lol

Aw thanks love ❤️ it took some time but it’s a fun project to work on (one handed or two lol) and for the sewing there a whole bunch of easy patterns to follow so that part won’t be difficult but it depends on the type of fabric to use lol oooo kpop on the violin sounds difficult but very impressive ❤️❤️

Lol! Aw nice!! I’m glad your excited to travel new places love ❤️ yeah I’ve been to my fair share of cities and what not lol but it would be fun to travel outside of the countries I know lol really? How far out is your family? Where are they all located now? How often do you travel? Now your dad is the definition of dedication 😂😂

Hope you have a great day love ❤️

[crazysleepydreams]

REUNION

Ok I'm late for the party but I want to party too so I shall post the promps for the next week let's thank @albinokittens300 for the fantastic idea!

Reunion part2 : The Starks

When Catelyn Stark gave birth to the twins: Sansa and Bran, she and her husband were enchanted. How not to be when they had two new family members? Two beautiful babies? One all Tully and one all Stark, well mostly Stark. Soon they were surprised as they noticed that Sansa the oldest had a soulmark, it was small and they couldn’t make it out, but by its beautiful lively colors they knew that their baby girl shall be loved by her soulmate above anyone or anything else.

Bran showed a fierce temper even as a newborn both Eddard and her were happy to blame it on his wolfsblood while Sansa was a very easy baby. While the newborns slept and they waited until Lyanna came with Robb  and Aegon so they could meet their sister and brother and cousins respectively they spend much time trying to decipher the colors of Sansa’s mark: a velvet red ( for power ned insisted, even if it could also mean passion and activity), Orange ( they agreed on creativity and happiness), a golden Yellow ( Harmony Catelyn insisted), Emerald Green (Hope, nature and money where all good options), Sky blue ( for stability) and  Royal purple ( ambition, mystery and dignity) where the colors they could find. 

They knew that raising a marked child was a huge responsibility, more so than normal, Sansa was destined for greatness and they had to guide her; she was blessed, but one they had to protect in order for her not to become a curse. They couldn’t be happier to know that there was someone out there that would die for their little girl: that the gods had smiled upon her and created someone who was perfect for her and from how complex the mark looked it was probable that they had already met and loved each other in another live: which indicated just how special their little girl was. It looked like Brandon might have a mark too, but it looked more like a normal birthmark than anything so they decided to worry about raising two marked ones if it ever looked like Bran’s mark were to become something more than a birthmark.

“Thank you dearest.” Whispered Ned to his wife looking at the twins that shared a crip and smiling and how it seemed that Bran reached for his sister.

“There is nothing to thank me for. My dearest husband.” Answered Catelyn looking at her twins. “They are beautiful aren’t they?” She asked.

“Aye that they are.” Agreed the Lord of Winterfell with a far away look in his eyes before signing.

“What is it Ned?”

“It is highly probable that Sansa’s soulmate shall be born as some Lord, but..”

“But if he isn’t she shall become the next Warden of the North, the Lady of Winterfell and you don’t know what to tell Robb.” Finished Catelyn for him. “I wouldn’t worry about it, Robb is as much a Tully as he is a Stark.”

“Family, Duty, Honor.” They both said smiling knowing that everything would be well.

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Aegon being 7 years old didn’t really understand why his cousin Robb was making such a problem at the fact that maybe just maybe Sansa would inherit the Lordship of Winterfell instead of him. It wasn’t as if the sweet babe had asked to be born with a soulmark and the Lordship was just a big headache or that is what his mother always said. Aegon liked his baby cousins a lot!

Sansa was sweet and didn’t make any fuss even when he sat with her in his arms for a really long time! She didn’t even pull his hair! Robb was just beeing stupid. Aegon also liked Bran who was much more lively than Sansa and pulled his hair, but that didn’t matter until Robb decided to act as he should. Aegon would be their big brother and protector! His mother always said that ones pack or family wasn’t just decided by blood but also by bonds so if he wanted to claim Sansa and Bran as his siblings he could and he did.

The twins were very fast in learning new things with Sansa being a little faster. Robb said that she cheated and did favor Bran, but how could a baby cheat? Anyway both his siblings were healthy and happy babies, even if for some reason Sansa called him Jon ( maybe his name sounded like that to a baby?) and Bran soon followed her in calling him that so he somehow became Jon to his family, and that is all he cared about.

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Robb at 6 was angry when his father told him that Sansa might inherit instead of him: she was already special! She had a soulmate out there: the gods had made a person specially for her, why would she need his lordship too?

When he was younger he felt jealous of his baby sister and would often give more attention to Bran who was a normal person like him. As he grew older he felt ashamed at having treated her like that realizing that having a soulmate didn’t mean life would be great: his father had sat him down and explained to him how Sansa would one day remember another life with another family and how those things might confuse and even hurt her and he felt bad for her… he had thought that those with a soulmark had an unfair advantage, but whatever positive they got from those stupid memories wouldn’t be worth the hearthbreak and confusion that remembering loved ones and not having them would bring her.

After that conversation with his father he went looking for Jon… who was actually called Aegon by his Aunt Lyanna and his parents, but preferred the name the twins gave him, and told him about his change of mind which made his cousin happy. It was strange, but even after starting to dream about her last life Sansa remained mostly the same: even if she started to behave more ladylike at times. She still loved songs and fairy tales, she also shared all she could remember about her soulmate with whoever would be willing to listen to her, something which seemed to bother their cousin Arya when she visited them with their Uncle Benjen from the other side of the wall.

But Robb and Jon, and probably their parents too, listened with rapt attention to the little girl. Her soulmate was: gentle, funny, he could always make her smile even when she didn’t feel like it, he was always busy with work, he had the most beautiful eyes one as green as the forest and another as dark as the night (heterochromatic), he was slightly tanned ( not a Northerner then), he had golden wavy curls he tried to control (westerner maybe?), he was very clever, he was a great story teller, he loved his family except for his older sister maybe, he also knew everything about dragons (someone with Targaryen heritage?), he had a scar across his face (war or a battle?) and there were moments where he wasn’t there even if they had been married (war). 

The boys couldn’t pin much information down as it was because Sansa couldn’t always remember everything from her dreams, but they had a theory her soulmate had been: a western lord from a good house, maybe a second or third son, he might also have some Targaryen blood if all the mentions of him and dragons were any indication, he had heterochromia and had seen war… the only problem with the theory was that the Targaryens had never married into the westerlands: so either he had been a bastard or he wasn’t western.

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When Brandon and Sansa became 4 years old. Sansa’s beautifully colored mark showed a crowned lion above a wolf as if protecting it. Sansa always said that her lion protected her, but Ned and Catelyn saw something that made their blood turn into ice: the outer parts didn’t fade into her skin as they believed, but instead the colors and the outer lines turned smokey and ash colored. They both knew what this meant more so due the fact that their daughter's mark was a colored one: she had rejected her soulmate. 

The only thing they didn’t know was why?  From what Sansa had told them she had been married to the man and at the very least she had been fond of him even if it might have been a purely political allegiance: what had made her disavow her kind, smart and brave soulmate? And worse, how should they explain it to her? How to explain to their fibrant beautiful baby girl that the soulmate that was waiting out there wasn’t looking forward to meeting her? That he had felt bad whenever he saw his soulmark just like she had felt happiness. They didn’t know how and talking to the family didn’t bring any light on how they should handle the situation.

Shortly before their eight birthday something frightening and amazing had happened: one night, in the middle of it, the twin had turned up in their room both crying and near hysteria trying to talk above the other. It took them almost an hour to calm the children down who wouldn’t stop blaming themselves and in case of Brandon asking for Sansa’s forgiveness.

Once they had calmed down they had decided that Sansa would be the first to speak as she was the calmest between the two.

“Ok tell me what is wrong dear?” Asked a tired Eddard.

“He won’t love me papa!” Exclaimed Sansa as tears started forming in her eyes.

“Who won’t love you?” Asked Catelyn who was rubbing Brans back.

“My lion! I hurt him mama! His father made us marry and I hated him! Well I didn’t hate him I hated his family and that he was a small man instead of a knight or a prince! I wasn’t fair! I was mean to him! And then I ran away and got hurt and when I saw him again I wanted to tell him I was sorry I didn’t, we weren’t married anymore and it was my fault I allowed him to be blamed for something he didn’t do! And he was still kind to me even if I was mean he asked me to marry him and I said no! Then when I wanted to marry him I never asked him because he was different, but he was only hurting and then we became friends again and I decided that I would ask him, but he died and I never told him I loved him nor did I ask him to marry me!..... He won’t ever love me!” Shouted the girl crying and dissolving in tears. Ned looked lost as he hugged her close, promising that they would help her.

“What about you Bran?” Asked the mother asked, perplexed.

“It isn’t Sansa’s fault and he does love her! It’s my fault that my good brother died and Sansa never forgave me… Please Sansa I said I’m sorry we’ll find him and I will explain everything and he will forgive you and you will both be happy.” Said Brandon. “Come on Sansa Ty loved you more than life and you know how much he loved life, he paid Bronn double whatever they offered for him for his life!” Continued the boy, shocking his parents.

“No he won’t I was a stupid little girl and he deserved better!” Exclaimed his twin.

“Maybe you were dear, but now you shall be better ok?” Asked her father and Sansa nodded her head before leaning against him sleepily. “Brandon, do you remember who you were?” Asked Eddard, feeling dread, his son's words were too specific. It was strange to be able to tell names even for marked ones: when had Brans’ birthmark bloomed into a full soulmark?

“I do. I was Bran the Broken.” Said the boy with a small voice looking at the floor.

Catelyn took in a sharp breath as everything fell in place and looked at her husband with pain in her eyes as they both realized whom their children had been: if Bran had been Bran the broken and Sansa was his sister, then Sansa’s lion husband had been Lord Tyrion Lannister the first…. and the story of their marriage wasn’t a pretty one or their story was pretty, but they married during the war of the five kings, a war mostly between the Starks and Lannister that the other big houses joined for their own profit started by the then Lady Stark kidnapping Lord Tyrion for a crime he didn’t commit and trying to have him executed: how he avoided that history wasn’t clear on it just that he did.

“Dearest, why don’t you put Sansa to bed while I speak with Bran?” Offers Ned looking at his troubled wife who nodded as they exchanged the twins leaving him with Bran with him alone in their bedchambers. “ May I see your soulmark Bran?” He asked gently and his son showed him his left wrist.

The soulmark was on his son's non dominant hand which was an indication that it was a platonic mark: the soulmark was the same as Sansa’s except for the colors where hers was a rainbow Bran’s mark was: green and orange with golden hues. It was also pretty faint as if it was the ghost of what it could be: maybe due the guilt his son felt?

“Why do you believe it is your fault that he died Bran? Or why is anything between Sansa and him your fault?”

“It’s my fault because the war started because of me! It’s my fault because I didn’t send him North to Sansa as soon as my reign was stable! It's my fault because I knew how they felt and when I received a raven about his return I didn’t insist that he should take some time off of his duty as my hand and stay North so Sansa could tell him how she felt!” Exclaimed the boy brawling and it was then that Eddard realized that no matter that Bran said he had been Bran the broken one of the wisest kings of Westeros this was also his son, his boy not even 8 and already feeling guilty of a death that couldn’t possibly be his fault.

“Ok let’s say that you could have done that back then and that Sansa and Lord Tyrion would have been happily married. Why didn’t you?” Asked the man softly.

“Because I was selfish. Because I wanted my good brother to stay by my side for as long as I could keep him there, because even if he gave me the moniker of the broken he never saw me as a cripple or as king I was Bran to him: the same Bran he had designed a saddle for so that he could ride again before everything went wrong… Bran the broken was 9 when he became a cripple, he was also nine when he met the Lannister Imp who was proud to be the imp and didn’t let it affect him much, he was 10 when his father was executed, he was also 10 when his older brother and mother were murdered in coldblood and he lost Winterfell and he was 10 when said imp became is good brother and even if years passed between when he last saw the imp and his coronation he never forgot that it was the imp who gave him hope and made him smile for the first time after losing his legs…” Mumbled Bran before he started to cry mourning the life he once had and maybe the man that the could once claim as his brother and it broke Neds heart that his son just like his daughter had lived a whole life they could remember mostly at night and that molded them and even might haunt them in the day light.

“It’s alright Bran, it will be alright. We shall find him and we’ll explain everything to him and if he is even half as kind as Sansa has always said and now you say: he will understand and love the both of you the same he did back then. Ned promised his youngest son and himself that he would do everything in his power to make everything alright.

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Sansa was very small when she realized she was special: she had a twin and she had a soulmark! not many had one of those and she had both. People often told her about how beautiful she was, how clever, how ladylike, but no one believed her to be very smart or intelligent, but she remembered her soulmate telling her that she was: somewhere in another life and how people underestimating one usually worked in one's favor.

She loved dreaming of her soulmate: he was handsome and funny and gentle and brave! He was smaller than most men or every man, but the idea of that didn’t bother her: the seven had made them for each other and she loved him! And from what she could remember him doing he loved her too, he also loved dragons and books and holding her hand and kissing it, but the last two she never told anyone. Sansa had many friends in school and she was proud to show them her beautiful soulmark of a crowned lion and a wolf colored with all the colors of the rainbow. Her family would always listen when she wanted to share something new she could remember from her dreams, except for cousin Arya, but she only liked fighting.

Young Sansa’s life was better than any fairy tale until one night her dreams took another turn. She remembered all the mean things she had said to her soulmate and all the times he had looked at her with hurt in his beautiful eyes and she had refused to apologize! She even saw herself running away from him when he didn’t do anything wrong only to miss him terribly and marry a bad man and then when they met again and he asked her to marry him she said no, but he forgave her and they stayed friends  and when she realized she wanted to ask him to marry her he had died… Sansa had cried a lot that night and Bran did too. Bran had been her Bran last time too and he felt guilty about things and wanted to help her and her soulmate: he was the best brother ever. After that night they both wore wrist bands over their soulmarks: Bran also had a soulmark for her soulmate, but his was that of family love her father explained to her when she got jealous. 

After that day Sansa didn’t believe that life was a song anymore, but she would do better than she had done the last time and she would be kind to everyone. She often thought about her soulmate and how sorry she was and how she loved him after reading about the fact that some soulmates could communicate feeling due their bonds, but she never felt anything from her soulmark except its usual weight telling her it was there so maybe her soulmate and her didn’t share that connection?

Another part done now tommorow the last.. or not depends it might become a 4 parts story! lol

[blacksunscorpio]

Pisces notwithstanding, I hope you answer my ask (victim mentality hook line and sinker). My cheekiness aside, I would love to hear you take on a Composite Venus conjunct Composite Ascendant and square Composite Pluto (signs are Capricorn and Libra if that helps). How does that couple come across?

Composite Venus conjunct Composite Ascendant

Two people come off to others as friendly, charming, sociable, and generally the kind of couple who has similar tastes and interests. Since the Composite Ascendant is the relationships "face" as it were, others perceive the union as an amorous but agreeable partnership. A relationship where two people generally like each other and complete each other well. This aspect can also indicate the "handsome" couple. The couple that looks "good" together in matters of things very much about the senses, i.e: Clothing, money, aesthetics, grooming/style. The couple that comes off as compatible on a superficial [Venus] level. Very easy cooperation. The couple will exemplify Venus and act her out in the day to day. The blending of the desires will be seamless and there won't be a lot of trouble with this aspect alone. A lot of love here and perhaps a financial pay off, too as Venus is ruler of the 2nd house. Good placement for two people who want to invest together. Great placement for the literal "law of attraction". The couple that will be physically comfortable with eachother AKA the PDA types. Hand holding, kissing, hugging, etc.

Now throwing Pluto in the mix might will change things...

Composite Venus/ascendant square Composite Pluto can be dealt with. It will just make the sexual fascination hard to ignore. Two people will be very turned on by eachother. The problem is, with a square it'll exacerbate the issues in the relationship and bring the hidden and buried issues to the surface where what is, on a surface level a picture perfect relationship, might manifest with a closer look as a toxic one. Especially if Pluto is heavy in the charts of the natives and afflicted or two people are just underdeveloped in general. The drama is biblical. There is a push-pull aspect here. Make up, break up. Hot and cold. Power struggles. Why? Because you're dealing with the 2nd house 8th house axis. Classic Venus Pluto. Taurean and Plutonic themes. In this particular case you've got another difficult pairing, Venus and Saturn in hard aspect compatibility wise.

Someone always wants the power but as this is composite and analysis of the relationship itself, no one fully has the upper hand. It goes back and forth. Typically. However, if one person is more plutonic, they will usually be the aggressor while "Venus is the victim". This will be the couple that loves eachother one moment then has a blow up at a dinner party with all the friends because Paul took too long of a glance at Nancy behind Olivia's back. VERY passionate about each other. These people will remain attracted to eachother for the long term. Why? Because of the psychological intensity. You two can't get eachother off your minds. Lots of manipulation with the square. Perhaps even sabotage. Lets say these people go on a break, if one sees the other too happy with someone else, they'll find a way to shut it down. Sliding into the DMs. Intimidation of the new lover. Future Hendrix-esque messages about how they'll never find anyone who loves them as much as they do. The Toxicity *System of a down voice*, smh lol. There's a spell two people are under with this aspect. It will be very hard to let go but often two people might need some space and need to lead separate lives because of the pressure-cooker vibes this aspect creates.

"I can't live with you but God forbid I live without you. [I'll friggin die]"

Two people are obsessed with eachother and since Pluto is also aspecting the rising of the Composite, others will observe this about the couple. Think Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big from Sex and the City. It looks glamorous, glittery, and it's clear there's a deep attraction here, but behind the scenes there's betrayal, affairs, the inability to leave eachother alone. Power struggles. And oh! The Drrrrraaammmmaaaaaa. So much drama. You secretly love it though because that's Venus/Pluto [and throw in the Martian 1st house]. You don't feel alive if the relationship doesn't have a dash of Broadway with Garnish of a daytime soap.

You'll want healthy Saturn or strong Jupiter in harmonious aspect in this composite so forgiveness, maturity, and stability come easily. Otherwise, psychological traumas aren't possible, they're probable. One of those relationships you will have to take some time to heal from. Take a good look at the natal chart to see who might be bringing the energy and how go deal with it in the healthiest way possible.

[syubub]

What makes BTS most vulnerable

Woo! A reading! I wanted to do this bc its been on my list for a little while now!

I just got off work and wanted to do this asap! Pls forgive mistakes! I'm not gonna proof read bc im lazy.

Cheeky disclaimer: this is for entertainment purposes and not to be taken as fact! This is my interpretation of the cards!!

So so so so

First off, I did each member and also one for the group! I didn't have a specific plan in mind when I started, so I just went with the flow!

Let's start with the group first

So. The 5 of pentacles is what makes them most vulnerable. This card talks about isolation, feeling lost, anxiety, not having money or influence. Most of all, a mindset of lack.

All of this to me makes me think that what makes them most vulnerable is the fear of being right back where they started. Feeling exiled from the industry, not having the funds to be sure of a stable future and also not having a strong sense of identity as a group and within the group. It's like their vulnerability comes from something almost like ptsd? Let me try to make that make more sense. I genuinely think that where they started and the uncertainty and constant ridicule really had an impact on them. The vulnerability they have as a group is essentially emotional distress? Like, I wish I had better words to explain. It's the fear that they haven't actually grown or gotten anywhere and that they are insignificant that is their vulnerability. Fear based on where they started?

I really hope that made sense. Moving on though, 7 of swords is how it manifests for them. This card is sneaky. It talks about getting away with something and betrayal but I think this meaning is the most relevant: strategic moves. So how their vulnerability manifests is that the fear that they have causes them (and the company) to make very specific moves to keep their fears from happening. It's like, they take steps to make sure their fears don't get realized. Career wise but also personally. They can sometimes force growth because they fear stagnation. Kinda like rolling something uphill? Once it loses momentum it starts rolling back down.

The other two cards, Wellness and busy times and multitasking, are what they can do to lessen that vulnerability. Keeping healthy in mind body and spirit (also keeping the group bond healthy too) as well as channeling their emotions and fears into productivity. (Think the ly:tear album)

Seokjin

This is really intresting. So, what makes him most vulnerable is repressed emotion that causes inner turmoil. The moon is all about your insides and the vastness it has. In its reverse it talks about the darker parts of your subconscious. So, him bottling shit up and repressing it becomes a monster that affects him without him even necessarily knowing.

As for how that manifest in his life, it literally affects his judgment. Like, literally. It messes with his decision making.

As a fellow human with a similar problem, I can almost bet that any issue he has with another member will be shoved away and it will fester until he's at his breaking point and he'll absolutely weaponize it but disguise it as "just poking fun" or he might also purposefully create low level chaos. It's really intresting because this could manifest in so many ways. It could be his insecurities, issues with other people, fears ect and they fester in his brain space fucking with his judgment.

What he can do to lessen this vulnerability is deep emotional healing. Istg these cards are too perfect to make up. He needs to do THE WORK and heal it. He probably recognizes this and is working on it. Its not fair to himself to put himself aside in order to put other people first. (I think this probably happened a lot in the early bts days bc he had to be an older brother and a responsible figure to 6 other kids so he prioritized group harmony over his own issues and emotions)

Yoongi

????

Um, okay. So what makes yoongi most vulnerable is the dark side of wealth. That's the 10 of pentacles rev. But it gets interesting bc the 10 of swords isn't what makes him vulnerable but it also isn't how it manifests?? So here's my theory time. What makes him most vulnerable is the dark side of wealth. I can only assume that it's the isolation and internal conflict of benefiting off of a system that fucked you over in the first half of your life and also feeling bad for having wealth that most people can never imagine? I really don't know? But with the 10 of swords talking about betrayal and deep wounds, it could be that he's extremely afraid of being taken advantage of? Like, that's another downside of wealth. Maybe people have tried to use him for money or influence? Especially in his personal life. Like, he probably finds it extremely hard to get close to people because he's afraid of betrayal over something that is already hard for him to deal with?

Also loss. He wasn't born rich. He worked his ass off to get what he has and he's probably afraid to lose it. He might "stash" money?

Anyway, knight of swords, how it manifests. This card is about a drive to succeed. So essentially this makes him run and push himself hard and harder and harder to out run what he sees as an inevitable end? Sometimes this can blind him.

As for what he can do to lessen this vulnerability, we have, self confidence through God confidence. This card to me talks about having faith in your actions and skills and trusting in yourself even if you doubt your ability. Essentially, yoongi just needs to trust in himself to land on his feet no matter what happens. Life is always uncertain so he needs to trust that he can weather any storm he might face.

Hoseok

This was one gave me some thoughts. So, similar to jin, it's the bottling shit up and having you subconscious mind eventually figure shit out because it's been neglected but with the 2 of swords in reverse, talking about confusion and being indecisive, I think this kinda causes him to shut down? He might get apathetic. It's almost like when you work a computer so hard that it crashes.

And how this manifests for him with the 3 of pentacles in reverse is that he gets thrown out of alignment with the group. Kinda like how you shouldn't drive on a flat tire. He withdraws and becomes hard to reach and puts up a wall that causes a lot of problems for him as well as those he is around. It's a defense mechanism. It can also manifest in him preferring to work alone as well instead of group settings.

This exposes him to depression and doubt.

Also similar to jin, for how to lessen this vulnerability we have Bless your heart with talks about reaching out (breaking down that wall) and healing your heart and healing the root issue.

Namjoon

Okay. This is the one that makes so much sense but also confuses me.

So. What makes him most vulnerable is the magician rev and 10 of cups. Unrealized potential and poor planning as well as love, harmony and alignment.

So.... what? How does love and the happiest happiness make him vulnerable?

Well, I think he's suspicious of it. I think that he can't help but wonder in his big big big brain if THIS is the right happy or if its really happiness at all? Almost like commitment issues but also not? It's like, he's afraid that it won't last? He might have trouble fully allowing himself happiness. Also, what makes him the most vulnerable is love. It opens up every bit of his soul and puts it on a laundry line for everyone to see and I don't think he thinks he's worthy enough to be seen like that?

As for how it manifests in his life, 9 of cups, personal fulfillment and a strive to have everything else in hislife sorted out? Essentially wanting to have a perfect foundation so eventually he can share with all the important people in his life.

As for what he can do. Value your self worth. pretty straight up. He needs to value himself more. He deserve love and he deserves to feel seen even if it's uncomfortable at first.

Jimin

Oki. What makes jimin most vulnerable is choice. The 7 of cups talks about focusing on what's best for you and making choices based not on illusion. I think jimin is plagued by unrealistic expectations and confronting the fact that it's not possible is what makes him most vulnerable. He makes choices that are driven by illusion. Usually about self. I think specifically about how he doesn't always see how good he already is so he pushes himself to chase after something that isn't always right for him or even there in the first place. Acknowledging and facing it brings vulnerability that he doesn't always want to face. I think he might equate vulnerability to powerlessness.

How it manifests. 9 of wands rev. Paranoia and being defensive. It's his own fear and insecurities manifesting outside of himself.

As for what he can do, passion and purpose and multifaceted. Focus on what is close to his heart and don't get side tracked. Theres so much more to this situation and there isn't an easy fix. There's a lot of things that need working on in order for him to feel comfortable.

Taehyung

Oki oki oki. What makes Tae most vulnerable is strength rev. Raw emotion. He doesn't always express his emotions and when he chooses to be more open, his emotions go through a bit of a filter. Showing his unfiltered emotions makes him most vulnerable because it's him as he is. In his truest form. It's all of his wants, joys, fears. Everything.

As for how it manifests, 10 of wands and Hanged man, it becomes a burden that he carries because he feels like he can't just be honest. He pauses and allows himself time to feel on his own but that means possibly being misunderstood and a bit isolated.

Now. What can he do to lessen it? Bless your heart and healthy communication in relationships. TALKING TO PEOPLE AND ALLOWING HIMSELF THAT VULNERABILITY. It's not bad to be vulnerable. Heal that shit bb bc you are worth it.

Jungkook

So, what makes him most vulnerable? The world in rev. Not having closure and seeking it. The process of seeking closure for himself about things that could have or putting to rest something that has come full circle. It brings vulnerability because he has to face things that he could have done better. He has to face things coming to a close and be okay with is.

How it manifests, the tower, ace of cups, 5 of cups reversed.

The tower is essentially everything crumbling down. I think jk thinks too much? If you follow a ball of yarn all the way to the end then you just unraveled a whole ass ball of yarn.

Him going to close those things cause him to unravel his foundation.

With the ace of cups, creativity and love/ new emotions, I think him taking the time to pursue personal closure helps him to be more open to love as well as giving him creative fuel.

The 5 of cups rev. Means that him doing this closure thing helps him to forgive himself bc he's taking time to move on and tie up loose ends?

For jk this closure thing manifests in every aspect of his like and I almost see it as him shedding? Sounds weird but he's consciously moving on and paying attention to what he needs?

As for what he can do? Deep emotional healing! He runs the risk of feeling more of the tower manifestation so he needs to keep himself emotionally healthy in order for this to be productive instead of destructive!

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I hope y'all like this! I feel like the cards didn't always follow what I was kinda going for with my questions but it all works out in the end I guess?

My next reading will be up later this week (I've already done it and taken all of my notes. I just have to type it all out) so look foward to that as well!