#first post :p

[dijontown]

>:0 !!!!

[chrrybbomb]

[3:00 am] Your gaze shifts to Hyunjae as the two of you walk away from the convenience store. It’s way past normal hours of strolling but the both of you were unable to sleep and he suggested a nice walk. Your trail led you to the 24 hour convenience store where you two ended up indulging in some ice cream. Here you two are, walking wherever in the middle of the night.

You continue staring at Hyunjae in silence before he speaks up. “Don’t look at me like that.” He sounds almost amused as he catches your gaze. You quickly look away, your ears burning up at the fact that you got caught. He chuckles at your quick reaction while you try to come up with something to say.

“Pfft- I wasn’t looking at you.” You try to deflect with an exaggerated roll of your eyes. “I was just… admiring the atmosphere.”

“Oh yeah, of course!” Hyunjae says, playful sarcasm dripping from his lips. He takes hold of your hand and gently pulls you towards him. You stumble closer with a bright laugh and a grin spreads on his face. “Admit you were staring at my handsome face.” He raises his eyebrows at you when you turn to look at him.

“Nope.” You say with a pop of the p and a scrunch of your nose. You turn your head to look back ahead of you as you both approach the apartment complex. The lampposts illuminate your path as you make your way down the sidewalk. You continue walking before you feel Hyunjae suddenly stop. You turn around, eyebrows pulled together in confusion. “Why’d you stop?” He shrugs as he tugs at your arm. With a playful roll of your eyes, you step closer to him.

You feel him rub circles into your hand as he reaches to grab your other hand. “No reason.” Hyunjae mumbles as he looks down to your connected hands, pulling you closer. You giggle as he moves your arms to wrap around his waist, making you hug him. He looks at you with a shy smile at the sound of your laugh. “Just wanna stop here with you.”

“All of the sudden?” You question with a cheeky grin.

“Is it a crime to want to soak in this moment?” He playfully answers back with a grin of his own. “We can just go ba-”

“No! We can soak in the moment.” You let out a laugh as you cut him off. “You’re such a dork, you know that?”

Hyunjae snorts as you speak. “Not as big of a dork as you.” He says as he moves his arms around your shoulders and pulls you into a tighter hug. “But you’re my dork.”

[wimble-thimble]

yeah alr ig

[ooliecat]

this is the only mouthwashing post i'll make i think

more under

[daeyumi]

Exploring the depths 🌌🪻

[stinkrat-aleks]

walking home drunk from the bars, charles in erik's leather jacket, charles rambling about mutant genetics, not a single care in their world.

Bonus silver-hair Erik version:

[critai]

4321

[swordmaid]

early morning ✨☀️

gale x ylqinvrae commission for @/justlookingatstuffandthings over on insta. thank you so much for working with me 🫶💗

[nachobsns]

Hello - I was impressed and extremely relieved by what you wrote in the post about the cult mentality of the Left RE Israel and accusations of genocide. You mentioned that you bought into the mindset until recently. If it's all right for me to ask, what was it that helped you break out of it? (Please feel free to delete/ignore if you'd rather not answer!)

thank you!! and no worries about asking— i think i put something in my pinned post about how people are welcome to send asks about this stuff, although my story isn’t super interesting. i fell down the typical online rabbithole, a couple weeks after october 7; i knew what had happened, at least vaguely, but the posts trickling onto my dash were all about the (undeniably tragic) loss of life in gaza, with little to no acknowledgment of the hamas atrocities that had started the war, so my narrative was pretty one-sided from the beginning. it just continued to snowball as the months went on and people became more radicalized, calling into question the reality of the 10/7 attacks and the humanity of all israelis. i never went all the way down the pipeline to full-on endorsing hamas or justifying their attacks, at least on a personal level, thank god, but i would reblog other people’s posts referring to hamas as a “resistance movement” and calls to boycott starbucks and mcdonald’s and condemnation of the “zionist media” etc etc etc. what pulled me out of it wasn’t any one thing— if someone had directly called me on my flawed logic and antisemitic biases while i was in this mindset, i doubt it would have done much, just reinforced my belief that i was on the “right side of history” and zionists were aggressors who couldn’t be reasoned with. it was mostly just passive observance and a slow exposure to other perspectives. i’m pretty sure the first post that led me to question my thinking was an ask on jewish-vents, which popped up on my dash in like, late july. this led me down another rabbithole, first scouring every single post on jewish-vents, then moving on to more popular jewish blogs that i had seen on “zionist blocklists” (applesauce42069, xclowniex, and spacelazarwolf were probably some of the blogs that influenced me the most, though i told myself i was just hate-scrolling at first, lol). i felt incredibly guilty seeing all the harm the movement i was a part of had caused to random jews and israelis just trying to live their lives and i realized how it went against everything i believed about how minority groups should be treated. from there, the aspect of actually undoing my thinking and changing my behavior for the better still took several weeks. denial of jewish indigenity to the levant in the face of tantamount archeological and cultural evidence was the first to go, as well as any ambiguity in my feelings about hamas. after that, it’s mostly been a slow process of redefining the idf’s actions from a “genocide” to a “war.” i still believe that what’s happening in gaza is unconscionable and horrific, and that too many innocent civilians have died, but i also understand how difficult it is to fight against a terrorist group that systematically embeds itself in civilian populations, and that the ratio of militant to civilian deaths is incredibly low compared to most urban warfare. i quietly deleted my old blog in early august— if i had directly engaged in harassment against jews, i likely would have kept it to make amends to the harmed parties and put a face to my actions, but as was, i had just contributed to the larger atmosphere of antisemitism on this site, and i felt uncomfortable knowing that i had a blog full of sentiments that no longer matched my values and beliefs. i decided i would be better if i took my endorsement out of the equation entirely, because when you’re looking through the notes of a post, it obviously doesn’t matter if someone who’s reblogged it no longer agrees with what was said— their notes still count as tacit approval, and i did not want approval of this “activism” attached to my online presence. i still have unwanted kneejerk reactions that crop up sometimes, particularly around the fundraiser posts from people ���in gaza”; even though i know logically that they have all the markers of scams, there is still a part of me that really wants to believe i could help.

[morethanwonderful]

Sweeping away his competition with a constant lead and a final victory by 22%, Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu has officially beaten Qi Rong and been crowned the MXTX character that was/would be most insufferable if given access to the internet!

In the end, it turns out that this whole elaborate tournament was for naught. Even Qi Rong, the man voted more annoying that 63 other characters, cannot hold a candle to the sheer degree of insufferable that we know our dear Peerless Cucumber was and would be. Absolutely nobody can compare to Shen Yuan's canon keyboard warrior antics.

Thank you all for joining me on this journey! I hope everyone had fun voting in this tournament, as I know I had a lot of fun running things and watching everyone's hot takes. Shen Yuan may have rendered all but the very final round of voting moot with his sheer loveable obnoxiousness, but maybe the real most insufferable people online are the friends we made along the way :).

[ripplefields]

and that's how she got her first letter

[biblically-accurate-dca]

substitute

[casart]

Sketch for the purp man's birthday~💜

[milkbreadtoast]

hyeonje-ssi... 🫣💛💛💛✨✨

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! I really love and enjoy the way you draw Charles and Erik! You're so good! ಡ⁠ ͜⁠ ⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠ಡ

thank you !!!!!!! i look forward to drawing them a million more times :]]]