#homoerotic tension got too high

[chisfics]

how it started vs. how its going

[leavemebetosleep]

people getting upset Bowser's gonna still like Peach in the movie is so funny like, I get it I've been enjoying the homoerotic tension too but also, like, friends, my guys, besties:

you're getting your hopes too high if you're genuinely thinking it's gonna go cannon.

ALSO:

Bowser liking Peach is why we got Luigi in drag. if he doesn't like Peach, Luigi has no reason to dress up as her. If he likes Peach we can still get a Luigi in drag scene

I mean probably not gonna happen anyway but still. Scenario doesn't work if he doesn't like Peach, and also you can still ship Bowuigi?

cannon has never stopped yall before why let it start now

[lestappenforever]

Heyyy! I just wanted to first say I love your page it is absolutely a happy place for me tbh and I love the interactions you post. That being said, body language anon caught my attention in their last ask when they spoke about lestappen’s passion for the sport and f1 as an institution and would like to add some thoughts from a social-psychological pov.

I have also been thinking a lot about why lestappen stands out to many of us and why and how we got here and I think body language anon gets it right about how rather than big loud moments it is the smaller things that is so engrossing about their interactions. An account on tik tok (i have tried but can’t find it now) posted about how lestappen is “female gaze coded” precisely because of the little details (the boots, waits grab, shared history that is actually fanfiction worthy material). It is the purity and the meaningfulness of their interactions that make them so special rather than having two guys who are very obviously overzealous in their interactions (which has its appeals but clearly not to us- we like the angst and enemies to lovers trope too much for that)

Now from a socio-psychological standpoint I really want to take shipper goggles off for a moment and look at their relationship in their specific environment and the importance of homosociality. Homosociality is a theory that refers to the relations of same sex individuals in a society or given institution that sets them apart from the other sex- and other instituons/groups. And added layer that is slipping into Freudian territory-though I’m cautious- is that there is a latent homoerotic nature in same sex interactions- especially with men. This is not necessarily in a sexual way but more in a mutually reinforcing emotional way. Men in a give institution will seek the reinforcement of other men in their group and that is the crux of masculine homosociality and masculine relations- being self-reinforcing via socialisation with other men you hold in high regard due to their gender and their standing in the institution/group.

F1 as a male dominated institution and full of such reinforcing masculine interactions (driver-driver/TP/mechanics/fans (which is also why men find it hard to digest that women like F1 because they consider it an invasion of their sphere)) within this little system max and Charles have carved out special roles for one another where they seem to both especially seek out reinforcement from the other precisely because of that special shared passion for the sport and most likely because they both consider themselves above the rest of the men in the institution but equal and the same to one another which is why they seek each others reinforcement which can be literally anything that conveys approval (active listening, mirroring/mimicking, referencing shared history, accepting/initiating touch, laughing at jokes). There are some videos especially of Max in post race interviews where he looks almost jealous of Charles talking to another driver-and giving another driver the approval that belongs to Max. It becomes childish at that point with Max likely acting in a way that indicates his want to re-establish his special position with Charles- this may be by making jokes, eye contact or anything else which would result in instant approval. I can go into neuroscientific reward processes associated with seeking approval being equivalent to a drug and the best way to describe it is that if one of them shows any approval to the other it hits literally like neurotropic crack precisely because of the nature of their institutions and the special position of the other relative to themselves within that institution.

Which is also why I think that no matter how many times they interact publicly or privately they won’t ever have a relationship like Max and Daniel or Charles and Carlos where it is openly friendly and there is no slight tension (expressed by childish giddiness- like body language anon says with fidgeting and leg bouncing) caused by the fact that they have a long history that has carved out a specific place for the other driver as the approval-giver and becoming close friends would alter that dynamic to an un-acceptable degree. They will most likely alway remain flighty around each other, afraid of overstepping and messing up.

Anyway I’m sorry if this is messy this just popped into my head and I wanted to write it down.

Happy race weekend 🤍✨

Hello, my lovely anon! I'm going to refer to you as my beloved social-psychological anon, if that's alright with you.

First of all, thank you so much for your kind words. I'm so happy you're enjoying my blog, and that it's a happy place for you. That brings me so much joy to know. 💕

And babe, this anon has given me a beautiful start to my day. I've loved every single part of this ask, but this part right here is my personal favorite:

"There are some videos especially of Max in post race interviews where he looks almost jealous of Charles talking to another driver-and giving another driver the approval that belongs to Max. It becomes childish at that point with Max likely acting in a way that indicates his want to re-establish his special position with Charles- this may be by making jokes, eye contact or anything else which would result in instant approval." <<< Because this is the most spot-on thing I have ever read.

This social-psychologial insight into their relationship has truly added a whole other layer to Lestappen for me, and I don't think I could even begin to express to you how much I appreciate this. You and my body language anon are truly a beautiful combination, and I hope that you, like my body language anon, will return as often as you feel comfortable because it's such a wonderful treat to be able to read your insights.

Thank you so, so much for this, social-psychological anon. I love you.❤️

[flowerywhispers]

SQH and SQQ have absolutely made out several times during the meet ups they definitely have for SY to tear all of airplane’s writing to shreds mostly while a little drunk but sometimes just because the homoerotic tension of criticising the works of the guy that inadvertently killed you in the same manner than inadvertently killed him on the same day that you died got too high

[thethirdromana]

Kerr Avon's costumes, rated

The sequel to Romana II's costumes, rated, here by popular* request! (*maybe not very popular.)

Screengrabs from here (copied rather than linked per their FAQs). Invaluable record of what Avon actually wears in which episode from here. I haven't included overcoats, spacesuits, or anything Avon doesn't actively choose to wear, like prison clothes. Which means that rating this monstrosity

is left as an exercise for the reader.

I've also not done every single variation on black jackets with studded panels, even when they are technically different black jackets with studded panels, because otherwise we'd be here all night.

As seen in Space Fall and Cygnus Alpha.

Ugh. It's fine. The heights of bonkersness that Blake's 7 costume design would reach are not even really hinted at here. It's a perfectly reasonable outfit - grey shirt, grey trousers, grey tabard-thing. Add a name badge and Avon could be stocking shelves in a fancy supermarket. I'll allow that it does look comfortable, which will not be a theme of much else on this list. 5/10.

As seen in Time Squad.

I don't hate the brown patchwork thing (though brown is rightly Blake's colour), but what's going on with the larger square over his stomach? I feel like he's about to do some welding or something and it's there to protect his clothes, but it is his clothes. Avon only wore this outfit once, and who can blame him? 2/10.

As seen in The Web, Seek-Locate-Destroy, Mission to Destiny, Duel, Project Avalon, Breakdown, and Deliverance.

I think this one may have suffered from the passage of time. Because I look at it and think, why has Avon chosen to dress like an old-fashioned stereo system? But from the vantage point of 1978, I guess Avon had chosen to dress like a decidedly modern stereo system. Look at those rounded corners, he could be a first-gen iPod. And the matching grey of collar and cuffs is a nice touch. None of this answers the question of why he has buttons across his tits, but there are some things that are not for us to know. 8/10.

As seen in Bounty and Orac.

Oooh, green. Green is a nice change. And if you're watching Blake's 7 and you're enjoying those green sleeves, you'd better make the most of them, because other than one very notable exception, this is the last time that Avon wears an outfit that isn't brown, white, black or shades of grey for the entire rest of the series. The rest of it looks a bit like someone's Star Trek Discovery uniform cosplay got out of hand. 6/10, because green.

As seen in Redemption and Killer.

Obviously, this is a classic. And full marks to Paul Darrow for wearing a costume that was literally bought from a sex shop and making it look like something that anyone might wear to their normal day of fighting oppression and engaging in homoerotic tension. 10/10.

As seen in Shadow, Horizon, Gambit, and Children of Auron.

OK fine I threw away the term "classic" too soon, this is the true classic, the time Avon decided to dress as a thermal blanket and then pair that with thigh-high boots. ICONIC. What I love about this is aside from being batshit, it's actually kind of a nice outfit? I imagine that shiny fabric was absolute hell to work with but the gathering at the shoulders means it hangs surprisingly well.

It also gains at least 5 bonus points for featuring in this, one of my all-time favourite Blake's 7 moments:

I wish I could find it as a gif, but you'll just have to join me in pretending these images are moving instead. And in heaving a nostalgic sigh for the era when men were allowed to have normal bodies on TV. 15/10.

As seen in Shadow.

I've tried to go for just one main outfit per episode, because this is already very long and we're only about halfway through. But I had to make an exception for matching! outfits! And all the better for being an outfit that looks great on all three of them. I only wish that Avon could have had some silver boots like Jenna is wearing, I think it would really have completed the look. 9/10.

As seen in Weapon, Pressure Point, Countdown, and Dawn of the Gods.

In some ways, this costume is quite practical. Avon is wearing something not a million miles from bikers' leathers here, and the quilted part of the chest and back would presumably offer him a bit of protection if he got into a fight. But also, it's the colour and style of a brothel sofa, and there's no way in hell he could wear this and retain the ability to lift his arms above his head.

God, I love this show. 10/10.

As seen in Trial, Hostage, Voice From the Past, The Keeper, Star One, Aftermath, and Powerplay.

I have less to say about this because - and I mean this in full tribute to the Blake's 7 costume designers - it's just a nice jacket! It stays in keeping with the design trends we see throughout the series, with panels of different fabrics, and spacewear shiny silver bits, but ultimately you could wear this on the street today and no one would give you a second look. I quite like that about it. 8/10.

As seen Aftermath. (And the loose black shirt in Voice From the Past is similar too).

Maybe this is just my mid-00s goth-adjacent phase showing through, but I am, and always will be, a sucker for a man in this kind of shirt. 8/10, please don't make me justify this further.

As seen in Volcano and Rumours of Death.

The first of many similar black outfits, where I'm going to be selective or this will get tedious very quickly. I think this is the best of them; after this, the 80s started up in earnest, and Avon's shoulders were never allowed to be their natural width again. 9/10.

As seen in The Harvest of Kairos.

My parents haven't been camping in years, but somewhere in the attic they still have an old tent, which lives in a bag that looks a lot like this outfit. As if I needed any more reasons to dislike The Harvest of Kairos. 1/10.

As seen in Ultraworld.

Avon what are you doing. Brown is not your colour. I think I might headcanon that this is Blake's jacket, because aside from the brownness it also seems to be a fair bit too big for Avon. After a couple of seasons of squeezing him into the lobster outfit and other tight leather things, the costume designers seem to have swerved hard into boxy shapes from this point onwards. I disapprove. Honestly, I was going to skip this one except that I love what Dayna is wearing. Wish Avon could have some of that energy. 2/10.

As seen in Death-Watch.

Let's pause for a second, look to the left, and appreciate that Dayna is wearing another fabulous outfit. Now let's take a deep breath, and look at the utter monstrosity that Avon is wearing. Like a matador crossed with a bumper car. 0/10.

As seen in Rescue, Power, Traitor, Stardrive, Animals, Headhunter, Orbit, Warlord, and Blake.

Avon wears some kind of black jacket with studs for nearly all of season D, but I've picked this as the definitive one. I don't know if there's some kind of clever character development thing going on here with how big this costume is, like Avon is expanding into his leadership role, but weighed down by the responsibility too. It could be deliberate, it could just be what fashion was like in the early 80s.

What I do know is that however meaningful this costuming might be, it's not flattering. 5/10, and Avon finishes the series, sadly, no better dressed than he began it.

[babe-a-tron-queenthousand]

🔎Detective Headcanons Dump☕️

(+ board thing)

as stated on various pinterest icons and in the wiki, it’s conflicted on her name. for a while she was thought to be called sarah, but the drone that’s actually sarah is the one that said “mr doorman, there’s been an incident.” however, she’s still referred to as sarah. there’s so many conflicts. but as a compromise, i’ve been calling her sara. (little secret- it’s a name i no longer go by. the sarah/sara beef is REAL. that H has caused a massive divide in the sara/sarah world.) (no joke i actually had a HUGE rivalry with a “sara” until i realized i was nonbinary and changed my name LMAO)

-and yes, she has beef. (maybe a bit of homoerotic tension.) (QPR.) (if a rivalry lasts a long time you are no longer rivals you are gay. /ref)

-as mentioned in the other post: there’s other name options too.

A) she purposely never tells anyone her name unless they are closer friends, as she’s a very down-to-business woman. “My name’s not important right now, but this case is. Now back the hell off, this is a crime scene.”

B) her peers purposely never name her correctly and call her something different every time. plot twist- they never even asked for it, and it kinda drives her insane. “Mary, you seen my lunch?” “Any notes, Sara?” “Lissa went missing at that crime scene.” “Shirley’s on her lunch break right now.” she enjoys people trying to guess her name. they’ve probably gotten it right once or twice, but she won’t tell them. >:-)

C) or they just call her “detective”, but this plays into option A a lot.

D) like B, different name each time. but she’s the one who tells people a different name, instead of them trying to guess. at this point she’s collecting names like pokemon.

-“mister doorman, there’s been an incident🤓”. she thinks sarah’s dorkiness is adorable. the two are quite close. maybe a QPR.

-she’s an arospec lesbian (i’m not just projecting here, i came up with this headcanon before i realized i was aro lol)

“do we even have fingerprints?”

-despite it being her job, the reason that she asks this question is because of different models. the drones we see on screen have the little dents in their fingers, but it’s possible that other models don’t or have different shapes.

-in my head-canon, gasoline is the drone equivalent to coffee or energy drinks. don’t talk to her until she’s had her gasoline. i have a whole list of headcanons for different machine fluids (grease, antifreeze, coolant, etc) i have more headcanons for those, but i’ll probably post them later.

-from what we can gather of her personality, she’s very blunt, sarcastic, and gets annoyed quite easily but doesn’t make much fuss. something will bother her but she’ll still keep a level head.

-also, think khan’s demeanor in the brief scenes we saw him in episode 7. “Part 2A, check the perimeter”. straight to business, doesn’t fuck around

-if she hadn’t been killed by eldritch J, she’d probably have a crush on J and get along quite well due to similar personality.

-outside of her WDF uniform coat, she probably wears lots of muted/navy blues, greys, and browns. her style is usually an oversized flannel shirt, button-ups, or aviator jacket. maybe a sweater similar to the teacher’s. it depends on the day. i’ve gathered some outfits from pinterest as a rough idea.

-she’s really into yoga and similar workouts along that vein. she played tennis in high school.

-her ideal date night is a night in on the couch, binge watching crime documentaries and/or thrillers. (though she prefers not to date.)

-she’s well-respected within the WDF. got on a winning streak at cards.

-she often gets quite bored at her job, usually because there is nothing to do. she saw the disassembly drones getting into the colony as a good thing solely because it gave her something to do versus waiting around all day for something to happen.

-her music taste is mostly classic rock. guns n roses, queen, van halen, bon jovi, nirvana, kiss, black sabbath, pink floyd, AC/DC, rolling stones, etc

-here’s a miscellaneous mood board that i threw together with things i think are fitting for her

[foulbearobservation]

the homoerotic tension that happens when slasher camlil stitch up each other's wounds is insane -🌑

I wrote like 2k last night and literally all it was was just Lilith carefully washing Camila's hands after Lilith killed a man in front of her and Cami got caught in the blood spray. Their tension is crazy I genuinely don't know if it's better before or after they finally kiss.

Anyway!! Lilith is always getting herself stabbed, Cami learns to become a not half bad field medic after Jillian teaches her how to do stitches correctly. She has steady hands, even when Lilith is bleeding out below her and cracking bad jokes.

"Stop making me laugh, I'm gonna fuck up your stitches." Cami is still smiling despite herself because Lilith is soft around the edges and that doesn't happen very often.

Lilith, way too high after Camila forced her to take pain meds: "your face doesn't look right when ur not smiling at me"

"gee you really know how to sweet talk a girl."

[fourthreee]

Saw a post a while back about favourite and least favourite bits of star trek and I wanted to join in. So here's my two cents :

Original Star Trek

Favourite: Spock. Bones. Scotty. Uhura. Kirk. Chapel. Sulu. Chekov. EVERYONE. The sets. The lighting. The camp. The blatant homoeroticism. The do or die for each other crew. That time they found an alien that was just a pomeranian wearing fancy headgear. The fact that every episode is self contained and ends with a little bit where everyone stands around the conn and chats. Leonard Nimoy. Sulu with a sword. Sulu the rest of the time.EVERYONE. This is my favourite trek, and the one I return to over and over again. First trek is best trek.The bell bottom trousers and cuban heel knee high boots. More kinky boots, modern trek, d'ya hear me? More kinky boots.

Least favourite: When the show reveals how terribly it can abandon everything that makes it good. Of all the episodes, there's about a third I just cannot watch. Times where they fill it full of weird christian metaphor.

TNG

Favourite: Geordie and Data. And Spot. I keep trying to watch this but I've only ever seen A Fistful of Datas. IT was great. And horribly horribly slow. (oh. And one where Picard chases bandits through the ship armed only with a saddle and while dodging a laser car wash. That one was great. Except for when I rewatched this as an adult. When it was horrifying.)

Least favourite: Invented the holodeck which gets used too much later and which always confuses me. Can't watch holodeck episodes without obsessing over how it works. Everything is carpeted and it panics me. Why are there wall to wall carpets in the future. In high traffic areas. Also it was genrerally too slow and difficult to watch. And whil I love Hornblower I have neither a headmaster nor a Naval Captain fetish, so Picard never does it for me.

DS9

Favourites: Everyone. Everyone together. I want Sisko to be my dad. Or my friend. Or my Captain. All of the above. Julian Bashir trans icon. Jadzia Dax trans icon. Everyone is poly and queer. Ferengi episodes. Kira Nerys lesbian energy. Every 36 hours I turn into a liquid. I can swim. The whole Odo marrying Lwxwna episode. Our Man Bashir. He was more than a hero. He was a Union Man. It's written all over his back.

Least favourite : When they switched to serialised I do struggle to keep watching. Taking away Kira's butch haircut and stompy boots. Show never recovered from that. Any time they give Kira a beard. I've never finished the series bc I couldnt face the Julian/parents arc or the Jadzia death/Julian and Ezri thing. When they stopped Andrew Robinson from being on screen with Siddig El Fadil. Any time Dukat got more than a minute airtime. Any executive decision Rick Berman made.

Voyager:

Favourites: Seven of 9. Harry Kim. Janeway. B'elanna. The time they all opereated the French Resistance out of a bar. Stand alone episodes. The time Janeway definitely slept with Amerlia Earhart. The time Janeway ran around in a dirty singlet with a big gun. That episode where they hide the telepaths in the buffers of the transporters to sneak past a moustache twirling villain while Janeway flirts with him like they're both opponent pirate captains with insane homoerotic tension. Ther's coffee in that nebula.

Least favourites: The Doctor. Seven not getting a uniform. Tom Paris any time he's not just Harry Kim's boyfriend. Janeway's inconsistent characterisation. The fact that phages might be a real world last line defence against antibiotic resistance but thanks to voyager it will always terrify me. I've never made it to the end because Tom/B'elanna was too hard to watch and I didn't know how to deal with them actually getting home. Ithink they never should have. Any executiev decision Rick Berman made.

Enterprise:

Favourites: I have seen two episodes and Hoshi Sato has my heart forever. Phlox is great. Tight-wound angry queer british guy can stay too. Travis is great. Theme song is terrible and I love it. It's so incongruent. Sounds like the sort of country song you listen to while committing suicide in the bathtub. Can't stop singing it. The fact that it killed Rick Berman's career.

Least favourite: Everything else. The dog in particular. Why is it there. Why is it soulless. Poor Jolene Blalock. Why are their uniforms so bad. I love a jumpsuit but they didn't colour code them properly! Every executive decision Rick Berman made.

JJ Abrams:

Favourites: Nothing. This is terrible.. If you can't make up you own characters why are you butchering my boys. Go away.

Least Favorites: Trying to remake wrath of Khan (the worst movie with the original cast imo) without even bothering to buiild the relationship that makes us care. Why is he still white? Why are they in a brewery? Why is Pike a hot dad now? He's a wreck of the american masculine heroic ideal who exists as a counterpoint to Kirk. If tumblr wants to make his doomed ass a poor little meow meow fine. JJ Abrams shouldnt put him in his movie. Every exectuive decision they made about women in this movie. Making Sulu gay in massive disrespect to Takei's depiction of him and Takei's own acting skills. Making everyone else straight in the worst possible way. Pretending miniskirts in 2009 meant the same thing as in 1969. Also I stoppped after the first couple because it was starting to feel like i was just doing to make myself mad. Blue orbs. The fact their chracterisation feels like if you'd never seen star trek but a cabbie had explained it you once badly, and the fact that literally WAS WHAT HAPPENED

Oh wait. Leonard Nimoy cameo. only good thing.

Discovery.

Favourites: Wanted to love it. Couldn't see what was going on because it was too dark. Everytime I tried in spite of that I fell in love with many parts of it, then they immediately fucked it over. Michael Burnham? In jail for unfair reasons. Cap. Georgiou? Dead. Burnham should be Captain, and I think she still isn't. I don't know I couldnt see. Etc etc. Apparently it gets better but It's too serialised to start in the middle.

Least Favourites: Too dark. Bad uniforms (Why would you bring back the ENTERPRISE uniforms of all things?) The fact that klingons are now middle eastern coded so that they still align with the zeitgeist of who we're being xenophobic again right now. (OOHscary FIGHTYculture is Russian. No WAIT black. NO middle eastern. yeah) Jason Isaacs. I liike my villains NOT on the crew. Personal preference but it's just not my kind of star trek when it's this dark. Thematically and visually. Why does EVERYONE have to be related to Spock (ok this one dates back to tos and it's annoying if funny there too)

Lower Decks: I don't do this format of cartoons.

Prodigy: Favourite: its a kids show and has those priorities but I had a surprising amount of fun. Usually I don't do animation but this is relatively watchable.Despite feeling like it's also star wars and Indiana Jones and a ton of other types of story all at once, they also captured Star Trek better than any of the other modern ones. Janeway. Og murph. Wesley Crusher cameo. REFERENCE TO OPERATION ANNIHILATE MY BELOVED!

Least Favourites: Janeway being given physiology of a Barbie doll. Murph being turned from a intelligent adult slug with dog energy into a pointless toddler. It would have been kinder to kill him. Desynchronization of voice and face in a way that makes it tiring to watch (I'm just fussy about animation). Janeway in a singlet revival ruined by aforementioned Barbie physique. Give me older fatter buffer Janeway!

SNW:

Too dark to see. Also stop just redoing the original characters. Make your own. For years now I get excited about new Star Trek and it ALWAYS either too dark to see or too animated to see or just about tos characters done badly. At which point I'll just go watch tos. Also remember when Star Trek uniforms actually looked futuristic? Yeah, me too. I know everyone likes this one there's probably a lot of good in it but I can't get into it.

Turn the lights back on and maybe we can talk. And at least Rick Berman isn't involved.

[professional-termite]

i said mean girls/natm au as a joke but now it wont leave me alone so im dropping this all here and running away

larry is cady in this au. that ones pretty self explanatory

nicky would probably be janis? id think he and larry are cousins in this au, since yk, its a high school au and it would be weird if larry had a son already...

akh would be damien. i feel like they give off similar Vibes

lance is regina, ive already said this before. except when he gets run over by a bus, he probably breaks his nose on the pavement too, in reference to him getting his nose melted in natm 3. also he gets homoerotic tension with larry bc knightguard is slowly winning me over

amelia would be aaron in this au. except instead of getting with larry in the end she gets with no one and pursues her dream of being a pilot (i do not like her or aaron that much)

jed is gretchen. i just think he Knows.

going off of this, octavius is probably some kid who got his life ruined by lance and jed. during the whole world burn/burn book sequence, when everyone is like brawling it out, he probably gets into a fistfight with jed because of whats in the book

custer is karen. yeah

attila is glen coco, the one who got like 4 candy cane grams. we love attila here ❤️

teddy would probably be a gentler version of mrs norbury. still gets kicked out for the "drug pusher" thing tho

saca is the principal. i feel like a lot of the time when theres a school au, teddy is the principal and saca is a teacher. screw that, saca is IN CHARGE

and some background groups:

octavius is probably a former jock but got kicked off the team bc of lance and jed

the civil war soldiers are probably like chorus vs jocks or something, and they hate each other bc theyre competing for funding

c*lumbus is a mathlete (unfortunately. i do not like him)

einstein and dexter are the other two mathletes

rexy is probably either a jock or debate team member. either way, hes loud

the cavemen are very close to being dropouts. i imagine most of them have a history of arson charges

the tuskegee airmen are all science nerds. theyre probably amelias friends and they want to all be pilots together when they graduate

himbo thinker statue is obviously a football player

the easter island head probably just chews gum in the back of class idk

yeah im running out of ideas. anyways i probably need to be put down i am unwell about this au 👍

[mwebber]

here to gush about ur latest writing because i’m obsessed with it i absolutely love the formatting the confessionals AAA so so creative. and the way you manage to capture their voice (personality? idk a better word) while also putting them in the au is so so perfect. it’s just so good and i love healing and i love tensions and i love guilt and blame and yeah!!!! just really really amazing

wahhh thank you so much!! ;-;

truth be told it kind of Spilled out of me.. went to brunch on saturday with my friends and while we were talking i was like, well i've always had a thing for brunch, but i haven't really, yknow? i only got into it in my last yr of high school with my old friend group that formed after my best-friendship homoerotic fallout, and i don't talk to anybody from that group anymore bc we've all moved on physically and mentally... but it got me thinking about how transient those relationships can be. idk, something about the scars from our adolescence being with us forever, but also how growing up is learning to live with our sins rather than try to cast them away from us, and how taking responsibility for something doesn't mean shouldering all the blame/accountability, but recognizing the situation as it was holistically and coping with the part we played.....

the whole mess between seb and mark is actually a combo of stuff i fucked up as a teenager, and rereading it now, i can see so much of the two people i wronged/who wronged me in both of them LOL. i don't think i'd ever have gone into the effort of repairing either of those relationships if i had the chance back then, but ig it's interesting to be like, well, if all of us had the opportunity to control the narrative. if it wasn't just your word against mine, if you didn't make me the most hated person in high school at one point bc i gave u the cold shoulder for two weeks, if we didn't have a screaming match in the bathroom, if you didn't give me that funko pop anyway for my 14th bday after i was too pussy to face u because i didn't want to go to nationals with you but didn't know how to say it, if you hadn't told your mom to call my mom just to tell me you didn't want to walk to school with me anymore because i cramped your style just weeks prior. well, maybe things might have looked different.

[ribelleribelle]

talking about my wip/go to fantasy for when im bored in class because i have nothing to do

it doesn't really have a name, but it's about 3 flatmates who are kinda broke and in their 20s (except for steve but i'll get to him in a moment), one of them's rock band, and the sheer chaos that they are constantly in.

we have:

Seb (sebastian) - he/him, gay, plays guitar, is a complete disaster and a total mood, looks like a metalhead but listens to all rock music, really ("i don't see any difference, rock is rock"). he's a bit of a dumbass but not that stupid and really cares about his friends (even if he seldom shows it). he works in a record shop since he dropped out of university, now he is in a band.

Vivian - she/her, maybe bisexual?? she doesn't know (i don't know either i haven't decided yet), aspiring stylist/movie costume designer, sleep deprived and coffee dependant, sarcastic sense of humour, can't stand her flatmates, actually a nice person if you aren't seb or his bandmates (except eve).

Steve - he/him, the most middle-aged-dad-literally-just-some-guy ever, ghost. yeah, he's a ghost, he died 30 years ago (in the dullest way you can imagine) and since then he haunts the house. not that he cares about all that haunting stuff tho, he's just here to read his newspapers and chill. he can't really chill though because he has to hear the band practice and vivian argue with seb every. single. day.

then there's the Haunters (because of steve haunting the house), seb's band, and we have:

David - he/him, trans and bi, singer, he and seb were best friends in middle school and high school, they were inseparable until he got a girlfriend (who looked suspiciously a lot like seb) and went in the same university as her. when they split up, like 2-3 years later, he realized uni wasn't for him and went to find seb again. seb is in love with him since they were 16.

Ash - they/them, aroace, bass player, met seb in the record shop and have been friends for a couple of years. they're the youngest member of the band and has been basically adopted by them. tiny and angry, has a collection of sunglasses and gets bored easily because of no attention span whatsoever (they're literally me except i don't play bass).

Eve - she/they, lesbian, drummer, vivian's best friend (who doesn't approve of her being in the band tho) and fashion icon. can't drive but loves to and doesn't let anyone touch her car. she is the one who knows seb and david the least, so she's constantly going insane over their always present sexual tension and obvious mutual untold love.

basically the main story is: vivian wants to hold a party to show how cool she is and how good her clothes are so that she can get a job and start her career as a designer, meanwhile david arrives unannounced to reunite with seb after 2 or 3 years since they last saw each other. they decide to put together their old high school band again, ash joins them and later so does eve (who met the band kinda by accident). they start playing together and they like it so much they manage to convince vivian to let them play at her party. while her, eve and ash organize the party and try to figure out all the problems and trouble they find along the way (steve tries to help too), seb and david have to put back together their frienship by being extremely gay and even more oblivious with each other. the day of the party comes and everything is set up (more or less), the guests are all there and vivian is confident. all the attention should be on her creations but when the haunters start playing they steal the spotlight with an amazing performance and the frontman and guitarist being unintentionally very homoerotic. the tension between the two finally breaks after they kiss on stage and they Realize a LOT of things. but the show must go on, they keep playing while ash is unimpressed (they saw that coming) and eve is SHOCKED (they didn't), but not for long because steve arrives to see what the hell is going on in the living room and he's VERY angry because he just wants to read but there's too much noise, so he freaks out all the guests. they all run away, stuff catches fire, it's a MESS, and vivian is FURIOUS. just before she's about to commit 4 murders in a row (not 5 because steve is already dead) seb and david escape and there's like a wholehearted conversation about their feelings (spoiler: they're been super in love with each other since before david got a gf but didn't realize it) also they make out a little??? idk i'm too aroace for this. meanwhile the rest of the band is also safe from vivian's rage because a woman approaches her and tells her how cool this whole performance was (clearly thought it was fake) and offers her a job. everyone gets an happy ending but the story WILL go on because the hunters are gonna keep playing and maybe they'll get famous and vivian too, who knows? (i don't)

.....doodles under the cut bc i wrote already too much :]

if you can read my handwriting ily <3

anyways, what's in these blurry pics:

seb

eve

ash

david + tiny eve playing the drums and tiny ash being *swag*

messy sketch of seb and david being gay

old ass drawing of eve and ash

even messier sketch of seb and david being gay

same thing as 5 and 7 but with ash and tiny steve being a ghost in the corner

random drawings of everyone

eve being shocked, ash being uninpressed and the only decent drawing i have of vivian (sorry)

[amorhedera6]

okay i had a bunch of ideas about this, and now i can’t stop thinking, so i’m gonna spew them all out right here.

samantha evans transfers to mckinley and immediately becomes the star of the girl’s soccer team

a funny bit would be that she still dates the same girls, and she’s attractive enough that literally every girl shows some attraction to her wether or not they are queer. sam makes them all question it

she’s a country girl, so she always waits her hair in braids and wears cowboy boots just bc i think it’s fun

she’s invited to join the glee club by santana, who openly flirts with her a lot. she joins because it seems like a fun way to make friends

she sings her first duet with quinn, and gets quinn to question her sexuality. they date for a little because every gay girl needs a phase where she dates a girl that looks just like her. but quinn goes back to finn later and tries to erase her “gay phase” from the minds of the school.

on the other hand, kira hummel (bc if blaine’s a girl then kurt probably should be too) volunteers to look into their competition, the warblers.

the warblers are an all girls acapella group at the all girls prep school, dalton. kira meets the charismatic and charming blaire, lead soloist of the dalton warblers and is immediately smitten.

the two don’t really interact much, seeing as sam transfers away just when blaire gets to mckinley. when they do meet, they fight just because tensions are runnng high before sectionals.

through the rest of junior year, they hardly know each other. but then they’re two of the five seniors left in glee club, and they end up running for president and vp together.

it’s britt’s idea, and she’s always been nice to sam, so she does it just to be nice. but it turns out that blaire’s pretty cool. when she’s not doing the whole uptight private school thing

once blaire’s single, she goes through a really rough time dealing with insecurities, depression, and self-loathing for what she did. sam finds herself hanging out around just being goofy in hopes of picking up her spirits

they go to the comic shop together, and blaire listening to sam infodump about spider-man. they get coffee and lunch, and suddenly for the first time in a while, sam’s got herself a best friend. it was kind of an accident, honestly.

and when mr schue leaves the glee club in finn’s hands, but then finn has to go back to college for his actual classes (shut up this is what happened), the two of them end up kind of running the glee club?

britt goes to college early/late, and tina and artie are very focused on scholarships and classes and shit, so the two of them lead the club, work on getting them back in the competition, picking weekly lessons and helping the littles get over their love triangles and squabbles

they try to help marley with her bigger issues, but the best they really can do is encourage her to go to counseling. but they work together as a team, and they’re pretty damn good at it.

sam knows she’s into blaire, but she doesn’t want to push her when she’s not over her break up with kira yet.

blaire knows she’s into sam, but doesn’t want to push her when she’s straight. she has no idea sam dated quinn last year, and never picked up on sam’s bisexuality.

the new directions are kind of tired of watching them flirt.

they have a typical homoerotic sapphic friendship where they joke-flirt a lot and act like they’re dating but never really make any effort to make their lines clear on what anything means

so they both just suffer for a while

until they go out drinking at thag gay club i don’t remember the name of and end up making out as soon as they get a little alcohol in them

pretty much after this, they just get together and stay together bc fuck putting stupid drama in everything they love each other and i love them

Spent the last 4 days thinking about sapphic Blam and its implications....

[buffintruder]

Here are some real life Tokusatsu shows that inspired the show in my fic what if the real steel samurai fandom was the friends we made along the way, focusing on the enemies to homoerotic partners aspect. Almost all of these are with men because unfortunately I don’t know any shows in this genre with women as the main characters

Each of these shows can be watched as stand alones, though they might contain some references to other series, and a lot of the extra-canon content includes crossovers

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid

This is what I would recommend if you’re interested in the tension aspect of enemies-to-lovers. Watching this made me go ‘wait I need to increase the homoeroticism in my fake show by at least 300%’

The premise for this is that people are getting infected by sentient computer viruses so a bunch of doctors have to transform into video game characters to heal their patients. (Yes it is as ridiculous as it sounds. they’ll be like “it’s time to perform a surgery” and then go beat up a guy in a funny costume)

The main character is a former competitive gamer turned doctor intern who is just really doing his best to help people while also wrangling three other doctor Kamen Riders with enormous trust issues and martyr complexes, and also trying to avoid this one game disease guy who is weirdly obsessed with fighting him.

The homoeroticism in this comes in the form of people pushing people against walls in the middle of arguments, villains that spend way too much time thinking about the main character in a “nobody is allowed to touch him because i will be the one to defeat him” way, going from calling someone your ‘fighting partner’ (opponent) to ‘fighting partner’ (best friend and trusted ally), cradling a dying person in your arms, etc.. Also one guy transforms into a motorcycle and cannot fight unless someone rides him, I am not joking.

You can watch the series here https://archive.org/details/kamenriderjw27 or here https://bit.ly/3cvFdOr

Kamen Rider Blade

This series is enemies-to-homoerotic friends in more of a tragic star-crossed lovers way and gave me inspiration for Cloud and Murasaki more towards the end of their show.

The premise is that 10,000 years ago there was a Battle Royale type fight between the Undead which are the immortal representatives of 53 species, each of which matches a card in the typical deck. The Human Undead won, allowing humans to flourish on earth, and the rest were all sealed up in their corresponding card. Now they’ve all gotten released. The main character works for a research company trying to seal them all back up, and one of the other major characters is an Undead who lives with a widowed woman and her young daughter as he tries to understand humans.

The homoeroticism in this is like “I don’t know why I trust you, I just do.” “I hate everyone in the world except like two singular people, but you have won my trust and affection.” “Literally everyone we meet says that we should be enemies and that I should destroy you, but I would fight fate itself if it means we can both live happily.” “I would rather risk letting the world be destroyed than kill you.”

You can watch the series here http://bit.ly/2zEeiyq or here https://toku.fun/post/kamen-rider-blade-full-series-episodes-movies-english-sub. Some of the links for the episodes in the second link didn’t work for me, but you can also find the episodes on archive.org. They’re not organized into a playlist so you have to find each episode individually (you can search “Kamen Rider Blade ep 1” etc)

Kamen Rider Drive

This one isn’t the high up on the rec list despite being the first one to inspire Cloud and Murasaki because I haven’t actually seen most of it. I saw like 5 or so episodes towards the end plus some of the post-canon content and got obsessed with two of the side characters (one of which I would say is canonically gay for the other one in the post-canon audio drama, unless you can think of a way that saying “I can’t deny that one of my hidden desires is to go on a date with him, even though he’s a boy” is platonic)

Additionally, the main character has a guy who really wants to fight him and the lesser villain trio has weird tensions of the girl and guy both really wanting their leader’s attention and being jealous over each other.

This one is about a police officer in a ‘special investigations unit’ that deals with weird going-ons with this robot race that slows down time and is trying to take over humanity or something like that

You can watch it here http://bit.ly/2UhJfly or here https://toku.fun/post/kamen-rider-drive-full-series-english-subbed

Kamen Rider Revice

I also haven’t seen this one but I know people who have (with mixed opinions on the show). The writer of this show originally wanted to make the main Rider a woman but the company shut him down. However, that does mean that this show has a major female character with her own character arc and homoerotic rival (and from what I hear, she is the best part of this show). This is currently airing though it’s almost over

It’s about a family who runs a bath house and fights using their inner demons (and fights against their inner demons sometimes). I’ve only seen a couple bits and pieces of this but the parents of this family are wholesome heterosexuals and the sister definitely seemed like she was trying to go on a date with her rival-turned-ally. 

You can watch this here: https://toku.fun/post/kamen-rider-revice-full-series-movies-english-sub

Super Sentai Donbrothers

I also haven’t seen this, but I know at least three people whose taste in media I trust who love this. I’m reccing this one because it’s also based in Japanese fairytales, specifically centered around Momotaro. Characters include guy who was found in a peach and is unable to lie and has a homoerotic rivalry/secret identity thing with a villain where they’re friends out of their suits and enemies in their suits; teenage manga artist accused of plagerism; wife guy; wanted fugitive; and anti-money poet

Every time I hear about this show I wonder how on earth they can pack so much into one 20 minute episode. This one is also still airing

You can watch it here: https://kshow123.be/avataro-sentai-donbrothers-2022-episode-10/

and here https://www.bilibili.tv/en/search-result?q=donbrothers

Miscellaneous

Here is also a link to all the Kamen Rider series of the Heisei era (2000 to 2019) with some brief summaries of each show if you’re interested in seeing a bit of what else is out there. I’ve seen OOO and W, both of which I recommend

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19wl37LsDD4J_yqR7usLNkXA4hGAXngnlI3HgSgMN2Kk/edit?usp=sharing

[ravenkinnie]

so… that coffee shop au but caitvi?

HDGDBDH caitlyn is a medical resident from one of those rich families where everyone is an established doctor (sorry for continuously making caitlyn a medic I will never stop), she feels the pressure of moving up in her job but she's not happy and it's draining. she has no time for relationships or even friendships so she's lonely, socially and sexually frustrated. she discovers she has a thing for bdsm while getting off to kinky r/gonewildaudio and slowly starts making her own audios and uploading them. she likes it and she's weirdly good at it and is like this feels like a really weird side hustle to be passionate about but god damn I'm insane and overzealous and if I'm gonna do anything I'll figure out how to be the baddest bitch at it. she eventually amasses a somewhat decent following but knows there's nothing she can do beyond creating these fantasies in audios because she's in a public trust profession so she'll always remain unfulfilled

cut to vi who works as a barista and is down on her luck because when being 24 and working in customer service are both things that scream down on your luck. but vi is exceptionally fucked (well not yet) because she just got out of prison and is trying to get a grip on her life. messy and brutal youth left her with trauma, half a high school diploma, and a lengthy record and now she works in the coffee shop during the day and in vanders bar at night because at this rate she will never move out of her childhood bedroom. so what do you do when you have trauma to process and also feel too much pressure to keep in control in life? you get really into bottoming, obviously, but it's not like vi has the time or the trust in people to actually meet anyone. thank fuck for internet porn, especially this one specific girl who's really good at soft domming and not so soft domming and has a really nice voice and vi might or might not have a weird parasocial crush on that voice

one day caitlyn switches routes to the hospital for some reason and stops by vis coffe shop instead of her regular one. the moment she opens her mouth to order vi is like hold up I know this voice and then is like cometomommy28 in MY coffee shop?? clearly more likely than you think!! she keeps her cool and caitlyn leaves and she's like FUN I'll never have to go through this shame again

but caitlyn keeps coming back and it doesn't become more normal at all, especially since she still regularly posts. vi is like I need to do something about these homoerotic feelings because it's not normal to have your pussy throbbing over caffe misto. but like. caitlyn is SO different than her sw persona it wouldn't even be clicking in vis mind if it wasn't for her voice, sometimes she doubts it even IS her but she also got off to that accent so many times there's no way she would mistake her for anyone else. but there's no way she can casually chat up bad mood-scrubs-terror of old gods in her sleep deprived eyes caitlyn and not have it be a tragedy so she needs to do something she's never done before in her life: think before acting

she does the next best thing and messages caitlyn on reddit - and it's awkward and weird at first and she doesnt even think caitlyn would reply because when you're a woman doing online sw you get A LOT of messages. but caitlyn does and over time they actually have proper conversations and struck up some form of online sexually charged friendship. vi even starts chatting up caitlyn in the cafe and it doesn't go as smooth but it doesn't blow up. lots of dilemma and lots of tension and finally vi decides to tell caitlyn who she is and how she knows her so she awkwardly asks her out

at this point caitlyns walls have been broken down enough that she actually accepts and the moment they are alone vi comes clean. it's WEIRD and it's uncomfortable at first because well, caitlyn never actually met a person irl who would know this side of her but also it's actually nice to have someone see the parts you've hidden for so long?? and to hear that they relate and share same feelings??

blahblahblah shenanigans happen, they start exploring world of bdsm together, falling in love as they discover each other and themselves. they become comfortable enough that they are like hey maybe let's try like. idk an underground club or sth but like one of those nice ones where people put on performances and shit. so they do, they go to one, and they are having a normal one UNTIL caitlyn bumps into mel

(you ask yourself why tf is mel here. because she's hot and she's not in enough fanworks that's why)

mel was the one who supervised caitlyn when she first started but then she quit and disappeared from medical world and caitlyn never actually knew what she went on to do instead. lo and behold, mel actually has been in a scene for a while and actually became a performer - which caitlyn didn't even realise was an option. they fall easily into this mentorship and friendship and mel shows caitlyn the ropes, literally and figuratively, and we get our horny caitlyn/mel/vi threesome agenda in an already horny story hell yeah

can you tell where this storyline is going. partners in life, bed, and on stage babey

[debtdeath]

id love to hear your headcanons!! - @gross-magpie

@gross-magpie for you my friend i will write nsfw headcanons

mainly speeding bullet, and mention of swordvan

- scout often gets horny right after he exercises lol. something about the endorphins or whatever... ohhh noo he went for a run outdoors and now he's feeling raunchy and the nearest place to chill out is sniper's camper oh noooo time to bat eyelashes to charm the man etc

- sniper and demo are exes, or used to be fuck buddies or some kind of Arrangement like that. they're still mates and love to joke around and their attitude about their relationship is very "we're horny and tipsy and there's nothing else to do let's go, no big deal". i dont think either are particularly jealous types either so i can imagine demo teasing the hell out of sniper for whatever he's got going on with scout as well

- scout's knee-high socks stay ON during sex when he bottoms. sniper is bad at hiding how much he likes it.

- personally i don't really think they have very fixed roles during sex either, but i find bottom!sniper extremely hot, and i think he's a bit of a service top too. scout's just generally down for anything as long as he gets praised 🥺

- my favourite dynamic for sniper and scout really is "yes we're bros, yes we're best friends, yes we'll suck each other off and fuck a whole lot, isn't that what bros do?" maybe im just a tiny bit allergic to romantic fluff (although i do enjoy reading it, and perhaps i will be writing some of that eventually) but i just find the whole homosocial/homoerotic tension a lot of fun to play with lol

that's it for now... head empty

[teeth-and-tea]

ANIME & MANGA I HAVE BINGED IN THE LAST MONTH: May 2021

I've Been Hunting Slimes for the Past 300 Years and Now Ive Maxed Out My Level: incredibly long name aside, cute af slice of life that suffers Same Face Syndrome. I'm still happy to watch it because of how feel good and fluffy it is though, Im probably gonna forget about it in two or three years tho. 8/10.

Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: I found out this was a webcomic first and suddenly all the HORNINESS made so much more sense. A Femdom, Degradation, Humiliation, Dacryphilia Bullies to Lovers story disguised as a high school rom-com which, I'm not going to lie, misses SKEEVY CITY by mere inches on a regular basis. However, I'm a Dom/Switch and this entire relationship sets off my dom brain center like New York City just shy of midnight. So if you're into that sort of scene, this anime is for you. If not, it's still fascinating but you're probably gonna be a little put off by how mean the Girl!Bully is to the guy MC. Unless you find out something about yourself, in which case, congrats! Stay safe, sane, consensual, and learn about the traffic light system on top of safe words, I promise you'll have a better life in general after that. Still Ongoing, currently 10/10.

Fruits Basket: IM GONNA CRY I LOVE THIS ANIME SO MUCH???? The original anime came out when I was in... I think middle school and my parents were really strict on what I watched so I never got to experience the first wave and I never bothered to watch the show ever after I moved out of the house years later. However, now that I'm much older I honestly can say this is one of my favorite anime to date, and all the characters are charming, lovable, with their own problems that I can connect to or sympathize with, and I love the MC which is always a treat tbh. Except Akito. Akito can suck a sandpaper dick. I'm only on S2 tho so no spoilers! Anime 11/10.

Monster Girl Doctor: went in thinking it was gonna be a monster girl who's a doctor with a homoerotic assistant (her name is SAPPHY okay sue me for thinking it) and ended up watching the entire dubbed harem series. Honestly, I've seen worse and this one has consistent follow-through on interesting characters and backstory enough for me to shove aside the blatant under-monstrousness of the female monsters and the harem-ness of everything else. Dubbing is honestly really good, which is a treat, and the monster designs are not the worst and the MC is tolerable. Honestly, I don't mind having watched it! The mix of cgi and the traditional animation together work pretty strangely though, and it often doesn't flow super well. 7.5/10

So I'm a Spider, So What: Dubbed version which honestly isn't that bad. Took me a bit to get into it, but after realizing that it's got a mismatched timeline a la The Witcher, it made so much more sense. Heavily done in cgi, and you can definitely tell between the 2D and 3D animations, but not the worst in the world. I went in not expecting much but it ended up being an Issekai I can stand and even enjoy. On god has a decent story... with the spider. I'd be a liar if I didnt say I skipped some of the human parts just to get back to the best part of the show. 8/10.

Somali and the Forest Spirit: I'm so fucking nostalgic for this thing it makes me want to go and hug my dad. About a human girl under threat of being eaten with a monster-dominated world. Very obvious "humans fear what they don't understand" message but instead of the humans learning tolerance it's what happens when they get annihilated first so like, kudos for the mangaka for having the guts to do that. I cried like a baby regularly. It's really good, I watched the dub and ID WATCH IT AGAIN!!! 9/10.

To Your Eternity: Oh my god. O h my g o d. Fell in love on the first episode, ngl. About if an immortal being learned how to be a person from scratch. I love it. HOWEVER. Keep a box of tissues on you at all times because you're gonna need them. I'm only on EP7 because that's all that's out right now but just know. I love it. Not for everyone but certainly for my "what do we define as human and the human condition" ass. 12/10.

Those Snow White Notes: A sports anime without any sports. About shamisen playing which is cool because I never realized how cool this instrument was??? Its neat af. OP1&2 are by Burnout Syndrom so know theyre fire. Gonna be real, its pretty alright, but not extraordinary. You can tell they were using the characters as archetypes rather than actually characters which kinda kills a lot of the emotional value you could've had, but I'm still gonna watch it. It doesn't make me cringe as hard as other sports anime tho so I consider it toptier in that regards but if you're a big sports anime fan you might be bummed out by it. Every single musical performance is INCREDIBLE tho. A solid 8/10.

Toilet Bound Hanako-kun: THE ART OMFG IT'S SO GORGEOUS. Listen, if you took coptic markers and gave them an animation budget with some manga panel direction thrown in there, that's this anime. It's beautiful. Gorgeous. I'm in love with the aesthetic every second. Story? Really good. Characters? I love the MC and his evil little twin brother asshat. Demons? Not super imaginative but I'm carrying on happy as can be anyways. Dubbing? A bit shaky at times but I found the voices charming if a little off for some of them. I'm already waiting for the second season with popcorn at the ready. 10/10.

Prison School: I watched this directly after Hanako-kun and it was like I got slapped in the face by sweaty unwashed titties and some fedora wearing schmuck's piss kink. No character is likable or redeemable. I finished it, but at what cost? 2/10 and only because a character shit his pants and I laughed.

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: watched this right after Prison School and it was NECESSARY tbh. Its so CUTE and honestly, im not even kidding you, the fucking funniest anime I've seen in months. I watched the dub and the VAs are having the time of their lives working on this anime not just giving it their all but literally just going ham. Its great. If I read this im sure id be bored outta my mind but the VAs giving it a joyous performance make it an insta fave for me tbh. 9/10.

Sk8 the Infinity: i watched the dub with my bro and I can confirm that its a spectacular show because we both loved it and we have vastly different tastes. Incredibly SUSPENSFUL AND STRESSFUL for an anime about skateboarding but we finished it in a single sitting tbh. The last episode is not dubbed for some reason but we still loved it. Like if Free! was less obnoxious but the only fan-service here is Joe ♡ a beefcake who owns my lesbian heart. I think there's exactly one named female character tho and I legit couldn't tell you what it was if there was a gun to my head. So, over all, 9.5/10.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: I'm going to be entirely honest, I went in thinking it was going to be a boring isekai of no value. I was right about the Isekai part. It was honestly pretty interesting and focused on nation building like you're playing civilization rather than the usual "Get Stronger" narrative or "Get Some Pussy" narrative most isekais take which is delightfully refreshing. Granted there are flavors of that in this which means it doesn't alienate the big isekai watchers out there, but it's not the whole dish and it doesn't make me want to cringe the same way others do. You've got a slime MC just vibing and building a nation of monsters nbd. Does lose points for making the female monsters more humanoid than their male counterparts but makes them back by only doing perfunctory fan-service and nothing that makes me want to cry... except the butt sumo episode but in fairness it was all a terrible dream. Literally, the MC refuses to dream anymore after that. solid animation, decent voice acting, decent story, made me realize how HUGE this is in the Light Novel community???? There's like 18 fucking novels and that's WILD. 8.5/10.

MANGA:

Spirit Photographer Saburo Kono: a one shot special by the mangaka of The Promised Neverland! Honestly a really delicate touch of both super creepy and really touching, and I'm not gonna lie I'm bummed that this isn't a bigger project but the single chapter makes it a good taste for their style. I've been wondering if I wanna read/watch The Promised Neverland and now I think I will. 10/10

Deranged Detective Ron Kamonohashi: from the mangaka of Hitman Reborn comes this Sherlock and Watson derivative! Not even 20 chapters out yet with a sort of spotty schedule, I honestly love it even thought it's exactly as you expect. HOWEVER. Kamonohashi the "Sherlock" character uses mental pressure to kill all confirmed murderers and it's up to Toto the "Watson" character to save all those people before Kamonohashi kills them! It's just recently introduced a "Moriarty" family of crime lords (not a big spoiler don't worry it was obvious) so the tension surrounding Ron's past is amping up rn. Personally, I think the art is GORGEOUS, the characters engaging, and the story quick enough to keep my interest. Most mysteries are solved within a chapter or two so you're not stuck 20 chapters into one locked room mystery which is just peachy tbh. RN, 10/10. If this gets an anime, I anticipate a legion of fangirls who ship the two main characters along with their many friends. I've been alive too long to believe otherwise.

Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro: Yeah I read the manga after I watched the show. A slower build than the anime, but it works for the format, if theyd done the same with the show then I don't think it wouldve done as well. Honestly? Cuter tbh but just as horny. You dont start really LEARNING about your character until like, chap 65 tho and no real "drama" happens until like 75. A good chunk of the chapters are like 8pgs so its a breeze to get through. I love these slow burn idiots of the century. 9.5/10 because you can DEFINITELY tell the mangaka does hentai too.

Yugen's All-Ghouls Homeroom: one-shot by the mangaka for Food Wars, it's no wonder there's this constant perviness from the MC, a guy who can see and exorcise spirits. Takes place at an all girl's finishing school with KICK ASS monsters tbh, kinda bummed its not longer. The MC? Blatant monsterfucker who is also a CONFRIMED monsterfucker???? Idk i vibe with that single emotion. Everything else is hit or miss. 7/10 for monsters and cool concept, lost points for the MC very pointedly being okay with admitting he'd wait for the teenagers to be adults tho. Creepy af. Could live without that.

Hell's Paradise: I finished the entire 127chps in 3 days and I was really enthusiastic about it 90% of the time thinking about how deep it was and then I actually thought about it and I ended up being very neutral about the whole thing tbh. The art is fantastic tho, but DEFINITELY deserving of the M rating. Tits. Tits everywhere. But not tits to be ecchi over, no, monster hermit tits on beautiful women-ish figures. Now generally I give that a pass but a huge theme in the story is that men and women are "no better than one or the other" but like, lady tits are what you see 99% of the time. Men tits are few and far between. I call bullshit on most of the "deep" themes is what I'm saying, so it's like the mangaka was trying for those deep thoughts but missed the margin a little too far for my preference. That being said, the MC is a married man who loves his wife which automatically makes him my favorite character so like... idk so many good things, so many misses, but overall really spectacular themes and imagery. Unique but classic all at once. It's getting an anime and I have NO IDEA how much censorship they're gonna be doing but they're going to be doing SO MUCH. Oh yeah, and one guy is a plant/human hybrid who fucks a 1000 year old plant-hermit which makes him a canon monster fucker. And one canon non-binary character who I, a nonbinary, actually like. So like... gosh I've got mixed feelings. 8.5/10.

Choujin X: From Sui Ishida, mangaka to the mega hit Tokyo Ghoul comes this brand new manga!... Of one chapter, lol. Not really binge-y because it's just the one chapter out right now but I'm already keeping my eye on it. The grasp on anatomy in the art is PHENOMENAL and you can see Ishida flexing his art skill which is great. Can't give a true rating but I'm giving it a tentative 9/10 because I'm excited to see more.

Shag&Scoob: technically not a manga, its an ongoing webcomic I binged an subscribed to in one day and I just think it deserves more attention. Starts off funny with "what if Scooby Doo had a gun" and has been led to "what if all cartoons are aliens that survive and receive their powers by the humans that love them in an epic war with Martians." On god, its good. I finished the current series in a couple hours so it's a breezy read, highly recommend it. 9/10.

To Your Eternity: Yeah I watched the anime and then finished all current 143 chapters in like 3 days. GOD IM WEAK. I don't buy physical manga unless I know I want to remember the story forever and I'm already budgeting for the current books out. Yeah, this is a good series. That being said, definitely not for the faint of heart or those who suffer under common triggers like suicide, molestation, death, etc. It's all framed as bad and necessary to the story don't get me wrong, but it's there and has lasting affects on the characters. Incredible story telling by the creator of A Silent Voice. Keep tissues nearby at all times. 12/10.