#i adoooooore them so much

[boo-bonita]

Dreamtale´s twins empathy

Some people translate the empathic abilities of twins to senses such as smell or sight, which I think is great, because it encourages this idea that they perceive the world in a completely different way than other living beings.

"The sound of a broken heart, the color of sadness"

In particular, I really like to highlight the almost divine nature that Dream and Nightmare have and how this directly impacts their relationships and interactions with the rest, because it inevitably does. Nightmare, at least following his canon, cannot express any genuine or "healthy" positive emotions because it goes against the whole sense of existence, although this is a bit more complex because just as Dream can experience sadness, Nightmare can experience happiness, But unlike this and according to the creator of Dreamtale herself, Corrupted Nightmare is "a thing" that moves by instinct and Dream is his own person with convictions and aspirations.

Dream is the incarnation of something ethereal and beautiful, whose aura is not as aggressive as that of Nigthmare but the way he looks imposes a lot on others. Although I like to joke that he is cute, I think that idea is totally present in the construction of his character. He has to be pretty, pleasant to look at, the light that dazzles you.

I also think Nightmare has that mysticism, but his purpose is not to dazzle, so you could call him ugly even. He imposes himself in a different way, like an uncomfortable sensation that stalks you, like that silhouette that peeks out from the edge of your gaze.

[khaleesiofalicante]

Everytime you write something knew I think this is my favorite thing that you've ever written.

I did not expect Selena to do what she did. But I love her so much for it. One of the things that I loved the most is the way she thought about her body and how she was so aware of it. There a lot of days when I hate myself and my body and reading something like this soothed me in a way I cannot explain.

Also I liked that we got to see Gabriel being so vulnerable because they were scared for their partner. The only other time we've seen them fall apart is when Selena was taken by Mallory.

One of my favorite things was the fact that Selena still adores Magnus so much. Their relationship is kinda underrated but it makes me so so happy. I love the way Magnus did not tell her what to do. I'm sure he was concerned about her health too. But I love that he just reminded her that she'd have to face the consequences of her choices. I love the way they both respect eachother. Thankyou for writing them the way you have. They have a bond that is just based on love and admiration and understanding. It was truly beautiful.

“There is someone, isn’t it?” the woman chuckled, looking smug about it. “It’s not your fault. It’s in your nature. The nephilim nature. You people don’t feel powerful unless you have someone to look down on. A monster for you to hunt.”

This was so so interesting. I know shadowhunters are predators but I've never thought about them this way. It made me look back on a lot of people and it's so incredibly sad. I think a really good example of this is Annabel Blackthorn. I mean I know it's not the same but the way she was treated was horrible.

Baby Lance was fudging adorable. And Gwen is his demon friend! That's so cute. I cannot wait to see him interact with baby Arthur.

I don't know what exactly happened during Selena's birth but I was pacing very fast while reading it. It was almost like... Arthur was immune to magic? Is that what it was? Also the whole dream thing was very creepy. Does Selena know about the Crimson King?

Another think that I found very interesting was the way people perceive Lance. It was very hurtful to see the hesitance Gabriel and Lexi showed with letting their kids be alone with Lance. It's weird how even the best people cannot forego their biases when it comes down to themselves and their family. I'm very curious about how the kids will interact with eachother when they're older.

Thankyou for this beautiful chapter Dani. Every single word was so amazing to me.

Love, Yana

Oh, Yana, this made me very emo 😭

I don't think anyone other than Selena would've done something like that. She is one of a kind.

I adoooooore her relationship with Magnus and I'm also soft about the idea of Magnus looking out for generations of Fairchilds - starting from Matthew 🥺

Shadowhunters are predators by nature indeed. I mean...they are hunters after all. We will explore this a little more and learn our nephilim history further - especially about Mikkel Knightstorm, our infamous witch hunter from the middle ages (I've been reading the codex and the info on witch trials is very fascinating/scary)

A reminder that shadowhunters (or the Clave rather) once killed the wife of Tobias Herondale because they couldn't 'find' him. The Clave has always been fucked up and I don't think it would ever not be (i find it unrealistic if it finally becomes 'good')

I made the pacing fast intentionally for the birthing scene because i didn't want to get too detailed hehe but also Selena kept losing focus and consciousness during the whole thing. She does know about the Crimson King (but she hasn't seen the mural herself - because it's hidden as we know) so she hasn't made the connection yet. She will soon.

LANCE RIGHTS ONLY.

Thank you for all the love 💙

[crepesuzette2023]

oohhhh i would love 12 & 21 for i was the dreamweaver. and for brian managers (sole direction) no. 14, for this part which i adoooooore and think about constantly:

But at the Priory, it was Paul who visited. It was Paul who sat by his side and didn’t try to talk. Paul who smelled of resin and the lavender pouches he stuffed into his clothes in the wardrobe. It was Paul who brought his guitar and pretended to work on a song, Paul who filled an hour with life and warmth. Paul who talked to himself in funny whispers, Paul who promised to be back, Paul who kept his promise. Who squeezed Brian’s arm and said, “you get better now, you hear me?” and kissed him on the forehead.

[behind the scenes fic ask game] I was the dream weaver 12: Was there a scene you wished you could have included? Why didn't it fit in? I did want to include the India 'conversation'/mic blowjob scene, but the story was already so long, and turning into some kind of Get Back retelling...so I cut it. And the final conversation was much longer, and more rational—the two of them going in circles and throwing around the blame. It felt clumsy, and I wanted a gentler, more open ending. The promise of dreams. I do have the lingering desire to write a part II with a happier ending 21: What is something you didn't expect people to notice or gravitate towards in this fic? I expected people to be more into the sex overall, but many mentioned the rooftop concert and the Get Back scenes as favorites! That's the power of McBeardy. (Why am I surprised?!) I also didn't expect people to embrace the angst, and respond so emotionally—which sounds stupid. But I was really touched. Brian Manages (Sole Direction): 14: My favorite line from this fic was [xyz]. What inspired it? Thank you for pointing out that line! It was certainly heartfelt. It wasn't inspired by one specific thing, but several ideas: The pictures Paul took of Brian in Eyes of the Storm and the tenderness in them; a video I saw of Paul playing music for kids with autism (his gentleness and how at ease he was); probably that "There you are, Eddie" song; conversations I had with friends about Brian and Paul being close in 67, but also the certainty that, while John could write and say I Love You to Brian, Paul would write silly letters...and say it through music. The kiss was pure fantasy—something I felt Brian deserved.

Thanks for asking. :-)

[strawberriandromeda]

The signs as things i like about ppl i know

Aries: i had an Aries friend in high school who likes to make jokes poking fun at me but when i return the favor she gave me this Intimidating Glare and I'd back off. I had a tiny crush on her for this

Taurus: my aunt is very stubborn and argumentative with everyone but when it comes to me she is very sweet and loving. I feel like her purse dog. I tend to be most Tauruses' purse dog now that i think of it. I dont mind tbh. Extra: My good friend during hs is a girl I met on here and it sincerely felt as if she was (and still is) my soul sister and someone who gave me a lot of self confidence during that time just by caring about me. I'll be her purse dog whenever

Gemini: my mom is the best mom in the world :D. I had to include that first. Anyways the real story is that my first boyfriend is a Gemini and he was really sweet and i would always stare at him with unabashed affection bc he is very handsome and kind and has wonderful humor. It didn't work out bc we were more platonic than romantic but its fine because im happy he was my first boyfriend :)

Cancer: i never got the opportunity to be close to many Cancers in a sufficient way but everytime i meet a Cancer i get super excited and tell them we're water siblings and they get excited back :) yaaaay

Leo: my brother. He is lame but he cares for me and defends me and gives me advice when I'm sad. Same as Cancer, I don't know many Leos but if they're like the better parts of my brother then i am happy they exist

Virgo: every best friend i have is a Virgo!! I love them so much that sometimes i want to cry. I really think they're perfect that i even think their flaws are perfect. I sincerely hope i get married to one for realsies and fall in gay deep homosexual gay love with them even if they're a guy. My ex bestie in high school broke off our friendship and it totally and completely crushed me for months. I didn't think I cared so much but she helped shape my ideas and dreams for a long time. Now im lucky to have two more Virgos in my life who also provide meaningful companionship except without all of that bitterness attached

Libra: they are so cute and sweet. I never got to meet my maternal grandma but i got very attached to my aunt who is a Libra and I consider her my favorite aunt. My mom told me that she acts like my grandma so im happy to love her bc it kinda feels like im loving two people. The person in front of me and the person i mever got to miss. Me and my grandma would have gotten along :')

Scorpio: ough oughhhhh. I tend to have really intense loving friendships with Scorpios that end up fraught with the misery only a stereotypical Cancer and Scorpio would bring to the table. When i had a crush on my friend he was always looking out for me even though he was also a huge jerk. I forged a deep friendship with my ex best friend/ex girlfriend who is a Scorpio and it all got burned to the ground several times. The only time i was truly content was when i was keeping my distance and loving them from afar. I dont even care if this doesnt apply to all Scorpios but im grateful it applied to my Scorpios. I miss them but i never want to talk to them again. Hopefully im mature and strong enough to handle the next Scorpio in my life if they should come. Hopefully i dont have to be

Sagittarius: My good friend in high school who is a Sagittarius was really dear to me. She was the first person to talk to me even though she was awkward and shy, too.

Capricorn: I had a crush on a Capricorn for the longest time. For a time, there was nobody else for me but him. He was unattractive, rude, condescending and pretentious and always seemed to be talking down on me or making fun of me. And i adoooooored him. I think i enjoyed the arguing.

Aquarius: My first ever partner ever was an Aquarius. I remember one night before we dated when we both sat down on the beach away from everyone else to look at the stars and the waves. She told me that the lights of the city in front of us felt like a calling, and i asked her if she felt pulled by it. She said no. She wanted to stay here forever. That idea frightened me because i was afraid to be lost and alone. I never got to understand her, and i really regret that. I was just too young and immature

Pisces: a person that means a lot to me is a Pisces even though he will never talk to me again. Not because we fought but because we drifted so far apart that even dropping in on him feels wrong. Which is sad because for a moment in time we were the two closest people in the world. Whereever you are, please know that you were a pleasure to have around.

[gentrychild]

This is a story I tried to write for DFO week Day 3 Resemblance but the Muses laughed at me.

Still, if anyone likes the Duo Holders and DFO, here it the beginning.

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Kazuo’s husband tried to sneakily get out of bed and miserably failed not to wake him up. After more of a century of married life, Yoichi still hasn’t understood that any attempt to not draw attention as he left in the middle of the night was enough to make adrenaline immediately run through the former vigilante’s system.

He didn’t move, though. Instead, he listened to his husband picking up the phone he hadn’t use for three decades, give or take, walked out of the bedroom in order not to disturb Kazuo’s sleep.

Even before Yoichi started talking Japanese, Kazuo knew that the caller was Reijin or Hisashi or whatever name he liked to call himself those days. His brother-in-law liked to check on Yoichi every now and then to make sure everything was okay. And if Kazuo’s husband did, he tried to fuck everything up.

After two decades, give it or take, without some multi-quirked catastrophe falling on them, they were both overdue for an apocalypse or something.

Yoichi was speaking too quietly for Kazuo to hear exactly what he was saying but his tone was grave and they talked for about ten minutes. After that, Yoichi stayed in the living room, probably staring through the window like he did every time something ridiculous and upsetting was dropped on him.

Rhodes, their chocolate labrador who probably had some dinosaurs among his close ancestors, saw the opportunity and ran into the room to claim the spot left by Yoichi. But as he had never understood that he wasn’t a puppy anymore, his two very heavy front paws managed to land on Kazuo’s chest.

By the time he managed to escape the canine affection, his husband was back in the room, looking at them with a fondness he didn’t bother hiding, unlike the hint of edge in the lines of his beautiful face as he was wondering how to announce Kazuo some startling news.

“Your brother is coming to America, isn’t he?” Kazuo cut to the chase.

Yoichi shook his head.

“Is he dead, then?” he perked up.

Disappointment immediately overwhelmed him when Yoichi shook his head once again.

“For better or worse, my hero,” the man of his life reminded him.

“But sometimes, I want the worst being Rhodes liking someone else more than us instead of an homicidal headache who steals every quirk in reach.”

Yoichi gently pushed Rhodes in order to have enough place to go back to bed. Their dog dramatically rolled to the side, whining as if Yoichi had kicked him, but Kazuo ignored him as his husband was nuzzling his shoulder.

It had taken only a few minutes for his temperature to drop so Kazuo covered him with the blanket. His husband hummed gratefully and held him closer.

“My nephew needs a place to live.”

Kazuo, too busy savoring the sheer relief of knowing that the worst brother-in-law in the world wouldn’t invade their guest room, nodded.

Then he realized what Yoichi had just said.

“Your WHAT needs WHAT?”

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“I can’t believe that he didn’t even invite us to his wedding!”

“We didn’t invite him to ours.”

“Yes but he showed up anyway and tried to kill you! An invitation was the least he could do after that!”

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Yoichi’s nephew was standing awkwardly in the hall of the airport, obviously nervous. He was wearing a blue All Might hoodie he was pulling at and even his yellow backpack looked like discreet hero merch, which was enough to prove that it wasn’t a disguised brother-in-law or something.

To Kazuo’s relief, he didn’t look much like his dad. He was too small, too soft, and, from what Yoichi’s shrieked, “too adoooooorable” to bring awful flashbacks to the former vigilante.

At least, right until Rhodes took a sniff of him.

Their adorable dog turned into a terrifying demon, barking loudly as if he wanted the world to know that a threat was here. Izuku immediately took a step back, obviously scared that the world was going to eat him or something, while Yoichi knelt by Rhodes and tried to calm him down.

Kazuo didn’t see why as their dog was doing his job, and magnificently at that.

After all, they had spent months training him at detecting people with more than one quirk.

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Izuku’s first meeting with his uncles could have gone better, as their dog seemed determined to eat him from the moment they saw each other.

[shihalyfie]

Shiramine Nokia, and her role in Cyber Sleuth’s narrative

This one’s on request! Cyber Sleuth is quite the interesting game and a rather landmark entry in the franchise, mainly for being a love letter to the franchise and its long history itself, and for being the franchise’s very first work exclusively aimed at adults, meaning that it can explore different topics that wouldn’t normally be Sunday morning timeslot material, while also being a little more willing to assume that the people playing this are familiar with a lot of older parts of the franchise (not that it’s advisable to have complete lockout, but the game benefits greatly by not needing to assume lockout by default).

One of the ways Cyber Sleuth exhibits its “franchise love letter” status is by starting off the game all the way back at the franchise’s roots, before Digimon Adventure changed the game and everyone’s perception of Digimon and Digimon partnership, when the V-Pet lore was intertwined with Digimon as elements of hard sci-fi. As the game proceeds, the atmosphere slowly starts to resemble the more fantasy-like version of the franchise established by Digimon Adventure and its follower entries -- and that change is represented in none other than Nokia herself.

Before we begin: As anyone who follows my meta work has probably noticed, I generally prefer to have my analyses use tons of references and screenshots so that it’s easy to follow and the evidence is concrete, but Cyber Sleuth is a game, and it’s much harder to get those things without replaying the entire game, so I hope this won’t be too hard to follow despite being mostly text.

Nokia’s background and personality

If we want to apply the producer’s statements on Twitter, Nokia is 17 years old at the time of Cyber Sleuth, and has a backstory of having originally been a shy, bullied child who broke out of her shell thanks to the influence of her cousin (who, of all people, happens to be none other than Date Makiko). The flashback we get with Nokia in chapter 18, however, portrays her as just a fairly cheerful, go-getter child, but (although we only get to see her hair) she’s not quite as “flashy” or in-your-face as the description entails.

A possible hypothesis for rationalizing this all together comes from a what we learn about the process of memory wiping in Cyber Sleuth chapter 14: even if memories are extracted from the person, there’s some kind of residual memory left behind (the producer’s above statement also states that the same thing had even happened to Suedou). In Hacker’s Memory chapter 16, Arata confesses to Ryuji that the first Under Zero incident and Jude's loss to the Knightmon had re-triggered his trauma from having lost Yuugo years prior -- “not the memory, but the feeling.” So in other words, there was some feeling of loss that came after the loss of Yuugo that impacted those involved -- and it’s very possible that this deeply impacted and traumatized Nokia as well.

Assuming we’re still following this line of thought (since, again, this background point wasn’t actually in the game proper), Nokia eventually decided to break out of her shell thanks to Makiko’s influence, and become eccentric and assertive, and thus, the game begins.

While we’re here, I also want to point out that Nokia is also voiced by Han Megumi, possibly the Digimon franchise’s most notorious “promoted fangirl” who freaked out after getting to meet her childhood characters’ voice actors while cast as Airu in the Xros Wars crossover and ended up casted in a handful of major Digimon roles thereafter as a result. Which is not to say that her voice performance wasn’t also absolutely perfect for the bright and aggressive Nokia, but, you know...considering the below analysis, food for thought.

Nokia as a representative of “the conventional franchise”

Cyber Sleuth opens on a world where Digimon are largely seen as hacker programs, and even the hackers themselves only see them as non-sentient programs; there are ones like Chitose who treat them with empathy, but his attitude seems to be kindness towards them in a way not entirely unlike a family would treat a Roomba. Although he doesn’t admit to it at first, Arata himself also comes from this “world” of hackers, and we later learn that Yuuko herself is as well (via her “Yuugo” persona), meaning that, other than the playable protagonist, Nokia is the only “outside-context” person -- a completely ordinary civilian who’s gotten dragged into all of this.

Much like, say, the protagonists of Digimon Adventure.

With this background behind her, once she’s thrown into the world of hackers, she immediately has a “fateful encounter” with Agumon and Gabumon, instantly recognizable as two of the franchise’s most prominent Digimon (and complete with their Adventure voice actors, too). And I do especially bring up Adventure specifically, because while Nokia’s position in the game does end up taking in certain elements that roughly came around that era and possibly slightly predated it (mostly Digimon World and V-Tamer), Agumon and Gabumon weren’t particular mascots of the franchise until Adventure basically blew everything to pieces.

Right off the bat, Nokia does not have a single shred of doubt that Agumon and Gabumon are living beings and should be treated as such (again, much like the protagonists of Digimon Adventure; even Taichi in his “is this a game?” mode never doubted this). And they open up their meeting with this conversation:

Agumon: Umm, who are you? Nokia: It... It can talk?! It's so... so... so adoooooorable! M-M-M-M-My name's Nokia. What're your names? Agumon: Me? My name is Agumon! Gabumon: I... I'm Gabumon. Nokia: Agumon and Gabumon? Hee hee! What weird names! Gabumon: Hey, they're not weird! Agumon: You're the one with the weird name! Nokia: As if! My name's not weird! Hee hee!

And on top of that, Agumon refers to Nokia as having a “familiar” scent. Remember this for later.

Nokia’s second encounter with Agumon and Gabumon in Cyber Sleuth chapter 3 involves her properly partnering herself with Agumon and Gabumon, and learning about the existence of the “Digital World”. Note that, for all intents and purposes, EDEN had been treated like the functional equivalent of the Digital World in this narrative up until this point -- cyberspace with hackers, coming from the network, it’s basically a “digital world” from top to bottom, and yet here Agumon and Gabumon are introducing the concept of a more fantasy-esque incarnation of a digital world. (And, in fact, despite EDEN being right there, many long-time Digimon fans playing this game often complained about how little you get to see the “Digital World” in this game, because of how associated that term is with something more fantasy-like.) So, again: here we have Nokia, who’s forming a partnership with Agumon and Gabumon as equals instead of recruiting them as hacker tools (even the protagonist wasn’t immune to this method), and being indirectly responsible for introducing the more fantasy-like concept of the Digital World that the modern franchise is currently associated with.

Nokia embarks on the conventional shounen anime character arc of starting off cowardly, but eventually learning to have her own inner strength, with her Digimon evolving in accordance to her emotions. And, eventually, in Cyber Sleuth chapter 8, she decides to form her own hacker team, called the “Rebels”. She ostensibly bases it off the old creed of Jude, having heard that they were a team that never caused trouble for others, but we later learn via Arata turning out to have been its former leader, and the even later portrayal in Hacker’s Memory of its spiritual successor Hudie, that this is an extremely rose-colored image of them -- Jude (and Hudie) was not a well-intentioned team by any means, but rather a sort of mercenary group meant to enforce the “freedom” of EDEN, often taking on shady jobs and “punishing” entities they considered to be causing chaos. But in this case, Nokia forms her team under the idea of legitimately fighting for justice and good will -- again, much like a Digimon Adventure protagonist.

In case the metaphor weren’t clear enough, Nokia decides that the members of her group will not be called “hackers”, but “Tamers” -- the same lingo used by the franchise to refer to a human who partners alongside a Digimon to help them get stronger -- and that she wants to promote the idea of humans and Digimon working in tandem (complete with emotional bonding exercises). For this, everyone looks at her weird, and yet her methodology, initially naive as it seems, keeps working, because Nokia’s natural charisma starts bringing people from different places together and making quite the formidable team. Everyone is perplexed by this, but perhaps it’s only natural, because Nokia has just independently invented the modern concept of Digimon partnership in a world where it did not exist. And this is eventually solidified by the Under Zero invasion in Cyber Sleuth chapter 10, in which Omegamon is finally formed (from sheer guts on her part).

Omegamon is yet another symbol of the modern franchise, but it’s important to remember that he hasn’t always been so; even his appearance in V-Tamer was as more of a tactical piece than any kind of game-breaker, but the impact of Our War Game! has led him to constantly make a resurgence in major franchise roles (maybe a little too much these days). However, on top of Nokia basically embodying the modern franchise itself by doing this, Nokia and Arata’s positions are an obvious reference to Our War Game! in particular, being Omegamon and Diablomon Tamers -- but they’re not seen directly fighting each other. In fact, Arata’s partner only ever reaches Diablomon when he’s at the highest point of his morality, so the reference is more ideological; Nokia represents the more idealistic and heroic side of Digimon, whereas Arata represents the more dirty-playing and cynical hard sci-fi side of it (remember that Diablomon himself was rather detached from the fantasy conflict of Adventure, being a mysterious entity that sprouted out of nowhere on the Internet and wreaked havoc). Moreover, Nokia’s usage of Omegamon embodies a theme that’s central to both Our War Game! and Cyber Sleuth itself as a whole -- while most people associate Omegamon with Taichi and Yamato these days, the original method of formation back in Our War Game! came from “bringing people from different places together”. Nokia managed to bring together a formidable army in a place where everyone else in the hacker world was trying to promote a dog-eat-dog philosophy, and the sense of cooperation is arguably making her stronger than anyone else.

(I should also point out that Nokia’s name is, obviously, a reference to the Finnish telephone communications company, and this has a lot of relevance to the game’s theme of connection, along with her phone Digivice...and, also, the method used to bring everyone’s powers together in Our War Game!’s spiritual successor, Diablomon Strikes Back. Feels a bit too on-the-nose here.)

In the second half of the game, when the world starts falling apart due to the Digital World portal opening, Nokia becomes one of most important people holding everything together as Arata goes off the deep end and Yuuko starts fixating on her own personal problems and revenge -- because she’s the one most in tune with treating Digimon as the living beings they are, she’s most active in advocating for them and helping them bond with humans, and and she’s the one making the chaos be a little less chaotic. The second half is basically the more fantasy-esque version of Digimon leaking into the sci-fi, with the sidequests progressively resembling your average Digimon anime monster-of-the-week episode, and holding that all together is Nokia, who becomes a vital figure in maintaining that fellowship by being in tune with the modern franchise’s philosophy.

Through all of this, Nokia ends up taking a role rather similar to a Digimon protagonist, which is highlighted very strongly in Cyber Sleuth chapter 18 when she ends up literally becoming the player character while the main protagonist is out of commission. During that time, Yuuko and Nokia learn the truth of what happened during the EDEN incident eight years prior -- and we also learn that the five children involved had an extremely conventional “first meeting in the Digital World” experience that could have been pulled right out of the first episode of a Digimon anime, with them having a lovely adventure meeting new creatures. And at the center of that “first contact” was none other than Nokia, Agumon, and Gabumon themselves:

Agumon: Um... who are you? Nokia: Ahem! I am Nokia! And just who are you? Agumon: Me? My name is Agumon! Gabumon: I... I'm Gabumon. Nokia: Agumon and Gabumon? Hee hee! What weird names! Gabumon: Hey, they're not weird! Agumon: You're the one with the weird name! Nokia: As if! My name's not weird! Hee hee!

Nokia, Agumon, and Gabumon’s meeting at the beginning of the game had been an (accidental) reenactment of their first meeting in the Digital World eight years prior -- and, in the flashback, Nokia invites them to go on an “adventure” with them. So in other words, Nokia getting involved in the hacker conflict at the beginning of the game was, unknown to all of them, her attempting to restore that beauty and idealism of the Digimon Adventure-esque philosophy and fun in a world where the Eaters had torn it away and EDEN had turned into a haven of cynicism and hacker battle royale.

In the end, the game’s conflict is only resolved by bringing everyone together; Arata has to be retrieved from the deep end, and Yuuko has to settle her deep-seated personal grievances. Everyone makes a promise to return together, in the sense of making things right and repairing the connections between them that had been cut in that incident. The final battle (momentarily) causes the playable protagonist to literally fall apart, and the one reaching out to them and sending her message to them at the end of the game is none other than Nokia herself -- again, in the absence of the game’s protagonist, Nokia is the one with the closest role, because in the face of the new world going forward, she was the one who contributed most to restoring its idealism.

Ultimately, all of this is especially because Cyber Sleuth works under one of the most terrifying imaginable premises for a fan of a kids’ franchise: “we made an entry for this, but for adults.” Many of us can testify that this kind of premise can go very well, or very badly -- the latter especially in the case of things that decide “taking the opportunity to do things that you can’t do on a Sunday morning kids’ timeslot” means “going out of your way to put edgy violence and sexy things and cynicism just because you can”, or, in other words, looking down condescendingly on its kids’ franchise roots with malice and deciding that something for adults means “more suffering” and not “issues that require more life experience to understand”. The reason the game ended up getting as much acclaim among longtime Digimon fans as it did was that despite being the franchise’s first venture into this territory, it did end up setting itself up as something that took that opportunity to do something new and unique that would have never made it into any of the prior entries (holy hell the doll quest) and yet never gave up on the idealism and themes of connection that make up the franchise at its core, and paid respect to everything that had contributed to all of that while it was at it.

And at the center of that is Shiramine Nokia, who is effectively the spirit of Digimon Adventure, condensed into a single character.

[go-bonkers-go-foolish]

highlights of starkid’s black friday part two

here we go boys

i’m gonna be real the first time i watched this i had no fucking clue what was happening for a solid two and a half minutes

shoutout to whoever choreographed this because i love it

THIS MAN’S NAME IS CHRISTOPHER KRINGLE

robert’s inflection combined with the exaggerated hand gestures is the single funniest thing i’ve ever seen

THE ELVES’ NAMES ARE JINGLE AND JANGLE I’M GONNA CRY

i would pay so much money to see this movie

“thaaaaaaaaat’s right :^)”

the love interest’s name is NOELLE bitch i’m hollering

how does lauren look so adorable in that stupid elf costume??

these lyrics are fucking gold man

joey’s literally just vibin

P A S S  C H R I S  K R I N G L E  T H E  B A L L 

santa’s gonna Reconnect With The Teens™

“becky look!!! remember when we carved that?” “yeah...it’s...a penis” “eyyy”

becky’s monologue about her ex-husband...fuck dude

“it’s funny. stanley was the one who made me go to nursing school. that’s how i knew where his femoral artery was.” HOLY SHIT

“you say you killed your family. i hope i killed mine.” D U D E 

Take Me Back absolutely made me break down dude i’m still crying

“if the universe is infinite, then it’s definite, there’s an alternate reality where we’re now a family.”

“if you’re really santa, tell me something only santa would know” GDGJHSLJHSGK

“i knew it. i knew you weren’t santa” WHEN DID THIS BECOME THE CONFLICT I NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE

“........a red tricycle.” “santa!!!!!!!!!!” (passionate tongue kissing)

so we all agree that wilbur cross is uncle wiley, right

“in short, mr. president, we are trying to stop the birth....of a god.” what a raw line

“If We Have Faith, We Will Be Rewarded With A Cuddly Toy” -the homeless dude, who i’m pretty sure has just been vibin this whole time

god i kind of want a wiggly now

the audience losing their minds at linda being the supreme cult mother

 “please, for the love of god, just let me go.” “oh, i’ve met god. he had nothing nice to say about you.” (THROAT SLASH) 

FUCKIN RAW LINE RIGHT THERE

linda: “you willlllll adoooooore me....” my dumbass, already in love: ok

“unless i get what i- shit it’s gerald”

YES MAAM LIFT THAT LAUREN LOPEZ UP LIKE JESUS

h i p  t h r u s t

hmm i dont like new ethan

wiggly: “hello hannah. let’s be pally-wals.”  me, with a water gun full of holy water: dont try it demon

the way he says “rotten little banana” is terrifying

“i’m going to have to peel you. i’m going to split you in two. i’m going to Eat you, hannah.” WHAT the fuck

hannah’s scream when wiggly threatens her?? chilling

god someone protect this kid

uh yeah Do You Want To Play is genuinely one of the scariest songs i’ve ever heard from a starkid musical, or pretty much any musical. like, this sweet nurse who waited hours in the freezing cold to get a toy for a little girl who lost her sight is about to viciously murder an eleven-year-old in cold blood because of wiggly.

so, theory time. becky’s a nurse. i dont think that even in her altered state she would miss hannah entirely and accidentally inject it into her own leg. but hannah was wearing the hat. i think ethan was right, it protected her.

joey is scaring me but also giving me some very sexy energy that i’m not opposed to

“Only in america could wiggly take root! Hold this”

“WHEN YOU’RE MADE IN AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAA” fuck yeah!!!!!

“i’m going to cut open your belly-well, and deck the halls with your gutsy-wutsies...” JESUS CHRIST

shoutout to macnamara for literally everything, he’s doing great

can you IMAGINE being president goodman here. like you just found out you’ve killed millions of innocent people and the world is probably going to end in the next hour or so and there’s nothing left to do and all the while this demonic entity is baby-talking to you and laughing that terrifying laugh? yeah, i’d go insane too.

curt mega’s acting is top notch here, dude, he actually scared me

also what the FUCK was that last wiggly laugh

“you better not be fucking with me.....” uh hey sherman i’ll give you five (5) dollars to stop that

“there’s something that’s beautiful, being awake for my funeral” fuck

“still, i thought that angels did exist, but now i hope they plan to end it quick, ‘cause friday is black for me, only my ashes will see the sea” i gotta sit down for a while

“I’m authorizing you to use my firearm.” F U C K  Y E A H

theory: macnamara is hannah’s father (and maybe lex’s) since they can both see into/communicate with the black and white

MONSTERS AND MEN REPRISE

oh my god tim never said he wanted a wiggly oh god oh fuck

“kids don’t want that piece of shit! they’re all into fortnite, dude!” 

If I Fail You also made me cry i’m very emotional over this musical

“answer me, or I’ll open your mouth with my FUCKING KNIFE!” JESUS CHRIST LAUREN

i love that wiggly’s theme is carol of the bells

“look at you! you’re paralyzed with fear!” “no. i’m just lining up my shot.” FUCK YEAH

“you have two choices: abandon your god or burn here with him” this dialogue is so fuckin powerful dude

yeah so all of them burning alive freaked me out but what a way to end a cult

“you know, i have this kooky reclusive biology professor...” when i tell you i YELLED

“wear a watch.” AHHHHHH

what an ending.

anyway stan starkid goodnight

part one

[mego42]

Fic ask: I, U, X, Z And the idea of a sequel to I'd give her a HA! And a Hi-Ya! is amazing. I love outsider POV so much and Mick is the perfect character for outsider POV on Rio in particular (and you write it so well!)

ahhhh thank you!! I also looooove outsider pov and also writing mick (exactly 0 people are shocked) so now that i’ve had the thought realistically it’s only a matter of time.

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

in reading, not really, i’m p open about being down to give almost anything a shot and have def read some off the wall shit just to see what was up. 

in writing, oh absolutely. there’s so much stuff I'm constantly tucking into fic because I love it. I don’t want to tell you what it is though bc if it starts sticking out too much I’ll have to stop and that’ll make me sad. plus, i feel like it tends to be fairly obvious bc it keeps showing up but maybe not! let me have my secrets okay? 

a lot of times I have to stop myself from not going too far down a rabbit hole with niche interests. I was just telling @foxmagpie about a lengthy monologue about old school printing presses @nickmillerscaulk gently encouraged me to remove from a chapter of song bc it was, um, intense and entirely plot adjacent (she was right and I knew she was gonna say that but I couldn’t stop myself from putting it into the first draft anyway bc OLD SCHOOL PRESSES ARE VERY COOL OKAY??????)

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

I feel like every version of this Q I’ve seen has started off with a note about how hard this question is to answer bc of talented the GG fandom is and I loathe to be so predictable but it’s true!!! it’s also awesome being relatively new to the fandom bc boy howdy do I have a backlist to work my way through. that said, three of my fav currently active, drop everything and read writers would be:

@sothischickshe has a beautifully unique voice and i adoooooore how she'll have me laughing so hard i’ve got tears in my eyes and then sucker punch me with some off the cuff emotionally devastating observation or perfectly captured character moment that takes my breath away. the combo of all of the above has led to some (extremely subtle) whole ass breakdowns over her stuff. plus she writes the truly bonkers lunacy of beth and rio’s dynamic in a way i deeply appreciate. points both awarded and taken away for more or less forcing me to develop a robe fetish so do with that what you will. 

@foxmagpie is the angst queen of my heart. she’s written some truly wrenching, overwhelmingly rich conflicts between beth and rio that i lose my entire mind over and i think about rio wrestling with his grief around his father’s death in the last chapter of little gifts on a semi-regular basis. i’m also so extremely impressed with delinquents. high school aus can be soooo tricky and tbh much of the time i don’t actually like them? but she’s done an incredible job of distilling the canon adult characters down into high school versions of themselves that are totally recognizable but also believably adapted which is a v neat trick. also, mar. 

@pynkhues has like, shoved me through the entire spectrum of human emotion time and time again with her fic and it’s at the point where I see she posted and basically start sweating like okay here we go gents lets go feel!!!! something!!!! i’m also desperately in awe of how she weaves thematic and emotional threads throughout her stories no matter how long or short they are. the way she structures her arcs is masterful and makes for a deeply satisfying reading experience on both a reader and a omg how did you do this let me break it apart and analyze level.

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.

mick (yes he’s also the character i want to protect), bc his suffering is always tied up in beth and rio being idiots and that’s v fun for me to write. also the combo of mick, annie, and ruby for the same reasons. 

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

I don’t think I could bring myself to write it bc deep down (or, like, realistically fairly surface level) I am a sap BUT in the right mood I loooooooooove to read it. It fucks me up so good and I find the experience of reading well done death fic maybe bizarrely cathartic? idk, obvs it depends on the circumstances. if I’m feeling fragile absolutely not, but sometimes it scratches a weird itch that nothing else does.

I don’t think there’s a specific character death I couldn’t tolerate but there are infinite ways a character death could be written I would be absolutely not about. I’m extremely not into stuff that’s transparently (or even obliquely) about punishing a character or like, a beloved character being killed off in like a set dressing sort of way. not about fridging as a general concept in any form. basically, I love death fic where it’s like, a character study of grief and really digs into the angst and emotion and makes me feel. idk how many times i have to tell you guys, i love pain.

fic asks fic asks fic fic fic asks (idek know what i’m doing here i’ve lost the plot)

[himitsu-luna]

🌸 MTL ship (selca+personality) - @urirealvibekiller 🌸

Little sis!! Omg, I wrote so much, it was a deep dive xD! Hahahaha I love writing ships for you!!! I adore you so much too!!!❤️❤️ Hope you enjoy it!!!!!! Stay health, safe and happy too sistaah!!! ✨

*MTL Ships will close on 03/10. Please, read the pinned post.

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Nct Dream (romance edition)

Most

Mark

Haechan

Jeno

Chenle

Renjun

Jaemin

Jisung

Least

- ok, I honestly think either Mark or Haechan would match you really well, but you would have a different relationship dinamic with each one of them. Let's talk about Mark first. I need to say that this boy would be so attracted by you with just one glance! He would first notice your cool side, but what would really catch his heart is your cute side. I mean, he would find you adorable, and he loves it! Mark is chill and easygoing like you, and he is someone really open and considerate. I think you would have a harmonious and balanced relationship. He can be really playful and goofy, so you would be able to have the funniest and giggliest days of your lives, while having the most sincere and deep companionship too. Everything would just evolve naturally to a comfortable and home feeling like place. And you would have a beautiful mutual admiration and respect for each other. He would love your independent and mature side, and you and him would be always trying to grow and improve yourselves together. He would really value this in the relationship. He would never ever dare to treat you badly, and he would always be a gentleman. (Omg, I got carried away here!) Now Haechan! Ohhhhh I imagine a unusual scene actually! I think Haechan would be sooo shy around you at first ahahha he would be so into you that he would act different from his normal self. He would try to impress you, for sure. And your relationship would be sooo interesting and adorable! I see Haechan having two behaviours with you, once you're in a relationship: the best friend, and the clingy romantic boy. There is no in between xD Your sense of humor and the way you deal with your emotions would match well. And he would fall for your cuteness too, ofc! You would not be able to leave his arms. Everyday would be fun, but being playful and goofy doesn't mean you're not being serious. You two would be mature and take the relationship really seriously. For Haechan, your connection would be the most serious and precious thing in his life. The only problem I see is Haechan being a little possessive sometimes, but nothing you can't solve with a good talk. And to finish this, we have Jeno. Jeno and you would be just adorable together omg! You would be so sweet, a positive and bright couple! He is really responsable and considerate, so you would relate to that. And I think that there are a lot of sides of him we don't know, and it would be fun to discover his facets while in the relationship!

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Twice (friendship edition)

Most

Chaeyoung

Dahyun

Sana

Jihyo

Nayeon

Jeongyeon

Momo

Mina

Tzuyu

Least

- I actually see you being friends with everyone hahahah 💕 But Chaeyoung and you, I think you have so much in commom. You two are powerful and strong women, with beautiful values and views of the world. Kind women who take decisions and speak their minds, always being considerate. Your friendship would be precious! You would be so supportive towards each other! And Chaeyoung is someone who really values her friends, and would treasure you and take care of you. She would always be there for you, no doubt about it! Now, Dahyun and you would be the most chaotic and funny beans ever xD you would have so much fun together omg! Besides that, your companionship would be lovely! You could relate a lot too! Sana and you would just be adoooooorable!! The clumsiness of you two would get everyone's hearts, seriously! You would be chaotic too, but more to the sweet side hahaha She is an extroverted, so she would love to go out with you!

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[mermaidsirennikita]

HIT MEEEEEEEEE WITH YOUR TOP 10 GAY OTPS

WELLL OOOOOOH WELLLL you know I have no brainspace so I’m listing those that are hitting me right NOW

EDIT: I also realize now that I totally read that as LGBT+ versus gay, so I included two ships here that feature trans people in relationships with people of the opposite gender, my bad!  But I’m editing on two more ships as we speak.

in no particular order lol

--Lito and Hernando in Sense8 (like to be FRANK this is probably #1 because I love that we saw them going thru so much; like actual legitimate relationship struggles that often stemmed from Lito’s issues; but then also dirty bathroom sex; and then 3way with Dani was just like this overflow of love and throuple confirmation lol)

--Nomi and Amanita (another STAAAAAND out for me, I absolutely love them, they were like the steady calm thru the storm couple but with such intense passion for one another)

--Miel and Sam from When The Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore.  You probably don’t know this one because it’s a YA magical realism novel, but!  It’s!  One of my favorite!  Romantic arcs!  EVER!  So Miel is a Latina teenager and Sam is her best friend who happens to be a young trans man and the book basically kicks off with them having sex and kind of having to deal with that, plus some magical realism shit based on La Llorona and the fact that there are family things going on and other girls who want Sam (and this is never treated as like.  odd or unusual, Sam is just wanted like any hot teenage boy would be wanted by teenage girls) and it’s ACHINGLY beautiful.  I cried when I read this book.  Also McLemore is just a super great writer and most of her books either deal with Latinx characters and magical realism and LGBT+ issues or both, as she’s a queer Latinx woman irl and her husband is a trans man.  So you can sense the personal nature of this book and it just is BEAUTIFUL.

--Simon and Bram from Love, Simon.  My heart grew 3 sizes when we watched that movie, ugh.

--Callie and Arizona from Grey’s Anatomy.  And I know, TOXIC SHIT HAPPENED but this is such a classic epic TV romance for me.  I grew up on Grey’s and watching Callie discover her bisexuality was like this momentous thing on tv, and then even though she and Arizona had some serious.... bumps... along the road the idea they’re offscreen chilling with their bb Sofia and hopefully at least one new baby is lovely to me.

--Sissy and Vanya from The Umbrella Academy.  Like!!!!!!!!!!  Vanya’s s1 romance was soooo flat and I wanted more from her and then it turns out that she’s getting her Carol from the film Carol on at a FARM?  And the subtext of Vanya giving Sissy’s son her powers, which in a sense makes him Vanya’s superpowered son, so Harlan is Sissy and Vanya’s son, no matter what he literally has two moms, and their final scene had me crying actual tears.

--Agron and Nasir from Spartacus.  I know you haven’t seen this but like, the degree to which I was owned by these two, lol.  But the thing is that in a sense they were almost like?  A couple I didn’t worry about?  Because even though both were warriors and there was one time when someone was trying to COME UP ON AGRON’S MAN and they could die at any moment, they were so like?  Committed?  The most married of Spartacus couples?  Also had v. good sex scenes.

--Lucretia and Ilithyia, also Spartacus and I SOMEWHAT HESITATE TO INCLUDE THEM lol because they never have like.... sex onscreen.  But Lucretia is canonically bisexual and Ilithyia is pretty heavily implied to be into her (like... kisses her on the mouth all the time... professes her love all the time... tbh MOST of the characters on this show are implied to be pansexual).  So they’re like, fully evil characters who never have a pure love for each other, at all, but are obsessed with one another, and have this clearly fatal attraction wherein they both want to kill each other and can’t get enough of each other?  And I’ll own that the person Lucretia loves most is very obviously her husband but that only increases this idea that Ilithyia wants MORE of her?  But then when Lucretia is loyal to Ilithyia she wants to kill her?  They are my toxic wlw ship lol, basically the opposite of Agron and Nasir.

--Angel and Lil Papi from Pose.  Left field lol but due to quarantine, I watch Pose now, and these two snuck up on me???  Like I won’t say that they are like, great influences on each other but rn I’m very into them bc it’s some real authentic YOUNG LOVE shit.  For context Angel is a transgender model and he’s a bi hustler who’s taken in by the same house mother, and so they’re kinda just friends at first but he clear ADOOOOOORES her and slowly she falls in love with him too and they get hooked on drugs together but also he wants the best for her I sweeeear, the show has things I could take or leave but these twoooo.

--Jamie and Lord John, Outlander.  You never said this had to be totally canon but I’m trying to make everything at least one-sided canon or EXTREMELY heavily implied, and John is madly in love with Jamie, so.  I need them to fuck.  I need them to fuck so bad, with or without Claire, this could be the greatest like the levy broke for one night plot arc ever, like I honestly can interpret John as being totally in love with Jamie and Jamie having room in his heart for John even if it’s not like a consistent thing, I WANT IT.

--Darla and Drusilla, Buffyverse.  I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS.  Like we know it’s not this consistent relationship and the incestuous dynamic there is like, uh, a lot, but sometimes evil girls have to have fun, and as seen above I do love some evil girl content.

--Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, Sailor Moon.  Lol this is a classic, I have loved them since I was 12 and now my 13 year old sibling loves them and models their overall sense of style after Uranus, I love it.

Is that 10?  Lol that’s where I’ll cut myself off for NOW, I know I’m missing shit we’ve probably discussed lol

[aprismaticodyssey]

I love your WIP so much!! I adoooooore your writing and the characters you’ve made!❤❤❤ So.... ROs reactions to the MC saying ‘I can hold the whole world in my hands’ and then cupping the ROs face 😚

Oh! Thank you! This deserves an UwU x10.

Cassius: He huffs a laugh that crinkles the corners of his eyes. His hands set themselves on MC’s face in return with the lightest of touches. “And I can hold the universe.”

Ileana: “I wonder what this world looks like to you with me in the picture.” She whispers, turning her head to kiss one of MC’s palms. “It must look stunning.”

Nyx: Those dark eyes are fixated on MC, intent on taking in every last detail as though he hasn’t seem them a thousand times already. Those same eyes became shiny in his silence, hands slipping over MC’s. “You think too highly off me, you know that?”

Cain: The prince blinks, no doubt caught off guard by something so sudden. But then he breaks out a broad grin. “I don’t think you realize what it’s like to be able to look at a star and be hypnotized by it.” Cain seizes his arms around them because it’s lovey dovey time.

Freya: She furrows her brows. The gears turn in her head in an attempt to understand. “I’m...not a planet.” Freya says slowly. “Are you trying to imply you are in my orbit? I think I’ve heard humans say this...But I don’t know what it means-” Oh dear, she’s rambling.

Thank you for the ask! Basically, Cassius is a soft boi.

[abbacchiosbelt]

Howdy!! First off I just wanna say I adoooooore your writing!! Second, can I request like. General Fluffy La Squadra headcanons for when they’re in a relationship??? ♥️♥️♥️

thank you, friend! and thanks for waiting for this request, i enjoyed it!under the cut for length!

Risotto, who is untraditional in every otherway, enjoys a more classic style to his relationships. He likes date nights,taking his partner out on anniversaries, cooking together, and ending the nighttucked up in bed together. Unfortunately for the Capo, this style ofrelationship isn’t very easy to maintain with his job. He’ll try his best,though. He can’t go out in public as much as he’d like (mainly for yoursafety), so he’ll try to make dates at home romantic.

He doesn’ttalk a lot – but he loves to hear his partner’s voice. Depending on what sortof thing he’s handling, he doesn’t mind if you join him in his office and talkto him while he works. He’s not easily distracted and finds your voice helpshim focus. He likes being read to, as he doesn’t often get the time to read byhimself.

Risottoisn’t one for PDA, but he can’t get enough of you when the two of you arealone. He prefers when you curl up in his lap, or at least sit close enough tohim that the two of you are touching. The time you have together isn’t as muchas he would like, so he intends to make the most of it.

He imitateskisses more than one might expect. (Mostly, so he can pull you up close to himsince most of his partners aren’t tall enough to reach his lips.) His kissesare deep and passionate.

He remembersjust about everything you say – so don’t be surprised if the makeup you wantedor the piece of clothing you were eyeing appears on your bed one day.

Formaggio never expected to settledown, let alone be in a long-term relationship. It’s new territory for him, buthe’s not complaining. He’s going to be the same guy you fell for no matterwhat, but he’s going to focus his affections only on you. Flirt back, though –he likes to be sought after, too.

The biggestcuddler you’ll ever meet. It doesn’t matter if the two of you are in public oralone, he’s going to find some way to get close to you. He likes to wrap hisarms around you more than anything, but he’s more than content to lay his headon your chest and fall asleep as well. His cats will also cuddle you.

He likes tobe spontaneous, so he’ll surprise you with all sorts of dates. New experiencesfuel him, so be ready to take on whatever he gets the two of you into. He stillenjoys going out for a drink, too. Getting the chance to show you off means alot to him, so play it up when the two of you go out to have him like putty inyour hands for the next week.

Even thoughhe’s an adventurous and busy guy, he still loves to laze around with hispartner. Expect some days to be spent cuddled up on the couch with snacks andbeer while the two of you binge-watch trashy TV shows or old movies.

He’ll callyou cheesy pet names as a joke, but he’ll actually get really into it.

Illuso likes to play hard to get, evenwithin his relationships. It’s fun, for him. He likes a partner who is up tothe challenge – but it’s only because he likes you so much that he relented andasked you out in the first place. He teases and flirts and makes littleremarks, if only to see your reaction. Retaliating back will make him evenhappier. Despite his finicky nature, he still showers you with plenty ofaffection, even if he is coy about it sometimes.

He’s alwaysinterested in your hobbies. He wants to know what you like so he can try it outas well. Most of the time, Illuso prefers to stay in the comfort of his own home,so enjoying a hobby together would be important to him. Or, he simply likes tosit with you quietly whilst you read or do something else that isn’t loud. Hewill, however, share gossip with you about the team.

He loves towatch trashy television with you and cuddle up on the couch. When he’s not inpublic, Illuso loves to cling to you and shower you with affection. It’s evenbetter if the two of you are pressed tightly together and laughing on thecouch. Not many people share his sense of humor, so there’s nothing me he lovesthan to laugh with you without feeling judged. He’ll like it even more if you’reinto dark humor.

He likes windowshopping with you – he finds it fun to put together rooms in his head, and whenyou join him, it makes him feel warm in a way he can’t describe.

Illuso is agreat kisser and again, very affectionate in private. His best kisses arealways when he comes home after a long mission.

Pesci is shy and unsure, but he does knowhe loves his S/O a lot! Much of what you have with Pesci is going to be alearning experience, but it’s going to be fun and filled with lots of silly andheartwarming moments.

When he hastime, Pesci likes to take you out on traditional dates, complete with flowersand dinner at a nice restaurant. After, he likes to walk along the pier withyou and enjoy the ocean breeze. He blushes if you hold his hand, but he reallylikes it. He’ll put an arm around you if it’s cold out and hold you close.

He wants toadopt a pet with you very badly. While he loves fish, he thinks it’d be fun toown a fluffy animal. Adopt a cat, dog, or bunny with him and he’ll be a dotingpet parent with you. He always takes pictures of you and your shared pet whenyou’re not watching so he can look at them later since you’re so cute!

Perfect forcuddling, even if he is shy about it at first. He quickly finds that being nearyou makes him feel safe, so he’s more than happy to pull you close or be heldby you.

He lovesoutdoor activities, like hiking and fishing. He adores teaching you how tofish, if you’ve never done it before. Spending time with you in the peacefuloutdoors is his definition of a perfect day – he’ll often pack a picnic for theboth of you to enjoy.

Prosciutto is a bit more traditional – he opensdoors for you, always pays for dates, opens the car door, and doesn’t kiss youthe first time until you give him permission. He does expect a similar sort of treatmentback, though, so he likes if his partner defers decisions to him. A non-traditionalpartner won’t bother him too much, though – he likes their fiery nature.

Despite hisviews, he loves someone he can talk to openly about anything. He values youropinions and finds you engaging to talk to, no matter the subject. He loves tosit with you at night with a glass of wine in hand whilst the two of you talkabout your days, or whatever else you come up with. A parent Prosciutto can behimself front of is important to him.

Charmingwith a bit of a bite – he’s never too mean, but he likes when he gets a quip ortwo back from you. He loves to flirt and make you blush so he can kiss your redcheeks.

He’ll takeyou to the movies often. He enjoys films, and especially enjoys wrapping an armaround his partner while the two of you enjoy it. Be prepared to hear a reviewfrom him afterwards, though!

He can bealoof, but with enough sweet words, you can convince him to cuddle you. He hasthe capacity to be affectionate, he’s just a bit weird about it. Still, he’salways warm and likes to have you sit on his lap. Prosciutto is too good of a kisser.

Melone is extra, but there’s never a dullmoment when you’re dating him! He’s ecstatic to have a S/O and will let youknow it with tons of affection and praise.

He likes todo everything with you, if you’ll let him. Running errands is so much more funwith his partner, in his mind. It makes Melone feel domestic, too. He likes topeople-watch with you when the two of you are out on errands, though he triesto keep his Stand stuff out of it.

Melone willtake you to a lot of interesting places – he’s always looking for new places tovisit, whether it be museums, little hidden shops, or restaurants. He makestime for dates and always treats these outings as such. Melone is the type ofperson to set an outfit out for you in hopes that you’ll wear it.

He wants totake a lot of pictures of you by yourself,and lots of couple pictures as well. He just thinks you’re beautiful and wantsa lot of pictures!

An expert atcuddling – he can’t get enough of being close to you. Pretty good at kissing,but he prefers to use his mouth elsewhere…

Ghiaccio is just as wild and loud as usual,but he takes his time to focus on not directing his anger at you. He cherishes his S/O, because it’srare for people to put up with him for an extended amount of time.

He’s goingto act aloof, still, but you’re the most tolerable person he’s ever met andthere’s nothing more he’d rather do than spend time with you. Whether the twoof you are relaxing in silence or discussing the newest shitty movie in theaters,Ghiaccio is happy to have you there.

He’s active,so he loves having a partner who joins him at the gym and has fun trying newactivities, like rock climbing. He likes swimming, too, though he gets red whenhe sees you in your cute swimsuit. Even if you’re not super active, that’sokay. If you encourage him and come watch him, it’s enough to fuel his ego andmake him feel good.

He willinsist on taking you ice skating, of course, and showing off. If you’re terribleat it, he may grumble and laugh at your expense, but he finds it cute.

If you riffon things with him, he’ll be very pleased. Someone who listens to and encourageshis appropriate rants is a lot of fun, to Ghiaccio.

He’s a bratabout cuddling – he secretly loves it, but he acts strange when it comes toaffection. Just get him really tired and curl up next to him, he’ll love it.

Sorbet & Gelato aren’t exactly a soft couple, but that doesn’t mean theydon’t have tender moments with you sometimes. It’s rare enough that they letsomeone into their relationship – and even rarer that you’ve made it this long.You better enjoy those fluffy moments!

Sorbet likesto hear your thoughts on things – you and Gelato are very different from eachother, and whilst Gelato certainly isn’t dumb, some of his opinions are just…strange. So Sorbet likes to hear what you think about books the two of youread, or how you feel about current news. Maybe it’s bland to some people, but Sorbetlikes it for what it is.

Gelato, onthe other hand, likes introducing you to weird stuff and seeing your reaction.Sorbet always shakes his head, but you give him actual reactions! He won’t pushyour limits too much (not the time for him), but he really just enjoys seeingthe different expressions you make upon seeing what fucked up thing Gelato haschosen to show you this time.

They bothenjoy private dinners with you – preferably cooked by the three of you andenjoyed in the night air with a nice bottle of wine. They’re capable of beingromantic, sometimes. Gelato always pouts about sitting on Sorbet’s lap, butthen wants you to sit on his, so you both crush Sorbet until he bucks you off.

They onlyreveal their secret “old people hobbies” to you – Gelato likes to do thosepuzzles with 1000+ pieces and Sorbet watches really dramatic soap operas. Gelatodoesn’t like when you or Sorbet touch the puzzle, but he likes to have youwatch. Sorbet could spend hours talking to you about the plot of the soap operaand he loves when you sit with him and watch.

[stories-by-rie]

10 Tag Game

I was tagged by @jess---writes on my main (rokokokokolores) but since this is my writeblr, I hope it’s okay I post it on this blog. Thank you so much for tagging me, the questions really were wonderful! I am very lazy, however, so I just answered them and didn’t create new questions on my own. Everyone who reads them and likes them, feel free to do them as well!

1. What’s surprised you most about your current project(s)?

I am currently working on The Assassination of Keiko Ito, and the whole thing was the most extreme form of pantsing I ever did, so every new scene was a surprise. But I think that moment where I introduced a random object in chapter two and my MCs ended up ‘needing’ it in chapter twelve was a big surprise.

2.  Do you characters serve your plot or create it? How?

Both? Both. Both is good. Honestly, I don’t really think about this concerning my writing at all, and I haven’t read on this matter enough to give a solid answer. But with my projects, I think characters are more important, because a good character can be a plot, but a plot can’t be a character. Does that make sense? I don’t know.

3. What piece of writing advice always stays with you?

This one where eight authors share advice and everyone thinks it’s a joke. Every single one of them, and I am absolutely not kidding. I think this is the only writing advice I need to follow and I am ignorant to all the rest.

4. (eesh this one’s a bit of an essay... but I can’t stop thinking about it now!) Maggie Stiefvater wrote about the fact her characters were questions she asked. For example, Gansey was questions of privilege and what you owe the world when you have it. (click here to read the article) What questions would some of your characters be?

This is such a hard question, which is the reason I actually answered it last ^^ I actually think I  create my characters in a similar way?

Kora – Kora asks the ethical question of the trolley-problem. It fascinated me since my youth and in taoki she is confronted with it, and decides to make a decision.

Simon – Simon is the questions of what happens when you have solid principles and how you react when they are challenged to their very fundaments.

Keiko – (how vague can I phrase this without being too spoilery?) Keiko is about inner conflicts with yourself. *awkward cough* I’ll just leave it at that.

5. Have you ever cut scenes you love for your project? How did you come to that decision?

Yes, I totally have. There are three or four scenes in total that I cut out of taoki even if they made sense plot wise. They were good scenes generally, but I figured that I had just created them to info-dump and that is not a good reason for a scene to exist in my opinion. Some were really cool, but didn’t match the ending once I rewrote it. So there are several reasons to cut a scene for me, but not in a ‘kill your darlings’ way. That’s actually not a reason why I would cut one. Even if it’s not necessary to the story, a ‘filler’ scene can still be useful. If I love it, someone else will like reading it too. I could ramble about this forever, probably ^^

6. What do you struggle with as a writer? How do you try to overcome that struggle?

I would say style is very tricky for me. I know I could improve more if I read more, but with uni I got just enough time to write, so it’s a bit hard at the moment. I also struggle with settings a lot. It just never seems so relevant while I write? Or I have a clear imagination of it but can’t find the right words to make it clear. So I work on it in later drafts and check with betas, but it’s definitely hard.

7. Do names of characters and places come to you out of nowhere, or are they a conscious decision? If they’re a conscious decision, how do you come to that decision?

Oof. So. Both. Again. With some characters I will just assign a random name and accept it. Some characters get a name because they have a special meaning and it’s some sort of (lazy) foreshadowing or just something for me to be happy about. Examples would be Simon form taoki, a random name, and Kora who I named after Persephone, since she is an assassin, so it seemed to fit to call her after the goddess of the underworld. With places, it also is both. I usually use some generators for towns and the like, but also I ask myself: How do we name places in our world? So that’s how I decided on Goldstein (Goldstone) in In the Land of Twilight. It’s a town that was built in front of the Goldberg (Golden Mountain) so they built the houses with its stone and hence named the town after it. Does it make sense? I hope so ^^ But even with names of places from generators, I try to think of a sense. Annville in taoki has got a tiny myth tied to it, even if I took the name from a generator. It’s a great chance to work on world building!

8. What’s the deepest rabbit hole of research you’ve fallen down for any of your WIPs?

So. Many. Probably astronomy to built and define taoki’s magic system though. The magic in it comes from the stars and it gets deep into physics (I think I chatted with you, Jess, about it once on your discord? Don’t you study something with Physics?). I watched countless youtube videos about it, interviewed about four people who understand it more than me and I was so obsessed with it. I still am.

9. What sort of scenes do you look forward to writing?

Hm….. Emotionally packed ones, I think. Or the ones responsible for a WIP’s existence (even though those tend to get cut out of it in the end? Really weird).

10. What are your favourite things about writing?

EVERYTHING! Just kidding, absolutely not everything. But a lot. I love the process which allows me to escape in a different world, to create and use my fantasy. I love to assign personalities to characters, to see them interact with others. I adoooooore creating magical systems. The sound of my keyboard when I am doing a sprint. To interact with other writers. To read some of my writing after a long time and finding out that it isn’t as trashy as I thought it was. All of that.  

[manga-icons4you]

Akira Hayama from Shokugeki no Soma please? I'm on mobile so I can't see if the requests are open or closed....(darn u mobile app ) BUT I WANTED TO SAY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK SO MUCH and i ADOOOOOORE YOUR AVATAR AAAAAA Are we allowed to draw a fanart of ur avvie???

Ofc!! you’re fine they were open sweetie!! gotta love mobile!Ahhhh!!! im so happy you’re happy with it honestly!! it always makes me ungodly happy just knowing others are enjoying it or making them happy!!

That means so much!! he’s one of my favorites honestly! ofc thats perfectly fine!! I would love it honestly!!

Icon count: 150!!

Ill have them up by today!!

[kingofthewilderwest]

Hello again! Thank you for answering my ask, and for agreeing to answer my future questions as well! I will probably send you only fma asks and maybe some linguistics asks too, if that's okay. For starters, seeing as I'm still very impressed by your previous analysis, is it possible to request your full on analysis on royai? I mean, what do you think of them separately and together, what else do you have to say writing wise, what do you think the continuation of their story will be etc. *1*

I have also read very interesting analyses that link royai with alchemy theories, chess, etc. If you have read them, what are your thoughts on them? To summarize, everything you can tell me about them, I want to hear it. I know it is a huge ask with many parts and it will take lots of time to answer; I don’t mind that at all. If you can answer, I will only be eternally grateful. Thank you very much. *end*

Eyyyyy! Hello there!

However, it’s true I really do need something a little more concrete than “full Royai analysis” for an analysis prompt. How do I handle something so broad? XD I absolutely adoooooore Royai to the ends of the earth and I’ll talk about them happily forever, and I’m head over heels looking forward to having the chance to talk about them more with you - but it’s also impossible to write a “full analysis” on anything, be it Royai or some other topic. You might as well have asked me to write “everything” about North America… but how can I talk about the agriculture, the history, the geography, the climate, the fashion, the… well, haha, you get the idea. Even just one of those subcategories I mentioned is an endless hole of discussion potential. The thing with meaty material like Royai is there’s always new thoughts to be had or more depth to be explored. Trying to write this all would literally be writing a book for someone like me, and even then, I wouldn’t get down all the thoughts I have on the matter. 

And… well… sorry to say this, but even if I could write down all my thoughts… I also don’t have anywhere near the time to and can’t have people expecting I’d have the time to. Life is busy. I really appreciate when people consider I have a limited amount of free time to write analyses on tumblr - prompts that ask me to do too much are prompts that inherently require me to spend several hours of my freetime writing something, which unfortunately is neither something people should expect I should do, nor is it time I can take away from my jobs and other life activities. Thanks for noticing (you’re so sweet and thoughtful!) that this would take a long time for me to write - so it’s probably best to pick something that is a manageable topic in the first place and won’t require me to spend so many hours. XD There’s always starting with one concentrated topic in the first place, and then finding conversational time to expand outwards, too, as the wind blows.

But no worries! In the last Royai prompt I got that was broad, I picked a subtopic to delve into in depth. If there’s anything in particular you want me to chat on, let me know! Otherwise, I can pick my own subtopic again, and away we go no problem! I’m starting to think of subtopics I could delve in on, and if I don’t hear from you explicitly, I could talk about one of the things you mentioned here - other writing elements, what I expect Royai will be like after 1915, etc. Lots of possibilities, so you’ll likely see something from me in the next few weeks once I clear some room in my schedule.

I haven’t read too much meta in the FMA fandom, admittedly, though I have seen some of the discussions on chess. Those are extremely interesting to me, especially as someone who doesn’t play chess myself (I always meant to learn, but somehow never got around to it). It’s hard for someone who isn’t  knowledgeable of the game to comment on those theories, but I will say I have a lot of appreciation for those who’ve made the analogies. I think there’s something to them and that Arakawa did those chess designations with some degree of purpose.

Take care, stay awesome, forever FMA!

[jaehyutaeyong]

HI BABYLOVE!! How are you, sweetheart?! 💖

Sorry it took me forever and a half to answer! 🙈 I was arranging everything at work because I'm finally ON VACATION (for 15 days only but still!!!) so now I have the proper time to sit down and answer you with the full attention you deserve 🥰💜

Don't feel bad to say you had worse years than the past one! I'm sorry you've had worse moments, and at the same time I'm glad to know you're doing better than before!! Honestly, knowing things are getting better for you - even in a weird and fucked up moment like this one - makes me really happy! 🥺🥰😍💖

You know, I was watching Run BTS and I was thinking about that... do they know the full extent in which they help us? Do they have any idea how world-changing they are for the majority of army, just by being themselves, sharing a bit of them and of all their talent and hard work with us? 🥺 And knowing that maybe we also mean this much to them because our love and loyalty also changed their lives? It's just jsodjsosjdk I'm GETTING EMOTIONAL 🥺😫😭

now BABY THE PLAYLIST!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 okAY first of all, I know I said this already but the picture??? MELTED MY HEART 😫😫😫 The description??? THE CUTEST THING EVER!! 😫😫😫 I'm actually listening to it right now 🥺 I'm in the beginning still because I want to listen with focus, and I am loving it!! 💖🧡💛💜 I have to say the first two songs have caught my heart, I adoooooored them 😍😍😍 NCT's Baby Don't Stop sounds AMAZING as well I may be a bit in love? (I actually checked the MV and HELLO RED HAIRED BABY AND HI SHIRTLESS GUYS WOW 🙈) Also EXO's Obsession? I had to check the MV... hooooooly SMOKES 👀👀👀👀 Which just lead me to watch Monster MV and HOLY SMOKES WHAT A GOOD SONG????? 🙈 So yeah, I'm having a blast and getting to know so many new artists, it's amazing! 💖💖💖 Thank you so much for that, babygirl 🥰💖💜

Ooooohhh I tried learning Romenian on Duolingo as well! It is a crappy app to learn a language indeed hahahaha 🤡 OMG one is sci-fi-ish and the other is a horror one?!?!?! I'm definitely giving them a go!! I love those genres 😍 I'm a bit of a book worm (I tend to spend more time reading than watching TV shows, for instance 😅), so I'm trying to go after other Korean authors! I don't know if you like comics, but there's a South Korean author called Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, and she has an amazing comic called Grass, it is great to understand more about South Korea's history! It can be triggering though, because it talks about the women who were sexually assaulted by Japanese soldiers during the war. It's an incredible read, nonetheless! Mixing my current love with Korea is definitely helping me to get to know more authors/TV shows! It's so exciting! 💖💖💖

THE OUTFITS IN WAR OF HORMONE ARE AWESOOOME!! And honestly, there's no way for Tae not to be your bias if that's the first MV you've watched, he is truly top tier there holy moly 🥵🔥 They truly seem to be having fun there, and the hug Tae gets in the end is just so sweeeeet 🥺🥰 Honestly, that's what makes me more amazed by them, they have gone through so much over the years, and still they advocate for the right things, their hearts are absolutely on the right place, and they are genuinely so thankful and humble, I'm constantly like "babes, HOW ARE YOU LIKE THIS??? 😫😫😫😫😫". Like when they say they'll work harder to get the Grammy, I'm like "hunnies, you don't need to work harder AT ALL, you already deserve a grammy, but they don't deserve you, you ARE BETTER THAN THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT!", and even then it's clear they MEAN THAT, they'll actually work harder, it's absurd 🥺

You and Jimin are connected on a spiritual sort of level because you are both angels 🥰😇 While Yoongs and I are grumpy old souls, you and Jimin are absolute sweethearts, the kindest souls out there 💜🤍💛💙🧡💖❤💚🤎

OMG your combo truly IS a comeback holy smokes hahahah 😍 Young, full of talent and hungry for recognition (which they have always deserved), what an amazing combo!! By the way, only these days I found out "Just One Day" has a MV, and I'm absolutely in love??? What a SWEET MV THE CHOREO FOR HOLDING HANDS IS THE CUTEST MF THING I HAVE SEEN??? 🥺😫😭 I cannot stop watching/listening to it, it's crazy 🙈🥺🥰

Honestly, I'm thankful for what they do for us on a daily basis, but pretty soon they'll kill us because THESE CONCEPT PHOTOSHOOTS???? WHAT DO THEY THINK THEY ARE DOING???? 😵😵😵😵

Okay oKAY WAIT A SECOND

I'M SORRY my stupid ass gets really confused with changes of url and all BUT OMG BABY YOU'RE MY PAIGE?!?!?!?! BACK FROM SEBASTIAN/STUCKY/MARVEL ERA?!?!?!?! DARLING HIIIIII!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 HAHAHAHA I feel like such a dumbass for not making the connection THEFUCK I'M SO SORRY 🙈😫🤡

Holy smokes I am so excited and I feel so stupid at the same time LMAO HI BABY!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜

Asjdhsjks url changes throw me off sm too!!! I've definitely confused majority of my followers too with the constant changes to my url lmaoo

buT-

HIII CAM!!!! YESSS MY LOVELY, THATS ME!!! I'M YOUR PAIGE 💖💕💖💕💖💕 you're so adorable omg also you don't have to apologise at all my love!! You've honestly made my day with this 🥺😂 ahahaha

bit of a tangent - a few months back I remember seeing bts stuff with your tae with suga url on my dash and being like when did I follow a bts centric blog? But then clicking on your blog and realising it was you I was ooh awesome it's Cam!!! (I used to be a huge fan of bts/kpop back in 2015/16 but kinda just dipped out of it) BUt after seeing them on my feed a few times i realised how much I've missed them and other kpop artists I general, and now here I am asjdhsjks so basically I just wanted to thank you for kinda, pretty much bringing them back into my life 💖💜💖💜💖💜💖

ANYWAYS, this is so fucking exciting honestly asjdhsjks and we near enough went from one era to another together and I find that so amazing 💕

I hope you had a good weekend bb and that this week is even better for you 💕💜💕💜 I'm sending you all the love