#i am genuinely curious to hear other ppl’s thoughts though

[crabsdaily]

friend asked me if i could only listen to 10 albums for the rest of my life which ones i would choose and my IMMEDIATE first thought was “fuck fall out boy has 9 albums i only have space for 1 more”

which might be the wrong answer

[celestie0]

ellie did you hear about the solar storm thing thats been going around?

my friend gave me a detailed explanation abt what it is whats going to happen n all n honestly i am TERRIFIED.

like it genuinely seems so real that i cant even convince myself that this is another one of those silly things that go around each year

the fact that research for this solar storm has been going on since 2019 is ???? scary ????

makes it seem more believable tbh bc if it was not real it wouldn't have been going on for so long

IM SO SCARED 😭 genuinely cried when my friend was telling me ab this and she also said thwt we'll get to know ab when the solar storm is going to hit about 30 minutes before AND NOW IM PARANOID BC IT CAN HIT ANY MOMENT NOOOOO

and to top this off my mother told me that not many ppl will survive till 2027 i have no idea where she got that from but she scared me even more

this is so bad.

hii my love yess ive heard of the solar storm, i know that solar flares in general have been talked about a lot for a while now but i didn’t know that there was recent news about it!

i’m sorry you’re experiencing anxiety regarding it :””( yeahh ive heard that solar flares are near impossible to predict in advance for a lot of reasons, so that can definitely heighten the fear

hm idk if it makes you feel better but i remember nasa n other news outlets were talking about solar storms the exact same way about a year ago (i just remember telling my dad ab it cuz he works in aerospace n figured his company might’ve been discussing it) but nothing happened at all within the six month period that the news had been freaking out about LOL. i panicked a lot then too n my dad said it was just fear mongering lmfaoo 💀 (he’s kind of a cynic though haha) but yea i just bring this up because it’s not the first time this sort of news has been sensationalized

following any sort of space stuff can be scary for sure n it’s super easy to get lost in article rabbit holes that can really disrupt your quality of life in the present :( but i think there have been multiple instances of space phenomena that have been hyped up in media (even by a lot of reputable news outlets) that have not really affected daily life as much as it was thought to (like the never ending cycle of news about new asteroids, the whole aliens thing, etc)

i think it’s important to remember that the scientists that are actually behind the research are completely different entities than the people writing up articles about it online, so you always have to take the news with a grain of salt or maybe try to look into accounts from the actual researchers behind the findings (who, more often than not i’ve found, don’t even panic about their own research to the level of extent a lot of media ppl do online haha)

i’m not saying i don’t believe in the possibility of a solar storm or anything like that lol i just think there’s a lot of tendency in news these days to scare tf outta people for no reason

also correct me if im wrong but the largest danger of a solar storm would be disruption of radio & internet frequencies right? i thought they werent actually powerful enough to cause any sort of biological radiation harm ;0 loss of internet access would definitely be a weird thing to see and could put stress on more developed countries, but a lot of the world doesnt even have internet access to begin with so i’m not sure how much it will actually affect livelihood (i’m aware that it’d affect a LOT of things for sure, but i’m talking ab dangers like life or death situations, n i just cant imagine that being the case? but if you’ve looked into that more than i have n have more to share then lemme know i’m really curious)

sorry, im just bringing this all up in hopes it helps w your fears, n not to invalidate them! bc i totally get it, it’s scary stuff esp when it’s stuff you feel like you have no control over. but there’s a lot of things in life we have no control over, i think it’s best to just focus on what we can control n just try to enjoy today :)

thank u for ask bb <3

[honeybeeofficial]

hey! this is very random and i hope it doesn't seem creepy but anyways. were you formerly on the ywp (a young writers website)? i'm a ywper now and me and a few others were talking about how weird it is to see mentions of the ywp on other websites. so then we went on different socials and looked up 'ywp' just for fun to see what comes up and an old (?) post of yours about nano and connecting with former ywpers came up. and yeah! i just thought that was cool, yk to know that there are other ppl out there who were on that silly site and know how impactful that place was. if i've got you wrong or you think this is creepy i'm really sorry, i'm going now lol. i hope you have a lovely day <3

yeah!!! oh man it's so wild to hear anything from New YWPers™. I was very active on the ywp forums for about 6 years 2010–2016, and that's how I met a lot of my good friends. I've met a solid handful in person over the years, and a lot of us are still good friends 6+ years later! my username was Bean– I really won the username lottery with that one– this was in ye olden times before the site changed webhosts, though, so any trace of my and my friends' accounts are long gone. (Can you let me know if there's anyone with that username now? I know usernames weren't migrated when the site switched over in fall 2016 so after I graduated the name would've been up for grabs and I've been so so curious.)

the ywp was a hugely formative experience for me so I'm genuinely delighted to hear that (it sounds like?) it has continued to be a good place. a bunch of us are in various discord servers where we routinely bring up "anyone else remember when xyz happened on the ywp?" and it's so much fun to have those shared memories. I hope you and your friends get good lasting experiences out of it as well. I learned a lot about creativity and my process while I was in the ywp community, but probably the more impactful things were just about like. who I am as a person and how to have meaningful/respectful interactions with others. there were exceptions, but the majority of the time it was a really fun and supportive community, and I hope it's still that for you guys!

i could go on, honestly, i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about the ywp's role as a mostly-private creative and social platform for minors and the kinds of positive thing that enables, but. tell the other 2022 ywpers hello for me, and i hope your writing projects are going well!!

[oysters-aint-for-me]

it bothers me that most people respond to questions as though they are being interrogated and thus have to be immediately defensive. this happens in face-to-face interactions and in online text communication. the other day i asked my vet what the injections were that he was giving my cat, and he did tell me, but there was an air of “Why are you asking me? do you think i’m wrong?” no! i just feel like i should know what things are going in my cat’s body, you know?

this has made me realize how many questions people ask in bad faith. if someone asks me something like “hey if you’re non-binary then why do you go by she/her?” there’s like a 33% chance that they’re asking because they are genuinely curious and trying to learn something about the world or themselves, and a 33% chance they’re asking in order to pick apart whatever i say in response and show how “dumb” non-binary people are, and a 33% chance that they’re asking because they want me to go on the defensive and assume they’re asking in bad faith so that they can see me melt down.

unless the question is very obviously in bad faith, i almost always assume the first option, because i have been on the other side so often. when i ask “how long will this event be?” others always hear me saying “i need to know exactly how long i should be miserable and i am hoping for you to say that it will be a very short event.” but none of that is what i am asking! i just like to know. so i spend all this effort whenever i ask questions to make sure that there is no ambiguity as to why i’m asking and it ends up like “hey! just wondering if you knew how long this event will be? it’s totally fine if it’s gonna be long or short or whatever, i can do any length of time, i’m just planning out my day! thanks so much!” but like??? that’s so much effort! and a lot of people barely register the extra tone notes i add and they still hear me saying “aaah this is gonna take forever i don’t wanna go!” but i’m not going to stop because

the thing is that i LOVE questions. i love to ask things and discuss things. i love answers! i like to Know stuff. information is my love language but unfortunately for me a lot of other ppl translate it to mean the exact opposite. when i ask a question, the instinct comes from me being like either “i am curious about the world and your thoughts on it, because i care about you and your opinion matters to me,” or “having this information will make me feel more comfortable. can you please help me feel more comfortable?” i very rarely ask “gotcha!” questions (at least not in any way that could be taken seriously) i just like to Know things :(

(side note my family has been going to that vet since before i was born and he’s really more like part of the family so it felt more like that kind of interaction; i don’t think he would have responded that way to a client he didn’t know as well. so no hate for my weird avuncular vet lol)

[game-boy-pocket]

Alright, Direct thoughts time I guess. I'm not gonna be all flowery and happy because I honestly wasn't that impressed so if you don't wanna read the mean ol spoiled nintendo fans thoughts then keep scrolling.

I care not for Fire Emblem. I also care not fore Advance Wars but I'm still happy to see that this game is coming, I don't want it, but any time Nintendo ressurects an old IP is fine with me. Also the character designs are fun.

I care not for Mario sports spinoffs, but I do think we were overdue for a new Strikers game. I don't want it, but I admit they fill a role, and I do appreciate the more unique rough and edgy style of the striker games, and of course Next Level is bringing their usual brand of extra expressiveness to the Mario crew that Nintendo isn't as good at doing themselves... I do worry that this may be a little more sanitized compared to older strikers games.

I'm just not feeling Splatoon 3. I loved the first Splatoon. I had an okay time with the second one but it felt like more of the same... and this third one so far just looks like even more of the same than before... I guess we'll have to wait and see more of the single player campaign.

Kirby is horrifying now I see.

I guess Chrono Cross rumors were true. I don't feel a storng urgency to play that game, I like Chrono Trigger just fine but I am not one of those people that would put it in my top 10 or even top 50, and I hear the sequel isn't that good. Maybe if it's cheap I'll check it out.

I've been curious about Klonoa forever so i'll check that out if the price is right.

LIVE A LIVE is a genuine suprise. That game has been on my backlog forever. I'm actually not a huge fan of the 3D HD stuff though so I think I may stick with the fan translated SNES version unless they include the original with the remake ( something I feel every remake should be doing. )

Already said my piece about the Kingdom Hearts releases. If you don't have a playstation, pirate it. DO. NOT. SUPPORT. CLOUD. GAMING. It's fucking stupid.

I was excited to see new stuff for Metroid but it all turned out to be difficulty options that should have been in the base game and a boss rush, which also should have been in the base game. Can't complain too much when it's a free update, but I really wish these things didn't have to be added later. Not everyone has guaranteed ongoing internet access.

The EarthBound re-releases.... sigh... I'm just tired of Nintendo and their fans feeling like they deserve a pat on the back for doing things that they've already done before, and should just be an expected thing that they should always do, and doing it a few years later than they should. Earthbound releases are not a huge deal anymore. None of Nintendo's retro releases are and they really shouldn't be praised for the way they handle their retro games, especially since they used to do a much better job at it, but failed to make sure it carried forward to current generations.

Switch Sports is also a genuine suprise. I thought that series would have died with the wii. Is the same audience for those games even on the switch? I know Switch has outsold the Wii at this point but that's largeley due to it being a handheld and not a great console to share with other ppl. I don't exactly see Granny Ethel playing tennis at the retirement home with a Joycon. Still, I liked Wii sports. If I can get it for a bargain bin price, maybe i'd pick it up.

I forgot that I bought portal on Steam ages ago and never played it... oops. I really should give it a go, it's one of those instant classics, yes?

Mario Kart's DLC is pretty cool. Mario Kart 8 really is going to be the best Mario Kart game at this rate, huh? The Switch version already had more tracks than any other Mario Kart game before it thanks to the DLC from the Wii U version being bundled in. And they only want a quarter of the game's price to double the number of tracks? This is way better than a new Mario Kart game imo.

If I didn't mention an announcement, it means I have no thoughts about it.

[notsolong-pause]

ship requests

“Hey 👋 . Can I get a male HP ship (from both eras if possible) pls . Thank u so much ! . So I m a Gryffindor (with a bit of Slytherin ) . In my free time , I would love to read fantasy or sci-fic novels or facts maybe , listen to music , research about anything I want to , do something my parents denied me off maybe . If my friends are available , I'll also go downstairs with them and play . I m not as such interested in sport but I love to play cricket and badminton . My hobbies are dancing , horseriding , reading , researching , cyber and swordfighting (I haven't done it yet tho). I love the trope of fake relationship or enemies to lovers

Next is my personality . Well , I can be shy if I m not comfortable with the person , but if I am then I am very talkative . I don't trust ppl at the beginning until they prove themselves . I m very reliable and trustworthy but I tend to hide my emotions . I like my privacy, I don't even share that with my bestie sometimes . I come off as a rebel and I can get annoyed very easily . I love to organise a room . Everyone comes to me for advice . I also have a very good sense of humour which comes out in front of ppl I'm comfortable (they say I never used to fail to surprise them with my hidden qualities) . I m also quite modest . I m a risk-taker and I always stand up to my friends , I also have their back sometimes . I can also be a bully to my enemies or my friend's enemies but only if they start it first . Idk what is it , but ppl tell me I carry a powerful aura and many boys get attracted to me . Also , the popular ones used to attract to me a lot because I could be seen as a quiet nerdy girl . I come off as very unique at first meeting . I m practical with my decisions but as said , I hide my emotions or else the emotions would have led me. I m also a human lie detector , or that's what my family tells me . The thing that stands out in me isy dressing style . I am very curious. I m also very much mysterious . I m loyal to a fault . Now my flaws are that sometimes I don't believe my friends at all and it hurts them since they ask me to be honest and I tell them the truth . I can be blunt and cold without realising it but I don't mean to . I am an extrovert so keeping me from doing something can make me insecure . I m sensitive to criticism . I can be super suspicious, like a looott . I hate when ppl try to control me, even my parents so I end up going against them or I follow their instructions half-heartedly . I can be very very stubborn . I also get many intuitions but I ignore them . I hate when ppl are unreliable , everyone's lazy but atleast they should do their work after some rest . I also hate arrogant boastful PPL . I hate when someone disrespects me and I immediately cut them off from my life . I hate lame excuses given by the ppl whom I expect something to do and they didn't. I am very patient but once they cross their lines , they wish they hadn't . I guess this is too much ? (Lol sorry but excited ) Thank u so much for ur time dear 💗”

a/n: Hi! Thank you for so many details!! It’s lovely. You also asked for TMR ship, so I’ve decided to do a HP form one era and one for TMR. Hopefully, you are okay with that:)

p.s.: sorry for being a Draco slaughter. i’m also doing all the other requests, thank you for them!! they are going to be trade in a day or two. sending love <3

Harry Potter:

I ship you with Fred Weasley 

(so badly, you’re a perfect match)

First of all... being stubborn and taking risks is something that you probable have in common, which is going to create a perfect enemies to lovers dynamic. Maybe academic/prancing rivalry?

You constantly mocking each other, but not meaning any harm or anything, even though others might think that you hate one another

Him always helping you to break the rules if needed, but still making sure that everything is alright, and everyone is safe. And you would keep an eye on him back, supporting him when he doesn’t know what to do

He would be surprised when you started to open up, and crack jokes, but would love them so badly. And he definitely is very grateful whenever (and if) you chose to tell him something private, and wouldn’t tell anyone else even if he was tortured

You would always give amazing ideas for the shop products. And he would be like: “Where do you know that from?” “Don’t know, just thought it was interesting and decided to investigate”

You were walking in the dull lights of a corridor from the late detention in the Snape’s dungeons. You got this one for arguing with a certain Weasley. This was entirely his fault, though, but he didn’t get caught, and you could still see the stupid smirk on his stupid face when you were assigned to come down here after classes. The Slytherin do was just nearby, and you heard a couple of voices around the corner. You were hopping these were some of your friends from Slytherin, but as you listen closely you herald none other than Malfoy. “These Weaslebeeys are ignorant trash just like their father. Who’s would willingly study what muggles’ life’s are like? That’s just dumb”you didn’t know whether he was just showing off in front of his friends or if he was being serious, but you were furious at the moment.

“Malfoy!” - you energetically approached the group.

“Another gryffindor”, - he smirked. “Why don’t you spend an evening at your dorm or some other lame place?”

“Cut it. Take it back” - you face was almost stone cold. Eyes glimmering dangerously in the flickering light.

“Are you defending the Weaslebees?” - he grimaced, being so proud of himself for no reason.

“It’s not their name, and they don’t need any defense. You’re being an arrogant prick towards my friends, and I’m not going to tolerate that.” - you were stiff, your fists clenched in order to hold back the anger. How dared he speak in such diminishing manner about people 100 times better than him!

“What are you going to about it?” He replied cheekily, stepping forward.

“Well... I don’t know, how about TheLocomotor Wibbly!” - you were gripping tightly onto your wand, and Draco suddenly fell to the floor. His legs turned to jelly.

“You little...” one of his friends pointed your wand towards you, opening his mouth to jinx you back. Suddenly there was a loud bang, everything was covered with the thick smoke, and you were pulled to the corner. You instinctively pointed a wand on the person in front of you, still unable to see anything.

“Easy, lady” you recognized the voice. “Fred? What are doing here?” you were genuinely surprised, and started wondering how much has he heard. “Came to rescue you from the Snape’s claws” he smirked. “Why?” you didn’t understand a thing. “No fun being brilliant if you can’t see that and get jealous” - he cocked his eyebrows. You huffed back. “Well, thank you, I suppose.” “Oh good, I thought I’d never hear that”. You surprised a smile. “Let’s move already”.

“By the way”, he stopped you, “did I hear you calling me a friend?” You nudged his shoulder. “Don’t think too much of it, Weasley”.

The maze runner:

I ship you with Gally

He’s the one to understand you not opening up fully and immediately and keeping things to yourself for 110%. He’s mysterious himself, and he can give you every time in the world (sorry, i’m love him sm)

Again... the enemies to lovers dynamic, ESPECIALLY considering the whole thing with him killing Chuck (still hurts, though).

He can be very protective from time to time, so you can have “Because I care for you!!” arguments when you’re being reckless and decide to risk in order to save him.

He's honestly the sassy king of the show. Taking your sense of humour in account, I belive that he would really appreciate that you have it and can back him up. So you would exchange jokes back and forth

He's also absolutely giving you every freedom in the world not even attempting to control you or tell you what to do, he would only give out advices. And as far as he realises you're sensitive to crticizm, he starts to control himself in order not to hurt you.

"Please, never do that again". You and Gally were walking around the Last City, back to the shelter.

"Do what?" You asked, raising your head to the boy slightly ahead of you.

"You know what I'm talikng about". He turned his head to you, and stopped in the shaddow of the narrow street between the houses. His gaze was pretty serious, and both of you were extremely tired after yet another mission in attempt to undermine the existing regime.

"I don't think I do". You looked up at him with the confusion in your eyes.

"What you did back there was very risky, and you could have not make it. Don't risk like that ever again".

"But the cranks would've gotten you then". You protested. In your opinion, what you did was the only option.

"I appreciate the concern, but I could I handle it". He was starting to get stubborn, while you were getting angry.

"That's not true. One of them was hanging on your throat. That's not something people cal 'I handle it'". You threw your arms in the air, gesturing.

"I'm not letting them take me instead of you!" Gally was almost shouting at this point.

"Well, I'm not letting them take you either!"

"Great!"

"Great!"

You both went silent and were walking angrily towards your shelter, turning, sneaking, and hiding.

"Gally". You called in a few minutes. "It's just that I really care about you".

"I know". He told you, looking back again. "Just promise me, you're going to be careful".

"You know I really can't promise, but at least I'll try".

[toko-talks]

i haven't seen any other anons send you answer you so far so ... 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 /p - 🧃

1.) what’s your favorite “underrated” DR character ?

there's a lot i like, but it's honestly probably a tie between the asahinas. i ADORE aoi - she'd be an amazing friend and/or girlfriend </3 on the other hand, ik we didn't see him much but ... <yutaasahina3 SORRY YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL BY MY PROFILE THEME I HAVE BRAINROT FOR HIM

2.) what DR character do you think would be your best friend in a non-despair au ?

!!! KYOKO, SONIA, CHIAKI, AND/OR KAEDE !!! i'm kind of basic with these choosings but ... i kin them and because of that we have a lot in common :] then again, i have too many kins ,,, but honestly probably sonia or chiaki for the most part !

3.) what DR character do you think would be annoying to be in a school setting with ? (like, if you had a group project with them you’d groan).

god, i'm so sorry byakuya, but i can't STAND you. love you tho *smooch* BUT IN ALL HONESTY YK HE WOULD JUST DUMP THAT SHIT ON YOU AND LEAVE ... i just can't stand people who don't do their part - at least, not without good reason.

4.) who do you think you’d crush on in DR if it were a non-despair au ?

basic again but ... <nagito3, chiaki, or hajime. or all three LMAOO i'm a goddamn simp and i . i love them sm .

5.) what character do you think deserves more “x reader” writing ?

OOH BOY THERE'S A LOT ... mmm but mainly to keep it short, a lot of the girls in this franchise ... the fighter girls !! they get some recognition, but not a whole lot ... OOH HIMIKO AND ANGIE !! AND AND AND KIRUMI AND AND UM PEKO AND -

bonus ! ;;

6.) how are you doing ?

i'm fine - really ! the real question is, how are you doing ?

7.) what are your hobbies ?

writing, as you probably already know, editing, drawing, singing sometimes //// .... um also kind of just interacting with people anonymously ? it's nice to watch people get happy over a stranger wanting to talk or genuinely curious even if it's over a post :] /gen

8.) what’s your favorite color?

oh my god ... the hardest question /s but in all honesty, red & black are in a tie ! hbu ? i assume probably pink and/or purple ? <3

AYE YOU’RE A REAL ONE 🧃 THANK YOU SO MUCH 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 /p

1.) I LOVE AOI ALTHOUGH IDK YUTA TOO WELL :0 i’m sure he’s great though his design and ur profile theme is so cutee

2.) YES THOSE GIRLS ARE SO GREAT I LOVE THEMMM ah they’d be great friends omg— it totally makes sense how you’d be friends with them because you have so much in common

3.) LMAOO you make a great point about byakuya i hadn’t thought of that at all but it makes so much sense now that you say it

4.) they are such an iconic trio i don’t even blame you at all! don’t let anyone tell you you can’t like “basic” characters, they’re still lovely! also hajime :lipbite:

5.) i will keep those in mind!! i totally wish i saw more of them too, looks like ima have to be the one to write about them more too! you’re an amazing writer too and i would love to see you write about them in the future :0 (no pressure tho i’m j saying i love ur work lol) i love kirumi and wish i could write about her more TwT

6.) i am also doing just fine tysm 🧃! i’m glad to hear you’re holding up :D lmk if you need anything!!

7.) you have such cool hobbies /gen, we share a lot!! i also draw and sing sometimes! it’s so cool that you draw if you’re comfortable with it, i’d love to see it!

and ppl like you are the backbone of society lol /hj thank you for interacting!! it makes my day to see you in my inbox, really—

8.) i also love red and black! i like wearing them as clothes more tho because i think they look better on me :D

ALSO YOU GUESSED IT WOAH— those have been my favorite colors for a while (pink and purple, i think it’s purple rn)

did my blog theme make it obvious? you’re so sweet to have noticed ! 😭 <33

[lordxgrinnyxboy]

rewatching tgm, wifi being useless edition 2/?

every time i hear puppet!Dea say “when a story is raw and real” i see Mr. Gordon Ramsey memes, they just scroll across my vision and there’s nothing i can do to stop it u-u

ngl im kinda in love with Mojo Puppeteer

the foot shimmy during this scene, like right as Ursus gets up off the floor Gwyn/Mr. Maskell does this little ankle squirm. u-u

foreaaaaaaaaaarmmmmssssss

love how mr maskell doesn't emote w/his face while puppeteering but ms. brisson's just facially so into this performance and honestly so's ms. onitiri

also love all the different bits of ribbon and such puppet!Dea’s hair is made of. several different textures in there

kay but the way he makes the prince puppet kinda bounce in place as he sings “only those three words could ever free me from the curse” it just makes it look like the prince is kindof adorably excited about this

im just now realizing that one part of the puppet is supposed to be the prince’s mouth and not his chin or something.

Dea’s soft “oh” when their hands touch

foreaaaaaarmsssss

Gwynlit always looks so shook as they step back from each other after the aging up sequence like he’s full dear-in-headlights (i know it’s ‘deer’ in headlights but he is Dear to Me so)

and really so is Dea for a second there

oh god her look of alarm  changes to a smile the second Gwyn starts singing. i need a minute.

i love these two so much

the harmony will never not end my life why is it so powerful

idk what they put in this song but every single time my aroace self is like “shfjshfsj play this at my wedding” and then i have to be like “wait.”

Dea’s adorable and i hope she knows how adorable she is

im cry they’re so cute they’re so cute i love these two

Quake is on it about letting ppl know entertainment’s cancelled due to the king dying Quake is ready Quake loves her job so much

oh so  the barrels are just there for Dirry-Moir and Osric to have somewhere to sit while Ursus tells the story okay

wait how quick did dude just throw on his Clarence costume and climb in the coffin that was. super duper fast

he’s literally offscreen for 24 seconds and managed to

holy cats how does he do it

wait also mojo tho. mojo had to put on his priest costume

wait also Osric and Dirry-Moir had to put on their Lord attire

and they say movies are supposed to be magic

just continuing to absolutely love every character played by ms. obianyo

love how they just. have trombones. 10/10

i mean i guess the costume changes aren’t super complicated like throw on a robe and a wig but STILL within 24 seconds? i think it’s impressive

oh hey jojo-as-a-random-lord is also here

ohhhhh is that why Jojo’s costume is Like That then? to make it easier to switch characters real fast? but no actually???

the hats on the lords tho. we’ve got Fish Lord, Bunny Lord,,, maybe some kind of Bird or Chicken Lord...

so it’s a Pig’s Foot that killed Clarence and the name of the holy relic translates to like, “pig’s flower” ...thematic....dots.......

oop there’s Only a Clown

ngl i kinda love Archbishop Kupsak. a weird dude.

would love to know why Angelica thought she needed to ‘make a law’ regarding traitors being brought to justice. just curious about her thought-process. heck she could probably have her own musical.

WAIT MS OBIANYO PLAYS THE TROMBONE. SICK.

wait hey, hey. hey. petition for ms. obianyo to play a FATE.

oh god it’s my least favorite scene

skip? no...but? no u-u

jojo apologize to the trash clown

scene too stressful

genuinely have no thoughts, head completely empty

CART SCENE CART SCENE CART SCENE

is that a bowl and spoon on th-

separate post separate post gentlefolks of the jury i

jaw twitch

okay but Dea gets this Look when Gwyn asks Ursus “who did this to me” she looks a little Surprised

does not react however to “who carved me into this freak”

the hand flex as Gwyn walks away from Ursus after Ursus Won’t Let Him Talk

oh Osric you absolute delight

beauty and the beast ii destroys me every time gwyn’s just steadily wilting but trying to hold on but he can’t and Dea’s so supportive

would love to know what Ursus’ take on all this would’ve been if he hadn’t been involved. like would he still be hell-bent on not letting Gwyn remember or would he have been more chill about letting Gwyn make that decision for himself

like on the one hand i can see why Ursus would think that maybe Gwyn would be better off not remembering, but also making him forget clearly didn’t actually help him suffer any less, it just gave him a different kind of suffering. He’s wrung-out tormented and Ursus can’t/won’t help him because of the potential repercussions of Gwyn learning the truth. which do include some Worst Timeline options for how that could go but. also include a few Gwyn’s Able To Move On And Live Well, With Or Without Ursus options so.

idk i just feel like after a certain point of seeing how Gwyn’s basically falling apart over all this Ursus really should’ve considered having that difficult Discussion bc that boy was Not getting better on Ursus’ Plan A

also the whole dismissively invalidating ur kid’s struggle is not a good look Ursus

i love him and absolutely believe he is definitely Trying His Best but he’s #Problematic_Dad for sure

that bit where Ursus notices Josiana as if for the first time and does that little bow to her oh my goodness XD

also him just trying so hard to keep it together in the lead-up to Born Broken. debating whether Ursus sticking his head through the curtain is the funniest part of this show. probably not but it’s real close

Dea’s so pretty and i love her outfit u-u

and her blue makeup

and her lovely lovely eyes like wow she’s Perfect

this girl is in her element and im fully convinced that in the version of events where Gwyn and Dea stay on as Lord and Lady Dea does some addressing of parliament or whatever, has speaking engagements, she’s all kinds of involved.

there’s tears in Ursus’ eyes during this bit and i don’t agree w/him but i do feel bad for him. he does want to do right by these kids but he’s just...it’s not working out for him because he can’t have it both ways.

i mean genuinely tho Ursus is so desperate to forget/bury/escape/move on from the past but in adopting Gwyn and trying to be a family and a fresh start for him...that shut down any chance of that actually happening.

no but fr Ursus’ face when Dea says “it doesn’t keep us safe, Father, it turns us against you” which is like. probably the exact thing he’s afraid of happening if they ever learn the truth.

*strums lyre* it’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy!

Musical Ursus is fully a good dude who did one Stupid Thing and spent the rest of his life trying to control the damage only to make it Worse and then he died and i’m so! 😭

at the end of the second 30minutes but im keep going

Dea and Gwyn are holding hands so intently im feeling feelings about

harmonyyyyyyyy

ngl though i wonder if given Ursus’ “dear god, you pick your moments” and “who did what to you” if maybe this is something that’s just been festering and hasn’t been verbally brought up until the show’s events

“What do you want?! BLOOD?!” i mean u did script him as saying he wants to kill a man

“I can’t tell you anything you don’t already know” i mean technically that’s true bc technically Gwyn does know, he just doesn’t remember, which is pretty much the same as not knowing but ayyyyyyyyyy

would love to know what Ursus thought was coming when Gwyn said “I can only tell them what I know I am” like

wait no but “I can’t tell you anything you don’t already know” being followed by “I can only tell them what I know I am” idk how to say but oh heck oh heck oh heck heck oh no.

but yeah Ursus’ little glances at Gwyn and then the Turn as Gwyn starts to sing. i just wonder what Ursus is thinking just then

ohhhhhhhhh wait a minute now. stars stripped from the sky. the play on the lyrics from within Ursus’ show. the conversation they just had. is Freak Show (partially?) a vaguepost at Ursus 👀

no but the Wiggle before that next to last “watch me smile” tho

needs the backbend 🍹

hello Puppet Helmet Thing. i’ve developed a fondness for you, you unexplained and kind of weird yet near-infinitely interpretable element of the show.

and cutting here for length uwu

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not an anti your anti-anti post got popular so i wanted to know why u ship bkdk? i'm genuinely curious bc i;ve only seen ppl say it's abusive and i'm new to mha

first of all anon thank you for approaching me respectfully about this. there are a lot of people i know who aren’t as lucky but really, thank you for possessing the basic human decency that so many others on this fucking hellsite can’t muster. 

now, first of all let me say that i’m not a “““hardcore shipper””” or anything of the sort. i just think that bakudeku/katsudeku has a pretty good dynamic with lots of potential, along with a lot of other plausible ships in the series. i don’t get into a series for its ships, and even when i ship something i won’t let it take over my experience of fandom, which is why i’m def posting less bnha and ship discourse. this’ll probably be my last post about it, ever.

now, about bakudeku. 

on bkdk being abusive:

it is not. 

i first want to clarify that while bakugou bullied midoriya in the past, that doesn’t fucking make it abuse. i know abusers, and i know bullies. bakugou was shitty, and i’m not excusing his actions or saying they were okay because they were fucking not. most antis get all their fuel with the line “take a swan dive from the roof” that bakugou says to midoriya in the first chapter. 

did he actually mean it? did bakugou, a boy who was told all his life he would be a hero, who wanted to be a hero, say it with the intent of midoriya actually killing himself? no, he didn’t. it would go against everything a hero stood for, and being a hero was bakugou’s only aspiration in his life. unless anyone is iterating that he’s stupid (which canon proves otherwise almost constantly) he knew that when he said it, midoriya wouldn’t do it. 

(and while it is important to note that horikoshi has explicitly said that he went too far with that line, as it is not how bakugou should be seen and/or characterised, i’m still treating it as canon because it is, antis don’t @ me.)

and, as midoriya makes very clear later, he has absolutely no intention of taking bakugou’s words seriously. instead, he brushes it off as ‘kacchan being a proud idiot who doesn’t think before he speaks’. however, while he did not take those words seriously, that doesn’t mean they didn’t hurt even a little. his expression when bakugou says it is hurt, but more than that, shocked. obviously, anyone with a brain can infer that it is not something midoriya is accustomed to hearing things like that from bakugou. if it had been a regular occurrence, his reaction would have been a lot more subdued as he would have heard it before and therefore expected it.

even if you look at the scene later on, bakugou does not go out of his way to target or even interact with midoriya up until their teacher brings up the fact that midoriya wants to go to ua. bakugou does not see midoriya as “his old friend” or “the kid who he grew up with”. what he sees is “a quirkless kid who can’t do anything is trying to get in his alley, the one that everyone told him was handcrafted for him”. is he right? absolutely fucking not. does he realise this? again, no. this all leads to bakugou having a major gifted kid + inferiority complex, but i digress.

(i feel like it’s necessary to say once again that i am not condoning bakugou’s behaviour just because he didn’t really intend for midoriya to commit suicide or midoriya didn’t take it seriously, or saying that it’s okay if nothing happened.)

anyway, back on topic. later during the final exams arc, midoriya also states explicitly that he and bakugou have not talked properly to one another since they were kids. this makes it clear that bakugou did not, in fact, ceaselessly torment midoriya throughout their elementary school/junior high years. they just didn’t interact, plain and simple. the experience shown on the playground when they were four and the one after school on this day were likely two of very few, perhaps ten at most, incidents in which bakugou and midoriya’s difference in power and therefore status was made clear to show what it means to be quirkless in this society. 

(i’d like to talk about how fucking messed up this society is, but that’s a whole other can of worms.)

bakugou has been a bully to midoriya. has he been abusive? absolutely fucking not. do i think their relationship is repairable? yes. i’ve been bullied before. i know what it’s like when you can reconcile with your bully and when you can’t. this is very clearly something that can be salvaged. 

on their canon relationship:

do i think of bakudeku as a “he pulled your pigtails because he likes you” situation? am i infatuated with the ever-popular childhood friend trope? not a chance, and dismissing any shipper’s evaluation of their relationship to that is fucking low. 

let’s start with their relationship at the beginning. bakugou harbours obvious animosity towards midoriya, and the only reason appears to be that it was because he was quirkless. (again, fuck quirk society) bakugou had always been told he was superior, and midoriya had always been told that he was nothing without a quirk. when you’re a young and impressionable child, having these things said to you a lot will make you believe it. in a sense, it’s akin to brainwashing. bakugou was made to believe that midoriya was worthless in comparison to him, a natural-born hero, and midoriya was made to believe that bakugou was amazing and undefeatable. 

there were a lot of ways it could have turned out, honestly. midoriya could have become someone bakugou saw as someone needing protecting, and as cliched as their relationship would have been were that the case, it would have been the only ““functional”” one they could have had. hence the dysfunction, because midoriya is not someone who can sit back and take hits. he wants to be a hero, which is half the reason he admired bakugou in the first place. 

so in the beginning of canon when midoriya’s desire to go to ua to be a hero is made known, bakugou, as i said before, feels as though his space has been invaded. he’s marked his territory, and all of a sudden this quirkless nobody i used to know wants to take it from me. of course, his way of thinking is wrong, but he’s never been corrected properly (sorry mitsuki, i love you but you’re not good at parenting, and masaru, please do something about your emotionally constipated son). 

bakugou’s reaction to midoriya saying he “just wants to try” makes it look like it was just a trivial matter for midoriya, as opposed to bakugou, who has been working towards wanting to become a hero since he was small (as opposed to midoriya who wanted to as well, yes, but never did anything being analysing the heroes for fun). he feels as though midoriya is going through it with a ‘meh’ attitude, which deeply offended by the sentiment and takes it personally. 

so bakugou obviously hates it. he hates feeling like someone that was, in his words, “a pebble in [his] path” could possibly even fathom overtaking him, when they were compared all the time. 

additionally, midoriya has been a part of bakugou’s ego fodder. he followed him around, praised him like the rest, yes, but it’s very important to note that even though midoriya showered bakugou with praise he still talked to him as though he would someday be on that same level, even as a kid. 

they were kids. they were dumb. but you  know what? they grew. 

bakugou especially has gone through so much development, even comparing him to the piece of shit he was in chapter 1 is a huge insult to bakugou, to horikoshi, and to midoriya, who has played an enormous part in it, especially after the sludge villain when it is very explicitly stated that bakugou didn’t even interact with midoriya until 

in the beginning of their first year at ua, bakugou learned for the first time what it meant to have people who were equal to him, that he wasn’t as exceptional as he thought. midoriya, too learned what it meant to stand as equals, but instead of falling from a platform above, he was thrown up from the ground. and during the battle trial, bakugou tasted bitter defeat for the first time, and it shook him to the point where he had a panic attack in class (which i’m disappointed all might didn’t notice, but i digress) upon seeing midoriya get k.o.-ed but still win while he was left unscathed physically, and lost to deku of all people. 

do i think their dynamic from the beginning of the year would have worked as a ship? no, abso-fucking-lutely not. bakugou feels nothing but betrayal (as in, he would obviously believe midoriya was hiding his quirk from him and lying to him their whole lives) and hatred for midoriya up until the battle trial, after which he doesn’t respect or even accept midoriya, but he acknowledges him because he beat him and then admitted half the secret to his quirk. 

their relationship is an absolute shitshow for a long time and it shows, but the battle trial was a huge part in the beginning of their relationship developing. and of course, it has to – midoriya is the protagonist and bakugou is the deuteragonist, after all. 

but the real turning point where bakugou comes to grudgingly accept midoriya is during their final exams before the training camp, where they went up against all might. being forced to work together and for bakugou to have to listen to midoriya really showed us depth in him we hadn’t seen before. sadly, all might was absolutely no help in their teamwork (despite that being the entire reason aizawa had paired bakugou and midoriya together) and instead made them try to focus on defeating him rather than working together, but somehow, that got the two of them to cooperate in battle. 

(personally, i believe that they would have been better matched against a more strategic teacher like aizawa or nedzu as they would be forced to come up with a strategy together, and all might provided an unrealistic situation for them overall and the entire fight makes absolutely little to no use of their intelligence, something that is canonically a prevalent strength for both of them.)

but honestly, after kacchan vs deku 2, where they finally become ““proper rivals”” according to all might, where they both finally, finally talk out their issues and try to patch their shit up. @dekatsu​ explains it really well here and i’ve rambled for long enough about it.

now, after that fight, they’re both at a point where instead of being at each other’s throats, they’re pushing each other forward, and that’s why i like them together so much, whether platonic or romantic. which brings me to...

what i like about bkdk

aka, the thing you asked me in the first place. 

do i approve of their relationship before kacchan vs deku 2? no. but after the fight, it blossoms into something absolutely brilliant. while they’re on their house arrest in the days after their fight, midoriya asks bakugou about his shoot style, and bakugou tells him exactly what he thinks and how it can be improved. and he admits, however backwardly, that he approved of it. 

from literally that moment on, their communication and relationship develops so so much (not getting into the later arcs because manga spoilers) and bakugou becomes a huge part of the “one for all” secret, and every. single. time he sees midoriya use it, he encourages him in his competitive way and he does want to make sure he sees deku become a great hero, dammit.

relationships where both parties push each other to do better always seem to be the ones that work best. bakugou is constantly striving now not just to better himself, but he’s making sure that midoriya is getting better too. the more the story progresses, the closer they grow. 

we’re at a point where bakugou sits in on midoriya’s meetings with all might about one for all and its technicalities and history, and is willing to train separately with midoriya because of it. they don’t have any problems with each other now -- even all might has properly acknowledged bakugou and midoriya as great friends. 

it’s indisputable. 

and whether you ship it or not, now if you deny that they have a bond that’s strong as fuck, you’re only making yourself look silly. 

platonic or romantic, these two have chemistry and they complement each other so well that it almost hurts. i can’t wait to see them grow into a hero duo. 

. . .

anyway, that’s the end of my 2k+ word long meta (which i honestly wouldn’t have been able to complete without the help of a tumblr friend who would like to stay anonymous) and i hope it answers your question and hopefully, it showed you a side of things that not only the antis are seeing. thanx, this is been my last ship discourse post.

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Here is a match for the wonderful @atalantaroars

“Okay: I'm 25, F, Bi, and INFP-T. My hobbies are singing, writing, and reading (scifi/fantasy and nonfiction-history mostly). I really enjoy nature and feel the most calm in water or surrounded by trees or hills. I am an avid learner; I enjoy video essays, history & science lectures, teaching myself code, ect. I am good at being social-able, am often told I'm funny and articulate, but I'm not great at being genuinely vulnerable and can run hot/cold in terms of romance as I flip flop on if I truly want to expose my actual emotions and experiences to someone. I would want someone who I could talk to about anything; I have a lot of interests and thoughts and want to hear other ppl's. Someone who is truthful and enjoys being silly and playful wouldn't hurt! Also I'm a really annoying cuddle bug so they're gonna have to bear that cross for sure.”

You have been matched with a Potamoi! The Potamoi are the male siblings to the Oceanids, the children of the deities Oceanus and Tethys, and are the minor gods of Earth’s many bodies of water. While the Earth has many major rivers, some of them are just so long, that the Potamoi and Oceanids have to double, sometimes triple up to keep everything running smoothly. It’s a good thing, though, since there are about three thousand of them each in existence, so everyone gets a job, and no one is left out. You can blame their parents for an eternity of porking without contraceptives for that, but at least the world is big enough so that no water-based territorial wars need to be fought.

Your Potamoi is the patron of a local stream, and since most people seem respectful of nature in the area, he’s a very chill and laid back water god. While people might think that those with bodies built like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson might use those strong muscles to battle others, he seems satisfied with his place as the guardian of the stream. His rippling abs are the only thing about him that stays stagnant, as his appearance tends to fluctuate between the days. Sometimes, he has a long, iridescent tail snaking down his waist and into the water, scales glittering in the moonlight. Other times, two buff, muscular legs, with a bull’s head atop his neck, making it easy to mistake him for a minotaur, and well, the resemblance is there so he can’t quite blame anyone for that.

His bull’s head is a bronze, tawny hide, horns black and long. It’s certainly something else to behold, and it often scares off anyone who comes across him. It’s a good shape to take if there is any threat of violence, and your Potamoi likes to call it his ‘war body.’ His other form is more merfolk-like, his face a bit human-esque when he is in his ‘fishy’ state, his tan features sharp. His eyes are startlingly large and seemingly innocent, irises a gentle blue, as bright and warm as the sky on a cloudless summer day. His hair is long and brown, the same shade as his bull hide, falling past his waist and is usually braided. He’ll let you play with the strands if you ask him oh so sweetly.

One of his favorite pastimes is to take care of and hang out with the animals who flock to his stream for water. He seems to genuinely care about the affairs of the forest’s natural wildlife, in relation to humans and others, and will often tell you of the gossip going around. The deer, it turns out, are somewhat notorious for trampling around the rabbit’s areas willy-nilly, and the poor little bunnies have just about had it. The ravens, too, like to chitter and fight amongst themselves with your Potamoi as their only negotiator for both parties.

Your Potamoi is so attuned to the surrounding nature, he seems to be able to sense whatever goes on within his stream, whether it be a tadpole hatching or a bobcat taking a minute to drink. One time, just to test his ability, you go downstream without greeting him first, taking off your shoes, and dipping your legs into the water. Your Potamoi appears a minute later, bursting from the surface just a few moments later, curious as to why you would follow an unusual trail rather than going to him directly like you always do.

When the two of your first met, he was busy talking with one of the deer, gently petting her back as he tries to calm her down. Even though you could only understand one half of the conversation, it soon becomes clear that the poor deer is distressed by the presence of humans in the forest, as they often bring weapons of calamity to hunt her tribe. Your Potamoi is working on calming her down from her hysterical cries, talking to her in a calm, gentle tone, and you see it working in the way that the deer gradually stops thrashing about. You fight the urge to speak up to them because you know that this is a conservation forest and that no one is allowed to hunt on these lands, but you stay silent, afraid of… well, the hulking presence in the lake.

The moment the deer is sent away, though, your Potamoi says, “I know you’re out there, at least do me the service of showing your face.”

Quietly, you wait, hoping that he might be referring to the other person hiding out in the woods, eavesdropping on his conversation. When no one else fesses up, though, you do as he asks, slinking out from behind the trees and standing by the banks of the stream. Only now do you realize his size in relation to yours, his hulking presence taking up so much space you wonder how he’s never been seen before. After all, you would think that such an impressive, prominent figure hanging around in the forest might catch an eye or two, letting rumors fly free, but you’ve heard nothing.

Still, you bring up what you had been thinking while listening on. “It’s illegal to hunt on these grounds.”

“Will that stop everyone?” He surprises you by asking.

“It’ll stop most people.” You try to think of any reports on illegal hunting, and can’t remember any. “I mean… I’m just trying to be reassuring.”

For a moment, he doesn’t say anything, then he offers you a single, slight nod. “That is kind of you.”

“I guess… I guess I’ll leave, then,” you say, only a tad bit nervous. When he doesn’t stop you, you go back to the town to think the encounter over. To say that it was odd would be a gross understatement, but you hadn’t actually felt threatened, or unhappy while you were with him; instead, you were drawn. He has a sort of magnetic aura surrounding him, so it doesn’t take you very long to return to the forest.

He’s there, and also doesn’t seem to be hindered by your presence, like you had thought might be the case while you were walking. Actually, your Potamoi appears to be happy that you’re back? The two of you begin to talk, just about things in general, how the two of you lead so very different kinds of lives. He seems to enjoy your perspective, and you like hearing about the peacefulness of his.

Talking with him is like a breath of fresh air, mainly because he’s so… different from anyone else, almost like he exists in a bubble wholly apart from this world as you know it. He’s been around for as long as the water has, so he had seen and interacted with your kind, back when they were barely anything more than a feral tribe. He also isn’t quite aware of what humans are up to outside of the forest, so he’s a bit ignorant on stuff like wars and skirmishes and reality tv show stars, as nothing really touches this part of the land.

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written ship

“If ur ok w it can I request a romantic ship bc idk I’m just genuinely curious HHAHAHA,,, Idk how to explain how I look BUT I have long brown hair w bangs, light skin medj big eyes, I have lips leaning towards the plumper side and am 5’3 and a half HHAHAHA. (( if you want I can send a picture if that doesn’t help you !!! ))    As for my personality I’m rlly friendly and understanding !!! I’ve been told I am rlly good at listening and understanding both sides when there’s an argument, and I’m quite outgoing depending on my mood,,, mostly outgoing though !!! I’m quite hot tempered but I can control it. I am the type of person to think a lot and I need to rant to someone about it,,, and I also want to be able to be like a some sort of emotional pillar for some people bc a lot of ppl tell em I’m good at like listening, giving advice and empathizing w problems and such,,, but I care a lot,,, to the point where I get affected by every little thing,,, basically I’m hella sensitive but I’m trying to work on it hehehe.    Idk if this is true or false but I’ll add it in anyway bc it MUGHT be helpful,,, im told I’m like a white puppy ???? Like I’m told I’m like rlly pure and naive and somewhat energetic HHAHAHA,,, bc I always manage to make my friends soft for me or make em talk to me about their struggles naturally. I would say I’m open minded, and bro I literally can’t get mad at anyone ???? Bc I’m scared they’ll get hurt but when something gets too far I’ll try to tell em as nice as possible and to try to not make it look like it’s completely their fault, bc I think that in most situations there’s usually two part of the story so yeah HHAHAHA,,, like I just rlly try to find what the person did good yk hHAHAH,,, my mom has also told me I’m too nice and I try too hard to find the good in ppl to the point where I kinda forget about myself but rlly im working on that.    Tbh im the sort of person to think A LOT A LOT and get myself into stupid things bc I think it’ll be fun and I do it w good intention in mind but then I just end up getting myself into some small drama and I get stressed and ofc I know it’s my fault bc I got myself into it but after that I’ve gotten sooo so paranoid I always think I’m doing something wrong but like I know I didn’t like at the back of my head but I still apologize first.      As for my interests I rlly like dancing, sports in general,,, drawing, music, and working out for some reason HHAHAHA,,, one of my favorite things to do is to just go out for a drive and listen to chill music bc like idk o just find it soooo relaxing !!!! And I like going on walks like on a beach especially when it’s cold and windy Bc it’s rlly refreshing !!! Like I just like staying on a balcony w a nice view w wind just BLOWING yk. Tbh if I were in a relationship o would want it to be like walking in beaches and filming each other’s memories yk bc I just find that so so so fun esp when you compile it and look back at it I’m the future !!!!     I would also love to have like a dog in the future of adopt one or own one w my future s/o bc one, Ive never had a dog but always wanted one and two, it just seems like soooo much fun 🥰. Like I would also LOVE to binge watch a drama w my future s/o or just w friends and family yk bc NGL binge watching a drama is soooo much fun especially when you have people around. I also as I’ve said rlly enjoy singing dancing and drawing,,, especially drawing !!!     At times I can be a big crackhead bc I randomly think of weird questions at random times of the day HHAHAHA and when I ask someone they kinda ask if I’m okay But rlly it just COMES to me ya know. Like one time I thought,,, “would I rather eat curry that tastes like poop or poop that tastes like curry” KSBAJA,,,    I rlly like hugging ppl ??? Idk why ???? I also have a tendency to brush ppls hair JSBSJA,,, I really I’m a big softie w a lot and of crackgead energy HHAHAHA,,, I also rlly like to bake and cook bc it’s therapeutic sometimes and at times I just feel so PROFESSIONAL IABJA wow ok HHAHAHA,,, ok this is LONG but I hope you found it helpful !!!”

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wow! this is very long haha, but indeed very helpful!

i ship you with…

hyunjin!

okayokayokay so

hyunjin has said that his ideal type is someone who can “listen to my worries well and can empathize to them as if it’s their own worries.”

so you would get along very well!

also you both like dancing so that’s a big plus. bonus points if you already know a lot of skz’s choreography and if hyunjin’s practicing by himself you sometimes join in for funsies and end up dancing like crackheads lmao

next point: kkami.

like you’ll just be looking after kkami for the day, and you were taking a nap with kkami on your couch

and hyunjin enters your house quietly because he wanted to surprise you

and he looks into the living room to see you asleep on the couch, kkami curled up beside you.

by this point you wake up, but continue to pretend sleeping. you hear hyunjin whisper shout “kkami!”

kkami stays beside you, not moving at all. this occurs for about two minutes before you open your eyes and just watch as hyunjin literally is doing his best to get kkami to go to him. he stands up and pouts, then sees you’re awake and goes over to where you’re lying down on the couch.

“kkami loves you more than he loves me” [cue more pouting]

“aww come here baby, it’s okay because i love you and i know he does too. he just doesn’t show it.” you move over and then all three of you end up napping on your couch for a few hours while you run your hands through his quite excellent hair (especially the hair he has now aajkhfskd) :’) w h o l e s o m e 

i think you’d be really good in arguments - you sound like a good mediator and i think being able to see his perspective will help you in sorting out the issue and coming to an agreement/solution. he’s so soft for you though so he can’t be mad at your for long, especially when you never get mad at him. i think that it’s good but also being too empathetic is definitely going to be your downfall sometimes.

tbh i think most of your arguments would probably be based around whatever dramas you’re watching - though these are more of the joking kind of arguments rather than like a fight argument. like whether x character’s redemption arc was actually good or not, or even just little things like what happens in each episode, or oddly specific things like whether x character’s favourite coffee is an americano or a latte. (my friends and i do this with sherlock lmao we argue about it a lot, anyway i digress)

you guys will have drama marathons at least once a month. lots of snacks, blankets, pillows, and cuddles. 

your random questions always make him laugh, you know the one where his eyes crinkle and stuff :)

thank you for requesting @hyungenes​ i hope you are well and stay safe! :)

(also the alternate endings to heather are taking so long because i’ve written about half of each and kinda didn’t know where they were going. i’ll finish them soon though, hopefully!)

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Ah…don’t remind me of that first GMA performance. Yeah, some were unaware of the need to PG-fy daytime tv. I’m cool with those that were simply questioning but man, blaming Will for the rewrite? idk… And I have to admit, Will didn’t sound his best there but due to circumstances, I understood. Like man, why schedule that thing on a two show day??? He’s got to save his voice somehow and I think that was after/during opening week and that’s typically when voices get strained.

Like, from intense tech to previews to opening…that’s gotta tire someone who’s onstage for 90% of a 2-hour show. There may be a bit of respite after that but not much considering it’s straight to campaign/awards season.

But thankfully it’s mellowed out but I guess people still think liking Will is the unpopular opinion? Like how do you measure that? Genuinely curious… 

i love every time we got a Necessary Lyric Change to censor a lyric or two for some daytime pg program and it was like no porn, no Shit......only all-day preoccupation lmao.......honestly the Creativity in it was fun and the replacements were all pretty golden actually and it’s like oh crap wouldn’t mind if some of these were the official lyrics really, wow. but yeah the idea of remembering alternate lyrics and skipping over entire segments of the song to cut it down for time being Mistakes like.........you’re really going wild to not automatically assume those were deliberate changes. and like that was one zillion years into will having the part lmao, and how’s everyone just happen to be precisely coordinated with said allegedly forgetfulness? it’s wild

“i don’t know if i always sound good at 9 am” lol.....honestly i don’t vividly remember how the performance went but i certainly wasn’t like, struck by anything like some wildly noticeable disastrous nightmare quality that would make me go “take that role away from that menace right now” lmao like even if he Did, you’d have to have some real vendetta to think that one rough performance means that you were right all along and this casting choice is an undeserved outrage!! but wait, people Do really have that idea, so obviously yknow why not reach for the stars at anything you can possibly perceive as not the everlasting perfect unimpeachable performance to end all performances. ppl really are gonna be out there deciding that anything material must either be proof that he’s not good enough for the part if anyone even Notices anything they can at least imagine as inadequacy and it proves you’re justified in complaining His Casting Is A Mistake / Bad, and if that fails, you begrudgingly Don’t complain that his casting is a mistake / bad...........really anyhow i Am amazed they were up at like, 3am or whatever to do 4? 5am? staging and rehearsing at that studio....on a two-show day......like, that must have been just some terrible coincidence in scheduling necessitating that b/c god, surely if they had Any other options........like ffs i’d Hope will wasn’t giving it his all. for one thing that space was very small compared to say, the lyceum, so idk that anybody’d even need to be giving it that full voice commitment for everyone there to hear........and like obv it’s a bit important he not overexert himself re that vocal strain and fuck himself over b/c he did still have two entire shows to do, and like, you wanna be able to perform those properly And not worry that you hurt your voice thx to the extra demand........Pacing............but like, why be reasonable and understanding when you can just assume that will has just showed up out of nowhere with no idea how to sing, and that every single day everyone’s at the top of their game and this is a known fact so if someone’s struggling more on one day that means that’s their True And Constant Ability. and i am a touch skeptical of taking any rando’s complaints in good faith when there’s people left and right who are like No He Just Can’t Sing. Doesn’t Know How. That’s It. like,,,,,,and who are you??? god damn i Wish i could sing 25% as well as 9-years-ago will roland. i really do. Please

anyways lol the point is that these people are really like, navigating their bias like an artform. somehow always sticking the landing in the complex routine of their mental gymnastics. i really doubt any of these people are trying to be all about Statistics and Consistency in their takes.......people will be like “Unpopular Opinion” about absolutely everything, like i’m sure some people who are aghast at will’s casting will say it’s an Unpopular Opinion to be mad abt him having the part like......is it though. you can find plenty of people who agree, i’m sure. but really like, an Okay thing about me arriving in between 2.0 and 3.0 is that i like to think that truly some people have Gotten Over It / resigned themselves to it / gone away / realized the virtue of just keeping those thoughts to themselves at this point b/c what could it possibly accomplish? and yet some people are that dedicated to voicing their malcontent on various platforms for their own sake i guess. like. is this about 1.0 still. because that content is still there for you

[itsyaboisayori]

Why I’m questioning Sayori

I said I’d make this post so here it is! Even got on my laptop to properly do the post :p I’m just kinda winging this but I’ll try to list out everything I can. If I forget stuff I’ll go back and edit it later so if you’re curious, keep watch! I’ll reblog any time I make edits, at least somewhat big ones. 

Also, replies are welcome! I’m open to constructive criticism and anyone wanting to offer new viewpoints. I accept that I’m still learning and nothing is for sure yet. Also tbh anyone telling me I sound like I’m kin is validating as heck so if you’re thinking it then I’d appreciate you saying it ahaha, but please don’t lie to me because you think you know what I want to hear. I want the truth. I don’t want to be a confused mess ;n; And I know all/most of these could be COMPLETELY unrelated to being Sayori fictionkin, but I feel like they’re worth mentioning anyways. It’s more like, a bunch of little coincidences rather than big solid evidence, I’m aware of that and that’s a big reason why I’m questioning and not for-sure Sayorikin.

One thing I realized just a couple of days ago is how, since I was a kid I’ve had this like, ideal thing I guess? how do I put this into words lmao my brain is dumb,, I guess a fantasy, that I’d fall in love with a childhood friend, like someone I’m close with from a young age but strictly friends for a long time. I’ve always been in love with the idea of falling in love with your best friend. And of course that’s what happens to Sayori, due to her programming in DDLC. And if I’m kin with Sayori from other game(s) rather than just DDLC then it definitely could be something unrelated, just a coincidence.

I’m like, really drawn to DDLC?? Maybe just because DDLC is a great game and I love all the creepypasta type stuff behind it all, all the theories and dark shit, and also I think just as a cute dating sim it’d be great anyways (but nowhere near as great). But idk, when I saw it I immediately felt kinda drawn to it but maybe that’s just in my head or for some other reason like the characters look nice or smth.

Also it REALLY gives me feels. It makes me feel things in general. I rarely get genuinely scared from fictional stuff anymore but this game fucked me up. I’m still scared to play it on my own because, even after watching multiple youtubers play it multiple times, it still fucking scares me.

The Sayori suicide scene and her poem- especially the poem- really get to me. I saw people making hanging puns in the previous video before her death so it was kind of spoiled for me but even still, it got to me. And the scene where Sayori is freaking out because you deleted Monika before playing the game REALLY gets to me,, like I just understand that overwhelming, helpless feeling. Especially finding out why she acted that way, it’s so fucking hard to watch that scene and normally I’m not affected by this kind of stuff. So either DDLC is extremely good at psychological horror or I have some sort of connection to the scenarios, whether that be just that I’ve been through similar things and am projecting (not really that I remember though? idfk brains are weird) or ya know,,, I once lived as someone in DDLC or whatever.

(TW self harm/suicide/choking) Probably has no real correlation but when I have panic attacks/flashbacks (unrelated to DDLC I mean) I feel like I’m choking or like I can’t breathe. And when really frustrated I tend to choke myself? Sayori died from asphyxiation instead of her neck being broken, by accident because she used a stepping stool instead of something higher like a chair and jumping off. Btw I’m okay, I never actually choke myself to the point to causing permanent damage or anything, and of course I’m not saying this is like, okay or anything. I know it’s bad but I’ve done it completely on impulse, and this was all before learning DDLC even existed. I’m working on getting better and I’m not going to kill myself or anything, just thought I’d mention this.

I relate to her personality,,, so fucking much. Not just the whole pretending to be happy to make your friends happy thing, but how she is as a person besides her depression. Tbh I feel like a lot of people relate to her because of her depression and how she deals with it, but like she’s so much more than that. She pretends to be dumb but it actually pretty smart. Maybe she’s not the best with words but I think she’s a lot more intelligent than some people think. She’s so cheerful, maybe even annoying, and is kind of the class clown, and is a total weirdo sometimes but it’s GREAT and just,, same lmao. Like “looks like my boobs are getting bigger again >:D” is something I’d say lolol I just love Sayori so much, like idc if I’m kin with her or not she’s still fucking amazing.

Another reason I relate to her but probably is like not at all proof I’m Sayori or anything, just thought I’d mention anyways, but I was kinda like, really in love with my guy friend in high school for years, he’s actually kinda like MC in some ways, like he was kinda popular with girls but not like Popular(tm), super nice and couldn’t directly say no, but he knew I was in love with him (or at least knew I had a crush on him but he probably had no idea I liked him THAT much but hey neither did I for a long time lmao) and didn’t like me back and even started intentionally avoiding me. Like, he would make up an excuse to not give me a hug, like he was late for class, but hugs only take like a fucking second what the hell?? It sucked but like when the player turns down Sayori I Relate.

I just,,,,, want to hug Natsuki like she’s fucking adorable and I want to protect her the most bc she’s like a precious child and she’s obviously abused by her dad. Tbh Yuri is a little creepy and for some reason I don’t like her that much but I mean I’d still hug her. I don’t hate Monika, like it was just her programming to do all that stuff she did so I don’t blame her and she’s p cool and I’d hug her too tbh. When Sayori interacts with Natsuki it makes me feel all warm n fuzzy. Like I don’t think in my canon Sayori and Natsuki were dating or anything, I think I/Sayori am/was just really protective? Idk, thought I’d throw that out there.

I also heavily relate to wanting to be a mediator and wanting to help everyone get along and be happy. I often (try to) play that role in this life. I’m extremely empathetic, so that’s prob why, but I can’t stand when people are fighting or can’t see each other’s point of view. Though it also frustrates the FUCK out of me when people refuse to or just absolutely cannot see any point of view but their own. Maybe that’s not really a Sayori thing but ye

When I look at Sayori I get the same “that’s me!” feeling as when I see my kintypes. Who knows though, maybe in a month or two it’ll fade, we’ll see I guess. But right now it is Very Strong. Like I’ve somewhat questioned being fictionkin with other characters before but I’ve never had the “that’s me” feeling this strong with anyone else. Ruby from RWBY is a close second but I still think she’s just a kithtype.

I feel like having a past life or whatever as someone who was experimented on kinda makes sense?? Maybe I just enjoy horror a little too much but I really think if I am Sayori I’m kin with her like actual her not just the DDLC version of her. The new game hasn’t even been announced yet but I’m so excited, mostly because I feel like I want to learn more about my possible past life I guess. I wanna see if things in the second game connect with me or if it’s just DDLC. But I feel like, if I’ve had any past lives as any humans, they were probably really dark or smth. I kinda have a dark mind I guess and that would just make sense to me lmao, like I’m 21 why haven’t I grown out of my edgy phase, why the fuck am I still really into creepypasta? Damn.

I’ve been kinda obsessed with DDLC lately. I have BPD so it could totally just be a BPD obsession thing and maybe this obsession will fade and someday I won’t care too much about DDLC, only time will tell. Also I’ve had the song Your Reality stuck in my head for a week straight but it may just be a catchy song and I tend to have a song that kinda automatically starts playing in my head occasionally, usually lately it’s been Sad Machine by Porter Robinson (good song btw highly recommend)

Most likely unrelated but Sayori’s hair has been described as “strawberry blonde” on one wiki and my hair is like, light brown but reddish, though it looks more like Monika’s hair, especially because I keep my hair long. I’ve been kinda wanting to cut it but I like having long hair tbh and I feel like a lot of ppl don’t want me to cut my hair haha, though I really wanna get a short wig and maybe wear that occasionally (esp bc I’m non binary and wanna pass as more boyish sometimes, I know society will never accept me as nb bleh but anyways). Though, it’s been said that the reason her hair is short is because it’s easier for her to deal with, but I’m not 100% sure if that’s canon. Though I guess it doesn’t matter much? cuz multiverse stuff n all but, still.

Speaking of her appearance, she seems to not care too much about how she looks, which I relate to haha, especially because of depression n stuff. I mean I have Crippling Social Anxiety(tm) so I do care to an extent but usually I’m like, if someone likes me they’ll like me for who I am not how I look anyways. I don’t feel the need to dress super proper to impress anyone in casual social situations, like making friends or even going on dates (though I’ve only been on a real date like a few times and they were with my gf who I’d already been dating online for a while). And yeah a big reason she’s so careless about her appearance is depression but I think if I wasn’t depressed and she wasn’t depressed we’d still both have that mentality like, we don’t need to impress anyone with our appearance so it’s better to just dress how you want, whatever way makes you feel comfortable and happy with yourself and your body, than focus on being proper and stuff.

Maybe I’m just projecting but man I feel like a lot of stuff I do and my ways of thinking and stuff are very Sayori(tm). I feel like I am so much like her, like she’s so me. Though of course, maybe my reason for being kin with her is purely psychological. Maybe I “became” her after seeing DDLC. Maybe I am her because I relate to her so much. But again, only time will tell. If I still feel like I identify as her (which, currently, I most definitely do) in a couple of months or so, then I guess I’ll start calling myself fictionkin. Idk.

[nahmooste]

i don’t believe in magic, usually

pairing: Kenny Omega/Female OC warnings: none. two part update, part 2 is smut, this is not a/n: inspired by a lot of things, but mostly how adorable Kenny is. mostly. anyways, if you guys have any sentence prompts for NJPW ppl, i’ll write it, promise. 

“Teri?”

She doesn’t look up at first, too consumed with finishing her set of squats. She’s only just hit 170lbs across the back, the most she’s ever done, and she’ll be damned if she lets some weirdo ruin her training. She isn’t completely alone here, either— one of her training partners is over on the dumbbells, which means if she needs back up… he’s right there.

But the person she turns to isn’t a fan. He looks… eerily familiar.

“Teri Arakawa?” It’s said more as a question now, and slowly she begins to recognise who stands in front of her. Curly hair mismatched in colour, some tendrils pale blonde, others dark grey, and eyes so blue they put her nerves on edge.

“I’m sorry, I know your face, but…” she hesitates and wipes some sweat from her brow. “Your name escapes me.”

“It’s okay, we barely know each other. I don’t think I even introduced myself when we met.” The man smiles and holds out his hand. “Kenny Omega.”

She balks. Oh. “You held a seminar at one of the Stardom dojos… fuck. Sorry. I’m scatter brained a bit, don’t even remember my own birthday. I was only there for an hour, I think? I remember having to leave to catch my flight back home and that’s about it.”

He laughs at her and nods his head, curls bobbing. “That’s okay. Y’know, it’s not that often that someone in the wrestling business doesn’t remember my name… not that I’m bragging, but—“

“Oh, no, I know your name. All that six star hype, mind you I haven’t actually watched the match yet.” Teri smirks at his red cheeks. “I don’t really spend that much time on the internet? I don’t have a twitter, either. PR is hassling me to get one but I can’t really imagine a time where I open my phone and want to know everyone’s opinion. Between wrestling and promoting and eating and training and sleeping, I don’t really have that much free time.”

“I must sound a bit arrogant, huh?” Kenny shakes his head again and smiles. He gestures over his shoulder at the man she’s here with. “He’s not stopped glaring at me since I’ve come over here. Boyfriend?”

Teri snorts and glances towards Katsuhiko Nakajima, who has been no doubt staring at the exchange the entire time. “Nakajima? No. He’s my cousin’s boyfriend. I mean he’s cute but… not really my type.”

Kenny’s eyes flash at the statement and his grin deepens, and now she knows why he’s talking to her, and her grin grows a little as well. He’s a very attractive man, and Teri would be lying if she didn’t admit there was a magnetism towards the Canadian that was attractive. Because he was very, very good looking.

“What is your type?”

She wants to say it’s him, push the envelope a bit, tease him, because she’s never been afraid of a little rejection— but something tells her to bite it back a touch. “I guess you can find out if you take me to dinner.”

The look on Kenny’s face says everything she needs to know. “How about I’ll give you my number and then we can organise something? I’m a busy man, Teri-chan, unfortunately I actually need to keep a schedule and diary.”

Teri chuckles, because she knows exactly what he means. She grabs her phone and hands it to him, smiling harder when she watches him fumble to get his name in. Kenny may be outwardly confident, but by the looks of it, he’s just as clumsy. Which, Teri admits, is pretty cute. Like him. And the curls. She really likes the curls.

“Call me.”

And she does. After she’s convinced Nakajima that he should not, in fact, kick Kenny’s face off his head, she showers and grabs her stuff, makes her way back to her small yet spacious apartment in Aichi Prefecture. She stares at her calendar as they talk about days they have off, and she’s content with waiting a week until they can get to know each other a bit better. After all, Teri has some homework to do— matches to watch, interviews to read… she doesn’t want to be caught off guard again.

~

Turns out that Teri has absolutely no idea what to wear on a casual date— she doesn’t know how to do her hair or her make up, and kind of gets lost in YouTube videos and Spotify songs. And instead of being prepared, she’s running late— completely not what she’d intended to do.

Kenny doesn’t seem to mind. He’s seen her sweaty and red faced before and tells her that even like that, she’s beautiful. He smiles at her blush and yaps in pain when she punches him.

Teri can tell that he’s not unimpressed by her appearance, though. She’s dressed in skinny jeans and a khaki jacket rests easy over a pink knit jumper, suede boots pushing her a little taller than her actual height. He’s not the tallest man, but he’s still taller than her. Just as she likes it, really. In turn, Kenny is dressed nicely in faded jeans and a black shirt, same coloured blazer pulled across his shoulders.

“So, I figured before I went on this date with you that I should do some homework,” Teri tells him, eyes glinting mischievously as she sips at some wine. “Your match with Okada… it’s good.”

“Good?” He laughs. His attention is on her completely as he leans across the table, chin resting on his hands. “Good, but not great. I see, I see. What would you do differently?”

“Win.”

Kenny’s smirk matches her own. ”Remind me to come see you next time I need some genuine advice.”

“Yes, sir.”

He eyes her a bit before taking a sip of his own water, grin pushing at the corners of his mouth. “Sir,” he mimics. “Never thought I’d hear that one, I’ll admit.”

But Teri’s feeling a bit cheeky. “I say it more tongue in cheek than anything else, y’know. If you want me to call you daddy, though…that’s another story.”

Kenny splutters over his laugh, chuckling and trying to reply to her for a while before he actually does. “I’ll, uh. I’ll keep that in mind.”

The waiter comes around shortly after that, and Teri orders herself another glass of red wine and a pasta dish, smiling when Kenny orders the most Asian thing on the menu. Typical. As they wait for their dinner to come out, Teri quizzes Kenny on everything she possibly can— from his borderline obsession with Japan to working for NJPW to what Canada is like.. absolutely anything that jumps to her mind. She doesn’t have a filter drunk or sober.

By the time their meal is finished and Teri is on her third glass of red, her cheeks are tinged pink. “Are you really going to sit there and not ask me?”

“Ask you what?” Kenny looks caught off-guard, but she can tell that there’s been something on his mind.

“That question you’ve been dying to ask me. The entire night.”

He blushes a bit. His eyes drop to the table and then he glances up at her again. “You haven’t asked. I’m curious… does it bother you?”

It takes Teri a moment for her mind to wrap around what he’s saying to her, and when it does, the penny drops— she’s got it wrong. He hasn’t been waiting to ask her something, he’s been waiting for her to ask something. He’s been preparing himself to answer a question she’s not interested in asking.

“You mean you and Kota Ibushi?” He kinda flinches at the name, but nods his head and doesn’t meet her eyes. Teri sighs, raises a shoulder indifferently. “I don’t particularly care. I mean, who wouldn’t go there? He’s a babe. You’re a babe. I get it. But I don’t really care about your past— not yet, anyway. Maybe one day I’ll ask, but not today. Not yet. Plus… I’m enjoying myself and your company too much, no need to ruin it.”

His grin is genuinely the warmest thing she’s seen all night. Kenny Omega… what a man, indeed. The perfect mix of boyish charm and mystique, gorgeous curls and eyes that have her melting under his gaze more than a few times.

Apparently, her gaze has the same effect on him.

“If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were trying to seduce me.”

Teri smirks at him and finishes the rest of her wine. “I mean… I am flirting with you. But seduce you? Trust me, you’d know.”

“Would I, though?” Kenny raises an eyebrow, leans across the table towards her. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like you’re the kind of person who flirts with everyone they speak to.”

“Oh, so I’m the same as you, then?”

There’s a moment of silence while Kenny just stares at her. “Touché.”

And, because Teri is feeling bold all sorts of temptation, she slips one of the boots off of her foot. Leans across the table, folds her hands and places her chin on top of them, staring so intently at Kenny his cheeks go pink. And as she drags her foot up the inside of his leg, the flush crawls down his neck. “Teri…” he warns, and then his eyes slide shut.

“Yes?”

He doesn’t reply straight away, instead takes a deep breath and then opens his eyes. “Should we leave?”

“Thought you’d never ask.”

[hobjoon]

Are you going to announce who won??? (I'm curious to see what they wrote)

I don’t usually announce my giveaway winners but sure, I’ll list them down here. Everything that they wrote were all very simple but I relate to them. It’s simple but very touching, imo :’)

@hoseokskitten#hobiforreal#oh wow okay why I love Hobi so much#Of course there's the normal reasons: he's so bright and cheerful and happy all the time and he just wants to make everyone smile#But it's so much more than that it's hard to articulate into words#I love how passionate he is#Passions is such a beautiful thing... to love something so much that it burns in your veins and sets your soul alive#And it's so evident how passionate he is#passionate about dancing and about loving the other members and his family and his fans#and so passionate about growing and bettering himself and making himself the absolute best that he can be#and I love how empathetic he is#He really truly just wants to brighten everyone's lives and when someone he loves is hurting it hurts him so much#And I love how you can always tell what he's feeling because he can't keep his emotions off of his face he's so open#And to know that he suffers from anxiety as well and he fights through it and brightens so many people's lives in spite of the anxiety#it's so inspiring#he really does give me so much hope#When I first got into BTS the first thing I read about Hobi was that he chose his name because#'he wants to be a source of light and hope for his fans'#and I really connected with that immediately I had an immediate connection with him#Because that's what I want to be for people I want to make everyone happy I want to be a safe space for people#So I connected with him immediately and the more I've learned about him the more I see myself in him#and he really just inspires me to be a better a person#he gives me hope for my own future and he inspires me to be the best person that I can be and to reach out to people who are hurting#and like /especially/ with the anxiety I've been fighting anxiety for years and knowing that he has too just makes me love him even more#and it just gives me that much more hope because he's actively showing me that it can be done#he's doing it I can do it too#he's fighting his own demons and he's still out there bettering himself and being such a bright ray of light and hope for people#he really is my hope#my light and my love

@hobgi#first of all bless u val ur so sweet for doing this!!!#okay for the reasons why i love hobi (lets see if theres a tag limit omg)#he's so beautiful and stunning and pretty and hot and sexy like he's so gorgeous#the way his cheeks rise when he smiles and the way he claps his hands while he laughs#the fact that people even say that he looks better in person too??? the thought makes me dizzy like his beauty radiates sm off of pics#and vids of him...like i cant imagine seeing him in real life i would probably faint#and ofc i cant forget how talented he is#not just his amazing dancing but EVERYTHING he does#his rapping and his vocals#like he didnt have much experience in rapping before bts and now???#he has some of the most iconic bts rap verses???#like remember that one time a fan told him that he was her fave rapper and he was so touched by it????? im really happy he got to hear that#like me too sis#he's my role model#i really admire a lot of things about him#i love his energy and positivity#and how he's able to be anyone's friend and just attract ppl#he has this charisma that i really admire and i want to be that person too??#to be so full of life and being able to draw any person to you??? like he IS That Person#he loves bts so much and he takes care of everyone and makes them happy#and how he pushes himself so hard and never stops#he'll work so hard that his feet start to bleed#he dedicates sm of himself into perfecting everything he does for bts#and honestly none of us deserves him??? and it makes me so sad that ppl would bash on him bc#AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS WHY I LOVE HIM IS THAT#HE!! MADE!! A!! SONG!! ABT!! HIS!! MOM!!#like he's in his twenties he coulve wrote abt anything#he's really such a good hearted person who is full of energy and dedication and love#i lov him sm :(( and im so proud of him ;-;

@hobis-moving-castle#i love him because he always seems to put others before himself#because he works so hard to not only perfect the choreo for himself but helps his members too#because he gets all shy and blushes when someone compliments him#because he worked so hard to learn how to rap even though he felt so out of place so he could be a good rapper for his team#because even though they have gained so much success he always mentions how he wants to be even better for us#because all he ever wanted was to be able to make his parents proud#because of the way his little ears stick out when he  wears hats#because of how his smile is as almost as bright as his personality#because although his personality may seem bright there are times where he is struggling himself but he never fails to put on his dazzling sm#ile for others in order to be there hope#because he is sugas battery that helps him gain energy#because i he loves to collect cute little figurines that are almost as cute as himself#because of the adorable mole on his lip#because of the way his dimples show when he eats food#because his laughter is so contagious you cant help but smile#because he is an amazing dancer rapper and singer yet he still remains so humble#because of his passion and deidcation his applies to everything that he does#because of that booty tho#because even though he sings infront of thousands of people hes still gets scared easily#because every comeback he reveals even more of his talents and never fails to amaze me#because of the way he pouts when he is unhappy about somethin#because of his relationship with the other memers and loving and attentive he is to their needs#because hes loud and cheery and all the people around him never seem unhappy#because of the boy meets evil intro performance#hell every performance ever he gives his 110% and i cant begin to express how much i admire and appreciate him#he deserves the world honestly

@sunnyhoseoks#i love hoseok because i feel such genuine feelings of pride and adoration for him#he's worked so damn hard to get where he is#he's so under-appreciated sometimes but he continues pursuing his dream#he has this determination and fire that comes out in him when he's on stage or even just practicing#that boy belongs on that stage#its his passion and it shows in his bright and fiery personality on stage#it never fails to take my breath away#i believe that that boy can do anything and everything#and even though he'll never know who i am#i will do whatever i can to give him my full support#because i believe he has something special within him#and his constant brightness?#truly admirable#he always puts in 200% into whatever he does#and i can imagine that would get exhausting#because he's human after all#and everyone has setbacks#but he doesn't let it get in his way#he truly fights to constantly emit positive energy#all i want is for him to be truly and purely happy in his life#and to be able to live with confidence in all that he does#whether that be in bts or dancing or whatever#if it makes him happy and he's healthy while doing it then i will be behind him#hobiforreal#im sorry i kinda ranted but i feel very passionate about hobi

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(1/2) Hello! I recently began learning Canto &--living in Canada--I have encountered a LOT of people who speak both Canto and Mandarin. Whenever I mention to someone that I'm trying to learn Canto, they ask why I don't learn Mandarin. Now when I was learning Vietnamese and French, locals and expats were SOSOSOOSOSOS!O!OO!!!! excited for me to learn their languages. Yet every Canto-speaking person I've met has discouraged me. This obviously makes me more rigorous re: studying, but I'm wondering--

(2/2) if you’ve ever heard this from any of your friends who are learning Cantonese. Also, when I spoke with someone about saying in Canto how beautiful or handsome someone is, she paused and said “No, that sounds too local.” ??? Like??? Is that not a huge success in learning a language? I’m just really curious to hear your thoughts.

;;;;;;; this was really upsetting to read as a Cantonese speaking Canadian, because this idea extends to a lot of ABC/BBC/CBCs, specifically ones who speak non-Mandarin Chinese varieties. Some Cantonese-speaking CBCs have a slight disdain for Cantonese bc: 

1) It means they might not have learned Mandarin growing up and therefore must learn it now as a teenager/adult, and thus they may lag behind their Mandarin-speaking CBC peers in their Mandarin proficiency. A bunch of my friends actually feel this way. They have a distaste for both Cantonese and Mandarin bc they feel like Cantonese dragged them behind, but at the same time, they see Mandarin as something forced onto them

2) They may have struggled with their Chinese identity because people made them feel less Chinese because they couldn’t speak a standard language they were never taught (i’ve experienced this before; monolingual Mandarin speakers have asked me why I can’t speak Mandarin well, despite being a Chinese person)

3) Some of my friends have grown up with the “ching chang chong” stereotypes associated with Chinese languages (particularly with Cantonese), and all those memes on the internet about how harsh and angry Cantonese sounds, and I genuinely think that that has really affected how many CBCs view their own heritage language. It’s seen as ugly, annoying, hard on the ears, etc, and for some speakers, there is not much pride in speaking their own language. The same applies to many second-generation Vietnamese speakers as well, I’m sure. 

4) I’m not from GZ or Guangdong so I can’t say this with absolute certainty, but there is some stigma associated with Cantonese, especially since kids are required to speak Mandarin at school (I’m particularly thinking of that one poster that was like “Speak Mandarin, Be a Civilized Person”). You did mention that some of your friends speak both Canto/Mando, and from my experience, most of the people who grew up bilingually in those two languages had parents who came from outside of HK, or they themselves came from somewhere in Guangdong/Guangxi, and maybe that stigma associated with Cantonese got carried on to them.

A lot of people grow up thinking that Cantonese is just a mere dialect, and that to be successful, you need to know Mandarin, which might be why you have received so much negative feedback about why you’re learning Cantonese. A lot of people don’t even see Cantonese as anything special; it’s just the language that their relatives speak in and they occasionally hear on the radio/TV, but it’s not as “impactful” or “useful” as Mandarin, so maybe they are confused about why a foreigner would want to learn such a “useless” language.

I’ve also spoken to a LOT of Cantonese people about the nature of our language and our writing system (written Cantonese - which btw, not many people know about outside of HK), and I have met very few people who take it seriously. The problem is that written Cantonese is still seen as HIGHLY informal and that Cantonese is simply a spoken language that doesn’t necessarily need to be written out. As well, speakers who write in written Cantonese are often aware of the variance in our written form, since there is no standardization, but very few people are bothered about it and don’t see a point in standardizing it, since we already have a written standard (aka Written Chinese), which as you probably already know, reflects Mandarin thought and speech very well, but not so well for Cantonese speech and thought. It’s just concerning to see this kind of apathy in Cantonese speakers. ;;; although it’s actually MUCH worse in many other Chinese varieties, since most varieties do not even have anything close to a written form (particularly with languages in the Wu and Min varieties).  

Just to bring back a sense of optimism to this post though, I think the linguistic situation in HK is still quite good. Of course, there will always be Cantonese speakers who view their language negatively, but there are also many speakers who are extremely proud and enthusiastic (including myself :’D) and want to continue spreading their language to future generations and Cantonese learners. 

I am so so so happy that you chose to learn Canto (im gettin the warm fuzzies just thinking about how ppl actually want to learn it), and I really hope you keep up with it. Don’t let the negativity keep you back from achieving your goals!!!! Just remember that there are many many Cantonese speakers who are proud of their language and will be VERY excited that you’re learning their language! (And if you live in a larger city like Toronto or Vancouver, you will encounter more of these speakers who view their language in a positive light.) 

Btw I don’t exactly get the part about sounding “too local” lol, maybe your friend isn’t that proficient in Cantonese? I would be THRILLED if a person learning Cantonese surprised me with a native-sounding phrase, so maybe she’s just embarrassed that she didn’t know it? LMAO was it “佢好靚仔/靚女” or did you use the word 好索 😏 ?