#i am not discribing it well

[the-sunshine-dims]

yooo,,, guess who did in fact,, cosplay the minceraft fox at night o'clock

[montywithchildhoodtrauma]

Ok I'm going to discribe an iconic trio to you and you're going to guess if they're an Autobot or Decepticon.

The first character has a tendency, to do things for his own benefit, hes often sassy and doesn't do well with authority. The second character is a himbo who has an, odd, relationship with his doctor that doesn't quite make sense, but would absolutely go to the ends of the universe to protect them. And the third one is a commanding medical officer who is extremely sassy. They give their patients flack for getting hurt in the first place, but other then that they take good care of them to the best of their ability.

Good luck.

[comicaurora]

Hiya Red! ♥️

This is in regards to something you mentioned about the OST of Last Unicorn.

I love that film and have watched it many, *many* times! And - like you - I always found the duet distinctly... off. I never could pin down why, I just knew it made me uncomfortable and didn't seem to fit. With the movie or even just the rest of the soundtrack. But when you discribed it as 'out of the singers' range' I had something of an epiphany and I couldn't help but wonder what you'd think of it, so here I am. 😆

What *if* that is actually sneaky characterisation/commentary on the romantic subplot? I mean, this whole soundtrack is so well put together I feel like it has to be intentional, right?

The way I see it both singers are straining just like the characters are, for something that is just out of their reach. And also isn't really right for them. And I feel like on some level they know it. That, I think, is why the climax of the song is particularly discordant. It's to signify that them coming together, as they are doing in the scene, is wrong. For them as people and for the story at large.

Dunno. Just my two cents.

I would love to hear your thoughts on it. IF you have the time and energy to spare! No stress! Most of all I just wanted to let you know about a possible (maybe?) reason for this weird thing, just in case it kept bothering you. (As a fellow ADHD brain I know it be like that sometimes. 😄)

Thank you so much for all your hard work! Love your channel so much! You guys are the best!! And can't wait to see your next stream! (You gotta save my giiiirl!!! 😭🐉)

💖💖💖

Tbh I kinda doubt they'd intentionally make music that sounds bad to do that, when there are many musically pleasing ways to signal that a romantic duet is between characters that are actually incompatible - even things like Love is an Open Door, where "we finish each other's-" "sandwiches!" "That's what I was gonna say!" helpfully hints that Hans is fluidly saying whatever he needs to in order to appeal to Anna without making the audience's ears hurt. One of the more impactful bits of the Death Note musical is that Misa keeps trying to have a romantic duet with Light and Light is much too busy having homoerotic duets with L instead, so Misa ends up basically belting a solo over the much more synced-up music of the dynamic duo. It's a musically pleasing way to signal which characters are in sync and which ones aren't. Several songs in Wicked do this too, like in Dancing Through Life where the romantic duo declare that since they're both perfect they must be perfect together, or the song that basically says "I must be happy, because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true."

I think the main thing that makes that duet not work is that it's one of the only parts of the OST that's sung by the main voice cast rather than a professional singer. The composition is solid, but it kinda sounded like it wasn't composed with their personal ranges in mind - possibly composed before they were cast. They could've done what disney was doing - cast a singer for the character songs and a separate voice actor for the dialogue - which they apparently did in the theatrical release, having Kate Irving sing instead of Mia Farrow, but they didn't for the video release, so the voice actors have to just try their best, possibly with only one or two takes to do it in, and the end result is a bit of a mess.

[callistocalavarni]

Space Bounty Hunter dr

This post is going to be long cuz ive inserted pics that remind me of this dr... I just wanted a place were I can discribe and info dump about the places I have and am shifting to. I thought about starting a page on shifttok...but its tiktok.. and I don't like the people on there lol. They all have weird takes; ex; the constant hate on perma shifting. Not only that but they hold their opnions up like they are truth, everyone puts creators on a high horse and they are just insufferable. So instead im here, on a hopefully way more chill platform.. Anyway i'll stop yapping about shifttok and get on with the actual post.

I have a large amount of space dr's one of them being a bounty hunter reality with a metroid, sci-fi comic, farscape kinda of vibe to it. I'd also compare it to cowboy bepop.

All of my adventures take place in the milky way far far from earth. I'd say for earth its around the 1990s, I've scripted out time diliation when travling far because I just don't want to deal with it. Keep in mind some of the physics and logic is different from this reality. Earth is unware of any alien species, space travel and literally anything outside its solar system. Even with earth being oblivous to the intelligence out in space people still travel to the planet. And Its the way my grand-parents traveled out into the universe. The Neashe (na-shay) have helped and rescued people from earths many wars (without earths goverment knowing) promising them a new life in the aven section of the galaxy. Lazuo is the native planet to the naeshe. Being one of the most technologically advanced planets it exports the most weapons and ships among the star systems. It has the highest population including its moon ilumi. The naeshe are welcoming & peacefull species beliving in the search for life in the universe. The reason the Naeshe have not tried to contact the goverments of earth is because of the leaders constantly engaing in war. There is many other planets that I might mention so if its a word you don't know or you get confused its either a planet, its species, or some galatic goverment name.

For many years there has been an alliance between planets called "aven" the Adu word for friend. Adu is a water planet, its culture built on avation, exploring the depths and its diverse sea food. Since this alliance was formed interseller ships from all over travled to and from planets, exporting and importing goods of all kinds. Even though this guild was there to hold a title of saftey and peace it sprouted a problem. Space pirates, criminals, theifs, whatever you want to call them started to raid and attack these ships. Law enforcers failed to keep up with the rapid apperence of these pirates resulting in high rates of crime. Fed up with the persistent violence, people from all different cultures and planets volunteered to help capture these criminals. An association of bounty hunters was formed named space stalkers. Contractors from major companies started to pay space stalkers for their part, devolping a large influx of hunters. Being a space stalker is dangerous but since I have free rain in what I can script I find it fun.

companions

My name in most of my dr's is Callisto Calavarni and thats the name im going to use on this page.

My mother Estette Calavarni and father Castor Calavarni are alive and well in this dr. I know shocking... I didn't script a traumatic backstory, GASP!!!! They rasied me opposite of helicoptor parents, encouraging me to take risks and learn as much as I can about the world. My friends are Wesley Starkov an astrobiologist from the planet Kelzo. Anvi An, a female doctor who mostly works on hospital ships. And Niko lovell with a John Crichton personality from earth. I also have a pet! A fluffy tuxedo cat named Miso.

I have a deeper connection to Anvi than anyone else, we have been friends since the terrible twos lol. But I have more amusing stories with Wesley. I prefer to work alone as working with some hunters can be risky. I remember I needed help with a bounty and had told Wesley that I would give him half the check if he assisted me. Long story short the hunt didn't go as planned and I had to run to our vehicle and jump through the window like a loony tunes cartoon lol. I ended up kicking him in my uncoordinated climb through the window and he's never helped me with a bounty since -sob-

Thanks for reading, if I spelt anything wrong ignore, science is what im good at not english haha. This is my first post and im still new to tumblr so please ask me questions and tell me what kind of stuff you wanna hear about my dr's! Happy shifting!

[gamerbearmira]

Hello resident evil au person sorry for the hiatus but I am back! First off I would like to say thank you Soo much for that snippet it was sooo beautiful and well done I've read it like 10 times now and I can't wait to see what you come up with next! also I love what you did with Isabela camilo and Bruno designs they look so cool!

I thought about what you said about the children idea and I agree that it would make sense for her to get them a bit how Alcina got her daughter so I thought about it and decided that Miranda would probably pick three orphaned children around five or younger (I was thinking boys since in the Madrigal family there's a generation of two girls and a boy then a generation of two boys and a girl and then one with all girls but not one with all boys and I don't know it just feels like it completes the rotation if that make sense?)

Their names are Desmond, Cassius and Sebastian they like Alcina's daughters have no memory of their human life and immediately saw Mirabel as their mother they can turn into moths just like she can but it's different species of moths for all four of them Mirabel can turn into the Madagascan sunset moth Desmond turns into the White witch Cassius turns into the Antheraea assamensis and Sebastian turns into the Polyphemus moth. I don't have much for each of their personalities just that Sebastian is a mama's boy and follows Mirabel wherever she goes and does whatever she says and gets jealous whenever she isn't paying attention to him (if it's his brothers his a little more tolerant but after an hour he will start to get huffy). Desmond is a bookworm and will read everything he can no matter what the book is about he also loves to paint play music and to make things out of yarn with Mirabel whether that's embroidering knitting whatever. Cassius is the wild child running around getting into anything and everything he can he has a temper that rivals pepas he has rage fits that he has a hard time controlling and usually goes to Mirabel when he's getting too worked up and she helps calm him down. I haven't thought about what they looked like I thought I would leave that up to you!

As always any and all artwork is appreciated and loved!

YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE BUT I’M BACK 🙏

No but I am SOOOOO sorry this took basically a month the to get back to??? I was busy a lot of June and the thing is?? I literally started the drawing?? But I got distracted and completely forgot BUT THE ETHAN DRAWING REMINDED ME!! SO WE'RE BACK ON THE GRIND❗❗❗💪💪💪💪

ALSO I'M GLAD YOU LIKED THE SNIPPET!!! Maybe I'll do more hmmmm 🦫🦫

ANYWAYYYYY I finally did Luisa and Agustín. Eventually I'll do all of the family with color, but for now only sketches 😞But I'm glad you liked Isabela, Camilo and Bruno! Fun fact lol, at the time I had redone Camilo's jacket bout 3 times 💀💀

And I did get to do the triplets!! Also I like the idea of three boys, very fitting now that you mention the other gens 🤭🤭

They are very silly...I tried my best to match them based on their personalities. Also note, if they were colored in, their antennae and wings would match the moths, I swear 😭 also I gave them antenna and wings. Because they are still small children being exposed to the black mold 🌚 and I think they'd look more similar to Mirabel in that way. Except Mirabel has dragonfly wings, BUT THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT

An idea I had, like Antonio lol, I think the younger the subject, the more susceptible they are to more physical/openly visual changes. Another fun fact, I almost gave the family members bug parts based on what you discribed them 🪕🪕🪕

ALSO RANDOM QUESTION...but like still related. If there was a family tree (given that this Casita is basically a darker, probably black mold invested version), would it be normal OR.

Would Mirabel be at the top and everyone just below her because, by Miranda's rules, she's technically the head of the house, not Alma. The seniority isn't by age but rather by the fact that Mirabel was named as that by Miranda. Idk, I was just thinking about it 🦀🦀

[greeen-bean]

Saw Next to Normal at the Wyndham last night OH MY GOD

It was amazing! I genuinely think that is the best show I have ever seen. All of the acting and the music and the set and lights, every aspect that goes into theatre production was done perfectly.

I dragged my friend to watch it with me and she had no idea about any of the plot (only deciding in the line to go into the theatre that she might want to look it up), I warned her beforehand it was very sad and dealt with mental health but other than that she knew nothing. The look she gave me when you (spoilers!!!!) fine out Gabe is dead was so !!! She was still talking abiut how it shook her in the car ride home. She also turned to me at the interval was tears running down her face saying she was mad at me ("why didn't you warn me about the mountain song" "I said I liked it I thought you would have caught on"). We were also sitting quite close so couldn't see the floor of the stage, something we realise was probably a good thing after (again spoiler but also TW) the suicide attempt when Dan had to clean up the blood.

The acting was incredible!!! Ngl I could have done without the American accents (namely Jack's but maybe I'm just not used to it) but whatever. We got the Standby for Natalie (Lizzy Parker) and she was brilliant!! Natalie was always my favourite and she was played so beautifully! Henry (Jack Ofrecio) was also amazing, he kept all of his scenes (notably the ones with Natalie) so grounded and funny, the way all throughout he kept trying tk help her and not letting her push him away was so !!! Him and Natalie was my friends favourite part, she loved them so much (she also said they needed to get a room). The Doctor(s) (Trevor Dion Nicholas) was so good! I loved how he was able to play the different doctors so differently, he was funny when he needed to be, and again kept everything grounded when other characters were... not. You could also tell how much he believed in what he was doing and saying despite everyone else being cautious. Dan (Jamie Parker) is another one of my favourite characters and he was played so so sos so so sos os well!!! The anger and hope and regression of feelings, his love for Diana and feeling of betrayal it was so sbgsisbdnzudisjsbisish he makes me so emo if I think about it too much. For Diana (Caissie Levy) I actually do not have words to discribe how amazing she was, I cannot imagine anyone else playing Diana and being as good! I want to say so much about how perfect she was in the roll in every scene, and hiw her singing was emotional and funny and so so so real but I actually cannot wrap my head around it all 😭😭

I could talk for days about Jack Wolfe. I want to be an actor and he is one of, if not currently my biggest inspiration. I knew going into to this how good he would be but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw. Every second he was on stage, either front and center singing (a breathtaking song) about how he's alive, or sitting at the back lounging on the counter whilst other characters are fighting, you know what he was thinking and feeling and why and oh my GOD, when he walked on stage for the first time I say that it was him but it also wasn't, there was no part of Jack Wolfe in that performance all that you saw was this cocky snarcky teenager and watch him become more needy and scared and desperate as the play goes on. I am in awe of how amazing he was I might cry.

[ellesthots]

I just finished reading your fic on wattpad. I found it through here but read there because I like reading the comments. I had to come back here and talk to you about it.

Because you made me absolutely happy on the last three days, to the point that I went to sleep thinking about your fic and was excited to wake up and continue reading it.

I feel guilty for not commenting enough, but your writing involved me to the point that interrupting the flow of the reading seemed sacrilegious. There were so many moments that I had to stop and gather myself while reding because it made me feel so much of everything.

You are extremely talented. For real, it is so difficult to find characters that feel as real as yours. They felt so human, and that was my favorite part about it.

Like, so many writters have difficulties balancing the discribing part, but you didn't need to describe everything in extreme detail to make it feel like I was there.

Another thing that I absolutely loved was the flow of their thoughts. The perspective changing of what one of them was feeling and what the other was actually interpreting was sooo good. It's very hard to make me buy miscommunication. It often frustrates me because it feels cheap and not well thought, or frankly, it just feels not well executed. But you did just perfect.

And don't get me started on the slow burning. I live for that, omg it's so good. Every step they take is a hundred percent more significant because of it. And every touch they had made me absolutely giddy. There were times when I literally was kicking my feet and giggling because they made eye contact. It also made me reminisce the early stages of my relationship and that early feeling of being in love, when every toch feels a burning hot and electric.

I also am loving the sexual tension. Loviiiing.

Anyway, this was a mess. There is so much more that I could talk about, but I'm gonna spare you. I just wanted you to know how happy you made me and how talented you are. Thank you for being brave and giving as the privilege of having the tiniest look at your wonderful mind. I hope you know that writting this made someone kilometers away from you, all the way in Brazil feel connected to you and compelled by your writing.

Omg I can't stop writing it, bye.

first off, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for such a thoughtful, incredibly lovely comment 🥹 seriously, I had tears streaming down my face halfway through and had to pause!! it’s been a dream of mine that someone thinks about my fic the way you do! an absolute dream!

i’m so so so humbled that my writing made you feel so much, and it helped you reminisce on the early stages of love—it’s so beautiful, isn’t it? no need to apologize for ‘lack’ of commenting, comments are always a voluntary treat, and this more than makes up for it anyway!! also, no need to worry about sparing me, I ADORE interacting about my fic and hearing any and all thoughts, if you (or anyone else) has more, please keep them coming!! brightens my day so much when I’m able to interact with you all. love to hear what’s coming up :)

as for the characters, it means the world they’re coming alive on the page! from day one my goal was to make this very ‘slice of life’ and character-driven. people are so nuanced and contain so many different parts, especially in relation to one another, and I wanted to dig into that! there’s fumbling, doubts, contradictions, layers, multitudes. it’s not black and white, or superficial! working soo hard to create that depth, this is so validating to hear 😭 still so much to explore!!

miscommunication can be difficult, and it can often be very subtle! our mind tends to fill the blank in the silence, even. our interpretation is so colored by our experiences, insecurities, mood, everything! thank you for such an amazing compliment 💓

the connective experience of writing and sharing it is so fun, and I’m just absolutely over the moon with every word you wrote. the fact you felt connected and compelled, even across the globe !! my mind can hardly comprehend it!! surreal!! so happy to hear that the slow-burn is paying off and the sexual tension is palpable!! i can overthink sometimes and worry if im doing too much or not enough lol. messages/comments like these help quell my worries! so excited that we’re finally at the more ‘ramping up’ stage, thrilled to keep writing 🤭

i could also go on and on, but i wanted to thank you again. making art is so fun, but it becomes exponentially more fun to know people are picking up what you’re putting down and engaging with it so wholeheartedly. i’m SO GLAD my writing could make your days happier, my heart is so full. thank YOU for taking the time to write this comment and share your thoughts with me, it genuinely fills my cup like no other, and made me smile the whole day. still smiling!! 💖

[dm-tuz]

I read your documents and compared the designs and your own behavior. I don't think any of this is worth a callout. I would also suggest revising your hagspawn lore and design. It's antisemitic. Isn't intended to be a threat or harassment. Be mindful of evil bloodlines and big noses. Also I think the design change makes them less similar and if you collabed on the character you both get a version of him. Also your SO having parents part of Q-Anon is concerning for LGBT+ people

Edit:

"Shut up Crowbar" was my original response to this ask. Gut instict kind of gave me the idea that this anon might have been a sockpuppet. But okay, how about I give you a genuine response?

Genuine response:

For one good job saying "I did not read your hagspawn" without actually saying it. The lore of the hagspawn clearly details how they are not innately evil. They do possess some character traits that can be both toxic but also empowering and uplifting all depending on how they choose to act on them. The entierty of the lore discribes them in a sympathetic light with an innate plothook in form of their typically evil mothers. But naturally you can't see past the large nose which as a reason to call antisemitism is on very shakey grounds.

For the second half of this ask: Also #1) No they didn't change much. They changed the character's eyes and changed their "legal name" while still keeping their calling name. It's not distinct at all, plus I am allowed to voice disapproval if a person who abused my SO, my friend, and myself uses my character.

Also #2) Me, my SO, their brother, and their brothers husband are all LGBT+ folk. Plus the situation is more complicated than that. May I point you towards my SO's statement and documentation of the crap Crowbar put them through as well as my SO's and my relationship with their parents and our struggles with their conspiracy shenanigans? Here you go. It might help you to not grossly oversimplify a complex problem.

Edit edit: same anon is sending further asks in response to this edit. I will not spam my followers with an arguement with an anon. So anon, if you want to actually have a discussion with me, do so non anonymously or send me an email via a burner account through my buisness email. I got nothing to hide and will be very transparent.

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

camella and nutmeg!!

Thank you for the ultimate yapping opportunity ivy T~T

Camellia - when I was a kid I had like two phases, first one was very talkative and made friends fast and the second was very quiet, 1 on 1, but both were obsessed with books and information and being a smartass and petting grass. That hasnt really changed. I do curse now(I was alergic to curse words or even bad words, dont ask me how I blasted rock albums every day), and drinking which I tought I would never do but turns out alcohol tastes great, and I am not as religious as I used to be (my parents weren't that religious except from the holidays and even that was no church so believe me everyone was shocked that I wanted to be baptized since I was 6-never did tho) although I think it makes sense since it started from my love for the world and nature and people and then it kinda cooled off once I realised there are a lot of judgemental people. I was a real crybaby up until high school too haha,for everything, but then I toughened up bit and started crying bymonthly to clear my skin. And I finally wear jeans which I swore off bc I wanted to pull off everything in dresses and balet shoes out of spite, even hiking, which I managed better than everyone else in the scouts.

Okay that was long sorry for that,I could go on but I should probably stop, I like to reminiscence since I am not as focused nor organised nor motivated anymore

Nutmeg - my room back home is baby pink with a blue arch with clouds around my bed, its filled with posters, prints, and my sisters art

And the one Im in now is just a wall with water but once its fixed I have a lot of art prints (post cards mostly but they are chaper than prints and nobody knows once you put them in frames) i still have a lot of frames to buy but my collection is huge and there is also this old map and an axe from my birthday which i would like to frame and hang as well. Dont know how I would discribe the theme but photo trinkets might be one of them

[candycurlsofmaddness]

Twenty Questions to Ask a Writer

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Currently 70. Including 3 unfinished WIPs

2. What's your total A03 word count?

128,508 according to stats

3. What fandoms do you write for?

90% Star Trek. I will occasionally write other stuff, and I had wider interests when I first started writing, but all I've been interested in writing for the past year is Star Trek.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

First: Harry Potter and the Unexpected Ability to Socialise (Hp, gen)

Second: Breaking the Temporal Prime directive. (ST:LD x ST:SNW, gen) https://archiveofourown.org/works/49712530

Third: The Weasley Twins V/S the World (HP, gen)

Fourth: Secrets that Hide in the Light. (St:SNW, F/F) https://archiveofourown.org/works/49372045

Fifth: Rescuing Una (ST:SNW, F/F)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes always. I love having conversations and I love knowing what people think. (Sometimes I take weeks and weeks to reply. I am forgetful but I usually will reply eventually.)

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Everything in my series "To Die a Million Meaningless Deaths." (ST:TNG, 5 works)

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3684103

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most my romantic fics end happily. But in terms of the happiest ending compare to the start, I'd go with "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same" (ST:SNW, F/F) https://archiveofourown.org/works/49924192

8. Do you get hate on fics?

When I was on FFnet in the dark ages yes. On AO3, only from the Harry Potter Fandom.

9. Do you write smut?

Mostly fade to black or yearning but it's been known to happen.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Crossovers within star trek, yes.

Most other crossovers are usually just stories where I'm using the setting/themes of one world with the characters of another. So not in the actual sense.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Back in the dark ages yes. Plus I'm sure AI has scrapped all my words and more.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes many. One has been finished and published. "Understanding Lilith" (Owl house, gen) https://archiveofourown.org/works/54627781/chapters/138424342

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

All star trek charcacters; Una/La'an, Christine Chapel/T'Pring, Beverly Crusher/Jean Luc Picard, Seven/B'Elanna/Harry, B'Elanna/Harry, Jadiza/Kira.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Harry Potter and the Unexpected Ability to Socialise.

I started writing it to get back into fanfiction, but I didn't finished it before I divorced the fandom. I can't bring myself to write in the world of such a hateful bigot.

Also I started to write in present tense for Star trek and it's pretty impossible to switch back.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Inserting random world building and keeping characterisation close to the original when writing AUs.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Discribing things, remembering to add in the background details visual people expect. (I've got aphantasia lol)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Good luck to those who try. I don't know know another language well enough to ever publish the attempt.

But somewhat related, I enjoy messing with the universal translator in my stories.

19. First fandom you wrote for

Either Harry Potter or Voyager.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

It's a tie between "Secrets that Hide in the Light" (https://archiveofourown.org/works/49372045) and "Off-putting Missions and False Alarms" (ST:SNW, gen, Una & Pelia) (https://archiveofourown.org/works/53742529)

[dearweirdme]

https://www.tumblr.com/dearweirdme/721360980873986048/i-dont-know-if-you-know-about-the-running-joke?source=share

reading body language is not that hard and in this specific case it looks very obvious that jk was visibly upset at what he saw and jimin knew that jk won't like it, that's why he tried to get his attention as soon as rm pulled him in. jk suddenly deciding to remove his rings and throw them away (with his tongue in cheek thing that i don't usually take seriously lol but this time it was an obvious indicator that jk was mad) was him trying to release his body tension elsewhere, aka occupy or distract himself. that's also why he took so long to respond to jimin and why he did it in such a bratty manne (and he magically started acting normal again later after jimin started pouring him with attention lol). jimin knew that and that's why he looked nervous, jimin doesn't get nervous a lot and that's why it's so easily identifiable. jk's "angry" looking heart makes no sense either bc why was he so stiff and mad at armys? he did it so quickly like 'let's get this over with'. like what did we do? you can ignore what everyone else sees if it makes you sleep well at night but it won't change the fact that jk looked visibly upset and one only needs to have a combination of eyes + empathy + ability to read social cues to be able to look at this video and conclude that jk's mood switch was obviously related to minimoni. especially when he has a history of doing this with them multiple times. 2 + 2 = ?

Hi again anon!

Well, apparently it is a bit hard for you. The only thing obvious here is that this moment is important to you and you cannot let go of it. Sure, you and other Jkkrs might agree on this, but no neutral person will see what you discribe to me here. It just isn't there. You impose your view of Jk being 'bratty' here. While Jk has his 'bratty moments', he is not in general a brat. You like to look at him like that, because it fits your story. Jk is professional and you are insulting him (and Jimin as well) by making a big thing out of moments like this.

If you don't value my opinion on this, and if you don't think I am able to read body language, and if you don't think i am emphatic,why even bother sending me stuff like that... why even come back with a reply like this when I don't agree? I know why... you thought this moment would shock me out of my Taekookery, because to you it is soooo obvious, but there is nothing (!) obvious about it anon. Nothing at all.

You want to see Jk distressed? Here we go.. (please ignore the discriptions... just watch the footage).

And this is Jimin and how he reacts when something upsetts him. Look how strong he is! You are making them so small, with how you view them.

[autistic-demiboy]

I have been gone from this blog for quite a while. 😅 Oops. I mostly post on another account and I might just move there instead of but i'm not sure. I talk in third person there so it takes way less spoons. If any followers here want to follow me there it is @nonspeakingkiku

Updated intro time I guess.

I'm Percy. I also go by Kiku. On my other account I primarily go by Kiku.

I am a mostly nonverbal multiply disabled autistic and adhd adult. I am high support needs. I previously identified as semiverbal but I rarely have speech and when I do have it I can't communicate very well with it. I suspect I have global apraxia and a language disability of some kind but I have no idea what. I am working on becoming a full time aac user (I have trauma because I was forced to talk a lot because no one knew I have a speech disability).

I currently use LAMP words for life, Proloquo2go, Proloquo, and TD Snap. I use LAMP and Proloquo2go about the same amount probably and I use Proloquo more than TD Snap. I am still customising things in them though and I only have one device for communication and self regulation so that affects things.

I communicate using my aac apps, word approximations, gestures, a handful of ASL signs, sounds, and sometimes echolalia. My speech is increadibly unreliable and I often can't be understood especially by people other than my partners.

I have processing difficulties especially with to auditory processing. I have migraines that affect my vision and because of this I have some of my aac apps set up similar to how you would for someone who is visually impaired (The main one is LAMP currently) and I want to get a keyguard for it eventually to help prevent misshits.

I am genderqueer, and I collect a lot of gender terms because I feel they fit me. I like the words boy, girl, and enby to discribe myself at different times. Sometimes I am a boy, sometimes i'm a girl, sometimes i'm both, sometimes i'm neither, and sometimes i'm something else. Boy and girl at the same time is most common. My pronouns are fluid but currently He/She/They/Fae are good and I like canine and bunny themed neopronouns.

I am nonhuman and identify with a lot of different creatures, currently the most prevelant ones are werewolf, bunny, unicorn (MLP universe), and fox/kitsune.

I am something called an aspen. That means my parts of self are bigger due to trauma. Similar to DID/OSDD but I am one person, not multiple. Although I don't always feel like one person.

I love animals, crafting, video games and have many interests.

I'm not sure what else to say but if you read this thanks ☺️

[falsebooles123]

Finding The First Gay Kiss - Diary of a Big Ole Gay 1/7/23

Edit: Yes I know that I published this three days late, suck my dick.

Hey Whores, Today I am sad, not because of movies but just because being unemployed is depressing and I am someone who deals with ... that sort of thing.

(also thank you tumblr for checking on my mental health, you real for that)

I don't like to talk about my depression because honestly its not that bad like compared to some peoples, like I can always get out of bed in the morning, I'm not suicidal. Its just sometimes even when everything in life is fine I just have no energy and I want to cry for no reason. or I sleep for 10 hours everynight and I still feel tired.

and I know that my pain and sickness is valid as much as everyone elses but I feel that I'm stealing valor for being someone with like mild depression symptoms. What I'm saying is that I'm a fake emo.

(go on fuck me emo boy go on fuck me emo boy, wait what was I doing...)

Its Day 4 of the job hunt and I'm typing this up before I go job hunting today but its just so hard when life sucks not to catasphize I hate this feeling of freefall, of feeling like you have slipped off of the tight rope of life and you are just falling

falling

falling

falling

sure at any moment you will either hit the net or feel every single bone in your body break simultaniously. The body eletric, a petit mort of estatic orgasmic pain before nothing.

and I know that that isn't true, i know that I am capable that I am strong, that I am more then the obstucles that get put in my way. and even if thats not true I could always be a nihilist and know that the human desire to keep on keeping on will keep my mortal flesh in pained wretcheness for awhile longer.

Well now that i was a little emo about this shit lets actually talk about the movies I watched this week. BTW I rented a bunch from my local library so thanks taxes.

Glen or Glenda (1953) dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.

Glen or Glenda is something else. On its surface its almost the transsexual Anders Die Al Aldern, complete with a psycologist and plee for sympathy, on the other hand it is a bizarre acid trip of imagery that is impossible to discribe outside of 1940s experimental film, on the third hand it is a anderson-esque autobiography work where wood confronts his own desires for transvesticism to the point that it greatly misreads the room.

This film greatly misunderstans transness, it conflates crossdressing, (which is presented as a fruedian fetishism for lace and fur), with being trans and it doesn't spend a lot of time exploring either of these ideas well. Psuedo-anaylsis is applied to find the roots of their GNC and tbh a lot of this films messaging is outdated.

However I have also had the good fortune of reading a book on the subject, (the name escapes me and I'm to lazy to look it up), and a lot of the way that transness is discussed is period accurate. A lot of people that were getting medical care, (including the influential christina jorgensine), were doing so because of hormone inbalances or because they were intersex. transmedicalism has been the bread and butter of trans health care and while I absolutely don't support it political for a variety of reasons it is the framework people had at the time. The notion of gender identity or even dsyphoria, (are modern transmedical metric)), are woefully modern.

that being said it should also be noted that a lot of people really didn't care about the distinction insofar as it purtained to being part of the queer community. The desire to be GNC was seen in itself enough and our distictions of queer identity are also more modern in the same way that before the 1970s bisexual wasn't a weirdly used label or the notion of asexuals, (who were under the bi umbrella), didn't politically branch off until the 1990s or later.

I don't want to excuse the politics of this film but I do think it is a queer work, dealing with one mans experience of bigotry and trying to heart-felt make an acceptance piece. The fact that this film is so deragated, not by a trans audience, but by a mainstream one, to me comes off as aggresively queerphobic.

I am not going to say that this film gets to be in the cult status of problematic faves like RHPS or its even more problamatic cousin Hedwig and the Angry Inch but I do think that it is being cut from a very similar cloth.

The Detective (1968) dir. Gordon Douglas

At some piont around the 60s and into the 70s Crime Prods went into this almost ACAB era, where instead of explicet copaganda, (y'know like the post-9/11 stuff), they were shown as almost anti-villians and this film is no different.

Usually this gets compared to Serpico or Victim, I don't watch a lot of '60s films so it reminds me of Cruising(1980) which came out later on.

Basically ol blue eyes is a third generation pig and he's investigating the murder of a gay man. but see hes one of the good guys because he doesn't think its nice to call the queers f*ggots, oh and be clear the pigs are very homophobic in this. they love calling us fags and fudgepackers and fairy queens and who the fuck knows what else.

But see Sinatra is a good guy so he only emotional abuses his unfaithful wife a little, and also totally didn't beat a confession out of a innocent man and get him sent to jail.

Its differcult with these films because on one hand pigs are pigs and its at least honest but on the other hand these films do glorify this violence. I don't know i'm not a film scholar, (I say as I write my academic ass essay on this subject).

I do want to rewatch Cruising at some point one causes its very hot.

(i literally had to type in the year and director because tumblr won't let me search for Cruising. What if I want to see a man get sucked off in the bushes tumblr-bumbly thats my progative)

and second because the film I feel has a more neutral idea of cops. I think that depicting them as all racist pigs and all good guys as a gun is a disservice. Being the jack boot thug of the regime is obvious a moral gray area and while I refuse to sympathize with shit like "The boy in the stripe pajamas" I do have some interest in see people deal with a corrupt system.

Rope (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

There Lesbians Harold.

so first before I discribe this film let me first discuss how gay the origins of this are. For those not in the know Rope is based off of a 1929 play Ropes End, (well in the broadway run), which in turn was inspired by the case of Leopald and Loeb.

There were two young students, (teenaged at the time I believe), who murdered a 14 year old boy because they had read too much nietzche

Not only were the two murderes but it turned out that they were indeed gay lovers, with the sexual relationship feeding into the more toxic dom/sub aspect of the killing team, (OK I watched a lot of criminal minds and they fit the model to a tee).

this of course was tawdry and shocking and of course it feeled the fucked up imaginations of people and so the gay codependence of these two murderers found there way into Ropes End which dramaticised the events.

This was then picked up somewhere by Alfred Hitchcock and given to Arthur Laurents, also gay, (btw according to wikipedia he got set up with his partner by Gore Vidal of all people).

Also both of the main actors in this John Dall and Farley Granger were MLM. Another fun fact was that the Prof, (who was explicitely a daddy in the play), was originally offered to Cary Grant, a man who has never been accused of liking other men. He turned it down supposedly to the queer intonations of the work, (I want to be clear that Grant has stared in other queer works but thats not the point).

Laurents discusses in Rope Unleased (which was nicely enough included as an extra on the DVD I borrowed from the ibrary), how the whole movie was about "It" and everyone was in on it. And it kinda is.

The Murder scene is sexual, with the men holding up Davids prostate body, one with there hands around his throat, the other having his hand inside the jacket feeling his heart beat slowly stop. This death is in someway Le Petit Mort.

Laurents says once again in the doc

"Hitchcock was fascinated by the fact that they were gay murderers, if they were gay he wouldn't care, if they were murderers, but both"

(I'm paraphrasing here)

and this film conflates murder with sex in a way that is palpable. The body becomes almost this symbol of there homosexuality something that can be revealed and outed. Theres another prescient quote by Dom Prof along the lines of

"You Know Phillip, I wish I could come Straight out with what I know

Unfortunetly I don't know any, I merely Suspect"

and lets be clear there is a lot of lines in this work that have that kind of double meaning.

This Movie is gay, it is so fucking gay and everyone knew what they were doing. Good Shit.

Michael (1924) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michael as has been stated before on this blog is based off of the 1902 novel by Herman Bang. This film is a lot more explicet in the plot probably for the fact that this film wasn't mostly lost. Theres more drama with the characters and overall its basically about a guy whose boyfriend/little starts getting bamboozled by this scammer and ruins his life because of it. Its in a weirdly weird way Its about toxic queer love but like in a way thats not problematic. Which is nice.

What I mean by that is that in modern queer storys tend to have a lot of gay trauma, its a lot of repression and homophobia and people being called faggots and dying of aids.

(you get what I'm getting at)

However in this film its more that these gay people just have like a toxic relationship that has fuck all to do with being gay. Its straight people nonsense but for people who are not straight. Which is honestly kinda refreshing.

[mmikrowave]

I'm maybe ranting a bit but i need to talk to the void. i HATE hate hate having chronic illness that isnt visible to others sometimes.

of course im glad i can move freely and am relatively fine most of the way but all i can do is tell the person im out with that i feel unwell and that im "nauseous" even though its not exactly that, but its the closest I'll get to then understanding i am feeling bad rn.

the thing is for most people that is a passing state and they'll just rest and be fine or vomit and feel better but my body is stuck in it once i got it until i sleep it off weirdly but my whole day is just DONE for then and its so annoying bc suddenly everything is overstimulating and exhausting and interacting and reacting to people gets so much harder and thw distance from me to my home gets unbearable to me in a matter of a few minutes and i cant predict when it comes.

So I'll just kinda try to deal with it but but its so frustrating because i never know what kinds of events I'll be able to come to or how long ill be able to stay. i dont wanna be excluded and not asked to come anymore or be the party pooper who drags their friends out earlier then planned or be boring and unpleasant to be around once my nausea hits.

but its genuinely so exhausting being in your early 20s and not only be exhausted bc of that and also be anxious thr whole time about my tinitus getting worse when im trying to listen to music with people or spend the evening at a karaoke bar bc i didnt wanna club because i wouldn't be able to sit and calm down if my nausea flares up really badly.

all i can easily agree too is in a 10 minute radius from my home and that gets so old and repetitive so quickly...

especially when all the doctors I've seen about this just told me to take different things that never helped really and also didnt understand what exactly i was trying to discribe to them bc the symptoms and triggers are so fucking random and variable...

often i drink alcohol and itll trigger it but ive been literally fine, no notes, often enough as well when i was out to drink.

idk man idk im just so tired bc the only cure for it is to literally just lay on my back and pause my life for hours until i feel better...

[lickthisquartet]

Positions (1970) dir. Tom Parker

"Switchin' the positions for you (for you, ah) Cookin' in the kitchen, and I'm in the bedroom I'm in the Olympics, way I'm jumpin' through hoops Know my love infinite, nothin' I wouldn't do That I won't do, switchin' for you" - Positions by Ariana Grande

"I thought theres no use getting, into heavy petting, It only leads to trouble and, seat wetting," - Toucha Toucha Touch Me-RHPS

HOT OR NOT

For a Soft-core film this is surprisingly sexy. The wonders of Erotic Touch I guess.

Historical "COCK"-text

God this was a uphill battle in terms of research. If someone can gift me just like 500 books on this historical of the american pornography scene that would be great thanks.

Here's What we Know.

Positions AKA Positions Professor is a softcore porno directed by Tom Parker and Produced by Topar Films.

There is some evidence that there may have been a secondary film studio involved. IMDB lists Coeval Films and the films itself includes the cue card that this is a FEATURE presentation. Which is delightfully vague. It was restored and distrubuted by Vinegar Syndrome possible around 2019. Despite this there is no official listing by VS on there website, any of the fan-made catelogues or through there smut label Musiline. My best guess is that it didn't survive the transfer when they seperated there adult content in 2022

Speaking of lack of information there is only three people credited in the film. Gene Rowland, Lynn Harris, and Sheri Jackson. Interestingly while this was not any of there first films it was very early in all three of there careers. The rest of the actors, (by my count about 6), are unknown. I would say they are uncredited but there are no credits for this film.

So who is Topar Films.

Founded in california in either 1970 or 1971, (the records are a bit confusing in terms of timeline), Topar Films INC, was created by Tom Parker.

Richard Haines mentions it in passing in his book "The Moviegoing experience 1968-2001" as a distibutor of explotation and cheap kids films and various other mentions to there ouvre tend to be there on there pulp films Such as SS Girls (1977), a Naziplotation film, Sudden Death (1977), a action film set in the south pacific, and of course Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana(1971).

While these works were in the softcore genre there is some evidence that the Parkers were involved with the porn distrubution scene in LA. In 1971 the San Rafeal Daily discribes a Raid on there offices. Two years later in 1973 there listed in Harmer vs A Motion Picture Film Entitled "The Devil in Miss Jones, et al" as a one of the parties involved in a "Hydra", essentially a pornography ring distrubiting the film between a series of private residents and cinemas. Its unknown what tom parkers exact role was in this porno conspiracy.

Despite the legal woes Topar Films appears to have done fairly well for themselves. They opened 4 regional branches in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Canada. It is unknown when exactly Topar Films disbanded. Business Records are spotty and also I'm too tired to learn what all those acronyms mean.

At time of writing I am still waiting to here back from Vinegar Syndrome about there relationship to this film so hopefully we get some information on them.

THOT Synopsis

[00:00 - 22:16]

The film begins with Mrs. Ford (Shiri Jackson), a pent-up housewife coming to the doctors office of Dr. Rowland (Gene Rowland), and speaks with the secratery Ms. Greer (Unknown). It turns out that this is a sex clinic were people can come to learn how to do the sex good. Maybe even learn a few POSITIONS. *bdum tsssss*

She is introduced to Teddy (Unknown) and Vahn (Unknown) who are stationed in 'erogenous touch' what proceeds is a short educational demonstration on the you would never guess it but the show off the eroganous zones of the women.

I'm not the most famalier with the trends of softcore in the 70s. Most of the porn I watch don't have women in it. But a precursory glanse shows off the phenominon of the 'white coater' film.

Eric Schaefer in his essay 'Gauging a Revolution: 16mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature' describes it as thus:

"By 1969–1970, a series of 'how-to' features emerged, sometimes referred to as marriage-manual films or 'white-coaters,' wearing the mantle of scientific respectability as they ticked through visual rosters of sexual positions."

after Vaugh fingers Teddy for 'educational purposes we transition to the first 'sex' scene. oh sorry plot first. Basically Teddy wants to get a promotion for the coveted 'Positions' Class so Vaugh's like Oh I could teach you. Then they 'fuck'. I'm saying it like that because here's the thing theres never any explitely penetration shown. It's really a lot of heavy petting and similated sex. and don't get me wrong it still kinda hot. The implication and fantasy is there and its honestly kinda nice to see 1. just an emphasis on foreplay and both men and women just really enjoying the touch and feel of the other s bodies. Very straights being ok. and 2. It feels very natural. It's odd seeing people fuck in like a normal way in porn or even just seeing a guy not be completly hard the entire time.

As I'm rewatching this for the review Teddy is straddled on top of Vaughn and using her nails to lightingly scratch over his chest and if thats not what I want beautiful women to do to me every single day then I don't know what is.

I guess my biases is showing cause this is just how I like to fuck with a lot of foreplay and a lot of touching.

I'm not sure if theres much to describe in each scene because it tends to be fairly organic and I've noticed as someone whose been writing these reviews that its kind boring to be like 'and then they went into doggy style and she was really wet' If its something like Kincaid where he's doing a specific shot composition sure but sometimes in a porno people are just jerking off for like 15 minutes.

Long story short Teddy and Vaugh fuck in a variety of positions and its probably the best straight porn I've seen. thats a really low bar through so take it with a grain of salt.

[22:18 - 31:00]

The scene transitions and Mrs. Ford brings her Husband Mr. Ford (Unknown) to the sex clinic to show off all the fun new tricks she learned to revitalize her marriage if your reading this on LB then this is the couple shown in the poster. I will also say that its kinda nice to see like a regular looking guy in a porno. Thats what most of the men I fuck look like so yaaaaaaay Realism.

I will say its also so interesting to see a straight porno that spends so much time focusing on the male body and form. Its nice. In another side note apparently the slang was "turn onto me" and not "Turn you on" which is deeply fascinating.

The Fords proceed to ... consummate there marital bond but Mr. Ford very explicetly is unable to get hard. This starts a fight in which he says things like "this kind of stuff just doesn't turn me on" and "its just not that important to me" much to mrs. Ford chagrin. Honestly could you imagine being so incorrect all the time as a man.

I honestly just feel bad for MRS. Ford. she deserves to get her back blown out.

[31:01- 42:53]

Vauhggn is talking with Sheila (unknown), a female demonstator for the positions clinic about his sexual escapades with Teddie. This time Sheila is interested in being the educator because as she haughtally says. Shes the best. I also would love to describe her appearence. Plantinum Blond, Trim frame, B-Cups. Its nice to see a girl in skin flicks who has a happy medium in body porportions. (god this feels really misogrnystic am I a bad person), Short note, she is a very pretty women and It's said she goes uncredited in this film.

The scene begins with a lot of foreplay and teasing on sheilas end and interestingly enough lengthy shots of Vauughnds crotch. This is also the most erect we will see any of these men during the film. Which is a shame they are a very hot couple.

after a lengthy foreplay session, (which also involves sheila being very verbally fingered and a slightly confusingly positioned 69), they finally begin there first position, which is a reverse cowgirl position. presumingly these positions are simulated but if they are then cudos to the actors because they seem to be enjoying themselves. They switch again to a regular cowgirl followed by a variety of missionary positions. I guess thats how we can end things.

[42:54 - 58:02]

We open on a closeup of Sheilas wet, leaking pussy as she lays in bed clearly arroused. What follows for the next several minutes is a solo female scene which yes please. More women enjoying themselves in smut.

Dr. Rowland and Mrs. Campbell (Lynn Harris) walk in on Sheila and Rowland scolds her for her 'extra-curriculars' and walks off to find a man to fuck her.

Sheila and Campbell proceed to have a Therese and Isabella moment with Sheila being the Ingenue and Campbell the experience and attentive top. For those at home this is the second scene shown on the LB poster.

This is also one of the most dialogue heavy scenes as the women expose how they arn't turned on by men and are want nothing but that good puss puss. Which honestly girls I get it. In the next few scenes I am also fascinated by how these sapphic actions are seen by Rowlands Establishment. Sapphic touch and even masturbation are seen as aberrant almost as if Rowland has a very specific idea of how women should have sex and what women's sexuality is for. Its also interesting that the lesbian scenes in this film while objectable being made for the male gaze are not desired or wanted by the actually men in the film. the sexual politics of the film are interesting.

[58:03 - 1:07:17 ]

Mrs. Campbell is laying on the bed in a state of reposte, as Rowland walks in and chastises her before introducing the demonstrators, Patricia(Unknown) and Greg(Unknown), it should also be noted that 1. Patricia is another Platinum Blonde and 2. Mrs. Campbell is being the most campy Lesbian Harlot. Ok theres a scene where she's trying to put a titty in her mouth and Gregg shouts MRS. CAMPBULL.

Greggg is an entirely dry and flavorless fuck and the fun of this scene mostly comes from Patricia and Campbell having SECRET LESBIAN SEX. Its the most 'theatrical' of the porn scenes and there is some fun to it.

I will say that the one thing I wish is that to keep with the theming of the film is that they where more intentional with the positions taken. I would like to know what kind of positions a lesbian couple or a MFF threesome might take. These scenes while with some novalty seem a little clunkier then the early scenes.

[1:07:18 - 1:16:22]

The scene begin s with the women once again in a pillow talk positions about how they men simply cannot fuck. The scene cuts to Mrs. Ford and Ms. Greer talking about how here husband was giving her wack dick. Ms. Greer then proceeds to come on to Mrs. Ford.

Its definetly one of the more interesting surprise pairings and Ms. Greer is an interesting choice as she plays into this cateyed secretary with a blunt bob and long acryllic nails.

TBH I don't have much to add as at this point in the film this is the third soft-core Lesbian Scene so theres not much they can do to reinvent the tribadic wheel so to speak. I will say the two things that standout is Mrs. Greers lengthy undressing scene, (undergarment enjoyers win), and the fantastic chemitry between the two.

[1:16:23- 1:24:14]

Rowland heavily irritated by how all of his staff keep seeming to fuck at the fuck clinic. Ms. Greer comes out of the room en dishabille and proceeds to try to seduce Dr. Rowland. Which ummmm same and twoooo kinda weird they left this scene to the very end of the movie.

honestly this is a bit of a flat ending to be honest. Some kissing, Rowland being rather bashful which I do find hot in a man.

The film ends with Rowland standing up exposing his visuable hard cock and thats it. The quickest tease. SAD

Overall Lovelies this was a surprisingly fun time. I think its probably the best straight porn I watched and while it has some dry spots theres a bit of fun to be had here. Kinda want to own it but I don't think its in print. I'll probably be awhile before I review another porno 1. because I don't have anything thats caught my eye besides the endless mountain of kincaid films and 2. I'm kinda tired of watching people suck and fuck. I've been unemployed for a couple weeks now so lets just say that my hands are getting tired.

[blackboxtheater]

A follow up to the last ask (same anon here😊😊 )

A: your fic is ICONIC. I am giggling and kicking my feet every time I've reread it. Its captured this gentle soft vibe that i am in L O V E with. Its about your person being able to see through all your walls to the person at the core of it all and saying i love you all the more for your flaws. Idk how to discribe it, but it feels like being held....

B: that earlier fic i sent was only partway done, and was almost more background for what i would ASSURE you was intended to be gemtho (platonic or romantic, idk), where emotionally exhausted gem seeks (and finds!) a refuge for a night, where some may least expect it (from Etho!!a!)

Just,,, etho who exudes chill vibes and seems to be a person who doesnt mind companionable silences, and would be the PERFECT person for when gem just needs someone to wrap her up in a blanket, make her a cup of tea, and just hold her for a lil bit. Doesnt even need to be romantic or anything, just,, their characters line up SO perfectly - not a mirror but a jigsaw, where they click and ~vibe~ -romantically, platonically, i must see them interact with each other!!!

They are too damn compelling 😆😆

Welcome back anon 😜

A: as a chronic fic rereader, saying you reread my story is literally the highest praise. I still can’t quite fathom that people liked the fic, never mind liked it as much as I like the fics that I go back to read over and over again. Like….I just cannot compute.

But I also love the way you describe the story. This idea that both of them look at the other and think “You are perfect and I am not, so you could never like me because I’m not perfect” is such a strong theme throughout the whole story, and trying to actually work through that is so much more raw and vulnerable than the passion and chance that makes up so much of other romance stories. I’m so glad I represented it well 🖤

B: “seems to be a person who doesn’t mind companionable silences” - 1000% agree. Facts.

So I personally read Gem and Etho’s camaraderie as romantic (obviously), but I get people who don’t read it that way. Because no matter how you characterize it, they so obviously get along and enjoy each other so much. They clearly are friends who truly enjoy each other’s company and seek it out, and that’s been wonderful to see from the Decked Out lobby through now.

And you should totally write that fic!!!! Selfishly because I always want more stories about them that are more character driven, but also because I could totally see that in season 9 (especially like post Secret Life or towards the end of Decked Out). It’s those little moment of vulnerability that really transform any relationship from something surface level to deeper

Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart for the compliments, and keep me posted if you ever finish that fic!!