#i dunno this line was funny & also nostalgic ^^;

[chucklepea-hotpot]

Okay you asked for asks and i'm desperate for dfk 2023 crumbs so like. Tell me everything. The best part, the worst part, something you really weren't expecting, how the characters changed, some memorable lines or scenes, anything you want to talk about

I need to talk about them so desperately, so thank you for this ask! My answers are hidden unter the cut in case someone wants to avoid spoilers :)

i had a long ass essay prepared but my app broke down so now i'll try to get the most important stuff together, so sorry <3

the best part:

- the music and the sets plus landscapes in general? i loved it, it gave me a warm nostalgic feeling, felt very childhood comforr movie

- the nichtraucher's relationship to the children, we see how the meet him for the first time and how they get closer with each other and how fond he grows of them (aka how he becomes their dad)

- the justraucher relationship. it was gay. very.

- little hints and details that referenced the book, i got very excited about it whenever i spotted some

the worst part:

- making headmisstress kreuzkamm a little bit a comedic relief? i felt like they didn't do hannah herzsprung justice by that, she is actually a very good actress and the re-interpretation of her as professor kreuzkamm could have been better

- some changes to fot the movie's narration better but to me they somehow still felt off, idk how to explain this in better detail

- i think it was sad that they changed the dynamic between justus and the children, at least in the beginning. i kinda missed their trusting bond, think of matz saying that he would literally die for him in the book, he would definitely not say it in this version. but they had the martin and justis scene from the end of the book somehow in there <333

something you really weren't expecting:

- the nichtraucher being so so funny?

- he is the movie's narrator and there's a scene where he says to get his mind free, he likes to smoke, play piano or go for a swim. and then he advices the viewers to do the same, except for the smoking because he also tried quitting several times already. iconic.

- while the kids are fightibg he's randomly walking through the scene because he wants to go for a swim. i love him.

how the characters changed:

- martina: she now has the eldest daughter syndrome and is mainly sad that she doesmt get to spend the summer holidays with her little brother (oskar <333), she and jo don’t go along immediately because martina wants to keep s low profile since she doesnt want to lose her scholarship (scholarship martin truthers unite!!!!). oh, ans she can skate now (very cool!)

- matz: he is called matze and i fucking hate it. but he is very matz, very kindhearted and his main priority is still taking care of uli, so very in character. his main goal however now is not to become a boxer, he just loves training for becoming one and dislikes the fighting part (dunno how to feel about that but well)

- uli: he is basically the same? he bow climbs a wall and falls down because the rope isn't secured well enough and the nichtraucher takes care of him :))

some memorable lines or scenes:

- jo: her forster parents are djs????? that really caught me offguard ngl. she is a troublemaker now and dropped some very cringy anglecisms, which was funny to me at least. martina ans her becole eventually friends, sadly no justraucher paralellism for them :(

- justraucher ofc, but i'm sure i'll talk about that seperately again and again

- "noch 11 tage bis sylt" (only 11 more days until sylt)

- "als ich fünf wad haben meine eltern mich in einer disco ausgesetzt" (when inwas five years old, my parents abandoned me in a disco)

- "wir zwei hatten doch pläne!" (But the two of us had plans!)

- literally everyone who also watched the movie please comment more, there were so many one-liners

anything you want to talk about:

- der schöne theo?? so very book accurate?? he was such a disgusting little boot-licker who looked like he votes for the fdp, he was perfect

- the outfits for the grown-ups were so cool? i loved headmisstress kreuzkamm's whole wardrobe, it was giving art teacher and justus had very very nice plaid pants on that made him look very queer tbf

I hope that answered some of your questions, please always come to talk to me about dfk <3

[frodo-with-glasses]

More Reading Thoughts: Minas Tirith

(So I would like to start this off by saying that I’m writing this from the perspective of having already finished the chapter a while ago and had a couple days to chew on it. This is not a live-blog; this is a recap. The reason for this disclaimer will become clear below. ;-P)

I want to say something about these portions of Pippin’s ride with Gandalf, but nothing I say will really do it justice. There’s just something dreamlike, spell-binding, nostalgic, melancholy, and longing about it. The whole world whirling by under Shadowfax’s hooves while Pippin slips in and out of sleep.

People talk about the strange, extraordinary feeling that the scene at the Grey Havens gives them, but I can actually kind of identify that feeling, because I’ve thought about it a lot. This, though? I can’t even identify what emotion this is giving me. It’s like waking up and yearning for a dream you can remember less by the second. Wow.

“Sleep again, and do not be afraid! For you are not going like Frodo to Mordor, but to Minas Tirith, and there you will be as safe as you can be anywhere in these days. If Gondor falls, or if the Ring is taken, then the Shire will be no refuge.” “You do not comfort me.” Hahahaha there’s Tolkien’s bathos!

“He wondered where Frodo was, and if he was already in Mordor, or if he was dead; and he did not know that Frodo from far away looked on that same moon as it said beyond Gondor ere the coming of the day.” Hnnnngg my heart TT-TT

Hahaha the way that Pippin takes offense to being called a man AND being called brave X’-D

Bruh I dunno how people can read the description of Minas Tirith and actually picture in their heads what it looks like. I can see it now, because I’ve seen it in the movie, but it’s no wonder that this description made Little Me’s head spin.

I’m glad the movies took the comedy route here because Gandalf giving Pippin a long list of Things You’re Not Allowed to Talk About is very funny

Broooo Denethor’s face reminds Pippin more of Aragorn than it does Boromir 8-O Something something noble lineage and dramatic parallels…

Pippin immediately stuttering as soon as Denethor asks him a question is a huge mood

Movie!Denethor when you meet him: Grumpy. Grieving. A few crayons missing from the box. Easily not somebody you’d ever want to be around on purpose. Book!Denethor when you meet him: Serious. Level-headed. Shrewd. Asks intelligent and uncomfortably probing questions. A little bit manipulative. Still not somebody you’d want to have over for lunch, but someone you have to respect even if you don’t like him.

“[Denethor] turned his dark eyes on Gandalf, and now Pippin saw a likeness between the two, and he felt the strain between them, almost as if he saw a line of smoldering fire, drawn from eye to eye, that might suddenly burst into flame.” This is literally the same comic book effect that I used in these comics what

Speaking as a normie who also doesn’t have this stuff memorized, I find Pippin wondering about Gandalf’s age to be absolutely hilarious. “Well, my boy, to understand that, you’ll have to read this little thing called the Silmarillion—”

“Was it so, or had he only imagined it, that as he spoke of the Stones a sudden gleam of his eye had glanced upon Pippin’s face?” Ohohoho, foreshadowing??

(This is brilliant because at this point you could just write it off as Pippin’s overactive guilt from looking into the Palantir a couple days ago, but I’m also fairly certain we’re gonna find out later that Denethor has one of the Stones too, so?? Maybe he saw Pippin too?? Who knows???)

Denethor calls Pippin “my liege”, “half kindly, half mockingly”. I don’t really have a comment on this except that I find it fascinating he’d refer to Pippin as a superior, even sarcastically.

I can’t even paraphrase Denethor and Gandalf’s rap battle without making it less concise and biting than it actually is. Denethor says “let your wrath at an old man’s folly run off, and then if you’re going to come back, let it be to my comfort” and Gandalf says “BOI don’t even start with me, you can’t use your grief to hide, I see your game and we both know you’re no old man yet; when you’re a dotard, you will die!” SAVAGE—

“I am also a steward. Did you not know?” I’m sure Gandalf is just talking about the free peoples of Middle Earth being under his care, but my first thought went to, “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Arnor…”

“Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, where it to gush forth.” Bro there is something INCREDIBLY Biblical about that, I can’t even. The utterly overwhelming wellsprings of joy in a being powerful enough to see beyond the present grim circumstances into a bright and glorious future. “For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God…”

“Indeed you did your best, and I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.” Gandalf’s self-depreciation is genuinely making me feel better. Pippin isn’t even full-grown yet, and I’ve been a kid before, so I know getting stuck between the grown-ups when they’re arguing is TERRIFYING. This little bit of encouragement is badly needed.

“Well, there is no need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to being worse than today, for many days to come.” First of all, mood. Secondly, I think that’s a good role model for how to deal with times like these. “This is gonna suck! Now let’s get out there and do what we have to do.”

Pippin’s first concern, the instant he’s left alone: “I want breakfast :-(”

(Okay so here’s where the recap disclaimer comes in. I’ve had a couple of days to think about it, and after much careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that Beregond is my new husbando.)

(NONONONO LISTEN. SHUT UP, STOP HECKLING ME, LISTEN. Look, I didn’t REMEMBER about Beregond until rereading this, okay?? I’m fairly certain I skipped through the Gondor and Rohan bits pretty quickly—because kingdoms of Men looked a LOT the same to Little Kid Me—and Beregond is NOT in the movies, so there was nothing to make him stick in my mind. BUT. HOLY COW. HE IS THE BEST(TM). So I’m gonna be keeping a counter of Beregond Being A Dreamboat for the rest of this post. Ready? Ready. Okay.)

Pippin has been left alone. Gandalf left on business, and now he’s stuck in an unfamiliar place with no idea of what to do. He sees a man coming up the street and makes up his mind to say hello because he’s lonely. He doesn’t need to! That man comes right up, introduces himself, welcomes Pippin to Gondor, and offers his hand to shake. He doesn’t gawk at Pippin. He doesn’t spend too much time interrogating him about who and what he is. He’s just like, “Hi :-D You’re the Halfling, right? I’ve been sent to show you around.” He’s so friendly and laid-back and easy-going I love him <3 DING!

Gandalf is gone for all of two seconds before Pippin almost blabs about Aragorn to somebody. Can’t take this fool of a Took anywhere.

Beregond asks good questions. He asks for clarification of terms, like “who is Aragorn?” and “what is a Hobbit?”. That proves he’s paying attention, and that he’s intelligent and curious and attentive and genuinely interested in what Pippin has to say. DING!

Beregond: “Is there anything you would like to know?” Pippin, hesitantly: “B b break fast? ? 🥺”

Beregond laughs so easily. I freakin’ love him. He asks Pippin “you haven’t eaten anything today?” and Pippin says “I had some wine and a white cake or two, but I had to answer questions for an hour and I’m hungry >_<” and Beregond laughs and jokes “at the table small men may do the greater deeds, we say”, clearly thinking of children—OF WHICH HE HAS ONE, so he’d know! DING!

And THEN he says “sounds like you’ve had as good a breakfast as any of us soldiers get around here” and when Pippin’s face does a “D-8 !!!” he laughs AGAIN like “nonono it’s okay I’ll find you some food, don’t you worry!” He’s kind and understanding AND he’s got snacks!! DING!

And then! When Pippin says “wait, Gandalf asked me to check on Shadowfax,” Beregond says: “But come! You shall make me acquainted with this good horse. I love beasts, and we see them seldom in this stony city…” LIKE HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS MAN, HE LOVES ANIMALS, HE’S SO EXCITED TO SEE A HORSE, I’M— DING!

I love that Pippin talks to Shadowfax like you’d talk to another person—and even better, that Shadowfax seems to understand, and lets Beregond pet him.

Shadowfax can neigh loud enough to shake a stable. Noted.

“Then they took their leave, seeing that the manger was well filled. ‘And now for our manger,’ said Beregond.” DAD JOKE DAD JOKE DAD JOKE— DING!

The way Beregond vouches for Pippin to Targon the Food Guy is the funniest thing. “He has had sore labor this morning,” not “he was sitting and talking for an hour”. Love it. DING!

Beregond learns a lot about the Shire and Pippin’s adventures, and apologizes for assuming Pippin was just a kid that Denethor took on “as a whim”. But there are two factors here: 1) he apologized proactively, before Pippin even had any reason to feel offense, and 2) he treated Pippin so well that there was no need to feel offense in the first place. I imagine his thought process must have been, “The lord has taken on a page, and I’m supposed to teach him the passwords? Sure, I’ll take this as seriously as I take any other duty I’m given.” No talking down to Pippin, nothing to make him feel any less than welcome.

Why is this important? 1) Because anyone who is quick to apologize is a person of humility and integrity. DING!

2) Because it says good things about his personality that he’s willing to accept what seems like a ridiculous situation with good humor and complete sincerity. DING!

And 3) Because if that’s how he treats someone he thinks is a kid, that means he treats kids really, really well. DING!

“And there were always too few children in the city; but now there are none—save some young lads that will not depart, and may find some task to do: my own son is one of them.” And it was at this moment —at this exact moment—that everything made sense.

You wanna know why Beregond immediately knew to treat Pippin the way he did? ‘Cause it’s ingrained. Him’s a DadTM. He saw Pippin and the paternal instinct in him immediately went—

—and now, even despite knowing that Pippin is nearly full-grown, he can’t shake it. Mans is warm and nurturing and attentive and an excellent teacher because he’s had practice and I absolutely love him. DING!

Also ohhhh he has so much reason to be invested in how this battle turns out. He’s gotta make sure his kid has a future that isn’t in death or slavery to the Dark Lord. That’ll motivate ya.

“It is but the deep breath before the plunge.” Duuuude. That was Beregond’s line at first! I can definitely see why they gave it to Gandalf tho.

“It is over-late to send for aid when you are already besieged.” That’s…actually really good advice. Both militarily, and also in a lot of other circumstances. Cf. why I’m taking steps to avoid the clinical depression that runs in my family BEFORE it gets to the point that I need medication.

The way just witnessing a Black Rider immediately makes Beregond and Pippin become overwhelmed with despair until it leaves. That thing deals psychic damage just by existing.

And then, as soon as it’s gone, the mood passes, and both of them declare “nope, actually, I’m gonna hold on to hope, thanks”.

“‘Rightly said!’ cried Beregond, rising and striding to and fro. ‘Nay, though all things must come utterly to an end in time, Gondor shall not perish yet. Not though the walls be taken by a reckless foe that will build a hill of carrion before them. There are still other fastnesses, and secret ways of escape into the mountains. Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green.’” I just. I. Hjzzzg.

First of all, standing up and walking around to shake off the unwanted foul mood. I can see that in my mind, it’s so clear. Second, practical speech mixed with utter poetry. “Hope and memory shall live in some hidden valley where the grass is green”?? That’s just. Get out, that’s brilliantly evocative. And third: holding on to hope bare-knuckled, despite KNOWING the odds are stacked against you; despite realizing you might very well lose the fight, lose everything, even lose your life; despite having a family, and so much more reason to worry about what the world will look like on the other side of the storm; but stubbornly choosing to believe that light and song and goodness will endure, even if it’s after you’re gone. I just. I. HHHHNG. DING!

“I am no warrior at all and dislike the thought of any battle; but waiting on the edge of one that I can’t escape is the worst of all.” It’s interesting to see how much of this conversation was given to the conversation with Gandalf in the movies instead.

Beregond laughs again at the mere notion that he might be a captain. But he’s not the least bit bitter about his lower rank, and actually seems very proud of it. Humility and quiet confidence and still a good sense of humor. DING!

A rumor has already gone through the Citadel Guard that all the Riders of Rohan “each would bring behind him a halfling warrior, small maybe, but doughty”. They’re not right, and they’re not entirely wrong, because Merry, at least, is going to be riding behind Eowyn.

Pippin gets all the food and drink he wants and his only problem is keeping his mouth shut. Seems about right!

Aaaaand the final point in Beregond’s favor before we leave him for the day: Man loves his son. “But if you are lonely, as you say, maybe you would like a merry guide around the City. My son would go with you gladly. A good lad, I may say.” Can you imagine the twinkle in his eye when he says that?? Ugh, it’s too cute. DING!

I’m just imagining the thought process here. He’s getting to know Pippin and he’s like “Bergil would absolutely love this guy, he’s a hoot, he’d get a kick out of it”, and as soon as he knows Pippin pretty well he’s like “I’ll betcha he’ll like Bergil too, and I think he’d be a good influence”, and then he puts those two pieces together and sets up a playdate for his son and the hobbit he just adopted. Adorable.

People really do come out to stare at Pippin, don’t they?

Bergil is just. Written perfectly. His vernacular is much more polished than that of a kid nowadays, but the things he wants to talk about are EXACTLY what kids always want to talk about. “Hi! Who are you? How old are you? I’m ten, and almost five feet tall, and very grown up. Have I told you about my dad? He has the greatest job ever! Wow, you’re a grown-up already?? That’s so weird. Wanna wrestle?”

Also. One more point in Beregond’s favor. I love the fact that Bergil introduces himself with the name and occupation of his father. Is this likely a standard way to identify oneself in a culture without surnames? Yes, probably. Are kids usually proud of their parents’ occupations by default? Yes, if they’re allowed to keep that enthusiasm. Is it still very telling that Bergil draws himself up and puffs out his chest to proclaim whose son he is? Yes, yes it is. Beregond is a dad worth being proud of. DING!

I have nothing to say about the procession of reinforcements from the Outlands pouring into Minas Tirith, except that it’s a brilliant show of the diverse cultures Tolkien dreamt up for Gondor, and also FORLONG THE FAT

Also Beregond wants to hear all about his son when Pippin gets back. They’re so darn cute.

The lights are being dimmed in Minas Tirith. Somebody lived through the bomb raids in Britain….

“The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.” Dun dun dunn…

Final Dreamboat Points: 15

Results: Husbando

[nickywhoisi]

And then the second I checked out was Stop, Train, Stop! Another "based on" so it may be that I will officially get to read his work once the Railway series book comes in. I have it held. I'm real tired and I dunno how this works.

Now let me tell you, Owain's art is...ehh passable to gonky, it could make for some meme material.

Really, it's not BAD, I just think they aren't so good at depicting people and they end up shaky-looking. Clearly their strength is in angular buildings and scenery, because those look quite crisp and clean.

And Thomas seems to be drawn the cleanest, being comprised of so many nonhuman, angular shapes. He looks really glossy, and I like it! All the trains should have this kind of shine to them! He got dat lip gloss today honey

And look at what I mean by meme worthy. He makes the same expression, up until THIS one. That is the face of a being of chaos  just like y'all said. His dialogue on the same page "I am tired of making stops. I am going to go from the start of the line to the end of the line without stopping." Like HE KNOWS, HE KNOWS THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO AS A TRAIN, BUT HE DOES IT ANYWAY BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE FREE FROM THE CONFINES OF THE RAILWAY SERVITUDE. HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS THAT THE PASSENGERS ALL HAVE TO PAY FOR. HE IS GOING TO GET FIRED FROM HIS JOB WITH STYLE. I bet this would chronologically be his "earlier days on the job" where he is not humbled yet and likes to see how much he can get away with until getting in trouble with Hatt.

Here's another great meme image, without any context.

Yeah uh it could also be you feel sad that LITERALLY EVERYONE IS MAD AT YOU FOR SHITTING ALL OVER THE SCHEDULE even Topham is just...god...look at that smile. It either says "yeah I know he should be severely reprimanded for this, but he has main character plot armour so you're not getting to see justice fuck u" or "god almighty kill me now, I know he deserves punishment for this, but he's got main character plot armour so I can't do nothin, please help end my sufferin"

So that was a silly little story, but made better just by a bit by the art, which is unintentionally funny. And I really do like the colouring of everything, the overall "style". It's bright, yet soft, just as a kids book from the 90's should be. The screech! sound effect is depicted in the coolest way, and in a way that feels...familiar to me. Instantly recognizeable. It's so nostalgic to me, even as I saw it for the first time. It's a piece of the time I will eternally cherish.

Another thing I will eternally cherish are these quality Thom faces. :D

[allexiaah]

Claudette and Jake !

YESss god I love both of them so much! This post may get a bit long, but let's get into it.

Claudette

Favorite thing about them: GOD. Where do I start? Maybe it's just the fact that I can see so much of myself in her that makes me like her so much. I dunno. But it's a whole lot... Just one thing off the top of my head? I love how

Least favorite thing about them: ....man. I don't know. She's like... Awesome. If I had one gripe it'd be with how other people portray her or treat her character but that has nothing to do with her. Maybe how her players have a bad rep? I dunno it's claude.

Favorite line: she doesn't really HAVE any?? LOL

BROTP: Claudette and Philip! HUGE comfort pairing. Best found family siblings and very good friends. They give each other hope and encourage each other to keep going <3

OTP: uhhh I'd have to say Megdette or Claudepark! Huge sucker for OG4 lovin. Claudwight is an honorable mention

NOTP: god. A lot. Claudebilly, Doctor + Claudette and Ghostface + Claudette come to mind first. I tend to be really picky with ships as a whole, and especially for Claudette, because I headcanon her as ace and some kind of aromantic as well (not sure yet... Just that she's some kind of arospec!)

Random headcanon: Claudette has a particular nostalgic fondness for hot chocolate with candy cane bits in it. She also prefers tea over coffee.

Unpopular opinion: god I don't know if I really have any? I have uncommon ones but not really unpopular ones.. I think the closest I have to that would be the aspec headcanons haha

Song i associate with them: Quiet by Lights & Plant Life by Owl City

Favorite picture of them: as of right now this art in particular by lovely cowboy @dakota-belton-art, or one of these funny screenshots I managed to nab.

Jake

Favorite thing about them: god, all of it. His character design is pretty damn good, he has mostly solid cosmetics, and I mean.. Forest hobo crow whisperer? What's not to like? His backstory is good too.

Least favorite thing about them: if I had to pick SOMETHING, it'd be his weird tracksuit cosmetic that makes his hair a nasty yellow color.

Favorite line: Not a whole lot here for us hah

BROTP: Jake and Meg. I feel like they're definitely best friends in the realm, and I feel like they're the exact same brand of disaster bi, except Meg is more openly jokey and Jake has a different way of expressing his humor than her. They're often on the same wavelength though with jokes and things.

OTP: Parkfield! Fun fact, Parkfield was actually the first ship I really enjoyed, and the first ship I actually really cared about in fandom as a whole. DBD was my real intro into actual fandom spaces and Parkfield was sort of a little bit too, by extent. Still very fond of this pairing <3

NOTP: Jake x Doctor is all that comes to mind right now, but I think I might be forgetting a few. Just.. anything gross or power-imbalanced tends to make me just.. dislike it. It's nasty.

Random headcanon: Very dry humor and a sarcastic bastard. The other survivors love him though <3

Unpopular opinion: uhh I dunno?

Song i associate with them: dunno why, but Man of Stone by Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes

Favorite picture of them: I don't really have one rn, so take this one a friend took while in Gmod. It made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe

Ty for the ask! Love answering little things like these. <3

[thevindicativevordan]

On Supergirl

Figured I should put up my thoughts about Kara in the wake of her first film appearance being announced, and the final season of her TV show fast approaching. Short version is: Kara is very cool and DC needs to stop messing with her. 

My Introduction to Kara

I was introduced to Kara the way most millennials/Gen Zers were I imagine, via the Loeb Superman/Batman arc which brought the traditional Kara Zor-El Supergirl take into Post-Crisis continuity, after years of DC attempting to have a “Supergirl” without violating the editorial mandate that Kal needed to be the literal “Last Son of Krypton” (an example of one of the dumb ways DC fucked Kara over). Story goes that one day Dan Didio was in line at the Superman ride at Six Flags (I love that ride even though it’s stolen my glasses every time I’ve ridden it, even when I left them in a locker!). The ride had signs that talked about various Superman characters. Didio was reading the entry for Supergirl where it talked about her not being Clark’s cousin but instead some weird merge of alien shapeshifter, angel, and human girl, and he realized how fucking stupid that was, and he went back to the office and told Loeb to bring Kara back. 

Years later I would also be standing in line at the Six Flags Superman ride (probably at a different park location but who knows?) as a youngster and would read the new Supergirl sign that trumpeted that Superman had a cousin who shared all his powers, an update reflecting the new Loeb origin. I thought she sounded pretty cool, made a note to see if my library had any Supergirl stories next time I visited, then got on the Superman ride and promptly lost my glasses like an idiot because I wanted to take them off while I was riding and pretend I was changing from my “disguise” into Superman mid flight. My dad grounded me for this afterwards, but it gave me a funny story to tell at family get togethers and isn’t that what Six Flags is all about?

A month later (and with spiffy new glasses), my mom dropped me off at a new library next to where she worked, and they had one of the best Superman collections I’ve ever seen to this day. I was in heaven and while reading every Superman book I could find (I couldn’t check them out because I didn’t have a card, my mom’s card didn’t cover the area the library was in, and my mom wouldn’t have checked them out anyway since comics were “too violent”), I found the trade collecting Kara’s new origin. I read it and I thought both she and Superman were really cool, and Batman was a  punk who had to beat Darkseid by cheating, the loser. Turner’s art to my young eyes was the best I had ever seen, and the panels got engraved into my brain. 

I still get downright nostalgic whenever I see Turner Superman or Supergirl stuff. I also got my parents to rent the animated movie adaption of the Superman/Batman arc from Blockbuster (remember those?), and that sealed the deal. Seeing Kara hold her own against Darkseid convinced me she was as cool as her cousin. Next time my mom dropped me off at the library next to her workplace, I went looking for Supergirl stuff to read. I found the first volume of her new volume by Joe Kelly taking place after the Loeb arc and dove in.

It was... weird. 5 years later I might have enjoyed it but at the time I was majorly put off. Kara took a secret identity for a day and then ditched it because it was “stupid” and the kids bullied her. She was always getting into fights with Kal, and there was this weird plot that I couldn’t follow about how her dad had sent her to kill Kal, maybe or maybe not? Also she could grow crystals which I thought was dumb, and said she was stronger than her cousin which I couldn’t buy for a second given he looked like he was carved out of marble, and she looked like she relied on sunlight instead of food. I put the volume back on the shelf and kinda gave up on reading the character after that for a while. 

I followed her via the DC wiki updates just like I did Superman, and everything I read seemed dumb and convoluted. She was split in two, moped around a lot, made out with an alternate version of her cousin, and basically just flopped about the same way the rest of the Superfamily did during the 00s. Nothing made me think I had made a mistake dropping Kara until I read the latest update to her wiki page.

I was super into what I was reading about the Busiek/Johns era of Superman online. Lex was back and making a big revenge scheme that involved all the other Rogues! Old Superman Rogues were getting revamped and made cool again! Johns reintroduced Brainiac and made him a big threat, with Kal and Kara teaming up to fight him! Busiek was revamping Prankster and telling big ambitious Superman stories! For the first time in a long while, the consensus on the Internet was that Superman was good again. My “home” library had zero Marvel books and no Superman or Batman books, all their DC stuff was Flash or Green Lantern, mainly written by Johns. Insane to think back on now. My hopes that because Johns was involved with Superman, Superman books would show up at my library were fulfilled. They started bringing in Busiek and Johns collections, and someone there also ordered Sterling Gates’ first volume of Supergirl, and I checked everything out since I was old enough to have my own library card, and my parents were worried more about the violent video games I was playing rather than comics.

I read everything and loved it. I also really liked Gates’ take on Kara. She was still an imperfect teenager but she wasn’t insufferably angsty or constantly fighting with Kal. She was going to give the secret identity another try and Lana had “adopted” her. It’s funny remembering how I enjoyed all that given my current thoughts on how Kara should work, but it was great at the time. I liked Gates introducing new foes for Kara, some classic Superman Rogues adapted for her like Bizzarogirl, others crafted specifically for her like Reactron. Gates’ basically rekindled my enjoyment of Kara the same way Busiek & Johns rekindled my enjoyment of Superman.

Of course it ended terribly like everything Superman-related seems to.

I’ve got a whole post I want to do about New Krypton and what came after. In short that is the most blatant example of “hitting the reset button” that I’ve ever seen. All the potential got wasted, and afterwards everything except Lex’s Action Comics stuff just didn’t appeal to me. Gates got booted off Kara for Nick Spencer who ended up leaving himself later, a promising Teen Titans line-up with Kara on it didn’t happen, and the last proper Pre-Flashpoint Superfamily story was a crappy team-up with Doomsday against Bigger Doomsday (thank God for Cornell’s final Luthor/Superman confrontation at least). When news of the reboot arrived, I was honestly happy. The Superline needed an enema.

Controversial opinion time: I liked New 52 Supergirl. It’s weird because a lot of the stuff I hated about Kelly’s run was here, and a lot of the stuff I loved about the Gates’ run was not. This was angry, moody, emotional Kara again, fighting with Kal and not fond of Earth. But I was in my teens at this point, and I didn’t want happy go-lucky Superman or Supergirl. I wanted my heroes angry, scared of the future, ready to go out there and smash some cars. Morrison’s Action Comics was 100% my jam (still is once I really understood the deeper meaning beneath the work) and this Kara felt like a natural fit for this universe. Plus we got Asrar on art and that guy made it damn pretty to look at, lots of cool science fiction stuff going on, even with the dumb H’el storyline.

I loved all the new Rogues Kara got. I loved her new Fortress under the ocean. I loved how traumatized she was by the loss of Krypton, that she wanted more than anything to go home, that her cousin was like a stranger to her since they had been apart for so long. I found all of that incredibly relatable. A lot of the New 52 Supergirl stories might have been schlock but it was my type of schlock damnit, and I enjoyed it!

I kept with her New 52 series all the way through the Red Daughter Saga (which I loved). As someone who grew up on Johns GL (since that was the only comics my home library had), seeing a Supercharacter join a Lantern Corp was the hypest thing ever. I loved the finale about Kara finally letting go of her anger and losing the ring while smashing her foe into the sun, it was incredibly cathartic for me as an angry teen myself. I finally stopped following her series sometime after since I was no longer enjoying the Superline or really DC as a whole. It wasn’t until I heard that New 52 Superman died and the “old” Superman was back, that I checked back into DC.

DC Rebirth & How I Think Kara Should Work

I did not enjoy Supergirl Rebirth, and I think I’ll talk about my problems with it alongside how I think Kara as a character should work since the two are related. A pet peeve of mine that has formed over the years is this: I don’t like it when Superfamily members get turned into Clark clones. Kon wearing glasses and going to Smallville High. Kara going to high school and being involved in journalism. Jon more or less being written as a copy of his dad personality-wise. I hate that kind of stuff because it’s boring. What’s the point of a Superfamily if everyone is just copying Clark? It also doesn’t fit the characters especially in Kara’s case. Why the hell does she want to be a journalist? Were there journalists on Krypton? I don’t remember ever seeing one! Shouldn’t she want to be, I dunno, a scientist? That seems to have been the El family tradition, wouldn’t she have been groomed for that?

This one-off by Shea is honestly the only acceptable outcome for Kara going into journalism for me. She realizes she’s just copying her cousin and switches to something she wants to do. So Orlando copying the show, which already basically turned Kara into an expy of her cousin, just did not appeal to me at all. What had worked for me under Gates way back when was not clicking for me this time. I wanted to see Kara embody the principles of the S-shield in a different way than her cousin did. So I really enjoyed when Rebirth ended and we moved into the Bendis era with Andrekyo relaunching the title as Kara in space.

Kara in space has always felt like a good fit for me. Unlike Kal I’ve come to believe that Kara really shouldn’t be all that fond of Earth. For him it’s home, but for her it’s just where she ended up after her real home got destroyed. I think Kara works well as a sort of nomad, occasionally making stops back home to Earth to check on her cousin, but otherwise? She’s more comfortable out in space than she could ever be on Earth. Out in space she can be Kryptonian (which is what she should think of herself as in contrast to Clark being torn between his Kryptonian biology and human upbringing, and Jon/Kon identifying as human), be her true self, not have to pretend to be human to fit in. Kara founding a moon refuge was one of the best ideas for her that I’ve seen, I would love if DC made her Future State refugee center on the moon canon. I’m excited for more Kara adventures in space with the upcoming Tom King story.

Also love that her and Krypto are getting tied together, if they don’t want to use Krypto in Superman’s stuff, let her have him! Bring on cosmic adventurer Supergirl!

Personality & Other Traits

Kara to me should be more hot-tempered than her cousin. All the Superfamily members should have a temper in my opinion, I see that as the “Deadly Sin” of Superman and his family. But while Kal is like a simmering pot that will explode if it’s left cooking for too long, Kara is like dynamite. Light her fuse at your own peril because she will go off on you.

I also like the idea of Kara being rash. Kal’s got a maturity that came from over a decade of having to live with Lex Luthor constantly getting away with all his evil schemes. He’s patient because he’s been forced to be. Kara? If you ask for her help she’ll give it, but beware because she doesn’t really care about the long term impacts of her decisions. She’s an invulnerable teenager after all.

Really liked that Venditti Annual where Kara got tutored in history by a reincarnation of Hawkman. Kara having a passion for history is a neat trait, would be nice to see her teach Kal or Jon some Kryptonian lore, or have her lead a Kryptonian holiday celebration for the Superfamily because she’s the only one who remembers how to do it. 

Sexuality wise I know a lot of people ship Kara and Lena on account of the chemistry between the two in the show. I haven’t watched the show myself but I’m fine with making Kara bisexual, the Superfamily could use some LGBT+ rep, and Lena hasn’t done anything of worth as a villain, so undo that and throw the two together. If we’re letting Harley and Ivy get away with murder I think we can let Lena off the hook too, undo the Ultrawoman weirdness and put the two together. Could be fun seeing the two building that moon refuge together.

All in all I think Kara is a great character who is a stronger embodiment of the immigrant experience than even her cousin in some ways. I hope King does a good job with her, she’s treated better than her cousin on the film side, and that overall the 20s are a better decade for Supergirl than the 10s were.

[joy-returns-in-the-morning]

hey friend! if you're feeling up to it, can you answer #2 from each section of the ask game? ^-^

Thanks for asking! ^_^

A2) Favorite game(s)?

For the longest time it was Yakuza 0, but lately Yakuza 7 has been a real strong contender. Yakuza 0 is always going to be the nostalgic fave for me, but Yakuza 7 is just a really solid game too. It's so expansive and fun. I think the story is a little more coherent too, but maybe that's just because I haven't had enough time to knitpick yet. 😅😅 Out of the Kiryu saga though, it's definetely 0, then 5, then 3. And I'll give Yakuza 5 a special shoutout too because despite its bizarre and somewhat confusing plotline I really do have a deep fondness for it. It can't say it's my favourite because I'm not convinced it's THE BEST by any means, but it's just so wacky, I love it. Plus it's the one with Okudera. That's gotta count for something. 😅😅😘

B2) What's a scene that never fails to make you cry?

There's just something about the last scene in Yakuza 5! I dunno, the combination of the music and the fighting just really gets to me.

C2) Which game had the worst plotline?

Hmmm how to put this delicately. They are all bad in their own way. 😅😅 I do think that the plotlines in Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 7 are FAR more coherent and engaging than the rest, which is why I rank them highest. But there are definetely many issues in these games too, and the more I think about them the less sense they make. Like is that whole counterfeiting thing in Yakuza 7 REALLY the only way to keep the peace? Instead of lining the polices pockets, why not put it into social services that will render criminal organizations useless? idk. And did Kazama REALLY mastermind the whole plot of Yakuza 0? How can you predict all that? What made Majima so special that they'd dedicate a group of people to surveilling him 24/7? WHY IN THE WORLD is there a secret underground fightclub beneath the river? How did they install that? It's all just so weird. 😩 And these are the games that actually made sense!! The plotlines only get messier from here. But I suppose I have to say the worst is Yakuza 6, if only for the fact it's actually the only one I never managed to finish. I watched about half of it, then skipped to the end to see if it got any better and then completely gave up. Maybe at that point I was just getting yakuza fatigue. But I found the premise so fundamentally flawed that I was just too frustrated to watch any more. Why would Kiryu and Haruka leave the other kids? It never should have happened! At this point, I've basically just erased this game from my memory. They are all living happily together in Okinawa….

D2) Who's the most underrated character?

Hmm I'm always suprised that Ryo Aoki (from yakuza 7) isn't more popular. He seems like the kind of character that Tumblr would absolutely love. He is a poor little meow meow. A terrible awful pathetic sort of man. <3 Maybe it's because Yakuza 7 seems to get less content in general. But hey, Zhao gets lots of art! And to be fair, Zhao is cool. But I don't think it's an overstatement to say that Aoki is far more narratively important. Like is no one else seeing this?? He's such a great antagonist to Ichiban! They are equals, but not equals. They are the same, but different. The symmetry! The duality! The shifting power imbalances! The devotion! The contempt! AAGGHH

E2) Haruka Sawamura, T-set, or Dream Line?

Dream Line! I loved their single, so sad that they broke up. 😢 I think it's such a lost opportunity because I would have loved to see Haruka and T-Set interact more as friends. I think there should have been a scene where T-Set visits Kiryu in the hospital with Haruka - it would be funny because they'd probably also run into Saejima and Majima and like, what would they do? I want to see the looks on their face as these hapless girls run into one yakuza legend after another. 😂😂😂

F2) Which restaurant would you like to try? Would you treat anyone to a meal?

Hmm there's this one restaurant in Sotenburi that I was always sort of sad we couldn't go into: HUNGRY TOM. I'm like Yeah! I'm hungry! I want to go in HUNGRY TOM! But we couldn't 😔

However, I can't overstate how much I love eating food. I want to go to all of the restaurants. I would not treat anyone to a meal; I'd collapse in front of them like that one hungry girl from yakuza 5 and make them pay for me lol.

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Yakuza ask meme by @kulemii (do I tag you in this? do you get notified if I answer your ask? idk how it works. Anyway thanks for writing all these great questions!! 😊)

[daydream-believin]

The Never-Ending Roadtrip (kmart’s haunted)

Summary: (part 1) Reader has joined Douxie on the quest for Nari’s safety. He’ll need company. (part 2) - Missouri 1     (part 3)

Warnings: swearing, very light spooky?

Word Count: 2245

A/N: so we’ve established that Doux wasn’t the one who burnt the bookstore, but they don’t know that. look, have you been in a Kmart recently? its apocalyptic. also, you know that post about people repeating their default work greetings by accident? yeah

“Do you want me to split the bill or?” The waitress asked, not sure if the group at the table was a young couple and their child or just three college kids hanging out. It was kind of hard to tell. On one hand, that one kid was so small, wearing a little deer costume, and had been helped to order. The other two radiated the energy of an old married couple and talked mainly to each other. But on the other hand, college kids are just like that sometimes.

“Nah, I got it.”

“What? No. I’m paying for us.” Douxie insisted.

“I have the cash, Doux.” (Name) turned to the waitress. She put some honey in her voice. “Just bring us one bill, please.” The waitress nodded nervously before heading off.

“No. I don’t want you paying for too many things while we’re traveling. You’re unemployed.”

“And who’s fault is that Mr. Mephits-Are-Vulnerable-To-Fire? You fucking burned down the store and put us both out of work here.” Nari was squirming at the negative vibes going on. It helped that she didn’t exactly understand what was going on.

“It was magic fire!” Douxie interjected in outrage. He looked so cute when he got defensive.

“Yeah, okay, sure.” (Name) shook her head, looking up to the ceiling. She let out a huff, “look, I invited myself onto this trip, Douxie. I want to pull my own weight. You’re going to have to let me pay for something eventually.”

“We’ll see about that, Love,” he said as he grabbed the ticket from the waitress’s hands as quick as lightning, tucked his card in and gave it right back before (Name) could further protest.

“Ugh! FINE! Then I’m getting the tip.” She pulled out a tenner and slapped it onto the table. She glared right back into Douxie’s hazel eyes. He glared right back into hers with a matched intensity. Nari looked back and forth between the two and whimpered. (Name) broke the standoff to assure Nari that they weren’t actually angry at each other so she shouldn’t be worried. That seemed to ease the forest child a bit but not by too much. She could still feel the weird aura they were putting off.

“Okay! So here’s your check back and here’s that lox bagel you ordered to go.” The waitress handed (Name) a doggy bag.

(Name) took the bag gingerly. A big fake smile spread across her face as she was momentarily possessed by that good spirit of customer service. “Thank you! I hope your experience was spellbinding! Have a magical day!” (Name) said on autopilot in that high-pitched voice and winked exaggeratedly. It was like she was an NPC and her talk button had been accidentally pushed. The waitress laughed forcibly and scurried away to the kitchen. Douxie cracked up.

“You do know that when I told you to say all that stuff after ringing people up, I was hazing you, right?”

“Oh yes, I am completely aware, Doux. Did you think I’d not pick up on how ridiculous that sounds? But I still say it to spite you.”

He shook his head. “Of course.”

***

Archie scarfed down his bagel sandwich with almost disturbing speed. It was like watching the void consume, well, a bagel sandwich. It just disappeared. Down his furry maw and out of existence. Being a dragon works up an appetite, after all. (Name) was a bit baffled and asked him if she should go get him another bagel. He assured her that the one was just fine and said something about trying to catch some birds later. She leaned back on her elbows against the boat’s railing, trying and failing to not think about the details of that.

Douxie cleared his throat. “So,” He folded his hands together for emphasis, “Since the subject of money came up earlier, I think we should also discuss the topic of our accommodations.”

“Well, you two obviously cannot afford lodging every night.” Archie snarked, flicking his tail.

“Thank you, for that, Arch. No, I was thinking more along the lines of a tent.”

“A tent?” the cat asked incredulously.

“Oh, that could work.” (Name) pointed at Douxie animatedly, “keep us close to nature for Nari. And also could keep our possible property damage bills down. Good idea, Doux.”

“Thank you,” Douxie puffed up, “see Arch? Someone appreciates my ideas-”

“Wait. That’ll be a short-term solution. We’re just barely into September. It’s going to be much, much colder in about a month. By October it’ll be too cold to bear. Even if we all huddle together like penguins.”

Doux looked away to hide his blush at the suggestion. “That is a problem. Okay, um-”

“Maybe we could just cross that bridge when we get there? Who knows what could happen between now and then. We could find so temp work in a little town somewhere.” (Name) shrugged, smirking at Doux. She didn’t want to admit that ‘we could be dead by then’ was also definitely a possibility on the table, so she tried to further distract from that thought. “Maybe we’ll find a creepy abandoned cabin in the woods we can squat in. Maybe some nice trolls will take us in as novelty pets. Maybe my rich Aunty Josie could just suddenly die under some ‘mysterious circumstances’ and leave her lavish fortune to her beloved niece,” she smirked at Doux, “I dunno, just spit ballin’ here.”

“I’m electing to ignore that you just suggested we ice your aunt because you were onto something there.”

“I was?” Her tone was a mixture of sarcasm and disbelief.

“Yes! New Jersey!

“New Jersey?” The wheels turned. “Oh! New Jersey!”

Nari looked confused. “What is special about this ‘New Jersey’?” she asked

Both Douxie and (Name) turned to her, “Trolls.” They said in sync.

***

(Name) stood there with her hands in her pockets. Somehow this Kmart was still standing, out here in The-Middle-Of-Fucking-Nowhere, Missouri. She was standing here, in a Kmart. It might as well have been 1986. There was barely anything on the shelves. Half the shelves themselves were missing. The floor had a layer of grime to it, in spite of the wet floor sign along with the shiny patches that said that it had clearly been mopped recently. The air smelled like something (Name) couldn’t quite place, but it was nostalgic. A strange scent that took her back to her childhood. Or at least she thought it was her childhood. It had to have been. Taking deep breaths, she couldn’t quite get enough of it.

Continuing that vibe, a muzak 80’s tune played over the speakers. Funny enough, despite (Name)’s brain seeming to recognize that it was playing a song from the 80’s, she just couldn’t quite put her finger on it as to which. Every time she thought she’d figured it out, she’d hear a few notes that would somehow change her mind. It was a pop song at least, to narrow it down. It’d been going on for about six minutes now. Must be one of those extended tracks.

She’d ask Douxie what he thought the song was. She turned her attention to him and noticed he was still just staring at that same shelf like he had been for, what, ten minutes now? Even though this fucking Kmart barely had any shelving in it, by some miracle it not only had exactly what they were looking for but an entire aisle of them. How lucky was that.

Douxie was taking very careful consideration into this tent purchase. This was going to be their new home, after all. He just couldn’t decide which one was best. They all had fancy camping terms on the packages that meant nothing to him. He’d been trying to decipher the code. The secret outdoorsman code. Nari shifted uncomfortably in the basket.

“Hisirdoux, you should maybe, hurry this along?” She sounded strained.

But she was right. He should just pick one already. It’s all a gamble anyway. He decided on a dark green one that boasted a water-proof material. Good natural color, not easily spotted, and it wouldn’t soak through with rain. That should work well enough, he figured.

“I’ve hurried along. Sorry Nari.” He casually tossed the box into the cart next to her. She sniffed the box and nodded to him.

Now that they had their goal item, the quest party started for the checkouts. Douxie could have sworn that it had been on the side of the store they were in. They had passed it when they came in. Now it was completely across by the other door. Did he get turned around? Or maybe they did come in from that side of the store. He actually couldn’t remember.

As they walked, a few things caught (Name)’s eye. They passed a display of dark leafy plants in oddly shaped pots, a table stacked high with various books and a clearance sign, a knife case that had been left open, a candle display with a few that had already been lit and were dripping wax, a bargain bin of CDs, and lastly a sad box of no-longer-in-season pool noodles. There was a sale on bloodmeal apparently. Perfect for perking up those roses after the summer heat.

They arrived at the checkout after what felt like an endless journey. (Name) hadn’t noticed any other customers the entire time they had been there, and yet the line for the only check open had seven people in it. She grabbed a couple bags of red licorice from the impulse shelf to add to their cart while waiting.

Nari was really interested in that checker. (Name) took her in. The teen was taller than most and had very, very long blonde hair that cascaded down her back like a shiny golden waterfall. Her cheeks were slightly sunken in. Must be going through a diet phase. Poor girl.

The young woman was obviously not one for small talk. Name couldn’t blame her. Retail sucks. Her perfect red fingernails clicked against the keys of the register in a practiced beat. She turned around and told them their total in a bored monotone. As Douxie fiddled with his wallet and payed, (Name) found herself staring right into the cashier’s eyes. They were such a light icy blue, they were almost white. It was striking. (Name) was almost in a trance. It was broken as the cashier turned around swiftly to rip off the receipt off the machine, and, in an uncharacteristically cheery voice, told them to have a nice night. Night?

They returned the cart back to the stack, grabbing their one singular shopping bag and helping Nari out. Of course Nari could easily just jump out herself, but that wouldn’t be something a human child could do. They didn’t need to draw any unnecessary attention to themselves here. They made their way to the automatic sliding doors that lagged so that they didn’t open until you were standing right in front of them. This allowed Douxie time to catch a glimpse of the reflection in the glass. The reflection of the store was completely devoid of people. Not even the checker was at her station. He sucked in a breath. After walking through those first doors, he stopped. He took a moment to turn back. There she was, right where she should be, checking out another customer with three more in the line.

Douxie hurried along the doorway to catch up to (Name) and Nari. It was darker outside than he expected, and he was taken aback. He found them right outside the store, waiting for him. In one hand, (Name) was holding Nari’s, in the other, the plastic shopping bag. Her head was tipped up to the sky, transfixed by the moon. He came over, grabbing her shoulder as he pulled her along, in an attempt to urge her away from this place. She looked back at him, eyes wide with distress. He tried to convey that he understood with his eyes. All three of them instinctually knew not to say anything more why they were still in this parking lot.

It had barely been half past noon when they had started this little Kmart side quest. It was now at least seven by the looks of it. They had spent six and a half hours in a Kmart? How had they spent six and a half hours in a Kmart. There went their entire travel day. But no time to dwell on this, they needed to get back to Archie and the boat as soon as possible.

As they walked back towards the ship, (Name) and Douxie both took one of Nari’s hands so that she was in the middle, like how those couples walk with their children. The streetlights glared up at them in the slick pavement. Apparently, it had rained while they were in shopping limbo. Poor Arch. (Name) let out a puff of air.

“Well. That sure was something.”

Douxie nervously chuckled, “If we had stayed in there any longer, I think we might have died.” (Name) mirrored that nervous chuckle.

“Oh, no, dying would be much simpler than what would have happened to us.” Nari said sweetly, like what she was saying was somehow better. Nari liked being helpful. (Name) put on her best fake smile.

“Thank you, Nari.” She tried her best to sound as sincere as possible to spare the veggie lady’s feelings.

[steve0discusses]

The Fullmetal Alchemist Live Action Movie Part 7: More Philosopher Stones than their PC Farm Can Possibly Render

So last we left off, a bunch of weird stuff was happening. Mustang just set Envy on fire, Lust and Gluttony kind of walked up from stage left, and Ed and Hawkeye just broke out of bougie jail and barged through a chain link fence on some Jeep. Good thing Mustang is here to explain it all to us:

(FYI I am so bad at spelling homunculus. I don’t even know which way is real anymore.)

What is incredible about this movie is just how much everyone else already knows, while Ed knows freaking nothing. Also, if you know about homunculi, then you know about sorcerer stones, and you’d know about...most of the things in Fullmetal Alchemist. Assuming that Mustang, who can look at a homunculus tattoo and be like “yep that’s a homunculus” doesn’t know anything else is kind of a big leap.

This actor had fun. I legitimately enjoy the actor who plays Mustang, I really do.

Anyway, we do get a little bit more explanation at this point by going back to the part where Hughes dies and just...showing it a second time but with this extra  reveal:

(see Hughes die yet again under the cut because this movie did it not just once but twice)

It’s at this point that Hughes turns to the phone and in his dying breath is like “It’s lab 5, go to the old POW camp, at lab 5” but not only did I think that the person on the line was the general (Because Hughes originally said it was the general) apparently now the person on the line is...Mustang? And that’s why Mustang knew about lab 5?

Like it’s...it’s just kind of confusing. I know this plot because I’ve seen the anime, but if you have not seen the anime beforehand or read the books, you’d be so freakin up a creek right now about why we saw this scene twice, and why it was completely different both times.

To make things even more confusing, that whole Tucker side plot is so random, that not even our baddies know what is going on with that whole Tucker side plot.

Anyway we have to give Gluttony and Envy have to do something in order to make their presence make sense. Honestly Gluttony just needs to have a single line in this movie.

Just everything is that same shiny neutral Phong. Look at all that Phong. Like other parts of this movie are passable, this was just so hilariously overlooked.

And like I dunno if this was a teeth harness or not but damn. Damn that looks stupid from the back, hahaha. He kind of lumbers slowly after these 9 dudes (same extras we’ve seen everywhere else, ps—this is still just the same guys) and it’s not all that scary because like...they can easily outrun him. The only way you can die to Gluttony is if you trip and then take a nap for a little bit.

Mustang gets hurt and it’s kind of funny how they shot it. It was actually rough to cap because they have to do so many tricks to not show us exactly what is happening, so they rely on sounds, on zooming in on people’s shocked expressions, because they Do Not Have The Budget to do more than this.

I don’t remember if this happened in the anime, too. Like from this point forward everything is kind of like “can you spot the source material?” because it’s just become so jumbled at this point.

Ed, who as you can imagine is a bundle of emotions by default, suddenly gets really protective of his mean Dad although like...we’ve barely made Mustang seem like a Father. Hell, we’ve barely made Ed seem like a kid. Why would he get weird and conflicted now?

Just the awkward teenage energy that only occasionally stems off of Ed is very unpredictable.

This is a full grown man.

Finally, we make it to Lab Number Five, the correct one this time. It’s got an alchemy circle…

It’s got a ceiling full of...zombie corpses, if you squint real good because I have to shrink all these images (Yes, they fit in the zombie corpses, but could not fit in the North or Father or Ling Yao or like anything Armstrong) It’s got everything that we need to put that nail into that Fullmetal Alchemist coffin, but ran out of time to fully explain or do.

It’s even got Al!

Yep, this is happening now, this part of the show. Ed is just having a WILD TIME trying to keep up with it and so are we.

So apparently Shou could just turn Al “off” this whole time. This explains why Al was just chilling under a blanket for 36 hours, but like...doesn’t really explain how Shou can do this or why he is bothering to do it right now.

But we need Shou because...well someone has to tell Ed what the plot is and what he should be doing at this very moment.

(Winry is here too)

So, with the threat of Winry getting shot in the head, Shou Tucker demands that Ed make it impossible to do any magic, because magic is very expensive and hard to animate. I could be wrong...but I’m pretty sure he also took off his right arm in the show at some point nearish to the end...I think? Forgive me, everything before 2020 is kind of a haze in my memory.

PS him ripping his hand off with all these sparks everywhere gave me serious Star Wars prequel vibes that I can’t explain. Something about the CGI, something about this contrived mess was like “Ah, I’ve felt this insanity before...long ago in a simpler time” and it was kind of nostalgic for me.

GOL LOOK AT THAT.

This Mickey Mouse glove just hot chilling on that sparking end. Hahaha I love it so much!

Shou just...delivers one of the most important reveals, sending Ed on a bit of a spirit journey because the stones he’s wanted for so long are actually very bad.

As you can imagine, because Ed likes to freak out, he has a big ass freak out, to top all freak outs. This actor spent like sooo much of his time just screaming at the ground. Which, I mean this is a shonen, so that checks out.

I’m just letting you know in case you decide to watch this movie and you have some epilepsy issues--skip this part. Just skip it. I don’t personally have it, but like...they went kind of extra in this part.

Now unlike the show, this movie has like...no apology for Dr Marcoh. Freakin stabbed him through the chest and was like “I don’t care if it means we can’t have the original FMA ending I freakin hate this guy” and you know...good on you, movie. Dr Marcoh was a really bad person. Thank you for not even attempting to justify this godawful man.

This crazy ass fanfiction movie.

Anyway, Shou directs Ed to look 10 feet up to get the rest of that juicy content. That Juicy FMA DLC that was within eye distance this entire time but youknow...cropped offscreen so it just didn’t exist.

Can’t believe this wasn’t the FIRST THING you’d notice when coming into this room, since Ed has been hardwired for red stones for like 10+ years. But youknow.

Anyways, we’re getting a ton of visual elements from FMA, just checking off that check list here in the last 1/3 of the movie. But wait, it gets weirder.

What I love about this is that Shou tells us all of this stuff because I guess Ed asked for Philosopher stones once, and even Shou is like...heyyy I figured it out! But like...hell would anyone even want to do this though?

Because that’s what happens when you have Shou freakin Tucker reveal the big master plan when he is not the big master. Like this explains nothing about Father, about Ed’s Dad, about the homunculi, about the corpses in the ceiling, like there’s just no explanation, other than just –“hey! Look at this atrocity I found just now!”

There is actually a horror element to that, where you don’t need to explain everything if you’re doing horror. If this were a horror movie, this would probably...be fine. You could have a fully explained movie by just saying “they turned POW camp people into rocks and now the zombies are here!” and that would be fine.

But it’s just...that isn’t this movie. I had so many expectations. And honestly...I expected way too much from 1.5 hours of content.

So Shou pulls a gun on Ed, which makes sense. Ed is lookin to make stones, and if stones are made out of people—then it’s time to kill Ed. First thing that make sense in this movie, but I don’t know if it makes sense coming from Shou freakin Tucker who made it seem like he just wanted to kill Ed because Ed got him arrested that one time.

It may have been just the translation on my end but like...Shou’s reason for pulling a gun out here was a little nonsense. But Shou himself is already a little nonsense anyway.

So we say goodbye, for the last time, being honest—he’s fully dead—he’s not coming back—to Shou Freakin Tucker. You were a mess Shou. I won’t miss you.

And if I forgot that this guy comes back, I fully apologize ahead of time, but I am 99% positive that I remembered that this guy never comes back.

(He might come back.)

And then Lust is like “Hakuro why did you do that? Like what are you even doing???”

And everyone else is like “Oh, the General. Of course. Why didn’t I uhhh….see that coming?”

Because they had to condense a whole bunch of corrupt Generals for this movie into one character, and so I guess Hakuro took it for the team?

Also these guys are here.

Just every single person standing in this room is pretty confused, as you can imagine. No one really expects to open up Volume 2 of FMA and it’s accidentally printed the last page of the entire series.

Anyway, that’s all for this 15 minutes (It was actually a little short 15 because there was ton of caps) I’m very tired because I did this workout routine with bro that was like 300 squats and I don’t know what day it is. I wrote “update blog” in my bullet journal (because it’s January, so I’m bullet journaling) so I’m just gonna do that because I want to use this green sparkly jelly pen and cross off all of today. Mm. Satisfying.

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/fma/chrono

[gleefail]

Glee Memories: 1x10 Ballad

A long, long time ago, as Glee was approaching graduation in Season 3, I found myself nostalgic with some rare free time on my hands. So I decided to rewatch the series from the beginning and jot down some memories, discrepancies that have arisen since, fave quotes, tally solos - all that good stuff, strictly for shits and giggles.

8 years later (eek!) and once more I find myself with an unexpected abundance of free time. With so many revisiting or being newly introduced to the show between binge watching during Quarantine and all the tragedy that has surrounded the show since it went off the air, I figured I’d finish what I started. And by finish, I mean go through the end of S3. Cause I truly cannot acknowledge what happened after that. Except for 5B.

Kicking this off by reposting the first 15 episodes I already went through. Enjoy!

1x10 Ballad “Ok, who can tell me what a ballad is?” “It’s a male duck”

ok, I disagree with Schue’s definition of a ballad. “Stories set to music” – um…isn’t that every song? Or is it just in musicals that it’s supposed to be, lol?

“Looks like my weekly letter to the Ohio showchoir committee FINALLY paid off” and the look she gives Puck. Haha. This Rachel Berry is funny. Cause they’re letting us laugh at her right along with her. Not asking us to put her on a pedestal and/or take her seriously all the damn time. I’m not even gonna get started. I’m watching this post Props/Nationals, and though I didn’t think it could, my hate has grown. In abundance. Trying to keep it in check. Moving on…

“I bet that duck’s in the hat”

“Matt’s out sick today. He had to go to the hospital cause they found a spider in his ear” Um, ew. Also terrifying. However, humorous nonetheless. And an effort to explain a random absence of a Glee club member. Remember how they used to do that?

Aw, Artie drew Quinn’s name out of the hat. :) 2 seasons later and they’ll get 2 duets (both of which I loooove). Shame they didn’t do it this ep. Romantic or just friends, I ADORE the chemistry with Diana and Kevin. I really wanted to see more of that. :(

omg. Kurt’s face when Finn pulls his name. Adorable. Also, I love that Finn is not cool with it but a year later Sam is totes fine. Maybe that’s just cause I love dudes that are comfortable enough in their sexuality to do things that d-bags in high school might tease them about being gay for. Or maybe that’s just cause I love Sam Evans. Couldn’t tell ya. Except yeah, I totes could. It’s cause I wants a Trouty Mouth to call my very own. *lesigh*

“other asian” Ha!

Brittana!

“The fates talked, Mr. Schue” #BlessFinnsHeart

I love the voice-overs during Endless Love: “Screw him if he thinks he’s taking the Diana Ross part from me” “I love the days when I wear no underwear” “I never noticed how nice Rachel’s butt is…oh crap! I think Quinn knows I’m staring at it!”

I also love the facial expressions of Rachel and Mr. Schue here. Hilarious.

Haha – Brad’s like “wtf is happening?”

“Crap – she looks crazy right now!” hahahahahaha

Because of Rachel’s realization through this song, it means Lea Michele can’t squint nearly as much. Wow. It’s like a whole new Rachel with her eyes open while she’s singing.

Artie’s face after the duet. It’s like someone stepped in dog poop.

Ok, Charlotte Ross was in a show in the 90’s I used to watch that, if I recall, failed miserably but nonetheless had a brief stint as my guilty pleasure show. And I can’t remember what it is for the life of me and keep forgetting to look when I have access to google it. Anyone?

“I don’t want you to lift a finger for me. I’m your wife!” Oh wow. So unhealthy. So republican. Soooooo some parts of Ohio. These are the folks that voted for Bush. :/ Yep, I’m still ashamed to be from Ohio when I think of that election.

Suzy. Pepper. Yes. I love this actress. Bright and Hannah were my OTP on Everwood. I miss them.

“You knew it was me just by the sound of my breath. That’s so romantic.”

“Listen, you little psycho, this is Will’s wife, and if I don’t get enough sleep my anti-depressants won’t work, and then I’ll go crazy and I’ll kill you.” Oh Terri. So maternal and loving.

Suzy Pepper is sobbing to More Than Words. That was my jam back in the day!

“Your lashing out at me is fantastically compelling…and….inappropriate.”

“Thank God I never missed a piano lesson” – really Kurt? Is this the first and only time we’re to believe Kurt can play piano well enough to accompany someone from memory?

Finn singing I’ll Stand By You to a sonogram dvd on his laptop. I have no words. I don’t think I thought it was this weird the first time I watched it.

So Finn’s mom busts him singing to said laptop sonogram dvd…and he doesn’t close the laptop…or stop the dvd…or try to hide the screen. He sits up next to it as she approaches him, almost begging her to see it. I felt the same way then as I do now – it was an opportunity for him to not tell her necessarily but for her to find out anyways and I think he really wanted her to know so he could go to her for help and comfort and to relieve everything he couldn’t deal with about the situation. I’m just sayin’.

Oh old school Carol with her denim and that hair…she’s still such a great mom though. And this actress. My God. She’s amazing.

“You’re wrong, I’m right. I’m smart, you’re dumb.”

“Dude. Impulse control!” haha

“I dunno why I find his stupidity charming. I mean, he’s cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows.” #BlessFinnsHeart

Oh Young Girl/Don’t Stand So Close to Me mash-up. I fell in lust with you from the first moment I laid eyes on you.

Seriously. Matthew Morrison is so hot in this mash-up. Yowzah.

“So, Rachel, do you think you understood the message I was trying to get across with that ballad?” “Yes! It means I’m very young and it’s hard for you to stand close to me.”

“You’re a very good performer. He’s very good.”

Finn and Kurt bonding over their lost parents. This is a sweet scene.

“You think I should bring a gun?” #BlessFinnsHeart

“Casserole’s almost ready. Hope you like venison!” Ok. TERRIFYING to come home and find Rachel Berry in an apron, cooking you dinner, in your home.

Hey, remember that time that Rachel literally sang 3 lines of Crush and they released it in its entirety as a single from this episode? Ridonk.

“I found out today that my hamster was pregnant in biology class and I just started weeping!”

Aw, Mercedes and Puck are paired up for duet ballads.

haha. Babygate.

“Finn’s not the father! I am.” People be spilling out their truths to Mercedes y’all.

“Alright, look, you need to get something through your Mohawk real quick: you’re the baby’s daddy. It takes a hell of a lot more to be a father and that role’s already been cast because Quinn chose Finn. You need to accept that and move on cause you have no business messin’ up that girl’s life more than you already have. You need to back off. You owe her at least that much. ”Aw, Mercedes. Laying down tough love. And looking out for Quinn before they were even friends. Man. I love Mercedes.

Oh that’s right – Quinn has an older sister! Why did we never meet her?

“He wears a helmet when he plays, right?” – THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYIN’! #BlessFinnsHeart

“I have to go, they’ll think I’m pooping.” Hehehehe.

omg. So I love this still. Finn is doing karate moves in the bathroom mirror to pump himself up to sing to the Fabrays that Quinn’s pregnant. That is so effing funny. What happened to this Finn?

You’re Having My Baby. Haha. This song is so cheesy. This scene is so uncomfortable.

So Quinn’s parents, unlike Finn, are NOT simple-minded and have figured it out. And it’s terrifying.

“We didn’t even have sex” #BlessFinnsHeart

Quinn’s parents are kicking her out. Well, her dad is and her mom isn’t standing up to him. This is rough. Especially when you realize they’re supposed to be 15. So wrong. Poor Quinn. And her dad just screamed at her that she was a disappointment. Yeah…she’s had to deal with some shit. And in the end, they don’t acknowledge that she did and try to make her out to be the bad guy, and selfish… Way to go, RIB.

Oh good ole Carol, without a moment of hesitationlets Quinn stay with them.

“Honey, you can stay here as long as you want.” Carol’s the best. So glad she found Burt.

“We’re not so different, you and me. We’re both mildly attractive and extremely grating. Love is hard for us. We look for boys we know we can never have. Mr. Schue is a perfect target for our self-esteem issues. He can never reciprocate our feelings which only reinforces the conviction that we’re not worthy of being loved. Trust me. I’m a cautionary tale. You need to find some self-respect, Rachel. Get that mildly attractive groove back.” Suzy Pepper, ladies and gentlemen. Dropping truth bombs.

“There’s some boy out there who’s gonna like you for everything you are, including those parts of you that even you don’t like. Those are gonna be the things about you that he likes the most.” Hmm…might be true. Never thought about this, but I’d say that describes Jesse. But not Finn so much. Maybe recently. But…he has made several comments about her being annoying or controlling as they were dating. And not in a ‘those are my favorite things about her’ kinda way. Just sayin’.

Aw. Kurt seems like he feels really bad about Quinn getting kicked out.

“Open your eyes! I didn’t tell you to close your eyes.” “Is there a cake?” No, there’s no cake!” #BlessFinnsHeart

Lean On Me. Watching this now, with one ep left and it’s graduation…yeah, I’m crying. Dammit, Glee.

haha, Mercedes just kinda pushed past Rachel who was front and center to sing her solo. Probably not intentional but still funny.

Damn, Kevin McHale.

Damn, Amber Riley.

SOLOS: Rachel (1), Will (2), Finn (2), Artie (1), Mercedes (1)

[idolish7rabbitchats]

Osaka Sougo: Wonderful Octave Rabbit Chat Part 2

Tsumugi: Thank you for gathering, everyone! I was thinking of collecting requests for Sougo-san’s “RADIO STATION “Twelve Hits!””.

T: To manage the chat and check the contents, us managers will also participate. Please take care of it!

10000: Please take care of Sougo-kun’s requests!

5: Everyone, I regret that you all have gathered for me while you are all preoccupied. Today, thank you for your help by working with me. 

100: It’s strict, Sougo!! Is that a historical drama’s line?!

6: The art of the sword! It’s harakiri right!

Anesagi: I can imagine him bowing 90 degrees over the phone.

4: He’s saying spell-ish things again

5: S-Sorry… It’s not a spell or a historical drama or anything, it was meant to be a greeting...

8: Ousaka is nervous as usual huh (lol)

9: Maybe Gaku is being too scary isn’t he?

8: Am I…?

5: Not at all! I’m thinking I’m really happy that you talk to me in a friendly way all the time!

8: Isn’t he terrified…? What part of me is scary? I’ll be careful so tell me. 

9: Sorry, it was just a joke.

9: I thought it would make Ousaka Sougo relax. 

3: It seems to be making him more and more nervous. lol

10: It’s fine. Sougo-kun already knows that Gaku’s a nice guy.

5: Yes! Of course!

1000: Sougo-kun, you should take a deep breath to relax. Hee Hee Hoo.

100: Using a cliche; Yuki is also lovely (*´∀σ)

7: It’s called Lamaze breathing right! I know!

1: Nanase-san, you don’t have to answer it seriously.

100: Yuki’s best joke lololol

1000: I was answered seriously...

Okazaki: Yuki-kun, FIGHT!

7: Waaah! It was a joke huh! I’m sorry…!

2: Sou burst out laughing a little tho.

5: S-Sorry! The conversation was funny!

T: So then, everyone warmed up, so how about I ask for the requests soon…!

3: Eh? Has this warmed up? lol

6: It seems Sougo managed to relax. :-)

5: Feels like my fingers warmed up because I laughed...

2: He’s perfectly warmed up (Lol)

T: That’s great! Then, this time I will ask starting from the youngest again. Tamaki-san, please be the first batter!

4: K

4: “Let me hear what you would do if the Earth was gonna explode.”

7: Ah! That’s what we were talking about when everyone was watching that movie before!

4: It was suuuuuuuuuuuuper interesting!!! I cried a lot at the end.

6: Tamaki is really into it huh!

5: The Earth is gonna explode huh… What caused it?

4: I wonder? Wait, is that important?

5: It won’t explode without reason, so I’m curious.

4: Eeeeh. I dunno tho.

4: Like gas?

5: What kind of gas would it be… I’m not familiar with astronomy but, maybe there is a way to avoid explosion, so wouldn’t I look for that?

5: What kind of mechanism cause the explosion?

4: So-chan you’re a pain! That’s not it.

4: The reason doesn’t matter

4: I want to eat pudding or I want to sing together, don’t you have something like that?

3: Sougo, you’re serious huh!

1: I’m interested too so I understand Ousaka-san’s feelings.

5: Really, that’s it. I’m still curious about the cause of the explosion, but I’ll think about it.

T: It’s a grand request like a Sci-Fi movie huh! Tamaki-san, thank you.

T: Next is Iori-san please!

1: From me, “Please teach us a secret you haven’t told anyone.”

1: Because Ousaka-san has a mysterious charm. The listeners would probably also be interested in knowing  Ousaka-san’s secrets.

5: For secrets, what kind of level would be good?

1: A secret that you can talk about over the radio is fine.

5: That’s good.

100: Do you actually watch cat videos when you’re depressed or something?!

10: Do you actually prefer chili oil over tabasco or something?!

Okazaki: Neither of those really feel like secrets!

8: It doesn’t feel like disclosing secret at all.

5: Balancing is hard but, I’ll think of a secret that sound like something I’m disclosing, and something I can say over the radio.

T: Iori-san, thank you for the thrilling request! Next is Riku-san please!

7: Yes! From me it’s “Please let us hear your first impressions of the members of IDOLiSH7!”

6: A very interesting request!

2: For first impressions, you mean when we were playing basketball in the practice room? How nostalgic-.

5: We got excited so quickly that it didn’t feel like we just met. 

1: Maybe playing sports helped it too. We could feel better by exercising, and we could communicate.

7: Even if we didn’t play basketball, I think I would like Sougo-san immediately!

1: Is that the first impression from Nanase-san?

5: Thanks, Riku-kun. I’m happy. 

3: I like you too!

6: I love you too, Sougo.

1: Should I keep this situation too…?

2: Don’t stop the flow. It’ll become more embarrassing. (lol)

1: Nikaido-san, please go ahead.

2: No no, this is better from the young ones. Go on, Tama.

4: What’s with that Yama-san; don’t pass it to me!

3: Hey old man, adults should lead it!

6: Japanese people are shy huh :-(

100: Everyone’s cute huh!

10: Should we say we like us too?

8:  In TRIGGER?

9: We won’t say it.

5: Thanks everyone...! I love you too!

T: It became a heart-warming request huh! Next, can we hear a request from Kujou-san?

9: Yes. From me it’s “Show us a wild Ousaka Sougo.”

9: Ousaka Sougo gives a nice and soft impression. I think there are lots of fans who want to see something unexpected.

9: Your “12 SONGS GIFT” solo song was rock and cool too.

5: I-It’s an honor for me…!

9: It’s not just me. Surely everyone thinks the same. 

9: You didn’t really mess up on singing and dancing from the beginning but that’s because of the accumulation of steady practice right. But, from “12 SONGS GIFT”, I could feel your passion, not only your seriousness.

1000: “Maybe” was enthralling.

1000: It was free and like Sougo-kun, it was a good song.

4: So-chan, don’t screenshot it.

5: I thought I would set it as the wallpaper on my smartphone...

2: Set this rabbit chat conversation?

3: For Sougo to do that, it’s a really happy thing huh!

10000: That’s great, Sougo-kun!

4: You are more hyped than usual

5: Thank you. I’m glad I could sing that song!

10: Making Sougo-kun happy seems to have made Tenn happy too!

9: Ryuu, you don’t have to say that.

8: He’s embarrassed.

9: Takanashi-san, can’t we move on to the next request?

T: S-Sorry! I was happy about that too…! So then, next is Nagi-san please!

6: From me, “Please talk about the music that Sogo loves.”

6: Sougo talking about something he likes makes him so happy his eyes shine. The fans also want to see that side of Sougo!

1: We can’t see him since it will be the radio but we can tell that he enjoys it.

5: Thanks, Nagi-kun. You were thinking of me that way huh.

7: Sougo-san and Nagi talk about their hobbies a lot when they’re together huh!

2: Sou listens to Nagi’s anime talks seriously until the end huh.

3: Even when we talked too much and almost fall asleep, Sogo sometimes still listens and nods!

6: Sougo is good at listening! He listens to me endlessly, so I can’t stop talking about Kokona too x-)

5: I like someone telling their feelings of liking something with words. I can feel their inner love and it makes me happy too.

5: And, Nagi-kun’s conversations are full of knowledge and fun. I wanted to listen to it forever.

6: I also feel a calm happiness when listening to Sougo’s talks.

T: I want to try listening to more of Sougo-san’s talks!

*T: Like, Sougo-san’s talks about the music he loves!

5: I’m always talking on the radio but I still have a lot of things I want to talk about!

5: I’m worried about if I can make it a fun talk but I’m really happy you said you want to hear it.

T: Because it’s Sougo-san’s talks, I want to hear more! I want to know more about Sougo-san!

5: Thanks, Manager.

T: So then, next is the request from Sougo-san please!

5: Yes. My request for myself is “Pull one more request.”

3: Eh? Pull again? Why?

1: Meaning, to pull a different request, right?

5: Yeah. Everyone put a lot of thought into the requests so I want to answer even just one more.

2: That is a very Sou-ish request.

100: You don’t have to mind us so much!

1000: Yeah yeah, don’t hold back. It would be fine if you do what you want.

5: Ah, that’s not it! It’s not like I’m holding back.

5: Thinking about the requests that everyone took the time to make for me makes me very happy. So, I just want to answer a request.

5: I was actually looking forward to what kind of requests they would be until today!

5: Even though, there are some drastic requests that pop up, so I was nervous too...

100: Sougo~~~~~ You’re a good kid (*(´>ω<))ω`●）

10: Sogo-kun, you were looking forward to the requests that much!

10: Now I want to change my request to “Add one more request to answer”!

T: S-Sorry! Because of the on-air schedule, I don’t think we can add to the number of requests… ><

9: Like a magic lamp.

8: Like how a wish asking for more wishes is not allowed huh.

3: Sorry! Can we take a little break from the group chat?

3: Kinako popped out from my backpack…!

100: Kinako meaning Tsumugi-chan’s bunny?

1000: If it was powder kinako, that would be a disaster.

Anesagi: Ah man, that makes me want to eat Anmitsu. (T/N: A Japanese sweet that uses kinako and brown sugar syrup)

5: It’s true! Kinako-san, how long were you hiding there...

T: I’m sorry for the trouble Mitsuki-san!

3: I’ll send her to the office. The dorms doesn’t have a toilet for Kinako after all.

1: I’ll go too. Animals tend to runaway, so it would be safer if there are two people.

7: Maybe I’ll go too! Let’s go buy snacks on the way too!

9: I wanted to make a tea so it will be helpful if we can take a break.

T: Everyone, thank you! So then, we’ll take some break!

V2:

T: I want to try listening to more of Sougo-san’s talks!

T: Like about IDOLiSH7!

5: Being able to meet everyone was one of the biggest events in my life. And being able to meet Manager too.

5: I’m worried about if I can make it a fun talk but I’m really happy you said you want to hear it.

V3:

T: I want to try listening to more of Sougo-san’s talks!

T: Like your hidden hobby?

5: Like choosing different route to go back home? I can find something new, it’s fun. One day, Mitsuki-san and I found a coffee bean shop in the neighborhood. 

5: I’m worried about if I can make it a fun talk but I’m really happy you said you want to hear it.

[generalthirstclub]

what your smash main says about you, written by an obsessive smash fan who doesn't know anything about half of the characters on the roster

mario: you sleep well every night. How

donkey kong: you don't really know much about this game but you're trying your best

link: i don't know man you just like legend of zelda

samus: you're a lesbian

dark samus: you're a really sexy lesbian

yoshi: you think dinosaurs are really cool

kirby: you're a fucking baby!!!

fox: you don't know anything about star fox but it intrigues you cause you're a furry

pikachu: you're just here for the pokemon rep

luigi: you're perfect in every way here's my credit card number

ness: whenever you lose a stock you make a joke about sans undertale getting killed

captain falcon: you parrot his lines, accent included, whenever he says anything

jigglypuff: actually i've got nothing on this one sorry

peach: i diagnose you with femme lesbian

daisy: same as peach but daisier

bowser: monsterfucker

ice climbers: you have a really strong opinion on whether nana and popo are siblings or lovers or what and you get into arguments with people about it

sheik: youre a trans icon

zelda: you just think shes pretty

dr mario: you have a medical kink

pichu: you like beating the shit out of people with the objectively worst character in the game cause it makes you very epic.

falco: uhhhh bird

marth: i dunno man. i don't know shit about fire emblem

lucina: youd main marth but youre too busy thinking girls are pretty

young link: why do you main young link

ganondorf: you like to Whack

mewtwo: you like pokemon but youre a little more familiar with the other franchises in smash than the pikachu main

roy: listen i have no fucking idea

chrom: EVERYTHING is chrome in the future!

mr game and watch: you're gay and also you're kin with me cos that's my main

meta knight: you adore kirby games and you may or may not have a thing for spanish accents

pit: you've never played a kid icarus game in your life but you think the concept is cool

dark pit: you're edgy

zero suit samus: no offense but you're probably a straight man. if not then you're the coolest person ever

wario: you are so brave.

snake: i don't know man

ike: which one is ike again??? i don't fuckjn know. all the animesy boys blend together. send help

pokémon trainer: youve been playing pokemon since you were in diapers and you know every single move and ability

diddy kong: you are here for blood

lucas: listen i don't know earthbound. i

sonic: uh.... meow?

dedede: every day you wake up and you look in the mirror and you softly whisper "ah need a monster to clobber dat dere kirby."

olimar: you think pikmin are cute and you cry when any of them die

lucario: ah. the age old furry pokémon fan

rob: you really like chunky 90s computers

toon link: you're the gay legend of zelda fan

wolf: you eat your cereal dry

villager: you're tired of the murderous villager meme but you still partake in it whenever you land a good hit

mega man: you like clicking the chip over and over to make the announcer say MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMAAAN

wii fit trainer: either you're nostalgic for wii fit or you're an antivaxxer

rosalina: you always liked rosalina better than peach or daisy growing up and now you are physically transforming into her

little mac: you own a small apple computer. :0)

greninja: you think his froggy sounds are funny

palutena: You Gotta Have Green Hair

pac-man: you are trans and you like peanut butter

robin: robin

shulk: you just like his accent

bowser jr: you love the way the announcer goes BOWSER! ...JUNIOR?

duck hunt: either you think the dog is cute or you like making da cunt jokes

ryu: youre gay

ken: youre gayer

cloud: your motivation to win is knowing what a groove your victory jingle is.

corrin: ????????

bayonetta: youre either a really kinky lesbian desperately searching for a purpose in life or you just think she's neat

inkling: you have never gone a day in your life without playing splatoon

ridley: you have a monsterfucker problem. you and the bowser main can bond over this you see

simon: your name really is simon. im sorry.

richter: you don't sleep

k rool: you think that lord licorice from candyland is sexy

isabelle: you just really like animal crossing!! you're a good wholesome person have a nice day

incineroar: you were a pro wrestler in a past life. he's trying to escape your body. you need an exorcist

piranha plant: you always let kirby swallow you cause he looks so adorable in his little plant outfit

joker: i diagnose you with HORNY

mii: chaotic neutral

[tassium]

#TAYLOR SWIFT APPRECIATION LIFE

PART 1 - Self Titled

Buckle up, ladies and gentleworms: We'll be spending the week leading up to the release of Lover looking back over the history with Our Lady and Savior Taylor Swift. This is very much inspired by the lovely people at @stateofswiftpod​ (which if you haven't listened to, you NEED TO - this trio is a DELIGHT) and is going to basically be my own lonely solo version of what they do.

SO ANYWAY.

First stop on our journey is Taylor's self titled album. Get comfy, get a snack, maybe a @taylorswift​ themed drink.... and get in, losers, we're going swiftie.

1. Tim McGraw

Listen, I gotta be honest. This song has never been among my list of of Top Taylor Songs, not even when this was the only album of tracks of hers. Don't get me wrong, I don't DISLIKE this song. There's some great lines in it ("a month of tears and thanking god that you weren't here to see my like that" does get me every time), some great metaphorical connections (“when you think happiness, I hope you think that little black dress” is my favorite) and I do think she delivers a good vocal performance on it. There’s a lot of cool melodic choices in the second half that I’m into. Overall.... not my favorite. We’ll get to that.

2. Picture To Burn

Listen, anyone who says Picture to Burn is anything less than a BANGER can physically fight me in the Denny's parking lot. I have a VIVID memory of the first time I ever heard this song: 13 years old, in the back of my mom's car, with my portable CD player and headphones, feeling like the ultimate badass. Being just shocked in a 'ooooooOOOOOHHHHH' kinda way when I heard That Line in the original version's first prechorus. (you won’t find that on spotify, kids) The second verse is one of my favorite things, as well as that little bridgey bit. The guitar hits are A++. The track as a whole is a great example of what young vindictive heartbreak looks like. This was the track where I fell in love with the angry heartbroken version of Taylor - but like. Baby Angry Heartbroken Taylor.

3. Teardrops On My Guitar

There is something so visceral about the concept of this track to me. That concept of teardrops on a guitar and being in love with someone who's in love with someone else and that one line about hoping that someone else knows just how lucky they are to have the person you're in love with? Damn. --And speaking of that! Another line you can't find on spotify, the original version of this song! "I laugh 'cause it's so damn funny" is such a raw lyric for debut Taylor, and honestly I'm sad that it's been edited out.

Bonus commentary: The pop version of this song, you guys. That electric guitar chord ring at the beginning is ICONIC. The driving drums! That little fiddle lick between the one chorus and the bridge! The pop version is the one that gives me goosebumps.

4. A Place in this World

This song is such a good track to have on this album. I love the little peek into what it's like to be not only Taylor herself but also, I think, any young teenage girl, trying to figure things out. It's a nice change of pace and a good thing to throw back at people who say that Taylor only ever wrote about relationships or whatever. I think my favorite line is that bit at the end of the first verse: "Even though I'm not the only one who feels the way I do..." because that line is such a good representation of what it's like to be about that age and feeling like a hot mess and being told that you're not the only one. Like yes! I know! I'm not ACTUALLY alone! but it feels like it! Let me wallow for half a second! - Taylor does a great job portraying that feeling, and I think this is a good vocal from her as well, with some cool melodic variance in a couple spots later in the song.

5. Cold As You

Dang, man, okay, listen. Cold as You. This song. The build, the softness at the beginning, the way the other instruments come in leading up to the chorus. The craftsmanship on some of the lyrics, like “a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you” or “every smile you fake is so condescending”.

I think my favorite line, though, is "I start a fight because I need to feel something" because. Wow. That line is powerful and honestly it kind of hurts, especially coming from a 16 year old Taylor. Ouch. The other thing I love about this is where the instrumentation drops out in the last prechorus, going back down to just the piano and her voice - there's a quality to her voice there that just. Oof. (I also love the change to the lyrics in the last chorus, and the change in delivery. I love me a change in delivery, but more on that later)

6. The Outside

This song is hardcore #relatable. If you've never felt like you were on the outside of everything and hated it to pieces, you are the blessed among humanity. I love her delivery on the chorus, the timing and inflection she uses. That final line of the chorus “i’ve been a lot of lonely places, i’ve never been on the outside” is so evocative of what it’s like the first time you feel genuinely excluded from your social scene.

I also learned (from the lovely people at the State of Swift podcast!) that this is a song that she wrote when she was like. Not even a teenager yet. Which just blows my mind. I don't know how much tweaking it received before going on the album, but still. Even if 12 year old Taylor only wrote the bare bones of what it became, that's incredible.

7. Tied Together with a Smile

Somewhere out there on the internet there's a video of me playing this song on my porch at about 15 years old, carefully framed so that my face is not visible. It's.... about what you'd expect from a 15 year old amateur.

I'll admit that this is also not way up there on my hierarchy of favorites on this album (not that such a thing exists in any concrete way). There's something about the intro, whatever that instrument is, that kind of grates on me, and there's a few lyrical things that don't land for me like I feel like they could. There's also just a few too many memories tied to this song that make it hit me in a lot of uncomfortable ways.

I do really love her voice in the final chorus though, with the stripped down instrumental behind her in the beginning. The vocal run she does in the outro is also BEAUTIFUL and really fun to sing along to on the rare occasions I listen to this song all the way through.

8. Stay Beautiful

This is such a feel good song. I love it. The descriptions! “He smiles, it’s like the radio” WHAT A LINE. That paints such a picture and elicits such intense emotion -  it’s something I really can’t describe properly with any other words.

I can’t help but just smile through this entire song. It’s so sweet and so pretty and there’s just something about it that I can’t help but love. I like the walking guitar in the chorus, and the tiny little solo in the turnaround. The message of the bridge is great - even if nothing ever comes from it (and I don’t think anything ever did, irl) at least this person you’re so fond of will know what you think of them. You hope that it doesn't end there, but even if it does...

I dunno, this song is just super heartwarming to me. It’s light and happy and it has a lot of the Things Early Taylor Does that appeal the most to me. I love it.

9. Should've Said No

Okay guys, listen. Despite my deep love for certain tracks on this album, I really think this one is my favorite. It edges out all the others by a relatively narrow margin, but it still does it. And of course there's a billion and one reasons why that's the case just from the album track (the drums! the fiddle! the harmonies! that high note!), but that's not what I really want to talk about here.

The 2008 ACM Awards performance of this song is one of the greatest things I've ever seen, and it needs to be talked about. Admittedly, it's a very Early Live Taylor vocal, but I would defy any of you who saw that performance to tell me that it wasn't a ride from start to finish the first time (and the second time and the third and-- I've watched this a lot ok)

That lowkey wtf moment when she's just on the stage with a guitar in jeans and a hoodie. The breakaway into the dress, and the little microphone lean and the smug face immediately after it.

And then. The final chorus.

I would sell my SOUL to hear Taylor sing that version of this song with her current vocal ability. The change in the melody and delivery gives me chills every single time. That ascending bend on "home" is incredible, and the ache in ‘would get back to me’.

If you haven't seen that performance, you NEED TO. Go find it, it's on youtube, I'll wait.

10. Mary's Song (Oh My My My)

Listen. She’s a cute little number. I love the image of a woman telling the story of this relationship that’s been building since forever - admit it, we’re all suckers for the friends-to-lovers trope, aren’t we?

It feels very nostalgic, very classic - it reminds me of a lot of more traditional country songs. When I listen to it and picture what’s happening in the lyrics, it’s all sepia toned and older style projector film. There’s a warm, coming-home kind of feeling that’s tied to this song for me, though that might have something to do with being raised on 90s country music.

I don’t have any particularly strong feelings about this (except for how my friend attached this song to TWO DIFFERENT FICTIONAL SHIPS and ruined my life) but I like it. I think it belongs on the album. It’s almost tooth-rottingly sweet, but it earns its place.

11. Our Song

Ahhhhh, Our Song. This song will never not have a special place in my heart - I've been playing guitar since I was about 15, and this was the first song I learned to play. This track is why I say that Taylor is the Reason I Play Guitar.

There’s something so cute and first-relationship-slash-coming-of-age-teen-movie about the idea of just grabbing whatever’s nearby to write something down. There’s another iconic fiddle bit at the beginning. It’s endearingly twangy country. Taylor makes some fantastic vocal choices that I think really stand out in a nice way. I love the metaphorical quality of using all these non-musical sounds and non-auditory concepts to build a couple’s song, and I’m a complete sucker for the line “our song is the way you laugh”. Gets me every time.

And now... The Bonus Tracks.

12. I'm Only Me When I'm With You

This track is EASILY my favorite of the bonus tracks on this album. I love this song so much. It’s a BANGER and once again, if you disagree you can FIGHT ME. I don’t know about anyone else, nor do I know if there’s any kind of official statement about this, but this song has always read to me as platonic, even familial. It could be read as slightly codependent, granted, but I think it’s cute. the music video  I like that it’s like... almost like a baby version of the Taylor Swift we now know and love. The beat and the instrumentation feels almost refreshing after listening to most of the songs on this album proper - to be honestly I’m a little salty that it got pushed off to the deluxe version. And of course, there’s an outstanding fiddle piece in the post-chorus, and if you’ve picked up anything from this post so far it should be that I have a deep, deep love for a good fiddle part.

13. Invisible

Oof. OOF. This aching unrequited love ballad. It’s like the softer version of Teardrops On My Guitar, and I’m here for it. She does some super cool melodic things, and I love the way her voice soars in the bridge, and the way it feels like she kind of folds down into herself when it drops down to the prechorus. The ache in “let me want you” and the way it just sort of hangs there like a reaching hand before dropping back into the chorus one last time, and then circling back around to the opening line, finishing with that classic rising steel guitar. It’s just *chef hand kiss*

14. A Perfectly Good Heart

It’s interesting to me that the bonus tracks are literally in order for how much I like them. I don’t have anything against this song, but it’s not one of my favorites. I don’t have a lot to say about it, honestly - I think it’s a solid enough track, but I can definitely see why it was relegated to bonus track territory. And I have to admit, the line “it’s not unbroken anymore” feels a little to me like a reach to put the sentiment in enough syllables to fit the melody. (No shade, there are far worse examples of that in pop music.) The harmony on the end of that line is pretty fantastic though, and the mandolin in the breakdown sits in very nicely.

And with that, we’ve made it to the end of the album. It’s wild to go back and look at the very beginnings with Taylor, given that I’ve been playing the new tracks on repeat for weeks at this point. I’m looking forward to reliving the rest of the journey from this beginning to where we are today.

Next up: Fearless

[i7pinyaapples]

IDOLiSH7 3rd Anniversary Story Part 1 Translation

Find me on twitter @pinyaapples. Please credit me on any reposts and do not use elsewhere without permission. Video is unlisted for a reason, it’s just for people who don’t play the game but want to hear the voices. Please don’t repost or link elsewhere. Thanks!

Part two Part three Part four

Rinto: Yuki-kun, Momo-kun, congratulations on the third anniversary of your show, “NEXT Re:vale”!

Momo: Thanks Okarin!! But you’re saying that early!

Rinto: It’s still a little bit in the future but our impulsive president said to give this in celebration already...

Yuki: Suddenly, sea bream?

Momo: But Yuki can’t eat fish!

Rinto: I think he got a little over-excited and bought it… I’m so sorry about my brother as always.

Rinto: On the day of I will properly make sure that we celebrate with things you both can eat!

Yuki: Tell Rintarou to get his act together, ok? Momo, you might as well eat the fish since it’s here.

Momo: Really?! But, what about you Yuki?

Yuki: I’ll eat dandelions.

Momo: That’s nostalgic! When we didn’t have any money Yuki used to eat the dandelions from the park all the time.

Momo: At first I didn’t know they were edible so I was shocked thinking that he was so hungry he’d eat weeds…

Yuki: Momo would also often go to the creek and catch small fry[1] to eat.

Yuki: I thought “small fry” was a term solely in shounen manga so when Momo said he “caught some small fry” I thought a battle was about to start or something…

Rinto: Ah… I’m sorry that you two had to go through such hardships.

Rinto: But, that very same Re:vale is now the top idol group celebrating the third anniversary of their named show!!

Momo & Yuki: Whoooo!!

Rinto: The new song is also breaking sales records!!

Momo & Yuki: Whoooo!!

Rinto: We’ll keep bringing our dreams to you guys from now on!!!

Momo & Yuki: Whoooo!!

Rinto: Yes! Thank you so much! Wait, why are you cheering for me?

Yuki: It felt like a live MC. [2]

Momo: It was super cool!! O-ka-rin! O-ka-rin!!!

Rinto: Please…

Momo & Yuki: O-ka-rin!! O-ka-rin!!!

Rinto: Re:vale and Re:vale’s manager are the best!!!!!!

Momo & Yuki: Whoooo!!

Rinto: I’ll never let you guys resort to eating dandelions and small fry every again!!!

Momo & Yuki: Whoooo!!

Yuki: I’ll still eat dandelions though.

Momo: I like small fry! They’re super yummy if you make them into tempura!!

Rinto: Then why did you bother cheering…

Momo & Yuki: Dunno.

Rinto: Ahem… Returning to the topic at hand, the third anniversary edition of NEXT Re:vale is scheduled to be a special episode!

Rinto: The guest lineup is super glamorous! All members of popular idol groups TRIGGER and IDOLiSH7 will be participating!

Yuki: Sounds like fun.

Momo: Let’s make a super fun show together with our adorable kouhai idols! [3]

Rinto: I have high expectation! Re:vale is the top class of idols not only because of their amazing concerts, but also for their ability to make everyone smile during variety shows!

Rinto: With your energetic conversations and the usual married couple act, please brighten and excite all of Japan like the sun itself!

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Tsumugi: It’s been decided that you all will be guests on the upcoming third anniversary episode of NEXT Re:vale!!

Mitsuki: A third anniversary! That’s exciting!

Iori: Their stable ratings guarantee that it will be a long running show. As expected of Re:vale.

Riku: Three years is so cool! Why don’t we take the opportunity to pick out some kind of present for them?

Sougo: That sounds nice! I wonder what would make Yuki-san and Momo-san happy.  

Yamato: Those two are complete opposites… Yuki-san is an indoors loving vegetarian, while Momo enjoys the outdoors and eating meat…

Tamaki: King Pudding!! King Pudding isn’t meat or plants, and it doesn’t have to be indoors or outdoors!

Nagi: OH! How about character references from Magical★Kokona?! It will definitely get you fired up HOT!

Yamato: Those are just what you guys want… Oh, Banri-san! Wouldn’t he know?

Banri: Hm? What do you need?

Riku: Yuki-san and Momo-san have opposite interests, but do you know anything they both like Banri-san?

Banri: Hm… I wonder…. Maybe…. Me?

Iori: Even for an old friend, I think you’re the only one who could say something so outrageous about the top idols Re:vale....

Tamaki: They’d definitely be happy but I don’t wanna give them Banchan!! He’s MEZZO”s manager after all!

Banri: Are you guys perhaps trying to think of a present for them?

Tsumugi: Yes, to celebrate the third anniversary of NEXT Re:vale.

Banri: In that case, I think the ultimate present would be for you guys to have a good time and liven up the show with them!

Mitsuki: Liven it up huh… Oh, what about something like this?

Yamato: Oh? Did you come up with something good?

Mitsuki: Re:vale’s always doing the married couple comedy act right? But usually me or Yamato-san act as the straight man and cut them off.

Mitsuki: This time, instead of cutting them off, we could try pulling off our own comedy act!

Sougo: A similarly exciting act?

Riku: Oh!! I know this!! It’s “and then”

Mitsuki: “And then”?

Riku: Umm.. Iori, try saying something!

Iori: What do you mean by something?

Riku: Something funny! Like, [iori voice] “I’m known as the perfect highschooler”.

Iori: I’m not really saying that to be funny though…

Tamaki: Hahaha, that’s hilarious

Iori: I said it wasn’t supposed to be funny!

Riku: And then!

Iori: ..?

Riku: Aaaaand then?

Iori: Uh, like I said, it’s not really meant to be a joke…

Riku: Aaaaaaaand then?

Iori: What is this… Nanase-san, can you not try to pressure me with that innocent smile?

Riku: Aaaaaaaaaaand then???

Iori: uh……..Ni….Nii-san….

Mitsuki: It’s ok Iori I’ve got this. Riku, you’re trying to do the thing where you keep prompting “and then” and extend the joke right?

Riku: Yeah!!! That!

Iori: You’re supposed to have a lead in to the act! Your comedic timing is the worst!

Riku: Ok then tell me when to start! I’ll set a timer!

Iori: It’s not something where you can just say “in 5 minutes”... You’re supposed to naturally follow the flow of the conversation.

Riku: And then???

Iori: You know that wasn’t the right time!! You’re doing this on purpose Nanase-san.

Riku: ehehehe.

Yamato: I wonder if Re:vale would go along with that… Momo-san is good at ad lib but I think it’d probably be too much for Yuki-san.

Sougo: Indeed… If you only respond with noncommittal phrases like “right” then the conversation’s atmosphere can get a little weird.

Sougo: It might be safer for us to come up with an act that we can pull off ourselves.

Nagi: Oh!! Then let’s do this! While Re:vale does their married couple act, we’ll add in cheers and calls!

Tamaki: What’s a call?

Yamato: Like the cheering lines you’d do for a champagne call? [4] That might be good for exciting the room.

Nagi: YES! Like a cheerleader or cheering squad [5] let’s pump up Re:vale with calls!

Mitsuki: Then, let’s try practicing it a bit! MEZZO”, you guys be Re:vale.

Sougo: Be Re:vale? What do you mean?

Tamaki: ♪Say it, No Doubt~♫

Riku: Not singing like them, the married couple act! Sougo, you say something cool and then Tamaki can call him handsome!

Sougo: Something cool…

Nagi: OK! And then, we will add special calls in between! LET’S TRY!

Sougo: ……..

Sougo: Ro…..

Sougo: Rock n roll.

Tamaki: ♪Say it, No Doubt~♫

Mitsuki: MEZZO” is a mess!

Riku: Tamaki, why are you singing?!

Tamaki: Cuz Re:vale is really cool when they’re singing! I wanna do it too.

Sougo: If that’s what Tamaki wants, we can go with that?

Iori: Osaka-san, please don’t get swept up by him. I’m fairly certain Re:vale will be taking care of their own singing parts.

Yamato: “Rock n roll” doesn’t really seem to fit the married couple act either… Nagi, give him some lines or advice or something.

Nagi: OK! Sougo, COME ON!

Sougo: Ah, thank you…

Tamaki: They’re whispering over there…

Mitsuki: I wonder what kind of lines he’s gonna give…

Sougo: Eh? Isn’t that embarrassing to say?

Nagi: No, no! It’s the coolest! It fits you perfectly Sougo.

Nagi: OK! LET’S TRY!

Sougo: Tamaki, what’s up with you today, hiding your wings and appearing before me?

Sougo: You’ll get exposed as a naughty angel.

Tamaki: Darling, so handsome!

The rest of i7: ♪Say it, No Doubt~♫

Tamaki: Why are you singing!!!!

The rest of i7: ♪Oh Oh Oh Oh, Oh Oh Oh Oh~♫

Tamaki: You’re doing the oh oh part too!!!

Mitsuki: It’s a cool part!

Yamato: Everyone wants to try singing it once right.

Nagi: Sougo, a very good job!

Sougo: Thanks. It was embarrassing…

Riku: I got pumped! NO DOUBT works great, let’s just use it as our calls.

Iori: “Works great”...Please don’t refer to our important senpai’s hit song’s chorus like you found convenient ingredients in the fridge…

Mitsuki: I think Re:vale would like it but the melody is a little tense for raising excitement.

Nagi: Hm…. Indeed, it does sound like the theme for a suspense drama. Like a crazy criminal will jump out at any moment.

Yamato: Ah, I totally get that, and like the criminal’s public face is an elite doctor or something.

Yamato: Wait, that was me! [6]

Mitsuki: It sure was.

Sougo: Uh.. we knew that.

Yamato: ...ugh… The atmosphere after you straight-man your own joke… I wanna run away so bad…

Iori: Nanase-san, now is the time.

Riku: And then?!?!

Yamato: Riku, stop that. Ichi, you too, stop enabling him.

Mitsuki: Hey, let’s do this seriously! We owe a lot to Re:vale.

Riku: You’re right, let’s think of the best calls and make Re:vale happy!

Tamaki: Yeah! Something that’ll make Yukirin laugh so hard his eyes roll back and he can’t talk for a bit.

Sougo: I think that would be problematic...

Tsumugi: Understood! Banri-san and I will take on the married couple act so that IDOLiSH7 can practice their calls.

Riku: Eh?!

Yamato: What, do you have an objection Riku?

Riku: N-no, but..

Banri: Can you guys give me a second?

Iori: Where are you going Banri-san?

Banri: Well… If we’re going to do the married couple act… I need to make sure the President isn’t anywhere nearby...

Yamato: It’s dangerous having a boss with a daughter of marriageable age around huh.

Tsumugi: I’m sorry about my dad…

Banri: It’s no problem. Ok, let’s do it!

Mitsuki: Ok, let’s do our best! Everyone try to liven it up with ad lib okay?

IDOLiSH7: Yeah!

Banri: Why do you think I made sure to finish up work early today?

Tsumugi: Uh.. why is that?

Banri: Because tonight…

Banri: [bedroom voice] I won’t be letting you escape.

*DOOR OPENS*

Takanashi: What did you say?

Banri: SCREECH

Tsumugi: Banri-san, so handsome~

Mitsuki: LOVE!

IDOLiSH7: YEAH!

Mitsuki: LOVE!

IDOLiSH7: YEAH!

IDOLiSH7: LOVE DOVEY NICE COUPLE!

Takanashi: Cou..ple..?!

Banri: That’s not it!! We’re just!

Mitsuki: LOVE!

IDOLiSH7: YEAH!

Mitsuki: LOVE!

IDOLiSH7: YEAH!

IDOLiSH7: SUPER DARLING! GO! GO! [7]

Banri: Stop! Pause for a bit!!

Takanshi: “GO”? ...Where do you intend on GOing with my daughter?

Mitsuki: LET’S GO! [8]

IDOLiSH7: MARRIAGE INTERVIEW!

Mitsuki: LET’S GO!

IDOLiSH7: LOVEY DOVEY!

IDOLiSH7: LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GO MARRIED COUPLE!

Takanashi: M a r r i e d  c o u p l e? I don’t recall being formally introduced to the groom though? : )

Banri: No no no please I swear that’s not it.

Takanashi: Speaking to me like equals????

Banri: Everyone please stop for a second!!! This is becoming a great disaster for me, please!!

IDOLiSH7: LOVEY DOVEY ULTRA HAPPY!

Iori: As expected of top idols!

Riku: But we won’t lose either!

Banri: You planned out speaking turns too?!

Tamaki: We wanna be like you!

Sougo: With those feelings incorporated!

Nagi: Here is a special message from us!

Mitsuki: We’re counting on you, leader!

Yamato: Nikaido Yamato, currently recruiting a girlfriend!

IDOLiSH7: Yeah!!

Mitsuki: LOVE!

IDOLiSH7: YEAH!

Mitsuki: LOVE!

IDOLiSH7: YEAH!

IDOLiSH7: LOVE DOVEY NICE COUPLE!

Banri: That’s enough please I’m begging we can stop now thank you.

Takanashi: Banri-kun, I have something to talk to you about, so please come to the president’s office. :)))))

Banri: ..Understood…

Tsumugi: Wait, dad, no! Um, sorry everyone, I have to leave for a bit.

*Door closes*

Sougo: Will Banri-san be okay…

Riku: But it was really funny! We did good!

Mitsuki: Yeah! I think Re:vale will enjoy it!

Tamaki: Yeah!! Yukirin’s gonna die laughing!

Iori: I think Momo-san will find it enjoyable as well.

Nagi: Hm, but I want to end the calls with sweet words as befitting an idol. Right, Yamato?

Yamato: Yeah… But TRIGGER is participating too, so can’t we just leave it to them?

Nagi: Oh! Yamato won’t lose to TRIGGER though!!

Yamato: Nagi… You’re a nice guy… But wait, the ending is still being assigned to me...?

Nagi: OF COURSE~

Riku: Do your best Yamato-san!

Tamaki: Good luck Yama san

Iori: I have no idea how the real thing is going to go...

---[Notes]----

[1] A pun that actually sorta translates, Yuki is punning off of 雑魚, meaning small fish or small fry (fry referring to baby fish), but also is used as in English to refer to random punks i.e. ‘a bunch of small fry attacked me’. Too bad ‘fry’ isnt a more well known term for fish in English, I wouldn’t have to put a note.

[2] The part of the live with the idol speaking directly to the audience, thanking and announcing stuff etc.

[3] opposite of senpai, underclassmen/people who’ve been working the same job for less time

[4] ramuda voice: champagne call

[5] cheering squad - ouendan like with gakuran n stuff

[6] i guess yamato played an evil elite doctor in the drama no doubt was used for www cute

[7] ‘supadari’ is apparently japanese slang for “ideal man” or “eligible bachelor” based on english words super darling

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2018.09.15 KAT-TUN CAST in Yokohama Arena [Report]

SET LIST

01. New Genesis 02. FIRE STORM 03. ONE DROP 04. UNLOCK 05. 喜びの歌 06. 願い 07. READY FOR THIS! 08. DIRTY, SEXY, NIGHT 09. Ask Yourself 10. Don’t wait 11. Sweet Birthday 12. GREATEST JOURNEY MC Segment 13. vivid LOVE 14. UNIVERSE (宇宙Six) 15. Marionation (中丸雄一) 16. World’s End. (���田竜也) 17. One way love (亀梨和也) 18. Real Face #2 19. ツイテオイデ 20. BIRTH 21. Love yourself ～君が嫌いな君が好き～ 22. DON’T U EVER STOP 23  KISS KISS KISS 24. Will Be All Right 25. アイノオカゲ 26. 薫 27. Unstoppable

-アンコール- 28. Peacefuldays 29. ノーマター・マター 30. FUNtastic

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REPORT UNDER THE CUT

Can we talk about how much I fucking LOVE these boys? I love them with ALL my heart!!! 

At YokoAri there really isn’t a bad seat. But I was super happy with me! I got the first row in the stands (2nd floor) and it was amazing!! And we got the best surprise ever when we were allowed and able to stand up! Usually the first row of stands are NOT allowed to stand and must stay sat for the entire performance but not for KAT-TUN because KT were of course like ‘fuck that rule! Our fans won’t stand for that’ <<< AHAHA GET MY JOKE?! So we stood the entire time! I think it was just over 2 and a half hours which is GREAT!!

I’ll try and split up the songs and such into their sections and costume changes -- but I could be VERY wrong:

New Genesis FIRE STORM ONE DROP UNLOCK 喜びの歌

願い READY FOR THIS! DIRTY, SEXY, NIGHT Ask Yourself Don’t wait Sweet Birthday GREATEST JOURNEY

MC vivid LOVE UNIVERSE (宇宙Six)

Marionation (中丸雄一) World’s End. (上田竜也) One way love (亀梨和也)

Real Face #2 ツイテオイデ BIRTH Love yourself ～君が嫌いな君が好き～ DON’T U EVER STOP KISS KISS KISS Will Be All Right アイノオカゲ

薫 Unstoppable

-アンコール- Peacefuldays ノーマター・マター FUNtastic

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The opening is great! They enter and come down from a massive hanging chandelier thing in the air! It is amazing!! An amazing opening! When I watch it the second time, I’ll keep and eye on that big hanger and try and see them slip into place just before the show starts xD

READY FOR THIS and Dirty, Sexy Night was so great! I loved this coupling of songs! The first one get everyone hyped up and I love the individual dances the boys having during the instrumental/dance part in RFT! And DSN is just a great song all around where Kame can be a little shit xD

Ueda ripped his shirt open and kept it like that after ONE DROP xD everyone went mental and he kept it undone ALL the way until after the MC when he got changed xD

I died laughing when UchuuSix were first introduced because, I had already spoiled myself for the SetList so knew which Juniors were going to be there, but my friend didn’t. So when the boys came on stage and the ‘SIX’ showed first, my friend was like ‘AH HELLA NAH! NOT SIXTONES!!!!!’ but then went to UchuuSix and she was like “OH THANK GODDD’, and I was on the floor laughing because her react was so comical. No offence to SixTones fans >.<

UchuuSix were actually very good! I really enjoyed their song! I was bopping along and it was so interesting to see who stayed standing during their solo song because then you could see who the Junior fans were and their uchiwas, whereas all the KT fans just sat down and took it as a short break xD

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The MC was THE BEST! So they had their usual talk which was just ridiculous of course because Maru was like ‘so..... what did you do recently?’ and everyone commented that they hate that phrases and question but then Maru paused ‘....so what did you do recently?’ and we all died laughing. And so Kame replied ‘well I went to the beach (Ueda/Maru: and you didn’t get discovered (by fans/press)?!), it was really nice and relaxing’, but then he was like ‘I’m always the one that talks the most and I have NO IDEA what you two do on your days off! WHAT DO YOU DO?! I know you box and you draw but... WHAT DO YOU DO?!’ so Ueda replied that recently he’d been going to smaller shops and there was one specific one in Ginza (Maru and Kame: IN GINZA?!) where an old man gave him some on the house tempura and how delicious it was. Kame asked ‘why didn’t you say no to his offer?’ and Ueda responded something like ‘what am I supposed to say? ‘*in a really rude way* I don’t need it old man! (Iranee yo Jiji!)’’ and everyone was dying. Then Ueda started saying ‘y’know if this audience was all guys--’ and Kame and Maru jumped in like ‘he’s spoken about this several times during this tour!’ and Ueda said ‘but it’s true! If this was all guys, I wouldn’t work as hard as I am! Are you telling me you’d work just as hard if our audience was all guys?!’ and neither of them specifically answered but everyone understood that they agreed with Ueda who’s all like ‘the audience is so full of women and they’re all so beautiful so I must do my best!’ xD whatta idiot. Adorable but oh god he’s funny. Towards the end of the MC, Kame picked up the towel basket and as he was leaving with Ueda he said ‘when we get backstage, tell me the name of that tempura place’ xD and then Maru stayed on stage and did his DJ Maru part on the top stage!

They also talked about the TachiMi/Standing part of the audience and Ueda was saying they should make those tickets cheaper ‘they should sell for 6500 yen!’. And then Maru was telling joking ‘even though it’s the MC... STAND!’ we’re allowed to sit during the MC, except for TachiMi.

They announced during this MC (I’m not sure about previous ones) that their TV show (Tame ni Naru Tabi +) was going to be a weekly show (thanks to hyphens’ support) from October! So naturally we all got super excited!

Just after the MC (which is shorter than we’re used to, but for good reason; coming up now!), Kame and Ueda go backstage while Nakamaru goes to the top stage, and there is his beautiful DJ set. So he does his Nakamaru DJ section with making sounds with his voice, recording them and pressing them in a certain order to make a song. 

At the end of this segment, Nakamaru addresses the boys and gives them a request. At this show we had:

Nakamaru: Could you two do an impersonation from the game, Metal Gear Solid? Ueda: *Comes on stage* Snake! SNAKE!!!! Nakamaru: That was the best! Then Kame came on stage and he was like ‘I don’t know any other lines from the game!’ so then they suggested he do something from ‘King of Fighters’ and Kame replied ‘King of Fighters? ........ KING OF FIGHTERS?!?!?!’ and everyone died laughing. Kame: What’s King of Fighters? Ueda: It was a one-on-one fighting game. Maru: Ahhh so nostalgic... Kame: I dunno. Maybe because we’re from different generations. Ueda: THAT’S IRRELEVANT! Everyone laughed again xD

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We got our usual Nakamaru TV Shopping skit but we had Ueda’s new character Yankee-kun join in! So we had the three of them being ridiculous about the bath products xD At the end of the Nakamaru TV Shopping skit, Kame walked off screen saying ‘say chuuka.... say renga...’ and I absolutely died. Because (BACKSTORY TIME!) a long time ago when they did their first Yokohama concert as KAT-TUN in 2005, Kame asked the crowd to do a call and response of ‘Say Chuuka! Say Renga!’, but at the time KT fans had no fucking clue what he was doing (Chuuka = Chinese Food and Renga = Red Brick Warehouse which are two super famous things in Yokohama), so he got super embarrassed (he talked about the embarrassment on Cartoon KAT-TUN and another Variety show MANY years ago). I spent most of this show waiting and hoping for him to do this C&R again, so I freaked and got SO HAPPY when it appeared in this segment instead xD I felt like something on my Check List had been ticked off at that moment hehe

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I love, love, love the screen visuals for Vivid Love and Marionation! They are so gorgeous! And I love the props and the dance for Marionation too! And lets talk about how epic World’s End is! So we have an opening VTR of a snake and I just guessed ‘ooh he’s gunna cut it with a sword’ and there is a slash motion across the snake who dies as he’s cut in half and then Uepi came out on stage with a sword in his hand and I freaked! I was like ‘I WAS RIGHT! I WAS RIGHT!!’. It’s such a good performance and the visuals of the ticking timer on the screen too is great! My friend said she was disappointed in the ‘One Way Love’ performance and concept and to an extent I am BUT I totally understand why he did his performance this way. We had a prerecorded VTR of him singing the song, and then in the white or black parts of that VTR, the camera that’s following Kame on stage is shown in those parts. It is visually pleasing and great concept and looks good but I, like my friend, wanted him to do something really sexy for this song or just him actually singing it -- he did sing it a little but you could tell there was no point of him having a mic during it because he was putting his all into the modern dance he did.

Kame messed up for his line for Kun and said ‘MY DREAM’ instead of ‘My Friend’, and when he realised, he stopped singing and just smiled like a child at the camera and we all squealed obviously. It was the cutest reaction!

For the encore they came around in the trolley stand things and Ueda definitely saw us! We were only a few feet away from him so makes sense xD also the woman behind us was hilarious when Kame came along xD He pretty much pushed her small son out of the way so she could get Kame’s attention instead of her son. Me and my friend were cracking up laughing.

During the final greeting from them, we started getting really loud and clapping and woo-ing when Maru was trying to speak and he was like ‘be quiet! it’s late and other’s will hear you!’, but we did it again and got even louder and he just lipsynced ‘quit it! you’re loud!’, but you could tell him and all 3 of them loved how we just got louder and louder for them! xD During Ueda’s greeting he commented that there are some children in the audience and he was like ‘please don’t copy me! (his bad language and attitude)’.

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Reports came out later that Massu had gone to watch this show too! My friend who came with me is a huge NEWS fan so was super happy to know Massu went the same time she did ^_^

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And that’s all! Hopefully my second report will be up pretty quickly after this one!

[tumblunni]

Hhhhh if i can raise $500 in a month i could design the new gym teacher character for a sequel to a nostalgic fave game of mine

Aaaaaaaaa

And i'm a little dissappointed that even though the first game literally awakened me to the whole concept of being genderqueer they still arent gonna have any actual genderqueer characters. That kinda sucks cos seriously that goddamn two sentence mention of different pronouns existing fuckin EXPLODED MY MIND and led me down a whole road of self discovery. A bit sad to know it was a big deal for me but maybe not for the writers. Oh well!

...so man i kinda wanna throw $500 bucks at them and be like PERHAPS..CONSIDER...A NONBINARY ANYONE. Like i dont even have an idea for a character yet lol! Only being able to pick the gym teacher is a bit specific so none of my past oc ideas would work. But can i just throw money at people to let them know that nonbinary people play their games and we're enough of a market to maybe add like one npc somewhere or something? Seriously just those two sentences were worth so much to someone struggling as a teen, can you imagine how many more young queer kids could feel that "oh god im not broken" moment if there were more characters like them? And i mean things have actually progressed a lot since the first game came out. We now have a lot more commonly accepted genderqueer pronouns! The first game was pretty ahead of its time for raising the subject but it talked about old 1970s scienceman pronouns and stuff. (Tho lol a part of me wishes the spivak set would become more popular just cos it was my first introduction to the topic)

I dunno man am i asking too much? Am i just projecting onto this game cos i played the first game during a dark time in my life? Ehh..

Anyway if i can't do HERE 500 DOLLA PLZ PUT ONE ENBY STUDENT IN THE BACKGROUND then i'd maybe do this gym teacher thing? I was thinking just.. A nice person. Some big bubbly happy teacher who doesnt have any form of grumpiness or avtually-kinda-manipulative-behind-a-false-facade. Just cos these poor kids deserve at least one teacher they can trust, lol! Also cos gym teachers are often the most stereotyped as grumpy bastards out of all teachers forever. Itd be nice to imagine an ideal world where gym lessons arent the worst part of every week and like.. Actually goddamn help kids stay healthy or enjoy sports, instead of being just a boiling pot of abusive army seargeant teacher and every bully getting free reign to smack you about. Just gimme a nice buff teacher whose muscles are strong for hugging and supporting everyone! Oh and maybe their character flaw could even be that they're too nice? Like sort of an ironic thing of the gym teacher being strong physically but emotionally a "wimp". They're sort of seen as dumb muscle and not taken seriously by the kids, but half of the time their funny "naive" moments are just them being too trusting of everybody. Its easy to spin some sob story and ditch class! I think that'd line up well with how gym class goes in the first game, wher eyou never see the teacher and it seems that the bully kids are making all the decisions about the lessons. Like i could see the gym teacher caving in to stuff like "we dont wanna excercise at all we're just gonna use magic to move the ball" if they were kind of a doormat. And maybe could even have a plotline where its like.. Dark consequences from this? Like you're getting bullied and the gym teacher basically becomes your enemy despite being good natured, cos they keep falling for the bully's side of things and not believing you. Or tehy try and be all "lets look at both sides of this" when there really isnt a second side, or their way of dealing with conflict in general is to completely ignore it with some overly optimistic and utterly flawed sort of "just talk about your feeeelings" hippy crap. And in the end you could call them out on how their attempts to "be nice" are shortsighted and hurting people worse than intentional cruelty ever could. And really they're not even a "nice person" but just someone terrified of conflict, who's willing to sacrifice their morals whenever anything gets too difficult. It could potentially be a really good plotline cos the player might get to trust this teacher and like their goofy comic relief personality and then they betray you when you need it the most. And its even more crushing because its not them being an intentional fucko like the other jerk characters, its just them deciding you arent important enough to take the risk of standing up for you. And maybe it could indeed have a good ending of this teacher atoning for their shittiness, but that'd also mean they decide they really arent prepared for being a teacher and shouldnt be in this position of authority over children. So they resign and that leads to the situation in the first game where gym class is just the kids being left alone to fuck around with a bag of basketballs for two hours. Alas! (But yknow if the writers liked the character and wanted to bring them back in later games i wouldbt exactly object to that, lol!)

Tho probably i wouldnt make this character nonbinary cos honestly people get Really Weird about gender when it involves sports and bodybuilding and stuff. Its already hard enough to get people to accept a buff or tomboyish female character so i bet no matter how androgynous i draw a gym teacher everyone's still gonna assume male. I mean i still get fuckin bummed out whenever i watch lets plays of Undertale and see people calling Undyne male for houuuurs after the game constantly and repeatedly tells you she's a woman. >_> So yeh if i wanted to make a genderqueer oc it would probably be in less of a loaded plot role, yknow? But gym teacher is the only option currently available on kickstarter. Someone else nabbed Librarian in under an hour after it started! No fair! XD (im excited to see that libarian if the backer was THAT DEDICATED to getting the character, i bet theyre gonna be awesome!)

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wOW okay finally writing about this,, low key emotional because this is such a personal fic :’) born out of pure thirst for blond jk + my wildest delulu dreams come true thanks to the QUEEN 👑 (it is a true honor 😭😭😭) I have such a soft spot for this JK idk why (I know why, he’s super cute) and cherries is THE perfect match for him!! this is the ultimate drunk shenanigans/college au fic and I can’t wait to see how their relationship develops further 😍 I’m looking forward to whatever miss saran cooks up for us!!

as for my regularly scheduled clown reacts:

ngl this is a pretty accurate picture of me and my friends in college. low key alcoholics is fine

GROUPIE LINE!!! here just as the maknaes, of course <3 what a trio. hotties

“a not so secret crush that is definitely bordering more on love than a simple crush” can this hana character be blamed???

“You roll your eyes and tell Hana to get it together when she starts giggling and waving at Jimin.” I may literally be hana but I’m also OC here at the same time LMAOO

“He knows you and your friends come here often, and if that was why he had suggested to Jimin and Tae that they also come here then that was his business.” IM ALREADY IN LOVE WITH HIM WTF???? HES SO CUTE???

honestly jk and oc should just make out already. their chemistry is literally fireworks I’m not exaggerating!!! I love their dynamic so much I mean that banter??? The shameless back and forth, the flirting, the way they match each other’s energy so well??? SARAN U ARE A GODDESS FOR MAKING ME FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS COUPLE ALREADY

god this is making me so nostalgic for college and also just....pre COVID times 😭😭😭 seriously you captured that bliss of youth so well (im not surprised anymore but, )

Hana the mvp I’ve said it before OC will owe her happy ending to oc’s thirst for Jimin 😂

He only gives you a small smile, almost shy, and it’s a stark contrast from the generally cocky aura that hangs around him. “You just don’t remember.” 👀👀👀 what do we have here???

“You can’t help but feel burdensome sometimes. Maybe like you’re too much. Maybe not enough.” Your OCs always have so much depth and heart to them 😭 I’m glad she has hana to set her straight but I’m also looking forward to her opening herself up more 🥺

“Jungkook thinks it’s a little romantic. Being so in love with someone that labels aren’t needed. There’s something poetic about that.” This is SO DAMN CUTE WTF!!! like not just for hana x Jimin which it IS but I love characterizations of JK as a shameless romantic 🥺 it fits him so well and AHHH this boy will be the death of me

the whole tacos interaction was 1) peak college and 2) also so telling of their relationship—they do have some sort of a friendship despite it all!! and JK is madly in love, no biggie

“And what do soccer captains do, Cherries?” “I dunno. Score touchdowns or whatever.” when I tell you I WHEEZED dammit I love her so much 😂

I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH!!! THEIR CHEMISTRY IS IMPECCABLE!!!! IMPECCABLE!!! “You wanna study law? Makes sense, because you always wanna argue with me-” “ “Gives me lots of time for other things.” The man has the audacity to wink at you and give you a big, bunny grin.” “Among many other things, Cherries.” LIKE!!!???? 😩😩😩

CHERRIES ARE HIS FAVORITE KILL ME

him inviting her to practice,,, he’s so cute my dream boy 😭😭😭

“Everything he does, he does with love.” JEON JUNGKOOOOOOOOOOOOK LOVE OF MY LIFE!!! This was so damn cute oh my GOD!

“You’re cute when you’re flustered.” typing from the grave rn because these two killed me

jungkook: no i meant u. Ur cute

cherries: shut up

HOW ABOUT I JUST CRY??????? THEY ARE SO FUCKINF CUTEREEEEER

fuck I love them so much this was so funny and cute and lighthearted but the characters also have so much depth to them and ajfmdlsjdjsosn im just SPEECHLESS RN I LOVED THIS SO DAMN MUCH!! you’re always outdoing yourself lovely saran :’)

red card - on the defensive (1)

pairing: jungkook x reader (soccer captain jjk) summary: you and jungkook run in the same circles, and yet after three years, he struggles to get your time of day. you think he’s cocky and he’s going to change your mind. word count: 5.1k warnings: cursing, alcohol/drinking (lots of it), suggestive content a/n: this story is for @cutechim​, it went down in the DM’s and came to life. this is my entry into the blond jk foray!! enjoy<3

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“What should we drink?” Hana shouts over the music to you in the crowd.

“Uh… let’s do jagerbombs,” You shout back, even though you’re both relatively close to each other at the bar. You peer behind you at the group of people you’ve congregated with this afternoon, counting a total of four. 

“Can I have… eight jagerbombs?” You request of the bartender, who raises his eyebrow at you.

“Why am I not surprised,” He says with a roll of his eyes, “You’re all gonna run me dry of my jager.”

“Wouldn’t be the first time it happened,” You mutter. And you’re right- it’s happened at least twice over this summer, when you and your friends made a weekly appearance to this bar. The bartender knows you and Hana by your faces at this point and you’ve jokingly asked why your usual order of jagerbombs or tequila shots aren’t ready upon arrival.

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