#i love gen rooms. i love cheerful carnival.

[vyrion]

someone get me out of here

[darkstar225]

Twice's 10th member is shy with IVE members

A/N: Heyyy, my apologies for taking so long to post but the semester started and I'm currently dying- :D I hope that my friend ECKEYYY that gave me this idea on Wattpad likes it! :)

The request: Introverted + Super shy Reader.  What do you think about 4th gen girl group (IVE) want to meet Reader and ask Reader to do dance challenge with them? When the girl group finally met Reader, they use "Sunbaenim" to Reader? but at the end Reader get along with all of them and told them to call Reader by her name instead of "Sunbaenim"

PS: Tysm for everyone that reads what I write, I hope I can bring a smile to your faces every time I post! I'd like to thank whoever sent me this idea 'cause I loved to write it <3

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In the heart of bustling Seoul, a city of contrasts where neon lights painted the sky and quiet alleyways whispered secrets, lived a girl named Y/N. She was an enigma, an introvert wrapped in a veil of shyness, existing in a world that thrived on boldness and brightness. At just seventeen years old, Y/N held the unique position of being the tenth youngest member of TWICE, a globally acclaimed girl group that had claimed the hearts of millions with their melodies and performances. Yet, behind the spotlights and cheers, the girl was a quiet soul.

Her days were a symphony of solitude, a peaceful dance between her thoughts and the pages of her books. Her apartment, adorned with art and the tender presence of her cat, Mochi, was her sanctuary. Interactions were short, often limited to her tight-knit group of TWICE sisters, her family, and a few cherished friends who understood her gentle ways.

On a crisp morning that carried promises of change, the maknae's serene world was shaken. The management of her agency divulged an unexpected proposition: IVE, the newborn rookie girl group, wished to meet her. IVE was riding high on their success, and they had an audacious idea... A dance challenge collaboration.

The idea of performing in front of unfamiliar faces made Y/N's heart flutter like a caged bird. She was well-versed in intricate choreography, but the thought of dancing in an intimate setting, confronting the eyes of strangers, was a nightmare she never wished to live. The days that followed were filled with restlessness, her doubts and hopes waging a battle within her.

Y/N murmured to herself, fingers twisting nervously at the hem of her cosy sweater.

Y/N - Maybe I can decline politely. 

But beneath the layers of apprehension, a small ember of curiosity glowed. The notion of stepping beyond the safety of her cocoon, of challenging her self-imposed boundaries, was strangely alluring. With a deep breath, TWICE's angel responded, expressing her tentative interest in the collaboration.

Weeks sprinted by in a blur of rehearsals and nerves. Y/N decided to keep this experience concealed from her TWICE unnies. She didn't want to burden them with her anxieties. As the day of the meeting inched closer, her stomach felt like a carnival ride of excitement and dread. Finally, the moment dawned. TWICE's maknae stood before an elegant building, its modern facade a stark contrast to her fluttering heart. The glass door whispered open, and Y/N crossed the lobby. The agency's waiting room exuded minimalist charm, and the air hummed with creative energy. She was led to a snug lounge area where the IVE members were lounging, laughing and talking.

The youngest member of IVE, Leeseo, was the first to spot Y/N. Her eyes widened, and she practically bounced over, a radiant smile illuminating her features as she extended her hand. 

Leeseo - You're Y/N from TWICE, right? It's such a pleasure to meet you! 

Y/N blushed, her hand quivering as she tentatively shook Leeseo's hand and spoke softly. 

Y/N - Y-yes, that's me. Nice to meet you too.

The rest of the IVE members gathered around, each introducing themselves with warmth and excitement. Y/N's heart warmed at their reception, but her shyness sealed her lips shut. Throughout the meeting, she was addressed as sunbaenim, a term reserved for senior artists. This only widened the gap between Y/N's introverted soul and the role of a "senior."

As the discussion moved to the collaboration, TWICE's youngest's nerves resurfaced, a tide of worries threatening to engulf her. What if she stumbled in front of these talented girls? What if her dancing fell short?

Just as the anxiety threatened to consume her, Leeseo leaned in, her eyes brimming with empathy. 

Leeseo - Don't worry too much, sunbaenim. We're all in this together. And you're an amazing dancer, we've watched your performances with TWICE!

A small smile tugged at Y/N's lips, Leeseo's words touching a chord within her. Perhaps, amidst the labyrinth of her fears, she could find the strength to stand on that dance floor.

Days melted into nights, the rehearsal studio their second home. In the company of IVE, Y/N discovered uncharted territory within herself. The members were patient and encouraging, fostering an environment where she could express herself without judgment. Gradually, Y/N's defences crumbled, and she shared fragments of her life and passions.

As the day of the dance challenge drew near, TWICE's sweetheart was taken aback by the growing friendship. Laughter flowed freely, stories intertwined, and dinners became a ritual after rehearsals. The walls that had shielded Y/N's shy soul were slowly giving way. The day of the challenge arrived, and the venue was a canvas of light, the stage aglow with anticipation. Y/N stood backstage, heart pounding to the beat of the music. Her fellow IVE members stood by her side, their encouraging words like anchors in a sea of uncertainty.

As the music surged and the lights dimmed, TWICE's maknae stepped onto the stage, her body a vessel of the music's energy. Her movements flowed, expressions intertwining with the melody. The audience was mesmerised, and as the performance reached its peak, the IVE members joined Y/N onstage, a shocking synch on their motion.

The applause that followed was thunderous, and Y/N felt tears pricking at her eyes. She had triumphed over her fears, unearthing a facet of herself she never knew existed. Backstage, as she caught her breath, the IVE members huddled around her, pride emanating from their smiles. But this time, they didn't address her as sunbaenim. Instead, they affectionately called her by her name. Leeseo enveloped her in a hug as she spoke first.

Leeseo - Y/N unnie, you were amazing!

Y/N blushed, her cheeks painted with a happiness that surpassed shyness. 

Y/N - Thank you, Leeseo. And thank you all, for believing in me.

The bond that had blossomed between Y/N and the IVE members solidified that day. With time, TWICE's child embraced her newfound self-assurance, and her introverted tendencies transformed into a unique strength. The fortress of solitude she had erected morphed into windows of connection. And so, Y/N discovered that venturing outside her comfort zone could help her get unexpected friendships. Amidst laughter and melodies, she learned that even the quietest hearts could radiate their brilliance. And that made the unnies that were all looking at her along the way have only one thought: 

We are proud of our dear maknae.

A/N: I apologise for any errors, English is not my first language. Pls, let me know if there's something wrong, ty for reading <3

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ETHAN X F!MC

A Dangerous Thing - @droppedmydamncroissant 🎭 Ethan juxtaposes a new love under the light of a past one, for the pursuit of pleasure demands a degree of selfishness.

A Letter to My Love - @potionsprefect ☁ The night before their wedding, Ethan and Victoria pen a letter to each other.[Wedding]

Dressed to Kill - @jamespotterthefirst ☁ A small moment in their Miami hotel room. [Miami; 1.10]

Elaine Greaves - @starfurylord ☁ Ethan meets Kate's ex, which leads to talking about one's romantic alliances and Ethan's scandalous past. [Ex Came Back]

Evidence - @genevievemd ☁ Though he’s asked her not to mention it, Genevieve insists on celebrating his 39th birthday -- even if it’s just for a moment.  [Birthday]

Gentle Touch - @potionsprefect ☁ A simple touch makes her feel more at ease. [Illness/Injury]

Height Differences - @utterlyinevitable ☁🎄 Ethan Ramsey should have known better than to pick a petty fight with his heavily pregnant wife. [Fighting; Christmas; Pregnancy]

His and Hers - @jerzwriter ☁ Unbeknownst to Ethan, or anyone else, Casey had a short stint as a model when she was a senior at NYU.

In Plain Sight - @queenbirbs 📚🛸 [extended: wip]

Chapter 13

Kismet - @jerzwriter 📚☁ [extended: wip] CH: The last time that Casey and Ethan met before they “meet” for the “first” time.

Part 6

Little Sister - @a-crepusculo ☁ The Ramseys welcome their newest addition. [Family Dynamics]

Love and Care - @jerzwriter ☁ Reader ask: “I saw you looking at it last time we were in the store together, so I got it for you.”

Morning Sickness - @jamespotterthefirst ☁ She has to stay home from work. Doctor’s orders. [Pregnancy]

Nothing in the Drawers - @potionsprefect ☁ The one thing she needs she can’t find.

Now and Always - @lsvdw-blog 🎭Ⓜ Ethan and Serena come to terms with losing someone dear to them. Will their relationship survive? [TW: Minor character death] [Someone Died]

Out in the World - @potionsprefect ☁ They head back to the party as a couple

Role Reversal - @potionsprefect ☁ It’s usually him taking care of her, now it’s the other way round. [Illness/Injury]

Tethered - @gryffindordaughterofathena 🦚 Trembling hands and wordless conversations. [2.11]

The Comfort of You - @josiesopenheart ☁ Ethan helps calms Josie’s nerves.

The Cost of Living - @starfurylord ☁ Ethan and Kate have hard jobs. The best thing they can do is unwind and let in each other on some secrets and wishes. [TW: Drugs]

The Interview - @starfurylord 🛸 In an alternative timeline, Kate applies for the newest diagnostics team position after completing her residency at Mass Kenmore.

The Prize - @liaromancewriter ☁ When visiting a carnival, Cassie shows Ethan exactly how competitive she can get.

The Ramseys and their Fur Babies - @genevievemd ☁📷 Ethan and Gen with their kids and dogs.

Unattractive - @potionsprefect ☁ Victoria is sick and Ethan looks after her. [Illness/Injury]

What the Heart Wants - @potionsprefect ☁ What she wants is what she’s not allowed. [Illness/Injury]

Working Late - @storyofmychoices ☁ Ellie finds Ethan in his office working late.

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Cure for a Bad Day - @liaromancewriter  ☁ When Max has a bad day, Sienna knows just what to do to cheer him up.

Welcome to the Family - @liaromancewriter ☁📷 📱 Max and Sienna add a new member to their family and it has Cassie buzzing.

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Morning Person - @jerzwriter ☁ As a new couple, Tobias & Casey wake up together, ready to greet the world in a brand new way.

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[glenngaylord]

GABBY GABBY HEY - My Review of TOY STORY 4 (4 Stars)

[Excerpted from https://thequeerreview.com/ ]

Sometimes a film concept reeks of studio development people sitting around a room using such industry lingo as “What are the stakes?” or “We really need to lean into the diversity aspects of this story”.  With Toy Story 4, directed by Josh Cooley, who co-wrote Inside Out, you can almost hear the suits asking, “This time, could the toys have more agency?”  Well, despite my having an instinct for how the sausage was made, this film is as wonderful and joyous as its predecessors, and it’s also hauntingly scary at times.  

When we meet up with Woody (national treasure Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen) and company, little Bonnie keeps all the toys in her room as she prepares for her first day at school.  Woody hardly gets played with anymore, but he only wishes to please his owner, who one day comes home from class with a spork she rigged with pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks and eyeballs to form a toy named Forky (Veep’s Tony Hale).  Forky, however, thinks he’s trash and quicker than you can say existential crisis, he constantly hurls himself into garbage pales.  Bonnie’s parents decide to take everyone on a road trip, which goes haywire when Forky jumps out the RV window to say, “Goodbye cruel world!”  Forky makes a great nihilistic anarchist!

Sidetracked, Woody chases Forky down in an antique shop, which leads to a series of adventures for our toys and causes them to question their place in the world.  In the past, they lived for their children, but after three films, it’s time to change things up and give the toys the aforementioned “agency”.  In the store, Woody reunites with Bo Peep (Annie Potts), who leaves the nest at the beginning of the film.  It’s here they encounter some of the best creations I’ve seen in this franchise with Gabby Gabby (eerily and perfectly voiced by Christina Hendricks) leading the pack.  She’s an old fashioned classic doll straight out of the 1950s, and her good cheer and kind round eyes belie something altogether sinister.  She’s pushed around in her baby carriage by a series of ventriloquist dummies whose frightening stare and noteworthy shuffle will give me nightmares for years to come.  Let’s just say that Annabelle has nothing on this group.  Gabby Gabby wants something from Woody, and it becomes increasingly clear that she always gets her way.  

I won’t spoil the rest of the story, because it’s so much fun to get caught up in and enjoy. I loved the new characters such as a Canadian daredevil named Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves), as well as Bunny and Ducky (Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key), a hilarious pair of carnival toys who can’t wait to escape their fate of hanging on a game board wall.  I also loved Giggle McDimples (Ally Maki), who has a loud voice for such a tiny package.  Some of the returning characters, unfortunately, get a little lost in the shuffle, such as Joan Cusack’s beloved Jessie.  Bo Peep seems to dominate in the strong woman department here, and it’s a shame, because, like Tom Hanks, I consider Cusack to be a national treasure too!  Buzz doesn't truly emerge until about the halfway point, but his inner voices storyline proves delightful and on theme with this story's desire to give the toys a bigger role in their own fates.

Unlike the epic Toy Story 3, this installment harkens back to the first one with its much simpler structure and humble narrative.  It gets frenetic in the last act, which seems par for the course for any studio film, but it retains its heart and purity throughout.  I’ll admit to crying towards the end, which I’ve done with the other three, because these films act as Boomer/Gen X Nostalgia Generators.  We watch these films with fond memories of toys with pull string voice boxes and revel in their simple beauty.  The shine on the porcelain doll faces alone gave me the feels. The animation here thrills. I’ve always loved the concept of toys coming to life when their owners aren’t present and falling limp when they are.  The original trilogy felt like a complete set, exploring a world of subservient toys.  Toy Story 4, thankfully, doesn’t phone it in and actually has a reason to exist.  Many of the toys make tough choices and play a role in choosing their own adventures.  If it ended here, it would complete an immensely satisfying series, but I’d be kidding myself if I said I wouldn’t want to see Gabby Gabby and her dummies in a children’s horror spinoff!  

[ajokeformur-ray]

Hi, can I request headcannons for Arthur? I thought maybe his s/o is a standup comedian, but her jokes are kinda self deprecating and he confronts her about it? I totally understand if It's not something you wanna write, but I had this idea in my mind for a very long time. My self esteem is nonexistent and I'm bad at comforting myself, so I thought I'd request something... Thank you so much (even if you decide to not write it ^^)

I can really relate to this - if Arthur heard the way I talk to myself he would be angry, for sure. So I hope you’ll find some comfort in this. I know I did.

Warnings for self-deprecation, smoking. Swearing.

Word count: 939.

The two of you had met at Pogo’s one night; you were on after Arthur was, and you had cheered for him. You had found his jokes funny.

He had been about to leave after his performance, but he had seen you get out of your seat and come towards the stage, so he had waited for you; the kind stranger.

In you had he found someone with the same dark sense of humour; his, rooted in astute observations and sarcasm and yours rooted in self-deprecation.

As you had left Pogo’s, you had found Arthur on the stairs and the two of you had gotten to talking.

And so it was that, over weeks and months did the two of you form a close friendship which passed unnoticed into a relationship, so profound was the bond between you that nothing needed to be said.

One night were the two of you sat on the living room sofa.

Arthur had his battered brown journal open on his bouncing knees. 

Periodically did he chuckle to himself, take a long, deep drag on his cigarette and switch hands while he wrote something down.

Oh, how beautiful he was.

“Hey, Y/N?”

You hummed to acknowledge that your love had spoken.

“How’s this?” You looked up to see Arthur swallow thickly in nervousness and then he took a deep breath, “What did the kid with no hands get for his birthday?”

Oh, this was gonna be bad. “I don’t know, what?”

Arthur shrugged, already grinning at his punchline. “No idea, he still hasn’t figured out how to open it yet.”

Your jaw dropped and you burst into laughter.

Arthur was practically glowing, so happy was he with your reaction to his joke.

“That was really good, Arthur,” You were still grinning and Arthur ducked his head down, a light pink blush dusted across his cheeks.

“Thank you. You’re always really kind to me, Y/N.”

“You’re welcome.” 

You went back to your own jokes but then Arthur shuffled closer towards you on the sofa and you knew what he wanted.

“Okay, how’s this?” You looked for a really good joke to tell him and found a little tidbit you’d scribbled late last night -

“To all the people who said I would ruin my life - congrats, you were right.”

Arthur didn’t respond. You kept your eyes fixed on your notebook.

“Or, ooh, here’s another one - my parents said I should always be myself. I don’t think they meant to be the family disappointment but, hey, someone’s gotta do it.”

Silence.

Stone. Cold. Silence.

You looked up to see that Arthur’s brows were heavily creased, his green eyes darkened and his jaw muscles ticking in his anger.

“Do you ever really hear yourself, Y/N?”

His voice was low, soft… dangerous.

Oh shit oh shit oh shi - 

Your forehead was growing hot, and you felt immense regret and a sense that you needed to run and hide.

“Yeah,” You shrugged, “It’s all true, though, and I - “

A deep inhale, and a shaky exhale.

You refused to look Arthur. You could feel his gaze on you.

“Do you really believe that?”

You shrugged. “Well, yeah, I mean - it’s obvious, I’m not even any go - “

Arthur snapped.

“W-why would you - why would you even say those things, Y/N?”

“It’s just a joke, Arthur.” You were starting to get defensive now. It was irrational, but it had just been a joke.

But it hadn’t and you both knew it.

It’s just that Arthur was calling you out on it, now.

“It’s not, Y/N. Do you think I don’t see the look on your face when you’re working on your material? Do you think I don’t notice the way you look at yourself, the way you treat yourself?”

Arthur sighed and then scooted towards you so that he could take both of your hands in his, his thumbs rubbing soothingly along the backs of your hands.

His journal fell to the floor, unnoticed.

Just like Arthur.

“I… I love you, Y/N. It hurts to hear you say those - those lies. I don’t need you to apologise. I just need you to realise the way that you speak about yourself isn’t okay.”

You didn’t say anything. What was there to say?

Arthur wasn’t finished, however.

“Can you - I know it’s for your show, but can you - try - to find something else to joke about? You’re not a joke, Y/N, you’re not some - some punchline to be laughed at. You’re you and you’re beautiful and I can’t - won’t listen to you when you’re talking like this. You deserve better.”

You nodded, feeling ashamed. “I’m sorry, Arthur.”

“Oh, honey, no,” Arthur cooed in sympathy and let go of your hands, instead wrapping his arms around you. “It’s okay. You just gotta’ learn to joke about something else. Like me.”

“You’re not a joke, Arthur, how can you - “ Ohhhhh... nicely done, Arthur. “Point taken.”

Arthur giggled and pressed a tender kiss to your forehead, his lips lingering against your skin.

Silence fell for another few moments, Arthur rocking you slightly, and then - 

“What’s yellow and can’t swim?”

“I don’t know, what?”

“A bus full of people.”

You gasped and laughed in slight shock, not knowing how else to react. “Arthur!”

A chuckle was your only response, and as Arthur hummed and pressed another kiss to your temple, you turned your head so that you could capture his lips with your own, and you felt a much neglected part of you click back into place, click back home.

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