#i should start a live watch tweet thread

[darlingboydiaz]

I honestly thought people were making it up for buddie on 9-1-1, but no, that show is insanely queer from the beginning. so overall, yeah, that blond pretty boy firefighter needs to be dicked down by his best friend, end of discussion.

[thebroccolination]

KRIST, FAME, AND WHY "YOU SIGNED UP FOR THIS" DOESN'T EXONERATE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE PUBLIC

Lindsay Ellis uploaded this video to YouTube framed around the myth that Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles. It's phenomenal, as her work often is. I'll probably watch the whole thing multiple times in the near future.

Toward the end of the video, Lindsay expands on the morbid paradox of fame. Many of us see it as this aspirational thing that famous people should be grateful to have, and yet we're also aware that the circumstances of being famous often lead to tragic ends for celebrities, either by violence or by their own self-destruction.

Over the past week, I made this thread to explain the events that led to Krist putting his foot down after months of trying to placate the segment of KristSingto fans who are vocally opposed to Krist sharing any part of his continued close friendship with Gawin, Krist's costar from his 2023 BL series "Be My Favorite."

The day he started his break from social media, Krist addressed his fans about what he'd been dealing with very clearly and characteristically sincerely. He expressed his confusion, explained the impossible situation this unreasonable portion of his fanbase had put him in, and ultimately just gave the vibe of a very tired teacher. Coupled with the reality that Krist's fanbase is on average much older than he is, it's a little absurd that a twenty-eight-year-old had to tell a fair number of middle-aged, tax-paying adults that he's allowed to have friends.

Krist concluded his TikTok Live only to be tagged in even more abuse and complaints on Twitter. I saw some of it and didn't bother saving receipts, but you can imagine it. You're hurting your comeback with Singto by posting Gawin's photos, Krist. This comeback isn't going well, Krist, and it's your fault. You're supposed to be loyal to Singto, Krist. You abandoned Singto at the outing, Krist. If you hate it here so much then just go back to Gawin, then. Don't you feel guilty for ruining Gawin's career, too? He must be good in bed for you to come to his defense like this.

Oh, wait, I did save that one.

Presumably sensing that he had done everything he possibly could, Krist addressed fans one last time on his Instagram Broadcast channel.

Let no one misinterpret this: Krist left social media mainly and specifically because some Peraya were viscerally outraged that Krist didn't cast Gawin aside and spend 100% of his time adhered to Singto. Even though Krist is the one who wanted the comeback, a significant number of Peraya seem to think he's not trying hard enough.

"Not trying hard enough" even though he was so obsessed with getting Peraya Party right that he made himself sick.

This tweet was when he admitted himself for an IV to keep himself healthy, and then he ended up getting admitted anyway for almost a week. During which time he continued working on the concert from his iPad, messaging staff and Singto who continued with rehearsals.

"Not trying hard enough" isn't something Krist knows how to do. He's a self-professed perfectionist who identified so strongly with the character of Anxiety in "Inside Out 2" that he posted about her on his Facebook seven different times. He has an Anxiety plush. He even tweeted about the anxiety attack scene when he visited Beijing for work.

Krist has spoken about his experiences with depression. He moved back home in 2022 to be with his parents at the suggestion of his psychiatrist, the fourth he'd seen.

It's widely known that Krist hates being alone. Singto recently said it's something that concerns him, that Krist has someone or other at his house most of the time because he doesn't want to be on his own. Just last year Krist said his favorite thing about his four cats is that they're with him always, whereas people eventually have to go their own homes.

Rather than close himself off, however, Krist has remained a phenomenally open and affectionate person. He treats his fans like friends. (The ones who aren't trying to control his life.) He took the time to address fans twice in text and in video.

And yet, as soon as Krist stepped away from the helm of his own narrative, some fans were horrified by the idea that Krist might be mad at them. Others began to twist his words and intentions to suit a more palatable narrative. This wasn't about Gawin, no. He did it for Singto.

And while, yes, Krist did also make it clear that he won't tolerate people trash-talking one of his favorite people, this was about Krist.

It wasn't only about Singto or Gawin. This was Krist facing down fans who have relentlessly demanded more than he could have or even should have ever reasonably done for them.

It's a special kind of horrifying to me that fans are misrepresenting Krist when Krist clearly said as recently as last October that what hurts him most is being misrepresented.

I spoke with some Peraya in DMs about this whole mess.

A few said they have no issue with Gawin, they're only envious of the closeness he has with Krist. They're both musicians and singers, and they're both people-shaped emotions who went through hell together during all the "lol who asked for this pairing" and "ew I'm not watching the homophobe show" nonsense.

Others said Krist is behaving childishly and that he should just ignore everyone.

After all, all of this comes with the territory of being famous. It's normal. He shouldn't overreact. He's taken the wife role. He should be cute and soft and sweet at all times.

When I posted my thread about this, some were underwhelmed by the informational tone and had hoped it would be more of a call-out. Thing is, I'd already criticized that portion of the Peraya fandom:

It's frankly beyond my comprehension how Krist has made it this far as stable and as kind as he is. He was bashed by homophobes for starring in SOTUS in 2016, then stalked at his university by fans who disapproved of him having a girlfriend since he belonged to Singto, harassed about his sexuality until he snapped, vilified by international fans who showed up late to the party in 2020 and made everything a thousand times worse by not bothering to fact-check anything they were seeing, tormented off social media, put through four different psychiatrists, lost the partner he'd been through all of this with, found a new one, lost him, and gained his original partner back only for fans to demand more from him.

And the thing is, I don't want to say all of this on Twitter because it's becoming more and more of a noxious hellscape with every passing day, and the people who need to embrace this aren't going to read it. But I did want to say it somewhere.

Watching Lindsay's video, I felt such a bolt of fear. He's just been pushed so far, and fame isn't what destroys: it's people.

So I'm so proud of him for handling this with composure and strength. I'm proud of him for keeping the promise he made to Gawin in October last year at his solo concert, that nothing would change between them.

One of my Gawin fan friends said it best: Krist was the first person to see Gawin's potential and then show the world. He featured Gawin in his own solo concert, he mentored him through promotion, he opened up to Gawin about his life and his thoughts. He would never cast Gawin aside, and the fact that people are still trying to hand-wave how important Gawin is to him is maddening.

He loves Singto. He also loves Gawin. One doesn't cheapen the other. He loves a lot of people. That's who Krist is.

The idea that Krist should be cute and demure and ignore constant harassment he can't avoid because he needs to use social media for work is so unimaginably cruel I can't fathom how it could even transform from an idea to a real belief. Whether you like it or not, he's standing up for himself now.

Being famous eases some things and barbs others. You'll get free stuff and fans who admire you, but you may also get a deterioration of your mental health and fans who feel entitled to your body, soul, and mind.

You tell 'em, sweetie.

[accirax]

(Reminder that you need to click the link that's beneath the screenshot.)

Already read the translation. Hopefully you can too because it's hilarious!

agreed, the three of them (and Jake as well) should be friends. although, i don't know if Drew really has any bullshit for Dan to put up with? he seems like a pretty chill guy. really, it's more Dan and Drew having to try to talk Tom out of whatever trouble he's gotten into now, yet Tom still following his heart and making mistakes constantly.

i'm also going to combine some more of the tweet asks below the cut!

This is actually pretty cute ngl. (saying as someone who doesn't particularly care for aleriya either way (though I can see the appeal/aesthetic))

ooh, they look good in red! maybe it should've been the red team instead of the yellow team. well, then we'd have to put Grett and Yul in red as well. maybe not.

this artist did a great job of capturing all of the detail in the costumes, and i like the kinda painterly brush they used. even though i don't ship aleriya either, they totally look like they'd be the romantic leads of a kids' picture book.

Aww~ :)

stop staring at me with them big ol' eyes-- (/j)

very cute! i like the color palette. sucks that this baby already has to wear glasses, though. imagine your eyesight being so terrible that you have to wear glasses before you can even read.

(or, maybe they're Cheryll's glasses. that would be precious.)

Love the redraw! :)

Aiden looks so over it, lol. as if you wouldn't be doing the exact same thing if James was out there doing cartwheels.

the artist did a good job reinterpreting the pose with the more realistic proportions of their style. maybe i should try doing some Disventure Camp pose redraws someday; that could be fun. although, i'd wager that the next DC thing that i draw will probably relate to season 4, though i can't say that for sure.

AWWWW!!!! X3 Really hoping that we get, at the very least a 5 second cameo of Drew in TomJake, since they all live in Canada. I need it. I miss my baby. He was gone too soon. ;-; I won't lie, I personally do not care for Jake and Tom getting a spinoff story, AT ALL. But I might end up watching it anyway, for the extra lore. And who knows, if it gets enough views and does well enough in the community, it *might* convince Jared and Robert to make spinoffs for other characters. Like Drew. Or Ashley. Or Alec (which is what I'm hoping most for if you could n't already tell).

the pose sort of reminds me of a polaroid that they would show in the credits of the movie to reassure that everyone is having a great time after the plot is over. actually, i guess it has similar vibes to the canon instagram post of Ellie and Tess graduating, so maybe that's where i got that idea, lol.

including Drew as a background gag would honestly be a brilliant idea. like, Jake runs off somewhere, and in the background, there's just Drew holding up a piece of paper that says "???". i have no clue where in Canada Drew and Tom/Jake/Miriam live-- the country is quite large, so it could be an equivalent distance to Ashley living in Texas and Ellie/Tess living in New York-- but given that Ellie will be in the series, someone is travelling somewhere! so it's definitely possible.

i'm pretty neutral on the TomJake series, mostly because i don't know what it's going to be about. in a best case scenario, it's a delayed wrap-up to All Stars, further exploring some of the plot threads that weren't fully developed leading up to and after Riya's win. in a worst case scenario, it's a disjointed collection of mildly confusing fanservice, a la "Derek and Trevor accidentally kiss in the shower." (i actually liked that episode as a whole, but man was that moment in particular cringe.) i'm definitely going to watch it just so that i know what's up, but i do feel like they probably could have better used this time elsewhere (more staff stories, official season epilogue, start s4 faster).

but, Sapphire, if they did an Ashley, Drew, or Alec spinoff, how would they lure people in by putting gay people in the thumbnail??? (/s) mostly kidding, but i'm sure it is true that they were willing to bank on a TomJake series because they knew that those popular characters would get the clicks. if we got another spinoff, it'd probably be jaiden-centric, lmao.

of course, Ashley and especially Alec are also pretty popular, so it's not outside of the realm of possibility! an Alec series would definitely good, to clarify his relationship with Fiore, learn a bit more about his family, and perhaps touch on what Riya's up to after the show. an Ashley show i fear would lack any conflict (because she slays at life so hard), but maybe we could learn a bit about her family too.

They would make a neat duo ngl. If Dan ever made it to All-Stars that is. 😅 I actually remember one Ally greeting where she said she thought Dan was a pretty cool/nice guy and how unfair it was the way Gabby cheated him in eliminations, or something along those lines. I can try to find it later.

oh, these two could definitely make a nerd alliance. throw in Alec and Lake and you'll have brains that brawn and beauty should definitely watch out for.

are Ally, Dan, and Alec the only (main) characters thus far to wear glasses? oh, i guess there's Oliver too. typecast fr.

Enjoy this random art of Lill leading a family of ducks

so cute!!!!! i love the ducks' little hats and scarves. the purple team deserved an animal mascot. i bet Ashley would love to pet these little guys as well :)

Add Dan, Drew & Tess and this book club is complete! 😁

"Disventure HS" intrigues me. is this an AU where they're all students in high school? even if Alec was a senior and Fiore was a freshman, having them that close in age would be cursed as hell. hopefully Alec is just the literal librarian. maybe it's "bring your niece figure to work day".

Ellie/Alec/Fiore/Lake/Dan/Drew/Tess would be a really interesting tribe to start with. i wonder who would get voted out first?

Hm. Interesting chart. The one I agree most with is that I definitely would've liked to see an interaction between Tess and Alec. Those two do have quite a few things in common (quiet, reserved/introverted, level headed, fairly intelligent, logical, lone wolves who like to read, etc.) so I'm sure they would've clicked well with each other. Eh, who knows? Maybe there was some interaction at the motel off camera. Though that is mostly just wishful thinking, since I highly doubt either of them would ever see a reason to talk to the other with how little they know about each other, being from separate seasons and all.

yeah, and Alec was in the Motel for a pretty short amount of time (2 episodes, maybe like 5 days). canonically, he probably spent a lot of that time talking to Fiore and then Connor. Perhaps Ellie and Grett as well.

god knows Alec could use a therapist friend, though. maybe if people started following each other online, they could wind up chatting with each other then! or, i'm sure Alec would read Lake's book someday, so he could at least see her illustrations then.

i think you can probably guess which box i agree with most. (it's the favorite friendship one)

thanks for sharing all of these tweets with me!

[keithisbae1]

Fanfiction Masterlist

I decided to make a master list of all my stories you can find on Ao3. They are put in alphabetical order. Not all my snippets/threads are on Ao3, but I am trying to post as much as I can. If you would like to read them, you can go to my twitter profile and type #sssnippetaday or look at my pinned tweet which should have everything.

I hope you enjoy reading.

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A Different Kind of Threesome (Complete, Rating M)

Sasuke and Sakura have a different kind of threesome and try something different with a clone. [Sakura/Sasuke/Male Sakura]

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A Different Time (Complete, Rating G)

“There are worlds, universes out there each living their own lives. One thing they have in common is the same people, they may live different lives but anyone who you know there will also be with you somewhere else.”

“So, I should have my own Sasuke?”

“Ah, you should.” [SasuSaku]

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A Heart to Heart (Complete, Rating G)

Out of all people Kizashi would never expect Fugaku to come to him for advice. [Kizashi & Fugaku]

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Baby Sarada's Adventure (Ongoing, Rating G)

Little Sarada gets transported back to the past and meets all the different versions of her Papa from Genin Sasuke to Shippuden Sasuke and even angsty/revenge Shippuden Sasuke.

Can she find her way home to her parents? [Sarada & Sasuke]

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Confession (Complete, Rating G)

With encouragement from his two teammates, Sakura decides to confess his feelings to Sasuke. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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Day Off (Complete, Rating M)

Sakura just wants to spend a lazy morning in bed but with Naruto on the phone, Sakura has to make sure he doesn't hear things he shouldn't. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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Exes and Crushes (Complete, Rating G)

How long have they have been doing this? Five minutes?

Not that he had any complaints; Sasuke was very skilled with his tongue. Electing a moan out of him every now and then. However, it didn't help how his legs were straddling him and he could feel the Uchiha smirking every time. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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Hidari & Misaki (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)

Hidari struggles with the emotions of Uchiha Sasuke, as such he comes up with a plan that maybe having his own family will help him understand Sasuke better. [Juubi Sasuke/Juubi Sakura]

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His Family (Complete, Rating G)

“Normal couples don’t act like this.” He was referring to the ones on the TV. Ah-ha, so he was paying attention to the shows she watched, even when he tried to deny it.

“Since when has that bothered you, and besides they aren’t even ninjas. It’s hardly a fair comparison.”

“It doesn’t… not always.” But it did get to him occasionally.

It was rare for Sasuke to be back home, at least now he'll be able to spend some time with his family. [SasuSaku]

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I Like You (Complete, Rating G)

Sakura starts to feel jealous and wonders if there's something more going on between Satsuki and Naruto. Based on Pumpkinfriend's Fem SasuSaku comic [Fem SasuSaku]

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Idol AU (Ongoing, Rating G)

Sakura and Satsuki are from different J-pop Girl Groups. Satsuki has been Sakura's fan from Day 1 and has developed a heavy crush on her. Now with their new group being the latest hit, Tsunade and Orochimaru have an idea to join the two together. Satsuki and Sakura develop a bond but can Satsuki confess her love to her?

Oh yeah and Karin is also their biggest shipper because why not?

Idol AU suggested by Mikan. Hope I did it justice [Fem SasuSaku]

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Insecurity (Complete, Rating G)

“Your so dense. You think your Sasuke’s friend well when has he asked about you? It’s only been Naruto and him, the only reason he puts up with you is that Naruto considers you a friend.”

Sakura hadn’t thought about her friendship being one sided but maybe they had a point. [SasuSaku]

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Is It Real? (Complete, Rating G)

Everywhere he goes people ask him about his hair colour. Sasuke decided to do something about it. Short and PURE CRACK!

[Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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Matchmaker (Complete, Rating G)

Karin decides to play matchmaker with Sasuke, especially since he's not going to make any effort himself. It's up to her to do so.

[Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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A Mermaid and Her Princess (Ongoing, Rating G)

Being a Princess wasn't all that that's it cracked up to be. On top of that being an Uchiha, a family that goes around hunting for mermaids/mermen. Life really couldn't get any better.

[Fem SasuSaku]

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The Mershark & Mermaid (Ongoing, Rating T)

The more they pushed each other away the more they gravitated toward each other.

They both knew it would end horrible but fate is a funny thing.

(First chapter in SasuSaku Month Day 1: Connected Feelings)

[SasuSaku]

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Nerd Sasuke X Jock Sakura (Complete, Rating G)

How do you ask your crush out? By being complete dorks about it. See what Naruto and Ino have to put up with? [Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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The Pink Hokage (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)

Being Hokage was stressful work but someone had to do it. At least Sasuke took care of her.

Hokage Sakura/Anbu Sasuke [SasuSaku]

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Room 304 (Ongoing, Rating M)

It all started by accident of going to the wrong room. Sakura's client was in room 204 yet she had walked in at 304. It really was a mistake. So when she went in only to see four maybe six of the same man fucking different women at the same time her eyes widen and all she could focus on was the way he moved his body against her colleagues. [SasuSaku]

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Sasuke's Fanboy (Ongoing, Rating G)

Sakura likes Ino, but Ino likes Sasuke and Sasuke likes Sakura? Well, at least Naruto thinks so. [Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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SasuSaku Month 2021 (Complete, Rating M)

My first go at SasuSaku Month. Let's do this! [SasuSaku]

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SasuSaku Month 2022 (Ongoing??? Rating G)

My collection of stories for SasuSaku Month 2022

Hope you enjoy! [SasuSaku]

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SasuSaku Snippets (Drabble/One Shot Collection)

Random snippets and AU ideas that I just need to write down.

[SasuSaku]

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SS Angst Day (Complete, Rating M)

For #SSAngstDay. Sasuke is the gang leader and has Sakura as his right-hand man. Sakura does everything as she's told and does her job well, it just annoyed her how he constantly flirts with other women in front of her but won't even look at her. [SasuSaku]

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Training (Complete, Rating M)

Sasuke asks Sakura to come over for some 'training' ;) Short drabble [Male Sakura/Sasuke]

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Welcome Home (Complete, Rating E)

Sakura didn't expect to get a welcome home present despite Sasuke being the one who was returning home.

Base on Shannaromie's M/M SasuSaku art on Twitter.

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Other Ships:

Dinner for Four (Complete, Rating M)

With Mebuki determined to play matchmaker for her daughter, Sakura finds herself turning to her friend Angel for help. As in 'hey I need you to pretend to be a guy so my mother thinks I have a boyfriend.'

After all, that was what friends were for right? [Itachi/OC, SasuSaku]

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The Three of Them (Complete, Rating M)

They were in love with each other, it was as simple as that.

College AU (NaruSakuSasu)

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The Three of Us (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)

Snippets and prompts for my NaruSakuSasu college AU on Twitter.

(NaruSakuSasu)

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Klance Prompts (Drabble/One Shot Collection, Rating G)

A list of prompts I've found on Tumblr (unless I think of one myself) to practice writing for these two. (Klance)

[xoxomyseriesxoxo]

Hello!

Sorry to bother you, but you seem to be one of the more informed Bleach fans.

So the thing is, since Bleach started airing its new anime, my Twitter feed has over-filled with it (apparently liking any manga/anime equals liking Bleach...) and the waves of IH fans, who seem to enjoy it exclusively through bashing IR. I know my first mistake is having Twitter, but the author of the absolutely fantastic manga I'm into is posting extra material there, so I'm ready to bear the consequences XD

Tbh, I've never finished reading Bleach. I think I made it to Fullbringer arc, but at that point, I've finally realized that I can just stop reading something that doesn't bring me enjoyment and for a while at that.

I did ship IR back then (for obvious reasons), but I have long since moved past Bleach to better pastures, though I still love the aesthetic. (And Rukia, I probably would've finished Bleach if it was at least 30% more Rukia, no Ichigo necessary XD)

But recently, I've encountered the post that discussed how Kubo himself didn't like the old anime. I remember fandom drama being large enough that it affected him, though I know no specifics as I've always inhabited the peripheral areas of the fandom.

So my question is, is there like a big meta post, following the evolution of Kubo's relationship with his work or just some large meta posts analyzing the events of those times? I definitely don't want to dive deep back into the fandom, but I've always enjoyed reading those large meta analyses.

Again, only if that won't be too bothersome for you, you just have a lot of interesting posts yourself, so I thought you may know something like this or point me in the right direction.

Have a good day!

Hi! To be honest, I kind of feel like a dinosaur in the fandom now... I've started reading it as a kid and joined the fandom when I was in middle school and now I'm in college with a part job but to sum it up, I've seen most of the drama of the fandom back then.

The thing is that the dudebros on Twitter who act like they know everything about B/each and what was going on in the fandom back then fail to realize the fandom was made of an overwhelming majority of IR shippers (and for good reasons) or just neutrals (who didn't really ship anything in particular) but understood IR's appeal.

But lmao, not the dudebros and these stans making up things to feed their own lies AGAIN when no, K/ubo didn’t have issues with the old anime, it was rather the “fan” who asked the question who was bitter about it from the way they asked their question. He supervied it and he even gave positive feedback, including this tweet about ep.342 (which features filler stuff made by the studio) where he said the episode was really pretty (he had also reacted to IR trending worldwide on Twitter back then while the anime episode aired).

K/ubo also said he was very involved in the anime in an interview in 2006, including the filler arcs for example with the character designs of the zanpakutos later on in the anime etc.

K/ubo also did say concerning that the H/ellverse and D/iamond D/ust R/ebellion movies aren’t canon (which makes sense, especially for H/ellverse after that recent Hell oneshot) but rather parallels to the canon story while Fade To Black IS canon (and the movie was promoted as “a movie you should go watch with your S/O" lol) so it tells you how invested he was in the old animated series. There is a whole thread on Twitter showing you K/ubo appreciated the anime, musical and live action adaptations and how IR were portrayed there if you want to check it.

Also, the “omg IR shippers are bullies and bad people!!!!” narrative which includes these accusations about IR shippers making K/ubo run off Twitter is FALSE (it happened 6-7 years ago), he deleted his account because a p*rnstar was impersonating as him there. SJ and him took legal action and that led to him deleting his account (he made a new account a while after), so it was not due to IR shippers and fandom drama as those people claim.

Apart from that, the manga’s cancellation official announcement from SJ was sudden which explains how rushed the ending was (well, at least the part where it doesn’t answer to many questions aka if U/rahara, G/rimmjow, N/el, Y/oruichi, I/sshin, R/yuuken were alive and some of the plot holes) but the fact it was that bad was K/ubo being petty and doing that out of spite because SJ cancelled the manga. I don’t know if you can say it’s a meta about his “relationship with his work” exactly but rather how his writing went downhill because he lost the plot of his own story: you can read this pretty interesting post (this blog has pretty interesting B/each analysis posts, including this one about the ending itself). B/each’s sales started to dip at one point but it got really bad at L/ost A/gent arc and and it got worse and worse after that because he spent way too long on unimportant plots and fights (the way we all way too many chapters with that fight of his favorite character against a giant hand...) while dropping important subplots/character arcs that had pontential such as K/arin becoming a s/hinigami (which was heavily hinted in the L/ost A/gent arc and which probably explains the fillers focused on her and H/itsugaya) or R/angiku having a piece of the S/OUL K/ING in her soul before A/izen stole it from her. He also got physically sick and tired of writing this story but SJ had initially given him enough time to end the story and what did he do? Waste time until SJ had had enough and made the cancellation announcement. You have a summary of that whole mess in this post.

The post-ending claims (from K/ubo himself and from those stans) about K/ubo planning the manga’s ending since the start (chapter 1) are also false.

K/ubo is great at characters design btw (though he had the same face syndrom at one point in TYBW when drawing his characters... especially when he was drawing T/oshiro in his bankai form) but as for the storytelling, he was only good if you stop at SS, after that... Well, we know how it went. It doesn't mean we didn't get good things from the following after that tho, it just means that things gradually started to go wrong until it became too much.

I hope this answer helps you to understand the situation better. Have a good day as well!

[shiegra]

The assertion that 'if you take away 40 pages the story should be incomprehensible' is the exact same mentality that says watching a CinemaSins video or a wikipedia summary is the same as watching the movie itself, just presented backwards. It's such astonishingly bad writing advice I'm a little bit flabbergasted, and this is ABSOLUTELY NOT WHAT PACING IS I'M CRY-LAUGHING. For most of the thread she's talking about structure (when she's not just talking about general craftsmanship/prose), which yes goes hand in hand with pacing but isn't one and the same. Structure is the materials to build the house, pacing is where you place them.

Sweet bejeezus, if your approach to scene-building doesn't even take into account the possibility that mundane details can be used to build understanding through subtext, that is alarming. It approaches writing in the most painfully literal, surface level fashion. Their critique isn't that the dynamic between sisters was shallow, nor that the intended purpose (obviously the purpose of a scene like this is to demonstrate the relationship between sisters and establish the 'normal' of the protagonist's life) was inefficient. If it was meant to make that complaint, it was spoiled by the bad faith posturing that doesn't acknowledge the things that obviously were demonstrated/learned. Instead her complaint is 'where's the MAN??' and 'you should only spend time establishing your characters and building up their internal landscape and platonic relationships if they are super unique.'

'Pacing' is a number of things, but the most obvious is building and releasing tension, allowing plot beats and emotional movements to build, to crest and to sink in. In that sense I agree with the very first tweet. But 'establishing normal' is by and large incredibly important - it takes a very talented writer to jump in after a shakeup and inciting event and still give the reader an emotionally prevalent sense of the baseline that has been disturbed - and the surface level critique of 'why did you tell us she has a good relationship with her sister and makes time to hang out with her in the city where they live???' is crude and flimsy. Starting with scene setting is good pacing. Fleshing out your character's relationships and emotional dynamics outside of the main couple is valuable. (Although I'm guessing this person writes exactly the type of book I've DNF'd many times over the female lead being a hollow prop.)

Scenes should build upon themselves and each other. I 100% agree that every scene, even a workmanlike scene moving the plot forward, is an opportunity to suggest and flesh out other details. IMO you should always try to do so, and it's a critically underused level of nuance/craft in modern markets that undervalue writing craft even when ostensibly revolving around it. But the idea that if a scene is purely devoted to fleshing out and illuminating the characters it should be cut until you can stick more plot in it is....imprudent IMO. (Not always untrue.) This thread is aggressively promoting the McDonald's/MCU factory pump style of writing, and overall pushing the flat and reductive approach that it briefly pretends it's objecting too.

ETA: I really just cannot stress enough that if missing 40 pages very early in the book makes your story completely incomprehensible (depending on the reader) you have done a bad fucking job. Frankly, almost always it's a case where anything you establish early should continue to be underlined, reinforced and expanded upon if it's important!!

PACING IS ABOUT LOAD BEARING WALLS.

*staples violently to my own forehead*

[theprivatearchives]

12th June 2021 

It really doesn't matter what Ranboo or Corpse or Dream look like... there's no way they'll top Wilbur Soot. ^-^

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"I got a-l-l-l-l the boys simping for me right now." -Karl Jacobs being selfaware XD

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Back when I was watching the IRL KarlNap streams live, I watched the one where they're going over the cards and assessing them, and I was like 'hmm... Karl's hoodie is pretty cool" but I didn't think much of it at the time. Now I've just realised it's the fricking MISS YOU CORPSE hoodie!! That hoodie is more iconic than pretty much any merch I'm aware of, and I absolutely adore it.

It's amazing how things come full circle when you follow a trail of fandoms.

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Watching some older Technoblade lore VODs and Quackity starts spouting -sh** about Technoblade having to pay for his "war crimes" and go on trial and etc. and I'm just watching as my blood boils, thinking about the trash moves Quackity has made in the past and how he's super guilty but he's talking like Techno is the bad guy. I hate Quackity pretty much. (Don't get me wrong, I hate him like any character who's actions I deplore and who is a filthy villain in my sight in any story. Don't hear me saying I hate the CC. That's another story lol.) Anyways, Technoblade was like, "sounds like BeEs" and so now I'm even more convinced I should be a Technoblade fan lol. I live for two days on the dream smp. The day that Dream gets his happy ending, and the day that Quackity gets the negative retribution he deserves.

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Yikes! Karl's been tweeting @_Corpse to play with him again. That man (Karl) really does momma-bird us with delightful content all the time! He's a special one. <3

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I just popped in to say that I'm currently catching a Karl & Corpse gaming stream LIVE! Let's goooo! I usually can't see them live. Two of my favourite streamers. <3

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I felt like crying when Corpse and Karl were saying goodbye. I didn't get too many dishes washed until after the stream finished and I put on a Technoblade lore VOD Lol

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by @.ibti! @.valkyraelovebot

Most iconic thing corpse ever did? "independent, no label, no agency, no paid promo, from his bedroom"

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https://twitter.com/CATGIRLSHIT/status/1402769913765376000?s=20 The knife video on this made me lose it. So funny.

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One day I'll look back at this time and think about how legendary it was... https://twitter.com/CORPSEGENIUS/status/1402360582200758281?s=20

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This thread is basically my substitute for Twitter lol. I do kinda wish I had twitter. But you can't sign up without giving your phone number so I drew a line at that.

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What do you do when you want to write fanfiction, but the people or characters you want to write are people you don't think you can write accurately because you're not them?

I want to write Dream but he deals with things by quipping and Karl but he's constantly joking and genuinely super funny all the time and I am about as funny as doing dishes.

[teenmomcentral]

Mackenzie and Kayla may have never filmed together, but they did have an exchange in the past that wasn't very friendly.

MTV's Teen Mom: Family Reunion Season 3 is in full swing. The spinoff series features cast members from various Teen Mom seasons as they take some well-deserved time away from their kids and all live together under one roof in a gorgeous villa in Cartagena, Colombia.

During this installment, one Teen Mom alum made an unexpected return, Mackenzie McKee, who brought along her boyfriend, Khesanio Hall. As she reunited with the girls, including Cheyenne Floyd, whom she previously had beef with, she also spotted Kayla Sesser and it took her a second to register who she was. She had met Kayla before, but not in person.

As it turns out, Mackenzie and Kayla had a bit of a Twitter tussle back in 2022.

Kayla, who welcomed her third child, son Zyaire Jaxon Leigh in March 2024, appeared on Seasons 1 through 4 of Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant.

The current esthetician student, who is also a mom to son Izaiah and daughter Ariah, also appeared on the spin-off series Teen Mom: Girls' Night In.

While on Girls' Night In, which followed Kayla and her Young & Pregnant co-stars as they watched old episodes from the franchise, they watched an episode of Teen Mom OG, and Mackenzie was on the screen.

"Of course, we're gonna start with the boring one," Kayla said about Mackenzie to her co-stars during their televised watch party.

When Mackenzie heard about this distasteful remark about her, she took to Twitter to discuss it.

"Idk who or what young and pregnant is. But apparently they be hatin'," the mom-of-three and fitness guru tweeted in November 2022.

Kayla saw the tweet and fired back. "Ma’am calling you 'boring' isn’t hatin', at your age it should be a compliment. At 30, I pray my storyline has calmed down, and I get called boring," she wrote.

The Twitter exchange died down after that, and nothing more escalated, although a few fans did respond to the thread.

Overall, it was a very small interaction. That said, it likely didn't give the women great first impressions of one another.

Hopefully, Mackenzie and Kayla can work on building a more genuine relationship during Teen Mom: Family Reunion Season 3, which airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST on MTV.

[leviticus101st]

My Live Tweet thread of Gen:Lock

(I copy and pasted a Twitter Thread of my reaction to Gen:Lock. I'm more active on Twitter, so if ya want to see more from me, my @ is LeviJones101st)

I don't usually do this, but I decided to live tweet my watch through of Gen:Lock.

Let's see if this shit show was worth all the workplace abuse and fucking over of the Nomad of Nowhere.

Spoilers: I believe the answer is gonna be no.

Okay. Starting out and this is more of a small thing, but I've gotten really sick of Sci fi settings that always like showing off how super advanced they are by showing technology that does not look like it'd be used.

Like Dave and his girlfriend decided to take leave to visit his mom with……some kind of physical hologram?

Why? Why do this instead of just physically going there?

My nitpicking aside. This opener is actually really solid, establishing this mysterious threat that I totally didn't spoil myself on and making the main hero look likable.

"How did it get so close?!" Lady. If nome of you noticed that thing, ya'll would have fallen apart even if this Union thing wasn't around.

Okay, this opening episode was actually pretty good.

And….wooow that Theme Song does not match this kind of show. It's apparently a licensed song, which is just baffling to me.

They forced people from their other projects to rush their work on this show, they had a moral line not to force a rush job from Jeff and Casey Williams?

I mean, I'm happy for them not being forced to crunch out or anything, I just find it funny that's where they draw the line.

I like that Chase is actually taking all of this very well.

It's actually quite nice.

OH MY GOD! THEY SAID THE THANG! can I go home now?

Doc….I think they're meeting their future regardless……I mean the future is the time that isn't now…….so technically they'll never meet it.

Also, I do believe that people should grieve however they can……but Miranda is kind of an asshole. At least the lady in MoU said 'good to say ya again'

I actually really love Weller. He is just so casual about everything and I love it.

I'm actually getting into this show. It is a bit slow though, ESPECIALLY for an 8 episode season.

"Making soldiers out of children!" Lady. These are grown ass adults. We're these guys meant to be like teenagers originally?

WELLER! JUST TELL THEM THE SPY WASN'T COMPATIBLE!

Weller's speech about "making a difference" is actually quite nice.

I'm already halfway through S1 and while it's been slow going, I'm actually really enjoying myself so far.

Hey. They're saying the RWBY thing.

This Nemesis thing is actually pretty cool.

And the action is actually pretty solid.

Being in a digital space where you control the mech and can affect the mind and personality of the mech pilot is actually a very interesting concept.

I'm sure somewhere this idea was done before, but this is an interesting concept.

The Chase clone twist is actually very compelling.

"Your Deus Ex Machina!"

That's actually a very clever double meaning with the phrase, kudos.

It took us til the end of the season, but we finally got the genlocks in their promoted designs.

The designs do clash with the shows visual aesthetic, but they are actually cool.

Okay. Overall, this first season was actually pretty good.

I'll be watching the second season tommorow, since it's like 10:00 where I live and i have a cavity filling tommorow.

So if what I heard about Season 2 is true, ill be in for a double whammy of pain.

Got a cavity filling and I can't feel the left side of my mouth.

Sounds like the perfect condition to watch Gen:Lock S2. I might be out of it, so maybe there won't be much live tweeting.

Hopefully, people were just overexaggerating how bad it is and it's just okay at worst.

Though I doubt it given what I've heard.

Okay this theme song matches the show better……but honestly this one just sucks.

And immediately it's clear that it's a different person writing for the show.

"Kazu is just whining" no, he’s not. You're just being childish Chase.

Aside from some awkwardness with the new creative team, this first episode was actually pretty solid.

Are they…….are they trying to make the Union look like they were in the right?????¿

Also, a good showcase of why you can't just stretch something into a 16:9 screen format

The Union:

Did the priest dude just use a deadass evil switch.

Wow, they really are tying to present this as a grey on grey conflict, aren't they?

Oh my lord they are.

OH WOELW! THAT SEX SCENE JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE!

It was a literal sex scene jumpscare.

Hmmmmmmm. I wonder if the Union, the guys who committed mass Terrorist actions, make machines that are over the topply evil, and took over the world, are the good guys.

Yasamin is the only character making sense in this damn show.

"They were so peaceful!" NO THEY WEREN'T! WE SAW GROUPS OF PEOPLE COMMITING SUICIDE! THERE IS NO RELIGION ON THE PLANET THAT ENDORSES IT!

HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN FROM A RELIGION FUSION DANCE ANYWAY?!

Cammie girl, lass, my sister in christ….YOU LITERALLY CHANGED YOUR PERSONALITY! WHY CAN'T KAZU DO THE SAME!

Whose idea was it to throw in all the sex stuff?????? It's not gritty or gross or whatever, IT'S JUST BIZARRE!

Also, why did nobody mention this climate crisis in Season 1?

Also, are they trying to make the Union look like a cult, because that's what it looks like to me.

This shallow samurai shit made to crap on old school anime is actually crapping on bad modern anime.

No seriously, this roboshogun stuff makes me cringe so hard.

It's trying to mock old mecha anime like Gundam and the like, but instead it's giving me the vibe of a bad high-school anime that came out in the early 2010's.

Also, this might just be a me thing, but this attempt to jump around the timeline is really annoying. Just transition to one story and say their happening at the same time, yesh.

Toxic masculinity stuff. I am totally tapped out on this.

Another JumpSex. That's my new nickname for it.

AND WHY IS THIS BEING SHOW WITH INTERCUTS TO CHASE'S ACTUALLY INTERESTING STUFF.

"See how the Polity wars!" I do see……it is significantly better than how you guys do it

Wow…..Cammie is kind of a brat.

Wow. This making the polity bad shit is annoying.

And of course……Kazu's dead.

Who the fuck kills off a character after their arc just finished?!

Like……..narratively what does this accomplish????? And no 'showing the hardship of war' is not a good reason.

All this 'grey on grey morality ' shit has done is make me hate all the characters.

Except for Kazu and Yasamin…….and they killed the former. And the latter I only like because she is the only one calling out everyone's bullshit.

And now I have to listen to Marin try and justify fascism.

MAYBE TURN OFF THE SCREAMING HEADS WHEN PRESENTING YOUR SELL'S PITCH!

'Like my old one, but different' I want to throw a dictionary at your head.

This Chase corruption plot is actually cool and interesting, a shame it's not the actual focus of this damn season.

They're trying way too hard to portray the 'Flow' as a good thing.

"Man, this roboshogun thing is so graphic!"

Why are you people affected by a 2D cartoon with blood in it when you've seen a bunch of corpses.

Also, mandatory joke about how 3D characters see live action shows and that kinda thing.

Ew……just ew.

Marin is trying to stop a cult from ruling the world and everyone is trying to stop her 'evul' plan.

I hate well intentioned extremists Union. I hate it so much.

I love mechanic dude and I can never remember his name.

I have to say the LowTierGod cinematic universe is turning out to be extremely lame so far.

I praised RWBY Vol9 when It did this thing, but I think this show makes that stuff worst in hindsight.

Also, why is Cammie's model look so weird????

Does…..typo

WAITAMINUTE! YOU MEAN THE EVIL CULT WHO TRIES TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD IS EVIL?!

God, the ceo mech is so ugly

I haven't mentioned this, but man this show is so much uglier now

I actually really like the Chase plot, it's just a shame that it's buried in so much crap.

Oh my god, the last episode, I'm almost done here.

I'm all burnt out on this show. I'm just gonna point out what's funny from now.

YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF NOW!-The Ultimate Message of Gen:Lock

I love this dumb fucking ai thing so much.

God, at times the dialogue is so fucking bad.

God, I hate Sinclair so bad.

Also, the body horror is so lame.

Lmao! This beast thing was made out to be so big and might and yet it's so small next to the skyscrapers.

That's it? That's the climax???????????? WHAT?!

THAT'S THE CLIMAX?! THAT WAS SO ANTI CLIMATIC WHAT THE HELL!

Also, Genlock's message…..it's proud theme?!

What did Chase's sister do to get to New York exactly????

I'm gonna fucking scream.

That's it? THAT'S IT?!

Fuck this 2nd season!

Fuck the higher ups for abusing the staff!

Fuck the pornbots who keep liking this thread!

IM DONE!

I did this whole ass thread and I appreciate absolutely none of it.

On the plus side, I can feel the left side of my face again….mostly.

[burgundybmw]

Guitar String of Fate

MASTERLIST

Pairing: Eddie Munson x Fem!Reader

Word Count: 1,759 (plus twitter posts)

Warning: Addiction mention, drug mention.

Summary: When the band Daughters of Lilith tour bus breaks down in the middle of Indiana, they are left stranded for a few hours waiting for help. Y/N (also known by Echo) sees a bar in the distance with a giant LIVE MUSIC sign in bright neon lights, she tells the girls they might as well find some entertainment while they wait. The local favorite Corroded Coffin is playing, and when she locks eyes with the guitar player for the first time, Y/N can’t help but feel the electricity in the air. Will this be a missed connection? Or will the strings of fate bring them together again?

Author’s Note: A short chapter, but with the kidney stone and grad school I wanted to get something out to y'all. Hope you guys enjoy!

Part III

"Wake up!"

Y/N opened her eyes to find her band mates surrounding her bunk on the bus, Chrissy armed with the pillow she used to swat her face. They all had the same look on their faces, eyebrows furrowed and frowning lips. It was certainly not the best wake up call, especially with a killer hangover.

"Christ Chris, what's your damage?" Y/N grumbled as she sat up from her too thin mattress. If it were up to her they'd be memory foam, but Murray argued she'd never get out of bed if they were too comfortable. The overly rational ass.

"My damage? Have you not checked your phone! Twitter is blowing up and Murray has been bombarding our phones for hours!" Chrissy said as she swatted her again with the pillow.

"Why the hell is Twitter blowing up? How is this my problem!"

"Check your phone" Eden grumbled, clearly unimpressed with the display. Y/N looked over find her screen buzzing with notifications, all of them from Twitter. When she finally opened up the app, she was met with what exactly Chrissy's damage was.

"Oh shit..." There it was. In all of it's a glory. A drunken thirst tweet in the wee hours of the morning, all over that hot guitarist from the Hide Out. The headache radiated behind her eyelids, nausea rolled in her stomach. This was bad, very very bad.

"Oh shit is right! Do you have any idea what this means? All of our fans are out looking for him!" Barb yelled, making Y/N's headache worse.

"Did they find him?" A part of her hoped they did, she knew she felt something watching him play. It was electric, a full body pull towards this mysterious musician.

"You better hope they don't. Have you even read the responses?" Eden asked, her voice grave and serious. Y/N shook her head, earning a collective groan from the girls on the bus.

"Most of it's good, but you know how fans be. They can get obsessive. People are already starting. Look, they started a hashtag" Eden held up her phone, a long winded thread before her. Y/N's eyes widened with shock, the responses were certainly not what she was expecting.

#1 Echo Stan @totaldolface We need to find this guy for Echo! Does anyone know who he is??#Echolocation 2k Retweets 6k Likes Show replies STREAM #A MAUSOLEAM KNIGHT'S DREAM @dolhead Oh she has good taste!! He's so hot I could die!! I totally ship them!! #Echolocation Stella @ Echo Drunk Tweets @stellababy_02 I can totally see it now, total rockstar power couple. What should their ship name be?! I can see the fanfics already! #Echolocation Emi @edengardengirl Until we have a name my vote is #EchoLock #Echolocation 275 Retweets 471 Likes Sam DolFace @ogvickiestan Where did you get the Lock from?? @edengardengirl Emi @edengardengirl @ogvickiestan the guitar he's using is a B.C. Rich Warlock Chrissy Step On Me @dolstan @edengardengirl OMG THAT'S SO CLEVER!!! #EchoLock #Echolocation Billie @barbstan05 Strangers to lovers, mutual pining, 500k words. Already starting the #EchoLock tag on AO3. #Echolocation Mabel / WHERE IS THE HOT GUITARIST?? @ogecholock @echolock I hate you for taking the @ #EchoLock #Echolocation Missy @echolock @ogecholock you snooze you lose babes 💅 Chrissy Step On Me @dolstan UPDATE!! Apparently the Daughters of Lilith tour bus broke down in Hawkins, Indiana last night!! TMZ just reported it!! Here's the link >> https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/06/daughters-of-lilith-bus-breakdown-in-small-town-indiana/ #EchoLock #Echolocation 3k Retweets 7k Likes Billie @barbstan05 @dolstan Isn't that Chrissy, Vickie, and Barb's hometown??? Chrissy Step On Me @dolstan @barbstan05 It is!! Daughters of Lilith Slut @dolbaby My cousin lives in Hawkins! I sent her the tweet and the article and I am waiting for a response now! #Echolocation #EchoLock Mabel / WHERE IS THE HOT GUITARIST?? @ogecholock @dolbaby OH MY GOD DID YOU FIND HIM!! Daughters of Lilith Slut @dolbaby @ogecholock I have a first name! My cousin doesn't know his last but she's looking through her yearbook as we speak! His name is Eddie!!! #Echolocation #EchoLock 715 Retweets 2k Likes Emi @edengardengirl We need a new ship name!!! #EchoLock #Echolocation Sarah @ EDDIE CAN SPIT ON ME @dolstanz #EddiEcho??? #EchEd??? #ESquared??? #DoubleE #Echolocation #EchoLock 2k Retweets 5k Likes Mabel / WHERE IS THE HOT GUITARIST?? @doubleE #DoubleE is the best #Echolocation Missy @doubleestan @doubleE Normally I would argue to get the @ but you are so right it's the best ship name #Echolocation #DoubleE #1 Echo Stan @totaldolface #DoubleE is already trending!!! We need to find out more!! Who is he? How old is he? Is he single? Come on y'all!!! #Echolocation #FindEddie Sean @metalheadalways That's the guitarist for Corroded Coffin! I saw them play at this small venue in Indy! Dude totally kicks ass #Echolocation Lana Del Slay @echoxlana His name is Edward "Eddie" Munson. He was born on February 14th in Hawkins, IN and went to Hawkins High School, no college. His Twitter is @ EDDIEMUNSON which is public, his Insta is @ metalheadmunson, and he runs the Corroded Coffin Insta which is just the band name. They play at The Hideout on Tuesdays in Hawkins when they aren't elsewhere in Indiana. #Echolocation #FindEddie #DoubleE #EchoLock 15k Retweets 21k Likes Mabel / HOT GUITARIST FOUND @doubleE @echoxlana HOLY SHIT I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FOUND HIM!!! Lana Del Slay @echoxlana @doubleE it was nothing. Once I got a name and a place it took mere minutes. God bless social media! #1 Echo Stan @totaldolface We have found him!!! Great job everyone!! #Echolocation #FindEddie #DoubleE #EddieIsFound 1k Retweets 4k Likes

"They found him..." Y/N couldn't believe it. In the span of 12 hours her fans had managed to figure out who he was, and only with a picture at that.

"What?!" the girls collectively screamed. Y/N handed over the phone to show them the most recent updates on the thread.

"Eddie Munson! Yes! That was it! Ugh, it was driving me nuts that I couldn't remember him" Chrissy began, "I used to buy drugs from him back in high school"

"He sold to you?" Y/N asked. All the girls knew about Chrissy's old drug problem, it was the inspiration for the song Hemlock. Y/N remembered it like it was yesterday, the night Chrissy told the girls about her past. No one would have guessed the preppy cheerleader used to be an addict.

It was in the early days of Daughters of Lilith, playing small venues in LA for cheap. There was a battle of the bands filled with local talent and everyone was invited to this massive afterparty. It was in an abandoned warehouse turned nightclub, flashing lights and loud music blasting everyone's ear drums. The girls had never been to an event like it, everything was still so new to them. They had wandered to another band's booth, the runner ups of the event. Sanctified was their name, an ironic one at that. Each member was doing something unholy, bumping lines of coke, dry humping random girls, popping pills, everything and anything. The girls were satisfied with their cocktails, but Y/N immediately noticed Chrissy's change in mood the second the white powder came out. She was absent, her eyes laser focused on the white tally’s on the table. Her normal bubbly personality gone by the wayside. She had taken Chrissy to the bathroom with her, ask her what was up with her. The rest of the girls followed suit to find their star drummer bawling her eyes out in a dingy bar bathroom.

Everyone has their demons, Chrissy was no exception. An abusive mother, shitty ex-boyfriend, the whole nine yards. She was embarrassed, mortified by how quickly she fell down the hole. It only took one party after an incredibly bad fight with her mom to pull her under. A girl from the cheerleading squad brought some of her grandma's oxy's and passed them along. Chrissy took one. That was the beginning of the end.

Nobody knew about it, not even her then boyfriend Jason. It started with oxy, but when the local dealer went to jail her supply ran dry. She tried to get by on just weed, but it wasn't enough. The oxy's made her feel numb, made her sleep. She just wanted to sleep. She was so tired all the time. It took her three years to get sober.

"Not the pills, mostly weed" Chrissy began, "I bought K off of him once my senior year, but when I came back the following day begging for more he told me no"

"Isn't that his job though? Why'd he turn you down?"

"Eden" Y/N reprimanded.

"He said I was too young to form a habit like that. He felt bad selling it to me the first time"

"A drug dealer with a heart, who'd have thought" Eden said, her signature eye roll fully in place. Y/N didn't really know what to think.

"I remember he was really nice though! Made me feel comfortable and everything, wasn't weird or creepy! Totally good in my book!"

That was good to know. A pretty face only does so much. Y/N stared at the thread on her phone, the curiosity to check out Eddie's accounts growing stronger by the second. She knew what Pandora must have felt like in that moment, the box filled with unbearable temptation inside just begging to be touched. Y/N's fingers moved of their own account, typing in his name before a hand swiped her phone away.

"Hey!" Y/N shouted. She tried to wrestled her phone out of Eden's grasp, but the girl grew up with over half a dozen siblings. It was a worthless endeavor.

"Don't even think about it! Not until we talk to Murray to see how much trouble we're in!"

"Why would we be in trouble? It's one tweet, it's not the end of the world!" Y/N was talking out of her ass. They all knew it. Murray was sure to blow a gasket the second they stepped foot in the LA border.

"In case you forgot darling, we're famous. This Eddie guy is in for a media storm because of us. Murray will know how to handle it, so don't make it worse by adding fuel to the fire!"

Y/N knew she was right. Of course she was, Eden was always right. As much as it pained her to admit it, waiting was the smarter move. She wasn't a random girl who could post whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. One tweet could make or break the band. Her actions had consequences.

Y/N just hoped it wasn't a bad one.

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[atths--twice]

Cuddly Nap Time

Waking from a nap, Scully finds Mulder sleeping with William lying on his chest.

A prompt idea born from a tweet on Twitter has now become a story. Hope you all enjoy it. 💓

Scully woke up and for a second was disoriented as to where she was and what was happening. Looking around, she blinked and then drew in a deep breath as she scrambled to get out of bed, looking into the empty bassinet in Mulder’s bedroom.

“Oh my God,” she breathed, a hand going to her throat as she opened the bedroom door, her heart racing.

“Mulder, did-”

She stopped speaking and froze where she stood as she smiled at the sight in front of her.

Asleep on his couch, Mulder had his arms wrapped around one month old William, who was also asleep, his mouth open and pressed against Mulder’s shirt.

Moving her hand from her throat to her heart, she let out a relieved sigh and carefully stepped closer to them, mindful of the creaky floorboards.

“Oh,” she said and on quiet feet, turned around and hurried back into Mulder’s room to find his digital camera.

Setting the sound of the shutter click to silent, she walked back into the living room and smiled at the sight of them sleeping before she began to take pictures and then a video.

She sighed as she watched them and then set the camera onto the desk. Torn between wanting to touch them both and then kiss William’s sweet smelling head, she instead left them to sleep.

Something caught her eye as she made to go toward the kitchen for some water. She frowned when she realized it was Mulders’s watch. Confused as to why he would have taken it off before the end of the day, she remembered what happened the other day and her breath caught as she stared lovingly at them.

“What happened to this little man?” Mulder had asked, picking up a sleeping William from his bassinet in the living room when he had arrived at her apartment. “Are those scratches?”

“Hmm, yeah,” she had said, gently stroking William’s cheek where his impossibly small, but sharp, baby fingernails had created red scratches on his face. “His nails are so small, I didn’t want to risk hurting him by cutting them. But, after I saw these scratches, I had to, worried or not.”

“Is he okay, though? Does he need to see the doctor?”

“No,” she had said, smiling at Mulder as he had gently brushed his lips against William’s cheek, murmuring that he was sorry for the scratches. “They’ll be okay soon.”

“Hmm,” he had said with a nod, kissing William’s cheek and then his forehead. “As long as you’re sure.”

“I am.”

“Were his nails hard to cut?”

“Exceedingly. Like threading a wiggly needle that constantly closes just as you get the thread close to it.”

“Sounds like an accurate description,” he had said with a chuckle, kissing William again. “God, he smells so good.”

“Doesn’t he?” she had asked, bending close to smell and then kiss him. “It’s intoxicating.”

“Getting high off the scent of our son… is that okay to do?” he had asked in mock seriousness and she had laughed, kissing him softly in response as William had begun to fuss, rooting and searching for his next meal. “Oh, I think it’s time to pass him over. But I get him when he’s done eating.”

“Sure,” she had teased as she walked toward the couch and began to unbutton her top, reaching for him when she had been ready. “You get the easy job.”

“I would help out in that department if I could, but for now, I’ll do whatever else I can.” Kissing the top of her head, he had handed William to her, touching the little scratches once again. “Gotta be more careful, little man. Protect that delicate skin that your mama made for you.”

“He’s okay,” she had whispered, helping William latch on and start feeding. “They should fade pretty soon.”

“Good,” he had said, kissing her head again. “You need anything? Water? Juice? Something to eat?”

“Water, please. And maybe some peanut butter toast?”

“You got it,” he had said, taking off his jacket and laying it on the couch.

She had hummed as she looked at William, his eyes barely opening as he ate, all of his fingers wrapped around one of hers.

“So beautiful,” she had whispered, raising his hand and bending her head to kiss his fingers. “I love you so much.”

When Mulder had taken him back to burp and rock him, he had made sure nothing he was wearing would bother William as he held him.

“Good thing I’m unemployed these days,” he had said and she raised her eyebrows in a silent question. “No buttons from my dress shirts to press uncomfortably against his skin.”

“True. And an added bonus, you fill out your t-shirts quite nicely,” she had said as she had buttoned her shirt up, smiling at him with a wink.

“Hey, none of that. You still have recovery time that needs to be adhered to.”

“Oh trust me, I’m in no condition for any of that, but you can’t fault me for admiring the window display, even if I won’t be purchasing anything today.”

“Interesting way to phrase it,” he had said, laughing as William burped loudly and then breathed softly. Mulder had looked at her with a soft smile and shook his head. “See? I think babies have a built-in mechanism that knows when to do something so goddamn cute, it then releases dopamine that takes away the memory of sleepless nights and tired bodies that are barely making it through the day. They know, Scully. They know.”

“Must be an X-File,” she had said with a grin, unconsciously swaying just as Mulder had started to do so with William.

“This is spooky,” he had said, motioning to them both moving in sync.

“Is it? Really?” she had asked with a small chuckle.

“I suppose not,” he had said, shushing William when he began to cry. Patting him on the back gently, he had smiled at her. “I love you, you know.”

“I do know,” she had said with a grin. “But, I’ll never get tired of hearing it.”

“Come over here and kiss me,” he had said and she had stood up, walked over to him and kissed him softly, an arm wrapping around his waist while her other hand had rested on William’s back and they had swayed slowly.

“I love you too, you know,” she had said, scratching her nails gently against Mulder’s back.

“I do know. And I’ll also never tire of hearing it.”

“That’s good.”

“Mmhmm,” he had hummed as William had sighed contentedly.

She sighed as she watched them now, William breathing deeply as he slept, Mulder’s arms protectively around him, his watch on the table to avoid any further scratches or harm to the tiny human they had created.

“God, I love you,” she said to them, shaking her head as she smiled.

Knowing she had a little bit of time before William would be waking for his next feeding, she tidied up. Clearing the coffee table of the sunflower seeds and the shells, she then quietly took Mulder’s glass of tepid water into the kitchen and refreshed it with icy water.

Finding his refrigerator quite empty, she went into the bedroom to get her phone and order delivery from the Chinese restaurant they frequented.

Back in the living room, she watched as William began to stir, Mulder’s arms tightening immediately as his eyes opened drowsily and then shut again.

“Shhh, it’s okay,” he whispered, patting William’s back. “We had a deal that we would let Mama sleep a little longer. She’s so tired, buddy. Shhh…”

“Hey,” she whispered, sitting down on the coffee table and touching his arm. His eyes flew open and he looked at her in surprise.

“Hey,” he said, swallowing and clearing his throat softly. “You okay?”

“More than okay.”

“Did you sleep?”

“I did. And I see you two did as well.” She smiled and placed her hand on William’s back, rubbing softly.

“He was fussing and I wanted you to sleep without worrying about him. I came out here with the intent to put him back in the bassinet once he had settled, but…” He shrugged and closed his eyes with a small smile.

“It’s hard to put him down when he’s so warm and snuggly?”

“Exactly,” he breathed, rubbing William’s back gently as he settled with some grunts and moans. “Then once I laid down with him, well…” Mulder chuckled softly and opened his eyes to look at her. “I was powerless to not fall asleep.”

“I completely understand,” she said, covering his hand on William’s back.

“I think it’s the best sleep I’ve ever had on this couch.”

They both laughed quietly as she rubbed his hand and he stared at her, his eyes dropping to her lips. She smiled as she leaned closer and kissed him, her other hand gently squeezing his upper arm.

“I ordered some food, seeing as you don’t really have anything here,” she said, kissing him once more.

“Hmm. Chinese?”

“Yeah.”

“I was dreaming about egg rolls. You must have known.”

“Actually,” she said, sitting up and laughing quietly again. “I was craving some chow mein and sweet and sour pork, so I ordered it.”

“You didn’t get egg rolls?” he whined, sticking out his lip and she laughed silently.

“Yes,” she said, leaning forward to kiss him. “I got egg rolls.”

“Ahh, Scully,” he said with a smile as William scrunched up and began to cry. “Okay, buddy. I know. Let’s get up and get you ready to eat.”

Half full containers of food were spread out on the coffee table a little while later, as she held William at her shoulder, patting his back to coax out a burp. He grunted and stretched before burping twice.

“Good boy, William,” she whispered and kissed his downy head.

“So, I’ve been thinking,” Mulder said, coming into the room carrying their glasses, refilled with ice water.

“Hmm. What about?” she asked, smiling her thanks as he set her glass on the coffee table.

“Well, it’s not something we’ve discussed, but I’d like to,” he said, sitting beside her and taking a drink of his water.

“Okay.”

“How would you feel about a roommate?” he asked and she raised her eyebrows.

“It finally happened, didn’t it?” she asked. “Byers is tired of living with Frohike and Langly and being around them fighting all the time. I knew it would happen eventually.” She shrugged and he grinned as he shook his head.

“You think you’re so funny.”

“Eh,” she said, moving William and cradling him as she smiled.

“No, not Byers, woman,” he said, setting his glass beside hers. Reaching for William, he lay him on his knees, rubbing his belly tenderly. “It’s about our current living situation. I’m at your place or you’re here. It seems unnecessary to have two places of cohabitation.”

“Are you saying you want to… cohabitate with me? With us?” she said, glancing at William and then at Mulder.

“Live, cohabitate, spend my days with you, move in, whatever you want to call it, I want it.”

“Just your days? Not your nights? Because if you don’t have a place to live at the end of the day…”

William let out a loud fart, followed by the sounds of a very wet poop. They both looked at him in surprise and then he did it again, grunting as he pushed.

“Yeah, she is being a shit, isn’t she?” Mulder asked William with a scoff. “First she asks about Byers moving in and now she’s asking where I’ll spend my nights… She’s lucky that I love her so much.”

“I’m just trying to be thorough.”

“You’re being a pain in my ass is what you’re being,” he said. “Even the kid can see it.”

“Are you sure that’s what you want?” she asked, searching his eyes and swallowing nervously.

“Yes,” he said, taking her hand and laying his other hand on William's chest. “Since I came back, this place hasn’t really felt like home. It’s…” He looked around and shook his head. She squeezed his hand and he smiled as he looked back at her. “It’s not where I’m supposed to be. When I’m here, I wake up reaching for you and or thinking I heard him crying, but I’m alone. I don’t like it.”

“I don’t like it either,” she whispered and he nodded.

“So, what do you say? Would you like to cohabit with me? Or more accurately, me with you?”

“I would like that very much,” she said softly.

William kicked and cooed, drawing their attention, before they looked at each other again.

“Yeah?” he asked, squeezing her hand.

“Yeah,” she said, squeezing back. “Very much.”

“Good,” he said, grinning happily.

“I mean, it’ll be good as I am tired of changing most of the diapers. Especially the dirtier ones.” She looked down at William and then back up at Mulder, raising her eyebrows suggestively. “So, if you agree to, let’s say a seventy thirty split, I’d say we have a deal.”

“Seventy thirty?” he asked, letting go of her hand and lifting William to his shoulder.

“Uh huh,” she said with a nod.

“I accept,” he said and she grinned. “But seeing as how we’re at my place right now…” He made to hand William over to her and she shook her head with a laugh.

“I don’t think so. He just ate from my body. That dirty diaper is all you.”

He nodded and smiled, moving William to the crook of his arm and leaning towards her for another kiss.

“I accept. Whatever the stipulations,” he said again and she kissed him, holding his face in her hands.

“No stipulations. Just you… Well, and the fish,” she said, smiling as she stroked his cheeks with her thumbs. “Everything else we can figure out along the way.”

“Yeah,” he breathed, smiling back at her. “The fish will be happy for a change of scenery.”

“Maybe we could even get a bigger tank? Add more to the collection?”

“I like that idea.”

“You go change him and then we can talk more about it.”

“You got it, Boss.”

“Boss? Oh, I like that,” she said and he laughed as he leaned closer for one more kiss.

[bestiesenpai]

youtuber Sukuna

I beg you to read the shitposts I made about this, they are delicious. You don’t have to of course but...if you loved me you would :) s/n = screen name, and I hope you chuckle at Sukunas screen name

Content warning: uhmhm lowkey incel shit(mean internet comments and whatnot)

part two --- part 3

Name: Sukuna. Age: 25. Height: 6 foot 5 inches. Occupation: toxic Youtuber, fitness trainer and hot guy.

Sukuna wasn’t exactly known for being kind. He wasn’t nice to others, rarely having anything good to say about anyone, and he’d made a successful Youtube career out of it. First starting as a fitness trainer at his gym, through encouragement from his clients and the notion of a quick cash grab, he started Youtube.

He didn’t care about it and that reflected in the quality of his videos and editing. He didn’t have consistent uploads, just filming and posting videos whenever he wanted, analytics be fucked. But somehow, that worked out for him, and he quickly found himself with over two million subscribers just frothing at the mouth for his next video.

And those subscribers were some of the worst people. Sukuna didn’t care about fostering a safe space online for others, not in the slightest. His comment sections were atrocious, both on his Youtube and his Instagram. It was full of toxic men one-upping each other constantly and dragging on each other for not being able to work out as much as Sukuna did.

Sukuna was a large part of why his fanbase were so toxic. He himself often made bad comments about others, whether fellow creators or people that happened to appear in the backgrounds of his videos, and on more than one occasion he’d been ‘cancelled’. None of that mattered though, all he cared about was shitting on other people and making money.

Sometimes he played video games and posted it, but not too often. Sukuna often stated he wasn’t so much of a fucking lonely loser that he’d play video games all the time, and so the gaming videos he did post were few and far between. He played angry shooter games and GTA, mindless button clicking he could get lost in for a few hours for a video.

Laying in bed one night after uploading his most recent video, one where he rages at 12 year olds on GTA online, Sukuna was just scrolling through his phone mindlessly. After he uploads video game content, like clockwork, he gets recommendations for gaming channels. He only watches a few of them, mostly leaving mean comments saying what losers they are, but one catches his eye.

He’s never been recommended this kind of video before. The thumbnail is light and bright with some pink aesthetic lights in the back. But the most enticing thing is the person in the middle, cute pink cat ear headphones on and a bright smile.

“Let’s see…” Sukuna mumbles to himself, mindlessly clicking the video. He hasn’t even read the title, he only clicked it because they were cute, and here he is nearly blinded by the bright setup they have.

“Hi everyone, it’s (Y/N) here and I’m really excited today! We’re going to be playing this new game I found!” Sukuna is immediately enraptured by the sound of your voice, watching how your face changes as you talk. His eyes drift off to the decor behind you, cute plushies and healthy plants, and some twinkling fairy lights. There’s books as well, and your chair is one of those ergonomic gamer chairs he has as well but in pink.

Sukuna watches the video dumbly, totally in the dark about whatever you’re doing, but loving it all the same. All he knows is that he likes the sound of your voice, and when you laugh and smile at a funny part in the game, it makes a light flush come to his cheeks.

It only takes one video for Sukuna to spiral into more of your content. He watches a video on your gaming setup, and he’s surprised that so much technology can come in pink. He watches a video on how you edit, a few of you cooking in your kitchen, and even a few vlog videos.

He quickly subscribes to your channel, and when you plug your social media, he immediately goes there. Pulling up your Instagram, he stares at your profile picture and almost audibly coos at you for being cute.

Your profile is just as cute as your videos are and Sukuna barely remembers to follow you before he’s going through your whole feed, liking every picture he sees. Sometimes he leaves comments, only one word though, ‘cute’. He’s never liked something so outright cute before, it wasn’t who he was and it definitely didn’t fit with his brand.

Falling asleep after following you on every platform, Sukuna wakes up thinking about you as well. And he also wakes up to hundreds of comments from all his accounts, bombarding him with questions and screenshots from last night.

‘SUKUNA WHY WOULD YOU LIKE THIS SHIT?!’

‘OMG Sukuna liked (Y/N)s posts!!’

‘Sukuna is so gross and toxic, you better stay away from (Y/N)!’

‘SUKUNA YOU GAY NOW’

‘EW why the fuck do you like this bitch?’

There were hundreds of comments that he waded through. Most were from his fans, expressing disgust at how many photos of yours he’d liked and wondering why he, Sukuna, most heterosexual alpha male on the planet, would like a pretty in pink Youtuber who had bubbly intros and whined when their animal crossing villagers wanted to move away.

Other comments were from your fans, some in awe that he would like you considering how much he said he hated overly cute things. Other fans expressed concern, worried what this might mean for their favorite Youtuber. Did Sukuna want to cause problems, potentially hurting you? He did have a reputation of bullying others, so this wasn’t far fetched.

Checking your Instagram, you didn’t make any comment about it. There wasn’t any update or anything, but on his end he was being tagged in endless Twitter threads with screenshots of him liking your posts and commenting under them.

“For fucks sake.” He grunted, clenching his phone in his hands. The amount of notifications he was getting were starting to upset him and he nearly threw his phone to get them to stop.

Ignoring his phone for the rest of the day, Sukuna went to the gym like he always did and trained with his clients. Some of them brought it up to him, asking him if he had a mind break last night and forgot what he was doing. Sending them harsh glares, Sukuna refused to talk about it.

“Oh my fucking god.” Sukuna nearly wailed when he got home, finally checking his phone. His name and yours had begun trending, and the hashtag #protect(Y/N) was also. Muttering angrily under his breath, Sukuna turned on Instagram live.

“Okay what the fuck!” He shouted, seeing the live become instantly flooded with people all screaming about you and him. “You’re all fucking annoying, you know that?” Glaring harshly at the camera, he read some of the comments that went by.

‘WHY’D YOU LIKE (Y/N)S POSTS FROM 2017’

‘Are you two secretly dating??’

‘COLLAB!’

“Who gives a shit why I liked their stuff, you’re a fucking weirdo for keeping track of me. And we aren’t secretly dating, dipshits.” Rolling his eyes, Sukuna scoffed as more comments came in begging for a collaboration. “And think about it you morons, why would we collab? Our shit is too fucking different, what would we even film about?”

Sukuna stayed on Instagram live for nearly an hour answering questions asking about you. Every time he had to answer that you weren’t secretly dating, he got a little more annoyed. Not at the comments themselves but at the fact that it was true; you didn’t even know he existed.

Ending the live in a huff, Sukuna didn’t feel any better than before, and it was made even worse by the fact that everything he said was being relayed to Twitter, and you were tagged in every tweet.

“These idiots!” Staring at his phone, Sukuna couldn’t believe what he was seeing. On your Instagram stories, you’d posted a q&a for your followers, and nearly all of the comments were about Sukuna.

“Hi everyone! No, me and Sukuna aren’t dating!” You said, laughing a little to ease how uncomfortable you were. “To be honest, I’ve never even heard of him before! As you know, my content is very...different from his, so our circles don’t exactly intersect. But I’m always happy to have new followers and potential friends!”

“Fuck me.” Sukuna groaned, cringing at how uncomfortable you looked having to address the sudden onslaught of questions. For once he wished he’d actually given a shit about his online presence, so that maybe one day your circles could intersect. He knew he scared you, he scared a lot of people, and this was just proof.

“Uh, Sukuna if you see this, hi it’s nice to meet you!” You said in the next slide, puffing out your cheeks and waving cutely at the camera. It made Sukuna blush, and he hated it. “Thank you for following me and liking my content! I was very surprised that you found me!”

“Of course I did, idiot, you’re fucking cute.” He muttered under his breath.

“I know a lot of people are asking for us to do a video together and I know our content is really different, so don’t feel pressured to respond or anything, but the offer is open! If you’d like, we can collab on something.”

“On what?” He asked like you were there.

“I cook sometimes, and I know you cook too! Maybe we can make a cooking video? You can teach me how to make healthy food or something!” Sukuna could tell a fake laugh when he heard one, and you definitely had one right now. “Anyways, thank you! Bye Sukuna!” But hearing you say his name cutely like that made him not care.

He nearly responded right away, accepting the collab offer now that you’d spoken about it, but he didn’t want to seem desperate. He watched through the rest of your Instagram stories, going back and replaying the parts where you talked about him over and over and his heart clenched every time when you said his name.

In the dead of night, Sukuna DM’s you after watching your latest video and leaving the simple comment ‘check your DM’s’.

“Fuck, what should I say?” He’s suddenly stumped as he looks at the keyboard. Typing and retyping a message, in the end all he can say is hi. He doesn’t expect a reply, ever, but when he gets a vibration on his phone two seconds later he jumps to read it.

(S/N): hi Sukuna! :)

(cursedgod): hey

Real fucking smart, repeating what he just said.

(S/N): is there something you wanted to talk to me about?

(S/N): I hope you haven’t been annoyed at all the notifications you’ve been getting!

(cursedgod): No it’s okay

(cursedgod): we can collab if you want

Good Sukuna, good. Play it cool, don’t let them know that your fingers are actually trembling because you’re nervous.

(S/N): do you want to?? I don’t want to pressure you! I know we’re pretty different haha

(cursedgod): yeah, let's do it. Cooking?

(S/N): sure!

Looking around his home, he was suddenly assaulted with the fact that he didn’t have any furniture. He barely had a proper bedroom, just a mattress on a bare frame and a dresser. His lounge room was the same with his computer setup in one corner and then nothing else. There was only a couch, a mounted TV and a fold out table and chairs for his dining room.

(cursedgod): I know a studio kitchen we can use, I’ll send you the address

Thank god he’d done promo work for a brand in a studio one day, otherwise he’d be fucked.

(S/N): awesome! I’m free next Saturday!

And just like that, it was a date. Well, a meeting. Sukuna knew it wasn’t a date, but his heart still thumped like it was one. Confirming the time, he ended the conversation with a curt goodbye and obsessed about it throughout the night.

When the day to meet you came, Sukuna nearly ran late trying to pick out his clothes. He’d never cared about looking good or presenting himself well in front of others, whatever version of him he turned up in was what they got. But for you, he wanted to try a little harder.

Waiting outside the studio space, Sukuna rubbed his hands together nervously. You’d messaged a day or two ago offering to put the video on your channel since it probably wouldn’t fit his aesthetic, so he didn’t have to bring his shitty camera equipment.

“S-sukuna?” Snapping his head up, Sukunas mouth fell open looking at your curious face a few feet away, an Uber driving off behind you. You were even cuter in person, just his fucking luck. How was he expected to act like a normal person when his recent obsession was here looking better than he could have imagined.

“Hi.” What comes out is a grunt, not the smooth word he’d hoped. He can see you eyeing him up, taking in all the thick and corded muscles of his body. It made his chest puff out a little, he worked hard for this physique and to have you so openly looking at him made him happy.

“It’s nice to meet you!” Sticking your hand out, you smiled politely at him.

“Same.” Shaking your hand with a firm grip, Sukuna could feel the difference in your palms. Yours was soft and nicely moisturized and he had callouses everywhere and a few cuts and scrapes.

Opening the door for you, Sukuna led you to the studio space he’d rented out. It was a clean and modern kitchen, not unlike his own, but it had appliances and looked actually lived in. Helping you set up a few camera angles, Sukuna felt a pang of nerves hit him in the stomach.

“Sukuna, can we take a picture together?” You asked before starting, and Sukunas brow furrowed deeply. Why would you want to take a picture with him? His expression must have scared you, because you quickly backtracked. “F-for promo for this video, on Instagram and stuff!”

“Sure.” God, did he feel bad or what. He shouldn’t have made that face at you, now you wouldn’t look him in the eye. Crouching down to get the right angle for you, Sukuna watched you pick a cute animal filter.

“Just do what I do.” Throwing up a peace sign, you cutely tilted your head from side to side and smiled. Sukuna tried to do the same but he looked awkward, and most of all he was blushing pretty bad.

You snapped a multitude of pictures, some at different angles and some with different filters, and in all of them Sukuna was blushing at least a little. He managed to smile more as it went on, even laughing at one of the filters.

“Thanks! I’m going to post these really quick and then we can get started!” Giving him a brief smile, you turned back to your phone and set about editing some of the pictures. Looking over your shoulder, Sukuna could see that he looked like a blushing high schooler meeting their idol for the first time and not a grown man.

Once the photos were posted and you tagged him in everything, it was time to start. Setting up your marks on the floor, you took a generous drink of water and cleared your throat.

“Are you ready for the intro? I’ll start it and introduce you, okay?” You’d actually prepared a script for yourself, and showed Sukuna as well.

“Okay.” Stepping in front of the camera, Sukuna bristled at feeling you so close to him. Your arm brushed his casually as you were fixing your shirt, and Sukuna was glad he’d worn his most expensive cologne for this.

“Hi everyone, welcome to today's video! As you know, I’m (Y/N), and today we have a special guest today!” Throwing your arms in the air, you motioned to Sukuna.

“Hi.” He nodded, barely cracking a smile. He could feel you looking at him like you wanted to say something, but he didn’t look.

“So, many people have been asking for us to do a collaboration and it’s finally here!” Clapping your hands lightly, you rocked on your heels and nudged his shoulder with yours. “Do you want to tell them what we’ll be doing today?”

“Uh-” The playful nudge you’d given him was enough to make Sukuna short circuit. “I-I-” He suddenly couldn’t remember how to speak. “Rice?”

“Let’s try that again.” You laughed. “Do you want to tell them what we’ll be doing today?” This time, you didn’t nudge him with your shoulder.

“We’re gonna…” the words were on the tip of his tongue, they wanted to come out and be spoken but he couldn’t do it.

“It’s okay, it’s okay!” Nodding reassuringly, you took a deep breath in and out, and Sukuna shakily copied. “One more try?” When he looked at you, Sukuna expected to see a hint of annoyance in your face, but there was none. You were just smiling softly at him, waiting for his answer.

“Yeah. I’ll uh, I’ll get it next time.” Stepping away from the camera, Sukuna took a drink of water and cleared his throat. Cracking the bones in his neck, he took a deep breath and came back. “Let’s do it.” No more fucking embarrassments.

“Do you want to tell them what we’ll be doing today?” You asked for the third time, slightly swaying your body side to side this time.

“We’re gonna make katsudon today.” Finally, the words he wanted to say came out.

“That’s right! As you can see, Sukuna is really fit!” You immediately hopped in, giving his arm a brief squeeze. “And he knows how to make a ton of healthy meals!”

“Mhmm.”

“So I asked if he could help teach me, and all of you at home, how to make it!” Smiling at the camera, you waited a few seconds before relaxing and turning it off. “Did you like that? We can refilm it if you want.”

“No, it’s okay.” Running a hand through his hair, he pointed to the bag of rice he’d brought. “Let’s get started on this shit.”

Taking fifteen minutes to film the two of you filling up the rice cooker, when it was over, you set about getting aesthetic shots of the other ingredients. Sukuna tried to seem casual off to the side on his phone, but he was really watching you.

Getting started on chopping the ingredients, Sukuna somehow managed to say the things he was supposed to without stuttering too badly. He was amazed that you could make the things he was doing sound so interesting, your narration as you held the camera and tried to do things yourself was impressive to the man that barely knew anything about cameras.

“Sukuna, I need help cutting the meat.” You whined, tapping the meat on the cutting board with a knife. “I don’t remember how you showed me.”

“Here.” Without thinking, Sukuan grabbed your hand with the knife in it and moved it for you. “You just have to move your wrist more, it’s not that hard.” Doing it a few times, when Sukuna felt your chest expand with air against his, that’s when he realized how close the two of you were. “S-sorry.” Immediately jumping back, he stared at the floor.

“Thanks!” Giving him a smile, you kept at it.

“I’ll fry the meat.” Stepping in as soon as you were done, Sukuna already had the hot oil ready. He was eager to cook and do something with his hands instead of - what he felt like - was awkwardly watching you off to the side.

“Okay!” Grabbing the camera, you focused on the pan. “You’re really good at this, Sukuna!”

“T-thanks.” Staring directly at the pan, Sukuna didn’t look away. Even with the hot oil popping up from the pan a few times and burning his fingers, he didn’t flinch at all.

“Ow!” But you did. Your hand had gotten too close, and when Sukuna flipped the meat, some of the oil had gotten on your hand.

“Shit.” Abandoning the pan, Sukuna was ready to drag you over to the sink for some cool water.

“I-it’s okay, it was only a little.” Shaking your stinging hand, you point to the food. “But I think the meat might burn.”

“Shit!”

Narrowly avoiding disaster with the meat, when it came time to cook the eggs, you made a joke about how you liked your eggs in the morning and Sukuna burnt them almost immediately. While not an overtly sexual comment, the implications of the words still affected him.

Somehow, he managed to make the dish come together and while his plated dish didn’t come out the best, yours looked at least halfway decent with overcooked meat and burnt eggs. The only things not messed up were the rice and vegetables, and even then Sukuna was surprised.

“We did it everyone, we made katsudon!” Holding up the bowls, you smiled big and nudged Sukunas shoulder again. “You saw we had a few mishaps along the way, but that’s okay, that’s what made it fun.”

“Yeah, it was fun.” Sukuna chuckled. Despite him being more nervous than he’d ever thought possible, he had fun cooking alongside you.

“Sukuna, will you try mine? I made it super pretty and everything.” Holding your dish up to him, Sukuna wasn’t expecting you to do that. Now he felt bad that his looked so ugly and like a teenaged boy made it; he almost said no.

Eating yours though, somehow it tasted better than he was expecting. It must have been how you prepared it, and the fact that you cared so much about the presentation. Eating it in silence, he let you eat in peace as well for a few minutes and compliment the food to the camera.

“Alright, that’s the end of the video!” Putting your bowl down, you turned to Sukuna. “I had so much fun today, thanks for filming this with me.” Now was his chance to make everything better. Putting his bowl down and bolstering himself with confidence, Sukuna threw his arm over your shoulder and pulled you close to him.

“Thank you (Y/N), I really did enjoy today. I hope we can film again soon!” He squeezed your shoulder and smiled really big at not only you but the camera as well. He knew he was blushing, he knew that even the tip of his nose was a nice rosy shade, but he didn’t care. If people teased him for it, then so be it. But he wanted you to know how he truly felt.

“R-really? You want to?” You asked, looking up at Sukuna from your place smooshed against his body.

“Really.”

“Aww, well you heard it here first everyone! Sukuna wants to shoot another video with me!” Clapping your hands a few times, you waved at the camera. “Okay, bye everyone!”

“Bye.” Sukuna waved too, waiting a few seconds before letting you go and turning off the camera.

“Sukuna, did you really mean it? You want to film another video with me?” You were in utter disbelief. All this time, he’d just seemed very standoffish, if not a little awkward around you. You were happy to film this video with him, he had way more followers than you and it would help boost both your channels, and to hear him say that just made it even better.

“Yeah, I was serious.” Sukuna spoke around stuffing his mouth with the food he still had left. He was more hungry than he thought, the nerves doing a good job of twisting his stomach during the video. Now that it’s over, he can finally relax.

“That makes me really happy.” Eating the rest of your food as well, you leant against the counter. “This is gonna sound kind of mean, but I was really scared to film with you today. I thought you were going to be really mean.”

“Shit, you did?” He grimaced, letting out a sigh. “Sorry I had you worried.” He could already imagine the comments you would get from his fans.

“It’s okay! You’re actually way nicer in person, I was surprised!”

“That’s good.”

“And you’re really buff, you have muscles in places I didn’t even know were possible!” You laughed bashfully at that comment, and avoided looking at him when he stared at you in shock. “I couldn’t help but notice…”

Were you checking him out? Had you been checking him out this whole time and he didn’t even realize? He had seen you eyeing him up when you first met, but were you looking at him like that at other times as well? Now he’d really have to watch your video to see if it was true.

“Thanks, it’s my job.” Could he have said that any lamer? “My job outside of all this, I mean. I’m a trainer at this fancy gym downtown.”

“Oh, I’ve seen some of your videos at your gym! I know which one you’re talking about.”

“You do? You’ve seen my videos?” If he wasn’t surprised before, he was now.

“Yeah, you know I had to do a little research beforehand.” You nodded, beginning to clean up the dishes around you. “And I know you’ve already watched almost all of my videos, so it only seemed fair.”

Did you have to bring that up? Now Sukuna was embarrassed again.

“Y-yeah, I did.” Clearing his throat, Sukuna helped gather the dishes. He took up washing them, another task he could do to get his mind off you. As you took down the camera equipment, he nearly broke several dishes and utensils from scrubbing too hard.

“I’ll call you an Uber.” He said when all was said and done and you were back at the front of the building.

“You don’t have to, it’s okay.”

“No, I want to.” Quickly calling you a ride, Sukuna fiddled with his phone a little more. “Uh, could I- could I-” His voice kept leaving him, and he had to cough a few times. “Can I get your number? I really liked your camera shit and I want to improve mine.” Okay, it wasn’t a total lie. He did like your setup and wanted to make his just as good, but he really wanted your number to potentially talk to you more about things outside of Youtube.

“Sure! Go ahead and type it in.” You were quick to give him your phone, a cute pink phone case on the back of it. Typing it in, he can’t help but notice the little devil emoji you add by his name. He wants to ask, but your ride is already pulling up.

“Bye!” Setting all your camera gear inside the car, you turn and wave goodbye.

“See ya.” Just as you’re about to close the car door, Sukuna gets a burst of confidence. “Text me when you get home, okay?”

“Okay!” And off you go. Sukuna watches the car drive off until he can’t see it anymore. He takes his time getting to his own place, eagerly awaiting your message with every step. But even when you do message him, all he can do is send a thumbs up back and nothing else.

It’s about two and a half days after that that you text him again, letting him know you’re done editing and that you’re going to post the video soon. It wasn’t a very long video to begin with, so the editing was simple enough. Sukuna replied with what appeared to be a lackluster ‘can’t wait’, but on the inside he was shaking. He’d already screenshot all the pictures the two of you took together and added them to a folder.

“Here we go.” As soon as the video went live, Sukuna watched it. He was mortified as soon as it started at the blush so evident on his cheeks, and how it stayed throughout the whole thing. He groaned at the part where he helped you cut up the meat, he almost wishes you’d cut it out. Every little detail that made him embarrassed was there, every little nuance of his actions you’d managed to capture and make it cute.

(Y/N): How do you like it??

You texted him after twenty minutes, eager to hear his thoughts.

(Sukuna): it’s good, good editing and stuff

(Y/N): yay! I’m going to read comments in a few hours, you should too! I bet people will be really shocked!

(Sukuna): yeah no doubt

Oh, he was definitely going to read the comments. Whereas you were going to wait for a fair few to come in before commenting, Sukuna frequently refreshed the page and read the new ones as they came in. You were right, a lot of people were surprised, but he also saw a lot of his fans as well.

‘Ew Sukuna really cooked for that bitch? They can’t do it themselves?’

‘Yeah, why do they have to rely on him? Useless as fuck lol’

‘Sukuna only did this to get laid, (Y/N) looks like an easy fuck’

All of those comments, and many more, made his blood boil. Usually, he wouldn’t care at all about the comments, letting them fester in his comment section and spiral out of control. But for you, it was different.

‘Fuck off and die you pieces of shit. Leave (Y/N) alone or say it to my fucking face’

Sukuna sent that message, along with a variety of other threats, to all the people that insulted you. He didn’t care that this wasn’t his channel and that you would deal with it in whatever way you wanted to. He needed to defend you against the unwanted audience he’d brought you.

Luckily, after seeing Sukunas messages, all of his fans backed off. They knew how serious he was about his threats and there were many rumors that he actually did go and beat people up who said things he didn’t like. No one wanted to be on the receiving end of his torment.

With Sukunas name attached to the video and his heavy presence in the comment section, the video easily went viral. It was easily the most viewed video on your channel, getting on the trending pages of several different platforms.

(Sukuna): hey

It’s nearly a week after the first video that Sukuna messages you, and the hype is still going strong, and your follower count grows greatly from it.

(Y/N): hi! What’s up?

(Sukuna): do you want to film a video for my channel now? We can play a game, I have a few

(Y/N): sure that sounds fun!

Oh how wrong you were. The game Sukuna chose was a scary game, a shooter game with scary zombies and a lot of possible jumpscares. He doesn’t tell you either, so on the night of filming - he insisted on it being nighttime to get the full scary effect - you were caught off guard.

“I don’t know about this.” You whined once you saw the title. The two of you were video calling alongside playing the game together, and Sukuna’s eyes flicked to your figure on the screen.

“It’ll be okay, I’ll carry you, don’t worry.” He had started filming as soon as he’d set up the game, and you were filming yourself as well for him.

“You promise it won’t be too scary?”

“If it’s too scary just close your eyes and I’ll protect you.” Smiling softly at you, he started up the game. The beginning was fine, just a quick introduction to the game, but as soon as things started to get moving, you were scared.

“Sukuna a zombie is eating me!” You screamed, frantically pushing buttons in an attempt to get it off.

“It’s okay!” He quickly got rid of it, and made sure to stay close to your character as the story progressed.

“(Y/N) stay by me, there’s about to be a whole lot of them.”

“Close your eyes there’s about to be a jump scare here.”

“Don’t worry about getting that item, I’ll grab it for you!”

Sukuna nearly forgot he was being filmed, saying sweet things to you to help encourage you and make sure you weren’t overwhelmed. There were many parts where you screamed in fright and Sukuna was there to coo at you and tell you it was okay. He made sure that your character never died, making sure to keep you close until the end of the game.

“Sukuna, that was so hard!” Squishing your cheeks in your hands, you looked at him through your phone.

“It was fun though, wasn’t it? I had fun with you.” Completely abandoning the game, he stared down at his phone with a soft smile on his face.

“Yeah, when there weren’t so many zombies.” You stuck your tongue out at him, and it made him laugh. Leaning his head into his hand, Sukuna grinned when you yawned.

“Aw, are you tired? Better go to sleep soon.” His voice dropped to a lower volume, like you were right next to him.

“I will.” You yawned again and it made Sukuna yawn as well.

“Get off the phone and go to bed, you’re making me tired too.”

“Fine.” Whining out the word, you waved sleepily. “Goodnight Sukuna, I’ll send you the video files in the morning, okay?”

“Night.” Waving back, Sukuna waited until you hung up to turn his stuff off as well.

In the morning, Sukuna was ready to edit. What usually took him a week to edit out of laziness, he took only a day to edit this video with you together. Rewatching the footage, he nearly gagged at seeing how soft his face got when he looked at you, and most of those parts were left in because he couldn’t stand to watch them and fix them.

(Sukuna): videos up

The next day, he messaged you. Once again Sukuna patrolled the comments, swiftly deleting any that said even a hint of a bad thing about you. There was less this time, what with Sukuna adding a warning at the beginning of the video threatening anyone that talked down at you.

This video, like the first, went viral. But for a much different reason. Since Sukuna was emotionally unable to deal with how sappy he was and edit those parts out, everyone got to see how soft he was for you. If the comments weren’t mean, they were screaming about how you and Sukuna must be dating now, because why else would he look at you and talk to you like that?

And much to Sukuna’s dismay, there were also fancam edits of you two together. Any clippable moment of him being sweet on you in the videos you’d made together along with the photos you’d posted on Instagram were edited together and posted on Twitter. You both were tagged in every single one, making sure Sukuna saw all the videos of you and him together. He saved all of them too, delighting in the way you looked with him with all those pretty filters.

By the end of the day, people were trying to put a ship name together for the two of you and he’s seen you repost a few fancams with cute messages of thanks as well. Seeing you receptive to the fans screaming about the two of you made him happy, even if he was still too nervous to text you about anything outside of Youtube.

As more comments came in, people on Twitter were begging him to do a vlog with you. You had quite a few on your channel, going to cafes or filming what your day or week was like. Sukuna had watched them all and was jealous of every single person that appeared alongside you.

(Y/N): hey I’m doing a live on Instagram if you want to join me! I know people really like us together lol it’ll be great for views

(Sukuna): sure

Did you want him to join now? He’d just gotten out of the shower and thrown on a pair of sweats, he wasn’t exactly decent. But he didn’t want to waste time getting ready only for you to end the live.

“Hi Sukuna!” You smiled and waved when he appeared on the screen.

“Hey.” He waved back, not caring about the angle he was holding the camera in. He saw hearts begin to fill up the screen and comments started to fly by, almost all in caps about the fact he was shirtless talking to you.

“Guys, don’t be weird! Who cares that Sukuna is shirtless?” You tried to stop them, but it was clear you were flustered as well. You weren’t looking at him, peeking at him through the screen a few times.

“God you’re all thirsty as fuck.” Sukuna finally looked at himself on the screen. He was shirtless and in bed, hair slightly damp and tousled on his pillow. Reading a few comments, he shot up. “Of course I’m wearing pants, you nasty fuck!” Storming out of bed, he stood in front of the only mirror in his house that wasn’t in the bathroom and turned the camera around. “See, look!”

“Oh.” Gasping softly, you were glad Sukuna didn’t notice you screenshot the live. Clad in only gray sweatpants, Sukuna’s freshly cleaned skin gleamed in the light of his bedroom and every single muscle and edge of his body was on display.

“There, told you I wasn’t fucking naked.” Rolling his eyes, he flopped back down on the bed. None of the comments had gotten any better, all of them talking about how hot he was and how you were so lucky to know him in real life.

“L-let's talk about something else.” You stammered, not showing your face on camera for a few minutes. Sukuna laughed at the comments teasing you for being embarrassed, agreeing with some of them under his breath.

“So, what the fuck are you all doing here?” Sukuna posed the question at the chat, but at you as well.

“Well before you came everyone was talking about you...and you know how everyone has been begging for us to vlog?” You started off slowly, peeking an eye at his face.

“Yeah?”

“I wanted to call you to ask how you felt about that?” How he felt? Why did you want to know?

“You couldn’t have texted me that?” That wasn’t necessarily what he wanted to say, but it made you chuckle, so it was okay.

“No! I wanted to ask so everyone could know!”

“I don’t mind it.” If you wanted to vlog with him, he would do it in a heartbeat.

“So…” Worrying your lip, you looked off camera for a few seconds before looking directly at Sukuna. “Would you like to be in a vlog with me, at a cafe? It’s outside the city, kind of far, but we can rent a car or-”

“Yes.” Sukuna interrupted, nodding his head quickly. “I’ll come. We don’t have to rent a car, I’ll drive.”

“Really?” The comments were just as shocked as you were. Sukuna never filmed anywhere but his home and the gym, this would be a monumental occasion.

“Did you want me to say no?”

“No!” You screamed immediately, nearly dropping your phone. “I just- I wasn’t expecting you to say yes!”

“Well I did.” Sukuna bit his lip, running a hand through his hair and flexing his arm. “So I guess it’s a date, huh?” His normal asshole confidence was back now that you were appearing through a screen and not right next to him. A surprised sound came from the back of your throat, and you nearly dropped the phone again.

“Y-yeah! A date!” It felt good to have you flustered for once and not Sukuna. Laughing heartily at you, Sukuna smirked at the comments.

“Was that all you wanted to ask me or was there something more?”

“No, that was it!”

“Alright.” Licking his lip and letting his tongue hang out of his mouth a little, Sukuna watched you bite your lip as well. “Well I’m gonna go, I got stuff to do, but I’ll text you later (Y/N).” Dropping his voice as he said goodbye, Sukuna left the livestream.

“Holy fuck.” As soon as his phone was off, Sukuna let out a breath he’d been holding in. His heart was pounding hard despite how confident he was in his actions. Flirting was nothing new to him, but with you it felt different and like he’d never done it before in his life.

He watched the rest of your livestream while he finished getting ready for bed, laughing at the comments still teasing you about getting flustered with him. The notifications for Twitter were going off as well, and he knew for sure that there were new fancams for him to check out later.

(Y/N): Sukuna!! You’re so embarrassing!

Texting him after your stream, your cheeks were still burning at the memory.

(Sukuna): hey, you said it would be good for views and it was

(Y/N): I know…

(Y/N): did you really mean it, about coming with me?

(Sukuna): of course. If I didn’t want to I would have said no

(Y/N): that’s good lol!

There was a lull in conversation, and Sukuna nearly fell asleep waiting for you to either text him again or for him to figure out what to say next.

(Y/N): so, a date huh? Are you going to bring me flowers?

Now he was awake. He didn’t expect you to bring that up again, and his eyes flew open. Sukuna’s fingers hovered over the keyboard, mind going blank on what to say.

(Y/N): lol just kidding! I know you only said that for the stream! I’ll text you later about the details, I’m about to knock out

(Y/N): goodnight :)

Well shit. Now he definitely wanted it to be a date.

[weird-dere-fics]

Storytime! (Part 1)

Chef!Yukihira Soma x Cooking YouTuber!Reader

This is set 2 years after the end of the manga, meaning Soma is 27 years old in this story. 

Let us begin~ :)

You breathed a sigh through your nose as you adjusted your camera’s position on it’s new tripod. Unfortunately, your last one broke after you tripped over it and knocked the whole thing over. It was not a fun time for you. The floor was hard! You weren’t seriously hurt though, which was good. You were also extremely happy that your camera itself didn’t break. You would really be in for some money then. But anyway, right now wasn’t about that.

That was a week ago! Right now you were preparing to start filming your newest YouTube video. You had gotten your room clean, made sure the lighting was set up correctly, and ensured your spot for the video was nice and comfy in case the video ended up being extra long. (You would cut it down in the editing phase if it was too long, of course). “I better charge this thing after recording…” You murmured to yourself.

Once everything was properly prepared, you pressed the record button and sat down in your seat. You smiled at the camera, doing your usual greeting before jumping right into it. “You guys have been begging for a Q&A for some time now, so today I’m here to do just that. I hope you guys are excited to get to know a little more about me, or to just laugh with me,” you chuckled. You had a feeling some of the questions your subscribers and followers sent in would be memes.

“Also, welcome to my room!” you beamed, spreading your arms wide as you gestured to the space around you. “All of you that come to this channel regularly know I’m always in a kitchen for my videos, so enjoy the new scenery~. For all those watching one of my videos for the first time, hello! If you wanna see my normal videos in my kitchen, check out the rest of my channel. Hit like and subscribe. Turn that bell on! So you can be notified and all that.” You pulled out your phone, opening your twitter account and scrolling through all your recent tweets. After finding the one you were looking for from like a week ago, you tapped on it and opened the thread of replies. “So,”  you tilted your head a little, looking back at the camera, “I asked you guys last week to send in some questions on twitter for a Q&A, and a lot of you came to deliver. Thank you, by the way~.” You probably should have picked out some specific tweets in preparation for video, but didn’t. So it seemed you would instead just pick which ones you want to answer yourself. There might have been a lot of scrolling involved, but you would just cut that out in post.

“First question: When is your next video?” 

You thought for a second, “Well after this video is up, I’ll be working on a baking video. Should be up in 2 or 3 days max once you finish watching this one.”

The second question asked about how you liked being home again for a while.

You travel a lot due to your passion, you see. When you were younger, you had found you really enjoyed exploring culture. Especially through food. You got this from your parents, who were very much the same. One was a polygot and translator, another was a foodie. You had been around the world since you were young. 

As you grew and lived in different places, you found you worked a lot of jobs at different restaurants due to your love of food. That was until you started making money by doing your own thing on YouTube. You cooked and baked, and vlogged when you traveled to different places. Currently, your permanent home was in Japan. Though your home was here, you still ended up traveling a lot because of someone special. For the last few weeks though, you had gotten to stay home and relax a little. It was nice! And you explained that to the camera before moving on to the next questions.

How old are you? 

“I’m 25.”

Are you a morning person?

“If you mean staying up until 3am or worst case scenario 5am, yes,” you giggled.

Of all the countries you’ve been to, what do you think is your favorite? 

“Probably Taiwan~.”

I wanna be like you and have fun with my cooking, but I’m also so hard on myself. I’m really not good at it. How can I do what you do? You smiled softly, “We all have to start somewhere. Just keep cooking and trying to improve. I used to be really hard on myself too. Especially when I switched cooking jobs. You just have to learn to roll with the punches and believe in yourself. To be honest with you, I didn’t really start to let go of that harsh self criticism until I met someone special. Maybe you’ll meet someone like that too?” Your smile grew bigger, “I sure hope you meet that someone!” You scrolled a bit more, looking through the slew of questions you got before you laughed out loud. Funny how you got a question like this after mentioning ‘someone special’.

You single, bae?

You tuck some hair behind your ear and pucker your lips tiktok style as you look to the side for a moment, pausing for dramatic effect. ”No.” a deep voice answered for you, chuckling somewhere in front of you.

Your eyes widened as you started laughing more, your eyes landing on a familiar man with scarlet hair leaned against your shared bedroom doorway. “H-Hi,” you giggled, “You’re home?” “Uh huh. You recording right now?” he grinned. “Yeah, wanna join?” He shrugs before coming to sit next to you. You moved over so he would also be in frame good. “Soooooo,” you sucked in your lips playfully as you wrapped your arms around him, “This is my boyfriend, Soma. He cooks. Like a lot. And he inspires me every day~.” He perked up a little, looking at you, “I do?” “Mmhmmmm~,” you nodded. The golden eyed chef would kiss your cheek. You couldn’t help the smile that split them afterwards. You sat back before grabbing your phone again. “Looks like he gets to answer questions with me!” 

You looked at him slyly, “Don’t roast me.” “No promises,” he snickered. He looked at your phone screen too, eyes moving as he read some of the questions and helped you lengthen your video by answering them. A grin grew once he saw a question he really liked. “Hey, Y/n.” “Yeah?” “Wanna tell the story of how we met?” It was the way you sucked in a breath as your eyes fluttered closed, trying to suppress a smile and laugh. “Oh my god…” you murmured. Soma’s grin became a little mischievous. The way you described everything from your end always cracked him up. You turned to the camera, putting your hands together as you raised your brows, “This is gonna take the rest of the video, guys.”

[monarchisms]

It was Rahul's tweets tt reminded me that AK also did something wrong during the whole scandal. Also I think Lawrence tweeted something abt it as well but it was dwarfed by the whole RH situation. It felt like a lot of ppl brushed off AK's wrongdoings coz RH's was worse (which IS but AK's situation was bad too). He still doesn't get a free pass from me coz Rahul denouncing him says A LOT and being called out by a former member meant there was more there. That's why AK's apology video didn't sit right with me...

[rahul's tweets, for context]

lawrence made two tweets about it, but another reason they were really overshadowed was because of how vague they were.

[source one]

[source two + rahul’s reply]

i agree with you, and to add to your point about former members denouncing adam, two current members (and one former colleague, in the case of autumn) have recently shared not-so-positive comments against him, as well.

[ source one | source two | source three ]

there’s also this video alanah made, where she mentions the situation in the beginning:

to avoid misinterpreting her words, i’ll instead type up what she said verbatim for people who can’t/don’t want to watch the full section:

“Um... [sighs] I guess I will probably move this to the start of this video. Um... This is gonna be a very weird thing to talk about right now, for anyone who doesn’t have any of the context at all, but I also don’t feel like I should be the one to go into detail about the context? Basically, it pertains to uh, an ex-colleague of mine, so let's just do the question, and then I'll see if I can make this make sense, I don't know.

Tim J. said "Do you have anything to say about Adam? Is it true that you didn't unfollow him? Does that mean that we should take that as you supporting him?"

Uh... [long sigh] So, I have no interest in- in talking about this, is the true answer. Um, I- I have no interest in it whatsoever, uh, but I also get that people are... are curious, and um, I understand why these questions are coming up right now.

So I've said this before, but people have somehow like, whittled it away to mean a lot less than it did when I said it, so I'm going to reiterate this, and then hopefully never speak about this again. There is more than you are aware of. None of these people stopped associating with this dude because they think he cheated on his wife. It's nothing that simple. Majority of the assumptions are incorrect and far too kind. The secrecy is not to protect Adam; it is to protect other people. This is people's real lives, with people they really know, you know?

So... Um, I hope that people can be respectful of that, as complicated as I understand that it is, I really- I really hope that people can try to give the people who continue to provide you content at Funhaus the respect, and I also just think it's worth keeping in mind um, as weird as it is in a personal Q&A on my own YouTube channel, that you do not really know these people. They are not really your friends. Uh, going through and checking who said what and when and who's following who at what time is not necessarily a healthy thing to be doing. I'm not even trying to criticize people who are doing that, or criticize people who are coming up with wild theories, some are just- of which are just so off-base, and then sharing it with others.

It's- it's just more that I'm trying to express that, like- I think you can put yourself in a lot of harm's way, as we've seen a number of times over the last several years, um, by idolizing anybody that you watch on the internet, myself included. Anybody. And that trying to dig very hard and to speculate and to, you know, have these thousand[s of] comments, threads, posts, whatever about this stuff is also potentially damaging to you in the long run, that level of investment in a stranger.

Um, I actually was still following him, but it's because he made his account private and stopped tweeting, so I just forgot to unfollow him. It was definitely not any sign of support, um... [long pause] Yeah, I hope that's coming off in a way that is caring, which is my intent. I'm not trying to sound passive-aggressive, or anything like that in saying that. That is genuinely not me trying to tell you to fuck off and stop talking about it. While I would love that, I'm not trying to be that insensitive. I completely understand the curiosity and how frustrating it is. I'm trying to say "This probably isn't good for you. None of it is, frankly. Just cancel the whole metaverse."”

so tl;dr, my current personal opinion of adam is:

[ms-demeanor]

Some meandering thoughts about jokes about rape and cultural changes in the last decade and a half

Like, don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad we’re in a place now where we DO question rape jokes and it would be much harder to get away with “raping Jonah Hill is incredibly amusing” as the center of a scene the way that you could in 2007-2013 but I do kind of feel like we don’t talk about how sudden that change was enough.

People talk about how you should have always known that awful things are awful but if you’re surrounded by rape jokes and pedophilia jokes all the time and that’s what’s funny to the other kids around you and the adults in your lives and what makes up the jokes in the movies you watch then it’s hard to act like you always knew it was wrong.

Dead baby jokes were a HUGE thing when I was a teen and in my early twenties and sitting around swapping dead baby jokes was just a thing we did, and tossed in among them were things like:

A joke about incest with the punchline “Get off me pa, you’re crushing my smokes.”

This joke about a pedophile murdering a child.

Let’s not turn this rape into a murder.

And hell, look at the activity graph for “soap on a rope” on urban dictionary:

2014 starts a significant taper.

Letterboxd has their “sexual assault against men played for comedy page” and if you sort by release date there’s a downward trend with 2014 as a really stand-out year for rape jokes about men in popular movies:

2010 - 10

2011 - 12

2012 - 14

2013 - 12

2014 - 18 (jesus, which includes a prison rape joke in “Paddington”)

2015 - 9

2016 - 9

2017 - 11

2018 - 15

2019 - 4

2020 - 1

(this is of course with the caveat that this is only what has been documented so far)

Shock porn sites used to be a thing and they used to be a COMMON thing. A thing that would get remixed and have late night hosts make jokes about them and that got parody music videos.

So on the one hand I was really glad that in 2010 the hacker conference WASN’T asking me to make a rape joke on their tee shirt, but since Pool 2 Girl came up at every single “this is what defcon is about” discussion and some of the guys from the con had printed up “lemonparty.org” stickers to slap up around town it wouldn’t have been *surprising* if they’d been asking for that.

If you were a teenager in 2005 would you have known how much of a dick move goatse-ing people was? We didn’t have the same culture of trigger warnings (not that I disapprove of trigger warnings, they are good and I like them) and there was very much an attitude online at the time of “if you can’t handle it log off.”

I think the fappening was the turning point for a lot of this stuff - I think that was a big cultural moment that changed a lot of people’s attitudes really quickly and I’m seeing echos of that with what Chris Evans is dealing with right now: people are a lot faster to say “oh, that sucks, don’t be an asshole, report people for posting the pics” while I remember sitting and arguing in an imgur thread because there were a bunch of people saying “if you don’t like it don’t take nudes” about the celebrities who got caught in the icloud leak.

People look at Shane Dawson’s (admittedly gross and incredibly inappropriate) behavior with a poster of Willow Smith and act like it’s unprecedented***** but as someone who remembers not only Olsen Eighteenth Birthday countdowns but ALSO the jokes about fucking the Olsen twins that came BEFORE they were legal that’s just bizarre. Seeing people my age and older react to James Gunn’s pedophilic twitter jokes like they’re worse than Jay Leno’s jokes about Michael Jackson (which were made on TV! Across America! On a major network!) is just. It’s bizarre.

I’m glad we are where we are now, I’m glad that making rape jokes in public or jokes about incest or pedophilia (or murder or abortion) is less common and less okay (especially in children’s media, jesus fuck) and more likely to get criticized.

But I’m also pretty sure I’m going to get called a rape apologist by *someone* for saying “2010 was a different time, rape jokes were more common and we didn’t realize how shitty it was” when it really was a different time and rape jokes were more common and most people didn’t realize how shitty it was. I sure didn’t. I do now, and I’m glad I do now. But pretending that we should have ALWAYS known this, pretending that this was NEVER acceptable, pretending that it WASN’T a different time is ignoring the fact that for over a decade there was an entire genre of pedophilic rape jokes (that were frequently also racist) centered around one celebrity and that people told these jokes in public and in pop culture *all the time.*

Does that make it right? Fuck, I don’t know, shit is relative. It was still largely acceptable to electrocute gay kids and people tossed around the word “faggot” pretty freely. Mean Girls is full of jokes about how awful it is for people to think you’re a lesbian and Superbad is full of jokes about getting people shitfaced so they’ll sleep with you (so date rape) and there’s an entire “cute comedy” from the 80s starring Kurt Russel and Goldie Hawn that’s an extended rape-by-fraud joke. I think that as a whole we’re better now as people than we were in 2010 and the 90s and the 80s and the 50s and I don’t think that someone who made a sexist joke in the 80s is irredeemably evil and I don’t think people making rape jokes in the 2010s are rape apologists in 2020 and I wish there was a lot more understanding of both history and nuance in these conversations.

*****to be very, very clear Shane Dawson has been filmed kissing underage fans on the mouth and having explicit sexual conversations with his very young cousin - Dawson has done things that go beyond “inappropriate” and fall clearly into “wrong” “bad” “dangerous” “illegal” etc, which is all the more reason that it’s so strange to see people focusing on him fake masturbating on a poster of Willow Smith. YES doing that was gross but why is it even being compared to the way he’s been filmed interacting with fans? The lack of nuance, making “fake masturbating at a poster” and “creating a sexually abused puppet character” the same as “inappropriately touched and kissed minor fans and engaged a young child in explicit sexual conversations” is NOT GOOD. That is a bad thing. Two of those things are tasteless and two of those things are actively harmful and it’s the actively harmful stuff that we should be focusing on and part of why it’s really weird to see shit like “pizzagate conspiracist accuses James Gunn of making inappropriate jokes” like yes Gunn please don’t but can we maybe refocus and talk about the dude who can be pretty significantly assigned blame for a fucking shooting? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/01/james-gunn-alt-right-marvel-film-director-tweets

Actually, you know what, I thought I was done ranting, I’m not.

It’s purity culture.

YES you should attempt to do less harm with your language, YES you should attempt to not use slurs, YES you should try to avoid making rape jokes. But there’s an entire huge group of people who are willing to drag up rape jokes from a decade when rape jokes were REALLY REALLY common in order to say that nothing you say or do today matters.

And that same group is ALSO really interested in expanding the concept of what pedophilia is to include age differences in adults or liking the wrong style of drawing and it’s a purity culture silencing tactic and can we PLEASE stop pretending that gross, tasteless jokes are the same thing as actually sexually abusing people? Can we stop pretending that pointing out “rape jokes were more common fifteen years ago and I feel bad about it but that’s just the way it was and I don’t make jokes like that anymore” is the same as saying “rape isn’t bad and you shouldn’t make a big deal out of it.”

It’s always good to try to be a less shitty human but if you’re only allowed to grow and improve and be less shitty if you never fucked up in the first place then it’s all just calvinist bullshit and none of us could ever really be saved in the first place.

I dunno, dudes. We got so careful about disapproving of the wrong kind of language that we let a white supremacist concern troll Disney into firing a director who caught the attention of the alt right by shit-talking the president.

I think perhaps we need to reexamine some strategy here.

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This may not be a huge a factor as I think it is but tubbo is also having issues with his memory (along with his placement of time) what I mean to say is. I've watched so much of him to the point where I can hear him question something he had MORE a grasp on a year before. The degradation of his memory will not help him in keeping "The Good Takes" especially if he is not immersed in the politics of everything (and in it that he understands. Everyone really enjoys using big words to flex how Good they are but often it complicates things and can make passive readers less likely to delve in. And as you stated he is not going to be passive reader. )

I also really agree with your point on him stress testing ideas . It makes me nervous when he starts asking questions that may get him in trouble sometimes but really that Is the correct thing. He should ask why and how certain things are (twitch chat is not really the best place for answers but it's more engaging because there are these people who he is entertaining or they are entertaining him and he has this level of trust that they will not immediately strike him down for showing vulnerability [eg. When he admitted to not knowing how to use it/its and asking if it would be okay to use nicknames like man, guy bud etc]) You only learn more and you can only learn by break down the essentials and figuring out what is wrong.

Again the main thing with all of this is like his peers he is learning these kinds of things on the fly on a public platform while moat people would learn this by reading a twitter thread or a card and will have the privacy of not being live with an awaiting audience for them to fuck up. They can say something stupid delete their tweet and it doesn't exist

Theres other stuff but sorry for the long ask already

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I had heard about the memory issues from reading a few other blogs, it’s interesting/worrying that it applies to abstract concepts as well as event-recall.

I sometimes feel bad for the people who need to ‘think outside their own heads’ in order to figure things out. It’s a natural trait to have, but online it can be deadly because it guarantees that you’ll leave a breadcrumb trail of what you used to think, and culture right now is a Receipt Economy. Most CCs are on a tightrope, but watching someone stream and reconfigure their internal landscape at once is nerve wracking to watch.