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mattslolita · 2 months ago
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happy one year, CHRIS'S MAIN HOES. 💌
HAPPY ONE YEAR MY LOVERS! never did i ever think that i would find a group of girls who understand me like no other. not only did i find my wives, i found my sisters. i cannot even begin to express my love that i have for you guys ( no seriously i'm in tears just writing this ... )
💌. @luverboymatt : i'm so glad i forced you on this app!😏 technically we've almost known each other TWO years, and i can count on both hands and more on how many great memories we've shared. you're so beautiful and funny, and i'm so grateful to have you on this ride with me. i love the way you immediately know how to cheer me up, and i love your windex bottle laugh with my entire heart. remember my crush on you? LMFAO JUST REMEMBERING IT MAKES ME LAUGH SO HARD😭☠️- anyways thank you so much denny for hitting me up on my wattpad message board back in december 2022, i've been the happiest ever since.
💌. @muwapsturniolo : MY PEACH😭🍑 goodness where do i even start...my big sister quite literally. your confidence and bold nature has inspired me to adapt to your mindset, and i can't thank you enough for it. you put out nothing but such positive energy and good vibes, and even though not everyone may see you for the beautiful soul you are, i will ALWAYS see it. thank you for sticking up for me when i couldn't, thank you for giving me a reality check when i need it. you are the big sister i never had ( well i have one and just don't know her☠️ ) but you've filled that spot more than she ever has and i'm gonna cry just thinking about it. i love the sound of your voice and your wheeze, it cheers me up and makes me laugh so badly. you're such a sexy badass, and i can't believe i bagged you as one of my best friends.
💌. @thenickgirl my twin flame quite LITERALLY like down to our birthday okay...the nick to my chris in every lifetime. it doesn't matter what you say, i just KNOW im going to end up laughing cuz of the way you always know how to cheer me up. i love the way you ride for everybody, and how you aren't afraid to speak your mind. i love hearing your accent cuz it makes everything you say hilarious. i'm glad we forced you to start writing because i absolutely love it. you're so beautiful, so funny, so understanding... it's crazy how much of the same person we are cuz wdym we're birthday twins who listen to t swift and melanie martinez😭💓? thank you for having such a kind soul and being a light in my life. you are genuinely one of my favorite people on earth.
💌. @guccifrog2 zay my bitch! i miss you so freaking bad, you're one of the funniest people i've EVER met. you are so unapologetically you and it's such a fun thing to witness. whenever you randomly pop into the chat, i just can't help myself from smiling. you're so gorgeous, i can't wait for us to save up enough money to fly you out👅. it's always such a fun time with you girl, i adore your voice and just about everything about you. the 🦭 to my 🐢 FOR REAL.
i'm telling y'all we're all gonna meetup and have a fivesome😭. i love these girls forever more than life. all the laughs, and the cries, all the crashouts, im forever grateful that i've got to experience them with you guys. thank you for constantly putting up with my random BS and voice notes. my ride or dies in every lifetime. i wouldn't trade you for a ten piece combo at wingstop half bbq half parmesan with rootbeer on the side...i love you girls. forever and always. 💌
okay brb im sobbing now👅👅👅👅👅
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miraculouslbcnreactions · 6 months ago
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I feel like this is a horrible thing to say, but when I'm shown examples of when Marinette is having a hard time, it's hard for me to feel bad for her.
It's not like I think she deserves it and I certainly don't draw any joy from it, but I just don't feel any sympathy for when she's struggling.
My theory is that the show has toted her so much as the all-important one-and-only, all while ignoring everyone else's important moments and struggles, that I'm struggling to feel sympathetic for when Marinette is going through some sort of misfortune. Every single one of her struggles are always highlighted in such a way that it's supposed to be this incredibly-important thing that makes Marinette look so sad, but then she's comforted and validated until eventually, this struggle eventually gets resolved and she's all happy again.
But then there's Adrien. No closure about his mom, his dad, Natalie—nothing. He's slapped with all the responsibility of comforting and validating Marinette, who eventually gets her personal conflicts resolved without lasting impact.
I'm not saying Marinette hasn't done anything to comfort and validate Adrien, but his conflicts just feel largely brushed aside and/or downplayed in comparison to Marinette's, which are highlighted and emphasized as significant events.
I don't know if this makes me a bad person or something, and I do kind of feel bad about it, but I just struggle to sympathize with her when the show tries to make us feel bad for her.
Marinette is a fictional character. It's totally fine if the bad writing has completely turned you off to her and drained you of sympathy because the entire purpose of her existence is to entertain people. She's not some meaningful representation that you should want to connect with and understand to improve your world view or something like that. She's just a poorly written teenager in a bad kids show. As long as you're able to acknowledge that fact and own that this is mainly a writing issue - and it sounds like you are - I wouldn't stress about it. The writers have done a lot to make her unlikable! I totally get why someone would not want to watch a show starring her canon self. I struggle at times and I genuinely like Marinette! Her writing is one of the many reasons I just don't know if I'm going to watch season six.
I don't defend Marinette because she's done nothing wrong. I defend her because her faults are so clearly just bad writing and not some grand plan for the character where she's going to learn something, which makes me feel protective of her because I genuinely love the base character concept and what she could have been. It's annoying to see people treating her like she's the problem and not the writing because she's literally not allowed to learn lessons and change, so of course she keeps coming across worse and worse! Her flaws are genuinely fine for a serialized story, they just have no place in an episodic one where the characters stay largely stagnant.
For example, nothing about the season five conflict and final naturally follows the BS season four conflict where she supposedly learned to trust Chat Noir. As much as I don't agree that with that synopsis of what the conflict was, it is how Ladybug sums it up in the final:
Ladybug: Why don't you just give up on me? I've lost ALL the Miraculous! I'm the worst Guardian EVER! I wanted to control everything, I didn't listen to you, I lied to you, I kept you at a distance! Every time you offered me a helping hand, I never took it! I really made a mess of EVERYTHING! Cat Noir: We're gonna get them back one by one…until the very last. And we'll make sure this never happens again.
And yet none of this seems to impact season five. Chat Noir and Ladybug maintain all their secrets and they do absolutely nothing to track down the missing miraculous because the plot won't let them even though it really doesn't fit Marinette's character. She certainly hasn't given up controlling things because, once again, the show literally will not let her do that. The rare episodes where it happens always see her punished like when Alya handing out miraculous lead to SentiNino which almost lead Gabriel to knowing Ladybug's secret identity. Adrien suffers for similar reasons. So does Alya and so many other characters! I totally get why someone would not be able to look past canon's writing since it's not like the flaws are minor. I have the same problem with both Lila and Nathalie.
I just cannot stand Nathalie even though I know that she's as much of a victim as Marinette and all the other characters. None of Nathalie's flaws are her fault because she doesn't exist. It's just that Nathalie's bad writing hits me in a way that makes me despise her while Marinette's hits in a "protect and defend" way. There's no wider logic here. It's just a matter of what characters I connected with enough to look past the bad writing. The type of fanfics I read probably also helped...
My only real piece of advice on this topic is to watch your mental health and take a Miraculous break or even leave the fandom all together if you notice that your Marinette hate (or hate of anything in canon) is really messing with you. I've mentioned before that I'm debating about watching season six and a big reason why is that I don't know if it's going to be good for my mental health. Lila's writing has consistently got on my nerves, but she was a minor enough character that I was still having a good time. Given that Lila is our new big bad with the added bonus of how shitty season five was and the show may have hit a point where it's just not fun for me anymore.
Previously, I had issues with the overall writing, but genuinely enjoyed watching the show as the writers are pretty good at short form story telling, so canon was a nice mix of genuinely enjoyable moments and writing issues that were fun to talk about. That was not true for season five and I just can't picture how it will be true for season six. The only reason I'm even considering it is because I watch the show with my SO and he has a lot of fun listening to me rant about bad media, so I may still have a good time with season six. It would not be the first time that I suffered through a piece of bad media for the sake of a loved one who really wanted someone to rant about it with.
I'm not the kind of person who will tell people they're not welcome in a fandom unless they like X. That sort of gate keeping is ugly and often straight up bullying, so don't read this as me saying that you have to like Marinette to enjoy the show or that you need to disengage if you don't like X% of canon. As long as you're having fun and not forcing your dislike on others by sending clearly unwelcome asks or engaging with sugar posts in an antagonistic way or anything like that, then I'm going to defend your right to be in fandom even if we personally aren't going to get along and need to stay in our separate fandom bubbles.* All I'm saying is that it's important to know when to disengage from a piece of media. To keep track of when something starts consistently bringing you more sorrow than joy. When that line is crossed? It's time to move on.
The sad fact is that, while you may utterly adore a piece of media, you have no control of what that media will do, so you need to be very careful about trusting your mental health to total strangers. It's part of why I tend to be so critical of media. Analysis and plot pitches like I do on this blog are genuinely fun for me, but they're also a much healthier way to engage with a story than just trusting it to be good and getting burned when it isn't. There's a reason I avoid theory crafting. I've gotten really into that in the past and wound up hurt because I put way too much faith in strangers who ended up sucking at their job.
*Btw, the line about separate fandom bubbles was not aimed at you. It's just a general statement about how fandom works. All are welcome, but all do not need to directly interact. Curating your fandom experience is important self care. Blocking someone isn't some sort of value judgement. It's just sometimes a thing you need to do in order to keep from seething when you accidentally see their asinine hot takes.
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gentlemanviolet · 3 months ago
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Storytime until I actually got there! Pt 4!!
First of all my eng sucks, cuz it's my second language
and second of all, no one is dumb or gonna confused but I wanna explain yall that I haven't fully shifted yet (i think i minishifted before but nvm) but I'm posting storytimes for fun but especially to motivate myself that's why it's "Storytime until I actually got there"
Storytime here ⬇
It was when we were so bored being at a party in LA, 2010 August, with my bestie even tho she's a Korean actress not in hollywood, I don't wanna go alone even when i'm friends with other female celebrities but still she's my bestie since childhood so yeah
We both can speak english fluently so we're fine with it, but what's boring is the party (idek if that calls a "party") is boring yk? Rich people rich laughing and yapping about their rich projects that makes that richer, unlike parties in Korea, all of us are young and they like to drink and dance to the loud asf music, do silly shits so even tho we both are rich asf, I only love american parties that threw by a young person so basically we do not fw those rich people's quiet and elegant parties, so we both acted like i was so sick so my bestie had to take me back to our hotel, and then we came back to the hotel and called Angelina Jolie to meet somewhere that we can have fun
She took us to a place, it's an amusement park, three of us were messing around and riding everything that we can ride, we forgot that we were celebrities, and there was a group of boys that been following where we go, like....yk? I noticed and tell two of them and guess what? Both beaches said "Yeah...like you can't do karate or boxing so you're telling us there are some boys following us to ruin the moment", they said that cuz I'm good at most of combat sports, of course I said "okay bitches have fun until you get kidnapped" both of them side eyed me but idgaf
As i thought, mins later, one of those mf ask for our number for his friends, I said "no thanks, we love to keep our phone numbers for ourselves so.. I hope your friends find a good number for their phones one day!" And then grabbed my friends arms and left, they said "girl you ate their ass up", we don't wanna play around anymore so we came back and we ate some mcdonald's on our way back to the hotel,
At the morning, we both misses Korea so much and we've already bought tickets so we pack things and came back to Korea, after hours of spending time on the plane, we finally arrived! Yay
The day we arrived was Saturday so like usual, me and my bestie got invited to a party where most of idols and a few actresses and actors gonna be there, we were so tired but our friends were begging us to come to the party so we went there
When we get there, we had to say hi to some random mfs but it's ok, they're hot, and a few minutes later, Eunjung(from T-ara) come up to us and said "Unnies, we're playing a drinking game right over there, please join us pleaseeee" and she point a corner and then before we could say anything, she grabbed us and when we realized, we're already there,
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Before the story, I wanna say that I really don't fw There 4th, 5th or 6th gen kpop so 2nd gen kpop never dies in my reality even the new groups give the 2nd gen vibe, so the people that were playing the drinking game were CL(2ne1), Eunjung(T-ara), Jessica(SNSD), Yuri(SNSD), Lee Hyori (Solo artist), Park Jiyeon(T-ara), Taecyeon(2PM), Junho(2PM), Lee Joon(MBLAQ), GD(BIGBANG), T.O.P(BIGBANG, but yall call him Thanos from squid game), Daesung(BIGBANG)
And btw since you're hearing a lot of "BIGBANG" so yes, in my reality, se***ri is not a bad person but also not in the group but Hyunseung (who was supposed to bs the 5th member) is the 5th member, and my dad (who's an American but) owns all the famous entertainment companies, YG, SM, and JYP (I know, the companies names are the names of the ceo's in this reality but in my reality, we just give the conpany name to the ceo we're hiring like YG, SM, JYP), and there's only three kpop companies and they are YG, SM and JYP (yeah, sorry)
So let's get back to the point, I kept losing the game unfortunately, and I start to get drunk, all of them notice and tell me to stop and just get rest or smth but I'm a Taurus(yes I remember I said i was born in april 22 but a leo but now I just wanna be a Taurus, but it's a fire sign) so I'm stubborn asf, the more I play, the more I lose and had to drink, I've been drinking a lot so I started want to pee so I told them that I'm going to the bathroom
And just like every drunk mfs, I wanted to prove that I'm not drunk so I went there alone, when I get out of the bathroom and slowly walking back to the place we play games, but a random mf blocked my way and start messing with me, and he tried to HIT me, so I was so pissed and plus i was drunk so I punched him in the face so hard that guy didn't go well and start rolling on the damn floor even tho I just punched his stupid face without kicking his nasty balls
Luckly, CL was on her way to check on me so she saw the whole thing, and she helped me walk cuz I was super drunk(obviously) and before we go, she even kicked his ass, and when we're back to there, she told everyone abt the situation and Taecyeon and Daesung go check on his guy to beat his ass or do something yk?, sue or smth, but they came back a few minutes later
My bestie did not like the situation so she said we're leaving but for SOME REASONS, ALL of them (except gd and t.o.p) starts convincing my bestie to stay and let GD TAKE ME BACK HOME??, MY BESTIE WAS LIKE..... WHAT THE FREAK?? IVE BEEN ALWAYS THE ONE WHO TAKES HER BACK HONE CUZ WE LIVE IN THE SAME CONDO BUILDING AND SHE LITERALLY LIVES NEXT DOOR SO I SHOULD BE THE ONE WHO TAKES HER BACK HOME, they were talking and discussing about taking me back home but drunk mf me couldn't pay attention and just sitting and laying my head on Eungjung's shoulder
My bestie and most of them were discussing so hard abt it cuz my bestie wouldn't let other people to take me back home, after a few minutes, they turned to me and ask me to choose a person to take me back home and i couldn't understand what they were saying so I just chose my bestie, but it didn't end there, they convince my bestie AGAIN and my bestie just let them drop me back home cuz it'll be rude if she make it seems like she doesn't trust them, ik GD is my ex s/o but he's literally everywhere so that's why he's in every "Storytime until I actually got there",
I couldn't walk so poor dude had to carry my ass on his back to the car (his driver drives the car), on the car, I kept saying "Where's Ji hyo(it's my bestie's name)?, Ji hyo ya, Ji hyo?" In korean, he kept giggling and saying "Noona, here's only "Ji yong", Ji hyo noona is still at the party" (he call us "Noona" cuz both me and my bestie is 5 years older than me), I couldn't care less, when we arrived, he had to carry my ass again, cuz i live on the 5th floor (i know my room no. Is 222 but i just want to live on the 5th floor, and there's elevator but I can't stand so.. he had to carry), when we get to the door of my room
And the door is locked with code number so he look away and let me unlock the door but I kept messing up and putting my bestie's door code number instead of mine, he laughed so hard (that mf) and called my bestie and she told us the numbers through the phone and yay we finally got inside, he put me on my bed and as soon as he put me down to my bed, I literally fell asleep like I passed out or smth, I don't know what happens after that but the next day, my bestie tells me everything what happened, when I fell asleep, he was so worried if I passed out or smth but just found out that i was just fell asleep so he left and came back to the party
And as soon as he came back to the party, my bestie left the party and came straight back to my place and check on me, and she just slept over my place
Okayyy, so lastnight I accidently cleared the phone while choosing some photos for my post after finishing the whole thing so my draft disappeared, but how to explain, I wrote some in the afternoon (evening or night? Id remember) and that save it to draft so technically, the whole post didn't disappeared but I had to write the half again
And tonight even tho i had to write this again, i was so excited and grabbed my earphone and guess what? The left side went deaf, i was so mad and disappointed my tears starts to fell automatically (i sounds dramatic but yeah), i really donit wanna post this anymore but i tried to stay positive and now here I am!, the money situation is not okay I guess I'm getting a new earphone after a few weeks or something (my family is poor<3, and we live in a tiny apartment that would be smaller than your living room), but i'm actually the richest person on earth in my reality, so byebye, I didn't shifted lastnight but tonight, i will!
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kidnap-the-series · 4 months ago
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EP 7 - Nothing Left (Part 4)
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Min to the rescue.
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Thank you!!
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Min didn't have to hit that man so many times just to stop him. He only stopped when Q told him to. Anger and fear must have taken over him.
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Sir! I know you slayed here in the court but your son is almost getting killed rn so....Please go!
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Suea!! Yes!! That's right. He can't just die like that. He's got too many problems in this show to die yet.
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This must have really scared him. Especially since he got hit in the head. You never know how head injuries could go.
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Call the ambulance dude. But I get how panic can take over your thinking and you just do not know what to do in situations like this. All that was probably running through Min’s head was the fear of losing Q.
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He must be feeling guilty too. If only he had encouraged Q to go to Vancouver he wouldn't have to be hurt like this.
Also, when I saw that Q got hit in the head in the teaser for this EP, I was praying for them to not go the 'I hit my head. I don't remember you now' route. I hate that trope with my whole life.
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I don't think so.
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That's not true at all. Sometimes others loving you could give you all the reasons to love yourself. Someone loving you shows that you are worthy of love both from yourself and from others. It shows you that you are worthy of someone’s time, sacrifice and a lot of other things. I believe that's a path to self love.
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Min istg if you do anything that's gonna hurt Q, sleep with your eyes open. I'll be after you.
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It's the way despite being hurt, Q is still happy because he’s surrounded with people that love and cherish him.
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He’s got tears in his eyes just thinking about having to break this cute lil family.
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Honestly this is a good decision. Q is obviously not safe here. He almost got killed this time.
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Not exactly but yeah.
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Babiesss, going to Vancouver does not mean letting go of each other. It's doing what's best for each other.
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Nothing. You can do long distance. It's not like he's moving permanently.
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Min!, c'mon dudeee. Out of all the times, Q needs Min the most now.
I feel like Min gets easily influenced by other people’s words. First with James and the whole kidnapping job and now with Q’s dad. Q’s dad should have suggested Min to encourage Q to go to Vancouver temporarily instead of all that 'Q doesn't love himself enough to love someone else' BS. This hits harder after Q said that he wasn't strong enough to lose another person.
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You can't say that!! You promised to not let go of his hands, Min.
Why you gotta hurt me like thattt.
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It's the way he’s holding onto the tip of his finger 😭. He doesn't want to let go.
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Just send Min, Q and Mhen to Vancouver atp. I can't stand seeing Q in pain. My heart hurts.
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Pain and tears everywhere. I don't like this. Give me my adorable MinQ back. MinQ boyfriends era, you were amazing while it lasted.
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Lmao I remember being so panicked when I was watching this for the first time. Which dumb idiot in gmmtv thought it was a good idea to not put subtitles for this?! Like what am I supposed to think this is? 4 days? 4 months? 4 years? 4 decades? Idfk. I was hoping for it be 4 days. (I fucking hate time skips and gmmtv keeps doing it for no absolute reason)
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I mean this was clear with the way Min thinks. Min is obviously the reason Q won't go to Vancouver, where he is safer. So indirectly, Min is the reason Q is in danger. Or atleast that's how Min thinks. So his way of solving this is to break up with Q so that he is free from Min. Parallel to how if Min is the reason for Q being in danger, he wanted him to run away.
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I admire this guy’s determination. 😂
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Doesn't look like they sold the house or somtheing. I'm assuming they moved somewhere else temporarily.
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Min, you fucker!!! You left that camera there coz you knew he'd come back. Min, fix this or you'll end up dead in my hands.
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I don't like seeing Q like this 😭
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😭.
Their boyfriends era was absolutely adorable for the 5 seconds it lasted and then they broke up 😭.
Anyways, I will be forever grateful to the writers for not going with the 'memory loss' trope. I just absolutely despise that trope.
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Suga has to be the best gatekept secret in BTS. He is so beautiful, cute, caring, charming, and funny!!! After months of questioning your taste ranking him second after Jimin in visuals when tkk is right there!, I'm sorry to say I was wrong. Yoongi is THE visual. I'm not going to the concerts but every photo I see on Twitter makes me wish I was going BPP. Does it sound like I'm getting wrecked? It's because I am. I relate to your other anon so bad haahaha. Before this tour, only Jimin and Jung Kook turned my head, but Suga now owns my soul. Is this how people become true OT7? Through BTS concerts?
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Ask 2: Anyhow, did you notice how obsessed (maybe too heavy a word) Yoongi is with BS&T Jimin?? I just noticed after Suchwita. I think he really likes & remembers bst Jimin fondly & fervently. Please correct my delusion, if you think it's farfetched. (While reading your blogs and army detective twts, I'm realizing more and more how clueless and unobservant I am. I've given up being astute in noticing these matters and just gonna outsource these insightful findings to others. haha) +
But I think, Yoongi really LOVES bst Jimin. I mean who wouldn't?!? I just watched the MV & performances, and WOW JIMIN!!!! My words don't do bst jimin justice. That head tilt?! the fluttering of his eyelids?! his hand motion? his jaw line? the way he glides?! I see a ballroom behind him! GAH. the song is a BOP. I'm absolutely mesmerized, and let's be real, who can blame Yoongi for forgetting how to close his mouth in front of jimin! I want members reacting to mvs back!! T T
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Hi Anon(s),
I started reading your asks giggling, by the time I got to the end I was full on howling lmaooo. Anon in ask 2, I too want the guys reacting to their MVs back, just cause we'll see them all going "Ahh, Jimin!"
Anon in ask 1, sigh, you have no idea what you’re in for with Yoongi.
Maybe all Yoongi biases are the same, because I truly feel like gatekeeping everything about him and I see that impulse in other Yoongi biases too. I’m very selfish with Yoongi.
You mentioned his visuals and him being caring etc, so let me try something here. It’s easy for me to talk about Jimin, but near impossible for me to talk about Yoongi, so I’m going to try talking about Yoongi through some of his actions with Jimin. And I’ll sprinkle in some okay pictures of him I don’t mind sharing, since you’ve acquired a taste for his visuals as well. :)
First, a preamble of his delectable visuals:
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(ASDHJKJLSHKSADLK)
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When people typically talk about Yoonmin, they stick to a rotation of Yoongi’s mouth hanging open watching Jimin, Jimin’s teasing of Yoongi, their bickering, etc. This is a jikook space so we hear all the time about how Jungkook looks out for Jimin, cares for him, encourages him and protects him. JK is introverted so when he becomes very assertive, usually on account of Jimin, it stands out. Yoongi too is introverted, but when he deals with Jimin he doesn't really break character, and so, oftentimes his quiet encouragement of Jimin, the significance of his actions, typically goes under the radar for a lot of people.
For example,
I'm not sure how many people realize how big a deal it was for Yoongi to recommend Jimin for A&R director when the boys were making BE. Jimin has said during that time, he felt lost - with their tour getting canceled, all their plans upended with no end in sight, the pandemic had taken away his core reason to live by his own admission i.e. performing for ARMYs. He was starting to drift and become unmoored (emotions we now see in Alone), and so Yoongi recognizing that, and recommending that Jimin take on the responsibility for determining the direction of their self-driven album, to get Jimin "closer to music again", is a small thing, but I see it as one of many ways Yoongi was pushing Jimin to better express and assert himself in that situation. Advice that Jimin finally took to heart during their Vegas concerts, when he began pursuing his solo music in force. The A&R role would’ve typically gone to RM since he drives most of their songwriting and oftentimes sets the tone of their music with BH, but Yoongi pushing for Jimin to be active, with Jimin eventually writing some songs for BE (though those were rejected), registered in my mind as yet another way Yoongi sees Jimin in ways many of the members don’t, and quietly advocates for him. Pushes him to go out of his comfort zone, because of how much he loves him. RM eventually took on a more active role during BE but Jimin being able to come on YouTube lives in Fall 2020 to talk about things he was doing for BE, those glimpses into him starting to find himself again, those details registered for me in ways I’m not sure I can properly express.
Yoongi sees Jimin, and loves him dearly. And it's mutual.
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(I've never cared for animal prints but that leopard-print furry hat on Yoongi... he's a big cat)
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Another moment I want to highlight is their 2016 Festa dinner. You know the one, where Taehyung talks about how Jimin grabs the spotlight/center. Yoongi was the first to come to Jimin's defense, saying how Jimin just naturally knows how to be a good performer, that a friend had told him that Jimin naturally knows how to act on stage to capture the audience. I'm not sure if it's obvious to many people, but that comment shifted the direction of the conversation, and soon other members were talking about how good and confident a performer Jimin is. J-hope would later say he's learned about performing by watching Jimin, and Jungkook would say this in later years too.
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(… I have no words)
Yoongi saw Jimin's potential since way back in pre-debut, encouraging him and advocating for Jimin to be added to the final line-up in BTS, and has supported him in key periods of doubt since. Everyone saw how hard Jimin was working as one of the last trainees to join a nearly bankrupt agency with limited resources to train even just 7 people - I can't imagine the anxiety Jimin had to deal with but I imagine it was so much. And so when Jimin talks about that period and nearly always mentions how Yoongi supported him, I don't take it lightly.
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(There's a reason Yoongi will always choose Jimin)
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[Full disclosure here, but yoonmin's antics during the whole Shadow/Daechwita MVs shooting drives me to near madness. Because if you understand what Yoongi is, (which Jimin does btw), you'd see why this is borderline one of the most homoerotic unresolved cases we've ever had in Bangtan history.
If not for the fact that Jungkook exists, I'd be in a very different blog space right now honest to God. And I'll just leave it at that. ]
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Whew! Okay, I need a break so enough about Yoonmin for now. I’ll try to focus more on Yoongi now.
Anon in ask 1, his pictures on Twitter is what’s fucking you up? Then welcome to my world lool. What got me initially though, was his music. Like, weeks later and I’m still struggling with myself not to loop D-DAY 40 hours a day 10 days a week. The fact he makes music like HUH?! while looking like this
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(…and the fact this isn’t even in the top 30 hottest pictures I have of him. Just…)
I’ve written sonnets and poems about his voice and it still doesn’t feel enough to explain what it does to me.
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(More Yoongi…)
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(…just because…)
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(…he’s that perfect.)
Good luck to you becoming a Yoongi bias because I have no idea how I’ve been surviving all these years. If we’re both still standing by the time this tour is over, please stop by my inbox again to tell me how you’re doing. I’d love to hear all about it. :)
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dwtsfun · 6 months ago
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Dancing with the Stars Season 33 Week 5: I'm Annoyed
Hey y'all. We're back. And I'm a little annoyed about the show last week. I'll start my regular reviews next week. But for now, I'm gonna do some ramblings and spill my thoughts. So here we go.
The Elimination
I was completely fine with Brooks being eliminated. It was the only thing that made sense at this point and I couldn't stomach another moment of Gleb giving her trash choreography and half assing teaching her while going full steam ahead with the showmance for the THIRD SEASON. I couldn't even really tell you what dance they because there was no technique. It could've been a salsa, a cha-cha or a samba. Idk. Brooks could've been much better with any other pro because the potential was there. But here we are. Unfortunately.
Derek and Hayley's Dance
It was really beautiful and it was so nice to see Hayley out there dancing like that again. That's so scary what they went through. I can't imagine Derek's actual feelings in the moment. The brain is no joke.
The Scores/Judging
Mark was a mostly great addition. He was sometimes on some bs though (along with the other judges). So I'm wondering what is going on. Chandler, Joey and Danny should've been tied for the lead with 34 points each. Phaedra should've gotten the same score as Dwight. Jenn should've been given a 30/31 because Sasha sh*t the bed once again.
Thoughts on Individual Couples
So I have a few other lingering thoughts. The first is this weird standard that they are holding Chandler to. The reason I hate contemporary on this show is because it's not valued if it doesn't make you spit up, shake sob, dribble, snot and fart once you're done. That dance was perfectly fine. It was almost perfect minus a lift where Chandler's dress got in Brandon's face and a slight out of sync moment in the side by side choreo. Chandler dances with conviction. She hits her marks, she doesn't just step. She full out dances. None of them feel the same in terms of the feeling. Yeah, this contemporary was lighter, but we weren't dealing with a heavy topic. Her mother is still very much alive and well. She was thanking her. Trying to make it all extra sad would ring as inauthentic and I'm glad that Brandon spoke to that in their interviews. You could tell that they both were confused and that Chandler was shaken by the strange critique.
This Phaedra and Val partnership is not working. Sorry. Homie checked out this season and is not giving Frack (for all you RHOA fans out there) dances that show her in the best light. Is Phaedra the best dancer? No. But she could be so much better if her pro tried. That rumba was the best example of that. Mama pulled a Reggie and that's the one dance I thought she would kill. I'm so disappointed and I wish she had gotten someone else. So far Brandon has done the best with his RHOA star, followed by Tony (surprisingly). Val is sucking this season. I'm just gonna flat out say it.
Sasha had one good week of choreo and went back to bs. That foxtrot was atrocious. I need him in a class or something because the way his choreography skills have regressed in 6 years is WILD.
Joey and Danny, while both good, are being given very kind scores. Joey was skip stepping during that whole dance and Danny needs to loosen up just a bit more (his foxtrot is still my favorite dance of his). The judges are rightfully calling out Stephen for his areas of growth. The same needs to be done for those other two.
I enjoyed Ilona's dance a lot and I think she would benefit with talking to Laila Ali. I feel like that would help her really settle into the dance world in her own unique way. She's almost there, there are just a few more things she's gotta tend to.
Dwight was fine. I want him to dance from his whole body and not just picking a couple different places to focus on.
That's it. Sorry this is late again. Life and I was annoyed with the show last week. But Disney week starts in 5 minutes for the Eastern and Central time zones. So I'll talk to you all very soon.
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just-a-laughingstock · 1 year ago
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People are falling for Alastor's BS
Allow me to explain.
Pretty much a person on TikTok believed that the reason Alastor fought Adam was to prove how powerful Alastor was since he could hold his own with Adam until Lucifer arrived. And I couldn't agree less.
The series makes it clear multiple times how powerful Alastor is, so it makes no sense to hammer it in. I believe it was the opposite, that it was to prove that Alastor isn't as powerful as he claims.
My main belief is that Lucifer was not meant to be there, why? Cause Charlie literally says "Alastor was supposed to handle him" in refrence to Adam. Lucifer was never meant to be there. Charlie is literally shocked when he arrives.
So did I make this whole post to bash on a random TikToker. No. It was to confront a problem I see in the Hazbin fandom and that is that a lot of people are taking Alastor to be the most powerful being in Hell. To the point that some people think he could win against Stolas or even Asmodeus.
In my opinion Alastor fits Hazbin Hotel to a T cause he's a Hazbin. He was ONCE one of the most powerful overlords but now he is washed up.
I'm gonna cut this off for people who want to scroll, but if you want to see all of my points, just do the thing.
But if you want to skip TLDR: Alastor has a superiorty complex
My point begins in "Radio killed the Video Star".
One we have the fact that Sir Pentious, a literal joke villain who is called pathetic constantly, managed to land a hit on him. If he had a power bordering the Seven Deadly Sins, that wouldn't be possible. Stolas managed to detect an imp sneaking up on him from behind. Alastor couldn't detect Sir Pentious grab his jacket when he was right in front of him.
But than we have Valentino's talk with Vox. Noteably how he says "Are you still mad he almost beat you that one time" key word "almost". Alastor didn't beat him. If you want to believe the idea that it was cause Alastor used to be friends with Vox, go ahead, but I don't. I believe he literally couldn't. He wasn't beat by Vox, but he didn't win either.
Than we have the song "Stayed Gone" itself. A lot of people in the comments praise Alastor for "tearing Vox apart" and "not even caring" but if Alastor didn't care. He wouldn't respond.
Alastor has aan Ego not confidence. And a fragile Ego at that.
Vox bashing Alastor was enough to make him begin broadcasting and ripping Vox apart. Even implying Vox shouldn't be feared cause his power comes from his connection to Val and Velvette. But in the end when he cuts the power in Pentagram City, he still feels the need to go to his demonic form and attempt to strike fear into the hearts of the other Sinners.
If he was confident in his abilities and powers, he wouldn't feel the need to remind people that they should fear him. He would simply mind his business and remind people when they mess with him. Not mock another person for just saying "he's a coward".
Than we have the distinct fact that he mocked Vox. Not attack him, he mocked him. We see with Husk that he has 0 problem killing people, but he doesn't do it. As if he knows he can't attack Vox directly.
My next point and the shortest comes with "Scrambled Eggs" specifically when he goes to the Overlord meeting. When Carmilla points out that Alastor had been gone for 7 years, he pretty much says "Oh I know. You must be so curious as to where I was" and Carmilla shuts that down. Alastor is noticeably offended that Carmilla doesn't care at all that he was gone. As if he's offended that she isn't interested at all about the fact that he left and is now back.
But in my opinion the episode with the most proof is "Dad beat Dad" when he meets Lucifer.
When they first meet and Lucifer calls him the Bellhop. Alastor ignores the comment and talks about his radio broadcast, as if fully expecting the King of Hell itself to have heard of him. And not only does Lucifer state he had never heard of him and even calls him a hazbin.
To me it seemed like Alastor seemed to immediantly try to subtly fish for a compliment. As if saying "I'm the one who came up with the name, I'm the one who deserves the praise" in which Lucifer tells him it's not clever. A comment that noticeably upsets Alastor abd causes him to cuss for the first time in the series.
This leads into "Hell's Greatest Dad", where Alastor is noticeably trying to one up Lucifer, that's the whole point of the song. But note that he never brings up his power, pretty much just saying "Well I was here first". And he gets aggressive when Lucifer keeps portraying himself as the better pick.
Only stopping when Mimzy appears. A character that pretty much kisses Alastor's ass, and makes him out to be one of the best people ever.
When Husk confronts Alastor about Mimzy, he pretty much says "he can handle whatever trouble Mimzy brings" and when Husk states that Alastor also made a contract and has his soul owned. Something that sets off Alastor so much that he threatens Husk's life.
Than when the loan sharks arrive he says that he needs to "remind people why they should fear the Radio Demon". As if upset that him simply being there, did not deter people from arriving. That they were fine fucking with the place Alastor lives if it means getting the money Mimzy owes them.
Then he cuts off Mimzy. As if upset that she purely arrived to use him as a sheild. And while he states that he's angry that she brought danger to the hotel, I don't believe that. Since he literally offers her a place to stay when she was described as pretty much being a trouble magnet. So it's weird to assume that he doesn't want her just dropping by but has no issue with her living there. I believe this was him attempting to have her show that she genuinely respects him and doesn't just view his reputation has a shield to get her out of trouble.
Pretty much, I believe that Alastor was poweful. That he was among the most powerful overlords, but now he's washed up, a hazbin. And he doesn't like that. He has a complex after all. He needs people to fear him, he needs people to view him as poweful.
That's why he breaks down after Adam beats him. He was just "killed" on live television. Live television just saw him "run with his tail between his legs" as the Vees put it. That's why he seems to be breaking down as he reads off a hypothetical headline calling him an "altruist" a person willing to die for his friends. As if upset at the thought that if he had died, people would stop fearing him. Cause he'd be seen as someone who died for the hotel, who died for his loved ones, who died for his friends. It breaks him.
I believe Season 2 will confront that fact. That all of the Pride Ring saw Alastor run from a fight. Something not even the "pathetic" Sir Pentious did. Not even Sir Pentious ran from the fight, but the "mighty" Radio Demon did. I believe the next season will have Alastor being taken down a notch.
Anyway there's my rant. Sorry if it's scattered, I tried to make it as straight forward as possible.
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mrsdeliberatecreater · 9 months ago
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hi, im sorry for bothering u right now. ive been asking around for advice everywhere because i really need all the help i could use right now. my anxiety is flaring up like crazy because my results come out tomorrow and im so scared because if i mess this up then my future is ruined. my mental health has been horrible and that has severely affected my grades but in most asian countries they dgaf about that and basically think it's nonexistant for minors so ofc i'm still undiagnosed, and if i were to apply to a uni i wouldnt get any good chances anywhere. if i could just get 3 Bs in my AS levels it would be okay or else i'd have to retake it and it's super costly here.. i don't wanna put my family through that because they'll talk me down, degrade me, destroy my self esteem which i've managed to build back a little. they were like this since when i was the topper and thats what made me burnout. undiagnosed adhd, trauma, depression also contributed to it
im applying the law, but instead of the feeling of success that everyone else gets i feel panicked. the 'feeling' people usually get when they're in the wish fulfilled state, the feeling of accepting it and it being real—im not getting that. i dont see a clear picture when i visualize. every time i try to, i end up breaking down and feeling like a failure... but I'm still trying to go on because why is it that the people who hurt me and practically ruined my life get to live successfully, while i suffer? thats not fair... i promised myself that if i could just get 3 Bs, ill turn my life around and work really hard... but is it over for me? i want to win, im trying to, but im scared
im trying my best to visualize myself getting 3 Bs, reenacting my friends faces when i get the results, praying to God and thanking Him for blessing me and continuing to bless me, but there is this fear still lingering at the back of my mind... i feel like I'm not doing it right. i have like one day left and I'm so nervous. im going over posts, tweets, and every time I feel a little better, it all comes crashing down because of doubts. theres only one thing one my mind right now: 'how am I gonna turn it around in one day?' i know that the 3D does not matter and that everything is done in imagination, but here i feel like its not done in imagination either
right now nothings clicking in my head, whatever i read is getting scrambled in my mind, i feel so lost and empty. could u please tell me what to do in this specific situation? u can be as harsh as you want if that's what's needed to get the point across. im really sorry for the bother and id be really grateful if u could please help out, ive never been this desperate before... my life cant be over before it even started
Okay love. I need you to do something for me. Take 3 deeeeep breaths.
Okay?
I understand you completely. I understand what are going through completely. I'm Indian, so I know how it can be. I got yelled at by my sister for thinking that I might have ADHD. 👀 Its all good now though. I also used to deal with debilitating anxiety two years ago.. I barely left my room, let alone go to school for a master's degree that I chose and got into serious debt for.. I'm not making this about me, but I just want you know that change is possible.
Anytime you start to feel bad, a anxiety attack coming on, I want you to just keep taking calming deep breaths and focus on the now. Focus on the things you see, things you can hear, smell, etc. Its the feeling of "now". Come back to the "now" as many times as needed if you feel negative thoughts. I would affirm, "Everything is okay, everything will be okay", pick an affirmation that feels natural to you, and affirm.
If you like subliminals, I would recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6BKBzVgfk&t=4s This has stopped so many of my anxiety attacks before I learned to let them go..
If not keep doing the breathing exercises. You will find that by repetition this will eventually release the reasons for feeling anxiety in the first place. Take things one day at a time. If it gets bad, ask someone you trust for help.
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We alll have doubts. Doubts are fine. As long as you are just focused on the end/wish fulfilled/affirming, you are fine, even with doubts. You don't need to believe with 100% everything till you burst a blood vessel. If you feel like your doubts are overwhelming you, decide that nothing, not even you can stop your desires from manifesting. <3
"Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you". - Matthew 17:20
If you have the time, I would highly recommend IlluminatingJoy on youtube, especially her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT2xyCcoues&t=1727s
She has a really good grasp on manifestation and explains everything so well and accommodates it to fit our "logic", while completely validating human emotions. The exercise she does in this video is so so simple but seriously effective. I catch myself slipping at least once a day that would have spiraled if I hadn't done the exercise.
Also if you want to do this in a day, I want you to focus on your mental diet. Affirm affirm affirm.
If negative thoughts come up, you breathe and think "I can relax, I got all A's". Anything in the 3D reminds you think, "I can relax, I got what I wanted. Your family being mean to you? remember how in class after lunch, your teacher is talking but you're thinking about something else.
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Also speaking of that, I know you said you can't your images clearly. That's fine. Visualizing is NOT imagination.
Visualizing is NOT imagination.
Visualizing is NOT imagination.
Visualizing is NOT imagination.
My visualizations are never clear and I manifest everything I imagine all the time. They all have that "vignette" effect lol..
Imagination can be a picture, it can be a smell, a touch, a voice, just how someone's clothes smell when they are standing really close to you like in an elevator. Like you can specifically smell it but you KNOW what I'm talking about right?
Your loved ones in your face? Use it YOUR ADVANTAGE. I used to hear my sister compliment me, it was easy to hear her voice. I primarily used her voice to fix our relationship. Cannot for the life of me picture her face properly but thats FINE.
You can use ANY of the senses, just one or two or all. Hear your family saying things you want in your mind. Hear them congratulating you, compliment you.
You can slowly work this into all the other aspects of your life...
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By the way, you aren't lost and empty. You are a very caring person, you want to do things so that you don't let your family down, in spite of how they treat you. That to me is a genuinely caring person.
But you need to apply that same care to yourself. You don't need me to be harsh to you, YOU don't need to be harsh to you. You are working so hard to find answers but you ARE the answer. Its okay. Please just rest. Its all yours. Be more soft to yourself, be more kind to yourself, compliment yourself, you will start to see that kindness reflected in the 3D as well.
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I have given you a lot of options here so you can pick and choose what makes YOU feel better so that YOU can focus on SELF because
Nothing to change but self
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Reach out to me as many times as you would like, you could never bother me.
Nya 🌺
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whowantslovergirl · 10 months ago
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can you write song fic for john B reader is a kook and really wants to be john bs gf bc she thinks sarah is terrible for him i was thinking girlfriend by avril
thanks!!! Love your stories
An: OMG I LOVE THIS???? this request ate but you asked and you shall receive 😝😝😝 AND THANK YOU ILYSMMM 🤍🤍
Girlfriend
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John b x reader (reader is female with she/her pronouns)
warnings: reader is ‘kook princess’, cursing, not doing the whole song :(, let's be honest sarah is not good for john b srry guys, italics are flashbacks, ^ this means start the song, reader being tht girl, outer banks masterlist
Summary: Y/n doesn’t like his girlfriend and she thinks he needs a new one
posted: July 9, 2024
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Y/n always had a crush on John B. I mean who wouldn’t? But when Sarah Cameron got with him. Y/n became physically sick. It’s true she literally threw up when she found out. Sarah Cameron is known for cheating so why would he get with someone like that.
Y/n is much better for him and she won’t stop until she gets what she wants. ^
Hey, hey, you, you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
It’s no secret that I don’t like Sarah Cameron and I’m not one to slut shame but she’s a slut. Who gets together with someone who is known for cheating?, that makes no sense. John B and I always had our little interactions. Like last week he totally was flirting.
“Hey N/n.” Only very select people are allowed to call me by my nickname so obviously he means a lot.
“Hey Johnny Boy.” You smiled and he smiled back. He got a little closer as did I. “I like your outfit.” You smiled. “Thanks Johnny I wore it just for you.” His eyebrows raised and he chuckled. “Oh did you now?” You nodded.
He needs a new girlfriend and it is definitely going to be me.
Hey, hey, you, you
I could be your girlfriend
“You know I could probably be your girlfriend.” I was being serious but John B obviously didn’t care and he laughed in my face.
When is he going to realize that Sarah ain’t shit?
Hey, hey, you, you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
No, it's not a secret
It’s not a secret that John B is attracted to Y/n literally everyone sees it.
“So when you gonna realize that Y/n is better?” JJ asked John B while they were smoking together on the front porch.
“JJ shut up bro. I’m with Sarah and no one is going to change that.” JJ rolled his eyes. “Alright John B I’m just saying that Y/n is the better choice.”
Hey, hey, you, you
I want to be your girlfriend
“Johnny I want to be your girlfriend.”
“I’m with Sarah, Y/n.” I rolled my eyes.
“Yea not for long.” I say under my breath while walking away. “What was that?” I turned and smiled. “Nothing!”
You're so fine I want you mine you're so delicious
I think about you all the time you're so addictive
Don't you know what I can do to make you feel alright
There he is looking so delicious with that blonde bitch right next to him. My friends and I are on my boat and we can see the chateau from here. “I mean it’s disgusting!” I said while putting my glasses back on. My friend just rolled her eyes. “Y/n I’m sorry but they’re not breaking up.”
“She cheated like three times!” I said retaliating.
He will be mine.
Don't pretend I think you know I'm damn precious
And hell yeah, I'm the mother fucking princess
I can tell you like me too and you know I'm right
John B was walking around when he saw you shopping around. He went up to you to strike up a conversation. “Hey N/n.” I turn around with a big smile on my face.
God, he loved your smile.
“Hey Johnny Boy.” He sees all my bags. “So what’s the princess shopping for?”
“Um nothing?” He laughed at that. We just stared at each other. “Do you like me John B? And before you go ‘yeah!’ I mean really like me.”
He choked on his spit. “What?”
“John I know you like me but you’re ’with Sarah’. But once you see what everyone else is. You have my number.” I winked and left.
I mean you are the hottest girl on the island and you are John B’s type but he’s with Sarah.
‘I’m with Sarah.’ He repeats as he continues walking through town.
She's like so whatever
You could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everyone's talking about
“Sarah or Y/n?”
“Oh Y/n for sure.”
“I just don’t understand why he’s with someone like that.”
“I mean Sarah’s hot but not hot enough to stay after she cheated more than once.”
Those were some phrases I heard around the island. Everyone knows it but him. He’s blinded by ‘love’.
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“You know people talk around here JB?” I told him when I saw him walk toward me. "Listen Y/n I know that we are kind of attracted to each other, but it can never happen."
"So, you admit it?"
"Admit what?"
"That you think I'm attractive." I start smiling. He just looks at me with pure confusion.
"That's not the point!"
"Whatever you say Johnny." I walked away.
He wants to be with me so bad it makes him look stupid.
Hey, hey, you, you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
"He literally said we both find each other attractive or attracted to each other I don't remember but is that not admitting something?!" I was at my friend's house waiting for her to get ready so we could go to this kegger. She came out finally ready. "You know Sarah is going to be there." I looked at her. "So?"
"I'm just saying I don't think she'll be very fond of the girl she doesn't like trying to steal her boyfriend." I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, please that relationship was over the first time she cheated."
"Okayyy."
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I was at the kegger getting something to drink when I see Sarah Cameron storm up to me. I greet her with a smile. "Hey Sarah!"
"Don't 'Hey Sarah!" me!"
"Ok I sense some anger in your tone is there a reason?" She can tell I was trying not to laugh. How was I supposed to take her seriously? Someone like Sarah trying to act scary is such a joke.
"Yea there's a reason bitch. Why am I hearing that you're trying to get with my boyfriend?"
“Um because I am. I don't think he's good for you so I think he need a new girlfriend and that will be me so bye Sarah!" I walked away to tell my friend. She was obviously shocked that I didn't try to deny it. Which made her even more angry. I stopped and turned back around and walked to her the same way she walked to you. "And if you walk up to me like that again and curse at me like that again. I will have no choice but to slap the shit out of you. Muah Bye Sarah!"
John B saw the whole thing and didn't step in once. JJ was laughing and Kie and Pope were staring out of shock. This made him realize that you are the better choice but for some reason he just can't leave Sarah.
Hey, hey, you, you
I could be your girlfriend
After the kegger John B and Sarah had another falling out. When I heard of this I was ecstatic. It will finally happen, and I will have John B all to yourself.
I could be his girlfriend.
Hey, hey, you, you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
No, it's not a secret
I was walking around the shopping center when I see John B walk up to me. "Hey N/n."
"Hey Johnny."
"So its not a secret that I like you-."
“No, it’s not a secret.” I said shaking your head. He just laughed.
"But until I figure out this Sarah thing, we can't be together."
"So, it's possible?" I asked in a hopeful tone. He just nodded and walked away.
"Holy Shit!" I yelled out of excitement. Which called everyone to look at me, so you pretended you didn't know who yelled either.
I have a chance!!
Hey, hey, you, you
I want to be your girlfriend
"Hey N/n!" I heard John B yell out. I was sunbathing at the beach when he came over. "Hey Johnny."
"What are you doing?" I just look at him and motion to my setting. He just laughed nervously. We just stared at each other awkwardly. "Well, I'm gonna go." He just walked away.
"You know I want to be your girlfriend right Johnny?!" He put a thumbs up away still walking away.
I can see the way, I see the way you look at me
And even when you look away I know you think of me
I know you talk about me all the time again and again
I was at the country club waiting for my mom to be done with her massage. John B was waiting for his friends. They made eye contact, and I can see the way John B is looking at me, with pure desire. I was definitely looking at him the same way and I motion to come over. He points to himself. "Yes you." I mouthed. He slowly comes over.
So come over here and tell me what I wanna hear
Better, yet, make your girlfriend disappear
I don't wanna hear you say her name ever again
"Hey Johnny." I get closer to him trapping him against the wall and he looks pretty fond of it, so I stayed there. "Hey Y/n." I gasped, "You never called me that before?" He just shook his head looking for his friends.
"So, when are you breaking with her John B?"
"Uhm, I don't know I just never had the chance to do so." He said while running his hand through his hair. I rolled your eyes.
"Look Y/n I can't just break up with Sarah-."
"Don't say her name around me ever again.
Just get rid of her so I can have you, okay?" I walked away when I saw his friends come toward us.
JJ came in with wide eyes. "Why was she talking to you bro?!"
"Just shut up JJ."
cause...
She's like so whatever
And you could do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everyone's talking about
"So, you might break up with her for Y/n?" Pope asked. The guys were on the boat just talking and drinking beer when the topic of Y/n was brought up.
"I don't know I mean I want to, but I can't just break up with her you know?" JJ and Pope just nodded.
"Yea you don't wanna be a dick, everyone is talking about it though. Some are even placing bets." JJ said.
"Fuck." John b said under his breath.
Hey, hey, you, you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
You're getting tired of waiting for John B to break up with Sarah. He keeps coming up with these bullshit excuses. Like just break up with her already. He needs a new one anyway. And that will be you.
Sounds pretty stalkerish but he will be yours.
Hey, hey, you, you
I could be your girlfriend
I mean it's not like I couldn't be a good girlfriend anybody could be a better girlfriend than Sarah Cameron.
He just can't see that yet but it's okay I'll wait a little longer for him to come to his fucking senses.
Hey, hey, you, you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
No, it's not a secret
I was laying down in your room when John B called me.
"Hey Johnny."
"Ima break up with her in a week, okay? Some shit happened and I'm definitely going to do it next week okay?" I didn't say anything out of pure shock.
"I really wanna be with you N/n. Don't think any different alright?"
Then he hung up.
Hey, hey, you, you
I want to be your girlfriend
After the call with John B it's been very evident that he is standing on his word. Sarah and he have been falling out and it's making me smile. It shouldn't but it does. I want to be his girlfriend anyway so why wouldn't I be happy?
In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
'Cause I can, 'cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in
She's so stupid, what the hell were you thinking?
Sarah and John B broke up.... finally.
In no time he will be wrapped around my finger. I mean what was he thinking anyway. I can do it way better than her anyway. I don't why it took that long to sink in. Now he is going to be my boyfriend.
Finally
Hey, hey, you, you
I could be your girlfriend
"Hey Johnny."
"Hey babe." He gave me a peck on the lips.
"Well that took a while didn't it?" He nodded.
"It did but hey, you're finally my girl." I smiled.
"Yea I am."
Hey, hey!
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An: AHHHHHHH finallyyyy done with the story I hope you enjoy my lovers
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gyubby99 · 2 years ago
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@disneyanddisneyships HEADCANON
Okay so staticfly-
*giggling*
Like they were friends before Val kinda dumped him right
So like hes sulking and shit
Mal enters the picture and goes "what if you spite him by making him jealous? like get aother partner or something and watch him go nuts"
Vox thought it was great.
But for this little mission he picked Mal as his "girlfriend"
Mal was like "boi what"
He was like "You're less likely to catch feelings for me anyway. I don't wanna get to know some stranger. Besides, you have no choice"
Bb gorl was like "k then."
So when Val's around, like at a club or just in public he brings her around and shows her off. They do couple stuff and shit
Aponi's like "y'all sus"
Mal's like "nonono I'm just helping him get back on Val's bs"
I mean it's probably gonna end somehow and they'll go on as normal civillians!
WRONG
One faithful night Val went to confront Mal
And hes like "i bet u don't even love him"
And she went by this speech saying she LOVES him. For his broken parts, his flaws, his mistakes, for every single time they fought, for the things he had no control of, for the peace she couldn't have because of Val, for everything he's been through and they're currently going through right now.. she LOVES him for.. him.
She thought she was just acting but uh oh.
Those were real feelings
And VOX overheard it all.
He was like ○_○... then he thought "That's a lie. No one could love me like that. She's just acting."
Acting my non-existent ass.
Eventually he stepped in to make Val even more livid
After the incident they both were like-
"Uh oh."
And one day Vox was just doing the "boyfriend" things he only does to Mal to make Val jealous.
Like-
Vox: hey. *backhugs Mal*
Mal: ?? ....Val's not here.
Vox: ....r i g h t. *gets off of her and clears his throat*
Vox, internally: uh oh.
OH BUT WAIT
Hes not convinced hes inlove with her yet. He thinks he likes the attention and being domestic w her for fun and revenge.
Hes like "maybe she has things I would hate. maybe she eats pasta with her bare hands. Maybe she would throw up on my shirt and that would turn me off. Just wait for something to turn me off. Wait for it... WAIT.."
It never came.
"It's just infatuation! I'll get over it any day now!"
But he never fell for her attention. He fell for her as a person.
Outside their hangouts, when shes literally just minding her buisness having a life outside of him, my guy is head over heels.
Mal only started falling when she realized that that arguement with Val a year ago was not acting.
Likeeeee- them slowly pining over each other scared if their feelings aren't true and scared if their feelings MIGHT be true.
They're like "NOPE. NO. NOT GONNA HAPPEN! but they make hell a little less bad- NOOOO!!!!"
L I K E.
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teddybeartoji · 1 year ago
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MICKEYYY i’m sneaking out of my blanket fort… leaving a treat and some flowers on ur bed (ominously)……. 🥞🌻🌷🌹🛌 i hope ur day is going super nicely !! :33 IT’S TECHNICALLY SPRING HOW R WE FEELING it’s still gray n sludgy here :((( but i hope it’s better where u are !!!
anyway anyway i just wanted to check in w u BUT i also wanted to ask….. what hq ep are u on + who r ur faves so far ?? 👀👀 idk if u’ve met noya and asahi yet but i love them sm they’re my pookies. IT’S SUCH A FEEL-GOOD SHOW ISN’T IT it makes me smile sm too !! T—T
ily mickey i’m crawling back into the blanket fort (sneakily) (ominously)….. tell armin i love him <3
ARIIIIII MY LITTLE IRIS<33333333 i love me some ominous flowers mwahahahaha thank you they're so beautiful!!!!! IT'S VERY MUCH SPRING HERE TODAY!!!! idk how long that's gonna last but today is super super good!!! it's sunny and it's not too cold either wahhhhh i'm automatically feeling so fresh n hyped lmao I'M GONNA SEND SOME OF THE SUN TO YOU THOUGH I'LL CUT IT IN HALF AND YOU'LL GET THE BIGGER SIDE I PROMISE!!!!!
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here's the guy!!!! we just went outside we both wanted to feel the sun<333333 i wanted to go to the park but uhhhh my period kinda has me in lockdown though💀💀💀 fuck that bitch but even that little piece of sun made me feel so much better already🌻🌻🌻🌻
HQQQQQQQQQ I LOVE IT SOOOOO MUCH!!!!! i'm currently on season2 ep 12!!!!! I DON'T THINK I CAN PICK A FAVOURITE THOUGHHHHHH LIKE I LOVE THEM ALL THEY'RE ALL A BUNCH OF CUTIES ok maybe hinata is my favourite................ HOW COULD HE NOT BEEEEEEEEE HE'S A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINEE I NEED TO PUT HIM IN MY POCKET he gets so excited over everything and ahhhh he just means the world to me.....
i was gonna make fun of his height the other day bc he really is super tiny next to all of the other players but that was until he said that he's 163cm and................................................................................. i can't really make fun of him if we're LITERALLY the same height now can i.....💀
pls i almost cried already too...... the eps with tsukishima and his brother:((((((((((((((( when he saw that he wasn't even on the court:(((( yeah that got me a little bit but i'm so happy that he's more comfortable on the team now and that he's enjoying it!!!!!!!! i love him.
kuroo is so funny too............. hehehhehehe gojo has transformed into a high schooler....................................... pls the scene where tsukki asks him why is he even giving them advice when they're techically rivals and he just goes "well, i've just always been a really nice person" as the lighting is making him seem like some angel ahsghghasghaghah so silly i loved it a lot
WAITT BUT I ALSO LOVE NOYA AND ASAHI AAAAAAAAAAAA i've never loved the whole cast of a show this is kinda crazy. everybody being so afraid of asahi just bc of his size is so funny poor guy lmao ALSO bc you know i'm on my voice actor bs did u know that asahi's va is the guy who also voices kunikida??????????????????? SO COOL
OHHHHH ANDD WHEN HINATA AND KAGEYAMA FINALLY GOT THAT FAST ATTACK RIGHT???????????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THAT WAS SOOOOO CUTE I LOVE HOW EXCITED THEY ALL GET WHEN THEY GET A POINT and i love how much they all praise each other all around????? "nice receive" and "don't worry about it" and "we got the next one"????????????????? wahhhh it really is a feel good show my cheeks hurt from watching it
i think i have an extra soft spot for sugawara too!!!!! he deserves his own little mention he's a sweetheart
THIS GOT SO LONG AGAIN WHEWW BUT I REALLY AM ENJOYING IT I LOVE THEM ALLL SO SO SO MUCH they all deserve a good hair ruffle (coach ukai is getting a cheek kiss he's so fine) WAIT ALSO I LOVE THE GIRLS!!! THE MANAGERS!!!!! THEY'RE SO SWEET OH AND TAKEDA TOOO FUCKKK I JUST LOVE EVERYBODY OKAY<333
too much love i might die ari please hold me..... cue very dramatic sigh.... IS YOUR BLANKET FORT COMFY DO YOU WANT ME TO MAKE IT BIGGER? BETTER? DO YOU WANT MORE SNACKS? TEA? COFFEE? MORE PILLOWS MORE BLANKETS????????? I NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE FEELING GOOD THIS IS A MUST!!!! YOU'RE MY NR.1 PRIORITY!!!!!!! anyway i hope the sun will come out soon for you too i'm making the call rn I LOVE YOUUUU<333333
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zenjestrr · 2 years ago
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So, for those Baldur's Gate questions, how about: 1, 2, 10, 21, and 39.
Tell us about your Tav! Name, class and subclass, race, pronouns. Do you have a headcanon for where they’re from? Their family? Are they a Dark Urge? Or did you choose an Origin Character? Was it an easy decision? (1) I'm gonna talk about the ones that have made it to Act 2, I have like a million that haven't even left the nautiloid yet cuz I just played Barbie's Dress Up in the CC and quit lol
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Zeneeva: Blue Dragonborn (they/them) that started off as a Paladin of the Ancients and went Oathbreaker after reviving Mayrina's husband with the wand. I ended the game as a Paladin 3, Fiend Warlock - Pact of the Blade 6, Gold Dragon Sorcerer 3 (honestly only grabbed Draconic Sorcerer for the aesthetic tbh). This was my first full release character that I beat the game with on Tactician. although tbh I really only went Tactician because I was using a mod that let me bring the whole squad with me so it was my attempt to compensate for having access to like 10 goons every battle lol. I have no real headcanon for this character. but the fact that Tav is from Baldur's Gate and Dragonborn specific dialogue choices imply having a clan makes me believe that they grew up in a tightknit Dragonborn community in the city. I also made them a Guild Artisan (for optimization reasons since there are none of the companions have this background so it's an extra source of inspiration and the skill bonuses are nice), so maybe their family had a crafting business or something that they helped out with idk. maybe they went Paladin of the Ancients as an adult because they saw how shit animals were treated in the city and decided to defend nature. I will replay this character once support for this game is finally done and Larian implements their final patch
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Zenuuja: Dark Urge half-orc (she/her) Spore Druid/Monk. She started off as a Druid and then as she had some uhhh...."accidents" tried to control her urges better by going Monk (this is the RP reason, meta reason is I want my final build to be Spore Druid 2, Open Hand Monk 6, Thief 4). She is loosely based off of my Bhaalspawn from Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (named Zenuuva) who has a half-orc kensai/mage. I wanted to go druid back in BG1 but classes in the old school Baldur's Gate games were race locked so only humans and elves could be druids. so I went with an axe throwing battlemage build instead. She will reject the urges as best as she can. I already know the Dark Urge plot and backstory so I won't fill that in here so I don't spoil people who want to experience it. I guess I sort of headcanon her as blood related to my BG1 character in some way.
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Xabal: (he/him) started off as a Rogue and is now an Assassin 3, Gloom Stalker 3 and will eventually be Assassin 3, Gloom Stalker 5, Champion 3, Great Old One Warlock 1. Reason: Assassin is to help with surprise attacks and round 1 bonuses. Gloom Stalker up to 5 for all the insane bs Gloom Stalker Rangers get plus extra attack and Misty Step and all that. Champion for the crit bonus since half-orcs do triple damage on crits instead of double and that one point in GOOlock because when you get a crit it basically applies an AoE Fear effect and the Fear status is busted in this game. I made him to see how Minthara is like so the tieflings had an accident. He's also installing brain worms like eye drops. RP-wise the only thing I know so far is that he thinks the world fucking sucks and views death as a mercy if done quickly and he was a career assassin before the events of the game.
Was there something about the character creator that just couldn’t capture your Character? Please tell us about their hair, facial hair, tattoos, piercings, disabilities, their trans or intersex body, or anything else you’re comfortable sharing. (2)
I was already familiar with the CC because I played EA. if anything experiencing the CC of full release allowed me to be more creative since this CC is way more expansive than what we got before. I can never truly make someone that looks "like me" exactly so I tend not to try. especially since we cannot alter the dimensions of the faces in this game. the closest I got was this lil guy:
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but this still doesn't exactly look like me but out of all the available options it's....close enough kiiiind of not really
Honestly kudos to the art team, the Dragonborn options are fucking fantastic. it's why I went Dragonborn even though, without mods, the Dragonborn are objectively the worst race in the game from a pure minmax perspective (maybe tied with Humans idk)
Do you have a favorite member of the Goblin Camp? Is it the same as your Character’s? (10)
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Zeneeva's favorite was the ogre guard cuz he was charmingly stupid. Zenuuja liked Abdirak the Loviatar Priest ...it's quite obvious who Xabal likes the most based on what's going on in the pics
What are your Character’s thoughts on the strange artifact that was in Shadowheart’s possession? Did it jump to your pack because you changed her out of your party? (21)
Zeneeva was curious but not curious enough to pry. Very much a "if it's important I'll find out" sort of mentality. Shadowheart literally never left the party (she was the romance option). plus I was using a Party Limit Remover mod for this run so nobody did. Zenuuja was too focused on her dank urges to really worry about Shadowheart's spiky d20
Xabal got super annoying about it after it flared up at the goblin camp but it's still in Shadowheart's possession at the moment. Since this run is going evil (and I will go the evil route with Shadowheart's story) she's not leaving the party, especially since the evil route has less companions to choose from than the good/neutral routes (Wyll and Karlach leave you and you need to convince Gale to stay, although I didn't recruit Gale this run so I'm curious to see how that plays out)
What does your Character think of Raphael? (39)
Zeneeva: did not trust him. told him to fuck off Zenuuja: initial reaction was to reject him but wonders if he can fix her murder hobo thoughts Xabal: not against working with him but not eager to do it either.
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leafington · 9 months ago
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𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 .ᐟ - kei t. 📼 ; 004
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What's so special about her, huh? Why is he constantly anxious whenever speaking to her? It's been two days. It sounds so out of character for him. Meet a girl at your game, she hits you up, you talk, and you're presented with the opportunity to meet her face-to-face. Not everyone gets to do that! He sounds like Yamaguchi... maybe this wasn't a good idea.
She's an idol—a beautiful one—not that none of them are, but most aren't Tsukishima's type. Does he even have a type? He might just be into exotic people (he's gonna kill Hinata for putting that god-awful thought in his head). Even if Tsukishima was serious about this, was there even time for her to commit? Commit. Committing. The word leaves a bad taste in his mouth. He had enough on his plate as is, can he afford to handle her?
He's thinking too far ahead. They haven't even made it past the talking stage if it could be called that. For now, Tsukishima just settles on the idea that it's just a tiny friendly crush.
"Hey." It's small. So subtle that if it were a virus, worldwide, properly educated professionals wouldn't be successful in finding it. Yeah. A stupid crush, like an elementary school one.
"Can't believe you threatened me to come out here, it's cold as hell." Shivering. To Tsukishima it's not that cold, probably because of his arm sleeves and his adaptation to the climate inside as opposed to the excruciating heat just outside the door. "I didn't threaten anything."
A spectacularly maintained eyebrow curls up. There's no way she isn't aware of how pretty she is. Pretty? Stunning? Gorgeous? No. None of them fit, her beauty is definitely unmatched.
"Right. Next you'll tell me pigs fly." That voice. Just hearing her sing isn't enough, he wants to hear it all the time. Talking, singing, ranting, just keep giving him that pushback. "... Thank you for coming." He lets out, a quick and low nod of gratitude sent her way. "No problem. I wasn't gonna turn down a free invitation. Yeah, I don't know a single thing about volleyball, but I know you were killing it out there. You looked like a damn iron wall." Not necessarily, someone else has that title, or used to. Either way, he's appreciative of the compliment. Tsukishima towers over her stand-offishly, unaware of how to verbalize his thoughts.
How does he even respond to that? Can he counter it eith something else? No, it'll probably come out backhanded. Maybe he could say something about her outfit, or bring up her makeup, or her— "Something wrong? You okay?" He's brought back to reality seeing her snap in his face, face nearly disturbed. "Hm? Yeah. I zoned out. Was thinking about... the game." He has got to work on his flirting more. Y/n eyeballs him weirdly, as if something appeared his face or had some green stink cloud surrounding him. "I'm gonna go. Don't miss me too much." She throws a wink at him which would've killed him if Tsukishima didn't hate expressing himself.
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ᐟᐟ☆ fun facts 🥂
₊ ⊹ tsukishima was, in fact, being petty and nasty ₊ ⊹ he also doesnt play that one and done bs, so that's why he's being so "okay miss girl" abt it ₊ ⊹ tsukishima had to fight tooth and nail to get away from publicity which is why he settled in the back (he hates public attention) ₊ ⊹ yachi thought tsukishima was jerking off 😭 ₊ ⊹ this little situationship is starting to boggle his mind just a tad (THE ANGST IS STARTING FOLKS!!) ₊ ⊹ he deleted the tweet 30 mins later bc everyone kept suggesting weird shit
BONUS !! - the post in question
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cosm1cbrownie · 11 months ago
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this was mostly copied from tags and i tried my hardest to clean it up// yooo i didnt expect you to look at my post, that was mostly just angry rambles, mb, but fundamentally i think we agree, the point you made abt the whole mcu syndication stuf in 2010s marvel in this posts is what i agree with most, but when it comes down to aa and usm, i'm gonna have to disagree,.
aos is something i have not watched in a long ass time, and i liked it, but im not gonna comment on it since im not as famIilar with it as i am with aa and usm, so, first off i want to say that some of points where kinda back handed, i at the time was really mad at the whole “ everything that vaguely looks like the mcu is mcu syndication”, bs people always throw around, its common on cbtwt, and cbmtwt, do not go there it is a cesspool ifykyk, but like the thing was for aa and usm, right, that like they still fundamentally while were somewhat based on mcu stuff, and i say that in the most loose sense possible, because if we're being real, and knowing past screenshots and development footage and work and progress shots, if anything, it's more based on the ultimate universe, which is, you guessed it, what the mcu is literally based on, and huge chunks of pre-2000s 616.
now i'm not gonna dickride ults, it has its issues, i only really like ults spider-man, and the slutty steve and tony, i just think they're neat, but if you look further into avengers assemble specifically, you can see that most of the stuff they took wasn't even originally from the mcu, it was from ULTS.,
s1: the introductory season, its not bad by any means, it lays the ground for the rest of the ream's dynamic and shows how in tune they are and the issues they have, and also show off tony's arc, something i will talk about later, but red skull is the main villain, there is the cabal, which most of these villains did not show up in the mcu, and if they did they were shit, mcu moment
i guess you could make a claim about the art style?, but the dark-gritty art style was what was for animation was what marvel was doing with literally everything else, and i dont think that should be a knock on the show itself, rather current trends at the time, the tower, which is something also from ults, was, well, basically replaced the mansion after it got destroyed in the first episode, did i mention that aa was originally and emh continuation yet? the mansion wasn't in the mcu, they had the compound but that didn;t even come in aa until like s4, long after the mcu did it, and it made sense there cuz the tower was being rebuilt in aa. and like i kinda like the artstyle, its grown on me, it reminds me of yj in that way specfically.
, but most of the things people say abt aa in it's early seasons, while can be tied back to mcu syndication, were also stuff that tied it to ults at its core, which is something it continued on, alongside the DYNAMICS, holy shit, THE DYNAMICS MAN, i love this show's dynamics, instead of what people would consider the mcu's lack of an actual family unit avengers, they CARE FOR EACH OTHER, THEY HAVE EACH OTHERS BACKS, THEY ARE A TEAM, A FAMILY, STEVE AND TONY ARE MOM AND DAD BUT THAT DOESNT INHIBIT THEM WHEN THEY FIGHT, ITS SO GOOD, these dynamics, as opposed to something from ults, actually comes from 616, somewhere around 80-90s, they have that trust and bond that the mcu basically forgot when they made a worse ults, and it is something i cherish sm....
sorry for the ramble so continuing on,
s2, they fight thanos, peep the fact that this part of the season was in 2014-15, long before thanos was ever in the mcu, thanos was also teased at the end of last season after skull turned cosmic, the tesseract is there, i forgot to mention it but that is im 99% sure a comics item first, correct me if i'm wrong, but basically they fight the squadron, which is a semi continuation of the hyperion thing from s1, while they race to get the infinity stones, and defeat thanos, also ultron is here, there's also arsenal, arsenal, god, never gonna get over how tony felt about that damn robot, will be important later, basically in the first half of the season they fucking wash thanos with the power of friendship and gay, my goats, and then arsenal, the robot howard made for tony that got turned into a thing for like a blast or some shit to be put in an alternate dimension basically get's taken over by ultron, and tony is definitely not okay about this, he cares for the team way too much, but he also cares about that robot, he has daddy issues this is a important part of his arc, where he like basically chooses the robot over his teammates, and splits the team apart. basically causing another civil war, but viewer, you might be saying, wasn't this arc called ultron revolution, you ask, and i'm like: yes! this is a ultron and civil war double team, BABY! it's no secret that the main reasons for ultron bein shoe horned in was because of age of ultron, but i'm gonna be honest, aa used ultron better than the mcu did, just for the the fact he is actually a real and present threat for 2 seasons straight, and honestly that's better than nothing! i like him in aa, he get shafted in s4 but at that point it was the final season and the beyonder was a nice welcome change of pace.. in comparison: the mcu, the mcu gave us literally nothing lmao but like cw was not out at this point, s3 didn't premiere until like 2016, and that was way before we even had teasers, so this was largely original, well you might be saying "well if it's not the mcu civil war what did they base it on?". the fucking ults original concept, man, ITS ALL ULTS. half of this fucking show is like a weird mixture of ults and 616, and i love it, so much. basically the dynamic with steve and tony is that tony is chaos and steve is order, the original concept for civil war btw (it was ults based), basically making a conflict where they say they dont trust eachother and wish they would work together but they actually just want to rejoin the team because by the end it's redundant. they actually have them work out their relationship and SPEAK TO EACHOTHER and it feels so fucking good, cuz these two are so well characterized, like there is a reason theyre considered good characterizations, (although most emh fans would kill you on the spot for saying that, i've met a few they are mean but hey thas ok idrc some u guys are chill but man...) so steve tells tony that he cares for him and trusts him and then tony goes off to save the world but arsenal, STILL IN ULTRON'S BODY, SACRIFICES HIMSELF CUZ HIS PROGRAMMING WAS TO SAVE AND PROTECT TONY. YOU CANT MAKE THIS UP. LITERALLY PEAK, AND ITS STUCK IN AA. GOD. SO THEN THOR SAVES TONY BEFORE HE DIES, and all is well that ends well. that is s2, s2 is literally just a weird mixture of ults (in places/themes) and 616(writing,characterizations,dynamics), with some mcu(same as ults, much much more loosley) stuff but ultron was so good in this show from this point forward i'll keep it for myself ngl, fuck the mcu, they have done nothing but burn our crops.
i think that s2 is a pretty good example, so i'll drop that there and bring it back up starting with s3 and talk about when shit really starts hitting the fan with the mcu syndcation cuz 16-17 is where it really started in aa, and it's probably the most obvious and egregious example of an early victim of the mcu syndication imo
>“and the thing is is that marvel will just keep doing this bullshit because you guys keep buying into it” I just pointed it out that most of the stuff on the designs and characterizations is largely true. It almost feels like they’re trying to downplay just how prevalent the MCU synergy is in the comics.
oh no, i'm not. i've seen the bs mcu has inflicted on current 616, the 2000s and the 2010s were not pretty. currently it seems to me alot of the issues that stem from the mcu don't really seem to be *as* prevalent as they used to be, but they still are to an extent, i think i remember seeing it the most in the 2010s up until like cwII came around with the weird characterizations and shit, and honestly i think that with how current marvel is they won't be willing to realize that they are basically setting them up to loose are large portion of their user base, and i think that at that time i was more focused on characters like spider-man, where the basis that cw set up for current comics and having to be all gritty permanently tied it the mcu in a sense, because the mcu copied that part, alongside ults, which i will touch on in the next part
Which is weird since they just admitted early with how prevalent the MCU synergy is in the comics! And also….. Fuck off with that bullshit. Don’t blame this on the fans.
no yeah that my was a my bad, i think that like while i think for some characters, such as spider-man and post omd bs, where like fundamentally those people will still buy those comics regardless of their quality which just leaves us with these long running series that are perpetual gooner cuckporn like current ASM that the fan base just wishes that was back to how it was originally,and from what i've seen the ragebait is just?? idk, like one on hand it is extremely popular but with the new ultimate spiderman coming out nobody gives a shit, numbers have been dwindling for a bit now and it's not working. like i think one one hand we need to stop giving marvel (as a company) the benefit of the doubt when they make bad shit and commit with our wallets, but im not gonna ignore the fact that marvel is multi-billion dollar company who could care less about what WE THINK, and like if we're being honest alot of those things are on the writers, depending on the character, sometimes its the art,sometimes it's marvel mandates, sometimes its literally kevin fiege, we the fans are somewhat powerless in the situation so we gotta be real: sometimes, we just gonna have to cope and seethe. i would love to go back to a time where it was the 90s and comic were like 99% good (propaganda /j) but like marvel is making so much damn money that it literally just seems bleak, we have come to the point where writers are the barrier between us getting what we want and marvel or dc fucking us all over and that's sad as shit, man. it sucks. and honestly i just try to keep optimism, the new storm run is made by the same people who made I am Iron Man (2023) which was peak, so i just look towards the future and hope for the best. maybe if marvel would stop focusing on the mcu bs we wouldn't be here but idk, the current state of marvel comics has me super optimistic for the future regardless. i hope it gets better. for your point's about avengers assemble in s3, s3 was actually based on CIVIL II, an comic event, because cw was already done last season and they needed to capitalize on the sequel comic and the movie, so they did CWII, reason we know that is because the main avengers team goes against the new avengers team, led by carol, who we saw last season, this was in 2016, around march, the perfect time to captilize hype around the worst comic event II!!! but for me personally s3 is kinda,, ehhhhh it's definetly my second favorite season for a reason i love how tony' and steve's friendship and trust is shown so exponentionally and how eager they they were to fuck off from the governemnt after the last few rodieos with them(i.e s2), ultron's inclusion is probably the best part and the way that tony's arc is finalized here is honestly super awesome i love it alot, the tension in the last episode made me cry the first time i saw it cuz u can physically SEE how much steve and tony love eachother. platonically or not they. they. auuuuhghghghg i love this show. also the sideplot with the inhumans actually isn't half bad and i like their inclusion, they are the inhumans tho and so them being somewhat useful and filling in the role mutants probably would've served last season if they weren't just vaguely there is interesting to me
s4 was based on the beyonder, im pretty sure secret wars was comic only in 2017/18. s4 is the worst season but its not bad by any means, it has its merits near the second half and that half reallllly does that heavily lifting when the team comes back together. that hug in beyond and the dynamic the team has for the last few episodes honestly just make me smile. its not bad, but def you could see how the team tried their hardest to not be cucked by marvel. they ended up succeding, atleast now in retropsect, so now thats it, right, no more seasons to cover, right? well....
But then came along Season 5…. Dear God…. Not only was the MCU synergy just as prevalent as it was in Season 3 (maybe even more so, especially with the fact that it was heavily focused on Black Panther), but it even took place in a completely different continuity. Yep! Season 5 was completely removed from the previous 4 seasons! And to make matters worse, it was set in the same universe as Spider-Man 2017…..and Guardians of the Galaxy! Which itself was connected to the first 4 seasons of AA.
season 5 is shit, i am not sugarcoating, it is shit. it was mcu syndication GALORE, not only was it retconned from the main universe TO THE 2017 UNI, because of how shit it was, but it was so bad that it basically killed the entierty of avengers assemble on arrival because it took what EVERYONE LIKED ABOUT THE LAST FOUR SEASONS, and punished it to the fucking GROUND. i am so, SO glad, it is not canon.
half of the aa fanbase doesn't even recognize it as the fifth season, "wgat do you mean guys? there was only four aa seasons! that show bpq was pretty bad tho" "bpq was a show? that was just a fanfic, right?" we literally had to create an acronym to seperate it and it was STILL SHIT. it killed aa, and we were all so mad, WE WRE THE FIRST VICTIM. THIS WAS IN 2018-19 BTW!!! THE PEAK OF THE MCU!! WE GOT FUCKED OVER!!! IT WAS NOT FUN!! NOBODY LIKES IT YET WERE ARE STILL ASOCIATED WITH IT! IT SUCKS!!! i couldnt even watch it, thats how bad it was!! they somehow cut the budget EVEN FURTHER THEY THEY DID IN S4, HOW???? THEY TURNED CAP INTO A TWINK. HOW. ITS. JUST. HOOOOOOWWWW.
also for your points about the whole not liking certian post mcu things and seeing them at face value that was really mean i'm sorry, as ive already mentioned some of my points where shit mb, i like some stuff too, its just i see alot of these complaints and they all sounds like they just dont like anything new, and i still agree with my point that you could make comparisons to current gaming trends of the time, and i agree you could do alot more with that concept, and reading back some of my points i sound like a dick, i apologize. especially with the normie thing idk what i was thinking there i cringe at myself in retrospect also i personally enjoy mvc3 tbh, i've played a bit of marvel avngers but i personally like the story better than the game itself tbh, most of my other points were super cynical and i genuielly apoligise, idk what i was on that day tbh
for your part about faithfullness, i agree, but i think at some point there should be a line. you can be faithful, while also using that original source material to do something new. keeping the core while also making something brings new oppourtunites to the table or even trying to return a caracter to it's core in a new way are one of the many ways you can do such a thing.
and example of the opposite, imo, is Earth's Mightiest heroes, where like i feel it uses its statis as AN adaptation as an early 616 adaptation, in the most barebones sense possible, as an excuse to be, well, mid, in the most "it is mediocre, middle of the road, 7/10", possible. i don't think emh is a bad show, i just feel the way it does its characertizations and writers feels bland and done before rather than what aa did after it where it advaced on preexisting stuff and did what nobody else what doing at the time. emh just feels very bland and samey in compairson, and you can see glimpses of what could be in 1 but s2 wasn't great and feels super rushed ESPECIALLY with the skrull plotline. you could put this down towards marvel shutting the show early but i wouldn't put that blame on aa, like some fans do, this is marvel and an mcu issue and seeing the leaks for s3 of emh makes me think we dodged a bullet.
anyway, yhat's kinda all i want to say. sorry this is so long, i'll try to format this later when i have the time, i don't take offense for most of the comments u made btw it was probbaly more well researched than my shitty rant, but hope u give this a read and i think we've come to an agreement.
bye bye!
A response to myst1calx
So a few weeks ago, a made a post titled The MCU Synergy Problem.
In that post, I discussed how a lot of Marvel's projects during the 2010s and 2020s have been somewhat dragged down by being constantly forced to be adjacent to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
If you want to check it out for yourself, here's the link to it below.
As of right now, the post has gotten six likes and a reblog.
However, the reblog I got was essentially a written response.
And somewhat hostile one.
And weirdly enough, it was from one of the six people who liked the post.
So I'm not sure on whether or not they actually liked it or they hated it.
From the way the reblog was written, it seemed like they didn't really like it.
And in addition to that, they're also a sense of confusion as well.
So today, I decided to make a response to the person that did the reblog: myst1calx.
I'm going to respond to all the points they brought up in their reblog while trying to be as civil as possible.
Though there may be a point in this where I do seem pretty angry.
Now that we got that out of the way, let's get started.
"ok but the shows in the 2010s didnt suffer from mcu synergy because they activley fought against it"
This one is a both right and wrong.
Ultimate Spider-Man and Spider-Man (2017) are really the only shows that didn't suffer from MCU synergy.
Spidey hadn't been introduced into the MCU yet when Ultimate came out and when he was, it was during Ultimate's final season.
When Spidey wouldn't even get his own movie in the MCU until after Ultimate ended.
And Spider-Man '17 surprisingly didn't really have a whole lot of MCU influence despite lasting for most of Spidey's MCU trilogy.
It took more influence from Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man and Dan Slott's run on Amazing Spider-Man.
Avengers Assemble, despite being created just to ride off the success of the first Avengers film, didn't really have a whole lot of MCU synergy at.....for the first two seasons.
But I'll touch on that a little later.
Guardians of the Galaxy.
Dude, out of all the Marvel shows of the 2010s, this one was undoubtedly the most blatant with the MCU synergy.
I mean, just look this promotional poster.
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Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. also has blatant case of MCU synergy, but in a more subtle and honestly, sinister way.
The show was about the titular Agents of S.M.A.S.H. learning how to be a family and fighting off bad guys with a variety of high-tech gadgets.
Not exactly something you would think of from a show about the Hulk of all characters.
But let's turn our attention to the villains of this show.
Out of all the villains, this show only really features 4 of the Hulk's foes.
The Leader, The Abomination, The Absorbing Man, Titania, Wendigo, Xemnu and Maestro.
Yeah! No Wrecking Crew, U-Foes, Zzzax, Madman, Bi-Beast, Gargoyle, Flux, Grey Gargoyle, Umar, Nightmare, Man-Beast, Ravage, or John Ryker.
Now compare this to the other villains included in the show.
Besides the Hulk associated villains, the other villains in show include the likes of Annihilus, Blastaar, Ego the Living Planet, Laufey, The Mole Man, Doctor Doom, Galactus and his heralds, Impossible Man, Loki, Malekith the Accursed, Dormammu, Sauron, Ronan the Accuser, The High Evolutionary, The Red Ghost and his Super-Apes, Pluto, and The Supreme Intelligence.
Upon reading this, you probably that most the villains listed here are predominately connected to the Fantastic Four, not really Hulk himself.
This, along with the aforementioned focus on family and use of technology, has led many people to theorize that Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. was originally meant to be a new Fantastic Four cartoon, but was changed to be a Hulk cartoon at some point development.
The potential reason for this was that this show did come out right at the beginning of Marvel's "The Fantastic Four and X-Men don't matter anymore" phase because of the whole movie rights bullshit.
And while there hasn't been any official confirmation about this theory from any who has worked on the show, the connections are still quite apparent.
As for why they decided to make Hulk the star of the show instead if they couldn't use the Fantastic Four, I guess besides the fact he's among the most prominent allies of the Four, it was because he was the only other option that people could see working with this premise.
The other ones that could possibly fit this would be The Avengers and maybe Spider-Man, but they already had their own shows going on around that time.
So all in all, the MCU synergy did affect most of the 2010s shows.
Some were definitely more apparent than others, but still.
"if you wanna make the claim that its all mcu synergy, you can see it starting in 2017, not 13"
Now this one is weird because a good chunk of the MCU synergized elements that occured in the comics happened before 2017.
-The current, obviously MCU-inspired Loki was introduced in 2011
-Hawkeye with the tired dad energy was introduced in 2012
-The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver happened in 2015
-Literally everything with the Guardians of the Galaxy in 2015
I think maybe they were trying to say that the MCU synergy became more apparent starting in 2017, which.....yeah, they are kinda right about that.
But I reason I say this is a weird statement is because what myst1calx says later in their reblog.
Which I'll get to.
"also advertising doesnt always mean mcu syndication slop dude"
Dude, I never said anything about the advertisement for the MCU being the same as MCU synergy slock.
Advertising for the MCU is perfectly fine. I mean, Marvel would want their project to do well, right?
But the problem is using a piece of Marvel media that isn't connected to the MCU and having it resemble the MCU.
It just doesn't allow it the product to stand on it's own.
"like dont bring avengers assemble and aos and usm into this"
Why shouldn't?
Avengers Assemble does play a part in the MCU synergy problem.
I didn't even mention Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at all in my post.
And for Ultimate Spider-Man.....
I only brought up the comic for a point I was making about a weird similarity I noticed between most modern non-MCU projects and most recent Spider-Man media.
And if we're talking about the cartoon, I literally just said it didn't suffer from any MCU synergy at all.
"this is entierly a thing that started with the 2017 uni and it comics. just correcting because i'm tire dof the whole “ mcu syndication rhetoric” when talking about aa it's so fucking annoying"
The MCU synergy has been around before 2017, they think were just saying that it became before prominent and explicit than before.
But the whole "MCU syndication rhetoric" when about AA.....
While yes, Avengers Assemble may not have the most blatant case of MCU synergy out of the non-MCU TV shows of the 2010s (Guardians of the Galaxy say "hi" again.), it's hard not to mention it as it does play a big part in that show.
From the content within the show, to literally why the show was made in the first place.
"look at the comics or anything from like. idk 2017 onwards."
This one I do agree (sort of).
I don't what the comics have to do with AA (they're completely different continuities), but I do know that the MCU synergy has gotten worse with the comics since 2017.
I mean for God's sake, the latest case of this was just last year with Ms. Marvel being retconned into a mutant.
"like you COULD make a claim abt this but honestly i see it more as you guys just not liking new shit"
But I like some of the new Marvel shit.....
the Insomniac Spider-Man games, the Spider-Verse films, Midnight Suns, those Marvel animes, and that upcoming Marvel Rivals game.
Hell, I actually like Avengers Assemble as well.
I know I didn't mention it in my post, I actually do like this show a lot.
I know it's not as good as the show that came before it, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but I still acknowledge it merits and enjoy it as its own thing.
But most of the other non-MCU projects I'm just not that wild about.
Since let's be real, they're kinda just.....
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"like being fr, have you ever watched or played any of these games or do you see that at face value"
Yes, I have watched and played both Avengers and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
And both of these are just not that good.
While they're definitely not the worst games ever, they're just nothing really home to write home about.
For Avengers, this game was pure wasted potential.
I mean, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics had access to an IP that at the time of acquiring it, had over 50 years worth of history!
That IP had hundreds of comics with numerous storylines worth adapting, an enormous roster of characters, a multitude of other iterations to easily take some influence from, and most of all, a movie franchise that helped make it into the powerhouse it is today.
But with all that, they found some way to screw it up!
The plot is nothing home to rave about. It's just you're standard "getting the band back together" plot.
The graphics are....passable. Just your standard very realistic-looking game.
The gameplay is repetitive as all hell and fails at making any of the characters feel distinct from one another.
The bonus content is a total joke. I mean putting aside the obvious micro-transactions, most of the purchasable costumes absolutely suck. They're either just half-assed attempts at recreating outfits from whatever source material they came from, or just recolors of each other.
And most of all, the game has some of the most pitiful representation of the Marvel Universe ever put to screen.
I mean, can you name any notable locations from the comics that was featured in the game?
The only one was Wakanda, but even that could've been done a little better.
There was no Asgard or any of the other Nine Realms, no Latveria, no Kamar-Taj, no Dark Dimension, no Atlantis, no Savage Land.
Hell, we don't even get to go to New York! Despite the fact that like 90% of the Marvel characters are based there.
All we got were primarily generic-looking bases, deserts and forests (occasionally with some snow).
And in my post, I mentioned that there was a list of playable characters planned to be in the game.
In addition to Spider-Man and Hawkeye, this list included the likes of Ant-Man, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Captain Mar-Vell, Daisy Johnson, Doctor Strange, The Falcon, Kate Bishop, Mockingbird, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, The Vision, The Wasp, War Machine, and the Winter Soldier.
But only five characters from that list made it into that game, plus the Jane Foster Thor, which let's be real, that was only done just to coincidence with the release of Thor: Love and Thunder.
You can't tell me that the roster we got by the time the game finished updating was better than the one that was initially planned.
And I reason I say this game was pure wasted potential was because.....look at who the Avengers have had as members over the decades!
People don't seem to know this a lot or ever really acknowledge it, but the Avengers are like a melting pot, as they've had members from basically every corner of the Marvel Universe!
Heroes from the mystical side like the aforementioned Doctor Strange, Hercules, Black Knight and White Tiger.
Heroes from the cosmic side like the aforementioned Captain Marvels, Monica Rambeau, Moondragon and Nova.
Several street-level heroes like the aforementioned Spider-Man, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Shang-Chi.
A couple of mutants have been members like Quicksilver and The Scarlet Witch and even members of the X-Men, namely Wolverine, Beast and Storm.
Hell. Literally every member of the Fantastic Four has been a member of the Avengers at one point!
Like, does anyone else see the potential I'm bringing up?!
There could've easily been several DLCs that got to explore much greater Marvel Universe.
But alas, we never got that....
As for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite....
Jesus....
Apart from the admittedly decent gameplay, there's just nothing else good about this game.
The graphics totally suck. They threw away the gorgeous cel-shaded, comic book-inspired look from 3: Fate of Two Worlds for this bland, kinda ugly pseudo-realistic look for the sake of just like damn-near everything else in that game: MCU synergy.
Not to mention they look pretty cheap, especially in the cutscenes.
The reason being that this game had a pretty low budget.....and it really shows.
The music was mid, since, once again, they changed many of the characters themes in order to make it more MCU-inspired.
And while I do respect that this game is the first one in the series to have a story-mode, it's unfortunate that the story-mode sucks.
The plot was just so lame and was obviously riding the hype for the then-upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.
And I already brought up the absolute disgrace of a roster and the behind-the-scenes drama of this game in my poster.
All in all, these games may not be the worst games of all time, but they're just not worth anyone's time or money.
If you like these games, more power to ya.
"because i see more misconceptions about characters in deisgn and charaterizations in the 2010s morethan anything"
I'm not sure about this one.
Most of the stuff I said about the designs and characterizations in the comics is largely truly.
But maybe one of them was possibly exaggerated and not nearly as prevalent as most people make it out to be.
"and the thing is is that marvel will just keep doing this bullshit because you guys keep buying into it"
I just pointed it out that most of the stuff on the designs and characterizations is largely true.
It almost feels like they're trying to downplay just how prevalent the MCU synergy is in the comics.
Which is weird since they just admitted early with how prevalent the MCU synergy is in the comics!
And also.....
Fuck off with that bullshit.
Don't blame this on the fans.
They're (mostly) not the ones clamoring for this MCU synergy!
Marvel is doing this on their own term and are obviously doing this to appeal to more contemporary fans who got introduced to Marvel through the MCU.
And as I mentioned in my post, I'm convinced that the people at Marvel believe these guys have never heard of the word: adaptation.
Not only that, but they also seem to believe that these fans will get confused that the comics don't line-up with the movies 1-to-1.
And trust me, this isn't the first time something like this has happened with Marvel.
"this doesnt work for most of the shows pre 2016 in the 2010s marvel area because they didnt suffer from it until marvel started forcing it on them for maximum profits #which then ended up biting them in the ass when avengers assemble fans dropped the show after relazing that s5 became shitty mcu syndication"
Now this part is true.
The MCU synergy started to become much more prominent roughly around 2016/2017.
I already went into how this negatively affected stuff like Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, but let's head back to the main focus of this part, Avengers Assemble.
Although AA was created to obviously ride the wave of success caused by the first Avengers film, it surprisingly had very little MCU synergy....for, as I mentioned earlier, the first two seasons.
The only examples I can think of from the first two seasons was when they recreated the Chitauri in the Impossible Man, and a few references that got turned on their head like when Hulk tries to punch Thor, but he blocks it with Mjolnir.
But when season 3 came around....that's when everything changed.
During that season, it was pretty apparent they were really striving to be more like the MCU than in prior seasons.
The season featured Ultron as the main antagonist be he was in the latest Avengers movie at time, Age of Ultron.
Despite the fact that when the season premiered, Age of Ultron for almost a year at that point....
The Avengers got new outfits, pulled directly from the movies.
Hulk and Black Widow had something going on between them....like in the movies.
Klaw, who first appeared in Ultimate Spider-Man (which is connected to AA), receives a major redesign, looking like how he did in the movies, whereas before, he looked like how did in the comics.
The last four episodes were based off Civil War (I wonder why?).
They move their headquarters to a compound....once again, like in the movies.
And they predominately featured the Inhumans as recurring characters, since this was back when Marvel were trying to push them as the next big characters in order to replace the X-Men and promote their then-upcoming movie.
Which ended up getting cancelled and got replaced by a shitty TV show....which was cancelled after just one season.
In Season 4, this synergy was thankfully less present.
There was aforementioned Falcon redesign.
And Doctor Strange got one as well, to look more like how he did in the movies.
But then came along Season 5....
Dear God....
Not only was the MCU synergy just as prevalent as it was in Season 3 (maybe even more so, especially with the fact that it was heavily focused on Black Panther), but it even took place in a completely different continuity.
Yep! Season 5 was completely removed from the previous 4 seasons!
And to make matters worse, it was set in the same universe as Spider-Man 2017.....and Guardians of the Galaxy!
Which itself was connected to the first 4 seasons of AA.
HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK?!
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"this didnt START from the 2010s. it started midway throu"
Once again, the MCU synergy has been around since the early 2010s.
It was only at the midway point of that decade where started to become more prevalent than before.
And outside of the comics, the earliest case I think of for this was with EMH, which had Iron Man acting exactly like how he did in the movies.
Hell, even Hulk looked pretty similar to how he did in his solo film everybody forgot about.
"and creeped its way in because you guys LET IT HAPPEN"
Once again, fuck off with that bullshit.
"half of the things mentioned arent even mcu syndicationy they just suffer from current realisitc game trends that we are the norm"
I can definitely tell they're talking about Square Enix's Avengers.
But in all honesty, but game didn't really have a whole lot of MCU synergy.
It was still there, specifically with how the characters look.
I mean, everyone has said it before, but the Avengers looked like the stunt doubles for the MCU actors.
But it wasn't as prevalent as some of the other Marvel media to feature it.
Doesn't really make it much better though.
The game is honestly sort of a Schrodinger's video game, where doesn't take much from the comics or any other iterations of the Avengers, but doesn't take much from the MCU either.
"like what is your point here? “oh not every marvel property is the same is the comics” dude nobody buys comic shit because they arent as easy to get into the manga you guys perpetuate this shit and then wonder why cb fandoms are always filled with normies"
And here we are....
Now this is the last part of the reblog, and the one that really annoys me the most.
My point of that post was to show how not only was the constant MCU synergy incredibly tiring, but also been doing a lot of harm to their recent projects that aren't connected to the MCU.
Like, Avengers Assemble could've gone down as one of the greatest Marvel cartoons ever made!
But it got bogged down by the MCU synergy of the later seasons.
So much so that the final season wasn't even connected to the previous ones!
And now, it's usually just seen as the "we have the MCU at home" show.
And I do I even need to bring up Infinite into this?
And not only that, but it's also been bringing out the worst in Marvel.
I mean, just look at my post and read up on how much they made Capcom suffer during the production of Infinite.
But the synergy has not only harmed potentially good projects and lead to promising upcoming projects to be thrown to the Shadow Realm, but even good projects in unintentional ways.
The Guardians of the Galaxy video game was really good and the people who played it all agreed that this was what Avengers should've been!
But despite the positive reception, the game ended up flopping hard.
And while this was largely thanks to the failure of Avengers (since Guardians was also produced by Square Enix), I feel like the growing annoying towards MCU synergy may've played a part in this as well.
Since remember: out of all the characters of Marvel, the Guardians have been the ones undoubtedly changed by the MCU the most.
It's like....not even a contest.
And not only is this synergy doing harm to their non-MCU projects, but also gonna start (and it's possibly already has been) doing harm to the Marvel brand itself.
This is largely because of how homogenized they've made everything, which is not gonna be helping them because of rapidly declining interest in the MCU (aka Marvel Fatigue).
I mean, last year was just not a good year for them.
Besides Guardians of the Galaxy 3, two other films that released that year (Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels).
Both those films were met critically with what could be described as a resounding "meh".
But the real damage came in their box office.
Quantumania was a box-office disappointment, grossing $476.1 million worldwide against a gross production budget of $326.6 million, being one of the few MCU films not to break even in its theatrical run.
And The Marvels.....
Oh man, The Marvels....
That film was a box-office bomb! Grossing $206 million worldwide against a gross production budget of $274.8 million. And it now holds the record for being the lowest-grossing film in the franchise's history!
That had to be hurting Marve!
And it seems so as just recently, Marvel Studios announced they would be limiting the amount of MCU projects they release a year.
And while Marvel largely targeted towards the MCU itself, I feel like could also potentially start harming non-MCU projects.
Since let's be real, one of the many issues people have had with the recent MCU is how formulaic and generic it's become.
From the trademark forced and frankly mediocre humor, to having damn-near every threat be potentially world-ending.
I'm pretty sure the same could be applied to what people usually expect from a modern non-MCU project.
It's gonna have a semi-realistic art-style.
It's gonna feature the big characters (Avengers, Guardians and Spider-Man) featured in the MCU and barely anyone else (Fantastic Four, X-Men, street-level heroes).
They're all gonna be wearing their MCU outfits.
Every character is gonna be a quippy asshole (expect the ones who are suppose to be quippy assholes like Hawkeye and Spider-Man).
And it's gonna have a world-ending threat, with either Loki or Thanos as the main villain.
(Maybe Ultron if you're lucky)
And if this keep going, I'm sure Kang the Conquerer will essentially become the next villain to always be the main villain.
Well, if he's still going to be used in the MCU....
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On to the next point.
“oh not every marvel property is the same is the comics”
Okay.
This has been a topic of debate when it comes to comic book adaptations for years.
Whether or not all comic book adaptations should strive to be like, 100% faithful to the source material.
To me, I think the answer to this is, in the words of the Pirate Captain,....
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If this is for a series like Watchmen, 300 and Invincible, I feel like you should definitely make the adaptation as faithful as possible.
But even then, there would be definitely be some changes to the source material, since they would have story elements that were either weak or just plain bad.
Basically, maybe people's ideas on adaptations is to utilize what works, and either strengthen or get rid of what doesn't.
But when doing an adaptation for the big dogs like DC and Marvel.....this is where things get really tricky.
Because DC and Marvel have ongoing continuities with no end in sight, doing a largely faithful adaptation of any of their characters' stories would be an absolute nightmare since that characters will often have literal DECADES of history, plus hundreds to thousands of comics to read in order to understand said history.
If you've noticed, a lot of adaptations of DC and Marvel aren't exactly 1-to-1 adaptations of the stories from the comics.
But the reason why they're held in such high regard is because in spite of that, they manage to stay faithful to the spirit, tone and characterizations of the comics.
And even then, they will still adapt storylines and elements from the comics, but just little more streamlined.
Essentially, the best way I can describe how adaptations of DC and Marvel work is that they use the comics as a basis (along with other iterations) and essentially strive for something that's familiar while still being different.
For example, let's look at some of the Batman cartoons.
Although having some similarities, the three shows I'm about to bring up are still largely different from each other.
Batman: The Animated Series focused on the adventures of an already experienced Batman (having been at this gig for years and already knowing his villains) and his relationships with those around him.
The Batman, while somewhat similar to its predecessor, is focused on a younger and slightly-less experienced Batman learning to become a better hero.
And Batman: The Brave and Bold, is completely different from the prior two shows as it's focused on Batman's adventures interacting with the much greater DC Universe, specifically the lesser-known side.
But despite that, from watching these shows, you can still tell that they all used the comics (along with other iterations) as a basis and just built upon that in unique ways.
Contrast that with many of the non-MCU projects/products of the 2010s, which were obviously using the movies as a basis....and nothing really else.
And not only is this limiting to what these projects could do, but it's also kind of disingenuous.
Remember, the Marvel characters existed DECADES before the MCU even came around.
But to see Marvel not really even bothering to utilize said source material (in addition to constantly trying to alter it for the sake of brand synergy) is kind of a dick move.
And as I stated before, they're obviously doing to this to appeal to a certain demographic.
All companies have done this before.
And that certain demographic are the people who got into Marvel via the MCU.
And that leads us to the tail end of this part.
I get it.
It's REALLY hard to get into comics, specifically of the big two: DC and Marvel, especially the latter.
This is largely because of how long their characters have been around.
And if that wasn't intimidating enough, these characters will often have multiple runs (sometimes running at once) and that can last to hundreds, even thousands of issues!
Though not all comics books are like that.
Namely the limited series ones.
Hell, even franchises that have had multiple comic runs like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Sonic the Hedgehog surprisingly don't have this issue.
In spite of having multiple comics runs, the reason they don't suffer is because each one (no matter how long they've ran for) usually takes place in a completely different continuity from the other.
And also, using the term "normies" is so lame and kind of insulting.
I mean, I thought that term died back in like 2016.
A better term for these people would be "contemporary fans".
But anyway, contemporary fans shouldn't be blamed for people not buying comics much anymore.
If anything, the blame should be more placed towards the companies themselves for not really having anything that could help ease them into the world of these characters and, as I mentioned before, constantly changing the continuity of the comics in order to make it easier for those fans to get into (which ironically I think actually makes it harder).
Like, remember back in the 2000s and the early 2010s, when Marvel used to have to storybooks, novels and encyclopedias that went into detail on the backgrounds of the Marvel characters.
I'm pretty sure that helped a lot of contemporary fans of that era get a good understanding of the Marvel characters.
And I'm sure it can work for the contemporary fans of today as well.
Well that's all I have to say.
This isn't meant be a call-out post, I just wanted to response to the points myst1calx brought up in their reblog.
And while writing for this, I kinda feel like I should've gone more in-depth on some of my points in the original post.
And even then, I do feel like they are confused on some points I made in the post.
But anyway, myst1calx, if you are reading this, I do hope we can reach a better understanding on this whole topic.
And if I sounded somewhat angry at some points, I do apologize for that.
But other than that, I'm gonna go eat something to eat.
Peace.
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bluewinnerangel · 3 years ago
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You know what, YOUR Louis is the best Louis. He was looking like a daddy that day. His outfit, that damn t-shirt, his HAIR, his look, his smile, everything that day was just over the top. In my opinion that was the best look ever. He was giving the Rockstar vibes that day. And your reaction video of silver spray painting the teeth just because he pointed to you describes my whole reaction of that day. LOL. Bring that video back. That's the best thing you ever made.
OH MY god I laughed so hard at this ask I had to read it out loud to people who to not understand and I had to explain like no but listen I posted that video like 6 months ago and this was an unexpected throwback ok. And Also capital Also I'm not getting asks these days believe it or not, because I think everyone's caught on by now I don't answer shit I just read it and go "thank you very much ill be leaving that where i found it" and sorry bout that it's never personal ok? ok. but that just made this all the better? like i thought it was gonna be some copy paste bs asdkljk
ANYWAY HE IS. HE IS THE BEST. you know how fucked up it was THAT is how I saw him the first time? Like? it's not gonna get any better??? I can't imagine him looking more godlike than that. sorry wow.
also im trying to find the video in my files and i have no idea where i left it but i did find a folder thats just
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ok here it is lol
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