#i'm like having a whole crisis about the style bc like i just can't pick which direction i want to go with it

[raiiny-bay]

update:

he has a ponytail now :-)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

I have been looking to try to see for myself, but I can't find anything so I figured I'd ask because I'm interested. I'm pretty sure based on Ounce of Prevention that you're in the camp of "the protag legit lost their memories", but are you also in the camp of "protag of pla is the protag of dppt" or do you think the protag is someone entirely new? I think both are fine, I'm mostly just interested because you have a lot of neat ideas and pla meta. Also, if you wanna go into it, which it's cool if not, but could you maybe explain the whole "pla isn't set 200ish years ago" thing?? I went looking for that too, but tumblr's blog search is kinda garbage. I'd just never really examined the time setting before, so I didn't even realize that there was dissenting opinions on it and am curious about what they are. Again though, if you don't even wanna answer any of this that's totally fine, I know it has the possibility of maybe sparking debate from some people and I get not wanting to deal with that

so it's funny i actually go with "protag has lost their memories" specifically to avoid having to answer the question of whether they're the dppt protag or not, bc i go back and forth depending on the day lol. on the one hand it would make sense for arceus to choose a Known Champion and it seems like that's what's intended, on the other hand it's also interesting to imagine a total rando getting chosen for the job and there's potential for creating a new character there too. and i also feel like arceus might have... intentionally chosen someone who wouldn't be missed as much as the sinnoh champion would.

re: the "pla isn't set 200 years ago" thing, i have a whole tag about this but the main thing is:

by the time of dppt, it seems like the events of pla are more or less completely forgotten. celestic town, said to be the oldest town in sinnoh and having been there since the region's creation, doesn't even exist yet in pla. information about giratina and the rift crisis, two things that people in hisui would absolutely have remembered, are really difficult to find even for people who actively research myths and history. these are not large-scale changes that could have happened in less than 200 years.

hisui is just not developed enough for it to be set in the 1800s. there are two tent settlements and 4 y/o jubilife. large-scale farming isn't happening. pokemon aren't really domesticated. those are things that happen really early on in any region's history! not in the fucking 1800s!

it's really frustrating when people try to pick out little details like clothing styles and the existence of cameras to try to date it and ignore the like, glaring historical implications of that choice. people this is pokemon we're talking about. they've invented teleporters and DNA fusion machines in their equivalent of the 2010s. the tech isn't to scale with ours for the love of god

[bowieisworried]

gooood evening/morning/afternoon (i hope this sends the whole ask on my laptop it cut me off so i might have to send... 3 or 4 asks? idk let's see)

it's past midnight now and i just know i'm not gonna sleep anytime soon so i might as well spend an hour replying haha

i always feel kind of bad for falling out of love with groups when they stop doing the stuff i fell in love with in the first place but i guess it's natural to a certain extent. And it's not like i suddenly hate them or anything but it's always sad especially with bts for example just bc they were my first reason for getting into kpop and the ones with the biggest overarching plot line and stuff. and now i don't really keep up with them anymore for a lot of reasons.

but i also stopped keeping up with stray kids for like a year bc their music evolved into more edm style which i just didn't like but now i've come around to liking them again so who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe these breaks aren't forever.

ohhhh yes the find you mv is also so GOOD. dramarama too. sometimes i think about how much of an influence music videos make on me liking a group/their music or Not and i have a crisis lmao

i mean tbz on rtk were like an unstoppable force it was Scary man dfhfh i'm kind of glad they didn't win kingdom too it just kind of felt like they had to try to outdo Themselves instead of the others the whole time and like... how many times on rtk and kingdom did they perform Reveal and The Stealer? like... 2 to 3 times each? ofc ur gonna run out of ideas at some point hhhh

I'm a sucker for vocal who can also rap rlly well ((and rappers who can also sing rlly well ofc)) and i wasn't expecting MY vocal to suddenly get a rap part i screamed dhfgjhf. The collab stage was pulling al the heart strings yea i thought about picking that one but i always crack up at the clothing hanger part idk why lmao

i mean it took me around 8 months to learn all of tbz names via osmosis so i totally get that u say ur never gonna remember them all

It's funny because 3 people have tried to get me into seventeen over the years and tried to get me to remember all the members so i had all this half-knowledge up in my brain before i started stanning this year. Scoups, Vernon, Woozi were the ones i was always able to recognise i think. and suddenly after a week or two i knew them all... that was unexpected and sudden

Your biggest group is 8 members? i'm trying to think of groups with more rn and i can't except for tbz, svt, sf9, nct... okay nevermind thought back to rtk and golden child, to1 and verirvery are also v big hm

oh yeah i start with "useless guides" too most of the time. Especially if i know no members yet. plus they're always helpful for a little group history that you don't get from watching just variety shows and stuff. my attention span is never long enough for behind videos of groups i'm not yet emotionally invested in lmao i think i need Constant Excitement and context to enjoy it and keep watching at first

I rlly hope my friend gets more into Oneus now i'll nudge her a bit in the right direction but right now she's only really been into bts for a few years and while she listens to other stuff she's not Invested Invested you know. But i also got her into bts in the first place so i have high hopes :D

OH i won't go into detail on my album collection in general bc i have a whole spreadsheet for that so you know it's an organised mess But yea! i have a few oneus albums! i have binary codem light us, lived and devil. but i bought three of them second hand so i dont have any pcs for lived and binary code sadly. but i'm very lucky with the pulls i did get!! i got a seoho/leedo combo TWICE and i pulled keonhee once but i traded for seoho with a friend uwu i can show you pictures later if you want

what about your collection? are you the type to collect pcs religiously? do u want to own all the versions of all the albums? do you have a cd player unlike a lot of kpop fans hahsah

i hope your week has been nice so far :>

~ santa

Oh wow the whole past midnight and not going to sleep thing sounds very familiar lol

Yeah, it’s just something that happens with everything really. Any kind of music, or tv series, games, books. Like you say, it’s natural.

Mx really do have some awesome videos and the mv’s do draw you in, it’s the first impression you get of a group usually so it makes sense that it’ll have an effect. The amount of times kpop has had me in crisis mode already is ridiculous haha

Honestly tbz would have done better in Kingdom if they hadn’t went so all out on RTK, they just couldn’t top themselves, they had nowhere left to go xD

Oh, Woozi! I forgot about him, I can definitely point him out in a crowd lol, he’s so fuckin tiny the poor bugger. It’s odd with remembering names and faces, sometimes it can take forever and then for other groups it’s nearly instant, god knows why.

I follow a few groups with more: SF9, Pentagon, Golcha (kind of), Exo (kind of), and Super Junior. I cannot name all of Golcha though. Exo I’d struggle with because of the constant lineup changes, SF9 and Pentagon are fine though and so is Suju (minus the 4 or 5? members that aren’t there anymore).

Give it a week or two and I’m sure she’ll be hooked!

Ooh that’s a nice wee collection you have, shame about the pc’s but it can be a pain getting albums second hand that include them. That is some nice luck you got with your pulls! That combo? Twice? Damn that is good, also pretty awesome that you could trade with your friend, always handy when you don’t share biases. That would be cool!

I... have an addiction when it comes to my collection. I don’t really collect the pc’s much, although I refuse to buy second hand without them, just because I hate the fact that people remove them to make more money rather than because they want to keep it. For Oneus I’ve got Blood Moon, Devil, Lived, Raise Us, and Binary Code. Both versions of BC and BM (not the theatre version) and then just the one of the others. I think 2 versions is my upper limit lol. Because I’m moving I had to pack up my collection so I’ll shove a picture of it in here or link it. And yes, yes I do, got a cd player and a turntable so I’m covered. I used to collect vinyl so I do have a collector streak in me which is a bit of a problem when your ult group is Shinee hahaha

By the way, what would you like to see for a wee gift gifset? Gives me an excuse to stop giffing Taemin for a day xD

There it is, poor things all boxed up. I have added to it since though, I currently have the DVD version of Sayonara Hitori sitting on my shelf, fittingly, all alone. If you're interested to know what any of the other ones there are, or what pulls I got then let me know lol