#idk man my braincells are turning

[modmonsterra]

I’ll bite. What’s your S/V theory?

Scarlet and Violet are heavily built on and advertised by it's open world. Pokemon has always been a fairly unique rpg in which the extent of the roleplay has always been "it's you, but as a trainer," even though  there have been limitations on that premise (such as the player characters having set designs up until gen 6) and each generation builds on this idea through things like adding trainer customization, selfie cameras, etc, to the point that by the time we get to gen 9, you're heavily encouraged to just be you. To the extent that you're literally allowed to go wherever the hell you want.

And that's great! But where that comes into conflict with these games (and keep in mind this isn't unique to Pokemon, but I'm noticing it now that it's new to Pokemon) is that these games are simultaneously both the most customizable but also most roleplay-y games in the series. The game expects you to be invested enough in Team Star to want them to go back to school, it wants you to love battling and be just as invested in being Nemona's rival just as much as she's invested in the player (more on that later), and it wants you to care about Arven's plight and help Mabostiff and eventually visit Area Zero with him. And some of these plots connect more easily with people than others, and it's also a given that if you're playing the game, that the game expects you to interact with it wholeheartedly.

However I've also noticed a great deal of cognitive dissonance in the fandom (for lack of a better term) who don't connect to the stories or characters precisely because they're more invested in being themselves than they are in roleplaying as a trainer and earnestly interacting with the game. This is especially prominent due to just how many dialouge prompts the games give, even though the answer doesn't actually matter or you'll be forced into chosing the answer that the game wants anyway.

I'm sure I have some bias in this statement just because of how much I like Nemona and engage with content about her much more than other characters, but I noticed this trend specifically with how the fandom treats her and calls her "annoying" or "a stalker."

Now both of those statements have multiple reasons for arising and I'm not gonna blame someone for simply not connecting with a character, but I find it interesting that she seems to get a lot more vitriol than other past rivals despite the fact that she still just does the same old thing that every Pokemon rival has always done. And I feel like that's at least partially because the game expects you to be invested in her character, but if you're more invested in doing your own thing or just being yourself rather than roleplaying the character who's supposed to be Nemona's mutual rival, then I can easily see how being presented with a lot of inconsiquental dialouges and being awkwardly forced to follow the game's script despite the illusion of freedom can be jarring and leave a negative impression on her character and the game as a whole.

[xochy]

Pondering my orb

[tomboyyyaoi]

trigun twitter blows like actually fucking sucks ass like actually eats shit like good god what a cesspit. what a fucking travesty how those people live and consume media, twitter fandoms continue losing, seethe, rot, fester, youre all doomed

[wullu]

Orange cats with one braincell have more self-preservation instincts than Kim Da On does. There, I said it.

I'm watching episode 5 and the absolute lack of common sense on this fellow omg.

If someone tells you who they really are, and even shows you, and tells you to fuck off, the rational brain will listen and chose life over death and go their own merry way.

But this man, tailing Justitia, joining her little demon outreach group and being all blasé about it, as if its members wouldn't turn him into strawberry jam the very moment Justitia commanded them to do so.

I guess he thinks there's nothing at stake here and it's all in the pursuit of 'justice' but idk man, maybe his time would be better served actually doing his dang job.

It feels like every second that he is alive now, considering the increasingly stupid risks he is taking, it's because Justitia is still somewhat fond of him, but there's an expiration date on that too, seeing as there's nothing else he has going for him.

Personally, my reaction, when faced with all of these would be to pee my pants and drop dead, but then again, I'm not a drama protagonist, so there's that.

Still, considering the suspicion now at play, on both sides that too, I wonder if this will take the enemies to lovers route? I'm interested in seeing how they proceed.

[catdemontraphouse]

Ok I wanna have an autistic moment about triangle man if that’s okay. This is just my own opinion clouded by my own biases, but yknow

Guys please how do I do “read more” on mobile so I don’t kill peoples braincells with my crappy essay?!

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Seems pretty obvious to me that Bill Cipher’s severe problems stem from having grown up under a violent dictatorship that probably actively wanted him and his family dead or at least silenced. He says it was illegal to talk about the third dimension, which is weird. Like the government of his country was suppressing scientific facts for who knows what reason, maybe religious, maybe something about maintaining control idk it just smells fishy. Were they maybe ruled by a 3D shadow government lol idk?

And it was so much of an issue his parents poisoned him. Like, what kind of sus back alley doctor did they have to go to get treatment without being turned into the feds as bad actors/traitors? How did they even know his eye was an issue if they couldn’t see it? Who diagnosed Bill with “eye on the top of your head syndrome?” How could another 2D being see the eye was facing up if they can only see in 1D? WTF? Just who were Bill’s parents in this fucked up society and were they connected to some kind of anti-government activities? Or maybe did they work for the government and have to hide the 3rd dimension being real?

So I didn’t watch the whole Flatland movie nor have I read the book because I’ve got the attention span of a water flea, but I do recall some kind of thing about a place where they violently deform babies that don’t “look normal” so they can be “normal.” Bill’s homeland is said to be similar to Flatland. So uh, bro lived until the age of (or the equivalent of) 13 if I’m not mistaken, under a government that would likely try to imprison him, smash his face violently until he conformed, or kill him if he didn’t lay low. Because he has a birth defect that makes him “dangerous”😬 I know the “shoelaces are fascist” was a joke but also like maybe he learned that word from like, his parents whispering about facists idk? 🤷‍♀️

So anyways long post long but we eventually get to the whole “he accidentally killed everyone.”Gotta wonder if some of that need to prove the third dimension was real was because he was desperate to not live in fear anymore of him and his family being killed or thrown into prison. Or maybe he was trying to save his parents from losing government jobs and social status. If he could prove the existence of 3D to everyone then maybe the people would rebel against the government for killing citizens who talked about it? Or maybe a scandal would create some leeway to negotiate his family’s safety and wellbeing? I think Bill hated his country, rightfully. He probably did actually want to “liberate” the people. I think it went beyond just self-aggrandizing and proving he was “right.” If he could see the 3rd dimension it makes me wonder if he could be like the sphere in Flatland and see what goes on behind close doors too. What if he saw them killing babies….

Also if he lived in this kind of society maybe they did public executions which would explain some of his blasé reactions to violence? Oh and he can prob see everyone’s guts so I bet that’s where his sick fascination with guts comes from. He probably recognized people by their guts more than their faces or some weird shit 🤷‍♀️

So he’s young, alone, he killed the only people that mattered to him and also failed to liberate the masses, and now he’s somehow surpassed corporeal reality… I don’t rly get how that part works but okay.

So he’s a god now. Not by choice, by accident. A young being who has lived under totalitarian rule and the threat of persecution his whole life suddenly exists in this fucking vacuum where anything is possible, time isn’t necessarily real, you can shapeshift at will etc. He goes from being afraid and living in a very viscerally corporeal reality to suddenly everything he was ever terrified of is like, gone? So he might feel it didn’t matter? Like his life was some kind of sick twisted joke? Like oh… my whole world was a lie. My existence is meaningless. I destroyed my family and I have nothing now, I mean nothing to anyone, nothing is real, blah blah. It’s quite bleak. He can’t die from what I can tell. They say he “died” but like he didn’t at the same time and suggest that a person is ultimately an idea and you can’t kill an idea? I don’t get how death works in Gravity Falls tbh. Like at all. But basically this fucking dude is alone in the soup of chaos between dimensions or whatever with his entire world reduced to a speck of dust and now he’s god and I guess he didn’t die or can’t die idk it’s fucked up and weird ok???

He probably thinks he’s actually doing Earth a favor by bringing Weirdmageddon? No rules because he’s adverse to any kind of rules due to his upbringing. Do whatever, be whatever kind of freak you are. Nobody can tell you what to do or what to believe. Ironically the way he enforces it is pretty totalitarian but yknow. He’s got issues man. And hey, if once you transcend your dimensional limitations you become a god who’s impervious to death? I think an unhinged out of touch god would be like “well death happens, you’ll get over it and being liberated from your flesh prison is good actually. It’s better than living a lie. Now you can be limitless like me! Trauma is whatever, now you can fly so who cares about therapy?”

Bro was like, yeah great let’s destroy the prison that is the 3rd dimension and turn it into a safe haven for people who love freedommm! 🦅 whoever has to die or get their face rearranged so be it for the greater good, and they will physically recover eventually anyways so it’s whatever. (There’s several instances in canon of god like beings being “killed” or dismembered and recovering such as in one of the books it says Time Baby has to regenerate for a thousand years or whatever after Bill shot him, the guy Pyronica ate in the Fearamid who showed up next scene unscathed, Bill getting his eyeball ripped out and regenerating it etc)

It’s fucked up and twisted but it makes sense so much narratively I think.

[quotidianish]

uh uhhhh a the uhh

the tf2s are terrorized by a big scary monster living in the base,, and when they find it it turns out to be like, a possum or something . That might be silly uhhhh

oh oh uh everybody shows their appreciation for miss pauling,, because she’s pretty epic and she deserves some I think

medic and heavy try to have a nice date and everybody keeps on interrupting them and eventually they just give up

engineer and medic invent some stupid shit together honestly just more engineer and medic friendship would be epic

sniper scout and demo all apart are smart in their own rights,, but when together 1 braincell,,,

hmmm uhh. ,, , heavy helps spy learn Russian? Or maybe heavy doesn’t know spy can speak Russian so he insults him one day and spy insults him back

scout and spy do a father-son activity ,, but not because they wanted to do father-son bonding ,it was by accident. Like scout was rambling about baseball and spy said it was stupid so he was like, oh yeah? Bet you’re just jealous, and spy retorts by saying he can throw and scout bets him and they end up playing catch lmao

more trans soldier,,, for the funsies

sniper and demo argue about cryptids and which ones are real or not,, and which animals are real or not because a lot of Australian animals totally sound like cryptids

tired medic,, I know he’s probably on cocaine like twenty four seven or however you say it, but he’s gotta run out at some point

engineer gaming losing his mind !!!! ho boy that’d be scary I think,

pyro’s parents are coming to earth to visit them and they’re like some sort of cosmic-lovecraftian-horrors ,, peeping the horror am I right or am I r anyway scout can handle these man-made horrors just fine maybe you have a skill issue or something

demo listens to breakcore,, I know it’s not like invented for like another million years but idk I think I’d be silly and I think he’d like it

scout learns how to read yayyyyy he reads his first book or something maybe like the ones with the silly golden retriever you know the ones,, like uhh hmm let me search it up OH THE DOG’S NAME IS BISCUIT !!! Yeah the biscuit books,, the I Can Read! ones

movie night !! Its spy’s turn to pick the movie but nobody except heavy and soldier like it and scout starts to argue and eventually they end up with pyro picking the movie like always. (They just put on golden girls episodes’ or something)

Demo is secretly a painter,, more specifically an impasto painter. Pyro finds out and is amazed and asks him to help them learn how to paint. Demo lets them touch the paintings. (impasto paintings are meant to be touched ,,I mean how could you look at all the epic texture and just not. come on now)

I wish I had more but that’s all the thoughts my brain will let me think tonight, hope these help and stuff!! Also I love your art and your memes are so fucking funny,, your headcannons are very epic too,,,, hhhh goodnight I have to sleep now it is 4 am oh nooooo

Ohhh all of these headcanons are so good…. Especially love the scout + spy father son bonding activity. Aggressively chucks ball at his da’s crotch. Swings bat and accidentally managed to bash his son in the face. At the end they have achieved a new level of understanding with one another. Btw medic’s proposing to heavy on that one where the offense class is stalking out of a bush. And thank you so much man <333 these headcanons are fire too 💥💥🫡

[imminent-danger-came]

tbh you are so real for talking about the misogyny targeted to mei & other women in the lmk fandom. in general its like people only value mei as: a: the wingman to some basic mlm ship or b: macaque 2.0. its honestly crazy how so many male side characters overshadow her in the fanbase despite not even having a FRACTION of her screen time. idk chat i feel like the reason people dont care about mei but care about some random male side/background character is less because they're inherently more likeable but because some of you view women as inherently less likable. and everyone is always like "mei is so girlboss pussy cunt slay shes the only reason theyre still alive because she keeps them safe from their silly boy shennanigans shes their ultimate wingman shes so badass shes their lesbian best friend i totally paid attention to her when i watched this show LOL" and even ignoring the obvious misogyny here (ie. how people reduce her to being the male characters babysitter) its like... okay... i know mei is cool & badass already... could you name literally ANY other character trait she has. like people just value her as being "the braincell" who can get red son and mk together or something stupid and its like are we having fun still is this still fun. literally every day i go into the mei tag its like "look at mei shes red sons wifey and shes vaguely in the background of this drawing of red son and mk staring into each others eyes #trafficlighttrio am i right oh look shes macaques niece now this post is about ao lie why is it in the mei tag"

and thats literally JUST talking about mei and it doesnt even begin to cover the other female characters. chang'e constantly gets reduced to being red sons aunt/mom/big sister despite them like. not having any actual interactions in the show. lady bone demon constantly gets overshadowed by her minion who has like 2 seconds of screen time, or she gets made into a cartoonishly abusive madwoman who people call lady bitch demon. just in general people act like shes a horrible person for like. being a villain. liks yeah the trying to destroy everything was bad but also she was an antagonist and thats what antagonists do LOL. spider queen gets completely ignored. princess iron fan gets made into a cartoonishly abusive mother so that way red son can have a poor angsty backstory and some male character (usually nezha, macaque, swk) can take care of him.

(also theres just a great deal of ethnocentrism in the lmk fanbase? like im white so take what İ say here with a grain of salt but so many people will misconstrue aspects of chinese culture for their own personal hcs. people will say male characters are transfem or nonbinary while completely ignoring the time period/culture their from where thats the norm. like yippee youve implied that an east asian man is feminine/emasculine because he has long hair. how do you not see the negative connotations with this. people also turn pif (& lbd to an extent) into a dragon lady which obviously has negative racial connotations lol.)

anyway this is where my unhinged rambling ends have a good day have a good night İ had more to say here but İ reached the text limit. İ dont see a lot of people talk about the misogyny thats prevalent in the lmk fanbase so İm glad youre pointing it out lol.

Yeah, I totally hear you. The lmk fandom has plenty of issues with misogyny and, like you said, ethnocentrism. It's definitely something worth having a discussion about, along with these issues in fandom as a whole.

[therhythmafterthesummer]

idk if u have ever gone into detail about this but what pet names do the wr couples use (apart from the ones we see instead of names like pretty or kitten)

this is so so cute okay. i love pet names, i think they're so adorable and loving and and and..... yeah.

if i had to say things that we've never ever seen in the stories, here's what i think:

Chris x pretty: we know they're huge on baby and babe in all its forms, and Chris is big on using any form of pretty/beautiful/etc. i feel like pretty would call Chris puppy sometimes and it'd make his brain short-circuit?? cuz, at the end of the day isn't it essentially the same as baby??? but puppy just trickles something in the back of his mind... like puppy??? i'm not puppy...... YOU're puppy???? but at the same time he kinda likes it (but only in private). they'd both probably use pet names in other languages (because of course Chris is at least bilingual, and of course pretty knows pet names in other languages).

Minho x kitten: they've been best friends for years, they probably use dude/man/girl/dumbass as pet names. i feel like at the beginning of their relationship kitten or Minho might've been like "hey, idiot" but immediately backtrack like "shit, i'm sorry. hi, baby, dear, love, pookie, bubbie 🥰" but eventually kinda realise they're still good friends so they keep on going anyway lol. other than that, i don't think they get that creative with their pet names. Minho's singular braincell came up with kitten years ago and he simply pairs that with more common pet names and that's it.

Changbin x autumn: these two would fall into a rabbit hole of using kinda old-fashioned/flashy pet names??? my heart/my dear/my wife and... any form of fruit. Changbin is big on using fruits. "how's my precious persimmon doing this morning?" "what happened, guava?" "pineapple, what do you think about this wall paint colour?" why does he do this, you might ask? because it makes her laugh and giggle and he can hear her heartrate spike. so he keeps going. in turn, autumn would start using food as pet names as well. "looking good, hot pot" "pumpkin pie, i need your help with--" but also, Changbin is her big boy, and you bet he loves it when she calls him big boy.

[crescentfool]

WHATS UR FAVORITE RYOMINA MOMENT FROM THE MOVIES I NEED TO KNOW!!!

HI FELIX!! thank you for the ask i am always happy to take more opportunities to talk about ryomina they are so special to me o7

it is VERY tempting for me to answer, "every fucking time ryoji showed up on screen!" ok this might be an exaggeration, i like 90% of his screentime, december 2nd ryoji should've been portrayed more like a pathetic wet dog imo but i digress. but hm... favorite moment.

while the helper's club montage has a very strong place in my heart (it permeated my braincells without my permission)!! i think my favorite part of ryomina's portrayal in the movies is the whole sentence finishing thing they got going on. i feel like that's a cop out answer but like.

there is something so so gut wrenching to me about how they start off by making it so that ryoji is the one finishing minato's sentences. always ryoji. BUT THEN!!! when they meet again at the top of tartarus to do battle on judgment day!! they turn it on it's head!! and it's minato!! who finishes the sentence!! and fuck man does it make me feel like i'm being kicked down a staircase.

and to have the sentence finishing happen again for such an important day?? god idk im gonna tear up and someone needs to like. give me like. a chew toy or something this makes me so fucking insane (blows up) (blows up).

so basically my favorite moment is really like, january 31st, but a lot of my attachment to it is BECAUSE they have that set-up in november with ryoji being the silliest fucking guy to have ever walked at gekkoukan. and oh man oh man the fucking. THE. when. WHEN THEY FOLLOW IT UP WITH MINATO SUMMONING THANATOS AFTER THIS?? yeah man. that's the fucking shit.

like i don't think the english language is enough to convey how much i love the artistic choice to have the flash frame of ryoji when minato summons thanatos. it's the hesitation and rebellion babey!!! the whole scene afterwards is so fucking juicy as well.

honorable mention to when ryoji jumped off the fucking roof at iwatodai station to tell minato that he has kindness in his eyes and that he doesn't like seeing him alone. what kind of guy does that. that's so fucking hilarious to me like actually. he was insane for that.

anyway that is my answer i HOPE u enjoyed reading it, god, ryomina still makes me eyes watery (it's been almost 2 years since i've met them??? what the fuck). i feel like others have echoed this sentiment before but nevertheless i was super happy to type it out :D

[sorcerous-caress]

Witnessing you play pathologic 2 is such a fucking trip bc like?? I own both 1 and 2, but I’ve only actually played pathologic 1 and like?? How in the blue fuck do you have 15 shmowders????? I think I got like- 6 in my entire playthrough- I was not doing well with my quests tho so that probably contributed but??? 15??????

16 now just baught some from my buddy ol'pal dead items shop man on day 7

But if you want an actual answer

Shmowder kid

Find a building with shmowder kid in it, exist and enter until they have the shmoder in their inventory for trade. 10% spawn chance.

Rare cache farming

I save before 7:30 when cache reset. Then I go and check all the assigned "rare" caches with a chance of spawning shmoders, usually 3-6 each day. They're scripted so they never change locations. I reload until I'm sure at least two of them have shmoders then bag it quickly. 20% spawn chance per rare cache.

Rob people

You don't find shmoders, but you aquire nut funds for your shmoder supplier kid. Basically get the cape and all the protective gear, waltz into infected houses with at least 8 immunity boosters then go haywire and grab all nuts you can find.

Quests?

Only two give a guarantee Shmoders so uhh...maybe if you feel like it? I did them either way.

Here is my progress so far

I could squeeze 3/4 more shmoders out of my plug girlie, but I'm running low on food, so I rather trade them for eggs instead. Plus, I'll get 2 more when it hits 7:30 from caches.

I'm saving up for the shotgun! Maybe a revolver too idk.

I found out brewing antibiotics is annoying so I rather trade for them instead, but + immune boosters are a must.

The town so far is good, I gotta start repairing water sources.

I think Peter's infection is scripted because he had like 75% chance to NOT get infected, lost twice in a row when I reloaded.

Eh, he's not one of my bounds so Imma wait for Daniil to come begging on his knees for a shmoder.

Side note, Artemy is so fucking stunted when talking to women he is attracted to. It's almost hilarious.

Meanwhile, compare it with his flirting with men, and he becomes as smooth as silk.

Artemy is so down bad for Rubin it's sad and funny at the same time.

It's like a love triangle i can't. Artemy wants childhood sweethearts romance with Rubin, but Rubin keeps rejecting him for big city dandy educated Bachelor of medicine, but Daniil is tripping over his own feet trying to subtly (failing) to get closer and more intimate with hunky bottom surgeon Artemy.

Making us "indebted" to him.

Trying to get us to be his "Aide"

By day 6, we're drinking buddies. He even ADMITS how his arrogance hurts him and is a bad trait. IN LESS THAN A WEEK OF MEETING US.

DANIIL ADMITING A MISTAKE, A FAULT, BY HIMSELF AND NOT UNDER THE THREAT OF A RIFILE.

I'm still not over how he invites us to EVA'S house, doesn't tell her and doesn't inform the hunching brooding gaint Artemy that a soft hearted woman lives where he's squatting at for free and instead let her panic at seeing Artemy bust in unannounced.

"The milkman" I FUCKING CANNOT. Daniil is the roomate who's late on rent, keeps flirting with you to make you forget that he is late on rent, then his grinder date shows up unannounced.

Daniil is so much nicer than people made him seem? Idk, maybe I'm too autistic to pick up on his normie passive-aggressive condescension-which feels very in character for Artemy-but also, he just seems like a decent swell guy!

Kinda useless, but he's trying his best without time turning protagonist active player powers!

If anything, he's too friendly. He asks US to be his aide? Even when it's clear that Artemy didn't attend a single day in school all of his life.

Because let's be real.

"Where did you graduate??"

"Medical...school"

ARTEMY YOU DUMB BITCH I LOVE YOU BUT IT'S TIME TO BEG FOR SPARE BRAINCELLS ON THE STREET.

Daniil's "you don't have to watch your tongue with me" omfggggf

The sabotaged water sources must be getting to Daniil's head for him to act this thirsty in a makeshift hospital IN PUBLIC.

Artemy is clearly someone that Daniil would absolutely look down on MORE than he would to the average person, and yet how does he treat us?

Like what the fuck were those youtubers about???? Daniil is so nice oh my god. I had completely the wrong idea. He is so helpful and friendly, not once did I feel antagonised by him.

Also, I didn't insult him, ever. So he never replied with any insulting comment. You treat him with respect, and he does the same. It's endearing!

He entrusts us and confides in us! He clearly values our input and help. He vents to us and listens to our theories!

Side note, people's reaction to Artemy's height and gaint size is gold.

Also, I think they have a kink for his hands because of the whole surgeon thing, like come on, it gets mentioned TWICE?

there is also this time where Artemy had a nightmare that he was sleeping through class, and for some reason, Daniil was just ???? In the corner ??? For misbehaving?

He barely met the guy and he already figured out how 90% of his time in the education system must have went.

also Artemy REALLY likes cats and dogs.

First he calls himself like a Kitten, then he says Murky is like a cat and finally:

Artmey is just phenomenal in this.

I bought the first Pathologic HD Classic today, too! It was on sale for so cheap my god it felt like highway robbery.

See this loser wet cat kiddo right here?

I will behead every man, woman, child and elderly in this entire town with a rusty Axe if even one of them touches a single hair on his head.

[hils79]

Hils Watches Kiseki: Dear to Me - Ep 6

Oh my god he baked Fan Zerui a cake even though he doesn't like sweet things himself. It's too cute. I can't.

I love that wiping food off someone's mouth is a drama classic but I've never actually seen anyone do it irl (I mean apart from to little kids)

OH NO! Because the reaction you want when you confess your feelings is a spit-take of beer in your face and then the person immediately leaving

Abandoned again and left alone with a face full of spit beer and a barely touched confession cake. It's too sad.

Sweetie, you ARE a teenager

Liar. Also, it's unfair how hot he looks in those glasses.

Ah, so I was right about his age. I wonder how old Fan Zerui is meant to be.

Ah, we have to establish that Fan Zerui is a noble gangster who has never killed anyone. I'm curious how he ended up injured in the beginning of episode 1 then. I'm assuming at some point we'll find out.

I love that this family dinner is two gay dads and their three gay sons

God, I really want hotpot now

This is so delightfully messy. Ai Di loves Chen Yi, Chen Yi loves Chen Dongyang, Chen Dongyang loves Zhou Minglei, Zhou Minglei loves...idk, his job?

More dramas should have elder gays

Aww, sweetie, no. Still learning how to make cakes for the boy who says he doesn't like you back.

Okay, so we know Bai Zongyi is 17 and we know Ai Di and Chen Yi are 18 and 21 respectively because we saw the candles on their birthday cake. So Fan Zerui is older than them but he can't be much older, right? I mean he's old enough to pass as a teacher but he's not obviously older. Maybe mid-20s?

Words to live by

Ouch. Asking the boy who loves you how to win the man you love.

Ai Di might be an impulsive murder kitten but I'm starting to think he's the only one of the younger generation with a braincell

Oh no. I was hoping their first kiss would be once Chen Yi sorted out his feelings. Not when he's drunk and openly admitting to being in love with someone else. Ai Di deserves better.

OMG! Ai Di bit him! He's such a feral little gremlin I love him.

Oh my god now Ai Di is also undercover at the school. I'm not sure inviting multiple gang members to your school to stop a different gang from dealing drugs is the way to go about it.

Poor kid probably didn't have much if anything of a school experience. Let him take part in a stupid contest if he wants to!

Ai Di is determined that if he can't be happy and in love then at least he can help someone else be

Oh no there's a storm and Bai Zongyi is alone. Which I think Fan Zerui has just also realised.

Aww now the tables have turned and Fan Zerui is taking care of a hurt Bai Zongyi

Son of a bitch I can't believe the episode ended here! And I have to go and do stuff now so I can't watch the next one until later.

[onlyjaeyun]

idk maybe it’s weird or toxic of me but if a man took care of the worst ppl in my life without me asking…id fuck him until the room becomes a biohazard 😭😭😭 i can see how ppl may be put off by jay poking into her private life without permission though. don’t be discouraged by ppl who are saying stuff about it tho zadie, i think it fits the plot and jay’s personality. how are u gonna have a ceo!au with an emotionally constipated ceo without him finding out some info secretly and then pulling strings to get rid of people who try to harm his girl. it’s a classic!!

anyways ik u delayed the smut for the sake of the plot flowing better BUT i’m hoping for at least some obvious sexual tension they both can’t ignore but choose not to address to each other during their business trip oof. the angst that will follow will be crazy though but as resident angst whore that’s ok!! i’m excited 💗

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i think we're both quite similar because even if i genuinely understand why people aren't super happy with jay's decisions i personally think it fits his whole personality so well and as you said, i had to feed into the whole CEO classics and cliches and whoever doesnt like it doesnt have to read it!🤭 thank you so much for your encouraging words baby, i hope you guys all know how much they mean to me like y'all immediately pull me up when i feel a little down and it's everything to me 🥺💞💓

also yes, i dont wanna spoil anything but something is going to happen on the business trip which will kind of be a bit of a turning point but i wont say anything else to avoid spoilers, y'all just let your fantasy run wild and since we share one and the same braincell im pretty sure you can imagine what i've got planned 🤭���� i love you

[randum-famdoms]

Hello! I'm reading one of your fic's on ao3 and was wondering when it's gonna be updated? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the fic and wanna know how long until we get a new chapter! Love your writing! And I was so happy to see that you gave Mishima such a cool persona! I love the fic so much! I've been ranting to my friends about it nonstop (even though neither of them have ever played the game) but they both sit there and listen nonetheless! (I may even try and convince them to read it! It's a pretty interesting take on the whole game! And the part where Akira is worried that Mishima will have a problem with him being gay and Mishima just like "If I had a problem with it I would've said something back in kamoshida's palace" was amazing! I love everything about it and I can't explain in words just why I love it so much! It's just amazing! If I was better at art I would LOVE to make some fanart of it!!! Again I can't explain just how much I love it! I hope you're doing well and aren't sick!

(How was the dog sitting by the way? Hope it went well!)

Ahshdjdkjfndbdkjdl thank you??????

I just. *scream*

The idea that people can love a silly little thing I write for fun this much is kinda unreal to me. Idk how to respond???? Thanks????

I mean, I’ve reacted like this to fics I have read before but having it turned into myself is trippy. Like this is some weirdly dream or some shit. Idk man. Shit’s wild.

Every time someone tells me how happy they are about the way I’m treating mishima in my fic I am further convinced that everyone who says he’s a bad character is a fucking coward and if more people would just make Mishima positive content then the fandom would be better off. He does not get enough love and appreciation and I will gladly take on the mantle of Mishima Ambassador. He is my blorbo, my boi, and I love him dearly. He deserves better, both in game and in the fandom, so I just did it myself.

Also, I ain’t about to beg you for fanart because you reading my fic is more than enough already and then you sent me this ask and Ann bear gave me a heart attack from joy, but trust me if you think you’re a bad artist I’ve seen worse. Much, much worse. I took an art class in a very sports heavy highschool and 90% of the kids in there were teenage boys who thought it would be an easy A. The first assignment was to draw a realistic hand. You’d think that they were AI with how bad some of them looked. So yeah, any hypothetical art you make is beautiful to me, especially because I’m fairly sure that if anyone made fanart of my fic I’d cry tears of joy <3

I tried really hard to update every week and I failed miserably, so I’ve made the decision to cut back to every other week. I’m like 85% sure that I’ll get the next chapter up this Sunday. I started my summer classes today and one of them (my English class) is cramming a 14 week course into 4 weeks, but I’ve always been pretty good at English/reading/writing so I’m hoping that that won’t ruin my update schedule AGAIN. I swear I can’t go two weeks without something fucking up my writing/editing time. We’ll see how it goes. I am not sick don’t worry, Just like, super fuckin tired cause my sleep schedule is fucked. I’m pretty good otherwise tho!

Dogsitting went well! I actually finished up with that yesterday. The little demon I was taking care of had absolutely no braincells, and was very annoying, and she kept pooping in my bathroom no matter how often I tried to take her outside to shit, but at least she’s small so it was easy to clean up and she was a good size to cuddle. Overall it was a 5/10 experience that was turned into a 9/10 because of the couple hundred dollar paycheck I got for it. The family I was doing it for is uncomfortably rich lol. Pretty sure some of it is blood money because the dad is an ex-cop turned middle school teacher (neither of which make good money) and the mom is a Russian immigrant stay-at-home mom and they somehow own a huge house in a really nice neighborhood and can afford a two week trip to the Caribbean on that income. I ain’t gonna complain tho.

I’m excited to get chapter 11 written and posted, I think it’s gonna be really fun! Lots of good plot and character development is gonna be happening :) the fic is really picking up now that we’ve finally gotten over all the exposition hurdles. Only took 60k words lol (I swear I thought that it would take half as long as it did to get to this point in the fic, at this rate the things gonna end up 800k words long and I’ll be dead before it’s finished)

[neo-neos]

Getting to know your BL mutuals - 2022 Edition

Simple, answer the questions. @ some people. Include the tag 'g2ky BL mutuals 2022' on your post so we can find everyone's answers!

tagged by the lovely @chimerasinourskyline - and @aleng-neng and @dont---just-dont Thank you so much for this <3 It's my first time really interacting with the community in this way and I feel legit honored <3

DISCLAIMER -> I started watching BL literally last month, I am fully 110% new and have been literally binging everything I can get my hands on to get on everyones level of knowledge and passion. If I fuck up a date (aka: came out last year or something) pls do not lynch me it is hard to keep up. I also have not seen everything yet, I am trying to keep up but I can only watch so much in a day. Okay thank you &lt;;3

What has been the BL that took you by surprise this year?

To be fair, ChocoMilkShake -> (I am aware it is still airing but I am pretty sure it will finish airing before the year is over) When I heard the concept I was kinda like ???? Dog??? Cat??? BL???? But I was so happily surprised omg.

Roommates of Poongduck 304 -> I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I DOUBTED THIS IN THE BEGINNING BUT OH MY GOD I LOVE THEM SO MUCH NOW

What has been the BL that you felt a bit disappointed with this year?

To be very very honest... And hear me out here... Big Dragon -> The first episode I was like: OH SHIT LET'S GO??? The spice, the drama the bdsm... but then I was like... Where...Where did that go? I LOVE the couple, like MosBank are hawt... But I feel like MosBank has more chemistry than MangkornYai does and... Idk? Season 2 redemption????? Idk

Cutie Pie -> was a little hard to get through for me at times... Sorry? The couple is great, the story wasn't my fav

The rest of the slightly more disappointing shows are from before 2022 so I won't go on a rant lmfao

What has been your favourite BL this year?

KINNPORSCHE -> Oh my god, this show changed me... Like, I can't even explain in words how... But I literally consume every piece of content I can about the cast because I cannot get enough. I'm gonna rewatch it another 10 times probably?

Love in the Air -> I don't even know how to explain this one tbh, I just love the cast, the characters, the storyline didn't even matter that much to me as long as I got to see them doing their thing.. It had some deeper messages here and there too which I loved.

Blueming -> Do I need to explain this one?

Semantic error -> My first BL, again do I need to explain this one?

(I know it's not done airing but...) Between Us -> as long as it does not take some really hectic turns... It's def a fav for this year at least!

Favourite BL couples (not just of 2022)?

MileApo, Payurain, Prapaisky, WinTeam... I am not really big on remembering ship names yet.. I am trying but I legit forget names in daily life too, and then having to remember IN SHOW ship names and then they also come up with REAL NAME ship names and I have 2 working braincells pls do not do this to me lmfao

If you had to suggest a BL for someone what would it be?

(This didn't have to be 2022 right??? I'm just going to go with no)

Kinnporsche -> this one is mainly a little selfish because I just want more people to see it so I can make more friends lmfao

Not me -> I mean come on... That shit was a masterpiece

Blueming -> Good story fr fr fr

Life - Love on the Line -> Look I loved this so much and I kinda related a lot to this show and that shit HURT but also brought so much comfort????

My beautiful man -> Same as above really lmao

Bad buddy -> I mean it's just good

What's your non-BL favourite for this year?

WEAK HERO CLASS 1

OH MY GOD this show has me in a fucking chokehold and I want to consume everything that has even a VAGUE mention to this show

It is so insanely good

It has some bromance going on so not fully "non-bl" but still.

AnYWAY any questions about this feel free to hit up my askbox or the comments to this thing. Again excuse the noob mistakes if there are any, feel free to point them out kindly to teach me because I love to learn but pls don't come for my throat lmao &lt;;3

I would like to tag: @sunf10wer8 @irishtwinmags @keithblguy

(If ^^^^ any of you already did this and I missed it, I am very sorry, feel free to @ me on the post so I can see it! <3)

[eli-elien]

henlo :DDD i am here for the Ask Game!!

2, 5, 11, 14, 30

this makes me sound like im ordering from a drive through XD

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

I think a left 3rd view of the face is the easiest second to that is facing forward

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

60% or so is for myself the rest if I think its good I'll post online and you already seen what I usually post on servers being stupid lil doodles lol

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

YEEEESSS III LOOOOVE MUSIC

Honestly this has turned into a playlist of music I just love that happens to relate even to one lyric about my boy lol

but specifically these:

and you definitely know why I've been listening to this one ;)

14. Any favorite motifs

There's alot and since this is my post and my answers and you're my friend

I WONT SPARE YOU THE ESSAY YOU'VE UNLEASHED

So I love love wolves/dogs and rabbits/deer as both are very interesting the differences between dogs and wolves is a fact of freedom, that sure a wolf miiight listen to you (but mostly bc of food or other sources you might give them I mean they're wild) while a dog is absolutely domesticated but...they still bite and when pushed they WILL fight back even if they're loyal

Rabbits and deer esp when combined for a Jackalope are two things: my love of contrasts and double meanings and metaphors for transness!! I see antlers personally, esp since its different between sexes in deer when it comes them and growing/shedding them as a trans thing idk how to explain it lol

now with the contrasts and double meanings with rabbits!! its such a cute lil fluffy thing but its interesting when the rabbit bites down, when you see that the black and white world-view of carnivores and vegetarians are actually blurred and that during winter they'll eat meat when its available most animals and esp rabbits are very opportunistic

and ofc there's the predator and prey aspects of both between dogs/deer and wolves/rabbits!!!

also side note but I also been loving lizards/shrikes and returning to the classic motif for reverie: foxes/ravens (both clever beings that get a bad rap in fairy tales)

also I looooove fairy tales and myths, William several folk tales that I got inspired by, I wonder what sorta scenes and designs and skills based of these: Red Riding Hood (#1 FAIRY TALE) Anything with the big bad wolf, sleeping beuty, beuty and the beast, the white knight/prince charming motif, witches motif, and hansel and grentel but what if one of the kids take the other instead of a parent? Can you really call that your sibling?

like for instance Will has his red cloak that acts as a red "heroic and prince charming/white knight" cape that also has a red hood, not too mention his motivations are mainly pure righteousness and his desinated roles by the story are either prince charming/white knight or love interest (mainly both if he was saving a princess from the princess pov but instead he's saving and protecting the "evil" dragon)

alsoooo MORE CONTRASTS like life/death and growth/rot and sun/moon and ice/fire (again these can be applied to will who has a rot curse but inherant magic for healing and being related to plants and also ice and fire magic

also persephone/hades dynamic esp where you think on the surface its the cute bubbly life and flowers girlie (doesn't even have to be a girl again: will) with their gloomy dark death and rot guy (yes this is talking about the dragon guy buuut he's honestly more of a dark golden retreiver that would eat and kill anyone who messes with will who also has 1 braincell that uses 60% of it to think abt will)

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

honestly every one of my oc stuff cuz man I put alot of effort into this shit and since this is my post I'll post the ones that I think aren't getting enough attention

I don't think this is underated but putting this here bc I did it on a tablet with a shitty diy stylus that didn't even give me good control and I think I deserve something for how well this came out under those circumstances

ALSOOO!!! IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN WILL THEN PLS SEND ME ASKS I NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT HIIIIM

[bxrningdragxn]

My Steven Stone Headcanons! <3

Just felt like typing these out tbh lol, should I share some for other characters too?

idk we’ll see

anyway, let’s get to it! :D  ✰ ~

He’s asexual biromantic :)

He realised he was bi pretty early on in his life, but didn’t realise he was ace until after he turned 20

transmasc !! I don’t take criticism on this,,,, like just look at the guy and tell me it’s not true

Yeah he knew this since he was a kid

His dad is very supportive btw, incase anyone was wondering

Used to be really shy as a kid

he loved exploring new places but hated people

as an adult he’s still not the biggest fan of a huge crowd, but he’ll put on a smile and attempt to make conversation

he just perfers smaller hangouts with close friends (and I can’t blame the guy for that)

Metagross was his first pokemon

his dad got him a Beldum as a kid

A shiny one! I love that they gave him a shiny metagross in the anime, so like, I’m going with that one lol

He became champion at a ridicioulusly young age, he was 12

a lot of people used to think he just got handed the title, or his father payed the league to make him a champion, eventually he managed to prove that he earned the title himself

Childhood friends with Wallace, Lance & Cynthia

except he didn’t meet them at the same time

He met Wallace during his journey through Hoenn, when he was 10 and Wallace was 11

He just happened to run into a kid with a feebas, they seemed to be training

Wallace told him about contests, Steven seemed slightly interested but when asked if he wanted to join he quickly refused

those two would run into each other more often throughout their journeys, becoming closer each time

He met Lance first as a kid, he was 10 and Lance was 12

They became rivals/friends quickly

They weren’t together often, with both of them being from different regions

but when they were they’d get into a lot of trouble together

When Steven became champion Lance already had his title, so his friend helped him out a lot

He met Cynthia when they were both 13

He was a bit intimidated by her at first

especially since she didn’t open up to him quickly

but they soon became close friends and rivals

He was ecstatic when those two became champions of Kanto/Johto and Sinnoh

They became a trio soon after

Sucks at naming pokemon, like actually sucks at it, it’s why he doesn’t name them lol

His pokemon do have nicknames, but they were named by friends, by which I mean Wallace, just Wallace

except Metagross, that’s the only pokemon Steven nicknamed himself

Honestly at the time of writing this I still haven’t figured out a nickname yet, I was thinking Osmi, short for Osmium, I just like the way it sounds lol 

Also Osmium is a type of metal, so like, it fits :)

I’m gonna say this now, since I’m about to talk about ships, but I’m not an originshipper, sorry :P

They’re cute but idk I just don’t ship it lol

I like neochampionshipping better

the lack of content for these is criminal

anyway, Steven fell first

but Lance fell harder

Except both of them are idiots who fail to see the other likes them back, despite the other making it blatantly obvious

these oblivious lil shits I swear-

Steven always vents to Wallace or Diantha about it

Both of them can genuinely not believe that Steven and Lance aren’t a thing yet

Steven ends up confessing first btw

And because Lance is a flustered moron who took too long to react, it could’ve gone very wrong very quickly

Because the lack of reaction made Steven think he didn’t like him back

but like they quickly resolve that

Honestly I could go on about those two but I don’t want this to become a ship headcanon list

Outsiders seem to think Steven is the smart one of the group

he’s not

He may occasionaly borrow the single shared braincell from Diantha

but apart from those (rare) moments this man is absolute disaster

He can spend hours at a time in his home office studying geology

he will be so occupied with it he will forget to take care of himself, because rocks are more important

The others have made it a thing to barge in and drag him out of there from time to time

or like, at least call him to remind him to drink water instead of playing with rocks 24/7

“That rock looks pretty” - literally anyone

“actually-” *proceeds to infodump about it* - Steven

He likes cartoons

will definitely end up burning the kitchen down when cooking

but is somehow really great at baking???

I don’t think he’s a huge sweet tooth but he’s definitely addicted to chocolate

I refuse to believe he’s not a dog person

I want to believe he has a lycanroc

He’s surprisingly good at video games

He doesn’t pay often though, perfers to do other things

but like if someone asks him to play with them he will

He has this specific face he makes when he’s angry and it tends to scare the others

It takes a lot to make Steven angry

I imagine him to be insanely patient

He just wants to be left alone with his rocks

He has a tiny aron he takes with him to caves and stuff, creatively named Spot

Spot was named by my oc Robin, but I don’t really wanna get into specifics about them

What I will say about Steven & Robin’s relationship is that he’s a bit of a mentor to them

but yeah that’s all I’m saying about Robin, they’re not really relevant to this post lol

Honestly this list is already pretty long imo, so I’ll leave it here lol

cya next time I guess ✰ ~