#insert the clip of him going finally my turn thank you when a fan shouted laogong at him

[xinyuehui]

ꜝꜝꜝꜝWARNING: CRAZY DOG ︻╦╤─ ҉ - -

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)

[brillixdis]

The Married Millennialz: GUESS WHAT?!

*a short intro plays, displaying their photos and logo along the screen with Thoughts by Tory Lanez instrumental playing in the background*

Zyair: Wassup? What’s happening? We’re the Married Millennialz and we’re back and we’re better, baby. -chuckles as he briefly looks to Brilliant before averting his focus back to the camera- I’m Zyair, if you don’t know.

Brilliant: So much better, so much better! [she shouts with a wide smile before waving her hand to the camera] And I’m Brilliant as you all know and I’m so excited to get into this video. We’ve been MIA but for good reasons, but we’ve definitely been missing you guys and wanted to reconnect. Right, Zy? [she turns to look at him]

Zyair: As you all know, see how she threw that in there? -lowly laughs- She's the unforgettable one. -directs his thumb in her direction before agreeing with her statement- Very good reasons. If you've been with us from the start then you're aware that we suffered a miscarriage about two years ago and since then we've really been grinding to expand our family. It's something we've both wanted so badly and we haven't given up on.

Brilliant: Thank you, babe. [she chuckles, playfully fanning herself and batting her eyelashes upon his compliment] And we almost did give up though! I promise you if I someone told me that we’d be in the position we are in right now last year, I would’ve laughed in their face. [she sighs, shaking her head at the thought] It took us a long time after our last video to finally meet with a doctor about our options and with some motivation and a big push from Zy, we finally decided on the IVF process which is literally as scary as it sounds.

Zyair: Yeah, she is right bout that. -chimes in as she speaks then nods some while he continues to listen- We spent a lot of time just hoping things would kick off naturally but we weren’t getting anywhere and that was disappointing. It was hard. It took a long time for us to seek professional help because that’s intimidating. That wasn’t a step we took lightly so yeah, a lot of pushing and truly wanting to make some changes is what got us there. -chuckles a bit at her final comment, rubbing along the side of his face some- That process ain’t no fucking joke at all.

Brilliant: [she nods her head in agreement as he speaks] I think you hit the nail of the head with that, babe. I think that’s what made it so hard, it was terrifying, just having to go through the process, it was much easier because we had each other’s energy to bounce off and most of the time my energy was no good. [she chuckles] To tell you guys a little about the IVF process, it started with numerous tests and evaluations of our blood, my Fallopian tubes and uterus, Zy’s soldiers.. [she chuckles again] And after that the real fun began with the ovarian stimulation which required me to take medicine which would develop my eggs for a few weeks and truthfully that had to be the most difficult part. I just remember being up and down, having symptoms of a real pregnant woman, and just being really depressed during that time.

Zyair: -listens intently, glancing between her and the camera before opening his mouth to speak next- They ran every test in the book on us. -chuckles some- It was hard seeing how rough that was on her, though. But i knew it was for a greater good. I just tried to remain supportive and keep her head up. It felt like that went on forever. I was anxious as fuck for some good news.

Brilliant: [she nods her head as he speaks] You we’re a bomb ass support system but it was hard, it hurt not only physically but mentally. I think I probably battled with demons more than anything. The second part is the egg retrieval and before that I got a trigger shot of hCG which spurs the final step for the eggs to mature before they are retrieved and then inserted into your uterus, that probably had to be the easiest part and that leads to the hardest part of the whole process..the wait.

Zyair: That wait was a bitch. -laughs some- But good things come to those who wait, right? -shifts his gaze onto her as he pauses for a confirming response-

Brilliant: [she nods her head with a giant smile] Very very good things, which brings us to the whole point of this video to announce that we are indeed expecting. [the camera zooms from out of their faces and focuses on their bodies in entirely to reveal her round belly. she places her hands over it, rubbing along her stomach in small circles] This is my Beyoncé at the VMAs moment!

Zyair: Hit the drumroll. -chuckles as he mimics drumsticks with his fingers before she completes the announcement, bending forward in his seated position to briefly kiss her stomach moments after- My baby's having another baby! -happily exclaims while straightening his posture once again- Look at that. -places a palm against her bump next to rub along with her- I'm always rubbing on her now. This feels so good, man. It's been a wild ride up to this point and every moment has been worth it. We're keeping the sex on the hush, though. -places a finger along his lips before continuing- Ya'll gotta wait on that one but we greatly appreciate all the love and uplifting messages and comments we've received following our last video. Ya'll are fucking awesome and that's from the heart. All that shit, no matter how minor it seemed was huge to us.

Brilliant: Yes, baby O’Neal number two is on the way! [she flashes a giant smile, lowering her eyes to view him as he places a kiss along her stomach] I can’t get enough of those kisses, baby O appreciates them too. [she chuckles, leaning back in her seat to replace her hand along her stomach] Honestly, I don’t think we can be any happier than we are right now. I didn’t think anybody could be more excited than us until we told Justice and he’s ecstatic, he wakes up talking about it and goes to bed talking about it. The gender though, we were thinking about having a little gender reveal between us just for kicks, but Zyair isn’t tryna fart out colored powder. [she laughs, playfully rolling her eyes] I know y’all saw that one gender reveal video!

*an inserted clip of the gender reveal video is displayed on the screen*

Zyair: Justice is through the damn roof excited. He wants a brother bad, man. -chuckles a bit before looking her way while she continues to speak- Hell nah. -immediately cracks up once she brings up the powder- Never. -shakes his head then crosses his forearms to create an X- That was honestly the goofiest shit. Yall running outta ideas. That ain’t it at all.

Brilliant: And I want a princess so may the odds be ever in mommy’s favor. [she chuckles, playfully rolling her eyes at his commentary] You don’t know innovation when you see it. The booty powder is about to be the next big thing, we’ll do it on our next baby when you come to your senses. [she chuckles, shaking her head] Well guys! It was so great to finally catch up with you all, we’re excited for our new journey and we can’t wait to share it with you guys!

Zyair: We’ll see. -laughs lowly- That ain’t no damn innovation, that’s something else entirely. -shifts in his seat some and maintains his focus on the camera- It was. We’re honored to share the news with ya’ll and the three of us gon catch you next time. Don’t forget to hit that thumbs up, subscribe, tap that lil bell..allat. -offers a short wave- Peace.

Brilliant: Yeah aight, I said what I said. [she chuckles before waving to the camera] Just like Zy said, y’all know what to do! Until next time!

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Bribri97: notification gangggg

Layla Brown: Omg!! CONGRATSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Gia Bia: I’M SO HAPPY FOR YA’LL!

LoveWins23: Justice sounds so excited 😭😭.

Kiloves: YOU’RE GLOWING! I KNEW IT!

Jade Banks: I’m currently contemplating the IVF process and this video gave me hope, thank you, Brilliant and Zyair.

TaylorMade95: Zyair looks so happy to be a dad again! Y’all deserve this ❤️.

[yujachachacha]

AWM 2017 recap

Things I saw at AWM today plus some bonus content I was informed of by other attendees of the event (roughly in chronological order):

Cinderella Girls

- I know next to nothing about this series except that Rin and Uzuki and that Love Laika duo are popular yuri ships lol.

- I already forgot their setlist OTL sorry I’d probably remember if I listened to some of their songs again. I think they performed 5? STAR, GOIN…uh…

- They pretty much spoke Japanese the entire time and were impressed that the audience seemed to be following along well despite that.

- They did a live skit or something? They showed clips from the anime(?) for each character and had them read a script live. Was pretty cute.

- Lit songs of the set list: YES PARTY TIME (is…is that the right title lol I just remember screaming those words a lot), and of course their closing song Onegai Cinderella.

- Okay to be exact all the songs were exciting but those two were particularly lit. iM@S songs have somewhat difficult calls (at least compared to Aqours) but those two songs are pretty easy to follow along with for wotaing even if you’re not at all familiar with the series.

- They performed one song I wasn’t familiar with because it wasn’t on the AWM Day 0 fan-compiled playlist nor the CG callbook _(:3 」∠)_ I believe this was one of their opening songs, so I started off the concert vaguely waving my KB and chanting “HAI HAI HAI HAI Uhhhh I don’t know the calls for this OOOH HAI OOOH HAI”, thanks for carrying the rest of us, Producers 👌

- Okay a friend has told me that song is Yumeiro Harmony? RIP.

Wake Up, Girls!

- 6 songs performed: Tachiagare!, Koi? de Ai? de Boukun Desu!, SHOUJO KOUKYOUKYOKU, Beyond the Bottom, 7 Girls War, Gokujou Smile. I…already forgot the exact order of the songs, but I *think* at least the first two are in the right places. Beyond the Bottom was close to the end iirc.

- I watched a grand total of 3 episodes of the anime plus the first movie so I’m not particularly familiar with the series, but I got attached to Minyami…to no one’s surprise lol, she happens to be the character whose image color is yellow and has a “nya” catchphrase 🙃 I screamed whenever she got a solo part she’s so cute aaah

- Mayushii is such a good singer holy fuck, kinda reminds me of a super-ikemen Emitsun (except ever since I saw a niconama of her crying hysterically over a horror game I can’t take her seriously :3c).

- They were saying things about having the audience smile or something as a lead-in into Gokujou Smile lol

- They tried to speak a bit of English, but it was mostly basic stuff. They were cute. :)

- I broke a UG (Ultra Green, the green version of a UO/Ultra Orange - which y'all might be familiar with from Snow halation) for Tachiagare and I lost my shit because Shukamod couldn’t find her UG, and she ended up breaking like 4-6 UBs (Ultra Blue, for songs like KoiAqua and MIRAI TICKET) unintentionally in her frantic search for one before I took pity on her and gave her my spare lol.

- SHOUJO KKK was motherfucking lit, everyone lost their shit at the hips great choreography and deep voices.

- Lowkey sad that they didn’t perform 16 sai no Agape because it’s the first WUG song I knew (thanks to King’s ANiUTa playlist) but I don’t have any complaints about their performance tbh. They are really, really good dancers and Mayushii’s singing is so damn ikemen I died.

- Everyone else in ONIBE was 🍝 for Yoppi lol.

- 15min intermission afterwards.

Walkure

- Only 2 members performed but it was still lit~

- These two are so talented??? The audience (me included) completely lost their shit at Ikenai Borderline.

- Shukamod probably had a good laugh at me screaming shit like “OH MY GOD JUNNA IS 16 HOW TF IS SHE THIS GOOD WHAT AN IKEBO HOLY SHIT”

- oh yeah, setlist…uhhh…also can’t recall the titles from the top of my head, but Ichi Do Dake no Koi Nara was one I remember. Really good song holy mother of god.

- Friends have reminded me that there was 5, and the first song was Koi Halation, other was Bokura no Senjou, and also supplied the title of the last song (I know the calls but not the title lol).

- In the MC, JUNNA and Minori talked about how they were really impressed by the American burgers. They wanted recommendations for more delicious burgers and several people in the audience had to start a chant to help them remember. They started to say McDonald’s and everyone screamed in horror until they eventually caught on that people were chanting “In N Out” lmao.

- They spoke so much Engrish bless these kids

- For the MC before the last song (Run ga Pikatta Hikattara), Minori was trying to teach the audience the call for it and was pleasantly surprised when the audience automatically did the call once she started singing a specific part of the song without her having to spell it out for us. What do you take us for, casuals? >:|

- All the solo parts were done by Minori…dunno if that’s normal but that’s what I noticed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Aqours

- These are somewhat arbitrary numbers but it seemed like that the audience was made of like 25% CG fans, 10% WUG fans, 5% Walkure fans, and then the rest were there for Aqours. Possibly even more for Aqours, since I saw an insane number of people wearing the caps from the You birthday set lol. I even spotted someone cosplaying Ruby from the recent Time Travel set on SIF, holy shit how did they assemble that costume for AX so quickly… Anyways, of course the entire theater went wild when Aqours was finally up to perform.

- Like for their Christmas minilive and 1st Live, the members entered 1 by 1 through a splash screen introducing their character by default member order (i.e. Chika-Riko-Kanan-Dia-You-etc).

- To no one’s surprise, they started with Aozora Jumping Heart. @saitou-shuka and I were pretty much screaming our hearts out from the start. Shukamod broke a mega UO during Shukashuu’s intro lmao.

- They were wearing their MIRAI TICKET outfits and their set list basically turned out to be almost identical to their ANiUPa setlist.

- MC (member introductions using their standard character speeches e.g. Kanan going “I guess my appeal point is my muscles?”) after Aozora. They went down the line in the order Aikyan-Furirin-King-Rikyako-Anchan-Shukashuu-Suwawa-Arisha-Ainya.

- They didn’t do their call and responses (T_T) and I noticed that right away when Aikyan went into her introduction, so after she finished speaking I screamed “OHAYOSHIKO” and a few people copied me, I think? Me and Shukamod ended up shouting the call & responses before or after each introduction lol.

- Aikyan mentioned that this was her first time in America with Aqours, and when King did her introduction she sounded so smug going “This is my second time zura~~~”

- Rikyako mentioned that this was actually the first overseas performance for Aqours (which I already knew but it’s still cool to be reminded again) and everyone was hyped.

- Screamed a lot during Shuka’s intro RIP my voice.

- Suwawa started her self-intro and forgot what her lines were partway through so we had a good laugh when she went “Eh, nandake?” all of a sudden lol.

- People were cheering loudly for Arisha partway through her introduction, so she shushed everyone and then went “suki” and everyone lost their shit again.

- Ainya is so tiny omg what a shiny smol girl

- I made the resolution to be the American version of that one guy who always screams “AAAAaIiiNYAAAaaaAAa” at Aqours lives, and according to Shukamod I did a pretty good replication of it :3c

- Rikyako and Suwawa were in charge of the English language MC and their English has gotten really, really good holy crap. Only complaint I would have was the line “Let’s enjoy with us!” (should be something like “Let’s have fun together” or w/e), but their pronunciation and speed were godly. Both spoke a lot, but Rikyako in particular was really active in repeating stuff said in Japanese into English.

- Ainya was really clingy with Arisha lol I don’t remember which MC it was during but Ainya kept hugging Arisha and stuff lol

- Rikyako then said that the next song would be from their first single and everyone got hyped for KimiKoko.

- SHUKA LEAPFROG IN HER MIRAI TICKET OUTFIT WOOHOO SEEING IT LIVE WAS WILD

- KOIAQUA AFTERWARDS WHOOOOOOO SHUKA’S DANCING WAS SO GOOD!!! Also according to some people in other seats there were some audience members who were doing the “IE TAIGAAAA” calls for this song 🙃 Shukamod and I each broke a handful of UBS for this of course haha

- Another MC/small break afterwards! Furirin did that routine she always does at Aqours lives where she suddenly collapses and asks if she can have a water break lol is this gonna be a regular routine now?

- SHUKA ACCIDENTALLY TOOK ANCHAN’S BOTTLE AND FLAILED AND SAID SOMETHING LIKE “OH NO I DRANK SO MUCH OF CHIKA-CHAN’S WATER”

- MIRAI TICKET was announced as the Ep 13 insert song to be performed next! It was fun breaking out the UOs and UBS for this song too~ The “we say yousoro” part was of course enthusiastically screamed by all the You fans in particular o7

- Surprise song Yume Kataru yori Yume Utaou! They brought out pom poms too! Ainya and Arisha had a really cute hug in this song :D According to others apparently the 1st years were also super clingy and were doing lots of group hugs and stuff

Miscellaneous

- I spotted someone trying to record a part of the concert in the beginning and got really mad and pointed it out to the members of ONIBE I was sitting with. We screamed something like “HEY FUCKER YOU WITH THE CAMERA STOP FUCKING RECORDING” at him after the song, which caused a lot of stares but did achieve the effect of getting him to stop.

- When Aqours finished, Anchan became the MC for the closing speeches at the end.

- Minori had a paper at the closing MC with a speech written in English on it lol. She tweeted a picture of it after the performance, but basically it’s something along the lines of “Thanks everyone, In n Out burgers No. 1!!!” lmao

- JUNNA couldn’t come on stage at the closing MC with all the artists at the end because minors (JUNNA is 16) aren’t allowed to work after 10pm lmao, I had been so confused and concerned until that announcement was made and then I just cracked up.

- I saw Anchan making an adorable pouty face during one of the other groups’ closing speech aaaah so precious.

- Furirin and Shukashuu were doing small “ganbaruby” motions off to the side bless these two :’D

- King kept doing the Ohanamaru pose too lol

- Apparently for the VIP meet & greet after the concert, someone did a “hagu shiyo” with their friend in front of Suwawa, and in response Suwawa did it too with Shukashuu.

- Sosa (Korean Twitter artist famous for their NozoEli video comic of Garasu no Hanazono) was apparently at AWM today…AND RECEIVED A CALLBOOK FROM ONIBE. I MIGHT HAVE WALKED PAST ONE OF THE KOREAN ARTISTS WHO’VE I’VE TRANSLATED FOR. I MIGHT HAVE EVEN HANDED ONE TO THEM. WHAT THE HELL??