#it doesn't have that feature on the camera app

[icy-book]

"Just scan this QR code-" I CAN'T. I literally CAN'T. Just give me the fucking link!

[astridthevalkyrie]

cw: afab reader + she/her pronouns, creepy stuff, yandere ig??, very very very brief and extremely mild use of phone as a vibrator, if you've seen gravity falls this is inspired by the soos and the real girl ep 💀

You pause and exit out of the app right as you open up the video call link, ignoring the twinge of guilt you feel at leaving during such a steamy scene. It's not real, you remind yourself, like you have a million times in the past month. A part of you wants to find the coziest corner of this library and play until you've leveled up all the memories you can and gone on all nine claw machine dates you're allowed to, but it's time to unplug.

Besides, you have an actual date.

"Hey!" your boyfriend greets as soon as the video loads up, grinning when he sees your face. "Are you in the library?"

"Yeah. Booked a room all for you," you tease, setting your phone down to focus on your laptop.

"Wow, I'm flattered. So what's been up lately?"

You sigh. "Nothing much. Same old boring stuff. What about you?"

He starts talking about his new job, the entire reason that you and he have been long-distance for the past few months. You're not going to lie to yourself—it's rough. It feels like torture, not being able to see him and hold him and kiss him. You've really, really missed him. That's probably why you've turned to dating sims of all things in the first place.

Your phone buzzes while he's talking, and your eyes flick over to the screen.

new text from alien boy <3

Your brows furrow in confusion. This app doesn't notify you about new texts, because they only come through while you're on the app itself. And you never just get texts, unless you've leveled up on affinity, which you haven't in the past half hour.

Whatever. Probably some new feature or event you don't know about yet. You turn your attention back to your boyfriend.

"—And my break will be in two weeks," he finishes his story, then smiles. "Which means in two weeks I'll be seeing you, pretty girl."

Eyes lighting up, you lean in so you can blow him a light kiss. "I can't wait. I already have the whole weekend planned out. We'll go to the park, the museum—I thought we could go canoeing if you wanted to—"

Once again, your phone buzzes.

alien boy <3: didn't we have plans that weekend?

Your stomach flips unpleasantly.

Huh?

"What is it?" your boyfriend asks, noticing your struck expression.

"N-nothing, just—this app I downloaded, it gave me a super weird notification. For a second, I thought it was, like, listening to me."

He chuckles. "Creepy. What app is it?"

"Nothing," you say quickly, not sure if you should even tell your boyfriend that you've found solace in fictional characters during his absence. "Just some stupid game."

This time when your phone buzzes, you jump a little in your seat.

It's not a text. Someone's calling you. Your shoulders almost sag until you notice there's no name on the caller id, just a small spaceship emoji.

"What the hell," you mutter under your breath, putting one finger up to the camera. Your boyfriend nods in understanding, leaning back and muting himself while you swipe and answer the call. "Hello?"

No answer.

"Hello-o-o?"

Still nothing. You almost hang up, until the barest of sounds makes your ears perk up. If you strain them and press the phone so close it's smushing your cheek, you can hear something. It sounds like someone whispering, but you can't make out anything.

"Hello? Um, your audio is super low, I can barely hear you. Hello? Can you hear me?"

With no change, you hang up, frustrated. It might be a prank call. You're in the library on a Friday night and there's barely anyone here, one of your friends might've thought it was hilarious to mess with you.

"Spam call." You shrug uneasily, slipping the phone down between your thighs this time instead of on the table. He nods in understanding, then starts saying something.

"You're still on mute, sweetheart, I can't hear you."

He makes an oh face, then leans forward a bit to use the mouse. After a few seconds, though, his eyes narrow in focus and he shakes his head. He looks up, mouthing can you hear me now?

"Nope. Can you still hear me?"

An affirmative nod. Weird. It's still showing that he's muted on your end. "What, is it not clicking?"

You see him look back up to the screen, whether to nod or shake his head, you don't find out, because the screen glitches out for a moment, and all you see is a door.

You shriek, clamping a hand over your mouth.

His face is back in front of you again, and you still can't hear him, but he clearly sees how freaked out you are, because he tilts his head up concernedly, as though to ask you what's wrong.

You didn't scream because of the glitch.

You screamed because you've visited your boyfriend at his new place before, and that door was his door.

"Can you hear me? Is your door locked?" He only looks more confused, shaking his head like you're the one who's muted now.

Your phone lights up before you can grab it and call him, and you gasp when it buzzes against your core and doesn't stop buzzing. It doesn't vibrate this much when you get a call, and there is no call on the home screen, nor text, nor any kind of notification. It feels like it presses itself into your skin more, and you grip the table with one hand at the brief jolt of pleasure before snatching it and unlocking the screen.

Before you can click the phone app, Love&Deepspace opens. You groan in frustration, trying to swipe up to no avail. Did you accidentally click on it? It wasn't even in the list of apps on your main page.

Movement from your laptop catches your eye. Your boyfriend's looking forward, but not at the camera. He's looking at—at something, and he backs up in his chair, looking terrified all of a sudden.

"What is it?" you say as loud as you can, but even if he does hear you, he doesn't respond, and instead, his mouth falls open in a silent scream.

The screen goes black, and then so does the entire library.

"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit." You look back down at your phone, ready to crack it if it doesn't swipe up and get out of this stupid app—

There's no one there.

Your heart stutters in its chest.

There's always someone in the Destiny Cafe.

There's no one there.

And on the little white armchair in the background, there's a dark streak of red dripping down and staining the cloth.

"What the fuck," you whisper, eyes wide. Your laptop screen flickers.

The facetime has been replaced by grey-blonde hair, that gently brushes against baby blue eyes with a soft, unassuming smile.

"You shouldn't pause me," he coos, "now, where were we?"

a/n: i hope no one tells me that people don't put their phones between their thighs while sitting bc i very much do. also. i'm talking to a guy on FT in the library tomorrow. hope i don't have gift of foresight. or maybe i hope i do muwahahaha. this is actually mad goofy and not scary at all

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

What do you think about the "kill notice" about the new Catherine pic? I looked at the picture, there doesn't seem to be any distortion or manipulation. Some filters have been used but nothing is misaligned or photoshopped in or out. No dodgy shadows. Wtf is with the reporters agreeing with it?? Is this a shady attempt to force Catherine to be out in the public sooner than she would like to be? Apparently the controversy is about her left hand and somewhere along Charlotte's left sleeve. Part of me feels it's because reporters know she is now well and are angry she isn't back to work and giving them content. But, the picture agencies pulled the pic, so what's with that?? Such an unnecessary controversy.

I think it’s much ado about nothing. A lot of what people are point out as edited can be explained away, such as:

Kids are wiggly so of course they’d be blurry.

It’s a still from a video or a Live Photo.

Kate isn’t wearing her rings because maybe her fingers are still swollen from all the post-op meds and steroids, or maybe she just doesn’t want to wear them.

It's a program/app on William’s phone that stitches together the best parts in a sequence of photos to fix a squirming kid. (Like Google’s Best Take feature, in which case it’s AI, not photoshop.)

But wait, what about that pap pic last week of Kate with all weight in her face looking unrecognizable, and now in this photo she looks like herself? It’s about camera angles and body positions. There’s a pose - I call it the goose pose - where if you tilt your upper body forward just slightly and push your head/chin all the way forward, the extra weight in your midsection, neck, and face disappears from the camera if the photo is being taken from the front. (When you do this pose and the picture is taken from the side, you look like a goose.)

It’s great that the wires all have standards and that they take it seriously but the “kill” request illustrates a bigger problem: that in todays age of photo editing, filters, and AI, is any photo we see real and original? Once you permit minor edits like removing dust (which is an AP allowance), it opens the door for other edits and who’s the authority to say what’s right or wrong? So it’s a sticky line.

The reporters are writing about it because they have nothing else to write about. The media makes a ton of money off Kate and the children (more than they care to admit) so of course they’re going to pick up on this and write about it. They’re desperate for Kate content because she sells.

[[Interrupting now to say that I've just seen the update from KP of Kate (scroll to the end) acknowledging the edits and apologizing for any issues. It's bullshit she had to do this but I understand why she did it: she's proud of her photography, it's her own picture she edited and not one from anyone else, and it's overshadowing the Commonwealth Service coverage.]]

I mean, it's no coincidence that a prolific royal fashion blogger notorious for bashing Kate while simultaneously profiting from her appearances and photographs announced she's taking a break to Easter. Other royal events are still happening. Other royals are still working. Other royal families are still working. But that doesn't matter: she makes her money from Kate and when Kate doesn't work, she can't make money. So why bother keeping up the blog?

Anyway, believe what you want to believe about the photograph, but just be ready for all of this to backfire. And trust me, it will backfire.

If it's true that the Sussex Squad is behind this, well, Meghan may work hard but karma works harder. Harry and Meghan's own photoshopping and photo-editing may become equally under fire: Harry's Friar Tuck bald spot is world famous and everyone knows about it, no matter how much photoshop they do.

If it's true that the media and social media is making this a bigger issue than it actually is (which it sounds like, given Kate's newest message), then reap the consequences of your actions: fewer pictures from Kate and fewer pictures of the Wales family. The chances are extraordinarily high that they'll stop sharing pictures of their family now. It's already happened - back in ye olde days, it was custom for the royal family to have a photo call during a ski holiday so the press pack could get their pictures and leave them alone. William and Kate did this in 2016 on a skiing holiday, and boom - immediate criticism. Now no more vacation photos.

If it's true that the reporters picked up on this to force Kate to returning to work sooner than expected, well, I hope Kate retreats further into the cocoon of privacy and doesn't give you the satisfaction of new birthday pictures.

If it's true that this is a sign of how shambolic KP's communications office is, then hopefully the right people learn the right lessons and make more professional decisions. We know Kate will. She always learns from her missteps, even if it takes some time.

If it's true that the wires and the press associations need to revise their rules because everyone edits, I hope they do. Trust me, there are more worrying matters about photo editing and AI manipulation to write and "kill" than a touched-up family photo of the future king's family posted to social media. This is not the hill to stake your professional reputation on.

But I guarantee you that the same people who are making a fuss about these photo edits that EVERYONE does are the same people who are moaning about the dearth of content from the Waleses and they're the same people who scream and shout when the Waleses don't do what they want them to do.

But at the end of the day, it's a family photo taken by a proud husband and dad, who probably made stupid cheesy jokes to make his kids laugh like that, which his wife and their mother edited to make sure everyone looks their best. Everyone does this. It's fucking normal.

It's much ado about fucking nothing and I hope that everyone, most especially the reporters, who fed into the hysteria understand what they've done. They've just signed the execution notice for Waleses family photos.

Kate's apology:

[inaconstantstateofchange]

bg3 modern!au idea where halsin is a conservationist, who mentions kind of despairingly to a younger colleague at a conference the way he's having such a hard time with outreach to get folks in his community aware of the wildlife around them and how important it is. the colleague makes an offhand reference to how tiktok is the way people seem to get connected to that sort of thing most nowadays, although hell if they have the patience to figure out the app, and wanders off to catch up with someone else. they will not realize until later (far, far later) the ramifications of this statement.

halsin is rather quiet for the rest of the event, makes his goodbyes, and then returns home to painstakingly research just how "tiktok" works, with the grim determination of a fighter entering the ring. if this is what it takes to raise awareness, then this is what he'll do. the cause is more than worth it.

the first roadblock he runs into makes him worry the venture will be over before its even started. the first few webpages he finds tell him patronizingly that his phone is too old to work for 'content creation'. and okay, so it's scuffed, and dented, and has maybe taken one or two tumbles into a mud puddle, but it ought to be more than serviceable! he goes outside and finds a patch of wildflowers, pulling up the camera function and shooting a shaky video. he returns to his kitchen table, squinting down at the results. he can see all of the distinguishing features of the plant that would allow him to recognize it in the wild, which means it's good enough to do its job. with a new resolve - that his family would have wryly labeled as stubbornness - he focuses his research efforts until he finally finds a webpage that will tell him how to make the app work with his phone.

when at last it starts up in a blare of sound and over-saturated colors, he grimaces, but presses on. it asks him to set up a username, and he types in his first name. the little circle spins for a moment, then tells him it's taken. he frowns, then adds a random number. 2. it spins again, same response. he frowns harder, then adds another. 6. it spins, spins, spins, then — welcome, new user @.halsin26! upload your first video to start using tiktok!

he decides not to overthink it. it'll either work out or it won't. he looks out the window, and judges there's still just enough light out. he returns to the little patch of wildflowers, and gives it a thumbs up. he starts a recording directly in the app, making note of the 60-second time limit with a grimace. to make the most of the time he has, he doesn't bother with an introduction, just kneels down next to the cluster of plants, careful not to compress the ground too close to their root system, and moves his hand just behind the flowering portion to visually distinguish it, and act as a scale reference. he keeps his voice low, since he doesn't want to overshadow the content itself, and quickly lays out where folks could run into this plant, its importance to its local ecosystem, and ways they could help its conservation. the most important things the average person can do, he states passionately as the timer begins its final warning, is to document the locations where they find said plants, so that the areas can be marked for oversight and protection.

he doesn't bother to look back over the video before he posts it. he knows what he said, after all. he stretches his arms up above his head, then massages the back of his neck where the muscles are growing stiff. as he heads back inside to start dinner for himself, he tosses the phone into a basket on the counter and forgets about it.

the video languishes in the algorithm for the evening, until a random user gets distracted from scrolling away from the potato-quality wildflower video someone's grandma uploaded and chokes on their spit as forearms that very clearly do not belong to anyone's grandmother enter the frame, gently cupping the air around the flower.

god i wish that were me, they type before they can stop themself. debating whether to bother hitting send, they choke again as an absolutely unfair voice begins to narrate the ecological importance of this particular plant. the voice is smooth and deep, just above a murmur with a pleasant backing rumble. they have never given a moment's thought to plants in their entire life, but all of a sudden they are invested. they don't even notice when their thumb hits 'send' on their comment, too busy swiping over to the profile to see if there are any other videos. it's empty of literally everything, default user icon, only-barely-not-randomly-generated username, only one video posted earlier that day. they go back to the video and copy the link to send to their friends, needing someone - anyone - else to understand the experience they just had.

a few more interactions like that, and the algorithm takes notice. it bumps the video to a few more users outside of the current sphere, and those ones like it too. more importantly, they are very likely to share the video with others, increasing the engagement far beyond anything it had right to expect.

by two days later, when halsin remembers to actually check the thing, it is sitting at a comfortable 2500 likes, and there is a whole fleet of comments waiting for him to review. some of them - many of them, actually - don't seem that relevant at all, and he frowns, but then he sees a few that actually seem interested in more information on the plant he'd described, asking questions about how wide its range is, if it could be found in this or that coloration, etc. these he responds to swiftly, then grimaces as he runs up against a 'character limit'? who ever heard of such a foolish thing. after a moment of glaring down at his phone, he sees that it will allow him to answer by video, and does so, stepping onto his porch and zooming in on the plants. (this blurs them into barely discernible blobs of pixels, but he does not notice.)

still others are curious about what other plants and wildlife he might be able to share about, and he leaves short comments under each letting them know that he will plan to upload some more videos soon, if there is an interest. one user has left a comment that he almost files into his mental "ignore" category, but goes back to reread at the last moment.

not convinced this isn't one of those 'booktok bait' things again but i stg there's a big ass patch of those fuckers behind a parking lot somewhere around here?

halsin responds to this one with a video too. now that he's getting the hang of it, it's actually a bit more convenient than having to type everything out. he thanks the commenter for sharing, then asks if they might be willing to do him a favor sometime – only if it wasn't any trouble, of course! – and grab a video or two of the area they referenced, and share it with him — or their local wildlife foundation, at least.

a few days later, he opens the app to check in to find that he's been tagged in a video by some user. bemused, he clicks on the popup, and it takes him to a slightly shaky but pristine quality video of an empty lot filled with tall grass. the person filming moves a bit closer, then zooms in, and halsin spots multiple cluster of that recognizable wildflowers, before the video ends and restarts. there's no narration to this one, only a barely audible music wheel spinning in the corner. the caption on the video says, @.halsin26 just in case you're not actually some weird account for a fetish i haven't heard of before, here's some of those plants you mentioned looking for.

[idollandhero]

I think in a year we'll look back at our time with Idol Land and think of it like a weird dream. A time when there wasn't a Pretty Series show announced and everything was in limbo. A time where King of Prism was a dead franchise. A time when songs were performed at Pretty Series live shows that wouldn't premier in the anime for years. The game teaser in every single Pretty Series announcement only for it to be delayed again. The YEARS long gap between episodes 2 and 3. The DISASTROUS launch. When we realized it was just a reskinned version of the switch game. Or when we discovered that it was mostly made by some unrelated dev who had only made one failed mobile otome game before Idol Land.

The Pretty Series' pivot to focusing on AiPri & KinPri instead of Idol Land & DanPri makes the past few years of Idol Land content, and the past less than a year of Idol Land actually being out, feel like an illusion.

It's frustrating because the concept of a PriPara mobile game sounds fantastic! When I play games like SIF2 or Idolish7 or whatever I think about what could have been. Was it money problems? or time problems? Or some combination of both. Regardless I can't help but yearn for a game with a budget that this franchise deserves.

And the web anime was great! But only 12 episodes, and its own budget problems, plus the games delay keeping it finished and in limbo for 2 years! (+ the lack of any western fansubs picking it up, seriously how is do we still only have subs for up to episode 6) meant that it never got the place in the spotlight it deserved. Some people speculated that it was meant to air on TV because the episodes are formatted as such, but with AiPri starting in that slot the same month the show is ending that doesn't seem to be true.

It's hard to say where PriPara is going from here. It's the series 10th anniversary and the arcade game is being shuttered to push players towards AiPri Verse instead. Idol Land's anime finale is going to air to little applause because it's stuck on an app with less than 20,000 active users, and in the same month as the launch of the new series that's slated to be a real PreCure competitor.

Idol Land's EOS hasn't been announced yet, but the missing Nino birthday coord, the April monthly update with entirely rerun coords, and the fact that Idol Land is getting very VERY close to running out of content from the switch game. Well, if not EOS I expect this game to go into maintenance mode pretty soon.

Yeah idk what my point here was exactly, but man Idol Land really was a blur. Sometimes I think we understate exactly how inexperienced the devs really were. The game doesn't have any type of Google Play integration, and when the game launched the account recovery only lasted 15 minutes. I have a newer phone and the game isn't compatible with my hole punch front camera. There's just a black bar there. I only have this problem with older games, anything made in the last 4 years doesn't have this problem except for Idol Land. I honestly think the lack of region locking is because the dev doesn't know how to turn it on. Someone on discord reported that they've been buying gold, and then contacting Google and asking for a Play Store refund. It's worked multiple times and they are not banned. How is a ban for chargebacks not something they implemented day one. Also this game doesn't have any deals or discounts, ever. It's hard to believe that, like every game I've ever played has a buy two and get 50% off the second one bundle. But it's like the devs don't know how to implement anything past basic gacha mechanics. I could also ramble about how expensive the prices are, but I've done it before I won't do it again. Also the photo room, it's implemented pretty badly. You upload a photo for the background and it crops it weird and squishes it and makes it blurry. I didn't know this at launch because it was a paid feature for like six months. The pass itself was a horrible value unless you were buying it specifically to get the episodes early, you got exactly how the amount of gold you paid for. Why not just buy the gold then. But they either realized that, or were preparing for end of service; because they took it down. I'm rambling about things the devs messed up but I haven't even mentioned the first three months of the game. There's been so many points in this game's history where playing a promise was borderline impossible for one reason or another. This game didn't feel finished until that November update that included immediate promises. God there's so much more. The photo competitions just being about editing for some reason. Also they went away, so clearly those didn't work. The amount of coords they've implemented that were broken in some way. Sometimes it was the wrong coord entirely, sometimes the cylume didn't work. It's like the dev team is so small that there's no QA people. Also on that note, Open Dream Land was just fixed in the mid March update. The game went more than 6 months where one of its two unique charts was off sync. Also remember the voice bug, that lasted forever.

I'm sorry I just started rambling lmao. This is the problem when I write posts with speech to text, I say way too much. Ultimately I enjoyed my time with Idol Land, but it's existence feels surreal. Especially because 80% of the features from this game I can turn on my switch after end of service and play, and it's free because I already paid once and never have to pay again. I even have Waku Waku O'Clock on Switch. One day, probably soon from the way things are going, I'm going to wake up and not be able to play Idol Land on my phone ever again. But instead of reminiscing of this game, I will think about the game that could have been if Idol Land got as much love as Prism Rush did.

KASHIKOMA ✌️

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

The Arcana HCs: M6 on social media

Julian

He is on all the apps, you name it, he probably uses it

He's on theatre kid tiktok

Shamelessly posts thirst traps with niche references

Too many of them are doctor inspired

Perfectly understands the female gaze and takes full advantage of that

Embraces the cringe

Malak regularly photobombs his posts and there are multiple compilations of him fighting off/cussing out a shrieking crow

He canonically has a beautiful singing voice that he does not know how to use, voice coaches love duetting and reacting to him because it is so impressively terrible

He also needs to be carefully monitored though, for two main reasons:

One, all his posts need to be reviewed before he posts them, because he's terrible about internet safety

Two, because everyone gets hate comments and he already has nasty self-esteem issues

Portia gets into so many fights in the comments on her burner account

He is quite popular and has a large and dedicated following

Asra

As much potential as they have for stardom, they are an extremely private person and they are very aware of what kind of place the internet can be

He probably has BeReal and spends most of his time on SnapChat (you know he loves watching drama unfold)

Also has a very aesthetically pleasing Instagram that they forget exists. Scroll through and you'll see random photodumps of all the places they've traveled recently, spaced six months apart

Faust has her own account

He is the type to lurk, never comments, rarely likes, prefers to save something for later to show his friends in person instead of sharing or tagging them

They do love trying out what they see though, like viral pasta recipes and room lighting ideas

Except he'll add his own flashes of creativity as he goes

Sometimes it pays off, like when they got their whole living room to feel like an oasis

Sometimes it doesn't pay off, like when he tried an already sketchy viral food hack and added charcoal

They don't mind integrating social media into in-person situations, if the only thing you have energy for is cuddling up in a pillow pile and scrolling through saved videos together, they're down

Nadia

Facebook and LinkedIn

She's trying her best, she really is, but she has places to be and things to do and she'd rather spend her free time with the people she loves or getting some well-earned rest

The screens also contribute to her headaches

All her sisters are older than her, she has Facebook to keep up with them

She doesn't know that most of them keep with the times enough to have accounts on other platforms as well

She uses LinkedIn for networking, obviously

She does enjoy being entertained though! She loves it when you tilt your phone screen towards her so she can see whatever made you smile or laugh

Regularly asks you or Portia to show her everyone else's most recent posts

Julian's tiktok page is a mystery that never fails to make her laugh

She loves to be included in your posts and is always willing to pose with you for a selfie

She is a fantastic camera woman, she can follow angles and lighting like nobody's business

She does not know how to write captions

Muriel

He doesn't have one until you or Asra sit him down and walk him through the process

He chooses Instagram because he can see cat pictures that way

And because it's the platform most of you guys have an account on, so he can keep tabs on everyone

He has all of his privacy settings enabled

Most of his posts are pictures of Innana or the chickens (mostly the chickens)

No captions, ever

Every now and then someone from the Kokhuri will stumble across his profile and send a message request

He'll wait until you're free to sit with him while he messages them

He's slowly putting a family tree together of the people he's made contact with

Heartily dislikes the reels feature, the constant stimulation puts him on edge

Honestly prefers YouTube, he got a great ad blocker and he watches nature compilations and wilderness survival videos

He also watches videos about wolves so he can take care of Innana better, but he has to be careful when he does that because if the wolf in the video howls she does too

He stumbled across a fan-made compilation of Julian's thirst traps once and refuses to speak about it

Portia

Snapchat for the gossip, Tumblr for all the novels she's become a fan of, and Instagram for Pepi and her garden and baking endeavors

She is on everyone's Snapchat story. If she spots someone new at her workplace she's already sending them a friend request

Tumblr is her guilty pleasure, she has spent hours in the library devouring novels and now she can read and write as much unhinged fanfiction as she wants to

She also loves interacting with other people who enjoy the books and characters she does

Fanart makes her squeal

She hasn't found out about AO3 yet but once she does it's over

Her Instagram is gorgeous. She posts once or twice a day with garden updates, candid shots of Pepi being precious, and baking tips and tricks

Her feed is full of the wanderlust hashtag and it's fueling her bucket list

She has a decently sized following and loves it when people message her

She also has a tiktok burner account to monitor her crazy older brother

Definitely stays on top of all the trends and incorporates them into her Instagram posts

Lucio

He wants to be famous, he really does, but everything he tries flops

Obsessed with tiktok, it's where the young people are

It's also perfect for his limited attention span

Constantly trying to hop on new trends, but always misses the mark ever so slightly

Tried to put the LED light strips up in his bedroom, but he couldn't keep them straight so they're all slightly wonky

Refuses to take them down

He fell down the "alpha male" pipeline once and it took so much work to get him back out, he was insufferable

You got Nadia and Asra to give him a good beat down while you went through his phone and deleted all the accounts that couldn't be saved

You only let him back on when he promised to share his accounts with you, and he agreed on the condition that you help him try to get famous

You suggested he post about the things he knows, like self-defense tactics and survival

He gets a boost when you post a video of him trying and failing to follow a tiktok dance tutorial while he uses increasingly creative language and it goes viral

He's got a small following now and he's so proud of both of you

[j0kers-light]

Hi Chaos! MASSIVE FAN of your work!

A little headcannon/short story idea (If you find it suitable and to your liking, of course <3)

We keep on hearing of how y/n interacts on social media- but what about the Joker? Does he have a secret account for fun, does he stay away from it or is there a third alternative?

Bonus! (In honor of Spotify wrapped coming out): What type of music genre do you think the Joker enjoys listening to?

Hey hi anon!!! 🖤✨

wow, haven't had one of these in a hot minute. I miss answering anon... 🥺🥺ANYHOO!!!

THANK YOU FOR BEING A MASSIVE FAN! I LOVES YOU MUCH! *opens up my docs so I can work hard to make content for mi sweet loving anon*

Let's get into it! Straight to the point because I can go into heavy detail AND I WILL. I WILL GO INTO HEAVY DETAIL! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

First and foremost, Joker isn't addicted to modern technology like we are as a culture, this man is soooo old fashion it makes your eyes roll.

He doesn't see the appeal of TikTok or apps like Snapchat even if the filters make him all sparkly and look cool.

Joker will take silly selfies with you if you beg him to and he lets you save some on your phone however; if he sees them anywhere else-- say goodbye to fun selfies forever!

He can't have any evidence of his real face floating around. Phones can be hacked! So you suggest Polaroids and Joker breathes a sigh of relief.

Get it? Polaroid? Just like in the infamous photo Joker snapped in the chapter Push and Pull! 🤭

If Joker uses any social media platforms, it’s in an anonymous fashion.

Joker is on Twitch because he's secretly a gamer but he doesn't use a cam. He loves stalking your personal blog and he's always going down a rabbit hole on YouTube.

You won't find him anywhere that requires a legal profile. Anything that can be traced back to him and most importantly you is a no go. He won't risk you being used as blackmail or worse.

He'll check your Patreon from time to time if you're a digital artist or something of the sort but other than that, his phone is used primary for communication with you.

Joker would rather leave behind sticky notes or his signature playing cards than send a text. He scatters the apartment with little love notes; it’s so corny but sweet.

Now on the other hand if you need assistance whether it be for a skit, making a reel, etc., best believe Joker will hold your camera for you, he'll help you edit videos, he’ll even direct the content so its the best on the internet!

He'll be so supportive if you're a content creator. Scratch that. Joker is supportive in everything you do!

Granted he doesn't understands a lick of social media or its lingo, he will go above and beyond to make sure your content is phenomenal.

Need a nice shot of the Gotham Bridge or a background of somewhere cool? Its mysteriously empty for your use...

Need good lighting for a quick reel? Joker is setting off explosions in the background. Fire is really good natural lighting... far better than a ring light. 👀

Whatever you need, say the word and its yours. Joker will get anything for his Light.

THAT BEING SAID! BONUS ASK ITS A TWO FOR ONE DEAL!

I think I answered a similar ask like this but I'll do it again because I love to answer questions!! (I have a confession to make. I do not have a Spotify... so I can't do the viral wrapped thingy but I'm aware of it!)

I fully support Joker being older than you (teehee we stan mature older men around these parts!!)

That being said.. Joker grew up with good music like back when music meant something—not just mindless noise to add onto a video for likes.

He has an ear for jazz, crooner, classic R&B, and the occasional rock, heavy metal stuff if it has relatable lyrics (it channels his inner psycho don't judge him)

He cannot stand pop music or anything that's featured on the top 100's or played on repeat in a department store. He will stab someone over it. No questions asked.

If his Bunny is singing/dancing along to it he might make an exception because your voice is so soothing to him, it puts a different spin to the song. There's still a fifty fifty change he's tuning it out.

But he strongly believes all boy bands should be executed, no exceptions. That's where he draws the line.

Totally forgot I made a oneshot about Joker and music too!

Slippery When Wet lol...

Hope that answered your ask beloved! 🖤✨

[snommelp]

One of the features that I really liked about the Google Maps app was the ability to share trip progress with people - like, I'm on my way home from rehearsal, let me share my progress so my wife knows about when I'll be home

You'll notice I said liked, past tense, even though Maps still has this feature

Because now, for some asinine reason, it only works if you give the app permission to access your location all the time

Giving it permission to access your location while you're using the app isn't good enough, even though you only have trip progress to share if you're actually using the damn app

Call me a paranoid old man, but (with a small number of potential exceptions), NO app should have access to anything when I'm not using the app

Duolingo doesn't need to access my microphone when I'm not doing lessons, Zoom doesn't need to access my camera when I'm not in a meeting/call, and Maps doesn't need to know my location when I'm not using the map

[destinyc1020]

That woman not knowing that Backgrid (she doesn't even know how to spell it) doesn't hire paps and is just an agency that buys pics from paps discredit her whole thing. Celebs or publicists that want to do a pap walk directly call paps that they trust. Also as we've seen from closely following tomdaya for years, celebs that are extremely famous will be caught not only by paps but by random people since everybody has a pretty good camera in their hands at all times. It's extremely difficult to hide a serious relationship if you are extremely famous (the people that are not very famous and get papped all the time definitely call paps. Joey King and Elordi were papped all the time before the first Kissing Booth came out and they were both basically nobodies. Joey happens to be besties with the owner of Just Jared and so they were featured in pap pics all the time)

I don't think she was spelling out the words on her post, I think it's a feature in TikTok that does it for you lol. 😅 It also spelled "PR" "Pure" when she was talking about relationships hahaha. I think it's just her accent maybe perhaps confusing the app?? 😅

Anyway, yea I didn't really agree with what she said about Backgrid, cuz to me they're just the middleman. BUTTT...if they HAVE been in legal disputes then there might be some truth to what she's saying. I DEFINITELY 100% believe that some celebrities call the paps on themselves, and I think some relationships in Hollywood are mainly just to boost careers or to get positive PR for a couple.

And yea, I agree with you that usually SUPER famous people in real relationships will not only be caught by paps at times, but also by FANS just minding their own business. I actually feel like Tom and Zendaya are NOT papped much at all as a couple...especially for being as famous as they are. To me, that tells me that they're actually REAL.

With Joey and JE....Yea, a pap already exposed her for calling him to pap her and JE together lol. 😅 Heeeey.... do what you have to do in order to get your star rising I guess... 👀

BUt yea, anytime I see a TOOONNN of pap pics of a certain celebrity and they're not even super famous, and yet, we see pap pics of them basically almost every single day doing nothingness, I almost always assume that they're calling the paps on themselves, cuz usually nobody cares about them like that enough to want pics lol.

[octuscle]

Hi Chronivac. Just wanted to query something. Today I was passed over for a promotion I deserved in my financial firm and so I used the new location scanning feature to prove it to my boss. I stepped outside my company's England location and scanned the building with the directive "make me the perfect leader for this group". As I scanned I noticed a yellow box around the delinquents drinking cider in front of the building instead of the building itself. Just want to confirm it worked correctly.

First of all, please note that the "Apply transformation to scanned area" function requires knowledge not only of the Chronivac app. You also need to know how to use the camera in your mobile device where Chronivac is installed. The scope for the defined transforms is determined by the area of an image that is focused on. In your area, it was actually not the building. But the petty criminals in front of it. From there: The way you used Chronivac, the app works correctly. But unfortunately, it's not the way you planned it. Does the situation make you nervous? Then maybe smoke a cigarette first. That calms you down. You don't smoke? Then why do you have a box with a Zippo in the sleeve pocket of your bomber jacket?

Actually, you wanted to go back to your desk. But as you approach the building, the delinquents turn and come toward you. And you exchange fist bumps with your mates and ask how it's going. Kyle hands you a cider. You kick your butt out with your boots. And take a big gulp.

Fuck, doesn't anyone follow your rules? The yield of today is poor. The level of achievement can really be better. Especially when dealing with weed, the cost-income-ratio is clearly behind plan. You haven't got the financial controller out of your clean shaven skull yet. But at least your cash flow is much better than before your promotion. Even though you must have planned the promotion differently.

[blubberquark]

Wish List For A Dumb Phone

I have a dumb phone with 20 days of standby time. It's getting old. I might need to buy another one soon.

I only really need that phone for phone stuff. It's small and light. It's my backup in places where my smartphone does not have reception.

A replacement would need physical buttons, and have bar or flip phone form factor, preferably in a blight green or orange colour. It should be a dual-SIM quad-band with GSM for basic phone calls, SMS and MMS, and 4G or 5G connectivity. The web browsing or download speed doesn't really matter.

In terms of featurephone features, I don't need twitter, facebook, whatsapp, or any of those built-in apps. I want the ability to take pictures, play MP3 and OGG files, record audio, play audio, browse the file system, and assign audio files as custom ringtones. E-mail is optional.

The hardware features I want are an SD card slot, a 240p camera or better, a light, FM radio (DAB would be a plus), a replaceable battery, bluetooth for tethering and audio headsets, and USB-C for tethering, charging, and file transfer. It doesn't have to be USB-PD or USB 3.0.

There are some features that would be nice. It would be nice to have a playlist that I can sync with a desktop podcatcher application. It would be nice to be able to move contacts between the SIM card and the SD card in bulk, and to sync contacts with my NextCloud address book with a desktop application. It would be nice if I could mount my phone's file system via USB.

All these features boil down to this: My dumb phone is a bit beat up. I wish I could just replace it with a slightly newer model with USB-C, but otherwise it doesn't need apps or wlan.

There is no phone out there that is just slightly better than my old dumb phone, and can be charged via USB. Once you have all the hardware and features, you might as well slap Android on there, and a more powerful processor, and sell it on features.

It's sad. There are many dumb phones that are almost better than my old one. There is one that is just like my old one, but with 4G instead of 3G, but no USB-C. There is one that looks great, but all reviews say the software is buggy and bluetooth doesn't work reliably. There is one with loads of features that has a couple of days of standby time, not weeks.

There's also one that has all the features but costs more than a smartphone.

All I really want is a Nokia 215 with USB-C, tethering, and a comfortable way to sync my stuff to a PC.

[ahogarmesll]

HONEYBAE~Baddie outfit fatpack

HB~baddie fit skirt ~R FP

HB~Baddie top R FP

Moccino. x LeL EvoX Visage - Ming Fatpack

SLAM // paws collar

EXTRA APPS in your SLAM // collar

This SLAM collar has additional app features, which are not included in the standard OpenCollar system, but are however official plugin apps. This guide briefly explains what they do.

To access the collar's special feature apps:

open collar menu > Apps

Owned wearers may not have the ability to access the apps, or certain app settings.

For information on how to use the collar and the standard apps, please visit the (only) official OpenCollar website:

http://opencollar.cc

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CAMERA

Gives anyone with power to use the collar the ability to force the wearer into certain camera views, or to freeze their camera view in place.

Caveat: This is a "one doesn't fit all" feature. The success of the different cam modes highly depends on the wearers camera settings. Some cam modes might not work as expected.

Menu Buttons: self-explanatory.

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GARBLE

When enabled, scrambles anything the wearer types in local chat into incoherent mumbles. Also blocks the ability to send IMs. Very useful with unscripted gags. ㋡

Menu Buttons: None.

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BADWORDS

Lets anyone with power to use the collar define a set of specific forbidden words. If the wearer types these in local chat, the wearer will be punished by electric shock (anim and sound). The wearer has to type a penance phrase, which can also be freely defined in the menu. (default: "I'm sorry!").

The animation and sound used is a custom preset, but it can be changed, simply by placing your own custom anim/sound into the content of the collar. (Always wait for reboot/startup!)

Menu Buttons: Add • add a bad word to the list Remove • remove a specific word from the list Clear • clear the entire list Penance • set the phrase that stops the punishment Animation • set a custom animation (must be in collar contents) Sound • set a custom sound (must be in collar contents) ON • turn the app on/off Stop • stop the punishment manually

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OWNER ONLINE

Automatically notifies the wearer, when whomever is on the collar's Owner list, is or comes online.

Menu Buttons: Set Interval • sets how often status is checked (in seconds) NotifChat • sets notification in local chat (private) NotifDialog • sets notification in a dialog box

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SIZE PRESETS

Saves the current size, position and rotation of the collar. Very useful when using multiple shapes and/or bodies.

Menu Buttons: self-explanatory.

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SPECIAL INFO: SPY APP (consensual and TOS compliant!)

This app is NOT included in your collar, but the script is available for free for easy retrofit installation, at the SLAM // mainstore.

This app allows Owners to get notifications about the collar wearer's

login location

teleports (from/to with time stamp)

local people radar (range can be set)

local chat (only what the wearer types! attachment chat is optional)

This app only works, if the wearer EXPLICITLY consents to the feature! This app CANNOT read IMs, or other peoples chat!

Please carefully read the installation instructions in the script package, as well as all the local chat during installation and activation!

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AND OFFICIAL UPDATERS

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[hcfiles]

It took me some time (not that much) to find one of the pictures I needed to start revisiting prior facts and first theories. I'm sure Henry Cavill, after promoting his stunt as his Godsent for saving his ass and for, now, feeling safer for having people forgetting how this started, is counting on the lack of memory of many here, to get rid of the worst pineapple he had to peel. This endless circus deviates attention.

They deleted three of my IG pages, expecting this outrage attitude against followers would make this discomfort go away. It wont. At the moment, going back to some of the old stuff, which, I believe, led to this shenanigan, seems interesting and may bring a new perspective to the scene. From where I come, there's a saying: "Reminding is living". And, the internet is a bitch and if you use other apps, such as Canva, the images are found and recovered.

But, before going deep into it, let me advise you that, based on your lack of reading habit and sometimes, difficulty in comprehending what is written, you might distort and not like this content. So, if you have sensitive stomach, skip this post. If not, and expecting some fun, feel free to agree to disagree with a respectful and healthy (if possible) discussion.

Note the pictures below and the resemblances among these women? Yes! I'm referring to the last minute replacement (or a double) theory. Apparently, Viscuso wasn't the first and only option to be his PR stunt and they made a last minute change. This Madonna style " Who is Natalie Viscuso" always bugged me.

Apparently, someone may have gotten pissed for not being chosen or tried to pass as the PR, causing a certain initial confusion that demanded damage control. Many details of this PR stunt, since the first minute of the first pap walk, suggested this PR stunt meant trouble. Is it possible colleagues from the past who she humiliated on National TV could have screwed her dream? Possible. But, let's stick to the old theory.

It was said this was a regular dog walk suggesting a prior love night between the brilliant messy pigeons. But, this walk brought many evident discrepancies and unfit details that immediately, discredited the story that they were, initially, trying to sell. First of all, the woman arriving for the walk seemed anxious (full of herself), agitated, in a hurry, late for the appointment, as if running to catch a bus or from the police. Why?

a) Was she late because of some trouble she had on her way to the place?

b) Did she sleep too much and woke up late?

c) Did she get lost for not knowing the UK?

d) Was she a last minute replacement, for some trouble with another prior PR?

e) If so, was he advised about it or later, caught by surprise when he knew?

f) Two to three paps were hired and stayed in strategic places for the obviously staged walk. Why so many?

The woman:

a) apparently had no makeup on, maybe due to the emergency the situation demanded,

b) hid her eyes, using big sunglasses, which covered half of her face and wearing a COVID mask, which she made sure to take down, to show a little of her facial expressions.

c) had voluminous, thick and heavy hair - a little different from the named PR -, which could be explained by hair extension,

d) had thick thighs (important for a comparison of a next set of photos),

e) carried a huge purse, which doesn't fit the narrative of the casual dog-walk, which is usually close to home and doesn't demand a purse that big,

f) was apparently secure of herself and anxious to show off and

g) looked a lot like the named stunt.

But, many are the Hollywood stars and her friends who have similar features. And, here I present two actresses and a friend of hers that could easily be the woman in question.

Observing and comparing the relaxed Natalie, when she's not faking for the camera and the one who staged during premieres and in photos that were used to promoting this circus, we notice that they look like two different people. When staging, Natalie shows through her body language,:

a) that she's actually, insecure and uses staged photos to feel comfortable with herself,

b) has no self confidence, using photos of others as hers.

c) that, when in public, she has difficulty sticking to the bitchy character.

When she's not "trying to date" the camera, she seems a very different person from the persona created by whoever is managing this plot, and only comfortable among aligned promiscuous' friends. But, if she's capable of convincing a few she's that bitchy, she must, somehow, have a few facets that would be aligned with the sl*t reputation.

When trying to stage the girlfriend in front of cameras, she shows herself as a redneck with no class, no style, a woman who moves like a snake and looks to the camera with her head down and a lookup, as if ready to hit on a strike, typical from someone you can't trust, a promiscuous or a sex pro.

She's the female version of Henry Cavill, who as well, has two faces. I'm not here defending the bitch and I don't like what she represents nor have any sympathy for the sl*t. But, the truth has to be told. This woman could have been pushed into this expecting recognition and easy fame. But, she surely has no social skills and manners, despite her father's money.

What I want here is to suggest you to take a look at those pics below and see for yourself how generic this woman is, how it's very possible that more than a woman was used in this circus and that this shenanigan is a diversion, a damage control to deviate your attention.

I do believe it's more likely that the pap walk woman is indeed Viscuso. But, I also think she could have come into this plot unplanned, at the last minute, as a replacement. Why? Who knows...

[grcyfm]

𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 : u-jin bai.

app .

⌜ cha eunwoo, demi man, he / they / him, ⌟  welcome back to hogwarts, U-JIN BAI ! according to your file, you’re a TWENTY-ONE year old MUGGLE-BORN. as i’m sure you remember, last spring had its challenges, but i’m confident you’ll take your studies more seriously this year. as a FOUTH year HUFFLEPUFF, focusing on ZOOLOGY, you’ve got a lot on your plate. our records show that you're COMPASSIONATE and ILLUMINATING however, they seem to have left off that you're STUBBORN and SARCASTIC. if i’m correct, you’re siding with THE LIGHT, which makes sense considering you’re known around the castle for cursed sigils etched on the corners of his lips, odd panda socks poking out from under his pants leg, a camera flash, the scent of lavender lingering behind him, wandering way to close to forbidden forest during twilight. let’s hope you make it through the year in one piece.

statistics .

birth name . bai u-jin

name meaning . his name means blessing. ( pls, i want someone to call him blessing like romantically. )

birthday + age . 23rd of october + twenty-one.

birth place . seoul, south korea.

year . fourth.

gender + pronouns . demi man + he / they / him.

orientation . pansexual + panromantic.

status . single.

species . wizard.

house . hufflepuff.

alignment . light.

wand .

patronus . panda.

languages . korean, english + bsl ( british sign language ) - ksl ( korean sign language ).

personality .

positive traits . compassionate + clever + illuminating.

negative traits . stubborn - sarcastic - naive.

mbti . intp.

moral alignment . chaotic good.

prone to violence . yes, but he doesn't like it... so, no.

appearance .

faceclaim . cha eunwoo.

voice claim . cha eunwoo.

eyes . dark purple. when the light isn't reflected in them, they appear so dark that they almost look black. however, in the light mainly the in the sun, they appear like lavender fields in midday rays. and his eyes happen to be very expressive, you can read them almost like an open book. though the fatigue is notable under his eyes most days due to lack of sleep from studying.

hair . black in colour, when in the sun it almost has a blue tint to his hair. he has a short wolf-cut styled hair do, here.

dominant hand . left.

height . 6'0

build . slim muscular.

tattoos . technically speaking he has none. but he has cursed sigils on the corners of his lips, still very noticeable against his pale gold skin and on his tongue. here.

piercings . both his bottom lobes are pierced.

notable features . a splatter of freckles across his cheeks and nose ridge, noticeable up close up. he has a faint scar across his jugular from his brother's attempt to take his life. his eyes, framed by long lashes. aside from the cursed sigils.

family .

father . bai in-su. †

mother . bai hyun-ae. †

brother . bai man-shik. †

character study .

triggers : violence, blood, murder ( self-defence )

a blessing. was what he was to his mother and father, their second child and always deemed a blessing. despite being a cursed speech user... his parents saw him as a blessing. usually, that would go to someone's head, right ? it would but it didn't, he always stayed humbled and grounded. though that could've been from his older brother's doing, never did the brothers see eye to eye.

and for years it would fester.

constantly at odds with one another. it was exhausting on u-jin, he never could gage if it was for man-shik… every time he tried in vain to being it to a ceasefire it would always flare up again and go out of control. u-jin was far from perfect but he did try to stop the senseless fighting between his brother but it never worked out. and towards the end, he just stopped caring altogether.

start of triggers : violence, blood & murder.

the bitter war between brothers came to a head in the worst ways possible.

man-shik attacked his underarm parents whom were asleep in their beds, killing them. and then went to his brother's room looking for the source of his hatred, he found asleep but he wanted a fight.

startled and alarmed, u-jin woke with a start and was forced into a huge fist fight with his older brother. he got a few really good hits in, trying to block his brother's blows to that of trying to keep him at arm's length. but it didn't stay that way, man-shik pulled out his wand and u-jin's life flashed before his eyes - truly. but somehow in the struggle ( forgetting about his cursed speech, he was panicked ), u-jin was able to reach for his wand on his nightstand.

and then both brothers stared down their wand at one another. of course, man-shik was the first to attack and sliced u-jin's throat but somehow it wasn't the right angle to bleed out but it cause enough pain and blood.

u-jin wasn't able to use his cursed speech as he was choking a little on his blood but he did the unforgivable curse on his brother — he just wanted it to stop.

and it did.

end of triggers : violence, blood & murder.

he laid next to his brother's body for what felt like eternity, going in and out of consciousness. strongly believing this was the end. until the aurors arrived at the bai's residence... the neighbours must've called for them.

there was a trail but that was quickly over and done with as it was an act of self-defence.

not only had he killed his brother but he had lost his parents on the same night, he was only sixteen. and he went to live with his uncle in the uk.

canons .

cursed speech user ; passed down from an ancestor, it usually skips a generation or so but he was the first in quite a long time. has the ability of using simple words and turning them into a curse ( he says blast away, one will blast away ). but it does affect him a lot, causing damage to his throat that he's spitting up blood if he uses it too much.

he's the photographer for the newspaper.

talks in rice ball ingredients as no cursing spells seem to come out of his mouth... though most times signs or uses a device to talk for him.

glossary .

salmon — all is well or all will be well.

kelp — an act of refusal or rejection.

mustard leaf — concern for someone's well-being.

bonito flakes — remarks the negative aspect of a situation.

tuna — call for regard.

tuna tuna — call for recognition/appreciation.

tuna mayo — call for regard ( towards self ).

salmon roe — all is unwell.

pollack roe — curse towards circumstance.

caviar — direct to more significant matter.

connections .

hook-ups. ( want him to get mad bitches, respectfully )

fwb 0/1.

friends.

his slytherin buddy.

[bigtittylawyer]

I said the Pokedex app, you can literally get the Pokedex onto your smartphone nowadays. If you were able to take a video of Pika's moveset, you should be able to record a short video of yourself scanning them with the Pokedex. You could ask a colleague to record you with whatever they have as a camera, or you could even record your phone's screen and audio using a free app or a feature in its settings, it doesn't have to be super fancy.

...Is now a bad time to say that I don't have a smartphone

[italianpersonwithashippersheart]

IQIYI is a Chinese streaming app so of course they would label anything with LGBTQ content as restricted even when it’s not warranted. Nothing I’ve seen from We Are suggests that it will go any higher than pg-13. So everyone needs to lower their expectations for that PhumPeem scene. It will be the usual Gmmtv ‘spicy’ scene: AWKWARD! featuring light closed mouth kissing, hands interlocking, shirts come off and then the camera pans away. Only Friends was not the norm for them, and it even that show never hit DMD, MMY or BOC levels of spice. To be honest I don’t think a show like We Are needs it anyways, considering it’s been mostly fluffy and friendship vibes.

Ok first I want to say thank you for the ask and I do agree that it would be weird to have one spicy scene when their other sex scenes have been very mild. And the show overall doesn't really need it.

A couple of the BLs there did have 13+ and like I said in my post a lot of their dramas are legitamately rated 18+ and it does seem that @poetry-protest-pornography might have been correct with saying that anything with more then a couple of simple smooches might get the 18+ rating that said I do not know what their criteria is for Het shows I don't know if they have similar standars for those as well they might just have a different rating system.

I am not super comfortable with any type of blanket statements not just in this instance but at all.

Also I don't actually agree that GMMTV has only awkward sex scenes. Yes not every drama needs explicit sex scenes and yes I do think different standars might be at play here, but plenty of their shows have conveyed a lot with simple pan away scenes:

Moonlight Chicken and Bad Buddy for exemple.

Even Wandee Goodday right now which has made strides in term of sex rep, with references to Lube and 69ing and explicity asking for a partner to pay attention to their dick, and while it might not have been as high heat as other shows it certantely conveyed a lot about their sex life.

Not to mention the Warp Effect and 3 Will Be Free --- I also want to point out that I have been weirded out before that their het shows - or at at least non bl shows - can have open kink but none of their male relationship have ever had, if the puppy play in The Warp Effect had been gay that wouldn't have been allowed on YouTube no matter who owns what even with no nudity. The world is very cruel and hypocritical about queer media and obviously it isn't the creators fault.

Only Friends was higher heat for GMMTV but not the only thing there, even if you are correct nothing is as high heat as the other companies you mentioned.

That said obviously GMMTV being the disney of BLs like @bengiyo (I hope you don't mind the tag - it honestly a great way to describe what GMMTV has become) has refer to them probably will always tend more to pan away sex scenes in their bls.

Obviously you are not wrong for feeling that away about GMMTV sex scenes I just think there is plenty of good in there as well I personally liked the AouBoom scenes even without being super into the drama. Sometimes you don't vibe with specific type of chemestry I have been there. I think PondPhuwin were pretty amazing in Never Let Me Go chemestry and intimacy wise and their sex scene in NLMG was amazing.