#legit I will write a damn essay

[getvalentined]

I love trying to explain to people outside my main fandom what my most controversial fandom takes are because most of them are either canon or so-heavily-implied-as-to-be-canon, but somehow it's still a huge issue to talk about them.

[damnonew]

ya’ll as an ex religious person

NOTHING IN THIS WORLD slaps harder than the book of mormon soundtrack 

[starrsbby]

i’m gonna kill someone* omg can someone else write this paper-

[nights-at-crystarium]

on authenticity

My mood in the recent months keeps going from bad to worse. Today I randomly fell into the rabbit hole of checking out other patreon artists, which always grounds me in reality and cheers me up, perhaps in a weird way. Essay incoming \o/

Authenticity is a blob of a word that sounds almost pretentious nowadays. It gets sneered at. You either sell your soul, or you don't earn with your art.

What's authentic, being true to yourself, will vary from person to person. It's like a sliding scale of suffering that you will tolerate in exchange for a coin, while convincing yourself that you have fun.

The harsh truth of modern world is that if your art pays for your living, you've already reached success, no matter how you may feel about the type of content you actually make for that money. Insert the meme furry nsfw art here. Or not furry. Or even sfw, but comms, lots of comms every month. Or merch. Anything that sells. Products first, art second.

Marrying passion and profession is virtually impossible, yet I'm doing it, only thanks to your support. I'm acutely aware that, even as I choose to be "real" and talk about an artist's money-making in a raw way, it's still patreon talk, and yes, I'll plug the link as well, so technically this entire post is an ad *fingerguns*

I just feel so privileged being able to create whatever the fuck I want, literally, I take no comms/requests/guidance on what and how should I draw/write, I post experimental, sometimes provocative stuff, and still make enough to survive. This sole fact should get me through the day, whatever other struggles I may be facing currently (I am. I don't wanna talk about it rn, instead I distract myself with this text), I should always remember the unique place in life I managed to carve for myself.

There are madmen (gender-neutral) who toss $10-20 at me every month. The majority "only" pledges $1, the notorious tier that gets treated as a tip jar with no rewards by many other creators. All of my rewards are the same at $1 and $20 (save for the one-time digital artbook download at $10, just to be perfectly clear), it's a conscious choice and a risk I continue taking because it's how I am. I used to split rewards between tiers in the past, before xiv, and it was a lot of busy work while it made me treat my art less as art and more as product. This pic goes into the cheap box, this pic goes into the expensive box. Every month. It's. Definitely not for every artist.

Logistic hell of splitting and delivering rewards, different posts with less comments per post, also my discord roles/channels would have to be split, nowadays it's just patron, whether you give me $1 or $20, there's no visual disparity, you're hanging out in the same cool kids' club, and collectively making happy noises on Fragments Fridays.

Could I be making more money if I got rid of the $1 tier? Yeah. But, mercifully, after 2 years I don't need to. I legit make enough currently, my only worry is to keep what I have. Patrons don't stay forever, 2-5 people would leave every month, about the same number would join (hence my patreon ads, I need to keep people reminded of it, even if it makes me feel guilty every damn time). I did Research (tm) in the past to find out that my "bleeding" numbers are below average, i.e. it's good, people generally tend to stick around.

I put a lot of emphasis on the $1 because I'm kinda proud of what I managed to accomplish while staying self-detrimentally humble. Literally doing an impossible thing in a world that keeps burning down. So yeah if you've been feeling bad for only giving me $1, what matters is that there's enough $1s to make a difference. Together you're creating a phenomenon, and you should be proud.

There are many stupid little principles, hills that I'll die on, that make up my authenticity. I chose to speak of it here and now in order to sorta sell myself, so it feels hypocritical x'D But if I don't shine a spotlight on this, who will. I'm old and jaded and increasingly terrified of how insincere the internet's becoming. Everything's fake, sugarcoated, polished for sale. My art's always been a scream of defiance against all that, now that I'm more or less established, I wanna scream louder. Thanks for hearing my screams. You can scream with me too if you want.

[showtoonzfan]

Every time I look back at Star Vs. The Forces of Evil I just get so depressed because it was a show I actually loved only for it all to go to shit in the very end and that’s kinda all people will remember it as when time moves on. It was such a banger show in the beginning, with likable characters, good animation, and interesting villains and obstacles ect, season 1 and 2 was where the show peaked, season 3 was very flawed and wonky but it still kept me at the edge of my seat, and then season 4 was just a fucking disaster, with things that were drawn out, lore stuff that was never explained, zero buildup over most of the events going on, and of course the infamous shipping drama. It really felt like the writers dropped EVERYONE and everything all to make Starco happen, like it didn’t care if it would fuck up the world or characters around them, so long as the ship becomes canon everything is okay…..and like…no. As a past starco shipper myself, the way they executed it was just…..beyond bad, and this is the only SURFACE of issues the show had, like things ACTUALLY being built up but the climax being underwhelming, VERY important lore points that legit SHOULD have been in the show but instead got stuffed in a Disney book, Star as a main character just fucking downgrading and turning into a shallow teenage brat as the show progressed, there was honestly a LOT of issues I had with the show, even if I was young and naive when watching it. I still think in general the show is good, or WAS good at least. It was a huge part of my childhood and had the show gotten another season or two, and Daron wasn’t writing the damn script as the show progressed, it would have been better. There’s like…..a LOT of video essays on Star so like…I wouldn’t be able to go into detail in one post.

It’s honestly just sad that certain shows I grew up with that I loved the hell out of eventually just got either bad or underwhelming, like…Gravity Falls is STILL the only show from that cartoon era that managed to have an actually satisfying ending, and ended at the perfect moment. Shows like Regular Show and Adventure time were also shows I loved in the beginning, but Adventure time just dragged for WAAAY too long and started turning ridiculous in my opinion so I stopped watching, and Regular show I just grew out of. I remember coming back for both finales to pay respect to the shows even if I wasn’t caught up with either of them, and while I can say Regular Show’s finale was decent, I didn’t like Adventure Time’s. Then there’s Steven Universe, and we all know how THAT went. Why did these four shows that were famous for being actually good had to turn bleak for me? In my opinion, one of the main reasons is that when you’re making a show similar to the whole “This is a story driven show that has some filler but at the same time follows a story leading to something big” (Amphibia and The Owl House are also examples of these) the main important thing you have to make sure you’re able to do is perfectly balance filler episodes AND story driven episodes, (something that Steven Universe and Star Vs. The forces of evil SUCKED at I’m sorry) and you have to make sure the show doesn’t drag on for too long, which is what happened with Adventure Time, Regular Show, and even SU. Of course you also need to be a good writer and storyteller, but that’s a requirement lol. Keep in mind these are just my personal opinions, but I’m certainly going to miss the shows, mainly Star. Even if I haven’t seen The Owl House and Amphibia, I’m glad they’re both new shows of this era that have entertained others and seem to be VERY good. Oh…and there’s Infinity Train and Over the Garden Wall. Those were REALLY good.

[meili-sheep]

I'm slowly loving the Crepus slander 😂

That what if Crepus comes back to live thing, how does Kaeya react and do when he sees that Crepus is an asshole to his very own son?

I'm just hungry for protective Kaeya shit 🗿👌✨

You know I have several essays about why he sucks?

And I've been considering researching child psychology and finding papers to scientifically prove he's a bad dad, like legit. I have some experience writing academic papers, and I might as well put this knowledge to good use.

Let me also tell you about my story with Kaeya. I used to hate him because of Venti's Story Quest and his own quest. Because in Venti's his line in that was so fucking outta pocket and unnecessarily hurtful just to "Please drink responsibly"

It didn't help that I was exposed to "fanon" Kaeya a lot. And that's a whole other mess.

So I was like, you know what. Let's change this around a bit. And I started to think of him more how I think of Ayato. Someone who recognizes that they are bad and keep doing bad things because it still causes a good outcome. And Kaeya gets a sprinkling of the depresso and over protectiveness of Diluc because he recognizes how much he hurt Diluc, and he never wants Diluc to be hurt again.

And you know with each update with him in it. My vision of that keeps getting clearer and more backed up. I did kind of do an "I told you so post" when his conversation with Dain happened, and he said, "I think my dad just left me there to be happy."

SO YEAH.

I think Kaeya is very protective of his brother.

So Crepus coming back. And now, being an adult and Kaeya can see how poorly Diluc is treated. And how favored Kaeya is. (Because he had to be favored IMO) Especially since Kaeya is still a knight.

Kaeya would be like

"No, no, no! Hold the fuck up. You should be showering and spoiling your son! Not me! He's been hurt by everyone! And he can still find it in his heart to try and save them! To be kind. You don't get to praise me when I am not even proud of this job. But I am damn proud of Diluc! He's doubled the winery's income and made drinking better for everyone! He's sweet and kind and the best person in Mondstadt. And I won't allow you to come here and shit all over him just because he doesn't were some stupid uniform anymore!"

And while Kaeya normally likes to keep his distance from Diluc. (Insecurity and feeling of not deserving to be there) I think while Crepus is around, he would stick closer to Diluc's side to butt Crepus out. Because while Crepus being there would bring out a bit of the younger Diluc, Kaeya would see just how fragile and trusting young Diluc was and how much Diluc is still that person in some ways. But He could also see how Crepus keep constantly failing Diluc. In giving him an unobtainium goal to reach and making it feel Crepus's love is tied to the goal.

So yeah, he'd let Diluc nowhere near Crepus.

There is also the back from the dead angle, which is how Kaeya would probably play it off to Diluc because god forbid they actually tell each other their honest feelings.

[queer-coded-camaro-driver]

The #1 Reason Stranger Things Fell Apart, an Essay:

**All things stated below are my personal OPINION and do not have to impact your views if you don't want them to. As an avid D&D player, however, I wanted to write this out for shits n giggles. I was in the mood. This also doesn't address the racism, badly handled character intros, or random B-character deaths.

There is one rule to rule them all in Dungeons & Dragons, a rule so vital to smooth gameplay and story-building that the smartest players know to break it almost certainly means death:

Never split the party.

(There's an entire song about it, that's how deeply engrained in the culture it is).

Once the party has been separated it's not only way easier for your characters to get ambushed/get in trouble/die, it's way harder for all members of the game to keep having the same level of fun! Usually because the wait time between turns and plot development causes players to lose interest or lose track of their last actions.

When it comes to Season 1 of Stranger Things, we have multiple groups of characters building plots together: Nancy, Steve, Jonathan, and the other teens have their drama together. Hopper and the investigation into Hawkins' weird science has its own plot. Will's disappearance and the children hiding El are the main focus - and those groups are almost NEVER narratively separated.

These plots are interwoven to create the greater story and build suspense but the groups within are constantly orbiting around one another to strengthen those connections. Despite my current beef with the Duffers, Season 1 was pretty damn successful in following the Golden Rule of TTRPG.

So when S2 arrives and the process of El's reunification with Mike/the Party gets dragged out further than necessary, all that yummy tension dissipates. Rather than using the established relationships to scaffold new conflicts (Mike/El, Mike/Max(?), Max & Lucas' crush/truce, Dustin's frustration, Will's loneliness, etc.), they broke these load-bearing narratives into smaller "more digestible" chunks.

As S3 and S4 went on, the group fractured even further apart. With this separation came the loss of critical character traits. Mama Byers' beloved velcro-mothering disappears in the face of Hopper's potential survival. Jonathan and Nancy's class disparity falls out of the story despite being one of the more interesting aspects of the "Teen Drama".

Max slips away, Lucas slips away, Dustin and Mike join the Hellfire Club... I know these shifts are meant to represent the way things change in high school but the clique-forming is so fast and drastic by S4 that the Party is unrecognizable.

The Duffers lost serious momentum when they split the party the first time by sending El to Chicago to meet her retconned siblings. But rather than learning from this mistake, they tried doing it a different way over and over until the compiled failures led to... Whatever the fuck is going on right now.

They COULD have done some fascinating stuff with Will and Billy's birthdays marking the dates of the first and final episodes of S4, Vol 1 respectively. They share a name and they were both Flayed. That could have been SUCH a cool coincidence to play with. Yet somehow the fans noticed their timeline mistake before they did, ffs.

They could have done some cool stuff with the Upside Down and Billy and Max getting a heartwarming sibling redemption arc. The 4 OG Party guys could have talked through a legit heart-to-heart about growing up and finding new interests but staying friends, Breakfast Club style.

But no. We got whatever the fuck the Henry Creel stuff was/is/will be. It's not the worst possible writing they could have done, but that element could have been incorporated with so much creativity and class... Yet it got shoehorned between several other developing ideas instead.

And honestly I don't think any of the massively laggy sub-plots with Joyce and Russia and Hopper in jail and Dustin's Mormon girlfriend's stoner sister would have happened if the Duffers had simply followed the rules and never split the party.

[firecrackerhh]

If you…seriously believe that’s how Huskerdust is going to play out just cuz you don’t like Stolitz or whatever (even tho both situations are completely fucking different anyway) then I think you’re very fucking stupid.

When the fuck has the show EVER considered Angel to be a “stupid whore” in a degrading sense exactly in the first place??? Yeah Angel does say that in Loser, baby, but he EMBRACES that label. Which is far different from if the narrative itself was judging him for his behavior. 

If anything, HEAVEN would believe that, not Angel. In season 1 anyway…tho I have a feeling Heaven may start thinking differently since Sir Pen got redeemed.

The fact you would think Viv ever had the intention of writing Angel’s story like that makes me think you probably don’t think very fucking deeply much at all about Viv’s actual intentions when writing a story and you just prefer to come up with the most cliched judgmental bullshit cus that’s all you can come up with seeing what we have so far.

I’m sorry your imagination is so terribly limited my dude, but that’s definitely not Viv’s or anyone else’s problem.

The fact you would actually believe Viv would write that kind of story, Christ you fucks really love seeing the fucking worst in people huh? Why tf do you just ASSUME that is what her stories are gonna be about? No legit, someone fucking tell me, I don’t understaaaaaaaaaand!!!!!

If you look at Angel as a stupid whore for…some ungodly reason, and you blame the narrative when said narrative has done nothing to make the actual audience assume such, them I’m going to assume that maybe you are actually a shit writer and you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

“Duuuuuh Viv writing bad!” Meanwhile Dumbfuck McGee over here literally has the worst interpretation of her works possible, clearly because this mofo probably doesn’t think about goddamn anything beyond the “problematic” elements “the show won’t acknowledge” (like sure that’s reasonable to assume) and because those issues don’t get addressed immediately in the narrative that must mean Viv didn’t think it through fully cus that’s totally what all you fucking shit-for-brains believe because if shit doesn’t go fast enough for you in the narrative your fucking brain will implode or something.

Have y’all considered you just have like, media ADHD? Like, do y’all need a fucking Adderall prescription?

I think Viv writes her damn stories just fucking fine, I’m convinced the only people who do have an issue with her writing on some moral level or whatever have the reading comprehension of a rotting corpse.

Tis tragic, a moment in silence for those who never fucking passed English class.

Like Christ, my English grades sucked, but that’s cuz I suck at writing formal essays, not because I had the reading comprehension of a jelly bean.

If anyone is a fucking loser here, it’s this motherfucker. But they probably think Loser baby is meant to be insulting anyway, so hey, whatever.

Perhaps the point of Hazbin fucking Hotel in general is that the characters will learn to grow and accept themselves as they are, flaws and all, and that they don’t really need heavens shit to begin with, (tho if heaven changes as well, then it’ll be an option for the characters if they so wish, the hotel is for those who choose to be better after all, they should choose where they go.)

But seriously the way some people look at Stolitz is actually deranged, I worry for you people.

Like dude come the fuck on, sex trafficking? Is that what you think the relationship is? Like…no???

It began as a transactional relationship sure, but sex trafficking??? Do you…do you not know what the fuck sex trafficking is!? What calling the Stolitz relationship that fucking implies???

It’s not like Blitz has a fucking pimp, it’s not like Stolas is his pimp, any relationship Blitz has had has some kind of consent on his part, calm the fuck down, legit what the fuck is wrong with you?

Like…I get it, there’s definitely that coercive element there, but yknow what, he doesn’t even need the fucking book anymore, since Stolas gave him that Asmodean Crystal, which Stolas gave him because he wanted Blitz to choose to be with him without any coercive element…

Christ, if you’re gonna miss every hint of evidence that Stolas legit cares for him, including the latest episode, and you’re this fucking dense about it, I question why tf you’re watching HB at this point, Hazbin too, cuz it’s beyond evident you don’t actually know how to analyze media.

“I don’t wanna tag this crit tho cuz of antis” well you sure sound just as fucking retarded as any of them, Jesus Christ…

[thisisyourprincipalspeaking]

I see various people must love your blog as they seem to be lurking and reposting things.

I apparently triggered someone with my ask regarding his team. I saw my ask being spread around. Said person wrote an ESSAY in response to what I said and of course the 👑 had to chime in. I’m like tell me you’re too invested in this mess. 🙄 I got called “ignorant”. Naw what’s ignorant is a bunch of grown ass women pretending to know more than they do all for some internet clout. They are way past obsessed with this man and his mess. I believe this is is all bs and I’m only saying that because they’ll claim I’m a simp who thinks this is real. 😂

Their leader Screamed about how PR marriages are old and bs and don’t happen anymore, cursed out anyone who disagreed with her…..only to claim this man signed some bs contract and is in a pr marriage. Then gaslights the people who fell for their bs and keeps changing the narrative (lead people to believing they know when this will end, then gets mad when people fall for what they were trying to push). I really wish someone would point out all the bs both “teams” have spewed just to show these fools they are doing the same thing on opposite ends of the spectrum.

I be damned if I’m this deep in this man’s business that I’m constantly logging in everyday just to claim this is either real or PR, claim to not like him, claim to hate him while showing obvious obsession with various characters he’s played, call him names, write horrific fan fiction, call online strangers names for calling out bs, lie about info and act like I know things when it’s obvious I don’t, or claim they are legit, state false info, fake sightings, kiss the ass of either, etc ……all because they all need the attention they obviously aren’t getting in REAL LIFE!

The pr and real extreme “teams” are NUTS, these fools turned this shitshow into a sporting event.

Sending anons specifically CAA anon, to others in her crew, just to answer her own ask is batshit crazy, but crazies never know they’re crazy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

*Kim K gif*

TRAGIC! 😎

a word from the anon who seemed to cause a stir today , in their own words...

[darklordofthesimp]

Omg omgomg omg omg i LOVE ur writing homie. Under your skin was genuinely fantastic idk what it is abt sunny beefing w ghost that makes me so damn happy but like the bit where they both look over and hes training w birdy and BOTH konig and sunny get jelly was fantastic.

God i love how antagonistic sunny and ghost were, like the lil flash back to sunny's introduction to the team?? Mwah mwah mwah sending u all the kisses i LIVE for that kind of angst it is pure fuckin goldddd. Give me aaaaalllllllll the "having to work twice as hard to crawl out of someone elses shadow and establish your own identity + the sucker punch realization that oh shit ive been a dick and this person is actually really good at what they do but i mightve already burned my bridges" that ur willing to write i EAT THAT SHIT RIGHT UP BABES

Lowkey tho like ghost quit bein a dick ur boo deserves better 2k23 challenge jkjkjk im bein mean

Idk if youve already answered it, but was ghost or sunny the first to realise oh shit i dont hate them i wanna fuck them? Based on ur other works i get the vibe it was ghost, but idk if that was ur plan. The potential for briefly unrequited pining makes me absolutely feral. Love that shit tbh, esp when like #1 is straight up in love but #2 is like fuck u dude u were a dick i aint givin u the time of day. Ur writing is literary gold to me bro i love ur characters and characterizations!!

I hope this bullshit shadowban gets resolved, i straight up tracked ur ass down thru my old likes cause i couldnt find ur fic Anything and i desperately wanted to reread it for like the 12th time. IM FOLLOWING NOW THO and legit love all the stuff u share w us!!!

Thnx so much for all the fan-fuckin-tastic works u publish and for making it thru this essay hugs and kisses ❤️❤️❤️

Olay first of all thank you for such an extensive, in depth and really kind post. In these trying times of being shadowbanned into the Nether realm it's really comforting to see people are still here and loving it.

Second of all Ghost and Sunny have a very in depth and rocky relationship. I think Sunshine realised first that they had a thing for Ghost but because of the drama that ensues (that you'll see when I'm unshadowbanned and can write sunshines story arc) and the weird sexual tension between Birdy and Ghost, Sunshine tries to ignore it.

When Sunny finally attempts to move on I think is when Ghost realises exactly how he feels.

It's very much a cat and mouse game between Ghost and Sunshine, constantly hurting each other with the things that they don't say.

[ambulancevsambulance]

legit im kinda sad that in 14 days, 2 weeks, we are going to get MCR opening with something other than Foundations. It happened once on SWARM, but it felt like a one off. I know this is the "Black Parade" event but...im gonna miss the utter electricity of the buzzing, the sound of the swarm just enveloping the crowd before the slow tings piano and guitar come in.

They may play it at some point in the evening, probably as encore...but it won't be the same. Foundations set the tone, no matter what the set was going to be (see the 'eras' nights in LA).

Could I write an essay about what Foundations meant as an opener, and what that tone meant? Sure I could. I could. I could. Throw it on the essay pile. But I will say this: I never felt more alive every damn night of that tour than with that buzzing of the insects and the cacophony of the song screaming all around me.

tl;dr I just want Foundations.

[flecks-of-stardust]

i feel like at a certain point i’m just going to end up making a guide to how i fight hollow knight bosses because of how much i think about hollow knight combat

[dirt-str1der]

People who post their character hate essays in the characters tag should die i dont mean a critical analysis that they reseached and poured their soul into i mean people who just come in and be like REAONS I HATE XXX : 1. I hate their stupid face i hate their stupid hair i hate their stupid shoes i hate their attitude i think theyre a bitch and a coward i think theyre annoying as hell i think they should shut up because YYY is better and should have gotten more screen time

Genuinely u can post whatever u like but IN THE CHARACTER TAGS ??? WHERE PEOPLE. HANG ON I CAN ILLUSTRATE IT

^^^^^^^^^^^ u gonna do this to someone ?????

[pippin-katz]

Yeah, this could totally work to, that's also a funny way to look at it! Totally down with it! Totally fine with this concept...

BUT!

In defense of the sweetheart that is Charles Rowland, Crystal laughs at him because he uses 80s’ slang! Not because what he means by it doesn't land/work!

Post Writing Note: This turned into an essay, I'm sorry 🥲

“We’ve met psychics before, but none as fit as you.” - Using the word “fit” as a means of calling someone attractive is very dated, and it feels like it. There's some slang from other decades that can be said, knowing and recognizing its' intended era, but still lands as well, if that makes any sense?

I was actually super curious about it and looked up '80s' slang, and almost everything is still commonly used today, that I never knew apparently originated in the 80s'.

Just to name a few of the most common ones, cause a lot of them are used, but these stand out:

Leaving quickly - bounce, split, book it, dip

Descriptors meaning "cool" - awesome, excellent, stellar, wicked

Saying "yes" or agreeing - big time, for sure, I kid you not, most definitely

Emphasis & comparison - like (like, you know, how we add it in the middle of sentences, like, randomly), mad (it was mad hot outside), major (something important, rather than actually large in size), scarf (scarfing down food, not a literal scarf), peg (i didn't peg you as a [blank] person),

Positive descriptors for people/things - BFF, fave, fine, legit, chill

Negative descriptors for people/things - airhead, chicken, harsh, lame

Various phrases - freak out, bite me, clutch (like coming in clutch),

Class & culture related - boy toy, chocoholic, couch potato, hacker, jock, nerd, valley girl

Hip Hop terms - beatbox, dope, hood, hype

This is the list I found BTW if you're wondering.

“It would be a shame if dandelions exploded out of your face. Because I think your face is pretty mint.” - Again, the word “mint” is so weird in today’s context; we don’t really use it to mean appearance or quality anymore, only for like, vintage collectible items like “mint condition”.

“Right, that’s all true. But your case is still our favorite, Crystal.” - Her smile in response to that one is not mocking/pitying like the others, it's genuinely, she seems to think that one was kind of sweet; she knows what he’s doing, but also knows he’s not being ingenuine about it

"I will always hit a demon with a cricket bat for you." - Not even sure if this counts as flirting since he would probably say this platonically anyway, but pretty sure this one is supposed to be worded a little silly to help cheer her up after so much negative emotion.

"He's wrong, you know. You're still pretty damn special." - This could also be said platonically, but looking at it romantically, it doesn't not work; she's just overwhelmed after having an emotional breakdown caused by her demon ex-boyfriend, and they're in the middle of a forest with a ghost-eating mushroom monster on the loose. This not the place, nor do they have the time for "emotional bullshit" as Crystal calls it. It's clear that she's knows he means it, and she's touched by it, which on top of all the other emotions she was feeling was too much for that moment.

Crystal does end up reciprocating, so all of this to say that Charles has rizz! While I think that would be an interesting direction, my heart just cried out when you suggested Charles gets ignored and laughed at. I can't handle more of this boy being made to feel inadequate 😭

Thanks for reading!! If you enjoyed this short essay & would like to support me, you can give me a tip on my Ko-Fi! ☺️

everyone is talking about zero rizz edwin. which is fair. but i would like to raise you: zero rizz charles.

of course everyone loves charles, but when he actively tries to flirt with crystal, she just laughs at him. edwin, on the other hand, has been feeling much bolder ever since the events of port townsend, and has taken to “harmlessly” charming some of the fitter men they encounter on the job. no matter what, charles just can’t seem to replicate it, and most of them ignore charles completely.

obviously, charles’ first instinct is to get protective over edwin. he’s thrilled that his best mate has learned to accept himself, but he can’t shake this sinking, horrid, feeling in his gut whenever edwin gives their newest interviewee a look that he’s never seen before; something flirtatious and absolutely stunning on him.

he’s probably just jealous that everyone likes edwin more right? he’s just not used to his mate being the one doing the charming

[matoitech]

oh okay promare wiki so aina maybe having a crush on galo cuz she talks about him to her sister sometimes is added despite not holding much weight OR being Canon Confirmed but god forbid you put anything mentioning galo and lio being gay on there. i get it

[hearttstopper]

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