#lmao she was in her deranged era

[narcan-necromancer]

[silviakundera]

Joy of Life Episode 6 liveblogging

This is my first watch, so don't tell me secrets ;)

My guess that loser brother will be mistaken for ML. Because they are really determined to get on my nerves and make me dislike his romance subplot. This is a very dumb and not in a fun way.

Loser brother has his priorities in order. He's doing his best, I don't blame him! This idiotic subplot is at fault. Please no more of this, I'm already over the romance, if this is how it's gonna be

So ML gonna eat candy and walk into the front door, just ask for the file he wants.

NO MORE IDIOTIC FORCED MISUNDERSTANDING ROMANCE SUBPLOT. I'm gonna start ⏩⏩

Crooked map & books seller?! 😱

Leaving without the file seems like an unusually stupid idea. He's usually smarter than this. huh.

So the tablet of values was transcibed Magnificent Mom? Is there anything she did not do? Are we getting a mom prequel lmao

I like his self-honesty: his mother was a creative dreamer but he can't continue her legacy; he just wants to survive

LMAO the emperor is well aware that assassin bro isn't dead and exactly what ML is up to. Surprising, and in a good way. This is actually a badass monarch who has an effective spy network & isn't deluded about this officials. Unusual (in life as well as dramas)

I agree that Crown Prince and Royal Princess have improved their tactics

So here we have the engagement cancellation

Or not??? (it was a very amusing scene, at least)

I do look forward to the Crown Prince's downfall because it's a sloppy ass plan. Dad would be SO disappointed in u. I mean, what actual evidence do you have that he can't produce a poem, in an era where it's a common nobleman hobby? This is called wishful thinking.

A rotting drumstick is the most deranged love token

Awwww sister ruoruo is gonna marry a boy she likes OR ELSE

ML just tearing strips out of dad in defense of his loser bro, saying he's not a total waste of space awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I love the sibling relationship!

He his only wish, to to play dominos with his dad and get some money! Awwwwwwwwx100

[chainofclovers]

biscuits 😭

Literally just staying up all night crying about the end of an era and attempting to wrangle 7800 layers of feelings into a thing that can come out in English

But I've been thinking about the biscuits

Not just the croissants she's eating in the scene where we think they've slept together (I refuse to feel baited by that scene btw, even though it and Beard's entrance made me feel like I'd ascended to a new plane of reality; the scene happened for a reason; I'm too tired to go into it; my relationship to heterosexual ships is interesting enough as it is and I don't need to develop a fucking straightbaiting chip on my shoulder and walk around with that; also Ted/Rebecca's incredibly intentional yet incredibly unconsummated-within-the-three-season-arc connection is like every femslash ship I've ever loved; I've decided to just lean into T/R's story being unfinished and to treat the rom-com leave-cute reference as a fond homage to what could be; I'm allowed to be as generous as I want to be with this show and these writers; LMAO; crying my ass off [stilted Scorpio version]; but genuinely--I can be as generous as I want to be and I don't have to hate this if I don't want to hate this)

Anyway

I've been thinking not just about the croissants she's eating in the scene where we think they've slept together, and how those aren't biscuits, but also about how she doesn't tell him she'll miss the biscuits and he doesn't talk about the ritual and he never bakes her biscuits again as far as we can tell and he doesn't give her the recipe

And it hurts but I love it

[[[[ The biscuits are his dick (-- @boglady ) ]]]]

Because it's so intrinsic to who they are that they just don't talk about this ritual engrained in the last 2.5 years of their lives, I think...and sure, sometimes we see Ted reference the biscuits when he walks in with some...but no one notices. Ted's mom doesn't notice. Trent doesn't notice. Higgins notices, but he was involved in the early s1 biscuit taste-testing, and he's all-seeing in a lot of ways so it's different. Lord knows Sassy isn't getting a biscuit even if she's gotten to enjoy Ted's actual dick a few times. Keeley is close enough to notice, but she's suspiciously quiet about it. Beard has to come over and fix Ted's oven all the time, but we never see him comment.

So how perfect is it that in everything Rebecca has to process about Ted leaving, she almost becomes another person who has taken for granted that Ted performs this absolutely deranged gesture of love in baking her biscuits every single week and delivering them to her in a pink box every day...because that's really telling. She puts a lot of work into asking him to stay. She's feeling all kinds of desperate things. She isn't at all like the people who don't see what he's been doing for her; her reasons for never mentioning the biscuits again are nothing like the biscuit-invisibility everyone else experiences. She just can't or won't say anything because the biscuits are untouchable

And in the season 4 that will exist in my head but will almost certainly never be a reality, someday, when they see each other again, he makes her some biscuits and she's so angry she can't eat them

(And then things get better and she does, but not at first)

(This is why I had to take Wednesday off work)

(I'm fuckin' losing it)

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

8, 11, 12, 13

Choose Violence Ask Game

8. Common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Alina is an extrovert! Fight me!! She’s typically snarky and kind of mean and mistrustful lmao about the people she’s around unless she’s formed closer connections and I think people interpret that as introversion. (And, I do think introversion for that era of like wallflower protagonist was just the default and people automatically sub that in.) But we see her gravitate towards going to dumb not!highschool parties and gatherings for fun. In S&B she feels alienated and sad that she can’t hang out with the other summoners by the lake bc she doesn’t know how to use her power. She seems to feel most at ease when she is around people she likes and trusts. Like I’m sorry modern AU Alina would be getting drunk at frat parties and doing keg stands 🤷‍♀️

11. Number of fandom-related words you’ve filtered

Ah, just one. I filtered out Zoyalai because people were getting real heated when season two dropped and bashing Alina in posts, and it was winding up on my dash.

12. The unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Probably Baghra. She’s such a bitch, I love her. I don’t have any particular argument for it, I just love cantankerous crones. And also her life seems insane. She’s entertaining and interesting in a way that a lot of mean and morally questionable characters are! But I think people tend to not like her as much essentially because she isn’t young and hot during canon lol.

13. Worst blorboficiation

Obviously the Darkling! The majority of his fandom is soooo deeply unsatisfying to me because it’s usually focused on sanding down everything that makes him fun to me. I signed up for deranged cartoon villain content. My favorite scenes of his are usually when he’s being fucking insane. So when the fandom is like “here’s my fave character Sasha and all the disgustingly sweet sunshine pun nicknames he can come up with during pillow talk 💖” I’m like… why are you so boring sjfjfgd

[lootkey]

Now first listen of the Anthology tracks!

Overall thoughts: I probably won’t come back to these as much? But, I am very much a more full production girl so those who like the guitar centric and piano ballad songs are going to love these. The one outlier here is “imgonnagetyouback” not sure why tf that’s in here and not on the main album bc it doesn’t match the rest of the anthology tracks but it may be my favorite on the album as a whole idk

Fave 3

imgonnagetyouback

So Highschool

The Prophecy

Best 3

Cassandra

The Bolter

The Manuscript

The Black Dog

Oh we are sad again. Oh wait are we sad? The beat is picking up? OH SCREAMING oh back down? This production is throwing me but I get that it is intentional lmao. “Play him” actor shade. I think this song is what we all expected for this album. Also “esoteric joke”? Part of me wants to believe she wanted to write “making fun of me with an esoteric bloke” but I (like Taylor) am delusional sometimes. Sell my house 🥺 8/10

imgonnagetyouback

This production screams The 1975 at the beginning. Yes girl, know you’re hot! OH MY GOD THIS CHORUS. The classic “get you back” entendre. “I’m an Aston Martin”???? OMG. Loving the synths in this. This song was made for me and me alone. HOLY FUCK. we stan Jack Antonoff in this house. 100/10

The Albatross

The plucky type strings in the back are nice. I think this one is going to have to grow on me? It isn’t resonating with me on this first listen. Again Taylor Swift and threatening men, I love to see it. 6/10

Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

First of all this song title is ridiculous. Saw me with someone who looked like they would bully you in school? LMAO. Did she just say “needed drugs more”??? Oh my god? Oh this one is hurtful? She changed to do anything for him and the way to break her heart is to say “I loved you as you were” … as a people pleaser I am sobbing on the floor. 7/10

How Did It End?

I’m going to need to research these lyrics more but this is interesting since it seems to be critical and self aware of how the public devours her pain. Also, this song must be a favorite of hers because all good chunk of the lyrics we got as part of the rollout are in this songs. D-Y-I-N-G????? Oh girl. The pen is penning here. 8/10

So High School

Not the Spotify vertical video being football lights, girl you are not subtle. Also this production sounds like something but I can’t place it??? Honestly this and 3am by Halsey are in the same genre. STIFLE YOUR SIGHS?!?! yes ma’am!!! You know ball, I know Aristotle??? You know who you wanted and you got her??? OH MY GOD. I do wish the production was a little quieter? But overall I like this!! 8/10

I Hate It Here

Sister song of the Lakes? She does love the word precocious doesn’t she. I wonder where the here is? 1830s but without the racists???? Girl what??? This song also would have done numbers on 2014-2015 with girls stuck in midwestern small towns. I can tell this is one is going to grow on me 7/10

thanK you aIMee

Bronze spray tan statue????? Oh my god we are coming out swinging out the gate. The definition of the bad times make us better. Yeah FUCK YOU AIMEE with the happiest fucking guitar in the background lmao. Oh mama swift!! WISHING SHE WAS DEAD?!?! Oh fucking get her Taylor lmao 8/10

I Look in People’s Windows

The slight echoing on her voice is interesting. Also you can tell Aaron Desner is all over these tracks. Taylor is in her peeping Tom era now. Like I’m so deranged weirdo? yeah that’s going to become a viral tiktok audio at some point lol 6/10

The Prophecy

Oh her delivery is in that cadence that scratches my brain again!!!! Oh the yearning is so painful here. Wanting so badly to be someone’s first pick, wanting to be loved so badly. Going directly to the pain. playlist oh my god 9/10

Cassandra

The backing piano reminds me of something but I can’t tell. BURN THE BITCH????? Oh my GOD. Cell with snakes??? The imagery of this is so fucking good. This is also shots towards Kimye. I’m glad we got this retrospective type song vs songs on rep right after it happened. I almost wonder if it’s coming up again because she wonders how much of the fake phone call caused her heartache? Like would she have ever been with Joe and had to go through all this pain if they hadn’t faked that call and she went into hiding?? 10/10

Peter

Vaguely champagne problem chords??? Okay English major!! Not one of my favorites? Not sure honestly because there’s times where I love her voice but piano ballads are never really my jam anyway? So this may just not be for me! 6/10

The Bolter

Singer songwriter vibes!! Honestly is it wrong that I could see someone like Zach Bryan doing really well on this? The vibe of this is so good! 9/10

Robin

Strings tied to lovers? Invisible String?? Way to go tiger?? Huh?? Again another piano ballad at 30/31 songs is a struggle for me to personally get through 5/10

The Manuscript

The reverb (?) on these piano notes!! Oh it’s retrospective 🥺 sex is half as good????? Strollers?!?!? Oh lord have mercy. 30? Oh so this is not about recent events. OH FUCK THIS IS ABOUT JOHN OR JAKE. Oh younger Taylor 🥺 story isn’t mine anymore?? Is this about All Too Well ??? 10/10

[lakesbian]

To be honest, as someone who have actual siblings, the Cosay siblings headcanon it's kinda odd to me.

There's other potential sibling relationships like Lake and Tulip (that's why there's so much Twins Aus) and Jesse and Nate, but that one is more obvious... even if the blushes are because both of them are embarrassed, I don't think all of them are for that reason, the blushes can be by making a lot of strength (Book 1 Lake for example when they tried to escape to the door, also Tulip blushes too because of Lake's weight), a sign of attraction, joy, excitement, ect.

also, they hold hands soooo yeah :T

this is so funny. your analysis is bad, sorry. the only thing it has going for it is that it's the meat pumpkin in my tiger enclosure, by which i mean i will have fun tearing it apart.

"there's other potential sibling relationships, like lake and the girl she spends an entire season violently insisting her life doesn't revolve around!" like in what world LMAOOO she literally goes "i spent my whole life reflecting you, i'm going my own way now" to tulip to explain that because her life has been based entirely around tulip she doesn't want to have any connection to her, and you think there's good grounds for a sibling headcanon? deranged. i love that you started off with this because it really established the tone for how (in)coherent the rest of your thoughts were going to be perfectly.

as for the blush commentary, i. can't figure out what you're trying to say here? like, sure, sometimes characters in the show blush because they're being physically exerted, but that's irrelevant to bring up as an argument because it doesn't contradict my statement that the blushes in s2 aren't romantic. what does lake being exhausted from her failed attempt to escape the chrome car have to do with that?

the blushes in s2 do have varying emotional nuances behind them but they can generally all be tied back to embarrassment, shyness, or other similar feelings. lake blushing in the lucky cat car because she's flustered that jesse is expressing care for her is certainly happier than jesse blushing in the map car because he's admitting his state-qualified swim stroke lake is teasing him about isn't his favorite, but the core emotion motivating both is still feelings of vulnerability, and subsequently, self-consciousness. it's kind of a nothing-statement to say that 'not all of them are because of embarrassment' because yeah no shit, i never claimed the reasons for them were solely one-dimensional. this is The Train Nuance Blog, it's a given that there's nuance.

the "it's a sign of attraction" regarding s2 blushes is just like. Comically stupid. go read my post with the multiple screenshots of one of the show's writers explicitly confirming that the blushes aren't because of a crush & they're Platonic Friends, dippie. https://lakesbian.tumblr.com/post/714630299618770944/okay-umm-listen-i-have-a-silly-a-very-silly

and "they hold hands" ...,,,,..,,,rip to you i guess but some people have physical affection with their non-romantic loved ones? we got a fucking time traveler from the goddamn victorian era out here in my inbox talking about the Intrinsic Romance of [checks notes] "touching your friends." WAIT until you find out that i'd kiss mine on the cheeks LMAO. i'm gonna have to get ms lindsay katai on the phone to inform her that despite the crew's best attempts they did unfortunately accidentally write a romance by depicting a lonely traumatized child sharing occasional physical affection with her first-ever friend to comfort her during the most upsetting moments of her life :/

cosay siblings is rlly not that odd of a projected life outcome for them--they're best friends, lake living with jesse is a fairly common assumption people make, and a best friend you live with who's slowly becoming integrated into your family as a whole is...kind of just going to become an adopted sibling! there are many people who describe their best friend as being "like a brother/like a sister," there's no reason jesse and lake couldn't start feeling similar in the future & then turn it into "just literally actually brother/sister because he IS her family so it's not Like a sister, it's Is a sister"

[chicknparm]

I think there’s such a thing as healthy cynicism but it’s a shame social media doesn’t really allow for such a thing. Either you’re for something or you’re against it. You’re cool and safe or you’re problematic. You’re hopepunk or you’re an edgelord.

I’ve not yet seen the Barbie movie (and am not in a rush to do so) but I believe when people say it’s extremely fun and well-made and enjoyable. Greta and that cast and crew are far too talented for it to be a bad movie. But it’s still an advertisement, and is still image laundering for a massive corporation, that everyone involved in the production, marketing, and consumption is complicit in. It’s okay, and a good thing even, to be skeptical and cynical about that. It is possible for good art to exist for nefarious reasons. That’s like, the entire Thing with all of gundam lmao.

It’s really cool that one of the biggest music acts right now is a trio of hugely talented queer women who succeeded on the strength of their songwriting, and that their music and performances are responsible for so much joy among lgbt women right now, myself included. It’s also okay to point out that this kind of thing never happens by accident, and is absolutely the latest step in a years-long marketing push by one of said group’s members for whom TS-level superstardom is obviously the goal. TS also found success through her songwriting, but it can’t be overstated that she never could’ve taken the swings that she’s taken in her career without building a massive fanbase with an absolutely deranged level of loyalty. What TS did through connecting to children through vivid, youthful, romantic songwriting and fairytale imagery, PB is doing by first making herself the ultimate Relatable pop star (esp in the earlier fake_nudes era) and now by fully embracing the Queer Joy/Kiss Your Friends vibe. That’s all cool, good for her, but it’s also okay to be cynical about the fact that these types of performances are just not possible for women who aren’t cis/white/attractive! Cool that PB and LD get to kiss each other and perform with their titties out, but 1: they are doing so while charging crazy prices to come watch them do it, 2: I would be arrested for doing that! Ditto for them making a show of performing in “Drag” in TN. I don’t doubt for a second any of their Allyship to the trans community, but the gesture itself isn’t that radical; women presenting a cartoonishly exaggerated performance of femininity surely ruffles conservative feathers, but it’s not under legal threat, there was no risk involved. It was much for effective as publicity, which was the primary intention.

It’s also very cool that the biggest video game in the world right now (and the presumptive GOTY) is an independent, (primarily) single player story driven CRPG that offers the truest role playing experience that a AAA game has offered in a decade. It is okay to be cynical about the fact that the very same people tearing into it for being Woke Propaganda also use it as a weapon to harass games journalists and developers. When a handful of devs speak with frustration about how the conditions for BG3 were impossibly perfect, and that basically no other AAA dev would be allowed the scope, freedom, time, and resources to make something like that, it of course gets twisted into “lazy game devs and journalists HATE this game because it doesn’t feed Globalist Greed.” It’s also okay to be cynical about Fandom As Identity as it pertains to this game, as we see more and more people make it to the endgame which is comparatively unpolished, unfinished, and at times genuinely broken. This has caused some blemishes on its sterling reputation, and of course people freak out. “There’s no way that anyone who isn’t trolling gives this game anything less than a 10. Maybe a 9.5 if you encountered bugs.” Something connected with people in a huge way, but that connection and widespread praise isn’t enough. It must be universal. Dissent is tantamount to violence. There’s an extra layer of cynicism I feel here too, and that’s centered around the miraculous timing of this game for WOTC. When trust in that company is at an all-time low, and there’s finally (finally!!) some momentum in getting people to try other tabletop games, in swoops BG3 reminding people “noooo don’t leave D&D behind, tieflings are so sexy haha.” Absolutely disastrous timing for indie ttrpgs!

Anyway tl;dr I wish people were more skeptical/cynical/aware of when they’re being manipulated by media and marketing, and had the cognitive capacity to recognize that something can be both a well-crafted and affecting piece of art, as well as an attempt to separate you from your money.

[bytedykes]

COMPLETELY FORGOT TO DO THIS OMG, tagged by @bi-demon-ium HI GREBO!!! HI HI HI

rules: tag game! tag people and have them tell you your top ten favorite characters of all time (doesn’t have to be in order).

i loooove rambling i will ramble about each of these btw ❤ i am my own enabler (and procrastinating hw rn ahahaha...ha...h)

Will Byers (stranger things) - i LOVE will SO MUCH!!!! i love him soo so much he is my sweet can of peach preserves i want to swing him around like a ferret literally obsessed with him rn. everything about him makes me want to scream and cry and throw up every day im so thankful will exists nobody gets him like me. honorable mentions el who is practically one unit with will so i can legally put her on the same bullet point, and also all the other st characters who im also obsessed with who are not getting their own bulletpoints but i still want to acknowledge them bc i love them.... soo much.......

MAGNUS BANE (shadowhunters tv) - *long drawn out scream* tbh hes probably the first character i was like, really and truly obsessed with, like honestly magnus bane kicked off an Era for me regarding my derangement and how i participate in fandom. magnus bane was the catalyst of a whole gender awakening for me. magnus bane is my everything. i love him and his husband. yeag

Phoenix Wright (ace attorney) - OBSESSED WITH HIS PATHETIC BISEXUAL SWAG no further commentary needed. honorable ace attorney mentions go to maya fey and klavier even tho i have not gotten to him in game yet. i know imgonna love him when i do go back to playing aa4 so he counts

Bart Curlish (dirk gentlys holistic detective agency tv 2016) - THE MOST WOMAN EVER!!!!!!!! the peak of grimy murder women. they peaked with her here. we need more women like bart

Farah Black (dirk gentlys) - OUGH couldnt resist putting farah in here too bc shes also SUCH a woman i love everything about her she is perfect. honorable dghda mentions goes to tina and amanda and dirk and every other character in this show. shakes them up and down puts them all into the pear wiggler even

Diego Hargreeves (umbrella academy) - i love insane men with sharp objects and insane morals

Constance Contraire (the mysterious benedict society tv) - i love insane little girls who have plotted murders canonically on screen and have insane familial relationships

Ben Hargreeves (umbrella academy) - wait ok sorry to double dip again but i cant believe i forgot how obsessed with ben i was?? i spent literally 3 years blogging about him and drawing almost exclusively him?? i even created a crackship with him to torment my best friends with??? ben i am so sorry. how could i have forgotten. i love ghosts who are younger brothers who are big bitches

lowkey cannot even think of anyone else lmao. im gonna say Megamind from the movie Megamind bc i love that movie and i love him. me when autistic blue men from space <3

i genuinely cannot think of anyone else i only rlly started having Favorite Characters around age 10-11 but all of the guys i liked from then i dont care much about anymore so i wouldnt say theyre All Time Favorites. and since then i have been majorly into only like 5-6 pieces of media where i had True Blorbos, Personality Shaping Characters, so like. that might be it? im probably just blanking im sure ill think of a few more characters i love after i hit post on this but ehhhh whatever live laugh love <3

edit: TOOTHLESS HOWTOTRAINYOURDRAGON. HOW COULD I FORGET YOU

okkkk thats it i guess !! i love being so so normal about fictional character just me and my blorbos having a normal sane time

no pressure to do this but tagging @tmoblrina @toadstoolillustrations @urlocallesbiab @jonathansbowlcut annnnd my wifi just went out! so no one else <3 peace on earth

[prongsmydeer]

Ayesha Liveblogs Jun & Jun S1

You know, I guess it makes sense that some idols eventually take a day job. K-Pop, like football, is a hard and fast career

Very bold of Lee Jun to be shushing his cashier as he himself chose to buy something while on the phone

"Is he an angel or a god or something?" said Lee Jun, after this businessman (Jun #2, maybe) accepted his request to hitchhike to Gangnam with them

"There were a lot of lost pigeons at the station too. Why didn't you pick all of them up?" said Presumably Jun #2's friend Yeong, as if she had not also been picked up from the station like a pigeon

Why IS Jun #2 so pleased? Is it just having a handsome man in his car, or is he a fan of Jun #1's former K-Pop era LMAO

"Unless it's your job to be friendly and nice, I think you need to be compensated." Insane take. Lee Jun said: Manners are for customer service workers and the poor

I really did think for a second that Jun #1 was autographing this milk as financial compensation instead of exchanging contacts:

Is it actually a norm to not take the elevator with your boss, or is that just something they're doing for K-Drama Romance LOL?

"You said you'd return the favour. I wanted to do you a few more favours." Jun #2 said: The flirting starts NOW

I like Jun #2. It was funny of him to withhold that he was the Director until he could use it as a punchline

Realistically though, wouldn't the manager also hire him? LOL

"Nepotism? Didn't we all benefit from that? We were hired through recommendations too." Lady Intern said: Nepotism is fine if we all acknowledge it

Respectfully: Jun #2 doesn't look like he's worked an office job a day in his life. He simply radiates Male Model

"What kind of person... is that person? Is it Team Leader Song Hyeon Jae?" This onboarding interview feels SO emotionally intimate, and for what

I was not expecting to get an immediate answer to that question in the form of a flashback:

"That's why it became a habit to remember Choi Jun and miss him." Don't we all have a very close friendship from our youth that we miss that upon further reflection probably had gay-adjacent undertones on at least one side (am I being too specific)

Also, this makes the way that Jun #2 was just like, radiating love and affection in interview make much more sense. I was just willing to accept it as an acting choice

"He uses an emoticon like that? How cute. The emoticon, I mean." LMAOO why is Lee Jun narrating his DMs with his boss aloud for all the other interns to hear

"Enjoy your relationship." Assigned Gay at the Coffee Shop

I don't know if she's a one-off character but I like the barista. Her look of what-did-I-just-say post customer service interaction was endearing

"Did he see me on TV? How did he recognize me?" WHY DOES LEE JUN NARRATE HIS THOUGHTS OUT LOUD ALL AROUND HIS OFFICE, IT'S SO FUNNY. HE'S MONOLOGUING TO THE AUDIENCE

Even if Choi Jun has another shirt, why is he encouraging stripping in the kitchen? Find a bathroom, you lunatics!!

"It's nice... if I have to get hands-on to care for [someone high maintenance] and have my scent on them. That makes it feel like they're mine." I know they're childhood friends, but this is absolutely DERANGED behaviour for your boss to say this on your first day as he encourages you to do a little office kitchen strip-tease

"You'd have to take off more clothes to be American-style." WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

"I think this is too American," said Lee Jun, as his boss and childhood friend grabbed the nape of his neck like he was looking for a little kiss

Does it count as an HR violation if you only flirt intensely AFTER work hours but still on the premises?

I know he hasn't done much except intimidate the interns, but the tan suit guy (Chief) gives me bad vibes. His aura is off

"'A fresh start?' Oh, you were talking about Chief Kim's second marriage." LMAOOO Hyeon Jae said: You gossip about my friend, I gossip about you!!

Choi Jun does NOT like Hyeon Jae's situationship with Lee Jun

"You said you were free earlier." I get that you like him, Jun #2 but it really wouldn't be any of your business if Jun #1 was involved with Hyeon Jae, because he's 1) just seen you again for the first time in years and 2) your employee!!!

Deeply unhinged for Jun #2 to show up at Jun #1's apartment. However, since he is being silly instead of romantic, and Jun #1 has a framed picture of the two of them as children around, I will allow it

"I'm giving [this candy] to someone I like." "Thank you! I'll make sure to bring one next time." Awwwww baby Choi Jun giving Lee Jun a little Valentine's present!! That's very sweet

"You're shameless even after drunkenly barging into my house because you're from the USA, not because you're illogical?" [Laughs] "I think you fantasize about the USA a bit." A direct and accurate hit to Jun #1 LMAO

"The director is... kind of firm." I KNEW this play on words about softness had to be a segue to a boner joke

"Give me a hand," said Jun #2, with an HR professional typing furiously in the distance, probably

I think it's actually pretty reasonable for Jun #1 to question if this is normal behaviour for Jun #2. Also his simultaneous concern that Choi is living a slutty lifestyle while also realizing that him talking about the slutty lifestyle turns Choi on more, is very funny

Fhhfhfoifj Yeong offering to call Jun #1 "eonni" to differentiate

LMAOOOO Jun #1 fantasizing about Jun #2 coming out of the shower just because his own hand got wet

"People from different countries have very different values than us," said Jun #1, probably thinking about how his boss politely asked him for a handjob that morning

HAHAHA he admitted he was thinking about it, and then complained about Jun #2 pecking Yeong on the cheek. I'm guessing she is a relative or smth

"Oppa, I'm telling you this as your fiancée, but by any chance..." NOT THE KIND OF RELATION I WAS EXPECTING. Lavender marriage????

Some of these coworkers are truly haters for no reason

Lee is alone by the copy machine, which I can only assume means that Choi is coming to flirt

Update from 5 seconds later: Colour me incorrect! He passed by without doing anything

"You're the only one who knows exactly what I like." I know he's not the lead, but they really present Hyeon Jae as an extremely thoughtful and reasonable situationship as compared to whatever the hell is going on with Choi:

The vibes of the main relationship are sort of that scene from B99 that goes, "I can't believe I'm gonna sleep with him." "Well, you don't have to." "Nah, I'm gonna!"

"You know what that is. A business smile." This is the first time that the Catty Intern has made a good point

"We're not interested in going beyond our budget, so we'll completely rescind the request we made to you." Like that we're getting some marketing drama. Industry lore is half the appeal of office romances

NEW CHARACTER UNLOCKED: The other K-Pop idol who is homies with Jun #1, to which Jun #2 probably thought, 'Why do you have so many things going on with so many guys?'

"Just look at me and copy me. If I lean on you, try to support me as much as possible. Don't be stiff. Relax. Make a facial expression similar to mine too." Simeon seems like a solid guy based on this photoshoot support during Jun #1's K-Pop debut flashback

"Don't you think Simeon likes you?" "Is that so? I feel like I just got scolded." A friendship built through slighty curt K-Pop Career Advice

Awwww two of the K-Pop boys WERE dating but it's the side boys that aren't important to the plot

"Don't you think he has something going on with the team leader, and the director too?" The second time Catty Intern has made a good point

"Are you free today, by chance?" "Why? Will you finally go out with me on a date?" WEEL WEEL WEEL, Jun #1 really is the most popular boy in the marketing department

I'm gonna be real with you, this plot has felt semi-nonsensical since episode 1, but now that we are introducing a THIRD love interest on the 5th episode of a 8 episode series, I really think it's extraordinarily silly. I don't mind though, it's mostly a fun kind of silly!

"The person who likes the other more loses." What a fucked up dating philosophy LMAO

Choi is, unreasonably, sulking at all the people who like his crush

We have no moved into a contrived plot to do marketing together all night. How fun!

"What are you, the president's son?" "Yes." Wow, this company really does love nepotism!

"Yeong's father is a director of this company. Her mother is the CEO of a very well-known corporation." I guess that explains the engagement. It's the chaebol marriage I've heard about on Tiktok

Jun saying, "What am I, a child?" to be being offered a bigger piece of chicken because he's upset but immediately opening his mouth to be fed anyway as he continues to complain is the funniest thing that has happened on this show so far:

Jun #2 and Yeong whispering back and forth right in front of Jun #1 as if he's not sitting one foot away is also very silly

"Is that lady who's sleeping over there your fiancée since you were a kid or something?" [Nods] I'm glad Jun #2 explained about the fiancée right away when asked. Communication!!

"Just because someone is impressive, does that mean you're not good enough?" It's kind of a shame that all of Jun #1's friends want to fuck him, because this is genuinely supportive, it's just coloured by his underlying romantic affection

"You might be able to quantify how lovely someone is." "How?" "By the number of people who love that person." See what I mean! Romantic agenda

"There are so many people in unrequited love." "I know. There are... so many people like that." At least Hyeon Jae is really respectful of not making his feelings Jun #1's problem

"Lee Jun, let's start dating." "I know you grew up in the USA, but I didn't think you'd be like this." Jun #1 said: Polyamory is for Americans and sluts

Really, this is on Jun #2 for not explaining the fiancée situation better

This flashback to Hyeon Jae quitting makes it seem like he and Jun and Simeon were fighting their way towards a throuple

Choi has progressed into overt office jealousy; hoo boy

"I mean, I was impressed by how good you are at eating the salad." Bizarre compliment, 10/10, I want more

"Am I being scolded right now?" "No. You're being loved." Simeon's love language is being just a little rude

I do appreciate that Simeon doesn't allow him for a second to be self-deprecating. He's like, you're talented, stupid <3

"I would do anything if you asked me." Why is every man on this show a better dating option than Jun #2

"That fake smile. You know that doesn't work on me." [Deadpan] "Is that so?" I love the immediate shift in tone from Hyeon Jae

"Since when we were so professional?" Hyeon Jae and Simeon are so ex-boyfriend coded. I gotta wonder if Jun #1 is a proxy for Simeon's feelings for Hyeon Jae

"'Sad?' You are? Because of me?" "Of course. You can't ignore the time we spent." See what I mean!!!

Simeon asks Hyeon Jae three times not to call him, which I can only take to mean he will be waiting impatiently by the phone at all hours of the day

"We used to do a lot more than [drinking from the same coffee]." What does that MEAN, Jun #1? What is going on between these four guys!!!!!!!!!

"Why do you never call me?" "I don't have your number. How could I?" Yeong grows on me more with every passing scene

"If you have changed, you need to change the relationship." Yeong is giving her blessing for Jun #1 to date her fiancé

Jun #2 has crashed the Hyeon Jae-Jun #1 after-work plans and now we all get to experience an incredibly tense threeway dinner date

"Since when did you like him?" "Four or five years ago?" We are now having honest confessions mid-drinking contest

I love that Choi has given absolutely no context to how he knows Lee so him saying he's liked him for three or four times longer (like 16 years) should really be coming out of left field for Hyeon Jae

"Did I ever tell you that I would marry her?" "You get married if you're engaged." You'd be surprised, Jun #1

"Yeong and I are just helping each other out." "So?" "What?" "What do you want me to do?" Jun #1 said: We are not going to date unless you tell me you like me first!!

I'm not even sure if Lee Jun knows why he's mad, but I think it's very fair of him to be

[Kisses Choi Jun] "Get out of here. I like you." Incredible confession, please continue

"You're going back to USA anyway." OHHH so he was double mad

"I never said I'd leave, and I didn't say I'd get married. I'm sorry I haven't explained it to you properly, but I don't want you to believe the things I didn't say." This is the best communication in the show so far. I'm terribly endeared, but my god, it really took them 6 full episodes to have a normal conversation

I appreciate that they are actually doing work while they have these conversations about their feelings. They can multi-task

"I want to help you, and I want you to help me too. I want to have a win-win relationship." Oh, I do love this

"I will neither misunderstand nor avoid you. Just wait a bit." I really do think this is the most normal their workplace behaviour has been thus far:

Hyeon Jae is learning over this lunch that simply Thinking Your Feelings very loudly at your friend for four or five years does not a romantic relationship make

"He has no talent, but he showed off using a video of an idol." Catty Intern has really made no contribution to this workplace aside from his unkind remarks constantly killing the vibes

"And it's about bringing results, but the company wants a hard worker, not someone who's talented. Everyone ends up growing at the same pace, anyway." What do you know, I guess Chief Kim does have redeeming qualities

I think Chief Kim should be allowed to intimidate interns if it's exclusively aimed at Catty Intern Yeong Seok

"I'd also like to know your idea of a boyfriend." Jun #1 really does have to bat away boys left and right. Situationships ended with Hyeong Jae and Simeon, now Jun #2 is my best inappropriate workplace relationship

"Don't you have a more specific reference?" "You. I won't be able to say that." "What?" "I'm saying you're the reference [of a look from a boyfriend]. How am I supposed to say that to people?" AWWWW Marketing Boyfriends

The prophecy of Jun #2's male model face has been fulfilled

"I've always been confident in what you do. And I still feel the same." Hyeon Jae said: How do u feel about rekindling whatever the fuck we had going on, Simeon

"Ask Mr. Lee. Because this..." [points to a picture of himself] "is his." "Pardon?" HAHAHAHA he deserves this reaction

"You definitely played a major role in this ad campaign." I really do feel like the marketing has been well-woven into the plot of this show, Lee Jun has earned his accolades

I do appreciate that Hyeong Jae seems happy for Jun #1. He's a nice man

"I just want to be a good person by your side. That's all I need." "But I wanted to tell you how precious you are to me." This is the gentlest break-up-that's-not-a-break-up that I've seen

"Though I haven't raised a child yet." "You have. Me." Jun #1: I am father-zoning you. I hope this helps ❤️ To which Hyeon Jae said: Actually yeah, it kinda does!

"I'll come with you." "Where to?" "My place." Now that Jun #1 has resolved all of his relationship side quests, he is ready to be loved 💖

Are we not going to discuss the implications of Jun dating his boss now that he's been offered a full-time position? I feel like we should

"This is how men are. They're so insensitive." LMAO @ Yeong popping out in the middle of this date to scold Jun #2 for not being a better boyfriend

KKHKFHKFFKGF Yeong listing off reasons why she would be as good of a boyfriend as Jun is. Perfect, I love her

Jun #2 kissing Jun #1 right in front of her metaphorical salad to end this discussion LOOOL

"No, don't use it preciously. Use it generously." Is this a camera, or lube jhkghgjhgkgjh

"You should pay for the first round." "What are you, a thug?" [Playfully] "Probably." I actually love the Exes Date, they have more chemistry with each other than either had with Jun

"Okay. Let's get drunk since we both got dumped." Like in Legend of Korra, when the going gets tough, circle through dating the rest of your friend group until you find a relationship that works:

Choi sulking because Lee doesn't remember romantic gestures from over a decade ago. Girl, I don't remember this morning

"Mr. Lee recommended me a shampoo. Is it because I use my brain too much. I've been losing my hair lately." HAHAHAH they are incapable of beating the office romance allegations

"I'm glad that Mr. Lee is adjusting to work well." Hyeong Jae said: It's none of our business 😌❤️

AWWWW I love the callback to the earlier scene where Jun hadn't yet learned how to take coffee orders. The barista is back and proud!

I love that Mi Yeong, Nice Lady Intern and Dong Hyeon, anxious but earnest intern, also got their places

"You can walk and chew gum at the same time. It's easy, right?" [Forced laughter] LMAOO, Choi, on the other hand, is still mid-learning a work lesson, I think

We cut to Simeon and Hyeong Jae who are having a little birthday date

HAHAHAHHAAH I was in the right area, wrong item. The job present from Yeong is condoms!

They have also circled back to "returning favours" [audible wink] Good for them!!!!!!!!!!!

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

gftwd saying she knows who you are LMAO

my little shadow, leaning into her deranged stalker era 😌 since she claims to know everything, maybe she can write me and we can become pen pals? i always wanted one of those ❤️

[tobe-sogolden]

Hey! So I just came across your blog and omg 😳 a normal person. I started stanning Harry at the beginning of Fine Line era and found the fandom ok outside of the deranged cult attached on the side. But as a black harrie, I’ve found it so awkward to move around for the past year and a half. At first, I followed people including other black and poc harries who I thought were reasonable and level headed. I think in any fandom, it’s nice to interact with other black or poc fans so I definitely searched for what I thought were like minded blogs. All of that went to complete shit when he started dating Olivia. The people I used to follow, now make me uncomfortable and in some instances, disgusted. I love Harry but I’m not emotionally attached to the point where his personal choices affect me. I don’t want to have to project onto him to feel accepted by mutuals. I don’t want to be invested in him enough to want him to date a black girl so that I feel *seen* and internally validated. I don’t want to take on a personal crusade to slander his partner every time she moves. I’m not here to make fun of her age or body or the fact that she’s a mom. It felt like I had to take on and accept all these things just to interact with other pocs on here and Twitter - there’s a very loud group that does this on both platforms. I’m sorry but using your race as a shield so you can be openly misogynistic is not it. As a black women, our existence is intersectional so shitting on a woman for simply dating your fave is counterproductive because at the end of the day, you’re still a woman yourself so where do we go from here? 🧍🏾‍♀️Our blackness actually exacerbates the kind of misogyny we face, it doesn’t negate it. Contributing to more misogyny makes things worse for US in the long run. So no, demonising Harry’s girlfriend is not being “pro-black” cos you’re doing all that while stanning a white man. It’s giving pick me. Thank you for your blog because I feel normal now and can stan Harry without feeling like my blackness is questioned cos I don’t agree with bullying his significant other. I actually really like her and have before I listened to Harry and will continue to do so.

Omg hi bestie!!!!! Thank you so much for this message!!!! I literally feel like you're inside my brain lmao like everything in this message is exactly how I've felt as well. I joined the fandom right around the time Fine Line came out and of course immediately tried to connect with people who I THOUGHT would be like-minded but over the last year and a half people have really shown their true colors and I want absolutely nothing to do with them! In my experience, the issue is definitely not exclusive to poc fans, there are plentyyyyyyy of white harries who are gross as well, but there's for sure a group of poc harries who seem to have a unique obsession with putting down his girlfriend at every opportunity. People are so nasty on here (and on twitter) and there's a little clique on here that gets off on doing all the things you mentioned and definitely has a little hive following and encouraging them. And YES omg I can't stand when I get told it's embarrassing for me as a black woman to defend a white woman...meanwhile y'all are crying and throwing up daily bc of your unhealthy attachment to a white man🧍🏾‍♀️make it make sense girl. Idgaf if she's white, y'all are straight up misogynistic and I'm not one to just sit in silence when I feel like someone is being treated unfairly.

[ficklefandom]

FINALLY! Someone else who sees her for the psychopath she is, and not a 2 year old who exists only to eat ice-cream.

[Image ID: Screenshot of this post about Neo from @ficklefandom, reading “I view her as someone who’s overly emotional and very unstable, but not in a uwu baby way, but like someone who’s very mentally unwell LOL. Mentally ill icon <3 girl get help —where I feel like the more common characterization is either her being emotionally disconnected or very emotionally shallow and childlike” /END ID]

😅 I don't think I'd call her a psychopath at all. Largely because of the ableist connotations behind the word and that it's not uh.. actually used in legitimately psychiatry by anyone who should be working with mentally ill people, but even ignoring all that, Neo doesn't really fit the pop culture definition of psychopath.

A lot of people try to equate it to ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) but it's not actually the same thing. Mental disorders that prior used to be referred to as something else are actually not the same thing as what they are currently referred to, because one of the biggest reason the name changes is due to us gaining a new understanding of the disorder and realizing it isn’t actually what we prior thought it was.

Like how MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder), which later “evolved” into DID and OSDD, are technically the same thing but... they’re not really the same, since DID and OSDD are first and foremost dissociative and trauma disorders, where experiencing multiple parts is only a symptom of the structured dissociation caused by trauma, rather than the defining trait of the disorder despite what people online try to make it out to be.

Pop culture definition of psychopath is, yknow, someone who's very emotionally inhibited and incapable of genuine emotional connection with other people, as well as being extremely manipulative, egotistical, and seeing other people akin to tools to be used. Often also thrown in with the "deranged serial killer" trope.

That's pretty much the opposite of how I view Neo, but it is still one of the common "groupings" of characterizing her--a lot of Beacon-era content of her characterizes her like that.

But! Yeah, no, Neo is not “baby” nor is she soft, or cuddly, or a well-meaning but misguided person. The MOST I can see is her seeming vaguely childlike for being impulsive and emotional, BUT there is a line between someone being emotional and someone having the emotional capacity of a goddamn 10 year old, which quite a few people seem to write her as the latter LMAO.

(Me rambling about my characterization of Neo under the cut)

I view Neo as someone who’s very emotionally unstable and prone to strong changes in her feelings and opinions based on things she takes personally or reacts strongly to, and as manipulative but ultimately in a short-sighted manner that tends to end up hurting people way more than if she thought it through more; all ruled by her insecurities and feelings of inferiority, as well as her refusal to admit to herself that a lot of things that bite her in the ass are actually her fault. I think she’s also impulsive, short-sighted, and dominated by her emotions, although she doesn’t believe she is (largely because admitting so would mean also admitting her actions aren’t justified and that she’s lashing out based on her feelings and not reality).

I also view her extremely contradictory in a lot of her social-emotional viewpoints, as is common with the ambivalent attachment type: I see her as antisocial but terrified of being alone; she hates being touched but she’s also touch starved; she’s afraid of genuine emotional connection but desperately wants it; she feels it’s pathetic for anyone to express fear, hurt, and sadness but wants to express those feelings and have someone reassure her; she thinks emotional vulnerability and intimacy is bad, dangerous, and taboo, but constantly projects her own feelings onto people, creates scenarios of imagined emotional intimacy where there was none, and develops shallow but intense attachments to others; etc etc. Essentially, she holds viewpoints that should make her extremely detached and cold towards others, believing that emotions and relationships and softness is horrible and terrifying, but she still has those emotional needs and desperately wants all of those things, which creates an end-point of her behaving in extremely contradictory ways, like telling people contradictory things or lashing out at someone for something she had enjoyed until they mentioned she was.

I also think that Roman had much lower emotional needs than Neo, and that while he was still traumatized, his handling of it was more... well, stable and his breakdowns were a lot more private and internal. And that he pushed a lot of this mentality of “emotions, vulnerability, and trying to help others only makes you weak” onto her, because he used that mentality to protect himself, and he hoped that maybe he could protect Neo by getting her to believe it too before she’d been hurt as much as he had, but while that viewpoint isn’t healthy for either of them, it was much more damaging to Neo than it was for Roman (via Roman actively not wanting those things nearly as much as Neo does).

Obviously a lot of this portrayal is not exactly canon based on Roman Holiday, but I’d interpreted her like that well before Roman Holiday came out so I’m not going to re-work my entire characterization for that.

I definitely don’t view Neo as this gifted prodigy that came from a place of privilege, largely because I view a big part of her core worldview as viewing herself as a victim of society and being afforded no innate privilege which therefore validates any action she takes to gain power or otherwise make herself not a victim (which, while her viewpoint of being a victim is exaggerated, at its core it is based on fact. Also obviously she has privilege over Faunus, being human, but Neo is at best completely ignoring racial politics and otherwise views them as naturally deserving of the lower social ranking as animals and therefore humans don’t really have “societal privilege” over them any more than humans have privilege over working animals).

The biggest contradiction with Roman Holiday I think is that Neo does seem to canonically have a superiority complex, but I tend to interpret her condescending behavior as coming from her trying to overcompensate for and project her feelings of insignificance and not being good enough--

TBH at the very core of it having this doubt she can’t let herself fully admit of almost viewing herself as a “bad person”, though what that actually means to her is vague and IDK how to explain it that well without going into a lot of detail because the way I’ve written that is like.. very complicated since she’s essentially contradicting half of her behavior and world view by thinking that but LISTEN she also isn’t at all.

Though, I also view Neo as an incredibly hypocritical contradictory person but she refuses to so much as realize that she’s being contradictory, instead constantly pushing off the blame onto anyone else within reach, and ultimately even the universe itself before acknowledging her own fault. Hence leading to her blaming Cinder for Roman’s death, and then Ruby, and having this incredibly intense hatred for Ruby even though she hasn’t seen Ruby in over a year and I think, on some level, knows Ruby isn’t wholly responsible for Roman’s death. (Though I personally argue Ruby is in fact responsible for Roman’s death to a certain degree, but that doesn’t mean that Ruby’s guilty, a murderer, or should’ve acted differently.)

As far as the “manipulative but shortsighted”... I think I might best explain it with an example: If Neo is friends with/wants to be friends with person A, and A & B are besties in this scenario. If person B finds out something bad about Neo, then Neo gets scared that B will tell A and A will cut her off, and she might sabotage A & B’s relationship or threaten B until they are too scared to spend time with A anymore, therefore eliminating the chance of A finding out what B knows about Neo. But! She doesn’t consider the fact that A & B are best friends, so when A gets incredibly upset because B seems to have cut off the friendship out of nowhere, Neo gets pissed off at B for upsetting A even though it’s her fault, and when A isn’t as social anymore and pushes away Neo, she lashes out at B and blames B. Neo got scared of losing A so she took the quickest route she could think of to prevent B from telling A, and ended up ruining her relationship with A AND A’s relationship with B, where if she’d been more careful, thought it through, or tried to even just talk to B, it wouldn’t have ended as a loss-loss.

I actually HC that Neo has undiagnosed BPD and probably C-PTSD, as well as attachment issues (as far as the attachment types, definitely ambivalent type). Obviously this portrayal I’ve talked about here, I haven’t gone through to make sure it’s an accurate portrayal of BPD or CPTSD, nor am I specifically gunning to make sure I gave her BPD or CPTSD symptoms, so I do want to be clear that I don’t label my portrayal of Neo as “this is Neo with BPD and CPTSD” since I’m not actually writing it with the idea of portraying BPD or CPTSD in mind (does that make sense?? Like I think my portrayal shares a lot of similarities w symptoms of BPD and I like to HC Neo as having it, but I’m not saying I’ve explicitly written her with BPD because I haven’t). IK a lot of people HC her as being on the autism spectrum and I can definitely see where they’re coming from, but that’s not how I interpret her behavior; I interpret her emotional and social issues as stemming from a combination of largely childhood trauma and partially just “how she is” rather than solely something innate about her.

ANYWAYS I hope this makes sense overall lol. I have trouble with writing succinct descriptions of people’s behavior and personality, so I described a lot but not nearly as much as I would if I was trying to get all the details across better.

[alotsgonnachange]

Mystic Messenger Saeran’s AE Thoughts (.......And Prayers..) #Spoilerz

Hello, I just finished Saeran’s after ending and I have a lot of things to say and I am going to write it down while I'm still all keyed up about it.

First of all… Please DO NOT ask me how much money I spent to finish this as fast as I did…. I’m grown but my bank account is certainly going to have a good ole fashioned CHUCKLE at this….. It’s been a long quarantine I deserve a lil happiness as a treat methinks!

I have been playing this absolutely insane game since I think 2016? When I first started playing the deep routes had JUST come out I think? And I was just finishing up high school and am now a college grad...lmao

I’ve played all routes at least once except Jaehee but i’ve seen walkthroughs of her route (I’ve heard it makes you hate Jumin and he’s my favorite so um. hehe). V’s and Saeran’s routes I found to be so emotionally intense and just….a lot and I've been waiting a long ass god damn time for this after ending okay…. I would theorize and make up an ending in my head but i’m no writer so it was hard to figure out lol. I’m a Jumin stan mostly but I love everybody and yeah I should probably play that jumin dlc too but I need like a DAY to recover from Saeran’s AE. Enough about me HERE are my thoughts on it overall

Major Saeran AE Spoilers under da cut!

Can we please discuss V showing up to the C+R conference room with basically chloroform and made everybody Pass Out like??? I was alone in my room at like midnight just SCREAMING at my phone???? And the creepy ass CG ???? It’s like that gif of sarah paulson from ahs being like “I put arsenic in the wine….and the pasta”

Anyway I screamed at V a lot during this process!!

Loved RFA being sweet and kind to saeran (before V fucking drugged them…)

This is such common V behavior “I have to do it all myself...there’s no other way..” GIRL SHUT UPPP You do this every route....

SO many CG’s and I enjoy them a lot

Saeran’s sprite looks a little TOO crisp compared to everyone else but maybe its a glitch??? V next to him is in 480p while saeran is like 1080p

Hearing both Saeran and Saeyoung missing the other brother the whole time??? PAIN. All my homies know is PAIN

BOSS and his V for Vendetta ass guy fawkes mask??? I literally yelled “this game is TERRIBLE!!” several times at my phone

Their dad is so>??????? When he was sitting on the couch with saeyoung in that one CG while simultaneously telling him to kill himself?????????? Maybe chairman han is actually the best dad in this game somehow

When V and Rika were like we’re back together teehee teehee okay pack it up bonnie and clyde ..

When chairman han calls u and says hes jealous of u and saeran…..HUH????? I’m calling HR

When they go to the apartment and see boss and vanderwood and poor saeyoung is sitting there seeing his brother for the first time in years i wanted to D word sooooo bad like PAIN...PAIN….

Can we HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT JUMIN HAN BEING THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE GAME AND HE LOST EVERYTHING IN THIS AE……. he just took the blame and moved on jumin what the hell….. I love him so much r we serious? He watched his 2 closest friends betray him in the worst way and found out abt how Rika abused Saeyoung and Saeran???? I felt just AWFUL. Terrible ...Terrible….

Rika’s change in demeanor from Saeran's actual route is certainly a Choice. I find her much more bearable this time around and unfortunately i think I was too nice to her and ended up with a bad end LMFAO

I was happy to see Saeran stand up for himself and become stronger and confident. You go king!

The CG of Yoosung laying in Zen’s lap is everything to me…

HOWEVER YUP I sure did get a bad ending and I was so mad fdsafdskfdhsf ! (I would be happy to clarify how I got the good one the second time.) MAKE SURE To SAVE EARLY in days 2 and 3 bc the branches on day 4 is where the bad end will show up. For me it was the first day 4 chat and then a story mode titled “SAVIOR”.... If you see that RUN FOR THE HILLS!!

I was so mad! But I had saved in day 2 and replayed and MANAGED to get good end

I’m obsessed with everyone calling V and Rika “that psychotic couple” like…..its true its true…

No those two are so toxic… V’s route was torture watching them go on and on about the sun like yo can yall just call each other babe like normal people.

I respect straight people but not V and RIka that shit was just wrong… Straight marriage was a mistake

Oh lord i also FULLY Forgot Rika killed the twins’ mother…. Yeah that scene was um Certainly a lot but it needed to happen eventually

Like it’s good they know but damn that storyline is just so bleak

I think it was satisfying TO A DEGREE….To see Rika understand where she was wrong, why she was wrong, fess up and even APOLOGIZE! I was very surprised.

Saeran and Saeyoung are Certainly twins with the amount that those two self sacrifice in every route MY GOD…..

The scene with Jumin talking to his father and the other scene of him praying oh my god I cannot tell you how happy I was to see him begin to understand and address his own feelings in a route that was not his own. My main problem with Jumin’s route has always been the trapping MC in his penthouse aspect.. This way Jumin understands love and emotions without being overly possessive !!! YAY also loved seeing him be on good terms with his dad who was surprisingly profound

That last Story mode was Really a Lot…. and Strange things occurred which I will get into in just a minute

Jumin becoming a politician is so funny but ngl … i see it.

Yoosung going to france to study pastries ok king I see u! (it made more sense to me than the vet thing anyway)

Lastly Zen FURRY ERA

MY BEEF With the AE

I was happy with how they handled it for the most part. I think Cheritz heard our feedback about V’s after ending and was like okay….let’s try something different

HOWEVER

Saeran…. Sweet kind saeran… IS SO AFFECTIONATE HAHA….

He must have said I love you like 300 times…..very mushy gushy flowery language...and maybe that’s just his personality but for me it was like eating cake with buttercream cake. It means well, but god damn is it sugary and going to cause a stomach ache later.

He was just… SO MUCH! SO forward and ON all the time in his affections. I honestly felt kind of smothered and by day 3 and 4 I was sooooo over all the compliments… King you’ve come a very long way, but ur still putting MC on a pedestal and probably need to see a therapist.

Nextly….Rika and V….. Naw that knock out gas really ...that hurt lol. Coming from “I would do anything to protect RFA” V? Idk like…. EYE felt betrayed reading that. It was just hurtful. I can’t even imagine how the members would have felt as they were passing out. It was just so cruel. I suppose I understand why but like?? Just TERRIBLE

Them being in cahoots with the agency and the prime minister..HUH??? Also too much

V just felt so irresponsible like I do understand that he ended up in a weird web of secrets that’s hard to untangle but he’s so fucking stubborn he’s SO stubborn it makes me insane. Like sir… It seems like in other routes he wanted to try to protect Rika and the RFA.. But in this AE it seems more to me that he was like yeah i’m protecting Rika and That’s It… so fucking hurtful to me. Both of y’all apologize ESPECIALLY to the twins and Jumin..

The forgiveness thing…… Okay so I think some people will not like that Saeran decided to “forgive” the people who hurt him (Rika, V, Saejoong, his mother). I would point out that I actually think this was approached somewhat well. He says at one point that he doesn’t think they’re good or bad, just people. I think he sounded mature and like this was the way for him personally to accomplish his healing process. Would I have loved for Saeran to flip V and Rika off and kick Saejoong off a cliff? Yea I really would. But like…. If that’s what HE needs to do to heal then who am I to judge?

HOWEVER…. Everything Eye just said goes out the window when the scenes at the end with Saejoong come up… I was PERPLEXED. Like why did he HUG his deranged father who just kicked the shit out of him??? Also all the chat options that MC has with him r like blah blah you’re like this because no one loves you were so corny to me LMFAOOOO?

AND WHEN HE WAS IN THE ROOM LATER WITH SAERAN… i’m sorry but if that were me I would have called a nurse to deck his ass. Cool he turned himself in YOU SUCK SOOOO BAD AND I NEVER WANT YOU TO COME NEAR SAEYOUNG AND SAERAN AGAIN THANKS.

*scratches ass* I wish I got to see saeyoung and saeran finally sit down and have that first conversation after a long time and hug CG but the ending was fine I GUESS….. I dont care about ROMANCE I want those boys to be happy brothers together

Anyway that was really emotionally exhausting but I fr think I got it out of my system after literal years… And I can rest in peace knowing the choi twins are happy. THATS ALL I WANTED TO KNOW!!!!

[veronicasanders]

American girl doll quiz 1: d 2: b 3: b (but I would for you V) 4: a 5: a 6: b 7: oldest sibling 8: pasta, fried mackerel, broccoli 9: yes... 10: quietly and resentfully 11: 2 lmao 12: I love hiking, winter swimming, mushroom-identification, bird-watching, all that good shit 13: deranged, anxious, earnest 14: practical, denim, makeup? never heard of her. 15: I once attempted to hitchhike 187km to see raja at the one gay bar in moncton -dartmouth420

Aaaaaugh hello my angel!!! So happy you're indulging my favorite new hobby, thank you so much! 😘😘

Alright so, I think that your primary doll should be someone who speaks to your enjoyment of nature/the outdoors, the fact that you are earnest/straightforward, responsible but somewhat conflicted about it, and that you are practical but also a bit whimsical.

Presenting...one of the OG dolls from the 1980s...Ms. Kirsten Larson!

Kirsten is a Swedish immigrant living in Minnesota in 1854. She's not always the most confident as she arrives in the country without knowing a word of English (and one of her friends dies of cholera on the journey so that's like...a huge bummer). But, she's kind, brave, hardworking and an all-around sweetheart. She loves animals and somewhat begrudgingly accepts a lot of extra responsibility after her mom has a new baby. She's also a daydreamer and makes friends easily because she's so damn lovable. (Sound familiar? 💖)

She's very practical and unfussy, and yet she does rock a cute Santa Lucia outfit and few Pioneer Realness Lewks:

Your secondary doll is tougher, because I'm a little conflicted as to whether you'd relate more to the 1970s San Franscisco girl, Julie: an environmentally-minded second wave feminist who's fighting to join the basketball team, or Kit, the spunky and resourceful Depression-Era aspiring reporter living in the midwest.

They're both on the less traditionally girly side of the spectrum (although...I mean we are still selling dolls here people, lol), and can seriously rock a denim ensemble:

Julie, understandably, has far cooler accessories, like a banana-seat bike, a lava lamp, a pinball machine, a fondue set, roller skates, a pet rock, and amazing furniture including this absolutely kick-ass bed and funky egg chair:

On the other hand, Kit has a chicken. So it's a tough call.

(It was not intentional for you to end up with all blondes, btw. That's just the way things work sometimes. If you'd like a brunette slash non-white doll, I think you would also enjoy Josefina Montoya, a real sensitive sweetie living in New Mexico in 1824.)

[definitely-not-an-alb]

fanfic tropes! identity porn, friends to enemies to lovers, hurt/comfort, coffeeshop au (don't have to answer them all, pick what you like). hope work went by quickly :)

Ahhh! Thank you, anon!

Identity Porn

How  likely am I to write it: Identity porn isn’t really a narrative kink  for me, so I wouldn’t go out of my way to put it into anything, if it didn't come up naturally. Or if it would be funny.

What characters/ships/fandoms would I write it for: I don’t  really have a lot of fandom I could do identity porn for, too, so that's the next problem I have. RoL doesn't go for it much, and neither do TMA or Witcher or SGA. In the MCU/marvel comics I'm kind of only invested in Characters that just superhero under their legal name, zero fucks given in all canons I'm aware of, so oops there. Hannibal, maybe? Hannibal might work. Altho I prefere season 2 era, with everyone vague degrees of aware of each other's bs and scheming like petty murder divas.

Friends to enemies to lovers

How  likely am I to write it: Very unlikely. I think the only thing with this dynamic I like is Hannibal, as in, both Hannigram and Clannibal and Clannigram, but I don't think I'd really seek it out in fic or write it. I don't even know why, I should be into The Drama Of It All, but I'm just not.

What characters/ships/fandoms would I write it for: Like I said, Hannigram/Clannibal/Clannigram, if it's something that retells an arc. I don't really do Ironstrange, but enemies to lovers or friends to enemies to lovers might be the only way I would, probably. They just don't get along in canon, and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why people ship it so much. Also why is their Doc always ooc. Enough moaning, I'll stop, I'll stop. Have fun ya'll, but stop the goddamn cross/mass-tagging. There shouldn't be that much Ironstrange in the gen tag, ya hear me?

hurt/comfort

How  likely am I to write it: VERY LIKELY. Hmmmmmm give me that good hurt/comfort.

What characters/ships/fandoms would I write it for: Basically everything, lol. All my faves are idiots who need to be shipped with therapy and tortured with hugs. The Bev & Thomas fic is very hurt comfort-y, as is the Nonromantic-Soulmates WIP. Yes I know I never finish anything, shhhh. There's also an unfinished Strangewong fic in my drafts that's technically sick!fic (I MEAN ... what else lmao) and involves cuddling and soup and being sad about Endgame, so. Which, btw, is THE ONLY reason I will ever acknowledge that dumbassery masquerading as plot. To mine it for FRIDGE HORROR *evil laughter*. And then hand out soup.

coffeeshop au

How  likely am I to write it: Relatively unlikely? I don't really do fluff without plot (and I'm down with emotions as plot or snapshots that reveal something halway and sideways), and incidentally the only version of this trope I ever started would need a Graphic Violence tag lol. (If it wasn't LANGUISHING IN MY DRAFTS.) So I think I might be doing this trope wrong. Also doesn't help that I have experience manning a beer-counter / drink station, so I fall hard in the camp of 'that's an awful place for cute/fluffy shenanigans, have ya'll ever worked customer service lol'-camp. I see the appeal, but I also ... don't.

What characters/ships/fandoms would I write it for: Like I said, the only one I ever started was low-key a joke, because I don't do the trope and the fandom didn't have (and still doesn't have) one, and also because, you know. Graphic violence.

Have the first four or so paragraphs of the very unfinished RoL Demi-Monde Coffeeshop ... pre-canon canon divergence. Is there even a tag for that kinda thing? Anyways. I think the best part about this is getting to write a snotty totally-an-adult!!!-Peter who has zero respect for anything and thinks Thomas is the most ridiculous person he ever met. No graphic violence yet, only canon-typical ableist language.

There’s a lot of reasons people hate working in customer service; The bad pay, the atrocious hours, the customers, the service.

I did about two year of it, first on-and-off positions in some retail shops around where I grew up, punctuated by getting dragged along to my mother’s cleaning gigs, and then later, about a year in a not-actually-fancy Coffee House near Russell Square. And I figured afterwards my stint in customer service and retail had, at the very least, taught my younger self some much needed humility and compassion.

I’m kidding, of course. It just confirmed the suspicions I held towards my fellow humans. Especially the kind that start magic duels in public.

Now, I worked in a Coffee House, not a coffeshop, which meant Management got to price everything even more ridiculous then the rest of the world, we played wannabe-jazz elevator music instead of pop and our clientele wasn’t weird and crazy but more slightly bizarre and very deranged.

Like that one vaguely East-European guy who thought combining windowpane and paisley was a grand idea and who we – that’s the staff – did certainly not call Dracula, or the posh black lady who came to pick up her coffee before heading into the City every morning, except for that one time when, I swear on my dad’s record collection, she was wearing a diving suit under her costume, and of course Mister Stranger-Danger, who was the reason younger cousins didn’t get to do their homework behind the counter any more.

Of course we got your everyday stroll-by white girls and hipsters, but our regulars where, as far as I could tell, decidedly posh, but mostly not yet fully upper class, and also completely batshit looney, is what I’m saying. No offence to actual crazy people, because they certainly don’t dress that badly.

That’s why I didn’t even bat an eyelash when one day someone walked into the shop who was either a time-travelling noir-spy or a runaway extra from Downton Abbey.

He was a white guy, in that inexplicable past-40 age range where I can’t tell their age for the life of me, with a side sweep that must have been held in place with actual pomade, and dressed in one of those sleek looking, old suits with the broad, deep lapels and incredible narrow waists. To round off the impression that he’d come over, lean homoerotically close and tell me the name of the Kraut’s informant any moment now, he’d draped a Burberry over his arm and lugged an actual, honest to god walking cane around the city. It seemed impractical to me, but who am I to judge people’s fashion choices; I’m only the barista.

He also had that stiff demeanour about him, which I’d taken as a sign of something shifty going on anywhere else. Here, in seven out of ten cases, and even more with posh dudes, it meant that he longed to order something utterly ridiculous, with a long name, six ingredient and maybe some speculoos dust uptop, but didn’t have the courage too. Honestly, the way grown men start acting once there’s pumpkin spice on the menu is hilarious – you’d think we’re selling sex toys under the table.

[bisluthq]

Larry is not the biggest part of Harry's fandom but is a huge part, so does gaylors in swiftdom // no they are not. I started to properly listen to Taylor during Lover era, and I listened to like five albums of her, followed stan accounts about her who were my friends and I did not know about gaylorism till I entered Tumblr I think. Like if you were around during 1989/rep era when the Karlie stuff was still fresh I think you would hear about it because the media was publishing articles, but at this present day and time if you are a local it's very easy to have no idea about all of this (even if you consume Taylor content like I did).

Yeah lmao like everyone’s heard of Larry because they’re so deranged and like Euphoria and all that but like come on. It’s not Larries that Harry’s playing sold out shows to every night lmao.

It’s just not as big a deal as the people who read this blog who are DEEP in Swiftdom make it out to be.

As TTB keeps reminding us at her peak she had 10K follows lol which is a TINY account. Like I’m smaller than that and I also don’t overestimate my impact on Swiftdom lol but like people screenshot this shit and post it everywhere and like the cupcake Swiftie went viral that one time but like… come on. If the leader of the fact had 10K follows that’s really not an important demographic.