#may be based off of rl lol

[userlaylivia]

JUST ONE WEEK UNTIL ALL AMERICAN RETURNS!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! and I know things may not be perfect with spelivia or jordayla but I'm still excited it's been 10 months since s5!!!! I'll be changing my url to something aa related this week and I'll be posting about it when I do and I tagged people even ones who don't watch the show lol but yes I'm so excited!! I'm on S4 in my rewatch I'm trying to get through everything because I forgot some things but yes it's almost back ahhhhh

[shebadfuckk]

do you have a bf? Or a daddy? Do you want one!?

My relationship status is pretty complicated.

I don’t have a daddy.

Not sure if I want one because most of this is just fantasy to me. It may be a fantasy I can’t go weeks without thinking about, but a fantasy nonetheless.

I’ve never done any of these things in person and based off my trauma I’m unsure how my body would handle it. + don’t see any man actually being patient enough with me to explore that without pressuring me to speed through my comfort zones just to please them.

I’m super dark and fucked up but I only get off to that stuff when I’m alone and safe. Like I said , not sure how my body would react with rl potential threat since I’ve been strangled half to death and shot at by my bf irl before

Regular sex sometimes makes me wanna kms soooo lol idk

Only one way to find out

[silvercaptain24]

Not only am I writing a sickfic (which I haven’t made progress on in a while but am still mentally planning it and it still exists in my mind so that’s a good sign) for Epic but now I’m also heavily debating writing someone hiding an injury

Because I react to those the same way I react to sickfics lol

The idea….. may or may not be based off current irl experiences for me but shhhhhh

Ad’ika. No.

To the rl injury hiding, I will absolutely read both stories

[blueiight]

I think most VC fans agree with Anne's take on Lestat though, they see him as faultless which the narrative validates cause no one ever challenges his version of events, like we are all just supposed to assume it was Louis who lied and nothing else, that's why they're all up in arms about what happened in the show cause "he would never do that". Hell even with the show some of them think he didn't deserve the murder and fully blame Claudia for causing the rift.

yea, its tricky cuz no one not the meta narrative or in universe actually challenges lestat when it comes to his response to louis’s interview, but id say characters in tvc absolutely challenge lestat’s character [his disposition, ways of thinking, actions& shit] & get on his ass heavy. so i feel like that implicitly should put his perspective in question the same as any other character’s [at least it did for me] but ur rite in that the vc fanbase esp the OGs do fall in line w rice’s own opinions. it certainly didnt help that shed get on ppl’s asses for writing fic, disagreeing with her, had a wide variety of contradictory, differing opinions on her own work& ppls interpretation of the text that didnt agree perfectly w/ however she felt at the time.. yk the whole interrogating the text from the wrong perspective essay on amazon reviews lol. yet certainly we are all bonded in discussing an adaptation of her literary canon which says sum yk. i think expecting a visual medium to perfectly adapt a book line by line is impossible if not borderline ignorance, but an excellent adaptation will show what made the source a good, veritable commentary on humanity. i dont think ppl should fly into deranged clear the searches campaigns when amc does use the merits of rice’s work & interrogates lestat’s crueler ways more than his cruel actions that was glossed over in the source [bc rice had diff intentions/views on it]. i think the nature of visual adaptations done decades after the source mean as viewers, we are already exposed to multiple threads from tvc (tvl, tva, allusions to the mayfair family, the talamasca, the whole impending vampire apocalypse which may or may not be a red herring this time, claudia’s diary, etc) that show this is not only louis’s interview, but a question on the fruit of memory itself. what is recollection to an immortal creature but a drop in the ocean? what does it mean to be immortal, if not living the same live over. and over. and over. again? anyways likeeee tbf at least anne rice had an excuse for why she was so crazy about lestat, he was her muse & based off the man she stayed with all her life. honestly if i made a trio based off me, my old work& our abortion and it blew up like this id delete my presence from everyone’s minds lol. but. them fans dont have an excuse cuz thats not what lestat means to them. ofc these books & lestat’s chara may have been pivotal in their coming of age but i also think as now adults, they should accept w the infamy of tvc & its adaptations mean varying ppl w different frames of reference will have different takes on this. yea, as kids we cant articulate an understanding of dv and intimidation tactics , but as adults u should be able to re evaluate fictional dynamics & have mature discourse w/o flashing out on ppl or going on clear the searches campaigns. i guess the existence of rl martyrs for these fictional vampires answer the question ppl had yesterday on antoinette too? lol

[wisteriasakana]

This month I've been focusing on Red Riding Hood and the Little Bad Wolf, especially since the demo is in the pipeline. And so...

Soe does devlog strikes back - The return of a completely random series of devlog.

As already mentioned, the first part of May was explosive to say the least. Apart from the RL and my computer going argh, I had the idea of editing my itch.io profile and... Maybe I put too many links, because for a few days it was kept in custody to probably verify I wasn't a bot or a spammer. *lol!* Now everything is fine and my account is beautiful - Empty, sure, but beautiful!

Talking about the game. To my great and pleasant surprise, I found more than one kind person willing to betatest the English version. I've already received some very useful feedback! There are some small tweaks to do before releasing the demo. For example, the menu.

This is the menu I planned to keep for the game. However, it was pointed out to me that the color is too bright and that the RPG Maker base menu, in a game without combat, is very dispersive. So I fixed it!

This is the new version of the menu. Straightforward and essential! (It’s mjshi’s Non-Combat Menu, if anyone is interested-)

Thinking back to the feedback, I realized that the very first part of the game might not give a very clear idea of where the story is going. Probably because I didn't plan to make a demo. I had already taken into account that the demo would be 75% walking simulator and 15% gameplay but, story-wise, the pacing had an impact that I hadn't anticipated. I'll have to be more careful, gaming writing is different from novel writing! (BTW, a funny (?) detail is that I think the full version of the game has a decent balance between dialogue and gameplay-)

And, speaking of the full version, as I already said in the last post, I finally found a (I hope) good idea for the last part before the endings. Keep it simple, simple things are often the most effective! I've already programmed it, I just have to... Yes, write the dialogue. BUT, I still went ahead with other cutscenes. I'm not quite completely just absolutely totally stuck with writing!

One thing that was holding me back a bit about this story is that I thought of it in 2016. I don't remember if I ever said it (If yes, whatever, let's dust off the origins!), but Red Riding Hood and the Little Bad Wolf started out in 2016 as a short story. I decided to rework it as an RPG Maker game because I wanted to develop something short. Well... Short I guess it's short, it's my timing that's curious. *Look at Candy Apple* However, that's a seven year old story now. I've changed, I write differently, now I would do it differently. Maybe that's what stopped me so- No, that's not true, because I thought of Candy Apple seven months ago and I procrastinate it too. *lol*

I'm not going to get stuck in an eternal loop of perfectionism. We grow, we change, if you are slow like me you have to accept that you will have to work on something created by your past self. Just don't fossilize! Besides, this is my first game, this poor fellow has to suffer all my gameplay and writing experiments in this new medium. I really hope I can get through this block and be able to give Red Riding Hood and the Little Bad Wolf the ending(s) it deserves and be able to show them to others as well.

Yes, okay, so when will the demo be out?

As already said, I won't give a precise date for the moment. I have yet to receive feedback from other betatesters, so answering times and any changes to be made must be taken into account. My idea is the first week of June but, I repeat, it's just an idea.

Happy MerMay, that has nothing to do with all of this but it's one of the virtual anniversaries that I love most, and good luck with your projects!

[little-ideas]

Kitten Adoption

I kept accidentally making this Mankai-centric instead of SakyoIzu focused OTL

You, Anon, have found my weakness. I love cats owo talk to me any day about cats please omg they’re so wonderful ❤❤❤

1001% Izumi’s fault

She brings it up in passing a lot over the years but never really moves forward with it in part because she knows convincing Sakyo would be hard, and in part because things can get intense around the theater and sometimes they get so wrapped up in work the others have to look out for them

When you can barely hold yourself together, can you really look after a pet? It’s a debate she struggles with even though she knows the other members would help look after the pet when needed

Sakyo isn’t stupid and knows Izumi really wants a cat and, it takes a while, but he starts to think a cat really wouldn’t be too bad

The theater isn’t struggling to stay afloat anymore, so they really could afford to take care of a cat or two

And then he sees Izumi interacting with the neighborhood cats, gentle, loving, voice doing that high-pitched sweet-talking thing people do to talk to their pets, and he’s a goner

Literally that night when it’s just the two of them chilling in silence, Sakyo just states, “Let’s get a cat.”

Izumi thinks he’s joking at first, and it’s so random, but Sakyo has been dwelling on it all evening, wondering what to say, replaying the image of Izumi in his mind over and over again and this man is simply smitten

When she realizes he’s serious, Izumi is over the moon. Extra giddy, super happy, nothing can seem to phase her and Sakyo wonders why they didn’t do this earlier

Meanwhile the rest of the dorms wonder what the fuck is happening and fear for their stomachs as Izumi insists on making curry for all three meals until they adopt the kitten

Do they adopt from a rescue? Ask Misumi if he knows any kittens in need of homes? Go to a cat cafe-to-adoption place? They could do any, but it basically becomes Izumi fawning over all of them and Sakyo having to gently remind her that no, they can’t adopt all of them

Izumi is heartbroken and continues playing with all of the kittens, conveniently in denial, trying to figure out how she’ll choose

Sakyo mostly stays back, content to watch Izumi being surrounded by a bunch of tiny little fluff balls

He pets the kittens when they approach him or when Izumi hands him one, but doesn’t interact much otherwise

Mostly because they’re so tiny what if he hurts them?

But there’s one kitten who keeps coming back to him, climbing over his limbs, batting his glasses, nomming his fingers and yes, he finds it a little annoying, yet he can’t help but smile at this rambunctious little fellow

Izumi sees all of this and decides that they’re adopting this kitten

Then finds out that this kitten has a sibling and “Sakyo, we can’t just leave them alone! They need a playmate!”

They go home with 2 kittens

They got the kittens for Izumi why do they keep pestering Sakyo?

Tie between Izumi teasing Sakyo for being their favorite and sulking at him for being their favorite

So glad they adopted two kittens because they can play with each other. Sakyo shudders at the menace that 1 kitty would be without a playmate (he loves them, but 3AM is human sleep time not play time)

Izumi refers to them as the kittens mama and papa and Sakyo blushes every time

The dorm members find it really hard to take Sakyo seriously when he’s sternly lecturing them, then speaking really sweetly to the kittens, then lecturing them again in the span of 20s

Izumi will spam Sakyo’s cellphone with pictures of the kittens and her

“Out on a walk!”

“LOOK AT THEM SNOOZING”

“Come home soon, Papa”

Definitely makes an attempt at a cat-safe curry

Will use the kittens as excuses to be lazy

“Can you please get me some water?”

“You can get it yourself.”

“I can’t, I have a cat sleeping on me.”

sighs and rolled eyes

[dont-touch-the-flower-child]

Hi there! First of all thank you for making this blog. I'm in the process of developing my own Undertale AU and the posts here have been very informative in writing out my version of Asriel, as he retains the personality he developed as Flowey.

I wanted to share my take on Flowey and ask your thoughts on this... see if it may hold any merit whatsoever.

Once, I was told that "kids are so adorable, until the world ends up corrupting them when they get older" or something like that, and you lose your innocence the further away get get from your childhood. And when thinking about Flowey, wouldn't this be kinda analogous to Asriel "growing up" in the wrongest way possible?

Like, I see Flowey as the canon "Asriel in his edgy stage" in Undertale.  As Flowey, he developed a personality that wouldnt be out of place of an edgy middle schooler/high schooler. He went from a lonely but kind hearted kid to being mean & sociopathic as Greg is from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.

It seems that much like how kids in RL eventually lose their innocence as they experience the world, Asriel lost his during his own experiences as a Flower.

But perhaps I could be off base. What do you think of this idea that Flowey being analogous to kids losing their innocence over time?

Thanks for the kind words!

I think it's true that Flowey does lose some of his innocence as Asriel, but it's also crucial to acknowledge that Asriel...was not perfectly innocent even before all this happened. He was the only one who knew Chara's reason for climbing Mt. Ebbot. He hid the whole Buttercup Plan from his parents, including the reason Chara was dying. He personally brought Chara the buttercups.

Pre-Flowey Asriel strikes me as someone who wants people to think he's a perfect kid with all the innocence that comes with it, almost out of fear that he wouldn't be seen as loveable if he isn't. I'm not saying that he was a bad kid pretending to be nice, because a lot of his good qualities are true to his character—he was very sensitive and empathetic, and raised to be well-mannered, righteous, with a strong sense of duty. But even good kids can have bad days, and Asriel was the type of kid who'd never allow himself a bad day.

He was also...surprisingly stoic, in face of dire situations. Putting all the responsibility on himself instead of asking for help from adults. Willing to bear very dark secrets, in hope of bringing a bright future.

And Flowey...well, there's one particular part of his dialogue that always stood out to me.

Despite everything, he does want to believe that one good deed deserves another. He does tell you that the power of friendship always saves the day. He gravitates towards the most kindhearted and pacifistic character(s), and likes them as friends.

(I'm willing to say that doing "everything the right way" is not the same as doing "right things", but)

Sorry you were probably not expecting an entire deconstruction of Asriel-Flowey and innocence-corruption lol. Don't let what I said stop you, I think your concept is good! And acknowledging the complexities in Asriel/Flowey's character could make it better.

[spacegoatart]

Hi! I've seen your post about Treasure planet headcanons, soo here is a bunch of mine:

• Silver speaks multiple languages; sometimes he mixes them up as he goes, especially when he's tired, and ends up with "wait what" moments. Some of those become inside jokes between him and Jim.

• Silver hums space shanties when he's working; sometimes he isn't really aware that he's doing that, and if someone (Jim or maybe Sarah Hawkins) asks him what song he is humming, he may not be able to answer right away. He taught Jim a bunch of them, and Morph learned them by constantly overhearing; sometimes the little shapeshifter would either copy Silver's humming or morph into a musical instrument(tin whistle, harmony, maybe a really small lute/guitar) and literally play itself, or morph into whatever lyrics say–tiny ships, aetherium sea monsters, you name it.

• The eye in the bonzabeast stew isn't an actual eye plucked from someone – its actually a fruit from Silver's homeworld, basically a really freaky looking space cherry tomato; it is tricky to industrially grow and harvest even in its natural range, so there is little export and not many people know about it. It is tasty, though, especially pickled, and Silver likes it. They are legally required to be sold in opaque glassware on some worlds, though.

• Jim really likes the texture of solar sails(I hc it to be similar to a really tough, but smooth synthetic, like an outer layer of clothes for winter sports–not stretchy and making nice crinkly/hissy sounds when rubbed against itself) also, solar sails are ironed together rather than sewn when repairs are needed, and when Jim gets his hands onto a real sail iron press for the first time and gets a feel of patching up a sail, he nearly cries with happiness(he put the sails on his solar surf together with homemade instruments, and it was a lot of trial, error and burned fingers)

• Jim has either inattentive or combined type ADHD(a good bit of projecting here, gotta admit); it added a lot of stress for him, both during his sailing on RLS Legacy and in the Academy; Silver is mildly confused, but supportive dad.

• Jim learned some really fancy cooking skills from Silver–he knew how to cook before, but had a pretty utilitarian attitude towards it, not a passion for it. Sometimes he stress cooks or stress cleans, and Silver has to remind him to drink water/stretch/take a break, kid, seriously, you've spent literally hours pacing around, you'll have blisters on your feet if you won't stop

I have more, but I feel like I shared a lot for the first time. Hope you're having a good time ^_^

yess thank u for these, i love all of these :D i wanted to talk about each one so it gets kind of wordy, i really enjoyed seeing these (sorry it took me a few days to finally answer, i meant to answer earlier but i got busy)

1. i love this one, this could be canon lol. its very resourceful to know multiple languages as a pirate so i’m sure he does know many, as well as mix them up. Jim would immediately tease him about it, Silver would laugh about it too.

2. UGH YES he totally sings, i was kind of disappointed that we don't hear him sing in the movie but whatever. morph loves his singing and would totally join along or find a pocket and fall asleep. Silver probably has a great voice making his humming/singing even more enchanting to listen to.

3. this one is really interesting, i hadn't thought about the fact that it may not be a real eye but that would make sense. it wouldn't be the first time nature has adapted visual defense mechanisms to stop things from eating them. the glass jar idea is really cool because yeah, you don't want to buy a jar of something and see eyeballs, as well as someone might put actual ones in, that's a hazard.

4. yess love Jim with sensory issues, he would totally just go up on the mast and touch them and loose his mind. Silver would tell him to get down, etc but he kind of gets it. solar sails are probably hard to care for, especially if they're supposed to soak up energy (i think at least, they're supposed to be solar panels but thinner and flexible) so they would need a special set of tools, ones i’m sure Jim couldn't afford at the time. i wonder if he bought his own or if Sarah and Silver got him one for a birthday or something

5. YES i hadn't even thought about mentally ill Jim but yes he 100% has ADHD (i also have ADHD so don't worry about projecting xD). he probably couldn't focus as well in school and with the stress of the inn and Leland leaving him, he got so frustrated and kind of gave up. while that sucks, he found something to entertain himself, solar surfing and it absolutely became his special interest. when he gets to the academy, he starts to struggle again but this time hes not as put off by it, since he really did want to go. he probably doesn't find out that he has ADHD until either a year or few months in, mainly because it isn't his behavior causing him to fall back. Sarah probably feels so guilty but Jim lets her know that its ok, even he wasn't aware. he starts using his diagnosis to learn what he can do to help himself and he starts getting motivated to keep learning. i was thinking about Jim in the academy, i think he’d become super interested in math, maybe it'd even become a special interest! i just think he’d love to know the way numbers make up the world and how you can determine events based on calculations

6. Jim probably knew how to cook before from his mom but Silver definitely sparked an interest in him. cooking became less of a known skill and became an art, watching Silver garnish dishes, make special sauces and create something delicious out of just the few things on the ship. i bet he’d come home and start stress cleaning, confusing the heck out of Sarah. she knew he was stressed but couldn't help but be a little grateful that her kitchen was completely clean. when Silver is around, he doesn’t really understand that Jim is stressed out, he just thinks he’s cleaning. once he DOES catch on however, he hangs around while Jim is scrubbing, handing him water, convincing him that he can talk about it if he wants and keeping an eye on him in general. it ends up stressing Silver out, watching Jim get so worried over a grade or an assignment, so Silver tries to get Jim to go on walks with him and relax a little. however, Silver knows he can’t make Jim do anything so when Jim insists he just wants to clean and think for a bit, Silver leaves him be. not that he doesn’t immediately go to Sarah to talk about how worried he is about Jim. i wonder if Sarah stress cleans to, maybe Jim gets it from her?

[aboveallarescuer]

No question, I just wanted to let you know that you & your metas/posts are so so SOO appreciate 🎉😊 you are such a blessing to the Dany fandom.🍾

Your metas are always so thoughtful & insightful, and the frequency with which you publish them, is astonishing & almost a tad scary. 😅

Anyway bless you 🤗💕

And not to mention how you always manages to remain polite, level-headed and respectful in discussions, whenever addressing a real person or talking about a character, yet unwavering & straight to the point. Very admirable 👏🏻 [ I envy you for that😬]

Thank you for sending these messages <333 I have a few mutuals who write much faster than I do, but I appreciate the compliment anyway lol. Especially the second one, because yesterday I was kind of sad thinking about how I probably helped to split the Dany fandom for being so vocal, particularly after that big fight last year...

I don't want to make it seem that the people I disagree with (the "neutrals", as I call them) never make interesting points or are "bad" people (I don't know them in real life and I don't think fandom is activism at all) or necessarily resent/hate Dany because none of these things would be true... So follow whoever you want and never feel like you're "betraying" your group because you don't owe anything to anyone here.

At the same time, though, I do get frustrated when I see that a lot of the "neutrals" mischaracterize Dany as arrogant and/or ruthless and/or hot-headed and/or obsessed with prophecies and/or susceptible to flattery and/or someone who doesn't think ahead and/or anything that actually defines Cersei and/or Stannis (both of whom are foils to Dany). I do get frustrated when I see them acting as if fighting for the Iron Throne is worse than fighting to retake Winterfell. That book!Dany is actually humble, modest, self-reflective, hard on herself, not susceptible to flattery and unwilling to use violence are all things that, to me, should be accepted as obvious facts just as much as Catelyn being driven by her loyalty to her family, Tyrion and Sam being intellectually driven, Davos and Brienne being good people, etc. And when I questioned them about these things, I was accused of dogmatism and intolerance at best and harassment, bullying, doxxing and stalking at worst. That crossed a line for me. And it makes no sense because they say that they're book only fans, but they're clearly still being influenced by the show's portrayal of Dany. I don't know about you, but I change my opinions when I'm presented with information I may have overlooked. That is why I always tend to bring up textual evidence (which most of them don't care to do). But what it seems to me is that the "neutrals" willfully ignore the evidence that Dany stans (and Arya stans too, because we've had similar issues over the years) provide instead of adjusting their views accordingly. Their attitude seems a lot more like mob mentality to me than what I do, imo. And considering how a lot of the people who made/agreed with the false accusations about me were also involved in this disgusting attack against the RL shippers, I can't help but look askance at them and their requests that people accept their takes (which are already the commonly accepted ones) and be nice to each other (because that seems more like telling us to keep quiet because they don't want to feel uncomfortable by having their views challenged, especially since they themselves often start fandom wank and are pretty nasty). So I avoid engaging with their content nowadays because of all these factors and I express my anger sometimes. But I also want to make it clear that it's a personal choice and anyone can follow whoever they want. I don't think it makes you "less" of a Dany fan (though that doesn't prevent you from judging her based on higher standards either because feelings don't always align with logical arguments).

Sorry for using these asks to get some things off my chest, I was feeling kind of guilty after I saw a post about how someone's appreciation for ASOIAF was ruined by their fandom experience (which is supposed to be fun). I hope people can see where I'm coming from. If what I say makes you dislike me, it's totally fine. But I won't stop defending Dany and presenting textual evidence when/if I have the time and energy to accurately characterize her because the double standards against her in this fandom are endless, go way beyond Jonsa hate and the claims that she's being set up to become a villain/Mad Queen and become really evident when you have a comprehensive knowledge of book!Dany's characterization and judge her actions based on the moral standards of her society.

[yakocchi]

A Doting Kiss, Part 1 // Count

full title // A Doting Kiss / His Mark, Engraved on Your Skin

mmm honestly if they’re gonna do 2-part scenario events and collection events, i do appreciate it more when the part 1 charas from the scenario event are also in part 1 of the collection event, like done here. i mean the con is not giving a shit abt the game for 2 weeks at a time but... is that really a con

anyway, the overall theme is about them leaving a kiss mark on the mc somewhere. so yea a hickey i suppose but thats not a very classie word. well anyway thats it honestly but i mean. is nice. mileage may vary based on body part i guess

Unmarked Spoilers of all kinds behind the cut! Please credit if you take any of it, thenk u (･ω･*)

—”Since today marks the anniversary of the day we met, I want to spoil you,” he had announced.

[Count]: “—Well, have you decided on your wish yet?” In his room, the Count directs a gentle smile. He had said to me, “For the anniversary of our meeting together, I will let you ask one thing from me...” It’s a bit of an embarrassing one, but I did decide on a particular request for him.

[Kara]: “...Please don’t laugh at it.” [Count]: “Mm, I promise.” [Kara]: "I want you to make a kiss mark on my skin...” The corners of his lips then raise, the arc resembling a crescent moon. [Count]: “Ah, do you like it when I make marks on you...?” [Kara]: “...Yes. I thought that it was quite childish to want something like a kiss mark, but.” [Count]: “If that is to be your wish, then I shall grant it.  —Kara, come here.”

Called upon, I then sunk deeply into the sofa as I sat down... and closely approached Abel’s side. Eyes glossed with an allure that even made me tingle in suspense gazed intently, and my cheeks flushed hot despite nothing having been done to me yet.

[Count]: “Well now, where shall I make a mark...?” He takes my hand, dropping only light kisses along the fingertips and the back. His lips trace along the skin as if to assess the places to leave a mark... Place after place, the chambers within my heart stirred restlessly. While trying to suppress my voice, the buttons of my blouse then become undone one by one. [Kara]: “mn- Nn...” Kisses rain down along my stomach, waist, everywhere—  and my eyes become wet, almost impatient with this pleasure. [Count]: “Making a mark somewhere visible and then flaunting it around the manse residents is certainly entertaining, but...” [Kara]: “Abel... kya-!” He takes my knees into his arms, and ruffles through my skirt. I’m embarrassed at myself for reacting so sensitively at even just the feel of the thin fabric brushing against my skin. Lips draw near the soft side of the back of my body, the part always hidden beneath my skirt...

[Count]: “How about I... leave a mark in a place that no one, not even yourself, can see?” [Kara]: "But then, I won’t be able to tell if you properly left a ma-...” Before I could finish my sentence, he smiles with a dangerous look on his face. With my eyes stolen away by those irises, elegance and lust melded together within them, something then clings onto that soft place of mine... [Kara]: “Nn-...”

[Count]: “...It’s beautiful. On your white skin, my red mark drifts above....” From my angle, I couldn’t see it at all... However, I simply believed that his mark had been made on my body— and as if strong light flickered and sparked before my eyes, I was enveloped in this euphoria. [Count]: “Whether this mark has been properly left on you, I shall make certain of it for you in such ways. ...in any number of times.” [Kara]: “That’s a problem...”  [Count]: “Hm...?” [Kara]: "If you touch me like that, I’ll end up wanting that ‘any number of times’ from this point forward...” [Count]: "It’s all right if you desire such things.”  As if to seize my entire body, even down to my heart... his hands feel through my chest.  [Kara]: “...Mnn, hah-...” He then shifts them so as to wrap them around, and when he toys with the very peaks a distressed voice spills out of me. I, already... both my body and heart are already lost within him. [Count]: “Every time you yearn for it, I shall hold you until you break... —”

or if you want to want to assume that he’s using the other word:  [Count]: “Every time you yearn for it, I shall make love to you until you break... —”

With my mind gone completely blank, I wrap my arms around his back as my answer to him. His sweet caress melts me in every place, in every way, possible...

FIN

well theres only so many body parts (and it seems like each guy will have a diff part) so inevitably one of them has to get the aysse... and well if it fits

lol i do feel kinda bad that the writers or whoever took a look at him and said “he will be... the ass man”

also i think this is the first collection story in which they write Abel. idk why they took that long considering they’re using dazai’s real name like nobody’s business. granted dazai’s name is not really a secret that’s exclusive to the game... it’s just the rl one’s name.......

off topic but the animated mini figures are... just kinda cute i guess. not worth the 5 tix worth given the effort/muney you have to use to get these tix... but there’s nothing else to redeem yet and im bored

i hate that they couldn’t find a way to resolve getting his arms out with his coat cape in the way (w/o extra effort) so they just made him actually wear the coat... as a coat. wat!! impossible

thenks for reading!!

[lady-rian]

🤦🏻‍♀️ How do you handle anon hate?

I think the only time I have gotten anon hate is when I legit asked for it when there was a plethora of it going around. Like I posted to the defense of a friend that if anyone wanted to hate on anyone then they could bring it at me. Thusly I think the only anon hate ask was a spoof joke from said friend. lol

There may have been one other time on Cypris and we both laughed it off with some snarky response. They say you know you're doing something right when you get hate spewing at you and well... I must be a big fuck up cause I don't and haven't. But then again I try not to let myself get baited into out of character drama. Shits for the birds and I've had more than my fill of RL drama to really give a shit what someone online through pixels thinks of my fun.

TLDR: I find it funny and turn it into a joke. I may touch base with a friend to see if there's any truth to it, just cause if I'm in the wrong I'll own that and move forward accordingly. Other than that? How bored and miserable do you have to be to decide to spend time trying to make someone else miserable rather than using the time to live your best life?

@chonkychungus thanks for the ask!

[jezmmart]

Chamomile Comic Trivia #15

#72 Paperwork

Was fun to start designing a little more of The Cubby in this comic. I always enjoy pokey little twisty interior design so I wanted it to be snug without being TOO cosy, it’s still just a back-of-house area after all. We get a little insight into Brianna’s inner-workings here. She’s the type to bottle stuff up, and then when the bottle is full... get a bigger bottle.

No hidden easter eggs in the office or the store-room - the text on the blurry foreground boxes just mark them as containing napkins and salt sachets.

#73 Anxiety

So... Brianna’s a character who I created before Chamomile, and was originally considering forming a new original story with her based on the idea of “write what you know”. For me, that’s crippling nostalgia. I decided not to abandon these story ideas even when I decided to use her design for Cammie’s best friend, demoting her from main character of her own work.  (By the way, I planted that seed as early as this pin-up just for my own amusement, which predates the comic by a few months - see the picture frames on the shelf in the background (ignore the really small ones, they were just scribbles lol).

Anyway, like Brianna, I get a bit obsessive over trying to retain all my childhood “things” in a bubble seperate from adult life whenever I can - for example, I was bothered when Shrek 4 jokingly used an Enya song that is of great sentimental value to me in a parody vacation commercial thing, like, how dare they.  I’ll sometimes save particularly nostalgic media viewings for weeks where I’m off work, and have muted all my work-related whatsapp groups etc so I’m not getting “adult-life” buzzing in my pocket etc. Thankfully, none of this is to any kind of clinical level where I’d have a nervous breakdown or anything over it, it just really bugs me.  Anyway... in the “what personal issues shall I give to which OC”, Brianna drew the short straw on that one.  Cammie’s advice to Brianna here is basically what I desperately try to tell myself and act upon (and usually fail or end up disappointed that I allowed myself to not indulge my obsessiveness lol).

While I didn’t mention it for the commentary on that comic, this is also what drives Brianna’s issue in #26 - the one where they go to the pumpkin patch.

On a lighter note!  I’ve never been anywhere that offers a “French Fry Sundae” but I’m pretty sure they must exist.  I imagine this as an intentional, luxury version of the blissful act of dipping hot, salty McDonalds French Fries into cold, creamy McDonalds Sundaes, an indulgence introduced to me by my RL friend Julie (who I now owe a life debt to but, worth it etc).

#74 Gone

As oppose to trying to keep a handle on making Brianna’s pokey-back-of-house design TOO quaint, I allowed myself to design the exterior of Milky’s, this perfect nostalgic place, to be fittingly unusual and fun with it’s tiny, perfectly-kid-sized bench on the left and adorable little miniature garden complete with picket fence, grass, bushes and a pond on the right. The mascot and name of the place wasn’t overtly inspired by anything, just the first thing I imagined. I definitely wanted those elements to not be too cool, the kind of thing that once upon a time would’ve been appealing to a kid but looking at it now, is embarrassingly dated and clearly designed as an uncreative adult’s idea of what kids would like (like... let’s put a face on a milkshake cup and have it saying “Hey kids!”, c’mon).

To credit some more blatant inspiration, the mini-joke halfway through of Cammie reading about Uncle Milky’s death mid-sentence was definitely my own spin on a classic gag that was a favourite of mine in both The Simpsons (“Then I get into a skydiving accident and have to be rushed to the... GRAVEYARD!?”) and Gilmore Girls (“Four hours later, Sniffy was dead...  Sniffy was DEAD!?”).

Final comment is that that particular kind of chipboard used to board up windows sometimes is one of those mundane things I never imagined I’d have to figure out how to draw.

#75 Gone

We dip a little more into Brianna’s history of having divorced parents here - while my own parents are divorced, Brianna being so overtly affected isn’t based off my own experience, I was young enough to kind of just accept everything going on in my own life.  Beyond that, the goal of this comic was to just be as sickly cute as possible, lookit babby Cammie and Bri!!!

#76 Better

Again, here Brianna chastises her obsession with nostalgia in a manner that I really always try to act upon myself but am frequently unable to lol.  Their teacher “Mrs. Banfield” is a shoutout to my own Year 5 teacher Mr. Banfield, who was one of my favourites growing up, I hope life treated him well and he’s as nice a person as my child-self’s view of him was lol.

#77 Friends

Annnnd a nice heartwarming end to this little arc, again with some good advice from Cammie that I came up with and yet am unable to follow lol.

The final gag is of course a throwback to the comic where Cammie got stuck on the slide all night.  I kept going back and forth on whether to spell it out more (with Cammie’s response potentially being “no... all those countless hours were contained within a single night actually”) but I felt the gag was funnier if it was simple and snappy, with the audience had to work for it a little bit.  Apologies if anyone out there didn’t make the connection!

If I ever get round to making a printed version, an idea I had for a back cover was the whole cast sitting in sillouhette on swings in reference to this pleasant little scene... seagull included, lol.

[More Chamomile Comic Trivia] (Above link may not work correctly on tumblr app)

[ssaalexblake]

for the meme: criminal minds, doctor who, star trek (choose any!), the west wing, buffy or angel series

I literally have no idea how to rank these in preference order, wow. I’ve been staring at this for a week.  

A lot of these show i love them when i love them and hate ‘em when i hate ‘em??? 

6- Angel. This is a show i keep revisiting because i really love the cast of characters (mostly), Angel, Cordy, Gunn, Fred, Lilah and Darla first and foremost, but i have nothing against Wes, Lorne and Doyle? Lindsay was a boring villain, imo, and they missed such a chance when they decided to play him off angel more than Lilah because i think they could have made Far more interesting points by comparing them, tbh. That’s a pet peeve but i have a Huge shitlist for this show. But i really Do love the characters, and on occasion the plots Do show moments of brief, utter brilliance but then they swerve away from it Every Time and it’s So Annoying. I did not mention connor here because literally Everything to do with him is one of those ‘brief moments of brilliance that were swerved away from like they were contagious’ things. 

5- btvs... I Love this show but a lot of that is tied into childhood nostalgia??? If i watched it for the first time now it’d be hard to get through because i’d not know which parts to skip through for ease of watching, because i have very firm ideas on what episode and scenes need to be muted or skipped full stop by now and i feel like my ability to edit the show to my liking May have clouded some of my judgment on its quality on the whole lol. But my version of the show? Where i only watch the parts i like? Way higher than 5 here. 

4- TWW, would rank higher but seasons 5 and 6 are very slow. And I have to suffer through the Sorkin Self Insert Character(tm) because it’s a sorkin show. Loses more marks for creating female characters to shove Terrible feminism opinions on so it’s Socially Acceptable b/c it’s a woman saying it not him. In the shadow of two gunmen parts one and two are two of the best episodes of tv full stop, though, and honestly, season 2 on the whole is one of the stronger seasons of tv i’ve ever watched. I also really like s7, unpopular but it’s well paced and by like ep4?? it hits its stride and stays that way the whole time. Though, idk if i’m the only non american with this feeling, but on occasion some of the every day american value politics on the show is so Batshit i lose all sense of immersion? Not the Big Plots, i know those americanisms because of an awareness of rl politics and it no longer surprises me, but the small taken for granted stances that they mention offhandedly that make me go... what??????

3- Criminal Minds. Just over half this show was... at best average and at worst just straight up Bad, but damn when it was good it was good. I’m actually still mad at Patinkin for ruining the end of the Gideon arc because i may not Like the character as a man, but Damn he was such a well written and fascinating character and the story they were telling with him was fascinating and it was ruined. Also, this show will always have a place in my heart for killing him off years later out of sheer passive aggression. Honestly? i could write a 5000 word essay on my feelings on this show on the whole and i could never hope to say so briefly, but when it got it right this show Really got it right, and that actually makes up for a Great many hours of bullshit i watched in the name of it. And since it ended Tons of people have started loving Blake and i am Vindicated. 

 2- Star Trek Discovery - This show only has two seasons so it’s probably benefitting from not having ‘been on air too long-itis’ but i really do love it. And, truthfully, i could pick at it because it’s made some Choices and done some Real bullshit, but others could and have deconstructed that better than me... But also it has some great stuff in it too? i’d just end up writing an essay, again, but imo the good outweighs the bad, and this is way more my Thing in style than the older ones because?? idk, it just is. (tho.... !Picard Spoiler! what Does the trek universe have against gay latin men named Hugh??? That is weirdly specific.)

1- Doctor who - Okay, full disclosure, i won’t watch a lot of the new stuff, sometimes because i find the writing bad and sometimes because it’s written well enough to be infuriating, But like, when i love it, i really love it? I can honestly say watching s12 was the most fun i’ve had watching a season of tv in at least a decade and It was so satisfying to see all the threads everybody had picked up on in s11 come to fruition (and, also, vindicating lbr) and to see 13′s veneer fracture so completely. But then again, i’ve always enjoyed things for their character writing first and foremost and imo, chibnall’s always been good at that. The fact that the plots make sense 95% of the time too is an added bonus i would not actually expect from any era of dw. I just watched ten work a phone by putting a stethoscope to it. The fact that i don’t actually feel it needs to make sense probably helps it placing this high in this very over thought random meme i’ve spent a week on. Classic who is Also great because usually even when it’s bad it’s funny due to monsters made of carpet and papier-mâché. I even like the cybermen as villains in classic who and i am Not a fan of them in nu!who (the whole frankenstein mary shelley angle won me over b/c it was an interesting take on it with how they merged it in with classic horror, but i’m not big on them as a villain. Probably helped that they were kind of a vehicle for the main plot more than there for their own trouble making abilities? i find the whole type of narrative based around them is said better with the borg in star trek tbh). 

thank you! i did just win the over thinking prize, though. 

[yukipri]

So I’m back from the dead (literally). A Goodbye Message.

Hey there. Some of you may remember me.

Some of you may have wondered why I suddenly stopped posting, but the vast majority of you probably didn’t even notice, as is how it is. ^ ^;

I’m finally back, and it wasn’t an easy journey getting back.

Here’s what happened.

(Slightly long post, but please forgive me for not putting it under a cut, it’s sorta important)

On November 19th, I checked my blog as I always do, to learn that my blog was terminated.

No warning, no reason, suddenly BOOM gone. I’ve had this blog since spring 2012. It’s almost entirely sfw, I’ve always been hyper careful with tagging, and any questionable content has always been hosted on other platforms. Yet for some reason, I was one of many blogs caught up in what’s come to be known as the #TumblrPurge.

I followed all the steps. I emailed staff, first desperately, then more rationally, making my case. I figured that a bot had caught my blog, as I knew plenty of other more suspicious content blogs that were unharmed. At first there was hope, it’s just a glitch, it’s happening to a lot of people, they’ll give it back right away, some people have already gotten theirs back!

Nothing.

My methods of contacting followers were limited to my Patreon and Twitter, neither of which has much of a base. Followers who knew me on there were incredibly kind and supportive, and sometimes even reached out to staff on my behalf.

I didn’t want to spam, but I also was desperate. I emailed staff once a week. I tried using different categories. I tried adding attachments. My messages ranged from simple and succinct, to deeply personal and desperate.

I was honestly devastated. I spiraled into the worst depression I’ve ever been in. I could barely eat and vomited nonstop for a week. I gained 20 pounds in 2 weeks. I was completely out of control mentally, and even reached out to a psychiatrist friend in case I couldn’t handle it myself. I couldn’t draw, and thinking about projects that I once loved only hurt me more.

Talk about social media addiction, but I’ve legit never gone longer than a week without posting something for years, and especially since becoming a content creator, it felt sickening to not have the place where I drove myself to post constantly and consistently. It broke my schedule. It made me feel cut off from the world, and I felt claustrophobic and uncomfortable in my own skin.

I lost so many things with this blog. Yes, I was primarily a content creator, and while of course I had backups of all my art and some of my longer text posts, I lost so much more.

I lost, perhaps most importantly, all my interactions with my followers. I lost connections to so many people, people I hadn’t contacted in years and may not have even been active anymore, but who I always believed I would have this route back to. I lost memories, both online and of my personal life that I had recorded on here.

And as someone who unfortunately put so much of my identity and self-validation on my social media experience, I suddenly felt like I was absolutely nothing.

For the longest time, I thought I was su*cidal as a result of my depression (word bleeped out bc who knows what can get you flagged now). I certainly thought about death and dying daily.

But then, I realized what I was feeling wasn’t quite that. I didn’t feel like I wanted to die.

I felt like I was already dead.

Which, may sound like an exaggeration, but in terms of tumblr at least, it’s exactly the same. If I had died in rl, I would have dropped off the map, just like this. Suddenly stopped posting, no warning in advance. My blog may have existed, but in this case, no record of my existence even remained. To people who came looking for my url, I may as well have been dead. You wouldn’t have known any better.

Or who knows, maybe I was a criminal or had done something awful that resulted in my blog being removed. Maybe I had just had it with this site and had chosen to leave. Maybe I was just taking a much needed break. It would have been odd, since I prioritized communicating and always said when I needed a break, which was rarely ever. But either way, I had no way of telling any of you what had happened to me. My voice was gone.

Feeling like I was dead, after I recognized what I was feeling, was...disturbing, I guess. Kinda explained why I always felt like a corpse though.

(of course, feeling like I was dead contributed to thinking other things like maybe it’d be better if I really wasn’t around at all, but that’s a result, and not the main feeling.)

Anyway, I kept emailing staff, and I finally managed to come back. It took ten emails and over 2 months of waiting and wasting away and trying to come to terms with how I’m unlikely to get it back. I didn’t get my blog back until TODAY.

Now that I have come back, the landscape’s changed, as I had heard it had. They hadn’t even announced the adu*t content policy change when they terminated me. I honestly feel like I’m back in a world that’s moved on without me, and it’s made me feel very strongly how insignificant I was in the first place.

During my time being dead, I had a lot of time to think about what I wanted to do. I regretted not doing my 25K follower giveaway sooner. I regretted not getting this or that content out. I regretted having kept certain long text posts and ask responses in my drafts yet unpublished.

But more than anything, I regretted not being able to say goodbye, and thank you all for my time here.

Yes, it’s had ups and downs, but tumblr was where I first found myself as an artist. Tumblr was what first made me interact with and find a group of people interested in what I created. Tumblr was where I was able to interact with those people, you. And I know I’ve had my ups and downs too, and different fandoms and different moods, but I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for letting me be a part of your experience here, however big or small that experience may have been.

I also learned the dangers of immersing myself too deeply on one online platform. So much of myself had been poured into this one blog, this one blog that can disappear with a legit snap of staff’s fingers. (my twitter handle was “Got Thanos’d on Tumblr” for a good month lol) I used to think that’s what made my content valuable, that I poured so much love and thought and everything personal into it, that’s what made it special, but in the end oh so very damaging when it was ripped away. As someone who spent almost all my time online creating content, it was an awful reality pill I had to swallow, and I don’t want ANYONE experiencing the same thing I did.

So please. The takeaway here, if I can be a cautionary tale, is to be aware that an online identity is more unstable than you think it is. It can go POOF. I’m lucky to be here, and that staff finally responded, and that I had the masochism to continue emailing staff weekly no matter how much I felt like I should stop breathing afterwards.

Also, please, if you have people on this site you care about, whether it be a friend or someone you think is neat, anyone you will miss if they suddenly disappeared, please go connect with them in other places beyond this site, which may become increasingly unstable. This can be another social media if they have it, an email, a chatting platform, anything. Even if you personally don’t use it yet, create an account so you can find them when you can no longer access your account, or they can’t access theirs and they can find you. Don’t regret it like I did.

As for me, after all of this, I don’t know if I can post content on here again.

I’d gone well beyond hoping for another chance at this community. All I’ve been thinking about these past two months was how I would have wanted to say goodbye.

Now that I have my account back, I’m currently filled with more numbness and bitterness than any joy or relief. I don’t know if I can create content anymore for a platform that has hurt me so deeply, no matter how much its community means to me. This experience changed me, and I’ve taken damage that isn’t going to go away so easily.

As I think about what to do moving forward, for now, you can find me on my accounts that I WAS active on these past two months. They aren’t the same, but they were all I had.

If you read this message until the end, thank you.

Again, I might decide to post on here again. I might not. But for now, here’s again what I’ve been wanting to say for two months:

Thank you, Tumblr. And goodbye.

-Kazu

(yukipri.tumblr.com)

https://twitter.com/YukiPri_Art

https://www.patreon.com/YukiPri

[blue-sky-and-sunny-day]

When you get this you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (Non-negotiable, positivity is cool!)

Thank you @brokenfannibal.

Omg!!!! I don't know. Nowadays I don't like anything about myself. Lol. Let's try.

1. I like my eyes. Ha ha. The shape and size. ( this is a lame thing to say possibly, but actually I am satisfied with all the features and shape of my face). You people have no idea how much like an utter fool I am feeling right now. This is the first time I am saying/ writing this about myself. It feels weird.

2. I like the fact that I have studied English literature and not science. I may be jobless ( in my country there is little scope of getting a job with a degree in English lit if u r not interested in teaching, best u can get is a bpo job which will kill me with its night/rotational shifts before I can say FML. I tried once and after a month I fell sick and resigned. Never tried it anymore. There is actually no job in my State where I can use my literary background and the salary is terrible. I don't need it.)

3. The fact that I am single. I just want some peace of mind which is kind of elusive in my life, and I know I don't need or care for the pressure of a relationship after all the stress I endure everyday. I am unlucky enough to meet only a few men who r off putting in a lot of ways. Never got any chance to meet a lot of nice, kind, genuine gentlemen so that I can choose.I never had any time. I have never been in love in rl and I don't want a relationship not based on love. I am glad I am not under any pressure to settle down or have a relationship.

4. I have finally learned other people's opinion about me r actually irrelevant in my rl. I guess my parents r my only well wishers. I thought I have friends and relatives who cares about me, but that turned out to be a black lie years back while me and my family were dealing with a severe emotional trauma. A very difficult time which changed my life. ( it was nothing physical and not sudden) it left us broken emotionally and I still feel sick when I remember the veiled taunts and jibes which came from my closest relatives. It was appalling. Now I know them and their true colors and avoid them as much as I can. U may now understand my commitment phobia and my preference for being single. But I like the fact that I can accept and endure the possibility of a lonely life in future.

5. I have officially ran out of things to say. 😁. Okayyyyyyy I am glad that I am imaginative.

I don't even know if I did this the right way but i am glad to be tagged. 😘. Everyone is welcome to play. It is fun.

[valeriemperez]

Whenever Candice posts poignant quotes and messages, people get worried, which I guess is understandable, but around this time last year she was doing the same, and on a insta live she said that she just posts things like that because she finds the message important, but that it’s not about her, as she is really happy and confident. In fact, from interviews and cons, she and Jessica both seem the most excited about this season. And she has never shown any intention of leaving.

That sounds about right. I mean, the thing is that we haven’t heard much from Candice lately - and that always makes us jumpy. But we will know in a few days whether things are shaping up well for Iris this season or not.

I'm kinda worried about Iris' screentime this season, these past few weeks CP seems to be going back to LA or wherever and not even on Fridays and by Monday, she's not even back sometimes. The 100th episode seems to be Iris-lite, I guess I'm worried they're using the Iris/Nora tension as an excuse for the reduced screentime while we're getting idk how many Nora/Barry scenes and I don't like it.

I totally understand that fear, but it is something we’ve seen in the past. We thought Iris was in a lot less of certain episodes than she ended up being. For the 100th episode, right off the bat it’s clear that she won’t be doing stunts or fight scenes there. But that doesn’t mean she couldn’t have gotten some meaty scenes in for the 4 days out of 8 that she was filming.

It doesn’t make sense to me that they would reduce Iris/Candice’s screentime or importance in this of all seasons, because in that case they could just not create any tension and just use the excuse of Iris “working” to have her be offscreen. That’s what they did in 2A, after all. But until we see the episodes for ourselves, I understand that we worry the producers are irrational and don’t know how to write, lol.

I’m in a bad place with Flash fandom rn. To a point that I dread seeing fan commentary and content. The negativity, constant judgement, gossip, in-fighting, racism, misogyny, superiority complexes, and trolls have just ruined it for me. I hate that because I still love Flash. Sometimes I wish I never joined the fandom. Part of me wants to go, but I can’t do it because then they win. I can’t let them scare me off. IDK where to go from here. Thank you for letting me vent.

I’m so sorry to hear that, and I totally understand what you mean. At this point, I think your best option (and mine) is merely to watch the episodes or read the interviews without looking at any comments. Drop off your love for the show, Iris, Westallen, whatever you like - and then go do something else that makes you happy. 

There’s definitely others out there who feel like you and who want a positive space to squee, so maybe put out a tweet or whatever SM platform you use to ask about starting a new groupchat that will suit what you and others you know would like?

It’s the SBs and antis that talk about GG hating CP. It’s to make them feel better about their faves. CP fans don’t talk about hate, just his passive behavior in certain situations. I’ve seen fans complain about him not promoting the show on SM but by the look of it he’s not promoting any other project, just that skateboard deal (I consider his wedding/fiancé a project given how much he promoted the RL on SM and in the media). Unless I missed it he’s not promoting his NYC show either.

I would argue that this is a bit of semantics, but I am sure that he will promote the show more A) once it premieres this week, and B) once his wedding prep and celebrations are done.

Why does 50% of the fandom think Grant hates Candice and the other 50% thinks he’s having an affair with her?

Because people interpret the same data through different filters, lol, and it’s easy to come to any conclusion you want when you don’t have more than 5% of the facts.

I hate to bring up fandom gossip but I keep seeing people talk about this, and you’re one of the more rational people in this fandom and I like reading your thoughts, so: what are your thoughts on Grant and Candice’s social media interactions, or lack there-of?

Social media is in no way an indicator of real-life relationships or interactions. You would probably have no idea who my best friends are based on my SM platforms. I know we’re used to casts who act like a big happy family online no matter what and always feed their fans, but the majority of The Flash cast isn’t like that and hasn’t been for 5 years. 

I think that G&C may be more private with their dynamic than they are with some others, but I also don’t think it’s a huge outlier compared to how they are with (for example) Carlos and vice versa.