#meraki's anons

[merakiui]

floyb who is your ex from college that you broke up with bc he cheated on you

floyb who hits you up bc he says he "just wants to talk" and "misses you"

floyb who is currently blowing your back out on his couch bc he may not have done shit right in your relationship but he sure knew how to do this right and hOLY SHIT when did he learn to do that

floyb who youve fallen into a fwb dynamic with

floyb who... gets you roses? ...wtf

WHY

why is he giving you sea themed jewlery.

why are you meeting his parents

wtf floyd, you didnt even do this when we WERE dating.

also when tf did he move in to your apartment

no like seriously when tf did this happen, one day he wasnt here and the next you realise hes been living with you for weeks

floyb who loves cooking for you esp when he gets to see your happy face in the morning right as you wake up only to see he made you your fave breakfast food.

floyb who tries to spend all of his free time wrapped around you to make sure you wont leave him again.

floyb who spent the year after your break up in denial abt missing you by playing around with the other little guppies

floyb who becomes increasingly more agitated when he realises the guppies around him cant compare to your pretty smile and cute laugh and kind eyes and small hands and...

floyb who realises hes mad bc they arent you

floyb who also realises he may still be in love with you.

floyb who stalks you online before moving to irl stalking

floyb who has been watching you for years but was too much of a coward to talk to you until he notices you becoming closer to a male coworker of yours

floyb who ruins you for any other man bc his trying so desperately to be the perfect man for you

-lily anon

FLOYB!!!!!!!!! 🥺 he just wants to be better for his Shrimpy... doing all of the things he couldn't do when you were dating and the fwb is a great cover-up to hide the real intent behind every sweet gesture. Why are you getting so suspicious of him when he cooks meals for you? He's making this for himself, too. Or the roses. The vase has been empty for a while. He got them so you could brighten up the room. Isn't that what you said you wanted last week: flowers to put in the vase? Or when he takes you to meet his parents. He just didn't want to be bored on his own or have to sit through dinner without something exciting to talk about.

Cooking for you, caring for you, stalking you, living alongside you... it feels so natural to him, but that's because he loves you (more than he even realizes). The realization probably jerks him awake one night and it dawns on him that he never fell out of love with you to begin with. T_T Floyb trying to win you back in his own ways. Omg and maybe he works up the courage to confess to you, but you laugh at him because you don't believe him. Why would he love you if he was the one who cheated to begin with? This is all just physical anyway. You're both benefiting from this arrangement.

And he sabotages himself by playing along, laughing at himself. Right. Shrimpy caught him~ :) too bad you're not so gullible. He smiles easily, but it hurts inside.

[meraki-yao]

Now I'm curious to know all the "candies" between Nick and Tay 👀 lol I don't ship them but I also find it interesting that some fans really ship real people together and gather evidence or proof of it. If its fine with you to share it pls do 🙏 but if not its also fine :)

Huh...

Actually, sure! I kinda wanted to share some of these at times but again I understand that rps is a complicated subject.

A couple of quick prefaces though:

1, If you’re uncomfortable with the subject, again, please don’t read under the post

2, I don’t have all the candies because I really just view them in passing, so I’m just gonna write/translate the ones I’ve seen, remember and find at least a logical speculation

3, I need to reiterate this in case my position in this gets misunderstood: Me writing about “candies” isn’t because these are MY opinion or things *I* found or *I* believe in them being evidence. I am just a translator and messenger.

4, (this one is gonna sound a little academic lol) Two things I realized when thinking about this “candy eating” culture is that Chinese people have a very difference understanding of platonic/romantic affection/relationships with the Western world, and that they look at the candies with rose-tinted glass. Chinese/Asian people are generally a lot less affectionate with their personal relationships, for example friends wouldn’t say “love you” to each other if they’re just friends, nor would they expand their friend group to the others easily or other stuff. And these people who look for candy go into their “investigation” already with the belief that “they are together”, everything remotely resembling a close relationship will automatically be interpreted as romantic. I thought about it a lot, and honestly among the “candies” I’ve seen, most of them are a matter of interpretation: yes those are things couples will do, but it wouldn’t be weird if friends did it too. So they’re not that seriously or up for further speculation. There is I think only one “candy” that I can’t quite say the same, which I will explain and elaborate on in this post. 

5, Please remember that the people who do this do it in good nature: something I didn’t make clear in my post yesterday, which is on me, is that the fans do want them to be together, but they’re not like… yandere level or something. If they’re just friends the fans won’t be upset or betrayed or anything, they just prefer to see them as romantic. They don’t mean any harm, and they don’t cause any harm because China is physically and digitally too far away for them to actually fuck shit up, and they understand the lines of parasocial relationships: those who met with Taylor during his China trip in December know to, and didn’t bring up this in front of him. They know where to draw the line, and whoever doesn’t and starts becoming a problem gets kicked out of the community. This is meant for fun.

6, Ok Future Meraki here, turns out, there’s a lot to translate, a lot more than I anticipated Jesus Christ and I do want to get this post how within today and make it a reasonable length, so I’m just gonna do two events and the one that I mentioned in 4. If yall want a part 2 let me know.

Ok with that being said, the main event under the cut:

In December they made a whole article about “candies” from December, and to quickly summarise (again noted that all of this is speculation, I didn’t and can’t fact check them, and I’m just a translator) (also this ended up way longer than I anticipated so for photo reference if you can please go to the link of the original article):

Academy Gala:

Nick and Taylor both attended the gala: Since the strike ended up to that point, the two times Nick attends a public event, Taylor’s there too (GQ men of the year and Academy Gala), and for both times he’s wearing Cartier’s Tank Must Watch (remember this watch, I’m gonna elaborate on it later because it is the only candy that even I can’t say it’s a matter of interpretation)

In various pictures of the night’s party that other people took, the boys can be seen together in the background

How the photography worked that night was magazine photographers wandered around the venue and randomly found people to take some relatively candid photos: so people who were walking/sitting/in any way sticking together would be photographed together. So best friends and married couples would be photographed together, which is what happened to Meryl Streep, Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, and Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy and their wives. With that logic, Taylor and Nick were caught by the photographer together TWICE, in clearly different places. Later Korean fans (with the same “candy-searching” mindset) read the time on Taylor’s watch in the photos: one was 8:30, one was 9:50. The implication is that they were together for at least that period of time (nearly 1.5 hours)

In both photos of the boys together, Nick’s elbow is…straight up leaning into Taylor's chest. In a photo with Kaia, Nick’s friend and co-star from Bottoms (Brittany), there’s visible space between Nick and Kaia but none between Nick and Taylor (… okay I’m gonna pop in with my own opinion on the latter one real quick: I really think that one is just Nick being a gentleman)  

During that night, Taylor re-posted an Instagram post from July onto Little Red Book: but the things is in the comment section of the original Instagram post, Taylor teasingly pretends to not know Nick; and according to the posting time and the time calculated in 3, Nick would have been watching him post that to Little Red Book.

Nick got a photo with Taylor’s friend Jay Ellis (Jay and Taylor follow each other on Instagram, and Taylor comments under Jay’s post), even though Nick and Jay don’t seem to have any direct connections. Kaia and Taylor started following each other on Instagram after the event.

While other people who got photos with Taylor posted them, in Taylor’s Instagram Post for the night: He only included his photo with Nick, the rest are all solo portraits of himself. Not only that: he edited the background of the photo so it’s just them, and proceeded to put the photo in the middle of the post.

a bunch of Taylor's good friends, including Taylor’s cousin went to like Nick’s post for the academy gala night. Taylor’s sister Ash shared Taylor’s post to her stories: 2 photos of Taylor himself, and the one photo of Taylor and Nick. Taylor mentioned in a past interview if he had any emotional or relationship (I don’t know which one is the right translation, the original wording is 感情) issues, he would talk to Ash. (please note that I didn’t not and don’t know how to fact-check any of the things mentioned above except for Ash’s Instagram)

Conclusion/ Speculation (okay the academy gala part alone took me 40 minutes what the fuck): I cannot reiterate this enough: THIS IS JUST SPECULATION DO NOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY but under the assumption that Taylor and Nick are a thing, the serious of shenanigans that happened that night, especially with the family and friends stuff in 6,7,8, was interpreted as they announcing it to their personal social circle. AGAIN THIS IS SPECUALTION DON’T TAKE THIS SERIOSULY 

Taylor’s China Trip

On 7th December, Taylor had a photo shoot at the GQ gala venue, but spent the rest of the afternoon taking photos and signing things for fans. Among those, one was the photo of him and Nick from the academy gala just three days ago. He was visibly extra happy and showed off the photo to the crowd, unlike the other photos which he simply gets it, signs it, and then gives it back.

This day was also the start of “Taylor giving Nick/Henry a moustache”: throughout the trip, he drew on four photos of the two of them

(This one is a … really big stretch) among the four, one of them was the GQ magazine shoot, and he first drew the moustache on Nick’s face, giggling “I’ll sign on Nick’s face”, signed his own signature, then just when he was about to give the magazine back he suddenly changed his mind and said “wait wait I wanna do something on my face”, and then drew a crown on his head while muttering “crown prince”. And the thing is… historically, George Villers had a moustache. And then he drew a moustache on Nick and a crown on himself. Also, one of the most popular Chinese RWRB fic on AO3 is called “The King’s Palace”, and the premise is putting Henry in George place as the social climber and the Duke of Buckingham (it is literally George’s character with blonde hair and a different name), and Alex as the crown prince who ascended to the throne and is also utterly infatuated with Henry. So… yeah.

When he drew the fourth photo, which was the piano scene, the fan who asked said “Oh you’re so nice to Nick!” and according to their description (there’s no video), Taylor blushed a little and said “yeaahhhhh” with a big grin

While Taylor was in China people were stirring shit up on Twitter about him, and during the Twitter drama, Nick liked Taylor’s Academy Gala post.

The boys liked the same video on Instagram but from different accounts (a video about a pony in the snow)

During the trip, Taylor was seen wearing a white button-up with blue stripes. Nick has been seen wearing a shirt that looks identical before.

Cartier Watch (aka the one that makes me do a double take)

Taylor used to wear a lot of Cartier watches until he started wearing Tagheuer last July due to a commercial partnership

Nick likes wearing Omega watches. In fact, Henry’s watch in the movie is Nick’s own omega watch. He also has a commercial partnership with Omega.

But then starting last year, both of them were seen wearing matching Cartier’s Tank Must Watches (the silver on with a black surface and a sapphire crown): Taylor can be seen wearing it in the 5th photos of his September post, while Nick can be seen wearing it during the GQ gala, the Academy Gala, in Milan during fan interactions, and last weekend in his TIOY co-star’s Instagram story.

And the thing about this watch is (and here is where I need to reiterate that I’m just translating, I didn’t fact check this) 1, watch is a typical thing to give a lover, and you must be familiar with their wrist size 2, Cartier is a pretty romantic brand 3, the price of this watch is closer to what Taylor’s used to wearing but much cheaper than Omega 4, This specific watch is a popular watch to give a partner/lover, 5, David and Victoria Beckham’s relationship was discovered because paparazzi saw the Cartier watch he gave her and connected dots together

Jesus Christ at this point I should consider getting a part time job in translation

This was fun but this took me so much time, it’s ~2000 words long

Again, all of this was found and speculate for fun, and mean no ill will, and haven’t, and won’t harm the boys, please understand that and don’t take this took seriously. If you find this interesting and want a part two, let me know.

[taegularities]

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boyfriend fits always feed the delusion and hit so much harder.!!!!!

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LOLOL they kinda dooo!! that's a strong opinion!! noted!!! 😁

[petrichormeraki]

!!!!!!! THERE HE IS THERES MY FAVOURITE BOY!!!!! oh my god I can’t believe it’s been three years i still think about Luke every day

- lycomedes anon, back from the dead

HOLY SHIT WHAT’S UP NONNY!!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD

[etherealyoungk]

us fr ( it's been a while since I've been in your inbox 🙏🙏)

babee that is literally us like <3 ilysm

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

Your Ephemera family tree is INSANE! I'm curious about the Aether family line- Meraki looks a lot like Ephemera but Mepiphron.. they look evil tbh. Their name (without the M) even sounds kinda like Ephemeras, but evil

😏

[ivy-diaries]

cringe and goofy ah 😞

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[ii-twisted-insanity]

*Asks aren’t open yet*

welcome to…

Twisted Insanity!

An Inanimate Insanity apocalypse AU inspired by various askblogs and II aus (lab rats, welcome to insanity, reverse au) as well as objectified. Basically the ‘twisted’ began infecting the contestants after episode 16. Twisted have powers that correlate to their object. The infection began with MePhone4 in the Gemory Cave and quickly spread through the island.

Magic anons are allowed within the realm of possibility (anything the characters can get on their own, or minor things), and please no spamming the same stuff over and over again ^^

I’ve never done an askblog so I will likely add more rules and stuff to this as it goes on!

Btw the art style may slightly change between frames, nothing major though.

Currently you can ask:

-Test Tube

(Just her so far lol. More will be added!!!)

Tags:

#ii twisted insanity - all posts relating to the au. (Note that whenever I answer an ask or post something that isn’t a plot or character thing, for sake of filtering, I won’t use this tag.)

About the mod:

Call me Meraki!

She/her

Main blog- @mceraki

Program: Flipaclip on my phone

[luckycharms1701]

*kicks down the door to your inbox and comes sliding in like a friggin ninja. Waddles up to you with an excited gleam in my eye as I begin to affectionately shake you by the shoulders*

Oh you wanna know what I think about ya huh? You wanna know punk?! Well I’ll tell ya, so you best be sitting down before I drop this friggin love bomb upon ye like words of affirmation ain’t my main love language.

*pops neck and then cracks knuckles before dramatically rolling my hand*

Speaking of words, let’s start with word association. The word that comes to mind when I think of you is : affable

Meaning friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to. That’s actually one of the things that kept me coming back to your delightful little blog was the fact that you were so patient and so thoughtful with all of my asks. You’d be surprised at just how many are all mine 😅 But seriously, like you are so friendly and it’s really easy to see why so many folks are comfortable talking with you. In fact, many of your answers have touched me so deeply that I A: share them with my closest friends and B: have made it into my personal journal so I can reread them for the rest of forever. You’re the kind of person who takes away the scary stigma of talking with creators. In fact, I hope to be like you one day and have my own little tumblr posse where we can all giggle over our own stories and cause pain and heartache through those said stories. Like reading y’alls interactions especially int the tags is most diverting and I thoroughly enjoy it.

You are also incredible thought and refreshing deep. In a world full of shallow people, you a breath of fresh air because I can just sense the thought and care that goes into every piece you write. It’s full of wonderful Meraki (AKA the heart and soul that you put inside of your work) The Meraki in me sees and respects the Meraki in you, and honey it is BeAuTiFuL. Just like that heart of yours! It’s so big and so full of love and I adore how much you love Mikey. He’s not my type, but the way you see him and believe in him makes it’s easy to understand why!

AnYhOo, I could write raptures on why you’re like the coolest tumblr person ever, but ain’t nobody got time for that so I’ll just keep it simple.

In a day and age that is so full of darkness and destruction, you as a creator, have NO idea the reaches of your impact. Just like a spark in a dark room, you literally light up this place and inspire others to keep lighting their sparks. In every essence, you truly are a starburst, for you give others the light, the flavor and the hope to keep going simply by being your sweet self.

Thank you for existing as the same time as me. The world is truly a better place because you’re in it. ✨🌎🧡

anon-chan. i don’t even know what to say. my heart is full! 💖🫂🧡 thank you so much!!!

[merakiui]

since the upcoming masterchef event is all about rice dishes,,,,,, imagine househusband azul making a cute bento for you every day. <3 packing and forming the rice into the shape of hearts or stars or animals or even your favorite character mascots!!! he wakes up very early so that he has plenty of time to cook everything fresh that morning. only the best and yummiest for you. :D

[meraki-yao]

Hi! I hope I don't come across as some hater (I'm really not, I promise). I just saw someone on twitter mentioning that nick filtered rwrb on his ig. If you comment it is only visible to you or something like that. I didn't check myself, but I wonder, if it's true, why did he do that? Is just really sad ngl.. I mean again, no hate here, please don't get me wrong, I love both and nick and tzp! It is ok if you don't want to answer this or something. P.S. If anything please don't block me omg :D. P.P.S. You really seem like such a nice human being and I admire your mindset, keep it up! Take care!

I'm answering this one because 1, you're a sweetheart, thank you for asking so politely, 2, my Chinese rwrb friends did some investigating.

"rwrb" the combination of these four letters, is indeed filtered. BUT, the full name "Red White & Royal Blue" isn't. Neither is "Henry", "Prince Henry", or "❤️🤍💙". It is literally just, the acronym.

The circled is from the recent F1 post:

At the same time, look what they found:

These screenshots are from my friend, her user interface is in Chinese so I'll translate a bit: all of these comments are from the last two hours, all from the same account, this "user24613579811". But if you look at their profile:

0 followers, 0 posts

That's suspicious, right?

On top of that, this account has been commenting under Nick's post for at least the past month

This comment, is from approximately a week ago, under the 18 May post. This is also prove that the phrase "Red White and Royal Blue" isn't filtered.

Also note that in the collection of comments, not only is "rwrb" typed as "rwr*b", but "homophobic" is typed as "homophob*c", so the word "homophobic" is probably filtered as well

So this is the hypothesis: the account has been massively harassing Nick for a while, and originally, they only used the phrase "rwrb" not the full name. Blocking this account isn't really productive because blank accounts like this are easy to set up, if you block this one, the person behind the account can just set up another one in like, five minutes. So they chose to filter "rwrb". This isn't against the project and the fandom, it's against these bully spam accounts.

My friend also said, and I quote "This is just my hypothesis, if you think otherwise, please do feel free to do some investigating yourself. Also, please remember this:"

Take care too!

[taegularities]

meraki jk! so how's you and oc now? any romantic progress going on?

Jungkook: "Hm, it's… a patient progress. We're going slow, but I wouldn't want it any other way, does this make sense?"

Jungkook, pondering: "Because… I feel like that's how the two of us started. Slowly, softly. It fits, you know? She's so tender and kind. A little much sometimes, but I've been enjoying the time with her so much. Seeing the world differently."

Jungkook, laughing: "I just fear that– this slow progress might accelerate a lot soon, and then I'll be falling head-first and hard."

[petrichormeraki]

I would like to thank Kristin and Lizzie for answering the question of what a British Minecrafter's wife thinks about his video game husbands.

Thank you wives of straight white men that act very a little homoromantic (as a treat) in block game for encouraging this behavior, they are the backbones of this fandom

[etherealyoungk]

hi your blog is so cute! your writing is also so amazing <3 i hope you have a nice day :)

hi! aw thank you so much! that makes me so happy <3 i hope you're doing well and having a good day/night too :)

[winxwannabe]

Do you have any sparxshipping fanfict recommendation? I feel like I have read everything good out there and that there aren't many new ones.

So this anon is months old at this point, and at the time I didn't answer because I didn't really have new recs. That's no longer true, so here are the fics I'm reading now (not counting tbhtbh because that's like assigned homework):

I've gushed about Damn the Dark before, but @mira-meraki has a continuation now called Break the Silence. We're only 3 chapters in as of answering this, but it's already everything I could have hoped for in a sequel and more. It's got a post S3 team-up, we're exploring Darkar's Avalon & Shadowhaunt's overall impact on Bloom as a person, and Baltor is a simp for her the entire time. There's literally nothing to dislike. (My mind automatically equates S2 stuff with Darkar, he's not involved, I'm bad at words sometimes)

To play with a master went up post-receiving this ask, and the final chapter was just published. I've only read chapter one, but that's enough for me to recommend it. It's already been a dark, twisty road and I am full speed ahead. Beep beep, bitch.

@bloomvalyria is also working on The Dragon Queen, which I am beyond excited for just based on the prologue and the freaking comic she made for it. I don't know what's going to happen (she won't tell me) but I am ready for it.

[jatcv]

If you receive this, you make somebody happy! Go on anon and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs cheering up. If you get one back, even better! ♡♡

❤️❤️🙏

Thank you! ^^

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