#modern thai sign language

[illuminaryart]

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[absolutebl]

Hello! I discovered your blog relatively recently so forgive me if you’ve already done this but would you consider compiling a list of all the times crossdressing has been done in bl? Whether as a plot-device, for comedy, for serious reasons, just all the times crossdressing as a trope has appeared.

In a similar vein if you wanted to explore it I’d also be interested in the breadth of trans rep in bl/queer shows and movies in Asian media and if that ever blends into the crossdressing (maybe also drag would be interesting to throw into the mix as well?). Also just an exploration of Queer Femme characters that are not made fun of or villainized by the narrative would be cool! Basically just exploring femme queer aspects in bl in all its good, bad, and I’m sure sometimes ugly forms!

Hi, welcome! Ooo, crossdressing. Frankly I can't think of many and I don't have great recall on this one so I will have to ask the feed.

BL's With Crossdressing

Meet You At The Blossom (China 2024) - major plot point

Nobleman Ryus Wedding (Korea 2021) - historical, entire premise

Kieta Hatsukoi AKA My Love Mix-Up! (Japan 2021)

Love Stage (Japan 2020) - major plot point (better executed in the anime version)

Love Stage (Thailand 2022) - major plot point better executed than either Japanese version

About Youth (Taiwan 2022)

I Told Sunset About You (Thailand 2020)

Jack & Joker (Thailand 2024)

My Bromance the movie (Thailand 2014)

My Love Mix-up (Thailand 2023)

I Am Your King (Thailand 2017) - this is Mark Siwat's first BL, and yeah, he's the one cross dressing (he plays the femme rich boy in Jack & Joker)

The Sign (Thailand 2024) - historical costume for the girl of the past being played by a boy is a gender mix of female/male attire, it's very clever

YYY (Thailand 2022)

I feel like Gun has crossdressed in one of his. Theory of Love maybe?

Mr Cinderella (Vietnam 2022)

My Sky (Vietnam 2017) - trigger warning

My Lascivious Boss (Vietnam 2021) - major plot point

Moots et al...... other (older?) BLs with cross dressing?

Others worth noting

Either the representation or the BL is in question, or it's not exactly crossdressing it's something else. Still, some obscure ones just in case.

Wait For Me at Udagawachou AKA Udagawachou de Matteteyo (Japan 2015) - may be triggering involves body dysmorphia and fetishization of trans identity, but if you can you should watch this

Spring of Crush (Korea 2022) - this is a bromance

Rainbow Prince (Pinoy 2022)

DNA Says Love You (Taiwan 2022)

Great Men Academy (Thailand 2019)

3 Will Be Free (Thailand 2019)

Love Sick 2024 (Thailand) - made an aggressively male character from the original into a newly out 3rd gender/trans character in the new version, very intentional modernization choice, fascinating. Directly addresses dead naming among other things in the few scenes she has.

Saneha Stories series from Thailand

You should follow Cooheart on IG he does some fantastic gender bending and crossdressing styles. He's the fashion icon gift that keeps on giving.

Thai BL has tons of representation and use of characters/actors of Thai third gender, a lot of which is for comedy. Rarely if ever in BL more like Diary of the Tootsies. I would say my favorite and most beloved 3rd G rep is in The Sign. But that is is different than what you asked for.

Femme rep I have talked about before, most specifically in the context of Daisy in Secret Crush On You......

More Queer Lens & Thai BL 

BL Linguistics & Queer Identity I Am Gay versus I Like Men 

Husband Wife Language in Thai BL (SOTUS, TharnType + a lot of 2022 BL) 

Thai BL Lacks Representation of Butch & Transgender Men (and why this has to do with Thailand's 3rd Gender) 

Thai Military Service & Thai BL

Hope that helps.

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[im-obsess-with-pixel-characters]

Posting headcanons on here cuz that's what the cool people do on this app (or so I've heard)

Mystreet addition!

• Travis and Sasha are cousins, that didn't know they were cousins until post season 3 (I basically looked at them both and basically said; "this would be some good family drama")

• Dante got a tongue piercing because Gene dared him to get one

• Travis and Sasha used to sneak off Friday nights to hang out without anyone knowing

• Aphmau and Zane had SOME feelings for each other post season 1 (I adore Zanemau)

• Katelyn and Travis were pretend dating for like the majority of mystreet

• Travis was given SO mucuch money by Michael even tho Micheal was only giving Travis a SMALL portion of his money per month, Travis still has too much money till this day

• Garroth can't and I mean CAN'T be trusted near a stove

• Laurance semi knows how to cook, he knows the basic at least because of Cadenza

• Zane is a baker and cook

• Vylad took a part-time job that ended up becoming his job for like 2 years (he was working at a flower shop) until he moved to a fashion industry with Zane

• Zane was a designer when he signed up for a fashion industry and then got into modeling due to one of his work colleagues convincing him to try it

• Zianna taught his 'sons' how to sew stuff

• Lucinda is just the same Lucinda from mcd, she's immortal okay?

• Michael is very ancient and used metal rulers to punish Travis, most times about lower than average grades that he gets (aka anything under an A)

• in middle School Travis was the definition of "President perfect" he was likeable by everyone he was naturally pretty and was always one to show up early also a straight A student

• Dante till this day still doesn't understand how he and Travis became friends in middle School, Travis is like this goddess while Dante was some late average grade normie

• Laurence took ballet

• Gene almost got sent to a violin academia by his mom cuz he was so good at violin

• Dante had a 'little' crush on Travis but decided to just back away from that she tried to ignore it since Travis and Katelyn are "Dating"

• In high school Zane and Vylad betted on how gay Garroth was, whoever won that bet even if it's years later had to do whatever the person who won said, and if it's something expensive then it'd be a one-time

• Garte is actually better in my universe (I can't fully defend him yet, all I can say is that he did help Zianna through tough times)

• Vylad and Zane has the same father but Zane is still older then Vylad by a few Days

• Vylad and Zane are twins even if they don't look like it

• Vylad and Zane would hang out in secret always anytime they can hang out

• all the Ro'maeve brothers are multilangual

• Travis speaks so many languages, (list; English,French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, mandarin, Malaysian, Italian,German,Tagalog,Arabic,Russian,Thai, Vietnamese,Icelandic,Polandic, that doesn't include the fact he knows sign language and Morse code)

• Travis and Gene both knows sign language and would talk shii about people and also gossip in private while not being in private

• Sasha knows sign language but doesn't bother to tell anyone she's here for the gossip

• Dante and Zenix is fed up with Gene and Travis and started communicating through

• Travis understands Morse code only because Dante taught him, but Dante thought Travis forgot how to do Morse code which was his own problem

• Travis barely remembered anyone from the street when he first moved in with the guys, it was so strange that even other people that barely knew Travis was interested

• Lucinda try to figure out what was happening with Travis but had no idea, her magic doesn't extend to ancient magic anymore since she has modernized her magic. Even with the blockages she has she tries to figure out what's wrong Maybe by a potion but she found no specific potion that could do it most of those potions were illegal and she sense no specific potions she sense Magic

• but Lucinda never stopped searching for why Travis didn't remember anyone besides Dante, since there was no record of any major accidents involving Travis or the valkrums

• Micheal gave Travis a box of crystals cuz he had a obsession with crystals (still do) and Travis was shocked by the amount of emeralds there was in that box there was around 50 something emeralds if counting the broken shards, if counting the whole emeralds there would be like 35 which is still a lot

• Terry once threatened Micheal to turn his physical form into a relic due to a factor that Michael was trying to erase an important memory and Terry wasn't having it that day

• Travis would endlessly rant about crystals to Vylad which had started to make Vylad actually interested in crystals and start looking into them and then got obsessed over it with Travis

• Dante as a teen was a hoarder, he grew out of it eventually

• Gene, despite being a horrible person in general in high school, he tried his best to be a better person around Dante trying not to influence him cuz he is far much more aware the fact that Dante can be influenced by him and he does not need Dante to be on his level of trouble

• Gene is far nicer to Travis than other one of Dante's friend, most likely due to the fact there was already this out of nowhere trust bond that existed when Dante first introduced Travis to Gene

•Zane had braces throughout freshman year and no one noticed cuz he had a mask on, then he got retainers mid season 3

• Zane is diagnose autistic

• Garroth and Aphmau is undiagnosed ADHD even though Travis has multiple time told them to get diagnosed due to the fact of the symptoms they had visibly and every time they always have this conversation;

"well are you a psychologist?"

"No"

"then how can you see the ADHD symptoms?"

"Cuz I have ADHD!"

"oh..uhm well you pay for a psychologist then!"

And then Travis actually gets them appointed to a psychologist for a ADHD diagnose and they got an actually official diagnose because of Travis and his ridiculous amount of money

• Vylad is dyslexic and Travis would spend hours after school in the library with him teaching him stuff, even if that means getting home late which Michael usually don't mind cuz he's never home until midnight Vylad got his permission card to stay late from his mom

• Vylad is the reason Zane is into my little horsey, Vylad actually introduced Zane to so many cartoons that now they can binge watch any kind of cartoons that Vylad puts on the platter

This whole post is just me ranting about stuff I wish were canon but isn't Canon, but hey no one can really stop me from posting this :]

[respectthepetty]

Jeng speaking English should come with at least a 10 minute warning so I can collect myself.

goddammit!!!!

Y'all know that I mute and speed up my shows, so I didn't realize he was speaking English until the Thai subs kept coming up; then, I had to rewind and slow it down to hear it, so I could appreciate the cuteness. Jeng bringing out his multilingual side to confess AGAIN made him more adorable!

And because this isn't the first time the use of another language in a BL has caused me to stop in my tracks, let me give you something you didn't even ask for -

My Top Five Favorite Uses of Another Language in BLs!

offered in no particular order

My Only 12% - English

Cake was studying with his pals when he decided to call it a night. He went into his bedroom and apologized to his boyfriend Eiw for waking him up. Eiw told Cake he wasn't really sleeping well because Cake wasn't next to him, and that was all it took for Cake's heart-eyes to be activated. He kissed Eiw so tenderly only to then dedicate an ode to Eiw's entire body, mind, and soul all in English while kissing each part of Eiw's body as he praised it. What a king!

Never Let Me Go - Mandarin

I already thought that Palm liked Nueng's mean side a little too much before Wu and David wandered into Mam's bar, but this exchange solidified that Palm had a specific kink and Nueng was more than happy to offer Palm a helping hand a scolding insult. Nueng took great pleasure calling his boyfriend a fool in every language he knew including Mandarin, and I'm sure that is part of the reason Palm came around to Nueng extending his time abroad for schooling. The more education Nueng has, the more languages he can berate Palm in.

Unintentional Love Story - Spanish

The main couple were great, but I was showing up every week for Donghee and Hotae's friends-to-enemies-to-menaces plot because once they screamed at each other in the alley, the only reasonable next step was to sleep together, no? Maybe that's just me, but Hotae trying to prove to Donghee that he was serious about him by learning Spanish like one of the Hisstrange (Hispanic) men Donghee liked had me screaming, "SECOND SEASON WHEN?" which now I must patiently wait for to see how well Hotae's improves his language skills for his amor.

KinnPorsche - English

The VegasPete arc was a wild ride. They went from spying and torturing to crying and fucking in the span of two episodes, but what was the craziest moment of them all was when after sex and STILL CHAINED UP, Vegas turned to Pete and softly said, "Do you know how sexy you are?" Like . . . bitch, what?! Even crazier was Pete's apathetic response of "mmm" as if he had heard that line a thousand times after bringing countless men to their knees with his free therapy and snarky comebacks. Vegas served a lot of great English lines, but this one took the cake, and the tossed salad.

Moonlight Chicken - Modern Standard Thai Sign Language

Heart and Li Ming's story was already the sweetest thing since a nice mango sorbet on a hot day, but add in the fact that Wen, the bridge between Li Ming and his uncle Jim, was not only fully supportive of these two kids finding happiness within each other, but started to learn MSTSL so he could communicate with Heart was what pushed me over the edge. Heart's own parents couldn't be bothered to learn how to communicate with their son, but Li Ming's very-gay-uncle's boyfriend did. Wen knew he needed an ally to deal with these stubborn guys, and no better than the boyfriend of your-soon-to-be-nephew. Ghost Host, Ghost House gets an honorable mention for MSTSL as well.

Bonus

KinnPorsche - English

Ken and Big were two bad bitches and the Regina George and Maddy Perez of Kinn's bodyguard squad. Big had his reasons for disliking Porsche like being jealous that the man he loved was in love with this idiot, but Ken just hated Porsche for being an idiot who upset the guy he was in love with (Ken x Big is canon to me), so when Ken yelled, "Are you fucking dumb, bro?!" at Porsche with Perth's Australian accent, I was cackling. It made me instantly think Ken was the mole because only someone who was rocking with Vegas "but this wasn't the fucking plan" Theerapanyakul could drop bangers like this.

[ae-azile]

Going to try and get chapter 18 of Progression out by tomorrow. Writing was slow this week and I only have 6k of what will probably be at least a 10k chapter.

I work with Deaf + other diagnoses clients, most of whom have some level of language deprivation as a main setback/trigger/trauma, and several who have behaviors stemming from abuse, neglect, unstable home lives/family units, adoption and the complexities that come with it, etc. It's been a ROUGH week. I have been working with the Deaf community for six years now. While I am almost fluent in ASL, it can be even more draining to debrief in a second language about extremely aggressive behaviors and big feelings with clients who did not have access to an understandable language during their early years.

That's probably why I give Namphueng previous knowledge of sign language in the stories I feature her in. People don't understand how hurtful language deprivation is psychologically and developmentally. There are parents who clearly love their Deaf children, but make very little effort to learn sign. They get upset and frustrated when aggressive behaviors develop, but aggression is a form of communication. Not a healthy form, but sometimes that is all there is when you feel unheard.

And I guess that's why I always make sure Namphueng (who is not deaf, but has had her oral speech impacted by trauma and who knows what else) is surrounded by people willing to learn sign, along with one or more proficient signers. The trauma that develops from people excluding you from conversations by not making them accessible, refusing to learn a language you both can understand, etc is more immense than people realize. Unfortunately, the way I approach it in this fic reflects only a small minority of families.

Anyway, that was my strange hybrid fanfic/real life update. Maybe it will provide some insight on why I approach Namphueng's situation the way I do, or at least why my update might be a little late. Or maybe it will encourage people to learn sign language!

Fun fact = an American signer and a Thai signer having a voice off conversation would understand each other a lot better than an American signer and a British signer. Sign Languages across the world vary greatly, but some countries on opposite parts of the world can match more closely than countries that primarily use the same spoken language. This often boils down to which signed languages develop first, and who influences who (French sign and grammar, Martha's Vineyard signs, and various signs from different villages primarily influenced ASL, modern Thai Sign has been influenced by their older indigenous sign and ASL, and other countries may borrow from British Sign or from other areas of the world). So while learning sign language is beneficial, learning about Deaf culture on a local and international level is neat too. I suggest people check out classes, local groups/meet-ups, and research online resources if you have any interest at all. It can be more useful than you realize. 🙂

[fairysteve]

What was private school like? I'm assuming you don't have a basis to compare to a public school (and those vary drastically depending on where you're at in the world/country/state/or even within the same city) but maybe you do have thay comparison.

Just curious maybe even to what kind of classes were offered? A school is a school but there has to be something to set a private school in a different category or why would they exist.

💙

I got insecure and googled it, and according to wikipedia a more accurate name is charter school as tuition was free. The admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis.

But it was still different from public school, which I did go to. I started charter school in 6th grade and then went to a public high school afterwards.

My specific charter school is called Kunskapsskolan (knowledge school) and surprisingly, out of 80 schools, only 36 are in Sweden. (Apparently, they have schools in the UK, USA, the Netherlands, India, and Saudi Arabia. Although Wikipedia uses the word sponsored for them so they might not operate the same?)

Anyway.

It was a very individual learning plan; the subjects were split into steps and courses. You had a step goal for the step subjects since that was completely under the student's control, and then a grade goal for the rest as the course classes had group projects, while music, art, and phys ed were weekly classes.

The classes in another province were home ec, wood shop, textile shop/sewing, and engineering. Engineering tended to be part of the courses. I only chose sewing once, and that was the time I didn't go lol

For those classes, you had two classes each day; one subject before lunch and one after.

The rest of the year, you planned your schedule each morning in a logbook and then your homeroom teacher had to sign off on it.

For the step subjects (swedish, english, modern language, math), there were workshops hosted by teachers if you wanted to be able to ask for help. Otherwise, there were computers or group rooms that you could use to study on your own or with classmates.

For the course subjects, there were obligatory lectures and seminars.

Every fifth step, you had to show your work to a teacher, and there were certain things you had to do in class, so planning your schedule was important.

Of course, this whole step system meant that you could skip school very easily. You just had to be back for homeroom at the end of the day, and not miss any obligatory stuff. I took some very long lunch breaks and afternoon breaks.

And it was very easy to use the computers for other things. I wrote a lot of fanfiction for a certain magic school fandom, made games using powerpoint, and went on forums. I also wrote a lot of poetry during this time.

There was also one year that I had a lot going on and just fully skipped phys ed, but never got told off, and I also got a passing grade. (This coincided with the year that one of the math/science teachers was also teaching phys ed, at least for my class.)

Oh, and my homeroom teacher married the music teacher. The above-mentioned year, she was on parental leave. My class and the music teacher's class got to see their home in 9th grade. They had made a quiz where each answer was a student; I was the answer for a question about Alice in Wonderland.

(Each grade had 4 classes, I was in class 2 and the music teacher was responsible for class 4. The labeling was grade-class so I was in 6-2, 7-2, 8-2 and 9-2.)

Other fun facts to throw in is that the school used to be a mental hospital. There was a locked building on the grounds full of old hospital beds and stuff, but the windows were blocked so you couldn't really see in. I had a friend in the grade above that was a medium and said the school was haunted.

My class had a sleepover at the school in ninth grade, as our fun graduation thing.

Oh, and there was a yearly, student written musical. I never ended up being brave enough to participate but they were fun to watch!

[cheswirls]

sa fic rec list [non-eng] pt 2!!

1) About Pirates Who Tell Tales by Hattis

https://ficbook.net/readfic/9819431 russian - complete - M rating - 551 pages

i don’t think i can do another russian section without paying homage to this giant of a fic so. yea let’s do that.

want to preface this by saying yes, it is very long – it is also very worth it. my favorite part of the whole story is the second epilogue, and you really need the context of the whole fic thus far to take in what makes the scene so good, which means. yes. i am telling you to read all of it AND its worth it a promise. even if it takes a long time.

the au is like.. historical real-world i suppose?? it’s a pirate au y’know how those go. not-one-piece pirates. i’m sure everyone has thought abt it more than once. imo this fic does a rly good job of not glossing over the goings-on of the era it depicts. when Hattis wants you to think someone is cruel and savage she really gets the point across. also REALLY good at depicting highly emotional moments, whether it be hopelessness, panic, despair, devotion, salvation, whimsy, heartfelt joy. i think it’s fair to say everyone gets what they deserve by the end, be it in a good or bad way.

there is so much uhhhhhh that goes into this one and it has been a minute since i finished it so this is a bare-bones summary: ace is a pirate under the flag of another, and sabo is an english nobleman. by birthright they both follow in the footsteps of cruel legacies, and become more and more entwined each time their paths cross.

this fic rly chews you up and spits you back out as a different type of whole. in a good way. like, i promise reading it is not gonna break you. it gets tough at times but everything works out :’)

before this gets too long one final tidbit: there is so much symbolism at work and it all culminates so well but my favorite one (and the one that connects w my favorite scene in the whole story) is that ace’s beaded necklace is made from blood pearls, and was (if i’m remembering correctly) his mothers before his own, and he and sabo pass it back and forth to each other over the course of the fic as a tangible sign of their devotion to each other.

2) life [i’m glad i’m alive] and life [1+1=1] by normal_q

cat’s pov // ace’s pov thai - complete - G rating - 12k (p1) + 11k (p2)

a duo!! they are both the same story, just altered c: it doesn’t matter which you start with, so i’ve linked them in publishing order.

i spent sooooo loooooooooong last year looking for these and failed because i was searching for it in the wrong language. stumbled upon the pair by chance earlier this year and saved them immediately. i didn’t think there were two and the fact they’re in thai completely tripped me up (sn: there are so many sa fics in thai but all the translators i’ve tried to use won’t recognize the symbols and when translated into eng come out as a wall of ⊠⊠⊠. idk why ao3 is different but it does it correctly so!! saving grace ig) but i am so glad i found them again.

in the story, there is a human sabo and a cat sabo. human sabo is overseas and him and ace have a long-distance relationship. cat!sabo is a recent addition and a pretty good insight to ace’s loneliness. about the day-to-day lives of ace and cat. (another sn: there’s a death warning in the first link bc it’s alluding to the nine lives of a cat, as this is cat!sabo’s ninth “life”, so there is no actual death involved promise promise!!!)

this pair of fics is really charming and filled with melancholy. if you have time to spare i highly recommend giving one of them a go. it’s a quick read and leaves you feeling warm inside by the end.

3) idiot couple’s house record by Wirola

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26487442 chinese - complete - M rating - 8k

this one is SO cute!!! also bittersweet but that doesn’t detract from the fluff. it’s modern au, starting at the beginning of the pandemic when the area sabo and ace are living in goes under quarantine and they have to cancel their wedding ceremony :[ sad.

it follows their lives together from that point onward, with sabo working long hours from home and ace stuck at home. it’s super cute and heartfelt and also just. realistic. you really feel feel for them as the story progresses. like, at one point ace stages a “wedding” in animal crossing to show sabo only for him to get a call from work and be stuck with it and not get done until long after everything is over. and the next day has my favorite line and probably one of the most heart-wrenching of the story: “Sabo thought resentfully in the dim light of the computer screen, it's none of my business, I'm just a garbage doctor who delays people to death with useless conversations, so garbage that I can't even save my marriage.”

it doesn’t end sad tho i promise all of these are good, happy endings aaaaAAA!!! still, i think when you’re supposed to feel depressed, wirola does a tremendous job of putting you in that mindset.

the second half is more lighthearted. ace gets a vr headset and keeps getting hurt, so sabo buys a bunch of childproof equipment for the house in the hopes of preventing injuries and forwards the bill to a coworker for reimbursement, and said coworker... misunderstands and rants online that sabo and ace have a baby before her, which is completely unfair. misunderstandings galore. garp sends luffy halfway across the world to see them w gifts and meat following the false “news”. everything works out in the end.

this one def makes you laugh and cry all in one sitting. worth it tho!!

4) couple’s travel hotel guide by SiebenL

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29556993 chinese - complete - T rating - ~7k

i really love fics that are formatted in sections like this. it has been too long for me to remember much, so i reread it before adding it so i could ramble a little more. and. yeah. i can see why i had it on the list.

siebenL writes a lot of interesting premises in fics and this one hits the spot. it jumps all over the place in the lives and relationship between professional photographer ace and (on the side) blogger/hotel reviewer sabo. i don’t think sabo’s (main) profession is really ever defined? something to do w/ writing. not that it rly matters.

the formatting is overall what does it for me on this one and why i’m putting it above all other of siebenL’s works (at least for the list!) it bounces between present, reviews + comment section, and past interactions. if sabo has some notoriety, he blogs anonymously, because it’s unknown. meanwhile ace is a popular photographer for a famous magazine, and it’s fun to see all the hints to such unfold with each review. (: sabo attaching ace’s photos to reviews to counter his own (incredibly mediocre) shots, and ppl in the comments connecting the dots on who his friend A is after the (second scene’s) most recent review by going back thru older entries.

also, like always, the way siebenL depicts ace and sabo is so fantastically good. (if you like this one i high-key recommend you check out other works of theirs ! ) both of them meet after exchanging notes thru a homestay’s message (cork)board because they never have the same timetables to be in the building at the same time, until the very end of both of their stays, when they run into each other by chance. and then it goes from there!

5) Arctic Lovers by Ryo

https://pattco863.postype.com/post/9632169 korean - complete - T rating - 1k

admittedly all of ryo’s sa works are good, but since this is the first one i read uhhh quite a bit ago now, i have a particular soft spot for it. the prose is very lyrical and sweet, and even though it’s not too long, i definitely think it’s worth checking out. 

it’s mostly sabo’s internal musings about living somewhere cold with ace. along with a little insight into their life together. short and soft and sweet and everything ever. if you don’t feel like committing to something longer, then out of everything on this list, pls give this one a chance :) and if you like ryo’s writing, go check out the rest of their works too. 

6) we love you! by Wings of Freedom

https://sperospara.postype.com/post/6648591 korean - in progress - T rating - ???k

this is a series, and the first work of ten is linked above, so here is the series link. (also postype doesn’t do wc and i am not rounding up each part individually so like uh best guess is 15k+)

although it’s not complete and i didn’t get a chance to re-read everything recently, i think from what i remember it can read as completed. meaning. there aren’t any loose ends, so it’s just a matter of not being everything the author wanted to write. anyway, point is, please don’t let the incomplete status scare you away !!

the story is about ace, a (1st yr) criminal justice major, and sabo, a pre-med student, moving into the same residence together right before the start of the semester without knowing the property has been rented out to both. they clear the misunderstanding fast, decide to split the house between 1st floor and 2nd floor, and begin their first year of living together while attending university.

when i first read this work i flew through over half the series in one day and swept by the rest of the parts relatively quickly following that. something about the author’s writing style makes it all really easy to digest. the setting was a cool change too, since i’ve never read a sa work set in korea before! and just. them. they’re so heartwarming and the way they realize their feelings for each other gradually and forming conclusions about each other and going for it is all really sweet. cannot recommend this one highly enough.

[kafkaoftherubble]

!!! Oh but will it take away the experience of learning them?! Or will it work by granting me some really basic innate grasp like kids do in their critical period, and then I can master those languages well?!

Oh wait. It says “instantly”. Okay... never mind that was never the point...

The languages I wanna be fluent in are...

Sign language! Preferably the dialect (?) the most number of signing people will understand! I don't actually have any grand reason for it... Oh, wait! I do! This way I can talk and listen to even more people!

Sanskrit! This is partly something I wanna learn for the benefit of the other guy. This is for reading Buddhist philosophy, but it's technically most useful only for Indian Mahayana streams like the Madhyamaka school and the Yogacara school. So I should put a... 2.5. the Pali language! Now this is for the earliest stuff! This way I can read the Buddha doing his repetition schtick, where he repeated the same goddamn sentences with only one or two words changed for like 3 or 5 or 7 times... in his own language! Authentic nagging!

Latin! It's even adjacent to Sanskrit! This is because I do so love the English language. I know it's gotta be the most basic thing to say, liking English and all, but I used to read the dictionary when I was a kid and I just couldn't help but wonder about the etymology of each word. Also, maybe if I'm fluent in Latin, I will be at a good place to learn modern Latin languages!

German! It's something younger versions of me had wanted! As their current heir, I can technically fulfill their goals if I want to. Plus I'd be in a good place to understand/learn Dutch and Swedish and Danish and stuff! I'll be able to pick up that Swedish lithe they have! (Okay, I mean, I can also try to pick up that lithe from Irish or Gaelic...)

Thai! Because I want to be able to visit Ayutthaya by myself every now and then and just watch the sunset at Ayutthaya Historical Park and the elephants traveling at a distance. Some of the best days in our life were made in Thailand, especially Ayutthaya. There, we are not a ghost.

However, if I'm being honest... I don't think I'll mind not knowing how to instantly speak one or two of these languages if this power allows me to preserve a dying language or two before it gets properly store permanently, like maybe by an AI language model. I just hope I'll have someone to speak it to with this unique language, though.

Oh man. I should probably put "insect language" as one of the 5! I dislike insects and bugs, so I wanna learn how to say "Fuck off my property" and "Could you very sweetly fuck off from my property?" and "Halt, good sir, the window is that way. Best be on your way!" in their language so we can establish mutual trust.

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

[heretosingallyourworriesaway]

Fun Facts about SR Stella Star

Stella Star in the Space Riders AU

Personal Fun Facts:

Hobbies: Dancing, sewing, and training

Stella’s tail is made up of over 200 feathers, it is also five feet long and weighs 8 pounds (No, a peacock's tail is not 8 pounds, it's half a pound but she has more feathers). If she gets it wet it will weigh half her body weight.

Is very prideful of her tail and takes great care of it even though being a Space Rider means getting dirty every now and then. If someone intentionally ruins her tail (pulling feathers or getting it wet) she goes through the five stages of grief. Depending on how bad the damage is, at the end of the five stages of grief she’s either crying on the floor or strangling the person who did it. Moral of the story: don’t pull a prank on Stella that may mess up her tail

Cleaning her tail (She calls it tail care) takes her two hours, which can be longer if it gets messed up.

She HATES it when people touch her tail without asking or calling her pet names or nicknames without her permission.

Her native language is French which is her birth planet’s language. English was a language she was starting to learn before she left Planet Azure and continued learning on Planet Muse. In her teenage years, she started learning Spanish since it was the language most used on Planet Muse. She has learned the language to the point she can have a full-fledged conversation in Spanish. She’s also started to pick up on some German and Italian during her time in the dance club, she learned enough to at least communicate with a tourist or customer. She also knows ASL thanks to Jewel who taught her after she noticed her copying her signs when she speaks to her father who is deaf. 

Knows Ballet, Modern Dance, and Céilidh, from her time on Planet Azure. Learned Waltz, Tango, Salsa, Line Dance, and Flamenco while on Planet Muse. Her friends have tried to get her to try Hip-hop and Jazz dance but she’s not a big fan of the music (even though she can keep up with the beat).

She is a pro at gymnastics due to her starting it at age two.

Has a job at a dance club on Planet Muse. Is very popular on Planet Muse because of this.

Stella is very talented at doing card tricks (though her wind powers help with it) but when it comes to card games? She’s terrible at them.

Fish is her favorite food, she will eat any kind. She also loves raspberry lemonade.

Stella will eat any type of gummy candy but the way to her heart? Gummy Bears and Sour Gummy Worms. (She can totally be bribed with these treats as well)

She is pretty good at lying as long as she isn't nervous because if she is, smoke will start coming out of her mouth.

When she gets scared she will scream and then punch. Her tail feathers will also puff up in surprise and if she’s got enough room, open up.

She can sew and likes making new outfits to dance in or even just for a friend. Before she became a Space Rider, back on Planet Muse she would make her and her friends outfits for the dance club

Space Rider Fun Fact:

Formerly went on lone missions, and would do any kind but she was the best at stealth or scout missions. She would be teamed up with other Space Rider teams or lone riders to help them with their missions.

While Stella has special training to swim with her tails expanded like a White Thai Fighting Fish so she would be able to go on underwater missions, she still wouldn’t go unless she really has to. Why? Cleaning her tail after is a nightmare but she will suck it up cause she can’t complain too much; she’s a Space Rider, and she knew what she was getting herself into.

Went to Elysium Academy

She uses a hoverbike as her transport and she had to learn how to fix it herself. Later she started to learn how to fix other transport vehicles.

Stella is great at hand-to-hand combat but isn't the best at weapon combat due to the fact the only weapon she knows how to wield is a dagger and she was only really taught how to throw and use them for long-distance purposes.

Can’t cook very well and her reasoning: she's a dancer and wasn't a bartender she didn't need to know how to cook

Power Fun Facts:

While Stella can discharge a wind blast from her mouth, she can not combine a wind blast and the blue smoke in one attack. Why? Simple; the smoke would go into her lungs and cause her to have a coughing fit.

Space Riders AU by @onyxonline

[tastytrailstoronto]

Orchid Thai Aurora: Thai Shrimp Curry and Spring Rolls

My love language is listening. It's not that I think I'm a good person because I listen. I genuinely enjoy listening to other people. With some rare people, I feel I could listen to them for days and days and never get bored.

I don't love listening to a lawyer, though, so after spending an hour listening and signing paper after paper,  I was relieved to get away to a restaurant I had spotted across the road. A Thai restaurant in Aurora with neon signs and a large hand-drawn sign alerting customers to a drive-through was unusual enough for me to be curious.

I loved the interior. It's one of those places that brings together kitsch and authenticity in a way that is delightful and intriguing. Everything seemed to have a story behind it, if only I knew what it was. The music seemed to be a blend of traditional and modern Thai. Everyone in here was speaking a language different from English and it felt like the relief of a soft breeze in summertime.

My dad was a good listener. "A man of few words" could describe him, but not in a gruff way. I would often sit in the back of our car with him in the front after church, both of us waiting for my mother and sister to finish talking. I had my book. He had a hand-rolled cigarette that would occasionally go out or shed small pieces of tobacco like the way a few pieces of rice escape a wrap.

Person after person would stop by and sit in the passenger seat. He would say hi, with a twinkle in his eye, and the rest of the conversation from him sounded like, "uh-huh, uh-huh," sprinkled with a gentle laugh. Whatever it was, the other person would leave with an offer to come by for coffee later on that day.

The sense of calm that I feel here brings back those memories with him. The food was good. I had the Thai spring rolls, which were a bit too greasy for me, but a good price at $5.95. For a main, I had the Gang-Par-Goong, which was quite good.

I could sit here and let the stress roll off my shoulders for another two hours, just listening to the soundscape and drinking in the carvings, sculptures, bowls and more. A lovely transportation on a cool autumn day.

[absolutebl]

Hi! I’m currently watching The Sign, and I’ve seen some posts about Tharn’s genderfuckery in regards to Wansarat. As a trans/genderqueer person myself, I can definitely see it, but I was wondering if you’d be able to and want to go into more depth about this?

Thank you so much!!! :)

Oh, hum. I think I'd have to do a rewatch to give it due diligence. And right now I just don't have time.

But the two things I noticed at the time were 1. Wansarat's language use in the past (remember historical Thai is already different from modern Thai linguistically) and, more easy to spot, is 2. Wansarat's attire. If you look up Thai historical/mythological dress (specifically on temple art), that main outfit is a pretty nifty mix of multi-gender nobility/deity in one visual. I was charmed.

I should note that Thai attire of the Siam period and earlier for the majority of the population was already pretty darn gender neutral. The chong kraben was worm by most people in a similar way, it's a length of cloth passed through the legs and wrapped to cover the lower body. (Yes, all genders went topless.) Of course then came the policing of the female body.

So what I'm talking about is more the historical dress of the elites and the attire depicted on both them and royalty in temple art (wats) and the like. Something like what queens, consorts, and concubines are shown wearing versus princes, kings, and other nobility. Wansarat's filmy green drape thing and gold jewelry in particular.

(don't pay attention to the hair or fabric type, it's way off)

All that said, I'm not a historical costumer or anything, this isn't my bailiwick. I do love Thai mythology frescos tho.

[respectthepetty]

Me reading your posts at my JOB because if I'm going to have you call me out like this

I'm going to do it on the Boss Man's dime.

Per usual, another excellent post that brings up the important questions like why do these red sun men keep bringing home blue moon dudes who love Jimbo the cat more than them?

But also questioning if Modern Thai Sign Language has fingerspelling, which it does, but the signs are connected to phonetic syllables (sounds) rather than letters since Thai is tonal, like you mentioned. However, since MTSL and American Sign Language (Black American Sign Language is not the same) are from the same sign language branch (French Sign Language), several of the signs that Heart uses still maintain the rarely-used ASL identifier of Y(ou)

This is Y in the ASL alphabet:

*Signs will be in all caps. This is called Gloss in ASL and the Gloss correlates to an English word*

Heart uses that Y-shape when signing to Li Ming that spilling the liquor was YOU WRONG (not sure of the second sign). *slowed down because Heart signs quickly*

The Thai word for YOU doesn't start with a Y, but we see Heart use the Y-shape to not only show Li Ming it's YOU but that sign is transitional from Li Ming to Heart, so that sign is showing YOU (you-to-me have caused) a wrong or fear.

So to shut the hell up, yes, MTSL has a system of "spelling" its words, but still maintains some ASL hand-shapes that correlate to our Gloss.

And here is a prize for anybody else reading this for making it through my additions:

These correlate to the ASL signs for TODAY NOW - Same in MTSL

And Li Ming does get flustered when he hears Heart vocalize because he almost signs NAME before SAY. These two signs are very similar to ASL except the movement is slightly different. NAME requires a repetitive tap in ASL, with no movement towards the body, and SAY is more of a pointing motion to the mouth rather than a rolling motion.

This is the way to cheer or applaud in a sign language.

Everyone applaud @wen-kexing-apologist for another great post!

Heart's Vocalization Thoughts and Feelings

Hello and welcome to another round of Moonlight Chicken Posts That Literally No One @respectthepetty Specifically Asked For:

Heart Edition Round ?? i've lost count.

Mx. RTP may have gotten me hooked on red/blue through clothing but my first and truest love will always be lighting so I need everyone, but especially Professional Life Ruin-er Formerly Known as "Petty" (you're my best friend now, sorry I don't make the rules), to understand that this specific lighting ruined my life. Like on a cellular level, my body is a wasteland, my mind will never recover. Stepping in from the outside world, from Heart's world, Heart's life, Heart's home in to the rich, red, warmth of Li Ming's world, Li Ming's home. I've said it before, but I'll say it again, if my memory serves me correctly we never see Heart in warm lighting until the end of Episode 4, and we definitely don't see Heart in red lighting until Episode 5. Up until this point when Li Ming and Heart are together, there is always blue lighting on them, and especially when they are in Heart's home there is always a blue wash on the whole scene. So finally, finally we get red lighting babyyyyyy, fuck yeah!

Ok, sorry, I'm normal again.

Initial thoughts going in to the actual scene are as follows: 1. Stripes, my beloved! 2. Heart is so head over heels for Li Ming it's ridiculous.

Anyway, I love the small little smile that Heart has on his face here when Li Ming is essentially giving him an 'I told you so' to Heart about asking his Mom. I know that Li Ming sees Heart earlier on in the episode, but he isn't present for the conversation between Li Ming and his mother so regardless of whether he knows that Li Ming talked to her, I don't think he knows the specifics. But he follows this comment up with "You're smart. You can persuade her." Obviously he knows that something happened because Heart's mother has never listened to her son before, why would she start now?

So! Much! Red! Lighting! They are in love your honor. I am so grateful for every moment we get to see of Li Ming and Heart alone together having fun. They may be on the edge of adulthood, but there is still so much repressed youth in them that has been dying to get out and can't because it's been contained by parental shame, by the need to work to survive, by the nature of generational gaps and unsuccessful attempts to protect your loved ones.

When Heart and Li Ming are by themselves (with the exception of the post confrontation mental breakdown session in Ep. 5) there is so much joy between them. And look at Li Ming, he is so proud of himself here, for successfully persuading Heart's mother to let Heart leave the house. They don't have to sneak out anymore, Heart's parents are finally starting to understand that they can't make their son problem go away if they just keep Heart cooped up.

Once again like father-figure uncle like nephew, Li Ming has found himself a love interest that is also obsessed with the family cat. Honestly, this cat is living the dream, all he has to do all day is be held for approximately 30 seconds and get fed a fuck ton of treats. So far this scene is just very cute, Heart taking in his surroundings, attaching himself immediately to the cat, absolutely bathed in red light. And there is something so simple I love about the set up this moment brings to the important turning point that immediately follows...

Heart's holding the cat with both his hands. He can't text or sign.

Side Note: I am curious if Thai sign language has finger spelling.

And here we go! Heart speaks, not just vocalizes, it's not an exclamation of surprise, it's not a shuddering breath, or a sob. It's not a squeak or random sound Heart makes because he can't hear how loud he is being. Up until this point, every time we have heard a sound from Heart it has been unintentional. This is the first time we hear Heart speak. And importantly, he doesn't have to. He doesn't have to say anything. There isn't anything urgent, nothing that would require a sound to get Li Ming's immediately attention. He doesn't need to say Jimbo's name, literally right before this he looked at Li Ming and pointed to the cat. He could have ended the acknowledgement there. But he doesn't. He speaks. And he absolutely does not look at Li Ming while he does it. He keeps his eyes trained firmly on the cat in front of him.

I stole this gif from @earthpirapat because I don't know how to make them, and because I need anyone who reads this to see Li Ming's reaction in this moment. He is also looking at Jimbo, because he, like the audience, believes that Heart is going to end his acknowledgement of the cat's name by pointing to the cat. Li Ming is content to watch his friend play with his cat, and that's all he is expecting. Until "yyim-" tickles his ear, and Li Ming's head snaps straight up to Heart's face. You can tell how surprised he is at the way he pulls his head back a bit more to really look at Heart. To make sure that what just happened is actually real when he says "bo".

And I think it's important to know that Heart does not really seem hesitant to speak. He just...does it. What he is hesitant to do is look at Li Ming. He waits a full two seconds after he's said "Jimbo" to look up from the cat he is holding in his arms.

But he has nothing to worry about because when his eyes go to Li Ming, what does he see?

A puppy dog of a man, radiating excitement. Li Ming is beaming. It's funny to me a little bit that the thought has never seemed to cross Li Ming's mind that Heart, who only went deaf three years ago, is actually able to speak. But nevertheless he is thrilled.

"You can speak?" he asks, and he's chuckling a little and pausing and you can see all the gears in his head turning as he signs because it's like his whole worldview just got rocked. And GOD I love this moment so much because from the second that Heart speaks Li Ming's eyes never leave Heart. Or if they do it is literally an unconscious thing that is happening when he's trying to remember his signs. Heart puts Jimbo down and Li Ming literally folds his body in half, to follow Heart's movement, bends over to tap him on the shoulder. "Hey, you can speak?" he says again.

"Yeah? Can you speak again? I want to hear." he asks, and he's baffled. He's losing his signs. Like he is signing successfully to Heart, sure, but it's taking him much longer to create his sentence than it normally does because he's still in such shock over what just happened. That Heart can speak, that he heard his voice. His brain cannot keep up with his emotions.

The face of a man verrryyyy skeptical that his voice would be that exciting for anyone to hear.

"I"

"Want"

"To Hear"

"Your Voice"

I have no thoughts. I have no notes for this. It is just an incredibly powerful moment to me in furthering Li Ming as a safe zone for Heart, as someone trusted and precious. Each sign is deliberate. This is a deliberate request. This isn't a question built on surprise, "wait wait do it again" this is specific. "I want to hear your voice"

Look how pleasantly surprised Heart is. Look how happy, how bewitched he is in this moment. A few weeks back, I wrote a post analyzing Heart's communication. At the time I wrote it, I was doing a lot of speculating about Heart and his ability to talk and what it meant for the character if he could versus if he couldn't. The tl;dr version was me essentially wondering how much agency Heart has over his own isolation. Is he capable of talking and chooses not to to test the people around him, maintaining control of his own isolation, with speaking as a lifeline, or because Thai is a tonal language did he lose the ability to speak because not being able to hear might impede his ability to make distinct tones. Either way he has the ability to talk, it's a matter of whether or not he could be understood if he did vocalize his words.

I got a pretty quick reply from @littlederxxnged with a link to this Tweet quoting P'Aof and Heart's voice:

And if this quote is real, if the reason Heart doesn't speak is because he lacks the confidence to, this makes the scene all the more important and all the more wonderful for me. Because it's showing us, the audience, that Li Ming makes Heart feel confident. Li Ming makes Heart brave.

And I love that I don't get a sense of fear from Heart in any of this. Surprise? Yes. Confusion? Yes. Skepticism? A bit. Hesitation? Absolutely. But it doesn't seem to come from a place of fear. Heart is not afraid of using his voice around Li Ming, and he is never afraid of what Li Ming's reaction will be. He certainly has no idea what Li Ming's reaction will be, but it shows how much trust these two have built in one another, that Heart feels safe enough with Li Ming to test his voice.

I don't know if Heart will speak again the show. I don't care if he does. Speaking is not his primary language anymore and he doesn't owe his voice to anyone. I just want to establish that before I say I find it so much more special that Heart says his own name, rather than Li Ming's here. Why? Because the way I interpret Heart's character at this point is a man who is far more certain about what he wants out of life, now that he is able to live his life again. We get to hear Heart's name, we get to hear Heart speak for himself.

Something really cute about this moment as well is Li Ming's reaction. "I heard you just say your name!" I love that he signs to Heart what he heard. I love it so much. We know that Heart is hesitant to speak, and it takes him a second to get the word out, and I'm sure he can feel the vibrations of his vocal chords when he says his name, but he can't hear it. Li Ming is SO obviously happy, so obviously thrilled.

But this is about Heart, Li Ming's feelings have nothing to do with it. Okay, Li Ming's feelings have everything to do with it for Heart. But Li Ming's initial, gut-reaction response to hearing Heart, hesitantly say his name, is to hype the ever-loving FUCK out of that boy.

"You're great! You're awesome! How can you speak? You're so great. I'm happy." and GOD Heart can't even hear him say it. Li Ming isn't signing here, I mean he is very obviously happy, and very obviously showering Heart in praise. But Heart cannot hear him. For most of the hug he can't even read Li Ming's lips. But the pride, the joy, the excitement is so palpable. He's jumping up and down, you don't really need to hear his words to feel how happy he is about what just happened.

He pulls back "How could you do it? I'm happy. Can you see? I'm so happy," He is talking so fast. He is talking so so fast. He cannot contain himself. But he has integrated himself so much into Heart's life, that despite the fact that he is fully forgetting to sign here, he is touching Heart, he is jumping up and. down with Heart, he is showing Heart how much being trusted with his voice means to him.

Sweet baby angel, you are talking so fast. He sees a bunch of words coming out of your mouth but does not hear what you are saying. And he looks confused because he definitely did not anticipate this strong of a positive reaction to just saying his name. Especially when you consider he isn't confident in his voice. He looks confused because he almost certainly did not anticipate this outcome.

(Ignore the subtitles on that second picture, focus on Heart's smile)

Does Heart owe us his voice? No. Did we ever need to know if he could speak? No. Does this moment hit particular hard after the confrontation scene last episode concerning the use of the term "mute" in reference to Heart. Absolutely. We saw how much it hurt Heart to learn his mother refers to him as mute.

We know Heart has to beg Li Ming to even tell him what she said, Heart can see how much Li Ming hesitated to deliver that blow. He saw how strongly Li Ming was standing against his parents, he's a smart kid. He might not be able to follow the full conversation cause it's happening quickly, and they are shouting which fucks with lip shape to read lips, and Li Ming and his mother are both facing away from him. But he knows his mother said something bad, he knows Li Ming defended him.

It is so so so so so SO important to me that Heart decides to speak in this moment. That he uses his voice casually, to say a cat's name, in private, with just the two of them.

Heart's voice is not a commodity, it's not a novelty. It's a gift. And Li Ming treats it as such. Heart is being vulnerable with Li Ming. Heart hasn't spoken to anyone in three years, and when he does speak in front of Li Ming for the first time Li Ming literally cannot contain his joy. I love how many times the camera cuts to Heart's face in this, to show us to tell us that Heart loves this. That he is surprised by it, but that he is more than happy to speak again, that he is smiling the whole time because he knows how important it is to Li Ming. Because it's important to him too.

If you finished this whole post, congratulations you have won an invisible medal.

[melodiiesxfmadness]

estelle despoina desrosiers

tracked tag: desrosiersx

nicknames: stell, stella, des, poina, madre / mama ( montgomery ).

entomology:

estelle - From an Old French name meaning “star”, ultimately derived from Latin stella. It was rare in the English-speaking world in the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, perhaps due to the character Estella Havisham in Charles D*ckens’ novel Great Expectations (1860).

despoina - Means “mistress, lady” in Greek. In Greek mythology this was the name of the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon. She was worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were secret rites practiced at Eleusis near Athens.

desrosiers - Means “from the rose bushes”, from French rosier “rose bush”. It probably referred to a person who lived close to, or cared for a rose garden.

date of birth: 11.22.1973

zodiac sign: sagittarius

place of birth: rochester, ny

residence: washingtown, d.c.

gender: female

species: mortal

occupation: fbi special agent, Major Crimes Unit ( 2003 - present )

previous occupation:

lvmpd || las vegas metro police department ( 6 years, last 4 as a member of S.W.A.T. ) | 1997 - 2002

2016 - 2018 ; temporarily reassigned to the norfolk field office as part of a special task force

orientation: heterosexual

parents: both deceased.

sibling (s):

Iris Clara Desrosiers | younger sister, 33

Alexander Josue Desrosiers | older brother, 52

pets:

Agamemnon ; Belgian Malinois ; retired service dog ; 03.02.2020

Alfalfa ; American Akita ; fully trained guard dog

children:

1, montgomery “monty” jacob booth ( son || date of birth; april 25th, 2008 | father is seeley booth )

height & weight: 5'4", 175 lbs.

hair & eyes: dyed blonde ( naturally a brunette ), green.

piercings: two holes in each ear.

tattoos:

[ 001; claddagh ring ] – located along the curve of her spine, estelle got this tattoo at the five month mark of her pregnancy with her son ( montgomery ), although there is a noticeable crack in the heart.

[ 002 ] ; “The only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment.” - Marquis de Sade / located on the ribcage, left side. // this tattoo was acquired in 2015.

education:

James Monroe High School ( 1988 - 1992 )

St. John’s University ( bachelor’s in criminal justice || 1992 - 1996 ).

extra curricular activities: ice skating, girls hockey, lacrosse and field hockey.

NYPD Police Academy Training ( 6 months. || 1997. )

FBI Academy Training ( 20 weeks || 2003. )

religion: catholic.

additional spoken languages: english ( native ), french, arabic, pashto, farsi, russian, mandarin, german, portuguese, czech, & dutch.

nationality: french-american ( 4th generation )

heritage: american • greek • french

ethnicity: European / Greek

instagramaccount: ( not real. ) blondieinthenatcap ( short for blondie in the nation’s capital )

additional training in muy thai & krav maga

served for six years in the las vegas metro pd, four of those six years were on the LVMPD swat team // left the lvmpd at the rank of Sergeant

went to college for her bachelor’s in criminal justice

almost became a federal marshall instead of an fbi agent.

was actually recruited twice by the fbi while in the LVPD, the last time was when she took the offer.

estelle & montgomery live EXACTLY three floors above seeley in the same building. ( pre-booth/brennan. * updated version is she moved into a condo mid 2010. )

backup guns: Beretta Nano ( 9mm ), Beretta Pico ( .380 )

main on duty gun: Glock 22

favorite things: hazelnut mochaccino with coconut milk, chouquettes, raspberry creme filled crossiants, greek yogurt with sliced bananas and peanut butter, Macaróns, Madeleines, & Mille-Feuille.

ps4 gamer; all three bioshock games, until dawn, homefront: the revolution, we happy few, sims 4, the evil within, the evil within 2, red dead redemption, fallout 4, call of duty: modern warfare, call of duty: ghosts, call of duty: ww ii, far cry 5, assassin’s creed IV: black flag, assassin’s creed: origins, tomb raider.

personal preference: reign total body fuel is far superior ( especially in taste ) over bang energy, which she took TWO SIPS OF AND FOUND IT WAY MORE SUGARY THAN NECESSARY. ( will drink it as a substitute for coffee during the warmer months especially. )

cleaned floors and did laundry for extra cash throughout college.

wears reading glasses for tiny text in printed items ( books, magazines, newspapers, etc ) & on screens ( phone, tablets, laptops ). // been wearing them since she was 39.

can & still does play - the oboe, the piccolo, & alto saxophone.

[heretherebedork]

Thai sign language! Thai sign language in a BL! Thai sign language being used by a main character in a pairing in a Thai BL! A romantic interest in a Thai BL using sign language!!!!! An actual romantic story being told where one of the characters use sign language! And a scene where he signs with his romantic interest and not just his mother? @neotrai and @absolutebl I watched the music video, saw this, and lost my mind just a little bit.

[respectthepetty]

*I'm going to be completely normal about Moonlight Chicken. I'm just going to watch and enjoy it. I'm not going to look deeper. I'm not going to think about..*

Moonlight Chicken's Symbolism and Background Noise

The series has several Chinese influences and begins on September 10, 2022, which an actual full moon fell on that day. It is the Moon Festival also known as Harvest Moon, Mid-Autumn Moon, or Mooncake. It is meant to be spent with others. In the lunar calendar, it's the mid-point of the year. We know this date from Jim's beer.

The brand of the beer is Full Moon, and he and Wen drink it throughout the first episode.

Jim and Wen discuss what is normally seen in the moon. Jim sees a woman (which there is legend about a woman and the moon, but it's too much for this space), but Wen states it's a rabbit. A rabbit normally represents the full moon because both symbolize longevity, peace, and prosperity.

That's why mooncakes are given during this time. They represent well wishes to the receiver and those shared with a long peaceful and prosperous life.

Ginger, which Wen shared with Jim, also symbolizes longevity as well as passion and strength.

Jim's green truck's license plate states frog in Thai. Frogs are a symbol of prosperity and good luck.

Li Ming, whose name means (bright) dawn, wears an Ohio State Buckeyes Football Shirt. Buckeyes are a type of nut and symbolize good luck (thanks college football for that nugget of info!).

However, this show is doing well with subtle foreshadowing, so Li Ming might run into some bad luck with driving (Heart around) without a license.

We get some foreshadowing with the DVD Wen picks up at Jim's. This movie is about two lovers who meet in Hong Kong after relocating there from other parts of China. Their lives take them on separate paths, only for them to reunite ten years later in America. The ending shows that they actually sat back-to-back on the train ride into Hong Kong over a decade ago. Aka, they were fated lovers.

Jim has an Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business and Reader's Digest collection of books - Dick Francis' Comeback (about a man who gets entangled with a stranger on his route to his new job), Frederick Forsyth's The Deceiver (about a British agent who is set to retire, but one of the main plots is an affair), and Alexandria Ripley's Scarlett (which continues the story of Scarlett and Rhett from Gone with the Wind, who are estranged, but at the end, reunite). *Also, the condom package is amazing. The C of "condom" is actually the condom. I just think it's neat!

Wen has Eric Hall's Monster (which is about famous sport agent Eric Hall who was known for being a money monster). This is likely to be Alan's book because the apartment is filled with art, which is due to Wen being an art director. He was also drinking because of his job but didn't state anything specific about the reason.

Wen and Alan's apartment is more modern, while Jim's is more traditional.

When Jim and Wen met at the restaurant, it is Saturday going into Sunday. In Thailand, Sunday's color is red, and its unlucky color is blue. However, In China, red represents good luck, and blue represents longevity. We see these colors often around Jim and Wen (scroll back up).

Jim was shown mostly in or highlighted by red the first episode with Wen in or highlighted by blue.

Even Jim's aprons are red. They say Hungry? with a little chicken peaking out of the pockets.

We also see the blues and reds around Heart and Li Ming. *peep the elephant tusks which are encasing the family and symbolize power*

The bottle Heart drops is Snake Bite Whiskey, and a snakebite shot simply consists of whiskey and lime juice aka it hurts like an actual snakebite.

Modern Thai Sign Language was influenced by American Sign Language (which was greatly influenced by French Sign Language). It seems as if Heart is telling Li Ming his face scared him, but I'm unsure of the last sign since that is not the ASL sign for surprise, scared, or angry. The second portion seems to consist of Heart saying YOUR MISTAKE, but once again, the second sign is different than ASL's mistake because of the breadth of the movement. *I love that this wasn't captioned because it allows the audience to feel Li Ming's confusion and Heart's frustration.

We end the episode back at night with another shot of the moon. As others have pointed out, the colors at night are more crisp and vibrant compared to the day.

But based on Li Ming's name, and the symbols, I think Moonlight Chicken is attempting a similar theme as Big Dragon - The Moon and the Sun have to meet at Dawn. These lovers won't work in their current situations. They have to compromise and find balance, which is why they met in the middle of the year. They have to meet in the in-between.

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The afterlife

Summary: You accidentally end up summoning Demon Jack Whiskey Daniels to get out of a bad date. He isn't taking the payment you might have expected.

Pairing: Demon!Jack Whiskey Daniels x fem!Reader

Wordcount: 2.9k

Rating: E

Warnings: fluff, angst, feelings (so many feelings), creepy Jack (he is a Demon after all), smut (unprotected sex), implied pregnancy, alcohol mention, bittersweet end

A/N: look, Demon Jack came out way sassier and softer than I intended. This does not have a happy end. There's latin and French in there, both languages I don't speak, so if there's any mistake, I'd be happy if you point them out lol

Your first post pandemic date wasn’t supposed to be that big of a failure. Brian’s online profile looked great. 35. Good looking, but not in this I’m throwing it in your face kinda way. Has a dog called Bernie. Works for the city.

What he didn’t include in his profile was that he was the most boring person you would ever meet.

You had only moved to the city earlier that year after getting a new job. You didn’t know many people except for your colleagues. You had spent most of the time decorating your new apartment. Trying to find out the best take out place (it was the Thai place across your workplace). Signing up for a gym and only going there twice before you forgot about it.

Brain was perfect in writing. He was charming, intelligent, funny. But… Apparently only in text. Maybe he was nervous? You nodded at him with an encouraging smile as he told you about how his mother had called him off work because she couldn’t figure out how to install her new TV.

“So I got home earlier and helped her. No wonder it didn’t work for her. She had set the TV in Korean,” he laughed and you fake laughed with him.

“Sounds like you spend a lot of time with your mother.”

“Oh yeah. She’s living with me,” he shrugged, taking another bite of his salmon.

“Okay…” you couldn’t stop yourself and he looked at you.

“Oh it’s not how it sounds. I’m renovating our old house and she hasn’t found anything new yet.”

“Oh okay. I understand,” you nodded, internally screaming.

“Can I get you something?” the waiter approached and you nodded.

“Whiskey on the rocks,” you said and saw Brian frown.

“Anything in particular?”

“Statesman if you have it?”

“Sure thing, Sir?”

“Nothing for me.”

You watched the waiter leave, hoping he would hurry up. You really needed the drink to survive this date.

“You drink?” Brain asked.

“Occasionally.”

“Good to know,” he mumbled and continued to eat. Yeah. You should get out of here.

“If you’ll excuse me…” Brian said and got up from his seat. You smiled and nodded after him, groaning when he was out of sight. The waiter appeared and set a glass of whiskey down in front of you.

You picked the glass up, snorting to yourself as you read the writte golden lines on the glass out loud.

"Faber est suae quisque fortunae." Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. Or woman. You shook your head before you brought your glass to your lips, took a big sip of the whiskey, enjoying the burn down your throat as you closed your eyes and tried to think of a way to get out of this disaster of a date. When you opened your eyes you saw a man sitting across from you that definitely hadn’t been there before. He looked out of space. Like a modern cowboy with his mustache and hat. Dark eyes found yours before a smile spread to his lips.

“Well Sugar it certainly has been some time since I’ve been summoned like that,” he winked and you frowned. Looking over your shoulder to see who he was talking to.

“Whatcha looking for I’m talking to you, Sweetheart,” he said when you looked at him again.

“Uhm. Not to be rude cowboy, but who are you?”

He gave you a million dollar smile, his hand coming towards you over the table.

“Jack Daniels, Demon, nice to meet you,” he winked.

You blinked at him, trying to decide what was more confusing. His name or that he introduced himself as a demon?

“Demon?” you asked, taking his hand to shake it but he didn’t let go, bending down to kiss the back of your hand and you flushed.

“Sure. You summoned me,” he said, giving you another wink, releasing your hand.

“I.. What?”

“1999 Statesman whiskey and the catchphrase and here I am. So what can I do for you?” he leaned back, looking at you expectedly as you tried to make sense of the words coming out of his mouth. You saw the waiter, vaguely pointing to your empty glass and he just nodded.

“You want me to believe you’re a demon?” you said.

“Sure thing. Need proof?” he asks and you nodded.

“You just moved here this year after having an awful job at a restaurant to pay for college. You prefer spending time alone instead of with people and you only haven’t walked out on that awful date because even though you know Brian, who’s almost back by the way, and you won’t end up together, you still have hopes to maybe get laid tonight.”

“That proves nothing but that you might be a weird old man or stalker,” you said.

“Okay. First of all, rude. Second of all look into my eyes,” he said and you did just when his eyes turned completely black for a second, all white gone and you gasped. Shrinking back from him and blinking your eyes and his were back to normal. The waiter came and filled your glass and you just motioned for him to leave the bottle.

“So…” you took a sip, “let’s say I believe you. What am I supposed to do?”

“Ask for whatever you want and you shall receive it.”

“Sure. And I should just give you my soul in return or what?” you snorted.

“Nah. Got enough of those.”

“So what do you want?” you asked.

“Maybe I just wanna save a woman in need?”

“Need for what?”

“That’s for you to decide,” he winked.

“But you better decide quickly, cause your date is coming back.”

You just looked at him, still not sure about what the fuck was happening but you just shrugged and he grinned.

“Uhm excuse me, I was sitting there,” Brian stopped next to your table.

Jack looked up at him, looking him over before he looked at you. You just gave him a small nod.

“Really? You are cheating on me with him?” He gave Brian a disgusted look and you were too shocked to answer.

“Cheating? Look man I didn’t know…” Brian held his hands up and you looked at Jack with big eyes.

“Cheating?” you pressed out and Jack just huffed.

“Really Sugar. Is old Jack not enough for you?” Jack notioned with his head towards Brian who was looking at you.

“Sorry... Babe?” you said, trying to look guilty.

“Unbelievable,” Brain muttered and left on his heels to walk out of the restaurant. You looked after him before your eyes landed on the cowboy demon in front of you.

“You know I could have handled that on my own, right?”

“Oh I know, but now you owe me,” Jack grinned, before a glass magically appeared in his hand, that he filled with the whiskey you had ordered.

“I thought you just wanted to help a woman in need?”

“And I did.”

“I didn’t ask you for it.”

“You did nod though, which technically is enough for a contract with a Demon,  but that’s not really the point. I’m a Demon not a lawyer.”

You groaned, massaging your temples, feeling the beginning of a headache.

“Well…” you emptied your glass and got up from your chair, grabbing your purse.

“I’m too tired for this and frankly I’m not sure if I believe all of...” you gestured towards him “of this. So I’m going home.” You looked at him, his eyes already on you. You felt a shiver run down your spine, but it wasn’t fear.

“Okay. I’ll bring breakfast tomorrow,” he shrugged and you rolled your eyes.

“I like french croissants,” you said over your shoulder as you walked towards the door.

“I know,” he called after you and you shook your head.

The thought of potentially having made a deal with a demon you weren’t even aware of, made it difficult to fall asleep for you. At least that’s what you told yourself. It wasn’t the way you got lost in his eyes. How his eyes never left yours, even when he was talking to Brian. Never in your life had a man given you this much attention and you only spent 5 minutes with him.

What could he want from you? He said he didn’t want your soul. What were you ready to give him? Deep down you already knew you were ready to give him anything he wanted.

“Pathetic,” you grumbled to yourself as you turned on your bed so you were facing the window.

The smell of coffee woke you up slowly. You smiled to yourself, stretching your limbs, before you turned back to your side and blinked your eyes open.

“You look awfully pretty when you sleep, doll,” Jack whispered. He was lying fully clothed next to you on your bed, his hat missing. He had taken his jacket off but safe from that he was still wearing the same outfit as yesterday. And you should be afraid to find a stranger in your bed fully clothed, while you were wearing only an old college shirt. A stranger you definitely didn’t let into your apartment. Instead you felt a weird calmness as you looked at him.

“Do I even want to know how you got in here?” you asked, and Jack smiled.

“I can get anywhere I want in the blink of an eye. Comes with the whole being a Demon thing.”

“So if I told you I want a petit déjeuner formule from the little bakery near Montmartre in Paris I have been to a couple years ago…”

“Give me five minutes,” he winked and was gone in the next moment. You let your head fall back onto your pillow, before you got out of bed and got to your bathroom. You quickly washed your face before you went into your kitchen where for some reason coffee was freshly brewed. You didn’t question it before you filled your favorite mug and took a big sip. Walking back to your bedroom you stopped at the door when you found Jack back in your bed with three plates filled with croissants and all kinds of stuff.

“There’s a time difference from 6 hours to Paris,” you said suspiciously and he looked up.

“I can eat all of those by myself,” he just said.

“Don’t you fucking dare,” you said and joined him in your bed.

“Okay so you are a Demon,” it was an hour later and you were in a french patisserie coma.

“Yes.”

“Why?” you turned your head to look at him.

“Made a deal with a Demon before I died so I could still take care of my family. But that was a long time ago,” he said.

“How long?”

“300 years? I think. Might be a bit more.”

“Okay. So you’re a 300 year old Demon who I accidentally summoned and now what?”

“Now we get to know each other.”

“Why?”

“Do you need an answer for every question?” he furrowed his brows.

“Imagine you accidentally summoned a Demon, wouldn’t you want to know what exactly that entails?”

“Valid point there. Okay. I told you, I don’t want your soul. I might have played a little role in you accidentally summoning me. Frankly, I’m tired. And I think you’re very beautiful and if I can make you fall in love with me, I could finally rest.”

“You have that all figured out huh,” you snorted, shaking your head.

“I do,” he shrugged.

“That doesn’t sound like a good deal for me? What exactly happens to you if…” you struggled to finish that sentence.

“If you fall in love with me?” he grinned and you slapped his shoulder.

“Focus here, Cowboy. Doesn’t it sound a little unfair that you’d finally get to rest while I, if I fall in love with you, get to mourn over you?”

“I didn’t say it was a good plan.”

You rolled your eyes.

“I’ve been watching you for a while, sweetheart,” he began.

You snorted, “Stalker,” under your breath.

“And I think you’d benefit from falling in love with me. I’m pretty damn awesome.”

“And totally not full of yourself.”

“Comes with the territory. Look. I wouldn’t ask you for this if I didn’t think you could take it.”

“What? Falling in love with you?”

“Letting me go,” he said and reached over, his fingertips brushing over your cheek. You were drawn in by his eyes again.

“I can’t,” you whispered. You saw his face fall for a second before his smile was back.

“That’s okay. I can wait. What are a couple of years more?” he joked.

“Jack....”

“It’s okay, sweetheart. It’s a lot to ask for.”

“Yeah. Even more so when you’ve never been in love before.”

His face softened at your words.

“I’ll just stay your friendly patisserie Demon then,” he winked and you chuckled.

There was a loophole.

Years went by since meeting Jack. He was in and out of your life, making time to see you in between his busy Demon schedule. Everytime he asked you if you were in love with him yet, you answered with a shake of your head and a clear no. You said no when he asked you after he waited for you in your apartment with dinner after a shit day at work. You said no after he asked you when he first kissed you. You said no after he asked, when the two of you had sex for the first time. You always said no. And he never questioned it, always answering you with a soft kiss, before he had to disappear again.

He wasn’t stupid though. He knew you were in love with him. Who spends 10 years with someone, without loving them? And you could feel it. You felt that it was time. Time to let go.

“I know what you’re doing,” he whispered against your neck that one night. He was slowly fucking into you from behind, his arms around your body as he spooned you from behind. You tilted your head as his lips sucked on your neck.

“It’s been ten years and you won’t say it,” his hand dipped between your legs, touching your pussy where he thrusted into you before he began to roll your clit between his fingers.

“You won’t say that you love me, because you don’t want me to leave,” he whispered against your ear and you shuddered.

“Jack please....” you whimpered,

“I do love you,” he sucked on your earlobe, his thrusts getting deeper and faster. You felt a tear running down your cheek

“And I will never be able to give you what you deserve, sweetheart.”

You came with a silent cry of his name and he fucked you through your orgasm.

“Shit I’m gonna cum,” he groaned before you felt his release inside of you, tears blurring your vision. You felt his breath in your neck, before his arms pulled you even closer, his lips kissing your shoulder.

“I just want you to be happy sweetheart. I want you to have the family you dream of. I want you to grow old with someone you love. I can’t give you that.”

You swallowed before you turned in his arms and kissed him.

“I know,” you whispered against his lips. He smiled.

“I told you you would fall in love with me,” he said and you felt a new wave of tears as you  looked at him.

“You should have stayed my friendly patisserie Demon, Jack,” you whispered and he sighed.

“Yeah.”

“I’m gonna miss you,” you whispered and he kissed you again.

“I’ll find you in the afterlife,” he promised and you snorted.

“This is your afterlife you idiot.”

“Well I find you in the after afterlife. I’ll wait for you.”

You let your hands run through his hair, taking a mental picture of him, trying to remember every detail, before you kissed him. You closed your eyes as you leaned your forehead against his.

“I love you Jack Whiskey.”

It wasn’t easy to find the grave of someone who died over 400 years ago. It took you almost five months and some very strange phone calls before you found yourself in a graveyard in the middle of Texas.

There he was, Jack Whiskey, 1676-1718. It was one of the oldest graveyards in the states, of course he would be here.

“You told me, you could never give me what I wanted,” you said as you looked at the old stone, feeling silly for some reason as you talked to it.

“And I know letting you go was the right decision. You deserved to rest, Jack,” you brushed the tears from your cheek.

“But I wasn’t prepared for how much it would hurt to let you go,” you whispered.

“I hope I’ll see you again. In your after afterlife,” you smiled.

“And I hope that wherever you are, you get the chance to see our daughter grow up,” you rested your hands on your belly.

“I love you, Jack,” you whispered, touching the grave stone, before you turned around and walked away. And you didn’t know if you imagined it, but just before you opened the door to your car you felt like you heard Jack whispering “I love you too” as the wind made the fabric of your dress sway around your ankles.