#my dad was so into it and that's high praise bc he's more critical than me lmao

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didnt take pics but i just made the firest pizza marghertia ever

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kingdom ep 7 thoughts

i’m writing these notes as i watch so y’all are getting my immediate stream of consciousness thoughts 🤪 this is gonna be long bc i talk a lot so strap in homies

i could’ve told you these overall results so far before the show even started. skz, atz, btob, ikon, sf9, tbz like these are the least surprising rankings ever

mnet wants tbz to look so pitiful what’s their fucking deal man

sf9 getting FIRST i’m holding onto this forever

they’re getting rid of the experts and having these judges (industry people + 4 hoobae groups) judge instead? mmmm

the industry people makes 100% sense. the hoobae groups...idk. it’s not to say that they can’t critically evaluate the kingdom groups but the question is will they? y’all know how fucking awful kpop stans are, i don’t want these groups getting SLANDERED bc they didn’t like somebody’s performance 😭

i’ve been having this thought often but i wish we could see how the kingdom groups REALLY felt about each other’s performances. when they do their group evaluations i genuinely wanna know what they have to say bc all we as viewers get to see is praise and while thats great ! we love positivity ! mnet decided this was a competition so let’s compete. say what you really mean and tell me why you voted the way you did. same goes for these new judges and i hope we get to see that

SUNWOO’S SO CUUUUTE with bobby pls

HWI BOUGHT THEM AIR FORCE ONES???

i’m sorry but i adore the three of them so much. bobby and sunwoo just giggly all of the time and hwiyoung being the more chill, silent one watching the boys have fun i die

thank god sunwoo finally realized this show doesn’t fucking matter and now he and tbz can just enjoy themselves and do whatever they want. bobby bless you

SANGYEON ACTING LIKE THE DAD HE IS THATS RIGHT HYPE UP OUR BOY !!!!

i love this performance so much more than when i watched yesterday bitch i’m hyped

finally some fucking FUN on this show

them using a vid of chan with his cornrows, do y’all want me to root against this unit ???

i already talked about how i don’t think the numbers are fair. having more people in a unit doesn’t mean the performance will be better but like . you can physically do more things with more people and as we’ve seen so far, this show favors flashier performances

WAIT did both groups do something with paint?? 😭😭😭 what are the odds

minhyuk the oldest and he moves like it pls it’s so funny

now why hongjoong look so good in those glasses

i’m not gonna act like this shit don’t bang, i’m not !

minhyuk final boss that’s HOT

BOBBY IS SO FUNNY?? “andwaaaeee andwaeee” he does not care !! i love to see it

COME ON SUNWOO THIS GROWTH !!! “someone wins and someone loses” im so happy we’ve reached this moment

donghyuk is hot i forgot how good looking he is oh wow

this energy is so 😭😭😭

the way juyeon dk and taeyang all did elegant like dances for their individual videos and ended up doing that for their actual dance stage together is amazing

taeyang FINE ASS

they look so good in their king attire my god

i’m sorry but that was incredible. the drama the elegance the MUSIC the lighting the outfits oh my god !!!

9 members vs 3 members like HONESTLY how is that allowed

peniel don’t know WHAT to do with these kids i’m screaming

why would they do him like that 😭 he hasn’t danced in TWO YEARS and they put him with atz and skz??? a set up

wooyoung looks so cute in his hat wtf

listen. i always say nobody covers exo bc they can’t. well..

the performance is cool! exo is just SUCH a high bar to set for yourself even if it is chogiwa

CHOGIWA STILL TOP TIER EXO THO LETS NOT LIE FOLKS !!!

and the way they arranged it so.... niggas in paris??? WITH WOLF??? hell nah 😭

PENIEL WITH THE LEASH !!

the howling jdjdjsjd i love it

i definitely like it’s one’s more tho. as fun as wolf is, it’s what you expect skz and atz would do and it’s the kind of dance style they (and kpop boy groups in general) always do. it’s one gave us something different and executed it beautifully

and we did Not get to see the judging/voting process with these 33 new people. i’m hoping they’ll show us that after all 3 unit teams have performed bc otherwise 🙄

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the writing meme: nico!! ur nico has one of the most distinct voices ive ever read n i gotta.... deep inhale.. gotta kno ur thought process behind that. also maki if ur down for it, bc ur anime mack interp got me S h o ok td

hdsjfk okay u,wu i will talk abt Thos Kids....

nkmk are defs my favs out of all the love live kids....maki is rlly important to me for a whole host of reasosn that u will find out when i finally finish writing maki fic, and nico is just. god i love nico yazawa so much

the two of them make an incredibly potent pairing, and it’s honestly kinda tough to imagine any kind of canon-compliant situation where they’re not super important to each other!! even in AUs where they’re not paired together, i still find myself making them bffs at the very least ;;

so!! this got kinda long so heres the Read More

i’m actually gonna start with maki bc she’s by far the easiest to sum up

- for one, maki is actually...pretty kid-like. for all the “maturity” she tries to give off, it is very much something she constructs and not something she naturally exudes. maki is pretty idealistic, despite trying to make herself come off as cynical? it’s difficult to write, but you know someone just Knows Her when they manage to frame her POV like she’s being cynical, but when you read what she’s actually saying it comes off idealistic!! yeah. she also has a tendency to get really excited!!!! and then pretend she isn’t. she’ll go and try really hard on her own but she gets suuuuper embarassed when people call her out on it

- which brings me to my next point - maki is really worried about how people see her! she works really hard to construct this persona of ~maturity~ and ~elegance~ and ~intelligence~ but when u talk to her for like .2 seconds u realise she’s kinda adorable? definitely this part of her comes from probably being around adults more than other kids when she was young - and she’d probably get praised for being mature and so naturally she’d think maturity was some kind of end goal. regardless, her facade drops when she finally feels comfortable with people, but it Does take a lot!! the sleepover episode in s1 did a lot for her but i don’t think maki had truly opened up until they sung snow halation in s2...at least from the anime timeline!

- maki’s love for music - i suppose this is kind of an obvious one, but it’s still entirely critical to her character. maki loves the Shit out of music!!! she wants to make people feel things, she wants to Move them with the things she composes. i don’t think she has a particular preference for any type of music, either. she does say she prefers classical + jazz, but keep in mind maki has a Persona to uphold. she sings aishiteru banzai with all her heart when she thinks she’s alone - i think she deeply appreciates any type of music.

- extending on that point abt maki’s persona - her pursuit for “maturity”, if you could call it that, goes beyond that. she genuinely believes she should be trying to be more mature, and i definitely think this part of her is a huge reason why she conflicts with nico a lot! regardless, maki has a tendency to deny herself things she likes based on the premise that it’s immature. she’ll isolate herself in order to prevent participation in activities that seem immature, but because she still actually does want to participate, she’ll just kinda satellite around it. she also kinda wants to grow up as fast as possible, i think.

- maki gets really attached to her friends!! i like to think that bc of a strict up-bringing, maki never had the opportunity to make all that many friends, so being in high school with muse is such a good experience!! she’s the one who pushes to assert her friendship with rinpana in episode 4 season 1, and despite getting embarassed over it, she really does care for them!!! i can imagine not being after school navigators was hurtful for her bc it’s literally her three best friends....she was probably placated by the fact she got to be in the ~cool hot~ group solge but still, y’know?

- i could go on and on but the rule said 5 max so :ccccc

anyways niconii time!!

- nico is super, duper passionate about becoming an idol. this deep-rooted passion and desire to succeed is at the root of her character, and really, if your nico isn’t gunning with all her might for a particular goal, you’re not writing nico right!! being an idol, to nico, is probably the most important thing to her after her family. most importantly, as long as she thinks she has even a .1% chance to succeed, she’ll go for it with everything she’s got. i think that’s really important

- nico is very family orientated, too!! she loves her mum and siblings (and probably her dad, too, wherever he is) with all her heart! a lot of people felt conflicted abt nico’s episode in s2, but i think it showed the extent she’s willing to go in order to protect her family!! nico doesn’t come from money - a single mother with four kids is going to be incredibly difficult to live with. in order to give them something to hope for, she constructed a persona for herself in which she lives as a super idol - probably so that her little siblings have something to hope for!! or smtn. idk the gravity of nico’s situation is definitely dependent on ur preferences but regardless niconii loves her fam a Ton

- nico is also pretty mature, actually. this is kind of a weird one bc nico acts like honorin for the most part, and even maki calls her out on being immature (which is hilarious, honestly). the thing is, nico has had to look after her siblings for a Long time - which probably meant she didn’t have all that much free time when she was young to go and...be a kid and do kid things?? and part of her realises that her time as a Kid in highschool is ending soon and that when she leaves she’s going to need to take on adult responsibilities...but for now, she can be a kid. so she does - she goofs off, acts like an idiot and a child because she can! nico is also very pragmatic!! for all everyone mocks her she really does have a good understanding of the way the idol world works (she’s just maybe in the wrong show bc honoka kousaka is actually a deity or smtn), and whilst she can sometimes be a bit cynical, she’s actually really good at acknowledging when she’s being shitty abt smtn, owning up to it and apologising and learnign from it. ya

- nico might be cynical but she’s actually kinda hopeful when she lets herself be? it’s not constructed necessarily, it’s a genuine lack of faith in the world, but it’s not so strong that she can’t deny it - especially being with muse and honoka even more so inspires her to just...have a little faith in fate again. or have a little faith in nozomi, both are good.

- also, nico has a potty mouth. sorry i don’t make the rules

and then there’s nkmk as a concept!!! dam i luv these kids. they’re kind of difficult to talk about bc the way they’d interact is almost entirely dependent on the situation, but i’ll try and speak generally!!

- nkmk conflict, fundamentally. nico and maki have so many contrasting personality traits, they’re awful. but they’re also really similar in a lot of aspects, and have a lot to relate to each other with, and a lot to learn from each other. before they hop the honesty fence, they’re probably just gonna fight a lot, after the hop the honesty fence, they’re probably gonna have a few minor disagreements every now and then but generally get along really well! when they’re sitting on the honesty fence? well, thats the interesting part!!

- nico is somebody who acts childish but is probably mature on the inside. maki is somebody who acts mature but is probably childish on the inside. personally i feel like this is a big thing they’d come into conflict with each other about - they have different values and come from entirely different places so it takes a lot of work for them to understand each other!!

- nozomi annoys the shit out of both of them. she’s a meddler and stick her nose into places she shouldn’t. they love her, and also love to hate her.

- they’re both very driven people, but different things get in the way of them achieving their goals!! nico, i think, tends to have external obstacles - physical or otherwise something outside of herself!! maki tends to have internal obstacles - preconceptions or mental obstacles that prevent her from achieving her goals.

- it’s 2:30am and i need to sleep but hopefully this is what u wanted...thank for reading if u made it this far wao i wrote a ton...