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jiminjamms · 2 days ago

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sex therapy :: 32. uno reverse

chapter tags/warnings: aftercare. mentions of cum and creampies. other sexual content. nicknames. extremely strong language. corruption. family drama.

word count: 3.9k

notes: the last chapter was 97% smut. oops. plot? literally, what plot? well, here is the plot. also, happy new year's eve and new years! likes, comments, and reblogs are much appreciated. xoxo

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With sweat stuck onto your forehead and spit plastered across your chin, you panted like an overheated dog. Such were the consequences of dealing with too many hands, cocks, and men.

After the sinful fiasco with your sex therapists, your body quivered from exhaustion.

Not to mention, you had been stuffed.

Holding in a potent cum concoction within your womb, you did your best to keep the fluids in, but the sheer volume forced a slow dribble to slide down your plush inner thighs.

You winced from the unwelcome cool against your warm skin, feeling flustered, frazzled, and disheveled.

Sukuna thumbed the dried tears that streaked your cheeks, Geto carded his hand through your hair, and Choso massaged the sore spots on your soft ass, all cooing about how you’ve been an angel for them and that maybe…you all should find time to do this again.

When the three dressed themselves and stepped out eventually for a cigarette, they left you looking at your window reflection, in which you noticed how makeup smudged across your cheeks and how fluids coated your neck and chest.

Never had you felt this...deranged.

Yet, absolutely nothing could be compared to the hot mess that was the Toji Fushiguro whom you straddled.

The man lolled his head back with a low groan and ran his thick fingers through his scalp. His dark strands had become drenched in perspiration and clung to his face's rugged planes. Blistering in his formal attire, he tossed his charcoal blazer aside, undid his knotted tie, and stripped off his button-down. His chest, dusted in a healthy pink shade, heaved. After his pleasure, he still looked like a Greek god in his shame.

Despite all your egregious encounters with him, you still flushed when seeing his bare-chested body. His formalwear might be different from his usual black T-shirt and white lab coat, but he hadn't really changed. He was still fit and subtly edgy with the designs that swirled around his chiseled upper body.

Amid the tattooed tapestry, your gaze once again became drawn by the inked phoenix that rose victoriously from ashes, a symbol that seemed like a parallel to Toji himself. Resilient. Indestructible. Enduring. Both confronting and overcoming challenges, standing stronger and more determined despite their struggles. Each feather branded across his torso held wordless stories about not only his triumphs but also his scars.

“Princess likes what she sees?”

Toji's sudden interjection surprised you. Fuck, he's caught me staring.

After you ogled at his body for too long, the man had naturally taken note, and—with you, of course—he simply had to tease.

"Your tattoos suit you," you had been forced to admit. Not that you lied.

In response, his green eyes held a gentle glister that contrasted with his animalistic actions mere moments ago. "That’s cute. Thank you."

He reached over your shoulder for a tissue and dabbed at your collarbone.

"What are you doing?"

"Cleaning you up," answered Toji promptly. With the napkin, he soaked up sins, wiping away at the unholy mixture between sweat, spit, and semen as though they never tainted your perfect body in the first place. "That's the least I can do."

He worked in silence, slightly hunched in his seat, the scattered light from the above chandelier casting sharp shadows over his angular face. Wisps of jet-black hair framed his temples as he hung his head in focus, his breathing turning steady. Toji looked so normal, like he wasn't some sex therapist or some important corporate executive or an heir to a multi-billion fortune.

In this one, singular moment, Toji was just...Toji.

"Why are you doing this?" you asked suddenly.

"Doing what?" Mistakenly, he assumed you referred to how he sought another napkin, this time to wipe at the trickle that ran like white lava down your thighs. “We made a mess."

"No, not that. Why did you become my therapist?" Of course, you did not forget your first encounter with Dr. Fushiguro, particularly how Toji ripped your new patient form to literal shreds the moment he noticed your last name. “You could've kicked me out of your office that day and left me miserable, but you didn't. Why?"

He slowed in his motions and his hot breath skimmed over your upper lip.

Then, he smiled faintly. "Can I abstain?"

This was his hint that the answer wouldn’t be something you liked.

"No." You still wanted to know. "Tell me, please."

Despite your reassurance, he seemed reluctant, his jaw working as he trapped his tongue piercing between his teeth.

"Because you were too…innocent," Toji eventually admitted. He sounded earnest, but he gave you a cautious glance like he wanted to gauge your reaction. "A pretty lady coming to see Toji Fushiguro because his little cousin Naoya Zenin couldn't please you properly? Clearly, you've never had a proper fuck. I wanted to completely ruin you, baby. I wanted to use you. And, shit, that pussy made me want to keep you for myself forever. Sure, I also had a two-timing ex, but who cares about my little cousin's mistress when I had his wife in front of me?"

Even though you braced for a brutally honest response, hearing his words firsthand stung.

Yes, you were naïve back then. However, to hear your closest confidant admit his initial, manipulative motives jabbed at your sensitive heart.

From your husband to your therapist, you were constantly a pawn on another person's chessboard. Yet, the worst part was that you didn't notice the game until much later.

"I am sorry," Toji started again. Perceptive as usual, he noticed how your mood suddenly soured. "I had all these shitty intentions because Naoya fucked me over, so I wanted to take my anger out on you. But, when I realized that you’re just an oblivious puppet in his play, I wanted him to realize that he was mistreating you, and," one long exhale, "most importantly, I truly did want to help you."

Mulling over his words carefully, you sank your face into his shoulder. "Are you just saying that to make me feel better?"

“No, I am being honest," and the dark green in his eyes reflected that. "I didn't expect to ever see you again after our first session. Thought you got scared off for good until you called me to book another appointment. Honestly, at that point, people suspected you to be Naoya’s lap-bitch and spy. Hope that explains the shitty attitudes from the other therapists and my son." Toji flicked the dirty tissue into the wastebasket. "I defended you, though, if that means anything. I thought you were nice and entertaining and, as I've pointed out numerous times, that you deserved better. What I didn't think was how I would end up bringing you into," and he motioned around with his head, "all of this.”

Breathing in slowly, you took in the man's heavy bergamot scent and allowed his warmth to anchor you.

“So, how do you plan to use me now?”

Among your incessant inquiries, this question must be the most pointed.

Toji, realizing this, gazed ahead. Momentarily, you wondered where his thoughts had wandered off to this time, his focus on the ceiling sharpening for a moment before he reverted his attention back.

"There is no plan to ‘use’ you, sweetheart. Because you mean a lot to me," he still responded with great conviction. "You are cherished."

Beneath the rough edges in his features laid a softness—a softness that you started to become familiar with—as he brought his hands to your hip.

“Live a happy life without Naoya," he added eventually. "You don't need me and the other therapists anymore. Only brokenhearted and anguished people are our clients, so forgetting about us should be easy."

Was it wrong to feel even more hurt when you heard that?

Literally one moment ago, Toji was telling you how much you meant to him. Now, he was telling you to go?

"Client or not, I thought we were friends. You even told me once that I'm somebody special."

“You are," he responded matter-of-factly. "You are very special. Which is why I am not going to force you to hang around or anything. That way you don’t think anyone is ‘using’ you. You're young and capable, and I want you to live your life as you wish.” Then, his voice became uncharacteristically soft. “Because I care about you.”

As nonchalant as he tried to come off, Toji also sounded so...broken.

Plenty of people—plenty of women—came in and out of Toji's life. Megumi had said so himself, admitting that his father used to 'sleep around a bunch' after his biological mother passed.

Since then, Toji had probably gotten used to how the women he encountered only wanted him for his name, his wallet, or—yes, to put things bluntly—his dick. Tsumiki's mom would be the best and most recent example.

But, you wanted to heal Toji as much as Toji had healed you.

"There's something Megumi told me the first time I stayed over at your apartment," you began suddenly.

Toji arched a brow, the tendons by his neck taut. "Is that so?" Knowing his angsty son, he sounded curious but moreso concerned. "Like what?"

'Are you going to marry my dad?'

No, you would die from embarrassment before you could admit that.

"Megumi told me about what happened to his mom, your first wife."

"Ah." Beneath you, Toji tensed up. His tongue darted over his scar like he wanted to continue, but no words came out.

So, he stopped and waited for you to continue.

"I...am really sorry to hear about what happened to her."

In the end, Toji tilted his head, a small but obviously sad smile playing on his lips.

"That's years ago." He tried to sound like losing his first wife in a freak accident didn't haunt him anymore, but you knew that the catastrophe still did.

"Well, Megumi also told me about what your relationships with other women were like since then," you resumed. "Particularly about your second wife."

This time, you truly stumped him. "I see."

"Unlike her, I am not going anywhere," you asserted and tightened your hold around him. "No one is forcing that decision upon me, either. Since you want me to 'live my life as I wish,' my wish is for us to be friends for a long time...and for the same reasons friends want to be friends."

"Is that genuinely what you want?"

"Yes. Truly."

Whether due to your common backgrounds in the Japanese aristocracy or the juxtaposition he offered to your ex-husband, Toji had become your haven. He grounded you after your emotional tumbles and uplifted you with compliments and praise—like an anchor, an unyielding outlet with whom you could share your pains and transform your frustrations into something lesser.

Whenever you had needed him most, Toji had been there.

Always there.

Consequently, you hoped to be the same for him.

When Toji cupped your jaw with a large hand, you slowly pressed your cheek into his palm.

“You care a lot about others but forget to think about yourself,” you went on, criticizing him in a light tone. There was also a question that you had been meaning to ask. “Like, why did you agree to take on the CEO position again after experiencing the Zenin family and your past?”

His fingers flexed slightly into your skin.

“My decision is not about the people who wronged me, but rather the people who depend on me,” he clarified after a beat, his voice lowered like he confided in himself as much as in you. “I look at Mai and Maki, who’ve been treated like garbage their entire lives. I think about Megumi and Tsumiki, who deserve a world with the best opportunities. For them and for others, I want to create a future with something better. ”

Which reminds you.

For the therapists, taking on renewed roles within the Zenin Corporation would be concerning given that they have previously faced accusations of neglecting the business in favor of their own pursuits.

“What will happen to sex therapy?”

Naoya Zenin returned to his apartment lobby tossed (yes, tossed) following a blindfolded car ride home.

To some degree, he wished he hadn’t come back at all since—after retrieving his phone and searching the Internet—he discovered a new reality where media spokespeople, online netizens, and business leaders welcomed his cousin’s return to leadership while denouncing his own.

It was like the universe had been waiting to have Naoya reckon with his misconducts all at once, for he never fully understood the consequences of his sins until his face appeared over news websites, tabloid front pages, and social media feeds.

Even when he had business to attend to the following day, he could hardly push past his apartment entrance without being swarmed by meddlers who somehow had gotten intel on his address. Naturally, many people wanted to hear directly from the businessman who had fallen from grace, especially when the company he once led was one of the largest market players in the Asia-Pacific region. First came the paparazzi, the blinding white flashes from their cameras all seeking to capture his face. Then came the other onlookers, jeering with many insults his way.

‘A scumbag is what you are. A disgusting cheater!’ ‘You don't even deserve a penny of your net worth!” ‘Your company, colleagues, and family deserved better!’ 'Someone like Toji Fushiguro!'

The moment Naoya reached the backseat of his sedan, he smashed his phone in one savage blow, startling the chauffeur as the gadget's screen shattered. Didn’t matter. He had the money to replace that by noon anyway.

Meanwhile, with white-gloved hands on the wheel, the driver tried to hide his tremor.

"A-Are you o—"

"To the corporate headquarters," Naoya ordered. "Put your fucking foot on the pedal or the next thing I'll be blowing up is you."

"Yes."

Well, that shut him up.

Thanks to that, Naoya arrived at the Zenin Corporation headquarters in record-breaking time, but he encountered yet another human barrage. People shouted over one another, some even pushing microphones toward his face, as the crowd followed him like a gaggle of geese while he walked into the lobby.

He frowned when his ID badge failed at the security turnstiles, his access removed from the building's security system already. Just two days ago, he held hours-long meetings in the offices above. Now, two days later, he had been deemed an outsider without access to even the company café on the first floor.

He kicked the turnstile (as if that would change anything), and a steely voice interrupted his anger.

"Naoya Zenin, sir," a woman in a security uniform began, "you are no longer with the corporation and are causing a disturbance. Please, leave."

The blonde snapped his badge back into his palm before tucking both hands into the front pockets of his pressed pants. He sauntered forward slowly, making sure that the woman noticed the difference in their height. "No, I won't. I have an appointment."

"Please," she barged in again, unintimidated by his taller frame. Her voice this time was more stern as she glanced over at the nearby swarm. "You're creating a commotion on private property.”

Did he look like he cared? "My family's private property."

"Sir, I—"

"He’s with me." With a third voice joining the conversation, both turned around as no one other than Toji Fushiguro himself walked over. "I invited him for a private meeting. Allow me to escort him."

The antagonism that the security woman had with Naoya vanished completely as she apologized profusely to the older man, and the blonde found her switch in character fucking deplorable and insulting.

After a brief exchange, Toji looked over. “Thank you for arriving on time. I was worried you missed my text since I sent the message very early in the morning. Let me bring you upstairs.”

Despite receiving a smile, Naoya didn’t like the belittling and patronizing tone that made him feel like a child who needed a chaperone or a beggar who needed a savior.

Nonetheless, he followed in tense silence.

When he walked into the designated conference room, Naoya tried to not look surprised to also see his father and your father in the same vicinity as well (although, given that they were the Board Director and the Chief Operating Officer, respectively, that should’ve been expected).

He had to look away from their cold gazes and instead took the seat closest to the door. “Why do you want to talk to me?”

Toji, on the other hand, settled at the head of the table and crossed one leg over his knee. “This meeting is a courtesy. One you don’t deserve but here we are. We’ll be brief.” He leaned across the table, sliding over a sleek black folder. “Later today, the Zenin Corporation will hold a press conference to address our organizational and management changes. In this binder are terms for your settlement. We would like you to accept the proposal, leave, and never associate yourself with the Zenin name again.”

When Naoya saw the documents inside, he wanted to laugh right then and there. “This is a shitty offer that practically gives me nothing.”

What else did you expect? Toji’s unwavering expression seemed to say.

He even opened his mouth to speak, but a much coarser voice spoke first.

"Because you did that to yourself,” Naobito explained. “As of now, your actions have stripped you of everything and you’re still scoffing at someone else’s generosity? You’re a selfish manipulator who has jeopardized our stakeholders’ trust. Our family name will not tolerate your presence moving forward!"

"Listen, Father—"

"Mr. Zenin to you!"

Naoya could not believe he was related to the much older man in front of him. Except for their common features, the duo shared absolutely nothing including warmth for each other.

Which, to the blonde, was ridiculous. Because how could his parent not view the situation from his lens? No one understood the struggles that tormented him since his childhood and the reasons his anguish turned into greed.

"This isn’t fair.” Naoya’s voice rose, trembling with barely contained anger as he shoved the folder away. “I can’t understand you, Fa—Mr. Zenin. Why? Why does everything that Toji touches turn to gold in your eyes? The world welcomes him back like he’s a prodigy, and you hand him everything on a silver platter. But then, why can’t you defend your one and only son in a situation like this? Anything…anything I do, to you, is not enough.”

With his chest heaving, Naoya had to pause and catch his breath. He didn’t want to admit that he was on the verge of another outburst, only to be met with no sympathy in return.

"You and Toji have never been in the same position. Not now, not before, and not ever.” As the Chairman made himself clear, his voice cut through his son’s rant like a blade. “While no one is perfect, Toji—in the past and present—earns respect by owning his failures and proving his worth. Due to his team’s work in the last twenty-four hours, he stabilized the company, helping us avoid an immense drop in our market value and cancellations from our business partners.” In addition to his utter disregard for his son’s feelings, Naobito even mocked him with a scoff. “Meanwhile, you don’t play by the rules, boy. You exploit them to suit your needs, and when something backfires, you blame everyone but yourself. Toji didn’t come back because I handed him anything. He came back because he knows how to make amends.”

Stop.

Naoya wanted this mental torture to come to a fucking stop.

His father’s scorn was bad enough, but the comparison to Toji—always Toji—was like salt ground into an open wound. What made the situation a hundred times more humiliating was how his older cousin sat across the table with a nearly indiscernible smirk on his face.

Yet, what could he realistically do when the Chairman went on?

“In my entire life, I only requested from you one thing,” Naobito added. ‘Power and money did not interest him when compared to his daughter, so the one promise I made is that you would love her.’ “And what did you do?”

Precisely not that.

The pointed change in topic made Daisuke L/N sit forward uncomfortably.

"Be honest with us, Naoya," he said. "Aside from marrying my daughter to legitimize your position in your family and company, what other intentions did you have?"

The man stared ahead with a solemn expression because, in that moment, he wasn’t the Zenin Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer but merely a father.

A father who had been promised a dependable and loving son-in-law, not a cruel and ruthless deceiver.

Naoya shrugged.

"My original plan was to have your daughter for as long as I deemed her useful. Maybe until my old man kicked the bucket and I became the head of the Zenin household? Or, if I liked her enough, maybe longer? I don't know, not that I really cared." Naoya didn't give a shit that he sounded like a total sociopath. As a grown man, he could make his choices in speech. "But, what I did care about is how people only noticed me when I had that…that—"

At that, Toji had to cut him off. “You’ve said enough. We’re done here.”

“I’m not finished.”

“Yes, you are. As I mentioned earlier, this meeting is only a courtesy.”

Toji rose from his seat and adjusted his blazer, the other executives doing the same but with pursed frowns. When the Chairman and the COO left quickly in silent rage, Toji followed them and gestured toward the black folder again on his way out.

"Anyway, all the legal documents are in there. Can read through them, if you care. You have the next hour to inform my secretary of your decision. My advice is to accept our offer since no legitimate company in the Asia-Pacific—or anywhere else in the world—will want you now. You ensured that for yourself."

Toji walked to the exit in precise and confident strides, but just before disappearing into the halls, he paused.

"Oh, but one last request.” Except what he said next wasn’t a request, but a demand. “Never show yourself to us or anyone we care about again. Take this as a warning."

Then, the door clicked shut.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Naoya stood up.

“God fucking damnnit!” he hollered at the top of his lungs like a mad maniac. His hand shot out, sweeping the papers off the table violently, sending them scattering across the floor.

He hissed and seethed. How he hated this feeling. His current ordeal had been his wake-up call to realize that merely being born into status didn't mean he would be invincible.

If only he hadn’t let his unchecked arrogance blind him, then his life trajectory would have played out differently!

…Or maybe nothing would’ve changed at all.

Because perhaps, all these years, Naoya Zenin had been trying to grasp onto something that was never meant to be his.

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h3r4life · 2 days ago

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✧ THINGS TO SCRIPT :

UNATTAINABLE PERFECTION AND A BEAUTY THAT DESTROYS ALL STANDARDS

— When you walk into a room, it’s like the world can’t breathe for a moment. Every single eye locks onto you as if your very existence is an event no one was prepared for.

— You’re not just beautiful, you’re perfection personified. So flawless that it’s almost impossible to grasp.

— People can’t help but stare, completely mesmerized by the surreal, almost unholy harmony of your face, your body. It’s not even real, they think, because no one could possibly look like that. And yet, there you are.

— People can’t quite put their finger on it, yet they know, deep down, that this beauty is something they will never see again.

— You make everything and everyone else seem insignificant, like a faded dream in comparison to your undeniable presence.

— Your beauty does not simply meet conventional standards, it obliterates them. All the norms that once shaped the definition of beauty crumble in your presence.

— The world doesn’t just stop and stare, it rewrites itself because of you. Everyone around you, no matter how attractive they might be, now feels like a ghost of what beauty used to mean.

— No one, no matter how hard they try, can come close to the chaos your beauty causes. It’s like a storm that doesn’t just touch down, it redefines what beauty even means.

— There’s something about you that cannot be contained, something that refuses to be truly comprehended by anyone. It’s as if you’re not confined to this world at all, but belong to a realm far beyond human understanding.

— When people lay eyes on you, they’re flooded with awe and confusion, as if they’re witnessing the impossible in real time.

— You exude the kind of beauty that could only exist in dreams or maybe in a parallel universe, just out of reach. It’s short lived, slipping through their fingers like mist, yet undeniably real.

— Your presence leaves people questioning their reality, wondering if you were a vision that their minds created just to torment them with the sheer beauty of you.

— The moment others see you, a cold, hard truth settles deep inside them. Your beauty is unattainable. No amount of effort, no kind of training or transformation will bring them anywhere close to what you embody.

— It’s as though you were born with a privilege that no one else will ever experience. Your beauty is a cosmic injustice, a reminder that the universe chose you to hold something irreplaceable.

— When people look at you, they can’t help but feel humbled, why weren’t they granted the same divine favor? There’s an unspoken bitterness in the air, as they come face to face with the realization that some things are beyond their reach.

— When you enter a room, the air shifts. People feel it before they even see you, their breath catches, their hearts skip, and then they turn, completely hypnotized.

— There’s no escaping it. The room belongs to you. Your beauty is like a gravitational force, pulling everyone into your orbit. They’re frozen in place, not just because of your looks, but because of the overwhelming weight of your presence.

— You don’t just walk into a space. You claim it, owning every corner, every inch, with a quiet confidence that feels almost unreal.

— Though your beauty is overwhelming, there’s nothing plain or over dramatic about it. It doesn’t need to shout, it simply is.

— You carry yourself with such quiet confidence that others can feel the power radiating off of you without a word or gesture.

— You are so at peace with your presence that it feels as if it doesn’t even belong to you. It just exists, simply because it does.

— You don’t seek attention, it seeks you. The act of being near you makes others tremble, not out of fear, but because they recognize something so much bigger than themselves standing before them. You are the living embodiment of quiet, unshakable dominance.

— There’s an unsettling quality to your beauty, a sense of injustice that it exists at all. People feel cheated when they see you, because they realize they will never reach the same level of perfection.

— There’s something inherently unfair about it, as if the universe has played favorites by granting you such exceptional beauty. Even the most beautiful people, those who once considered themselves the epitome of attractiveness, find themselves questioning their own worth when in your presence.

— Your beauty makes others feel invisible, and it’s not intentional. It’s simply the effect you have on those around you. They can’t compete with what you represent, and it feels like an impossible standard they can never meet.

— When people lock eyes with you, they aren’t just staring, they’re transfixed. There’s something about you that stops people in their tracks, really stops them. It’s like staring into the face of divinity itself, unable to look away, yet too stunned to move.

— Your beauty is almost otherworldly, as though it’s not even possible for a human to possess such an aura. They’re swept up in the impossibility of your beauty, unable to comprehend how something so perfect can exist right in front of them.

— People forget where they are when they look at you, as if they’ve entered another realm. Every glance feels like it’s in slow motion, every moment with you feels like an eternity. You make the impossible feel like it’s happening in real time.

— Your presence rewrites reality, and in the moments you inhabit, everything is felt more deeply, more intensely.

— Your beauty has the ability to destroy expectations. When people see you, they are forced to reconsider everything they thought they knew about beauty. Your features don’t simply meet conventional standards, they tear them apart, surpassing them.

— The more others try to understand you, the more elusive you become, as though there’s no way to quantify what makes you so extraordinary. It leaves people disoriented, unsure of themselves and their own appearance.

— You shatter every illusion of what is “acceptable” or “normal” in beauty. It’s almost as if your beauty is a mirror, reflecting back to others their own inadequacies, not through cruelty, but through the presence of something far beyond what they’ve ever known.

— Looking at you is like gazing at an impossible work of art, like a vision that shouldn’t be real. Yet, no matter how much it seems like a dream, the truth is undeniable, you are real.

— But this perfection, this unreachable level of attractiveness, is something no one could ever replicate. Your beauty isn’t just an illusion, it’s a fact that people can’t seem to escape.

— You exist in a realm that belongs to the gods/godesses, something untouched by time, untouchable by others.

— Your beauty doesn’t just belong to this world, it transcends it entirely, leaving everyone who sees it to wonder how such perfection could exist in a place so flawed.

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9w1ft · 21 hours ago

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in a year where taylor whipped out ttpd and, as people began to attest, gleefully toyed with the idea of pointing a finger at her fans, we were, nevertheless, bestowed with a thing or two indeed 😌 along the way we had a little fun of our own here as well, enjoying the serendipity that comes with knowing and adoring the eye theory 👁️👄🫶 as always, ★marks and ☆marks represent the former, and -marks represent the latter. looking back, there were some truly unhinged things that happened this year and i am once again filled with an abundance of gratitude, to have been blessed with this curse 😌 i had so much fun reviewing and reliving this truly delightful gift basket of select eyeballs with which to ponder our usefulness and the extent of her amusement, and i hope you do too. so here you have it fam! your…

2024 year in review

JANUARY

★🧿★ taylor started off the year with a bang by stepping out wearing an evil eye stud in one ear?!

- which was fun to connect to the evil eye stud that karlie got back in winter 2019 😌 eye thearring twining

- we revisited an old klossy video for a leo davinci reference

★ taylor went to a football game and got her photo taken half covered up by frosted glass 😌

★ karlie attended schiaparelli haute couture in a jacket… with an eye button!!

☆ karlie’s i-D magazine did an article on taylor

FEBRUARY

- awe jewelry had me chuckling

- ed wore a camo print jacket with an eye on it at the grammys

- we had a laugh over swift alert including an eye lyric quiz

★ karlie posted an eyeful instagram post

- we learned of the ttpd track list, and i had some fun doing research on clara bow

- saw a game day fit that was giving 🧿

🫣 at one of my tokyo eras tour shows i got the surprise song eyes open 🫣

🫣 at my second night at eras tour tokyo, i happened to be sitting on floor in a position where, at the end of anti hero, taylor turned her head to my section and the lights dropped on the right side of her face 😆 a fitting end to my eras tour adventure

☆ it was becoming more and more apparent that with karlie’s acquisition of i-D, it was setting me up for a lifetime of giggles

- graced with another football fit that was a face split in half down the zipper and an eye duffle too

- taylor wore Area clothing to a game day and the new york times wrote a googly eyed summary of it

- sotheby’s featured karlie’s contributions to an art exhibit with the phrasing “karlie kloss lends her eye”

★🧿★ taylor wore the jacquie aiche evil eye bracelet again!!

★ karlie featured i-D in her stories

- i noticed a theme emerging in the tortured poets department photoshoot

★ so karlie posted from paris using the song can i call you rose? as bgm and then katy perry went to eras tour and posted a photo with taylor and then she posted with a heart hand over her right side eye and used the song can i can you rose as bgm for the post

MARCH

★ we got our first look at the good girl blush elixir campaign and karlie’s hair was very much over half of her face 😌 in the stills as well as the final cut

★ special black dog edition of ttpd announced at a concert night and the photo was once again eye theory coded

★🧿★ we got clarity on the specifics of the eye theory bracelet, as it was featured in marie claire magazine

★ karlie posted to instagram stories blocking an eye in the mirror 😌

- we took a chance to revisit lover’s eye jewelry

☆ a new eye blocked taylor photo was found, seems to be from the evermore era photoshoot?

★ with karlie posting less to social media, it was always a treat to see a little wink or a compact mirror play whenever she did. chances to squeeze the word eye into a caption were also greatly appreciated 😌

- following karlie’s swarovski mermaid campaign the algorithm continued to be after me relentlessly

★ i did a more longer form overview of karlie’s 2017 Expression capsule collection from pre-rep era and in the process of pointing out the visual parallels i uncovered that her express jean jacket had an evil eye on it the whole damn time!

APRIL

★ i couldn’t help but feel a little bit of nazar energy from the blue wave pieces in the swarovski mermaid shoot that karlie did. it was also funny how tapping on the ad for some of the pieces overlayed a price tag over her right side eye 😌

☆ taylornation posted with the fearless heart eye

★ taylor pushed the tortured poets department rollout with an image of her staring through a vinyl, showcasing just one eye. which, no matter how many times stuff like this happens, still takes me out every single time.

★ reports of the spotify pop-up experience in LA including a book with an eye on it caught our attention 😭😭

- we celebrated the 4th anniversary of the eye theory and i reflected a little bit on eye theory jewelry

- had a short renaissance on twitter and it was fun to see the love and new wave of believers ☺️

- put up some links to the april and may 2019 archive filtered under the all eyes on us hashtag to demonstrate just how much people in taylor’s circle covered an eye following the og posting of the eye theory

★ ttpd music started rolling out and there were several fun eye lyrics to be found. 🤔 by my count… the word eye is used over 8 songs (bedroom eyes, somber eyes, whispers in your eyes, glint in my eye, crinklin’ eye, what if your eyes looked up, flashed before her eyes, she rolled her eyes) 🥴

- i had my share of fun riffing as well

★ karlie blocked an eye in glam shots for hung vanngo who set the instagram story to the tune of ice spice’s Pretty Girl “looking at you with my eyes wide damn”

★ the fortnight mv was released and taylor blocked an eye with her face towel, continuing her record of incorporating an eye moment in every recent mv!! she seemed pleased!

★ multiple reports of seeing eyes in the clouds at the end of the fortnight mv as well

★ i found 3 lyric mv’s with eye blocking 😌 growing evidence of the shenanigans of this photoshoot

☆ taylornation ttpd social media promo had a lot of isolated eye stuff in their promo footage 😆

☆ stumbled into a high school photo of taylor beside a wall full of signatures from her friend group wishing her a happy birthday and it turns out that the titular AIMEE signed her name beside the drawing of a RIGHT SIDE EYE

MAY

★🧿★ taylor was seen out to dinner wearing the evil eye bracelet again!

- we celebrated five years of looking camp right in the eye 😌 it was fun to find articles, too!

★ karlie gave us an eye zoom in glam shot for the met gala! she also had fun in her estée lauder shots as well as video footage — it was really sweet to see.

- couldn’t help but see eye outlines in her dress 😆

- and then the accompanying swarovski met gala instagram jewelry ad campaign delivered on the eye theory front as well

★ and karlie was playing with photographers inside the venue by pointing at her eyes as well as doing the same on the way in!

- the eras tour setlist got a revamp, and all of the eye theory moments remained in tact!

★ who’s afraid of little old me outro graphic made me cackle, as did this other eye shattering moment from the ttpd set! here it is from another angle!!

☆☆☆ i revisited karlie’s vogue uk 2019 cover and made the realization that it’s not simply that she was wearing a blue evil eye brooch to the left side, but that to the right side she is also wearing a green evil eye brooch suspended from a safety pin within an O of the word LOOK 😭🤌 isn’t it wild how some of the most BONKERS things take you years to notice?? i’m still not over it like.. BLUE AND GREEN EYE BROOCHES and the one to the right side is TACKED ON with a SAFETY PIN and hidden in the word LOOK?!?! like ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

JUNE

- i took a minute to appreciate how amazing it really is for the fearless set heart eye hands to exist

- karlie had to go to an event with an eye infection in one eye 😭 poor mama

★ taylor was spotted out with cara delevigne at the kitkat club playtheater. the logo for the theater is an eye sandwiched between two K’s 🥴

- found the funny in loml

★ fresh out the slammer acoustic version edition photo was also hiding an eye 😌

- liverpool eras tour commemorative art installation mural had an eye

★ taylor was papped out to dinner with people including mert alas! (reputation album photographer)

☆ Us by gracie abrams featuring taylor was implied to be written on the night of november 13th 2023, which also happens to be the night that taylor and gracie were papped walking past graffiti of an eye

- i started to compile all the ttpd photoshoot photos that i had found that were hiding an eye 😌

☆ it came to our attention that the product name of karlie’s current iphone case was ‘iris’

★ karlie once again attended a schiaparelli show wearing plenty of eye accessories and adornments 🥴 and it was fun how the eyes are different colors on some of the accessories

★ eras tour dancer natalie did an instagram post that mirrored karlie’s estée lauder grid post, including similar eye blocking with skincare products, a makeup compact, etc and then she liked a comment someone left that said ‘looking camp right in the eye 🫶✨

JULY

★ on twitter there were reports that taylor prominently covered an eye during delicate! and we found a clip of it! one fun thing about the eras tour was running into reports of these things with everyone watching the livestreams 😌

- kacey musgraves was seen hanging out with karlie and then she posted a bit of a looking camp right in the eye photo

- always fun to see joe do a thing

- speaking of twitter, it was really fun to see the continued reach of the theory every once in awhile via the metrics 😌

★ Team USA’s twitter account quote tweeted karlie’s original looking camp right in the eye tweet with a gif of simone biles doing the same 😌 taylor was publicly rooting for the US gymnastics team and simone for this olympics, so it was a fun thing to have had happened

- i mused a little bit with anons over how some gaylors on twitter were speaking of the eye theory in a way that showed they didn’t understand it at all

AUGUST

- and the musings spilled into august 😌

☆ i updated the eye theory music video easter egg masterpost for the first time in a long time, up through fortnight

★ taylor played i can see you as a surprise song in poland on august 2nd, the one year anniversary of when she wore the evil eye bracelet out for the first time back in 2023

★ karlie took some photos with dvf which is always fun because she’s always wearing huge evil eye jewelry

☆ realized that a little black dress karlie had worn in paris lowkey had an eye pattern on it

★ karlie posted more birthday celebration photos that included a nazar evil eye coaster in the shot

★🧿★ taylor wore a jacquie aiche evil eye hoop earring during eras tour warSAW 😂

☆ i spent a moment thinking about the physical comedy aspect of the fearless hand heart, how the arms lower down just so

annnddd would you look at that!! here i was thinking our update would be more compact but lo and behold we have hit the 100 inline link limit for this reblog 😭 so i guess ill uh, reblog this and add the rest from now!! happy new year’s eve everyone ✨✨

alright all that’s left now is to hit post and

*record scratch*

oh wait, what? whats that? i can't reblog with more content on the main post? it’s technically too big?!

oh well well well then okay. hey :leans in close: did i… ever crash your app with the op post? i wanted to apologize for that. truly sorry. the truth is, the original post also crashes my app! wild! yes, well, as big of a fan of push media as i am i’m going to have to break away from the original post to get the job done this year but if you’re new here and don’t know about the eye theory please for the love of god click the below link to read through the original. it’s required reading.

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yes ok. welcome back! did i make you dizzy? jeepers my eyes do hurt, just after putting together this update! but i come bearing gifts…! frankincense, myrrh, gold, and a *plump* 2021 eye theory update for the remaining bakers dozen or so of us left hanging in this manger… because apparently that’s just the way things will be 😘 again, i’m far past proving this thing and more into sharing, yeah, sharing the fun memories over the past year living with this theory so that’s what i’ll do. and this requires more than the ten picture limit so in lieu of that i will be updating only once but with links to each finding. my demarcation is the same as last year:

so without further ado, here comes our…

2021 year in review

JANUARY

★ kimby posting the eye mirror thing at the beginning of the year (which i posted about at the end of the last update)

★karlie liked a tweet (a rarity at the time) from henry hall promoting his new album… that had an eye and the number 13 on the album cover.

-we found another great photo match example

☆ we noticed something up with a new carolina herrera ad that ended up showing up again later in the year

☆ we noticed taylor covering her eye during rep tour while singing even in my worst lies you saw the truth in me

-we noticed an oft forgotten appearance of the evil eye ring in the rep promo material, photos of her on the beach

FEBRUARY

☆ we found a potential easter egg in the end game mv

★ one of the lyric videos for fearless TV had a fun synching moment ..that taylor then put in her instagram stories

★ taylor posted a bleachella era pic of her and the haim sisters that had the sisters covering eyes with their hoodies, and then honest to god this is just one of those thing i can’t quite conscionably explain but there are two boxes of pizzas being held and the cheese only pizza looks like the “blank” of the two pizzas and it’s to the right of the picture

★ kayda and kai did some eye funny business

MARCH

★ the grammys… so, taylor’s performance included choreography that covers her right side eye along with the line “guess i should have known from the look on your face” and i know this is one of the things people particularly do not like but i’m such a sucker for prop comedy: i think the shape of the lean-to cabin itself is the shape of an eye and also the belted waist part of her dress looks like an eye, i said what i said

-and this can’t help but feel like chance, but, we got this red carpet press photo of her grammy covering her eye

-something also feeling serendipitous, karlie got papped by some eye graffiti

APRIL

-The Vault reveal left me wanting to get my eyes checked 😂

☆ we realized one could make the argument that there’s a eye isolated by the mask on her male counterpart in willow, and that the mask has a drooping daisy embroidered on it

-i got the chance to talk a little bit more about my thoughts on the editing that went on with the mert and marcus rep photoshoot photos, and my thoughts on computer graphic manipulation as it relates to other things, in particular lead time

★ taylor seemed to have more fun with synching up the fearless tv clip to music 🙈

★ taylor’s mother’s day merch included a postcard with a daisy and the lyric “i love you for giving me your eyes”

MAY

-not for nothing, austin posted a picture of him at the Oculus building in NYC (oculus being a word that means eye, austin being someone who rarely updates his instagram these days)

★ karlie got back in the saddle with posting an eye out of frame

★ some preview photos of karlie’s green adidas collection were released, and they included this amazing shot

and wouldnt ya know it she made it her profile pic after the collection release

JUNE

★ more kayda funny business (i feel like there were a lot more of these but i wasn’t able to keep track)

★ karlie got papped wearing a prada jacket with a print of a one eyed beach babe

-taylor mixed up her words during a thank you speech while accepting an award and said “she helped me to edit my eyes” which i mean i don’t think it was intentional but it certainly made my year 🙈

★ karlie wore this versace blazer that inexplicably has a hole cut out of it to the right?? which was made even more meaningful given the fact that i had been spiraling over the tie with the hole in it in the lwymmd video a few months prior idk 😆

★ the how long do you think it’s gonna last album was announced with an… eye collage�� 🙈🙈 and kept the promo coming into july with eye cutout moments like this

JULY

★ then the Renegade music video was released and it was just chock a block with eye manipulation! singled out eyes, taylor covering her right side eye with her hands, with her hair, the eyes on her face cut out and zoomed in on. like, i’m sorry, it’s 2021 and we are really doing this ladies???

-and i came up with a funny (/emotional)

-karlie met with schiaparelli in paris, who had just come out with a collection full of gilded eyes among other body parts

★ karlie blocked an eye for estée lauder —a true pastime— and thus began the formalization of the tradition of me waking up to karlie having posted something ocular to instagram

AUGUST

☆ adam rippon posted a little ode to karlie’s “looking camp right in the eye 👁 ” moment, which normally id just chalk up to it having become a meme but at the same time, bobby berk liked the post and they were both in the yntcd mv, so it’s sorta amusing

★ karlie posts “filed under baking inspo” moodboard which included a pic of a face made of food with one eye 🥴🥴🥴 like i’m sorry, is this not proof of acknowledgement 😆

★ karlie posts a photoset of her in workout clothes and she’s covering the left side eye in a lot of the pics

★ karlie wore some eye-like rain and sunshine earrings from two jewelers that also make custom lover’s eye jewelry

SEPTEMBER

★ taylor covered an eye on the tiktok

-i noticed that each of karlie’s adidas collections had their own moments

-also like this is simply an act of god but somehow taylor and karlie got a photo taken at the 2014 met gala where karlie is standing to the right next to a woman with an eye purse…?

☆we noticed two things about the UPS commercial she did during rep era

★ karlie hid an eye while getting ready for the met gala which was the start to a crazy crazy day here on kaylor tumblr

☆ someone kindly pointed out to me that birch feat. taylor swift just as names of trees goes is also sus 🥴

-we listed up some of the possibly eye theory -aligned taymoji

★ karlie posted a promo clip of her designing her met dress at carolina herrera and it had an eye moment

-taylor has sort of established winks as a Taylor’s Version easter egg gesture so i don’t really count things like this in the grand scheme of things but i can’t help but feel this wink was exaggerated in post which would mean the eye could have been edited, and for that i’ll mention it

-this is just an it’s a small world moment having to do with researching the band of outsiders brand

★ taylor using an eye covered pic of shania twain on her tiktok

★ karlie blocking eyes again in a photoshoot make that two

OCTOBER

✦★✶ karlie went to mert alas’ gin release party in paris I REPEAT she went to the party being held by the guy who took the rep album photoshoot photos aka the guy who took the actual eye theory photo and not only did she get a pic with him, she drank out of the gin glasses that had an eye like pattern cut into them???

★ karlie woke me up again and chose violence

-i forget how i ran into this but it’s this old photoshoot of karlie in a daisy full body suit with her arms and head in the shape of an eye idk lol

★ karlie posted a photoset with some eye blocking moments going on

NOVEMBER

-in a moment of meta, karlie got the chance to post a pic of bert and ernie to her instagram stories as she was also a part of the WSJ innovators issue

☆ taylor’s grammy dresses went on display and the waist fabric looked even more like an eye so sue me!

★ karlie really made it christmas morning every morning 🥴

★ RED TV lyric videos also got a moment

★ the IBYTAM video had us all reeling for plenty of reasons but i made sure to have my fun …kinda cool how it fits though 😂 this stood out to a lot of us and this too

-it’s the little things

-blame it on the vault crest and red dresses but i allowed myself to lean in to the crazy a bit more than usual and tbh i had the best time with it

☆ i had a thought about So It Goes as it relates to rep tour

-The Missing Eye Puzzle Piece it turned out that the missing capital one red bundle puzzle piece was simply missing, and it has been found, **but** i had an amazing couple of weeks imagining the ARG possibilities. oh and i still love that the right side eye is the 11th puzzle piece across, 8 rows down (karlie numbers)

DECEMBER

★ karlie posted again blockin an eye 😂

★ shes so good at finding an opportunity

★ karlie wearing a sweatshirt with an eye on it because why not i guess 🙈

-surely coincidental but i did laugh at where her music choice in this post led me

★ and it turned out the eye glassware at the mert alas gin release party ended up being used in the promo photos for the stuff

★karlie did a ‘comeback’ -esque spread for WSJ and she delivered

-add this to the list of potential cross-media tie in opportunities that surely weren’t intentional but i would point to in terms of what she could potentially do should she want to bring back this level of easter egging for reputation TV

★ waking up again to some uncanny carolina herrera hijinks

★ karlie blocking an eye again 🙈

-i talked a little bit about the evil eye ring making it’s appearances with the angel wing ring

★ like i said, this karlie post waiting for me when i woke up thing, it became a morning ritual

-there was a red tv album print mishap… istg the way i moved (is this what the kids say)

★ taylor blocked an eye in her new years reel

so there you have it, folks! 2021, a kaylor year that had me throwing my hands up and deciding to bend with the wind and roll with the punches… paid dividends?! i included the ephemera (the winks and out of frames) just because i see them as a sustainable avenue for the dreary new parent, but all these aside it still blows my mind how many distinctly significant things happened in conjunction with the theory this year and i hope very very deeply and earnestly that each and every one of you may have had the chance to crack a smile or two as well 😌

its weird… seeing karlie and mert photographed gave me this lavish sense of… coming full circle! but 🥰 who knows what next year will bring. what can i say, as if it was my greco-roman destiny, i know i will always beat the drum for this theory if they will have me. eye can’t help myself!

have a happy new year🥳

#all eyes on us #masterpost

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melatonindeficient · 3 days ago

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live laugh love mel

"Mel manipulated jayce" yeah you fucker she's a politician.

Mel isn't telling people what to or what not to think or convincing them to make drastic changes to their lives or personalities in order to bend them to her will. She just knew how to appeal to certain interests in order to achieve a goal. Jayce is an honest and sincere person—say what you want about her, but she was honest and sincere to him as well.

Not only that but she was a politician brought up by a narcissist who quite apparently skewed her perception of what relationships should look like so can we be so fucking for real.

Mel saw an opportunity for some sort of positive change and improvement and took it, and along the way she softened and began to actually love jayce. She didn't have to hold on to him any longer than season one. Hell, as smart as she is if she really didn't want to embark on a romantic relationship with him, she probably wouldn't have had to. And dude, jayce talis might beat naïve but he also performed illegal operations in his apartment and performed immense scientific feats by the skin of his teeth. It's not like he just sat there without a thought in his head while him and mel first interacted.

And it never sat right with me that one can be so quick to call Mel a manipulator for wanting to use Jayce's knowledge to create hextech weapons while ignoring that that logic makes Viktor a manipulator in joining forces with Jayce to advance his own search for personal perfectability. I mean, they're parallels for a reason. And it doesn't seem so at first--because they worked as partners in the lab, but Viktor knew he couldn't do that without what Jayce knew, and he couldn't make the most of what Jayce knew without getting close--but Jayce and Viktor's lofty ideals of progress prove that they are flawed once the two of them begin to start working separately for different goals (as Jayce creates a hextech weapon and Viktor insists they must stop).

And in the end, who's the one who uses Jayce's knowledge for worse rather than better? Vik.

In addition, I saw a comment somewhere saying that when she met Ambessa again (in season 1) she realised that she didn't want to continue the cycle of transactional, manipulative relationships which her mother started and began to try and change in the way she viewed relationships, and in turn in the way she loved, and that's so fucking true like holy shit.

Jinx's projection of Silco says that "the cycle only ends when you walk away" at the very end of season 2, but Mel breaks her cycle far before she has her final encounter with her mother in episode nine of season two. No, Mel broke her cycle when she realized she didn't want to do to her great love what her mother did to her. When Ambessa tried to sink her teeth into Jayce.

(Meljay is my endgame I scream as they drag me to my enclosure)

#she could fix me #save me Mel medarda #d1 mel defender #it's three am and i hope I'm not getting my facts wrong #that'd be really embarrassing #arcane #meljay #jayce and mel

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musette22 · 12 hours ago

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Orpheus & Eurydice || Steve & Bucky

Moodboard for the @wintershieldbingo

Square: Mythology AU ✔️

I've always felt that the story of Steve and Bucky, particularly as told in Captain America: The First Avenger, had a lot in common with the Ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. For that reason, I have chosen to fill the Mythology AU square on my Wintershield Bingo card by creating a moodboard to draw narrative and visuals parallels between these two tragic love stories.

Orpheus & Eurydice

Orpheus was an artist, the greatest lyre player in the world, who was happily married to the love of his life, the beautiful Eurydice. Their happy life together gets cut short, however, when Eurydice is bitten by a viper and dies, leaving a heartbroken Orpheus behind. Orpheus cannot accept his true love’s death, and so he travels to the Underworld on a quest to get Eurydice back.

Orpheus manages to overcome various hurdles, such as getting past Cerberus, the three-headed hound who guards the gates to the Underworld, and finally pleads with Hades, the king of the Underworld to let Eurydice live again. Hades allows this on one condition: Eurydice is to follow behind Orpheus while walking out of the darkness of the Underworld towards the light of the land of the living, but Orpheus should not turn to look at her before she is fully out in the light again. However, as they begin to ascend towards the land of the living, Orpheus, afraid that his lover is no longer behind him, looks back to make sure she is following, causing Eurydice to tragically fall back into the shadows and be trapped in the Underworld once more.

Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes

Steve and Bucky are very close friends and most likely even lovers, who live a mostly happy life together in Brooklyn. When World War II breaks out, Bucky is drafted and joins the army, while Steve stays behind in New York. In Italy, Bucky's squad is taken by the enemy, and he is kept prisoner in a dark, abandoned factory housing the lab of Hydra (incidentally also a multi-headed beast from Greek mythology).

When Steve, who received a superserum which turned him into the world's greatest soldier (as well as an artist), eventually also joins the army and gets to Italy, he is told Bucky is most likely dead. Steve point blank refuses to accept that, and embarks on a one man rescue mission - a quest, if you will - to get Bucky back. Armed with a wooden shield, the shape of which bears a similarity to a lyre, overcomes numerous obstacles, fighting Hydra goons and even Red Skull, who looks like the devil incarnate. Steve manages to free Bucky and even jumps over what strongly resembles the fiery pits of hell to get to freedom, only to lose Bucky again a short while later, when Bucky tragically falls from a train and is subsumed once more into the Underworld, i.e. Hydra’s claws.

Aside from the many narrative parallels, many visual parallels also exist between depictions of Orpheus and Eurydice in classical art and various scenes and images in CA:TFA. The moodboard above attempts to illustrate these parallels and similarities.

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thegreatmelodrama · 2 days ago

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A small detail in Dead Poets Society that always stays within my brain is how when Neil goes up to his room, the camera pans to his bed that has his pajamas, a robe, and toiletries have all been laid out for him (presumably by his mom). Neil briefly touches his pajama shirt in a way that has always stuck with me. Because, here, in this moment, Neil is reminded once again that his future has already been laid out for him, that he can’t even choose his own pajamas to wear much less choose what he will do with his life. It’s only further confirmation to him of what he thinks he must do; that the only way to live life on his own terms is by ending it.

Furthermore, this scene contains parallels to that which depicts the night of the first dead poets meeting. In the latter, Neil enters his room to find the Five Centuries of Verse book left by Keating. This is followed by the poets all sneaking out into the night with the same score being used in both this scene and the scene of Neil preparing for his final act. Keating’s book represents freedom and hope and passion, a stark contrast to the pajama laid out for Neil in the later scene. However, one could argue that the crown of thorns, which Neil gravitates to after looking at his folded pajamas, represents a similar, yet different sort of freedom. When Neil places the crown on his head and takes his final bow, he effectively commits himself to the decision to find freedom in the dreams of the eternal sleep that is death.

What appears as a small detail, really holds so much more depth when looked at in a different way.

#dead poets society #the dead poets society #dps #deadpoetssocietyanalysis #neil perry #somewhat incomplete thoughts but I’m too lazy to revise so enjoy

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pixie05love · 10 hours ago

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I've just watched with my little bro Sonic 3, and let me tell u guys, I refuse to believe Shadow is dead. Give my baby girl a proper conclusion. Him dying is not a proper conclusion, PERIODDDDD.

Who will remember Maria now that her grandfather and her only friend are dead? Who will be that light (Shadow) that still shines even when the star (Maria) is dead?? WHO IF NOT SHADOW GUYS?!?!?! The best choice was not to save the world by sacrificing himself and never giving him a second chance to love, NO. He was supposed to be saved and find new people (it could have perfectly been Sonic and co) that he'd once again consider as friends or family WHILE still remembering Maria!! THAT WAS THE BEST END FOR SHADOW!!^@%!%

REPEAT WITH ME: SHADOW WAS A REDEEMABLE CHARACTER! SHADOW WAS A REDEEMABLE CHARACTER!

Sonic felt Shadow's loneliness and sadness because he also lost someone dear to him and also went through a lonely period of time (remember the first movie and how sonic was dealing with loneliness at the beginning) HE COULD HAVE PERFECTLY ENDED LIKE SHADOW!

Sonic didn't end up like him because he found a family and friends that cared about him and taught him to understand that anger wouldn't lead him to anything good at the end, that he had to follow his lungs heart to make the best choices.

You see it, right? Shadow and Sonic were parallels at some point. They went through the same past but one allowed his anger to consume him because he never found a comforting family that would support him (Shadow) and the other one learnt, thanks to his family and friends, that allowing said anger to consume his heart would blind him and not allow him to take the best decisions for his family and friends (that's Sonic!)

ALSO☝️ Sonic, when he saw where Shadow was confined, said something like "if I had lived like this, I would've also turned into a villain" or something along those lines😭

Then, if Sonic was aware of what caused Shadow to end up like that, WHY DIDN'T HE AND THE REST TRY TO SAVE HIM AT THE END END!?!?!? WHY, JUST WHYYYYYY I DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT THISSS;@!&+&@(×*×(×*×(×(×(×

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+ Dr. Robotnik's death was so emotional, I fucking loved it! I loved his character in every movie, actually. So let's be honest, he carried the whole thing

I actually loved Sonic 3, btw. I freaking love this blue hedgehog and this saga of movies. I can't wait for the fourth movie because we will able to see METAL SONIC AAAAAA!1!1!1

I had a lot of fun and the production was amazing too. For the standards of younger audiences, it was a 10/10. I know, because my little bro said so, and he's a kid, so he's right, jahsjashjs

It was just that little aspect of Shadow's character that made me mildly annoyed (because he's my fave along with Tails okay😭) but I'm aware it's a kids' movie, and it has already given a lot. Seriously, it had a good and simple message, good music, good action sequences, the cgi was amazing... everything was a 10, really. I just wanted some justice for my chocolate sweet bun Shadow, that's all.

If they gave him that ending with the future plan of bringing him back, they could have just let him live/? so idk, I didn't like that conclusion for him, okay ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡

#i promise #IT'S A GOOD MOVIE #I JUST LIKE TO COMPLAIN OKAY #IM INCREDIBLY DRAMATIC FOR NO REASON TOO #so they'll probably bring him back in the next movie ans i complained for nothing #i just wanted a good conclusion for his character #because he had a lot give #but that's all #WATCH THE MOVIE IF U LIKE SONIC #OR IF U LIKE FURRIES IDKK #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic movie 3 #sonic 3 #maria robotnik

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The parallels between Joel and pearl are actually like really interesting sometimes. Like to see how similar but different the two of them are can be really fun to look through. It’s also fun to see how much they can be opposites, like, take dl!pearl and 3l!joel for example. Joel ended up mostly alone because he tried playing on both sides of the field, which didn’t do him much good. He had been mostly lonely throughout the series with some tenuous alliances, but he ended up dying alone surrounded by dogs anyway. In double life, pearl’s loneliness wasn’t a choice that she made. She had been abandoned in the first episode for running off with a person that wasn’t her soulmate, and that person had also left her out of spite. She also was mostly alone and seen as “crazy” for most pf the series, too having a lot of tenuous alliances that in the end didn’t do her much good at all. Also love how they both had pet dogs they were horrible attached to and dealt very differently with their deaths. Can you tell I love lone wolf parallels

Lone wolf parallels so true.... Joel and Pearl make me feel so ill man. And they fit so neatly together in the Mounders, which makes almost too much sense. I'll leave my Mounder talk for another anon though but even moreso than the lone wolf thing, I think Pearl and Joel serve as interesting parallels because of the others' views on them

Pearl regarded as crazy in DL, Joel regarded as rabid for pretty much every season... Pearl was doing so well in SL, but then she's teamed up again with Scott and Cleo in WL who treat her like a ticking time bomb, constantly referring back to Double Life as if she's an untameable animal needing to be contained, undoing whatever progress she made in SL. They perpetuate the sentiment of her being pathetic and she feels powerless upon all her failures to achieve any of her goals and prove herself, basically giving up in the end (the way she became deflated after Gem's death and knowingly refused to eat, eventually dying)

Joel is regarded as a menace by default, though of his own doing, and not a particularly feared one. Often thought to be more crazy than intimidating or strong, thus regarded with less competence than he would like. It's not like he aims to make himself look insane, when he gives off that impression, it's generally because of distress which I think he's more susceptible to than most others. He gets flustered easily when taunted or when he fails at something, especially an attack. Sorry for the dog analogy (hey, close enough to wolf, right) but he feels like a dog raised to be one of those illegal pit fighting dogs, and he keeps it up to make himself strong and feared in order to get by in this environment. In the end he has occasional bouts of success but most often doesn't do that well. The image constructed of him is less than ideal, and the main contributor to that image aside from him is Scott, who Joel has a hard time landing successful attacks on, who mocks him, who kills him repeatedly, who isn't intimidated by him one way or another as he paints the image of a rabid dog to everyone else. And the one time Joel does so well he wins is the time he makes a conscious effort to tame himself (and he absolutely deserves a win but even just from a character standpoint, it feels hollow in a poetic way because of this)

Two wolves seen as rabid and often incompetent, but where one could take some (although not total) control, finally yielding positive results if even bittersweet ones at best, the other is forced back into their ostracized self, but where there was once fear of someone gone mad, there's pity and mockery now

#blabber

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It’s so funny. It’s sad more than funny. Seeing this. You guys can’t seem to understand why buddie are written a certain way, especially in the earlier seasons. Hell, it’s so interesting why they don’t get or WANT to see why t*mmy wasn’t there for the bachelor party. Why they WROTE him to NOT dress up. Why they WROTE him to have a call….its a fictional show. It was ON PURPOSE. why they had him be away during the WHOLE SEARCH RESUE. again, ON PURPOSE. why Eddie was haunting the narrative. How could they “bait” bummy when they were only a “couple” for literally 15 minutes.

You do realize bibuck was a FANCANON and a DELUSIONAL 7 years right? You do realize right? You’re already making fun of yourself when you say stupid shit like that…. The only reason bibuck happened was because of a network change…oh i can’t forget this part. Tim wanted Natalia to come back. When she wasn’t available, he tried for Lucy. Same thing. Tim wanted Tommy and Eddie but it fell through. Bibuck was literally the LAST OPION🤣🤣🤣🤣. I think that’s the difference between us and you guys. I know we LOVE to create theories and sometimes read between the lines or scenes and interpret x…but at least we will admit when we are wrong. Why, why, why is it that the only group of people were “surprised” about the breakup are yalll? Why is it when everyone told you, it’s just an “entry relationship” as Tim also said, were you screaming endgame/engagment…why is it when Oliver was talking about the relationship in s8, he was very careful in his answers. Using words like challenges or honeymoon phase or rose color glasses and continued to say IF they can make it. He always used the word IF. he never once told or baited you guys …you can’t bait a group when Lou himself admitted he was only called back for 4 episodes…which literally confirms he was there to open bucks bisexuality arc. You have Tim saying in interviews, “look here’s a guy”. “He’s not the main character”. “He doesn’t have a begins epsiode”. “Was it premature, sure BUT THAT WAS BY DESIGN”. Meaning, they were ALWAYS going to break up but Tim wants to do something in 8b, i think (buddie) and therefore had to break up them earlier than anticipated. They literally WROTE in the epsiode. They literally had the SAME WRITERS AND DIRECTORS from 7x04…. To film and write 8x06….literal start and death.

“I’m your first, NOT your last”. Followed by calling him BUCK which further solidified the breakup.

Then Tim saying IF, they were to bring him back,

“Yeah, I mean, he’s going to be moving to what’s in his future. And look, Tommy is in Buck’s romantic past for sure. But that doesn’t mean that Tommy is necessarily not ever going to intersect with Buck in this universe again”.

“Tommy is in Bucks ROMANTIC PAST FOR SURE” Idk how much more clearer he needs to explicitly say it.

Yall are fighting so hard for the biggest plot device ever that was in our faces on the show…a GUEST star that had 41 minutes between 2 seasons and the ACTUAL COUPLE had about 15minutes of screen time… was in ep 1 yet had 2 lines. The scene was about Eddie/chris/and buck. Wasn’t in 2,3 (yet i thought he was a firefighter as well), didn’t even care to put him as a background character💀💀💀. Wasn’t in episode 4. Was in ep 5 but Eddie was there haunting the narrative and showing he’s not part of the “family” claim he is. Ep 6 literally shows them as to why they weren’t ever endgame…and yet. Yall are crying over what?

BTs relationship in season 8 was actually a direct parallel to Eddie/Marisol in season 7.

Episode 1: Brief 30 second cameo to remind the general audience that the character exists.

Episodes 23 and 4: Absent.

Episode 5: Proves the couple is incompatible and will not be endgame but they finish the episode still together.

Episode 6 (BT)/ Episode 7 (Eddie and Marisol): The relationship comes crashing down. For BT it was the break up and for Eddie and Marisol it was Kim.

But you know he was super important and there was so much “potential”🤣🤣🤣🤣

Or this

A Feedback to ABC

🎄All I W❄️nt for Christm⭐️s Is L❤️U☃️

Below is a copy of my feedback to ABC. I wrote the feedback on a Microsoft Word document, because it was too long to be written on the description column of ABC's feedback page.

I'm not suggesting people to read the whole thing (it is a long-ass letter). However, there are some points in it which I think worthy to be mentioned, if anyone still want to write feedback to ABC:

1)) Criticism on the writing of Season 7 and Season 8. I made a list of '13 reasons why' 🙄 I thought the writing of Season 8 was crappy, and actually called it 'crappy' on my feedback. The list included everything which has bothered me, except 2 things: Ortiz and Eddie storylines. There is a possibility that Ortiz would come back as a stronger villain in the future, and Eddie's issue with Shannon might be resolved in Season 8B. Thus, I withheld my judgment. It's important to tell ABC how bad the writing was, because you wouldn't guess it from all the positive publications and adulation about the show out there. The higher ups on ABC might also not be aware about it.

2)) Mentioning that fans have noticed the three-baitings: the thrill-baiting, the Buddie-baiting, and the Tevan-baiting. Even if the show or ABC didn't mean to bait anyone (which honestly I doubt 🙄), at least ABC would be aware of the distrust and negative perceptions on the show, and hopefully would take actions to counter them.

3)) Reasons why we don't want to see Buck with any love interests other than Tommy.

4)) Suggestions of possible storylines for Tommy. Initially I was hesitant to write this part. I thought, these professional writers surely didn't need suggestions from someone like me. But then I remembered how they'd botched Season 8A (*shudder*), and I was afraid that they wouldn't bring Tommy back, because they didn't know what to do with him. So, fuck it! Someone, anyone, got to tell them. And if that someone had to be me, so be it.

5)) There was no mention of the online harrassment. In my criticism about Buddie-baiting, I called the Buddie fans "obsessed", instead of "toxic" or "hostile". I want my feedback to be read pass the social media team. Mentioning the online harrassment might make the social media team tossed my letter to the garbage bin, because they didn't want to be blamed on their passivity.

I'm sorry that I couldn't participate in financial donation this year. I've been out of job for quite a while, because I was bullied on my previous workplace. This is also the reason why I've been so adamant against online bullying. I hope however small what I do for this movement, it still helps somehow.

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Dear ABC,

I've been watching 9-1-1 show for years, and have been involved in its fandom for quite a while. There are growing concerns among the fandom about the show, which is the reason why I'm writing this letter:

A. THE WRITING

The writing of Season 7 was not good. Shannon's doppelganger storyline was hard to believe, and Amir storyline was rushed. Buck was the only character who got a decent story with his new relationship with Tommy. However, most of us were willing to look past those shortcomings because it was a shortened season, with only 10 episodes instead of the usual 18 episodes.

We'd expected Season 8 will be better, alas, it's been worse:

Gerard was retconned to be a bumbling old relic. It's hard to believe that he was the same menace who had ruled the 118 firehouse with iron fists in the Begins episodes of Season 2.

In episode 8x05 "Masks", Hen and Karen had a disagreement about Hen's working schedule. Why did this issue come up now, after their 7+ years of marriage? Hen never changed her job during their marriage. Karen has even been very supportive when Hen was enrolled in a medical school, while also working as a firefighter from Season 4 to Season 6. At that time, she was notably busier than she is in this season.

In episode 101 "Pilot" Abby mentioned that Tommy was her ex-boyfriend. Why did in episode 806 "Confessions" Tommy say he was Abby's ex-fiancé?

In episode 8x06 "Confessions" Maddie told Chimney, her husband, that she was pregnant. After her unexpected pregnancy back in Season 3, we expected the couple would be more careful with birth controls. Apparently they didn't. It is a running joke within fandom that birth controls don't exist in 9-1-1 universe. Also, why didn't Maddie have a discussion with her husband before she got pregnant? A pregnancy should be a couple's decision, not forced by half of the pair to the other half.

In episode 806 "Confessions", Tommy gave Buck two Lakers tickets as anniversary gift. It is implied that Tommy didn't know that Buck did not like basketball. We're not sure what the show wanted to tell with this scene. If it meant to imply that Tommy was not a good boyfriend because he didn't know that fact, it achieved the opposite effect. Buck was the one who had given the impression to Tommy that he liked basketball on episode 804 "Buck, Bothered, and Bewildered". Thus, if Tommy still didn't know that Buck disliked the sport after 6 months into their relationship, it was Buck's fault for not coming clean to Tommy.

Buck was flustered when talking with a woman on his anniversary date with Tommy in episode 806 "Confessions". Buck is 33 years old, not twelve. He's been dating a lot of people before. Buck should have known better than showing his attraction to other people while being on a date.

Still in episode 806 "Confessions", Buck asked whether Tommy was attracted to women. At the time, they've been dating for 6 months. Previously, in episode 705 "You Don't Know Me", Buck told Eddie that Tommy was gay. If Buck had known that his boyfriend was gay, why did he ask Tommy whether Tommy was attracted to women? Buck might be not the brightest bulb in the box, but we didn't think he was so stupid or ignorant that he couldn't differentiate between being gay and being bisexual.

Again, in episode 806 "Confessions" Tommy broke up with Buck because he was afraid to go further in their relationship. Tommy that we knew was mindful to other people's feelings. In episode 704 "Buck, Bothered, and Bewildered" Tommy visited Buck to clear the air after he'd sensed that he might have inadvertently created a wedge between Buck and Eddie. This mindful Tommy wouldn't date Buck in the first place, if he knew that he couldn't go to the next phase.

After Tommy broke up with Buck, Buck didn't seem to fight for their relationship. In episode 405 "Buck Begins" Athena said that being Buck meant never give up. In the past, we have seen Buck fought for things which mattered to him. He sued LAFD to get his job back. He broke the law to save Maddie when she was in danger. However, after Tommy broke up with him, Buck didn't even try to communicate with Tommy like an adult. Instead, he was... baking? This is not the Buck we have known.

In episode 807 "Hotshots" and episode 808 "Wannabes" Buck didn't even look sad when he was not baking. He did look anxious when Tommy was mentioned, but other than that, he acted normal. Tim Minear mentioned in interviews that Tommy was important for Buck, but we didn't see it on screen. Fans have been mourning the relationship harder than on-screen Buck.

After the break up, why didn't any of Buck's closest people encourage him to clear things up with Tommy? In episode 709 "Ashes, Ashes" Bobby told Buck that Tommy was good for him, and Chimney has asked Tommy to fly into a hurricane, practically made Tommy risked his own life for the 118 team. However, after Tommy broke up with Buck, none of them told either Buck or Tommy to talk with each other and clear things up.

In episode 807 "Hotshots", Chimney encouraged Buck to "jump back in the pond", and Buck answered with "I don't know which pond to jump back into." The conversation seemed like a subtext that bisexual Buck now could sleep with both men and women. As a bisexual person, I am very offended by this scene. Like other people, bisexual people cannot control to whom we fall in love to, regardless of the gender. The implication of the scene is that bi people are 'easy' or 'loose' and used to pick partners to sleep without giving much thoughts on it. It is a common prejudice which we've been fighting against for a very long time. Watching it implied on the scene is insulting, to say the least.

The prolonged screen time of Brad Torrence. Initially fans didn't hate Brad. However, we couldn't help but notice that a big portion of Season 8A was spent on Brad, while other main characters we actually cared about were put aside. Now, Brad Torrence becomes a bitter joke among fans. Most of us couldn't stand him any longer. On top of that, the scene of Brad saved a suicidal Hotshots fan in episode 806 "Wannabes" felt like an undeserved pat-on-the-back to the show, considering the crappy stories the show has been giving us since Season 7.

B. THE BAITING

B.1. THE THRILL-BAITING

Fans have noticed that 9-1-1 has been seemingly baiting new viewers to watch the show, but didn't give them what they were looking for. One example is the big disaster emergency stories at the beginnings of Season 6 and Season 7. There was no other big emergencies during the rest of the seasons and audience knew that. Long term fans like me were delighted by those stories, and ratings indicated that the big emergencies have attracted additional viewers. However, surely you've noticed that ratings were back to normal right after the big emergency stories had ended. The drops were not even gradual. It's because new viewers knew that the thrill ended after the 3rd episode of the season. And with such crappy storylines which I have explained in Part A, new viewers hardly wanted to stay.

B.2. THE BUDDIE-BAITING

Another baiting that we've noticed is the Buddie-baiting. There are fans who want to see Buck and Eddie (a.k.a. "Buddie") in a romantic relationship on screen. These fans are not subtle about what they want. Tim Minear, Kristen Reidel, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oliver Stark, and Ryan Guzman have acknowledged the existence of the fans in various occasions. The Buddie fans have been voicing their demand since Season 2. Unlike normal fans they are very obsessed about the pairing they root for. Other 9-1-1 fans like me, who don't root for Buddie, have concerns regarding how the show has been portraying Buck and Eddie's interactions on screen. In our opinion, if the show didn't want to pair Buck with Eddie romantically, then it should stop giving nods or hints about them as if they were a couple or a couple to-be. Those nods or hints only give false expectations to the Buddie fans. For examples:

1)) In episode 7x06 "There Goes the Groom", there was a Buck & Eddie drunk karaoke scene. The scene should include Henren and Ravi, or at least Ravi in the scene, to avoid misinterpretation by Buddie fans.

2)) In episode 8x06 "Confessions", Eddie talked about beards, right after he mentioned that he was straight. Buddie fans has interpreted this scene as a clue that Eddie was hiding his sexuality. Here's the actual conversation on screen:

Father Brian: "And you, you have that... very handsome mustache." Eddie (chuckling): "Do you wanna know why I grew this?" Father Brian: "Tell me." Eddie: "Because the LAFD doesn't allow beards. Too flammable. Otherwise, I'd have gone full mountain man." Father Brian: "So, it's a disguise?" Eddie (averting his gaze): "Something like that." Father Brian: "What're you afraid of seeing when you're looking in the mirror?"

The conversation could be done without mentioning beards at all. For example:

Father Brian: "And you, you have that... very handsome mustache." Eddie (chuckling): "I'm glad someone likes it." Father Brian: "Nobody else likes it?" Eddie: "Well, sometimes my friends tease me about it. But I think they're just not used to see me with a mustache." Father Brian: "So, it's new? Is it a trend that I didn't know about?" Eddie (chuckling): "No, not a trend. I just want to see something different when I look in the mirror." Father Brian: "So, it's a disguise?" Eddie (averting his gaze): "Something like that." Father Brian: "What're you afraid of seeing when you're looking in the mirror?"

If a non-writer like me could come up with an alternative conversation with the same ending without talking about beards, so could the writers. Even if the conversation became longer, the show could cut some time off of Eddie's dancing scene at the end of the episode. Inserting beards in the conversation feels like baiting Buddie fans without actually giving them what they want.

3)) In episode 8x06 "Confessions", a pantless Eddie opened his door to Buck after Buck was dumped by Tommy, and proceeded to let Buck sat next to him. Eddie was pantless because he had been doing the Risky Business Dance. There are other iconic dances which Eddie could do without losing his pants, like Michael Jackson's Moonwalk, the Footloose Dance, John Travolta's Staying Alive Dance, etc. This sexual innuendo only gives a false message to Buddie fans.

There is a growing concern that the show has been baiting Buddie fans to keep watching without actually making Buck and Eddie a couple. This feels deceitful, exploitative, and manipulative. Fans don't need 'nods' or 'hints' or 'subtexts'. A few decades ago, when homosexuality was a taboo, giving nods and subtexts about the subject on TV shows seemed brave. It doesn't work that way in this modern era, when marriage equality has been a law for quite a while. On the contrary, it feels deceitful and cowardly. As if the show was afraid to upset its queer-averse audience, but also wanted its queer-leaning audience to keep watching.

B.3. THE TEVAN-BAITING

After 9-1-1 re-introduced Tommy back in Season 7, a lot of fans were captivated by this character and his love story with Buck. We dubbed the couple as 'Bucktommy' or 'Tevan'. In the fandom, a lot people have shared how they could relate to Tommy. I'm one of them. Like Tommy, I came out later in life, although only to selected people in my life. Like Tommy, I also have done less than honorable things to cover my sexuality, which I still regret even now. A lot of fans, including me, also relate to Tommy's longing for a family who could fully accept him. That's why we were rooting for his relationship with Buck.

We were shocked and heartbroken when the couple broke up in episode 806 "Confessions". To add salt in our wound, everyone involved acted out-of-characters like I mentioned in Part A. It makes the break up felt like a rushed afterthought, instead of a well-prepared storyline. It's very contrast with how the story of Brad Torrence and Hotshots were told. Furthermore, Tommy had been portrayed as a loving boyfriend to Buck in the previous episode (ep. 805 "Masks"). We felt that the show has played with our feelings, and for what? To make us cried our hearts out on the internet and gave the show hypes and online engagements for free? Once again, it feels like the show has deceitfully baited us. Looking back at how it has seemingly baited thrill-seekers viewers with emergency scenes only at the season openings, and how it gave 'nods' to Buddie pairing without ever make it happened, the thought doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.

A lot of fans have noticed a trend of ship-baiting in TV shows. Unlike queer-baiting, these TV shows have included openly queer characters from the start, so people don't accuse them of queer-baiting. However, there's usually only one queer couple who has a long-term relationship which lasts until the end of the show. Other queer characters either end up single or appear single (e.g. Guilermo de la Cruz of What We Do in the Shadows), have elusive romantic partners who appear very rarely on screen (e.g. Paul Strickland of 9-1-1: Lone Star), or have a string of failed romantic relationships until the shows ended (e.g. Travis Montgomery of Station 19). The story of Travis Montgomery of Station 19 is very telling. He was the only main character who didn't get a 'soulmate' at the end of the show. He was dragged from one failed relationship to another during the whole 7 seasons. This was a notably different treatment compared to other main characters in the show. It has made fans wondered whether the fact that Travis was gay had something to do with it. There had been one queer couple, Maya Bishop & Carina DeLuca (a.k.a. "Marina") who was prominently on display and got a happy ending in Station 19. Why didn't Travis get a lasting relationship like other main characters, instead of being paired with a brand new partner in the end? As if there was a diversity quota, where only one queer couple per TV show was allowed to be prominently on display and got a happy ending.

C. WHAT NEXT FOR BUCK

Reflecting from what happened with Travis Montgomery of Station 19, some fans have predicted that 9-1-1 planned to drag Buck to a string of failed relationships before pairing him with a woman at the end of the show. There's also a speculation that Buck would be paired with Tommy or even Eddie right before the show ended, because by then the show would not have to portray his queer relationship on screen further. Until then, the audience might have to watch Buck jumps from relationship to relationship again.

There are several issues with this scenario:

1)) Buck has gone through FIVE failed relationships since the beginning of the show (with Abby, Ali, Taylor, Natalia, and Tommy). It would be NINE if we include hook-ups and kisses (the unnamed firetruck hookup, the snake-keeping lady, his ex-therapist, and Lucy Donato). Giving Buck another failed relationship is beyond repetitive. It screams "we run out of ideas what to do with this character." A lot of us simply don't want to watch that repetition.

2)) It would be hard for any other partners to measure up to Tommy. Tommy shared a unique connection with Buck: Buck was Tommy's replacement in 118 firehouse and they shared a same ex, Abby. Tommy also had a good relationship with Bobby, Chimney, Hen, and Eddie, and has been portrayed as a good boyfriend for Buck. If an ideal partner like Tommy was thrown out of the window, why should we care about Buck's next love interest(s)?

3)) Tommy's unique connection with Buck and how Tommy has been portrayed on the show have given a lot of potential stories for Buck and Tommy together. For examples:

Tommy has done terrible things in the past, probably while he was in the military. This would give Buck a dilemma: would he leave Tommy, or would he love and trust someone with a checkered past although that person has repented.

Tommy could have a trauma or PTSD from his time in the military, probably related to DADT. This would give Buck a new role as a caregiver to who tried to help his partner struggles with a serious issue. It would be more serious than accompanying Taylor Kelly to meet her estranged father.

Tommy might apologize to Abby. Not only Buck and Abby deserve a closure, Tommy and Abby do too. Buck might even facilitate this.

Those examples have never been shown before. Any of them would feel fresh and better than having Buck goes through several romantic relationships again.

4)) As I mentioned before, a lot of us feel that the show has been baiting us, the queer-leaning viewers, to watch the show without giving us the queer relationship that we want. Our experiences with TV shows like Supernatural, Station 19, and the latest one, What We Do in the Shadows, have taught us to recognize the baiting signs. A lot of us refuse to be exploited again. Several fans have quit watching the show after episode 806 "Confessions", others were waiting until the half season hiatus to see whether Tommy was coming back or not, before quit watching it for good. We plan to watch the show again only if Tommy and Buck get back together.

This is not the first time I was disappointed by a TV show. Several years ago, I quit watching Grey's Anatomy because it messed up Jackson and April (a.k.a. "Japril")'s relationship with a love triangle story for too long. Although disappointed, at the time I didn't care enough to express my concern to ABC. I simply quit watching the show, because it didn't give me joy anymore. However, I care more about Tommy and his relationship with Buck, hence this letter. I hope the show will bring Tommy back and restore his relationship with Buck once more in Season 8B. I know a lot of fans have a similar hope.

#All I Want for Christmas Is Lou

Best regards,

[My name]

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