#senpai are you watching

[wen-kexing-apologist]

I LOVE "AYAKA IS IN LOVE WITH HIROKO" AND THINK EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH IT

I would just like to take a moment to praise Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko. I am only three episodes in to this show, but it has been so funny, so chaotic, and so undoubtedly queer. With so few GL offerings in the absolute tidal wave of BL that we get each year, we rarely get an opportunity to see what feels like more authentically queer sapphic experiences. Or at least I have. There are moments for sure, there are lovely little shows like Sleep With Me and She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat but if I am honest 23.5 and Chaser Game W were disasters, GAP while consistently fun did drop in quality in the back half, and the majority of other GLs I’ve heard about that have aired recently are genuinely problematic. 

We are almost halfway through this show right now, and I am having the time of my life. This show has had me legitimately cackling in every episode and truly embodies the gay panic of a good ol’ fashion lesbian desperately trying not to misconstrue her colleague’s rather obvious advances.

That said, there are three things that this show has done that have made me fall desperately in love with it:

Hiroko spends so much of her time at the lesbian bar.

Hiroko and Ayaka are horny on main

THEY PUT AN HONEST TO GOD BUTCH IN EPISODE 3

Legitimately, it makes me so so happy that we are getting a story out of Japan where the main character is incredibly aware of and comfortable with her sexuality. This is not a queer discovery show, this is a gays getting on the same page about their feelings show. Learning in, like, Episode 1 that the second Hiroko turned 18 she marched her gay little ass straight to the lesbian bar and has made that Her Spot for (I think) more than a decade. 

She’s an established regular with a bunch of other established regular lesbians friends and that makes me *so* happy. 

Both Hiroko and Ayaka are horny on main in ways that are also so refreshing to me, and the way they play with Hiroko’s own history as a Woman Who Fucks is so fun because it is made so blatantly obvious that she is the pursuer in the majority of the sexual encounters she’s engaged in (and those counts are in the triple digits) so it is really fun seeing her brain absolutely short circuit and any and all suaveness we got to see in the little flashbacks of her times picking up women in the bar just absolutely imploding under the stress of trying to convince herself that this incredibly hot woman that works for her is actually straight and has no idea what she is doing. 

And on the flip side, Ayaka has clearly not had a ton of sexual intimacy with women in the past because we see her being incredibly impersonable and isolated in the flashbacks we get. But now that she is actively pursuing her feelings for Hiroko and desperately trying to make herself known she is clearly very horny and would be DTF at the drop of a hat. It is just so much fun watching her get progressively more annoyed at the fact that she is making it blatantly obvious that she wants to fuck Hiroko and Hiroko is at this point willfully ignoring it because she, and I quote, “doesn’t know how to act without an ulterior motive,” and is trying to make sure she isn’t misunderstanding Ayaka. 

And finally, and this is just a small thing, but in the most recent episode, Hiroko and Ayaka take a business trip together, and Ayaka ends up helping this elder that is having difficulty with some heavy boxes of supplies for their store. AND THE PERSON SHE HELPS IS THE BUTCHEST WOMAN I HAVE SEEN OUT OF ALL THE ASIAN QLS I’VE WATCHED FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. Like we have had mascs, but I am talking the casual inclusion of an elder butch woman, which I have not seen. Hell, I have barely seen older butch lesbians in any media I’ve watched (shout out to Cloudburst) so to see someone just vibing in this show, even if her role is small, is of such monumental importance and makes me feel like this show is made with a queer audience in mind, which is not the case for most of the GLs I’ve watched (at least in my own perception/opinion). 

Anyway, if you are not watching this show you should! It’s readily available on GagaOoLala, the episodes are only 23 minutes long, and there will be a whopping 8 episodes.

[pigglepiephi]

How much QL did I see this week?

It’s now Sunday night, and after a really heavy week on the QL watchlist, with lots of series dropping multiple episodes, I decided to tot up just how much time I’ve spent this week watching all of these shows👇

Series watched = 18

Episodes watched = 26

Total hours = 23 hours 22 minutes

That means I spent almost AN ENTIRE DAY out of my week just watching QL!

This equates to doing a part time job on top of my actual full time job - I don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed by this! 🤣

I know many of us are putting in a similar shift in each week. I salute you all!

[puppyeared]

37

37: share a secret

send me a number!! 💌

[jnpje]

the world is so warm and beautiful and i want to run in it but I'm scared of falling and hurting my hand so i won't, but if i don't run then my ultimate daydreaming state can't be reached 😭😭

[igneous-crocnroll]

Earth shattering revelations were had during japanese class last week.

Looking at this, I probably shoulda used deepl to help me with the grammar, but I wanted to challenge myself x)

Here's what I meant to say - under the cut

Me: In my country's culture, for plenty of festivals we-

Me: uh, "mask"? (Attempt to say the english word, if it was written in katakana)

My teacher: You'd say "kamen" (mask)

Me: Ah, kamen? Okay, understood. So, we make masks...

Me: HUH?! LIKE KAMEN RIDER?!?!

Mr. Rider: dragon how did you not figure this out by now

My teacher: hahaha yes, that's right.

[bayleavesfromthevine]

Narureno is so funny because Narumi would HATE whenever Reno goes into Mom Mode™ over Kafka

He'd be like "oh, so he gets all your attention AND you call him 'sir'?? huh?? is that how it is??"

jghdkjhfg the way Narumi would bully tf out of Kafka over this, meanwhile Kafka's just trying to BREATHE ONE (1) TIME WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE WITH A HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL 😫

[laurelslegacy]

Naming of the kits

Not dead! have NOT stopped working on Zeb trying to get ready for con next weekend. New Zeb mask, old Zeb armor but modified to fit my cooling vest. ordered proper boots to do the right feet but they've never shown up... TWICE. all that, moving, dealing with personal issues. Been hiding away and relaxing with a story I'll likely never post and never thought I WOULD write but the thoughts on it the challenge was nice. But I am going to share with you the last part just written cause I'm in TEARS. summery: Yep Lasat males can get Pregnant, but only a very rare few and the odds of carrying to term is only 40%. it's a war, it's stressful. With the Death Star destroyed they have to evacuate to Hoth. The entire time Zeb is plagued by fear and anxiety over losing not just one but two Lasat kits. Kallus is the always comforting always reassuring, Have faith- he would say. Hera would add Have hope.

“What are their names?” Sabine spoke up quickly, looking from one father to the other.

Zeb looked dumbfounded for a moment before his eyes rested on Kallus, a sort of ‘help’ look.

Kallus started to chuckle “We haven’t chosen yet, we were following some Lasat traditions.”

“Are you going to go for Lasat names or Human?” Rex asked idly curious.

“Not sure, good question.” Kallus replied.

“I’d like them ta have meaning, my name does, Alexandr does. Both fit us.”

Hera looked to Zeb and tilted her head, perhaps she could get more Lasanese from him “What does your name mean Zeb?”

Put on the spot the lasat’s fur started to rise in a blush “Araseb, a hard consonant in front o’ male names so Garazeb, we the people or of the people. Aureli, meaning gold, oosh fer a last name. Looked it up, Alexandr means protector of the people.”

“Hope.” it pulled the attention off of Zeb and Kallus smiled “One of them should be named hope.” A blush spread across his cheeks as Zeb looked at his husband with adoration nodding in agreement. “Nadia.” Zeb perked his ears and Kallus went on, “it was my mother’s name.”

Zeb looked moved to tears and reached out to let the small Lasat female grab ahold of his claw “Nadia, yeah, l love it.”

“What of him Garazeb?”

“Ah…” Zeb was thinking about it.

“Saul. Start with Saul Garazeb.” The old voice came from Chava as she hobbled in with her staff, Grom right behind her. “Ohhh they’re so precious! SO BIIG” She laughed delighted, Sabine handing over Nadia to the old Lasat woman’s arms, Grom taking her staff so she could hold the new Kit. “Nadia Ashla ashlas ulanakra nashna uraka mo.” (Nadia, the light of Ashla bless your life.)

A sniffle pulled everyone’s eyes to Zeb, he wrung a hand over his face “Saulkal.”

Grom grinned and looked at the faces of the others in the room “Name means roughly Faith in my or the Sire.” And he gestured to Kallus.

Now it was Kallus’s turn to begin turning red and eyes welling with tears, wiped at them aggressively only making his eyes more red. “Suitable.” nodding, clearly a bigger more passionate word on his tongue but allowed this one to slip out.

“There now…” the lady drawled out and handed Nadia to Kallus reaching out for Saulkal. Repeating the same phrase “Saulkal, Ashla ashlas ulanakra nashna uraka mo.” She handed the little boy back to Zeb. “Well Visiting hours and over and they better still have hot Caff in the mess, these old bones are too cold!” She turned, was handed her staff and she and Grom made their way out.

Hera squeezed Zeb’s arm and smiled, tears in her own eyes “We’ll let you Kallus, Nadia and Saulkal rest. They’re lovely as their fathers.”

“Thanks” is all Zeb could get out waiting till they left before leaning as much as he could on Kallus, crying to release all the anxiety, stress, worry and fear and let in the tears of love, joy and being complete fill him instead.

[frobby]

Im back in the trenches defending another otokonoko from people claiming that they are a trans woman even though they are explicitly stated not to be

[lemonadehtwooh]

Guys, Honey Senpai saying the t-slur in the anime is okay because he too is trans and can reclaim it!!!!!

[bluelolblue]

YANDERE SANTI HEADCANONS PERCHANCE🤨

AAAAHHHH AHAHAH

Let's make this little Italian even more crazy ^ ^

Someone draw him in those yandere uniforms one day please 💀🙏

Yandere Santino headcanons

LOVESICK SANTINO

Aw I think he'd do anything if he gets lovesick, obsessed

He is jealous. A lot. VERY JEALOUS

Emotionally attached to his crush so much that no one else is allowed to even get near them

First he is just very, like, angry with himself, so he complains to himself (boi has no friends...)

Oh and stalking of course!

Yeah later on it gets extreme, just like with most of yandere... killing rivals :D

He says murder as a joke... until it's not a joke anymore

Kinda like killer!Santino, he kills people he thinks deserve to die, in this case, people who talk or even worse flirt with his crush

Knife or gun or anything else. Considering he was a part of the mafia, he knows how to hide bodies

I think no one would even guess he is... that obsessed

He is the cool, quiet, calm guy on the outside... but yeah if he gets attached, if he gets too obsessed... he takes things seriously

You know what, he even seems cute and fun. And he is! But he is also lovesick

Now that's a fucking trauma response because his father never loved him and he doesn't know better. How to express his love and affection other than in those extreme ways

I blame Signor D'Antonio for making his son yandere/lovesick mentally ill 😞

In Santino's mind, everything he does makes sense. Those people deserve to die, yeah? It's not fair if he doesn't get attention from his crush and they do

If he is near his crush... talks to them, bonus points if they kinda touch him (in a friendly way), he is over the moon

He is touched starved as well

And doesn't know how to really interact with people 😭

Well, these are all I could think of right now AHAH

Yandere Santino is real. Just put him in those uniforms covered in blood :P

[tojisun]

im all for simping for masked men and their physical builds but i do want to educate to not simp for the terminator guy because he is in fact a predator!!!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLDHp4yG/

oh thank you so much for letting me know! idk this guy as i have only seen him in my pinterest so i apologize for my oversight. i deleted my ramble about how his build is so ghost coded!!

[melto]

Normal everyday gay teenager yu narukami.

[gumihoe]

I'm about to set asian activism back 20 years but tbh I don't mind when white people are a little too into asian stuff. like those koreaboos that say "omo!" and "jinjja?" and their twitter DNs are like their english names written in hangul. idk I think they're funny and endearing in a certain stupid little way. it's when they're on the other end of the spectrum and refuse to acknowledge the korean-ness of the korean things they like that I get pissed off.

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

dude i swear no doctor who fandom "thing" annoys me more than the whole "five was like the exasperated dad to tegan/nyssa/adric" jokes. it's such a widespread meme and it goes diametrically opposed to my reading of how five actually is in his stories with his companions. how dare people have fun in ways that don't fit my narrative interpretations honestly.

[loosesodamarble]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

WKDHYCJEVDIWNQGXIDNEHEIE! GUYS?! HELLO?! 😂

@lyranova @kalolasfantasyworld @vilandel @thoughtfullyrainynightmare

I got the same ask from 5 people before I ever got a chance to answer for one of y'all, so looks like I'm gonna throw out a playlist of 25 songs that I really like to listen to!

Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon

Burial Mound of Arms by Avu-chan (there is a lot missing without seeing it within the movie it comes from [Inu-Oh] and having a translation of the song, but the VIBES!)

Kaze ni Naru by Ayano Tsuji

Clear Blue Departure by STYLE FIVE

I Do Adore by Mindy Gledhill

All About Your Heart by Mindy Gledhill (what can I say, both songs are my vibe)

Haruka by YOASOBI

Shinzou Houei by Kenshi Yonezu

Suzume by RADWIMPS

Would You Be So Kind by Dodie

Click by Claris

Invisible Sensation by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN

Someone You Like by The Girl and the Dreamcatcher

A Walk by Gakuto Kajiwara (obligatory Black Clover song...)

Ashiato by the peggies

Orange by 7!!

Spot the Difference by Masaki Suda (Kenshi Yonezu's cover is also beautiful)

Life if Beautiful by ReoNa

Style. by Kana Nishino

Mephisto by QUEEN BEE

SIXTEEN by Suemitsu & the Suemith

Yoake to hotaru by n-buna

That's How You Know by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

Tokyo Autumn Session by HoneyWorks

One Step Closer by Alan Menkin, Howard Ashman, and Glenn Slater

There is no sense of direction with these songs. But I really wanted to avoid an "oops, all Yonezu" situation because his discography is just INCREDIBLE! Still an overwhelming number of J-pop tunes though... Hm...

[angrycloudcrown]

Who's your favorite anime protagonist?

Either Haruhi Fujioka or Kusuo Saiki, but honestly I'm leaning more towards Kusuo (keep in mind. I've only watched like. 4 animes so I'm not the best person to ask this question)

Wait have I ever posted on Tumblr about OHSHC. I don't think I have

Oh my god I've had Tumblr for nearly two years and haven't posted about it or Haruhi that is a CRIME

But I like Kusuo just a litttle more :") I also like Saiki K. as a series waaay more too

Haruhi is still pretty cool tho!