#she is literally so perfect i love her shes such a kween

[peachybruiseslego]

euuphrassiaiaa i luhh uuu

ref under cut vv

[fev3rish]

hellaur wife kenji sato fic and acc recs PLEASE MWAH MWAH MWAH 🤗🤗🤗

VIC’S FAVS ! kenji sato x reader

hiiii wifey<3 i know exactly who sent this. she’s a newer addition to the fandom and it is my duty to help her adjust 😇 this is a complete YAPATHON. by the way. i LOVE using any given oppurtunity i have to compliment writers because it’s like a win win situation to me. i get noticed by a cool writer and the writer knows someone enjoys their work like what thats so coolio

overall recommendations . . .

@luneariaa -> stepping into her account is like stepping into another dimension. i remember skimming through the kenji sato x reader tag while i was first settling into the fandom—before i was a writer myself—and they were one of the first writers i saw. their whole aesthetic and the way they format their writing, the way they write in general, is so beautiful and she’s such an underrated writer in the community! im also obsessed with their account theme it’s like a living visual stimboard on my phone. how do u do those silly little gif videos bby. im like one of ur biggest fans please notice me oh mg god pls PLEASE NOTICE ME PLEASE HAVE DINNER EITH ME PLEASE PLEASE (does a handstand) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

@yzzart -> my inspiration hello 🙏 she’s the reason i actually started writing for ultraman! her kenji boyfriend headcanons were the first things that caught my attention, and it sparked a bunch of will to write in me. she lowkey got me out of a writing block that lasted almost one year and im forever thankful for her beautiful existence 💗 her usage of vocabulary is IMPRESSIVE. i don’t usually have to google the meanings of words but the first time i ever did was when i read her writing and i mean that in the most positive way possible. it is ALWAYS a green flag when a writer uses big words and uses them right. her writing prowess is EVIDENT. and she deserves every nice word people say about her she is such a GORGEOUS girl

@reyalvr -> my friend who doesnt know shes my friend btw. we both went through the avatar -> ultraman pipeline and i think its so funny ?? i distinctly remember reading her ao’nung fics and eating them up ALL the time. when i discovered her again, i was like “oh! that username seems familiar?” and it’s kind of peculiar because while i do remember reading her writing back when i was still @/victoirey, and enjoying it because she devoured everytime, i don’t know if she’s had the same username for like forever? i digress! whatever it is, her writing always has me hooked. like i physically CANNOT stop reading. it put me in this trance like state and im like so “woah!” when i experience it because usually i can’t sit still. she deserves all the hype shes gotten; her writing is the closest thing to perfect, everything about it is entrancing. from the storyline to the dialogue, it all just falls into place. the only thing that isn’t perfect, is the fact that it ends. like why cant u just like write forever boo… come on😡💗

@mitskicain -> i have her most recent works in my read later list. her previous twoshot lowkey had me all giggly! i kicked my feet while reading and i accidentally stubbed my toe onto the nearby table but the story was so great it quelled my pain immediately. she’s such a good writer and i LOVE her characterization of kenji like it genuinely makes me blush so hard. also her username? is that a reference to ethel cain in it? …if u see this, i love ethel cain. my fav song is unpunishable. ure so cool. also her blog is like so … how do i say, like organized? like she has a way of making everything fit and fall into place . literally even if its a MEME. she’ll make it fall into place because thats judt how skilled she is. also batter up is such a clever name idk why im so impressed whenever i see it on ur blog im like “woh. batter up….. name nice. i love the name kween” but overall shes SO FUCKING GOOOOOOD AUFH

my fav fics . . .

ultraman, ultrafine, ultramine ; “kenji sato, the man that you are.” / WORD? i fucking love this twoshot its so GOD ugh i gush everytime i read it user mitskicain you are so GOOD

cutely written by @mitskicain

when i was led to you … ; “kenji could get used to his routine, but, only with you by his side.” / grrrrrr grrrrr i 😡😡😡 punchign wall!!1! so good. always so good ysa

gorgeously written by @yzzart

she’s mine ; “catch me, i’ve fallen in love for the first time.” / me after entering the kenji sato characterization competition, seeing user reyalvr and user mitskicain: 🚪🚶‍♀️ so FUCKING YUMMY

extraordinarily written by @reyalvr

piece of art ; aka kenji and u go to the museum / my honest reaction:

flawlessly written by @luneariaa

mommys here ; reader takes the role of pretty baby emi’s mother🥺 / i haven’t read this in full yet, but from the first few paragraphs i already know its a good story!! I am literally so attracted to this authors writing style for some reason like wow…. beautifully written by @kiwiikato

kenji & baseball!critic reader ; okay so its not really a fic think of it as me recommending you a trailer for a movie im really excited to see because i LURK. and I LURK ON THIS BABES ACCOUNT AND IM READIN WHEN U LEAST EXPECT IT 👀 writing style is flawless, by the way, baby. you’re such a starling .

wonderfully written by @rieamena

labor of love ; I FUCKING LOVE KENJI SATO AUTHORS😭😭/ read this today and i went 🙏 . my hands clasped together in prayer. literally thank you god. i love this so much. spectacularly written by @jinwoosungs

that’s it from me my loves, if you actually did read this—thank you? that’s sweet? gimme a big ol kiss? and i hope you know that whether or not you’re on this list literally all you need to do if you want to get your works out there is send me an ASK and i will literally edit this post and add my fav work from you i will literally do it. to the authors i included and to the others i didn’t, your efforts are seen and appreciated. i know it is hard to write stories and it is so impressive that you’ve written in the first place. you are all so talented, and i just wanted to remind you of that fact<3

💋 kisses, v <3

[apenapaperandadoofus]

the rfa reacting to seeing mc who has been turned into a worm

I-

Great request to start on LMAO

RFA with an MC who has turned into a worm:

Zen:

How did it happen?

No one knows

He just woke up with a worm in your place

He got scared and threw you out

He doesn’t know!

So you probably live the rest of your life as a worm while Zen spends the rest of his life looking for you

Yoosung:

Uh

He saw you change

And he’s pretty confused

Like why?

He will try to get you some help

He probs gets some from Jumin since he’s into dark magic and stuff

And they actually help, and you’re not a worm anymore!

Instead you’re a platypus

PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!

Anyway so you spend the rest of your life like that as a secret agent, and Yoosung goes through an early midlife crisis and starts drinking probably

Jaehee:

Dude out of everyone else, she’s the one that could actually get you to turn human again

At first, when she saw you turn she did a 180° turn and went nope

She manages to help you though, because Jaehee is a kween and she’s perfect so she will get you to turn back into her cute lil partner

Jumin:

He’s way too calm

Anyway he tries to get you some help from like these magicians or something

Finally he finds a competent one and he gets him to fly over to Korea to help you

Sadly, before the magician could do anything though, Elizabeth eats you

So Jumin looks at her like: 👁👄👁

Now he needs to go to therapy

Also you probs gave him a drinking problem because the love of his life was literally eaten by his pet, so that sucks

Saeyoung:

Lowkey kind of scared

He manages to get you help tho

Afterwards he writes a whole novel about it

Then that novel gets adapted into a movie and then a TV series with 15 seasons, Saeyoung playing himself of course

You both become super famous and rich, and everyone will now refer to you both as the worm couple

You will die if with all of that as your legacy, and everyone will tell tales of the two of you even years after your death

[supertvngames]

Double standards- Sasuke: *goes to a clearly evil man for power, tries to kill is so-called "BFF", treats people like shit, scapegoats and said he wants to be judge, jury and executioner. Sasuke stans: BABY!!, PURE BEAN, HE DID NOTHING WRONG! HE WAS RITE!!, WAS OPRESSED11 Hinata: *exists and does none of that* Also stans: SLAVE KWEEN, SIMP, SELFISH, SUICIDAL STALKER BITCH! SHE'S BORRING!!11

Now, now. Let’s say I understand why they would defend Sasuke from beginning up to Pain arc.

Yes, majority times that it was Naruto who start the (non-violent) fight. Yes, Naruto assaulted Sasuke to disguise as him. Yes, made an unnecessary way torn Sasuke’s ego down. There are things that you can’t look pass when defending Sasuke

1.) At the hospital rooftop battle, SASUKE started the fight by challenging Naruto. Not to mention that before Naruto even used the Rasengan, Sasuke used the Fire Ball jutsu to BURN NARUTO ALIVE. Naruto only used the Rasengan to REPEL the Fire Ball, he only use the Rasengan to fight towards Sasuke is because he saw Sasuke using the Chidori, another deadly jutsu he is using.

2.) Sasuke was running away towards a dangerous evil mad man that LITERALLY wants his body, and Naruto told him about it yet Sasuke just goes “whatever”. Not only he is walking towards his own doom, he simply doesn’t care. Just to let you know, he wasn’t running away because of Konoha but rather he wants to kill his evil brother who not only deserves to die but as well needed to be stopped.

3.) Attempting to beat Sasuke HALF-to-death is basically an appropriate response to the guy was about to KILL Naruto. Sasuke attempts kill Naruto two times in one battle, he uses Chidori on Naruto and then soon after, snapping his neck. Just remember, Sasuke challenge Naruto again, not because he’s going to back, but to Sasuke, it’s a perfect opportunity to get the Mangekyou Sharingan. Also, Sasuke took Choji, Neji, Kiba, Akamaru, and Shikamaru’s rescue for granted, they were basically risking their own lives to keep Sasuke alive and away from Orochimaru.

4.) And you know what’s funny? In Shippuden, Sasuke was willingly to spare some stranger ninjas, but he’s perfectly OK with killing the teammates who still wants him away from the evil mad snake man who still wants his body. Sure, they were going force him but even then, retaliate by killing THEM? Wow, you could have just knock them out and run off, Sasuke...

5.) You know after gathering and knowing Team Taka, you’d think that Sasuke would be getting better after helping them and they help him back. ....HAHAHAHAHAHA! NO! After learning about Itachi from Obito without any evidence to back up Obito’s claims other than Sasuke is alive after their battle, Sasuke blindly and arrogantly takes his words for it, because he needed a scapegoat not just on Konoha but his friends who were just as blind as he was about Konoha’s discrimination towards the Uchiha clan and Itachi “sacrifice” himself. Seriously Sasuke was up in his own ass to think Itachi is a “hero” when really Itachi take the lives of other and never gave up anything personal. Sasuke is a hypocrite, an Itachi bootlicker, and a traitor to Team Taka. Sasuke left Suigetsu and Jugo behind for death or to rot in prison, and Jugo has a mental illness and Sasuke promised to be his cage, and was about kill Karin. Remember, Team Taka practically SAVED this ungrateful bastard MULTIPLE TIMES! Back when fighting Killer Bee, and then the Five Kage Summit. And he toss them aside, and for what? To avenge Itachi who killed his parents and clan, and made his live a living Hell, not to mention that Itachi didn’t spare anyone else, not the children and citizens. Plus not to mention Sasuke is willingly to give up his friends and everyone who care for him instead of telling them how corrupted Konoha is yet he hypocritically gets pissy that “they don’t know anything” even though he was in the same stupid shoes as them until OBITO told him. At this point, this is where Sasuke falls completely, Putting his brother on a pedestal and doing shit for him. Huh, Sasuke became the Itachi fandumb...

And they can hate Hinata if they weren’t wrong about her, which they are.

1.) Hinata never comply with the Side Branch slavery, this thing has been going on before she was even born. Plus she’s no longer heir to being the leader of the Hyuga clan, and chances to become Hokage are very low. There is literally nothing Hinata can do. Seriously do people expect a low confident abused neglected child to do anything, or would she even approve of it?

2.) Hinata is anything but a simp, selfish, or suicidal she came to save a comrade. If she’s a simp for that, then you might as well call Shikamaru is attempting to do the same thing, with A BROKEN LEG MIND YOU. Or Hell, in case these guys forgot that Sasuke had done the same thing for Naruto back when they were fighting Haku, so they might want to call him a “simp”, “selfish”, and “suicidal” for going over an obvious bait to protect Naruto which is no different than Hinata doing the same thing to save Naruto from Pain. Both of them are ninjas performing their duty to protect their comrades. Hinata only confess is because Naruto asked like he asked Sasuke why he saved him.

3.) Looking from afar and eavesdropping aren’t stalking. Hinata didn’t pursue or approach Naruto stealthily, she didn’t harass or persecute him with unwanted and obsessive attention, she didn’t  move silently or threateningly, nor did she ever stride in a proud, stiff, or angry manner. Hinata is insecure, shy, and is an abused & neglect victim. Seriously, do people think Hinata would do any of those?

4.) Boring? Hinata has been adopting Naruto’s nindo as her own to help her build her own confidence to walk into danger, overcoming her fears and self-doubts. Helps out Naruto to overcome his own doubts before he fights Neji. Hinata interferes Pain from killing Naruto since no one does (except Shikamaru) especially his own teammate Sakura. Hinata even invented her own signature jutsu Twin Lion Fist. Still, I wish she develop a little more.

Everyone has their own reasons to hate or love a character. However if you only look at one side or even exaggerate to make your favorite character look good while making another look bad. I have to say, that’s just mighty low and a dick move. Look at both sides with an open mind, nevermind one character is your favorite and the other is your hated. 

[fatui-harbingers]

I don't think some anti Dany Sansa stans understand that when Dany stans compare Sansa feeding Ramsay to the dogs to anyone else's kills (especially Dany’s) that they’re not excusing or even forgetting what Ramsay did to her and we totally supported what she did. It was awesome! I loved seeing her get justice for herself like that. Especially bc both in universe AND irl, most women don't get justice in any form.

I cheered for Sansa killing Ramsay just like I did Dany killing the Khals that were threatening to rape her to death. They were both super awesome girl power moments imo.

Even Dany stans that hate Sansa don't blame her for killing Ramsay the way she did! None of us liked watching her get hurt by him. None of us wanted to see her go through that! We were all very happy to see her kill him. I even loved her smile afterward!

The reason we even make the comparison is to point out the fandom’s hypocrisy. We don't care that she killed him but we do care about sexism and double standards within the fandom coming from mostly women that claim to be feminists. You can't go around saying “She burned the Khals! Mad Queen!” about Dany but then turn around and shout “YAS KWEEN!” about Sansa.

Another thing I don’t understand is why anyone would want these two women (with so much in common!) to hate each other, especially feminists! Even Dany stans that hate Sansa (which, btw, usually only happened bc of crazy Sansa stans. Most of them say they loved Sansa till encountering certain Sansa stans) were hoping they’d get along and be friends too. Some of us were even shipping Daensa and making Daensa edits/gifsets! Pitting two female power players against each other when it wouldn’t even actually make sense is anything but feminist. It’s crazy we even have to say this in 2019!

Sansa isn’t pure and perfect and flawless like some of her stans want her to be and I’m not sure why they have to hate on Dany to make themselves feel better. I understand wanting your fave character who is a secondary character with less power than a main character to have a main characters power and awesomeness too (even though secondary characters are very cool on their own!) but that doesn’t make it okay to hate on characters you wish your fave was! And sending hate on anon and threats to people that disagree with you? IMMATURE! How very hateful of you! (Seriously reminds me of Trump supporters and anti choice people. Yuck!)

Oops, got a little off track.

Like many very skilled meta writers have pointed out time and time again, you can’t call Dany mad and a war criminal if you’re not going to say the same about literally every. other. character. They’re all mad by your standards then!!! And don’t forget, Jon is half Targaryen! He’s destined to go mad, just like Grandpa Aerys!

And I’m not sure why Dany using dragon fire to kill is so bad? Tyrion used wildfire to destroy Stannis’ fleet and no one questioned his sanity. And Stannis, he and Melisandre burned innocent people alive as sacrifices to the Lord of Light and even his own daughter but he’s not mad? Iirc, Jon used fire on the Wildlings during the battle of Castle Black. And no one seemed to even be calling Cersei mad when she blew up the sept! But Dany is mad bc she said “dracarys” and her babies listened. I guess it doesn’t matter that dragon fire can melt stone and kills sooooo much faster than the fire we know! Never mind that death by dragon fire is waaaay faster than say, bleeding to death after losing a limb, or getting stabbed, or getting trampled, ya know, stuff that happens when you use horses and swords.

And don’t even get me started on the anti Dany crowd crying for the slavers and rapists Dany killed. Didn’t think I would need to ever say this but SLAVERY IS BAD! There is no way to “peacefully” abolish slavery! It’s impossible! And if you try to gradually rid of slavery, it’s EXTREMELY inhumane and you obviously don’t give a damn about the enslaved people at all, bunch of slavery apologists.

Most of us don’t think our fave is perfect. We know and admit they make mistakes, whether they learn from them or not, bc the reason we all love these characters is that they aren’t perfect! They seem so real! So relatable! And we love them anyway bc that’s how love works okay. No one is flawless in any way! It’s impossible!

If you’re gonna hate, AT LEAST hate equally will you? Gosh!

But I won’t go any further bc this rant is already longer than intended.

[felixlcsser]

listen... i couldn’t help myself... and the pinterest for my kween is here!

(KAYLEE BRYANT, CISFEMALE) - Have you seen SAGE BELMONT? SAGE is in HER SOPHOMORE year. The BIOLOGY MAJOR is 20 years old & is a VIRGO. People say SHE is CLEVER, GREGARIOUS, IMPETUOUS and OBSESSIVE Rumors say they’re a member of HASTINGS. I heard from the gossip blog that HER MOTHER HAS BEEN EMBEZZLING MONEY FROM HER FIRM, AND SAGE HAS BEEN HELPING. (OLIVE. 23. EST. SHE.HER.)

Wild little party goblin who just wants to make sure everyone has water and has a good time

She’s part Noora form SKAM and part Cassie Ainsworth from Skins

She grew up in Westchester County outside of NYC. Her dad is a playwright and her mom owned an investment firm in NYC

Her dad’s plays stopped selling/being shown when she was a little kid and he never got out of his artistic slump. As Sage’s mom became more and more successful, her dad fell into drinking and cheating on her with cocktail waitresses who he impressed with tales of his Broadway connections

While her dad was a drunk who couldn’t remember her name most days, Sage’s mom was the controlling, hyper-vigilant stage mom like Trish walker’s in Jessica Jones

She put in figure skating by the time she could walk and age was fully expected to make the Olympic team by the time she was 15

Sage was the picture perfect kid to take around New York society to her mom’s events. Sage actually liked getting to attend all the galas, dinner parties, etc that her father wasn’t invited to anymore. She was fawned over and admire, the perfect society girl with the perfect mother

When Sage started growing, she suddenly wasn’t good enough for her mother’s taste. Her mother tweezed her, dyed her hair, brought her to tanning and teeth whitening appointments

Things started getting progressively worse and worse. As the pressure at her mom’s job got greater, Felicity Belmont started giving more attention to her daughter. She’s wake her up at 3 AM in the middle of winter to do pushups in the snow. She’d forced her daughter to throw up after finding out she had eaten pizza.

Sage’s mother was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder and checked into treatment for a month. She came back as if nothing had ever happened

It finally all stopped when Sage had a fall on the ice and shattered her knee. She couldn’t skate anymore and finally she was free from her mother’s obsessive thoughts about skating

So when she was 16, she had a year off from any pressure as her mother set her sights on a city counsel campaign. Her dad would drive her into the city on weekends and drop her off on his way to see one of his mistresses

She spent her nights frequenting bars alone and started to make friends with the other underaged club kids with fake id’s. She also started to explore her bisexuality at this time, hanging out in gay bars and flirting with girls

It was absolute heaven. She’s drink and experiment, then crash on a friend’s couch before she had to head back to the suburbs, back to her private school and her gated community and the bubblewrap

But then, her paradise came to and end when her mother found a new obsession for her: pageants.

With her mom’s new medication, she no longer flew into the manic episodes where she abused Sage, but she did still obsess over her appearance. Sage developed an eating disorder at the time, and only got treatment when she passed out on stage from not eating

Her mother spun her disorder into the perfect platform for a pageant girl to promote in her interview questions: body positivity. Sage ended up winning Miss New York at age 18 and held the title for her first year of college at Yates University

Of course when she got to Yates, the only society she ever considered an invitation form was Hastings. An overachiever, this place is perfect for her

PERSONALITY:

Um I said overacheiver right? Rory Gilmore’s got nothing on this girl

A bit dreamy and constantly has her head in the clouds

Does tarot readings out of her dorm room and believes the Hastings Library is haunted. A bich for the occult

KINDHEARTED!!

GULLIBLE!!!

Um a big ho? Yep jot that down. Will sleep with anyone and tends to get overattached

Wants to be an archeologist and thinks she’s the next Indiana Jones

Loves wearing boxers shorts, novelty sunglasses, 70′s style go-go boots, and vintage nightgowns she’s cut up into mini dresses

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

ummm give me a friend from her pageant days?? kids she met up with to party in new york?? or oooh give me some native new yorkers who thought she was just a princess from the suburbs. um give me all the exes? exes that ended on bad terms, a fling that only lasted for a week, an ex she’s still super close with and people think theyre dating. hookups of COURSE, um friends she parties with and does all the drugs with?? enemies for days, she’s easy to hate. literally ANYTHING

[jewpacabruhs]

what are some of your fave fanfics kween shay

;o glad u asked. it should be noted that i dont rlly read fic anymore so these are all from my original stint in sp fandom (2013-2014) & most of them do the jew/fatass thing we’re all tired of, but they do it better than all the other fics of the time + hold nostalgic appeal for me personally & just,,,,, are good fucking fics idk

better left unsung - my all time favorite kyman fic forever always ... it’s from 2011 & in kyles pov (1st pov) but it jus,,, means a lot to me & still makes me cry a lot i adore it. also has drag queen cartman, and in 2011 ! next level babey

herbert garrison’s night school for unwed fathers - ok ive always been fond of mpreg & ppl make fun of me but it’s not like a weird thing i jus enjoy,,, the problems it imposes on a couple i think ? two of my fav ever fics r mpreg & it’s jus cuz it poses interesting problems ig.. dont shame me. anyway this fic is one of those two, it’s not kyman or anything, it’s,,, style, candy, tyde, creek, bunny,,, i’m a b i g hollycomb fan, i adore all her shit, and this fic is like. her at her best, i just love everything here... some characterizations are dated but, again, nostalgic for me so idk

the smoking section - i always rec this to kymans & they always fall in love w it immediately, it’s just fucking gorgeous, the absolute best... shortstacked is my fav kyman author ever & she knows it fjdkfh this fic is literally so poetic & lovely, & she understood kyle & cartmans relationship when no one else did ... looking over it again tho it has explicit content, jus a note ... many of these do tbh hh

being the cause of immediate withdrawal - this one’s rlly short & rlly old (11 years old!!) but perfectly gets cartman’s side of kyman ... i love it

dulcinea - another hollycomb fic, this one’s kenman/cutters and has literally influenced my writing so so so so much, hollycomb does my favorite characterization of kenny ever & her cartman is amazing too & this fic is like,,,, just so perfect i reread it often & think of it always , the tone is absolutely perfect & i always try to emulate it aaa .. also explicit

this means war - this on a kink meme so be careful, but dont be dissuaded, it’s gorgeously written, another hollycomb fic (i have like 4 authors who i stick to p muc dkfdkj) .. it’s kenny/multi & craig/multi and such a good and subtle character study, good shit. also has adult themes

it’s hard to know they’re out there - oh man, another hollycomb but i didnt find this fic until july 4th 2017, i specifically rmr reading it while sitting outside & listening to fireworks (i’m from las vegas & they go off all along the strip it’s rlly cool). anyway it’s like a kenny-centric mostly gen darkfic (style and kenbe overtones), school shooting tw but it’s jus,,, so melancholy and beautiful it makes me rlly emotional

[chillyravenart]

Who are your favourite asoiaf characters and why? Love your art and your answers 😁😁💙

Thank you soooo much anon 💕💕💕 I'm super glad you asked for favourite asoiaf characters and not pre-asoiaf because then we'd be here ALL YEAR and next year too. I'm also glad you said asoiaf and not GoT because the latter can officially do one. Semantics and specifics matter a great deal after all😉

I'm just going to be brief because I don't want to ramble on too long, but I fear this will end up being a long post anyway so I'll leave it under the cut. 

1. Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen: I love everything about her, from the top of her perpetually singed head to her 'dainty sandaled feet'. She embodies all that is great about House Targaryen. I've loved Dany from the very beginning, she was the abused underdog, the expendable chattel, the broodmare- but she ended up as the mother of dragons and the magnificent queen we now know her as 😍 She's been to hell and back, she's clawed her way back up to the top of the organic pile that is life and she has flourished. She's endured betrayal and hardship but she's learnt so much from it at her young age :') Dany is wise but conflicted, young and naive, merciful but ruthless when she needs to be and the destiny and magic that seems to surround her just add to her charisma and intrigue. She's the last scion of her house, the last dragon, and she's determined to leave her mark but with none of the arrogant entitlement that was the downfall of many members of her house. Her relationship with her advisers is something that humanises her a great deal and she had me hooked when she wanted to be a good ruler who would protect her people.

"Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"

I'm rooting for her so bad. Dany carries the eclectic history of her house with her, the blood of the dragon runs strongly through her veins and magnifies her excellence a million times over. She is a sister, a daughter, a mother to legends! At the heart of it, she wants to make the world a better place, to end oppression and slavery and injustice because she too has endured it.

“Slavery is not the same as rain. I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.”

But despite all that, she's still a young girl with a young girl's heart and she makes mistakes and lapses of judgement BUT WHO IS PERFECT I ASK YOU? Even the most benign and just rulers in history had their flaws, they made mistakes, but it's what they achieve overall that matters. GRRM has created the perfect fantasy ruler in Daenerys Targaryen: she's complex, realistic, interesting and very human. She's got a good heart, a sharp mind, she's not infallible and has never asked to be held to impossible standards. I am in awe of her, I am enraptured, I am obsessed, SHE'S MA KWEEN OK❤😭

2. Jon Snow: I used to struggle to choose between Jon and Dany, but obviously Dany won as my numero uno in the end. I love this sassy, sullen boy so much, good lord he's everything ❤ Jon and Dany's parallels are uncanny. They're both such young people trying to do what they think is right (& it often is idc). I remember myself at 16 and I kid you not I was an actual troglodyte in comparison to those two. Anyway Jon is inherently a good person, but he's ruthless and flawed too and that's what I love about him. He's no self righteous niminy piminy chit. He's the bastard™ of Winterfell and if some meanie isn't already reminding us of that fact, then Jon does it himself haha. But I love how assertive he is too and doesn't take BS from anyone!

"I think not Greyjoy, this one belongs to me," was so iconic! I knew that boy was destined for greatness when he found himself a direwolf pup unlike any other! His love for his family is also very touching, despite being the familial outcast, he adores Robb and Arya and the others too (he’s never shown any animosity towards Sansa either) and he idolises his ‘father’ Ned too, and emulates his sense of honour and justice. He's so world weary and just done with everyone's shit 24/7 but he's a sweetheart too and honestly, I'd happily die fighting by his side. Like Dany, I admire his rise from a mere steward to the Lord Commander, I love that he makes questionable choices for the greater good (ahem like his father) and I love that he was born with a great destiny (unbeknownst to him) & he faces pitfalls at every turn but does he give up? No he does not.

P.S "Edd, fetch me a block" will be carved upon my tombstone. ICONIC.

3. Arya Stark: my little wolf child. I would have rolled over and died if I'd been through what she has, but her brains, her intuition and her heart has kept her thriving. I love how badass she is. As someone born with two left feet, I admire her agility and resilience so much. Arya is a survivor and a hardy little pup, she’s amicable, empathetic towards the less advantaged, she is touched with the milk of human kindness despite all that she endures BUT she has a darker side too (can you blame her?). Arya gazes into the abyss and the abyss gazes back. I personally love it, I love the vengeance that drives her, fuck magnanimity and forgiveness, if someone fucks with your family or friends, stick 'em with the pointy end.

4. Jaime Lannister: I love this golden fuckboy so much. I remember reluctantly hating him in AGoT but I still admired his flair and cockiness, he was such an arse! Long story short, when I got to see the real Jaime Lannister in the later books, the deep conflict that roiled within him, the noble knight that had been suppressed so long due to bad company and an even worse reputation. But what I love is that alongside all his gilded splendour, Jaime is a highly skilled fighter, a focused and loyal and emphatic man. He's not a charlatan or an inept fool. He fully deserves the acclaim. And let's not forget, Jaime's redemption arc was eye-wateringly epic. I loved his sense of humour, his good heart (once you chipped away at it for a while), the perpetual discord within him and his renewed moral code that emerged like a phoenix from the ashes. A massive thanks to Brienne of Tarth for helping to expose the Jaime we love and adore.

5. Tyrion Lannister: his cut-glass wit, intelligence and world weariness resonate with me on a deep level. GRRM literally created the most liveliest, intriguing character out of this scarred, little morsel of flesh. Tyrion is physically disadvantaged but his mind is sharper than ten men his age. He reads religiously, because a mind needs a book like a sword needs a whetstone, and anyone who can apply the wisdom of the past to better the present is worthy of admiration in my eyes. I loved his whole storyline as Hand of the King, we got to see him actually work for the good of the people of KL (for all the thanks he got lmao) and I love how competent and clever he is. Obviously he has a nasty, self motivated streak too but it doesn't turn me away, I love following his mind around the twists and turns of his murky conscience. Ultimately, Tyrion is a survivor and a hustler and he always manages to squeeze out of tight spots, not down to any legendary pugilistic skills but his quick wits.

I could say so much more about these characters but I shan't keep you any longer.

Honourable mentions go to: Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Cersei Lannister (I don't love her but I love her chapters so effing much), Sansa Stark, Brienne of Tarth, Oberyn Martell and Asha Greyjoy.

Thank you so much for this question!

[wondersteven]

I’m gonna be obnoxious: favorite of every single type questions! 😋

Oh for geez haha ok I guess I’ll start with my favorite types and work my way down.

Dragon - The Dratini line. I love love LOVE Dragonite and praying they are in the new Galaria game.

Water - Magikarp/Gyarados. There is something so endlessly adorable about Magikarp and I think everyone needs to stop hating.

Normal - Persian. I will always love how regal this KWEEN is.

Fire - Litten. End all be all. It’s just Litten. Who might even be my actual favorite Pokémon which is a big deal because I used to not love Fire types.

Fighting - So it used to be Toxicroak and Emboar (BECAUSE EMBOAR IS THE SHIT), but now it’s Hakamo-O. I love his entire design.

Flying - Staraptor. Baddest bird bitch there is.

Grass - Treecko line for sure. Love my little grassy dragon.

Dragalge - I think it’s design is literally perfection. Beautiful and dangerous looking.

Electric - ok... this one is a doozy. So I basically love the electric rodents of every generation which is weird cause rodents... yuck. But honestly, I really love Pikachu the most. Hate to sound basic, but there is is. Pikachu is kind of amazing and let the haters hate cause I love it!

Ground - This was the hardest one so far, but in the end I went with Garchomp. Vibrava and Rhyhorn were close seconds tho!

Psychic - Espeon and Slowbro... that is Slowbro was until this ADORABLE NEW MLP POKÉMON WAS ANNOUNCED! Galarian Ponyta is going to rock on my team! But Espeon because cats duh! And she’s the prettiest of the Eeveelutions.

Rock - Tyrunt/Tyrantrum. I’m obsessed with them and their designs. Love me an allosaurus.

Ice - Cloyster and Alolan Ninetails for the juxtaposition of how ice can be both hard and spikey or soft, elegant, and beautiful.

Bug - So bug is actually one of my most favoritest types after Dragon so this was a bit more difficult. Yanma line and Cutiefly line are my favorites atm. I was really hoping that Yanma would be a Dragon/bug type, but I guess that would have been too on the nose. I still think the Goomy and Trapinch lines should have been Dragon/Bug and apparently that was also asking for too much.

Ghost - Sableye because he’s like the Pokémon version of Stitch and Alolan Marowak because she’s a badass!

Dark - This one is weird. Umbreon because it’s the absolute best... but I also like Alolan Meowth (but NOT Alolan Persian. I don’t know what they were thinking there), Incineroar, and Hydreigon.

Steel - Aron line and Aegislash. They are both awesome af!

Fairy - Alcremie... I don’t care I’m calling it before the game comes out. But I also love Jigglypuff more than should be allowed and the new Galarian version of Weezing because he just looks so darn dapper! Oh! And can’t forget Gardevoir and her elegant dress!

[baekjohn]

Tag cute mutuals and what you love about them?? x ☺️

all of my mutuals are cute hehe i love all of you babies sm!!

but okie here we go, get ready for a love fest 🧸🍯💖💫

@geniuslab 💘 megan is bae. my honey bun. she is just simply adorable and i could spend hours talking to her and we’d somehow never run out of things to talk about. i mean we kinda did that yesterday at starbucks dkfjkds but anyways she’s just the biggest sweetheart ever.. she’s basically a golden retriever in human form. oh and she gives really good hugs :’) also…………. megan is the most precious lil gem and i have the privilege of knowing her.. it’s amazing, really. she bought me extra toasty cheezits and if that’s not a sign i gotta wife her up then idk what is

@joonslovecult 💛 apple is my soulmate. like forreal she really is.. it’s amazing how many little things we have in common. she’s someone i could talk to about literally anything with and one of the only people i could have a legit conversation with in which consists of only love reaction memes… what a cutie wow thank god we found each other on this hellsite bc i’m very grateful for her!! she deserves nothing short of pure happiness in this lifetime and any others she may come back in :’)

@namseokis 🌸 mk is my babygirl. she is such an angel, she’s there for me literally whenever i need her. this girl doesn’t have one bad bone in her body. and she is absolutely breathtaking.. like have you seen this woman??!?! she is so beautiful i almost cried when i saw the photos from her graduation bc !! WOW!! i stan a beautiful goddess-like doctor :’) which reminds me…… MK!!! I’M CONGRATULATING YOU AGAIN BC YOU WORKED SO HARD FOR THIS!! in the beginning of august we were talking to each other how school was gonna kill us before december… and now look at us!!! WE BOTH MADE IT!!!!! WE GRADUATED AT THE SAME TIME I LOVE YOU

@angeljk 💕 julia is my sunshine. she’s such a cutie and uhh she has the cutest voice i have ever heard in my life.. like ?? ADORABLE!! she’s always so kind to everyone and although she may feel like she doesn’t have anyone to talk to, i’m always gonna be here for her bc she’s just a lil angel and she deserves the world!! she was my very first mutual when i made this blog and i am so glad she found my blog and followed me.. i’ll love you forever, miss yoongispluto :’) 

@softesthobi ✨ becca is my bestie. she is one of the kindest, most thoughtful people in existence. she is always thinking of others. whether it be tagging others in a post or just randomly popping in to send you some love. i love that about her bc not enough people are like that in this world. ever since september, me and becca have sent each other at least one message a day.. we’ve talked basically every single day since, and i’m pretty sure the longest we didn’t message each other was like 10 days and that was like way in the beginning when we first started talking sklfjkas but yes, becca has more or less become a staple of my daily routine :’)

@hobiswitch 🔮 meara is my lil witch babie. sorry hobi but she’s my witch too ok we gotta share or else i’m prepared to fight.. no but forreal meara has been nothing but a complete angel since she followed me. BIG ANGEL ENERGY RIGHT HERE GUYS!! and she did super well in her philosophy course last semester and i’m so proud of her for that bc her professor was a lil……. off sklfja but she survived and passed with flying colors :’) oh oh oh and meara’s aesthetic is my favorite of all ok sorry not sorry

@aurtae 🧸 my darling hazzy bear. wow i just ?? love haz so much alright. she’s all fax, no printer. everything she says is 1000% VALID. she’s one of the best people on this hellsite and honestly what would i even be without haz? not much that’s for sure. seriously though.. this girl.. when she does her ask games.. she somehow gets certain details that are actually true about me when no one?? except ppl who know me irl know?? my point is proven. no printer just faxxxxxx baby (btw if you don’t follow her there is something seriously wrong with you)

@hyvcker 💍 mady is my wife. she’s the ernie to my bert. i’m the bert to her ernie. this bih is a total goddess and i need her hair transplanted onto my head immediately thank u. i love my wife so much she’s all around perfect. oh & mady i’m glad i could help you fall in love with nct hehe i love my haechan solo stan :’) and your love for chanyeol……… i accept it ig even if you don’t stan exo

@guktual 🌹 felicia is my favorite flower. she’s the first person i truly actually interacted with on this blog. i love her so much so much so much!! she’s such a darling lil cutie and she is going to do the most amazing things in the future. ya heard it here first folks. mark my words.. felicia’s gonna be the first female president or something……. no but she’s definitely going to be a very important person in whatever she does :’)

@iluvnj 💜 brenda is my fellow grapemon enthusiast. this girl loves grapemon just as much as i do and i thought i was the only one who goes completely crazy over something as simple as purple hair.. but i found this one!! and i love her a lot!!! she is so so soooooo sweet to every single person she comes into contact with and she forms the most beautiful and thoughtful responses/compliments for everyone. her love for joonie is the most pure love you could find anywhere on this earth :’)

@ktheaven 💫 nadine is my angel baby. she’s my jimin; my angel baby. when i say that she is one of the softest, sweetest people i’ve ever had the pleasure of interacting with.. i mcfreakin mean it!! if i ever saw her walking by me, there would be a halo over her head and the most majestic wings ever.. her angel wings would be as majestic as taehyung is :’)

@bigwonho 🎀 c is my emoji kween. this girl is one of the most colorful n bubbly babies in existence!! she’s also one of the very first people i ever truly interacted with on this blog so i really missed her during her hiatus but she is back now and i’m so happie she’s back bc!! her presence on my dash is just my most favorite thing ever :’) 

i had to put c last bc i’m gonna end this post with a rainbow of emojis….. i mean she’s the most colorful human aside from hobi so it’s only fitting that she’s closest to the rainbow, right??

okay well there we go!!!!! my love fest has concluded!!! i love you all so much and i love the people i didn’t mention here so much too!! if you weren’t in this and you are for some reason reading this, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND YOU HAVE JUST WON 8976546789765 HUGS FROM MEEEEEE!! but these people are extra special to me hehe :’)

🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜🌸🌹🧡🍯💚🦋💜

[blackplanct]

🎧📼 soul beats | tabatha’s soundtrack + desc.

PERSONAL ANTHEM: amell larrieux ➫ i n i { it is literally tabby in a song, a mix of self-love and spirituality } GUILTY PLEASURE: doja cat ➫ mooo! { she is known for being the neo-soul kween, and this is a very silly song but it’s fun!  plus, saying moo is very therapeutic.} SINGS WHILE DRUNK: sza feat. travis scott ➫ love galore { i mean it’s such a wine drunk at home while in your feelings song. } FAVORITE LOVE SONG: jill scott ➫ he loves me (lyzel in e flat)  { it’s just perfect in every way, and it’s the feeling she wants to embody when she’s in love with someone. } SINGS TO LOVED ONES: jill scott ➫ blessed { this song is an uplifting shout-out to her loved ones who she’s glad she still has in her life and celebrating them } SONG THEY FIGHT TO: big pun feat. fat joe ➫ twinz (deep cover ‘98) { nineties new york rap just makes you ready to beat somebody ass sometimes, so this works for her. } LULLABY: beyoncé ➫ blue { she literally sung this to her son as a lullaby after having him.  it’s so soothing and feels like a vocal hug } ALWAYS STUCK IN THEIR HEAD: michael jackson ➫ i wanna be where you are { every now and then this just pops back up into her head after being obsessed with it in her youth. } SINGS IN THE SHOWER: solange  ➫ almeda { she tries to do the shoot dance during playboi carti’s verse and almost falls on her ass in the damn bathtub. } SINGS TO ANNOY PEOPLE: nicki minaj ➫ good form { the song is annoying to her as well, but it’s hella catchy!  she usually just says the “back of the ‘bach” part over and over again to be a pest. } SONG THAT MAKES THEM EMO: beyoncé ➫ i care { she cries literally every time she hears it.  it hits home about her baby’s father. } SONG THAT MAKES OTHERS THINK OF THEM: sade ➫ by your side { the loving and nuturing energy that this song gives off fits tabatha perfectly. }

TAGGED BY: @ghcstfce TAGGING: you + myself (i’m definitely doing another one )

[dontbeallupinmyfriesdawg]

what did you think of hayley's death ? phoebe tonkin seems to be in conflict with carina on twitter. i don't understand why they have to kill hope's mother, they did that to elena and the whole cast of tvd. the worst is elijah, i'm not team haylijah but they build this relationship for 4 years and now nothing ? what a time lost...

I never like Hayley but her death was crap. the whole thing about her falling for bad boys and Hope doing the same thing... god and Julie Plec sees herself as a feminist?

Here’s the thing,

this is why I can’t get behind people who are up in arms about Hayley’s death.  Because from the very beginning of TO the very conception of Hayley;’s character has been misogynistic. Hayley was only ever meant to be a side character on tvd. When the TO writers made the decision to make her a major character they didn’t bother fleshing out her character or back story or giving her plot outside of Tyler Katherine or Klaus; they got her pregnant.

Here are some metas I’ve written about Hayley in the past

“Hayley’s entire conception as a character is that she’s a plot device. She’s Katherine’s leverage, she’s part of Tyler’s solution, she’s mean to Klaus’ end, a sort of stumbling block in Forwood's relationship. She’s barely a character on TVD but what they did is put her on To under the guise that they were fleshing out her character when actually they just used her as a human incubator and then a baby mama, then a mum, then a love interest. Through all of though there’s not much that’s compelling about Hayley the character. She’s the ‘wolf queen’ but what does she actually do. She’s so special and perfect and Elijah is in love with her but why?”

“Hayley’s purpose was to be part of Tyler’s tragic, coming of age, werewolf, pack leader story. She was a footnote that got turned into a novel. If this was executed well (and if Phoebe could act) I wouldn’t have minded. Klaus was meant to die at the end of season 3 but he was so popular and Joseph’s acting was so good that they kept him on. Arguably, even though they butchered it, Klaus was deserving of a spinoff, the Original family were interesting as a concept. But instead of using that dynamic and interesting concept and centring a TV show about it. They centred it around a bratty teen pregnant werewolf instead. In many ways, the conception or rather, inflation of Hayley’s character on TO was just as sexist a feat as creating Camille. Hayley initially has two purposes. Carrying Klaus’ child (i.e: status as a human incubator) and being Elijah’s love interest. She is then upgraded with motherhood and takes on a third role as Jackson’s wife and then his widow. Arguably Jackson is the only character on TO more useless than Hayley herself. It goes to show you Hayley lacked so much agency and significance that her love interest was the third wheel in his own relationship and was killed off solely so Halijah could bone (*shudder*). My main problem, however, is the pedestal Hayley is put on. There is nothing special about her. She’s not even a nice person. TO conveniently swept under the rug the fact that she had a hand in ruining Tyler’s life and had the audacity to bring him on the show to villainize him and make Hayley out to be a victim. I lost count of how many times in s2 Klaus called Hayley a queen or told people what an amazing fierce majestic hybrid kween she was. Her marriage to Jackson was literally just a marriage of convenience, she became alpha by default, not to benefit her but so as to have an army to protect the magical miracle baby, thus fulfilling her role as baby mama/incubator. So yeah, the whole empowerment element of kween Hayley the all-powerful hybrid was dog shite. Phoebe’s acting is a huge part of it but to be fair to PT the writers didn’t even try to flesh out Hayley’s character and give her depth, they just slapped on a series of tropes and annoying traits and occasionally declared to us, the audience, how invaluable she was.“

So yeah it doesn’t surprise me that Hayley’s death was unnecessary, male-centred and misogynistic because that’s Hayley’s entire character in a nutshell. 

Neither Carina or Plec is anything near to feminist and it’s hilarious watching all their righteous indignation on twitter in regards to sj issues, it really is.

I think what they did to Elena’s character is slightly different to Hayley’s but I’m not going to write a whole meta on it now. What I will say though is that Elena at least had some, plot and characterization although it is very deep set in misogyny and furthermore Elena is very much like liquid in that she takes the shape of whatever container she’s in. In other words depending on who she’s in a scene with, kind of depends on what Elena you’ll get. I think this was less the case s1-3 though.

As for H*lijah I couldn't care less about them, unfortunately, you’ve come to the wrong blog with that. I’m very much of the opinion that there wasn’t really much ‘built’ with them.

[lemadeleine]

Shut up and dance with me

This is my thoughts and appreciation for the authors @wittyy-name and @wolfpainters of the Klance fic Shut up and dance with me ( @shutup-and-dance-with-me .) I had a lot to say and all the ways to reach out to them to let them know has a word limit so here I am ;^)) Please reblog or something to help this post reach them! <3

IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THIS STORY YET THEN YOU SHOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER. MY THOUGHTS UNDERNEATH ARE 100% GENUINE. 

This is when I wish I could express myself as well as you do. (Link included)

I had the incredible luck of starting watching the entire Voltron series the same day you finished this amazing story, so therefore I could binge-read it. I literally fucked up my back for this story because all I did was lie in bed and read literally the entire day. Perks (?) of not having started school yet I suppose?

I literally do not know how to convey how much I loved this story. I’ve literally cried every single chapter because yes I’m a very emotional person and this was just so beautiful. I now also have new favorite songs just because I associate them Klance and this story?? Both me and my friend are a MESS after this story and I’m about to pass that on, even getting my non-voltron fan friends interested in reading it.

This story was sooooo well planned and executed I honestly don’t know how you do it. It has been perfect and beautiful from start to finish. The collaboration between you and Sora has been magnificent and beautiful to watch and oh my god. If she’s reading this, hi I love you. If not, tell her. And I also love you Wittyy_name for bringing this story to life duh. 

I’m also mindblown?? Why do you and your friends like have the exact same interests and humor as me and my friend group?? The fuck?? Like okay I am just assuming that certain things in this story are interests of your own as I know you’ve put a lot of you and your friends in here, like with the chats and so on. Which I by the way LOVED I was laughing so hard and slapping my knee I legit bruised.

Like also, watching you and Sora doing this together is so inspirational honestly?? Because I also have a friend who draws and we’re also planning on working together on a project and seeing you guys is just making me so much more excited and hopeful??

AHHHH I’M JUST SCREAMING I AM SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS STORY I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN *SHAKES YOU FURIOUSLY BUT ALSO GENTLY BECAUSE I LOVE YOU AND THE STORY*

I literally keep snapping my friend who dragged me into this beautiful hell-hole while crying listening to the songs mentioned in here how do I keep on living after this???

Also BLESS YOU FOR BEING AN INCLUSIVE AND ACCEPTING KWEEN I- *throws confetti and roses at you* 
You seem like such a wonderful human being, I send like a thousand hugs to you!! <3

Everything about this story is warming my heart.

I also made some research because I was so mindblown and oh my god. Like a novel has to be at the very least 50 000 words, but you should aim at 80 000-90 000 words. 80 000 is the equivalent of a 300 page book. This means you either wrote a 900 page book or a FREAKING TRILOGY. Only outliers get to be this long and it’s not very common and a first-time author never gets to write one. Out of all the Harry Potter books there’s only ONE that is longer than your story, which is the Phoenix order, at 257 000. That’s CRAZY. Like I hope you realize you are incredibly talented at this and definitely have a shot at being an author if it’s something you want to be, otherwise I am telling you now!! Like I struggle to write a 800 word ”essay” and here you are oh my god (yet here I am, writing the longest comment ever and it’s still not enough.)

The last line warms my heart so much I lowkey highkey just wanna tattoo it onto my body it was so beautiful I’m crying??

I don’t know how to finish this post because no matter how hard I try there will still be things I want to say so??

I hope this makes its way to you guys as I really want you guys to know how I loved it. Loved isn’t enough to explain it. 

I love every single one of you involved into the making of this story <3

[felicityb-reviews]

Review Roundup - February 2018 Week 1

Hello, my loves!! My name is Jace (aka Felicity B), and this is your Review Roundup for Week 1 of February 2018!!

So... Last Friday, I mentioned making some changes to my Review Roundup format. The reasoning being that as I've expanded my network of Korean music channels, It's become very clear to me that it's too difficult for me to write a substantial review of 25+ videos every week without each review mixing into the last. I've also come to realize that I can't include *every* song I find that happens to be in Korean, and that's fine!! Most songs are either ballads or OST ballads (which are even worse), and it's just not worth my time to flog those at you guys.

So, I'm gonna try to explain this to y'all as best as I can. It sounds more complicated than it is in practice, but I wanna give y'all an idea of what's going on.

I'm gonna present to you all the playlist of songs for the week. From there, you'll see a new segment called the Titacular Ten. Yes, I am aware "titacular" is not a word, but catch me not givin' a fuck in these streets. These guys are songs I enjoyed, but didn't like enough to put in the Fabulous Five. They'll be rated (*not* reviewed) according to my replayability scale.

And speaking of my rating scale, I've decided to add a new category called KoKoNotABop (because nothing brings me joy more than pissing off the stans of my favorite K-Pop group). This sits in between Conditional Replay and Trash Bomb with Shuffle Bait. I decided to add KoKoNotABop, because there wasn't really anything for those songs that weren't complete Trash Bombs, but fell short. I could enjoy these songs from time to time, but I wouldn't intentionally put them in a playlist, so I didn't want to call them Shuffle Bait. In short, I just wanted to expand the range of my extraness.

Moving on, you'll see the Honorable Mentions/Trash Bombs of the week after the Titacular Ten. The Honorable Mentions are tracks that didn't make it into the week's Fab Five, but I still wanted to speak on. And if you've seen my previous RRUs, you know what Trash Bombs are.

I haven't had to rated many songs as Trash Bombs, but that should be considered a small mercy. Y'all know how I get when I don't like a song

So!!

Let's get started!!

This Weeks' List

The Titacular Ten

Saturn (Nevada51 featuring Gayoung Seo of Spy Girls)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Perfectly Perfect (MxM of BRANDNEWBOYS)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

BLOCKED (Ash-B featuring Cherry Coke)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Ballad of Full Speed (Evolution of Sound)

Rating - Conditional Rotation

Grayish (JUNA)

Rating - Conditional Rotation

Run Away (Mona)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

To the sky (CLC)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

If (Day6)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Mi Amor (CoCoSori)

Mi Amori Dance Practice

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Good Bye (Hong Jin Young)

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Honorable Mentions

You Have a Crush On Me (No Brain)

If you guys can believe it, this was the type of song I loved during my J-Pop days. Oh boy, does this take me back.

And yes, I do realize this song is literally a decade old. There are idols active in the industry that this song is older than. But I'm gonna need y'all to bring me some freshly prepared fucks to care.

The children deserve to know about No Brain!!

Crush On Me (sorry, that title is too long to be typing over and over) is a punk track that is fun, personified. Every time I queue up the song to play, I just wanna dance the night away~ have my own little party, dancing and singing along. And don't think that you can get away from this song unscathed, cause the hook (neon naege banhaesseo) will stick itself in your brain and torment you till you're singing along like a good little Baby Borgie.

No Brain is a band that I want every single NuGen K-Pop (2014/2015) fan to get into. Every single one of you. Cause while this band is hella talented (they've literally been in the game for twenty years), they don't write music to show it off. They write music because they fucking love it. And that's the best kind, sis. I could clock this song for a lot of things I'd clock a modern K-Pop song for, but I won't because this song is entirely too fun to be picked apart like a science experiment.

My main reason for including Crush On You was that I love how fun this song is, BUT!! I also wanted an excuse to include No Brain's collab stage with Lovelyz from the 2017 MBC Year End Song Festival.

Now *that* was a oollab stage, ladies.

Rating - Heavy Rotation

No Gravity (Yoon Mi Rae)

Yoon MiRae is the OG Korean Female Rapper.

That's not my bias speaking (although it's definitely showing), I've never heard anyone speak ill of Mirae. NEVAH!! And I mean, why would they want to!?!?! She's magical. I literally can't say enough nice things about her.

I literally zone in on her and don't pay anyone else any mind when she's in a song. Whenever she's gracious enough to give us a solo, my wigs bow in reverence to her. I just love this woman so much. She can do no wrong in my book.

Gravity is a pre-release track from Mirae's upcoming Korean album. We have no word on what it's called or when it's dropping, but I already know it's amazing. Gravity is a midtempo rap ballad, and I usually find these cheesy af, but I really like Mirae's take on it. For those of you who've been YMR stans for a while, the vocals are arranged in Mirae's typical fashion - hard hitting rap verses, brackted in by Smoove™ vocals.

Yes, Mirae is the one who has your rap fave givin' Soulful Vocals™.

THANK!! HER!!

Gravity is just so nice, you guys. I don't know what it is about these Korean acts dropping really hopeful and healing tracks this year, but I want it to continue. These types of midtempos are usually reserved for Bad Days™, but I lowkey wanna listen to Gravity all the time. There's enough groove that it doesn't drag my mood down if I'm feelin' good, but at the same time, the uplifting vibe is great for everything kinda sucks.

Off Topic, but if y'all haven't heard Mirae's Black Happiness, I urge you!! It's S U C H a good song!! That's a song that's for the worst of days, sis.

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Free Somebody (Luna of f(x) x HEDA)

I really do not understand what the point of this release was. Can someone from SM DM me on Twitter and explain. Cause sis, this shit made no sense to me.

Firstly, congratulations to Ms HEDA are in order!! If you weren't aware (like me), everysing (a Korean karaoke company) and Genie Music (SM Entertainment's distributor) ran a contest called Battle Singer to select a new feature vocalist for an upcoming Station release. Why SM didn't give her her own Station track, I'm not sure, but I rather liked the way she sounded here. So, I can't be too mad.

Wha I *am* mad at, however, is why SM decided to have Luna and HEDA do karaoke on one of the unused sets of Younha's Parade video, and releasing that shit as a single. Y'all couldn't call in nobody to produce these vocals?!?!?! Every single one of y'all vocal producers were busy?!?!?!

K...

I'm just so over SMSTATION releases varying in quality and effort spent. Some weeks, SM puts in the time and effort to rock that shit out, but then we also get lazy as fuck all releases like these. And I get it, there was a contest attached to this and we don't know if SM is gonna pull Ms HEDA back in for a round 2. I'm hoping they do, but SM is fickle. I just wish this release was up to the standard as Luna and Amber's Lower. Some of y'all thought that song was dry af, but at least the video was dynamic.

Rating - KoKoNotABop

The Fabulous Five

5. Mystery (Jalhyejun)

Mystery sounds like Lim Kim and Neon Bunny decided to team up for a song. They didn't, but if they ever did, I'd need at least three albums worth of material from it.

Mystery is a very cutesy synthrock song. It lowkey reminds me of something Puffy AmiYumi would do 2003/2004, but it mostly sounds like a bonus track on Neon Bunny's Seoulite. Not a bad thing; Puffy AmiYumi were literally my gateway into J-Pop fifteen years ago (I still listen to them), and Seoulite is one of the best Korean albums of 2011.

Mystery sounds like it belongs in a kids' show, and that's exactly why I like it. It's not anything crazy energetic, but it's really fun and every time I listen to it, it puts the biggest smile on my face. And because it isn't super in your face, you could also use it very peppy background music.

We love a versatile queen, sis.

Rating - Heavy Rotation

4. To Do List (Kim Hyorin)

Okay, sis... I was a lil nervous when I heard the teasers for this. Too many of my faves been droppin' ballads as digital singles, and then disappearing into the ether. Hyorin is my girl, but I will *always* put the music first.

Fortunately,I had nothing to worry about; Hyorin did with To Do List what Henry couldn't do with Monster. Give me an engaging ballad.

Hyorin's To Do List is the same flavor of stripped back ballad as Henry's Monster; it's just Hyorin's sweet vocals layered over a clean electric guitar. It's just that she can emote with her voice and is an overall better vocalist.

I'm finding that I really enjoying this style of ballad. There's just an unexpected element to having a song be just electric guitar and vocals, ya know?!?! Like I mentioned above, I was very unsure about Hyorin making her solo debut under her own agency with a song like this, but I can see why she did it. Ballads do stupidly well in Korea, so Hyorin was catering to that market. BUT ALSO!! There's enough spunk here to keep the more adventurous crowd happy.

Of course, Hyorin could also sing me the dictionary, and I'd be like, "YASSS KWEEN!! BUILD THE CHILDREN'S VOCABULARY!! TAKE EVERY SINGLE OF MY WIGS, GODDESS!!".

So what do I know?!?!

Rating - Heavy Rotation

3. Unstoppable (The Night Of Seokyo x Minju)

I normally don't include covers on this list, and I definitely wouldn't put them in the Fab Five. But y'all, this fucking cover. I really wish they covered the entire song, because it's fucking M A G I C A L

Which only makes sense, because the original is even more magical, but still...

Minju and the Night of Seokyo's Unstoppable is a cover of Lianne La Havas's 2015 song Unstoppable. I have no idea why I don't know this song or artist, because they're both magical. I already said Unstoppable was magical, but I'm gonna say it again!! This song is so good!! Can I live in the feeling this song creates?!?! I'd enjoy that a lot, sis. It's just so calm and healing, and I need that to be my energy for all of 2018.

And Ms Lianne, y'all. My wig toppled off my head the first 30 seconds of the song, because ma'am looks like a Black goddess. Can I be her when I grow up?!?!?! She looks so cool, and her music is just so nice. God, I love just Black women, you guys. They're so amazing, and they never get credit for always being ahead of the curve (as mentioned in my Nega Dola review). But I love Black women. I wouldn't be who I am today without Black women. None of us would. And I think it's time that we acknowledge that!!

So now that I've gotten that out of my system (we are unapologetically stanning Black women in 2018 and beyond, sis), let's discuss the Night of Seokyo and Minju's cover of Unstoppable. Absolutely beautiful. Breathtaking. I felt like I was floating. I usually don't care for covers, because 90% of them fall into two categories - a) indistinct from the original because they do everything the original does and b) complete and total trash because they did Too Much™ when reinterpretting it. But Minju and the Night of Seokyo strike the perfect balance - the rearrangement for piano and vocal does Just Enough™ to stand out on it's own without feeling like it's fucked up the vibe of the song.

I really should have just done a standalone review of this cover, since I *clearly* have so much so say on it, but it's just so good. A very big thank you to my girl sunnysidae who found the original version for Unstoppable for me. You're the best, sis!!

Rating - Heavy Rotation

2. Baby Funk (Yoo Naul of Brown Eyed Soul)

Y'all.

Everything about this song n video is so Black!! I'm Shook™!!

I don't know Brown Eyed Soul that well, so I really thought Naul was the Black dude in the video. Thought BES had a whole ass (well, half ass) nigga in the group!!

Baby Funk's name is a little misleading - the only thing Funky about her is that guitar line (and the beatswitch that happens towards the end). But that's fine!! We love a good throwback to the Soul tracks of the '90s!!

I really don't know what to say, but tbh I really shouldn't have to - y'all *know* I L I V E for a good RnB/Soul track. And Baby Funk definitely delivers, babies!! I'm not gonna lie, the video did put me a off little, at first; I can't help but be suspect of the dynamic here. But you know, I'm just gonna receive this blessing, and keep it pushing. Naul made a love letter to Black culture with Baby Funk, and I Appreciate™.

Rating - Heavy Rotation

1. Blind (Planetarium Records)

Trigger Warning - intense strobe lighting effects are used in the live showcase video

One of these days, I'm gonna need to learn these dudes' names. Especially since they refuse to stop terrorizing my wig collection with their group albums.

Sidenote - whoever decided to bait n switch my Black ass with them teasers, ya mama's a heaux. And I expect a full version of T.M.N.T with vocals on Case#3!! That shit is too good to just be an intro!!

*ahem*

When I first saw the teasers for Planetarium's CASE#1, I didn't think much of it. I thought they were an EDM label, number 1. And number 2, teasers didn't really give me anything to be excited about. But they blasted onto the scene with Blah, which had me eatin' my words a lil. I didn't include ha in my Fab Five for that week, but I was definitely paying attention to them Planetarium boys. And then came a live video of Glue (which I did put in my Fab Five), and now Blind.

Blind is a very clear 180 from the very fun, very tropical themed Blah. But catch these niggas drivin' off into the sunset with my wig, because I am B A L D T.

Blind is an intense synthpop track with a slight RnB tilt. Which is to be expect, because Planetarium is an RnB/Hip Hop label. But guys, this song is just S O G O O D. If every idol boy band in K-Pop *has* to do overly series tracks because They're Super Serious Boys Who Very Serious All The Time Seriously™, I'm gonna need them deliver tracks on this level.

Show me you have soul, not that you have abs. I've seen enough shirt lifts to last me a lifetime, kids.

On top of giving us a music video that's a continuation of Blah, the Planetarium boys have also provided us with a live showcase video that you can watch here. Be mindful that there is intense strobing effects during the chorus bits.

Rating - Heavy Rotation

Alright loves, that's all I've got for you guys this week!! I hope the change in format isn't jarring, but I needed to do something to alleviate some of the work that goes into these lists. Cause pretty soon, I'm not gonna have the gobs and gobs of free time that I have now to do them, on top of my standalone reviews. My SHINee Feature Spotlight series has been halted, for now, but tune in on Friday at 12pm and 6pm EST for a special surprise. And be sure to tune in on Monday at 6pm EST for me full length review of the week.

Love, you guys!!

[fae-fucker]

Zenith: Chapter 13-14

Chapter 13

We’re in yet another flashback/past timeline, 4 years ago from present time and in Dex’s point of view. 

He’s 17, which means he’s 21 in the present, so jot that down. 

Anywhoo, he’s just recently become a Guardian and he’s on his first bounty hunt on some planed called Uulveca, where we all know he found Andi. Apparently, completed bounties mean that he gets to add another star constellation tattoo to his body, which is apparently a status symbol among Guardians ...

That’s inconvenient. What if somebody doesn’t want tattoos? And why constellations (aside from them being appropriately cheesy and deep for Shinsay)? What decides which constellation goes where? Or do you just get to pick randomly? What’s stopping someone from just adding a bunch at random? Will they forcefully remove them? What if they don’t want constellations but something else?

Dex is here to prove himself and catch some dirty dirty criminals. He’s hunting some ... creature, that’s been suspected of doing shady business, but runs into Andi instead as she tries to steal his money.

They have what I can only describe as the most cliché-filled and boring first meeting, complete with rolling around in the mud all sexily while exchanging threatening quips. Whatever you can imagine them saying is probably close enough, so I won’t even show you any of it.

Well, have this, I spose:

Her wrists were wrapped in thick cloth and tied with leather strips. Dark stains, possibly blood, stained the material.

She was too old to be a street rat, and too filthy to be working for a pleasure palace. The palace owners on Uulveca liked to keep their workers clean and enticing.

Dark stains stained the material, huh?

And why do they call it “pleasure palace?” What’s wrong with “brothel?” Too R-rated for you there, Shinsay? I get wanting to come up with your own terms for things but you’re reinventing the wheel here.

Andi reveals that she knows about the guy Dex is hunting, but in return for the information she wants a week’s worth of meals and half of Dex’s money. 

He agrees and says that he’ll kill her if he finds out she’s been lying.

“That’s the funny thing.” She smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “I’m already dead.”

In case you didn’t believe me when I said that this while exchange is just a billion clichés slapped together.

Chapter 14

We’re in Androma’s POV, back in the present, and it’s been a day since last time. Andi is annoyed with Dex, and tbh I can’t blame her. He’s apparently been following her around just to annoy her, and this is what he says after checking out Andi’s ... electronic calendar? Which is full of super hot models? 

Fuck, I was going to post the quote here but now I’m just confused by that entire concept.

“So this is what you like, Androma?” he’d asked, waggling his dark brows suggestively. “I guess I understand why you left me.”

WAGGLING HIS DARK BROWS SUGGESTIVELY

You mean like this?

Remember, he’s supposed to be sexy.

Dex wanted to talk at some point, but Andi’s HEART JUST CAN’T HANDLE IT. 

She did try to murder him, but I guess she still loves him and just can’t admit it to herself. 

Andi is planning their approach, I guess, by looking over the planets in the Olen System, where Xen Ptera is.

The Junkyard was the perfect place for the Marauder to disappear.

Well, you’re not wrong.

Gilly was preoccupied with eating a chunk of bread from dinner. If she had the chance, Andi thought, Gilly would eat all our food stores. Andi often wondered if her stomach was a bottomless pit. The thirteen-year-old was growing fast and had an appetite to match her growth spurt.

Thanks for that info, Shinsay. It’s absolutely vital to my understanding of Gilly as a character and the impact of this personality trait on the overall plot.

The ship’s system, Memory, beeped overhead.

WE KNOW WHAT ITS NAME IS. JUST SAY ‘MEMORY’ AND WE’LL GET IT.

It’s like Shinsay believes that the reader is so fucking braindead that they have to remind them where they are every five pages. Then again, you’d have to be to enjoy this book.

[The general had] already rejected several plans, which seemed to defeat the purpose of hiring Andi and her crew to do a job that he lacked the experience to carry out himself.

Andi you dumb bitch.

1. He doesn’t lack experience, he’s a general. You dipshits were chosen to do this not because you were “experienced” (which you very evidently are not), but because you were pirates and supposedly “impartial.”

2. Again, he’s a general. I’m pretty sure he’s rejecting your plans because they’re idiotic, because you’re a bunch of kids playing with guns who don’t know shit about anything, not because he’s just too inexperienced to know better.

3. Though I am going to blame Cortas here, also. The only reason he picked Andi was because she supposedly doesn’t have any affiliation with neither his side nor the side of his enemy. Which means there’s a billion other, more experienced mercenaries out there who could’ve done the same job had he just given them the proper instructions.

4. And why didn’t Cortas give them instructions? Why are they making up plans now instead of right away? None of this makes any damn sense.

5. If he hates Andi so much, and if she killed his daughter, why the fuck is he trusting her to save his son? If he thinks that Andi is an asshole and he was the one who had sentenced her to death, why does he think that she won’t just grab Valen herself and demand a ransom? Or does he think Dex will keep her in check? Is that really a gamble he’d want to make with his son’s life on the table?

6. Why didn’t he just send a few of his own men disguised as a pirate ship? There won’t be any difference once Valen is safe anyway, Xen Ptera will figure out they got into their territory once Valen is back to his father’s side.

Anywho, Dex fucks off and Andi asks why Lira hasn’t been able to keep him occupied like she’d promised to. 

“Dextro is a man with many talents, the most obnoxious of which is that he knows this ship inside and out.”

That’s a talent now, huh? 

I guess Shinsay follow the footsteps of their kween SJM, which means that any basic thing a man does is actually amazing and should be respected as such.

They joke about locking Alfie and Dex away in the “waste bay.”

This was how it should be, just her and the girls making plans to strike it big. Without a self-righteous, Krev-worshipping man on board.

Yeah. Girl power. 

I’m cackling.

This book is peak white feminism.

The Marauder was currently hidden within the large husk of a fallen warship. If anyone happened to come through this area, their ship would easily be mistaken as a piece of the larger one. That had been Lira’s bright idea, and the exterior damage the Marauder had recently sustained was helpful camouflage.

And I guess the fact that y’all are visible through its walls don’t make no difference?

Or is it opaque now that it’s convenient?

And why does this imply that they could only be found visually? How small is this Junkyard that they think people will be able to see them from space. We already know they have scanning and tracking technology, so whether or not they’re visible shouldn’t even matter.

Anywhoo, they go over their vague-ass plan and it’s really boring. Lira isn’t pleased that she won’t get to join Andi and Dex on the actual rescue mission, and Andi is forced to admit that she and Dex work great together.

Because of course.

Andi says that all they need now is a map of the prison, because I guess the prison moon isn’t guarded and has literally zero security measures, since they don’t even mention getting past any of that crap.

Maybe that’s a later stage of the plan, we’ll see.

“I know I’m not the most experienced at this stuff,” Gilly said from across the table as she polished her golden gun, “but it all seems a little too easy. How do you know we can even trust this so-called informant Dex has?”

Gilly? Saying good shit, for once? Unbelievable.

Also WE KNOW HER GUN IS GOLDEN.

They establish that they can’t trust any bitch and luckily, Andi has a backup plan! 

What is the backup plan? 

I have no clue. The chapter ends. 

Thrilling!

[letscuttothefeeling]

season three episode eight

Unfortunately, this was definitely a building block episode. Fortunately, however, we did get to meet Jared’s slut-shaming mom, his shockingly apathetic ex-wife, and watch Alyssa further cement herself as my least favorite person on the planet earth. Let’s cut to the feeling!

You know when you wake up and you’re violently hungover, and you’re regretting the night before, and your only option is to stay in bed and order food and wish for death? That’s exactly how we get to see Juliette the morning after Jared’s party. Relatable kween! As she lays in bed with a lot of pizza but zero hope, she tries to justify her behavior at Alex’s. It sucks because I think it was warranted to push him in the pool, but given her (other) recent violent behavior, it just makes her look like a meth head. Especially since no one believes that Alex was actually on the phone with her. Which is SHOCKING. But I’ll get to that later. Speaking of Alex, now we’re seeing Alex and Alyssa the day after the blowout. Alyssa starts to question why Juliette and Alex were even talking in the first place. Alex explains that he sent Boring Robby some screenshots from Juliette. This should ring major alarms for Alyssa! Like if Alex doesn’t care at all, why would he do that? Alex insists that Juliette is just “desperate for anything,” and Alyssa stupidly accepts this explanation. Sorry, who’s desperate?

Nothing like a boozy lunch with your mom! That sounded sarcastic but I’m so serious. Mom, let’s do that when you come visit me soon! Except instead of calling my ex-spouse who cheated on me during combat a slut, we can stick to lighter conversation topics. So yeah, after Jared’s mom fondly recalled the time she called his ex-wife, Jessica, a “slut,” we learn that Jessica cheated on Jared during his deployment. Jessica is starting to sound like a Messica! Then Jared breaks the news that Jessica is visiting him in Siesta Key, and suffice to say his mother is not pleased. My ex-wife is not a phase, mom.

Later that day, we see Jessica arriving at dinner with Jared. They laugh about how horrible they are together when they drink, and then immediately order drinks. Good plan! After dinner, Jared brings Jessica to meet the gang. Amanda, Brandon, Madisson, Chloe and G Baby are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of Jared’s infamous ex. As soon as everyone says hi, the boys peel off to grab drinks, and Chloe immediately asks Jessica if she’s heard about Jared’s fling with Kelsey. She doesn’t waste one second, that Chloe! Not only has Jessica not heard of Kelsey, but she also apparently has no idea that Jared has PTSD. Which is strange, because if my ex-husband was on a reality show, I’d definitely watch, and if you’ve seen any episode with Jared, you know about his struggles with PTSD. Jessica must have felt like an idiot!! You think you know someone, and then it turns out that you don’t at all. I can’t help but immediately think of that time in Stephanie Meyer’s final novel in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, when Police Chief Charlie Swan sees Bella for the first-time post-change. From Charlie’s POV, his daughter went on a honeymoon to a strange Brazilian island and then caught a very serious virus that caused her to be quarantined from everyone for a lengthy period of time. Finally, enough was enough, and Police Chief Swan said, “screw protocol!”, and he went to the Cullen’s to see his daughter. When he saw her, his heart sank. That was Bella, but she looked different. She had an adopted baby who looked just like her, but the timing of the pregnancy didn’t add up. In that moment, Charlie Swan knew that while this may be his daughter, it certainly wasn’t the daughter he knew. And that was how exactly how Jessica felt during this gossip sesh.  

1 full year of wedded bliss

Something about Juliette is that while she is completely psychotic, violent, and potentially an alcoholic, she’s definitely not a liar. So when I see Chloe and Amanda in a pool, drinking literal water from cocktail glasses and saying that they “don’t believe Juliette” in regards to the phone call with Alex? I’m on the phone, calling Gary Kompothecras himself, suing for slander. It’s like, “I’m just done believing her.” Wait, seriously? Why? Alex is a proven pathological liar. Juliette is simply and factually not a liar. Based on those facts, let’s make an educated guess and decide who is lying. Later, Chloe and Alex head to the Crescent Club to get ready for the big bar opening that night. They briefly discuss Juliette, as always, since they seemingly have nothing better to talk about, and Chloe reveals that she’s meeting up for lunch with Juliette to hear her side of the story. After all, Juliette did break her $8 Amazon sunglasses. Chloe deserves an explanation. Then, after continuing to trash Juliette for a solid five minutes, Chloe tells Alex that Juliette “needs people like me in her life that are honest with her,” and they continue doing nothing to set up for the big night.

Juliette shows up to lunch with a gift and receipts. Text/call receipts, that is. After giving her gift to Chloe (a replacement of her wildly inexpensive sunglasses), Juliette pulls out the phone and proves that she was, in fact, on the phone with Alex for six hours. I’d like to give Chloe a shout out for truly sleuthing – yeah, Chloe, I saw you check the contact and make sure it was actually Alex’s number. Imagine if Juliette had just changed the name in her phone. After admitting that Juliette, was, in fact, telling the truth, Chloe decides to confront Alex at the bar opening. Perfect timing!  

Here we go – it’s Crescent Club time! Amanda rolls up with BG, which is weird since I kind of thought they had a falling out, but okay. JJ is also there, and it’s just a matter of time before Brandon freaksoutté. But first, Chloe pulls Alex aside. It’s truth time. Chloe explains that she saw the calls and knows that Alex and Juliette spoke on the phone for six hours. Alex, an aspiring lawyer, hits back with an incredible defense. “She called me, though.” Okay, someone call RBG and get this man on the Supreme Court, effective immediately. Alex realizes he needs to tell Alyssa before Juliette does, so he pulls her aside and admits what he’s done. Alyssa seems, in a word, peeved. Peeved, but not hideously angry which is what a normal person would be. After a quick five-minute recap, they’re all good, which is extremely concerning. But, as Alex said, “emotionally, nothing was gained or lost” during the calls, so like, Alyssa really has no need to worry. 

Is this Juliette or Santa Claus because she’s arriving to the Crescent Club bearing more gifts! After giving Alyssa a replacement bathing suit top, Chloe inexplicably rips the new top for no reason. Nice. Seriously though, I’m proud of Juliette for making amends and pushing forward. Ygg! Maybe she’s learning from Kelsey, who up until tonight, has made me so proud! Unfortunately, Messica gets the best of her. When she meets Jared’s ex-wife, the tension in the air is so thick you could cut it. Kelsey asks if the two are going to be sad to leave each other, and when Jessica explains that they’re not very “emotional,” Kelsey blatantly questions their relationship altogether by saying, “Well then was it ever real?” Ouch! That was super intrusive, aggressive, and uncalled for especially since she told Jared to fuqoffé a week ago and chose Jake. Oh no Kels.

We leave that awkward love triangle for another awkward love triangle – BG, JJ, and Amanda. BG randomly decides to confront JJ about Amanda. Brandon, what have we learned from the Jake/Kelsey/Jared debacle? This almost never ends in the desired result! After Brandon tries to stake claims over Amanda, JJ gently reminds him that Amanda owes neither of them anything, and she has been blatantly clear about the fact that she’s not being exclusive with either of them. Amanda has lied to BG about hooking up with JJ, so he’s got a right to be mad about that, but overall, he needs to drop this narrative. No one cares. We all know he’s really upset about his first love dating someone old enough to be her father, but to be frank, no one cares. You cheated on Madisson! You led her into the arms of Ish! Now get overetté! 

Juliette approaches Alyssa to apologize more in-depth. She acknowledges that her behavior was out of hand, and explains that she never wants to come in between Alex and Alyssa. (Who aren’t even dating!!) Keep in mind – Juliette could easily show Alyssa the proof that Alex is still VERY invested in her. Alex feared that she might, which is the only reason he came clean to Alyssa in the first place. But nope, even after Alyssa antagonizes her and says that Alex shows her all of the texts she sends, Juliette still remains calm and simply says, “I wouldn’t be sending him things that I’m not getting in return.” Which is a very fair point! Instead of pausing to think about the situation logically, Alyssa tells Juliette to “have a nice life.” Ooh, BURN! Now we wait for Tuesday – get excited about double the episodes and double the drama.