#she’s got the gayze if you will

[money-martin22]

always giving the female reporters that same look

[keviniiryuu]

okay like last time, I will compile my reaction/thoughts for ep13 and gbc as a whole :D (i don't do this often bc I can't write well... but..)

I knew it.... I don't like Hina HAHA. Like, I get her, but you really left Nina just like that huh?

Go tell her off! Maybe people will say that Nina is having a hero complex or sticking her nose in to other people's business, but I think it's very brave of her.

Also, ngl, I didn't expect for this to be the reason why she was bullied...

Momoka no......

Miura-san is a goat for this one and why does Subaru looks like she's saying "God, why did it end up being me explaining it to you"

Seriously having this truck right by their agency is a huge slap to the face

Nina Fang (also Nina stop reading the negative comments...)

"I was wrong and Hina was right all long." You know what? Fuck you, Hina. I know at present it's like Hina lowkey pushing Nina and motivating her, but I can't appreciate it that much lmao.

I love the moments where Momoka gets all serious/mature mode

Momoka apologizing.... seeing everyone getting shocked about it.... Honestly, this one broke my heart a bit. Momoka, who had lost all self-confidence, had rebuilt it very slowly because of Nina's and everyone else's trust in her.

So, seeing the song that was made by her with the members in mind not doing well must be a blow to that fragile confidence yet again. She was guilty that she let everyone down.

you're not wrong, nina. i promise you.

Everyone is tired (affectionate) of Nina's outbursts while Momoka looks awestruck... Of course, we will add this to the album of the Momoka Gayze (tm) but I think this is also related to her self-confidence.

I just said that Momoka felt guilty and like how Momoka blew Nina away in Ep. 1, Nina's outburst blew her away in a way that no, no one was blaming Momoka for their failure and the person that she is closest to still believes and trusts in her.

That awestruck gaze, admiring Nina's confidence and unwavering belief for her and the group. To the song. To their decision and that they weren't wrong. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but let me be lmao.

ugh the softness in her gayze.... i can't...

SHUT THE FUCK UP HINA. Nina is brave enough to do the things no one would normally do!!

bro whoever that was, it's on sight. also momoka, subaru. fight em

tomo no...

sigh... i love togetoge

let them drink!!!

Momoka gayze again

You love this city (and Momoka) and met friends (and a girlfriend) right Nina?

Ngl, I did like the touch that no miracle happened. Like, oh wow, a sudden burst of tickets selling! It is what it is.

First time when i'm sad we didn't get a training arc for Nina playing guitar

I love them

idiot (affectionate)

ngl. the song is not for me HAHAHA but welp. I will take this camera angle. thanks.

Okay, now for GBC as a whole: I adore this show so fucking much. I didn't expect to fall in love with the show when I started watching it, but man. I am so glad that I didn't wait for this to finish and got to wait each week for a new episode with everyone.

Personally, the ending was okay. It feels like it's just the beginning, so it didn't feel like an ending ending. Idk how to explain it. It just.... it's like not everything has been concluded.

Regarding momonina: I am not surprised that nothing happened on camera. But with all the subtext and hints, I will take it. Sure, I wished they addressed the confession more openly, but you can't win it all.

Overall, this is my anime of the season, possibly anime of the year, and definitely one of my all time favorites. Maybe I'll make a post about the ED (since it's an epilogue), about momonina, or my fave moments throughout the season but we'll see haha.

"I wasn't wrong, was I?"

"To fall in love with Girls Band Cry."

[bambi-kinos]

About Get Back/Let It Be.

Because I'm been wondering about the changed clipped and cuts from from the original. Both Estates and Paul and Ringo approved it. Do you think Paul and the rest are aware of it? And if they are, why is that? they should know by now that the fandom knows about the original clips. I don't mind the changed parts or that it made it look lighter because the way he said it, that it feels like it saved his life and that it showed his talent but he must be aware more than anyone that some parts of the fandom are saying that he is trying to re-write the history. Or maybe he really did see it they way it shown as more accurate. I mean he was there. What are you thoughts on this. I don't bring Ringo in this because I don't think he knows much + he seem to have left it behind him.

They're definitely aware of the cuts because Peter Jackson had to get approval from all four sides in order to get the documentary on D+. Apple Records is still the owner of the footage, the only thing Disney is doing afaik is licensing the footage and other Beatle products. This is to sell subscriptions to their failure of a streaming service. So I would imagine that 1) Paul and Ringo have watched all the remastered footage in full; Peter said he remastered all of it and 2) they got final say on what went into it, as well as Dhani/Olivia, and Sean Lennon as the executor of John's estate. (Yoko is no longer in the picture, the industry rumors online are saying that she is currently dying of dementia and that Sean has been fully in charge of the estate for a few years now.)

It's also important to think broadly about who the documentary is for. The number of people who are intimate with the Beatles, know the full story about their woes, the people who don't fall for Yoko's bullshit, and the people who have actually listened to the Nagra tapes, is a tiny tiny tiny TINY slice of Beatles fandom. I would even posit that this portion of the audience is only 5,000-10,000, maybe 15,000 people at best. That is a tiny slice of a global audience that numbers in the millions.

Paul and Ringo are completely safe and they know it. They know that their audience is made up of passive normies that believe everything they see without question. If you show a normie Beatle fan a picture of John and Paul gayzing at each other and tell them "these men are heterosexual" they will immediately go "of course they're heterosexual!" And they will not question it further. If you have them listen to a piece of the Nagra tapes, the normie would declare it "boring." These are the types of people who make up 95% of the Beatles global audience. Everyone on the estate side knows this very well which means they have carte blanche to do whatever they want, edit however they want, say whatever they want, and there will be zero (0) appetite to question them.

Just look at the wealth of interviews where Paul says insane shit and the journalist never ever questions him on it! It never occurs to them to question it or investigate further. This is not because they are dumb, it is simply because these people are normies. They passively accept everything they are told and there is no desire whatsoever to act any other way. They would be confused and distressed by anyone who wants to dig deeper.

Why Paul and Ringo and the estates called for certain cuts and edits is unknown and unknowable. We have no idea what they mandated, what they had Peter cut, or why. We also have no idea what Disney made Peter cut to put it on D+. Don't forget that the Beatles are not the only forces at work here. We don't know and will likely never know.

Re: your last sentence, I don't think Ringo has moved on at all. He loves the Beatles and is protective of them as a property. IMO it is more accurate to say that Ringo has grieved for the Beatles and that he let go of his survivor's guilt about the Beatles and John's murder as a part of his recovery from substance abuse. As part of that he finally integrated Beatle Ringo into Richard Starkey and now he can be fully comfortable in his skin as both. But he still loves the Beatles and still cherishes them deeply, he just doesn't get involved in the negative aspects because he's done his time with them. The cruelty, meanness and greed is what he's moved on from.

[lavender-gayz]

Part 2 of Lizzie the Musical commentary – responses to @thegirl20 comments

Responses to @thegirl20’s comments on Part 2 of Lizzie the Musical at Southwark Playhouse Elephant – Some Little Moments That I Love

Here’s a link to my Part 2 again: Part 2!

@thegirl20’s very thoughtful comments are copied in black below

responses from me are set out in this shade of purple below

tg20: Living for these commentaries. I’ve added some thoughts.

tg20: (When I reference the script below, you can access it on the Lizzie Broadway Licensing page and click on ’Read for Free’. It’s not the full script, unfortunately, but it’s interesting to see what’s in there as stage directions and what isn’t.) gayz: This is such a handy resource, thank you! I cannot believe Alice is canonically described as a luscious pear in the character intros.  tg20: This got very long so…. gayz: Oh no, a long post about Lizzie the musical!! How awful :)

tg20: THIS IS MY JAM - Shattercane and Velvet Grass was the song that stayed with me after I saw the show for the first time. That melody haunted my dreams. It’s still a fave. tg20: (Fun fact - one time Lauren brought the teapot down so hard it broke one of the legs off.) gayz: This was an early fave for me too! Lauren noticeably damaging a teapot midway through the song is hilarious. I also witnessed a prop mishap at a show – one of the coat racks doubling as a corpse fell apart while Mairi was moving it to a standing position. She kept her cool and just fixed the base back onto the coat rack and went, ‘There we go. Where were we? Right, I was so sorry to hear about your father – ’ and just continued her conversation with Shekinah / Emma. The professionalism!

tg20: I didn’t know that Emma was hanging around in the aisle! In Manchester, I think both she and Alice were in the little alleys that ran up the sides of the stage giving the atmospheric backing vocals (I could only see Alice from my seat but I assume Emma was on the other side). So is it possible that Alice was in the other aisle at the same time? gayz: Oh that is cool to know! Yes, in that case it is entirely possible that Alice was downstairs in the other aisle directly beneath me. On the other hand, Emma just seemed to be standing in the aisle and not singing along? Or maybe I just missed it!

tg20: I go back and forth about what my interpretation of who is influencing who is to be honest. Did Emma leave the book purposefully to help Lizzie along with her ‘what if Mrs Borden dies first’ idea? Did Bridget purposefully not pack it so that she could give it to Lizzie? Bridget does seem to be the background antagonist at various points, but when Emma returns from Fairhaven, it’s clear she had expected Mrs Borden to be dead, but not the father. So it’s a hard one. gayz: I agree, it’s a hard one. My interpretation from the first show was that it was Bridget, rather than Emma, who wanted to show Lizzie the book of household poisons – it just seemed like such a weird thing for someone to want to take with them on a trip. But then again, as you say, Emma did seem like she had expected Mrs Borden to die at some point during Emma’s trip…

tg20: Alice makes good on the invitation from this morning and comes over to hang out! - One of my favourite things is Alice standing to the side of the stage, straightening out her skirt and fixing her hair, waiting for Lizzie and their date. So cute. Also, sometimes MQB really leaned into the flirting of ‘Shall we go upstairs?’ And sometimes she played it quite innocently and sweet. And both were valid. gayz: Yes, I loved that too!!! So cute and both so valid!!

tg20: The milk, the milk that comes in a can - That bloody milk speech. I assume the cast must hate that speech. It amuses me that the writers took that almost wholly as is from the court records and just dropped it in. I am glad they didn’t make it into a song, though. gayz: The milk speech! It’s just so hilariously long-winded. I love it.

tg20: I do enjoy Lauren expressing her increasing frustration at Alice’s very sensible responses to the poisoned milk claims. She turns away and frowns.

tg20: One of the things I noticed in London that I hadn’t in Manchester (again, I could only see down one of the side stage bits) was that Bridget was listening to this conversation while sweeping up. So she heard the ‘We were all sick, all but Maggie’ and she didn’t look happy about it. gayz: Yes! At the first show I went to, Ayesha was playing Bridget and she looked extremely offended by this.

tg20: IT’S JEALOUS PEAR TIME - I love the sexy pear song. It gave me a lot of feelings the first time I saw it, front row centre. A lot of feelings. Alice’s metaphor of Lizzie as a rose is interesting though. Lizzie consistently likens herself to birds, wanting to fly away to freedom. Birds and trees go together, so Alice could have stuck with the bird thing, but she didn’t. She wants Lizzie rooted firmly to the ground. gayz: Oh my gosh, the first time I saw it I hadn’t listened to the soundtrack yet so you can only imagine my mounting excitement: ‘is she constructing an elaborate story where she’s a pear?’ ‘gathering up in skirts, you say?’ ‘will you lay next to me??’ ‘WILL YOU BITE THROUGH THE SKIN TO THE SWEET FLESH WITHIN???’ ‘SHE’S LUSCIOUS TO THE TASTE AND IS ALWAYS EATEN IN GREAT HASTE????’ I was absolutely under the impression that they had a friends-with-benefits situation and that Alice wanted Lizzie to engage more with her feelings, lol. And ooh, that is an interesting point about Lizzie seeing herself as a bird and Alice seeing her as a rose…I guess with the rose we get the duality of it being something beautiful and something dangerous so we get the progression from Will You Stay to Will you Lie, whereas birds, um, probably eat pears? I suppose Alice could have chosen to be something other than a pear…

tg20: (A weird thing that I noticed is after their initial near kiss, Lizzie gets up and should say ‘I have to be on my way’ (because it rhymes with ‘will you stay’) but Lauren routinely said ‘I have to go’. Idk why it stuck out to me so much. ELH said the correct line.) gayz: Oh yes, I also noticed that Lauren says ‘I have to go’ instead (I listened to the soundtrack a lot between shows so any differences really jumped out)! I figured she was just modernising it, but it’s quite odd that she says this and ELH doesn’t. Hmm. Perhaps an aversion to extra syllables?! I hadn’t noticed that ‘on my way’ rhymes with ‘will you stay’ but you are correct of course! I guess ‘I have to go’ sort of goes with ‘hear of all your woes’.

tg20: Alice during this whole song manages to be vulnerable, sweet, commanding, cute, powerful, protective, alluring, sexy, masterful, seductive and innocent. And that’s impressive. Huge kudos to MQB. gayz: Yes, these excellent adjectives all apply here!!! All the awards for MQB, honestly.

tg20: And I agree the kissing is definitely mutual in this production. I have heard people saying that Lizzie is already thinking of manipulating Alice by using her feelings at this point, but I don’t take that away from it at all. I think it’s genuine attraction and affection on both sides, regardless of what happens later on. gayz: Yay and yes, I’m so glad we both saw this the same way!

tg20: Somehow, another banger! - Genuinely, a song about decapitated pigeons should not go this hard, but it does. gayz: It really does! Why ARE all these heads off?!

tg20: I didn’t notice laughter at the final show, but it is understandable. Everything is so very far from fine. gayz: Maybe it was just the mean people in the balcony!   tg20: Mercury Rising - For me, this is the weakest song in the show. It’s sung beautifully and the staging is suitably dramatic, but it feels like the only filler song. I mentioned elsewhere I wish Bridget had got a funny solo rather than this. (Although in the script it is implied that Bridget is supposed to be a banshee, and that’s why she’s always doing the banshee wails and why she is involved in the precipitation of the deaths. Which is an interesting idea.) gayz: For me, Mercury Rising is a slow song where they give us a little space to breathe while ramping up the tension even more after Why Are All These Heads Off. Sort of like that bit in rollercoasters where you’re just coming off a really steep downward bit and you’re very slowly climbing up again and you know it’s going to be even more insane when you eventually reach the peak. That being said - justice for Bridget! Banshees can want people to have breakfast, too.

tg20: I love the chaos of Somebody will do something. There’s so much going on and it’s another full on banger. gayz: It really is!

tg20: (I didn’t love the choice they made in London to project Lizzie’s face onto the back wall during this number though. They didn’t do that in Manchester and I’m not sure it worked. Especially with Lauren’s blonde hair, it blended in with the set too much. I blame Sunset Boulevard.) gayz: I think I only noticed it at the first performance – it didn’t leave much of an impression on me! For the subsequent productions I was focused on the (real-life) Lauren running around with her axe. What are they doing on Sunset Boulevard?

tg20: BRIDGET is the one to hand Lizzie the axe – I don’t know if this is how they do it in all productions - It is in the script, so she’s definitely supposed to be integral. gayz: That is so cool to know, thank you!

tg20: ‘OOH Miss Lizzie you startled me’ - I adore this line, and I adore that Mairi delivered it just a little bit differently every time I saw it. I love it when actors play around with delivery and try different things. Bridget just coolly getting a wee fright when Lizzie barges out and then making no mention of the fact that she’s covered in blood and holding a dripping axe just delights me. gayz: I know, right! Hear no evil, see no evil etc.  

tg20: ‘HE’LL WISH HE’D HAD THAT SON,’ - One of my favourite line deliveries. Both Lizzies nail it with the right combination of unhinged, angry and just a little bit gleeful. gayz: Yes! That sense of triumph! You go, Lizzies.

tg20: Can’t wait for act 2!! gayz: Thank you so much! I really appreciate that you took the time to share your thoughts with me as well :)

[emisirrelevant]

Willow 2022 1x07 Reactions

I love this show.

-Lol Airk being like "I drank the water- it was...good"

-ALSO IT WAS HIM!! I thought that picture of Kit in the water was Jade and Kit but it was Airk trying to rescue Kit!! That actually made it more symbolic to me to have one sibling try to rescue the other.

-YESSSS ELORA BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE LAKE I KNEW IT!!!

-ALSO HER HAIR. YALL IT IS RED. IT TURNED FULL ON RED!!!

-ALSO! That small moment when Kit fell but then looked at Elora and Elora looked back. WHAT DID THAT MEAN? (besides my delusional kit x elora self interpreting that as the GAYZE lol)

-LOL the old man "or we're all phantoms in the dream of some vindictive god suffering from a spot of indigestion" ICON "You have coin?" ME ACTUALLY- my broke ass

-the heck is a mudmander?

-okay well the old man definitely isn't a master chef

-Boorman eating the soup anyway in typical Boorman fashion

-Elora's inner cook is probably seething quietly rn LOL

-"Well all these quests and battles all sort of got blended together after a while you know" LOL old man is relatable tho- me when I play Wizard101

-Jade asking "well what do you remember?" me: don't say it- DO YOU REMEMBER- THE 21st NIGHT

-oh shit the watering hole thing is closed now- there is no more water?

-"hey new girl- where you at" OMFG BWAHAHAHAA I CAN'T

-wait what now the water is back?

-the girl "there was a secret sect" me thinking I'm good at the lore despite never having watched the original movie "the blood of the six?" her: "the Order of the Wyrm" "oh" HAHAA

-OOP the girl saying "you weren't thinking about making out right now were you" and Airk going "no of course not totally wasn't thinking that" AND THEN IT SWITCHES TO ELORA

-OHHHH GOD IF AIRK AND THE OTHER GIRL KISS AND IT STARTS DRAMA-

-OMG KIT WATCHING ELORA SLEEP (ahhh okay my kit x elora self is trying not to say anything again-)

-OH GRAYDON JUST KNOCKING THE OLD MAN OUT LOL RIP

-OH NOOO I FORGOT ABOUT THE GALES

-me during the sleigh chase scene- USE YOUR MAGIC ELORA!! MAGIC IT!!! YOU CAN MAKE IT GO FASTER!!! RIGHT??!?!

-OH NOOOOO

-KIT TAKING ANOTHER L?????? NOT A SHURIKEN TO THE ARM??

-NOOO NOT JADE GETTING PUNCHED??

-YESSS GRAYDON BEING USEFUL AND GETTING THE BIRD!!

-YESS JADE COMING BACK AND SAVING ELORA FROM THE DOOM!!

-OMG AAHAHAAAAA I THOUGHT JADE AND KIT WERE GONNA KISS DAMN IT BUT THE PUNCH IN THE FACE AND THEN YANKING THE WEAPON OUT HAHAHA I LOVE THEM BUT OKAY I NEED TO SEE A KISS SOON

-ohh the mudmander is kinda cute

-Graydon lol "I shall name you Kenneth"

-HHHH AHHHH SO GRAYDON IS MAGICAL TOO POSSIBLY???

-LOL Willow training Elora. I love a good fucking mentor training scene

-LMAO I think Willow is having a little too much fun just blasting his staff

-YEAAHHH KIT AND JADE SPARRING AGAIN!!! WEAPON WIELDING WLWS!!!

-YEAAAAAAAAH

-THEY KISSED!!!!

-LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

-LET'S GO WLWS!!!!!!!

-OOOH okay. So I sense something is up with Elora again.. We seem to be seeing a slightly more darker side to her.

-Hopefully they don't do that whole plot twist where they turn it all around and Elora turns out to give into the darkness and becomes the villain?

-"because that's what you do when you have honor, right?" oop Zuko from ATLA wants to know your location lol

-AHHHHH NAURRRRR AAAAAAHHH SHE KISSED AIRK AHHH NAURRRR

-Well at least Elora still has Graydon??

-oh well he wants to be alone with Kenneth- so I guess not? lol

-OOH Kit and Willow talking together. I like it!! Rare dynamic!! Give me more of their two characters interacting!!

-OHHHH MY GOD KIT AND ELORA SCENE OMG OMG

-THE BACKGROUND THOUGH??? THE STARS???? THE MUSIC??? HELLOOOOO

-"I was jealous of you"

OOOOHHHHH MY GODDDDDD

FUCK.

IT'S LIKE HIZZIE FROM LEGACIES FOR ME ALL OVER AGAIN.

-oh no Willow- I don't think that's really Mims

-LOL Jade being frustrated with the men for the 80th time

-awwwwwww Graydon finally saying he loves Elora AAAHHH

-SEE OKAY ELORA YOU STILL HAVE GRAYDON

-Although technically I was right and the girl seems to be the Crone so okay I'm not as mad about that kiss than I was before but it still was like ooh- okay ehhh- umm

-"I don't want to keep pretending" "Neither do I"

"I don't want to be Elora Danan"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

-WAIT. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

-KIT GIVING ELORA HOPE. KIT GIVING MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH????

-I CAN'T ANYMORE!!!!! I AM UNWELL!

"Well, tough. You're afraid. So am I. My fear doesn't get to define me. I'm not giving it the power. I'm giving it to you. I have never believed in anything my whole life. I believe in you."

SHUT UP.

I AM SCREAMING!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THEY FELL.

OFF THE CLIFF.

TOGETHER.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

"My lady"

SHUT. UP!!!!!!!!

THEY FOUND THE CITY THOUGH!!! YESSSSS. THEY DID IT!!! WOMEN!!!!!!

OHHHHH SHIITTTTTTT.

AND HERE WE GO.

THIS IS HOW I KNOW AIRK IS EVIL NOW. MANS GOT A NEW OUTFIT AND A HAIRCUT. HERE WE GO.

ONLY ONE EPISODE LEFT.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[piningintrovert]

Getting acquainted with my queerness has been a journey so in celebration of my first pride month as a participating member, here's my "Guuurl! I think you like girls, too ... like FOR REAL for real" story.

I've always appreciated the female form because ✨️women✨️ you know, but even in my devout appreciation, I identified as straight for the majority of my life.

However, a few of months ago I met this girl at a friend's party and her masc energy flung me into one of those chapters of a romance novel where she's got me pinned up against a wall in the throws of a very heated makeout session. One minute I'm dancing to a remix of a popular 90's song and the next minute I'm having a queer awakening "That's so Raven" 🎶if you can gayze into the future🎶 style.

I honestly would've loved if my brain dialed down the theatrics a bit so I didn't have to face the embarrassment of glitching mid-twerk, but I've gotta admit that it makes for one hell of a coming out story XD

Happy pride, lovelies ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[deus-ex-mona]

good evening~~ here’s my very cursed(!!!) top 10 list on the most redundant [redacted] anime features off the top of my head~~

debates and disagreements welcome~

10- lxl and basketball

pointless inclusion that was pretty much just an excuse to get chiz to openly thirst over aizo. and to emphasise on just how much better aizo is at sports as compared to his poor sidekick yujiro. just male leads being male leads, ig

i mean, sure, it gave us that beautiful ball e mv, but lxl’s sporty [redacted] anime-induced hobby wasn’t worth much in general.

9- the inclusion of ⅘ of gen 2 tbh

they were pretty much just background extras for the most part, except for ken, who gets bonus moments thanks to being the male lead’s brother. heck, poor kodai doesn’t get much time to shine, despite being the adoring bf of one of the three heroines of the show. mans got more screentime either behind his camera, or as juri love flashbacks during her conversations with the jk trio.

as for the others, arisa got like 5 seconds of screentime (and 4 of them occurred in the sports fest ep, romeo ed included), and kotahina were nerfed to heck and back. they were written to be competitive and stubborn characters, so why were they portrayed to be nothing more than your average caring senpai towards hiyoko? a nd cultural festival w h e r e ? helloooooooooo~~~?

sure, the sports fest ep did give gen 2 in general a chance to show their stuff, but it was clearly more of viewer fanservice for pre-[redacted] anime fans who know and love these characters for who they truly are.

8- aizo’s “trauma reveal”

idk about you, but hiyoko does not need to know about aizo’s trauma. i mean, yeah, i totally get where ken’s coming from. as a scumbag older sibling myself, i, too, get the urge to dump lots of info about my brother to complete strangers. but. it’s just that. hiyori… really didn’t need to go “oh thank god it wasn’t real trauma. now. how can i fix him?”.

she really didn’t need to say that mans. all forms of trauma are valid forms of trauma… if that makes sense. she can’t just decide that someone’s trauma “isn’t real trauma” and then go ahead and liken it to her dislike for squid. and that includes aizo’s trauma with ladies. not cool.

on the bright side, at least aizo’s local idol boo yujiro took his trauma seriously and stood by him even as their manager had a trauma minimising session with his brother. and speaking of yujiro…

7- that someya ‘scandal’

what the heck was that ep 4 someya scandal lmao. it’s never brought up again????? not even by koichiro and tamagoro in the later episodes??? do they even know that there was a scandal about them??? bruh. what was it even there for lol. the gayze???

i mean, yeah, he’s totally the shame of the someya family for going ahead to be the less popular member of a popular idol duo, with said idol-ling being something he had received the head of said someya family’s permission for. but he had debuted without his family’s name anyway so??? does it even matter???

it would’ve actually made sense if it had a call back in a later episode, with, like, the reveal that maybe chizuru or one of the 100000 aizo stans there apparently are had leaked yujiro’s last name online in an attempt to take him down so that aizo can have a solo idol career or something. but no. it’s just never brought up again.

but before we drop the topic of yujiro like how his in-universe popularity dropped to 0 in the adaptations…

6- yujiro arrest reason

this. made. no. sense. either.

did the [redacted] anime throw darts at a dartboard of possible plot ideas to decide how the someya family side plot was going to go?? or was it decided with an online prompt generator?? or was it the result of a game of mad libs with the office crew????

like? lol? who smuggled koichiro into the bar??? and wh o let baby face yujiro into the bar??? and how did none of the staff at the bar question it?

though. wait. how the heck did hiyoko even see enough distinctive features of yujiro’s during the night that she witnessed his police encounter to identify him when they next crossed paths in the classroom? she was looking at him from above from her spot on a flight of stairs in dim lighting. just how good is her eyesight? hello?

5- repurposed yumefan

yeah yeah i k n o w the [redacted] anime staff justified their choice to use yumefan as a song to encourage hiyoko bc “it’s a song about encouraging others” and stuff. but still. yappa saikyou would probably have worked too, since it’s about not wanting to lose to your rivals and aiming to surpass the rest and stuff like that. or they could’ve just. y’know. kept nonfan in their setlist anyway if they wanted to dedicate a song to their friend(?) slash manager, since that song’s mv was the first mv that hiyoko had worked on, and thus, ✨memories✨ are there, y’know?

either way, the [redacted] anime staff saw yumefan, decided “ok it’s for women now” and had it dedicated to hiyoko and got the narumi sisters to cover it as a special ed. much wow. aizo would be proud. and speaking of aizo…

4- yuko in the countdown live

she moved to france in the lxl movie, so what is she doing here in the first place? to watch her estranged son hxld hxnds with some rando onstage? go back to france, yuko.

3- nagisa arc

the main problem i have with nagisa’s arc is how forced it felt tbh. it kinda felt like it was just. shoehorned into the plot? it just. didn’t flow well. like… especially how nagisa was completely written out of the plot after he hopped on that train. lxl had been teasing hiyoko relentlessly about nagisa till he left. then it was just like. he never existed?? excuse???

i mean. i love nagihiyo. don’t get me wrong. it’s just… the way the [redacted] anime staff plotted it into the story felt… off.

look, you see, i think the nagisa plot would’ve worked better as a season closer. like, after all that friendship drama and scandals and stuff, we get a breather in the form of the nagisa visit. he could be visiting for the countdown live, or for a christmas or new year’s visit for all i care, but it’d give the lxl + hiyoko trio, with newly strengthened bonds of friendship after all they’ve been through (thanks chiz), a chance to show off their cooperative skills with the hiyoko makeover sequence and subsequent nagisa encounter. heck, it’d even give nagisa another reason to be wary of lxl, since “aren’t these the dudes from that relationship scandal you were in? you should be more careful around them fr” could be a legit point of concern. plus! it could lead into a post-series uni timeskip or something for that sweet, sweet nagihiyo uni arc crumbs!!

hmmm. well. in the end, i still hate how nagisa’s existence was all but retconned after his episodes. poor lad. he deserves better!!! and speaking of deserving better…

2- the narumi sisters’ appearance

for sena, as she has co-starred with lxl in the past, and since she is still in the industry, it’s no surprise that she’d make an appearance or two. however, the r e a l problem is how she was handled. she was only abruptly thrown into ep 6 to fit in yet another “uwu woe is me im not cute uwu” hiyoko moment in the 24 minutes of terror. plus, those sena-mona moments make no sense whatsoever if you’re a [redacted] anime-only who doesn’t know how lxl and the narumis know each other. viewer fanservice at its finest, ig.

now. mona.

#notmymona

w h o is that girl and why does she have our angel’s name and face? i swear, the only redeeming trait she has is that her character design was done by moge, which is. yeah, much cuter than her lxl movie cameo appearance.

but aside from that. who is she? she has no goals, no ambition, all she does is go “uwu i look up to my sister who i envy… but nvm i’m here to be your relationship therapist so that’s enough about me—”

she doesn’t even get to perform in the [redacted] anime even though there was an entire joint-artiste concert in the last episode. she doesn’t even salt about her nasty encounter with yujiro (which would’ve made for a more interesting topic during her second encounter with hiyoko when they talked about conflicts with friends, instead of being demoted to a bonus manga tbh). she’s so bland, she makes plain spaghetti taste like carbonara.

and speaking of carbonara, we return to lxl for number one, which is…

1- the lxl shower scene (no image bc g o o d l a w d w h y w o u ld i include it)

they are 15. we don’t need that extended shower scene. we don’t need to know that hiyoko has no qualms about barging into the showers for the opposite gender, with said members of the opposite gender being completely nude and uncomfortable when she did so. we just. didn’t need to see any of that.

who was that scene even made for? help???? just how bad did they think their own show was that they felt the need to put in an out of place scene of teen boys showering to pad the runtime?? excuse???

[purpleplaid17]

#bless you op for giffing this #zoskia are so in sync it's incredible #especially if you think about how long it's been since they've seen each other #look at their near-identical hand movements in the first gif!

#and then zoe automatically starts dancing with saskia when she comes over #she doesn't even look at her?? #she's literally staring at amelia and arguing with her the entire time #but somehow her arms never bonk into saskia's?? #(we use only the most technical dancing terminiology here)

#also i love that it's saskia approaching zoe each time #as noted in the prev tags - saskia really has it bad and this is all homosexual behaviour #that little thumbs-up exchange is so endearing #i can't even get started on the remaining gifs!

#look at that JOY on saskia's face at the end #and then there's a situation at the fingering bench and saskia has to turn back into an HBIC and everyone is retraumatised #and zoe isn't invited to the end-of-year formal

#in another life where climate change was taken seriously they could have got (back) together after this dance!# they would have been such cute girlfriends #and you just know that saskia's pr team would have finagled zoe a gig on any radio show and or podcast that she wanted

#thanks again op i am mentally drawing hearts around this gifset #zoskia#congrats on the ship name btw it's so much fun to say (via @lavender-gayz)

zoskia dancing to “that’s not my name” at the reunion (featuring jealous amelia)

[searidings]

In your opinion, what were Kara and Lena's individual gayest moments? 🤔🌈

oh bestie how long have you got? ok ok let's go lesbians let's go

lena:

filling kara's office with flowers. the bitch really said if my verbal language can't tell this woman how much i want to be railed by her maybe the language of flowers will do it for me

granting kara unrestricted office access on like their 3rd meeting

buying catco for kara. need i say more

whatever the fuck she was doing in every single s2 couch scene. bedroom eyes ass motherfucker

saving supergirl's life over her boyfriend's

apparently spending all her free time building lifesaving super tech without being asked even while she and supergirl were fighting

repeatedly risking her own life to save kara’s back when she still believed she was human

the inherent homoeroticism of continuing to pretend she didn’t know kara’s identity because it allowed her to remain close to her

“she broke my heart” yeah because that’s a normal thing platonic friends do

every time she’s ever gayzed at kara aka every time she’s ever looked at kara

the defining cultural moment that was “i killed my brother for you for our friends don’t you understand what you’ve done” aka the ultimate declaration of love: murder

her entire angsty s5 breakup spiral

programming the fortress’ lena lesbian luthor protocol aka no one touches my fucking WIFE

being quite happy to let the population of nc get turned into phantoms because she couldn’t put anything above her imperative of bringing kara home

“do you really not believe in magic?” “i believe in you”

the bickering spouses energy of their 6b interactions and lena’s overwhelming “ok i tried but you’re gonna make your own mistakes, i love you honey i’ll see you at home” energy

the worried wife vibes of her healing kara in the med bay

"hey, you” / “hey, hey, it’s okay”

kara:

how she absolutely peacocked around as supergirl in front of lena for the entirety of s2 l-corp gala im looking at you

biting the head off her boyfriend's mother when she thought lena was in danger because of her

crashing lena's date just to third wheel it with more manic jealous energy than any one person should contain

agreeing to come back to catco because lena batted her eyelashes

being prepared to save lena's life at the cost of poisoning the entire city's water

risking her civilian identity to save lena's life when she was poisoned

gazing tearfully at pictures of her and lena every time they have a lover's spat

every conversation she's had directly with lena's chest s3 gala im looking at you

“i’ll beat [james] up for you” aka kara choosing lena’s side over her best friend and first love

her whole "sure i can excuse murder if you're the one committing it babe" schtick throughout s3&4 aka nice grey gay morality

"i'm trying to catch lex FOR YOU that's why i'm doing this" never mind the fact that the man is kara's blood enemy noooo she's doing it for her gf

red daughter’s existence, period. honorary shoutout to her gay journal entries

flying around the world to bring lena her favourite things

“if i could be kara, just kara, then i could keep you as a friend” / “i was selfish and scared and i didn’t wanna lose you” aka kara canonically admitting that the idea of losing lena scared her more even than the potential fallout of her lies

volunteering to break the law for lena

volunteering to change all of history to get lena back

post-pz reunion hug. leaning in to kiss your bestie in front of god and everyone is something that can actually be so homosexual

every 6b interaction ie leaning into lena, mirroring her, finishing her sentences, “pot sticker me” etc

having lena be the one to ultimately inspire her to make some of the biggest decisions of her life ie becoming a reporter, revealing herself as kara zor-el

staring right at lena’s lips during her last most emotional scene of the series

[flagellant]

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, Idk if my autism is really getting in the way of understanding this or if I'm just stupid but regarding your women-writing-MLM-discourse... Is it okay to write/read characters that are a gender/sexuality you're not?

I'm a bi woman and I've got tons of different characters of different genders and sexualities. Tbh most of my characters are bi and when engaging with other peoples shows/art/etc. 99% of the time I headcanon their characters as bi.

But I DO have a few gay and lesbian characters, and a lot of same sex couples. In one story there's 2 straight couples, 1 lesbian couple, and I think 2 or 3 gay couples (I'm still deciding things)

Some of those characters have faced issues due to their sexualities, being abused by parents, being excluded from their community, etc. but other than that it's just... Part of them I guess. Like, it's a big part of their past but during the present it doesn't matter at all and it's just sort of like "Yeah he's dating the other guy. Anyways moving on."

Is that okay? Idk for me writing/reading stuff with gay characters is more "I'm bi with a preference for men. I love these two male characters and they're both attractive to me so I'd love to see/read them fuck. But also I love to see/read stuff with them and my favorite female character because she's also hot."

So for me it's less "omg they're hot boiz touching each others pee pees I love those yaoi gayz" and more "I don't care about their sexuality or gender they're hot and I want to see them fuck"

Reading an article on Forbes about fetishization of POC and it says "Fetishization can be thought of as the act of making someone an object of sexual desire based on some aspect of their identity." But for me I don't care about their sexuality, just THEM. Obviously their sexuality is a part of them but for me it's not really that important and it's more of that I find them as a person attractive.

So is that still fetishization? Idk I feel like it would be WORSE if I got rid of all of my gay/lesbian characters and just stuck to same-sex couples because then my stories would have 0 representation for anyone who's not exactly like me.

I need you to understand how frustrating it is for you to ask me for validation about wanting to keep writing and reading MLM porn as a bi woman when the justification you use is literally the "You aren't black to me, I don't see color" logic of it. If their sexualities actually didn't matter to you, then why does it matter if MLM say "People like you doing this is deeply fucked up and harming us"? Their/Our sexuality wouldn't matter to you, so you'd feel no issue about no longer partaking in deeply fucked up shit and harming us.

So to answer this as kindly as I can: Yes, it is fetishization on a definitive level, and the mixture of trying to justify it with the guilt trip cop out of "Well should I just abandon all my OCs that aren't bi women and never write anything else ever then?" and the "Well I don't ACTUALLY care about their sexualities, so it's okay for me to keep doing this right, because it does actually matter to me?"

is very irritating at the least of it.

[coffeeshib]

Sorry but what do you mean 1 bed situations have happened to you many times????

yeah for some reason i'm a magnet for one bed situations??! at friends houses, parties, hotel rooms, etc. the most recent one was at a friend’s apartment. before the One Bed Situation - small story time, let me tell you it was like living in a fanfic that day 😩

so i met up with my friend, we had dinner together & then went to a pub to chill & catch up. we were minding our own business until some old creepy dude approached us & started doing the Thing. by Thing i mean flirting & thinking we'd be into him lmfao. he rambled, asked if he could buy us drinks & my friend was glancing at me, holding in a laugh. it was terrible & that only made me want to break & laugh hard, so i couldn’t take that any longer.

cutting the sleazy dude off, i straight up said, "no, sorry, this person here is my girlfriend. we're gay & terribly in love. thanks for the offer but no thanks." & BRO i'll never forget the way he looked at us. priceless. his eyes bulged, jaw dropping. it was as if he just learned a new word? Gay. incredible. "you're gay? seriously?" he whispered in shock, blinking ridiculously at us. my friend caught on quick, she nodded fast & WRAPPED her arm around my shoulder, rubbing my arm & the guy was actually close to losing his marbles. good for him.

anyways!! we were tipsy & i wanted to get out of that situation, so we ditched the pub but not without the Dramatiques 1st. hand in hand, ridiculous gayzes & being the most Insufferable (fake) Girlfriends, we walked out clinging onto ea other. he watched us the entire time. mm, take that 35+y.o creep with receding hairline. we laughed about it for a long time. so Here it comes. it was time to go & i missed the last train home. i thought of catching another ride until my friend waved me off, suggested sleeping at her place (she lives in the city for uni). so, okay, sure. i got to her place &, god. when it was time to sleep, she was hesitant, looked at me shyly (understandable) & pointed at her room.

& THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED. she didn’t want me to sleep on the couch. i thought, oh. thank you. it’s chill. we slept with some distance between us. the next morning, we woke up very much cuddling ea other snugly. that’s chill, too. she didn’t let go of me for a long time because she was “comfy” & i “smell nice”. that’s also chill. hmm, she also kissed my cheek & neck at some point?? IT'S CHILL MAN. anyways that’s the end of that wild day, no we're not anything - she's my broski & we're just good friends :)

[ricesoupremacy]

oh drama is great, i'm great at drama. picture me wiping away fake tears and say something like "oh my, you have grown up so fast. where did the time go" *sniffs* "my little raag is all grown up now. feels like just yesterday when you crushed my soul with your beauti analyses and look at you now. crushing my soul with your beauti analyses and crushing my ribs with your hugs."

ok but why does this sound like an anime female lead moment. or a really badly written fic (no offence intended) "she took off her glasses and to me, she was the most beautiful girl in the universe." what is with people saying glasses-wearers (?) look better without glasses?? bro? it's just...a frame around the eyes. how much difference is it supposed to make to the face. if anything it should accentuate your eyes, not hide them. damn complimented by a teacher? lol looks like your school is full of raag simps. i'm sorry but i still think this sounds way too much like a high school drama. girl changes her look in the most minute way possible and boom, everyone's a simp. ok maybe it's not that minute, since hairstyle changes with girls are more noticeable than with guys. everyone sounds so friendly at your school bro. they seem so nice. meanwhile here i am getting harassed by 9th graders.

very cool. i wonder what you'd get up to that you would find the need to change your look to escape unseen. some things better left unsaid? (are you...a criminal-) maybe it was the french braid. like how aiden was floored when aru had a french braid at her birthday party. i think it was the braid. i also have found girls looking somewhat different when they do a french braid instead of a normal one or tie their hair in a ponytail. ah you already have people hitting on you. shame it took them this long to see. i told you that despite not knowing what you look like, i know you're hot. girl you have game. use it to seduce people while escaping after committing cr- i mean after. doing totally morally ethically correct things.

(there's no rickroll under the readmore i promise. it was just getting too long)

you know what's funny. i have slight power so i got glasses around the end of last year, but i never needed to use them. until january, when i had to sit at the last row for a class and couldn't see the board. so i take out my glasses and put em on, praying my dumbass classmates won't make a big deal out of it when have they ever not made a big deal out of anything. so apparently i look really hot with glasses?? girls from my grade who've never talked to me before complimented me?? they said i look like some hot guy from that game- genshin impact?? they said i looked like a hot villain?????? and begged me to permanently wear them because they "brought out the intense gaze middle school girls crush on you for" ???????????? (more like....intense gayze amirite haha *shoots self*) (i'm really scared of middle school girls can you make that out. i'm terrified. they terrify me.) i got overwhelmed and might have flirted with some girl (dunno if you remember that one girl i told you of, who everyone has a crush on and who hugged our bio teacher ages ago. most popular girl in the block.) and she might have had a total meltdown (wouldn't you, too, if i ran my hand through my hair in a totally hot way, peered down at you in a totally hot way with a totally hot smirk and said, in a deep and totally hot voice, 'whaddup gurl *cue lip bite*'?) total flip of your story. i'm hotter with glasses, you without. ah, when will these young children realise that all these shallow things that contribute to our appearance are but external. true beauty...is what i possess anyway. kidding. anyway i don't wear my glasses especially after that because. i just don't like wearing them.

finally found a reason to not cut my hair

impossible :0

what is it? scaring people on elevators? letting your friends braid it so you can bOnD? can i braid your hair? like the mom/grandma does in those hair oil ads pfft

ooh will you dye your hair?? if you did, what colour would you go for?

[thatsjustsupergirl]

Personally, I don’t think the Danvers sisters content was that bad; it just needed room to breathe. I think the show is scratching at an interesting final character arc for Kara, but isn’t dedicating the time it needs. There’s something really interesting at the heart of that debate, where Kara is stuck on how things had to be for her (maybe even jealous of Esme) and Alex is saying things don’t have to be that way for Esme, which is ironic coming from Alex, but the show didn’t give it enough time, particularly when there’s been so little sister content this season. I guess what I’m saying is that, if they had built this argument up over a few episodes and given it a more defined, positive resolution, I think it would have worked better, but I’m not opposed to it on principle. On a different note, I know she’s somewhat inexplicably popular with the fandom right now, but I do totally agree that friging William for Andrea was a crap move.

so, first: i agree with you that the pacing has been uneven and that’s part of the problem. second: i have wanted the show to explore Alex’s biases and prejudices against aliens since they brought it up in Season 2. because she has some! just like she had some biases she was oblivious to when it came to Kelly!

but instead we got this episode, which,,,,, pulled some White Gayze nonsense and textually supported Alex even though her opinion was, objectively, wrong— and then left no hint that they’re going to revisit this conflict in the remaining episodes.

and that’s a problem, because i have been wondering since we saw Kara’s courage gauntlet if confronting Alex was part of the emotional price that she wouldn’t push herself to pay. (especially since Nyxly’s was also about her sibling and feeling betrayed!)

beyond that, their fight was a shoddily-contrived conflict that existed to set up Kara ~learning a lesson about herself~ in the finale without giving Kara any emotional voice at all, again.

Alex literally asked for Kara’s help with Esme’s powers two episodes ago because she was so afraid this kid would hurt herself, or others.* Alex deferred to Kara’s intervention when she was overanxious with Esme when they brought her home. like, the time gap between episodes this season is shorter than it is in a normal year, not longer. It’s been, at best, two weeks since those interactions. there is no reason for Kara to think her help is no longer wanted.

(*note: they didn’t even leverage the fact that Alex’s immediate family contains the two most powerful aliens on planet Earth and if Esme is constantly at risk of harm because she copies powers then Alex can’t even safely spend time with her own family.)

not only that, not once has Alex been the person to talk about her family’s experiences as a mixed race/species family. Kelly’s brought it up. Kara’s brought it up. Alex is like “oh, right” every time. her blind spot here is so huge she didn’t even tell Esme that Kara was an alien when she first introduced them, despite knowing their powers could clash in a scary or dangerous way!

so, for the show to present Alex as right in saying she’s suddenly the expert because she watched Kara’s life from the outside, while actively contributing to Kara’s sense of isolation, is a problem. her claim that things are Better— a stance she pointedly has not agreed with whenever Kara’s tried to advocate for owning her identity in the past five seasons— is played as certainty, rather than her maybe reflecting on her own hand in making her sister feel conflicted about who she is. and then we have Alex toss out her identity as a lesbian in a false equivalence argument that white gays frequently used to shut down BAME voices in real life regarding discrimination? and that’s also played like an untouchable truth? screw that. especially since Alex and Kelly had a whole giant conversation about her prejudices like,,,,, a month ago, in show time.

the most infuriating part, to me, is that if they’d played it like Alex’s end of this conflict was her anxiety/perfectionism struggle and her fear that Kara is just. inherently better than her at things or better-suited to this part of raising her child than she is, then that would have felt interesting and character-true. instead it just felt like some insecure person in the writers’ room wanted to soapbox about being judged for their parenting, and like they as a group learned absolutely nothing from their diversity intervention five episodes ago.

so, yes, i’m absolutely gonna judge these messages about parenting, because this show was actively praised for years for doing a really, really good job at depicting the challenges and nuances of adoptive and blended families … and there is none of that in Season 6. everybody loves everybody and after one episode there are magically no struggles with trauma and reluctance to trust. Alex is shouting about being The Mom even though she’s known this kid for five minutes and it’s not guaranteed that they’ll get to keep her yet. there’s not even any narrative urgency about this pointless child endangerment plot jeopardizing Alex’s adoption plans even though 6x08-6x12 focused on discrimination and how the system is stacked against minorities. (and, you know, there’s her whole arc in season three about stepping back from dangerous work because it inherently conflicts with her parenting wants/needs.) and, worst of all, #StrongerTogether is nowhere to be found within this conflict, not even as subtext.

anyway, i do not see envy from Kara here. she framed her advice as “hey, this is what our parents did for me, and for as much as i chafed at it as a teenager, it was genuinely helpful in the long run” in response to an emotional kinship she felt with Esme. because she was trying to help navigate the challenging powers, like she’d been asked to. also, she wasn’t saying that Esme should hide or be ashamed of herself. she was just saying that giving her a life vest would be better than throwing her headfirst into the pool and hoping she’ll swim.

tl;dr i was really excited for all the pieces of this storyline to come together because it should have been deeply rooted in who Alex and Kara are individually and together, and should have been reinforcing the family story that was the heart of this show, and instead it’s been given all the depth of someone crossing items off a grocery list.

[flowrxchild]

I was tagged by the lovely @juvinadelgreko to list 10 songs I’m currently obsessed with!

I finally have some time to do a tag so thank you to anyone who’s included me in one recently. I’ve been so busy but I really appreciate it ❤️

1. Where I’m Headed - The Marcus King Band (one of my mutuals recommended Marcus King to me forever ago and now I can’t get enough he’s so good)

2. I Know The End - Phoebe Bridgers (she said this ones for the unhinged gayz)

3. My Way, Soon - Greta Van Fleet (u already knowww)

4. Jara - Fleet Foxes (All of Shore has been on repeat for the last couple weeks but this one? OUF)

5. Althea - Grateful Dead

6. Samia - Big Wheel (if u listen closely u can hear the 2/4 Hippo Campus production on this one)

7. Held Down - Laura Marling

8. Better Distractions - Faye Webster (I love Faye and this is a very fall song for me rn it’s just got ~the vibes~)

9. Can You Get To That - Funkadelic (if u know, u know)

10. High Flying Bird - Jefferson Airplane

I’d love to tag @dramaticjupiter @satingrass-maidensfair @shes-outta-sight @lazingonsunday @ryetheruler @turquoisehairedgirl @spreadthecurse @sunshinesinhereyes

[pixiescriptures]

Found Family ;

Chapter 3 ;

Illuminated By The Light on My Laptop

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A/N: this chapter will have multiple group chats, each group chat name will be in blue and italicized. Here are the group chat names and the member's in each chat, along with their username.

Also, there are mentions of age regression. IT IS STRICTLY SFW!!

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Felix, Han and Co.

Felix - felex

Jisung - JiJi

Chan - chris

Changbin - binnie

Jeongin - babie noises

Seungmin - killer babie noises

Minho - catboy

Hyunjin - hyunnie

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3Racha Sauce

Chan - CB97

Changbin - SpearB

Jisung - J.One

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Danceracha Shit

Felix - Pixie

Hyunjin - Prince

Minho - Cat

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JeongMin

Jeongin - Jeong

Seungmin - Min

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The Gayz

Felix - Lixie

Hyunjin - Jinnie

Minho - Meanie Hyung

Seungmin - Minnie

Jeongin - Innie

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3Racha Sauce

J.One: so, which song are we recording next, hyungs?

CB97: we're not sure. honestly, I'm thinking we should record Matryoshka.

SpearB: it's 3 in the morning you sick fucks shut up and go to sleep

CB97: sleep, who's she??

J.One: I have insomnia you little shit.

SpearB: go text Felix, then. I'm sure he's awake.

J.One: mmm... nah

CB97: still embarrassed about the 'head' thing, sungie?

J.One: don't mention it it's so embarrassing I'm gonna cry wtf

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The Gayz

Lixie: hey, @meanie hyung. when we were talking did you see those two guys who were totally eavesdropping??

Meanie Hyung: I believe so. One had blonde hair and the other was unbelievably gorgeous.

Lixie: uh. sure. I was just thinking. Chris hyung and Binnie hyung said they were nearby, what if that was them? Oh fuck. What if they heard the story about the crash and never talk to me again its alk mu failt

Meanie Hyung: pixie, breathe. I doubt it was them, first of all. Second of all, everyone makes mistakes. You both survived, a little worse for wear but physically Jeonginnie has no injuries. You two got super lucky and it's not your fault. It was an accident.

Jinnie: what's going on?

Jinnie: oh lix...do you want me to come over?

Lixie: mm... yes please. or just a video call, I don't mind

Jinnie: I'm on my way, baby, keep breathing okay? Minho, keep an eye on him till I get there, okay??

Meanie Hyung: if pixie weren't on the edge of a breakdown I'd be sassy but I'm too worried about my bubby so yeah. I'll watch him. How long till you get there??

Jinnie: well, I'm on the other side of Seoul so like...an hour??

Meanie Hyung: I'll video call him.

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The sound of Felix's ringtone broke him out of his self-deprecating thoughts, his hands shaking as he looked at the screen.

Minho Hyung, he read, sliding his finger onto the accept bar.

"Pixie?" Minho's voice came through the speaker loud and clear, soon joined by his face. He was obviously tired, but he had just gotten home from work and was working on feeding his cats again. "Hi hyung...how are...Soonie, Doongi 'nd Dori?" Felix asked, cooing when he saw Soonie rub up against Minho's arm. "Doongi's passed out on the couch. Dori's...somewhere, and Soonie is apparently hungry," the male laughed, gently petting his cat.

"Hyungie," the Australian said, causing Minho to smile brightly at the screen. Minho could tell the other was regressing and knew Hyunjin needed to get there quick. "Yes baby?" He asked, moving to sit on his bed. Felix let out a little whine, "am sleepy but I can't sleep. hyungie, I want cuddles," he said, letting out a soft whimper. "Hyunjinnie is on his way, baby, can you wait for him?" Felix nodded quickly, getting up and grabbing a pastel pink blanket and a pure white teddy bear. Minho cooed at the sight, finding his best friend to be the cutest thing on the planet. "Do you remember the day you met hyungie?" He asked, wanting to sidetrack the male. Felix shrugged a bit, "fuzzy," he mumbled. "Want hyungie to tell you the story??" Felix nodded quickly, eyes sparkling. "Okay," he said, "listen closely baby."

Minho walked around the empty hallways of the high school, a slight limp with each step. He could barely hear the sound of someone sniffling, which didn't concern him at first until he heard the tell-tale sound of sobs. "Shit," he grumbled, cursing himself for being somewhat worried about the person crying. He hated how his body reacted, turning towards the noise and rushing - as much as he could while his ankle was sprained - to the sound.

What he saw when he opened the door to the boys' bathroom broke his heart. A small, fragile-looking boy was sat, curled up under one of the sinks which was attached to the wall. His face was pale, limbs trembling as he sobbed. When he saw Minho, he quit crying as much as he could, mustering up the courage to mumble out a 'sorry,' before standing up and turning to the sink. Minho sighed, "are you new?" He knew full well about the "hazing ritual" that the popular kids did. It mostly consisted of stealing your lunch for the first few weeks, using you as a punching bag and forcing you to do their assignments, all in the name of getting used to life at Levanter High.

"Yeah," he whispered. "I moved here from Australia a week ago. Started school today," he hummed. Minho winced at his broken Korean, nodding his head. "Stick by me, kiddo. I'll keep 'em away from you," he didn't know why but he felt the need to protect the Australian boy. Maybe it was the innocence he could see in the smaller's eyes, tucked away behind all of the pain and sadness that their peers caused. Maybe it was because the boy looked like he weighed twenty pounds and hadn't eaten for a month, though Minho was almost certain he had because he felt like not eating for a month would be a struggle, and he wasn't certain you wouldn't die from that.

Felix looked at him with wide eyes, "really?" The hopeful look soon died down as he hummed out, "why? what's in it for you?" This caused Minho to scoff, "I've always wanted to get back at my brother for bullying the new kids," he said. Felix's eyes widened in shock, "your brother is Lee Jinhyung??" He asked, furrowing his brows. "Now that you told me that, I don't trust you. However, I do need to find a way to actually get lunch cause I'm kind of on my own in Korea which means I barely have money for food so..."

Minho sighed, "what class do you have now?" He asked, gently hooking his arm into the other's. "Uh...ew. This year is Algebra II." "Ah! That's where I'm headed, kiddo. Oh! I'm Minho, by the way. I got held back a year for punching someone," he laughed it off like it was no big deal but Felix couldn't stop himself from looking up at him in admiration. "I'm Felix. Lee Felix, the transfer student from Australia who got emancipated at the ripe age of sixteen," he said, most of his words in English, but Minho thought that was something good so he smiled at Felix.

With a hum, the two set off to find the Algebra classroom, not knowing that their friendship would be the start of something that would, ultimately, change their lives for the better.

When Minho finished telling the story, he looked up at Felix who had his eyes trained on the door. "Is someone knocking, baby?" Felix nodded, scared. "Go see if it's Jinnie, okay? But take the phone with you." Felix got up and walked to the door, quietly mumbling out a 'Jinnie?'

"Hey Lixie, can you open up for Hyung?" Hyunjin's voice rang through the door, loud and clear. Felix's lips curled into a smile and he unlocked the door, opening it quickly. "Hyungie! Cuddles!" He shouted, happily.

[ficsrus]

fic recs: bts

this one’s a bit lengthy folks. have fun reading. make sure to give kudos and comments and lots of love to the authors!

namjin—

*prudence in the face of adversity: rated E, 7k

“But we’re not a girl group, hyung, there’s like…” Namjoon waves his hands in the air as he explains, “identity issues and gender issues and how are we supposed to dance with b—our bodies in this condition,” he finishes weakly. “And we can’t do publicity like this, or rehearse, and I don’t want to call the president and Seokjin-hyung is bleeding and I don’t know how to pick these things out from the store so could Hobi and I please just take a bit of money to the store to get things for Jin-hyung because he’s crying…”

[In which the entirety of Bangtan wakes up as women, and Namjoon is confused and put-upon.]

ch4otick gayz: rated T, 17k [includes vhopemin & yoonkook]

[EM0 CRAKHED]

jeon can't kook: jfc,,

jeon can't kook: sorry guys i took care of it,

jeon can't kook: i gave him like 3 tablets of Benadryl he's out

hobi-wan kenobi: kook, you're supposed to only take 1

jeon can't kook: ......

jeon can't kook: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ guess he'll die.

yoonmin—

hands down: rated T, 43k

Hoseok wouldn’t stop talking about him. It was Jimin this, Jimin that, Jimin was so cute, Jimin was so talented, Jimin danced so well and he was so nice- Yoongi had to control the impulse to roll his eyes the minute his name came out of Hoseok’s mouth.

So, yeah, maybe Yoongi was already predisposed towards disliking Park Jimin for some very valid reasons but this? This took the fucking cake.

the songbird and the sea: rated M, 256k [minor taekook and namjin]

In a world where dominance of the sea is an endless battle between pirates and mariners, Park Jimin is content living in his little village on a small, uninteresting island by the eastern mainland. He wants nothing to do with the bloodshed of good and evil, the heartless killing of both innocents and condemned, the constant establishment and disruption of order. What he wants is peace, to live his life in the same town he was born in, to spend his days in the beautiful forest, and to use the powers of his Blessed Rune to nurture the home he loves so dearly.

But when his island is attacked by pirates, Jimin will have no other choice than to do as they command and leave all thoughts of peace behind in favor of boarding the Agust, a pirate ship captained by the infamous Min Yoongi, Black Fox of the East.

*flashflood: rated E, 15k

A handjob a week is not much for Jimin to live off of.

Jimin thinks it’s sort of like the equivalent of feeding someone nothing but peas for all three meals of the day: sure, peas are all well and good, but eating peas and only peas for any extended period of time is going to result in some serious vitamin deficiencies. And probably some other bad stuff, although Jimin doesn’t actually know all that much about it.

composure: rated E, 131k

Everyone has secrets.

Everything in Jimin's life changed the day he presented as an Omega. It's as though the world were grabbed out from under him, launching him into a special hell not meant for someone with as much fire and potential as him.

This is why when Jimin is given the opportunity to stop being an Omega, he takes it.

What Jimin hadn't anticipated, is meeting his roommate, Yoongi, or realizing his entire cover will be blown if he can't stop going so crazy over that cinnamon and mint scent he has.

Too bad that is the least of his worries...

*(This is a story containing serious and dark themes with disturbing elements which become more prevelant as the story progresses.)

jikook—

*On Patrol: rated M, 130k [includes yoonseok & namjin; read the sequel here]

Officer Jeon has his eyes on Mr. Adorable.

Officer Min has a strange neighbor he can't seem to keep out of his life.

Captain Kim finds comfort in his son's homeroom teacher.

Well, cops need some loving too, right?

under the mistletoe (with you): rated G, 5k

Jimin and Jungkook try to get Yoongi and Hoseok together during the holidays but it doesn't really go as planned.

The White Wolf’s Shadow: rated T, 41k [includes yoonseok, namjin, & taekook]

Jeongguk, a powerful Alpha in line for his father’s throne, needs a mate to wear the crown. When Jimin, an alluring Omega and foreign Prince, comes to re-cement their alliance everything seems to fall into place… against their wishes. Jeongguk, forced to decide what's more important, his own happiness or his people; and Jimin whose carrying deadly secrets that place the fate of everyone on his shoulders, are forced to come together. With enemies on all sides will they be able to overcome their struggles and do what has to be done?

Or

Jeongguk and Jimin’s wolves have liked each other from the start, but when they are forced into an arranged marriage both parties are unhappy about it for various reasons. Neither wants to admit it, but both find themselves falling for the other as time goes on.

yoonjin—

heists and hearts: rated T, 95k [minor jihope and vmon]

"Give me a number,” Yoongi says when Namjoon finally turns around in his computer chair. Namjoon looks at him and sighs.

"One."

It's not the first time he's stumped with one plan. Namjoon looks at Yoongi, eyes trained on him like a hawk. “One?” Yoongi asks, voice low. “One,” Namjoon repeats, “and you’re not going to like it.”

There’s a hint of curiosity in Yoongi’s eyes and a question attempts to come out from his lips. But instead, Namjoon hears the order from his partner.

“Call them in.”

a little water clears us of this deed: rated T, 4k

All Yoongi wanted was to read Macbeth and pass his Literature class in peace, not catch the attention of Kim Seokjin.

*best served cold: rated E, 16k

[They say when you / embark on a journey / of revenge, dig two graves. They underestimate me. (mr state trooper. please don’t stop me. please don’t stop me.)]

After Yoongi's parents get killed by the mob, Yoongi sets out to avenge them. No matter what it takes.

he’ll come back for the honey and you: rated E, 18k

“Cooking is attractive. Like playing guitar, it demonstrates your prowess with your hands, your sophisticated knowledge of an art form... But it goes deeper than that. Cooking is a shared experience, a way to express yourself to someone you care about.”

Or: Seokjin is no stranger to a little sugar. However, Yoongi is the sweetest thing he’s come across in a long time, and there's no recipe telling him exactly what he should do next.

a ballad for you: rated T, 3k

tumblr prompt from anon: "Hi, do you take requests that aren't smut? I'd like to see YoonJin where Jin mistakes Yoongi for his blind date."

[At this point, Seokjin only has one thing to say about his date; he needs to show the hell up.]

everything i need: rated M, 12k

“Sorry I’m late, babe. Traffic was awful,” the man is saying. He flashes a bright, gummy smile at Seokjin and nods apologetically at the waitress. “I’m sorry. Can we have five more minutes to look at the menu?”

He waits until she is gone before he leans across the table and says in a low voice. “I’m Yoongi. Just play along okay? Whoever didn’t bother to show up is a dick.”

Or, the one where Seokjin is a single dad. His son is in love with the music their first floor neighbour plays on the piano, and the last thing Seokjin expects is to fall for the man behind the music.

déjà-brew : rated T, 7k

according to his employees, seokjin has a crush on the cute guy that comes around and orders an americano every single day. what they don’t know, and what seokjin hasn’t told them yet, is that they’re actually married. (he has his reasons, okay?)

yoonseok—

same damn hunger: rated E, 40k

When it comes to fucking around with his best friend, Yoongi follows two rules:

1. They must be inebriated.

2. They must not kiss.

the daily grind: rated E, 8k

hoesock87: I refuse to believe that u didn’t just google “cute asian twink” to get that selfie

yoongay: i am a cute asian twink. r u tryna fuck me or no

(or: yoonseok meet on grindr)

and one musn’t tell lies: rated M, 46k

Yoongi wants to fly so bad he's ready to break the rules for that. Jung Hoseok is the worst collateral damage possible. (Stop lying).

*days to weeks to months: rated M, 10k

Yoongi’s just trying to date the possible love of his life, Jung Hoseok. But the package deal includes five asshole friends and a theoretically infinite number of disasters.

Basically: a series of moments where Yoongi wonders why his friends and also god hate him.

see, i’ve got plans (to get to you): rated T, 11k

Yoongi and Hoseok have a game plan.

(Or: The one where Yoongi takes three tries to propose to Hoseok.)

single pringle: rated T, 7k [includes jikook and namjin]

Where Yoongi owns a restaurant that is a date hot-spot and he is single and salty at all the couples streaming into his restaurant on a daily basis. Not only that, but somewhere along the way he's gotten himself a couple of gay regulars who won't go away. And maybe someone who makes him a little less salty at the end too.

**halcyon: rated M, 27k [includes minjoon]

The only explanation for how two demons have found themselves on Earth is a simple one: Jung Hoseok loves to gamble and Min Yoongi can't resist a good game.

junghope—

blue flame special: rated E, 106k [minor vmin]

hoseok just got dumped and now a clearly under aged bartender is refusing to serve him a much needed round of shots.

("can you do this teenage angst thing some other time? my ex just walked in with his new boyfriend and i could really use some liquid cowardice."

the kid narrows his eyes in the direction hoseok had nodded toward. "seokjin hyung's your ex?")

hoseok nods. "you know him?"

"yeah," jeongguk glares at hoseok and begins stepping away, definitely refusing to serve him any drink at all. "he dumped me for you.")

yoonjihope [?? essentially yoongi/hoseok/jimin]—

**good things always belonged to everyone: rated E, 9k

Yoongi is trying to accept his part as the beta in a polyamorous relationship with an alpha and an omega. Little by little he notices just how unfitting that role is.

yoonkook—

soft melodies and softer touches: rated E, 11k

[22:39; I see the way you look at me, hyung.]

Yoongi's world stands still, and in that moment, he wants nothing more than to wring Jimin's neck. It's Jeongguk, it has to be Jeongguk, who else would it be? Yoongi knows many dancers--unfortunately Jimin's one of them--but there's only one that he's on close terms with, and whose number he doesn't have.

Jeongguk. It's Jeongguk. It's fucking Jeongguk.

(OR: Jeongguk's a contemporary dancer, and Yoongi is his academy's pianist).

take me out (the date way or the assassination way): rated T, 7k

jin [8:01] theres a mysterious hot guy on campus that yoongi keeps running into like a damn romantic drama but every time they meet he ends up nearly killing yoongi

tae [8:01] kinky

with a bang (stunted plants can bloom): rated M, 24k

what not to do when you find yourself falling for the guy you almost slept with but then didn’t because he turned out to be your friends’ roommate: a guide by min yoongi

flower boys: not rated, 3k

“it was pretty,” namjoon protests, trying to defend himself. “and it was a gift from a fan. wouldn’t she have been troubled to have to take it home?”

“and you brought it back to let it die?” yoongi interjects, dry as sand. he rises to his feet, dusting off his jeans. “you gonna take care of it, namjoonie?”

“how hard can it be,” namjoon says, but he sounds hesitant, like he knows his own annihilatory powers will trump his determination. “it’s a small plant. it needs water, sunlight, and air. we can provide all of those. piece of cake.”

(yoongi and jungkook take care of a plant together.)

i know i’ll fall in love with you, baby: rated T, 31k

The soulmate/soulbond au where Yoongi is part of a famous rap duo and Jungkook is his diligent fanboy, they meet at a fansign and things escalate from there

(alt. Yoongi didn’t sign up for this)

i blow up buildings (but i’d blow you): rated T, 8k

“Yoongi,” says Namjoon, his tone allowing no argument. He holds the boy an arms length in front of him and smiles painfully. “Meet Jeongguk. He’s your new bodyguard.”

Yoongi sputters and decides to argue anyway, because fuck no. “I said I don’t need a bodyguard, Namjoon.”

(Or, the AU where Yoongi has been receiving death threats from an enemy organisation known as Skeletal, and Jeon Jeongguk is the lucky bastard brought in to be his bodyguard. Yoongi tries to hate him. He really does.)

all the light we cannot see: rated T, 64k

“i’m not your servant!”

“you are on my ship now, and anyone on my ship does what i say,” snaps yoongi, and when he takes a step closer to jeongguk, jeongguk realizes that he’s actually taller than yoongi. strangely, he hadn’t noticed it before, because yoongi doesn’t seem like a small man. especially now, with that fiery look on his face, he seems larger than life—but jeongguk refuses to back down. it’s a bad idea to argue, he knows, but jeongguk has never been very good at stopping himself from doing something he’ll regret.

(or: when jeongguk finally gets his chance to sail the cosmos, it’s onboard the ship of an aggravating man named min yoongi. he thinks it’ll be extraordinarily dull—but the universe, and the legend of treasure planet, have other plans.)

gusto d’italia: rated E, 64k

Jungkook turned towards the kitchen - and walked straight into the icy glare of Min Yoongi.

“Are you always this late?”

Jungkook tried to bite his tongue. “I was talking to – ”

“I don’t care who you were talking to,” Yoongi snapped. He had both arms crossed firmly over his chest as he continued to berate Jungkook in front of the rest of the staff. “How am I supposed to trust you to get my food out on time if you can’t follow a simple direction that I gave less than five minutes ago?”

Jungkook stared at his feet. “It won’t happen again, chef.”

“Better fucking not.”

-----

[Jungkook always dreamed of becoming a chef in the future. When Yoongi, a culinary genius with unusual social skills, shows up in the kitchen of Gusto d'Italia, Jungkook becomes awestruck.]

taegi—

the less i know the better: rated E, 41k

Yoongi shifts uncomfortably in his seat, avoiding making eye contact.

"I might’ve… invented a boyfriend," he finally mumbles to the glass in front of him

i want to believe: rated G, k

Taehyung starts an astronomy club.

my heart flutters from the sugar high: rated M, 6k

Yoongi and Taehyung sneak around together, cheating on their diets. The group? They've drawn different conclusions.

over the winter lake: rated E, 9k

There’s a small alcove along the outskirts of Daegu, not too deep in the woods, that lead to a lake of still waters and peaceful surroundings. Yoongi isn’t entirely fond of it—the body of water itself being named Death Lake by locals who’ve lived there long enough to tell the tales of the disturbing amount of murders, suicides, and disappearances that are linked with it.

Yoongi sees something in the water. Something inhuman.

abracadon’t: rated M, 7k

"i don't understand why you hate taehyung," hoseok always asks.

yoongi doesn't really understand either. but he's just so...hate-able.

or, taehyung never learned that annoying the fuck out of someone isn't actually a healthy way to show you like them.

namgi—

you could give it all (but it’s never enough): rated E, 46k

yoongi imprints with an alpha he's an alpha too

again again again: rated T, 8k

Yoongi takes a deep breath. Runs through the facts. 1. Namjoon is really fuckin drunk. 2. They made that dumbass pact well over ten years ago when they were both sad and weird and lonely. 3. His heart definitely did not seize up a little bit at the thought of marrying his best friend. It just didn’t.

vmin—

it’s not about reciprocation (it’s just all about me): rated E, 34k

“Taehyung and Jimin broke up.”

“It’s bullshit—”

“We were all rooting for them.”

“It’s complete bullshit—”

“Everyone actually thought they had a chance, you know?”

(Alternatively: Taehyung’s a problematic idiot who fell in love with the right person at the wrong time.)

jinkook—

*knowingly, i drank from the poisoned chalice: rated m, 22k

In captivity, Seokjin learns that you cannot have both love and life without sacrificing something important.

namgikook (namjoon/yoongi/jungkook)—

*the kinky encounter at the auto-erotic asphyxiation house: rated E, 6k

"The last owner of this house died too.”

“How?”

Jeongguk looks over his shoulder at them, his front teeth poking into his bottom lip as his nose scrunches and the corners of his eyes crinkle in a delighted grin. “Auto-erotic asphyxiation! Honestly, what a way to fucking go. Do you think he came before he died?”

“Christ, Jeongguk.”

Namjoon drops his head into his hands, letting out a long-suffering sigh as Jeongguk elbows him playfully.

“It’s a valid question!” Jeongguk snickers as both Namjoon and Yoongi give him a painfully withered look. “We can only hope his last moment was a pleasurable one.”

taekook—

**fading brilliance, fire on silk: rated E, 26k

Jungkook spent his life studying angels and demons, but none of his imaginary portrayals of them can even come close to Taehyung’s mystical, almost poetic beauty: sun-kissed skin and full lips, lashes so long that Jungkook feels the brush of it on his skin when Taehyung leans in to dip his tongue in the hollow of his throat.

Jungkook wonders if he’s already too far gone. The guilt doesn’t eat him up anymore, the shame only serving to heighten his arousal instead of extinguish it. Jungkook has no hope of salvation now, and he doesn’t even care, not when damnation tastes this fucking good.