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milkwaydreams · 7 months ago

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GMMTV 2025 LINE UP

I've took my time cause I wasn't feeling well and during this time, I've seem the reactions from a lot of people about the series so I want to talk about some things I saw and also my personal thoughts on the series.

(I will not talk about "I Love a Lot of You" nor "MU-TE-LUV" cause I don't have anything to say about them🥺)

Girls Rules;

My first thought on this was "Will this be a GL version of Only Friends?!" and OMG, I'M SO IN FOR IT😍 I really want to see them all working together, I LOVE MilkLove and NamtanFilm, THEY ARE SO F PRETTY, I need to see how it will look having the 4 of them together. And VIEW WILL BE IN THIS TOO?! Sad that June won't be together with her anymore but I'm glad that she will be here. I didn't know I needed to see Milk and Namtan bickering until I see them bickering and I'm so sat for that dynamic, my poor confused sexuality is about to get even more confused thanks to them😃🤣 Patiently waiting for this🤭

Whale Store xoxo;

And as a contrast of the more serious and "darker" atmosphere of GR, we will get MilkLove in a sweet story too😭 I'm so glad for them, they are so sweet and seems to have got really close to each other, it makes me happy. I'm also happy that people loves them as much as I do, glad that they opened the door of GLs in GMMTV and we keep on winning😍

Boys In Love;

Oh, how I LOVE a silly/innocent school romance😭 It will be good have more new faces too and this seems to be a easy to watch plot. I was shocked to see Chokun here for some reason, I just didn't expect to see him but I'm glad, it looks cute🤭 Let's see how the new babies will do, I'll probably watch this too mainly cause it looks cute🥰

Head 2 Head;

I WAS GIGGLING IN THE TEASER??!! Enemies to Lovers trope gets me a bit TOO EASY for my taste... My first thought was that this one looks like "Bad Buddy" and then, with the vision that Sea has, it looked like "I Saw You In My Dream" (And Surf being in this too is funny to me🤣), so I'm in for it. Even if the plot looks similar to those, I want to see how their chemistry will work. Plus, this is a kind of story I could rewatch in many different fonts and never get tired of so it's worth it🤭 I did not watched "Only Boo!" so I'm not familiar with SeaKeen, but I might watch it to get ready for this one.

Me and Thee;

This one... It's not really my thing. And I feel sad about it cause I love PondPhuwin but none of their series gets me. I mean, I loved We Are that may be the exception but even then, they were not my favorite couple of the series. I think they are amazing and that they are doing a really good job, I guess it's just the plot given to them that never gets me, unfortunately. But I see that it's the most watched teaser from this 2025 line up till now so I'm glad people like and support them.

My Romance Scammer;

This seems like it's gonna be funny, but I'm not sure what to say yet. I'm glad that Ohm is back and I find it actually hilarious that he is paired with another Fluke, loved it 🤣. MarkJunior, I like them, I really do. But they still feel weird with each other I guess. Junior outstand himself in acting for me, he feels/looks more confident in what he is doing while Mark looks a bit lost still. And yet, they are the ones I'm waiting the most in Perfect 10 Liners so maybe, after that, my perception for this series will change.

Melody of Secrets;

I. Have. No. Idea. Of what's going on here🙃 I've watched the teaser A LOT trying to make some sense to it but I failed. Maybe I'm just too slow🤣 I'm always a big fan of mystery, police, suspense kind of drama so let's see if it gets me when it's more developed. I feel they have something cooking there but still need to add the ingredients so I'd rather wait more for a better conclusion in this one. I've watched all ForceBook series and it's another PondPhuwin case for me. I LOVE THEM, the chokehold Force has on me, you have no idea, so I keep watching their series in hopes of really feel some. I think my exception for them is A Boss and a Babe cause I remember that I expected NOTHING from the series and it really entertained me. But, I barely remember the plot itself so my mind is playing tricks on me😭

My Magic Prophecy;

New JimmySea😭😭😭😭😭 Every one is scared that this one will look too much like Last Twilight but I don't think so. The story is still a little loose so I prefer to wait a bit more for a conclusion but one thing is for sure: I'M SO GLAD THEY ARE MAKING MORE FANTASY BL. It's something I always missed like, were are the supernatural stories?! Magic spells?! Super powers?! There are so little and very few that exists gets to the spotlight. Maybe with this they will begin to do more (It seems Golden Blood is filmed now too so one more fantasy to be added here🤭). I'm looking forward to this one too. I know JimmySea will make a good job so let's wait.

A Dog and a Plane;

It seems this one will be funny as well🤣 I was not expecting TawanNew series this year (I think most people wasn't) but it made me SO GLAD. This has the potential to become my goofy comfort through the dark times and I'm in for it. They are both really good actors so I know they will be good on this one too. I'm just confused about Tawan's job on this, but it may be my slow mind once again🤣 Either way, I'll definitely watch this too.

Love You Teacher;

I don't understand why people are saying this plot is cursed... I get the worrying but, it's not like Perth is gonna be falling in love with a child🙃 It's an accident that causes his ALREADY LOVED ONE to have a mental side effect. I'm really interested in this cause I want to see how Perth's character will deal with Santa's condition. It's gonna be challenging and I love that he is not quitting on his loved person. So, I don't think this one is "cursed" at all, sowy🙃 I love Santa's acting, he is so freaking cute, I think he will make a really good job on this project, though I hope they give him a more serious role in the future too. And I've always knew Perth was a good actor so I don't expect nothing less from him🤭

Cat For Cash;

I saw people not liking Cat For Cash cause it's... Soft??????? 🙃 People were mad when The Heart Killers was announced, saying that FirstKhao were forced into that kind of role. And now, they are also mad cause FirstKhao will make a soft comfort series?! 😃 We that follows First and Khao a little know quite well that they only accept roles they really want to do so I'm never worried about this when it comes to them. Anyway, this seems to be made for me cause I'm OBSESSED with First and also OBSESSED with cats and THEY MADE FIRST TALK TO CATS??? I ALREADY LOVE IT 🤭🤣 This seems a simple plot and I'm up for it. I don't need a big, detailed and strong plot for a good series. If it makes me smile and comforts me, I'm glad. I know my babies will be amazing as usual and it will be SO CUTE, can't wait for it 😍

Burnout Syndrome;

... This is going to be so toxic🤣 I'm feeling "True Beauty" vibes, where they will make me fall in love with the second lead but the main character will end up with the toxic one even if the other likes them more🤣 I love OffGun, they work together for so long that they know exactly which strings to pull on each other to make us go insane and I love to watch them do that. Dew in a BL was not on my bingo card, ngl, but I'm okay with it if he is okay too. He is amazing and sweet so glad that I'll have him on my zone🤭 I don't think I'll watch this one weekly though, since I know Off's character will be toxic as hell, I'll need to binge watch everything or I may lose interest🙃 Ofc, this may change when it releases, so we will see in the future. But, the fact that the original author is involved in the production and that she made the nude drawings of Off herself, WOW, AMAZING😍

That Summer;

This one made me glad to FINALLY have a WinnySatang series as main roles😍 Don't know how I feel about the story yet, it's fine, not too complicated so it's safe I think. I just need Winny to get more comfortable with the cameras I guess. Just like Mark with Junior, for me, Satang is still out acting Winny. But I like the Golden Retriever and Black Cat energy of them so I'm curious and will definitely watch this. Also excited to see Mond on this one. Me and my second couple obsession will probably dive deep into them 🤣

Only Friends: Dream On;

This was a shock for me. I was NOT expecting another Only Friends AND WITH THIS CAST?????!!!! HOLY F*CK😃 I will once again watch it not expecting too much and let it surprise me, but I'm excited to see JossGawin together, Gawin looks and sounds so sweet on the teaser, the poor baby, I want to see how it goes. Also EarthMix being in this when Mix made a cameo on the last scene for the first season, OMG, was this planned all along?! I have so many questions 🤣 Curious to see if this season will make me wanna punch every single character again🤣 AND WHY IS BOSTON THERE??? FROM ALL CHARACTERS, BOSTON IS THE ONE TO BE BACK?! 😃🤣

Dare You to Death;

OH, TO SEE DUNK GETTING BETTER IN ACTING, I'M SO PROUD😍 Watching Star In My Mind and Hidden Agenda, I felt that he was the same character on both series🥺 It wasn't bad just not my favorite. In The Heart Killers, he got A LOT better and Style's craziness, he is portraying it perfectly. Now in Dare You To Death he will take a more serious character role and I'm so excited to watch how he will do on it, I think he came a long way and can do it amazingly. Same with Joong, though I've felt the difference in his characters, he is outstanding in THK too (he was born to play Fadel for real) and I'm so in it for him in a goofy policeman role🤭 I'm glad they got this opportunity and the story itself also got me, reminds me of a manga I've read years ago called "Osama Game" (I think that's the name) so I'm curious to see how it goes 🤭

Memoir of Rati;

YES, A 20 CENTURY BL😍 I've always wanted to watch something like this so it made me curious. It looks visually beautiful so I know that the filter and scenes for it will be stunning. We don't have much from the plot yet but I'm excited already. Saw people saying they didn't like Wandee Goodday and that GreatInn wasn't good on that and it made me sad. It's not the best series for me neither but it's entertaining and to say GreatInn wasn't good was too much. I loved them there, they had a good chemistry, they seem to have enjoyed and were comfortable working together so it's perfect. I met Great in Manner of Death and he was all serious in my eyes, watching him in Wandee being a cute pout baby made me giggle so much, I loved it🤭 And as a plus from GreatInn, we'll also get AouBoom😍 Can't say I'm 100% glad cause I was really hoping for a Main role to them and it didn't happen yet, but I'm glad they got to be on this one it made me twice more excited for the series, I love them so much and I know they will be great in this too❤️

WU;

I'M SO GLAD AND EXCITED FOR THIS ONE!!! I'll yap about Highschool Frenemy in another post but, after that, I KNEW they needed to add more series with SkyNani and I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. A FANTASY DRAMA?! FOR A FANTASY SUCKER GIRL LIKE ME?! PERFECTION!!! "Oh, but it's not gonna be a BL", I honestly don't care cause I'm sat. There will be action, fantasy, maybe some magic spells or something like that, pretty boys and bounding, I'm so in for this one. I LOVE SkyNani chemistry, they really clicked well together and seems comfortable around each other, all the interactions of them and that they seem okay with people shipping them, it's so cute. I completely fell for Sky's smile and Nani's eyes, down that hole I went so I'm really excited for WU, though it's gonna take forever to release😭

Ticket to Heaven;

*Cries*. That's me watching this teaser and for so many reasons. First, this is the one I'm excited THE MOST from this line up. I'm so happy that GeminiFourth got the serious roles they've been asking for a while and I'm SO PROUD😭 Since My School President (that is one of my favorite comfort BLs, btw), I've noticed how good of an actor Fourth is and watching them grow so much in 2 or 3 years is so good. I love the person that Fourth is too, he seems respectful and caring and suffered hate for the most stupid things I felt so sorry for him but I'm glad he got support. Now about the series, my literal reaction watching the teaser: 😮. Since the very beginning, I was surprised and sat for it. Then seeing it was a FourthGemini story got me even more curious. I feel I'm going to cry and get angry so much watching this series. As a person that do not follow any religion, I've grew up questioning every religion that came my way to the point I blamed myself for not being able to have a religion until I realized I didn't need to have one, only knowing myself is enough, and I always loved reading about all of them, why they do something, why they don't and loved watching shows that also talks about this questioning. Ticket to Heaven not only will talk about the church homophobia and faith but it will also be settled in the 90s, I just know my babies will suffer the hell on that series. The discovering himself Fourth will go through and that making him question everything he knows. Also curious to know what happened on Gemini's past to lead him there. There are just so many lil things to uncover and how much they will have to fight for their love, for themselves, it looks like a really good script so I'm waiting (im)patiently for this one, please😍

This line up is perfect to me cause we have various different genres and that's a good change, plus more GLs too. I'm looking forward to what the next BL years will bring to us 🥰

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thelovelybitten · 2 years ago

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more loonatics headcanons / shenanigans...

i've been on such a binge watch of lu that I just need to post abt it okay leave me alone

BUT I'VE NOTICED THINGS !!! (this is s2 ep4) !! you kind of get an insight of what they all like to do and things they enjoy with these bedroom stills.

ACE:

obviously: likes carrots, cute lil bunny.

HIS LIL DOORMAT DJSNGJSDNJK

i couldn't zoom in enough to see what's on his monitor but you know he likes to watch shows before bed. relatable content.

the fact he's got two side tables as well gives me eating in his bed vibes but also he'd be clean abt it. i also think he'd be a big comic book reader. not sure what, but he would be. I'll let y'all decide.

speaking on that, there's a shelf with books on the far right so yeah. i think he'd also read manga bc of his anime complex. he may also keep some sort of CDs ? maybe vinyls ???

i know this man keeps katanas and a dartboard in his room.

he's a snowboarder !!!! THAT'S SO COOL. he must be a god bc this man is AGILE.

he's got a skyline view PHEWWWWW rich ass mf

also. an aquarium on his right (our left) which is so fun I wonder what kinds of marine life they'd keep!!!

I'm also not sure what the compartment behind his head is for but I think its a closed-off bookshelf or space for his knick-knacks. i also see a fireplace too but idk how logical that is lol

LEXI:

NOW WHY SHE SLEEPING IN A HAMMOCK WHEN THE GIRLIE COULD HAVE A QUEEN SIZED BED ??? she's quirky like that ig. whatever makes her comfy. (I know she'd upgrade, I just know. just bc she can sleep anywhere doesn't mean she's always comfortable.)

a phone/pager by her bed is so real

THE WALLPAPER IS BEACHY IT'S SO CUTE

she's a SKIIER AND A SURFER. WHAT CAN'T SHE DO. (seasickness who)

cabinet obvi for storage, idk why she'd have anything important in there besides old childhood items it's so high up???

lower shelves are for books and things maybe. or video games.

AND DO YOU SEE THE AQUARIUM ??? THIS CONFIRMS THAT LEXI AND ACE HAVE NEIGHBOURING BEDROOMS AND NO ONE CAN CHANGE MY MIND. there has to be some type of barrier/wall between the two tanks for privacy reasons but I'M DEAD GNFDGNDJKFNJDFNKHK MY BABIES

opposing skyline views so iconic... i know she takes mad insta pictures (or duck takes them) to get good sunset shots

i believe the items on the table are her laptop, a makeup bag andddd maybe a clutch purse? just a guess bc they're so tiny.

laptop makes sense. it'd be hard but she could still try to get an education on the side??? lots of work for a girl but she's a boss like that.

makeup for obvious reasons

clutch purse for nights out

SLAM:

THE WAY I'D BE SO SCARED FOR THAT WEIGHT TO DROP ON MY HEAD. SLAM IS A TROOPER WTF

I remember sumth abt that cylinder thingy on the left but I can't remember what it's for yet. will update when the ep comes.

MANS IS AN INTELLECTUAL !! those are all comic books (like ace, they bond) and language workbooks.

the poster of pizza is SO REAL OF HIM

there's a teeny tiny chute beside his door and I wonder what it's for. maybe it's a scanner? idk

light above his head is also...a choice.

i'd like to think that the things at the end of his bed are air purifiers and that slam has some sort of breathing issue when he goes to sleep. maybe he grinds his jaw or is a mouth breather;;;

computer for gaming tings and other endeavours

A WHOLE ASS TREADMILL YEAH BUDDY U STAY IN SHAPE.

i know this man doesn't have a WHOLE ASS DRUMSTICK IN HIS BED. but makes sense. he totally eats in bed BUT IS MESSY ABT IT. duck and lexi HATE IT IT'S NASTY HAHAH they ask him to switch his sheets and vacuum almost everyday

DUCK:

THIS MAN IS SO CONCEITED I CAN'T Y'ALL.

but like ace, he also has a tv by his bed I know he and lexi would watch romcoms together

K-DRAMAS???? SPECIFICALLY SINGLES INFERNO (only bc s3 just came out, it's on the brain) duck just boasts abt how he's better looking than all of the other males while lexi is very much about the relationships/drama

his little peek-a-boo window behind his head is so cute :"))))

I have no god damn clue what that thing is beside him on the left but I'm sure it's important

but he wears headphones to sleep !!! must need white noise or rain to sleep

control panel for his lights and other digitally controlled shit in his room

THIS MAN HAS SO MANY MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT HIMSELF AND THE LOONATICS (but only bc he is in them, thank yew) I also think he'd carry a lot of fashion magazines too. things that are in. the second a fad ends he's done w it

I'm assuming this is an arcade game setup, but i think he'd love Mario kart :) him and tech love to battle on this but move it to the main room bc duck thinks tech is cheating bc "the screen is two small".

i know this man would sleep with mf silk sheets and a fleece comforter he's a bougie bitch

computer for obvious reasons

REV:

i had to include all four shots bc he is a sleepwalker/runner LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS ;U;

it looks like he sleeps in a casket-like bed (hence, the lid is open top centre) I believe he only has this open when he's awake so idk who forgot to close it. it needs to be closed so that when rev does actually get up and sleepwalks, he's contained. the last thing the loonatics want to wake up to is the house completely trashed bc rev had a dream he was running from something. so casket bed it was.

that's also why. he doesn't sleep with sheets. if he trips and falls oh lord. therefore he wears super warm pjs in the winter to not freeze to death

he's got a ton of books, rightfully so, I think he and tech would share this bookcase because it would have different manuals, blueprints and miscellaneous mechanical guides. robot guides. that too. i also think rev would be that person who re-reads his childhood books over and over again and not get sick of them ever

there is also a treadmill in this room I just know it

a tv as well. idk where, but I hc it's there.

TECH:

thanks for giving me nothing to work with here

I kind looked forward into the ep and there's a smidge of the bedroom in a frame but idk what the other shit could be

but I know his room is very clean. it's SPOTLESS. everything is organized and well put together.

I'm going to ignore the fact he suckles his thumb bc this man is 24 years old BYE

there's a whole bunch of ai robots in there to do anything he wants.

he is also the other loonatic who has their own bathroom. he only got it bc he won the straw draw. well, ace won technically, but gave it to tech bc he was the oldest and would keep it in the best shape. duck still hasn't forgiven him for it.

he shares it with lexi since she's the only lady in the house :) ain't no way she shares with the boys.

the others share the other bathroom. one more gets installed later but the other four are SOL

tech also has a nice walk-in closet

he needs to take melatonin b4 bed bc this man is noctournal

has drones scattered on shelves, ones he's built and ones he's collected from professors and other inventors

AAAAND THAT'S IT. THANKS FOR COMING TO ANOTHER TED TALK LOL I'MMA GO FINISH S2 XOXO

#faves: lu #loonatics unleashed #viv speaks #looney tunes #loonatics headcanons #nah i popped off #i love my kids to BITS IDC.#i have so many more hcs AAAAAA #my brain is a wormhole of knowledge #i hate hyperfixating on things but i love them at the same time lol #anywayyyys i'll be back most likely haha #xoxoxo

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sparkiekong · 1 year ago

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OC question of the day!

If you could make a character real, which of your OCs would be:

your bestie

your spouse/partner

your secret lover!

your friendly rival

your enemy!

BONUS: do this for other people’s OCs too!

Pass the game along (anonymously or not)

@igglemouse @108sims and @helenofsimblr - OK! I'll do it!! Fine. I had to think hard and it's still too difficult so here goes!

Bestie would be Eel - He's got so much to tell yet. I can't wait for you all to see all he's got to offer. He's chill, he's the guy you could count on when you think no one else would. He'd be there for you no matter what. Followed in closely by the two Nicks - Nick Gould (@helenofsimblr) and Nickie Catzenberg - You can bet your ass they'll back you up and if they think you're wrong they'll say so. Lyra, Bob and Cat are a good friends to bestie up with... Lyra's sensibilities, Bob's honor and strong sense of right, with Cat's kindness. Franny would be fun at a party as would Guy and Elita. Oh, John boy is so sweet. He's such a tender hearted fellow. I want him to succeed... Wilbur Laffer would be my buddy too. He's hilarious and fun.

I know it sound cliche, but I could be friends with anyone I've created or @helenofsimblr's characters. I basically see them all everyday in my head so they all really feel like they could just walk in the door and be like "Hey Kong how's it going."

No spouse no one can replace my boo... EVER. Sorry! - I actually have a sim of him in game with my simself. You may see them in background shots from time to time. Hubby heavily inspired RT Van Richten and he has a lot of inspiration on the lore and personalities of several prominent characters.

Secret Lover - Kyleigh from @helenofsimblr she's a sultry thing. On my side, Cat or Evie... heck, just book me for a night with all three of those lovely ladies. DC could pop in too. I like a girl that can mix a good drink.

friendly rival - Morrigan from mine and Kira from @helenofsimblr both have this feeling about them that they could be very friendly or very aggressive like there's no dimmer switch for it's either friendly or bitch mode and you can't tell when it's going to be which mood. It just doesn't mesh well with my very conflict adverse self. I much prefer chill people.

enemy - Probably Azura (Crazy AF) , Jure (pompous ass), and Yakob (CREEPY) they're horrible and crazy! Also no Moriarty fam... those guys... well... bad news always from those guys... and Cedric... from @helenofsimblr - he was such a horrid influence on Lyra in a moment of darkness after Bob was "dead". Not a fan of Soggy Sarah Sanders either. She's such a wet noodle. Isaac Danvers is on my shit list too! I was so glad to see DC punch him.

#kong rambles #thanks for the ask #text #nonsims #tag games

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nerves-nebula · 2 years ago

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god okay I really hope this isnt too fucked up, this is just a thing that i know of people experiencing and I can't stop projecting it so. just imagining Mikey knowing about all of the specifically sxual abuse his brothers suffered and he "just" got "Normal Abuse" and feeling some sort of way about it. like "what's so wrong with me that I'm not even wanted like that". vigorously shaking him because boy that is not a thing you want to be! idk if this makes any sort of sense. just like "why am I the only one that never got that specific type of abuse". and then obviously him feeling shitty for having that weird sort of envy because hey! what the fuck! yknow?

"really hoped this isn't too fucked up" buddy boo you have NO IDEA the kinds of fucked up I enjoy.

also yeah this is a vibe. it's kinda funny cuz "wishing your trauma was worse and then feeling bad about it cuz wtf" is like. a really common thing for traumatized people, especially people who don't realize they're traumatized cuz OUR SOCIETY ain't really good at like. informing people of their trauma. I used to do this with my sexual abuse tbh. what happened to me didnt feel extreme enough to justify my trauma lmao.

anyway, I think Mikey wouldn't feel that way most of the time- I just don't think it's in his character. but i do think he'd feel bad that he didn't get it as bad as the others. he'd constantly be downplaying his own trauma or thinking about how much worse everyone else got it, and he'd feel guilty that he came out relatively unscathed.

#nnstuff #ask #teenage mutant neglected turtles #tmnt mikey #trauma

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xxx-theartofsuicide-xxx · 9 months ago

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Oh my god, your head is so far up your own ass you can't even see your own hypocrisy. This all makes a lot of sense now. Also, like, play stupid games win stupid prizes. You made the choice to be an asshole on his post and got pissy when he responded in kind. And you're pissy now because people are calling you on your shit. I'd expect this attitude and "pro/anti" garbage from a teenager, not a 30 year old. Grow up.

I can't communicate with Spike for the same reason I can't communicate with you. He lies to suit his agenda. You lob ad hominems and hide behind anon. Cowards all around. Boring.

I repeat: if he had any integrity, he would tell his people to leave me alone the same way I told my people to leave him alone. This is not a good look for your buddy. Good thing I don't care about the opinions of cowards on the internet.

It's really very gratifying to learn that he can't read though. Feels good. Like there's so much evidence proving everything he says wrong from a foundational perspective. But whaddya know, Popular =/= Correct. Most people are dumb fucks, nonnie. No child left behind really fucked this country up.

But I'm on a tangent now. Have fun talking to yourself in my ask box like everyone else is. This isn't my first rodeo.

Edit: if you think anti-shipping circles aren't cults, you're fucking stupid and I can't help you

But that's a whole other essay boo boo

#dumbass anon #anon hate

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wrestlingisfake · 2 years ago

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Soft

CM Punk's "pegwarmer" promo from August 12 suggests that one of three things is happening:

Punk is trying to turn heel, but a passive-aggressive "I love you even though you boo me" kind of heel.

Punk and the Elite have secretly worked out a secret agreement to do a match, so Punk is shit-talking to generate buzz for it.

Punk had a "sir this is a Wendy's" moment because he saw a sign he didn't agree with.

Option 1 doesn't make sense--Punk is the babyface against Samoa Joe right now (and probably against MJF soon) so heeling on Hangman Page for later is counterproductive. Option 2 is (so far) magical thinking--there's no evidence the Punk/Elite program is happening, except that it would be more convenient to believe that than the alternative. The alternative is that Punk is went off-script because he's a hyperdefensive idiot.

Granted, this whole thing started because Hangman Page went off-script about "worker's rights" 15 months ago, and that shouldn't have happened either. Whether or not I agree with how Punk handled that, I understand why it set him off. I do not, however, see how a "North Carolina is Hangman country" sign set him off. A fan essentially said "I like this other wrestler" and Punk went out of his way to say "well, I sell more toys than him" as if he's Kevin Nash in TNA. Again, it would be nice to think this is for a wrestling storyline, but that's mostly because if it isn't then it's really pathetic.

I feel like I've been drifting away from AEW for the past couple of months. At first I thought I was just busy with my job, or following the G1. But the more I think about it, it all goes back to June 17, when Punk said "I'm sorry that the only people softer than you are the wrestlers you like." All I've seen since then is all the wrestlers I like trying to move past it, except for the one picking fights with signs. So yeah, buddy, I'll tell you when you're telling lies.

#aew #cm punk

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abuddyforeveryseason · 1 year ago

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This is the Buddy for March 10th. There's a lot of smoke there. At first I was toying with making the image even taller, like ten times the size, so that most of it was covered in smoke, but decided to go with this one. A real coin toss, really.

On an unrelated point, I heard about Akira Toriyama's death yesterday. Pretty sad, considering he was still comparatively young (68) and active. I was a huge Chrono Trigger fan when I was young, and I've played that game through the end several times. Best RPG of its generation.

I also liked Dragon Ball, although not as much, and that love kind of diminshed with age. Still, I've got a lot of nostalgia for the Z era sagas, with Freeza and Cell. And I read the manga, the early years with kid Goku were pretty interesting, too.

Unfortunately, after the Boo saga the franchise kind of went off-rails. Wasn't into the anime-only GT series, not to mention the games or the disastrous movie. The Super series wasn't as bad, but still doesn't compare to the original.

Still, I have real fond memories of the story. It's an interesting and unique story - or at least it would be if it wasn't so incredibly popular it became ingrained into everyone's mind and imitated to such an extent. I'm reading Osamu Tezuka's Boku no Son Goku, which was also inspired by Journey to the West, and this time I can say Tezuka's work wasn't the superior adaptation. Of course, you have to consider the context...

It's hard to explain a lot about Dragon Ball, especially to people who aren't fans. It started out as a comedic parody of a XVIth century novel, but then it turned into a martial arts story, and then it became serious? And the main character grew up, dozens of minor characters piled up in the background... and all of that before the twist that started the story I'm familiar with - Goku's an alien?

Toriyama's art made the story a lot more pleasant, too. The design of vehicles, aliens, monsters and robots was top notch, and what made me enjoy the story much more than the fight scenes and associated cliches. Another interesting thing was Toriyama's use of twists which led the stories into a different direction when compared to other shonen manga, which often adhered religiously to the build-up to stronger enemies in sucession.

But that's also where the story issues lie. The first is the bloated cast of characters being humiliated so Goku could steal the spotlight. The biggest victim there is Yamcha, but, really, everyone who was beaten by Goku then turned good was kind of cannon fodder. That started as a twist, too - so this evil guy Goku had so much trouble with got beaten so easily by the new villain? Damn. And since new villains kept being introduced, each one being so much stronger than the last, it was hard to make sense of how strong the characters were (and any realism was already out the window thanks to all the plot devices keeping the characters alive and strong enough to fight).

It's funny by the end of the story - or even, by the end of the kid Goku era already - the dragon balls were also relegated to the background. I don't like a lot of the cliches of the series, the plot devices used to make characters stronger with no interesting consequences, the convoluted use of elements of past stories, annoying character behaviors... but, still, you have to respect a guy who managed to start out with such a weird little comedy with its goofy looking vehicles and talking dinosaurs, and turn it into a behemoth so popular, people can have such strong feelings about it.

RIP, Akira Toriyama.

#ab4es #drawing #smoke #cigarette #Akira Toriyama #Chrono Trigger #Dragon Ball #Dragon ball Z #Boku no Son Goku #Osamu Tezuka #Goku #Son Goku #Dragon Ball GT #Dragon Ball Super #Journey to the West

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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Inexplicably, the Ocean’s franchise didn’t sink into oblivion after the sewage that was Ocean’s Twelve. This third chapter in the series fares much better than its predecessor but never reaches the level of the original (neither the original original or the 2001 remake). Still, as another installment, it does offer the remaining fans more of what they want to see, which is something.

After Reuben (Elliott Gould) loses his investment in a new hotel-casino to his business partner, Willy Bank (Al Pacino), he suffers a heart attack and becomes bedridden. Danny (George Clooney) and the rest of the Ocean Club decide to get even by ruining Bank and his new establishment.

If you’re not endeared to the Ocean’s crew, this plot will be an uphill battle. "Boo hoo. Poor Reuben is so upset he’s not making millions off this gaudy casino that he’s become catatonic. Guess it’s up to his buddies to get revenge on his behalf instead of just convincing the proper authorities that he was strongarmed into signing a contract?" Towards the end of the film, the crew’s old nemesis, Terry Benedict (Andy García, whose character is brought back under dubious pretenses), sees millions of his money donated to charity without his consent. I wonder if any of the cash the protagonists end up swiping from Banks would’ve gone anywhere except their pockets had they not had a score to settle. While some of this is mitigated by the fact that Willy Bank is a jerk, what we're seeing feels like a whole lot of “the 1%’s problems”. There isn’t a love plot to make us believe this is about anything but money unless you count the brotherly love between the Ocean’s crew. Even that seems like a stretch.

In the first movie and even in the second in a “sure, whatever”, kind of way, it made sense for these 11 people (we’ll get to that number in a moment) to join forces. Now? It seems overly optimistic to think the random Chinese acrobat who doesn’t speak English would put himself at risk as he does here. Now to be fair, this story makes much better use of its characters than Twelve did. No one gets stuffed into a bag and shipped off to nowhere halfway through, for example. Everyone has a role to play and it works though it should be noted that neither Julia Roberts nor Catherine Zeta-Jones return.

You’re wondering who the two new members of the crew are. One is the aforementioned Benedict, who plays the role of a benefactor. The other is… Eddie Izzard as Roman Nagel. I think. The motif of adding a new expert to the crew with each sequel has basically disappeared, and for good reason. This series can barely handle the people it has on its roster. Adding more is becoming increasingly problematic but it’s also necessary. See, “The Bank” has insane security measures, the kind no one in their right might would even try to circumvent. On the one hand, this makes for exciting scenes that make you wonder how the lock will get cracked. On the other, it makes the plot feel manufactured. For example, there's this super secure room that contains expensive jewelry. The plan to get in? Have Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon) and his phoney-looking rubber nose seduce Bank’s right-hand woman, Abigail Sponder (Ellen Barkin). With the help of some magic pheromones, she’ll get so hot and bothered she’ll have no choice but to bring Linus into the only room in the whooooole building that's guaranteed to be deserted. Apparently, there are cameras in the bathrooms, the closets and her private office. It’s a horrible subplot made unintentionally comical by the fact that nothing happens between her and Linus. The movie teases nudity for at least 15 minutes. Ellen Barkin's chest is ALMOST falling out of her dress for so long it’s ridiculous. I thought she was slobbering at the mouth for some man meat but she’s not even taking off her clothes? What’s going on here?!

I’ve been mostly bad-mouthing Ocean's Thirteen because the film is constantly on the brink of crumbling under its own weight. I will still call it a “good” sequel because fans of this series will be happy with it. You hate the bad guy, there are enough laughs to keep you smiling consistently and the con is so complicated it’s fun to see all the pieces coming together. All of the actors are obviously having a great time. I’m in no hurry to watch it again but if you love love love the first, you didn’t mind the second and you want to know if you should watch the third, then I say “sure”. I say this despite feeling like twice was too many for me. (April 29, 2022)

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echoeternally · 1 year ago

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Bowser Buddies (ENY)

For the ongoing Mario fanfic that I'm working on, there are some additional characters that were included as Bowser's extra loyal allies. Someone requested a little more information about their background and descriptions, so, here's that!

Background blurb: Conceptually, these characters were supposed to feel similar to Paper Mario 1 & 2 partners, but for Bowser instead of Mario. It was a fun idea that floated into my brain, and I just rolled with it. When I knew that Bowser and Mario were going to be facing adversity to having a relationship from both kingdoms, I wanted to make sure that Bowser had support past Junior and the Koopalings. It felt stronger to include characters from races that his army employed, rather than other high-ranking leaders (Petey Pirahna, King Boo, King Bob-omb, etc.), so that way it would show he still could appeal with his citizens. Also, it allowed the inclusion of rainbow color friends for the obvious reasons, lol.

Goomphen the Goomba / Spiked Goomba (Brown): He’s a Goomba with eyes that are wider than the usual Goomba, and with flatter teeth too. The teeth were meant to be similar to Goombario’s teeth, who was the first partner in the first Paper Mario. The eyes were meant to emphasize his usual demeanor tending toward the fearful side. Following the Paper Mario origin, I decided that his advanced form would be similar to the Spiked Goomba, which was an enemy type that debuted in the series. To make his appearance more unique, I gave him four spikes on top of his cap rather than one, which felt like believable compensation for his otherwise timid nature. (More spikes for more defense, repelling enemies from attacking.) His features in general tend to make him stand out more than he would like, which only furthers his unnerved personality.

Koopaella the Koopa / Koopatrol (Purple): She’s a Koopa with a purple shell and matching purple shoes! Very exciting ideas going, I know. To help her stand out more, and because I knew that I wanted her to become a Dark (Elite?) Koopatrol, I gave her the ruby eyes to match the designation. Continuing the homage to the Paper Mario partner tradition, she was the second partner, and her alternate form was that of a Paper Mario original enemy. With Goombella being the second version of a Goomba partner and since we had two Koopa boys in a row, I thought it would make sense to have a Koopa girl for this one; the “ella” suffix was also pays homage to Goombella. Since she’s typically a serious type, she tends to have a stoic expression, turning kinda prideful when Bowser praises her and souring to annoyance or anger when dealing with enemies…or nuisances like Nix. Guard characters in Paper Mario tended to carry spears as weapons, so that tends to be her default choice; I like to imagine that she carries a sword around as well, because a Koopatrol seems like a Koopa knight equivalent.

Tech Guy the Shy Guy / Fly Guy (Blue): This is a Shy Guy that wears blue robes instead of the usual red, and tends to carry around a dark blue / indigo backpack full of gadgets (and matching shoes). The idea is that he has multiple kinds of devices to employ, true to a Shy Guy’s versatility in using a variety of weapons. He later gains a light blue propeller to take on the Fly Guy form, allowing him to navigate air spaces as needed. To keep the assortment idea going, his default weapon tends to be a spear, allowing him to switch into Spear Guy weaponry and tactics. Though I don’t think I ever elaborated on the bag, it’s meant to carry anything a Shy Guy would need to help keep the class changes going. Stilts, skates, slingshots…you name it, he’ll game it. (Since he’s a smart guy, pun intended, I was considering if he should have maybe a pocket protector or something too.) He was also meant to give a bit of a break to the Paper Mario exclusives pattern, since his two main forms weren’t originally from those games.

Jasmine the Snifit / Scorchit (Yellow): A Snifit that wears a yellow, perhaps floral robe. The idea of a Koopa Troop member wearing a sunshine color but employing bullets as weaponry seemed funny to me. Even her name makes you feel like she’s not a threat, keeping the flower theme going. (Probably wears green boots too. Maybe wears a flower crown when nobody’s looking…or maybe just for fun regardless of anyone around.) To make the contrast even more jarring, her upgraded form that appears later is to allow her nozzle to fire not only bullets, but fireballs as well, with flames being a notable opposite to flower petals. The nozzle even added soot and burn marks to her mask, making it even more horrifying to think that this seemingly sweet Snifit is actually a scary force of strength. (Don’t mess.) Technically, a Snifit that shoots fire out is known as a Scorchit, but I don’t recall how often (or ever) using that term for her. Similar to her Shy Guy companion, I liked the idea more that she would be able to switch her type of powers around with various nozzle swaps or storage capacity, but…I don’t think I ever got around to that. Fun idea though! Also, it was nice to swipe something from the Yoshi franchise, since that’s where the Scorchit enemy originates.

Niall the Paratroopa / Shining Paratroopa (White): The Feather Duster himself! It seemed funny to picture a type of servant member in Bowser’s army being…an actual servant. So, that’s where this fellow came in! He wears a white shell and boots to match his wings, and carries around his nicknamesake: a feather duster! (But a twist is that he actually has multiple! One that he has is with a black rod and white wiper, one that’s red and blue, and one with green and pink. Probably would wear gloves like Mario does too, because that’d fit.) I remember originally looking to see variations on Koopa Paratroopas and finding nothing exciting outside of the Paper Mario Sticker Star enemy, which stuck out since I came up with the silly notion of, “Oh, haha, that would fit his character, having a shell so cleaned that it shines, ha…wait a minute, that’s good.” So, his upgraded form would be a Shiny Paratroopa, which I renamed into Shining Paratroopa to emphasize it a little more and to make the sparkling seem more of an intentional/offensive choice. The shell would sparkle more than usual, but could be made to glimmer in a bright, blinding light; that’s easier to magnify combining it with sunlight or starlight, which is easy for a Paratroopa to fly around and find. He tends to have a cheerful or innocent expression, although whenever his name is forgotten, he gets a bit distressed.

Nix the Rex / Winged Rex (Black): Everyone’s favorite minion of the minon squad, and I’m actually pretty happy about it. I have a soft spot for Rexes, which I thought would make a natural counterpart to Yoshis. Nintendo never made that happen, sadly, but it still seems fun in my mind! I liked making the color choice similar to a Black Yoshi, with white colors where the Rex would normally have orange or red colors: boots, belly, wings. Though he’d have the usual small nose spike of a Rex, he also has more spikes on his tail. The white wings are more avian like, since his appearance was intended to be comparable to the Winged Yoshi power-up form for Yoshi, and allowing the normally flightless Rex to actually fly. His eyes being green seemed nicer than having the squinty expression, and kinda to call-back to Yoshi too. (I preferred the expressions from the Rex debut in Super Mario World and its artwork, as opposed to whatever Mario & Luigi attempted.) Due to being flirtatious, his expression would normally include smugness, lowered eyes, lip licking, and probably a few winks thrown in.

Ruby the Boo / Shifting/Morphing Boo (Red/Pink): Pretty much the red/pink type of Boo variant found in the Mario Party games. By the time I had a color theme set, I saw this and felt like it was a simple yet fun inclusion. It also covered both red and pink colors, which I was wondering what to include next and thought it was easier to knock two out at once. (Probably should’ve used both, but, it works well enough, I suppose!) Expression-wise, just a standard Boo with a big toothy grin. The idea of the upgraded form, which involves Ruby changing his shape to others, came from the types of ghostly enemies that were labeled as Boo enemies, but also resembled different species from Bowser’s army, such as a Fishing Boo from Super Mario World resembling a Lakitu, and a Boo Guy from Yoshi’s Island looking like a Shy Guy. Having a Boo that could change its shape and transform felt like a fun and fitting ascended form that a Boo might gain, so I went with the unique name(s) of Shifting Boo / Morphing Boo. There are two names because I am extremely indecisive and liked both ideas. If he’d wear a costume/outfit, I like to think it would be similar to the outfit that Boo used in Mario Party 4, but red and pink instead of blue and yellow; he’d also make fun of Magikoopas while wearing it.

Olive the Blooper / Poison Blooper (Green): Harmonizing with Ruby is Olive, because a red Boo deserves a green Bloo…per. Since there wasn’t an aquatic selection, and I wanted one that could apparently move on (or rather over) land without choking to breathe, a Blooper seemed like a nice choice. (Several Mario spin-offs that showcased them just kinda floating around helped influence the choice.) Respectful and diligent in terms of personality; I like to think she’d be the one that works hardest to just show off her work ethic. Being so prim and proper might cause others around her to feel lesser in conjunction with the busybody tendencies. She kind of borders on a dangerous line to being the mom friend of the group, but has no desire to be a mom, so take that as you will. Defying the easy upgrade for a Blooper, which is to the Blooper Nanny that’s in charge of mini (child) Bloopers, she takes on a Poison Blooper form to gain an asset in power. This also made her feel like a portable Gooper Blooper in my mind, because Sunshine, why not?

Bombkin the Bob-omb / Tail Bob-omb (Orange): The only holiday themed character and I still have no idea why I went that route, but this is a pumpkin styled Bob-omb! His fuse is green to mimic a stem, his eyes are yellow to mimic candlelit eyes of a jack-o-lantern, his main body is obviously orange because pumpkin, and there are additional appendages (wind-up key, feet) that are also green to continue the plant features. He has diligence but also tends to end up annoyed frequently, considering everyone telling him that he looks like a pumpkin and that his name is like a pumpkin and this is just his life really. To make matters worse, he ended up getting knocked into a Super Leaf by Goomphen, and gained the tail power-up for a Tail Bob-omb. Worse still, the coloration ended up being orange and green, only matching with his pumpkin theme and continuing his misery.

Glaucus the Buzzy Beetle / Spike Top (Gray/Grey): Oldest member of the group because they tend to be slow moving enemies and I thought that tracked well enough. Dark brown/black eyes and the gray shell give a solid calming vibe that also extends to his characterization. Including a Buzzy Beetle felt right because the species has been around since the first Super Mario Bros. game, and yet there are very few moments that they ever matter (probably because Koopas), with only one notable member of the species that I’ve found. (From Paper Mario, no less, but not a partner for Mario.) Even new forms of Buzzy Beetles feel scarce and I felt like his new form to a Spike Top was the most noteworthy option to work with, since that is also a common Mario enemy type that is mostly ignored. The idea of his unique role being shared with another ally (Spiked Goomba) felt a little funny too, since he stands out even less for lacking originality.

#mario fanfic #eternally never yours #koopa troop

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allthemusic · 2 months ago

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Week ending: 3rd July

How often do you get a song named after a completely different artist? I can think of at least one more (sort-of) example, but it's got to be pretty rare, right? Nevertheless, that's exactly what we've got today. Plus, Roy Orbison, up to his usual tricks. Gotta love it.

Bo Diddley - Buddy Holly (peaked at Number 4)

Yes, it's another posthumous Buddy Holly number. It's a fun fact that both of Buddy's highest-charting UK hits were posthumous - with this one second only to It Doesn't Matter Anymore, released immediately after his death. Unlike that song, which was a Buddy original, this one's a cover of a 1955 original by (who else?) Bo Diddley. Which is a baller move. Like, it takes a certain amount of guts to name a song just after yourself. But Bo, pioneering R&B guitarist that he was, went for it, clearly. And boy did it pay off!

The song's probably best known nowadays for introducing the world to the so-called "Bo Diddley beat", a distinctive syncopated rhythm used extensively thereafter in rock and roll and pop music. Like a lot of R&B sounds, it's got its roots in Afro-Caribbean music, and in particular Afro-Cuban clave rhythms. It's propulsive and just slightly off-kilter, and it's a huge part of what makes the original song work - and so Buddy leans hard into it, piling on heavier and heavier drumming, maracas, cowbells, the works. The end result's something very Latin-sounding, this chaotic, clattering, infectiously insistent drumming pattern that just takes over the song.

Not that the other parts of the song aren't also good. I love the guitar, for example. It mostly just plays this repeated rhythmic response to the drums, really putting the "rhythm" in rhythm guitar. Heck, even the vocals feel like they're mostly there to add to the feel of it all - the lyrics' meanings are largely secondary, a sort of riff on the "Rockabye Baby" nursery rhyme, all about the different things Bo's going to buy his baby. Bo Diddley buy baby a diamond ring, Buddy sings, adding that if that diamond ring don't shine / He gonna take it to a private eye. No idea what a private eye's going to do about a ring not being shiny enough. And things get weirder as the song progresses, with Bo catching a cat to make his baby a hat, and a goat to make a coat. If you can't already tell, these really do feel like they've been picked more for their rhyme and rhythm than for any actual literal meaning. The nursery rhyme framing gives them that echo of familiarity, lets them slip past your brain almost without you really questioning how nuts they are. And that's kind of the point. This is a song that's there to sound cool, not to impart any deep meaning - and holy heck, does it sound cool!

Falling - Roy Orbison (9)

And then we get Falling, a song that's about as typical Roy Orbison as they get. We start simple and intimate, just a cymbal and Roy, his voice high and sweet and thing. I'm falling, I'm falling, falling in love with you. A guitar strums, and then suddenly, we've got a woodblock, a stately Latin rhythm as the song unfolds its wings and Roy encourages his love to come closer, closer to me / And listen, listen carefully. He has something to tell them, some speech he intends to make, as the song kicks into gear.

And what a speech it is. Remember all the nights that I told you I loved you, he says, and it feels like a solid, romantic start. Except, here comes a confession to derail it all, as Roy admits that it wasn't true, I used you / And you were just someone new / to thrill this lonely heart of mine. He was pretending the whole time, getting his thrills in where he could. And then, just as you're ready to boo and hiss, another shift. It's different now, Roy admits, I've kissed you now, so forgive me, forgive me somehow / Hold me tight for tonight, and tell me true / If you still love me. In all this, you don't get the sense that Roy necessarily expects his love to say yes. He really wants them to, sure. But he's under no illusions how poorly he's treated them, how unfair it was to lie. And in all this, I can't help but see a bit of a classic teen rom-com plot. This is Ten Things I Hate About You. It's Cruel Intentions. It's She's All That. Which are all movies I really do enjoy, in a (not-so) guilty pleasure kind of way. So yes, Roy's been a bit of a cad, here. But I can't help but see the romance in it, or the romantic potential, at least.

Like many of Roy's song, it's also just a sort of linear, unfolding thing, more than a pop tune with a classic, repetitive AABA-type structure. Through-composed, not strophic, if you're feeling pretentious and remember your GCSE music lessons (I am, and I do!) It's effective here, adding to the drama of it all, as Roy just builds up and up and up, adding new instruments and musical elements as the plot thickens. It's almost mechanically precise, actually - every twenty or thirty seconds, you get something new. First it's a backing chorus, then it's some gentle acoustic guitar, then it's low-key piano and strings, then some subtle electric guitar, then the piano's kicking it up a notch, and the drums are getting more insistent, and the strings are doing something new - and by this point, it's nearly the end of the song, and Roy's coming up to the top of his register again, really hammering it home that he is indeed falling in love with you. Which brings us back to where the song started. Except this time, rather than being a bland statement of romantic interest, we can see the emotion packed into it, the backstory that's led up to it, the almost self-deprecating way that Roy admits it. You got me, he seems to be singing, a rueful look on his face. I thought I was playing with you, but no, I fell in love too. What can you do?

I enjoyed both of these songs. I feel like Roy Orbison's been one of those artists I'd really not listened to systematically or with much thought until this project. I knew Pretty Woman and Only the Lonely, but that was about it. I certainly wouldn't have had a sense of his style. Which is a shame, because he really does write some excellently vulnerable, honest songs - and they're really distinctive, too, with their massive vocal range and complete lack of conventional pop structure. They're like little plays in miniature, I love them! I think, all this considered, Falling would have taken the title most weeks. However, the Bo Diddley beat is just as iconic, and I just found it super infectious and exciting. So much of pop and rock music is built up around this rhythm, and it's got a style and a swagger that's undeniable. So, with all respect to Roy...

Favourite song of the bunch: Bo Diddly

#uk charts #1963 #buddy holly #roy orbison

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into-the-mind-of-an-avid-diva · 4 months ago

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It’s “Never Eat Soggy Waffles”

We start our story off with two unlikely, protagonists, college students of a particularly grueling, history class. Due to an unfortunate situation with a banana and egg and a particularly persistent goat, our heroes find themselves at the entrance of a rustic cabin in the woods.

Billy - Evan, are you aware you’re holding the map upside down?

Evan - Don’t sweat it. I’m not even using the map. My hands were bored, and your fidgeting was annoying.

Billy - But I thought you were reading the directions! Are we lost!?!

~Argument begins~

Evan - No, I was holding it correctly, I remember, South is always up. Serve Eggs Never Waffles

Billy - No, it’s North on top, Never Eat Soggy Waffles. North East South West.

Billy - Oh, that makes more sense, I love waffles.

~they pause~

As you’d expect, their argument continues, but you don’t need to see that part. Let’s fast forward to the bad decision, going into the rustic cabin.

~enter the cabin~

Billy - I don’t like this place

Ghost - Boo

~Billy screams and runs behind Evan~

Billy - Ahh! A ghost!

Evan - Oh, a ghost. Hi! ~waves~

Ghost - Hey, ~waves back~ what are you guys up to?

Evan - Oh, we’re here to find an artifact for our history class so we can get out of detention. Mr. Staples is such a jerk.

(In the background)

Billy - ghosts exist?, Wait, does that mean vampires exist? Werewolves? I knew my 5th grade PE teacher was definitely too hairy to be human. Wait, does that mean I can talk to gramma Josephine again?

(Out of background)

Evan - So, anyway, are you like, real?

Ghost - Yeah I died around here like 20 years ago, and let me tell you it has not been a vibe. I’m so bored.

Evan - Oof, that’s rough buddy, anyway, ~grabs Billy by the shoulders~ we’re just here to grab some dusty relic and we’ll be out of your hair in no time.

Billy - Yeah, (shakes head) you’re right, we need to stay focused. I can’t spend my Saturday in detention with that old coot Mr. Staples.

~they start looking around~

Ghost - (off to side) No, I cant let them leave, I’ll be on my own again! (back to the friends) Oh, do you guys want to hear some jokes?

~they keep searching~

Ghost - What kind of street does a ghost live on? A dead end.

What's a ghost's favorite tree? Ceme-trees!

How do ghosts send letters? Through the ghost office!

Billy - Hey, (turns to ghost) you’ve been here for a while, have you seen any relics around here?

Ghost - (kicks the chest under a chair and crosses their fingers) Nope!

Billy - (pointing) You’re a terrible liar!

Evan - Yeah, I can see right through you!

Billy - (Turns to Evan) Really, a see through joke?

Evan - (Shrugs)

~they turn back to the ghost~

Billy - Anyway, yeah, what is that behind you?

Ghost - Nothing!

~Evan goes around and pulls out the treasure chest~

Billy - That’s probably the relic!

~they open the chest and find it empty~

Billy - Nooo! (Falls to ground)

Evan - Man that sucks!

Needless to say, they did end up spending their Saturday in detention with Mr. Staples

#scriptwriting #funny #ghost #comedy #stage #theatre #skit #story #writing #my writing #original character

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sanctuaryoftheodd · 4 months ago

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Chapter 22: There Be Ghosts Here!

"Well actually,"

One of the shimmering humanoid bodies floated down to Panchi and looked her in the eyes.

"We're magically recreated mirror manifestations of people who used to be alive. We're not really ghosts."

The other ghosts respond with boos and catcalls.

"We're totally ghosts! Stop saying we aren't!"

"I think we are reincarnations!"

"You don't appear as phantoms of your past self if you reincarnated, dumbass!"

"Well, how do you know? You've never reincarnated before now!"

"It's in the literal definition of reincarnation, dumbass!"

"Do you let the dictionary define your afterlife?"

"That's literally what dictionaries are for!"

"I'll take that as a yes."

"I think we're all metaphors."

"Stop eating forest shrooms, Bob!"

"We can't eat."

"Then stop hovering around forest shrooms! Sheesh, semantics."

"I DIDN'T REACH THE OTHER SIDE! I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO BIRD CHURCH MORE! BAKAW!"

"Goddamn, who let the chicken come along?"

"She's a ghost too, she deserves to attend these meetings."

"This isn't a meeting! We LEFT the meeting to check on the fleshy intruders, remember?"

The area was abuzz with opinions and chatter. I get the distinct feeling these ghosts don't get along with each other all that much. Though, that last comment was a tad worrying.

"Hey um, my name is Princess Anne O'Maley, I rule over Sanctuary on the hill up there"

"Oh my god, we got a princess in our midst!"

"God! No one cares if she's a princess!"

"I do!"

"What's a princess doing out here?"

"You sure she's a princess and not just lying?"

"Of course she is! Don't you see her tiara?"

"A tiara doesn't mean she's royalty, you idiot!"

"Ummm... pardon me." I interrupted them. They all go silent to let me speak. "We are here to help a friend of ours. Or well, a friend of a friend. He's lost in the woods somewhere with his buddies."

I try to look around for him with my magic sense, but these ghosts show so brightly that I can't see anything else. It's like how a spotlight somehow makes everything it's not pointed at it more shrouded in dark. Thankfully, I can still see the direction of Sanctuary thanks to Lexine's Crimson Card, but that doesn't help us find Foxman.

"A princess is searching the forest herself?"

"She must be a modest ruler."

"The kind that sleeps in the dirt with her subjects."

"You're thinking of generals."

"Same difference."

"It really isn't."

"It even isn't for a friend but for a friend of a friend! How caring!"

"God, no one cares why she's here!"

"Everyone does dude, that's why WE are here!"

"Well, I don't!"

"Maybe her journey here was metaphorical."

""SHUT UP, BOB!""

"Umm..." I try to intercede, but it's really difficult to get a word in edgewise.

The "um actually" ghost noticed my growing frustration and floated towards me.

"I'm sorry Princess. While I feel for your kin's kin, you're better off accepting that they are dead and going back where you came. It's dangerous in these woods."

"There are soul wolves in these forests!"

This was met with a cacophony of "soul wolves" from all over.

"I thought we were going to call them 'spotlight wolves' to keep things secular."

""SHUT UP!""

"What's uh-" I choose my words carefully so as not set off this crowd. "What are those wolves?"

"They are canines with glowing mouths and shadowy bodies. Deep in their throats are their only eye. If it gets a good look at you, it eats your soul."

"Actually, it eats magic."

"Oh my god, shut up! Seriously, goddamnit!"

"The wolves have been hunting us for years, picking us off one by one. This is why you should leave, Princess, before it eats your soul too!"

"Magic."

""SHUT UP!""

"We'll be very careful." I said, assuredly.

"You can only be so careful. One little slip..."

"You're a master, aren't you?"

Everyone turned to the origin of the voice. They parted to reveal a Minutian ghost who was looking directly at Panchi. "You're wearing a master's belt!"

"That's true, I'm a master." She said confidently.

This would give a rise of murmurs among the ghosts. However, not everyone was so convinced.

"How do you know she didn't steal that master's belt?"

In response to that, Panchi raised her fist into the air. Suddenly, the air a few inches around her fist vanished, creating a brief white hole in reality in its place. It was only there for a few seconds before vanishing and being replaced by the existence around it. The ghosts looked stunned.

"That was Void Decay... #150..." The minutian ghost said, agape.

"Did she really just summon void with her hand like that?"

"I don't believe it..."

Void is the material that makes up the space between universes. It's basically an empty canvas, unused reality. There's no rules there, outside the rules you bring with you. Some people may start to suffocate out there as there is no air, but it's only because you brought the rule "you need to breathe" with you to the void. People who have a clear idea on who they are can survive indefinitely in the void, while people who haven't figured that out will slowly decay and eventually erase from existence.

The ability to create void is an ability exclusive to minutians that have mastered all 150 techniques. They can summon up a concentrated dose that can wipe even the most strong willed people from existence. I'm not even sure if I'd survive it.

"If she has a master with her, then she’d probably survive the forest easily..."

The ghosts all looked between each other, and then they turned to us.

"Listen, we'll help you find this friend of a friend of yours if you do something for us in exchange."

"Let me guess," I started, "You want us to take care of those soul wolves?"

"Heck no!"

"Huh?" I wasn't expecting that.

"You think I want to live with these bastards forever? We're rooting for the soul wolves."

"I'm really hoping they take the metaphor guy."

"I really want them to eat the apathetic guy."

"God, no one cares about how you feel about my death."

"See? It's just this on literally every topic! Do you have anything else to say?"

"I wear my hat proudly, thank you very much. Not that anyone cares what you think."

"Hey!" I called out. It's more and more increasingly clear that they'll never pause for me if I don't assert myself.

"Yes Princess?"

"If you don't want us to take care of the soul wolves, then what DO you want?"

"We want temporary bodies."

"Ones we can possess. Enjoy being solid for a while."

"Maybe androids? Or just a really creepy doll."

Android huh? "Well, actually, we just came into possession of a robotics lab not too long ago."

"Really! That'd be great!"

"Robot bodies?"

"Nobody cares abou-"

""SHUT UP!""

"We don't have anyone currently who can run it, but Foxman, that friend of a friend I was talking about, he's in with the Chaos Rangers, he could hook us up with a guy."

Just the mention of "Chaos Rangers" and "Foxman" sent murmurs among them. The ghosts huddled together and discussed my proposal. Despite their hushed tones, they are like, basically within 30 feet of me so I can hear EVERYTHING.

"This sounds like a good deal."

"What if she's lying though?"

"I mean, she's got a master with her, she has to be somebody."

"Is Foxman literally a fox man or is it just a name?"

"This whole situation is metaphorical"

"Shut up, Bob."

This whole experience has made me realize why they didn't care if other ghosts got eaten. I couldn't live with this either.

After a while, they all nodded and turned back to me.

"Princess, you have a deal!"

#arc4 #Sanctuary of the Odd #soto #web novel #chapter #science fiction #science fantasy #comedy #lesbian #transgender

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inkdemonapologist · 3 years ago

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JDS Bankruptcy Thoughts????

Okay so the latest news article has got me thinking about JDS’s bankruptcy, now that we actually have a year. I was checking the bankruptcy notice in Joey’s apartment to see if this lined up with information we already knew, and Boo pointed out something far more interesting: Joey filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

(source)

So, I checked with an accountant friend who was happy to dissect my silly fandom things and explain business terminology to me, and the first thing to get out of the way is that Chapter 11 wasn’t an option for corporations until 1978. But, you know, this is BatIM, where we have tape recorders in 1929, so maybe this just happened 30-some-odd years early in the BatIM timeline. (or maybe Joey’s apartment isn’t real and none of the letters in it can be trusted. That’s also possible). (or maybe this was just a mistake and will be quietly dropped from the lore without explanation THATS ALSO FINE)

But if we assume this did in fact happen, then this is interesting: Chapter 11 lets a corporation stay in business despite their outstanding debts, as long as they have a plan in place to pay them off. Accountant friend described it as “reorganisation” and “essentially, asking for more time.” When Boo had looked it up, he found big companies doing things like liquidating many many stores in order to focus on supporting a smaller number of stores that they felt could remain sustainable and keep making money. So you’ll get headlines about COMPANY BANKRUPT, CLOSING 400 STORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, but they’re not fully shutting down.

We don’t know if BatDR and BatIM will have consistent lore between them, bUT IF SO, then the 1948 newspaper article announcing the the animation studio is CLOSING ITS DOORS FOREVER doesn’t seem to match the kind of bankruptcy that Joey Drew supposedly filed for. How would he keep the company going if he’s getting rid of everything?

When @inkyvendingmachine and I were trying to make sense of this, he offered one possible explanation: WHAT IF… THERE ARE TWO STUDIOS.

We’ve already been given two conflicting studio locations – TIOL in 1942 describes a studio in the Meatpacking District, which Joey could be lying about I guess, but there’s no reason we can see for him to lie about that – especially when it’s not exactly a normal or glamorous place for an animation studio to be – versus Buddy’s description of Joey Drew Studios being on Broadway in 1946, with Joey purchasing a theatre next door and promising to bring toy merchandising in-house by the end of DCTL. The 1948 news article specifies it is the Broadway location and the company’s land in New Jersey (likely intended for Bendyland) that are being liquidated to pay off debts – so what if the Meatpacking District location still exists?

iirc Halfusek brought up the concept of two studios WAY BACK WHEN we first got this info from TIOL – the idea that there could be a reason Joey specifies “the Old Workshop,” the place Henry used to work, as opposed to the newer fancier place that he’s having to abruptly sell in 1948. By promising to downscale his ambitiously expensive projects and go back to doing what JDS does best, Joey might be able to make a case that JDS could bounce back… which DOES seem in-character. And he’s moved the machine before – just stash it in the Meatpacking District location now, and nobody’ll be the wiser.

This… probably didn’t work out for him. There’s hints in the 1948 article that Joey might have gone missing (which I’m sure (???) we’ll get more information on soon), so that would sort of get in the way of a bankruptcy hearing if he didn't turn up again before the deadline (abandoning the business is a whole OTHER legal thing). And the August 15th notice above is not actually the bankruptcy going through, just the first step, where JDS is found to qualify for Chapter 11 and the plan to pay back debts has been approved – as far as my accountant friend could tell, it still needs to be approved by the company’s creditors, and there would be more hearings after this. So… we don’t know that the bankruptcy actually went through just because Joey filed it, and if he were found falsifying information about the company’s finances (something im sure joey would NEVER do) or trying to stuff company funds or assets in his own pocket (again, something TRULY unthinkable for mr drew [meaningful glance at the ink machine in joey’s apartment]) then that could also be an explanation for why Joey does NOT seem well off in 1963, if he ended up without bankruptcy protection and was found personally liable for the some of the company’s debts.

Anyway, we don’t know enough to know anything for sure, and this might all get jossed with the next press archive release, but I found Boo’s idea such an iNTERESTING THOUGHT that I'm sticking it up here anyway lmao WE'LL SEE HOW LONG IT LASTS!! in the meantime def interested to know about alternate takes on the BANKRUPTCY SITUATION if anything stands out to anyone else 👀

#batdr #batdr spoilers #we all write on the walls #joey drew #batim #bendy and the ink machine #i could prob edit this a lil more but gOES AHEAD AND POSTS IT NOW IN CASE IT GETS JOSSED TOMORROW LMAO #i think its reasonable to not deeply research bankruptcy for a fun horror videogame but i AM going to sit here thinkin way too hard abt it

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marley-manson · 3 years ago

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if you feel like it, i would very much like to see the "top 10 episodes marley doesn't care for" list. not episodes you hate, just ones you could take or leave. and not necessarily 10 if you don't want, i'm just really curious.

Ooh yeah this'll be fun, thank you! This is specifically like, episodes where I feel like I dislike them more than most of fandom, rather than known controversial episodes, or bland episodes most of fandom agrees are bland. Cut to spare others my negativity lol.

A Smattering Of Intelligence - I think this is a pretty well-liked episode since it's Flagg's proper introduction, but it's probably my least fave of Flagg's appearances. I find it a little too cartoony, and to me it almost feels like a generic satirical spy story that someone took and inserted into Mash's universe. The vibes feel off.

The Party - lol like Movie Tonight this is another episode that's so beloved I feel kinda bad for not liking it much. There's lots I do like about it (Klinger's mom!) but overall I feel like the off-screen characters are annoyingly softened and made ooc to serve an uplifting, sentimental purpose that I don't really want from Mash anyway lol. Like Margaret's divorced parents getting along for this, or Charles' parents making friends with Radar's family.

And on top of that the vibe is... again, not what I want from Mash. I don't want that sense of uncomplicatedly positive bonding outside the war. Like imo Dear Dad Three's offhand joke where everyone unanimously voted against a reunion, in which the idea of a ten year MASH reunion is inherently laughable, is miles better than this episode in its entirety to me.

Bug Out - some good moments, some great jokes, but the army good vibes are infuriating to me. Potter's "If the U.S. army wants land, we just take it!" in a totally uncritical, ha ha funny context; the end where the US beating back North Korea is played for triumph complete with military remix of the theme... bad stuff.

April Fools - I definitely see the appeal of the squad teaming up together, but unfortunately this episode failed to capitalize on it, and I hate the premise immensely. I'm sure it's intended as a simple "lol the prankers become the prankees!" reversal but Potter enlisting his war buddy to prank the draftees (and Margaret) by making them think they're going to get court martialed and sent to prison for insubordination is just not my idea of fun shennanigans lol, which makes the tone of this very incongruent and awkward. Plus more making fun of Klinger, plus Hawkeye's epic prank finale sucked and we all know he could and would do a lot better than that if he had nothing to lose. It's fun if you totally ignore the lighthearted tone and take it for the mindfuck it is though lol.

Movie Tonight - I mentioned it already but yeah, it feels like the actors rather than the characters and that's not a vibe I enjoy personally, it has its moments but it's kind of awkward and unfun to me overall.

Hey Look Me Over - I've talked about this at greater length before but yeah it's like, I definitely appreciate the sentiment of a story where a not conventionally attractive woman wins a dude over with her personality, but I don't think it accomplished what they were aiming for. To me it made Hawkeye seem like a saint for changing his mind about her after getting yelled at for friendzoning her lol, and I don't think Kellye came across well in it compared to all her much cooler brief appearances. Nice that she tells us she sings and tapdances, but I'll take watching her smoke a cigar over that any day.

Who Knew - boo hiss, I've complained about it before at length. I know a few other people who also dislike it but overall it seems to be taken pretty uncritically in fandom and it shouldn't be, frankly.

As Time Goes By - the whole concept of the capsule is bad, it would've been bad even if Hawkeye filled it with subversive jokes, but then it was taken seriously as a poignant symbol of the army... woof.

The Price - I don't think this is beloved by fandom by any means, but it flies under the radar when by rights it should be hated imo. As perfect as Hawkeye is in this episode, Potter and the war hero's storyline is one of the worst subplots of the show, and I'm not qualifying that with an 'imo.'

Taking The Fifth - I had a hard time coming up with one more lol which just goes to show how good Mash is, but I went with this because I think most fans generally enjoy it and find it fun but I dislike it. I don't hate hate it, but like, Potter and Klinger's subplot is obnoxious, Hawkeye's plot is obnoxious and I hate the pathetic failed womanizer thing, and it's my go-to example of the kind of gay jokes that don't appeal to me nearly as much as the satirical seasons' jokes.

#mash #marley on mash #how about you - any episodes you want to complain about?

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xjoonchildx · 4 years ago

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greedy | myg x reader | chapter five: do we look like recruiters to you?

summary: being a loner has never bothered yoongi until now. until you.

pairing: yoongi x reader

genre: mafia AU, pining, eventual smut

rating: 18+

word count: 6.7K

notes: thank you all so much for rolling with the changes to my posting schedule. it’s been a while since i posted an update and i really wanted to give you guys a chapter. plus it makes more sense, in my mind to break it out like this. in this chapter, you’ll notice that ko starts calling OC “jagiya.” thank you to the korean reader who brought to my attention that my previous nickname for her didn’t fit as well as this one!

anyway, you guys make me endlessly happy with your feedback on this story. i’d love to hear what you think of this chapter. beta read by @hobi-gif because i would wither away without her analysis. also beta’d by the awesome @btsarmy9593 who has been so awesome to give me her feedback. thank you to @augustbutwinter for the words of encouragement. and of course, the boos @ladyartemesia and @untaemedqueen pitched in to help me in this journey as well.

Chapter 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | EPILOGUE

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Min Yoongi wakes up with a problem. Well a few problems, actually.

The first is that he has to pee.

The second is the head-to-toe pain that starts to register the moment his sluggish brain kicks into gear. He starts from the bottom -- gingerly wiggling his toes, carefully stretching his legs -- and slowly works his way up, taking mental inventory of what hurts and what doesn’t.

A lot of shit is landing on the hurts list right now.

The third problem -- and perhaps the most pressing -- is the problem pressing into his side right now.

Your hair is still damp.

Yoongi noses into it and lies in the quiet for a while, breathing you in while you sleep. You smell like his shampoo and his soap. You’re wearing his t-shirt and basketball shorts. You are covered in him; fitted to him. Solid and warm and real.

Which brings him to his next problem.

This is the kind of feeling that’s way too easy to become addicted to. The kind of feeling that makes you do stupid shit. Take away the mangled body and the looming safety concerns and this is easily the best morning of his life.

That’s why when you stir and burrow a bit deeper into his side, Yoongi ignores the pain radiating from his sore ribs. He ignores the way his arm has fallen asleep under you, ignores the intermittent buzzing of his phone from the nightstand warning of missed texts.

He ignores the tiny voice in his head that says don’t get attached to this feeling.

Yoongi ignores everything but you and this because right now, it’s the only thing he wants to think about.

And then he’s drifting off again.

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This time, Yoongi wakes up alone.

The deep steadying breath he takes while he’s trying to work up the nerve to get out of bed hurts like hell.

Everything hurts like hell, actually -- the back of his head where he can feel scrapes left behind by the brick wall, his jaw from where he took that driller to the face. His knee from where he jammed it into that fucking goon’s stomach.

But his shoulder is what’s really fucking everything up right now.

He can’t remember telling you where to find the sling or how you got it on. Can’t remember you positioning his pillows around his injured arm or slipping into bed beside him. He’d been so fucked up by the pain and the adrenaline withdrawal that he’s pretty sure he blacked out at some point.

So Yoongi lies there for a minute, trying to piece together what he can remember of last night.

The memories come back to him blurred and disjointed, out of order.

He remembers feeling like he might vomit when you shoved his shoulder back into place. Awkwardly accepting your help taking off his jeans so he could shower. Nearly falling to his knees under the hot water. Pulling himself together long enough to stash his gun in a drawer when you’d stepped away.

And it’s that last memory that makes his chest go tight.

Last night, hiding his gun seemed like the right thing to do. A way to keep you separate from the ugliness he normalized a long time ago. But this morning the half-assed lie of omission makes him feel guilty as hell. A pathetic attempt to delay the inevitable. Chewing gum jammed into the crack of a dam.

He has to tell you about that gun.

So he gets to work on dragging his ass out of bed. It takes him way too damned long to sit upright, way too damned long to slide himself off the edge of the mattress. Longer than that to slowly limp his way into the bathroom where he pees for what feels like a solid ten minutes.

He’s still rubbing the sleep from his eyes when he spots the bright red toothbrush sitting in the cup on his sink.

It’s just some cheap throwaway he brought home after his last visit to the dentist -- a long-forgotten backup that’s been stashed in the cabinet under the bathroom counter for months. But now it’s sitting out in the open, in that cup. Right next to his own blue one.

Yoongi stares at it and scrubs a hand over his face.

And that tiny voice in his head gets a bit louder.

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He finds you seated at his piano, bare-faced and hair tousled. Fingers tracing light patterns across the keys of his custom instrument, gaze taking in all of the tiny details he paid a small fortune for.

He could have stayed there for a while, just appreciating the view had you not caught him staring.

Your dark eyes flick up to find his and Yoongi’s pulse quickens at the warmth in them. At the soft, shy smile that comes over you just before you clear your throat and lower your eyes back to the keys.

“Beautiful,” you sigh.

No kidding, Yoongi thinks.

He crosses the room slowly. Tries his hardest not to limp but the throb in his knee makes that nearly impossible. Sadness flashes across your face as you watch him sink heavily onto the bench beside you.

“I can help you, you know,” you admonish softly.

Yoongi shrugs, motioning to the sling. “You already have.”

He stills when you reach one hand out to brush your fingertips across the redness on his jaw. You stroke your thumb across his aching cheek and Yoongi leans into the touch, savoring the feeling of your skin against his.

“Yoongi,” you whisper, “I’m so sorry you’re hurt, and -- ” you pause to shake your head sadly, “-- and I’m so sorry it’s because I put you in this position.”

Yoongi sucks in a deep breath.

He can’t bring himself to tell you that he can’t think straight when he imagines what could have happened if that fucking goon had gotten you alone. Can’t bring himself to admit out loud that he could have pulled his gun and ended that piece of shit without losing a second of sleep.

Would have, had you not been there.

“Better me than you, Doc,” he says thickly. “You made the right call.”

You press a gentle kiss to his throbbing jaw.

“You still mad at me?”

You whisper the words into the shell of Yoongi’s ear and a slow heat builds in his gut.

“Yeah,” he lies, dropping a kiss on the delicate skin below your jaw. He ghosts the tip of his nose against the curve of your neck and you shudder under his touch. He’s forced to check himself, leaning back for a few inches of badly-needed space.

On the bright side, at least his dick isn’t broken, too.

He clears his throat. “If that guy had brought backup -- ”

“ -- If that guy had brought backup, he’d have been out of the car long before you left his buddy in a pile on the floor,” you interrupt gently.

Yoongi chuckles. “Just admit you’re terrible at following directions.”

“You happen to have your MRI results around here anywhere? I’d be interested to see what they say about that shoulder.”

You raise one brow when Yoongi narrows his eyes at you in response. “No? Well, then I guess I’m not the only one who’s bad at following directions.”

“Guess not,” Yoongi admits with a smile.

Your turn your attention back to his piano, touch reverent as you slide one hand across the rich black lacquer.

“When you first walked in, I was going to say something really dumb like do you play?” you admit with a laugh. “But no one owns something this magnificent unless they have a passion for it.”

“Yeah, I play,” Yoongi murmurs. “When I have two functioning arms.”

He’d intended to earn a laugh with that tease, but the joke falls flat. Sadness creeps back into your features.

“Yoongi,” you say quietly, gaze dropping into your lap. “I honestly don’t know what would have happened to me last night without you. And all I can think about this morning is why? Why did you do this for me?”

Fuck, that’s a loaded question.

If Yoongi had the balls, he’d tell you straight up that he fell for you the moment he laid eyes on you at Songdo . That you feel like his chance at something more. But Yoongi doesn’t say any of that.

Instead, he coughs up a weak white lie.

“We’re both out here flying solo Doc. We have to look out for each other. Besides -- ” he tips your chin up with a gentle press of his fingers and finds your dark eyes glassy with unshed tears. “ -- I have a thing for that smart mouth of yours.”

He earns a tiny smile from you then, just the slightest curve of your lips. And he’s this close to kissing the soft, sad expression right off your face when that voice in his mind fucks everything up again.

Tell her about the gun.

The thought is like a bucket of cold water over his head, jarring him from the intimacy of this moment. Yoongi swallows thickly before opening his mouth to tell you the truth. But before he can speak, you do.

“I have something of yours,” you say, reaching into the pocket of your borrowed basketball shorts. Yoongi watches you produce a worn handmade bracelet and holds his palm open to accept it. “It fell out of your jacket last night,” you explain.

He rubs his thumb over the smooth metal corners of the cross that dangles from aged leather. It brings back the memory of his baptism -- of the day Mrs. Bak proudly gifted it to him while he was still damp from the ceremony. It also brings back the memory of last night -- when he’d clutched it between his fingers and sent a silent plea for protection skyward.

It’s been a long time since he’s prayed. It’s been a long time since he had anything to pray for.

“Are you religious?” you ask softly.

Yoongi shakes his head. “Honestly? I don’t know.” A self-conscious heat creeps up his neck. “Just makes me feel better, I guess. Is that dumb?”

“No,” you reassure quietly, bringing one warm hand up to cup his cheek. Yoongi covers your hand with his, laces his fingers in between yours. “Not dumb at all.”

Tell her about the gun.

“Doc,” Yoongi whispers thickly, “We need to talk about something.”

Your hand falls away from his face and your spine goes stiff with tension and Yoongi almost loses his nerve.

Almost.

“Okay, so I was, uh -- carrying a gun last night,” he starts, rubbing awkwardly at the back of his neck, “I carry a gun all the time, actually. I hid it because I didn’t want to freak you out.”

You say nothing, expression unreadable. And Yoongi keeps talking.

“But I don’t want to keep things from you,” he says quietly. “I want you to know exactly who I am. No half-truths.”

Your eyes drop back down to the piano. You pluck at one of the keys and a somber note rings out, lingers in the air between you before you speak.

“You have a gunshot wound in your back, Yoongi,” you murmur. “It’s not exactly a leap of logic. Besides, I already saw your gun. It was in your drawer last night when I got you a change of clothes.”

Yoongi nods slowly, processing the fact that you’d discovered the gleaming silver piece and hadn’t written him off right away. You’d still slept in the crook of his arm last night. You’re still here right now.

“And yeah, maybe it does freak me out a bit,” you admit. “But after what I saw last night, maybe I can understand a bit, too.”

Yoongi lets go of the breath he’s been holding and takes your hand in his. Maybe is as good as he could have hoped for at this point. Maybe is not a dead end.

“I have something to tell you, too,” you admit after a moment. “I’m due at the hospital in a few hours.”

“Doc,” Yoongi groans, hand tightening reflexively around yours. “You can’t go back there.”

“I don’t have a choice,” you insist, pulling away. “This isn’t just some job I fell into, Yoongi. This is years of my life.”

Yoongi is quiet for a few seconds, willing his rising agitation to subside. He’s careful to check his tone before he speaks.

“You’re not safe there.”

“I have to go back. I don’t have a choice,” you repeat. “I can’t afford to get blacklisted and Lee is still my boss. And if he’s already got wind of what happened last night, he’s going to be gunning for me even harder than he already has been. I have to tread carefully.”

Yoongi shoves a hand through his hair.

“You have to meet me in the middle here, Doc,” he exhales. “There’s got to be something halfway between you walking right back into that hellhole and you losing your job. Take a couple of sick days. Give me some time to figure out who your boss is working with and what I can do about it. Can you do that?”

You’re quiet for a moment as you consider his proposal.

“Yeah,” you concede softly. “I can do that.”

You lift a hand to brush a lock of hair out of his face and press your mouth to his.

Every cell in Yoongi’s body stands at attention. He cards his fingers into the soft mass of your hair and kisses you slowly -- carefully -- all too aware of the way he’d manhandled you last night.

Not even the pain in his jaw could take away from how good it feels to touch you like this. Not even the ache in his ribs could stop him from leaning into you. He slips his tongue past your lips and you whimper, fingers curling into his sore knee.

He could not give a shit.

Yoongi leaves your mouth to trail kisses down your jaw, and you tip your head back, offering him the soft expanse of your neck. He accepts it gladly, mouth hot and open on your skin, savoring your scent and taste -- enjoying the way he can feel your pulse fluttering wildly under his lips.

He’s enjoying it all so much that he gets careless. The elbow of his injured arm connects with the sharp edge of the piano and he recoils instantly.

“Dammit,” he groans. “Fuck.”

“Oh, shit,” you gasp, clapping a hand over your mouth.

The pain is so potent it seems to radiate all the way from his arm to his temples. Yoongi squeezes his eyes shut as he waits for the ringing in his ears to subside.

“Yoongi, your shoulder, it's -- it’s really bad,” you admonish quietly. “If you keep going like this, the damage is going to be permanent.”

“Trust me, I know,” he sighs. “I’m going to get this looked at, I just haven’t.”

“I want you to see a friend of mine at Asan today,” you urge. “He’s a good doctor. He can get you some pain relief. Get you back to working condition.”

Yoongi nods weakly, pain still ebbing from his arm.

“But it’s not a substitute for an MRI and it’s not a substitute for surgery,” you warn. “This is just a temporary fix. You have to be careful. Whatever you’re planning, just please be careful.”

Yoongi skates the pad of his thumb over your lips before kissing you just one more time.

“Don’t worry about me, Doc,” he murmurs. “I’m going to have some help.”

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It’s amazing what a pair of high-powered steroid shots and a bottle of industrial-strength painkillers can do for a guy.

Yoongi pulls into the parking lot at Maekju feeling almost human again.

If the text messages that have been blowing up his phone all afternoon are any indication, everyone is here tonight. Everyone with the exception of Namjoon, of course. He doesn’t drink anymore and even when he did, he always preferred to drink alone.

Jungkook is the first person Yoongi spots, leaned up against a pool table, beer in hand. He’s watching Jimin and Taehyung face off at billiards while Seokjin and Hoseok sit side-by-side at the bar, deep in conversation.

The maknae’s eyes go a bit wide when he takes in Yoongi’s unusual gait and immobilized arm.

“Holy shit, hyung,” he breathes as Yoongi approaches. “What the hell happened to you?”

Seokjin whips around in his barstool at the sound of Jungkook’s greeting, but Hoseok doesn’t take the bait. He stiffens in his seat but refuses to turn around. Stubborn bastard.

“Yoga accident,” Yoongi mutters, stepping up to the bar next to Seokjin. The older man smirks as he takes a long pull of his beer.

“How’d you drive with that thing on?” Seokjin asks, motioning to Yoongi’s sling.

“Carefully,” Yoongi says dryly. “Listen, can you give me a minute with Jung here?”

Seokjin’s critical gaze bounces back and forth between Yoongi and Hoseok, who is still resolutely pretending not to notice the conversation taking place just inches from his face. He stares into a television mounted high above the bar and sips his whiskey with feigned indifference.

“You two need couple’s counseling, I swear,” Seokjin groans, rolling his eyes. He stands to his feet to relinquish his barstool and claps a hand over Yoongi’s good shoulder. “I’ll leave you to it, then.”

Hoseok, the fucking infant, grabs a newspaper abandoned on the bartop and proceeds to pretend to read it. Yoongi slides into the stool next to him anyway.

“Miss me?”

Hoseok doesn’t answer.

“You’re not gonna say hello? Not gonna ask me why it looks like I spent all night falling off a cliff?”

“Nope.”

Yoongi waves off the bartender who starts walking in his direction. The last thing he needs is a drink. He’s got so many painkillers in his system right now that one sip of booze would probably have him under the bar in seconds.

“Come on Hoseok,” Yoongi sighs. “Don’t be a dick. I’ve literally never seen you read a newspaper.”

“I like to stay informed,” Hoseok shrugs.

“Well, I’m trying to talk to you.”

“Oh, so you talk to me now?” Hoseok snickers. “That’s new.”

Hoseok’s probably earned the right to his petulance, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. Yoongi starts to reconsider that drink.

“Jung,” he groans. “I’m trying to apologize here.”

“So apologize then.”

“Fine,” Yoongi mutters. “I’m sorry I’ve been an asshole lately. I’ve been twisted up over some shit that has nothing to do with you or family business.”

Hoseok grabs his whiskey off the bar and finally -- finally -- pivots to face him.

“A giant asshole,” he corrects dryly.

“Yes. A giant asshole,” Yoongi repeats. “We good now?”

Hoseok sips his whiskey slowly, eyes narrowed at Yoongi over the lip of his glass.

“Buy me a drink.”

“Fine,” Yoongi hisses, flagging the bartender.

Hoseok leans back in his barstool, looking a bit smug.

“Now this shit you’ve been twisted up about,” he starts, brow cocked. “Would this have anything to do with your secret doctor friend?”

“Maybe,” Yoongi admits, scratching at the back of his neck. His injured shoulder is tired from carrying the extra weight of the sling. He rolls it gingerly as Hoseok looks on.

“Would this have anything to do with why you look like you got jumped on your way in here tonight?”

Yoongi’s cheeks warm at his partner’s blunt observation. “Maybe.”

Hoseok drains his whiskey just as the bartender arrives with a fresh one. He takes a long drink before setting his glass back down on the bar. His lips purse thoughtfully as he levels Yoongi with a long, assessing look.

“Okay,” he says calmly. “So who do we have to go fuck up?”

**************************

Dr. Lee Geon just looks like a fucking weasel.

Yoongi glares at the man as he strolls into the coffee shop a few blocks from Songdo with just minutes to spare to his shift.

Lee bears little resemblance to his photos on the hospital website.

He’s thin -- just this side of gaunt -- hollow cheeks prominent below dark under eyes beneath a sparse dusting of greasy hair. Were he not dressed in a rumpled lab coat and equally creased scrubs, Yoongi might have missed him entirely.

Across the room, Hoseok peers at Yoongi over the top of yet another borrowed newspaper -- is this the guy? -- and Yoongi answers with a furtive nod.

He goes over the plan they’d worked out in the car in his head. They’d find the guy -- make sure he was the guy -- and then follow him out of the shop. Catch him just before he got into his car. Shake him up a bit before shaking him down for information.

There’s one thing Yoongi still hasn’t worked out, though.

Just how much he’s going to allow himself to hurt this asshole before sending him on his way. Lee slowly shuffles his way to the front of the line as Yoongi imagines jamming his fist into the man’s stupid fucking face. Imagines doing it over and over again until the piece of shit is unrecognizable.

Yoongi watches Lee order his drink as he kneads at the tender muscles of his shoulder.

Ditching the sling was probably a bad idea -- definitely against doctor’s orders -- but it was a risk he was more than willing to take. He’d downed a couple of painkillers and shoved his shoulder into a brace and decided he could deal with the dull throb just for the night.

No way in hell he was going to confront this scumbag looking like some kid who just fell off his skateboard.

It doesn’t take long for the barista to put together Lee’s drink. He grabs his coffee and Yoongi tenses in anticipation of his next move. But instead of heading for the exit, Lee heads for the bathroom instead.

Yoongi locks eyes with Hoseok across the room and Hoseok raises one brow.

Change of plans?

Yoongi nods.

*****************************

Lee’s coffee sits abandoned atop the sink ledge.

Yoongi and Hoseok slip silently into the bathroom and get right to work. Hoseok blocks the door as Yoongi quietly creeps past the stalls, ducking his head to peer beneath each one. Lee’s scuffed sneakers are the only pair of shoes he spots.

His ears pick up on a faint sound coming from inside the locked stall.

It’s a kind of soft, intermittent rasping. Yoongi concentrates on the noise, isolates it until he comes to the realization that it’s sniffling he’s hearing. He turns to Hoseok and taps his finger against the side of his nose and Hoseok nods his agreement.

Yoongi shakes his head in disgust. Is there a single substance this idiot isn’t addicted to?

It takes a moment for the sniffling to subside. It’s followed by a few seconds of quiet rustling in which Yoongi can picture Lee carefully pocketing whatever’s left of his coke. The noises from behind the brushed steel barrier finally stop and the next thing Yoongi hears is the distinct clink of the latch coming apart.

Lee swings the door wide -- gets one look at what’s waiting for him on the other side -- and nearly jumps out of his skin.

He startles so hard that he almost falls backward into the toilet. But he catches himself, regaining his balance and staring back at Yoongi with wide, worried eyes.

Yoongi stands there and says nothing.

“Excuse me,” Lee mumbles, eyeing him wearily as he tries to slide past. He takes two steps forward then stops in his tracks when he spots Hoseok. Lee swallows thickly, eyes darting back and forth between both men.

“Is there a problem gentlemen?” he croaks.

Yoongi takes a step towards Lee. He shrinks back when Yoongi reaches for his badge, yanking the retractable cord as he pulls it close to examine it. Yoongi runs his thumb over the raised lettering on the laminated card, letting the taut silence linger for dramatic effect.

Then he lets go of the badge without warning, fighting a smile when Lee flinches as it snaps back into place.

“Yes, we have a problem,” Yoongi confirms pleasantly. “And yes, it’s you.”

The little color left in Lee’s face immediately drains out.

“Look, I don’t know who you guys are, but you don’t w-want to mess with me,” he stammers, voice cracking comically halfway through his flimsy threat. “I know people.”

“Oh shit,” Yoongi’s eyes go wide with feigned concern, “You hear that, Jung? This guy knows people.”

“Sounds scary,” Hoseok chuckles.

Lee starts to breathe harder, chest rising and falling faster. Pupils blown with fear and coke.

“Now, here’s the difference between you and us, Dr. Lee,” Yoongi explains calmly. “You know people. But we -- ” he motions to himself and then to Hoseok, “ -- are people . Do you understand what I’m trying to say here?”

Yoongi punctuates his point by brushing the edge of his open leather jacket aside, allowing his pistol to peek out from underneath. Lee’s eyes lock on it as he nods slowly, pulling deep, noisy breaths through his nose.

“Great. Now we don’t have to play the game where you pretend not to know about the bullshit you’ve been pulling over at the hospital, right?”

Lee shakes his head slowly.

“So that means we also don’t have to play the game where you pretend you didn’t send some fucking street goon to rough up a little old lady, either. Right?”

The man’s mouth drops open like his first instinct is to deny that accusation. But he steals another look at Hoseok and shuts it instead.

“And then -- ” Yoongi jabs Lee in the chest with one finger and the man jumps back, “-- you tried to send that same goon after your own resident. But here’s the thing, Doctor Lee. She knows people, too.”

Lee’s body goes rigid. Yoongi watches him process the information with his drug-addled brain, a flare of recognition finally sparking in his dull eyes.

“I saw you at the hospital,” Lee whispers. “You know her.”

“Don’t worry about who I know,” Yoongi shrugs. “Worry about what you’re going to say in your resignation letter.”

He advances on the man again, closing the space between them. Lee tries to back away, but he runs out of room. He tilts against the stall door.

“Resignation letter?” he echoes weakly.

“The one you’re turning in tonight,” Yoongi explains coolly. “Before you get the fuck out of Songdo and then get the fuck out of Seoul.”

Lee sputters for a moment, grasping for his next words.

“Well, where am I supposed to go?” he bleats.

“Do we look like recruiters to you, man?” Hoseok cuts in sharply. “We don’t give a shit where you go -- you just have to go. You sure this guy is a doctor, Min? He seems way too dumb to be a doctor.”

“Nah. This guy’s a junkie pretending to be a doctor,” Yoongi accuses, dropping any pretense of good humor. “Pretending to be a tough guy, too. But all of that ends tonight.”

Yoongi grabs Lee by the chin, jerking his head into place and forcing the trembling man to look him in the eye.

“In ten minutes, you’re going to walk your ass into that hospital. You’re going to tell them you are leaving. You are going to take that piece of shit pharmacist and anyone else who’s involved with you. And then you are never going to step foot in this city again.”

He pauses to enjoy the way Lee’s pupils dilate even wider with fear.

“You’re not too high to understand what I’m saying to you right now, right?”

Lee shakes his head weakly, jaw still pinned in Yoongi’s vice grip.

“Great. Now just one more thing before you go on your merry way,” Yoongi says, voice low with menace. “Give us the name of your street guys.”

Lee panics. “I can’t,” he whines from between compressed cheeks. “They’ll kill me.”

Yoongi grips his face tighter, crushing the man’s jaw and using it to push his body flush against the stall. His fingers and knuckles turn white with the force of his grasp and Lee groans weakly at the pain.

“I will kill you,” Yoongi seethes. “Me. Right fucking now with my bare fucking hands if you don’t give me that name.”

Lee is sweating so profusely that Yoongi wonders briefly if he’s having a heart attack. He’s probably got enough coke in his system for that to be an actual concern. But the pathetic little shit manages to pull himself together long enough to follow directions.

“Kkangpae,” he wheezes.

Yoongi’s iron grip stays in place, even as he turns to Hoseok, even as both men exchange a look. That is something he did not see coming. Perhaps his recent personal issues are family business, after all.

He finally releases Lee’s jaw and the man rears back, breathing hard.

“You have exactly one day to get the fuck out of this city,” Yoongi instructs quietly. “And that is not an offer I’m prepared to make twice.”

Lee licks his dry lips, nodding his head slowly like he’s just come out of a trance. “Okay.”

“Great chat,” Yoongi smiles, patting Lee’s cheek.

Hoseok leaves his post at the door to cross the cramped bathroom and reach for the coffee Lee abandoned minutes ago. Both men watch in silence as he turns it up over the sink, pours it out, and then tosses it in the trash.

He heads back to the door and holds it open.

“Damn Hoseok,” Yoongi murmurs as he brushes past. “That was cold.”

*********************************

YOU

There’s buzzing. Of that, you’re sure.

But in those first few moments that you’re rousing, you can’t be sure if you’re hearing it or dreaming it. You’re disoriented. It’s the second time in as many days you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar bed.

Shafts of sunlight pour through the blinds and you squint at them, trying to get a sense of the time of day. If the amber tinge is any indication, it’s late into the afternoon.

The buzzing sounds again.

You roll to your side to grab your cell phone off the nightstand and blink at a long list of waiting texts.

ko: wake up sleeping beauty [ 11:36 AM ]

ko: i have news [ 11:45 AM ]

ko: big news [ 12:22 PM ]

ko: and gaeran tost-u [ 1:02 PM ]

ko: ready for you to wake up now [ 1:43 PM ]

ko: don’t mind me just gonna bang a few pots and pans [ 2:11 PM ]

Any curiosity over Ko’s big news is overshadowed by the way your heart drops when none of those messages is from Yoongi.

Before you’d left his apartment, he’d asked you to stay. He’d cleared his throat and looked down at his hands and explained that he’d feel better if you weren’t alone until this entire mess was settled. But the way he looked at you in those last few minutes together made you feel like his proposition was about much more than just your protection.

It made you want to say yes.

Never mind that it’s insane to feel so at home in his personal space -- or that coming to that realization might have sent you into a mild panic. In the end, you’d had to say no because you couldn’t bring yourself to leave Ko on her own while this madness played out.

You rub the sleep out of your eyes and fire off two quick texts.

you: i hope you’re okay. please be careful [ 2:33 PM ]

you: up now. be down in five [ 2:34 PM ]

**************************

Ko makes good on her promise of gaeran tost-u.

You’re greeted by the pleasant smell of the sugared egg dish as you walk down the stairs. Ko sits at her kitchen table, eyes shining with excitement, and pushes a plate at you when you slide into the chair across from hers.

“Eat,” she orders sweetly. Your stomach rumbles on cue and you waste no time digging in.

“This is really good,” you declare around a mouthful of bread and eggs. “I might have to live with you forever.”

Ko smiles wide and the expression makes you feel warm from the inside out. The bruising on her face is barely visible now, easily hidden with a little makeup. Her eyes crinkle with happiness as she watches you eat without saying a word.

“Alright,” you sigh, loathe to stop eating even for as long as it takes to speak. “Spill it. You look fit to burst.”

“Thought you’d never ask,” she complains cheerfully. “Dr. Lee is gone. Walked into Songdo last night and walked out forever.”

You gasp halfway through your next bite, sputtering as you try to catch your breath around a mouthful of toasted bread. Ko stands to grab you a glass of water which you gratefully accept.

“Well, don’t die on me now,” she teases, “Because there’s more. Nang left, too. And Tuan and Beom from pathology. All four of them quit without even so much as a notice, Jagi. Isn’t that wild?”

You sip your water slowly and Ko’s eyes flash as she watches you.

“Yoo called me early this morning and said the entire hospital is talking about it. There’s a bunch of crazy theories going around. And here I am, drinking my tea. Thinking about how you took a few sick days and showed up here. Thinking about how healthy and rested you look right now. Isn’t that interesting?”

You nod, jamming the sandwich back in your mouth for an obnoxiously large bite.

“And I can’t help but wonder if there’s some connection between this very convenient development and my very sweet, secretive friend.”

Ko’s mouth twists into a teasing smile as you chew your food absurdly slow.

“That sandwich isn’t going to last forever, Jagi,” she says dryly. She lifts her teacup to her mouth and takes a dainty sip. “And trust me, I have nothing but time.”

She leans back, cup in hand.

“Okay, so I might know something about it,” you admit after a while. “But there’s still a lot I don’t know. And I’m not sure how much of this you want to hear.”

Ko tuts under her breath.

“I want to hear it all. I’ve got quite a few years on you and trust me, very little shocks me anymore. So now you spill it.”

You take another sip of water and clear your throat.

“Okay,” you exhale. “So there’s this guy -- ”

“ -- Oh, I love it when stories start like this,” Ko interrupts. She props her chin up with her hands like you’re telling a bedtime story and you shake your head with a wry smile.

“He’s been kind of… helping me, I guess.”

“Helping you,” Ko echoes. “As in helping you out of your clothes?”

“No,” you deny hotly, cheeks warming. “He’s a friend.”

Ko doesn’t bother to call you out on the weak lie. But her face says what her mouth doesn’t when one skeptical brow raises high.

“Go on.”

“I told him about what was going on at the hospital and he said he could help me,” you explain slowly. “So I’m pretty sure he figured out a way to run off Lee and Nang.”

Ko taps her finger against the side of her teacup.

“So let me see if I have this right,” she muses. “You tell this friend -- who you’ve never once mentioned, by the way -- that you’ve been having this very dangerous trouble at work. And then your friend somehow manages to convince two grown men who’ve worked at Songdo for years to give up their high-paying jobs and up-front access to IV drugs overnight.”

You shift uncomfortably in your chair.

“And just like that -- ” Ko snaps her fingers for emphasis, “ -- they’re gone without so much as a fuss.”

You nod weakly.

“Jagi,” Ko’s voice drops low. “I take it your friend’s not a mailman, is he?”

“No,” you mumble. “Definitely not.”

Ko hums under her breath. She carefully lifts her teacup to drink, eyes trained on you over the rim. Her quiet scrutiny makes you anxious.

“Can I ask you a question?” she asks after a long pause.

“If I said no would that stop you?”

“Not a chance,” Ko laughs. “Would this friend happen to be the mysterious, handsome man who asked for you in the ER a few weeks back?”

Mind like a steel trap, this woman. You should have known Ko would make that connection and fast. There’s no point in denying it, so you don’t.

“Yes,” you whisper thickly. “He is.”

It’s hard to get a read on Ko’s reaction. Over the years, you’ve come to rely on her sweetness and wisdom and warmth. But now, as you stare into her dark eyes and try to interpret her careful expression, you realize there’s something else you need from her.

Her approval.

“Ko, I think I -- ” you pause to choose your words carefully, “ -- I think I might be in really deep with this guy.”

Ko snorts.

“Oh, I think you might be right about that, Jagiya . And if he’s helping you with something like this? Chances are, you’re not alone.”

“Yeah,” you exhale, wringing your hands together beneath the table. “Thing is -- I need you to tell me I’m not making a mistake here.”

The corners of Ko’s mouth lift into a soft expression of surprise.

“Oh, Jagi,” she chides sweetly. “You know I can’t tell you that. I don’t know anything about this man.” She reaches across the table to cover your hand with her own. “But you do. You’re the only one who knows how you feel about him. And you’re the only one who knows if he’s a good man underneath it all.”

Ko squeezes your hand and you turn your head before she can see the tears that threaten in your eyes. The amber sunlight outside her kitchen window is shifting orange now, flares of light reflecting off the glass.

You stare at them and think about Yoongi.

Until now, it’s like you’ve been splitting him into two different men -- the bruised, bloody con artist from the exam room and the quiet, teasing flirt from the coffee shop. Until now, it’s been the only way to reconcile your complicated feelings.

But it's well past time you accepted the truth.

The same Yoongi whose cheeks had pinked when he’d asked you to stay is the same Yoongi you watched beat the shit out of a hired thug. The Yoongi who carries a cross is the Yoongi who carries a gun. They’re two halves of one whole.

And you can’t pine for one and reject the other.

Your cell phone buzzes from the pocket of your pajama pants. You reach for it, relief coursing through you when you spot Yoongi’s name on the screen.

yoongi: one more thing to do before we can talk [ 3:01 PM ]

yoongi: it’s cold outside, be sure to bundle up [ 3:01 PM ]

Yoongi’s random mention of the weather confuses you. You stare at the texts and Ko stares at you, concerned by the baffled expression on your face.

“Is something wrong?”

“No, no,” you insist, shaking your head. “Just, um -- ”

Bundle up. A tingle runs up the length of your spine as realization slowly creeps over you.

“Excuse me for a moment,” you murmur, slipping out of your seat.

Ko watches you dash up the stairs, slack-jawed.

You make a beeline for your borrowed room, throwing open the closet doors to find the coat you’d left hanging there on arrival. The coat you’d worn to and from Yoongi’s. You hurriedly dig into the pockets, fingers immediately making contact with something hard and jagged.

You pull it out.

The shiny silver key in your palm looks like it’s never been used, sharp edges gleaming in the waning sunlight streaming into this room.

You don’t have to guess what it’s for.

You just close your fingers around it and hold it tight.

*****************

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