#so i will bookmark this post and check this again whenever an episode drops and see if any of the points met has been met lol

[hirumina]

my friend i think you just unlocked the whole plot of bad buddy series at this point

Fake Relationship before the love competition in Bad Buddy not just a rumor? Here's why!

Pran and Pat want their friends to stop fighting

Both of them don't want to fight each other and this extends to their friend groups. Furthermore their professor is breathing down their neck about the whole thing, and the fight at the end of Ep. 2 was probably their last warning.

So they have to devise a plan...

In the preview to Ep. 3 we see Pran and Pat standing at the destroyed pavilion discussing the whole situation.

Option 1: Let's tell them we are friends

Pran and Prat are still in their 'no way we are friends' phase, even though they have a history of friendship (and possibly crushes??).

Pran is opposed to this idea. Telling (or admitting) to their friends that both of them are friends, is actually somehow not believable and might not end the feud between the faculties. Both Pran and Pat have been 'fighting' each other and their friends believe they have the same opinion as them about the leader of the other faculty. The boys will question their leaders position and authority. It's not a good plan, and Pran knows it. So what is the alternative? Well good that we have Pat having a brilliant idea...

Option 2: Let's tell them we're ... boyfriends then?

Pran was thrown off guard, just as we were by that preview, but let's think about this. What would they tell their friends that would justify to stop their fighting, and also explain why both Pran and Pat were seemingly enemies. The solution is to tell them they are in a secret relationship, and didn't want anyone to find out, and therefore actedas if they were rivals/enemies. This could also go into the route of telling them that the secret admirer they were meeting on the rooftop was the other guy, that they were gifting each other drinks and food because that's what couples do, and that they because they had to keep everything a secret, made the whole thing up about not knowing who the person across the hall was.

Their friends will be shocked, but it will make sense to them. They had to fake everything because they are in love with each other and didn't want their friends to find out, and furthermore they don't want their beloved stupid friends to fight each other because of their relationship.

This is what might happen:

Pat (or Pran, who knows) suggests for them to fake being in a relationship, to stop the fighting between their friends groups:

They will have to act as a couple in front of their friends, to remind them that fighting is off limits because of their relationship:

They will have to get more comfortable with each other to make their fake relationship believable:

And of course Pat will completely go over the top with flirting (even tho they are 'fake' dating) just to make Pran flustered (and also because he actually wants to flirt with him):

What will happen after this?

Well we know from the trailer, that they will make a competition about who will fall in love first. My theory is that they observe how convincing the fake relationship is to others, and get the 'wonderful' idea to see if they can fool each other. Both of them will give their best to act as the perfect boyfriends and make the other fall in love. Of course they don't realise that they are clowning themselves with all of this.

Because of the fake relationship deal, and competition, they won't be able to guess each other's real feelings, and if they reveal theirs, they will loose the competition and their face. Little do they know that they both feel the same.

So it's possible that Pat is going to wear his heart on his sleeve and reveal his feelings, Pran will think that is is part of the competition and that Pat lies to make Pran reveal his feeling and therefore loose. As a reaction Pran will hurt Pat by saying that this is only a competition and that Pat just lost, just because poor Pran is scared that Pat would do the same in the scenario and that he doesn't feel the same. So basically hell week(s) for us with all this angst.

So, is this bad buddy brain rot affecting me or am I onto something??? Guys??

I'd love to read your opinion!!

[mythvoiced]

⭐️ (I just GOTTA know)

@wantedformanysins | — for each “⭐️” i get, i’ll write a headcanon about our muses.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IT, I was hoping you would >:3c You sent only one but uhm... I’m going to be very loud about the ships/muse combos we’re discussing, so beware for Length™ below the cut. Note: in no way shape or form is there any pressure to accept any of these headcanons and I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on them, whether you agree or disagree with them, and just, all you’ve got to say, please ;W; Also, pretty sure I didn’t miss anyone (not included those we just recently started on) but, like, if I somehow did, shoot me in the face ♥

Going in no particular order.

-. Aziz & Nathaniel I like to think that, pre-wipe, they had a lot of unspoken agreements and settlements between them that were mostly of strategic and social nature, in the sense that, they naturally positioned themselves in ways physically and took on specific roles in conversations with new people (especially when they were up to no good) without having ever discussed who, for example, plays the good cop and who plays the bad cop. They were simply in sync with each other, naturally filling in where the other lacked, covering each other’s backs, backing up crap one of them made up on the spot, they worked together so astoundingly well without ever... sitting down and talking it out, they just completed and complemented each other’s ideas. This faded post-wipe because Aziz no longer remembered how to read Nathaniel, he’s meeting him for the first time again, and Nathaniel isn’t familiar with this Aziz either, but what if part of it is still present, what if subconsciously they still click with each other, especially when bullshitting their way out of things, in ways that would make an observant eye go “well damn, that’s a team, alright”. Now... that’d be lowkey neat, wouldn’t it.

-. Aziz & Diana When the one of them needs to talk, they just know. They walk into the room and the other just knows, from the way they walk in, from the look on their face, the way they hold themselves, they just sense it, when something’s wrong, because they know each other, but also because they care enough to be in tune with it, with the general energy, brightness the other is exuding. So whenever one needs to sit down and be held a while or get something off their chest, they just... know and open their arms.

-. Nathan & Caleb I don’t know where this one came from, but I literally deleted the headcanon I had written before it, just to write this in its stead, and, honestly, but late-night picnic on a spot overlooking a city and then sitting on the hood of a car to watch the stars, I don’t know why, but my brain would like this to be a date they went on at least once, to have it tranquil and romantic and loving, and there’s a lot of leaning on the other and hugging and soft making out - anything else could be done back at home - and enjoying one another’s presence and am I saying that this is the date Caleb would have proposed on? UHm........................ Absolutely

-. Nathan & Junghoon They keep in contact quite regularly even after Junghoon leaves the States, kind of coordinating time-zones until phone calls work, but before they do that, checking in with the occasional text, while Jung collects memes to send Nathan, and always keeps Nathan up to date with any news he gets on Nathan’s favourite artists if he has any, they get each other Christmas presents and basically just maintain this friendship in spite of the distance while Jung keeps telling Nathan that if he ever wants to fly in, he’s got a place to stay, and guaranteeing that he’ll drop in soon again, this time to hang out, though.

-. Aziz & Haniel Weekly meet-ups, or maybe monthly? Or, perhaps, unspecified time-span, but one thing is sure, every now and then Aziz and Haniel just get together to catch up (this when Aziz is with Nathaniel & Diana, so after Aziz & Haniel’s time hanging out together more regularly). They get together, sit down somewhere where they can listen to the wind or watch the sea, and they talk, it’s calm, it’s timeless, as if every time they sat together, the world would spin according to their needs, at their pace, and they’d talk, or maybe they wouldn’t, they’d sit there and enjoy the world breathing around them and one another’s company.

-. Aziz & Muninn They compare stories. Stories they accidentally eavesdropped on, or some tale they stumbled upon in an old book, or anything they might have picked up, when they’re not searching for stories together and when Aziz isn’t potentially too distracted by an episode to keep any in mind, they try to have a few at the ready to discuss when they’ll meet again.

-. Nathan & Chulsoo This one’s angsty and I need your thoughts on all of these, but mayhaps this one in particular, also in case I misunderstood Nathan in any way, but my headcanon for these two is that they spent a lot of nights awake simply lying next to each other without noticing the other was awake and doing the same thing, all the while pondering, and mulling their relationship over, just sleepless hours they dissected the past and the future of their relationship and got nowhere.

-. Emerson & Eunjae THIS ONE’S CUTE, OKAY, HOW ABOUT: exchanging bookmarks. Maybe they’re selfmade, maybe they have some sort of emotional value, or maybe they were bought for specifically this purpose, but what if Emerson and Eunjae got each other special, personalised maybe even, bookmarks as a sign of growing affection between them? Maybe the other’s name is written on it in stylised letters, or maybe a quote they relate to the other is printed onto it, whatever suits Emerson’s style more for what she’d make and what she’d like, basically.

-. Emerson & Catharina They become regulars at a very expensive restaurant that is traditionally or simply ‘usually’ frequented by man only, partly with the purpose to spite these men by navigating this place confidently and with zero shame, all while quickly becoming some of the best customers because they’re polite, treat the waiters with respect, and never showcase any of that stomach churning arrogance the other patrons do, heck, they most likely even memorise some of the employee’s names and just... become favoured because 1. they have the money, 2. they’re decent human beings who treat others with respect unless disrespected first. Also, they fking look amazing, they look like suits and gowns respectively were invented to be worn by them specifically, Emerson outshines every fella in the room by simply wearing what they’re wearing, just... better.

[takaraphoenix]

(This is a relatively long post, so here’s what it is: It’s a love letter to Haikyuu!!, the TL;DR is literally: I love Haikyuu!!)

I love this story a whole lot. I never expected to love it as much as I do now. It’s tied for my favorite all-time anime with my two other favorites (there is no picking the ultimate because these three stories and genres are too different to find a definite one that outdoes the other; all three fill certain needs I have in an anime).

But this one was... unexpected. You see, my other two favorite anime are One Piece and Sailor Moon, both anime that have been with me since the 90s, anime that I grew up with.

Haikyuu!! is different, because I got into it during season 1. Back in 2014. It’s... It’s a baby anime - in that it is still so young, compared to the other two. The same can be said about the genres; both magical girl and adventure/fantasy were basically the two types of anime I’ve been enjoying since the 90s.

2014 was the year I first got into the sports anime genre. In fact, Haikyuu!! was the second ever sports anime I watched (my first being Kuroko no Basuke). I never really took that genre seriously or cared to even check it out, because well... sports. Sports aren’t my thing, so what could possibly be the appeal of watching an anime about them...? But a friend of mine was very deep into KnB and after one convention where she cosplayed Kuroko, I figured I’d give it a shot and I really ended up loving it. And yes, I admit, the main thing that made me pick HQ!! next was Hinata’s hair; the bright orange really jumped out at me when helplessly browsing for a successor.

I watched the whole thing - well, there wasn’t much of it at the time, only the first season - and I literally immediately watched the whole thing again. I started my rewatch the same day that I finished my first watch. I’ve never done that before.

And after I finished the first rewatch, I started reading the manga. I don’t... do that. I do own two shelves filled with manga, so yes I read them, some of them are in fact corresponding to anime I enjoy, but usually when I watch an anime I don’t feel the need to also read the manga. (I don’t like reading much.)

In this case, I just needed to know. I needed to know how it continued, I needed more. The only anime that ever happened with is One Piece. And, much like with One Piece, I am horribly bad at actually keeping up. After a couple of weeks of being caught up and waiting for weekly releases, I drop the manga again so it can... gather more chapters for me to read. And usually I forget about picking it up again, tbh.

I rewatched the first season once more when the second season hit. And rewatched both seasons before the third, shortly after the second season had ended. And, after the third one ended, another obligatory rewatch of it all.

We’re in 2016 now, at which point I was pretty deep into sports anime and had started watching multiple ones with multiple sports and was so busy discovering new news that, admittedly, in the following years there was no rewatch. I was falling down rabbit hole after rabbit hole of new anime and the appeal of the shiny new beat out watching something for what would be the sixth time.

Only when 2020 hit with that fourth season did it happen again. At first, I only really wanted to watch that last episode of season 3, because well the release had hit me a bit out of left field and actually I’m kind of busy and there are so many things I’m already watching and supposed to do I can’t possibly watch 75 episodes of something I already know by heart. But mh, that final episode, how can I leave it at that? At the very least that final match, right? That third season. It’s only 10 episodes. I’ll just... skim through it, skip around it and watch the highlights - and oops, I forgot to skip anything. Well, now that only made me want more. I could maybe just--

Yeah, I watched the whole 75 episodes in a week. Which, admittedly doesn’t sound like much considering they’re only 20 minute episodes, I mean come on that’s ony 25 hours of TV. However it’s subtitles so it’s something that requires my whole entire attention and that’s not how I consume other media; I always write while watching TV. Anime is special, because no dubs for me. So it requires more time, in a way. And I usally only carve out time for maybe an episode or two a day when I watch an anime. With HQ!! it was that I accidentally kind of binged season 3 in a day like I didn’t mean to watch 10 episodes in a row but how do you stop? And it continued much the same (logically, if you look at 75 episodes over 7 days. That’s literally just math).

I had finished the rewatch and was left with the weekly wait and it is slowly killing me. My fingers are itching to just rewatch the whole thing again but I now have this girlfriend and like she’s super adorable and also loves anime and she made this whole list of recommendations so I’m kinda working through that and come on you can’t just watch one thing on a loop that’s ridiculous.

So I picked up the manga again, two weeks ago. I had left it off and bookmarked it on chapter 161. I’m currently on 311. That’s... 150 chapters in two weeks. That’s a lot for me.

That’s all a very long way of trying to express just how much I love Haikyuu!!, because I just... genuinely can’t stop? I’m so thoroughly enjoying this whole thing that I just wanna consume it again as soon as I’m done because it’s so good.

I love the character, I adore the characters. Hinata Shouyou is in my top five favorite male characters of all time. I love him so much. But not just him. Not even just his team, aka the main characters? This one just completely makes me love even the other teams - yes, naturally the main rivals the most because that is by design, but usually sports anime fall short on making me invest in anyone beyond the actual main team, it is very rare that the main rivals get some baseline investment from me. Usually I’m just in it for the main characters, why should I care about those... stepping stones? The teams they defeat on the way.

Haikyuu!! has me squeal and point stupidly when my big dumb owl shows his face (Bokuto ily). It has me excited for them all. Invested to a certain degree (naturally, I don’t want the other teams to win when fighting Karasuno, because duh).

I even love the female characters in it! I very rarely can even stand female anime characters because like... 90s American stereotype female characters be cringey but anime stereotype female characters are the bane of my existence. Here, I love them, I find them wholesome. They’re not being exploited like in certain other male-centric franchises where they need the biggest tits possible and the thinnest waists imaginable and only exist for the male gaze and for the male characters to be perverts about them.

Hinata isn’t some super gifted chosen one but he has to work hard, really hard. They all do. And they all get their growth and just the pure excitement whenever they do learn something new, whenever they do improve? Not to mention his character design, that short ball of sunshine and fluff. His hair kills me. Seriously, that orange fluffiness. He’s so smol but so energetic and so bright in that contageous anime protagonist way - meaning that he just makes everyone around him like him and cheer for him and smile with him (well, not everyone *side-eyes Tsukki*).

Tsukishima has such a great arch. He starts out as such a stereotypical bully who is just put into the way of the protagonist to create some tension, but then he actually gets fleshed out fully, gets his own arch and growth and I genuinely never expected to care about the damn bastard??

The humor in this one also kills me. So much dry-witted sarcasm and snark, so much of the humor lays in the facial expressions of the characters too! It’s a joy to watch and to read.

The pacing just works. There are some sports anime that rush too much through games and some that drag them out too long - but in boring ways. This anime turned one volleyball game into a 10 episode season and manages to convey so much tension and excitement that even after I had already seen it twice and absolutely knew the outcome, I still couldn’t even pause and had to watch the whole thing because I needed to see how it continues.

They manage to convey all this excitement and also the joy - the joy of the characters whenever a play works out - and the surprise when something new happens in ways that have me excited all over again, even when I really shouldn’t be because I already know exactly what happens.

And then there’s the animal theme. I love a good animal theme. The fact that basically all the teams have an animal associated with them. There are such great visuals given with the animal themes too.

Naturally, there is also always the component of shipping for me. Such great ships that I love so dearly and... honestly, nothing has ever made me ship an OT6 before because I’m over here, juggling all these overlapping ships and loving and cherishing them all.

I don’t know, on the greater scale of things and the vast, endless landscape of anime, this may just be one of many, but to me personally...? It is... It’s like this one was just perfectly tailored to me, specifically, in a manner I experience very rarely. TV shows are always about compromises. Sure, I like plotlines A and C and D but man do I hate B and yeah I love the main character but urgh X member of the main cast I just loathe and then there’s the unnecessarily forced canon romance that’s making me cringe - these kind of things.

With Haikyuu!! I just... enjoy everything. Every aspect of it. Every character of it. Every interaction between characters. The writing, the art-style, the animation, the pacing, the characters, the plotline, the execusion. I just love the whole damn thing.

[horserepository]

I was not able to find it.

I'm going to be cringe and annoying. Skip if you don't want to read a horse enthusiast reminisce about faer early days here. It's fine.

In 2014, I was 13. I was in the middle of a major struggle with depression. I was about to get admitted to a psych ward because of how bad it got. I found about FiM by chance, almost by complete fucking accident. I don't even remember how. But I do remember getting absolutely hooked from tbe get go.

This show became my escapism. I'd watch it whenever i could, and i was often too excited about the episodes to even finish them sometimes. I would grab and hold any drop of content I could find online regarding the show. I rapidly found fan communities in my home tongue, and when the amount of content ended up not being sufficiet I practically taught myself English for the sole purpose of Getting More Horse. (A feat I have thus far been unable to reproduce with any other language.)

One thing that really got my attention quickly were pony ask blogs. (Well, two things, really; the second was changeling fanfiction. Have you ever read Without a Hive?) I've mentionned this before, here and on other blogs, but even as I had no accoynt on Tumblr back then I'd still check 60+ bookmarked blogs every day to check for new content. I had a lot of blogs that Id check back then. Most of them had a pretty standard layout: container with post list, sidebar with buttons. But some added a few things, and you could/would get super creative wth the blog themes if you wanted, provided you dug through tbe pile for the theme of your dreams or that you used html/css magic yourself.

Enter spike-in-weirdworld,

a blog most of you probably have never heard of, and whose search on tumblr only returns one result. The original blog has been long wiped and its mod blog no longer exists. I had to make a google search to verify I had the right name- which only returned for me a practically-empty Wikia entry and a Deviantart probably-fan-drawing from ~2014. I don't think screenshots of the theme even exist anywhere.

Well. I remember.

Weirdworld had a very dark background. The outlines and text where white/silver, I thunk, but the margins and post backgrounds were completely black (whereas the image themselves weren't and had a light background... ouchie, my eyes.) The vlog background was a pattern with dotted bright stars on a blaxk background. There was a sidebar with the blog icon, and at the very top of the blog... a music player. The first chiptunes I'd ever listened to, on Soundcloud, whcih ended up being all I would listen to for the 'ext four years. Even to this day I'm still not super fond of music with lyrics.

And there's a part of me that years for that experie'ce again.

I know a lot of it is nostalgia. I know I can't ever recapture that feeling, and I know it's not practical to reproduce it as it were. But I still want to get some part of that. I want to have my weird blog theme with a radio player and a pattern in the background. Maybe even I want to have a link to some 2004-lookalike geocities pony blog onto which i can attach a long-dead email. I want to contact the person whose geocities archive I found today to tell them how much their geocities website means to me, with all its dead links and its shitty ergonomy. I want to send them an email to tell them that I love how they made me feel, 16 years later, eve' if they open the email only in a month or 20 years. Even if they never open it.

I know what kind of website I want to make, I guess. A sparkly, oldie, kinda rubbish one. Not for anyone but me. I want to write an ode to the internet I had when I was 13, and I want to write an ode to the internet the older generation had when they were 13 themselves.

And I want it to have horses in it, because it's what 13 year old me would have wanted but never would have dared to actually do.

I love you all so much.

i need a bunch of desktop blog themes that look like these 2004 mlp geocities websites. not exactlyblike them ofc, i want them to be accessible, but also.... Kinda like them...

A long time ago back in 2013- hold on, i want to check if the blog still exists somewhere