#tbh it is kind of fun to mostly check out (i am still listening) and then pop in whenever weird things are being said
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socializing is so hard I'm like "yeah i finally got my depression done with forever (for real this time" and then I am in an environment with people and it's like "fuck how do I act i don't have the knowledge of the things should I be listening should I be looking I mean how do like verbal conversations work like they're clearly not oriented towards a goal in the same way emails are but they also just like don't have the same sort of "just kinda say things" that the internet has ok that's not fair I have held conversations, even if the initiation differs which is a big part of it but there is something different obviously like the expectation of latency & just basic woah you can't see them bit but also like it feels less direct. Oh and then now you have to deal with timing like 100x as often idk i think at the third time it's just time to give up. Though ok I mean I'm not incapable of verbal speech I can give answers in english class also why is my head burning and i mean i don't think my hands should be there do people care about that also i can't fathom the depravity of how i look"
#i mean like depression overriding symptoms of anxiety doesn't seem an unreasonable hypothesis#though it would imply something weird but it was a while ago#tbh it is kind of fun to mostly check out (i am still listening) and then pop in whenever weird things are being said#though like I'm pretty sure I'm an outsider somewhat?? idk#it's one of those things where nobody's going to give me a straight answer if i somehow had the courage to ask#I mean ok in theory this is one of those situations in which you're supposed to ask somebody with more expertise#but alas that person is not a teacher and even though I can convince myself on the āit takes them a lot less time to answerā#they are not paid to do it so it's not relaly enough#and i wouldn't know who to ask ghhghgghgggg#there's also one person who looks at me like. more than normal and i don't know why it feels weird they seem like they have something to sa#but presuambly if it was positive they'd have said it idkdkdk#imagine if they put me in a real social situation#one-on-one i've talked to like. one person.#also god like i don't know i'm ok i'm still stuck up on the diagnosis thing especially because sigh i do view it as membership of a group#potentially more than anything else#even though like everything idk i feel like more good will would be afforded on me if i were autistic#not that i'm like lacking in good will or uh. whatever.#the thing is i don't really believe believe that āyou know :) means happyā is thing that autistic people can't do#like yes difficulty with recognizing emotions is an issue but it is just like a factoid.#granted this is what my perception of pitch was before i got corrected and told i had perfect pitch so my track record isn't great#but also that's more of a thing?#I mean like ok i do recognize that a smile is inducing happiness outside of the knowledge of its connotation#though the lack of distinction in the original question doesn't give me faith that it's important though it's i've heard a stupid test#I mean ghhhhhhhhhh it at least feels like if i were to be allistic and then spent time in autistic spaces it'd be boring#like i shouldn't be framing autism as like a superpower which i don't think it is though maybe they don't mean literal autism though that'd#be weird. Also like I mean there is a tendency to just be like āhaving a lot of thoughts is autismā#or the like I mean i'm probably oversimplifying and it's the questioning of structure ad such but like#idk i feel kind of stuck in the middle. what was this post about#oh yeah ok i mean like idk uhhh it should like uh. eeee give me an in although i'm not sure how because either it is a way of recontextuali#prior experinces in a way that's better or it changes nothing except the label which
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okay, sad ask now.
Henry and William's childhoods!! (plus how they met each other)
Henry:
grew up in a Very rural town in Utah (not Hurricane). like we're talking most people are farmers and there probably isn't more than 100-200 people living here. considering the time period (late 30's-early 40's), makes sense.
this poor guy's bio dad sucked. like he was horrible.
has an older sister named Jen :] (< canonical to the books, i'm sure)
he had only a few stuffed animals growing up: Teddy (bear, obviously), Theodore (rabbit), Dawn (chicken; technically a rooster but Henry didn't give a fuck), and Cooper (fox; fell apart often because it was the oldest of all the toys).
those lil guys would become his inspiration to make the OG Freddy's Gang.
he shipped Teddy and Theodore together, despite growing up heavily religious. he'd just check around to make sure no one was watching them and then he'd go "hehe now Kiss :3"
well. time for a bit of Projection. so like. Henry's Transmasc. now uh while doing some research because i remembered that there are some things that can cause facial hair (or "abnormal hair growth," as some sites call it where women grow hair on places where they either aren't supposed grow much/noticeable hair or any hair at all) in women. did some research, might have PCOS but with more...milder symptoms? idk because some of the symptoms/signs aren't things that i deal with personally. but the hair and the acne stuff matches up and we'll leave it there for now. but anyway, so there's that: Henry starting growing some facial hair (coincidentally a few months before realizing that. he May not be a girl, actually), and because he thought it was cool and because well he's already kind of a social outcast anyway so why not am i right? he decided to keep it.
dad got thrown in jail for fighting and almost killing someone in a bar fight, and his mom remarried. stepdad was much better :]
got his interest in mechanics and robotics from old sci-fi movies and having to fix stuff like his bike and some of the electricity and wiring in the house (mostly 'cause it Sucked).
time for college came around, and well...his stepdad knew some people who were willing to help with his transition as much as they could in like the 50's-60's. got his boy some top surgery, what technically would count as a "fake ID" (Henry and his stepdad would call it an "updated ID," though. which in a way they aren't wrong about), and then sent him off to college!
he 100% gives off the vibes of going down the "weird "girl" who later discovered they weren't a girl at all" to "goofy but Very autistic father" pipeline. i accept no criticism on this, he just Does.
yes he is a furry. Fredbear is in fact his fursona.
William:
hoo fucking BOY did this guy's parents SUCK.
like if you ever wonder why Rewrite!William's Like That as an adult, you've just got to look at his childhood.
his parents were distant and neglectful At Best, and physically + verbally abusive At Worst.
unfortunately for him, something that certainly didn't help matters was that He Was Autistic As Hell. sensory issues, couldn't understand social cues to save his life (still can't, tbh), and just in general was...odd.
some would've called him "eccentric," maybe. had an odd interest in rabbits, in drawing. he was always rather quiet, staring in an almost unnerving way at the walls or just on someone by accident. but mention anything he enjoyed, and he'd talk your ear off.
despite all of this, he was well-loved by teachers. charming lil guy, y'know? not exactly popular with most of the other kids, though...but effectively a Teacher's Pet, pretty much. not that he minded much, either; "If they can tell me something I haven't already heard from my parents, maybe I'll start listening." (< something that concerned the Fuck out of his art teacher once, fun fact!)
used to cry a lot as a kid; got him bullied often :(
parents were rich, and he had a lot of siblings (three sisters and two brothers; loved each other but acted rather distant :().
after a lot of begging from Will, on his 6th birthday, his parents got him a pet rabbit (mostly because they wanted him to shut the fuck up about it) that he named "O'Hare" (familiar sounding name, ain't it?).
and God, did that kid love that rabbit. took the best care of him he could. played with him with whatever spare time he had. he adored O'Hare.
of course...William never had the best luck as a child. when he was eight years old, a couple of friends of one of his older brothers had come over to hang out. they had found William drawing while talking to O'Hare, decided to mess around a bit, and...well, they were a bit too rough with the rabbit, we'll put it that way.
despite his brother getting rightfully pissed at those two for y'know. Killing His Brother's Pet Rabbit, even if it was technically an accident, and trying to comfort his brother, William is inconsolable.
of course, not that his parents understand that this isn't something William's just going to get over in a few days; they're just pissed off and annoyed that their son won't stop crying (to give an example, something his father said, "It's just a stupid rabbit, William! Now stop your whining and bitching!").
of course, William never really got over it that quickly. he practically closed himself off, escaping into doing art to ignore his grief and give himself something to distract himself. and he starts drawing his dead bunny as a new character: this time, as an actual hare. and anthropomorphic. look, William had been watching old Disney cartoons and Looney Tunes, also as a way of comforting himself. and maybe he got inspired a bit...maybe a way to immortalize his old rabbit. heck, who knows, maybe he could become an animator and rival Walt himself!
or, maybe, as he starts drawing and thinking more and more...a way to become his old rabbit? (< aka William is a furry. and a therian. maybe even ockin? well uh....if it works as a coping mechanism, then it works, i guess?)
at least...until his family discovered his sketchbook. and decided that the Best Course Of Action is to send their clearly grieving son to a BOARDING SCHOOL. when he was NINE.
and we ain't talking about a "teachers are kinda strict and you're expected to keep your grades up" boarding school. we're talking a "you will get your ass beat for something as small as accidentally dropping your PENCIL" boarding school.
because their other option is probably taking him to a psychiatrist and having to deal with the public humiliation that having an openly mentally ill family member at that time would cause (which gee guys, I WONDER WHOSE FAULT THAT IS?? I WONDER WHY YOUR SON HAS ISSUES??).
so they send him off, and uh. that goes as well as you'd expect: the letters are practically constant, talking about William's ever-worsening behavior problems. at first, he just clammed up and kept to himself, and anytime it came to corporal punishment, they mention that he hardly ever flinches. then...it got worse. he'd have breakdowns, usually at bedtime, and it would wake other students up. he'd get violent with bullies, not even caring for the consequences. he was always closed off, only ever happy during an art class. even stranger, despite the behavior problems...his grades never suffered. they don't understand it.
eventually, when he's fifteen, they send him home. they decided "yep. we're not dealing with him on the Teenager Hormones. he's Y'all's problem again." (< ignore that this is taking place in England)
his behavior problems? never get any better while he's still at home: his emotions are volatile now. he's sad? everyone in the damn house is gonna hear it from his bedroom. he's angry? hope no one was attached to that glass cup he was holding, because it's broken now.
the family just decides to move over to America (i'd say maybe either Virginia or NY. don't ask why, those are the vibes i'm getting), because i think they're starting to realize They Fucked Up Somewhere and decided maybe a change of scenery would help William. It Really Didn't, But They Tried.
when he turns 18, they just buy him a car, give him a bunch of money, and send him off into the world; "Go to college. Or don't. We don't really care what you do at this point, we just don't want you here."
he just scoffs and decides that he'll go away. far away for college, somewhere where his family isn't breathing down his neck and he can just be himself, and just try things out. see what sticks.
not really like he wants to stay here, anyway.
(this man is also Not cis. probably some flavor of nonbinary. or even some form of rabbit/hare xenogender, purely 'cause it would fit. he'd like it/its pronouns and neopronouns, i'd think)
and now, fucking finally:
College:
they both only really found out that they'd been assigned as roommates when Henry finally arrived at the room. it was. an awkward first couple of hours.
they found out that they had pretty similar schedules, and a lot of the same classes, and. Well, Ain't That Convenient!
William goes back to being his old eccentric self, a rather dramatic man. he and Henry both took a drama class, but for different reasons (William because he could just be himself and Henry so that he could come out of his shell a bit).
they both found out about each other's fursonas and expected the other to go "ew cringe" but. they both found it pretty cool! (it definitely made Will happy, considering he'd been called a weirdo for that his entire life)
then pretty shortly after that they looked at the fact that they both had some. creative ideas with those fursonas and other characters, and while William originally went with the "let's make an animated cartoon show! :D" (which, keep in mind, was his original childhood plan), Henry thought about the fact that they were both in some mechanics/robotics classes and went "actually, I have a better idea-" and that's how the idea for Freddy's/Fredbear's was originally born :]
Henry came out as trans to William and his (at the time) girlfriend, Claire, because he had decided to keep his flannel unbuttoned and Claire saw his top surgery scars. after a couple of minutes of nearly choking on water (because Henry literally decided to start his explanation with "Oh, these are from where I got my breasts cut off-" and it caught Will so off guard), William basically went "HOLY SHIT, THAT'S SO COOL????"
also, final fun fact: these two Have explored each other's bodies before. in college. it's how Henry discovered he was pan and how Will discovered he was bi. just a fun fact for you :]
and there we go!! finally done :] gotta go eat now see ya later bestie enjoy these
AAAHH being like "aw my poor bois :[" and then stumbling upon They Have Explored Each Other's Bodies is maybe the best experience of my life lmaooo. I really like them being early furries. The internet comes out and they join a furry chat room and are like "holy shit chat are you seeing this" (if they had just stayed normal and not. Ya know. Done murder by then)
But yeah ough. My sillies...
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vilmaaa guess what. i had spotify on shuffle and it was playing some seori (my beloved) and then this mellow cute k-indie/rnb kinda song started playing and i was like šš®šš¤ right away bc i liked the vocals + instrumental a lot but i was like. i need to wait and listen to more of the song before i check the artist and let that impact my thoughts. so i listened through the first chorus then checked and it was like āØāØāØāmiss you (hyunjin)āāØāØāØ and my heart just exploded a little liiiiike š¤š¤š¤
i only got into skz recently + so iāve mostly just listened to ate + past TTs. iāve watched more videos and interviews tbh. outside of that iāve really just listened to seungminās songs + music. so i truly and deeply was not expecting it to be him singing but it just made me soo happy. like even just over this brief time, i have so much respect for hyunjin as an artist/creative. and ik in his 1kr he mentioned that heās really been dedicated to improving his vocals so iāve been super interested in seeing his upcoming developments as a vocalist but tbh i didnāt have a strong baseline to compare against bc on the TTs he mostly raps yk. so it was suuuch a nice surprise!! iām so glad i waited bc i was really able to appreciate and love the song devoid of anything else and then to discover that it was actually hyunjin literally made my heart squeeze i was so excited and happy.
i wanted to share with you bc i really like hyunjin sm i am super fond of him, and a lot of that is thanks to your posting about him. bc itās so cool to see the side of him besides his stage persona. itās such a fun and sweet experience to be discovering an artist + finding them in unexpected places + then loving them a bit more. those initial discoveries are some of my favorite moments of being a kpop fan + your blog definitely played a role in enhancing this experience so thank youuu.
hope youāre doing well + taking care!! wishing you the best always š§”
ahhh HIIIIII the warm energy bubbling from this message is so so amazing to meā¦ miss you such a sweet song, right? he made the song for his old puppy who sadly passed away.. it holds a special place in my heart since ive experienced that too and it always brings me a feeling of comfort whenever i listen to it. i always think about how hyunjinās voice reminds me of the dawn, the first rays of sunrays that hit the earth when itās still foggy, quiet and mellow outside. idk if thatās strange but thatās how his singing geeli like to me. if you liked miss you, i would recommend you to listen to his skz record ālong for youā i especially love his vocals in this one!!! š»š
hyunjin is just the bestest. the thing you said about him wanting to improve his vocals.. i love that his drive and hunger for being better in all aspects of his life never stops. it is lovely to watch someone so passionate about his craft, cause it makes you so excited to see whatās coming in the future. thereās so many artists out there who just kind of give up on that when they achieve a certain point of fame, where they just stop caring about improving cause the fans just gas them up about how great they are and the stuff they put out starts feeling shallow. and i hope that fire of passion never dies within hyune.
im so happy you sent me this message, i hope you know it made my day š„¹š„¹ i love when people get into skz and hyune and im glad i get to be a part of it with u. sometimes the kpop community feels so negative and itās so easy to just get caught up on that but messages like these remind me that thereās so much love and positivity out there too šššš pls have the bestest day <3
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plumeria, dahlia, azalea for the flower asks š
Thank you so much! These we really fun to answer <3<3
plumeria - are you currently working on any creative projects? if so, what kinds?
After a long break, I'm trying to write the next chapter of The Truth Will Out but I'm really struggling with it tbh. It just isn't working out right! I'll get their in the end, hopefully. In the meantime, another Severus/Sirius oneshot idea has hit me and I've made a start on that. My creativity mojo is still pretty low which is a bummer.
dahlia - do you like to follow current fashion trends or do you have a particular style that you prefer to stick to?
I definitely wouldn't wear something that I didn't like or didn't suit me just because it was the latest trend, nor am I about brands or labels really. When I was younger, I used to deliberately avoid wearing anything that was in style, but I've grown out of that now, so I think I can safely say I just wear whatever the hell I want. Which turns out is mostly oversized t shirts/jumpers with leggings! I'm a sucker for a plaid shirt too. I used to wear dresses a lot but not so much these days. I'm not sure what my style is but I do love autumnal wear a lot. I suppose it's grungy pumpkin spice girl xD.
azalea - what is the most recent song you listened to? how do you feel about it?
I've been trying to check out new music lately and Hayley Williams came up on my Tidal recommended. I was listening to Dead Horse and it's a banger.
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I kinda love how sometimes you work by writing out the ending first then the build up to it a bit later! Though I get how it can be hard to write it out!
Omg I didnāt even notice you mentioned a song recš typically I read your descriptions but I forgot to read this one bc I was really excited šbut the song is very fitting and idk how to explain it other than it does feel like a small town romance!
Omg Barbie and Ken being the OG fic characters is actually such a slay! And omg I HATED when kids said shit like omg like LET ME ENJOY IN PEACE!!! And in a way Iām glad Barbie has had a resurgence due to the movie because that movie broke me yet healed me lol
If you donāt have the same number of works or more thatās perfectly okay! You put out so much, FOR FREE MIND YOU and thatās more than enough! Life gets crazy and inspo sometimes can be low so really itās okay ā¤ļø
Yes i agree!!! Lots of people are lacking critical thinking skills and tbh I can go on about that! But Iām glad youāre trying to make your students at least aware how to do that!
Itās my second to last quarter! Iām probably just being dramatic since youāre right I did just get back from break lol I hope they get better too lol
Iām actually currently safe from the fires thankfully! Though where I live it is being monitored closely as the winds can be extremely dangerous if it gets bad! I think people donāt realize how NOT NORMAL having these kinds of wild fires during the WINTER is! Typically these happen during the summer time. And itās so devastating and I have so many friends from the LA area and some have been affected so badly :( anyways thatās so sweet of you to check up on!
What color did you get your nails done?! Any cute designs?! And even if itās an all amount of self care itās still something! Hope you have an amazing start of the week! Sending lots of love š-š
It doesn't always happen but I do feel like it happens a LOT to me. Idk. I get this little idea in my head for one specific little part and then I gotta build around it. I think Traditional I wrote like the middle of it and I would 10/10 would NOT recommend doing that ever again (except I did when I wrote Love & Dryer Sheets--but that came to me in a dream so I can't help that one). The middle is the worst. Dolcezza I started from the beginning I think. As did Ding. It all depends really. It's fun though when I write the ending first, it kind of gives me a goal and it's almost like the whole beginning doesn't matter. My OG bedtime fanfics (Nick Jonas, Edward Cullen, Zach, and Finn from a couple YA novel I read) didn't have endings. They were in perpetual middle parts and it was the WORST. So now when I have an ending I'm like "praise be the Lord."
No I honestly don't expect anyone to read the descriptions. I only put them there because I think it's the only thing keeping my blog alive. I skip right over them and then sometimes I forget I wrote stuff in there for y'all. I truly am going to miss TikTok for my song inspos and new music because I don't listen to the radio anymore and I think my students' music is trash lol
I felt slighted when the movie came out because I loved Barbie for so long I thought I was going to be obsessed forever and then my stupid elementary peers made me quit and now Barbie's back and I want to be like "YOU DON'T GET IT" but I gave up on it so that's on me for listening to kids. But now I obsess appropriately and you won't catch me letting 1D slip through my fingers. My sister's going to have to bury me with my 1D CDs and posters so I have it in the afterlife.
Well thank you. I just want to remain relevant (mostly because I don't know where else I would write and this is a massive outlet for me) so I fear that the # i produce is important. Which doesn't make sense at all. I'm a quality > quantity gal all the way.
You're not dramatic. This was the Monday-iest Monday ever. I'm exhausted. There's 4 more days of this shit? ugh. At least there's a long weekend. 2nd to last quarter though!!! We're getting there! Ahhhh!
I'm sorry to hear about your friends :( that's so awful. I didn't think of how this is abnormal due to the fact it's winter. It's so sad ugh :( I'm glad you're good for now and I hope it stays that way š
I can't remember if I told you, I'm real basic about my nails so it's just a winter blue with sparkles overlayed. No designs. The second one of my nails chip I peel them off. But I REALLY like them. I gotta do my toes next they look so gross lol. But my sister reminded me that no one is seeing my feet rn so it doesn't matter and I needed my nails done more.
Monday was long but overall fine. I feel like I'm getting a little overwhelmed with things and obligations but it's not terrible. I hope your week is smoother! Love you lots!!!
xoxo
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hi! i saw that your requests are open and i came running. do you think you could write shuichi, rantaro, hajime, kaede, and mahiru (if you write for them) with the ultimate actress who uses her talent in more way than one, like covering up her emotions. for example, she always seem happy, calm, and willing to help anyone, but really a kind of broken person because she's been through a lot. thanks š
welcome, anon (ļ½”ā¢Ģį“-)ā§ itās been a while since you sent me this request but iām only writing now, iām so sorry š„ŗ
w/n: i used they/them pronouns because i didnāt want to exclude anyone!! also this might have slight angst iām not sure
Shuichi Saihara
okay but you melt his heart with your kindess. always helping those who around you, showing so much kindness and love to them, being caring with them, always offering help and constantly checking on them,, he thinks you are an angel
of course you are no different to him, and heās very grateful
after spending more time with you and getting to know you better, heās able to read you well
he could see how sad you actually are, always putting yourself aside and taking care of others, but getting nothing in return
itās not like you asked something in return. nobody could ask you how are you feeling, and that felt kind of lonely to him.
you deserved love, too, even if youāre the ultimate actress/actor
so just like you did it with him, heāll try to break your shell
heās a bit nervous and shy about offering his help, but he wants to solve this. he wants to see you happy, in a real way
if you feel like avoiding him, he will leave you alone for that second, because he doesnāt want to make you uncomfortable
but after seeing how much this means to him, you invite him over and you two talk a bit about you
you can see how much interested he is and it feels?? kind of weird?? ugh
donāt cry.
āitās okay, Y/n, you donāt need to hide your emotions, w...we are all cheering for you and willing to see you happy, so donāt you feel like a burden when talking about yourself.ā
you didnāt expect that coming from him but you can see how much he can relate to you and how much he means this
it melts your heart tbh, the fact that heās trying is enough to make you cry
Rantaro Amami
to be honest he knew it for a while but didnāt know how to approach you
he might have tried to get you talk about it but you always managed to dodge the question
so he let it slide.
you looked so nice and caring when offering your help, listening to your friendsā problems and giving them advice, always being there for them,, you were truly an angel
the one who anyone needed
but also the one who didnāt have anyone
people told you your acting skills were really something
but who could have guessed you werenāt acting at all?
him.
he could see how lonely you are
and mostly how desperate you are to have someone listen to you
it was breaking his heart, you were the reason of everyoneās smile but you had no one. so you just predicted. predicted like a happy person
because you didnāt want to become a burden or pressure anyone
you just wanted someone. someone that could walk up to you and ask you that question you havenāt heard in so long
āY/n, do you want to walk together?ā it was Rantaro who offered you this time
your eyes sparkled in joy as he waited for your response, you immediately nodded
as you two take a walk, he tried to start a conversation, he didnāt want to talk about himself at all. he wanted you to let it all out, and relax
it was hard for you, but when you did, he smiled and gave you a hug
āyou matter, Y/n. your feelings matter no matter what, you donāt have to hide them or anything, nor you have to help everyone... we care for you, always.ā
he patted your back kindly, showing you the affection nobody has ever done.
āyou donāt have to hide anything, okay?ā
your lips curl up to a smile as you return his hug
ā...okay,ā
Hajime Hinata
he basically admired you for being such a warmhearted person
you were ready to do anything for the ones in need without hesitating, and you always carried a smile!!
it was like you are an iron wall, nothing could ruin your day and your hope, thatās what he admired the most about you
āY/n, aside from your talent, youāre such a kind person,ā Hajime told you
ādo you think so? thanks, Hajime...ā youād say and leave immediately
has he said something wrong...?
after spending more time with you, something started bothering him
it was you
the way you actually never smiled
yes, you were kind and the best friend someone can ever have, and many people liked this about you
but was this the real you?
he wanted to talk to you. unlike others, he wanted to talk to you about you, not for a problem of his for you to solve
he wanted to fix if thereās anything troubling you
āHajime? welcome,ā you let him in, ādid you need anything?ā
āY/n, arenāt you using your talent more than you should?ā
e h h ?
so you were found out. donāt you dare playing dumb, Y/n
you were so surprised that someone actually suspected this side of yours, but aside from that, you were so happy. so happy that someone finally noticed
after realising he sounded rude, he awkwardly apologized and asked the same question,, in a kinder way? yeah, thatās it
and you started sniffing. eyes getting watery and your hands go up to wipe your tears away
he thought he did something wrong until you smiled. you were thankful.
āit-itās okay, Y/n, i got you, you can tell me,... itās fine, i wonāt judge or pressure you, i just want you to be yourself,ā he calms you down
seeing how he was willing to listen to you reminded you of yourself. you always did this with others but you were never shown affection, you canāt help but feel like crying to the thought of heās willing to listen to you
āitās not only me, iām sure everyone here would appreciate if you opened up. weāre willing to help you because thatās what you always do, right? so... donāt predict anymore, please.ā
but itās just like he said, he got you.
Kaede Akamatsu
you were everyoneās joy, everyone could trust you in the blink of an eye and youād always make their day
Kaede adored this side of you, you were so soft and a nice person
whenever you and her talked, she could tell you about her day and would play piano to you, it kind of relaxed you and she knew it
you were smiling to the sound of everyone having fun, but you were standing there alone
her eyes met yours, and you quickly turned your head
she thought you were just shy and invited you to hangout with others
but you said it was fine, and left
the thought of you didnāt leave her head ever since then
you were down to listen to anyone having troubles and find them solutions, giving them best advice and helping them in the slightest things. but you were never letting people approach you, avoiding them with a smile, making it seem like youāre okay with it
but she knew it wasnāt
she wanted to ask if anythingās wrong, she knew that might be because of your talent but still you looked so lonely to her and if anythingās bothering you, be there for you
when she said sheās willing to talk to you, you were touched so deeply that your heart skipped a beat. but you just couldnāt let her worry about you
āitās ok! no need to worry for me!ā you let out a giggle
ābut... is it really okay, Y/n?ā
no matter how hard you tried to convince her everything is alright... your eyes said otherwise.
āhey... weāre friends, you know? i care for you... youāre always hiding your true self behind your talent but the truth is youāre just torturing yourself. so donāt hide your true feelings, if we are really your friends, let us get to know you.ā
you wanted to cry right there, but you held back instead
but this time, you didnāt refuse her words, which she knew were right already
āokay, but donāt judge, okay? you asked for it.ā you let her inside, hesitating a little.
ānever!ā she said determinatedly. she wonāt let that go to waste. because she cares for you and sheās willing to do anything for you, just like you with everyone.
Mahiru Koizumi
you were one of the nicest people she knew!
everything that comes from you would lighten up everyoneās day
if everyone is having a bad day... bam! you fix it.
she thought you were really a nice person for helping anyone at anything.
āMahiru? mind if i carry your camera for you?ā
yeah, you were like that.
but for some reason, you didnāt like to be on the spot light at all, you always came up with excuses and left when you were asked questions
which Mahiru found indeed weird, seeing you like this got her worried
she asked Hiyoko about it, but Hiyoko was really chill about it, she said she didnāt think thereās anything wrong with you
but Mahiru could say by looking in your eyes, you were kind of a lonely person who seeked some love? yes.
making her way to your cottage, she thought everything she wanted to talk to you, but she forgot as soon as she saw you standing beside the door
āMahiru? did you need anything?ā
then everything comes back to her mind and she remembers it. but she kind of messes up telling you because of how nervous she is asking you that.
āi think your talent is amazing, Y/n, but i think you m-mustnāt use it all the time...ā ah, god, she sounded so wrong
you were confused
so was she
āi didnāt mean it in a bad way! i mean... do you really smile when you smile? do you mean it?ā
thatās when she got you
she said she was worried that the person in front of her was actually not you and some stranger
you let her in since itās dark and cold outside and talk to her, telling her youāve been through a lot. you can tell how sorry she feels for you from the look on her face
āY/n, iām... iām so sorry,ā she puts her hand on yours, ābut thatās all in the past now, isnāt it? nobody here is going to judge you for that... so feel free to open up to me or your friends any time, okay? i care for you and i donāt want to like you for your talent, i want to like you for who you really are.ā
Mahiru, you are so sweet, i am gonna cry-
hey, everyone! iām back writing my requests and iām willing to finish them ASAP... soo, uhh, i know itās hard talking about your feelings but if youāre having a hard time, iām willing to listen to you so feel free to text me anytime :) i might not reply fast but iāll reply no matter what... you matter and itās all true, i love you all š
also as a writer (iāve been writing since 9 but my writing still sucks-) iāve been writing whole weekend since my step siblings are gone lol also i was exercising and studying,, my schedule was full. š© anyways it feels nice to get back even though i was gone for 2 days-
#danganronpa#danganronpa headcanons#danganronpa imagines#danganronpa x reader#drv2#danganronpa goodbye despair#anime x reader#drv3#shuichi x reader#rantaro x reader#shuichi saihara#rantaro amami#hajime hinata#hajime hinata x reader#kaede akamatsu#kaede x reader#mahiru koizumi#mahiru x reader
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volleyball players!golcha + a supernatural twist
so casey (@thepixelelf) came up with this brilliant idea (original blurbs here - read them theyāre so fun + will help you understand whatās going on in this post) but essentially this is golcha as a volleyball team EXCEPT they all have superpowers
and no this isnāt some saving the world type shit everyone at the school just happens to have some superpower so theyāre just trying to navigate the hell that is high school while dealing with powers so CHAOS
anyway please enjoy these brief blurbs and reblog if you did, and again do not forget to check out the original post here because why not itās FUN
pairing: golden child x gender neutral!reader
wc: 11.7k (total)
genre: fluff, a bit of angst in some parts, volleyball!au, superpowers!au
triggers: cursing
Volleyball!au Masterlist (casey + lina) |Ā Golden Child Masterlist
daeyeol - golden tongue
daeyeol has a golden tongue which basically means he can be very, very persuasive with his spoken words when he wants to
like casey said it comes in handy when heās arguing with the basketball team for gym time but in 99% of other situations daeyeol tends to... be very awkward and stilted in a way that isnāt characteristic of those with a golden tongue
the boys sometimes tease him about it because a tongue-tied golden tongue? thatās not supposed to exist
but heās just afraid of accidentally manipulating people even though he really does have a pretty good grasp on his power :/ like sungyoon will try to remind him that but daeyeolās still wary
on the court though he literally just exudes confidence. like daeyeol is GOOD at volleyball and he knows it
even if his teammates clown him they listen to him when heās running drills/coaching because daeyeol knows his shit. heās been playing volleyball for years at this point AND has an older brother who played as well he knows what heās doing
heās been playing the longest of all of golchaĀ and it shows in games! heās one of the best players if not the best
really the other boys do look up to him even if they show it in a roundabout way
(daeyeol complains about the lack of respect all the time but tbh he doesnāt really help his case when heās soft for every single one of the boys)
side note: he has a bit of a special bond with bomin :) as in bomin clowns the everloving fuck out of him but he also always goes to daeyeol if heās not feeling good and daeyeol is always there to listen itās super sweet
(more on that in bominās part :D)
does interviews with the school newspaper after games and heās just so different from normal because volleyball is one of the things besides academics and stuff that heās confident in
as a side note he got voted most boyfriend material in one of the school newspaper polls because he looks perfect and is the sweetest (have you seen how he gets so soft with the boys in every video online? donāt argue with me) and it made its way into the yearbook
older brother and alumnus sungyeol clowns him every other day for it
daeyeol gets revenge by reenacting sungyeolās worst volleyball fails and sending them to his friends
has a whole folder on his phone of reenactments at this point
anyway like i said daeyeol is a little awkward in everyday situations so enter you: confrontational + rash with a sharper tongue than is probably necessary and an affinity for changing temperatures
well. more like you can ratchet the temperature up at will. bringing it down is much harder
itās useful when itās winter and everyoneās freezing but the temperature also likes to creep higher when you get pissed off which is sometimes not nice when itās like negative degrees outside and inside itās like 100
the only way to cool the room when the second thing happens is to calm you the fuck down! or turn on the air conditioner
and the first is easier said than done
itās not like itās only unpleasant for other people though bc youāre not immune to the heat and also because youāre the one like. producing the heat?? your skin gets boiling hot to the touch if youāre upset enough and several times people have gotten fucking burns by touching your arm to try and calm you down
usually itās fine bc you have a good grasp on your power when youāre calm but if someone says something offensive/stupid.... god help them
anyway even though daeyeol doesnāt like to use his power much heās still one of the people that others go to whenĀ situations need defusing because they (mostly) respect him as an older and more mature person (i say mostly because the amount of disrespect he gets from his volleyball team on the daily... yeah letās just trend #prayfordaeyeol)
and thatās how you meet! youāre yelling at someone for saying something fucking stupid and daeyeol walks in right when youāre threatening to hit said person if theyĀ don't shut up rn
daeyeol manages to calm the situation but not before everyone stupid enough to still be in the room is sweating buckets including him
this just... continues
like daeyeol becomes the go to for situations involving you specifically bc you respond better to him for some reasonĀ
and you get to know each other just from daeyeol walking in on you threatening to throw someone out of the window and saying no! nope :) no youāre not throwing anyone out of any window :) come on y/n letās go :)Ā while subtly dragging you out of the room
the thing is he listens to you. he actually listens to why you got pissed instead of just telling you to control your anger. like he does emphasize the fact that you need to control yourself because what if this happens around people without powers? but he listens and that helps more than anything really and you actually start getting better at controlling yourselfĀ
and somewhere along the way things just click between you two and you become friends. you like him bc heās v kind if awkward and heāsĀ the only person whoās never tried to calm you using golden tongue manipulation and he likes you bc youāre so outspoken and bold
then one day you get genuinely so upset about something someone said and daeyeol doesnāt care about your blistering hot skin he doesnāt care if youāre raising the temperature in the room he doesnāt even care if he gets burnt he just kisses you on the forehead softly and holds you close even as youāre overheating
which just drains the fight out of you and you kind of collapse on him and stay like that for a while
he then takes you out for cold drinks (because youāre still overheating a little)Ā and kisses you over an iced americano and boom relationship
the other boys find you very fun to be around and marvel over your relationship bc youāre confident and loud meanwhile daeyeol is a bumbling mess when he isnāt using his power or he isnāt on the court
but it works ok it just does. donāt question it
(jangjun does once and even with his super strength he ended up lying on the court bc the element of surprise is the only thing that can really get him)
(and lucky for you you know exactly how to take advantage of that <3)
(daeyeol just thinks itās hot + impressive and kisses you right after)
(bomin + 99 line gag but you threaten to give them the same treatment and they shut up)
sungyoon - telekinesis
so as casey said sungyoon comes from a long line of telekinetics except heās not entirely sure why heās even at this school because... he has never shown any manifestations of this power
not to his knowledge at least
i say this bc people have seen stuff twitch when sungyoonās around, he just never notices and thus concludes that either people are fucking around with him and it never happened or it was just a coincidence
anyway he doesnāt really care much, like sure he sometimes gets insecure/unsure of himself in a school full of kids with superpowers
but like i said this school is just a safe haven for those born with powers, theyāre not training or anything they just learn to control what they have
and since sungyoon doesnāt have much to control heās doing fine as far as everyone is really concerned
itās also kind of nice being the only normal one on the volleyball team like everyone else has wack-ass powers that fuck shit up but sungyoon is like the calm in the middle of the storm like hi yes i am also part of this team of idiots but at least i donāt break equipment or injure people inadvertently
for this reason some people think sungyoon is the only sane person on the teamĀ
they are wrong
sungyoon can and will go batshit insane at the first opportunity
he is also a massive tease and if anyone asks him to do anything heāll make it a back and forth for like 5 minutes before deciding whether or not to actually do it
bomin: sungyoon can you help me get the mats
sungyoon: why
bomin: p l e a s e
repeat for at least five minutes and you now have a regular day to day conversation with sungyoon
but sungyoon really is passionate about volleyball okay, like he loves the sport so much
he used to get worked up about it so much that heād over-practice and actually play worse :/
got over that with joochan/daeyeolās help (he and daeyeol werenāt on good terms for a week or two though) and now theyāre one happy dysfunctional family :)
if you bring up that time in sungyoonās life you will be subjected to his death glare so maybe just... donāt
like even jangjun doesnāt talk about it and thatās saying something
anyway moving onĀ
in terms of powers youāre the opposite of sungyoon. aka you have wack-ass telekinesis and you have no idea how to control it
which?? somehow sungyoon comes in handy with this
because despite not really having powers himself, he watched his sister learn to control her abilities and also listened in on his parentsā advice to her because most of the time controlling powers really just amounts to controlling emotions
aka why sungyoon is (for the most part) so calm and mature
when heās not purposely being a little shit to golcha of course
but you and sungyoon are kinda... at a loss bc itās not like you go absolutely off the walls batshit insane?? like youāre a relatively calm person and even though the powers do manifest when youāre feeling a strong emotional upsurge
other than that theyāre just... seemingly random???
regardless of that sungyoon makes you start on breathing exercises n shit and you would honestly probably complain if you werenāt sick of your powers manifesting every five fucking seconds. likeĀ at this point youāll try anything
cue long sessions after school in the gym of sungyoon practicing spikes while you sit in the corner controlling your breath to the beat of balls bouncing on the floor
sometimes a few of the other team members join in but more often than not itās just you and sungyoon
as time passes, in between cleaning scuff marks off the floor and picking up balls that just have flown everywhere, you and sungyoon get closer
and somehow... you donāt know exactly what happened but your powers arenāt so out of wack anymore
sungyoon canāt completely explain it either but like? neither of you is going to complain
you kind of think it might have something to do with how sungyoon is just a calming presence. like when you talk with him and stuff youāre less likely to inadvertently make something move or whatever
itās not just with sungyoon too - it kind of seems like if youāre focusing intently on something, then the mini episodes donāt happen
sungyoon hypothesizes you might be a little like youngtaek as in you need something to concentrate on because if you zone out shit happens
you maybe zone out less than he does but maybe itās a more subtle thing with you than with him who knows
anyway
one day you two go to get coffee after leaving the gym together and sungyoon looks weirdly nervous and you ask if somethingās up while praying you donāt send all the sugar packets flying everywhereĀ
and then when you leave with your coffee he asks you out
like really. he asks you out. you canāt believe it
so the lid flies off your coffee cup and liquid splashes everywhere
now you have burns all over your hands from hot coffee and sungyoon is freaking the fuck out and luckily donghyun was just leaving school so he gets called over to take care of your burns
anyway after that sungyoon is still a flustered mess and youāre trying to tell him youāre fine, look all the redness is gone and also yeah sorry about that iād love to go on a date with you
CUE SUNGYOONāS COFFEE CUP FLYING OUT OF HIS HANDS AND SPLATTERING ALL OVER THE GROUND
you swear it wasnāt you and sungyoon KNOWS he didnāt just drop it so the only conclusion left is that sungyoon did it
oh my god he actually has telekinesis!
(the rest of golcha: yeah letās just pretend we HAVENāT been saying this for literal years)
anyway letās just say that between sungyoon confessing + figuring out he actually has telekinesis powers it was a very eventful day
golcha loves you but is also wary of whenever youāre around bc sungyoon tends to get v nervous and maybe the net starts lifting out of the ground if you surprise him with a kiss
but itās fine!Ā youāve learned all of the techniques sungyoon taught you, now itās just time for him to get a taste of that too :)
and sungyoon would probably bitch and moan if it was with any other person but itās more time to spend with you so is he really gonna complain?Ā
no <3
jangjun - super strength
ah yes. residentĀ āiām doing my best to control my powers but sometimes i get too excited and whoops now thereās a hole in the gym floorā
once again credits to casey for that idea (she actually wrote a drabble for it which you can find here)
heās gotten better at controlling his powers but uh sometimes excitement gets the better of him all right
look heās trying!! ok!! he really is
especially when it comes to volleyball - heās really serious, does his absolute best not to cause any damage to the gym because one time he cracked the wood floors and letās just say admin was not happy
worst day of jangjunās life trying to explain that shit to the principal
so yeah heās doing a lot better now with controlling his power
but at the same time letās not ignore halfĀ the reason why there are far fewer accidents than before - you
you and jangjun meet like halfway through your first year of school during gym class when jangjun hits a ball a little (a lot) too hard and it ends up knocking you the fuck out
a healed concussion + a million apologies later, you and jangjun are laughing your heads off in the clinic with the nurse screwing her eyes up in confusion like?? this boy just smashed a volleyball into your head and now youāre laughing with him wtf
but jangjunās so funny and friendly that itās hard not to become his friendĀ so after that you two are essentially inseparable
so when jangjun decides to play for the volleyball team you sign up to be team manager
(you also help him practice and do you best to keep his power in check)
which works out! because youāre responsible and organized but most importantly youĀ have power over air
and given enough warning (which, as you gain more experience, doesnāt have to be a lot), you can manipulate the air to stop some of jangjunās more aggressive serves from hitting the ground too fast and causing major damage to the newly-renovated floors
daeyeol + the coach thank every higher being for your existence at each practice
youngtaek + joochan started a cult in your name after you saved both of them from one of jangjunās spikes hitting them in the head
yeah letās just say golcha is v thankful jangjun gave you that concussion back in first year
ANYWAY
one day youāre picking up some volleyballs that are lying around while the boys play a practice match in the middle of the gym
and because your back is to the fucking court. you donāt get any warning except a few sharp screams before a ball just motherfucking smashes against the back of your head and knocks you the fuck out for the second time in your life
you come to on the ground with donghyun passing his hands over your throbbing head
and the first thing you do when the pain is gone is look up and ask where jangjun is
half the team has disappeared from the gym but donghyun tells you he had a major mental breakdown when he saw you unconscious on the floor and just ran out. the others are already trying to find him but you donāt careĀ you just run out to try and find wherever the fuck your best friend is
you find him crouched in the corner of a stairwell with his head in his hands and youāre like jangjun whatās wrong oh my godĀ are you okay?
and he just looks up like oh my god youāre okay. youāre okay right?
you nod like yeah?? donghyun worked his magic of course iām fine now but whatās up with you? were you crying?
he just clams up then which obviously confirms your suspicions and youāre like dude... why were you crying. iām really fine
and then he explodes like - i fucking hate my power sometimes i hate that i canāt control it i hate that i accidentally break people or hurt people when i donāt mean to and itās even worse when itās people I care about like fuck y/n why canāt i just have a power that doesnāt cause all this stupid shit -Ā
so you just lash out with a gust of wind and shake the railing on the stairwell
jangjunās like why did you do that
and you say every power has a destructive side. i can hurt people on accident. if i got really riled up i could slam someone against a wall and knock them out the same way you did with me. itās happened before
jangjun flinches but you just step closer like jangjun. youāre doing fine. your power is cool as fuck. i admire the control you have over it and no donāt argue, iāve watched you over the past few years and do you know how much youāve improved?
it ends up with you hugging jangjun and despite all his muscle he just collapses like a rag doll in your arms and on impulse you kiss his forehead like itās ok, iām fine, youāre fine. weāre all fine
and that little impulse kiss changes everything. even though neither of you really says anything explicit at first, something shifts between you and even though jangjun was touchy before, now you hold hands between classes and hug before practice and golcha is just like... /eyes emoji/
jangjun brings it up one weekend when you two are trying (key word: trying) to study and you just kind of shrug and ask what do you really want to be? labels or nah? bc honestly youāre happy as long as heāsĀ around
which makes jangjunās heart flutter and maybe the pen in his hand explodes all over his notes (not like they were legible anyway, you just promise to lend him yours) and voila! youāre dating
itās super cute but also super loud
like jangjun will yell across the court like HEY WATCH ME ROLL AROUND ON THIS VOLLEYBALL Y/N (or whatever the fuck he was doing in the breathe mv behind) and you yell back like FUCK IT U P JANGJUN!!!Ā
coach maybe praises your existence a little less now but daeyeol just reminds him that youāve saved every member on this team + him at least once by now and the cult revives
as your bf jangjun strong-arms (literally) youngtaek/joochan out of the way as the head of the cult now
you two are very supportive and very loud in your support
youāre essentiallyĀ each otherās professional hype-people and like to celebrate with kisses while everyone else gags
itās disgustingly cute
someone always yells something about pda and then jangjun just kisses you harder
cue the boys screaming and you laughing and an unamused (heās amused heās just trying not to show it) daeyeol
coach is the only one whoās really unamused but at some point he just gives up because jangstar does what he wants as long as youāre fine with it
/shrugging emoji/
youngtaek - pyrokinesis
youngtaek has power over fire but itās not really so much that he can control fire and more like he just... zones out and oops his notes are burning
itās usually best to keep him and daeyeolās s/o in separate rooms because fire + ratcheting up the temperature does not equal a good time
like casey said when heās focused itās all cool and he has a decent measure of control over his power but when his eyes go dazed and heās staring into the distance then you better pray the room has a bucket of water or a fire extinguisher nearby
it isnāt usually a problem because this is a school for kids with powers and youngtaek isnāt the only pyrokinetic here but it is a hassle when sometimes youngtaek zones out on the court and hits the ball and suddenly jangjunās screaming because he got hit by a volleyball on fire and now his uniform is on fire and everything is on fire
oops
but anyway with anything that isnāt a) volleyball or b) music youngtaek has less than half the attention span of a goldfish which means he may or may not be lagging behind in several classes
and it isnāt enough for him to be in danger of failing just yet but his teachers are like youngtaek i think you might need a tutor if you want to do more than just pass the final
he also needs better grades if he wants to keep playing volleyball so he decides to find a tutor
so he asks daeyeol about it bc despite his dyslexia daeyeol is a pretty good student but heās busy as an upperclassman and all so he refers youngtaek to you!
you have the power to memorize anything you put your mind to. like if you really wanted to you could memorize an entire map of the city or its skyline but you justĀ don't care enough to do that
only things you care about are school + your hobbies + your friends/family
anyway you meet up with youngtaek and from the start itās kind of a mess because he zones out in the middle of you teaching him math and somehow sets the table on fire
after that you make sure to keep a bottle of water nearby (it comes in handy several times)
but despite the slightly disastrous first meeting you take a liking to youngtaek because beyond everything heās genuine and honest and just a really good person regardless of the fact that heās a little fire-happy
so tutoring sessions start ending with walking each other to the bus stop or getting a drink together or whatever and itās really nice and sweet, youngtaekās happy to be doing better in his classes bc youāre so patient and a really good teacherĀ
and one day he blurts out that when he heard about your power he wasnāt sure youād be a good teacher because everything seems to come easily to you
then he covers his mouth because holy hell he wasnāt supposed to say that youngtaek come ON
you calmly put out the little fire on the side of the desk before telling him itās fine, you get that a lot but really being able to memorize things isnāt as helpful as people seem to think
like sure you can memorize the fact that 2+2=4 but if you donāt understand addition as a concept then you wonāt be able to do 5+5=10 or something like that
and you canāt exactly just memorize concepts.Ā so with memorization comes a lot of hard work in trying to understand it all
and from this little conversation youngtaek comes out with so much more respect for you?? like god damn he now sees just how hard you work for everything you care about and youngtaek likes that. he likes it a lot
so yeah both of you have budding feelings at this point but because i'm the author i get to say youāre idiots in love so you donāt say shit
until after finals you and youngtaek go to a party daeyeolās hosting and you both get tipsy-drunk-ish and by the end of the night youngtaekās face is buried in your shoulder and before he passes out fully he mumbles that he likes you so much it doesnāt make sense
and youāre drunk too so all you do is kiss his forehead and fall asleep
unluckily for you a mostly sober kim donghyun got a video of all that so when you both wake up a couple hours later itās to several still-awake members of the volleyball team + your friends all up in your faces like oh my god theyāre in LOVE
youngtaek wakes up with all the noise and just blinks sleepily and you kinda pat his head and tell him to go back to sleep while giving everyone else death glares like SHUT THE FUCK UP SO HE CAN SLEEP
but you donāt know about the video >:)
so one of the sober boys ends up bringing you two home and when you wake up the next morning donghyun has added you both to a group chat and sent the video there
you scream into your pillow
youngtaek screams into his pillow
and you both proceed to do absolutely nothing about it until joochan locks the two of you in one of the music rooms and slides a copy of the song youngtaek wrote about you under the doorĀ
you get to the paper before youngtaek can burn it and itās messy itās awkward itās hilarious but you two end up together by the end of the day so it worked... kinda?
your presence helps youngtaek a lot by giving him something more to focus on throughout the day and subsequently not set everything on fire
though mind reader bomin complains because he used to zero in on youngtaekās mind when things got too much since quote unquoteĀ āthereās not much going on up thereā (credits to casey + fact in star) but now if youngtaekās brain isnāt playing the music from the mii channel itās thinking about you which isnāt ideal
youngtaek may or may not have attacked bomin after that
you may or may not have had to pull him away when bominās shirt started smoking
but itās cool the smoking goes away when you kiss his forehead and youngtaek just beams like the entire sun
seungmin - foresight
like casey said seungmin has foresight and itās anything but useful
heāll either get glimpses of dumb unimportant shit like haha the dayās lunch includes rice or visions of stuff he canāt avoid likeĀ hey youngtaekās going to trip on air oh oops he just did aaand now his shirt is on fire
honestly if he was going to have foresight he could at least like?? predict stocks or some shit?? why the fuck does it MATTER if youngtaekās about to fall if seungmin canāt even help him
not like heādĀ help even if he could because seungmin isnāt an angel and youngtaek falling is funny but still itās the principle of the goddamn matter
sometimes he gets glimpses of whether or not golcha will win their volleyball matches but like casey said he doesnāt say anything because he doesnāt want to ruin the team spirit before the gameās even over
plus who said the future was fixed in stone? like none of seungminās momentary glimpses have been wrong yet but thereās always a chance... right?
seungmin isnāt going to discount that possibility yet at least
but he didnāt always think that way - youāre actually the one who opened him up to that point of view
youāre an ordinary person with no powers or anything but you work part-time at the juice bar across the street from his school and sometimes golcha will go there after practice to get something to drink
and you have a special soft spot for seungmin because heās the first of the group who started frequenting the shop
and on that first ever visit he helped catch you when you slipped bringing a tray of drinks to a few people sitting in the corner
even though you both ended up on the floor covered in juice he still managed to break your fall enough that none of the glasses broke and while giving him his drink you kind of joked that it was like he knew what was going to happen before it did
which... is not exactly false
seungmin was waiting for his drink when he got a little glimpse of you falling and him helping catch you but then it all happened before he could even process the vision so like yeah he did see it but not soon enough to prevent anything
like usual
anyway you promise seungmin a free drink the next time he comes in when youāre on shift and so he does come in though he insists you donāt have to give him his drink for free
you just say well buy me a drink then. two for one
(listen heās cute and he broke your fall and he seems polite. whoās gonna sue you for being a little flirty)
and soĀ a beautiful relationship is born :)
seungmin really likes you a lot like so much?? he used to laugh at youngtaek for being so whipped for his partner but now he thinks he kind of understands it
the one thing to worry about is the fact that you donāt have powers and he does but itās not that big of an issue really. likeĀ foresight is one of the abilities that doesnāt really manifest itself physically beyond maybe having a bit of reaction time? but considering his foresight is literally useless even thatās debatable
well actually thereās another thing to worry about: the boys finding out he has an s/o and teasing him to high hell
which they do while also demanding free drinks as seungminās friends
on days when youāre feeling nice youāll do it but money always appears in the tip jar that pays for the free drinks
(itās daeyeol. he feels bad)
anyway you donāt know about the foresight/powers thing until daeyeol calls you one night to pick seungmin up from a party one night and on the way home he stops you from almost getting run into by a speeding car
WHILE TIPSY/DRUNK
once youāve recovered you ask him how he reacted so fast and he just kind of tipsily smiles and saysĀ āi saw it was going to happenā
you donāt ask him anything then because heās drunk and sleepy so you just drive him home but the entire time youāre thinking about all the little things that have just... seemed questionable during the time youāve known seungmin
and itās weird as fuck but at the same time you canāt figure out any other explanation? because once is normal, twice could be a coincidence, but upwards of ten incidents is not right
it feels like youāre bella confronting edward about being a stupid vampire (no i never read twilight and i'm not sorry about it) but a couple of weeks later you ask him
he doesnāt actually remember the drive back home that night because he was kind of too wasted but he definitely does remember the other incidents including when you two met skdjghs
he spills after a few minutes of awkward silence and begs you not to tell which of course you promise to because why the fuck would you not? if the truth got leaked that would be disastrous and itās not like youāre scared or anything, seungminās (mostly) harmless even if some of the other abilities like youngtaek + fire or jangjun + strength give you pause
but you get to talking about his power of foresight and seungmin kind of shrugs at one point while saying that he doesnāt know why he gets glimpses, itās all inevitable anyway so whatās the point
and you just say maybe it isnāt that way. maybe heās seeing one future possibility, maybe even the most likely one, but that doesnāt mean itās the only one set in stone right?
seungmin loves you a lot for that. like so much. itās a new perspective and it gives him more hope than he used to have and you just KNOW the conversation ends in kisses and cuddles
because while heās not going to actively try and prevent whatās about to happen if itās bad (like he canāt exactly influence the outcome of a volleyball match beyond just doing his best - plus, his foresight doesnāt give him enough time to really react to most things), it gives him some hope that even if his foresight says something will turn out bad, thereās a chance it might turn out well :)
anyway seungmin pocket boy you two fit right into each other when you hug which results in the other boys cooing but seungminās strong even if heās small so they get a few new bruises that donghyun just refuses to heal
we love evil donghyun
you also go to their volleyball matches and seungmin trusts you enough to tell you what glimpses he got of the game but you always remind him the future may not be set in stone and regardless of what he sees you always cheer him on just as loudly
all the boys come piling into the juice bar after games and you smile and give seungmin a free drink while everyone else has to pay
they decry favoritism but you just shrug and kiss seungmin over the counter while they scream
dramatic assholes
jaehyun - gravity manipulation
so like casey said jaehyun can manipulate the gravity of objects, either send them floating up in the air or slamming down on the round
which sucks if the object in question is a volleyball and it comes pounding down on his toes when he isnāt paying attention
this happened at the first ever volleyball practice he attended and the boys (read: jibeom) have yet to let it fucking go
his husky voice doesnāt help because when he complains jibeom the boys just imitate his voice which derails the entire practice and now coach + daeyeol + team manager whoās jangjunās s/o are all lying facedown on the ground like when will this madness end
never. the answer is never
but itās ok jaehyun gets his revenge when theyāre all practicing and he sends jibeomās ball flying up into the air and refuses to let it come downĀ and when he does the ball drops right on jibeomās head and whoops look whoāsĀ got a concussion hey donghyun can you fix this
jaehyun is also one of the few occasional lifesavers (literally) besides team manager + donghyun because given enough warning, he can manipulate the gravity on one of jangjunās maybe too strong servesĀ and make it come down more softly than it wouldāve otherwise
the problem is he isnāt super adept with his power
more experienced students will be able to manipulate gravity very subtly, but jaehyun more or less has three settings - floating, slamming down, and very occasionally something in between
which isnāt exactly ideal but jaehyunās working on it, itās fine, heās not too pressed about it
anyway youāre a student at the school for students with superpowers in the next city over and you play basketball
you donāt know jaehyun but he sure as hell knows you because even though he stopped playing basketball a few years ago to focus on volleyball, he still loves the sportĀ and he happens to think youāre one of the best players heās ever see
also youāre really cute
jaehyun goes to every single basketball game thatās against your school just to watch you playĀ
he doesnāt really do much other than watch because a) heās so focused on your performance that he doesnāt register much else and b) everyone would clown him for cheering your team on skdjgskjg
also jaehyunās just shy. like really shy you couldnāt catch him approaching you/showing interest towards you unless someone forced it out of him
which is what his lovely friends from 99 line decide to do
they obviously know about his crush like joochan was with him the first time jaehyun went to watch a basketball game against your school so he SAW the heart eyes
he took a picture and sent it to jibeom who sent it to donghyun and now itās the profile picture for their group chat dedicated to making sure jaehyun asks you out
jaehyun has no knowledge of this group chat because heās oblivious
anyway one day after a game theyāre in the parking lot bc jaehyunās driving this time andĀ jaehyun is babbling about oh my god y/n was so great this time theyāre literally so good at basketball holy shit?? and while heās talking he doesnāt notice jibeom/joochan/donghyun like. subtly pushing him closer and closer to your team whoās just waiting around the bus youāll take to get back to your school
and only when you look up does jaehyun realize heās now close enough for you to have heard literally everything he just said in the past minute or soĀ
cue the awkward crow noises as you and jaehyun just stare at each other
suddenly the backpack in jaehyunās hand just drops onto his foot and if it werenāt for the steel-toed sneakers heās gotten in the habit of wearing then heād probably have a broken foot
as such he kind of lets out a quiet dying screech (it HURTS) and nowĀ jibeom/donghyun/joochan are dying like three feet away meanwhile your friends are screaming into their hands like Y/N ITāS A CUTE BOY YOU LIKE CUTE BOYS TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY YOU IDIOT
and when nothing happens for five seconds beyond jaehyunās ears turning tomato red joochan steps forward and is like hello my friend here is whipped for you so if youāre comfortable would you please give him your number because heās been dying for it since like. last year when we saw you play for the first time
jaehyun nearly launches himself at joochan like SHUT UP DUDE but then youāre handing over your phone while looking away because fuck jaehyunās really cute and you wouldnāt mind getting to know him okay??
(who wouldnāt though thatās the real question)
anyway the two cities arenāt too big so itās not that hard for you and jaehyun to meet up for coffee at some point (which jaehyun surprisingly gets the courage to initiate - he reasons it as heās the one who was interested first so he kind of has to be the one to do it but thatĀ doesnāt mean heās screaming throughout the entire text conversation) andĀ after a semi-awkward first interaction you two surprisingly hit it off and after a few weeks youāre dating
youāre the ultimate athletic couple like jaehyun does volleyball and you do basketball and sometimes you play each other in the park or jaehyun starts teaching you how to play volleyball and itās really cute
over the summer your friend group + golcha goes to the beach to hang out and jaehyun sees firsthand how much youāve improved at volleyballĀ
i didnāt mention it earlier but your power is water manipulation which not only comes in handy with putting out youngtaekās inadvertent flames but also is very useful in splashing your friends + golcha all at once at the beach when no one else is looking
of course everyone just piles on you and sends you flailing into the ocean and maybe you choke on seawater because youāre laughing so hard but jaehyun pulls you out and your first kiss tastes like salty ocean and even with the rest of your friends + golcha screaming itās perfectĀ
water manipulation also helps when they dump you both into the ocean and you just kinda make a bubble where itās deep enough and kiss jaehyun there (yeah pjo the last olympian vibes deal with it)
daeyeol gets worried when you donāt come up and then you surface a second later in his face and he screams itās glorious
you use your power to strip away your sweat after basketball practice and jaehyun begs you to do it for him too after volleyball practice when youāre there which of course you do because youāre a nice s/o
when he gets a little better at the subtleties of his powerĀ jaehyun likes to lift you up using his gravity manipulation and spin you around itās really cute
you show up to jaehyunās volleyball games against your school to cheer him on despite the fact that one of your friends is on your schoolās volleyball team skdjgshkd (and maybe jaehyun accidentally drops the volleyball HARD on his foot the first time you scream his name)
jaehyun starts doing the same when it comes to your basketball games he is no longer shy about screaming your name from his schoolās side of the bleachers :)
his friends call him a traitor but jaehyun doesnāt really care because heās the one who gets to kiss you after your games so whoās the real winner here?
him obviously
jibeom - invisibility
casey i think this blurb was my favorite, itās so fucking funny and literally so jibeom
so like casey said jibeom can turn invisible which is really fun for him and a nightmare for everyone else because heāll just sneak up on people and be like BOO
if you have a weak heart you better stay vigilant
but there are also issues because like casey came up with sometimes jibeom accidentally turns invisible during a fucking game and gets confused as to why no oneās serving to him until one of his teammates or the coach on the sidelines notices heās gone and is like JIBEOM YOUāRE FUCKING INVISIBLE
itās fine the school only ever plays sports against other supernatural schools to avoid spreading the secret about superpowers to regular humans so people are used to this kind of shit but itās embarrassing for jibeom skdjgshjg
heāll try to put his ability to his advantage by turning invisible when heās supposed to be running laps/doing drills and hoping daeyeol/coach/team manager donātĀ notice
at this point though they always do and then itās another five laps/set of drills for him
big sad
anyway jibeomās just living his invisible life you know being a little shit with everyone
mocking jaehyunās voice and turning invisible when jaehyun tries to swipe at him
sneaking up behind his friends and scaring them even if it means he gets decked in the face (thatās one thing he wonāt repeat with jangjun. like the dude doesnāt get scared easily but if he gets startled... the super strength is not a blessing for jibeom if he doesnāt move fast enough)
and then you transfer to the school
so you used to go to the school jaehyunās parter goes to but your family moved or smth so now youāre here and jaehyunās the only person you even vaguely know so you kinda stick around and become friends
and of course jaehyun introduces you to the rest of golcha
now jibeom is in the gym. invisible okay. waiting for jaehyun to show up so he can do his daily scare-jaehyun-because-iām-a-little-shit routine
then you walk into the gym with jaehyun and the first thing you fucking say is there are thirteen people in this room (10 golcha members + you + team manager + coach) but i only see twelve so whoās the invisible one walking up right behind jaehyun
jaehyun fucking screams, a whole crate of volleyballs goes tumbling to the floor because gravity manipulation + jaehyun getting scared go hand in hand, everything is in chaos, youngtaek+joochan+jangjun are crying of laughter at jaehyunās reaction, and jibeom is now standing visible behind jaehyun wide-eyed and surprised because how the fuck did you know
turns out your power is being able to sense/locate invisible things including invisible jibeoms so the rest of golcha + manager + coach think youāre a lifesaver because finally someone can find jibeom whenever he disappears
wrong
like yeah if jibeom has disappeared in the middle of practice youāll yell and be like KIM JIBEOM GET YOUR ASS OUT AND PRACTICE YOU DUMB PIECE OF SHITĀ
is it a surprise that you and daeyeolās partner hit it off in less than five seconds
but if jibeomās disappearing just to be a little shit youāll purposely point people in the wrong direction like youāll reassure youngtaek thatĀ oh no jibeomās over there trying to scare seungmin and then jibeom appears right behind youngtaek and now both of you are cackling on the floor and youngtaek is about to set your backpacks on fire
you may have joined the school late but now you are an honorary 99 line member regardless of what year you were actually born in i donāt care they donāt care theyāre just happy to have another ball of chaos to join their ranks
coach considers banning you from the gym but daeyeol reminds him that if he wants to ban you heāll have to ban everyone else who comes in to visit and cause chaos aka his partner and you know daeyeol needs his hugs before practice so that isnāt going to happen
so you get to stay
most of the time itās fine likeĀ you just sit in the bleachers and do homework while occasionally yelling at jibeom or other slackers, itās only really during breaks that you act up
so anyway even though youāre an honorary 99 line member you spend most of your time with jibeom pulling dumb tricks or being unintentionally funny as fuck
therefore it is only logical that the rest of 99 line starts pushing you two together
fucking meddling brats
they do all the normal stupid shit like announcing outings to malls and ditching you two alone, deciding to go to the movies and ditching you two alone, you see the idea
look theyāve got pea brains they canāt come up with much
but get this: you and jibeom are already dating
yeah. you both started fucking dating a few months after meeting because you were both having a late night study session at your house and your tongues were loose with exhaustion and you may or may not have said some stuff you werenāt planning to
you almost kissed but then you were like itās almost midnight and we havenāt brushed our teeth so maybe not tonight
itās fine jibeom got a kiss the next day (the whole day he acted like he wasnāt waiting for it at all and you teased him for that before finally leaning in)
youĀ havenāt kept your relationship secret out of shame or embarrassment or anything you both just kinda want to see how far 99 line + rest of golcha will go to get you two together. plus itās nice when they buy you movie theater tickets when they just plan to ditch so you donāt have to pay for the date you end up having
itās really fucking funny the more frustrated they get so you and jibeom donāt let up until daeyeol catches you two kissing just outside the locker room after you thought everyone left (NOTHING FUCKING NASTY OKAY THIS IS A SFW PLACE AND BEYOND THAT - NO ONE HERE IS GOING TO DO A N Y T H I NG OUTSIDE A L O C K E R R O O M)
shit goes down in the volleyball group chat that night but you and jibeom are just sitting together on his couch laughing at everything
99 line definitely holds a grudge
daeyeol wonāt shut up about how he needs to clean his eyes out with bleach (as if he doesnāt want to kiss his partner every five seconds jfc)
coach just despairs over the chaos you two bring
but you and jibeom donāt care :)Ā
side note you know whatād be fun - if you donāt have the slightest fashion sense like jibeom and you two become known for wearing stripes + whatever your favorite design happens to be all the damn time
idk i just think itād be funny to watch everyone trying to clown you but literally neither of you giving a shit
donghyun - healing
so like casey said donghyun has healing abilities
and first and foremost he would like to say heās tired of healing the injuries these idiots get every practice
i mean heās not going to refuse treatment for like a jammed finger or a sprained ankle because thatās normal in volleyball or even burns from youngtaek/joochan because thatās just accidentally losing control which could happen to anyoneĀ but like??? falling over because you tried to prank jangjun and he basically backhanded you out of surprise??? thatās on you jibeom
kidding kidding donghyun will heal whateverās been set on golcha but he WILL complain about it the whole time
thatās his right ok if he has to deal with this bunch of idiots (who also donāt fucking clean up after themselves) heās going to complain about it with his whole chest
which is not a very broad chest but donghyun can talk a Long time so that more than makes up for it
gets teased by all the other team members but theyāre really grateful for him not just because of his healing abilities + affinity for cleaning but also because he really does care for them
and as much as he complains heāll do as much healing as needed, even if it drains his energy
but there are two major cons of his abilities
1. using his power too much (like all other powers) drains him of energy, so if he heals one too many injuries at a time then heās in danger of also passing out
it isnāt usually a problem because itās not like golcha gets injured every five seconds but some practices are more accident prone than others
once joochan fell and broke his leg and donghyun passed out trying to heal it and ended up in the hospital too. not fun
2. he canāt use his power on himself. like if sungyoon fractures his finger donghyun can fix that no big deal but he canāt do the same to himself healing justĀ doesnāt work that way
it is for this reason that each sports team has a designated healer who isnāt a member of the team - of course if the team has a member who is a healer thatās useful, but they need to keep their energy up + they canāt heal themselves which is a problem
anyway the last healer for the volleyball team graduated last year so you come in to take their place
youāre super nice to golcha like you heal their injuries whenever anything happens no matter how stupid it was and they start making jokes about how youāre more helpful than donghyun haha because you donāt complain/nag about everything
and like donghyun knows theyāre teasing but at the same time... it kinda hurts
what makes it worse is that youāre nothing but nice to him as well? like itād be so much easier to dislike you if you were rude
so donghyun just kinda... avoids you and doesnāt say anything about it to anyone. does his absolute best to avoid getting injured so he doesnāt have to be around you any more than necessary
and several times you try to make conversation but he just brushes you away which leaves you confused and makes donghyun feel worse but he really doesnāt know what else to do
then one bad day he jumps up but misses the ball and falls on his leg hard. like really hardĀ and thereās pain shooting up his side but he canāt feel a break or anything so he just gets up and tries to keep playing, like practice ends in five minutes anyway he may as well continueĀ
but you call out and say to stop practice, donghyunās hurtĀ
except donghyun has had a really bad day and this is just the icing on the cake so he may or may not yell at you to go away, heās fucking fine, and when you keep pressing he just grabs his stuff and leaves
the second he gets home he collapses on the floor and just... stays there because yeah he may not have broken anything but his leg hurts like a bitch and then he starts crying
skips school the next day because he feels like absolute shit (mentally and physically) but 99 line comes to visit and theyāre like so. explain what happened yesterday at practice
and donghyun is ready to get defensive but theyāre more confused than anything, his outburst wasnāt like him at all and why would he yell at you? you never did anything wrong
thatās when donghyun breaks down and tells them everything about how heās felt over the past few months with you as the new healer
it ends in a big cuddle session between four idiots and apologies and donghyun promises to apologize to you tomorrowĀ
which he does. and surprisingly youāre really gracious about it, it makes donghyun feel worse yet again because youāre so genuine and nice and you even offer to heal his leg again because it looks like it still hurts
the teasing decreases and donghyun feels much better, he also stops brushing you off and actually begins hanging out with you a little outside of school/practice
and while working late on a group project for history (your other group mates ditched you two and donghyun is still seething over it) he realizes that this has evolved into a stupid crush
said crush is only compounded when you tell the teacher half of your group did absolutely nothing without donghyun having to say anything
but of course since donghyun 1. is an idiot and 2. pretended to hate you for several long months he doesnāt say anything
until you fucking ask him to the end of the year dance. you ask him to the dance and donghyun thinks joochan has given him electric shock because his brain definitely has to be malfunctioning
after five solid seconds of short-circuiting he nods like an idiot and haha youāre going to the dance together
golcha boys wonāt shut the fuck up about how cute it is or whateverĀ
donghyun blushes red while you just smile serenely and promise not to heal their injuries for the next week so they better avoid getting hurt
yeah donghyun is definitely in love with you
youāre probably a more low-key couple, you enjoy study dates or quiet activities more than like. amusement parks or whatever kind of shit joochan/jangjun subject their partners to
you might kiss in public if the moment feels right but more often than not the only real pda you show is holding hands which makes golcha coo
donghyun would rather hug you sweetly in private without worrying about his teammates trying to ruin the moment anyway
you agree but then proceed to kiss his nose in front of everyone and whoops heās a blushing mess and golcha (+ the coach) are screaming
sigh
joochan - electricity
ah yes, the ultimate question: which hurts more, electric burns or fire burns?
join the golden child volleyball team and you can experience both firsthand!
jk (not really) but between joochan and youngtaek, golcha kinda has their pick of what kinds of burns to get (other than like. rope burn or burns from sliding on the ground idk)
like casey said itās v lucky donghyun/his partner are around to heal them because really trying to slap a volleyball with a burnt hand is not fun
most of the time though joochanās fine, heās just full of energy and gets staticky when excited and like casey came up with the boys will sometimes dare each other to touch his hair when itās sticking straight up and get shocked
or if youāre a bitch like jangjun youāll take someoneās hand and purposely place it there so they get shocked
(jangjunās also stupid though so he gets shocked by proxy if joochanās staticky enough)
(i mean at least it makes everyone laugh???)
(yes this was inspired by that one video where he and bomin (i think) are playing with the lie detector (or was it the jangstar episode with daeyeol?? i canāt remember) and he put his hand over bominās/daeyeolās and got wrecked too)
jesus christ this is supposed to be about joochan not jangjun letās get back on track
anyway when joochan gets worked up either out of excitement or a more negative emotion the one thing that never fails to calm him down is music
he can play several instruments and sings very wellĀ
so if itās been a bad day or heās feeling anxious, heāll either go to the school music rooms of his own accord or daeyeol will notice and send him there to calm down a little before practice
which is where he finds you!
joochanās playing the piano one day, singing n stuff and completely oblivious to you sleeping under the goddamn piano
how did you end up there? you wereĀ waiting for a friend/sibling (whichever one you choose) to finish up some after school activity so you could walk home together and you were sleepy and under the piano seemed like a decent place to nap so you set an alarm and passed out
look high school is draining so if youāre not making the best decisions by the end of the day who can blame you
and the piano is a real grand (letās pretend the school has money shall we) so unless joochan was really looking (which he wasnāt), he wouldnāt have noticed you at the back
joochanās there for a couple hours playing peacefully
AND THEN YOUR ALARM FUCKING RINGSĀ
joochan screams and falls off the stool
you shoot up and hit your head on the bottom of the piano
for a moment you two just groan in pain and then you look at each other and are like. what the fuck
and then itās your turn to scream
anyway you both stop screaming eventually (miraculously no one comes in) andĀ you try to explain to joochan as best you can and he just stays silent and youāre apologizing and then he busts out laughing
and somehow both of you are laughing through the pain and even though joochan wasnāt feeling too good earlier he feels even better laughing with you
when you eventually leave you have a new number in your phone and the promise of seeing joochan tomorrow :)
first thing joochan does when you go is text the 99 line group chat and be like guys someone fell asleep under the piano while i was playing and then woke up and my butt hurts from falling off the stool out of surprise but i think iām in love
donghyun: stop being dramatic
jibeom: yeah whatāll happen when you accidentally shock them for the first time
joochan: you guys are horrible
but it turns out jibeom is... actually a little bit right
and itās even worse. because your power is over water
water + electricity Do Not Mix
it isnāt usually too big of a problem? because itās not like you conjure water out of anywhere or are always soaking wet bc you need water around to manipulate it, you canāt create it yourself
so like itās kind of fine
except for some reason you react a little worse to joochanās electric shocks (even mild ones) primarily due to your power which isnāt fun at all
itās not just you, water manipulators are known to have more averse reactions to electric shocks than people with other powers
but it sucks because you really like joochan and he really likes you and both of you definitely want to ask each other out but how is this going to work if just being around joochan might be a hazard to you?
and for the first time joochan just... he really hates his power
like heās given people some small burns before on accident but they werenāt big
with you though, even if itās a small shock you react more badly than anyone expects and joochan really fucking hates it
after several volleyball practices where joochan is really out of it, daeyeol is about to ask whatās up but surprisingly jangjun steps up and says let me handle it
because after getting together with his partner, he thinks he has an idea of what joochanās upset about
and when he asks joochan spills everything
itās the first time joochan has really seen jangjun serious about anything other than volleyball or his partner
so jangjun tells joochan about what his partner told him, and really knocking someone unconscious once or twice isnāt as bad (though still bad) as getting electrocuted by a stray fucking spark
but similar advice applies. all powers have a destructive side and it shouldnāt stop joochan from living, he just has to learn to control himself as best as he can. thereās nothing more he can do but that
and this gives joochan the courage to ask if you want to talk about it
iām going to say it ends well because iām the author and iām not going to give joochan a sad ending (heās joochan what the fuck how could you do that to him) but you do acknowledge what could happen if either of you loses control
which just makes you two more determined to completely master your abilities so you wonāt inadvertently hurt each other
really itās sweet. joochan is still excitable but sparks fly off of him a lot less and the few that do you take care to avoid until his hair stops sticking up with static
and you take care to keep water away from him when heās full of electricity
when joochan kisses you for the first time your lips tingle like his electricity is bleeding into you but itās pleasant and sweet unlike his sparks and it just makes you want to kiss him all the time
(you tell that to him and he has to take like five minutes to figure out how to breathe again)
99 line wonāt stop clowning you two for how you met and jibeom shows you the text about being in love that joochan sentĀ
legend says you can still hear jibeomās electrocuted (not really heās just being dramatic) screams in the gym late at night
yeah itās cute you like bringing joochan roses bc theyāre his favorite flower and joochan likes to bring you your favorite snacks and jangjun + his partner view you two like younger siblings in a way bc of the nature of your relationship
one big happy family until joochanās hair sticks up and you have to yeet away
itās fine though as long as you give him a kiss after heās calmed down :)
bomin - mind reading
this one turned out so long compared to the others why
for context this was 1.7k and the others were all comfortably between 1k or 1.2k i'm gonna scream
anyway. bomin. mind reader like casey said. heās kind of got it bad
well all mind readers do until they learn to block off their ability until they actually want to use it
which bomin is learning but heās young and he found out his powers a little late so he doesnāt have as much experience
meaning whenever he goes to school his head kind of feels like itās going to explode :/
itās okay in volleyball - actually if anything itās kind of useful
because yeah bomin is focused on the game, but he keeps a bit of his mind open to his teammatesā thoughts so he knows where to move or where to keep open and all that
and if the other team is a bunch of assholes he doesnāt stop from reading their minds a little soĀ golchaās ready to take them on :) small advantages
so where volleyball is concerned itās not that big of an issue, even when the gym is full of spectators bomin can usually focus even without latching onto an empty mind because thereās so much going on in the game and he has to concentrate on that
however in uninteresting classes or when heās just having a not good day...
luckily itās gotten better after a year or so, like bomin can mostly filter out the world if he focuses on just one personās thoughts
which is usually youngtaek (as casey + irl bomin came up with) because quote unquoteĀ āthereās not much going on up thereā
yes i know i said that already in youngtaekās part but itās still hilarious to me and now itās bominās turn so iām saying it again. sue me
except now youngtaek has a partner about whom he thinks all the fucking time if he isnāt focusing on music/volleyball/class (though the last one is a little less frequent) so concentrating on youngtaekās mind is now not exactly an option for bomin
no oneās mind is really empty at this point or at least not empty enough for bomin to use as a sort of safe space so he just resigns himself to having to go through all of this until he finally gets the hang of blocking off his ability
so the school year ends and daeyeol/sungyoon graduate wonderful blah blah blah long story short bomin is in all new classes with many new people and it is... a bit much
but life goes on and thereās not much bomin can do about things except work on his own power so even though heās kinda crumbling around the edges he just smiles and bears it
and then he gets paired with you for a school project. at first itās not anything special, just a regular project right
but then you guys decide to meet up at a cafe to work on it and itās more crowded than either of you expected and bomin hasnāt had the greatest day so he just... stops in the middle of the cafe with this weird expression on his face because heās just really overwhelmed
he doesnāt expect you to grab his wrist and drag him out of the cafe and into a quieter area of the street
and he really doesnāt expect you to say hey. focus on my mind, okay? my mind. focus.Ā
but he manages to and thereās just blissful emptiness and bomin latches on like itās his lifeline (in a way, it is) and after a few minutes he manages to get his head together
turns out you have a sibling at home whoās also a mind reader and when they were still learning to control their power you learned to empty your thoughts temporarily so theyād have a place to focus on if things got to be too much
you also have a golden tongue (that you always control carefully) but it helps calm bomin down after he says itās fine if you use it
after that you tell him if heās having a mini crisis he can always find you
and bomin just about cries because after daeyeol/sungyoon graduated he kind of felt like his support network at school was missing something bc as much as he clowns them (daeyeol especially) he really relied on both to talk to about his mind-reading issues
now that youāre offering to support him... it just means a lot
definitely doesnāt help that heās had a bad day in general and his emotions are kinda fraught at this point
you donāt end up getting anything done that day, you just take bomin over to your house bc no oneās there and your family wonāt mind even if heās still there when they get home, so you just take the time to get to know each other a little when bomin feels good enough to interact
he apologizes a lot for nothing getting done but you just hit him and tell him to shut up, itās not his fault and you still have a couple weeks to work on it so itās fine
you guys work on the project and it goes well in the end but even after that you and bomin still stay in contact
since you have a sibling who went through the same stuff bomin did, you have some tips to share about blocking out other minds even if your power isnāt the same
plus your golden tongue is really useful in calming bomin during the moments he needs it. you always make sure to get his permission to use it before you do though
when bomin asks about it you say itās because of consent and stuff and if you donāt get permission it feels more like manipulation than helping?Ā
to him the similarities between you and daeyeol on that end are uncanny (even if youāre less awkward sorry not sorry daeyeol) and bomin just admires you all the more for it
anyway lifeās going well, you and bomin are really good friends now but maybe like halfway through the year or something bomin senses that youāre becoming a little more closed off?
like he does his best not to read your mind but sometimes he gets accidental glimpses and though theyāre usually pretty free (as in you donāt care what youāre thinking about around him) he now gets less of these glimpses and when he does, your mind seems emptier than usual
and he doesnāt want to bring it up? because that equals admitting he reads your mind sometimes no matter how accidental it is and with your emphasis on consent with your power bomin isnāt sure how well youād take it
but then you avoid him for like two weeks so bomin breaks down about it to daeyeol over the phone and yeah itās time for you two to talk
it takes some awkward silence and prodding and really big effort on bominās part to not willingly see what youāre thinking but the gist of it is
you have a fat crush on bomin and youāve been avoiding him because you donāt want him to accidentally see any of it
bomin is like... y/n what the heck i have a crush on you too why didnāt you say anything :(
anyway itās time for big reveals i guess so bomin admits heĀ accidentally sees into your mind every so often and he feels really bad about it but youāre super understanding bc of your sibling of course
and bomin feels kind of stupid for worrying so much he shouldāve thought of that but oh no now youāre hugging him and saying sorry into his shirt so pretty much all thoughts fly out of his mind because maybe this is a little like heaven to bomin
dating you is so refreshing. heās so happy to have someone around who completely understands like yeah there are other mind readers in the school but itās not as common a power as others and theyāve beenĀ masters at blocking out the world for a long while that theyāve kinda forgotten about how it feels to a beginner
but youāre so sweet and understanding and bomin feels even better when he meets your sibling who teases you two of course but also serves as another pillar of support for him
itās not just one-sided either. like even though bomin tries not read your mind without permission, heās still good at picking up on your moods even if youāre not explicit which makes it so much easier to trust and confide in him
and even if youāre not in the mood to talk he gets that too - he wonāt force you to do anything
on the occasions when even you canāt pick through your own thoughts you let bomin take a peek in and even if he canāt help in the moment itās enough that someone else knows and understands :)
youāre so fucking cute together. like the rest of golcha coos over you. even donghyun whoās the most low-key with his partner jfc
daeyeol and sungyoon come back from university to visit and bomināsĀ like. weāve got to hide
you: why
bomin: just trust me
long story short you do not (you: theyāre your former teammates and friends! how bad can it be?) and uh by the end of the day maybe youāve had enough teasing about you/bomin for the rest of your life
but when heās not teasing you do hit it off with daeyeol bc of the same powers thing and secretly bominās really happy that two of the people he treasures the most get along so well
yeah you and bomin are just super cute and rely on each other a lot in a healthy way and youāre always there for each other
everyone wishes they had as nice a relationship as you two :)
you: you shouldnāt. bomin teases me every five fucking seconds about something i did like three months ago
bomin: and yet you love me :)
you: debatable
bomin :|
(itās ok you kiss him later and he gets smiley again which you delight in seeing even if he does go back to teasing you five seconds later)
If you enjoyed, please donāt forget to reblog and leave a comment to tell me what you thought! Thank you for reading and have a lovely day <3
(1 reblog = 1 prayer for the team coach he needs some supportĀ dealing with all these brats)
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Catās Definitive Ranking of Every ML Episode as of 4/22/21
Are you guys ready for this? I did the thing. Youāre all welcome. Donāt ever ask me for anything again. You can watch me get progressively more unhinged in real time.Ā
Now, just to preface this, I did not give this too much thought. Most of these are just my gut feelings. I went through every episode and just made some snap judgments based off the lasting impressions Iāve been left with. These are my opinions. If you donāt like them, tough. And also I donāt care. Go spend 4 hours making your own damn ranking. And shut the hell up. Anyway, this is probably the longest post Iāve ever made, so Iām gonna put it all under a read more. Click on it if you have an hour to read it. Okay, here we go!
1.Ā Ā Ā Ā Origins II- Good starting point for our heroes. Good establishment of canon ships and character dynamics. Umbrella scene literally stole my wallet. Cannot emphasis enough that I am whipped for the umbrella scene. I wrote a whole ass AU just to say how whipped I am for the umbrella scene. In the Rain will play at my wedding. Jk. Weddings are for suckers. But dammit if I donāt want these kids to get married. 10/10
2.Ā Ā Ā Ā Origins I- Good introduction to lore. Good introduction to characters. Good establishment of status quoyo. Just good. 10/10
3.Ā Ā Ā Ā Simon Says- Listen, I am nothing if not a shipper at heart. This episode just sparks joy. And the whole series almost ended when Gabriel almost jumped off the roof. I was really rooting for this one. This was the episode where I saw Ladrien and went yes, maāam, Iāll have one of those. 10/10
4.Ā Ā Ā Ā Evillustrator- Are you all surprised? Cat, the MC-skeptic ranked the pivotal MC episode so highly? Well, let me tell you all a thing, I started this fandom out a MC shipper because of this episode. Their first interaction is gold. I donāt deny that. I enjoy it. This is the MC dynamic I fell in love with. Yall toxic shippers ruined MC for me when you opened your mouths and spat in the face of Ladrien and baselessly declared MC the sin-ship. We all know itās Ladrien. Stop kidding yourselves. Boy in leather catsuit? Please. Basic ass vanilla bitches. Iām getting off-topic. Solid episode 10/10. We love to see it.
5.Ā Ā Ā Ā Stormy Weather- Babyās first Miraculous episode. It holds a special place in my heart. Itās a solid episode. Good establishment of what the show is. Fun villain. Good times. Fond memories. 10/10
6.Ā Ā Ā Ā Riposte- Listen, I know Iām an Adrinette stan, but hear me out: Ladrien. Itās just so good. And Kagami was compelling in this episode. It was just really solid. Itās my favorite s2 episode. If you ask me if I want to rewatch Riposte, the answer is always yes. 10/10. We stan.
7.Ā Ā Ā Ā Gorizilla- Okay, so this episode has some solid Adrinette in it, but the real reason it ranks so high is that fucking Ladrien trust fall. I stare at that scene for hours, you guys. HOURS. It is absolutely just *chefs kiss*. Sometimes when I need a pick-me-up, I just go watch gifs of that catch on loop. 10/10. Beautiful. Radiant. Carefree.
8.Ā Ā Ā Ā Gang of Secrets- I have been keeping most of my opinions to myself about s4 (mostly because Iāve backed way the hell out of this fandom), but GoS was pretty solid. Gotta say, itās the first episode in a long time with this show that made me actually excited to see what happens next. Most other episodes I was like, okay, that was cute. The show is still meh overall. But GoS really got me like oh shit, is ML good again? 10/10 for making me feel things again.
9.Ā Ā Ā Ā Oblivio- Told you guys this one was probably rated higher than I thought. Oblivio is just really fun. There is good Adrinette. That āNo wonder I fell in love with youā paired with the softest of Adrien smiles just sends me. And the kisses. The unquestionable trust. These two kids literally woke up together alone in an elevator with no memories and said welp, youāre my boyfriend/girlfriend obviously, I donāt make the rules. Honestly, how anyone could argue that these two dorks arenāt made for each other after that episode is beyond me. 9/10
10.Ā Backwarder- Okay, I know I am weird and alone for this one, but I really liked this episode. It got a lot of shit for the constipation capsule thing at the end, but like who cares? We finally got some more backstory on Fu. He got a love-interest who is dope as hell. This episode is my favorite lucky charm use ever. Like that queen DID that. I like Backwarder, guys! Fuck off. 9/10.
11.Ā Kwamibuster- We all know I am a Marinette-stan by this point, but our girl was SHINING this episode. This bitch said gimme all them and let me go whoop this bitchās ass, and she DID. Hawkmoth could never. Multimouse is a gift, and Marinette is a boss ass queen. Ā 9/10
12.Ā Chat Blanc- Listen, this episode was very good. I enjoy the idea of my children being happy in another timeline somewhere very much. We got all 4 sides of the square in an episode. Itās just really solid. I know this is the fandomās favorite, and everyone is gonna shit their pants because it didnāt make my top 10, but this is my list. So, I put it at number 12. Itās good. I like it. It just didnāt steal my wallet like other episodes did. Put the pitchforks down. Itās gonna be okay, you can still love it more than me. 8/10
13.Ā New York Special- I know everyone felt some type of way about this special, but I wasnāt mad at it. My perception of it might be clouded because I watched it in Disney World where I was chilling and having a great time, but like this special really did somethings for me. The Adrinette was top tier. Tippy top tier. Even though they hurt us in the end, I am okay with it because it just means the children will grow and come out stronger. I donāt care if itās not technically canon. Ask me if I give a fuck. I donāt. I had fun here. 8/10. Solid.
14.Ā The Collector- This one might shock a lot of you, but let me paint you a scene. Itās the first episode of s2. We have just come off a 2 year hiatus. The fandom is thriving. Weāre hungry for canon content. We have hopes and dreams and expectations. Everyone is going wild with theories. This episode confirmed something that was long since obvious (in my opinion) and ended the stupid arguments people had been having. It made Gabriel actually seem semi-competent. We got our first taste of how Chat/Adrien will react to his dad being Hawkmoth. We got a peek at their life. Adrienās isolation and sadness. They were so close to figuring it out. The battle was epic. Like Collector really had them on the ropes there for a second. Itās a solid episode, yall. Iām not wrong. Hate me all you want, but this episode brought it. 8/10
15.Ā Despair Bear- Is this episode up this high because of the Adrinette slow dance scene? YOU BET YOUR ASS IT IS. Okay, but fr though, shipping aside, this episode gave us hope that Chloe was actually gonna redeem herself. I mean, she didnāt but, we didnāt know that at the time. Seeing her run around trying to be nice was fun. And then she actually did something good, and we had a moment of okay, sheās capable. Weāll get there. We didnāt. But what a ride this episode was for making us think she would. 8/10
16.Ā Startrain- Cat, youāre just ranking all the Adrinette episodes highest. And? What of it? Are you surprised? You clicked a blog that has simping for Adrinette in the description, and youāre surprised all my favorite episodes have Adrinette? Iām not wrong, youāre just an idiot. The Adrinette nap cuddles aside though, this was a pretty good episode. If you donāt think too hard about the whole space thing, we got a look at Maxās life, his mom is a driven, smart lady doing her best. Adrien rebels against papa for once. Alya stops a Lila scheme. Chloe gets to play the hero. Alya and Nino actually investigate like the heroes they are. Gabriel gets to realize what a dumbass bitch he is. I mean. Guys. Startrain is solid. 7.5/10
17.Ā Sapotis- This one shot up in rank for me after GoS, but tbh itās always been a solid episode. Alyanette sleepover? Check. Alya becoming a superhero? Check. Itās a fun episode. And looking back, itās nicely called back to later in GoS. We love it. 7.5/10
18.Ā Sandboy- Idk why I enjoy this episode as much as I do, but I do. Sandboy is a cute bean. I love his aesthetic. We also get hilarious looks at everyoneās nightmares. āPlagg, who turned you into a sock?ā cracks me up cause like Adrien, bby, no XD And Chat Noirās nightmare. I think it would have been interesting though if since Sandboy dusted the Agreste mansion, if we got a peek at Hawkmothās nightmares. It would have been a nice hint of plot to go along with Master Fuās nightmare. Also Plagg giving the akuma the slip like the clever boy we know he is deep down? 7.5/10
19.Ā Furious Fu- If you guys havenāt realized by now that I love Fu, idk what youāre doing. Pay attention. I know that some people donāt like him, but Iām just gonna say it, youāre wrong. Fu took care of the Miracle Box for over 100 years, and this episode kind of gives some insight to what the Order was like. Very strict. Lots of rules. And ya know what, Fu said fuck the police, Iām gonna befriend these little magical demigods, and fuck off! Like what an absolute legend. I was really happy to see him living his best life, and that he and Marianne got married because itās what he deserves. We love to see it. 7.5/10
20.Ā Gamer- People like to shit on Marinette in this episode, but like honestly, if I were in her shoes, Iād have probably done the same thing if I had the skill. Aināt nothing wrong with a girl trying to spend time with the boy she likes. And Tom and Sabine being absolute shipping trash. I love them. And the awkward Adrinette. The introduction of the lucky charm that Adrien STILL carries. Wholesome. This was a good episode for their friendship, and we love to see it. 7.5/10
21.Ā Christmaster- Okay, I know a lot of people hated this episode when it aired, but I thought it was really funny? Everyone skidding around in the ice rink was hilarious. If you donāt take this episode seriously, itās really fun. Chris is pretty cute, and damn right Ladybug is the best kid in the world. Idk. This episode is fun. Iām not mad at it. Sue me. 7.5/10
22.Ā Weredad- What? Another MC-heavy episode in Catās top 30? Listen, I donāt hate canon MC. The fans just annoy me. This episode was funny. The secondhand embarrassment and cringe was real. Plagg taunting Adrien because he knows the secret was great. Marinette being a self-saving queen was great. Itās a good episode. I like MC, you guys. I do. I swear! 7.5/10
23.Ā Miraculer- This episode was interesting to me, and I think itās still a good development episode. For one, Sabrina finally got her own akuma episode named after her. Secondly, because itās a big step for Chloe, just not in the way we expected. It totally makes sense that Chloe canāt have her Miraculous back because literally everyone knows her identity. Canāt argue that logic. And she is the first person to ever refuse to become akumatized, so like mad respect. I know a lot of people had high hopes for redeemed Chloe (myself included), but I think watching a character fall from revering someone to hating them is also an interesting path. The friends to enemies arc as it were. Idk. I liked this episode. It was an opportunity for Chloe to grow, even if she didnāt in the end, but weāll talk about that later. 7.5/10
24.Ā Lady Wifi- I like Alya. I feel like I donāt say that much, and people make some assumptions because of MDCSP, but MDCSP is just a concept I wanted to explore. It doesnāt really reflect how I feel about any one character. Except maybe Lila. And Gabe. But every other spite fic Iāve written branching from Chameleon, the class has been fine. Alya has been fine. So, let it be known that I like Alya. Lady Wifi was a fun episode. Putting aside the fact that she thought Chloe was Ladybug for no reason, I like her akuma. I like the interactions we get with LadyNoir in this episode. After GoS, this episode gets a bit funnier. Itās solid. 7/10
25.Ā Dark Cupid- I donāt have much to say about this one. LadyNoir. Thatās it. Thatās the tweet. Send it. 7/10
26.Ā Volpina- So many things about this episode. It introduced a new antagonist who we didnāt exactly 100% know was going to be an antagonist at the time. This episode sparked a lot of fun fan theories for a while. Who was Lila? How was she going to shake things up? Not to mention this episode gave us a taste of plot and lore, and set up Marinette meeting Master Fu officially. Lots of intrigue sparked from this episode. And that LadyNoir door scene? OOOOOO 7/10
27.Ā Hearthunter- One word: Adrigaminette. This episode was so cute for them! I loved seeing them all goofing and running around together. Adrien and Kagami being absolutely in love with Marinette when her hair is down. They both love her, I donāt make the rules. Not to mention, Marinette takes a big step by letting her friends be happy without her. Kagami not wanting to hurt Marinette. The drama!! Gabriel being a messy ass bitch to his friends. It loses points for the abomination of an akuma, but overall, I wasnāt too mad at it. Yet. 7/10
28.Ā Glaciator- More MC in Catās top 30? Itās more likely than you think. Listen. Listenā¦ Listen. MC is fine. This episode was the closest thing to fanfiction that we got. The balcony scene was really sweet. I was drinking the irony. We got introduced to Andre the icecream fraud. Andre the please just give me the flavor I asked for man. I could have done without Chat pouting, but the LadyNoir in the end was pretty good. I wish theyād done more with Ladybugās feelings for Chat. Had her question herself a bit more after this one, but overall, itās cute. 7/10
29.Ā Zombizou- A lot of people started hating Mlle. Bustier after this episode, and like I can kind of see it, if I squint, but I did not draw that same conclusion from this episode. Mlle. Bustier just wants good things for all of her students. Theyāre 14 ffs, she just wants to be a good influence on all of her students and wants them all to be successful. But go off, I guess? Plus, this episode was basically just a spoof on zombie apocalypse movies. We got so many things. Julerose, Myvan, DJWifi. Chloe actually showing some depth and emotion. LadyNoir. We won this episode, babes. Sorry you didnāt get the memo. 7/10
30.Ā Timetagger- Okay. This is the last episode in the ones that Iād venture to call āgood.ā Number 30. I enjoyed Timetagger. I know people have feelings about timey-wimey bullshit, and like Iām not gonna lie and say Iām thrilled with it either (I mean, I changed the rabbitās power in MDCSP) but that being said, Timetagger was so sassy. Bunnix was cool as hell. We get to see that LB and CN are still doing the thing in the future. So many questions sparked from this episode. It was fun. Idk. I liked it. Thatās all I got. 7/10
31.Ā Malediktator- Okay, from this point on, less comments because this is the section that are more or less just meh to me. Like theyāre fine. This episode was fine. Chloe was fine. Chat playing with the laser was cute. 6.5/10
32.Ā Mayura- Adrienās speech at the end. Nuff said 6.5/10
33.Ā Ikari Gozen- Ryuko/Ryuuko. Gals being pals. 6.5/10
34.Ā Reflekdoll- I talked about this earlier, but I donāt hate this episode. Itās not as bad as people make it out to be. Sue me. 6.5/10
35.Ā Anansi- Nino is the goodest boy. Also I need more of the gang taking Adrien on adventures via Facetime. Stat. 6.5/10
36.Ā Shanghai- This one is new, and tbh I still havenāt watched it with subs, but I had a good time. Fei was cute. The boy squad was cute. Adrien bonding with Great Uncle Cheng was cute. Hawkmoth getting literally dunked on was *chefs kiss* 6.5/10
37.Ā Gigantitan- I love overly supportive, ride-or-die girl squad. 6.5/10
38.Ā Party Crasher- Idk why this episode was funny to me. Kim is the purest bean. We donāt deserve him. 6.5/10
39.Ā Desperada- This episode was an emotional roller coaster, and even though we all collectively hate Aspikās stupid egghead, we love the Ladrien this episode provided us. 6/10
40.Ā Oni-chan- Listen, I loved seeing Lila get a tiny bit of karma even if she made it up in the end. I loved Chat going off on her. I loved seeing her get outsmarted in the end. 6/10
41.Ā Frightningale- My good lesbian Clara Nightingale. We stan. 6/10
42.Ā Style Queen- I like Audrey in a āsheās the worst person Iāve ever met, I want to travel the world with herā kind of way. Sheās funny to me. Idk. I love her firing everyone. Sheās the one I love to hate. Sheās the worst, but we love her for it. Plus this episode gave us Plaggās adorable little Cataclysm that destroyed half the city. 6/10
43.Ā Gamer 2.0- Chat confidently strutting in heels made this episode worth it. And we get to see the beginning of Marinette being overwhelmed. Plus it was the return of gamer!nette. 6/10
44.Ā Troublemaker- I donāt hate this episode as much as the next person either. It was fine. Jagged is a manchild, but we love him for it. Heās a Marinette stan which like mood. The Adrinette at the end was cute. I wasnāt mad at it. Idk. Itās fine. 6/10
45.Ā Reflekta- Where are all my Juleka stans at? I loved the LadyNoir banter in this ep. V. cute. 6/10
46.Ā Dark Owl- This episode was fun. And it really shows their level of trust. Plus Plagg and Tikki interacted. 6/10
47.Ā Timebreaker- Have I ever mentioned that I like Alix? I like Alix. 6/10
48.Ā Silencer- I donāt hate this episode as much as youād expect me to, and that is 100% because of the LadyNoir. 5.5/10
49.Ā Prime Queen- Chat purrs. 5.5/10
50.Ā Syren- I think the fish power-up is adorable. Ondine is a gem. Kim is a pure bean, but we been knew. 5.5/10
51.Ā Befana- I like Gina, but this episode fell flat for me. Almost as flat as the animation. 5.5/10
52.Ā Reverser- Another episode that everyone hates that I am actually fine with. This episode made me like Nathaniel more. Probably because I was previously indifferent toward him. Marc is cute too. 5.5/10
53.Ā Mr. Pigeon- Marinette is one clever girl. And the Adrinette hand-touch. 5.5/10
54.Ā Felix- Felix is a gremlin of chaos. A true chaotic neutral. He gives his uncle the finger, and I think thatās beautiful. 5.5/10
55.Ā Truth- Bet you expected this episode to be higher. While I did enjoy watching toxic peopleās world crumble, this episode still gets a meh from me dog. 5/10
56.Ā Lies- The Adrigami was cute, and I respect Kagami as a character. The akuma could have been better tho. 5/10
57.Ā Princess Fragrance- Not much to say here. 5/10
58.Ā Copycat- 5/10
59.Ā Bubbler- 5/10
60.Ā Mime- 5/10
61.Ā Animan- 5/10
62.Ā Robostus- 5/10
63.Ā Ladybug- This episode ranks this low purely because I donāt care about GabeNath, and I hate that Lila won something in the end. But Adrien saying I wonāt hesitate, bitch! At the end was nice to see. 5/10
64.Ā Catalyst- I know I ranked Mayura way higher, but Catalyst fell flat for me. Like it was fine. Wasnāt as into it though. 4.5/10
65.Ā Puppeteer- One of my favorite lucky charm uses. 4.5/10
66.Ā Pixelator- My favorite Cataclysm. 4.5/10
67.Ā Horrificator- That almost-Adrinette kiss tho 4.5/10
68.Ā Pharaoh- 4.5/10
69.Ā Kung Food- 4.5/10
70.Ā Rogercop- 4/10
71.Ā Guitar Villain- 4/10
72.Ā Dark Blade- 4/10
73.Ā Bakerix- 4/10
74.Ā Antibug- And now onto the bottom 10. To start us off, I will just say: UGH, this episode annoyed me. First of all, Sabrina didnāt even get her own episode. Chloe was a piece of shit. Idk why they made Ladybug the one in the wrong when Chloe was being obnoxious. Ugh. 3/10
75.Ā Captain Hardrock- Iām gonna be honest. My apathy for this episode has grown into loathing. Toxic stans are 100% to blame. Birthday ruining, bitches. This is the reason I threw a breakup bash after Truth. Yall deserved it. 3/10
76.Ā Christmas Special- I didnāt hate this episode as much as everyone, but it still wasnāt great. 2.5/10
77.Ā Stormy Weather 2.0- This episode was really dumb. It didnāt need to exist. 2.0/10
78.Ā Queen Wasp- Why did we give Chloe a Miraculous after this episode? 2/10
79.Ā Animaestro- Did we really need a self-insert? Did we really? 2/10
80.Ā Puppeteer 2.0- Listen, this episode would have made more sense in s1 or at the very latest early s2. Adrien gave a whole ass speech on how great Marinette is, then he turns around and is like idk if she likes meā¦ Clean it up. 2/10
81.Ā Miracle Queen- I could talk at length about how much I hate the ending of this episode and what they did with Chloe and Master Fu, but weāre just going to remain calm and give it a solid 1.5/10
82.Ā Frozer- This episode made no goddamn sense. I call bullshit on so many things. Just ugh. 1/10
83.Ā Chameleon- Surprisingly, even though this episode sparked many, many spite fics out of me, itās not my least favorite because at least Ladybug semi-redeemed this episode. Still really dumb and ooc tho. 1/10
84.Ā Feast- Okay, okay, okay, here we are. Bottom of the barrel. Catās most hated episode, and you wanna know why? You want to know why this episode fills me with the rage? Because we spent two fucking seasons building up all this mystery and lore and intrigue surrounding Fuās big mistake, and they dropped the fucking ball! They did my mans so dirty! They could have really deepened his character, deepened the Order, deepened anything other than whatever fucking affair Gabriel and Nathalie have going on, but NO. They made it some stupid, bland-ass thing that got resolved magically in the end, then just ignored it for the rest of the season. I will never not be salty about how they did my boy Fu in this show. Iām happy he found his peace, but fuck if Iām not livid about how they did it. Whatever. Chat being done with Ladybugās shit when theyāre about to get eaten was funny I guess. .5/10
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Idk if you're taking hc suggestions, if you're not that's completely fine!! Jus scroll past this one. BUT if you are! I've got some inspiration.
I've been doing a whole heck of a lot of travelling this week and I was thinking about Wheats. How about some airport/airplane (or just travelling in general) hcs of Wheatley? Other characters encouraged, he was just the star of the show in my head lol.
Yes, I take headcanon suggestions! The portal 2 crew traveling together would be very chaotic and awesome :)
Wheatley
"Are you forgetting anything?"
"I don't believe so"
But he probably is
Also usually forgets to take something out of his pockets at airport security
And panics before realizing its just some change or something
The flight itself would be fine if GLaDOS would stop telling him terrible things and fake statistics about plane crashes
Normally sits in the middle seat
Likes to see different parts of the world
Human things are interesting, after all
Not great at talking to people, though, so thereās limits to where he can go alone without embarrassing himself
Sticks with Chell, since sheās the one heās most comfortable around
And because theyāre dating
Loves going into little shops to get souvenirs, or getting photos to keep
Goes full dad friend on vacations
Virgil
The one who checks in on everyone to make sure they aren't forgetting anything
Mostly Wheatley
The mom friend
Worried about being late, so makes sure they show up an hour or two earlier than necessary
"Pluto hasn't even gotten dressed yet, this is terrible" "We have plenty of time-" "Do you w a n t to miss our flight?"
This paranoia and anxiety fades once they get on their plane
From there, he keeps Wheatley's fear at bay by making GLaDOS shut the fuck up
Has the window seat next to Wheatley because after becoming human and seeing the sky, he takes every chance he gets to admire it
Chell
Has the aisle seat by Virgil and Wheats, so she can get up whenever she wants without struggle, and if Wheatley gets anxious/claustrophobic and needs to stand up, she can let him out quickly.
Is tired of everyone else's shit, as usual
Is the one to find Wheatley's things that he forgets
"I'm all packed-" "Toothbrush?" "Right, toothbrush. Thanks"
Honestly deserves this vacation
By the end of the vacation, sheās about ready toĀ āforgetā Rick and get on the plane home without him
GLaDOS
Filling Wheatley's mind with flight anxiety
Sits in the aisle seat behind the other three because she doesn't want to be crowded
Is a responsible adult who remembers her own shit
But doesn't help Wheatley with his
In fact, goes out of her way to do the opposite
Chell: "You have everything now?" Wheatley: "Yep" GLaDOS: "I think I saw your brush in the bathroom just now" Wheatley: "What, I thought I packed that-" *goes to check the bathroom*
It was, in fact, already packed
GLaDOS was just being a bitch
Rick
Will forget things like snacks
Will not forget any clothing or accessories
Sits by the window in GLaDOS' aisle
Annoys and jokingly makes fun of Virgil and Wheatley from behind
Chell can't reach him, but she will give him a death glare if she decides he's gone too far
Then he'll reluctantly shut up and sit back
I donāt like Rick, idk if you can tell-
Heāll often separate from the group to find his own kind of adventure, only for the others to have to find him and tell him thatĀ āno, you canāt hop the fence of an animal enclosureā andĀ āno, you will not win the fight. The fucking rhino willā
Pluto
Sits in the middle, behind Wheatley
Talks to him and those next to eirself about how excited he is to be on vacation, and all they're gonna do
The child, basically
Can still see through the window
Rick moves out of the way when Pluto wants to look out
He's usually pretty good with remembering eir stuff, but is slow at getting ready
Despite moving fast, he's much too distracted by his own thoughts to actually get things done quickly
Nathan
Responsible adult #2
Gets his shit done, keeps everyone else on track
Or at least, he tries to
Sits in the aisle seat across from GLaDOS' row
Reads a book during the flight
At their destination, he likes doing tours and learning about the place's history
Nigel
Sits in the middle of Nathan's row
Sometimes asks him about the book he's reading
But mostly talks to Rain, since Nathan doesn't want to be bothered
On the trip itself, he sticks with Nate a lot
He finds learning new things interesting
Nate doesn't mind, and actually enjoys having someone to share information with
Likes any type of art exhibit/museum type thing
Rain
Has the window seat by Nigel
Likes taking the scenic routes once they get there
And anything nature themed
Or artsy, it's something he and Nigel have in common
Tags along with whoever will take him tbh
Listen, all we got for him is one line and all the obvious stuff I got from that wasĀ āRick but gayā and I am not doing him like that
Full offense to Rick
#this was just gonna be the mains#wheatley glados pluto#maybe rick and nathan#but then i thought of the perfect thing for Virgil#and had to include the others#so you get everyone now#thats why the last few don't have much#nigel still deserves better in the fandom tho#wheatley#glados#space core#adventure core#fact core#virgil#aperture tag#portal 2
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workinā on some Transformers ASMR, hellll yeahhhh
ok so not gonna lie Iāve been quieter than usual for a while on here because of a bunch of medical and immigration stuffĀ
but Iāve also been working on some Transformers ASMRĀ
mostly TFP/Aligned Continuity and IDW 1 (MTMTE/LL) but if yāall would want anything for Cyberverse etc. let me knowĀ
and without spoiling the shit Iāve been planning, just saying Iāve been working at it for a couple months now and Iāve got some scripts that Iām reasonably happy with + I figured out how to use my Phonak mic for my hearing devices to record some pretty solid quality audio LMAOĀ
but because Iām not the most experienced with this kind of stuff, Iād like to ask for some help sourcing materials and audio sample libraries! :)Ā
if anyone knows any good free background/ambient music or sound sample websites which are OK for public use, and/or if anyone has any good Audacity tutorials for cleaning up spoken word audio (no worries Iām using the old version of Audacity and not the new weird version with the suspicious altered terms and conditions), please do feel free to send me a message or reply/comment here and let me know!Ā
Iāve managed to source some good sci-fi sound effects etc. already, lmao, but Iām really trying to make something enjoyable for yāall to listen to, so the more resources available, the better I can tinker with stuff and see what might work best or better than what Iāve figured out on my own so far. :)Ā
(Iām finally putting those years of doing acting/performing arts + radio and voicing projects for various stuff to some kind of use, but Iām no expert by any means with the technical stuff LMAO so any and all tips are welcome!!!)Ā
there wonāt be visuals with the current handful of ASMR recordings Iām working on at the moment, just so I can get my footing with the audio process and figure out how to actually put it all together into an OK audio track before I start thinking about videos/visual content to accompany this stuffĀ
I was hoping to have at least a couple tracks out before the New Year, which Iām still aiming for but weāll see how it goes-- Iām having a lot of fun so far with the idea of Transformers ASMR, but since Iām super busy doing clinical support work during the week (and thus having to do everything else on the weekends lol), I canāt guarantee at the moment that Iāll manage thatĀ
but how about this for now:
to help test my audio and get used to doing some more of the editing/technical stuff, if anyone wants a quick ASMR Transformers MP3, just let me know a general prompt of what youād like to hear (give me a Transformers themed ASMR concept sort of like a fanfic request if that makes sense, lmao), and Iāll make a few short recordings to experiment with for you, in exchange for some feedback! :)Ā
my partner wanted me to record aĀ āPharma but pre-war Pharma so itās not terrifying, giving me a check up or somethingā MP3, so that one is already in the works lmao hell yeahĀ
for what itās worth: my natural speaking voice is fairly low, and I have spent an equal number of years living in the USA and UK, so I can do a fairly broad range of various English language accents reasonably well. (I am only confident in this because other people have told me this + I won an award for doing a foreign accent monologue challenge when I was in performing arts school LOL)
my voice acting credentials are doing small town local radio in the USA for a little while, and voicing a few characters in student animation projects that were fairly small projects but a few were screened on Brick Lane in London so take that for whatever itās worth, I feel like I probably do okay with voices but will likely get better with more regular practice tbhĀ
also I realise the irony of me being hearing disabled yet trying to do an audio project, donāt roast me LOL Iām out here doing my best :ā)Ā
I realise ASMR is still a sort of weird niche thing in general, so Iām not sure how popular an idea this will be, but I hope itās an interesting idea to anyone else out there who might be into it. :)
#maccadam#asmr#transformers#request#tfp#idw transformers#idw 1#mtmte#lost light#tf asmr project#technically a project announcement I guess#maccadams
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TALK TO US ABOUT MASS EFFECT I HAVE BEEN AN INSANE MASS EFFECT/SHAKARIAN TRASH PERSON SINCE 20-FUCKING-11 AND LEMME TELL YOU THOSE FEELINGS HAVENOT TARNISHED A SINGLE FRACTION IN THOSE TEN YEARS OH MY GOOOOOOODDDSSSS!!!!!!!
I DEMAND A PLAY-BY-PLAY UP TO THE MINUTE OF YOUR REACTIONS TO EVERYTHING!!!!
you are so valid and I totally see why everyone I've ever mentioned it to loves the hell out of it
aksdjlsdfj I meannnn if you want to hear my rambling about it then hell yeah
Okay, gonna put this below the cut to save everyone else XD also- since I'm not leaving this Mass Effect obsession anytime soon, if you're not interested in seeing occasional posts about it, please feel free to block the tag "night plays ME"~
(mild spoilers ahead??)
((also for real I mean it when I say this is rambling as hell lol, apologies and no stress if absolute no one reads all this))
OKAY SO Mass Effect 1-
Stars help me, I was honestly hooked right from the start?? Like even in Legendary Edition (the combined trilogy just re-released in one "can play it on one system + minor improvements", for anyone who doesn't know) where it's smoothed out, of course it's obvious that ME1 is a decade old... but the foundation for these relationships are all there and gods I love them already.
Like - Kaiden right off the top is a delightful good fightin lad, what the hell. I've heard that he's viewed as 'bland' by a good portion of the fan community but I dunno, he's a delight and even more complex by the time 2 rolls around and you encounter him on Horizon, it was honestly Ashley I was way more meh about - mostly because before you can learn about her family history/etc, she comes off as hella xenophobic and I was immediately offended for my growing space family that she didn't like/trust all the aliens around, pfff.
(she gets redeemed a bit through further actions/evolving thoughts, but I thought in retrospect it was a bummer that they didn't flip the order there, give her a chance to be liked before the complicating factor of being so rude about aliens >:c that then she could grow from... ah well. Apparently she has a good arc but uh, let's just say I chose Kaiden at the "key junction" in the latter part of the game so I won't be seeing anymore of Ashley uh... anytime soon, haha.)
Garrus??? Is??????? The ABSOLUTE best???????????
I liked him from the start, I'm always a bit of a sucker for a rogue-detective "the system won't bring this bastard to justice, so I've got to" type and all their moral shadiness XD But he just gets better, honestly, and where I'm at in ME2 (right before the Reaper IFF mission, as of typing this, with everyone's loyalty!) I am only digging myself deeper into this hole-
-*wheezing* okay anyways -
Wrex is AMAZING I love fightin' middle-aged krogan bastard, gods. Liara is great too, I'm a sucker for a wlw relationship (playing fem!Shepard, so) - buuuut I'll admit she's a bit more one-note in ME1. Last week while I was still on ME1 I remember hearing (while trying to dodge spoilers) that her arc is really good, though. I think they leaned a little hard on the 'innocent but sexy' sterteotype on her (so despite the yikes aspect of a few of the things I've learned in ME2, lol, I actually really like the complexity that's been added to her character.)
Saved Liara first, so by the time I got to Noveria and had the standoff with Benezia there was the chance to have emotions over Liara having to face her TwT and of course, I made the questionable but quality decision to free Queen Rachni heheh. no ragrets
More than a blow-by-blow of my choices though I totally wanna take the chance to say that even in the mild jankiness of ME1 (goddammit, the Mako.... please..... please just go up this impossible cliff I just want to resource hunt-) the way that the lore, both obvious/key to main plot and the lesser/filler/background/world-building kinds... I just love it. It incorporates it well, you can go ham in the codex learning more, or just dive into the basics - it's clearly a complex galaxy (and they do an even better job in 2 of fleshing it out further), and it never really felt overwhelming. It was pretty natural figuring it all out-!
Plus the interesting implications of resource hunting amongst the sapient races, and the little side missions you better bet I did every one of- there's so much rich depth in the story if you do 'em!! (And that lead with that Keeper side mission...? Looking back, damn, clever foreshadowing-!!!)
And oh my gods, Ilios??? hell yeah. I loved that mission so much, especially having Garrus & Kaiden with me when talking to the hologram/computer, and more than anything, that last sprint in the Mako trying to get to the jump before it closed-???
yeet the boi-
Also mannn I love a good setpiece, and having to go up the side of the elevator, space-side?? such a cool setup!!
Plus it felt good having been Paragon enough (as simple as the good v bad vibe system is, I don't hate it, lol) to avoid one of the Saren fights, ngl. And the er, "second fight" with Sovereign-Saren.... hell yeah
... I'll admit I had to double check my choice re whether to save the Council. I did in the end, but I swear, sometimes the way they phrase things I'm like ".... okay but Garrus is right, defeating Sovereign is more important than these few leaders??????" woops. Listen, priorities, is all I'm saying..... (ļæ£ć®ļæ£|||)ć
'Course later they emphasize (in ME2) that there were 10,000 people on that same ship and I was like well I wouldn't have second guessed if I'd known that, I mean c'mon-
Also I did indeed romance Liara in this one, so I got that scene ;Dc But,,,, I also knew by the end that I was totally gonna romance Garrus in 2 since he's an option then finally,,,,, lemme tell you the guilt as I waffled over whether to romance Liara bc of it. hahaha.
Aaaaand Mass Effect 2-
So I'm only up to right before the Reaper IFF Mission, so I don't know the ending, etc etc lol. That said, I've just finished every side mission I've found with the exception of the Shadowbroker Quest and the Arrival Quest (I've heard the latter basically leads into ME3, and the former is best either right before the Omega 4 jump or in postgame).
So from the start - fuck yeah fuck yeah what a high adrenaline start Shepard noooooo but also yes save Joker aH-
The motion comic too hot damn nice job
I loved this setup, seriously - especially forcing Shep into this situation, having to work with/for Cerberus, and the compelling reasoning given behind "why" they do what they do (I especially found it a good point that the Salarians have the Task Force, the Asaris the Commandos, the Turians the- etc... like, true, when you put it like that, having a similar group advancing human interests/solving human interstellar problems is pretty reasonable...). That said, I love too that it really isn't shied away from how Cerberus is nonetheless fucked up - or its at least done fucked up stuff.
Listen, I still think some messed up stuff is gonna be revealed in 2's endgame......... after that Horizon mission and the Collector's ship???? TIM I SEE YOU YOU SHADY MF-
aaanyways lol...
I'm so so glad on a gameplay level they nixed the Mako style exploration. A few Hammerhead missions are fine and a lot more focused than the slippery ass navigation in that glorified ATV, pfff. The probes are a neat way of getting after similar resources - and more importantly, having good levels and some good hubs (the Zakera Wards, Omega, Ilium, etc) is way way more fun than having a more 'sprawling' space that is.... a lot of empty nonsense, lol.
Then there's the fact that we get Joker right off the bat and you can interact with him so much - and him and EDI??? Get out gods I love them. Kasumi is so right when she says they sound like a bickering old married couple lol. I have a terrible feeling that some shit is gonna happen with EDI..... but I don't think she's evil as-is, at least.
Side-eying the hell out of those "access forbidden" parts of her that she doesn't even know.... and the fact that her AI core has a locked door access................... something's gonna happen gdi LEAVE OUR ADOPTED AI ALONE.
(Also Joker pls stop fracturing your thumb on the mute button)
Also please save me there are so many hot aliens in this game,,,,, the xeno/monsterfuckers really comin' through strong in the sequels............... doin' the lord's work........................................
In general, I love how many levels ME stepped up in two with complexity and interwoven narratives!! Like, to the point it'd be almost a drag to replay ME1, even though it was fun going through it (if occasionally a bit tedious with the cookie cutter rando planet science/mine facilities, lol). Like, just from how fun and interesting ME2 is, mostly! more of all the pre-introduced races, plus new ones, plus more filling in of intragalactic politics, and more interesting implications of all these space-faring races mixing....
Also gods WREX and his planet holy shit,,,,, fuckin' hell yeah my man get their shit together and also adopt Grunt yes good-
And Mordin??? My singing semi-evil scientist best friend forced to confront his choices more than he thought he ever would have???? With some of the best ongoing general report chatter of all the companions??
(when I tell you I choked on my coffee when I talked to him after confirming romance choice w/ Garrus and that 'pamphlet' and 'anaphalactic shot if ingesting-' kajsldkfjsldfjk)
Like, fuck, the fact that they actually dive into the mixed morality and horrors of the genophage, and you can confront Mordin on it, for good reason, yet he still stands his ground, until finally some bits of his loyalty mission seem to... affect him, and I'm guessing might set up things for 3 with him? Unsure, but either way, damn, the fact that they start to dig into it...
And Taliiiii my beloved forbidden alien wife TwT her loyalty mission was SO GOOD. I love how varied they all are?? Getting to defend her and discover what she'd unwittingly been a part of-!!
Zaeed is a bastard but tbh I love that he is and that he's unapologetic in him - and Kasumi omg, best thief. A heist?? Gods, yes- I love our couch lounge chats XD
Samara is..... illegally.......... she's an illegally powerful and beautiful and eloquent MILF...........................
(.... listen I'm sapphic as hell and I'm kicking my own ass for picking her up last aksjdlfksjdfl - but her loyalty mission, damn. And seeing how there's this interesting cultural subset, and the struggle with the Asari in that they unquestioningly accept/respect justicars, but also know that the impact outside their culture is a diplomacy nightmare waiting to happen-)
,.,,,,,T,,, Thane,,,,,
I am weak for morally implicated murder dads okay?? And that voice??? His mannerisms?????? How you first see him, and that prayer after assassinating her...???????? And his history/his people's history with the hanar, gods I love how messy it is, it feels so much more real!
Also Jack is a mess and I love her (and want to get her some therapy, omg), and her and Miranda nearly duking it out after you've done both their loyalty missions??? so good and makes a lot of sense-! Honestly I would love more interactions between teammates on the ship, but there's already so much the devs had to balance I can't blame 'em for minimizing, heh. But suffice to say I also love Miranda and Jacob, even if I'm softest for my alien crew XD Hell yeah Jacob, we'll get loud and spill drinks on the citadel indeed TwT
.... I could write a whole essay on how much I love Garrus oTL Perhaps because he and Tali are the throughlines from 1 on your 2 crew, I have some of the strongest feelings about them... but genuinely, he was one of my favorite companions in the first game, and how you find him as Archangel in two? Getting to help him fight his way out after he's gone nearly 48 hours straight fighting off three gangs alone, jfc. His vengeance quest and what can happen there.... That line? fuck me, that line -
It's so much easier to see the world in black and white. Grey? I don't know what to do with gray...
How DARE you come for my heart like this, devs holy shit
(also, some other choice faves so far from the series from him include We can disobey suicidal orders?? and This wasn't in my training manual... [in 1, if you have him with you @ th Thorian fight] and his whole.... pop the heat sink - in his romance ;Dc)
asdasdfksadjfkl like I said I can write an essay on him PFFF suffice to say I'm very looking forward to his romance scene and where things go in 3
But yeah gods I'm just gonna keep rambling if I'm not careful lol. Gods I don't even know what to talk about it's all so good and while I can understand people roasting the obviousness of Paragon V Renegade (v neutral) choices/alignments, I think they do a pretty damn good job in 2 of pushing it further - to the point that there were some times that I accidentally got renegade points and I wasn't that mad, haha. There's so much fun in the interactions that I just have a good time anyways~
I have so many thoughts about TIM (The Illusive Man) and Cerberus.... theories evolving galore............... and like, what the hell!! Omega 4 going to the center of the galaxy is such a cool twist, goddamn - though my heart still breaks at losing Kaiden (his line if you haven't romanced him?? about feeling like he lost a limb when he lost you??? holy shit.... but I also can't blame him for not trusting Cerberus to the point of it affecting his ability to trust Shepard... like fuck Shep go after himmmm) I'm really excited to see where that goes since he comes back in 3, and what the fuck happens with Cerberus bc while I love the fact that obviously there are a lot of people in it for the right reasons, doing good work, there are those that are doing the opposite, and I have a very bad feeling about where TIM will end up landing....
All that said though I need to do the Reaper IFF mission (where I'm lightly spoiled as to getting That Boy, but not how/what happens to make it so - just that it's apparently wise to have all your side missions done before getting him...) and the actual Omega 4 jump. So we'll see what happens and what I think about it from there heheh!
.... major kudos and genuine props if you made it here to the end, I am so sorry for not editing on condensing all this, and appreciate you so much ;w;
#night answers#night plays ME#(yes that's a purposeful pun lol)#((i sure have played myself by starting this series its so good aksdjflskjfd))
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Look at me, not being on time for my April Immersion Overview as is the usual. (ć»wć»;
First, little blog updates to get out of the way:
I reached 100 followers! Got an influx of people checking out my 1 year update post, and got plenty of nice compliments on my data collection.
For those of you wondering just why I keep up with so much data, it's mostly because it can get really hard to notice how much you're improving in a language especially with something like immersion learning that for people who don't get it feels like a waste of time or a time sink.
Graphs showing consistency, improvement in reading speed, increasing vocabulary counts, and generally just seeing numbers grow turns language learning more fun and motivating for me, and if as a bonus, it encourages someone to try immersion learning then that would be cool!
With that said, whether you're here as a fellow language learner, graphs enthusiast (ē¬), or just want some Japanese media recommendations, ćććć!Ā
Also, made a tiny DP change - itās ćć from å°å„³é±ę«ę
č”. Pretty sure itās the first manga series I ever finished in Japanese (not the first one I started since ć”ćÆććµć is still ongoing), and I always felt a bit of a āconnectionā withĀ her - between her book-loving personality and being a no-nonsense kind of person, there was no way for me not to enjoy her character. Great beginner anime/manga if youāre not into most beginner recommendations.
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April has been a pretty good immersion month, as I was able to dip my toes in a variety of media. A bit competitive, too! The club I joined has been pulling all the stops to get to the Top 20 Immersion Leaderboard in itās first month. I was able to snag the 9th spot among a bunch of people of different comprehension levels (the majority being N1+ since theyāre able to comprehend much more and in turn stand longer immersion hours). Lots of tiny complaints though of potential āwhitenoisingā content (ālisteningā andĀ āreadingā but not comprehending very well just to get a large number to post), but really what can you do? People lie all the time on the internet. Besides, itās internet points that doesnāt do anything beyond being a little shiny I guess.
Enough about that, letās get into the nitty-gritty details you came here for!
ANIME
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Might need to rewatch this one. Felt like I didnāt connect with the characters the way the rest of its fandom has. Iām kinda sad about it, since I normally love Slice of Life and Fantasy, and I know this is one of my friendās diehard shows.
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A filler anime to watch tbh. Nice and easy enough to follow for beginners. Pretty good songs. With regards to it being a show about music and moe, I still 100% prefer K-On! if Iām going to be honest, but for a show about non-toxic idols, itās good!
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First read this as English translated manga when I was 13 or something. Mistakes were made. Letās all just agree to throw ćć„ć¦ćć into a pit of fire and never talk about it again. Great ending and a show that really reworked the magical girl genre. But seriously, I was traumatized by ććās death then and now, help.
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Already knew what was going to happen even before watching this so I didnāt ugly cry like I was expecting. Still got that awful sinking feeling though. 10/10 would recommend for a good cry. Also, Iām planning to read the manga, might enjoy that more, because Iāve always liked it more than anime actually. *shocked pikachu face*
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Watched before I even finished the manga which felt like a mistake at first until I realized that it perfectly stops where I stopped reading. Nice and comfy anime, the kind I would have loved as a teen. Fun animation too, making parts very dramatic even though it wasnāt really that deep of an issue even in the manga. Just teens feeling feelings.Ā Still salty that we lose bad boy styled å®®ę, but I get why it had to happen.
AUDIOBOOKS
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Second re-listen. I understand it fine, but itās very easy to drift off when you canāt catch all the words so I had to replay often. Will have to mine more from the anime/book.
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I mined from the anime, and was really pleased to be able to follow all 6 hours of this audiobook perfectly fine. Will need to read the book, because I realized just how seamless reading it would be after listening to it with hardly any issue.
BOOKS
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Completed! Read my thoughts about it and see my stats on this post.
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Still trudging on with this one. Itās not a bad story, itās pretty well written actually, I just made the mistake of watching both the anime and live adaptation first, so I know exactly whatās going to happen and itās killing my motivation to keep reading. I guess reading the book first before watching the movie still applies in any language with me. Really need to é å¼µć and finish so I can move on.Ā
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Started reading towards the end of the month, mostly because I realized that every chapter is only 5000-15000 characters long, and I was able to read up to 40k in a day with Island most days. Only two chapters read so far though because I got distracted by manga, but itās shaping up to be a really good plot and potentially a really sad one, too, so Iām interested.
DRAMA
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Heard this was a classic so I gave it a try. Loved ēē° ęēās characterĀ in this one the most especially all his internal dialogue acted out. Also, å°ę ę¬ in anything is bound to be a good watch. Simple and fun watch.Ā They dragged the ending so much though lmaoĀ
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Look, I see ę¾ę¬ ę½¤, I click. Definitely the kind of show you should watch for some great life advice. Planning to watch the 2nd and 3rd seasons even if there is a terrible lack of ę¾ę¬ ę½¤,Ā because I love my strong female protagonists, and man, ć¤ć³ćÆć is such a great character. Need to read the manga, too, if I can find it.
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Oof, this was kind of hard. The yakuza talk was throwing me off, but the rest of it was enjoyable. Not really plot heavy as I thought it was going to be. The comedy side of it was fun and predictable after the first few episodes. Overall, pretty good slice of life, family story with a twist.
MANGA
Read a bunch of manga this month, mostly because I am struggling to find the next vn to read.
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Read a couple of volumes (6-7). This manga is so good, but itās so depressing I need to stop to take a breather every once in a while. Please donāt leave any spoilers. The club has been reacting to me reading this, and it has mostly been a lot of crying emotes. Itās both been enjoyable to see and really worrying. ē¬
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Club recommendation. Only read the 1st volume so far. I really need to get into more å°å¹“ anime/manga. Thatās currently my č¦ę genre which is awful because literally all the top anime/manga is å°å¹“ help. I just canāt enjoy it much still even though itās comprehensible to me.
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Read Vol. 1, chill read to me at this point after reading 45 volumes of the regular manga. Look, itās my favorite 幼馓ę manga in baby format, of course Iām going to read this!Ā å¤Ŗäø has been a flake way before season 3 confirmed. Donāt come at me ććć”ćÆć stans bc I also like his character.
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Volume 7. Iām taking my sweet time with this one, because I heard the anime for season 2 sucked, so Iām avoiding it like the plague. This is å°å¹“ how am I enjoying this and not everything else what.
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Enjoyed the animeĀ hated the movie why did they make it a musical that sucked (ps i normally love musicals hated this one)Ā
The ćŖćæćÆ jargon is kinda hard to read suprisingly but I do enjoy this ship very much. Itās a lighthearted take to otaku culture which is greatĀ because seriously itās scary out there.
ćććµ -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
Itās my childhood ship, obviously I will read this again (read in English several years ago). Still as plot twisty as I remember it being (now at a bonus hard level reading it in Japanese ē¬). Really enjoyed reading this one (I finished it this May).
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Iām starting to really dislike furigana in manga. It was a great help as a beginner, but now itās like training wheels that you canāt take off. I feel like the gains Iām getting from manga is much lower than it was when I first started which makes me both proud of how far Iāve come, but also sad because I love manga. Sad that I might have to start choose VNs over it, because itās not going to challenge me as much going forward. I mean it didnāt stop me from reading a lot of it this month, but you get the picture.
VISUAL NOVELS
ISLAND
Completed! See my stats and read my long spoiler filled post here.
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Picked up this VN and finished two doors (15 hours) before stopping. On the fence about it, because it has been kind of predictable so far, and I donāt particularly enjoy the horror genre. That said, this is more psychological than anything, so itās probably not that thatās putting me off. The language is not exactly difficult, too - maybe some oddly specific words because it is after all historical fiction (which is one of my favorite genres, btw), and ę¬čŖ is definitely interesting to read for once after encountering so many ćå¬¢ę§ characters in anime/drama so far.Ā
I think maybe itās the conversations that are kind of dull - dots (silence) every few clicks that keeps breaking the flow of reading. Probably judging it really harshly too early, because itās rated so high everywhere, and I just have high expectations. Definitely not dropping it yet though, just taking a break and testing a couple of other VNs before I settle with whatever I end up choosing. It is, after all, going to be another 50+ hour read, and I just donāt want to not enjoy the process, because having fun with the process is a huge part of immersion learning.
Let me know if youāve read Fata and if I should continue!Ā
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Thatās it for this month!
If you have any suggestions on what to watch and read next, please send me a reply, especially for VNs because Iām struggling over here.
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so Iāve been seeing bad taste in youtubers, not like in my mutuals or anything but in general but it made me want to make a like, recommended list of youtubers i like who are pretty chill if not full on comrades so here we are - not prompted by anything specific but an itch I got here some of the channels I like:
Cooking:
BORE.D - Fun cooking channel with a stylish presentationĀ
Chinese Cooking Demystified - Like it says on the tin, informative authentic Chinese dishes from all over the country.Ā
David Seymour - started with buzzfeed taste tests but now covers most big cooking channels seeing if he can recreate them and how they are
Maangchi - Plz cook for me, like iām begging feed me it all looks amazingĀ
My Name Is Andong - fun cooking videos from all over, especially the ones about Russian food.
Simply Sara KitchenĀ - good home style cookingĀ
Souped Up Recipes - Traditional Chinese cooking
Movies/Tv:
Accented Cinema - a video essay channel with a focus on Asian cinema
Folding Ideas - Not strictly about film but I tend to watch a lot of essayists who fall into multiple things and I kinda just have to lean into their main aesthetic but Dan is a gif so check him out.
Jack SaintĀ - Jack and Joel have a lot of similar style of content but Jack leans into media stuff more so iām moving him over here. (although iāve been working on this post for over an hour going through my alphabetical yt sub list and iām starting to regret trying to categorize them)
PushingUpRosesĀ - a must watch if you love old tv especially Murder She Wrote
Renegade Cut - Does games too, and frankly they are some of their best work, but quality media analysis.
Ryan Hollinger - Horror movie analysis
Scaredy CatsĀ - More horror movie analysis but my favorite channel of this kind
Gaming Essays:
Adam Millard - video essays about video games - really recommend the video on Frog Fractions and the Longing
Curio - Iām putting them here because theres been a big focus on games lately and they recently started twitch streaming which is fun but really itās all media essay. Just please check out their four part Witcher series adfkj itās the most recent so easy to find.
Errant Signal - I dont have much to add other than please check out Errant Signal, they dont post much but I am in love with this channel.
Game Maker's ToolkitĀ - in depth essays about elements of game design
Jim SterlingĀ - Okay not essays but gaming news - if you dont check out anyone else here you should still check out Jim. Especially if you care about the rights of workers in the gaming industry.Ā
Gaming Play:
Biffa Plays Indie Games - mostly does Cities Skylines but sometimes other, great videos to relax to.
GaLm - GaLm deserves so much much than he gets, Love him been watching him for forever and honestly heās enough of a workaholic that thereās so much content you WILL find something you like. All complete with critical analysis.
GrayStillPlays - one of the few like, non overtly left-os here but listen, if you want some slightly silly slightly more edgy style of video game videos to kinda turn off your brain and just enjoy you cant get much better than grey. Heās chaos but chaos that doesnāt rely on racism. Maybe one too many jokes about addiction but they arenāt usually punching down so???
John Wolfe - chill horror youtuber - not much to say but one of my favorites.
KatherineOfSky - want the most soothing voice ever to gently play hardcore logistic games at you? Well holy fuzzy cats, youāre home.
Many A True Nerd - Partner to Claire in the category below, known for his fallout but plays just about anything. Also loves grand strategy and paradox games. Good playlist management too do easy to find what you need.
Wanderbots - A just, massive amount of indie game content.
Commentary/Other:
Claire Rousseau - Books youtuber who is just a delight, I dont know how else to describe her but even tho I dont read anymore iād still die for her.
Courtreezy -Ā just the queen of being bubbly and fun (some of these I dont have good sales pitches for just *shoves them at you* give em a shot)
D'Angelo Wallace and dangelowallace - Main and second channel, both the same kind of content but the formats are different. Dont always agree with all his opinions but man, theres no fault in the way he presents and researches them - solid essayist but also just oozes charisma and good times.
Drawfee Show - one of the bigger channels here save DāAngelo above so you may already be familiar with them but just a fun weekly drawing show. Good times.
Foo the FlowerhornĀ - Watch fish be fed bits of blanched vegetables, like that either sells you or not but itās Good.
Jarvis Johnson and Jarvis Johnson! GOLD - primary and secondary channels, pure commentary channel on a wide range of topics - i recommend the videos on 5 min crafts and the bachelor.
Life in Jars? - Eco-spheres and terrariums oh me :0
MacDoesIt - Gay chaotic energy, just chock full of Moods and fun times.
Sarah Z - Unofficial tumblr historian
Politics:
Big Joel - kinda variety content, plenty of media analysis but through a strongly leftist lens. Torn between here and commentary but the balance is slightly more overtly political than just media commentary through a political lens so here we go.
Black Red Guard - A black leftist commentary/essay channel focused on black issues and self described as a āNew Afrikan Maoistā, this is fairly new channel I found so Iām not as good at describing his content def not better than he does but solid stuff through a perspective I wouldnāt normally get.
hbomberguy - Just watch his video on Pathologic please. Or like, watch 20 mins then go play Pathologic then come back after youāve beaten it and Pathologic 2 and finish the video.
Innuendo StudiosĀ - Frankly I had no idea where to put this one, because itās a little of everything but mostly media analysis but also please watch the alt-right playbook if you like, want to understand more about how radicalization happens.
KAR - Black anarchist channel, solid political videos but shorter than most of the ones here so better for consuming when you dont have much time.
Leslie Exp - Videos about disability
Luna oi! and NonCompeteĀ - frankly best agitprop communist duo. A good place to start learning about mutual aid and what anarchism is, beginner friendly videos on leftist theory.
Philosophy Tube - Videos are super polished and well made essays about philosophy, super theatrical and flashy. Honestly cannot stress enough how fun the production value of these are.
Professor Flowers - Nuanced important discussions about race, media, and the political landscape.
Some More News - Like it says on the tin, news but told to you by a disheveled fed up leftist (I joke because iām running out of things to say in the comment for each but really, Cody and his entire team deserve a lot of credit for their well researched videos on current events)
Thought SlimeĀ - Agitprop but make it a little silly because tbh we all need some jokes rn
Honorable mentions of some slightly bigger channels you may already know but I enjoy: UpIsNotJump , Steve1989MREInfo , SmallishBeans , RTGame , Primitive Survival ToolĀ , Mumbo Jumbo ,Ā emmymadeinjapan ,Ā Kurtis Conner ,Ā Danny Gonzalez , Drew GoodenĀ , How To Cook That , JunsKitchen , DefunctlandĀ
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S5 Ep6: Joey Wheeler is on Fire, Yet Again
Came down with a little sickness-not the biggie, just a little sly guy. But I took some meds, Iām a little floaty, Iāve only been listening to baroque music all morning for some reason? And I hate baroque music usually? But Iāll leave it to bro to tell me if this is fluid enough.
Just so you know, these caps were kind of a hot mess for a while and some of them read like that Garfield in of hot eat the food comic until...today. So pls donāt judge me, Judge my damn DMV where no one was following Covid regulations because Iām pretty sure thatās where I got this damn cold.

We start off with Roland getting more attention than he ever has in his entire life. Like honestly, I donāt know what Rolandās job really is...but heās got a very diverse set of very useless skills. One of which, is knowing how to announce sports games that arenāt really a sport, while those games heās announcing slowly fall into chaos.
Anyway, Rolandās taking so long cherishing his sweet time before everything goes to hell, that heās boring Joey, whoās kinda turned into a ball of stress in the waiting room.
A lot of this episode is us watching them watching Joey having a break down moment by moment, TBH.


(read more under the cut)
Yugi telling Joey to study his cards and straight up--what?
Like at this point they know whatās on the cards, right? Like there comes a point where even Yugioh cards have a finite amount of words and Iām just going to assume that like...Joey probably knows them all in his own deck, right?
(bro note: they have no limit on what they will put on a card)
Then again, maybe Yugi doesnāt know what āstudyā means?
Also, appreciate how some artist crosshatched the hell on Joeyās nose there and I zoomed out and ruined it.
Now for some reason every duelist is hanging out in the duel lodge, including our current arch-villain guy whoās brought a book. I want to know what book this guy even reads so no one could suspect heās actually a hacker who uses computers. Heās reading romance, right? And I donāt think heād even be into Twilight, I think heās straight up into hard core Mom romance like a lame ass Nicholas Sparks over there reading āDear Johnā for the millionth time because he is completely un-phased by anything else happening in this room.

Joey, our hero, just out there being an asshole for no reason.

After Tea is pushed into a locker or something screaming about her need for female friends (which she screamed in earshot of Rebecca again, who I figured was on friends terms with her after last episode...but I guess not) Leon hops up to remind us that we should be caring about the fact that his character exists.
And like, I love Leonās hair color--thatās a good choice, and legit that is the color I tried to dye my hair at the beginning of the epidemic (it didnāt work PS, my hair cannot take dye for the life of it) but also like...he just kinda feels like a weak Rebecca as far as characters go. Heās young, heās good at cards...I think he goes to a private school? Thatās all I can think of about Leon.

He mostly just reminds us that the big prize of this tourney is to duel Yugi, who anyone could have dueled at any point even without the tournament.


On the way out of the...duel room? lounge? Area? Joey decides to like...make peace with Zigfried, and I gotta tell you, I kinda have to side with Zigfried, because Joey spent the last ten minutes being a freak in the dressing room/lounge/bathroom and at one point looked like he was going to hold the entire locker room in a stranglehold.
I would also want some space from Joey Wheeler, is what Iām saying.



After insulting Joeyās style (which honestly, Joey...has a style? He pops his collar, thatās his entire style.) Zigfried assures us that Joeyās gonna lose and like...
...probably, right? Just looking at the plausible direction this season will go.
Anyway, Joey is such a mess (which is the theme of the episode, that Joey needs to learn to chill in order to win at card games) that Rebecca is like āI understand if all of you leave me to go help our poor baby Joey.ā And no one felt bad for her.

Mokuba comes over to tell everyone all of the Kaiba family secrets because Mokuba has no filter.


Seto has devoted himself to staring at a computer screen for the rest of this episode. I guess heāll put their names into Google, realize that social media hasnāt been invented yet, and then just lie his head down on the desk and take a power nap until the tournament is over. Much like I did after taking Dayquil this afternoon.
I like how Seto dressed for success and then locked himself in the server room for most of this arc so far. Maybe heās just...really tired, I dunno. I donāt really blame the guy, heās had a hard time.

And then Yugi was like āDAMN IT MOKUBA, JUST ONCE CAN YOU NOT INVITE THE ILLUMINATI???ā

And we had a weird scene where Yugi just started talking to the ghost and it was while he was talking to everyone else, and the show didnāt treat it like thatās a weird thing to do...but it was a weird thing to do.
This show does that sometimes, where I guess they imply that Yugiās Pharaoh conversations are split second conversations but...theyāre not, right?

Also this chick aināt gone yet, and Mokuba is just failing at his entire job for not zeroing in on vibes coming off this chick like stinky cheeseman.

So listen.
Did the Kaibas make like 3 types of Blue Eyes Caboose to one up Noah? Because Noah made one choo choo dragon, and then Mokuba and Seto were like āhow dareā and then made sure that everyone ride every single version of the blue eyes caboose just to see how proud of them they were.
How many months of troubleshooting was the train? Like how long in development did Seto and Mokuba spend on these? A lot right? Like most of the time?

I did not check the subs to see if Roland said Jumping or Champion but I like to believe that Roland thought it was a cool new name he gave him.
Then these guys all showed up.

Hey so...can we talk seating arrangements?
Tea decided not to sit next to Yugi after complaining about not spending time with him for like how many episodes? Or was it too awkward to sit on top of what was probably Pharaoh?
Or did Mokuba go like āplease, Tea, I cannot sit next to the others because Iām pretty sure one is a mole that is about to go crayā and was Tea like āGood, I need female friends, these ones are driving me crazy!ā and then was Mokuba like peering desperately over the edge of his self made dragon train prison realizing he has to listen to Tea complain about boys for the rest of his ride across molten lava?
Headcanons abound about this weird seating arrangement that the animators drew for the reasons they did...but reasons I cannot fully understand. That and the Dayquil is making me overfixate on random stuff.
And also, Tea is kind of the Kaibaās securityās understudy. Just there to always protect Mokuba with her ass because sheās the strongest woman alive.

PS I missed the tumblr wars because at the time I was trying to like...run a proper business on blogger. When Blogger died and I jumped over here it was like a weird ruin where everyone was like ātumblr is the most toxic place aliveā and...Iāve had a really nice time here, actually. Completely missed that civil war period and I have no regrets.
Now I was there for the Petz wars (warz, I guess) where people were very militant about Petz abuse (abuze?) where apparently people were using the spray bottle on their catz too much and people were very, very upset about it to the point that they were like campaigning about it on their angelfire websites with the most bizarre grassroots campaigns that I still recall, to this day because they were like...well they looked like this:
PLAPA. Not only am I 100% positive that only this one guy ever called this movement PLAPA, but Iām 100% positive that not only are Catz not real people, but also this wasnāt actually happening and we never had any proof that it was. Either way, if people knew or suspected that you hadnāt deleted the spray bottle from your game (which at the time I had no idea how to do because I was a wee child) they would basically assume you were on a one way road to being a mass murderer in real life.
In real life we were 7 years old so like...thanks?
But thatās the closest I got to toxicity and at the time I was too young to make an email account and actually converse with these people. I was just there to download their Petz hexes, and I already made a post about how wonderful and incredible Petz Hexing was.
And yāall, I heard, just now after a little deep dive into the Petz Abuse debacle (which yes, is on the wiki), that apparently, like gardening, Petz Hexing came back in a big way during the epidemic--and I have found an active Petz forum in this the year 2021. The only problem is that I no longer remember how to use old timey forums...and I think Iām locked out of seeing most of these threads (and like this forum is so old I think I have to send them a letter in the physical mail to apply). But, Iām pretty sure theyāre hosting a picture contest for whoās dogz poses the best. And Iām pretty sure someone created a hexxed Pickle Rick. Or itās a photoshop that was made to look like a hexxed Pickle Rick.
Dammit why did it have to be Pickle Rick? Thatās not worth re-installing Petz and getting it to run on Windows 10...
Guys is this the Dayquil? Is this really happening? I feel like Iām losing my mind for so many reasons...
Anyway, speaking about useless hexing itās about time that our villain did something that was actually dangerous, so Zigfried decided to install a new virus that does more than turn off the lights. (it still turns off lights)

the Spreadsheet Virus!

Confounded by the spreadsheet software, it...um...it does this:

Straight up how does Excel make a volcano erupt? Is that why I have to pay for Microsoft office now?
All this because Joey made fun of Zigfriedās naturally pink hair? Which is the most normal hair on this series outside of like...Tristan?

Hey guys...Joeyās fine, right? Like how many times has Joey been on fire? And once in an iron cage next to like...a Fire Golem?
Joeyās fine.
MAN I miss Fire Golem. He had a good mug.
And then we just kinda watch chaos go across the park, chaos that includes: Too many ghosts in the haunted mansion (which honestly--youāll get your moneyās worth, sounds great!), the Ferris wheel goes kinda fast and thus might accidentally be fun, the lights turn off at some concert stage that only had 2 people on it (so it might just be motion detector lights and not even a virus), and um...literal fire and magma are going to set Joey Wheeler on fire.
Just...one of these events does not seem like the others. In fact most of these things sound like good improvements to the park and they should just hire Zigfried at this point.

Roland puts down his microphone and jogs across the stage, about a mile through the audience bleachers, and into the staff lounge, to go and bother Seto Kaiba, who is in a room that has a hi-def classical painting copy-pasted on the wall and I canāt look away from it.

I almost did a Google search on this painting but then thought better about it. Thereās like...a billion classical paintings that look exactly like this, and they wouldnāt use like a Monet, they would have to do something thatās harder to catch to avoid copyright issues (because yes, even old ass paintings have copyright issues, but no one tell NFTās which are going to be so freakin screwed and was such a bad idea, that I canāt even start).
Anyway, I have no idea who it is and it is legitimately driving me up a wall, but Iām on too much meds to do the effort of putting it in a reverse google image search.
Plus, a reverse google image search would only pull up Seto Kaiba.

So Kaiba takes us on a little flashback to his weird ass past, a weird ass past that just...doesnāt follow any of the established timelines, but I assume was shortly after adoption but before Seto got into a phase where he wore his school outfit everywhere and tried to shove his MMO off onto his Dad as a business model.

Seto is like 8 for some reason. I donāt know why, they kinda drew him younger this season anyway, like maybe they got a lot of fan mail and realized āHey I think we made the 16 yo boy too sexy?ā And they just toned Seto the hell down. That, and itās a different animation team, and maybe they looked at Setoās character design and were likeĀ āwe donāt get paid enough to draw this well.ā So...since Seto actually looks like a teen again, I guess his 12 year old self has to look like heās in Elementary school.
Also, I only recognized this, because at some point in S3 as I was roasting Noah Kaibaās weird fashion:

I remember distinctly roasting that little bow tie. I donāt remember when I wrote it, I think there was a version of this outfit that was in color...but I donāt remember where.
Anyway, itās not the same jacket...but man thatās kind of awkward, ya? Like the maid who dressed Mokuba deffo got fired?


He um.
Turned the lights off a little bit.
Guys this villain is like...
...why does he think lights are scary? Like look at little Seto here. The boy is already bored. Seto duels on the edges of cliffs...he doesnāt care about the freakin dark.

We had a guy who killed everyone on the planet last season, and this season we have a little fashion gremlin standing in the corner and flicking the light switch goingĀ āwooooo you never catch me!ā and itās like...
...Iām starting to think this guy isnāt a witch.
Like weāre at Episode 6, thereās still time for this guy to be a witch...but I really am starting to think this guy is just...straight up not a witch. Itās everything Seto wanted, a rival who isnāt a freakin magic person...and sets Joey only fake on fire instead literally on fire like last time...
and Seto is just completely unhinged by it.
Anyway, Iām off to go drink a bowl of soup and pass out. If youāre new here, this is a link to read these in chrono order.
https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono
#yugioh#yu gi oh#ygo#S5#Ep6#Yugi Muto#Seto Kaiba#Joey Wheeler#Tea Gardner#Tristan Taylor#Mokuba Kaiba#zigfried von schroeder#rebecca hawkins#I talked about catz again#leon#but not the kings of leon guy#I mean he could be
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Please tell us more about Seventh Virtueāwe need more? Also what was your general thought process for writing this right now?
Hello!! Seventh Virtue is the fantastical version of the Fostered series (which Iāve been writing for many years as you probably already know)! I came up with the initial idea for this project back in the summer of 2019, but knew Iād probably never write it because at the time, I couldnāt see myself writing beyond literary fiction (and also: I know nothing about fantasy :)) in fact I think Iāve only ever read 3 fantasy books from the same series and that was years ago)!
This led to why Iām writing it right now, actually! Earlier this week, my sister and I binge watched Shadow and Bone and it reminded me of this project (which Iād called Fostered But Itās Magic haha). I couldnāt help but delve more and more into the project as the days progressed, and so I decided Iād try to draft it. I actually tried to draft this project once before as a screenplay because I thought itād translate better to screen, but gave up FAST when I realized I am terrible at screenwriting! With this in mind, I knew I wanted to write this project, but Iām also impatient, and know I want to write more things this summer. TBH, I didnāt want to spend the rest of my vacation writing another Fostered book (I planned to write something outside of this universe but apparently it doesnāt want me to??) so yesterday at 1AM, I came up with a very... stupid idea to write 10k words in one day.
I made this decision strictly for anxiety exposure. Iām exporting the vlog where I chat about this experience so I wonāt delve too much into it. TL;DR: I wrote 11k words yesterday, and finished the first chapter (almost done the second).
So whatās the book about?? Honestly, itās pretty loose right now. This is the pitch I wrote way back in 2019, which is more or less accurate:
After being tormented by nightmares of his ex lover, which result in violent hot flashes and an inability to keep up a job, Harrison seeks a magical intervention. When the clairvoyant he hopes will cure his strange ailment turns out to be a con womanāand his old friend, Reeveāhe is thrown back into the past and forced to rekindle relationships he thought heād left behind.
The main thing thatās surprised me since drafting is how contemporary this world is?? Despite being literally fantasy, this setting is the most contemporary-aligned compared to the rest of the series. Fostered book 1-6 take place in a sort of dystopia (which gets softer and softer as the books continue), whereas Moth Work and Feeding Habits take place in older-contemporary times (2006)! This book on the other hand I could certainly see taking place in some sort of alternate 2019 (because we :) cannot include the pandemic years :)). Itās also magnificently funny?? I feel really blessed to have just decided to write this book. I know about 10% of what is going on at all times, but itās so fun to draft!
Something I didnāt expect initially was how big a presence Foster would have in this book! I kind of :) forgot about Foster in Moth Work/Feeding Habits (so sorry he is still an icon), and while I knew heād be Harrisonās roommate, I kind of assumed heād be a side character?? But no, he said, I am reclaiming myĀ āMain Castā title and you can do nothing to stop me. For the majority of what Iāve written, Harrison and Foster are living in the past. This is because Foster can ~time travel, but is incredibly ethical and sustainable, so he refuses to actually change the past/do anything that would affect the present/future. After a hex goes wrong and results in Harrisonās mother getting into an accident and eventually disappearing, Harrisonās life is in literal shambles. Tormented by nightmares and hot flashes, he is NOT living his best life. To cope, Foster agrees to take them back to the past where he can relive the last 5 days before his motherās accident, thinking they will only stay there for that one week. But when theyāve repeated the same week dozens of time, Foster ups the pressure on Harrison to give him the okay to head back to the present. And when these āhot flashesā/nightmares get even worse, Foster tells Harrison about a āhealerā who cured his broken wrist (so he could plant his tomatoes lol), Harrison concedes and they finally head back to present day so he too can visit this woman, who is actually their old friend, Reeve.
This book is SO angsty and hilarious! I think my favourite thing about it is that I get to write Lonan and Harrison falling in love again lol, which I didnāt exactly get to experience in the conventional way (the first time around). By the time we meet Lonan (who is introduced in book 2), he and Harrison already have a pretty complex relationship. This relationship gets even more tangled in book 3, and book 5 is where we get to see the first glimpses of a romance. Somewhere in this timeline, between books 3-5, they ~fell in love, but I donāt know when! I think most of that occurred off the page, so even I donāt know. Whatās so fun is now I get to glimpse into that a little bit more. Their relationship is my favourite thing and always has been, about this entire series, so Iām so stoked to finally get to dabble with it from the beginning. All I really know at the moment is that they meet because Lonan catches Harrison being a thief lol so, so much fun tension already to work with!
Iām not sure if Iāll finish this, mostly because the prospect of writing an 80k novel sort of terrifies me?? The project is almost 12k at the moment, and we really have only scratched the very surface, so weāll see! I havenāt written genre fiction in so long and Iām adoring this! Itās also so much less strenuous than writing literary lols so perfect because Iām still a little wiped out after my semester ended!
Hereās an excerpt when Harrison meets up with Reeve for the first time:
The shopās name is The Larkās Lagoon. When he enters, a string of freshwater shells clatter, like bells would. She is not at the table like she was in the past, so he putters around the shop. Some of the things she sells are silly. Plastic mood rings that are clearly heat activated and more suited for a child but marketed to women in their thirties. Ping pong balls with the inscription enchanted aims. Snowglobes with a miniature witch figurine who says Iāll tell your fortune when you shake it.
āThatās a bestseller.ā Her voice comes so suddenly that Harrison drops the globe. It shatters across the floor in a glittery bundle. āSo youāre going to need to pay for that.ā
Harrison describing Lonan lol:
Harrison hated him. He was cute, but Harrison hated him.
Harrison chilling in his timeloop where he canāt be seen:
Itās harder avoiding birds than he thinks. Every time one spots him, his body lurches, magnetized in the direction of the apartment. If it werenāt for the trees he latches onto along the way, heād already be back at the brownstone listening to Foster lecture him on not being seen and not exploiting his magic. So he becomes more careful. Checks every directionāup down, left, right, diagonally, whateverāuntil he is certain no one can see him.
Some Stressed Foster dialogue lol I love him protect him at all costs:
āHow many times have I told you that you cannot be seen in the timeloop? I woke up with a migraine five minutes ago and when I went to find you, realized youād slipped out. Do you know how my brain feels when you stretch the timeloop like that? It feels like someoneās cracking it. My brain, a walnut. You, a nutcracker. Not to mention, you didnāt even leave a note. What if you were robbed? Or murdered? What if they dismembered you and I had no idea?
so thatās this project! donāt see any reason to stop writing it, so Iāll make an update on it soon! :) let me know if you have any more qās!
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ok so we have seen over and over again people's assumptions about how gg main characters's instagrams would look like but how do you think their secret tumblr blogs would be? š
hmm! i just went over tumblr in general, because i donāt think all of them would haveĀ āsecretā tumblrs per say? everyoneās thing under the cut, cause it got SO long. i did not mention chuck because i donāt rlly see chuck as having a tumblr in any universe tbh - i feel like he would think it takes away from his businessy vibe or something.
dan's main would be something with a ts eliot url, like, a snippet from one of his poems, or it would be a whitman url, a snippet from a poem again (i see him with a whitman url of some kind & maybe his blog title is an eliot reference.) dan would 100% have the whole dark academia thing going in some ways, i think his blog would be organised as a grid, and he would reblog pictures of libraries, museums, occasionally of art, and also, quotes. so many quotes. so much literature. if you've been on tumblr long enough you know exactly the kind of blog i'm talking about.
dan's tumblr sideblog, on the contrary, would have nothing to link it to him. it'd probably be the tumblr default theme, pastel colours or something... i feel like dan is the specific genre of trans kid who uses a different set of pronouns online for anonymity purposes and then goes "wait a minute i like these pronouns BETTER". his url would be something extremely mundane and random like coffeeaddict779 or something, and it would be all #vent and #dont reblog. nobody who's following his sideblog knows what his main is, and vice versa.
serena would i think have one of those "be kind, do no harm :)" kind of hipster tumblr blogs, except she's incredibly sincere. she wouldn't have a sideblog, i don't think? and i don't think she'd attach her name to it in any way, probably just pronouns in bio and maybe a 'call me S'. she and dan would be mutuals on dan's main! her blog will be very, uh. aesthetic pictures, reblogs of dolphin videos and music and WIP art videos and anything else that'll catch her eye. she'll tag blair in fashion vids, nate in sailing posts, dan in literary stuff, and vanessa in film related/photography related things. she's having fun! every now and then she'll post a vent post but it's extremely vague and it's either something everyone who knows her irl already knows about her ('i hate my mom so much') or something that says practically nothing ('i am so worried about my brother and wish i could do more to help him.')
jenny's fashion inspo blog!!!! what more do you want me to say. she'd make it big in the fashion community and get anons all the time and she'd probably also have an etsy where she sells things she's sewn and made. everyone sort of knows she's an up and coming designer and she'd find a good community online hopefully!!! her blog would be something simple, with a url like jennydesigns or something (i bet that's taken rn, i havent checked) and her theme would be one of those themes that allows for u to have big images. she would probably post vents in the same way serena does, tag them #personal or #rambles, and have that neat code that allows for the tag to be filtered out whenever anyone views her page on desktop, you know?
i think eric would not have anything specific that he posts. he would just reblog random things - memes, things he finds interesting, jenny's original posts, stuff serena tags him in, cat videos, lgbtq+ positivity, etc. he'd try and stay out of drama (i think he'd turn anon off eventually.) heād also post a lot of music reblogs or links, i feel?
vanessa's main blog would be one where she posts her own photos and films. because she's professional about it, it'd probably just be @ vanessaabrams. she'd have a sideblog specifically for reblogging other peopleās work because she wants to support other artists, and it would be vanessareblogs or something like that, and her bio would mentionĀ āmain tumblr @ vanessaabramsā. sheād be much adored in the photo/film community and just in general, because sheās one of the few people who hypes up other creators all the time and leaves nice comments in tags and all that. every now and then serena reblogs vanessaās photography onto her blog and it almost always blows up, but vanessa doesnāt mind. i donāt think vanessa would have a vent blog or even a personal tag, she gives me bigĀ āi wanna keep my business totally off the netā kind of vibes.
nateās blog would be a lot like serenaās except, uh, more openly wanderlusty i think. a LOT of ocean reblogs. every now and then he reblogs keroauc quotes from dan which the girls find extremely hilarious. he talks a lot about sailing and gets a lot of sailing anons. heād reblog a lot of positivity (mostly because he knows his friends are following him and he wants to brighten up their dash.) dan and vanessa jokingly dm him weed aesthetic posts all the time, but every time they do he reblogs and tags itĀ āsent to meā or somehting like that, and they cant decide whether to be flattered or embarrased. i think nate would also attract a lot of anons who ask for advice and it is something he never expected people coming to him for, but he definitely listens and shares whatever heās got to say all the same. heās this blog who should be weirdly niche but everyone sort of knows him and likes him.
saving the best for the last, lol. i have SO many thoughts about blairās tumblrs.Ā
i think sheād have a main tumblr thatās solely for classic film stuff (audrey! and more) and thatād be @ blairwaldorf, because, well, duh. i think sheād pay for a tumblr theme and get one of those really fancy and cute ones, like a floralcodes ms paint theme. i think sheād also have a sideblog thatās less serious, where sheād reblog things from tv shows, reblog things serena or nate have tagged her in, write her own meta for fandoms sheās in, just generally be a multifandom mess with a #personal tag but nothing too personal. it would still be classy, because sheās blair, but on this blog, sheās just a girl having fun.
and then sheād have a THIRD blog, a sideblog that doubles up as a vent blog. and this one isnāt linked to her other two in an obvious way, nobody knows itās her, etc. on here sheād probably post a lot about her ed (but i think in aĀ āi am struggling and i want to bitchā way, not in a thinspo way - thatās a whole conversation i have no spoons for, so letās not go there), sheād post about her insecurities and worries but it would be extremely untraceable. sheād have a fancy theme on this one too, despite it being a vent blog.Ā
hm. now im thinking of the potential of like. dan and blair interacting super frequently on their vent blogs and neither of them knowing itās the other person!
#meta#this was fun! thanks for the ask#i was initally gonna edit graphics#who knows i still may#but i realised that would take WAYYY too long#so have my words instead#anon#tumblr au#so i can find later if i need it
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