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[jackthelightningripper]

My Thoughts on Wish

I think I might as well use this account to give extended thoughts on any movies or shows I watch and feature in my media threads on Twitter and BlueSky. I always love going to see movies in the theater so might as well reflect that in more detail. So......Wish.

I was really excited for this movie when the first trailer dropped because not only do Disney's musical films pretty much knock it out of the park, with the two Frozen films, Moana, and Encanto being standouts for me, but the animation looked positively stunning, bringing back some aspects from films from different eras and mixing it with what they've done well as of recently. So I went to an early screening earlier this month and to be honest, I loved it! Not only were my expectations met, I was captivated by how everything from animation to storytelling to just how charming everything is. For the story, I really liked how it tried to keep the themes and messages up to interpretation and in the background and focused more on the world and character dilemmas similar to films like Aladdin or Mulan. I think you'll get what I'm getting at this since while I love a lot of Disney's recent films, you can kinda tell the messages were driving the characters more (ex. Zootopia, Raya, Encanto). Not that it's a bad thing, mind you, but it's refreshing to see the messages of this movie take a backseat in favor of everything else. Granted while I do think the side characters could've been a lot better (They get the job done but not a lot more), the movie makes up for it with Asha and ESPECIALLY Magnifico.

Asha's a fun lead not just for how charming she can be, but also I like how they try to show how she believes her attempts to help her friends and family actually had a reverse effect in putting them in a worse spot and how she recognizes this and tries to fix any problems she inadvertently created. She makes for someone you can sort of be in the shoes of and understand where she's coming from, and heck even root for by the end. And then there's Magnifico who I think is a massive breath of fresh air as a villain. I really like how they try to make himself seem reasonable on the exterior to the point of him finding some kind of value in Asha, but not sympathetic since his reasoning for keeping the wishes initially not only removed a lot of what can make people special, but I think was driven more out of his desires rather than his willingness to keep peace in Rosas, despite what he tells others and himself. It does legitimately make him caving into those traits and eventually wiping away any good ones he had much more earned and way cooler. He reminds me of Gaston in a way. I also like how that was done too because while some said "Asha has to stop a darkness", the dark power Magnifico uses isn't a spirit possessing him. It's power he legit wanted to us to make sure everything in Rosas goes his way, or as he puts it "Desperate times call for desperate measures". It was legit great to see him become this big threat which is why I got a lot out of other villains from other Disney movies, especially during the Renaissance era. Also, I loved Chris Pine's performance as him. He nailed the tone of every line he was given and was just fun to listen to.

And speaking of that quote, the songs are legit great. Regardless of what Disney film we're talking about, the songs are usually one thing they always get right if it has them. And Wish is no exception. Ok, there's a weird lyric here and there but there's so much attention to detail from tone to melody and they were just so ear-grabbing. I can understand why "This Wish" is considered the highlight of the movie and the breakout song and why it will more than likely be the one submitted for an award. But I got more out of "This is the thanks I get?!" because it legit describes not just how toxic Magnifico is to his people but also his descent into madness and "Knowing what I know now" because I'm a massive fan of songs meant to signify something big that's going to happen like "Make a Man out of You" from Mulan or "Ready as I'll Ever Be" from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. Also, Queen Amaya's contribution to the latter was just chef's kiss.

The animation is absolutely phenomenal. This was probably the biggest thing I was excited for and I was dazzled by how the film looked. This is probably the biggest reason why I say "Go see this on the big screen" not just because footage of it from YouTube videos are compressed and can give the wrong impression to several people, but also because the film not just has plenty of detail oozing from the seems but also takes advantage of bringing a lot of tropes from hand-drawn films into 3D that I very rarely saw from most of their other recent films, especially movements so exaggerated you could probably get a smear-frame pause if you look hard enough. I missed a lot of this, but even with that in mind, I love how colorful everything is and there were some shots that could fool me into thinking I was watching a traditional 2D animated film if I squinted my eyes. And you could tell me Star was legit 2D animated and I'd believe you. Which BTW, Star is precious and deserves to be treasured.

I will agree that the film isn't perfect. The side characters could've been a lot better, there's one in particular I thought they'd do more with but they just stop for some weird reason, Valentino, while he occasionally get a laugh, I think could be a lot funnier, but everything else is just so enjoyable I can get over any problems I have. I neglected to mention the references to past Disney films because the films is already so strong, it doesn't really need them. Plus, I think they were reasonably paced, only really getting a bit self-indulgent at the ending when the main conflict is over, though that doesn't excuse blatant misinformation saying Asha and the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella are the same person and Magnifico becomes the Magic Mirror from Sleeping Beauty. I don't understand where they came from or why people bought it. It's a film I'm so happy I saw in a cinema and I think you should too. I hope it does well somewhere even though I hear it had an underwhelming opening, more than likely because of the $200 million budget and Hunger Games recently coming out, but you are seriously missing out by not seeing this. I actually wouldn't mind seeing this in a theater again and I'd even buy a 4K Blu Ray copy first chance I get. Happy 100 years Disney! Here's hoping for a bright future!

[straycatboogie]

2023/12/10 English

BGM: ACO - 悦びに咲く花 (SILENT POETS REMIX)

I worked early today. TBH, I couldn't have expected that I could endure today's work - I even thought that it would drive me mad. Indeed, I wanted to go back to my room as soon as possible. But when I arrived at my workplace, my body remembered what to do at there. Yes, you would think it must be unbelievable/enigmatic. But, that's the fact from my viewpoint.

My body remembers what I should do at there. Although I am not a diligent philosopher as Descartes who believes how my body could be wise, I do believe in the sleeping possibility in my body in somewhere in my mind. My work has been consisted as physical work, therefore I use my body (my fingers, arms, foot, etc.) a lot. And if I start moving my body, the movement lets me find out various ideas - therefore I start thinking that I should do my movement before I think. Yes, as an old quote says, "leap before you look."

But - why do I keep on doing my work? Even I can't answer this question. Once my doctor and ex-friends had suggested me that I could stop my work anymore - instead I could live with a certain basic welfare. Indeed, it's a cleverer way to live on. But, these two days experiences (escaping from my workplace) tells me that I would get dumber if I quit my job and stay away from this real world. In other words, you would feel that it could sound too much, but for me the work life could polish this self's soul/mind. Besides money, that could be a meaning of life.

A female friend of mine had recommended me a book by Eimi Yamada, who is one of the most popular female authors in Japan. I answered her that I have never read any books by Eimi Yamada because her books were for women only. The friend answered me that great literature won't matter the issue of sexuality. It goes beyond that difference - I agree with her opinion. So, after today's work, I went to the library and borrowed one book by her. But, after having dinner I slept so deeply. Yes, I am still within my feeling of tiredness.

[iamthenightcolormeblack]

Netflix Persuasion Trailer Reaction:

I don’t understand why the filmmakers had to make Persuasion more “feminist.” It already IS feminist!! Anne has strong female friends and role models such as Lady Russell and Mrs. Croft that she relies upon. I found it BADASS when Mrs. Croft talked about sailing the world with her husband the admiral, it’s a total contrast to the indoor, sedentary lifestyle of rich Regency ladies. Also Lady Russell is one of Anne’s few friends who supports her while her family ignores her. Significantly Lady Russell is allowed to be flawed too - though her advice is generally sound, she cares too much about social status and and first fails to recognize Captain Wentworth’s merit. In order to have actual FEMINIST female characters, they should be allowed to be flawed because women are people too (duh but to me that’s the point of feminism) who are imperfect yet still deserving of respect.

Why did they have to make Anne Elliot a modern “girl boss” who makes snarky comments? As many others have said this would work for Elizabeth Bennet, but not Anne since she’s more reserved compared to Elizabeth. Also if Anne is a modern girl boss why is she still pining over a man she dismisses as her “ex?” Modern girl bosses don’t need men they hate them!

Persuasion starts off as a sad story because Anne (persuaded by Lady Russell) has given up the chance of love with Wentworth since his social status was lower than her’s. So obviously the forced comedy based on modern jokes doesn’t suit the mood of the story. It doesn’t make sense to have Anne dressing up in a fake mustache to impersonate a caricature of Wentworth because the memory of him and the chance she had to be happy with him brings her pain. In fact she is mortified when he first visits her after 8 years because she’s afraid she looks old and ugly. To me, that is a shrewd commentary on how society values women purely on external beauty rather than their integrity. How is this boring or outdated?

To me, Anne is defined by quiet strength and maturity rather than snarky comments. Anne is feminist because she gains more independence throughout the novel. Initially she has buried her feelings and focused on maintaining the family estate while her family members emotionally neglect her and live beyond their means. She helps others but they don’t appreciate her kindness and ignore her. For example when Louisa Musgrove falls she responds to the situation calmly and quickly while everybody else (including Wentworth) freaks out. She is also intelligent as shown by her discussion of poetry with Captain Harville and her challenging Captain Benwick when he implies women aren’t capable of dedication in long-distance relationships. She also displeases her family by befriending a poorer, yet honest, woman instead of sucking up to an arrogant noble lady. And the real kicker is the ending states that Anne’s domestic work as a Navy wife is equally as important as her husband’s role in the Navy. Please tell me how this isn’t feminist.

The book itself has humor too so there’s no need to add in anachronistic modern jokes that don’t work. Mr. Elliot perfectly fits the rom-com trope of douchebag love interest, and you also have your typical Austen characters like perfectly healthy people who act like invalids and snobby rich people like Anne’s father who is obsessed with his appearance and likes mirrors. We like Austen’s humor because it pokes fun at morally deficient/arrogant people.

Lastly the only good thing about this film is casting Henry Golding as Mr. Elliot. It suits the character, who’s a typical Austen villain in the sense that he’s good looking but deceptive.

[heich0e]

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MINORS AND AGELESS BLOGS DO NOT FOLLOW/INTERACT

[✦ fluff | ♥︎ smut | ☾ angst | ♧ drabble | ☆ ask/request]

𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚊 𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞

wake up call ✦♧ fwb to lovers, pining, suggestive. a classic morning after meltdown following another hookup that you swore would never happen again. you know, like a liar.

smile for the camera ✦♧☆ prompt: "what’s it gonna take to make you smile?” established relationship, suna being a conniving little bastard, threats of murder

a man starved ✦♥︎♧☆ prompt: ‘I don’t really feel like going out for dinner but do you wanna come over and make out a bit or whatever?’ smut-adjacent, fwb, just a good old fashioned makeout sesh really… until it’s not. “don’t hate me.” ✦♧☆ best friends to lovers, mutual pining, suna kisses you for the first time at 12:06 on your birthday.

sleep talking ✦♧established relationship, bf!suna being a little weirdo, your boyfriend wakes you up to let you know you’ve been talking in your sleep.

exes with benefits to lovers (?) ☾✦♥︎♧ college!au, the aftermath of a breakup that doesn’t quite want to stick.

roadside assistance ☾✦♧ established relationship, minor mention of trauma, light angst, suna hates driving in heavy rain, so you try to help him however you can.

butterfingers ✦♧ established relationship. suna just doesn’t know when to quit.

not kids anymore ✦♥︎♧ older brother’s best friend!suna, suggestive, suna comes home for his bi-annual visit and a few things take you by surprise.

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bff!osamu series (ongoing drabble series) ☾✦♥︎♧☆ childhood best friends to lovers, pining osamu, a chronicle of the agonies of loving someone all your life and never being able to tell them. Pt. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | 6 | 7

in bloom ✦♧ fluff, established relationship, mentions of mental illness/unrest, hurt/comfort, miya osamu being boyfriend material for 2.8k words

wish you were here ✦♧ this is nothing more than my loveletter to the miya brotherhood.

shopping at ikea drabble ✦♧

samu wearing glasses ✦♧☆

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just a taste (crossposted to AO3 - ongoing) ♥︎ bartender!reader/serial dater!atsumu, enemies to customer service to lovers, gratuitous depictions of mixed drinks. p1. salt | p2. sour

“baby don’t be mad at me”✦♧ soft domestic tsumu drabble, found family (the family in question is a cat)

pet names ✦♥︎♧ bf!atsumu wants you to call him pet names, you don’t want anything less. you strike a compromise.

literally just a drabble about sucking atsu off ✦♥︎♧

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smiling with your eyes ✦♧☆ just the way kita lights up every time you walk into the room.

©HEICH0E 2022 - please do not quote, repost, or translate any of my work.

[buttherainbowhasabeard]

Promising Young Woman (2021)

*contains spoilers*

Revenge is a dish best served stone-cold sober…

Delightful and dimpled British star Carey Mulligan has had a successful career to date, playing alongside leading men such as Leonardo DiCaprio (‘The Great Gatsby’), Ryan Gosling (‘Drive’) and Michael Fassbender (‘Shame’). Despite not always being centre stage, many of Mulligan’s film choices have been eclectic in terms of genre, and it seems this winning combination of offbeat and orthodox have all led to her explosive lead role in the indie assault on the senses that is ‘Promising Young Woman’.

Carey is Cassandra Thomas, a 30-year-old whose promising career as a doctor went into a tailspin when she dropped out of medical school following the rape of her best friend Nina Fisher at the rough hands of their classmates. It’s implied that Nina – overwhelmed by what happened to her and the lack of support or investigative interference – committed suicide, and in the years since, Cassie has dedicated her life to avenging her friend’s death. Rather than continuing to try to take the claims up with police, Cassie turns unconventional vigilante and offers herself up as hot-mess boy bait, spending her nights fake falling-down drunk in bars and clubs to see and document how many men attempt to take advantage of her. Going so far – arguably stupidly so – as to let them take her home, Cassie abruptly reveals her sobriety to shock them into acknowledging and lamenting their predatory behaviour.

These scenes in particular are deliciously satisfying – that moment the self-proclaimed “nice guy” realises his unwilling date is more than aware of her surroundings and is going to confront him about them. The genius of these moments is in the power of Mulligan’s swift and drastic transformations. She doesn’t need to threaten or produce a weapon to take control, her stark sobriety is enough.

Making her feature filmmaking debut, director Emerald Fennell has had her fair share of femme fatale experience as head writer on Season 2 of TV’s addictive ‘Killing Eve’. Her love of strong, clever but chaotic women are all bundled into one with the creation of Cassie. She’s a Villanelle-esque sexy sociopath with a skewed moral compass, complimented by a noughties heavy soundtrack featuring a screechy orchestral remix of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’, a rom-com inspired routine to Paris Hilton’s ‘Stars Are Blind’, and DeathbyRomy’s cover of the Weather Girls’ ‘It’s Raining Men’.

‘Promising Young Woman’ could just as easily be called Privileged Young Men. With a narrative that draws on #MeToo, toxic masculinity and on campus rape culture and rituals, this is a film that is unapologetic about its subject matter and in your face about its opinions on it. There are not-so-subtle traces of trends that are played out in real life today, like dismissing women’s allegations to protect men’s reputations. Whilst Nina’s life was destroyed and her credibility doubted, male peers like perpetrator Al Monroe (Chris Lowell) and his sleazy friend Joe (Max Greenfield) were given glowing references, advanced to the top of their fields and became popular pillars of their communities, industries and social circles.

Although predictable for me, the eventual reveal of the one good man from Cassie’s past being complicit in Nina’s rape (her happy-to-take-it-slow boyfriend Ryan played by a charmingly goofy Bo Burnham), is a gasp out loud moment. Her world is once again shattered beyond repair when she realises the relationship that has made her happy for the first time in a long time was built on a lie (or to give him the benefit of the doubt, a very bad mistake). He is the first man she felt she could trust, be herself around, and fall in love with, but she discovers that underneath he was at worst, another one of the guys, and at best, an indefensible bystander.

You’d be forgiven for thinking ‘Promising Young Woman’ is all anti-men. Everything about it - on the surface and in the trailer - screams angry, bra burning feminist. However, it’s more nuanced than that and takes more of an anti-bad men, anti-bad women and anti-bad behaviour stance, as many of the movie’s female characters also have to confront the fact that their refusal or disinterest to speak up and call out abuse has enabled criminal conduct to set in, rot and spread. Cassie - an anti-hero herself - holds a grubby mirror up to the faces of the women from her college days with varying degrees of cunning and callousness, from feigning the abduction and pimping out of the University Dean Elizabeth Walker’s daughter, to tricking an inebriated former classmate (Alison Brie) into thinking she was unfaithful, or worse, sexually assaulted, in a hotel room.

Cassie’s methods are extreme and quite frankly mad, but her motives are steeped in an obsessive desire to do right by her friend and seek justice whatever the cost (the latter playing out in tragic but successful fashion in the finale). She is an intentionally entangled fly, luring spiders of all shapes and sizes to the centre of the web, daring them to do their worst. Most times she is well prepared, and even when it seems like she’s bitten off more than she can chew, another dose of vigorous vengeance is plunged in (even if it has to be done posthumously!)

Physically too, she’s a calculating chameleon. From pigtails, flowery blouses and flats for a girl-next-door look, to blow-job blotted lips, tight dresses and skyscraper stilettos to give off a late-night pick-up vibe, every element of her outfit is deliberate and devious. Dressed up in a wig the colour of a Rainbow Paddle Pop and sexy stripper nurse outfit in the film’s final act, Cassie is the literal sexual objectification of the promising young medical practitioner she could have been. Instead, she’s a practitioner of pain, turning Monroe’s bachelor party into her plastered patients.

Handcuffing Al to the bed upstairs, it looks like she’s reeled in her biggest fish to date. “It's every man's worst nightmare, getting accused of something like that,” Al cries, to which a deadpan Cassie replies “can guess what every woman's worst nightmare is?” But soon the tables turn when he breaks free, overpowers her and smothers her to death with a pillow. It’s a brutal and distressingly drawn-out scene, and it takes a while before it hits you that she really is dead and this is where her sad story ends. Joe and Al burn her body. It’s all over. Or so you think.

We cut to Al’s wedding, and as Juice Newton’s ‘Angel of the Morning’ plays, Ryan begins to receive scheduled texts from Cassie, taunting him from beyond the grave with a juicy contingency plan. Using Al’s ex-attorney Jordan Green (Alfred Molina) and his regret and grief over representing the wrong party to her advantage, Cassie had sent him incriminating evidence about Nina’s assault and her own demise in advance. “You didn't think this was the end, did you? It is now” the first texts read, as police sirens wail and officers emerge from the woods to arrest Al for murder. “Enjoy the wedding! Love, Cassie & Nina” the final messages say, followed by a perfectly placed winky face emoticon as Fletcher’s ‘Last Laugh’ cues the end credits. It’s a gratifying water cooler moment, bona fide badass yet bittersweet, but you’re still left wondering if it was all worth it.

‘Promising Young Woman’ could be cut from the same tortured heroine cloth as ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, with Nina and Cassie’s friendship rivalling ‘Thelma & Louise’. It covers a lot of taboo territories and topics, from slut shaming to consent and coercion, and evokes the harrowing Margaret Atwood quote “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them”.

‘Promising Young Woman’ is not for the faint hearted, and anyone who fears the film may be triggering should stay well clear. It’s not always easy viewing and it’s not always fair, however it’s more than just a pitch-black comedy or clear-cut tale of rape-revenge. It’s a brave, bold and original satire with bite and brains.

4/5 stars.

[marshmallow-xphile]

My thoughts on the sexuality of some of my favorite X-files characters.

I posted this in my X-files amino back in June as part of a LGBTQ pride challenge and for some reason I only just thought to post it here as well.

Fox Mulder: openly bisexual

Mulder is so open sexually that I really don't think gender matters all that much to him. He does seem to prefer females but I wouldn't be even remotely surprised if he had a boyfriend or two in the past. I don't think he's flamboyant about his sexuality but I don't think he'd hide it at all either

My evidence:

In the season one episode "Ghost in the Machine" we meet an Mulder's ex-partner, Jerry, and I absolutely feel like there is an ex-lovers vibe to the both of them. They hug upon first seeing each other, Mulder looks incredibly happy to see him, when Mulder says they worked together Jerry corrects him to say they were partners at which point Mulder looks over at Scully as if to see her reaction. Mulder has this real guilty look to him. When Jerry acts a little self conscious Mulder is real quick to jump in and reassure him. They get in each other's personal space. It just really leaves me with the impression that they care deeply for one another and broke up for other reasons, perhaps the different career goals as Mulder tells Scully.

We also have Mulder with Krycek. From the very beginning of Krycek's involvement with the X-files I feel like the writers went out of their way to make a correlation between the change in partnership and a new partner in a relationship. There is a scene in Sleepless where Mulder and Scully are on the phone and Mulder tells Krycek he'll be right there, the rest of the conversation feels reminiscent of two exes chatting about the change brought about by the new relationship. Scully even brings up that it must be nice having a partner who doesn't question his every theory.

There were many scenes in Sleepless, Duane Barry, and Ascension in which Mulder and Krycek were alone but that we never got to see who knows for example what the two of them got to talking about while they were stuck in traffic during the drive to New York in Sleepless. Or how often they hung out between Sleepless and Duane Barry.

During Mulder and Scully's partnership Mulder only called her 'Dana' on a few emotional occasions. He started casually calling Krycek 'Alex' almost immediately.

Let us not forget the infamous speedo scene. While yes it definitely showed more of a Krycek attraction to Mulder than the opposite. It does make one wonder what led him to wear such a revealing bathing suit. How many straight men do you know who wear speedos? My guess is few. How many straight men wear speedos when they can reasonably assume their male partner will show up looking for them? Not many would be guess.

And then there is their relationship after Krycek is revealed to be a traitor. They both tend to act more like scorned lovers than enemies and notice that it's Mulder, not Krycek, who cannot seem to keep his hands off the other. Seriously it's like every time Krycek shows up, Mulder immediately grabs him.

Now here's a couple quotes from Mulder,

Krycek tells Mulder he most be losing it because Krycek beat him with one hand. Mulder's immediate reaction: "isn't that how you like to beat yourself?"

When the little man in Humbug is lined up pretty much exactly with Mulder's crotch he says that Mulder would be surprised how many women find his size alluring. Mulder's immediate reaction: "you'd be surprised how many men do as well"

How many straight guys do you know comfortable enough with their sexuality to make a gay innuendo? I personally cannot think of any.

Dana Scully: bicurious

I believe that Scully is sometimes attracted to women. It definitely is not as blatant as with Mulder and I really don't think she's had any past girlfriends but I definitely think that there is an attraction.

My evidence:

In the episode "Ice" I really felt like there are a few tender moments between her and Felicity Huffman's character especially while they were examining one another for the worms. That examination had a sort of sexual energy to it I thought.

In the episode "kill switch" theres a moment where the Invisagoth asked if she could have her handcuffs removed or if she should type with her tongue. Mulder mentions that she doesn't want a vote there and the look on Scully's face and the way she licks her lips, I definitely get the impression that she would have been perfectly happy to see what Invisagoth could get up to with that tongue.

Some people point to Scully's relationship with Reyes as evidence of her bisexuality, I personally don't see any attraction there on Scully's side but I don't think its outside the realm of possibility.

Monica Reyes: Closeted lesbian

This one's probably a surprise I know there was something between here and Brad as well as a flirtation with Doggett so you would probably think she was Bisexual but honestly was either one of those even remotely convincing? To me they weren't. I believe that Reyes is a lesbian.

I kind of go back and forth on whether she's open about it. Reyes is very spiritual and open so it seems strange that she would be in the closet but maybe she has a reason, fear of it affecting her career in the FBI perhaps? It just seems strange that she keeps pursuing these heterosexual relationships she has no passion for unless she is trying to hide her true passion.

My evidence:

I admit I really have very little evidence but look at the relationship between Reyes and Brad Follmer. It had all the chemistry of two people who got really drunk once and cannot remember sleeping together. I don't for a second believe she was ever in love with Brad nor he in love with her.

Then you've got the same thing between her and Doggett. Yes the writers were obviously trying for a romantic angle with the two of them but to me it never came across as convincing. It seemed more like she thought of him as a good friend and figured she might as well date him, I saw no evidence of love or attraction.

On the other hand look at her and Scully. While I feel like the attraction there was one sided I definitely feel like Reyes was into Scully or Dana as she would call her. Reyes was willing to risk her life for Scully and yes that is her job after all but Reyes seems to take that above and beyond and it's not just Scully herself but also William. Look at how protective Reyes is of William in The Truth and of the sacrifice Scully made in giving him up. She seems to care even more than Mulder on that.

Cigarette-Smoking-Man: Asexual

CSM has probably had sex at some point, he is of course the father of at least three children but I do not think that he was ever in love with any of these women or even attracted to them. I believe they were all just a means to an end.

I believe that CSM's only love was for his cigarettes

Evidence:

There is a little bit of evidence that he might have actually felt something for Teena Mulder but I don't buy it. He freely admits that he felt nothing for Cassandra Spender but he must've been convincing if he got her to marry him and we have seen him fake emotions more than once. He also seemed to show an attraction to Scully in En Ami but that too was just a means to an end. Perhaps he does feel something towards all the women he has impregnated but I wouldn't call it love. I don't see any real attraction there either. My bet is that CSM needed some "help" in order to produce his offspring.

Alex Krycek: Gay

While Krycek did have an obviously sexual relationship with Marita Covarrubias he definitely didn't have any real feelings for her and I don't buy attraction either. No I'd say they were both just trying to use sex to get what they wanted. His anger at finding the Russian boy gone wasn't because he was heartbroken at her betrayal. Merely mad that she'd managed to get the upper hand.

Whether Krycek is open or in the closet I'm not sure, I'm thinking it probably depends on the mission hes on at the time.

Evidence:

Of everyone on this list I'd say Krycek is the one I'm the most sure of. There is no doubt in my mind that Krycek was attracted to, perhaps even in love with, Fox Mulder. From the very beginning there appeared to be a bit of longing in his eyes.

There was the speedo scene wherein Krycek was definitely checking Mulder out. There were several scenes where Krycek could've killed Mulder but chose to help him instead.

As I've seen pointed out before, Krycek's crazy motivational choices don't make any sense at all unless it's all in an effort to be around Mulder more.

Look at his sense of style and his obvious love for lip gloss. I am not saying that straight men cannot love lip gloss and dress themselves in Krycek's fashion but it is uncommon and it was especially so back in the 90s

The infamous kiss in The Red and the Black could certainly be explained away as some kind of Russian custom but it isn't one that I am aware of and he hasn't really shown any other signs of his Russia heritage.

I would say my best evidence of Krycek's sexuality is in Essence and Existence, just look at the look on Krycek's face when Mulder trusts him to protect Scully. Krycek knows what Scully means to Mulder and then look at how seriously Krycek takes the job! I definitely feel like that moment meant a lot to him and he would have protected Scully with his life for Mulder.

There's also the fact that Krycek's unwillingness to kill Mulder lead to his own death.

Of course asking Skinner to shoot Mulder goes against this theory but I do have a couple thoughts on that, the most sensical being that he knew there was no chance Skinner would shoot Mulder and he probably knew there was no chance he would survive anymore. Maybe he made that request in hopes of sparing Mulder any pain he might have otherwise felt at his death (I know it's a bit of a stretch but my other theories require a long explanation of my thoughts on where the series had planned to go next)

The lone gunmen: no one knows....not even them

Three (I don't count Jimmy for this) single adult men who all live together in very cramped quarters and are, at least in Langley's case, perfectly happy to be around each other without thier clothes on certainly makes it seem like there's something between them all but I really don't get a overtly gay impression with any of them, even Langley who as mentioned doesn't like to wear pants and is the only one who hasn't had a love interest. They just have this sort of Vegas-esque thing. "What happens in the bachelor pad/newspaper room stays in the bachelor pad/newspaper room.

I would love to hear other people's thoughts on these and any other X-files characters you think might be somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum.

[humbughana]

history

warnings: boys that don’t know what no means, drinking, cursing. 

words: 1.8k

Lola has a run in with an ex.

“Get away from me,”

“Oh c’mon lo, don't be like that.”

Lola was currently seated at a bar, sipping on her fourth- no maybe fifth, drink and was happily humming to the songs in the background waiting for her friends to return from the dance floor. Rafe was out with his own friends that night and she missed his presence. He always let her lean against him when her world started to tilt slightly and she seriously needed it right now as she twirled on the spiny bar stool. 

But the annoying voice she was trying to ignore was one of her ex-boyfriend leaning next to her, in her personal space.

“So now you don’t speak?” he smirked and leaned further into her side as Lola grimaced and also leaned away about to topple off the high stool, “go away, Logan.” Lola narrowed her eyes at him before going back to her drink mindlessly. The history between the two of them honestly didn’t get far, she had met him in her freshman year seminar class and she clung to the first friendly face. Moving away for college was never easy, especially when you didn’t know anyone. But anyways, she fell for him and when he found his footing, he found new girls to keep him company while they were still together and Lola experienced her first real heartbreak.

Okay, so maybe their history went a little farther than she let on.

Now being a junior and dating Rafe, she felt nothing but contempt for the boy next to her. Lola had a slight problem with never letting things go and this is one of those things, not that she missed him, but that she wondered why he did what he did all these years later. 

“You always had so much to say when we were together.” Lola gripped her glass harder in her hands as she chewed on the inside of her cheek. Reeling in her anger she turned to him and smiled, “Until you fucked half our class when we were ‘together’.” She made air quotes over the last word and he rolled his eyes, “You can’t still be mad about that, Lo.”

“You’re disgusting. And don’t call me that.” she spat at him. Logan stepped in closer now that she was facing him. Looking at him Lola could still feel the way he made her feel, the way he made her feel crazy and told her as much. How he had excuses for everything and she would cling onto every single one, waiting for him to come to her dorm at night only when he was in someone else's bed. 

“I’m sorry, Lola. Is that what you want me to say?” Logan placed a hand on her knee and she looked down at it before blinking up at him and shoving it off, “You’re two years too late.” Lola rolled her eyes, “I could never see you again and be fucking grateful.” She was determined to see him flinch but he only let out a laugh, “I don’t think you could ever forget about me, Lo.” he leaned a palm against her cheek before backing away and disappearing into a crowd. She let out a shaky breath before finishing her drink and ordering another. 

About an hour later she was sufficiently drunk and having a much better time, now mingling with strangers all over the bar with her friends when a hand wrapped around her waist and tugged her back. Lola looked over her shoulder to see Logan once again, with a drunken grin, “‘’ve been lookin’ for you” he slurred and leaned into her as she cringed away from his head.

Lola tugged at the arm around her, “get off me, Logan,” she tried to stay steady as he shook his head and desperately spoke frinatically, “I loved you! I miss you so much, lo.” He kept walking them further away from her friends and the crowd, finding a wall next to the door that was relatively secluded.

“I don’t care.” she yelled at him, “I don’t care how you feel! I want to get away from you!” She laughed at the hurt expression on his face, completely not stable enough for this conversation as she drug a hand through her hair.

“You don't mean that-”

“I hate you.” she stepped closer to him as she spoke with venom, “let go of me.” his hand was now only wrapped around her wrist and he shook his head, “But I can’t stop thinking about you.”

She tried to flinch away when his grip tightened painfully on her and she used her other hand to slam into his shoulder, “bitch,” he mumbled and grabbed her other arm painfully as her heart rate sped up not from the alcohol this time but fear. She hated the helpless feeling in her gut as his face morphed into rage.

“Hey!” They both looked over, Lola’s eyes wide with fear and unshed tears to see the bartender that was serving her all night followed by two bouncers, “Is there a problem here?” He looked towards her as Logan just laughed lightheartedly as if his fingers weren't leaving bruises on her arms, “Everything's fine.”

And she froze for once in her life, not being put in a situation like this ever put her at a loss. The ever so headstrong and confident Lola Brooks was nowhere to be found. 

“You need to leave.” The bartender was staring at her still as the two men behind him closed in. Logan sneered, “You can’t kick me out,” Lola yelped when he grabbed her waist this time, squeezing her side painfully as they pried him off of her, “Let go of me!” he yelled as Lola was finally safely removed from him and he was dragged out. 

“You okay?” the bartender was at her side as she nodded even though her hands were visibly shaking and she was on the verge of a complete breakdown, “I can walk you out if you have a ride?” he asked as a question and she shook her head and pulled out her phone. 

Finding his number was as easy as ever and she pressed the phone to her ear, “Hey baby,” his easy going drawl made her close her eyes.

“Rafe, where are you?” She asked straight to the point, praying he was sober and could come get her. 

“The house. Are you having fun with the girls?” He asked distractedly, Lola could tell as she looked at the ceiling in distress.

“Have you been drinking?” She asked quickly and he snorted, “I wish. I had to drag Max out of-”

Lola cut him off with a shaky voice, “Can you come pick me up?”

There was a pause, “Yeah. Yeah of course. I'll be there in five minutes. Are you okay?”

Lola bit down on her bottom lip, “I’m fine. See you in a little bit.” She hung up before he could respond out of fear she’d cry or something he had really never seen from her cold front. She had maybe cried once with him and it was over a movie so it didn’t really count.

“Someone coming to get you?” The guy asked and she nodded, “Yeah, he’s on the way. Thank you.” She nodded at him, thankful that he was watching her. He even led her back to the bar and snagged her a stool to sit on at the end closest to the walkway behind the bar as she waited, bouncing her leg anxiously.

The bartender slid her glass of water and then as a few minutes passed nodded behind her, “Is that one yours?” Lola looked over her shoulder to he Rafe pushing through the crowd taller than most people and a red had on his head that she loved making him stand out even more.

Lola nodded and finally he caught sight of her and smiled from afar and tried to get to where she was and pulling her towards him when he was in arms length, kissing her on the cheek, “Hey baby,” he grinned but then did a once over of his ‘center of the action’ partier girlfriend sitting in the corner with none of her friends in sight, “What’s going on?” he frowned as she grimaced slightly, “nothing, can I stay at your place tonight?”

“Yeah,” he nodded slowly but was frowning at her still and the bartender rolled his eyes as she narrowed her own at him. 

“Some asshole wouldn’t leave her alone,” Rafe turned towards the boy as he continued, “had to physically remove him from her and the bar,” Lola looked down feeling nervous and embarrassed as Rafe thanked the man quickly while paying her tab and placing a hand on her back as he guided her out of the bar. She faltered when she walked outside, half expecting Logan to still be here but Rafe just looked at her in concern, “C’mon, i’m just around the corner.” He wrapped an arm around her shoulders in the cool night air and into his side.

The drive back was quiet and she grabbed the hand on her thigh, interlocking their fingers and squeezing him just thankful he was there; Rafe didn’t miss the gesture that was never like her. They got all the way up into his room before he asked her what happened.

Lola opened her mouth but had a harder time coming up with a real story to tell him, “I- my ex he grabbed me,” she stuttered, looking down at her raised hands and Rafe saw the red lines on her skin, “he wouldn’t listen,” she blinked rapidly as her lip wobbled and Rafe wasted no time in pulling her into him as she finally cried. 

Rafe just held her, sitting down on the edge of the bed and pulling on onto his lap as she tried to collect herself hidden in his neck. 

“I’m sorry,” she mumbled, sniffling as she pulled back all red with wet cheeks, “I don’t know what's wrong with me,” 

Rafe lifted her hands up between them and traced the marks that would probably bruise as angry filled him, “Not a thing,” he pressed a kiss into each of her wrists and relished in her letting him finally comfort her for something. Lola smiled softly at him and pressed a soft kiss to his lips, “Thanks for the rescue.” 

Rafe rested his forehead on hers, “Anytime baby,” he paused for a second, “I’ll kill him the next time I see him.”

“You don’t even know who he is,” she couldn’t help but let out a little laugh at his words that were so like him as he huffed in disdain, “You’re ex?” Lola nodded with a frown. 

“We don’t have to talk about it tonight but we will eventually.” Rafe pressed a kiss to her own lips and Lola nodded, “I know.” she mumbled as he pulled back satisfied with her answer.

“Now let's go get ready for bed, baby. I missed you today.”

x

[cottoncandyjester]

CLOWN FUCKERS, ASSEMBLE

Clown yandere is going to have it easy on me, he made me a balloon sword and Im alredy his.

Yes, funny daddy?

Please out your hands, hearts, and all horniness together for....

Rin,19

Is always smiling like always

Of course works as a professional clown

Dabbles in magic tricks as well

100% drives a clown car

The only one of the yanderes who would quote memes daily

Chaotic as all hell

Will dress you up as a clown as well

Only speaks to you

Legit speaks in mime to everyone else

"psst babe....yeet"

"rin its 4 am got the fuck to sleep"

Dad jokes all the time

You would absolutely have a clown wedding with him

When angry at you he will only speak to you through miming

Makes balloon flowers for you on your first date

Flexible as all hell...so if you won't give him head he'll just suck his own dick

A total dork

Will have balloon sword battles with you and he takes it very seriously

Will absolutely wear the clown shoes..and will fuck you while wearing them

Wears the red nose during sex so ever so often you will hear a squeak

Has clown themed sex toys like a rubber chicken dildo

Has rigged the bed to make a whoppi cushion sound everytime someone lays in it and til this day you don't know how the hell he did it

As long as you accept him as yours it's all fun and games baby

"rin, you can't be mad at me for not letting you pie me in the face"

You watched as your boyfriend who was currently pouting at the time gave some big hand gestures clearly upset with you. "No I'm not being cruel, you're not doing it." Rin huffed before there was a long silence.

After ten minutes you sighed now rolling your eyes with annoyance. "Fine. Jeez I hate seeing you pout like that" you groaned out causing the male to perk up before skipping off to the kitchen to grab the well prepared item.

The moment you reject him though things change

He doesn't leave clown mode though his acts become more sadistic

Will use intestines from your ex friends and lovers to make balloon shapes before giving them to you

He just wants to show you how much he cares

He doesn't understand why you're screaming at him that guy couldn't even make you laugh!

Would kidnap you and force you to watch him perform

You're the only audience he ever needed in his life

[the-family-we-choose-118]

Why I Think Albert Doesn't Die in 4B: A Meta Post

Maybe this is me reaching or some really wishful thinking, but i don't think albert is the one who dies, though i think he does get seriously injured (explanation below the cut so hear me out lol)

Based on scenes from 3b, 4a, the 4b promos, and some interviews done after 4x08 about 4x09.

In multiple interviews (one example below ⬇), Tim has stressed that there is going to be a divide between Bobby and Athena because he feels that she's too independent and won't let him in when she has issues. 4b is being set up to build off of last season's attack at the storage unit. Athena has made peace with the attack, so it will take something (encountering the attacker, being trapped while looking for a suspect, a storage unit, or experiencing other trauma) to act as the catalyst to trigger her into needing Bobby's help but refusing to ask. Albert dying will in no way drive or affect this plot line and will only really heavily affect Chimney, Maddie, and Buck and maybe Chris and Eddie.

Tim did a different interview where he said that multiple characters will be in life or death situations ⬇

As far as we know from the promo Hen, Buck, Bobby, Athena, May, Eddie, and Chimney are working the crash and Maddie is shown at work going into labor or having false contractions. None are likely contenders for a life or death situation, which leaves the side characters. Since this involves a massive pile-up, and we already know that Albert is in one car, that leaves three others.

The scenario I see best playing out in term of writing and setting up 4b and going into season 5 is this:

Albert gets horribly injured in the crash and has a long recovery. (This plays into 4a when Taylor said Buck was selfish and has no real friends because he doesn't know how to treat a friend.) If Albert gets injured and has a long recovery, he has 2 options for care. He either moves back in with Madney (but they have their hands full with the baby) or he stays with Buck, who has had to recover from a serious injury before. By staying with Buck, he learns how to really care for a friend unselfishly (tho we're gonna ignore the Buddie friendship for a minute bc the writers did). This also gives them the opportunity to set Albert and Buck up in a friendship so Buck can have friends outside the 118.

OR Albert goes into a coma because the writers are playing with a lot of characters right now and I don't think they know what to do with Albert and how to give him enough screen time for anything meaningful to happen. This way, they can revisit his arc in the future. Also, imagine Chimney and Maddie getting ready to take their daughter home and stopping by Albert's room to introduce their baby to her Uncle Albert 😭 Putting Albert in a coma or giving him a long recovery time is something that could be revisited at the end of the season easily.

I think the 3 others in jeopardy are in one car and I think it is Michael, David, and Harry after going to dinner one night or something and I think they are at the center of the crash.

I think the person who dies is Michael or David, mainly because of this interview ⬇

First, they've brought in David, but like Albert's storyline, they can't fit him in enough for it to really be meaningful. We see them meet towards the end of season 3 and by season 4 they have quarantined together (even though David is on the front lines) and are now living together. Most of their story occurs off screen. The only reason we even saw Michael and David in most of 4a was because it was a storyline attached to Athena and Bobby. Killing off David is less characters to deal with and would affect Bobby and Athena, but not to a degree I would see it driving a wedge in their own relationship. It would affect Michael and encourage him to complete his bucket list he referenced in 4a but it wouldn't have an impact on the whole 118.

Both Bobby and Athena are really close with Michael, though I'm gonna focus on Bobby for a minute. If Michael dies suddenly, that "lighthearted and hilarious" relationship "quickly turns on a dime" and suddenly it "ends up being quite emotional" because Bobby is dealing with losing a friend. This could also dredge up those feelings of having lost his family in a fire and not being able to save them because Michael is now part of Bobby's family. Later in the season, it would be easy to revisit if Harry is mad that his step dad and dad's boyfriend weren't able to save his dad. Bobby would be dealing with his feelings of losing a friend while trying to help Athena (who doesn't want help) deal with the loss of her ex husband.

Shifting the focus to Athena, Michael dying would absolutely devastate Athena. They were married for nearly 2 decades and he is still a close friend and confidante. Losing her ex husband at the site of a crash she responded to would be traumatic. And if you compound that with her unresolved trauma from the attack, now you've got Athena trying to deal with everything on her own and not asking for help. Now Bobby gets mad/sad/distanced because Athena won't ask for help and he needs his own support from her. And maybe she is giving that support but she won't let him reciprocate it and now you have a recipe for anger and unresolved grief that begins to drive them apart.

Focusing on May for a moment, she became an operator because she wanted to make sure Athena was never alone in the field. Though I can't imagine her taking the call for Michael because he is on the line when Albert is injured, her dad dying in a crash she responded to would likely drive her out of the field and into college or another path (1 less character to have around to try to give screen time.)

Michael's death was also foreshadowed in 4a when Athena is concerned he gets the telescope and is spying on neighbors. He talks about having a bucket list that he never got to do because the pandemic forced him into isolation. He also talked about how his only concern during the cancer was preparing his kids for losing him.

Michael's plot is stagnant. He is happy and living with his boyfriend and son. He's cancer free. His whole plot is tied up in a nice bow where they could easily kill him off and the only loose threads to deal with on screen are his family members and friends grieving his loss. This would impact the 118 as a whole.

Honestly, I thought they were going to kill off Michael when he first got cancer and he decided to stop treatments but they bad May talk to him and convince him to go through with the treatments.

Now, by killing off Michael, it is 2 less stories they have to tell, and it is less they'll have to include storylines for Harry as much as they were because he was linked to Michael's storyline. And if they have May decide to leave the field to pursue other dreams or complete her dad's bucket list for him, that is 4 less storylines where they can now focus on the Madney baby, Bathena's relationship, introducing friends for Buck (they mentioned brining back Taylor), focus on ending Eddie/Ana, and establishing Albert as a character (based on a quote from the above article, I think Albert's storyline is going to parallel Buck's 1.0 to 2.0 phase ➡ "If you think about how we ended season 2, Buck being smashed by the firetruck. We knew he was going to survive... I would expect something similar here.")

Referring back to that first article, where it says "Then look for a significant source of agitation for the entire 118."

At this point, Michael would have passed and Bobby and Athena are now having marital problems AKA mom and dad are fighting.

Hen would be stuck in the middle because she is good friends with both Bobby and Athena. She is also facing her own loss of Nia being returned to her birth mom and doesn't have time for their marital problems but still tries to help. She can also pull from her experiences from the season 1 cheating storyline to tell them to communicate or it'll ruin their relationship (yes i too hate that storyline but it would work here)

Buck would likely (nonverbally) side with Bobby, but he sees them both as parental figures, so he gets stuck in the middle like a middle child who is just going with the flow. This would also parallel the Buck Begins storyline where Buck feels caught in the middle after his parents face a loss.

Chimney is raising a baby and (if this theory is right) worrying about Albert in a coma or recovering from a massive injury. He has no time for their marital problems but still lets Bobby confide in him and gives advice (maybe this is just cause i wanna see the bobby/chim friendship we used to get in s1)

Eddie sides with Bobby but he thinks the whole argument is dumb. He can also offer advice to Bobby based on his own experience, but it's going to be something about communication, at which point Bobby will start ripping his hair out because why won't she just tell me her problems and let me help?

Lastly, when have we ever known the show to go ahead and give a major spoiler of the episode 2 weeks in advance? They let us speculate about Daniel for like 8 months and imo it wasn't as big of a deal as they made it out to be. It seems more likely to me that they offered the promo to get the viewers with a twist ending when the show comes back.

Feel free to share your thoughts if you made it this far lol

TL;DR Based on the interviews Tim has done, Albert dying would have little impact on the 118 as a whole, but Michael dying would offer exactly what they need to set up season 5 and finish 4b.

[noweakergirl]

Jily as Taylor Swift songs

Paper Rings

“Cat and mouse for a month or two or three Now I wake up in the night and watch you breathe”

“I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this”

“Honey, without all the exes, fights, and flaws We wouldn't be standing here so tall“

Yep. Gotta start with my Jily anthem.

Cruel Summer

“Fever dream high in the quiet of the night You know that I caught it”

“I'm always waiting for you to be waiting below Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes”

“And I screamed for whatever it's worth "I love you," ain't that the worst thing you ever heard? He looks up grinning like a devil”

You just KNOW this is Lily trying to fight off her feelings and being like “no no no there is no way this is happening” *face slap* but ohhh girl it IS happening

Gorgeous

“You should take it as a compliment That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk You should think about the consequence Of your magnetic field being a little too strong”

“And I'm so furious At you for making me feel this way”

“You are so gorgeous it makes me so mad”

Continuing in cruel-summer style. Just Lily debating with herself at 3 a.m.

gold rush

“Eyes like sinking ships On waters so inviting I almost jump in”

“I don't like a gold rush I don't like anticipating my face in a red flush I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch Everybody wants you Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you”

“At dinner parties I call you out on your contrarian shit”

“Everybody wants you But I don't like a gold rush”

OR, that’s what she said

Sparks Fly

“The way you move is like a full on rainstorm And I'm a house of cards You're the kind of reckless that should send me running But I kinda know that I won't get far”

“And you stood there in front of me just Close enough to touch Close enough to hope you couldn't see What I was thinking of”

“I run my fingers through your hair And watch the lights go wild”

“I see sparks fly whenever you smile”

*sniffs* my baby is in love (and lowkey finally moving out from first stage denial)

Fearless

“I wonder if you know I'm trying so hard not to get caught up now But you're just so cool Run your hands through your hair Absent mindedly makin' me want you”

“You take my hand and drag me head first fearless And I don't know why but with you I'd dance in a storm In my best dress Fearless”

Is now every hair-touching song about James? Well obviously, I don’t make the rules.

Treacherous

“And I'd be smart to walk away But you're quicksand”

“Your name has echoed through my mind And I just think you should know That nothing safe is worth the drive And I would follow you, follow you home”

“This hope is treacherous This daydream is dangerous This hope is treacherous”

It’s just, everytime I hear this song I think of the first love in general. How scary, how hopeful, how dreamy and strong it is. How vulnerable. But it is still a risk willing to take.

willow

“And if it was an open-shut case I never would've known from that look on your face”

“Wherever you stray I follow I'm begging for you to take my hand Wreck my plans That's my man”

“Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in As if you were a mythical thing Like you were a trophy or a champion ring”

“Now this is an open-shut case Guess I should've known from the look on your face Every bait and switch was a work of art”

I once made a post about willow being Jily song so I won’t talk much about it here, but I mean COME ON

Daylight

“Threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it's morning now It's brighter now”

“I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you”

“You gotta step into the daylight and let it go”

This reminds me so much of Jily becoming friends, “throwing their daggers” and “letting it go” because they don’t want to fight anymore and they see each other for who they are. First friends, then lovers.

You are in love

“Light-hearted joke No proof, not much But you saw enough”

“And your shoulders brush No proof, one touch But you felt enough”

“One night he wakes Strange look on his face Pauses, then says You're my best friend And you knew what it was He is in love”

*inhales* I love them a normal amount

It’s Nice To Have a Friend

“Church bells ring, carry me home Rice on the ground looks like snow Call my bluff, call you "babe" Have my back, everyday Feels like home, stay in bed The whole weekend

It's nice to have a friend”

There’s something soft and calming about this song. And yes, it’s Jily.

Lover

“And this is our place, we make the rules And there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

“Can I go where you go? Can we always be this close forever and ever?”

“We could let our friends crash in the living room”

“I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover”

Lover is just classic. This is now already married Jily living in their cozy little home (with small hint of upcoming darkness in the second quote but we don’t talk about that)

peace

“I never had the courage of my convictions As long as danger is near And it's just around the corner, darling”

“All these people think love's for show But I would die for you in secret The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?”

“And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences Sit with you in the trenches Give you my wild, give you a child Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother”

“But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the west I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me”

“Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?”

Ending this post with my favorite song on folklore and one of my ultimate Jily songs. Everything about this is James and Lily Potter. “Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?” They were soulmates, their love saved the world (quite literally, if I may add). But being part of a wizarding war and hunted down by one of the most powerful wizards of all times don’t make things easy. Even in those challening times when they realized that they could never give each other peace because of the prophecy, it didn’t matter. For he was James, and she was Lily, and their love was brighter than anything.

[kiara-carrera]

not a question, but this is a free ticket to talk about cher

under the cut because i rambled <3

soft soft soft

ignore the following bad attempt at one of those aesthetic descriptions

cher is just like chapstick kisses, layered necklaces and multiple rings, tiffany's jewelry, homecoming queen, girl next door, 2000s y2k inspired fashion, the she's a full on monet quote from clueless, a mashup of cher and tai from clueless, helen shivers from ikwydls pageant queen vibes, typical cheerleader from 2000s movies but like...not as bitchy, sweet with a mean streak, 16 years old and completely bored of her life (sarah bubblewrap cameron vibes tbh), a little bit of betty a little bit of veronica none of the riverdale murder musical maple mothman nonsense, butterfly hair clips, bright colored scrunchies, milkshakes after football games

my little romantic heart eyed baby

big bubbly handwriting, probably dots her i’s with little hearts

kinda sorta want to make her into art or photography but idk yet

loves cheerleading, loves dragging her friends to games

(kiara would always make a big deal about how she didn't want to go and that cher was forcing her but in reality kiara lived for friday night football games when cher was cheering)

kie not really liking any of sarah and cher's friends and always preferring when it was just the three of them (she'd never tell a soul how she really truly preferred when it was just her and cher)

most of my chase content comes from genera+ion but cher doesn't have the white streaks that chase does on the show

cher sorta being the exception to sarah’s whole “people get close i push them away” thing

idk wtf topper's mom does for a living, but considering they called her doctor thornton, @s-s-southsideserpentine was like she's prob a therapist or psychologist or something like that so

cher leaving anonymous bad reviews online for her aunt's practice etc anytime she mildly inconveniences her

the holdens are wholesome, the thorntons can choke

honest to god, sarah was probably the only one in their friend group picking up on the vibes between cher and kie, the other nameless kook girls i have to make up are just like,,,oblivious

love love loves mainstream radio pop music

kiara made her a playlist of old marley songs and other music that she vibes with to expose cher to things outside of her little music bubble

both of them having a bracelet from the other during their friendship and secretly still wearing it after the fact

anytime the boys see kie and cher interact before they reconcile it's just the three of them being like "...that interaction was super fucking weird right?"

midsummers is just the two of them secretly being heart eyes over the other while also being mad that they're being heart eyes because it's like hey!!! no!!! we're mad at them!!!

kinda sorta exes kinda sorta the vibes of having an intense friendship with another girl and being completely and utterly wrecked and heartbroken when it ends and not understanding why

literally i am prepared to serve the storyline that sarah and kie should have had there was nothing platonic about the whole "you liked me" conversation i'm sorry there just wasn't

miscommunication trope jealousy trope bitter sorta ex gf trope

cher in her little green convertible vw bug daydreaming about running john b over because he looked a little too close with kie that one time

her dad's a lawyer, she knows the law baby

cher's parents not fully understanding why she isn't friends with kie anymore because yeah what teenager fully explains shit but anyways cher's mom is a lil sad because she loved kie

alternatively, kie's parents miss cher because they thought she was a good influence (she was not, but she knows how to please parents)

cherry by fletcher, supercut by lorde, curious by hayley kiyoko, strangers by halsey

the sour album but specifically drivers license

(does cher drive past kie’s house sometimes??????? mayhaps)

kie and cher having tons of pictures together before the demise of their relationship

cher clips her pictures on her fairy lights and there’s just a lot of glaringly empty spots now

cher and kie both having a whole bunch of the other’s stuff at their house that they shove into their closets

makes sure to convince her hotshot lawyer dad not to represent ward cameron because he's the absolute worst

wishes she had a camera to forever capture the look on ward cameron's face when her dad tells him to fuck off (they weren't besties or anything but there was def a level of friendship and cher's dad just immediately cuts him loose because he trusts his daughter and we love that)

sarah making sure john b texts cher that they're alive too and cher's gonna have to live that moment alone lololololol cue the dramatic facetime to kie jj and pope

cher needs better friends, the pogues will be her better friends

cher cutting off her kook friend group after the john b/sarah death thing because she has had it with the false narratives

the camerons purposefully banning cher from whatever little funeral/memorial thing they do for sarah is like a fucking knife to the chest

[jungledubs-archive]

so i stuck will, luka, and grieson in an incorrect quotes generator...

Grieson: In my defense, I was left unsupervised. Luka: Wasn't Will with you? Will: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised. 

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Grieson, driving Luka and Will: So how was your day? Luka: We almost got surprise adopted! Grieson: What? Will: We almost got kidnapped. Grieson: Oh, okay.

Grieson: *slams on the breaks* WAIT WHAT?!

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Grieson: We need a distraction. Luka: Is anyone here good at jumping up and down and making weird noises?

Will, whispering: My time has come

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Grieson: Luka, what do IDK, LY, and TTYL mean? Luka: I don’t know, love you, talk to you later

Grieson: Ok, I love you too, I’ll just ask Will.

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Grieson: Let me show you a picture from last night that really upset me Luka: Okay, but in my defense, Will bet me 50 cents I couldn’t drink all that shampoo. Grieson: That’s not what I wanted to- you drank SHAMPOO?! 

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Grieson: Who thinks I can fit 15 marshmallows in my mouth? Luka: You’re a hazard to society Will: And a coward. DO TWENTY. 

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Grieson: What's a word thats a mix between 'sad' and 'mad'? Luka: Disgruntled, miserable, desolated- Will: Smad. 

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Grieson: Sometimes I drink milk straight out of the container. Luka: The cow??? Grieson: What? Will: Luka, W H Y? 

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Luka, trying to ask Grieson out: Would you like to stay for dinner? Will: WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?

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Will: If you had to choose between Luka and all the money I have in my wallet, which would you choose? Grieson: That depends, how much money are we taking about? Luka: Grieson! Will: 63 cents. Grieson: I'll take the money. Luka: GRIESON!!! 

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Will: Would you stab your best friend in the leg for 10 million gold? Luka: You stab me, and then when my leg gets better, we buy a big-ass house. Grieson: You can stab me too, then we'll have 20 million. Luka: Good thinking. 

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Will: What did you do with Grieson's body? Luka: What didn’t I do with the body? Will: Luka: Okay, that sounded more sexual than I intended. I disposed of the corpse respectfully. 

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Will: So, what, now I’m just supposed to do anything that Luka does? I mean, what if they jumped off a cliff? Grieson: If Luka were to jump off a cliff, they would’ve done their due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry, so yes. If you see Luka jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff. Will: You jump off a cliff! Grieson: Gladly. Provided Luka did first. 

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Will: If I accidentally sat on a voodoo doll of myself, would I be trapped forever in that position, doomed to starve to death? Luka: How am I supposed to know? Grieson: You say, as if we don’t use you as a source of knowledge of the occult. Luka: *sighs* Luka: You wouldn't be trapped. 

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Grieson: Luka, keep an eye on Will today. They're going to say something to the wrong person and get punched. Luka: Sure, I’d love to see Will get punched. Grieson: Try again. Luka, sighing: I will stop Will from getting punched. 

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Grieson: Hey Luka, Luka: Yes? Grieson: Can a person breathe inside a washing machine while it’s on? Luka: Luka: Where’s Will?

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Grieson: Here’s a fun Christmas idea. We hang mistletoe, but instead of kissing, you have to FIGHT whoever else is under it. Luka: Grieson no. Will: Mistlefoe. Luka: Please stop encouraging them. 

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Grieson: Luka and I were crossing the street, and this dude drove by and honked at us Will: *Sighing* What did Luka do? Grieson: They chased him to the next red light, then reached into his window and... Luka: Who wants a steering wheel? 

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Grieson: Fitness tip: never stop pushing yourself. Some say 8 hours of sleep is enough. Why not keep going? Why not 9? Why not 10? Strive for greatness. Luka: Next time you’re working out do 15 push ups instead of 10. Run 3 miles instead of 2. Eat a whole cake instead of just a slice. Burn your ex’s house down. You can do it. I believe in you. Will: There were so many mixed messages in that I can’t-

[buckthegrump]

Wait, What?

The Himbo Chronicles

Summary: Someone has a date.

Word Count: 1569

Warnings: angst, a little bit of fluff maybe, minor stalking

A/n: here ya go

Bucky knocked on Y/n’s door, she barely got the words ‘come in’ out before he walked in.

“Ok, so for dinner tonight I’m thinking we go to dim sum,” he plopped himself on her bed.

“Uhhh -” her voice came from her bathroom.

“What?”

“I actually have a date tonight.”

Bucky froze and stared at the slightly ajar bathroom door. His brain short-circuited for a moment before it rebooted.

“Wait, what?” He asked, sounding maybe a little too shocked.

She walked out of her bathroom looking like hell on wheels, and he lost the ability to make coherent thoughts. Again. 

“I didn’t know you were seeing anyone,” he finally choked out.

“I mean, this is only date two,” she shrugged as she slipped on her shoes.

“Oh,” he couldn’t stop the disappointment from entering his voice, “Well, be safe.”

“I always am,” she said and walked out of her room leaving Bucky alone with his thoughts.

After about thirty seconds of that bullshit, he left the room.

* * *

Y/n had only been sitting across from Tyler for two minutes before she realized that this guy was batshit crazy. There was an energy to him on this date that hadn’t been there the last time they’d gone out.

It’s like he was waving his red flags around for everyone to see, proud of just how fucked up he was.

A few different scenarios ran through her head, if she did what she really wanted to do and make a break for it, he would definitely stalk her. She could excuse herself to the bathroom but he would notice her take her purse, damn women’s clothing and it’s lack of pockets. Or she could just wait until the end of the night, pay for her own meal and then ghost him.

He began talking about how all his exes were crazy and how someday they would get what was coming to them. 

By that time they had been on the date for forty-five minutes and he hadn’t asked her a single question. She hadn’t even been able to get more than five words in. He was being rude to the waitstaff and honestly, she just wanted this all to be over. 

Thankfully their server brought over the check quickly. However, it was a single check and the guy took care of it before she had a chance to offer to split it. Something told her that he was going to bring that up later to try and guilt her for owing him something.

They were standing outside the restaurant, he wasn’t even trying to be subtle about wanting to continue the night.

“Well, thank you for dinner,” she nodded at him ready to make her escape.

“Wait,” he said, and despite her brain yelling at her to just walk away, she stopped and turned back to him, “you don’t want to take this back to my place?”

“Oh, sorry,” she wanted to punch herself for apologizing, “I have an early morning tomorrow and should probably getting home.”

“C’mon,” Tyler stepped towards her, “I promise that we’ll have a lot of fun.”

“I really should go,” she said. This time she didn’t wait for a reply as she walked away.

* * *

Her night seemed to be one giant idiot plot that didn’t seem like it planned on stopping. Why had she decided to try and be a decent person by taking the subway to the date instead of a car?

She knew Tyler was following her. It was one of the skills she’d picked up from being an avenger, being able to tell when she was being followed. Not to mention he was doing a terrible job.

But recognizing the problem and dealing with it were two very different issues. She hadn’t felt the need to mention to anyone at the tower that she wasn’t the best fighter. She spent most of the time on the jet or in a hotel room, when would her fighting ability have come up?

So now her only option was to try and shake him and she could do that very well in the subway. Which is how she ended up walking around the streets of New York taking random turns not really paying attention to where she was going.

With no real idea of how long it should take her to shake a tail, she had been walking for an extra thirty minutes before she finally decided to text Bucky.

She didn’t give him any real context, just a corner to meet her at in fifteen minutes and hoped that he would show up. There wasn’t really a doubt in her mind that he would show up, he always did.

The fifteen-minute walk to the street corner she’d text Bucky was the longest of her life. 

She was about a block away from where she told Bucky to meet her when he came up beside her.

“What’s up?” He asked.

Instead of answering, she quickly glanced behind them before looking straight ahead again. They made it to the end of the block before Bucky asked again.

“The guy I went on a date with, he’s following me,” she said. She hadn’t let go of his hand realized but he hadn’t given any hint that he wanted it back, and it was making her feel safer than she had a few minutes ago.

“So turn around and kick his ass,” he said sneaking a peek behind them.

“He’s bigger than I am and I -” she cut herself off.

Bucky cleared his throat. “You haven’t learned any self-defense?”

Her silence was, clearly, answer enough for him.

“Jesus, do you want me to die from a heart attack?” He asked.

“Says the person who bought not one but two farm animals and also a farm,” she muttered.

“You’re being stalked and you’re making jokes?”

“Humor is how I deal with shit, Barnes.”

He huffed and pulled her into an alley. He had her stand against the wall of one of the buildings and stood next to her. They were hiding behind a dumpster, not a minute later Tyler stepped into the dimly lit backstreet.

“That’s him,” she whispered to Bucky.

“Y/n, who’s your friend?” Tyler called knowing that they were there.

Bucky rolled his eyes and stepped out of the shadows so Tyler could see him. Tyler opened his mouth, probably to say something stupid, but Bucky’s fist collided with his jaw before he got the chance.

Tyler stumbled to the ground, honestly, Y/n was surprised that he hadn’t been knocked out by the blow. Bucky grabbed Tyler by his collar and lifted him half off the ground so their faces were inches apart.

She walked up behind Bucky just to make sure that no one got murdered.

“You’re going to leave her alone, you go that?” Bucky snarled and Tyler nodded his head pathetically. “And if I ever hear that you are harassing anyone else I won’t be as forgiving as I was this time. Do I make myself clear?”

Tyler nodded again. 

Not wanting to stick around, BUcky grabbed Y/n’s hand and led her back to the street. They walked a block or two before he next to one of Tony’s cars. He opened the door for her wordlessly.

“I’m surprised that you didn’t use a helicopter or something,” she muttered as she climbed in the passenger side. Once he was seated he looked over at her.

“I was already in the area,” was all he said before he started driving.

She had about a million questions but he didn’t seem to be in the mood to answer them so she stayed quiet.

He drove through the city, the ambiance of the life that carried on around them was the only thing that kept them from being in complete silence.

It wasn’t until they were on a country road when she spoke again.

“Are you mad at me?” She asked.

Bucky scoffed and shook his head. “Why would I be mad at you?”

“You’re very quiet.”

“Well, not to sound like Edward Cullen but it’s taking a lot of brainpower to not turn around and kill that guy.”

She gave him a look. “You’ve seen twilight? Enough times to quote it?”

“Excuse you?” He gasped. “You say that like you don’t make me watch it with you every time you decide that you’re going to get wine drunk and watch it. I could’ve gone my whole life without watching that fucking movie.”

“Please, you enjoy it!” She yelled with a smile on her face.

“If I enjoyed it that much, I would’ve gone out of my way to watch the other ones,” he rolled his eyes.

“I haven’t made you watch the other ones?” He shook his head and her smile got wider. “Well, I know what we’re doing tonight.”

“If anything, I’m teaching you how to defend yourself.”

“Hmm, no I’m pretty sure we’re watching the other four movies of the twilight saga,” she said in a higher-pitched voice.

“The fuck you mean ‘other four movies’?” 

“Besides, why would I need to learn to defend myself if you’re here to save me?” She asked. She couldn’t tell if she meant it as a joke or not. But she wasn’t about to dwell on that so she moved on. “Where were you tonight?”

Bucky smirked still staring out the windshield. “Just running some errands.”

[argylemnwrites]

Thanks for the tag @axwalker! Sorry it took me days to get around to answering!

Music

Favorite Genre: pop, soft blues-rock

Fav artists: Eric Hutchinson, Lady Gaga, Ella Henderson, James Morrison, Elle King, Chris Stapleton

Fav song: Really depends on my mood, but “Food Chain” by Eric Hutchinson is consistently up there

Most Listened to Song: This is very dependent on my writing and overall mood, but currently, both “Uphill Battle” by Rozzi and “To Hell and Back” by Maren Morris from my Riley Liu playlist have been playing on repeat a lot

Five fav lyrics: These are going to be from musicals, because the word play in musicals is just damn memorable

“Is there an IUD/That can stop the image of you and me?” - “Oh My God I Think I Like You” from Crazy Ex Girlfriend (Season 1)

“Maybe she’s what you prefer/But hey, last year I was her/Maybe you will change your mind/But you might look up to find/I’ve moved on to better things/Better jobs or bigger rings/I don’t have the time to cry/I’m too busy loving my name up on that list/Kind of a cool, ironic twist” - “So Much Better” from Legally Blonde The Musical

“So I ain’t gonna fuss/I ain’t gonna frown/Have your fun/Go out on the town/Stay out late and don’t come home ‘til three/And go right off to sleep if you’re sleepy/There’s no use waitin’ up for me” - “All ‘Er Nothing” from Oklahoma!

“I have no problem being picked out from the bottom/If he’s your broken condom, I’m Plan B/So lower your expectations and settle for me” - “Settle for Me” from Crazy Ex Girlfriend  (Season 1)

“You and your words, obsessed with your legacy/Your sentences border on senseless/And you are paranoid in every paragraph/Of how they perceive you/You, you, you” - “Burn” from Hamilton

Radio or your own playlists? Radio while driving, own playlists at home

Solo artist or band? Solo artist

Pop or indie? Pop

Loud or soft volume? Soft, usually

Slow or fast songs? Both

Music videos or lyric videos? Both

Speakers or headset? Speakers

Riding a bus in silence or listening to music? I haven’t ridden a bus in about a decade

Driving in silence or with music? Music or podcasts

BOOKS

Fav Genre: General fiction, mystery, dystopian

Fav Writers: Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Jhupma Lahiri

Fav Books: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 1984 by George Orwell

Fav book series: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Comfort book: Pride and Prejudice

Fav characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Ron Weasley, Gilbert Blythe, Jo March

Five quotes from your favorite books you know by heart: Pretty sure the only book I can quote by heart is Pride and Prejudice, hahaha

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”

“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day, you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

“If I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did.”

“It will be of no use to us if twenty such should come since you will not visit them.” “Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are twenty, I will visit them all.”

Hard cover or paperback? Both

Buy or rent? Buy

Standalones or series? Standalone

Ebooks or physical copies? Physical copies

Reading at night or during the day? Both

Reading at home or in nature? Both

Listening to music while reading or reading in silence? Music most of the time

Reading in order or read the ending first? In order!

Reliable or unreliable narrator? Most of the time reliable, but I do enjoy things getting mixed up with an unreliable one sometimes

Realism or Fantasy? Realism

One or multiple POVs? Both

Judge the cover or summary? Summary

Rereading or reading just once? Rereading

TV AND MOVIES

Fav genre? Drama, dramedy, comedy

Fav movie?  This is like asking a parent to pick a favorite child, but Mad Max Fury Road is near perfect, so if I have to pick just one, this is it.

Comfort movie? Mean Girls, Clueless, Hot Fuzz

Movies you watch every year? It’s A Wonderful Life and White Christmas

Comfort TV show? Parks and Rec, Frasier, Gilmore Girls

Most Rewatched TV show? The Office (US), Parks and Rec

5 Favorite characters? Diane Lockhart, Janet, Ron Swanson, Joan Holloway/Harris, Emily Gilmore

Tv show or movie? Movie

Short seasons Depends on the show

One episode a week or binge? Binge

One season or multiple seasons?  Multiple

One part or Saga? One part

Half hour or hour long episodes? Depends on the show

Subtitles on or off? Off

Download or watch online? Watch online

Since I’m horribly late with this response, not going to tag anyone specific.

[aloera]

The ask prompt is too long to fit into an ask TT_TT but here's the doc for it docs(.)google(.)com/document/d/1yDI7iFRhOJ8ENv_IwZAo3rDSUqj80EiJROS10RzRbj4/edit

the lengths u are going for this,,, much appreciated you're very sweet!!!

prompts + answers under the cut!!

INTRODUCTION

Name: aloera

AO3 account: aloera

Fandoms you write for: bnha

How many stories have you written so far: 19

FANFICTION PROFILE

What's your favorite fandom to write for? hmm,,, used to do pjo and eah (ever after high) and eah was fun as fuck i will say!!! i think bnha is my fav mostly bc i made the most friends in this fandom :D

What's your favorite character/person to write for? bkg and kirishima!! cannot choose do not make me <3

Fic you'd want to improve? probably what we deserve? i rushed the beginning and the confession is a bit stilted imo

Hardest fic you've written? between lion and men -_- bc there is so much canon compliant stuff i've gotta write out before i get to the divergence and its HARD

Easiest fic you've written? come home to me!!! it happened so easily,,, no second guessing no writers block just vibes <33 was lovely i miss it

What would you say is the most "famous" fic you've ever written? also probably come home to me? its got the most interaction

first line of the first fic you've ever written and published. [not including my 2014 ffnet fics] "The bell rings, class starts, and Katsuki and Midoriya are inexplicably absent." from come home to me

Have you ever done a collab with another writer? yes!!!!! on two separate occasions and its so fucking fun i highly recommend trying it out its the best

Do you beta? if asked but honestly im a shit beta lmao

Do you like joining fic fests/exchanges? depends on what i have going on irl but in general yeah!!

FANFICTION PREFERENCES

Fluff or angst? definitely fluff

"OCs" or "Reader" inserts? reader inserts!! have been going ham on them recently

Blurbs or drabbles? blurbs!!

One thing you love about fanfiction i just. i really love slice of life romance?? and most media doesn't give you that bc its dedicated to plot and action and that's valid!! but fanfiction fills in the gap which is really nice

One thing you don't like about fanfiction most of the stuff i don't like is less about actual fanfiction and more about how people behave about it

What is/are your favorite fandom author/authors? IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! TURN IT UP!!!

bnha: hiuythn, rae_tnub, Moniix, Ata_Lanta, wrunic, chezka, PurplePersnickety, surveycorpsejean, mahadevi, arxaris, deviance, Oceanbreeze7, MikeWritesThings, bonnia, wonhaebunny, dinosuns

voltron: hiuythn, Oceanbreeze7, DeerstalkerDeathFrisbee, arahir, dinosuns,

and honorable mention to loveclouds im not even in the haikyuu fandom i just love their fics So Much

these are just the ones off the top of my head i have so many favourites idc if i'm only supposed 2 have one!! die mad about it!!!

What is your favorite trope? secret relationship + relationship reveal til the day i die babie <3 <3

Least favorite trope? hm,,, probably just like. angst lmao i cannot stand 90% of it

A fanfiction cliché that you can't help but love? coffeeshop aus,,,, so good

Do you have a type when it comes to pairings? the otp where its like. piece of shit + himbo = love. ex. krbk, catradora, jade/beck

Favorite setting/au? hm,,, truly i cannot pick one KGKSJNHKj but i really like college aus!! and modern aus!! and roommate aus!!

Explain the meaning of your favorite line of dialogue you've written as if someone hasn't read it in context. “He doesn’t know,” Katsuki says, softly. “My timer stopped and nothing happened. He’s not mine.”

the line is from what we deserve!! it's a soulmate au where your timer counts down to the moment that you meet your soulmate!! bakugou's timer ends at USJ when he and kirishima attack kurogiri at the same time (impulsive kings <33) but kirishima's timer doesn't end until kamino because that's when he accepts himself as bakugous soulmate!! unfortunately, when bakugous timer has reached 0, he turned to see that kirishima's was still ticking and therefore believes that kirishima isn't his soulmate.

this line just,, idk. it's really sad. bakugou is such an action-driven character? if something doesn't go his way he Makes it go his way. he's got this insanely volatile quirk and he's got impeccable control of it!! but his love for kirishima isn't something that he can change and he's not going to ruin kirishima's chance of finding his own soulmate because he loves him and wants him to be happy. i really wanted to focus on how resigned he is? and how unusual that is for a character like him.

Favorite trope/genre to write? again, secret relationship with relationship reveals <33 fluff in general is my wheelhouse!!!

A trope/genre you haven't written but think would be a fun challenge? idk if this counts?? have been working on some dead dove concepts!! its super different from what i normally write so its a cool challenge

The one trope/concept you'll never touch and why probably cheating/infidelity?? it just looks,,, super difficult to write well and i don't have enough of an interest in it to try it out

Which do you prefer to write: longer or shorter fics? shorter!! low attention span gang <3

Ideal length to read? 5-10k?

Ideal length to write? 4-8k!!

How long was the longest fic you've ever written? control fraek is around 28k i think?

Have you ever written an AU? yeah!! i've done restaurant au's, soulmate au's, pro hero aus, and fantasy aus (general, not the bnha fantasy ending)

What's your favorite AU trope? hm,, probably when two people in authority are in a secret relationship? ceo's/uni professors/etc etc

Have you ever written smut? yeah!! was. difficult tho

What's your comfort genre? (the one you fall on most in writing/reading) fluff,,, hurt/comfort,,, fix-it fics with happy endings <3

If you were to start writing in other fandoms, which would they be? maybe jjk?? the characters are really cool!!!! fr i might go back to my ever after high roots i love the characters and setting so Much its so fun!!! idec if no ones into it anymore!!!!!

Is there a trope you think you could be easily recognized by in your writing? i've had people say they saw the mention of buff hagakure and recognized it was me so. probably that skdjhnksjd

WRITING STYLE

How would you describe your style? i tend to use shorter sentences and pretty simple words i think? and i gravitate towards lighthearted concepts that allow for ensemble casts and humour!!

Describe your style in three words romcom but fanfic

Favorite words to use when writing? the word reverent!! fuckin love including it!!

Dialogue tags or no dialogue tags? (she said, he said, they said, etc) dialogue tags!!!

Favorite dialogue tag (other than said, if you use them) again idk if this counts but "they said softly" is unmatched

Long sentences vs short vs a mix short <33

What colors would you use to describe your writing? hm,,, depends on the fic i would say?? control fraek is dark green to me?? kinda like a forest at night yk?? scary but there's still life there. sugar cookies is yellow like early morning sunlight, when it rains is yellowy-orange like a caution sign. not gonna list all of them cause theres a lot its just. do u get it? the colours change based on the vibe of the fic.

What song or music genre would you use to describe your writing? think. i am constantly trying to emulate that moment at the end of wasteland baby when hozier goes "im in love/im in love with you."

What kind of metaphors do you rely on? religious metaphors my beloved <33 they're just so pretty!!! i also love comparing stuff to water for some reason?? like that ocean vuong quote thats like "what are you now?/water." it goes hard!!!

What's something you'd say is experimental in your writing at this time? definitely action!! i have,,, no idea how to write it so anything i do is really just me playing around and seeing what works and what doesn't

Do you prefer to write by hand or to type? i've tried both!! personally i prefer typing because it goes way faster but i will say that writing by hand lets me get words down when i'm going through writer's block

What is your preferred place to write (notebook, laptop, cellphone, etc.)? laptop!!

What app/apps do you use to write (word, notepad, etc.)? google docs skjdnkjh its fine on desktop but mobile is,,,,, disgusting

Do you keep a notebook or file/notes page in your phone/device for notes on your writing? ngl i just have everything organized in my drive?? one folder per fandom and then sub folders for ideas+hcs, unfinished wips, and finished fics. multichaps get sub sub folders so i can organize outlines and drafts

Do you listen to music to help you write? yeah!! playlists organized by fic vibe :D

Where do you usually go to write (bedroom, living room, etc.)? mostly in my bedroom??? but moving around to different stops helps too i think!!

How long does it usually take for you to write? again this depends on what i have going on irl, how attached i am to the idea, my mindset at the time, etc!! i am,, the least consistent person skjnhdkjh.

What's your favorite font to use when writing? times new roman my beloved

Other writing habits? sometimes i'll write in the dark?? bad for my eyes but for some reason it gets the words flowing

CONCEPTUALIZATION

How do you conceptualize your ideas? (See specific moments like they're a movie, writing specific lines in your head, don't know until you put the words on paper, etc.) i tend to get inspiration from movies, books, poems, or other fics!!! sometimes one line just makes me go oh,, i want to write something like that,,, and then it helps me create an idea that makes me feel the same way?? i did this with control fraek!!!! i wanted a scenario where bakugou was cold and calculating and i was like hm. to do that he’d have to be focusing on something important. and from there i was able to flesh out the rest of the idea.

Which comes first: the pairing or the plot? with krbk its always always the pairing,, i'll be sitting there like wow <33 i love them <33 what if one of them had amnesia <33 (which, yes, wip!!) otherwise it's usually the plot!! and i slot in characters that i feel make sense

Have you ever used a prompt? yeah!! used a prompt for wlw week 2020 and it was fun as hell

Do you write around the story around a specific scene you want to get to or do you start from a plot idea definitely the first!!!! i almost always write like,,, a super messy scene thats 90% dialogue, keep it in my head, and then write the entire fic around that one moment

Do you find that you include a projection of some part of yourself in the way you write a character? a lot of the time when i write love confessions or love in general i'll have one of the characters think or say that the other person makes their head quiet? and it's because that's what i feel whenever i'm in love?? a quiet mind. i project on characters yeah but i think most of the projection actually goes to the way that i write love

Do you research some of the things you write deeply, partially and kind of wing the rest, or play entirely by ear (in this case, go with whatever base knowledge of the subject you have)? most of the time if i do research it'll be about the setting (ex. the izakaya in to have and to hold) or if i'm having the characters interact with an object that they like. need to know how to use (me, in control fraek: google. hey google. does someone die if they get shot in the foot??? no???? awesome thank u <3)

Have you ever had an idea for a story and forgot about it? lmaoo yeah all the time i'll find like 500-2k words of concepts in my gdocs like i do. not remember this at all

Is there a trope you think you could be easily recognized by in your writing? probably krbk secret relationship lmao

Are there concepts you've tried that turned out better than expected? yeah!! i fully thought the action in control fraek would be awful but it turned out not bad??? which im happy with

Are there concepts you've tried that turned out worse than you expected? again, what we deserve, i personally think it would have worked out better if i'd paced it slower and drawn out the pining but i. do not feel like going back to fix it so its staying the way that it is. pining is so fucking hard to do AHHHH i get so tired with it!!! im like just date already!!!!

PROCESS

How do you come up with titles? in rare occasions (literally. all my multichaps for some reason) the title comes after writing like .5 words of the first chapter im like YES this is it!!!!! sometimes i write the whole thing and pick out one line that fits (what i did with come home to me) a lot of the time i just. steal from songs or poems that i like

What's your favorite emotion to cause on your readers? i like making people happy!!!! love when people comment saying they're cheered up

What's your favorite emotion to write? lovelovelovelovelovelove

Have you ever cried or felt any emotion while reading something you've written? never cried?? but sometimes i'll rereading my hurt/comfort fics 4. yk. comfort

Do you write in order or whatever comes to you? in order!! unless i have a scene that i Need to write and i'll quickly jot it down so that i don't forget

Usual way you procrastinate while writing? ...doing asks like this, making playlists, discord, watching netflix. what don't i do smh

Do you outline or free write? i am. so shit at outlines. i mostly free write and write lil notes for stuff that i wanna add later

Do you set word goals or scene goals (scenes you want to include)? yes!! like i said i'll write loose notes for scenes that i want to add later!! it gives me something to write towards :D

What do you consider when writing your scenes? what goes into making the atmosphere and mood you want? to set a scene i do two things? the first is like,, the five senses bc that always sets the scene really well and makes it feel Real. i'll visualize stuff in my head like its a movie and write out what i would want to tell the set designer?? if the lights are low, if the space is busy, if it's supposed to exude comfort or not.

for putting forward the character's mood one thing i've found that makes a difference is sentence length!! long sentences are good for making a character seem flustered and nervous or not really in control of their emotions? good for love confessions. short sentences are good for when the character is focused on something or short on time. good for fights!!

What's something you never considered to include in your writing that you can't leave out now? def buff hagakure,,,, once i thought of it i was like. if i don't include this at least once in every single fic how could i look at myself in the mirror!!!!!! how could i face anyone!!!!

How do you start a story? establishing a fact about the character or describing the setting! option a is one single thread of gold, option b is between lion and men

How do you end a story? either by tying it back to the beginning or doing like a funny kind of closing??? option a is sugar cookies, option b is a godless society

How do you get out of writer's block? change something!! move something!! i go from typing to handwriting, moving from my bedroom to my living room, switching wips to work on something else!! i do sprints as well?? give myself like fifteen minutes to write something and sometimes 200 words opens up the way for another 2k. sometimes i'll just delete like 500 words and start fresh

Do you edit? or do you toss your writing out there? i edit!!! i'll go over it myself then send it to one or two betas (bee my beloved <33)

How do you edit? do you use spellcheck, grammar checkers, etc? bee is my grammar checker bc he is So Good with grammar. i use grammarly as well for spellcheck stuff mostly?? sometimes my edit process is just like "am i tired of looking at this!! yes <3" and then i post it

PROGRESS

Do you usually like what you write? yeah!!! i post stuff that makes me happy and that i'm fine with rereading!!! i write stuff for self-indulgence reasons first and foremost and i think my writing reflects that sjhnksj

Have you ever written something you didn't like but posted anyways? nope!! even what we deserve i LIKED even if i see a lot of room 4 improvement!! if i don't like smth it's not getting posted

Do you find yourself rereading your writing often? yeah!! the reason i wrote so much krbk secret relationship is because i loved it but i'd read all that there was so i just,, wrote more,, ngl its kinda nice being in a place where i actually like my writing bc i can write stuff that i want to see and really enjoy it!!

Can you tell us anything about your current WIP? sure!! i'm currently working on when it rains which is a fic where bakugou gets hit by a crying quirk!! i'm gonna be using it to explore So Much of all might's character and his relationships with bakugou and aizawa (and i think some people from his past!!)

Can you give us a sneak peek on your current WIP? “You did something. What the hell did you do?” Kirishima sounds pissed off. It would amuse Katsuki if he wasn’t fighting just to stay standing.

“Nothing he didn’t ask for,” Shinsou replies.

“K’ri… shima,” Katsuki croaks out. “‘S fine. Not him.”

His chest collapses back into the familiar dry heaving after that but Kirishima shuts up. He doesn’t apologize to Shinsou.

Kirishima’s a good friend, stubborn and loyal. He stands by Katsuki’s side like an attack dog, blocking him from the view of anyone ogling at his tears.

The last line you've written Ochako knows more than she'd realized. She knows enough to keep her guard up.

It’s not enough.

Open a wip. what’s the first line?

Katsuki wakes up feeling like absolute fucking shit.

INSIGHT

What's your favorite thing about writing? touched on this before but it's mainly just being able to write the things that i want to see and actually enjoy them!!! actually reread them!!!! i thought "wouldn't it be cool if bkg and kirishima owned a restaurant together" and then i wrote it and i like it enough to reread it!!!! being able to create content for myself makes me. so happy

How do you keep yourself inspired? this is gonna sound narcissistic maybe but honestly i'm just really excited about my ideas and where i'm gonna take them and the idea of "i'm gonna get to That scene" keeps me going through the entire thing. also my friends!!!! i'll talk to them about fics and their reactions keep me hyped up enough to finish!!!!

What is your favorite thing to write? just,, slice of life romance,,, stuff thats silly and makes people laugh!!

What do you think your strengths are in writing? i'm good with dialogue!! i do lil voice acting sessions with myself to make sure everything sounds natural and like it's coming from that character skhjnskj

i'm comfortable with my portrayal of love as well??? i spend a lot of time thinking about what it is exactly that i'm trying to get across and i think it turns out well!!

What are things you wish you could practice more? on one hand i wanna get better at writing angst on the other hand i dislike writing angst. do you see my issue

One way you've improved your writing since you began? characterization!! i think i've gotten better at writing characters that are all Different and bring different things to the table!!! i used to project a lot more and it would compromise the characterization because the character was like 70% me and 30% them? not to say that projection is bad but if you do it too much it just,, doesn't read like the character and from a reader's standpoint the narrative can become less compelling

One aspect of writing you're still working on? writing action!!! i. literally hate writing it but i write for a fandom about superheroes so. Unfortunately i gotta learn.

A piece of writing advice you've learned while writing saw this on another tumblr post but they said sometimes if you're struggling with a scene, the problem is five lines back. i've found that to be true!!!! sometimes u gotta delete a chunk and start a little ways back!! i did this with too busy being yours because i was stuck for Weeks and i deleted like 25% of what i had but it helped me actually finish it :D

A bit of writing advice you can't stand when people shit on show don't tell for being overrated lmao bc when u read their writing you can Tell

Something you wish you knew when you first started writing? ,,,,honestly i kind of wish i could know some of the stuff that i used to when i first started writing?? technically i'm better now but creatively i was must better when i wasn't stressing about whether anyone would like what i was writing. so i guess i wish i knew that i should keep that confidence? i kinda wish that i wasn't as insecure about other people's writing styles because i never used to be!!

Something you've learned in life that you apply in writing there's no point in feeling inferior?? writing one genre isn't better than the other. being in one fandom isn't better than being in another. the kind of language you use or the length of your paragraphs- none of that stuff like. matters. what matters is that you're having fun and happy with what you're creating!!!! enjoy other peoples writing but don't let it make you feel worse about yours :D

[onisiondrama]

(Note: I’m not repeating stories he’s told before and just putting them in parenthesis. I have a lot more videos to go until I’m caught up so that would save me a lot of time. If he gives details I never heard from him before, I will type those.) 

“Women Who Run With Wolves” Speaks, September 21, 2020

- Says someone came to his forum and said the stories of the 6 women who are accusing him are immaculate. He questions what 6 women. - Say there were 3 women he dated. Says he dated Shiloh 10 years ago until she got pregnant with another man’s baby. Then his husband Kai stepped in and they’ve been married 8 years. They were in one serious poly relationship, Billie. The other they weren’t serious about because they were sexually extorted. - Says he was told Adam was just Regina dressed up as a guy. There was a shadow over Adam’s face. He says you’d say that’s insane, why would a “victim” (hand quote) dress up as a dude so they could be on Hansen’s show twice and get clout twice? [This must be the video this screen shot was taken from. edit: it was from “You Are Your Own Worst Enemy”] He tells viewers to watch the footage of each interview and compare.  - Says Regina is someone with a 2 year age gap with Kai, so there’s no potential for something weird there. Says he (James) never spoke to or met Regina. He says he heard Regina and Shiloh were ripped apart on lolcow or 4chan, says just like everyone else who is mentally whack. Says apparently Regina pretended to be a transgender person. Again, says study the footage and compare Regina and Adam. - Says Luxymoo was 20-something when he had a conversation with her. Says he told her he needed someone to keep Kai company while he was working, so if she wanted to date Kai that’s fine. He says he told her he (James) doesn’t have to be part of the relationship. Says she’s a “victim” (hand quote) even though he never met her. - (Lists Shiloh’s lies during their relationship.) Says he only calls Shiloh crazy because Sarah is not as nutzo as Shiloh and Billie is not as nutzo as Sarah. Billie is the most mentally sound, even though she’s vindictive and has anger problems. - Says Maya was debunked hard. He says he posted her texts about how into him she was and how she was sorry and wanted to try again. He says he asked her out and kissed her on the lips when she said yes. [He puts his hands up] “Sorry, I guess I wasn’t supposed to do that.” [in a mocking tone.] Says she got mad at him because he asked to pick her up and carry her to the other room so they could play VR and she said yes. Says she was 24 at the time. - Says you guys don’t care about the actual facts. You say children, but there were no children involved. - Says a normal accusation is someone kept me in a cage and sprayed me with a hose, but you guys believe the most ridiculous nonsense and the mob thinks it all makes sense. “He’s a masterful kisser after asker-outer.” [mocking tone again] - Says he feels like the people he broke up with all together and tried to imprison him. The FBI, Hansen, the cops, Shiloh all didn’t work out for you. - [Insults anti-o’s for a while, says they’re “mentally retarded” and deserve disability benefits among other things] - [insults his exes, the usual shit he says in all of his video] - He shows his computer monitors and says he does computer work all day. He asks how does he has the time [he changes his thought, but I think he was implying he doesn’t have the time to date women.] He says people think if they have a pussy, they can woo him. Men and women tried to collaborate with him on Only Fans. He asks why would he do that if he doesn’t know them? He says “no” to them because he only has sex when he’s in love with someone or if he’s being essentially raped. Says he also had sex when he was in rebound mode and that sucked. He said they were both 26. - Says he knows how it feels to be duped by Shiloh. He was duped by her for a year even though he knew she was lying. - Says Nicholas DeOrio acts like a white knight and thinks people with vaginas can do no wrong. Says he tried to tell DeOrio (Shiloh lied about being knocked out story). - He says Shiloh told him there was a guy who abducted and raped her in his basement for weeks. He says he just realized he got mad at Ricegum when he asked a girl if getting raped hurt because he (James) asked Shiloh that too, but not the same way. “Was it always torture for you?” She told him sometimes your body betrays you, but she ever enjoyed what he did. He says he didn’t know why he asked and says he was an idiot, 24 at the time. He says he doesn’t know if that really happened, but one time she said she saw her kidnapper a block away. James said he’ll beat the crap out of him if he’s a rapist, but she said no and that they needed to go. Says it was near a Korean BBQ in crowded downtown Toronto. He says it might have been close to where the into to one of the Saw movies was recorded. Says there was also a music store and a costume store so you guys can look at the maps and find out where he was. Says he likes to be transparent and no matter how many times you ask him questions he’ll always give the same answers. - Says you literally reported him to the cops with a LeafyIsHere video. Teenagers think just because you have an opinion of someone, you can cancel them and ruin their life. - Says he didn’t meet these people. Says he met Maya and he gives a sarcastic apology for kissing her. Says she didn’t complain about it right after. He went downstairs and made her breakfast after he kissed her.

“Onision Is The New Johnny Depp“ Speaks, September 22, 2020

- Says people tried to deplatform him when this all started. Says that’s weird because if someone was guilty, you’d want them to talk as much as possible. Unless you were the one hiding something. He says it would be weird for someone who talks as much as him to go quiet. - (Hansen is a fraud, he made a lot of money off of alleged victims) - Says there’s an alleged show that’s asking commentary Youtubers to be on. They weren’t there. How desperate are they? Asks if you watched a documentary and thought how great would it be if that random commentary Youtuber was in it? Says they didn’t even ask the guy who the show is about for comment. - Asks where all the funds go for the TV show. Asks if people are paid to be pretend victims. - Tells his audience to compare Regina and Adam again. Said a Hansen insider [Vincent? lmao] told him they were the same person. He says he already suspected it, but the insider told him without him asking. Says it’s demented and crazy to go on a show twice pretending to be two different people. Says it’s said Regina’s a hardcore drug user and it might have fried their brain. Says he doesn’t know and Regina should speak about it. - Says he was told the people he dumped had a falling out.  - Says he tried to work things out with Billie after, but she said “haha f-you.” Says Billie dumped Kai once in a car. - Says it’s clear the show is not for justice. If you want justice, you go to the police or get a lawyer. If you want clout, you go on a livestream or a TV show, start a Venmo, promote your album, Only Fans, etc. - Says if it was all true, there’s still no crime. It also alienates everyone else he ever dated. - Someone said “good morning to everyone but Onision.” He says so you just said hello to Hitler? - He says if a 19-year-old dude goes after a 16-year-old, people call him a pedo, but that’s not a pedo. Says it’s fine in a lot of states with the Romeo and Juliet laws. - Says people were paying attention to him because they thought he was melting down. He gave them what they wanted and he posted the bloopers to prove it. Says he made a good amount of money off of those fake meltdown videos and it was fun for him. - Says he never met the MySpace dude who went on Hansen. Never met the girl who said her friend died because of his video. Says so many people went on the show acting like experts and he has no idea who they are. - Says Maya said she never liked him and he proved her wrong with her texts. She came out, he posts the texts, she walks away. Says she re-invented the past. Says she needs to get her head checked. People do things like this when they have mental illness. They are trying to be a victim. He says that’s a common BPD thing, but he doesn’t know if she has that. - Says the commentary channels are just as bad as these fake me too’s because they make money off of the situation. Money is the root of all evil and if you follow they money, you’ll see the patterns. If they pretend to be heroes, why don’t they support charity? - He says if the company who is making the show has a lot of money, he can sue them. If you watch all his videos and aren’t mentally ill, it’s beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is nonsense. - Someone asked why he made this the theme of this channel. He says people won’t drop it and let him move on. He won’t stop fighting for the truth, even if it drives his channel into the ground. - (They are framing him because he dumped them.) - Says someone walked in on his video and he had to cut it. - Says Shiloh’s been stalking him for 10 years. She told him even if he was married with kids, she’d show up on his doorstep. She said they when they were listening to an Adele song. He says that’s mental illness. Says she contacted Kai. Tells her to move on, why are you obsessed? - Says if you were being honest, why would you not show up on a show? Says if they don’t want to collect money, they can donate it to charity. He says they’re already in too deep because they collected money. He tells the show, Edwin, Repzion, and Hansen to donate to TWLOHA if they care about actual victims. - He says using me too to get money is a guaranteed gateway to hell. Says real victims don’t want to report it because they don’t want to talk about it or see their abuser again. Says they were obsessively talking about him. Says he heard Sarah was playing a drinking game while watching his videos. He says she wasn’t really his ex because she sexually extorted him when she was an adult. Says she’s a rapist and she admitted it. She was beyond 18 by some time. - Says it’s sad there’s no consolation prize for him for being framed and sexually extorted. Says a creepy old man showed up to his house, he was egged the next day, people tired to swat him, tried to commit perjury against him to get his channels taken down. People think he’s disgusting even though he’s innocent, like Johnny Depp. If you have a taste in crazy women, you’re doomed. - Says he’s forever socially tainted with the lies of others. The silver lining is he can tell his viewers to avoid relationships with people who pretend to be victims. He tried to save Shiloh and Sarah. Shiloh faked a rape, car accident, pregnancy. Sarah said she was beat by her mom and raped. - Says Shiloh implied she started talking to him when she was 16. He says that’s not true, unless she emailed him. Says he got a lot of emails. Says she made a comment that he only paid attention to her because she was a Canadian popstar. He says that’s true and he only emailed her back because it was good for his career. He said it wasn’t about her age and that’s why Kai lied about his age. Kai knew if he didn’t lie about his age, James would have stopped talking to him. By the time James found out the truth, he already fell for him. It was legal. Says there’s taboo and there’s the law. - Says a dude can stab 20 people, but people will still just make videos and a documentary about how he broke up with a girl for being a criminal.  - Says he can’t trust anyone anymore. Sarah told him she’d never be like Billie or Shiloh and they were evil. She would up being them. Says Sarah was the most criminal of them all and bragged about it on twitter. He asks if they’ll include that on the documentary.