#the only thing that smoulder is giving is vogue

[excalibeurre]

dean in every episode of supernatural

[castlebyersafterdark]

yes YESSSSS don't even get me started on junkets and press! ever since s4 dropped and i got back into ST, i have been fantasising about the fancy editorials they could do with noah and finn. i'm talking vogue, i'm talking gq, esquire, even some indie mags like i-d like they used to when the show first dropped. i want to see them both together in designer clobber photographed by giampaolo sgura or some shit. i want to see a whole narrative set up, like cowboys at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, shot in black and white. or a set up in a photography studio, something including a sword prop for finn but with a modern edgy twist? like a heart painted over his chest and noah dragging his hand through it, red paint everywhere. lots of smouldering looks. you know, like back when actors actually got back into character for their editorial photo shoots, gazed into each other's eyes.

maybe its my background in set design and editorial just freaking out lol, but they have so much potential and i cant believe how cheesy the majority of ST group photoshoots have been over the years. like, i looked up something similar for the challengers movie, being all erotic as it was, and the photoshoots are soooo lacking in passion, it's a freakin crime

(i also really hope for a long junket with more serious journalists, at least an hour long, moderated by a proper news outlet or even a guild? there's just so much meaning i want to excavate, and not just about byler, but certainly a lot about the actors' experiences of that because even if it is only noah who is out, there'll be lots of interesting things to discuss there. i think the show deserves so much better than page 3 press)

Oh, you're really speaking my language now, this is such a vision. Where is the glamour in Hollywood anymore, the romance of making television and film? Selling the characters, the chemistry! Imagine all of our wildest dreams come true and Byler is well and true and established. The really in depth think-pieces could be insane. The PHOTOSHOOTS?? Lordddd, you said it all. Bring some genuine artistry to the promo of these articles instead of just some trendy off runway outfits that look odd slapped on the stars as they pose halfway between a catalog and an instagram shoot. No! Give us mood, give us drama, give us chemistry!

Cowboys at the gas station! The smeared red heart??? I'm hand to my forehead swooning over that, you have been gifted with true sight. Sure hope you're peeking into our post-season 5 landscape because. I'm impressed with these vibes. And now I'll be so disappointed if we just get gab and drab all over again for the promo.

There could be so much room for really detailed and thoughtful conversation and both Noah and Finn seem very introspective actors. I'd love for them to really be given the chance to dive into their experience and world of Stranger Things that's been so important for a decade of their lives. Ahhhh.

[anbu-legacy]

Team Six Model AU Headcanons

Because let’s face it, Konoha is 100% wasting Team Six’s spectacularly good looks by having them wear masks all day:

Genma

Probably the most versatile of all of Team Six. Can definitely do wholesome, understated clothing, like Land’s End, Brooks Brothers, and J Crew, or scale him up into a nice, classic Burberry. Doesn’t he look like an upstanding, responsible young man? One you’d feel proud to bring home to your folks, and then feel slightly resentful afterwards because they’ll all end up liking him more than you? He seems like he’d do his taxes on time and call your mom on her birthday. In fact, just looking at him makes you want to do adulting things too, like steam clean your carpets.

Alternatively, travel advertisements: have him laugh in the golden sunlight, alongside his beautiful golden-haired spouse and their beautiful golden-haired children, on the golden sands of an expensive resort. Or he could stand alone, against a backdrop of stunning scenery and impressive monuments, with just enough empty space beside him to make you wish you were there with him.

Genma’s also got a secretive, sultry side though, which would make him a prime candidate for a perfume model. Plus, that mouth and those eyes deserve all the close-ups in the world, especially if the ad is tinted gold instead of black and white. He wouldn’t do the hypermasculine ads; he’d do the sensual and unsubtly bisexual ads, where he’s smouldering into the camera, sandwiched between a beautiful man and an equally beautiful woman. This ad has no target audience. It just has an audience, and the audience is everyone.

Raidou:

In a perfect world, Raidou would do the Chris Evans truck stop hooker ad, specifically because it’s deliciously subversive, with its clear female-gaze and slightly vulnerable sensuality. Stereotypically hypermasculine power fantasies are so passé.

Which isn’t to say that Raidou wouldn’t do the Rugged Man ads, but he’d want a sensitive, gentle twist. He’d model flannel shirts and hiking boots, but also wear an apron as he makes you a delicious dinner. He’d climb a mountain and reach the top with a two-day beard and glistening muscles everywhere, and then take out art supplies to paint a beautiful landscape. He’s probably bearded in a lot of his ads, wearing cozy sweaters. Possibly holding cats, because Raidou is the kind of Farmer’s Market Hot that makes everyone swoon.

A body like Raidou’s should also do athletic wear. What sport? All the sports. Do you want Raidou dripping wet as he comes out of a pool, wearing skintight jammers? There’s an ad for that. What about Raidou in tiny rugby shorts? You bet there’s an ad for that. You think no one could possibly make wearing a parka sexy? Just wait until you see Namiashi Raidou in his winter cabin photoshoot, sitting in front of a fire, offering you a mug of hot chocolate that he probably made himself out of cocoa beans he harvested with his bare hands.

Raidou kind of meandered into modeling. He really didn’t like what the fashion industry did to people, especially women. So he made a promise with himself to never date within the industry, because that way lay drama and Raidou was so not for it. Naturally, he met Genma the next day, and his second thought (we all know what his first thought was), is "..... FUCK." Fortunately for them both, Raidou’s self-imposed boundaries didn’t last long.

Now, Genma and Raidou do joint photoshoots for The North Face or Land’s End, where they are hot, domestic husbands of such high caliber that even Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka would consider them #goals.

Ryouma:

He would do the hypermasculine perfume ads, but instead of the kind that advertise a Hot Night, he’d advertise the Morning After — smirking at the camera with an expression that could not be described as anything other than well-fucked, his hair tousled and his lips bitten. His neck’s bitten too. There might be faint rope burn around his wrists. He’s probably shirtless because his shirt is hanging off of someone’s shower rod. The message of the ad is clear: you too, could look like you've been ravished by every hot person within a 5-mile radius if you wear this perfume.

But we all know that Ryouma’s true calling is underwear. He’d be the rare underwear model who’s encouraged to show his face, because his face is a national treasure. In every ad, he’d pose with one thumb tugging down his waistband, because he doesn’t just pose for underwear, he poses for underwear that you want to take off, preferably off him, preferably with your teeth. Is it the underwear or is his ass actually that perfect? You don’t know, but you can’t stop staring at it. He has helpfully bent over to give you a better view!

He could do regular menswear stuff too, but there's probably a clause in his contract that stipulates a state of undress. So he can model a shirt, but he has to be in the process of taking off said shirt. Look, he worked for his perfect abs and he wants people to see them, okay?

Kakashi: (Now with fanart, courtesy of @kuebiko-draws) 

High-end watches. The kind that looks like something James Bond would wear, all slim and clean, but with a billion functions concealed under the deceptively simple watch face. This watch could probably drive your car for you if you pushed the right button. But why would you even look at the watch when you could look at the devastating elegance of Kakashi's hands? His fingers are the definition of hand porn. His bare wrists are so obscene that most of the time, he wears black leather gloves that reveal only a pale sliver of skin between the end of the glove and the band of the watch. But somehow, that just makes him look even sexier. How is he so erotic when he's 99% covered up? Ask the Victorians, IDK.

Formal menswear, but not for the kind of gentleman who just stands around, looking pretty. Lesser models can do the boring, leaning-against-a-wall poses. Kakashi’s ads have him fencing in a waistcoat, or crouched on a moonlit roof with his jacket billowing over his shoulders like a cape. Who would be the target audience for formal menswear that has such a great range of motion? You probably don’t want to know the answer to that.

Even in model!AU, you never see his full face. He’s only shot in black and white, for the drama, with stark shadows across the elegant planes of whatever part of his face is actually visible. Every suit he wears is slim-cut and dangerous. Every expression he makes is focused and dangerous. He looks like he could assassinate you and you’d thank him for it. No one knows if he’s actually as hot as the camera makes him look, but the general consensus is that he’s even hotter.

Kakashi and Ryouma have an ongoing rivalry thing, because Kakashi is kind of snobby about underwear models who do nothing other than stand there with their clothes off, and Ryouma is annoyed with Kakashi because anyone stupid enough to go into modelling when he can barely stand to show people his face has no right to judge anyone else. Somehow this leads to rough, passionate sex in a hotel room. No one actually knows how it happened. Least of all, Kakashi and Ryouma.

The two of them eventually do a formal menswear ad together. Kakashi had done one before, with Genma, where they both looked gorgeous (Genma with his hair up was a revelation for many people, including Raidou). Kakashi and Ryouma’s ad also looks gorgeous, but also very BDSM-y. Possibly this wasn’t the intention, but it was for Italian Vogue, and, well, Europeans. Besides, no one’s complaining.

Bonus: Kurenai

Kurenai would do lipstick ads. Why does she look like she just murdered someone in every single ad? Don't ask questions, for the love of god, just buy her fucking product and run for your life.