#the perfect lovers to enemies or vice versa

[youbutstupid]

Also on the topic of Bucky Barnes, the only Bucky ship ever is Sambucky.

The fact that they both actually have distinguishable personalities that make them unique but they still fit together as a pair? Enemies to lovers arc? Everyone left Bucky but Sam and vice versa? Sam showing no ounce of fear towards Bucky and his recovery and even touching him when he had to ‘become’ the Winter Soldier in tfatw? Sam feeling comfortable enough to have Bucky stay with his family who he is very protective of? Bucky traveling just to comfort Sam? Perfect

[thainovels]

All the novels on the drive (this list will be updated):

❗i found most of these online, so i can't guarantee they are correct ❗

google drive

bl - pdf x epub

gl

non thai novels

MEGA - another place where you can find the novels and download them

updated list of the novels - in one word document

requests and suggestions - document where you can add the novels you're looking for and check if someone already asked about them, you should be able to edit there

thainovels1@gmail.com - my mail where you can send anything you want to share

advice for new readers

hopefully all the links are working right, let me know if there's a problem.

if you have any requests or maybe you have some novels and want to share you can always send me a message. if i don't reply to you, i'm not ignoring you, i just wasn't able to find what you're looking for so i keep the asks unanswered so i don't forget and check later and can update you when i find it.

individual novels under the cut:

BL 1:

2 Worlds, One Heart

2gether

A Tale Of A Thousand Stars

Bad Buddy

Bad Guy, My Boss

Be My Favorite

Because we are (still) a couple (2gether 2)

Bed Friend

Big Dragon

Blue Kiss

Boss And A Babe

Boys in Love A New Term begins… Hearts Learning to Love

Boys In Love

Cooking Crush

Counter Attack

Cutie Pie

Cutie Pie Extras

Dangerous Romance

Dare You To Death

Diagnosis

Fahlanruk

Fish Upon The Sky

For The Love Of Us

Fourever You (all novels)

Goddess bless you from death

He's coming to me

Hemp Rope (Between Us)

Hidden Agenda

KinnPorsche

Knock Out - Dawin

Knock Out Engineering

Khemjira

Kidnap

Lately, It’s Winter Season

Links

Live In Love

Love Defection

Love Director 1, 2

Love In The Air: Sky

Love In The Air Special Novel

Love Mechanics 1, 2

Love Sand

Love Sea

Love Sick

Love Sky

Love Storm

Love Syndrome 1, 2, 3, 4

Love Syndrome Nan and Mac 1, 2

Love Upon A Time

Lovely Writer

Make It Right

Me and Thee

Memoir of Rati

Manner Of Death

Me and Who

Middleman's Love

Mr. Fanboy

My Beast

My Golden Blood

My Moon

My Only 12%

My School President 1

My School President 2

My Stubborn 1, 2

My Sweetheart Jom

Naughty Babe

Never Let Me Go

Nitrogen

Not Me

Not The Best But Still Good (Duang With You)

Only Boo

Only Friends

Owner of the North

Oxygen

Perfect 10 Liners (Arc x Arm; Faifah x Wine; Yotha x Gun)

Pit Babe 1, 2

R Society - Until You - CEO

Real Love

Rebirth of a Movie Star

Reset

Revamp The Undead Story

Sotus 1

Sotus 2

Spare Me Your Mercy

Star In My Mind

Sunset Vibes

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist

ThamePo: Heart That Skips A Beat

TharnType 1, 2, 3

The Boy Next World

The Eclipse

The Effect

The Ex-Morning

The Gap Between Us (My Engineer)

The Heart Killers

The Hunt Lay Low

The Last Twilight

The Owner Of Northern Land-Jayden-Dannuea

The Next Prince

The Sign

Theory of Love

TimeTayTem A Love So Cruel, in The End is Not Love

This Cold Month

Together With Me

Tonhon Chonlatee

Triage

True Moon

Try Me 1, 2

Two Moons

Unforgotten Night

Unknown Lover

Until We Meet Again

VegasPete

Vice Versa 1

Vice Versa 2

We Are... - wattpad

Wish Me Luck

Wandee Goodday

Why R U?

Your Sky

GL:

4P

7YEARS

23.5

911

A Shadow Underneath The Moon

About Galaxy

Adore Khun Jae Like Crazy

Affair

Apple

Arpo

Ashes Of Our Hearts

Bad Sugar

BAKE LOVE (FEELINGS)

Be My Baby

Be My Boo

Be My Sugar

Belongs To Porprima

Bitter Sweet Toxic

Blank

Bloody Mary

Built In Love

Buy My Boss

Chain

Chain Baby (special)

Chanel No5

CHASING LOVE

Chloe

CLAIREBELL

Cranium

Crush

Dream

Enemies With Benefits

Evil Enemy Defeats Love

For Her

Formidable Eyes

FWB With My Boss

GAP 1

GAP 2

GOD 1

GOD 2

Harmony Secret

Harmony Secret Special

Heart Villain

Heiress Fall And Unexpected Love

Hello Neighbor

Hello! How Are You (pdf)

Her Baby Is In My Belly

Her Wife Is A Hollywood Star

Heras Divorce

I See You

I’m Your Moon

If I Stop Being Stubborn, Will You Love Me

In's Love

Irresistible

Just Friend

Lies Between Us

LIKE A PALLETE

Linda When Will Your Heart Be Mine

Little Bit Little More

Love and Persuasion

Love Begins With A Terrible Kiss

Love From Afar

Love Prologue

Love Senior

Love That Won’t Lose

Lucky One

LUV IS JUST.. LOVE

Lyrics

Mafia’s Doctor Lover

Mafia’s Sugar Baby

Mate

Melt My Heart

Midnight Flight

Mirror

More and More

My Brother’s Wife

My Only Sunshine

My Pink Love

Obsessed

One Night Stand

Papa Mafia

Petrichor 1, 2

PLAYER

Pluto

Poisonous Love

Predict

Professor With Benefits

Promises In The Illusion

Puff Love

Queendom

Rain and Rice

REMAIN Vol 01, 02

Reverse 4 You

Reverse With Me

Rhythm 1, 2

Rin Will Never Love (Denied Love)

Rin Will Never Love (Denied Love) Special - Endless

Rolling In Love

Secret Affair

Shape of Status

Sister

Smile My Tutor

Somewhere Somehow 1

Somewhere Somehow 2

Special Edge Of The Universe

STOP BEING EVIL (TO YOUR LOVER)

STOP YOUR HEART (FOR ME)

Stuck With Me

Sunflower Silk

The Air (4Elements)

The Chef’s Favorite

The Dragon

The Earth (4ELEMENTS)

The Fire (4ELEMENTS)

The Loyal Pin 1

The Loyal Pin 2

The Moon likes Your Smile

The Secret Of Us (TSOU)

The Tiger

The Water (4Elements)

The Whale Store xoxo

The Widow’s Maid

Uncertainty

Us

WARM EYES

When Love Conquers

Non Thai Novels:

Addicted 1

Addicted 2

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 1-5

Professional Body Double (My stand In) - online

We Best Love 1

We Best Love 2

[gazeofseer]

What is Love for You?

'Before taking the reading, have you ever thought if not that first movie, if not your parents relationship, if not your sibling's first heartbreak..if not your own crush, crushing your idea of what all it seems. What is Love for you?

Companionship & Fidelity

'A Heart torn between timelines, you are someone who is quite different yet imbibe those traditional values when it comes to love in general.

For you Love is about being a support, cultivating a certain level of fidelity at a certain level frequency.

Highlighting the fact that you kept meeting the same, likewise yet opposite people, who bring relevance but not true substance when it comes to show up for you, but you do and you keep doing it. Being loyal made you a people pleaser but your heart got wrenched knowing my love is shareable because I want to, but people see you differently.

Independent, Arrogant, Distinct and Different. But for you everyone seems the same just in different bodies, different says, with same meaning.

You have good relations but they are quite shallow or about being dutiful then anything else. Like anyone at your place would be treated the same.

What I am channeling is, you have a future spouse. When I mean this you are kept held by the divine to get into any other affairs, heartbreaks or other delusional skits that tempts you for a while.

In the Pyschic world, it's called 'Spouse Tie' when your marriage is a by-product of your life and not the main focus you reap a late reward through a great companion who feels like a home for you.

To be your everything..

A Perfect Kdrama lead, who is misunderstood by the world the parents are quite challenging which leads to the threshold of expectations and burdens. Competitive Friends who actually end becoming your worst enemy.

You become everything to everyone in need, the filler girl who lives by next door easy to call her for help, a girl who can benefit but beyond that we have no use of her. People use your quality, aura, skills and due to your lack of energetic boundaries you believe everyone to be as nice as they seem, but even if they unravel you end being nice because being mean and rude have hurt you alot.

A flower who pitys the thorn is how you see the world, and its the vice versa from the world they drain you my love. But no worries divine and someone special seems to be your knight and protectors.

You are Cursed in life person who will be blessed with love. For you love is about the person being your everything.

A Parent during challenges, A Friend during conflicts, A Lover in bed, A Teacher in life, A Spouse to share purpose with, like a blessing you want for all kinds of curses you have gone through by yourself despite people around you turned out to be quite spiteful and the attack seems uncertain.

I can feel you are not able to sleep peacefully at night, the dream of a guy coming and holding your hand, and shielding is constant,

These all are signs to not lose hope especially when you feel you can't live anymore like this, it's your love from the other end of the world calling upon your name, entering your dream, being that random reel, being that song only you resonate with, as if he is singing it all to you. He writes diary about you.

Because you both are in a journey together but walking different paths to find a pace together in the divine timeline.

What I see here is this is a fated connection, quite planned and will unfold as per the universe's wish, but I see when you are near the age 27 to 30 you should have met this person by this time and would date 3-4 years before getting married which will make you to leave your family and stuff.

Quite twinflame, but forever is showing up so they could be your soulmate.

Love? Whatever!

If two people meet and can lead to wars and clashes of conflicts of interest there is a couple awards you both did win.

You are quite strong headed love is an unworthy word to qualify who you are, regardless of the superiority complex you are a rough kid grown tough.

Crisis after the crisis was your way throughout, you do not have many people who can stand you so you let them go, even if you love them hardcore.

Because love for you is like devotion, a prayer, a dutiful commitment. You see no other reason or purpose behind it thriving.

You drive in dedication, passion and move with boldness even in your day to say decisions. You would chose to cut the good for something greater because that is how critical and rigid you have been with yourself.

Not heavy on trauma it looks for the world, but every other minute things have rubbed off your soul, lies, bad comments, cheaters, stealers, jealousy and every other worst feeling.

I see the heavy influence of deception during your childhood development has incurred these negative emotions to become your core values, which will be set at blaze by someone completely opposite from you.

But will exactly show you better and reel rigidity is beyond illusional set of emotions.

While you will show them what it is like to respect, be grateful and showup for things without fearing the commitment and the patience anything takes.

People around you guys would so not want this because it will break their projections over you which you are believing it to be true but now. Will also break one day and that is when you will find the one.

Prudence, Arrogance and lack of emotions are the reason life keeps breaking you again and again pain is the base of emotions which leads to the highest of it which is bliss and peace to attain you will shed those thick skin and grow into beautiful vantage full of empathy and love.

[melshifting]

Shifting tarot reading ～ #02

❝ What does your S/O think about you? ❞

little disclaimer before starting:         remember that this is for a diverse collective, so take what resonates and leave what doesn't! don't force messages that aren't meant to be ^^

Choose an image below! ⤸

🫧 | For my pile one...

Hmmm... its giving mixed signals and a SLOW burn. This person has contradictory emotions or difficulties in expressing what he/she really feels BUT they definitely feel a romantic connection towards you. There are two possible scenarios: you both are good friends and this person doesn't want to ruin the friendship, or, your person has just come out of a breakup/BAD experience and is having a hard time falling in love/trusting others again. Relax babe, as I told you before: this does NOT mean that there is no attraction or interest, but that there is something inside this person that prevents him/her from opening up completely.  I see them as someone afraid of rejection (or being really prideful), that's why they have a hard time being open about their feelings. What is certain is that they appreciate you, and very much, but they're still not sure how to handle this bond? The good news is that this person is in the process of solving all those doubts and fears that separate you! YAYYYY

channeled lyrics ⤸

♫ ～ "How can it be? You and me might be meant to be, can't unsee it" - Ariana Grande (The boy is mine)

♪ ～ "I summoned you, please come to me; don't bury thoughts that you really want" - Elley Duhé (Middle of the night)

♩ ～ "I hope love is perfect with just love, may all my weaknesses be hidden" - BTS (Fake Love)

🎀 | For my pile two...

they are HEAD over heels for you, oh my… makes me think it was most likely love at first sight (awwww). Your person feels a special connection, even if they haven't expressed it openly or they try to downplay it. They may, in your presence, feel that electricity in the air, that little tingle yknow. But, they also feel kinda disconnected from you..? Like there's some kind of barrier that distances you both, either literally or not - is this an enemies to lovers trope? Maybe, deep down, they see you as someone who is somehow different or hard to reach; like an impossible type of love. This is why, at this moment, they don't know how to approach you - they could be acting erratically or sending mixed signals, because deep down they're not clear which way to go... They've never felt this way about anyone before, something so deep and genuine (so you're their first love huh?), which explains the confusing signals.

channeled lyrics ⤸

♫ ～ "Boy, why you so obsessed with me?" - Mariah Carey (Obsessed)

♪ ～ "I shouldn't have fallen in love, look what it made me become" - Chris Grey (Let the world burn)

💌 | For my pile three...

I'm hearing the part of this one song that says ' and I only have eyes for youuuuu', so you can assume that they're obsessed with you lmao. Not only do they like your personality and character, but they are almost fixated on your body and physical beauty. WOAH, this person has been looking for you between lifetimes and universes (or vice versa) - this is your SOULMATE bro im telling you. You may have met at a time when one of you was going through a significant emotional or spiritual crisis, or even in an unusual circumstance...? Its one of those bonds that start out explosive, as if yall already knew that you wouldn't see each other as mere 'friends'. This relationship is a big change in your lives, but a good one lol.  When this person looks at you, several naughty thoughts come to mind..! so expect your days at their side to not be very ''calm''. Even if there are some possible barriers in this relationship, your person is willing to fight for the person they want to share their life with <3

channeled lyrics ⤸

♫ ～ "Think I met you in another life" - Jungkook (Seven; but the whole song in general lol)

♪ ～ "But when there's two dimensions, there's only one I'm missin'. And if you feel alone, you don't have to feel that no more" - Jungkook (3D; AGAIN, whole song in general lol)

TYSM for reading!!

[jinisnuggets]

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 𝒞𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓂𝓎 𝐹𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝓈

PAIRINGS | Kim! Seungmin x Fem! Reader

GENRE | Enemies to Lovers AU

WORD COUNT | 3.1k

WARNINGS | Breakups, mental health issues, dealings imposter syndrome, workplace tension

SYNOPSIS | Kim Seungmin had only ever dated one person in his lifetime, and that person would later become his future CEO after they both swore to succeed and accomplish their dreams without the assistance of their biggest supporter, each other.

NETWORKS | @starlit-network @blossomnet

TAGS | @eridanuswave

A/N | This fic feels a bit Kdrama(y) and I spent a lot of time writing it, so I hope it can get at least 2 comments or helpful reblogs 🥲👍

In the city of Seoul, Novara Studios became one of the biggest independent film agencies. The company and its employees had broken many records, earned many rewards, and had a large-loyal fanbase.

And the CEO? No different.

L/n Y/n, a top and well known superintendent of the industry who has participated in many hit shows’ production and story writing. She only hired the best of directors, editors, producers, and actors, resulting in a large mass of high quality TV production. Some of the biggest shows from the label included Crimson Truth, Wings of Eternity, and Tides of Life.

When it came to Novara Studios, their viewers could expect no less than perfect. There was no such thing as a flop show when it came to this enterprise as every single series and movie included a realistic, relatable, and enjoyable plot which always made sense and added up.

The company was established less than a decade ago, so how was it already driven so highly to the top?

The question was fairly simple to answer.

Kim Seungmin, a highly respected singer at the time had participated in one of the studio's first ever releases as the male lead. Which led to a massive breakout from the public towards the company. Success was everywhere: streams of series came in large numbers, and the public began watching the previous shows from the agency. Merchandise was released and the sales were huge; all because of one actor.

Since then, the company has released hit after hit show; whether a big star would be present in the cast or not, it would be watched and loved. Small actors became huge and admired for their talent, the label would earn good profit and pay their actors fairly based on their role importance in a series, even smaller roles earned good money.

So where is the negative outcome in all of this?

One wouldn't expect something negative in a company that seems to have it all. But well, maybe that one issue just happened to be a little personal- tied back to the root and core of the agency, involving someone who used to be the most special human to them.

And maybe it was the one person who was also the reason behind the success received from the industry. Or perhaps, vice-versa.

————

The bus was slow and quiet. Passengers with headphones on their head and phones in their hands were sitting around, all waiting to reach their destination in the depths of the night.

There were only around 4 people on the bus, it was late and Seungmin had fully expected to be alone on his trip home. It was what he wanted, if not.

Work had ended later than expected and he found himself on the bus due to his car refusing to start up last minute. He couldn’t call anyone due to how late it was, so he simply picked up all items of value and pushed them into his bag.

His headphones were on and he was listening to some relaxing and unwinded songs, the sound of the singer's voice echoing beautifully in his head as he stared out the window into the stunning streets of Seoul.

The bus was dark, only a couple lights flicked on not including the phone screens of the other passengers. As Seungmin was in the back, it didn’t bother him other than the occasional glimpse of a reflection on the window.

“Shoot…” He quietly groaned to himself, lifting his head from the glass and unzipping his bag.

That’s when it fell.

The picture he had forgotten about.

“A singer you say?”

He nodded, fully expecting some type of judgement by the unrealistic aspiration he yearned for. It was more of a vision he held for the future that had little to no chances of occurring. He didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life yet other than possibly pursuing a career in singing, something he enjoyed. Even if he managed to make it happen, there was no guarantee it would take off.

However, instead of bringing him down to earth or hitting him with a sense of sagacity, your face lit up and you grew excited.

“You’d be amazing at that! You’re already a magnificent vocalist!” you optimistically exclaimed, clapping your hands in awe as he slightly tilted his head, unable to hide his gaiety from your unexpected response.

“Are you not going to say anything about it? Like it’s ridiculous or impractical?” He finally questioned, catching you off guard.

You chuckled, shaking your head in denial. “Why would I? In fact I have a pretty ‘ridiculous’ and ‘impractical’ dream myself.” You responded with a sarcastic tint to your voice. He sat beside you, staring in astonishment from the statement.

“Nothing that you wanna do is impractical. You could eat the world if you wanted to.” He assured, to which you nodded.

“I would say the same for you.” You muttered. He immediately looked at you and began speaking before you cut him off.

“Have some faith in yourself, will you? You’re more capable than you can imagine. You’re seriously a genius in so many subjects; there are just no limits when it comes to you. You’re simply able to accomplish anything you want if you really put yourself to it. Just believe in yourself.” You smiled, his expression visibly changed to one of relief.

You were the person that inspired him to change his view on life. You gave him the confidence he needed. Anytime he felt upset you were there: when he lost an important friend or someone made fun of him, you were by his side, supporting him in the times he needed it the most even when his suffering appeared to be silent.

Overtime, he became good at hiding his emotions from the outside world, that included you.

You went from the person he trusted most to the one he swore to contain his vulnerability around. It wasn’t his fault, the culprit was his developing imposter syndrome; and maybe you were partly the reason for it.

Two slow knocks came at his door, he couldn’t hear them through his tears.

Sometimes he had erratic breakdowns from his overthinking habits. The fear of making mistakes and goals that weighed down so heavily on him. His relationship with you felt like a burden rather than a piece of enlightenment or mirth; the fear of not being good enough, or not being able to provide what he should felt so substantial.

The thoughts consumed him, so much he hadn’t realized you entered his room and sat down beside him.

“Seungmin.” You muttered; tone serious and dissatisfied.

He flinched hearing your voice, forgetting he had given you a spare key to his apartment. He slightly smiled seeing your face, wiping his tears trying to put himself back together,

“Y/n, I didn’t see you.” He nervously mumbled, but you already knew that and more.

That night, you ended things.

The breakup made him realize his mistakes perhaps, as he made the effort to finally change. He dedicated himself to his studies and put in any hard work necessary for success. Finally, he collaborated with producers and released his first album in March, 2018.

His confidence rose once more, feeling accomplished by his achievements.

He realized he couldn't take all the credit; a significant portion of his success was thanks to you. You stood by him throughout the journey, and he never once pointed fingers or harbored resentment over the breakup. He fully grasped the situation and acknowledged his mistakes from that time. However, unable to change the past, he chose to look ahead and eventually became a part of the revolutionary agency, Novara Studios.

Though he was a singer, he wanted a fresh start in a new industry; something to further boost his career.

His awareness at the time was limited. Information on you was low and no name was ever mentioned in any articles he read about the company. Of course, this wasn't something he worried much about considering the agency had only been established a year after his admission and had just begun promoting themselves at the time.

If he would've known that you would've been the CEO of the company; he would've searched somewhere else.

But he wouldn't deny that he truly felt fortunate to be able to work with you once more.

————

He entered the headquarters and set his stuff down. Organizing his belongings and beginning to walk over to the stylists room. Filming started at 9 am, so he needed to be ready by then.

“Kim Seungmin.” He heard a voice call from a distance, immediately catching his attention and making him look in the direction where it came from.

“Good morning chief.” He smiled as you came into better sight.

You glanced up at him and smiled back in a friendly manner as you quickly broke eye contact and looked back down at your hands and handed him the envelope. The tension was evident.

“When I came in this morning, I realized your car was still in the parking lot so I assumed you had some issues with it last night. I wanted to ask if you needed me to call a towing company so they could fix your vehicle.”

He was caught off guard, but he beamed in appreciation as he nodded, and just as quickly as you came, you vanished out of sight.

He sighed; today was the first day of filming a new drama that the entire company had worked hard on to begin. Seungmin would be playing the role of the male lead who also happened to be the main character of the overall show. It had taken months of preparation so he was relieved everything was finally ready.

He walked into the stylist room, allowing them to apply light makeup and dressing him in proper attire for the first few shots.

He sat in the lobby, watching the others as actors began to pile up and sit on the couches around him.

“Seungmin!”

He glanced over at his coworker, Jisung, whom he had been fairly close with approaching him.

“New day, new role.” He said, causing Seungmin to chuckle in response— shutting his book and shifting his full attention.

“You didn't come here for no reason; what is it?” He questioned as Jisung shrugged.

“Been hearing a little bit of rumor around the company. Apparently, Yuri resigned from the role of female lead a week ago.” he said, immediately shocking Seungmin.

“What!? So suddenly?” He exclaimed, causing Jisung to nod.

“I was shocked too, but it appears to be true as she's not present here today, and it was strictly stated that all participating actors had to be present today.” Jisung added.

Seungmin took a moment to process his words, glancing down before looking back up at him and sighing.

“Do you know what we're going to do then?” He asked as Jisung shrugged.

“No idea, but I heard that CEO L/n will be in charge of direction for the next couple of weeks.”

Seungmin’s expression dropped as he heard his colleague complete his sentence. Suddenly, the events that took place in the morning made sense as he listened to every word.

“Chief will be directing the series?” He asked as Jisung nodded.

“That’s what I said.” He responded.

It wasn’t common to have you be present in the main building, as your office was located in a separate entrance which didn’t connect to this one. You normally stopped by a couple times during filming, however you were often busy with your own things and didn’t have time to be present. He doubted you had only come to remind him of his car.

The intercoms suddenly came on, colleagues checking their phones the moment it spoke.

‘Everyone in the lobby, please report to the studios. I repeat, Everyone in the lobby, please report to the studios.’

Those in the lobby stood up, walking over to the studio rooms to be directed into their next move. Filming wouldn’t be taking place in the building, everyone needed to be directed out and driven to the location where it would be happening.

Surely, as they arrived, you were standing in the front with a small paper— directing everyone to their van. You glanced up at him, although avoided extended eye-contact and signaled both him and Jisung to their van.

Soon enough, you all arrived at the small, traditional hanok located in a small neighborhood; the neighborhood itself wasn’t actually populated but was more of a tourist location— of course it had been closed off for film purposes.

You escorted 3 actors out, him and Jisung along with an older woman who would play the role of their mother. The film crew stepped out of their own separate van and followed inside the building. Setting up their cameras and equipment.

The house had been cozily decorated, looking full of life even after years of being void from it. Seungmin walked around, investigating all corners of the home.

“It’s in such good condition despite being abandoned for over 2 decades.” He turned to Jisung, who nodded in response as he touched the light wooden walls.

“Right, the paint isn’t chipped or anything,” he added.

The entire drama was aiming for a sense of nostalgia. The main character living in a hanok was more than just nostalgic but also aesthetically pleasing. However, to him, a hanok was more than just his temporary home, but also a significant part of his past; his real past.

You walked in, noticing them just casually becoming familiar with their new home.

“Hey, you both can look around later; we need to get filming.” You proclaimed, causing them both to turn around and nod.

————

The dark skies derived quickly, and so did the cold temperatures. Seungmin wrapped the blue crocheted scarf around his neck and covered his hands with the paired mittens. He threw his cross bag over his shoulder while waving goodbye to his colleagues and making his way out of the property, walking to his car with the keys in hand.

The parking lot was almost empty by that point, it made sense, it was nearly midnight.

He opened the driver side door and stepped in, preventing the door from shutting with his leg as he turned on the car and allowed it to heat up.

He was about to shut the entrance and drive his way back home, however, he looked into his rear view mirror and noticed a car behind him, one he recognized to be yours with you outside and investigating the tire.

Slowly, he smiled, lightly chuckling to himself. He opened the door and walked over to the car with his hands in the small cozy pockets of his jacket.

“Why aren’t you parked in the superintendent lot?” He questioned, causing you to flinch and immediately turn around with your hand on your heart, gaze immediately falling to his attire.

“Excuse me?” You mumbled as he chuckled once more.

“This is the employee lot, as the CEO you should be in the superintendent lot.” He answered, ducking down and looking at your tires, none having any visible damage or impairment.

“Will it not turn on?” He asked as you slightly nodded your head, continuing to refuse eye contact. He couldn’t help but smile seeing you that way, it made his heart feel a little lighter.

He stood up, adjusting your coat before you quickly pulled away.

“I don’t need your help, these are things I can deal with myself.” You murmured.

Silently, he nodded in understanding.

“I apologize.” He bowed, staying in that position for multiple seconds before standing back up.

“But at least, allow me to drive you home.” He mumbled, straightforward yet timid.

You looked at him, unknowing of how to answer the question; yet again, it wasn’t like he gave you the opportunity to as he was already making his way over to his car, glancing back at you before entering and shutting the door behind him.

You remained in spot for multiple moments, ultimately sighing, locking your car and walking over to the passenger side, shutting the door behind you.

He couldn’t help but beam as he put the car in drive and began making his way onto the driveway.

The majority of the ride was silent, you leaned your cheek against the fist which rested on the window and stared blankly at the streets. You found yourself stealing glances at the man who used to be your only, unable to catch a grip of the one question you wanted to ask, yet refused to.

“Why do you still have it?” Your voice spoke, void of all emotions with a slight tremble.

He gripped the steering wheel tighter, gulping at the question and feeling the familiar sense of anxiety wash over him.

“Have what?” He muttered, making the turn onto a separate road.

“The clothes. The coat, scarf, mittens, why do you still have it!?” You nearly yelled, feeling slight tears swell up in your eyes as your throat warmed.

He kept calm, refusing to take his eyes off the road as he listened to you.

“It’s special to me.” He responded, however, that only caused the frustration in you to spread.

“Why? Why is it that I work so hard to finally be able to accomplish my dream yet the moment I do you have to come in and ruin everything? Why is it that the universe always makes me rely on you? My confidence, success, everything is always about you! Why can’t I do something for myself!?” You held your head, feeling the same painful ache in your heart as you did that day.

The car came to a halt as he turned over to face you, the tears streaming down your cheeks, fingers tugging your hair in indignation.

Tears warm, you slowly felt his hands wrap around your torso and pull you closer, embracing you warmly with your head resting on his shoulder.

“I never realized the pain I had caused you.” He muttered, embracing you warmly with a care you hadn’t felt in so long, it almost felt surreal.

The frustration and resentment your heart once felt all faded with his words and touch; an overwhelming sense of security was all that was left, the tears had stopped flowing and so had your sense of time. You didn’t notice your own hands wrapping around him in a position that felt so nostalgic, something you hadn’t felt in over eight years.

It was comforting, comfortable, and reassuring.

[angelwishess]

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR SIR ARISTON!!! what exactly does he like about the beloved, ever shining, wonderful kyra?

ALSO do the girls™ (kyra, elena, jester) think it's "party rockers" or "party rock is"

sorry if i'm only allowed to ask one question HDHSHHD

Ariston only likes Kyra because shes the ideal “princess” that hes been imagining in his head. Basically— he’s kind of idealized her instead of liking anything about who she actually is 😭 Hes just a total hopeless romantic, and has always been obsessed with those classic fairytales where the prince saves the princess.

Hes convinced that Kyra is the perfect princess he’s been looking for. Funniest part about all this?? He’s a gay man in denial (one sided “enemies” to lovers w malleus)

Jester and Elena are pretty self explanatory— but I feel like I have to explain Kyra’s LMFAO

Her “opinion” whether its “Party Rockers” or “Party Rock is” changes depending on whoever shes talking to. If the person shes talking to thinks its “Party Rockers”, then she’ll say “Party Rock is”, and vice versa.

Why?? She just likes to mess with people. She actually does not care and likes to see people try to explain to her and she purposefully acts dumb to make them more frustrated LMFAOO

*playing the song* “SEE?! Don’t you hear it?? Its party rock IS!”

“Mmm.. No, I’m pretty sure its Party Rockers. ☝️”

“ARE YOU KIDDING ME—“

She’ll do it all w a straight face as if shes being deadass. But shes laughing her ass off internally. Having a rlly good poker face gives you hilarious opportunities to mess w people

[callsign-rogueone]

maybe a weird question but how did you decide what type of gf each man “needs” or vice versa?

not weird at all! brace yourselves for an essay.

first, the ones that I didn’t think about too hard lol

starting with angel, who was the first gf to debut! this pair was really mostly wishful thinking / me just wanting a garrick in my life. but I started to really like the idea of big tough garrick with a soft, shy girlfriend. she’s someone he can be vulnerable with / who can take care of him a little bit.

and then duchess, for brennan: I felt like he’d like a partner who is as sharp as him, and also someone to tie him in to the revolution. reading about him at the viscount’s had me giggling and kicking my feet, so why not make his girl nobility too?

bodhi is another where I just made something up and rolled with it. the ogs know how that happened!! but for further development of darling, here were my thoughts;

he’s a perfect little angel, and is going to be obsessed with his partner (in the best way) so he needs a perfect sweetheart girl too + he’d be great for a shy girl because he’s a gentleman and wouldn’t be too forward or want to take things too quickly. (darling has since outgrown a lot of that shyness, but I digress.)

xaden’s family was rich and royal enough for arranged marriages, so why not bodhi too?

he also feels like he’d be great with kids / a family man, so I gave darling some much-younger siblings for them to play house with.

I just really wanted to have a black-cat-golden-retriever situation with liam and spark. plus they have a very short time together, so I went with someone who he already knows well as a good friend instead of him meeting someone at basgiath and trying to cram it all into one year.

now, the other half I did make intentional choices with and actually planned!!

sawyer, my sweet cheese…

our boy is a little insecure. and while I don’t want to say he “needs” to be the stronger, more traditionally masculine partner, I think getting to be someone’s hero would help build his confidence.

luceras (in my brain) is the fantasy equivalent of appalachia, so he gets a sweet country girl who can still also whoop ass when necessary (you’ll see.)

I also wanted him with a healer because of his injury (I read tower of dawn this summer and definitely got some inspiration there!)

I’m gonna try my best to not be salty about him and jesinia in onyx storm if that goes anywhere… because in my mind, him and peach are married with two daughters and a dog. she’s basgiath’s head healer and he runs the forge there.

moving on.

dain… oh, dain.

it’s very clear to me why him and violet didn’t work, so that was a starting point for love. I also wanted him to have a girl who could keep him in check a little bit.

she’s more willing to be doted on than violet is. she would one hundred percent have taken him up on his offer to go read in the library all day and not mess up her hair or have to do cardio before 9am.

I also see dain as more of a traditional guy, who would want a girly girl instead of someone like imogen or mira for example. so I made her quite feminine despite her still being a soldier.

she’s razor-sharp, which he seemed to like a lot about violet, but this often bites him in the ass — she’s very scrutinizing of his double standards and doesn’t hesitate to call him out on his bs, because fourth wing dain needed that. and what’s a rivals-to-lovers / supposed-to-be-enemies-but-became-lovers story without a little banter and arguing?

and also I wanted to heal his inner child a bit by making him a young dad. plus it’s a disruption to the very straight-laced, traditional mindset he probably had of being married first, and prioritizing his career… so that’s another opportunity for growth for him.

ridoc, my beloved

he’s more dimensional than he seems at first. he’s a joker, yes, but I think he’s also incredibly emotionally intelligent and caring. so he’d take good care of a fragile, anxious girl.

I thought a shy girl would also be cute for him — he’s the life of the party, but opposites attract. and he’d be determined to make her slowly open up to him (which you’ve already seen a lot of in their chapters so far!)

but I also see him liking a badass girl, and sweets is that when it comes to hand combat and her initial responses to his flirting. and her signet stuff, too. she’s really good at that.

aaric, our prince.

he has a better mindset than his dad/older brother but still needs a tiny bit of a reality check. enter sunny, stage left. her gratitude for literally everything and her newfound zest for life is gonna open his eyes to the way the other half lives.

I am also considering the possibility of ace or demi aaric (based on that one comment he made and literally nothing else) so a partner who has been used for her body in the past and is a bit traumatized by that / doesn’t want to do anything of that nature anytime soon would be a good fit for him too in that case. (spoiler, sorry!)

[also, re: the above -> all the girlfriends have pieces of myself in them and this is one I gave sunny, so this arc of her building self worth + trust with aaric (and our other fw boys) is important to me personally. there won’t be detailed descriptions of anything bad, just mentions of things she endured, but I’ll still tag those chapter(s) liberally + I completely understand if anyone wants to skip them!]

and while I’m giving stuff away, I’m also playing with the idea of the divine right of kings — that sunny was picked out by amari herself to be his queen. “luck”, fate, and the favor of the gods are really going to be strong themes in her story!!

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Have i said this already

I cant remember 💃

What if nightmares spouse was still alive, or like...became alive AGAIN when nightmare has killer

Like, killer can see nightmare being affectionate with his spouse and vice versa

Basicallg what im saying is what if killer used that as an example of how to show affection and did it with color

Imagining killer just cooking a human heart for color and giving it to him, or like... purring loudly whenever color is near because he could always faintly hear nightmare purring when his spouse is near

And gifting the limbs of someone who bothered color, because nightmares spouse would frequently kill and make little artworks of the bones of someone who bothered nightmare

Hell, maybe even try to make a little artwork too. Or like carve something out of the bone that he likes, like a lil cat

Bone cat

That idea is both hilarious, terrifying, and cute. I mean, he already keeps entire jars of souls for study and presumably scoops up blood and monster dust also for study.

Realizing that some of what he’s already doing can be used as affection would be a prime light bulb moment lmao.

Like, he spends hours of his days making color the perfect jar—carefully placing the souls, blood and dust of Color’s enemies (or at least who killer thinks are color’s enemies) into a jar and decorating it all pretty with glitter and ribbons and of course placing little upside down heart stickers on the jar (don’t ask him why it was instinct) and its beautiful and killer is sure color would love it because the boss and the boss’ lover love it.

And like the jar is probably heart shaped and looks something like this

So from Color’s perspective, Killer walking up to him with the jar is the equivalent of something like this

Until Color actually gets a good look at it and then just stares, and killers like “do you like it? 🙂” and he’s all squeezing his hands together in front of his chest like this

{art by rahafwabas, edited by me.}

And then Color has to ask why he gave him this—souls and hearts and blood and dust specifically—and then killer explains about nightmare and then color’s like..”yeah, okay. That makes sense. Of course they’d do that.”

And then Color has to explain that Nightmare and his lover are not exactly the picture of a typical relationship nor what’s considered appropriate to give others, and if killer gave this to anyone else they’d probably be creeped out by it. (Which killer of course keeps in mind, because he loves creeping people out lmao.)

But then Killer’s like..

“..so do you not want it?”

Now here im not sure how exactly color would react—his souls would probably have a lot to say on this. The fact that Killer hurt and killed people for this gift, that Color has to set an example and maintain his integrity— but also how killer very obviously put a lot of thought and hard work into this gift for them and it’d be rude to throw it away.

And yet another part of color is mindful of the fact that this could very well be another of killer’s little morality and boundary tests—trying to test what color is going to do, chose kindness and not hurting killers “feelings” or maintaining his integrity.

And i think maybe a good compromise would be color giving the jar back with a kind, patient smile, and requesting that he hold the jar for him—keep it safe for him. And instead, he’d like to show him something he likes to make as gifts. (And therefore likes to receive as gifts.) and then maybe color makes use of the jar stuff to make like, some of those sand container jewelry like these:

Or perhaps Color further compromises by making one of those blood vial necklaces, appeals to killers idea of a gift with something more consenting and harm free because its vials of killer and colors blood freely given.

Something like this, but imagine Killer’s blood is something more thick and dark like Determination, while Color’s blood is like a darker version of his flames; changing colors and glowing softly in the jar.

{ @brokenramunebottle }

[cypherthesuccubus]

Dirty Little Secret

Alastor x Lucifer/ RadioApple -Part 13- (NSFW) (MDNI)

Warnings: 18+, smut, slow burn, eventual smut, cock worship, glory hole, enemies to lovers, murder, blood kink, bondage, tentacles, marking, breeding kink, size kink, S&M, Dom/Sub, switch, facial

Other Tags: Fluff and Angst

Aftercare forever!!✨

Part 13 is coming at you!!! I can’t apologize enough for the long absence. So much has been happening in my life, but you I haven’t forgotten this story 🥰✨ We definitely left off on some more chemistry in the making between them. What’s gonna happen next? Well let’s find out~ 😏🤭✨

A few weeks has passed and things have remained the same; according to Charlie’s mind. Though the only difference now is that every time Lucifer go to his meetings, Alastor then excuses himself a few minutes after. He claims that since the increase of guests, he has more paperwork to do along with more broadcasts to make as well. “He must have a lot on his plate. I should give Alastor a much needed break soon.” Charlie thinks as she helps Nifty and Angel Dust clean up the dinner table.

Last night it was Husker’s turn to help with after dinner chores, now it’s Angel’s turn. As Nifty starts on the dishes, Angel and Charlie wipe down the table together, until the silence is broken. “So Charlie~….I’ve been noticing that creepy smiles has been calling it early here lately. Do you know the reason?~” He rests one of his elbows on the table and props his cheek against his palm. He wiggles his eyebrows suggestively as Charlie chuckles at the question. “Oh, he’s been getting swamped with extra work with all these new guests we’ve been getting is all.”

“Oh I bet.~ I bet that work completely bends him over and vice versa.~” Angel says as he playfully arches his back; wiggling his ass slightly and smacks it. Charlie adverts her eyes as she chuckles nervously from his gestures. “I guess so in layman’s terms haha…but why do you say it like that, Angel?” He laughs as he stands up, pulling out a nail file to perfect his manicure. “Come on, we don’t have that many guests here Charlie. I think Mr. creepy smiles is hiding something.~” Charlie raises her eyebrow towards the statement. What did he mean by that? Alastor is a big mystery yes, but he wouldn’t lie about work with the hotel…right?

“He wouldn’t lie about doing hotel work, Angel. When it comes to the hotel he always is on top of things.” Charlie rubs the back of her neck nervously; hoping that Angel was just pulling her leg. “Oh I bet he’s on top and switches too.~” He wiggles his eyebrows suggestively as he gives her a playful wink. She looks at him confused by is metaphors. Why is he saying things like that? “What do you mean by that, Angel?” Charlie asks, crossing her arms as she arches her brow. “I honestly shouldn’t say, it would be an invasion of privacy if I did…but I can give you a slight hint if want.~” Charlie sighs as she rolls her eyes smiling , turning her ear to Angel as he leans down to whisper.

“Just head upstairs and check on your dad…you will figure out the rest.~” He stands back up; giving another wink as he pulls out his phone, walking away. Charlie starts to be concerned. What is going on with her dad that involves Alastor? All she can hope for is that they are not fighting again. The last thing she needs is to fix missing walls and destroyed bedrooms. Now that she thinks about it, there are times when she will pass her dad’s door and nifty would come out with broken pieces of wooden furniture, torn sheets, torn drapes, torn rug, and pillows. They must be fighting and trying to keep it a minimum for her sake, but she can’t have anything keep being destroyed on account on her dad and Alastor fighting.

Meanwhile, the sound of shifting fabric against silk sheets; paired with heavy breathing and soft moans fill the dim room. Lucifer is laying on top of Alastor, both completely naked as they grip each others hair roughly; deeply kissing each other hot and heavy like. Their tongues wrap around each other in a heated dance for dominance; grinding their throbbing cocks against each other until the other caves in. Lucifer breaks the heated kiss as he looks into Alastor’s glossy, ruby red eyes; his breath shaky and needy. “Have I convinced you enough yet, my big strong buck?~” Lucifer then grinds against Alastor once more; drawing out a needy moan from the almighty radio demon. “Or do you need more convincing?~”

He continues to grind against Alastor; the feeling of the radio demon’s soft belly fur along with the heat of his shaft against Lucifer’s aching cock; further drove him mad with pleasure and wanting more by the second. “I need an answer, bambi.~” Lucifer leans close to Alastor’s ear and whispers seductively. “Do you want me to completely ravage you?~” Alastor bites his lip; struggling to swallow his pride in admitting that he needed to feel the king of hell. To feel every inch inside him; claiming him body and soul. “Come on.~ Be a good boy for me, Al.~” Lucifer leans down and takes a long lick against Alastor’s neck; soon latching onto the sensitive skin, giving him the first love bite of many more to come.

Alastor lets out a surprised moan; arching against Lucifer as he can’t take it anymore, finally letting go. “Y-yes, Lucifer.~ Please~….I n-need you.~” Lucifer chuckles softly as he lets go of his neck; trailing kisses down Alastor’s chest, stomach, and just stopping right above his happy trail. Lucifer move his hands under the radio demon’s thighs; grabbing them firmly to lift them up to where his knees touch his fluffy chest. “Such a good boy for me.~ Keep your legs up just like that.~” Lucifer slithers his long snake tongue out his mouth, slowly grazing the pronged tip against Alastor’s tight entrance. A sensual moan escapes the radio demon’s lips, as he feels the king’s long tongue slither inside him. The feeling of the warm snake tongue twist, turn, and brush against his inner walls and sensitive prostate.

Alastor’s legs start to tremble from the immense pleasure, as he covers his mouth to hold back the sounds that want to escape his throat. Lucifer chuckles as he plunges his tongue deeper, sliding one of his hands to grip the base of Alastor’s thick, pulsing cock. Alastor lets out a muffled moan as he arches into Lucifer, wanting more with every thrust of the king’s tongue. His majesty soon slides his long tongue out from Alastor with a slick pop; staring up at the squirming buck. “Holding back are we?~ That just won’t do.~” Lucifer then gets up on his knees, lining his girthy cock with Alastor’s needy entrance. He then snaps his fingers as a tube of lube appears next to him; opening it to generously apply it to his hard length.

“Since you’re holding back, I’m going to have to do more….“through” coaxing.~” Lucifer smirks as he slowly inserts the tip, slowly pushing further and further until he fully bottomed out inside Alastor. The moment the king’s pelvis hits his beautiful buck’s plush rear; Alastor lets go of his mouth as he moans out loudly. “AHHH! F-FUCK!~” Lucifer chuckles darkly as he begins to fuck the radio demon slow and hard; gripping his hips so he can angle to hit deeper inside. His majesty felt accomplished that he was able to get the almighty radio demon to writhe in pleasure underneath him. If Lucifer didn’t have an inflated ego, he definitely has one now thanks to Alastor. Who would have thought the radio demon was just as good as a bottom as he is top.~

The more Alastor moaned for Lucifer, the harder and faster his majesty went; pounding deeper and deeper until his big handsome buck goes completely cock drunk. “Ooh fuck!~ You’re doing so good for me, Alastor!~ You’re squeezing me so tight!~ You’re getting close aren’t ya?~” Lucifer smirks as he really grinds into Alastor; drawing a needy moan from his beautiful buck. “Y-YES!!!~ PLEASE LUCIFER!!!~ I-I NEED TO…TO C-CUUUM!!!~” Lucifer then quickly locks their lips together in a heated passion as his thrusts assault Alastor’s insides. Both of them wrapping their arms around each other; keeping their bodies as close together as possible, whilst their claws dig into each others skin making bloody trails in their wake.

Before they can reach their simultaneous release; a loud knock was heard at Lucifer’s door, stopping them dead in their tracks with wide eyes. “Hey dad! Are you in there? I need to talk to you, if you’re able to.”

[confessionsofa-roleplayer]

As someone who writes female muses, shipping with other female muses can be irritating. It feels like the only acceptable f/f relationships in the rpc is safe, nonstop positive, loveydovey and never competitive. And it drives me a little insane. I like drama, I like conflict, I like when characters disagree. I like enemies to lovers, I like misunderstandings, I like developments, I like long fights and well deserved happy resolutions. But you can't be even the slightest bit of combatitive with other female muses. Why is that? Is it fear of being catty? That's sexist imo. Girls don't all live in sunshines and rainbows, we have disagreements too. We hate, and yea sometime we can be catty. But guys can be catty too, yet only women are demonized for it. Anytime I write with a female muse they want to blow sunshine up my muse's ass with very shallow compliments. And then It's not surprise they never maintain ships or interactions with me. Because it's probably boring to them. They do all these elaborate and dynamic things with male muses, but never female muses. Only safeness, and never a challenging of one another's muses. Obviously I'm not saying I want to be antagonistic to female muses, or vice versa, but a little drama can be fun. Sometimes even toxic dynamics can be fun to explore. I just want female muses to be able to treat each other the way we can male muses. I want us to have crazy elaborate plots outside of "teehee youre pretty no ohmigosh YOURE pretty, youre so perfect, boys are icky".

[simplyclary]

Red, White and Royal Blue: A Royal Obsession

(Photo credits: Entertainment Weekly)

This is honestly a long overdue [personal] review of one of my most favorite book to movie adaptations EVER, considering it came out last August 11, 2023, and I wrote this entire thing on October 11, 2023 (Wow, on the 2nd month anniversary of the movie's release! How ironic!). But hey, what's important is it's here and it's here for you to read.

To be quite honest with you all, I have no particular format for this review, but I will be reviewing the storyline, the characters, the dialogue and what's in the book but not in the movie and vice versa.

I will also discuss the perfection that is the CASTING!! Like I can't imagine anybody else as Alex and Henry than who was casted, and you should know their names by now even though I'm gonna state their names a little later, so stay tuned.

Feel free to keep reading even though you haven't watched the movie or read the book, I'll leave it to your discretion but there is a section where I discuss the differences between the movie and the book so skip that if you wish ;)

So with that, I'll go ahead and jump into the movie and book review.

RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE MOVIE AND BOOK REVIEW

Let's talk about the storyline first.

The storyline is not one for your typical romantic comedy. To be honest, this is the first romantic comedy storyline of its kind that I have ever seen in my life, like its not set in like high school or whatsoever where stakes are low. This is sort of high stakes (though not fantasy level high stakes), considering that the lives of the main characters Alex and Henry are forever altered with what happens in the story. This is also a story with an enemies/rivals-to-lovers trope, which I personally love, like I'm such a fan for any story with that trope.

The story has plot and it's a good one. It's one of those plots that are sort of unforgettable and you really need to watch until the end to find out what happens. The storyline of this balances the comedy to the romance and the drama. Like I love that so much, it's everything I want in a romantic comedy story.

Also, there are certain changes between the movie and the book but I'll discuss that in a bit.

Now, let's talk about the dialogue.

With regards to the dialogue, I wouldn't call it cringe because some of the lines are just the wittiest and hit lines that I have ever heard and read. The banter between characters is so fun to read and the way the actors delivered the dialogue is just worth remembering. Like there are certain scenes that I can never unhear from my brain, even while I was reading the book. I would also like to point out that the dialogue are not those cringy one-liners that other rom-coms have and so, it was one aspect that set it apart from your typical rom-com.

One thing that I would like to point out is the conversations between Alex and Henry through text and emails. Now, this was an aspect in the movie that I loved, like the way they executed their conversations in the emails and texts by having text bubbles show up is just cool. Their emails were longer in the book, with some poetry involved but I didn't mind how it turned out in the movie.

I'll now talk about the characters and the utter PERFECTION that is the CASTING.

This story does not have an overload of characters, which makes it easy to remember almost everybody in the story. There were some characters who were not included in the movie or was changed in the movie but kind of had the same vibe with the original character in the book. The titular characters of this story are Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry. Notable side characters include June Claremont-Diaz, Nora Holleran, Princess Beatrice, Zahra Bankston, President Ellen Claremont, Oscar Diaz, Shaan Srivastava (Henry's equerry), Rafael Luna, Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Duchess Catherine of Edinburgh, Queen Mary and Henry's pet beagle David.

Casting wise, I have nothing to say except that the characters were casted perfectly. Having Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex and Nicholas Galitzine as Henry was nothing but PERFECT! Like, their chemistry was off the charts and emanating through the screen as I was watching the movie. The banter that flowed between them is so natural and so fun to watch. They did have to be close immediately because of the intimacy of the story, and I love how easily they got along considering that Nick was casted first and they had to find someone who can easily bond with him and I'm happy they found Taylor because their friendship is a gem to be treasured.

Even when I read the book after watching the movie (I know, it's a sin. PEACE!), I heard their voices in my mind as I was reading their characters' dialogues. As for the supporting characters, Uma Thurman as President Ellen Claremont was a force of nature, her speech toward the end of the movie was something else, Sarah Shahi was hilarious and iconic as Zahra, Rachel Hilson as Nora is the best friend you want in your life, and Ellie Bamber as Princess Beatrice is the sweetest and supportive sister you want with you during tough times.

Honestly, I have nothing but praise for the casting of this movie. Other casting directors should learn from this (just kidding, but lowkey, yes, they should!).

Moving on to the twists and differences from book to screen.

Similar to every other book to screen adaptation, not every element from the book gets adapted on screen and this movie is no different. Certain characters were also not adapted and changed and certain scenes were not included.

Let's talk about the differences in characters first.

One of the characters that I really wanted to see in the movie (this is after reading the book already) was June Claremont-Diaz. June is Alex's older sister and the First Daughter of the US. She was not included in the movie, which kinda made me sad because her banter with Alex and Nora is one of my favorites in the book. Also, she just provides that sisterly vibe to Alex similar to what Beatrice provides to Henry. I would've also loved to see the Claremont-Diaz siblings banter on screen but sadly, that is not the case. I would also like to mention that one of my favorite actresses Emeraude Toubia was the fancast for June and simply imagining her with Taylor just makes me giddy and happy.

Another character that was not there but mentioned multiple times in the movie was Henry's mother Duchess Catherine of Edinburgh. She was present in the book but not in the movie so that's another character that I would've loved to see on screen.

For the characters that were changed, a few notable ones were Rafael Luna. Rafael's character became Miguel in the movie, and believe me when I tell you that Miguel irritates me in the movie, especially when he is around Alex, which is always! Another notable character change was the royal ruler of England. In the book, it was Queen Mary but in the movie, the character became King James so it was a transition from a queen to a king which I don't mind.

So far, those are the only ones that really come to mind. The other side characters like Zahra, Nora, Shaan, and Percy were maintained. I would also like to add that it's a smart move when they decided to have the author of the book Casey Mcquiston appear in the movie! That's a slay, honestly.

As for the differences in the storyline and dialogue...

Storyline-wise, the movie stayed pretty true to the book, which is honestly good because I am not the biggest fan of when they put too much twists in a book to screen adaptation that sometimes it already strays away from the original plot. Some iconic scenes from the book that did not make it to the movie (the Cornetto scene, for example, but it was released later on) and some minor changes to places were made like in the book, Alex and Henry first met in the Rio Olympics while in the movie, they first met at the Melbourne Climate Conference.

Dialogue-wise, it is pretty much the same thing. Some dialogue was just made more dramatic in the movie (Zahra saying "I will Brexit your head right off your body" to Henry in the movie is one of my favorites), but most of it was taken from the book itself which honestly, slay because the book basically gives you your script so if changes were to be made, it would be minor and not super major.

More deleted scenes could possibly be coming, so keep manifesting for their release, you guys!

Before I end, let's talk intimacy, smut and spice

This story is definitely not YA, and it has spice and smut within. Honestly, I would rate the spice 3/5 chili peppers because it's not like a full-blown "frack me boneless" or something but it still has hooking up and making love scenes that are essential to show the growing romance between Alex and Henry. To be fair, since I watched the movie before reading the book, I was surprised by the speed of the spice but I was also enchanted by the tenderness of when they made love in their room in Paris. Like that scene was beautifully executed and I was speechless after that.

The intimacy level of the story is one of the main reasons (if not the main reason) why Nick and Taylor had to be close so fast because the level of trust that needs to be established in order to execute the intimate scenes is necessary between two actors. Their dedication to their craft just leaves me in awe every time I think of the care and work they, along with the entire cast and crew, put into this movie.

Now, to conclude,

To end, I do not regret watching Red, White and Royal Blue. It's one of those feel-good movies that I could never get tired of no matter how many times I have already seen the movie, read bits of the book and heard the dialogue. It's just that good. The movie easily became a comfort movie for me and the book is one of my 5-star reads for the year.

History, huh? This movie definitely made some.

[izzysillyhandsy]

Izzy has love for Ed. Ed has love for Izzy.

Ed loved Izzy as best he could. Izzy loved Ed as best he could.

And it wasn't only not good enough, in the end it was actively bad, a destructive, unhealthy, co-dependent love for both of them.

But!

We don't know when and how it started (Izzy's "all my life" implies a very long time) and what happened between them in the years and years they spent together. We don't know if there were good, happy times once. Or at least content and/or exciting ones. What we do know is how important Ed is to Izzy, and vice versa. They built their whole lives around each other.

Yes, their relationship was (at least in the end, maybe always) damaging to both of them, to put it lightly. But I think they didn't know it could be any other way and painfully held onto each other 'cause this is as good as it gets - at least we don't fuck each other over. At least this one person will never leave me. If we go down, we go down fighting side by side. And if we live another day, there's this one person I can trust to help me survive.

And then Stede comes along. And shows both of them this radical new concept - a soft and sweet kind of love, affection, enjoying each other's company in a light, sunny way. Just having fun, nothing life-and-death about it! Two people immediately getting each other, talking, laughing, being comfortable. Ed immediately falls for it and is the happiest he's ever been. For Izzy it takes a while, and it has to trickle down and be filtered through the crew for him to accept it (also his armour had to be cracked by the Kraken to make even that possible).

For Ed (and also, to an extent, for Izzy) this is the first time in their life they got a taste of a healthy relationship - it can also be like this?

This is only the start of it of course. Love unfortunately isn't that easy. But Ed will get there with Stede, and Izzy will get there (and faster than any of us thought judging by his character development in the first 3 episodes alone).

But...

Edward Teach and Israel Hands, old married couple, best friends, mentor and pupil?, captain and first mate, maybe (ex-)lovers, probably not, their worst enemies, the perfect team, two very troubled men, taking each other down to the brink of death. Obviously theirs wasn't a healthy relationship! But that doesn't mean that their love for each other is worth less and shouldn't have happened. It also doesn't mean that the way forward is to stop that love (as if that was so easy).

This show is all about learning to love in a healthy, mature, non-destructive way - be it romantic love, friendship, the love of (found) family or (most importantly) self-love.

I'm absolutely certain both Eddie and Iz will get there in the end, not us-two-against-the world, not as a romantic couple. But each in their own way and, hopefully, still remaining loosely bound to each other by mutal hard earned respect and love. That's all I hope for for them <3.

[phightinghottakes]

ik that people have probably said similar to what i'm saying rn but i personally think medhammer and subkit are both very bad ships for the same reason imo. i cant ship them because they'd be pretty damn toxic if not going off of an enemies to lovers or perfect universe au or smth. it would be hard to execute them properly

i dont have anything against medhammer and subkit shippers, as long as they're executing it properly, but if you're gonna ship one of them and call the other one toxic, oh boy hypocrite alert. you can dislike the other one but if it's because "iT'S tOXiC!!!!1!11!" then you have literally no right to ship the other one. why? because if you didn't make it perfect that'd be. guess what. Toxic.

idgaf about what you ship, as long as it's not poorly executed or proship, but jesus learn how to maybe not be a hypocrite and do yourself a favor?

tldr if you like medhammer but hate subkit because subkit is toxic or vice versa you have no right to ship that ship at all.

sincerely, Rain anon (🌧️ anon? idk if that's taken but if needed refer to me as either one)

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[chaoticbardlady99]

Lethal Woman (Astarion x GN! Daywalking Vampire)

Chapter 10

Synopsis: A boat battle with the Drueger has dire consequences.

CW: Mentions of violence, mentions of gore,

Author Note: Ten and Eleven are going to be a little short since they are more filler chapters- the Shadow Cursed Lands will be very heavy.

Masterlist

  You love water, but not this water.

   Astarion holds you by the bicep as you peer over the water- far too afraid you may tumble over or be dragged off by something. The water is dark- almost a perfect mirror. You can see your own reflection, but you wish your lover could see his too.

  You and Astarion’s relationship has gone surprisingly well in the aftermath of Dahlia. You had been worried he would become afraid and dump you after finding out Cazador was after both of you, but instead, he became significantly more protective and affectionate. It was odd, buit there hadn’t been a single moment to address him about it.

 You, Astarion, Gale, Karlach, and Shadowheart are heading towards the coordinates where Nere is located. You are both aware of how closely some creature is following you- it seems to have massive tentacles, but also a lizard like body. A Kraken? Maybe?

 “My love,” Astarion says nervously while pulling you back, “I think being more towards the middle of the boat would be safer.”

“Astarion Ancunin,” you gasp, “are you… telling me to be careful!?”

  He rolls his eyes at you before pulling you into a very sweet kis- then whispering against your lips, “I’m demanding you be careful

- don’t make me punish you, Darling.”

  You feel heat go straight to your core- the idea humming through your veins. Punishment usually means he is thinking of thrusting into you from behind while whispering sweet nothings in your ears- nipping at the tip of them- then paying an exceptional amount of attention to your clit.

“Shhh,” you whisper, “everyone else can hear us.”

 “Let them,” he growls possessively in your ear, “I’m the only one who can smell how delicious you are and I’m the only one who gets to worship you- give them something for their alone time.”

 Your breath hitches at the words he says. You wouldn’t consider yourself a kinky person, but Astarion makes every sexual act sound positively exquisite. Even though you haven’t had sex for a while. 

 You don’t mind at all- you are happy Astarion feels safe enough to explore intimacy with you without pushing his own boundaries. The two of you had grown close exceptionally fast and you can’t remember a life without him. It makes you feel some guilt, but it does give Tessa’s death a bit of purpose.

 You wouldn’t be here for the person who needs you most and vice versa. 

  A sudden shaking of the boat causes Astarion to hold you tighter to his chest.

 A group of Druegar hop over onto the boat- you can’t help but scowl. Druegar and Drow had been natural enemies for centuries- Druegar had been running the camp your mother died in. 

  You numbly walk over and the man goes to open his mouth, but you didn’t really care to listen. You kick the man straight in the nose and then use the bottom of your foot to drop him into the depths below- a massive tentacle coming up between the boats and skewering him.

 The fight begins and ends very quickly. The Druegar were no match for you and your group- Gale and Shadowheart didn’t necessarily agree with your approach, but at least Astarion and Karlach understood. 

  The boat ride continues to go pretty easily, but of course- it can never be that easy with this group. Misfortune seems to follow you everywhere.

  The Kraken suddenly appears- one of it’s tentacles wrapping around your neck. You can hear Astarion calling your name and Karlach running, but it’s far too late. 

 You forgot that Krakens are greedy, hungry creatures. The Druegar weren’t going to be enough.

 Your head disappears under the water and you take in a mouth full of the dark, murky water. You are thankful that you naturally have dark vision and that you don’t necessarily need to breathe even though it’s uncomfortable not to. 

  You change your mind very quickly- being able to see in the dark is a curse. An even bigger curse is the giant fucking Neotheliod that is dragging you towards it’s mouth. You begin to panic- unsure of what you should be doing to get away from the massive creature because you’ve never seen one. 

  You can feel blood seeping from your leg as the creature continues to pull her further down- it’s spiky tongue digging more into your flesh. You thrash around- trying to make it harder for the creature to pull you down and it works momentarily, but it also attracts another creature in it’s wake. 

  A Kraken with all of it’s tentacles and it’s massive fins comes soaring through the water right towards you- you scream into the water as you begin to see the whites of it’s eyes and like that- you’re in the creatures’ mouth. 

  You cling to one of it’s razor sharp teeth, scrambling to swim away before it closes it’s jaw- you barely make it and the creature does not tear your foot off like you had been anticipating. 

  You turn invisible in the water- the creature thrashes around wildly as it looks for you and you feel a sense of relief.

 You turn to begin swimming back towards the surface, knowing your invisibility has worn off, and the kraken gone, but some weird fish creature is in your way and it says something you don’t understand, but it can’t possibly be good because your world is getting darker and darker by the moment until it completely disappears.

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 The group split up- Karlach telling Astarion she will pay him 50 gold and a fresh hog so she can be partnered with Shadowheart in their search for you. 

  Astarion had almost jumped in after you, but Gale had cast “Hold Person” on him. Astarion had never felt more pissed off in his entire life. 

 “You know, that Kraken was really quite impressive,” Gale says, “they are very fascinating creatures- rarely leave their prey alive.”

 Astarion bristles, “Gods Gale- you are really the most educated man I know. Would you like a closer look next time?”

  Gale seems to get the hint that maybe the ‘fun fact’ wasn’t all that fun at the moment. It would be preferable if he doesn’t have to spend 200 gold to bring you back because that means a whole ass day and a half without you as they head back to camp. 

 He probably should have attempted to convince you against fighting the Druegar in the first place, but it was a rather fun fight and it was actually kind of difficult. Astarin hasn’t had to think that hard in a fight for a while. 

  They had been so close to that stupid ruin in the distance- the damn thing couldn’t wait for another ship to go by? 

  There are the oddest statues as they continue their trek up a rocky cliff- Gale complains about his knees the whole time and Astarion does actually feel bad for the man. At least Astarion has some undead strength and his cartilidge won’t be wearing thin anytime soon. 

  Something in the air changes and Astarion suddenly feels like a spring ready to snap. 

“Gale,” Astarion says, turning to the man, “do you feel that?”

 Gale nods his head very, very slowly. 

“Astarion,” Gale says very slowly, “there is a Beholder Beast behind you and I think we may have made a mistake because the statues are not statues- in the traditional sense.”

 He looks around to see what Gale is referring to and he finally notices the statues for what they actually are- petrified Drow. 

 The  sound of the angry, growling Beholder beast rings in his ears.

“Shit.”

[adri-todo1]

Hello my lovelies, today I am here to do another Romance Club and MK11/MK1 headcanon expansion

Today we are talking about Gisella from Heart of Trespia and Tanya from MK1 so let's get into it.

Now we are going to start with similarities in style, backstory, personality and family. First of all Gisella in Season one and two of Heart of Trespia is shown wearing her bandit armour which consists of the colours, brown, red, black and somewhat silver. Meanwhile Tanya in Umgadi attire for most of the storyline is wearing yellow, black and silver like her MKX counterpart with different variations.

Now as I said before with the Sindel and her daughters as Basus headcanon. Just because they don't have a similar colour palette doesn't mean we should overshadow any of their similarities in other aspects of their character.

In Heart of Trespia, Gisella was implied to be orphaned with Taki and Reyna being the only ones living with her at the time. Since I didn't find much information on Tanya's family it's safe to assume in MK1 that she might have been an orphan as well.

Other than that these two lovely women are lesbians who are paired up with their own lovers, Giselle's lover depends on if Ellaire is romancing her or not so if Ellaire isn't with Gisella then Delias is Gisella's lover. Depending on whether or not that Gisella is with Delias or Ellaire, she still has a royal as her lover. Meanwhile Tanya is the lover of Empress Mileena of Outworld before Mileena was crowned Empress after Sindel's death and still continues to be a devoted lover to Mileena now that they don't have to worry about keeping up appearances.

Tanya and Gisella also shared traits of protectiveness, rationality and loyalty. Their loyalty lies with those who have earned their respect but they equally despise those who wrong others in the pursuit of power.

They also have a similarity of body and face appearances. Now to those who will get mad at me, look at their sprites and compare the similarities. They have almost the same nose, lip and eyebrow shape. They have round cheeks which are noticeable when they smile and they got a slim build which is perfect for the agile stunts either of them have to pull off.

If they were somehow related, they'd meet up atleast once as Mileena and Ellaire would have to make peace treaties to ensure that Outworld would have Isrion's back in war and vice versa.

They would only notice the similarities in appearances once Delias or Kitana pointed them out for each other. They would get along just fine although Tanya would disagree with Gisella's previous lifestyle as a bandit.

Gisella and Tanya would bond of their love of weaponry and protecting their loved ones. Gisella shows Tanya where she could keep weapons in the Umgadi armour that her enemies would not see.

They would share their experiences with each other on life, romance or challenges they've faced.

That's all for today my lovelies but here's some pictures of our girls.

Tanya and Gisella:

Source: Pinterest

[league-of-blorbos]

This is gonna be a long and weird post from me, and I don't know if it'll even be comprehensible in the end, but I just wanna put my thoughts out there about my feelings for Jhinhwei and why even as everyone else has fallen in love with this ship, I'm struggling to get into the idea of it.

(And to get this out of the way, this is all just my personal interpretation of these characters, I'm not gonna shame anyone for shipping something I don't or reading a character differently than I do. I'm doing this mostly cuz I just wanna voice my thoughts on this pair and maybe hear from people who think differently than I do. Also the other ships I tagged will make sense in a moment I PROMISE!)

It's not that I don't understand the appeal, oh no, this ship feels like it was handmade to appeal to Tumblr's love of darker, tension-filled, inherently toxic, homoerotic romance. It's LoL Hannigram, it's someone who's at least somewhat moral falling obsessively in love with a psychopath, and now they're at a cross roads of if they want to try to remain a decent person but abandon their love, or embrace the darkness within them and allow themselves to be in love with this horrible person. There's so much potential for drama and complex explorations of love and obsession that this ship should absolutely grip me.

But it doesn't, even as it's gripped others who like the same other pairings that I do.

My two other favorite ships (bear with me, I think understanding why I love these two helps rationalize why I don't ship Jhinhwei), the ones that have actually worked their way into every crevasse of my brain and I think about scenarios of them while trying to fall asleep is Kayn/Rhaast (big shock I know /s) and Simon/Betty from Adventure Time. They are also two pairings that delve into obsession and where neither partner is fully good (or in Petrigrof's case, more like good people with unintentionally toxic behavior).

Let's start with Rhaayn cuz I've rambled enough about that ship on here to fill a library (hehe voicelines references). Rhaayn is more of a classic enemies to friends to lovers with the Symbrock dynamic of Rhaast being a parasite that is fighting for control over Kayn's body being thrown in there for spice. The fun with this ship is seeing how their fight forces them to have to share moments of closeness and eventually bond with the other, and how through those moments, Kayn and Rhaast both find a perfect mirror for themselves. They find someone with the same level of bloodthirst and similar war-related trauma, but also someone who balances them as they are opposites and the same in so many ways.

Petrigrof (spoilers for both Adventure Time and Fiona And Cake) is sorta the opposite of Rhaayn in that a lot of Rhaayn focuses on how they fall in love, while Petrigrof's main story starts after already being together. The other way they're different is that while I very much SHIP Rhaayn, I'm kinda lying when I say I SHIP Simon and Betty as my favorite part is that they don't stay together in the end. The Youtuber Sarcastic Chorus has already done an amazing analysis of this ship that matches a lot of my feelings on them, but to sum up, how Petrigrof ended is all due to Betty and Simon's mistakes. They loved each other so much that Betty was willing to throw so much of herself away for Simon, while he was blinded to how much she was doing for him, and even in the moments where he did recognize Betty was doing too much, he let her keep trying as he thought it would undermine their relationship if he didn't. And I love that their story is a lesson in how even well-meaning obsession can be toxic and that you need to know when to walk away and move on, even when it hurts you and the person you love.

Simon is just as madly in love as Betty is and vice versa, and they're both equally responsible for the way they ended up. While with Rhaayn, both crave each other's company because they've found someone who is just as violent and fucked up in all the same ways as they are.

But compared to those two pairs, Jhinhwei feels too unbalanced, and not just due to the power imbalance. To summarize it, my other ships feel like two people who ruin each other (or heal each other, or both!), while Jhinhwei mostly feels like Jhin trying to ruin Hwei and the main draw is Hwei choosing to accept the ruin and his internal struggle about it. The story of them, as I read it, focuses almost solely on Hwei's arc and you could theoretically have him effect Jhin just as much, but first, any attempts for Hwei to "fix" Jhin would just recreate the issue for me in the other direction, where it's now about Jhin's internal struggle with Hwei trying to heal him. Second, I have a hard time reading that as anything other than drastically changing Jhin's character to the point where you might as well make an OC.

That last point is definitely more of a personal problem as I have way more trouble getting into Jhin's headspace than I do with Hwei or Kayn or even Rhaast. But to me, Jhin is almost more of a force of madness than a character I can dive into the complex mind of, and I'm kinda ok with that. A lot of people love trying to figure out how these characters' brains work and why they are who they are, but just like how Riot never wanted to unmask Jhin (until that goddamn concept art came out!), I'm ok with leaving the mask on and letting some things about Jhin remain mysterious, even at the cost of Jhinhwei not meeting a lot of the criteria to be a ship that I really fall in love with.