#their story is going to be so freaking interesting

[uvonobu]

Hi guys !!!!!!!! Sacanime haul !!!!!!!!!

That’s my actual merch but here’s my signed prints !!!!

@s0ftand0nly made the Franklin drawing and @imagobin made the Uvo one!

Yapping about their VA’s under the cut !!!

EDWARD BOSCO (FRANKLINS VA) WAS THE NICEST VA IVE EVER MET!!! ITS ACTUALLY INSANE HOW NICE HE WAS !! I came up to him and I was like I don’t know if you remember but you voiced Franklin in HxH over ten years ago and he got so excited he was like oh my god no one ever comes for Franklin and I showed him my Franklin merch and he was like “is he your favorite?” And I was like “yeah he is” and he went “YES!!!” Really loud 😭 he said the print was adorable and we talked about how he got into voice acting cause no one else was in his line (☹️) he was talking how he loved Franklin’s nen ability and how he’d love to voice him if the manga gets animated THEN HE WISHED ME GOOD LUCK IN MY FUTURE ENDEAVORS IN FRANKLINS VOICE AUGHHH I LOBE HIM NEW FAVORITE VA

Uvo’s va … I had an interesting time let’s say… I left super pissed off the first thing I said to my friend was “bro I’m never going to meet a voice actor again that was genuinely so embarrassing” 😭 so I came with my Uvo plushies attached to my hip and I put my print in front of him like “I know you voiced Uvo and I was wondering if you would sign my print cause he’s one of my favorite characters and I love him a lot” and the way he looked at me you’d think I just told him I blew up a small village of squirrels he was like “Uvogin??? He’s, like, the worst person on the entire planet!!!” And I was like . Well yes he is that’s why I like him and my dad saved me and he was like “I think they like him because of Uvo’s friendship with Nobunaga and how it affected the story after” and his va was like “that’s fair” but I left so embarrassed cause I just got flamed for liking Uvo from UVOS VA HIMSELF like I need to die I know it’s not that deep but oml bro his FACE his FACE ……. I think he was just surprised and not judging cause someone else came with a Uvo funko and he prolly didn’t freak out he also told us about how he bought Uvo’s Bandai figure a few weeks ago so it’s not like he hates Uvo but I think he didn’t expect Uvo to be anyone’s favorite character 😭😭😭 ummm… mb…. Next time I’ll go meet him with an Uvo ita bag and see how he reacts to that

OH YEAH WAIT here’s my cosplay stats:

Saw 3 Chrollos, 2 Shizukus, 1 Hisoka, and 1 Killua

[storkmuffin]

One thing I've found very shocking about suddenly liking kpop 4th generation as a Korean who has never given a shit about kpop is how queer it is. Korean people know queer people exist. One gay couple even got their first step in some sort of parity recognition last year. We have out trans women who have entertainment careers. But we don't have like, a Troye Sivan or Chappell Roan, as in people are queer AND out AND successful AND discussed as part of mainstream popular culture. It gets doubly confusing because Kpop imported elements of Japanese host bar culture in order to foster parasocial obsession in the fandom for profit, so there's a lot of queer baiting going on to begin with, packaged as fanservice for straight women. And Korea is also extremely homosocial, where men and women almost never touch casually in public unless they are lovers but intra- gender physical affection is rarely sexualized, at least officially, unless you're literally making out.

As a consequence I'm surprised at how actually out Seonghwa of Ateez is about being queer and how his company lets him.

-He picked Troye Sivan's song Angel Baby to sing as a cover. Ateez don't release music videos for every song but they did make a video for this solo cover. The first line is "I need a lover to keep me sane," and the 5th lyric of this song is "Give him my all when I don't even have it." He chose this song. He enunciated the pronoun very clearly. Troye Sivan is also who he is and we all know in Korea who he is and what he stands for in terms of sexuality. That kind of out pop star in our pop culture has not happened yet in Korea. But maybe someday?!?

- In an English language fan chat he told a story about how as a small boy he would go shopping with his mother, and wanted to try on the pretty girl clothes but was told he couldn't. This is an astonishing thing for a Korean boy to admit, if the story is not about how this is how he realized he's a trans woman.

- When he was invited to the Isabel Marant fashion show and invited to pick an outfit he specifically said he wanted to wear women's clothing. He picked a dress to wear over pants.

For context: He's not just a Korean boy. He's from 경상도, like full on. My whole family is from 경상도. It's a very macho, very chauvinist region, even for S. Korea.

- The way he enacts rough macho 경상도 masculinity has the patina of a drag parody in a way that San's using his native dialect doesn't.

- In a tarot reading and then a Korean birth chart reading they left in when the reader specifically said that Seonghwa is "the wife" vis a vis Hong Joong, the group leader. The members may or may not know what will be said ahead of time but the production definitely does, and they're the ones to edit this so they can take out anything the band or the company finds objectionable. It's the choice of the terms for WIFE that is meaningful because the birth chart reader also said Seonghwa had the character of a 참모 which can be translated variously as advisor, right hand man, essential staff, loyal supporter. So he has that personality but his role in the match up with Hong Joong they keep saying WIFE. And he doesn't seem to mind or be upset by this when 99 percent of the straight Korean men I know would freak the fuck out at being called his business partner's WIFE.

- This is all in contrast to Jong Ho, the main vocalist, who is clearly straight. The way Jong Ho reacts to the set ups they have in the reality and variety show programming they make is mainstream heterosexuality, Korean style behavior. His not doing a unit song with the other members and instead singing a conventional love song, then casting an actress to be the addressee of that song in the music video was a statement he was making about himself but also about at least one other member.

I'm very interested in how this is going to play out, because Seonghwa has also said he LOVES his idol career, so much so that he wants to do it forever, but at the same time he's wearing Isabel Marant dresses and singing Troye Sivan covers about wanting a male lover, and we're just not there yet.

[racerchix21]

More Than Seven Sentence Sunday

I was tagged by @bidisasterevankinard. Thanks love!

I haven’t decided if I’m going 118 or 217 Tommy for this fic just quite yet but this is part of a story based on @weewoo911’s post earlier.

Regardless of whether of which Tommy I use Sal will still be working with him in some capacity!

“Captain [?] I presume,” a voice says behind Tommy and Tommy freezes because he’d recognize that voice anywhere. It’s Evan Buckley, star of so many of Tommy’s StarLit guilty pleasure movies and his not so secret celebrity crush.

He’d seen something about him getting cast as the main character on the new HBO show Fire and Flame and [Cap] had said something about their station possibly having people come into shadow them a couple weeks ago. He’d naively assumed it’d high school students looking to figure out their post high school plans but now having his living wet dream standing in the engine bay with him he was freaking out.

“No but Captain [?] is just up those stairs and to the left,” Tommy answers turning to address the man standing behind him.

“Thanks,” the man chirps happily as he starts towards the steps. “Wait I should probably introduce myself first. I’m Evan Buckley and you are,” Evan says holding out a hand towards Tommy smiling at him.

“Tho…Tommy Kinard,” Tommy answers stuttering over his own name willing his blush to show on his face. If he happens to hold onto Evan’s hand a little longer than strictly necessary they aren’t gonna talk about it.

“It’s nice to meet you Tommy,” Evan says before he heads up to the loft leaving Tommy to stand in the bay lost in a haze. He’s only broken out of his trance when the alarm sounds and Sal smacks his shoulder as he hustles past.

For those who might be interested: @chococara25 @rdng1230 @sunnywithachanceofbi @bangpop91 @weewookinard @thestrangestthlng @babyspacegay @sassybeautydiysports @desert--moonchild @aplaceinme @gaybonesforivy

[tiredandoptimistic]

That conversation is definitely a good scene, I guess I just don't find Jace's reasoning there to be super convincing. I do enjoy Jace's relationship with the memory of Stephen, but the idea that there's any importance to keeping a name alive just isn't something that appeals to me (though I accept that it is important to Jace).

The rest of my explanation kinda turned into a rant about the whole demon blood thing, so I'm putting it under a read more in case anybody doesn't want to see that.

Jace talks in that passage about how a name doesn't change the truth of who you are, and I just really don't like that sentiment. He says that Sebastian changing his name didn't change who he was, and implies that he was born a Herondale and thus is inherently a Herondale forever. It just feels so contradictory to the main thesis of TMI; to claim that the name someone was given at birth is somehow bound to their immutable self. (As a sidenote, this is why I don't like Sebastian as a villain. I think it's uninteresting to say that "he was born evil because of demon blood and that can never change"). I think TMI would be more interesting if Sebastian was capable of change, and I think that the story falls flat if Jace isn't. The demon blood storyline felt like it was building to Jace realizing that his genetic composition doesn't make him inherently evil, but instead it ended with him being reassured that actually he's biologically good and it's somebody else who's biologically evil. (It's not "your blood doesn't define you," it's "don't worry, somebody else got the demon blood so he's the one being defined by it"). Rather than learning that his relationship to Valentine doesn't define him, he gets to learn that actually he has a different father and a different family to be genetically predefined by. I'm not saying that I want Jace to be related to Valentine (I'm a Clace shipper after all), but I wish that the demon blood hadn't turned Sebastian evil either, and that Jace and Clary would be forced to deal with the fact that it was just Valentine's shitty parenting that made him turn out that way. Jace is treating it as a fact here that people can't change, that he's a Herondale and denying that fact would do nothing good for anybody. I think that people can change, and that the names belonging to your ancestors mean nothing on their own. He may not hate Stephen, but I don't think that he's got any reason to take his name (and it's very noticeable that he doesn't even consider calling himself Montclaire, even though as far as I'm aware that family would also die with him).

That got more aggressive than I intended, and I hope you don't think any of it was directed at you. I do think that him going by Jace Lightwood Herondale would be a good compromise so that he could express multiple facets of his family history, I just got distracted by how much the demon blood storyline annoys me (I still love TMI to bits though). I also think you made a really good point about him losing the right to the name in a year, since time pressure could definitely freak a person out. In a way it's safer for him to go by Herondale, because it's something he could lose; while the Lightwood family will always be open to him.

My firmest TSC take will always be that Jace should have gone by Lightwood in the end. I get that him being a Herondale makes sense in the grand scheme of the TSC universe (him, Will, James, Kit, and Edmund are all birds of a feather), but his personal arc is far more dependent on the family who raised him. Learning about his biological parents is of course important to him, but calling himself a Herondale doesn't actually feel like a resolution to his identity crisis. TMI is all about rejecting the hatred handed down from previous generations, which is why neither Clary nor Jace identify as Morgensterns. While Stephen was nowhere near as bad as Valentine, he also did even less to shape Jace into his adult self. Robert and Maryse on the other hand actually raised him for half his life, and Alec Isabelle and Max grew up alongside him as his siblings. He's a Lightwood in every way that matters, I don't get why Jace (in-universe) would choose to identify himself as a Herondale when there's nothing tying him to that family but blood spilled before he was born.

Anyways, I'm a Jace Lightwood truther for life, thank you for coming to my tedtalk

[wikitpowers]

"He is not cruel, like his father was, and is capable of love for others. Having been hurt and used by so many people in his life has taken its toll on Ash, as he mentions to Janus that he doesn't mind being hurt by him as he's used to it.

Ash seems to be especially aware of the perfect loyalty spell placed on him and exhibits bitter tendencies and insecurity about his effect on the people around him as he is unaware whether they truly care for him or are under the spell's effects."

i can't wait until dru comes along and shows him that she isn't going to hurt him & that she loves him just as he is with her whole being

[harrowscore]

can't believe a show based on a videogame (usually games adaptations are notoriously bad, which isn't the case here tho) gave me the beauty and the beast/twisted mirrors/enemies to traveling companions/ruthless antihero+optmistic but still badass heroine who takes none of his shit/age gap but make it sexy dynamic of my dreams. as much as i love maximus and i think he deserves the best writing ever because 1. he's a clever deconstruction of the aspiring Knight bro who's actually a bit of a loser and, as much as lucy, sees the world in black&white at first and then doesn't get what he thought he wanted but what he needs (or at least i hope he'll eventually get it), and 2. he's a cutie and i want an epic love story for him too, it's very funny how they tried to give us a puppy kind of romance and the tumblr girlies still fixated on the "toxic ~she bites his finger off and he cuts hers off and sews it on his hand in what we'll pretend it's a symbolic marriage rings exchange or whatever~ asshole who used to be a nice guy/good girl™ with a lot of spunk and hidden anger but unshakeable morals" kind of relationship.

[neonhellscape]

okay its no secret i dont buy into marazhai being the persona he puts on. so as i've officially met him in game now, im making a list of all the in-game reasons i think he's a bit of an idiot [which i love btw. i find him far more compelling if he's a bit stupid/weird and he's trying so hard not to be but you just know nobody in commorragh is inviting him to parties]

the very first time you get a glance of him on a rooftop and. 'deal with this' "of course" proceeds to just walk off like 3 seconds after the other two

ambushes you. has you cornered. is in optimal position to kick your ass frankly, high ground and better weapons and utilising shock against you. ...he bitches at you for a while, gets insulted, then runs off into the forest with a maniacal cackle

heinrix fired a mild insult [considering what he's like to everyone else its barely an insult] and he took big enough issue with it to start saying how he'll break him and turn him into a pet. oh sure dude you're responding super well to this mild comment from the guy who accidentally insults everyone and their entire ancestral line at some point

i think it says something that he's learned to speak your language fluently too. that Has to be some kind of Yikes moment to admit publicly in drukhari culture. buried family secret great great grandfather drukhari-georg learned to speak mon keigh and now we claim he just spoke oddly because was shot in the head as a child to prevent the shame

he also knows the mon keigh lore that says youre a super special little guy as rogue trader and actually LISTENS to the fact you're the special little guy as rogue trader. and he does treat you as more equal/with more respect than the other characters. thats not just a drukhari culture yikes thats what gets you checked for a concussion or brain damage

literally socially atrocious enough its believed he's working with you [read: with you. not using you, not manipulating, cooperating. this is a big difference i feel] and only he himself doesnt believe it

ignore the fact he eventually DOES work with you which. is its own follow up statement

challenges you to fight him, to give chase then and there. i made him wait while i went through english government simulator where i queued for multiple days, did multiple day/week voidship trips back and forth, got distracted by accidentally starting jae's romance, pasqal telling me to servitorise her, getting blackout drunk with her, shipwide broadcast tm, giving her a voidship, her getting me a space cat, attacked by pirates, dealt with a plague, explored a few extra systems.......................

he destroys your palace. ...its rebuilt effectively within a week. most of the damage is in bodies which are just sent to the poor district to rot [almost feels worse than the damage done good job imperium]

the throne has claw marks. he could've blown it up or shot it or piled corpses on it but no he wanted to sit on the fancy chair and so turned into a common housecat mauling the sofa arm

how long was he just sitting there lounging on that chair? again see how long i kept him waiting. he was just sitting there trying to find a comfy position on this [for him] kinda small chair JUST so he could briefly taunt, break your window with his space motorbike, jump off the chair in a dramatic [but not gunna lie not that impressive] feat of gymnastics, then fly out. he doesnt even shoot at you as he leaves

i will continue my list as i see more that entertain me

[brown-little-robin]

it went fine yesterday btw :}

[themintman]

I am filled with HATE and SORROW y'all know how like Nurm is my favourite character my number 1 guy out of any piexe of media ever I love him dearly which sucks cause he's pretty unpopular but whatever whatever. N I'm like "man I really want to see some new Nurm content but everything I find I've either seen before or I created ☹️" and then I. I go on tiktok and I KEEP seeing edits that start with a clip with Nurm in them and then haha surprise it's actually a Petra edit!! Cause it's ALWAYS PETRA GOD DAMN IT and I love her. I love Petra so much. She is a fabulous character but ohm y god I am tweaking. I genuinely started crying y'all I am not sane nor normal. I'm so normal about him. Oh my good god I am going insane I am 💥💥💥💥

[melon-official]

She wails as though a part of her has died.

oh man. i picked up the sidestory to @just-a-carrot's five-arc horror epic a couple days ago and i'm so glad i did. i'll probably be talking nonstop and/or drawing about it for days

there's a handful of whiteboard doodles with other characters under the cut, but rly i just wanted to pay a homage to the scene that hit me the hardest... enjoy

[ninicaise]

damen & laurent are so iconic i think because as the tumblr expectations demand they Do share 2 single braincells where one of them is for pining & being horny and the other one is the most powerful braincell in the universe and it's for being the smartest most competent people in the five entire kingdoms. and that is inherently a very interesting combination

[antirepurp]

oh dear jojo ova discussion is threatening to give me grade A stardust crusaders brainrot again. but like i already did a whole-ass rewrite on part3 that incorporates themes from the ova so what the fuck am i even going to do with this ??

[legogender]

caught up finallyyyy. that shit was FIRE

[fujouppy]

watched whitepine 1. i think i want to gather all my thoughts on part 1 before moving on to the next installments but oh wow im excited to see where this story goes

[punkcherries]

everyone whittled me down and i watched arcane. it was alright

[vulpinesaint]

sorry thinking about how i wrote an entirely lovecraft themed poem about transgenderism for my beginning creative writing class last semester and one single person besides the professor in that room full of english majors recognized that it was referencing lovecraft. i do not mean this in a way that shames people for not having read stuff or for not having the means to read stuff. but oh my god guys does anyone who is getting a higher level education in literature even look at the literary sources of common phenomena in media nowadays