#there was going to be a preview video but then i started looking for clips and uhhh uhhh

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IN FULL BLOOM is a a forty-five minute documentary describing the writing process and development of Fable’s second studio album. The video consists of interview segments with the members interspersed with behind the scenes footage and vlogs. It focuses mostly on Yejun, who was responsible for most of the album’s production. The video is split into twelve parts that the describe the overall production of the album and focus on each individual track.

INTRODUCTION

“Two, three! Once upon a time! Hello, we are Fable!” Jaeseop leads the group in their introduction. The six of them sit in a row, Jaeseop and Yejun in the middle. They both hold copies of the album, the cover’s iridescent pears shining in the light.

“After a long time, we’ve returned with our second full album. It represents many of our feelings and memories, and we hope you will listen or have already listened to it well,” Jaeseop says. “For the first time, the production was led by our very own member, Yejun.”

He seems more proud of this than Yejun, who acknowledges the praise with only a slight smile.

“I couldn’t have done it alone,” Yejun says. “Writing and composing an album is a huge task, and Intak, Mingeun, and Haksu were also extremely instrumental throughout the production. Additionally, we worked quite a bit with our labelmates, Neon Nights, who were extremely helpful and insightful.”

“Please be sure to enjoy the album!” Jaeseop concludes with a bow.

TRACK 1: 유령

"Despite being the first track on the album, '유령' was one of the last songs I wrote," Yejun says. He sits next to Byeonghwi, who nods along silently with everything he says. "I needed something to set the tone for the rest of the album that follows.

"So '유령' is an indie rock inspired song that describes the feeling of someone who's been left on read."

"We picked this as the first track together," Byeonghwi says. "Andrew-hyung had multiple songs written and he asked us to choose the best one. He texted the group chat first about it." He leans forward, closer to the camera.

"He never texts first. Most of the time he doesn't even respond. He's the one ghosting us."

Byeonghwi seems proud of his connection back to their song.

"Don't be so dramatic," Yejun says, playfully elbowing him in the side. "You picked this song, right?"

Byeonghwi nods. "It was almost unanimous. I think Haksu-hyung and Intak-hyung were the only two who voted for other songs."

"There were better songs," Intak says. Haksu stares at him, brow creasing into a frown for a split second.

“I thought it was difficult to sing,” Haksu says. "I wanted to consider how the song fit us as a group."

"Andrew is in our group. He knows what we're capable of."

Haksu pouts. "I only wanted to be considerate. Andrew-hyung ended up singing most of the song."

“That’s nothing new,” Intak says. “It’s always the two of you singing every part.”

“Me? I didn’t give myself a vote. I like all my songs equally. If I could make that decision myself, I wouldn’t have had to ask everyone,” Yejun says. “It’s better when we’re all involved. Then it becomes the group’s song, not just mine.”

“You have to have had a favorite,” Byeonghwi says persistently. “Something you hoped we would pick?”

Yejun laughs. “I really didn’t.”

Byeonghwi doesn’t look satisfied.

Haksu stands in the recording booth, glaring at Yejun, who sits on the other side of the glass.

“The feeling still isn’t right,” Yejun says.

“And I said you need to be more specific than that! You can’t just say the ‘feeling’ and leave it at that. It doesn’t mean anything to me.”

The camera flips, to show Mingeun and Byeonghwi sitting behind Yejun.

“This is why we only release one album a year,” Mingeun says quietly, holding a microphone close to his mouth. The argument can still be heard in the background. “Andrew-hyung is a perfectionist.”

“You are too,” Byeonghwi says. “I don’t think that’s the reason. Andrew-hyung didn’t even write anything on the last album.”

“I don’t want people to stop listening to the album thirty seconds into the first song,” Yejun says, voice rising to almost a fever pitch in the background.

“Then do it yourself.”

“Fine.”

The camera flips back to Haksu and Yejun switching places. Haksu stands with his back to the camera, arms crossed. In the recording booth, Yejun sings the same part.

“They both sounded the same to me,” Byeonghwi says when he finishes.

TRACK 2: GEPPETTO

"If 'Ghost' is the sonic start to the album, then 'Geppetto' is the thematic start. It started as something I wrote for fun in my free time, but I realized it fit well with the theme of the album," Yejun says. He sits in the middle of the frame, flanked by Byeonghwi and Haksu.

“Which is?” Byeonghwi prompts.

“Youth. Being young and carefree. There are multiple songs inspired by fairy tales, or at least with that sort of feeling. I thought it fit well with our group.”

“Is Pinocchio one of your favorite stories?” Haksu asks. “In the same way Mingeun really liked The Little Mermaid?”

“The lyrics came later,” Yejun says. “It was something that just felt right. You of all people should be familiar with that.” He casts a deliberate glance at Haksu.

“It was just a question,” Haksu says sulkily.

“Can we start over?” Byeonghwi asks the camera.

TRACK 3: HOME RUN

The video switches to portrait mode for the third track. A blurred out Vlive icon is still visible in the corner. On screen, Haksu lies on a hotel room bed.

"Where are you now?" Haksu says, reading a comment. "We're in Andrew-hyung's hometown, Colorado. We have a break for a little bit, so I came to say hi." He waves the camera.

He's easily distracted by something off screen. "Are you working?"

"Yes." Yejun's voice comes from somewhere out of sight.

Haksu stands up and walks across the room, camera pointed at the ground. He's wearing Line Friends socks.

"Can I show this on the live?" he asks. He repositions the phone, balancing it on the tiny hotel room desk, so that he, Yejun, and Yejun's computer are all in frame.

"You're already showing it," Yejun says.

“You should take a break,” Haksu says, resting his head in one palm as he kneels next to Yejun. “You’re always working.”

“You’re working too.”

“It’s different.” He takes a closer look at the screen. “What are you working on, anyway?”

“Our new song. It’s finished, except for the recording. I thought a different environment might change what I thought of it.” “Can you give us a spoiler?” Haksu asks.

Yejun looks like he wants to say no, but he unplugs his headphones and lets the music play for a fraction of a second, a bright, brassy instrumental that sounds especially tinny coming from his laptop speakers.

“That’s all I can share,” he says. “Please look forward to the album’s release.”

“The title track, ‘Home Run,’ is a retro, swing-inspired track that incorporates piano, brass, and Fable’s signature Korean instruments,” Jaeseop says, reciting the song’s description. All six active Fable members sit in a row against a plain white backdrop.

He continues on. "It was written by our own members: Yejun, Mingeun, Haksu, and Intak. Yejun also produced the track."

“Not only me,” Yejun says quickly. “Intak helped a lot. We also indebted to Neon Nights’ Hwajung-ssi, whose experience was very valuable to the creation of the song.” His tone brightens suddenly. “Please make sure to show it a lot of love!” He makes a heart over his head. Next to him, Intak looks nauseous.

Yejun stands in a darkened room, lit only by the bright white theme of the Powerpoint presentation projected onto the wall behind him. His audience is one person: Zenith Entertainment CEO Lee Taein. The title of the presentation is written in two languages, large Hangul text over a smaller title in English: A Proposal for the Future Musical and Conceptual Direction of Fable.

Yejun rolls up the sleeves of his dress shirt and begins his presentation. “Over the past few years, Fable has enjoyed a not insignificant modicum of success. I have greatly enjoyed my time as a group member. However, as we approach our fourth year as a group and given the current overall state of kpop, I believe it would be beneficial for all of us to begin to play a larger role in our professional development.”

The rest of Yejun’s speech is cut. Almost immediately, he’s bowing at the waist to Taein. “Thank you for listening.”

Taein remains expressionless for a moment. Then he stands from his seat and says, “I look forward to seeing what you come up with.”

Yejun breaks into a grin, nearly folding himself in half with his bow.

TRACK 4: BREAK OF DAWN

“The next song, ‘Break of Dawn,’ is a transition between the title track and the rest of the album. It keeps some of the same brass and piano instrumentals as ‘Home Run,'" Jaeseop says, introducing the next song.

"We'll also be promoting it," Mingeun chimes in. "The concept and choreography show a refined side of Fable."

"'Break of Dawn' is one of the songs I produced completely on my own," Yejun says. "It was a daunting task. I wanted something that not only fit with the title track, but also something that was unmistakably a Fable song. Something that our fans could listen to and recognize immediately as one of our songs."

Mingeun stands in the center of the group, counting off beats as he leads the choreography in slow, exaggerated movements. His gaze is glued to the practice room mirror, until he spots an incorrect movement.

“Andrew!”

In the back of the formation, Yejun groans and tries to hide behind Intak.

“You wrote the song! You should know where the downbeat is!”

“How do you know I’m not the only one on beat and the rest of you are wrong?”

Mingeun turns around and scowls at him. “I’m not wrong.”

The singling out of one member signals a break for the rest of them.

“In my nightmares, I imagine the military is like this,” Haksu says, lying spread-eagled on the floor.

“It can’t be as bad,” Intak says, sitting next to him. “Mingeun won’t be there.”

“I hope Kiyoung-hyung is enjoying his Mingeun-free time,” Haksu says.

Mingeun takes a break from his private lesson with Yejun to glare at the two of them.

TRACK 5: TALK TO ME

"This is my favorite song," Byeonghwi says, leaning so far forward in his seat that it looks like he'll fall. "Please make sure to show it lots of love."

"You're getting ahead of yourself," Yejun says, nudging him gently in the shoulder, though not hard enough for Byeonghwi to fall.

"Right. The fifth song is called, 'Talk to Me.' It was written and produced by Andrew-hyung himself." Byeonghwi seems to take more pride than Yejun in something he didn't do.

"'Talk to Me' was another later addition to the album. I needed something that would bridge the title tracks to the rest of the album."

"It's such a fun song," Byeonghwi interrupts. "This is an unpopular opinion, because Andrew-hyung told me he doesn't like it very much and it almost wasn't released."

"You can't say that," Yejun says playfully. “I love all these songs equally.”

“I can do it better,” Byeonghwi insists from where he stands, almost completely blocked by the microphone.

Separated by the glass of the recording booth, Yejun sighs and leans back in his seat. "Everyone else has to record their parts too. You sounded good the first sixteen times."

"This is the intro. It can't be good, it has to be perfect."

"Fine, try it again."

Byeonghwi immediately launches into his seventeenth take.

Yejun stares directly into the camera. "I can't say no to him," he says softly, looking miserable. In the background, Byeonghwi can be heard repeating the introductory lines over and over to himself.

TRACK 6: GRAVITY

“‘Gravity’ is the halfway point of the album. It’s a bit slower than every song so far, and every song that follows,” Yejun says, introducing the song. “Every Fable album has to have at least one vocal-focused song. Usually, they’re at the end of the tracklist and we never perform them. I wanted to do something different this time, and that’s how it came to be here.”

The camera cuts to a grainy video of a dimly lit studio. For a few seconds, the only thing in focus is a laptop screen, open to Logic Pro. The view pans up until the inside of the recording booth can be seen. Haksu stands inside, headphones on, staring intently at a stack of papers and mouthing silently to himself.

“Haksu,” Yejun says, causing him to look up.

“Hyung!” Haksu hides himself behind the paper. “You can’t seriously be filming now.” His voice comes out slightly muffled.

“Why not? You sound good. We can do the second verse now.”

“It’s only a guide,” Haksu says, but there’s a note of pride in his voice. He starts with the second verse, still hiding his face behind his lyrics.

A couple of lines later, he pauses and lowers the paper from his face. “What is this part supposed to sound like? It sounds like there’s too many syllables for the line.”

“Just try it,” Yejun cajoles. The camera shakes slightly as he repositions it to reference his own copy of the music on his computer screen.

“You’re not telling me my Korean is bad, are you?” he asks.

“Of course not,” Haksu says, sounding shocked that Yejun would even suggest that. “Not now, but maybe a few years ago.”

“You didn’t think about saying something earlier?”

“I didn’t notice anything earlier!” Haksu protests.

“You don’t read ahead?”

Haksu stares at him. “Why would I do that?”

Yejun sighs, glancing at the clock in the corner of his screen that reads 00:38.

“I have to fix this, but there’s still five more songs to record.”

“I’ll ad-lib it,” Haksu says. “That should be enough for now.” He scans down the page in an exaggerated motion. “There are other parts I would change too.”

Yejun rests his head in his hands, rubbing his eyes. “Fine.”

“Haksu was actually the second person I asked to do the guides,” Yejun says. “Don’t tell him that. He’ll find out later if he watches this. Jaeseop has a really good sense of rhythm, but he didn’t respond to any of my texts. I wanted to do all the recordings that night, and Haksu was willing to do it.”

"Unlike Andrew-hyung, I check my phone." Haksu seems proud of himself. "It was late at night, but he made it sound so urgent. I thought I would record one or two songs. I did all eleven."

He emphasizes the number. "Looking back on it, it was a crazy experience. We were there for hours. I remember walking out into the sunrise. I don't know how long Andrew-hyung was awake for, but he drank so many energy drinks his hands were shaking."

“It’s been a long time since I’ve stayed up for so long,” Yejun says. “I used to be able to pull all-nighters all the time. Now I can tell I’m getting old.”

TRACK 7: 12:00 (심호흡) & TRACK 8: 5분

“The seventh and eighth tracks accompany one another,” Yejun says. “They bring back the fairy tale theme from the beginning of the album. These are Jaeseop’s favorite tracks.”

“If I had a fraction of Andrew’s skill, this is the type of music I’d make,” Jaeseop adds.

“You flatter me,” Yejun says drily. “If you want to learn, all you have to do is ask.”

“This is good,” Jaeseop says, taking out his earbuds. His words are accompanied by hardcoded subtitles, because he and Yejun sit in a coffee shop, Yejun’s laptop in the middle of the table between them.

“Why do you sound surprised?” Yejun asks.

“I’m not surprised. I knew you could write good music.” Yejun takes a sip of his iced coffee, looking very, very tired, if the shadows under his eyes are any indication.

“Do you think they sound like Fable songs?”

“I think any song could be a Fable song, if it’s good. We shouldn’t be constrained to only one sound.”

“Can you be more objective? Pretend to be Taein-nim.”

Jaeseop sucks in a breath. “I’m not doing that. You speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Besides, he’s the opposite of objective.”

Yejun sighs. “I don’t want to propose this to him and then get laughed out of his office. I’d take it personally and never recover.”

“He probably won’t do that,” Jaeseop says in consolation. “He can recognize good music when he hears it.”

Across from him, Yejun looks extremely doubtful.

TRACK 9: NOW OR NEVER

“This song is another track that I thought might never see the light of day,” Yejun says. “It’s very different from the rest of our songs. Thematically, it fits with the rest of the album, which is why I decided to include it. Mingeun and Haksu also worked on some of the lyrics.”

“What are they doing here?” Mingeun asks, standing in the doorway of Yejun’s studio. He barely has room to shut the door behind him. The room is cramped: Yejun in front of his usual dual monitor and full 88-key keyboard setup, Mingeun standing awkwardly near the door, and two women sitting on chairs very clearly stolen from the single Zenith conference room. Their names flash briefly on the screen, introducing them as Choi Eunbyul and Go Hwajung of Neon Nights.

“That’s very rude,” Yejun chides. “Also, you’re late.”

“We’re consulting,” Hwajung says.

“I don’t see why we need to be here,” Eunbyul says. “Andrew-ssi’s music is very good.” She gives a two-handed thumbs up to the camera.

“Unnie, that’s cringe,” Hwajung says softly.

The rest of their work flies by in a montage of sped-up movements and sound, the same few soundbites played over and over again. Mingeun paces in the small space, alternating between his spot near the door and staring over Yejun’s shoulder.

“That was my first time being so involved with the songwriting process,” Mingeun says. He sits alone, nearly squinting under the harsh glare of one too many flood lights. “Usually I work only on the choreography, and that’s always after the songs are finished. Plus, I don’t do it from scratch. It’s really admirable to see the thought and effort Andrew-hyung puts into everything.”

TRACK 10: DREAMING

“With ‘Dreaming,’ I wanted to write a song that was a bit more trendy. I eventually decided on a rock song,” Yejun explains. “A lot of my inspiration came from Neon Nights’ New Island of Utopia. I started working on ‘Dreaming’ almost immediately after listening to their album. I’m very grateful that I got to work with them so much on this track.”

“Honestly, I didn’t expect the song to be in English,” Mingeun says. “I feel like we’ve always had this specific image to maintain. And then Andrew-hyung called me up and was like, hey, I’m working on something in English wanna give me a hand? I said yes, of course.”

He gestures to nothing in the air. “And then we got this song.”

"Sonically, it was going to stand out from the rest of the album by being a band track. There are real instruments on the recording: I played the piano, and Eunbyul-ssi, Hwajung-ssi, and Yumi-ssi all played their instruments," Yejun says. "Changing the language was just another way of differentiating the song from the rest of the album. If we had the opportunity to promote another track, I'd love to perform this one. We've never had the opportunity to perform with each other, and I think it'd be a great experience for all of us."

TRACK 11: FIRE

“‘Fire’ is probably the song that took the longest time to produce,” Yejun says. “If you count all the time it spent hidden on Intak’s laptop.”

“It wasn’t hidden,” Intak argues. “I was waiting for a better time.”

The two of them sit in the same featureless interview room.

“Most of the song was composed by Eunsu,” Intak says. “After he left, I didn’t want to work on it anymore. And then we were busy, and then…”

He trails off into silence.

“You forgot about it,” Yejun says.

Intak glares at him.

Yejun sits on the floor of a dance practice room, Macbook open in front of him. He holds his phone in one hand, dial tone echoing off the walls. He reaches for the camera, as if to adjust the angle, when the call connects.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Eunsu."

Yejun leans back, resting his body weight on one arm and holding his phone in the other. "You're on speaker." He glances towards the camera. "And on camera."

"I am? Hello everyone, I'm–"

Yejun cuts him off. "You don't need to introduce yourself. I called to see if you remember this."

He holds his phone closer to his laptop speakers and hits play. For a few moments, the only sound is the music coming from Yejun’s laptop.

Eunsu groans. “Please turn it off. I don’t think I could forget it.”

“Why not?” Yejun prompts.

“I thought Intak-hyung and I would be the only ones to hear it. I was working on it for practice, and he was helping me.”

“That’s not what he told me,” Yejun says. “And why didn’t you ask me for help?”

“You sound like Haksu,” Eunsu says with a laugh. “I didn’t ask him. He approached me. I think he thought it was bad, but he didn’t want to tell me that.”

Yejun switches his phone to his other hand. “That seems like Intak. He told me you wanted to release it one day. I thought it would fit on the album I’m working on now.”

“Is this the same album you’ve been working on since before I left? I haven’t seen any new Fable music with your name all over the credits.”

Yejun winces. “Don’t say that. We’ve only released one mini album since then.”

There’s a hint of bitterness in his voice, but Eunsu doesn’t seem to notice, plowing on with his words. “I mentioned releasing the song only once to Intak-hyung. I’m surprised he remembered. I don’t mind if you add it to your album. Did you want my permission, or something?”

Yejun nods, then seems to remember that Eunsu can’t see him. “Yes,” he admits. “I wanted to hear from the original songwriter before Intak starts working on it again.”

“He can do whatever he wants,” Eunsu says. “I won’t stop him.”

OUTRO

The end of the documentary looks nearly the same as the beginning, as if they filmed both segments one after the other. The only difference is that they’re now standing instead of sitting.

“Thank you for watching!” Jaeseop says, still holding the album.

“Please make sure to show the album and Fable lots of love!” Haksu adds, making a heart with his hands.

“Two, three! This was Fable! Thank you very much!” Jaeseop ends the recording, leading the group into a synchronized bow.

They wave at the camera until it cuts to black.

[vampiefemme]

smut! 18+ below, minors dni.

thinking about ellie accidentally sending you a video of her fingering herself.

the video preview is completely dark, so you have no clue what to expect when you click the play button. you assume it’s another one of her rants - lately she’s taken to sending you clips of herself complaining about her family, work, politics. she’s sent a few videos of her trying new foods while completely obliterated on an edible, too, which you’re kind of hoping for. her eyes look so pretty all droopy and red, and she has the cutest laugh when she’s high.

but oh, no. this is… nothing like that.

you’re lounging in bed, head propped up against a pillow, when you get the notification from ellie and click to your text thread. you hit play on the video, watching with a furrowed brow as the camera moves from darkness - the forest green fabric of ellie’s duvet, you realize - to reveal her room. and it’s a familiar sight; you’ve been there a hundred times. but that’s where the familiarity ends.

because this new camera angle shows ellie naked from the waist down.

she’s flushed, her cheeks tinged the faintest shade of pink. her chest rises and falls in a quick rhythm; the light catches on a smear of wetness on her inner thigh, and you realize with a flutter in your belly that she’d been going at it for a while before she’d pulled out the camera.

“okay, fuck,” ellie pants, her voice a bit tinny through the speakers of your cell phone. she lifts one muscled thigh to her bed, which she’s standing before - right in front of the camera. your mouth goes dry as your eyes flicker over her body: heather grey tank riding up her toned hips, the faintest sheen of sweat on her chest, her thigh flexing as she spreads herself in front of the camera.

“i got close beforehand so i wouldn’t… didn’t wanna be nervous,” she says, avoiding eye contact with her phone. “but i’m - wait. why the fuck am i talking? you’re not supposed to talk in these, are you?”

blood rushes into your cheeks, warming your face until you feel like your skin is about to burn off. you should probably stop watching, shouldn’t you? you should click out of the video, pretend you never opened it in the first place. this is clearly not for you to see.

but you can’t look away.

ellie reaches her hand between her legs, and your stomach warms with arousal. there’s a flutter between your legs that leaves you squeezing your thighs together, seeking pressure.

“oh god,” ellie mutters as her fingers play in her own pussy, the lewd, wet sounds echoing. she slips a finger inside of herself, then two, her eyes fluttering shut as a string of curses leaves her lips.

she starts to pump her fingers, the heel of her hand pressed to her clit, and your breath catches in your throat when she looks up at the camera. you know she’s not really looking at you this way, but you tense up regardless. the look in her eyes is sultry, lustful, hungry.

there’s a growing damp spot on your underwear.

ellie’s getting close; her brows are pinched together in concentration, and each of her moans is more ragged and high-pitched than the last. beneath the thin fabric of her tank, you see her abs tense with her impending orgasm. you bite your lip until you’re sure you taste blood.

she comes with a shuddering cry, bicep flexing as her hand stalls between her legs. strands of auburn hair, darkened with sweat, cling to her freckled forehead. she lowers her leg from the bed and stands upright again, still panting. she reaches for the camera and the video ends.

you’re still staring wide-eyed at your phone when a series of texts come through from ellie.

oh my god

please tell me you didn’t see that

holy fuck i’m an idiot

i’m so sorry

i did not mean to send that to you. holy shit i’m sorry

your chest tightens with sympathy - you can imagine how panicked ellie is on the other line, how utterly ruined her post-orgasm bliss must be.

you type out a quick response: it’s okay. give me a second to reply, alright?

finding a convenient place to prop up your phone, you hook your thumbs over your underwear and tug them off, leaning forward to press record on your phone.

read part two here!

[enmi-land]

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ⓘ MiLA AND HER FAVOURiTE OPPA . . .

(˶ˆᗜˆ˵) FANMADE ViDEO. #2O24. ꗃ PREViEW A compilation of Mila being babygirl for Jay.

CLIP 1, INTERVIEW

for context: mila and kiara were asked who they thought the most manly member is in the group

“Uhhh, I don’t know about that.” Kiara laughs awkwardly at the idea. “I’m older than almost all of them, and I grew up with Heeseung since we were kids, so it’s hard to say. I don’t really… you know?”

“Ah, fair enough. They’re kind of like younger brothers, right? That would be awkward.” The interview nods in understanding when Kiara confirms. “In that case, what about Mila? Maybe not for the younger members, but you must have thought about your oppas, right?”

“Well…” Mila laughs shyly as her members all turn to face her. “They all have their charms. But when I think of the word ‘masculine,’ the first person I think of is none other than my Jay-oppa.”

The interviewer is surprised when Engenes watching the interview live start to scream at the top of their lungs. “Oooooh! I see—Jay seems very happy about this.”

The focus is now on Jay, who is smiling widely beside Mila while she hides her face behind her hand in embarrassment.

me and the ghost in my room: [*Theo slapping Keeho on the shoulder*]

“Now I’m curious. What makes you pick Jay, of all the members?”

“Well,” Mila says shyly, avoiding Jay’s gaze as he stares softly at her. “Ever since we met, he’s taken very good care of me—not that the other members don’t, but sometimes we have those times where we tease each other and all of that stuff. You know?”

The interviewer nods. “You like to play around, yes? Close friends who tease each other.”

Mila nods strongly. “Exactly like that! Jay-oppa isn’t like that, though. He’s a real gentleman. He’s always very gentle, and soft-spoken, and patient. He’s like the type of person people want their daughters to marry...”

And then Mila proceeds to hide her face behind Jay as Engenes go wild over their interaction. All the while, Jay can’t help the absolutely whipped look on his face as he smiles like an idiot.

[*Close up of Jay*] [“Boy who got you smiling like that?”]

CLIP 2, COMPILATION

to give you an idea of mila’s favouritism, let’s see the difference between mila with each of the 02z mila with jakehoon:

K-NEXT DOOR

“I was watching some of your clips, and I noticed something interesting,” Jonathan says. “Mila, you’re a 03-liner, right?”

Mila blinks. “Yes, that’s right.”

Jonathan turns to Jake. “Jake, you’re a 02-liner.”

Jake nods.

“In that case… Mila—why don’t you call Jake ‘oppa’?”

Mila bursts out laughing as if she’s just heard the funniest thing in her life, before she composes herself and turns to Jonathan. “Well, for one, we’re both foreigners and speak English when we’re alone. I got used to calling him by name, so it feels weird to call him oppa. And for another, it feels weird to call him my oppa when he doesn’t act like one.”

Jake looks at Mila in absolute shock as Jonathan’s jaw drops. Heeseung and Jungwon giggle among themselves, and Jake nods solemnly at the camera with his lips pressed into a thin line.

[*Close up of Jake with raining overlay*] [“Gwenchana, gwenchana, daeng daeng daeng daeng daeng.”]

WEVERSE LIVE

“The other day, I realised that I’m only three months younger than Sunghoonie-oppa,” Mila says all of a sudden. “Isn’t that so weird? I might as well be his friend, but he’s still considered my elder because he’s born in 2002. It’s so unfair…”

Mila pouts as she reads comments. “‘Just don’t call him ‘oppa’?” Mila laughs. “Right. I should just call him ‘Sunghoon-ssi’ from now on, haha. Or ‘Sunghoon-hyung.’ Can you imagine his expression? It would be funny…”

Mila bursts out laughing as she reads a comment.

“‘Just call him Sunghoon’? Yahhh, you’re trying to get me in trouble.” Mila looks thoughtful for a second after she says this. “But then again, I don’t really care if it’s Sunghoonie-oppa. He can just be mad at me, for all I care.”

She leans towards the camera with a cheeky smile.

“Should I do it, everyone?”

spoiler alert: she does it [*Compilation of Mila saying ‘Sunghoon-ssi’*]

[*Close up of Sunghoon’s reactions*] [“I never found you funny, I never found you entertaining—”]

[*Spongebob Narration* ‘Meanwhile’*] mila with jay:

EN-LOG

Mila is in the middle of eating at a restaurant when she receives a call. She looks at her phone to see who it is, and lights up when she sees the contact. She gasps excitedly. “Everyone, it's Jay-oppa!”

She shows her phone to the screen to see the contact which she saved him under: ‘the bestest oppa 😇’

(This is before they even date, mind you.)

[*Close up of Mila’s phone*] “THE BESTEST OPPA” 🤭✨

[*Cardi B squinting* “That’s suspicious, that’s weird.”]

She picks up the call and holds it to hear ear. In a cutesy voice that is out of character for Mila, she leans back in her chair and smiles, completely forgoing her food. “Hello?”

“What are you doing?” Jay asks.

“I’m just having lunch now.” Mila reaches up to twirl a strand of hair around her finger. “How about Oppa?”

mila whenever jay: [*Nayeon tucking her hair behind her ear*]

Jay hums. “That’s good. I came across a new chocolate store just now. I’m going to take a look now. Do you want me to buy you anything?”

[EN-Log captions: ‘Jay-oppa is too good to me ❤️’]

And from there, the two have a sweet phone call, with Mila looking like a giddy teenage girl as she talks.

“Mmm, okay,” Mila says as they reach the end of their call, but not without a pout. “I’ll let you go, then.”

“Get back home safely, okay? Call if you need anything.” Jay’s voice is soft, and Mila is smiling as she assures him that she will do as he says. “You hang up first.”

[EN-Log captions: ‘Jay-oppa, why are you so sweet to me? I’ll cry :(’]

Mila giggles. “Okay, okay. Bye bye~” She still smiles at her phone, even after she hangs up. She then turns to the camera and smiles. “Everyone, isn't my Jay-oppa the sweetest?”

“MY JAY-OPPA” 😫

jakehoon watching this: [“I just wanna be appreciated! I wanna be appreciated!”]

CLIP 3, WEVERSE LIVE

“‘Jay, will you marry me’?!”

[*Boom*]

Mila is flabbergasted after she reads out the comment, and looks up at the camera with a look of absolute incredulous indignation. Jay simply laughs at her expression. “Why, why? What’s with your expression?”

“No!” Mila says with a huff. “You can’t marry him!”

Jay looks amused as Mila glares at the camera, trying to intimidate. “Shouldn’t I have a say?”

“You can’t.” Mila latches onto his arm, resting her cheek on his shoulder. “There’s only one Jay-oppa in the world, everyone else can go find their own.”

[“Hold up! Wait a minute! Something’s not right!”][*Mirage effect*]

mila when engenes ask to marry ni-ki [*Mila saying, “Haha. Good luck with that. He’s a lot to handle.”*]

mila now: [*Mirage effect*]

“But you have to share with Engenes,” Jay says amusedly.

Mila turns to him with a pout and a signature pair of babydoll eyes that she always seems to wear around him—and which he’ll always fold to. “Tell them to ask someone else.”

🤨 [*Dwayne Johnson raising an eyebrow*]

Jay simply chuckles and turns to the camera. “Sorry, I can’t get married to you because our Mila doesn’t approve. You have to ask someone else to be your husband.” He looks back down at Mila. “Happy?”

Mila nods. She then proceeds to continue clinging onto his arm for the rest of the live, resting her cheek on his shoulder as she looks at her with a gaze that could melt butter.

🦋🦋🦋

CLIP 4, COMPILATION

This is basically just Mila getting shy and avoiding Jay’s gaze whenever she makes eye contact with him. It’s like she physically can’t handle looking into his eyes or she’ll be sucked into a vacuum.

mila when jay looks at her: [“Oh no, I hope I don’t fall.”]

CLIP 5, COMPILATION

proof that mila is jay’s baby part 298192: she always runs to jay when she needs something

EN-TER KEY

Mila realises she made a mistake during monitoring and looks at the camera. “I messed up…”

She doesn’t seem bothered by it because she laughs. But as a few seconds pass, she seems visibly worried as she avoids eye contact with the camera and looks away more than once, as if to use her face.

(This was during a period of time not longer after debut, where she was receiving immense hate for supposedly debuted without any talent.) 

But then she seems to crack and turns her back to the camera, before making a beeline in a certain direction. As the cameraman follows her, they end up finding Jay, who is seated on a couch in the dressing room.

He immediately stands up upon seeing Mila, and worriedly asks her what’s wrong. He opens his arms to her and she immediately walks into his embrace, burying her face in his shoulder.

He brings a hand to her head and whispers something in her ear which the cameras don’t catch. But its clear that he’s doing his best to cocker her and shield her from the camera’s view.

EN-DIARIES

Mila is tasked with the mission of giving a member a makeover, which she complains will be entirely impossible to do for any of them. But then she decides to approach Jay, and follows him around the place, asking him (and only him) for help.

“Oppa, can you help me just this once?” Mila grabs onto his sleeve and tugs it to her. “Please?”

Jay pretends to ignore her, instead busying himself with looking inside the fridge. But instead of giving up and asking one of the other members, she persists, and does everything from clinging, whining, to even pretending to be upset.

“I’ve been rejected,” she mopes in the living room, purposely speaking loud enough for Jay to hear her. “No one loves me anymore.”

At this, Jay seems ro reach the end of his straw, and laughs to himself as he makes his way over to the sulking Mila on the couch. To keep the long story short, Mila eventually sits him down and happily puts a ribbon in his hair, while commenting how cute he looks.

SO SO FUN

Mila is in the middle of cooking something in the kitchen when she notices that something is a bit off. She gasps when she realises she forgot to add an ingredient, and starts to panic that she might have ruined the whole dish.

The first thing she does is take off to find Jay. “Oppa, are you busy?”

Jay looks at her with his full attention. “Why? What’s wrong?”

Mila looks slightly embarrassed and stands closer to Jay, with a hand slightly covering her mouth. He leans down closer as she basically whispers, “I made a mistake with the food. I think I messed it up…”

Jay, to his credit, seems unpaused. “Show me. We’ll see if we can fix it.”

Mila points out the food when she gets for the kitchen, looking disappointed as she walks Jay through every step she took. “Sorry,” she says with a frown as she finishes. “I’m so clumsy…”

“No, no, don’t apologise,” Jay reassures softly. He wraps an arm around her shoulders and places a comforting hand on her head. “We can still fix it. Come here, I’ll show you what to do if it happens again.”

MISCELLANEOUS

And again, Mila can be seen asking for his help or his comfort when she needs something, which he responds to like a hero to the rescue at every occasion. It’s really no surprise that he’s her favourite oppa. (Or so, JayMi shippers like to claim—just don’t let the MiSeung fans know.)

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suna rintarō begs you to see an exclusive screening of an upcoming independent film at a small local movie house.

as pretentious as the idea first sounded, you of course oblige because how can you resist your one and only boyfriend? especially when he’s clinging to you and hanging off you as he so sweetly asks, sneaking kisses along the expanse of your neck and shoulder in between points of how, “it’s really about the experience. it’s what the director would have wanted.”

he really wanted to go.

so you go with him when the day comes, but for some reason suna takes longer than usual to get ready so you end up arriving at the movie house when the last of the previews are wrapping up. usually you and him go early to see those, where he says things like, “that looks like ass,” or, “we’re going to see that one, for sure,” and it never fails to make you snicker in your seat beside him.

you’re just a smidge late for all that this time.

“but that’s ok,” you reassure him, “the previews always drag on anyway. plus, you look really nice from getting ready for so long.”

you giggle and give him a quick kiss on his cheek and when you pull back, he looks at you with just the most lovestruck look ever.

“you’re the best, y’know that?” he says, in a tone strangely more lovey-dovey (especially given the fact you’re in public) than usual. it wasn't like you don't compliment him on a regular basis, either.

okayyy…?

“i know,” you quickly joke with a light laugh, trying to dodge the odd feeling that him looking at you like that gives you.

after suna pays for your tickets, he takes you by the hand to pick out some snacks. and in another odd turn of events, he lets you get all the snacks and popcorn you want.

“you’re seriously going to pay for all this?” you raise an eyebrow at him–already attempting to put some back because you were just teasing when you grabbed so many, like you usually do when the two of you see movies together.

the worker behind the counter politely butts in, “a-actually, today there's a special deal where snacks are free!"

"seriously?" you gawk in response. suna nods at the worker with a smile before he gathers all your said snacks and treats and gestures at you to start following him.

weird...

but free snacks? you weren't going to complain.

you two quietly slip into the dark theater and suna must have perfectly remembered the seat numbers on your tickets because he walks right up to a row in the dead center of the room. as he sets your belongings down, you quickly double-check the seats he so-confidently led you to, but he was right about them. you don't recall him glancing at your tickets for more than a second since you bought them, though.

what a good memory he has?

you settle into your seat next to him and start picking at your big tub of popcorn. it looks like you arrived just in time as the last preview is starting up.

the preview colorfully flashes up to a start in a way that imitates old film, as a soft tune starts to ring through the speakers. it's a bunch of artsy close-ups of clothes and belongings shrewd about a hardwood floor, beams of sunlight hitting them gorgeously.

... hey, you own a sweatshirt that looks like that.

and then you see it: it's you up there on the big screen.

captions start to appear as a reel of videos containing you start to play.

[ i thought for the longest time i was perfectly fine on my own ]

a clip of you as you and suna walk to class in inarizaki’s halls, in your old uniform and glancing back at him now and then. your smile is wide and if it weren’t for the music playing over the video, you could almost hear your own laugh at probably some dumb joke suna just told you behind the camera.

[ but for the longest time, i didn't have a fucking clue what "perfect" really meant. ]

your head tucked in your arms with your hood up, sleeping mid-study-session on a college library’s table scattered with open notes and dog-eared textbook pages. your eyes peek out from the material of your hoodie, the glint of a smile reaching what can be seen before you bashfully bury your head further back into your original position.

[ i was an idiot for thinking i did know what "perfect" was. ]

your hands clutching at his pro jersey you’re wearing as you stand in front of the stadium building, thousands of unheard fans on the inside waiting to see him play. undoubtedly when after that clip was recorded, you two went in, and it was still only you he really looked for wearing his jersey in the crowd whenever his team scored a point.

[ because then i met you. ]

all the times when you’ve turned to see his fond eyes peeking above the back of his phone—as he photographs you like a rare and beautiful sight that’s fleeting, one he absolutely needed to snapshot at those exact moments in order to keep for himself forever—got laid out before you.

now you’re seeing them from his point of view, and it captivates you like nothing else.

[ you are perfect. ]

the b-roll of moments you and suna have shared over the years fades out, and the preview's title card shows up in a pretty and elegant font: "will you marry me? (directed by: suna rintarō)"

you don't even realize your jaw is hanging wide open in shock when you turn to face present-day suna next to you, and there he was again, his phone in front of his face. but you catch in the glare of the silver screen you're sat in front of, the eyes that peek over the camera are crinkled up as they look at you with unbridled joy and radiates a love in its purest form.

"rin..." you can barely speak, both because you're touched but also because you're bewildered out of your mind.

with a chuckle he finally lets up on his recording, sticking his phone into his pocket. he stands up and moves in front of you, getting down on one knee. your heart skips a beat.

the lights suddenly turn on in the theater, and your first instinct once your eyes get readjusted to the brightness is to look around–because a room full of theater goers were are being subjected to whatever it is suna has orchestrated here.

but as you look around, the whole ordeal feels even more surreal, because it's all your loved ones filling up the rows of seats. they look back at where you're sitting, smiling and with some of them also recording on their phones now, too.

"so..." suna starts, redirecting your attention back to him. he pulls out a tiny box from his pocket, opening it to reveal a ring that shines divinely in the dim lighting of the room, "will you?"

his delight is evident as he fights back a grin and his face and ears are dusted an adorable shade of pink. you're arguably more delighted than him–over the moon, even–as you utter out your answer...

"yes, i'll marry you."

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RISK PART III

pairing: mafia!harry styles x singer!reader

summary: Harry is in town for some.. less than legal business, and you're a local singer trying to get your foot in the door, and also planning your wedding. And maybe Harry is a little too interested in you.

warnings: mentions of death & blood, mentions of abuse, cursing, that should be it!!

-

Almost immediately, his browser was flooded.

Y/N L/N and Mason L/N: The Internets Favorite Siblings

Y/N L/N - Youtube

Mason L/N - Youtube

Mason & Y/N - Youtube

#prayfory/n on Twitter

Y/N and Mason L/N’s Incredible Work with Band ‘The Diamonds’

Well, you two certainly had an online presence. He sighed and clicked on the first article.

Mason L/N (20) and little sister, Y/N L/N (15) have quickly become the internet’s favorite dynamic sibling duo! The duo rose to fame in 2012 when Mason began vlogging their adventures living alone in Miami.

After a near-death incident with her mother read article here, Y/N was put into her brother’s care. The two grew up in Wimberley, Texas, on a farm. Mason’s earliest videos on YouTube were in 2010, when he posted videos of 11-year-old Y/N singing onstage somewhere.

Since moving to Miami, Florida in 2012, at age 13 and 18, they formed a band called The Diamonds and started a successful YouTube career. Most of the videos, now posted on a shared account entitled Mason & Y/N, they show their day-to-day lives, backstage previews, clips of the songwriting process, and more.

Mason is the producer of his sister’s band— in which she is both the songwriter and lead singer. The band, though not as successful as their YouTube, has a decent following on both Instagram and YouTube.

Also featured on their accounts is Y/N’s childhood best friend— Jodie. There is nothing of Jodie online, so we aren’t sure of her last name. We only know the story of how Jodie moved right before Y/N’s near-death experience, and the siblings moved to Miami to see her again.

We look forward to seeing more of the iconic duo! Best of luck, L/N siblings!

Well, that gave him next to nothing.

Read More:

Smalltown Tragedy: Violet L/N attempts to murder daughter, Y/N L/N.

Jesus fucking Christ, Niall wasn’t joking about shitty.

He skimmed through the article.

Coming home from school—

Walked through the door—

Stabbed—

Authorities were quickly contacted by brother—

Violet pleads innocent in court case—

Y/N and Mason attest to their mother’s innocence—

Guilty verdict—

Sentenced to life in prison without bail or parole—

Added charges of child abuse after bruises found on both children—

Siblings go on news after the verdict was given—

Claim it was their father—

Well. He was starting to regret looking you up.

He sighed, running a hand over his face. After how nice you were tonight, he felt incredibly bad knowing this is what the result of invading your privacy was.

Yet, he didn’t shut the laptop.

He clicked back to the original search tab.

Mason & Y/N - Youtube

He pulled up the page, and his eyes widened.

925.4K Thousand Subscribers. 493 Videos.

Holy shit.

He scrolled to the last updated video—

BACKSTAGE AT THE DIAMONDS: LIVE AT DAYTONA BEACH BANDSHELL. June 1, 2016.

He didn’t want to watch it. He didn’t want to intrude anymore than he already had. That’d be wrong.

But Harry also never claimed to be a good person.

As he tapped on the video, your brother’s face filled the screen. Or.. he assumed, it was your brother. He looked similar to the articles of the two of you, only older.

“Hello, lovely people! We’re back! We are currently backstage at the biggest show yet of the best band ever—“

“Oh, my God, you’re so stupid,” a voice laughed. It was slightly familiar.

The camera turned, and he realized why. It was you.

“Y/N tries to be rude, but we all know I’m her favorite here.”

“Uh, no, bitch. I’m her favorite. Back off.”

Jodie.

“Dude, you have a boyfriend. You back off!”

“Yeah, but Ni’s not here yet, so… I win.”

“How does that even— okay. Anyway, my lovely sister is currently shoving food down her face—“

“Mason! Shut up, oh, my God! I’m literally curling my hair, you ass!”

“Hey, language!”

“Oh, boo-hoo. You taught me how to cuss when I was, like… seven.”

“.. Yeah, I did do that. Alright. Whatever. We’re gonna give the camera to Y/N so she can give y’all a sneak peak at the set list!”

The camera was now sitting in front of you. Younger you.

“Hello! It’s the better sibling—“

“Hey!”

You grinned at him, “And this is the setlist for tonight, which is super-duper top secret. So… shh! Okay! We’re opening with my personal favorite, Girl I’ve Always Been! And then we’re gonna transition that… somehow… into Vicious. And then.. I Should Hate You, little break to introduce the other Diamonds, Should’ve Said No, Picture to Burn, All-American Bitch, Stranger, another little.. break thingy.. Florida, Happier Than Ever, and then we close with.. Better than Revenge! But we have an encore, so we come back for one song, which is Nothing You Can Take!”

He skipped ahead in the video.

“Jodie, where are we?”

“Backstage!”

“Ni, what are we about to do?”

“You’re about to kill it onstage!”

He skipped a bit.

It was a circle of you and a bunch of girls, and one of two guys, that he recognized. The same people who’d played with you tonight.

“We worked our asses of for this, and we’re gonna make it count, right?”

“Fuck yeah!”

“Okay, Diamonds on three. On.. two.. three.. Diamonds!”

Skip.

“Y/N, how you feelin’?”

Harry could hear the crowd and music in the background, and he assumed that you were about to run onstage.

“I’m gonna puke!” You laughed.

“Ew. Don’t.”

“Gee, thanks. Real supportive.”

“I’m being honest—“

“Y/N, you got ten seconds.”

You screamed.

He skimmed the rest of the video. Some of it was clips of the show, some of it was after.

Well, that didn’t do anything except make him feel shitty. One, because he knew he shouldn’t be watching, and two… because you and your brother seemed close, and he, obviously, was dead.

He went back and clicked on the Twitter link.

#prayfory/n on Twitter.

Daytona News: Internet Star Mason L/N Fatally Shot in Robbery.

thediamondsupdates: OMG. GUYS IM ACTUALLY SOBBING WTF I FEEL SO BAD FOR Y/N. SHE WAS THERE😭😭 #prayfory/n

Bingo.

He clicked on the article.

Late last night, after The Diamond’s Only Night Only on Main Street, the internet star siblings Y/N and Mason went to a gas station for celebratory snacks. Unfortunately, while they were checking out, the gas station got robbed.

Y/N told Daytona Police that the robber had aimed for her when he shot, but her brother shoved her at the last second. Both Mason L/N and the store clerk, who is yet to be identified, died. Y/N came out with only a few scratches. Witnesses say she tried to keep her brother alive while waiting for police.

The siblings were swarmed by paparazzi as they got hauled into the ambulance, where Mason unfortunately died on the way.

Harry clicked back to the hashtag.

user001: omfg guys someone got a video of the store after the robbery where mason l/n died. ONE VIDEO LINKED.

He clicked play, knowing he’d regret it.

“Oh, my fucking God,” the person recording spoke.

You and Mason were covered in blood. You were in hysterics, holding your brother on your lap.

“Mason! Mason!” you were shouting. “Someone call an ambulance! Oh, my God! There’s so much blood— why is there so much blood? Mason, answer me! Are you okay? You have to be okay—“

The video panned away from you as you screamed, showing the store that’d been ransacked.

It ended.

Harry shut the computer and went to bed, feeling sick to his stomach.

-

When you woke up the next morning, it was to a weight on your chest.

“What the— Jodie, get the fuck off of me. I’m gonna die,” you grumble, shoving her.

She falls off the bed with a thud. She gasps, “Are you calling me fat?”

“No, you called yourself fat.”

“You’re so mean in the mornings,” she pouts.

“I’m only mean when you wake me up at ungodly hours by sitting on me.”

She shrugs, “Oh. Yeah. Well… come on, get up.”

You whine. The bed was comfy.

“Up!”

“No, I’m tired.”

She stands up and yanks your arm. You, too, fall off the bed.

“Ow! What the fuck?”

“I didn’t really think that one through,” she admits.

“Clearly. Alright, I’m up now, I guess. What did you want?”

“We’re going to brunch with Harry and Ni. Get ready.”

“Brunch? Harry doesn’t seem like a brunch guy.”

“What do you mean?” her brows furrow.

“He just.. is very intimidating—“

“He was nice to you, though, right? He better have been, or I swear—“

“No, he was,” you quickly cut her off. “He just… seems like he’d rather gouge his own eyes out before her went to brunch.”

She sighs in relief, “Thank God. I like him, so I didn’t wanna kill him for being rude to you. But, yeah.. probably. But he basically does whatever I say because, as he admitted once and only once, I’m like his little sister and he feels bad saying no. That, and I’m annoying when I don’t get my way.”

You snort, “That’s… yeah, that seems more likely.”

“But.. Niall also said he likes you, too. Maybe not in the, y’know, little sister way, but you’re right. He is usually an asshole, but he was extremely friendly yesterday. Kinda threw me off, to be honest.”

“Dude, I thought he was gonna bite my head off.”

She laughs, “Yeah.. oh, well. Get dressed and dress slutty!”

“Why slutty?”

“Because we invited Asshole of the Year, and if he shows up, he’s gonna wish he was Angel of the Year.”

“Jodie..” you sigh.

“I know. You don’t wanna piss him off. But.. if you just happened to grab a slutty dress… what’s the harm?”

“Get out,” you laugh.

-

You don't wear the slutty outfit Jodie wanted you to wear, mainly because the brunch spot was a nice restaurant and you don't want the looks from grandmas.

Instead, you wear a white dress with small, green leaves. You throw on heels that were slightly dressy, but comfortable and also barely make you any taller. You put a green ribbon in your hair after tying half of it back.

You haphazardly do your makeup once Jodie began spamming your phone, urging you to hurry up.

You rush out of the room, sighing once you saw the other three sitting at the kitchen island.

"Sorry I took so long. We can go, now, though!"

“Took you long enough,” Niall teases.

“Shut up. This is why you don’t have any friends.”

“I have friends!” he protests quickly. “You! And— Harry!”

“Mhm. Got any more?” you laugh. “I don’t count because I’m friends because of association. You get one point for Harry, though. I guess.”

“No point from me,” Harry spoke up. “We’re work friends.”

“I knew I liked you.”

Harry smirks at you.

Niall glares at the two of you. “I hate you both.”

You grin, “Aw. Love you, too.”

“Aright, children. We’re gonna be late,” Jodie reminds you.

The three of you chorus agreements and head to the car. Niall drove, Jodie sat in the passenger seat, and you and Harry got into the back.

“You know, you look crazy familiar.”

“Who, me?”

“No, the ghost sitting in between us. Yes, you.”

He pauses before shrugging, “Probably just got one of those faces. I don’t remember meeting you before.”

“Yeah, that’s what’s weird. I swear I know you, but I’d remember if I met you.”

He smirks, and you regret phrasing it like that. “Oh, really? What’s that supposed to mean, lovie?”

Lovie? What the hell? Is he a psycho? Are you a psycho?

Connor. Engaged to Connor. Can’t break up with him.

“Nothing. I just meant I have, like, a good memory,” you huff. “You’re right. You’ve probably just got one of those faces.”

One of those faces.

One of those faces.

One of those faces you know you recognize.

-

Brunch was short, but sweet. The food was good, and it was fun. Connor didn’t show.

You and Jodie made Niall and Harry wait in the car while the two of you ran into Sephora to restock your respective makeup collections.

“I kinda wanna try a new perfume..”

“I thought you always got that.. whatever one it is, because it’s Connor’s favorite?”

“I do. But.. the smell has been giving me migraines. Plus, he’ll get over it. He can hardly stand to be around me for longer than, like, twenty seconds, so… I doubt he’ll even notice.”

“Seriously, I still don’t get why you’re getting married. To him, of all people.”

“Because. I do love him, even if he’s an ass. And it’s.. safe. He’s safe.”

“Safe from what?”

You huff, “If music doesn’t take off. He has a good, stable job.”

“The band will never take off if you get married, babe. He hates the band. He’ll make you quit, and you know it.”

“Then maybe it wasn’t mean to be,” you shrug.

Jodie stops in her tracks. “How can you— no. Absolutely not. I do not care if you love him or if you wanna marry him. You are not throwing away your dream for some guy! Any guy! If it was— fuckin’, I dunno, Harry, who was like this—“

“Harry? Ew! I just met him—“

“He was the first person that came to mind! The point is, if anyone you dated pulled that, I’d say the same thing. It isn’t just because I don’t particularly like Connor.”

“Jodie—“ you sigh.

“No,” she cut you off. “You’ve been singing and writing songs since as long as I can remember. That was all you wanted. Since we were six, you’d tell people you’d be a singer when you’re older! You and Mason planned this for years! You can’t just quit because some stupid, no-good, ugly guy tells you to! Music is who you are. If not for yourself, then for me. For Mason. The band was meant to be, but maybe you and Connor weren’t.”

“Jodie.”

“I know. I know. But I’m serious. If Niall treated me like this, you would’ve roundhouse kicked him by now.”

“It’s complicated—“

“But it doesn’t have to be,” she argues.

“.. I don’t wanna talk about it. I don’t, okay? I won’t quit music whenever we get married, okay? He’ll get over it eventually.”

-

When the four of you return home, Connor is on the couch. He's fuming.

You roll your eyes as you walk through the door, ignoring him. The others seem to follow your lead, both not acknowledging his presence.

“Where the hell have you been?” he asks, storming over to you as you set the Sephora bag on the kitchen counter.

“You’d know where I was if you bothered to show up.”

“I wasn’t invited.”

You gave him a deadpan look, turning to Jodie, Harry, and Niall.

“I did invite you, dumbass,” Jodie scoffs.

“Yep. Invited,” Niall nods.

“.. Invited,” Harry echoes, visibly confused but still going along.

“Well, excuse me if I didn’t feel welcome after my own girlfriend told me to leave my own house when she was gone—“

“Not your own house. Your name isn’t on the lease. And why is that? Oh, right. Because you don’t pay fucking rent like a grown adult.”

“I don’t got a job right now, babe. I’m not stable—“

“Oh, and I am? I sing for a living. You think that’s stable? No. But I do it because I want to, and when I’m not making enough there, I have another job. Jesus, you act like you can’t problem solve.”

“That isn’t the point.”

“Then what is your point, Connor?” you sigh, crossing your arms and leaning against the kitchen island.

“My point is that you care more about your career than me!"

"Connor, babe, that isn't true, I just-"

"It sure seems like it."

"I just.. I really love it, and it's-- it's what I wanna do with my life, y'know? I don't mean to make you feel that way. I invite you to every show, you just.. don't show up, and-- and that's fine, but I try to include you."

"Yeah, whatever. I guess I forgive you."

You smile, "I love you."

"Love you, too."

The two of you retreat to the bedroom, and it was silent for a moment.

"What the fuck?"

"Welcome to a normal day for us, Harry. Havin' fun yet?" Jodie sighs, patting his shoulder as she walks past him.

-

The next day, you and Jodie went out to look at wedding and bridesmaids dresses.

"So, what are we looking for here,?" Jodie asks you as the two of you stop for coffee in between hitting dress stores. You'd been aimlessly trying on dresses for the better half of the day, and none of them felt right. "I feel like you were just trying on everything, but you weren't happy with a lot of them. So, when you envision your wedding, what is the exact dress you want?"

"I want.. like.. flowery lace with a decent neckline. I want it tight, but kind of flowy once it hits my legs. And.. bell bottom sleeves. The rest I could adjust, but bell bottom sleeves are a must."

"Flower lace, tight top flowy bottom, halter neckline. Got it," Jodie grins. The barista calls your name and you run to go grab the drinks and snacks. The two of you began walking down the street.

"So.. how does Ni know Harry, anyhow?"

"Uh... work, I think? I can't even remember, it's been so long! I think they met before Ni moved here, and then reconnected through work. I could be wrong, though. Ni only told me once when I first met Harry, and that was years ago," she laughs. "But I think it's work, mostly. You don't mind him staying, right? Because, he's sweet, don't get me wrong, but he's also kind of... promiscuous, I guess? Not that he's.. pushy about it! He just is extremely flirty and doesn't really have boundaries sometimes."

"No! No, God, no, he's perfectly fine. I like him. I was just wondering, because I can't remember either of you mentioning him ever," you explained.

"I'm sure we have once or twice, you've just got the memory of a goldfish."

"Shut up! I do not!" you giggle as the two of you walk into the next dress shop of the day.

"Hello! How may I help you?" a woman greets the two of you.

"Hi! My friend here is getting married, and she has a very specific dress in mind! She wants flowery lace, halter top neckline... kind of tight at the top and slightly flowy at the legs? Oh, and bell bottom sleeves. That's the only ones that are non-negotiable."

The woman nods and glances at you.

"I'm pretty sure we've got something exactly like that in your size. I'll bring you a few options."

"Thank you so much!" you tell her and Jodie and you set your things down and sit on the couches by the changing rooms. The two of you talk idly about plans for the band until the woman reappears.

"Alright, love, here's a few similar to what you want. But I think this one is closest to what you want," she smiles kindly as she hands you a stack of dresses, and then one singular one.

"Oh, it's beautiful!" you gush.

"Try it on!" Jodie tells you. You laugh and walk into one of the changing rooms. Obviously, the first dress you try on is the one closest to what you'd envisioned. You couldn't help the smile on your face as you looked at yourself in the mirror.

"Hurry up!" Jodie urges.

"Calm down, woman, I'm coming!" you huff as you push the curtain aside and step onto the pedestal.

"Oh, Y/N/N... I think this one might be the one. It's gorgeous!"

"It fits you like a glove," the woman grins.

"I love it!" you squeal. "Here, get a video of me in it. I wanna show Ni whenever we get home."

"Okay. And.. recording!" Jodie tells you.

You spin around in the dress, and it has just enough train to spin with you a tiny bit. You squeal in excitement and jump up and down. "I love it! Bury me in it, honestly."

"I won't send it now just in case he's with Connor, so we'll show him when we get home. But.. and this isn't me saying don't get the dress, I think you should, but I thought Connor didn't want you to get a... revealing dress, I guess is the words?"

You pause and your smile fades, "Yeah, he doesn't. He likes the ballgown ones more, but.. it's my wedding, too, right? I should be able to get my own dress. Besides, he won't see until the day of, and then it'll be too late to be mad. And he can't be mad on our wedding day," you shrug.

"Fair enough. How much is this dress, again?"

"Oh, I forget. Turn and let me check that tag, dear."

You turn so your back is to the store owner.

"It is... three thousand dollars."

You and Jodie both pause. Three thousand? You weren't sure you had that type of money. Not yet, anyway.

"Y/N, I can-"

"Jodie, absolutely not. You can't pay for my wedding dress."

The woman looks between the two of you awkwardly.

"Um.. is it possible to put the dress on hold?" you ask after a beat. "It's just.. I wanna make sure that price is good with my fiancé."

"Oh, of course, love. What's your name?"

"Y/N L/N."

She grabs a sticky note and scribbles it down.

"It'll be on hold for about.. two weeks, does that sound good?"

"Yes, please. Thank you so much."

-

"'Eyyyy, they're back!" Niall cheers as you and Jodie walk in through the door. He and Harry were both on the couch drinking beers, watching something on the TV. "C'mon, I wanna see the dress!"

You and Jodie both laugh and move to the couch. Jodie sits between Harry and Niall while you perch on the armrest as she pulls the video of you in the dress up on her phone.

"Awwe, Y/N/N, you look gorgeous," Niall grins.

"Thank you! Took us forever, but we finally found one that is exactly what I wanted."

"Where is it? I wanna see it in person!"

You and Jodie both hesitate. "Uh.. we.. didn't get it."

"What?" Niall furrows his brows in confusion.

Harry finally chimes into the conversation, "Why the hell not?"

"It was.. um... three thousand dollars. We put it on hold, but.."

"Y/N, how many times do I have to tell you to just use our card? You know I have enough money-"

"I know. Jodie offered, but I feel bad using your money. I don't even know if Connor would like the dress, so maybe-"

"Fuck Connor. Sorry," Harry suddenly says, "excuse me if this isn't my place, but you're the one wearing the dress. If you like the dress, get the fuckin' dress, Y/N. You look great in it."

".. Thank you. I just- I don't really have three thousand dollars," you sigh.

-

At damn near four in the morning, Jodie and Niall prefer to be asleep. However, Harry didn't really seem to care all that much when he came barging in.

"What's the name of the shop?"

"What?" Jodie asks harshly.

"The dress shop. The one Y/N found that dress she likes. What's it called?"

"It's... fuck, it's, like, Wedding Dreams or some stupid shit like that."

"Why are you even asking, Harry? It's fucking four in the morning, go to sleep," Niall grumbles.

"I have to buy a three thousand dollar fucking dress."

"What?"

-

a/n: when he buys ur wedding dress cause ur broke how cute

taglist: @angeldavis777

[hobisstar]

still with you | y!jungkook x fem!reader

summary: being the most famous and popular youtuber and singer has its kicks. great fans, terrible fans, weird fans, you’ve seen and had them all… but this fan? you wish you never had…

warnings: jk is WEIRD okay he’s weird asf in this, male masturbation, stalking, jungkook is an idol in this, mentions of kidnapping, murders, yandere.

tag list: none.

note: i’ll switch from You to Y/N a lot. Bold and Line Through. Are Jk’s negative thoughts, more so the weird ones. this is a preview imagine of spooktober!!

“so who’s your favorite singer, Jungkook?” an interviewer asked as they, BTS, where doing a short little tv appearance. the question was, who is an artist you’d love to collaborate with in the near future, everyone had their fair share of answers but the one person Jungkook had in mind was no other than, Y/N L/N.

She was bigger than any other singer or youtuber out there, with 45 Million subscribers on youtube and millions of fans over the world, she was everywhere. She has done video collaborations with CoryxKenshin, Berleezy, PG, DashieGames and many more. She is adored.

Jungkook found her channel when she was a newbie to the youtuber world. He liked the video of her trying on different clothes from all over the world, room tours, decorating, gaming videos, vlogs, but he got more into her once he found out she did music. He had to be the first person to ever really be her fan in his eyes, of course. He loved her for a very long time.

“I’d have to say, Y/N L/N… i love her… style and her youtube channel. i’m a huge fan!” he answered happily. The crowded went absolutely crazy as he’s always talked about Y/N. you would think they dated the way he promoted her so much.

“Really? she is coming her next Friday for an interview! did you hear she’s doing a world tour, starting with South K?” the interviewer asked. “Yes yes, i want to get me a ticket the minute they go on sale..” he smiled happily and the crowd awed at his answer.

“I’ll definitely let you guys know when my tickets go on sale, obviously! That’s it for now, until next time, see you!” You smiled ending the recording and big a stretch. You are glad that it was just a little clip that you need to edit to post out later, but boy was it tough being a youtuber, you loved it though.

As soon as you got up you heard your phone going off profusely. You went to grab it and saw it was twitter and you were being tagged in a certain posted. It was a video of Jungkook from BTS during a, which you assume, recent interview. “ I love her.” is what a lot of fans were saying in the comments. It was a quote of what Jungkook said in the video. Instead of really responding just yet you reshared the clip saying “ The love is mutual 💜 @BTS_twt!” and posted it.

You’ve always been a fan of BTS! You loved everything about them, the message they were sending out about loving yourself, taking care of you, living your life no matter what anyone has to say about it, you loved it all! You never really knew that Jungkook was a fan of yours. Little do you know you wished you never knew that..

“Kook, you’ve been literally staring at her retweet since we got back to the hotel.” Taehyung spoke out with his eyebrow up. “I’m starting to think this is a little more than a fan thing. You have a crush on her don’t you?” Jin in also chipped in, pinching Jungkooks cheeks. The two were ready to start to teasing him. “ Actually, i do.” he stated calmly still looking at the tweet thing clicking on her twitter account.

“ Oh, we thought we had a chance to tease you… fuck.” Taehyung said as the elevator dinged. “ Well, we will see you in a few for dinner? jimin and I have a Vlive to do. Get some rest!” He spoked as Him and Jimin stepped out the elevator and walked to jimins room.

Jungkook nodded and walked to his room, taking out his keycard and holding it to the door to open it. He sighed as he walked in and instantly decided to take a shower. He went into the bathroom, started the water, put on some music, Y/N of course, and got undressed.

He stepped into the shower and let out a moan of relaxation. Jung let the water run down his body and he closed his eyes. Soon, a picture of you appeared in his head. You and him, together, in the shower taking turns to clean each other. He took his hands that was covered in soap and grasped your beautiful tits and slowly massaged them. The image of him doing that sent a shock wave to his crotch, which he tried to ignore.

Slowly the image started to get steamy, your imaginary moans filled his ears making them melt. Jungkook grabbed his hard length that was dripping from the water and his precum. He began the stroke his cock slowly imagining it was your tight pussy. He moaned going faster feeling himself about the release any minute. He never lasted when he imagined it, but he promised you, kinda, that he’d go longer, seven days a week even. As he cummed and grunted watching his cum shoot all over the shower walls and some getting on the floor, he saw your face one last time and it was you giving you a sweet kiss on the tip of his cock that sent shivers up his spine.

After, he cleaned himself with some warm vanilla with brown sugar and almonds scented soap, your favorite, he got out, dried off, and got dressed. Jungkook looked at the time and saw he still had an hour to spare.

He went to bag and took out his computer and decided to watch a few of your videos. This is his day to day. You are his day to day schedule. No matter what, he will get at least 5 videos of Y/N in a day.

Concerts were always fun! Making music was fun too! But once you heard that you would be collaborating with the Jeon Jungkook for a cover of his song Still With You, you were shocked! I mean less than A day ago, you found out that he was a huge fan, now you are collaborating with him?

You were currently in the studio rehearsing some of the notes when your manager walks in and says “ Hey! Mr, Jeon is on his way up! Just thought i should let you know.” He smiles and as your about to answer there is a soft knock. “ Come on in.” you say and stand up. Jungkook walks in and you almost gasp.

“Oh my you are more handsome in person.” Manager says lets out a little chuckle. “ I’m Tim, I’m her manager and that’s obviously -“ “ Y/N…” Jungkook cut Tim off before he could even get your name out. He couldn’t stop staring at you. Gosh, you are so beautiful in person. So small under his gaze. ‘i could take her from here, kill her manager and live off the grid, nobody would know. just so little…’

“ Right! It’s so nice to meet you, Jungkook! Um, you can sit here,” you point to the chair “ I’m gonna head in the booth to record these parts.” you smiled and took the paper in with you. Jungkook eagerly but slowly sat down in your chair. Watching as you put on the headset. Tim walked over and pressed a few buttons to make sure that it was recording. He put his thumb up and Y/N was in her own world.

“So, Jungkook, how long are you in the states for?” Tim asked leaning against the side of the frame, watching Y/N. Honestly, Jungkook hated Tim. He hated any that got close to what was his. He didn’t like it. When y/n did collaborate on videos he would report that video and thumbs down it. Even with songs he wouldn’t listen to it. He hated Tim because he wish he was Tim. Near her 24/7, being able to touch her, smell her, make her laugh, pick her outfits, take her to dinner, all the things Tim could do. He wanted Tim out the picture. Now.

“ Well originally it wasn’t for long, but then this opportunity came up and i wasn’t going to miss it for anything.” He answered plainly also staring at Y/N but with a different look in his eyes, Lust, Love, and Fear. Fear for you seeing him do what he was about to do to Tim. He didn’t want his wife getting scared yet. They haven’t even moved away yet.

“Yeah same with her. I’m gonna step out. I have a few things to do for a few other artists. Have fun and make a beautiful hit, i already know it is.” Tim smiled and left just like that. Jungkook let a breath of fresh air out. Finally.

Finally. It was time. Jungkook got up and took off his jacket. It was getting hot in here to him, though he knows Y/N prefers her studio cold. He went to the light switched and looked up seeing the lights could be changed to colors, he chose purple. Your favorite.

Y/N stepped out of the recording booth and closed the door to it and sat back down. You instantly went over your vocals and nodded your head liking how they came out. “ they are beautiful… perfect even.” Jungkook mumbled from behind you and pulled up a chair sitting a little too close to you. You definitely noticed it.

“Thank you, Jungkook.” Y/N smiled and stood up to look at a few things and Y/N almost wanted to run. The whole vibe was off, y/n could feel his eyes looking her up down since he walked in the studio. Y/N sat back down quickly and turned to Jungkook and forced a smile. “ It’s your turn! while you record it have to go speak with Tim about what to do next. i’ll Play the track when you are ready.” He watched her lips move, oh how he wanted to kiss them.

Jungkook snapped out of his trance and stood up entering the recording booth and sliding on the headphones. He loved the smell of the booth, it smelled just like you. your scent. Y/N put her thumb up and pressed play and didn’t even wait for him to start singing. She got up and left the room closing the door and taking a deep breath putting her head on the door. “ What the fuck was that?” you mumbled.

“What was what?” Tim spoke which made you jump harshly. “ FUCK! Tim don’t do that shit!”

“ I.. are you okay? you seem kinda scared. what’s wrong?” Tim read your face and just knew that you were upset, frightened even. “ Tim, there is something extremely wrong with… him.” she whispered while looking around. “ Him? Mr. Jeon? what do you mean? he seemed fine when i left.” He raises his eyebrow. “ Maybe you’re just nervous, Honey.”

While Y/N was in the hallway, Jungkook was done singing his lines and exited the booth, smiling. He wanted to impress Y/N with his beautiful vocals. “ That was… Y/N?” he said looking around the room, not seeing his girl in the chair. He calmed down and remembered that she had to do something. ‘Good, she didn’t run away.’

Jungkook sat down and waited for her.

10 minutes…

20 minutes…

25 minutes…

Finally, the door opened and walked Y/N with some refreshments. “ Sorry, the internet was a little slow.” she sits down and avoids his hand that he held out for the water bottle and placed it on the table. “ Let’s finish this for now so you can get going i’m sure you are very busy.” she said as she saved and downloaded both their vocals onto her flash drive.

“ Can i be honest with you, Y/N?” Jungkook asked while staring at the computer. She turned to look at him and then back at the computer, closing it. “ Yeah, of course.” she scooted back a bit to just give space. she felt like she couldn’t breathe.

“ Im really… a huge fan of yours. I love everything you do..” he started. “ the feeling is mutual, Kook.” she commented and smiled. “ No, not in that light… Ever since i found your videos back in 2019, when you first started. I instantly felt this this connection. Like we belong together. I started liking your photos and videos everywhere and then i found out that you do music.. i just fell more in love with you.” As he confessed he was doing this weird smile like, he enjoyed telling Y/N his confession. “ Im in love with you.” he ended. Y/N was taken back. Her feeling wasn’t wrong. There is definitely something not right about him. this was it.

“ Oh, that’s so sweet! I appreciate it, Jungkook.. but i don’t know what you want from me after telling me that, I.. I feel as though maybe we just keep it professional. just two artists being friends yeah?” Y/N stood up and began to pack her things up. Jungkook felt something click in his head. Like a switch turned off. “ I don’t… i dont understand… You don’t… love me back?” he asked also standing up. “ Be friends?… what do you take me as? Do you like toying with me?”

“ What? Jungkook that’s not… i never did that.” Y/N answered confused. “ Oh baby don’t be confused. You said all those times you love me. You even twitted the feeling is mutual.” He stepped toward Y/N corning her between the table and his tall stature.

Y/N turned around slowly, “Listen, i didn’t mean it like that. And if you are going to talk to me, please give me some space.” He looked in your eyes and chuckled lightly. “ Why would we need space… i finally have you this close to me… i’m not letting it go.” He gently took the hair that was falling in front of your face and pushed it behind your ear. You leaned away from the touch and pushed him with all your strength. He moved back enough for you to get to the door with your bag and open it. You flew out the room the last thing you heard was Jungkook humming.

You walked- no you ran through the car lot looking for your car, all of sudden not being able to remember where you parked this morning. You stopped to catch your breath and smiled once you saw your car.

You pressed the unlock button and quite literally jumped in your car and locked the doors. You put your hand on the steering wheel and just thought about what all happened. Jeon Jungkook just admitted to being madly in love with you. You should be happy, right? You are terrified. He stalked you basically your entire career and has been in love with you since you started your career. You can’t be happy after hearing that.

You got it together and grabbed your car keys and put it in the ignition, starting your car and driving home.

You should really check your back seats more..

You happily went inside your apartment and instantly took a shower. You didn’t forget about what happened the few hours before but the shower just eased your mind.

Once you got out and got dressed, the pitch blackness of your bedroom comforted you usually, But it made you uneasy. As it should.

You got in bed and sleep quickly took over you but not enough, as you awoke to hearing your bed room door creak close. You were scared shitless to even get up, fear making your body go numb. You heard that same melody again, that now cursed melody of Still With You. Jungkook was humming it before you ran out.

‘oh my…’ you mouthed as you felt the bed dip and someone get under the covers with you and slowly wrap their arms around you.

“ Good Night, Baby~. Tomorrow is a big day for us. Our new beginning.” Jungkook whispered into your ear and kissed your neck softly before sighing and singing you to sleep. That same cursed song…

“언제쯤일까 다시 그댈 마주한다면

When will I face you again?

눈을 보고 말할래요

I want to look you in the eye and tell you

"보고 싶었어요"

"I missed you"

[doublel27]

I’ve been thinking about Moo’s very publicly r video essay ever since @petrichoraline and I were talking about Moo’s very public declaration of his relationship here and the irony is if no one had said anything to Moo there’s a chance he wouldn’t have done anything.

In episode 8, Neth and Kang had already convinced him he might need to be quiet about their relationship. Kang and Moo agreed that “as long as we know” it doesn’t matter what other people do or don’t know.

And I think it was even worse for Moo because the dance video wasn’t a declaration of anything. That’s what he states before making the Kang fan edit. The video he was asked to delete was simply just boys dancing. And as an idol, he’s gonna be dancing on stage with a lot of boys. He’s probably already posted clips with Tae and Yos as well.

And sure it’s different because Kang isn’t also out here trying to be a dancer and he is Moo’s boyfriend. But a lot of what he was being asked to tone down were things that were what Moo considers normal. And I think that’s what made him so angry when everyone asked him to take the video down. Shone and Moo’s mom didn’t know they were boyfriends from that clip. To Moo’s point that wasn’t an announcement.

And as @luthienmpl points out here it’s not like Moo didn’t very publicly court Kang at school where everyone knows he’s written Kang a song and sang it over the intercom and gave away food for people who congratulated them on being boyfriends. There’s information out there.

Moo got mad at the idea he would have to lie. And everyone was insisting they weren’t asking him to lie, but to not share. To Moo, who if the thought is in his head it’s out of his mouth, omitting facts, deleting posts because of how someone might interpret it even if it’s not explicit what the video is of, to cut parts of himself off, well that’s a lie. After being pushed too far by the repeated requests by others to be less, he snapped with the very loud video of l not only do I have a boyfriend but let me tell you all about him and why he’s perfect.

With the preview showing that the contract is going to say expressly no relationships and Moo’s determination to not lie and Kang being the bluest boy (who tend to be martyrs….I am very curious where Only Boo is going with this story. As I am curious where Thame Po will take this story as they’re doing a similar line.

Another show with a similar storyline from GMM, Be My Favorite just dropped in 2023 and I adored it, but they took a particular stance on this conundrum. You should watch it, but spoilers…in one of the futures Kawi makes for himself, he ends up an idol and is at first delighted to find himself living what he thought was an impossible dream. But it’s quickly clear that he is miserable, drinking. He had gotten his dream girl Pear, but she left him because he wouldn’t marry her and start a family. As an idol, he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, give her the time, attention, and public commitment she was looking for. We also find out that Piesang disappeared around the same time. It’s heavily implied after Kawi chases Piesang and kisses him drunkenly, that Kawi probably did something similar after Pear left as Piesang says “You cannot keep doing this.” (They’d had a similar moment in episode six but this made it feel like we had a bigger pattern and explained his absence)

In the final future, Kawi is happily a songwriter, making songs for other people to sing. It’s the future Kawi chose knowing where the idol path sent him. Piesang even questions him on it. He asks Kawi if he gave up on those dreams because of Piesang and Piesang offers to hide if that’s what it takes. Kawi, thanks to the power of time travel, tells Piesang he’s absolutely certain he couldn’t be happier if he traveled that path. Only misery lies that way. Kawi’s whole lesson though is about making choices in the moment that spark joy rather than letting fear or jealousy lead your choices and living a life that makes you truly happy.

Only Boo, of course, is a very different show with a very different lead. Moo is 1000 times more confident and certain than Kawi ever could hope to be. He knows what he wants and while everyone sees them as two disparate pictures, Moo sees them fully integrated. He’s also a much younger character, just out of high school and has yet to face the reality of what it means to be an idol beyond getting to do the things he loves most and feels confident about.

Thame-Po will take us somewhere entirely different with an idol at the peak of their game who signed their right to a personal life away at a much younger age.

So when confronted with a contract that explicitly says you cannot date and Moo, who has no interest in lies of omission or hiding his boyfriend, and is in fact highly reactionary to people insisting he delete rather innocuous posts incase someone wants to speculate…I am very interested in the choices that will get written in here.

It is especially interesting considering the the litany of drama that has come out of highly entitled fan reactions to social media posts and in some cases leaked videos of Thai artists in their own home. Sure, everyone is trying to “protect” Moo in theory, but entitled fans will be entitled whether you hide your personal life entirely or not. These types of fans seem to exist across fandoms of many types and with a level of wild inappropriateness regardless of how open or closed a celebrity is to others. If they post too much with someone that’s a sign. If they avoid posting with someone that’s a sign. Like…there’s no winning.

And to that point, what is the takeaway going to be for Moo as he is faced with a moral dilemma and the two things he wants most in conflict? And what is the messaging going to be from Only Boo/GMM about young idols and talent (as the two leads of this show are) and their rights to their own lives? And are we gonna talk about the extra layer of homophobia of it all or because the fact that even straight relationships seem to be a PR nightmare for some talent, that GMM/Only Boo is content to leave it ambiguous for now?

[akookminsupporter]

Hey Rosie! I don't know how many times I've rewatched the AYS eps. And I'm sure I'll do it again 3 hours before we get ep 4, but seeing how Jimin and Jungkook were trying to move fast and were so time conscious during the CT trip, probably wanting to make the best out of the time they have to do as much as they can, I can't help but be more grateful. I'd be more than happy with whatever they give us, but thinking about it now, what if we just had their US trip. No Jeju, no Sapporo 😭

That's why it's even easier for me to ignore and drown out paragraphs of vileness towards them individually or both (but continuing to report and block accounts), and the twisting of words, or those misleading and out-of-context screenshots. You can't fight stupidity and that level of delusion. That group can not be saved and will never acknowledge the truth or be sane for a decent discussion. They live in their own made-up world and fantasies. They pick what suits them and create a fakeass narrative and captions to keep living in delusion.

I'm looking forward to the Sapporo eps since they've confirmed the locations, I don't think we've had enough preview of activities from there.

Me wearing my tin hat and clown face *whispers*: you think we'll have one special ep of jikook in tokyo? I believe there were rumours of go pros or filming when they had dinner at that curry place. Either way, I'm happy to have 3 locations with Jikook 🥺

Oh, actually, the show’s director mentioned in an interview that they originally planned to only film in the USA—I wonder if that's why Jimin said at the beginning that the idea was to shoot a video unless the translation was wrong—but Jimin and Jungkook were sad that it was just that, so they decided to keep filming in other places.

“When they set off for the States, they had no plans for the second or third locations—Jeju Island and Sapporo,” said Park. “They were disappointed to end the trip in the States and also wanted to do something more as a gift to fans. With that in mind, they proposed the idea to continue the trip to Jeju Island and Japan. After starting with the States, they went on a trip to the other locations at intervals of two to three months.”

Anon, I totally agree with you, no matter what the haters and the insecure ones say, this show is for us Jimin and Jungkook fans, and it's a gift that I’ll always treasure and be grateful for. They filmed the show during a year when they were really busy, especially during the time they were shooting in each city or location, and while I still believe it was also for them, it’s definitely for us too.

You can't fight stupidity and that level of delusion.

THIS.

Unless Jeju is going to have more than three episodes, I also wonder what else they did in Japan because they’ve only shown us the same clips or moments from different angles so far. I’m still hopeful that’s where they’ll talk a bit about everything, especially their military service.

Look, I’m not sure if we’ll get clips of them in Tokyo, but I do remember Jungkook arriving in Hokkaido filming with his GoPro, so maybe? We’ll see. I’m still super excited for each episode because my parents taught me to always be thankful for the things we’re given.

[fallloverfic]

"Nimona" fandom informational rundown

New to the fandom and a bit confused about things? Hopefully this will help!

Nimona was a webcomic by Nate Diana Stevenson/ND Stevenson that was first shown on tumblr on December 14, 2011, and Nate later launched it as an official webcomic on its own website on June 19, 2012. It was contracted for publication post-completion as a graphic novel sometime before November 1, 2012. The webcomic finished online publication on September 30, 2014. Shortly afterward, most of the webcomic was taken down as part of the contractual agreement for publication as a physical graphic novel, leaving only a short bit of the opening as a preview. The website for the webcomic later went down entirely, and is no longer accessible.

The comic was published in entirety as a single graphic novel on May 12, 2015. The movie adaptation rights were sold to Fox in 2015, as well, and the project was given to Blue Sky Studios. The comic was later adapted into a full cast audiobook on October 4, 2016. The graphic novel is available for purchase in paperback, hardcover, and as an ebook, and the audiobook is also available for purchase. (The link has international seller links). The graphic novel has been translated into 16 languages. It is also available in a special edition English hardcover via Illumicrate. They only ship from the UK, but ship internationally, and you don't need a subscription to buy the book. As the standard graphic novel and audiobook are ~7+ years old now, if you have a local library, you can see if either of them are available that way.

Disney bought 20th Century Fox Animation (later 20th Century Animation, the purchase completed in 2019), but later shut down Blue Sky Studios in 2021, cancelling the still-in-production movie. Crew worked on shopping the movie around for a new home after talks with Disney. The movie was later picked up and completed by Annapurna, DNEG, and Netflix, premiered June 14, 2023 in France, showed in select theaters starting principally on June 23, 2023, and released to general audiences on Netflix for streaming on June 30, 2023. I have more info on this here.

In English, Nimona is voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, Ballister Boldheart is voiced by Riz Ahmed, and Ambrosius Goldenloin is voiced by Eugene Lee Yang.

If you're looking for official merch, the movie soundtrack is up on multiple platforms, including YouTube, iOS, Spotify, and Amazon, and a vinyl version of the soundtrack was sold by iam8bit. There is an official humanoid Nimona plushie, a whale Nimona plushie, and a shark Nimona plushie, available via Gee and Hot Topic, as well as a variety of official shirts available via Hot Topic and Amazon (just search Brand: Nimona). Nate also still sells "Nimona" comic art on his INPRNT store.

Netflix released a free-to-read digital-only multimedia 358-page artbook for the movie (but took it down in March 2024). (It's also been released at least for crew/friends of crew(?) in physical release, so maybe it'll get mass release as a hardcover). Outside of this, a lot of the crew for the movie from both Blue Sky and DNEG have been releasing a ton of concept art and development stuff, and the cast and crew have been doing a lot of promotional interviews and videos going back through like April 2023, so there's a lot of material to look through on YouTube, tiktok, tumblr, twitter, Instagram, Facebook/Meta, and Vimeo, as well as various news and media sites. Nate is active on tumblr, his personal blog, twitter, and Instagram. Annapurna, DNEG, and Netflix also have multiple accounts on many platforms, including their own websites, YouTube, Facebook/Meta, and Twitter, and have been sharing clips and behind the scenes stuff.

Nimona actually has been added to a video game: Nimona was included as an event companion in SharkBite 2, a Roblox game.

If you're looking for fanworks, the fandom is active on most platforms, and has been ever since Nate started posting early art of the characters. Nate's talked at length in multiple places about how big the fandom was during the webcomic's publication. Mostly back then folks were very active in the Disqus comments on pages, which are a bit harder to find these days. There's a lot of the older comic fanart still circulating in different places (particularly tumblr, where the fandom was most active), some of which Nate reblogged. There is crossover between the comic and movie fandoms, as many fans of the comic love the movie and vice versa, and both fandoms are quite active. There is at least one active subreddit and fanwiki (and many others on assorted fantasy, comic, movie, and non-English language sites), as well as TV Tropes pages for both the comic and movie adaptation and a number of Discord servers.

For fanfiction, there are a ton of fics on Archive of Our Own in the comic tag and in the movie adaptation tag. There are also a number of fics on tumblr, some fics on fanfiction.net, and some on Wattpad. There are fanvids on tiktok, Instagram, and YouTube. There is fanart on tumblr, twitter, deviantart, instagram, and pixiv. There are cosplayers, meta analysts, roleplayers, music makers, and many other fanworkers

Some tags to use/browse for posts on tumblr and other sites:

Nimona

Nimona fanart

Nimona comic

Nimona movie

Ballister Blackheart

Ballister Boldheart

Ambrosius Goldenloin

Gloreth

Meredith Blitzmeyer

Ballister x Ambrosius / Goldenheart / Boldloin / Boldenloin / Blackenloin / Blackloin / Goldheart

Will update this post as I come across new things.

[itwasmagic]

Hi, Regina is my absolute favourite in ouat and you made her stunning in this gifset ✨

I was wondering how did you make glitch effect from green to b&w, Would you please post a tutorial?

Hi! Thank you so much! the start of the tutorial is below the cut but because it's multiple gifs and I could only add so many photos to a post to explain, I have had to split it onto another post but I have put a link at the end when it's time to move onto the next one. :) if anything doesn't make sense or if anyone follows this and it helps, i would love to know either way!

Glitch effect tutorial used on this set below the cut

note: credit to this tutorial which was very helpful when i was making the set but i didn't feel it explained how to do the b&w gif and that's what took me a while to figure out, so if anything on this tutorial isn't clear, that one should also help. this will be slightly different because in my set i made it so the glitch faded into each other and i've added my own flare to it but the basic technique is the same.

create 2 gifs the same size, you can add whatever colouring, sharpening etc you like, one in colour, one in b&w (you can do 2 in colour but for the purpose of this i'm doing one b&w to show how to do both versions).

i'm going to do the b&w gif fading into the colour gif on this tutorial (bc that's just what i started editing first) but obviously if you're making a full set decide which gif you want to fade into which because the first part of the gif will have the glitch effect on the end and the second will have it at the beginning so it will matter for the final outcome of your set

PART 1 - B&W GIF

if you edit in frame animation, you must convert your b&w gif to the video animation timeline otherwise the colours will not show up on the glitch effect. you can do this by clicking the lines menu above the frames

i usually colour in frame animation because it plays quicker to preview how it will look and then convert to video to add my sharpening at the end but it's personal preference how you create your gifs.

hold control + select all of your frames > right click > convert to smart object

all of your frames, colouring etc should all be in one frame now, select it > click the lines menu above the animation timeline again > convert frames > flatten frames into clips

you should now have a longer list of layers that make up each frame of your gif

this is because we need to convert back to frame animation to edit the glitch effect onto individual frames. if you don't flatten the frames to clips the gif will not play when it's converted because 1 layer will equal only 1 frame. it may seem long winded to go back and forth but it makes sure all your colouring is already included in the frames when you make it glitch. if you add the colouring afterwards it will change the colour of the glitch effect or turn it black and white and it won't be very visible (if anyone has an easier way i'm very happy for suggestions, i was just figuring this out as i went and found the glitch didn't work on the b&w gif any other way for me!!)

now we go back to the 3 lines menu > convert frames > convert to frame animation

if you get this pop up, press continue. it's fine because we have each of our frames in their own layers now

your frame animation timeline will initially load with just one frame

go to the lines menu again > make frames from layers

now all of the frames will load, but they will be at 0 seconds (except the first frame) and we need to make them all run at a playable speed, so go back to that same lines menu above the timeline > select all frames > select under any frame where it says 0 sec. > other > i usually put in 0.05 but do whatever works for you

PART 2 - ADDING THE GLITCH EFFECT

pick a frame about 5 from the end, select it and select the corresponding layer with the eye icon next to it to show it's the one visible

right click > duplicate layer (or just press control + J)

then on the copy of the layer right click > blending options (or double click)

in the advanced blending section, untick R > ok

make sure the move tool is selected

now using the arrow keys on your keyboard move that layer either left or right as many notches as you like (i've started out with 10 here)

hold control > select both the visible layers

right click > merge layers

now move onto the next frame and corresponding layer and repeat the same process (i have no idea why my ps decided frame 46 doesn't exist so ignore that dkjddj)

if the frame(s) below is still visible, just click the eye to hide it so only the one you're working on and it's copy layer are showing

this time i've moved the layer 6 notches to the right as below

keep going until you get to the end of the animation. you can move each layer as much as you like either side just play around with your gif and do whatever you think looks good! if you want to do more than the last 5 frames or less than them, do that too! just remember that we are also going to put a glitch on the coloured gif then combine them, so the final glitch effect will be longer

when you're done, you might have to go back to the first frame on your animation and hide all of the layers you've just edited because on mine they all visible so the gif won't play

then go back to the end of the gif and make the right layer visible on the right frame again (hopefully this makes sense)

so far, the gif should play something like this

to make it smoother i picked a few frames earlier in the gif, before the start of the glitch at the end to add the same effect to the first frame i edited was number 32 (layer 'frame 45'), so i'm going to add it to frames 25 and 26 as well

then i selected the last frame and layer > filter (at the top of the screen) > blur > motion blur

then pick another frame and corresponding layer > filter > noise > add noise

do this to a couple of frames of your choice with the glitch effect on too, it makes it a little more grunge-y which i think fits with the concept that it's supposed to be glitching/broken

now it looks like this, subtle but in my opinion notably smoother

go to the left side of the screen under the frame timeline and click the convert to video timeline button

once i've converted it back to the video timeline, i like to select all of my layers again > right click > group from layers (or select all and control + g). i'm going to rename this b&w so it doesn't get confusing later

I can only add 30 images per post so this tutorial is CONTINUED HERE!

[solaroppositesyaoi]

Hold on ,,, i kinda fell out of the fandom a while ago

Is Tervo canon now?? Like... earnest canon? Not just in that limbo between homophobic jokes and queerbaiting but like... Actual committed, loving relationship that they're both working on and they don't just sometimes kiss for laughs?

Because in that case i might start watching again

(I fell off just before the christmas special)

OH BOY ANON YOU JUST ACTIVATED MY AUTISM

So the short answer is yes though not 100% and I understand if that’s not what you’re looking for but if you have time you can listen to me go off:

So they pretty much do everything except stare directly at the audience and announce that their in a relationship but the show pretty much tells us they’re in relationship

We’ll start with the Christmas Special since you stopped there.

There’s only one “tervo” scene where Terry reveals he’s been practicing punching for Korvo’s Christmas present and they share a kiss which is the best kiss we’ve gotten from them.

It’s very sweet

Now onto s3

I’m linking my own video if you want to watch the scenes yourself but don’t worry I’m gonna break into them: link to video

There’s a lot of little things through out the season the word “husband” is thrown around a lot, in episode 2 Terry refers to Korvo as babe a personal fave of mine. There’s also huge implications they’re having sex with each other which you know helps.

The main episodes with the biggest Tervo moments are episode 3 The Pupas Big Day and episode 8 The Cubic Lattice Crystallizer

The Pupa’s Big Day features jealous Korvo in the best possible way (this is my personally favorite episode in the series by the way)

I don’t want to ruin the episodes for you but Terry is buddy buddy with a new character and it drives Korvo crazy. In the end the episode ends with with this line:

Tervo for the soul

The Cubic Lattice Crystallizer starts well with this:

After the fam goes on vacation and a few shenanigans happens until Terry and Korvo end up a museum of betrayals which features an animatronic of Korvo getting banged by Chris the red goobler

This sets off Terry who shows quite a bit a jealousy from the situation I’m not going to show it cause of tumblr’s nsfw rules but the animatronic says something along the lines

“I’m coming harder than I do with Terry”

The final scene I want to talk about come from the season finale The Fog of Pupa. Ms. Frankie reveals the cunnilingus Korvo gave her in the s2 finale and Terry give him this look:

It’s just screams Terry’s pissed at Korvo for this but why would he be if they weren’t in a relationship??

Outside that we have the Halloween special where it’s revealed Korvo gave Terry bj coupons for Valentines Day

Cute

Also found this excerpt article with Mike McMahan (here’s a link for the entire article)

In the s4 preview (youtube link) Terry pretty much is the sole reason Korvo is British now because it made him horny, he also calls Korvo sweetie in the clip.

We also have a Valentines episode to look forward too which a lot of people are speculating a tervo wedding as “something big” is suppose to happen to two characters hmmm…..

So are they in a relationship? I like to think so but I’m also autistic and a little insane and I eat up all the scraps they give me. Maybe I’m delusional but i feel there’s a ton of evidence here. If you think this is just queerbait material I understand but I think it’s pretty clear they’re in love with each other. Either way I can't wait for s4 and more tervo content for me to tear into and analyze the death.

Anyway thanks for sticking with me here and I hope this answered your question!

[belobogindustries]

Prev anon here, if it isn't too much of a hassle a post about your gif settings would great! I used to make gifs years ago and every time I felt like making a set these days I just don't know what I'm doing anymore XD. Like, I forgot everything about how I used to make gifs in photoshop.

hello again!! I tried making it as comprehensible as i could for you and also to the people who wants to start making gifs :D

you can simply scroll to the ps settings if thats all you need ^^

Vapoursynth (If you don't have it, it's totally okay to just use ps because this is really just a matter of preference bcs i feel like resizing in photoshop worsens the quality)

simply drag the video(preferably 1080p or above) you want to use to the vapourscript!

3. this thing shows up, just write the timestamp and the duration (ex.if the clip you want starts at 1:24 and ends at 1:27 then the encoding duration would be 4 seconds)

4. after that, you'll be taken to the resizer and you can adjust the size of the gif here and sharpening here too. i like to add a bit of finesharp because i also feel like the processing lowers the quality a little

5. copy the text at the top right and paste it onto the vs editor

6. (forgot to take a pic but you can choose which frames you want to process by clicking script and then preview at the top) 7. click script and then encode, change preset to Export to MOV and header to Y4M and then click start

8. after that's done you can close it, and move onto photoshop! 9. once you've opened photoshop, click on file on the top left, click import and the video frames to layers 10. look for the output folder and there you can see the encoded file

11. Delete the frames you don't want and then we can start on the sharpening! 12. click on the 4 lines at the frame window and then select all frames

13. go to select at the top and then select all layers

14. click on filter and then convert for smart filters

15. and now for the sharpening! click on filter, sharpen and then smart sharpen! (here are the settings<3)

(ps. the unsharp mask is simply there because i want to test it out) 17. once you're finished with the sharpening, you can now flatten it into layers

18. delete the first layer 19. click on convert to frame animation

20. finally make frames from layers (you can find it above flatten into layers) 21. set the frame delay to 0.02 (for 60fps) or 0.04 (for 30fps)

22. colouring depends on your preference, my psd can be downloaded on the source link ^^ 23. go to file, export and save for web

(my export settings) and save! miyabi gifs w/o sharpen & colour

w/ sharpen

w/ sharpen & colour

[hymnism]

well here is sunny's scuffed gif tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to gif 🎉🎉

so first of all you're obviously going to need a clip of whatever you want to gif. you can either download full videos or use a screen recorder (like obs for example) to record the specific scene you want to gif

once you have your clip you go into photoshop and look for "file -> import -> video frames to layers" then choose your clip and you'll get a screen like this

you can use the two small arrows to trim the clip to just what you need then click ok and it will open the clip up into frames

(btw if you don't already have it on make sure to go to "window" and turn on timeline. that's where you will see the frames)

now personally my first step is cropping and resizing. cropping is kind of self explanatory but to resize the gif make sure you go to "image -> image size" (NOT canvas size. just wanted to say that since the options are kind of similar) (although you can still use canvas size for cropping) and here is a handy little chart that is helpful if you want to know what to resize gifs to (width is what's important here height can be whatever you want it to be)

now personally my next step is sharpening although you can probably also do this at the end. i use maizekeen's gif sharpening actions (if you don't know how to use actions in photoshop there are many tutorials online but very basically you download the actions then go into the actions menu (windows -> action if you don't have it open) and click on load actions) and then from there you just choose your action and click the play button

then after that is usually when i delete any extra unwanted frames in the timeline (it's not necessary to delete the frames from the layers panel)

NOW is the fun part and also where a lot of this becomes up to taste and personal style ✨

make sure you have your adjustment panel open (window -> adjustments)

the ones underlined are the main ones i use. i recommend playing around and seeing what does what and seeing what ends up looking cool to you

oh and when you use adjustment layers make sure they are above all the layers of the gif like this

i made some different edits of the same gif to show some of the different things you can do. like i said it's up to personal taste and style

here is the original unedited for comparison

and here are some different edits i did real quick to hopefully give you some ideas for what you can do

and if you want to change the speed of a gif make sure to select all frames and then use this little arrow

i tend to use either 0.05 or 0.04 since anything faster or slower tends to start looking wonky but you can try it out yourself and see what looks good to you

btw here is the difference between 0.05 (left) and 0.04 (right)

NOW FOR SAVING

when you feel like you're done you wanna go to "export -> save for web" (it might say legacy next to yours it still works the same) and you will get a window like this

the most important things here are the two options i circled. most of the time i just leave these at adaptive and pattern. perceptual and selective can be used in place of adaptive but i've found that adaptive tends to look best. diffusion instead of pattern can help lower the size of a file in some situations but it doesn't always work but for the love of god please don't set it to "no dither". also make sure the looping option is set to forever (unless you specifically wanna make a non looping gif)

and from this menu you can preview your gif (lower left corner). slightly above the preview button is where you can see your file size (in this case this gif is 7.8mb) tumblr says their gif limit is 10mb but in reality it's slightly less than that so if your gif is 9.7~9.8mb it's probably too big

now if everything looks good then just click on save and name your gif and you're done 👍

now i'm sure there are a lot of things i didn't explain well so if there are any question feel free to send me an ask or a dm and i'll try to explain things more in depth :)

[space-blue]

Speedpaint + quick tut on how I do Na'vi skin/stripes with video and screenshots

Here's the video to go along, but I'll go step by step with screenshots

We start with a base layer for the skin. I make a clip layer on top and be sure to also fill it the same base blue, because otherwise the blending properties of the brushes won't apply.

This is meant to be low detail so I won't give it too much colour, but I make the throat and centre of the face lighter, the eyes and ears pink/redder.

Then it's time to decide on light direction/angle and how it affects geometry. Doing a little of that really helps, but you don't have to paint the way I did there... Got lost in the sauce.

Add another clip layer on top, set it to multiply, and get started.

There are many ways to do stripes. I do mine entirely by hand, in a style of painting and erasing with the same brush but inverted. It's a lot like sculpting. Doing everything by hand guarantees a lack of uniformity. See the video for this step.

Now that I'm happy with the look I have, I UNCLIP the layer of stripes, revealing the places I went beyond the skin. That's fine.

Add a layer on top of Stripes. Clip it to stripe.

Right click on Stripe layer. Click "selection from layer > create selection"

Now you have a bar under the selection with shortcuts we're going to use.

Reduce the selection. The amount of pixels depends on the size of your drawing. Play around!

Now inverst the selection. So you're not drawing inside of it but outside of it only.

Select the multiply layer on top of the Stripes.

Paint in! In the reference above I used a deep purple to highlight what it should look like, but obviously you want a light blue.

Tweak colour and transparency of that layer as needed!

Then I use a blur brush (I prefer Maablur Brush, it's free iirc), and the soft eraser, in various areas so it's not entirely uniform.

See what the stripes look like on these people :

Q is quite dark with less light inside some sections. Meanwhile Neteyam has a very thin dark lining around his face stripes :

They're generally pretty desaturated. Body stripes also seem to be much more blurry in general :

Anyway, MERGE that multiple layer to the Stripe layer. CLIP the Stripe layer back to the skin.

Now it's time to erase or blur as you wish. I tend to erase around the nose, cheeks and throat.

Even Metkayina have that erased quality :

I add sanhi on a layer set to "add glow" and pick a teal colour. I either do it manually in pencil or with a dot brush.

Final tweaks of saturation and transparency, maybe playing around with "add" or "multiply" layers for quick highlights on top of everything or deeper shadows.

That's it! That's how I always do stripes, no matter how rendered the skin underneath. Elias needs more work before he's done, but it's a good preview, I hope.

[yutafrita]

To Pierce the White Eye- TWO

Preview / One / Two / Three / Four / Fin.

Pairing: Psychic!Jaemin x Reader (She/ her)

Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, soulmates au, angst

Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, mentions of catastrophic deadly events

Word Count: 4.9K

Work is inspired by/ based on blue exorcist & vampire knight.

You stretched out, your fists knocking the old headboard. You squint your eyes open, the sunlight seeping in through the thin curtains in Kun and Jungwoo’s spare bedroom. You were grateful that they didn’t have anyone rent the room out this semester, as it allowed you to crash there for the night. Well, you and-

You craned your neck slowly, your eyes widening as you saw Jaemin’s sleeping figure on the bed next to you. His chest rose and fell evenly, in such a deep slumber you almost felt bad for wanting to wake him up.

You were both miserably tired the night before. You got lucky that Jungwoo was up late enough to answer your phone call, and even more lucky that he didn’t ask any additional questions when you mentioned another friend of yours would be there too. The thought of returning to your dorm when Mark, Johnny, and Ten would ask a million questions made you sick- but you also couldn’t stand the thought of being alone.

You needed to leave though, before Kun and Jungwoo woke up and really started digging into you two. You reached a hand across the bed, your hand brushing against Jaemin’s shoulder when your eyesight went white and you collapsed back onto the bed, out cold.

*****

You were in a white room with screens playing all along the circular walls. Confused, you looked down, making eye contact with Jaemin, who laid on the floor on his back, arms tucked under his head.

“Where the fuck am I?” you whimpered, holding yourself and spinning as you looked at all of the screens that made their way to the top of the dome you two somehow found yourselves in. 

“Oh, it’s a defense mechanism psychics have. It used to be for when people would try to kill us in our sleep. They would be knocked out and sent to where we psychics go when we sleep,” he explained casually, turning his attention back to looking at the screens. You looked closer, seeing clips of different people, some more grainy than others.

“You’re seeing futures even as you sleep?” you asked, your arms going slack at your side.

“Yeah, just because I’m sleeping doesn’t mean time stops,” he shrugged.

“That’s exhausting.”

“Existence is exhausting,” Jaemin corrected. 

You gulped, swallowing your anxiety. You stepped forward, your feet echoing in the space as you focused on one of Jaemin’s visions- one of Mark, your father, and Yuta. The vision was grainy, but you were able to at least make out these three figures for sure- not so much the space they were in. You could tell the conversation was engaging and vibrant by the hand gestures your brother used when he got excited. 

The screen next to it was much less grainy, but also much less full of energy. Jaemin sat in the spot Yuta was- in the middle of the couch in your family home with Mark to his side. Your Dad sat off to the side, and you could make out his furrowed brow pointed at the psychic in your home. While there was no sound you could gather from the first video, in this one however, there was a faint broken style of speaking coming through the screen. 

“... makes… me smile,” Jaemin’s scrambled voice came through.

“... I’m glad,” your father’s voice was crystal clear- it was as if he too was in Jaemin’s head. The image suddenly cleared and you were able to perfectly make out every part of the screen, and hear the low conversation all three were having together.

“Hey guys!” this voice made you jump, and then the screen went black. It was your voice, you realized.

“I thought you said you couldn’t see me,” you turned back around, seeing that Jaemin now sat up at the center of the room, his eyes trained on you.

“The screen went black, you weren’t there,” he sighed, standing up. “So it’s time to wake up?”

You blinked quickly, reminding yourself as to why you were there in the first place. “Y-yeah.”

******

It had been a week since your stay at Kun and Jungwoo’s. The Vatican arrived at Knight’s Cross on extremely short notice, reinforcing the demon barriers to make sure nothing else would pop up. You had also managed to beg Kun and Jungwoo to not mention to Mark that Jaemin was there after promising that you would take them to dinner at any place of their choice. 

The night library was in the same fenced off area where the night dorms were- a single large building stuffed with books that were hundreds and thousands of years old. Despite this there was no librarian- so you sat quietly in the corner with a sticky note of questions and several books cracked open on your single table.

What caused the blue night?

The first question was the one you knew would be the hardest one to find an answer, that is if there even was one. Jaemin explained already that the demons gained possession, but the reason behind it was still unanswered to you.

More info on oligarchy?

It wasn’t so much a question as just a want to better understand. You didn’t want to bother Ten or Jaemin, and you felt embarrassed about not knowing it already. You wanted to better understand the world you were sworn to help, and you wanted to better understand Jaemin.

Jaemin.

You pinched the bridge of your nose, trying to get the psychic out of your mind. Thankfully, it seemed that no night students went into their own library often, so you were able to get some peace for a bit as you did your research.

In order to properly rule the mythic world after the treaty of 202 AD, it was agreed that there would be a changing monarchy, hereby dubbed the oligarchy. It would comprise no less than five families and no more than ten that will change off its ruler to someone new within them every 750 years or until the current ruler dies. There can be no more than two of the same species in the oligarchy. 

The order shall proceed as follows with the founding oligarchy families and their respective species: Faerie Lee’s, Vampire Nakamoto’s, Shifter Kim’s, Vampire Lee’s, and Psychic Na’s.

You scribbled down the names of the families, your eyebrows raising in surprise to see that Ten’s family was here.

“Hm, the Oligarchy history book,” this voice immediately called your eyes up and you froze. The crowned prince smiled awkwardly, gesturing to the open seat, “mind if I take a seat?”

“Yeah… is this book, like, common or something?” you asked as he now sat across from you. He set a few books down on the table, thinking for a moment before he nodded.

“We get taught using that book in like the sixth grade. What is it you're looking for? It’s likely that the version you have is out of date,” he offered, making it obvious that he too was trying to prod at your business.

“Well, I think I should have some background on the mythic government and affairs,” you offered.

“Interesting that your father didn’t teach you about the oligarchy.”

“I’m an adult- I can figure things out without my Dad.”

“I’m an adult too, and there’s still somethings I can’t quite piece together on my own, like-,” Yuta studied your blank expression before he continued, “why did Jaemin reek of you the other morning after he snuck out?”

Your face fully paled, and you knew the vampire could hear your heart jump into your throat, “it’s not what you-.”

He started laughing, cutting you off as his laughter echoed throughout the space of the library.

“The only other person who could tell is Ten- your secret is safe with me,” Yuta winked, and you furrowed your brow fully ready to defend yourself until a breeze whipped past you. You saw the small sticky note you wrote your questions on now in Yuta’s hand.

He whistled, “that first one is a heavy question.”

“Is there a heavy answer?”

“Shit, if I knew…” a smile passed his face before he pushed it away, swallowing loudly before shaking his head, “we don’t know why all of those demons possessed and killed so many mythics.”

“There has to be a reason. Demons can’t just… climb to the surface without any help and any purpose… I think,” you muttered, your pencil tapping the table as you thought it all over. Yuta folded the sticky note, setting it on the book in front of you.

“The blue night changed everything for us. It… took my big brother’s life,” he whispered at the end, you sat up in full attention. “Right now, the ruler of the mythics is the Queen- she’s a Faerie Lee,” he pointed at the name on your textbook, his finger then dragging to the name that followed, “after them, it falls onto the oldest child of the Vampire Nakamoto’s. It was meant to be my brother in every way, but that night… that night took his life.”

“And subsequently gave you the burden of being the future ruler,” you finished, your voice hushed. Yuta sighed, nodding as you began to understand this world. “I’m sorry you lost your brother, Yuta.”

“It’s okay, all I can do is try to make him proud.”

“I’m sure you will,” you affirmed, and he smiled in response. Shortly afterwards, you made the trek to the main building of the University, greeting the person you sat next to in your lecture that day.

“Did you do the homework, Sicheng?” you asked, taking the packet out from your backpack.

“Of course I did. It did take me ages, though,” Sicheng groaned, taking it out from his bag too. Sicheng was more Mark and Jungwoo’s friend than anything, but since this was your second class together, you had gotten more friendly over time. “Maybe one of these days Kun will give us the answers,” he joked.

“I tried, he just tells me to go to his tutoring sessions,” you pouted, seeing your friend at his usual spot at the front of the class. Kun was the TA for the course, so between juggling his Master’s Classes, he was also helping in teaching classrooms of confused students.

“Dang, I guess that means we’ll have to actually learn,” Sicheng tucked his hands behind his head, leaning back on his chair.

“You act like you don’t have a perfect grade in this class,” you scoffed. Sicheng graduated top of your class in high school- it was why everyone was so surprised when he simply elected to go to the closest university despite everyone knowing he got into far more prestigious schools.

“Hm, you’re right,” he was smug, laughing to himself. Class started soon thereafter, Kun collecting the homework and occasionally sharing glances with you two throughout the professor's lecture. The professor spoke in long drones, making it hard to focus, but all you could do was try your best, and hope that the mythics wouldn’t cloud your mind for too long.

“Do you have any plans after class?” you asked Sicheng as you began to pack up.

“Hm, probably just studying and trying to knock out this assignment, you?”

“I have my international studies class, sadly.”

“Oh boy, I took that one last semester. Good luck! I’ll see you next week.”

You omitted the truth a bit when speaking to Sicheng. After International Studies, you and Mark calmly checked the classrooms, noticing that the other had gotten more jumpy with the recent demon attack.

“Kun, Jungwoo, and I will meet you outside of the gate,” you reminded Mark after class. It was time for you to pay up, and the duo somehow found a place open 24 hours not too far out of town.

“Sounds good, see you then!” 

While you were going out for a late night bite with friends, Jaemin was holed up in his dorm room with Hendery. The poor shapeshifter had been doing his best to help Jaemin mask any trace of you, but it was still a discussion everyone was having. It was strange for Jaemin to be around anyone that wasn’t his one close companion, let alone to be reeked in the smell of a human.

“Doyoung thinks it might be her,” Hendery admitted. Jaemin was perched on his bed, staring up at the ceiling as his assignments crowded the night stand next to him. Hendery was at his desk chair on the far side of the room, waiting patiently for the psychic to have any sort of response. Jaemin knew Doyoung gave Hendery hell trying to press Hendery to see if his theory was right, and Jaemin hated Doyoung for it.

“Doyoung is a bastard,” Jaemin huffed. 

“Yeah, but he’s-.”

“The only shifter to have mastered all twelve forms. I know.”

Hendery sighed at Jaemin’s response, and Jaemin sat up in his bed. Quietly, Jaemin began thinking over the other person who was being pressed these past few days, and his left eye blew out on a grainy vision.

Ten, was on his phone in his dorm with Johnny, but Jaemin couldn’t make out much else.

Jaemin has been frustrated with not being able to see your future as he was always able to. He had taken to looking at the future of your friends to help him get a better gauge, but even that has proven to be difficult. 

Jaemin’s eyesight returned, and he stood up, leaving his room and ignoring the small, abnormal groupings of people outside of his room. He maneuvered down the hall, and knocked on the room that Johnny and Ten shared with Shotaro. 

Johnny opened the door, raising an eyebrow as Jaemin slinked under his arm and into the room, narrowly avoiding the faeries exposed wings. 

“It’s been a week and you still smell of her,” Ten greeted, not looking up from his phone as Jaemin stood next to the vampire's bed. 

“What is the smell even like?” Jaemin vocalized, the question slipping out.

“Ash and oak,” Johnny answered, now standing next to Jaemin. “What do you want, Na?”

“Are you trying to be tough with your wings out?” Jaemin raised an eyebrow at the faerie who furrowed his brow in response. Johnny’s wings were a soft lilac, white glitter shimmering off of them as they sat on the tall man’s back.

Jaemin frowned, for the first time feeling insecure about what someone would respond with. He was always prepared for the future- but now, he was on his own. Taking a deep breath, he asked, “What kind of coffee does she like?”

******

Chenle and Jisung were two of the resident’s on your floor of the dorm, this Jaemin already knew.

Jaemin made awkward conversation with them while he stood outside of your dorm room, hoping you would answer his knock as fast as possible. While the day students weren’t allowed anywhere near the night dorms, night students were able to enter these spaces with ease. It helped that the aristocratic mythics tended to want to avoid the humans anyways. This was because the mythics would have to hide parts of themselves that were true to their nature- like how Jaemin was making sure to not look into the future, lest his eye turn white and he scares the two freshmen.

“We’ve never seen you! What’s your major?” Chenle asked as Jisung studied Jaemin. Even in the small glimpses Jaemin had seen of the pair, it was painfully obvious the crush Jisung had on you. It was a small, adorable crush, but a crush that only you were oblivious to.

“Do you guys talk to everyone who knocks on the RA’s dorm?” Jaemin asked, irritated by his lack of perception.

“Some of them,” Jisung muttered as you door opened.

“Hi guys- oh, Jaemin, hi!” you forced a polite smile, trying to hide the surprise on your face with your resident’s right there. Jisung and Chenle didn’t flinch, not taking a hint to move away. “You brought the game, right? Come in!” grabbing Jaemin’s arm, you nearly dragged him into your dorm. 

“Did you guys need anything?” you asked the pair, and when they shook their heads, you waved goodbye and shut the door. Jaemin was frozen in the small kitchen area of your studio, afraid to move in your space. “Jaemin? What’s up?”

Jaemin turned back around to face you, and that’s when you finally noticed the two coffee cups in his hands.

“Do you wanna go for a walk?”

You weren’t sure what compelled you to agree, but you threw on a sweater and started along the small path that sliced through the forest of campus, coffee cup warming your hands. It was a Saturday, and the first one in a while that you were awake before three in the afternoon. 

It was painfully quiet, not just on campus, but between you and Jaemin. It was hard to think of conversation when you two a few nights ago had passed out on the pull out couch of your friend. Why did you do that? You took a large sip of the coffee to quell your nerves, looking at the browning trees along the path.

“I’m sorry I… I ruined our first encounter. I’ve been… weird, and cryptic, and I’m sorry. I’d like to start again,” Jaemin pushed the words out, and you glanced over to see him struggling. You studied his face as best as you could, trying to not trip as you walked. You looked ahead again, letting out a small chuckle.

“You’re not used to not having the upperhand in conversations, huh?” 

“Hmm, I wouldn’t call it an upper hand,” Jaemin sighed, a small laugh falling out. 

“We can start over,” you stopped, lifting a pointer finger, “but stop being so fucking ominous all the time.”

“What if my personality is just being ominous?” Jaemin kept a straight face, looking directly into your eyes until the corner of his lip twitched.

“You’re making a joke,” you noted, and he lifted both of his arms in a guilty as charged way. You continued down the path, now comfortable in the space together as you took in the fresh air.

“Before I lost my ability to see your path, I knew you were looking for something,” Jaemin started, “did you find it?”

“What are you talking about?”

“That first edition copy of Breaking Dawn- the one with the added excerpts from a hacker.”

You laughed loudly then. This was true- you had been hunting for this copy of the final Twilight book for a few months now, and the fact that this was a vision the psychic saw and remembered gave you a mixed feeling you couldn’t process. “No, I haven’t had any luck yet.”

“Ah, well, I hope you get your hands on it soon. I’ve been trying to get my hands on a copy of The Adventures of Sly Cooper comic, but I haven’t seen myself getting my hands on one for less than $300,” Jaemin confessed. You two completed the path circuit a few times, talking about video games, collecting, and books for a while. Jaemin was strange, but you liked that about him. 

“Have you uh… spoken with Yuta recently?” Jaemin asked suddenly, his cup now hanging empty in his hand as he squeezed it.

You raised an eyebrow at this random inquiry, “No, not for a bit… Why do you ask?”

Jaemin ignored the small extra beat in his chest and tried to swallow the nerves he had built up, “He’s… he’s a nice guy.”

“Oh, you’re friends with him?”

“Um… sure.”

“Well, if he’s your friend, I bet he’s nice then,” you smiled at Jaemin, and he fully swore his heart stopped at that moment. “Are you ever going to tell me, by the way?”

“Tell you what?” Jaemin’s voice came out in a hushed tone, his cheeks growing red in embarrassment.

“Why were you so closely following my future?” you smirked. To you, it felt like an obvious question. While you weren’t necessarily spooked by Jaemin anymore, you were still curious as to why he was so focused on you- and another part of yourself that you didn’t want to acknowledge had a theory of its own.

Jaemin was quiet, tapping the empty cup as he tried to manufacture a proper response. The Na prophecy was something closely held in his family, and something he had only ever told Hendery about in passing. Jaemin tilted his head up, the small breeze flowing through the trees kissed his skin.

“Do you sometimes feel like… there’s a weight on you? One you might never understand from somewhere you don’t even know?” Jaemin asked, his eyes wincing at the sunlight.

“... I was abandoned with severe amnesia as a child. That’s sort of my whole schtick,” you forced a breathy laugh despite the nail Jaemin managed to hit right on the head. Nervously, you placed a hand on his shoulder, “You just have to remember that you have support, y’know? People who wanna help you figure out that weight and where it comes from.”

Jaemin nodded- you were right, and he knew the exact person who could help him figure this weight out.

That night, Jaemin met with his mother at the Yosei Inn and Fine Dining. He had called her knowing that she already knew he would be calling, and started the first thirty minutes of their dinner gushing over how happy she was to get that vision.

“Oh dear I was already in town- and you know reservations here can get insane,” she prattled on, the faerie server refilling both of their glasses of faerie wine. The Yosei Inn sat about twenty miles away from the University and was hidden from human eyes with a bit of magic and practical effects. It was a Faerie run Inn that was often used by the parents of the elite night class students from Knight’s Cross whenever the University President’s basement was unavailable. Jaemin recognized a few other peers there, all of whom greeted Jaemin’s mother excitedly and acknowledged him in the most polite way possible. 

“So! What’s on my beautiful boy’s mind?” She cooed, her hands sitting on top of her son’s. Jaemin was lucky- compared to most other oligarchy parents, both of his were loving, sweet, and didn’t try to force him to upgrade their status. The only pressure applied was the same thing past down his family- and it was the primary source of his strife.

“I… I have a problem,” Jaemin muttered. 

“You just have to remember that you have support, y’know? People who wanna help you figure out that weight and where it comes from.” Your words buzzed around his head like an annoying fly, and he wished he could simply swat them away.

“Yes, a romantic one, correct?” his mother asked, and Jaemin met her gaze. 

“H-how?”

“Oh please- I've had this vision of you telling me about someone you like since you were born… it only became clear recently, though.”

“I-I don’t like anyone romantically, if that’s what you’re going on about. My issue is…” Jaemin lowered his voice, and leaned in closer so any prying ears couldn’t hear, “I can’t see… I can’t see someone’s future anymore.”

His mother stopped blinking, and stared at Jaemin’s confused face as she started silently weeping.

“Mom, why are you crying?” he whispered, panicking as he snatched his napkin up and began trying to dab away the tears cascading down her cheeks. She allowed her son to swipe the tears away before she smiled and shooed him off of her, a smile now having graced her features.

“Jaemin… when I first met your father… time stopped. Then… we couldn’t see each other’s futures anymore,” his Mother was so excited that her sentence ended in a higher pitch than Jaemin had ever heard her use. He furrowed his eyebrows, his eyes scanning his mother’s elated expression as he began trying to piece together what she was saying.

“I… no,” Jaemin stopped breathing when it hit him.

“This person… you’ve found your soulmate, Jaemin.”

“No!” Jaemin stood up, causing a few of the utensils on the table to clatter and a few onlookers to glare at the psychics. He frowned, slightly bowing his head in apology before sitting back down. “Mom… it’s the President’s daughter.”

This gave her pause, and the smile she wore faded as she nodded in understanding, “I see your dilemma, but son, you can’t really choose who you love either.”

“My one task in life- my one purpose- has been making sure the Na prophecy gets fulfilled, mother,” he hissed, tears threatening to spill now. He was so frustrated- none of this was going as planned, and the worst part was how good you made him feel when he was around you. 

“Son, the only purpose in your life should be to be happy,” his mother countered, before she leaned back in her seat, arms crossed, “how’s your fifth cousin doing, by the way?”

“Mom, what-?”

“Your fifth cousin, the prince, Nakamoto Yuta,” she spoke each word slowly and carefully, her small smirk hoping that the younger psychic would understand. Words from the prophecy Jaemin had been carrying now sat at the forefront of his mind, and his eyes widened.

“A mythic in relation to the deceased ruler will fall in love with the flames,” he uttered, voice shaky as his mother nodded in controlled joy. “But… then who dies?”

*****

Across town and in the basement of Knight’s Cross College, you had the music of the practice room blaring as you beat the shit out of a dummy. The padded practice room sat in the basement of the main building, only accessible by your father’s, Mark’s, and your ID card. Typically, you wouldn’t be in the practice room unless you and Mark had a mandated training from your father, but tonight you just felt angry and you didn’t know how else to dispel it beyond putting on gloves and whaling on a poor dummy.

Punch.

Stupid demons. Stupid mythics who are extremely weird about you speaking to them.

Punch. Punch. Jab.

Stupid Jaemin- why did he have to pass by your place this morning? How did he even know your favorite coffee order?

Jab. Punch. Punch. Duck. Kick.

He was handsome and attentive and god why did he have to look good all of the time?

Punch. Punch.

His lips looked so soft too and- wait why is it so hot?

You jumped in fear, knocking your now fire covered gloves to the ground in a panic. The flames were a steep blue- the same as the one from your first memory, and you swore the flames were relishing in your panic. Moving quickly, you grabbed the holy water from your bag in the corner, haphazardly soaking the gloves.

“Fuck!” you shouted in anguish, dropping the bottle as you felt your skin burn. It wasn’t your hands though that burned- it was the blotches on your ankles that picked up some of the holy water backsplash. 

You felt your vision blur, your hands trembling as your mouth dried up. Why did the holy water burn you? Why the fuck were there random blue flames that sprouted on your hands? Most importantly- why did the flames not burn you?

You collapsed to the floor, sobbing quietly as the holy water on the ground seared your ankles. You crawled to the corner, knees to your chest as you tried to get yourself together. 

You felt like you had never grown past being that confused five year old in the snow. You still knew nothing. You may have grown physically, but now as the flames began to wrap your body and tears streaked down your face, all you could do was wail and accept that you had no control. 

Through blurry tears, you saw the door of the training room slammed open.

“GET OUT!” you didn’t recognize the voice that came out from your throat, posing yourself now in a defensive crawl rather than fully cowering. Jaemin’s face didn’t flinch looking at you, despite the terror you felt over yourself being shrouded in blue. “LEAVE!”

“NO!” he shouted, moving closer and closer to the flames that you knew would hurt him, unless… he lifted his right arm that you didn’t realize he had behind his back, and your eyes widened. “I’M SORRY!” he cried, the bottle of holy water soaking and searing your flesh, putting out the flames. 

Your body was trembling in agony, the traces of the holy water over your clothes and scorching your skin into deep, painful rivets. Without regard for your surroundings, you threw off your shirt and pants, tears streaming down your face as you kicked the soaked (and burned) articles away from you.

So gently you didn’t even flinch, Jaemin wrapped a blanket over your shoulders helping aid the goosebumps that had formed on the parts of skin that weren’t burned.

“I’m so sorry… I know that’s one of the only other ways for your flames to go out,” Jaemin’s hushed apology made you snap your head up, your wide eyes piercing him now.

“What the fuck happened to me?” you choked, your bottom lip trembling. Jaemin knew the answer- he knew this whole time from before he lost his ability to see your future. He raised his hands, now wrapped in the sleeves of his hoodie, and dashed the tears off of your cheeks.

“I need to tell you about the Na prophecy.”

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IDA do you have any advice or pointers for gif-making? yours are always so high quality with such great colors! i just started trying to make gifs and i feel like I'm constantly struggling with the export settings trying to make it look decent without being a gigantic file 😭

hiii and thank you so much 💗💗💗

I'm not really sure what to say since I've mostly learned by trial and error, so I guess the biggest piece of advice would be practice!!

I'm sure there are loads of gif tutorials out there and I may make my own one day but here are some tips I can give related to quality (I use Photoshop so these are probably specific to that):

The higher quality video you have to begin with, the easier it will be to make the gifs look great. I go for 1080p or higher (if possible)

When you import video frames to layers, be aware of duplicate frames as they will make the gif look choppy, it's a framerate issue - I use a very simple video editing software to cut out the scenes I want to gif, but if you have a more advanced one, you should be able to adjust the framerate so PS won't create duplicate frames. idk I'm not an expert on this exact thing I just delete the duplicates manually

For tumblr posts, the full width is 540px, half is 268px, go for these to avoid tumblr compressing the gifs

I usually set the frame time delay between 0.06-0.09 seconds since always prefer them a bit slower, which allows for seeing more detail. I check the speed by going into File -> Export -> Save for Web (Legacy) and clicking the Preview, because just playing the gif in PS will usually have lag

After wrangling frames, cropping and resizing etc., I convert to video timeline and convert all the frames to one Smart Object before sharpening and coloring. I use Smart Sharpen and Gaussian Blur filters with different settings, making copies of the smart layer and playing around with the opacity settings (I have this process recorded/automated as an action, but often have to adjust afterwards based on the clip). There are many different ways to do this and probably some tutorials too.

As for coloring, I don't use any automated processes, but just play around with adjustment and color fill layers. A gif with my usual sharpening and relatively simple coloring may have layers looking like this:

I think this is where the practice mostly comes in, because you'll discover new things with every gif you make. it's also the most fun part for me :) again, there are a lot of tutorials out there, and some scenes require more adjustments than others (especially dark scenes). really, Selective Color and Curves may be the most important adjustment layers (to me at least lmao)

As for file size, these are my usual export settings:

reducing the number of colors will always reduce the file size, but I'd usually rather trim the length (or split it into two gifs) or the image size (cropping a bit more off the height). Going for 40-80 frames is usually reasonable, and you can do more for very static gifs or smaller image sizes!

I hope some of this is useful, good luck and happy giffing 💗💗💗