#this one was kinda weird but funny and fun for me to write and... yea!

[aka-indulgence]

Excuse the rambling but I got back into the tf Brandon earlier this year and, honestly, it’s kinda funny seeing so many of my favourite internet stars revealing that, yea, they are also transformers fans and, yes, the robots are attractive.

I think you’re the third since the TF one movie came out? Anyway-

One of the reasons I love TFP Soundwave is that, even among cybertronians he’s strange. An outlier. I know you aren’t familiar with the comics but Outlier is also a term for cybertronians who have an ability. Basically, Soundwave can read minds. Even more interesting is that Shockwave (before the whole Empurata) was protecting and learning about outliers. I find both of their characters absaloutly fascinating.

I’m writing my own fic for Megs and Sounders (prewar so BUFF GLADIATORS BABY) and I’m kinda sewing together this quilt made up of so many different continuities.

Soundwave in himself is one of the most powerful Decepticons. He is the con that gets the job done, fixes mistakes and scares the crap out of everyone.

Also, cannon fun fact, his favorite animal is elephants. Absaloutly adores them.

(fanfic owo?)

YEAH!! THATS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT TFP SOUNDWAVE AND WHY IM SO 😳 ABOUT HIM

I don’t read the comics but even though they don’t say it outright in the show I love how everyone acts weird about Soundwave, he’s so weird among cybertronians and he’s p creepy too, my favorite ehhe//

I know G1 Soundwave could mindread and TFP Soundwave uses his tentacles to transfer information, but does every Soundwave mind read? Also pre-empurata Shockwave 👁️👁️

“Soundwave is one of the most powerful Decepticons” is another thing that makes me blush about him hfjhg… he is. SO competent among the Decepticons, I read comments saying if Soundwave isn’t in the group they kinda fumble around.

Another thing about Soundwave I love in TFP if someone else is on the job, for me it’s 50-50 whether the Autobots or Decepticons win, but if Soundwave’s there I go “oh no. The Decepticons are going to get the Thing™”

HE’S JUST TOO GOOD AT HIS JOB HE HOLDS ALL THE BRAINCELLS (until Shockwave arrives)

I’m actually about to watch TF One soon hehe so I’m excited :D

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I sat for a second staring into my phone and pondering the blorbos bc of a shitpost and huh. Branzy really IS very much 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) by Will Wood coded isn't he??? like, most if not ALL of the song is SO him that it's INSANE. this only happened once before to me and the previous guy can't be my blorbo anymore bc of.... reasons, so I'm happy to have another silly little guy replace him in being SO coded after one of my favorite Deranged Songs /vpos

Ramble up ahead btw, read at your own risk

you KNOW the ramble is getting serious when I do the weird Tumblr Post Partition Thing AND went from writing it on the phone to WRITING IT ON THE PC (any lengthy post I write EXCLUSIVELY on the pc bc it's more fun and comfy for me lol)

The only line I can't in good faith say I relate 100% back to Branzy is LITERALY the second one, which is a bummer lmao — "Screaming at the top of my lungs in the confession booth" but like. I'm throwing it out there for any other, more veteran Branzy fans to go rabid over as I have and maybe even also discover how it could be Branzy-ified bc I truly believe the WHOLE SONG can be Branzy-ified lol

SO ANYWAYS. MORE SONG LYRICS !!!!!

I specifically came to this whole thing bc of the fourth line in the song, "The devil made me do it, but I also kinda wanted to" bc YES??? THAT'S SOOO BRANZY CODED?????? like the amount of fucked up shit /aff he's done in his videos is INSANE I mean he DID make a video where the WHOLE. PREMISE was breaking 100 irl laws in the Afterhours SMP lmaooo also I'm kinda tempted to break out the fuckin LYRIC MEANINGS for this as well — hmmmm...

fuck it, we live only once and life is too fucking short/shitty to have hangups over going insane about our little guys

So yea, fourth line is all about temptation, choices and a careless sentiment as one takes full responsibility for their actions — the Devil might've offered you riches, love, security in exchage for someone's head, but ultimately you're the one who takes that step forwards to answer the siren's call; Will Wood sings here about temptation and how, at the end of the day, you're the one acting upon that temptation, how that's a thing only you can be responsible for, and how he himself doesn't care much for the guilt the word "sin" carries with it; "we'll live the way we want, and we don't care if it's considered 'sin.'" — MarsAndTheGreatExpanse on the lyric explanation in Genius (yes, Imma be quoting some of these people. yes, I'm taking it THAT seriously). All of this is very much like Branzy to do: the most recent example I think would be the Candyland mod video, where he has SUCH BEEF with gingerbread men that it's just pathetic /aff at this point lmao — he goes around killing them and hating on them SO. HARD it's really funny. Of course, there's a difference between Will Wood singing this and Branzy fucking, idk, wanting Jimmy the Gingerbread Guy's guts spilled all over the Candyland floor in an overexaggerated candygore that would belong to none other than uhhhh fucking. idk danganronpa??? but like, suspend your disbelief and be down to clown with the insanity here for a minute, thanks <3

There's also his 100 IRL Crimes In Minecraft video, where he sold Kaboodle's soul WITHOUT HESITATION the moment he was prompted for it lmfaoo (he also did racketeering, extorsion, murder, created a fucking GANG WITH REDDOONS??? spread difamation [that really fucking wasn't. no matter what the cult leader uhhh wither skulls guy was saying], was distributing illegal substances I'm pretty sure, impersonated a cop, idk what else I might rewatch that video actually). There's also his 100 Hearts Factory, where he UNIRONICALLY made a fucking child labor joke with the villagers, and was busting up unions in there at some other point as well. There's whatever in hell he has with Clown bc if Branzy is UNETHICAL AS ALL HELL /silly on his own then with Clown they're both HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, NO GOOD AT ALL /silly and I love that for them actually.

"My grip on my secrets slipping while I'm speaking in tongues" really just reminds me of Branzy's bloodlust and how everyone seems to fucking forget it's there???? even if it reminds me of it in like, a roundabout way

"Take it with a pillar of salt, H.A.L.T, it's not my fault" is all about how his words are non-literal, how he shouldn't be taken as such, and how he's the way he is from birth and he can't really change it — Branzy doesn't try to hide who he is and how he feels about things (it's his greatest asset) and he also doesn't let anyone tell him how to be (unless you're a murderous clown but like, his simping is a WHOLE different can of worms; I'm not a couple's therapist lol, I'm not paid for this shit), he just kinda is; the only reason he isn't an active threat is because he doesn't care for PVP enough to become better at it. The onlu hangup I've got with this line is the H.A.L.T thing — it's apparently a form of mindfulness recommended to people who have a hard time taking care of themselves, and it stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (might have to look into it for myself,,,,, anyways)

"I'm cut from a different kind of meat" is Will saying he's different, in a completely separate category to everyone else, and paired with the next few lines the implication becomes very obvious: you can't understand me, and you're not meant to. Branzy is so hard to put down into words sometimes because he's genuinely many things all at once: he's impulsive but plans are important to him, he's cunning but SO damn stupid, so harmless yet one of the most dangerous people I've ever seen /vpos /aff, he's kooky and charming and fun yet knows how to be intimidating if he so wishes to be, yet he's also SO pathetic wet cat man coded that it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to be scared of him,,,,,,,, GOD "I'm cut from a different kind of meat" you are, Branzycraft, you really are,,,,,

"More than you can chew, hard to swallow me" this is all about being more than people can take, more than people can understand, more and more and more and more. And honeslty he is: he's hard to put into words because his personality pulls him in all different directions and shapes, he's bigger than he lets on, more all-encompassing and somehow formless in how difficult he can be to pin down and describe — I like to think, if Branzy were ever to sing this (a demon boy can only dream sometimes,,,,,,,,), I imagine he would sound SO cheeky and teasing, kinda smug yet chill. I also love the combo of bit off more than you can chew and hard to swallow pills sounding like that

"Forget bored stiff, I got rigor mortis, call it morbid curiosity" there's something about the line, how it's written and sung that gives me a sense of flippancy that goes really well with Branzy's insane yet really chill attitude. Also the whole "death and blood and gore, LifeSteal's essence and the birthmarks It imprints into It's players" thing of LifeSteal is just. PERFECT for the line idk idc I won't take any criticisms on this point <333

"How can I commit to reality, when my third eye's open and I like what I see?" using the third eye imagery here makes the line be about how Will Wood's imagination is so interesting that nothing real can compete, and thus he just. doesn't commit to any of it — Branzy goes by whatever he fancies that very moment, almost like he lives his own fantasy as he goes about life and honestly, I kinda wish I was him ngl

"Baby, I might be crazy but I didn't lose it, no I set it free" this one's mostly self-explanatory bc like, ALL LifeStealers ARE insane to some degree — you kinda NEED to be to survive in there; if you're not ALREADY, then the culture itself WILL claim your sanity. It's only a matter of time — so OFC this line fits Branzy, especially because he is SO carefree over how he is, who he is, careless of how that affects others and simply going about life like the deranged forest creature he was born to be

"I can't ignore what's under dance floorboards, the rhythm of my heart a dead-as-disco beat" in the explanation in Genius, people say this line might be a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's (yes, this went there. get used to it) "The Telltale Heart", where a murderer stores his victim under his house's floorboards and goes mad, imagining the corpse's heartbeat gives him away — honestly this kinda reminds me of The Patches Incident in a jester walks into an amusement park by hattrem on ao3 (GO READ IT. IT'S GOOD. IT'S GREAT EVEN. GO READ IT !!!!!!) — the contributors say Will Wood might've used the metaphor to suggest he's mover or inspired by his own madness or guilt, a sentiment I'm sure Branzy shares in how he briefly hesitates before going full throttle with whatever fucked up shit he's decided is funniest this time around

"But I still move my feet" here, Will is painting us the following picture: even through the guilt or pain he might feel about something, he keeps on going and keeps on dancing "move my feet"; Branzy never fully stops, he never gives up — he might change course, redirect, take a step back to think and plan, but he never stops. He jumps through the hoops and does all the dances, and he never stops.

"To slip out of this groove, I'm free" here Will Wood is succinctly summarising the point of the song: it's fine to be a little bit (or more like a LOT) crazy, to slip out of constraints and be truly oneself, regardless of how that looks like and Branzy fucking follows this like a mantra lol

I'm gonna lightly skim over the next two lines — "Now to row, row, row my boat over the falls" and "And maybe wake up from but a dream, yeah" — bc it's just a reference to the Row, Row, Row Your Boat nursery rhyme, with a more cynical spin; something something the cheerful initial demeanor ripped appart at the hands of that bloodlustful beast living in his veins and caressing his psyche, in one swift swoop and almost instantaneously, just to disappear once again into his bloodstream and be flushed out.

Also I'm gonna talk about the whole chorus right now, and not mention it again unless it's relevant to any other lines I might be discussing:

"I'm just a psycho, babe

Come and go out my mind

I didn't lose it, babe

There wasn't much to find

I'm just a psycho, babe

Come and go out my mind

I'm only passing through"

The way the lines are sung, so happy-go-lucky and carefree, so flippantly and cheerfully, it all reminds me so much of Branzy's persona — so cheery and showman as everything seems to fall apart around him, and it's a coin toss whether that's to his benefit or to his detriment; he doesn't let past alliances, teamups or enemies to deter him from what he wants and what he craves — he desires someone's demise? even if through elaborate traps, he'll get it. He's only here to have fun, to come and go as he pleases.

"If you knew what I knew, if you saw what I see" this one goes hand in hand with the next one, so!: "You'd look through illusions, hallucinations, and lucid dream" there it isss! simply put, people wouldn't be able to take it all in if they saw what the character sees — Branzy must've seen a lot of fucked up shit during his three or so season run in LifeSteal, and considering Tubbo is going insane over the shit LifeStealers keep pulling in The Realm SMP (YOU WERE IN THEIR HOME AT SOME POINT?? YOU WENT INTO THE TIGER ENCLOSURE GIRLIEPOP. WDYM YOU'RE FUCKING SURPRISED THAT PANGI KILLED ALL BEES IN A 1K RADIUS FROM SPAWN???? THAT CLOWN HAD ALREADY PRESTIEGED ENCHANTING ONCE AND WAS ABOUT TO DO IT AGAIN???????? WHAT) I think these lines are appropriate not even just for Branzy, but LITERALLY any LifeStealer at that lmao

I'll be honest, I've got NOTHING for "And I know that meaning can be such a pretty thing to keep" and "But I got facts and I'm not afraid to use 'em, take the good with the bad, take off the back you make a new front" so uhhhhhh I'll.... improv something? uh. um. shit uh so uhhhhhhhh something something Branzy takes everything in stride, and manages to turn it into an advantage (like acquiring the scariest player in LS as his work husband)??????? yeahhhh that works

"Some days I'm glad that I am a madman and I'd rather be that than" and "An amicable animal, mild-mannered cannibal" are about preferring one's own brand of insanity over the gentle brutality of mainstream society — Branzy kills, like everyone in LifeSteal, and in that they're all a community, yet Branzy still prefers his contraptions and elaborate plans, the honey-sweets to his personal venus flytraps and brand of death over the constant betrayal and active manipulation, the orbital cannons, the battles to the brink, the ambushing of weaker players

"But I'm more level-headed and clever than ever and I'm getting better one forever at a time" is about embracing one's madness, and being better for it — Branzy, amongs other things, is a truly terrifying /vpos character whenever he desires to be because he embraces all the twisted, dark, immoral facets to his person without a second thought, and with this he's stronger than others could ever dream of being

"And if sick is defined by what's different, well then pull the plug out and let me die" I don't think LS!Branzy has ever had a problem with dying, even there's always something pushing him to seek survival — it hurts, you're one heart closer to a permanent death, but I don't think that has always perturbed him enough to lash out and become so desperate that he'd be willing to throw caution to the wind; in this, Clown and Branzy are equals, similar to each other, going onto the main stage and performing the same steps.

"Vice-versa, vice versus virtue" here Will Wood is comparing good and bad behaviors to each other, and while there's something of a truth to what the contributor said on Genius about the usage of vice-versa specifically ("The literal meaning of 'Vice Verse' is 'with the main items in the preceding statement the other way around.' In short terms, it means 'the other way around' Following the theme of the song, Will is saying he is the polar opposite of soiety, or he is 'the other way around' in society" — AceTheBowlOfCereal23) I still think there's more to that — paired with the rest of the line, it feels to me that it all speaks of interchangeably using "good" and "bad" as adjectives for Wood's behavior, in such a way that makes both words become almost meaningless; for there will always be someone out there who disapproves of who you are, regardless of what you're doing. Branzy has a similar outlook, of considering whichever thing is happening right now as "good" or "bad" purely based on his own perception, how it might be beneficial or not, instead of using a more socially accepted definition for each and every event he comes across — especially in LifeSteal he does this, where everyone is constantly terrified of Clown and wary of him, yet Branzy only sees good things in the guy

"Well who I am I choose through all the things I do" our actions define us, somehow, in some way, and Branzy picks and chooses which ones he allows himself to be called by: he constatly says he's incapable of killing, he's harmless! Have you seen him holding a sword? Yeah, killing him is like kicking a baby in Wallmart! yet he'd managed to collect AT LEAST 100 hearts for his Big Top Tent event that closed out on Season 5, simply because people like him.

"And if it rhymes it's true, but I hate poetry" for some reason I can see him saying this even if he 100% does not mean it and is only saying it for the bit — not all of these line connections need to be that deep tbh

"Now with my moral compass pointing south, going down" Branzy has a fucked up moral compass ever since LifeSteal, next line

"With no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no respect for reality" so uh. idfk dude. this line exists — connect it back to Branzy or don't, I don't think I can

"A tourist passing through" and "Well that was fun, goodbye" are the lines Will Wood added onto the chorus to create the outro, and they just kinda remind me that Branzy is no longer in LifeSteal, but is still so influential and important to the people who keep playing the server season after season,,,,,,,,,,

Whoa, infinitely long yap session be upon ye! this was fun! I don't wanna do it again anytime soon! (might do it with PrinceZam and the three different Idol by YOASOBI English versions I'm mildly obssessed over [the official one, Trickle's and Will Stetson's]) so uh. I hope y'all enjoyed this? Question mark? Anyways!

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Can I bring something up and hopefully you won't dismiss it completely at first? Like hear me out for a min. While I agree that the claims of the enhypen members, except sunoo, being fatphobic and homophobic are completely unfounded (like 1 sunoo is not even fat and 2 he might not even be gay for all we know) you have to admit there's some weird energy in the dynamics between sunoo and the rest of enhypen. And if we r honest their chemistry as a group has never been amazing but I'm focusing on sunoo here. I fear antis and akgaes have picked on this weird energy and used it to bring hate to the group, blowing things out of proportion and in the process infantilizing sunoo.

But yea more on that weird energy, I believe you have even picked it up before, like in the reading of sunoo and sunghoon, it's not really like rivalry but more like sunghoon trying to poke the bear and sunoo bear having to act unbothered through it all lol

Just to give an example: in the new enoclock, the clip you probably watched, sunghoon said something like "you are eating less for the camera, in reality you can eat more" kinda implies he's faking this aspect of himself for the cameras and sunghoon has the need to expose it.

It really reminded me of this old enoclock, minute 12:50, I don't know if you have watched it but it's another instance of sunghoon implying he fakes his personality on camera, or in this case saying "he overdoes it for attention" his words not mine

https://youtu.be/_EvPd5coJCE?si=LA0tTkEFPJEgNvUq

And imo you can see sunoo taken aback by this question, even I felt a little hurt watching it and you can see I'm not the only one by reading the comments section.

Even in their recent live tgt there was still this weird tension, like sunghoon kept trying to provoke him while sunoo remained on his happy-go-lucky persona on camera

Like I do find their interactions fun to watch overall and I'm sure sunoo has a strong enough self esteem to not give a fuck after a time but as he is a sensitive person still you can see his expressions change whenever incident like these happened

Rather than a reading I wanted to know your opinion on these as you know their energies well, and I know sunoo can be confusing as hell but in this case ig the subject is more like sunghoon in relation to sunoo,

Especially that clip I brought up from that enoclock, I swear it has been bothering me FOR YEARS, like it is such a passive aggressive comment that subtly let it know you find that person fake or an attention seeker I didn't expect that from sunghoon AT ALL

In fact I don't find this dynamic very common between K-pop idols or even real life friends, like normally it's two people throwing shit at each other not one and another one having to put up with it, that normally happens between family members

And we have to remember the other side of the coin. Like even if they aren't super close and sometimes it looks like they don't interact a lot behind the scenes, they still show a lot of respect and admiration for each other, which is more expected based on their personalities.

I feel like you can open similar cases studios for ni-ki and jay, where they normally are super normal and respectful to sunoo but from time to time, bc of teasing or who knows, they act like mean girls to him

This is my theory but maybe it's bc they see him as his sibling and they sometimes take it to extremes of some sibling rivalry and they dgaf what other people may say of their dynamic

Funny enough, I think you might have said this before, but shippers pick on this weird tension between sunoo and these members (inc. Heeseung ig) and misinterpret it as romantic tension

I hope you don't find my writing too bothersome or hard to read through, I swear I tried to summarize as much as i could but I need a lot of words to express myself 😭 sorry. You can take as long as you want to answer, take it as fun little over-analysing or idols lol something to read if you have time

Yes, Sunghoon tends to like to poke the bear, should he have not said anything, yeah, sure. He says Sunoo reminds him of his Sister and you know how older brothers can be, but also men are different when it comes to this topic and how they talk about it, so we have to be cognizant of it. They aren't as sensitive about it, or are prone to talk about it the way they do more.

I have seen plenty of more instances of all members taking care of Sunoo and showing their love in discreet ways, now it is weird that they are much more discreet and have to hide their affection towards him, but the others can blatantly do whatever they want to another, that can be due to homophobia and being linked to him can create confusion and people actually thinking they are in a relationship, unlike the others. I will say yeah, how they interact with Sunoo is weird at times, they are open with every member except him, with the exception of JayWon and Jake (sometimes). So, I can understand why people feel Sunoo is left out and there is tension. Anyway, energetically I get that they do adore them, but they just do it behind the scenes and don't show it on camera as much. There is something about showing any affection on camera that is a problem or interacting on camera, which even I say, is weird. I don't care if fans like to sugar coat that. I think they can be weird on camera lol There is no denying that, no matter how much fans like to hide that.

I don't think they hate Sunoo at all, but hey, I don't know them personally, but what I get energetically is that they adore him, or see him as a coworker. Just like how the others may see another. I am not seeing bullying or hate.

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I don’t know if you’ve been asked this before, or if you’ve answered this, but has anyone ever asked Michael or Charlotte where the nickname Honeybee came from? I just thought of that and it tickled me cause how would they answer that with a straight face.

Ok I love this question and I hope you see this, anon! Sorry it took me sooo long but I wanted to write something out cause I thought this was so cute lol and to answer your question, they definitely didn't keep a straight face hahaha Michael's been on Graham Norton a couple times and his interviews were so cute and he is so funny so enjoyyyy!

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“I’m very excited to have you both on the couch at the same time, Michael and Charlotte. Here to promote Creed III, which is in theaters next week. I’ve had you both here separately but this is a treat to have you both here,” Graham Norton offered, the studio crowd applauding the couple. 

“Thanks man, it’s always a good time here,” Michael responded, Charlotte nodding in agreement. 

“So Creed III out next week. Your directorial debut, which is awesome. Congrats to you, Michael. But I have to ask you, Charlotte, what’s it like being directed by your husband? Is that weird having him boss you around on set? Did you give him a hard time?” 

Charlotte laughed. “You know, actually it was pretty fun. Not sure how other people feel… working with their husbands but I loved it. You know we’ve been doing these movies and playing Bianca and Adonis for almost a decade. And as these characters have grown and evolved so have we and our relationship. So we have developed a short hand and ease on set with each other that made it easier. It also helps when your pillow talk is with the director,” she chuckled. “I kinda had an idea of the shots he wanted at times and could adjust to make sure I was doing my part to help him get it. Honestly, I just felt proud and so excited for my husband in real life getting to watch him achieve his dreams. I would just watch him sometimes on set and think 'damn, that's my man.' It was fun." 

“That’s really sweet. What’s the most annoying thing she did on set?” He asked Michael. 

Charlotte playfully raised her eyebrow as Michael rubbed his chin.

“You tryin’ to get me in trouble, huh??” He chuckled with a jokingly nervous energy. “Nah, she has always been like this but she is clumsy as hell - in character and in real life. So more than once, we'd get like a perfect take and then she'd just trip over like… air and we had to redo it."

Charlotte covered her face with her hand in embarrassment as Graham, the other guests, and the crowd laughed. 

“Is that true?” 

“1000%. I drop everything, I trip alllllllll the time. It’s pretty wild that it hasn’t happened more on red carpets and stuff honestly. And I break a lot of stuff too,” she added, her shoulders shrugging lightly. “I’m worse than our kids and we have twin boys so that’s saying a lot.” 

“Wow… so I imagine it’s gotta be weird giving feedback and getting it from your husband? How’d that go over?” 

“You know she’s pretty perfect so I never gave her anything other than glowing praise,” Michael interjected with his award-winning smile that had every woman in the crowd swooning. 

“Awww, that’s so sweet. And a complete lie,” Charlotte answered playfully, causing the entire crowd to laugh. “I will say, he was very good at giving constructive feedback but I could always tell what kinda feedback was coming just by how he addressed me.” 

“What do you mean?” 

“Well, he never uses my first name. And we try to keep it professional on set so he calls me Els 99% of the time on set and at home. But if he had constructive feedback, he always called me honey bee instead of Els. It was like his tell. But yea if he pulled out honey bee, I knew it was to butter me up,” she laughed. “But the feedback was mostly positive.”

“Honey bee, that’s so sweet,” Olivia Coleman, one of the other guests on the couch added. 

“To be young and in love. None of the rest of us know anything about that,” Graham joked as the other guests had been married far longer than Michael and Charlotte. “I know Els is short for your middle name. Is there a story behind that nickname?” 

Michael and Charlotte shared a glance, Michael trying to stifle his laughter. However, Charlotte could not hide her own, immediately doubling over at the thought of sharing that origin story. They did not mind sharing details of their personal lives and relationship but that was one area they strayed away from.  

“I take it that story is not appropriate to share?” 

They both shook their heads as they laughed. 

“Nah, definitely not, definitely not. It started off as joke but then I liked it and it stuck,” Michael laughed. “That’s her name in my phone too.” 

“Meanwhile, he’s name is just Bakari in mine with a heart and ring emoji. He’s the romantic in this marriage.” She scrunched up her face playfully as he leaned over and pecked her on the cheek, causing a loud awww to echo through the crowd.

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This was fun! Ask me more stuff like this, friends lol

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i LOVE ur fics but im too socially awkward to let myself just,,, comment on them, so let me just say random shit on ur tumblr asks

the way alastor n vox interacted in the scissoring fic was like,,, oddly cute?? and extremely funny which tbh is the best way to describe most of ur fics, the weird anatomy they both have is truly delightful and the lil mention of charlie n vox spitroasting alastor at the end is givin me Ideas™ and now i lowkey wanna draw that but i prob wont bcs vox fuck ass head will be painful to draw at literally ANY angle

and the charlastor fic!!! its my fav ship but The People write them Wrong (coughcough overly innocent pushover charlie x stereotypical sex god daddy dom alastor coughcough) and while i normally enjoy more sub or bottom alastor the chase was delightful to read and their personalities were just amazing, 10000 kudos to u for writing more aroace coded alastors, i LOVED how weird alastor and charlie were, u dont understand how starved i am for weirdo charlie, the aftercare was adorable and i love the way u write banter (when charlie wanted to carve her name into alastor too and he makes fun of her for it??? peak, i love them)

also im insane about alastor writing 'alastor magne' on her body

—that one anon that talked about lobotomizing the pretty deer aka lobotomy anon 💛🧡🤍🩵💙

Relatable. I literally haven't left a fic comment in abbbbooout 8 years?? But I'm also insane and genuinely convinced I will die if I talk ever.

YEA Mermaid Purse got emotionally heavy at the end so I wanted my other fic to be more baby and soft. Less "the psychological consequences of trying to use unreal children to fix your non existent but still abusive marriage" and more "Alastor is high and fell in a pool cuz he a dumbass something something sex scene."

I'm absolutely obsessed with Vox's bifid clit. Its so important to me and I love it very much.

What's funny about the hypothetical spitroasting fic that I didn't have time for is that my original idea was that Alastor starts cramping in the middle of being double penetrated cuz he and Vox fucked too many times and now he's owie(I'm not going to the gyno fuc uuuu) and then Vox and Charlie kiss him a lot and fuck while he watches instead, so there isn't even any spitroasting lmao. Also them teaming up to bully him because they both know him super well and Will Mock That Deer Bitch at any opportunity.

You can just always draw Vox like he's a guy in a porno who isn't allowed to have his face in frame. He's all gill and dick and no fatass head.

FUNFACT ABOUT SEX GOD ALASTOR: that shit is literally the reason I started writing again. Someone had a fic series that very explicitly stated that Alastor was not only a virgin, but really not all that interested in sex AT ALL and then when he does top, he's inexplicably good at it. Like. Like. What???? What?????? I was so BAFFLED that I had to start writing again after quitting due to depression. I swear to fuck I will NEVER write Alastor being good at giving dick. He's a lazy little bratty pillow princess and you should be greatful he opened his legs. Alastor is avid supporter of soaking. Alastor thinks doggy style is a "stress position" and will cry if you make him fuck you back. The first time Alastor got good sex from man was the exact moment he realized how absolutely terrible he truly was at it.

I definitely write him as more sexually submissive, but in nearly every other social situation he's a lot more dominant. Charlie's kinda the inverse where she's EXTREMELY sexually dominant and then kinda awkward and struggles with being assertive in life. Otp be otping. And the tragic thing about Charlie being a weird little freak person is that shit is canon like, did everyone forget everything she does in the pilot?? She deranged. I love her.

Literally the exact moment I wrote "Alastor Magne" was when I was like OKAY I HAVE FINISH THIS. Before that I was like eh if I get around to it I'll do it but I was sitting there on this galaxy brained romantic move from Alastor like ⊙▃⊙ and I had to make sure I actually managed a vday fic so I could throw that at everyone.

Also I firmly believe Alastor is one of those "is it because I'm black?" Kinds of people. Someone will tell him to stop leaving his antler velvet on the floor and he'll be like "ohhhh so we hate black people now ok I see how it is." Him just casually accusing Charlie of being racist is so funny to me.

Anyway. Ramble tim over. Thnk u I wish I had more oneshot charlastor fic and not 13 chapter long ass endeavors that I can't post yet. I have to save this ship

[aleenya]

🫓 🍱 🍛 🍥 🍠 🍡 🥘 🍚 love you

omg talia skghfhdfxhdh

🫓 - what is your most popular fic?

the lesbian time loop one. a fanfic podcast had an episode where it was featured and talked about.

🍱 - do you read your own fics?

yes. begrudgingly. and with immense agony.

typically the way i write goes like this (and its incredibly adhd) - i start with raw, unedited dialogue snippets that i build around. for the proper first draft i then go dialogue > beat > dialogue > beat. the idea is to build upon the skeleton, flesh it out, not really worry or think too much about the sentence construction and flow. then for the second draft its all about the flow. i cut, rewrite, scramble things around, add in, take out etc etc. and i try to focus on primarily making it read cleanly. and usually after that i read 20 more times out of pure undiluted anxiety LMFAO trying to catch any mistakes or w/e

🍛 - have any comments, tags or reactions to one of your fics made you laugh or cry or both?

yes!!! ive had a lot of really sweet and lovely comments <3 but the most recent one that really touched me was this. bc it made me laugh but it was also so so nice.

i also got these two bookmarks recently which made me laugh/smile :)

🍥 🍡 - what's your fave fic you've written / which of your fics was the most emotionally difficult to write?

combining these two bc the answer is the same. yea its the mountain fic. that one was both really personal to me and something i poured my heart and soul into. the whole premise hinged on two very different characters hiking a mountain together. it was very much an experiment in dialogue-led narrative for me. the entire plot is literally just two people walking. so i got to have a lot of fun (AND STRUGGLE) w/ describing the environment, emphasizing atmosphere, building up this really shaky foundation between two ppl who are forced to confront their grief. idk it was a really interesting project and i just completely IMMERSED myself in research and literature and hiking anecdotes to try and capture as accurate a picture as possible. it was difficult but really rewarding.

i was absolutely inspired by one of my fave books of 2023 - Walk by James Rice, which is about two men walking through the Welsh countryside and is primarily told through constant back-and-forth dialogue between them. i highly recommend it!

🥘 - what category do most of your fics fall under?

character study, ig? dialogue heavy. a bit of comedy. grief. im addicted to writing grief actually fyujjygkgkgyk gotta be my favorite theme fr...

🍚 - what genre do you have the toughest time writing?

smut. i still do it. but like ... theres a reason why all the smut ive written is, at minimum, 15k words. i genuinely dont know how to write just smut its a problem LMFAO me and my inability to be concise ... and like the actual smut itself can be such a struggle too. i have that autism/asexual brain where for me, when im writing sex, i want it to be kinda awkward and weird and funny bc thats just the lens through which i personally view and experience sex. so all the sex i write is, consequentially, a bit awkward and weird and funny. i like when two ppl can banter thru it, its my fave part of writing that kinda thing, and i especially like when sex can be a narrative vehicle to explore the complex and muddied way two ppl can feel about each other. but yea ... it can be a struggle </3

[highladyluck]

For the fic questions, 3, 4, 17, and 37

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

Two people go to a place together and have an argument that’s kinda about going to the place and kinda about something else entirely

Unrelatable narrators …that was supposed to be ‘unreliable narrators’ but yea honestly I love writing weirdass internal logic

Exploring worldbuilding implications

Humor (they all start out as a joke and then I think about the joke, possibly too hard)

I will put science fiction in this fantasy story

????

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

This is kinda cheating because it’s from an unreleased WIP, but I did post the bit in question separately! It’s the villanelle I wrote for The Fox That Makes The Ravens Fly, which Thom recites, fulfilling the ‘man who remembers Hawkwing��s face’ part of Tuon’s prophecy. I’ve always wanted to write a villanelle and it was a fun way to interpret the prophecy requirements.

(Once I started thinking about it, I was intrigued by how broad that category could be, if you really wanted it to be. Off the top of my head, it covers Ishamael, anyone who was at Falme and recognized Hawkwing among the Heroes of the Horn, and anyone else who can describe Hawkwing’s features from memory, which could be a historian, artist, or court-bard… or anyone who paid attention to their art. Tuon actually had options, she just wanted it to be Mat.)

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

Well now I’ve distracted myself with the concept of an ‘Ishamael marries Tuon’ AU… what a fascinating way to make everything worse! Honestly, I just want to put Tuon in situations.

Almost all of my WIPs and outlines are now highly specific AUs and I don’t think I have any new ones I haven’t at least alluded to, and also every time I think ‘I’m the only person who could want this’ I find out I am wrong.

But if anyone wants to adopt ‘Lanfear is the Daughter of the Nine Moons and Mat rescues her and Moiraine from Sindhol’, I’d read that. I also want more of the Sedai Trek AU that @unmarkedcards sent me snippets of, where Tuon is the Amyrlin & Nyneave is the Keeper and they are taking a spaceship to the Ogier homeworld.

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

Baby’s First Knife! As I say in the tags, it’s funny in the way Mat is funny, which is to say that the jokes are at his expense.

It touches—obliquely, in true Mat style—on the huge problem for Mat of having a child in an environment that isn’t safe for them from day 1, let alone years down the line. I write a lot of Mat/Tuon fluff—well, fluff by their weird standards—but this is less fluffy, more uneasy, which is a space I also like exploring with them. They’re interesting because of the tension, and I wanted to capture some of that in this story.

[ruckis--rookie]

If you're seeing this, this means I've finally completed Mario & Luigi Brothership! 🎉🎉🎉

And that also means that as a vet and long standing fan of the series I get to critique it as such! Hooray!!!

I'm going to leave my thoughts under the read more, since I don't feel like dividing up any potential spoilers with non-spoilers, and so that people can read at their leisure. That said:

DISCLAIMER!!! WARNING!!! These are wholly my thoughts and feelings and do not reflect how I think other people should feel! I am not here to debate my opinions on it and I am not here to preach to, make fun of, or force my views onto someone else! This is strictly just to share my experience!!! Basically meaning like... please don't type a mile long paragraph on my post about why you disagree with me or be weird about it and vaguepost. I wont read it and I won't acknowledge inappropriate behaviors towards a simple request. If a comment has either "but" or "except" in it you've already failed.

That out of the way, I know it's a miracle that this series even got a new installment and that a new company is handling it, but if you're going to put "Mario and Luigi" in the title I'm going to judge it just as I would any other installment of the series. Said company allegedly had old developers from Alphadream on the team overseeing the project so its hardly an excuse. I am not this hypercritical when it comes to many other series, just this one and a few others. It stems from a place of extreme passion and love for the game.

Be prepared for the nitpickiest of nitpicks and high praise over the most simple of things! HERE WE GOOOOO!!!

The things I like about the game:

The Charisma. The writing is so freaking cute, the characters are extremely likeable, and even the cutscenes have so much personality. I was so worried it was going to be as stale and tired as Paper Jam was but I was thankfully proven very wrong, and for that I am grateful

The battle plugs are a really fun addition! I adore the variety and freedom to experiment. I was initially very iffy about it because some of the seemed very cheatsy and hand holdy (cough cough easy counter/auto excellent/auto luigi) but I was swayed otherwise with the compromise of it having limited uses and needing to charge back up.

Speaking of. THE BATTLES. OH MY GOD THE BATTLES. The input flows so nicely it doesn't feel delayed anymore (to me at least). The bros moves are fun and badass. I was on the fence because the way the bros attacked are different than in most of the installments, but it grew on me. Heck even the boss battles have their own personality and I love it

Hatch me if you can. OMFG. AS A YOSHI FAN IM EATING SO GOOD. I AM FEASTING. HE LOOKS SO BADASS. IHFHFHSJG but yea I really like that bros move

Also DORRIE. DORRIE IS IN THIS GAME? OH MY GOD YEESSSS.... 🥺💖 I also find it funny that the islanders reacted with very reasonable terror. They're like "OH MY GOD A GIANT FUCKING DINOSAUR STAY AWAY KIDS IT MIGHT EAT YOU" and the bros group is just like "Nah its chill this is our good friend she dont bite" HDHFHGHDS

The reefs are a very cute addition and as an artist I adored Rumbla island with all my heart. I love Maykit and I love Issarock. I love Twistee Island, and Dyode, and auuuughhghgh <3

The enemy designs are freaking amazing and adorable and oiugh 💞💞💞 I love that Capnap made a comeback unironically one of my favorite enemies from DT, and Krode is such a clever dericitive of the Treevil enemy.

Optional expert challenges that are actually difficult??? Yes. YES. YESYESYES. I FEEL HEARD.

Bruuuhgh the little rhythm games make my entire week. I love rhythm games and I love music and I love dance ajhdjajfjs it was appreciated even if it's a very minimal part of the game.

I kinda loved the Shark Bone encounter on Allsand Island? I love enemies that force you to run away. Honestly it gave me a well needed reality check haha, I was getting too confident in my abilities. It was the first and only time I had a game over.

I originally started out disliking the UFO field maneuver in place of the brother's flying twist, but once it got its secondary function I honestly couldn't stay mad at it. It had the same charm and brand of ridiculousness that made me fall in love with the Yokai Watch series so I couldn't help but laugh.

Glohm as a status effect is actually ingenious. I was legitimately thinking to myself "why don't they just do that to the bros and make them ill-cooperative. It would take apart their dynamic entirely". I was pleasantly surprised when it became the case later in the game, and it does just that. Their strength hinges on their bond, so destroy that bond, and you hinder the bros immensely. I genuinely love how genius that is, that's scary. But in a good way. I was slack jawed for a whole two minutes during the fight with Zokket when you're basically pitted up against your Glohm possessed brother.

The main villains are scarily efficient. I know that it's 100% on purpose, but you don't realize just by how much until you think about it. Usually it's normal for the bros and co. to be 1 step behind the antagonists and know exactly what their next move is. But not the Extension Corps. You're almost 5 steps behind them at every moment and you have NO clue what they're doing throughout most of the game. When interrogated about their plans they're literally like "why tf would we tell you" AND I LOVE THAT OMG I LOVE SMART VILLAINS... The trade off is that they have no sense of foresight which is understandable when you act so quickly you don't worry about consequences. as someone who has a villain OC who is absolutely hellbent on saving time and being as efficient as possible, so much so that it influences him to be very opportunistic in nature and utilitarian in terms of strategy, who lacks foresight completely, the rep is very appreciated here.

Speaking of the villains, the main big baddie is... hollly shit. I wasn't expecting some evangelical psyche horror. This is quite a few more echelons above the Dark Star, heck, as much as I like the guy Fawful has NOTHING on Reclusa. Not even the Shroobs were quite as deranged. They were just looking to cultivate. Fawful was just conquering for the sake of getting the adoration he deserved. But nah, Reclusa is hellbent on destroying the world through a slow burning rot as everyone is forced into isolation, into their own little worlds, blissfully unaware of what's happening around them. Forced into a position of helplessness where they are none the wiser. Saying Reclusa is basically a primordial god of sociopathy and isolation isn't even an overstatement. Not for revenge or anything, no, but because of his nature of being the embodiment of hatred skewing his view of an ideal world and forcing that belief onto other people. Hell, he even manipulates the one of the few people that could stand against him by using her care taking nature against her. It basically turns into Persona 5 the Mario game and I am so here for it.

It takes you like 3 tries to actually confront Reclusa just to fight him and almost lose. Once you DO square off, there's like... what, 4-5 different phases? That's crazy to me. Not to mention Reclusa nearly SUCCESSFULLY downed the bros FOR GOOD. the only reason they're alive is because Connie showed up just in the nick of time and that ALMOST DIDNT EVEN WORK because she showed up moments before it would have been too late. All of this happens within the game that Reclusa debuted in and that counts for a lot considering it took Fawful 3 games of buildup to get where he was. But Reclusa did """Die""" in his starring game so minus points for that one chief (/hj)

Holy crap they made it so the normal Magikoopas wear orange to distinguish Kamek. I'm not sure if it was THIS game that made that change, but I've been wanting it for years and it's a trope I hope continues because honestly magic turtle gramps is so underrated and badass.

ALSO HIS INTRO WITH BOWSER IS... CHEFS KISS. I was slackjawed watching that entire cutscene. Offandon Island too, the interaction with Buddy as he runs off, only for you to discover the flag with Bowser's coat of arms... MWAH. Legit made me gasp. He comes in SWINGING.

There's so many animations and so much tiny attention to detail that it's incredible. Legit has me floored as an artist. Even the title screen changes towards the end of the game. if ykyk. Reclusa searching and the screen going 👁️ 🇲 🇱before popping up and laughing at the player.

I appreciate Starlow got more positive limelight this time around. Honestly people misinterpret her so badly. They mistake her love language in the form of playful bullying for malice and its disgustang. She's a bit brash and standoffish at times yeah, but she's gone out of her way to apologize or acknowledge that she was wrong, humbling herself when need be. I blame Paperjam for doing her a massive disservice, the dialogue in that game was SO mishandled. Heck, she still "makes fun of" Luigi by not acknowledging his name. OR. so it would seem at a glance. But when things get serious and someone does get antagonistic towards the bros she acknowledges him by name pretty quickly and jumps to defend him. Showing that YES, THIS IS DONE ON PURPOSE, BUT ITS IN GOOD FUN... And her just waltzing in and visiting Bowser to give him a get better gift as a "friend" while he's still injured, despite the fact that he claims he doesn't like her, is a good reflection of her personality. Having the gal to place a meaty piece of spicy chicken on his head TO HIS FACE so playfully just like "boop!". C'mon thats endearing asf. If you honestly hate her for having a distinct personality you must be really fun at parties.

I love how we get to see more of Bowser's good nature shine through here. He's one of Nintendo's best and most classic villains because he's... not really a villain. He's a conqueror at best. Sure he's selfish and hot tempered. He's a tyrant and goes about getting what he wants the wrong way. But we see in SMRPG and BIS that he's a loyal leader who cares about his minions. In most Mario Party games he doesn't take from someone who has nothing, rather he donates to those in need. We see in this game that he's a loving father, marching straight over to Zokket to beat his ass for kidnapping his kid even though he himself was mortally injured. We see him and his minions actually caring for an island that was in trouble, giving them food and very adamant protection against Zokket's forces. We love to see it.

I love the entirety of the bros get VRd sequence. Like, it's clear from the get-go something is wrong. Through subtle dialogue text you can tell that the bros want to go back to Concordia, and that they aren't happy they're back in the Mushroom Kingdom. NPCs making comments about Concordia and how nice it was, the insistence that you smile for everyone, the urging you to continue forward with the programmed illusion, the manipulation into trying to get you to stay there with them forever. It gets even worse come the second sequence. You go into the castle and it starts all over again. You don't even see the castle's interior. It's planned laziness. laziness in a way I can accept from a development standpoint. They COULD have made the interior of Peach's castle, but they made it so much more freaky with the groundhog day vibes. It also adds to the slightly outdated tech feels. Supposedly Reclusa is ancient, but modern VR can harbor hundreds of massive maps. Reclusa could only muster the one liminal space for hundreds, possibly thousands of individuals. Not to mention its what little of Mario's world Reclusa must have seen given thats where one of the few portals opened. But anyways, the dialogue becomes progressively more stale with each sequence. You can feel Reclusa's impatience in them. They start mentioning Concordia less and less as Reclusa fights it, pushing himself to the point that the simulation starts to break down. NPCs start getting progressively more out of character until you're able to basically activate debug mode and hunt Reclusa down. Even the hidden items felt like a nod to off-map items that just haven't been loaded yet. You corner Reclusa until he's finally had enough and ushers you to enter the castle, where you're met with an empty void, a spiraling red carpet to freedom with the only thing standing in your way being a hollow mirage of you dear princess begging you to stay... I feel like they should have included a game over if you said yes but I digress, absolutely amazing part of the game.

The things I care too much about™:

The pacing is ABYSMAL. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed Dream Team as a slow burner. It takes way too damn long to get the first bros move, and the time between getting each bros move is also wayyy to gd long. There are moments where it feels like there's just. Nothing. There's too much nothing going on. It's monotonous and not in a good way. At the very least, progressing and getting to see the next cutscene or character interaction is enough to keep me engaged... just barely. My ADHD was struggling w this game ngl.

It's way too handholdy. Yeah, a grown adult is griping about a kids game being too easy, whomp whomp. A tale as old as time. And it wouldn't be an issue if they weren't very clearly trying to pander to their original, older audience as well with references and nods to past games. Honestly this is a gripe of mine that isn't exclusive to this game, its happening to a lot of modern games. At the same time it's as simple as adding a difficulty setting towards the beginning of the game that changes some of the functionality. Similar to what Dream Team did. I'm also under the firm belief that kids deserve better. We shouldn't be dumbing down video games. Kids aren't dumb. A game being difficult is so much more rewarding when you finally beat it. Volo's battle as well as Drayton's battle, Gigantamax layers, and 7 star raid dens are some of the most genuine fun I've had in a Pokemon game in a loooong while for that exact reason. Meanwhile, I've still just barely had to buy any items from the store. Get rid of that stupid fucking heal block so I can actually enjoy the charm of getting a back massage. Is that so hard... at the very least I do appreciate the fact that it ramps up in difficulty towards end game and they include the DX Glohm fights.

Not the biggest fan of the choppy animal crossing esque voices? I know for a fact it was definitely due to time constraints because Starlow as well as some of Bowser's minions don't even have anything like that 😭 but tbh they should've kept it simple, like what they did for TTYD remake. It would have been less disjointing. Or at the very least they could have taken the BIS samples and put a reverb over it, even that would have made it better.

I'm... honestly not the biggest fan of the red shell attack being able to hit flying targets. Do I like how quick and smooth it is compared to the green shell? Absolutely, I do, but it could have just as easily been applied to the green shell as well. Heck, I kinda like that it mirrors the respective bros' fighting style. It's meant to add more variety I know, but... that shouldn't be the case. Functionality wise they're supposed to mirror one another. That's how its always been. And for them to need to change the red shell to hit arial foes does more harm than good, because it speaks volumes about just how long it takes to get a new bros move to serve the same purpose. It would have been so nice if the red shell just swept in from the other side of the screen similarly to Luigi's green shell, but on the opposite side.

I don't like the copius amount of nostalgia catering. A little less than half of the bros moves being returning bros. moves from past games make me sad in a mournful sense. The one bros move that should be an exception to this they managed to mess up in my eyes. The returning moves did grow on me a little because they're genuinely fantastic recreations for this game, but I really wish they stuck to making more original bros moves. The ones that DID stem from this game I thought were genuinely outstanding. The amount of references just... it'd be fine if it were few and far in between but it's like a quarter of the game and it makes me wanna vom after a while. It's like trying to forcefeed me copius amounts of bitter sweet sugar.

Why. Why God why, Luigi's select button not the B button. WHY is it the A button. It took be a while to get used to it and even towards the end of the game I STILL fudge the attacks on occasion. Years of muscle memory down the shitter. Nuff said.

THEY TOOK MY FUCKING LEVEL UP ROULETTE BONUS >:( I know it's such a small thing to gripe about but there should be NO REASON that it's gone! It's been there for every other game, so what the eff!!!

I hate that there's no penalty for holding up your hammer forever while defending. This isn't recent, I think it's been a thing since BIS or DT...? I can't remember at the moment. But its always been something I disliked because you can already cheese the jump dodges by pressing both buttons at the same time. Having the hammers break as consequence felt like an appropriate buffer to level it out. They could have just as easily made that a feature of the easy counter plug instead of making it standard.

There's also no penalty to getting surprise attacked from behind in the overworld. Given you can still do the attack of opportunity in the overworld for some extra damage, it feels cheap as hell. You don't get stunned, you don't take damage, nothing. Perhaps the most damning thing is Luigi doesn't even count as an overworld hitbox for you half of the time >:/ a chunk of the time Luigi being run into by an enemy just. Doesn't count because of the jank semi-automation.

Luigi being semi automated is a load of garbage tbh. It messes with the platforming and the flow of things. I honestly want to know how hard it would have been to swap the model's properties. Like have him be connected to Mario normally, and when a section comes up where you need Luigi to branch off, just have him disconnect and do the thing he's deliberately programmed to do, and then have him approach and snap back to Mario when he's done! Him being fully semi automated feels so obstructive for no reason. Esp when you're exploring and Luigi gets caught on something, so you have to backpedal during a very important platform segment because of something beyond your control.

This might actually be a surprising one given I adore the tall green bro but... I. dislike. To put it nicely. The fact that the game is so luigi centric. He deserves his time in the spotlight, but not like this. It feels so shoehorned in like. Dream Team was an exception because it was deliberate and it was the Year of Luigi. It was expected. It's called Mario and Luigi BROTHERship for a reason. It's not "Luigi and Luigi Luigiship". The charm of the Luigi logic wears off quick. It feels so forced to me. Like, we've done silly solutions and hijinks like this in the past, but they always did it together as a team. They put their heads together and came up with a solution. It never was just Luigi's logic, it was the bros logic. Which would make sense, because it's CALLED BROTHERSHIP. ITS ABOUT THE BROTHERS! ITS ABOUT BONDS SHARED WITH EACH OTHER! AUGH!!! I don't want to see the same 10 second cutscene just to watch Luigi push some chubby kid through a hole in the wall when it would be just as charming, if not moreso without it! To this game's credit though, Mario fucking killing a guard on Onandoff Island with a barrel being completely his idea was a refreshing and hilarious change 😭

I hate the fact that there's still no penalty for running away, and in some cases the game even encourages you to do so. On top of making battle skill redundant, it takes away from moments like Allsand Island. When you're practically forced to run away because of the Shark Bones? Even having something as simple as dropping coins as your punishment, which the game puts a lot of emphasis on with rare and expensive items, would be good. As much as I like my fleeing to be involved and engaging, even just the chance to fail alone without doing anything else would be better.

It's good to see the bros ball making a comeback but it... feels horrible to play? It's very slow in the overworld which defeats the purpose it had in Pit. You shouldn't have to wait to get a faster option. However, I'd like to think these are foreshadowing a remake for a certain game that deserves it but... with how sales have been for the game I'm not sure that'll happen soon.

The battles play well enough at the expense of the overworld feeling empty and playing slower. At least half of the time they do, the hitboxes are jank asf. Sometimes the enemy's moves are too merciful, sometimes they're merciless. Some of the timing is dreadfully slow so that the Glohm enemies can have more normally paced attacks that you can actually dodge. The balance is very poor overall.

The fishing kinda sucks. Ngl. I'm someone who adores fishing mini games. I got very excited to see a fishing game in Brothership. I was quickly let down. I sailed across several different seas, interchanged between both bros as well as bait. Hardly any variety in fish like I was promised. And I did this DOZENS of times. Not only does this one feel highly confusing with not much direction, but it's the least engaging fishing mini game I've ever played. Even the cartoon Sims fishing games are more fun. I'm saying this as someone who enjoys chainfishing in PKMN XY. At the very least, it was neat to see it utilized as a side quest tool, but that's not saying much. If there is something unique you can get while fishing I'm not sticking around long enough to find out. The game itself is already 30-50 hours long.

Even with the fast travel that you get for Shipshape backtracking can still be extremely sluggish for much longer travels. It's not too damning, just means I can put my Switch down and focus on something else for about 3 minutes.

Not sure how I feel about the strangely anti anti-social propaganda? I know WHY it was done obviously what with the game being "the power of friendship tm". This is such a minor gripe of mine and I'm absolutely overdramatizing it but I found myself relating to Reclusa in SOME cases. I say some cuz uhhh yeah Reclusa is (purposefully and thematically) a complete sociopath. But his final words being "UGH. People." had me laughing and shouting "SAME". The sentiment that having to worry about other people is just too exhausting had me nodding. That's why I drift towards stronger, more independent people or people who are introverted and reclusive like me. I'm not mad about it I just found it funny.

I wish we saw/got to know more about Gorumbla and the extension corps. Gorumbla has a very mysterious backstory as a character that we just never tap into and the Extenshun Corps is kinda just like...??? why did they join Zokket to begin with? Even in one of the journals Zokket wrote he was like uhhh idk. they will die by my hands tho. It was explicitly stated they just joined for some reason. They weren't created like the other troops. And then after all the trouble they caused they go back on it and help you fight Reclusa before turning a new leaf. So what was. the point?????? HUH. And why do they look drastically different than everyone else? Why does Gorumbla look like he comes from a different world entirely like the bros? So many unanswered questions... And unfortunately I only speak English so I can't read flavor dialogue from other games even if I wanted :(

Adaphne. She's successfully passed Broque and Bedsmith on my disliked characters by a landslide.

Other thoughts and overall opinion:

I started out heavily disliking the game, but I desperately wanted to enjoy it so I stuck with it. Maybe it was because I was still mourning the death of the past gen's developer team. Maybe it was because I had grown oh so slightly resentful towards the series from personal reasons. But regardless I gave it the chance it deserved and I'm glad I did. It's an excellent addition to the series. I'm not going to pretend like its not an attempt to revive the series for future cash grabs. It only happened because of the recent successes of The Mario Movie and the remakes for TTYD and SMRPG. But for what it is, its an absolutely amazing game.

I wish they would have continued development potentially until the release of the next console. Not only would it have given them more time to refine what they were trying to build, but they would have had better hardware to work with. That isn't to say that it doesnt already have a lot, by god it does. I'm actually really impressed with how much content it has. But there were very small details that felt like they wanted to do a lot more with but didnt have time. Overall I want to see the series continue to thrive, but the market for M&L games is niche as is. Traditional RPGs are past their prime time with the ever dwindling attention span. Brothership kinda flopped on release day, so if this series is to see a resurgence... only time will tell. I hope with Christmas on the way it'll see more attention.

Also I know another complaint was that the game has "too much dialogue" and I find that funny. I'm sorry but if you complain about an RPG having too much dialogue you immediately lose all rights to critique it lmaooo "Role-playing" is literally in the name. My gamer in christ do you know, by definition, what that means. 😭

In conclusion If you love saccharine sweet character interactions then the game is for you. Ironically my complaint isn't that there's too much dialogue, its that there's too much in between just to get to the meat and potatoes. A lot of my dislike towards it came from the game having a chronically slow start. It isn't till the near end where you really get into the good stuff. And when it gets good, it gets REALLY good. If you have rampant ADHD like me you might be better off watching a lets play and forming your own opinions, But I encourage you to push on because to say the ending had me sulking is gracious. It had me ugly crying throughout the entire credit sequence.

[beevean]

Man its just that the average nfcv fan vision of the belmonts is a human centipede. You grab the og belmonts, you kno the good hearted almost superhuman warriors who fought and killed Dracula time and time again, let nfcv turn them into regular vampire hunters that are framed as morally gray bc "muh poor vampires :(", and who are cynical jerks that don't do much of anything. And then you let the fandom bully them into the ground bc haha loser men and muh girlbosses.

And its kinda weird bc its also often making fun of them due to their traumas? Like yea maybe alcoholism due to losing your entire family at a young age isnt a joke you know. Or seeing your mother get killed in front of you as a child. Yes ofc you can make fun of dark stuff i'd be lynched as a hypocrite if i said you cant, but the way its done and how continuous it is... irrespectful? Like they dont respect the serious aspects of the character and legit think they suck for having horrible things happen to them? Im bad at gauging jokes like that but... yea (they just dont know how to bully fictional characters unlike us who throw Isaac off a 10 stories building everyday <3)

In any case, N! Trevor and N! Richter do not deserve that sort of treatment already, and much less their mainline counterparts :/

And regarding girlbosses, they way ppl need to put down their men to show how cool the girls are just, reeks of insecurity to me? Why does having a "loser dumb wife guy" makes her a girlboss? Why would a confident gal need a loser to take care of instead of a good partner were both compliment eachother's strong and weak points? Maybe im being a bit dramatic here, but it carries off a similar mentality to sexist guys that need to put down their gal's accomplishments to feel well Plus, the way how fandoms still revolve around said loser guys and how a lot of the times the writing itself makes the girlboss character a compliment or a motivation for the man without depth for herself makes it all feel performative. Just write a normal character with character traits who happens to be a woman ffs :/

It's incredible. NFCV alone feels like a shitty fanfiction, full of those fanfic tropes that would make me close immediately: flanderization, wimpification of "pretty" male characters, thirsting, juvenile wit, spotlight-stealing OCs, gratuituous sex and SA treated with the finesse of a charging hippo. Then you let the fandom fandomify this shitty fanfic even more, and the result is just a disaster, a kiddie pool of the most baffling misconceptions you could see.

Just to make one example, Trevor in the games is a noble but ruthless hunter, both friendly and fierce, fighting for mankind yet wanting respect yet gladly giving credit to his friends; in the show, he's a washed out Bojack Horseman-esque asshole, who despite his cynicism admittedly attempts to do the right thing when push comes to shove; and according to fandom he's pretty much a funny penis man with two braincells, Sypha and Alucard. the scene where he punches Dracula and he goes "you must be the Belmont" became a meme for a reason :^)

And yeah you're right that the fandom doesn't seem to. like the Belmonts much. But then again, they're acting like the show wants them to :) The writing doesn't take Trevor's alcoholism seriously, so they don't, alcoholism is a funny joke that makes people silly and just a tad pathetic (and it's not a serious addiction and symptom of larger problems no sir). Richter is a goofball who cries in a corny way, so it's easy to laugh at him - and that's when fans don't say that Julia deserved to die for being a "colonizer". Lenore is sexualized to hell and back, so the fans thirst for her and they think that Hector must thirst for her too, and look, wasn't her death so prettly tragic, maybe she was a good person after all!

The way fandoms treat girl characters nowadays is... barely an improvement over the 2000s when Amy would be called a slut for having a backless dress. Now it's all about how stronk and kewl and queens and girlbosses they are. And you can't criticize the writing of a female character because "just say you hate women 🙄", even when the said character is a female victim of abuse who was written by a molester as a smug radfem whose personality never goes beyond "i want to steal from men because men bad" *coughcoughcough*

The show itself is regressive when it comes to its female characters. They're all the damn same. They're either spunky sassy gals who put their men in their place, or evil but hot dommy mommies (Striga and Morana don't fit the mold because they're not characters). Most of them are magic users, even those who in the games were normal women. I will forever stand by my point that Annette did not need to be a metal bender, and if the writers truly cared, they could have fleshed out the skeleton provided by RoB. But they didn't. Because girl power!!! but only if you're conventionally "badass" and have a "strong" attitude.

[jrueships]

taking lil notes on the sauce getting a tat stream.... will be reblogging with more bcs this video is fucking long as shit plus with me always pausing to write whatever nonsense i find funny? yea, idk if ill be able to get thru this all lmao 😭 but yea this will just be lil blurbs rewritten n commented on as i watch on one device and take notes on another like a lil movie major or smthin LMAO. To shorten typing time, Sauce will be SG and tat man will just be K as his real name is Kyle. ok? ok

SG, impatient & cocky, trying to show out 4 the stream like a little loser: ay cmon bruh im ready 😤!!🤘🏿 *goes to lay down on the jets styled?? tatting bed??? idk what that is i don't get tats.. i just know they probably fucked on it cus sauce winced when he had to sit down LMAO. went from ay bruh im ready to EUAGH 😫!! Eh 😣😖!! in a millisecond LMFAO*

K: *checks himself out on camera for a split second*

K: *very polite to the stream's viewing. Apparently has never streamed or got an audience up close n personal during his tat sessions. Only shows the before and after photos so this is a new but very fun experience for him. aww, so cute <3 sauce getting him to try new things!!!! He's nervous about getting the best angles for us and he's always trying his best to please!! ( he's so service top it's Mad. it's MADDENIN!!! ) Sauce dramatic diva demanding hot n s*x fierce reporter mean fake bitch and his quiet polite and personable yet professionally firm, keeping sauce in line when he needs to fulltime cameraman part time bodyguard when the situation gets unexpectedly (or expectedly. Not everyone has Tat man's insanely loyal patience with sauce...) hostile WHEN??? Slowburn We're just workers/he's just my minion to ........... don't ask why we came out of the same bathroom at the same time STFU ?? HELLO??? TAT MAN!!!*

Chat: cook up kyle

Kyle: !! :] !! yea 😺!! im boutta cook 🥰 (HE KEEPS GETTING SO SWEETLY HYPED UP FROM SAUCES LIL AUDIENCE. IT'S SO CUTE LOL)

1:05 (around there idk none of these time stamps will be any accurate bcs i pause late after realizing smthin was funny then guestimate where it started so sorry :( ): sauce walking his big b00bies up in our face jumpscare :/ . To help Kyle zoom the camera per his chats demands. He lowkey high key very anxious and micromanaging abt kyle using his camera equipment lol. He just loves telling people what to do but also that shit is probably very expensive. But cmon sauce. Kyle the cameraman's got it!!! HE EVEN HAS THE PERFECT CAMERAMAN NAME LIKE?? Let him take care of you bbygirl ..😼

Sauce once again (a bit more gingerly this time) sits himself on his jets style seat thing and let's out a little cry of pain when his ass hits it??? sauce these bttm allegations are BEATING ur ASS lmao????

Kyle does what sauce was about to do for him and sauce kinda :/// >:( 😰😰😠. Sauce try to go five seconds without micromanaging challenge impossible. Complains about chat being able to see his facial expressions being too close up now and how he won't be able to fuck with Kyle no more cus of it cus they'll make shit is weird. Kyle simply responds ' That's love 🙂. '

Sauce goads the chat asking if he should end stream. Kyle at first thinks maybe he isn't cameramanning right and gets a little nervous/sad at disappointing sauce but quickly catches onto the strategy and joins in on the bait. The chat take it with a chorus of Nos. Girlboss sauce malewife Tat man media powercouple ftw?

2:58, K: wait turn ur head a lil bit? *Sauce looks at him* no, other way *sauce looks away, exposing neck to him and pre-ink*

K admires his work. Shows it off to the chat, tells them he's getting them right. Zooms in on sauce's neck

SOMEBODY SAID 'L NIPPLE' IN THE CHAT WHAT???? Chat language is so.... beautiful 😭

'Stop being a lil girl take the pain like a man'????? Yall sure this is twitch and not p*rnhub ??? tf?

Kyle zooms in. Chat: "glad to get the nipple off the page" HELP. my thoughts exactly

Kyle tries hiding sauces face with his zooms bcs he knows sauce was self conscious about his expressions lmao. Chat, instantly, and these are different people too. Everyone is a sadist here apparently. My kinda people 😼: 'WE NEED TO SEE HIS FACE FR' 'HIS FACE BRO WE NEED TO SEE HIS FACE' 'WE NEED TO SEE HIS FACE IF HE CRIES'

3:38 Sauce, reading the chat bcs if he doesn't have attention that he can feel for five seconds he explodes and dies: is my face in there ? <- literally just whined about not wanting his face seen bcs he'd get weird comments and ruin his very heterosexual very platonic relationship with tat man. But is now turning his whole tune around for some shred of people pleasing attention omg 🙄 poo fimbly 😑

K: nah they be clownin 😿.. *just wants to protect him*

Sauce agrees a bit then quickly changes subject to compliment himself.

Sauce notices camera needs shifting so he tries but Kyle's on it before he can. Sauce keeps trying anyways until eventually the needles settle him slougish

5:10 chat tells them to zoom out but sauce defends his cameraman: AINT NO ZOOM OUT 😾😾!! HE TRYNA GIVE YOU THE UPCLOSE LOOKS !!

Kyle zooms out anyways

Sauce whines about his nipple lol

Sg: yall weird af 😑 Yall tryna see my nipple or smthin 🤨? *incredulous look to camera*

K: FREE THE NIP!!!!! <- reading off chat, sadly

THE CHAT BULLIED HIM INTO HIDING HIS BOOBS LMAO. He got a blanket 😭 so now he's gonna be with another man... while under a blanket ? um. sauce I think this is pretty lose lose if u ask me .

Kyle wearing those black tattoo gloves gently touching sauces neck.... soft dom and not even trying to hide it 🤨?

Chat: stop moaning 😐

Sauce: my bad bruh 😔

Someone: get the tissues ready (????)

Sg: in da trenches 😼. in da trenches 😼

Someone in chat: sauce do u like when men fuck u? ( 🤔.. it's a fair ask 😳.)

Chat: the right side of my neck hurted the most (average sauce fan iq, im afraid )

Chat: SAUCE BABY START TWERKING

( now im just finding funny chat stuff cus all sauce doing rn is trying to not cry by randomly singing along to the music and kyle is working)

Chat trying to plot lies on kyle by spamming kyle messed up smthin so sauce can get worried lmao

9:40: around there, maybe a bit later, sauce starts groaning and cursing more

Chat: Sauce is it hard

Sauce asks how many people watching bcs u know he looooves an audience. Kyle doesn't know how to check so he has to stop and ask the chat

Kyle: Seven- ..... 776? 800? a thousand? man idk :(. yall play too much >:( yall play too damn much 🙄! ... i fuck with yall tho >:)

Chat trying to gaslight sauce into thinking Kyle's actually tatting a dick on his neck

I've been skipping or doing other stuff during some of the tatting. Sauce got up to try and figure out some twitch function? Mic suppression? idk. He lowkey stalling lol.

Kyle starts asking what the chat been saying around 31:40, curious.

Sauce and Kyle mumble to songs internmentedly lol

33:25 around there kyle raps to a song he rlly likes. Sauce adlibs it's cute

PAUSING THIS AT 35:10. We basically got an hour left in this jawn. YALL WE WATCHED ALOT IM PROUD!!!! OK im leaving this here for now, reblogging l a ter maybe even finishing it idk? I just need this shit sent cus im a lil nervous if it'll even load... this was a lotta work 😭 all for tatman and sauce interactions damn... ion even know this man's last name .. i need to go do strong people things now BYE see yall soon hopefully

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Mean Girls 2024 reviewed by this random girl with weird thoughts

(Although I think my thoughts for this aren’t that weird).

Spoilers!

THE GAY ENERGY. THE QUEER GIRLS ENERGY. How many girls are smitten with Regina?? Cady had heart eyes the first time she saw her, GRETCHEN is… oh my gosh. Plus all the random girls in school.

I feel like lots won’t bring this up cause sadly Rise of the pink ladies were not that well marketed (PLEASE WATCH IT AND WATCH IT NOW!!), but when I saw ARI NORTATOMASO in the classroom I was like CYNTHIA’S DESCENDANT ??!! >:0

CANON LESBIAN JANIS!!!!! Finally!! But I am not sure how I feel about just giving her this random girl as her date to the spring fling.

I kinda wish to get more scenes with Cady and Janis. Idk personally ever since I read this chatfic from 2018 where they got together over this conversation I’ve kinda had a thing for them

(I’m not joking when I say this fic has been a huge inspo for me to start writing fics of my own. Like. Thank you person who wrote it. You’ve orphaned your account now but this fic will always be in my memory)

I’m not saying I needed them to be gfs in the movie just that I wanted some more moments :>

So the movie lacks a lot of the iconic moments from the 2004 film, but it’s supposed to be an adaptation of the musical anyway. Also if they just said every iconic line again it would just feel like an exact copy of the movie and that wasn’t the point.

Cady’s songs lack a bit for me. In the musical, she sang so loudly and expressed so much, but she sings so… quietly… here. I guess it’s a sort of choice for her character, and maybe this worked better for the movie format - musicals become different on stage and in movies, you can’t always be as theatrical on film as you can on stage. But, I just didn’t feel her emotions at all in the same way.

REGINA AND JANIS’ SONGS, THO? YEA. THEY SLAYED. I do feel sad they cut Gretchen and Karen’s parts out of Meet the plastics. Also that they cut Damian’s songs… Stop is literally such an important song because it gives advice not only to Cady but also to everyone watching?? I remember hearing it in 2018 and I personally felt like it could help me to not send too many texts to people, because when people didn’t answer I got nervous and sent even more. But then… some songs maybe don’t work as well in movie format, I don’t know.

Also because Janis is canonically gay now, I’d rather be me is officially a queer anthem!!!!! 😁😁

Not sure how I feel about changing ”Janis is a space dyke” to ”Janis is a pyro-les”. It doesn’t sound as good in the song lol. But, in the musical, Janis’ sexuality was more ”up to interpretation” and so got called that because when asked if she was a lesbian, she replied ”I AM A SPACE ALIEN AND I HAVE FOUR BUTTS”. An incredibly funny line and really had the early 2010s random humor going for it. But, when wanting to make her explicitly gay, they needed something better, and I understand that.

Now, many people see Regina as a closeted lesbian herself. I get it, since she has no chemistry with any boy and it seems like she just dates them for publicity. No boys except for Damian have personalities (did Shane even have a line?? He was just. There.) But, I am a bit insecure. Because at times it seems like she was one of those homophobic girls in middle school. I’m just gonna go from this movie alone, as I feel like in the Broadway show and in the 2004 movie that’s other kinds of discussion (the 2004 movie especially feels more like she actually was homophobic tbh). In the 2024 movie, Janis came out to Regina, and Regina put a rainbow pin on her stuffed animal as an ”ally”. Also Regina and Janis kissed. Regina did it to see how her boyfriend reacted, and it was at the expense of Janis. Regina then had her stuffed animal with a pride pin talk in a mocking voice and it was clear this was to make fun of Janis. Janis then got so mad over this that she set Regina’s backpack on fire (ok Ámbar Smith whatever works for you). From this story, I am a bit unsure if this came from a place of Regina maybe wanting to tease her boyfriend and then it got out of hand, or maybe she was curious about kissing Janis but she was like 12 and repressed those feelings. Because she supposedly wore a Pride pin as an ”ally”, that’s much more than what a homophobic would do - but, her bullying of Janis definitely contributed to homophobia. Regina is a mean girl, so we should not excuse her actions even though she is slaying. Closeted lesbian or not, she did some homopbic and harmful things.

Regina in this movie sometimes felt like she was just doing a bunch of things without care. In some ways, I think Regina is just living on some sort of cloud and there was all this anger inside of her and she didn’t know what, and it’s possible she just does not know how to handle all the popularity because she’s like 16. So she hides behind a lot of layers and just does stuff for the thrill of it, maybe trying to get some sort of enjoyment in life, but nothing is enough. And eventually she snaps and watches the world burn. Maybe this is why all the songs she has in the movie, including the ones that originally had more singers, only had her singing now. Showing that, even when she is around people, she is alone… (yes, the other girls sing in world burn but they don’t sing to her in the same way) and she has not found her real place in the world and she acts like she knows it all but she doesn’t really. And everyone keeps telling her how great her life is. If her life is so great, why does she feel so unsatisfied?

They didn’t ruin Revenge Party which I appreciate. I also loved that they added the deleted lines from the musical. I wish that Cady has more power in her voice when she shouted ”ONE CANDY CANE PLEASE” but oh well.

The way they all reported on the incidents at North Shore high like it was national news… like, my schools has meme accounts and stuff, but never that we reported on the stuff like it was celebrity gossip lmao. Then again I don’t even live in America so idk what’s going on over there.

I do like how Janis and Damian are the narrators. It’s possible a lot of things that happened was their overexaggerated retellings of what actually happened. Maybe this is just them telling freshmen about tales everyone tells them as they start high school.

School buses keep being the top 10 scariest jumpscares. Laughed out loud tho that instead of focusing on Cady and Regina’s argument, they just argued in the backround and then Janis finished up her song as Regina just gets hit by the bus in the background

I’ll probably have more to say in the future.

[violentdelightsandviolentends]

okay, not f1 or fic related, but i need girly advice and idk who to go to so basically, i had two dreams about this one guy from a club that im like in but not, idk its complicated. the first one was we were at a family function (im assuming this because i saw a lot of my family there) and he was there. and we were like hanging out kinda, like always around each other in my dream and were being like "flirty" idk queen. super affectionate in my dream so like ??? in the second one i apparently had dinner with two of my friends and for some reason i needed a ride back home and instead of dream me thinking logically and asking the people who were in my dream to take me home, i ended up texting him and he came to pick me up. and im like so confused, because im pretty sure that i dont like him like that. like hes nice and funny but also like ??? and ive noticed little things that he does, like he noticed a necklace that i always wear and he pointed it out a couple of times and i was like yea its my fav or wtv, but like thats so random to me, like girl why are you pointing out my jewlery?? but im also so delusional and it could totally mean nothing at all. and i fear i just need someone reasonable giving me an explanation on what this means. because i tell my friends and they are like ooo girl what if he's manifesting you or like what if hes thinking about you and thats why he's in your dreams. and im just so lost. so yea, thats my non f1 or fic vent for the week. please share thoughts and please literally anyone on here respond to this bc i need all the advice i can get rn - a 🏁 anon who is confused but bored so thinks a little crush could be fun

hi queen!!

omg dreams are so complicated. i’ve had dreams that have changed my whole perception of people lmao they’re so weird. I once had a dream about a celebrity that I was never attracted to but he was so lovely in my dream that I am now attracted to him 😭

it definitely sounds like this guy is on your radar, and I don’t think dreams are always completely meaningless (although sometimes they are). sounds like you’re on his radar too, since he picked up on the necklace thing - means he’s taken the time to really notice you 👀.

I think don’t get carried away and write wedding vows or anything yet, but just take a breath and go with the flow. see how things go, don’t close yourself off completely, be open to the vibes and see where that leads. it might be nothing, sure, but you never know… it could be something.

little crushes are fun 😌 as long as it doesn’t stress you out, just go with the flow <3

[pinkpastels113]

Horses are afraid of Chloe. Chloe is afraid of horses. But Beca is the solution.

I dunno. I read some posts of you and your were asking for promts, but it may is very outdated. So I dunno.

@anastasia-93-daybidaylove now you see how this does NOT involve beca dressing up as a horse? jeezus that conversation is going to be forever ingrained into my mind.

also hai stau! hope you like this :DD

read on ao3 or below~

Chloe isn’t afraid of many things.

But now, as she stares terrifyingly at the dark eyes boring back into her, Chloe suddenly becomes aware that many isn’t all, that many doesn’t mean that she isn’t afraid of some things.

Namely, horses.

The smell of dry grass and flakey dirt and distinct mammal brings back the memories of a facefull of sand, rocks, and of a salty wetness that she has tried numerous times to forget, and Chloe shudders, gulps with extreme difficulty at the possibility of having to endure through such a heart-stopping, nightmare-inducing, and childhood-ruining experience once again.

The scar on her forehead tingles, like a freshly irritated scab in the sun.

“Come on, Ginger, let’s get on with it! Some of us are actually excited to compare the rodeo of riding their first ever pony to wrestling a crocodile.”

Ginger. There have been worse names that Chloe has been referenced to before.

She trembles, taking a hasty step back. The horse seems to sense her trepidation, whining low before mirroring the action. Something flashes in its intelligent gaze, something close to agitation.

And Chloe may not have been around horses much- or at all- since that incident- well, till now, but she knows and loves and has experienced with animals enough to understand that an agitated creature means a troubled creature, able to cause unintentional harm if not pacified quickly with caution.

Chloe certainly isn’t going to be the one being cautious, she is barely able to hold herself upright in her current predicament.

“Oi!”

It’s maddening, the unhealthy rate at which her heart is pounding. Chloe knows that she doesn’t have to do this, to get on the saddle and hold on for a trek around the makeshift track, but none of the Bellas know and Chloe Beale is reputable for not being afraid of many things.

She toes a tentative millimeter forward, only to automatically snap right back.

She couldn’t do this. She will never be able to get over the twinge in her chest whenever her finger brushes against the line on her forehead, the slight squeeze of her heart whenever inquires about her early school life.

Chloe wants to cry. She can feel the sting already in the back of her eyes, the indication that she has failed yet again, this time surrounded by her newfound friends, and-

A hand settles gently on the small of her back.

“Chloe?”

Chloe turns, sniffling, her vision a little blurry around the edges as she looks dazedly at Beca. Beca, who is confused, curious, likely wondering why the heck it is that she is taking so damn long to just swing her leg over-

“Beca. Bec, I-” she swallows, her breath painfully suppressed in the column of her throat as she struggles to breathe. “There was this barn that I went to with my uncle when I was little in the countryside, and there was this horse, and-”

Beca rubs soothing circles through the fabric of her shirt, stepping to the side and angling herself so that Chloe is hidden from the rest of the Bellas. When Chloe stutters and doesn’t continue, Beca searches her face with something akin to sympathy, compassion, a glint of protectiveness that is uncharacteristic of her “alt girl” persona, “And what happened, Chlo? You can tell me. If you want.”

And Chloe finds that she does want to tell her, if only to have something to say to calm down her nerves. She has built on her confidence the older that she got, the further that she went on with her education, when she started to realize that her looks aren’t the defining force of her personality and that bullies are just ultimately mindless jerks. She has embraced her scar thus far as a physical attribute to her features, even going so far as to say that one time that it adds to her personality, so she knows that the problem isn’t the scar itself, but rather what had caused it.

Beca has always been an easy person to talk to, someone who despite what she says isn’t at all overly judgemental but genuinely very accepting. She is someone who is embracive of the uniqueness and flaws in the world, able to transform them into something beautiful, engaging.

So if Chloe had to pick someone to talk to about why it is that she is now scared to death of horses- of the notion of being near one let alone climb on one- it is her.

She takes a deep breath. “I was lifted up into the air by my uncle who had no idea how to take care of a five year old on a full grown horse, put on the worn out saddle, and let go without adult supervision or security or even with my hands properly on the mane down a trail. I fell off onto my face on top of the rocks and the sand and bled so much that I had to get thirteen stitches on the center of my forehead. I was bullied for looking like a red haired Frankenstein all throughout elementary and the first year of middle school and in that time I just… I dunno, connected everything to that trauma and became deathly terrified of horses, I guess.”

Beca blinks, and then nods. She doesn’t ask whether Chloe is okay, why she had lied when everyone had been interested to know more about the faint line now resting just beneath her hairline, or any of the unimportant and pointless questions that Chloe frankly doesn’t even want to think about how to answer.

She simply says, “Okay.”

Then-

“Do you wanna try to see if you can overcome it? I know how determined you can get when you’re trying to beat something that you don’t like, and based on how long I saw you debating from back there, I can tell that there is at least some part of you that is curious to see if you can kick this fear’s ass. You obviously don’t have to, you know, I’m just saying that I will be here if you decide that you do. Want to. Or whatever.”

Chloe laughs, wiping the last of the mist from her eyes. Beca is such an idiot. An adorable, rambling idiot. Who knows just what she needs. “Here? To help me? Are you an expert now, Bec?”

Beca smiles, looking relieved that Chloe has stopped tearing up. Fat Amy shouts at them to move faster again and she huffs, refusing to withdraw her hand from its ministrations on Chloe’s back even as she responds over her shoulder,

“You all can shove it! There is more than one horse in this fairground and Stacie is on the other one, so take turns with her and suck it up till Chloe returns, alright? We’re gonna be here for the entire afternoon. So there’s more than enough time for everyone to have their fun.”

Beca shakes her head at the chorus of groans and cheers emanating from the crowd. She then rolls her eyes at Chloe, who is giggling at her dramatics. “Children, every single one of them. Without Aubrey we are both the literal parents here.”

And just like that, Chloe is able to forget her inhibitions long enough for her mental stability to revert back to normal, “It is wonderful to be stuck as a parent with you, Becs.”

Beca blushes at the wink Chloe delivers, nudging at the base of her spine with the guidance of her palm, “Quit teasing, Beale, and get on with this ass kicking.”

Turns out, Beca had been very observant when the instructor- some random tall guy- was teaching them on how to mount (before slinking off to flirt with his girlfriend), and is just as diligent in remembering and repeating the same directions, coaxing Chloe up the steps to face her body sideways in the same direction as her horse and making sure that it is balanced safely for the both of them before encouraging Chloe on. Surprisingly- or maybe not so, because Chloe is with Beca, after all, the person that she is basically in love with the better part of the past three years- Chloe doesn’t have much difficulty in accomplishing this task with Beca as her guide, beyond the initial spike of brief anxiety that was gently let down by Beca’s hand on Chloe’s thigh, followed a reassuring quirk of her lips.

I’m right here, Beca had said, in the sparkle of her eyes and tilt of her head, and Chloe had listened.

She’d willed her heartbeat to slow down, her lungs to expand and contract to the demonstration that Beca was giving, and eventually, she’d been capable of grabbing ahold of the reins from Beca’s grasp without fumbling.

Beca murmured a “great job” when Chloe breathed a sigh of relief after settling safely onto the saddle, and made a joke about how her horse is like her spirit animal, skittish when she is afraid, friendly when she is not.

Chloe hadn’t been confident enough to remove one of her hands to swat at her, so she had pouted, gripping tightly onto the reins as Beca double- triple- checked her protective gear.

Now, Beca is quietly sneaking a very small apple slice to Chloe’s horse, while Chloe is continuing to regulate her breathing and pulse rate in preparation for the ride.

“You good?” she says, wiping her palm against the denim of her jeans.

Chloe gazes down at her, taking in Beca’s dark locks, the curve of her nose, the part of her mouth, the glare from her sunglasses.

Her brain scrambles, but this time it’s in panic for a different reason, entirely.

Chloe isn’t afraid of many things, but besides horses being on the list of things that she is afraid of, telling Beca Mitchell that she loves her and appreciates her beyond anything else in this entire world comes to a close second.

“Yeah, I’m good. Thanks, Bec.”

Beca’s teeth flashes, something that always, always, sends Chloe’s stomach for an intoxicating swoop, “But of course. You’re my co-parent after all. Now get on with it, alright? I want a ride too.”

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fin.

[somekidnamedkai]

May I request a smut piece with Rook Hunt? (AFAB please) It's pretty sentimental, so be warned!

I'd like to see how Rook would react to Reader talking about how they want their first time to be like.

When night falls above Ramshackle, MC confides in Rook her deepest desires. Dreamily she whispers into his ear how she wants to make love to him. In her vision two lovers would look into each other's eyes with passion and longing as they kissed and touched with all of their pent up feelings. She wants to show him how beautiful it all is. How pure it can be. To be utterly cherished and loved.

I Want To Know What Love Is

Notes: I’ve been listening to Rock of Ages so that excuses the title. I thought it was funny and fit the prmompt ok. I had fun writing this, I really hope you like it! It is my first time writing smut other than when i was like 12 and thought it was “cool”, so I apologize if it seems kind of weird or cringe in parts

MINORS DNI, 18+ ONLY

Character: Rook Hunt

Warnings: Smut, fingering, Dom!Rook, sub!reader, kinda cringe towards the end I tried but yea. I don’t think its that bad

F!Reader

You knocked on the door to Rooks dorm, waiting for him to answer. Luckily, you didn’t have to wait long, because almost immediately after you knocked, the door opened and there stood the Pomefiore Vice Housewarden, and hunter, Rook. He had a smile on his face as he saw you, “Ahh! Mon Cherie, come in!” He exclaimed as he motioned you to walk in. “To what do I owe the pleasure of having you come and visit me?” Rook questioned you as he shut the door. You hummed as you walked around the boy's dorm room, taking it in. Rook motioned for you to sit on the bed, which you did, and he sat next to you.

You looked at Rook. The huntsman probably knew why you were here and that you wanted something. After all, he made it practically his life's work to know everything about everybody. Maybe Rook knew you wanted something, but perhaps he doesn’t know exactly what. “Come here,” you said gently as you scooted towards the blonde boy and leaned to his ear, “I want to make love with you. I want us to give each other looks of passion, to touch each other's bodies, to cry each other's names from pleasure. I want to show you how beautiful and amazing love is.” You explained to the boy beside you with a dreamy and sweet tone. “I want to be cherished and loved by you, Rook. To see how beautiful everything is. How you’d feel inside me, how your fingers will trace against my body, how passionate a kiss we can share.”

The Vice Housewarden looked at you, not in shock, but in desire. He felt his pants tighten, the words you said getting to him. Oh, how he’d have longed to do all of those things with you, and now you were here, asking him for it, letting all of your desires out in front of him. “So direct. Of course, Mon cherie,” Rook agreed as he cupped your face with one hand and pushed you toward him, leaving a small distance between you two. He licked his lips slightly before he closed the space, wrapping you in a soft yet passionate kiss. The feel of his soft lips on yours was like heaven. You slightly parted your lips allowing Rook’s tongue to slip inside. Emitting a small moan out of your mouth.

Amid your kiss, Rook used his hand that wasn’t cupping your cheek to traverse down your body and slowly unbutton your shirt. Never-ending your kiss, Rook slid off your shirt and unclasped your bra single-handedly. After your top was completely bare, Rook slid his hands down your body, stopping to squeeze your tits, making you moan into his mouth. He couldn’t lie he enjoyed watching you moan into the kiss you two shared. It made him want to do it again, which he did. Rook gave your breasts another nice squeeze as you moaned again in response. He broke away from the makeout session you two had, a smile on his lips, “Oh, mon cherie you sound beautiful, how will I be able to stop when you sound so wondrous,” he expressed as he moved his hands down your body, making you shiver at the contact.

Rook got to your hips, and he slowly pulled your skirt down, revealing lacy underwear. But before he did anything else, Rook backed away, making you whine, “You’re so beautiful, you know. Nothing can compare to you,” Rook praised you as he began to take his clothes off. First his jacket and shirt, then pants, leaving him in nothing but his boxers. Rook grabbed your legs, wrapping them around his waist, making your back fall onto the mattress you gasped in shock as he leaned back down and kissed you again, enjoying the feel of your lips on his. It was like heaven, and he hadn’t gotten to the best part yet.

Practically as soon as he kissed you, Rook traveled his hands down your body again, feeling your sides, stomach, everything. Once he got to your lower regions, Rook dove one hand under your panties and began to rub your clit, forcing a moan out of your lips, and used his other hand to take off your underwear and trail the hand along your thigh. Rook pulled away from the kiss as you tried to pull toward him, not wanting it to end. You saw the sweet smile of the man who was on top of you, and you let out a sharp moan as you felt Rook push on one of his fingers inside of your sex. He slowly began thrusting his finger in and out, watching you moan softly from the pleasure he gave you. “Beautiful,” he softly whispered.

Rook inserted another finger, watching you gasp at the stimulation he was giving you. It was like a show. The way you moved under him, how your gasps and moans sounded, it was music to his ears. He began to pick up his pace, seeing your breasts bounce a little. Rook leaned down and began to suck on one of your nipples, making you emit another loud moan. “Rook~!” You cried out, which made him enjoy what he was doing all the more.

Rook continued to move his fingers at a fast past in and out of you, watching you moan and squirm. He felt your walls clenching around him as he smirked. “Are you close, Mon amour?” Rook asked, almost teasingly, as he inserted a third finger into you, making you let out a gasp as you nodded, “yes!” you moaned as Rook gave you a quick kiss before he quickened his pace again, watching you squirm underneath him. ��Then cum, mon cherie,” Rook seductively told you as he hit your g-spot over and over, making you reach your climax as you let out a loud moan.

The Vice housewarden quickly took his fingers out of your sex and licked your juices off, “Was it how you desired, mon amour?” Rook asked you as you nodded to the boy, smiling at him. “You were right. Love is a beautiful thing that I get to share with you,” Rook continued to speak as he gave you another kiss.

[yeosatinyngz]

Hiiii can i request for an written headcanon with shin,waka and kakucho where their fem s/o is famous and reader has alot of videos being a whole crackhead and menace created by heir own fandom feel free to ignore if this makes you uncomfortable have a great day/night! :)

Hellooo and you got it! Your request was so fun to write! Thank you for requesting, and I wanted to thank you again for considering my feelings, it doesn’t make me uncomfortable at all, no worries! You have a great day/night as well :3 <3

Famous Crackhead

↳Fem Reader | Fluff

Request Rules ➣ Masterlist

-He would binge watch all the videos and leave comments about how cute you are

-Claims that he’s your biggest fan

-Definitely would comment something like “She’s not like other girls.”

-Changes your contact to “My crackhead/menace <3”

-Would screenshot/screen record certain moments in the videos for memories

-Would share the fan videos to his friends and brag about how funny you are and his friends are genuinely concerned for him

-He would be really surprised

-But he was intrigued and would end up watching multiple of these fan made videos of you

-Kinda upset that he isn’t the only person who gets to witness that side of you

-Would share these videos with you and you absolutely hate him for it

-He would make memes of you with cursed screenshots from the videos and use them on you

-No words, just concerned

-Couldn’t even get into a minute of the video

-Shares the link of the video to you and goes “what’s this?” And you’re hella embarrassed. “Nothing at all haha😅”

-“Why are your fans so weird?” “Hey, don’t make fun of them, aren’t you also one of my fans?” “Oh yea..but I don’t make videos of you being a crackhead or menace.” “We talked about this before, we do not talk about those videos!!!”

[zai-doodles]

OK OK this is my last question for real this time, I say with complete confidence

I just… MAN you really sold me on platonic Nalu!!! Would you please give a poor, desperate soul (me) some of your platonic Nalu headcanons? Or even just one is fine, I know writing all of these up must be tiring lol

bestie im literally having a blast stop apologizing im kissing u so platonically ily

ONTO THE NALU HCS

i actually have a bunch of stuff written for them so imma just throw it here

Natsu is so fucking acearo its not even funny They're besties, natsu would protect lucy with his life and lucy would do the same but its platonic i swear guys- Lucy is the first NEW person natsu gets close to after lisanna, bc this boy is so tired of having ppl taken from him without his fucking say so Like idk natsu works so hard to be strong enough to protect his family and then his dad and childhood best friend disappear without a trace when he's not even around to help?? Boy thinks he's cursed I fully believe that Natsu would rarely leave gray and erza's side as kids bc he was worried he close his eyes and they'd just be gone It gets SO much worse after lisanna dies

Idk the actual age when this happens in canon but im saying he was probably like 11 and had known lis since he was like 4 Erza and gray r also really shaken by her death but the thing that really fucks with them is how it changes natsu bc if u thought these 3 were codependent before oh boy All this to say that lucy was like, an exception, and its probably why erza and gray were so quick to be like yes shes great bc they were more just excited and kinda relieved natsu made a fucking friend without them or the guild involved I think his job was taking longer than he wanted, and he was growing really frustrated and impatient with the fact he hadn't found anything abt igneel and happy was trying to cheer him up but in my mind when natsu's bummed he's bummed he meets lucy and she's just so nice But its also that shes also kinda fucking weird and natsu just latches onto that bc to him weird is normal and comfortable and it makes him bounce back and idk it goes kinda similar to how it goes in canon without natsu and happy being weirdly antagonistic and Lucy isnt as put off by how bat shit crazy natsu is bc she just finds it fun and like a breath of fresh air Like lucy grew up in such a suffocating proper environment, so when she meets natsu and his fucking crazyness shes like omg finally my life is so boring Lucy is genuinely looking for excitement and adventure so of course she goes with natsu to join fairy tail And I think it takes natsu aback how ready she is to go with him but i think in his mind because she wasn’t deterred by his “quriks” like most ppl he was immediately like new family fuck yea Bc idk that's just how his mind works bc subconsciously i think natsu knows he is difficult or weird so he's learned to latch onto the people who don't mind that abt him and that's just so happened to,, only be ppl who had to put up with him in fairy tail Not to mention a part of him probably believes it's his fault that igneel left in that kid way where u just feel like everything is ur fault oop Also also i think that lucy literally has no frame of reference for like, a normal healthy friendship, so she kinda just takes natsu's lead and oh boy is that a mistake Like after lucy joins the guild natsu is just CONSTANTLY hanging around her the way he did with erza and gray when they were kids and lucy, again having little to no sense of how friends work, just kinda lets him and gets use to it, she actually really enjoys having that sort of attention bc idk she's never really experienced having someone WANT to be around her just cuz, like the closest thing she had to friends were her servants who were literally obligated to be around her all the time and any “friends” her age she had were forced to hang out with her bc of her family I think Gray and Erza start to worry a bit that if Natsu is too overbearing he’ll end up pushing lucy away bc they're all under the assumption that lucy is a normal person with normal boundaries and a normal childhood So they pull natsu aside like hey bestie maybe don't growl at people when they look at her she might think ur mean and stop wanting to hang out with u Bc they KNOW how natsu is and they dont mind but they're also 2 traumatized orphans who don't have a normal frame of reference for how other ppl work, but unlike natsu they usually air on the side of caution It kinda eats at natsu a bit and he tries to give lucy her space especially if she gets even a little annoyed with him Lucy starts to notice but doesn't say anything bc she just figures he's probably bored with her bc she genuinely believes she's just painfully uninteresting in every way And then she gets kidnapped And natsu loses his fucking mind :D Bc for fuck sake this boy can NOT have a friend without them being taken from him High key it goes like, the same as canon bc i like how that went But the AFTERMATH Oh fucking boy Natsu literally doesn't leave her side This is where, i think, Natsu starts breaking into lucy's apartment lol Its treated as comedic but there's an underlying tension where natsu is just extremely hesitant to leave ever or even let lucy leave And that's when lucy starts to be like aight this cant continue Not in a mean way in just a, idk how to function if i can't be alone ever and it lowkey brings memories of her childhood which is also bad bc natsu isn't her keeper nor should he be And that's not what natsu is TRYING to do he's literally just so scared that if he blinks wrong shell disappear they figure it out tho bc they r friends and UGH i just wanT them to talk and cuddle platonically bc UGH I LOVE THEMMM