#this seems more like a reddit question but i dont have reddit...

[soonhoonsol]

hi... if my brother is grounded but yet doesn't come home after school or anything, what do I do?

[not-souleaterpost]

When you deleted your reddit acount because the Soul Eater reddit doesnt like your posts

Nah but for real, say what you want about tumblr, but reddit is so much more anoying - but maybe thats most social media, tried uploading videos on tiktok only to get copyright stuck the same second or just have them deleted for vague comunity guidelines shit, maybe I was too hard on youtube.

I know crying about reddit is pathetic but I dunno, just let me vent lol, idunno gotta get my shit together, too many distractions and other bullshit.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

Googled "why does water sometimes not quench my thirst" and it brought up a reddit thread of someone asking that question and being like, i am trying to drink more water but it seems like it just doesn't do it sometimes, like i need a glass of milk or a can of soda to feel better.

And the amount of comments that are just, yeah that's called being addicted to sugar. Just keep drinking water you'll get used to it.

And I'm so just??????

Like for one i think sugar addiction is a stupid concept and not a thing, but for two like. If it was someone saying "water is so boring/i dont like the taste how do i get used to it" i can see that being a sort-of valid answer, like oh you're just so used to drinking soda, you'll like it more if you just keep drinking it

But??? How does Not Helping Me Be Less Thirsty have anything to do with "sugar addiction" lmfao i hate our stupid food culture

Anyways an actual answer was that you need electrolytes/other nutrients to actually help you absorb and keep the water instead of just pissing it right back out so drinking something else can actually help you get more water in your body and thus feel & be more hydrated. They said that skim milk is actually one of the more hydrating things & i just googled it and there seem to be Some studies that agree with this so like

Yeah man it's not fucking sugar addiction sometimes when your body wants you to drink something else it's cause you should fucking drink something else

[tallymali]

(Read this with no hate, you seem like a good person and this isn't anything against you specifically)

The thing is that because you have a large following, you may have some kinda superiority complex where you think that your opinion is 100% fact and the way that 50 people will like your post just perpetuates it. I feel like you're at least smart enough to acknowledge that maybe there is some space for error in your judgement or that even though you strongly believe your own opinion of course, there is at least a percentage of a chance you may be incorrect? For example, if in a few years it becomes proven scientifically that vaccines have been causing autism or are the sole cause for some illness or disorder, would you admit to being wrong in the past? Would you stick to your original opinion? Would you just sweep it under the rug because people generally don't like to admit that they were wrong? Same goes with anything else that either the left or right believe. Like if someone believes in gay/trans rights, abortions, etc.. does that mean they also have to believe in everything else on the checklist of leftist beliefs for you to not completely disregard them? Just a thought, not accusing you of these things. It's just something I see in a lot of people.

i have a large following because i post lewds sometimes. half naked people get likes for anything, i promise im not mistaking my ass validation for intellectual validation.

to tell the truth, this is an 18+ blog. we are all adults here. you should not need a disclaimer that im not some fountain of wisdom. i am a person. a stranger. please do not ever take my word as gospel or think im stating it as fact. if your problem is that i sound too sure of myself then i cant help you. weirdly, this is something a lot of welsh people i know deal with online. i am not soft spoken, we are not a particularly soft spoken bunch. would you like me to couch everything in teeheehee idk tho lol uwu~~ so that i dont sound like i “think that my opinion is 100% fact” (a claim i never made)?

and i find it interesting that basically every time i mention the word science someone comes into my ask like this to say “but what if you’re wrong what if the science changes what thennnn?????” as some kind of gotcha. and well, thats the scientific method? it is always changing? i had BETTER be changing my mind! i have a disability that the vast majority of medical systems on the planet are dragging their feet to even acknowledge the existence of. you imply i dont know the importance of humility and adaptability in science? i live in physical pain from the lack of it.

i used to be a lot more timid about voicing my opinions and im actually very thankful ive overcome this a bit, not for validation, but for communication. most of my friends are in some kind of STEM field, and i love chatting with them and saying “hey so ive been thinking [thing relevant to your field], whats your verdict on that one?” and then i get to learn something and its really fun. maybe they tell me im completely wrong, and thats no less exciting because its not ABOUT me. its kind of the reddit theory that you get better answers when you make a wrong statement yourself, as opposed to asking an open-ended question.

i do get this on tumblr too. i love it when people reply and disagree in good faith. my mutuals have so many different kinds of experiences and professions and passions and i lovelovelove hearing from them. we have some great conversations in the DMs when i have it in me to find them in the sea of dick pics.

because of my current life conditions i dont have the ability to get back into formal education right now. and thats all i ever dream of. its the one thing i want to achieve before i kick the bucket. i try to do as much as i can to keep my brain stimulated despite the fact that some days all i can do is take codeine and stare at the wall. i really resent that i dont have the ability to approach any of this perfectly, and would never claim that i am. i guess im a little sorry for apparently not accurately representing how much of a mess of a person i know i am akdnfbjskssk

[fairybaby777]

i cannot sleep at all, my mind is just processing everything idek. i feel tired but at the same time wide awake. i also realised that nondualism seems to be the natural progression after knowledge of law of assumption. i come across law of assumption posts now and they seem so limiting to me. one post had an anon saying “we become content with never having it in the 3d and just know we have it in the 4d and then it will materialise in the 3d” like that is SUCH an ego based way to go about it, especially from a human perspective. the law is great and all but it teaches you that you are god INSIDE your humanSelf rather than outside of it. i dont know if this makes sense but all the time when i was using the loass, i would be thinking of myself as god but from this human point and it felt very limiting. like how can little old me be a god ? maybe that was my fault and i was misinterpreting the law and missing a key step but never have i felt the feeling i get from just Being and going above the ego and realising I am everything. I can’t really explain it and obviously im not fully realised yet at all but it’s starting to click more and more and I assume the more I take my attention off my humanSelf and just observe, the easier it will be to detach completely. the end goal is just to Be. im sick of desiring all the time & falling in and out of the state. i manifested a lot with the law don’t get me wrong, but it’s this constant desiring that has me trapped. if i am god why am i always desiring? it should be instant, not a process of persistance and maintaining a certain state in order to get what i want. i shouldn’t ever even desire because i am everything, and if i am everything what is there to desire ??? how can one desire what oneSelf already IS? IT DOESNT MAKES SENSE !!! anyway, it’s 1am so im going to try and sleep again and this was a random stream of consciousness but thought id share for my own sanity (: also the people on the nonduality reddit are sooo limited. i asked a question the other day and someone told me that in order to begin this process i need to stop eating meat & blah blah blah ! anyway goodnight 🫶🏼🫶🏼

[genderqueerdykes]

I was wondering if you know how to deal with the hate, especially in queer spaces. It's supposed to be, preached as, safe there, but most of the time it isn't.

I don't feel safe the community. I know that's bad and I should but I don't know how to get past it all. Honestly I barely even say I'm trans or queer at this point, hey a lot don't want me there maybe completely removing myself would be best? There was the whole "trans men shouldnt be apart of trans/queer comunities because they dont experience hate" a while back. I know it's not every space and I have just been unlucky in finding places but it feels like more and more places are agreeing with terfs now and I don't know how to handle that. I'm so scared.

Sorry if this is rambly, I've never felt okay to tell this to anyone.

you know it's a good question, considering how fractured up the online communities really are right now. the issue is that enough people have taken the rad feminist bait and begun arguing with their neighboring queers they don't understand. it's a really tough time. i actually also feel alienated from most of the community, believe it or not. i sort of stick to myself and interact with my own fan base because i'm unsure as to whether or not people think i'm whatever -phobic they're the most riled up about because of how "Extreme" my beliefs are or whatever.

it's crazy but it seems like people are literally becoming proud conservatives right now. it seems like people are super proud that they hate gender non conformity right now, and lesbians who are men, bisexual gays and lesbians, female gays, trans women, trans men... people are proud to hate queers online right now. they completely fell for the conservative rad feminist bait and they don't see it. they're doing exactly what they want. the more they fight with each other they less we can have productive conversation

i say start out small. work with a small group of people you feel comfortable with, and slowly branch out and add people as you go. it's best to not overwhelm yourself with a community that's too large. i joined a community recently that didn't let me join because i listed 2 of my identities as fag and dyke. it was an 18+ community. it was really wild to watch. people are literally regressing and becoming conservatives. but there's also open minded queers literally ever

we need to bond together more than ever now, stick together in whatever ways we can. reach out to those mutuals you like who really agree with you and vibe with your beliefs and want to make sure you're doing okay. stick with people who have similar identities and find others and the communities they frequent. if the surface level of tumblr isn't for you, which i agree can be scary, you can also try communities on reddit like r/FTM, r/MTF, etc., you can try instagram, or whatever other social networks youre on.

you can also always try to find something IRL. IRL meetups are almost guaranteed to be less hostile. i recommend looking for "pride group in my area" "gay/straight alliance in my area" "lgbt group in my area" "queer pride in my area" etc. to see if there's anything at all in your local community. colleges often have them open to the public. good luck, you're not alone in feeling exhausted and alienated. it's rough right now, but sticking together with other queers is the key. stay safe for now.

[aayakashii]

I'm going through the Sinostra chapter right now and I can't stop making theories omg there might be spoilers below so be careful, although I'm just enumerating my questions tbh lol

According to one of Taiga's home screen dialogs, there might be some sort of time loop happening which he's KINDA aware of? Or maybe just aware when triggered somehow.

He said "long time no see! You decide to ditch this future too? Sorry I'm not dead yet" which is INCREDIBLY ooc as to how he behaves during the story which leads me to

His extreme memory loss, which apparently lasts less than 24 hours. Why is that? Did he go through so many time loops that it started affecting his memory? There was one small moment in which he remembered Ritsu because he saw the MC face though...

The Clash. What the fuck was it

What's Taiga relationship to Haru? Haru sounds eerily nonchalant regarding Taiga even though the man keeps on threatening Peekaboo. And aftewards, Rui briefly mentions that Taiga has a "destroying what others hold dear" schtick, which leads me to believe that Taiga is seeking revenge for losing something important maybe???? Is the fanfic brainrot too big rn

WHY DOES HE HATE LIKE DOVES??????? I dont wanna go full romantic mode, but is he just resentful of seeing a bird that is the physical representation of someone else's feelings or something......

The spy. Honestly no idea. There's some theories floating around that Haku is the spy, but I would rather see him during the Hotarubi episode before jumping to conclusions, but it's understandable how people might think that I guess...? He IS very nice and helpful and randomly finding the MC fleeing by train was way too much of a coincidence... he does seem to always tie the MC to Darkwick somehow, firstly by KIDNAPPING her and then by talking her into staying. If the MC is the trigger to a bigger event, then one could see that as suspicious. But I would like a bit more evidence first lol

Back to Taiga, why is he. Like why

Okay no but seriously. If we take the timeloop thing seriously + Haku being a spy, here's the theory:

Taiga knows the MC is the trigger for an awful event and tried killing them back in the Prologue in order to cut the problem on its roots. Haku, if we consider him as the spy, WANTS the event to happen (considering he could also be aware of the loop), which is why he saved us and took us to Darkwick, therefore letting it all play out once again.

If Haku isn't the spy, then we would have to chalk it up as Taiga knowing and trying to kill us, but destiny (???) being a bitch, therefore putting Haku there as a pawn to make things play out again

Maybe the spy can control other ghouls? Who know tbh

Finally, what is going on during the first scene we see in the game? Darkwick on fire and the first character we choose jumping off of the building? I wonder what would happen if we choose Taiga as our first card....... maybe I should create a sub acc

Anyway if anyone has more questions/theories PLEASE SEND THEM MY WAY IM OBSESSED WITH THIS GAME I NEED TO THINK ABT IT

There is also a good theory on reddit made by u/imonlybr16 that states this:

"Before the prologue, when you open the game for the first time, you're greeted with the opening scene involving MC running through the halls of a ruined Darkwick. The question is asked "When the world is collapsing around you, whose hand will you take?"

There you're taken to your character choice screen. The guy you choose is later shown on the railing of a balcony, about to jump off.

Now I think I have a very far fetched and vague idea as to what is going on.

In chapter 2, we learn that the person that Alan killed was Dante or at least he thought he did. But we meet Dante and he's very much alive.

This comes theory number one.

***You can't actually die on campus.***

Note the use of actually here. You can 100% still die, you just end up coming back to life.

If Rui is your home screen he talks about accidentally killing someone else in his dorm and being annoyed with having to lift them back to Obscuary. This struck me as a particularly odd dialogue because Rui's curse causes people to die.

Unless, you can't die on campus.

This would explain Dante pretty much instantly. Yes Alan killed him but yes he's alive.

The campus itself is an anomaly, stopping people from dying doesn't sound too far fetched. I expect this to be revealed with the other two members of Obscuary, as that dorm seems to have a connection to death. One of the things that always pops up is that ghouls aren't immortal, no matter how quickly they heal.

Also explains how Calamari didn't die in chapter 3. Ren ran from the dorm > the caves > the jetty and Calamari was already pretty dehydrated in the beginning.

But OP you might say, aren't all the guys talking like they believe they're going to die.

Luckily, that brings us to vauge and far fetched theory number two.

***The campus is on fire due to a rebellion***

In the very last chapter of the prologue we get to see Kaito's wickhive. There we see three pretty interesting threads.

. There's gonna be an uprising soon

. One of you is a demon

. There's a guy who could see the future

Kaito is surprised at something he sees in this scene but we don't learn what it is. This chapter's 'preview' is one of the scenes we see in the very beginning. Blood and a Lily.

I believe that the first thread is foreshadowing and will . After you meet your chosen guy standing on the railing you get a line of dialogue (or not if you picked Towa) that changes depending on who you picked. Some imply that what they're doing is going to save you(Jiro, Zenji and Sho), some apologize stating that they could protect what they cared about until the very end (Luca,Kaito,Haru and Yuri) but three characters caught my attention

Leo: Life sucks and then you die,right? I just want to make the assholes responsible regret it.

Ren: This is exactly why I didn't to do this! I knew this was how it was going to end.

Subaru: This is all my fault. I don't expect you to forgive me, but this is the least I can do. Please take this as my final act of good faith.

Especially Subaru's and Ren's, that seemingly imply either the MC's (Ren's) or their (Subaru) involvement in the current situation. Now what does this has to do with a potential uprising?

One of the things we learn from the very beginning is the inter-politics of the houses and by extension the ghouls. Especially after the fallout of the clash. Things are pretty tense and an uprising or rebellion seems to be the most likely thing.

As to what happened and why? I have no clue. Though one thing to note is that according to the prophecy, as long as the ghouls are in Darkwick, they prevent a disaster from coming. If Darkwick is destroyed however, the prophecy can't be fulfilled, or can it?"

This is such a good theory too, I really think u/imonlybr16 has probably gotten a lot of things right.

Although it's weird that death is such a big threat to us specifically, but maybe the Academy can't prevent death by curses, much like the Mesmer Matches dont work on someone who's cursed. Hhmm...

[lesbianalanwake]

Yelllllloooooo! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on Alan and like, why he murdered Logan and how did he change Saga life so much? I dont think they're was any explanation given and is drivingme BATTY. If you have any xtra time or thoughts idk I would like to hear your thoughts on Alan and bad traits, Inspired by that remedy poll on whether or not he's a villain, because the topicof evil comes up around him. dokay tyvm 😊

some other asks below the cut too:

in my completely correct opinion (which is fact), you can't view anything in the second game as some kind of objective indicator of morality or good/evil or whatever.

man's not in his right mind at all. memory loss alone is a beast, but this guy is dying repeatedly inasmuch as anyone can die there, and huffing Darkness fumes because there's no way to escape the Darkness fumes, and is begging for death. this guy hasn't slept in 13+ years. I can't even imagine the supercharged brain damage you'd get from All Of That. the fact that he maintains any sanity or kindness at all is astonishing.

if the intent was to declare some kind of objective morality, I'll fight everyone at Remedy over it. I'll fight anyone. fight my neighbor. fight your dog. fight myself. I'm kinda getting sick of the psuedo-retconning shit (or what I hear of it.... this is why I avoid official accounts most of the time). seems more like catering to annoying people on Reddit, honestly, the kind of fans who have a juvenile need for black-and-white morality and someone to blame, and who focus on that instead of asking the important questions (such as, "if someone in the Dark Place took Xanax, what would happen, like, metaphysically?")

when Alan has been out of the Dark Place long enough to start grasping what's happened in the second game, his response is to push past every bit of survival instinct and walk right back into his torture hell nightmare to try to fix it. that tells you everything you need to know.

the first game is a more fair metric to evaluate Alan, going by things that are actually depicted (no matter how much anyone may or may not want to retcon). the commonly cited things:

- the fight with Alice: Alan was 100% CORRECT to get upset about Alice lying to him - trying to trick your partner into therapy by using a vacation as pretext is a wild thing to do, regardless of how much they've been struggling. Alan doesn't handle it with grace, but neither does he extremely over-react or do anything except get huffy and storm out, and is already regretting it approximately 1 minute later. many people would probably react similarly, because many people aren't the picture of perfect emotional regulation. I've said this before, but if the Dark Presence hadn't attacked then, Alan would have absolutely gone back and agreed to see Hartman out of guilt over storming off, and it would have been a similar shitshow in the end.

- maybe the worst thing Alan does when in his right mind, relative to information he has, is punch Hartman (who deserved it, but he didn't know that at the time) - and even then he was concussed, sleep deprived, and had already had his brain supernaturally hijacked for a week or so, give or take the nature of time in the Dark Place. and like maybe shutting the door on Hartman when the Dark Presence attacked was fucked up, but that was after Hartman had kidnapped him, drugged him, and as far as Alan knew wasted valuable time in a way that could have put Alice's life at risk. I might've shut the door on Hartman too LOL. I don't think Hartman deserved what happened to him (no one does), but also, he fucked around and found out.

- punching a paparazzi. morally correct and justified

- at times partying too much and having a drinking problem. millions of people in the U.S. also have this problem lol

- otherwise, Alan is at most mildly rude and grumpy, and half the time it's just when he's complaining to Barry after the fact. he doesn't go out of his way to be cruel to people (except Hartman LMAO); he's just uncomfortable with attention in a lot of social interactions and is often blunt. like, that's it. he's not especially mean to Rose or Pat to their faces even when they're getting up in his business, he's (rightfully) wary of Sarah because she's a cop (would opening up to her sooner have helped? sure, but Alan had no way of knowing that), he gets snippy with Barry sometimes but it's also clearly a back-and-forth they've had since childhood.

anyway, final verdict - this is how I feel about Alan sending Hartman to the shadow realm:

yeah, that would disappoint me too. (sorry it's been a minute, things have been. rough) I really think it's just catering to those aforementioned annoying fans, but I miss pre-social media days when I didn't have to hear from any creators :/

it's also been a hot minute since I played the game, so I don't remember it clearly, but I could see a scenario where Alan claims it as "his own" in order to make the Dark Presence more vulnerable/killable (and I've written/implied stuff like that myself, lol). the problem is that it's ambiguous, and the powers that be have some weird shifting attitudes about the story, so it just ends up being almost too ambiguous and thus kind of irritating and victim-blaming writing overall in that context. Eternal Deerfest being something Alan wants makes literally zero sense with the first game and the 13+ years he's spent being tormented by his own writing, so if they wanna try to tell me that it's some kind of official characterization, I'm officially saying "[LOUD BUZZER NOISE] that is incorrect (:"

I think the writing is just inconsistent overall - like it reflects the "truth" about some people at some times but not at others. the AWAN explanation that Scratch exists because the Dark Place molded itself to rumors about Alan was perfectly fine and interesting in its own right because you don't often see "evil doppelgangers" that are anything other than the idea of a "dark side," and it kept the Dark Presence as an entity with its own agenda. (and I like the idea of Alan and the DP bleeding into each other in strange ways as a consequence of that entanglement and their bitter struggle against each other, but not if anyone's going twist it around to say that what Alan secretly wants is.... egotistical success and attention? something he already had and came to HATE? that he could have just gotten out of the Dark Place easy peasy if he tried harder or was a "better" person? like.... what)

the problem with Saga being emotionally and psychologically healthy is that it's just dull compared to the rest of the narrative, which is not about being psychologically healthy. it flattens her into a character with limited dimension and easy resolutions, and that sucks because she's supposed to be the co-protagonist. getting out of the Dark Place easy peasy does not make for a compelling turn without something that is emotionally much stronger to back it up. you could spin a very interesting tale out of Saga being able to do that because she's a Door, and any complex feelings she might have about that.... but that doesn't get delved into. sigh

[jimmithy-tiastopher]

HEY MAN YOUR ART IS SO AWESOME SAUCE ‼️‼️i keep wondering though. how the HELL you post so often😭😭 do you ever get artblock or anything like rhat??? id love to make more animatons but i get very demotivated💔 i must know your ways

also another random question just to keep the yapping going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do you have a least favorite msi album/song⁉️

THANKYOU!!!! but tbh i dont rly know how i post so often but recently ive been doing quite a few things which i think have been helping me to remain motivated enough to draw stuff ^_^

1. tumblr......

might seem a lil redundant since were on tumblr but LIKE LISTEN

i follow a SHIT TON of rly cool artists and seeing their cool art makes me wanna go make cool art so i go on and make mediocre art :3, having such easy access to art is very motivating to me in a way because i can easily find inspo ^.^

personally, tumblr doesn't have the same kinda doomscrolling effect to me apps like pinterest (that app sucks ESPECIALLY FUCK PINTEREST), tiktok, youtube shorts and reddit do. i dont rly know how to explain it but the way tumblr is set up, it makes it less easy for me to get distracted and lose time looking at memes or whatever

2. fucking delete pinterest, tiktok etc

ive actually done this multiple times for quite some time. like i mentioned, apps like this have such a doomscrolling effect on me, and they distract me rly bad. and the thing is, the apps are pretty good, but as a creative who's job is just to create shit, getting easily distracted by apps like these is not that good!!! deleting the apps has made it easier for me to just get on with my work ^_^

3. sketchbook spreads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is kinda a 2 in 1 but like drawing on plain paper is so fun and actually filling up a sketchbook spread is SO fulfilling. and that fulfillment makes me feel more happy and like i wanna draw more :3

recently i got a bulky sketchbook (which i recently made a lil sketchbook tour for! very silly!!) and instead of only filling in one page every spread, ive just started to fill up the whole spread, and it always makes me happy however this leads me to my other point

4. TAKE YO GOSH DARN TIME 😾

those sketchbook spreads take me a while!!! usually around 2-3 days in total, sometimes i could get it finished in a day but that'd be more like if i was drawing the entire day straight and i dont have the time for allat!!! (because i basically only draw in my sketchbooks in school)

but the thing is....thats good!!!! taking your time is a lot better than drawing too fast. drawing fast does NOT equal good art, and even if you do make good art after drawing it fast it does not mean its good just because you drew it fast!!

lemme tell u, i had a sketchbook and it took me 11 days to fill it entirely, and the thing is ; i do not remember SHIT from it, maybe one or two drawings if i think hard enough??? but otherwise it was basically a throwaway sketchbook, but now with my current sketchbook where its taken many days for me to draw everything, i can remember many of the drawings and i can remember the fun i had making them!!!

taking your time is way more fun than speeding through everything!! personally, it makes me feel less constricted and more motivated because i know i can basically do whatever i want and take however much time i want or need!

5. just have fun ^_^

art should not be a burden!!!!!!!! art should be fun and creative! the way ive been having fun with it is

- not worrying much about what others will think of it ; yeah, ill draw chuuya with s/h marks, yeah i'll draw chuuya and dazai as trans lovers, yeah ill make an au of chuuya where he kills everyone in the Port Mafia!!! is this in anyway canonical or in character? MOST LIKELY NOT!!! are some people gonna be annoyed by that? MOST LIKELY!!!!! but who the fuck CARES!!!!!! i shall continue drawing it :33 because it makes me happy and is fun to make!!!

- taking my time, obviously, ive already explained this so ill not repeat it ^_^

- doodling whatever, stuff does not need to be fully finished or completed and it does not have to be super detailed and complicated, so yes!! i shall draw stupid lil chibis in a majority of my sketchbook pages!!! and yes!!! i shall draw multiple checker patterns in places where i dunno what to draw!!!!

- gluing in random shit in my sketchbooks!! so fucking fun! i stole a gluesitck from my science class and i stole some cardboard from art class and MAGIC IS HAPPENING..... ive stuck in multiple things, such as stickers, cardboard, pokemon cards and ETC!!!! PUT IN WJATEVER IN THERE😼WHO FUCKING CARES STICK IN A DAMN PARACETAMOL PACKAGE IN THERE/HJ

also you'd be SURPRISED with how much UNFINISHED STUFF i have bro!!! ive made an entire kinda series on youtube where i jst share all my unfinished stuff dude!!!!! heck i have MULTIPLE unfinsihed/forever wip things in my alight motion projects right now LOL

also as for least favorite msi album or song??!!!!!!

for album i'd have to say <3 IMSO SORRY\

that album has had PEAK songs, like written in cold blood and uncle, but songs like greatest love of all, my world and prove me wrong...... if i had to pick my top ten msi songs, those would not make it into top 30 even💔💔

but for just song in general, if it has to be just SPECIFICALLY mindless self indulgence, then maybe device from pink, underrated song but lowkey i do not wanna sit through a minute of jimmy struggling to record his fucking sonh vro💔ido not care that much, plus its a lil corny lowkey💔 "this here, this is my device, i use this to try to fuck my life...." shut up emo

but if it could be a jimmy song too gosh dude I'd probably say a few of the songs from EURINGER, PEAK ALBUM but dude some songs just not it💔 like internal organs, idk if that even counts as a song but VRO "jimmy...//why are you crying........?" SHUTTHEUFCKLUP💔💔💔😓😓theres like 2 others but i don't remember their names 😓

ANYWAYS LOVE YOU GOODBYE

[bibibbon]

I don't know what I felt about Bakugo, like I see that I don't really hate him, I just find him annoying at times, there are times when I agree that there are times when the hate he receives is a bit exaggerated, like when you relate him to Endeavor, like you're relating him to someone who committed human trafficking. Like I think he has potential, but first he should face the consequences and then maybe he could start to improve as a person. I even like to see him being a good friend to Izuku, but I don't know. What do you think about the hate that Bakugou receives from a part of the fandom?

I can see where you're coming from, but honestly, it doesn't seem harsh to me to compare bakugo and enji depending on the circumstances.

Yes, bakugo and enji share characteristics. Whether those are good or bad is up to the reader to interpert.

I say this because when Canon points out the similarities between enji and bakugo, it paints it out as a good thing, so having people twist it around and interpret it in a different manner makes complete sense to me (as I have done it before).

However, I personally haven't said that bakugo did do the same things as enji or is just as bad as enji. I also haven't seen multiple posts say that as well. Most of the posts that talk about bakugo and enji point out the fact that if bakugo continues down the path he is going, he will end up like enji desperate to win and ultimately throw his life away.

I make my opinion clear on one of my other posts, and the asker themselves also acknowledges that it's people LIKE bakugo and enji that are shown to create abusive and rather fuel societies corruptions (in the end they are alone effected by it)

Yes, in the end, bakugo hasn't reached enji's level, and he has the chance to have a proper redemption arc, but Canon never gives him that. He has potential, yet it's never achieved.

The bakugo and enji comparisons are in a way crucial to bakugo's character to truly paint him as who he is, and then having bakugo and enji become contrasts would ultimately show bakugo's change, breaking the cycle and trying to become a better person. I think ignoring and trying not to point out these parallels within the series does more harm than good (as shown in Canon).

We share similar views when it comes to bakugo. I think that if he was written well and actually got proper consequences, he could have gone down a slow but steady road of redemption where he changes and becomes a better version of himself. I have talked about the wasted potential of bakugo 👇 and I still stand by these ideas. I just don't like the execution of his redemption arc in Canon at all

To answer your question, tumblr is literally the only site I actually see bakugo hate and criticism, which, to me, says a lot. Bakugo hate isn't something huge in other platforms such as Twitter, reddit, or tiktok maybe it is but honestly iam not exposed to bakugo hate it's mostly bakugo die hard stans I see which can get annoying sometimes as they deny certain things their favourite character has done.

While it is few, I have seen times in tumblr where I think the bakugo hate just got petty. This is usually when you have people misspell bakugo's name as "bakuhoe" or some other cringey variation, which ruins the point that the person had to say about bakugo. I think that wishing the character would die can also be a bit extreme (yet bakugo isn't a living, breathing human, so i dont find myself caring about such hate)

In the end, it is a vocal minority specifically seen here on tumblr that hates bakugo or actively points out his flaws, which is a shame because I think he is quite overrated and just has wasted potential.

[xenasaur]

Hi puppies. Please dont answer this if its a bad question or something. Im a recent reddit mover too and I'm pretty ignorant about stuff.

Your profile getting nuked absolutely sucks. But what confuses me is, as far as I know, nudity is banned on tumblr...? (Which is fucking stupid btw) So like, how will you be able to appeal that they set your profile to mature? Am I missing something? Cause you post cool nudes and stuff so I'd expect that they would nuke it. My only theory is that they're targeting queer profiles specifically?? I care about you and I guess I just wanna know more about what's going on.

Stay strong lovelies. *head pats and kisses*

they do allow *some* nudity these days. unless we're gravely misremembering it's okay to show tits now. they'll put a community label on it but they won't blur your account. our account seems to have been blurred by an autoflag, which is insanely frustrating. here's hoping they don't take forever to respond to our support ticket lol

[maleyanderecafe]

Opinions on Yandere cheaters?

I saw a discussion on reddit about this trope, and I immidiatly went straight to your blog lolol. I dont know if you already have this question answered or if you ban this type of question but I am a bit curious! What specific scenerios would make a yan cheat? If they were somewhat redeemable, what actions would they do to be redeemable?

Straight to my blog? i'm honored, haha. I wouldn't ban a question like that because I generally am pretty open about how yandere can be like and it's always very cool when you think about what kind of things that yanderes can expand into that might be unconventional.

I can see why people don't really like the concept of yandere cheaters. One of the biggest appeals of yanderes is their undying loyalty and persistence, so having a yandere do something completely opposite to that basically turns people off from them. The joke is always, I can accept murder, confinement, amputation and obsession but I draw the line at cheating in the yandere community. Some people will not accept a character as a yandere if they cheat.

However, I personally do think there are some ways that yanderes can cheat and still become a yandere.

One way is to use it as a manipulation tactic. Even if the two are actually married or otherwise together, I can see a yandere cheating with someone else as a way to get them to react a certain way or to pay attention to them more. An example off the top of my head is from the machine translated mobile game Yandere Boyfriend Leo, where while Leo is in love with the main character, ends up dating her friend Grace as a way to get her jealous and eventually to give her so much stress that she loses her memory. I feel like a yandere can do this as a way to get their lover to do something, whether again, it is something relating to them getting attention, or simply a plan to get them to be confined for instance. The main thing is generally that the yandere is basically using them and has no interest in actually being together with them, since they only have eyes for their love. You can also see this in the Lifetime movie, Hush Little Baby, where the yandere, Owen, sleeps with another girl despite being in love with the main character Lauren as a way to make it seem like her husband is cheating and sew chaos in the family. Yes, it's a pretty awful way to get with their love interest, but I think people forget that yanderes are kind of supposed to be awful people a lot of times, and you liking them or disliking them doesn't always disqualify them from being a yandere.

Another way is basically their perception of love and sex and how that's handled. For a lot of people, having sex with another person while in a relationship is considered cheating, but it can differ from person to person. For instance, Kirishima from Raise wa tanin ga ii is kind of an example of this because while he does exhibit a lot of yandere actions like obsessiveness, tracking Yoshino on his phone, stalking her etc, he does spend a lot of beginning simply just sleeping with other women, despite the fact that he confesses his love towards her. This is one of the things that put a lot of people off of him because while the two of them are not dating or engaged, we generally don't see yanderes as someone who will sleep with others when they have someone that they're obsessed with. Still, we do see that Kirishima views sex and love pretty differently, as he mostly uses it for pleasure and doesn't have any romantic interest with any of the other girls he sleeps with, even talking to them about how much he loves and adores Yoshino after sleeping with them. I'm not the best analysist on this topic since I am kind of behind on the manga, but this reddit post does a pretty good job of explaining it.

Similar to above, sometimes the situation or time they are in forces them to be with someone else instead of the person they love. This is more of "this is for the sake of someone I love or care about " and less of the fact that they want to have more than one person by their side. One example of this is Dekiai Yakuza ni wa Amayakasarenai!, a manga about a body guard who is obsessed with the person that he's protecting. Despite this, we do see in the manga that he does sleep with another woman, though we also see that he does so reluctantly. This can be considered "cheating" in a sense like I stated before, but considering he's likely doing this for the sake of the person he loves, and doesn't enjoy it at all in the slightest. There is also The Little Princess and Her Monster Prince, specifically in the backstory of their reincarnation with Liontel and Phillip. Phillip was originally engaged to another girl named Ser but used her power so that he could be the emperor. He ends up not only causing Ser's husband to die, but also cages her and keep her locked up for the sake of protecting her. To maintain the idea that she's dead and to keep his status, he does actually marry another woman and had a child with her, but ultimately does so out of obligation as the king, as well as the fact that he very clearly doesn't love her. In these cases, the yandere is more or less forced into consequences where they don't really have control over what they want, and thus have to either sleep with or be married to someone else despite having someone that they love. This is another way I feel like a yandere can technically cheat without actually losing their status as a yandere. In a similar vein, if the yandere believes they can never be with their lover, they might try to get with others, but only has their lover at heart. Kylar for instance from DOL is considered a yandere, but based on the players actions, can sleep around and even date other players. This doesn't necessarily disqualify Kylar as a yandere, but rather the circumstances of the game (aka, not allowing murder) don't allow him to go all out, probably to make sure the player themselves is not locked in a choice when it comes to this kind of game.

I think that certain developments that lead to a yandere becoming a yandere can also be something that's explored. The easiest one of course is that they originally were cheating with other people but slowly develops feelings and obsessions for one person and gives up on his life of being a player, or even just using it more as a way to try to forget, or even maintain status, but their heart is always with the person that they love. There is also the fact that the yandere can be the one that the lover is cheating on with, like in Casual Flowers, if for some reason they can't get rid of their spouse or lover, sometimes that's the only way they can experience being with the other person. If they were possibly a redeemed yandere, where they go from yandere back to another person, they might end up with someone else entirely.

Personally, I think that it would be really funny if the yandere lost the person they loved and then forcibly projected them onto another person. Then they realized that their original love was actually alive. That would be both really funny and a hilarious situation with the yandere. If they're really delusional, they might not even recognize their original love or they could just abandon the other person that they loved instead.

It also depends on what you consider cheating. Are threesomes considered cheating? Is it cheating if their love is split into a bunch of different people and the person has to gather them all? Is it cheating if the yandere is immortal and keeps losing his memory so he keeps falling in love with different people? Is having a reverse harem considered cheating?

I'm sure there are other ways to have a yandere cheater in the story, but I can't really think of them. I'm not sure if you would consider this cheating since in most of these scenarios, the yandere and the lover aren't actually dating, so they still can be more fluid with their actions. Still, I think its a very fun thing to consider when writing yanderes.

[demonslayerunhinged]

Reddit shame list

Here's a list of stupid homophobic comments from r/KimetsuNoYaiba in response to OP's question about queer characters. Some of these comments come from the subreddit mods themselves. If you're part of the subreddit I'm sure you would recognize some of these comments.

tw: homophobia

I don't have such speculations :3

I couldn't care less, i just want a good story and good characters. People ruin good ideas by forcing certain things, they care more about representation than creating a GOOD character or a good story.

Lgbt characters are at their best when they DONT tell you they are lgbt characters, they are just good characters that happen to be lgbt, this is something that a lot of people are unable to understand.

It it set in early 1900's Japan, where being gay/lesbian/pan/bi was not accepted⚡

LGBT was very rare back then.⚡

And in general I much prefer no representation in fiction than poor/terrible representation for the sake of including representation.

I don't care about it at all tbh 💜

Demon slayer is set in early 1900 so back at that time it was very odd

Doesn't really bother me, especially given the time period and location it makes sense to not have different races or lgbtq+ characters.

It’s- set in the 1900’s Japan. Also Suma is Bi and Douma is hinted to be so as well but regardless, it doesn’t matter. They don’t HAVE to put characters like that in there🐍

True if they didn’t the series would just be shit on by overly woke people on twitter

It’s set in Japan…… where the Japanese are, and it’s 1900’s Japan. Where I imagine it wasn’t to fondly looked upon. Tbh it doesn’t bother me

introducing any romantic subplot by forcing lgbt relations ruins the story and is historically inaccurate for the sake of appealing to trash. theyre in a pretty secluded part of japan in the 1900s, you will not find the french

ah yes, im homophobic for being against shitty nonsensical romantic subplots which would ruin the entire story after being shoehorned in literally everything disagreeing with yalls asses are homophobic/transphobic/phobic/phophobic or whatever.

I don’t give a fuck about what labels a character a has. It’s who they are as a character that actually matters. 🦋

i dont ever really care about that sort of stuff. i only care when it seems forced

Don't think this is a series where exploring one's sexualities is a thing that the story is set up to do.

It's set in the early 90's and lgbtq came around 1990 so..well , yeah you get it

I don't really care 🦋

This is from a subreddit that has a semi-sexualized picture of Nezuko as their main picture. The members including the mods sexualize the female and male characters on the daily but when someone makes a post about the possibility of queer characters and ships in Demon Slayer suddenly it's 'too much'.

The hypocrisy is really hypocrisying.

[bangtannism]

Tkkers are the biggest jkkers there have ever been. They're the very embodiment of yelling "I'm not mad" while punching a hole in the wall. If their moments don't mean anything, why are you so mad? But they know that km's moments are significant which is why they desperately play down their relationship, call it fanservice, foist jm off onto other members (liking shipping ymn), anything to make it not real, because they know as well as we do, that if what km do is real and not scripted fanservice, then it blows apart their romeo&juliet fanfiction. For example, if its all real, then jk was drunk spinning jm and jm gave his best friend's "boyfriend" a hickey, and how would that make sense when tae and jm are still so close and loving on each other? If its real, then jk chose to spend the next 2 years with his "boyfreind's" best friend and not him, and how does that make sense?

The problem with tkkers is that they have built this perfectly insulated little belief system where they believe not in what they see, but in what they don't see, which is a nebulous relationship that supposedly exists only in private (I mean they literally brand tk the private couple). They don't even have to be based in reality or think critically because they've come up with convenient explanations for everything. If tk say something that goes against the tkker narrative, well that was the company forcing them. If they say or do something that supports it, well that was them being bold and fighting back. If interactions with another member don't threaten their ship, then that's fine and cute. If it does, well then that's just fanservice pushed by the company. They decide what is the "truth" based on if it already supports what they believe. I firmly believe there would be almost no tkkers today if they didn't stumble upon tkker accounts and become indoctrinated with the ideology because just watching content, seeing their actions, and listening to the boys talk (and believing them) would never lead you to thinking tk are romantically involved.

If its any consolation though, I do think way more army (not just km shippers) do acknowledge km's relationship being unique or sus at times, they just don't say it as much on tkker dominated spaces like twitter, where even using their duo name gets you branded a shipper and makes them mad. Like here on tubmlr, I've only checked the tk tag a handful of times out of curiosity, but the km posts and blogs seem to get waaay more engagement. Or even on reddit, I've see users make comments "like I hate shippers and I would never actually claim they're together, but km do make me questions sometimes LOL" while tkkers coming in hot with their crazy bullshit get shot down immediately there. Also this is anecdotal, but I wasn't involved in the fandom for a long period because of personal stuff (I still kept up with the member's solo projects though), and I was surprised at how much engagement km fan twt accounts get now or just how many big ones there are. At least from my memory a couple years ago, I don't remember km accounts (not just "shipping" stuff, but also accounts for km moments, etc.) getting as many likes and followers as they seem to have now, so I do wonder if the tides are turning (would make sense given recent events, rumors, etc. for tkkers to lessen imo).

They decide what is the "truth" based on if it already supports what they believe.

that's really the entire crux of the problem, nonny. instead of regularly examining their own beliefs and assumptions based on information as it comes out, they simply figure out how they can fit the information into the belief. the ways they come to their conclusions are filled with so many fallacies that it's usually not even worth addressing because if someone is willing to twist themselves into that many knots over their beliefs then theyre not actually going to listen to logic.

and dont get me wrong, shippers of all kinds do this, but i have never seen it with such frequency and aggression as the tkk crowd. once i saw someone on tiktok claim that jk only ever mentions th on his lives. when they were told that jk does indeed talk about other members on live (they'd know if they watched og content instead of just socmed clips), the person actually refused to believe it. that's not only absurd, but it brings me to my whole conclusion about why tkkrs constantly write off and redefine moments from other pairings (and obviously especially jikook):

if tkkrs took in all the information without trying to fit it into a pre-established narrative, their ship would fall apart. even if we assume that every other pairing in bts is platonic only, tkk does not hold up. the things they do for each other, say about each other, the things others say about them, the amount of time they spend together and activities they do, the way they touch and cuddle and joke, none of it truly stands apart from the rest of their friendships. especially when we take vmn and jikook into consideration. so the only way to make romantic tkk make sense is by simply ignoring or rewriting reality.

they have to imagine that jk only cooks for th, only sings for th, only spends free time with th, only does this that and the other thing for th because if they acknowledge that jk doesn't do these things for th exclusively, what do they have? (also it's really fucking weird that their entire ship seems to hang in the balance on what jk does – they really are so threatened with how jk behaves with jm that they're constantly trying to redirect that attention from jk to th.)

as a jikooker, i am sure you have heard so many of us talk about exclusivity and consistency, and tkk just does not have that. 🤷‍♂️ i enjoy seeing tkk together and i enjoy their friendship but at the end of the day, that's all you can glean from their interactions unless you start making stuff up.

as for engagement from army in general on jikook, i do think that a lot of the time the lack of it comes from fear because fandom culture as a whole has become so volatile towards rps. but why is it that jikook comments are automatically seen as more shippy than ones about other pairings? that's what doesnt make sense unless everyone else is seeing what we're seeing. talking about the "sus" stuff between jikook forces people to acknowledge that it is actually sus and that makes them uncomfortable because nobody wants to be branded a shipper in our current fandom climate.

but yes, imo there has been a turn in tides for jikook within the fandom. i talked about it before that jikook began gaining popularity quickly in 2017 which was then solidified with gcft. i think that the 'jikook wave' so to speak probably won't ebb unless we actually see a shift in their dynamics or they start dating other people. i am really curious to see the state of the fandom and jikookers after military service tbh.

[virginiaisforvampires]

I've seen the long face is not canon comment a few times and I know that allegedly comes from the Daniel Hart interview. But I'm pretty sure thats just a missread or a missunderstanding on how music for film and tv works. (Sorry I really dont want to be like no actually you got it all wrong, but film is weird and I think we are so used to working with people who know the industry that we forget a lot of things are not common knowledge)

Whenever music is needed before filming writers will tell the composer some version of we need a song for this scene, this character, this theme, this mood. And hive them whatever they have at the time which can be a full script but also can be just a loose breakdown of what happens here. By then all the more technical discusions on things like genre, style, instruments, vocal range would have happened already. So composer will take all that and compose something, if song needs lyrics they might write a placeholder mostly to figure out jeys and how the melody works with voice included. And turn that back to the writer. Who in turn can fully approve, ask for changes, replace the lyrics or reject. And they will go back and forth until they have the right thing. It has a lot to do with allowing a collaboration without any side overstepping or limiting anyone.

What was said in that interview is basically that. Rolin asked Daniel for a song, he told him what was it for, and we know Daniel knows Sam's voice and skills and he and Rolin have extensively discussed rockstar lestat. So the brief probably was we need a single for Sam, it has to be this long, we need to record by this date, its for a promo so it doesn't need to fit a scene and you have freedom with the lyrics, it has to be a dig at Louis, you know the music inspirations. And we know from the reddit ama that the give me some face line is indeed a callback to S1, and that Rolin trusts Daniel blindly. So probably Daniel just did his thing and Rolin only gace him the note of please switch one line to be this refference. Its a pretty standard process and the song will more likely than not be in S3 (and hopefully the lestat album).

That's not what Daniel said though.

He literally said there were hardly any notes or comments from Rolin other than to write something catchy for a TVL teaser and make sure you (Daniel) know what the lyrics mean, because Sam (not Rolin!) will ask.

It was clear Daniel was meaning it was done on the fly with no alleged forethought or extensive "meaning" within the show universe which, like I said, contradicts Daniel's earlier comments.

But having said that, I wish you were correct, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I expected the teaser to have been substantially planned. I expected Long Face to have some sort of in-show representation. There were a lot of details and hints in that teaser?!?!

Like I said though, it was apparently rushed with Daniel left to his own creativity for the lyrics with the only stipulation being he needed to be able to explain the lyrics to Sam. That just.....does not sound like there was any intention or thought (or care tbh) behind any of it. It sounds more like annoyance at AMC for having to do the teaser in the first place and annoyance at Sam for asking questions, which thank goodness Sam gets it and does ask those questions to draw attention to nonsense. And don't forget, Sam had input on Lestat's wardrobe for the teaser, which was confirmed on IG by the stylist — Jessica Ford. It wasn't something thoroughly planned out. They literally just let Sam pick what he thought Lestat would wear as a rockstar to contrast Lestat's dreary appearance at the end of S2 and of course, Sam nailed it because he knows Lestat.

I love Long Face. It's fun, and I thought they'd hit it out of the park, but apparently that's all there is to it — a fun teaser which may or may not have anything to do with how they construct Lestat's dynamic with Louis in S3 which, if we're being perfectly honest, never exactly resonated in that specific respect, because that's not how their relationship exists from TVL onward, and it seems to go along with Daniel's subsequent comments in that interview about Lestat's character, which is yet another misread on him by someone involved with the show.

There's also the fact my take on this is also based on the other questionable things that have been said and done by Rolin and Co. — Rolin's agency comments, Levan's comments about TVL, Hannah's take on 1x05 and TOTBT, Sam confirming he added certain lines (namely "I didn't want this" in 1x06) when he knew they couldn't be cut, Sam's admitted 45 minute phone calls with Rolin and Hannah, Sam's issues with 1x05 and wanting trigger warnings but getting ignored, and now Daniel's careless comments on Long Face and backtracking his initial stance by saying the lyrics were quickly written within a few weeks and hold no pre-planned significance.

I guess we'll see in S3. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[namgyunation]

Anon from before - haha you're welcome for more excuses to type. Thank you for respondinga! I honestly thought the same as you, but so many people on ig threads and reddit ones have been arguing this specific thing with me like "he was high so he must have thought it was min-su not nam-gyu". And fair enough about being high given what happened to gyeong-su, but the reason I don't buy that -apart from the fact that Him ditching nam-gyu after he was initially hesitant to give him pills he thought would hurt him doesn't make sense to me - is the way nam-gyu then very insincerely says "I told him you'd survive" like bruh did no such thing 💀 which sort of sets that up as a lie. then we have the "I'm sorry boyyyy! open the dooorrrr!" thing which again, insincere af before he's like I'M SO FUCKIN' ANGRY MAN111!!

And yeah I dont know if you watched the show in English/another language or in Korean with the subtitles but in the Korean version my subtitles said "thanks to you I bonded with nam-su here" when he's telling off mg coin in the beginning. Which seemed like a very genuine statement when he said because he didn't need to say it for any reason at that point, nam-gyu was already supporting him, he wasn't scared of him like min-su etc.

(adding onto this post with the other ask you sent me) +

Same anon also omg that photoset you reblogged where rjw says thanos looked down on him, yeah I think thanos sort of does that with everyone but the thing is, the others didn't care? Se-mi didnt care, gyeong-su is starstruck and not eeally noticing, min-su is scared. But nam-gyu cares. nam gyu's resentment combined with how he wants thanos to respect him and see him as his equal etc lowkey reminds me of like when you're seeing a guy and you want more/have feelings but they don't/are a fuckboy, is what I compared it to (a situation both me and a friend of mine who also saw it, have been in). I could honestly see that applying both for platonic (like gretchen and Regina in mean girls?) Or for more (he really did give the vibe that he was into thanos as more than a friend to me) but tldr; YES that is exactly how I interpreted them and I'm sorry I'm spamming you I'm just excited to find 1 other person outside of my friends group that has the same takes as me.

oh really?? i'm surprised ppl are fr arguing about that. i might be biased but idk. i thought it was pretty clear he was joking. he was already picking nam-gyu without a second thought throughout the whole game. it was never a question to thanos if nam-gyu was going to be paired up with him in all the previous rounds. it was always thanos and nam-gyu going, "ok, who's coming with us?" like when they made min-su and se-mi rock paper scissors to determine who they'd take. they didn't have to ask each other if they were going to be together!

i mean, it's fair to say that since he was high, the possibility of him fr thinking he was with min-su could be there. but ehhhh idk. min-su went along with what thanos said out of fear and because he had no idea how to say no or stand up for himself, while nam-gyu enthusiastically followed him around and backed him up on everything, stroking his ego perfectly lol. min-su barely actually talks or makes the effort to talk with thanos (or nam-gyu). for someone who thinks so highly of himself, i feel like the choice for which of them to "save" and maintain the strongest alliance with would be clear for thanos, even when under the influence. also i saw someone comment this, but i think it’s funny to imagine that thanos also favored nam-gyu over min-su in that moment because nam-gyu returned his weird ass head shake thing LMAO

and yeah the whole 'bullying min-su in the bathroom' scene. no hesitation from thanos to try and intimidate min-su and shove him back on the toilet, all the exaggerated sweetness from earlier gone. and then ofc nam-gyu's pathetic ass is there again to back him up like thanos knew he would LOL

thanos knew that choosing nam-gyu over min-su would be more beneficial to him because of the fact that he happily follows whatever thanos wants, while min-su's growing increasingly rattled and is obviously taking more and more convincing to keep voting the way he wants him to.

and yes i watched it in kr! i agree with what you said. because of how thanos's personality is, i wouldn't be surprised if he played it up a bit / exaggerated how deeply he and nam-gyu "bonded" especially with how he added "because.. we shared the same pain 😿😿</3", but either way i do see it as a genuine statement. probably also said it to intimidate mg coin more and make it clear to him that (at least) two of the dudes he was now stuck in this confined space with did notttt fuck with him at all and were likely going to give him a really hard time

and then to respond to the second part of your ask—

i agree! and i'd say that top basically confirmed that in his netflix interview.

"before facing off against the front man, thanos probably thinks he's the boss there. after getting beat up... he probably confidently considers himself second in hierarchy."

thanos looks down on everyone no matter what. his ego is huge. the difference between him and nam-gyu (who i'd say also has a gigantic ego), is that thanos can actually somewhat back it up through his unwavering confidence and status. also, unlike nam-gyu, thanos's ego is pretty hard to bruise. he just seems so sure of himself, despite being cringey and a complete moron (said with love)

the others don't gaf fr! gyeong-su doesn't give a shit, clearly, he's just happy to be there and is pleased enough by the simple fact that thanos is letting him follow him around. se-mi thinks thanos is an idiot. she seems sure of herself, too, so why the hell would she care about what he thinks, of all people. and yeah, min-su is too terrified to care about how thanos views him lmao. he just doesn't want to die.

and then nam-gyu.... clearly has a lot of deep set issues and things that had to have happened to him in order for him to have grown up into the way he is: extremely sensitive and susceptible to the criticism/opinions of others, insecure, etc.

also i can totally see what you're saying with the whole fuckboy thing. nam-gyu always seems like he's trying to subtlely inch closer to thanos and advance their weird parasocial 'friendship' into something more genuine. nam-gyu likes the idea of being closer to a celebrity, someone who's 'cool', maybe he likes his music too idk, but either way the thought of being close to someone like thanos is tantalizing to him.

while i personally prefer to see the two of them in more of a 'bros' way, where nam-gyu is pathetically trying to get closer to thanos for the clout of being friends with someone with status whom he's a fan of, i also can see the appeal of seeing it in a more 'shippy' context. it could go either way, and i feel that's where personal interpretation and headcanons come in.

also just a random comment, but nam-gyu's behavior reminds me a lot of the whole 'group leader' meme (2 examples linked lol) that went around, obviously with thanos being the 'group leader' and nam-gyu being the fucking loser constantly trying to impress him, and i just think that's funny as fuck, which i think is partly why i prefer to see them in a more platonic sense lmao.

despite nam-gyu's efforts, i really don't think their relationship advances much. there's some level of mutual trust there, like 'you have my back, i got yours', but beyond that, i wouldn't say i could see either of them genuinely opening up to the other or anything. nam-gyu repressed all his animosity towards thanos that slowly built up over the duration of the series. it's so hard for him to be honest and upfront about his feelings, clearly. thanos never saw nam-gyu as an equal, nor did he ever really respect him lmao. though in an au where they survived the games and actually talked to each other when they're NOT under the influence or desperately trying not to die, i could totally see them being actual friends.

i'd honestly argue that thanos didn't care nearly as much about nam-gyu as people try to make it seem (at least in the canon moments in the show that we see up until thanos's death). definitely don't see him caring about nam-gyu in a head over heels romantic sense, nor in a 'omg bestie bae forever and ever; we're so soul-bonded and you get me in every single way kyaaaaaa i luv uuuuuuu let's get noodles and drinks after the games mwah mwah <3'

NOT saying that i think he completely didn't care about him. he did care, but i personally view thanos's 'care' for nam-gyu being as simple and surface-level as "oh this guy hates the same dude as me, and he does what i want. that's my bro now. he's chill enough, and also won't stop fucking bothering me, so i'll give him the drugs." and then he shows concern over nam-gyu's arm in like a "damn, alright...!" way. he also shows concern in the basic sense that he doesn't want nam-gyu to die, which isn't that special. he was really rattled over what happened to mina in the first game. i don't think he consciously wanted anyone to die (except maybe mg coin LOL).

"i always thought thanos had the intelligence of a goldfish." - top

yeah, that guy is NOT forming any deep thoughts!

anyways. that was a fucking lot i'm sorry LOL

and omfgggg pls do NAWT apologize for spamming me LMAO; i encourage it. i'm insane about squid game (and nam-gyu) right now so i really do like hearing other people's thoughts about the characters!!! i'm legit hanging out with tumbleweeds in the desert rn

also a big part of the reason i make those posts anyways is bc it makes me feel so happy and also sane when other people say they have the same takes as me, especially since most of the fan content i see usually contradicts how i personally view these guys LOL so props to your friend group <333