#ugh i will actually have to rewatch that movie to say anything that makes sense

[rapidhighway]

the thing with sonic 3 is I can't even be too mad at it. I knew that was going to happen. i love action too much. sonic and shadow had a high speed chase, shadow did the akira slide up a fucking building and then they beat each other up on the moon man. i am a weak weak man when it comes to cool as fuck action scenes and they made that movie for me, I was partly blind to everything else that was happening tbh. I actually will have to rewatch this movie to say anything coherent about it

[artist-issues]

Tell me every reason you enjoy Zootopia enough to give it all the rewatches you do.

Every? Oh boy.

Good Story

Perfect Characters

Visual Appeal

Earnestness

Let me break it down.

1. Good Story

Zootopia’s main point is: “Try to make the world a better place by realizing we’re fundamentally the same.”

That’s a really good main point.

It has the benefit of being true. Right now our culture is super into “self-identification,” and this crazy contrast between, “I want to be able to identify as something special” and “Now that I know what categories I fit in, I can choose who’s ‘one of us’ and who’s ’not one of us.’” Okay well that sounds pretty and I’m sure it fulfills some emotional need at some point, but it’s actually super divisive, and self-serving, and it’s the seeds for all prejudices. Including racism.

Do we have differences in origins and experiences? Yes. Of course. Do we also have some fundamental things in common? Yes. Of course. Which truth are you going to give the highest priority to? If it’s “no, I’m a prey animal, I know exactly where I belong, that’s who I am, that’s how I dress, that’s my compass for how I interact with others” then you’re getting all your security from your “sense of self,” and being able to understand what that is…which is just a fancy way of saying “I’m all about me. My own perspective informs everything I do.”

Anyway. Zootopia’s message was super true.

And the coolest thing about it is that if only Judy were in the wrong, and the other half of the dynamic duo, Nick, was this open-minded, un-prejudiced guy…and she just hurts him and has to apologize…the movie’s message wouldn’t be as well-communicated.

They have their prejudices and their hurt-from-being-prejudiced-against in common!

They’re the same…because they’ve both felt what it’s like to be treated like they’re not “the same.”

Nick isn’t the only character being mistreated and written off because of his species. The whole first half of the movie is about Judy being mistreated and written off. They think she can’t be a cop because she’s little and cute and a prey-animal. They think Nick can’t be trustworthy because he’s sneaky and small and a predator.

So literally…if Judy represented one race, and Nick represented a completely different race…the movie would be saying that both those races are discriminated against. They even have discrimination in common. AND, if Nick represented men who people make assumptions about because he’s a man, and Judy represented women who people make assumptions about because she’s a woman—the movie would be saying that both those genders are falsely judged.

I mean. Wow. Right now, your movie is either pro-woman or pro-man. Right now, your movie is either BLM or white-supremacy. Everybody’s lining up on one side of the line or the other. Zootopia says, “it doesn’t matter what character you’re looking at, from the elephant that can’t remember anything to the two main characters—every single one of them has fundamental things in common, and one of those things is that they all live like they’re in their own special category. When actually, they’re all fundamentally the same.”

I don’t want to keep beating the dead horse. But I have a post somewhere that lists every background character and points out that each animal is the exact opposite of what you would assume they are based on their animal-stereotype. The otters are never shown being playful or snuggly, only traumatized and ferocious. The cheetah is fat and slow, not quick or even quick on the uptake. Etc.

Even if you look outside of characters—look at the sets. Look at the environments. The whole city is designed “for animals, by animals.” But it’s in neat little segments. The animals organize themselves by habitat. Of course, in one sense that’s practical—the polar bears can’t live in Sahara Square, etc. but the point is, by making Judy and Nick, the main characters, small animals, in a city where everything is built to accommodate by species—UGH this is so good—they have to figure out how to problem-solve in situations that weren’t made to accommodate them.

Little Rodentia? Judy has to avoid stepping on all the mice or knocking over their buildings. Parking tickets? She has to figure out how to jump to reach bigger animals’ windshields—or she inconveniences smaller animals because the tickets are all printed at the exact same size. Stuck in a cell? The guards didn’t think about the fact that small animals can fit down the pipes made to accommodate big animals.

Zootopia is a city advertised to be where all the animals can come together. But the way they do that is by trying to accommodate every species’ preferences. So then actually while they try to come together, everything from their cars to their districts remind them of their differences. The whole idea is that they prioritize the wrong truths. Yeah, mice can’t drive giraffe cars—but they still have “driving” in common. See?

And oh my word. Initially it was supposed to be a spy story. But they changed it to a buddy cop story. Why? Well because justice doesn’t discriminate. Or at least, it’s not supposed to. So then there’s another lens to look at the story’s main theme through.

It’s just that every layer, every perspective you look at the movie from, is just hammering that truth into you: “Try to make the world a better place by realizing we’re fundamentally the same.”

2. Perfect Characters

Every character is so well-thought-through in this movie, even the side characters. You get the feeling you could watch a whole movie based on the side characters, because that’s the amount of love and nuance built into them.

Look at the main ones, though. Bellwhether is supposed to be soft and a follower. She’s a sheep. Instead, she’s hard and bitter—and she’s a leader. A villainous leader, but a leader, nonetheless. Even as she tries to keep animals divided based on fear of their stereotypes, she’s not fitting her own stereotype. Her voice actress has this strained, half-hoarse, but sweet voice. Like you can tell that this character has spent a lot of time under pressure and trying to manage appearances. Appearing like she’s fine, and she can handle it—until you realize that the appearance she’s really managing is “the cultural fear-based identify of the city.” They dress her in plaid and flowers and she’s a farm animal, because that’s the kind of character Judy would be most likely to trust. But she still has green eyes, and jagged teeth, so that when she does start making evil expressions there are some caricature-pieces in there that come out and accentuate that.

Nick Wilde—everybody’s favorite—is supposed to be sly and smooth and shifty. And he is. He’s a fox. But he’s also brave, helpful, and trustworthy. The first time you see him is when he’s dodging out of the way of a bigger animal ignoring him and about to run him over. Well, that’s important.

Because Judy knows what it’s like to have to get out of the way of larger animals, because they overlook her.

So right off the bat, this character she has to get along with and work with, this character who furthers her development and nails the main point, is introduced in a way that has something in common with her. But he’s also introduced in a way that gives her an opportunity to focus on a different truth—that he is different from her. Because the sheep is yelling that he’s a “fox.” Right away, we’re back to species-as-identification.

And that’s what the movie does, all the way through. It presents new animal characters, and with those new animals characters, more than one thing is true at a time. And Judy has to try to focus on which truth is more important. “Try to make the world a better place by realizing we’re all the same.” Yes, Nick is a criminal. But Nick is also brave, helpful, and eventually, becomes trustworthy.

Judy, too. Judy is an incredibly well-done character. Because she believes, in her head, that anyone can be anything—which is not what the movie ends on. In fact, she goes from saying, “anyone can be anything,” to saying, “we all have limitations.” It’s not true that a fox can be an elephant. But it is true that a fox can be trustworthy. Figure out what’s true, and try to make decisions for the better, based on that.

I could talk about character design and acting. Ginnifer Goodwin gives just the right amount of smugness and self-confidence to Judy without making her unlikeable—you don’t realize she’s smug and her self-confidence is misplaced until she does, when she fails to make the world a better place for Nick.

Judy wears tight, actionable, well-fitting uniforms for the whole movie. In her civilian clothes when she comes to Zootopia, she’s wearing athletic t-shirts and shorts. Ready for action, that’s Judy, even in her civvies. Meanwhile, Nick? Nick wears loose-fitting clothes. Loud, patterned clothes that don’t match. Like he didn’t even what, ladies and gentlemen? Like he didn’t even TRY. “Try to make the world a better place…”

Because when you meet Nick Wilde, he’s long since given up on trying, in life. So his character design reflects that. He rarely even stands up straight, or opens his eyes all the way—his default is drooping. And guess what?

When Judy “gives up?” Quits her job? Goes back home? Stops trying? Her civvies aren’t ready-for-action, trying clothes. They’re loose flannels. And her “ears are droopy.”

SERIOUSLY, you can find things like this in every corner of the movie. For every character. Not one character is a throwaway, not in voice acting, not in design, not in animation, and not in narrative.

3. Visual Appeal

Which leads me into this point—no other animated anthropomorphic animal movie is as visually appealing as Zootopia.

What Zootopia does is it matches the best of the best anthropomorphic animal designs from past Disney movies:

And they marry it with this incredible intentionality with modern CGI.

Did you know Disney invents its own software for things like fur textures?

The sheep’s wool, the velvet pig skin, the fox fur, the bunny fluff—it’s all completely different textures. There’s no one “fur” covering all the hairy mammals.

Nick isn’t just orange. He’s orange with deep red and dark tufts. Judy has black tips to her ears, too—which helps the two of them look like, in some sense, they belong “together” in every shot.

It’s so important to the movie that the animals feel like animals that they worked this hard to do this. And then that extends to the textures of the snow, the ice, the sand, the wet leaves, the grass, the fire.

Every character moves like their animal, and like themselves. Nick and Gideon are both foxes, but they don’t move similarly at all. Gideon is aggressive and glowering and physical. Nick, again, is slouchy, leans on everything, completely non-confrontational.

Other anthropomorphic animal movies like Sing or Puss in Boots—they’re not doing both as well. Zootopia is appealing, without sacrificing realism completely, and without cutting character acting.

The lighting. Nope. This post is too long, I can’t talk any more.

4. Earnestness

There is no disingenuous moment in this movie.

The animators are never lazy. They always go for the challenge. They don’t cut corners. Have you ever seen “Over the Hedge?” I like Over the Hedge. But I watched it recently and it’s crazy how many shots are strategically placed so that the animators don’t have to solve a certain effects problem.

For example, when RJ sprays Hammy with cool whip to make it look like he has rabies? He doesn’t. You never see the cool whip leave the can. It just cuts away, then cuts back when RJ is pulling the can away from his face. The shots are also cut so that you never have to see gas actually come out of Stella—and you never see Vern’s full body as he gets back into his shell, just the upper part of the shell as he wiggles it around, going through the motions of putting it back on.

That’s because that stuff would be painstaking to animate. Any time one character has to interact with props or substances (especially liquids) that are not part of their model, it’s harder on the animator.

Zootopia? We’re getting full-on views of characters getting wet, fur and all, characters touching various objects and elements, foam coming out of the mouth, new clothes, new set pieces, multiple models, huge crowd shots of different animals in different outfits, all with their own movement patterns and acting.

And all that hard work and effort, aimed so totally at the main theme of the movie? Making sure it looks as good as it can? Not just that, but the way it’s written, the acting, is so genuine. They don’t hold anything back. They don’t shy away from real emotion.

Judy Hopps’ apology scene is brutal. She’s crying, having a hard time finishing a sentence, her voice is all tight. It’s not pretty, it’s not romantic, it’s like…ugly crying. And her character is wrong in a super embarrassing way. They're not afraid to go there. The writers, the actors, the animators—they’re not afraid of being too vulnerable with these character flaws.

So many movies, especially kids’ movies today—they just pull up and shy away from being real through their characters. They think a quick sad facial expression will get the point across. And it does. The audience gets that the character feels sad about whatever the circumstance of the scene is. But not as powerfully. Because you didn’t put as much work and heart into it.

Zootopia is all heart, from work ethic to vulnerability to the filmmakers enjoying what they’re doing, enough to make it as good as it can possibly be. I can’t explain it better, other than to say, you feel like they would’ve been happy making this movie much much longer than it was. You feel like they’re cramming every bit of joy and passsion into every little joke, every side character, every hair on a CGI bear.

There you go. Long post, you did ask for it

[astral-crab]

(episode 5 spoilers)

okay okay okay so

they said it was agatha’s trial because of the blood moon and the veil of death etc. but….is it? isn’t rio supposedly some kind of death witch? where the hell was she at the end of the trial? she never came out of the treehouse.

what if it’s actually her trial. maybe…there’s a chance she could bring alice back. maybe that’s the test.

I CAN HOPE, OKAY.

after watching a second time i’m feeling more like the stuff post-trial might actually be real and not some wild hallucination. agatha was clearly distraught, also clearly having some uhhh feelings about having power again (until it evaporated), and then after the trauma of her mother’s ghost and unintentionally killing alice, teen comes out to yell at her, and agatha clearly switches into trauma defense mode, which for her is fight, aka her being as nasty and psychologically damaging as possible (bet she learned that from her asshole mother). agatha hurts people to keep them from hurting her, to keep from feeling the pain and guilt of the hurt she’s caused. so first time i watched, it it all seemed very fast, but rewatching it i can see more nuance and i’m not as convinced that it was all still part of the trial. butttt idk the teen throwing everyone into the death swamp bit still makes me question. (hmmmm what if it was his trial?)

related tho, everybody seemed to be having some sudden personality switches when discussing how to punish agatha. like they all got mean in a way that seemed very 90s horror movie to me. so like was that an acting/directing choice for fun and camp? or was something happening like idk them being possessed? or the road/trial influencing them maybe? but idk because in the other trials they’ve all seemed like themselves. in episode 5 they seemed to break character, acting like middle school mean girls.

on another topic, when teen is like “that’s all this has ever been about for you” referring to power….bad line. like he literally was trying to convince agatha to take him on the road TO GET HER POWER BACK. so him acting all betrayed like that makes no sense. he never thought she was going for any other reason. he’s not that naive. even if he thought she was starting to care about him, that doesn’t change anything. what other reason would agatha be going for???? she went because rio sent the salem seven after her and she had no power to protect herself and no way to escape them. what else would agatha even want from the road? ESPECIALLY someone who says he’s studied agatha and is acting like such a fanboy up until now. he should fucking know who she is, what she’s after, and what she’s capable of.

soooo unless the whole point was that he’s been purposely manipulating her (and everyone else) the whole time…it makes no sense for him to say that. but if he HAS been manipulating her this whole time, why did he have such an intense reaction when agatha turned on him and said “you’re just like your mother”? like, i read that as him losing his shit. if his whole baby-witch-betrayed-by-his-hero thing was an act, why would he lose control like that? i guess you could argue she still hit a nerve, but ugh. i’m just not buying that teen/billy was faking the fanboy thing.

like, is he supposed to be a villain?? ehhhh really dunno about that.

it does make more sense now that teen actually could break wanda’s spell over agatha. since he’s billy.

but like…agatha knew who he was the whole time? how? how would it even occur to anyone that wanda’s mindstone-fueled trauma-induced westview-hex child could somehow be alive in the real world (and oddly three years older than he should be because the westview twins were ten years old)? and agatha was under a mind control spell that whole time. she’s barely had time to get used to being herself again. she tried to drive a fake car in episode 2 because the lingering bits of the spell were still messing with her for fuck’s sake.

i wonder if teen cast the sigil on himself. hmmmm.

idk man what the fuck.

alice :(

[notebookmusical]

Hi! I'm so sorry I haven't replied in so long! Sorry if this is a shorter ask and I miss some things from a while ago. How are you? I've been okay and just distracted but I still always read your posts. I'm so sorry that you got Tendinitis and have had trouble with doctors about your anxiety or pain. That sounds awful and I hope your wrists aren't hurting as bad anymore. Sending love and hoping you're a little better by now...ugh. How was your Halloween? I saw you dressed up your dog which is cute. I didn't do anything this year though and it pretty much felt like just another day but maybe that's cuz it's only a day lol.

For the playbills, I liked all of the newer shows..like Outsiders, The Notebook, and Gatsby had some cool designs. All of the Moulin Rouge and Wicked designs were cool and different too. I really liked them all so it would be hard to pick favorites and I haven't looked in a while either. What about you? I don't know when I am going to listen to Urinetown but hopefully soon. R and J..I've seen mostly good things from audiences and clips but I guess I get why critics wouldn't like it if it's trying to be too woke or something, for lack of a better word. I also saw that one person plays both her mother and father, which could be confusing. I heard part of a song Rachel sings in it but can't say anything else about the music. Haha omg I didn't even think of how it's Sondheim vs Andrew Lloyd Webber! Lol wow..definitely team Sondheim and ALW is just okay. I also just think Gypsy is more interesting with a better cast, but I will listen to Sunset eventually. I do like Nicole's voice, but going up against Audra will be hard to beat in my opinion. I did read a bit about the staging and how it's very empty and minimal and I agree..just cuz I don't see the point but maybe it only works with a few shows and I know some people loved this show. I was also surprised the actor actually walks in the street during the song Sunset Boulevard in this performance.

It totally makes sense why you love the Notebook so much..it just feels so you at this point and it makes sense why it resonates with you cuz it has beautiful soft music and a touching story. I watched parts of it again and I liked it more. I think I wanna go back was one of the best songs and parts to watch. The older actors were great since they don't sing as much, but I don't feel like I have to watch the show..I can just listen to the cast album. I am excited for the rain scene and seeing it on tour though. That's why I was hoping to feel a little more emotional but I have also seen the movie a lot..I can't believe you've only seen it once. I do agree with the quote Ryan Vasquez said that you posted and it's great to see why you and others connect with it. We all have different musicals we connect to and I guess mine is just Outsiders but it's still my second favorite. No pressure to get to it, but I will say that I did not love Outsiders right away either. In fact, if you read the book and watch the movie first, you might be more skeptical, which is how I was at first. If I did not give it a second chance..I would've just found it okay lol and now it's one of my favorites. So just try to be open minded to the music and changes I guess. I think I'm biased cuz I personally like how Ponyboy is played more in the musical compared to the movie and it helped me connect even more to the character and that part of myself so it helped me rediscover my love for the character and story overall. That's a big part of it I think so I'm curious what you would think, being unfamiliar with the story at first. I also don't want you to have great expectations lol cuz of how I think or feel about it.

So when I finally finished Merrily, I enjoyed it a lot more. I admit I had to rewatch the beginning after because of the timeline and stuff I just couldn't remember and that helped a lot in following the story. My sister said she could understand that it was a flop cuz the timeline was confusing but it also made it more interesting and this production made it work. Like I was surprised Franklin Shepherd inc was one of the first songs lol but makes sense of course. We were confused when his first wife was singing Not a day goes by..I thought Mary sang that song and we barely knew who she was. It all made sense by act two of course and Mary sang part of it in act two lol. I think I preferred most of act one compared to act two but that's also the part I rewatched and I liked all those songs. It's also where the drama is haha. I think the cast all had great performances and it almost seemed like Lindsay was doing the most obvious acting at first. Anyway I would probably place it in the middle compared to other Sondheim musicals..like it seemed pretty similar to Follies and Company in a way, but I think I like those more. If I get more familiar with it, it could change. My favorite songs were Old Friends, Franklin Shepherd inc, Not a day goes by, Opening Doors and Good thing Going. I did find it interesting that neither the opening or closing song was as memorable as other songs. Wow I know I said it was going to be a short ask but I think I'm still gonna split this up in part 1 and 2 since it got pretty long still.

hello friend!! so sorry this is delayed — i meant to reply last week after i saw the wicked tour and then i got sick (surprise surprise) and then there was the bomb cyclone and ANYWAYS this is super super delayed and i'm sorry! i hope you've been doing well 🤍

my wrists are doing a bit better now! i haven't been doing a lot of crafts lately, which has helped — i think i probably won't be making more bracelets for eras (i've got around 60 so far) which is kind of a bummer because i have so much supplies left over but that's okay; there will be other occasions for bracelet making & i can use some of it for other crafts in the future. my halloween was good! very chill and cozy! and yes — i always make a big thing out of totoween but have never really been one for celebrating halloween itself!

how have you been? what's new in your life? my friend went and saw r+j a few weeks ago and despite loving the cast, actually didn't love it as a whole (and said that it felt very poorly directed, which wasn't super surprising to me). i'm a much bigger sondheim girlie than i am an andrew lloyd webber one, and i really like the gypsy cast. i'm still waiting to hear what people thought of gypsy; i had a couple friends who went to first preview (and i am very jealous of all of them) and i'm really intrigued to see how everyone's performances grow / shift during previews! and in addition to the gypsy cast being filled with people who i love, they also apparently have a REAL SET. ugh i love sets. i'm so glad we have a show on broadway with a real set haha.

honestly, i think with the notebook, everyone’s acting is just phenomenal, especially maryann as older allie! i really like the rain scene (as does most people) and i’m super intrigued to see how they’ll do it on tour — and the logistics that go into preparing for it. i have not picked up a book in a hot minute, so i do not think it is likely that i’ll be reading the outsiders before the month is over but … soon… hopefully. i did at least hunt down a bootleg of it, so we’re a step closer to me watching it in that sense.

i’m really glad you liked merrily! i just loveeeeee it. i’m really intrigued to know if the movie is still happening; i feel like i haven’t heard anything about it (and also do think that a 20-year filming period is really risky). franklin shepard, inc is soooo fun, i love singing it around the house! 

[vertigoambrosia]

rewatching some of jjk first season because i miss nanami

it's so funny that human earthworm is inspired by human centipede

aw junpei

you deserved better

hah i didn't notice until now that in the opening he's in a jj tech uniform

they straight up liiiiiiiieeed

'let's go all out!' 'no.' is so fucking funny. nanami's basically like, no we're not doing that shounen protagonist stuff right now

nanami kento-kun deeesssssu ~~~~~~~

work is shit but i have to admit that, not having any, i could use a big pile of shit right now so it doesn't hit quite as hard

BUT I DO NOT RESPECT HIM also kills me every fucking time

aww nanami we know you do actually care

it's funny that the anime staple "explaining your technique to everyone around you" is actually a stat buff in this series

like, why?

and don't tell me the 'binding pact' explaination makes sense because it doesn't

"seems like we've discovered an arc villain. well itadori-kun, it's time for shounen mode."

ughghggh watching junpei and mahito in retrospect is so unpleasant

grooming isn't quite the right word i'm looking for, but....it has that feel

in the end, nanami did not, in fact slap yuji, even after he screamed NANAMIIIINNNNNNN from an actual rooftop

why tf did they make ichiji supposedly in his early 20s. that man is canonically younger than nanami

is there actually a scary movie 7?

man junpei's clubmates really fucking abandoned him like that

this conversation about "the opposite of love is indifference" and how it's (arguably, apparently?) mistranslated is actually really interesting

"~~i'll murder youuuuuu~~~ <3" is even funnier when you remember that it's a nanami thought

god how fucking stupid is this teacher

tbh he deserved to die. not transfigured, but to die

stole those pants like ryuji goda

GET THAT TIME AND A HALF NANAMI

i love chibi sukuna in juju stroll he's so cute

"if we both manage to survive, let's meet again" is so painful now

'was that an earthquake?' no it was just the best man being strong af

yuji itadori: world's worst interrogator

apparently these opinions about the human earthworm series are what gege actually thinks about the human centipede series

i had no idea there were more than like, two

apparently there are 3

aw yuji is so sweet

:( junpei's mom

how can they tell which arm it's from when sukuna has four arms?

nanami trying to protect yuji from having to kill a human ;_;

"being a child is not a sin" hits me right in the heart

ugh fucking mahito continuing to manipulate

i do not understand mahito girlies in the slightest

i love how nanami tells yuji not to go and then is immediately like "he probably won't fucking listen tho"

i don't have anything funny or whatever to say about this whole thing except that obviously i wish junpei could have joined the main cast

and that this is all emotionally done really well

junpei didn't deserve this :(

sukuna is such a dick; he could have just said that he can't (or doesn't) heal, but no

he had to taunt yuji

it does make it funny that any of the villains think they can convince sukuna to join them

or do anything that sukuna doesn't want to do

i forgot that sukuna only let mahito get away with touching his soul the first time because they had shared a nice evil laugh at yuji's expense

NANAMIIIII

jump his ass!!

this juju stroll is absolutely baffling

man seeing the double beatdown is so satisfying...but then of course mahito has to pull a new technique out of his ass

i knew nanami died at some point the first time i watched this so when his backstory flashback started i got real nervous

(little did i know we would get something even more painful before his actual death)

you think nanami would be a special grade sorceror if he could do a domain expansion?

aw nanamiiii <3

yuji is dying and i'm sitting here like 'god nanami is so handsome'

nanami is such a good mentor <3

[urzombiegf]

hello,, I'm thinking about soft karl with his gf/roommate (whatever u wanna say)

imagine reader is judt being comfy, and decided to wear one of Karl's old big sweaters(those green n brown funky ones >:)) ) with some long socks,, and woo

Big surprise

No underwear :oooo

so they're cuddling or they're under a blankets together and he rests his hand near their thigh or knee,, and he starts to raise his hand higher and higher during the movie

Reader catches on to what he's doing,, and starts scooting closer and moves his hand closer to their area

The test is up to you :]

don't tell anyone guys but i actually have the hugest soft spot for anything to do with karl </3 this is also unedited so if it seems a bit choppy / abrupt that's why :')

cw: soft (and kinda silly) foreplay, fingering (reader receiving), referenced petplay, nicknames (honey, baby, bunny, cutie, master), squirting / handjob ment., afab reader.

you let out a deep sigh, flicking through the tv trying to find something to watch—you and karl had already binge watched adventure time too much for it to be enjoyable at this point. karl's soft humming and the smell of popcorn made you smile, even after so many movie nights you still never get bored of this feeling.

you turned your attention back onto the tv, settling on some random sitcom you guys could start together—most likely ending in you ranting to karl about how bad it is and karl trying to defend it with his life.

“oh honeyy, im back!” you looked back up to your boyfriend, watching as he sat down and cuddled into your side, setting the popcorn on the table so he could quickly get comfy under your blanket. “pick anything yet, or are we rewatching adventure time?” he asked with a giggle.

“ugh, no we aren't watching adventure time, i just threw on some random sitcom” you responded, running your hand through his hair as he took a deep relaxed sigh. he silently pressed play on the tv, just relaxing into your touch, setting his hand on your knee. you hadn't realized the the amount of eyeballing he was giving you because of the oversized sweater.

“oh my sweet cutie” karl sung softly, holding back his giggle as you turned to look at him, raising a eyebrow. you gestured for him to keep going, “oh nothing i just wanted to say that” he responded with a cheeky grin and his hand creeping closer up your thigh. you just rolling your eyes and pressed a tender kiss to his cheek, calling him a dumbass softly.

as the show kept playing, by the time you'd hit the 4th episode you could feel how close karl's hand was—while you had picked up on it almost instantly, you just wanted to see how far he'd go. sensing this was his stopping point, you brought his hand closer, letting out a quiet gasp as he almost instantly made direct contact with your clit.

“that good cutie?” he teased, watching as you grew flustered. “and holy smokes, no underwear? such a tease!” he mumbled, leaning over to get closer, pressing a kiss into your neck as he grumbled on about you being a tease. but you just sighed, and then laughed.

“bunny, never say holy smokes again when you're in between my legs” you said with a airy laugh, karl's fingers making quick work of you already without even going in yet. karl just let out a chuckle and rolled his eyes as he mumbled a whatever. you spread your legs underneath the blanket, letting out soft whines as he kept rubbing softly.

he grumbled again, nipping your neck before moving his hand away to yank off the blanket, leaving you spread and exposed to the cold—you tried to close your legs only for karl to push them back open, “keep em’ open honey, it's cuter when i can see your pretty cunt” he said so casually, pressing another kiss to your neck.

“bunny stop trying to be in control” you whined at him, not liking the sudden switch up from your usual routine. but he just kissed you again before spreading your legs wider—his fingers finally slipping inside as he made eye contact with you.

“honey, im not taking control, im simply jus’ pleasing my adorable master” he said with another cheeky grin, because right as you tried to talk his long fingers thrusted harder—barely missing the certain spongy spot in you. “so cute,” he whispered, watching as your cunt and mouth made lewd sounds, your sock covered thighs shaked.

“honey can i pretty please kiss your pretty pussy after this, i need to” he whined, fingers still moving, still trying to make you cum as his feigned dominance cracked under pressure.

“oh i don't know bunny, why don't you ask your master properly?” you said, smirking as he whined again. his fingers curling inside of you, causing a sharp gasp. his thumb found its way to your clit, rubbing and pumping his fingers out in a steady pace.

karl took a deep breath as a blush washed over him, it wasn't unusual for him to beg—but it didn't make it any less embarrassing. “please honey, please. i really, really wanna- i need to taste your pretty cunt please” you smiled and lightly held onto his wrist as he sped up, “please baby i need to make you cum, make you squirt baby please” he begs grew more whiney the more he imagined it.

“fine bunny, but don't expect anything more then a handjob in return. you're already tiring me out” you tried getting out clearly, and failing because you moaned almost directly in the middle of it.

karl sighed, deep and heavy with relief—not like you've ever denied him before. “thank you baby, thank you so so much, you won't be disappointed!”

[namtanlovesfilm]

Hey Axelle, thank you so much for rewatching tol, because i started rewatching myself (2nd time for 2022 - i won’t say how many times i rewatch it since my first watch but it’s a lot because it hurts soooo good)

To me, tol is so iconic & tbh yes off’s acting was off the charts in not me but he was so good in tol too, like actual king, he lit up my heart with his cuteness and then broke it with his sadness

(some) reasons why tol is iconic:

both leads being super cute and savage at the same time;

the straight baiting with two and lynn;

the absolute genius of the change of pov;

the importance of the movie theme, it’s so important for the characters AND the storytelling;

the way they use the romantic tropes, like they even ruin the ones they use e.g. when third first rode with khai on chawee, it’s with romantic & like a romantic scene but then in the next ep, third relives the experience as horrible because khai is a terrible driver, and i adore that;

the way third values his friendship with khai without letting his jealousy ruin it. Like, he helps khai with girls (e.g. he’s the one organizing khaki’s first date with curly hair girl) while in other medias he would’ve done all he could to ruin khai’s chance with girls. I love that when third says he doesn’t want to ruin their friendship because it’s so important to him, it is actually shown to the audience & we really feel like third doesn’t see his situation as being "friendzoned" but as a "i’m in love with my best friend" and it really shows (i don’t know if i’m making sense but yeah…)

Anyways, i love tol, it’s one of my fav show of all time and all places, and i love revisiting it, so thank you again for bringing it back to me 💕

(And reblogging your awesome gif sets, thank you!)

hi anon! omg yay we're twinning with the tol rewatches <3 could not agree more, off was INCREDIBLE as khai too & deserves more credit for it!!! and your reasons???? ummm... YES!!! couldn't agree more, firstly every character of the show is so lovely, I adore them all!!! second of all, the "straight baiting" is SO great bc like the whole untwo-lynn storyline is SO bisexual and full of angst & repressed feelings, yet lynn is not ONCE demonized, and you just KNOW two & her stayed friends afterwards and laughed about how they dated for a month, like... ugh don't get me started on the untwo storyline bc it's literal perfection!!! then I've talked in length about how theory of love is one of the rare shows that was able to choose one theme and RUN with it, like that show just makes you want to watch movies so bad & incorporated them so well into the plot, it's just SO good ahhh!!! and OMG you are SO RIGHT about them having the cliché romantic tropes but also mocking them at the same time!!! like even third, as I've said before, is one of the only bl & romance characters that is in love & knows he's incredibly biased and would do anything for khai, but also ROLLS his eyes about it bc he hates it LMAO! like it's so relatable bc being in love is not just heart eyes 24/7, it's also being like "that man really isn't that great" and "why the fuck did I do that?" :'))) and finally, YES about the friendship!!! I've said it since my first watch during the summer of 2019, but I consider theory of love a friendship show more than a romcom imo, bc the friendship is not only central to the whole show with the savage gang (tol is one of the only bl posters that features the main friend group on it & not just the main bl ship!), but also central to khaithird's relationship bc they are best friends before becoming lovers. so yeah, that show is truly so special & even though it's so angsty I'm just going 🥰🥰🥰 the whole time!!! thank you for supporting my gifsets, it means a lot <3

xxx

[aadmelioraa]

💔💙💓 for.. Black Sails or TLK

Doing both since I was granted special dispensation 😌

Black Sails

Ship that makes you sad: Max x Eleanor…I still ship it, and I think it's so well written, but DAMN it hurts. I know whenever I have it in me to rewatch it's gonna devastate me even more.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: I don't know that there was something I used to ship and no longer ship…maybe Flint x Silver, actually, even though I was only ever ship-curious for them…I still think it's a super compelling dynamic but more in a narrative foils way than a shippy way. I know this is a very unpopular opinion lol.

Ship that you didn’t expect to ship but now do: Idelle x Featherstone!! I was ambivalent at first (though I loved Idelle immediately) but I think they're super fun and actually make a lot of sense together. It's very much the malewife/girlboss model I can't resist, actually.

TLK

Ship that makes you sad: Thyra x Beocca…mostly because of how her storyline ended. One of the worst deaths on the show, ugh. Whenever I rewatch s2 I get immediately bummed out by it lol. There can never be too many Thyra lives AUs.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: Hild x Uhtred probably. I still get down with it in fic, though not many people write it, but I was more into it in s2 and since that point I clearly have other ships that have demanded more of my attention lol.

Ship that you didn’t expect to ship but now do: God so many. Honestly…and I know this is an unpopular opinion…hear me out...I am gonna say Eadith x Uhtred. I was SO opposed to it before the season and extremely apprehensive about how they were going to handle it, but as things started to unfold I thought it was written in a pretty natural way. Obviously it wasn't explicitly romantic and idk what they're planning for the movie, if anything, but I enjoyed their dynamic. I really cannot overstate how dead set against it I was before s5, I was pleasantly surprised that they didn't try to shoehorn in a new relationship for Uhtred since so much of his story this season revolved around Aethelflaed (which we all know I have complicated feelings about lol), Brida, and his kids, and they also didn't sacrifice Eadith's character or plot line to build rapport between the two of them.

[patton-cake]

Happy birthday Logan!

Summary: It's Logan's birthday! He is a bit scared for all the attention that birthdays bring, but his roommates will make this day unforgettable... right?

Pairings: established Logicality, platonic LAMP, background prinxiety (like one sentence)

Ugh

Logan woke up with a groan, he never liked this day. Something about all the positivity and the happy people made him uncomfortable. Yes, he was a year older, that's how humans work, why should they celebrate that? Logan stepped out of bed and started to change into his normal outfit.

When he walked downstairs he prepared himself for his energetic roommates to congratulate him. Roman and Patton always made a big deal out of birthdays. For Virgil's birthday the two had spend weeks planning a nightmare before chrismas themed sleepover, just with the four of them. When Roman's birthday came, Patton had made Virgil and Logan help him to turn their apartment into a broadway themed paradise, with Roman as the star. Patton's birthday was a whole different kind of special. The three roommates had really tried their best to let their best friend know how much they appreciated him. Patton had been drowned in presents, every present handmade and given a personal twist. Tears had fallen down Patton's cheeks and they ended up in a group hug.

But today it was Logan's turn. His 'special' day. To Logan's suprise, the living room was empty when he arrived downstairs. No happy chatter, no grumpy Virgil and no Roman serenading the pancakes. It was completely silent. That's weird, not even Patton was here to prepare his signature birthday breakfast. With a confused look Logan grapped his coffee mug and made himself a cup of coffee.

After a few minutes, Logan could here faint footsteps comming downstairs. Ah, there came the birthday energy. He expected to see Patton walking into the kitchen to greet him with a big hug, but instead he saw Virgil. His roommate let out a groan as his way of greeting Logan and poured himself a cup of coffee before making his way to the living room. Strange

Another ten minutes later, a louder noice came downstairs. Loud footsteps marched downstairs followed by a powerful voice singing some Disney songs. Roman.

"Morning nerd!" Roman greeted and made himself a cup of camomile tea, still mumbling the melody of the song. After questioning himself if he should try to steal a cookie from Patton's collection (he decided not to), Roman sat down next to Virgil on the couch, turning on the TV.

What was going on? .....They hadn't forgotten his birthday had they? Not that Logan was that sentimental when it came to birthdays, it still felt kind of nice to be complimented and appreciated once in a while. Maybe they were waiting until Patton came downstairs? That made sense. Speaking of their last roommate, shouldn't he be here already? Patton was always the first to wake up. 'To make my special boys some breakfast!' As Patton himself liked to say. It wasn't like him to still be in bed this late.

With a bad gut feeling, Logan walked back to their rooms, making his way to Patton. He would be lying if he said that he wasn't concerned about this whole situation. Anxiously he knocked on the lightblue door before fidgeting with his tie. He could hear a loud yawn coming from inside Patton's room, followed by footsteps. The door opened and Logan saw a very tired Patton. The smaller buy carefully rubbed his eyes before stretching his arms.

"Goodmorning Lolo...", another yawn, "What can I do for you?" Patton had definitely just woken up. His voice was really soft and tired and he was still wearing his pyjamas.

"Salutations Patton, my apologies if I have woken you up, I was simply concerned about your wellbeing."

Patton looked up at him, blinking a couple times before actually hearing what Logan said. "Those were a lot of fancy words Logan. I'm fine though! Just had to finish something last night, didn't get that much sleep."

A relief, mixed with some confusion fell over Logan. He then started to realise that it had been quiet for a few minutes now. Just when he wanted to speak up again, a weight started to lean against Logan. Patton had fallen asleep again. He must have been really tired then, to fall asleep in Logan's arms. Logan chuckled to himself before carefully picking Patton up, carrying him downstairs.

When he walked into their living room, Logan gently placed Patton on one of their couches, covering him with a fluffy blanket. He heard a chuckled laugh behind him and when he turned around he saw Roman and Virgil smirking at him. "Didn't take you for the princely type Specks. Are you trying to take over my job?" Logan rolled his eyes and ignored Roman. "I'm with Flynn Rider over here. One of those himbo's is more than enough already." Virgil crossed his arms before pushing Roman into their kitchen. The theee roommates made themselves breakfast, since Patton was clearly unable to do it for them, and sat down.

"Doing anything special today guys?" Roman asked while eating a spoonful of cornflakes. Ah there it came. The birthday plans. Except, it didnt?

"You know me Princey, I'm busy planning on how to take over the government and making Welcome to the black parade the new national anthem." Virgil finished his bowl and sat it down in the sink, "Better start making my plans, see you later nerds."

Just when Virgil walked back to his room, they could hear some movements from the living room. Patton carefully made his way to the kitchen, wrapped up in a blanket burrito.

"Goodmorning Ro, hi again Lolo." Tiredly, Patton made himself a sandwich before sitting next to Logan, leaning on his shoulder. "I'm sorry that I fell alseep on you Logan" Logan smiled softly at Patton and intertwined their fingers. "It's quite alright Patton, I hope you'll feel a little more energetic soon"

The three roommates finished their breakfast and Roman and Patton made their way back upstairs to get properly dressed. A sad feeling fell over Logan, had they really forgotten his birthday? It definitely seemed like they had...

Logan decided to leave the house for a couple of hours, going to the library. If his friends didn't want to celebrate his birthday then he had to make it a great day for himself on his own. Maybe being surrounded by books would make him feel a little happier. So Logan left a sticky note on the table with his location, grapped his coat and stepped outside.

The fresh wind in his face already made him feel a bit better. The Fall weather always cheered him up a bit, the pretty leafs colouring the landscape and the beautiful aesthetic of orange and red. Logan warmed his hands by putting them in his coat pockets and let out a sigh. Fall had always been his favourite season. The cold nights he spend together with his roommates rewatchings movies, watching Virgil turn into a his 'true form' as he called it during their annual Halloween celebration, following Roman to every little market he could find and buying the most ridiculous and unnecessary items and of course the lazy days he and Patton spend cuddled up in one of their rooms, sharing soft kisses and drifting off to sleep from time to time.

With a soft smile on his face, Logan entered the library, greeting ms. Williams who he had become really close with after spending all his teenage years in this library. He made his way to the mystery section, collected a couple of his favourite books and sat down at one of the tables next to the windows. Logan read his way through five books before hearing someone enter the building.

"Logan? Are you here?"

A soft voice echoed through the library and Logan could hear ms. Williams reassuring Patton that Logan was in fact somewhere in here. Patton thanked the librarian and Logan could hear his footsteps comming his way. "There you are Lolo! I was worried that we lost you on your birthday!" His boyfriend softly giggled and sat down next to Logan.

"So.. So you didn't forget my birthday?" Logan shyly looked down at his hands, cursing himself for the blush that spread over his face. "Of course not Starlight! How could we ever forget the day someone this amazing was born?" Patton let out another giggle before taking Logan's hands in his, "What did you think we all have been working on all these weeks? What did you think I was working on last night? Come Lo! Virge and Ro are waiting for us at home!"

Patton pulled his boyfriend up and helped him return the books to their places. He enthusiastically waved ms. Williams goodbye, who chuckled and gave Logan a soft smile as to say 'You better not let that one go Logan'. With their hands intertwined, they made their way outside again. When Logan shivered slightly from the cold, Patton pressed his side to him, resting his head on his shoulder. "To keep us warm!" Logan let out a soft laugh and put his arm around Patton's shoulder, pressing him closer. In a comfortable silence the two made their way back home.

When they were close to their house, Logan could hear music coming from inside of the place. Patton turned the key around and opened the door. The two were met by the smell of cinnamon, pumpkin bread and chocolate. Logan, as the gentleman he was, helped Patton with his coat and put both of their coats away. Patton, once again, grapped Logan's hand and tugged him to the living room. And wow.

Logan definitely hadn't expected this. His friends had completely transformed their living room. The couches were pushed against the wall, the curtains were closed and the floor was covered in pillows. Cinnamon scented candles were placed everywhere and the table was covered with sweets and other delicious foods. He felt Patton's arm wrapped around him and leaned back against his boyfriend, who placed his chin on Logan's shoulder. "Happy birthday my love." It didn't take long before Roman and (a hesitant) Virgil joined the group hug.

They spend the night watching all of Logan's favourite movies and documentaries while chatting in their pyjamas and eating the backed goods Patton ("and Roman!") had made.

A few hours after midnight, Logan looked around at his roommates. Virgil had fallen asleep after the fifth movie. His friend leaned against Roman's shoulder while using his arm as a teddy bear. Speaking of Roman, it hadn't taken long for him to follow Virgil. His head leaned on Virgil's and he snorted a bit, making Logan chuckle. Last but not least he turned to look at Patton. Beautiful Patton, who was curled up against Logan's chest, breathing softly. He had fallen asleep a few minutes ago after tiredly mumbling about how amazing Logan was and how his hair always looked so cute and how Patton could spend hours just watching him reading 'because you are so adorable Logibear! I love listening to you!' Logan had kissed his boyfriend's forehead before softly thanking him.

Yeay, Logan truly was the luckiest men alive. He had his two best friends and his adorable boyfriend who he hoped to spend many more birthdays with. He let out a quiet yawn before closing his eyes, snuggling closer to Patton, and soflty drifting away.

[tsumugisindulgence]

Stay for the Night

Since your first day in the Devildom you were disgusted by how often Mammon’s brothers picked on him. They are demons but to channel their hatred onto one person was not by nature, it was by choice and you were sick of it. “So shitty Mammon wouldn’t stay in his room when the newspaper came to interview me today. Ugh I mean how inconsiderate can you be? He is the absolute scum of all three realms. Like are you trying to purposely ruin my image? Not that he could, after all I am perfect but still how dare he!”  Asmo whines about Mammon’s presence in his own home. You knew you could use your pact to shut him up but the issue ran deeper. At that moment you decided to stand up to each brother the moment they dissed your first man. Asmo took a deep breath to blow his nails dry and you slapped him, leaving him surprised. “Oh dear I didn’t know you were into that. Do it again.” he winked. “Quit talking down about Mammon. I am sick of it.” he laughs. “It’s all in good fun dear, don’t worry he can’t even hear.” you stand up from the chair across from his. “Yeah well I can. And you should know something.” You enunciate each word carefully. “Talking trash about people that care about you makes you ugly.” You storm off leaving him flabbergasted. Only a few hours later you caught Levi doing the same thing while you were gaming with him. “And I was like you are more pathetic than a level one boss. Rotfl! He was upset but that newb was going through my limited edition directors cut TSL movie series. I don’t know how you can stand him. He’s worse than the antagonist in My brother is a piece of shit and I can’t wait to kick him out because he is the absolute worst.” For a moment you pondered if his anger was valid but it’s not wrong to look through people’s movies unless it’s Asmo’s sex tapes. “Levi I think it’s endearing that you’re an otaku but the one thing about you that absolutely disgusts me is how comfortably you insult Mammon without him doing anything actually bad.” You stomp out of his room and run into Mammon himself. “Whaha doin human?” For awhile now you’ve had feeling for Mammon that were developing past friendship. It was a challenge to portray this without him being a tsundere. “Hey Mammo chan. I had to leave Levi’s room he was pissing me off.” He squinted his eyes at the door a few meters behind you. “What did he do to ya?” you could tell he was getting aggravated thinking about Levi upsetting you. To calm him down you place your hand on his shoulder. “I’m okay now that you’re here. I wanna talk to you though.” he begins wringing his hands nervously. “Wha-what did I do this time?” You beckon him to follow you and he does reluctantly until you’re outside his room. “Don’t worry I’m not mad at you. Can we talk in your room though?” he places his hand on the knob and opens the door for you. “Phew. That was a close one. Not that I was scared!” you plop down on his couch and he sits across from you. “Levi said you were looking through his TSL movie series. What’s that about?” Once again he gets nervous and starts waving his hands. “It wasn’t like I was trynna take it! I was just looking I swear! I don’t care about that stuff or whatever.” His reluctancy to look you in the eyes made you suspicious. “I think you do. You know if you want to rewatch it with just me this time you could’ve just told me and saved yourself the trouble.” He huffs and crosses his arms. “As if I’d admit that!” His eyes widen at his statement, realizing he inavertantly admitted it. You snicker. “H-hey what are you laughin at human?” Now was a perfect opportunity to spend time together without his brothers. At least you thought. “MAAAAMMMOOOON!” Lucifers voice booms through the door and probably the rest of the house. Mammon jumps ups and hides before the for is kicked open. “If you know where Mammon is I suggest you tell me this instant.” You roll your eyes. “What did he do this time?” “If you must know I had a vintage roast in the cabinet worth thousands of grimm.” He crosses his arms and stares at you. You mimic his stance. “I used it.” He looks at you with fury waiting for an apology or explanation. “Asmo showed me a diy face scrub recipe that called for rough ground coffee beans. I figure it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.” He raises his eyebrows and gives you a look. “Bold. This better not happen again otherwise I won’t forgive you so easily.” He turns around to leave Mammons room and you grab his cape. “I’m not done with you.” He scoffs and takes his cape back. “If you with to discuss this further I’ll be in my room.” He walks out and lets the door shut behind him. Mammon stands up. “Woah you totally stood up to him and didn’t even get threatened to be strung up in the hall.” You walk closer to him and grab  his hand. “I want to finish my conversation with Lucifer. I’ll be back when I’m done. Wait for me?” he blushes and looks away. “Alright not because you asked or anything human. I just don’t have anything better to do.” You laugh at his response and walk out. Thinking about how poorly Mammon is treated by his brothers makes you clench your fists. You were no match for a demon but you would be damned before you let this continue. “I can’t believe you all. You’ve lived with him for years and still haven’t learned to accept his sin.” you mumble walking down the hall and you stop when you hear Satan call your name. He sensed your wrath and decided to check on you out of curiosity. “Is something wrong? It look like you’ve just left Mammons room. What did he do this time?” Your body reacted before you could use reason. Your hand struck his cheek, it didn’t hurt him much at all. You meet his surprised yet inquisitive gaze. “You are all so awful to him! Imagine if I treated you the way you all treat Mammon! He didn’t do anything! Lucifer pissed me off when he accused Mammon of stealing something.” He adjusts his stance. “I understand being upset with Lucifer, but why does it bother you that Mammon was accused. He probably stole it anyway, he’s the most plausible suspect.” You clench your fists even tighter. Through gritted teeth you hiss. “I took it. You bastards always blame him and I’m sick of it.” You walk past him and stomp down to the eldest brothers room. He look up from his desk as you walk in. “I have a bone to pick with you.” You sit in the chair across his desk. “I am sick of you always blaming Mammon. You guys do anything you possible can to beat him up. You degrade him because of his sin. That’s something he can’t completely control. I am aware he could handle his urges better but I doubt you have ever tried to help him in a manor that he would understand. Instead you freeze his card and call him a piece of shit whenever he gives into an urge. Ever stop to think you’re the shitty one for treating him that way. I know your sin is pride, therefore you have this massive ego. Nobody ever criticizes you for being a pompous ass at times. I haven’t even been here for an entire year and I see how you all go out of your way to make sure he feels like shit. I think Beel is the most respectful to Mammon and he still puts Mammon down occasionally.” you continue your rant for a few minutes and take a deep breath once you feel like you’ve gotten everything off your chest. He sits back in his chair slightly surprised about your perspective and how brave you were to scold him. “I see. That’s quite a new view. You haven’t had to deal with him as long as we have. I’m sure you would do the same if you spent a millennia putting up with him. It’s admirable that you have the courage to stand up to me like this. If it is that big of an issue I will possibly consider changing my actions. Doubtful but possible.” You storm out of his room furious that you couldn’t get through to him. On your way down the hall you see Mammon peeping at you from around the corner. When you lock eyes he looks away. Your heart hurts for him. He’s a good demon and you wish he was loved by his brothers. “Mammon what are you doing?” He sheepishly steps out from behind the corner. “You were in there awhile. I figured I should check on ya since I’m in charge of your safety n stuff.” You smile knowing that’s his way of saying he’s worried about you. An overwhelming desire to make him feel loved hits your chest. You’ve had a crush on him for awhile now but he was no resistant to reciprocating affection. Probably because his brothers made him feel like he’s undeserving. That night you sit on your bed flipping through one of the many magazines Asmo gave you with your earphones in.  A message on your phone interrupts the music. Mammo Chan- Where are ya?You- In my room. in under a minute he walks through your door in his pjs. A white tank top and black drawstring pants. You look up and take your earbuds out. He rarely shows this much of his body outside his demon form, which you also rarely see. He has such a nice figure and beautiful skin. To you everything about him was attractive but he was sculpted by god after all. He walks over to your bed and tells you to scooch. “What’re we watchin tonight?” you toss the magazine aside and pick up the remote, happy to spend time with him. “Do you guys have access to human television?” He thinks about it for a second before answering. “I think Levi knows how to connect it. Why ya askin?” “There are a few shows I think you would enjoy. I’ll text him and ask how to do it.” After figuring out how to connect to human television you pull up Pawn Stars. You could tell by his expression he was hooked instantly. He was sitting criss cross on your right leaning forward towards the tv. It’s beginning to drop in temperature as the nights in the Devildom were extremely cold to you. You leave the bed and head over to your dresser. Mammon looks up at you with puppy dog eyes. “Where are ya goin?” He was afraid you were going to leave even though it was your room. You pat his head to ease his worries. “I’m getting cold so I was gonna grab a hoodie.” He sits up straight. “No worries the great Mammon will warm you up. C’mere human.” He beckons you towards him. As you move he pulls back the blanket for your bed and lets you climb in then sits at the edge of your bed. You were hoping he meant cuddle but it was silly of you, he wouldn’t make the first move. So you would have to. You sit up and tug on his pant leg. “Can we cuddle?” His cheeks heat up and he looks anywhere but your eyes. “Yeah sure but only to warm ya up.” The way he stiffly laid next to you made you wonder if he has ever actually cuddled someone or if it was just you. “Can you move like this?” you position his body into the little spoon position and he goes quiet. After all his yeas alive he’s never been in a situation like this, he’s laid with succubi after sex but he was the big spoon and always woke up alone. It hurt to imagine falling asleep with you only to wake up alone. He didn’t want to think about it but he couldn’t seem to focus on anything but your body embracing his from behind, your breath on his neck and your fingers drawing random patterns on his arm. He really liked you and didn’t want to screw anything up like he usually does. He began to worry if this was a prank set up by his brothers. You noticed his body was still tense after a few minutes. “Are you okay? Am I making you uncomfortable?” He sits up and laughs nervously. “Alright which one of my brothers set you up to this? Asmo?” You frowned that he thought you didn’t genuinely care about him. You sit up and move closer to him and look him in the eyes. “Mammon, I  know I only met you a few months ago but I like you.” He puts on his bravado attitude. “Of course you would! Any human is amazed by the great Mammon” You wanted him to take this seriously but you also knew he built walls of false confidence in hopes of making himself feel like more than what his brothers call him. “No Mammon. I like you as in I want to kiss you, go on dates with you, cuddle with you, support your goals. I want to show you that you are so much more than what you think. You’re caring, thoughtful, hardworking, obedient, helpful and so much more.” His eyes tear up behind his glasses. “You don’t mean that. You’re just messing with me aren’t ya?” Frustrated that your words aren’t getting through you take action instead. You push him down on the bed, prop yourself up over him and kiss him. He freezes for a second before kissing back. You’d be embarrassed to admit how many times you’ve thought about doing this with him. His hand moves to your lower back and pulls you onto his body. Now that you aren’t using your hands to steady yourself you run your fingers through his hair. He is insanely good at kissing you. You pull away breathless. His face is no longer fearful but at peace. He’s the first to look away. “I didn’t know ya meant it. Heh why me. I’m the worst of all my brothers.” You cup his cheek and make him look at you again. “You’re my number one man. I wouldn’t want anyone but you. I like you, flaws and all.” His face melts as if this is the first time anyone has ever said that, and it might be. He pulls you into a hug so tight you couldn’t move. He placed his face in the crook of your neck. You feel something hot and wet fall onto your skin and it registers. He’s crying. You lay there on top of him only when he releases you do you notice he’s in his demon form. The awe in your eyes cued him. “Oh um I didn’t mean to. Gimme a sec.” Your arm shoots out to him. “NO!” He whips his head around. “I mean I never get to see you like this. Can you stay like this a bit longer?” “Y-yeah.” He sits there embarrassed as you eye him over. Once you’re satisfied you tell him. “Why’d you turn?”  His usual bravado is gone. “It’s not like you were making my sin act up. I just wanted to.” You interpreted what he was saying, ‘I got greedy kissing you and slipped into my demon form.’ You giggle “Cute.” he switches back. “Hey! I’m not cute! I’m a terrifying demon!” “My terrifying demon.” You smile  at him and he stares at you in awe before his bravado comes back. “Prof course! I’m your first and most powerful!” You remember that the tv is still on. “Oops looks like we missed the rest of the episode.” “NOOOO!” he dives over to the tv repeatedly pressing the backwards button but it does nothing since it’s on a channel. You stand up and walk over to him. He’s on his knees hugging the tv. You tussle his hair and turn to get a sweater now that you’re out of bed. While you’re at your dresser you decide to change into pjs. You figure Mammon is still preoccupied with the tv that he won’t see you. You were wrong. Just after you take off your jeans he turns and begins to ask you a question before letting out a yelp upon seeing your underwear. His hands quickly cover his eyes and he turns away. Now he certainly isn’t looking. After changing you pull his hands off his eyes. “I didn’t mean to. I didn’t know. Why didn’t you warn me you were changing?” You shrug. “I figured you were distracted. It’s not a big deal I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of ass in your life.” “Well I mean yeah but you’re my human not a succubus or angel. You’re different.” You smile at his unintended compliment. You crawl into bed under the covers and snuggle in. “Mammo-Chan will you turn off the tv and lights if you head back to your room.” “Whaddya mean if?” “You can stay here tonight.” “Where am I s’possed to sleep huh?” You pull the cover back a little and pat the bed space next to you. “Oh well I guess I should so I keep ya warm.” He starts to walk over. “Turn off everything before you come to bed.” “Oh yea.” He does as you say before climbing into bed with you. You fall asleep on his side with your arm over his chest. 

[leesh]

because i have zero self control when it comes to christmas films and, well, cheesy christmas films are #life. 

basically, i have developed a collection of favourites over the years, including both classic christmas films that are fun for the whole family and terrible, dripping with all our favourite favourite cliches hallmark christmas films, and yet i am still always on the hunt for more. so, i thought i would try a little thing to share them with everyone else as well (and actually remember them for future reference)!

check out the tag here i will try and remember to use as i live blog some of these movies or head on down below the cut to see all of the christmas films i’ve watched in 2020. thoughts and star ratings included! as expected, i will also be updating this as i watch more and more this holiday season (follow along on twitter too if you want).

note: since i LOVE terrible hallmark films, some that i give a higher rating will not actually be......critically acclaimed. i am just #obsessed and have my reasons as stated, i’m sure.

holidate (2020) 

⭐️⭐️| first time watch | someone on letterboxd compared this movie to when you watch a rom com in sims and it’s just a bunch of random scenes that make no sense and they’re absolutely right. its only saviour is an australian dude and the line “so you know me well enough to cum in my mouth, but you don’t know me well enough to get me a christmas present?”

my christmas inn (2018) 

⭐️⭐️| first time watch | i’ll be honest, this film was pretty forgetful. i watched it over a month ago and don’t really remember what happened. however, i do remember being impressed that the leading lady wasn’t a stereotypical thin white woman. so i guess at least it has that going for it.

christmas made to order (2018) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️| first time watch | i actually thought this was pretty cute. it’s not the best, but also not the worst, so a decent medium if you need to fill up those figurative christmas stockings. the concept of hiring someone to decorate your entire house with no budget sounds pretty cool, but when the guy is aaron samuels and looks far from straight, it becomes a little questionable. 

last christmas (2019) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️| rewatch | now this is not a cheesy hallmark film. in fact, i LOVE this film a lot and think i saw it twice at the cinema. last christmas is a top tier christmas song and i remember theorising about it when the trailer first came out, but i will say tissues may be a requirement to watch this. AND henry golding is my husband thank u and goodbye.

operation christmas drop (2020) 

⭐️| first time watch | interesting concept in theory, but this is nothing more than US military propaganda and a cgi lizard. bonus: white saviourism. 

the knight before christmas (2019) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️| rewatch | a medieval knight transported into today’s world and has never seen a car before can drive better than me. that’s it. that’s the movie. also, he literally says the words “modern technology is lit af” at one point. solid christmas film if you ask me. 

the princess switch (2018) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️| rewatch | i strongly believe in the vhcncu (vanessa hudgens christmas netflix cinematic universe). i also have so many questions, like how did they afford the flights or solid conversation or was it all expenses paid? how did they finish a bulk of the cake without a mixer? why does everyone always speak english with a posh english accent even though it’s a non-english european country?

the princess switch: switched again (2020) 

⭐️⭐️| if we learnt anything from a christmas prince, it’s that sequels are generally never better than their predecessor. that being said, this was much less cute body swapping christmas fluff and a little more literal kidnapping and saving the day. either way, blonde vanessa was hot and i appreciated the amber/richard cameo that insinuates a christmas prince is actually a dramatic documentary.

midnight at the magnolia (2020) 

⭐️⭐️| now if you’re after an absolute cheesefest that ticks the boxes on best friends meets fake dating over the holidays, then this is the movie for you! albeit it takes place between christmas and new year’s, it’s still filled with their families knowing they were soulmates the whole time and two people who are a literal too comfortable on the radio. also, the dad’s totally should’ve been gay. they had more chemistry.

christmas wonderland (2018) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️| tbh, i genuinely enjoyed this one. post breakup/high school sweethearts is a personal favourite trope of mine, so throw christmas & being forced to spend time together when she goes back home into the mix and i’ll have a serotonin explosion. bonus points for the guy telling the girl to go back to nyc to follow her dreams without being a dick. OH and the scene when he points a fuck load of sugar in his hot beverage.

a wish for christmas (2016) 

⭐️⭐️| who doesn’t love a good office romance between a boss and an employee at christmastime? especially when you throw in a little christmas magic that makes her more confident that results in her finally getting what she deserves and having to travel and rekindle with his family? also, fuck them rich white dudes, but props to her for the significant job promotion.

christmas with a prince (2018) 

⭐️| this was TERRIBLE and not in the good way. it featured: an entitled prince who suddenly had growth even though he did nothing to achieve it, majority of the film set in one hospital room, and the fact that she’s the only one with a tiara at the party filled with people who actually have titles. also, thought there was a decent ending but turns out there was still another 30 mins to go. ugh.

a royal christmas engagement (2020) 

⭐️| don’t be fooled by the title. the engagement doesn’t happen til the last two minutes. it’s actually about a prince (bet you didn’t see that one coming) who travels to america, pretending to be his best friend who works for this major marketing firm because he’s tired of being the spare. this gets one star purely for the line “she’s not a commoner, patrick. she’s an american.”

christmas wedding planning (2017)

⭐️⭐️| it looked like it would be half decent, and while it’s definitely better than the last two, it was still pretty eh. i could get on board with her texting her dead mother’s number as a way to talk to her still, and i understand we all experience grief differently, but.....actively paying your mums phone bill 3 years later? girl. also, the end made me SCREAM. WHY DID THEY DO THAT!!!!

santa girl (2019)

⭐️| this was just painful to watch. evil jack frost makes memes in his free time, santa has a fancy car and doesn’t eat sweets, and there’s an odd comparison between the elves, minimum age workers, and racism. however, one star purely for the entertaining (read: bloody awful) tooth fairy cgi that gave me a right laugh.

the christmas chronicles (2018)

⭐️⭐️⭐️| this was really cute and had the makings of what could be a christmas movie staple along with the likes of elf and the santa clause (but will never reach that standard, obvs). tbh, it’s just a nice heartwarming family christmas movie about two siblings who band together to help santa and save christmas. also, santa was a #dilf.

the christmas chronicles: part two (2020)

⭐️⭐️| one of these days i would love to see a sequel that’s better, or at least on par, with its predecessor, but that day is not today. sadly, this film lacked all the heart and magic the first one was filled with and some scenes were pretty redundant. kurt russell and goldie hawn, however... one star for each of them.

forever christmas / mr. 365 (2019)

⭐️⭐️| the title varies depending where you’re from, but that’s probably the most exciting part of this movie. a guy celebrates christmas 365 days a year and a reality show wants to invade his house? ok, sure. one star for the eye candy and one star for, surprisingly enough, their chemistry and all the kissing scenes that don’t usually make the mark in the hallmark world. 

noelle (2019)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️| did i renew disney plus just so i could watch this (and a couple of others)? maybe so... this movie is so fun! and family friendly! and is actually funny! it gives me major elf vibes, but if elf was set in a more modern day setting. either way, i had a great time and have been holding out on this one after loving it a lot last year!

the nutcracker and the four realms (2018)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️| anything nutcracker related is an instant win in my book because it’s my favourite ballet of all time (except for graeme murphy’s version, we don’t talk about that). does this movie actually deserve the four stars? maybe not. am i going to give them anyway purely for my love of the nutcracker and the soundtrack? absolutely!

[olivieblake]

OH here’s a maybe petty grievance for you— i realized how much i actively dislike the trope (mainly in romcoms, but i’m sure there are examples elsewhere) of main character A giving up perfectly fine (sometimes even wonderful) girlfriend/boyfriend/partner they already have in favor of main character B who is?? sometimes very subpar?? or some variation of that trope where the very great romantic interest/already established partner is sacrificed for the sake of putting the two leads together for the Story. the example that comes to mind rn is sleepless in seattle (1993) because i only just watched that for the first time very recently, and i was super frustrated with meg ryan’s character and whole story in that tbh. not that tom hanks’s character was a bad choice— i was really more frustrated with meg giving up her bf for some guy she heard over the radio and travels across the country to stalk and ok maybe it was part of the thrill but!! and tom’s son, too!! you’re really telling me that he sabotages his dad’s new gf because of a letter from some lady on the west coast and she’s the ONLY one he thinks is great for his dad!! idk maybe this is me just really letting loose all of the frustration about this movie i have bottled for too long. anyway. all of this to say— any other unpopular romcom ship opinions that you have or any unpopular opinions you have about certain specific romcoms? (not a romcom, but in the breakfast club, i’m definitely more into andrew the jock than i am into john bender 👀)

I’ve never actually seen sleepless in seattle but I buy it. not a lot of old romcom concepts make much sense. but it’s definitely hard for me to find situations romantic if they involve someone else being abandoned? this was my problem with AMERICANAH when we read that a few months ago; a man abandoning his family for love is never going to be sexy to me, and on the flip side, it is a bit weird to watch situations like patrick dempsey in Sweet Home Alabama or james marden in The Notebook where he?? didn’t do anything wrong?? like sure he’s not the Right Guy and that’s also important but it does detract from the overall experience for sure

do people like bender? I didn’t think liking andrew was an unpopular opinion. who wouldn’t prefer him?? I have always found the earring thing to be very gross; breakfast club is not my favorite. I always went very swoony for andrew mccarthy in pretty in pink, although I’m not going to rewatch it because I’m sure I’d find problems if I did, and also sixteen candles! jake is so hot. poor caroline, though. justice for caroline!

I think as with all tropes it depends how you execute them, so I wouldn’t say there’s any single thing that’s always annoying. I know people hate miscommunication as a mechanism for relationship issues but like, that is what people are like, so it’s not like it’s unrealistic; just frustrating. with the exception of serendipity, because THAT is unnecessary bullshit

OH I do have one opinion that I’m not sure people agree with, and it is: THE ROMANTIC GESTURE IN “ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE” IS THE LEAST ROMANTIC THING I’VE EVER SEEN. if your grand gesture is to interrupt the heroine’s moment of success and make it all about you, the extremely average man who has done literally nothing, it’s not love, it’s just a performance! ugh I was so pissed at that, I can’t think about that movie without getting really angry. actually I’m sure there are lots of movies that piss me off OH

OH, HERE WE GO

this is my least popular opinion of all time. are you ready? nobody has ever agreed with me but also nobody can change my mind

titanic isn’t a love story. rose says “I love you” to jack three times. he says it back zero. I COUNTED. titanic is a movie about a poor but decent boy having the first real adventure of his life when he gets a lucky ticket aboard this grand unsinkable ship and he successfully romps around and has sex with a pretty rich girl. BUT THEN, ACT II. when the boat starts sinking and she chases after him DESPITE HIM TELLING HER TO GET ON THE BOAT AND SAVE HER OWN LIFE SO THAT HE CAN WORRY ABOUT HIMSELF, he feels obligated to not let her die as any decent person would. ultimately in trying to save both their lives, he dies. the end

[daisylincs]

get to know me tag

I was tagged by @the-9muses, @missinglittlebritishfriend, @aleksandrachaev - thanks, loves 🥺🥺 Yours were fab!

Name/Nickname: Lily (which yes is short for something, no it's not embarrassing just very British, as Kat LOVES to mock me about)

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Virgo (and fortunately/unfortunately with all the perfectionism typical of that sign)

Height: 166cm (and nO I am not trying to convert that into feet and whatnot. Sorry, Americans, but your system makes NO SENSE. Ugh)

Time: 9:45 AM, desperately procrastinating setting into my final round of prep work for classes starting next week

Birthday: 2 September

Favorite Bands: like my wife, I'm a BIG fan of musicals, pretty much all musicals, so... Hamilton, Hadestown, Wicked, Les Mis, Moulin Rouge!, Evita, Chicago, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, The Lion King. I'm also very into movie soundtracks, basically anything Disney or related to Lin-Manuel Miranda 😝😍

As bands go, Imagine Dragons, Florence + The Machine and ABBA are fab, too!

Favorite Solo Artists: Ed Sheeran, classical musicians do not count shut UP brain, Taylor Swift?? (hissssss @ Kat)

Song Stuck In My Head: Afterglow by Ed Sheeran

Last Movie: The Old Guard, rewatch #4. It's just SO DAMN COOL, guys

Last Show: Us (and no, not just for Iain, either, though ngl he's a big benefit. It's a great show, though, I'm loving it so far!)

When Did I Create This Blog: the 5th of May 2020, apparently! Feels like a lot longer to me, lol, but, yup, I'm a lockdown baby! 😝

What I Post: Fics, reblogs of other people's amazing creations, and occasionally random nonsense

Last Thing I Googled: "Lockdown UK live updates" - because, yes, that's what my TV show binging and spectacular denial levels lately have allll been caused by :/

Other blogs: Yes! I created and am an admin of agentsofchallenges, the Challenges of SHIELD blog we part-run from our fandom friends Discord. I'm also an admin for aos-angst-war, the blog we made for, surprisingly, the AoS Angst War (before we were smart enough to come up with agentsofchallenges, lmao)

Following: 387, apparently - w h o a, how'd that happen?? Too many amazing people out there, that's all I'm saying.

Followers: 237, which makes me think of three things immediately: one, there seems to be a sevens theme going on with "follow-" words today. Cool beans! Two, OH MY GOSH PAST TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOLLOWERS Already??? Every time I look at this statistic, it's more, and my eyes want to pop out of my head. I mean, I'm SO flattered, guys, but also w t f!!! Ahhhhhhhh, it's more than a little unbelievable. (!!!) Anyway, and, three, hnsjdskhsghsjhd, I'm an awful person, I haven't even completed my Hundred Followers Celebration yet!! Better get right on that 😬🤦‍♀️🥰

Average hours of sleep: 6/7 in work-time, because teaching is a full-time job and I need to be 100% functional. In the holidays, though... yeek. Anybody's guess!! I often go to sleep in the very wee hours of the night (2, 3am) but then I'm also a lazy ass and only get up at 10, so... About the same, actually!!

Lucky number: ehhh, I don't really have one, I'm not superstitious like that, really - EXCEPT, WAIT, NO, I TOTALLY DO. Of course I do!! 42. The answer to life, the universe, and everything, my friends :D

Instruments: I play piano and violin professionally, and a little bit of cello, badly 🤣

What I Am Wearing: an old grey-green pair of drawstring sweatpants, and an oversized white sweatshirt. My isolation suit, guys!

Dream Job: ohhh, gosh, well. I've always had a passion for both music and teaching, and I've known this is what I want to do for years, so I'm kinda... in it?? Lucky me, I know, lol 🤣😍 If I could have anything, though, I'd probably want to be an actress, or a singer-songwriter. Or both!! Or, I know, a Marvel screenplay writer for the Quake/Secret Warriors alternate universe spinoff 🤣😝

Dream Trip: ohhhh, MAN, well - I'm an incurable romantic at heart, so, the Seychelles with my boyfriend? Or maybe, to be a fangirl and a romantic (which is just goals, honestly) Tahiti!! Yup, yup, that's my final answer. I want an all-expenses-paid, full-luxury trip to Tahiti - I hear it's a magical place 😝😍🏖️

Favorite Food: I've recently been visiting my family in Ireland (before lockdown screwed everything over for me UGH) so, my nan's chocolate shortbread!! The actual BEST biscuits you'll ever taste 😍😍😍

Nationality: British-Irish (yes, I have a dual citizenship, which I think is pretty wicked)

Favorite Song: Impossible. Question. And one you'll get a different answer to every time you ask it!! Currently, though, I'm going to have to say Nancy Mulligan, for all the family nostalgia and happy memories it brings up for me 💜

Last Book I Read: Ugh, this is probably the LEAST exciting answer you could even dream of, but... A2 GCSE Music Syllabus and Teacher's Guide - 2021 Revised Edition. Yeah, prepping for work SUCKS.

Top 3 Fictional Universes I’d Like To Live In: The MCU, but very specifically season 3A of Agents of SHIELD, so I could meet all my babies when they were happy(ish) and tell them how much I adore them 🥺🥺💜 Also, the Wizarding World post-the Second Wizarding War (because if I'm living in the world I'm not affected by JKR's crap). And for number three, OOH!! Storybrooke post-season 6 (and happily pretending season 7 never happens.) Yes please!!

Oooh, gosh, well, this was loads of fun, and a great distraction from work... though, in all seriousness, I should probably get to that now. Before I go, though, I'm going to tag @eowima, @que-mint-tea, @justanalto, @apathbacktoyou, @springmagpies, @maybebrilliant, @loved-the-stars-too-fondly, @nazezdha321, @besidemethewholedamntime and @fitzsimmonkeys, if any of you guys want to do this! 🥰💜

[purplesurveys]

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Have you ever shared a shower or bath with someone as an adult? I did it a couple of times with a past girlfriend, but I’m honestly not a fan of it unless I’m somewhere with a serious lack of bathrooms and it’s the only choice available. I like my space when I get myself all cleaned up lol.

What kind of pizza toppings do you like?  Different kinds of cheeses do it for me, really. If I absolutely have to pick toppings, I do like bacon, bell peppers, barbecue chicken, or onions on my pizza.

When did you first take a shot of alcohol?  I have no idea, actually. Maybe 20? 21? I never noted the year down. I don’t even know the first shot I ever took...if I had to guess, it was probably tequila.

Did you babysit for money when you were in middle school? No. I babysat because I was the eldest daughter and granddaughter in an Asian household, haha.

Who is your favorite band? How long have they been?  Paramore; 17 years, have loved them for 14.

Has the last person you kissed ever been to your house? Many times. She used to be a welcome guest.

Have you ever been to a spa?  I don’t think I’ve ever entered one, no. There’s been no reason to in the past.

When talking on the phone, do you place it against your left or right ear? Right. I don’t remember ever placing it on my left, come to think of it.

What’s your favourite Lunchables meal?  Idk, I’ve never had them. American thing, I’m guessing.

Do you like Bob Marley?  I don’t hold an opinion on him; I’ve never tried listening to his music.

Have you ever eaten at Golden Corral? Nope, I don’t know what that is, either.

Do you sit and eat dinner at the same table with your family?  Yes, we have dinner together every night. We’ve been doing it since the start of the pandemic; and, with that, since my dad has had to stay at home since he can’t report to work anyway considering the situation. I imagine we’d be back to eating separately once he can report back to his job.

Are you listening to any music right now? If so, what are you listening to?  Yeah, I’m listening to Map of the Soul: 7 and UGH! just started playing. This is such a good FUCKING album it’s absolutely insane how good it is. Whatever spirit possessed BTS throughout 2019 to produce an album this unbelievable wasn’t playing.

Who was the last person to make you genuinely smile?  Hobi, since I rewatched the Run BTS segment where he called Conan O’Brien ‘Curtain.’

Is there something you want to say to someone but can’t/won’t? No.

Do you like men who have a sensitive side?  I think it’s nice when anyone has a sensitive side and isn’t ashamed to be in touch and expressive with their emotions. Doesn’t have to apply to just guys.

Have you ever tried to get someone into a certain band/artist?  I don’t do that with any of my interests because I don’t want to potentially irritate or bore someone, or to potentially face the disappointment I’d feel when they don’t end up being enthusiastic about what I’m into. I’m totally okay with my interests just being My Thing, no need to drag other people into them.

Have you ever carved you and someone else’s initials into a tree?  Nopes.

Do you like Dairy Queen?  Just some items, like their Oreo Frappe or whatever it’s called. I’m not a big fan of ice cream cakes and I’ve never really explored their Blizzards.

Is there anyone you know with an amazing personal success story?  Andi.

Is there a song in a different language that you can sing? Well Filipino is my first language rather than English, so yes.

How do you feel about bands that use pyrotechnics in live concerts?  I’ve never experienced this other than One Direction using fireworks at the end of their concert here (and they weren’t launched from the stage either, but somewhere backstage), so I don’t really know what to feel about this other than they should just make sure they’re following safety protocols and standards to avoid mishaps.

Ever fallen down a hole?  I don’t think so.

Do you like bananas?  Not so much, but I don’t passionately hate it as much as I do other fruits. I do like some dishes that incorporate banana, like banana bread and banoffee pie. Recently I discovered Korean banana milk and it ended up tasting pretty good!

How long do you normally spend in the shower? Not even 10 minutes, usually. I've never understood how people can take such long showers. < Yeah, pretty much on the same page. The only times I take a while is if I feel like shaving, but otherwise I shower quickly. Maybe around 4–7 minutes at most.

Have you ever been a featured member on any website?  I don’t think that ever happened, at least when having featured members was still a thing.

Have you ever had any weird pets?  Nope.

Are you currently talking to/texting/instant messaging anyone?  I am not. Though I know I have unread messages from Andi...I just don’t feel like checking them right now.

Have you ever experienced insomnia?  Only when I was a teenager. It’s been a while since I’ve faced any trouble in trying to fall asleep.

Do you like egg nog? I’ve never had a chance to try it but it sounds delicious, and I would definitely take a sip the first opportunity I get.

Would you ever wear Converse with a prom/formal dress?  I don’t see why I would have to but if it’s just for funsies, it sounds pretty harmless so yeah, I would.

Do you prefer hot chocolate with or without marshmallows?  Withoooooooooout. I’ve never understood marshmallows.

How many different people of the opposite sex have you cried over?  In a romantic sense, none. But I’ve cried for other reasons, like when I mourned over my grandpa and Nacho.

Would you rather be a surgeon or mortician?  Surgeon, since there’s a tiny part in me that had always wanted to take up med school.

Would rather be a musician or a painter? Painter, if anything. I’m not creative by any means, but I feel like I’d enjoy a lot more freedom with painting.

Would you rather write your own book or make your own movie? [continued from last night] Write my own book I suppose, but I could only work with non-fiction. I’d embarass myself if I had to write something not based off of real life.

At home, do you have a trampoline? No. But this reminds me of when we’d go to Rita’s place to have meetings whenever we couldn’t hold them in school. She’s the richest one out of all of us, lives in a very old money village, big-ass house, big-ass kitchen, big-ass receiving areas (plural)...and they also have a nice trampoline in their big-ass yard. We always used to horse around in there as soon as we were done with our meetings.

When you are about to go to bed, do you put on some sort of noise?  I used to put on a YouTube video that would entertain me enough to feel relaxed and eventually sleepy, but I haven’t done that in the last few weeks. These days I usually look for a fanfic to get absorbed in, then I read until my eyes start feeling heavy.

What is your favorite Christmas movie?  Love Actually or It’s A Wonderful Life.

And what about your favorite Christmas song?  It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas makes me feel festive and fuzzy.

What is your ultimate favorite stocking stuffer?  My family doesn’t really keep up with this tradition. I remember how our grandparents would fix up stockings for us when we were much younger, but they were usually filled with candy. 

After Halloween, do you sort out all of your candy into little piles?  I never collected candy for Halloween.

When you listen to music with headphones, do you keep the volume low enough to hear surrounding noise faintly, or do you blast it?  Depends. The rare times I’m working and do feel like putting headphones on, the volume has to be just decent enough so I can still focus. If I’m not doing anything else or at least doing something that doesn’t involve too much ~brain activity~, I like my music very loud.

What did you have for breakfast this morning?  It doesn’t really count as breakfast but I’m currently finishing off the remaining two pieces of McNuggets I got last night. 10 pieces is apparently too many for my appetite, haha.

What’s the largest animal you’ve ever had as a pet?  Cooper has probably been the biggest and heaviest so far.

Do you own any kind of helmet?  We have a bike helmet here at home, but it’s not exclusively mine.

Out of everything currently in your refrigerator, what food or drink is your favorite?  I don’t memorize the fridge so I can’t tell you my favorite food that’s currently in it; as for drink, I just stick to cold water.

What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?  Sprained ankle after I tripped at one of the parking lots in school.

Do you like the taste of cough syrup?  I’ve never had it.

What is something you like to have conversations about?  People with experiences vastly different from mine, because it lets me explore different perspectives. It’s why I always look forward to family reunions with one of my uncles - who’s a foreigner, from a very different country - since he’s able to share a lot of fun and reflective stories about his life and stuff he did in his youth, stuff I never got to experience and live through.

What all is in the trunk of your car?  The trunk used to be my trash can lmao, back when I was still driving everyday. My mom has since cleared it out since the beginning of the pandemic; I believe only a laptop bag is sitting there now.

Do you ever put fruit on your cereal? No. I don’t even eat either.

Is your heat or air conditioning currently on?  My electric fan is. I don’t turn on the aircon until the evening.

Have you ever fallen off of a horse?  Nopes.

Which do you value more, your appearance or your intelligence?  Both are important to me.

When was the last time you drove something other than a car or truck?  I don’t remember. I’ve only ever driven cars.

Were your grandparents present when you were born?  Neither set wasn’t in any of the photos from my birth, so I don’t think so...? My maternal grandparents definitely wouldn’t have been present, since my parents had been living in Manila then.

If you drink/smoke, how often do you do these things?  I vape...pretty much all day. I’m doing it while taking this survey. As for drink, I would say 1-2 times a month. Usually after a particularly grueling shift.

What do you think of fast food?  I love it. Unabashedly. I just don’t have them a lot because I don’t find it filling and the quality is obviously lower; but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the way fast food tastes.

What website do you spend the most time on and why?  Google Suite, if it counts. I work 5 days a week; it’s pretty much an extension of me at this point.

What’s the most amount of time you’ve spent online? Is this usual for you?  All day. I’m always using the internet to do things. I used to be embarrassed of it, but these days I feel like having a connection is virtually an essential.

When it comes to travel, what kinds of places intrigue you most? Museums, historical sites, cultural sites, and spots where they show you how they do practices native to the place. I’ve always been about immersing myself in the cultures of the places I visit.

What is the farthest you’ve walked in one day and what made you do it?  I remember having to walk for a very very very VERY long time when we were in Bali - my family wanted to explore more of the city - and the weather wasn’t cooperative at all, so I ended up feeling super cranky. I remember also walking around a lot in Shanghai, but that was a slightly better experience since the city was incredibly lively and there were a lot of things to see and stop at; not to mention the weather was also kinda pleasant. The cold was biting but I would always rather be too cold than walk around with sweat-soaked clothes.

What is something important that’s often on your mind lately?  Our financial situation what with Covid affecting both my parents’ jobs. We get by enough for me not to worry too much, but I also hope my dad can get called back to his ship soon just so I can finally exhale with relief.

What about something unimportant, but you can’t stop thinking about it?  My workplace recently introduced this workout challenge thingy for the month of May that we’re invited to join to encourage us to get fit and healthy. I get notifications whenever someone’s able to exercise for the day and it makes me feel super pressured hahahaha. Since I don’t wanna be known as a killjoy co-worker I know I’ll have to take part in it, which I will start on later.

Do you like oatmeal? If so, what kinds of things do you like in it?  No. Back in elementary my grandma made me eat oatmeal every day for breakfast before heading to school, so I don’t ever want to have another bowl of it.

What was going on the last time you felt nostalgic?  My family and I were having a conversation during dinner last night and for some reason it eventually veered towards mine and my sister’s experiences from our first school and how we managed to get up at 5 AM everyday, have classes from 7 AM–4 PM, then get home from anywhere between 5–6 PM for 14 years straight. How tf did we do that and never complain???

How much attention do you pay to the movements of the stars and planets, and do you believe they influence anything?  None.

What is the most difficult or involved video game you’ve ever played?  While I love watching playthroughs, I am not skilled at video games at all and in most video games I’ve played I never made it past the first mission, unless I was playing a Nintendo game that’s already marketed for kids in the first place lol.

Which accent do you find most sexy, alluring or appealing?  There’s a certain British accent I find very pleasant to listen to, but since I know there are a lot of variations I’m just not sure which one it is. I guess an accurate point of reference would be Hugh Grant’s or Florence Pugh’s accent.

Which accent do you find most annoying, disturbing, or bothersome?  None of them.

Can you cry on cue? Is it any kind of useful?  Nope.

Does it take you a while to actually get jokes?  Sometimes.

Can you wear socks to bed or does it annoy you?  I don’t really like the feeling of socks, so no. I find them a bit itchy, and too tight.

Have you ever bleached your hair?  Never done it before.

Do you like jelly beans?  Erm, it would depend on the flavor, I guess. But they aren’t so much my snack of choice. The texture is a bit weird.

Do you have trouble sleeping when it’s storming?  Not at all, I feel a lot cozier when it’s raining hard.

Who was the last person you know that graduated? (high school or college)  Sofie posted her graduation photo not too long ago, so probably her.

Were you happy or sad when you found out your babysitter was coming?  I never had a babysitter because I was the babysitter.

Did you have a boyfriend in kindergarten?  No. I went to an all-girls school, so I didn’t even get to interact with a lot of boys until the middle of high school.

Did you ever read the Magic Treehouse series?  Nope.

Who was your best friend in elementary school?  Angela. I was also friends for a long time with a girl named Jaynie, with whom I actually started to reconnect ever since she found out I was now into BTS. I find it so cool; I don’t think I’ve talked to her since the 2nd grade, 15 years ago.

Did you ever watch The Land Before Time movies?  I didn’t.

Did you collect anything when you were a kid? Stickers. I'd put them on my dresser everywhere to the point it was absolutely covered. < Literally this entire answer; I don’t have any clue how my overly neat mom managed to never spank me for destroying her closet. I also liked collecting Pokemon cards and pogs even though I never knew how to use them. It just felt nice having large stacks of them lol.

Did you get an allowance?  Not until high school. My grandma (and eventually househelp, when we moved) fixed up packed lunches for me and my siblings. When my mom decided to stop having house helpers at home, that’s when she started giving us an allowance to buy recess and lunch ourselves.

Were you into American Girl dolls?  I was never into dolls in general. Since my sister and I were the only girls at home, we were surrounded by toys marketed for boys and that’s what I enjoyed playing with more.

Were you friends with your childhood neighbors?  We played with the neighborhood kids every afternoon but I wouldn’t call them friends. I was a very shy kid and I found them too rowdy for my liking, especially the boys.

What was your biggest fear when you were a kid?  Flying cockroaches. It’s still one of them.

Did you ever play the "Reader Rabbit" computer games?  I don’t think so.

Did your parents let you drink soda growing up? I’m pretty sure they would’ve allowed me to, but I just never liked the feeling of fizzy drinks so I never drank soda anyway.

What was your favorite kind of cake as a kid?  I think I liked mocha sponge cakes growing up, but that has changed now.

[babysundoll]

This is a pretty long post about questions and theories I have about Customer Service from Kirby, so I'm just giving you a warning about how long its gonna be.

So I've been rewatching the kirby anime solely for the purpose of seeing Customer Service because I love him and he makes my heart warm even though he's an evil bitch. But there's some things about him that make me question what his position at Holy Nightmare/Nightmare Enterprises actually is besides just being a simple salesman.

For being a salesman, he has a pretty high status at Nightmares base considering he works in the command center, and the fact that Nightmare is almost always lurking behind him and they discuss their evil plans together.

And we also see in the movie he has the power to send out the Destroya ships and tell the base to be ready for an attack because an enemy is coming. That's a pretty high rank if I say so myself. And there's also instances where, in the episode with the Power up D or Pump up D drink (whichever it is), his face is on the vending machine that's selling the drinks in the village.

That's made me think that being a salesman isn't his only job at the base. I feel, in a way, that he could be the "public face" the customers and buyers of Nightmare's company see's when they look into buying something from the company instead of seeing Nightmare's face, for reasons I don't know other than Nightmare not wanting to make a fool of himself by being on a tv screen and telling people to buy his stuff.

And both Nightmare and Customer Service look very similar in appearance. If Nightmare made him, which I assume he did because of how similar they look, maybe that's Nightmare's way of showing to his customers that even though they are seeing a salesman on a tv or poster, you're being reminded of who you're buying from because of the resemblance. But you're seeing a prettier, more welcoming face while doing it.

And it's also kind of weird to me how whenever King Dedede brings his screen out to talk to CS, he's ALWAYS there ready to talk. As if there isn't any other buyer looking forward to purchase something that he talks to, or if he has abosolutley nothing else to do. Maybe CS is designated to be Dedede's salesman? Maybe Nightmare knows that Kirby will make his way to Popstar and wants to keep a close eye on him, telling CS to manipulate Dedede into buying the demon beasts to fight Kirby hoping he will get killed so he doesn't have to worry about it (we all know that didn't work).

And this is probably one of the more questionable things about CS, but why hasn't he gotten fired yet? If theres the chance that Nightmare didn't designate CS for Dedede and it's totally random, there were plenty of moments in the show that would make you think he should've gotten fired over. For example, Knuckle Joe was able to trick CS into sending out their strongest demon beast Masher, by making him think that he wanted to join Nightmare's side, only to pull out an uno reverse card and kill Masher with Kirby. And then in the episode when everyone is sick in the japanese version, CS says that if he doesn't start selling their products more then he'll be fired and the company will go bankrupt, which sounds impossible considering they took over like 90% of the universe. They should have all the resources they need.

And don't get me started on how poor of a job CS does getting money from Dedede after he buys something. Even if he tells the king he can't purchase anything because of his overdue bills, he STILL for some reason is sending Dedede stuff. Like, huh? It doesn't make sense. He surely should've gotten fired for giving away Nightmare's products and not getting any money from it. And then he's worried about going bankrupt? Um, if I'm correct, it should be CS's fault they're going bankrupt because he's not getting any money from Dedede, but STILL SENDING HIM STUFF.

Maybe Nightmare likes him too much to let him go. If CS made a mistake and apologizes for it, or says he'll willfully clear out his desk and leave, Nightmare says don't worry about it and tells him to stay, that it's not a big deal. Nightmare probably has to much pride in the little devil he made and wants to keep him even if he messes up.

Nightmare probably sees him as a prize for scamming people and tricking them. And the fact Nightmare is always with him, even though his base is the size of a PLANET, which probably has so many other sales people in it, tells me that Nightmare likes him a lot more than the usual demon beast.

Ugh, my brain hurts from all this thinking. I get too attached to Kirby characters WAY to often and I question their entire existence whilst making up fake scenarios in my head about them.

Anyways, that's what I have to say about CS. He's to perfect to not talk about.

Also I wanna thank @operationhoshinokaabii for putting subtitles on those last 20 or 30 episodes of the japanese version on daily motion because I never knew what they were saying because no one had put subtitles on those before. Thank you!

[tokiro07]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes a piece of art “good,” not just on a person-to-person level, but culturally

I’ve been rewatching a lot of Nostalgia Critic lately for whatever reason, and there was a point where he noted that he didn’t think that the I Am Legend film lived up to the hype he had heard about the book, but when he saw the alternate ending (closer to the book), it made sense that I Am Legend was “one of the great stories”

And that designation has been bugging me

What are “the great stories”? Who decides what that is, and why does one version get to be called that while the other doesn’t?

Is it just because it’s memorable? The way he described it, the movie’s ending was fairly standard for a film, where a hero sacrifices himself so that the day may be saved, and therefore pretty forgettable. The book, on the other hand, repaints the entirety of its story in the direct opposite light at the end, with the hero turning out to be the villain to the “monsters” that have, at this point, inherited the Earth and are building their own societies. He wasn’t actually doing anything to the benefit of humanity, he was just hurting the progress of the new humans. That’s definitely super interesting and, looking at its longevity, it’s definitely stuck with people, but why? Was it just because it was interesting? Different? Well executed? All of the above?

Moreover, it’s not hard to see why some people may not like that ending. It invalidates everything that the main character was doing throughout the story, potentially making the story feel pointless. I think that interpretation would be missing the point that the story is trying to make in the first place, but it’s one people could make that may impact their ability to enjoy it

Is that the only difference? That MORE people liked it than didn’t? That more people told their friends about it saying “it’s so cool! It turns out that HE’S the real monster!” instead of “ugh, it’s so stupid! It turns out that HE’S the real monster...”?

You really can just describe a story exactly as it is, and all it takes is saying it with excitement or spite to change whether you’re presenting it as good or bad. But is there anything inherently good or bad about any writing decision? Aside from those that are outright or even subtly harmful to the viewer(s), of course

Does it even matter? When creating a piece of art, should one even be concerned with whether it has the potential to become “one of the greats”? Should one strive to say something new or different or memorable? Or should they only worry about making something that they themselves can be satisfied with and look at with pride? Does a lasting piece of art only come naturally from those speaking from their heart, or only from those crafting a specific message? Can it come from both just as easily as both can fail to do so? Hell, some people fail so spectacularly that it circles around to cult status, regardless of which approach they took

Is the true value of art not in the inherent quality of any given piece, but the quantity of pieces being created at all times naturally producing diamonds within the tremendous wave of rough? Does the ever present existence of “lower quality” art validate the existence of “the greats”? Can one exist without the other? Would we judge each differently if they were the only thing available?