#which ig is always the case anyway but i mean REALLY close

[rubys-domain]

okay now i'm torn

should i build a razor hyperbloom team or a sucrose hyperbloom team?

[fortemelody]

AHHHSHFBTKFNTLFKGNFMDM SONIC 3 TRAILER SONIC 3 TRAILER SONIC 3 TRAILER IM LOOSING MY SHIT RN

here’s some things i noticed/wondered/loved:

- i think in that scene where tom is on the ground yelling for sonic, he is wearing a special forces suit. maybe he upgraded from cop to working with gun?? if so i think that’s a really good use of his character actually! he wanted to save a life and raise a family above all else yes, but he still got his previous dream of doing more serious cop work!

- shadow just. has a big ass portal?? like holy shit he’s just suckin the life outta earth and ig that’s one way to do it (or maybe it’s just a ring and i’m stupid idek)

- i’m sure we’ll learn more about this in the actual movie so i’m not too worried, but i’m super confused at the very beginning scene. apparently sonic didn’t change his heart…but he did tho? like he learned what being a true hero meant in the last movie. tbh i feel like that’s enough but hey i’m not against more character development for our boy so!! (also that bit where he’s like “in my lungs” was actually really funny to me, ben schwartz’ awesome delivery caught me off guard)

- GERALD ROBOTNIK ALIVE HUUUUH?! tbh i would’ve preferred if maria was alive, i feel like that would be an interesting dynamic. but also ig that would make it harder for shadow to learn anything so i totally get it. anyways i’m just glad they’re putting a little twist on the story, it keeps it interesting. they already sorta did that with the knuckles and iblis thing actually! (even if that show sucked ass and although that probably wasn’t intentional 😭)

- even tho bro only got like… 3 lines, i really think keanu fits shadow. he’s very soft spoken in comparison to the rest of the case which feels nice. also he’s like the “really bad” guy so ofc he’s not gonna be yappin on and on like sonic or robotnik and he’s gonna take things uber seriously.

- where was my girl maddie :( i think she was only in like a singular frame. hope shes in the movie a somewhat significant amount. i heart pretzel lady!! could live without wade tho like pls im so sick of his bowling soap opera 💀

- FAT ROBOTNIK FAT ROBOTNIK FAT ROBOTNIK!!! after fucking 3 movies they finally fulfilled jim carrey’s wishes!! let the man get creative like please i love jim carrey sm aughdfhfnfmschxj. also love how we got so much stobonik content within that short scene like jesus come get y’all’s food

- shadow at one point says something along the lines of “when we’re done, there won’t be anything left.” maybe i’m reading WAY to into this but what does the “we’re” part mean?? is he working with others? i feel like this is either gonna be team dark or some new movie exclusive character(s). edit: someone made a valid point that he’s actually probably referring to gerald (look at reblogs!)

-CHAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lowkey wonder if the room therye in is like an amusement park or somethin like that

- no sign of amy :( but honestly my prediction now is that she’s gonna be the post credit scene teaser cus they always do a new character reveal there. first tails, then shadow. and honestly now i think it might be better that way so shadow can have a chance to breathe and show his story in full. i’m pretty sure i vaguely remember colleen (tails’ VA) being kinda mysterious about amy’s appearance when asked, and also the fact that it was confirmed that this isn’t the end of the movie franchise/universe. but ig we’ll just have to wait and see!

so sorry i stated this yesterday morning to give my initial thoughts but then got busy and completely forgot to post/finish it. and today i started (and am close to finishing) a very long edit of the trailer, so be on the look out for that too!

genuinely i feel like this movie is gonna somehow be even more record breaking than any of the previous movies and i am so here for the hype 🙏

[all-too-unwell-13]

the seven (+ nico and reyna) if they were children if minor gods/goddesses

percy - i'm not gonna lie, it was so hard to find a minor god for percy. the best one i found is basically just another god the sea: nereus. he was a son of primordial gods; gaea (sorry for that, percy, omg 😭) and pontus, primordial god of the ocean. anyway, nereus was also a god of wisdom, prophetic visions (so it would kind of make sense for percy to be a 'prophecy child' if his dad was a prophecy god ig), and change. also! nereus valued loyalty (and, if we excuse demigod children lmao, he was loyal to his wife), and loyalty is percy's fatal flaw.

annabeth - themis, the greek goddess of justice, order, and overall fairness (not unlike nemesis), which are all values that i think annabeth holds close to her. themis is also depicted to be extremely wise (and sometimes she's also called a goddess of wisdom), another trait that annabeth believes in.

jason - aiolos, roman god of the wind (the greek version is aeolus). he's also known as the 'keeper of the four winds,' meaning he also controlled storm winds, so jason would likely have similar powers to children of jupiter. also, his name means 'quick-moving.' jason already has powers relating to storms and winds (those are his main powers, other than lightning), and being a son of aiolos would likely just increase his power over wind.

leo - i honestly couldn't find any minor gods that suit leo, but i think pallas, greek god of warcraft/handcrafts (and in some cases - 'useful arts,' which i'm taking to mean machines/mechanics, etc.). pallas is often also related to athena, goddess of wisdom, but i believe he's depicted as more of a 'quick-thinker,' which suits leo a lot.

piper - psyche, greek goddess of the soul; she's described, in mythology, as a mortal-turned-goddess whose beauty rivalled aphrodite's. the goddess represents passions, as well as misfortunes. this means piper could likely still have charmspeak because of psyche's close relation/similarity to aphrodite.

hazel - i feel like this one's sort of obvious; hecate. not only is she goddess of the mist and magic, but also ghosts, so hazel would have similar powers to a child of hades/pluto. hazel is already shown to have powers over the mist, and hecate is often associated with gemstones/crystals, which hazel can also already control.

frank - i really couldn't find many gods for frank, but i think honos, the greek god of honour, works well. he also represents glory, and in some cases, bravery. these are all some of frank's best qualities - ones that he himself actually values a lot too. additionally, honos symbolises victory and achievement, which are more qualities that frank would need for his role as praetor, etc.

nico - ok. so. the best one i could find was erebus; primordial god of shadows and darkness. he's also the god of a particularly dark part of the underworld, so it's likely he'd also have control over ghosts and bones (like nico does). this probably also means children of erebus could shadow-travel. and, although he isn't always perceived as powerful, erebus is. one interesting thing about erebus - even though he is not explicitly evil, his name is often used interchangeably with tartarus (which, if we're talking about experiences with tartarus: this could be an added factor as to why nico went to tartarus so confidently. if he didn't know enough about his father, he might've assumed he could be okay through tartarus.)

reyna - fides, roman goddess of loyalty and trust. fides is said to represent everything 'required for honour and credibility.' throughout the heroes of olympus, it's clear that honour and trust are two things reyna values deeply. it's also said that fides embodies everything needed for soldiers in rome, which, as praetor (for a long time), reyna is to be considered a soldier of new rome. additionally, loyalty and faithfulness are two qualities valued by artemis and her huntresses.

[batsplat]

I know Marc probably doesn’t have as many fun or interesting races like Vale does because he kinda just sometimes fucked off at the front, but do you have any favourite Marc races that aren’t necessarily race recs based on pure racing and battles but are fun based on something that has gone on during the race weekend. (Like one of my favourite Marc races is Misano 2019 purely because of how crazy he went in Parc ferme after he won.

(Also Marc didn’t really do celebrations regularly or as in-depth as Vales so I couldn’t ask for favourites list for that but do you have an favourite title celebrations that Marc did?)

oh this is a tricky one - first off, I do think marc has a very solid line up of fun races! maybe not quite as extensive as valentino's, but also that's partly a function of how particular racing eras played out and just how long valentino was at the sharp end of the sport. also, marc is proportionately involved in more fun races where he ends up losing than valentino, but like. that doesn't mean it's not still a fun race!! he's involved in like... seven proper excellent races in 2019, even if he comes second in four of them. idk he's always very 'well I learn most from my defeats!!!!' which might partly be #cope but it's not no longer a good marc race just because he comes off second best. assen 2015 is one of my favourite marc races in the same way that sachsenring 2003 is one of my favourite valentino races, just how it is sometimes

on the favourite title celebrations, just to quickly cover that one - my favourite was the pool table one mainly because I feel like that's. quite a gutsy celebration to do. remember when fabio repeatedly fucked up taking a whack at a golf ball? and that shouldn't have been THAT hard... like you're kinda under pressure!! the pool table thing is not a HARD shot but it's a theoretically-fuck-up-able shot, and if it's your title celebration everyone will remember you fucking it up... so I kinda respect that. I googled it to maybe pull up a clip and I immediately got hit by this headline from our friends at the daily star

my god why does everybody have to be so bloody miserable about this stuff. let guys be cringe 2k19

anyway have a photo instead ig

lovely stuff. again I mostly just like it because of the 'having to make the actual shot' business, idt there was any particular meaning beyond it being his eighth title? which is fine. I thought it was nice when I watched it in any case

coming back to races with other stuff happening that race weekend... this is the kind of thing where I might have to come up with better examples because it's kinda a tricky one, I'm sure there ARE quite a few fun ones but. yeah. I'll properly go through my notes at some point. for now, my pick is catalunya 2019. as we've once again established this season, marc is perfectly capable of being fast at that track but it's certainly not... his favourite. and he was kinda weirdly off his game all weekend... unsettled, uncharacteristically tetchy, not entirely clear why. this was round seven of the title and despite how utterly dominant the season eventually became, marc's cota crash had injected a faux sense of competitiveness into proceedings. as stated above, not really a track where marc had particularly thrived, whereas ducatis had won there the two previous years - so it was very plausible that dovi would be closing the gap. beyond his actual tone in the media, he deployed his classic tell of feeling a bit uneasy and decided to stalk certain riders around the track. god knows why but apparently marc's way of coping with stress that year was just latching onto valentino's rear tyre... you mention misano, which of course comes right after two back to back last lap defeats - the drama comes in qualifying, but that's not even the first session that weekend where marc was glued to valentino. we all work through things in different ways, I suppose. in catalunya, valentino shrugs it off and basically goes 'well it's annoying but smart', but marc still is pretty irritable in press at the suggestion he's been doing a lot of stalking of his competitors that weekend. he also has a run-in with jorge during fp3, basically the first bit of minor drama they'd had as teammates - where marc was "so angry" at jorge for coasting on the racing line

now, I'm gonna be honest. at the time, all of this set off something in my brain... let's call it the argentina instinct. argentina 2018 had quite a similar feel where marc was like... not completely settled that weekend, the vibes were off, just something in the air that in retrospect helped set the stage for the entire fiasco. so I'll say it: given marc's catalunya record, given the events of that weekend, given that marc's most established rivals in valentino, dovi and vinales had all qualified on the second row... I sat down for that race with expectations. I fully thought we might be about to witness some generational levels of headloss from marc. if my affinity for making dumb rankings was ever in doubt, I quite literally had a list of what I thought would be the funniest possible outcomes for that race in my notes. it was genuinely the race I was the most hype for all year

look. having had half a decade to get over it, with the benefit of hindsight I can admit that this probably was one of the funniest ways that particular race could've unfolded. like, okay, you got me - I did not expect jorge, who had been at the fuck end of nowhere all year and had qualified in tenth, to get such an excellent start that he suddenly shot himself into the front running group. I was thrilled to see the initial close racing featuring marc and pretty much all of his established rivals riding in a pack. I was considerably less thrilled when marc by some INSANE stroke of luck overtook for the lead at essentially the same corner when jorge attempted an overtake of his own and managed to take out like. literally everyone. not only did this make the whole race basically a walkover - it meant that marc finished the weekend pulling 25 points clear of the blokes who had finished second, third and fourth the year before. at one of his weakest tracks on the calendar. like, it was so obviously over. the biggest highlight is when they show all three of valentino, dovi and vinales sitting in their boxes, whose expressions in that moment really spoke to something within me

so yeah, I think that one fits the brief. like the race in isolation is already pretty funny, but it's the entire weekend of build up that really makes it. you go into a race expecting bloodshed and instead it's just some guy playing bowling. and I still think I might have ended up being right, if the race had been allowed to normally unfold! sure, marc had just taken the lead, but it's really not a track where he generally clears off. especially not with dovi sitting right on his rear tyre. and marc was so clearly relieved after the race... took a moment to thank his whole honda team for the help they'd provided him, which was very nice of him. what are teammates for, right

[gojokinni]

Ok so first of all hi lol, very first time posting sm so the tags might be confusing...

But I really needed to rant about something that was bothering me in the JJK fandom !

I continually see tiktoks or fanfic about how Suguru and Gojo left Shoko behind and I don't know why I feel like it's a really simple way to see how it happened isn't it ?

Let me explain myself... I do agree that, indeed Shoko's friendship with the boys was different in nature but I've never felt like she was left behind. That's literally how real relationships works yk ? No matter how idealistic you want to be you'll always be closer to someone, than another, or it can be multiple person idk.

Gojo and Getou were close because they were similar, they got each other etc whereas Shoko often stayed in the school because of what she decided to pursue.

It did not necessarily mean that they did not love her or see her as a friend ! Take an example : you are in a friend group, you love all of them no? But more often that not you'll feel better with one or two person in it, it doesn't mean you do not love the others, it do not mean you wouldn't defend them or sm else, it simply mean that you see yourself do sleepover or shopping with these "special" friends a lil more... There is nothing taboo, that's just relationship complexity ig ?

I mean I even saw ppl saying that Gojo and Getou deserved what happened to them ( chap 236 if yk yk...) Bc they left her behind, and TF ???? Nobody deserve that whether or not they did leave someone behind, which is not even the case here !

But anyway that's why I don't feel like they left her behind ...

And for the ones saying that Gojo wasn't as close of her than Getou I still don't see what's the problem of that lol ???? LIKE I SAID FRIENDSHIP IS MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT EVEN MORE IN JJK !!!!!

I also searched what sparked this whole thing and it's bc of this one sentence Shoko said : What about me?

Please do not take it out of it's context, she says it after Getou explained how nobody was there, so I don't really see the link between her status in this friendship and this lol

She clearly says this to empathize that she's angry Getou did not see her as someone he could talk to . She does not refer to his relationship with Gojo at any point ????

Anyway, it kinda pissed me off yk, cause I'm pretty sure that if the team was composed of Gojo, Utahime and Shoko everyone would laugh their ass off if Utahime banned him from sleepovers or from coming shopping, eating with them, EVEN THOUGH THAT IS BEING LEFT OUT

I swear I'm not trying to be sexist, I'm a woman myself but really this double standard sometimes riles me up lol

I'm not saying my interpretation is the whole truth tho so please do not insult me, I won't respond, I'm not a Shoko hater AT ALL, I love her, it simply shocked me how her fans could exaggerate a situation that even her do no acknowledge as existant 🤷‍♀️

Anyway love you all jjk fans 😭💘

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

I don't know why everyone's pretending and saying Till's scars are because of stage props. Some may be, especially back in the day, but definitely not now. We all know from what those scars are. And lately, for clearly obvious reasons, they've gotten much worse. It's truly horrible to look at and not be cause it's grotesque, but just how low was he feeling to have done that.

And tonight, with his arm profusely bleeding because one of the wounds opened...horrific!

It's really painful to see a man his age still going through it. In various ways, you can tame whatever is going on in ones head, but unfortunately, Till's never been successful.

(warning: skip this post and definitely the links if you are triggered by self harm)

It *is* horrific 🥺 very troubling to watch 🥺

Unfortunately Till gets hurt and hurts himself a lot, has for years and it is still the case. And equally unfortunate is that it's not just simply for one reason either, because if that were the case i would hope that someone would step in and just remedy that one cause.

We know that he did occassionally get hurt by problems with equipment, the Engel wings are said to have left their scars, and he has mentioned in interviews getting burned by pyro. If that were the *only* reason for his injuries, then Rammstein crew or management really would need to step up their game, and try to prevent that from happening.

We also know that some of the stage antics have left Till getting hurt as well, most noticeably Flake breaking a tl lamp on his back in their early shows as a regular act, they talked about it in Rammstein in Amerika (how US lamps are much tougher to break). We know Till in earlier shows made a habit of hitting his head against a microphone or a metal stand (vividly remember Schneider wincing at that) and laughing maniacly after it. This is imo part of the way Till likes Rammstein stage antics to be. Same with the videos, the band is always applauded for their integrity of doing everything 'real', but that also means selfflagellation in the Rosenrot video is part of it. This is Rammstein, they like to do things like this, even if it makes some fans cringe.

Then we have the offstage stories of Till doing a drunk bar game with Peter Tagtgren of who could hold their hand over a flame longer (no points in guessing who won, and as i remember it, had to have a skingraft afterwards). Or cutting himself to bleed over his poetry pages to make it less boring and his entourage helping to swap the pages (there's another video of this where we see the entourage actually laughing and enjoying themselves while doing so, but i can't find it right now, and to be honest...i didn't really look that hard...when i say i don't really like Till's entourage, this is one of the things i mean)

And then we also know Till has difficult times in his life of depression and extreme lows. These fuel his poetry in parts, he writes about his darkness, and imo that is a great outlet. But I could very well imagine that he hurts himself at those times as well, seeing how easily he hurts himself in other times. He has said before that he isn't one for therapy (i think said that he doesn't know anyone who got therapy and improved from it) but i really hope at some point he would find some way of dealing with what happens in healthier ways, without the need for self-harm. When a fan said something similar on one of Zoran Bihac's ig posts, Zoran replied something like "it's handled" with a picture of pills, which i understood in a 'Zoran and Till' kind of way (they both like to hurt Till in Lindemann videos imo) but it still made me feel uncomfortable..

The bleeding on stage in Paris was imo likely a combination of a recent arm wound (we saw it when he was photographed 'out and about') that had closed up, but that got torn open again when changing clothes or equipment, which i can imagine happens easily when your skin is damaged anyway.

And although i don't like to pull the 'age card', aging also has a detrimental effect on the skin, even a small bump can cause bleeding, let alone everything that Till subjects his body to..

Whatever the cause, the tour will be over soon, and he can be out of the limelight, doing stuff he likes. I hope if depression and dark times are the cause, that he is open to talking to friends or family about it Let's just hope that with age he will grow kinder with himself as well

Maybe he just needs to hear that he doesn't need to hurt himself for people to love him 🌺

[ofmermaidstories]

I totally agree with you on not liking the current, "you must reblog or don't read it" mentality. While it's great to support fanfic writers if you're comfortable with it, there are a lot of reasons why someone may not feel comfortable reblogging a particular fic (for me personally my social anxiety sometimes gets the best of me and I simply cannot handle the idea of being perceived). I think the problem comes when people don't interact with fics and then start to ask for more content from the author (which I suspect is only a few people but it's enough to give some writers a really bad impression). I used to write for a very small fandom and even I had several experiences of people asking for part 2s or updates when the original fic had very little interaction and I was most definitely not a request blog. I've personally never written fanfiction to get comments but stuff like that made me feel used and I even had one interaction that toed the line of emotional blackmail and put me off writing for that fandom altogether so I can definitely see why some authors end up so jaded that they block anyone who doesn't interact positively (even if it's not something I really agree with). So yeah, I really don't think there's anything wrong with genuine lurkers but I fear sadly they've been given a bad name by the few people who do treat fanfic authors as content machines.

Anyway, I hope I haven't rambled too much and that you're having a good day Merms!

Oh yeah, absolutely!!! Like, true entitlement is such a problem that genuine lurkers are getting murked for; which is unfair because it makes a scapegoat out of them and doesn’t solve the real problem at all. And I say “true entitlement” because there’s a difference between a comment that’s like, “will there be a part 2? 🥺” and “part 2” LOL, which is my personal pet peeve, like—what happened to hi?? hello??? how are you??? 💀 I’m not a chat AI, you don’t get to input demands. 🤖📖🚫

Idk—I try not to be mean about even that, tho, because I suspect a lot of this behaviour is indicative of younger readers, but then it just circles back to the problem of like, how do we correct it on a community-wide scale? Because sure, entitlement like that might be coming from a younger reader, but it might just as easily be coming from an asshole LMAO. The only “quick” solution that I can see for it is directly addressing it when it happens. 🥺 And again I wanna emphasise that there’s a clear difference between a genuine enquiry and a throwaway demand!! Like, personally, I don’t mind people asking when I might update or whatnot, because I don’t hold myself to a schedule and my updates are haphazard. But if you’re a more structured and dependable writer (like andypants, for example!) then maybe it’s a different story idk idk. It’s literally case-by-case—which is how it should be, because we’re all individual people writing different things.

I’m sorry your other fandom experience was kinda soured for you though, Anon. 🥺 I would feel used too! I’ve actually come to really dislike writing generic, non-bigger-fic related drabbles because they’re always the pieces that attract the worst of the entitlement. 💀 I say that like it’s a plague of demands lmfao, it’s not, but it happens often enough that it’s noticeable—and I guess it’s just the nature of them being easily digestible without needing like 100k+ of backstory to get into it, but….. idk idk. It’s startling! 😦 And I think the only action we can take that’s even close to a solution is just gently addressing it whenever it pops up. 😔 Or blocking ig if that’s how u roll, LOL.

[para-psychopathology]

↓ rambling

i keep running into this problem where i want to do music, but actually doing never feels right. i don't really try to make anything original anymore bc, y'know, that shit's hard. i stopped just when i was starting to get the hang of it -- the last time i made an original song was nearly a year ago (and even then, it was from a much older project file that was already pretty close to being done). sometimes i still open up LMMS to mess around but i don't have much motivation to finish anything these days. so i've just been posting song covers over the past year but even that's lost so much of its appeal. i mean when i was 14 i'd churn out like 3 covers in a single month, admittedly bc i spent less time on them (lmao) but also bc i was just a lot more enthusiastic abt making it. i think a lot of that was just the excitement of learning something new -- it was kinda the same when i started using a different program for my art, having to learn all these advanced features was actually rly good for getting me out of my major art block back then. and for both art + music i've more or less settled into a routine and so now i don't make like Anything. opening up synthv to draw some notes and type in lyrics isn't fun anymore. i've done this like a million times i already know what i'm doing (which is incidentally the same reason why i haven't been drawing much) and ofc as i've gotten better at these things (and older) i'm also a lot more conscious of whether or not what i'm making is good. but i think another reason why i'm specifically struggling w music is bc of all the new developments in vocal synthesis that i just Haven't been keeping up w. y'know, the AI shit. i dunno how i feel abt the ""morality"" of AI in vsynths (i think it's prolly fine in the case of official voicebanks, since the voice provider is fully aware of the AI use + receiving compensation? tho my opinion is basically worthless lol) but at the very least it's been somewhat demoralizing. i know it's not everyone who uses these programs but ig it's the same issue as w AI-generated art or writing -- covers take so much time + effort, so it's kinda frustrating to think that someone else can just feed a couple of .wav files into an interface and be done. (tho at the same time -- mixing still isn't fully automated, afaik, and the issue of "ppl making shitty song covers w vsynths and putting 0 effort into the mix" exists even w/o AI) but then also ppl who listen to AI covers might then assume i've done the same, that i don't spent literal hours just trying make the vocals sound right…….

i dunno. i've always thought music was rly cool but it just seems so far out of reach. learning music theory isn't "fun" for me in the way other things are, but w/o that knowledge i feel like i'm only "allowed" to make covers, since then i'm just building off of someone else's work that's already well-made.

anyway it's prolly the depression lol

[caught-the-lovebug]

hi I'm the girl who had a crush on the girl in my dorm and everyone and their mother thought the feeling was mutual!

Well now it's the very opposite. We barely even see eachother snd when we do we just do a little fake nod for a hello and we walk past eachother.

Ever since her ex found her way to our dorm things got very confusing. First why is she even here, 2nd are they back together? And 3rd why is my crush suddenly ignoring me. She literally went from showing me stickers she thought I'd like based on my lockscreen and phone case and telling me to pick one (unfortunately I couldn't get any its a long sad story) to tge next day bringing her ex to the dorm and disappearing like she died somehow.

God I'm sooooo disappointed! Like I went from 100 to -100 real quick I couldn't even realize how bad of a damage it caused. I was extremely thankful for the way things were rolling for me but idk WHY they went downhill all of a sudden.

Anyway, I wish I knew what made us like this tbh, like im not the clingy type so when I saw her being a bit cold to me I immediately got offended, however I tried to give her couple chances to see if I was wrong but I can't do it anymore. I can't act cool around someone I feel like they don't give a shit about me rn. So I'm ignoring her as well. Idk maybe that's for the worst actually but she doesn't seem like she wants to have a friendship anymore.

She added one of my friends to her close friend list but not me, and she is also posting alot of her and her ex who's probably now her gf atm.

Ugh, I'm sorry for the rambling but ig it's the end of the fairytale for me...

I'm gonna give my honest answer here but that doesn't mean I'm right.

It sounds like something is definitely going on that you're not in the loop for. Which is almost always the case because we don't get to see what's happening in other people's heads.

It sounds like she's purposely distancing you. Why? I'm not sure. I could think of some reasons (ranging from she knows you like her and doesn't want to hurt you (even though she is anyway), to there's a reason her and her ex broke up and maybe she's being manipulated into it because the ex feels threatened by you, to she's just a jerk) but I have no way of knowing.

It's always really upsetting when someone we like and hoped to be friends with (and maybe test the romance waters) suddenly doesn't seem to want that.

My advice is to take care of yourself. Let yourself be upset over what could have been. But try to move on. Be polite and friendly to her but let yourself move on to new friends (and your current ones!) and new people. Do things. Try new things and new experiences. Don't get caught up with someone who isn't being your friend.

And hey, if things change again maybe you two can talk it out and be friends. Or maybe you won't.

Good luck! And I'm sorry.

[willel]

I thought Hopper and Bob were stated to be old friends from high school even though they didn't exactly cross paths. Maybe like you said, they knew each other but did not exactly talk while Bob was secretly crushing on Joyce. Hmm... I wonder how they're gonna portray that then? Because from what we know, Joyce did not exactly have a connection to Bob until later on. Are they gonna just kinda change that? If that's not the case it would mean that we're just gonna most likely see Joyce and Hopper together instead, with a little bit of Bob, also I am not sure how correct it is but the wiki says that Bob was classmates with Joyce and Hopper, which is ig interesting. I do not think Bob would be 2-3 years old younger than Hopper or Joyce though because it is said that Hopper and Bob knew each other and were friends to an extent, I think they must have been in the same year for them to meet, but I am not sure. I just wonder how they're gonna connect their dynamic together since Joyce is said to be unaware of Bob's existence whereas Hopper seems to have a more connection to Bob when they were in highschool.

I'm imagining a situation where Hopper is the kid that kinda talks to everyone but isn't exactly super close friends with anyone? The one that's always chill but doesn't get too close.

So it'd make sense if he was friends or friendly with both Bob and Joyce but Joyce and Bob never actually crossed paths/met face to face.

One hour he's skipping class smoking cigarettes with Joyce under the stairs. The next hour he's with Bob in the library as Bob is trying to help him write a paper.

Next hour, I guess he's screwing a girl in the back of his dad old car as he claim he did in season 1.

If I had to guess what they're going to do with Bob, he's going to be connected to Hopper, who is connected to Joyce. Maybe it's possible out of all the kids, Bob is the one that interacted with Henry once or twice. He created and looked over the middle school AV club after all and that seems like something Henry would be interested in.

Then again, I don't think Henry was THAT into it because Will was able to use morse code to get by the Mind Flayer's mental block on him. If Henry knew Will was using morse code, surely he would've stopped him from doing that too. Then again, he was only there for a month, so it's not like Henry could've memorized morse code that quick. It could fit actually.

Bob really cared a lot about the whole outcast thing and being bullied. And how he never stood up to his bullies and admired that Joyce did. I dunno. I can see that coming into play.

Imagine a repeat of season 2. Bob telling Henry,

Bob: If my parents treated me that way. I would stand up to them once and for all. You get me? Don't be afraid to talk to your parents.

Henry: Oh ok. -goes home later that night and tries to murder everyone-

Bob seeing the news: Oh... his parents really were terrible. His dad ended up murdering him. :C

Pfff. Random thought don't take it too seriously. But anyway.

As for the same year thing, that's not necessarily true. Take Robin for example. I think she's a year behind Steve but shared at least 1 class with him. Depending on the high school, the subject, and the student, it's not odd for there to be younger and older students together in the same class. I wouldn't be surprised if Bob was super smart and was put into some higher level classes. Not sure if the concept of "AP class" existed back then but maybe it did.

So it'd be like:

Bob - direct interactions with Henry encouraging him to defend himself, much like he did for Will

Hopper - No interactions with Henry but has interactions with Bob, Joyce, and his parents. We got a lot of Hopper exposition in the show already to be honest so I don't think we need too much more

Joyce - No interactions with Henry or Bob but interacts with Hopper . Will probably learn about her family dynamics and how she came to know Lonnie. May have very indirect connections to the Creel tragedy.

Henry - Might barely appear to be honest, might be more focused on Virginia Creel and an occasional scene with Bob or something

At the very least could make for some fun fanfiction one shots!

[m1ckeyb3rry]

Honestly I always thought the LN character choices were really random LMAO except for maybe the first two but I mean those just have all the main characters in there so…I could definitely see them sneaking kurona in there too because of all the promo they’ve kinda been doing for him?? Apparently they also choose based off popularity/who people vote for via like a hashtag on twitter/X too (apparently Barou’s addition was advocated for by the novelist/the person who writes out the LN story via main authors instruction or something)

But FR!! Even hair up Barou generally looks pretty good soooo

Hehe chatters unite!! o7

Omg horse show!!! How’d it go? And honestly for the sake of yourself and your writing I think that method is honestly sm more productive!! Like if you force yourself to write when you aren’t feeling it, it might come out worse because you’re writing in a kinda meh mindset as opposed to when you’re actually invested/interested!! So take it easy the real ones know you’re cooking up something good!! I’m also gonna take a wild guess and say you were being rushed on w***p*d LMAOO

Oooh very true…humidity makes it sm worse….manifesting South France dries up a bit ig?? LOL not sure how humid it is over there but I’d like to assume it’s not….awful….

LMAOOOO I’m excited honestly as long as he doesn’t end up 6 feet under anything’s fair game HAHA masterpieces take time don’t push yourself too hard!!

I literally lost it like WDYM??? Tbf it was one of my close friends who I was essentially “outed to” in terms of like like anime and games and manga and whatnot so I didn’t die BUT what gets me is that they themselves like using discord to communicate and organize sometimes and they touch less grass than me so I was like you did not just say that to me LMAOOO but BFB OTOYA KINNIE LMAOOOO so real I also generally keep it under covers like um I will not be exposing myself to the entire world!!!

HSHSHSSH OK IM GLAD HAHA I think for the sake of my own sanity I have the need to make sure I’m not writing down random shit too so that helps keep me in check LMAO

Also unrelated slightly but have you seen any of the latest chapter for the main manga?? I assume maybe not since you were touching grass LOL unfortunately our man is MIA but it was interesting

Longest Karasu work in existence…music to my ears LMAO balancing the scales and making up for like the billions of fics overcrowding the it*shi tags HAHAHA

Anyways going back to continue Barou’s LN!! Ok I’m glad I translated because I remember seeing those screenshots or clips floating around where it talked about Barou’s dad not being home because he was working and from that perspective I was a bit more sympathetic to his father but after reading I’m like hm he doesn’t really have any interest in being a dad at all…so I’m glad that was cleared up because I originally thought that to be the case then saw a snippet and I was like oh maybe his dad is a really good dad but just has to be really busy to help provide but now I’m like oh er nvm I was right ig….but Barou liking dinosaurs and predators is so on brand HAHAHAAH I almost lost it after reading how he fell with his teacher off the playset and bro really said “you asked for it” and walked away while his teacher broke like five bones

-Karasu anon

they definitely are so random HAHAH but if it’s based on popularity then tabieita + kurona would def make sense!! although i’m surprised that aryu made it before karasu if it really is based on that…like i didn’t even know aryu had fans LMAO 😭 the more you know ig

BONA FIDE CHATTERS UNION OVER HERE 😏�� the show went rlly well!! we got two firsts and we were the highest scoring pair in the entire show…we also finally got scores above 70 which was super exciting as that’s pretty hard to do especially given that the pony i’ve been riding as of late is on the older side and used to be wild so he’s not quite as fancy (although he is SOOO cute)!! overall v productive day i was very happy with how it went

i agree i think if my heart isn’t in a story it’s just not going to go well because i won’t be connected to the characters and to be honest if i’m not connected w the characters i can’t tell how they’d react in any given situation which is so integral to how i write that i literally can’t do it if i’m not into what i’m writing for 😭 surprisingly the one i’ve been most bothered abt is one that i only posted on here and ao3!! it was insane though because like i had a lot of free time so sometimes i’d update every day or every other day but then people got SO demanding?? like after three or four days i’d get asks like “when are you going to update??” HELLO IT’S NOT EVEN BEEN A WEEK YET i truly think that part of the reason why i lost motivation for that story is just how annoyed i got by that kinda thing…i feel bad sometimes because i got to be very short in my responses but i like to think i’m pretty nice for the most part and atp i was so over it 😫 at one point someone sent me an ask abt that story LITERALLY the day after someone else asked about it and i told them idk when i’ll update and please stop asking me abt it so i just said “do you want me to kill myself be honest” which looking back was a little unnecessary but i was so pressed 😔 at least people got the hint after that though HAHAHA the amt of asks i get abt it is much less now thankfully

PLSSS i decided not to make him drown after all but there is a swimming scene so you have that to look forward to 🤩 also as promised the update is here: we are officially over 12k words and karasu just graduated elementary school so he’s roughly 12 years old based on the japanese system LMAOO…truly this one will be a bit of a doozy but you’re so right it’s what the world needs to cancel out the sheer amount of works certain other characters the itoshi brothers get…we’re finally getting past the childhood part a bit which i’m excited abt because there’s only so much you can write abt kids being dumb before it begins to feel repetitive 😭 they truly don’t have much going on in their lives atp but now that karasu is entering middle school there will finally be a bit more drama

bfb otoya is me i am him 😰 i don’t even mind when people find out i don’t touch grass as much as they think i do but for sure i tend to not tell them right off the bat…and the fact that i write fanfiction is reserved for the elite circle ONLY and even then i just don’t mention it because like that’s just not smth the world needs to know abt me

i think i have!! it’s just more baby rin and then it cuts to him entering destroyer mode in the game right or is there more because that’s all i’ve seen…heartbroken that there were no karasu crumbs but the next epinagi chapter will be out soon i think so we will see him (and otoya) in full glory there at least 🤭 ironically rin’s backstory made me feel more empathetic for sae than it did elicit any emotions in me for rin…like bro was the father that stepped up at age 10 or smth tf 😭 also the way their dad led him away when he said he broke the toys was lowkey mad ominous…also the way rin has just been like this from the start 😰 before you could be like “okay he’s traumatized from sae that’s why he goes crazy on the field/during u20” but NO he genuinely was born that way LMAOAOA omg (jokes aside i’m sure there’s analysis to be made abt rin’s character w these few chapters but i don’t care enough abt him to be the one analyzing him like that…i’m sure there’s plenty of other accounts who’ll do it for me HAHA i have random side characters to obsess over in the meantime)

BAROU LN IS SO FUNNY BUT ALSO SO SAD pls the thing abt the teacher killed me he was such a sassy kid and for WHAT 😭 no i agree i saw snippets that said his dad had just had a heart attack and that was why he was so absent?? but no he actually just had no interest in being a parent 😓 BAROU WOULD NEVER THOUGH i just know he would be the number one dad in bllk especially because he knows exactly what not to do thanks to his own father

[fleshforember]

Thanks for sharing <3

It sounds like our situations are very similar. His parents were very bad and he was *much* better than them but that is a low bar.

My dad was the type of abusive that was invisible, subtle and manipulative. I thought for a long time that he just couldn't help it. Our family often talked about him like he was two people because he would just flip on a dime.

I've been putting some distance for years, but I've never been direct because I know he would use my mom against me and we are close.

But literally last week he said something that I think just broke me. Something super dumb and dramatic happened where he walked out of dinner because his friend of 20ish years said something 'disrespectful' & it was kinda rude but that guy is always a giant jerk. In fact his family and mine have often talked about how they could possibly be friends because they are the same person and that person is an asshole.

Anyways, I was on the phone with him and he said "Yeah, he just thinks he can take his anger out on whoever's around. Like yeah, bro, go take that out on your wife and kids, but you don't get to do that to me." He said that. No walk back. No qualifiers. Just kept talking.

And I was just dumbfounded. I mean this guy is worse than my dad. And I always wondered how my dad could be friends with him knowing the vile shit he would say to his wife and I guess I just chose not to think about it too hard. But finally I'm just confronted with the reality. He doesn't even see it as a problem.

And then I started thinking about this situation and I was like. My mom walked out of that dinner with him. She was complicit. And it was like just all of a sudden I realized my 'ally' in this struggle with my father has always been on his side. In everything that happened, she was a victim, but she was also complicit.

And so that last thread of connection to him, and that protectiveness over my relationship to my mom just fell away and I'm just left staring at the wreckage that was my relationship with my parents. And I haven't been talking to them and they're starting to notice and push me, and I just haven't decided what I am going to do.

Sorry. I know that's super long. idk, just looking for thoughts ig.

First of all, I'm really sorry about your relationship with your mother being brought into your issues with your dad. Personally, my mom and dad are divorced, mostly for the same reason why I no longer speak to my dad. I don't have experience dealing with that kind of thing, do I'm sorry if this sounds uneducated.

Sometimes people in relationships like that pick the abusers side because they're afraid of the consequences of fighting back. For the longest time, I was complicit and quiet when my dad would mistreat not only me but also my stepsiblings as well. I didn't want to lose the foundation on which my life was built; one of the people I could rely on most, despite the abuse. I'm not sure, because I don't know all the details, but your mom might be one of those people. It's hard to turn away from an abuser, especially when you love them.

My dad is also one of those people who is intelligent in his abuse. He's charming and helpful in public, and he puts himself above other people. Either no one around me thought he was abusive, or no one cared enough to step in. I'm sorry if this is the case for you.

I sort of learned to rely on myself for support and love when I was with him. I know our circumstances are different, and I had somewhere to go after I moved out (my dad and I got into a nasty argument, and I was pretty much shoved out the door with whatever I could carry), so I ran to my mom. I'd say, if you can, build yourself a good support system. That could be your mom when you guys repair your relationship (if you want to that is) or people around you that you trust. If you're going to do what I did and cut contact, I strongly encourage having some sort of support system ready.

That being said, leaving isn't always the only option. If you're up to it, you could slowly start speaking to your mom again. It really depends on how you feel and the details of your personal life, but if she’s been your biggest support up until this point, she seems like a good person to keep in contact with. Again, completely up to you.

<3

[psychelis-new]

Hello! Good day :), i see you still have your dream interpretations open, and i was hoping you could give me your opinion about one i had back in November 29. It's this one:

I was dreaming i was at my grandparent's home again (where i grew up) i don't remember what I was doing there but these dreams always end the same, I ended up sad and frustrated because I remembered during the dream that none of this real or that this is the past because my grandmother is dead, it's always the same, exp this time while I was squatting infront of my grandmother who was on her chair, i felt something whisper on my ear saying something like "this is not her, this is the devil" i got scared and walked away.

I think i wokeup and kept trying to fall asleep again, in this other dream i had rare flashbacks of the first movie of pirates of Caribbean, the scenes that kept popping were when the main girl is trying to go back home but in this case she doesn't want to be seen by her house servant.

And lastly(or at the end of the dream), I've met a lot of midle age people, i go to what it seems to be reception/lobby with a bunch of people, from one of the rooms my old midle and hight school teacher/director comes out.

I go inside this place that looks like a complex building and i started to see all my school peers but from when we were 12 years old(which it weird as I'm on my mid 20s), i got to this thing, like i somehow had an apartment there, i got the keys, i went there and there were two girls (that I really didn't talk too much at school) there talking to me, and when i go near to the apartment's door, there were two doors(like you see one door, when you open it and there is another door) and in between the doors people where putting their stuff in there, i woke up thinking my ortodoncy(with my teeth) was falling out. But I think that was because i forgot to put my retainers on before going to sleep.

- why you have decided to ask about this specific dream: the first part is a recurring dream.

Thanks a lot 💓

Hello! Yes dreams interpretations are always open unless I state otherwise. :)

The first recurring dream about your grandmother... I think you had a lucid dream: you were aware it wasn't real. This means to me sounds like something you need to become aware of but somehow... don't want to? Anyway, I sense a feeling of guilt, of even regret on some level (maybe you couldn't do/say something to her). Probably you'd like to reconnect with your grandmother or even to your younger self that used to live there and tell them something. But you also don't want to or, more likely, fear to (you maybe don't wanna be judged for what happened, or to be openly aware of what was wrong -what you did "wrong"- even just with yourself, not necessarily in front of others)... maybe exactly cause you feel too guilty about your past (and how you behaved ig). The whispering could have been just your anxieties/fears trying to keep you away from what you actually would like to do, or need (and have) to process anyway (I just heard the beginning piano of the song "Trouble" by Coldplay start playing from another room so IDK maybe it can resonate too). On a side note, I think this situation is blocking you and making you feel unworthy/wrong, so it could be a recurring dream because you need to stop for a moment and deal with all that (even just saying goodbye properly -maybe journal or sth. Idk if you read my last pac but... if what I am saying here resonates and you feel you need to, take a look at it). You probably need to bring closure to yourself, by trying to process with a controlled mind what happened, and learn to find a new balance in your emotional life. Nurture yourself, especially your younger self: they need your love, they didn't knew. And take your time. All the time you need. It's not easy to do that... but start closing with that pain.

As for the end of the second dream, I think you may be unconsciously seeking for advice by someone, even if you're not seeking it first hand (like with intention). And maybe also seek approval (maybe you felt left out a lot and not seen or just very easily judged). I also think your mind is compartmentalized atm, or it's strictly thinking in boxes and this also to save yourself from some overwhelming pain probably. Especially from your younger years (as your 12 y.o. peers showed and also the 2 girls). This dream was probably trying to show you parts of yourself that may also be connected somehow but you're trying to push away to not suffer. What I mean is basically... you lack a general perspective on the matter, you're seeing the problem divided into different boxes but these boxes aren't unrelated as you may think. Or decide to think. And I also think you may have a desire for change all this but as said it seems you feel too overwhelmed, also by others behaviours/needs, like you feel you cannot entirely free yourself from them so you're hiding yourself and protecting yourself by putting your mind over your emotions, neglecting them and your needs. And not confronting them as a whole. I think you are also afraid of going down within and really work with your emotions from the past which may make you feel pretty stressed (and somehow you're taking others and their needs and all, as an excuse to not do that too)... But you can end this cycle ofc. It's your choice to start and how to work on it. Also fearing the tooth was falling out is a sign of an hidden fear/anxiety. I do feel there's a lot of noise around you and inside of you that it's not helping you dealing with all this in a proper way (which makes me go back to the first dream you had... all the anxieties whispering to your ears). BTW you don't have to do it alone and rush through it to get to the point. Start by being aware of how you feel, maybe... Start by payin attention to yourself first (to your younger self too). Js.

Take care of you<3

[mlynar-nearl]

this is very long i am apologies

yes !!! i read ur essay (?) on mlynars grief too and i just think that youve got it down super neat (ive probably repeated this too many times) so like good job !!!

ah indeed i was the anon who asked abt his kit last time too (saw the art of him too btw its very pretty, very nice ur friend did an amazing job!) so do you think hed have a talent like aosta's in that he does extra (maybe % or maybe fixed) dmg to unblocked? or hes got like a skill thats like fartooth (global only target blocked but in his case its global only target unblocked?) i think either ways adding a different debuff to all of his skills would be fun ! do you think hed be rng based cc (like aak?) or like its specifically one debuff to each skill, those kinda stuff? honestly er this is a lot of questions you can selectively answer but i just think hes probably a neat wraith killer lol no more annoying unblocked assholes running around ehe but also on a separate note, do you think he has any special interactions with other operators (excl the ones from laterano) ? his hobbies etc (just go wild man, tell me wtv even his preferred breakfast or whether he hates grass or smth) also yes ty for the advice abt mandragora !! i only figured it out like... once i accidentally made her drop blocks on herself and she died due to low hp and i was like wtf cos ??? free elimination ? and i learnt i was very wrong later on but pozy saved my ass aha so it all worked out anyways ! just training for when i actually bother clearing ch 9 ig oh and until u said it i didnt rly notice that sss like... hates all snipers. (ive tried using chalter it didnt go well... pozy as well) like all the late stage sss stages just completely dont let you use snipers for anything other than like buffs (unless youre rosa ig might have chance) shit i screwed up this is even longer than last time im so sorry if this is uncomfortable to read :sob: if this is too uh ew to converse with i can chacha slide into ur dms (but give me time i am... well theres a reason im anon) but yeah anyways have a nice day so sorry for this length and as always u can selectively answer or ignore lol ! hope ur well !

don't worry about the length, i love answering questions! I will try and get to everything. thank you for the compliments ab my post i try (oh my god do i try) :]

i think his talents would involve extra damage + prio unblocked enemies + his source of crowd control. his CC would be strictly bind, not RNG like aak, because his arts are specifically grappling hook/rope shit. i think i've been theoretically calling this talent and arts type "tethering." in lore he mainly uses it for traversal, but there's no reason it wouldn't work on people, too, so i think it fits best as a crowd control bind. one of his skills would then just do a "talent trigger increase" as part of their functionality meaning extra bind chance. of course, how useful he would actually be as a concept depends on the numbers, which is the part i'm bad at, but still, fun to think about :]

for other operators, he would definitely get on well enough with some of the cooks among the RI operators, for one. his favorite flavor of sweet thing is cinnamon, and cinnamon is easy to incorporate into things, and he's smart enough to be polite to the people feeding his interests. he would also, i think, have interesting but awkward interactions with the iberians, because while he is not himself iberian, he has traveled extensively there and shares memories of the profound silence/aftermath thereof with Andoain. ultimately, i think he's polite to most everyone he runs into if he were to go to RI, but he's already rather closed off as a person and you have to open him up with a crowbar, so i don't know if anyone could be considered a friend of his. i don't even think fiammetta is really a friend of his (he would call it that, but that's far from correct), more that they have similar enough feelings on a specific topic that leads them to cooperate. i think even increasing trust with him still leaves a lot under the surface.

other shealtiel facts...he prefers cats to dogs but understands the appeal of both, but his favorite animals are birds. being a sniper, he sees a lot of them, and spends a lot of time in places birds nest. i imagine lateran schools have a class on religion similar to catholic school (where i have unfortunately been), and that was his favorite subject because his mother was a canonist and spent most of her time analyzing the scriptures and teachings of lateran. he's surprisingly flexible because of this- he actually idealogically overlaps with andoain more than he'd like to admit, he just hates the man's methods. and life choices. when he's on the road he survives off of breakfast bars and terran poptarts. he prefers chilly weather to heat, but hates heavy snow. he has a halfway decent singing voice but never uses it outside of when he's free enough to attend a lateran service. his plan for immediately after achieving his goal (killing andoain with fia) is to take a vacation somewhere cold-but-not-too-cold and isolated and not answer his messages for six to seven months. he's still on the fence about where, though. he would do that right now if he didn't have duties to fulfill. his favorite mixed drink is a gingerbread gin and tonic (g&t + baking spice infused amaretto.) his favorite non-alcoholic drink is cranberry juice. he's become partial to a dying brand of iberian cookies because andoain likes them and he's started buying them up ahead of him out of a petty sort of spite.

SSS really does hate snipers which sucks b/c i do love me a sniperknights. chalter doesn't fall off quite as bad as some because she's useful for bosses but it's still Bad. i still bring snipers for the aspd buffs, but most of them just arent gonna hold up too much. sad :( gj with mandra! she's annoying but at least in her actual boss levels that aren't TFN you get the automatic pillar destroyers. good luck on chapter 9 when you get there :]

[thetaekookcloset]

taekook hanging out with wooshik and his brother🙈 gotta say even before this photo, it was telling that wooshik, tae's best friend, followed only jungkook out of all the other bts members and not only follows but ocassionaly likes his posts, like it doesn't have to mean a romantic relationship but to all the losers out there claiming tae and jungkookie are awkward, it's pretty clear that's not the case, let's also not forget junkookie talking to wooga at hobi's listening party, anyway can't believe we actually got this photo, I'm glad they're having fun

Another ask on the same topic:

you’ve probably already heard about the bowling outing with taekook, wooshik and his brother. apparently his brother got harassed to the point where he took his IG post down. from what I’ve heard anyway because I don’t know his brother’s IG to actually check. if true, it’s really sad and annoying as hell that people resort to harassing anyone who posts about taekook hanging out together. i don’t see them doing this whenever it’s any other pair from the group hanging out.

And finally:

Have you seen the bowling photo reflection where they said TK seemed to be holding hands. What do you think?

I decided to combine these three asks all about the bowling photo mostly because I don’t want it to completely take over my blog lol.

I have a few thoughts about this.  One is that while obviously I don’t see bowling as the be-all-end-all of romantic events, I definitely do think it’s significant that Taehyung and Jungkook were out having fun with one of Taehyung’s best friends and said best friend’s brother.  That, as the first anon pointed out, is a pretty clear indication that Taehyung and Jungkook have a close relationship.

And I agree that it’s always seemed significant to me that Wooshik only follows Taehyung and Jungkook on Instagram.  It’s social media, it’s not like that by itself is necessarily a huge deal, but since we know that Wooshik is close with Taehyung, it does seem to me to be an indication that he follows Jungkook because he has a personal relationship with him as well.

As for the photo itself, I think it’s really nice that Wooshik’s brother posted it.  I really wish the fandom as a whole had responded better.  He did end up deleting it, from what I saw, and who knows if that was because of harassment in his DMs or just the constant spamming in the comments.

I saw a lot of embarrassing nonsense from Jikookers, Taekookers, and even non-shippers, and I wasn’t even paying that much attention.  I really don’t understand how anyone thinks that kind of thing is appropriate and I wish it would just stop. 

Finally, on the topic of the reflection making it look like TK were holding hands, I’m sorry if this is disappointing, but I don’t think they were.  In the photo, it seems like Taehyung is standing at least a couple steps ahead of Jungkook, which means that in order for them to be holding hands, Jungkook’s arm would have to be extended in front of him.

It seems to me that we’d be able to tell from the position of his shoulder if that was the case, and his shoulder seems in line with the position it would be in if his arm was just at his side.  So no, I don’t think they’re holding hands in the photo.

What I take from this photo, personally, is that it’s further proof that Taehyung and Jungkook spend time together off work, that they’re close enough to spend time with not just each other’s friends but also family of each other’s friends, and that they clearly have ways to go out and have fun, even together, without being spotted by fans.  And also that in all areas of this fandom, there are people who seriously need to learn some boundaries.

[team-council-two]

I have a question For alphameter!

is there a word in french that is somewhat equal to calling a person you don‘t know well honey/darling/love. Maybe in a somewhat flirty way but not like being in a relationship or super close.

Like how a hairdresser would say what can i do for you today, love? so between two people that don’t know each other that well but share a sympathy or at least want to appear nice.

this is... a tricky question with a tricky answer, at the very least.

you see, this entire thing basically assumes that its ok to nickname strangers, and in france we opt for respectful distance usually instead. ironically, THIS is how we act to seem friendly, with a lot of excusez-moi (excuse me ? except it is. its hard to explain but the way americans say it translates better to excuse-moi, which is a completely different and more accusatory connotation than the "hey sorry (polite)" of this one), pardon de vous déranger (sorry for disturbing you), je vous en prie (you're welcome but fancy) and so on. polite formulas. we also have a thing called polite you, which basically when instead of using singular you to talk about a singular person you use plural- using vous instead of tu. you use this for Pretty Much Everyone that you arent friends or family with, except kids.

so thats basically a way to say the context youre talking about here. i mean. it exists. but it doesnt translate 1:1. bc we act w in mind the fact that we basically are talking to someone who didnt expect it and is minding their own business and whose boundaries, life and so on we do not know. its also like. the politeness is one big "its ok if you cant answer" and showing that continuing the conversation is opt-in rather than opt-out. using singular you for example comes accross as a disregard for boundaries and almost agressive/insulting. in other words we default to sheepish around strangers, rather than. buddy buddy/sassy motherly. for the special case of business owners who we see pretty often, hmmmm..........

(i am thinking very hard)

ma p'tite dame is sth that butchers and cheese sellers and things like that will say to a lady in a local shop, especially by men to older ladies with a smaller stature. its literally little lady and very cute. m'sieur/mon bon m'sieur, sir/my good sir, is the to go for a guy. also, they LOVE to go monsieur/madame (family name), esp since knowing peoples names and using them is a mark of familiarity. mon p'tit/ma p'tite is for children- but also, ironically, mon grand/ma grande. its literally small one VS big guy/big girl, depending of whether you want to seem kind and insist on liking the kid and finding them cute, or if you want to make them feel valued and taken seriously and as strong independent people. really tbh everything is in the tone and the sentence structure as well as choosing words that are neither slang nor fancy, rather than in having friendly vocabulary itself. that said, sassy aunt energy hairdressers are, i am afraid, an american specie, and not quite a thing in france. they will be cheerful but will not attribute nicknames. theyll still comment on how thick and amazing your hair is tho. or at least they always did for me. also, unlike friends and the like, business owners will NOT drop the vous bc this is a very open "valuable customer, hi !", a bit like a funny little low bow. anyways...

you also can openly pity people. if someones talking to you bc they need directions or sth, it is socially acceptable to say things like "mon pauvre/ma pauvre" (sth akin to poor dear ig). if youre *really* relieved and someone got you out of HUGE trouble, you can exclaim stuff like "vous êtes un amour !", literally youre an angel. (amour usually means love, but theyre also a subtype of angel. cupids ? you get the idea), dont forget merci beaucoup either ! thank you so much.

anyways... assuming you are asking about this for spy. this is one of these things that, due to cultural differences, we simply would use the english versions instead, a bit like what i explained with this post and some expressions being very hard to translate. also while women may get away with things like mon chou, trésor and so on (read : i cant think of any others) in pitying contexts, men... not so much ? one, they simply just dont use these (chérie, ma jolie, cocotte, etc...) words in this context, only when catcalling, two, when men call women this shit its usually. err. to put it simply. yeah its usually a sign theyre a misogynist/a "beauf" (someone lacking class/respect, often with lifestyles that are all around consuming trash TV, soccer, facebook and rumors stuff). if youre talking about scouts ma tho, who many people like to HC as french as well, yeah shed use (mon) trésor/mon chou

anyways spy would call heavy bisounet