#why am i getting genvy

[lazylittledragon]

"can we listen to ghost?"

"no, we have ghost at home"

[khaotungsfirst]

ali‘s embarrassing celebrity crushes throughout the years

thank you to @fengqing for wanting me to expose myself, i hope y’all don’t judge me too much 🥴i had to go through my archive to remember most of these cause as fast as these crushes hit me sometimes, some of them went away just as quickly.

tagging: @schnaf @manhasetardis @morifinwes @xiaodaozhang​ @huigusu​ @yibocrisis​

ok here we go, putting it under a read more cause this got long

MEN (since 2006)

tom kaulitz nothing more attractive to 10 year-old me than this 15 year-old with dreadlocks and pants that hit the floor askdjhgkjfdg

joseph gordon-levitt i..... can’t even explain this?? lmao.. i mean inception was and is my favourite movie but not because of him so like??

niall horan niall girls unite!! i was a niall girl until i got into larry and then that was all i cared about for a long time ksadjgkdf but i still love him!

dan howell he was funny and british, that’s it

dylan o’brien listen every teen wolf fan was mainly there for him, don’t even lie about it

seb stan holy shit i was crushing on him so hard after the winter soldier came out. he was the epitome of perfection to me! this was a big one for me but it went downhill once he started growing out his hair afgkjdfgjkd retrospectively i’m not sure if i was only thirsting after him because everyone else on my dash was doing it (also does anyone remember political animals??)

dane dehaan oh god..... listen, it’s all the fault of the amazing spiderman 2! also his look is so versatile like in some photos he looks really nice and in others..... 😬yikes lmao skdjgfdk idk man

loïc nottet this was a short-lived crush but he absolutely killed it at the 2015 esc and tumblr went wild over him so... 🤷🏻‍♀️

marc bartra so we’re getting into football players now and just look at him! he joined my favourite team (bvb) and i immediately loved him cause he made such an effort to integrate himself. after the team bus was attacked and he got injured my love for him only increased. he just seems so sweet and nice aaahh

niklas stark idek how i came to know abt him cause he plays for hertha which i don’t care abt aksjgjghjf but he has such a beautiful smile i think that’s what got me

andré silva i just thought he looked neat (still does but he doesn’t blow me away anymore)

héctor bellerín 2016 bellerín?? oof!! don’t look him up on google tho, he’s had a lot of... questionable hair and fashion choices throughout the years 🥴the way we all dragged him for it was really funny tho. i still love him he’s a great guy always supporting good causes

arón piper listen earrings and curly hair maketh the man

matthías tryggvi haraldsson once again a crush resulting from esc. he was my icon before i turned into a mdzs blog. i don’t even think he’s super attractive, i just love the contrast between hatari matti and normal matti

harry styles i’ve given in to the harry supremacy propaganda. he really is my favourite 1d member these days, musically-wise and looks-wise

bill kaulitz we’ve come full circle!! nowadays bill is my favourite kaulitz twin. it’s funny cause they literally have the same face so it all just comes down to how they present themselves and bill is just my preference

MEN (recently/currently)

wang yibo i don’t even have words!!! his look, his personality, his talent just!!! I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM!! (as we all do) (also big genvy causer)

lesbian yibo this gets a separate bullet point cause i had this realisation like two weeks after falling for regular yibo but oh boi am i gay for her

xiao zhan he’s just.. so pretty and lovely. i thought about putting wwx into the fictional characters category cause i think xz looks the prettiest as wwx but xz as a person just seems so nice and down to earth that i had to put him here

bright (vachirawit chivaaree) a baby!!! his smile is so pretty and overall he gives off very ~soft~ vibes. also how does he look so good when crossdressing??

boun (noppanut guntachai) once again the jewellery got me. boys with earrings really will be my downfall one day... (this is not to say that he isn’t pretty without them, his face is also very much up there on reasons why i stan him)

tul (pakorn thanasrivanitchai) get you a man who is as comfortable in his masculinity and sexuality as tul

felix lee will i ever get over the dissonance between his looks and his voice?? probably not. also he’s just a fucking cutie

hyunjin felix might be my bias (oh god i’m starting to speak in kpop lingo) but i’m also kinda simping for him, what can i say?

WOMEN (sadly not as many but you know, heteronormativity)

scarlett johansson literally everyone on this planet thinks she’s hot and they’re right (yeah she’s kinda problematic but i can still appreciate her looks)

halsey remember when halsey used to kiss her fans at her concerts?? completely unrelated to that, i really wanted to go to one of her concerts..... 🙃 also i once dyed my hair blue bc of her

kiko mizuhara she was fancast as blue from the raven cycle so many times and i was so on board with it cause in my head she fit the character perfectly but maybe that’s just because i thought she was really really beautiful and wanted to see more of her 🤷🏻‍♀️

rihanna i mean... c’mon

michelle phan oh man this goes way back.. she was one of the first youtubers i watched in like 2010 before i even played with makeup myself. she just always gave off such calming vibes and she seems so nice. also look at her 😍

zendaya oof zendaya is a big one for me. she’s just so fucking beautiful just... how?? what??? i- AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

lena i started actively following her on ig after she released her last album in 2019 (which is great btw) and... damn girl do i want to be you or date you??

xuan lu oh god she’s so adorable but then also so hot but then also so etheral but then also so cute but then also so beautiful but then also s-

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

stefan salvatore (tvd) gotta love how even at 14 i already knew not to make the toxic choice 😊

legolas (lotr) if you didn’t have a legolas phase you’re lying

draco malfoy (hp) if villain bad then why sexy?

anakin skywalker (star wars) if villain bad then why sexy? 2

noora amalie sætre (skam) she’s just really pretty, ok? the red lipstick didn’t help either...

chris p (skam) if villain bad then why sexy? 3 (ok he’s not a villain but he’s an asshole)

tokio (money heist) hhnnnnnnnggggggg girl with a gun make brain go brrr

wen qing (the untamed) funny how in the show i’m simping for wq but irl i prefer xuan lu... someone explain that to me. but anyways, she’s pretty, she’s fierce, and she looks fucking hot in red

[antagonistchanremade]

So, I’ve been thinking lately, and kinda realized something.

I’ve been... generally unimpressed by the Pokemon games since they went 3D. The notable exception has been ORAS, which is in a very close second for my favorite game in the entire series (first being Platinum, third being Pearl, after that the list kinda starts to not matter as much), but that one’s a remake of an older game (so, on the bad side, that means that it being an exception isn’t as much of a surprise and actually kinda reflects worse on the other new games... but on the positive side, it also means that there’s still hope for the Sinnoh remakes whenever they do actually happen, I seriously think that the Pearl remake will probably become my favorite Pokemon game when it comes out, at least if I get the chance to play it).

They’re not bad, exactly? If you want to look at a Pokemon game I think is bad, just look at GenV. Just a liiiiittle bit of warning, this entire paragraph is me explaining why I hate GenV so much. It was literally the last Gen before the games went 3D, and yet, I’ve maintained ever since GenVI that GenV is the worst Gen, partially because I hate the art style (not the character designs, the Pokemon and NPC trainers are still all excellent, but rather, the environments are ugly as sin in my opinion), partially because they tried to pull a “No old Pokemon until the post-game!” thing and really shouldn’t have been surprised that it didn’t go over well, and partially because Team Plasma is honestly too realistic and hits way too close to home in terms of performative activism and they’re honestly really aggravating, but primarily because of how the RNG is so cruel that battling completely stops being fun. Like, nobody ever talks about this, but playing it immediately before/after another Gen, it’s blatantly obvious to me that the PRIMARY MECHANIC OF THE GAME is a million times more frustrating and annoying than it is in any other game in the series. Battling just fucking sucks and I just can’t wait for every battle to be over with. I didn’t want to admit how much I hated GenV when it was still the current Gen, because I started with GenIV and I didn’t wanna be one of those people who whined about new things, and also, from the very beginning, GenV was getting criticism that it didn’t deserve (which is really weird, because so few people make the criticisms it does deserve; they’re really really terrible games but the only people who agree with me agree for the wrong reasons), but when Pokemon redeemed itself with GenVI, I admitted to myself how much I hated it.

And honestly? I think GenV’s badness is a big part of what blinded me to how generally unimpressed I’ve been with Pokemon’s 3D Era- because when GenVI came out, it was a breath of fresh air compared to GenV. Battling wasn’t a huge chore anymore, it was back to being actually fun. The environments were very generic, but at least they weren’t ugly as sin. They had old Pokemon roaming around again. Team Flare was back to cartoonish villainy instead of distressingly realistic performative activism.

And, of course, the other thing that’s blinded me to how generally unimpressed I’ve been with the 3D era is that... much like with GenV, the art, which is honestly the most important part of the Pokemon phenomenon, isn’t going downhill the way the games are. I mean, the environments and graphical quality and all that are kinda mediocre, absolutely, but that’s just something that affects the games themselves again, I’m talking about the stuff that matters for the entire franchise:

As much as I don’t much care for the newer Pokemon games, the newer characters and Pokemon themselves are still great.

So, like, as much as I’m finding myself caring less and less about the gameplay details of the new Pokemon games, I am still following the news on new characters and new Pokemon and getting excited for those.

Hell, while the games have been going downhill, the anime’s just been getting better and better! Much like the games, the worst part of the anime was Unova (Unova really was a dark time for the franchise overall)- the anime honestly kinda felt like it was spinning its wheels, because the series’ formula had kinda been drained of all its worth during the Sinnoh era and it was finally starting to feel incredibly stale. But then, the Kalos era started, and there was new life in it! It was still the same formula, but just enough things had changed that the formula actually worked again. It was a return to form. And THEN, Alola happened, and the series ditched the formula altogether and tried something new, which I will admit I haven’t really watched much of but a lot of critics I generally respect say that it’s something Pokemon really needed. And with Galar, they’re not going to be able to keep up the Alola formula (at least, not exactly), but it’d be really weird to go back to the old formula too, so I’m kinda looking forward to seeing what the show’s gonna do next.