#wowie this took a bit of thought hehe

[midnightsnackblog]

Hi Im here to bombard you with prompts! :D

#4 for Luminara, #21 for Stjin, #3 for Fumiko, #16 for Ervin, #8 for Umeko, and #11 for Ormond

21) What song best describes their relationship with their enemy? For Stijn. This one is a good one, the first song that comes to mind for him is "Scylla from Epic the musical", the boy has been through so much and has suffered a lot. The world is his enemy at this point and his hands aren't the cleanest out of all of the ocs i have. He's bitter, filled with anger at the world and himself.

3) What song describes your OC? Fumiko. Neath the grove is a heart, Yaelokre. Perfectly describes Fumiko, she's an archivist who's heart is torn between her own duties to the citadel (where Princess Ayumi lives) or follow her own heart to where she longs to be.

4) What song describes your OC and their partner/love interest? Luminara. True kind of love from steven universe, this one pretty sums up both Luminara and Bazz's relationship perfectly. Sure they might look like the perfect couple with the perfect relationship but they too have troubles just like any relationship but what sets them apart is their undying love for one another.

16) How's their relationship with their parents? Are they alive? Ervin. Ervin's relationship with his parents is great, he loves the both of them and admires them both. However, he feels as if he's under their shadow constantly and is desperate to prove himself, he's a young lad with a big heart.

8) What hobbies does your OC have? What do they do to unwind? Umeko. When the party is over and she is drained from that party high, she likes to settle down and walk the domain. Sure, she might be a bit drained but she's still as talkative, though not as much.

11) What was your inspiration for your OC? Ormond At first, I wasn't too sure of what to do for Luminara's older brother but figured that he'd be the sole caretaker since their parent's death, I wanted a character that looks big and intimidating yet soft. Also, the song, "Pressure" from Encanto, is a bit inspiration for this big guy. Haven't thought up more with him since Luminara takes the lead most of the time.

[leafpawz]

selfshipoctober, day two

blanket | flame

rlly enjoyed making this one ..

and also its human sebastian this time, hehe

a little thing before you read, this will contain a little bit of fluff, thats all :3c

ANDDDD HOPEFULLY THIS WONT HAVE ANY SPELLING MISTAKES TOO :sob:

it was raining outside.

...

ahem...

wait... you don't know?

ah, this is the past.

before me and sebastian were separated.

and why am i talking about the past?

because our memories... are special to me.

i mean, you do know that we are back together, reunited after so long...

...

we miss our human selves.

because... we're no longer humans, obviously.

alright alright... ill stop with this veeeeery long and confusing introduction.

and ill just start to talk. :)

...

it was a cold and rainy night.

i was staying at sebastian's house for the first time ever, he said it was a sleepover.

expect he only invited me, i thought he was inviting his collage friends or something...

i didn't mind it, he knew how socially awkward i was...

...

knock knock

a door opened, it was me.

"glad to see you." sebastian said.

i waved at him and quickly got inside.

"jesus... is it THAT cold outside?" he reacted to my sudden move.

i slowly nodded my head as a response.

he sighed and held my hand, as he took me on a little tour around his apartment.

it was a tiny but yet cozy place, no wonder why he loves this place so much, hehe.

and as we walked to his room, he just sat down on his bed.

"sooo... whatcha think?" he asked, looking at me with a smile.

my cheeks turned to a bright pink as he looked directly to my face.

"um.... yeah! it's nice." i answered as i smiled back.

he chuckled at my response.

we both admired eachother for a couple minutes as we both stayed silent, it felt... a little awkward but yet, cute.

and suddenly, he would break the silence, asking me a question.

"you wanna... watch a movie with me?" he asked.

i immediately nodded as he said that.

he laughed and got up, holding my hand again as we walked towards his living room.

afterwards, we would start making popcorn and very weird snacks, basically grabbing whatever he had on his fridge, wowies.

as i held our snacks to his coffee table infront of the tv, he would get a bunch of blankets, pillows, plushies... a looooot of things.

i looked suprised, he looked so happy to spend time with me.

ehe... how silly.

as i took my shoes off and sat down on the couch, he placed a couple blankets above me.

and sat down next to me.

"so... what type of movies do you watch?" i asked.

"mmm... anything really." he answered.

he grabbed the tv remote and started going around to find a interesting movie to watch.

meanwhile, i would place my head on his shoulder and yawned a couple times.

its been like... ten minutes and he hasnt found a movie and yet, i was already so tired.

he looked at me and smiled.

"already tired, hmmm?" he whispered.

i nodded my head, not saying much.

"well... if that's so..."

he gently lifted me up and placed me in his arms gently.

his back was against the couch, getting a comfortable position for himself.

i was surprised and my cheeks turned red, i didn't knew how to respond that well.

he saw my expression and he immediately looked nervous.

"ah shit, am i doing too much? im so sorry, i ca-" and before he could finish the sentence, i interrupted him.

"can we stay like this for a while..." i silently said.

i wrapped my arms around him, hugging him as i placed my head against his chest.

his face was red as a tomato, he completely froze.

there was silence for a couple seconds before he suddenly spoke.

"of... of course." he answered.

he looked down and saw how calm and relaxed i was in his arms.

and as the night drove on, we cuddled together on that tiny couch.

until we both fell asleep.

so cute, so silly even.

it was just me and him.

just... me and him, wrapped around those blankets.

that day still plays on my head sometimes, it's so dumb but yet, special to me.

i hope he still remembers how much that day means to me. ♡

[ahdraftingco]

I just finished lesson learned and i have a few questions!

- does din truly love the reader? And will he actually learn to change his ways completely or will he always be a bit psychopathic?

- are they any hard limits that din wouldnt do to the reader?

- will they ever truly be happy? Like, how they talked about 😭 my heart aches for both of them

- is the feelings din have for ready truly just obsession or does he genuinily care for her and her well being?

- why DID the reader plan out that scheme at the end to trick din? He could have well changed without needing to go through that. Does he feel any remorse for tricking him? Does she fear what will happen if he were to ever find out? I fear what he'll do to willa and tex, AND the reader if he finds out. It would be, simply putting it, catastrophic

- is there a sequel in the works? 👀 i can say im definitely addicted to them, just as they are to each other

I just want them to be happy, to have the love they say they both crave 😭

Thank you so much for writing the fic, it was enjoyable the whole way through. Felt like a massive rollercoaster!

oh goodness okay let's see if I can answer these all!

I put it below the read more so it's not just a wall of text LOL! also obviously spoilers for those who haven't read LL!

1. I think it's important to ask what love is to Din. Because our definition of love might be very different than dark!din's. I can't really say if he's redeemable or not. That's all up to your personal perspective. I will say that Din does love our pretty little thief, but again, what does it mean to be loved by him? Food for thought ♡

2. I don't think Din wants to inflict heavy pain or anything that causes scars. Everything he does is either mental or is something that can be healed over time. So, hopefully that's a good answer even though it's a bit non-specific!

3. Who's to say they aren't happy now? I think they're very happy :) even if the foundation of that happiness is a fib, I don't believe that makes their happiness any less real!

4. Din cares about the reader deeply. It's about how deep does that care go? Is it obsession to take care of the person you love's needs? To Din, he gave reader everything he believed someone would need. I think it might be better to wonder if Din could ever stop caring for reader...because I think that is a fun thought experiment ~

5. Hmmm, well, if you read between the lines, I hinted that reader had been planning this for quite some time. It wasn't a random plot. It was intentional because reader saw how easily Din could fall into his old ways. She needed to do something that would push him to change completely and for her, this was the only solution. I think in her convo with Willa, we see that she has some regret. Willa doesn't (lol I love her) but reader definitely does. Oh, the fear is there but ignorance is bliss! Let's just ignore all the betrayal and focus on how happy they are :D

6. Yes, I have a sequel conceptualized. It's...a lot, though. It's dark, gritty and will take literally all my mental capacity to write 😂 yall don't even understand, LL took years off my life. The twists and turns 😵‍💫 gosh, I still think about how insane I was for writing 10k word chapters! Definitely will have to consider if I want to invest in long chapters like that again, wowie! But indeed, I do have an idea of where a sequel would go and honestly, it's quite a ride (at least it seems so in my head haha!)

Hope that answered everything you asked and hope I made you think of more questions hehe ;)

[gorbo-longstocking]

The boys take you to a rage room and are like "D:?!" when you start letting absolutely loose.

full disclosure: ive never been to a rage room before so idk if youre allowed to look in or not but lets say for the sake of tumblr imagines, you can hehe

sans - he takes one look in, sees you going absolutely ballistic, and thinks to himself that this was something you very much needed. at least you're releasing your emotions in a healthy way. he almost feels bad for that printer you went after. as long as you feel better after, that's all that matters to him.

papyrus - wowie, that must have been bottled up for a while. more than anything, papyrus is glad you're getting your anger out. he’ll ask if you want to come back again soon. it's not something he could see doing himself, but if it helps, he's very happy for you.

red - doesn't see you because he's too busy in his own rage room. if you think he isn't going to jump at the chance to take a bat to whatever breakable objects he can with no consequences, you thought wrong. after letting off some steam, the two of you feel much better and go out for dinner.

edge - he will ask if there's anyone specific you're mad at, draw a rough likeness of them, and then tape the image onto one of the provided objects. there, now you will really feel better. if you happen to start yelling expletives, he’ll pretend he doesn't hear. just this once.

blue - cheers you on, but if you look closely, you can see him wince a few times. the way you're getting at that microwave makes him think the broken timer on the one at home bothers you a bit more than you've been letting on. not to worry! the magnificent blue will fix it as soon as he gets home. or buy a new one. he’ll let you beat up the old one in the backyard. maybe even join in if his attempt at fixing it went spectacularly awful.

stretch - hes just chilling. this is your thing, he’s not gonna snoop on it. stretch is more than happy to play games on his phone or poke around outside for any cool rocks while you're in there. when you come out, maybe sweaty, maybe breathing hard, he’ll pat you on the back and offer to drive home. he might look in and see the carnage, but the only thing you’ll hear from him is a quiet “jeez”

lord - this was his idea. he noticed you’d been particularly high-strung and took you to a rage room. while he's preening about being correct, he’s a bit baffled by how much anger you had stored inside your fleshy human body. doesn't watch for long, but goes to play candy crush while you let off some steam. have fun with your catharsis.

mutt - sitting there cringing, almost full-body. you are going crazy on some of these objects, really putting your whole chest in their destruction, and he is having totally normal and not weird reactions to how strong you look right now. will be kind of stuttery after, but you wouldn't be able to pry why out of him even if you waterboarded him.

[salamangreatsunlightwolf]

Masked Singer Season 5 Review

I haven’t gotten to talk about The Masked Singer here in awhile, but season 5 left me with a lot to talk about after seeing how it nosedived this show into being DEAD television by the end of it.

I’m going to put it all past a read more for you here, because I have over 18000 characters in me to talk about how bad of a season this was apparently. There are also some thoughts about Season 3, and Season 4 (which I skipped reviewing because of how uninteresting it was, but boy did it’s bad qualities have a huge impact on Season 5).

So before I get to dissecting season 5 of the Masked Singer, I have to go back to moments of season 3, and a whole lot of season 4. Season 3 is where we start to see the first inkling of bad tropes occur that persist through season 5 to make it worse. It introduces really obviously weak performances that get the performer to skate by when they shouldn't, leading to the biggest upset I have with the season. Kandi Burruss really shouldn't have won season 3 in my honest opinion. within her first 5 performances, she had two clear duds; her cover of Shout!, and her cover of Man, I Feel Like A Woman. Both were covers that had questionable energy (Shout! less so, but Woman was absolutely unenergetic compared to Twain's original vocal performance), and the latter had a key change to the accompaniment that didn't lend any favors to the energy or vibrancy of the cover. I also need to put into context that what I think is Night Angel's worst performance (Woman) somehow won her a face-off round in season 3 (a forgotten show element from the last two seasons? wowie). Obviously I can say that Jesse McCartney should have won season 3 (I just think he had more consistent performances and output throughout the season), but that's a bit off course. What I really want to get to with Burruss cover of Woman is that it's for all intents and purposes just a middling cover. We'll see these happen more in seasons 4 and 5, but they pan out to usually axing off the contestant. Barring the element of Burruss actually getting eliminated, this is pretty much the first notable Punt Song in terms of performance quality. I want to establish the concept of the Punt Song because it plays a larger role in season 4, and season 5. I also need to establish another trope that season 4 introduced which also cursed season 5, which is excusing bad performances. It panned out so much worse in 4 than in 5, but for 4's sake, Chloe Kim should have been out from her first week. Her performance of Big Girls Don't Cry was weak and mildly sobby, but to the panel it's "emotional", and "it's okay, I'm sure you'll do better next week :)". This performance beat out Wendy Williams cover of Native New Yorker. Was that a great cover by Wendy? No, not really. However, whereas Chloe was a weak, sobbing mess on her first swing at bat, Wendy was bringing the comedy and entertainment factor and should have been safe on that alone. This show failure here is especially notable because having comedic factor in an otherwise bad performance actually pans out successfully in season 5, which makes me question the judges consistency in evaluation from season to season (to be fair though, the judges are Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Whalberg, and Nicole Scherzinger. They're already a collective 3/4 of a middling joke). The last part of Season 4 I want to bring up is the usage of the term "taking us to church" in regards to it not only being a cursed term by the end of season 5, but also being a poor reflection on the judges evaluation skills. Look, I get it, this is a Fox competition at the end of the day, so it's obviously hokey pseudo sentimental faux entertainment tailored for white audiences, but don't say someone "took you to church" and then immediately axe them off after that. Yeah, I'm gonna say it; LeAnn Rimes shouldn't have won season 4. Was she bad? No! I just think Taylor Dane was better than her during the week where they axed off Taylor, especially after the panel said that she "took them to church". What did Dane lose to you ask? a somehow more intimate cover of a Billie Eilish song. Is that a bad thing? No, in fact it was pretty good, but I don't think it was good enough to beat what was probably the best performance of season 4. ------------------------------------- Anyways, all of those ramblings from seasons 3 and 4 aside, I'm finally getting to season 5. Yes, I know it took me almost 4000 characters to get here, but I really wanted to go off for a minute and preface the bubbling layers of garbage from the previous seasons that contribute to season 5's flatlining quality out of the gate. If you think a bevy of Punt Songs and poor evaluation amped up another level are all that season 5 has wrong with it, then prepare yourself, because it only gets so much more gimmicky. --- So I'm going to go about this week by week because this show basically was committing sins weekly by this point. So week 1, I'm sorry, but yes, I know seeing Kermit the Frog come out of a snail costume was very : 0 worthy, but Kermit shouldn't have lost that week! His performance wasn't even bad! So what did Kermit lose to anyway? Danny Trejo doing a bad, borderline comedic cover of Wild Thing. You couldn't ask for a more "go home uncle Frank! You're drunk!" performance, but we got it. The judges saw more of a comedy factor in the performance than they needed to see, and let that slip by while they just left Kermit to take the fall. Already not off to a great start (especially since Trejo's character is part funny and part cringey for basically pining after Jenny all season). --- Week 2 is where we get to the first big problem I have with this season, which is letting problematic celebrities be contestants. I'm just going to skirt by Caitlyn Jenner's performance and say that it was maybe a punt song, but to be fair, I don't have high hopes for Jenner having any real vocal prowess. I mean, her cover of Tik Tok sounded like your unamused uncle singing it during karaoke at a family party you barely remember when you were 12. That aside, I just want to point out that Caitlyn Jenner was on this show, immediately lost her first round, then went off to do Caitlyn Jenner things this year like try to become governor of California, and whatever else I forgot she got into the headlines for this week. I don't know the worst representation of a trans woman as a public figure (speaking from a trans woman's perspective) getting this big of a "haha, hehe, hi chum : )" spotlight on national television after everything she's done. Barf me out. --- Week 3 didn't matter too much. Trejo finally got booted after a second performance with bad vocals. However, I want to bring up week 3 for the structural change that it brought to the season that ultimately robbed it of some value. Prior to this season, we had 3 groups in seasons 3 and 4, groups A B and C. Starting in 5, we only have a group A and a group B, but now we have "wild cards". These are performers that get to slot into a groups set of performances for the week and stack against them to make even a "just-safe" performer look cannable. I know what you're probably thinking. "In a show where we're trying to see the gradual performance growth of a performer in order to gauge their consistency and quality, doesn't allowing a performer to come in weeks into the show give them the opportunity to progress further along in the competition with little to the no evaluation?" Yes. It does give them the opportunity, but we'll get to that problem when we get to Omarion's character of The Yeti. For right now though, I'm just going to say this. The wild card group really didn't have any reason to exist if they show could get literally 1 more performer this season (which they technically did). A and B were 5 members each. There are 4 wild cards. All you needed was literally one more regular performer, and the wild cards could have just been group C. This feels like the kind of resource scalping covered up as a fun gimmick that only a large corporation could do for why we have wild cards instead of a group C, but that's where we stand. --- Week 4 is notable for the same reason as week 2. Ugh, do I really have to say it? Yes, Logan Paul was also on this season of the Masked Singer. Yes, one of the problematic Paul brothers. Yes, especially my least favorite one because he's a big reason as to why my hobby of trading cards has had a huge boom for the worse. Yes, I'm going to blame the rise in scalper culture on Logan Paul. Yes, I'm going to blame eBay getting more anal about how every TCG single should be PSA/CCG/etc. graded on a listing on Logan Paul. I just don't like the guy. Why is he here? --- Week 5 is where this show starts to cement itself as dead television. So for those unaware, Nick Cannon, who usually hosts the Masked Singer, was absent for the first third of this season. Filling in for him was Niecy Nash. So where was Nick you ask? Why as a wildcard of course! Nick's wildcard performance was pretty meh all things considered (the only other thing that was meh that week was Nick Lachey's cover of 7 Years, but that's less on him and more on how 7 years is just a bad song for the pop music lexicon). However, Nick's unmasking is where the show really starts to be dead television this season. Before I even get to that, I just want to point out that the costume for Nick Cannon's character just looks absolutely atrocious by season 5 standards. The costume for the Bulldog barely looks like it holds to the standards of season 1 of this show! Anyways, back on track. Nick Cannon decides to pull a "trick" from season 4. Back in season 4, Mickey Rourke forcibly unmasked himself instead of getting voted off. Here, Nick Cannon pops in as a wildcard contestant after being MIA for 4 weeks, just to give a meh performance and then forcibly unmask himself for "shock value", and then be like "hey guys! :D" and resume hosting the show the following week. Eat me. --- Week 6 isn't too notable besides the fact that somehow one of the previous wildcards (Mark McGrath as Orca) somehow go integrated into group A as a member during the same week of them introducing another wildcard, Omarion's "The Yeti". I only bring this up because if they're going to integrate two wildcards into a week and already remove the specialty factor from one of them, then what was even the point of the gimmick? The show would have been better off mix and matching members from groups A and B each week for the performance lineup instead of muddying the group lineups with wildcard characters like this. --- Week 7 is upsetting to me. Two hour special. 8 Performances. Two people out. And who you may ask? Why, wildcard from previous weeks Bobby Brown who was given a super obvious punt song (that he did pretty well on salvaging on the back half of the performance), and Tamera Mowry, who gave a solid pop performance that week. I only bring up Mowry's performance because during that same week, Nick Lachey gave us all a very underwhelming, overly clean performance of Foo Fighters "The Pretender". This is really upsetting because the judge evaluation is extremely suspect here, as they were giving Mowry plenty of legitimate praise, while all they gave Lachey was "wow that was solid. haha ur such a rocker :^)". It's just really upsetting to see how the judges evaluation pans out, because for the record, Lachey won this season, and I honestly think he should have been punted this week. This is also coming from a week where Omarion gave us a cover of Justin Bieber's "Lonely", which is another song I hope desperately leaves the pop music lexicon, because like 7 years, it's a sentimental white boy ballad that just doesn't authentically resonate. --- Week 8 isn't super notable besides the show giving Tyrese Gibson a super obvious punt song, and wow, who would have guessed it, Tyrese Gibson was eliminated that week after being given a super obvious punt song. Zzz. --- Week 9 isn't super notable besides another upset to me. So this week, Hanson (who got eliminated) gave a pretty solid performance of "I'm Still Standing". So what did they lose to you ask? How about Jojo giving us a cover of Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" with extremely questionable instrumental accompaniment. I can't remember exactly how I articulated it when I first watched it, but to put it in perspective, when LeAnn Rimes aimed for art, she succeeded. When Jojo aimed for art, it just left me confused. I honestly though Jojo should have gotten the boot here, but c'est la vie. --- Week 10 is where Omarion gets eliminated after being given a punt song (surprise). A middle energy performance of "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang isn't much to write home about, but I sometimes get suspicious of the behind the curtain politics of the show. The same week they give Omarion a super obvious punt song is also the second week in a row where Jojo gives us an artsy take on a song that nobody really knows. I'm not saying that Omarion's repertoire coordinator forced him into taking a punt song that week in order to let Jojo get to the finale, but. Wait, no, nevermind, that is what I'm saying. I feel bad for Omarion here. I do think it's pretty bollocks that Omarion basically got to come into the top 8 playoffs off of only one performance (which is a severe abuse of the wild card mechanic from the show producers), but they actually were trying to go for this neat character arc with the character of the "The Yeti" in the song choice. Like, the writers actually put some care into it, and then they give him a punt song on both a writing and performance level, and it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I also just remembered that week 10 is where Donnie Whalberg's character of Cluedle-Doo both performs and unmasks. Cluedle-Doo was another dead television gimmick for the season. See, all the characters get clue packages, but Cluedle-Doo will come in and block certain clues from being revealed to the judges, instead replacing them with clues provided by Doo himself. If that sounds annoying, that's because it is. More so when done by a character pompous attitude that does nothing but interfere. I do want to point out however that when I say that Donne performed, Donnie PERFORMED. There are no two ways about it, Donnie's cover of Return of the Mack was the best performance of this week. The only thing that even came close was the Chameleon. I don't need middling Kool & The Gang covers, I don't need art performances of songs I've never heard, and I don't need a Lewis Capaldi cover done by Nick Lachey (so much emotional white boy music this season. Gag me). I really think that Donnie should have been a regular contest, and I think that Nick Cannon should have been Cluedle-Doo as a gimmick character. It's more obvious, and it makes more sense. Obviously this leaves characters to create and fill slots for, but damnit, don't tease me with one of the best performances of the season just to let it whittle out like that. --- Alright, Week 11...the finale. There really isn't much to say, so I'm just going to cut right to it. I don't know what that cover of "Faithfully" Nick Lachey gave us was. There's an obvious problem with the Masked Singer where the short performance time makes slow burn ballads like faithfully translate poorly. As a result, the emotional arc of the performance feels stunted, and it's capped off with a declaration fest ending in one sustained note for "wow, I don't know anything about a good performance, but I'm easily impressed : 0" bait. This is clearly the weakest performance from the three tonight. Jojo's cover of "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?" by Michael Bolton is...better than what Nick Lachey gave us, but it has its own problems. The Bolton original earworms on you because of the anguish in Bolton's vocal tone. Jojo is too clean to give us even a smidge of anguish until after she's unmasked. That more forgivable though. I'm not going to forgive Jojo for littering an emotional ballad for multiple unnecessary pop diva vocal runs. They're not appropriate here for emotional flavor. They don't add anything musically. They just feel like a forced device from the executives perspective. They stand out in poor musical taste, and they really take away from what Jojo was trying to do in the chorus. Speaking of, the short form nature of the performances makes doing a double chorus with a key change from one chorus to the next feel like another arc stunt. Just bad direction right there. And finally, Wiz Khalifa as the Chameleon doing Gangsta's Paradise. I'm just gonna say it. Wiz Khalifa got robbed. Hip Hop performers tend to be pretty middling on the Masked Singer, with Bow Wow just beefing it at the end of season 3, and Busta Rhymes being unceremoniously eliminated week 1 of season 4. Wiz was different though. Wiz knew what he wanted to do with not only the character, but also with his performances. Chameleon was by far the most consistent and quality character of the season, with only one marginally middling performance during his run. Wiz's cover of Gangsta's Paradise isn't a masterclass in voice personality, but contextually for the show, it pushed more for what the character was trying to do right at the end where it counts, and the judges failed to evaluate that correctly. Wiz was actually doing sung parts that week. Wiz was engaging with the crowd and judges far more than Jojo and Nick were. Wiz even gave stage presence and his musical presence a real arc in this performance. On top of his already present cool swagger that he had on stage, this was easily the best performance of not only the finale, but also for the Chameleon. It's even up there for the best performances of the season. Giving Wiz third place for two C tier pop ballad performances shows a super evident lack of evaluation skills in the judges, and really reinforces the super obvious ballad bias the show has. --- So anyways, this has been a long one, but I think I got it all out there. Masked Singer season 5 really took the uninteresting quality level of Season 4 and just elevated it to being obvious and gimmicky on top of that. I've seen shows become dead television in my time, but this is a staggering nose dive into the realm of dead television. I "hope" Season 6 is "better" than this (if we even get one. This season might have been so gimmicky because the ratings could have sucked hard), but I'm certain it will be if this is the direction they opted for within just one season. Sorry to talk your ear off, but as someone who likes to think they know what good musical performance is in a context like this after being in many concerts in popular music contexts, this show has really not sustained itself as being "it", chief.

[would-ya-imagine-that]

I loved your jealous Ryuji drabble and LOVED IT ❤ On the other spectrum of that; could you do a H/C or drabble (whichever you'd prefer) of Ryuji finally asking out his childhood best friend. Like they grew up together and have always been close until Bon realizes he's fallen in flustered love w/her. Hope it's not too much to ask for, I love your writing!! 💖

Blue Exorcist Drabble - Childhood BFF’s w/ Ryuji Suguro

// Wowie, tysm!! 💕 I’m really glad so many people liked it!! - Sorry, this took a few days, I’ve been working!! //

      The giggling of children and the muffled prayers of others danced in the back of your mind. A quick image flashed in your head of 4 children. Koneko, Renzo, Bon, and yourself tossing piles of snow at each other in front of the temple.

“He…….o?”

…

“He…lloo..?”

…

“YO!” You shook back into reality. Bon was waving a textbook in front of your face. “You good??”

“Ah! Y..yes! Sorry! I was just reminded by something..” You managed to spurt out.

      Back in the classroom, one last study session. All of you were due to take your Exorcists Examinations for qualification soon. Bon sat beside you, he was always your study buddy throughout the school years. Koneko and Renzo sat in front of you two. However, the two tables were turned toward each other so the four of you could easily study together.

      After studying, the four of you went out to grab food. If all of you were to pass the exam, it would be inevitable that you would be separated. Apart from very brief classes every now and then, you’d all be busy on missions across Japan.

      Apart from everyone being slightly uneasy about what the future would hold, you noticed Bon seemed distracted in thought all day long. The group eventually split up, Renzo and Koneko headed back to the male dormitory, but Bon insisted he took you somewhere before walking you back to your own dorm.

      The sun soon fell from the sky to rest, and the stars began twinkling and dancing around the rising moon. He walked a bit faster than you, so he could easily show you the way. You felt it was strange he wouldn’t make eye contact with you, you noticed the tips of his ears were a bright red. Feeling concerned, you tugged on the sleeve of his shirt, as he turned it was revealed that his entire face was red, almost as if it could burst.

You pressed the back of your hand to his forehead, “Are you alright, Bon..?”

He grabbed ahold of your hand and pushed it away from his face, “I..I’m fine!”

…

      You eventually stopped at a small pond. A park bench placed fairly close to it. Bon sat down on the bench and beckoned you over.

“Listen..” He started, “I’m not sure if we’ll be able to see each other as much anymore if we pass the exam..”

      He shifted his body weight and pushed the few hairs out of his face.

“We grew up together..studied together, played together..pretty much everything, together.”

      You sat silently, letting him talk. You were growing curious about his point.

“Look, the deal is..”

…

“I love you..and I don’t want us to be apart...I would like us to be partners..”

      You were baffled by this confession, but, it’s not like you didn’t feel the same. After spending so much time with someone, of course, you’ll grow to like them.

‘Partners..? Would they even allow that?’ You thought to yourself.

      It’s not uncommon, some people who work well together can put in a request for a permanent partner...

He took your hands, “Well..? What do you think…?”

// Phewww, so, reader..do you accept him..? Hehe, anyways, thanks for this request! Hope you liked it!! 🥰 //