#wtf are yu guys talking about?

[bloopitynoot]

Reading TGCF: Chapter 86

For those who don't know, I am reading TGCF for the first time and sharing my thoughts!

If you have not read it, there will be spoilers! Consider this a warning.

Also- if you want to follow along, I am aiming to post updates daily. You can find all the posts in the tag Bloopitynoot reads TGCF. You can also check out the intro post for context on my read BUT if you followed along with my SVSSS read, the rules and vibe are the same.

A chapter update!

Yesterday I didn't post a chapter, but I did catch up with a pal over tea (wild berry tea- it was delicious). Today's tea is post a night meeting and was a solid choice for destressing; chamomile.

Let's get into chapter 86!

There is a reason why Hua Cheng made Xie Lian promise not to touch anything and 2 seconds after that promise shows it was necessary LOL Xie Lian did however, think twice before touching the thing, so that's good. p325

This city is giving Pompeii with the "statues" of people everywhere (it is exactly like Pompeii). p326

That's so sad that this family was holding protection charms before they all got ashed :((( p328

I feel like i'm being gaslit into believe that Xie Lian is NOT this crown prince. The math just keeps adding up (re: birthdays) p329

These murals keep getting worse. Absolutely horrifying about the volcanic demise and instructions rejected. pp332-334

WHAT!? Did this guy (the crown prince) really bring his people to the heavenly realm?? That's wild- how is that even a possible thing. p335

Xie Lian and me are the same with a good jar. That shit is helpful! p337

I love how Hua Cheng was totally fine with Pei Xiu drinking the water with the horrifying creatures in it p339

The tiny voices are very unnerving. p339

WTF! Rodents of unusual size! p340

Well, not the same kinds of rodents but. Corpse eating rats. And even more awful, they talk. p340

[packs up my briefcase] That's it, I cracked the case. I knew Xie Lian was THAT crown prince! The rats have confirmed it all. pp341-342

At this point I have nothing to say about this arc

At any given point, I literally could not predict what is coming next. I am convinced Xie Lian is a reincarnation of this crown prince. I am also deeply concerned about our boy Yin Yu and the hint that something worse than the most horrifying rats got to him.

[searchforthescars]

@bombshellsandbluebells has uncorked the vial of Cam's Weirdly Specific Knowledge Or Whatever

So what I started referring to as "the John Murphy effect" came about when I was trying to explain to my mom why I liked Murphy as a character: he was a character who was compelling because he was an asshole and because of aforementioned assholery, you wanted to stick with said character just because you wanted to see what would happen to said character. Over time, my definition evolved slightly so by the time I was in grad school and teaching other people about creative writing, my definition more or less was:

"A character, typically a deuteragonist, who engages the audience because they're such a difficult person that you can't help but want to follow their storyline to see what on earth happens to this character – or how they're going to happen to other characters."

Now it's important to note, the "John Murphy effect" isn't for assholes who are assholes in a vacuum. No no, it's a specific kind of character like John Murphy himself: characters who have been systematically wronged, who have chips on their shoulders, and/or who believe themselves to be unchangeable and/or unknowable (and are typically disproven by the narrative). Whether or not that's actually the case is to be determined, but the reader wants to follow along just to see what the hell happens to this guy.

The other important distinction to make is that the narrative can't position this character as someone to watch – which is why I said that it's typically a deuteragonist who carries this effect. If you're dealing with a protagonist, you know instinctively as a reader that you're supposed to root for this person, so there's incentive to buy into their journey. But with the deuteragonist, for all you know, they're going to get killed off or made redundant or whatever, so what does it matter? Your investment is Purely Because you want to know why the hell This Fucking Guy is getting narrative attention and you want to see wtf happens.

(There are exceptions to that, though – I remember watching Yu Yu Hakusho for the first time and wondering why the protagonist fit this criteria when he's, you know, the protagonist. I wasn't rooting for him, but watching to see what happened to him, and had a similar payoff experience to that of John Murphy's.)

Anyway that's it lol there you go ty for coming to my TED Talk etc

[hheartsdramas]

final two episodes lfg

ep 11

if this drama doesn’t end with a non-imaginary scene of marital bliss

why do cops in these shows always call loved ones to the scene of crimes/accidents? so i can admire the scenery while they have an emotional breakdown?

oh mom is worried about hee-joo? where was this motherly concern at literally any other moment in her daughter’s life?

thanks for reading my mind, in-a. i always knew i liked you

momma paik has been accusing her husband and fil for the way og!sa-eon turned out, but i see her in his crazy just as much

yu-ri is the purest sweetest wholesomest and i’m so glad they didn’t turn her work crush into 2fl jealousy

does anyone really think ui-yong is the “leading presidential candidate” after all this?

uh-uh mom, you absolutely do not have the right to be broken up like this. i’ve always been impressed with kdramas not feeling obligated to forgive toxic parents, but it seems like they’re trying to give hee-joo’s mom a redemption arc. not a fan

(all my acab values go out the window when watching kdramas. but remember folks: if the cops want to talk to you you stfu and let your lawyer do all the talking.)

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat he’s grandpa paik’s bio son???? how??

these people are fucked up, i can’t believe she’s so vicious to our sa-eon because of things so far out of his control they might as well be happening on the space station

maybe don’t make promises about finding people we haven’t verified a location for, mr. detective man. especially since og!sa-eon is still alive

i am unsure how adding a padlock makes that room more secure than it already was, but you do you i guess henchman

daddy paik fucking things up, as usual

wow they know there’s a gun and they’re not even staying low it’s like they’ve never been through an active shooter training. (well, this isn’t set in america so that’s possible, i suppose)

bro run him overrrrrrrrrrrrrr

you’re literally watching him get ready to shoot that gun STEP ON IT!!! FLATTEN HIM!!! WTF ARE YOU DOING?????? NOW YOU’RE GETTING OUT OF THE CAR???? Why are you idiot????

i don’t even know what to say to you right now sa-eon. i’m already over whatever self-destructive bullshit you’re about to embark on for a probably shit reason.

friends the number started with 604…the mirror of 406

BRING BACK 14 EPISODE SERIES WITH ENTIRE EPISODES DEDICATED TO THE NON-IMAGINARY HAPPY ENDING YOU COWARDS

ep 12

netflix like “one more episode to go” don’t rub it in

he’d better have the best fucking explanation for disappearing or he’s losing all the points he’s earned for being an obsessed feral husband

this man seriously still thinks he can be president? (i will not make real life political commentary i will not make real life political commentary i will not )

all these people telling hee-joo all the ways he loved her is worth jack shit because HE’S NOT HERE i stg i will jump through the screen and smack him so hard when he shows back up

i’m actually so mad i don’t care what his reason is at this point, he abandoned her and i’m not sure i can forgive

wtf is argan

listen, i love a toxic romance in fiction as much as the next gal, but ladies please don’t chase a guy who abandoned you for six months with zero explanation to a fucking war zone all by your lonesome. hee-joo i thought you had some intelligence and some self respect

i’m seriously so upset with him. he fucks off for god knows what reason and has the gall to be mad at her for coming to look for him? the woman who drove off a cliff to protect him?

i hate the noble idiot trope so. much. and it’s not consistent with who he’s been the rest of the time, which is a selfish possessive bastard

okay but what is he actually *doing* in this war zone? other than “punishing himself” 🙄

okay well at least they finally had sex

this phone call is kinky, right?

sigh. my kingdom for a drama that doesn’t become a completely different show at the end. it’s certainly not the worst offender ever but i’m going to block almost all of that war zone arc from my memory i think. then i can be happy with it start to finish.

[atamascolily]

Lily liveblogs: Thunderbolt Fantasy 4x01

In which Shang Bu Huan is simultaneously incredibly perceptive and as dense as a post; Lang Wu Yao and Xing Hai realize you can't go home again (welcome to hell); and Ba Wang Yu is a badass.

NOTE: As far as I know, there is still no news from Crunchyroll about an official English release, and I'm very grumpy about this. Please do not let TBF become this season's Girls Band Cry.

I'm always a sucker for a soft piano version of the main theme and the opening scene did not disappoint. In this house, we stan a cold open.

(that said, this gives me major flashbacks to the opening of S3, which makes me wonder how deliberate that was)

the cinematography in this scene is GORGEOUS. The light! the bamboo! everything is perfect!

love the establishing shot with the bored server, especially since you just know it's gonna be relevant later

also love how we don't see who Shang is pouring drinks for until Juan Can Yun shows up!

can I just say how much Juan Can Yun has really grown up since we first met him? He may not know what's going on, but his heart is sincerely in the right place, and he's doing his best to provide comfort and support to the guy who taught him what it meant to be a truly good person.

as usual, Shang blames himself for Lang's disappearance, never mind that Lang had his own issues and isn't the most communicative ever.

also love that neither Shang nor Juan has any idea wtf happened to Lang in S3, so from their perspective, he just fucked off into a collapsing cave for no reason... except that Shang has figured out that he went after Xing Hai in the demon realm. Which is 100% true, just not in the way he expects.

Shang is dealing with trauma in his usual way, which is to isolate himself from the people he cares about.

He's also realized his naivete in assuming that he could fob the Index off on someone else in Dong Li or get rid of it entirely--he's stuck with this thing he doesn't want and he's the only one who can handle it (because every time he tries anything else, people get hurt or killed). the problem is that it will consume his whole life, and then what? He doesn't bring it up, probably because it's too depressing to contemplate.

Shang doesn't mention his name directly, but the official summary makes it clear he's thinking of Bai Lian when he talks about how he promised to keep the Index safe.

Dan Fei is rousing both the spiritual and secular authorities to prepare for war. Here's hoping the Dong Li emperor is better than the Xi You one or else we're in real trouble!

She's not even in this episode, but I'm still so proud of her, because like Juan, she really has grown up tremendously since we first met her. And you can tell Juan really loves her! THESE KIDS, MAN.

(maybe the Dong Li emperor can take over the government when Xi You and Dong Li are reunited??)

war with the demons is coming and everybody knows it.

Juan means well, but there is no fortress the Hu Yin Shi can build that is strong enough to keep the Index safe and Shang knows it.

where is home for Shang, I wonder?? He's been on the run and on the road for so long, I don't think he even knows, even though Juan assumes Shang's home is Xi You.

(shang is never going to settle down, he will always wander, "home" is where he is, not a fixed place. but does HE know that? his reaction to Juan suggests that he does.)

Juan's line about Shang's family is so typically him... he's trying to be kind, but he messes it up because he doesn't know the situation.

I am tremendously pleased that Shang doesn't have a family (that he knows about) because it maintains his archetype as as a perpetual wanderer passing through rather than fixing him in time and space. From the beginning, he's always been alone, which is personally tragic, but narratively fitting. Rather than inheriting a destiny, he's entirely self-made.

Also, this means no more family members get fridged, because I'm so tired of that.

(Lang is the one with the family drama in this show, remember)

but I think this is one of those moments that we'll revisit later, because it's technically true, but there's so much more than that that we don't yet know about! this is just the tip of the iceberg!

I feel like this is also a key character moment for Juan, inasmuch as it shows how much he values family and social connections and ties (which he has obtained via his relationship with Dan Fei)

but oh, the awkwardness

so much awkwardness

fortunately interrupted by Juan getting called away by his duties

you can tell that Juan has really settled down, because he pays the bills--remember when Shang tells his imposter that the most important thing in life is paying your own bar tab, lol.

Juan mentions a hot spring and a inn nearby and I just want everyone to imagine the next part taking place there while Shang is naked and wet, because it's such a great mental image. I assumed Pili would have done this if they could have gotten away with it, but alas, budget.

shang always being able to see through lin's disguises gets me every time, as does lin's rueful laugh.

me: GET A ROOM YOU TWO

(also, there is a rule that says servers at restaurants in this show are never what they seem, it's practically law by now)

shang doesn't lecture lin about his behavior, just says he can see where Juan is coming from, lol

Lin's motivation of avoiding boredom is brought up because it's fundamental to understanding his character - - everything he does stems from it.

lin is 100% correct when he says shang is boring and tedious. he's narratively uninteresting. the Index is literally weighing him down. but shang can't/won't listen.

Shang: no.

lin: what, not even a "lol, no". you ARE depressed.

Lin and Juan are basically saying thesame thing in different ways, lol.

"to become a hermit and coop yourself up in the middle of nowhere and devote your whole life to protect the Index" is Lin's idea of hell -- it's basically what the Hu Yin Shi are already doing, but without the community/structure/support

also goes back to the idea of power as ISOLATION, which we have also seen with Locust (more on this later)

Lin is basically saying "play with me!" in the most direct way possible for him, it's very cute

shang telling lin he's not like him is so funny because of all the ways they're similar (which shang would really prefer not to think about, lol)

Just like Shang, Lin is not willing/able to compromise his principles, so their parting is inevitable

Lin has always been very clear that his interest in Shang is conditional on Shang being "fun", so this isn't a surprise

Of course Lin, as a professional storyteller/liar who is keenly attuned to narrative "rules" (and is voted "Most Likely To Break The Fourth Wall"), puts it in terms of tales and stories. If Shang is dropping out of the story, Lin will keep going on.

HOWEVER, Lin is also very clear that this separation is temporary, and that Shang will not be able to resist the call to adventure in his blood (very interesting given what else blood is said to do in this episode). And he's right! Shang is at a low point at the moment, but he's constitutionally incapable of minding his own business when problems drop into his lap. It's innately a part of who he is; he CANNOT stay in one place for long, he can't stop being a hero. And Lin will join him when he rejoins the narrative, because he is acutely attuned to Shang's activities/a keen judge of narrative drama. and it's something they'll do together!

in his own indirect way, Lin is saying that he'll be there when Shang is ready, and that pleases my shipper heart immensely.

shang: "GOD, I need a drink."

the question is what is he going to do next? I think, given the theme of this episode, returning home, and the mention of Tian Ming, means that he's going to somehow end up in Xi You, because it's the one thing he doesn't want to do--and therefore needs to. I'm just not sure how, but I know it has to happen before the end of the story, even if it's not immediate.

The other option is that he goes to the demon realm, because all of the plot threads are converging on the demon realm in this season, so it's inevitable that he'll end up there too

Beyond that, I'm not sure--he could spend time with Dan Fei, Juan Can Yun, and the Hu Yin Shi, but it feels like he has cut ties with them as well and is determined to do his own thing. We'll see how far he gets with his self-imposed isolation before the narrative drags him back; I have a feeling it won't be very long.

all this and we're only six minutes in, lol

I love how the demon realm looks like the bottom of the ocean with all the filtered light and corals and algae. plus they can use the green screen directly and save money!!

Azibelpher is virtually phoning it in because Lang will attack him otherwise, lololol

xing hai: ah, nothing like the fresh smell of blood to remind you of home.

lang: coughing fit

I appreciate the confirmation that Ling Ya is the manifestation of Lang's demonic powers, because it confirms what I've always suspected. Also it makes the second movie 1000% times more poignant and heartbreaking in retrospect, so good job there.

If Xing Hai is disgusted Azibelpher fucked a human, she is very wisely not saying anything, lol

Ling Ya is once again shielding Lang, so he can be human. This is not going to last, but I love him so much for trying.

Like Shang, Xing Hai was ashamed of going home because she felt she wasn't worthy enough, but now she is in Azibelpher's service and therefore protected in spite of her low status among demons. The only one who is allowed to toy with her is her boss, and you can tell he's enjoying her reactions to the changes in the demon realm.

meanwhile, lang is supposedly "home" in a foreign land that is actively hostile and yet somehow familiar on a deep innate level. welcome to hell, kid.

we also get confirmation of something I've wondered about for a long time, which is that "demons" and "demon gods" are two different classes of entities in spite of their similar names. The demon gods are living weapons the demons summoned from another world to fight the humans, which makes them the direct parallels of the Shen Hui Mo Xie, which also came from another world and are the only thing that counter them!!!

also like the Shen Hui Mo Xie, as soon as the war was over, they were misused on their own side

also, this demon god looks JUST LIKE CTHULU LMAO

I thought one of the demons got turned into a skull, but on replay, he was already a skull before that. Still not having a great day, though.

love the shot of Azi et al. on the cliff which establishes the sheer SCALE of this production.

anyway, the demons have "peace" because they're too busy placating the eldritch horrors they summoned to fight each other. This was the idea of the demon king, who I'm sure we'll meet shortly.

also, please savor the irony of Xing Hai waking up a demon god in S1, only to learn that the demons have spent the last 200 years desperately trying to keep them down

the demons are stuck living with the side effects of the war just as the humans are - two halves of the same coin

Xing Hai is mad because she doesn't like that the demons are now suffering the same fate they tried to inflict upon the humans and are stuck with the consequences--she believes in hierarchy, and in that hierarchy, even the lowliest demon is superior to a human, and therefore is prey

"peace" comes at a price--it's not really peace at all, it's stasis/paralyzing, constant fear of oblivion. Like Lin, Azi finds this boring, so he's naturally looking to stir up shit (this is also why he spends so much time fucking around with humans, btw, and, why, like Lin, he also is acutely aware of narrative rules and drama)

Okay, I was not expecting this particular musical choice for cyborg grandpa's scene (Ling Ya's theme iirc). I guess now I don't have to feel bad that Lou Zhen Jie trapped him in the other world, because he wasn't actually trapped for long.

in keeping with his dual nature, cyborg grandpa has one red eye and one green eye

his character bio on the official site says he has a connection to the other craftsman grandpa in this show, which pleases me immensely, because symmetry

love that the screen separating him from the world is literally how Locust interacts with his followers in the Order, it's so perfect for him side note: the "You" character in "Emperor You" is the same as in "Xi You", which means "secluded"; the fact that the emperor is named for his most prominent trait is also very pleasing to me, even if it's not as obvious in English. TBF is really not subtle with these sorts of things!!!

I've said this before, but Locust's isolation from the world is key to his powers, but that doesn't stop him from making his presence felt in other ways

cyborg grandpa wants to go to the demon realm but needs protection; locust wants to learn more about the demonic arts which are tied to heretical arts (another confirmation that pleases me--once again, humans and demons aren't so different!)

FIELD TRIP TO THE DEMON REALM!!!

it's very fitting that Wasp and Spider are introduced at the same time and come as a set because they are direct opposites in every respect. Spider has a fantastic entrance with his chains, but Wasp/Ba Wang Yu has my whole heart.

Her ethos is simple and direct; his is subtle and cunning; she's a butch powerhouse and he's a misogynistic twink. Of course they hate each other and immediately duke it out.

Locust approves because he's a terrible boss, lol

Ba Wang Yu gets her character poem first because she isn't hiding anything at all. She isn't stupid; she simply doesn't give a shit because she's so strong she can steamroll anything that's thrown at her. Did I mention I love her?

seriously, after Dan Fei's poem had that whole "meekness as a woman" crap, it's refreshing that Wang Yu's poem is almost literally "I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR".

I do like spider's clone attack, though. And the chains are very neat. But I'm so distracted by Wang Yu that I barely notice him.

apparently locust has his own stash of magic swords and… axes?? Of course Wang Yu gets the ax! This is also why spider's puppet was exhibited with two different swords, lol.

good thing locust magicked them so they don't get fried like jun po.

you can tell from the way the camera focuses on spider for a second that he's planning on backstabbing wasp in the demon realm.

anyway, Wasp and Spider are almost certainly doomed, and I'm betting that they're either going to kill each other because their respective ethoses cancel each other out--neither strength nor strategy is inherently superior. The alternate is that they die together fighting a common enemy, which would also be karmically fitting, but regardless, I'll be very surprised if they make it out of this season alive.

which sucks because I love Wang Yu so much, but such is life in the murder puppet fandom, especially for the bad guys

I love that the monster of the week looks so cute and harmless, but is supposedly ferocious, lol. love how it conveniently waits for Azi to finish exposition before attacking

in keeping with the "eyes" motif, it has two eyes in its skull socket where a normal animal has one.

lang barely talks in this episode -- also lol. I think he has 2 lines, a cough, and a lot of judgemental looks

Ling Ya is like, "damn it, okay, this sucks, but I'm gonna do my best to keep Lang human through all this"

Lang: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

… and we're done!

Bai Lian with a new sword in the OP was not on my bingo card, but he puts it in a shrine and walks away. considering that the OP is named for a famous sword in Japanese legend, I'm really curious where this is going.

okay, so the opening is great actually, love Shang sitting at the table with lang, only to be alone--I thought he was going to see other people (lin?) but no, still a gut punch. shanglang shippers can have a little angst as a treat.

lot of spiderwebs when the Divine Swarm is introduced (including Lin as Piao Miao, lol)

Locust and Chao Feng also have their mirror images, hmmm

Xing Hai shattering the mirror with her whip suggests that she is going to have an interesting arc this season, "shattering" her illusions. love the reflections of the other demons in in the glass behind her.

Lang is wrapped in chains and calls on his powers via Ling Ya to summon lightning and flames and turns into a demon to escape them… I thought it was a third eye, but I think he's got a horn instead. which is so funny because the demons made fun of him last season for not having one-- half-demon = 1 horn, I guess. Anyway, demon prince Lang sighted, this is not a drill.

also am I a terrible person for immediately thinking of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" here

omg all those eyes!!!!

credits end with Shang fighting a whole army of those monsters from the end of the episode alone, only for Lin to drop down out of the sky in the most dramatic way possible and stand back to back with him. considering that Azi makes a big deal about how ordinary humans can't defeat them, this is very significant. also, unclear if this will actually happen or if it's just thematic, but either way, this encapsulates Shang and Lin's dynamic very nicely--Shang might complain, but Lin will be there when he needs him (he just has to accept him!) also inevitable that both of them will end up in the demon realm, though again, perhaps not under these exact circumstances.

I feel like the opening song is very slow and melancholy, and gets cut off just as it gets going so I'm looking forward to the full version. Nothing will ever top "His/Story" but I don't hate it.

will we get a real ED this season? probably not, but I live in hope

anyway, this was a LOT to unpack, and I feel like I've barely skimmed the surface, but there you go. can't wait to do this all over again next week.

[incognitotoro]

Some more people with glorious manes and a lot of eyeliner playing obsure musical instruments and headbanging.

It makes me very happy that a few of you were actually interested in the music I posted yesterday, @quintalon since IRL i don't have any metalhead friends, but I do love to talk about it, so here's a quick rec list :)

Spoiler. It wasn't quick.

Fair warning, lots of non-english speaking bands here, and also probably a lot of overlap in the artists in the bands, because them promoting their side projects would have been how I found out about them in the first place. Also, god help me, I just absolutely love weird music.

So, in no particular order.

A few more d'Artagnan songs I love:

Herzblut

We're Gonna be Drinking

BONUS: One-take singthrough of Hey Brother by lead singer in normal clothes with his man-bun. Hot in a different way but i'm here for it.

Feuerschwanz. Same singer as in d'Artagnan, probably equal amounts of serious music as absolutely absurd stuff, but stupid talented all the same. On a related note, I'll save you the trouble of translating. It means fire dick.

Some Feuerschwanz recs in order of most to least serious:

Das Herz eines Drachen

Bastard von Asgard (My personal fave, this whole album is fire.)

Dragostea Din Tei (yeah, you read that right. their covers are hysterical and numerous. see also: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Ding)

Alestorm. I've been listening to these idiots since i was a teenager, so lots of examples in this one. Pirate metal, does what it says on the tin, generally very silly, kinda like the Pirates of the Caribbean music with electric guitar and A LOT of swearing. Some cool sea shanty vibes. Lots of generally good times.

Paddy and the Rats. Also vaguely piratey, I like the sound though.

Join the Riot.

Red River Prince.

Dark Side of the Moon (band, not Pink Floyd album). First Light

Russkaja. More Polka/ ska vibes than traditional folky sound, but some of the most gloriously weird music i've ever heard. Before anyone says anything, they use Soviet imagery and some Russian language, but they are and have always been hardcore anti-war, and the band members are from all over Europe.

These will both have you saying 'wtf am i putting in my ears right now?' hopefully in a good way. Shapka and Energia.

Wind Rose. Dwarf metal. Someone said that the song i posted earlier sounded like a metal band in middle earth, well these guys literally sing about Erebor and Durin and whatnot. Nerdy AF, obviously.

Saltatio Mortis. My Mother Told Me

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

The HU. Mongolian folk metal. Incredibly atmospheric.

Yuve Yuve Yu (music starts at 1 min)

Wolf Totem

I could go on, but i've tortured you all enough for one day. Rock on, my dudes.

[dollivication]

To 🦈 and 🌀: <33 thank you both, I'll be sure to treat your brains with care, only the best for them.

To Dollie ❤️: I've had sea shanties stuck in my head for the past week, do you have any pirate AUs in that lovely mind of yours?

ALSO I saw a Wesker mention from 🌀 and I'd have to say, despite not playing re5 (the ps3 controls are so tanky 😞) or re1, I'd gnaw on that man like a dog with a bone

SEA SHANTIES… i love drunken sailor (IT JUST GOES HARD I HAVE NO EXPLANATION LMFAO) and my jolly sailor bold so badly….

cw: violence, obsessive behaviors, mentioned non-con but nothing actually explicit

pirate aus…. fawk… headscratchh…. well i always liked the thought of laik.. childhood friends with leon; ur royalty, he’s a boy from a poor background. you guys were laik 2 peas in a pod! but ur parents (king and queen) strong advised that you stop talking to him! he’s a commoner after all. and you can’t rlly go against ur mom or dad :( so yu switch up and tell leon that you didn’t want him around you anymore, that he’s a peasant and you could never be friends with someone as dirty as him!

leon ofc is fucking HURTING. he doesn’t wanna believe that his bsf just suddenly started hating him?? he was literally so whipped by you, and now you’re just being a dick? that just wasn’t like you… but he did as you told him to and he stopped coming by. as the years passed, your head was filled more with royal concerns and you damn well near forgot about leon!

leon never forgot about you though. while you two spent those years apart, getting older, he became meaner. your words really got to him, because now? there was a threat to your people. a pirate captain and his crew, targeting the already small population of your kingdom. the king and queen were doing their best to ward them off, but what could rlly be done at that point?

your mom and dad, as mentioned before, weren’t all that kind to those with a lower status :/… leon had used this to his advantage and got together with all of those who had been wronged by the royal family. and that number was enough to hold off against literal soldiers like jfc…

of course, leon and his crew arrive and start fucking everything up. burning down houses, robberies, literal manslaughter. you could only watch as your mom and dad panic abt wtf to do. your dad’s men are dropping like flies, because pirates play dirty whilst knights play with honor. it’s a fucking bloody mess (◞‸◟)

it doesn’t take long before the pirates get to the actual castle. king and queen are quickly taken care of, now the only one left is you. but you aren’t hurt yet—held still by other pirates, yes, but you haven’t gotten stabbed like some unlucky people. and then u have the (not so) great pleasure of meeting the captain himself :3

leon’s mocking ur confused expression, jeering at how scared you look. considering you’ve completely fuckin forgot this guy you demand to know who he is—to which leon haaaappily reminds u abt the friendship you two used to have before you just poured it down the drain.

“you didn’t love then me because i was no one, but now, you’ll love me because i’m someone” is basically what he tells u. he was no longer poor, considering all the shit he’s robbed, and now that he actually has a reputation compared to his past self. and now that the people who told you to stay away from him are now gone, he was happily going to make up for lost time with you, whether you liked it or not.

JSJSJFGTHIS IS PROBABLY REALLY UHMM CLICHE, sososoery if u were hoping for something different jsjskdf..</3 i guess a summary would just be yan!childhood friend!pirate!leawn…. and i’d also like 2 add he’d probably non-con u… saur..

[sundriving-glittery-wetcat]

about me cause my bio confuses me

uh

im a she/her, u can call me sunny, i write alot. i want to share as much as possible in here so I can connect with as many people as possible, so this might be too much info for some. feel free to ignore if u see this lol

my MAIN fandom will shock u.. its one piece!!!!!! (collective gasps) but i also like the following: Dungeon Meshi, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Inuyasha, Yu-Yu Hakusho, Percy Jackson (all series.) , Warriors (the cat books), Wings of Fire,

i enjoy artists like The Crane Wives, Ado, Milet, NF, and Cavetown.

Main ships: KOBYLU. Zolu, Namivi, Frobin, Sabolaw (so silly) , Acesan, Bartocav, Sanuso, Usokaya, Zosan, / Labru, Farcille / ZenNez, obaMitsu, / none for jjk, inuyasha or yu-yu hakusho sorreee / Percabeth, Solangelo, Leo X Calypso (wtf they ship named?)

ANYWAYSS

im making an effort to improve my writing style to portray and paint clear images of a character and their personality. I have A LOT of Kobylu fic ideas i'd love to blab abt to you if you'll hear!

I suck at drawing. Never ask me to draw unless you want trauma.

Current WIP'S:

Pink and Gold Skies (kobylu) , The Cute Entomology Guy (kobylu university AU), Isekai Hell

DNI/LEAVE MY BLOG RN:

Terfs, Racists, Homo+Transphobes, DO NOT TRY AND GET ME TO SEND NUDES I DONT KNOW WHY I HAVE TO CLARIFY THIS BUT ITS HAPPENED TWICE ALREADY SO I GUESS I SHOULD. do NOT send me nudes or ask for any because i am mentally unstable and i will ruin your life. i have never sent any and i will NEVER

I like talking, so feel free to DM me or send an ask. I do take any oneshot requests, not just kobylu.

Thats all! I Appreciate you reading.

[teecupangel]

Just saw the Yu Gi Oh post where you gave Desmond a deck based around Ezio being one of his main cards and it reminded me that when i finished reading Esama's Loose Ends, i wrote down an idea i got. XD

Basically, Desmond gets sent to the Yu Gi Oh verse as a card and in a fun twist, we can send Shaun, Rebecca and Bill after him some months later. In this AU, Abstergo never got Desmonds body, there was just some blood stains near the Eye(enough for Sample 17). This leads Bill to desperatly search for his son and in the beginning Shaun and Rebecca help him, but as the months go by and nothing comes up, they start losing hope.

Not Bill though. He is adamant that his son is still alive, the Apple told him so. Eventually the Brotherhood send Shaun and Rebecca after him to get the Apple back and to stop this madness. Bill though, has found out that his son is in an alternate reality and there is a PoE that can get him there. Just as he activatesthe device, Shaun and co. catch up to him and gets transported too.

All of them wake up to a world where children fight multi million dollar tournaments with real monsters summoned from cards... WTF??? Bill is still adamantly searching for Desmond and when asking around, he hears people talk about "hoping to see Desmond in action" at the next tournament. When they get there though, it is not just Desmond he sees, but a bunch of Assassins... as the monsters controlled by people. All their eyes are a soulless white and then everyone goes wild as Desmond gets summonee to the field... Bill found his son. Now he needs to free him.

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So yeah, the idea is that Desmond and his ancestors are being controlled by whatever evil corporation rules in the Yu Gi Oh verse(sorry, my knowledge about this series is very limited XD) and it's up to Bill, Shaun and Rebecca to save Desmond and stop the evil guys, with the help of these random children that insist they can help.

"Do you guys even know how to play Dual Monsters?"

"... Fiiiiine, you can help"

Heres's the wall of text i wrote down in a flurry of words about Desmond as the card. XD

Yu gi oh x AC crossover idea: After the Eye Desmond ends up in the Yu Gi Oh verse as a card. He has multiple stages to his card and his theme is that at first he can't attack and monsters are forced to defend him until a certain number has been met and he transforms into a form that can attack. His first form is a chained up ball of golden feathers called Desmond The Chained One. His 2nd form is called Desmond The Free One and has him sever his chains and fly free, but the chains remain on him(he is in simple clothes reminiscent of his hoodie and jeans). His 3rd form is called Desmond The Awakened One and has him hold an Apple of Eden and his clothes become the robes of the Assassins. His last form is Desmond The Sacrificed One and along with the Apple, he has the Eye in front if him. In this form his chains are finally gone and the player can choose to either sacrifice him to protect every card on the battle field from a spell or effect that would destroy a monster or they can sacrifice everything and let Desmond remain. In his 2nd form he gains the ability to summon other Assassin cards(Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad The Eagle, Ezio Auditore The Hunter, Ratonhnhaké:ton The Furious, Edward Kenway The Pirate, Haytham Kenway The Leader etc) to aid him. His 3rd also gains the ability to sacrifice a card to take control of an enemy until the end of the turn.

Here’s the link to the Altaïr possesses Desmond ala Yami Yugi idea and my idea for Desmond’s OP deck for those curious

I only fully watched the series with Yugi in it so I’ll suggest that, instead of an evil corporation, we just have Desmond be part of the new cards that are part of some kind of ‘promotional tournament’. This way we can put this in any of the series/season you want and it’ll become more or less a ‘filler arc’ XD

Okay, my suggestion is for the criteria to change forms is that ‘discarding’ or ‘losing’ a number of cards to ‘evolve’ Desmond.

For Desmond to become Desmond The Free One, 3 cards must be discarded or lose regardless of who lost it (the player or the opponent). BUT Desmond must already be in the field for those cards to count. Any cards lost before Desmond is in the field is not part of the count. This includes magic and trap cards.

To get Desmond the Awakened One, the player must discard or lose 3 cards (this includes the cards that the player has already sacrificed for Desmond’s 2nd form).

And for Desmond to become the Desmond The Sacrificed One, it’s more specific: the cards Altaïr, Ezio, and Ratonhnhaké:ton must be discarded or defeated in the field. Of course, if they have already been sacrificed, that still counts. But here’s the thing though…

Desmond the Sacrificed One doesn’t summon any Assassin cards. He forces the players to summon them as long as they are in the player’s hand and there is a free spot in the field. Any time he summons an Assassin, he can no longer attack or use his control skill and he prioritizes summoning Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhaké:ton.

AND he has a special ‘passive skill’ with the Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhaké:ton cards. He will always take the first hit of those cards per turn. This means that, the opponent could easily whittle down Desmond’s health by attacking Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhaké:ton only once.

This is mitigated by:

Desmond cannot be directly attacked or removed from the field as long as there is an Assassin card in the field

He heals 10% of his total HP for every Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhaké:ton cards in the field per start of the player's turn.

The Aegis shield can be equipped to Desmond and it will take 50% of any damages that is aimed at Desmond until its shield is depleted.

Edward’s passive skill “Protecting the Future” where Edward can take the damage that would prove to be a killing blow for the cards Ratonhnhaké:ton, Haytham Kenway and Jennifer Scott also applies to Desmond.

The magic card “You are an Auditore” which heals 30% of the health of any Auditore cards in the field and that includes any ‘Kenway’ on the field also affects Desmond.

Equipping Altaïr or Ezio with the Armor of Altaïr (there’s also two copies of them in the deck) halves all damages they take and Desmond only receives 1/3 of the damage when his passive activates.

Keeping Desmond the Sacrificed One also heralds a permanent field effect. All monsters other than Desmond take damage every start of the turn. The field is called ‘Remnants of the Sun’s Wrath”.

[themicrowaveart]

Yu Yu Hakusho Random Headcannons

because I love this series too much 🫶

• If lockdown ever came to these guys, I feel like Yusuke would be the type to stay inside and play video games with Kuwabara.

• You will 101% hear this man scream from his room thousands of cuss words as he does his gaming.

• Why do I feel like Yusuke would be really into games like Overwatch and Valorant and had to beg his mom to buy it for him but she couldn’t.

• So yk what he did? He begged Koenma. All he had to do was kick demon ass.

• Yusuke is most likely to forget putting on a damn mask when he does out.

• “It looks nerdy”

• Meanwhile, Kuwabara would just be playing with his cat and watch cat videos while in quarantine and Shizuru is just contemplating on why she couldn’t smoke anymore due to the lockdown.

• No, like seriously, Kuwabara would be spending the whole day with his cat without a damn.

• Unless he brought Yukina over and his whole attention would be diverted to her.

• He’d be having a mental breakdown on why he couldn’t see Yukina anymore cuz he’s trapped in his damn house.

• Most likely doesn’t know how to use Zoom properly, if you’re ever in an online class with this dude he’ll have his mic unmuted and won’t know about it.

• Kurama on the other hand would be so calm about the entire lockdown and pandemic thing.

• I mean this guy is so fcking calm what did y’all expect

• He would most likely consume his time by gardening, reading or just doing anything that’s productive.

• This man meditates frfr

• Kurama has garden gnomes and you CANNOT fight with me on that.

• He’s most likely to wear his FULL uniform while attending online class.

• Other students would just wear their top uniform cuz this is online class we’re talking about, but Kurama just goes full effort and puts his pants on too.

• Hiei would be absolutely unaffected by the pandemic.

• I mean he’s a demon—

• He’d just walk into the Human World and then see everyone with masks and the streets almost empty and he’d be like “wtf”

• If that was the case, the first place he’d go to is to Kurama’s

• And then Kurama would give him a full briefing on the pandemic

• And Hiei just calls everyone pathetic for dying to something you couldn’t even see with the naked eye and lists it down on his long ahh list on “why humans are pathetic”

• Yusuke would most likely make a gc with these guys because he’s bored asf in quarantine

• The gc would consist of Yusuke and Kuwabara doing the most random crap and memes.

• Kurama is the group’s therapist frfr

• I can already imagine Kurama and Kuwabara in a video call with Kuwabara ranting on why he can’t see Yukina because of lockdown and Kurama just listening intently.

• Koenma is obv stressing out because demons are out doing shenanigans and the spirit detective is trapped in his damn house.

• Kurama is most likely to send those fancy “Good morning” GIFs in the gc.

• I can imagine Hiei in a videocall with Kurama and Hiei is constantly choppy because who tf can find good wifi in Demon World?

[evanescentdawn]

so v glad I am finally writing fanfic abt this stupid show I am brainrotting over SO bad cuz. oh my god this was so much fun to write wtf in love seriously with them (especially jang si-yu <3 he’s so looser <3)

“Did you just think — NO,” he adds loudly. He explicitly makes a big cross with his arms to get his point across. “NO! N-O!” “I wasn’t talking about those kind of dreams! This was a very pure dream. I am a very pure person and I wouldn’t have those kind of dreams about yo—”

She tunes out the rest of whatever he’s saying. For a person who declares himself as pure, he sure is the furthest thing away.

“…and it’s not like I asked for this, you were the one who made that love —”

He’s still talking.

“Okay, whatever.” Lee Hong-Jo says, shaking her head. She had enough. “I’m getting out now.”

“….Wait… at least let me take —”

The door shuts close.

“….you home…”

His stretched out arm is left out hanging.

He takes it back and cradles it against his chest.

Sitting in his car, very alone now, Jang Si-Yu’s heart aches terribly. He stares out of the window, watching as Lee Hong-Jo’s figure disappears and with it, the ache in his heart increases fatally.

This damned love potion.

“Get it together, Jane Si-Yu,” He tells himself sharply, slapping his face to shake it off. But he can’t direct his eyes away from the spot she disappeared.

He already misses her.

What if he got up and followed after —

No. Get it together, Jang Si-Yu! He can’t loose to this love potion.

Determinedly, he jerks his head away. It doesn’t move. Slowly, with force, he mechanically turns it inch by inch to the front of his car and drives away. It only takes over ten minutes.

The heartache doesn’t go away but throbs insistently while he knows Lee Hong-Jo is completely fine and mooning after that guy. She must be so happy, when he’s like this.

[redraven393]

Catching Up with Phil's QSMP VOD

3rd July

LETS GOOO

Oh Chat makin Cookies?- HI PHIL!-E-eppy Phil

Oh maybe to Vidcon,- I mean French is in fire rn.

Ok QSMP TIME

YEAH-yo wtf??? The qusest today?

Ah Super Hero theme today eh?-ah it cant fly now eh?

A GIANT SQUID??- nah fam they are not doin that- a leo Themed?-stream o plaine

OH shit Hi Chayanne- YEAH FUQ THE MISSION

YEAH DÉCOR TIME- concrete?- OH YEAH YELLOW AND ORANGE THEME

Safety first- oh wait its broken?-oh it did?-ugh got bad felling about it

DON’T JINX IT CHAYANNE

?

Yeah its fixed-hopefully

LET HIM COOK-omg god look at that bag

Rare food?- oh shit the end fruit!!-Bone Soup

YEH ADVENTURE-wait why is fit with Dapper?

Hi Dapper- KIDS PLS-KIDS WHY??

Lol the poison Spider- Phil pls- I mean BBH is expensive- OMG BBH DON’T HAVE THAT

Lol dragon magic- OMG THAT’S HOW THE GOT EM???-that’s bs Phil

Oh hi Tubbo

RIGBY 2.0 LETS GOO- a whale?- oh its Dapper

Kitties! :D- oh? The Cat that survived the Big blow ystrday r8??- OH???

Oh shit fit omg- DIAMOND NOT FAKE THIS TIME LETS GOOO

Oh yeah 4th of Jully-YAH FUQ THE MONARCHY

Omg the Island is Fukin with them

Shinny!-Lol fake- SPIDERSS-omg the fancy Twins –

PHIL DON’T MOCK US THAT WAY

Yeah mission are BS rn-oh tempting the gods are we?- lol summoning Cucurucho phil ur son right there

Lol dapper-Lol Chayanne

  OH LOOP HOLE- BECAUSE ITS LEO’S THEMED TODAY FIT.

RAMON NO

Ah yes the Parents Gossip time- Yeah VID CON!-

PFft- FIT PLS- o mg

KIDS OMG PLS NO

Welp they done I guess-Rare fruit time!- 1 done and many bs along the way to go

Ohh cool sword- HOLY SHIT –

Yeah that would be Crazy~-I MEAN-

 OH THAT WAY

WHAT??!!OMG- Phil and Fit  have so many Illegal shit omg

Wat Shulqur?- OMG THEY USE NETHERATE

Lol- YEAH NEW MISSIONS- lol it crashed- Black Mail POG

Omg its still there- break the ruleee

Of course u did phil

Opp there goes Ramon and Chayanne-  boys wil be boys- they all lost it- RAMON NO

YEAHH  CHURCH VANDALATIONS

Phil is so Scared to be left with others egg

Hi Dapper- WTH? Where do you get that thing??- holly shit?- yeah 2009-2013 Vidio game rumours are crazy

Lol Chayanne is clearly alt tabbing

KIDS PLS

Guys pls it’s a place of holly matrimony – what is that?

NO more Marriges- lol

Time to pay I guess- oh god they did miss a few

Lol Chayanne- Yeah Dapper join in!

Lol yeah cmone chayanne why so stiff?- good lord Chayanne is living that admin life rn

Oh kitty- CAT CAT- catcucurucho- holy the cat is immortal

Kil the cat Chayanne- CIA CAT

Oh god Philza and Fit is just a menace

Oh? Chayanne u invited someone?- Dapper pls

OPP WE GOT EM BOIS!- Walter Bob??-Come on dude we just wanna talk

Omg fit pls- YEAH if BBH cant do it then no one can do it

Bad hair btw- oh yeah that ankle thingy-opp rainbow

Best bob

Omg Chayanne is Alt tab- he’s in emergency meeting

Ah! They’ve gone to Ramon’s Barber shop nice

Still waiting- Okk at least we get reconsiderations- Waltuh

Thank yu for yur service WALTUH

It wont break the emergences- break the holly mellon

YEAH CREATIVE

Yeah they all alt tabbing- “in my scientific reason-

Wat if he Forgo-opp wher did they go?

Do you get paid bob?- is it good pay

Lol Hot tub stream- YEAH NEW MISSION

Thanks Bob!- thanks KIDS- ah yes a loop hole

WAT??- new moshrom island

BOAT TIMEEEE-WTF?? A Lost TENTICALE???? IN THE RIGHT AMOUNTS???

Omg the kids was fightin for their life for that thing

Omg- Yey island- ahh brings back memories

Lol Sussy baka Phil- Oh they found one- oh not that one

BOAT TIME- OMG CHARLIE’S Corpse

Oh? An Illegal Villager Farm- BY AYEPIERR?!

Where are the going?

HOLLY SHIT????

Omg dapper pls- HOT NEWBLACK MAIL LETS GOOO- good god this place is confusing

 Oh the found it YEY

Oh no-FIT PLS-Trauma in coming

Fit is a charmer-oh Hey Baghera

Omg that thing is ugly

FIT PLS

Opp Bye Fit bye Ramon

Im really dozing off finishing this Drawings

Hi BBH- oh wait Crimson Forest?

CAT- THE CIA CAT

Yeah give Bad the scoop

Yeah its weird-welp time to chill I guess- oh shiny Fish- NOO it died rip

Still waiting

Weird bunny is so hard to find ugh

Wat is happening with Baghera rn?

Rescue mission?- Yeah get the kids to safety first- opp crashing

Server Close??- are we chill today?- oh hey Tommy

Yeah we back- opp cant see Dapper- uhh not sure coming with them is a good idea kids

Oh noo-welp guess we alone now-shit trauma~-

Yeah Rabbit sound fine-opp BBH? Ah so he did needs help-oh shit where is Dapper?

Dapper pls buddy don’t just jump where is danger kid- wait? Dapper isn’t there?-

oh there is Pomme too?- we cant see her-okk bye

ok following you king- yeah the train is soo awesome

opp guess we still searching

Cucurucho??-yey bunny- is the bunny normal?

YEAH FLIP THE OFF THE TARANTULA- ohno you lost it?

Yeah safety first kiddo

Etoiles???- u okay sir???

Yeah Do your Magic King- oh shit it attacks!- oh no king

Thanks, Dapper-oh shit that wikked

Oh shit- fuq off!- yu won’t fight today?

OH FUCK OFFF YOU BINARY BASTARD

No- Don’t go ANYWHERE near Tallulah you Bastard

Oh they are fuking with us at this point- Fuk

Oh hey baghera

Yeah Those binary bastards are so cruel- they cant attack while election?- opp bye Baghera

Oh hey Dapper wat are yu doing bud?- Omg lol

That’s not how fair trades work Phil

Yeah  the cats are clearly sus like random animals cant just appeared tamed out of no where

And only admins can killem

Opp Red Vine???- of course YOU would find them nice Bad-LOL

OHHH- prteey- okay chayanne stay safe

   Yay it work- BIG LAD-cant put him in a cage- YEAH LET EM ROAM AROUND!

YEAHHHH The Wither Skeleton Head is Cooler

Hah~ it remind us of him

Opp? Oh Yeah no u right Pomme is in way to many danger rn

YEAHHH BED TIME

Aww- yeah you go Rest King-

PHIL no Spoilers for the Spider kid movie

NOOOO

Yeah HOBBIE ANARCHIT SPIDERMAN LETS GOOOO

?? he breaks the rule of frame break?-  omg ANIMATION POG

Hobbie is so cool- yes Brtish Anarchist Spider

Wait who’s Signs is that? OH LEO’S

Kay get some rest Kiddo

Big stress- Lol Chayanne is gone FAST-

YEAH HAPPY 4th of JULY

Go eat yur cake Phil

BYE PHIL

[rydiaroads]

Time for destined with you episode 5!

Was something translated weird about his I don't drink thing, I got confused. His family is cursed and he didn't want his dad to yell at him so he didn't drink? Like, they easily get drunk? Whatever. Him getting drunk will probably be a plot point later.

Neither of them seem bothered that she was gonna make another guy fall in love with her.

Ok, him dropping her in the sand is kinda funny.

Ya when are we gonna see red hand again, it's been a bit.

This chicken blood thing is vandalism, wouldn't you call the cops? Freaky.

Why would the fair skin spell melt him a woman? I'm guessing weird translation thing there.

He is being stupid to not tell people close to him he's sick. Very stupid. Though I guess he told his family.

Oh wow I thought that say Harry at first lol, like, why is she throwing a party for a dude named Harry

Wait wait, I literally just rewound that to listen again. Why would the mayor be against them marrying? Also whatever friend tried to call him and warn him what she's doing, I can't tell if that's a good friend thing or a bad friend thing.

I don't really get his parents dynamic. They seem so unhappy. His dad's 'I'm so done with her shit' smile is kinda funny though

So wait are we jumping around in time or is he back with his gf?

Was I supposed to know who that person in the hanbok was?

Oh he thought it was hong jo

Geez, when he's mean he cuts deep.

I mean, staying away from each other makes sense.

Of course she was a rich bitch to hong jo in school. Ugh. Sigh.

And after an hour long break talking to bestie on the phone, I return!

Gong and his boss are kinda fun to watch together, but I also don't care.

I didn't understand their lunch conversation at all. He asked her out to lunch to tell her she wants him? Seemed silly.

Pretty like a funeral wreath. Daaaaaaaamn.

I kinda want the guy she likes to never fall for her. Just for something different. But I bet he will.

So they have, like, no plan to deal with the love spell. I guess I don't know what they would do. She didn't seem to feel bad about it anymore, but he is kinda mean to her too. I dunno, I saw people commenting about how she really should be responsible for what she did, but I'm not sure what that would look like.

Sin yu, this is definitely on the cheating line now, calling girls just to get their voice. I dislike how she changes so much between the two guys though. She seems much more real around sin yu.

It's subway!

Who is this little boy she eating lunch with? What?

I do feel bad for sin yu. I don't like him calling hong jo a knockoff, but I get why it's hard.

I hope this doesn't have a twist where her dad isn't dead. I don't want to go in that direction.

So what stupid shit is his drunk ass gonna get up to. Hmm.

He looks so pathetic.

Grats to jae gyeung for being like 'wtf guys this is cheating'

Don't kiss. This is cheating. Don't kiss. This is not sweet.

I hope they don't kiss. The cut there makes me think they won't.

Despite the cheating I'm still getting sucked into this show. Usually that's a show stopper for me. We'll see if it lasts or if I get frustrated enough to give up.

[casliveblog]

Custom Toonami Block Week 217 Rundown

Devil May Cry: The Vice President gets together that scene from Empire Strikes back of all the bounty hunters in the Imperial Base and also Lady is there and like… they’re only offering $500,000 for the guy with the key to destroying the world? They play that like it’s a lot of money, and yeah, it is, but it’s not ‘saved the world and fought the half-human equivalent of a tornado’ lot of money, like guns are expensive, you could shoot $500,000 worth of bullets in a fight against Dante alone. Also not sure what this is supposed to prove, like obviously the government wants the stone so they don’t have to rely on the security of the wise-cracking son of satan to protect it but like… if you need a force beyond what you can maintain to take it from this guy, isn’t it safer with said guy? Lady takes out a demon in disguise and I’ve seen some complaints about her characterization in this series and I’m not the most familiar with DMC but I can kinda see it, like from what I’ve seen Lady can be more laid back when she wants to be and is not actively having trauma shoved down her throat but here she’s kinda generic hardass girlboss, I don’t necessarily hate it but I see the complaints. Dante has a fun fight scene with the bounty hunter mooks and Lady gets to give the yada yada version of Sparda’s backstory which it’s really funny they keep giving the exposition scenes to the characters least interested in delivering it. She ends up capturing Dante after he destroys her anti-demon gun so she can’t kill him, like wtf she’s a demon killer and has like five guns and only one of them actually kills demons, that one’s kinda on you Lady. Also Dante doesn’t know he’s a half-demon, guess he just assumed the superspeed and Wolverine-tier regeneration was good genetics?

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: So, spoilers but the main character dies in the first episode, I remember in Yu Yu Hakusho when that was a novelty and now it’s just how all anime start. At least it’s not a truck this time, it’s just… some guy running down the street with a knife? Dunno if that ever gets explained but he doesn’t seem to be looking for money or targeting anyone in particular, just seems to run down the street really wanting to stab someone? Maybe he works with Truck-kun for the Isekai division. But still as he’s dying this guy is like ‘man, dying sucks’ and the mysterious computer voice is like ‘agreed, generating body that sucks less’ which through the power of the Isekai ChatGPT gives him a slime body because you can’t stab a slime, kind of a ‘sorry bro, here’s something immune to all the stuff that killed you, Double Jeopardy rules’ also a bunch of double entendre that makes him weird and OP. Also I remember everyone comes back to the joke about frying his hard drive since that went viral when this show came out and like yeah I get it, there’s definitely some shit on my computer I don’t want my family seeing during the funeral but the way they keep emphasizing does make me wonder if there’s something legit darker in there than regular porn given how casual Japan can be about some of that stuff. The broken magical abilities basically allow him to talk to the version of Wikipedia that governs the laws of the universe and basically give himself a tutorial before finding a sealed dragon and getting the ADVANCED tutorial. We also get the dragon’s backstory of being sealed by an FGO Servant girl that looks suspiciously similar to Rimiru’s human form… yeah there’s probably some unavoidable spoilers with this series but the anime itself doesn’t seem to care given that the human for is in the OP at the end of the episode along with said girl. I kinda inwardly cringe at a lot of Isekai ‘here’s a video game you can’t play and a harem for an unbeatable protagonist’ anime and that’s why I don’t watch a lot of them but I’m willing to give this one a shot and so far it seems fun, ironically it DOES remind me of a video game but not an RPG, it feels like a Metroidvania the way he starts from nothing and keeps unlocking new stuff.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners: It’s the first episode of a gritty anime so of course it’s gonna be a trauma conga line before the escapism and hot girls get involved, this time with Capitalism flavored dystopian themes! David is a young boy in the Technocratic American/Japanese/Hispanic hybrid of a culture that is the Cyberpunk world. Now I don’t know a huge amount about the Cyberpunk world aside from what I gleamed from half-watching Let’s Plays of it back in the day but everyone was kinda too embroiled in the glitches and controversy to actually focus on the story. Still it almost feels like this backstory is cheating, it hits so many familiar beats with an underdog protagonist, he’s poor, got a supportive mom that died in front of him and is enraged by Capitalism fucking him over at every turn. Like it’s not bad by any means but it feels like there was a checklist of gut punches to throw in that dampens the effect of it, it ironically feels very corporate. Still I like the idea of technology implemented in schools clashing with lower incomes when the school doesn’t provide that technology, like ideally you should fucking go after the school for that not the other way around but clearly the morals have slightly degraded in this world where you can just leave people on the streets because the Good Ambulance and Good Police costs more money. They even have generic bully dynamics and the guy has the fucking balls to call being like ‘hey bro sorry your shitty mom died shittily, but also not sorry’ like they REALLY went for it to make every asshole in this origin story as awful as possible leading up to the point where David uses medical waste to give himself superpowers which is less strange than it sounds I guess.

SAO Alternative: We get a bit of a breather episode now that SJ3 is finally done and I just realized last week we’re 2/3rds of the way done the season, like I was expecting two full tournaments like Season 1 but I doubt we’ll have time for that so it’s time to see what the last little mini arc is about. The Love Live Amazon girls want to pep up Karen’s spirts after last time, realizing the crazy psycho gremlin has criminally low self-esteem given that she’s basically won the majority of GGO’s Squad Jam Tournaments, so they resolve to set up a fight to prove she’s awesome. Meanwhile Elza and M continue their weird BDSM relationship, good for them I guess. Karen tells Miyu she’s actually thinking of quitting GGO because even though it’s a game, a full-dive experience of basically being in Desert Storm is bound to fuck with your head, like these fights do get brutal and it’s not all fairies and fantasy like SAO and ALO, it’s basically just being a soldier and getting shot at which is a new kind of horror. They basically discuss the GTA video games causing violence thing and Miyu even references GTA almost by name so good to know GTA made the leap to full dive gaming. Miyu surmises that Karen’s really scared about so many people being after her ass in game now which is probably at least part of it, though she accepts the burden of being the main character and fulfilling everyone’s vendetta against her. It’s just kind of funny the show’s named GGO so you can’t have Karen switch games even if it would be good for her character to do so. They get an invite to playtest some new NPC AI and it’s going to basically turn into a miniature Squad Jam because everyone wants to kill LLENN anyway. Still there’s a three life system and a spawn point radius so everyone could possibly get a chance to kill her this time. They get the rules that they respawn at the circumference of the furthest player back but at the latitude of their closest teammate so there’ll probably be some strategic spawncamping going on. And needless to say they run into SHINC right away and a shootout ensues.

Heavenly Delusion: So this anime’s kind of very out there and I’ve heard the mystery of how the two stories intersect is half the fun so I won’t try to speculate too much about it and just enjoy the ride, it gives me FF8 vibes where there’s a main plot and also a mysterious connection with another plot that they kinda play parallel to it. We don’t get too much of tbe B-plot this time so I’ll start with that, it’s basically The Promised Neverland but with robot teachers, complete with big mysterious wall that nobody can get out of but presumably less abusive ninja parents and instead of demons there’s… well there’s still demons but everyone is The Last of Using around with demonic animals running around. Meanwhile in the A-plot, quirky teenagers Kiruko and Maru are searching for heaven with no idea of how metaphorical or literal that mission is supposed to be. It’s kinda fun to have the girl be the Pedro Pascal of the situation even though Maru does seem to be able to handle himself in a fist fight and Kiruko just has a laser gun that works on Yu Yu Hakusho rules and can only fire four times per charge if they’re lucky. Still you get your standard apocalyptic setting plots, random SA-y goons, a nice oasis place to relax in while the kids figure out their hormones. The show is very keen to let us know that Kiruko is 18+ and looks very good naked but it also has a goofy sense of humor about it so it comes off as less perverse and voyeuristic than it usually does. Meanwhile Maru is clearly crushing on Kiruko but doesn’t know how to say it aside from sulking when Kiruko distances herself. Feels like the whole ‘take this kid to heaven’ thing could’ve been a prostitution order gone wrong but that’s more of a throw away gag/doujin plot than a real one. Still now there’s a demon crow stalking the oasis place so it’ll probably need some laser beaming.

Trigun: Meryl is back at her regular insurance job for all of five on-screen minutes before she’s sent off to look for Vash again after the undetermined timeskip. Still it is pretty cute to watch how happy she gets when she finds out Vash is alive and on the hunt again. Vash learned route-planning from Avatar Aang so he goes on a pitstop before they go to the town where everyone’s disappearing and end up visiting an old friend while everyone’s preparing for an actual typhoon. Everyone meets up again when the ship Meryl and Milly are on gets hijacked by bandits… again, and the bandits of the rival gang in town hold everyone hostage. Vash gets to do his cool cowboy thing and takes everyone out without firing a shot but has to contend with one of the henchmen holding the leader at gunpoint for killing his daughter and literally has to beg and get beaten and it still doesn’t work, the guy only not pulling the trigger because of his own hesitation and doubt. Vash’s pacifism is once again hanging on by a thread but no one died and everyone’s together so it’s a good day for now as Meryl and Vash enjoy their reunion and the sunset. Meanwhile the other bandit head turns out was some sort of Kankuro puppet guy for one of Legato’s Gungho Guns, feel like that would’ve been a more fun reveal mid-fight but it is quite a thing to end an episode on.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: We now return to Nanami’s existential crisis already in progress, she’s… uhh… not doing well, like less than usual. She keeps listening to the relentless calls of Touga’s suitors who’re apparently just okay leaving horny messages on his flip phone without getting a word back and the fact that they don’t find this strange kind of speaks volumes for Touga’s lack of aftercare. Utena’s still so enamored with Akio that she can’t tell at all what Nanami’s really saying about him even as he has weird drugged apple feeding stargazing parties with his fiancée. She finds Touga in the greenhouse with Keiko and this kinda flips Keiko’s spotlight episode on her head and shows what a shitty thing it is for them to get together. Nanami and Keiko start beating the shit out of each other and Touga tells her she’s a basic bitch and he never wanted to be her brother anyway and while Nanami IS a basic bitch, she deserves better than that come on man. Eventually between witnessing the most powerful person on campus committing incestuous sexual assault while dealing with her own family problems she decides to just get the fuck out of dodge and leave this dumpster fire alone which is possibly the smartest thing she’s ever done. But before she can get her own Chazz Princeston rich boy humbling arc, Touga and Lightning McQueen intervene and she does confirm she never really wanted a romantic relationship with Touga and just wanted to be the closest person to her brother by any means necessary and now that the rug’s been pulled out from under her she feels like a weak and fragile person. Keiko tries to assert dominance but Nanami just beats the shit out of all three of her henchmen to get them back in line, like that’s what happens when you introduce a girl-style bully to boy-style bullying. She starts by resolving to beat Utena so she can let off some steam and grow stronger. The thing I like about Nanami and Utena’s duel is they actually fucking TALK, like so many of these duels are relatively silent with no exchange of ideas but here Utena emphasizes the love Nanami has for Touga is real regardless of what their relation might be but Nanami can’t take that kind of easy answer and needs something transformative to leave behind everything she’s built her life around, but that won’t be easy either since she loses to Utena of course. Utena hopes she’s gotten this out of her system but it’s clear Nanami’s still crushed and doesn’t know what to do anymore and doesn’t have the social network to be able to ask anyone for help or advice. Touga tells Akio that he and Nanami really are blood relatives but their parents are the ones who aren’t related to them, both a pair of siblings adopted by a rich family like the Kaiba brothers, revealing he’s been keeping up the narrative of them not being related just to fuck with Nanami because he really is the worst person in this series.

[nadiasna7]

#hoc est meum#a lot of this is people projecting cliches and daddy issues and gender shit onto cql#where jfm's characterization mostly didn't make the jump#but still it's like#wtf man#why are we taking yu ziyuan's word about fault at face value#when the fact that she talks a lot of bullshit is so firmly established?#you don't have to Let Him Off his own mistakes for the challenge factor of being married to an abuser if you don't want#but can we stop victim-blaming the guy for ten minutes???#mdzs#meta#jiang fengmian#spousal abuse#characterization#sometimes fanon is Worse#a very annoying part of this is it means really good jiang cheng pov that gets into his issues is super thin on the ground#because no one wants to wrestle with the complex layers of how he felt like his dad didn't love him#or at least not the way he needed to be loved#how he's sort of aware he's bringing his mother's interpretation to things#and that she wasn't entirely right BUT#how he has this deep dreadful certainty that in the most fundamental way she was entirely correct: that jiang cheng was just like her#selfish and violent and unable to manage his own emotions at all#and therefore didn't deserve to be loved#which yu ziyuan so clearly and tragically believed about herself and thus made true

OP's tags from the first post

while i don't agree with some interpretations of jfm and yzy here, i do find it tiring how a lot of people misunderstand the jiang family (including wwx in this too) dynamic and try to write them off as irredeemably awful parents whereas all interpretations of canon are so much more complex. it then leads to ppl misunderstanding the complexity of wwx and jc's dynamic in this essay i will...

OP's tags from the second post

#brought to you by#i was reading a jiang cheng centric fic#wherein everyone kept calling the late couple 'our parents'#(including wwx)#and referring to their parenting behaviors jointly#which was dubious enough already#but then jiang cheng's internal monologue was complaining that *both* his parents#had liked wei wuxian better than him#and i was like#uhhhhh who is this man then#this man is not jiang cheng#jiang cheng's fucked-up would not have reached the level it did#without his mother's fantastically toxic approach to favoritism#and without his father's niceness compounding his self-doubt

The reason I keep banging the Jiang Fengmian drum so hard is not that he did nothing wrong--he's definitely in contention for best parenting in this book but that bar is in the ground--but because most of the takes I see about him are so extremely bad.

If you want to slag him off for trying to make choices that would hurt no one, and winding up properly protecting no one as a result, that's valid! That's an interesting and text-based critique, which opens into his parallels with Lan Xichen!

If you want to blame him for being weirdly over-invested in Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng being bffs, that's fair, that definitely contributed to the weirdness between them. If you want to say he was a poor communicator, that he fundamentally misunderstood his son, that he failed to be emotionally available in a way his kids could get much use out of, even that he should have figured out a way to stop Yu Ziyuan from creating such a hostile environment, all of that is fair game!

If you want to tackle how the worst thing he did to his kids was die I am so interested in how Wei Wuxian went on to abandon A-Yuan by going to his death, and how that might be tied to how his primary adult role model tied him to a boat and went off to a fight he knew he was going to lose.

After his parents had already left him like that once before, presumably less intentionally.

But no, instead I keep seeing that Jiang Fengmian didn't care. That he never expressed affection. That he actively participated in Yu Ziyuan's fucky game of forcing proxy conflict onto the boys instead of constantly trying (and failing) to shut it down, or that he ignored her bad behavior because it didn't affect him, or that he fought with her constantly, or that he was too much of an unmanly coward to stand up to her when she wanted something.

All of which are directly in contradiction to every scene he's in, and several of which manage to invert or erase the actual conflicts between him and his wife that were the source of all that tension.

And which are really interesting, because some of the most intractable elements are ideological--Yu Ziyuan is fundamentally a conservative and Jiang Fengmian seems to want to be an egalitarian, which ofc matched poorly with his hereditary authority as patriarch of a large sect.

The fact that the bit where we get to actually see him failing to parent Jiang Cheng consists of him gently and firmly trying to correct Jiang Cheng's ethics when what was actually needed in that moment was reassurance for the well-founded insecurities that were causing him to be a little bitch, only for Yu Ziyuan to charge in and make everything fifty times worse, is so much more interesting than literally any version of this family dynamic I have seen in fic. It's to the point I'm relieved when writers kill Jiang Fengmian off, because it means they probably won't feel the need to character-assassinate him too badly.

The number of people I've seen come right out and say some variation of 'men can't be abused' is killing me here. No, Yu Ziyuan wanting to hurt her husband does not constitute sufficient proof that he abused her first and deserved it! That's not how anything works!

[foxyclocks]

You must be mistaken

Chapter 2 Word count: 1975 FF.net | AO3

It was her first day of school.

Rightfully- she was nervous.

What should I wear?

How should I do my hair?

What if the other students don’t like me?

What if my teacher asks me a question that I don’t know the answer to?

What if-

Tikki could see from a mile away that her chosen was riddled with anxiety. Hell- she was emitting enough of an anxious aura that even tikki could feel it but Marinette couldn’t help it.

“Marinette…” the short-haired girl could hear her tiny voice squeak out through the jumble of thoughts in her head taking a few moments before she could zero in on what she was saying to her, “You look like a wreck – you and I both know that no matter what happens you will not leave that school with any less friends than you started with.”

She was right.

There was no way I could ever convince Alya to hate me. Unless I did something super extremely embarrassing to make her hate me forever. GOD! The thoughts kept flooding my head.

“Calm down Marinette.” she told herself focusing her efforts back on Tikki, “I still don’t know what to wear…” She’d spend the morning shuffling through every item of clothing that she owned, Marinette even for a brief while considered making herself an entire different outfit from scratch because she hated everything she tried on.

Tikki drifted in the space behind me before quickly zipping in front of Marinette to take hold of her cheeks, “Dress in what makes you most comfortable… Don’t worry about how anyone else will sees you and you know Alya will be there to have your back.”

She was right.

…

Again.

Tikki was always right and was always there to guide her in the right direction. So – she dressed for comfort and she dressed in what made herself unique. She dressed in what she made. In what she was proud of and she didn’t care if anyone didn’t like it because she liked it and Alya and Tikki liked it and her parents liked it and that should be enough for her…right..?

Marinette clenched her fists with a grimace and stared at her Kwami. Up until this point she still had no idea how she survived growing up without her but she was glad that she would never need to worry about that anymore.

So, the small girl threw on a t-shirt that she had made the summer before. It was white all throughout, reaching the bottom hems of the shirt was lined front to back with flowers and hidden within them small ladybugs. Over that, she pulled on a black jacket and a pair of maroon jeans followed with a pair of old sneakers.

Comfort

Comfort

She kept repeating it in her head.

“Makeup?” she asked Tikki, who by this point had re-curled herself into a burrow of  blankets.

“Marinette – you never wear make up.”

“Right. I don’t even know how to do makeup. Thanks Tik.” She was going to go crazy.

Looking in the mirror Marinette tugged at the ends of her hair, which only reached to just barely brush the top of her shoulders. From her neck she traced her fingers up against her scalp and ruffled her hair up attempting something different.

I hate it.

Quickly,  the messy-haired girl rushed into the bathroom to fix it.

“Marinette! Alya is here!” her mother yelled up to her.

“Just a minute!” Marinette yelled back, frantically reaching for her brush and parting the top layer of her hair and tying it back into a small bun. She rushed back out into her room, scooping up Tikki, and placed her into the largest pocket of her backpack, “Don’t worry I’ll be sure to stuff some cookies in there for you.” She said with a smile before tossing the backpack over her shoulders and giving herself one last look in the mirror.

She adjusted her backpack,

Then the straps on her shoulders.

Did students even wear their backpacks like this?

Was this the right k-

“Marinette!” her mother yelled again snapping her out of her daze.

“Coming!”

Like any mother, Marinette’s mother took her anxiety and increased it fourfold. As soon as she had reached the kitchen she found Alya tearing off small parts of a croissant that her mother had made them for breakfast while trying to shoulder all of Sabine’s worries. Marinette immediately regretted coming down at all.

Maybe she could’ve stayed upstairs, never gone to school, grown a beard and become a hermit all on her own and-

“Sweetheart! I packed your lunch for you-“ she spun her around stuffing the small bag into one of the pockets of her backpack.

“Thanks mom…”

“And if you change your mind always remember your father and I don’t mind teaching you here.”

“Yes I know…”

“And if any of the students are mean to you-“

“I’ll kick their asses. Don’t worry Mrs. Cheng- Lil’Mari will be just fine with me I’ll take good care of her.” Alya said with a large grin, “You’ll scare her before she even gets to school. I know she’ll have a good time.”

And with that- before Sabine could utter out another word Alya quickly rushed her small friend out the door and past the bakery.

“Thanks Alya..” Marinette said with a nervous grin.

“No problem, girlie, you’re mom was making me nervous to go to school and I’ve been in class with these dorks for almost 3 years.” She chuckled tearing off another piece of croissant.

Mariette followed stress eating the melt-y pastry in record time.

“Woah, cool it Mari, you’ll give yourself a stomach ache!” the brunette laughed patting her friend on the back lightly, “Seriously, Mari – relax you’ll love it and they’ll love you. And if they don’t love you…” She mumbled cracking her knuckles, “I’ll make them regret it…”

She needed a good laugh that morning and thanks to Alya – she got it.

The walk to school wasn’t far yet somehow, a part of her hoped that it would be. Their short walk to school wasn’t enough to prepare herself. Upon approaching, she reached into her pockets and took out her phone searching through her recent emails.

“So I need to find a…” Her blue eyes drifted along the information filled email, “Mr. Damocles – the principal.”

“I’ll get you there.” Alya smiled, and lead her up the stairs to the school, “He looks sorta scary but he can be a big push over sometimes.” She laughed.

The walk to the principal’s office seemed like the longest in her entire life. All of the students seemed to be sitting in the courtyard at the school by this point, most likely all waiting for class to start. From then on not only had Marinette realized that she was an outsider before but now she really felt like it. It was almost like she could feel eyes locking in on her when in reality- not many people noticed but of course it was up to Marinette to classically over think her situations.

Everything will be fine she kept telling herself and soon I’ll be in class with Alya and then I’ll be home free.

“Hey- I’ll see you later?” the brunette smiled and headed off to her classroom with a smile.

“Yeah… later.”

This was his door. Come on Marinette – you can do this… She took in a deep breath and opened the door, “Mr. Damocles?”

“Ahh You must be Marinette, I’ve been expecting you-“ A rather plump man sat on the opposing end of the room behind a large desk, “Oh- I’m sorry, I thought you were-“

“I am Mar-“

“Ahh my sincerest apologies, there must have been an error on the documents sent to us I’ll get on that right away.” He explained gesturing her to sit down in one of the chairs across from him.

“Wha-…” What was wrong with my documents?

“You will be attending classes with Madame Boustier and Madam Mendeleive. I’m sure that anything you need your classmates will be more than willing to give you a hand around the school.” He explained sorting through the couple of papers on his desk, crossing out and re-writing some small scribbles, “That class is filled with rather exceptionally well behaved students and if you’d follow me I’ll hand you off to Madame Boustier.”

“O-Of course.” She stammered and nervously followed the principal out of the office and down the hallway. He ushered her to remain outside of the classroom until Madame Boustier brought her in and she willingly complied. Though, she couldn’t tell if she was about to throw up from being so excited or from being so nervous... but that was normal, right? Mr. Damocles left the classroom and patted her shoulder, giving her a gentle push into the room.

“We do have a new student this morning so let’s welcome them with open arms.” Madame Boustier smiled eagerly motioning the girl closer to her. Marinette found herself far too nervous to look out into the class so, instead, she looked at the ground. Madame Boustier held her clipboard up and traced down the papers that Mr. Damocles had handed her and she spoke.

“This is Marin Dupain-Cheng. He’s new to the school setting so lets make sure that we give him a hand while he tries to find his way around the school.”

Oh.

“Marin you can feel free to take a seat beside Alya it seems she’s very eager to have her friend in class.”

No.

“Adrien – If you wouldn’t mind showing Marin around during our break this afternoon that would be a great help.”

What’s happening?

“Of course! I’d be happy to show him around – Nino and I will be a great welcoming party!”

Please tell me I’m dreaming.

What do I do?

Do I say something?

Do I correct her?

This CAN’T be happening.

Marinette walked zombie-like to the seat beside Alya and plopped herself down.

“Mari…” Alya mumbled nudging my shoulder, “Say something…!”

She shook her head.

Alya grunted and opened her mouth “Mada-“

She elbowed her side cutting her off, “Don’t…”

She couldn’t tell what was more embarrassing: The fact that she was mistaken for a boy or the fact that she could be from then on known as the girl who got mistaken for a boy. So, she stayed silent and reassured herself slowly reminding herself:

It didn’t matter how others saw me. I know who I am and that’s what matters.

That’s what matters…

Marinette looked over and smiled at Alya, “It’s okay, really...”

I hope it’ll be okay…

[loafkingdom]

<BL> 伪装学渣/Fake Slackers

Novel: Completed (Mandarin)

Manhwa: Ongoing

BL audio is available on Maoer/M Station. (Mandarin/Cantonese)

After "The guy inside me" Imma talk about "Fake Slackers" because they are from the same author and both stories happens in the same world.

Main character: He Zhao x Xie Yu

These two are the school famous "problematic teens". Their are very good with academic studies but always pretend like they don't know a thing their teachers are talking about and never turn in homework. Of course, no one know that they are really good academic wise.

Our He Zhao's bottom, Xie Yu, is what the students called the "Boss" of the west part of the school ground. He's good at physical combat, and appears to be cold to people around him. The first fight he did it 1v5, and the gangsters had to call the police. (they are gangsters, but they can't beat a high school kid... wtf)

Police station- Xie Yu: "I didn't do anything." (looking innocent)

He Zhao, the most shameless top in most of the danmei novels. Boss of the south part of the school. He's combat style is a bit different than his partner... He humiliate people the same time he beat them up.

XXX who got beat up: "Please, just kill me." (gradually become a M in the SM standard)

At the same time - He Zhao: I don't like violence, so I usually solve the problem in a peaceful way.

SO HE PEACEFULLY PULLED OFF THE RAPIST'S PANTS & PEACEFULLY LAUGHED AT HIS D*CK SIZE & AND PEACEFULLY MADE HIM RUN A MILE PANTS-LESS

More He Zhao FaMoUs moment: #1 turned in an essay about how handsome his SHADOWS are. #2 plays girl's dress-up game during class.

Not only are they classmates in real life, they are also enemies online. They both play this game but it's basically Olympic style test-preps...

After they started dating, Xie Yu went on google: what do you do when your bf have bad grades at school.

there's so much more I want to share about this novel, but I will leave the rest for you to discover.