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You’re my soda pop my little soda pop 🥰

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K-Pop Demon Hunters - How a simple plot holds the story together

By the recommendation of a few friends, I watched K-pop Demon Hunters. If you are a fan of K-pop, or are generally familiar with K-pop, this is a must watch. It’s fun, doesn’t take itself too seriously, has good music, and it takes advantage of its setting in the K-pop world. What will not blow your mind away is the plot. It is simple, predictable, condensed—and I want to talk about exactly how…

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Hc: he arranged an audition before going to gwi ma

so I was rewatching the beginning of KPDH and during the first underworld scene I noticed something:

there's a lot of the jeoseung saja (grim reapers with the gat hats) in the background here and there. at one point there's a super wide shot of the crowd and––

there's at least half a dozen sajas in this shot alone. which means jinu actually did go through the underworld purposely looking for only the pretty looking ones to recruit into his harebrained boyband scheme before he went to gwi ma 😭

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writing is 10% storytelling and 90% rearranging three sentences for an hour like you're trying to solve an ancient curse

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break it down, bobby!

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I just noticed and it's breaking my heart so I'm going to point it out, while singing "What It Sounds Like" Mira and Zoey were fighting the other Saja Boys but Rumi was just walking towards Jinu and she was smiling at him. She wasn't going to fight him she was going to reach out to him again to try and save him.

And the lines she sings while looking straight at him as she's walking foreward through the battle are "Show me what's underneeth, I'll find your harmony. Fearless and unrefined, this is what it sounds like."

SHE WAS TRYING TO SAVE HIM!!!!!

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Look I'm sorry to anyone who thought the Saja Boys were a real band, but it was obviously fake from the beginning.

Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.

In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.

But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.

Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!

But the Saja Boys were never real. I mean they got real guys to pretend to be a boy band and do the dancing and lip syncing obviously, but come on, most of them didn't even have names.

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Zoey doing the ninja run

Huntrix + Forward Guard

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K-Pop Demon Hunters weapon concepts! (By Euni Cho (I think??))

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Iconic discontinued All might mug from an izuocha fanfic lol.

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i wish we got to see how the saja boys got together

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What is freedom?

You know a few different times I’ve been asked what my biggest regret in life is and I usually say “I don’t know” but that’s a lie. A fat lie. My biggest regret is one time in 7th grade I broke a glowstick and drew a heart with Sasuke’s name in it on my bedroom wall but if that’s not bad enough you know glowsticks usually fade after a day, right? Well not this one- this one stained the wall so even at a grown ass adult there’s Sasuke’s name in a goddamn giant ass heart on my wall as erasable as the shame in my heart.

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Ohh… oh… ohhhhhh…

You were born the bastard of a Duke and a foreign dancer. The Duchess always looks at you with a pained expression, which you thought was due to her husband's infidelity… until you learn that she had fallen hopelessly in love with your birth mother as well, and you were her spitting image.

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It's time for the Beach Episode 🌊 🏖️ Go Catch A Goose - IzuOcha RomCom FanFic - Chapter 16 is up now

This fic is 60% sincere character drama, 40% rom-com dumpster fire, and you can find all chapters here:

https://zamashi.wordpress.com/go-catch-a-goose/

Go Catch A Goose – Two years after U.A. graduation, Deku and Ochaco’s relationship is in the in-between zone—are they friends, or is there something else? That is, until Deku falls for a vicious prank text, and a rom-com ensues.

Commissioned art by AyberRi

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Agdjjshd another chapter is up!!!! AND LOOK AT THAT ARTWORK!!!! THE AUTHOR SPOILS US!

Go Catch A Goose - IzuOcha RomCom FanFic - Chapter 15 is up now :D

This fic is 60% sincere character drama, 40% rom-com dumpster fire, and you can find all chapters here:

https://zamashi.wordpress.com/go-catch-a-goose/

Go Catch A Goose – Two years after U.A. graduation, Deku and Ochaco’s relationship is in the in-between zone—are they friends, or is there something else? That is, until Deku falls for a vicious prank text, and a rom-com ensues.

Chapter Art commissioned from Redmashu / Chronikworks

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They are cat parents, your honor 𑄝

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HEEELPPP a six year old just came into the nature center and she had SO many questions. it's pouring rain and nobody else is here but her family so non-stop for an hour she had my full attention. by the end of it i had half my field guides open to various insects and mammals and birds and she just kept going.

she became extremely fixated on bigfoot and asked about the ways people try to prove its existence until I was explaining DNA to her, and she asked such thoughtful questions! she said, "what if someone found a skull they thought might be bigfoot, and there was hair left over. could we use DNA from hair to prove it's bigfoot?" but before i could answer, she said, "but if you don't have a living bigfoot that you KNOW is bigfoot, to take hair from, how could you know this hair from this dead bigfoot is really bigfoot hair?" !!!! what an awesome question!!

so this 6 year old and i started discussing control groups in scientific studies and she was so engaged!!

then the bigfoot talk led to discussions of extinction which led to dinosaurs, and she said, "what I don't understand is why people say dinosaurs are extinct, but they also say that dinosaurs became birds. how could they all be extinct if they became something else?"

she asked questions that really challenged me in that figuring out how to answer them on the fly in a way that's digestible wasn't totally straightforward.

a few minutes ago, the adult with her said it was time to go and get ice cream and she said, "can't you see I have 1,000 more questions to ask? i have to just bloooowwww them all out now so you don't have to answer them later."

I saw my younger self in her so much LOL. They said they're coming back tomorrow and I said, "I won't be here, but my colleague knows even more than I do!" And she said, "Well, I hope so. He's gonna need to."