#p.s. please please please

[bwootster]

They just seem so tired!!!!!

[heybaetae]

maknae line + gestures of love 🫰🏼💋🫶🏼🌹🤟🏼 happy birthday @jkvjimin! ♡

[jeonsupershy]

seungkwannie with his wonu hyung happy birthday v @wonboos🧡

[justiceiscalling]

wild opinion i know people will hate me for: i strongly dislike alfred pennyworth. i know what you’re thinking, “how could you hate him! alfred does no wrong!!!”

(loud incorrect buzzer) WRONG. omg, alfred can only do wrong in my mind. he is such a fucking enabler and then he wants to play devils advocate. recently, before starting ‘what the future holds’ i reread robin 1993—specifically tim’s birthday arc.

if you don’t know what that is i’ll tell you. on tim’s sixteenth someone delivers a package which is a holographic message from a future-alfred essentially telling him someone in the batfam is, like, evil, and trusting him to figure it out. eventually it’s revealed that the message was a test, part of bruce’s training, and ‘future’ alfred was actually just current alfred. it was a really good read, i believe it was issues #116-120.

point is, alfred WILLING sided with bruce on that shit. alfred was not held at gun point, his life was not under any threat, he was asked to assist and he. did. that. shit.

and after he had the audacity to be apologetic! ‘i’m so sorry master tim’ like no tf ur not???? like u did this, you allowed him to feel like everything was HIS responsibility and like he couldn’t trust anyone. which is just so fucked up on another level. he watched tim isolate himself and beat himself up over trying to solve this and he?? just?? let?? it?? happen???

and some how he can do no wrong?????

when tim first became robin, who gave him the suit? i’m pretty sure it was alfred. yes, tim was a relentless little kid—but that’s just that. he was a fucking kid, no older than thirteen. alfred gave him the suit. sure, it was to save bruce, but why did it have to be him? why couldn’t he call dick or superman or, hell, go out there himself? why’d it have to be the nosy ass neighbor?

also when bruce and dick used to beat the shit out of each other alfred didn’t do anything. he lowkey just let it happen. like how much is bruce paying bro for him to let that slide?

ALSO ALSO i would love someone to correct me on this, PLEASE tell me i’m wrong, but wasn’t alfred the one who put up the good soldier memorial? everyone hates on bruce (who, in a lot of ways, is a bad father) for that memorial being up but it was alfred. and i get he was but jason wasn’t just robin, he was so much more. and most importantly, he was a son. i know things were rocky for him and bruce but, god, that’s his son! like what the genuine fuck, yk?

and maybe this is only in some iterations but alfred literally influenced bruce to train to be a vigilante. he trained him when he was young, after his parents deaths. and yes, he was another one of those relentless kids, but there were things alfred could’ve tried to stop him from doing this.

what i’m trying to say is, im so fucking tired of this ‘saint alfred’ BS. he’s in the wrong! maybe not all of the time but a lot of the time. and i don’t know if that ‘jason loves alfred the most!’ thing is fanon or canon but either way i hate it. if you’re going to make bruce a bad dad, if you’re making jason and bruce’s relationship rocky, then alfred can’t be the exception. he should be held accountable as much as bruce.

like, if jason loved alfred so much and saw him as a grandfather, why isn’t he pissed at alfred for not killing the joker. sure he wanted bruce to do it but after bruce didn’t, why didn’t alfred take it into his own hands? alfred has no problems with killing people who deserve it. he was a soldier for crying out loud!

if jason and alfred are as close as fanon claims then jason should be beefing with alfred as much as he does with bruce for not avenging him.

okay, this turned into a rant about jason and alfred’s annoying fanon relationship but you get my point.

i don’t hate alfred, i hate fanon alfred and i hate this fandom and how they love to hold bruce accountable for wrongs that lowkey could be alfred’s fault too. and i also hate that’s it’s so hard to dislike alfred because people will yell at you for it. in my fics i try to keep him as out of it as i can because god forbid i make him how he is in the comics.

alfred is a flawed character—just like bruce and jason and tim and dick and damian and duke—and that’s okay! it’s better when they’re not so one dimensional, it makes them way more interesting as a character and also allows fanon to create perfect character development over the span of long ass fics that i love to binge.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[ddenji]

i technically already posted this panel but the gender dynamics in csm are so beyond anything else in shonen rn. yoru occupying a more traditionally masculine, agressive, perpetrative space here and denji always, always, always occupying the space of the female, the subdued, the taken advantage of. his wording here is so defensive, trying to deflect the act, because he is always being acted against. yoru, the living embodiment of war (a traditionally male system and responsibility!) being trapped in the body of a teenage girl. fujimoto does a good job of subverting traditional gender dynamics in some very subtle ways earlier in the manga, but this one seems far more blatant and disturbing in the context of denjis entire experience.

[whirlpool-blogs]

boyfriend behavior

[lily-s-world]

I honestly need Netflix to go and do a movie about Margot Song Covey, not only to have all the sister stories but because Margot is THAT elder sister.

Lara Jean talks about missing her mom; Kitty about how she never got the chance to truly meet her; but Margot was the older one, the one that had to grow up quickly to take care of her sisters and her dad. I don't think she had the opportunity to truly mourn her.

We know she broke up with Josh and moved to the other side of the world, but why did she do that? Was to finally get the pressure of being head of the family of her? Or was it the first time she did something she wanted for herself??

Like, as an elder sister myself who had to grow up quickly, a romcom focused on her will be a gift.

[davidcassidy]

i love the split in the jrwi fandom over how they refer to chip’s full name. there’s distinct groups of ‘chip bastard’, ‘chip jrwi’, ‘chip lastname’, just ‘chip’ and then those who make up a random cool sounding name

[linnielemon]

just started gideon the ninth (spoiler-free!) and gideon saying “i boo-hooed for hours” to harrow trying to have a serious intimidation session has had me giggling for three minutes straight

[himbohysterectomy]

clinical trial (game) spoilers

firstly before anyone gets mad at me for policing their enjoyment/engagement with a piece of media this is NOT the intention here, do whatever you want forever and have fun ok? keep doing what you're doing so long as you aren't hurting anybody.

Also this is mostly about fanart cause I don't really read fic so idk how applicable it is over there but it still might be, idk.

_

I have noticed an overwhelming amount of sappy flowery fanart of lee and angel from clinical trial just being cute and lovey and it is strange to me. it feels to me like glossing over the actually interesting substance of the game in favour of generic wholesome content instead.

like i 100% understand the appeal stemming from that desire to be wanted and desired so intensely or even obsessively as well as that desire to feel protected by someone, and in turn wanting it to end up being healthy and wholesome and working out for the both of them. but I feel like what that ends up with in most of the fanart i see is just like. a normal ass couple?

of course we are set up to see the characters and their interactions as very cute and wholesome. and they are! it works wonderfully for setting up that gut-punch of a twist towards the end of the game. they spend a very long time building up to it and it works very well and is well worth the wait.

but like. hello. did we all forget the horror elements of this cute little horror game?

lee is obsessed with angel. he kept angels gum. angels blood. angels hair (which btw, when/where did he acquire that much hair?? lol). he made a doll of angel (which to be fair to him when you actually hear him out it is probably the most reasonable and wholesome part of that whole shrine). he for sure fucked that jacket. he took multiple pictures of angel out and about, meaning that be absolutely, undoubtedly stalked angel. he killed for angel and did not regret it one bit even when he was confronted about it.

him keeping the gum from the week 2 appointment means that at the very latest he became obsessed with angel the second time that they ever saw each other. we have no idea how long he was stalking angel for.

there is zero chance in my mind that their relationship would be healthy and wholesome, at least not all the time. even if they work on shit together and lee actually seeks therapy they're not gonna just... fix each other with the power of love.

frankly lee is unwell and does not know how to form healthy relationships. he could mask that side of himself pretty well during their appointments but even still not perfectly. if they move in together it's going to be a lot more difficult to keep himself in check all of the time and not be Kinda Weird about angel sometimes. there were already some red flags when they only saw each other once a week.

ultimately, it isn't that i want people to stop drawing wholesome and sweet accept ending fanart of clinical trial. of course not!

what i'm getting at is that i wanna see more freak shit!!! get fucky with it!!! draw them being obsessive and unhealthy! if you're gonna fantasize about this fucked up couple at least do it the justice of depicting it in the way that it was set up to be sometimes! they didn't take the time to set up that wonderful twist for it to just be ignored!!

draw lee struggling to not be obsessive or possessive or overprotective! draw lee secretly still keeping things that angel throws away, or stealing small things that he thinks angel wont miss! draw angel having to keep him in check and scolding him like a dog!

give that man his red flags back or so help me god!!! they're what make him interesting as a character - without them he's just Some Guy.

the art that actually got me to play clinical trial was this wonderful piece by @ glimfag/hecctwo. it is absolutely amazing and symbolic and perfect. it leans into the idea of angel also being kind of a freak like that, and why not!! in the accept ending angel knows everything that lee did and is capable of and chooses to be with him regardless.

maybe angel's kinda into it!! maybe angel's drawn to this idea of being the prey of a stalker! maybe angel wants a man that can be kept on a leash! maybe angel likes being the center of his whole universe because angel likes to have that power over him, especially after what angel has been through! maybe angel wants a guard dog! maybe angel likes knowing that he would absolutely kill again if angel asked him to!!

by all means keep drawing wholesome shit all day long but please don't shy away from showing the unhealthy side of their relationship, especially on lee's end! i promise that you're allowed to enjoy "problematic" things - you're capable of critical thought, so have fun with it!!!!!

[foxybouquet]

“You keep a casket buried deep within, you try to mask it…”

(Screenshot from maxmartinghost-edited video on IG)

[a2zillustration]

I knew you could distract her with "lustful thoughts" of someone but my specific option was "distract her with your yearning for Gale" and it took me out. Then she called Gale pathetic and told me I could do better, which, rude.

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[alderaan-babe]

ST:TOS S1E23: Space Seed - Dinner with the Tactician

I saw this post the other day discussing "10 Traits That Make a Character Secretly Dangerous" and immediately thought of Jim from Star Trek, because so many of these listed traits and mannerisms are exact plays out of his playbook throughout TOS. Now, a more thorough fan than I could probably cite so many different episodes as examples expounding upon each trait, but what I instantly thought of is one of my all-time favorite James T. Kirk scenes - the dinner with Khan in Space Seed.

I am surprised that for all my searching for both new and old TOS posts to reblog, I have never seen any discussing this scene in great detail (if there are any posts like that, please send them my way bc I'd love to read them!) even though I feel it is superb for its tension, acting, and character dynamics. I dare say it is one of the best scenes in the show! I fear this may get rather long, so I'll continue below the cut and spare the more casual fans from my ramblings.

When I first watched this scene, I was captivated. Khan, even when acting casual and conversing in a relaxed fashion in an effort to ingratiate himself to the crew, still emanates an undeniable power, a barely-restrained energy. And Jim is no fool. He knew immediately that Khan was a dangerous man from the moment he woke up and never dropped his guard around him. As the scene here starts, we see the positioning of Khan in relation to Jim and Spock. Jim is, naturally, at the head of the table, while Spock and Khan face each other on either side of Jim.

As the scene starts, Spock is the one addressing Khan, and in turn Khan is forced to glance between the two, while Jim has free reign to simply observe without interruption. The frequency of his glances towards Jim, who thus far has not made any comment or expressed any emotion, reveals more than he probably meant to. He cannot help but assess Jim just as Jim is assessing him in turn, both attempting to determine the true threat level of the man before them. Khan, in his arrogance, is slower to ascertain the true danger Jim represented, which will ultimately be to his detriment here.

As for Jim, there is a stark, single-minded intensity to his observation of Khan. Note how he does not even touch his drink in an effort to appear casual, or glance towards Spock as he speaks. He is not relaxed or even pretending to be - he is alert, eyes sharp, and there can be no confusing the object of his focus. Spock begins with an opening salvo that is clearly meant to agitate, to spark some sort of reaction from Khan when he says "like a team of animals under one whip." Khan looks to Jim almost in entreaty (faked, of course), yet he is greeted with nothing more than a neutral stare and an ever so slightly quirked eyebrow. This gives Khan only momentary pause before he goes on to spout more bullshit, trying to sell his tale of "great dreams and great aspirations." Spock counters and again we see Khan respond to Spock, but he continues to flick his eyes back to Jim repeatedly, trying to gauge his reaction, yet being met with only more silence. He is quickly cottoning on that something is afoot.

The camera goes back and forth between Khan and Jim as they really look at each other, neither fooled by the other. Khan does one more rapid eye movement between Spock and Jim where he looks momentarily confused, then we see the instant he realizes the veiled tactics at work against him. Spock once more counters, but Khan, now savvy to the tactics being employed, ignores Spock and directly addresses Jim, unwilling to play along even one moment longer. He compliments Jim, for like recognizes like, on his tactical approach. "You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second in command attack, while you sit and watch for weakness." He seems genuinely impressed, yet like a frog in a pot of water, still too ignorant in his arrogance to feel the burn of the water slowly coming to a boil around him.

Jim finally responds by pointing out that for all Khan's feigned civility, he speaks in aggressive military terms, even while at a dinner party. He betrays himself in his inability to separate his war lust from everyday life and activities. (Side note: the quick close-ups of Spock we see after Khan calls Jim out and through the end of the scene are so interesting to me, because at times he almost seems nervous. I personally think he and Jim agreed upon this strategy beforehand because they both knew Khan was bad news, and now that the gig is almost up, he's frantically running numbers in his head on how fast he could react if Khan dropped his facade and attacked Jim. But I digress.) Khan verbally parries by making an excuse and justifying his way of speaking with a line straight out of a 19th century novel, but he's on the defensive now in a way he wasn't when speaking with Spock. His hackles are rising. Jim cut from a more discreet angle, one that Khan wasn't prepared for, and it has him off balance.

Jim doesn't give him any time to breathe or regroup, instead immediately jumping down Khan's throat in an effort to anger him by asking if he was afraid, a question that could offend many a man, and certainly a man like Khan, so self-assured in his superiority that the mere suggestion of fear could be tantamount to a grievous insult. Khan scoffs, showing he isn't as unaffected as he wants to portray, and dismissively claims he has "never been afraid." Jim counters this claim, and here we see Khan finally fall into Jim's carefully cultivated trap. He becomes emotional and gives away the game, stating "we offered the world order!" And now Jim has the confirmation he has been patiently maneuvering towards, and Khan knows it. Even he cannot help but admit how masterfully Jim has manipulated him, uttering a quiet, "excellent, excellent" as he stares at Jim, so quietly it almost feels as though it wasn't meant for anyone but Jim.

This is where I believe Khan finally understood that Jim was not a man to be played with, and that his only course of action would be to eliminate him entirely. (We once again see Spock's nervous eye movements here as he assesses the threat level of Khan towards Jim.) He knows he cannot fool Jim, yet he still keeps the charade going by respectfully asking Jim if he may take his leave. Jim stands and they look each other in the eye one last time before he departs.

This was such a long breakdown, but I really felt it was worth it. For all of the complaints about Shatner's hammy, over the top acting (which I only agree with occasionally anyway, because I think he's a genuinely good actor most of the time), this scene was a masterclass in subtlety and tension building. The deliberate, blink-and-you-miss-it head and eye movements of both Shatner and Ricardo were perfect and established so much about both characters within a two minute scene, and their dialogue was just perfect. Jim's honed intelligence and ability to out-maneuver his enemies are on full display. He is calm and composed, with every silence and word executed with deliberate precision. Simply brilliant.

God, I just can't praise this scene enough, but I've been analyzing this clip and writing for a couple hours now, so it's time to go to bed haha. I do want to shout out to @redrobin-detective for supporting my Star Trek hyperfixation all this time and for encouraging me to make my own post. I'm nervous since I have not written anything for Star Trek yet besides ranting in tags, but I hey, I did it!

I also want to thank @anghraine. Your posts are really what gave me the desire to write my own. I am always so excited to see what new thoughts you have about Star Trek, and I hope that you enjoy reading my analysis. You set a really high bar!

[il-predestinato]

We aren’t talking enough about how Max fucking went in for the wholly unnecessary RUTHLESS KILL on Charles in the run to turn 1 during the sprint.

Max really looked at that tractor SF-23 with zero front end and zero setup window that eats tires like a trash compactor and on top of that has crap ass race pace and said NAH STFU CHARLES IS MY RIVAL and went full send on his ass like it was Val d’Argenton 2012 out there and legit tried to punt him across the border into Mexico.

Max, darling, in what delulu reality was Charles ever a threat to your win today? 🤭 Max: he IS and always will be - 😤

[corner-collects-rocks]

aftg animatic of come by adrianne lenker

it starts out with/ neil as an adult/his time with the foxes post baltimore. as the “tuning” ends it shows neil playing exy (young or a fox take ur pick) and then the first time the guitar cuts out it switches to him after he buried mary.

then as the song begins we start to see him running and changing identities (w/ or w/o mary up to u) then as the words start we see glimpses of neils time with the foxes. summer before the rest of the foxes arrive. getting to know dan’s group, going to columbia and as the video progresses it becomes more and more apparent that these are memories and we’re in the car going to baltimore. reality breaks through as lola busts out the cigarette light. we start to switch back and forth between memory and reality as each injury is inflicted. (my vote for reality to seep in is for “i’m not cold, i’m not cold” or the following line “take my hand, take ahold” or if u want to start it earlier i would also like to pitch “take my left with your right”)

when she sings “Take my life, into your life” it transitions from nathan entering the basement to halloween when all the foxes are together (or the foxes winning their first match, just anytime the foxes are all one group) when it says “take a branch with your knife” it transitions from exy back to baltimore until we hear the final line “help me die, my daughter” to which we return to nathan as stuart arrives, nathan and nathaniel making eye contact as the gun goes off. (roll the credits as the song fades out)

i cannot draw. this has been banging around in my head. the most perfect song ever and blorbo mr. neil josten. please someone feel inspired and make something beautiful (and tag me in it so i can see please!!!)

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

No. Because I do not like ᴅᴋʙᴋ.

If I sound frustrated in this response, please know that it is because for two and a half years, I ran my meta blog and never received a single question about shipping dynamics. As soon as I specifically named myself as a member of a fixed ktdk/bkdk group, which exclusively releases works with that dynamic, I started getting questions and comments about the opposite dynamic.

My meta analyzes their canon dynamic, which does not go into sexual situations on-screen. I hold myself to high standards of being persuasive and compelling in my writing, and I had no interest in examining the language used in canon to illustrate the complexities of their relationship and then suddenly go "ANYWAY SO THAT'S WHY IZUKU TAKES IT UP THE ASS."

Would that be funny? yeah absolutely. But I wrote my posts to be informative, engaging, and interesting. I wrote them to help people understand more cultural and linguistic nuance in the storytelling and in their characterizations as shown in canon.

As a result, I am not surprised when people do not know my preferences regarding sexual dynamics or assume I might be a switch fan. I intentionally did not get into dynamic discourse for the entire run of my blog because people get really intense about it and take it very personally. It starts fights I have no interest in participating in.

That said, I am a fixed bkdk fan. I always have been. There was a brief period where I tested the ᴅᴋʙᴋ waters out of curiosity, but I discovered I disagreed with the interpretations of their characters, motivations, and desire for each other.

I have no judgment against other people's tastes. I'm happy if people enjoy my work and find it informative regardless of their own preferences. However, I have seen ᴅᴋʙᴋ fans post about my meta and then immediately twist my words and come to conclusions I did not advocate for, and I always found that baffling, but I decided it's not my problem and I can't control how some people simply hear what they want to hear.

If you look at my blog, you will actually see a number of my posts directly contradict interpretations and theories spread by some ᴅᴋʙᴋ fans. ᴅᴋʙᴋ fans were the biggest promoters of the "repressed Izuku/control your heart is about how he needs to accept his feelings for Katsuki" theory, which I criticized and deconstructed from a number of angles.

Another factor is this: ᴅᴋʙᴋ is not really popular in Japan. The exact number varies depending on platform, but at any given time, ᴅᴋʙᴋ content only has roughly 25% of the amount of content bkdk has.

Fanworks on jpn site Pixiv, graphed across the years.

Doujinshi listed for sale on Toranoana. Pairings in order: ʙᴀᴋᴜɢᴏᴜ ᴋᴀᴛsᴜᴋɪ x ᴍɪᴅᴏʀɪʏᴀ ɪᴢᴜᴋᴜ (3,051 doujinshi) ᴛᴏᴅᴏʀᴏᴋɪ sʜᴏᴜᴛᴏ x ʙᴀᴋᴜɢᴏᴜ ᴋᴀᴛsᴜᴋɪ (1,473 doujinshi) ᴛᴏᴅᴏʀᴏᴋɪ sʜᴏᴜᴛᴏ x ᴍɪᴅᴏʀɪʏᴀ ɪᴢᴜᴋᴜ (1,429 doujinshi) ᴍɪᴅᴏʀɪʏᴀ ɪᴢᴜᴋᴜ x ʙᴀᴋᴜɢᴏᴜ ᴋᴀᴛsᴜᴋɪ (1,274 doujinshi)

ᴅᴋʙᴋ doujinshi has a higher ratio than other kinds of fanworks, with 41% of the doujinshi bkdk has. This arguably indicates that ᴅᴋʙᴋ is not popular on a widespread level and instead has a small but loyal fanbase, since doujinshi involve more effort than other kinds of fanworks.

One could argue that ᴅᴋʙᴋ appears more popular, proportionally, in English-speaking fandom than jpn fandom, but no one really knows. Unlike jpn fandom, which is fairly well organized, the numbers for English-speaking fanworks are impossible to glean with any accuracy. Even AO3 tags don't tell the whole story, because not every fanfic on there specifies top and bottom, which jpn fandom never fails to do.

I bring this up because there simply aren't that many ᴅᴋʙᴋ doujinshi, and the number of new releases has dwindled since the series ended. Even if I wanted to translate ᴅᴋʙᴋ doujinshi, I wouldn't have a lot of material to work with. The opposite is true of bkdk doujinshi. We're having a goddamn renaissance over here!

And as I mentioned in my original post about translating bkdk doujinshi, in Japanese fandom, the separate spaces for fans of different dynamics is strongly enforced. A fan of one dynamic may have "landmines," which refers to things they never want to see or engage with in fandom. When you force someone to see or interact with content of the opposite dynamic they have expressed alignment with, you are being disrespectful of that person and the fandom space itself.

Every single one of my posts is tagged with bkdk, not ᴅᴋʙᴋ and not both tags. My bio says "bkdk triumphs." My sexy fanfic wips are top-Katsuki. My fanart is top-Katsuki.

I do understand if, up until my post about translating bkdk doujinshi, you did not notice the signs that indicated my preferences. English-speaking fandom is a mess and has no real respect for structure. People misunderstand tags and terms and misapply them all the time.

But both of these comments have come as a direct result of me specifying my preference, and it is impossible to read that as anything other than disrespect.

I apologize sincerely to anybody who's just chilling here. Please don't take this as an insult to you or your preferences. Again, I am happy people enjoy my work regardless of their taste in sexy fanworks.

It is worth noting that neither of the users who asked these questions follow me, and their blogs are empty, which I find pretty bizarre and don't know how to interpret. Perhaps it's just a couple people trying to circumvent my no-anon-asks policy. Who knows.

Anyway, please stop asking me about ᴅᴋʙᴋ.