#:] pim sighting...

[visualtaehyun]

Y'ALL

No one but me remembers this but- Remember when I said I kinda expect dmd to expand into gl?? Cause look at all the ladies attending tomorrow's lineup!!!!

PuyfaiPloy (Shades) and PlaWhawha (Buy My Boss)

Nycha & Natty (Khemjira, Black Valentine) and In (Your Sky)

Pim (3 Minutes 2 Love)

And then we've also got long-time-friends-of-Domundi Janis, Praew and Dream (Zomvivor), Kim Goodburn (IFYLITA) aka Mister International 2023???? and MC/actor/performer/icon™ Aim Witthawat (Rak Diao)

[vehemourn]

don't make me go here

[tiredcatboysinc]

This hotel fucking sucks, dude

HERE'S ANOTHER ALLAN FIC OKAY BYE IT'S LITERALLY 4 AM AND I NEED TO MAKE MORE CONTENT OF ALLAN (」°ﾛ°)｣

ao3

The hotel was paid off as a business expense, as this was considered a ‘business trip’. You hadn’t expected Mr. Boss to get anything fancy, but you’d settle for sleepable. You’d at least expected him to book enough separate rooms for the 5 of you, but that didn’t happen. There always had to be an issue, just a ‘tenny tiny’ problem as Mr. Boss put it. 

According to him, the hotel had an error when booking the rooms, something within their system or some horseshit like that, and they were already booked to capacity when you arrived. So, now there were only 4 rooms instead of 5. Everyone knew what that meant, someone was going to have to share a room; and by proxy a bed. Of course, Glep opted out immediately. None of you were too surprised, they always claimed a single room by themselves whenever possible.

You, Charlie, Pim, and Allan all exchanged glances for a brief moment. Charlie glanced at Pim, Pim glancing back. In a swift movement, they both shouted “Noses goes!” and touched their noses. Allan and you flinched, Allan sighing with embarrassment. He grumbled, now fully aware of the situation he had gotten himself into.

With the day prior being filled with shenanigans, both enjoyable and exhausting, your aching body begged for rest. You hadn't remembered much of this morning, the arrangements being reminded once the room was in sight. A sharp pain of embarrassment struck your heart, making you grumble as you stood outside the hotel room. Already your cheeks had flushed.

You recalled a day a few weeks ago, something about coffee… The memory subconsciously had been worming its way into your brain since this morning, specifically the bit where you had placed just the smallest kiss on Allan’s cheek. Ah, fuck. 

Honestly, you had almost forgotten about that. How is it you remembered to get Allan coffee but not the reason behind it? Mentally you kick yourself, your face burning as bright as the fucking sun. Dammit, shit, that’s got to be why Allan has been more fidgety around you lately. 

You felt more embarrassed than ever, how did you get the guy you have a crush on also has a crush on you?? And you kissed him???? Sure, it was on the cheek but still… That’s kinda a big step, especially when you’re not even dating.

Okay, get yourself together!! You’ve been standing outside this damn hotel room for like… 5 minutes or something, you’ve gotta get your act together dammit! 

Your hand now hovers over the room door, your breath unsteady as you cautiously open it…

The room was quiet, the only sound being the soft hum of the AC and Allan muttering to himself. Speak of which, what was he muttering? “...Stupid… Coworkers… All of them…” He grumbled in an annoyed tone, pulling at the knot that held his tie to his body. Allan continued grumbling, unaware you had stepped into the room. “I could have argued with them, I guess… but there wouldn’t have been a point…” He sits on the edge of the bed, brushing out the sheets beforehand. 

From the angle you were at you couldn’t see his face every well, just a sliver of how tightly his brows were tight together… and how his cheeks seemed to hold a blush. He went on grumbling, rubbing at his eyes tiredly. “It’s not… ugh..” He sighs “It’s not the end of the world, It could be worse…” Allan drops his volume, like he’s hyperaware that someone is listening. That might just be his paranoia, though, who’s to tell?

He rests his lower face in his palm, covering his mouth. The blush seemed to spread over his face, deepening ever so slightly as he sighed and closed his eyes. “At least… I enjoy being around him the most…” He grunts, flinching at his own words. All in a second Allan becomes far too aware of his embarrassment, beginning to feel like someone was staring at him… Of course, you were right behind him.

A large grin had spread over your face, the embarrassment replaced with a sense of pride. You giggle softly, the sound flowing eerily to Allan. He freezes in place almost instantly, knowing he’s done it again. How did he always do this, he wonders. If he had a nickel for every time he’s accidentally confessed he had a crush on you he’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right? 

Allan doesn’t even turn around, he just lowers his head into his hands in grumbles with embarrassment. “Goddammit.” He grunts into his palms, borderline shaking with embarrassment. Softly, you smile. Maybe you won’t be so mean to him this time, it’s the least you can do. 

Sitting beside him you place a hand on his back, patting gently in hopes he’ll look at you. “Hey, dude, it’s okay.” You chuckle warmly, leaning forward slightly over your knees to be comfortable. In truth, you knew Allan wasn’t going to budge. With the way that he was grumbling incoherently to himself, not the mention how warm he was, he wasn’t moving unless you were really convincing… or just flat-out forced him. Your fingers move in soothing circles, palm dragging in a short motion to extenuate them. You sigh, furrowing your brows with a small pout. Allan wasn’t budging, we’ve already established that. His grumbles had died down slightly, now he only made soft mutters. So, the soft touches seemed to be working… A hum leaves you, an idea popping into your head. 

Quickly, you wrap both arms around Allan’s waist. He flinched in surprise, finally raising his head to locate where you were. His head turns back, seeing you were behind him. A large smile graced your lips as you moved, tugging Allan with ease into your lap while you rested on the pillows. Allan fidgets anxiously, unsure of how to sit or where to put his hands. His hands hover over where yours lay, wrapped securely around his waist and resting on his stomach. Your chin sat on his shoulder, an easy spot to observe how flustered and nervous he was. 

You giggle softly, removing a hand to take one of Allan’s. “Hey, it’s okay.” You muttered, interlocking both of your fingers. “I don’t bite… Promise.” Allan scoffs at that, turning his head away. As he turned away you swore you saw a glimpse of a smile, making you hum delightfully. 

Reassuringly, you squeeze his hand. Your thumb rubs his knuckles, the soft gesture visibly calming him. The two of you sat silently for a while, Allan slowly becoming more relaxed as the minutes passed. 

His head rested against your shoulder, eyes just barely open as he glanced over at you. You on the other hand were already fast asleep, face nuzzled into Allan’s neck comfortably. Allan stared at you for a moment, taking in the sight of your comfort. It made him smile a little, a fuzzy feeling filling his chest. 

He hummed, shifting carefully to not wake you. His lips graced your forehead, a small and delicate kiss placed on the skin. “There… Now we’re even…” Allan whispers, brushing the hair from your face. 

“...I love you, sleep well.”

[magicandpizza]

Anika knew who Jesper Fahey was before she’d ever joined the Dregs. While Kaz’s name carries weight, and perhaps a small shudder of fear, Jesper’s name comes with a knowing smirk and some sort of comment on his sexual prowess. She’d deny it if anyone ever asked her, but the truth of the matter is that she has slept with him. Just the once, as is his way, and his reputation is entirely true. He is, unfortunately, a very good shag, and his list of previous bedfellows is probably longer than Anika’s entire arm.

It comes as very little surprise to her when a rumour starts circulating amongst the gang that Fahey had not only previously slept with their brand new demo man, but had also, apparently, forgotten about it. What is surprising, though, is that Jesper has apparently gone back for seconds (and thirds, and fourths…), because said demo man practically lives at the Slat nowadays, and the pair are frequently together.

“I’ve never seen him like this before,” Anika whispers. She’s sitting at a table at the Crow Club nursing a well-earned beer after finishing her shift.

Beside her, Pim raises an eyebrow but his eyes stay locked on the sight of notorious flirt Jesper Fahey contentedly sitting beside his… boyfriend? What is his name anyway? Henderson? Hen… something. It’s on the tip of her tongue. The demo man is tucked happily tucked up against Fahey’s side, grinning at him over the rim of his glass.

For the life of her, Anika cannot work out what it is about him that has Jesper so transfixed. Sure, he is objectively good-looking, though men with pretty eyes and delicate features don’t really do it for her, and he must be clever if he knows his way around explosives, but in their - admittedly limited - interactions since Hendriks joined the Dregs, she’s found him kind of meek. Unassuming.

“It won’t last,” Pim says eventually. “He’ll get bored. This is Fahey we’re talking about after all.”

Anika hums. She traces her fingers over the droplets of condensation running down the side of her beer glass, then takes a long drink. See, normally she’d agree with Pim. But the pair have already been to Ravka and back, and she has a sneaking suspicion that the messy-haired demo man - and really, what is his name? - might actually have fully moved into Fahey’s room.

“I don’t know Pim, I feel like this is different.”

-

A few weeks later and Anika is ready to tear her hair out. She’s never paid too much attention to the fact that her room is directly next to Jesper’s, but now that it’s Jesper and Wylan’s room, well, that’s another matter. To put it simply, Anika has overheard more than she ever needed to over the past few weeks, and it’s seriously starting to grate.

She glares at Jesper as he enters the living area at the Slat. He’s alone, but pours two cups of coffee anyway, taking both with him as he joins her and Nina at their table.

“You’re very loud, you know that?” Anika says around a mouthful of lacklustre porridge.

Nina snorts into her breakfast, but Jesper only grins with the self-satisfied smirk of someone who is having good sex and a lot of it.

“I could buy you some earplugs, if you like.”

Anika scowls at him. “You could try asking loverboy to keep it down.”

“I could,” Jesper says mildly with a shrug of his shoulders. He drums his fingers against the table as he raises his mug to his lips. “But I quite like the noises he makes.”

Anika seriously considers hitting him.

“It’s not just Wylan, they’re both as bad as each other,” Nina grumbles, stabbing at a piece of sausage a little too forcefully. “Do you know, Anika, I’m pretty sure I heard this one,” she gestures at Jesper with her fork, “begging the other night. Seems quite unlike you, what was Wylan doing, hm?”

“He has very talented fingers,” Jesper says, pointedly ignoring the gagging noise Anika directs at him. “And don’t take it out on me just because Kaz hasn’t smuggled Matthias out of Hellgate yet. You should be happy at least some of us are getting laid.”

Nina opens her mouth to respond, but quickly shuts it again when Wylan drops into the empty chair next to Jesper, pressing a quick kiss to his cheek as he does so. Anika scowls at him too for good measure. Surely, she thinks, it can’t get any worse than this.

She is proved disgustingly wrong when Nina’s Fjerdan slab of fur moves into the Slat a week later, and the pair upgrade to a bigger room. Surely all the Saints must hate her, because the room they move into is directly above hers.

[oinkinpigprince]

NO LONGER ANONYMOUS ⛓️‍💥

Secretary Reader x Pim who is BAD at confessing his love. he'd see reader every day and PANIC 😁

Ooo!’ This is silly, idk what a secretary really does but ik what a club secretary does. Nvm I know what they do! Also, I’m glad you finally unmasked yourself you dastardly villain :33!!

Pim x secretary reader

When he first laid his eyes on you, it was love at first sight. The boss introduced you as the new secretary so that everyone would be able to better make arrangements and meetings

The fact he had to speak with you every day was nerve wracking, he loves seeing you but he can be a bit, awkward. Everyone notices, including you

Stutters a lot when he has to ask you about appointments, meetings, and other things. Sometimes you’ll tell him and he’ll say thnxs, and then come back later because he forgot (he was too focused on staring into your eyes, the first time)

Pim talks to Charlie about it, a LOT. Charlie tells him the same thing every time “Pim, you should NEVER date your coworker. It’s bad luck” and Pim (dis)agrees but still ends up talking to him about you non stop

When you’re in the break room on your lunch Pim tries to strike up conversation, but he ends up blabbering on and on about random stuff. Like word vomit, hopefully he doesn’t actually vomit,,,,,

Pim brings you random things, like candy, coffee, anime drawings. It’s like a bird trying to court another bird, it’s sweet

You go to Charlie about it eventually and asking him what’s up with Pim. Charlie just looks at you and you understand immediately. Kinda just nodding, it all made sense

It’s funny watching Pim try to dance around and not embarrass himself infront of you. He wants you to think he’s cool and charming and hip, but he’s just a goofy guy

[lovecoremarbs]

Waking Up on a Weekday

fandom: smiling friends

prompt: charlie dompler/reader

words: 722

summary: Just some Charlie/Reader practice fluff, enjoy!

notes: This is my first time writing for Charlie so excuse me if he's out of character as this was just a practice fic!

The light shined through the blackout curtains of Charlie’s small apartment window, and of course, due to his luck, it shined directly onto the sleeping critter's face.

Charlie groaned, his eyes slowly blinking as he woke up from his usual four hours of sleep but this time was a bit different.

He was rather warmer than usual, which is saying a lot because his apartment barely had any air conditioning so waking up rather hot was the norm for him.

He knew what the reason was though, and damn did he not mind a bit.

Your sleeping form was practically glued to his side, your arms wrapped around him as you softly snored from your own slumber.

Charlie softly smiled as he kissed your forehead, chuckling to himself as the kiss made you slightly stir in your sleep.

His hand made its way to the back of your head, gently stroking your hair as he continued to hold you close to him hoping nothing would disturb you.

Life hated Charlie though, he had to be at work in an hour and he knew the bus was already on its way to his stop as he lifted his head to check the alarm clock.

He released an exasperated sigh as he laid on his back and let his head hit the pillow, God he hated work sometimes.

Sure, he was thankful his work partner was easy to get along with (even if he didn’t share Pim’s whimsical view on the job), and sometimes the job was simply just waiting around in the break room on his phone until his boss got a call and he was assigned to the next one.

When he was assigned a job? Fuck, it was so stressful and insane, on some days he dreaded coming into work.

But after that moment of thinking about work, waking up with you in his arms, getting to watch your peaceful state as you slept in his bed?

Nah, work wasn’t on his mind anymore. “Fuck that.”

“Charlie?” A soft but hoarse voice spoke to him, snapping him out of his thoughts as he looked down to see a half-awake you looking up at him.

“Oh fuck, was I saying shit out loud?” Charlie frowned slightly, he didn’t mean to wake you up but the damage had already been done.

“Yeah, but it’s ok. I probably needed to wake up soon anyway.” You sat up in his bed, wearing only one of his shirts and your underwear.

“Sorry babe,” He sat up with you, stretching his arms and blinking a few more times to properly wake up.

“Like I said, it’s ok. You gotta get to work right?” You both got out of bed, throwing his clothes at him as he trudged around the room trying to get ready in time.

“Yeah, that’s the plan anyway.” He spoke between brushing his teeth, the toothbrush stuck out of his mouth as he tied his shoes near the front door of his apartment.

You continued to help him get ready whether it was by throwing bread into the toaster or lint-rolled his hoodie so it didn’t have any dust or debris on the stained fabric.

You handed his hoodie to him as he munched on his toast, kissing him on the cheek as he opened the front door which earned you a small smile.

“Bye hon, have a good day at work.” You lived for these domestic moments between the two of you, even though you weren’t married and didn’t plan on it for the time being, it was still comforting to know you could be like this.

“Thanks, I’ll try.” He stuffed his keys into his sweatpants pocket as he waved you off, his form disappearing from your sight as he walked to the bus stop.

You leaned against the door frame for a few seconds and smiled before entering back inside, ready to make yourself your own breakfast.

You were interrupted while eating a pop-tart by a text notification going off on your phone, glancing down at it to see a simple text from Charlie.

‘forgot to say it love you’

You smiled to yourself at the no caps and punctuation, “Damn you Dompler, you're too lovable.” You spoke to yourself before sending a text of your own.

‘Love ya too dummy.’

[universallydestinytaco]

The Little Smiling Mermaid (Chapter 9)

Thank you for reading the first nine chapters of TLSM, unfortunately I have to put the fic is on hiatus until around October because I got lots of art projects to finish! PS. please follow one of my buddies @bluebellcup, it would make us smile!!

TW: Gender Dysphoria + Unintentional Misgendering

Graham Nelly was out scavenging for breakfast as part of his daily morning routine in his own unique Graham Nelly way: he used his "grappling hook" to harvest the sweet and aromatic tropical fruit the island bore, although it would take about seven times to succeed in getting at least two or three of each type he was craving at the moment. He accidentally grabbed a nest full of eggs and one angry mother parrot, who proceeded to give the hapless mer-hippy the ol' stare-down of doom. Graham gulped, bearing what one would call a shit-eating grin and sheepishly wave hello to shake off any negative vibe. This friendly greeting was only met with the mother furiously squawking in his face and ferociously chomping his hand. So much for a balanced breakfast! Once the panicking Graham Nelly finally got away from that one pissed-off mama, he spotted a very familiar group he knew all-too-well. Graham called out: "Well, look at what the catfish dragged in!". It didn't take too long for Graham to notice something was up with his littlest cousin. "Say, There's something different about you, Pim! New hairdo? I can see you've been using your dinglehopper!'" Pim shook his head for "No", Graham placed his hand on his stubble trying to figure it out. "New seashells?" Same response from Pim, who was humored by his cousin's morning absentminded-ness. Graham shrugged: "Well, I'm stumped." Alan snapped: "HE'S GOT LEGS, YOU IDIOT!" Graham was taken aback by the rarity of the lobster losing his cool. "He traded his voice to some crazy sea witch for a pair legs! UGH!" as Pim was trying out his new legs by getting up to stand for the very first time, his friends further conversed; Glep summed-up the catch of the deal: "Eskabezawabowakishymwah!" Alan admitted in anguish: "And he's only got three days. That big yellow guy barely even knows Pim! This is a catastrophe! Okay, maybe there's still time for me to get your voice back-" Alan's rant was cut off by Pim tripping on a pebble and falling back down with a dramatic splash, cascading water all over the lobster who took it as a sign to chill out. Alan then crawled into Pim's hand, looking up eye-to-eye with a plea to reason: "Look, if I can call off the deal, you don't have to return to the palace BUT it can just be us exploring what else the sea has to offer! You'll be...." Alan quickly noticed that Pim's eyes started to shimmer with leaking tears. "...just be miserable for the rest of your life." Defeated, Alan agreed: "All right, all right! I'll try to help you out best I can." Pim immediately smiled, kissing Alan on top of the head before letting him go free. "Ugh, what a soft-shell I turned out to be." Graham spoke up, giving some helpful advice to Pim: "Dude, I'm tellin' ya, if you wanna be a land critter, the first thing you gotta do is dress like one!"

~

Charlie, his crew, Mipnessa and Mr. Boss all embarked on the newly-prepared ship at noon for some sight-seeing, as Dj Spitz served the party a light brunch of egg sandwiches and chopped fruit per Mipnessa’s request. Of course Charlie was still having an internal conflict with himself over recent events, but eventually decided to turn his brain off to properly enjoy his meal. Mipnessa asked: “I beg pardon but isn’t this fruit supposed to be chopped?” Charlie grinned and assured: “Wait for it…” Dj Spitz grabbed two swords behind himself, tossed a pineapple in the air to where his blade caught up just in time for him to quickly dice it into chunks, landing perfectly on the plate to which the impressed group gave Dj Spitz a well-deserved round of applause. Tomar complimented: “Hot damn, Spitz, you sure know how to make a spectacle out of a meal!” Dj Spitz replied, “All in a day’s work, man!” As he wiped the juice off the blades before returning them to their scabbards. “I do say, Charles, your friends are all charmingly eccentric, no wonder you’re so lively.” said Mipnessa, to which Charlie replied: “What can I say? They’re the wind beneath my sails!" Smormu, realizing the egg in her sandwich was in dire need of some seasoning, asked: "Say Chris, may you please pass the salt?” to which Chris obliged: “Sure thing.” but while reaching for the salt, he accidentally knocked over Lyle’s coffee and spilled it on Mipnessa’s gown! Boy did he ever thank the heavens that it had already been cooled off by the cream. “Shit!” Chris spat out as Smormu and Charlie quickly grabbed some napkins to help Mipnessa clean up as a groggy, crusty-eyed Lyle muttered: “Damn it.” while picking his mug up for a refill. The embarrassed Chris apologized over and over until Mipnessa replied: “That’s okay, I find bumbling, awkward men to be more unique and endearing...that’s why I find Charlie to be my ideal husband!” Tomar chuckled: “Oh that Mip, she's a real kidder!” while nudging Charlie’s shoulder as the latter's face flushed red in embarrassment; Eager to change the subject, Charlie broke silence: “How about my ol’ pal Tomar plays us a tune?", rummaging around one of his pockets to dig out his ocarina and placing it in Tomar’s hand to hastily request in a whisper: “Play us a good ol’ fashioned sea shanty, for atmosphere.” Tomar sighed, knowing he kinda had that coming. “I’m no Nicholson but I know The Golden Vanity by heart.” Charlie held his hand out to Mipnessa, "May I have this dance?”

~

“You look sensational!” Graham Nelly complimented Pim on the makeshift dress they collaborated on, Pim finding an old discarded sail and Graham providing the needle and thread. Alan put his claw on his chin, suggesting: “It’s missing something…” just then Glep swam up and gave Pim a familiar trinket he salvaged from the grotto’s ruins: Pim’s flower barrette he stashed inside his favorite music box. Pim kissed Glep to say thanks before placing the barrette in his hair, using his reflection in the water as a mirror to make sure the look was perfect. “I bet that Prince dude's gonna feel his jaw drop the ground when he sees you all dolled up and stuff, let's swim over to- Oh, right, you have legs now so it'd be a bitch for you to swim...luckily I have just the thing for that! See that big ol' platform with the fiddle-sticks over there? All that came with the island, now the platform itself is a little bit wear-and-tear but it'll still keep you afloat!" Pim walked up to the raft and with some help, he started pushing it out to sea. Before Pim could embark, he had to give Graham a big ol' hug to show his appreciation. Graham returned the favor by ruffling Pim's head, responding: "Love you too, kiddo."

~

All while the usual high-seas hi-jinks played out in the background, Mr. Boss was looking out for any sign of trouble with a spy glass, although he wasn’t behind the wheel at the very moment since the ship was anchored, he was still startled from the previous outing at sea. Just then he spotted what appeared to be a stowaway perched on top of a rock surrounded in debris from what he deemed a shipwreck of sorts. Mr. Boss took pity as he pondered just how long they sat on that rock, so the old man quickly rushed over to the dinghy with some lifesavers handy, catching Charlie's attention, asking “Woah, Boss, where’s the fire?” as he followed Mr. Boss, who replied: “We have a stowaway in need of our help!” Charlie’s curiosity peaked, asking: “...Is it a girl?” Mr. Boss spat: “There’s no time for sophomoric questions, boy!” as he lowered the dinghy to carry out the mission. …

Pim felt like an idiot who didn't know how to paddle to save his life...then again, he never really had enough experience to steer a raft, especially considering merfolk obviously didn't need anything like rafts or boats anyways. Nevertheless, his heart fluttered as Charlie gently helped him up, calmly asking: “You okay?”. Mr. Boss fussed in sympathy: “What a trooper.” Charlie carried Pim bridal-style over to the dinghy where he laid the beautiful stranger to sit beside him as Mr. Boss rowed back to the vessel to raise the dinghy upwards. …

Mipnessa was harmonizing her lute with Tomar getting the hang of Charlie’s ocarina to the rest of the gang's clapping rhythm. That was, until everyone sans Mipnessa's attention immediately turned to Mr. Boss, Charlie and the beautiful stranger they rescued. Chris, Tomar, Lyle and Smormu all stood stupefied in awe at the newcomer as Mipnessa ran to Charlie to hug him and fuss over how she wondered where he was while he was gone...for about at least 10 minutes. A sly Chris remarked: “Hello nurse.” only for Mr. Boss to chide: "Ladies prefer a man who minds his manners, Chris." Smormu piped up: "Aw sweet, more girls to relate to and bond with! Everything's coming up Smormu!" Pim started to frown, the double-disappointment of repressing his own jealousy towards Mipnessa honing in on his man and being unable to clarify his true gender, but in a case of Morton's Fork, he'd still be hesitant to come out right away even if he did have his voice intact. His frown did turn into a smile once Smormu walked up to Pim to shake his hand. "The name's Smormu, what's yours?" while patiently waiting for a response, she took notice of Pim's barrette and let out a girlish squeal: "Oh my gosh, what a cute hair clip! Say, is that a golden pearl in the center?" Pim's face flushed, responding to the compliment with a curtsy. Mr. Boss chuckled at the demure stowaway. "While all be! She must have come from a wealthy family, perhaps even royalty." Mipnessa piped up: "Oh, how beautiful indeed! In fact, it reminds me of one of my own favorite pieces of finery!" Mipnessa quickly removed her shawl to reveal a gold-chain necklace whose focal point was a large creamy-white pearl embellished with diamonds, impressing everyone around her; even Pim excitedly shook his hands while thinking of a way to express a non-verbal compliment. Charlie knew this had to be the mystery critter, right? For a girl with the most beautiful voice, she was literally speechless. Perhaps she had laryngitis, or maybe she reserved her voice for certain times? Either way, Charlie was feeling even more conflicted with himself now that he really did have two potential brides to pick between: The proper lady he was arranged with, or the wild and elusive beauty he kept bumping into?

[kindheart525]

For the Dottieverse: Who the heck is this mystery wife of Pims?

That’s what everyone else wants to know lol

Pim gushes about her all the time yet none of his friends or his kids’ friends have ever met her. It’s getting to the point where folks are wondering if she even exists, or concerned that she’s a total deadbeat as a wife and mother and Pim is in denial about it. She’s kind of like those old “my girlfriend from Canada” jokes in the sense that Pim has all sorts of stories about her that become less believable the longer she remains seemingly hidden from the world. Has she REALLY met the First Lady? She hasn’t even met any of her husband’s or children’s closest friends.

See @scribbly07’s thoughts on how an appearance by the elusive Mrs. Pimling might go:

And also this:

It’s probably going to get to the point where Pim is old and crying about becoming a widower/making his wife a widow and his friends still don’t know who the hell she is lol. Even though Pim and his kids would insist otherwise, she clearly hasn’t been there for very much of their lives considering that the kids were always with their dad with no mom in sight. You can take that to mean she’s tragically neglectful towards her family or that she’s just horribly introverted or something. Either way the other Smiling Friends will never know for sure.

The out-of-universe reason for Mrs. Pimling being such a mystery is that I didn’t really ship Pim with anyone but still wanted him to have some children, so I left his wife completely ambiguous in a Charlie’s Uncle/Doctor Monster-style running bit, keeping with the silly tone of Smiling Friends. Pim always had a utopic view of his future marriage and children, but since it’s clearly not as blissful as he dreamed it seems like another area where he’s constantly catching L’s. But it’s all worth it to him in the end knowing he’s still making people smile and raising critters who he hopes will do the same

[tocourtdisaster]

WIP Wednesday

I haven't done one of these in at least a decade, but I'm feeling a bit unmotivated so I figured maybe sharing something could help.

This bit is from my fill for day 4 of the upcoming @codywanweek. I am stretching the prompt a bit, but I figured that's probably okay.

Pim catches sight of them the minute they walk through the door and gently takes ahold of Ahsoka’s elbow and guides her into a curtained off area with the rest of them following. Cody has no idea how Pim knew Ahsoka was probably the worst injured but he’s glad he did. If Ahsoka’s anything like her master or her master’s master she’d argue that she’s fine until she collapsed. Pim just knowing saves them all time.

Another medic, not in orange so someone who actually belongs on this ship, follows them all in, scanner in hand. He’s got the rest of the younglings taken care of by the time Pim has finished examining Ahsoka’s arms.

Mostly the younglings just have bumps and bruises and scrapes, but Ahsoka, who fought Grievous singlehandedly, has fractured every bone in both of her forearms. From what Cody understands, Togruta have denser bones than baseline humans which makes Ahsoka’s scans even more horrifying.

“Doesn’t it hurt?” the Nautolan boy asks.

“A bit, yeah,” Ahsoka says, but there’s a tightness around her eyes that makes Cody think she’s understating. He doesn’t know why she bothers; she’s surrounded by Jedi who can probably feel her pain.

[khaoala]

Okaaaaaay first things first

GET YOU A GIRL WHO CAN DO BOTH!!! I love namtan as Ai with the way she manages to look amazing in oversized tshirts and her seemingly endless collection of jeans jackets but namtan as oom with her loooong wavy hair and nice outfits 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠. I have two hands ✋🏽🤚🏽

Ok down to business. Mays dad truly is the worst! Blackmailing May into helping defend Batman (is that truly his name?) and then later we learn (or perhaps this was already revealed and i missed it) that Ben’s mom committed suicide so that Ben would have money to help with his recovery!! SMH I hope karma hits him hard someday.

Now may/oom/ai got my thoughts all jumbled and such so let me just lay out the facts that I have.

In 10th grade may was saved by oom(really ai) and felt it was a ‘love at first sight’ sort of thing and her future relationship with oom really revolves around that moment (it was a 5min interaction that ended with ai telling her to basically stop letting herself get bullied). Years later the roles are reversed and May saves oom. I’m assuming May thinks it’s fate that run into each other this way and they start dating. Oom gets hit with a double whammy when she finds out May defended the guy who paralyzed Ben and then finds out about the ‘love at first sight’ with Ai which all sucks for oom but it did seem like her and May were already on the rocks. (I’m sorry about all the mean things I said about you oom 🙈)Then the whole hospital scene happened which I want to sum up as oom saying ‘the girl you met was my twin sister and if you become a better person and try to make up for what you did then maybe I’ll let you date her’….or something like that right? lol

Meanwhile Ai is being a silly goose and is mentally throwing hands with May’s first love aka herself. Alsooo I feel like the grandma deserves to exchange words with May over her making BOTH her granddaughters cry over her.

Last but not least our favorite friendly neighborhood throuple! They better end up as a throuple because I will not accept anything less!! Really I just want them all to be happy ESPECIALLY KAPOOK/PIM!! Stop making sad faces girl it’s breaking my heart 🥺🥺😭😭

Ok, I hope you enjoyed my word vomit and I can’t wait to get your take on it all.

-🤫

i'm really sorry, this is a very long, barely understandable word vomit. i wish i knew how to sum up my thoughts but for some reason i need to make my thought process be known even if it barely makes sense. congratulations for putting up with me, you should get like an prize. i can't offer you much but my gifmaking skills and maybe more word vomits in the future.

i must say, oom's attitude towards the end was a tad bit nasty (come on girl, your girlfriend was traumatized and lost her sight and you're playing revenge like okay), but she did look hot during that whole flashback thing. ngl, one chance, and i would let her ruin my life. maybe she even wouldn't because sad girl just wants someone to love her for her (let's ignore the immense levels of jealousness. she's insecure [with reason]) (it's so interesting to me how both twins are traumatized by being each other's shadows different degrees.)

if may's dad doesn't get the nastiest ending there is, i'll be pissed. oh, but bibi, you need to forgive and forget, be above them, don't wish him ill. that's very kind of you to think so high of me, but unfortunately, i'm a spiteful person. i need this man to suffer. i want him to suffer. blackmailing your own child like that as if it's nothing, die in a ditch.

so, i made a timeline because i'm terrible with numbers and years and i get confused by them so easily so bear with me (while re-watching to make this timeline i've noticed how alike oom and may were when they were young. they both wouldn't stand up for bullies and let themselves be other people's punch bags and while may took oon's advice and toughened herself up, oom just seems like she grew more resentful of her sister). but anyway, timeline!

2011 - they were in first year high school ? tho oom/oon are played by a different actress(es)

2014 - i assume this is senior year since the quartet talk about going to college, and grandma has money separated for oom and oon's cram school.

2019 - fresh out of college/talk in front of grandma shop

early 2022 - saves oom from the nasty airline dude

2022 - may is threatened by her dad for dating oom and ben's accident happens this year, too

2023 - trial and oom finds out that may is in love with oon, and later we have may's accident caused by kosol.

so here's the thing, while i do think oonmay's relationship seem very genuine at present time (oon clearly thinks she found the love of her life, idk what else to tell you, she's besotted by may), may's motivations are so… sighs. what do you mean you met a random girl who fought off three bullies for you and who asked you hey, why didn't you fight back and smiled at you and ever since you hung on the idea of that person? (i mean, that's crush material, i suppose, but not for like 8 years for you to still remember that).

and then you meet the girl again years later and, like you said, roles are reversed, and you save her and you two start dating, but oom and oon couldn't be more different (despite oon saying in the first episode that they are very alike), but you persevere bc this is your first love, and you're gonna make it work even though you don't seem like the most compatible. and you know it, bc you don't show affections to oom so she can feel secure she's loved by you, but you need to make this work, because it's written in the stars that you're meant to be. may had been using oom to fulfil her first love fantasy. honestly, i think i'd be pissed, too.

(hypotetically, bc we don't know what kind of issues they were having and idk how thai laws work, if may gave in and admitted oom wasn't her person, her dad wouldn't have blackmail material on her, she wouldn't have to defend batman on trial, he'd lose, and i suppose ben's mom wouldn't have to off herself to guarantee insurance for her disabled son since batman would have to pay for that [i'm assuming]).

grandma needs to have words with may because not only she made both of her granddaughters cry. she made them cry for the exact same reason! i mean, that's a little silly and quite baffling. that's a skill, may.

and finally, i'm here to say that while i was really rooting for the trouple idea, i want pang to stay away from every women in this show, do some self-reflection and maybe some therapy before she jumps into another relationship (all of them could use therapy, actually).

HERE'S THE THING, while i appreciate this show proper portrayal of a love triangle with jan crushing on pim, pim still hung up on pang, and pang having some sort of feelings for jan, there's not one bone in my body that believes that pang has feelings for pim (she has been calling her her ex since the moment they broke up and has made a point of making that clear every time. that woman doesn't want to go back - which makes me wonder why the heck she kisses pim, but you know, problems for later). if a throuple happens, or even if pimpang happens again, it'll just cause pim more pain, and have you seen kapook sad? i don't want to see that woman shed another tear. let her have a happy lesbian romance!

[thejesusofsuburbiabutcringe]

Chapter 11 Cut Content (Spoilers)

Want to know all of the cut content from Chapter 11? Out of all of the chapters written so far, I think Chapter 11 experienced the most changes within production. Some ideas went further than others.

Pim was supposed to become clinically dead for a short period of time and then resuscitated. This idea was held out all the way through writing Chapter 10, but I never wrote anything down for it once I began Chapter 11. The final line of Chapter 10 was originally supposed to foreshadow that plot point. "The silence that followed was the saddest song ever sung," originally implied that Pim's machines stopped beeping, initiating a flatline. Now, it just means that Pim didn't respond to Charile. I cut that plot point because I didn't feel like torturing Charlie more than I already did.

Following up with the previous point, Pim was supposed to experience a real near death experience sequence instead of the coma dream. He would've visited heaven for a short period of time before coming back to life and recount this to Charlie later. It was kinda supposed to be like "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back" situation. This was cut since that idea has been done before and I didn't want to tread old ground. I find the coma dream more compelling.

Pim's parents weren't originally going to show up in this chapter. Their appearance was added later as a way of tying them back into the disownment arc and have them receive due punishment from Charlie for their actions. They're most likely not going to show up again outside of this one appearance.

Charlie was initially going to be much more violent towards Pim's parents. Instead of him saying "Next time, it’s on sight. Mark my words," he was going to say "I'll stomp you, I'll fucking curb stomp you both on sight if I ever see you again." This was supposed to be a direct reference to the infamous Tedros curb stomp dialogue from The Idol Episode 3, but it was cut last minute due to it feeling out of character for Charlie. Instead, my self indugent Idol reference came through in Charlie saying "Hello, angel" to Pim when he woke up. The phrase is Tedros' term of endearment towards Jocelyn throughout the series.

Pim's coma dream sequence went through some changes. Originally, a divine/angel being that physically resembled Mariah was supposed to talk to him, which was a reference to Charlie's dream in Chapter 4. This was never actually written. It was cut due to wanting Pim to come to his own conclusions without the influence of someone else.

Extra fun fact: song lyric titles for any one of my chapters usually go through two to five changes in production with the exception of this one. That lyric from "Everything I Wanted" by Billie Eilish was the plan from even before the chapter was written.

I don't know if this type of thing is interesting to anyone else, but I think it's cool how stuff evolves.

[wulfums]

ouugh i know allan being fat in pims vision of the future was weird fatphobic sight gag but like. imagine him + whatwulf growing fat + old + so happy together.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Daughter of the Rain and Snow

Concept: Around ten years after the events of Crooked Kingdom, 25-year-old Captain Inej Ghafa frees Maya Olsen from a pleasure house in Ketterdam. Maya is looking for revenge against the man who put her in her position, a man who she knows nothing about except his name: Kaz Brekker.

Tags: @wraith--2 @lunarthecorvus @just2bubbly @real-fragments7 @cartoon-clifford @origami-butterfly @lady-a-stuff

Content Warnings: in more general terms I want to remind people to be aware of the nature of Kaz and Inej's experiences and relationship since even if I'm not directly addressing these things they tend to be implicit in any writing about them, but specifically to this chapter there's ptsd, imprisonment, violence, blood, gore, grief, and discussions of death.

Chapter 75 - Jesper

Getting Inej to the Slat wasn’t an entirely simplistic process, which probably shouldn’t have been surprising considering they’d struggled to get her down a flight of stairs, but it was still harder than Jesper had expected. He and Nina managed to lift her onto a slightly makeshift stretcher that they could carry her on, but it wasn’t easy and they found themselves continually falling behind Kaz as they followed him through the tunnel towards the Crow Club. Kaz hadn’t said a word the entire walk, and Jesper wasn’t sure if he ought to try and talk to him. Possibly that would make everything worse.

There was something inherently terrifying about seeing Inej of all people like this, and Jesper could not stand the desperate sensation inside him to look away. Before they’d left the house he’d stood over her for a minute in the quiet, trying to calm the frantic feeling bubbling through him. He gripped her limp fingers in his for a moment. For Inej, he could do anything.

“You sure you’re gonna be okay?” he’d asked Wylan as they stood opposite each other in the doorway.

“Right here waiting for you,” said Wylan, winding his arm around Jesper’s waist to pull him closer, “Are you?”

Jesper nodded.

“As ever,”

“Come back safe,”

“I’ll consider it,” Jesper teased, leaning towards him, “For you,”

“Jes…”

Their lips met for the briefest second. Jesper lifted a hand to Wylan’s cheek and felt the trace of a tear.

“Damn,” he whispered, “Didn’t think I was that bad a kisser,”

Wylan laughed softly, taking Jesper’s hand in his.

“Wylan, it’s gonna be…”

“I know. I know. Just bring Inej back safe - and Kiada. And you come home safe too, promise?”

I promise you-

Don’t say that.

Jesper pressed a kiss against the back of Wylan’s hand.

“Always,”

The Healer - Evan, Jesper had overheard his name as - was yet to arrive when their ramshackle little group reached the Slat, and it was more than obvious that Kaz was on edge.

“We got word he’s on his way,” said Anika, as she helped Nina and Jesper carry Inej up to the apartment on the top floor.

“Then where is he?” asked Kaz.

“Maybe he was with a client wh-”

“If he’s prioritising anything else right now then he’d better start praying,”

No-one said anything more. No-one was stupid enough.

They laid Inej on the bed, then Nina gently rolled her onto her side and arranged her limbs the same way as before. She’d undone the top button of Inej’s collar as well, and now quickly ran two fingers beneath the fabric around her neck to make sure it was loose enough for Inej to breathe easily.

“I’ll have Pim stay on the door for you,” Kaz told Nina as she crossed the room back to the group, “Just in case. Anika, you’re with us,”

“Where are we going?”

“Rollins’ safehouse,”

Anika looked at Inej, then back at Kaz.

“Now?”

“Now. Get Roeder and Vix, then-”

“Vix is on Ethan duty,”

Jesper frowned.

“Ethan duty?”

His confusion went unresolved.

“I doubt he’ll run,” said Kaz, “But stick Jhar on the door instead. We need about ten people with us,”

Anika looked wary, but she nodded and slipped around the door frame out of sight. The Healer had still not arrived and if Kaz had any patience left it was fraying quickly. He glanced at his pocket watch.

“We don’t have long left to get the girl,”

“Then I’ll go,” said Nina, “You stay with Inej, I-”

“No. We’ll leave now - if you’ve not heard from Evan in fifteen minutes, find Yara downstairs and send her to the White Rose to find him,”

“Kaz you should stay with her,”

“I have a job to do, Nina, and so do you so get on with it,”

Nina swallowed. She glanced at Jesper, but he had little more to offer her than a hesitant shrug.

“This is about getting Kiada back safely and protecting Inej,” she said

“Yes,” Kaz agreed, “It is,”

“And it is only about Kiada and Inej,”

Kaz smiled.

“Now, I’m afraid, you’ve lost me,”

“Kaz,”

“Nina, dear, I’ll only say this once more: you concern yourself with your job, and I’ll concern myself with mine. Jesper, let’s move,”

Jesper shot an apologetic look towards Nina’s exasperated one, then hurried to follow Kaz from the room. Kaz paused at the top of the stairs and turned back, frowning.

“I left my knife in the other room,” he said, which seemed about as suspicious a statement as he could’ve come up with.

They both knew damn well that Kaz was carrying at least two knives at any given moment, and there was no particular individual blade he might have forgotten in his apartment. But Jesper stayed quiet as Kaz moved back past him to the door. After a moment Nina appeared in the hallway as well, shaking out her shirt cuffs and looking thoroughly unimpressed.

“Did he actually just kick us out so he can say goodbye to Inej?”

“Of course he did,” said Jesper, “What did he tell you?”

“That he needed me to get a ledger from his office. A ledger. Right now,” she shook her head in disbelief, and Jesper laughed.

“Is it just me who remembers him being a better liar?”

Nina snorted.

“Where Inej is concerned? Never. You’re just terrible at reading people,”

*

Rollins was hiding out a little farther south than the Slat and the Crow Club, a fact which Roeder had apparently discovered that night when Alby limped his way back from the Geldstradt.

“He took a long route,” Roeder explained as they walked, “went all the way past the embassies then up to the harbours before he came back down again. I thought he was trying to throw me off the scent, but it don’t seem like he noticed me,”

“What was he doing then?”

“Got me. What does he want with you and Brekker anyway?”

Jesper shrugged.

“To continue a vicious cycle?” he offered.

Roeder didn’t reply.

Kaz split the group into small teams; he would go in through the back with Vix and Rotty, Jesper, Anika, and Roeder were to approach from above by going through the building next door, and the rest would go in through the front or surround the building in case Alby tried to run. They weren’t sure if there would be anyone in the place except Alby and Kiada, but Kaz doubted it.

“Stay on guard,” he told Jesper as they parted, “but he doesn't trust anyone, and based on the numbers we took out at yours I doubt he has many others in waiting,”

Jesper nodded.

“No mourners,” said Anika.

“No funerals,”

The words echoed briefly through the group, and then Kaz was gone and Jesper was moving quickly away.

The building next door to Alby’s was a safehouse of the Liddies, not currently in use but Anika told Jesper that they’d set a deal for short term use of the space just in case. Jesper frowned; when had this deal been made? And based on the state of the Crow Club, what would Kaz have to trade? They slipped inside and straight up the stairs, then waited until the signal from Vix to cross to the next window. Roeder crossed first and picked the lock, the thirty seconds it took him only reminding Jesper just how skilled Kaz was with his picks, and then Jesper and Anika followed him into the building. As the others began to try the doors nearest to them, Jesper hurried straight up to the third floor.

The doors to the first two rooms he checked weren’t locked, but he slipped inside and called Kiada’s name anyway. The third door he tried just rattled on its hinges and he was about to try cracking the lock when Anika’s voice rose from the stairwell. He only caught the end of her sentence:

“…think we’ve got her,”

He ran downstairs to where Roeder was almost finished picking another lock. He ushered the others back and opened the door slowly, leaning round the edge before he slipped inside and pushed the door to swing almost shut behind him.

It was a small room, bare of furniture save for a spindly chair with a sheet thrown over it on one corner and a cobweb-ridden trunk pushed up against it, with no lights and no window. A sudden banging sound from the room next door shivered through the tight space, and the girl crouching in the darkness flinched.

“Kiada?”

She sat in the farthest corner of the room, knees held up to her chest and her hands hidden somewhere behind them. At first he wasn’t sure if she’d heard him; she shuffled slightly, pressing closer to the walls she leant against, but did not look up until after a moment had passed. She turned slowly, her wide, frightened eyes meeting his in the dark.

“Kiada, thank the Saints,” he breathed, “Are you okay? Did he hurt you?”

Jesper moved forwards and Kiada pushed herself back against the wall, screwing her eyes shut. He froze.

“We’re getting out of here,” he whispered, “I promise you,”

Don’t say that. Please.

She stared at him. And after a moment, she lifted one of her hands above her lap so he could see the heavy iron shackles on her wrists.

I’m gonna string that bastard up, thought Jesper as he traced the chain with his eyes.

It ran across the floor behind her, he’d missed it in the shadows until now, and disappeared through a small hole at the base of the wall.

“He has the other end?”

She nodded.

“Alright, I should be able to get you out; Can I come over to you?”

There was a moment of hesitation before Kiada nodded again. Jesper approached slowly and knelt down in front of her. He let her reach her hands out to his instead of taking them, and inspected the shackles cautiously. They were too thick for him to break with any ease and he didn’t have anything to meld into a lockpick - not that he was sure he knew what he was doing with one anyway. He could probably separate the cuffs from the chains though; he’d be leaving Kiada with a set of heavy, unwelcome bracelets to figure out how to get rid of later, but at least she’d be able to run. He took a breath.

A diagonal slice of his hand snapped the first link in the chain off her left hand, and a second did the right. Kiada jumped, then closed her eyes for a moment and flexed her fingers.

“You’re zowa,” she whispered, staring at him like she’d seen a ghost.

Jesper pulled the broken chains away from her wrists.

“I’m sorry I can’t do more than that right now,” he said, “But I’ll get them off when we’re home, alright?”

“Thank you,”

Jesper stood up and brushed a few pieces of grime off his trousers, then offered Kiada his hand. He wasn’t sure she’d take it, but she clung to him firmly and stayed close every step he took. They slipped from the room together and onto the landing, where several of the Dregs were waiting. Kaz’s group must have moved up here as well. Kiada gripped his hand tighter and Jesper heard the anxious spike in the air as her breath caught in her throat.

“It’s okay,” he murmured, “Sorry I should’ve told you they were here. They’re with us,”

Kiada said nothing.

“Where’s Kaz?”

Rotty opened his mouth, but before he’d had a chance to answer Kaz appeared from the room next to the one Jesper and Kiada had just emerged from. There was blood on his clothes and splattered across his face, but more notably he was dragging Alby Rollins along with him by his collar. The head of Kaz’s cane was pressed against Alby’s neck, Jesper would’ve called it a pretty safe guess to say his nose was broken, and when Kaz released him and shoved him onto his knees the boy spat blood onto the floor. He tried to get up but met a hard crack from Kaz’s cane straight across his chest and coughed hard.

Jesper felt Kiada’s grip on his hand tighten.

When Alby drew a knife from his sleeve the entire building seemed to snap alert, the Dregs reached for their various weapons and Jesper, Rotty, and Anika all moved to step forwards before Kaz gave them the briefest shake of his head. Jesper recognised the dark gleam in Kaz’s eyes and lightly placed a hand on Kiada’s shoulder.

“Don’t look,” he murmured, gently redirecting her.

Jesper did look. It wasn’t pretty.

He watched Alby’s blood spill onto the floorboards. He saw Esme falling.

Alby was somehow still breathing. He clambered slowly to his feet, joints cracking loud enough to make Kiada flinch at Jesper’s side. By this point he’d lost his knife, kicked across the floor by Kaz and collected by Rotty, but apparently he just really didn’t know when to stop. Within the entire next minute Jesper only counted two blows actually landing on Kaz, and lost track of how many landed on Alby. The pair ended up vanishing back through the door they’d come through, and Jesper hesitated.

He should go. He should take Kiada home and he should go back to Inej.

Jesper had never been good at doing what he should.

“Anika!” Jesper beckoned her across the landing, then turned to Kiada, “This is Anika, she’s going to walk with you just a few streets to a building with a grey façade, okay? You’ll know it when you see it - The boards are tilted at the front so it looks like it’s leaning on the building next to it. She’ll take you upstairs and Inej and Nina will be there, alright? And then I’ll either see you there or back at the house,”

Kiada stared at him for a moment, and then gave the barest nod. Jesper took the win.

“Okay, Anika, this is Kiada. Take her back to the Slat and don’t leave her until Nina or Inej are able to take over for you. She’s your responsibility,”

Anika nodded, and Jesper began to turn away before he paused and shot a look back over his shoulder to Anika.

“And if anything happens to her you’re dead in the water, and I will personally see to that. Okay?”

Anika raised her eyebrows, then nodded before she turned to Kiada and started directing her down the hallway. Jesper looked back towards the door. He could still hear Kaz and Alby in the next room and he could still feel Esme’s blood on his hands.

Esme, look at me, you’re going to be okay. I promise you-

Don’t say that. Please. I don’t want to make you break it.

Jesper breathed.

I’m sorry.

He was going to get answers. And he was going to make that bastard pay.

[neverfaultless]

hello! i have seen that mosbank with pete did an interview with Pedro Parada, so I decided to write it down

note: it wasn't really full of spoilers, more feel-good interview, you know

How will the relationship between Sun and Lin evolve (from the delicate relationship they're in now)?

- Bank explained that they’ve met through the app thanks to destiny (and destiny will play huge role later, you know, the mystical part, the dreams..)

- ep 3 and 4 are going to be more funny (as they now know who is who, etc.)

What would you do, if you'd discovered your loved one is suddenly your boss?

- Mos: shock, but if his lover is a wealthy boss, he's going to be happy(/successful)

- Bank: love is love, he would risk it for real love as well

- Pete: shock, but if there is genuine bond between him and boss, he will risk it

Do you think that the meeting through dating app could be the modern way of love at first sight?

- Bank thinks so

Can you talk about the first date between Sun and Lin?

- Bank: Sun didn't order enough food for Bank irl, like he would want more; but then explained that it could be so he is not feeling heavy for what's coming next (starving only to be edged lol)

- before dinner, Lin was little bit scared, especially of the red feather, but with the letter and how Sun behaved and explained himself, he warmed up to him, realizing Sun is respectful man and that's what Lin likes

About Pete's character having interesting relationship with Tenon's. How will that go?

- they had bad first impression; but still Yotha thinks that Sam is super handsome -> it's gonna turn into 'the more you hate, the more you gonna love' type of relationship

Yotha and Sam are Lin's and Sun's matchmakers, but why? (we know why Sam finds bfs for Sun - his mother would impose her own finds on Sun otherwise)

- Bank: the reason why they made the account is that Pim (and Yotha maybe too? idk) always had a boyfriend, but Lin never, and the friends do not want him to stay alone, everything was done with a good intention

How do you relate to your own character?

- Mos: Both are handsome and cool

-> 'P'Sun loves Nhu'Lin really much, and Mos also loves Isbanky really much.'

- Bank: Nulin and Isbanky are the same, like Lin has a lot of positive energy, likes to smile, is cute...

- Pete: Yotha and Pete are the same in like 90%, like he's funny, energetic, enthusiastic, but Yotha is explosive sometimes, unlike him irl, he's not aggressive

How was the shooting process of Sunset x Vibes for you?

- Mos: It's his 2nd lead role, and for him this is the perfect shooting schedule/process. He has lot of friends with him, he's surrounded by people he likes and it's fun

- Bank: He's really happy during the shooting, he has been shooting scenes he likes, scenes he thinks his fan will like as well. He would like to make this 100 episodes, not just 12 xdd 'If this gets positive feedback, there will be more episodes’ (i can’t tell if he’s joking or not lol)

- Pete: It's his first time shooting any series, so he's little scared and nervous, but he has friends supporting him and the shooting environment is great for him

If you could choose any character, besides yours, who would you be in the series?

- Mos: Juladis (JJ's character) - this character is very hard to portray, yes it is funny/silly, but hard to execute, and adds lots of color to the story.

- Bank: Yotha - really cute character, you can never really guess how he truly feels, so it's like bit mysterious (also challenging to execute)

- Pete: Juladis for the same reason as Mos; or Sun - he's cool, handsome, has good manners and muscled

Can we expect any new songs?

- also they will, really soon, release smth of Dargon (boyband - Mosbank, JJ, Fong, Pete, Tenon(?))

-> actually the music in the end credits of ep 1 and 2 are from their group!

How would you describe Sunset x Vibes in one word?

- Mos: hot

- Bank: destiny

- Pete: cat (=sometimes cute, sometimes sexy)

[jaggedwolf]

jaggedwolf makes a meager attempt to rank the GLs/BLs she watched in Q1 2025. to be clear even the least favorite was an entertaining time, and even the most favorites had moments that made me want to shake the show and go this is silly, structure this better. ramblings below in reverse order.

Pluto (2024)

Namtan good? Namtan good. I did enjoy the first half of the show where you could kinda tell May totally knew who Ai was but Ai is a dummy who can somehow believe that she is not constantly giving the game away. The mutual lying felt well-balanced there. Liked Ai's sad little faces as the saddest woobie in the world up until the point that there was so much sobbing that I experienced sympathetic sinus pain, despite shedding no tears myself. I did not know that was possible.

Amazingly, the show did convince me of the "love at first sight" thing that I am typically a grinch about - Teen Ai had so much swag, poor Teen May is dealing with a shitty constrained life, and you can see how that moment would be locked in May's mind.

It all goes downhill after that first meeting reveal. First, the show drags out the reveals so much. At first I thought they dragged it out so that the reveal would happen before the first time they had sex, which they were also dragging out, but no, it doesn't get revealed by then anyway! Might as well have started banging earlier smh.

Second, the number of twists pile up to soap-opera levels. May defending Batman (haha) was okay, but having her justify it to Oom as protecting her from her dad did not make me sympathetic to May at all, because Oom literally goes "lol I don't care" about May's dad's threats. I almost wish May had just been a cocky rich lawyer type back then. But what makes me most annoyed about this point is that Oom is more enraged about the impact that May's defense has on Ai's friend than Ai is! That is too much simping for your love interest, and Ai is forgiving even before she knows there's blackmail involved.

We also get Ai involved in the blinding of May without ever knowing May's name, and Oom getting amnesia for the dramatically convenient number of years, both of which are very silly.

Thirdly, well I don't know if this third point is actually such a con that it wraps around to being a pro, actually, because thirdly, everyone is so terrible to amnesiac Oom that I can't get mad at her for the deranged ultimatum. I'm very fond of Ai, but I am unimpressed with her going on about being a good big sister...and then doing the ridiculously cruel move of sending clueless Oom back to the woman who already broke her heart! Oom's friend needs to be cajoled into telling her the truth! Like damn, Oom knows she lost two years, just tell her there was a breakup.

Oom was a character I liked far more than I expected, tbf, and getting an episode from her perspective was great, even if it added to the evidence that no one in this show was capable of being normal about unrequited pining - not Oom, not Paul, not Pang, not Pim, no one.

This was a show where I approved of the couple being separated for a year, because yeah, you two need to chill out in your own lives there. And yet, I do actually like these two together, I just need them to never keep secrets from each other again because when they do, they are menaces to each other and everyone around them.

Other stuff I didn't care for: Whatever was going on with the side trio, especially the sloppily edited-out subplot for Pim, between the attorney thank you and the laptop apology.

I thought the May-Kosol and May-Ben reconciliation scenes were very well done, and again, they could've been even stronger if defending Batman wasn't something May was "blackmailed" into.

The Heart Killers (2024)

A rarity for this list, THK did not not actively annoy me at any point. I had fun watching it, liked bad mom actually dying in the end, thought everyone's motivations made sense, enjoyed watching Khao, First, and Joong make expressions, but...

(1) Dunk is a bad actor. I am not someone with high acting standards, you know, my floor for this is very low, but I found him distractingly stiff and/or jittery in ways that did not make sense for the character. Am unlikely to be watching any shows with Dunk in a main role in the future - unfortunate, because I thought Joong did well with Fadel in this role.

(2) The setting is so unreal that I could not take it seriously enough to be emotionally invested, haha. No one is good at their job. The assassins are so bad at being hidden. The assassins' momboss is so bad at keeping tabs on them. The police are so bad at tracking obvious assassins. Kant is so bad at being an informant. There are no stakes here. My one exception to my lack of emotional investment would be Kant and Bison's reconciliation on the island. I thought that well done, especially with the use of the safeword.

Above points aside, I had a good time watching this show, with all its Jojo-typical zaniness. Only Friends is not on this list of shows because I watched it much longer ago, but I also wasn't emotionally invested in any of the couples there while liking the show. Curious to see if I feel differently about Girl Rules.

Final note: Fadel continuously horrified me with his hygiene choices. What is the point of wearing gloves while cutting vegetables if you are going to run your hands through your hair in between! Why would you run through your hair the very same hand you just used to jerk off! Bad Fadel.

Thamepo (2024)

Oh, Thamepo. You started so strong, and yet ended so weak.

I was sold on this show within the first two episodes. Thame as the kind of boyband leader who is secretly martyring himself for the others, despite what it looks like from the outside, is perfectly targeted towards my ids. The juxtaposition of Po as someone who's been left behind with Thame as someone who's been forced to leave was a great way to spark that initial conflict between them, and meant I didn't question how open they became with each other so fast - those were very sore spots.

Each of the group's members getting an episode devoted to their re-recruitment worked, and I liked the group as a whole. I do find myself fonder of the BLs/GLs when there's friend crew shenanigans happening.

I didn't mind the slowness of the burn for Po and Thame. They are both painfully passive dudes, and I was not yet annoyed at that trait. Okay, the jealousy over the ex scenes made Thame look unappealing, not cute, because what do you mean you're not getting back to resuming your first makeout with your boyfriend because of your little jealousy fit. SMH.

The episode where Pepper and Gam are revealed to the public and break-up really worked for me, I did not expect to like these side hets so much. I was cross on their behalf that the other two gallivanting around in public is what got them exposed.

Evil CEO lady was an excellent evil CEO lady, except for the very end where they try to go oh you secretly wanted them to be happy right, and it's like no, just let her be an evil CEO lady who wants to make money and boost TPop, that's fine.

Now, let's get to the stuff that really bothered me. I loved the breakup scene on the roof, it's the only time I've teared up at one of these shows, and it made sense for the particular flaws these guys have. And yet...that Po does not call Thame as soon as he finds out ONER is sending Thame to Korea alone, the thing Thame has said from the very beginning that he would hate and would make him miserable, made me think poorly of Po. At that point the reason for the breakup is moot - Po's presence is no longer risking an opportunity that Thame actually wants.

On Thame's side, I thought the deletion of his contacts here was clearly when his memorization of Po's phone number would come up again, but it didn't.

IDK, the thing about binging a bunch of romance-focused canons is that it makes one grapple with one what likes from their fictional romances. For this type of couple, who are presented as sweet forever boyfriends dealing with unfair constraints? That presentation doesn't work if I'm not convinced by the end of the show that their first instincts are to work together as team, to strategize together, to reach for the other person. The Korea news was a prime opportunity for that display, before the discovered letter and the concert surprise.

The concert surprise was quite silly to me. Mick is secretly on their side? Their brilliant plan to keep Thame is to...show one (1) video where they say they're not letting him go?? They lucked out with evil CEO lady being sick of their shit instead of simply enforcing the contract that we never got full details of. (I would be more forgiving if their plan was to make evil CEO lady sick of their shit, but that didn't seem to be the case)

Finally, Po going back to work at the suit shop...really did not work for me. I do not demand an uncharacteristic level of ambition for this fellow but (1) at the start we are told the suit shop job pays sufficiently little that both of Po's parents are sending him money and he wants to get a good job to pay them back* (2) he is a good director who likes the work and is big enough after the MARS single video that his ex has heard of it.

Uncle's speech on dream jobs led me to the opposite conclusion that Po reached. Namely, that perhaps directing doesn't have to be a Dream Job TM for it to be something Po does well and gets paid well for, and maybe he could go direct for a company less torturing than ONER. Or maybe even direct his boyfriend's music videos.

* forced to reckon with the possibility that this is a rare scenario where jaggedwolf is going damn you, have more filial piety please

Bad Buddy (2021)

I had the opposite trajectory with this show than I did with Thamepo. I started off mostly annoyed with all of the boys and men, except for Pran. I find Nanon's expressions very endearing, what can I say, this has upped the probability of me watching his het stuff one day. Also, Pran is a dweeb who is the least interested in fighting, which I respect. Architecture and Engineering should be majors with heavy workloads, why do these boys even have time to fight? Can Pat be less annoying? Will these dads shut up?

Yet, the plot and characterization unfold so skillfully as the show progresses that I found myself more invested with every episode. The way Pran's and Pat's history is doled out, the ever-classic scenario of Pran being aware he's had a crush on Pat since high school but all Pat knows at first is that he has to keep messing with Pran and he has to keep helping him, the realization of just how badly both their families have fucked them up. On that last point, two things that made me so sad were (1) Pat wondering if he's doing something wrong picking the play just because dad disagrees (2) Pran constantly saying he's quit guitar while clearly still loving it, just because of his mom's reaction back in high school. Awful! Look what you did, you fucked up two perfectly good kids!

Thus the way they hide even their friendship from their bros makes perfect sense, because the stupid faculty fight sets off every defense mechanism they've formed against their parents. Also sense-making in a lovelier way: that competitiveness remains a core of their connection, because that was the first way they could publicly interact with each other, you know? It's what was acceptable.

+100000 points for the reveal of the conflict between Pat's dad and Pran's mom. Great job making the rivalries seem gendered in the initial introductions, with the dads competing in industry and the moms competing over their babies' fortunes, but giving us a hint soon after with it being Pran's mom who is most enraged at the Christmas concert. Having the characters wonder if Pran's mom vs Pat's dad was a romantic connection and then taking a complete left turn into the university scholarship theft? Brilliant. Like yeah, that would make you hate a guy so much.

Pa and Ink were a very cute side-pairing (the steps scene? so cute. the darkroom scene? Love should be required to make her voice go wibbly wobbly in every show she's on), and since I saw 23.5 before Bad Buddy it was fun to see the actors in a different dynamic, especially Love playing the character with more of a PoV here. Appreciated Ink's friendship with both the boys, loved both Pat and Pa being so bad at flirting, loved their hotpot dinner. Though it remains ridiculous that Pat and Pa were sharing a room in college, what siblings would ever be cool with that? ...Maybe their dad does suck enough that being away from him his worth it.

I only have two complaints regarding the girls. I wish we'd gotten more of them with Pran and Pat instead of whiny useless Wai. Even before he acts like Pran has to apologize to him for his boyfriend choices (and never fesses up to trying to out them!), he is guilt-tripping Pran into taking responsibility for shit that's not his problem, like the play and the fighting. Go away dude, you are pointlesss and it made me postpone the Jimmy BL on my list because I needed a break from his face.

Secondly, I wish we'd gotten more between Pa and Pat during episodes 11 and 12. Does Pa get to learn what dad did to Pran's mom? Does she not have complicated feelings or opinions on the way her dad's former favoritism of Pat has been revealed to be something worse and more unfair to her brother?

As for the ultimate ending and the secret not-breakup...at first I was very frustrated, because those parents can fuck right off, thanks.

(Also, uhhh the timeline is very weird? We get a four years later jump from the middle of sophomore year, but somehow Pa is just graduating/packing. Which I could handwave if they hadn't said the architecture program is five years, because then wouldn't Pa and Pran be graduating at the same time....gmmtv will you ever give me timelines that don't confound me....)

With more thought, I still don't care for the parents here. I don't like that Pat is still working for his dad and trying to pander to him when dad gives no good energy back, I don't like that mom even has control over Pran's guitar at all, your grudging acceptances mean nothing to me!!! But...I do buy this for both Pat and Pran 😭 Those are the parents they are each so wrapped up in, they got that filial piety, yada yada.

Fundamentally more important to me than telling the shitty parents to fuck off is that Pran and Pat remain a solid team till the end - which was a consistent throughline of the show, wasn't it? That no matter what it looks like to the viewers, to their classmates, to their families, they have always been on each other's side, ever since the day Pran rescued Pa, and that will always be true <3

Still, I'm going to headcanon them saying fuck it and being open in 2-3 years after the show. (And Pat working elsewhere.) Huh, I wonder if there's good fic for that.

23.5 (2023)

Ah, GMMTV's first GL, and the first show I watched this quarter.

23.5 is distinct from the above shows not just in being a fluffy high school show, but in being the most protagonist-heavy of them all.

Here I mean protagonist in the singular.

Pat and Pran trade PoVs as easily as they change leads in that race to their dorm rooms, Pluto and ThamePo start with Ai's and Po's PoVs but soon May's and Thame's plots dominate and THK is juggling four leads.

Structurally speaking, 23.5, lives or dies on the merits of Ongsa, our 15-year-old accidental catfisher whose headspace dominates this show.

As you may guess from this show's position in the ranking, the show very much lives. Because, you see, Ongsa is such a loser of a lesbian. (And such a lesbian of a loser.) I mean, hopefully most viewers are going "Ongsa, take a chill pill, the world is not that bad or scary and neither are your friends and family, probably".

Being 15 is the worst, in general, and Ongsa is specifically the kind of 15-year-old whose internal anxieties loom larger than the world as it actually is, and so the show's cultivation of a narrower perspective works to its benefit.

We do get tidbits of Sun's perspective, but she's the most opaque of any of these shows' leads. Which is fine for this sort of show. As with Bad Buddy I enjoy the "person with hopeless gay crush" x "person with zero self-awareness about why they want to mess with/help first person so bad" dynamic, which generally works well in a high school or college setting. Sun is remarkably ready to white knight the second she meets Ongsa. Her episode 7 jealousy plot delighted me despite my usual antipathy towards jealousy plots, because it did not feel like she was blaming Ongsa, only herself.

I didn't mind their breakup chaos even if it made me wince at the teenage behaviour. Like, IDK, they are teenagers, I will allow for them taking turns being the worst within bounds and if I feel it's evenhanded, which I did. Ongsa was awful during Sun's birthday, Sun was awful about Ongsa not telling her parents, and Ongsa proceeded to be awful about handling a breakup. The last led to some pretty funny sequences.

The Aylin/Luna conflict however.... I thought they were a perfectly charming side-couple till the lunch where Ton gets a plateful of food to his face. (1) He deserved that, stop bothering women who don't care about you (2) Aylin confessing her bullying to a gigantic group added nothing because uh, why were any of them owed any that info, we already knew all of it from Sun and Alpha's conversation in a previous episode, and Mawin interrupted her before she could even finish her story.

Justice for Aylin to eat her lunch without Ton or Mawin present. TBH both those guys annoyed me with the amount of screentime they got in the last third of the show, Ton peaked in ep 7, Chareon should stop being bugged by him. The only thing I liked from this subplot was Aylin and Sun's rooftop conversation - those two have some cute friendship scenes.

Uhhh let's see what else did I like. Both sets of parents are alive and not shitty! After watching more GMMTV shows, I am incredibly impressed by this. Good job parents. Alpha's older sistering stuff = very good. The teacher romance = wonderful.

[universallydestinytaco]

SF Fandom Rant

CW: Half-Way Jokingly Unhinged Nerd Rage

EDIT: Just to clarify I was there when Adult Swim announced the festival and unveiled what it was going to look like before opening, I didn't get to go but I wish I did.

What kinda frustrates me is when some fans who think they've been in this fandom for long enough say some silly nonsense like "Oooh Pim is underrated or not as loved as the other main characters he needs more love (ToT)"....Meanwhile as someone who has obsessively-compulsively scurried in and out of EVERY SINGLE MAIN TAG FOR SMILING FRIENDS on almost all social media sites (plus countless YouTube comment sections and that WRETCHED troglodyte-ridden shitgutter known as Reddit) I can confirm that this entire fandom has always been overflowing with an endless supply of Pim fanworks, cosplays, getting shipped with Charlie and various other characters canon AND fanmade (plus quite a bit of selfshipping) or comments gushing about how cute and sweet he is...not to mention Charpim is obviously THE most popular ship in the fandom from what I've seen on A03! All the Pim fanworks and whatnot get a shit ton of attention too, they get TONS of likes and comments! Also on a sidenote, polls I've seen voting for one's favorite character, Pim is either second and in one or two cases, even first in Favorite Character polls while either Alan or Glep are at the bottom, not to say that either character mentioned are unpopular in fact FAR from it considering I spent so much time browsing fanworks for this show, trust me. Glep is a little meme machine and Alan is a he/him sapphic icon because of all the fangirls he has!

And furthermore, a testament to Pim's popularity being much bigger than one would expect is when I was there when Adult Swim's annual festival was unveiled to the masses on their socials and every single one of us online that day collectively losing our heads (hehe) over this lovely sight:

This image was spreading around like wildfire + the comment sections where mostly talking about Pim's bulbous, perfectly-round head.

"Underrated" my ass, Pim gets A TON of well-deserved love in this fandom, honestly you know who's the most underrated Smiling Friend? My baby girl Smormu where's all the cute Smormu fanart and fanfics you cowards!? I mean look at this lil' cutie go!

*slams fists on table dramatically* WHERE'S MY SMORMU CONTENT DAMMIT!?

*Nasally Laugh* Okay in all seriousness I know Smormu was made as a joke but can y'all stop making Pim out to be a forgotten/underrated character like he's some scrapped character from the pilot? There are plenty of unpopular/underrated characters on this show I can name on the back of my hand because I scrutinize every bit of trivia surrounding this show (like Zoey, Marge, Mr. Boss to some extent but less-so since S2, Jennifer, Desmond...) and Pim is NOT one of them! Thanks for coming to my TED talk, byeeee.

(PS. Be sure to check back on this lil ol' blog of mine for the latest chapter of my mushy Charpim fanfic dropping later tonight 😉)