#I'm just a seal boy living in the real world

[escapedaudios]

My tumblr following probably doesn't know this about me, but apart from audios my other hobby is finding and swimming with wild marine mammals. I have a particular affinity for sea lions and dolphins, both of which are gregarious animals with the ability to remember and even form bonds with humans. Here's one of my favorite photo sets I've ever taken.

Her name is Sola Rey! She's shy when it's dark out but loves socializing when the sun is bright. She likes coming up to me and giving me forehead "kisses". I had a head mounted GoPro on this time and the pictures were perfect. One of the ways sea lions communicate under water is by nuzzling their whiskers. They do this to communicate to other sea lions that nearby sea lions are not a threat to them. Does that mean she thinks I'm some kind of sea lion too? A mystery. Anyway I love her.

[whitelilynh]

Just feel so stupid to realise, thanks to current real life events, that Naruto really talk-no-Jutsu-ed me FOR YEARS into Konoha's propaganda.

Like, what they did to Itachi and Sasuke was monstruos, what they did to Uchiha clan was a complete and unjustified crime.

Was Konoha justified to suspect the Uchiha after a Sharingan-manipulated Kyubi attacked them? Yes, ofc. Was it a justification for a full apartheid regime that lead to a genocide? Fuck NO!

Although Konoha didn't knew Obito was still alive, hence the possibilities, according to them, reduced to the Uchiha (and Kakashi, why nobody mentions Kakashi?), instead of the racist segregation they conduced they should have, Idk, do a freaking proper investigation?

Like, oh, a Sharingan user took advantage of the debilitation of the seal because of Kushina giving birth, it must had been an Uchiha. Well, how many Uchihas actually knew the seal was getting weaker during labor? How many of them knew *when* was Kushina going to give birth? And how many of them knew *where* btw? Reduce the list to those. Include Kakashi, if he knew.

And to those, investigate, survey, and all your shit.

But why to assume a whole freaking clan that lives in peace under the supposed protection of the village would want to destroy it?

And yet, Konoha is all prideful thinking they are better. They are no freaking better. They still saw the Kyubi and it's jinchuriki as nothing but a weapon, they didn't care at all about Naruto's well being and feelings, even though he was the son of the previous Hokage, even though he was actually made a Jinchuriki and became an orphan precisely to protect the freaking village (I'm looking at you Hiruzen, I hate you!).

And on top of that, freaking Konoha took advantage of a poor 13yo boy whose love for the village divided his consciousness, to f*cking force him to kill his entire clan for them, then threw him away and hunted him as a dog, criminalise and vilify him.

And never freaking cared about Sasuke, never explained a thing to him. They even tried to blame Sasuke for not blindly believing their propaganda.

Did Konoha ever realise *they* created Sasuke?

I know Naruto fell for Konoha's propaganda, and I know the whole village wasn't to blame, but the leaders. But somehow, Sasuke should have received a sort of repair, Idk, to tell the truth about his family at least, for the world to know. For the innocents to know, and to pay respect to the deceased clan.

But instead, Sasuke got guilt tripped into serving the masters that destroyed his whole people.

A masterfully done work of propaganda.

[eightyuh]

Hello! I'm EightyUh. I'm a cartoonist and vocal synth producer.

All social media links: https://eightyuh.carrd.co/

Commission prices: https://eightyuh-commissions.carrd.co/

◈ Here's a brief guide to the characters, fanart, and other stuff you'll see on this blog. ◈

(This post can be used as easy navigation for my tagged art.)

Fursona: Chia

My mascot! Chia is a Honduran White Bat. She is a barista that runs an Apothecafe and creates unique real-world drinks that behave like potions.

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UTAU: Eightyloid

My personal voicebank for the program Open Utau. She is married to Mr. Kevin SynthV.

Demo songs here.

More info here.

Side-blog for updates here.

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Wick's End

My formerly untitled original webcomic series.

Synopsis: In a fantasy world, selfless knight Glendale cheats death at the cost of living on with a curse. Now 6" tall, he quests with his personal servant Harry and comrade Freya to find cures for their respective ailments.

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The Human Side

My original series.

Synopsis: In a city sealed off from the post-apocalyptic outside world, a young woman (Yuji) is tasked with raising 2 lab-grown boys (Fizz and Ledge) while teaching them the ropes of reality.

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Fanart

Here's some fanart you can likely expect from me:

Vocal Synth: Vocaloid - Synthesizer V - Utau

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Skullgirls

Deltarune

Sonic the Hedgehog

Splatoon

Animal Crossing

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About Me

( Mod posts featuring my cartoon-self are tagged Watashi )

Cis Female, Autistic, INFJ, 3W4. Uses She/Her.

I am a vocal synth producer (active on TikTok and YouTube) I use the Vocaloid, Synthesizer V, and Open Utau programs to make synthetic vocal covers of songs.

I'm an artist! Sometimes I make illustrations, but most of the times I make doodles and silly little comics. I also vend stickers and other stuff at local events!

I am also a Twitch Affiliate with a PNG-tuber of my fursona, Chia! I mostly do commissions and art live, but sometimes I'll play games too. :)

I have a tendency to switch between hyperfixations. If you see me drawing a bunch of the same thing one week but different stuff the next, that's why. Don't worry if I move on from something you liked! It always comes back around.

You are welcome to submit asks / comments directed to me or my OCs.

I am strictly SFW.

This blog is just for my art - reblogs go on my personal blog @eightyuhhh

◈ Thank you for coming to my corner of the internet ◈

[scarlettjohanssons-mistress]

i was wondering if you could do something g about lorraine broughton having a secret wife and teenage daughter, maybe the daughter is upset and has reckless behavior because lorraine is never around or something and lorraine comfort a her and it’s fluff and angst 🫶 <3

You were never a real mother

Warnings: Fluff, emotional hurt/comfort, angst?

Word count: 2.1 K

Pairing: Lorraine Broughton x Fem!Reader

Prompt: Athena barely knows her mother Lorraine, which annoys her… More when she has to live with her.

Requests: OPEN

[Main masterlist] [Charlize Theron characters masterlist]

The British government could not fully trust the testimony of Lorraine Broughton. If they were completely honest with themselves, they didn't know her at all. And they were absolutely right in the world.

No one knew of Y/N:;not how she met Lorraine; nor how they started dating; nor do they know that both sealed their love with a pair of rings; much less did they know the little girl, fruit of that love.

It was logical that nobody knew those secrets of the blonde woman. The names of those women never left Lorraine's mouth; had never seen a photo of them; she did not even have a representative lake of them with her. Another thing that perpetuated this idea of the loneliness of the blonde was that she was always available for any mission. Nothing in Lorraine's life could get in the way of her work life.

Y/N could understand.

She had met Lorraine on a mission, and she saw firsthand how demanding and dangerous her job could be. But she also saw the blonde's guilty taste for work, not to mention how obsessed and protective she could be. She is capable of anything to protect her family.

But Athena could never understand it.

For as long as she could remember, she always remembered herself longing for the return of her taller mother. She knew, she knew that her blonde mother had missed her first word, her first steps, her first day at school, the time she got chicken pox, when she learned to ride a bike, when she had a fight with her best friend, when the boy she liked rejected her. Lorraine missed everything.

Athena had a lot of resentment towards Lorraine. Athena thought that her life would be a thousand times better if Y/N didn't wait every night for the return of her wife. Athena thought her mother deserved better than the blonde.

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Quickly, the young brunette went downstairs, sitting on a step so she could put on her usual boots.

"Are you going to leave without breakfast?" Athena rolled her eyes, causing her mother to let out a small laugh "don't make that face at me, lady" they both laughed

"No, I'm already late, I'll just take an apple with me" the teenager took an apple from the fruit bowl, washed it and took a bite.

"For God's sake, buy a decent breakfast at school."

"Yes mom" crooned the girl

The woman quickly took her daughter's face to give her small and repetitive kisses on her right cheek.

"I love you, you know"

"Yes mom, I love you too" the girl took her backpack and her keys.

Just before the young woman walked out the door and started listening to music through her headphones, her mother's voice made her stop.

“By the way, I almost forgot. Try to arrive early, tonight mom is coming"

Athena felt the blood drain to her feet.

"What? Is this a fucking joke? Because it's not funny at all, Mom."

Y/N could see the annoyance and discomfort on her daughter's face. She was identical to Lorraine.

"Please, Thena, let's not start…"

"But mom…"

"No buts, go before you're late"

With a final huff, the teenager left, slamming the door.

Y/N knew how the girl might behave when her blonde mother was around.

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The locker was closed with such great force, it easily caused the other students around her to freak out.

"Wow, relax tiger, what has you in such a bad mood on a Friday?"

The sarcastic smile that Alicia kept on her face was only making Athena want to rip it off with a severe blow.

"I'm not in the mood for your shit, Alice."

She tried to escape from the redheaded woman, because she really didn't want to vent her fury on her best friend, but the redheaded woman decided to follow her.

"Oh come on Thena, what could be so bad that you can't take your friend's shit?"

“My problem is Lorraine Broughton”

Alice knew the complicated relationship her friend had with her second mother. She had even tried to persuade her to no start calling her 'Lorraine' instead of 'mother' or 'mama', but she also knew that her friend could be stubborn as a mule.

"Well, Thena, look on the nice side…"

"Al, there's no 'nice' side to this shit."

“Thena, don't say that. It's your mom"

“Listen to me very well Alice, she has NEVER been a mother. She has never cared in the slightest about me or my mom. The fact that her ovum was occupied to bring me into this world does not make her my mother."

Athena left before she could hear any reply from her friend, leaving her speechless and forcing her to follow her to her first class.

It's going to be a hard day, Alice thought.

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Y/N's foot tapped repeatedly on the floor, looking forward to sitting on the couch with the remote control in her right hand and a glass of red wine in her left.

It was already after 8:00 p.m. and there was no sign of her daughter, who normally arrived around 6:00 p.m.

The woman's thoughts stopped when she heard the front door open and close.

She quickly left the glass on the table in the living room and got up to stick her head towards the door.

She found a blonde mane; she was a little longer than when they first met, pretty hands leaving suitcases on the hall floor, and long, sexy legs covered in pretty stockings.

"Oh, it's you"

"Well, that's a very nice way to welcome me, darling" Lorraine teased as she bent down to open her suitcase and take out the gifts she had brought.

“Oh baby, believe me, I'm glad you're here” Y/N quickly hugged her wife's back and spread small kisses on it causing Lorraine to laugh “I'm just worried. Thena has not arrived"

“Let her breathe for a moment Y/N, she's 17, let her be. Stop worrying for a moment and come see what I brought you from Spain”

More interested, Y/N released her wife, who quickly placed before her eyes a package of Serrano ham and a beautiful bottle of Spanish red wine.

“Wow honey, you do have refined tastes” Y/N joked

“That's not the best part.” As if by magic, Lorraine pulled a pearl necklace from her coat pocket.

“Oh honey, they are beautiful. Where…?

"There is a Spanish island where they specialize in pearls" commented the blonde hugging her wife by the waist while they both looked at the jewelry.

"They are perfect. Thank you so much"

“But, the surprises do not end here. Go put on a great dress, my love, because as soon as Athena walks through that door, I'll take you to the best restaurant in town."

"Oh honey, that's not necessary"

“Of course it is necessary. I want to make up to my two girls for being away for almost 6 months”

As if it had been summoned, minutes later the door opened to close again with a loud bang. Without a doubt, it was Athena.

"Sweetie?"

"Yes mom?"

Both women stuck their heads into the hall watching how the girl began to untie the laces of her boots angrily.

"Hi cute"

The teen's head turned so dramatically, both mothers feared the girl had broken her neck.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well honey… I live here"

"Unfortunately…"

"Thena!" yelled Y/N

"You know what? I'm not for this shit" without further ado, Athena left her boots and started running up the stairs.

"Get dressed because we're going to dinner with your mother!" scream y/n

"No!"

"Athena Broughton I'm not playing!"

The teenager did not respond and the only thing that was heard was a loud slam.

"She hates me, right?"

Y/N didn't deign to answer. She didn't want to break her wife's heart, but she also didn't want to lie to her when the truth was right before her eyes.

“You know, maybe you two should go alone to dinner…”

“No, this is for three. I promise, no, I swear that tomorrow Thena and I will have a conversation."

"That soothes my soul a bit" Y/N replied between giggles.

Lorraine laughed too and planted a long, loud kiss on the temple of the black-haired woman.

"I love you"

"I love you much more"

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Athena's leg was bouncing frantically as she listened to the stupid anecdotes of the blonde woman in front of her.

"Thena, honey, stop moving your leg, you make me nervous" Y/N tried to joke

"Can we go now?"

"Honey, we just got here"

"I'm not in the mood to be here…"

"How have you been in school, Thena?" asked Lorraine

"Do you really care?"

"Clearly I care, Athena."

"Well, you have shown the opposite in the last 17 years"

"Athena!"

"Look, Thena, if I've been away for anything, it's so you'll have a bed to rest that ungrateful behind on."

"Lorraine!"

"I never asked you!"

"You didn't have to ask me, it's my obligation!"

"AN OBLIGATION THAT I DID NOT WANT TO GIVE YOU!"

"NOR AN OBLIGATION THAT I WANTED TO HAVE!"

"LORRAINE!"

The teenager got up and quickly left the restaurant.

Lorraine didn't even let Y/N say anything so she too got up and left the restaurant.

She knew it was a bad idea to go after her now. She would leave her alone for a while to go talk to her.

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"I can sit here?" asked Lorraine lightly kicking her daughter's boot. The girl didn't answer and just stepped aside, leaving her a space on the park bench. “Hey honey, I just want to let you know that what I said at the restaurant…isn't what I think at all. I love with all my heart being your mother."

"Don't lie Lorraine, we all know it's not true"

"Why do you think that is not true?"

"You've never been there for me, you don't know how much my mom and I have had to go through alone" Athena didn't realize she had started to cry until she saw the blonde woman and her own tears trying to clean her own " You don't know anything about me, you don't know my friends' names, you don't know which university I want to enter, what's more, I bet you don't even know the day I was born; I don't even remember when was the last time you hugged me."

Lorraine just let the girl cry as she ran her hand over her back. When the girl calmed down, it was time for Lorraine to speak again.

"I'm so sorry you feel that way, Thena" without realizing it, the blonde began to cry "I've never been very good at showing my true emotions; your mother knows very well what that shit is like” she laughed through her tears “not to mention how demanding my job is. I know I'm fucking shitty as a mother, I know that, and really, I'm so sorry" the crying began to intensify "you and your mother deserve someone who spends every fucking second of their lives with you, and your mother,instead I, who with a lot of luck I can come home. I'm sorry, sweet girl” Athena was surprised to feel the woman's arms surrounding her in a hug and feeling the tears on her neck “please don't hate me Thena, you are what I love the most in life. I couldn't live knowing that you hate me."

Athena could hear in her head the thousands of stories her mother told to justify the blonde woman, just like she could hear Alice trying to persuade her friend. She hated that someone else was right.

"I don't hate you, mother, even if I wanted to, I couldn't hate you"

"I would do it"

"You are not helping me"

They both laughed.

“Well, now that we're here,” Lorraine wiped away her tears, smiling in the process, “tell me how school has been. I want to hear it all"

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Y/N's feet carried her around the living room of her house, while her right hand held the phone to her ear.

She had been trying to communicate with her wife or daughter for more than an hour, but none showed signs of life, until she heard laughter at the front door, which opened and closed again.

"Where the hell were they?"

"Calm down mom. We were talking"

"but where?!"

"Calm down baby, you wanted me to improve my relationship with Thena, right? Well, I already did"

"My loves, I am very happy that you are better" she taken both of their cheeks and plant a kiss on both of their cheeks "but you had me extremely worried. So… both of you are completely grounded”

"What?"

"But mom…"

"Shut up Thena"

"You can't grounded me"

"Don't tempt me Lorraine"

Note:

I have to admit I LOVED writing this. Thank you very much, mystery person.

I hope you enjoy it

I appreciate the reblogs, the likes and the comments

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[sillyandquest]

So, I started drawing the 2012 ninja turtles and realized that if the Mutant Mashup Au is a mix of both the 2012 and Rise iteration of ninja turtles, then I should probably combine their art styles when I draw them. It sounds fun but I'm not sure whether or not I should make the boys look more like the 2012 or Rise art style.

Should I give the Rise boys more chonky legs and upper arms or slim down the 2012 boys to look more human?

Then again, this is just a silly au with lots to figure out. The difference could be explained away as simply as "the 2012 boys just mutated differently" or "Draxum used a variation of the ooze when creating the Rise Boys." Both @possumsarenice and I agree that Draxum was the one to mutate both sets of Hamato's, not the 2012 Kraang, but that makes me wonder if he mutated all of them at once.

Putting a cut here in case you aren't a fan of large bodies of text.

Draxum would have no reason to capture Yoshi unless he did his research and figured out Lou had an older brother. It just so happened that Yoshi bought his turtles when Draxum went to capture him, in place of Yoshi encountering the Kraang in canon. (I think Draxum went to capture Yoshi himself and sent Huginn and Muninn to get Lou. He had little info. on what to expect from Yoshi so Draxum got pretty roughed up I think.)

Alternatively, Draxum had planned to use Yoshi as a guinea pig of sorts BEFORE he did anything to Lou and the Kraang started hunting Yoshi soon after he escaped with four freshly mutated baby turtles in tow. To someone like Draxum using Yoshi first would make sense as he was older and would be considered "less of a threat" than Lou. We all know that isn't the case but Draxum sure didn't.

If all the Hamato's mutated at once, then Yoshi and Lou would meet up a whole lot sooner and be forced to tolerate and live together like they used too. It opens the door to sooner healing and less misunderstandings because in this Au Yoshi and Lou are NOT on good terms. This is due to how they perceived each other's reaction to their mother's death.

Lou saw Yoshi still following the Hamato teachings, even though those teachings stole their mother away, and believed Yoshi was unfazed, he considered Yoshi heartless. Yoshi believed that Lou turning his back on the Hamato clan meant he turned his back on their mother and family, that's why he considered Lou a disgrace.

Lou would see his mother's death the same way he saw it in canon, an unnecessary sacrifice. (At least until he realized the great evil behind the seal was real.) Meanwhile, Yoshi would likely see his mother's death as an act of heroism. Lou resented the Hamato clan for years because the duty they carried was one that took away one of the people Lou loved most. Yoshi, on the other hand, understood the sacrifice and what it meant. He hated it, but he understood that his mother only wanted to protect her family, and the world, from the Dark Armor.

Yoshi knew that his mother's final act was one of love. Love for her sons, love for her family, love for the Earth itself.

Both learned a lesson that day. Lou learned that the burden of saving the world is one that will consume everything, leaving you with nothing but the broken pieces of a once happy life before you had the chance to really grow up. Yoshi learned that loss is a painful but necessary sacrifice to save everyone, to protect everyone. To him "it doesn't matter that the burden is heavy, what matters is that you carry it."

[dreamescapeswriting]

Stray kids - anything christmas related?

Christmas With Stray Kids || GN!Reader

Chan:

The two of you hadn't expected to get trapped in Korea for the holidays, your flight had been cancelled thanks to the weather and so had Chans leaving the two of you the only ones in the dorms. Not wanting to miss out on the holiday cheer, the two of you decided to decorate the entire living room with any decorations you could find and spent most of the day attempting to bake cookies from Felix's cryptic texts. The younger boy claimed he didn't want you to have the full recipe so he could still feel needed.

"I'm sorry Christmas wasn't what you were expecting this year," Chan mumbled before you rolled your eyes at him and shook your head.

"This is better than anything i would have been doing back home," You mentioned to him, pushing a piece of cookie into his mouth before sealing the deal with a kiss.

Minho:

It was going to be your first Christmas together as a couple and it was safe to say that Minho was more than nervous about it all. He'd been texting back and forth with his mother all week long trying to make sure he had all of the cooking recipes he was going to need with him.

"Can I do anything?" You questioned, watching as your boyfriend rushed around your kitchen in a panic and you could have sworn there were beads of sweat beginning to form on his hairline.

"Can you check on the turkey?" He looked at you with pleading eyes, he had originally wanted to be the only one cooking but it was becoming clearer with every passing second he was going to need some help. You nodded at him, quickly pressing a soft and sweet kiss to his cheek and going to help him with everything.

Changbin:

It worried you how busy Changbin seemed to be lately, he seemed to be spending every waking second he had in the studio working on something. Something that was top secret and he wasn't letting you see. Christmas eve was here and he was finally home and yet it still didn't feel as though your boyfriend was with you.

"Are you okay? Did I do something wrong?" Your voice shook as you questioned him, you worried that maybe he wanted to end things between you and he just didn't know how to tell you.

"W-What? no...I just..." he sighs before pulling the headphones from his laptop and hitting the space bar. Before you could ask what he was doing music began to flood the room, and Changbin's soft vocals joined in.

"Its your Christmas present but-...i couldn't finish it in time," He mumbled sadly before you grabbed his hands and shook your head.

"This is the best christmas present in the world." You kissed him

Hyunjin:

Christmas was always spent with his family, the two of you would wake up early on Christmas morning so that the two of you could make breakfast for his parents wanting them to have a nice relaxing morning.

"Did you shape them like trees?" Hyunjin quizzed, titling his head to the side as he looked down at the pancakes that you were plating up for his parents.

"Yeah, and the toppings will be the decorations," You laughed softly and looked up at your boyfriend who was just staring at you with complete love and adoration in his eyes. Every second he spent with you he fell deeper in love.

Jisung:

"You know, we don't have to have a real tree," You told Jisung who was still struggling to get the massive tree he was "positive" would fit in your living room. Turns out, it was far too tall for it to even fit through the front door of your house.

"But that's the fun part," Jisung grunted, shoving with all his might but it didn't matter which way he pushed or even how hard the tree wasn't going to fit unless you chopped some off the top.

"I'll go and climb through the kitchen window and cut the top off?" You suggested while looking at Jisung who was now drenched in sweat and panting to himself,

"That sounds good," he huffed out, slouching down on the floor as you made your way to the back of your house.

Felix:

In the lead-up to Christmas the two of you spent most of your time baking, deciding to give the gift of baked goods to those around you. That included your neighbours and friends and family which also meant a whole lot of baking. So much so that it was all you did apart from watching movies and sleeping early.

"I love baking but I'm so happy that this is the last lot," Felix sighed as he boxed up the final box of cookies and tied it together with a bow smiling proudly at you as you loaded them into a bag to carry around with.

"Me too," You put the bag by the door of your apartment and looked back at your boyfriend who had a bunch of flour all down his front.

"Before we go, lets shower." You suggested, slipping your hand into his own and taking him toward the bathroom.

Seungmin:

The smell of burning filled the house as you and Seungmin looked down at the floor sheepishly, your landlord yelling over the phone at you. The two of you had decided to try and cook your own Christmas dinner this year but it hadn't exactly gone according to plan. The turkey was burnt so much it could be used as a hockey puck and the vegetables were all burnt to the bottom of their pans.

"I think Minho will have extra," Seungmin said as you hung up the phone and turned to look at him.

"Lets try and beg him to let us in," You laughed, both of you just thankful you hadn't physically burnt the house down and only burnt the food.

Jeongin:

The two of you hadn't been sure how to spend the holidays, you usually spilt it every year. One year you would spend it with your family and the next it would be with his but both of your families were busy this year. Neither of you wanted to be the one to cook so it was spent ordering take out from any place that was open and spending the day cuddled up together.

"Do you want the last spring roll?" You questioned while waving it under his nose and giggling a little at the way his eyes tracked the piece of food.

"That's a yes," You whispered pushing it into his mouth and laughing as he grunted about how full he he was and you cuddled close to him, turning your attention back to the Christmas movie that was playing on the screen

[karingu]

giving proper thought to the timeskip in inuyasha (part 1/2)

I've been thinking a lot about the three years Inuyasha and Kagome were apart, bc as you know... three years is a LONG time. The person I was three years ago is different from the person I am now. So I remember thinking it felt too fast to process (both anime and manga), bc the timeskip was sorta sped through in like a chapter/10 mins lol

How were Kagome and Inuyasha feeling during those three years? After being with each other practically 24/7, fighting a literal war, saving each other's lives, falling in love, Kagome almost trapped in the jewel... just to be wrenched apart at the end with no time to say goodbye. Jeez, that's practically trauma fuel.

There was no way Kagome didn't want to see Inuyasha again. So why did it take three years for the Well open for her?

part 1: kagome part 2: inuyasha

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Kagome said when she returned, her purpose in the Sengoku era, to destroy the jewel, was done.

There is no reason to go back now. Well is closed. Bye Inuyasha.

Three years. Three years is enough time to be sad, to heal, and to think. I can imagine Kagome being a little down sometimes and her family noticing that. From how much she loved Inuyasha, I don't think Kagome could hide that she misses that doggie boi on the other side of the well. Because her family cares so much for her, I'm sure it didn't make them happy to see her sad.

However, it seemed pretty convincing that she couldn't go back. So it probably felt like a helpless situation to all of them.

Now, that doesn't explain why the well suddenly opened for Kagome one day. After all, it seemed like Kagome just willed the well to open... and there had to have been a time where she wanted to see Inuyasha, right? So why couldn't it open before?

I could just chalk it off as "the Well wanting Kagome to meet the legal age to marry Inuyasha" lol. That's valid enough I guess.

But, I want to bulk that justification up a little more... so here's what I think:

The Well was testing Kagome's desire to see Inuyasha again. Her job to destroy the Jewel is done, so it sealed itself up real good, forcing Kagome to focus on her life back home, go to school, meet new people, and weigh all her options for her future. If she STILL wants to see Inuyasha after all of that, then she will have proven herself to the Well that her desire to see him and go back to that era is genuine, not just some whim of the wind. (The Well isn't some plaything.)

In the meantime, the Well is adamant. Until then, it is sealed. I'm sure Kagome visited it many times, wishing to see Inuyasha. But she knows very well by her third year that the Well does not work.

When I think about it, after high school is when Kagome's life truly starts. That is when she gets to decide for the first time, for herself, what she might want to do with her life going forward.

To prepare for that, Kagome gets to weigh her options in high school about her future. In Japan, I think 1st-2nd year is when they start "university planning" called 進路希望調査 (shinro kibou chousa). 3rd year is when they take entrance exams. The closer she creeps to graduation, the more she is forced to think about her future.

That future without Inuyasha. Can she live in it?

When she graduates, she faces herself head on. "Look, I have to live in this world without Inuyasha. The well is BROKEN af. This is it." But she realizes, even still... EVEN STILL... gosh she just wants to see Inuyasha again. :(

In that moment, she proved herself to the Well. Kagome thought about this for three darn years. She went to school, stayed with friends and family, and she knows her options. Yet, her feelings for Inuyasha did not waver. She STILL wants to see him, thus proving that her desire is not superficial.

So finally, the Well's like, "Alright, I hear you now hunny. I'll open the portal."

When the Sengoku era sky appears in the Well, Kagome looks at it with such yearning eyes, her voice wavering with such longing... Her mom finds her, and knowing Mama, she probably has had a hunch all along that Kagome's happiness is not here in the modern era.

So in a true act of love, Mama lets her go.

GAWD MAMA HIGURASHI MVP MOM OF THE CENTURY I WANT TO GIVE YOU A HUGGGG

Thinking about Kagome's family always makes my heart break, seriously. Though, the timeskip feels sudden to me as a reader/watcher, but three years is still quite a bit of time. (Like, imagine from now, 2023 to 2026.) They had time together... I'm sure it was understood. It still must've been hard tho.

This got too long, so I'll explore Inuyasha's side in Part 2. -> I will link here if you want!

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A question for the mun; May I ask what are your favorite trolls in the ftc as a whole?

Oh geez, I feel like this is always changing for me because I keep getting to know amazing new people and amazing new characters. I think I'll just name a few blogs and list my favorites from there, as I don't think I can pick out of the entire community when it's full of people I also don't know or haven't interacted with (yet!).

Quite a few of them belong to my partner @mageofspacemultiverse as I've known those the longest and have quite a few ships between us. A few of my favorite characters from him are Zomson, Hidelord, Devaron, and Pixcel. Each character of his is unique and has interesting backstories and personality, and yet every one of them is so on-brand for his blog.

From @thestarlightbrigade I have always adored Deltra and MY LIL MAN HIBUKI. Special shout out to Iiboye too. Lots of edgy angsty characters but each one is a specific flavor that never gets tiring. Avery's vibe is I'm shaking him by the shoulders and biting him affectionately. That is to say, he's a fun guy and silly to talk to. Prepare to get cat-gif'd.

@stuckstucktrolls I thirsted after Viktor since day 1 bruh. He's the Troll I am most familiar with besides Teagan. Creative characters and also very pretty, the lot of them. Cool cat boy cryptid gets the seal of approval from royal moth cryptid.

@goddesstrolls Kairos and Kairne. Ik Kairne isn't on the blog anymore but I thought he was pretty damn neat tbh. One of the first characters I knew Bast by. Also um... my (ex)wife Akidis, I love her to bits and pieces, and my male-wife Darvai. Buff women and bastard men run this blog, and all the world build and narratives Bast has come up with over the years are SO -chefs kiss- .

@miks-fantrolls Antemh <3 Sticking him under a microscope fr. I don't know a lot about anyone else, but maybe that'll change sometime. I don't know a lot about Mik but I personally think he's cool af. Mik if you're reading this I'm staring at you with wet pathetic eyes and offering you an egg in these trying times.

@roetrolls Veylin <3 She makes my heart happy. Also Franky, I would give him the world. Mallum is up there, too. Roe makes a lot of characters that are compelling, friend-shaped, and possesses you with the Funny Horrors (aka I can't stop laughing every time I see 'Dominion' on a street sign or pub. Like, it's the kind of joy that's like 'I know that guy! That guy belongs to this really cool person that I look up to! How silly that he has a bar named after him!' )

@sasster ...................... Redivi.................. Look, one could argue and say it's because he's a vampire and I'm absolutely a vampire simp 100%. But. But he's *terrifying* and that's a big reason why he's a favorite Chase Troll of mine. Compelling, scary, but recognizable as people we may know in our every day lives. An ever so loved face and name, but there's always something behind the scenes that we can't see. There's a performance for the world, while on back stage the true colors show. Mind you, I am extremely behind in the lore of the blog, but that guy? Man. That guy.

@windy-trickster -slaps the top of this guy's blog- This blog can fit so many funky lil dudes filled with unique lore and fantastic personalities and oh my god the angst. My favorites among them are Doleos, Rastho, and Althor. Windy is a creative writer and puts SO much love into his characters. Like for real, it's always a pleasure listening to him talk about them. It's clear he puts in a lot of love and effort into his guys, and I think y'all should go and see that for yourself.

@askthehiddencaste Shuska and Ashoal. I feel like Shuska is the face of the blog (i mean, the entire theme is a library, so), and she's such a charming character. Warm, friendly, but she's STRONG in spirit. Ashoal and Shuska are the two I'm most familiar with aside from Heliel (I want that goopy man carnally). Kanny has a lot of fascinating characters that all feel like a natural family to me. I could hang out with their characters and feel right at home.

@experimental-failures The only one I'm familiar with is Nix, so I guess he's my favorite by proxy-- BUT! I've always thought Nix was very neat. He feels like a guy I can run into out on the street irl. He feels so real to me, and it's always a pleasure.

@the-rainbow-overflow Elnric and Viroxa. Two very interesting characters for vastly different reasons, lol! I love the alternate timeline stuff Elnric has going on, and I feel soft for this guy mostly because it's the first Troll I knew Dusk by. Viroxa is... oh boy, god damn, a bastard? Such a manipulative and cunning guy where the ends justify the means, and I am OBSESSED. Bonus points that he's a scientist guy, ya know? We all love unhinged scientists. Kissing him on the cheek even if he may take my lips as donation and sew it onto someone else. Special mention to Makona as well, I am unwell about HISStory of Violence <3

@trollbreak Um, Bladed, teehee -twirls hair- Jonah has SOOO many lil guys. Silly lil guys! Some of these silly lil guys commit murder and treason! Some of them will give you plushies and Autism Creature stare at you as a means of friendship. Heehoo is my ultimate favorite, and Bladed is close second, but I adore Jonah and all of their characters.

@clown-fuckers-r-us Montague!!!! MONTAGUE!!!! MY BELOVED!!! CRYING WEEPING AAAAAAAA-- ahem. So um Montague is my favorite, he's so cool? I'm so invested in his story and not just because I have a ship going with that guy but his concept is so intresting??? A Purple with anger issues, rich and privileged but kind and loving-- now ruined by a broken mind and psyche, his one scrap of salvation that keeps him from fully losing himself being the memory of a lover that he hasn't seen since before the war on Limebloods... You should definitely go share some love with Bun, the mun of the blog; she's an AMAZING person, truly a wonderful friend, and one of the most nicest people I know.

@moonlit-trolls Tythus by far. It's been SO neat seeing Tythus grow and develop as a character. Moona and I made Ptillo and Tythus together, and while Tythus had some shaky beginnings as Moona was figuring him out, it definitely solidified and paid off in the end. Tythus is a compelling villain imo with complex goals and ambitions. Not to mention what a SILVER FOX HE IS GOD DAMN. You go girl, make that man hot and pathetic <3

I'm running out of steam for this post; if you're not listed on here it doesn't mean I don't have favorites or that I don't like you. There's A LOT of trolls to keep track of in the community and a lot of members too. Everyone has such amazing characters that I cannot possibly list them all off. Keep doing what you're doing, and remember that even if it feels a little pointless at times or that nobody cares, there ARE people who enjoy the content you put out-- whether its art, writing, silly little tidbits, or whatever else! There's people out there who will think about you over the smallest of things and smile, people who will think about you and your characters and feel inspired, people who may be too shy to interact but love and appreciate you and what you do. Whether you're a big or small blog or something in between, thank you for being part of the FTC.

[mysticcrownwolf]

Yup like narusasu has so much build up love,tears,panic attacks Naruto literally looked at a shooting star clutched his heart and thinking of Sasuke. Naruto didn't even know who hinata was except for the one time she gave him a balm and then went back to stalking him and so they have to go on and make a whole ass movie to have the ship make sense p.s. it still don't . It has a very shitty plot except for maybe sasuke and even for a 5 second cameo they get his appearance wrong like the whole movie is about Sakura telling Naruto to like hinata like he like ramen so that she can somehow snag sasuke for herself who probably dated her because:-

A. Naruto was unavailable and,

B. Because of his guilt for trying to kill her(even though she tried to kill him first).

Like even in the b*ruto they are so dysfunctional sasuke has gone out to get milk right after his daughter is born and Naruto would rather count chunin headbands even when shikamaru offer to do it himself then go meet his family and then ran of to meet sasuke leaving a shadow clone behind as soon as he get the chance and also him sleeping on the couch like you have a wife,a master bed and everything and you sleep on a damn COUCH and don't even get me started on how he could just make shadow clone and spend time with his family but nooo he send the shadow clone to his family while he I don't know suck sasuke dick or something . And then people be like but Naruto saw hinata dance in the waterfall and was attracted to her . Bullshit hinata has like one the most recognisable hair style of all time and even if Naruto is an idiot he is also pretty observant you are telling me Naruto could not figure out a girl around the same age as him with the same hair style as hinata while he was traveling with her it didn't hit him at all that she can be the girl near waterfall,while if sasuke is in a 400 mile radius of Naruto his sasuke sense starts to tingle. Sure and Naruhina just radiates love 🙄 . The only reason it is even canon is because they killed Neji. They have to massacre my best boy neji to get their ship. Imagine how objectively bad a ship has to be to kill a major character just so it could sail.

And then there is the mistake called B*ruto

It's the worst at this point just name it filler.Why even bother with the canon if none of it is canon since kishimoto didn't write it .That's right people kishimoto supervises it and his condition for doing so is to put out only one one chapter per month (bless his heart) . And where do I even start on the anime the animation is the quality of a moving png with little nuggets of good editing when Naruto is on screen ,the character design is garbage Naruto looks like he wants to talk to the manager , garra looks like a 30 year old Sunday school teacher, tsunade lost her 106, hinata lost her 69 probably and don't even get me started on what they did to best girl Anko .Honestly the fact that b*ruto is just orochimarus fever dream looks more real each passing day . And they just have to go and kill kurama, have sasuke rinnagan become rinnagone and they couldn't even think of anything creative like him sacrifice it to save them oh no no sasuke the shinobi with objectively the most fast reflexes in the shinobi world didn't saw a whole ass boy running to stab his eyes out and all of that for what to make the old generation look pathetic and weak so that the younger generation can shine 🤮.And even then they just use ninja tools and otsutsuki seals not real practice or anything required.

Neji didn't died so that this living disgrace known as b*ruto can be born kishimoto is really milking it as in "you want to sink my ship ok I will help write a show so so bad you bitches would be begging me to tell you that they are in the infinite tsukoyomi .You want to clown on my creation for money well let me see how much ton of hate I can get you just for the audacity". B*ruto is gonna be destroyed by Naruto fans and I'm all in for it.

Author's note - English is not my first language and I typed it out on my phone so please don't criticise my grammar too much

P.S. To anyone reading this far you are beautiful and deserve the world good day to all of you

[imminent-danger-came]

what would your ideal lmk season five look like? specifically for mk's character arc because I love your takes on that

I've said it before I want that boy centrifuged by the narrative

I didn't get the title of "MK death spiral blog" that one time by that one guy for nothing. I am 1000% on the "MK getting centrifuged by the narrative" pain train.

Now, in all honestly my ideal lmk s5 is the one they give me. These writers are so talented and they know more about their story than I do, so whatever they got planned is going to make me lose my mind!

But, indulging myself a little bit, here's a list of some things I'd love to see in s5 (or beyond???):

Sun Wukong V MK fight. Anyone who has followed me for any amount of time probably knows this. I need a SWK and MK fallout and then I need them to build their relationship up stronger.

MK Guilt Over Azure's death. That boy felt guilty for "releasing DBK from the underworld" when it was definitely Red Son who did that. MK arguably had a huge hand in Azure's death, being the one to cause Azure to finally lose his grasp on the Jade Emperor's powers.

Samadhi Fire Part 3. Anyone who has followed me for any amount of time also probably knows this. I want MK to be in the position of Samadhi Fire Mei and Jade Emperor Azure, unable to control his own powers, and needing to be talked down by Mei or someone else. We got one half of a 3x10 parallel in 4x08, and I need more!

Mei Dragon Form. Please for the love of god I want her to turn into a dragon so bad—nonnegotiably while she's protecting the people she cares about, for the sweet 4x05 callback. In my heart of hearts, I want Mei to unlock dragon form while trying to reach MK during Samadhi Fire Part 3. If we don't get another "We will figure this out together" what's the fucking point.

MK Subodhi Training??? Or honestly, MK interacting with real Subodhi in general. Did you see his face after the world reformed in 4x14? That was not a face of confidence.

Sandy Backstory. Which partially includes Pigsy. I just want to know what his 2x08 PTSD flashbacks were all about. *pulls out conspiracy board* I want to say those flashbacks take place at the 1x09 battlefield, which has helmets that we then see in 4x01, but who knows!

Sun Wukong homeless arc. Flower Fruit Mountain was destroyed during the s4 special, and I want to see the consequences of that, especially if MK feels guilty about it! Which he probably will!

MK Spiral! This isn't as much of a prediction/want as it is just a fact. MK is going DOWN next season and I'm here with popcorn and tears. I need a FULL harbinger of chaos meltdown.

Macaque is just there, hanging out. After everything that happened last season I hope we see Macaque around a lot more, because I love him but also because I need MK to yell at him too. Also because "Whatever they're scheming we can handle it."

Yellowtusk helps Ne Zha maintain the seal. Yellowtusk had an important skill in helping Azure contain the Jade Emperor's powers—I'm wondering if he could do the same with Ne Zha's lotus seal.

MK Flashback. You know, how he got to Pigsy's, the circumstances of his birth, an explanation for what the fuck the stone monkey is/all those stone animals were, all that good stuff.

Bye Bye Bandana. If/when MK snaps and completely loses himself to whatever he is, I'd love for the headband to come off. Really cement it.

MK Relives His Nightmares Again. Oops. After going "So we never have to live our nightmares again!" in 4x12 I now need the opposite of that to happen. Sorry MK. I need his new "Better than we found it" resolve to fold like the soggy french fry it is. That ain't lasting.

Hurting The People You Care About Theme. So with "hurting the people who care about you the most" and everything being "to pain", I really want this to go a "hurting people is a part of life" route. We're already almost there with "Mistakes happen but as long as you leave the world better than you found it then it's all good." Like that's SO close. Come on s5 give it to me.

Wukong Killed Macaque Reveal. *twirls hair* This would sooooo not bode well for MK.

MK Gets Out of His "Good Guy" "Bad Guy" Way of Thinking. I think 4x11 as an episode really highlights this. MK views people as one or the other, ignoring the vast grey area that a lot of people fall in. Wukong in his past wasn't just "a bad guy", just like he isn't currently flawless or wholly "a good guy" now. He's just a guy.

I could probably go on forever, so I'll cut this off here!

[lost-technology]

Dear My Brain, I do NOT need to do another massive Trigun AU right now. However, just to make you happy, I'll toss out my ideas here for "maybe someday." Okay, I'm on a Fallout-kick lately. Good show for my games, yes? A rare pretty decent live action adaptation of a set of video games. Definitely nods to fans / players there. Also been doing a little playing of Fallout 4. (Fallout 3 is the only game of the series I've played all the way through main quest sadly (maybe I'll download the classics from Steam...) Anyway, I've played with this notion for Trigun before - but only in the "if they were players." I made perks / gameplay styles for the main characters. So, what are you doing, brain? Why are you starting to come up with ideas for an actual story for me to write as a crossover?!!! Especially when I do not know if there are enough people who like both properties AND read fanfiction to be interested in a crossover AU / fusion fic - then again, I tend to write things primarily for my own delight, anyway. I was telling myself "no, these two things are already too similar, there's really no need," but then came the idea that "no, there are some things unique enough to the Fallout setting that you could really have fun with the Trigun characters wandering a post nuclear North America rather than Planet Gunsmoke / No Man's Land." I could even interchangeably refer to the Wasteland as No Man's Land... Okay, Brain, so you're telling me that in this fusion universe, Vault-Tec had a subsidiary that worked closely with the budding U.S. space program, which if I am not mistaken, is canon (that satellite-dish quest in Fallout 3 and that experimental for space-colonisation front Vault concealing the real experiment in the Nuka-World expansion for 4). SEEDS was sort of its own separate thing, more benevolent than the Vaults and free from their wild secret experiments. Their mission was open: Developing a new, yet profitable, source of power for the cooperate overlords to profit from, being a failsafe for re-terraforming the Earth in the event of a nuclear war, and being a study for close-quarter scientist-living for potential space colonies. SEEDS Vault 05 (as distinct from Vault 5, SEEDS gets a different class) saw the successful bioengineering of life forms they called Plants. They were actually developed shortly before the war of 2077, but were not considered perfected. After the bombs dropped and the doors sealed, further study showed the Plants' potential as essentially living G.E.C.Ks (Garden of Eden Creation Kits). A living answer to the G.E.C.K, water-chips, cold-fusion... Even a potential way to divest from the atomic energy that America had been depending on since the end of WWII. (Fallout, for non-players, is an AU of reality diverging at WWII's end). And then Independents are born. Rem Saverem, a rogue scientist who rebels against Vault-Tec's lack of ethics managed to smuggle out the first Independent. Poor Tesla, being a little girl she had to send out, but the Hell of the Wastes were literally a better shot for her survival than for her to stay in the SEEDS-Vault. Sometime later, a pair of twin boys are born and Rem manages to convince the crew not to make them into test subjects. Until she can't. Cue big escape scene where she gets Vash and Nai out of the vault and dies in a hail of bullets right before them as guards cut her down and come after them... And so starts the journey of pair of living McGuffins who can either save the world or destroy it in search of their lost sister. Nai eventually becomes Millions Knives, a brutal Wasteland warlord bent on the destruction of humankind. Vash is on the run with bounties upon bounties upon him. He meets a ghoul named Wolfwood, dependant upon a certain kind of Chem to heal his wounds and to keep him from going feral and a couple of reporter-ladies from one of the larger settlement-cities intent upon uncovering Wasteland mysteries.

[delilah705]

Sometimes, it feels like WWRG Knives kinda wants Reader to see, to experience danger. Whether to actually test himself on if he truly would risk himself to jump in and save Reader or to invest fear into them should they ever wander without him.

If Knives is fully for physically and mentally torturing his fellow twin brother just to prove a hypocritical point, then imagine how far he would go for his unhealthy relationship dynamics with poor Reader.

(He would absolutely take full advantage of our lack of knowledge, I would go as far to say that Knives himself wants to be the only one they stem their values and education from, because he's that controlling and paranoid over loosing them to anyone or anything.)

A cunning trail of manipulation, I suppose I should describe it. Just so he can hop in and destroy said dangerous threat and exhort more control over us. Just so we will have even more doubt about transversing the world around us, relay even more on Knives. He wants to be the center of everything and wants to be the deciding word over everyone else's. While Knives certainly will never want to be anything but independent, he wants his Reader to be completely dependent on him, it's a power-trip, a stroke of ego to hold such decision over someone's life and choices.

I honestly think he'd prefer it most that way even if it does end up hurting us more, sealing us in a mental handicap of manipulated isolation, where any and all events will never end up with a choice for us, not unless Knives 'allows' it to be so, knowing how fucking selfish he is, he always had a knack for destroying the very people he cares about even more then people he doesn't give more then 2 shits about.

XD Oh man, Knives is just the poster boy for toxic yandere boyfriend/husband in this fic I swear. Hero syndrome!! Okay, I didn't dwell on or actually address it much in the fic, but the fact that reader threatened to just leave him behind and live with Margie really burned him up inside. He was fuming. (XD Is this why he decided to leave the ship even though his leg wasn't fully healed? You be the judge)

Oh, yes! And while I never wrote it out, it's something you have to read between the lines for, the reason he's so rough with reader at times is because he's kinda taking his aggression out on her sexually: his frustrations towards humanity, and the way she makes him feel, and even his jealousy.

(XD Ding ding ding! We have a winner! (Oh, boy, now I'm wondering what means he would have went through to get her back if she'd left with Vash instead, and what he'd consider the punishment to be for that.) In fact,… I'd argue he's kind of already done that by keeping her away from humanity so long and convincing her there's no way there could ever be peace and harmony between Plants and humans. For the longest, he and Vash were her only sources of information. And the fact her and Vash went to that town so much and often and made friends and learned things there,… Let's just say maybe that town… <.< Might have been the uh, first place on his hit list.)

Her fear of being entirely alone in an empty world worked entirely in his favor in that regard. He is her "savior from loneliness" so to speak, especially with Vash now gone. Humanity was always the threat, but the introduction of that town really made it so. To his plans especially. Though,… Could that ending of him actually succeeding be a happy one, I wonder? He's such a hypocrite and so selfish in that regard, but the real question, I guess is would he ever change, even with reader's influence? Hm…

Ohhoho. He would. If he'd had it his way, that would have already been so. Even if it meant any knowledge beyond what he and Vash had would not be passed down onto her, he would have preferred it to all come from them, from the "superior breed". He's convinced humanity wouldn't have had anything of value worth teaching that they didn't already possess. It's true. :( So sadly so, because he's shut off his emotions, the things he deems that makes people weak, from the very people he cares about, thus hurting them in the process because he's so touchy in a way he won't admit, that he lashes out the moment he feels there's any threat to his fragile ego.

[weirdsht]

I FINALLY REMEMBERED IT

There were two versions of the White Star brain rot. One with the reader, and the other with an Oc(because pretty sure no one's gonna take this man). It honestly started as a joke, like "Imagine if White Star had a therapist friend. Lmao." And then my friend just looked at each other and went "fuck it". And made White Star a therapist friend.

Reader version, I think, is basically God of Death fucked up and accidentally brought a random soul into the world but saw that they knew about the future so tried to get them in a suitable body. Buuut they ended up sharing a body with White Star so GoD gives them a blessing to protect them from his curse because OH BOY HE DONE MESSED UP. Reader realizes, "oh shit, I'm in the white radish's body" but White Star isn't aware because they're just a tiny mortal and he's a reincarnatior that's been alive for centuries. They can only speak to him every so often, so they sort of become his conscious and start secretly pitting him against the Sealed God. As he gets more aware of them, they start gaining more power and create a little mind space where they can project their body. A little safe space away from the very concerning thoughts that swarm his head. However, it's a double-edged sword as White Star quickly realizes his conscious(that he thought he lost a long time ago) was just this random person who distracted him from his goals.

After realizing there's nothing he can do about them, they explain TBOAH and TCF and making him realize all his plans are in vain as even if he does succeed, time will get rewinded and he'll have to deal with the menace that is Cale Henituse. So they make a deal, they get to live in this weird limbo state but will eventually get a body, and he finds a way to permanently deal with the SG as well as all the information they have. All of this takes place centuries ahead of the TCF and TBOAH Timelines. By the time KRS arrives, White Star has gotten... Attached to the little mortal living in his head and all his "villainous" acts are for show so the SG doesn't suspect anything. SG is aware of them, but thinks that they can't do anything. He is wrong. Thanks to them, White Star fakes his death and the SG is permanently taken care of. Reader gets to finally take over his body, as he had to sacrifice a bit of his soul to deal with SG so now he's the one in the mind space they made. And now both of them just wander around, going their best to avoid Cale and his group because that is not something they want to deal with. They also teach him memes.

This is really long give me a sec to do the other one jesus-

IF YOU WRITE A FIC ABOUT THIS I WOULD WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT YOU! THIS IS SUCH A GOOD CONCEPT DFIGOASDGSFOGSFH

longass rant of my shtty and uncalled for opinions below hehe

with the reader insert ver, imagine they were in the same situation with rok soo. someone who was suppose to be born in the tboaf world but white star stole their body so they were stuck on earth 1. but the difference was that some fucky wucky happened and so they died earlier than their intended time. then more fucky wucky happened with their soul that's why now they're stuck with white star.

with the death part though... hmm i personally think that'll be difficult. since cale got the answer of how to kill white star from the world tree (i mean world tree can lie but lets be real, that poor guy is too scared of cheap stake fire to do that) and it's hard to escape jour's ancient power. so i can see them striking a deal with cale with the help of god of death. then after sg is sealed off they just go away to try and live their own life and avoid cale.

key word: try

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now for the oc ver

FIRST OF ALL I LOVE HOW SHE'S JUST A DOKJA KINNIE? HELP? SDUTFOSGDHDFJ

i can see her acting very villainess-like and thats hawt lol

also i can imagine a scenario like this has happened at least once:

White Star is the one in control right now. He was just maximizing his time having full control of their shared body by ordering his subordinates about their next move and whatnot. "Yes, yes. That's how we'll do it. Hurry on to-" SLAP Who dared slap the almighty White Star like this- It was his own right hand that slap him... The last thing the poor White Star saw were the confuse stares of the nobles and commanders before he lost control of his whole body to Black Rock. "Sorry about that, I just realized how faulty our plan is and had to wake myself up. Now, now let's start again shall we? This time with a plan that will ensure us victory"

[beautifulpersonpeach]

Ok.

Question 1 about Enhypen. What are your best performances and what do you think of their music?

Question 2. Do you have a bias?

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Ask 2:

BPP I'm starved for performance energies like I get from BTS. JK's live show yesterday made the feeling more acute cos all I could think was how much better it would've been with 6 other BTS members. I wonder if you understand my feeling. Are there groups that give you similar performance feeling to BTS?

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There's no other group like BTS when it comes to performance synergy, energy, and charisma. In my opinion. That's one key ingredient in the secret sauce that sets BTS apart from other groups. They really are the best, and I'm saying this to help calibrate your expectations. But this also doesn't mean all the other groups are shit lol.

If you're looking for a solid dance and performance-driven group, Enhypen is one of the only groups that's worth a look.

I started paying real attention to Enhypen when I heard Pass the Mic and realized they were the first k-pop group to make a song in the Chicago Drill genre. The song itself I'm not a huge fan of (I don't like Ni-ki's rap verses and I think some of the lyrics are a bit cringe), but as far as misses go, this is the only one in their discography. And I still appreciate how drill was incorporated into the song. Also, the choreography is top tier, like every other choreography in their repertoire.

Enhypen is a 7-member group under Be: Lift - HYBE, and it's the first full concept group under HYBE - their concept being a vampire coming of age odyssey. Basically, all the members are vampires and I'm impressed by how consistently this theme is incorporated into their music, styling, lore, MVs, even stage personas without it seeming contrived or cringe.

The members are Jungwon (leader and my bias), Heesung, Sunghoon (bias), Jay (bias), Jake, Sunoo, and Ni-ki (maknae and main dancer). Every member that isn't my bias is my bias wrecker lol.

Honestly, Enhypen should be a lot bigger than they are, because every single one of their performances are, and I'm not saying this lightly, iconic. I'll link a few below and you'll see what I mean. I know the reason they aren't more known is because they don't have a rapline, but the group is beyond talented with a professional figure skater, a dance prodigy, several athletes and one former trainee peer with TXT, all in the group. Their music has roots in rock, hiphop, and EDM but not the 'noise k-pop' type.

Personally, I like their music a lot and feel it's easily some of the best in the entire 4th gen. Because Enhypen is a HYBE group, of course their dance skills, energy and synchronization are best in class. I've seen them in concert once and seen most of their recorded performances (comeback shows, Studio Choom, M studio, etc) and I'd honestly rank them behind only TXT in terms of performance skill and storytelling.

For the uninitiated, to illustrate the sort of talent I'm talking about, this is Enhypen's debut song:

Given-Taken (produced by Bang PD)

(Did you hear the adlibs? This is still one of my favourite debut songs, only behind Attention by NewJeans. By debut this group was already so polished)

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Blessed Cursed - the song and choreo is in my top 10 for all of 4th gen

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The infamous Bite Me performance - with this one alone they made history for not just 4th gen, but arguably for all boy groups.

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Upper Side Dreamin' - is criminally underrated and I know why but it doesn't make it any less painful.

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Drunk-Dazed - the entire thing is good but the outro seals the deal.

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Anons I hope this answers your questions. Enhypen will be coming back on November 17th with Orange Blood - their 5th EP. I'm personally looking very forward to it. The boys are just completing the 1st leg of their FATE world tour (all I've heard are rave reviews) and will immediately shift right into promoting the EP. They are working hard and if you like their work, I'd say this is a group worth supporting.

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Selfish | Jodi x Reader

Everything in Jodi's life felt unbearably monotonous. That is, until the farmer arrived.

Reader is gender neutral

Content warnings: cheating

Disclaimer: I do not condone cheating be real💀

"You must be Kent!" you exclaim. A man stands on your doorstep with a sturdy stance and a square jaw. He is more intimidating than Jodi could have put into words.

He nods and extends out his hand to shake it. His handshake is even firmer than the frown indented into his mouth. "Yes. I stopped by to introduce myself. I was away during duty. You must be the new farmer. I take it may already know my son, Sam, he's around your age."

Your mind blanks for a moment until it clicks. Sam. Sam. Sam. "Ah! Jodi's son! Yes, I know him. Very charming boy."

Kent sadly sighs. "I'm sure you know that better than I do, I've been gone for so long..."

"Well it's great to finally meet you," you happily reply, whilst lying straight through your teeth.

"Likewise," he says. "I'll see you around?"

"Sure thing!"

As soon as he begins to turn around and walk home, you shut the door, a little harder than you mean to. Your dog wags its tail in excitement but then sits and turns its head in confusion.

That was a stressful interaction, you think to yourself, wiping the sweat that subtly collected on your brow. "I didn't think he'd be back!" you confess to your canine. It sneezes in response.

They say keeping secrets in small towns is nearly an impossible feat to accomplish. Stardew Valley was that oddball, the outlier of every bell curve. This means secrets are pretty competently sealed away from the rest of the dwindling population.

The people of Pelican Town just don't seem to open their eyes much. Nobody seems to notice Shane's depression, Mayor Lewis' corruption, or unexplainable features that Abagail exhibits.

Nobody noticed how you spent so much time with Jodi. In her room with only one full-sized bed. Or how Jodi would take walks in Cindersnap forest while the farmer was on break.

Before the farmer, Jodi was in the world of her own. Developing any coping skills she could to forget the youth she wasted. Instead of remembering how she rushed to marry her sweetheart, she occupied herself. As her hands worked on the dishes, scrubbing off the burnt food of the spinach Vincent never ate, her eyes were fixed out the window, pretending she was a little girl again.

Sparkles and magic, living life with high saturated color and grass-stained demin. Back when she didn't feel so tired and the world looked infinite. She missed the morning dew on her bare feet and the amazement of seeing the moon in the sky during the daytime. It felt okay to jump from the branch she climbed and run too fast with her shoes untied. As if the very notion of consequences was trivial and meaningless.

Then the dishwater went cold and she dried the pans, plates, and spoons. It was one daydream after another. Anything to make her stop feeling so trapped and caged in her life that is continuously devoted to ungrateful children and an absent husband. Of course, she knew it was selfish to think that way about the people she loved. At least she knew that it was selfish.

Jodi was glad her room was so far from her sleeping sons so they couldn't hear her crying every night. Being so deprived of hope, she sought it from every source.

She bought a few books on how to parent, how to battle depression and how to cope with an absent partner, but nothing worked. Dread was a constant feeling besides the few moments when Vincent came home from Penny's tutoring to tell her about what he learned. Or when Sam would say a small "thanks, mom" before scurrying into his room or out to his friends. Even then, it always came right back. Nothing ever changed.

Until the farmer came.

At first, she didn't pay much mind to it. The farmer before you was nice, but not a big figure in her life. You introduced yourself to her and if she was honest, you were nothing like she expected. Which filled her with excitement.

How neat, a new addition to the Valley. She noticed your handshake was firm, a lot like his. She smiled back at you and welcomed you to Stardew Valley. A new farmer, squeaky clean and uncharted for Jodi. An adventure of sorts.

Every so often, you'd pass by her house on the way to the beach, just to greet her. On occasion, you gifted her something from your crops or animals. It became something she had to look forward to. After a while, the kindness felt foreign but she welcomed it. Years of giving, she realized how nice it was to recieve.

When you stopped by, you'd greet Vincent and Sam, before placing a fat bushel of rhubarb in Jodi's hands. There'd be time for a quick chat and nothing more than a brief conversation. Even so, you learned a lot about Jodi. Including the stuff she never said. Though she seemed more alive with you around, it wasn't enough to wash away the perpetual fatigue that creased the underside of her eyes.

"Morning, Jodi, I brought you some apples," you began. She gratefully accepted the gift with a smile. She stood outside her door, as Vincent walked out with a stack of books in his arms.

"Good morning," she sighed, bending down to tie Vincent's shoe. He scurried off to greet Penny down the street. She pushed a few strands of hair from her face and beamed at you. "These look delicious, I can't thank you enough."

She went in for a friendly hug and held the bag against her hip. You accepted her hug and spoke. "It's no problem! Giving 'em away keeps the prices high. Besides, I like to help wherever I can."

Her cheeks reddened. "That reminds me! About the rhubarb you gave me! Wait here!" Jodi excitedly hurried inside and trotted out, her teeth shining framed by a wide smile. "Ta-da, here you go."

A smile spread wide over your face. Her arms held out a warm, homebaked rhubarb pie. "No way, Jodi, this looks fantastic."

"Just returning the favor!" Jodi couldn't stop smiling at your praise. She crossed her arms with a lovely expression. "I'm just so thankful for your contributions to the community, it's been great having you here." Which was a neighborly version of saying you were her first breath of fresh air since her wedding day.

It was fall, two months had passed since you arrived and you stood on her doorstep, handling a bottle of wine you had prepared yourself. "Good evening," you greeted her when the door opened.

Jodi felt her heart beat quicken. "(Y/N), oh my goodness, hello!"

"I brought you by some wine from my cellar, drinking alone isn't my thing."

Jodi had you seated in the living room. You sat on her red sofa, while she fetched some old wine glasses that hadn't been used in decades. With a corkscrew you brought yourself, you popped open the wine bottle and poured a glass for Jodi and a glass for you.

At first, she was flattered and to your chagrin, covered her smile with her hands. "Oh, (Y/N), you shouldn't have!" Jodi's voice hadn't rang so joyously in decades.

Like a flick of a switch, her lips dropped. She looked behind her with a hesitant look. You noticed she was still wearing an apron from when she was doing the dishes. Jodi shook her head and smiled, her face gleefully looked at yours. "Come on in, I just put Vincent to bed."

"This wine is so good" she said, sipping it liberally. She took a seat adjacent to you on the sofa, your legs almost touching as you sat.

"I appreciate it," you replied bashfully. "I, uh, made it myself."

"No way," she gaped. "You're really good at this farming gig then, huh?"

You shrugged. "I guess so. Honestly, I wasn't sure how successful I was going to be before I took the job."

"What made you take it, then?" she curiously inquired.

"I hate to say, I know how you feel," she sighed. She poured her glass half full. "I have no time for myself anymore. Its laundry, dishes, housework, children. I haven't had a nice glass of wine since... I can't even remember."

"My old life was... incredibly taxing." You swirled the wine in your glass and then gulped it. "I worked an office job, nine to five. It was like a neverending vacuum of working for no reward. All take and no give. Like that Dolly Parton song."

As Jodi listened, she nodded, taking the information in. It sounded all too familiar.

She buried her face from the shame and embarrassment. She never admitted her misery to anyone else. It was secret. A dirty, bitter, horrid secret she shoved deep down inside her.

"You regret having kids?" Instead of disgust in her self pity, you inquired.

"I love Sam and Vincent more than anything. I just miss my youth. I whisked away with Kent after high school, got married young, and now... now I..."

"Wish you would've waited?"

"Exactly!" she said. "Everything I've ever done was for Kent. I married him too soon, I had his children, I take care of his home and he just... left me..."

"You deserve better, Jodi," you said, eyes fixated on the wine. You meant what you said, then, but didn't really pay attention to the implications.

She leaned sideways, resting her head on your shoulder. You were silent. The only thing you wanted was for her to be happy, although, you knew she wouldn't believe you if you told her. A little bit of company goes a long way. A light in the tunnel of solitude is so bright.

Jodi looked up at you and gave you a solemn smile. "Thanks for being here."

Like a magnet, it felt like you and Jodi leaned into each other. Your lips caught hers, your fingers tracing her jaw.

Scandal, betrayal. You both knew what you had done.

Still, she smiled in her kiss with her hands cupping the back of your head. Suddenly, Jodi felt like she was twenty again. Her entire future was still in store and her decisions leading up to now were completely erased. Jodi had never felt so free.

Maybe in another world, when Jodi had the courage to stay single until her 20s, she would be a happy farmer's wife. In this world though, she was doomed to give– only for an occasional ounce of compensation when the farmer offered it.