#I'm very satisfied with what we've done together

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My part for an art trade with amazing @nmzuka !✨ Featuring RibbonCobra, which were lovely to draw together😊 Thank you very much for doing a trade with me!

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

What! Are your top five reveals in One Piece! Which ones made you go “holy shit” or “hell yeah” the most!

i'm taking reveal here to mean 'points at which previously-hidden information is revealed to the audience,' not just where we're told something new. so:

THE FREEST MAN ON THE SEA: maybe not as dramatic or seismic as some other things on this list, but to me luffy telling rayleigh that to him being the pirate king just means being the freest in the world is the single most important thing we ever learn about luffy's character, and it defines the themes of the whole series. it recontextualizes everything about luffy and the way he interacts with the world and the way he pursues his goal because now we finally know what that goal actually is, and what it means to him. and for the whole first half of the story we don't know this! it's easy to forget because we're, what, six hundred chapters past it now, but we get all the way to sabaody without really knowing what drives luffy, and then we get it and it slides into place perfectly.

WORLD SANK: a recent one, but so satisfying and well-placed. the sunken world reveal is the best kind of big lore reveal, to me, because it's something that makes so much sense it was completely possible to predict it years ago (and people did), and now that it has been confirmed, it's opened up a massive world of implications and questions that are incredibly fun to think about. i'm really excited to see where the story goes with it.

NIKA: i'm sort of rolling everything we learn about gear 5/nika/joyboy in the 1040 chapters of wano together here; i've written at length before on this blog about why i like the nika reveal so much, so i'll just say now that it takes one piece's most fundamental and powerful themes and symbolism (liberation and joy and the sun) which have been built up across the story and reveals to you that those things are a real literal force in the narrative strong enough to turn a draconic tyrant into a garden snake. and having established what he has now about nika, the way oda has continued to explore the implications of that figure existing in the world has been absolutely fabulous to read.

RAIZOU IS SAFE: a smaller and more arc-specific one compared to some of the others on this list, but i just really like the way this reveal is done. the interval between the dressrosa team's arrival on zou and the reveal that raizou was there the whole time isn't even particularly long, but it's the execution which makes it; the devastation of the city, the solemnity of the whole moment, inuarashi and nekomamushi bowing their heads, luffy and the strawhats' reactions. i like the minks a lot, and this is the moment that defines them as a group, as well as establishing the themes of loyalty and sacrifice that will go on to become very prominent in wano.

ROGER WAS DYING: i've talked before about how i really like the handling of roger as a figure and how our knowledge of him evolves and becomes more personal and human over the course of the story. the turning point in that evolution is the introduction of rayleigh; his reveal that roger was not caught, that he turned himself in because he was dying, and that they found the truth of the world there at the end of the grand line. it shifts the whole presentation of the story; we've been told about roger from the very start of the very first chapter, and it's here that we learn the information we thought we had about him has been woefully incomplete. there's a bigger mystery here, one greater than just 'what treasure did roger leave.' and i really like we get this context about roger in the very same scene we learn what it means to luffy to be the pirate king.

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Could you do #1 with sub bada receiving

☆ { going } down on them in the backseat of a car

°PAIRINGS:

𝚜𝚞𝚋!𝚋𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚕𝚎𝚎 𝚡 𝚍𝚘𝚖!𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚏𝚎𝚖!𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛

°CW:

𝙽𝚂𝙵𝚆, 𝙼𝙳𝙽𝙸, 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚊 𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚢, 𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕 (𝚋. 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜), 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝚜𝚎𝚡, 𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚡...

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝...♡

You couldn't sleep, tossing and turning all night long while your beautiful wife slept peacefully beside you. You tried not to move so much in fear that you may wake up Bada, but it was too late.

"Baby... are you okay?" Bada asked yawning slightly turning her body to face you. "What's wrong?"

"Aww, baby, I'm sorry for waking you. I just can't sleep no matter how hard I try, I just can't." You answered, stroking her wild bed hair down, placing a kiss on her lips. "You should go back to sleep, you have a lot to do today. I'll be fine."

Bada pulled herself from the covers, walked out to the closet pulling two jackets, one for you and one for herself. "Let's go for a drive."

You tilted your head in confusion. "Bada, it's one in the morning. You feeling okay?"

"Yes, I feel just fine and I know what time it is. Here, put this on, and let's go for a quick drive." Bada tossed the jacket to you and grabbed her keys. "It will help you sleep."

The two of you made your way to Bada's car, you insisted on driving but Bada declined stating that you still try to sleep. The drive began, soft music playing from the radio as Bada drove down the quite empty road beside a few cars coming from or going to clubbing. Bada drove with one hand on the steering wheel and the other intertwined with yours, the night lights reflecting on her glasses, her bare face glowing under the lights, her jacket engulfed her body stopping right above her bare thighs... oh her thighs... her beautiful soft toned thighs.

You want her right now. So badly... right now...

You bring her hand to your lips placing kisses upon it, Bada looked at you briefly, smiling shyly before focusing back on the road her hand gripping the wheel tightly causing her knuckles to whiten. You watched Bada's thighs squeeze together, reaching over you rubbed her thigh your hand slipping between her thighs inching close to her heated core.

"You should pull over, baby. This is very dangerous, ya know." You said sliding your hand down her short, palming her hot core. "No panties, baby girl? Naughty girl."

Bada whined, pulling the car over to the side of the road. She grabbed your wrist, halting you from any movement. "Baby, we shouldn't... what if we get caught?"

"Aww baby, we've done way worse. Remember the club in your booth after winning the show or the beach for my birthday or our honeymoon in the pool?" You recalled some of the events where the two of you got freaky in public... Horny Bitches.

"Y... Yes, I did." Bada's face began to heated up turning burning red as she replayed each scene in her head. Those were some very... nice night...

"Okay, so what's so different this time? It's just me and you." You stated before climbing into the backseat. "Now, get your sexy ass back here."

Bada bit her lip looking around at the surroundings before locking the door and climbing onto your laps straddling you. Her head hitting the roof of the car, she had to ducked down due to her height.

"Ow... " Bada whined rubbing the top of her head before pressing her lips against yours. "Damn light hit my head."

You laughed. "Maybe you should lay down on the seat. I'm gonna to take care of you baby."

"Okay, but what about you? Don't you want to feel good?" Bada asked changing her position laying back on the seats as you placed yourself between her legs.

"Sweetheart, as long as you are satisfied that's all the pleasure I need." You explained pressing your lips against hers in soft passionate kiss. Kissing along her neck you began to trail down her body pushing her shirt up placing kisses along her breast and down her toned abs stopping right above her clothed core.

Bada propped herself up. "What'd you stop?"

"Tell me what you need. I'm all ears, sweetheart." You said deciding to tease her a bit.

"Baby, please don't make me say it. You know what I want." Bada whined out of embarrassment she hates it when you do this to her but she knows if she doesn't do as she's told there will be consequences.

"Whiny little slut who doesn't listen, well we both know what that makes means..." You removed yourself from her body preparing to climb into the driver's seat before Bada grabbed your arm.

"Okay, okay, I'll do it. Please don't leave me like this... it hurts." Bada whined once more. "I want you to use your mouth to devour me like I'm your last meal. I want you to use your fingers to fuck me until I feel so full I will bust, pretty pretty please." Bada didn't stumble nor stutter when letting you know what she wants some times she just needs a little push, a little scare.

"Okay, baby, since you asked so nicely. You're such a freak, you know that." You lowered yourself between her legs once again, pulling down her shorts, placing them to the side. Your face inches away from her glistening core.

"You made me this way. You turned me into your dirty little slut." Bada pants feeling the slow breathes from your lips against her core.

"Did I now? Let's face it you've always been this way just needed the right person to bring it out of you." You made eye contact with Bada smirking at her teasing her once again, you both know the meaning behind that.

You gliding your fingers through her folds collecting her slick onto your fingers before sliding them into your mouth moaning at her taste. "Shit you taste so fucking good. So fucking sweet."

You hooked her leg over your shoulder and pushed the other to the side as you dive into Bada's wet core. Your tongue dragged along her folds, your face buried into her, tongue swirling around her clit, Bada's mouth agape, head flew back, eyes squeezed shut as you made her feel just right... so good.

"Oh god! Baby..." Bada cried out. Her hands gripped onto the seats, digging her nail into the leather. She grinds her hips against your tongue, wanting to create more friction, but you wrapped your arms around her hips, pinning them down to the seat, causing Bada to whine. "More, please..."

You smiled against her skin as you eased a finger into her pumping in and out allowing her to adjust to the feeling. "You're so tight, sweetheart. Always so tight for me but so ready to take it for me."

"Stop saying that..." Bada clenched around your finger at those words she felt like she could cum just from the dirty words that you speak.

"Aww, what? Are you gonna cum at the sound of my voice? Again, baby? I turn you on that much?" You caught Bada by slipping another finger inside of her slick hole, latching onto her clit once again as your pace began to bulid up.

Each pound from your fingers hit the right spot as Bada called out for more letting you know, 'Right there, that's it' she has always been so vocal during sex making sure you know how good you make her feel.

"Baby... I think..." Bada began to peak, causing her body to heat up. Your pace never slowed, and your mouth never released her. You knew it was coming, and you wanted to be soaked in her, to drown in her sweet, sweet juice.

"Please, please, please..." Bada begged her orgasm ripped through her body spreading through her veins she gushed into you mouth as you continued to pound into her slurping up her juice.

"C'mon baby, one more time..." You released her pussy with a pop keeping your mouth open for the last gush. "Do it for me baby."

"Oh, fuck..." Bada cried out her eyebrow furrowed as her body jerked her pussy gushing for you again. Your pumping slowed as she rode down from her high.

You dipped your head slurping up her juice from her sensitive core. "I just can't get enough of you. The way you taste is so... uhm." You pulled away from her coming back to her face as Bada laid there so fucked out pressing your lips against hers causing her to whimper in the kiss.

"Maybe you should get some sleep, baby? You seem tired." You said sarcastically laughing at how fucked out she was. "I'll drive us home."

"Fuck you."

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Let's Talk About: MHA 430, How This Fandom Can't Read, How Leaks Ruin Chapters And While Imperfect This Finale Was A Good Sendoff

So, here we are.

Ten years. Ten years and 430 chapters we've been with My Hero Academia. Ten long years of excitement, fandom interactions and so many fics I won't bother to count saved, subscribed and bookmarked.

It's strange really. To be apart of this fandom for so long...and find out that so many still can't read.

Like holy cheeseburgers Batman, so many of my fellow MHA readers/fans can't read it's astonishing.

So, for what'll be the last time for this series, let's go over the latest chapter of MHA and allow me to inform you of what it means. Or at least, that was the plan before the leaks came out. Just with the added addition of going over how people have reacted to chapter 430 before it was even officially out, and we're going to start with the first stone that began toppling Dominos.

[Official Spoilers Below]

This. Oh god, this sentence has been nothing but a headache for me and so many others. Because of the leaks ,and subsequent mistranslations, being taken as fact the reaction to the finale started out as shit. This entire week leading up to today has been frustrating for me and many others as we tried to explain what should be obvious.

Firstly, none of this is coming from any official translation. What people were seeing before today were things fans and unlicensed translators are spreading around as if it's fact. This does NOT mean that they are correct and therefore these translations shouldn't be treated as such.

Secondly, in no way shape or form does Izuku imply or state that his friends abandoned him after he lost his powers. All he said, was that it was a bit more difficult to meet up regularly. Something that makes sense not only because they were working in different fields but also because work in general is like that.

It can be hard to meet up with the boys n girls for hang outs but that doesn't mean you don't talk. That doesn't mean you don’t call or text or keep in touch. Something which is easier to do when you've fought and lived through an entire war together!

His friends didn't abandon him. They didn't stop caring about him because he became powerless. Hell, the ending of the chapter proves this wrong if nothing else!

Now, is it a shame the ships didn't get officially confirmed? Yes. But I think the implications are more than enough to satisfy. Even if they aren't, there's no reason not have fun with things being open ended. It opens the door to so many fun possibilities OUTSIDE of this whole NTR trend people are trying to start. [Thankfully that's a small part of the fandom]

But moving on, lets go into what he's been doing since becoming OFA.

In what way shape or form does him becoming a teacher make him 'fall off'/make the Mc Donald’s meme become a reality?

 First off why are we hating on the man for enjoying his life without conflict after saving the world? We doing my boy like Gohan now? If he wants to retire to a teaching role, one he very clearly enjoys, let him. What do people think they can take him? Ya'll forgetting exactly what he had to do BEFORE he was able to get OFA in the first place. Izuku is still physically stronger than most normal people both in MHA and in reality.

But, I'm getting off topic. The point is Izuku has and continues to be an inspiration to those that will follow after him. Even to the point of mirroring his starting point with All Might when he inspires yet another young kid to become a hero.

Is he a bit sad he isn't an official hero? Yes. Is he frustrated or unhappy with where he is in life? No. Not at all. He's content. His goal was never to be the No.1 Hero it was to be like ALL MIGHT. To inspire and protect people like his mentor had.

He's done just that and for it---for it he's rewarded.

His kindness, his determination and his faith in those around him comes back to him in the best way for it was those people he spread said traits too that spent those eight years putting together the thing that would bring his dream back to him.

That would bring HIM back to standing by their side on the field of battle. For Izuku Midoriya never truly stopped standing by his friends. For they too had become their own inspirations to Japan and the world. But now, finally, their friend...their inspiration...their Deku could lead them on the frontlines once more.

They, and he, couldn't ask for anything less.

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Witches Get Stitches

Klaus Mikaelson x Reader

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Written for Fictober 2023!

Fandom: The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

Day 11 Prompt: "You lost it. Well, we lost it."

Summary: Klaus and his girlfriend have been together since they were humans, surviving together for a thousand years. They don't intend to let anything tear them apart.

Word Count: 1,352

Category: Angst, Fluff

Warnings: Canon-typical violence, not descriptive

A/N: This doesn't even follow the Originals timeline/canon a little bit lol

Putting work into an AI program without permission is illegal. You do not have my permission. Do not do it.

I groaned as I slowly came back to consciousness, my head throbbing. The last thing I remembered, I'd been talking to Genevieve, a resurrected New Orleans with who'd been dancing on the line between ally and enemy.

She took a great, giant leap into the enemy category when I forced my eyes open to find her smiling at me, looking immensely satisfied with herself. I tried to stand, maybe make a move to rip her head off, but my wrists were chained to the walls on either side of me. I was trapped.

"I'm going to kill you," I spat, not bothering with pleasantries or pretending. Genevieve smiled like she'd expected me to say that.

"I know you think we're the bad guys here," she said, giving me a sympathetic expression that made me want to rip her head off. Literally. "But we're not. You've been dating the bad guy, and you've been so blind you haven't been able to realize it."

I rolled my eyes so far back in my head that I could see the wall behind me. I'd heard this same nonsense a thousand times from a thousand different people, and it never got any less irritating or boring.

"I'm not going to hurt you, Y/N," Genevieve said, walking towards me with a very menacing swagger in her step. "I'm just going to make you see the truth."

Before I could hit back with a retort, she raised her hands to the side of my head, and I went spiraling back through my own memories.

For a witch who'd managed to catch me, one of the oldest vampires in creation, in the home of my boyfriend, one of the other oldest vampires in creation, I'd expected more, honestly. But her plan wasn't particularly creative.

She forced me to relive some of my worst moments in my thousand years with Nik. We'd been together as humans, and he'd turned me not long after Esther turned the rest of them, so there was plenty of material for her to work with. Nik and I had been through hell and back, mostly due to enemies, but sometimes due to each other.

Genevieve made me sit through a few particularly bad moments, then pulled me out of her little trance, staring into my eyes like she expected some kind of connection.

"For a thousand years, he's lied, cheated, and backstabbed," she said, her voice low and grave. "He's left a trail of blood, pain, and suffering in his wake. You haven't been spared from his list of victims, even if you've convinced yourself you have."

I closed my eyes, taking a long breath in through my nose. This was getting tedious.

"We've decided to put an end to his reign of terror. We'd like you to join us. So what do you say?"

I fixed her with my best 'really?' stare, which I'd perfected using on Nik.

"Genevieve, let me explain something to you." My voice was quiet, faux-patient, with an undertone of promised violence the way I'd perfected from hearing Nik do so many times. "For more than one thousand years, Niklaus Mikaelson and I have had each others' backs, through everything. We're partners, best friends, and the loves of each others lives. One thousand years of a relationship does not come without bumps, and problems, and things we have to spend a long time working through. Every single time, we have done so successfully.

"One thousand years as a Mikaelson has also come with hundreds of people just like you, Genevieve. They've tried to get to Nik through me, or they've tried to turn me against him, or a thousand other attempts at causing us problems by breaking us apart. And not one of them, in all that time, has succeeded. And do you know what else, Genevieve?"

She cocked an eyebrow at me and gave a little snort, but I could see the way her shoulders tensed and the flicker of fear in the back of her eyes.

"Every single one of those people who tried to come at me and Nik? They're dead. And we're still standing."

Genevieve snorted, louder this time, shaking her head as she straightened and backed away from me. I stared her down, letting a feral smile slowly drag its way onto my face.

"Fine. If you won't help us, then I have no more use for you. So-"

"Oh dear. I hope that sentence isn't going to end in a threat against my lovely partner over there."

Genevieve whipped around, and I smiled at the sight we both found over her shoulder. Nik had arrived, covered in blood and grinning in the way that made my heart race. Clearly, he'd worked his way through at least some of the witches outside to get here. I grinned back at him.

"Your hold over this place, this world, is coming to an end, Klaus," said Genevieve, standing her ground remarkably well. "The two of you have terrorized this place long enough."

"Now you're bringing my girlfriend into it?" asked Nik, raising one eyebrow, a teasing tone in his voice. "Well, I really can't let that stand, now can I?"

"You're not going to have a choice," Genevieve growled. With that, she flung her arms out, whipping up a witchy storm to throw at Nik just as two more witches came into the room. Nik held his own alright—he was the Original Hybrid after all—but he couldn't stand on his own against three powers like this forever.

He needed help. And I was going to give it to him.

I closed my eyes, getting into the headspace I'd had to reach more times than I'd ever wanted to, but that had gotten Nik and I out of more than a few hard spots. Pure rage and a desire to protect the man I loved washed over me, and I pulled against my restraints with all my strength. I dislocated my thumbs to get them out of the cuffs, stifling a scream, then got to my feet and rushed Genevieve before she could realize I was free.

The next minutes were a blur. They always were, whenever Nik and I were in a fight like this. After landing a few hits and killing both of Genevieve's little helpers, I saw Nik go down. He dropped like a sack of potatoes, and I saw red as I whirled on Genevieve.

A few moments later, Genevieve followed Nik to the ground, although she was a little more dead. I stayed standing, trying to recover from the adrenaline. After I'd had a few moments, I crouched down next to Nik.

"Hey. Nik, wake up," I said, gently shaking his shoulder to try to rouse him. After a moment, thankfully, his eyelids fluttered. A second later, he sat into a seating position, looking ready for a fight. I quickly reached out to calm him, to reassure him that we were fine.

"What happened?" he asked, eyes still a little wild, even as he saw the bodies around us and started calming down.

"You lost it. Well, we lost it. Genevieve kidnapped me to get to you, you lost it on her and her little followers over that. She seriously hurt you, so I lost it and helped you finish them off. Same thing we've been running for a thousand years. We're alright."

Nik nodded, letting out a sigh and sagging a little. Then, he looked at me with a grin.

"You'd think after a thousand years they'd learn, wouldn't you?"

I sighed. "No kidding. Maybe this'll be the one that sticks."

Nik and I shared a smile as I leaned into him, kissing him softly before standing and offering a hand to help him up. No matter where we went or how much time passed, people would probably always try to come after me and Nik. But together, we were completely unstoppable. We'd spent the last thousand years proving it, and we'd spend the next thousand doing the same.

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[emeryhiro]

Hi! Thanks so much for your epsiode breakdowns of the book of carol! I had a couple of questions for you about episode 1. No worries if you can't answer though!

1 - after watching, do you feel more or less confident about caryl going canon? Or about the same?

2- if you had to use three words to describe the ep, what would they be?

3- if you had to use three emojis to describe your fave scene, what would they be?

4- was there anything you didn't like about the ep?

5- do you think ep 6 is going to be the best episode of walking dead anything ever?

Thanks so much!!

Hey Anon!

You're so welcome 🩵 and thank you for the interesting questions 😊 I apologise in advance because my response for Q1 is going to be a little long and slightly ranty.

1 - When I compare how I felt about it in the last 10+ years to how I feel about it now after watching episode 1, I would say I definitely feel more confident that we're heading for Caryl canon. AMC indeed had plenty of opportunities to give us canon before (but obviously never did); however, the setup now is the best it's ever been. From a storytelling perspective, I believe the way Episode 1 set up Carol on her journey to find Daryl is the perfect lead-up for canon. And S02EP1 made 3 things very evident to me:

Finding Daryl is Carol's number one priority, and she'd do anything to get him back

Daryl would never be truly happy without her, and he can't stop thinking about her and how she's doing without him.

The longer they're apart, the more mentally and emotionally unstable they become.

I'm aware there are some people who think that after watching episode 1, the new season's story is not going to be the one we want for Caryl. To those people, I want to ask: Did we watch the same episode?🤣 'Cause I didn't see a single anti-Caryl thing in the episode I watched.

I'll dive into my opinion on the timing of canon a little more as well:

If Caryl had gone canon on the main show, I'm sure we would have all been so happy, but it's all going to be so much more rewarding after the tension that has now been built with Daryl after season one and Carol in season 2 (so far). With all the time they've spent apart, they have started to experience the real fear of never seeing each other again or knowing if the other is even alive.

I think this was the plan all along. The initial spin-off idea was for Carol and Daryl to leave the group and join everyone again later in the show. That opportunity to leave the group and what they experienced in that time away would have been their plan to get to that level of tension where canon was the most satisfying.

When it was decided that the TWD would end with s11, they knew they had to hold off on canon until the spinoff because there was no way they had enough screen time left to get through the character development they needed for Caryl or the opportunity to build tension the way they envisioned it.

I'm happy they waited because getting a rushed canon would've been led up to by moments that we've already seen and experienced by the characters many times before (and never previously led to canon) would not have done Caryl justice.

Unfortunately, the pattern that we consistently saw in the flagship show was that as soon the group settled somewhere (Prison, Alexandira, Commonwealth) and got into some sense of normalcy, Daryl and Carol were automatically pulled apart by circumstances and responsibilities, and barely end up getting any time together. Carol even spoke to Maggie about this in S11EP21. That's who Daryl and Carol are; they never put themselves or their wants/needs first. So, for canon to happen and to make sense, they needed to be taken away from everyone else, given their own journey and time together, without the distraction of their obligations to others.

Carol and Daryl are my favourite characters in all of fiction. I ultimately want them to be cared for and get the happiness they deserve. Some might strongly disagree with me on this, but I think if, after this point, they still don't give us canon, then it'd be because Norman and Melissa didn't want it. I'll stand by my previous comments on this; Norman and Melissa are being heard by the writers, and to me, their character arcs have their input written all over them. If they want Caryl to be canon (which I strongly believe they do), then it will be, and if they don't, then it won't be, because I don't think there's anything else holding that back anymore.

2 - EMOTIONAL, unhinged, and nostalgic

3 - 💥🛩️🌅 - I'm curious to know how you interpret these and if the people I attended the premiere with would agree ( @celtic-crossbow @maggie-atwood )

4 - I strongly disliked how the people at the nest (i.e. Isabelle & Losang) treated Daryl. We saw them constantly emotionally manipulate him in season 1, and I was still seeing that in S02EP1; however, what made it a little better this time was that Daryl was clearly sick of it all. He looked ready to wrap things up, resolve the Nest's conflicts as soon as possible, and start heading home.

5 - Idk... someone should ask Norman. I wish he'd share his thoughts on episode 6 🤣 (Yes, I do! To me, the whole season is gonna be the best season of twd anything ever because it's all about Carol and Daryl)

Thanks again for the interesting questions; they were a lot of fun for me to answer, and I hope I've answered them well. Please feel free to lmk if you have any others ♡♡♡

[livlivlivliv]

could you do hawks x fem!reader, you just came home from work, prepare for dinner, few moments ago, hawks came to your apartment for dinner, you two were together in apartment when you asked him to be lived with you, you two simply helping and eating, washing the dishes together. they honestly love each other to help it out *fluffiness*

(hope you will write it, thanks and have a good day)

you ask, you get <3

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Low heat, bubbling pots, meat ready and seasoned. The aroma of sauces and spices filled the entire kitchen. Outside the weather was cold, it had even been raining but by nightfall the only evidence left were the puddles that graced the city streets. Despite being exhausted after a long day at work, wanted to cook something hot and delicious to wait for Keigo. Some time ago you wanted to talk to him about a specific topic.

A few last fixes and spoonfuls brought to your mouth for "quality control" and the food was done. Plates and bowls were placed on the table, which was laden with your creations. Broth, noodles, vegetables, meat. Without a doubt, there is no better option than this for such a cold day. Humming a song while finished accommodating the cutlery, you heard the sliding door to the balcony open followed by a "I'm back".

Just a few seconds after his arrival you could already see him from the dining room, totally focused and guided by the aroma that the dinner gave off. "What is all this?" he asked smiling.

"You say that like i never cook" you put down the last glass and turned to face him.

"Yes but today it seems that you were inspired" he approached and took off his aviator glasses, letting them fall somewhere. He was right, usually when both of their schedules extend into the late hours of the night they limit themselves to ordering fast food.

You felt a kiss press on your forehead followed by a slight shiver. "You are so cold!" your hand traveled to his cheek to check his temperature and realize that he was indeed freezing.

"It's not one of my favorite activities to fly in this weather" looked at him compassionately.

"My poor boy" you lightly pinched his cheekbones which instantly turned a soft red "You're lucky this girl made you such an amazing dinner" said feigning superiority and making a dramatic gesture with your hand.

"You don't know how lucky I am"

The food had been delicious, not a trace of what had once been a table laden with steaming dishes. In the case of you two, didn't stop talking and laughing for a single minute, just like all the meals and moments you shared since even before you started dating. No one knows where but they both gathered strength and deigned to clean everything to wash it afterwards. Apparently they were very involved in the conversation since they almost always leave everything dirty and immediately collapse on the sofa or bed. The next day they will take care of it.

You finished reaching the last bowl to Keigo, who had been in charge of washing and you continued bothering around him. He was still in his hero outfit, only without his glasses or his jacket, you had always thought how attractive he looked without it on.

Next to him while he was washing up, you remembered the reason for dinner when he had mentioned that today he could not spend the night in your apartment since tomorrow he had some unfinished business at the agency first thing in the morning. He hated to say things like this to you after had a great time together.

"You know Kei, that's what I wanted to talk about" you started somewhat insecure.

"Tell me. Hey, why doesn't the grease come off this thing?" He said frustrated, very involved in the work, scraping the pan hard. You smiled.

"I'm more than satisfied with the time we spent together and I love receiving you here, it's practically your home too" you watched a smile form on his face and continued. "We've been dating for a while now" you kept rambling.

"And, I don't know, maybe we could... live together" you rubbed your arm shyly and pressed your lips together. "move" you finished.

You heard how the water stopped falling and you could feel his eyes looking to meet yours, you were ready to receive some negative response.

After a few seconds of silence, totally impatient, you looked up to see a smiling Keigo on the verge of tears. Your heart pounded. "Kei i-" His arms held you tightly against his chest and emotions took over you as well.

Without any intention of letting go, you returned the hug by rubbing part of his back as a comfort. You felt his nose sniff. "Sweetie? you are well?" a small laugh rumbled near your ear "Of course I would live with you."

Happiness and excitement ran through your veins, but what caught your attention the most was the opponent's reaction after finding that his voice was somewhat broken. You separated a bit and you could see that there were indeed at least two tears falling down his cheeks. His eyes sparkled.

Confused and with a shy smile, you delicately ran your fingers over the wet skin. "Kei, why are you crying?" you asked softly, his vulnerable state softening your chest and slightly crystallizing your eyes.

Keigo didn't know domesticity, didn't know the warmth of a home or the feeling of belonging. The taste of a home cooked meal and a hot stove was also unfamiliar, it sounded so foreign. Until he met you.

And for the first time he experienced what he and his inner child longed for, a home.

A home where receiving comforting hugs is something of every day, a home where there is someone who is always looking out for his well-being and does everything necessary to see him happy. A home that, despite the fact that it is snowing outside, remains warm, a home that gives off laughter and good times.

It's everything he ever dreamed of. Darkness and loneliness were no longer part of his life, not since he knew the warmth of the sun and how bright it can be. The past does not disappear, he always remembers where he came from but he prefers to turn and see where he is going. Maybe because he is an optimist.

If you wonder why he's crying, it's because for the first time he can say that has a home. And can not imagine another better than this.

luv u [masterlist]

[telomeke]

LAST TWILIGHT AND READING THE SUNSET – VISUALS, OPTICS AND ENDINGS IN BONDAGE TO THE BAHT

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Last Twilight aired its final episode on Friday 26 January 2024, and the response on BL Tumblr to how things wrapped up (at least among the majority of BL watchers whom I follow) has been a lot of head-shaking disappointment, if not exactly full-on hatred. Without the bittersweet touches we've come to expect from Director Aof as counterballast for his trademark uplifting sentimentality, the ending came across as unforgivably sappy and sugary-sweet for many of us.

And I found myself agreeing with a lot of the criticism being flung at Last Twilight – for the ardent Noppharnachionados accustomed to more nuanced, thought-provoking output from Director Aof (Moonlight Chicken comes immediately to mind) the final episode of Last Twilight (and especially the fourth instalment, Part [4/4]) felt very boxer-gloved, rushing to hit its marks but then only clobbering bluntly at the surface, never venturing deeper and lacking subtlety at every turn.

But I've been giving it a once-over, because it's a little surprising to me that Khun Noppharnach (who's such an expert at his craft) could land quite the dud that some, including me, were so uncharitably calling Last Twilight.

And I now think – as Khun Noppharnach has done so many times before – he may very well be trolling us again. Because on my rewatch, I'm finding that the narrative holds certain clues that Director Aof was possibly quite conscious of what he was doing with Ep.12 of Last Twilight. On closer inspection it's a whole lot cleverer than it seems (maybe a bit too clever for its own good) – but it does require much sign-reading though (and caveat: I'm not a trained or professional tea leaf reader!). 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, after a speed-run rewatch of the 12 episodes (just skimming the surface really, so forgive me if I overlook anything) I've decided I need to reconsider a lot of my preliminary judgement about Last Twilight's final episode (and the series in general). I now think it actually does satisfy on a number of levels (even while it continues to disappoint on so many others). But because of work and other commitments though, this post is very late (still, better late than never I guess!)

I'm not wanting to spend too much time on the text and subtext, because it's the metatextual level of Last Twilight (what this BL says about BL) that intrigues me the most. But this is going to be a super-long post anyway.

In many ways Last Twilight was a departure from Director Aof's usual work, and the most obvious was its return to the structure and content typical of a traditional romance drama. Khun Noppharnach had actually moved away from this in his output over the past few years (once again, Moonlight Chicken is the paragon of examples; Bad Buddy nodded at this, if only to subvert it and signal to us that Khun Noppharnach was attempting an overhaul of LGBTQ+ depictions in the BL industry).

Some background to start things off – BL, including Thai BL, owes a lot to het romance dramas that set the archetypal framework early on, and early BLs often followed that inherited formula very closely (I think SOTUS and Together with Me fit this bill).

Painting with the broadest of brushstrokes, a stereotypical (het) romance drama can usually be expected to structure its narrative according to the following:

The meeting of the protagonists, usually a fraught mix of attraction and friction;

They go on a journey of falling in love with each other (and we get to watch along);

A major conflict arises to test their love and commitment;

They triumph over the conflict and end up happily ever after (most of the time) or are overcome by it (and the love story ends tragically, some of the time).

As a lot of romance stories are targeted at women, typically the female protagonist in a het romance drama is the center of attention, and the story is told from her point of view as well.

And because of their het predecessors, early BLs also tended to depict their couples with a masculine/feminine framing (which could also be spun out into a dominant/submissive and/or active/passive dynamic – the dreaded seme/uke binary).

Director Aof took a wrecking ball to all that with Bad Buddy (upending the structure, subverting the conflict, dispensing with seme/uke), and his works have since veered toward more-rounded LGBTQ+ drama, centered around romance, but forgoing the stereotypical structure and beats of more traditional romance dramas.

But if you think about it, Last Twilight actually hews quite closely back to the original template.

For example, Mhok is a big, scruffy ex-convict and mechanic, stereotypically masculine – the proverbial seme – while Day is slighter, younger and a Mama's boy (despite what Night says at Ep.10 [2/4] 16.24) leaning into uke territory.

The structure was pretty traditional as well:

The early entanglements of Mhok and Day were a mix of antagonism and attraction;

They went on a journey of falling in love with each other despite their differences, that we were allowed to witness – we had "masculine" Mhok losing his heart to "feminine" Day first, with the seme then pursuing his grumpy uke (a tsundere?) and subjecting us to plenty of swoonworthy Aaaaw moments as Mhok piled on much tenderness, care and affection;

The major conflict that tested their love and commitment was actually Day's questioning of Mhok's motivations, leading to their rupture in the clichéd Episode 11 of Doom;

They triumphed over the conflict after Mhok returned and demonstrated that he'd grown and learnt his lessons in meeting Day's less visible needs – not very convincingly though (and I think this is one part where a lot of us feel extremely let down by the narrative) – but it was enough to sweep Day off his feet once again, and they got their happily ever after.

There was some padding in the middle (including the obligatory out-of-town tourism jaunt – I'm convinced BLs that do this receive grants from the Tourism Authority, and in Last Twilight we were treated to a sojourn in Songkhla). The show really had to work stretching things out over 11 episodes (which was why, for me, the pacing started to drag in the second half). But overall I think the structure of Last Twilight marks a faithful return to BLs (and het romances) of older times.

With regard to characterization, Day rendered progressively hapless and helpless as his vision declined made him easy to read as a damsel-in-distress, the object of savior-knight Mhok's affections and ministrations. It's thus also unsurprising when we were shown more of Day's point of view than Mhok's (just as we usually get to see more of a heroine's interior journey in traditional het romance dramas than her romantic foil's). Last Twilight was nodding at the past once more, asking us again to view it through the lens of an old-school (BL) romance drama.

A lot of romance dramas also tend to be intellectually lightweight – some are pure sentimental, throwaway indulgence – and if we place Last Twilight somewhere on the less demanding end of the spectrum, it's a more than serviceable example of the genre and has in fact more heft than most. (I was expecting it to land more in queer drama territory as has most of Khun Noppharnach's work, and the fact that it only half did contributed a lot to my sense of disappointment at the end.)

But as a lighter piece of trad BL fluff, Last Twilight did punch above its weight class very often. And all of the discourse around vision and Day's increasing blindness was the early tip-off to one of its weightier, central themes – that of seeing and being seen in the light of one's truth.

As his vision faded, Day found himself subject to his greatest fear – of being seen as less than his truth, especially when by all accounts he had been a storied and admired athlete prior to his visual debilitation. Day was still the same person despite his loss of vision, and he was painfully reminded of this fact every time those around him forgot it. Last Twilight deftly showed us that his early snark and cynicism were a brittle defense against being seen as nothing more than an object of pity, the ghost of his former self (which is what Mee/Me in the novel Last Twilight was also about).

There are many examples of this, e.g., when he avoided his friends after blindness set in, and his meltdown at the party they threw him after a rapprochement (Ep.6 [3‌/4] 20.12, when it became clear they viewed him as a weakling in need of rescue at the first sign of trouble, inferior to his previous incarnation as an athletic champion). The story arc with August's feigned romantic interest was also another of Day's nightmares coming true, being exactly the sort of innocently insulting and unconsciously condescending treatment he was trying to avoid.

And of course this was the reason behind his break-up with Mhok in Episode 11, when he sensed that Mhok's care and concern were in part tied to a notion of Day as being less than whatever the nebulous concept of "normal" was in his head. (For context, Mhon and Day have an exchange about the meaning of a "normal" life for Day at Ep.10 [2/4] 7.35), Mhok talks about Day wanting to be "normal" at Ep.11 [1‌/4] 10.22, and Mhon reminds Day of his wish to be "normal" at Ep.12 [3‌/4] 16.29). Despite – or maybe because of – how objectionable the word may be, I think Last Twilight is inviting us to question our ideas about it too.)

So a large part of Day's story arc involved him overcoming his own hang-ups and dealing with how he was seen by the world around him, to stand in the light of his own truth (as a proud member of the differently abled community).

Mhok's character also had a parallel journey. Excluding those who knew him well, society refused to see beyond his rough-hewn persona (and his prison background too, it must be said). His options in life were thus limited by how he was always seen as an outsider, and subjected to othering because his presence was invariably associated with negativity, risk and harm.

But as Mhok demonstrated time and again, his truth (that for the longest time only Porjai and maybe Rung could seem to see) was far less violent and menacing than what was read by the people around him. And his character's journey toward self-actualization in Last Twilight was to arrive at a life truer to his inner self, noting that what we see at the beginning of the series is Mhok trying valiantly to live up to his ruffian image, prone to fights and aggression. With this, it's possible to read that Mhok himself was unable to comprehend fully his own inner impulses, and it was only his time as caregiver and later faen in Day's life that opened his eyes to living out his more nurturing, other-focused energy within (and that must have served him well too, in his later career as a chef crafting dishes for others to enjoy).

In contrast to Day, whose struggle was also about being seen for his truth while cast (by others) in a negative light, Mhok chose to align himself with whatever role the world put him in (whether it was a rabble-rouser mechanic, a straight boyfriend to Porjai, or a guardian to the infantilized Day) whereas Day chose to reject any outsider-determined identity outright. And Mhok failed at his roles mostly because they were inauthentic to his truth, except for his time as Day's caregiver. For the first time there Mhok's failure was different, not because the caregiving recognized his own truth (coming from kindness and softness within) but because it did not recognize Day's truth (as his approach to taking care of Day still perpetuated the invalidation of Day's wholeness as a person).

Mhok and Day's names are also a quiet hat tip to this – with Mhok's name (หมอก, that means fog or mist) also a metaphor for how visibility of the truth behind his amorphous self was obscured for the longest time, while Day's name (actually the English word day, with all its connotations of light and clarity) is a metaphor for how he was clear about his own truth and identity from the start, but needed to be seen correctly, undistorted by any filter of shame or pity.

However, GMMTV's commercial insistence on pair branding worked somewhat against the characterizations – my read is that Day was probably written as much more fragile in appearance (belying the tough athlete that he really was beyond surface impressions, and explaining the tendency of his friends, family and caregivers to want to infantilize him post-blindness). As an aside, badminton is one of those sports that forgives a certain delicacy of frame, as it rewards lightness and agility more than brute strength on the court. Meanwhile Mhok was (I think) written as this big beast of a man whose appearance would scare off all but the most foolhardy, meaning that his innate kindness and sensitivity would remain unseen by most.

Unfortunately Sea is built pretty sturdily as an actual badminton athlete (and he's tall as well) while dermatologist Jimmy is just too porcelain-skinned and delicate-featured pull off any convincing evocation of physical brutishness. Pity, because the pair do have chemistry and their acting was mostly credible in Last Twilight (especially from Sea, who brings an easy and natural charm to his portrayals).

Anyway, I can suss out two visual metaphors in the series that illustrate the ideas described above. But as the analysis of these metaphors is also long, I've moved it all away into its own post linked here: The Fishtank and the Flowers. I found both metaphors to be fascinating (the goldfish aquarium, as well as the pairing of the jasmine with the sunflower), but it was the blooms especially that took me by surprise (when it became clearer which was assigned to Mhok and which to Day). 🤩

So while we're on the characters though, here's an aside about the criticism of how Mhok was treated by the narrative and the outrage surrounding his apology at Ep.12 [2/4] 10.55. Yes, he had been a selfless caregiver and a caring lover, but there were also numerous examples of him treating Day as less than an adult with his own agency, doing to Day what August, Mhon and the replacement caregiver (Assistant Director Meng Chaiyapat's extended cameo, at Ep.10 [2/4] 0.27) had done, by controlling the playbook and removing Day's choice and say in matters directly related to his own life. Some examples of where Mhok fell short:

Pretending not to find the copy of Last Twilight in the Chatuchak secondhand bookstore, gaslighting Day into believing it was his own discovery (Ep.3 [3‌/4] 9.41) – you might lie to a kid about Santa Claus (and I'm divided about that), but nevertheless Day was not a kid and should not have been treated like one.

Lying about Night's involvement in their plan to see Mount Veha (Ep.8 [1‌/4] 17.34) – more gaslighting.

Going back on his word and telling Mhon and Night about Day winning the dancing garland (Ep.11 [4/4] 7.35) – this was just plain disrespectful, especially after Day had shared his mixed feelings about the "win" (Ep.11 [4/4] 1.45).

Taking advantage of Day's blindness to prank him (Ep.11 [3‌/4] 7.32 and Ep.11 [4/4] 3.38) – unless Day liked surprises (of which I see no sign) laughs derived from exploiting someone's vulnerabilities are never to be lauded (please don't jumpscare the blind, people).

And the ultimate – lying about the job offer in Hawaii, which was the last straw for Day (Ep.11 [4/4] 10.51).

All the above might have come from a place of love, motivated out of the goodness of Mhok's heart – but even if they were meant to uplift or support Day, his actions were all disrespectful (even damaging) to Day's own agency and personal situation as someone struggling with visual disability.

In this light (pun intended) I had to re-think my judgement of Mhok's apology to Day in Ep.12, because he did need to learn to care for Day on terms acceptable to Day as well, and not have expected him to give that up just because he needed care.

Now because it's Khun Noppharnach, it will always be possible to give a queer reading to his work. So Day's dread at being seen as less than what society perceives as "normal", and Mhok's struggle with his status as the feared and misunderstood "other", can both be read as stand-ins for (some parts of) the LGBTQ+ experience, where full acceptance of the queer minority has yet to become the norm for most, if not all, societies. But I guess that should be obvious to all by now.

Anyway, there's a whole lot more burbling within Last Twilight that can be explored at length, but as I've gone on too long already I'm simply going to mention them here and then skip on:

The novel Last Twilight that features so prominently everywhere within the series (that not-so-coincidentally shares its name) is rich with significance as a parallel to (and comment on) Mhok and Day's own story, especially with Mee/Me's struggle to be seen in a world often blind to her presence.

Day becoming increasingly unseen as the neverending night of blindness became his defining identity is mirrored by Mee/Me needing to step away from darkness in order to be seen by the world around her (and her light-chasing is also a parallel for the sun-seeking of the sunflower, Day's totemic bloom, and in that way another metaphor for Day's reliance on external validation – see this write-up linked here for more elaboration on that aspect of Day's personality).

Day's blindness was not at all the first time Khun Noppharnach has used a form of health-related affliction as a metaphor for the queer condition, highlighting the parallels of the LGBTQ+ experience with the social model of disability. Other examples of this in his work include Heart's deafness in Moonlight Chicken, Tian's and Med's heart conditions in A Tale of Thousand Stars and He's Coming to Me respectively (the latter maybe less so though) and Pran's obsessive-compulsive disorder in Bad Buddy.

Also in He's Coming to Me, Med's predicament as a ghost subject to all sorts of constraints in the world of the living, as well as his invisibility to those insensitive to his situation, was a parallel with Last Twilight's theme of being seen for your true self even as the wider world imposes restrictions on you, and is similarly an allegory for the LGBTQ+ experience as well.

Last Twilight's ideas about seeing and being seen correctly were also touched on (somewhat briefly) in Bad Buddy, in the discourse around Ink's camera, photography and Pat/Pa's contact lenses.

Mhok's journey was milestoned with numerous examples of the food = love trope, in which he could be seen giving of himself through the creation of dishes and meals for others.

(above) Last Twilight Ep.11 [2/4] 0.39 – Mhok's gift of Black Chicken Soup (ซุปไก่ดำมา) to Porjai is but one of many examples in the series of him showing his love to others through his cooking; in this instance Black Chicken Soup (made by double-boiling silkie chicken with medicinal herbs) is a traditional Chinese preparation, warm and comforting, that is considered particularly nourishing for moms newly post-partum and is also popular in Thailand for the same reason

This is paralleled also by Mhon and her career as a chef (especially when she ladled soup out for her ex-husband in Ep.12, which is a bittersweet Noppharnach touch with reams of cultural backstory – but that's fodder for another post though).

And Assistant Director Au Kornprom's cameo as chef-de-cuisine in Singha's hotel continues a meta-level portrayal of his role in BL as some sort of leader, instructor, teacher or creator with a select group as the intended beneficiaries of his work (see these links here and here for other examples).

(above) Assistant Director Au Kornprom Niyomsil pops up in a cameo as Chef Tom in Last Twilight Ep.11 [2/4] 9.47 

I think Director Aof is announcing that Khun Kornprom is his designated successor as the next generation BL director at GMMTV who will (perhaps) be carrying on a measure of queer activism within his own output.

And that brings me to what I think Last Twilight might be saying on a metatextual level.

What I'm going to be babbling on about here reaches not only into Last Twilight for some clues as to its comments about the wider BL industry, but also to some messaging in Khun Noppharnach's earlier (though still recent) work, because I think it all does come together to paint a picture of some significance.

In the names and chromatic metaphors of Moonlight Chicken (see this link here), Director Aof signaled that unseen persons in authority were increasingly making their political presence felt, especially where financial motivations were concerned (caveat: I think this is a reference to power play within GMMTV and perhaps the BL industry itself, not a comment on the wider political scene in Thailand).

And Director Aof's various cameos in MLC (written up here) as well as its themes of generational renewal and the struggles to leave the past behind, also seemed to be messaging that some of this conflict between artistic/activist directions and commercial considerations were possibly taking a personal toll even as he continued his career within the BL industry.

I would have left it at that, but then when the Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars episodes had their turn on our screens in 2023, it became clear that Director Aof was saying something quite forcefully about the telling of queer stories in the media, especially in situations when queer people have less control over the narrative (as is the case with Y-series churned out by commercial studios for mass market consumption; see this write-up here for the analysis).

So based on the above together, this is my read of the situation.

Khun Noppharnach has been signaling that because of the profit motive, queer creators in the BL world are under increasing pressure from higher up to return to more commercially-lucrative storytelling, perhaps in the form of more stereotypical romances the way Last Twilight was structured. (Whether this pressure is from within the producing organization or from the wider political sphere I do not know nor wish to speculate.)

As a consequence, QL shows are being made to veer away from recounting stories that are authentic to the LGBTQ+ experience (which was the warning embedded in Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars), dialing back content that speaks with a queer voice to queer people (though of course non-queers are welcome to watch along, because after all a good story is a good story).

If the above is true, then the tidal pull of commercial goals may soon be dragging more output back toward the more romanticized imaginings of same-sex love seen before in formulaic (but arguably more profitable) BLs of old, with an emphasis on catering to mass market demand (largely represented by – whether rightly or wrongly – marketing perceptions of the cishet female teen gaze).

And all of this circles back to Last Twilight, which is an example of this return to the past, and perhaps explains in part why its ending feels so unsatisfactory for a lot of us.

I'm very much convinced at this point that the finale (with its hated timeskip, Mhok's spiffed-up but stagey return, his emotionally hollow reconciliation with Day, and especially all the schmaltzy vignettes post-couplehood part deux) is but a conscious reaction to political gameplay from echelons above. For Last Twilight, I'm sensing (guessing?) that Director Aof and his team were coerced not just to stay faithful to the traditional formula of BLs past, but also to shove in an unmitigated Happily Ever After for the branded pair of JimmySea, without any of the hallmark Noppharnach countercurrents to undercut the sweetness (or else).

And perhaps in a burst of inspired-slash-malicious compliance, the team took on the mandate for the HEA and ran with it, churning out a saccharine, nutritionally-deficient lump of candy and unceremoniously tacking it on as the ending of what had otherwise been a fairly measured and self-aware BL from the start. And it really sticks out – but I think it was meant to.

I may be misreading the tea leaves again, but to me the signs of the above are myriad. Here's some of what I think Director Aof is telling us about Last Twilight's subversion of the ending, embedded within the narrative and visuals:

Master Aon's name is signaling (to me at least) a parallel with Director Aof's name (Aon/Aof, On/Off, Onscreen/Offscreen, get it? 😆). He even has a similar look, with his wispy mustache, earring and floppy hair.

Noting that Aon was a respected, good-natured guru who'd already trodden happily the path that Day was on, this reads like a rendering of Director Aof's own role (that I'm tempted to say is self-defined, though it's my own reading really) as a queer elder imparting the wisdom of his own experience to younger queer people viewing his work. (Also, both Aon and Aof are gurus of BL who've had their vision stolen from them.) And if Kruu Aon was recommending acolyte Day to read the novel Last Twilight for the metaphorical lessons within (we were reminded of this many times: see Ep.3 [2/4] 9.08, Ep.8 [4/4] 1.07 and Ep.9 [4/4] 9.26), I think Kruu Aof is recommending that we look at the series Last Twilight more closely as well to learn of something similar.

Last Twilight the series is full of references to endings. And if the novel Last Twilight has been signaled as the roadmap to Director Aof's thinking behind the series, the missing last page and epilogue in Day's copy suggests that – just like the book version – Last Twilight the series is actually (and deliberately) open-ended.

But the messaging doesn't just stop there. We are also called upon to manifest the ending we want (if what we're presented with doesn't meet our expectations). For example, Mhok hated the ending of Last Twilight the novel (although Day liked it –see Ep.9 [4/4] 13.23). And he then conflated this with his disappointment at the lackluster twilight on Mount Veha as well.

But through the power of imagination Day helped Mhok see the beauty of the sunset there (Ep.9 [4/4] 16.28) – on one level it's a trite "Life is what you make it" sort of statement, but on another it also reads like a call to action ("You can change what you don't like"). And I like to think it also embodies Last Twilight's theme of recalibrating your own way of seeing things, and looking beyond surface visuals to find the truth that speaks to you (which, in a sense, is what I'm doing now, hah!). But when applied to Last Twilight at a meta level – I think we're also being reminded that a picture-perfect ending (such as Last Twilight's Ep.12 [4/4]) can also hide the reality of gloomy clouds behind the artifice overlaid by human intervention.

Another sign that the ending of Last Twilight deserves a closer look is all the flapping about between innkeeper Cherry, Mhok and Day around the missing last page of Day's book in the Ep.9 [4/4] scene starting at timestamp 2.38.

(above) Last Twilight Ep.9 [4/4] 3.11 – Cherry tears out the last page of her copy of the novel and forces it on Mhok and Day

I'm putting in a detour for a closer look at Cherry here. She was the unsentimental custodian of her father's guesthouse, with a personality that blew hot and cold (like the weather in the south, referenced at Ep.9 [4/4] 2.12). The guesthouse seemed comfortable enough, although Mhok found it less than welcoming (Ep.9 [3‌/4] 6.39). And Cherry herself was also a strange mix of brusque and friendly. She was more concerned about cash than MhokDay's lack of shelter at Ep.9 [3‌/4] 7.36, but warmed up to them later when they explained their Mount Veha quest (allowing them to stay, treating them to a musical evening with her guitar, and accepting the payment deferral). She preferred the old way of doing things (cash only, no online transfers) and had once hosted David, the author of Last Twilight the novel, at the guesthouse.

Based on the above, I'm thinking that Cherry is a representation of Director Aof's dual role at GMMTV, where he is both a creative (director and sometime screenwriter) as well as part of management (senior director of content production, at time of writing). And in Last Twilight we see this duality acknowledged both in Cherry's mercurial double nature, as well as in the capricious weather of Songkhla. The guesthouse, on the other hand, is a representation of GMMTV itself. On the management side, Director Aof has to make and/or implement decisions on behalf of the company even though it isn't really his (just as Cherry runs what was once her dad's). GMMTV is warm and hospitable enough to the performers in its stable, but as a commercial enterprise it has to prioritize financials above most (if not all) other considerations (symbolized by the guesthouse's paradoxically comfy yet unwelcoming air, and also Cherry's indifference to MhokDay's cashless plight). Director Aof's creative focus is the arts (represented by Cherry's musical interlude) but GMMTV itself prefers the old ways of making money, i.e., old-style BLs (and this is symbolized by the guesthouse unwilling or unable to explore new ways of collecting rent with no online transfers). And just as the guesthouse hosted David, whose bittersweet ending to Last Twilight the novel wasn't satisfying to salt-of-the-earth Mhok (standing in for the tastes of the mass market), GMMTV also hosts under its roof Director Aof, the auteur behind Last Twilight the series (whose original ending I suspect may not have pleased other GMMTV bigwigs in management, and who then enforced a change). Some of this is illustrated in part by the scene just before Mhok and Day departed from the guesthouse. When Mhok and Day asked Cherry to keep her autographed copy of the novel, she instead tore out the (signed) ending from her book and thrust it into their hands. And when Day asked if it had a happy ending – she jokingly tried to grab it back, saying "Find the ending yourselves." To me this is a metaphor that the original ending of Last Twilight the series is actually unknown to us, and the ending we got was forced into the narrative from the outside (because it's what the fans want, according to GMMTV speaking in Cherry's voice at Ep.9 [4/4] 3.15 – "I think it's more important to you than me"). And it has official sanction too (symbolized by the author's signature), indicating that Director Aof (David in another incarnation) may not have had a choice (since we're shown that the author's stamp of approval was artificially inserted into a different book instead). It also suggests (in the "Find the ending yourselves") that Director Aof was aware of how that artificial transplantation was going to be negatively received by some diehard Noppharnach fans, and he's saying to us – "Take the ending that's been given you", but at the same time "Find your own meaning in it".

And then Day tells us in no uncertain terms basically the same message, at Ep.12 [4/4] 3.37 ("We were made to discover our own preferred version of the novel’s finale").

The narrative actually tells us quite boldly in the first part of Episode 12 that we can expect the finale to start unraveling because of outside interference – I actually think this is the message behind Director Aof's cameo at Ep.12 [1‌/4] 10.01:

Mocked up as a hotel porter, Director Aof offered a guiding hand to Day – but at timestamp 10.06 Mhok suddenly inserted himself into the scene in an act of direct supplantation:

(above) Last Twilight Ep.12 [1‌/4] 10.06 – Mhok steps in and supplants hotel porter Aof (he of the white gloves)

To me this was unambiguously signaling that from this point onward the proceedings would no longer be under the guiding hand of Khun Noppharnach. In addition, hotel porter Aof's gloved hands were pure white, unbesmirched and free from stain, conveying the message that Director Aof was innocent and blameless of the plot shenanigans that were to follow. To underscore the point, we were then shown Day taking a misstep under new (non-Aof) guidance at Ep.12 [1‌/4] 11.20:

(above) Last Twilight Ep.12 [1‌/4] 11.20 – Day stumbles without hotel porter Aof's guidance, even as Last Twilight the series begins to falter

This was jarringly out of tone, given Day's confidence in his life as a blind person, as well as Mhok's previous – and very conscientious – stint as caregiver to Day the first time around (he would instinctively stand between Day and any physical risk, and place a protective hand over protrusions that Day might bump his head on, for example). The message from this visually dissonant moment is that we should expect the ending to stumble as well, without Khun Noppharnach guiding the process.

So what can we make of the ending with this in mind? I can live with the timeskip, Mhok's return, and the eventual reunion of our main pair. These are all somewhat expected beats in a standard romance drama – and if that's what Last Twilight is setting itself up as, I won't begrudge it the tropey hallmarks that some do love (though I do think some parts could have been handled better). I even liked the airport run for all of its brash, silly sentimentality (yes, Love Actually is one of my favorite films).

But where I think Last Twilight really falls off a Veha cliff is when it starts lobbing at us a plethora of candy-sweet dreams unrealistically brought to life, one after another, in Ep.12 [4/4]. We have:

Ep.12 [4/4] 0.51 – Surprise! Day can see;

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Ep.12 [4/4] 1.18 – Multiple scenes showing Day rejoining the world of the sighted, enjoying activities that were once denied to him (like reading and badminton) both alone and in the company of loved ones;

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Ep.12 [4/4] 4.01 – Family time! Mhok introduces Day as his partner to his deceased family at their memorial niches, and then we see Mhok very much integrated into Day's family (signified by his pasta dish receiving chef Mhon's stamp of approval) even as we see Night and Porjai joyfully announcing another imminent addition to the numbers;

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Ep.12 [4/4] 8.06 – Mhok and Day get a Mount Veha do-over, talk about the novel's ending and then act out the ending to their own love story.

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It's all just too, too fairytale, with happy news piled atop happy news, and just reeks of artificial sap and fakery.

But that's just it – I think that Director Aof and team were actually faking it. Remembering that the novel Last Twilight's full title is Last Twilight: Until the Last Light Goes Out, take a look at how each of the above little snippets of happiness is finished off – each draws to a close with its own Fade-to-Black.

Now the Fade-to-Black is a device borrowed from theater – in a stage play snuffing the lights for a few minutes of total darkness allows scenes to acquire a sense of separation, completion and closure while giving the crew time to change the sets. But here in Last Twilight it feels like we're being pitched happy ending after unrelated happy ending, each competing with the previous in the too-good-to-be-true stakes.

In the title of the novel, we're told to hold on until the last light goes out. Just when is that last light exactly though? There are so many here that each Fade-to-Black begins to feel not just like closure, but like a little death each time. (Also pertinent to note: MhokDay's kiss under that glorious sunset at Ep.12 [4/4] 13.26 gets replaced by a sky of gray clouds instead at Ep.12 [4/4] 13.37.)

Director Aof is really hammering home his point that traditional Happily Ever Afters in romance stories can be shallow and unsatisfactory, and is making us miss the trademark melancholy that propped up the wistful sentimentality in the closing scenes of his previous works.

However, much of the above is what Last Twilight is saying about Last Twilight.

At the metatextual level, what the show is communicating about BLs as a whole is even more somber. I think Director Aof is messaging that for the BL industry to head toward a happy, satisfying ending (if it really is being pushed down to lowest common denominator levels by commercial interests), it's up to us the viewers to manifest that and make it happen (just as Mee/Me and Day did for their own stories). How this might be done, I do not know. Lobbying GMMTV perhaps? Complaining ever more loudly about what this did to Last Twilight when it could have been so much more?

I rather suspect that unfortunately our numbers may not be sufficient to bring about change – the majority of Last Twilight fans actually seemed to like the final wrap-up and its fairytale ending (at least based on the reviews I've seen on MyDramaList). It's only among the more adult (and dare I say it – discerning?) viewership here in the BL sphere on Tumblr are we seeing more robust critiques of the series, mourning the greatness that could have been.

Last Twilight was a good BL all the way up to Ep.12 I think. And then it looks like we were purposely let down, to make a point about BL endings. As always, Director Aof is having the last laugh – and he lets us know this during the end credits.

For it's then that we see the various photographs that were taken by characters throughout the series but never shown to us before (it's strangely moving, and makes me think of the ending to Cinema Paradiso when Salvatore finally gets to view the priest's cut in one long montage as a final gift from Alfredo beyond the grave).

(above) The end credits of Last Twilight, replaying the scenes where the characters were photographed, alongside the images captured in the moment that hitherto were not shown to us

It's in the ending that we're finally getting to see the director's point of view (and hidden message) from his vantage point behind the camera, just as we're only getting to see those photographs (that were originally unseen by their subjects, and privy only to the one taking the photograph) right at the very end.

And the final shot? We get the whole cast and crew making the "span" gesture (that an almost-sightless Day used to approximate the distance at which he could still make things out visually, before his vision left him totally).

It's a loving salute to Last Twilight for sure, but can we perhaps detect a hint of mockery in the way it also resembles the Forehead-L for Loser gesture from the 1990s? Or a hint of a threat in the way it looks like a gun cocked and pointing? The gesture is also Thai sign language for the letter ล, which is somewhat the equivalent of the letter 'L'. And with so many 'L's or 'ล's in that shot, it's making me think of 'LOLOLOL' and also ลล standing in for ล้อเล่น/laaw len, which means Just kidding.

Is it all just a coincidence? I wouldn't put it past Aof for it not to be. But whatever it all means, I really do think he's having a hearty (if somewhat bitter) last laugh. 😔💖

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Kun3h0 Accessories DLC + Patch Notes v.1.0.1

Added:

GAB accessory

Karrot-98 accessory

Changed:

Updated top.

Fixed hair bug. (Hair would easily slip off model.)

Minor improvements.

(More pics and notes under the cut.)

So I finally finished up Kun3h0's accessories and fixed up her top.

So, we've got her GAB and her drill, the Karrot-98.

GAB started out as this little dino thing that I just cut up and sculpted onto.

The original plan was to sculpt onto the original arms after I cut off the wings, but they kept bumping into the head, so I opted to completely resculpt them.

Now they can still turn their head, but that's the only point of articulation. I really should have sanded it more, you can really see the texture still in the clay, but such as it is.

The collar isn't the most elegant thing in the world, but at least it's there~ It's also disappointing that I couldn't get the edges of her screen completely straight and even, but it is what it is.

Overall, I think it's a decent recreation of the original design, even if the purples aren't quite right.

I should take a pic of them next to my other GAB recreations so y'all can really see the difference in scale. I believe this is the smallest GAB I've made so far, and also the only one that has the big heart-shaped tail~

Next is the Karrot-98, Kun3h0's magical drill. I don't have any "before" pictures, but it's made from another accessory that came with the doll, a little clay, and a piping tip that I had lying around + extras.

I don't have a set design for the Karrot yet, so I just kinda painted it with colors I already mixed. When Kun3h0's holding it, it does kinda get lost in the pinks of her outfit, but by itself I think it looks fine. If I come up with a better color scheme for it, then maybe I'll repaint it.

Next, I completely re-did her top. This time, I doused all the fabric in fray-check first to keep it from pulling apart while I was sewing it together, and I completely redid the sleeves. Originally, I had painted the arm guards onto the sleeves because I didn't think of any other way to do it. This time I tried making them with craft foam to better replicate that they're supposed to be two different materials. I'd say it was mostly successful.

Since it's kind of a pain to slip the sleeve into the guards, I don't have any pics of the top without them on, but the sleeves are more form fitting, so the top looks more like a proper tracksuit without the guards on. It's a slightly better look than the original IMO, but it's still not perfect: the guards are basically like a Miku sleeve, so you can still see into them even though the only opening is supposed to be through the cuff (which are barely visible in this pic, but they can stick out for a more accurate look.)

I would show the new top next to the old one, but I kinda destroyed the old one trying to test ideas for this new one XP (in fact, the collar IS from the old one, I just ripped it off and reapplied it to this one).

Lastly, I fixed her wig a little bit.

I don't have pics of it, but I just stuck some velcro to her scalp and the inside of the wig, so now it should stop slipping off while still being removable.

I'm just against completely gluing it down because I still have a lot of yarn left from this project, so I would eventually like to make her some alternate hairstyle wigs just to use up the yarn.

Now I feel pretty confident in saying that she's actually "done." There are a few places that I could touch up with paint, but as for "making" anything else for this doll, I did everything I really wanted to do.

Admittedly, Kun3h0 is one of my most self-indulgent designs (as though everything I make isn't in some way self-indulgent), so to have a physical object which embodies so much of what I like, truly satisfies me. We'll see if I still feel that way about her a week from now, but at the moment, she is the culmination of almost every creative skill I have, and I'm very pleased with the results of that effort, more so than possibly anything else I've ever made~ <3

I may post more pics of her when I can actually dedicate some time to making a proper scene and/or backdrop. There's a lot of little details that I like that I haven't really taken pics of. I dunno if I have the courage to do it, but it'd be cool to take some pics in an actual arcade with her~

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Oblivious

Pairing- Wooyoung x Named Reader

Word count- 6k

Includes- oral, pussy eating, shower sex, sex from behind, wall sex, blow job, cum eating, riding, missionary, multiple orgasms, fluff

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J POV

"Jung, Wooyoung, I'm going to murder you!", I yell, pounding on the bathroom door

My roommate is a fucking asshole

I told him I was going to take a shower and the little shit ran into the bathroom to get in first

I know he can hear me over the water

I will break the door down if I have to

"Wooyoung! This is an asshole move!"

"Get over it!", he yells

He is so fucking infuriating

Seriously, he's a great roommate and a really good friend but he's fucking irritating

Fuck this

Going into my room, I get a few bobby pins and march back to the bathroom door

Unbending the bobby pins, I stick them in the lock and start moving and jiggling them

Yeah I was a bad kid when I was a teenager

My first boyfriend was a total bad boy and taught me how to pick locks

I wait for the tale tell click, then smirk when I hear it

He's so gonna get it now

He's walked in on me so many times on purpose to fuck with me and now he's gonna know what it feels like

Turning the knob, I slam the door open, it hitting the wall and him yelling in fright

"What the fuck Joanne?"

"You fucking asshole! You knew I was gonna shower and you ran here to get it first like a fucking toddler!"

He looks at me and shrugs, "You snooze you lose"

"Wooyoung!", I shout

"C'mon Jo what do you want from me?"

"Get out!"

"I'm showering!"

"I don't care! This is supposed to be my shower time!"

He raises his eyebrow at me, "Now who's acting like a toddler"

"Wooyoung!"

"Alright. I'm not done yet so just come in"

"Excuse me?", I snap

He sighs dramatically, "Just come in"

"Are you fucking insane?"

He has got to be insane

"God it's not a big deal. You'll get your shower time. I'll leave as soon as I'm done. And it'll save water."

I can't believe this

His suggestion and the fact that I'm thinking about it

But I know nothing will happen

Wooyoung is gay

In the past three years we've lived together, I've only seen him with guys

So I know he won't be affected seeing me naked

Me on the other hand, I'll be turned on

Against my judgement and just being plain stupid, I've fallen for Wooyoung

Of course I know it'll never work

But it's just his personality

Yes he's irritating, immature and annoying in some ways but he's also very sweet, kind and caring

He's been there for me when I needed someone

Comforted me when I was overwhelmed or when I had a break up, hugging me, cuddling me, cooking for me and making me laugh

All those qualities made me feel something I should never have felt for him

I just gotta get over it is all

And while I'll be turned on in the shower with him, I can control myself

And he expects me to say no by his smirk

I'll show him

"Fine", I say, watching his eyes widen and his mouth drop

"Uh ok?", he asks

"Yup. I'm coming in", I say, pulling my shirt over my head

I'm not wearing a bra and I feel exposed but then I remember that I do not turn him on

That makes it easier to do this and next I pull my pj shorts and panties down

Then going to the shower, I open the door and get in

When I turn around to Wooyoung I'm satisfied at his look of disbelief

"Well, I'm here", I announce, trying not to oogle his amazing body

His abs, his chest, his shoulders, his thighs, fuck

I refuse to look at his cock though

There's no use in getting excited and it probably isn't hard anyway so I won't see much

"Move over"

I shove him lightly, stepping under the warm water

At least Wooyoung knows the right temperature to put the water on

It's perfect and just how I like it

"Hey your hogging all the water!"

I snort, moving over a little, "There you big baby"

He stands next to me, under the water too, his body almost touching mine

Our shower is a decent sized, with enough room for both of us

Thank god for that

Ignoring him, I move my fingers in my hair to get every strand wet

I have really long thick hair

Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it

Right now I hate it because I know a lot is going to come out

Clumps

Always in the shower

It's frustrating

I feel Wooyoung move closer, reaching over me to get his soap, I guess, when I feel something brush against my thigh

Something hard

I can't help it, I immediately look at his crotch and I am mind blown to see his cock really hard

Like super hard

But how?

He has to be thinking of a guy

Right?

"What?", he asks, a weird tone to his voice

Almost like he's embarrassed but challenging me to say something

Challenge accepted because I can't keep quiet

"You're hard"

"Yeah"

"But how?"

He scoffs, "What do you mean how?"

"Were you thinking of a guy?"

"No"

"Then how?"

He sighs, "You're in here with me"

That doesn't compute

Me being in here shouldn't matter and definitely shouldn't make him hard

"But you're gay"

He closes his eyes and lets out a frustrated sigh

His eyes are on mine when they open and he says, "I am not gay"

Bullshit

I've seen him with guys

Kissing them in clubs

I've heard him with guys in his room

We have gone out together specifically to pick up guys

So what bullshit is he talking about?

"Yes you are"

"No Joanne I'm not", he repeats, "I'm bi"

Bi

That means he-

"I like pussy too. I like eating and fucking pussy just as much as I like dick"

No way

How could I have missed this?

"I've never seen you with a girl before"

"Because when we get to a club and you get a guy you never pay attention to me anymore! You don't see me with girls"

"You never brought one home before", I argue

There is no way I could have missed this

How could I have been so blind?

"Because they don't want to come here. When I tell them I have a roommate they ask his name. And when I tell them your name and you're a girl they don't want to come. It weirds them out. So I go to their place"

Ok that could make sense

It's just hard to wrap my head around

I've always thought he was gay and now that was wrong and I have to think of him in a new way

But even so that doesn't explain one thing

"Ok so you're bi. That still doesn't answer why you're hard"

After another frustrated growl, he pulls me to him, his lips against mine in a kiss

Stars go off in my vision as I feel his soft lips kiss me, his arms move around my waist, his skin against mine

It feels amazing

Nothing like any kissing experience I've had before

"You are so fucking oblivious Jo", he says softly, after he pulls away, pushing my wet hair out of my face, "I'm hard because I want you. Because you're hot. Because your beautiful. Because you turn me on. Because I've wanted you for such a long time"

I hear him but my brain isn't computing what he's saying

When it does, I'm floored

He wants me?

Since when?

He's never shown that he wants me

But he did say I was oblivious

Maybe I was

Maybe he was showing me he wants me but I just took it as him being a good friend because I thought he was gay

Man am I dumb

He kisses my cheek, then whispers in my ear, "Can I have you?"

"Yes", I say automatically

Being with Wooyoung?

One hundred percent fuck yes

He pushes me against the wall, his mouth on mine, his tongue in my mouth, playing with mine

My arms fly around his neck, kissing him with everything I have in me

And my god, his kiss is literally everything

Everything I ever wanted, everything I could of ever wanted to feel while being kisses

His hands slide down my body to my ass, squeezing hard

Both our hands roam on each other's bodies but our mouths never leave each other's

His lips glued against mine, tongue glues against mine

I move my arms down, touching his shoulders then feeling the muscles in his arms that, fuck, turn me on

God he's so strong

Moving my arms around him, I trail my hands up his back at the same time he does it to me, his fingers leaving fire and heat along every nerve he touches

His lips move to my cheek, then my jaw, then my neck

He leans me against the wall, his kisses spreading to my chest as his hand travels down my stomach going lower and lower

I moan when his fingers touch my clit, moving slowly in circles

His mouth moves down my chest, wrapping around my nipple, sucking softly

"Oh fuck Wooyoung!", I cry, my hands finding their way into hair, weaving into the black strands and tugging

I lean my head against the tiles, his fingers moving down more, two sliding inside my pussy

His fingers slide in and out, stretching me out, feeling so good

With each thrust his fingers move faster and his mouth sucks harder on my nipple

He switches to my other nipple, moaning so loudly, his free hand gripping my now free boob, squeezing

Fuck, he does know what to do with a girl

His mouth spreads kisses in-between my boobs, his tongue licking me, sucking gently

I press his head against my skin, hoping he leaves a mark on me

When he pulls off, I see a pretty purple mark on my skin

And I want more

"More Woo"

He nods, groaning, his mouth leaving purple mark after purple mark on me, a pretty trail going down my body, kneeling the lower he goes

He finishes sucking right above my pussy, his mouth going immediately around my clit, sucking hard and fast

"Wooyoung oh shit", I cry, my legs shaking from the exploding pleasure

He seamlessly moves my leg over his shoulder, not letting go of me, sucking hard, his fingers pressing into my spot

"Fuck", I yell, feeling my cunt completely gush juice from the pleasure

I look down, so turned on seeing his mouth move on me, his eyes closed, moaning like he's the one getting pleasured

God he's so beautiful in-between my legs

I watch his mouth suck desperately, his tongue licking my clit, his fingers massaging my spot

"Woo", I whimper, feeling my orgasm coming, "Wooyoung"

It's like hearing his name spurs him on because he goes harder on me, throwing me head first into an intense orgasm

"Wooyoung!", I shout, coming all over his fingers, pulling his hair hard

Fuck it feels so fucking good

He sucks me through it and the second I'm done, his fingers are out, replaced with his tongue

"Oh god", I whimper, the pleasure still amazing

I feel his fingers spread me open, his tongue darting in and out of my hole, burying as deep as he can when he slide in

I scream from the bliss, my pussy clenching his tongue with every pass

I can't help but watch him eat my pussy, his tongue so fucking amazing

He knows how to eat pussy, I'll give him that

He fucks his tongue into me over and over, his thumb ghosting over my clit bringing me closer and closer

"Please princess, cum on my tongue", he whines, "Fuck you don't know how much I want that. How long I waited for it"

His words are shocking me

I seriously had no clue he thought of this let alone wanted it

"Please princess"

He tongue fucks me fast, his gorgeous brown eyes looking up at me, begging me to cum

"Woo", I moan softly, coming, holding onto his hair for balance as pleasure washing over me

He shoves his tongue inside, his eyes closing, his moans so pretty

Like he's coming

He swallows over and over, the grip on my thighs so hard he's going to leave bruises

And I hope he does

As soon as I finish, he licks my pussy a few more times before standing up

"So fucking good princess", he murmurs, his mouth pressing kisses on my neck, "You're the best I've ever tasted. Fuck, you're cum is my favorite"

"God Woo", I whimper, my body trembling, his words having such an effect on me

Suddenly he turns me, pushing me against the wall, then moves my hair to my left shoulder

"You don't...you don't want a blow-"

"No", he answers immediately, "I've had so many blow jobs before. I know yours are going to feel the best but I've been dreaming of being inside you for so long. I need to be inside you princess."

"Yes Woo, fuck. I've been waiting for you to fuck me for so long"

He moans, his lips against my shoulder blade as his cock enters me from behind

I moan at how big he is, at how well he stretches me open the more he sinks in

"Wooyoung", I cry, "Fuck all the way baby"

His cock is fucking huge, splitting me open so fucking amazingly, my cunt latching onto him

"More Woo. Fuck I want you deep inside", I cry, feeling every inch of his cock sliding into me

He bottoms out, cursing so loudly, "So fucking tight, fuck fuck baby. Tightest pussy I've ever been in. Fuck so good"

Good doesn't even describe it

Fantastic, out of this world, mind blowing

He's so hard and he's so good to throb on

"Fuck me Woo. Hard baby. Please"

"I will princess", he promises, "I'm gonna wreck you. Make you want just much cock and my cock only"

He has no idea that I already want only his cock

He pulls out and I whine from the loss of him

Then I scream when he barrels back in, filling me completely

He sets a harsh, fast pace, keeping his arm around me, his hand on my pelvis, pushing me back into him

My hands are on the wall, holding on, keeping myself from hitting the wall with the fast pace he's moving at

"God this pussy is so fucking wet baby. So tight, so greedy for my cock"

"Yes Woo, fuck yes"

He's fucking the life from me and I have never been in so much pleasure in my life

His hand moves on top of mine, his fingers lacing with mine, making me smile

He smashes into me so deeply, his head slamming my spot, stars blasting in my vision

"Yes Wooyoung!", I scream, "There baby, please oh fuck right there!"

He hits my spot again, "There princess?"

"Yes please Woo"

"Anything for you baby", he whispers, his cock smashing into my spot with every stroke

My legs shake and I'm glad he's holding on to me or I would of fallen already

I can't keep my mouth shut, screaming his name over and over again

I'm getting closer and I know this orgasm is going to take so much out of me

I can't wait for it

Every thrust, every slide in drives me crazy, his skin hitting mine so hard it can be heard over the water running

He hits my spot again and I lose it

My eyes roll back, my knees shaking uncontrollably as pure ecstasy takes over, my voice raw from screaming his name

"Oh fuck", he yells, "Fuck so good. It feels so good princess. Fuck squirting so much. Keep going baby, squirt on my cock"

I faintly register that I'm squirting, something I've never done before but my brain is so fuzzy as pleasure plows through me

"Woo", I mumble, my legs buckling after the mind altering orgasm I just had

He pulls out, spinning me to him, bending down, hands on my thighs as he picks me up

I wrap my legs around his waist as he holds me against the wall, lowering and settling me on his cock again

"Fuck", I moan at the full feeling of his huge cock buried inside me again

"God princess. You feel so fucking good. I....fuck...I can't take it", he whimpers

His lips move to my neck, giving me kiss after kiss, pulling out of me then shoving himself back in, hitting my spot hard

I shake uncontrollably in his arms, wanting more of his amazing cock

How I still want more I have no clue

I should be done after that last orgasm but I'm not

"More Woo", I beg

He shoves his cock inside, rocking into me, grinding into me

I cling onto him, my nails digging into his back, my head in the clouds from the bliss he's giving

"Fuck princess, you're so oblivious", he moans, kissing my neck, his lips leaving fire on my skin, "You don't know how many times I tried to show you how I feel about you"

Feel about me?

As in feelings?

"I tried all the time. But you ignored me. Everything I did, you ignored"

"Nnn...not ignored Woo. I didn't know"

I would never ignore him

"Fucking hell, I want you so much. You're the only one I think about and it drives me insane. Do you know how hard it is to know you're sleeping in the room next to mine and I can't go into your bed and cuddle you. Hold you? How hard it is to sit across from you when we eat and not kiss you. It's like you were torturing me"

His fingers grip my hips so hard, mine in his hair, as his cock plunges in to me over and over, right into my spot

"I didn't mean to. I'm sorry"

"I just wanted you to see me princess. Notice me. I.....I....fuck-", he says and I want him to continue, wanting desperately to know what he's going to say

"I fucking love you", he finally whispers

Moving my arm from around his body, I lift his face up to mine

His cheeks are so red and he looks so unsure

I've never seen Wooyoung like this before

He's always confident...cocky even

"I love you", I confess to him, then crash my lips to his in a passionate kiss

He kisses me back, a feeling of relief in his kiss

"I love you", I whisper in between kisses, "I love you Wooyoung"

"I love you Jo", he whispers as well, "So fucking much princess"

He keeping moving, fucking me desperately against the wall, his fingers squeezing my ass so hard

The pain feels so good with the pleasure his cock is giving me

I want to cum but more than that, I want him to cum

I want to feel his cum inside me

"Woo", I whisper in his ear, "I want you to fill me with your cum baby"

"Oh god", he whimpers, his hips moving faster, crashing into me over and over

"I want to feel your cum inside, feel you leak all over my legs"

God I want that so much

"Please baby, can you give me your cum?", I beg

"God Jo, yes", he nods, "Cum on my cock and I promise I'll fill you up so well"

Well thank god I'm about to cum

He thrusts in and I moan his name softly, clenching on his huge shaft, coming all over him

"Please Woo. Cum inside my pussy", I cry

"Fuck Joanne", he moans, burying his face in my neck, sheathing his cock all in

I feel his cock throb, feel the warmth of his cum spilling into me and I absolutely love it

He groans my name over and over as he fills me perfectly

"Oh Woo, you feel so good baby", I praise him, "Give me all of your cum"

I can't stop throbbing on him, milking his perfect cock for all of it

"Baby", he whines, holding on to me

He falls out of me, his cum spilling out as he holds me, nuzzling into my neck

"Please Jo", he says, "I want to be yours. Only yours. I don't want anyone but you touching me. No guys, no girls, no one. Just you"

Oh my god he's asking me to be with him

Picking that lock was the best fucking thing I've ever done

"You are baby", I answer softly, "And I'm only yours. No one but you gets to touch me, no one but you gets to kiss me. I only want you. Your arms around me, your kisses, your hands on me. Ok?"

He nods, sighing in what sounds like relief, "Yeah princess. You're mine"

"You're mine Woo"

"Always was Jo. You just didn't see it"

"I do now baby and I'm happy I'm not blind anymore", I whisper, "I'm so happy I have you. I...I loved you for so long Woo, you don't even know"

His head lifts up, his eyes on mine, "Why didn't you say anything baby?"

Looking down, I answer, "Because Woo, I thought you were gay. I didn't know you were bi. I've only seen you with guys. And since I thought you were gay, there would be no reason for me to tell you anything. And I was the stupidest person ever to fall for a gay guy"

"Baby", he calls and I look up at him, "I understand baby ok? I get why you didn't say anything. I was stupid to never tell you how I felt. I knew I was bi and I thought you knew. I should of made that clear. I still kept quiet when I shouldn't have. I should of told you when I first fell in love with you"

"When was that?"

His cheeks blush, a small smile on his face, "Uh maybe about six months after I moved in"

Six months!

We've been living together for three years

How did he not say anything in all that time?

"Woo you should of said something"

"I know baby but I was scared. I've never felt this way for someone before. It scared me how fast I fell for you. I was used to just partying and doing what I wanted. And you had a boyfriend at the time"

I remember

"After you broke up with him, you were so sad and I couldn't say anything. And I just stayed quiet", he shrugs, "Eventually I just thought you didn't see me that way. I know why now"

"But it doesn't matter now baby", I say, "I love you. We're together. You make me happy"

He nods, "You make me happy too. I love you so much"

He leans forward, kissing me softly and I'm so happy I have my Wooyoung

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Wooyoung POV

As I kiss her, I can't believe she's finally mine

I actually can't believe she thought I was just gay

Now, it makes so much sense why she never responded to any affection or hints I gave her

We both made assumptions about each other but I'm so glad this happened and she's mine

I love her so much and she's everything I ever wanted and more

After we pull away, I put her down and we actually shower together

As I'm washing her hair for her, I tell her, "So I think we should take showers together more often"

"Oh yeah", she smirks

I nod, smirking too "Strictly for saving water though"

"Of course", she giggles

God that sound is so cute

I'm so fucking whipped for her if I love hearing her giggle

"Under the water princess"

I guide her under and rinse her hair out, running my fingers in her long strands

"Your turn Woo", she smiles, "Bend down baby"

I smirk at her, kneeling instead

She swallows hard, want in her eyes

Want for me and I'm ecstatic

She puts shampoo in my hair, her fingers running in my hair, her nails scratching my scalp

It feels fucking good and I close my eyes, just feeling

"Come under the water Woo"

I move forward, still on my knees

She tilts my head back, water soaking my hair as she rinses the shampoo out

"You're so beautiful Woo", she says softly, her hand running along my cheek

I open my eyes to her gorgeous smiling face, the water running down her body

She's ethereal

My angel

She cups my cheeks, bending down, kissing my lips softly

And I can't help but smile

"I love when you smile Woo. It's so beautiful", she says and I can't help but blush

Her finger brushes against the beauty mark under my eye, "I love this too"

I close my eyes as her lips press against the beauty mark, leaving a soft, gentle kiss

I've never been treated like this before

Softly, gently

With care and love

With someone telling me something as simple as she loves my beauty mark

That she loves when I smile

I never knew that I needed to hear things like that

That I craved it

Everything was always hard, rough sex, being told I'm hot, sexy, a good fuck

While I like that too, especially if it's from her, I love being told I'm beautiful, I'm loved

She's the perfect girl for me

Of that I have no doubt

I know how lucky I am to be with her and I'm going to take care of her and be the best man for her

"Come Woo", she calls, taking my hand and helping me stand

She gets soap, running it over my body, her small hands lathering my skin

I close my eyes again from the pleasurable feeling of her hands on me

She actually washes my whole body and I'm in pure awe that she's taking care of me

She pulls me under the water again, her hands getting the soap off me

She comes closer to me, pressing a kiss to my chest

Then another and another and another

She keeps going, kisses everywhere on my chest, then trailing down to my stomach and abs

I watch her tongue lick my abs, then kiss it, making me moan

God it's so hot to watch and so good to feel

She spends a lot of time kissing me there and I love every second of it

The lower she goes on my stomach, the more she kneels down and I get so turned on seeing that

I watch her mouth kiss along my hard cock, so fucking surprised that kisses there feel amazing

Her tongue licks the underside of my head, sending a shiver down my spine

Her hand grabs onto my dick, stroking me slowly as she takes me in her mouth

The first suck has me moaning so loudly, the pleasure running in my veins

With each suck she gives me, she goes harder and faster until she's sucking so good on my head

"Princess fuck", I moan, my hand sliding in her hair

As she goes, she takes more of me in her mouth, going hard

"Oh god", I moan, closing my eyes

Jesus, just the feel of her wet mouth is amazing

I feel her hand let go of me and suddenly my cock is in a tight space

My eyes snap open as I look down, my mouth on the floor when I don't see my cock

Because its deep in her throat

She moves up and down my length, bobbing her head, taking all of me in and out of her throat like a pro

I grip her hair harder, pulling her back on my cock, holding her there, my cock throbbing in the tight space

She swallows, squeezing my length even more and I cry out in pleasure

"Fuck baby"

I move her head back and forth, her mouth sucking on my shaft like she's never going to have it in her mouth again

Her hands grip my hips so hard, her nails digging into my skin, the pain mixing with pleasure

God she's amazing at blow jobs

I knew she would be

"Baby", I whimper, "Can I fuck your throat? Please"

She nods and immediately stops moving, leaving her mouth open

And that sight drives me crazy

I thrust in her throat, bottoming out and I moan when she continues to suck and swallow on me

"God baby", I groan, thrusting over and over, "You're mouth is so good. Fuck. Perfect"

She moans which turns me on even more

"Your throat feels so good. So tight and wet just like your perfect cunt"

I move faster, pounding into her throat, almost there

"I'm gonna cum down your throat baby", I pant, "Do you want that?"

She looks up at me, tears in her eyes as she nods

"Yeah baby? Wanna taste my cum?"

"Mmmm", she moans

I pull her onto my cock, sheathing my length in her mouth, begging her, "Suck my cock princess. I'm gonna cum"

Her mouth starts moving, sucking desperately, moaning loudly

"Oh god princess, I'm coming! I'm coming!", I scream, shooting my cum down her throat

I watch her swallow over and over, the sight such a fucking turn on

"Fuck good girl. Such a good girl for me", I praise her

When I finish, she sucks one last time then sits back on her knees, breathing in hard

Bending down, I help her stand and I pull her to me, holding her tightly

"My baby", I whisper, kissing the top of her head

"You taste good Woo", she croaks

"Did I hurt you princess?", I ask, immediately concerned by her voice

She shakes her head, "No baby. You didn't. I'm ok. I promise"

"Are you sure?"

She smiles, nodding, "Yeah"

"Ok baby. Come, I'll help you soap up and I'll put conditioner in your hair"

"Yours too"

I nod, smiling, "Mine too princess"

I kiss her cheek then grab the soap

We finish showering quickly, then step out of the shower, wrapping up in towels

I watch her dry her hair, running a towel through it

The concentrated look on her face as she uses the towel is adorable

When she gets out her comb, I walk to her and take it from her

"I'll do it princess"

She raises her eyebrows in the mirror, but smiles and nods

I move her hair down her back and gently run the comb through the strands

There's no knots in her hair, the comb running through smoothly

"I love your hair baby. It's so long and so soft"

"Thanks Woo"

I nod, finishing her hair

I quickly comb mine, then turn to her

She's just standing against the door, watching me in nothing but a towel

And it's turning me on

God she can turn me on in seconds

And she's not even doing anything

Just standing there

I swear I've never been so hard so fast

I get to her, grab her towel and rip it off her, throwing it on the floor

I pull her to me, kissing her, her hands taking my towel off too

Picking her up, I carry her to my room and get her on the bed

"I need you again princess", I whisper

"Me too Woo. But", she says, pushing me back, "Only if I get to ride you"

Is she kidding?

She can ride me anytime she wants

"You definitely can princess"

She climbs on me, holding my cock straight up then she sinks down on me, engulfing my length in her tight warm wet cunt

"Fuck princess. All the way down. Please", I whimper

Putting my hands on her hips, I help push her down until my entire cock is buried inside her

"Baby, fuck perfect", I groan, her cunt latching on to my shaft and squeezing over and over, "Please baby, ride me. Please"

She moves my hands to her breasts, her hands on the outside of mine, holding on as she starts to bounce on me, her hips moving in a circle, grinding on me, rubbing her spot on my head every time she takes me in

I watch her move on me with my mouth dropped open, awed at how her body moves

The way she wiggles her hips, the way her breasts bounce, the way she takes my whole cock like a pro giving me so much pleasure

And I'm amazed at how much she's creaming my cock

So wet and creamy, the amount covering every inch of my cock and lap

I've never seen anyone this wet before

"Fuck Woo, you feel so good baby. Best cock I ever had inside me"

"Fuck princess I can't get over how much you're creaming my cock. God baby, it's everywhere and so pretty", I praise her, "Best hole I've ever been in. I swear"

She whimpers adorably, her face full of pleasure, "I'm gonna cum Woo"

"Yes baby. Please cum on my cock. Fuck"

She takes me in hard, smashing her spot and losing it

Pure bliss hits me as she orgasms, her cunt so fucking tight on my cock, pulsing rapidly

"Oh god", I whimper

I had no idea that being cummed on could be so pleasurable

No idea

"Wooyoung! Wooyoung!", she cries, the sound of my name driving me insane

Sitting up, I grab her to me and roll us over, fucking right into hard and fast

Crashing my lips to hers, I kiss her wildly, my hand moving between us, rubbing her clit while I destroy her spot

"Need this hole to cum again", I pant against her lips, "One more time princess"

She moans softly the sound something I will never get tired of hearing

Or causing

"Can you cum for me one more time?"

She nods, her legs wrapped around my waist, her arms around my neck, her lips against mine

I move my free arm around her, keeping her against me, feeling her soft sweaty skin against mine

It feels so good

She's right there, her slit straining on my cock, so much juice all over me

"Woo, fuck, I love you", she shouts, coming immediately after, choking the life from my cock

And that feeling sends me over the edge

"I love you Jo. Fuck I love you", I yell, fucking into her as I cum, giving her all I have

"Yes Woo, fuck baby, feels so good when you cum", she whimpers

"Fuck baby", I moan in her neck, pressing kiss after kiss to her gorgeous skin

After we finish and I fall out, we just lay there with me on top of her

Her arms move around my back, her fingers travelling up and down, sending shivers down my spine

"You're all sweaty again Woo", she giggles, "Guess that shower was for nothing"

I lift my head, my eyes on hers, softly running my fingers in her hair

"It wasn't for nothing princess. I finally got you. It was so worth it"

She smiles beautifully, "And I got you. I didn't mean it like that baby. I just mean now we're going to have to shower again because we're sweaty"

"I know baby. I just wanted you to know that I'm so happy you busted through the door"

She laughs, her cheeks turning red

"And anyway I'm good with showering again as long as you're there with me"

"Strictly for the environment right?"

I laugh, "Yeah, that's right"

"So now?", she asks

I shake my head, "We have all day today baby and I don't know about you but I want to fuck you so much more. Make up for lost time"

She grins widely, nodding, "Oh yeah baby me too. So I guess we shower tonight?"

"Tonight", I confirm

"I love you Woo"

"I love you Jo"

She moves her arms around my neck, pulling me towards her lips and I eagerly go, meeting her in a kiss

[meikyuunolovers]

A few weeks ago, while I was bored, I attempted to transcribe the notes on Argent's 'In Deep' album since they are almost impossible to read, and neither Discogs nor any other website provided any transcription... I could only transcribe fully Bob's and Russ', as I'm still missing words, replaced with these ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎, on Rod's and Jim's. There might be some mistakes that have escaped my eyes as well. Hopefully I can see this album in flesh and bone someday so I can figure out if I got it right.

What has pleased me more than anything has been the energy and love put into the making of the record, not only by the band and Chris, but by the engineers who by their involvement have become members of the band for a time. I hope some of the joy we had in making it is reflected in the music." - Rod

"This album has been, for me, the most enjoyable one to make because of the way in which the very different musical influences involved in the band have come together naturally and easily. We did ▪︎▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎▪︎ with some conscious aims in mind, we wanted this for instance to be ▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ of features and ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎, we also wanted to explore more fully the vocal and instrumental potential of the band and ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ together more closely. ▪︎▪︎▪︎ from the best track 'God gave Rock and Roll to You' a ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ a natural course and direction of ▪︎▪︎ own, which has been what we wanted and something else besides.

"This album for me has been almost a revision course in the role of bass guitar. The songs and arrangements have allowed me to explore all my influences over the years, with a ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ on space and underplaying, as opposed to ego-tripping. It's definitely the most satisfying and ambitious musical project I've been involved in, and the best part of it is I think we all realise we've only just scratched the surface of our potential ability back in the studio and on stage. My favourite contribution is 'G▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎ ▪︎▪︎ it' on 'Rosie'." - Jim

"This album will be well remembered by me for several reasons.. at the beggining I was moving house and at the end I was still moving house !

Secondly, the day after we finished Chris' song 'Candles on the River' which is about over-population, Ricky informed me we were Pregnant.

Thirdly, the cover which was a gas to do, but so tiring. It just goes to show I can thrash drums for an hour and a half and feel just tired, but after the photo session I was absolutely shattered, mind you just try swimming under water for two hours ! Fourth, after I'd finished my contribution to the album, moving the last of my rubbish to the new flat, I managed to push a knitting needle through my arm.

Yes, right through my arm, honest ! Lastly but not leastly... for the music." - Robert

"This album is a combination of everything we've done on record up to now. It's satisfying to me in that we wrote and recorded it so quickly (two months).

Also, it's more representative of what we are on stage. Cheers." - Russ

[day6source]

Welcome to the DAY6

"DAY6" returned to fans who had been waiting for the long-awaited performance after discharge. From the moment when they came up with the song to the moment when they all sang along on stage, they revealed the whole process of their new album with excitement and deeper sincerity. It's time to just trust, listen, and enjoy.

Q. It's the first album in three years since all the members came back after their military service. All the work you've done so far is precious, but I think it must have been more meaningful during the preparation process.

Sungjin: Since it's been a long time since I released an album, I wanted to do well, but as a result, I prepared as much as I could now. Young K: I think it's a moment we've been waiting for a long time too. While preparing for it, I felt like I wanted to play good music quickly and I was very excited. Wonpil : When I work on the DAY6 album, I'm the most sensitive and attentive, but I'm still the happiest. I think this album will be one of my most cherished albums. Dowoon: I've been waiting and preparing for this album for a long time, so I think it's half-excited and half-frightened.

Q. Also, "You Were Beautiful" released in early 2017 and the song "Time of Our Life" released in mid-2019 have been on the charts, what was it like to watch this phenomenon?

Sungjin: I'm just thankful that so many people sympathize with and cherish our songs. I hope one day, DAY6's other songs will be loved. Young K: It's such an honor and I'm so happy. It's been a long time since the release, but I think we've been doing well because we've been loved like this. On the other hand, no one knows when we'll be loved, so I thought we just had to keep doing good music. Wonpil: I've been working on music since my debut without paying attention to the ranking or the results, and I just wanted to do music that doesn't age. We've always focused on making albums that we can be satisfied with, and we've always worked on them, but we're just grateful and so amazed that more and more people like our music. Dowoon: I was sure. Rather than saying, "This song is definitely going to be released," I was sure that it was as good as we liked it, and now I'm just thankful that so many people besides us liked it.

Q. The title of the new album is 'Forever', and the spelling of Four is not Forever, what does it mean?

Sungjin: It is true that it melted the desire to be loved for a close time to eternity. Young K: It's the 4th generation of the fandom My Day that supports us, and the four of us borrowed "Four" with the hope of eternity and put good music into it. Wonpil: We came back after a long period of blank space, and now it's going to be forever without falling.

Q. How did you work on the title track "Welcome to the Show"?

Sungjin: I made it in an hour or two with a song that I would run around with my fans at the concert, and I really liked the feeling. It feels a little different from the title songs of the existing DAY6 album, but I'm satisfied with it. Young K: It started by saying let's make a song that everyone can sing and run with. If it doesn't come out soon, I said let's go home and started working on it, but fortunately, it worked out. Wonpil: It was the last song that I came to work on. In the situation where we had to make one more song, we actually worked on the song freely saying that it would be nice to have a song that we all sing together while running in the concert hall.

Q. What is the part that you put the most effort into working on the new album, and the part that you think you like the most in a specific section, lyrics, or performance for each member?

Sungjin: I paid a lot of attention to the guitar tone. I tried my best to create a mood not only when I hit the lead line, but also in the section where I played the chord. Young K : I think the part that I put the most effort into is the lyrics of the title song. It went through the most revision process ever and I tried to write it so that everyone could relate to it. Wonpil: It's been a while since we came back with DAY6 album, so we paid a lot of attention not to lose our color. Personally, I really like the part where all the members sing along in the title track, "Welcome to the Show." I want to see you sing together as soon as possible with My Day and the audience. Dowoon: I like the group singing part of the title song, Welcome to the Show, the most. If we sing together at the concert, I think it will feel like we are truly completing the stage together.

Q. There are seven songs including "HAPPY," "The Power of Love," "Get The Hell Out," "Sad Ending," "Let Me Love," and "I Didn't Know That's Your Love." Can you explain the songs in the album other than the title track?

Sungjin: I worked on it thinking that it would be the title of each track. All the songs are about situations that can happen in life, so I'm curious about what each of the listeners think rather than explaining the song. "HAPPY" is a song that keeps asking the fundamental question, "Can I be happy?" to explain one by one. I don't give you the answer, but by asking this question, I think I can comfort you that you are not the only one who has had such anxiety and agony. "The Power of Love" is about talking about and spreading the power of love. "Get the Hell Out" is a song about a world that someone you want to forget can no longer think of. "Sad Ending" is a song that tells you to end with pain to the person who has already left your heart. "Let Me Love You" is a song that appeals to you that you can give true love. "didn't know" is a song that says that it was love, looking back on the past relationship. Please show a lot of love! Wonpil: It's the same with the title track, but I think the songs in this album contain all the music we're pursuing in terms of sound. It's an album that contains all the songs that represent DAY6's musical sensibility, so I think it'll be fun to listen to it from track 1 to 7! "Ididn't know was a bit of a fresh shock when I first heard it. The chorus line that feels like a bounce was very thick, but it was amazing because it matched well with the melody that the older members played.

Q. What the members learned musically throughout the hiatus, or what they naturally became interested in these days, I wonder how the members' changes were reflected in DAY6's music and this album.

Sungjin: After a hiatus as DAY6, I've become more interested in sound. I'm still learning, but when I was working on the sound for this album, I also used my knowledge. Young K: My yearning for the band sound that DAY6 can give has grown and I'm excited to have it on this album. Wonpil: I don't think much has changed, but at the same time, I think the part that hasn't changed is that I always think about what My Day will like the most, who are waiting for us and always supporting us. So this album is also familiar to those who are looking forward to our music, but we wanted to play richer music. Dowoon: I became more interested in composing. I wanted to know more and more about music.

Q. Since you're about to make an official comeback in a long time, it must be overwhelming and special. Is there a message you want to send to your fans before promoting your new album?

Sungjin: Thank you for consistently trusting and supporting us! I hope you won't forget that we also trust and support you. Here we go again. Let's run together!!! Young K : DAY6 is back everyone. Thank you for letting us sing and play. Let's be happy! Wonpil: Thank you so much, My Day, for waiting and supporting us during this long blank period. To repay you, I thought I'd like to come back with an album as soon as possible. There will be nothing more to make us wait! Let's walk slowly and for a long time with us. We love you so much. We've worked hard on this album, so please listen to our songs and look forward to it! Let's play together!

[maniacwatchestheworld]

So here we are. The final round of @batman-heritageposts' sexyman tournament. The final showdown. Dick Grayson vs Two-Face. And as this competition draws to a close, I will once more ask you to vote... But instead of voting for Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, I am going to ask you to vote against him, and to vote for Dick Grayson instead. This isn't how I wanted things to be, but alas. As a loyal fan of Two-Face, it is what I must do. I had hoped that Jason would have made it to the finals. Losing to him is what Harvey would want and prefer out of the two participating Robins. But alas. That is not in the cards today.

As Harvey's former campaign manager, who has pushed to bring all of these disparate parts of the Batfandom together in a unified cause- to vote for Two-Face, your second best option, and to vote against Dick Grayson, the clear favorite to win this competition, this must seem like a betrayal. But you see, this was my plan all along. To get to the finals and then to give up, thus securing second place. Exactly as Two-Face would want. Two-Face would want to be second place. It's not like he needs to win any more elections. He's done that plenty already. After all, the last time he held an elected position, you could say that it... Left him scarred for life! >:] Also I must ask... What did you expect!? I was asking for you to vote for a literal two-faced politician! Were you really not expecting a betrayal!?

The way I see it, us fans of Two-Face... We've already won. We made it to the finals. Second place is secured. There's no more need to campaign. We win this round, then Harvey is crowned the king Batman sexyman, and Harvey would be disappointed. We lose this round, Harvey is second best sexyman, and he would be very happy about getting second place! If we lose, we win! So no point in fighting anymore! We've won the only spot that matters. And so to everyone who helped us get there, I genuinely thank you from the bottom of my heart. It was a fantastic ride. It's alright. We can lose now. u.u

Alls that's left is to watch and see what happens. It appears that my propaganda campaign was very successful. But was it so successful that it will secure the win for Harvey over Dick even though I'm no longer pushing for it? And what about the revenge vote? Will the Riddler and Jason stans push Two-Face to victory against his wishes? If Two-Face does win this, it will be for what he represents rather than for who he actually is. Harvey would want to lose and get second place. So for him to win despite that? There is something interesting and poignant to be said there, especially with Harvey, but I will just leave it at that for now. I may encourage people to vote for Dick for Two-Face's sake, but ultimately I can't control how people will vote. So it will be interesting to see what will actually happen here.

Of course all of the people who helped us to get to this point and were counting on the revenge vote may feel dissatisfied with pushing for Two-Face all this time, only for us to give up now. But perhaps it would give you solace to think of it like this. Dick may win, but we can still take one thing from him. The pride, dignity, and joy of truly winning a hard fought battle. If Dick wins here, it is because we let him win. Ive already case my vote for Dick. Dick may be the top Batman sexyman, but only because the Two-Face coalition permits it. If he only wins because we permit it, is it truly a victory? Perhaps. But every time that they say that Dick is the sexiest Batman character, it is only because we allowed it because actually having Two-Face win the competition would be much less satisfying. If we choose to lose, who really dominates the sexyman polls? Either way we win. And Dick loses. Because even a victory for Dick would be empty. We've already won. And Dick has already lost.

So do the right thing.

Vote Dick Grayson for Batman sexyman so that Two-Face can get second place like he wants and deserves!

[purplesurveys]

1924

survey by robotyque

RULES: For the following questions, you must answer a number in a scale from 1-10. You may add a comment/description following it. Here we go.

ON A SCALE FROM 1-10..

How exciting was your day? 10. It was actually a productive Sunday! After church we had lunch at Yabu, bought a microwave to replace our broken one, went window shopping for a new laptop and a PS5, I bought a bunchhhhhh of Me Stuff in one go (BB cream, blush, reed diffusers...you get the gist), went for a quick grocery run to get milk and also managed to take Max to the vet clinic before they closed. It was so much stuff done that I can't believe it only totaled a little over than 4,000 steps LOL

How happy do you feel right now? I want to say a 7.5. Today was well-spent and I like that my family and I got along today (we always clash after a few consecutive hours together...), but that high's coming down now because it's already 5:40 PM and the weekend will soon be over.

How clean do you feel? A healthy 9. I took a shower today and my room now smells like ocean because I have two reed diffusers going at the same time, but I just feel 'dirty' because I've still got acne on my face and I don't like that.

How full in the stomach? 7. I had a big lunch that's long settled in my stomach now, but while it doesn't feel heavy I'm also not hungry. And I doubt I'd be feeling hungry anymore for the rest of the day.

How thirsty? 1. I have a chocolate Oatside with me now that I'm sipping from every few minutes.

How bored? 1. I did so much stuff today that I have no problem just filling this out and being friends with the silence and overstimulating myself like what I'd usually look for on weekends.

How tired/sleepy? 3. I feel like I could fall into a nap if I made myself lie down, but I'm alert and awake for the most part.

How satisfied with life atm are you? 4. My job makes me MISERABLE and question my abilities and worth every single day. It's a thankless 9-5 where you can do your best and put in 150% effort but still only ever get seen and called out when you make a mistake/don't meet expectations. I know I will be happier if I set out to look for greener pastures; but I just can't help but stay for now knowing the team is suffocatingly incomplete as it is and me leaving would just make everyone else suffer so much more.

How satisfied are you with your relationship status? 10. Nothing to complain about, ever.

How satisfied are you with your friends? 8. I love all of them, but I wish some of them (i.e. my college friends) would put in more effort in keeping up our friendships. I don't take it personally, though; I've also accepted the fact that our friend group may just not rank high on their priorities at this point anymore, and that's fine.

Now what about family? 6. We are very dysfunctional but we make it work.

How entertained are you atm? 7. I have a Good Mythical More running in the background and I've gotten sidetracked from this survey a few times, so I'd say that's entertainment in effect haha.

How bright is the room you’re in? 2. All the lights are off so it's actually super dark here, but my laptop is set to the highest brightness level and that more than balances out the darkness.

How loud is your music/sound you hear? 2.5. Out of the 16 volume bars on my laptop, it's just until the fourth bar so that's literally a 2.5 if my math is correct.

How confident are you about your looks right now? 4. There's a nasty acne scar near my nose that just won't go away. It's affected my confidence a little bit so that's why I headed to the store today to grab a bunch of face care and makeup stuff.

How clean is your room? 9.5. There are just a few things lying around but otherwise the place is spotless.

How much do you love dolls/stuffed animals? 5. Stuffed animals are very cute :)

How satisfied are you with your room? 9. I really really love the loft bed we've built in here since it gave my room so much more space. The one lacking point is just on me, because I haven't been buying any furniture or even just any sort of accent, really, to give my room more of a personality.

How much do you love dogs/cats (pick one)? 11. No-brainer. I like animals more than people.

How well do you do in school? 7. I did well if I really liked the class, but barely put in effort for classes I just felt 'forced' to have, like chemistry and philosophy. In other words I lacked focus and discipline; I feel like I would have had much higher scores across the board if I just powered it through and did a better job pretending to give a fuck about the classes I hated.

How well can you read out loud? 10. Never had a problem with it.

How good are your eyes? 3. I need my glasses, otherwise everything would be hazardous for me.

IF… (REMEMBER, IT’S STILL ON A SCALE OF 1-10)

If your significant other cheated on you, how mad would you be? 10. I'd be so mad I'd turn quiet and simply cut off ties.

What if it was with your best friend? 20. 10 for the SO cheating, 10 for my best friend betraying me and cheating on her fiancé.

You found a toonie on a ground, how happy would you be? 0. I'd be confused and would be asking what a toonie is.

You lied to a friend about something semi-big, how guilty would you feel? 5. Depends on the lie.

You accidentally took something from a store, how guilty would you feel? 10. I did this once when I walked out of a bookstore with a box of crayons I forgot to pay for. I felt really bad and turned to make my way back immediately.

You were given some illegal substance, what would you feel/how much of it? This question doesn't make sense but I would say 0 which stands for, "I'd stay away from it even if it were the last thing on earth."

You spent $300 for yourself, how satisfied would you feel? 5. Satisfied, yes; but also equally guilty/feeling bad because that is so much money to spend on myself.

What about for others? 7. It's a lot of money, but I'd feel better if I made someone else happy with that money.

How angry would you feel if your parents forgot your birthday? 10. How do you forget your kid's birthday?

Lastly. On a scale of 1-10, how entertaining was this survey? 10! I've taken this before but it was still fun to take the second time around!

[friendsim2]

I think that having Amisia as the outsider creative against the system was not necessarily the best use of the character. I think having a character like charun would have been better as their art is more avant-garde and outsider. Also if you were going to have a system supported empire person vs a person in a more freedom artistic breaking the mold way a better comparison for two appositions on privilege and creation could be Nikhee moolah and vikare ratite. Both being engineers but with nikhee having easier access to resources and it being expected of indigos vs vikare where it’s going against what the empire wants or him and any materials he needs he has to scrape together and or make do.

(director/lead writer responding)

Interesting perspective here, and I see your points, although a couple things specific to our interpretation of the game world and also the setting-specific stuff we've interpolated from canon:

Charun, while definitely a more "outsider" artist in terms of how they do their trash stuff, is a lowblood who happened to get caught up in conscription. So Amisia has had the position of being allowed to be creative and finding the whole thing kind of stagnating as they realize in the last few years that what the Empire will allow them to do is always going to be limited by what the Empire will allow. I think parallels here might be something like the vibe in the indigo car in Act 2, where the indigo-bloods are just kind of sitting around having this pointless academic-esque discussion with Joey because what else are they going to do? They're almost at the top of the pyramid, but find little satisfaction in it. And we see that with other indigos as well - Galekh isn't satisfied with his role as an enforcer of the system, Zebruh isn't really happy with who he is despite his power over others.

I think your point about Nihkee is a good one, but there's a very specific (and as-yet-unrevealed, so obviously you wouldn't know about it) reason why she isn't in that role. There are hints at what's happening with her, although they do require doing a bit of digging around inside of Volume 10's hacking segment specifically. Might've put some hints inside Volume 9 as well, but all of it is completely optional content and it's still kinda vague, but you might be able to start to piece together what's going on. I suspect, given the topic, that this ask might've been sent after playing Volume 8 so I suppose you also wouldn't have seen stuff from Volume 10, lol.

While I see your point about Vikare, and the idea of resource allocation definitely fits in with his route in FS1, I would say that from his route we kind of get "aspiring engineer" since he hasn't actually, like, built a successful design or anything. He has dreams and aspirations, but the Empire provides absolutely no path for him to make them a reality, especially given he's a lowblood. We don't necessarily go into this in hyper-specific detail, and it isn't canon (since canon says basically nothing about military structure), but we developed some degree of hierarchy for how the Alternian conscripts are handled, similar to how IRL military structures work. So, as a bronze blood with no particular cultural exemptions (like what's going on with Chixie) who got recruited into the Fleet (unlike Skylla, who's infantry), Vikare is trained in a role that is a bit more survivable (unlike Marsti and the other rust blood pilots, who are considered more disposable). So he ends up as a transport pilot through a combination of aptitude and enthusiasm. Not an engineer, because that kind of technical role is reserved for teals who aren't in Legiscorpus and jades who are in the Fleet. Maybe a particularly talented gold blood but, yknow, bigotry.

Anyhooo, thanks for the ask - it was an interesting one to talk through.

Full disclosure - I'm kinda mixed on answering "you should've done it this way instead" type asks - not because I think it's bad form or mean-spirited to send them, but just because I think that the whole "respond to all criticism" thing is kind of a trap for creators. You're allowed to have different opinions about the world we created, or think decisions we made didn't fully land. Similarly, we may not agree with your interpretation or just not want to do things the way you would've done them - and I don't want folks to think that translates into somehow attacking you for your thoughts/opinions.

That being said, I think you made some interesting points about Alternian hierarchical structures that were interesting to talk about, especially since some of them tie into our particular take on how the Alternian military is organized that doesn't necessarily get spelled out completely in-game. Plus, the whole plot of this game was laid out pretty far in advance. And some small details have changed, but some stuff - including what's going on with Nihkee Moolah - has been decided a long time ago, even if you're not gonna find out about it until later.

[pastelwitchling]

Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #8) by Sarah J. Maas

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

I haven't posted my book thoughts in a while, but I just finished what I would classify as a truly epic series, Throne of Glass, and I wanted to share my thoughts, especially to see what everyone else thought as well. Also, goodreads calls it book #7, but I'm counting The Assassin's Blade as officially part of the series because I loved that book and it's the one that got me started on this journey, and I just think it adds a lot of nuance to the rest of the series that is very much needed.

So, without further ado, here are my thoughts on the eighth and final book of the Throne of Glass series.

Sooo many spoilers ahead:

Wow. So here we are, at the end. It feels a little surreal, to be honest, finally being done with this series which I started a few months ago on nothing more than a whim. What started as an attempt to satisfy my curiosity ended up as an indescribable experience. Every book in this series (Tower of Disappointment excluded, of course) has taken over my life in a way whenever I've picked them up, and I have been left constantly in awe and in love.

The Assassin's Blade, Throne of Glass, and Crown of Midnight were all 4.5 stars, while Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, and Empire of Storms were 5 stars. Needless to say, I had hoped that we would end this series on another 5-star read, and while 4.5 stars is very high, I will admit that there were some things about this sequel that left me... kind of wanting:

My biggest disappointment was Aelin losing her powers. I don't think I would've minded if she'd lost so much of it, had it been AFTER the big battle. As it stands, it felt like we were robbed of that epic final duel because instead of getting to see Aelin come to save her kingdom, it was kind of left to others to really do the heavy-lifting, which is not something I want to see in a story where the Queen is the most powerful character. I know she orchestrated the whole thing, but in this, the final battle for Terrasen, I would've liked to see HER show off her power, HER save the day. I loved getting to see everyone working together, that was awesome, but the fact that the giant magical moment wasn't Aelin's in the end? I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, I'm not going to lie.

Speaking of which, that bargain? I feel like the WHOLE point behind it was to validate Yrene's existence. No, we didn't just stretch ToD into a full novel for no reason, Yrene is totally useful and important, we swear. And the thing is, I really disliked ToD, so I realize how subjective this is, but I thought that Yrene had NO personality whatsoever, I thought her healing powers were so boring to read because they didn't feel substantial, her power just felt like abstract light vs abstract dark, and it was so boring. So now when we get to the end, and the big bad is defeated by her and her boring powers? Instead of getting to see Aelin come head-to-head with this guy? I mean... what a letdown 😅

How do I know the bargain was just to give Yrene purpose? Elena doesn't even get saved. That great scene of Dorian and Aelin risking everything together wasted, and for what? So Aelin could make a totally out-of-character deal, risking the safety of her people and friends and allies so that this one woman who'd already lived for thousands of years and gotten them into this mess in the first place can... keep living in the Afterworld? Even if it didn't work, why not just have the gods refuse and take Erawan anyway? Or why did the supposedly kind and caring gods just let this one b*tch amongst them kill Elena? As a reader, it felt sooo unsatisfying to see such an emotional moment play out between Aelin, Dorian, and Dorian's father, only to then amount it to nothing but Aelin getting robbed of her powers, Elena getting killed anyway, and Erawan coming out unscathed. I mean, the whole point was to seal the gates and trap Erawan inside, no?? So then this whole quest we've been on amounts to nothing! It'd be like Harry Potter getting all the Horcruxes, but oh no, turns out Voldemort had a backup. Like, the whole series was about getting these damn Wyrdkeys, and in the end, it amounts to nothing! Why?? So we can prove Yrene is useful. Still doesn't have a character, but at least she can do something ??

Speaking of Harry Potter, I couldn't help but compare this book to the Deathly Hallows. The pacing in that was great, one long quest leading to one epic battle, a few mini-epic battles in between. Or the final Percy Jackson book? With one long war and breaks in between. The pacing here? There were waaaaaaay too many pointless detours. Why'd we have to stop at Anielle? The khagan's forces were headed to Terrasen from the get-go, so we could've foregone that entire battle, soooo many chapters' worth, and just kept going to Terrasen, have Chaol meet Aelin on the way there! I get that it's supposed to be hard to read Terrasen's soldiers suffering, but how is it then pleasant for the reader to know that they're barely holding down the fort over there, and then switch back to these endless stops with the other characters that never feel necessary? During every interaction, I'm just thinking, "WHY HAVE WE STOPPED?? KEEP GOING TO TERRASEN!" Why not have Aelin arrive at Terrasen halfway through, have Dorian meet them there, and they could try to lock the gates then? For a series that has been leading to Terrasen this entire time, why is it that we don't get to see Aelin actually there except in the last 50 pages?

I realize that it sounds like I hated this book, or I was severely disappointed by it, but I promise I wasn't.

Dorian? That man. That man made this book. I can't believe what an epic arc Dorian has had. I've loved him dearly since Throne of Glass, and to see the way he's grown and changed into a true king worthy of following, I just... I'm so proud. My little Dorian-lover heart is so happy 🥹

Aelin. This is the first time in my reading life that I have used the phrase, "What a babe," for a female character. I would give my life for this queen, she is... I have no words for my love for Celaena/Aelin. She has been the heart of this series since book 1, and I have been honored to know and follow her.

I loved the cadre, I loved the Lorcan and Elide moments (Lord Lorcan Lochan was hilarious), I loved the Chaol and Aelin reunion, I loved every single Aelin and Dorian moment (their friendship has been buried in my heart's core since Queen of Shadows, by the gods), and the goodbye between the three of them at the end? Chaol's insistence and determination that they would see each other again because he couldn't imagine their friendship now without her? Nobody talk to me.

I loved the romance between Rowan and Aelin (as always, those two are my favorites). I loved how Rowan truly was Aelin's match in every way.

The "You do not yield" scene? That is my life's motto from now on. Aelin, Your Majesty, I will serve you to my dying breath.

I loved sooo many moments in this book, and these were just a few noteworthy ones that I can remember off the top of my head. It's just that before the halfway point, I'd been adamant on buying the whole series (Tower of Definitely No excluded, always always always), rereading it, annotating it, engaging with it. Aelin Galathynius/Celaena Sardothien has become one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. And now, while the latter remains firmly true, I just feel like I can't get over the fact that the quest of the entire series has been reduced to nothing because of one scene, and all to give Yrene something to do. One scene, and the journey laid out before Aelin since Throne of Glass officially means nothing. I'm trying to take comfort in the fact that she did seal the worlds (and sidenote, but even as someone who doesn't like the ACOTAR series, that one Rhysand cameo was seriously epic), it's not like absolutely nothing was accomplished, but as a reader, it's very hard to look at that week's-worth of deaths, at Gavriel's death, and not feel like it could've been avoided had not one nonsensical bargain been proposed. I don't blame Aelin for it, I hasten to add, but it's just that... the writing in the rest of this series has not been great, but I never cared because it didn't interfere with the storytelling, which is what matters most to me. This is the one moment in this series where it feels like the bad writing has truly affected the story itself, and it's a damn shame that, for the first time in this series, that had to happen in the finale, of all places.