eternalgoldfish · 2 years ago
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so uh. figuring out the SNL work schedule is very convoluted and my brain hurts. but probably not as much as their brains hurt. jesus christ.
i made my bed with this reddie fic but omg.
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youngveinsworld · 6 months ago
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tyv interview and photoshoot with the los angeles times 4 july 2010
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"In Panic, we were playing the biggest shows a band could possibly play, but we weren't having any fun," Ross said. "I couldn't understand why it felt like such a chore. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't worry about [my career] today. But onstage, I'm having way more fun now."
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Over lunch at the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, Ross still cuts a figure worthy of the arena-filling life. At 4 in the afternoon, he's dressed in a dashingly skinny black suit and paisley tie. A sandwich goes largely untouched; a bloody mary and vodka tonic vanish more quickly. Ross moved to Los Angeles two years ago, and after a stint couch-surfing in Topanga Canyon, this year he bought a hilltop home in Echo Park. He admits that the transition from playing basketball arenas in ascots and elaborate eye makeup to impromptu jams at Echo Park's hipster house parties felt disorienting at first, especially when new friends asked about his musical past. But Ross feels more at home in L.A.'s eastern climes than anywhere he's lived yet. "Vegas was so creepy," he said of his adolescent hometown. "It's inspiring to live in Echo Park and see people you know at the coffee shop and meet players who push you."
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Ross and Walker recorded "Vacation" live with Alex Greenwald, frontman of Phantom Planet, and Rob Mathes, who produced Panic's second album but is better known for working with older artists such as Rod Stewart and Carly Simon. "Kids today don't give a care about the Beatles being some kind of holy church where you can't touch the pews," producer Mathes said. "It was never a calculated thing for them, and Ryan and Jon are fantastically intelligent songwriters that just happen to love the '60s." "This record is an answer to not being happy," Phantom Planet's Greenwald said. "Ryan's yearning and restless, and that image of the beach is where he strives to be." "As a teenager, I thought I knew everything about music," Ross said. "The older I get the more I realize I know less and less. But it makes me want to get better."
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phanfictioncatalogue · 4 months ago
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Fics Written In 2024 (so far) Masterlist
Buffy Movie Nights are Life Changing (ao3) - angelicsam
Summary: Things get steamy between Dan and Phil during their nighttime Buffy streaming session in 2010; featuring a confident yet bashful Phil and a shy Dan who learns how to drive Phil crazy.
Burning Bibles (ao3) - cherryheartz
Summary: phil lester loved curly headed boys with tattoos on their arms and a joint made with torn bible pages between their soft lips.
and dan howell was exactly that.
Comfort in Chaos (ao3) - Anonymous
Summary: Phil wakes to Dan having a nightmare that he struggles to rouse him from. It later transpires that there is a reason behind his unsettled and panicked behaviour.
everything has changed (ao3) - gamingbeats
Summary: Dan and Phil go on holiday to NYC and everything changes when Dan books only the couple's options.
False God (ao3) - ForeverJustAnEmoKidAtHeart
Summary: After a stupid fight, Dan has been in the office editing the Easter Baking video for the entire afternoon. He specifically told Phil not to disturb him but was amazed (and worried) that Phil didn't.
home renovations (ao3) - possumdnp
Summary: Phil is a new homeowner with a knack for getting himself into awkward situations around cute guys. Dan is a builder who's always working on renovations around Phil's house. What could go wrong?
(An alternate meeting YouTuber Phil/builder Dan AU.)
just a little bit closer (ao3) - possumdnp
Summary: Dan and Phil have a deep conversation, leading to them trying something new together.
(Set during the week Dan spent up north at Phil's house in December 2009.)
Like a Bowl of Oranges (ao3) - cloej88
Summary: Dan has built a solid career for himself as a ghostwriter. He safely hides behind other people’s words, crafting their tales and pocketing the cash without any threat of notoriety. But lately he has been working on a book of his own, itching for a change.
Phil is an indie filmmaker who happened into some huge breaks over the last few years. He wants to use his influence to uplift queer stories for the screen, so he puts out an open call for story submissions. At his agent’s behest, Dan submits his story.
The writer!Dan and director!Phil friends/co-workers to lovers AU that we never knew we needed.
Like a cicada rhythm. (ao3) - emmibug
Summary: every night they share the same bed, legs twisted together, arms holding each other close. dan and phil haven’t grown up from their childlike sense of friendship which leads people to believe there’s something deeper going on.
a dan and phil childhood best friends to lovers AU where they share the same bed and always have done.
Phlonde (ao3) - yikesola
Summary: Phil has to admit though, stood here in the familiar shop aisles of cheap box dyes, the blonde box is calling to him. A fic about change and control.
phlondes do it better (ao3) - wearealldoomed
Summary: The day has come around quicker than Phil had anticipated.
The day where Phil dips his toes back into the waters of dyeing his hair after months of letting his natural hair colour grow back through.
The day where Phil goes platinum blonde without confronting Dan about it first.
sativa (i said im ready) (ao3) - catbearbunz (bunnieovadamoon)
Summary: it’s 2009, and phil really wishes dan would call. he does, but he comes greener than expected.
aka they get drunk and high and have esex.
Slut Era (ao3) - Bandom_Squirrel
Summary: Dan worries that he’s bad at being slutty. Phil is Phil.
snowballs (ao3) - calvinahobbes
Summary: your mum is trying to get me drunk
so american (ao3) - ae121
Summary: Phil has been living in London for a year and thinks he's gotten pretty used to the city. He works part-time at a bookstore, using it at first to gain some friends, now it's just fun for him. His friends are constantly trying to find him someone to date, but all of his dates don't go well. Well, that's until he met Dan.
so I will share this room with you (ao3) - jonsaremembers
Summary: Phil hadn't meant to end up here.
an exploration of the aftermath of meeting your soulmate when you're still so impossibly young; title from "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel
The Stress, The Glory and The Afterglow (ao3) - easybubby
Summary: It's 2024. Dan and Phil are overworked and slipping into old habits. The only difference between now and 10 years ago is that their relationship now comes first and they will do anything to protect it, even if they have to spend time apart. They treasure one wild night before they vow to keep their distance for a while.
Thou shalt be punished. (ao3) - firephan311
Summary: The sequence of events following the live stream on dan's birthday. Dan's wrist injury seen in the sims video after the live stream inspired me to write this. sister danielx father philip. very smutty. very detailed. Bit of fluff at the end.
To be loved (ao3) - Thedemonqueen
Summary: Dan knows Phil insisted they’re together. Dan knows Phil loves him. But it doesn’t stop Dan from feeling dirty when he wants to touch Phil.
Vampire Moon (ao3) - natigail
Summary: Phil knew it was foolish to stay out late on the night of a full moon. It was even more foolish to agree to take a walk with Dan who was never up do any good. But Phil couldn't admit to himself that he had a blind spot concerning the vampire, and now he was going to pay for that.
*Phil said: “Oh! Is this a self-insert fic? I was called hamster boy at school. I wanted to be Oz. Bite me, granddaddy.” And I said: Bet.*
you and me (that's all we need it to be) (ao3) - bunnyslipper
Summary: 🧡
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thinking-emoji · 29 days ago
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wait you’re cooking. it wasn’t a hiatus (just a dapg hiatus) it just wasn’t the content everyone wanted/liked/were used to/whatever.
writing a book and pitching shows and preparing and going on tour is hard work. he was working he just… wasn’t like live streaming writing lol. also he was extremely depressed for a while. obviously that warrants a break.
but i do think you’re right about people just not liking it so they just kind of black it out. which like, if you don’t like something, fine. but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing anything. and also, like you said, covid fucked everyone’s sense of time so like. it feels like it’s been 50 billion years since 2018, not 6. which obviously doesn’t help.
Thank you! People in the notes of the post also pointed out how dnp had been doing A Lot of work in the mid 2010s (remember when we had 3 liveshows every week, including one on the BBC?), so it didn't help that phannies were unbelievably spoiled in terms of regular content. But I also don't think it's fair to dnp to expect them to never change the type of content they want to put out. Like, phannies keep saying they'd still love weekly livestreams where Dan just sits at his desk and yaps for an hour, and like. I'm sure he could do that. But I genuinely don't think he'd be more successful with it than with what he did do.
Like. Look at the other popular youtubers from the time of dnp's zenith. Zoella stopped posting. Marcus Butler stopped posting. Troye Sivan has fully pivoted towards music. Connor Franta gets 40k views on his videos. Tyler Oakley streams on twitch? For 60k subscribers, idk how many people he's usually got online in there? And like, the big guns? Shane Dawson? Pewdiepie? Should've quit! Jenna Marbles? Did quit!
I'm rambling on again but like. People need to understand that being a YouTuber from 2014 is not a long-term sustainable job. I honestly think it's almost a miracle that the phandom is still so committed and that they managed to keep their engagement so high (coming out at a time when most people expected their careers to be over probably helped a lot though. To be clear I don't think they came out in order to revive their careers, not at all, but I'm convinced it helped. A lot.)
But yeah what I was saying is. I get that phannies want the content they know and that they grew to love dnp for. So do I!!! But I think we're overestimating our stamina in watching the same thing for years and years and years without ever getting a taste of what it feels like to *miss* that thing. I don't know if the gaming channel return would have been as successful as it was if they both (especially Dan) hadn't disappointed us a little before. And like, I'm kinda sad for Dan bc I don't think that was his plan. I would love to like WAD! I would love to see the vod have millions of views! But unfortunately, I don't love it, and I don't want to click on it when I see it in my recommended, and it feels even more disrespectful to give it sympathy views. Because I want to have fun watching Dan and Phil. And I think we all do.
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seventeenlovesthree · 4 months ago
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What I absolutely love about the relationship that has developed between Per and Chris - is how well it fits into the former's profile.
Per's bromances are special - because he himself still belongs to the generation of players who claim to (mostly) strictly separate professional from private relationships. This is something you could also witness with Arne Friedrich, who used to say that he didn't "have many football related friendships" while he was still active. They definitely both shared that collected, almost cool demeanour towards the business, with a serious yet opinionated attitude, which may have been one of the reasons why they clicked so well back in 2010, where they supported each other through waves of external criticism.
The fun part here is, they both claimed that they would proooobably not stick around after their careers - and yet, that's exactly what they did. Because words and actions aren't always congruent - especially when you went through personal development cycles like they did. Aaaaaand because loyal people attract other loyal people and usually cannot get out of their skin when they feel appreciated and like they can actually make a change.
I could probably write a whole novel on how I perceive Per's relationship behaviour to team mates and colleagues, as there are countless examples, from Clemens Fritz at Werder to Laurent Koscielny at Arsenal (and some others which we won't mention by name here, because they unfortunately turned out to be bad apples in some way or another). I'll still try to keep this briefly and get to the point as quickly as I can:
Like I said, he is mostly serious and keeps a certain professional distance, he's opinionated, analytical, witty and can lash out if he needs to - but there is also the other side of him. The one he probably still cannot fully calculate very well - and that is his immense physicality. It's basically one of his primary love languages (aside from very blunt words of reassurance, something he, for example, shares with Thomas Müller).
Per Mertesacker is someone who values hard work, humility, discipline and loyalty - and if you fulfill these criterias, he will let you *feel* if he likes you. It's why he vibed so well with Benedikt Höwedes and the aforementioned Arne Friedrich; it's why Lukas Podolski had become his closest companion during their shared Arsenal days. The way he talked about them AND showed his physicality (constant hugs, no sense of personal space, hands on shoulders) showed nothing but respect, adoration and affection.
With Poldi, you also had the element of him being some kind of happy-go-lucky goofball that pulled Per out of his seriousness every now and then - he was a complementary force that allowed Per to let out his own goofy, silly side as well.
And this is also why Per and Chris are such a perfect match - not only do they share the analytical approach, are down to earth, loyal and witty... But they still have this complementary vibe going on. Just looking at them, you would think they are basically twins (especially in height) separated at birth. But despite the fact that they are still both incredibly opionated, they have a different approach. Per is letting out the full extent of "wise old man dadness" (including the dad jokes), he's the serious one who may even seem a bit cold and harsh due to it (which is, again, something I feel he and Arne have in common). And then there's Chris with that youthful loud mouth, the boy is from my generation and it shows that there is an age difference - but by being his refreshingly open self, he isn't just speaking his mind, giving a voice to what a lot of people think... No, he also has a glimpse of that goofy spirit that enables Per to go with or against it in a playful way. It's very different from Poldi's spirit - but not any less effective.
People have speculated there is "beef" going on between them, but really, judging by the amount of physical closeness, hugs, arms around shoulders, singing the anthem, eating ice cream, playing sport, having playful banter... You can tell that Per "loves" Chris back - who has no issues saying that out loud. Honestly, Chris has that interesting history of being ridiculously vocal when it comes to reassuring others (Leon Goretzka and various Gladbach players come to mind), so it's not surprising that his loving attitude attracted Per as well. You can simply tell that he's impressed by him - and Chris giving him starstruck eyes on a regular basis probably contributed to it as well.
Long story short; I love them.
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motogpnewbie · 10 days ago
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Finally got around to continuing my Marc race binge
Catalunya 2010 125cc Race  (Notes and Commentary under the cut)
Them talking to Aki Ayo about if Marc is feeling the pressure and his saying “no, I think he was hungry to win, still now but he is a very calm boy, I think Marc understands that the championship is important, I hope he remembers that during the race” *stares at 2015 season* Marc how where you more level headed as a 17 yr old like come on you could have had a 9th title if you weren’t so committed to throwing the bike down the road if you weren’t winning (glad you learnt from that king, sorry it took a painful divorce to do it but glad all the same)
the 9th title also could have happened 2011 or 2020 but nope injury
At this point in the season Marc is 3rd in the championship on a run of 3 wins going into this race, Pol is 2nd and Terol is 1st.
(Not the point but the closer I get to Aragon the more I feel a massive rant about Krummenacher coming on once I get there)
Why do I keep forgetting that Zarco is older than Marc, like Marc is one of the youngest on this grid
(Also not about this race but I just remembered seeing something about a race weekend during 2011 or 12 were Marc got fined because he flipped Scott Redding off at the end of practice because he said something rude)
Front Row does Marc, Pol, Bradley Smith, and Terol 
There’s a guy with the last name Rossi on this grid but I don’t think he’s Italian
WARM UP LAP (its always so fun to see how different riders do their warm up laps)
There talking a lot about the temperature (worried about tires maybe)
Also I forgot that Catalunya wasn’t near beginning of the season back then
Marc is 11 points of 1st place 
The commentators saying its gonna be tough to beat Marc 
Marc on and leading from pole (I am shocked 🤥)
NO Tito crashed ( I don’t know much about Tito but I know he’s really friends with Marc and Alex)
Marc lying during the press conference saying oh I don’t think its a race someone with get away at the front, Marc you liar you know you could have done it (he truly is the most humble person ever but he also has confidence the rest of the grid wished they had
Not them pitting Pol and Marc against each other because there Catalan and its their home race
Marc having fastest lap likely place for him to be
Marcs dad really has had thing finger crossing habit since the beginning (also Alex hey he looks so young but at least he looks his age at 14 unlike Marc who looked 8)
Gap over a second Marc again you liar what do you mean you think no one will be able to break away
(Also forgot to add this at the beginning but they said Marc reminded them of a young Dani)
New circuit record from Marc and guess who he took it from yep Krummenacher (was Aragon his revenge like dude I’ll never be over that like why, was it worth the disqualification)
Well at least there’s a battle between Pol, Bradley and Nico to keep it interesting because Marcs checked out
Another crash a French rider, I think he hurt his ankle he got taken off on a stretcher
Also I need Marc in darker leathers again like truly 2010, 11 and 12 the leathers were immaculate 
Zarco down in 13th at least it prepared him for his Honda years
Another crash by a Norwegian rider 
Not really much of Marc he really has checked out with his 2 second lead and their more focused on the battle for 2nd
Pol just took fastest lap 
Them interviewing Aleix give me a Alex interview 
Talking about tough times in Spain as a reason for empty grandstands (was there a financial crisis at the time?)
Bradley Smith back up into 2nd 
Marcs whole career he’s either had really shitty starts or really good starts like terms no in-between (he had a good one here)
Also a 4 second lead Marc don’t humiliate them like that (like 125cc is marketed as close racing Marc your ruining their promotion)
Although there’s still battles further back just not for the win
From 5th to 6th there is 21 second gap that’s kinda crazy
I forgot how much i missed Gavin Emmett and Nick Harris has commentators (I’ve only watched Marcs 2013 season fully, I’m gonna rewatch it when I get to his premier class career so I can take notes)
I’m also thinking of going back to the start of the video pass (2003) and watching vales career and taking notes like a am for Marc and I might alternate between which one I’m watching 
7 laps left still a 4 second gap 
I’m waiting for the commentators curse to kick in with my hands covering my eyes cause they keep saying everyone thought Marc would win and know I’m nervous 
Terol and Pol keeping it interesting with their battle for 3rd
If Marc wins this with the results remaining the same (Smith 2nd, Pol 3rd, Nico 4th) Marc is gonna leave here leading the championship (3rd to 1st)
Its the way no one had him as a contender at the start and now there like wow he may win this like that a crazy 4 weeks for him (Mugello to this race)
They are really running when this Marc reminds us of Dani (so my question is when did the comparisons switch from Dani to Vale
Marc 4 1/2 seconds in the lead (Marc your incredible)
Love that they call him the pocket rocket 
Gap from 4th to 5th 34 seconds again that crazy in 125 race
They really love Bradley (I also like Bradley, he was on the podium when Marc was booed and chanted Marcs name (it was pre sepang as well I think which makes the booing more insane))
Marc already has a big fan club, I love that
1 lap to go 
No Bradley (he gone from 2nd to 4th)
Pol and Nico could have just crashed each other out 
Terol crashed out which means he loses the lead and Marc is now leading the championship (hope he’s okay it looked nasty especially for his shoulder)
Marc the youngest to win 4 in a row (I think he takes that record from Vale)
Podium is Marc 1st, Smith 2nd, Pol 3rd
Emilio calling Marc and incredible boy I’m moved (what happened between them, why did they part ways?)
They just said we look for the new Rossi (they said they was a bit unfair to say) but they said they’ve found the new top youngster 
Burnout for Marc love it
Love that he won his home race 
Bradleys best result of the season
Them saying the only thing that can stop Marc is Marc and ain’t that the truth 
They called him a rare talent 
Also hello again Alex
Marc and his emotional attachment to his red bull 
He’s a lot calmer in parc ferme here 
Poor Marc not being allowed champagne on the podium (he was in mugello but that’s cause the age is lower) he’s shaking his little red bull can instead 
Onto Sacshenring 
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panelshowsource · 1 year ago
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random thoughts dump of the week bc none of this deserves its own post
coming down from a smol john kearns kick and really enjoyed it, guy has a ridiculously sweet presence and i really like his voice. it also brings me great joy his previous career was working in museums and as a tour guide. i would like that life, i think (i worked at universal orlando for a little bit in 2013 and was always super jealous of the vip tour guides lol). he mentioned on one of his rhlstps that despite winning arguably the biggest (british) comedy awards there are, he never released a standup special or dvd, and he kinda wants to keep it that way so he has something special between him and his live audience — and that really made me sad face. like, my guy, what about those of us who can't see you bc won't leave that damn island. (also ed gamble's new tour having no nyc date felt personal...) in another episode, he talked a little about, in great part due to social media, people want comedians they can know everything about, get the whole look of; comedians who are the same people onstage as off. he's not like that and doesn't really like the idea of that. i think there's a lot to say about that subject but i'll just leave it for now...
speaking of touring ed byrne next week!!! and jimmy and alan carr coming up!! what a fun time :')
speaking of rhlstp and ed, one thing that occurred to me and i thought was quite funny upon listening to his recent episode is that both richard and ed have that self-aware side of them that admits to bitterness, professional jealousy, annoyance with critics/haters, believing they're not as successful as they deserve to be, etc. while it can come off whiney here and there, it's not too obnoxious or anything, i just found it amusing they had this (often concealed or private) quality in common. i might even put jenny eclair in that camp (others too but that's a discourse i don't really wanna start lmao)
if another youtuber, following amelia dimoldenberg (and munya? does he count?), had to go on taskmaster i would probably vote for ollie kendal off of jolly. in my mind he and alex would be genuinely good friends outside of the show
man i miss the horne section podcast so bad
honestly, i'm a little surprised david mitchell doesn't have a podcast. he loves radio, it's not too demanding of a gig, and he's got tons of interests that could make engaging premises for podcasts... i'm sure someone has floated this to him before, so i need the reason why he said no. maybe he was busy with his book. would love a history pod fr
does anyone else ever remember when david mitchell was in rick and morty and just sit back and go O_O also when he was on graham norton with hillary clinton like lmaooo i just love the idea of the booking agents for that show being like "we're having fucking hillary clinton on who can we bring for comic relief who is a household name but not problematic but intelligent but actually funny" i mean they hit the jackpot of course but it cracks me up that that's his brand
did david ever watch succession? rob def did but i need more about it from both of them
sometimes i think about when david accepted his bafta for peep show and the music that was playing while he walked to the stage was "sex on fire" by kings of leon hahahahaha like what who was djing that night fr
where did charlie brooker go
speaking of back in the day — and i do mean back, like 15+ years ago — and my main panel show obsession was buzzcocks, there were a few non-comedians who would come on panel shows who were properly fucking funny, like martin freeman and josh groban, and i'd always pray they'd eventually come on again. and i think at the time the person at the top of my list was professor green. how random is that TT he was just always up for laugh and just so likable. i also LOVED the song "just good to be green" with lily allen in like 2010 lmaooo this really ages me :)
been really enjoying some old angus deayton-hosted stuff, like old hignfy and wilty. i got into panel shows after he'd stepped out of the spotlight, but i remember being crushed when i found out about his scandal. i also remember stephen fry standing up for him and chastising paul & ian publicly after That Episode of hignfy — which absolutely blew my mind, even though stephen has always said what he thinks — and i agreed with him and am not sure even today if i fully forgave paul & ian for how they treated angus. ik he's still here and there, but i wonder if we'll ever see him in any properly notable capacity again
just watched the latest hignfy actually and jack dee pheww he's ageing very nicely let me just say it and pheww emmanuel sonubi please and thank you. also, paul's outfit was quite nice. an enjoyment of the eyes indeed
i've been making a lot of typos in my gifs lately for literally no reason other than not proofreading my rushing and it's embarrazzing i'm gonna do better
speaking of gifs i have NOTHING!!! in my drafts folder. nothing. no content. nothing is made. nothing in the queue. [sigh] sounds like tonight we be bustin it out huh. idk about other gifmakers (i actually don't follow any other panel show blogs, but this isn't necessarily a panel show blog thing, just a regular original content thing) but i don't usually make gifs throughout the week — instead, like, marathon gif like two times a week and build up 10–20 drafts to post throughout the week. if you gif every single day or to keep up with all of the new content, it starts to become a chore, which is never fun :(
speaking of which i probably won't gif outsiders too much because people don't seem to care too much about it + the webrips are just...so ugly in gif form, even at 1080p! it's a dave thing fr, taskmaster used to be the same way -_-
okay here we go into gif mode btw i got some of your requests and will def make them!!
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homosociallyyours · 2 years ago
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Megan, I love your brain and I'd love to know what you think about the most recent tidal wave to hit our wee fandom. Is this just gonna be a brief reprieve before we get Aloucia, did Eleanor decide she finally wanted a meaningful life of her own beyond bathroom pics and dog walking? What do you reckon ? X
ok so THIS is the ask I've been wanting to get to!! thank you to everyone who sent me asks and helped me open my computer!
and MAJOR thanks to @goodshiplarrypop for asking my opinion on something?? It's rare and a fun lil treat! AND it's probably for the best that I'm not answering when this is actually the main discourse, bc as much as I do like sharing my thoughts I do NOT like being pulled into disc horsing around, really? That said. I'm putting my answer behind a cut:
I will preface this by saying that this is all my opinion and conjecture, and I don't expect anyone to agree with me. I'm also not interested in debating, so if you don't agree with me that's chill BUT I have no need to hear about it.
I think we've seen signs that Eleanor has been doing her own thing and developing a stronger work life for a while now. She's been working with a lot more brands, and honestly from what I can tell she seems to be having success as a luxury influencer. Her follower count is high enough and even with comments turned off on posts she still gets decent engagement in terms of likes and stuff.
It does appear to me that she loves animals, and I will be surprised if we don't see her with Cliff sometimes. A big part of me thinks that this ending is meant to be a "more mature" one for her and Louis-- they wanted different things and grew apart but still care for each other vs. him basically being a cheater party boy (or having that for her). If that's the approach they take, it could do a lot for allowing Louis down time-- lots of "will they get back together?" moments based simply on her proximity to him BUT allowing her the freedom to actually be out in the world with any man she's really seeing.
For Louis, this is a great chance to be Single and career focused, and honestly kinda makes his interactions with F over the past year+ make a lot more sense to me. I think it's entirely possible that the idea of hanging out with a kid every once in a while-- something Louis likes doing and is good at --might feel like a better use of his time than going on week long trip or doing a papped night out to feed into a straight guy narrative. And obviously timing-wise the January-January ending feels like something that's been planned and expected.
That said, is Aloucia coming asap? I mean. I would be surprised? But I often am! I have a feeling that it's meant more as a place holder, like maybe something more could connect them in a few months. Maybe it was a wink and a nod to anyone who pays attention to stunts. Maybe he likes pictures of fireworks! I truly don't know.
One thing for sure is that if she does happen to stunt with him, I plan on being really annoying and pointing out the ways that beards can't win and are treated horribly no matter what they do or how they do it. It's the one place where I feel like outside critique of larries actually holds water, and I just hate to see antis taking that W on us when we could honestly just thrive by saying less! OH ALSO i find it funny that half of Clexa and half of Larry could be "together" like WHAT IT THE ACTUAL FAN FICCING FUCK??? hilarious!!!! like reliving the 2010s!
ok I think that's all I've got to say for now! hopefully you don't regret sending me this ask!
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tellthemeerkatsitsfine · 1 year ago
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Last week, I watched a Britcom movie that wasn’t great, but did feature a young(er) Ed Byrne, and that was fun to watch. So at that point, I posted some screenshots of Ed Byrne circa 2010 acting in an okay-but-not-great comedy movie.
To follow up on this loose theme (guys who are now in their fifties, are stand-up comedians and also have been all over the panel show circuit for a long time, acting in sub-par movies from long enough ago so they look younger than how we’re now used to seeing them), would anyone like some screenshots of Alan Davies in an absolutely terrible Britcom movie from 2001?
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I almost wrote that that’s a pre-Jonathan Creek Alan Davies, but I looked it up and Jonathan Creek started in 1997, so it had been going for a few years by then. This movie does, however, also feature a pre-The Office (at least, from the same year as The Office started) Ricky Gervais:
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And (this is the reason I sat through that whole terrible movie, so I could be a proper completist about having a folder that contains everything on his IMDB page) a pre-Phoenix Nights Daniel Kitson:
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(As you can see from the subtitles, he had a catchphrase.)
Bad movie, but pretty good for baby versions of comedians who are now known for wildly different things - different from each other, and from whatever the hell this monstrosity in 2001 was.
Kitson’s IMDB page is mainly stuff from before 2003, which makes sense, because that’s when he decided he decided performing in anything that was written, directed, produced, or even distributed by another person is for sellouts. But he did study drama in university, and apparently before he swore off this sort of thing forever, he was taking tiny little roles in terrible movies (okay, to be fair, just one tiny role in just one terrible movie), which is the behaviour of someone who was trying to create an acting career. He’s said things that make it seem like the bad experience with Phoenix Nights was what made him adopt the whole anti-publicity thing; who knows where he’d have ended up if Peter Kay had just been a bit less of a dick? If Peter Kay had been nicer in 2002, Daniel Kitson might be a major MCU villain by now. What I mean is - I never expected to say this, but thank you for your services to the art of comedy, Peter Kay.
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strawberryblondebutch · 1 year ago
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Do you have strong feelings about the MLB pitch clock/game shortening shit
I have some very strong and controversial opinions on it!
Pitch Clock: I can tell a fake grognard by how upset they get about the pitch clock. Yes, it's new. However, the "pace of play" in the 80s and 90s was actually closer to the pitch clock era than the 2010s. I think it's good for the game overall, but there are certain aspects I don't like (namely, Bryce Harper has to wear an elbow brace on the base paths because of his arm injury, and MLB won't give him extra time to put it on because of the pitch clock.)
My favorite part? Limiting disengagements / pick-off attempts. As a catcher, I hate when my pitcher does four or five lazy throw-overs to first base. As a hitter, I hate waiting to be pitched to as this mental game goes on. As a base runner, Jesus Christ if I wanted to steal I would.
Bigger Bases: I don't think this made the difference that everyone thought it would! I personally haven't noticed it. The articles about stolen base numbers being up are all from April so I'm not sure if we regressed back to the mean or not. I do think they're good for limiting collision injuries.
Defensive Shift Limits: This is my most controversial opinion. I wish we didn't have to ban the shift, because taking away a legal strategy is always frustrating, but I do think it was necessary for the sport. Recently, on the train to and from work I've been reading Winning Fixes Everything, which sums up the main issue with contemporary baseball better than I could: analysts are too smart.
There's been, since the start of the sport, a competitive evolution between pitchers and hitters. In the last 15-ish years, front offices have become brilliant at optimizing both sides of the game, and the result is... largely, really boring baseball. Every pitcher can throw triple digits with two feet of break, so it's not as simple as "hitting into the gap away from the shift." Everyone is swinging for the fences all the time, which has rocketed up the strikeout rate, and we've gotten away from what makes baseball fun.
I've noticed a marked improvement this season in two Phillies in particular. They can't entirely be attributed to the shift ban, but it didn't hurt. Nick Castellanos has already said he had a mental block last season, but Casty is also a career .300 batter whose game is bases-clearing doubles. Last year, he was shifted on so much that he kept grounding into double plays. That's not happening as much anymore. On the other side, we have center fielder Brandon Marsh, who the Angels tried to make into a power hitter. That's not his game. He worked with the Phillies hitting coach post-trade to practice his "controlled aggression," and now he's back to what he's good at: getting on-base and being fast.
Tl;dr -- I wish that things hadn't gotten to a point where these changes HAD to be implemented, but I'm really happy to be back in an era of baseball where Things Actually Happen instead of "the batter plays with his gloves for three minutes and then strikes out because he was trying to hit a dinger."
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Different anon but about max nico if nico won the wdc in 2014 and max became his teammate after that. I don't think nico would get as riled up post winning I think he became so much more relaxed after winning the wdc it was his big goal and I think he would see any future wins as a bonus and would probably do really well in the mentor role. Idk if max would be able to consistently overtake in his first year tbh. I remember seeing a performance chart between max and Daniel where Daniel was doing better than max their first year as teammates but then it flipped in Max's favour from the next year onwards. I think it would be same with max and nico except nico has already achieved his dream so he is actively cheering Max on to achieve his dream as well.
love that there's more of us 🥺
as a self appointed nistorian (Nico historian) if we take nico's career into perspective, his Williams years was shit (he started going to therapy after that first year), while lewis won a WDC by 2008 in a mclaren merc. schumie was expected to lead merc but nico beat him consistently; that being said nico's first win came in 2012 in a merc! 6 years after his career started. he was primed to be merc top dog when schumie retired, and in came lewis 😭
the hybrid engine regulations massively favoured merc and its downforce, which is why merc's slay era was so SO big. it also came down to the fact that Nico, who was going from the occasional podium was now in a championship winning car and his teammate in his second year won a WDC for his team he'd been with since 2010. the merc era was so dominant there were races where it's Just Them and then third place is 30 seconds behind 😭 so while it is every driver's goal to win a WDC, nico probably wouldn't have pushed the way he did to prove himself like he did with lewis -- once again, he went against the greatest in the world in the same car and won. That's why he could let it (the title) go.
I think like jenson, nico could've been a more content one time WDC who kept on racing had his teammate been anyone other than Lewis (toto voice... shared history) but if it's maxy and by 2016 he's already challenging nico for the title I can sorta see Nico's calmer serene mentor persona faltering ala daniel 2018 cause it Does hit your self esteem that you're in the same car and he's Younger than you (the youngest prodigy!!!) and beating your ass, and he has none of that self doubt you do. Daniel softened a lot of Max's edges and they had a lot of fun together it would be interesting how Nico would fare in that situation.
the heartbreaking implication that Lewis and Nico would've stayed friends if they were in different teams ;-;
I have this image where max is calling nico an old man as a joke and nico is ☹️ about it (b-but he used to be the young one 🥺)
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kinzavskpop · 3 years ago
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rings || w.js
alternatively known as: the one where jackson reconnects with a childhood friend when they compete in the winter olympics pairing: jackson x figure skater!reader genres/AUs: childhood friends to lovers, idiots to lovers, sports!au, fluff, angst, brother’s best friend!au warnings: lots of about diets, weight, body image!! a/n: I wanted to write this au for sO long and was actually about to scrap it until Jackson did that video introducing the Tokyo Olympics and then I was like ‘well now I kind of have to do it because the universe literally gave me a sign’ so uh?? also this is a figure skating!au because I used to competitively figure skate and was always petty that my country wasn’t a part of the FSU so I could never make it to an olympic level (I tried to make this as understandable as possible but made a glossary post just in case, which you can find here!!)
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anyone who has ever remotely been interested in Jackson Wang knows he’s an athletic guy ok it’s not hard to tell
his mom was a national level gymnast and his dad was competitive fencer, the man practically grew up breathing sports
he took after his dad and got into fencing and was basically going to be an olympic fencer at the 2012 london olympics if he didn’t join JYPE when he did
this ain’t news people
what IS news, is that Beijing is hosting the 2022 winter olympic games
you wanna know what the winter olympic games and Jackson Wang have in common?? 
you
you’ve known jackson since you were a kid, but not because y’all were neighbours or whatever maybe you were what do I know
you knew him because he was your brother’s closest friend when they met at the Junior Olympics in 2010
your brother and jackson hung out a lot when they weren’t practicing or competing, which was fun because you got to hang out too since you were a snow bird
and sure, your brother probably found hanging out with his younger sibling a little annoying but it was fun being your own little trio!!
why am I thinking jackson’s mom called you guys the three musketeers hehe
but while jackson used to stab people for fun, you preferred to make them dizzy
yes you read that right
anyway the point I’m trying to make is that you were a figure skater and did winter sports so you got to see your brother (and consequently, jackson) whoop some butt as teenage [summer] olympians ooooo
but it’s been twelve years since then, and life happens
Jackson moved to south korea two years later to became part of one of the biggest boy bands on the planet, started a solo career and company at the age of 23, hopefully got a new plant
Your brother got married to his s/o from college, decided he would rather help younger kids achieve their dreams and started a sports academy
and you... you felt like the only person in your trio who still had an itch to scratch, and BOY were you ready to relieve that itch
if it hadn’t been for an ill-timed ankle injury you probably would have made it onto your country’s skating team and actually tried to meet Jackson in Pyeongchang 
and he certainly wasn’t subtle about it when asking your brother
“please tell me your sibling hasn’t retired” “why” “because south korea just won the bid to host the winter olympics in 2018″
and jackson was absolutely crushed when the news came out that you couldn’t even compete in the qualifiers for the olympics because of a stupid stage two fracture
so much so that one time jackson couldn’t perform Crash & Burn without almost crying because he remembers how when it came out you said that given the opportunity you would want to use it in a competition and make him as proud as he had made you
but when he found out the next winter games were in Beijing?? he went n u t s
“heyyyy~~” “what” “did u know that u absolutely have to make it to the next olympics” “I mean yes that would be my job but why are you telling me this??” “IT’S BEING HOSTED IN BEIJING” “jackson this isn’t new information” “YOU KNEW?????”
And this goes on for the entirety of the four years between pyeongchang and Beijing because Jackson has no sense of shame or personal space
“Drink my protein smoothie before you start today!!” “Please tell me you stretched properly before attempting any jumps” “what kind of outfits are you wearing for your routines” “bambam wants to know if he can pick your outfit but I said no” “do you want me to pick you up from the airport when you arrive? I’ll bring you food since you’ll be hungry” “how many spins can you do in a row without getting dizzy bc I said you could do 8 and mark said he’d buy me food if I could get proof”
The epitome of the meme that’s like “he a lil confused but he got the spirit”
Even your brother is like “dude you’ve got it bad” and Jackson, who isn’t perceptive to his own feelings whatsoever, is like “I’m just encouraging them to do their best!!”
But as much as Jackson’s constant texting is annoying, some days it’s the only thing that keeps you fighting
His little reminders to “eat this it’s good for your bones” or “drink water so you don’t almost pass out like you did at worlds that one time” keep you smiling and on track
Because as much as you want to win gold, you really want to see Jackson in person again
So you push through and ultimately it does pay off because you manage to make it onto your representative team!!
And without fail Jackson starts losing his mind, both privately and publicly
He sets google alerts for figure skating news, posts about his favourite routines you’ve done, he even manages to find old photos of the three of you and you basically have to yell at him to not post them
“Jackson please I look awful” “shut up you were so cute what even happened to you” “HEY” “I’m just kidding! OH I know I’ll ask my mom if she has-“ “WANG JIA ER” “oKAy fINE”
It’s actually quite cute
And when you finally start looking into logistics of when to book your tickets for, Jackson tries everything in his power to get you to stay a few nights longer than the ceremony
“Jackson I can’t stay, worlds is less than a month after the closing ceremony” “I’ll buy you fried chicken” “I can’t eat fried chicken it has too many calories” “ok fine we’ll get Peking duck” “Jackson” “final offer: Peking duck, a box of fēnggāo, and my mom’s jiǎozǐ” “if I get to see your mom too I’ll do it” “you think you’d come to china and get away with not seeing her?” “Fair point”
the media is EATING these cute interactions up, and the amount of fan edits you find are surprisingly high
like they’re very obviously moments taken out of context but it’s adorable how excited people are for you two
and when you do touch down in Beijing and get through immigration, your manager has to pull you through a different exit so you can avoid the crazy paparazzi and questions
you and your teammates settle into your olympic house and you get to know the other sport competitors and it’s somehow worse than the paparazzi because you can’t avoid your teammates when they ask you about jackson
especially when you come up short to questions like “oh do you like him~~” and everyone loses their shit
and when the games actually start it only gets worse
mainly because you start receiving exclusive packages from Team Wang
it just weighs on you that yeah, maybe you do like him but you can’t
you’re one of his best friend’s younger sibling, it would be weird and break the bro code
your brother is in a group chat with both yours & jackson’s moms like “I’ve been trying to set them up since 2018 idk how they haven’t noticed yet”
and the night before your first event, jackson facetimes you to cheer you on “in person”
“look at you!! the olympic figure skater to watch out for, a shoe in for the gold!! ass kicker extraordinaire!!” “jackson omg please calm yourself” “no thank you :^)”
you can hear your coach snicker from one of the other rooms and your only thought is ‘this is why the entire world thinks we’re dating smh’
but he can tell the pressure is getting to you because you’re kind of spacing out and not really answering him
so he acts like everything is fine before telling you to be ready
“hey, do me a favour and be ready in ten minutes” “ready for what” “we’re getting fried chicken and figuring whatever that sad face is about” “JACKSON WHAT”
it basically makes you feel like a teenager when you have to find a way to sneak out of your dorm and into his car without letting everyone else to notice
and he sees you running to his car with a mask on and a team wang beanie and he just,,, he feels his heart bust a GIANT nut and he can’t stop smiling like “omg they actually snuck out to see you stay calm OH GOD THEY’RE WEARING THE BEANIE RED ALERT”
like the scene from inside out in the boy’s head where all his emotions are screaming and running around lol
you hop into his car and the first thing you do after buckling your seatbelt safety first kids is glare at him
“the fried chicken better be worth breaking my diet” “only the best for the ice princess”
and the childhood name makes you smile because he really hasn’t changed
and it’s when you guys are tucked away in some tiny family restaurant on the second floor of a duplex, eating some of the best sweet and sour sesame chicken you’ve ever had in your life, does jackson ask you what’s really up and the only real response is
“I hate myself in the mirror”
and in that moment, when jackson sees how scared you are, his heart just. shatters.
you talk about everything you’ve been feeling; the pressure to be as small as you can ‘for the jumps’, how you’re one of only three representatives for your category of singles, the way you’ve been practically starving for months on end and if you even look at another smoothie you’ll kill someone-
and jackson just bear hugs you while asking for the bill bc you can already feel a panic attack coming on
and when you get back to the car with jackson you guys just sit in silence as he drives you back
and when he parks behind your building, he drops something in your lap
“remember when I was moving to korea and your brother came to visit me before I left? I was nervous and you told me that you were proud of me for following my dreams and that if I needed anything you guys were one call away. you told him to give me this ring and said it was your lucky charm so I could do well, and now I’m giving it back.”
“jacks-” “I’m not done. If skating is taking a toll on your health, you need to find a way out. I don’t want to find out that you ended up dead in a hotel room because you needed to ‘be smaller,’ or whatever other crap they tell you. You don’t have to change for anyone, and if I find out you’re not eating properly I will not hesitate to kick your ass. So, go out there and do your best, and when your events are over...”
"winner winner chicken dinner?”
and that’s what makes you and jackson lose it
because no matter how old you two get, you’ll still be those kids from the youth olympics with wacky traditions you created when you were tweens/teens
so when you do compete during the short program, jackson texts you some good luck texts that say he’ll be watching you live
only he neglects to tell you that he meant he boUGHT TICKETS TO PHYSICALLY SEE YOU THERE??!?!?!?!?
and honestly the only reason you even know he’s there is because you hear him scream ‘WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER’ and have to stop yourself from laughing so hard you fall over
but you get through to the free skate!! 
you’re not sure if your score is enough to really get you to the finals yet which is scary
but it’s ok because you realize jackson literally took so many photos and videos of your performance and updated his instagram story with no captions
except for a black screen at the end that just says ‘I can’t believe I got to watch this in person oh my god’
and when the results come out that you are competing in the finals he proceeds to lose his mind on twitter
one tweet that got a particularly large amount of traction was one that just said “if you’re not into figure skating unfollow me now this is gonna be the only thing on my brain for the next two days”
jackson is NOT subtle nor does he want to be lmfao
especially because your brother messaged jackson being like “did u kiss them yet” and jackson was like “why would I do that we don’t like each other like that” and then two seconds later went “I’ll do it after their events I can’t distract them rn”
and you have the day off the next day so you expect a ton of texts or calls from Jackson but you get none which confuses the absolute hell out of you
so you message the only other person you know who would know why he’s not annoying you like he usually would: your brother
“hey I need ur help” “omg an olympic figure skater needs my help!!!!1!1″ “shut up and help me” 
basically you annoy him enough to get him to tell you that jackson doesn’t want to distract you before your free skate
so you start spamming jackson like the good friend you are
“hello mr wang pls answer me” “jacksonnnnnnnn” “dumpling boy” “don’t make me call your mother” “geoul-a geoul-a jebal jom malhaejulyeomuna”
jackson, freaking the fuck out in the got7 group chat: “SOS I’m in love send help” “slfjslkd they just sent the opening line to just right what dO I D O”
all the other members are reading his messages and laughing because damn he has it bad
anyway he never messages you back so you kinda just shrug it off and make sure you stretch properly and relax because you have to do well to medal
the next day, you get a text right before you go on the ice from the ghoster himself that’s just a picture of the rink from a high pov
and you have to force yourself to focus because “wow,,,,, he really meant watch me live huh,,,,,,, he’s so cute I love him,,,,, wait WHAT”
and before your free skate, the program announcer calls your name and then says “skating to GOT7′s Crash and Burn”
does Jackson almost shit himself and have a heart attack at the same time??? yes
like he figured you meant use his songs at like nationals or something not the goddaMN FUCKING OLYMPICS?????????
serves him right for not warning you he was gonna show up to see you skate both times tbqh
but you make sure that you try and get in all your rotations in full and that your jumps are clean because if there’s one thing you’re not gonna do it’s ruin jackson’s song
the judges are deliberating and jackson is so proud he tears up a little
and then when you’re putting your guards on and talking to your coaches, you can hear commotion behind you
you turn around only to see jackson trying to explain that he’s not insane and he knows you and you have to explain that, yes, you do in fact know the crazy man trying to break into the box
so he does come to greet you but instead of congratulating you like a normal person, he just goes “I’m in love with you”
and you’re so shocked that you don’t even realize that you won’t medal because jackson is kissing you
the entire internet is on fire with headlines like “jackson wang dating olympic figure skater” or “olympic figure skater uses bf jackson wang’s song during their free skate performance”
it’s funny as hell when the internet goes crazy and the rest of your family gets questioned too
your brother takes full credit for the relationship
bambam jokingly tweeting about how you should let him help you plan the wedding sends aghases into screaming mode
jackson’s mom flies out to beijing to see you and you guys go for dinner together and she brings some of his baby pictures to show you 
jackson looks like he wants to crawl in a hole and die lol
you look at each other with so much love in your eyes and his mom takes like 50 billion pictures and sends them to the group chat she’s in with your mom and brother with the caption “mission accomplished” 
you get a text on your way out of the restaurant from your brother that just says “use protection” and you have to restrain yourself from blocking him lol
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dendrite-blues · 3 years ago
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Given the events of today, this seems an appropriate time to tell an embarrassing story about myself.
Me, 2 me:
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It’s about Loki, and 2012 fandom, and growing older. In retrospect, I suppose it’s not actually that funny, but the irony is pretty strong.
The first MCU movie I saw was Avengers 1. I had never read a comic book or seen a super hero movie. I just happened to be in the common room of my dorm when a bunch of nerd bros were going to see it, and a good friend insisted that I had to see it.
I was ENTHRALLED the entire time. Start to finish. Every joke, every fight seen, all the characters being introduced and meeting each other. The hot ass villain that stone cold just WHACKED a guy with his cane and drilled some motherfucker’s eye out. Like WTF?!
My mind was blown. I opened AO3 on my phone in the car ride back, I couldn’t even wait to get home. Mind you, AO3 had only been started like... a year before that. It was baby. I got it so I could comment on some BNF’s Sherlock fics in 2010, but stopped using it until 2012 because there weren’t any fics on there. For real! there were like, maybe 100 fics on there when I joined. I remember telling my wife it was a cool idea, but it’d never work. No way would they get the whole fandom to leave FFN. LOL!!
But there were stories already popping up on premiere night. There were stories from visionaries who’d written shit before the movie even came out. Bless them, they made my entire week!
I thought Tony Stark was fucking incredible, so I looked up his ships. Fell into Science Boyfriends. Didn’t so much like Stony. Fell even harder for team fic and found family stuff.
I remember when Howard Stark’s A+ Parenting was first used. I vividly remember Tony Stark Has a Heart being coined and abruptly being tagged on EVERY SINGLE FIC for a week. Fun times.
Anyway, time passes. I moved into an apartment with 2 roommates and my (now) wife. We were all fujoshi, and conversation in our house would have be completely indiscernible to someone who didn’t know the fandom lingo.
We all go to see Age of Ultron together. It was a great time, but as a Tony/Bruce shipper I was understandably distressed by the sudden yeeting of Bruce from planet Earth and essentially removing my OTP from the entire 2nd Phase of the MCU.
“What the hell am I supposed to read now?” I wondered. 
I still don’t feel any flutters for Steve, Tony doesn’t know Bucky exists yet, and I’m still living with some intense internalized misogyny that prevents me liking any straight ships.
So my roommate, quite reasonably, mentions Frostiron.
And this is where the story gets embarrassing, because I immediately wrinkled my nose in confusion and went on a five minute, idiotic rant about what a dumb, weird-ass crack ship that was. Tony and Loki? Excuse you? What, is that some kind of “ship the two hot fandom heart throbs even though they have nothing in common” ship? He threw Tony out a window FFS? He’s a VILLAIN.
Queue the laugh track.
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And my roommate, bless her, she was a total champion and a good friend and she just completely let me get away with it.
She shrugged and said, “Welp, sorry I mentioned it.” and life went on.
FLASH FORWARD SEVEN YEARS AND TWO EXISTENTIAL CRISES LATER
I’m now a 27 year old Hollywood washout whose lost my career, my apartment, and all of my friends in a matter of months. I’m back home in the Bible Belt with my homophobic parents and experiencing the most intense depression, self hatred, and gender dysphoria of my life.
I’ve been so busy working to keep my head above water as a film worker that I haven’t seen a movie I didn’t help make for six years. I have no fandoms, I don’t even know what’s popular anymore. I go looking for anything familiar, anything that can reconnect me to a time in my life when everything didn’t royally suck.
I go to the MCU.
Now, it’s important to note that when I was into MCU before I did not know I was on the trans spectrum, or the autism spectrum, or the asexual spectrum. I thought I was just another slash loving lesbian that really, really liked to cosplay men, and maybe felt a bit sad that I couldn’t be like that all the time, and also kind of wished I could be masculine without going through scary, expensive surgeries, and OH MY GOD I’M NOT CIS OH MY GOD.
Ahem. So. I was processing that at the same time as my life was utterly imploding.
And I found intersex Loki. I can’t overstate how important to my recovery Loki fic was at that time. They felt my struggles, they felt my confusion, they embodied gender in a way I could only dream of, physically changing genitals and all, AT WILL! Whenever they wanted! It was a powerful fantasy, and an escape from the reality of being gender non-conforming in a conservative state.
But I’m sure the irony has already occured to you at this point, you see my dillema. 
Because the options for intersex Loki shipping are, by and large, Frostiron and Thorki. 
Now I had always been intensely squicked by Thorki. My family follows a similar dynamic to the Allfamily, with me being the golden child and my sister being the scapegoat. So I was (and admittedly still am) incapable of reading that ship without thinking about my actual sister, and that’s not sexy.
Which left Frostiron.
[pause for reader to laugh at my shame]
I naturally fell into a deep obsession with the ship, reading the top 80 pages of fic in less than two months. I started writing my own when I ran out of the kind of Loki I craved. I projected so much of my pain and frustration and feelings of isolation onto them, and I even got support and appreciation from the fandom community! It was amazing, and not at all something I expected.
...but in my heart I always knew the truth.
I had dismissed the ship outright years earlier. I thought I knew better. I looked down on the shippers as Tumblr hoes that would ship anybody hot regardless of character. I thought that just because characters didn’t get along in canon that there was no reason to ship them. I thought that you couldn’t possibly write a good story based on one scene. I didn’t bother looking deeper into the characters to see their similarities.
So basically, I’m a giant hypocrite!
If there’s a moral to the story, I guess it’s to be suspicious of your biases and that you can always change your mind. Years have passed but I still look back on that conversation and cringe. 
The one mercy is that I didn’t do it on the internet, so there wasn’t a record. I was allowed to leave that childish arrogance in the past, known only to me and my faithful friend who has been kind enough not to mention it.
But in my true heart... in the back of my mind... I know the truth.
I was an anti of the ship I’ve now written 500k about. And now you all know too.
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Thanks to anyone who read to the end! I hope it was at least a little entertaining. Let this be a warning to the youngins. Careful the things you say, you never know what the future holds. Don’t be a clown like me!
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I've gotta say, I find the concept of Bedlund trying to Ben-Hur Jensen absolutely hysterical. I'm just imagining Jensen getting a script and being like "Ben?? What's this? Is this gay? This seems gay????" and Ben just soothing him like a frightened horse.
Hahaha - Look it wouldn't be the first time. What is this verb we're working with? Okay. Strap in everyone. The Multi-Oscar-winning 1959 movie 'Ben Hur' had a bunch of gay subtext. The writer, the director, and the second lead actor all knew that Charlton Heston's character, Ben Hur, was gay. However, one person didn't find out until the 1990s: Charlton Heston. The consensus on set was "Don’t tell Charlton, because he’ll freak out." and when Heston found out in the ninties, freak out was exactly what he did. (x) [the movie may have gotten a reference from Misha back in season 6 (x)]
Whether this happened with Jensen on SPN depends on two things.
Was the character of Dean intentionally written as Bi and, if so, at what point did that become true?
Did anyone tell Jensen? Did he figure it out? if so, when?
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I personally DO believe at this point, I really do, that Bedlund - Ben Hur'd Jensen. I think it was part of the writers room but not all of it, until it was. (Which RN I believe finally happened under Dabb.) I think Jensen wasn't in on it, until he was. So for me? I think he really was in the dark at one point. But at what point that changed? Probably only he can answer that question. and RN? He ain't talking.
In the meantime we can only look at things Jensen has said on the subject - Like this unbearably ambiguous GIF set from @nikadd. Was this tongue in cheek? Legitimate ignorance? You're killing me, Jensen. That cheeky lil smile, Jensen. Nvm - I'm going to kill you instead. It's for my own survival. No hard feelings right? You understand.
UH OH HERE COMES A CUT TO HIDE A LONG DERANGED POST...
We can look at the text for number 1 - and I do that uh - a lot - see the blog name #Dean Was Always Bi
For number 2 we can look over some points when we got clues from what Jensen thought was going on [regardless of whether they make sense based on his jacting or directorial choices I guess] and get left wondering whether at any point he felt pressured to lie for his career, for self protection, or to protect the narrative from the network: 
2010 - 'We're missing the gay angel' (x) (Season 5 gag reel) (x) “Sorry man, not what the show’s about.” Jared: One of the good and bads about playing the straight [non-comedic] character on the show… Jensen: What wait? I’ve been playing him so wrong
2012 / S8 - Trenchcoat - Jensen talking about how sometimes they change the lines because they're way too gay. Calls Cas a third brother
2012 - "What's Destiel?" Ben Edlund: That’s some weird shit. Jensen: Is this something that you created, Ben? Ben: You don’t want any part of that.
“Don’t ruin it for everyone now” “I still don’t know what the question was. I’m going to pretend I don’t know what the question was.”
2013 @ JIB, re Dean’s reaction to Aaron’s flirting in the season 8 episode Everybody Hates Hitler,  (x)
“And the scene wasn’t written to be that kind of - I mean - It was written to be awkward.  Ben Edlund wrote the - my favorite line in that scene was ‘carry on . citizen’ that was - I almost couldn’t say that with a straight face I was laughing so hard.  But it was - you know - it was comedy. It was a comedic moment in the show and fortunately Dean gets a lot of the comedic moments in the show and it was just, you know, Ben was poking fun at the fact that - you know, how can we make this very kind of manly, heterosexual guy uncomfortable - uh -you know, or  or have him back on his heels and throw him off his game a little bit.”
The thing is - Bedlund and Phil Sgriccia made very clear on the commentary track that THEY saw this scene as a 'romantic comedy kind of fluster' "This potential for love in all places."
Ben Edlund calling the writer’s room a boy’s club in 2013 (x)
Misha Collins telling Destiel fans they aren’t Crazy in 2013 after some executives said they were (x).
2014 Jensen says he was glad there wasn’t much Dean and Cas in season 9  - HA Hah HAH (x)
“I think the whole Cas and Dean thing has gotten out of hand”  “I don’t think there’s anything secret to their relationship even though a lot of people wish there was” REMINDER - that season we got the nightstands acknowledgement and “play him like a jilted lover” and the “he dumped me James” cut and -
I certainly know that Misha and I don’t play that. SIGH. they Ben Hur'd Jensen.
2014 - the fan fiction joke - 10.05
“I didn’t have a positive reaction, The first time in I think 200 scripts I went and sat down in the showrunners office and said, ‘What in god’s name are you doing?! Why? I need to understand why this is happening.’” “[Carver] gave very eloquent answers and did a great job of explaining why we were doing what we were doing, I guess I had been aware of this ‘fan fiction’ for a while and I felt like maybe if I ignored it, it would eventually go away. When I read it in the script that is what I do for a living and is my work—I’m very protective of these characters and the story and I think we have a right to be—I wasn’t angry. I just wanted to understand why and what was the message we were ultimately sending with this script and story. By the end of it, I felt good and it gave me all the confidence I needed. It was better than I could have ever hoped.”
But then there's Jensen in 2015 talking about all of Dean’s bromances. (x)  [gifs at the top] Could go either way - starting to figure it out? or No?
What had changed if anything? the entire Crowely season 10 story line?  This was July 2015 - the same day as the SDCC 2015 panel where Misha talked about Destiel   (x @ 13) Carver and Dabb were there - 
By this time Jensen and Misha were nominated for a teen choice award for best chemistry against various tv couples (and one ensemble cast, but the award nomination did NOT include Jared) .... Misha and Jensen would go on to WIN this award one month after the panel.
At the Panel Rob and Rich ask the question: “You two have branded yourselves as TV’s greatest team since, ... idk who.... Ernie and Bert so.”  [Misha says to Jensen & Jared, half not on the microphone: “I really didn’t expect them to throw us under the bus.”] “are we going to see that continue? Is the Castiel Dean relationship still aflutter and still growing as we move into season 11?”  Jeremy Carver: “Ish.” [mocking from panel ensues] “Yes. Of course. I mean Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. There’s no doubt.”
Jensen Directs 11x03 and the choreo mimics Goodbye stranger (x)
2016 - Jensen: Dean could have a huntress, but you’d kill her.
Jan 2017 Con the infamous - no hedge - harsh - “Destiel doesn’t exist.” (x)
I would hope that if he knew he wouldn’t have been so harsh with it.  So by that point either he still didn’t know - OR - to him ‘Destiel’ was specifically about internet porn/sex and not like - the potential for feelings / a relationship.  It makes me think about something Misha had actually said, around 2013, “It’s called ‘Destiel’ and it’s about the romantic interludes between Dean and Castiel.” (x)
2017 - jib8 Jensen called Dean a lover of the ladies
May 2017 - After filming the end of season 12:
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2018 - Misha confirms he and Jensen have talked about Destiel (x) - also 2018: The Bisexual Dean essay "? No." (Oh god was this really this recent?! I can't deal with this.)
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Well. SOMETHING happened in 2019. cuz here it comes
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2019 - "Dean has no taste, clearly." 2019 - 'So, tell us just a little bit about what you're most excited to tackle with your character this final season.' "Cas. Just like a full football form tackle."
Look at this face he gave Dean when Cas told him he loved him and tell me he wasn't playing into it here. You can't. (x)
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shihalyfie · 3 years ago
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Some things to know about the upcoming 02-related movie
As someone who seems to be known for being a 02 metablogger now (and 02 lover in general), and who’s been closely following Kizuna’s development and is generally fond of the movie itself, I figured I’d probably need to address the elephant in the room that is the announcement of the upcoming (unnamed, as of this writing) 02-related movie. This is also especially because I’ve personally been on the record saying that I absolutely did not want a Kizuna sequel. And, well, on top of that, to be a bit blunt about it, a lot of us, especially 02 fans, have a lot of reason to be skeptical of Toei right now given some of the things they’ve done with this series in the past, and 02-related things in particular (trust me, the wound is still extremely fresh), so it says a lot about what it took for me to get even remotely positive about this prospect.
Well, here’s the good news: while I of course still think there’s good reason to be apprehensive, and while I wouldn’t say everyone should be getting their expectations up for it to be guaranteed fantastic (which is something I would say about anything, regardless of whether it even has to do with Digimon or not), I don’t think there’s too much to be panicked about with this movie. Again, it took a lot for the staff to gain my trust in this respect, so it’s not something I say lightly. But if you’re a 02 fan and you’re extremely apprehensive, here are my reasons for feeling this way, and, hopefully, they might make you feel a little better too.
The reason this movie exists to begin with
One of the most striking things about this movie’s reveal was that they’ve literally only just started production on this movie. This was to the point that, at DigiFes, where this was revealed, even the voice actors stated outright that they knew absolutely nothing more than what the audience knew from the trailer. Katayama (Daisuke) only knew anything in the sense that they had him record those few lines for it. So even though it’s been a whole year and a half since Kizuna released to the public, it had only just been decided to make a new movie like this. All of the statements between Kizuna and now stating that there was nothing particularly in the works at the time were completely accurate. Of course, there are obvious hints that they were setting up for this possibility (many, many people noticed the suspiciously favorable position the 02 group was in during Kizuna, and the press releases were carefully worded so that having a movie about “Daisuke and his friends” would allow any statement about Kizuna being “the last adventure of Taichi and his friends” to still be technically truthful), but for all intents and purposes it seems like there had been no actual commitment to making this 02 movie until now, and that they’d at least wanted to gauge the surrounding climate and fanbase reactions for what people were looking for before they decided to go ahead with this.
The obvious reasons as to why this movie exist involve the fact that Daisuke and co. are pretty much the only “out” you can have to continue the Adventure universe without constantly defaulting to Taichi’s group yet again, because at the very least it’d be something that you can’t deny hasn’t exactly had the best representation in recent years. Of course they’re trying to capitalize on this! I’m not going to pretend they aren’t! But producer Kinoshita left a very interesting comment about a particular goal they have with this movie:
This time, the core behind the movie is everyone from 02! Daisuke’s group has their own different kind of charm from Taichi’s, and we want to express that precisely because we’re in the times we’re in right now.
That comment alone has a lot to unpack. (For a frame of reference, Kizuna released in Japan in February 2020; development had already long finished by the time the pandemic first hit, and it was unfortunately one of the first victims of the initial lockdowns because of how bad the timing was.) Acknowledging directly that there’s something different about Daisuke’s group and their dynamic, which makes them especially suited for what we need in “the current times”...hmm, what could that be?
The implied answer is one that many 02 lovers will know very intimately: the 02 group’s particular specialty is in uplifting others and giving each other emotional support. While Adventure had traces of these themes, 02 was the one that went really hard on the themes of dealing with grief and loss, the existential crisis of what to do with oneself in a world placing heavy pressures on you, and how to move on from hardships with the help of others. The fact that the 02 group specializes in this more than anything else is probably one of the most distinguishing factors between them and their seniors, so there’s a very heavy implication here that they understand what distinguishes 02 from Adventure, and what it uniquely would bring to the table in this kind of movie. So this isn’t just “we’re relying on the 02 kids because they’re part of the same universe”; there’s some degree of substantial understanding of what makes 02 as a series unique, and a desire to use this to its fullest extent.
Still don’t believe me? Well, how about this...
This staff really likes 02 a lot
Seki Hiromi, the original producer of Adventure and 02, was involved as a supervisor on Kizuna’s development. Seki was personally involved in the creation of these kids and 02 itself -- she’s the one who noticed the story of the nine-year-old boy skipping grades into Columbia University, the one that formed the basis of 02 itself and eventually came back for Kizuna -- and even personally vetted Kizuna’s script to make sure everyone was in character, gave her thoughts on what the kids would be like in 2010, and was (repeatedly) commented as seeming to love the kids like her own children. As of this writing, it hasn’t been confirmed whether she’s involved on the new movie, but even if she’s not, this means that the staff on Kizuna that is returning all listened closely to those discussions about what the characters are like, straight from the mouth of one of their own creators. The new character song releases had a brief mention in Lounsbery Arthur’s interview that there were apparently extensive discussions with the staff on what the characters should be like at this time, so while Seki’s involvement with that is unknown, at the very least, a lot of conscientious thought seems to be put in at all times into maintaining these characters’ integrity.
Of course, just having an original creator alone on it doesn’t necessarily do it by itself, so here’s another interesting thing: Taguchi Tomohisa, director of both Kizuna and this movie, is also very fond of 02.
I suspect we’ll be hearing more from him as this new movie goes further into development, but Taguchi himself implied that 02 was actually the one he happened to connect with in particular, and when you really think about it, given the circumstances surrounding Kizuna, it’s not actually surprising that a movie trying to be conscientiously aware of 02′s position in the narrative would have someone with a particular fondness for it on its staff. (Reason being: a lot of Adventure fans don’t care much for 02, but you’ll almost never meet a 02 fan who doesn’t also adore Adventure.) The really fun part about this, however, is that Taguchi has repeatedly stated that 02′s first movie, Hurricane Touchdown, is his favorite Digimon movie -- in a climate where everyone else was talking about Adventure. The expected answer for the majority of Adventure fans in terms of “favorite Digimon movie” is almost always Our War Game! by knockout, but no, for Taguchi, it’s Hurricane Touchdown, and not only has he said this, he won’t shut up about it. He’s been saying this since 2019. Even Seki noticed. A whole article got made about this. He brings it up whenever he has a chance to. To top it all off, when a Kizuna event asked everyone present about their favorite characters, and everyone gave Adventure-related answers, Taguchi’s response was instead Terriermon and Daisuke. And I mean, look at Kizuna itself -- its entire plot revolves around having to move on from unhealthy nostalgia, represented by kidnapping people and turning them younger and an antagonist swallowed by their own negative emotions, which, well, is literally the plot of Hurricane Touchdown. (Yeah, that Wallace cameo is very, very likely to be sheer self-indulgence.) And considering that Taguchi said his favorite human character was Daisuke, not Wallace, it means that he understands what Hurricane Touchdown brought out of Daisuke, what his interactions with Wallace meant for both characters, and how Daisuke’s best strengths lie in his ability to support and uplift others.
And, finally, we have Yamatoya, who was responsible for penning both Kizuna’s script (and, thus, being privy to Seki’s corrections) and the bonus drama CD that came with it, on the script, and he personally said that he enjoyed writing for the 02 group because he felt they were important to lightening up the mood of the heavy story Kizuna was becoming. In fact, every comment from this staff about what the 02 group brings to the table in particular has showed a good understanding of what their appeal is -- that they have to be “fun”, that they were “healing in a heavy story”, and Taguchi himself said that he got the impression that the 02 group had more straightforward paths to their epilogue careers (which is interesting, considering that I’ve also personally pointed out that the 02 group seemed to have careers with significantly lower bars than their seniors’ due to their difference in priorities). All of these things are observations you make when you know this group and the importance of the story they came from.
Extend it even further to the rest of the staff members and you’ll find there are a lot of 02 fans on there, including the animation staff, who made some very neat observations about 02 and its finale. Miyahara Takuya is a particularly amusing case, because he seems to love Imperialdramon so much that in the thanks booklet for the deluxe edition for the Blu-ray, he drew a picture of Daisuke and Ken with Imperialdramon Dragon Mode because he didn’t get to be in the movie. (As in, he actually said, point-blank in the caption, that he loves Imperialdramon and wanted to draw him because he wasn’t in the movie.)
Of course, even if you’re trying your best, things may not always work out, so I’m not saying having love for the characters will necessarily guarantee that the product turns out for the best. However, considering that historically a lot of our fears come from the idea of them milking the name value of the characters without really caring about their integrity or understanding what the series was about (especially since a lot of people in the fanbase itself don’t tend to read 02′s nuances very well), I think, at the very least, we don’t need to worry about the staff for this movie not being conscientious, nor the idea that they’re making this movie without understanding or caring about 02.
Furthermore, one thing I appreciate is that they’re actually leading the advertisement with a premise that is distinct from Kizuna’s. Of course, it covers a similar topic of “partnerships”, and it’s very possible it’ll cover the issue of the solution to Kizuna’s problem (especially since the answer was already hinted to have a heavy relationship with 02), but nevertheless, it’s an actual premise that’s not just “Kizuna’s story, but more of it”. It’s an understanding that something 02-related should be allowed to stand on its own rather than just tacking it onto an Adventure-related thing. Beyond that, while I think it’s generally expected that a side story like this should have an original character, I think it’s actually very good this time in particular that there’s a new element/character for the 02 group to interact with; again, as with Hurricane Touchdown and Daisuke, these kids often have the best brought out of them when they’re supporting others, and honestly, because the kids suffered so much in their own narrative, I’m not particularly fond of the idea of seeing them having to go through too much more trauma themselves (it’s a big reason I don’t like the idea of a 02 reboot). So while I’m sure a lot of 02 fans feel a bit antsy that the actual group itself wasn’t advertised first, I actually consider it a positive sign that they have an understanding of what context this group performs best in, and, moreover, well...the last time they unveiled something that was so focused on advertising the return of old characters that it forgot to actually be straightforward about the premise, I don’t think that ended well. So to speak.
In general, the track record is good
It’s easy to just smile and nod at the portrayal of the 02 quartet in Kizuna, because in general everything from them is in-character, but I just want to point out how significant it is that they were portrayed so conscientiously when it is really easy to mess them up. (As I like pointing out very often: even official has not historically been very careful with Daisuke’s character.) There are so many easy pitfalls you could have fallen into and pigeonholed the kids into, but Kizuna absolutely demonstrated the quartet at their best, showing off all the nuances of their character and bringing up all the parts that were most important, especially Daisuke’s best quality being “positivity and cheerfulness” and not all of the other things about him running in circles or having a crush on Hikari-chan. This even goes down to the casting; Katayama Fukujuurou sounds terrifyingly like Kiuchi Reiko in terms of all the little nuances and pitch shifts she had in her performance, and the cast themselves spoke of all the nuances present in their characters as they were studying for their roles. These are things that even fans of the series tend to miss, but the voice actors for the quartet nailed their roles so well that it’s very easy to tell that the direction understood exactly what they were looking for and needed, and casted accordingly. Even those who didn’t care for the movie much had a very hard time disputing the voice casting for the quartet (and this is saying a lot given how much voice actor changes are often a really sore point among Japanese fans).
But while the 02 group had a limited amount of screentime in Kizuna, the staff also had a lot of opportunities to prove themselves with the drama CD and the new character song CDs, and every single aspect of these reflects something that was represented in 02 itself -- again, things that often go over the heads of people who aren’t paying as close attention. The drama CD captures a lot of the essence of the dynamics between the group in only short lines, and all of the statements about the characters in the character song interviews are accurate (and remember: Arthur said directly that there were discussions with the staff about keeping them true to character). On top of that, not only do the lyrics in said songs directly mirror each character’s development from the time of the original Best Partner series, there are also a lot of things in said songs that demonstrate a nuanced understanding of each person’s character and what they got out of the events of 02. Someone with only a surface-level understanding of Ken or Iori’s character might think that Ken should only have a soft song, or that Iori shouldn’t want to do anything ridiculous, but the series goes ahead and gives Ken one of the most passionately emotional rock songs in the batch and Iori outright rap with Armadimon, which are both fitting decisions in light of Ken actually being one of the more emotionally assertive people in this group, and Iori only being stoic because he’s strict with himself and being willing to let loose in certain circumstances (especially after the events of 02).
As of this writing, I don’t know if the new movie is going to be featuring the entire group in a major role, and I’m not sure if I even want it to; as much as I do strongly feel like the group should always work together at all times, one minor personal complaint I had about Kizuna was that it tries to do too much in too little time, and I’m personally fine with this new movie being more Daisuke-centric or something if it means it can just get a nice story on the table (after all, if I wanted something that more evenly represents the entire 02 group, I’d just go back and rewatch a very nice anime series called Digimon Adventure 02). There’s also the very thorny question of what to do about Tokumitsu Yuka, since I don’t personally really like the idea of still dragging her out of retirement like this (but I also wouldn’t want them to awkwardly write around her just for this, and I’m wondering if Sonozaki voicing Tailmon in the reboot would let people accept her as a replacement without much fighting).
Nevertheless, I think Kizuna’s staff has proven more than well enough that they understand the essence of 02 and its characters, so, again, regardless of how it turns out, I at least expect that this can be made with some degree of conscientiousness, and at this point, that’s all I can ask for. I don’t think it’s fair to expect or want this movie to be the second coming of 02, because, again, if we wanted that, I think it’d be better for us to all go back and watch that lovely little 50-episode anime called Digimon Adventure 02. But in terms of being something that can add a little nice thing to the mix, I think, so far, this movie at least has positive signs of turning out that way -- and, remember, think about what I just said about initially being very against this idea; as a diehard 02 fan who has a lot of very picky feelings about how to best represent it, it took a lot for the staff to earn my trust in this sense.
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kingsofargentina · 3 years ago
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I had planned on making this before copa américa begun, but then life happened. Better late than never, tho, right? Let's call this a celebration of Argentina's win. :D
Kun Agüero and Leo Messi are the OTP of all OTPs for me, so here is a list of a few of my favorite kunessi fanfics that I've read over the years. This is not by any means a complete list since there are so many great fics (so hmu if you'd like more recs or are looking for something specific), and the fics are not in any particular order.
Multi-chapter/ novel length
Before the Third Star by rainedparade (162 096 words, rated E)
When it was the two of them, the pitch became their world and the ball, their very own sun.
A story about football, love, and life featuring Leo and Kun from 2005-2010. Takes place in an alternate reality with liberal use of the butterfly effect.
This feels like an account of what could have happened. Many scenes that draw on real events etc. A very beautiful story of boys who love football and each other.
A Messi Love by stillgold (69 188 words, rated E)
Kun knew he never should have had that last drink. Now he's gone and spilled his deep dark secret to Masche. And why is Kun's feelings for Leo the only secret Masche can't keep?
A good story with excellent smut.
two bodies pressed together by yvenger (jjjat3am) (6015 words, rated T)
"If I weren't a footballer, I would be a footballer's wife." - Kun Aguero
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The one where Kun has to retire from football early and becomes Leo's househusband instead.
A little sad at the very beginning, but then very cute and domestic.
A Matter of Biology by MessiFangirl (hpdm4ever) (25 701 words, rated E)
Nicolás guides him down the hall, body still tight with tension. “You shouldn’t be alone,” his friend says, a hint of a growl in his voice. “Not anywhere until we’re back in England. We don’t really know if it’s true about how they do things here. The last thing we need is you mated to some neanderthal from Russia. It would probably be the end of your career.”
“They were being perfectly nice,” Kun says, frowning. Instead, he takes a deep breath as the familiar scents of his teammates wash over him, trying to raise his spirits again. It’s what gives him the strength to add, “I’m allowed to do things differently here. You’re the one who was being rude.”
The a/b/o fic I didn't expect to love as much as I did.
By the Rio de la Plata I sat down and wept by whimsicule (48 904 words, rated M)
Buenos Aires AU. Kun is part of the city's social elite, drifting without any sense of responsibility and purpose. A chance encounter with a childhood friend puts his life into perspective.
AU that has nothing to do with football. My favorite fic of all time; any genre, any fandom, any pairing. What an absolute masterpiece. It broke my heart, but in the most beautiful way. I cried, and then I cried some more. And then i reread it.
One shots
Prayers by ren_makoto (3418 words, rated E)
How do you worship a god? Kun Aguero shows his reverence to one D10S de Futbol. But gods can be spoiled, complicated creatures...
"He's seen fans almost kill themselves jumping down from the stands to hug Leo, kiss him, bow down at his feet. Nearly drowning themselves to swim to his yacht. He's seen fans cry in joy when Leo gives them his shirt or a hug. This is his equivalent, Kun imagines. This is as close as he comes to praying anymore."
Hot and a bit angsty. Actually really angsty if you think about it.
Tonight Is For You by MessiFangirl (hpdm4ever) (3199 words, rated T)
Nobody approaches him, perhaps aware that he's fighting to maintain his composure. The Icelandic players are respectful enough that they give him his space, while the Argentine players are wise enough to know that he needs it.
There's a light touch against his bare back then, right against his waistband, and Leo lowers his shirt to glare.
I just love it when Kun get's a little angry. I mean I also love it when he gives Leo anything he needs, but when he puts his foot down, it makes for very good plot. This fic has that.
Make it better by brightcrystal (4324 words, rated E)
After Argentina's semi-final defeat against Brazil in the Copa América 2019, Leo is devastated and Kun wants to help him feel better. Going down a familiar path is the easy choice, but is it the right one when the kisses are mixed with bitter tears of disappointment?
A bit of fluff, a bit of angst, and a bit of smut. Can't go wrong with that.
short beards are for fun by mm_nani (834 words, rated E)
leo has shaved his beard short and this is why
Hot and fun. Made me smile.
Todo Por Vos by stillgold (1286 words, rated G)
There’s nothing to say, but the words come unbidden. “Hoy por vos”, he whispers. Today for you. For you. He could have said todo por vos, all for you, and it would have been true.
Maybe Leo understands, or maybe Leo already knew—maybe Leo, with his dark eyes and his quiet mouth—maybe he can see better than others can. It seems like it on the pitch, but maybe that skill translates here too—maybe it sees Kun’s yearning, his hunger, his ache, his everything—all for Messi, todo por el.
I just reread this as I went to copy the link and GOD it's so... I can't even describe it! It's just.... The feelings, u kno???? No smut or nothing just... words and.... and FEELINGS!!!
sometimes your voice might just be enough by westhamutd (1773 words, rated M)
“hey kun. how are you doing?”
he hears kun yawn on the other end of the line and starts to laugh.
“oh you’re tired? it’s literally four in the morning here.”
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things you said on the phone at 4am
This manages to be both cute and hot in less than 2000 words.
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