#TO BE FAIR. that was in a tweet reply. and this is in the direct itself

[mipexch]

SILKSOONNNGGG

THE SILKSONG IS REALLLL

FIVE SECONDS OF SILKSONG🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Am I The Problem? | Franco Colapinto x Williams! Reader

Summary: After finding out you were going to be teammates, you and Franco have very different reactions. Franco is prepared to worship the track you race on whilst you do everything to ignore him. Until it becomes impossible to

Warnings: angst, swearing, the loss of a family member, a suggestive comment

Requested: Yes by anon (full request)

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francolapinto dream reality

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williamsracing welcome to the team. we’re so excited to have you become part of the williams family 

user1 so they’re replacing logan, an f2 driver promoted to f1 too soon, with an f2 driver promoted to f1 too soon?

officialmpmotorsport we’re very proud of what you’ve achieved this season, and good luck in f1

user2 this doesn’t feel fair. he’s getting a seat (amazing) but will be paired with a driver who doesn’t want him there

dennis_hauger 👏🏻👏🏻

user3 has anyone checked on y/n? she was always so happy to be racing alongside her childhood friend, and now they don’t even get to finish the season together

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yn_ln i knew i was going to have to say goodbye at some point but i never expected it to be so soon. i couldn't have asked for a better teammate but at least you’ll always be my friend. i’ll miss you so much, lo lo, but i will be there supporting you wherever you go next 

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logansargeant 🤍

→ user4 signs of life! 

→ user5 the fact that she is the only person he has responded to

user6 even when she’s devasted, she stays respectful. literally the perfect role model for girls in karting

user7 chat, do we think y/n will stay with williams next year?

→ user8 i don’t think she even wants to stay with williams for the rest of the season

→ user9 she looks so miserable any time she’s with them/james vowels

user10 poor franco. she didn’t even congratulate him on any of the posts

→ user11 because she doesn’t have to

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yn_ln posted a new story

logansargeant replied wow so i really am easy to replace → yn_ln lo, no…  → logansargeant how many more times are you going to fall for that? → yn_ln dickhead  → logansargeant the internet was right. you are the personification of satan → yn_ln 🖕🏻🖕🏻

oscarpiastri replied haha the heart eyes are winning you over → yn_ln you can’t say anything, lando lover → oscarpiastri 🙄

user12 replied girl, did you cover up James’ face? 😂

francolapinto replied is that me?? 

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Thumb scrolling down your feed, you couldn't stop the wounded look twisting your face. Numerous tweets glanced back at you, informing you that your teammate’s fans had a very low opinion of you. Was it really a shock that you wouldn’t like journalists hounding your teammate? Had you truly been that mean to him that signs of basic human decency came as a surprise?

The door to your driver’s room was cracked open slightly, allowing you to catch a glimpse of the disconsolate body that shuffled past. A cap covered his usual mop of curls and his head hung low. All he wanted was to hide away in his driver’s room. Away from the hustle and bustle of the garage. All alone. 

“Franco.”

A soft voice broke him from his sorrow. He’d never heard it say his name before, and he’d certainly never heard that gentle tone directed at him. His head snapped up in disbelief. Spinning around, he moved too fast and stumbled slightly. A pink flush decorated his cheeks, realising he’d just embarrassed himself in front of the woman finally talking to him. Your head poked out of the gap between your door and the wall. Almost hesitant to bridge the space between the two of you. You weren’t even fully aware of when you had moved, or decided to talk to him. But here you were, staring at his brown eyes, widened with scepticism.

Committing to your actions, you pushed yourself into the hallway. Unused to such close proximity to you, Franco took two shaky steps back. He could almost feel the wall behind him. 

“I heard about your grandfather. I just wanted to offer my condolences.” Your teeth pulled at your bottom lip. “The media were out of line this morning.” 

“Oh, thank you.” 

Uncomfortable silence stretched between the pair of you. A need to fill it swelled within you.

“Nobody would blame you if you needed the day off. It’s not like we’re going to win any points in the Sprint.”

“I bet you’d like that. A race without me,” his tone was sharp, edged with grief. 

It was a stark contrast to the light, playful timbre you’d become accustomed to hearing around the garage. Hurt briefly flickered across your face, causing him to almost regret his words. But he’d had enough. 

He was tired. He was hurt, and he was not in the mood to be treated like he wasn’t there. Every day he hoped that you would finally speak to him. That you would smile at him, or share the glowing personality you had around the rest of the Grid. When he was still in F2, he’d been lucky enough to spend a day or two with you, and you’d been so warm and inviting. But, the person he was introduced to when he replaced Logan Sargeant hadn’t shown any sign of the person from before. 

“Wait, what? No. Franco, I just… Look, I found out from Twitter and-”

“It’s not like you give me the chance to tell you things in person.” 

Rubbing your hand over your face, you pondered whether you were doing more damage than good. All you wanted was to make amends, and not treat him like shit on a shitty day. Realising you couldn't make things worse, you decided to own up to your less-than-stellar behaviour. 

“Franco, I just wanted to say… I don’t really know what to say. Other than that, I am so incredibly sorry for the way that I’ve acted these past couple of weeks. Believe me, I’m not proud of my actions, and it’s been made very clear to me that I could be ruining your dream.” 

Your feet very subtly shifted closer to him, and his body was acutely aware of the smaller window of space between the two of you. The hairs on the back of his neck raised when the scent of your perfume invaded his nose. He loved that smell. 

“I’ve been so terrible to you. The internet knows that I’ve been terrible to you. And what makes it all that much worse, is that it doesn’t really have anything to do with you.”

Franco watched you inhale deeply before barrelling forward with your heartfelt apology. Your nose had pinkened from the exertion of your speech. Franco decided it was the most adorable thing he’d ever seen. 

“The truth is, I was angry. I was angry at the team, and the management, and the way they treated Logan was horrendous. But I didn’t realise that I was then doing the same thing to you, and I’m really sorry. I’m aware that none of this justifies my behaviour or makes it right but I just need you to know how much I regret what I’ve done. You’re so talented, Franco. If you had joined the team at any other time, I would’ve been flattered that you were so excited to be my teammate. I still am and-”

“Querida, breathe.” Franco’s lips curled in the corner. A small smile but the first time he had done so since yesterday. “I get it. You’re sorry. You were still mean though.” 

Your heart fluttered at the affectionate term he’d used. After years of working with Spanish drivers, you’d picked up a few words here and there. Unfortunately, his following words ruined any hope you’d felt. 

Scuffing your shoe against the floor, you avoided looking at him. “I know. I know. I don’t know how I’ll ever make it up to you.”

Franco reached out, taking your hand into his. His palm was warm and heated against your cold, almost clammy one. He was endeared by how nervous you seemed to be. At his touch, your head finally lifted to look at him. You were taken aback when your eyes met his, realising he was already staring at you. 

“You could always give me your seat.” He let out a booming laugh at the look of shock on your face. 

“Oh, I get it, you’re winding me up.” You pushed him away from you but your combined hands just ended up pulling you into him.” 

“I wasn’t lying in those interviews. You really are one of my idols. It’s going to take a bit more than a tantrum for me to be mad at you. However, if you really feel you need to make it up to me, I’m not going to object.” 

A body turned the corner, causing you to leap away from the Argentinian. His eyes twinkled as he did his best to keep his face neutral. You scrambled to compose yourself when John, your physiotherapist, glanced between the two of you. He raised his brows before walking past you and into your driver’s room. 

“You have 30 seconds, Y/n, to finish your conversation and get your ass in here.” He closed the door behind him, allowing you some privacy. 

Franco turned to walk away, knowing you liked to run on a tight schedule, and not wanting to infringe on that when you seemed to be making a shaky form of peace.

“Dinner!” You blurted out, voice bouncing off the white plastic walls. 

Staring at his muscular back, you watched his shoulders shake with silent laughter before he turned back to look at you. 

“What about it?” 

“Do you eat it?” How were you making this worse!?

“Yes, every day.” 

He wasn’t making this easy on you. 

“Maybe, if you’re not busy this evening, I could buy you dinner when we get out of here.”

“It would have to be early. I don’t know if you know this but I have a very busy day tomorrow.”

“I think I prefer not talking to you.” 

“I’d love to have dinner with you, Cariño,” Franco smiled, “so long as you don’t spend the entire meal sullenly glaring at me. It seems to be a habit with you.”

An irritated shout of your name sounded from inside your room, reminding you that you were well past your allotted thirty seconds. 

Not wanting Franco to have the last word, you looked at Franco before you entered your room. “I’m not sorry that I snuck an LS2 cap into your pile of hats to sign.”

His face turns from pure adoration to unadulterated offence. “That was you?!” 

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its_yn my boy 💕

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williamsracing took team bonding to a new level

→ francolapinto i aim to please 

user13 i knew that episode of team torque was carrying a different kind of tension

→ user14 no because he was so giggly and she was giving him full on banter 

→ user15 let’s not ignore how she kept blushing when she caught him looking at her

user16 she fell victim to the heart eyes

→ yn_ln how could i not? have you seen how intense they are? 

user17 oh no because now how do we tell who the biggest simp is 

francolapinto my lips are still waiting for that kiss

→ yn_ln come here then

→ francolapinto 🏃🏽🏃🏽💋

→ user18 oh no. now we have to deal with this instead 

logansargeant excuse me but where is his shirt in that 2nd picture 

→ oscarpiastri completely scandalous behaviour. reported 

→ yn_ln piss off the pair of you 

→ logansargeant @/oscarpiastri pay up. she did my thing first 

→ oscarpiastri technically she did my thing first 

→ francolapinto she did both in the same day 

→ yn_ln franco!

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Hi! I really like your blog and your responses.

I Never was a fan of Larry but still curious about it. Most things look very far fetched to me and I don’t understand how people believe in it.

But there are a few things that keep me uncertain and left me wondering:

1) when fetus Harry answered that he and Louis are dating. Like why?

2) Mario interview when they used sex innuendo (who push who)

3) why Harry moved in with Louis?

4) Adore you my and book Louis the fish references

Can you please explain/debunk them? Tell what you think?

Hey, thanks! I'm glad you like it.

I hope you realize that each of these debunks, by definition, has to be quite long. We're talking about a decade and a half of lore. It's quite a bit of work. I'd appreciate it if from now on, you'd send them in separate asks, because I don't really know if I can fit it all in one post.

1- "When fetus Harry answered that he and Louis are dating. Like why?"

First of all, I hate the term "fetus Harry." I hate this whole classifying Harry by "eras" as if he was a Pokemon that evolved. It's dehumanizing.

Harry did not say that he and Louis were dating. That's a typical Larrie lie—taking what actually happened out of context.

Let's actually give it the context it needs.

From late 2010 on, fans "shipped" all the guys together in a bunch of different pairings. Larry was the most popular one, with Niam—Niall and Liam—not far behind. Harry and Louis were actually very close friends for a hot second, and the band in general was very online. They did Twitcams all the time, and followed and replied to fans constantly. One Direction and Justin Bieber spearheaded what's today known as Stan Twitter.

Larry was a joke everyone participated in. For instance the following two screenshots come from the same blog.

The post about Eleanor is from February 24 2012, and the post about Larry from February 27. Same year, same blog—three days apart.

So, how did it go from a joke to a conspiracy theory?

When One Direction first got put together, Louis had a girlfriend called Hannah. For the most part, fans of the band really liked her. Louis met Eleanor in March 2011, seemingly cheated on Hannah with Eleanor, broke up with Hannah in late July 2011, and by mid September 2011 was openly dating Eleanor.

Fans did not take well to this (even though the whole cheating thing wasn't really known). In fact, in late 2011 and early 2012, the main issue Louis defended Eleanor from wasn't conspiracy theorists, but fans of Hannah that wanted her back.

When he tweeted this—note the YOU in all caps...

It was because that day was Hannah's birthday and fans were tweeting up a storm about wanting Louis and Hannah back together. They were also tweeting pictures of them together and allegedly even sent those pictures to Eleanor directly.

Louis felt bad and defensive, so he decided to tweet that.

Parallel to this, since about late 2011, a group of people on Tumblr were taking the whole Larry thing seriously—going from joking about it to trying to prove it was actually real. It was a very small number of weirdos, and it would've probably never taken off had this whole Eleanor/Hannah thing not happened at the same time as Harry was starting to date Caroline Flack, who was 15 years Harry's senior.

Harry had been linked to other women before, but he was seen with Caroline a bit, was asked about it in interviews, and they interacted some on social media, which enraged fans. They mostly claimed it was the age gap (which would've been a fair criticism), but it was clear that for most the problem was jealousy (which is not fair at all).

In the context of Louis dumping the girlfriend the fandom liked and getting with someone they didn't, and Harry dating an older woman they definitely didn't like, impressionable fans started to get swayed more and more by conspiracy theories.

At first, it was a majority of jokes and a small number of people believing the conspiracy theories, but over time, slowly, it started to shift. Between 2010 and 2012, you could be just "A Larry shipper"—someone who liked them together and joked about it. From 2013 on, Larry shippers were basically extincted, replaced instead by "Larries", conspiracy theorists who truly believed they were together and tried to prove it.

When it was mostly jokes, Harry, Louis, and their friends and family, would go along with them. Almost all of "Larry proof" is those early stages, when there wasn't an actual conspiracy theory that was widespread yet and everyone followed along with the jokes.

Harry and Louis were close friends, and their moms also became quite close (they were of a similar age, similar area, background, both divorced, etc). Everyone went along with it. Until it started to get out of hand.

Now, if Louis was defensive about the whole Louhannah thing, I think you can only imagine how defensive he would get about the whole Larry thing when it started to cross over into conspiracy territory...

Fans not only insulted Eleanor, but started to directly harass her. They would email her university to "prove" that she wasn't who she said she was. They made theories about who her father was (Eleanor has posted her dad on Snapchat—it is not, in fact, a billionaire working for Jive Records). There was a whole whack ass theory about her having a twin/triplets... They started involving Louis' family—mainly his mom and sisters. They would pressure them to "confirm" Larry, and they'd get upset whenever it was denied.

Louis' sisters were quite young—Lottie was 13/14, Fizzy was 11/12, and the twins were 9/10 when all of this was brewing. They looked up to Eleanor, who became like an older sister to them, and they got pretty defensive of her, as little kids often do.

So, in turn, Louis got more upset at the whole thing and would often go on rants on Twitter to deny it. Eleanor and Louis' best friend, Stan, would also tweet alongside him. Sadly, this contributed to the proliferation of the conspiracy. The more attention he brought onto it, the worse it became. I don't blame him for it, to be perfectly clear, but that's just a version of the Streisand effect.

This whole thing unfolded between late 2011 and late 2012. It wasn't immediate. It wasn't that one day everyone was joking and the next everyone was a conspiracy theorist. It shifted slowly.

So, that's the context.

The interaction you mention happened March 17th 2012. One Direction was doing a signing in Boston. Their debut album, Up All Night, had come out March 13th in America, so they were signing that. A fan approached the table and talked to all the guys. Harry was last in line. When she got to him, Harry gave her a smile and she asked him, "Are you and Louis dating?" Harry looked quite tired (they all did) and didn't seem particularly amused by the question. He just nodded. The fan pressed, "You are?" to which Harry gave her a lazy, "Yeah." Then the fan said, "I figured," and, as she was ushered to leave the line, Harry gave her a lazy smile.

Here you have the video. The specific interaction starts at 1:03 mins.

Here you have it in gif form

He didn't say they were dating. He just went along with a fan who joked about it. She was JOKING.

This is from the fan who asked this question, THE DAY after she asked the question. Not much of a Larrie if she's fantasizing about Harry romantically, huh? But I have more confirmation.

She actually thinks it's ridiculous that people are still going on about it, and thinks her question was "stupid". She quite literally wanted him to date Taylor Swift later that year...

She also confirmed that Harry was "being sarcastic":

So the fact that thirteen years later we're still having this conversation is insane. This is the person that took the video. She was never even a conspiracy theorist to begin with. She just liked them together.

And this is 100% the same fan. Her name is the same in both accounts (Daena), and she linked her old Twitter handle in the description of the video. It used to be YMCMBelieb. She has changed her Twitter handle since 2012, but if you search the old one on Twitter today, you'll find people replying to "Pogue_Malone."

Larries take Harry smiling at her "I figured" as him "being moved by her support." He was smiling at a fan who had paid to get his signature. He smiled at her when she first approached him, then smiled again as she left. The fan DIDN'T EVEN ACTUALLY THINK HE WAS WITH LOUIS. She was JOKING.

I'm going to answer #2 in this post but I'll move to separate posts for the other two.

2- Mario interview when they used sex innuendo (who push who)

I'm adding this one here because it's just the same exact thing as we just went over. It was a joke. Harry and Louis are BRITISH.

British humour carries a strong element of satire aimed at the absurdity of everyday life. Common themes include sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek, banter, insults, self-deprecation, taboo subjects, puns, innuendo, wit, and the British class system. These are often accompanied by a deadpan delivery which is present throughout the British sense of humour.

The "Mario Kart" interview happened in February 16th 2012. Combine your typical British humor with the context of how the fandom treated the whole "Larry" thing in early 2012" and you have your answer.

They're just joking. I don't know what else to tell you. They're joking. They're not openly discussing their sex life in an interview. Larries need to choose—were they a closeted couple that was forced to have fake girlfriends and limit their interactions in public or were they telling the world what sexual positions they favored? You can't have both at the same time.

Here's the interview:

It was posted in March but recorded in February. And they thought it'd be funny to joke about bumfucking. Because they were British boys.

I'm almost finished with the third question, but it'll have to be done in two separate posts if I want to be thorough.. I'll also do a separate post for the fourth one.

[brabblesblog]

In recent weeks, I have been receiving hate anons on my ao3 fic. I have tweeted about it here and there, but have mostly ignored it. Unfortunately, today I received another, and due to the content, I feel like I have to respond. It’s been said before but it bears repeating: public accusations like these are damaging to creators, even when they are phrased passive aggressively rather than direct. 

I shall endeavor to answer these in full in this message and then I don’t plan to address this issue again. I would have preferred this to be resolved more maturely, through conversation, but as these remarks have been placed in the public sphere, and have been happening for weeks now, I am opting to reply openly. 

The concept of an A!A that could be softer was inspired by a number of A!A fanfics, particularly 'The Rogue You Were', and I have always been open about this. In fact, were you to look at chapter 1 of Whither, an acknowledgment exists. Whither’s foundation was built on this concept, and grew into 2 – going on 3 now – full longfics from there. I have never been shy about where my original inspiration came from. 

These tropes that I am now accused of copying (masquerades, Raphael-esque characters, Astarion being murderous, comic relief, and bats) are as we all know common tropes amongst the fandom and amongst vampire literature, and were not new concepts when they were used by the person claiming credit for them.

My favorite thing about fandom spaces is that they are a place to share ideas and collaborate. The person who made this accusation was someone I considered a friend: we had openly expressed to each other various instances where she and I were inspired by each other’s work. I have credited her influences; she has not credited mine. Dredging up screenshots to support this statement would be exhausting, and I hope it doesn’t become necessary. I’d much rather be working on my fic than dealing with this, and I hope this is the end of it so we can all get back to doing what we enjoy with our time.

I have as of late retreated from reading other fanfic within the fandom; mental health issues and intense impostor syndrome have rendered it impossible for me to engage in others’ writing, no matter how much I’d like to. Art, being something in the fandom that is removed from writing, is something I really enjoy seeing and delve headfirst into, but I am not at all up to date on the latest fic trends. These ideas (the masquerade, batstarion, and a more light-hearted tone) are things my editor and I have long wanted to add to the fic, but they did not fit into the plot right away. Presenting a cohesive, well-thought-out story has always been the most important thing to me, rather than chasing the latest trend. 

We are all playing the same game, writing from the same base material, often for the same characters with slightly different takes on those characters. There is no way to write for a fandom, particularly one like this, without a fair bit of overlap. I've worked hard this year to find my peace with that, and to not see others using similar plot points as copying. We are all appreciating the same masterpiece of a game, after all.

And lastly, I’d like to add that I don’t in any way condone harassing anyone, anonymously or otherwise, so please do not do so on my behalf.

Comment can be seen in this chapter, will post a screenshot if it's deleted:

[zot3-flopped]

It’s been a bad weekend to be Liam Payne, with literally everyone dragging his cringey goings on after he attended a Niall Horan concert. Even the One Direction boys themselves have been seemingly joining in the shade, with Louis’ return to Twitter raising eyebrows regarding the timing of it all.

In the midst of all the latest Liam Payne drama, an old video from the One Direction era has surfaced and been doing the rounds which has people thinking that Harry Styles was so done with Liam and never liked him in the first place. Yikes.

And to be fair, in the video, where the original poster claims you can tell “Harry was so f*cking sick of him no wonder he doesn’t like Liam”, Payne constantly barrages over Harry talking when the pair are asked questions.

Harry tries speaking four times, but Liam continues to talk over him. About Robbie Savage, of all people. He also says the word geezer a lot – always the first sign someone’s going to be annoying if that’s in their day to day lexicon.lot of the replies to the tweet echo what most have been saying for a while about Liam Payne, since the era of his hellish podcast appearances: He’s attention seeking.

[phoenixtakaramono]

hi! any spoilers or sneaky peaks on the untold tale? i've been anxiously waiting for the new chapter 😫 your writing is on another level, i swear. i reread the first five chapters like more than 4 times each. i'm also loving your characterization of binghe!

Hullo, hullo, anon! 💞 It makes me heartened to hear that you like The Untold Tale! And I’m glad you’re liking my characterization of Bingge! I personally like my yanderes in fiction, and it’s always somewhat hilarious how wild and simp-y Luo Binghe’s POV and dialogue/ thoughts can be compared to Shen Yuan who’s just doing his best, haha.

We haven’t reached TUT’s position yet on my WIPs to Update list, so I haven’t been posting much sneak peeks of the upcoming ch6 yet since the majority of it is still in my rough note form (reminders of what I want to happen, dialogue that needs to happen, specific foreshadowing or worldbuilding, etc) and not the pretty final draft form y’all see on AO3. But I am very frank in my replies about what’ll happen in the AO3 Comments section so spoilers are abound there, haha. If y’all want a Spoiler Free experience, do not check out the Comments section. I answer questions and even gift spoilers (even copy and paste certain scenes that haven’t been published yet) to certain readers as thanks for leaving me long essay-long comments or just plain any comments that’ve made me happy.

There’s also a jokey April Fools version of what’ll be in ch6 that I’d tweeted out: TUT ch6 threadfic (April Fools edition). You can read it there if you have a Twitter account but essentially it’s scenes to expect—but butchered with American and British colloquialisms I have a certain writing process where I go all in on the fandom belonging to whichever WIP I’m working on updating, and at that time I wanted to show why it’d be a bad idea if I jumped back into writing TUT under this mindset and how it’d be jarring, haha. TUT has a certain writing style unique to C-novels and light novels in general, so I didn’t want to detract from that experience!

If you want a direct spoiler, this is what to expect from TUT ch6:

Shen Yuan’s shark tank meeting with the Jade Emperor’s Court (and SY finding out who is his celestial family in PIDW)

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Luo Binghe’s POV, after his meeting with the celestial fortuneteller Shen Yuan (featuring a short cameo from Ning Yingying)

I do, admittedly, miss the SVSSS fandom a lot and really can’t want to return, my lovely dear readers, but I have to be a responsible multi-fandom writer rotating through my list of WIPs in an orderly fashion so it’s fair for everyone and wait for their turn and can only promise the patience will be worth it (to preserve the magic of it all)!! Thank you for your patience! I am heartened to hear there are people still reading and waiting for my return! I’ll share new sneak peeks as I’m live-writing it, once I’m ready to pivot back to TUT. ✌️ There also exist some other spoilery kernels but I’ll leave one more hint:

And after ch6, will be the Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky chapter where y’all will find out whose new poor cannon fodder’s identity he’s transmigrated into almost as a direct consequence of Shen Yuan’s transmigration as a celestial sharing the Protagonist’s Halo with Bingge in this new danmei genre he’s created (laughs). I’m excited because I get to finish up and debut the prettier illustration of ASTtS that’s been gathering dust in my computer files. If you’ve seen the WIP, yes, it’ll be the final version of this concept art I posted before as a sneak peek.

[animehouse-moe]

Women In Anime

I came across this tweet a few days back, and did give it a response on Twitter back then, but I keep thinking about it, so I wanted to bring a longer discussion here.

I think hating that anime ends up a male dominated industry is totally fair, I think that hating that men end up bringing a lot of negative stereotypes and tropes and whatnot is valid.

There's a mountain of problems with men in the industry, and just the industry in general. But there's also a problem with the awareness of the NA community. Scrolling about the quote tweets and replies, it's probably one in ten responses at best, that show an opening that's actually from a woman.

Hate like this ends up performative, and targeted at the most negative aspects, rather than being used as a tool to shine a light on the people that deserve it. Directionless and generalized points like this do nothing, and in the end can actually take away from uplifting the voices and talents that they should be.

So, I wanted to bring a list of ten women in anime that have worked on openings over the years.

Karneval OP - Satou Akira

Openings that really cut deep into the core of a series can be a little hard to come by sometimes. I think a lot of openings get suckered into "looking cool" and tend to neglect their creative ability to depict something deeper within. Satou Akira falls into no such trap with Karneval, providing an incredibly strong opening that consistently relays several themes to the viewers through its visuals of things like, well, carnivals, for one. Also included is clock faces, butterflies, gears, and a few other pieces. It's really great work, so it's a shame that they haven't returned to the role since then.

They have, however, been in some pretty impressive roles elsewhere. For example, their biggest role was boarding for the second Fate/Grand Order Camelot movie. Important to note that it's the second movie, and not the first, as the second movie is considerably better.

Akira is still only reaching the tip of the iceberg though, as they recently were the lead director on Ao Ashi, and are being tapped for the Kinnukuman anime in 2024. They certainly have a good relationship with Production I.G, so I'm really hopeful to continue to see them on future projects with the studio.

Skip and Loafer OP - Deai Kotomi

Yeah, it hurts my soul to have different embeds, but I've had to source some of these OPs as they don't exist on YouTube.

Anyways, Deai Kotomi definitely had her limelight moment this year with Skip and Loafer and it's very fun and energetic opening. It's a great reflection of the characters and story, which really highlights Kotomi's understanding and ability to work with the content of the series. She did an absolutely wonderful job leading the production of Skip and Loafer, but I think a lot of people don't know about her history and connection. I mean, the reason she's following up Akira and Karneval is because Kotomi actually did the ending for Karneval! Really cool little piece to learn.

Make no mistake though, this isn't Kotomi's first rodeo, it's just the one she's most known for. But man, does she have a good history. Starting off with assistant direction credits for Kids on the Slope and the first season of Silver Spoon, she then moves on to helm the follow up season of Silver Spoon, and take over for Natsume's Book of Friends.

Though with the new season of Natsume's Book of Friends I'm a little sad to see Kotomi relieved of the role as the Chief Director for the series, Hideki Itou, steps into the role. Still have high hopes, but was looking forward to more Kotomi. Just means I need to wait and see where she ends up next, and I highly doubt it'll take too long for her to appear once more.

Sk8 The Infinity OP - Hiroko Utsumi

Speaking of people that I can't wait to see more of Hiroko Utsumi. I'm sure everyone that's seen it is a fan of Sk8 The Infinity and its opening, and there's not really a better person to handle the opening that Utsumi herself. After all, she's the original creator for the series.

But let's rewind a little before I get ahead of myself. Utsumi has probably one of the most prestigious careers on this list. Utsumi originally started with KyoAni, working her way up from second key animation to first key animation, to episode direction and storyboarding, finally making their directorial debut with Free! back in 2013, quickly following it up with the sequel.

Interestingly enough though, Utsumi then goes silent for 2 years before re-appearing outside of KyoAni, doing some storyboarding work with Bones and Mappa, leading into the next crazy piece of her story: the lead director of Banana Fish. Then of course it's to Sk8 The Infinity, and now she has Bucchigiri?! on the horizon, as well as a continuation of Sk8 The Infinity.

Talk about a career with no misses. Even better is that with her new works, we'll almost certainly be getting more of her expert openings, as with every series she's directed, she's also done the openings. So really, lots and lots to look forward to with Utsumi.

Arakawa Under The Bridge OP - Yamamoto Sayo

I know, not the opening that most would pick, but I wanted to be ✨Different✨. Everybody surely knows Yamamoto Sayo from Yuuri!! on Ice, but I just wanted to show off a bit more of a her range with an opening like this one. Clearly, she's a very talented woman, and the industry recognizes that with her work as she's done quite a few openings, especially with Mappa as of late.

These are all of her openings (and some endings), in order of appearance: Rozen Maiden Traumend, Michiko and Hacchin, Arakawa Under The Bridge S1 & S2, Hanamaru Kindergarten (ED), Attack on Titan S1 (ED), Space Dandy S1 (ED), Yuri On Ice, Kakegurui, and Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul.

Quite the list, to be sure. I just wish they did more direction work, as they've been stuck at Mappa for the Yuuri!! on Ice movie. Hopefully that'll come out some day and Sayo will be free of that hell, but all we can do is sit and wait.

Kaguya-Sama: Love is War - Ultra Romantic OP - Eiko Hirayama

I mean, it's Kaguya-Sama, do I really need to say more? Great effort, and great direction from Hirayama here to really cap off the best season of the series. But did you know that she also did the work for the first opening of Love is War?

Hirayama is probably the most curious staff member on this list though. They do have a good few credits for various openings, but by and large they're all special or visual effects credits. For example, they most recently did the visual effects in the opening for the Nier anime, and they also did the same for 2 of the Vivy openings.

I think it's really interesting to see someone like Hirayama step out of their comfort zone to do something like an opening, because you can absolutely feel their experience shape the opening.

Here, let me add a little breakdown of the opening for Kaguya S3. If you pay close attention to the opening, you'll realize that there's not a crazy amount of animation. Rather, there's a lot of camera and 3 dimensional movement, and a lot of interesting composition. I mean, just look at the sequence of Kaguya running, it's a compositor's dream as they shift through all sorts of different visuals and styles.

And I just think that's really cool. Sure, Hirayama isn't a thoroughbred director like the others on this list, but I think their storied experience with composition gives them an angle in this opening that a lot of others just wouldn't find.

Heike Monogatari OP - Naoko Yamada

Naoko, alongside her work with Heike Monogatari, will always have a special place in my heart. Much like Utsumi, Naoko started her career with KyoAni. However, she was a part of the studio for longer, and because of that, was present during the arson attack on the studio in 2019.

This opening, and really the entirety of this story, hits really close to home with its ideas of the loss of family and suffering through a cycle of violence, and she does a beautiful job of juxtaposing that idea against the pieces that Biwa fondly remembers of those around her. It's very, very strong work from Naoko that feels almost like a rebirth as her first major work following the arson attack.

Regardless of what she went through at the end, her time with KyoAni was incredibly impressive. I'm not sure how many will know her name from it, but she was the director behind the incredible success of K-On!. Similarly, she also worked on Tamako Market and the follow up movie. She's an incredibly talented woman, and has continually put her best foot forward with everything she's done, so I'm really hopeful to see her continue that hot streak with wherever she goes next.

Naruto Shippuden OP20 - Chiaki Kon

Had to bring a bit more of a classic pick out, no? Chiaki Kon is certainly not a staff member that tends to really be seen as someone popular, if that makes sense. They're rather light in terms of individual expression, so having a stronger opening like this that hones in on individual character arcs while relating them to larger interactions within the world is really great to see.

Though that's not to say that Chiaki tends to get lost as a staff member, but that I think her work is very subtle. For example, she directed the recent (and popular) Sacrificial Princess anime, which is one of J.C Staff's top 3 anime in the last 5 years. It undoubtedly has Chiaki to thank for a lot of that, where she's kept a reasonable distance on the project while still providing a lot of her overarching vision to it.

But man, has she been active lately. While she does do lead direction, she's insanely present as an episode director and storyboarder, getting anywere from 6 to even 12 or more episodes boarded and/or directed in a year. Odds are if you watch any amount of anime, you've seen an episode done by Chiaki Kon.

Given OP - Hikaru Yamaguchi

Maybe a bit of an odd choice, but I feel like that makes it all the better to give them some spotlight. Not everyone is going to be a "knock it out of the park anime rockstar", and that's perfectly fine. Though I might still argue that Yamaguchi fits that bill. It's just that they're not as productive as others on this list.

After all, they did the OP for Given and directed the series (as well as the movie), and it's a very good show. It's interesting though how long it took her to get another lead direction role. There was 3 years between the Given movie, and the Osomatusu-San movie that she directed in 2023. And you might be thinking, "well hey, what about smaller roles to fill the gap?". Nope, not really any of that.

There was a 2 year gap between the Given movie and her next staff position. Though I mean, it's a pretty damn cool one. She did the storyboard for episode 3 of Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War. For those that don't know, that's the episode of Ichigo vs Quilge Opie (which was very cool, by the way).

Yamaguchi is certainly an interesting staff member in that regard, as she doesn't have many projects she's worked on, but they've almost all been very big name ones. Certainly has me curious to see what she'll manage to appear on next.

Dance Dance Danseur OP - Sarisa Kawamura

If you thought Kawaguchi was an odd pick, wait until you hear about Kawamura. This is the second ever credit for her that I've been able to track down. The other comes from VFX assistant role on the Undead Girl Murder farce ending. So you can imagine my surprise considering the insane quality and creativity displayed with this opening that she boarded for.

I mean, when I first watched it when the anime aired, I was stunned. Absolutely incredible work with the first person perspective and the ideas with all the reflections and the wild expressiveness of the characters. Seriously, this was a shoe-in for opening of the year back in 2022, and I'd still say one of the standouts in this decade for sure.

I just, really, really hope that we'll see Kawamura board something else soon, because I absolutely need more of her incredible vision.

And that's the end of the 10 women, that I chose to use for this list. Seriously, there's a mountain of them that have done all sorts of other openings, or endings, and an unimaginable amount that have done creative work outside of those things.

I wouldn't say I'm disappointed that nobody talks about anime staff (in general, really, but also more specifically women), but a lot of people just don't have the interest in looking this stuff up. I really, really wish that streaming services would start translating credits to make it easier for people to get a grasp of who it is that's working on their favorite series, but we can't always rely on companies to do things like that.

Thankfully, the community out there is really, really dedicated so you can find staff credits on websites like MAL, Anilist, Anidb, and even Anime News Network. Sure, it takes a little bit of time to go and find those credits, but I think it's really valuable time that's well spent. You're bringing more awareness and understanding into the hobby and community, and that can change the trajectory of it in really wonderful ways.

Highlighting the works of women in anime is just one way of doing that. It inspires people in the community, it makes people aware of the idea of who is making their favorite works, that women are a central and pivotal part of the industry.

I really hope that people found out something cool with this list, and I really do encourage everyone to do a bit of digging into their favorite series to find out the names behind them. I mean, we all know who directs a movie or TV series over here, and we certainly know all about the actors and whatnot, so I'd love to see people bring that same understanding to anime.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Chris Whipple for Vanity Fair:

The drama began the week before President Biden bowed out. At the time, Kamala Harris was navigating a political minefield: Any hint that she was plotting to replace the president could have been politically fatal. But while Harris was lying low, her political operation was working behind the scenes. Her chief of staff, Lorraine Voles, had been thinking about a contingency like this since November 19, 2021. That was when the president, under Section 3 of the 25th Amendment, had voluntarily transferred his powers and duties to Harris while he underwent a colonoscopy. It concentrated Voles’s mind. She and her staff needed to be ready for anything.

Still, taking Biden’s place on the ticket was a lot more complicated and fraught than being the acting president for a day. To prepare, Harris’s team launched a stealth operation; they recruited people with no direct connection to the VP. On Thursday, July 18, three days before Biden made his decision to step aside, a veteran Democratic operative heard from Stephanie Schriock, the former head of Emily’s List. “I got a call to help the Harris campaign come up with an ‘if he drops out plan,’ ” this operative told me. “ ‘Can you take a look at all the rules? What we would actually need to do in terms of signatures?’ They 100 percent did not know at that point. They were like, ‘We just feel like we should put a plan in place. Maybe something happens.’ We were all very careful that this was not Kamala. This was, ‘If someone [Biden] wants to drop out, we desperately want a woman president, and us women have to be there.’ That was the framing.”

Other Harris allies were also wrangling prominent Democratic senators to make a promise: If Biden didn’t retreat by Monday, July 22, they would call on him publicly to do so. Even at this late date, Nancy Pelosi, who’d been putting her own pressure on Biden, was thought to oppose a coronation of Harris; she wanted a primary. Barack Obama reportedly wanted one too. And he was said to favor a governor, not Harris, as the nominee. But as Biden weighed his options at his Rehoboth beach house that fateful weekend of July 20–21, he was practically alone. The only counsel he was taking was from close aides Steve Ricchetti and Mike Donilon. On Sunday, just a little after noon, Biden called Harris. The vice president, wearing sweatpants and a Howard University hoodie, was in the kitchen of the VP mansion at the US Naval Observatory. The second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, was in California. Harris’s niece Meena was visiting and her two daughters, Harris’s grandnieces, were sitting down to do a jigsaw puzzle. Her cell phone buzzed. “Hello, Mr. President,” she said.

“Listen,” said Biden. “I’ve decided I’m not going to run.” Harris sounded dumbfounded. She replied, “Are you sure? Are you sure you want to do that?” The president was sure. Biden hung up, but he called back to say the White House would announce his decision soon—and he would follow up with a tweet endorsing her. At 1:46 p.m. the White House released Biden’s statement; at 2:13 p.m. he sent out the tweet. Now that Biden had actually ended his campaign, Harris would have to seize the nomination. She’d struggled with staff turnover during her first two years in office, but by 2024 she’d assembled a strong team, led by Voles; Sheila Nix, a senior adviser; Kirsten Allen, her comms director; and Brian Fallon, her senior comms adviser. They swiftly activated a formidable political machine. “There was a political operation in place that was minding her p’s and q’s well ahead of the ticket switch,” said an adviser. “We just were able to immediately utilize it for the sake of a whipping operation to secure the nomination.”

[...]

One hundred seven days later, as history will recount, Team Harris hit rock bottom. Yet it didn’t seem so as Election Day dawned. Though Harris was behind in the battleground states, her spokespeople were oddly upbeat. Appearing on MSNBC back on October 27, campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon had declared, “We are very confident we’re going to win this thing.” On Friday, November 1, senior adviser David Plouffe posted on X that late-​breaking undecided voters were going for Harris by more than 10 points. A campaign has a gravitational pull, and chief of staff Voles was feeling it. “You get sucked into the momentum,” she said. “Like you believe it. I’ve been on winning ones and losing ones, and this felt more like [Bill] Clinton’s [in 1992] than [Michael] Dukakis’s [in 1988].” Voles wasn’t talking poll numbers or analytics, but intangibles. “The rallies were so big and so enthusiastic. People were lining the streets.” But Harris’s pollsters didn’t share the kumbaya cohesion. One ex-Biden campaign official couldn’t understand all the heady talk. “They still had consistent polling results that showed her down by two in every state,” she said, “and Trump always overperforms. How the hell were they going to make that up?” [...]

The vice president was hunkered down with her family. “We saw her maybe one time that whole night,” said one of her close insiders, when the VP “came back” to their section of the house. As the evening wore on, “it was just like, ‘What’s going on?’ The SG [second gentleman] would come in. Doug would say, ‘What’s happening?’ ” The realization grew that it was going to be a difficult night. One key indicator: Voles had summoned a photographer and a videographer. They were supposed to head to the Howard University campus with Harris for her victory speech. Instead, they cooled their heels.

The moment of truth came just after midnight. O’Malley Dillon huddled with her two best analytics experts. They were her barometer, her North Star, and when they told her they did not see a path, O’Malley Dillon knew there wasn’t one. She called the vice president. “We’re down in the blue wall states, and we’re not going to be able to make it up,” she said. “Oh, my God,” said Harris. “What is going to happen to this country?” Suddenly, the race was over, as though someone had thrown a switch. “We sent people home,” said a Harris aide. “And then, ‘Find Cedric.’ ” Cedric Richmond, a Harris confidant, was tapped to deliver the bad news to the faithful at Howard University. He took the stage at 12:45 a.m. There would be no declaration of victory that night. There would be no Harris presidency.

Just after 1 a.m., O’Malley Dillon faced one of her most daunting tasks. She had to call her 12-year-old twin daughters. They’d gone knocking on doors for Harris in Arizona that weekend and were totally invested in the campaign. They’d sent their mother a note saying they had to go to bed, but that they knew the numbers were going to turn for Harris. O’Malley Dillon called them on FaceTime to give them the news. And that was the moment when the steely, take-​no-prisoners campaign chair broke down. As Harris’s devastated followers departed the campus courtyard, the ground was littered with discarded American flags and Harris-Walz posters. The inspiring lightning-speed campaign had imploded. So too, in ways too numerous to count, had its defiant theme, “We Are Not Going Back.”

Vanity Fair had a exclusive from Chris Whipple, who wrote in Uncharted. The report discussed the lead-up to the switchover from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris to lead the Democratic ticket and the final hours of the campaign in which jubilation turned to defeat in the Harris camp.

Read the full story at Vanity Fair.

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[Image IDs: Image #1: Tweet from cuntry roads or whatever john denver said (@/ hairMetals) on Oct 15 reading; ao3 getting millions of dollars almost every year in donations but as a fic author you cant even mention needing money in the end notes of your own fic because ao3 will ban you swiftly for that . cant even have a button thats like hey if you liked my works pls consider just $1.

Quote tweet from em (@/ brosnyaa) on Oct 17, 2022 reading: I see the "AO3 should let us make money" takes are gong around again, so as a copyright attorney, I'd like to again provide some information about fanfiction and fair use.

Image #2: Reply from Pleb (@/ SolmUnable) on 10/18/22 reading: Wait so these twitter writers that made us pay goals for the next chapter of fanfic is doing something illegal??

Reply from abby (@/ andAWasp) on 10/18/22 reading: for a story they're using another author's characters for? technically yes. /End IDs]

Plain text: (key smash) Twitter writers did what now? And people paid them?

[Image IDs: Images #3-8: Series of tweets from em (@/ brosnyaa) on Oct 17, 2022 reading: In the US, the reason we can create fanworks without getting sued is the fair use doctrine. A lot of you are probably familiar with this - it allows us to use existing IP in limited contexts (i.e., when the work is "transformative")

What most people don't know about fair use is that it's an affirmative defense. An affirmative defense is used when you Did violate the law, but the law provides exceptions where that's okay.

All fanworks are infringing by default. When you invoke the fair use defense, you're saying, "Yes, I did infringe on this copyright, but it's okay because x, y, and z."

I think this is something a lot of authors and artists don't realize.

When you write fanfiction or draw fanart, you are engaging with someone else's copyrighted work. You're allowed to do this, but you have to understand that you're doing it with certain rules that need to be followed.

Two of the big factors in determining whether you can use the fair use defense are:

whether you were paid

how much of the original work you used

The 1ist is obvious. It's Huge.

The 2nd is, unfortunately, why fanart is generally more acceptable than fanfic when it comes to copyright. Fanart captures a single moment while fanfic uses characters, settings, themes, etc. It's more drawn out.S

So saying "but fanArtists make money!" doesn't work. The analysis is completely different - fair use is a balancing test, and writing v. art tips the scale in different directions.

Do I agree with this? No. FanWriters should be able to make money! But that's how the law is.

Back to the 1st factor. There are a lot of creators who are fine with fanworks now, but they're Only fine with it because fanfic is free. If that changes, we would most likely see more lawsuits.

As a non-profit, AO3 is able to face the world and say "all our fanfic is free."

Their policy is in place so that they're able, in good faith, to certify that all of the fanfiction on their site is unpaid. It's a Massive boost for the fair use defense. It means that if anyone sues the site or an author on the site, they'll have a much harder time of winning.

I won't tell you not to include ko-fi in your twitter bios or to tweet fanfic links with tip jars, I just want everyone to understand why AO3 has this policy.

Because heres one other thing more people could understand: lawsuits are Expensive. Especially copyright suits.

It's really a gray area what's allowed and what isn't in terms of fanworks, but the point is, if someone sues you and you win, it could still cost you A Lot Of Money.

What AO3 is doing isn't only to protect you legally, it's to make sure that no one even Tries to sue you. So yes, they are being more cautious than the law necessarily requires, but in this case, caution is a very good thing. /End IDs]

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

[mennauniverse]

It's summer 2013, 6 am and I'm wide awake listening to music while tweeting about one direction and how life is not fair however we should stay strong, casually checking ask.fm, Instagram, YouTube and replying to my kik and WhatsApp messages.

Nothing is perfect. But, I'm gladly creating my own bubble, a fragile one, yet unbreakable. I'm loving my new life or I'm actually learning to love it. I don't care about negative people or what people think of me. Nobody has lived my life and nobody knows what I've been through despite my younge age.

I was supposed to be the clumsy teen who is still figuring out what she wants for her future. But, life decided to make me a strong independent teen who knows how to stand up for herself. The young teen is low-key tired yet she likes the new person she is becoming. She doesn't know what the future holds for her. Hopefully, a quite peaceful happy successful life.

[angrythingstarlight]

omg have you ever seen this? it immediately made me think of your boys

tweet link (not porn dw)

Just the spot

Summary: Bucky will give you all the massages you want but he does charge one tiny fee. It involves you coming apart around his fingers. "I think that's a fair price Peach."

Pairing: Chubby!Baker Bucky x Reader

CW: Smut, fingering, implied oral, Buckys overstimulation kink, praise kink, Minors DNI.

A/N: Beta'd by the wonderful @blackwidownat2814.

Bucky has a sweet tooth.

Not for anything he creates in the kitchen.

It’s you, your sweet body, that he craves. Bucky once thought the best thing he ever tasted was the caramel apple crème brûlée Steve makes for their autumn specials, but that has nothing on you. He wants to sink his teeth into your skin, mark every inch of you in the most primal way. He'd spend all day touching you if you'd let him. All you have to do tell him he can have you and he’s kissing down your body, letting him feed his addiction, mine, mine, mine imprinted with every sweep of his lush lips over your skin, his teeth scraping across your flesh, leaving him embedded into you like you're made for him.

He swears you are.

Or maybe he's made for you.

Either way there's one thing that he's certain of.

He’s never wanted anything, anyone, the way he wants you. Needs you. Crave you.

He’ll take any excuse to get his hands on you. And you give it to him.

It starts off innocently enough. 

You ask him for a massage when you get home after work. Of course, he says yes, he’s so eager to touch you, that he almost shouts it much to your amusement. Tossing his cookbook on the table, he heads over to you, tugging his shirt over his head

“Why are you taking your clothes off?” you laugh, watching his eyes disappear behind his henley.

Bucky pauses, mid-step, his head canting back like he’s confused by your confusion. The teal material slides over his face, strands of his silky chestnut hair sticking out in random directions.

“Because Peach,” he starts slowly, dropping the shirt, his hand going to his belt. “I’m going to give you a massage.” He says it as if it should be obvious.

“Okay,” you reply, drawing the word out. “But why are you—” Your question fades away, cut off by him placing his finger on your lips, his round soft belly brushing against you.

“You can’t give a massage with clothes on, everyone knows that,” Bucky states, incredulous laughter curling around the edges of his tone, his lips twitching as he fights back a smile, his fingers toying with the buttons on your shirt. “Now, why are you not naked?"

Bucky’s large, calloused fingers feel incredible on the small of your back. You melt with every smooth, long stroke of his hands across your skin. You can’t help the small whimpers from crawling up your throat, it just feels so good. All your tension, your aches are disappearing, his hands have to be magic because you feel incredible right now, your body pliant and soft under his sure touch, then his thumbs dig into a particularly sore spot, kneading it with a slow, deep pressure that you feel across your entire body and you moan. The erotic sound slipping past your parted lips. “God that feels good.”

Bucky goes still.

His breathing slowing to a thin, shuddery groan. His gaze darkens, pupils dilating with a carnal expression. “Peach,” he hums, his hands drift down to your ass, curving around each cheek and he squeezes.

“Hmm,” You murmur in response.

“You know I charge for these right?” His voice deepens, taking on a mischievous tint. “Time to pay up.”

Your eyes fly open, and in your peripheral vision, you see his arm lift up and his hand comes down. Even though you see what he’s about to do, even though you know it’s coming, you’re taken off guard by the slap. A noise somewhere between a giggle and a choked squeal escapes you. The bright flash of pain ripples across your skin, and your face lifts off the pillow, turning to look over your should when his other hand winds back.

“Bucky!” You jolt from the second impact, the dichotomy of the sharp sting and your relaxed body has your head spinning. “Really?!”

He grins. Just grins down at you, nodding cheekily.

“Yeah,” he sighs, raking his bottom lip between his teeth. He does it again, creating an incoherent pattern of taps and smacks. It takes a full minute to realize that he’s playing his favorite song on your ass. Your chest shakes from unbidden laughter, you fold your arms under your head and let him have his fun.

You don’t even blink when you feel his teeth close around your skin, his bite teeters on that thin line of feeling so good it hurts. Then his soft tongue sweeps across the dents he created and you let out a soft moan because that is definitely amazing.

“Aw,” he says, “I think I missed a spot.”

Then his hands sweep down to your thighs and he gently pushes them apart, the pads of his fingers circling your pulsing clit in a heady, firm motion, your hips lift off the bed, pleasure shooting through your veins, warm and thick.

“Hold on Peach, lemme find it,” Bucky pushes you back down, his hand splaying across your massaged back, his other fingers slipping through your folds, easing two of them inside you.

“Oh fu-” you groan into the pillow, eyes fluttering shut.

“Almost got it,” he says, his fingers moving faster and deeper inside you, your thighs shake around him, sensations mount higher inside you, tightening in the depths of your belly. Your muffled sobs accompany the salacious, slick sounds of your cunt clenching around his fingers. He adds a third finger and you feel so full. The rough, wide pads sweep over your warm, silken walls sending bursts of pleasure through you. He strikes a sensitive patch inside you, you tremble for a second before going taut when he finds it again, a wet low moan settling in your throat.

“Is that the spot I was missing Peach?” he asks, knowing you can’t answer, can’t move, that all you can do is take it. “That’s it. That’s what you need, don’t you?”

Your hands fist around the corners of your pillow and you scream his name, your hips grinding into him, begging for him even as it becomes too much.

“You can take it.” His lips skate over your ear, his deep voice cutting through your pleasure-induced haze. “Yeah you can,” he whispers when you shake your head, “You will. Gonna give my pretty pussy what she needs, she can take it,” He reassures you, positioning his arm so he can go even faster, oh god you didn’t think he could but you can hear it, hear him slamming into you, pounding your tight pussy, pleasure spiking hot and rapid, pushing you to your breaking point.

“You’re going to be so good for me and cum around my fingers,” His thumb rubs a vicious little circle over your clit and your orgasm shatters you. “There ya go, look at you Peach” 

"Yesyesyes," you slur, waves of sensations sweeping through to until you go limp, dropping onto the bed with a satisfied groan. Bucky slides his fingers out of you, licking your slick arousal each one while his eyes drink you in, pride filling his chest at the sight of you relaxed and freshly fucked.

He loves knowing that he did that to you.

Planting his hands beside your head, he bends down, his lips brushing over yours. “I hope you don’t think I’m done with you Peach. One orgasm isn’t enough for me. Now turn over so I can have a taste of my sweet pussy."

[httpknjoon]

proof, they say | ksj

plot | Every proof that random people took just to prove your relationship.

words | 2.2k+

genres | humor/crack, fluff, actors!au

pairing | actor!jin x famous!reader

note | usernames used in the fic are all fictional. this "thread" is briefly mentioned in lie detector test. I was second-guessing if I should post this for a while. now, I am posting it before the finale! I have more proofs but I chose not to put it here anymore! if you want to read more proofs, send me an ask and I'll gladly reply with it. enjoy reading!

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Sometime in 2021, Twitter user @/bluemoon04 posted a thread of tweets, which later became one of the most essential posts in the YN-JIN fandom. It was published just weeks later after Jin’s Lie Detector Test video from Vanity Fair and it gets an update every time someone gets more proof of The A-Listers’ real relationship.

As of December 2022, the thread has almost eighty-nine thousand likes and thirty thousand and four hundred plus retweets and requotes. The proofs posted can be hit or miss. But user bluemoon04 shares it anyway and lets the others share their thoughts about it. Others can also submit their own proofs to the account through direct message.

Proof no. 1: [THAT TUMBLR POST IN JANUARY 2019]

behind the scenes...

A twenty-second video was posted on Tumblr sometime in the last quarter of 2019 by a newly-made account. The post only had three tags: #YN, #JIN, and #YNJIN. The algorithm worked and published the video in everyone’s feed. It received a thousand notes by the twenty-four-hour mark. It also reached other social media sites. Mostly, Twitter.

Fans— even the local audience is in awe after watching the video. What’s in it? You might wonder.

It’s just you and Jin sitting on a bench under a light post on a dark night in a lakeside park. It was seemingly taken during the production of Maybe Yes, Maybe No. It was a crowded place with the crew and staff members walking around to do their job while the actors wait on the side.  Amidst the busy background, you and Jin can be seen enjoying ice cream on cones as you chat, inaudibly.

It looked like you two were busy in your own world while the crew members carry stuff around the set. Jin said something that made you laugh hard.

“God! That was terrible!” you told him before laughing at whatever Jin said.

“You loved it!” he replied.

Those were the only audible dialogue from the clip. You two continued talking as you eat the cold treat. And based on everyone who saw the video, Jin can melt– not just the ice cream– but also you with how he stared at you intently while you tell your story. You then paused when you felt the weight of his stare, your eyebrows raised. He chuckled, shaking his head, before wiping the ice cream on the corner of your lips with his thumb. The video ended when a crew member walked up to you two.

Proof no. 2: [JIN SIGHTINGS IN LESS LIKELY PLACES pt. 1]

@/multifan0303: OH MY GOD OH MY GOD MY MOM JUST SENT ME THIS 

The tweet was originally posted in January 2020. The first picture was Jin’s signature on a piece of paper. For the second and last one, there’s a picture of the original poster’s mom with the actor. It’s not new for Jin to take pictures with fans he is out in public. But what made the whole fandom crazy about it is it was taken in a pet store and he was holding a basket full of cat food and supplies.

replying to @/multifan0303

- @/multifan0303: my mom doesn’t know who he is. but she saw her other customer that time asking for a picture with him so she asked for a picture and autograph too HDJSKLJFKDSLGKLJFDS

– @/greenpr4da: look at that basket

— @/v3rsaceyn: and you’re telling me jin hates cats????

—- @/franchiecat: he doesn’t even have a cat 😭

Proof no. 3 [LIVING TOGETHER ALLEGATIONS PT. 1]

During the first lockdown during the pandemic in 2020, everyone began suspecting about you and Jin living together in a house in Connecticut. With a lot of free time, the media managed to find a real estate posted online located in the said state that apparently looked like the house you were rumored to be living together in.

con mi hija 🌸

You captioned it in one of your Instagram posts in 2020. It was a selfie of you with Francheskat in your backyard. The picture was focused on your pet and only half of your face can be seen. A wall from your house can also be seen, showing that your home does have a stone exterior. Since you are more active on social media than Jin, your eagle-eyed fans also spotted in a different picture that you also have the identical Victorian lamp that the actor had behind him during a virtual interview.

“Just tell us are you and Y/N living together?!” Donny asked jokingly during an online fundraiser event with you, Jin, and other friends.

Jin shakes his head, laughing, “We’re not.”

“We do!” you huffed dramatically. “No one told me this man doesn’t know how to wash his laundry!”

Other participants laughed at your exaggerated and sarcastic tone. That was the first time you two acknowledged the gossip publicly and it was definitely not the last. You acknowledged it again when you greeted him on his birthday.

Proof no. 4: [BUB]

Both supporters and the press caught on Jin slipping his endearment for you during events with you back in 2021. Fans made video compilations and listed down the times your co-actor called you ‘bub’ on numerous occasions. Sometimes it was hushed, sometimes it felt like it just slipped from his lips. Jin finally addressed it when W Magazine brought up the topic during a magazine cover with you.

“Yeah, why do you call me that?” you turned your head to him, still in your look for the editorial shoot you two did.

Jin’s lips broke into a smile as he looked at you. He rested his chin on his palm when he answered, “It’s nothing really… It just slips out, bub”

As far as everyone witnessed from his whole career in Hollywood, you were the only co-worker Jin sometimes calls by a nickname. He never explained where it came from and was only questioned about it once.

Proof no.5: [THE TALE OF FRANCHESKAT]

“Yeah, that’s my lovely daughter, Francheskat.” you shared when Stephen Colbert brought up the picture of your pet.

“I heard she’s from an animal shelter in London. Is that right?” the host asked and you nodded from your seat.

“Yes! I visited a few shelters there during the production of my new film there and I was in awe when I first met her!”

“Oh, so you adopted her right away from that moment?”

“I didn’t…” you shook your head. “I was too busy and I was only in London for less than two weeks. My schedule was jampacked, and I never got to drop by the shelter again.”

“But I have a friend who saw how much I want to have this beautiful cat and surprised me like a month later after I got back in LA. It was so unexpected, I cried.” you laughed.

That interview was in 2017, months before the release of your first movie with Jin. Francheskat was the main reason why you made an Instagram account again after deactivating your old account back in 2016. Based on your fans’ calculations, you recently just finished filming Cornelia Street when you began posting about your cat. And Jin was seen in London around the same time you shot your own scenes there.

These facts strengthen your fans’ belief that Jin was the friend you were talking about. Especially with how close your co-star is to your cat, even though he claims he isn’t a big fan of felines.

Proof no. 6 [Y/N SPOTTED IN LESS LIKELY EVENTS  PT.1]

“I don’t really celebrate any holidays.” you shared during an interview back in 2014. “I just spend those days like my other rest days except I send gifts to my friends.”

You have been living alone ever since you were emancipated from your father’s control. You usually sleep or work through Christmas and New Year’s eve or any other commonly big holiday, treating it as a normal day. You always find it exhausting to prepare for such events when you live alone. The only special event you celebrate is your mom’s or close friends’ birthdays. Your fans are aware of this fact and made sure to send you sweet greetings during holidays as you post pictures from your home. You were never spotted outside either by the press during these events.

@/DonnyNextDoor: happy thanksgiving from us!!

In the celebration of Thanksgiving Day back in 2021, Donny posted a photo of your circle of friends. You stood next to Bella Hadid, who was Donny’s girlfriend at the time. Next to you were Jin and your three other mutual friends.

@/daisiesandroses: omg yn holiday contents

Fans were happy to see you with friends during that time. They expected that you will post something for Christmas and New Year’s too. However, you only posted an Instagram story each, greeting everyone. Someone claimed they spotted you in New York for Times Square Ball but no pictures floated online.

Proof no. 7: [VERSACE ON THE FLOOR]

It has been known to everyone that you have always been a massive admirer of the luxury fashion brand, Versace. Donatella has been a great friend of yours ever since you became a brand ambassador for the said brand when you were 22. And even though you had contracts with other brands in the following years, you maintained a good relationship with her. You’ve also been invited to fashion week events and you always try to go if your tight schedule can accommodate it. You were even featured in Bruno Mars’ music video for his hit song, Versace On The Floor.

@/SE0KJINM00N: SOMEONE SEND ME THAT PHOTO HE DELETED IT!!

@/hellobubba: was that versace on that fucking floor or am i seeing things

@/peopleoncrnlstrt: LMAO he deleted the ig story

But sometime in 2019, Jin posted a picture in his Instagram Stories which he deleted less than two minutes later. The photo is simple. It was a picture of the latest book he read. He was holding it down, seemingly an innocent one. But if you travel your eyes to the upper corner of the image, even though the background’s a little blurry, a black piece of clothing can be seen. It was immediately recognizable due to the fact that it has the word Versace printed all over it. 

And since you were the closest person to him that everyone knows, the fans assumed it was yours. You were once seen a couple of years ago sporting a bikini top with the same design, just different colors. People searched online and found that there is, indeed, a Versace one-piece swimsuit with the exact design.

Although the photo was never talked about in public, that Versace mystery became an inside joke in the fandom.

Proof no. 8: [LIVING TOGETHER ALLEGATIONS PT. 2]

urfavecatlady started a live video. Watch it before it ends!

August 2020. You had a five-minute live on your Instagram account, simply just to chat with your fans while you were waiting for your cookies in the oven. It was short yet chaotic.

“Oh, I tried baking today! I saw an easy recipe online. I’ll share the link on Twitter later.” you answered a fan as you put down your phone. You sported a now-messy apron. The apron? It was a gift from Timmy. He learned I love ba–”“

“Ouch!”

Someone exclaimed in the background, followed by the noises of something falling on the ground. You paused and looked at whatever was behind your phone. Your eyes widened. But you tried to compose yourself as you look back at the camera.

“Francheskat jumped on some– on my stuff. Gotta go! I’ll update y’all with the cookies later. Bye!” your voice trailed off as you end the Instagram Live.

@/amymarchdefender: i think i heard someone during yn’s live

@/princessbubblegum: is she quarantining with someone???!?

Some fans claimed it was not Francheskat, but Jin. Although the mystery voice was not that audible, they claimed it was him. Others believed that maybe you are really going through lockdowns with someone who is not Jin. There are few people who believe that you really have a longtime secret partner, someone who is not in the same industry as you. Nonetheless, everyone never knew who it was.

The thread still receives updates from time to time even though you took a break and Jin is not really that active on social media. The owner of the tweet still gets submissions from various fans.

Now, October 2023. Jin hasn’t had any public appearances since his series premiere on HBO. He is still in for Waller-Bridge’s movie. You, on the other hand, were getting gossip that you will be having a cameo with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Some believed that you will be retiring or will take years to come back. Both of you two were not active on social media. Your last post in your Instagram feed was in August. And Jin’s was May.

But one of Hollywood's biggest celebrity gossip sources is the Instagram account, Deuxmoi, posted something that made a noise in your fandom.

Sent via form submission from Deuxmoi

Pseudonyms, Please: Cookie Monster

Email: heardit@the.gravevine

Subject: Everyone’s Fave Cat Lady

Message: A friend of mine works in one of the longest-running live television shows. They said that a prominent A-lister actress is returning in front of the cameras after taking a sudden break for more than a year. Her comeback will be announced next week! Watch out!

taglist rules

THE A-LISTERS TAGLIST

@jub-jub @yoontaethings @kissme-ornot @sleepy-daydreams @veronawrites @cuteipat @ratherbefangirling @babystarcandy-gcf @akirawhore @alpacaparkaseok @rjsmochii @lovesickbangtan @rapmonie2047 @btsiguess-kpop @angelarin @walkinganxiety0 @bloopkook @yoooonie @amara-mars @firesighgirl @zwiehe @hiii-priestess @lojocas @juju-227592 @singukieee @eshtravagent @canarystwin @petalsofink

PERMANENT TAGLIST

@dunixxd​ @cixrosie​ @jksjx​ @embrace-themagic​ @buttvi​ @starbtslove​ @missseoulite @vanntaesworld @kenqki @pixybear @miyukihoshi @stopeatread @seolaquotes @greyrain23

[perpetuallydaydreaming]

did you hear that?

championship cups

tensions run high during the quidditch league cups. when your favoured team loses, theres an annoying git that keeps replying to your tweets. not one to back down from a fight, you respond. chaos then ensues.

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the games wasn’t as exciting as you thought it would be, at least not in the way that makes you stop thinking about a certain guy. certainly not in the way the girls have been, all throughout the game. marlene and mary are hardly paying attention, you think it has something to do with the fact that they don’t even like the teams playing. and lily just keeps going to the food stalls and coming back with no food.

and it was whatever minutes into the game that you noticed someone sit beside you,

“hey yn,” remus smiled, offering a steaming cup of something.

you reluctantly grab the drink. although grateful for something to drink, you can’t help but feel flustered at his presence. you hadn’t known he would be here too. you haven’t seen much of remus lately, actually you haven’t seen much of anyone lately. you were always too tired and too into your own head to interact.

marlene said it’s your battery losing power and now it’s only a matter of charging you back up.

you nodded in lieu of a greeting. looking to the active stadium instead, hearing the crowd cheer for a point made. you don’t know the standing of the game now, you haven’t known in a while, but you continue looking as if you do.

“im sorry,” he said, pulling you out of your stupor. “for what i said to you that night. it was uncalled for—and frankly i wouldn’t be shocked if you completely hated me now. i know it wasn’t my place,”

you kept waiting for him to say more, but he slumped in his seat and forced himself to stare at the game in front of him.

you thought back to the night of conversation with remus, the whole thing was unnerving at best. not to mention embarrassing. you hadn’t expected the conversation to go into that direction, at all.

you have always prided yourself through your intelligence, and you thought that included self-awareness, apparently that was not the case at all.

and when you think about it, you didn’t feel angry towards him for saying those things, never mind hating him. you just felt.. exposed.

“its fine, remy, i was never mad.”

he shook his head, “no, don’t let me off the hook just like that,” clicking his tongue and looking into you now, eyebrows scrunched. you can feel marlene and mary looking closely and lily suddenly very still to look anything but natural.

“no really, it’s fine, i mean you did have a point.”

someone from puddlemere united scored.

“i knew—well i had an idea he might’ve been a bit flirty..” you shrugged, “and i shouldn’t have pretended to not notice.. james is lucky to have a friend like you looking out for him.” nudging him in the side.

he looked at you annoyed now, why were you comforting him now. but you just grinned.

“im your friend too,”

“i know.”

he took a sip from his cup and so did you, before turning to the game but leaning to your side more and speaking above the noise in the stadium. “it wasn’t fair of me to just assume things, for all i know you might like james too or something.”

you puff out an air of laughter, “does it matter?”

remus playing with the lid of his cup, “it does, if you do.”

your pursed your lips in thought, the buzz in the crowd growing as you see the appleby arrows seeker flying hurrying after a zooming glint of gold.

“does this mean you approve of me dating your son, james?” you laugh.

he smirks, something akin to relief but also mirth clear in his eyes, the air between you two lighter now. easy smiles exchanged before he said, as if taunting, “you have to ask him out first.”

this time you clicked your tongue and leaned back into the seat.

puddlemere scores again, much to your delight.

“how do i even ask someone out after icing them for days?”

“is this admission?” he teased, lips in a smile and an eyebrow raised and all.

yes, you wanted to say, but felt that’d be too eager. so you settle with, “if it is,” you inhaled, “is that okay?”

“ah!” he exclaimed, louder than necessary over the crowd. “so you do! you really do! you, y/n, admitted that you fancy my friend, james potter!”

you pinch his arm, “have to announce it to the entire stadium, huh, remy?”

“i just wanna make sure people near us know, that you like james potter.”

you wave a hand, taking another gulp from your drink. “right, and that’s not weird at all.”

and when you finally fixed your gaze firmly to remus, ready to give a hard glare of warning, suddenly, the wild hair sat beside you two became clear.

you feel like throwing up. or hiding.

a widened, pretty hazel eyes locked into yours.

his hair mussed by the wind, and cheeks flushed red. suddenly the loud cheers in the stadium didn’t feel so loud but a buzzing noise in your head.

you feel lily shuffling behind you and you’re pretty sure marlene and mary are leaning into lily’s space to hear whatever you two will say.

you have half a mind to shoot a blazed, horrified face at remus only to be met with a sheepish shrug, as he sits to the other end of the boys next to sirius.

you refuse to look at him again, staring blankly into the clear skies, sighly harshly as if tired, to save some sort of dignity in the situation. “did you hear that?”

“hard not to.”

“sneaky dogs, you have for friends there potter.”

you hear him laugh, and all tension seems to leave your body. the urge to smile was strong but you powered through. slowly turning to him, and you can’t help the scoff of a laugh that leaves your mouth, seeing his get up.

“of course you’re rooting for the opposite team.”

fun facts:

— remus overheard what they were betting on:

“want to bet on it?” “you’re on!” “loser has to go out with the winner.” “deal.”

[anonymityisfunwriter]

Secret Moments In a Crowded Room

Pairing: Grumpy!Bucky Barnes x Sunshine!Reader

"If I didn't know any better I'd think you like me as your dirty little secret," he gruffly chuckles, sitting at the foot of your bed watching as you put the finishing touches on your outfit for tonight. 

"My dirty little secret? No. Never."

"But?"

"It's kinda fun though," you coyly offer, turning away from the mirror to face Bucky. "Our secret moments in a crowded room. They have no idea about me and you."

"Did you just quote Taylor Swift?" he sighs in exasperation, pulling you closer to him by your waist. 

"Maybe."

"All I'm saying is if I see a single pervy look or someone hitting on you, our secrets not going to be a secret anymore," he warns, though his smirk defies the serious tone of his words. 

"I think that's a fair deal."

Surprisingly, the night didn't drag for Bucky. Not in the slightest.

In fact, time ebbed and flowed rather quickly for an event like this. Normally, these large, extravagant, black tie events to keep the Avengers in the public's good graces were absolutely awful. He usually said very little, he wouldn't move from his stool at the bar, he barely interacted with anyone outside of his normal circle, he didn't give people any more ammunition against him. 

But even though you'd parted from him over an hour ago, he didn't even feel your absence. How could he with this little game you were playing?

In that way, you were absolutely right, it was a lot of fun.

Quick, fleeting moments with no one none the wiser. Every few minutes he'd catch your eye or you'd catch his. This time he juts his head in the direction of the side exit. Your lips pull in to hide your mischievous grin, but still you slightly shake your head reminding him that you couldn't leave yet. 

It was almost a challenge.

You were challenging him to be the first to break, to reveal your secret in a room full of reporters. He does his best to contain his grin, knowing that anything other than his stone-faced expression would definitely garner some attention. He coyly bites his lip when your eyes flicker back to him. 

"You guys are still doing this?" Sam groans, eyes flickering between the lingering, flirty gazes you and Bucky are exchanging. "Hello?"

"Huh? What?" Bucky asks, reluctantly tearing his eyes away from you. 

"I've been talking to you for like ten minutes."

"Yeah, yeah, no, that sounds great," Bucky unconvincingly agrees. "A great idea."

"Now I know you weren't listening," Sam scolds, taking a long drink from his glass only to see that Bucky isn't listening once again. "Is it alright if I have your arm?"

"Sure. No problem," Bucky absently replies, not even turning his head to reply to Sam. 

"And will you cover my assignments for the next year?"

"Yeah, mhm... Don't worry about it."

"Is it okay if I tell the world you two are together?"

"What?" Bucky exclaims, finally tearing his eyes away from you. "No!"

Sam scoffs, "Of course, that you hear."

"Why would you even ask me that?"

"This has to be the world's worst kept secret," Sam complains. "Everyone already knows!"

"They don't," Bucky corrects, pointing to the gaggle of reporters standing around waiting for their next story. But he could concede that there were whispers, little breadcrumbs given to the general public. 

In a way, this secret had become a fun game between you and Bucky - and ostensibly the rest of the team.

It was one big inside joke that turned into subliminal messages in social media posts, little easter eggs for people to dissect.

Maybe you shouldn't have been encouraging it, but Bucky had to admit, it was pretty fun watching people fall down rabbit holes trying to reason the whole thing out. 

Just a few weeks ago, you posted a picture of Bucky calling him your best friend. Only for you to tweet that your favorite song was 'Dress' a few days later. But you weren't the only one egging people on, lately Bucky had taken to liking your pictures and posts just a little too quickly for people to not notice.

The latest game you were playing with the public were with people trying to catch Bucky in the background of videos and pictures you posted. It was downright entertaining watching you laugh at the way people swore they could see a glint of Bucky's metal arm in a mirror. Or when you posted a picture of wearing sunglasses that people swore looked identical to Bucky's. 

In a way, it was simply a fun game used to kill off-time. 

But you and Bucky did have real reasons why you were remaining tight-lipped. 

Bucky didn't want to be the catalyst of your fall from grace. He'd seen it many times, especially for the women on the team. A person built up and beloved by the public, only for the tide to violently turn without warning. Right now, people loved you, and he didn't want to be the reason they didn't anymore. 

Your reasoning was similar.

As a new member, as someone constantly shrouded with all things SHIELD and Avengers, you were still in that phase where people wanted to know everything about you. Every facet was of your life was microscopically examined. And while you didn't mind it all that much, you didn't want to drag Bucky back into the limelight. You knew how hard of a time he had with the public, particularly people who still only saw him as the Winter Soldier and if you could protect him from that, you would. 

You both agreed that as long as you were having fun with it, you'd keep playing this little game. People assumed they knew everything about you already, but it was clear to everyone close to you that they didn't know anything all. And you'd keep it that way for as long as possible.

--

"Let me guess, they snuck off already?" Sam snarkily asks as Steve slinks over to where he's standing at the bar. 

"Pretty much."

"So because we're not in a relationship, we're the only ones expected to stay?" Sam scoffs, noting that most of the team had left even though this event was supposed to be mandatory from beginning to end. Tony even held a meeting that under no circumstance was anyone to leave before the event was finished. But as he scanned the room, it was incredibly apparent that you'd all left without saying anything to him or Steve. "That's not fair."

"Life's not fair."

"Since they're not here, who's going to stop me from blabbing to those reporters? Or posting them on Instagram? No one that's who."

Steve chuckles thinking that Sam's just making a joke about how they're forced to continue their appearance here while everyone else has called it a night, though when he see the look of challenge on Sam's face, he vehemently shakes his head. "No, Sam. Absolutely not."

"What? Maybe it'll be an accident. Maybe I accidentally post a picture."

"Sam, you're being childish," Steve chides.

"Well, who's gonna stop me?"

"I think Bucky would actually kill you."

"He wouldn't," Sam scoffs. 

"If you out them, he absolutely will."

"It's not outing them. It's making an insinuation to the general public," he teases, pulling out his phone to continue his joke.

"You're insinuating that they're together."

"Look at them," he coos, showing Steve an image of one of your reunions.

It was sort of when he'd made peace with you two as a couple. When he learned to accept it with an occasionally big brother-esque threat to keep Bucky in line.

He smiled thinking about how, in spite of the grueling exhaustion and bumps and bruises, you were giddy back getting back to Bucky. It was a sweet picture of the two of you lying on the couch together, curled underneath a blanket that was much too small for the two of you. But even sleeping, you both looked disgustingly, tooth-rottingly happy. 

"Quit messing around," Steve scolds, but still cranes his neck to look at the picture. "But you're right, it is a cute picture."

"My OTP," Sam jokes, dramatically typing away at his phone, showing Steve the screen as he carefully cultivates his 'accidental' post. "Insert heart emoji. Hashtag: Grumpy Sunshine."

"Stop messing around," Steve hisses. "Let them tell people their own terms."

"You're right," Sam sighs in concession. "I'm just playing. I'm not going to do that."

"Delete that before you get yourself into trouble."

"Fine," Sam huffs, only half paying attention when he deletes the post and shoves his phone back in his pocket. 

He and Steve both continue standing around at the bar waiting for an appropriate moment to make their exit. It was always a difficult tell with these kinds of events, if they left too early their absences would most certainly be noted, but if they left too late they were most likely going to get hounded by tenacious, annoyingly persistent reporters. 

It's only been a few minutes of idle chatter and waiting when Sam's phone starts to buzz incessantly. It's not just one of two consecutive buzzes, it's dozens, more even - so many that it almost sounds like one continuous notification. 

"Jeez, someone's a popular guy," Steve quips, hearing the continuous buzzing in Sam's pocket. 

Sam rolls his eyes, though he's equally curious about the random notifications that are still blowing up his phone. He takes one look and his face drops, "Oh no." 

"What happened?"

Sam anxiously bites his fist, scrolling through the dozens of notifications. He's still stunned shock as he turns to show Steve his phone, or more specifically, the post he meant to delete posted for everyone to see.

"You didn't," Steve gasps. 

"Oh, I swear it was an accident! It was an accident - Why would they put the delete button next to the post button? That's a disaster just waiting to happen!"

"You didn't," Steve repeats. "I thought you were just goofing off!"

"It was an accident!" Sam insists, locking his screen as if that will somehow contain the can of worms he'd just opened. 

"Take it down," Steve yelps. 

"Oh no..."

"What?"

Sam turns the phone again to show Steve the new message from Bucky: WHAT THE HELL?

Steve claps a hand on a still stunned Sam's shoulder, "It was nice knowing you, buddy."

Sam's screen lights up again with a subsequent message from you that slightly assuaged his concerns, if only because you wouldn't let Bucky kill him.

Your message read: Aww.. I love that picture! 

Part 2 (Drabble)

AnonymityIsFun Masterlist Grumpy Sunshine Series Masterlist Inspired By Taylor Swift Masterlist

[pisswizzard]

I did go back and edit the original post to include Israeli Occupation Forces before I saw this reply because you’re right; while I have heard both iterations repeatedly, “occupational” does seem to be much more prominently used and forgetting that/conflating the two was extremely negligent on my part.

That said, I don't understand your rejection of the word "occupation" nor your equating of delegitimizing a governmental state (which is a much bigger topic) to dehumanizing individual people. That's partly on me for saying "the IDF/IOF" instead of "the IDF/IOF soldiers;" here's been a lot of referring to the former initialism as a noun rather than an adjective and that alone should have been something for me to be more critical and careful of.

Still, it is internationally recognized that the occupation of Palestine is "unambiguously" in violation of international law. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

That doesn't mean I think anyone should be forced out and I don't. Of course, seized homes should be returned to the families they were taken from, and at the same time folks living in unjustly acquired homes should be given opportunity, assistance, and resources to relocate comfortably, within Palestine or elsewhere and given the option to choose freely. It's indisputable that many Israeli citizens have lived in Palestine most, if not all, of their lives; that area is their home too and naturally many would want to stay.

It won't be simple and I'm not pretending to have any real answers as to how exactly to bring about an honestly fair outcome, but if the world as a whole were to pull together and sincerely try for one...the potential reality could be beautiful, don't you think? i know hoping for a totally successful, collaborative push for a genuine, positive peace might be grossly idealistic bordering on naivety and hinges on a lot of other issues being resolved rather quickly, perhaps even unrealistically so. i also know that fault for the discordance working against that endeavor primarily stems from people of my own societal intersections.

That's sincerely why I made the post (admittedly a sleep deprived reaction to someone's share of a tweet of an individual soldier being referred to as demonic). I do see the surge in antisemitism and I want to at least try to call people in in a way that folks, those who truly are unintentionally perpetuating it and want to do better, might be responsive to without shutting down (backfire effect) since the mutuals from whom I've seen repeat problematic posts aren't folks I think it would be effective to approach directly since I don't know them personally. And this isn't a big platform. That's not to say i don't owe due diligence on whatever I choose to put out, but that sometimes stuff will be moreso directed toward folks that are more in my small-scale circle of influence.

People, specifically non-Palestinian leftists and particularly the white, goyish folks (like myself) who genuinely want to be effective activists, have got to stop referring to the IOF/IDF as demons or demonic. I’m serious. I abhore them and everything they are doing but we all know that calling Jewish folks demons is like old school antisemitism, right? It’s so important that folks are careful to avoid dehumanizing these people. There’s a difference in actions being inhumane vs inhuman. You can’t let dehumanization be something your brain deems acceptable in any situation. Ever. Once you decide that it’s okay to dehumanize one group of people, you are much more susceptible to doing so again. Even terrible people are people, and it’s not acceptable to dehumanize anyone. Y’all have got to be able to fight for Palestinian rights without being antisemitic. It’s not hard; there’s endless shit to criticize Israel for.

[jinxed-ninjago]

Possibly bad take incoming?

Also to preface this I am legally disabled (autism and epilepsy) so I'm speaking on this as someone with disabilities who has experienced ableism and has trauma from said experienced ableism.

Alright, so someone asked Tommy Andreasen why Cyrus Borg was written to be disabled back in 2015. You can find that tweet here.

If you don't wanna read the tweet, essentially Tommy mentions that Cyrus was written to be disabled so the Overlord could take over his body. Of course, people were immediately like "this ain't it Tommy" and I would agree if Cyrus didn't also have a ton of screen time outside of Rebooted.

In my opinion, there's a lot of nuance with this kind of thing and especially with Cyrus specifically. If Cyrus only showed up in season 3, yeah, I might see it as really gross and not okay. But Cyrus shows up in other seasons where he's treated like a normal person. Someone mentioned that Cyrus being disabled to enable the Overlord to take over his body normalizes ableism and I just … no??

If anything it normalizes the fact that ableism is bad, because the series' overarching villain is the one committing it. Yeah, the reasoning behind Cyrus being disabled does make me uncomfortable, but there are nuances that people just. Don't acknowledge??

This also completely ignores the autistic ableism towards Zane at the start of the series. Yeah, Zane was never intended to be autistic, but some of the teasing the other ninja direct at him is absolutely ableist in nature. I'm speaking on this as someone who experienced the same kind of teasing/bullying in school before I knew I was autistic.

This is just my long winded way of saying I really don't think making Cyrus disabled for the sake of the plot was ableism, but it absolutely would've been if he'd been a one-off character for season 3. As it stands he's shown up in quite a few seasons since Rebooted, and there was only ableism shown towards him in Rebooted.

Again, maybe this is a bad take. But I don't think it's fair to accuse the writers and Tommy Andreasen of ableism when Ninjago's villains are quite frankly usually bigoted in some way, shape, or form (Cryptor and the Mechanic are sexist as fuck, Kalmaar's entire motive is racism, you could make a racism argument for Vangelis, the Overlord is all kinds of bigoted, Iron Baron is racist towards dragons, and any villain who isn't bigoted is driven purely by power). Ninjago villains and their ideas are ALWAYS portrayed as negative. If you're gonna say the Overlord taking over Cyrus's body normalizes ableism, then Kalmaar's motives normalize racism, which we all know isn't true.

If you seriously think villains doing horrible shit normalizes that horrible shit, maybe you need a reality check.

ALSO I am open to constructive discussion. Feel free to shoot me an ask/reblog/reply with your views on this subject.