#and it's like . idk the word but like meta or whatever u kno. and it subverts the trope and expectation we'd

[bylertruther]

not getting my hopes up but by god do i really really reeeeeaaaaaaally want at least One (1) scene between robin and either will or mike :(

[pocketgalaxies]

Hello! I noticed you seem to be watching critical role c2 and c3 at the same time and was wondering if that's a way you'd recommend to watch them? I've just finished c1 and want to watch the next two campaign's like right now but I'm worried ill get super confused by jumping between them or lose my momentum on catching up on both. Do you find it tricky to juggle the two? Idk if that all makes sense lol sorry if not !!!

hello! yes that makes sense! i have indeed been watching c2 in between c3 episodes and i also was doing that with c1 before this

i think recommend is a strong word bc watching 2 campaigns at the same time doesn't do anything to improve the experience, BUT i also don't think it's as confusing as you might expect. each cast member plays very very different PCs, especially comparing c2 to c3 (aside from molly and ashton i guess) so you probably won't find yourself mixing them up much, if at all. they also just feel different - the vibes of the mighty nein vs. bells hells have been the topic of many a meta post because the contrast is very stark and very interesting so yeah it's not a huge Thing trying to distinguish them i think

in terms of losing your momentum, i would personally say that watching c3 episodes as they come out will probably make your life a bit easier, so i would maybe recommend that you focus on catching up with c3 first? just bc watching a weekly c3 episode is straightforward, the show drives the momentum for you as long as you keep up with it, and then you can just use the time in between thursdays to watch c2. and i don't think adding the occasional c3 episode into your c2 binge will make the binge harder than it already is lol. finding the momentum to binge an old campaign is 100% driven by your own ability to obsessively Care for 500 hours, you know what i mean?? and that's smth that'll ebb and flow and maybe it'll ebb more after a really juicy c3 episode and maybe you'll burn through 5 c2 episodes in a row bc the most recent c3 episode was really boring, but as long as you have some internal drive to keep watching c2 then it'll just happen at its own pace. always good to remember that there is really no pressure to watch it at any particular speed, just watch whatever you're feeling in the moment u kno

[marsreds]

so. i’m watching atla with a friend (her for the first time) and we just started book 3 and man, i literally got whiplash watching “the headband”.

i mean the characters are almost completely unrecognisable?

like, since when is katara shy???!!? like, have we watched the same show up till now? the girl that made a speech to a prison-full of earthbenders, and when they ignored her was kinda sad and then MADE ANOTHER ONE!?!?!?!?? like i can’t watch that part w/o a pillow to bury my face into from second-hand embarrassment and the girl’s like, oh yeah well, if at first u don’t succeed... and ur trying to tell me that that girl would have trouble dancing in front of a crowd?!?!!?!? or how abt that time when she publicly called out and challenged a waterbending master?? knowing that she’s not actually gonna win??!!?!?? i’m supposed to believe that a girl like that would play with her hair and blush bc “I don't know, Aang. These shoes aren't really right for dancing, and I-I'm not sure that I know how to- “

?!?!!?!?!?!?!!???

i mean?? seriously, were we watching the same show?? who is this?? bc it’s not katara

and then, and then, aang wants to be normal??!? like that??! now??! an episode ago he was traumatised by the fact that he failed as an avatar! like, what??! it literally set back his character development a hundred years?? not to mention that he was, you know, an episode ago, a far more mature character? i mean i’m not saying that he should’ve lost all playfulness et all, but considering where “the awakening“ left the poor boy at, wouldn’t have it made a lot more sense to, idk, show us aang gradually getting his cheerful disposition back? (kind of like how he got hope back during “the serpent’s pass”?) and before anyone says, no that didn’t happen at the end of “the awakening”,  “the awakening” was, or at least should’ve been only the very beginning of his recovery.

shockingly, someone who was, u kno, actually fucking dead, should spend more than one episode getting back on his feet. they basically glossed over any and all inner turmoil and completely and utterly removed any shred of self-awareness and self-reflection that aang spent ~two seasons developing.

like??? why would u do that?? who thought that that was a good idea?? who?!??!?!

and, ofc, the coup de grâce*: zuko.

like, i think my friend said it best: “it’s like they took everything that made him interesting and likeable and inverted it“.

gone is the awkward, introspective, compassionate, troubled person. instead we get.. i don’t even know??

like, u expect me to believe that the boy who either got so freaked out over the fact that a girl he likes is gonna kiss him that he shoved a coupon in her face, or misread the mood so badly that he thought that that was the right time to do that, that a boy like that would be that comfortable in a situation like a sunset picnic? or u kno making out? at all, let alone with an audience. or at all capable of any kind of sweet talk? even the badly written kind?

and, and, and, are u telling me that the boy who couldn’t even bear to watch zhao, a man who actively and repeatedly tried to kill him, die, that a boy like that would send an assassin after an actual child? and one that repeatedly saved his life at that?(and, tbh, i’ve got a whole different meta on how bryke absolutely do not get that the very core of zuko’s character is a staggering amount of compassion and empathy and that his actual true conflict comes from the fact that a person like that was born as the future head of a war machine and how his actual triumph was supposed to be the fact that after a lifetime of brainwashing he still, still remained like that.) u actually expect me to believe that? pfft, sure bryke.

and, like, tbh, i’m not even gonna get into the whole visiting-iroh-in-prison-and-yelling-at-him thing.

except i will. a little.**

here’s the thing: while there isn’t any situation or scene that directly contradicts zuko’s behaviour towards iroh, a great part of zuko’s value system is based around filial piety.

seriously. look at the way he talks the one time he actually goes into the whole honour thing:

zuko: “Three years ago today, I was banished. I lost it all. I want it back. I want the Avatar, I want my honor, my throne. I want my father not to think I'm worthless.”

it was never about honour for honour’s sake or whatever. it was always about ozai:

ozai: You will fight for your honor. zuko: I meant you no disrespect. I am your loyal son.

and the zuko we saw in seasons 1 & 2, and in “the awakening” (and then again briefly in “the day of the black sun pt. 2” and “the old masters” a.k.a. ehasz’s zuko) the zuko who’s first words after their great triumph in ba sing se are “i betrayed uncle“, the introspective, compassionate zuko, the zuko who understood, since at least “the siege of the north pt. 2″, that iroh “thinks of [zuko] as [his] own” THAT zuko?

i doubt he’d ever get past looking at the tower for the guilt and shame.

*except not really, bc there’s nothing merciful about this, and there’s still like, 19 episodes of this flip-flopping characterisation nonsense.

**using only what we were shown up until this point in the narrative. meaning i’m not gonna use zuko’s speech to ozai to make my point.

[kkukkung]

Im crying in the school bathroom rn I seriously love wonho so much I'm in pain why is he my ideal guy in every way he's so amazing and handsome and sweet but whO CARES BEVause he don't kno me haha am I right

big mood all the time im always in pain bc he rly................ doesn’t KNOW i would let him shave off my eyebrows if he wanted 2

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I wouldn't even care if wonho was a high maintenance boyf tbh I'd just sit and comb his hair all day and tell him he's pretty

hdjkfh this was so long ago but i think i was mostly kidding abt him being a high maintenance bf... like he would do so much giving? but i guess the only thing he’d need is constant reassurance that his s/o loves him imo jfdhgjk... i also think he’d b someone who either doesn’t settle down ever or does it very late in his life!

annie 🌹literary queen ❤️ literally crowned with a laurel wreath! not be drum attic but this midsummer nights monsta au is so!!!! give me sistar as the four star crossed lovers then drag me to h*ll and give me this doctor faustus au i'm itching for with kihyun as faustus and k.will as mephistopheles bc i love to watch my faves s*ffer but don't let me rip until i get my much ado about nothing au with the entire cast of starship ent and a lil cameo from giriboy!

(in refence to this monsta x as shakespearean archetypes ask!) fjdshgkjs shh i lov u... why is k will as mephistopheles so Accurate esp no.mercy k will lmao. um u should write all of these? in fact if... if anyone has mx literary aus.... hmu...... i’ll n*t

another thing about that incident is that it seems like the fan doesn't think Changkyun and Jooheon undersood them?? (an extension i guess they assumed they don't understand english very well) and that's pretty problematic. it seems to me that when they didn't respond the fan assumed they didn't understand and kept repeating it, as a joke. but they literally did That to the two with the most proficient english in the group... it's rly a mess all around. it's disrespectful through and through

(in relation to that gross “d*ddy” incident from a while ago) ik i feel like some intl fans think korea is a land completely culturally and linguistically alienated/divorced from the rest of the world or something and while cultural relativism is real to some extent... the idea that koreans are completely unaware of ~outside~ things is deeply racist. like mostly white ppl think that diasphoric poc are completely Different from them? when my mum went to the states 15 years ago some ppl literally asked her if there were newspapers in china lol...

i just randomly thought of monsta x as sesame street characters mostly bc i wanna see kihyun and wonho duke it out as bert and ernie (kihyun w/ the waste paper bin on his head and wonho asking 'where's the waste paper bin' and kihyun saying 'ask me that again and look into my eyes') and also minhyuk being elmo tbh...

JKGHKJDF PLEASe!!!! when will something like this b photoshopped... minhyuk as elmo is... spot on... i remember once elmo appeared on a now-discontinued late night talk show program i used to watch when i was in primary school and he was like “elmo likes wasabi, that’s why elmo has no eyebrows” and idk why ive never been able to forget this????? very lmh. also this made me think of a monsta x muppets au n minhyuk is the pic of ass-gape kermit.... next post of mine will b monsta x as kermit reaction pics

Hyungkyun is such an under appreciated ship. Like, they just get each other so well? Why do people overlook it. ㅠ.ㅠ Do you have a moment that made you ship them? How would you describe their dynamic?

it’s bc they’re intp x intj they don’t rly... Understand each other with minimal effort/real communication lmao it’s very efficient. both quiet lil darlings who aren’t emotionally That Open but enjoy their own little space together sometimes?? their dynamic is like... they’re weird in different ways but they’re v chill together. u can tell hyungwon is super fond of changkyun like he has this Expression when ck does anything at all.... i think these two rly love each other’s personalities bc they’re both kind/gentle/peaceful types and their overall ?? vibe is just highly compatible... they’re absolute darlings... v soft together... i can’t think of a favourite moment but i rly rly love their birthday messages for each other last year like changkyun’s message for hyungwon was like “ur rly cool bruh ur rly such a great person” and hyungwon’s message for changkyun was rly... just him obviously doting on him n finding him cute jksfdhg i lov them a lot :(

soyou: i know how to make hair pretty :))) knetz: dirty fckn iljin why can't she be out there being being PRODUCTIVE in society by having babies and learning how to be a good wife for her future husband ://// smh how dare she be successful now when i'm stuck doing what society wants me to do but also anonymously attacking ppl i don't personally know on the internet bc THATS respectable the irony of ugly knetz is so transparent

The whole thing about Knetz and wonho's "scandalous" past reminded me of something. As a PSA to those people who are so insistent and pushy that idols aren't allowed to have sex/date/be anything but straight: Fuck all of you. You do not own these people, and if you really cared about them you'd be happy if they were happy. Like tbh, if anyone that famous and busy could also balance out a relationship at the same time, I'd be so happy for them. It really bugs me how all idols are supposed (1/2)(2/2) have this squeaky clean innocent image where they have to look and act a certain way and have these stupid fucking dating bans because once they don't meet up to that image their success suffers. Idols already give up so much privacy, and the last thing they need is millions of people scrutinizing every little thing they do. I don't even know where I started this rant from, but basically, GIVE IDOLS PRIVACY AND DONT JUDGE THEM FOR THEIR PASTS OR FOR BEING IN RELATIONSHIPS OR WHATEVER

yeth ty for highlighting the gross obsession w purity and productivity (like the first anon said -- a very confucian sort of ideal)... i don’t rly have anything else to add here i think. also i would fight for soyou i fact i would fight lmh who said she was his ideal type in no.mercy era... she’s rly one of my faves and the way she was slandered for the hairdressing thing was one of the most ridiculous things knets ever did lmao honestly yuk

u a kihyun stan now👀👀👀

im a @fhiz​ stan it’s the same thing tbh

ahh so i saw your tags on that jh gifset! as one of the few jh stans (or maybe there are way more than i think there are lol) i rly love his "reversal charm." he has a lot of what i lack as a person: a strong presence and a lot of confidence! i respect him so much as a person alth i rag on him a lot LMAO. sorry if this is a bit long winded but i just rly wanted to put this out there ;;

this is rly cute i lov hearing ppl talk abt their faves lovingly it rly... Heals Me. i think it’s strange how underappreciated jooheon is in this fandom especially bc he’s usually the one who catches ur eye first bc he’s so hyped by starship as being a one-in-a-million talented rapper u know? and he rly shines in mvs and no.mercy but............. y does he have the least fansites jkfhdg ?? you’re v right abt the reversal charm thing but i feel like sometimes it’s very overdone like... on lots of shows he’s asked to do aegyo when rly he should be asked to... idk... rap or dance or something?? i actually think jooheon is the most serious member of monsta x sometimes bc he seems to have a sense that he’s.. the pillar of mx if that makes sense? and that’s why he’s always pushing himself and working tirelessly like he feels very Responsible for this group, more than anyone else. idk if that makes sense!!! i love him and i want him to... unwind a bit bc sometimes he looks so stressed and tired but he still feels the need to pretend to be energetic like my heart rly hurts for him :/ this got so emo im sry i do rly love to hear that u respect him sm i love jooheon stans :(

i can see what u mean about jooheon being 1 of the most masculine. (iirc u also talked abt kihyun being that in a post a while ago) like with his face and his physique he really is striking; his body=like that slim,upside-down Y that you'd learn to draw men w/ in Anatomy 101 , but i think.. ,--not that u asked, but,, i think the jury's still out on if he's comfortable w his masculinity with the way he acts feminine lyk misogynistic comedians Can sound like dead ringers for women,? idk & i take +

(not sure if there was a 2nd part to this? there’s nothing else in my inbox so i’m sry if there was and tumblr ate it) yeth i think i meant that his demeanor is the most ~~masculine~~ whereas i think kihyun is still the most... idk... mature-masculine?? if tht makes sense, and i definitely agree w u on that second point! i didn’t think of that at the time but now that i... do... think abt it... ur right and also the way he comes back from it by putting on the >swag demeanor again in an attempt to polarise it is definitely a bit 👀👀👀 he probably doesn’t want to risk his Manly Rapper Image for real u kno? that said it’s ingrained in kpop that behaving cute --> “girly” entails that sort of “comedic” high-pitched voice + compact body language etc.... like i’m not condoning that ofc but i definitely think it’s broader than this particular case! :/ hm

maybe i'd be doing better in school if i could major in kihyunology ;~; i stan him but i def think we still don't know much about him even after all this time after debut. especially when i look at him compared to wonho who wears his heart on his sleeve (bless him i love wonho sm, gotta protect this bun at all costs!!)...but ya it just makes me wanna learn more about him like who is the real kihyun??

i want to write a kihyun meta when i have time... i feel like i Get him a bit more these days but it’s also very hard to put into words bc u kno when u kinda sorta mb get some1 but it’s a feeling rather than anything conveniently expressable gkjdhfjk.... idk if anyone wants to send in some Kihyun Thoughts + Meta feel free! :>> i don’t think he’s actually... as complex as we sometimes make him out to be lol like his behaviour is actually kind of predictable? more on his later

wait is the february comeback actually true? ugh i'm so conflicted cuz on one hand i'm excited if there's really gonna be a full length album, but i also think they need more rest but then there's the matter of getting their first win and idk i'm super psyched but i'm also worried that the boys are being overworked

i still feel like they had a comeback like yesterday lol like looking at their schedules stresses me out bc they do so much..... im glad wonho got to go to his mum’s cafe recently tho! all we can do is have faith in them rn and when it’s time... stream, buy things if ur able to, spread the news and the hype etc. i am definitely Worried abt some things like the competition they’re up against but.... gotta have faith u kno... and i feel like all active idols are kind of... permanently worked very hard but i think currently only jooheon and shownu are a bit Overloaded. also has the date been confirmed yet... it’s february already...