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art-i-know-yes · 1 year

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SPOILERS FOR LIMITED LIFE

also someone drop a compilation of skizz's affirmations

Jimmy's Ep

I didn't watch everyone from last week anyway

5 MINUTES IN

THIS IS MAKING ME NAUSEOUS

me sobbing every five minutes of fear even though i know it's his last

I'm shaking

bdubs is a savior

plz get off the bread bridge it's a single file line

grian's popping off

anytime someone's near the edge I get nauseous

the podcast gets their kills

joel got 2 people

54 minutes

I'm not joking I'm physically sick

...jim...babe...wtf

can't WAIT to see this from Grian's pov

Canary curse continues

dumbest person alive/lh

i hate him/j

awww it's the fact that it ISN'T on purpose not even a bit

AWWW

i love him so

was rooting for him rip

Tango's Ep

"is it a pet"

oh so that was just...there

at the end of this every base is just hung to be flooded

"i think I'm gonna hand back"

seal team ties *falls*

it's panic from everyone

"im...a... perfectly honest person" *side eye*

impulse turns red and was like "im filled with guilt"

scott got the good shots

back to yellow scott

omg my heart. Tango why would you cut like that

Grian solo

bread bridge is carnage

"Yeah my guy I needed that time"

impulse is eagle eyes for those minecarts

bdubs is luck incarnate

sky net is the exact same problem as bread bridge and my mental health CAN'T

2nd kill from bad boys

Grian was farming kills from bread bridge 2.0

there wasn't even a death message

THE LOAF

the silence after

JOEL

it's the silence from all of ties as the do this

scott is GETTING those kills

is skizz out out?!

oh good he's ok just playing his

SKIZZ

tears...beautiful...thunder

down to tie

they're surrounded

bad boys aren't playing

aw joel at the VERY end

a WHAT 30...omg

TIME FOR MARTYN

scott just can't wait

the boom effect

babe said i'll give you time to change that

but they're anyways jumping

fake beds

everyone's so jumpy

"you feel like a dad for figure, I'll take it" "No we already did the soulmate thing"

an exhausted "No! You're not getting a new dead"

then making fun of ties

ohhh so scar was given that kill

oooooo sneaky

"how about Martyn" *GULP*

"because I'm bored"

'safe'

"and a tnt minecart" "oooh"

"me?! im not telling you that"

is that his joel died

Martyn being salty about the glass pane is so funny

ohh that was Jimmy's frantic grab

oh he felt bad

was that the 2nd one

it was

martyn's sneaky this episode

jumpscare

break time to mourn

to be a fly in that discord to HEAR jimmy explain himself

ominous

*sigh* watcher's will be done

did i miss lore last episode

"game on" *death* "game off"

sky net was WILD

like the ground is like nearly unscathed

ok so that's what happened

"bye martyn!"

the mansion was always a massive death zone

i was right! on Joel's death being by the glass

i was so curious about what that was

"im saying it's-spacious"

"don't blame me! i shouted move!"

the carnage is wild

oh he only killed himself

'i could really use that affirmation right now'

why do you want grian?

poor joel

"oh. dear."

'tatters'

oooo joel

SCOTT GOT JOEL OUT

ohh he gained that hour only to lose it

at the beginning of this, even just 2 sessions ago, it was really looking like skizz and scar being the first 2

but we lost 3 and got lore

^^^these three were done the night of^^^

Grian's video is too long for my unfocused self rn and i need to consume different media before i can watch Scott's despite it being short so it's got to be later for them.

Grian's Ep

Scott's Ep

im in mourning already. time to watch the final bad boy.

"what the arrows doing"

THEY FOUND THE BASE

ok well that explains a few things

grian could not let this go

rip the podcast

"maybe" bc it was such a foolproof plan

oh i didn't even notice that he called him jimmy

grian was off doing a solo podcast and just popped off

i love his happy/evil screams

lost about 2-3 hours to the podcast alone but like yeah

it's like every season grian gets one kill that gets him REALLY excited (i almost remember nothing about last life)

bdubs was a real one for that

don't you worry grian

Jimmy's the sadistic one?

oh grian is quick with it

bread bridge mvp

nauseous grian nauseous

"the family"

grian's squealies

idk if i can watch this again *sobs* /lh

it's bc i know that it's cause he stopped crouching that he WALKED OFF

painful every time rip bad boy

grian's cackling is so much fun

AH they put their mourning back on

i love this funeral awww

JOEL

god my favorite part of this server is just when they LOOK UP and you can see all the bridges

back to bigb he's fun

THE DOGS

"AH THE BREAD"

"can you be a nosy neighbor" "You don't wanna be a bad boy?"

"mine are dying or dead"

they are all bad at making allies

time to point and laugh at martyn

good 'ol amnesia cold

he's accepted that Joel is also dying this ep

jimmy dies first, Joel becomes a psychopath--things happen

"if i don't say bye im gonna regret it"

Joel is just like grian you can get this kill

grian-lightheaded lightheaded l- myheart

joel is PLAYING

don't play on the bridge scar

"breathe breathe"

so THAT'S what caused it

omg grian was racking up more than i thought-- that's another hour

it is nice that they were thinking about giving hours for each other

gotta give that update to Joel

"oh scar--force of habit-- joel"

bread bridge 2 is literally the most op

"*gasp* he's got 11 minutes left"

like the moment you left him alone

scar has gotten better at mlp buckets

"im gonna kill pufferfish" "can keep it alive for fun!"

scar bargaining

SCOTT KILLED JOEL 3 TIMES

"im not gonna kill you again you need to survive!"

joel becomes more and more hysterical with every death

"grian it's not going well-" His final words

he wasn't going to do it anyway

he always has. good words good words

bad boy forever at heart

that was a TRUE allyship bad boys till the END

rip bad boys joining the nosey neighbors

(im a bad boy at heart)

he was everywhere this session

scott was a monster this ep

oh so that's where he went

he didn't want that boogie death

scott is so observant

the fact that Scott managed to make so many allies while everyone else is enemies

awwww skizz

therapy but like fun

'stunning, beautiful, jaw-dropping, outstanding'

"i said i was gonna fight but-"

"i wasn't- meaning to!"

it's like the only times Scott has died is because he let them (except for Grian's kills)

impulse's shaky "you are the nicest guy ever"

I think I wanna try to keep count of Scott's kills- i'll be inaccurate though

there's so much happening

they did chase him down

omg god it was everyone

scott is shmovin

just turn it into a challenge arena

"why'd your voice go high Joel" "cause I'm scared scott" that is so funny to me

oh I didn't even notice that Joel killed scar. somehow.

SCOTT KILLED JOEL 4. TIMES. INCLUDING THE FINAL KILL.

9 kills total this ep (i think) 4 of which were joel

that was. a lot.

rip bad boys. so while if Grian wins, it will be a bad boy win- i do not care.

but ah now. i kinda hope the mean gills win. i wonder how lore will happen if Martyn wins. considering last season Scott gave the win to pearl (even if they both technically won bc soulmates)

i also hope ties win.

this, surprisingly, has been like the most loyal season.

tbh i don't care as long as someone i watch wins bc that's a team win. but also very excited to see who wins, even if it isn't someone i watch.

time to watch empires now. so many villain arcs

#you could and should absolutely ignore this #mcyt #life series #limited life #limited life spoilers #life series spoilers #limited life grian #limited life martyn #limited life jimmy #limited life scott #limited life tango

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ao3feed-badbuddy · 8 months

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Cause You were My Boy But Now He's My Buddy

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5v8eJBw by Rose2002 After watching Bad Buddy, I liked the chemistry between Jimmy and Drake. So I decided to write a story about Korn and Wai, while writing up a draft I remembered one of my first ships. FrankDrake and since Frank wasn't in the picture at the time I thought it would be fun to have a crossover between 'Cause You're My Boy' and 'Bad Buddy.' If you have seen Our Sky, there was an episode for FrankDrake/TeeMork. I based this on them going to Uni. The plot of Bad Buddy and Cause You're My Boy will intermix, so if you have yet to watch Bad Buddy, I recommend it otherwise the story will get a little confusing at times. Summary: Korn and Tee have gone through many different phases in their life either together or close by, this time things were going to be different. Their biggest challenge is themselves, as people grow and change, sometimes the person they once were is no longer who they are now. Can they accept the new people they have become or will it be the final breaking point? Words: 2799, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: อาตี๋ของผม | 'Cause You're My Boy (TV), แค่เพื่อนครับเพื่อน | Bad Buddy: the Series (TV), เพราะเราคู่กัน | 2gether: The Series (Thailand TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mork/Tee ('Cause You're My Boy), Korn/Wai (Bad Buddy: the Series), Pat Napat Jindapat/Pran Parakul Siridechawat read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5v8eJBw

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #badbuddy #bad buddy #bad buddy the series

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tilbageidanmark · 10 months

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Movies I watched this Week # 153 (Year 3/Week 49):

So on Monday morning, as I start preparing my "Viewing schedule" for the week, I stumble on a new space documentary The making of JUICE, and two hours later, I already know that this will probably be my most emotionally-rewarding film of the week. It chronicles the final years of development of The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which took off to Jupiter on April 14, 2023. It’s a deeply technical dive into a topic I know nothing about. But it’s absolutely exhilarating - 10/10.

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I really struggled with Scorsese's new saga Killers of the flower moon. It's an indictment against America's original sin, the genocide and dispossession of the ingenious population, and the systemic evil it shows is deeply unpleasant. Had De Nero ever played such an sinister character? His Jimmy Conway was also a ruthless murderer, but he didn't come across as Machiavellian as here.

It's a stunningly beautiful film, but the tragedy should have been told in two hours, not 3.5.

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While waiting for Miyazaki's latest 'The boy and the heron', I caught Castle in the sky, one of the last Ghibli Studio features I hadn't seen yet.

An imaginative retro-futuristic adventure, its drawing style is somehow primitive compared to his later films. As always, many of its themes and tropes were repeated later nearly-verbatim: The old woman pirate who become Ubaba in 'Spirited away', the many fanciful steampunk airships, the strong female protagonist and her sidekick, the magical journey, the beautiful scenery, the ecological destruction, the sumptuous food.

(Unfortunately I could only watch it in the bad English dubbed version).

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From the '30 best mobster movies' list, the classic French Noir Touchez pas au grisbi ('Don't touch the loot'). Cool Jean Gabin is the honorable gangster, a refined, quiet, responsible, thoughtful criminal with an impeccable looks and manners. 8/10.

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3 by German-born French director Dominik Moll:

🍿 The Night of the 12th, a patient award-winner cop thriller that follows an investigation into an unsolved murder. A young woman is burnt alive, and in the quest to discover who did it, quiet dynamics about misogyny and gender roles are being exposed. Reminiscent of 'Memories of murder'. The rural areas outside Grenoble were mouth-watering beautiful. 8/10.

🍿 Moll’s previous thriller, Only the animals, was even a tighter thriller. Like ‘Rashomon’, it tells seven diverse stories that don't seem connected until the very last scene. This one is worth watching without any knowledge about it beforehand; it's so surprising, and shocking, and fresh. My 6th film with Denis Ménochet. Best thriller I've seen for a while - 9/10.

🍿 His earlier hit, With a Friend Like Harry, disappointed me greatly. "Harry" meets an old high school acquaintance at a roadside restroom, and invites himself to stay with the friend's family. Without any clear motivation, well-to-do Harry decides to buy his struggling friend a new car, and as some days go by, starts killing everybody around him, "because they irritate him (?)". It opens with a long grating scene of the three children crying in the car, and continued with none of the characters becoming appealing or interesting. A terrible Hitchcock at best.

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2 about cute French swimming instructors:

🍿 The five devils, My 5th uneven film with Adèle Exarchopoulos. It's a mixed up magical fantasy which is also taking place in the eastern mountainous part of Rhône. At its core, there's a tender bond between a mother and her daughter, and the 10-year-old has a extra-strong sense of smell. But then a slew of confusing subplots emerge. They include pyromania, clairvoyance, disintegrating marriage, supernatural time travel, lesbianism, trances, and what have you. 4/10.

🍿 Sink or swim, my 10th film with gorgeous Belgian actress Virginie Efira. A low-brow and predictable 'comedy' about a depressed group of suburban, sad-sack losers, each with their own midlife crisis, who join a male team of synchronized swimming. Efira is their trainer, and the whole premise is ridiculous, and sloppily-made. 2/10.

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First watch: Vincente Minnelli's turn of the century Gigi. A lame musical about a teenager prostitute school... Sorry, "Courtesans". Hard to fathom that in 1958 it swept all the 9 Oscars it was nominated for! It opens with 70-year-old grandpa Maurice Chevalier singing “Thank Heaven For Little Girls", an ode to 7 year old girls with a sly smile on his face. Disturbingly creepy, it's explicitly about "grooming", or, how to train a young woman to be a mistress. 1/10.

At least it got me interested enough to read about the "Belle Époque", the "Golden Age" era from a century ago, which had so many similarities to our recent past: A period "characterised by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations". And which ended so brutally by some certain historical calamities, the two World Wars…

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Make way for tomorrow, the "Saddest movie ever made"? An old couple loses their home in 1937 America, and none of their five selfish adult children wants to help them stay together. A real tearjerker that may have been the inspiration to Ozu's 'Tokyo Story'.

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“… This land doesn’t seem to have changed much…”

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a symbolic, melancholic Danish painter. Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi is part of the travelogue series that Michael Palin used to host. Palin was fascinated by him, because many of his Vermeer-inspired portraits featured a mysterious woman shown from the back.

He lived mainly on Strandgade 30 in Christianshavn, [which I passed on many times], and painted the interior of his home more than 60 times. Extensive use of Bach's Prelude No. 1. But the documentary itself was not very insightful.

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2 Black Mirror-like Re-watches:

🍿 Melancholic Black Mirror S1, E1, Be right back, voted as "12th greatest TV episodes of the 21 century", an unusually tender story.

🍿 Soderbergh's tight conspiracy fire cracker from last year, Kimi, his nail-biting Covid-19 'Black Mirror'-style thrill-ride. Like Hitchcock's Rear Window about our digital life today. With Derek DelGaudio as the murderous heavy. Terrifying 9/10.

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"Off with everybody's heads!"

A 1915 silent film version of Alice in Wonderland, using faithful costuming to the original John Tenniel's illustrations. Some of the animal characters were creepy.

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Hatchi X 2:

🍿 Hatchiko, a new Chinese remake of the famous real-life Japanese story about the faithful dog, waiting to his owner at the railway station, even years after his death. Adora and I watched the Richard Gere's 'Hatchi' many times. Here, the dog is not an Akita, but a mongrel and his name is BaTong. There's also a scene where he is saved from a dog meat restaurant, just before being made into spicy stir-fry. Very sentimental, with Joan Chen.

🍿 I also tried to watch the original 1987 Japanese original of Hachikō Monogatari, but this turned up to be a insufferable Olde Tyme, super sweet version, and I had to abandon it midstream.

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2 more by The Obama's:

🍿 American symphony documents a year in the life of musician Jon Batiste and his wife, as she struggles with leukemia. I've previously seen five other films that were produced by Obama’s Hollywood company, 'Higher Ground'. But as much I adored him 15 and 18 years ago, this 'heart-felt' documentary was boringly pedestrian. 2/10.

🍿 I devoured Leave the world behind because I always seek realistic stories about the end of our world. It started slow and small, with some highfalutin cinematography and sound edits, surrounding the lifestyle of the upper middle class well-to-do and un-famous. But it quickly lost steam as it turns into a mixed-up conspiracy nightmare, that tries to get all the possible apocalyptic tropes into one giant pot. A generous 5/10.

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The Realest Real, another short parable with Mahershala Ali, about fashion, social media, status. Produced by the Kenzo brand. 2/10.

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Fast Charlie, a new Mississippi/New Orleans crime thriller, with Pierce Brosnan as an aging, omnipotent hit-man, dreaming of retiring to Tuscany. Like a mid-range Elmore Leonard caper with high body count. James Caan's last paycheck.

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"...Wait. Not the homeless person that fell down the stairs?..."

What does it say about me that one of my favorite romantic comedies of late is Long shot, and that I've seen it probably 10 times, including last month, and that I felt 'forced' to watch it again today?

The Boys ll Men groove is how this movie appeals to me. But it's so well-done on every level. 10/10.

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Nahum Gutman and his world, the only documentary I could find about the greatest Israeli painter, my childhood’s hero. But the banal voiceover gave the most incomprehensible gibberish analysis for the visuals: Worst Art Talk ever!

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

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absolutebl · 2 years

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My 10 Favorite Aggressive Flirts in BL

Sparked by this question from @yousaygoodbyeandisay and the ensuing discussion. So we are going with aggressive flirts, not necessarily good or super successful flirts. Ready? These are my personal favorites, there are A LOT to choose from.

1. Wen Ke Xing - Word of Honor

Signature moves? Waving around a big deadly fuck-off fan, calling his husband soulmate and perfect, recognizing the innate beauty in swords and shoulder blades, adopting adult children, killing everyone and everything else.

You know I don’t ordinarily mention Chinese stuff, but in a post about flirting. I would be so remiss if I didn’t include this absolute king of all the censored flirts to ever pick up a deadly man in a pastel robe.

2. Win - Until We Meet Again

His signature moves? The casual arm throw, stripping down to show his tattoos, cuddling, stealing a potato chip in the most iconic way humanly possible.

3. Shin - Minato’s Laundromat

Signature moves? Cooking and feeding, looming, constant requests to be allowed further intimacy and care duties, open displays of attention and interest.

4. YooHan - Color Rush

Signature moves? Causing his man to faint, learning about and talking about color, using said knowledge to seduce, lots of dates, breaking him out of conversion therapy mental hospital, running away with him.

5. Nosue-san - Old Fashion Cupcake

Signature moves? Pretending(?) he doesn’t know what a flirt he is, collecting women, using girly voice and cuteness, wistful need for pancakes, three piece suits.

6. JaeYoung - Semantic Error

Signature moves? Teasing, the ultimate gentle bully, appearing in all classes, being hyper good at art, all the pretty angles, running off the competition, seme subscription service.

7. King - My Engineer

Signature moves? Texting, seduction through nerdiness, calling himself cute, learning how to communicate with an extreme introvert, love = plants, drunk kisses.

8. Jack - HIStory 3 Trapped

Signature moves? Cooking and feeding his man, deep conversation, matching horny for horny, giving up his whole life to go legit for his cop bf, knife play.

9. Forth - 2 Moons 2

Signature moves? One night stands, hazing freshmen into courting doctors, pouring a water bottle over his bare chest, glaring, really good kisses.

10. SeoJoon - Too My Star

Signature moves? Human puppy, innate fragility, personal hygiene demands, enthusiasm, fluffy sweaters.

OTHERS FROM KOREA

DaWoon - Blueming Signature moves? Take his picture, bring him coffee, get his movie made, pet his hair, get him into bed ASAP.

KiJin - Behind Cut

RoA - Love Class

Wild Dog - Long Time No See

SangHa - Mr Heart

Jung Woo - My Sweet Dear

Korea loves an aggressive flirt.

OTHERS FROM THAILAND

Yok - Not Me Signature moves? Taunting and verbal repartee, drawing his man nekid, artistic bad boy eccentricity.

Tan - Manner of Death Signature moves? Cuffs, lesbian u-haul action, adopting children (plants, youths, local malcontents), shooting bad guys.

Ming - 2 Moons franchise Signature moves? Brutal honesty, direct communication, openness about feelings, winning the hotness contests.

Mark - Gen Y Signature moves? Showing off, grad romantic gestures, lots of gifts.

Pat - Bad Buddy Signature moves? Sniffing shirts, taking off his shirt, teasing and taunting, more shirt stuff.

Jimmy’s character in Vice Versa Signature moves? Hot/cold, questioning lines, direct requests for affection that cannot be trusted.

Sky & Intouch - Secret Crush On You

Pukong - 2gether

Neo - 3 Will Be Free (trained flirt)

Kaow - Brothers

Nuea - Cutie Pie

Vee - Love Mechanics

Pitch - Golden Blood

Vegas - KinnPorsche

Pure - My Gear and Your Gown

Fame - Make it Right

Bbomb - Nitiman (very gentle version)

Solo & Kao - Oxygen

Kong - SOTUS (maybe)

Na - Tonhon Chonaltee

Mayom - What Zabb Man

San - You’re My Sky

Prin - With Love (you thought I forgot about this one, didn’t you? yeah I’m the only person who watched it)

whatever the fuck is going on with My Secret Love, Our Days, Paint With Love, Loveless Society, That’s My Candy, Y-Destiny, Close Friend, War of Y.

OTHERS

Naoya - Mr Unlucky Signature moves? Consistent pursuit, kiss first ask questions after, devout sincerity, stripping down for “exercise.”

BoXiang - H3MODC the BL that shall not be named

LiCheng - History 4

Yuki - Plus and Minus

Mark - Love is Science?

Art - Rainbow Prince

Nat Nam - You Are Ma Boy

Younger seme + old uke inevitably yields up extreme flirting because of the power imbalance.

Reluctant/tsundere seme + needy uke, however, usually also results in flirting but this kind:

Desperate & Crazy Flirts

Prime examples? LuLin in My Esports Genius Brother or Nampu in Top Secret Together or Yi in Coffee Melody. Intouch in UWMA, Fiat - TharnType 2, Don’t Say No.

A lot of these are aggressive autonomous ukes forced to undertake seme role by the narrative.

Bully Flirts

These are usually tsundere semes or all powerful semes (CEO, spoiled rich kids, bosses, mafia, etc) face with extreme tsundere ukes.

Prime examples?

Gu Hai - Addicted Signature moves? Ultimate pigtail pulling, all the pranks. Moving himself in, climbing into bed with his man, kidnapping.

Sib - Lovely Writer Signature moves? Cohabitation, acting like a couple in public, calling baby CUTE constantly, switching linguistic registers, slightly sinister.

Kiyoi - Utsukushii Kare Signature moves? Calling his bf disgusting or gross, ordering him around, demanding attention, demanding honest love, watch me lose my mind over this glorious BL here

There are quite a few other bullies particularly out of China and Taiwan, they should probubly get their own post, but they mostly fall into whipping boy. Also I might throw in: Fighter in Why R U?, Tharn and Type in TharnType, Rio from Pornographer series, Gui from Takumi-kun, HooTing from H3:MODC, Kamol in Unforgotten Night, Kinn in KinnPorsche, Athip in What Zabb Man.

CODICIL

This is a long post. I probubly won’t keep it updated because there are so many already. If you have one you want added, mention in a comment.

Otherwise, this is fixed as of Aug 2022. Not responsible for flirts who come after.

Devil Judge not included.

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k-white · 2 years

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Ok considering quite a few people are doing it I wanna do a "currently watching", "rewatching", "anticipating the most" too so here it

Currently Watching (order is based on the number of episode i have watched) its gonna be mostly generic opinion not too spoilery cuz if I went in the specific of the show this post would be as long as a freaking book cuz I have the ability to write too much:

1. Vice Versa ep.1: this just started 2 days ago, I really liked the first episode the pacing was good, the acting was good, the cinematography and the colors were stunning and the story really intrigues me cuz I am a suker for supernatural teamed BL's, also I am really happy that Sea has a main role, I really like him since 55:15(watch it it's such a good series not BL but it has amazing plot acting and characters) wich marked the start of my love for him (and Pawin but he is not in this show so lets move on) so I'm exited to see how it develops, also OhmNanon always stunning, Jimmy is a snack, I cant wait to see Neo and Victor was a beautiful surprise not gonna lie

2. Oh! My Sunshine Night ep.2: I like this, its a bit slow paced but still enjoiable, I really like Rain he is probably my fav out of the bunch at the 2 episode we shall see later on, I really enjoyed his interaction with Payou, Fluke still amazing like always and I am really liking Kim with his antisocial cold akward interactions he's cute, I feel tho that there are too many caracters and at the moment the screentime is a bit unbalanced.

3. Even Sun ep3. Well... its bad I am not gonna lie, it feels like a huge commercial for beaches in Thailand with BounPrem as MC and it did make me wanna travel to thai islands, back to the story tho its very confusing and this is due to the script wich is scattered and unfocused at best, and the translation errors that are a huge amount so much that sometimes you canto even understend what a character means, the acting is fine our boys are doing the most in my opinion but I also like Mek's actor, overal i am sitting trough this cuz I really missed BounPrem in a main role and am anticipating Between Us so much

4. Sky In Your Heart ep5. ok I still have to watch the latest episodes and its tied to my opinikn on the show, and it's such a booooring show its not interesting I don't like how the characters act, especially Fah, the acting is nice and the visuals are pretty(scenary a la ATOTS wich was the reason I was exited for this show) To be fair I was already pissed with Star In My Mind and i didn't really like the last 6 episodes of that show but I was expecting more from this since the trailer, sky between the 2 was the one I had some expectation for but was disappointed the most by. I'll finish it just cuz its very short and the episodes are not that long but I probably wont enjoy the ride.

5 Mama Gogo ep.6: I FREAKING LOVE THIS SHOW(not BL eaven tho the cast is mostly composed by man) its so funny, light and holesome and over the top with the characters and the interactions and its so amazing it brightens my day, but I already knew from the trailer that Id love it, all the characters are amazing and unique and each one is having their spotlight and they are so funny especially Drake's charcter, Earth's character and Lee's character also I really like Annie she is a bad Bitch and she knows it

6. My Seacret Love ep7. I really like this show at the moment is my comfort show easy simple not too dramatic with lovely characters and relationship the problem au to this point got resolved preatty quikly with good comunication wich I really appreciate and I like the development the characters had since episode 1... exept for Tim I don't like him his so wishiwashi with how he acts you dob't understand his motivs cuz not even him understand himself and he takes his best friend and his feelings for granted never reflecting on his own making it unberable for him.

7. Astrophile ep13. (again not BL) last show and the one I am almost done with cuz its relising bi weakly. I like it its more on the dramatic side compared to other shows on this list(tho the most dramatic one I watched latly is Triage and that is on a compleatly different level cuz its so good) back to the series, I like how they show how women get treated by the work industry and how the pressure from family can break a person life making them the sole sorce of income amd how it takes a tol on them, there is also kind of a love triangle wich I dont like personally but its very mellow and it only makes you simpatize more with the second leed(our beloved Off), Kim the protagonist is a very lovely lead both i character and in visuals(mister Bright hellow) also First is in this and I am a huge suker for him since Not Me(I practically binged the series his in)

This are all the series I am watching at the moment, for the ones acrually reading this you can see that there is no Unforgotten Nights and Love mechanics or Check Out wich are the most poluar ones at the moment but I am not one bit interested in eather of those for different reasons for UN its the same reaso as KinnPorche(wich I have not watched maybe one day ill sit trough it and start it but not at tis moment) and that is the mafia plot line wich I am not a fan of at all and you can say I am too sensitive and that its only a show but its my life i decide what i watch must be something I am sure I am gonna enjoy and mafia stories are not it, you can pin it on me being Italian and being tought to stand against it but still I am entitled to my opinions.

Rant aside, maybe I will update this in the future but I am not sure, I also have no idea enyone is eaven interested in this

Series I am rewatching.... none I have bearly the time to watch the ones airing at the moment with my work skejule imagine rewatching a hole show, none the less the one I am planning on rewatching is: The Umbrella Accademy wich is neather thai nor BL but its one of my favourites show of all time and I wanna rewatch all 3 seasons together, other than that I wanna make myself suffer cuz I wanna rewatch Together with me(only that no bad romance nor next chapter I refuse to go trough both of those messess I dont hate myself thanks) cuz I kinda miss thos 2 idiots Korn and Knock

Ok series I am exited to watch. Lets start with the ones that have a release date wich are just a couple

1. War of Y: so exited for this one the story seems very interesting, with them bringing the dark side of BL to light with 4 different stories and 4 different couples, tho I am scared they will all have a sud ending lets cross fingers to me beig paranoid

2. Love in the air: I'll be compleatly upfront for this I have not watched anything from Mame, no TharnType, no Dont Say No, no Love By Chance(tho I dont know if LBC is in fact written by Mame i havent check I am lazy) so take that I will be going in to this story completly blind, I havent watched the other shows cuz the I didnt loke the plot the interaction and the characters it was too problematic for me but this one sems to have potential even tho the plot written on Mydramalist was kinda cringy but the trailer sparked my interest so we shall see

Now for the ones that still have no date od release(this ones in no particular order)

1. The Eclipse: just the cast would be enough to make me watch this show( HELLOOO First, Khaotung, Neo, Pawin, Louis and AJ like yess take my time and my soul) if you put in also a cool and dark story with a élite school that seems to be killing its students and maybe a time loops I am sold

2.The hole Midnight series by GMMTV so Midnight Motel, Moonlight Chicken and Dirty Laundry all 3 trailers sold it to me with story and cast

3.basically half of the shows in the 2022 borderless from GMMTV I will not write them all down its too much take those four aspecially the eclipse cuz off all its the one I am most intrigued by

4.Wish Me Luck. Na and Fiat in a main role??? YESS PLEASE its about time(que in falsettos song) they gave this boys a main role and not just a support one they deserve it

5.Transplant. just literally discovered this first of all existed, cuz I dont keep up with Thai novels cuz I have 0 access to them, and its the sequel of Manner Of Death and its connected with Triage! ( I love Sammon she is my new Godeess with her connected universe with cool couples and bad guys) and its just been unnounced as MaxTull new project!! exited

6.Make a Wish anothe Summon story with doctora and angels with our boy Fluke Natouch

I am done!!! this was a lot of work to write and nobody is gonna read it LOL, still it was fun to do it and put on "paper" what I was thinking of this shows i am watching an shows i wanna watch hope someone find this eather usefull, interesting or funny

I hope you all have a nice day and until the next post stay healty amd hydrated kisses

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spacedykez · 2 years

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people have already done these but my empires 2 species headcanons:

gem - sun phoenix. forget butterfly wings i will be tumblr’s one phoenix!gem truther forever. joel - minor god of the sky, has gotten on the lore god’s bad side. is trying to remedy that. scott - fae (spring court) sausage - fairy (katherine’s s1!empire style) jimmy - rattlesnake hybrid (cow’s cool but GIVE MY BOY VENOM) lizzie - cat (she was cursed, that’s why she hides) katherine - fae (summer court) fwhip - goblin shubble - I AM UNABLE TO IMAGINE HER AS ANYTHING BUT A GNOME. I’M SORRY. but elf would be fun too (crystal cliffs) pix - god of time. he’s the same person as s1!pix but he doesn’t remember who he is. i haven’t decided why yet. false - ender dragon hybrid (i don’t care what happens in canon i will treasure dragon!false) pirate joe - i haven’t been watching him but axolotl/guardian hybrid could be fun. or siren. mermaid joey please.

half of these are fic ideas but shut. take them.

#empires smp #the otter splashes

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viledictorian · 2 years

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Alex the Lion.exe

I’m a total Madagascar fan much like everyone else. I like the newer shows, but I don’t mind watching the classics. I don’t think I’ve ever watched glitchy or pirated movies before, though I don’t think I want to watch any after the experience I had…

It started on a nice summer afternoon. I was watching madagascar 2 ( My favorite one) until I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in my mailbox as usual and left. I paused my movie as i got to the (Sexy) Moto moto scene, a name so nice you can say it twice, to go see what I got in the mail. The only thing in the Mailbox was a CD case for computers and a note. I took it inside.

I looked at the note first and realized it was from my dear friend Dr Blowhole (let’s just call him that), whom I hadn’t heard from in 2 weeks. I know that because I recognized his handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Dr Blowhole was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what he wrote:

BOB JIMMY

I can’t take it anymore, I had to get rid of this thing somehow before it was too late, and I was hoping you’d do it for me. I can’t do it, he’s after me, and if you don’t destroy this CD, he’ll come after you too, he’s too WILD for me….

Please BOB JIMMY, destroy this god-forsaken, or whatever respective belief you have, disc before he comes after you too, it’s too late for me.

Destroy the disc, and you’ll destroy him, but do it quick otherwise he’ll catch you. Don’t even play the game, it’s what he wants, just destroy it.

Please…

dr blowhole

Well, that was certainly weird. Even though Dr Blowhole is my best friend and I haven’t seen him in 2 weeks, I didn’t do what he asked me. I didn’t think that a simple gaming disc would do anything bad to him, after all it’s just a game right? Boy, was I wrong about that…

Anyway, I looked at the disc and it looks like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written “ALEXTHELION.EXE”, and it was much unlike dR blowhole's handwriting, meaning that he must’ve gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When I saw “ALeXTHELION” on the writing of the CD, I was actually excited and wanted to play it, since I’m a a BIG Madagascar fan, as ive said before. this franchise is my religion.

I went up to my room and turned on my computer and put the disc in and installed the game. When the title screen popped up I noticed that it was the original Madagascar game, I was like “Awesome!” Because like I said earlier I liked the classics. That quickly turned to a realization of dissapointment when I remembered that I didn't like the madagascar game. The first thing I noticed that was out of place was when I pressed start, there’s was a split second when I saw the title image turned into something much different, something that I now consider horrifying, before cutting to black.

I remember what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black; The sky had darkened, the title emblem was rusted and ruined, the Dreamworks logo where the fisherman sat was now instead a man hanging from a noose, and the clouds had turned red.

But the freakiest thing that was in that split second frame was Alex, his eyes were pitch black and bleeding with two glowing red dots staring RIGHT AT ME, and his smile had stretched wider up to the edge of his face. I was rather disturbed about that image when I saw it, though I figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it. After it cut to black it stayed like that for about 10 seconds or so. And then another weird thing happened, the save file select from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 popped up, and I was like “WTF? What’s this doing in a Madagascar game?” Must've been some bootleg port. anyway, then I notice something off, the background was the dark cloudy sky of the Bad Stardust Speedway level from Sonic CD, and there were only three save files. The music was that creepy Caverns of Winter music from Earthbound, only it was extended and seemed to have been in reverse. And the image for the save file where you see a preview of the level you’re on is just red static for all three files.

What freaked me out more was the character select, it showed only Marty, Gloria and to my surprise, the penguins! Now I was sure that something was up, I mean, where was Melman for crying out loud? Though I wasn't too sad, I hated Melman

That’s when I realized that this wasn’t a glitchy game, it was a hacked game.

Yeah it definitely looked hacked... Ok. I'm sorry. But Melman f*&king sucks, and before I continue, I need to get this out. Melman contributed almost nothing in the first movie. Hes a paranoid whiney weirdo and I hate giraffes. Hes some r/niceguy in the sequel. And his best moment was in the first movie where he stuck his head in a clock and said "Guys, were running out of time."

Anyway, yeah it definitely looked hacked it was really creepy, but as a smart gamer, I wasn’t scared (or at least I tried not to be), I told myself that it was just a hacked game and there’s nothing wrong with that. Anyways, shaking off the creeped out feeling I picked File 1 and chose Marty and when I selected and got started. The game froze for about 5 seconds and I heard a creepy pixelated laugh that sounded an awful lot like that Kefka guy from Final Fantasy before cutting to black.

The screen stayed black for about 10 seconds or more, then it showed the typical level title thing, except the simplistic shapes were different shades of red, which is weird because this wasn't a sonic game, and the text showed only “Centralpark zoo , ACT 1”. The screen faded in and the level title vanished revealing Tails in the Central park zoo like in the original game the music was different though, it sounded like a peaceful melody in reverse. Anyway I started playing and had marty start running like you would in any of the classic Sonic games, what was odd was that (like I said before) THIS ISN'T A SONIC GAME! As Marty was running along the level there was nothing but flat ground and a few trees for 5 minutes, that was when the peaceful music started to lower down into slow deep tones very slowly as I kept going.

I suddenly saw something and I stopped to see what it was. Melman, decapitated, and strung up like a museum exhibet. Marty had a shocked and saddened look on his face that I never saw him have before. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Naturally I assumed it was some kind of mod, when I finished processing what I saw, I started lauging. Laughing with joy and sadism. "YES!!! HE'S DEAD!!! WORTHLESS COWARD!!! AHAHAHAHHA" I cackled, sounding like the green goblin. Not the cool one by willam defoe, the stupid one from the original cartoon. When I calmed down from joy, I had marty move along, and he kept that worried look on his face. As he kept moving I saw more dead animals as Marty moved past them looking more and more worried as the music lowers and he moves past more dead animals, I was shocked to see how they all died, they looked like somebody killed them in rather gruesome ways; a squirrel was hanged on a tree with what appeared to be his entrails hanging out, a bunny had all four of his limbs torn off and a duck had his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. I felt kinda hungry when I saw this massacre and apparently Marty didn't. He was sick to his stomach. While I'm here, I gotta ask, is it normal to feel hungry when watching animals eat other animals on animal planet? It's not a sexual thing I swear, it jut works up my appetite. I mean, yes I'm into vore but what does that have to do with anything? Anyway, after a few more seconds there were no more animals and the music seemed to have stopped, I still kept Tails- I MEAN MARTY to continue.

After a minute passed after the music stopped, Marty was running into Alex's enclosure and then he stopped, it wasn’t until the cutscene started that I saw why. Alex was there on the other side of the screen with his back against Marty with his eyes closed. I was pretty expectant of what would happen. I played the original madagascar game and the cutscene should play now. But something different happened. Marty looked happy to see Sonic- I MEAN ALEX. but then his smile faltered, obviously noticing that Alex wasn’t responding to him, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of Marty’s presence. "Alex?" Marty asked as he started walking slowly toward Sonic, and I noticed that I wasn’t even moving my keyboard to make him move, so this had to have been a cut scene.

Suddenly I began to have a growing feel of dread as Marty walked closer to Alex whilst calling out his name to get his attention, I felt that Marty was in danger and something bad was going to happen. I heard faint static growing louder as Marty was but inches away from Alex and stopped to stick his hand out to touch him. That foreboding feeling in my gut was growing stronger and I felt the urge to tell Marty to get away from Alex as the static grew louder.

"Alex?"

Suddenly in a split second I saw Alex’s eyes open and they were black with those red glowing dots, just like that title image, thought there wasn’t a smile. When that happened Marty immediatly turned the other direction and sprinted. "OH SUGAR HONEY ICE TEA!" He shouted. the screen turned black and the static sound was off.

It stayed black for about 7 seconds and then white text appeared forming a message, saying, “Let's get Wild!”

At this point I was creeped out, I didn’t want to continue with the game, but my curiosity got the better of me when I was taken to a different level with the level title now saying " WHo's the cat.”

This time I was on the Madagascar Island level from the original game and it looked like everything was on fire.

Marty looked as though he was scared out of his wits this time. He actually looked at me and made frantic gestures to me as if he wanted to get out of the area he was in as fast as possible. I was starting to get freaked out by this…I mean Marty was actually breaking the fourth wall, trying to tell me to get him out of there.

So I pressed down on the arrow key as hard as I could (Cuz Im a pc gamer) and made him run as fast as he could, a pixelated version of that creepy theme when you meet Shadow at the ARK as Robotnik from SA2 was playing as I made Marty trek through the desolate forest, trying to help him escape from whatever he was trying to run from.

Suddenly I heard that creepy laugh again… that awful, Kefka laugh… right after 10 seconds have passed as I helped Tails run through the forest, and then I started seeing flashes of SoAlexnic popping everywhere on the screen, again with those black and red eyes.

The music changed to that suspenseful drowning jingle as I see Alex behind Marty slowly gaining up on him, FLYING! Alex wasn’t running, he was actually FLYING! The chase scene looked just like the original movie's chase scene when Alex tried to eat Marty, which is when I realized what was about to happen. The black and red eyes of this demonic predator looked more crazed and hungry then any typical EXE. His eyes bulged with lust and hunger as he gained speed.

This time he had the most deranged looking grin on his face, not like he looked as though he was enjoying the torment he was giving the poor zebra (played by Chris Rock) as he gained up on him. but as if he were starvingly rampant for his flesh. He couldn't wait a second longer for his lunch.

Suddenly Marty tripped. I screamed at him to get back up, but the controls stopped working. the music stopped and Alex vanished. Marty laid there and started crying for 15 seconds. The scene was rather upsetting to watch and I kind of teared up myself. I loved Marty, he was my second favorite zebra. But then the music was replaced by some strange inaudible. it sounded kind of like laughter. but it was slow and distorted. I thought this was another scare, but then I started making out letters.

"G"

I listened intently. This could be an important code to remember. My years as a furry- I MEAN FNAF FAN, taught me that. I made out:

G I J CANT H 2 C IT

I tried to write these notes down until I had a realization. As soon as I percieved what this meant my head snapped back to the screen.

"G.I JANE, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT."

The laughter continued.

"MARTY NO" I screamed. but I quickly shut my mouth when I heard the roar of the audio. It was hard to make out, but I knew what it said.

"KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!!"

As soon as the audio ran it's course, Alex reappeared in front of Marty in a hunched over position glaring into Marty.

Blood started to come down those blackened eyes of Alex's ghastly face as a grin slowly grew from his face as he looked down at the horrified horse, I could do nothing but watch.

Just in a split second Alex's eyes rolled to the back of his head becoming all black like a shark, confirming my fear of what Alex's intentions were, and lunged at Marty. But he didn't bite into his neck like I thought he would. He slapped him across his long face right before the screen went red, there was a loud screeching noise that only lasted 5 seconds. The text returned again, repeating the message by the audio.

"KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!!" and then that god-awful laugh came with it.

I was so shocked by what had happened…did Alex slap the Sh*t outta Marty? No, he couldn’t have… He and Marty are supposed to be best friends, right? Why did Alex do that to him? Thena dark thought entered my mind.

Did Will Smith possess Alex the Lion?

I shook the shock off as I was brought back to the character select, the save file that had Marty was different Marty was no longer in the box itself but in the TV screen itself, which was flickering with that red static, Marty wasn't Marty anymore, he was a steak with stripes on it's sides like in the movie. So alex did kill him. Which can only mean,

That he slapped so much goofy outta him that he died.

Trying to ignore it I picked Gloria next.

The laugh came again and the screen cut to black again and stayed there for another 10 seconds, this time the level said “You know how hard it is to be a terrifying demon when you possesed Alex the goddamn Lion?"

I was really freaked out by now, I couldn’t really tell if this was a joke, or a hack, or some kind of sick twisted shitpost… or anything really. But despite my fear of what happened next, I kept playing.

The next level looked much different, it had the ground of manhattan, but the sky background looked like the main menu; it had the dark reddish cloudy sky. But it was the music that creeped me out the most: It sounded like Giygas’ theme right after you beat Pokey in Earthbound. A game you probably only heard of because of F&*king undertale. I also noticed that Gloria looked afraid just like Marty did, though not as much, more rather he looked a little unnerved. He broke the fourth wall just like Marty and sans and deadpool and the animaniacs and Monika and the Oneshot main character and sonic sometimes and bill cipher and discord and Abed. And looked as if she wasn’t sure about going on, but I made her move anyway.

She ran down the straight pathway in this dark level, and as she did the screen started to flicker red static a couple times and then that maddening laugh came again.

( I copypasted the sonic exe story and edited it. Knuckles and Gloria are different genders so I have to corret every pronoun. This is how im spending my day. I should be finding a job.)

Then after a few seconds of running I notice several bloodstains on the ground, I felt a growing sense of fear again thinking something horrible is going to happen to Gloria. She looked nauseated walking down this blood-stained road, but I still kept him going.

Suddenly as Gloria ran, Alex appeared right in front of her with those black and red eyes and then red static appeared again, when the static vanished showing nothing but black screen with text saying “Darn you all to heck!”, I was now scared, Alex found Gloria already?! What was going on?!

Anyway red static came again and then I was back to the level, Gloria looked like she was panicking, and Alex was nowhere to be found. And this time that high-pitched squealing from the Silent Hill 1’s final boss was playing.

Was this some kind of boss battle with Alex? I hoped to God it wasn’t, honestly.

Suddenly, Gloria punched Alex straight in the face and he went flying into a car. I didn't control her, but I ignored that for I was lost in the shock and hype of what just happened. It was like a cutscene. Gloria then charged toward where Alex was. Alex was getting back up, stumbling. His eyes widened when he saw the extra THICC hippo charge him straight through the car and into the building. "YES!" I cheered. Gloria seemed keen to avenge Marty, and I wouldn't argue with her. Chris rock is my favorite actor.

I mean, Will Smith is okay, he's been in great movies but I always preferred funnymen like jack black. Although I never really was into celebrities. My sister grew up with Will Smith. She watched Bad boys 2 when she was like 8. Which is weird because she hates horror movies nowadays.

Anyway, I alway thought that Will Smith overreacted with Chris Rock's joke. I heard of people getting angry over jokes before, but this seemed a little unfounded. even for me. But I was never too interested in the topic because celebrity drama is a big racket for some reason and It rarely ever interested me. This instance was memed about for days and I couldn't exactly escape it. So anyway-

Wait. I missed the fight. My rambling about celebrities made me miss the whole fight with gloria and Alex. GODDAMNIT!

Alex stood mangled and triumphant over Gloria's torn open body. They were in a destroyed version of central park zoo. which means their battle jumped in between levels as Alex tried to manipulate reality to combat Gloria's fury. AND I MISSED IT!!!

F*&K

And then in a split second Alex lunged at Gloria and the screen went black with another distorted screeching noise that lasted for at least 3 seconds.

but I was too bitter too care.

Another text message appeared, “So many souls to play with, so little time…" SHUT THE F*&K UP YOU P&*SY F&*KING LION!

I was brought back to the main menu and this time the second file box Gloria steak in the TV screen,

I shut off the game and took a break. I tried to take a nap but I was too goddamn angry. I beat up my mannequin (By the way I have a mannequin) and went back to my game.

I turned on the computer, turned on the game and selected the penguins next.

I still thought that was wacky, playing as the penguins, but anyway the level title appeared again and this time it said " I occasionally Alex”, which I found really freaky.

This time I was in some kind of forest, didn’t really look like it was from any of the Madagascar movies, it had a 2 dimensional, cartoonish style; the sky was fluctating in textures like a bad television, a dark grayish purple with animated candlelight’s and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen. Every 12 seconds or so that red curtain sways very slowly, but whenever you’re playing the game you can barely see it move. The music was bizarre. kinda jazzy but painful on the ears, but I knew better, this was the intro that played in the penguins of madagascar tv show only it was in reverse.

The penguins didn’t look entirely nervous like Marty and Gloria did, but he did have a suspicious look on their face as if he was just a bit paranoid. They did a little animation when I just left him standing, they turn their heads to the left and then to the right at least twice and then shrugs at me, as if they have no idea where they were or what was going on. Even though I was scared outta my mind about what was going to happen, I had the penguins continue onward. They did their little waddling animation as they continued going through the forest.

Then I stop at a long flight of stairs leading downward, now I was nervous, even the penguins seemed unsure of themselves, though I pressed onward, which would be easier if the CONTROLS WEREN'T UNUSABLE!!!

As I led all four penguins down the stairs at the same time with barely usable controls, I noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. Then we landed onto another hallway, this one was longer than the last one (or at least it felt like it. It's hard to tell when you move like a barely coordinated herd of sheep) and then we head down another flight of stairs down, this one was much longer, took at least 1 full minute.

And then I heard that horrid Kefka laugh agai- (Okay real quick does anyone here know who Kefka is? Their a final fantasy character. because it's more known as the Sonic.exe laugh. just promise me you'll look him up.) then the music slowly faded until it was quiet, as it did the walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now.

When the penguins landed onto the 3rd hallway, I noticed they now looked really creeped out, though he tried to hide it, I couldn’t blame them, I was scared too.

Suddenly, Alex popped right in front of the penguins the same way he tried to with Gloria and then red static. The red static lasted for about 15 seconds and then it showed me a most unpleasant image…

The image showed a hyper-realistic picture of Alex standing in the darkness where you can only see his face while his head and torso faded into black, and when I say hyper-realistic, I mean like he looked so real you could actually see the lines in his mane. As if you could actually feel the fur if you touched the screen.

His face… oh god, he had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen.

And that’s saying something considering I saw that image at the start of the game. Now I knew how mort felt when King Julien sent him to scout him.

His eyes are wide and black and once again crying blood (Which also looked hyper real- you know what I'm tired of that word now. It looked creepy.) And there were two small glowing red dots in those black eyes staring RIGHT AT ME, (Or anyone who would have been using my computer) as if staring into my mind. His grin was wide and demonic, it literally stretched to the sides of his face like a Cheshire Cat except Alex had fangs, VERY SHARP fangs, much like the Werehog’s teeth except more vicious-looking, somewhat yellowish and from the look of it, he had stains of blood and small bits of flesh on his lips and fangs as if he ate some animal. Actually now that I think about, Alex the lion already had fangs before demon Will Smith.

I stared at that gruesome image for a good 30 seconds, never taking my eyes off it, I felt as if he was actually looking at me, smiling at me…that face, it just took 10 seconds for it to etch itself into my brain for good. I wasn't scared tho. I liked the attention.

Then the screen flickered with red static again 3 times, and on the 3rd time I heard the Kefka laugh, honestly it got old. except this time it sounded distorted, demonic even… which it already did considering it was the GODDAMN KEFKA LAUGH

It went back to the image again except this time there was the text again though it was messed up, but it was pretty much one of the most horrifying (And by horrifying I mean edgy) things I looked at since I had this game…

“I AM KING OF THE THRONE.”

It was when I read that message while looking at Sonic when it hit me, I realized right there and then.

This Alex was a monster, a pure evil, sadistic, all-powerful, nightmarish, demented monster… and all of his victims, including Marty, Gloria, The penguins, and possibly Dr Blowhole, (remember him?) which I was kinda okay with, he was a bit of a prick, all were just his little toys, and the game is the very gateway into his chaotic, nightmarish world and the very Hell his victims are trapped in.

I was terrified of a jumpscare, but instead it switched to what looked like footage of a car at night. I was uneasy already, but after 30 seconds, nothing happened. I decided to cautiously stare closer at the footage. Like I said, it was a car in the night, parked at some driveway but my eyes widened when I saw the silhoutte of Alex in the backseat. I could only see the light reflecting off his eyes like a typical cat. I stared at him, but every second I did, panic swelled up inside me, begging me to do something, anything. I looked away from his eyes and at the house. I felt like I was in danger doing so. But my heart sank when I realized how familiar that house was. I stared back at the car. He was still in there.

"WHAT THE F&*K!" I screamed. This was live footage.

This was my neighborhood.

This was my house.

I felt l was gonna have a heart attack.

All I could say in a barely comprehensable whimper was.

"Alex the Lion. what the hell are you doing in my car?"

#madagascar #shitpost #I worked too hard on this #sonic.exe #alex the lion #madagascar memes #moto moto #creepypasta #creative writing #chris rock #will smith #chris rock slap #long post

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jojotichakorn · 3 years

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not the enchanté trailer making me depressed because it reminded me bb is ending in less than 2 weeks, since it's taking over bb's friday spot 🙃🙃🙃

but I think I'll give enchanté a shot tbh (because I'm kind of a sucker for stories where a person is looking for love but it turns out it's been in front of their nose the whole time in the form of a friend that's been helping them find that love, which is what the story seems to be based on the trailer) I mean, I'm gonna need to fill the void on fridays anyway so I may as well watch it and see if I like it

speaking of new series, are there any other 2022 ones that you're looking forward to, based on the trailers? (any you definitely plan on giving a try?)

we are truly almost done with bad buddy, and boy oh boy is it kinda sad 🥺 i will definitely be giving enchante a shot because of gawin but also because i love pining. it's like one of my favorite tropes.

as for the series that are supposed to come out in 2022 and i am interested in, i'm definitely gonna be trying star and sky (because i love chen and the entire cast tbh, and the premise looks interesting - i love when people are reunited after some time passes - in certain cases - and this seems to be one of them), never let me go (seems really cool, plus it's jojo's work and it's truly the type of genre he does best in my opinion), vice versa (the concept is kinda interesting and i need jimmy to play someone actually likable now gjfdklgjkfdg), moonlight chicken (p'aof as the director, jojo as the screenwriter, earth and first in the cast - truly, what's not to love?) and 10 years ticket (ohm's work - no explanation needed). there are probably a lot more that i'm going to sort of casually give a chance to without any promises, but these i'm likely to seriously watch and liveblog when they come out. thanks for asking!!

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liamscxtt · 3 years

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a day in the life ; self para

when: thursday, august 28th

where: literally everywhere

nb: just a brief (long) narrative of what the typical day looks like for liam.

trigger warnings: homelessness, death and drug mentions, drug abuse

5:00am

there’s a moment when you first wake up when everything is just a haze. a moment when you forget who you are, what day it is -- all of your problems just don’t exist, for that moment. the moment only lasted a few seconds before the blaring sound of the alarms coming from the phone bring you back to the brutal aspects of reality. and yet, those were the best five seconds for liam.

groaning, he turned over and tapped on his screen, desperately trying to shut the alarm off; the bright screen burning his already sleep deprived eyes. he probably only got about three hours of sleep, if that. he was used to it at this point, and then there were days like today. days where he wanted to wither into the depths of his own self-loathing.

he looked out the window to see the sun beginning to rise. a sky painted with shades of blues, purples, and oranges, almost like a messy yet somewhat neatly put together painting made by a middle schooler. there was something beautiful about waking up with the sun, parts of it that brought him peace. his sister loved watching the sunrise - she always went on and on about how sunrises were the true underdog; how mother nature picked it’s most beautiful mixture of colors for the sunrises, all because it took a special person to appreciate the beauty that came from it. he never really understood what she meant, until he was forced to watch the sun rise every single morning. and as always, she was right. sunsets had nothing against sunrises.

these quiet mornings were the best part of liam’s day. the hours where he felt most connected to his sister and to himself. the hours he felt truly at peace. it was crazy to think that liam’s favorite time of the day was between 5:00am and 6:30am.

he turned on his car to play youtube on his aux before climbing out of his vehicle. the sweet melody’s of the soft pitched tunes filled his car and the immediate area surrounding it, and a smile creeped on his face as one of her favorite songs began playing in the background. he wasn’t religious, but there was a part of him that truly found strength in knowing that his sister wasn’t far away.

he rolled up the worn down mattress topper, collected his pillow and blanket in one hand. he broke down his bed as he pushed the backseat of his 2006 ford escape upright and neatly tucked his belongings into his trunk.

5:30am

he pulled into the vacant parking lot of the soulstice gym. the gym was set to open in a half hour; luckily for him, there weren’t many college students that would dare to wake up at the crack of dawn just to work out. he stuffed everything he needed to get ready for the day into a duffle bag; shower supplies, and a clean outfit. he desperately needed to do laundry, and he needed to get food...but pay day wasn’t until next week. he was gonna have to find cash, and find it quick - maybe he’ll just pick up another shift at the bar. he practically lived at that place now.

his footsteps echoed through as he walked through the empty fitness center; not even the cleaners had arrived for their early morning shift. he quickly hopped into the showers and get ready for the day. lord knows he needed to wash the dirt and sins that painted his skin from the previous nights festivities. he couldn’t even recall what exactly happened, and that was both a blessing and a curse. it was shortly after he turned on all the lights and greeted the early morning cleaners, jimmy and george.

“good morning, son!” greeted george.

“mornin’, will.” jimmy greeted shortly after.

jimmy and george worked closely together, and were usually gone for the day 2pm; and yet, liam knew the guys quite well.

jimmy is in his early-forties, married with two children. he worked two full time jobs to get his children through school. his son played division II baseball at a school somewhere in the midwest, and is majoring in sports education. he wants to be a gym teacher. his daughter is studying to be a nurse at monarch. she aspires to work in women’s health. jimmy always spoke so highly of them two.

george is in his mid-sixties, but is still kicking it like he’s twenty. he’s also married with children and even grandchildren, but his story is more tragic. he’s a retired firefighter, who is still working a full time job because his pension wasn’t enough to make ends meet. can’t make ends meet. his only daughter passed away at a young age - drug overdose, he says. his only son is constantly in and out of jail for drug charges - leaving george and his wife to take care and raise their two grandchildren, layla and michael. layla is 14 and is getting ready to start high school. she loves to play volleyball, and apparently is a natural. michael is 9 and is getting ready to start fourth grade. he love cars, spider man, legos, sonic, and baseball cards. he wants to be a youtube gamer when he grows up. liam didn’t know the kid, but he thought he was fucking awesome.

two completely different stories, and yet liam believed that those two men deserved the world and then some.

“what’s up, guys?” liam greeted with a smile as he filled up his metal water bottle at the nearest filling station. “when are the kids set to go back, george?”

“this coming monday. mikey’s already complaining how he doesn’t need school to be a youtuber. apparently he’s ‘done his research’.” the comment makes both liam and jimmy laugh.

“tell the little man to put that energy into a sport, or a trade. i need a new mechanic.” jim jested, once again causing the other two to laugh. “what about you, will? getting ready to start the semester back up? gabby is already stressing because some of her professors already posted the syllabus.”

“shit, i haven’t even gotten my textbooks yet. i might have to join mikey with this whole youtuber plan and hope for the best.” liam said with a nervous chuckle. he almost had completely forgotten about the upcoming semester approaching.

to quickly divert the question away from him, he spoke once more. “say, george. i found a few baseball cards at the bar the other night. remind me to bring them in for you.”

“you’ll make that boys entire week. maybe i’ll use that to bribe him to go to school.”

jimmy just smiled. “you’re a good kid, scotty boy. never change.”

2:30pm

it had only been a half hour since liam clocked out from his morning job, and he quickly made his way over to the library. the mention of school that morning brought liam into a panic. he grabbed a spot at one of desks in the computer station, powering on the device and pulling out his notebook. luckily enough, most of the textbooks he needed the library had available. leaving his stuff behind, he went to go fetched them.

he already had mastered the technique of not having his own textbooks. every week, he would go and scan all of the chapters he needed for each and every class. luckily, monarch offered free scanning and printing. he made small talk with the librarian that sat at the desk nearby as he printed out at least three weeks worth of chapters for each of his classes.

he sat down once more, and took the time to put the pile of papers neatly into his binder. it was time to start planning.

6:30pm

now it was time to work his night time job, mars bar. he was working with adrian tonight, so he knew it wouldn’t be that bad.

his stomach had been grumbling half way through his shift. he hadn’t eaten anything all day. but he continued to push through. he had to, at least until pay day. he continued to chug water; if his stomach was full of water, his body didn’t have time to remind him that it needed some sort of nutrients. he was a master manipulator when it came to his own body now.

1:00am

the rounded out the tips that he received from his customers. it was a good night, and luckily enough he would be able to do laundry the next day. his body was tired, though; aching from the lack of sleep and abuse his body endured from the festivities. he felt like he could sleep for an entire month, and then some.

he drove around for a bit after his shift, a thing he did as he needed to both unwind and find a somewhat safe space to park his car. university police were patrolling the parking lots that night, which immediately told him not to park there. he couldn’t park in greek row - too many people he knew by this point. he was left to park in a nearby park, in a nearby neighborhood. he found himself saying a small prayer that nobody would mess with him that night.

he lit up a joint once he found his place, feeling the smoke fill his lungs as he listened to the calming music that played on the radio. ed sheeran was playing, a song from his multiply album. it was one of his and his sister’s favorite albums. that’s the one thing they shared in common, their taste in music. but she was more pop in a sense, and he was more edgy. but still, the music brought him comfort.

he got his bed ready; a mattress topper, paired with a pillow and a blanket. he made himself comfortable and looked at his phone, just to see he missed a text from his mother at 10:45pm.

hi honey! spoke with your aunt today, and we’re making plans for christmas. did your father reach out to you? let me know what plans he has set. i’ll arrange my trip around your plans.

i hope you had a great day! i love you! ❤️

her message was followed by a bitmoji image of her holding a huge heart. and he smiled.

i haven’t spoken to him all week, but i’ll reach out tomorrow and let you know. i’ll call you tomorrow. love you ❤️

there was a huge part of him that wanted to call her now, that wanted to tell her he had been struggling both physically and mentally...but then he remembered the damage and the financial burden his injury left. it ruined his family. he ruined his family. and just as he was about to press call, he let out a frustrated sigh before locking his phone and tossing it not too far away from him, rolling over to attempt to get some sort of rest.

just to do the same thing. all. over. again.

#𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦: self-paras #p: a day in the life #don't @ me #this is long af #and it sucks #????: self-paras

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svtntntn · 4 years

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part of your world (1/2)

the little mermaid!au

inspo: the little mermaid, both the disney version and the classic fairytale but make it somewhat similar and different at the same time

you long for life above the surface and get your wish when you make a deal with the infamous witch of the sea

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“(y/n), there's a reason why all merpeople are banned from going above, from breaking the surface and going on land." Seungkwan fiddles with the end of a seaweed fiber as he follows after you. "We wouldn't survive there, it's dry and hot and nothing good ever happens when we set tail on land!"

"Those are just rumors, Seungkwan! For goodness's sake." You circle around the vacant ship and slide between the broken wooden panels, entering a decaying room flooded by the water. You begin rummaging around the bedroom for what you can scavenge, finding all the interesting knick-knacks you can hide back home.

"No they're not! I heard it from Hansol, who heard it from Mingyu who heard it from Yugyeom and Jungkook! They know someone who went to the surface and didn't come back! And they couldn't even tell anyone what happened! Nothing good comes from the surface, (y/n)."

“There’s tons of cool things that come from the surface, Seungkwan! Just look at this rectangular box! It lights up and plays sounds!” You press down the white button along the side and the instrument begins to glow with its diamond gem at the top, muffled sounds creating small bubbles. "Granted we need to be above to hear it better—but this is just one of the many things that are up there!"

“(y/n) put that away!” Seungkwan pushes your hands down and cautiously glances about, “we’re not allowed to be in possession of land instruments.”

You continue to let the music box play, making up your own tune as the bubbles rise from the machine. “Imagine what your father would say if he saw you with that!" Seungkwan angrily whispers as you hide the music box in your satchel. “Besides, all the humans do above the surface is litter the seas with their trash—they're killing us, (y/n)! They do nothing but pollute, pollute, pollute!"

He wasn't wrong.

Your father had to take extra precaution with the sudden pollution among the eastern coast of the kingdom, the new influx of treacherous toxins poisoning the merpeople and their children.

"I'm sure they don't mean to do such a thing." You circle around the room before going to another, jimmying the closet doors open and peering inside.

Seungkwan frowns as he hovers in the center of the room, cautiously fluttering about with his arms crossed, "you don't know them well enough to know that."

You oppose, "and neither do you." Swimming over to the adjacent desk, you gently pull on the drawers, finding small trinkets cluttering the bottom alongside wilted parchment paper. Underneath it all, you find a sterling silver necklace gleaming behind a murky photo, a star pendant with various etching along the back's center.

The photo pictures a trio of land people—a woman with two younger children in front of her, both boys with their faces pulled into wide smiles. Their clothes in the photograph look worn and stained with something unusual, their hair sorely grown out but they look happy and content… they look normal.

They don't look like the monsters, not at all.

Your heart aches as you look closer in the photo, noticing a bright spot between the lone woman's collar bones, the blip shining like the star in your hand.

"(y/n), can we leave now?" Seungkwan moans, "we have to go otherwise we're going to miss your father's ceremony."

"Oh no! How could we miss such a thing?" You gasp in fake surprise, tucking the necklace and the photo away in your satchel before exiting the ship.

"I swear, (y/n). It's a wonder that you're still your father's favorite daughter." Seungkwan shakes his head as you two swim back within the kingdom's limits.

"And it's a wonder that you're still my favorite of all my father's assistants," you rebuttal back with a smile.

“Come on, Seungkwan! Please! You can be my lookout.”

"I'm tired of being your lookout! I refuse to be your lookout any longer." Seungkwan pouts as you rise to the surface, the merman's eyes raising in alarm as he scrambles after you. "(y/n)! You have to stop doing this! Your father has reprimanded you once already for your land collection, you—"

"Seungkwan, don’t you want to know what it’s like on the surface?" You sigh heavily. "Don't you want to want to go about and discover what's out there?"

"Don't you want to know what's like living above?" You break the surface and dreamily collapse on a lone rock, the sun warming your skin as you scan the nearby beach from a distance.

"(y/n), what if they see you? Get down!"

"Oh shush, Seungkwan, they're not going to see me," you wave off.

Two lone figures lay on the sand from where you watch, one immediately spiraling up to the tune of music coming from the second one's guitar. The first one's movements cut through the air and flow like water, the duality of the motions amazing you as the musician plucks the strings with ease.

You feel your friend nudge you in agitation, “oh stop, Seungkwan! I just want to see what they're really like, is that too much to ask for?” Your eyes continue to focus on the heavenly figure, watching him dance along the shoreline with ease till the other figure joins him, his mouth open in song as they prance to the opposite end of the beach.

They make the use of their two legs look so… easy. To be able to bounce and jump and move with ease? With two legs?

What was that like?

You glance down at your own tail, the array of scales neatly shining a brilliant blue color as the sun beats down on them. As you dip your tail back into the sea, the scales blend in seamlessly with the water, with the cerulean ocean waves, with those of your kind.

Seungkwan pokes at your tail with his finger, splashing you with water using his own tangerine-colored tail.

"Okay okay, let's go." You roll your eyes and dive back below the surface, half-heartedly listening to Seungkwan's heated warnings about the land people for the millionth time. The warmth of the sea is different from that of the sun, it's comforting and yet all too familiar at the same time, reminding you of your safety, of your status as one of the princesses of the sea, as a mermaid down below.

"(y/n)? How many times are you going to break your father's rules?" Seungkwan calls out to you as you break the surface of the water, swimming in the direction of the ship before you.

"I'm not breaking them—I'm just…"

"Y-you're what? Not abiding by them? Just to see surface people up close?" You ignore him once again as you come close to the edge of the ship. "(y/n), now is not the time for this. You heard your father, you heard the council; there's a bad storm coming tonight and it's safer to be at home."

You watch the sailors celebrating all around the ship, raising their glasses in celebration and entangling themselves in a merry circle and dancing to their hearts' desire. You take another glance at the dark sky, the clouds blending in with the night and hiding the unknown danger.

"But they don't know that. I could try to help them somehow, tell them to go in another direction away from the storm. We can't just leave them to weather the storm alone, Seungkwan. It wouldn't be right."

"(y/n), you shouldn't interfere like this." You pull yourself up to the side of the ship, carefully peering onto the deck as you duck behind one of the many wooden bars.

Your eyes catch on a man sitting on the staircase close to you, watching the rest of the sailors dance merrily with a soft smile. His dark eyes are enticing, and yet they look troubled. Many of the sailors stroll by and invite him to come to the middle of the deck but he shakes his head and declines till another figure stops in front of him.

"Soonyoung! C'mon you need to relax, we're on track to return to shore in the morning," the man confidently wraps an arm around Soonyoung as he sits next to him, offering him a cup of liquor from one of the shipmates. The man's eyes sparkle from the lit torches around the ship, his wide smile catching your gaze. "If there's someone who should be sulking here, it should be me, not you."

Soonyoung takes the cup possessively and puts his lips to the rim, drinking a small amount till he pulls back, wincing from the strength of the liquor and keeping his eyes locked on the crew. "I'll never understand how you could just sit by and let this happen to you, why your parents are so intent that you marry someone else to rule your own kingdom." He swishes around the drink in his hand as you notice a nervous bounce in his leg, his hand slightly tremoring as he holds the cup. "Since when did you need a wife to become king?"

This man was a prince? Of the land?

The prince shrugs, "It's more for our kingdom’s tradition… for politics, really. My parents want our people to be able to trust two figures at the top, not just one. It's like a check and balances but for public image… for our people to know I have a heart, to know that I'm not some soulless dictator or some loser."

You find yourself agreeing at the sentiment, knowing that in due time, you were responsible to find someone to marry to take on the crown. It was tradition, it was within the rules to marry once you were of age to take the crown. The pressure to find someone of royal blood to marry and be with forever was daunting and yet it was the very same position this prince was in.

"You're not a loser, Chan." Soonyoung affectionately tussles with Chan's hair, "you're a royal loser." He runs off with the drink in his hand just as the prince shouts back, chasing after him with a smile.

"What happened to warning them?" You hear Seungkwan mumble begrudgingly, "all I see is you making googly eyes at the prince."

You can feel your face go warm suddenly at Seungkwan's statement. "I-I will! I need to figure out how." Your eyes scan the ship and you notice a bell on the opposite end, the length of the rope connected to the ringer long enough to grab from the side of the ship. "There! I just need to swim over to the other side and ring the bell to warn them."

Seungkwan squints to find the exact bell you're talking about, noticing how high you still have to get to the end of the rope, "Don't get too close, (y/n)."

"I won't get too close, promise." You swear to Seungkwan, diving back into the water in earnest.

Okay so, this was definitely breaking that promise.

You're wrapped around the man you first laid eyes on as he helplessly falls deeper and deeper into the water, his eyes shut closed while less and less air bubbles come through his lips.

Wreckage from the ship continues to drop all around you, the abundance of wood and ropes and metal all creating a dangerous maze for you to maneuver yourself and Soonyoung around.

You notice another body weakly falling in the distance as you almost reach the surface, "Seungkwan! Help me! Get the prince!" You point in the direction of the drowning prince, your other hand busy wrapped around Soonyoung's waist as you push to the ocean's surface. You and him break the surface and you fight to keep his head above water as you begin paddling to shore, the thunderous rain pouring down on you and challenging your vision.

Seungkwan follows behind you, struggling with the prince and muttering curses under his breath before reaching the shallow end of the beach, his tail now giving himself a hard time bringing the prince to shore.

The moment you drag Soonyoung along the banks of the beach, all the aches and pains in your muscles melt away and you can't help but want to stay. The sand melts between your fingers as you claw your way up the shoreline, dragging his body as best you can without hurting him.

The clouds along the shore are a faint gray, wisps of white delicately painting the sky amongst the pale blue haze. You already know it already must be close to dawn from the warmth of the sun slowly rising from the sea, the rays bathing the man before you in an orange glow.

His eyes are completely closed as you hover over him, drinking in the sight of an actual person from the surface. You trail your fingertips along his face, feeling the soft skin as you carefully lay your head on his chest to listen for a heartbeat. You can't help but feel goosebumps ripple on your arms as you hear a faint thump in his chest, ignoring your racing heartbeat in favor of his own.

"He's so beautiful, so surreal." You whisper to yourself in awe. Soonyoung's face suddenly tightens and he shouts in pain, calling out for someone whilst his eyes remain close. Seungkwan hurries you to quiet him before you do the only thing you can think of: singing to him.

You murmur a soft melody in his ear, tenderly stroking his forehead as his pain slowly subsides and he drifts off back into unconsciousness, looking more peaceful and at ease than before.

"The prince, (y/n)." Seungkwan yanks the man next to you as you copy the same actions from before, checking for a heartbeat before examining him closer. His eyes slightly open and droop back closed as you hear his heartbeat loud and clear, his pulse strong in your ears.

You take a moment and stare among the wreckage that washes up to shore next to you, moving a broken plank to prop their heads up as to avoid the incoming waves of water.

"(y/n), you did the right thing... They're going to be fine. We have to go back." Seungkwan tugs your arm and quietly nod, pushing yourself back into the sea and away from those you rescued.

The prince groans again in pain and flickers his eyes open, noticing your face hazily before the residue of the saltwater forces his eyes closed. "Wait, come back!" He sits up and haphazardly tries to rub his eyes quickly but the moment he opens them, you're gone.

Seungkwan and you you hurry back behind a slew of boulders and rocks half-covered by the seas as you hear men rush down the shoreline and flock over the prince and Soonyoung, gingerly waking the latter and bringing him to his feet.

Your heart melts in earnest as you duck below the water, waiting for someone to wander back looking for you with open arms, but you sigh at the reality of the situation. Turning back and entering the water, you miss the way Soonyoung looks out into the ocean before letting the guards guide him and Chan back to the castle, entranced by the voice that saved him.

"Are you coming with me or not?” You grouch at Seungkwan, who apprehensively follows behind you with a nervous look in every direction.

"Y-yes, but I don't think you should be doing this (y/n). The witch is known for her trickery, you might end up one of her prisoners or something! I don't feel good about this." You feel Seungkwan's hand tighten in yours as you approach the cave, "i-is the witch in there?"

"N-no, no one is here." You're alone in the dark cavern, a wave of icy, cold water surrounding your body as you swim towards a single orb of light set above a lone stack of stones.

The closer you get, the colder you become, your skin alive with goosebumps trailing all over your body. Even your scales harden, the protective layer feeling something unsettling in its wake.

"What brings you here, lonely, little princess? Get lost on the way to the coral reef?" A sinister voice mocks you but there's no other bodies except you and Seungkwan in the cave. "O-or how about exploring your land with your pesky little sidekick provided by the King? Come to take this corner of the seas as your own?"

"(y/n), let's leave now. This isn't right." Seungkwan tugs on your arm but you shake your head.

"No." You grit your teeth together and turn to face the witch at the end of the cave, "I came here to make a deal with you. I heard you can make me like—"

"The people above the surface?" The voice matches the face of the infamous, banished witch of the sea, manically smirking just as your eyes widen in surprise. "Isn't that right, dear? You want to become one of them." Her voice circles about you in a dark, murky cloud, the water chilling your spine. "Trade your beautiful tail for a pair of legs? What would your father say? What would the almighty King say?"

You ignore her attempts to rile you up, clenching your fists tightly and taking a deep breath. "So you can do it?"

The witch rebukes your question with a loud sneer, singing to you, "Of course, I can, but not for free, princess. Everything comes with a price."

Seungkwan tugs on your hand again but you let it go, "what's your price?" You grip your bag closer to you as you peruse what you could use to trade with the witch.

"Oh, nothing in that bag could ever pay, dearie. I just want a little something…" She ponders for a moment, rising above you and circling around the cavern. "Your voice."

"M-my voice?" Your hand immediately touches your throat as if to protect it from harm. You swallow deeply and bite your tongue.

"Tit for tat, princess. Something priceless for something priceless. Unless you don't want a pair of legs to roam the surface, a pair of legs to walk and run and call your own?"

"I-I do… but can I get my voice back at the end of this all? Isn't there something I can do to get it back?"

"Sure sweetie." The witch says dismissively with a roll of her eyes, pursing her lips evilly, "you have eyes for someone handsome, don’t you? A certain prince you rescued days ago? Become queen of the surface and you can surely get your voice back after this is all over." Turning to her cauldron, she pours various liquids and shriveled kelp into the vat, churning it several times over while adding more sickening ingredients from within her cabinet. "I'll give you what—like a month? To get the prince to fall in love with you? You’d complain if I gave you less, wouldn’t you."

You nod nervously as she sprinkles in the finishing touches, reaching deep within the cauldron to pour you her latest concoction. You reach out for the potion but she draws her hand back, "Wait, before you take this, you must sign this."

A scroll composed of seaweed appears before you, line of poetry scrawled on the page in thin, white letters.

a pair of legs you seek, a pair of legs you get

in exchange, your voice

now a simple bargain is met.

thirty days to make a vow

only with a true prince of the crown

become queen among the surface and forever you shall stay

with a pair of legs, your voice will come back as you lay.

"Just know that if you fail to become a queen of the surface, you are forever to be under my reign, princess, under my control. If you choose to sign it at the very bottom, then you have a deal, princess."

Your hand shakes you sign your name with a flourish, the parchment disappearing within a mere minute and the witch’s potion extended out to you in its place.

The potion tastes of thick seaweed, a dark green sludge followed by just a hint of something sweet—is it a nectar of some sort? The thought leaves your mind just as you can feel the mixture deep in your stomach, a prickly sensation carving your insides with tiny little daggers till the pain swallows you whole and your world turns dark.

The world is suddenly so bright behind your eyelids, a blindingly clear sky appearing when you open your eyes carefully. Sun rays beat down on you and you can feel your skin tanning under the bright star, your hand grasping at the ground beneath you to level yourself.

A heavy weight sits on your bottom half, the feeling of numbness in your legs that echos and reverberates through to your feet.

Your legs.

Instead of your singular, curvy tail scaled with your navy blue ridges, you have a pair of individual legs, the scales replaced by smooth skin sensitive to every movement, every hair, and every grain of sand beneath your body.

It takes every ounce of strength to lift one leg, moving your ankle in circles before flexing your foot completely. The pain dulls deep inside your limb as you let down one leg and try to do the same motions with the other, naturally biting your lip in concentration.

The shoreline you lay beneath is all too familiar to you, the view from the sand a picture you've seen before. There's wreckage beside you: broken wooden panels laying about, splintering wood poking up from the sand, torn rope strands and a fraying white canvas sheet meant for a sail. You manage to yank the sheet over your body and wrap it around, using the rope to tie it together as you've seen in photographs of women from the surface.

Your satchel lies on the sand next to you, your land artifacts safe from harm and collected together at the very bottom. You grit your teeth together and slowly work your way up on your feet, a static-like sensation coursing through your legs as you concentrate on moving one foot in front of the other, shifting your weight somewhat evenly.

You're too busy focusing on trying to walk that you don't even notice a figure running up to you.

"Excuse me, miss! Who are you? You're not supposed to be on this beach." The voice sounds familiar as you look up from your feet and immediately recognize the man waving his hand in front of you dumbly.

"Uh, hello? Miss?" Soonyoung's hands are on his hips as he stares at you in disbelief. The moment you try to shift your feet without looking at them, your balance is gone and you grab the first thing you can to steady yourself: Soonyoung.

You reach forward and latch onto him as you lose your footing and he's surprisingly stable, helping you stand on your own as you feel electricity surge through your veins, your heart skipping a beat at the mere touch. "Are you okay?"

You open your mouth to speak but nothing comes out, your eyes falling to your legs as you remind yourself of their price.

"Soonyoung, who is that?" Another figure steps behind Soonyoung and his eyes go wide. "Wait, you look awfully familiar… have I seen you somewhere?" He leans closer to you, staring into your eyes as he smiles from ear to ear. "My name is Chan, I live near here." He scans over the wreckage behind you and your tattered dress. "Are you okay? Are you hurt? Where are you from?" He actively frets over you with many questions, taking your hand in his to scan all over you.

You feel a pair of eyes still staring at you and you lock eyes with Soonyoung again. "This is Soonyoung, he’s one of my closest friends," Chan explains. "Were you on a ship nearby? Are you lost from your friends? Your family?"

You nod meekly and clutch your satchel close to you.

"So you really can’t speak?" He asks again, "do you have a name at least? I mean, I'd call you 'beautiful' but…" He trails off as you hear Soonyoung scoff and groan at the cheesy line.

You notice a broken branch of driftwood and quickly drag it across the sand, managing to write your name in script and pointing to yourself.

"Oh, (y/n)? (y/n)!" Chan grins. "Beautiful name for a beautiful person." His gaze lingers on you longer as you smile and blush. "Uh, why don't you come back with us? We can help you find your family or friends or someone you can stay with…?"

You nod eagerly and loop your arm through Chan's as you two and Soonyoung walk the pathway back to Chan's kingdom, back to where an elegant castle sits a couple feet away from the shoreline, overlooking the bright blue sea. The prince situates you with some of the staff and they whisk you away to wash and clean you of the sand and salt of the sea.

Soonyoung watches as you hesitantly follow the women to one of the many bedrooms in the castle, only trusting them once Chan promises he'll be back soon for you as soon as he can. He observes his best friend rush up to his own room and quickly lay out clothes to change into, especially considering it was nearing evening and he knew Chan would ask you to stay for dinner.

Which would also mean dinner with him as well as Chan’s one and only guest in his castle.

But after dinner, what was he going to do? What was he thinking?

"I've seen her somewhere, I know it. She looks so familiar, I just don't know where or how." Chan mutters aloud, already knowing what he was thinking. "Her eyes, they're beautiful… It sounds stupid, I know I've seen her, I think she rescued us, but... I know I wouldn't forget her if I saw her anywhere else."

Soonyoung sighs as he remembers watching you walking on the beach—or struggling to walk—would be a better word for it. He remembers the moment you caught on his arm to balance yourself, remembering how his skin came alive with goosebumps at the simple touch of your skin on his.

He couldn’t lie to himself, Chan was right: you were beautiful. Anyone with a pair of eyes could see that.

No.

He really shouldn't be thinking of you like this. Chan was clearly taken by you the moment he laid eyes on you and yet, Chan had other priorities to think about.

“Your parents are going to throw a fit when you bring home a girl shipwrecked from the beach and not from the crown.” Soonyoung remarks, "you know they're expecting you to get married before your coronation—and to someone of royal blood."

Chan grunts in response and Soonyoung rolls his eyes. He didn't like reprimanding the prince for his choices, but he was fine days ago when they were talking about his royal marriage for the sake of public image, so seriously—what is going through his mind now?

Soonyoung stops him from exiting the door, "What are you going to tell them about (y/n) then?"

“My parents won’t know that she's from the beach or the sea, because they’re going to think she’s with you.”

"W-what? You—no!" Soonyoung glares at him. "What makes you think your parents are going to believe I'm with her?"

"Because I'm asking you to pretend to be her escort in this matter."

"Her escort? They're going to immediately jump to the conclusion that she and I are—"

"Together," Chan finishes. "Which will give her time to stay here at the palace." He explains, "you're only here till my coronation ball, and that's exactly in one month. Soonyoung, I really want to get to know her. I-I thought I saw her when I woke up from the shipwreck last week, and I can't get her out of my head! I feel like I know her somehow, and I want to figure that out—figure her out."

Soonyoung sighs deeply, his hands on his hips and his lip bitten in thought over what to do.

You couldn't be the same girl who rescued him and Chan last week, there was no way it could be. He’s never confided in his best friend that it was actually a girl with a beautiful voice who saved him from the shipwreck and from his own nightmare come true.

And you couldn't even speak a word.

There was no way you were her.

And given Chan's claim to the throne, there was no way you were going to be his queen, not when the rules specifically call for his queen to be of royal blood.

But if anyone was going to change the rules and prove him wrong, it was Lee Chan.

"Just till the end of the month?" Soonyoung tiredly asks.

"That's all I need, promise." Chan grins widely, eagerly waiting for Soonyoung's confirmation.

Soonyoung laments again with a weary expression, "Promise?"

Chan avidly shakes his head and extends his hand out to his best friend to honor his word, standing tall and proud of himself and his abilities. "Promise."

Soonyoung really hopes he doesn’t regret doing this.

[ part two ]

#Seventeen #seventeen au #soonyoung scenarios #Hoshi scenarios #seventeen scenarios #seventeen imagines #kwon soonyoung scenarios #kwon soonyoung imagines #hoshi au #hoshi imagines #my work

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I never knew how quickly the world could fall apart, not until today.

“Breaking news, an asteroid bigger than the moon is hurtling towards Earth--”

“Scientist by the name of Andy Stevenson invents first ever human compatible exoskeleton--”

“It is said that the asteroid may contain a certain specimen of bacteria closely resembling the organic structure of a virus--”

“Andy Stevenson has made Earth’s first extraterrestrial defense system comprised of fully automated defense robots--”

“An interview with a local from hometown of famous Andy Stevenson is on now- ‘Them killer bots will end us all! That bastard only wants destruction! Heed my warning! He’s crazy! He’ll kill you and your whole fami-’ Well, that’s, um, not quite what we expected--”

“This just in, the asteroid has hit Earth--First contact in Russi--Earth is on the verge of--How will we surv--”

Chapter 1

It has been five years since the asteroid made contact. We now call that event “The Turn”. The supposed virus that was on the asteroid turned out to be deadly, however, not in a deadly kind of way. Once you get infected, your brain shuts down after a couple days, but you don't die. The virus makes sure you don't die so that it can live inside you. If you happen to come into skin-on-skin contact with one, you’ll be infected immediately, but the effects will still take a couple days to begin. It doesn’t control you or anything, it just makes you stand there in a lifeless state, and those who are infected for long enough start trekking along the land, searching for more bodies to infect. Basically the longer you are infected, the more rabid zombie-like you become. However, if you were to get one’s attention, you’d be attacked on the spot.

As for how the world is doing, I’d say pretty terribly. The UN have decided to make designated “Quarantine Zones”. They’re basically huge cities that are protected by fifty meter concrete walls, and within those walls are defense robots by, you guessed it, the “world famous” Andy Stevenson. Nobody really likes him, in fact, most of us want him dead. There’s concrete evidence of shady dealings and corruption within his company, but they ignore these details and secretly kill anyone who goes against them. How do I know? Because that’s how my parents died three years ago.

My parents had a baby boy when they were in their twenties, which happens to be me. They were really outgoing people and they loved me a lot, as I really loved them. My parents always seemed to be fighting for the right cause wherever they went and I wanted to be just like them. They had been put in life and death situations before and lived to tell the tale, but it seems that their luck had run out this time, and I was there to watch it. Those damn robots, said to be for any “alien activity”, turns out that old man was right, they are for destroying us instead. That madman only cares about his wealth.

As for me, I am now twenty-one years old with semi wavy medium length black hair, dark brown eyes, I am about six feet tall, I have a light beard going on and what young hipsters would call a “killer moustache”. I live alone in a one bedroom apartment in the Vancouver QZ (quarantine zone).

Unfortunately, the only way to make some decent money in this place is to work with the government, either in an office job or on duty as an officer. The job ain’t that bad considering the benefits, but it’s still considered working for that lunatic Stevenson. Most people in the officer position praise Stevenson like he’s their god, but there are a few of us here that really hate his guts. It’s only a matter of time before we make a move.

Chapter 2

I started on my way to check in at work when I was caught off guard by Jimmy, a co-officer of mine. Jimmy has light brown hair that was just about an inch off his head and has bright blue eyes. He’s just a tad bit shorter than me, which I nag him about everytime I start losing an argument to him. “Hey Dean! Over here!” he hollered, as he does every morning at work. I get closer to him, “Would it kill you not to yell every time I get here?”

“Hey man, can’t tell me how to be a friend.”

“Right, whatever you say,” I say, trying to prevent him from being a megaphone any longer. “Hey,” I whisper, “Have you seen Kate by any chance?”

“Man I’m telling you, just give up on her dude. She’s way out of your league.”

“I know, I know, but I can’t help but try. Maybe she’ll give me a chance?”

“That is if you even ask her, chicken”

“Don’t taunt me, it’s not like you’ve got a girlfriend. You’re as much of a loser as I am.”

We begin to enter the check in point which is around fifty feet away. In the slight distance we see a metal fence topped with barbed wire, and within that fence was two gates, one lets vehicles in and out, the other solely for people. We go through the gate and check in to work. As we walk into the waiting area I see, out of the corner of my eye, a stunning woman with silky dark hair, deep brown eyes, and the most gorgeous smile. Kate.

She looks beautiful as always, I think to myself.

Just as we settle in, the general shows up. I would talk to her more often if she didn’t look so scary with that scar across her cheek . “Alright then, let’s make this quick. I haven’t had my coffee and am in the need of some serious rest.” she said firmly, nearly everything she says is said in that “hardcore general” kind of voice, it’s another point that makes her so scary.

The general continued to list names of the people in groups and where they were going out to patrol today. “And finally, Dean Wood, Jim Smith, Kate Williams, you’re patrolling the west in sector A5,” said the general in a gruff voice.

Yes, I get to patrol with Kate! I think to myself.

“Hey, we get to patrol together!” Jimmy says, practically screaming in my ear.

“Yeah, woohoo.” I reply, almost too sarcastically. Kate walks over.

“Looks I’m with you guys,” she says in that sweet angelic voice.

“Yeah, glad to patrol with you again” I say.

Me and Kate have spoken to each other quite often, especially while being in the same patrol group, but there’s never really been anything special between us.

“Well let’s get going,” Jimmy says as he nudges us towards the supply unit.

We each put on light, but highly protective, metal gear and hook up high tech exoskeletons which enhance our every action that are made by, the one and only, Andy Stevenson. As much as I hate to admit it, he does make some quality combat gear, plus he does fund the military so I guess I should expect us to be able to use such powerful technology. We also take a couple weapons and ammo with us to ward off or just eliminate any infected we might see along the way. I grab my usual shotgun, long-range rifle (basically a sniper but they won't count it as one), and my trusty revolver. They don't understand why I take the revolver instead of the regular pistol that can shoot more at a time and more quickly at that, but I've always had a special connection to it. My father used to teach me how to use it and it just seemed so cool to me so maybe that’s why. Once we finish gearing up, we head to one of the jeeps and climb in. Sector A5 is about fifteen minutes away, but with Kate here too it’ll feel like just a few for me.

We arrive at the patrol area in just short of the time we would normally. Maybe it’s because of the complete lack of traffic and road laws during the apocalypse. I’ve been in this area once before, there are plazas filled with stores on all sides of an intersection. Just means more places for the infected to be lurking. We get off the jeep and start the patrol. All three of us walk together making sure that we are covering each other's backs. One usually doesn’t see many infected while on patrol, maybe three or four. The highest I’ve seen on patrol is eight. They aren’t too hard to kill, given that you can shoot quite well and can aim for the head, but the more there are the more dangerous the situation becomes. That’s why we go in groups of three, for complete safety.

We start checking inside buildings to make sure none are hidden.

“Let’s split up, it’ll make this much faster,” Jimmy proposes.

“What about the ‘safety in numbers’ thing?” I ask concerningly.

“Yeah, shouldn’t we just stick together and stay safe?” said Kate.

Yes! Kate agreed with me!

“We haven’t seen one infected this whole time, plus it means we can go home sooner,” Jimmy argued, and to be honest, it was a good argument. I did want to go back. The sooner we got back in the jeep, the sooner I could focus on Kate’s beauty.

“Fine, but don’t take too long. And if something happens shoot a flare into the sky. Make sure the flare is red.” I say. We all agree and go off to patrol alone.

I head to a supermarket because I feel it would take the most time. I head inside and start looking around. It’s solely lit by the sunlight outside which gives it a dark, ominous look inside. Nearly all the shelves are empty.

I guess people were getting desperate to survive huh.

As I walk further in, I start hearing some kind of deep noise. The noise grows louder and louder as I go more and more into the supermarket. I turn the corner into a big open area and I see tens, no, hundreds of infected just standing there.

Where did they all come from?

I instinctively take a step back, but my foot knocks over an empty can. It clangs as it hits the ground. One of the turns and looks up at me. I panic and fire a flare into the glass ceiling and start to run. The infected don’t take long to realize I'm there and start to chase me. I rush for the exit and I see Kate at the entrance.

“Hey, are you done in there?” she asks.

“Run!” I yell, “Go, go! Run for it Kate! Too many infected!”

She didn’t seem to understand until she saw the massive crowd of infected chasing after me. She bolted right away and yelled for Jimmy to start the jeep. Jimmy quickly understood and put the jeep in gear. Kate got in and looked at me.

“Come on Dean! Let’s get out of here!” She yells.

“By the time he gets here we’ll be overrun by infected,” Jimmy says.

“We can’t just leave him there.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll start driving just fast enough so he can catch up and we can make it out of here alive.”

“As long as we get Dean.”

They start driving onto the road while I’m running as fast as I can to make it in time.

I have to make it. If I don’t they’ll have to drive off leaving me to…

No, that won’t happen. I will make it.

I desperately try to run and make it to the jeep.

I just need to get close enough for someone to pull me onto the jeep.

The hoard of infected just keeps getting closer and closer, louder and louder.

The jeep is starting to pick up the pace. I need to hurry if I want to make it back alive and well.

“Dean! Grab my hand!” Kate yells as she reaches out to me. “Hurry Dean! There’s a tight corner we have to turn in fifty meters, if you don’t catch up you won’t make it!”

I try to be faster, faster than I’ve ever been. My legs are starting to get tired. My heart is beating rapidly. I’m slowly running out of breath. I run and I run, trying to get just close enough for Kate to reach my hand. I’ve always wanted to hold her hand, but I never considered it to be like this.

I reach out my hand and desperately try to grab Kate’s. I can start to feel the infected trying to grasp me as well, I even hear their hands slipping off of the armor that I’m wearing.

“Jump Dean!” Kate cries. I desperately try to get my tired legs off the ground as one last ditch attempt to save myself now.

Then the jeep turns the corner.

Chapter 3

#story ideas #apocalypse #action #adventure

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phantomofthepairofdice · 3 years

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The Rosscars 2020

Wow. It’s that time of year again, only this time it’s different because it’s on a blog that no one will read! (hold for applause) Welcome to the first annual online publication for the Rosscars (hold for applause while the reader acknowledges how positively droll it is that I combined my name with “Oscars”). Who can forget such indelible Rosscar memories like when Steven Soderbergh surprised us all and won Best Director for Out of Sight or Bill Irwin’s beautiful speech upon winning Best Supporting Actor for Rachel Getting Married?! The Rosscars mean something different to everyone, but we all know that they mean quality choices made by a committee of one schmuck. This year’s Rosscars are bizarre because in an effort to be more like the Academy guidelines, film’s nominated have been released between January 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021. As usual, theatrical windows be damned, streamers are welcome. Of course, I have my gripes. I like categorizing movies by release year – specifically, when they become available to the plain old public like yours truly – not at festivals, limited runs in NYC and LA. Well, the Oscars are still weeks away and I feel like everybody wants to forget about last year and move onto this one that we’re already three months into - So here are my awards for the films, performers, and craftspeople that stood out in a pretty exceptional year for movies even though distribution was stranger than ever.

**A few caveats and guidelines to Rosscar newcomers (which I imagine is just a formality since we all know the Rosscars so well)**

The rules and categories are a little different around here. First, not every category is honored directly. That’s for a few reasons, chiefly that I don’t feel qualified to reward the technical categories properly – I suppose I should say that I feel less qualified to do so than the “above the line” categories. In keeping with the Academy standard, there are five nominees in each category, except for Best Picture, Best Non-Fiction/Documentary Feature, and Best Ensemble Cast which allow up to ten. Every category, save those three, will have the possibility of honorable mentions, because I want to highlight some things that just barely missed the cut. The narrowing down of a lot of these categories was awfully tough.

Nominees are listed alphabetically, and the winners are in bold and italics.

Also, it’s important to keep in mind that I couldn’t see everything (this isn’t a job and it’s still $20 to rent The Father, y’all) and that these are just the opinions of one (self-described) “bozo on the internet.” If you’re a reader and have different picks, feel free to share!

Special Commendations for some things that I want to recognize: • Ludwig Goransson for his Tenet score which is an absolute banger • The costumes of Emma. (Alexandra Byrne), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Ann Roth), and Small Axe (Jaqueline Durran, Sinéad Kidao, and Lisa Duncan) all struck me as exceptional • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross with their scores for both Soul and Mank. Crazy that Pixar is working with the guy who made “Closer” • The cinematography of Da 5 Bloods (Newton Thomas Sigel), First Cow (Christopher Blauvelt), Beanpole (Kseniya Sereda), and A White, White Day (Maria von Hausswolff)

The Rosscars red carpet was, as usual, a bizarre affair. People filed into the theater and it seemed like the only encounters were awkward ones. Vin Diesel showed up in character as Bloodshot, Aaron Sorkin started getting really verbose about what a lovely night it was, and it became clear that most of the celebrities in attendance didn’t read their invitations closely enough to realize that this was not, in fact, the Academy Awards.

Everyone’s seated, and the show is under way. After a medley about the nominees this year by Common and Seth McFarlane that was more corny but clever than it was funny, the first official category is here, and the presenter is none other than... Ross!

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Chadwick Boseman for Da 5 Bloods

2. Matthew Macfadyen for The Assistant

3. Jesse Plemmons for Judas and the Black Messiah

4. Paul Raci for Sound of Metal

5. Glynn Turman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Honorable Mentions:

• Lucas Hedges for Let Them All Talk

• Orion Lee for First Cow

• Bill Murray for On the Rocks

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Vanessa Bayer for Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

2. Candice Bergen for Let Them All Talk

3. Gina Rodriguez for Kajillionaire

4. Amanda Seyfried for Mank

5. Yuon Yuh-jung for Minari

Honorable Mentions:

• Jane Adams for She Dies Tomorrow

• Charin Alvarez for Saint Frances

• Talia Ryder for Never Rarely Sometimes Always

• Debra Winger for Kajillionaire

Everyone loves a montage. The audience gets comfortable in their seats as the video screens start to show a montage of some of the most famous moments from Hollywood’s most magical movies. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers waltz, gliding across a dance floor like two hovering angels. There’s a clip of Leo declaring himself king of the world in Titanic, the flying bicycles in ET, Bogart stares longingly into Bacall’s eyes, and then there’s some scene where Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle from 2010′s Knight and Day. The audience all seems confused how that last one got in there. The John Williams music swells as little Kevin McAllister screams when puts on aftershave. We see clips of Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver, Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia embrace Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, Bruce Lee smoothly declares that boards don’t hit back and... wait... was that a clip from Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet with Seth Rogen? And that’s a clip from What Happens in Vegas... Bad Teacher... Vanilla Sky... Shrek 2... Any Given Sunday... Everyone is flummoxed. The last clip fades out and a sole editing credit appears: Cameron Diaz. The lights come up and there’s some applause, but mostly confused murmurs.

The ceremony has had a bit of a misstep, but nothing it can’t recover from, especially as the next category is announced over the PA, and it looks like the presenter is... Ross!

Best Ensemble Cast:

1. Bacurau

2. Da 5 Bloods

3. Kajillionaire

4. Let Them All Talk

5. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

6. Minari

7. Nomadland

8. Pieces of a Woman

9. Small Axe

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Danny Bilson and Paul Dameo & Spike Lee and Kevin Wilmott for Da 5 Bloods

2. Lee Isaac Chung for Minari

3. Brandon Cronenberg for Possessor

4. Sean Durkin for The Nest

5. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles for Bacurau

Honorable Mentions – a very difficult task to weed this down to five.

• Shaka King and Will Berson for Judas and the Black Messiah, from a story by Kenny and Keith Lucas

• Steve McQueen, Alastair Siddons, and Courttia Newland for Small Axe

• Kelly O'Sullivan for Saint Frances

• Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm for Another Round

Best Actor:

1. Ben Affleck for The Way Back

2. Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Delroy Lindo for Da 5 Bloods

4. John Magaro for First Cow

5. Mads Mikkelsen for Another Round

Honorable Mentions:

• Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal

• John Boyega for Small Axe

• Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah

• Hugh Jackman for Bad Education

• Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson for A White, White Day

We have a break in the action and it looks like Darius Rucker has showed up to perform what he would have nominated for Best Original Song. The crowd is absolutely furious as he starts playing a song that apparently was in Trial of the Chicago Seven. An ocean of sonorous boos and curses overtakes the the once docile crowd. The Rock just ripped his chair from out of the ground. Jane Lynch somehow smuggled in a civil war era flintlock pistol that she’s now pointing at the stage! Suddenly, the crowd unifies around what started as a confident chant of one lone audience member - John C Reilly. It’s growing... Ja Ja Ding Dong, Ja Ja Ding Dong, Ja Ja Ding Dong - it’s like the macabre circus performers from Tod Browning’s Freaks, but instead of chanting “Gooble Gobble” they’re clearly pining for Darius to change his tune to the silly and delightful jam from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Darius, scared for his life, leaves the stage, but here come Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams to deliver the goods. Busy Philips and Michelle Williams burst into tears. Tom Hanks nods in approval. A segment saved by brave artists placating a toxic group of fans... we’ve just witnessed a live version of the Snyder Cut, folks.

Jack Nicholson seems completely unfazed, giving a thumbs up to the camera and blowing a kiss to the next presenter. Coming to the stage is... Ross... again...

Best Actress:

1. Jessie Buckley for i’m thinking of ending things

2. Carrie Coon for The Nest

3. Han Ye-ri for Minari

4. Sidney Flanagan for Never Rarely Sometimes Always

5. Vasilisa Perelygina for Beanpole

Honorable Mentions – these cuts were especially painful

• Haley Bennet for Swallow

• Morfydd Clark for Saint Maud

• Frances McDormand for Nomadland

• Christin Milioti for Palm Springs

• Geraldine Viswanathan for Bad Education

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Charlie Kaufman for i'm thinking of ending things from Iain Reed's novel

2. Sarah Gubbins for Shirley from Susan Scarf Merrell's novel

3. Kelly Reichardt and John Raymond for First Cow

4. Simon Rich for American Pickle from his short story "Sell Out"

5. Mike Makowsky for Bad Education from Robert Kolker's "The Bad Superintendent"

Best Non-Fiction/Documentary Feature:

1. Boys State

2. Collective

3. David Byrne’s American Utopia

4. Dick Johnson is Dead

5. Feels Good Man

6. In & Of Itself

7. The Painter and the Thief

8. Time

Jimmy Fallon has come out on stage to do a bit about the pandemic and watching movies at home. People are just absolutely not having it. He tries not to laugh at his own jokes while doing what I guess is technically a pretty good impression of Dr. Fauci interviewing James Corden as Martin Scorsese (the less said of this impression, the better) on what is or isn’t cinema. The bit doesn’t track and Fallon is absolutely tanking. The producers cut away from the stage to spare the viewers at home from this monstrosity. We see crowd shots of Millie Bobby Brown shaking her head in dismay, Colin Firth is simultaneously grimacing and trying to stave off laughter, Cynthia Erivo is texting, and director Tom Hooper is taking notes for his next film. Corden yells, “Carpool Karaoke! Remember?!” Ron Howard has fainted. This thing is almost completely off the rails.

Coming back to the stage is the next presenter, a clearly embarrassed... Ross! He’s in a total flop sweat, but stumbles his way through a joke about how Fallon should try co-hosting the Oscars with James Franco sometime. There are scant chuckles throughout a crowd that mostly just wants to see who won and go home.

Best Director:

1. Christopher Nolan for Tenet

2. Spike Lee for Da 5 Bloods

3. Steve McQueen for Small Axe

4. Kelly Reichardt for First Cow

5. Chloé Zhao for Nomadland

Honorable Mentions:

• Kitty Green for The Assistant

• Eliza Hittman for Never Rarely Sometimes Always

• Charlie Kaufman for i'm thinking of ending things

• Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round

Best Picture

1. Bacurau

2. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

3. Da 5 Bloods

4. First Cow

5. i'm thinking of ending things

6. Judas and the Black Messiah

7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

8. Nomadland

9. Small Axe

10. Tenet

Accepting the award for best picture is none other than Eve, the cow actor who played the titular First Cow! The audience is enamored with how graceful she looks in her cow gown, and her speech, though indecipherable, is likely simple, observational, and deeply profound for those who speak cow.

Wow, what a ceremony! Hearts were broken, property was damaged, dreams were fulfilled... blood was shed? Damn it, Meryl Streep came in and mugged Charlie Kaufman before absconding with the trophy. Oddly, she’s a previous winner, so the attack isn’t out of need for hardware. People are reading through articles about production on Adaptation for potential motives. Streep made time for a photo opportunity, but remains at large.

I could go on ad infinitum about all of these nominees and winners themselves and why they did or didn’t make the cut, but that’d be better served in a different piece. For now, my thoughts on most of these can be found on the Best of 2020 write-up and over on my Letterboxd. And, as always, these awards can be revoked and redistributed at will, so don’t get too cozy with that statue, Danny Bilson!

On behalf of the RAOGL (Rosscars Association of One Guy at a Laptop), thanks for reading, and stay tuned as we’re establishing a tip line for anyone has seen Ms. Streep or her stolen valor Rosscar. We’ll see you next year. Keep watching movies, and keep arbitrarily quantifying them in terms of subjective quality!

#awards #movies #film #Rosscars

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pppsssyyyccchhhiiiccc · 4 years

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“I’ll feel much better if you let me walk you home.” w jim 😳

jimmy babie 🥺🥺

sorry this took so long! i forgot i had it finished, sitting in my drafts, waiting to be posted.

i debated for a while on whether jim or the reader should say the prompt, but i decided on jim.

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“Oh my god, do you think I’ll hook up with Nate tonight? He’s been flirting so hard with me and he’s definitely into me, he just hasn’t made a move.” Ruby spoke lively about her long time crush.

Truth be told, I haven’t really been “into someone” for a while; at least until I moved to PV. I was a high schooler when my family made the move, which left me as the friendless loner until I met the Masons, Medina and Jim. They were both so sweet and friendly, in fact, it was Medina who invited me to sit with her when she saw I was eating by myself.

I met Jim soon after, electing to be my lab partner in chemistry. He told me what life was like there, about how him and his sister had recently started surfing, and how I was welcome to join them. He was so warm and inviting to me, I couldn’t help but harbor feelings for him that were a little more intimate than platonic.

“Didn’t he stay up all night texting you? Sounds like he’s pretty into you to me.” I affirmed, bumping her shoulder with mine.

Just before we entered the house, Ruby stopped me, placing a comforting hand on my arm.

“I’ll stay by your side, Y/N. I know you don’t know a lot of the people at the party, so we’ll stick together, okay?” She asked with a smile. I nodded, thanking her before we headed inside.

As expected, friends of hers swarmed her, buzzing with different variations of wishes and congratulations on her special day. Surprisingly, she kept her word and stuck by my side, even rejecting those who asked her to dance.

Everyone until Nate, however.

“Hey Y/N, mind if I steal your date for a bit? I promise I’ll have her back before midnight.” He joked, spinning her in his arms.

“It’ll just be for a little while, I won’t ditch you all night.” Ruby promised, looking slightly guilty.

“It’s okay, guys.” I laughed. “Who am I to stop the birthday girl from getting some much needed action?”

Ruby’s face burned, her jaw falling slack as she giggled. “Shut up!” She squealed, playfully punching me in the arm. The two of them stumbled off into the crowd, leaving me by my lonesome.

Could I blame her? No, she’d been into Nate for months without either of them acting on it, which I imagine stirred up some frustrations. Was I now by myself at a party I hardly knew anyone at? Yes I was.

I made my way out to the deck of the house, the fresh breeze filling my nostrils. I grabbed a beer, leaning over the railing and watching the sun slowly slip beyond the horizon. I took a long sip of my drink as the waves lapped at the shore, tinted by the gorgeous shades of pink and orange in the sky.

“Now what’s a gorgeous girl like you doing all by yourself out here?” A familiar voice said from over my shoulder. I whipped my head around to see none other than my favorite boy.

“Ruby just ditched me to go have fun with her boy toy. Just a bummer because she said she’d stick by me, but I’m just glad she’s having fun.” I grinned at him, turning my gaze back to the beach as I heard him pull out more drinks for us from the cooler.

“It’s so beautiful, isn’t it?” I murmured, staring out into the perfectly manicured expanse of the beach.

“It’s gorgeous.” I turned my gaze to him only to find that his eyes were on mine as he spoke, causing heat to rush to my cheeks.

“I still haven’t seen you out on the waves yet, I’ve heard you’re pretty skilled.” I changed the subject, propping myself up on the railing to angle my whole body towards him.

“I’ve been known to be pretty skilled at a few other things, too.” He smirked and wiggled his eyebrows at me.

“Gross, Mason. I’m talking about surfing you perv.” I laughed, pushing his shoulder.

“It’s so amazing out there. You don’t know how good it feels to be riding that wave. Just the feeling of total bliss and weightlessness.” God, I could listen to him talk forever, the way he spoke with such true emotion. But his words seemed to put a damper on him, his eyebrows scrunching as an invisible barbell laid upon his shoulders.

“Think you could teach me? I’d love to be out there with you.” I tried to lighten the mood with my words.

“Sure, I’ve always wanted to pursue charity work.” He grinned, laughing at his own joke.

“Hey! I can’t be that bad!” I pretended to be offended, pressing a solemn hand to my heart. The conversation was flowing now, both of us pleasantly tipsy.

We talked for a while, chatting about everything from the mundane to the wildly baffling enigmas of the universe until I’d become embarrassingly drunk from all the alcohol Jim had given to me.

It wasn’t that he was trying to get me drunk, no, rather that he didn’t know I was such a lightweight.

He told another joke, making me cackle uncontrollably, clutching my ribs as I gasped for air between giggles. My balance faltered as I lost my grip on the railing, tipping over and nearly falling to the ground.

“Woah, slow down there, I didn’t think I was that funny.” He chuckled, helping me back to my feet.

“You are sooo funny, Jimmy! Has anyone ever told you that you should be a comedian?” I exaggerated, slurring my words slightly.

“Yeah, I’ll keep that one in mind.” Jim mumbled sarcastically. He glanced around, noticing it was getting pretty late and the crowd was thinning out.

“Hey, Y/N, you have a ride?” He questioned.

“Well it was Ruby, but she went off to get laid. Can you believe her?” I scoffed, rolling my heavy-lidded eyes.

“Well I don’t want you heading home by yourself. Do you want me to take you home?” He queried.

“I’m perfectly capable of walking home by myself, thank you very much.” I tipped my chin up, speaking in a snooty manner as I crossed my arms.

“I know you are, but I think I’ll feel much better if you let me walk you home.” Jim insisted, placing the new can of beer I retrieved back into the cooler.

“Fiiiinnnneee, but only since you’re so cute!” I squeaked, booping my finger on the tip of his nose. He smiled as we began our walk back to my house.

We stopped at my door, staring at it as I waited for it to magically swing open.

“Oh wait, duh,” I facepalmed as I rung the doorbell, rocking back on my feet as I waited for someone to answer.

“I think you need a key, babe.” Jim chuckled, hardly controlling his laughter at the sight of my bewildered expression.

“Oh shoot! You’re right!” I rustled through my purse, pulling out my key ring and shuffling through the keys I had attached. “There’s so many, Jimmy. We might be out here for a little while, sorry.” I sniffled apologetically at him, my lips forming a pout.

“It’s okay, sweetheart. Here, I can help you find the right one,” He pried the ring from my grasp, biting his tongue to contain his amusement at my struggles. In his more sober eyes, he could only see 2 keys; a car key and a house key. “Why don’t we try this one?”

He handed me back the key that, to my surprise, unlocked the front door.

“Wow, Jimmy you’re so amazing! How did you find it so fast?” I gushed, my jaw dropping in amazement.

“Like I said, I’m pretty skilled at some things.” He winked at me, opening the door further to step inside. He helped me up the stairs and into my room where I unceremoniously flopped onto the bed.

“M’tired,” I groaned, relishing in the softness of the pillow against my aching head.

“I bet you are,” Jim said, slipping off my heels. “I don’t wanna overstep my boundaries, but would it be alright if I used your shower?”

“S’fine, Jimmy.” I moaned, my eyelids heavy as I curled up on top of the covers. “W-wait,” Jim stopped in his tracks, turning towards me.

“Cuddle me first?” I flashed my best puppy eyes at him. He grinned and made his way over to me.

“Here,” He stripped off his t-shirt and tossed it to me. “Take off your dress and put that on.” I got changed and slid underneath the sheets, the clarity I once had bleeding into exhaustion.

I laid my head on Jim’s chest, sighing at his warmth as he pulled me closer. I focused on his heart beat as he started speaking to stay awake and listen to what he had to say, but his words soon became a blur.

He looked down at me and smiled when he saw I was out cold, wrapped around him like a koala. “I’m definitely not getting a shower tonight.”

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this turned out SOO LONG! and i didn’t mean for that to happen! but! i couldnt help but get carried away bc of how cute this is.

#pppsssyyyccchhhiiiccc answers #sojournmichael #cody fern #jim mason #jim mason fluff #jim mason x reader #the tribes of palos verdes #ttopv #prompts #my writing

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This Week in BL

July 2022 Wk 2

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs. Organized by which ones (in each category) I’m enjoying the most.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Triage (grey) Ep 12 - Tol’s turn to fix the timeline - well he can’t do any worse, right? I found this episode a little frustrating, but I still think this is one of the better high concept Thai BL‘s I’ve seen in a long time. I’m reminded a little of Great mMen Academy for some reason (much as I question if GMA is a BL). I’m excited to see howTriage ends, but also glad next one is the final ep. Where Triage falls down, for me, like Manner of Death, is going to be in rewatchability. I think once the element of surprise is removed, there isn’t enough romance holding this show together to make me want to rewatch it. But I think the story is a lot better for having not been that romantic. It’s just I happen to be a romantic at heart.

Love Mechanics (Sun WeTV) Ep 4-5 - ep 4: of course the cheating gf is hurt in a car accident with her rich boyfriend#2 and Vee rushes back to her and then makes eye contact with Mark who he is hurting even more. Because why not MORW PAIN? This whole series is basically a diatribe against cheating and the one honest gay reaps all the punishment. And yet I CAN’T STOP WATCHING. Stupid genius YinWar. Also I do love Poppy turning up, he’s got to be one of my favorite character actors in the BL universe, right up there with Gunsmile. Watching Vee lose everything was cathartic, his family, friends, and Marke are too good for him. He is a lovable asshole tho. I am both delighted and terrified that we have 6 more episodes of this nonsense. Ep 5, why are these cheaters so cute? Because it is YinWar, that’s why. Also I love it when Mark gets his own back against Vee, even if it’s just teasing and standing up for himself. Don’t ask, I didn’t get the bit with Vee’s dad either. Lots of good brother characters this summer in BL. Meanwhile Yawhe is figuring everything out.

Vice Versa (Sat on YouTube) Ep 1 - The meet cute was awkward and I don’t love that. Jimmy (Puen) is lovely, of course. The lead (Lay) is okay, I haven’t fully warmed to him. (Hooray for a butch character! Even if they had to use body swap to explain them. Notice mostly no polite particles?) I like the concept of this show. You know me, I’m big into paranormal and magical realism and skewed reality. I’m engaged with that if nothing else. And then Nanon waltzes in holding a goddamn guitar and I’m mad at the whole universe.

Unforgotten Night (Weds on GaGa) Ep 4 - I am beginning to think we should be calling this show Forgotten Kink rather than Unforgotten Night. Actually, this week was fine, we got a bit more of the side couple, whom I am now officially calling P’Daddy and Baby Boy. Also I may a UFO pun joke. Go me. TRASH WATCH IS HERE!

Sky in Your Heart (Fri YouTube) Ep 7 - How is this show now boring, corny, AND cheesy? Also I’m starting to get bad secondhand embarrassment. And then... the white sponge bath, of course.

Even Sun (Wed iQIYI) Ep 3 - They are pretty, it pretty, that’s it. I’m so bored.

Check Out (Sat IQIYI) Ep 6 - World’s most boring date? Mostly I was just confused by the random English letters on Daonuea’s shirt and wondering if I could get one like it with Thai script (since it’s so pretty). In other news, should I start a vomit trigger warning for BL shows? Why do people throw up so much? We don’t have to SEE it, ya know?

My Secret Love (Sat YouTube Sat) Ep 7 - Interesting that they call GL yuri in Thailand. That’s it. That’s all I got.

War of Y has semi started or something? Whatever.

Oh My Sunshine Night (?) - Ep 1 I managed the first ep without subs but it seems really really sad. I am nto sure I am in the right mind set for this one so I think I will wait until 1. I know if it ends happily, and 2. It’s easier to get internationally.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (Japan Weds GaGa) Ep 3 - currently my favorite show by a land slide. I like everything about it, the questionable content and relationship, the age gap, the characters, Shin’s obsessive staler edgy intensity, the side boy with the terrible hair. The food. ALL OF IT. Minato’s feelings for his sensei are an interesting parallel to Shin‘s feelings for Minato - and explain both why Minato is sympathetic to Shin and dismissive of him at the same time. When Minato admits to his feelings for his high school teacher, Shin final understands Minato’s reluctance, or thinks he does. I feel Minato deeply, he’s sunshine honesty and core integrity does not allow him to outright lie to Shin that he isn’t attracted, which goes up against his ethical scruples around their age gap. There’s an interesting dialogue going on within this show around how seriously to take teenage love and first true desire (simultaneously the most intense of our lives and the most scary for the adults around us) and how it’s belittled by society as a result. I should note at this juncture that the age of consent in Japan is 13, the lowest of any developed country. However, most prefectures also have local "corruption of minors" or "obscenity statutes" (淫行条例) which raise that AoC to 16-18, unless they are in a "sincere romantic relationship" (usually determined by parental consent). Are we going to meet Shin’s parents and large family under this context? I’d really like it if we did. Japan may be reserved in its romances but it usually attacks social criticism and difficult content head on (unlike Korea), so I wouldn’t be surprised if we got this topic grappled with directly. See Japan’s approach to noona romances.

Want to See You (Vietnam YT) Ep 6-7-8 - Far be it for me to say this with our prince of VBL but I don’t think that these leads have any chemistry. Sad, that’s usually not one of Vietnam’s issues. The brother character remains my favorite and a best boy and the only reason I’m still watching this show.

Senpai, Danjite Koidewa! (Japan Fri Viki) Ep 4 - We are halfway through this one, and I’m still not sure if I like it. It’s just too cringe. Also they keep reusing a lot of footage.

Gameboys 2 movie - didn’t drop for me in the USA on gaga.

Love in Spring AKA Spring of Crush (Korea grey) Ep 15-16 - A suitably tragic ending (including an Untamed call back) for all the bad characters and some of the good ones. I liked the psychopath second lead best - apparently my second lead syndrome extends to COMPLETELY INSANE. In the end, this drama was all over the place with uneven acting, narrative, and focus (sometimes it wanted to be a slapstick comedy, sometimes a depressing drama) which meant no one, actors or viewers, took anyone or anything seriously.... AND it’s a bromance. I was left wondering is SalHyung is now code for “they were roommates” in Kdrama historicals but otherwise largely apathetic and unimpressed. Korea, we now know you can do better. Watch Tinted With You or Nobleman Ryu’s Wedding instead: 3/10 not recommended, I don’t know what I’m watching, and neither does it. Full review here.

Gossip

Japan to adapt yaoi Takara Kun To Amagi Kun as Takara-kun and Amagi-kun. Oriyama Nao and Sato Arata will star, and rumors of the leads from My Love Mix-up putting in a cameo. 8 epes. About a popular guy and an outcast boy who secretly like each other, and soon after start dating in secret. Premieres August 18 no word on distribution yet.

Japan to produce The 8.2 Second Rule AKA 8.2 Byo no Hosoku about a boy finding his first love.

Korea’s Kidari Studio to adapt Happy Merry Ending about two men who work with wedding events, grumpy/sunshine pairing.

Blueming is getting a season 2. This is one of my favorites from this year (9/10). I am not thrilled about this decision. It’s the same director as TMS2, and I didn’t like that one all that much. Still, I’ll probubly watch it. I’m very intersted in where Korea goes when it’s given enough rope to hang itself with.

Next Week Looks Like This:

I think Coffee Melody is to start tomorrow on Viki? (Pavel my love!)

NOTE: There probubly will not be a weekly update next Sunday from yours truly. I have a busy week of remote work (with the meetings and the deadline) and then a (cough cough) college reunion thingy. So yeah. Don’t think I’m dead, okay?

This week’s best moments?

Can’t lie, I’m a big fan of the boyfriend sniff test.

I feel this in my bones... or shoudl I say stomach?

Sing it with me now... jealousy!

And a meeting of the Marks. (I used to think War & Mark looked A LOT like each other, but now I really don’t anymore). I hope Mark IRL really is really in Love Mechanics. I love him so much. He’d make a great boyfriend for heartbroken rich boy Nuea.

(last week)

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