#i love one (1) dingdong

[onesleep-twopie]

It's missing Jack Zimmermann hours

[octofaewrites]

Octofae’s Fic List™️

All of my works can be find here:

I write for a variety of fandoms, so here we go - fandoms include: Bleach, Pokémon, Winx Club, and a few others!

Bleach - IchiRuki

Series

Masaki Lives! AU

Bleach, but Masaki was the parent who lived instead of Isshin.

The Noodle Saga

Crack Series involving Ichigo pining away for Rukia while Renji is trying to protect his captain’s dignity. (He is terrible at it.)

The Mystery of the Rukongai Crater

Paranormal Investigators, but make it Hallmark!AU

Conversations with the Future In-Laws

Hypothetical scenarios where Ichigo & Rukia talk to their future in-laws.

IchiRuki Month

Collection of works for IchiRuki Month

IchiRuki Week

Collection of works for IchiRuki Week

Stand Alone Stories

Performance Review

Three Casual Acquaintances™️ start a podcast as they try to solve the mystery of the sudden death of a neighbor in their swanky apartment complex.

Operation Christmas Play

Ichigo is trying to be romantic and Urahara has the connections.

Bleach - Others

Ready, Set, Caw….?

Renji/Orihime - jokefic written for a friend! Two dingdongs try to make cookies and a random crow keeps trolling them.

Through space and time, my love belongs to you (Chapter 1)

GrimmIchiRuki - Rukia is getting married to Grimmjow and Ichigo is sad because he’s hopelessly in love with them both - his life is surely over… or is it?

This story is a multi-author, round-robin project for GIR weekend!

Other Writers: kleinegirl87, AiTsuki97, Mako_After_Dark, AriadneKurosaki

Pokémon -

Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl

Merry Mishaps

Dawn, Lucas and Berry decided to exchange presents. Their starters do a bad job of being helpful.

No pairings - Written for the Pokémon Winter Wonderland Zine 2023

Pokémon: Legends Arceus / Diamond/Pearl/Platinum - VoloKari

Series

Somewhere over the Sea

The Pirate AU that no one needed or asked for.

Conversations at the Company Water Cooler

Idiot coworkers in a situationship and too dumb to admit they’re dating.

Sweet Like Honey

Friends with Benefits™️ who are benefiting across Hisui.

As the World Falls Down

Angsty Soulmate AU, where I don’t let them be together.

Volokari Week

Collection of stories I did for Volokari Week 2023

Stand Alone Stories

Déjà Vu - I’ve just been in this Place Before

I want to be cool and do a reimagining of PL:A; I’m just not cool.

Time Won’t Fly (Dead Dove - MIND THE TAGS)

Akari not in a good place.

Doll (Dead Dove - MIND THE TAGS)

Akari is not having a good time. Set in BumbleTee’s Cop AU

When My World Shakes, I Feel Alive

Sweet conversation between Dawn/Volo after getting her drunk idiot roommates to bed.

Shopping is Serious Business

Crackfic. Volo’s real punishment for trying to subjugate Arceus is having to go shopping with his daughter and her equally high maintenance friend.

Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet - Arviana

Safe & Sound

Juliana is tired from her near death experiences and meeting ghosts and gets a much needed Arven-hug.

Sucker.

Arven can’t tell Ogerpon no.

Treasure

Arven reflects on how his family is his treasure

Paradise is Nothing but a Smile

Arviana Picnic Date!

And, maybe it was ego swinging

The AU where Turo pulled his head out of his ass and was a parent to Arven.

Home is Where the Heart Is

Juliana made it back from Blueberry Academy and is beyond glad to be reunited with Arven

Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet - Draymine

I created a Discord Server for Draymine, Arviana, and Kiercey - Other ships are welcome! It can be joined HERE - (18+ Please!)

Series

You are in Love

An on-going series featuring snapshots through Drayton and Carmine’s relationship.

Stand Alone Stories

Well, this is a choice

Jokefic - Kieran sees that Crispin has awful dragon claws for feet and Drayton and Carmine’s alone time keeps getting interrupted.

Elevator Woes, Smash Bros, and Mistletoe

Jokefic - Crispin is the only single guy in his friend group and the elevator rides of Blueberry Academy are long ones. Established Draymine and Kiercey in the background.

a lot to live without

Sometimes, life doesn't go the way one wants it to. TW: Major Character Death.

Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet - Kiercey

Kieran & Lacey.

Building a Home

Just a moment in a post-canon setting in which Kieran and Lacey are quite silly.

[ladyfromaspookyforest]

What Is Will's Arc if Mlvn Is Endgame?

A Byler trying to make sense of the show from a mlvn POV

I like to be informed on both sides of a debate. So I'd like to understand what evidence mlvns have to support their ship. Unfortunately, most Milkshakes think mlvn endgame is obvious and therefore that they don't need to prove it. So basically, this is me trying to explore the one thing that just Does. Not. Make. Sense. to me from a mlvn endgame perspective. And that's Will's arc.

Will's arc IS STILL SUPER IMPORTANT when addressing the show from a mlvn standpoint because ships do not exist in a bubble. Therefore, it is essential to acknowledge that Will is integral/central to the show and that supporting queerness has been an ST theme since day 1. Will's arc has never been about familial acceptance. The first episode of the show demonstrated that Joyce loves Will no matter what. We had a queer-coded acceptance speech from Jonathan in that same season (another in season 2) and a far more blatant one in season 4. The series wrapping up with yet another would be dissatisfying and redundant.

Acceptance from his friends is not it either, because we also saw his friends sticking up for him despite being bullied about his visible queerness. Not once did anyone stick up for Will by denying his queerness. This is likely a consequence of taking Will's lead, suggesting Will has never denied his own queerness. It is very clear that this has been going on for quite a while and his friends not only do not have an issue with people thinking Will is gay, but will defend him on account of it. Will's friends accepting him is no great revelation.

Will's conclusion CANNOT be something that has been a truth from the start. If Will's story begins with being loved by all of his friends and family whether he's gay or not, we can't watch five seasons of him struggling only for the conclusion to be that he is loved by all of his friends and family whether he's gay or not. There is ZERO development. It can't be romance if it's not Mike. The turnaround is too quick for Will's feelings to come into the open, for him to be definitively friendzoned, for him to get over these feelings, for him to meet someone new, for him to develop feelings for this new person, and for him to get involved with this new person. This is literally impossible to cram into the final season even for a side character we WOULDN'T mind a rushed romance for. But ESPECIALLY not for Will, one of the backbone characters of the show (*cough* whose queerness has been integral to the show's very makeup from the start *cough cough*).

So if I'm fighting for my life over here to make mlvn make sense for Will, in order for this to work, you have to remove romance from Will's arc completely. Yes, we as Byler shippers are fully aware of the moment romance became integral for Will.

BUT for the sake of this exercise, we're going to say that Will's romantic plotline is a dead-end (I'll come back to the queerness) and that he's going to have to put his feelings for Mike on the backburner for the sake of the world. With this logic, you'd have to acknowledge that Will is going to be at the center of the supernatural plot, which most people do but some mlvn dingdongs think he's a gay, irrelevant, crybaby. So. Pretending we have logic: Will's at the center of the plot. Here's an imaginary arc for Will I've constructed in which he does not get the boy OR get sidelined:

Scenario

This is extremely dependent on the parallels between Will and Henry.

For the sake of this exercise, Henry is queer. He may or may not be within the actual world of ST, but for this to work, Henry's queerness would need to be expressly stated within the show. Additionally, THIS IS NOT A THEORY and it's not what I THINK will happen, so anything related to timeline theory is being side-lined here. For this scenario to work, there is one Henry and he becomes Vecna. Henry feels like an outsider. He is made to feel "wrong" and different. It would be necessary to parallel Virginia with Lonnie and to introduce a friend or a neighbor or some boy Henry had a crush on. If we wanted to explore more mature feelings to be closer to Will's, this could even take place later in the lab when he's older.

The gist is that Henry would have to experience the heartbreak of having feelings for a straight boy combined with internalized homophobia and a lack of acceptance from the people in his life. Both Henry and Will would experience harassment, feelings of being different, unrequited feelings, and come to a confrontation with one another. For maximum impact, Mike just found out about the painting/Will's feelings and reacted poorly (because of the lying, not the gay). Now Will's in a trance, having a one-on-one with Vecna in his mind lair and Mike's freaking the fuck out and feeling like an asshole and Vecna tries to relate to Will and Will's big triumph is realizing that Vecna is RIGHT and they are so much alike, but despite what Mike said, Will knows Mike loves him anyway. And despite being sad, gay, and alone, Will still loves the people in his life and he has some big moment of AND I LOVE MYSELF TOO and yay Will self-love hurrah you're sad but not going to let it ruin you woohoo and he tells Vecna there was nothing wrong with him when he was a wee lad either and yada yada you get the gist.

Why it works and why it doesn't

Ignoring what this does to Henry (because that's a whole other thing), this actually concludes Will's struggles with his own queerness perfectly fine. THEMATICALLY, it's trash. And that's the big issue with Will ending up single. When you look at Will as a character within this body of work, sans themes, you can see his arc as one of needing to accept HIMSELF. As I said before, it isn't about his family or friends accepting him (although explicit scenes of this would be beneficial for Will's self-love journey). We know he has accepted his own queerness, but he still feels like a mistake. His arc culminating in his acknowledgement that he is NOT a mistake is super important for him. I do, in fact, believe it's a large part of his REAL arc. Being able to take ownership of this part of himself and feel happy with it is necessary for him with or without romance. And within the story, it's okay to tell a tale about a queer boy who doesn't get the boy he loves if the story ends with him learning to love himself.

The issue is that this body of work exists in the real world. It exists in a world where telling that tale of the gay kid not getting the boy is delivering a negative message about queerness. It exists in a world where PR has been done surrounding the show that both allowed and encouraged the shipping of these boys. If the show ends with this bittersweet conclusion of Will's arc, letting go of his love for Mike but gaining love for himself, it won't be JUST about Will. Because Will represents gay youth in general. And ending with Robin and Vickie together does nothing for this message. It doesn't serve to show us that queer relationships are good and possible and that Mike and Will just weren't meant to be. Because Rockie is not a stand-in for Byler. That PR I mentioned still exists. You cannot say, "well we queerbaited Byler, but we still gave you a queer relationship!"

And way back to the beginning when I mentioned that supporting queerness has been woven into the show since the FIRST episode, while my (stupid) scenario or something similar allow Will's personal arc to conclude in a way that doesn't negate the narrative, it DOES negate the message.

So...WHAT is Will's arc if mlvn is endgame?

Self-love, IMO. I think Will's arc is equal parts learning he is NOT a mistake and learning that he CAN find love despite his queerness, but if mlvn were to be endgame, it could only be the first half. And if the show played his journey strong enough, they could make that extremely powerful on its own. Unfortunately, it's impossible to create this ending without sending a negative message. So while I DO think it is possible to wrap up Will's arc sans Byler in a way that makes sense within the narrative, I don't think it's possible outside of it. In a world where people consume the narrative and recognize that sad gay boy ending up alone = bad message. That even if queerness is accepted, celebrated, and supported WITHIN the show, the show says the OPPOSITE by allowing the only single party member to be the gay one.

I think this is where a lot of mlvns get confused. I'm not talking about the extreme antis and the homophobes. But for the people who genuinely care about Will and ship mlvn (they exist), I think this ability to disconnect Will and his journey from the Real World the show airs in is what allows them to believe mlvn endgame is not harmful. The people saying "It's realistic!" about Will being sad and in love with his straight best friend in the 80s are failing to recognize that THIS IS NOT THE 80S. It's MEDIA.

This is the major difference between Mlvn + Will and Byler + El. Both El and Will need to learn to love themselves and find strength in themselves outside of other people's perceptions of them. But, even if we ignore the depth/nature of feelings both El and Will have for Mike or the ways in which their relationships with him have been portrayed. Let's say Will and El feel EXACTLY the same about Mike. Byler + El = sad but empowered El while Mlvn + Will = sad but empowered Will + bad message.

I did genuinely set out to try to explain this argument to myself, not to go on an anti-mlvn tangent. But...my conclusion is that I can't (shocker). Art was meant to be perceived. Thank you and goodnight (it's afternoon).

[gaypiratebrainrot]

I think of your fic anytime the RPF debate comes up on twitter, because it’s always the same sanctimonious dingdongs yelling BLOCK ME IF YOU LIKE RPF while also low key writing it themselves. I haven’t read WFU yet but I want to!!!

hiii!! sorry i hijacked your post lol but it was funny 1) because i didn't even realize SMAUs were using actor pictures when i published wfu (as i was not on twitter/reading SMAUs), and then one of the topics in the ensuing twitter wank after i dropped wfu was about how SMAUs seem to cross that rpf line in a way many anti-rpf people are totally chill about,

and 2) that part of my thought process in writing wfu was that if i write a story about rhys and taika but call them stede and ed, it will still be more in character as actual canon stede and ed than a lot of modern AUs (that are very good and i love!). and it is! and that was part of the point, and why i wish more of the wanky anti-rpf people would read it, because i want to know if they think wfu is rpf, and if they do, what would i have to change about it specifically to make it not rpf, and why? but i don't think they will ever read it lol.

anyway, thanks for fighting the good fight, and i hope if you read it, you enjoy it!!

[belethlegwen]

G/t WAC - Day 1 (oops I'm late)

First wanna shout out to @entomolog-t for putting so much work into the G/t Writer's Appreciation Challenge. I think it's a very fun, extremely sweet idea and while I know I'm not gonna be able to hit all of these (I am ALREADY LATE for Day 1!!) I'm going to do my best because, especially right now with everything going on in my life, ***I*** could use the push to read more and the idea that everyone is sharing their favourite things and there's so much already available (plus the things that will inevitably be created throughout this month with or without the g/t wac) that seeing it all get shared around is a huge huge boon to my mood right now.

Day One: Share Your Comfort Fic

This probably comes as no surprise, but my comfort fic is by @adjacentperception, from their Rose & LaPorte series (directory link).

I have so many pieces out of this collection of short stories that I adore and find myself going back to when I need something to brighten any given day, but the one I go back to the most often is Witching Hour Curly Fries Pt. 2. It brings me, among so many other things, such a deep catharsis for emotions I have struggled with (and now, thankfully rarely, still struggle with) through the lens of Atticus and his unique situation.

There's something about how real both Atticus and his best friend Quinn feel as people, not just characters, and also how shockingly real Atticus makes the fantastical problem of being 4 inches tall (most of the time) feel to the reader through this piece in particular. There's a connection I felt the first time I read it that I have never stopped being able to come back to; there's something so deep there that hurts me to feel so strongly, that even through fiction and fantasy is still, at the core, so human and emotional.

There are times where you just need to sit with your best friend and talk, even though it isn't fixing anything. Even when the point is for you-- both of you, even-- to come to terms with the fact that the problems go so far beyond what they appear to. That there's something so much deeper, and that it may be genuinely unfixable at that level. That the wrappings and trappings and the portrait of what everyone, possibly including you, think your problems are merely just brought forth deeper issues that you don't know if you can untangle and process, let alone work toward correcting.

It's a beautiful piece to me and I have cried over it so many times for the pain and hope it gives me. Zip is wonderful writer, and always has been. Their characters are so human that they feel like coworkers or roommates to me sometimes, and their ability to find a real, core person in any character they make is one of the reasons I love them so much.

I really can't recommend the Rose & LaPorte series enough. It has more than earned it's place as one of my Permanently Open Tabs, and there's really something for every mood I'm in. I love Zip and all of their precious dingdongs and their adventures. <3

[centauryscrubs]

ok so, there’s a LOT of reasons why inside job is one of my favourite gone-too-soon tv shows ever (fuck you netflix) and i could probably list them all and talk about them extensively (and i might in a future post!) but the couple that really did it for me were:

1. that they didn’t make reagan and brett a couple. this is SO important to me. the trope of “hetero friends to lovers” is overdone to the point of society expecting it/finding it weird when it’s not there. the fact that brett and reagan are just… literally best friends is so much sweeter than them being a couple. for me, at least. it just wouldn’t really suit them either, y’know? brett (imo) is more focused on strengthening PLATONIC bonds, because having friends isn’t something he really had as a child. and that’s the same for reagan! (plus she had ron. and EVEN THOUGH BRETT DIDNT REALLY LIKE HIM AT FIRST, HE STILL ACCEPTED AND RESPECTED THEIR RELATIONSHIP!! AND DIDNT BREAK IT UP!! in fact HE tried to change HIMSELF so that he’d like ron!!! if that’s not some serious ride or die friendship between brett and reagan idk what is! it’s not like brett was ever a third wheel when ron came along either!!)

connected to 1. — tamiko’s relationship/s is/are a perfect example of when het interactions can go well, regardless of if there are romantic feelings or not. with rand, it resulted in divorce BUT they did have fleeting romantic moments which were sweet, as well as some generally funny scenes together! the “date” with alpha-beta ended up in him learning how to love, despite tamiko being disgusted by his appearance/robotic physicality. i’ll admit i don’t even like ron x reagan that much, but their relationship worked too; the slight rivals to lovers trope was established well and it was very healthy for both of them!

2. that Miss Shion wasn’t afraid to show two men kissing. even if it was an accidental kiss. but also just bromances and homoeroticism in general. andre and myc being besties AND being in an orgy together??? amazing, andre getting mushroom herpes was worth it. rand and hannibal lecter lookalike being made to kiss, and then the latter going “UNLESS…?”??? so funny and much more entertaining than if it didn’t happen at all.

connected to 2. — they didn’t make characters’ sexuality their whole personality!! even the queer one/s!!! andre being described as “alwayssexual” was a funny, fleeting comedy moment and that was all! (i’m also counting the questionable quips like brett going “take your clothes off!!” at ron and ron asking reagan if she told everyone about his dingdong. btw brett is bicurious he told me)

in conclusion: canon queer characters are cool and het relationships (both romantic and platonic) CAN be portrayed very well, if done right!

[drunktuesdays]

It’s been (nearly) two weeks! How are my alpha 4 alpha boys doing? Tbh I was kinda shocked when Garcia was using words like broke up with but I know that’s cause we’re in Eddie’s pov but aw he thought he got dumped. Is Eddie gonna accept his relationship with Garcia or is he gonna push him away some more? I have a feeling Garcia will decide to walk away if Eddie doesn’t accept their relationship. I love watching how assertive and confident Garcia has gotten since part 1. But damn I mean this in the best way but you kinda tricked me with this series. I thought it was just gonna be some pwp and then my heart got involved. So that was a good one. Thank you 💛

I'm sorry babe, you sent this to me a month ago, but I've been suffering through the worst possible writer's block and elite-related depression. So here's a very short little update, in an attempt to bust through. 😬

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Seven

The kid don't spend the night anymore. That's okay. Eddie's got a lotta practice sleeping alone, and it's better, anyway. He don't have to worry about snoring, or farting in his sleep, or whether he keeps the room too cold. It's better, probably, that the kid doesn't stay anymore, just slides outta bed the moment Eddie's knot goes down and leaves. 

It's better too that he doesn't bother Eddie backstage, either. Eddie never sees him anymore unless he specifically seeks him out, which sometimes he does, just cuz. Garcia's usually with the Private Party kids, or Bowens and Hook. Not so much with the 2.0 dingdongs anymore. Eddie wants to know why—wants to know what Garcia's thinking. Wants to know if Garcia's gonna join BCC, why he looks so much older lately, where he goes when he leaves Eddie's room. 

It's fucking stupid shit. What the fuck should Eddie care? Garcia's not one of his friends. He's not one of Eddie's ride-or-die boys. What does Eddie care if Garcia goes to Yuta's room next, or out to party or anywhere at all?  Since when has Eddie ever worried about anyone's business but his own? Fuckin' get it together, he tells himself with disgust. 

He's backstage, sitting on a whole stack of folded tables, watching the guys play basketball, when Ruby comes and sits next to him.  "Yo," he says, and steals a Dorito from the open bag in her hand.  "You go to Medical yet?"

"Yeah," she says, touching the bridge of her nose. "Sampson says it looks good. I think he's gonna clear me soon."

"Good," he says. "They need you out there. They're dying without you."

She scoffs a little but bumps her shoulder against his, and they lapse into silence. Monkey steals the ball from one of the Gunn kids, and whooping, sinks a basket.  

"You ever—" Eddie starts, and then just as abruptly cuts himself off, shaking his head. 

"No, hey," Ruby says, nudging him. "What?"

He squints, cracks his knuckles, then tilts his head to crack his neck a little too. "You ever heard," he said slowly, "of alphas being able to bond with each other? Like they can with omegas?"

There's silence for a few moments, and Eddie drums his heel rhythmically on the tables they're sitting on. He wishes he didn't say anything.

"Like," she said, eventually. "The biting thing? The whole—hormone exchange—thing?"

Eddie scowls. "I was just asking. I ain't a doctor or whatever. I was just curious if like, it can happen to people. Other kinds of people. Like, if you spent a lot of time with another alpha, if you could accidentally bond. If that's possible or whatever."  

"Eddie," Ruby says, her voice infinitely kind. "You know it's okay if you fell in love with him, right?"

"Oh, eat shit," he snarls, and stands up abruptly, almost upsetting the whole stack. "Get the fuck outta here with that shit. You don't know what you're talking about."

He's storming through the backstage, heading for the locker room when his shoulder smacks right into someone. Fucking Sammy, with his stupid shit eating grin. "Hey—" Sammy says, "Watch where you—"

"Shut the fuck up," he says. "I fucking heard your little promo. If you ever talk about me like that on television, I'll fucking—"

Sammy looks surprised and confused for a second, before coming back at Eddie, blustering.  Eddie's not even listening to what he's saying, he's just mad, he's mad at Sammy, at Ruby, at—

Then he doesn't have to worry about what anyone's saying to him, because he's on the first plane home.  Goodbye. Another Eddie special. 

It's good to be home. He spends the first week being a fucking nightmare. There's an old picnic table in his backyard, cracked from when one of his idiot cousins had filmed some fucking tiktok dance on it. Eddie cracks it some more, and then spends a satisfying amount of time smashing it into a heap of jagged pieces. 

The rest of the time he spends flat on his back on the couch, trying desperately to turn his brain off. 

What are you doing? He asks himself at 3am. What are you doing? Eddie, what the fuck are you doing?  You gonna fuck up the only job you've ever loved? The only time you've ever done something you're proud of? You gonna be that guy again?  You gonna screw it all up again? For what?  Just because—

Instinctively, he jerks away from the thought, flinching away from the hot stove. Think about something else, he tells himself. Think about what you're gonna say to Tony, to CD, to Sammy—

Eddie's a lot of things. A fuck-up, a bullshitter, a piece of shit. But he isn't a coward. He never has been. He's never run from nobody and nothing, even when he really should have. But, he realizes, pacing his living room floor as 3AM slides into 4, he's been running from this. 

So okay. Okay Eddie, you can think about it.  It's okay if you fell in love with him. Okay Ruby, but he didn't. That's not what this is. They’re fucking. That's what this is. That's all this is. 

Unbidden, he remembers standing in the shower after the match with Chris, remembers Danny's hands sweeping over his skin, how Eddie had wanted to lean back against him and relax. But he hadn't. He didn't do that shit. He wasn't made for that. And anyway, that's not even what Danny wanted from him anyway.  Garcia wanted an alpha, wanted someone to hold him down and make him take it. What Ruby was saying—that wasn't—none of that was—

He jumps when a door slams next door. The neighbor's coming down the walk whistling, tossing his bags in the cab of his truck. The sun's rising in the distant horizon behind the buildings.  Eddie can't stand a single second of it anymore.

He goes to bed. 

[onwards to eight]

[thatbuggygirl]

For the toku asks: 1, 4, 5, 6!

1. How did I get into toku?

In 2018, my best friend was trying to write an OOO fanfic and was telling me -who knew nothing about toku and didn't even have a Power Rangers background- about the disembodied gay bird arm in said fic. I got very stuck on the fact that BIRDS DO NOT HAVE ARMS, POCKY!!! and sputtered a lot. She proceeded to (poorly) continue explaining the premise of OOO to me until I was like "...then what happens?" and agreed to watch it.

4. Thoughts on what I'm currently watching:

Consider yourself lucky I watched more Ultraman yesterday, or this would be a largely incoherent yell about Saber.

So I'm currently watching Ultraman Ace, which is the oldest toku series I've tried to date. I haven't found it very engaging compared to new gen Ultraman and have decided it's best to watch in small doses. I started it a year and a half ago, lost interest at episode 14, and am now only at episode 21.

The kaiju are...special in this one. They blow up a lot and despite being organic, can, like, shoot bullets out of their fingers and stuff?? Ace is basically a fusion between two of the characters, Seiji and Yuko, so that's kind of different at least.

At the rate I'm going, I'll finish this series five years from now!

5. Favorite main hero:

Rider - Philip from W is probably my favorite main guy overall. I tend to like side or background characters more, but I really love Philip. He's such a little gremlin, but his character development is so great, and the way he and Shotaro balance each other's strengths and weaknesses to make W strong is lovely.

Sentai - Kando Jan from Gekiranger! He's a very good boy with a very big burden placed on him. I am not at all put off by Jan-speak, because I'm a sucker for characters with interesting speech patterns. He's quirky and cute and I enjoy him.

Ultraman - It's Geed. Riku is such a dear dingdong and I want to mom at him.

6. Favorite secondary character:

How are we defining "secondary" here? I'm going to take it as "character who's not the main/lead guy".

Rider - Parad from Ex-Aid. I love that puzzle boy to bits. He too goes through some great character development as he learns to value life. His connection with Emu is right up my alley. And Perfect Knockout is one of my favorite suits ever in anything.

Sentai - I really, really love Fukami Gou from Gekiranger. He's such a dingus and he tries to be badass, but he's just kind of soft-hearted. And despite being a wolf, we all know he's really a cat.

Ultraman - The original fancy garbage, Mr Jugglus Juggler himself.

[katbrando]

[ questions from this post, previously answered: 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60 ]

61-70 - SITUATIONS

💜 If you got into a physical fight, who would win? Would you let them win? oh him for sure, but only because he does in fact still have his scary monsters ability in this modern au LOL.. but he would Never use it with intent to harm me! if we fight then we mostly fight with words, and we're both very good at cutting really deep where it Stings. we hate when it gets to that point, but it has happened a couple times since we're both quite emotional and can be explosive 😔

💜 When you upset each other, how do you make up for things? diego is king of not knowing how to say "sorry" 💀 taking accountability for what he's done is very hard for him, so his go-to is to make small gestures that basically dance around the word, but don't directly say it. he'll test the waters with innocent kisses to the forehead, or a gentle squeeze of my hand, usually he looks at me with an expression that screams "i'm sorry" but the words just don't pop out of his gd mouth LOL.. the best he can manage is heartfelt words like "i love you, you know that?" or "you mean the world to me" which are honestly even better since he's not so great at saying those things either

if i know i've upset him, i'm no better at saying sorry than he is. of course i want to yell it from the rooftops, but i shut myself off when i'm hit with even the smallest amount of guilt. this can last for a while, since he's never one to admit he's in the wrong and he typically won't make an effort to fix things on his own. eventually i'll get over my damn self and go hunt him down, drape myself across his back and whisper my apology until he forgives me and wraps me up in his stinky, loving arms.. basically we're both kinda fucked in terms of dealing with our emotions correctly 100% of the time, but the patience we have for each other definitely outweighs that

💜 Do you take care of each other when you’re sick? Who’s an absolute mess when they’re sick? diego's a BABY when he's sick, he latches on to any opportunity he can that gives him an excuse to be weak and needy. but, again, words are not this dingdong's strong suit, so when he needs something he will simply stare at me with puppy dog eyes. because i am the way i am, i will dote on him the entire time. when i'm sick, i hate to be babied, so he has to deal with the fact that i don't want him hanging off me and worrying 24/7. instead, he'll check up on me every so often and bombard me with text messages about anything and everything. man can't go five minutes without attention, smh

💜 How are you when traveling together? It can be in general or to a specific place. we love traveling!!! we don't argue at all when we're exploring somewhere new, i think the excitement keeps us both in such high spirits that we feed off each other's positivity :')) even if it's somewhere we've already been, we're so thrilled to be Away that we can't help but have a really good time together

💜 You run into your ex/their ex while you’re out - how do you react? well LUCKILY for us... my one ex is several states away, all his exes are back in the UK... so we don't have to worry about this at all LOL. but if it did happen then i think we'd both just wordlessly guide the other away and check up on comfort levels

💜 If either of you got into any serious trouble, would you bail each other out? In what conditions? if we got into serious trouble it was probably both of us LMAOOO so who's bailing both of us out??? we're partners in crime, after all

💜 Could you start a musical act together? How good are your musical skills? i can't sing or dance even if my life depended on it, i briefly took guitar lessons a long time ago and was decent at it, but essentially i have no confidence in that at all LOL. diego loves to sing but he isn't exactly that good at it, however he can whistle pretty well, does that count?? (it definitely doesn't)

💜 What Alternate Universes have you thought of for yourselves? Fantasy, royalty etc.  currently i just have the two: modern au and canon au (which is a slightly different dynamic and i might answer these for my s/i as well sometime), but i'm considering adding a sci-fi au because it's just a genre i Love so much and i have had multiple dreams about being space bounty hunters with diego

💜 How would you react if you swapped bodies? oh my god LMAO.. i know for a Fact that he would poke fun at my height (i'm literally 4 inches shorter than him and he won't let me forget it) and say shit like "wow, the world looks so different from down here!"... shut up lmao 💀 meanwhile i would imitate his walk, his voice, and his facial expressions and over-exaggerate them, telling him to look at how silly he looks all the time... he would Hate it LOL.. it's all in good fun (he'd probably wanna fuck while we're like this too, which, honestly.... Hot)

💜 If the world fell into an apocalypse situation, would you stick with each other? 100%, we're a dynamic duo, you Cannot separate us. would we survive long? absolutely not. would we have fun? yeah

[deyzalee]

Dear God,

Thankful and blessed today. I woke up late because I only have 1 hour duty today. I drank my vitamins. I scrolled my social media accounts, chatted my family and friends. I ate one sweet potato. I sew some of my pajama set because some of it have holes. I had sound trip. I also washed my blankets and hanged them to dry. Thank you Lord and to Maam Karen for approving my annual leave. I called Mama and Papa via google meet and we talked a lot. I ate snacks which is Dingdong, chocolates and gummy candy. Our call ended and I prepared myself for 1 hour duty. I arrived at Saif’s house safely. I cared and monitored my patient with the help of Ate Carme and with you Oh God. We talked a lot also about the life of Ate Carme. Ate Carme also gave me food. 1 hour duty ended and I arrived home safely. I had my online bookings for flights, hotel reservations for my upcoming annual leave. Bless my hearts desire Oh God. I had my self and skin care routine. I read few pages of the Bible. I drank my medicines. Have mercy on us Oh God. Guide us always to the right path. Remove sickness, danger and negative things in our life. Answer our prayers in your perfect time. Thank you and I love you God.

[shadow-lag]

Well let the teenage mutant ninja turtles brain rot begin ! (Should probably add this- !!!!contains spoilers!!!!)

Edit: sparing partner is the best episode I don't think my mind is changeable. Buddy ftw!! And Tod, they are perfect in everyway.

Edit but again: Mystic library is also the best episode (and there may or may not be a common denominator between the two and there is totally no way of telling if I have a favorite between our green boys)

Edit 3.0: ON THE FINAL EPISODE!!!! I've literally been at this all day-

(SPOILERS BEGIN)

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EDIT: THE SHREDDER IS BACKKKKKK?!

Well I guess it's time to sacrifice more sleep to watch the movie! (God please tell me this all has a happy goofy ending I can't handle bad endings-)

Edit 27: so apparently Netflix only has 1 season and not both- (fuck you netflix) I have tapped into another streaming service to cry over the season 2 finale don't worry B) (fuck you netflix)

Editttt: PLEASE TELL ME SPLINTER DOES NOT DIE WHAT THE FUCK

Edit Edit Edit: IS CASEY JONES A TRANS ICON????????

EDIT!!: SCREAMING THAT ENDING WAS SO INCREDIBLE!!!!

Okay nowww it's time to watch the movie.

Edit (betrayal): Cassandra is his mom or something isn't she :( they aren't the same person are they? I mean how else would the Casey Jones from the future guy not know April well or where to find the turtles? Disappointed, betrayed, and still full of headcanons so no one can truly stop me-

EDIT NUMBER WTF: EXCUSE ME RAPH YOU GAINT DINGDONG YOU BETTER NOT DIE IN THE FIRST PARTS OF THE MOVIE OR EVER ACTUALLY

I NEED A EPIC FINAL FIGHT SCENE WITH EVERYONE AND THEN A HAPPY ENDING HERE!

Edit 10: can the krang explode and die like right now please. EW die die die die

Editing: okay so he's not dead yay! Cool! (I also spoiled the ending for myself bc I'm not wasting time on an unhappy ending-) yay!

Edit finale part 1: Okay listen,, I KNOW GREAT WRITING MEANS GREAT PLOT TWISTS BUT HOW THE HELL DOES LEO ESCAPE???

EDIT FINALE PT.2: LET'S FUCKING GO MIKEY!!!!!!!!!!! THEY DID IT BOYS LETS GOOO YIPPEEEE

Edit finale part 3: yep she's his mom. Can't have shit in New York City /lhj

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Edit finale part 4 (the finales finale): okay the series and movie were totally off the hook! The animation style/overall art style was fantastic and I'm so glad I decided to watch it all despite my doubts. I think it was a pretty good balance of goofy, funny, character building, seriousness, and happy endings:) definitely a whole ass roller coaster I would love to see more of. So many thoughts and yet so little words. 10/10 would recommend:]

Cowabunga!!!!

[queerspacepunk]

here's the thing though (and I am ENTIRELY certain of this): end of s1? right up until olu spots him with the spyglass? the entire crew thinks stede is dead. i'm serious!! (with the probable exception of izzy. pretty sure izzy knows he's alive) (fml this is so long i'm so sorry)

it's pretty clear from the start of episode 10 that ed hasn't told anyone anything, in fact i'd say it's pretty likely that no one but izzy has even seen him since he climbed on board and asked to take tea in his room!

so imagine you're the crew, trying to figure out what the fuck just happened, and you have the following information:

stede bonnet is stupidly in love with edward teach

edward teach is so in love with stede bonnet that he signed away his life for a decade to go fight for the king of england

they both got taken away to join the navy and go to war!!

stede is an absolutely useless dingdong who has only survived this long because of sheer luck, and clearly has people within the navy who Hate His Guts

ed's ploy only worked because some officers saw him as a prize, and he's notorious enough that everyone in the navy is going to either hate him, feel threatened by him, or both

ed comes back. alone, and sad.

so you're all sitting there, in the jam room, or maybe by the kitchen, or up on deck, slumber party style, trying to figure out What The Fuck Happened To Stede, and really there's only three options:

ed changed his mind and fucked off, leaving stede behind

stede and ed broke up and/or stede refused to escape with ed

stede died and with no reason left to stay in the navy, ed fucked off back to his crew.

now, option 1 is an immediate write off. like i think black pete would be the most likely to suggest it and lucius would just be like "babe, babe please. you do not understand how utterly deranged they are for each other. edward teach is so in love with that man that he didn't stab me in the face on like three separate occasions." option 1? out.

option 2? interestingly, i feel like option 2 is both what actually happened AND the option that, to the crew would seem the least believable. olu would be the first person shutting this down. he had to put up with stede the entire night they broke up the first time. even more than that? they're looking at blackbeard, right? and blackbeard's responses. if stede HAD dumped ed, after ed just sacrificed himself for stede, then surely he should be furious, right? they would all be expecting a response much more akin to what we get in the second half of the episode after the magical girl kraken transformation.

(of course, they don't KNOW about all the shit going on in stede's head, they don't know about ed just wanting to be ed and how much that shook stede, they don't know about chauncey! they also don't know about trying to put down the whole blackbeard role for a bit!! even though option 2 is 100% what happened and makes sense to us viewers it seems entirely out of character to the other characters in the show!! the writers made these boys eat the broccoli so hard i wanna scream)

whiiiiiiich leaves us with option 3: stede is dead. compared to the other two options, this makes so much sense. You've just put Stede No Survival Instincts Bonnet into what may be the only environment more dangerous for him than pirating, they were probably expecting it to happen at some point or another. and ed? from that brief interaction? easily looks like grief. then factor in how fucking delighted izzy is about the turn of events, and well... stede being dead is pretty much the only thing that makes sense.

(they're all sitting there kinda talking around it, fang's probably talking about how he was quite worried for stede, in the navy and all, and swede's like 'blackbeard seems very sad' and buttons is all 'ahhh but mr hands is in a very good mood' and no one wants to say it until frenchie's just "so the captain, uh, stede, i mean... he's uh... maybe... ?" and jim's just like "dead." and there's a big uncomfortable chorus of "very dead" "definitely dead" "absolutely deceased" (lucius) and they all make a beeline for the rum)

i have a bunch more to say about why i think izzy knows stede's alive and also how "the crew thinks stede is dead" makes the rest of ep 10 read different but it is way too late and this is way too long already so i'll come back to that in the morning

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

hi I’m here to review the Clementine comic. it’s not good.

Does this even need an introduction? You know why I’ve gathered you all here today. You know the comic exists, and you probably know that it’s not great and we’re all upset about it. 

Myself included. I am not okay. At all. 

Skybound could’ve literally spit in my face and I’d come out feeling better than I did reading this comic, because this comic is an insult to the original Telltale games and Clementine as a character. 

This comic is a fancy fanfic. Glorified fanfiction. It’s not canon, and Skybound and Tillie can pretend that it is, but it’s not. Bold of them to assume we’d just accept this from people who didn’t work on the original games and never wrote for Clementine before, and based on this comic alone, any chance of us taking it seriously is gone. 

I’m gonna go through every single page, every panel, of this comic and give you my review. So I guess if you’re worried about spoilers [though at this point why would you?] then be warned, spoilers for the entire comic ahead. 

I also wanna add that I have nothing against Tillie Walden. I know a lot of dingdongs are harassing her on insta over this comic and that’s not okay. You telling her how much you hate her isn’t going to change anything. If anything, you keep being assholes to her and she’s just gonna block everything out, even things simply critiquing her work in hopes that it helps her improve. 

You’re allowed to be upset about the comic and share your feelings about it, but don’t take it out on the actual human being like that. Besides, like I’ve said before, if Tillie wasn’t gonna make the comic, Skybound would’ve found someone else to do. This was coming no matter what because Skybound wants that coin. 

That being said, I’m not going to hold back my opinions on this comic. Skybound and Tillie made this comic, they put it out there and asked for money for it, therefore I’m allowed to explain why it’s garbage as well as ponder over the questionable intent and whether or not Tillie actually has played these games. Y’know, it’s like how I have nothing against Kent, but sometimes he says things I disagree with and well, y’know how it goes. 

Alright, this is gonna be long, so let’s go--

The first few shots we get are of the school, two people sleeping, and Clementine’s empty bed. Nothing super note-worthy, we have no idea who is sleeping in the beds, it’s just there to establish that it’s early and everyone’s still asleep. 

The drawing of the school looks fine? Not super accurate, but I can give it a pass since it’s a few years later, I assume. What I can’t give a pass is how you managed to already mess up on the first page of your comic. 

Because..... why are you implying that Clementine’s room is upstairs? First of all, seems kinda dumb to put Clem, who has only one leg and has to walk with crutches, upstairs. Also, if you’ve played TFS and paid any attention to where her room is actually located [the dorms] then you’d know there isn’t any stairs leading to their floor. It’s the side building next to the admin building, you walk through the door, go down the hall, take a left and their dorm is right there sooo..... 

Oh right, it’s probably done this way so that we can have such a suspenseful moment where Clementine is sneaking out while the others are asleep and her foot makes a creeeeeeakk that could wake everyone up, thwarting her plans of abandoning everyone quietly so she doesn’t have to deal with any consequences. 

Because yeah, Clementine is sneaking out with all of her supplies because apparently, she’s been planning an escape from this place for a while. 

And just look at how gosh darn happy she is about it. You can’t see or hear me, but know that I’m laughing. Don’t worry, I will talk about her abandoning everyone later.

But first, I have a gripe with Clementine's design in this comic. It doesn’t look like her. This art of her right here is the most accurate we get throughout all 12 pages, and it’s the best looking, too. 

Moving on, she slams the door shut while this walker changes faces and hair between panels, so that’s cool. I will say, I like the idea of the Ericson crew putting spikes on the door. That’s fun. 

Though Clementine slamming the door shut while trying to sneak out seems counter productive but it fits with the theme this comic has of inconsistency, so it works. 

Next we have Clementine going to what I believe is the fishing shack by the river, and she’s going through some things that she’s stashed away, telling us that she’s been planning this escape for a while. 

Oh good, she has a map. Well at least now she won’t get lost out there in the woods while she makes her escape... also that last panel with her profile.... why does it look so funny? Like this page of the comic doesn’t look too bad, but there is something off putting about her eye there and how she has zero expression. 

And it turns out that rustle was a walker, and Clementine is super inconvenienced by this and gives us our first piece of witty dialogue.

Yeah you dumb walker, can’t you see Clementine is busy running away from home and abandoning all of her loved ones without a single goodbye so she doesn’t have to witness the consequences of her selfish actions?? Gosh, so rude.

Just a heads up, the dialogue in this comic is stilted, emotionless, and bland. The words have no flow, no charm, and never feel like they should be coming out of Clementine’s mouth. Then again, the upcoming graphic novels this is tied to are for young adult/middle graders so I guess we have to dumb everything down so their baby brains can process it. 

.....Why does her face look like that? Also, interesting that she decided to move her ponytail to the other side of her head.... which is a thing that happens throughout this comic, her hair will randomly change sides. 

I believe it’s a metaphor for her changing and inconsistent personality. 

So yeah, Clementine is just making off with the supplies she gathered [I’m sure Ericson doesn’t need ‘em anyway] and she’s just so gosh darn annoyed at all these small inconveniences bothering her.... because it’s just too early for this. 

.....Again, why does her face look like that?

I’m sorry, like I get it, Tillie’s style is supposed to be purposely messy yet minimal but it doesn’t work. When you do a comic in a more messy style, usually it has charm and heart put into it. Effort goes into the messy look, and when things are minimal, that usually means more clean, yeah? So you put them together and just..... that is nothing resembling Clementine’s face. 

Can we just--

Look at canon Clementine’s face. Look at the way her eyebrows are shapes, how wide her eyes are with her eye lashes. The dirt on her skin, the lines-- there is so much personality in her features. It doesn’t matter if she’s wearing a neutral expression or she’s expressing anger or joy or sorrow or whatever. 

Now, is it fair to compare a model of Clem from the games to the Clem in this comic? Well, I assume that if Tillie is doing this comic, she would use references from the game to ensure that Clementine is recognizable, especially now that she’s no longer wearing her signature hat. 

So why does she look like this? Why do I look at these drawings of her face and see nothing but a pair of eyes, a nose, and a mouth? You might as well draw me a simple smiley face. And I get that it’s a comic, and it’s a lot of work to draw the same character over and over again and you gotta cut corners somewhere, but maybe put some effort into the close up shots of her face so that we can actually see it’s her? 

Other fan artists have made comics in their styles that shine bright with Clementine’s personality, so what happened here? 

Anyway, surprise..... it’s not a walker annoying Clementine. 

........Why does AJ look like that??? I’m sorry, I hate to do the same thing I just did but--

Just because you put Clementine’s hat on AJ that doesn’t automatically make it him. I just.... wow. This feels like there wasn’t a single reference involved, like if someone gave Tillie a basic description of AJ and she just did this. 

But appearances aside, what is AJ saying? He says that he knew it, that Clementine’s leaving and I cannot stand this dialogue. It’s unnatural. Again, I know you wanna dumb it down for all of us because I guess we dumb.... but this conversation does not feel natural. 

“I knew it. You’re leaving.” “AJ....” “I’m coming.”

Even if you changed it to, “I’m coming with you.” it would sound more natural. Hell, he doesn’t even question WHY she’s leaving, he just stands there like “I’m coming” like??? I’m sorry, have you ever heard a single word this murder baby has said? I assume you have because I assume you actually played TFS, right? Soooo.... what happened here?

.....whY DO THEIR FACES LOOK LIEK THAT KSAJDLKJAS:LKDJLKASJD:L--

So now we’re getting into it.... into the bullshit. 

Clementine tells AJ to go back to the school, and AJ says that she wasn’t even going to say goodbye..... and then more bad dialogue that sound unnatural when you try to fucking read it. 

First off.... AJ’s reaction to Clementine attempting to leave is barely anything. Again, I hate to keep questioning if you actually played TFS, but AJ would throw a fucking fit if he caught Clementine out here ALONE like this, attempting to leave. 

And then he says “Like last time? You were going to come back?” this sentence makes my brain hurt. I just.... “Like last time, right? You’re coming back?” UGH

Wow, I feel nothing. 

I’m sitting here watching these two imposters with fucked up faces who are supposed to be Clementine and AJ and I feel nothing. 

I’m not even going to comment on the faces anymore. You can see it. You know. 

So yeah... AJ tells her the #1 rule, and reminds her that she promised.

Y’know.... she promised that she would never leave him again? Remember? At the McCarroll ranch? That flashback that was in TFS? The one you would watch if you played the game? 

Why is she looking straight at me when she should be looking at AJ as she says this? Is this Clementine’s way of telling me she’s sorry for what a shitty direction this is taking? I wouldn’t know because her face isn’t doing anything. Just because you draw a couple of tears that doesn’t mean I’m feeling the emotional heartbreak you’re attempting to convey. 

I don’t have enough middle fingers for this.

Well, my hat’s off to you. Ya did it. Ya fucked up everything single part of Clementine’s character in the span of two pages, I’m almost impressed. 

First off, the baby thing is weird. Why is she calling him that? She’s never called him that, which you should know.

Second, she’s not happy and that’s why she’s leaving. Clementine isn’t happy, and AJ can’t make her happy. Ericson can’t make her happy. So she’s going to go out on the road to.... what, be unhappy by herself? 

I’m sorry, but apparently we need a few reminders here of who Clementine is, because this isn’t her. 

This is Clementine. 

Clementine fought for years to find a home, something she hasn’t had since she was an eight-year-old girl before the apocalypse. The motor-inn wasn’t a home, the cabin wasn’t home, the ski-lodge, Howe’s, Wellington, Richmond, Prescott, none of them were home. 

She struggled for years, dealing with trauma after trauma while out on the road. She went from group to group, watching people she cared about die and she was powerless to do anything about it. Whenever she let her guard down and become comfortable, it bit in her in the ass and left her heartbroken.

She was there when AJ was born. She grew close to Rebecca while she was pregnant, she let herself do that even after everything she went through with Christa. Clementine had a bond with AJ even before he was born, and after Rebecca died, she did what she could to keep him safe, despite play choice. 

She cried when she thought AJ died and when she found him in that car again. She swore to protect him, to raise him right and love him. All they had was each other. 

And when she joined the new frontier and AJ got sick, she risked everything to save him and she was devastated when they took him away from her. When she found out he was alive, she is willing to go as far as helping Lingard overdose [INJECTING HIM HERSELF IF SHE HAS TO] to figure out his location. She did shitty things to find him, she killed people at McCarroll Ranch to find him again. 

Clementine raised him and he is her family, do you understand that? She went to hell and back for him, she taught him how to protect himself, and even though she made mistakes she sacrificed everything for him. She promised him that they would have a home of their own one day, she talked about how much she wished for a world where she didn’t have to worry about fighting and killing and AJ could just be a happy kid. 

She fought for Ericson, she watched her friends die or become mutilated by someone from her past. She allowed herself to be vulnerable enough to pursue a romantic relationship with Louis or Violet because she felt safe with them, felt safe at Ericson because it’s their home now. 

And when Clementine was bit, she thought she was going to die but she still fought to make sure AJ would be safe and happy without her and it was heartbreaking. She’s dying and the only thing she cares about is AJ. Not herself, not what’s going to happen to her after she dies or turns... no, she tries to make AJ smile again, she makes sure he remembers the rules, and she tells him that she loves him. 

Then he cuts off her leg, and she survives. AJ saved her fucking life, and she got to wake up at home and live to see her family again. She got to push AJ on a tire swing, she got to eat a hot meal and laugh with her friends, she got to make plans with her lover/best friend for what’s next for Ericson, and she got to talk to AJ and tell him the truth... and she asked him if she did a good job, and he’s honest with her right back. 

Hell, she tells him to keep her hat. Her iconic hat. The one thing she has left of her father, possibly her more cherished item. She lets him keep it. 

The last time we see Clementine, she’s happy. She’s sitting on the steps by herself, staring at her family with such fondness in her eyes and a smile on her face because she finally did it. She finally found a home where she can breathe. She has a bed to sleep in, she has AJ with her, she has a boyfriend/girlfriend who loves her and who she loves back, she has friends she can rely on. 

Clementine smiles, and lets out a small laugh. 

She doesn’t have to run anymore. 

And now you have the balls to tell me that AJ and Ericson don’t make Clementine happy anymore. 

She abandons everything to go back out on the road again, and that’s proof enough for me that you don’t understand a damn thing about Clementine or her journey. 

“ I don't even know the person I'm talking about... It's like all we have in common is the same name.” 

....Anyway.

Wow, Clementine found a car and kept is stashed. How lazy and convenient for this bullshit plot. 

And this is the part where I have to tell this comic to fuck off. 

What, you think if you throw in an incredibly inaccurate flashback next to a current pair of hugging Clem and AJ that I’ll feel anything but anger? That flashback is a slap to the face. It’s snowing, but the only time we’ve seen snow is in S2 when AJ was a literal new born, so why is he that big? Is that supposed to be from ANF because that ALSO doesn’t look like that AJ, and that’s not the outfit Clementine had on... AND there was no snow. This is cheap and meaningless. 

Any fan of the series who has played through the games could tell you this. 

So.... AJ runs into the woods and then we get this garbage.

This comic is awful. It misses the point of everything TFS, and the rest of the series, stood for. There is no heart here. I feel no happiness in reading it, and I don’t detect any passion behind it. It’s a lifeless comic that retcons everything in order to throw AJ away and start fresh with a new adventure for Clementine that makes no sense because the cow isn’t profitable unless it’s milked. 

This isn’t canon, and it won’t ever be canon, and honestly? At this point, I have no faith in the graphic novel trilogy. It will take a lot to do a turn around from this, and I don’t even know if that’s possible. 

Again, to reiterate, I don’t have anything personal against Tillie Walden herself. She’s just doing her job, and from what I’ve seen of her as a person, she seems like a sweetheart. I don’t want anyone giving her shit because I think the comic isn’t good or that you agree with me. All of my anger is directed at the comic itself, her work, not specifically her.... and a little bit at Skybound, because they’re the reason this is even a thing in the first place. 

So yeah.... there ya have it. 

[stormblessed95]

Memories 2016 Discs 1 - 2

So I asked awhile ago when I said I was going back to watch every memories DVD they have released so far, if you would be interested in commentary from me as I did so. There were a lot of people who said yes, so here we are! I have officially watched BTS Memories of 2016. Here are my thoughts as I went. There were only 4 DVDs in this one. Reminder that these aren't going to be smoothly written out thoughts. You get these like I'm live reacting, texting my bestie or live tweeting. Lol it'll be in like bullet point format sort of, just... a commentary post as I go. Lol Hope you enjoy anyway! Let's go!

Disc 1:

BTS 2nd Muster DVD:

The 2nd Muster was originally supposed to be held in July of 2015, normal time frames for their musters, but the show got canceled because of the MERS outbreak. So it was rescheduled and finally happened on 160124 instead and kicked off the year 2016 for us! The full title of the Muster was "BTS Second Muster: Zip Code: 22920." There were 2 shows on the same day with the same set list but different games played throughout the show in between songs. The show in this DVD was the 2nd show of the day, the one in the evening.

Track List:

1. Just One Day

2. Like

3. Boy in Luv

4. Dope

5. I Need U

6. Silver Spoon

7. Boyz with Fun

8. Run

Opening the show up with Just One Day and Like was so beautiful. Jin with a rose is a concept that should NEVER die. He looks so beautiful. Yoongis rap during Like always takes me OUT, especially when he really gets into it. And omg we don't get to see the choreo for like very often and it's soo good. I miss it! So smooth! Army singing too 🥺 ugh I love it

They had a guest come to be an MC and wow so much energy after their super cute introductions to ARMY. His name was MC Dingdong. Lol JK introduced himself by saying body of an adult, brain of a minor. Lmao and the MC also brought up that JK is now an adult. The new year has passed and it's 2016, Jungkookies coming of age year! The theme of the concert is obviously housewarming party. It's cute and funny!

The MC calling RM up to do a dance saying he is the dancer of BTS and him dragging Jimin up with him, refusing to let go until Jimin is for sure standing up there to dance with him too 😂 my minimoni heart 💜

They also play a game where a member shares concerns they may have and people have to guess which member has that concern. The first concern is from Jin who shares that before he can even get to his own bed, Jungkook always steals his bed and is in it snoring first. Lmao JK says it's because YoonJins room has nice beds and carpet. 😂 Jin then also tells us that JK sleeps wearing common clothes and Suga sleeps in just his boxers with cute bears on them. Cool, THANKS for that information. 🤣 and the way that JK and Sugas complaints were about each other. Lmao JK was concerned about Suga not cleaning up after himself after removing his makeup. Suga was concerned about going broke after spending so much money because JK eats so much food when they go out for lamb skewers together so much together and with Hobi too. The hugging it out after the complaining was my favorite part, so sweet. Plus all the giggles!

The way we were watching the cringiest y/n dating videos they filmed for muster back in June of 2015 for their second anniversary with ARMY and they were all DYING of embarrassment but yet Jimin somehow made it better by dancing across the stage and singing Born Singer after his video. Bless you, Jimin.

Boy in Luv! Tae growling through that whole song will always be my favorite. He owns that song. Plus j-hope flying over everyone to start his rap and jikook harmonizing. Magical 🥰

And now they are playing bts penalty monopoly 🤣 oh goodness. Jimin, hobi and suga getting too invested in writing their names with their butts on stage, all 7 just really going for it 🤣 although idk what was happening with the wows and spankings from jihope at the end there too. Tae singing after inhaling helium and Suga impersonating JK. Namjoons ARMY poem. NamJin dancing to a medley of their songs at different speeds lol. Namjoon singing butterfly, Jin rapping Killer (although Tae 100% jumped in and helped and took over a bit with Kookie playing back up Rapper and hype man. Taekook biggest Cypher enthusiasts!), and everyone singing Miss Right but switching their parts up. Lmfao it was great. Rapline sang and vocal line rapped. And they ended it expressing their gratitude and love for each other and how hard the others parts were. Jimins "ugh, rappers thank you" sigh of relief at the end and Yoongis "wow Jimin I love you" after trying to sing his high notes 🤣 love to see the mutual appreciation for the others skills!

We said goodbye to the MC and went right into Dope and then I Need U (Namjoons voice and Jimins high note kill me and JKs jump), which they killed as always. And then into a skit: one day in ma city. I have absolutely no idea what the point of this skit was other than an apology for the Muster being late. Please don't ask me to explain it past that 😂 after this skit though, they came back to the stage in New outfits. They went from cute and cuddly to dangerous in black for a Baepsae performance. Whoever was in that front row for that one, I hope they survived!! And Hobi breaking it down at the end, ugh he is so cool. Boyz with fun will forever be one of my favorite performances. Sope hyping each other up every song too 😭 link to Jhope being the coolest ever during this song because I can't help it.

Disc 2:

MD & Poster Making Story:

They are all freezing their butts off but omg this is the most cozy and cute concept 🥰 and i adore the Units! The hyung trio, Vmon and Jikook, all paired perfectly! JK heckling Tae with vocals and trying to distract him during his solo shoot was super cute too. And the way he kept copying and teasing Jimin during their unit shoot. I love him

Jimin giggling and calling Namjoon cute as he does his best voice acting for the counting in the VCR skit for muster 🥺

The units all continued to be the same for the indoor shoot. Love it. Jungkook staring at Jimin dancing to butterfly, captions "Jungkook stares at lively Jimin." Lol Jimin telling us about how he used to read all these comics with his father, just to later get a scene of Jikook cuddled up together looking at the comics and Jimin explaining the story to JK so sweetly 🥺

Jin in those glasses and turtle neck is legit the perfect look. He looks AMAZING and is killing it. He wins at life and everything he does I swear. This was the most precious photoshoot. So cute. Jihope randomly doing isolations in perfect sync in the middle of the group shoot is so them. Just main dancers things. Joon is killing his denim jacket, hobi is the worlds cutest human. I don't know anyone who can pull off Overalls like Tae. And my bias line is dressed to perfection and are killing me! Tae grumbling through his teeth while not letting his smile slip at JinKook being too heavy as they lean their entire body weight on him during the group photo. Lmao top notch professionalism! And the cuddle pile at the end just might be my favorite. So cute!

Practice Making Story:

The members posing with their own cardboard cutouts is taking me OUT 😂🤣

Jhope giving an explaination over their script practice for muster to the camera, all serious and all you here in the background is screaming and yelling. Camera cuts to Jinkook wrestling and slapping each other while giggling like mad 😂🤣 omfg. Headlocks and thigh pinching and takedowns, no holding back! I admire the way Hobi can ignore them so completely and not be totally distracted lmao

Started a mess, but they got serious fast! They work so hard. All the stage directions, speech practice and choreo practice. And I love how we always get super cute hopekook cuddles in rehearsals as they watch their work back or listen to directions. 🥺

JK practically pushing Joon into the center to do Hobis Baepsae dance break during practice and then Jin doing it after too! Love the rest hyping them too! And who told Hobi it was okay to dress so good for practice 😭

I know they had more than enough chairs there for everyone, why did 3J do their ending mentions for the camera on top of each other?! 🤣 JK sitting on Jimins lap and Jimin sitting on Hobi's lap. We could barely see J-hope the whole time! But Jimins arms around JK keeping him on his lap carefully the whole time so he doesn't slip is making me soft

The Day Making Story:

The cringing over the dating videos is truly the only acceptable response 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so glad they never did that again 🙈😭🤣

Jin: "we are performing Baepsae for the fans without warning. It is our gift to them." BTS giving the gift of excessive hip thrusts and hard beats to their fans. Don't say they don't give you anything 🤣🤣 love it so much. And I'm positive everyone who was there did too 🙈 omg in the other show not on the DVD Jin did Hobi's dance break though! I'm so glad they included that in this Making Film because he KILLED IT 😂

Tae leaving the stage after the first concert and being unable to stop the smile from taking over his face as he talks about the huge reaction army had when they surprised them with Baepsae 😭 and then his so sweet "oh be careful" and steadying hand for the camera person when they almost tripped over something. Who is the best and why is it Tae? Protect him always 😭😭

Some of the guys doing an impromptu photoshoot backstage before the second show. Lmao and goodness, Jin has been wrecking me so hard during this Muster and all these Muster making films. This little pretend photoshoot? He didn't have to go so hard! I love how they have fun together!

Jimin: " we still have the encore stage. Keep your eyes on us till the end." That was the plan!!

Jimin crashing Sope's ending mentions with the camera, nodding along to their words and just adding a "love you" is such a mood. I Love HIM!! They are all so sweet

And that's it for the first 2 discs!! I'll make a part 2 and 3 for the last 2 discs of memories 2016 soon! I loved this all so much. I love seeing them have a blast with each and with ARMY. Disc 3 looks packed full of content, I'm already looking forward to it! Thank you for letting me share 💜

[fratboykate]

Yknow what I just realized? We have not discussed the place that the song “Rasputin” has in Kate and Yelena’s life. I know for a fact one of them has played it to annoy the other, but I’m not sure which one yet…

Okay...

1) I had NEVER heard more than the first few seconds of that song. I had no idea what it was called or what it was about.

2) You are a FOOL, a BUFFOON, a CRETIN if you think it's Kate OR Yelena who use it and not Kate's friends. AN ABSOLUTE DINGDONG.

"Ra, Ra, Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine."

...is literally constantly changed to Yelena's ringtone on Kate's phone. When they get piss drunk they play it like the DJ horn when Yelena walks into rooms. When they're on vacation together they stand outside Kate and Yelena's room and blast it in the middle of the night. They made the DJ play it at Kate and Yelena's wedding.

It all started because Kate, Greer, Franny and a couple of the other Archery friends decided to rent a house in the mountains with their boos and all go away for the weekend. Of course Kate and Yelena got handsy the first night and we all know Motor Mouth™️ can't keep her mouth shut in any situation.

When they walked out the next morning Kate's friends legit had the song READY.TO.GO. Kate and Yelena literally put A TOE out of their room and the song BLASTED. Yelena had no idea wtf was going on at first and then Kate explained and she was basically like "I'm killing all of them, then you, then myself."

[justmariadaily]

I am the Bully and She’s my target - Deib

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"He's Into Her"

 Passionate. Funny. A dreamer.

Published her story He's Into Her in year 2013 and finished it 2017, Joined in Wattpad in year 2012 (June). One of the Best Authors in Wattpad and has Thousands of followers. She is Maxine Lat Calibuso, known as MAXINEJIJI.

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