#i need them to stay together forever

[willboland]

they're fucking your honour

[ash-and-starlight]

one day, in a thousand years

[cheddertm]

no, YOU DON'T GET IT!!!! YOU CAN'T BE THE RIPTIDE PIRATES WITHOUT ONE OF THEM BECAUSE IT JUST FALLS APART. WITHOUT CHIP, JAY AND GILLIAN DON'T HAVE THEIR MAIN GUY, THEIR MAIN REASON FOR DOING ANYTHING BECAUSE HE SAVED THEM. WITHOUT JAY THEY WOULD LITERALLY JUST CRASH N BURN AND ALSO NOT GET COMFORTED THE WAY SHE IS WITH HER BECAUSE SHE ISNT AFRAID TO SHOW HER EMOTIONS OR BE EMOTIONAL AROUND THEM. WITHOUT GILLION THEY JUST DONT HAVE HIS SILLINESS AND WHIMSY, AND ALSO LIKE A LITERAL ROCK FOR THEM. IN THIS ESSAY I WILL-

[kuniipi]

Satogou day!! they'll forever have a place in my heart 🥺💖

[st-alia-atreides]

what’s really incredible to me is that lestat and louis were awful together. like they hated each other they couldn’t stand living together lestat broke all of louis’s bones their divorce papers were served to them by the daughter they had to save their marriage. but i fully bought that they loved each other! like they really were in love! meanwhile louis and armand are so healthy. they say the right things. they even finish each others sentences. but i struggle to believe that they really love each other the way they say they do! hallucination lestat was laughing me fucking too!!! i don’t buy it!!!

[vigilskeep]

the exile very good at looking calm and intimidating in the background, one of his best skills really, until karlach walks over and they both completely wordlessly decide it’s time to wrestle. and wyll STILL succeeds charisma checks with all that going on behind him

[sflow-er]

Hey there. Do you think Stedrika’s screen time in S3 was cut down due to fan backlash? When I watched S3, I thought something was off with them, no buildup and out of nowhere they become a couple. It was a resolution that felt so forced and not natural. As if let’s give a happy ending to the lesbian couple too just for the sake of it.

Hi anon! Thank you for the message.

In general, I think they cut down several plot lines from S1 and S2 to make room for new ones and still fit S3 into six episodes, but yeah. In Stedrika's case, I absolutely believe the fan backlash factored into it.

I can't remember the source now (an interview with Lisa? a quote from Felicia?) but there was chatter around S2 that their romance was written in because fans had started shipping them after S1 and the creators thought it was a cool idea. But then after S2 came out, they got a truly disproportionate flood of hate for supposedly stealing screen time from Wilmon, and Felicia bore the brunt of it on Xitter.

For my own part, I was never that interested in them back in S1, and they felt a bit too fan service-y to me in S2. But I still wrote this to my friend on Discord after watching S3, about things I was left wanting,

I can't believe I'm saying this, but more Stedrika. Even just a couple of tiny scenes. It was a thing in ep2 when Fredrika got jealous, then forgotten for 3 eps, then hastily wrapped up in ep6. Ehhh

Like, I get that if/when they needed to cut some stuff, it was an easy choice to cut the side ship consisting of two minor characters that received so much vitriol. But I'm sure they could have thought of something to wrap it up in a more satisfactory manner.

In fact, someone here on tumblr noticed later on that there is a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in the finale where they start making out at the white party (on the dance floor behind Felice), which is probably how they get together and why Stella is so harsh to Rosh when she rocks up. If that's the case, I don't understand why they couldn't spare two seconds for that kiss to make sure we caught it.

So anon, I definitely get where you're coming from!

[thotsfortherapy]

having mommy issues be like I hate that you know me I hate that we’re related I hate that you birthed me I hate that you don’t know how to love me properly I hate that you can’t see how much you hurt me I hate that I’m expected to love you

[keeps-ache]

HEY

[areyoudoingthis]

ed already had such a strong aversion to the pirate lifestyle before he even met stede, was sick of the drudgery and the violence to the point where he was relieved about getting a "forced" way out via the privateering academy. and then stede left him when he shaved his beard and stopped wearing blackbeard, and izzy pushed him into embodying the kraken for months, and then he died, and then low tortured stede in front of him and he had to watch stede kill him and then do a "how to become a pirate in 10 short steps" speedrun and then he thought the british had killed him during their pirate extermination campaign.

the writers were honestly so galaxy brained for letting him retire to live on land do arts and crafts for a while. that poor guy needs to breathe

[willowser]

if i had More Brain, i would write about ex-pro chef bakugou. that like. was once world renowned and at the top of his game. that was on his way to opening a second restaurant in his name and had all the money in the world and was probably like. a guest judge on tv shows — the one that would just tear contestants to shreds about burning their creme brûlée, or something.

and then something happens, idk: he's sabatoged, maybe, and an important critic has bugs in their food, or his cocky attitude lands him in hot water. he's offered business advice from an old mentor and ignores it because he thinks he knows better, that he's too hot right now to slow down until he has no choice. maybe having it all wrapped up nice and neat for him isn't as exciting as it was when he was sweating his balls off, trying to make sure every dish that left the kitchen was perfect, from the moment dinner started until the moment they closed for the night; something changes.

very publicly goes missing from the spotlight. for a little while. he can afford to, so it's not a big deal financially, but there are little whispers about him, what happened. the truth probably isn't even out there, just a whirlwind of rumors about why he's gone now. and people move on fast, when you're just another big name among a thousand others.

it's not for a few years until he decides to start again, from the ground up. doesn't want help from anyone, doesn't want any ties to the life he lived in his early 20's, whether his name has been tarnished or not. he just — wants to begin anew.

the little place he opens is small, menu not very lengthy because — and he finds this out as he's drafting dishes on a sticky note — he's very suddenly terrified that he's lost his edge, after so long. he doesn't really want anyone knowing who he is or what he's doing; if he fails, then he wants to do it quietly, out of the spotlight. without all the eyes on him.

bakugou can't run the place by himself, much as he'd like to.

the food? no problem. after so long, he'd like to be in the kitchen alone, searing and seasoning and plating it all himself — but he can't very well walk each dish out. whoever he hires, he decides, has to be so far from the world he used to live in, someone that doesn't recognize his face or the paring knife-sharp tone of his voice.

you just need a job. that's all you tell him. whatever mysterious desperation you try to hide in your face, he doesn't ask after. you don't know who he is — don't seem to care, either. in the interview, when he asks why here, why you, your answer strikes him in a way none of the others did, all the other shmucks he considers.

"i just moved to the area and —" you pause, eyes dancing around the closet-sized backroom he's tucked away in. when you look at him again, your eyes are shining, glassy with something he's seen in his own reflection. "gotta start somewhere, know what i mean?"

and yeah. he does.

[rainbowanimation]

Welp time to make a playlist for F.C.G and F.r.i.d.a, aka LoveLetters, and cry for how cute and in like (love) they are.

If anything happens to either of them I will have a mental breakdown :D

[blizzardfluffykpop]

You sent me an ask so I shall return the favor! What is the most recent Kpop group you’ve gotten into and how did you find out about them? I always love hearing fan “origin stories” lol

Thank you for returning the favor~ That would be The Boyz 🥰💖 I love hearing fan "origin stories" too hehe (This is gonna get long I love them sm)

Anyways I've known about them since debut? I loved Bloom Bloom Pow with my whole heart when it came out and tried to fall for them then- It didn't work. The next time was when The Stealer (TS) came out~ I had watched them perform for Road to Kingdom- because ptg was on the show too- But I really loved TS cb- sm so that I bought the album about 6 mos later with my favorite members as inclusions at the time (Eric, Kevin and Hyunjae). But nothing came about of it even after watching the weekly idol episodes... Then came Whisper era and I ended up biasing Changmin (Q) and loving that song but again nothing came out of it.

(A little backstory is that Changkyun (I.M) got me into Dominic Fike's music-) Thus, when tiktok showed me Juyeon, Changmin, and Sunwoo dancing to Babydoll earlier this year as a dance cover: I fell. And then I finally checked out Watch It~ But Hui had his solo and it distracted me completely from falling further. Then I had gotten sick and decided 'well, what if I watch their content?' And I did... I watched their hello82 interview and their reaction to fanart of them, and lastly their mafia dance. And I loved each sm that I decided to check out more.

It was the first time I had watched their content and wanted to see more. And now, I watch their content almost daily. It's kind of like they revived the joy of kpop for me? My (old) ult of ults has been on hiatus due to the military so it's been stagnant content lately for me. But then they came in like a breath of fresh air- and I simply can't get enough. This month will be 3 mos and I honestly hope I'll follow them for a long time. (I think they're my new ult of ults tbh)

And lastly now here I am as a Younghoon and Juyeon bias (with bias wrecker: Changmin... he's doing everything to be bias again). And with them having a comeback I loved with my whole heart this past month, I think it really solidified them with me. Honestly, I'm so happy with them.

[collideliketwostars]

I worry this wound will never close and will continue to bleed

[redtippedcanines]

you only do the things you do for me out of obligation

[risingsunresistance]

MUSE HYSTERIA DEMO AND NO ONE TOLD ME???????????????????????????????????????????