#i'm getting stupidly rich lol

[c4tto626]

this is how things are going for me so far

[running-in-the-dark]

help I can't stop thinking about furniture. it's keeping me from thinking about the other way more important things I need to be thinking about (Jenkins, Dan Fielding, etc.)

[danieyells]

hi! any chance you'd be able to post some of kaito's voicelines? I would love to see them <33

Our wanna-be knight and pathetic little best friend! He's just such a good boy lol. . .once again, another one who just wants to go back to a normal life, poor thing. Kaito's very much your vanilla, sweet boyfriend character with no frills attached, aside from his cowardice and his gambling habit of course. And his terrible aim. . . .

Copying all of them over isn't hard now that I've done it twice. Let's do it again for Kaito!

Default:

"{PC}! Over here! Hiya!"

"God, please don't make me go on any more missions... It's not like me being there is any help to anyone anyway..."

"Oh yeah, have you been on WickHive yet? Someone leaked next month's cafeteria menu! Oh wait... I-I already told you that, didn't I?!"

"Damn it... I could've taken {PC} to lunch with that money! God, why am I such a moron?!"

"Ask me anything you want to know! I'm pretty savvy when it comes to Darkwick!"

honestly the fact that he's a second year who doesn't wanna be here and doesn't wanna be doing all of this but he still knows like everything about the school is also kinda sus to me. . .surely he'd divest himself from as much of darkwick as possible if he didn't care

"Urgh... Limited time only, you are not my friend... Huh? Oh, I'm on TikTok. I really want this, but I'm pretty broke this month..."

You've got mail:

"Hey, new message. Better check it out, yeah? Or are you the type who's got like a ton of of unread inbox messages?"

. . .shut up /absolutely that type (and a sincere apology to literally everyone i know for that my adhd doesn't let me read and respond to their messages--)

Affinity 1:

"Ahem... Testing, testing... Morning! Heh, nailed it... Ack! How long've you been there, {PC}?!"

Affinity 2:

"Phew, should be safe here... EEEEEEEEEEK! Oh thank god, it's just a cat... I thought he found me..."

romeo oh romeo didn't you get into enough shit for this romeo? just make sure it's not Romeo cat. Because I'm sure it'll tell him somehow--

Affinity 3:

"Shit, it's Luca... Judging by the outfit he must be going to train. I better bail before he tries to rope me in too..."

Affinity 4:

"Eeeek?! Oh, it's just you... Geez, you almost gave me a heart attack!"

i know romeo is constantly on his ass, and I relate to the feeling of being scared the people you owe money will appear out of nowhere and get you, but. . .he's so jumpy lol

Affinity 5:

"Ugh, Romeo's texting me... Not gonna open that..."

Affinity 6:

"So your father runs a company, huh? Who the hell leads with that?! This is why I hate talking to Frostheimers..."

so the wording here is wonky because he's quoting a Frostheimer, but there's no visual indication that he's quoting them. But lore drop! Kaito's father runs a company! But I thought he wasn't well off. . .? Maybe his parents are separated or his father doesn't spend any of their money on him. . .or the company isn't doing well. . . .

Affinity 7:

"Argh, I want junk food! And I want to try all the new snack flavors!!"

my boy is so relateable--

Affinity 8:

"All right, time to man up and bite the bullet... Nope, absolutely not, can't do it!"

Affinity 9:

"How is Jin's skin so perfect? Fucking rich kids and their stupidly expensive fancy-ass toner!!!"

kaito really looking at jin like OH NO HE'S HOT

Affinity 10:

"(yawn) Guess I'll go brush my teeth..."

Affinity 11:

"Hey {PC}, you seem different somehow today. Did you change something? Or am I just imagining things?!"

Affinity 12:

"Noooo why does Tohma want to see me...? No way it's about something good! Could you come with me, {PC}?!"

Affinity 13:

"Crap, I fell asleep in class so I don't know what our homework is... Help me, {PC}!"

Affinity 14:

"(yawn) Man, my bed's like a freaking marshmallow. I can never get any good sleep on that thing..."

lol the Frostheim beds are too comfortable lolol I NEED A FIRMER BED TOO KAITO I GET IT.

Affinity 15:

"Huh? Oh, my pendant! You're always wearing it? Does that mean you've actually been paying attention to me?!"

once again the wording here is wonk because it makes it sound like the pc is always wearing Kaito's pendant. I'm pretty sure he's quoting the pc, who's commented that "you're always wearing it". It would read better as smething like "You noticed I'm always wearing it?"

Affinity 16:

"Hey {PC}, how 'bout we grab a bite?! I've got tons to splurge in winn... er, earnings, so it's all on me! Get whatever you want!"

your gambling addiction is really and truly going to get you in trouble. disregard that i play a gacha game.

Affinity 17:

"...Huh?! Man, nearly fell sleep without putting my phone on the charger... 5%, that would've sucked tomorrow..."

Affinity 18:

"Ha ha ha! Have you seen this yet?! It's all over TikTok. Ah man, it's killing me..."

Affinity 19:

"Whoa, when did it get so late?! Sorry {PC}, I didn't mean to keep you up... What? You're still good?"

Affinity 20:

"Morning! Hey, guess what? Luca's busy after class, so how about we hit up the diner? It's been ages!"

do you. . .do you really wanna go there. . .i mean the drinks seem to be fine but according to sho they can't make good food at all. . . .

Affinity 21:

"Sorry, I gotta stay after class today... (sniffle) This sucks, I really wanted to walk home with you..."

aw buddy. . .they could wait for you or come pick you up after your remedial lesson. . .!

Affinity 22:

"Hey I'm really sorry but do you mind if we stop by the campus store after class? I'm almost out of granulated sugar."

Affinity 23:

"Hey, do you like stars? Oh, um, I was just wondering 'cause there's this place where you can see them really well, so I thought maybe you'd want to go some time..."

he's overcoming his fears and being honest with himself and how he speaks and just. . .asking honestly, no bravado, no act. do it scared, kaito. do it scared, do it awkward, do it sure you're going to fail. as long as you do it. proud of you!

Affinity 24:

"Sure is dark. Reminds me of the closet where we first met. Remember?"

Affinity 25(max):

"I know I'm weak, and a coward. But I really do want to become your knight in shining armor, {PC}."

I love how comfortable and honest he starts to get as his affinity goes up. Still shy here and there, still scared, but he's not as jumpy and he starts treating you like a real friend. laughs with you about stuff, talks a little about hobbies and struggles. doesn't try and look cool for you. and then the honesty--i'm a weak coward, but i wanna be better for you. i wanna spend time with you. just!!! he grows!!! he realizes you like him for who he is and how he is, even if that's a weak coward--and that that's exactly what he wants! and it's okay for him to be that way because you won't be put off by it, even if it's something he'd like to grow from so he can be better for you--but he wants to be better for you as himself and--idk. i have feelings about characterization lol.

Spring:

"(yawn) Man, I wanna sleep, but I can't fail, so I gotta show up for class... Oh! I have Professor Nicolas next! Naptime."

does that mean you're good in anomalous medicine class or. . . .

"Grr! All those girls in the hall were looking at Luca! I'm so pissed off now I'm not even sleepy anymore!"

"It's finally warm out again, so I really want to go do something fun... Wish I could get an R&R permit..."

well maybe if you stopped sleeping in class and did good in class or went on a mission or something. . . . . .

"Mheheh... {PC}... You've got a petal in your hair... Zzz..."

Summer:

"Ugh, it's too hot to go outside... But I can sense a coming-of-age event on the horizon... All right, here I come!"

obligatory beach event? 👀

"Can't believe Professor Hyde still wears that blindfold in summer. Pfft, I bet it's really sweaty under— Eeeek! S-Sir?!"

"Hey {PC}, are you free after this? I was thinking of inviting Luca to let off some fireworks! I want to show him how we do summer here in Japan."

"I can't believe I get to spend the whole summer hanging out with you {PC}... (sniffle) Homework? Uh y-yeah, I finished it already..."

Autumn:

"Is it just me, or is it really cold today?! Guess I better get my coat out soon..."

"Have you had the chestnut rice from the cafeteria yet? They made it way too fancy. It's supposed to be comfort food..."

"Tohma's always reading something. Maybe I should too... All right, let's go with this! 10 Ways To Become Popular Overnight!"

well. . .it's something to read. . .never a bad idea to read.

"Apparently the moon is the most beautiful in fall since the air gets clearer. Want to go take a look?"

Winter:

"It's freezing out there! It's freezing in here! Frostheim sucks!!"

this makes me wonder what the warmest dorm is on average. . .probably jabberwock as long as towa's in a good mood? (or maybe warm jabberwock winters mean towa's in a bad mood. . .?)

"The cold can go to hell, but I guess there's outfits you can only wear this time of year..."

"I really want to go to Starbucks for the new winter drink! But I really really don't want to go on any missions!! Guess I'll never get to try it."

"Gram... No... No more mandarins... ...Huh?! Oh, it was just a dream... I haven't had a mandarin for ages..."

'gram' in this case is 'grandma' in case you couldn't figure it out haha and the mandarin(mikan)'s used to represent health and longevity and a long prosperous bloodline or something like that for new years. So i assume his grandmother would feed him a lot of mandarins every winter lolol

His birthday:

"Why did Jin, Tohma, and Luca give me all this high-end stuff?! It's freaking me out!! Thank you!?!?"

EVEN JIN AND TOHMA GAVE HIM GIFTS. . .FROSTHEIM FAM IS REAL. . . .

Your birthday:

"Happy birthday, {PC}! We'll make this the best one— Hey, give those back! Those are the cue cards I made yesterday!!"

ksjfkhesbfjh he made himself cue cards to give you a birthday speech with as little stuttering as possible. . . .

New Years:

"Happy New Year! Let's make it a good one! S-So hey, if, er, if you'd like, c-could we, um... could we make our first shrine visit together?"

Valentine's Day:

"C'mon Kaito, deep breaths. Girls aren't into guys with no chill. So stay cool... Stay— Are those chocolates for me?! I'll take them to my grave!"

everyone loves an enthusiastic boy lol

White Day:

"Do you like the cookies I made? Come on, no way they're that good, heh heh... Heh heh heh... Here, take them all!!"

god i bet he makes really good sweets too. like i bet he puts so much love and good spirit into them lolol

April Fool's Day:

"I'd never lie to a girl. Ah! That's not a lie, I swear! {PC}? Are you listening?!"

BAD THING TO SAY ON APRIL FOOL'S ABORT MISSION

Halloween:

"Trick or treat! See those carved pumpkins? I was actually the one who made them. What do you think?"

given his DIY skills i bet he's actually really good at carving too. i bet they look really good!

Christmas:

"Hey, uh, {PC}, do you, uh... Do you have any plans for Christmas? I'm actually totally free!"

Idle:

"Huh? {PC}? Am I being annoying?! I'm sorry! You're probably busy, right?!"

"{PC} seems kind of busy... I know! I'll find a video that'll help take her mind off things!"

the secondary idle audios replace the first ones after you hit a certain affinity, so it's cute to see that he eventually decides 'i'm not being annoying, they're just busy. i wanna help them' after they get closer o you. . . .

Absent:

"Ah...! Oh my god, you're back!! I'm so happy to see you!!!!  (sob) Please don't leave me again..."

he's so clingy. . .poor guy really missed you, considering you're one of the kindest and most normal people in Darkwick that he associates with. . . . also man 'please don't leave me again' with the whole loop theory stuff. . . .

I THINK I'VE SAID MOST OF MY THOUGHTS THROUGHOUT THIS BUT. He really is a sweetie. He really could have ended up a very plain and 'safe' character, but he's managed to be very charming and entertaining with his struggles and exaggerated behavior, while still being a simple and safe type. Really looking forward to seeing how he plays into the rest of the story, since it seems like his pendant may be kind of important. . . .

[lambergeier]

extremely basic but also vital dvd commentary request but last scene of the pacrim au prequel?

back on that grind. that ruining phoenix wright's life grind.

“Klavier, please, you’ve got to—” Klavier sits bolt upright when he wakes. Kaiju attack. No. What? No alarm, no intercom, no Kristoph. Ema Skye is by his bed, face red and swollen with tears, one shaking hand on his arm. He hasn’t spoken to her since she told him her feelings. He’s been trying to give her space.

i like to drop in little hints like the world is full of small, personal tragedies that you/phoenix will never know about bc every person's life is unfathomably large and rich beyond the scope of outside understanding. tragedy one: klavier really would have liked to go on that date with ema!

“Klav, please, I need you to come with me,” she gasps, scrubbing a hand over her sodden cheeks. “Ema?” he asks. It’s so late. One AM? “What’s happening?” “I fucked up. Klavier, I fucked up so bad, and you—you speak German, I wouldn’t have asked, except—”

tragedy two ema will blame herself for the failed drift test for a really long time lol

“German?” He’s not getting this quickly enough. Ema’s breathing is overfast, she’s close to hyperventilating. “I, Kristoph speaks it better than me.”

because klavier is barely conversational god bless. man who sincerely hopes duolingo will fix him

She shakes her head like she wouldn’t mind breaking her own neck. “No, it can’t be him, Klavier, please just come, I—”

when everyone but youuuuuuuu knows your brother has the worst vibes in the wooooooooorld. and you kinda know toooooooooo

skipping forward a bit here, sparse descriptions of tense transitions blah blah

“Ema,” he says, though she’s already pulling him forward, “Ema, I can’t be here. If you don’t—if Kris isn’t supposed to know about this—” He isn’t. It’s immediately, stupidly obvious. Blood pours from Wright’s ears and nose, his arms spasm around Edgeworth’s chest. Edgeworth is out, gone, eyes rolled back in his head and the noise of his breathing like a child’s whistle. Kris can never, ever know about this.

haha klavier definitely knows his brother can't be trusted 👍

one thing i intended, between this scene and the kristoph scene and the discussion of the gavins not their hitting their baselines, was to be like, okay this is the beginning of the end for the gavins. fic in which it's the beginning of the end for everyone, the gavins not excluded, and the end is going to be two really grinding, horrible years before apollo shows up. so, i'm working this out in real time as i type lol, that would mean this is the first time the thought ever crystallizes for klavier that he can't trust his brother. he's gotten by on denial for five years, but faced with All This, the truth will out! can't trust your brother!!

the starting premise of this fic, back when me and emma were just shooting the shit in the kitchen during lockdown 2020, in between writing in better light chapters was: klavier gets roped into miles and phoenix's drift test and it's the first thing he ever has to lie about in the drift. so, first thing alongside the fact that he can't trust his brother!! the two go hand in hand!

man this fic has bleak implications for the state of everyone's mental health in in better light lol

“Please,” Ema says. “Please.” She pushes, like a tide, and then he’s kneeling in front of the bloodied shape of his commanding officers. “Commander,” Klavier says in German, then tries again when it comes out as no sound at all. “Commander, she needs you to—” Ema tells him. “—She needs you to let go of the Marshal. He needs help. She says his heart—” Wright laughs, blood moving slickly over his teeth. One of his hands is jammed under the Marshal’s chestplate, his own glove and armor ripped off, his scarred forearm pulsing with movement. The other cradles the Marshal's gray face.

i published the fic then went back in like twenty minutes later to add "The other cradles the Marshal's gray face" bc it was suddenly intensely important that everyone remember miles and phoenix are in love. i think this was a wise decision. ignore how many times i use the word "pulsing" in this scene thanks

Klavier turns to Ema. “He says you have to bring the defibrillator here.” She’s pale, almost as sweaty as Wright. “What?” “He says the Marshal’s heart is already in—” he hadn’t recognized the German word Wright used. “It already stopped. He’s keeping it going.” Ema looks at Wright’s hand, pulsing against the Marshal’s chest. Wright speaks. “He says to run fast,” Klavier translates. Ema stumbles toward the door.

phoenix keeping miles' heart going was another thing that was in the outline from pretty early on. one must imagine that klavier is translating all this with very little understanding of what it means. this isn't how the drift is supposed to work right (<- please god)

“Commander,” Klavier says again, low, pressing his hands hard against his sides as the Marshal wheezes and dies and Wright, moment by moment, pulls him back. “Commander, I can’t—I can’t be here. I can’t know that this has happened to you. Kristoph is a friend to you but he’s not—” Wright cuts him off, another fat-tongued laugh. His speech is a mash of German and English, his scarred face palsied, blood thick in the slack corner of his mouth. “You’ll be fine,” he slurs, in a language unimaginable. “You'll be fine. I’m going to teach you how to lie in the drift.”

haha i'm no longer interested in writing fic unless i can end it with a direct nuclear strike. sorry what 12 years of ao3 will do to a mfer

OKAY!! ENOUGH OF THAT LINE BY LINE SHIT!! LET'S BREAK THIS THING DOWN!! HOLISTICALLY!!

so the fic is about lying the drift. in mine and emma's conception, that's accomplished primarily by lying to yourself, secondarily by ommission-lying to your loved ones so rigorously that you just Never Think about the lie unless absolutely necessary lol. phoenix does it in IBL, keeping from miles the knowledge of apollo's existence, and this fic is about like: oh he was lying about way more than that!

here, phoenix is lying about how bad things are and can get. he's actually super aware of how futile everything is, up to and including trucy going to college, but he lies about it! part of that is like, a natural personality-based distaste for pessimism, and another part of that is the knowledge that you can't just act like the world is ending all the time, even when the world is ending all the time. you gotta just keep trying to do your job, or else the world will just end faster.

which is a normal compartmentalization that people do, ofc, but phoenix has miles in his head every second of his life. and miles is fucking depressed lmao. even when he's not actively pondering offing himself, he's soooo fucking certain that he will somehow Be Dead within the next few years. so phoenix has to be the No It'll Be Fine Actually guy all the time! every second of every minute! which he thinks is fine and he can totally handle it! he's handled it this long already! no problems so far! but......perhaps there are problems so far.

i didn't want to do anything so strong as Drop Hints on the subject, and i don't think i did, but i am open to the interpretation of this fic that is phoenix lies to himself and miles so thoroughly that he destroys the drift test and disables them worse. again, not committed: i stand by me and emma's decision in IBL, which is that miles has to want to live for their drift to succeed (as much as a drift between two basically drift-incompatible people can succeed lol), so the test in this fic was never going to resolve anything fully. but i leave open the possibility that phoenix made it worse!

and then he gives the cancer to klavier lol. because sometimes when the world is shit all you have are stopgaps i guess!!

[bthump]

Ik what your stance is on liking Griffs character and I have nothing against it because Griffith's character is arguably one of the best written characters in Berserk, he's actually my guilty favorite.

But sometimes, I catch myself SILENTLY judging ppl who like characters that do morally incorrect things like Mori from Bungou Stray Dogs who's a straight up p*do or same with Hisoka or many other characters who tend to be p*dos and r*pists.

so i guess my question sorta fall in, when do you draw the line in liking a character?

I mean, Griffith did unfortunately rape casca (a horrible writing decision, really). anyways, I guess I sorta try to seek justification like "Oh but Miura wrote the rape scene in such a ridiculous way that I can't seem to really fully have the idea that Griff is a rapist in mind"

or sometimes i just yk, love the character design and how he was written (esp post eclipse god, he is awesome!!)

but sometimes...I see ppl who are justifably upset that I like a character that happens to SADLY have a stupidly written key point where he rapes a character.

And I don't blame ppl who hate Griff for raping her, bc theres been times where I also hate charcters for how they were pedos or also SA'd someone...so why is the line so blurry when it comes to liking Griffith and how can I ig put myself in a position where I don't feel bad for liking him?

tbh I don't have a line when it comes to fictional characters.

Or maybe more accurately, my line isn't which characters people like, but how they discuss them. I wouldn't judge someone (morally, I might judge their taste lol) for liking any character ever, no matter how awful, because I don't know what they like about them, what their lines are, what they feel comfortable ignoring or reasoning away or happily playing up because they like dark shit in fiction, etc. It's all fair game as far as I'm concerned. If they like a rapist I don't assume they love real rape, I assume they like dark fiction and consider them a really well-written villain, or they like other aspects of the character and the rape doesn't ruin it for them, or they like the character design and don't care that much about fictional crimes, or maybe they have a rape kink which is also perfectly fine, etc.

But yk, when people use harmful rhetoric to discuss a character they like, that's when I start judging. Eg I'm fine with people who love Guts. I'm not fine with people who say things like "Casca should forgive Guts for the assault because he stopped himself before going too far," eg. I'd be fine if they said "Casca should forgive Guts because it would make for a more satisfying story" though - I'd judge their taste in fiction and ability to analyze the story lol, but I don't think that opinion would make them a bad person. I'm fine with people who love Farnese, I'm fine with people who prefer her to Casca, but I'm not fine with anyone who might frame it like, Farnese is better than Casca because she's rich and white and from a respectable family. (I've never seen this take lol, but yk, as a hypothetical.)

Also in my personal experience I find that people who like characters due to their own offensive biases tend to have a hard time hiding it, so it's pretty easy to judge them by their own character, rather than their fictional preferences. And in my own experience the worst kinds of people tend to like heroic characters more than villains lol. If anything I find that liking characters who do "morally incorrect things" is often a sign that I'll get along with that person.

There's also something to be said here re: watsonian vs doylist perspectives. I think people who view media from a purely watsonian perspective, ie kind of buying into the fictional story as if it's real, attempting to understand the characters the way someone would understand a real person and relate to them on those terms, are going to have a harder time dealing with morally dark characters.

I tend to view media from a doylist perspective, which means I view the characters as constructions that help tell a story, and I generally judge them on what they bring to that story and how effectively they serve it. I wouldn't want to be friends with most of my faves, and I like a lot of characters who do terrible things, because those characters are fun to watch and read about. So disliking a character just because they did a bad thing doesn't really make sense to me on a personal level. I get why other people feel that way, but I don't care about fictional harm. I'll hate a character for being mildly annoying when they're on screen, but I generally won't hate a character for committing atrocities, unless they're depicted in a way that pisses me off lol. Like, I love Femto, I hate Isidro. Femto is cool even with the obnoxious rape scene, Isidro is annoying even though he's an innocent kid.

(Also I guess to be completely fair I'd judge someone for liking a character who exists solely as like, fascist political propaganda. But I do mean solely, like I'm talking shit like The Turner Diaries, not like the MCU or cop shows lol. Or like, if someone says they love the protag of Atlas Shrugged they'd better clarify that they disagree with the political messaging and they like him for xyz reasons, because it's such an infamously libertarian story that I'm gonna side-eye anyone who likes it by default, bc I feel like in this day and age very few people are reading Ayn Rand for the story lol. So I do technically have some lines in terms of judging fans of characters, but they're pretty uncommon lines.)

tl;dr I don't think you should feel bad for liking Griffith and idt you should even feel like you have to justify it by saying the rape scene was badly written. It was, and I think it's totally fair if that helps you like Griffith more, but even if the rape scene was super well-written and respectful to Casca and thematically significant etc etc Griffith would still be a fantastically written character imo.

And I don't know the other examples you gave personally, but as a general rule I think it's better to judge people for how they behave than for what kinds of fiction they enjoy. I do at least have friends who like Hisoka, presumably because he's a fun, entertaining character give or take the creepiness, and they're awesome people.

I don't think you should have to like those characters yourself ofc, rape/pedophilia/etc etc is a pretty understandable line to draw in terms of your own enjoyment of a fictional character, but other people have different lines and I think that's reasonable too.

[theabyssgazesalsointoyou]

Richjake + 001

• when I started shipping it if I did: the very moment i finished bmc for the first time. i latched onto them like a baby bird imprinting upon its parent. i would not be in this fandom if not for them lol

• my thoughts: they have EVERYTHING and people just don't see the potential 😔 the 'my best friend aka the only person i thought was real in my life full of façades was lying to me about who he was the whole time' and 'he burned my house down and every physical reminder i had left of my parents with it but i broke my legs to save him from that fire' and 'i hate him so much for that but it's like he's a completely different person now' and 'maybe i want to get to know him all over again anyway'. the 'i'm so sorry, i never wanted to hurt anyone, i never wanted to hurt you' and 'i was only allowed to be myself when i was with you' and 'i don't think i could ever forgive myself for doing everything i did to you' and 'why would you ever want to give me another chance?'. THEY'RE IN LOVE

• What makes me happy about them: they can be so stupidly cute <3 yes i love angst but i also love domestic fluff i think you've all noticed that by now

• What makes me sad about them: they are so messed up and there are so many ways things could go badly for them (which is admittedly fun to think about but it's also sad </3)

• things done in fanfic that annoys me: WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS THE SIDE SHIP the filter does no good 😭 i'm not looking for a boyf riends fic that mentions them in like one line i'm looking for a full length fic focused on THEM please is that too much to askkkk,,,

• things I look for in fanfic: angst, internalized homophobia, homoerotic tension, angst, all sorts of issues, hurt/comfort, more angst, in-depth analysis of their complicated relationship and the impact their fake friendship and the fire has on them, painful mutual pining, did i mention angst??

• Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: honestly nobody. they are meant to be. yeah sure i ship royal pains but i'm full aware those two won't last in the long run.

• My happily ever after for them: they move to boston they get a dog and a cat and a nice house and paint the walls together and everything and they get married and live happily ever after <3

• who is the big spoon/little spoon: it depends but i saw this headcanon that jake just instinctively returns to curling around rich like he did in the fire to protect him and that kills me a little inside in the best way possible

• what is their favorite non-sexual activity: stargazing?? idk why but stargazing feels so them. i wrote a fic and drew fanart about it after all

[buckybeardreams]

The Auction part 2

Part 1

I actually didn't think I was gonna expand on this, but here we are lol

@starksvinyls @starkly @winterspiderpurrs @spidyirony @mrstarksbaby

Peter told himself it didn't matter, told himself crying over it would be pathetic. He'd been regretting agreeing to fill in for MJ from the start, and he'd been certain he'd either walk away completely humiliated because no one bid on him, or he'd end up on some date with a creepy old guy who wanted more than he was paying for.

MJ had promised it was just a date, that he didn't have to do anything but sit there and look pretty. She'd convinced him with "It's for a good cause!"

He'd been stupid to let her sway him, but then, against all odds, he got bid on, and it turned into a bit of a bidding war, to his astonishment, ending only when Tony Stark lifted his paddle and more than doubled the price of the bid with a flat half a million.

Peter was shocked, to put it mildly, and he'd only had roughly half an hour to pull himself together before he was being ushered out to greet his date.

And by then, shock had turned into what could only be described as fangirl rambling because Peter had never dreamed he'd be able to talk to his idol, the man he'd been looking up to because he was a world class engineer, owner of Stark Industries, the company currently leading the way in sustainable energy—not to mention, the same man Peter had been jacking off to since middle school.

So yeah, he was nervous and excited, and damn near vibrating out of his skin because Tony smiled at him and offered him his hand to shake— of course, Peter had stupidly slipped his hand into his and held it before blushing when he realized that wasn't Mr. Stark's intention.

Tony had just cleared his throat and carefully extracted his hand, and Peter had taken the opportunity to fill the ensuing silence with his excited-nervous rambling.

Then all his hopes and dreams had been shattered, and he'd left feeling so utterly stupid for thinking for even a second that a man like Tony Stark would look twice at him, would want him.

He showed back up at the apartment, looking absolutely miserable, and MJ, nose red from wiping at it, extracted herself from her nest of blankets on the couch to pull him into a hug.

"Oh, Petey, I'm so sorry," MJ said, sounding nazely but truly sympathetic.

This was all her fault for making him go after all.

In her defense, she honestly believed he'd be a hit.

She knew Peter struggled with self-confidence, knew he didn't think he was a catch, but he was so freaking cute, and if he wasn't a fan of cock and she wasn't a fan of pussy, she totally would have dated him.

She had been so confident that he'd be bidded on, reassuring him that it'd be fine, and now she felt awful about it, because the last thing Peter needed was to be publicly rejected by a whole room full of people.

"It's okay," Peter said, even though he couldn't manage a smile. "We knew it was a slim chance."

MJ shook her head, even in her sick state feeling the need to be protective.

"All of those people are idiots if they can't see how perfect you are!" MJ insisted, her face twisted up all stubborn.

Peter sighed.

He knew what she assumed had happened and wasn't going to correct her, because it was even worse to admit the truth.

He felt so fucking stupid, thinking that Tony Stark had looked at him and thought he was someone worth taking out on a date.

He still didn't really understand why he'd bid on him at all. He said he did it to save him, but why would he spend that kind of money just to keep someone else from getting a date with him? It didn't make any sense, but Peter didn't want to dwell on it. Besides, Tony was so rich, maybe it wasn't that big of a deal, maybe it was the billionaire equivalent to tossing change in someone's cup.

"I don't wanna talk about it. Can we just eat ice cream and watch Project Runway reruns? Please?" Peter pleaded.

MJ sighed, nodding.

"Yeah, but I should probably pass on the ice cream. I'm not sure I can stomach it."

"I'll heat you up some more soup."

"Thanks, boo, you're the best."

"Always."

MJ squeezed his hand.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't think this would happen."

Peter shook his head, giving her a strained smile.

"It's okay."

It wasn't okay, and they both knew it.

[brave-little-star]

So watchers is going behind a pay wall to watch their content on a special subscription that costs $6 for a month just showing their content.........

Exactly How does one grow their audience/ Keep their audience when they are behind a paywall?

Reading they are NOW keeping their content on YouTube. And going to show first episodes of every new season.but ugh- who's gonna pag for something we have had the pleasure of getting for free?

The ads Yes annoying but couldn't the guys downsize? Ect or something. Ads are a annoying reality of life on YouTube but Because of the Ads, and being on the largest streaming service around they were able to create their company, people who loved them on buzzfeed was able to find them again new people were able to discover them and love them.

If I was a person who had No idea who they were. And i start a new episode of puppet history and learn the rest of the season is behind a pay wall I wouldn't watch them again. It's so Slimy!!

It's slimy and I don't understand how they think it's a good idea. From reading comments, posts people are furious and aren't going to spend the $$ on this idea.

Six dollars for one creator for a group that typically only posts 4 episodes a month? Yea no.. and steven sly remark about it being cheap.. Sir! In this day and age with everything stupidly pricy! Keep your telsa money. comments to yourself! I haven't gone out for food or anything fancy in months cause like many ppl I'm struggling so No . I don't buy a six dollar cup of coffee! I'll keep my $$ and put that towards getting Netflix back.

To add this is SUPER RICH! Coming from the guy who said once " eat the rich" and steal from the rich.. expected better from Shane.

Hopefully it works for them. I'll just enjoy their old content. And eventually figure out how to pirate the series I like. Cause that's a other thing. I only like 2-3 of their series! So fudge that! Lol

[ob4yme]

🍒 for ibring1ife and timedten /anonymous clearly pfft

send me 🍒 (or cherry)  +  a url and i will write some positivity for them.

i put this under a cut because it's very long, some might say stupidly long, and extremely emotional. don't worry about it. @ibring1ife @timedten

look. i started getting properly close with you two when i was going through a really hard time. i won't go into it too much but i was in the miserable place of figuring out how to move forward after looking a lot of really difficult, uncomfortable truths straight in the eye. i felt very much unworthy of any care at all, but you both showed me so much kindness and understanding anyway. you listened, you offered your support, you watched shows with me and played games with me and made me laugh when i felt, the dramatic bitch that i am, like i would struggle to ever find a reason to smile again. i know it hasn't been too long since we all started talking, but you both mean a lot to me. you really did get me through, and i'll be forever grateful for that. (i know i come on a little strong, i know i'm a little too affectionate sometimes... that's kinda why. sorry lol)

seren, you are a treasure. i have such admiration for your artistic skill, for the creative's approach you take to the world and to the media you consume. i love reading your analysis, the quotes you send me from the books you're currently reading - i love your passion for literature and for women who are allowed to be complicated and angry and something more than human. i respect your boundless kindness, the love you always have to give, and your strong moral fibre. i love your deliberate use of metaphor and envy your keen aesthetic eye. know, today and everyday, that you are valued, cared for, and this tardis team would be worse off without you.

darian, you are BRILLIANT! god, i admired you so much for the longest time before we ever got to really talking and that opinion has only strengthened now that we've gotten to know each other properly. you're always so much fun to hang with, whether it's stardew or farscape or literally just sitting on the phone shit talking steven moffat for an hour. your edits are gorgeous, too, and you positively channel the doctor in your writing, which is itself so unique, unlike anything i've seen in all my years in the rpc. your laughter is infectious, your excitement a joy to be around - you genuinely brighten my days, and your adventurous willingness to go with me on the wildest tangents is so appreciated.

one of my favourite things about rp is weaving interconnected stories, and what we've all developed is a prime example of exactly why. i feel so deeply invested in our plotting because it's so rich and expansive and thoughtful, because the arc of it is so satisfying, because you both bring such insightful takes on your muses every time. it feels like taking this medium to its extreme, and i'm always pushed to do my best writing with you.

i've been rambling entirely too long but to close i just want to say that i hope you both know how special you are. seriously. this world is better for having you in it, and if ever you forget that or are struggling to believe it, you know where to find me. <3

[system-of-a-feather]

Riku's clowning over the fact that despite me being the largest NPD/ASPD trait havers in the system, that I am also the most """charity""" motivated - and I put that in big """ """" cause I really hate calling it that and framing it as that - cause everyones like "People with NPD / ASPD are inherently EVIL and inherently abusers yee haw oui oui I'm so special I have empathy"

And I'm gonna try to exercise some cognitive empathy and assume the reason empathy-havers are like that is because (in my experience and opinion who has felt guilt and remorse like, once or twice and never want to again) empathy is a fucking curse and horrible thing to feel and experience. Its such a negative motivator to do things and its very good at making people feel so bad that they feel the need to "do something good" to relieve the tension and misery that having empathy is. So I don't think its to much of a stretch that people with empathy and "eMpAThS" are so used to having their empathy holding them at fucking gun point 24/7 that they don't understand that you don't NEED to feel like shit to see that shits flawed and stupidly broken for literally no reason.

Like I have very very very low empathy - may that be due to autism, trauma, or whatever, I literally could count the times Ive experienced what I think is empathy on one hand (albeit I do have memory issues so do with that what you will) and the reason I try to help people and donate shit is the same reason I literally do all my shit - positive or not - and its simply cause I don't see a good answer to "why not", "why shouldn't I"

Like back when I was younger and a lot more immature and in the depths of trauma, yeah I never would have because my question was "why SHOULD I do anything nice for anyone" and I'd look at people struggling and go "lol you just suck get good at life why are you struggling lol you and your stupid decisions and shut the fuck up your whining is annoying"

But like, you grow the fuck up and you actually see how shit in the world works and that question of "why are you struggling get good mate and shut the fuck up your whining is annoying" gets answered with a "yeah life sucks people are corrupt the system is broken and they've been trapped in a quicksand pit of poverty so the rich can get richer and the poor can get poorer"

Which then, with my chronic "why are you whining do something about it or shut the fuck up" ass to better or worse I go "okay then why are they having to whine, feed them so they can shut the fuck up" cause like, so much fucking food is thrown away from every household of people who buy too much and don't eat it or buy food that they find out they dont like

So like why the fuck aren't we putting 5 minutes out of our day when we clean out our fridges to bring it to the local homeless person / family / impoverished individual who has to beg for survival shit to get them through the day?

Like literally Why Not?

And like I think a lot of other NPD/ASPD havers are sometimes caught up in the fact that being angry, mad, dominant, and "uncaring" is this huge defense mechanism and crap to make them feel secure - at least to some level - and so the thought that being """charitable""" sounds anti-intuitive to their sense of self, but like, whats edgier and more anti-systemic anti-societal normas anti-capitalist and ""punk"" than looking at the stupid shit we're conditioned to and being secure enough in your life, identity, and ability to care for yourself that you can casually help someone struggling

Like empathy havers are like "UWU IF YOU DONT FEEL BAD FOR THEM YOUD NEVER DO ANYTHING NICE" like

No like, its just fucking STUPID to not. It's inefficient. Like I'm not gonna act like I don't care about helping out cause like I'm not a fraud and yeah, giving someone something nice is a small pat on the back - but largely for me its literally just a matter of WHY NOT.

Like WHY. What reason is there to NOT do it? Like completely valid if you don't have the money, spoons, physical ability and all to do it - this is not a matter of "give out more than you can" but a comment on "if you HAVE excess and more than you need and more than you can use why NOT give it out to some who will use it"

It literally just does not make sense on a completely and purely logic / rational basis. If you are going to let your shit sit, rot, and join a trash pile in the middle of the Atlantic, why not give it to someone who could use it - let their day and maybe multiple days be good for a bit, give them less of a need to work hard and sit baking out in the sun and lessen the amount of waste and garbage polluting the earth.

Like I don't fucking need empathy for this to be so frustratingly stupid to see being a "norm" in the world where people just DONT. I don't need someone putting a fucking emotional gun to my head to be motivated to do something that just makes basic fucking common sense and I don't need to be baited with intense feel good dopamine to do it.

Like Imma be fucking Ben Shapiro here and come on guys its fucking FACTS and LOGIC, it doesn't have to be this whole uwu empathy uwu think of the children uwu shit. It can literally be "this is a broken system and it just fucking pisses me off so to be a little less pissed off at how stupid and irrational the system is I do what people SHOULD be doing because I CAN and why the FUCK would I perpetuate the stupid normalized ideas that are FUCKING STUPID."

Ugh. Jesus fucking christ I hate America and Capitalism and just this stupid fucking country honest to god. I don't know if its as bad elsewhere (probably) but jesus christ.

-XIV

[riddle-me-ri]

i’m gonna follow the pattern here lol:

your thoughts on…the different scarecrows? especially MOF jon?

Oohh spooky Twig Boys that I may or may not slightly slightly enforce my southernness on (only the good southernness like cooking, music, hospitality none that other shit) I'll be more than happy to oblige anon hehe. It's not often I get to talk/discuss the masters of fear.

Again gonna just kinda discuss all the ones I write for since I'm the most informed on those versions so sorry if I missed one and the post got long lmao

Masters of Fear Scarecrow: since you asked for him specifically I put him first lmao. And this Jon is just incredibly endearing? I think he's an adorable spry kinda guy that, like most, deserved better. I'm also super fond of his design. Also as someone who writes for "x reader" it was nice to see him...actually have a romantic interest? (albeit she was a bully bitch) listen listen...any extra info in a romantic sense of a character I will take

Arkhamverse Scarecrow: Uhh can I just say, absolute whiplash in design and mannerisms lol. While I enjoy both its like...such a bizarre change? Like yeah he did go through something traumatic (being very close to dying) but like...a total voice change? Maybe there's some behind the scenes explanation or something I don't know but yeah...I do enjoy him being whimsy and silly in Asylum and brooding and stoic in Knight with his waxing poetic lectures...but also also...does anyone have any idea how Knight Scarecrow's face works? Like his mouth and such?

TNBA Scarecrow: Definitely a more gritty and intriguing take, especially considering its a revamp of BTAS. Allegedly this is the idea of Scarecrow with a noose started? And now we've seen it incorporated in other designs which is pretty cool.

BTAS Scarecrow: Much like Jervis and I think Batman as a whole, this was my first Scarecrow encounter, and cause of such there's a wee bias to him being one of my favorites lol. Super rich voice, I don't care if he's terrorizing me, I will die of fear peacefully. Solid design and a super strong depiction of the character overall? Also my god his theatrics, top notch such a dramatic lad I love him.

Dark Knight/Nolanverse Scarecrow: pretty eyes...pretty eyes..strong jawline..pretty pretty scarecrow..huh, what? Oh..uhh yeah he's...fine I guess..I mean like not just fine as in fine as hell just...meh? I don't know I just remember him being stupidly criminally pretty. Although to be fair I don't recall much about him..sorry (granted I don't recall much about nolanverse as a whole...its been at most five years rip)

Year One Scarecrow: it took me an embarrassingly long time for me to actually read Year One rip. But it was very gut wrenching. It was the best updated take I've seen on Jon's origins and just how deeply rooted he is in his obsession, and it was a unique way too? Like it was an interesting take on the broken family scenario, I dunno I just thought it was super enriching.

Fear State Scarecrow: so I will say the designs for him are jarring as there's like..a different artist between the beginning, middle, and end of Fear State. But I like both looks, especially in the middle where he looks a lot like his BTAS counterpart. It was an amazing surprise to see the spikey red hair and wide eyes again in comic form and more realistic but still animated? I hope that makes sense. But I loved the story, and he was especially cunning and ruthless here.

Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! Scarecrow: asdgggh this boomer asshole lmao. But definitely one of my top three favorites. He's a decent blend of old and new for me. Like he bears resemblance to BTAS but also some other comic appearances, he doesn't even need to he in the costumer and you can just tell he's Jonathan Crane. Also his voice is amazing, and I will forever be grateful to the writer that decided that Scarecrow was a fucking Elvira fan boy. Like of fucking course he'd love Elvira, Mistress of the Dark asdfghjj one of the few times where canon got it right lmao

[zmwrites]

Tag: Incorrect Quotes XIII

I was tagged by @cherrybombfangirlwrites! Thank you!

Using this incorrect quotes generator with some OCs is a simple enough task!

Let's use the characters from CAMRR WIP:

Maeve: I like wearing oversized sweaters. Not just because they're extremely comfy and cuddly, but because whenever the sleeves are really big, I get to flop them around and smack people.

she wants to smack many people with sleeves throughout this story

Maeve: Where are your parents? Charlie: What are parents? Maeve: That’s just about the saddest thing I've ever heard.

his parents are around, but they're not the most.... parental. (it's fine. he's 29 years old and he's relatively well adjusted.)

Haley: Tired of just deserving better. Gonna start taking it by force.

honestly very funny the site put Haley for this one, as she's got her life together the most—she's got the husband, the baby, the house, and is very happy with her life. what she really deserves more of is sleep.

Haley: You’re jealous. Rachel: Jealous? Haley: That’s why you were being so negative about this. Rachel: That’s absurd. I’m always negative.

could've been taken from the page lol

Maeve: I am very small and I have no money, so you can imagine the kind of stress that I'm under.

VERY accurate. she gets fired from her job in like chapter 3 and spends most of the book around people who are stupidly rich.

There we go! Some fun incorrect quotes! I'll have to provide context on this WIP eventually but not today.

I tag @akindofmagictoo, @squarebracket-trick, @the-orangeauthor, and anyone else who wants to play! As always, no pressure!

[wildernessuntothemselves]

Hi~♡ please allow me to me to rank and analyze the entire list of writing propositions you put out while I avoid the last chapter of yamqn because I am keeping it to a moment when I can create the perfect atmosphere to read it properly.

1° werewolf!txt au full fic - that one is a little special to me cause the basis for that one was the first of your writings I ever came across

2° necromancer!oc and TaeGyu - the plot just sounds really really interesting and I love the little touch of classic horror and morbid themes i am getting from this one. that hint of a 70's horror sexploitation vibe

3° teaching your best friend Gyu how to fuck full fic - how not to love this one? it's guaranteed quality enjoyment. THE safe bet

4° bear!hybrid Gyu - the little excerpt you posted a while ago got me mad you ended it there. I want more. and bears are very much to my liking in hybrid fic for the contrast of being stupidly fluffy and cute but at the same time deadly dangerous

5° puppy!gyu getting teased by kitten you full fic - love how the synopsis basically implies that we are the pet's pet 💀. aside from that it's a perv!gyu fic with a bonus of fluffy ears and tails.

6° fox hybrid!Jun and owner!Bin - the synopsis got me interested in the dynamics with yeonjun. the idea of him being a arrogant fox for being highly desired and at the same time a cheap overused sex toy for rent... sublime.

7° puppy hybrid!Gyu and best friend kitty!Oc

8° YAMQN priest sequel - let's go sexy priest! the religious macabre is a special kind of subtle horror aesthetic, I love it... the juxtaposition of divine and corrupt, salvation and oppression, inconditional love and eternal existential doom (yes, I was raised catholic lol)

9° YAMQN barista sequel - it has potential, but I feel like something is missing. maybe it's the word barista that is tricking me into seeing this as more basic than it really is.

10° yandere soulmates TaeGyu - for some reason the synopsis reminded me of another fic that had a very similar theme, I really did not enjoy reading that one. I mean, if anyone can do it right it's probably you but I don't know

11° arranged marriage prince!Gyu - I don't think I will be able to read a prince!gyu fic and NOT think of yamqn for a while

12° perv!Soobin - too close to the cannon version of him I have in my brain 💀 (sorry, soobin biased people... don't take that as offense please)

13° senior Oc and yandere!tyun - when I was reading the title the first thing that came to mind was "senior oc" as in senior citizen Oc! straight up retired rich old lady Oc with her young hunk trophy husband that only married her for her money and is secretly trying to murder her... now I want the version I imagined more than the one you propositioned lol

14° stepbro!Tyun full story - not my type of porn category. as someone with giant frankstein of a family tree that has more divorces and remarriages than people... it's a bit uncomfortable.

15° best of the best - not txt

16° high stakes - found myself frowning while reading the prompt for some reason

17° ceo son!leeknow - not txt. and every fanfic that features a ceo or ceo son as the romantic interest reminds of fifty shades 💀 so no thanks

(I already voted on the poll hihi)

~♡anon

good idea. i honestly haven't even read it again after posting it (which i usually do to give myself perspective on what the hell i just did) because i'm scared lmao. let me comment on your comments

so many people came to my blog from that fic wow it's honestly so surprising as that fic was almost like an afterthought that i didn't really expect to get back to

yup we love horror sexploitation in this house lmao. though i'd definitely need ideas on where to take the fic as other than the original premise and the dynamics between the characters, i don't know here to ultimately take it

definitely a safe bet. fluffy smutty goodness

i love this much a lot too but my only reservation is that it's pretty similar to the yandere puppy gyu cabin fic i recently posted. both involve oc getting tricked into mating with her crazy best friend

it is a perv!gyu fic and it is soooo cute. weirdly enough it's inspired by this video of a real life cat and dog lmao

this one was an ooooold request but yes owner soobin basically degrading jun for being an overpriced dildo and jun being offended that this dumb vixen isn't falling for him like all the other vixens is just yum

exactly lmao

this one can go alright or be super dark and disturbing depending on the version you guys choose (if this option even gets chosen)

oh believe me there is nothing basic about it. that's just a front to lull you into a false sense of security before unleashing the classic gyu moves of manipulation and gaslighting and convincing reader she's insane as the story gradually devolves

oh this is actually inspired by one of my favorite fics that i've read. give it a read i'm sure you'd love it too

fair enough, but this gyu is super sweet and adorable

i fail to see the issue 😌😂

lmao i'm all for older readers (since i'm older than all the boys) but not to the level of senior citizen lmao. but i did think of making a sugar mommy au

makes sense. i never had a step sibling so i don't share the same trauma lmao

😂😂😂😂

really? it's actually more of that campy sexploitation horror than even number two since it's inspired by an episode of buffy the vampire slayer

tbf i was considering changing it to gyu (because ofc I would) and it's nothing like fifty shades of grey at all. it's peak bratty sub idol and oc putting him in his place

[colgatebluemintygel]

hiii watching bake off rn and thinking abt your wiwhw remus :( he’s sooo… gonna politely ask u to indulge me and wonder if u have any little ideas with what r/s are up to in that au? or any scenes that didn’t make the cut xx they’re so special to me

HELLO ANGEL, LOML !!! xxxxx

it's so funny that you say this, actually! because this week they've fully taken up residence in my brain again after a brief 2 months away <333 they went on holiday and now they're BACK and i can't get them out of my head!! they're giggling and holding hands as we speak!!

i've just started drafting out the first of many lil sequels, and it'll follow on pretty directly from the final chapter! SOO i won't say too much about that just yet, but watch this space!!! all i'll say is that it will, in fact, feature them wading in waist-high water! lol

but HOW ARE THEY??? they're soooo good!!!!! and they're soooooooo stupidly sickeningly in love!!!! sirius has been alternating between kissing remus and obsessively writing songs. he's up all night writing! picture remus asleep and drooling, twisted and tangled in the sheets, with the undersheet fully yanked up off of the mattress, while sirius sits there with hearts in his eyes, writing songs and gently brushing the curls out of remus's face like "hehe!!!!!!! i can't believe he's mine! :'-) <3333" while remus snores xxxxxx

sirius wakes remus up every morning with coffee in bed because remus is utterly useless without it. and then remus makes bread, and sirius sighs dreamily as he watches remus knead it. this may or may not lead to kitchen shagging! it has been known to happen!!!

sirius keeps trying to teach remus how to cook, which, as of typing this, has led to 3 house fires :-\ sirius still hasn't given up <3333

remus hoards mugs on his bedside table and always leaves little random bits of loose paper lying around, which makes sirius laugh. remus still thinks kevin mccloud is a bit of a posh twat, but he sits through nightly viewings of grand designs because it makes sirius happy. sirius is also a bit posh, but remus loves him anyway!

remus brought his pet hen (lottie!!!) with him to london from wales, and he's learning all about urban chicken rearing xx one of their neighbours, a very rich and funky old lady who collects victorian lampshades, is obsessed with lottie (and also remus), and looks after lottie whenever they're away!

sirius takes remus on tour! and remus gets very horned up watching sirius play shows (and singing songs about him), which leads to a lot of shagging in changing rooms! in fact, there's just a lot of shagging in general!! that never changes!!!

remus and arthur talk constantly! he sends remus daily pictures of his ties!

they eventually Come Out as a couple and go to an award show together, where sirius wins an award for his album about remus (i mean. they're all about remus! goes without saying, really!). remus gets a bit panicky from all the people and the cameras, so he and sirius sneak out and smoke a cheeky ciggie on the roof of whatever fancy building the award show is being held at. then they go back inside and sirius watches stunned as remus just lopes right up to jay z (or idk. some other famous dude) and asks for gum. lol. remus clearly has no idea that he's talking to someone wildly famous, and sirius is just standing there, watching this interaction like :'-))))))))) i love this man!!!!!!!!

I GOT CARRIED AWAY BUT AHHHH they're so good! so so so good and i'm so unbelievably glad that they're special to you! they're so special to me too <333 always will be xxx

[thejellybeanboys]

SO WHATS YOU BEEN UP TO? Um MOSTLY TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER JELLYS BOUS

Jeremy: “Um well...all you have to know is that I had a pretty good Valentine's day hehe.”

Cecil: “Yo también :3”

Hoagie: “Well yeah we all know you both went on a date.”

Codey: “And judging by your stupidly goofy faces it went well?”

Jeremy: “For sure!”

Luis: “Ugh I hate being reminded by the cold reality of my single status, someone else tell me what you did.”

…….

Otty: “Oh I went mini golfing at my older cousin's large mini golf in his estate with Mason and Hoagie.”

Luis: (Turns to Hoagie and Mason) “Seriously guys?”

Hoagie: “Hey you don't turn down a rich kid when he invites you to stuff.”

Mason: “I had so much ice cream duddee ahah, i threw up in one of the courses lol.”

Luis: “Um, Also white boy...I could have sworn your name was different--”

Otty: “Huh? What no, my name is Otty always has been?...."

Luis: “...Okay...Um moving on.”

…..

Codey: “Nothing much for me, Kinda just sat at my puter coding for my site.”

Leroy: “And I've been meaning to release more music but ugh, Mom made me do catch up homework cause I was slacking.”

Luis: “Oof.”

……

Wil-Liam: “For me... NGL dude I've been mostly waiting on you.”

Luis: “???, Heh well I know nobody is really going to have a good time unless I'm around but like there's more going on with you no?”

Wil-Liam: “Yeah, but like idk my time is definitely better when you're around.”

Luis: “...”

Luis: “Um-- Well uh-- whatever Pssh cool joke bro. Don't try to butter me up when you know I'm going to mop the floor with you when we get to gaming later.” (Flustered)

Wil-Liam: (“ I wasn't joking tho...) “I don't need to do that LuLu, I know I'm going to defeat you lmao.”

Luis: “All talk.”

Wil-Liam: “But no fr, I like hanging with you-- hope you know that.”

Luis: “Uh...uh-- I-i guess being around you is tolerable now? Not that bad...a 5/10 at least.”

Wil-Liam: “Yoo same score as Spider-Man for the 3Ds let's go.”

Luis: “(Huh Yeah I actually haven't found him *that* annoying recently, don't get me wrong he's still the worse but like... it's nice that he likes spending his time with me? Augh, but I don't know if he's like doing another bit or something-- he's such a clown sometimes.)”

[tsukiyadori]

The brilliancy continues---

Tsubaki: That's to say, BL that has no ero-stuff is just missing out on something! Ghost-Katsura: YOU DON'T SAY!! (Fudanshi Kazoku, Chapter 36.3)

This is so HILARIOUS. And also just so true to life, too!

I was half worried with how after chapter 34 the author Suzuri Machi called it the final chapter of Tsubaki and Hiiragi's story on their Twitter account (11th June 2022) that that was the last we'd see of them. But the author was also tweeting random ideas of how the two would be like together right after, so probably just their story ending as a focus plotline. (And then ch35 and even 2/3 of ch36 are entirely looking like they could have taken place in any point of time of the series, so neither confirms not denies it any way.)

Ch36 pleasantly shows Hiiragi is still very much part of the story as is their relationship, as is Katsura, and it remains great. And at the same time, you even get a snapshot of the present day state of the genre!

But to keep it more chronological: Ch36 starts of with a few antics of Sakura and him having produced a card game with BL tropes lingo. All the while kinda calming me down, I'm definitely not too deep down into the rabbit hole, since I have the same question marks as Kaede, lol. (But I'm not going to research those tropes, nope, sorry narrator.)

Which winds up the family three talking about their preferences and tastes in plots by the middle part of the chapter. Eventually it comes to the "super darlings" or your ideal character of your fantasies.

And Tsubaki starts to ramble off his idea of it:

Tsubaki: Somebody who drives a limousine, who has a stupidly luxurious house, has an island in the south and would bring you there or owns stuff like an oil field Kaede: So somebody who's super rich? Tsubaki: Who would use all that excess wealth to buy the uke in a black market auction Sakura: Human trafficking… Tsubaki: And who would kidnap the uke, imprison him and so all sorts of things against his will (also has a bed so big you can swim in it) Kaede: Rape on top of confinement op top of abduction… Tsubaki: That was supposed to be my super darling…. Something like that was supposed to be what I likeeeeeed….. Sign on Tsubaki: Born in the 19xx Sign on the kids: Born in the 20xx Kaede and Sakura: You like a criminal with a lot of money? Narrator: The flow of time is scary.

Is this a jab on the history of BL, how it was still filled with problematic, violent hot garbage around the turn of the century? How your tastes and tolerances vary depending on what you grew up with? Definitely. And it's hilarious, because yeees, I feel the generation gap too, despite even having started including BL in my readings really late.

But, since we know he likes Hiiragi and everything with him couldn't be more compf, it's also making a nice case about that fantasies and your likes in there may have nothing to do reality.

Does that make it a jab to his disbelief that your fantasies vs. who you wind up actually liking in the end? Maybe.

And the third and last part of the chapter takes this even further, and the bridge is such a brilliant arch over.

Kaede draws an ero-stuff card. And he himself likes it more light and without it, although he'd also read the horny stuff, too. Sakura has a bigger ratio of stuff with it, but is wondering if he should be saying this in front of his family.

And then there is Tsubaki:

Tsubaki: I like the BL manga with super perverts and explicit depictions. (Come at me with the gibbly sex depictions.)

And yes, he likes the other stuff too, they are all wonderful, but this is what I like reading most!! (Whilst the kids are wondering if he has any sense of shame.)

We all still remember what Tsubaki went through the other chapter, right? So this is what this one scene of two panels does, it's essentially screaming out loud:

TO HELL WITH "PRUDISM = ACE"

as well as

ACE != ENTIRE DISINTEREST IN THE SUBJECT

These are two conflations I've been taking increasingly more note of as my age piles up. And it's starting to get a bit irksome.

The scene also makes a hilarious case, that with ace you can easily wind up being completely clueless or overwhelmed, or uneducated (see everything Tsubaki with Hiiragi), but at the same time also be way way too unhinged things out of this realm and make a shameless fool of yourself. (See everything when it comes to his readings.)

This can really be a hard tightrope to dance and one that can, uhm, go a bit down the wrong rails. (Like maybe don't talk about your sexually frustrated rabbit pet in a train...)

And then it proceeds with the above opening snippet.

Tsubaki: That's to say, BL that has no ero-stuff is just missing out on something! Ghost-Katsura: YOU DON'T SAY!! Tsubaki: Just now - I got a very cold shudder Sakura: I also heard a female voice Kaede: Eh? Stop it your two… Narrator: That night the ghost of a fujoshi with long hair showed up next to Tsubaki's bedside saying "If that's so, then let yourself be embraceeed~~"

Yes, Katsura is still a crazy invested fujoshi. Also yes, watching Tsubaki being so slow must have been atrocious for a heavy shipper like her. Also yes, this is a super self-aware, hilarious poke to your series' own BL plot.

But also that reaction is so, so déja vu hilariousness. Your fantasy preferences have nothing to do your preferences in reality by default. You can be every bit ace and not want it for yourself, but read a bulk load of romance or even erotica. This is something people regularly get confused at. (But then they also don't get that consuming a bulk load doesn't even have to mean you dig the thing. You could even be grinding though them all for research. As in actually literal research, not that research.) But at the same time I can't even fault them, because it's almost impossible to explain in a comprehensible way.

But it also does line it up with an analogy that has surprisingly a lot in common with it: The discussion about dubious tropes. Everyone agrees that the content of these tropes is terrible. Does it make you like and love them in the real, just because you like stories about them in media? No, right? You could like mystery and thrillers, but that doesn't equate to you loving serial killers. You could like reading about a plot with dub- or even non-con. Doesn't mean you would like to be raped. You could not be able to drink alcohol and still be interested in the biochemistry, history and culture surrounding it. You could not want to eat sweets and still be interested in the art of confectionary. You could like reading, watching or talking about romance or erotica, without it immediately meaning that you want it to happen in your own life.

Not so difficult and yet notoriously hard to explain, and this chapter did it in so little amounts of space~

And it also has something compf to stress about the genre, too, when Hiiragi comes over having been invited by Sakura, and they start picking out BL books for him to read:

Hiiragi: I'm fine with any content. But I enjoy and like to read the ones with happy endings most. Tsubaki: ... Sakura: There are a lot of happy endings in BLs. Leave it to us [to pick you some out].

Just another snapshot in time for the genre. It's not been that long that the genre was rather tragedy addicted. (In all sorts of ludicrous ways, too. Heart of Thomas or Boys Love, anyone?)

The last page, is also really nice:

Hiiragi: It's lively and fun, isn't it. "Family" that is. Tsubaki: ... yes it is...

LOOK AT THOSE FACES.

Yes, is a bit of a jab to Tsubaki's workaround expression of "family" that he used to communicate his ideas on his relationship with Hiiragi. But it's also a sort of cozy secret word between them with a hidden meaning only they alone are privy to. Does it matter what behind it has a name? Or even a wrong one? Maybe the answer is actually a simple no, at least for as long as both participants understand what is being meant. (It's a bit like going forward with a good example and unwittingly throwing shade at what a lot of the labels wars completely forget as they rage around for accuracy.)

Because for a start, what's it all matter for as long as there are literal sparkles in your life?