#koh rants

[incorrect-koh-posts]

You said "which is a tragedy in its own right as far as my tastes are concerned, but I digress", but I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. I hope it's okay to ask, but what kind of fics/pairings would you like/prefer to see emerge from the fandom?

Of course it's okay to ask, dear anon!

Personally? I'd love to see more variety. One of the chief reasons why I enjoy reading fan fiction is finding new things I like - perhaps some pairing I hadn't considered before, some batshit premise or crossover that turns out to be actually brilliant, or maybe a cool genfic that explores previously unseen sides of a character or character dynamic that people don't write about very often. I'm not really the kind of person who seeks out fic based on specific tropes. Once I've read a story with a certain trope in a fandom, it's pretty unlikely that I'll go and read another one with a very similar premise, unless I really enjoy the author's writing.

So what I'd be excited about seeing in the AO3 tag would honestly just be: something new. For instance, a sapphic Sibylla/OC fic would be such a fascinating read (as would be anything at all that explores Sibylla's character a bit more). Or a Saladin-centric fic - sign me the hell up. I'd adore finding something for Godfrey or Imad, and we all know a new Tiberias fic would have me foaming at the mouth. I'd also love an interesting and/or wacky AU (and I'd write one myself if I had the time). Make it Jane Austen and let Baldwin have a gentleman suitor, while Sibylla elopes Lydia-Bennett style with Guy, and Godfrey and Raymond grump about in the Navy. Write a daemon AU (as in His Dark Materials) in the canonical universe. Or throw them all into the 21st century and let Reynald send Saladin threatening messages via fax.

I know the KoH fandom is much too small to engender the sort of variety I'd ideally like to see, and it's only reasonable for writers to sort of double down upon the fic premises and tropes that have done well in terms of hits and comments in the past and write more of the stuff the majority enjoys. As far as taste goes, I'm aware I'm the complete outlier here, and I really don't mean to antagonise anybody with this post or insult their writing or reading preferences. I'm glad your fics are doing well, folks, I truly am - it's only that I'm very likely not the target audience for them. Sometimes I just wish I weren't the only freak in the circus, lol.

(The post anon is referring to is this one btw.)

[satureja13]

We teleport all the time (the Beach House doesn't even have stairs to the first floor ^^') but this is new.

Everyday a new weird surprise haha

[queen-of-boops]

"Doctor Lucas"

Alright friends, it's time to talk about my biggest LITG pet peeve. It happens all the time, I'm reading a Lucas villa fic or scrolling through Tumblr and I see it: "doctor Lucas". My brain immediately checks out, alarm bells blaring.

I want to be clear here, I'm not policing headcannons or what you can or can't do in fic, especially AUs, the entire point of AUs is to mix things up like careers or backgrounds, etc.

What I am saying, is that canonically, Lucas is a physiotherapist.

For some reason, of all the physios we have (Summer and Jack), Lucas is the only one that's often referred to as a doctor. Maybe it's because he works in a hospital, or maybe somewhere along the line fanon warped him into something else. But as an acute care PT, nothing will make me click out of a post/canon compliant fic/etc faster than "doctor Lucas" or having him do something wildly out of scope.

For one thing, the US is the only country that requires a doctorate for physical therapy. That being said, I can count on one hand the number of times someone even knows I have a doctorate, and I have never been called Doctor outside of the academic setting.

So what does a hospital physio do?

Preserve mobility: let's be real, sick people don't want to move, but lying in bed all day makes you lose strength and range of motion fast

Transfers: how do you get to a chair now that you suddenly don't have left leg anymore? How can I make moving less painful for you following major abdominal surgery? How do you move when you have new precautions and can't bend your hip past 90 degrees?

Gait: Do you need a walker now? A cane? Do you have weight bearing restrictions and need to figure out how to walk with them? Is your gait pattern unsafe?

Stairs: Are there stairs at your house? How can I make them safer for you and the person who's going to be helping you? What techniques can I teach you to help decrease pain and increase safety?

Balance: 99% of people in the hospital are at an increased risk for falls, how can I decrease that? What can I do to improve your balance?

Discharge recs: Where is the patient going after the hospital? Are they safe to go home or do they need rehab? Do they need any equipment to be safe at home? 90% of the time, the rehab department is the one making those calls.

Communicate mobility needs to staff and family: Most of the time, I'm the first one getting someone up. Do they need 2 people to sit on the edge of the bed? Does their right knee buckle when they walk? This is important information that the people taking care of the patient needs to know for everyone's safety.

We see patients post stroke, waiting on transplants, post surgery, after getting the transplant, chronically ill, etc. Patients on vents, with lines and tubes and drains all over the place, even with open surgical sites... they're all appropriate for therapy.

What physiotherapists definitely don't do:

Perform surgery or scrub up or observe or do anything even near the OR.

Give or adjust medications. I'm expected to know what medications do and look out for associated symptoms, but the most I can do is message the doctor and tell them what I'm observing.

Work with a crashing patient. It happens, you're in the middle of a session and a patient codes. Call the code and start performing CPR. But as soon as anyone else arrives, the therapist is the least qualified and least important person in the room. And if a therapist hears a code called, they're getting the hell out of the way to make space for the appropriate team to arrive.

Call time of death. Yes, patients die. Unfortunately, that's just how it goes. And yes, sometimes you come in to work only to learn that the patient you were working with yesterday passed away. But most of the time, if a patient is that close to dying, they're not appropriate for therapy. They're not dying in the therapist's arms or anything like that.

Use physical therapy as a stepping stone to become a doctor. There's not a ton of overlap tbh. I'm sure it has happened, but it's not like a PT degree is a degree that gets you into med school.

Listen, I LOVE my job. I get peed on, puked on, pooped on, etc. There are rude patients and emotional days and difficult conversations that need to be had, but at the end of the day I'm proud of being able to help people in need. You don't get into physical therapy if you don't love it. The pay isn't all that great and sometimes it's a very thankless job. Burn out rates are high, especially in the hospital setting. But those who stick it out are those who can't imagine doing anything else.

You have no idea how happy I was to see a character with my job who actually responds well to questions about it, so you can imagine how frustrating it is to constantly see my profession being overlooked or misinterpreted in the fandom.

Please, next time you go to respond to a post saying that you'd rather be stranded on a deserted island with Lucas because he's a doctor, or write a villa fic where Lucas talks about scrubbing in for surgery, keep this post in mind.

[thasorns-archive]

I feel so betrayed 😭 like the progress with sprite and first are super slow it’s a super slow burn and after waiting for 7 episodes I really thought that’s it, we’re finally there only to get a kiss for a millisecond

[aria0fgold]

So I decided to comb through as much as I can today looking for that animated series with a seahorse named Ako instead of like... sleeping. And I STILL CAN'T FIND IT?! If I ever manage to actually find this thing, I'm going to write A LOT of stuff for a whole month cuz of how ELUSIVE this thing is, I gotta put stakes on it.

[wileycap]

The Stupidest Things In Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender: A List

a.k.a.

a whiny rant from someone who has dedicated far too many of their already limited number of braincells to atla i know it's just a tv show but come on this is what tumblr is for let me whine

For your consideration, with many spoilers:

5. Katara Being Smug After Kicking Jet's Ass

In the original, Katara is betrayed by Jet. You can feel the raw emotion in the words "I trusted you! You're sick, and I trusted you!" immediately followed by her concern for the innocent people Jet has seemingly murdered. It's not a triumph, it's a wound, and the next time she sees Jet, her first reaction is "kill on sight".

This is great. It's heartwrenching, it's humanizing, and Katara using violence against Jet isn't a victory for her. It's just pain.

In the live action, Katara very mildly chastises Jet for trying to kill innocent people, which is... an interesting characterization for her, to say the least. Jet then tries to grab her, immediately followed by Katara throwing him and freezing him. She then just tells him goodbye. Her tone is placid, almost unaffected.

And then Jet says "Look at the power you have. That's because of me!"

Katara: "That wasn't you. That was me."

And then she strides off with a small smile, and that's the end of that. Sokka and Aang are not present. It's an incredibly hokey moment that's meant to emulate the style of feminine empowerment, but it has none of the substance. It glosses over any human feelings of hurt and betrayal. All that the it ends up doing is removing a story beat for Katara.

4. The Badgermoles

"They're blind! They sense feelings and react to them! Anger, fear... but mostly love."

Katara and Sokka hold hands in a cave and it makes the badgermole stop attacking them.

The blind badgermoles. Navigate by... love.

Yeah.

Do I need to say anything? Can we all see (pun intended) how stupid that is?

3. Bumi Makes Aang Choose Between Killing Him Or Letting Himself Die To Make The Dumbest Point Imaginable

Remember Bumi? Aang's old friend, a fun, kooky king? Well, here he's an actual fucking psychopath.

He collapses part of the roof onto Aang, and Aang holds it up with airbending. Another part of the roof collapses on Bumi, and Bumi just... shrugs his shoulders, fully intending to die. Aang holds that one up as well, and Bumi, instead of helping, makes the dumbest fucking point I've ever heard about "making tough choices", and urges Aang to let the boulder crush him.

Again. Bumi, the fun, wise king, wants Aang to kill him.

The situation is defused by Katara freezing a little strip on the floor so that Sokka can very slowly slide on it and tackle Bumi to safety. I can not emphasize how slow his slide is. Running would have been faster. Bumi has time to look at him and say "Huh?" as Sokka slowly slides across the floor. Oh, yeah, they were led onto the scene by the love-sensing badgermoles.

Then it's Aang's turn to be dumb. He says "you CAN rely on your friends" and hands Bumi a friendship rock. Bumi is pacified for now, but there is no telling when his next Saw trap will activate.

This made me actually feel bad. I just. I kept expecting for it to turn into a secret lesson, like Bumi in the original show, but it never did. Bumi's just a spiteful psychopath who is easily swayed by the gifting of rocks.

2. Koh The Face-Stealer Has A Backstory Now

Why? Mother of Faces? What? No.

No.

Iroh Is Intimidated By Zhao, And Then He Kills Zhao

Ah, Live Action Iroh. The most ineffectual man on the planet.

So, Zhao has the Moon Koi in a bag, and is ready to stab it with his special stabbing implement. Iroh is standing right behind him. RIGHT BEHIND HIM. Iroh has been there the whole time. Iroh does not want Zhao to kill the fish.

Iroh says: "Whatever you do to that spirit, I'll unleash on you tenfold!"

Remember how in the original, where that was like a big, shocking moment that he got angry? And how Zhao immediately let go of the fish, only to then have his anger get the best of him? How Zhao attacked the spirit by surprise?

Well, here it's a little different. For one, like I already said, Iroh doesn't come in suddenly, he sort of gets bullied into looking for the spirit by Zhao. Then he looks for the spirit, and after Zhao finds it, then he decides that he really has a problem with killing the spirit. He did protest before, but then he kind of just caved and helped anyways.

He threatens Zhao, and Zhao just... brushes him off. "Spare me your empty threats." Then the firebenders next to Iroh sort of... glower at him menacingly, and Iroh looks worried.

Zhao offers Iroh a place at his side once he becomes Fire Lord, which, uh? Okay. Fine. I actually don't have a problem with Zhao wanting to be Fire Lord, that seems to be entirely on brand for him, but everything he does to get to that goal is just stupid.

Aang arrives, they talk, Aang says "I don't matter", and then Iroh, who has sidled past the Glowering Firebenders Who Do Nothing Else, shoots the fish out of Zhao's hands. And then, as Zhao is on the ground, reaching for the fish with his special stabbing implement, Iroh forgets that he can shoot fire out of his hands, and lets Zhao stab the fish.

AND THEN Iroh, who literally stood by two different times and let Zhao kill the fish, decides to kick everyone's ass. And the Glowering Firebenders do nothing. One of them just stands in the background. Iroh doesn't even attack that guy.

In the original, Iroh immediately leaps into action after Zhao kills the spirit by means of surprise attack, takes out Zhao's guards in about a second, and Zhao escapes.

Here, he doesn't do anything at first except help Zhao find the spirit he doesn't want to see killed, then back down, then do something, then back down again, then do something again, then forget that he can do anything, and then he does something again.

It's just... so dumb. (So dumb it's brilliant!) No! It's just dumb!

And then, fifteen minutes later, after Zuko has dueled Zhao, Iroh kills him. Iroh just barbecues him by striking him from behind. Gee, Iroh, if you were willing to do that, why not just do it when Zhao was holding the fish?

Dishonorable mentions:

The fact that all of the actors fit their characters so well and have some great moments, but the show just doesn't support their performances at all. I feel so bad for all of them, being robbed of a chance to shine by some truly awful writing, editing and direction

The Ocean Spirit making Godzilla noises

June flirting with Iroh (didn't they say that they wanted to remove iffy stuff from the original? Well, that whole thing was iffy in the original. Why didn't you cut it entirely?)

Zuko doing the jazz hands to charge an attack

All the clunky and unnecessary exposition (for example: after Aang turns into the Ocean Spirit, Yue immediately turns to Sokka and narrates that Aang has turned into the Ocean Spirit, for almost 30 seconds)

The fact that Aang can only communicate with each Avatar at their shrines

The Ice Moon

The Cabbage Man literally turning to shout his line to the heavens while fire rages around him

The Secret Tunnel song being shoehorned in for no reason

Iroh's entire backstory being shoehorned in for no reason

Ozai being a caring dad actually

Zuko being shocked that Ozai prefers Azula

Gran Gran's speech

The fact that they showed Gyatso being killed by Sozin (literally nobody needed a big action scene, because that's what it was, predicated entirely on the genocide of the Air Nomads)

And finally, the fact that Sokka and Yue's reason for going to the Spirit Oasis is that Momo was fatally injured.

[joonipertree]

Hobie makes my Desi heart so happy esp after seeing him interact with Pavitr (Pavitr also makes my heart happy esp his chai argument don't ever call it chai tea I will lose my mind)

Can imagine ranting to hobie about how fucked up colonisation was for my country, he would love my granddad that got arrested once for putting up posters for the communist party, he'd feel my anger as I vent about all the history that was wiped from my country. Can tell him all about partition and he'd LISTEN

he WOULD HELP ME FUCKING STEAL THE KOH E NOOR OH MY GOD THATS MY BIGGEST DREAM???

Hobie would steal all desi art work and bring it back to where it should be, thank u for coming to my Ted talk

[bbyg00rl]

RANT ABOUT BALDWIN THE IV IN KOH BECAUSE THAT MAN IS SOOO PATHETIC (lovingly) AND AHHHH

Note: I am not a native English speaker, but I AM in love with Baldwin the IV's character. Still, sorry for any grammar errors and similar things !!

That one specific scene in KoH, when Baldwin is all alone, laying on his deathbed, arms folded over his chest as he patiently awaits his last breath. When Tiberius speaks with Sibylla, per the King's request- telling her to, essentially, say her last goodbyes to her dying brother. How if Tiberius hadn't spoken to her, her brother hadn't asked to see her specifically, she probably would have never gone to Baldwin's death-chamber. Never even trying to make peace with her brother. We, as the viewers, understand that it's because it pains her to see Baldwin in so much pain. She loves her brother. She knows better than anyone else what her brother has lost due to his illness. She is his older sister, yet she has to watch him die before her, still a young man (historically, Baldwin the IVth was only 24 at the time of his death). She herself admits that to Tiberius ("I can't bear to look at him. (...). That doesn't mean I don't love him.") moments later. But we can't say for sure that Baldwin knows that. Sure, he might, and probably does suspect that his sister feels sorry for him, for the great pain he is in. But he doesn't have to necessarily know that she still loves him dearly.

I find it especially heartbreaking, because in the very next scene, with both siblings now present in the room, it is BALDWIN, NOT Sibylla, who apologizes. His words, "I'm sorry if I've caused you any pain", my emphasis on the word "if". We don't know what he is referring to specifically, but with the given context, it is safe to assume that he simply means all the pain that came with seeing him wash away before his sister's very own eyes; become a man in a decaying body. It isn't usual for dying people to try and make amends with their loved ones, but the way in which Baldwin does it, is just... so depressing to watch. He loves his sister so, so much- I can't help but imagine that he most likely longs for the close sibling relationship that he could have had with her, if it wasn't for his illness :((

[woodswolf]

anyway im going to make some minor changes to existing chapters of DLD. im going to make a point to differentiate between the Hocotate and Hokotate pronunciations in-text since that's actually kinda really important and informs a lot about where olimar and various characters come from.

i don't think ive said this before anywhere (at least outside of DMs with my partner/ideas ducky), but the TL;DR is that both the "american" and japanese pronunciations of Hocotate/Hokotate are kind of an important background detail that inform how i see the pikmin universe Working in DLD. Hocotate ("american" pronunciation, "hawk-a-tate", rhymes with Freight) is the "standard" pronunciation across the galaxy while Hokotate (japanese pronunciation, "hoh-koh-tah-tay") is how Hokotate natives would refer to it. and this like, really really informs a lot of characterizations.

the ship for instance always pronounces it as Hocotate because it literally wouldn't know any better and nobody's ever said otherwise because it works well enough for an interplanetary business setting.

olimar also pronounces it as Hocotate unless he's specifically in a situation where everyone involved would Know to pronounce it Hokotate. however, he Thinks of it as Hokotate except in the context of Hocotate Freight.

the president is obviously from Hokotate but intentionally always pronounces it Hocotate and obviously named his company Hocotate Freight.

lamella would always pronounce it Hokotate which might make some characters (i.e. basically anyone who isn't from Hokotate) kinda 🤨 at her.

etc. like these are 4 very different outlooks that imply a lot of very different things about each of the characters.

also to be clear, Hocotatian is the "standard galactic" name for people from Hocotate. if asked by anyone Familiar With The Hokotate Distinction, though, they'd call themselves Hokotateno. but some people (such as olimar, aka Mister Nuance) would naturally have a conditional answer depending on who was asking and why.

in case anyone can't tell from the tone of this post, a lot of the reasons for this relate to some of the background lore of this universe that ive alluded to both in-text and in comment replies. i don't think it's ever going to come up explicitly in-text (so far it's mostly just been alluded to in things such as Hokotate's socioeconomics as olimar ranted about in chapter 2), but in DLD Hokotate has a history of Being Colonized and exploited for resources which can pretty clearly reframe a lot of those attitudes mentioned above if you didn't get the vibe already. it just hugely informs characterization so i think it's a change that's important to make sooner than later (even if it's mostly going to be relevant in much later entries once we start getting people Not From Hokotate involved in a major way, e.g. the Koppaites).

also blah blah blah everyone is technically speaking different languages but something something universal translators are standard features or something. i can have my really nuanced worldbuilding AND handwave things. if you're going to get mad at me about handwaving stuff though id like to introduce you to a cool game called Pikmin 4 which definitely does not handwave 90% of its plot and is 100% internally consistent all the time.

anyway ill probably make these changes tomorrow night or something. all im really gonna do is change 13 instances of spelling (the other 9 are going to remain unchanged as either part of "Hocotate Freight" or one instance in dialogue) but i can't be bothered tonight lol. i also might rewrite this post to actually use sentence case etc. since it'll be an important reference post to link in the chapter 1 author's note after making this change but i just expanded this from a discord message lmao

[incorrect-koh-posts]

Which is your favorite Baldwin ship? Like with an oc Or a male character . My favorite is him and Saladin lol.you know enemies to lovers shit . I didn't even consider this ship at first but after reading a long torturous sorrowful fic, this ship just hit the right spots. Anyways, do tell us about ur thoughts.

To be quite honest, I am capable of shipping just about anything as long as you sell it to me well, lol. But all right, here are my two cents on various Baldwin ships I have or have not encountered in the wild:

Baldwin/Saladin: This is very intriguing, but it's difficult to make into an actual romance in the canon universe simply because they meet so rarely. But I agree, they have great chemistry, and in a canon divergence fic I could absolutely see them have a sort of soft, reasonable enemies-to-lovers arc in a "We met five times in our lives yet always felt a special connection" kind of way. There are some very nice fics for this pairing that really managed to make me ship them a little, so yeah, anon, I feel you.

Baldwin/Balian can also be good, depending on how you sell it, though I'm sometimes not sure if I headcanon Balian as painfully and irrevocably hetero or not. What I'd personally find interesting would be Baldwin/female Balian - I haven't yet seen a gender bend for Balian, but I think that could be fun.

Baldwin/OC really depends - I'll admit my Baldwin headcanons lean a bit more in the direction of him being gay (and possibly asexual?), but a female OC can totally work, too. I suppose I just kind of dislike it when the OC is overly dramatic, since to me Baldwin really seems like a low drama sort of guy and surrounding him with shrieking or perpetually giggling female OCs isn't a thing that works for me personally. But generally speaking, YES, give me all the OCs of every conceivable background or gender (though now I really want to see Baldwin/male OC). They're one of the reasons why I love the KoH fandom so much - in other fandoms OCs are often reviled and looked down upon, while in our little niche they're basically standard procedure.

Baldwin/Tiberias: I love the concept in theory, since the dynamic of young forceful yet gentle king and world-weary yet totally devoted older knight really ticks the right boxes for me (yes, I am weird). I've read some lovely fics that featured subtle variations of this, but anything that is a bit more heavy on the romance and/or the more physical things between them usually isn't my cup of tea because at some point I tend to remember that they're related and I somehow cannot see past that.

Baldwin/Sibylla: Now this is definitely too much incest for my taste, sorry.

What I haven't yet seen is Baldwin/Imad, which could potentially be a good match in terms of personality. They're both calm and collected men, probably share a number of interests, and I just think Imad would fit rather well since he's not as uptight as Balian, nor as unapproachable as Salah ad-Din, nor as creepily related to Baldwin as Tiberias and Sibylla. But yeah, as you see, I only need the thinnest of pretexts to come up with a total crackship. Which brings me to:

+ My personal, oddly specific crossover crackship: Baldwin/Rebecca of York from Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Do yourselves a favour and don't ask.

[gourdgon]

This is very “I just noticed she’s holding a plate of corn in this scene” of me but listen to my insane ouaw theory revolving around a snail smiles

(Spoilers for up to ep 37)

So Snail Number 2 arrives to Carnivale Lecroux while they’re all in Downfall after they sign that treaty thing and *before* they go to Bavlorna’s hut

While they’re in Bavlorna’s hut they see a mirror to the hall of mirrors in the Witchlight Carnival on the material plane and Mr. Witch & Mr. Light are *JUST* leaving the hall when they arrive

Faewild time - > Material time is a year=an hour n using my very poor math it’s been about 6 seconds since Carnivale Lecroux entered Prismir.

There is no way that Mr Witch and Mr Light went to the snail races, got snail no. 2, came back, and deposited him into the Faewild all in 6 seconds.

So either that’s a plot hole and I’m thinking WAY too hard over (the more probable option)

OR they have a man on the inside (cough cough the King of Hearts) to help them out

I didn’t think far ahead enough in my theory to think of a reason why they would do this. But wouldn’t it be so fucking funny if I were right.

(I also think KoH is tight pants mcgee (which is. Likely.) and Witch/Light don’t know all that but that’s a rant For Another Time smiles)

[aleksiej]

idk if it's controversial, but why is the mispronouncing of slavic names so widely accepted? so people say stuff like "oh, americans (it's not just americans) find it too hard to pronounce thing correctly so they just don't". bruh.

it happens with lots of poc and lots of people talk about it (at least in the online spaces i'm in) but rarely do i see anyone saying a word about a koh-wall-skee or pad-ah-leh-kee or other such nonsense. and yes, i'm aware that jared padalecki pronounces his own name like that and imo it's a shame he doesn't even put in the effort of knowing his history and saying his family name correctly.

the one time i ever heard it be addressed besides salty rants among other slavs it in wolf 359, the space podcast. one of the characters is first gen, her parents are polish and she has a thing where she discusses her past and the way that people couldn't ever be bothered to say her name and i felt that.

her last name's minkowski. it's pronounced meen-koh-v-skee. it should theoretically be minkowska, cause it's a type of name that gets varied depending on one's gender, but such things are not done in the english language and slavic immigrants have made their peace with it.

but the subject of names comes to my mind a lot lol

i'm trans and full time slavic, so when i was choosing my name i was choosing knowing i'll probably stay here. thus, my name brings me some issues online, tho obviously not as much as some other people's names, poc or celtic or other slavic ones.

anyway, the mispronouncing pisses me off and so does the reluctance or outright refusal to learn. hope i did the english pronunciation guides correctly, cause i'm (obviously) not a native speaker

[queen-of-boops]

2, 4, 9 and 19 for the positivity ask game

Hi Chantelle! Thanks for the ask!

2) What character did you start liking because of someone else?

TOM. @rebelrayne wrote an amazing fic for him called And The Day After That Too (currently hidden because she's working on making it even better with edits). I used to be so neutral on him and she made me adore him.

4) What inspires you to create in the fandom?

So my first ever fic in this fandom (like many of us) was a Bobby villa fic because I wanted to explore his POV. While it is no longer my favorite of my fics, it definitely started a chain of events that got me here today. Now I can find inspiration pretty much everywhere (seriously, I have so many fic ideas at all times)

9) What WIP from another creator are you most excited for?

@longbobmckenzie has been teasing me with a Roberto pilot AU and a Henrik second-chance FTL fic with a Love Island Games element and I want both biblically.

19) Your favorite fanwork on an underrated character?

Not Just On Christmas! It's a Harry fic that was written for me, how could I not love it. Margot (@lucas-koh) is probably so tired of me ranting about this fic by now, but it's amazing and everyone should go read it ASAP

LITG positivity ask game

[csmicletters]

Hey everyone, my name is Rafa, so feel free to call me that. So this blog is mostly about Love Island the Game, I’m mostly a Tim stan to my core but I have my favorites from different seasons and all. I’m also obsessed with Duskwood, Lovelink, Schitt’s Creek, New Girl and Brooklyn 99 so you may eventually see those things all over the place.

I have lots of opinions on stuff and my asks are always open if you want my opinion on something, if you just don’t wanna talk or rant, I do want this to be a safe space for anyone who needs it. My messages as well, in case you don’t feel like sending an ask and just chat.

I write some fanfics here and there, and I love to make moodboards, my requests are open for the moodboards at the moment.

I don’t like Bobby and will make you see reason if you judge me for it. Breaking news: he is not that great.

requests for my moodboards are open

LITG

Season 1:

Tim | Jake | Rohan

Season 2:

Gary | Lucas | Henrik | Noah | Kassam | Bobby

Lottie | Chelsea | Hope

Season 3:

Harry | Seb | Ciaran

Season 4:

Bruno | Youcef | Oliver | Will | James | Tom

Thabi

Season 5:

Suresh | Suresh | Finn

Season 6:

Hamish

THTH - Game

Alex

Couple Up! Game

Jack

spanish nights:

Tim/MC - LITG

Jamie and Tim had the best month of their lives until she had to return home. Bad decisions, self-doubt and extra stubbornness from both sides led them to not seeing nor talking to each other for over a year. However, a wedding will bring them together once more. Who knows what might happen when they find themselves in the same room again?

Tumblr: part one | part two | part three | part four | part five

AO3

sleepless night:

Lucas Koh/MC - LITG

After some time together, Lucas and Zara have an unexpected surprise.

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treasure hunt:

Skylar Quinn/MC - Lovelink

Kaia receives a mysterious gift at her doorstep; in hopes to see the guy she's in love with once again, she ends up at a camp, but things get much better than expected.

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rock bottom series:

Hugo Hornsby/MC - Lovelink

part one: the best kind of bad something

Hugo decided he needed to see Max before the double date they planned with Taylor and Sally and things don't go as expected.

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part two: you hate me now and I feel the same way

After a rocky first meeting, Max and Hugo can't stop thinking about each other, so things start to take a different turn in both of their lives until they can find each other again.

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802 Bintang Garden FM 25 Sept 22

Galileo /  KOH+ Kazuki- snippets Part 2/?

hurrah i finished my report but now i have one more midterm :(

Section: sharing audience’s stories. The trio can categorise the stories by: “This is very interesting”, “This makes me curious”, and “I don’t understand at all” (Translator: they should all be galileo catchphrases but I don’t recognise the second one...)

1. (read by Kazuki) I went to have lunch by myself in a little restaurant. There were also some white collars, and a mother with a young child. One of the white collars sneezed very loudly. The child loudly said, “Mummy, there’s a doggie!” I tried very hard not to laugh. Ko: What kind of sneezing was that? Masha: (barks) (😂😂😂) Kazuki: I rate this a “This makes me curious”!

2. (read by Kazuki) I’m going to get married soon! I hope Fukuyama-san, Shibasaki-san, and Kitamura-san can send me well-wishes! Masha: What’s her name again? Kazuki: Sakura-san. Masha: Sakura-san, congratulations on getting married! Kazuki: Perhaps you could say a bit more, cuz people want to hear more of your voice, you know? She might want to record it down and play it at her wedding. Masha: True, true. (tries again) Sakura-san, congratulations on getting married! I wish you a happy married life. This is Fukuyama Masaharu. (~kazoku ni narouyo~) Kazuki: Hmm, I think you’d make her happier if you paused a bit more between her name and the next sentence. (koh+: 😂😂) Sorry for nitpicking! 😂😂 Masha: So take 2! Sakura-san (pause) congratulations on getting married! I wish you a happy life ahead. This is Fukuyama Masaharu. (pause) Our movie, Silent Parade, is in cinemas now. (ko-chan wheezing) We hope you and your husband will come and watch it together, thank you very much. (pause) Let’s also sell our album. (🤣🤣🤣) Kazuki: I’ll rate this a “This is very interesting”

3. (read by Masha) from Tokyo, 22 years old, female, Fu-chan. Fukuyama-san, Shibasaki-san, Kitamura-san, hello! (trio: hello!) I am a Galileo otaku who will be starting work this year. (trio: oooh) I have a very interesting story that suits this episode perfectly. Please bless me and make me a buddha. (referring to the Asian concept that after one dies, their soul needs to go through some ritual to send it peacefully to the afterlife. Here it means that the story is embarrassing to death. Something like rest in peace.) Ko, Kazuki: oooohh 👀 Masha: This a different vibe altogether.  Kazuki: Sounds like something massive. Two years ago when I was my third year of uni, covid struck and we had lessons online. At first I couldn’t get used to it, but soon I started slacking off by scrolling my phone or streaming shows in class. And one day an accident happened. (Ko: 👀 ) I was watching the final episode of Galileo season one and I had just a bit left before class started. I wanted to finish it so I entered the zoom while watching it. (Ko: 😚) After all, there was my favourite scene where Yukawa and Kaoru hugged. I was so excited that I went KISSSS~ Ko: what? KISSSS~  KISSSSSSS~~~~~~ (ko and kazuki 😂😂😂) ARGH THEY DIDNT KISS!!! I was clapping my hands and yelling at the screen to make them kiss. Ko: what? Of course I know what happens in the story but it sometimes gets into my head to do this and make them kiss. (ko 😂😂😂) At this moment, my friend texted me saying, “Fu-chan, your mic is on.” My face was drained of colour. (ko: oh no) I felt despair for the very first time in my life. (ko: that sucks😫) There were 200 people in the zoom, most of whom I don’t know. Ten of friends texted to rant at me. They couldn’t hear the sound from the TV, and they asked me, “Fu-chan, are you with your boyfriend?” I was so embarrassed, and I could only explain to them that I was watching Galileo.

Masha: Oh dear.😖 Ko: KISSSS~  KOH+: KISSSS~🤣 KISSSS~🤣🤣 Ko: I like the way you said that! 🤣 Kazuki: I don’t think she actually said it like that. 😂 Masha: ARGH THEY DIDNT KISS!!! 🤣🤣 Trio: (wheezing) Masha: This is so embarrassing.  Ko: So embarrassing! 😫😫 Masha: Well, Fu-chan, Shibasaki-san and Kitamura-san are both laughing. We’ve burnt you paper offerings. Rest in peace.

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Can I ask you one question? Why do you think Ryusoulger is bad or trash as you put it like that.

Honestly, I've gone back and forth between if I find Ryusoulger really disappointing or if it was that bad. When it first came out I was hyped for it and evne now there were things I did enjoy! I loved the rangers dynamic. I really felt like they were a team and I enjoyed their antics. Wyzel and Kerron were always fun. Tyramigo I will defend till the end. Without going into too much and this becoming a rant, the story was...nearly non existent. The whole thing with Gaisorg and Nada sucked. His death had no emotional impact on me and could care less about him. He literally died to become Koh's power up... The whole last 3rd of the show just falls apart and it ends with the one of the most disappointing endings I've seen in a sentai yet.

If this is yours or anyone else favorite sentai, more power to you, but it didn't work for me.