#maybe they'll make up the gap in Act 2

[elizabethrobertajones]

After seeing that post about Karlach and Astarion being bi/pan, I did use my head empty afternoon after yoga to make a new save to try and make them smooch out of spite. And because they're canonically mutually attracted to each other no matter what so. It's theoretically possible.

Absolutely did it the wrong way around by playing as Karlach because just by picking Karlach-y answers to random things (tiefling issues especially) Astarion ended up rather fed up and disapproving of her and was in deep negatives immediately, and then of course he can't even bite her so there goes a chance to earn brownie points with him, so I only just clawed it back into the green after handling his personal stuff as best as possible.

Also he doesn't seem to approve of [BARBARIAN] options, just, like, murder and mayhem fitting a more refined palette and purpose. So I'm just seeing [Shadowheart Approves] [Lae'zel Approves] [Astarion Disapproves] every time she opens her mouth.

I mean I'm finding the whole thing very funny, but I feel like Karlach is literally trying to beat the lesbian allegations off with her axe and Astarion is lounging around not helping whatsoever because being the internet's new gay best friend is way more profitable and fun :P

[gothic-galene]

Future spouse predictions

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Pile 1

Meeting and the energy surrounding it:

Villain energy from you, you might meet this person during a very sad time of your life. You might be in an anti-romantic phase or just be in a casual dater phase is what I'm picking up on, you might be spending a lot of time with your friends as well. Your person is likely very responsible. You or they might be saturn dominant. You'll be feeling like you have new ideas about healing yourself and becoming better but don't have the resources or growth is just blocked for some reason. I feel like a gap of some sort between you and your immediate friend group or your family might be the reason you end up getting close to this person. You will be feeling really wronged by someone (I'm getting a group of people tbh) and they'll be like a place for you to let it out. The fact that your person is taking the middle path instead of wholeheartedly and blindly supporting you and hating on the ones that wronged you is going to get you all riled up and you might not want to date them. You might act like you're not interested in them and stuff because you might have to compete for them. They might be casually going out with other people and be very busy with work or education which will leave you sad too. I'm getting the relationship starting a bit more slowly even though you'll definitely like them from the start. They might be starting a new career when you meet. You might meet them when you're younger as well.They might also introduce you to their friends or you might meet through mutual friends.

Personality:

I feel like your person was someone who was talented even during their younger days. Leonardo DiCaprio and an aquarius classmate came to my mind for some reason (might have air placements.) Their personality is going to impact your creativity, confidence and self esteem. You might find yourself questioning your self worth because of them. They'll be the type to provide you with the emotions and communication that you need. You're going to love how fun loving they are for sure. They're an incredibly patient and understanding person when it comes to you.

Trope:

The both of you might have a slow burn relationship trope. I'm getting the both of you liking each other a lot but you being scared of the heartbreak that might follow the happiness and the both of you caring a lot about each other. You'll want to protect this person and be there for them later on but at the beginning they might be the only one who's aware of the depth of the connection between the both of you. When you finally figure your shit out, this person will be done with the whole situation, the both of you will probably reunite after a few years again. I'm getting they'll try to make things work between the both of you but it'll be very difficult for the both of you and then they'll finally run out of patience. You'll be having a hard time when it comes to trusting them. They'll be able to sense and almost clearly see your emotions but as humans we don't trust our intuition as much as logic so they won't be entirely sure as to whether or not you're feeling how they think you are feeling, they might find you a bit indecisive and toxic but they'll just choose to accept you and love you regardless of how bright and obvious your red flags are at that time. I'm picking up friends to lovers for some of you.

Random stuff that might hold significance:

Reading, hugs, bookstore dates, skeleton (idk maybe a t-shirt or a literal skeleton), greek statues, friends to lovers, anger lash outs, pearls, black nails, Harry styles or one direction concert, band tshirt?

Pile 2

Meeting and the energy surrounding it:

I'm getting your soulmate being stuck in a rut during the time the both of you meet. They might have a fear of change during that time. My advice is for the both of you to go with the flow. You're not going to be in a good place either though, a time of anxiety will have finally passed you. Both of your self doubt will prevent the meeting for quite some time. You'll both be confused about each other's feelings and intentions. I feel like the both of you will like each other romantically before even knowing anything about each other but you'll approach each other as friends at the beginning to not scare the other away. Definitely going to meet as co-workers, some sort of gathering or mutual friends.

Personality:

Your person has a habit of not reaching out first, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. I think they are pretty logical and might have difficulty with feminine qualities such as emotions, empathy, reading inbetween the lines, etc. They might lack creativity and be the type to go straight into getting the job done. I feel like they'll be working towards freeing themselves from the mental rut when you meet them. They might come off really distant. They can give up too easily when it comes to romantic relationships.

Trope:

A lot of miscommunication, you'll have opportunities but will occasionally (pretty constantly tbh) ghost each other, I'm getting the both of you not even noticing the other ghosting you because you're ghosting them too. Mixed communication, you don't understand if this person hates you, likes someone else, likes you or you're just overthinking everything. One or both of you are going to be very career oriented, it might prevent your meeting for a while or simply just create a lot of frustration to the other party. They'll definitely teach you how to go forward and make a move towards people you're interested in (even platonically.) They'll also help you become more ambitious. I'm not getting anything about the way you might end up dating.

Random stuff that might hold significance:

Chokers, saudade: a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved then lost; the love that remains, the black angel, grunge style, mysogynistic tendencies, leather coat and jacket, cigarettes.

Pile 3

Meeting and the energy surrounding it:

I am getting you meeting this person in the months June-July or it's just going to be hot (in case you live in the southern hemisphere, it's going to be in whatever months that are hot for you.) This person won't be able to get you off their head after meeting you for the first time. You might meet through social media or have interactions only on social media before meeting (I feel like this person is going to be popular among the people around you, your friends or coworkers might simp over them before you get involved with them.) I'm sorry but one of you is going to be involved with someone else. Someone other than the both of you is going to feel played by one of you. You're going to enjoy the date though, it's like everything becomes soft yet intense when the both of you are around. I feel like this first date is going to make the both of you feel like the both of you are already dating. Holding hands, hugging, a lot of skinship even on the first date. You might be the one to like this person first but they'll grow into liking you. They might be the kind of hate hugs and skinship but love it when it comes from you.

Personality:

Your person seems to have a similar personality to pile 2's person but more developed. Your person has a habit of not reaching out first, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. I think they are pretty logical and might have difficulty with feminine qualities such as emotions, empathy, reading inbetween the lines, etc. However, unlike pile 2's person they do not lack creativity. I feel like they'll be in a good place when you meet them. They might come off really distant. They can give up too easily when it comes to romantic relationships.

Trope:

I feel like the both of you might have some sort of a gap like maybe you have an age gap or you're not their usual type. I'm sorry but they might be dating other people too, this one person is standing out, they might have cat features (the third party.) They will be all lovey dovey with this person, however, your person doesn't commit unless they're sure it's going to provide the stability that they require. One or both of you might be capricorn/sagittarius moons. Your person might not want to commit but really want to commit at the same time. I feel like you won't be able to meet them for whatever reason for quite a long time and their love language might be quality time so they will get close to the third party during that time. Your person might have to move out of the town soon or something. You might meet them for the second time and you will either treat them the same way which will make them feel some way which in turn will make them question their feelings towards the third party or you won't touch them at all but will talk to them as if nothing happened but they'll be craving for your touch and you might express your emotions randomly like they might be sipping coffee and you just go "I love you, take care of yourself, I'll always be looking out for you from here." Or they'll ask you something like "why did you do that?" And you just go "because I care about you." They seem to have gotten hurt in the past. This is a very intimate relationship, both of you care about the other without even knowing it yourselves. Might dream about each other.

Random stuff that might hold significance:

Grunge jewelery, leather jacket, skirt, angel baby, us against the world, LGBTQ for some of you, Sofia (the name), heartbreak, my everything, sunshine, push and pull, confusion.

[project-sekai-facts]

thinking about it stresses me out and i can't explain it well but making the world link events take up an entire event slot instead of it running alongside a different event is such a horrible idea imo, especially if it takes this month's lim banner entirely. and i think it's impossible considering vbs's one is in january and there's the new years fes anyways? unless they make new years perm again like in 2021 but it's going to be so fucking annoying and predictable for any fan that's been waiting for a lim for a while, especially vsers because it basically confirms that the devs STILL aren't treating them like the actual characters and putting them in events with the ocs (let alone having to wait until AUGUST for more fucking lims, yea like we need another fucking one-year gap /s). its genuinely irritating for me if they end up deciding that and not making next event lim. plus it makes the next event from now only six days considering this gacha ends October 31st, and with the event gap, the event has to end November 5th or 6th. and this wl event lasts 12 days and no event has lasted either of those lengths in jp (not to mention the weird fucking chapter-by-chapter thing going on?). sorry for acting angry but i really am disappointed if this ends up being the case without any fucking warning it makes no sense!

yeah the WL event just feels like it needs some work. obviously this is the first one so there's gonna be some problems here and there but this feels like it's pretty messily put together, even for a first run. i understand it taking an event slot because otherwise you'd have to tier two separate events at the same time and that'd just be difficult, but just the sheer amount of time it takes up is too much. maybe shorten the chapters to 2 days from 3, 12 days is too long. it's just gonna be really draining and a pain in the ass to tier, plus it makes the event before it really short. like seriously, 7 days for the MMJ event? i mean the current event is only 8 but normally cheerful carnivals last about 10 because of the format. i mean MMJ wouldn't perform as well as a N25 banner anyway so maybe they're just throwing the 7 day event on them for testing purposes.

since VBS is directly after new year colofes+lims I'm guessing WL lims don't count as actual lims. maybe they don't have hairstyles, i mean they said about MR2 unlocking special cut-ins, so maybe they do that instead of hairstyles. i wonder if they'll be like a bday card where they have their own rarity or something because if the game is willing to run them directly after a fes banner they can't be all that rare? maybe they reappear on future WL events like how all fes cards are on every colofes banner.

i get the feeling that the WL event won't have a specific character focus. they didn't announce a song other than the 3rd anniversary campaign one, so unless they're deciding to count that as Kanade's 4th comm then it doesn't look like this has a specific focus. well, apparently each part of the event/story is focused on a different character so that makes sense I guess. also the 3rd anni campaign commissions are meant to release monthly, and these events are getting dragged out until well past when all unit will've gotten their comm.

i think a lot of adjustments are gonna have to be made to the event starting from the VBS one. like the whole thing feels messy right now. and maybe it's because they haven't really told us a whole lot about how it works still, but there's obvious problems from the get-go like the duration and the amount of gacha cards on top of the fact they're now rerunning 3 lim gachas at a time. how badly does this game want our money they earn way more than any other idol game on the market.

[little-miss-dilf-lover]

This one is really long, sorry!! Take your time responding to these! Also, I apologize for any mistakes 💺 anon

1) In a previous ask, I mentioned WD's (and Wolf's) loyalty to his wife and how Tan is the same so imagine he finds out both wd's and wolf's (+ shigeru kimura) wives died because of what they do or as a failed assassination attempt and he becomes more protective of us (if that's even possible)

2) Speaking of what he does, because of it I think our wedding is small, maybe a few close friends and omg imagine Lem pronounces us husband and wife??

3) Slow dancing with him?? One of his hand gently holding yours, the other one resting on your back, touching foreheads while slowly moving in the dimly lit room 🫠

4) This has been on my mind for quite a while, comparing hand sizes. We're the one who ask him to hold his hand out for us so we can make the comparison and you can see a faint smile as he sees the differences

5) Do you think he gifts us more rings so we match with him?

6) We talked about how he has tattoos that resembles us, how would he react if we got one that resembles him?

7) Ok now more of him after he shaved hehe !! "I won't be riding your face anymore" we tell him and he just freezes. The following days he'll leave lots of kisses down our stomach, doing anything to make us change our mind (it would honestly be so hot to hear him beg for us sm)

8) I really wish to know how the conversation after breaking the bed would go

9) In the novel this man is obsessed with books, so what do you think he likes to read?

10) Also you are so right about what kind of songs he listens to. I have a playlist of songs that remind me of him but they aren't songs that I picture him listening to. I'm starting to believe he doesn't even listen to music :)

More songs from my playlist: Give Me The Night by George Benson, I Like It by DeBarge, Norton Commander (All We Need) by Men I Trust, Tip Toe by HYBS, Outstanding by The Gap Band, Girl by Men I Trust

(Sorry for all the Men I Trust songs, they're my favorite band. Also, 'Girl' really reminds me of Tan, most of the lyrics are in french but when translated it screams reader and Tan, to me at least :)) + he owns Kill Me Pretty idc

Assassin!reader 1) More sassy reader!! Wearing sunglasses while running from yakuzas with a briefcase in our arms. Being overdramatic with our acting. Adding little comments to mock the assassin we're running away from. Happily walking away after gathering intel. 🍒, after humiliating and breaking down a gang leader: Toodle-oo! :D

2) I don't know why I thought of this because in my mind, Cherry doesn't really fight but Tan giving us brass knuckles? And he teaches us how to punch? That would be hot

3) Facetime while they're on a mission!! I feel like they have a laptop with them so it's easier to communicate with us. Maybe they are staying at a hotel when they call us, they talk about how the mission is going, we tell them what we've been up to, what we cooked. Just chill vibes and laughs. Hanging up would be the hardest part.

4) Listen, we could say the weirdest stuff and they'll still defend us. Ladybug is there like "What? That doesn't make any sense." Tan is quick to throw every insult he knows at him while Lem comes up with an argument on how we are actually correct

5) Imagine if we all shared a playlist, the chaos. You said Tan dabbles in classical music so it's funny to imagine that after a song that us or Lem put on the playlist ended, Caprice No.24 In A Minor by Niccolò Paganini starts playing

6) If we're also an assassin, who's babysitting?

+ some more lem 1) About your post of Tan's house, does Lem also live there?

2) Imagine before we started dating Tan, he gets really close and we jokingly say "Ask me to dinner first" (we're not joking we're dropping hints) and he laughs it off. Lem can feel his eye twitching

3) Ok look, he's very happy for us and Tan but that won't stop him from yelling "Cockblock!" when Tan tries to make a suggestive comment (I'm sorry it sounded funnier in my head)

4) All jokes aside, we talked about how Tan would consider breaking up with us to keep us safe and I honestly don't see Lem allowing it. Let's say we did get hurt and now Tan doesn't know what to do with himself, Lem would be the one to reassure him

5) Also, a random thought, if he takes our phone for whatever reason, he'll leave random photos, silly selfies and video vlogs

6) About his taste in music, I feel like he listens to a lot of different genres but I hc he likes R&B the most Mini playlist: Milestone by Tokyo Critters, Orange Mug by WONK, Rockstar by HYBS, Lust For A Vampyr by I Monster, Dare by Gorillaz (Feel like he picked up some songs from his time in Japan. Also I hc he likes I Monster and Gorillaz)

Also he def starts randomly singing

— Dad!Tan 1) Any name ideas for our second child? I had a classmate who's name was Nectarine (I was kind of jealous because it sounded cool) so maybe that or Clementine?

2) Thoughts on reader not being able to have kids so they adopt instead?

3) A scenerio I wanted to share: Telling Mandy we hope she finds someone like Tan and she accidently tells him!! They're in the kitchen, he's preparing a breakfast to surprise us with, when all of a sudden: "Oh um mommy told me she hopes I find someone like you one day" he turns to look at her, "Oh yeah? Why did mommy say that?" "Well she said it's because you make her happy. You respect her and make her feel safe..." she continues, trying to remember what we told her. He softly stares at her and smiles, his heart melting.

Uncle!Lem 1) He watches Thomas with them, it's a given. Also tries to figure out which train they'll be and gives them a sticker

2) He's still very much protective of them but he's more chill and let's them get away with stuff without us or Tan knowing. Like letting them stay up late, giving them just one more candy, and stuff like that

I say the word imagine way too much in these. But writing these ideas to you did help because now I've started writing more drabbles in my notes! So thank you 💗💗

hii angel!!! hopefully this all makes sense, I haven’t read or checked it 😭😭 hope you’re well 💓💓

1- the poor dude will be stressed as!!! rather than uncle ben dying in every universe, it will be an assassins wife. he would be so paranoid too!!! I do think he would essentially try to erase you and make it like you never existed. he thinks that way it might keep you safe

2- I do think the wedding would be very small and intimate regardless. OMG YES!!! I think lem might bring it up casually like “oh yeah, I can officiate your guyses wedding” and both have no idea that he’s registered to do it bc lem kept it quiet😭😭

3- get out that’s so cute🥲!!!!!!!! he’s actually such a romantic guy, I truly believe that

4- ARFFGHHQHAHHA FERAL. why you gotta say that???? now I won’t be able go think of anything else!!!! I have a hand kink

5- eheheh yes yes yes!! depends if you’re into gold or silver. he will either get a matching gold band for you, or the same in silver. even if not married, he likes the idea of having the same ring. or if you are married, then you have matching ring AND wedding ring🫠

6- he’d actually melt. he’d give a composed “that’s nice that” but would be a pile of melted jelly inside

7- 😭😭😭😭😭 he’d be regretting it even more. UGHHGGGGHHHH😩 I imagine him asking daily if it’s grown back enough. “it enough now?” and he’d have like 5 more hairs than day before. in love with the idea of him being uncharacteristically desperate for us

8- im thinking quite a bit of laughs and “can’t believe you broke the bed” maybe he’d shrug and collect his things to head off to the spare room. maybe we’re like “where you going?” and he’s all casual, getting into the bed in ONE OF THE MANY spare rooms. and maybe we’re like “can we sleep on the sofa tonight?” maybe he gets a bad back on there so he’s hesitant, but he can’t say no to us. as much as I don’t particularly like the trait, I do think he’s quite casual about broken possessions (he has money now so he’s more carefree about things, but hasn’t always been) and so he’s like “we can just get another one” bc now he doesn’t have to worry about money

that took a detour😭 sorry for waffle

9- me too!! I really don think he listens to music, there’s just songs that have his vibe and remind me of him. listened to the songs and love them!!! and he so does own that song (lwk turns me on bc I imagine the scene)😭😭😭

assassin reader

1- AAAHH sassy and I love it

2- would be so so hot???! and he teaches you things you may not know. how to hold a knife, how to punch most effectively, how to (idk what else, but you get the gist)

3- yesss!! and if it different time zones, will be facetiming them while we’re in the kitchen cooking. or if they have a spare few hours we’ll watch a movie together, have laptops facing us while we watch a movie on tv. we sync it so we can watch it down to the second and it’s like the twins are with you. hanging up will be so hard???!

4- yes!!! they actually get so defensive

5- im not too entirely sure if I think that still tbh😭 maybe on occasion, but he gives off old English money vibes so that kinda backs up that hc. omg that would be so funny, maybe lem is like “who the fuck put this on here?” maybe it’s a secret that tan likes that kind of music so we say it’s ours and then the more lem listens the more he likes it

6- they babysit themselves. jkjk. maybe tan doesn’t trust anyone else in his house, so someone on your side of the family???? and they’d be paid very decently

lem

1- oooo okay so. im thinking no, but lem has a room at the house (and it’s decorated and IS his room, not just a spare one he sleeps in) so lem is welcome to sleep over at anytime. in the house I used, I think it’s fairly common for another house to be on the property or to be right on the cusp of it. I think they live right next door, so that way they can be near each other, but still get their own space. I do hc lem as more of a city person and tan as a countryside/ rural person. so maybe lem has another flat in the city

2- 😭😭😭😭 lem gets heart palpitations, and can feel his brain throb bc it’s just getting too frustrating

3- def tries to wind him up about it

4- lem would NEVER allow it!!! “what you thinking mate?” “don’t let her go” “don’t do that” “there’s gotta be another way” “don’t. she’ll never forgive you” “she needs you, you need her” “we’ll figure it out, we always do” “don’t lose her” “I can’t live without her, and you definitely can’t”

5- AAAAAAHHHH😭 just pictures of lampposts, his shoes (bc he thinks they look cool) a blurry picture of a squirrel eating a nut, a kids dropped ice cream (with ‘LOL’ written on the image) and then a picture of him buying the kid a new one, a video of him getting nagged at by tan and he’s mocking him in the video (he’s such a child, I love it) a vlog of what it’s like going shop with tan for you

6- holy shit he is so gorillaz coded!!!!!!!! and you’re so right, he def sings and hums without even realising it

as I finished up writing this a song came on and it kinda give lemon vibes??? banquet - bloc party

dad tan

my beloved🫠

1- that is such a cool name!!? you know what, I really haven’t given it much thought so im not too sure sadly

2- adoption is definitely in the picture !! it won’t go unthought of

3- omgomgomgomg!!!? he wants to be the standard for his daughter so that she knows how she should be treated by men in the future, but he often thinks he messes up parenting, but moments like that definitely make him feel like he’s doing a better job. actually dying, what you said is so cute

uncle lem

1- omg😭😭😭

2- oh for sure !!! fun uncle lem

aaaahh yay im so glad!! thank you for sending me these, I loved it!! I wrote your request a few days ago, and it’s in my drafts. I’ll get it up tonight. BUUT I wrote this at the bottom of your request, but too excited so I’ll tell you now, when I was looking for images on pinterest I found a little girl that is the spitting image of tan as a little girl. brown curls, big blue eyes, so fucking cute so I now hc her as mandy 😭

I’ll add it here bc that’ll just be annoying if not😭 blurred her face out as don’t want to repost a picture of a toddler online, so you’ll just have to trust me

[ghost-of-you]

Why do people feel the need to produce break up rumors out of thin air after every tour/album 🫥 the expectations of some people in this fandom are wild to me.

What do people think they should do? Even if it weren't for Michael's baby, they released an album last year and played two tours, of course they'll need some time to recharge now. Why would you expect new music or ANOTHER tour now already?

And they have not said or done anything that would indicate that they are thinking about breaking up and still people choose to be paranoid instead of putting some trust in them and just let them rest.

Idk maybe I'm the opposite of those people who are still traumatised by 1D or whatever but my other favourite band just had a 5 year gap between albums, they didn't play any live shows for like 4 of those years (partly bc of the pandemic od course) and the front man did a solo album + tour in the meantime. One other band member did some stuff as a producer and from like 2 of them I think I saw a total of 4 social media posts during that time lmao. I didn't see a single person worried that they would break up. That never came up as a possibility anywhere. And then I go to 5sos fandom spaces and people are freaking out when the band goes on a break because one of them will have to care for a damn newborn like please 💀

Sorry for ranting, I'm sure you have a lot of this stuff in your inbox now. No need to respond, I just needed to express to someone how truly baffled I am by this behaviour.

Honestly, I blame one direction for a large part of it. Obviously not the boys in 1D but the whole culture and the intensity around them. I like them but I was never in really invested in them so I did watch everything that happened from the outside and I keep seeing the effects of it. A lot of people did not handle their break up and since 5sos has this connection to them that ended bringing fans over to 5sos people get triggered. But it's bullshit because 5sos is a band that wanted to be the band they are. To act as if 5sos is doomed to follow 1Ds footsteps is stupid because 1D was a bunch of kids who didn't want to be in a band, who got put in a band package and explored until they broke. And all of them are doing the thing they wanted all along, which is be solo acts, so the comparison is not fair. You can't compare 5sos to the boyband curse, because they are no are not a boyband. And this is the dumbest argument ever but it is true, 5sos has a lot more freedom with each other to do other things while still keeping the 5sos project alive. Everything they do that's not exactly like the 17 yo posting keeks and doing twitcam from a mansion creating a constant stream of content creates a wave of mass histeria and honestly, I am so tired of it. Even if 5sos were about to take a decade long break, which I don't think they will, they like making music with each other too much to just stop, they can. They gave us over a third of their lives already. They are allowed different dreams.

Also I think there's this layer of desensitization surrounding famous people in general, that makes people not see them as real people with real feelings or see them as this character they get mad won't follow the script they made in their heads. And the whole way some parts of the music industry just want a really fast rotation that's not really possible and things like K-pop that end up having a higher rotation that creates a bigger stream of content that's not really sustainable in a healthy way for very long but creates a weird expectation anyway. And people think they're allowed to demand shit just because (and this goes from the temper tantrum for the lack of tour to the obnoxious hbg chanting)

5sos already did the killing themselves for the band. Now they live and have a band. I rather to see things this way. They are happy, they are thriving in other aspects of life. If that means waiting another 2, 3, 5, 10 years for new music, so be it. To use 5sos own metaphor, they're driving the bus, we're just along for the ride so whatever stops and turns they want is what goes. They can do whatever they want because is their life and it's their band. And I'm not worried they're gonna break up. Not even a little bit. If not seeing them for a year while Michael settles into being a father is what it takes for them to be happy and healthy, then so be it, let them exist outside the band.

[doevademe]

What are your general thoughts for how the new percy jackson series will go? I think the boy cast as Percy is adorable

Walter Scobell is indeed quite good for the role. I've seen him on the Adam Project, and his acting is great in both emotional scenes and banter. He'll probably be a highlight of the show.

Now, as to how I think it will go, from a writing perspective, I think it will be fairly accurate to the books, for better or worse. I'm especially curious to see if they will tone down Annabeth's aggressiveness since... well, it's already very uncomfortable in the books, but seeing it live action might not be the best.

From a production perspective... I'd like to preface it by saying that I'm a cynical person by nature, and my knowledge of Hollywood tints a lot of my opinions in a somewhat negative way. With that said...

I give this show 3 seasons, max. It has a lot going against it, including, but not limited to:

Child Actors: Leah Jeffries is 13, Walter Scobell 14, and Aryan Simhadri 17. These actors will soon be growing up, maybe develop features that may make them look even older. It will become more and more difficult to make them pass as the ages their characters supposedly are. And I know what you're thinking, that they'll age with the characters, and I would agree if it weren't for...

The Strikes: Thanks to the strikes, the actors won't be promoting the show, which means less people will even know it's out, only online people and whoever manages to catch a TV spot or billboard. Not only that but Season 2, if it's greenlit, will be delayed at least six months, if not more. That gap might kill the show in this day and age, and if it doesn't, that's half a year for the actors to grow, for their voices to change, and it will be harder for them to keep pretending they are 13-16 year-olds convincingly.

The Effects: CGI is very expensive if you want it to look good next to live action, and from what I saw in the trailer, the budget seems to not be there. There's a lot of PS3 level textures and a lot of obvious green screens. Disney is also infamous for mistreating VFX artists and forcing them into crunch, so it's even less likely to be good (remember She-Hulk?). Speaking of...

Disney: The company is notorious for cancelling series as soon as profit goes down or a showrunner tries to do something that will tank international sales. Add how they are taking down series to save money from the eventual strikes negotiations and you have a show that the company won't hesitate to ax the moment it becomes a liability.

The Streaming Curse: It's a well-known phenomenon that ratings for streaming start tanking starting season 3. This is because everyone watches the first season to know what a series is like, a lot stay for the second to see how it goes, but fewer turn up to season 3 because they either move on to the next big thing or the flaws turned them off (because every show has flaws, it all depends on your tolerance for them). As I said, Disney renews shows based on money and audience. If both start to decline, the show will simply die.

With all that, I find it hard for PJO to be successful in the long term. I think a second season is quite possible, but I highly doubt we'll see the whole series adapted.

[infipretty]

Hey, here for your new game.

First of all, thank you for the game. Really appreciate it and looking forward to it. Appreciate the time and the energy.

My initials:- M D

My favorite song:- Enchanted by Taylor Swift

My topics is :- 🌱 - The main theme of 2023 for me

Your exchange reading:-

3 prediction for you in 2023:-

1. You might make a important career move in this year. Something that will set the stone for path coming forward. It could be anything honestly, maybe a degree Or some kind or relationship that can help professionally or maybe just getting a new job. But something important.

2. Relationship(both romantic and platonic) might be difficult or at least some kind of gap will be there. They might not react to changes so positively. Maybe because of fear or something but they'll be resistant. It's not something major but yeah can create some problems.

3. Might dabble into creative field. Not related to your career but something related to your creativity. Maybe art, music, acting or something. You might dabble more into it.

Thank you again. Have a great day/night. Cheers 🥂

Hey! Welcome <33 Thankyou for joining my game, good to see you here! Another swiftiee yayyy!!

Feedback : you're quite right about the career part and honestly, I have been looking forward to get back into my creative era. The second prediction seems to be plausible in some cases but let's hope for the best. Thankyou!

🌱 – The Main theme of 2023 for you

Cards Pulled : Four of swords, Eight of Swords, 5 of swords reversed, 6 of wands and Queen of pentacles.

2023 is a year of relaxation and recognition for you! I'm seeing that this year, your life's main theme will be walking away from all the low frequency mentalities that you may have had and giving life your best shot. You could be freeing yourself from the trap of inferiority/victim complex (if you have them) and/or if you have been facing any sort of mental health issues, this year they will get better and you will develop a new motivation and a better mindset for yourself. This year you could found yourself to be extremely motivated and wanting to make amends for all the times that you have lost due to bad mental health or due to any other reason. You will be holding yourself accountable, studying your situations and trying to come out of them better than ever. I can see that this year, people will start recognising you more. Maybe at your workplace/school you will get more recognition or maybe you will make more friends or maybe people will start seeing your efforts and you for who you are, basically this year people will start to hold you in a more positive light and with much more regard and respect. Something also tells me that you will grow a lot this year, maybe a glowup even but regardless, I see you being quite impressed with yourself by the end of the year. You will find yourself to be in a much better state by the end of the year, you will grow a lot as a person and you could make a lot of progress not just in your personality and personal life but also in your finances, work or Career. Overall, a year full of growth, mostly ups and an year that will act as a bridge between your current reality and your ideal reality.

I hope this makes sense, Please leave a feedback in the comments! Thankyou :)

[sainztander]

there's something distinctly hilarious about people thinking that somehow having understeering automatically "makes a car slow" as if 1) people who drive understeering cars, like nando and prost, and to some extent seb and lewis (i think he's said he likes a 'planted rear') aren't capable of driving insanely quickly and 2) no it's not a trait of "midfield cars" to be understeering, engineers will develop to what they think is doable and will suit general engineering demands the best while not being impossible for the driver to manage.

every time i see some of those vaguely "technical" posts on here, i want to laugh. thrilling to know we have a wealth of engineers here who are sure to be the future of f1 and not people who are just commentating on things they understand extremely poorly. (every day that passes, i start to dislike chirlies more than my cfd simulations, which i thought was impossible. do some thorough research before commenting, and stop acting like the whole world is out to get charles or that it's a crime to refuse participating in the muretto's stupidity, thanks. he's not letting himself be defined by the worser moments of this season, stop making that your obsessive focus. and also: have some decency towards somebody who could've died twice already.)

i don't even want to add anything to this bc anon you said 👏 it 👏 all 👏 but i will anyway! so i guess it's just easier to blame anything and anyone for "making" charles lose a championship that, really, has been max's all along i'm not saying this from my high horse of nichilism or whatever, i got my heart broken as well, i was hoping for ferrari to win this just like any other ferrari fan but..... really there was no foul play, no random conspiracy or wasted resources or whatever they're still making up. they simply weren't ready. the team, the drivers, not even the car. like i said already (or, even better: like any technical article written by some actual engineering expert) the updates of the f1-75 worked just as planned. they kept their comfortable lead over mercedes (who was also becoming faster than the rest of the midfield) and battled it at the top with redbull. while i was thinking about your ask i kinda realized that we could summarize ferrari's gaps in performance with the streak of races between imola and monaco. so, in order: mistakes by the drivers, deficit in straight-line speed compared to the rb18, engine unreliability, the strategy team being tragically unprepared. all of these just repeated again and again thorough the season. because of the spectacularity of it everyone latched on monaco and blamed the management for "failing" charles, completely ignoring the more alarming fact that there's no race this season where the ferraris won (or could have won, if we wanna include monaco and hungary) without max having some kind of technical issue or having to start from the back. i went on a tangent there, i'm so sorry anon 😭 but about what you were actually talking about: yeah i would be surprised if they knew about driving styles at this point, since they've learnt the word "oversteering" as being a synonym for "fast". or if they could even entartain the idea of a driver adapting his style to their car (kinda what carlos did this year. but don't tell them ! it's all sainztander !). but still, they were also the same ones that mocked seb all thorough 2019 and 2020... so yeah. why i am even surprised by their antics. my poor problematic sexy f1-75, being trashed every week despite consistently taking poles and being the second fastest car on the track on sundays..... and that's simply because rbr came back from the summer break with the secret to indestructible tyres. but hey, explain tyre deg to them. or make them take a step back to compare ferrari with any other team on the grid. maybe then they'll realize there was never a step back. simply it's rbr that took so many step forwards.

[fadingoutintothehands]

My thoughts about NCT Tokyo (long post)

Preface/disclaimer - no hate to anyone mentiomed at all, there's no hate mentioned at all i just have to be safe. I just simply think too much about logistics and I need a place to put everything. I also have not kept up to date with NCT Tokyo at all, I only know their names and that they're debuting towards the end of the year? Or early next year? I also don't know the details of the legal issues with SM and if that's impacted their recent decisions with NCT. I haven't listen to Riize at all either, I don't know their names, only SungTaro. So take everything with a pinch of salt I guess.

1. Initial thoughts

I'm okay with NCT Tokyo, I'm okay with them being an NCT subunit I'm okay with their ages roughly, I'll most likely get as into them as I am with the rest of NCT once they debut. But ultimately my interest in kpop groups factors in the music as the *biggest* reason, so if they end up having music I don't like then I might not get into them that much (doubt it, I think they'll have good music) but I do plan to support them wholeheartedly.

I know their ages are a contention, but they're 5th gen after all and most of the new 5th gen groups seem to be in around the same age brackets. ZB1 has obviously taken off and we all love Yujin and he's the same age as the youngest Tokyo member I think?? NCT as a full group don't really interact as often as a subunit does, so having their whole unit be the same age bracket is fine. It's not like the eldest members of NCT are directly in the same subunit.

2. Golden Age

I like Golden Age its a good album its got great songs. I do have my own issues with the album and one of which is that I think it could've been a good way to introduce NCT Tokyo into NCT. A tie in album, where they get to debut in NCT and then later on they debut as the Tokyo sub unit. So personally I think maybe Golden Age should've been released much later than it was, so we could all get used to Tokyo and familiar enough that we want to see them on the album. Golden Age is obviously a mini rebrand for NCT, it's setting out the expectations for their new era, so having Tokyo included could've been really cool for that. Tokyo feels very separated from NCT at the moment so participating in Golden Age, even just only being on the all member song, could've really helped them to feel like part of the group right off the bat.

3. What would I have done?

Put the hypothetical hat on. Put it on, strap it on, you've got this, just think about it. Hypothetically if I was in charge of making the sub unit decisions, and I'm thinking like SM here, this is what I would've done. Firstly, keep Sungchan and Shotaro in NCT. Debut Riize as the sub unit NCT Riize this year (same time as their real debut ig) and have them be the 5th gen part of NCT as their concept? So now in 2023 we have NCT Riize as a subunit, at the same time SM has Tokyo in Rookies or their survival show, in the basement I dunno where they keep trainees.

Then, in a couple years (2-3) time we debut NCT Tokyo, and we add in either just Shotaro, or Sungchan and Shotaro (I know we like the "keep them together" policy) because that way we can tie in Tokyo to the rest of NCT. Debuting these existing trainees in a few years would also get rid of age hang ups as the youngest would be around 18. Shotaro as a Japanese member would not only fit the Tokyo concept, but would probably provide some comfort to these young kids who are going to need some familiarity at the start.

Could this member tie in have been done with Yuta if Riize isn't in NCT? No, I don't think so, Yuta being so much older than Tokyo would offset the vibes and the concept, whereas Shotaro isn't older than all of them completely by a wide gap. So ultimately have Shotaro act as a Mark & Haechan situation, obviously there's issues about overworking members but SM clearly has no issues with having Mark in all of their groups to ever exist so why would they have an issue with someone else doing the same thing. Clearly separating Riize and Tokyo comebacks/schedules would help too, so Shotaro isn't dead in the group 6 months in (cough cough not looking at the 127 comeback announcement made the day after Golden Age was released)

Adding 2 new sub units would also keep SM happy as they always wanted that Big Group thing going on, they've gotten rid of the limitless expansion but adding 2 new sub units doesn't ruin that. The group all together would have like 34 members or something similar,,, that's Not *too* bad, I could do that. Obviously it's going to be harder for new people to get into a group that large but the rest of us managed it with 20+ members. Are you telling me you don't know more than 30 people in you're life? I'm sure you've gone to school with more than 30 people and remembered their names well enough to get around.

5. Music

Honestly I don't really have any expectations for Tokyo's music. I'd imagine they stick the that new sound of 5th gen, and tie in the 'noise' music of NCT. I hope their sound is unique enough to stand out as a sub unit though; WayV obviously sounds like NCT but they also don't in the same way that 127 and Dream have overlap. So I'd like Tokyo to have their own distinct music genres which you wouldn't necessarily find in a 127 song etc. Or Riize for that matter, I hope they don't sound like Riize at all, because I think the last thing they need is to be compared to Riize this early on in their careers.

I don't know if it's been said that their songs will be in Japanese, but if they are then it poses a small issue for me? I've found that I don't particularly enjoy Japanese kpop songs as much, I didn't catch onto &Team as much as I thought I did, I don't listen to Japanese versions of Seventeen or Ateez songs. However as a counter point to this, I do very much enjoy the Japanese albums NCT 127 have done and I listen to them very regularly so if Tokyo is in the same ballpark then I think I would enjoy their songs in Japanese. I am a WayV ult stan at the end of the day, I have no issue with non Korean language kpop songs, and I listen to much more Japanese music outside of the kpop genre (shout out to Survive Said The Prophet i luv u).

Regular (huh?). Do we want another version of Regular? I do, I want a Japanese version to tie it all in, to have that whole NCT spin on things. It's another way to integrate them in and make Tokyo *feel* like NCT. It would be weird without Winwin because he's on all the other versions but that's not an issue I just like to think about it and giggle. Regular as their debut song however? No. Not even on their debut album. Release it as a single, or on a later release further down the line. I can wait for Regular Japanese version, I don't need it any time soon. I just think it'll be good to have in the roster at some point. Who knows, maybe it'll dethrone the WayV/Chinese version as my favourite?

[hangingslothcentral]

Spirit Box Radio is Crowdfunding for Season Two!!

Atmospheric and engaging, Spirit Box Radio is an audio drama which will lull you into a false sense of security before pulling the rug from under your feet. If you loved the creeping sense of unease of The Magnus Archives, the weird whimsy of Welcome to Night Vale and the LGBTQ+ representation of Hello from the Hallowoods, you'll love Spirit Box Radio.

Now launching it's second season, Spirit Box Radio has been shortlisted for a People's Choice Podcast award for Season One. The full cast and original creator are back, and determined to make Season Two even better.

Donate £20 (or equivalent in your currency)

Check out the crowdfunder page

More info under the cut, plus at the bottom a more detailed Image ID than the ALT description has space for!!

Spirit Box Radio is an indie horror audio drama which follows Sam Enfield, the unlikely host of Spirit Box Radio, a show for witches, arcanists, and the magically-inclined. Sam took over the show after the mysterious disappearance of his mother, the Illustrious Madame Marie, a renowned psychic. With no penchant for the Arcane Arts, Sam struggles to find his feet, and as he does, he discovers that Spirit Box Radio may be haunted by something much worse than ghosts: secrets.

Season One followed the mystery of Madame Marie's disappearance and uncovered Sam Enfield's true place in the conspiracy surrounding it. In Season Two, Sam, his sisters - sardonic Kitty and cynical Anna - and his snarky immortal boyfriend will try to unearth the mystery of the Man Who Walks Here and There (AKA The Man in the Flat Cap and Shell Suit, or The King of the Blood Rose Crown) whose many titles are found under almost every stone they turn. It's a story steeped in mystery, horror, trauma and grief, with plenty of softness on the side.

The show is made primarily by its creator, Pippin Eira Major, who wrote, directed and edited every episode in Season One.

Spirit Box Radio wouldn't be possible without the incredible cast of the show. Now 15 Voice Actors strong, the cast of Spirit Box Radio brings to life an array of characters, including; a shady but eloquent florist who cant be trusted; an Ominous Phone Guy; a trio of Inconvenient and malevolent entities; and numerous others.

Just like the characters in the show, our cast is mostly LGBTQ+ and many of us are young and trying to break into the industry. Here's who we are:

Pippin Eira Major (he/they) as Samael Apollo ‘Sam’ Enfield

Jessie Jeffrey (she/her) as Ekaterina Erzabet ‘Kitty the Investigator’ Enfield

Alex Peilober-Richardson (she/her) as Anastasia Morgana ‘Anna’ Enfield

Will Cummings (he/him) as Oliver ‘the Florist’ Boleyn

Billy Bray (he/they) as Scourge

Beca Barton (she/they) as Indi

Tais Grimberg (she/her) as Bliss

Kay Watson (he/she/they) as Ingra

Ellie Ripley (she/they) as ‘the Bog Witch’ Rhytidia Delphus and Stykler Snr.

Daisy Major (she/they) as Regular Caller Beth

Elinor Wood (they/them) as Additional Voice

Gary Major (he/him) as Additional Voice

Mars J Brown (she/them) as Stykler Jnr.

Rose Eke (she/her) as the Mystery Caller

Freya Meldrum (she/her) as Show-Caller Emily

If this crowdfunder is successful, we're also hoping to add five more fantastic VAs to our cast!

Being such a tiny studio, Hanging Sloths can't afford to compensate our cast for their amazing work and provided the amazing performaces you hear in Season One on a voluntary basis. They've all agreed to come back for Season Two on a Profit Share model, where they'll all get a percentage of the money made on this crowdfunder. Here's a handy graphic breaking that down:

Our main priority is to make sure the cast are making something for their hard work on the show. Up to our main goal amount, we'll be splitting the money like this:

- 50% towards the actors' profit share (which exludes me, Pippin)

- 25% towards guest writers and directors

- 25% towards other essential costs including hosting the show on Acast.

Our initial goal amount (£2500) has been worked out to make sure everyone (besides Pippin) who is providing acting, directing or writing for the show can be paid an industry standard amount.

If we don't make our full goal, whatever we DO make will be divided up according to the percentages you see above!

Anything made above that will go towards compensating Pippin for his work on the show, too.

A brief personal statement from Pippin on why the payment is being structured this way:

'As creator of the show, it's my main concern that everyone else who provides Voice Acting talent, writing, and directing is priotised for the amazing work they do. If we're able to raise enough that I can start to compensate myself, too, that would be amazing, but the main focus is on raising enough funds for everyone else.'

Please ensure you add your email to your pledge so we can contact you about your rewards!

Any amount - a huge thank you from the entire cast and crew of Spirit Box Radio Season Two! You're helping make indie audio drama happen.

£5.00 - your name in the credits of one of the first episodes of Spirit Box Radio Season Two

£10.00 - Name a Faithful Listener! Choose your name or any you can think of to be a writer or forum user in the show.

£20.00 - Advanced Edition of the Spirit Box Radio Season Two Official Soundtrack!

£40.00 - All the rewards above, PLUS a copy of the Spirit Box Season One Soundtrack

£50.00 - All the rewards above, PLUS annotated scripts for episode one (on day of episode release)

£100.00 - All the rewards, PLUS a personalised letter from Pippin, creator of the show.

£200.00 - All of the rewards, PLUS a private chat with Pippin (limited to 3) (no you don't have to chat with me directly if you don't wanna!)

£500.00 - All of the rewards, PLUS a producer credit on the show

£3000 - 'HOW NOT TO HOLD A SEANCE' BONUS MINI-SODE

This short, extra episode will be fully sound-scaped and completely finished, and will be set in the gap between Season One and Season Two.

£3500 - 'THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF OLIVER BOLEYN': A DIGITAL COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES

A digital collection of short stories penned by show creator Pippin Eira Major, telling tales from the as-yet mysterious past of the immortal florist, Oliver Boleyn. Amongst these tales will be stories from his time at the palace of Versailles, a chance meeting with a renowned poet which may or may not have led to the creation of a certain book about a particular cursed painting, and a perilous voyage at sea.

£4000 - 'RHYTIDIA HOSTS THE SHOW' BONUS MINI-SODE NO.2.

In this bonus Mini-Sode where Rhytidia Delphus (voiced by the spectacular Ripley) will host an episode of the Enlightenment Segment (or so she thinks).

£4500 - MUSICAL MINI-SODE

A short, bonus musical episode of Spirit Box Radio, with original songs written by Maybe Wednesday and performed by members of the cast of the show.

Donate £20 (or equivalent in your currency)

Check out the crowdfunder page

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[saranghanuuu]

PERKS OF DATING A YOUNGER GUY I LEARNED AFTER WATCHING CHINESE DRAMA FIND YOURSELF + REVIEW!

1. He has less baggage

This means that he has more time to attend to your needs and wants unlike an older guy with a demanding schedule and lots of responsibilities at hand.

2. He's more open-minded and adventurous

They are open to having new experiences and won't judge you for veering off the path you should stay on.

3. He's infectiously energetic *ehem*

Need I say more? A younger guy's youthful sense will surely find unimaginable ways to impress you!

4. He puts you on a pedestal

A younger man will appreciate your maturity and experiences and will admire you for it. They're also most likely take advice from you without letting it bruise their ego.

5. He'll make you feel young

Be prepared to relive the fun parts of your younger years with him.

It's not so wrong to say that the May-December relationship is taboo, especially among Asians. Most people I know had this inkling that when a younger guy hooks up with a woman way older than him, it could prolly mean one of two things — the guy's a paramour or she's a sugar momma. I'm honestly not a fan of it either on the premise that women mature faster than men. Let's be real, an immature relationship is a disaster. But now that I'm in my late 20s, and a hopeless romantic single at that, I kinda pondered over this. It suddenly occurred to me, what if one day I’m caught up in the position of being pursued by a younger man? Will I let the stigma affect me emotionally? Or will I take the risk ‘coz all is fair in love? I still don’t have a definite answer to this question. However, watching Find Yourself served as an eye-opener for me to look at things from a different perspective.

Find Yourself is a 2020 Chinese drama starring Song Wei Long and Victoria Song. It tells the story of a 32-year old Executive Director who never *even once* experienced dating. Given her age and career stability, she receives constant pressure from the people around her to find someone to marry and has since frequented blind dates arranged by her family, friends, or colleagues. But this girl is just someone who swears by the "spark" - no spark, then no point to the relationship. She may be old for fantasizing over first love and such, but she still yearns that it'll naturally come to find her someday. Until her thirst for real romance is quenched by a 22-year-old guy who started working as an intern in her company at his brother’s request.

Although hesitant at first due to their huge age difference and the societal views, she went out with him on the condition that they'll keep it a secret for the first 3 months. If everything went well, she agrees to publicize her relationship with him.

Let’s start off with the good things...

I just can't with this drama...! This so beautiful, cute, relatable - especially for a woman in late 20s like me. 

Plot-wise, it was well-imparted and makes perfect sense, touching a looooooot of relationship aspects in 41 episodes. Not only did I enjoy the happenings between our main couple, but our side couples' stories are very interesting too.

This drama pretty much straightened out my prejudice about age-gap relationships.

Light-hearted, just the way I like it! Every episode will make you smile and/or laugh hard.

Sexual tensions overload and superb kissing scenes! Let those hormones rush in. Not awkward to watch 'coz They. Did. Not. Hold. Back. Ack! If you're single, be prepared to feel MORE SINGLE watching this drama.

Well-written lines that will make you feel real emotions. The words will shoot you straight to the heart.

Acting-wise, the casts, from the mains down to the sides, did a super fine job in conveying the sentiments of their characters. My highest admiration goes to male lead Yuan Song, not (only) because he’s young, hot, and handsome, but because his youthful vibe made me reminisce the paradox of my early 20s awww. Anyways, in the beginning, I am sort of confused why (of all girls) he fell head over heels with our female lead He Fanxing who's obviously out of his league. I even suspected him of taking advantage of her naivety in matters of the heart. But as the drama went along, our dude proved himself genuine... That he's sincerely just a guy who's deeply in love with a woman... That indeed, true love can exist in this kind of relationship. Both Yuan Song and Fanxing emotionally benefited from each other and it's so lovely seeing that.

⚠️ AND SORRY BUT THIS IS A SPOILER ALERT⚠️

Halfway through the drama, our main couple called it quits. I'm somewhat grateful that it happened. Their break-up scene is just so powerful I had to rewind it many times. Not because I liked seeing them suffer from the consequences of their incompatibility. Rather, I loved it 'coz it became the turning point of their relationship.

Their love is premature, to begin with — trust isn't mutual, commitment is one-way, only showing each other's good sides in fear of the relationship turning sour, one is willing to compromise while the other wants to avoid responsibility, filled with doubts and insecurities. During this break-up phase, we were shown the difference between how kids and adults behave and decide in a dilemma. I suddenly remembered this one line delivered in the drama which I agree with — "Only kids would choose one or the other. Adults find solutions". The break-up also served as our main couple's period of contemplation about who and what they want in life. It taught them how to fully embrace their offbeat romance against the norms. Fortunately, things wrapped up into a sweet end.

And of course the bad...

Hmmm... Maybe I'm just not used to it but am I the only one who thinks that this drama is quite lengthy? Yes, I enjoyed it but it's not a good one to binge-watch. It took me almost a month to finish this I nearly drowned haha. Honestly, there were parts they could've just compressed instead of dragging it for too long. One example is Ye Luming and He Fanxing's relationship trial. Ooohhh I hate this part it brought shivers down my spine ugh. Well truth be told, Luming and Fanxing are compatible and better off as friends. They jive so well, and I give it to them that they're both adults who can only understand adult things.

But when Luming all of a sudden became a sneaky character to an intolerable point... Ah, I don't know anymore! Seeing how compelled Fanxing is to being Luming's girlfriend got under my skin. Although these ugly parts eventually became a good contributory factor to Fanxing's realization of her true feelings towards Yuan Song, but still...! I also hated Fanxing at one point for being so gullible in love. But yeah, I had to swallow it because that's her character setup in the first place. It should be expected of her to be hasty and dubious about it.

On the other hand, I wished they've been generous in showing us more about how Yuan Song and Fanxing's relationship is going after the public reveal. I've been waiting for this the entire time (they could've done so much more in 41 episodes' length!) so I'm quite disappointed.

After watching the second season of Well-Intended Love, I admit I lost interest in Chinese dramas. So watching this restored my faith in them. I even have a list of C-dramas lined up now! But I have to move on from this one first before I start another. It's not as easy as I thought ㅠㅠ

What do you think about this drama? Are we on the same frequency? ❤️

If you haven't watched this yet, watch it now. As in 지금부터 RIGHT NOW. Highly-recommended!

[bakugouisabitch]

i really don't think they'll make rin the mother to the twins. maybe it's just wishful thinking, but the people behind this know sesshoumaru is a fan favorite. they're already making up the characters for their children, so if they're smart, wouldn't you think they'd either keep the identity of the mom a secret, like they have been doing, or just insert some random woman fans can insert themselves into? i know that's a loaded question, but i'd really like to know your thoughts on this

Tbh if you actually really think about it, the possibilty of Rin being the mom is very unlikely to actually happen.

[Long discours incoming]

First of all i agree. I don‘t think they‘d ruin Sesshōmaru‘s character like that.

But what really confirms to me that Rin might not be the mother is her age difference with Kagome:

Since both Inuyasha’s and Sesshōmaru’s children are supposed to have the same age (14 years), this means Rin and Kagome became moms at the same time. And what’s the actual age gap between Kagome and Rin? It’s 7 years. By the end of the final act Rin is 11 and Kagome is 18. So their age gap is in fact 7 years.

Assuming that Kagome gave birth at the same age as Sango did the second time (21) Rin would have been 14, which just won’t happen. The latest I could imagine for Kagome to become a mother is 23 (because it’s pretty common to make characters parents in their beginning 20s) - but it still wouldn’t make sense for Rin cause she’d be 16?????? hell no.

Like if the whole thing is going to be true it’s going to be fucked up problematic to such massive levels i don’t think they could get away with it. The only excuse i could imagine them using is “Rin has never been this young in the previous anime, we ‘corrected’ her age to make her older” and this literally debunks the whole original series. so if they’re going to pull the let’s-change-the-original card i will straight out not consider it canon. For them to get to such extremeties just to make Sessrin work would be stupid af.

But after all, just a few years ago (2012 lol) a movie like ‘Breaking Dawn Pt. 2’ was released where there’s literally the same problem of grooming/pedophilia depicted, and still the movie managed to recieve critical acclaims so you never know how fucked up the world can be. even if it’s 2020. Problematic shit still has a big tendency to be normalized and these shippers are the root of that problem.

So in short, no i don’t believe she will be the mom. But you never know what a series can do and some creators are pretty fucked up in their head and capable to really get to such levels. So i can’t assure you anything for sure, nonnie.