You know, Nobara saying that "it's horrible not being recognized by your high school crush" to Ozawa sounds a little personal to me after yesterday's episode.
I can imagine her thinking this every time she thinks about meeting Saori, although she always ends up finding some excuse to never go.
do you guys remember when avatar 2 was coming out and one of the "gotcha!" things people would post to make fun of it was like, a screenshot of how few fanfics were written for the first avatar movie (which was the highest grossing movie in the world at the time) vs. some silly franchise that was panned by critics having significantly more fics on ao3?* dont get me wrong i do not think avatar was a good movie but measuring the cultural impact of a movie based on how much fanfiction people write about it is so hilariously out of touch. homoerotic shipping potential is not the metric by which you should measure the quality or popularity of anything ever lmao
*this data was clearly skewed because the freaky avatar fics would have been on ff.net back in the day anyway
this is just me projecting but i think it is entirely possible for karin to have a crush on frederica as president of iserlohn. yes sure it looks like your average teenage parasocial relationship in times of political turmoil but frederica is perfect for karin to project on. she's the puppet head of an interim government/millitary junta by her own accord, she's recently widowed, she's twenty six and has spent most of her life in a millitary environment with her father being a high level official. how much autonomy does she truly hold? also i dare you to look me in the eye and tell me she does not have father issues after the coup d'etat. technically she is also julian's stepmom(?) so she resides in the grey area between figure-on-tv and actual person in real life that you talk to occasionally. and she looks like this in a suit and pearls no offence but come on if i were karin i wouldn't even look at julian
open to: f/nb
ft. sydney taylor (she/her)
plot: they've rivals vying for the same guy's attention (syd in her bi era how cute) but sydney's starting to catch herself looking at her more than she ever looks at him and it's throwing off their regularly scheduled programming
she was beginning to lose sight of the plot, honestly. she'd dropped everything to make it to the bar that evening in an attempt to casually bump into him (could it be considered casual when she knew he went out to the same bar every friday night?), but syd found her eyes scanning the crowd for a face other than his as the bartender mixed her drink. and, unsurprisingly, they were also lurking along the bar. searching. with the straw of her drink tucked between her lips, she sauntered over slowly, watching as they craned to see around crowds of people. "you mean you don't know his exact location? i was under the impression you'd marked him with some kind of gps tag."
Mood Board for my 9-1-1 OC Melanie "Mel" Narvaez. She's quite literally all i can think about. Might make one for her girlfriend Daphne "Dee" Monroe. Obviously another OC. They're super Bubbeline coded btw. This is for a seperate fic idea that's not on my pinned post. I think I'm gonna call it LAFD: Fire Queers (🔥🏳️🌈 if ya wanna make me write the drabbles). Its about Buck being a bisexual disaster (affectionate) and his relationship with being bi and with Hen and Eddie (cuz yes even tho i ship Bucktommy i still headcanon Eddie as queer and this story is about Buck's queerplatonic relationships mostly) but also diving into his relationship with Tommy and Buck just not being chill about it at all. Also Maddie supremacy (cuz i have a big fat gay crush on her) so she makes an appearance (actually many) starting with when Chim promised to take her to get her nails done but ended up having to work so he asks Buck to go with her and on a whim decides to get his nails done too when Maddie makes a joke saying it would be fun if they got matching nails and he says it sounds like fun and she meant it as a joke but if her baby brother really wants to she'll support him so they decide on blue and this is just the start of a long habit of her enabling his fashion experimenting now that he's not bogged down by a girlfriend's expectation of his manliness. Now dont get him wrong he's still masculine and he's still buck he just doesnt give a shit what anyone thinks if he decides to enjoy pretty things, nice things (cuz like he told Tommy: "I deserve nice things" "yes you do baby"). Maybe it never would've crossed his mind if Maddie had never said that but she planted the seed and he's having fun with himself and Tommy doesnt mind (finds it endearing actually) and Maddie enables him so he'll keep it up just as long as he sees fit (but maybe its also really fun to see Tommy get riled up when he puts on his skimpy shorts and a tight crop top). Mel comes on the scene as a transfer from Kansas (When she and Dee moved to LA) and her and Buck become fast friends when she comments that she has a girlfriend and he replies with "And I have a boyfriend" because he offered to spot her on the weights and she thought he was coming onto her.