#the combined coins are CRAZY

[riacte]

THIS IS THE MOST CUNT A MCC TEAM CAN EVER SERVEEEEEE 💜✨GRADUATED WITH MASTERS IN CUNTOLOGY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SERVINGTON!!

[kadextra]

Bad and Foolish are actually two sides of the same coin

it’s how foolish deals with bad’s pranks like it’s any other regular day, this is just the way they are, how they have been for years. it doesn’t matter if others don’t understand. like how foolish knew bad didn’t do anything to mr. mustard, just jumped on the bit of acting sus to mess with him

it’s how during the Slap competition they were on the exact same train of thought as the other - even with a huge block in communication (bad couldn’t hear foolish) bad still knew exactly what foolish was thinking. watching both POVs simultaneously was crazy bc some parts felt like actual conversation

They accurately psychoanalyzed each other many times too:

“I know foolish wouldn’t be happy winning this way.”

“I know bad is getting tired, he’s trying to distract himself.”

Not to mention how with zero communication, they mutually agreed on the rules for their game. And how the two are so very aware of how stubborn the other is, the battle legitimately would’ve kept going for hours if not for outside interference. Their combined power was too overwhelming and forced the server to be shut down to stop them.

all of this just shows how strong landduo’s friendship is, they are best friends. born from the old days when they’d spend hundreds of hours with idle chats and silly pranks in the desert, or sometimes becoming rocks- these two know each other’s quirks and behavior so well and their dynamic is fascinating

As a day 1 landduo enjoyer I’m so thankful they were invited to the qsmp together and others now get to experience their craziness <3

[twst-drabbles]

Lilia 9

Summary: Tracking down a pack of stealing faeries, General Lilia finds their path ending on a lone human being forcibly bathed.

(A reminder that I am not a spoiler-free blog. I tend to read ahead and skip around for my entertainment. That being said, time travel shenanigans with the Janitor who gets caught up in all this. Is it canon to the Janitor AU? Probably not but the thought is fun.)

Soaps. Since when has Lilia ever heard of those little faeries, those pixies sneaking into stores and flea markets for the sake of stealing soaps? It’s not unusual for them to pick and take what they like. He’s had a number of sugar cookies stolen right from his hand just as the grateful citizens stuffed them in his palm. The faeries love for sweets would rival that troublesome princess’s love for her egg.

Lilia usually isn’t one to deal with smaller problems such as these, as they resolve themselves, but pixies are unusually sensitive to scents, to the point of avoiding cities and villages alike. For them to go out of their way to steal these scented soaps tells Lilia that something was wrong. Off. While the signals are usually more subtle, often the little faeries are the first to know of incoming danger.

Lilia only hopes this wasn’t the case.

Hiding his presence among the leaves in this forested area was second nature to him. He didn’t have the hollow bones of birds, but his steps would tell one otherwise. If even the pixies can’t tell he’s tailing them, then who was he to deny the claims?

Ahead of him was a light in this dark night, and in his ears Lilia heard the rush of a river. He took a deep breath in just as the water pixie dipped out of sight with their hoard of coin-like soaps. However, rather than the crisp scent of midnight grass and river water, Lilia was hit with the sharp smell of roiling magic.

It was the likes that Lilia has only witnessed when the princess was well and truly fed up.

“Ah, that’s too hot!”

In his concentration, the blunt sound of voice nearly made Lilia’s heel slip from a branch.

“Oh, these next? Alright, hand them here. Let’s hope it gets the smell out,” landing on the nearest tree, Lilia spots an immaculate white tub with clawed feet right below the gaze of a tree house that may as well be mansion. Inside the mess of bubbles that covered everything except for the face was you, a lone human surrounded by faeries with their little arms hauling the soaps they’ve stole.

A human? Here? You’d basically be a sitting duck in this location, and yet here you are, unmarked, cursed by no one, and actually being bathed by them?

The water pixie Lilia was tailing dropped the silver soap into the tub. Another surge of bubbles came forth and overflowed the tub, blue in color. A triplet of wood faeries carried a brown bucket over your head before dumping water to rinse you off.

You wiped the water from your eyes with a sigh, “Nope. I still stink of magic. Let’s try the next one.”

The water faerie jingled out their tune of frustration, a quick and harsh number. You picked up a handful of bubbles before blowing them at their feet.

“I’m sure I’ll get back to smell like my old self eventually. It was a crazy reaction of spells that interacted, so it is going to take some time.”

The water faerie landed on your palm, sneezed and flew right back to the branches, only to come face to face with Lilia in his mask. The poor little thing screamed.

It’s easy to come to the belief that the smaller the fae, the less powerful they are. To the ignorant, it’s the truth, but for people such as Lilia, with their small size comes a certain amount of finesse that not even the princess would be able to replicate. It’s why they can combine their forces so well to make the forest yawn open to expose his location and manipulate the river current to aim right at him.

Too bad Lilia’s dealt with his fair share of angered pixies. With a leap, soared over the water and landed the tips of his toes on the edge of your tub.

“Never would I see the day,” Lilia leaned down to your stiff face, “that a human would receive the favor of the faeries. How did you do that, Human?”

Perhaps this was trick, or a mistake of some kind. Humans would have to resort to such things, of that Lilia wouldn’t be shocked by. Creatures with lives as short as yours are often so protective of their own flesh, so, one would have to forgive Lilia for being caught off guard when you kicked his feet and had him land face first into the water.

“At least let me get a towel first,” you grumbled out as you reached over a pulled it off the grass, “I don’t need anymore stress. Things are already tiresome and confusing as they are.”

It seems that General Lilia has found himself in the company of rather interesting human.

[sugawara--san]

cannot stress enough how crazy i find it that the single best combination of any four, out of SO MANY haikyuu characters, was ultimately brought together in canon by the flip of a coin

[sanctaignorantia]

Hello… it's me again...

Thinking that Kojima could well have used Cliffs and Fragile as examples with that post from The Crow, since Fragile literally has tar dripping from his face just like Cliff in trailer2, but no, he opted to use Higgs as a second option, and Higgs in DS2 and then we have Troy "'saying" something about… Okay, don't let me go crazy.

Can we elaborate on how all this is going to work when Higgs in DS2 is technically an inspiration from The Crow?

We'll have a hero and a villain with every justification for taking revenge, and all because they love.

Higgs being devoted to Amelie to the point of creating a cult for her, wearing a mask of her face, feel her to the point of "becoming" her. That devotion is love. In the same way, his resentment, obsession and hatred for Sam is also love, and this kind of love is what Higgs will hide under lock and key and will fear everyone seeing.

Sam spent his life alone, having only the love and "freedom" that Amelie gave him, then came Lucy and Lou and the loss of both made Sam "broken" again. Finding out the whole truth about Amelie could break him even more, but at that point in the game we had new friends, new connections, new loves and as much as Sam had burned Bridges' handcuff in order to isolate himself again, having Lou alive by his side was enough, that love would be enough to sustain him. But now Sam no longer has Louise and the question is: will the love of his friends, these other connections, be enough for him to overcome this great loss, AGAIN? Sam has lost a lot of valuable things.

I would never say that one or the other has lost more or less. All the characters are built on trauma and the loss of people they loved. Death Stranding is about that, connections and love. You don't connect if there's no love. It's if there's love, there's connection.

So we have Sam who believes that Higgs killed Lou and I think he's going to lean on that for a long time. He'll put his energy into it no matter what Higgs tells him, so I wonder if Sam will become his father. If he's going to hold onto revenge so much that his emotions become toxic to himself and what that might create. We'll use more violence, more guns, so we'll have a more violent Sam. Sam will change with the loss of Lou, definitely.

The same way I think of Higgs. His love for Amelie (or whatever it is, because Higgs is still an mystery to all of us) will lead him to extreme situations because that's part of who Higgs is, no one has shown him the other side.

While Sam holds on to his sadness and gets caught up in grief and revenge and this makes him a bit "bad", could Higgs' situation make him a bit "good"? This is where I lose track because I don't know how Kojima works on developing his heroes and villains.

But I've been thinking for a long time about the possibility of Sam having an emotional relapse and not only becoming more aggressive, but also going into some kind of depression. And how much that would change him. And how that, combined with the desire for revenge, could unleash terrible things.

And now I play the other side of the coin. How much can Higgs' desire for revenge (if that's what it really is) make him see things in other ways and make him more... good?

Remembering that it's not directly romantic love that may be being talked about here, just as it is in The Crow, it's just love, because love is love…

And every time I think or talk about love, I remember a song we sing in my religion that literally goes like:

"Every disease has a cure, only love doesn't".

[panur]

OK So, but what if after the combined trauma of countess de stael dumping him, almost dying from djinn and watching the love of his life his bestie fuck some crazy woman who threatened his bollocks, Jaskier isn't having the best time of his life, exactly?

and what if, he meets some random nobleman who's out to slum it out with the rest of them? jaskier's got some experience on the matter, having been one, and he's only too happy to take him carousing to the best places, introduce him to several parties and fellow creatives while spending this guy's coin?

Jaskier has a lovely winter, and is half in love with the guy, but alas, the fact he's (very badly) lying about his identity, that he's got no idea what he's doing and that he has more money than the redenian bank show this guy is prolly someone important and jaskier is kind of sick of heartache, so they end up parting in bittersweet but good terms after several weeks worth of affair.

and then, it's like 15 years later and Vespula is throwing his shit (and some that isn't even his!) all over the muddy streets and a very scary sexy sorceress is threatening him and he turns around AND WHO'S SATNDING THERE.

"comma prince" is gonna hit WAY different.

guys I'm dying imagining the whole drama of it, like, you can keep every single scene pretty much the same with them both pretending they don't know each other BUT IT ALL HITS SO MUCH MORE DIFFERENT, and now jaskier is the winter fling Radovid never got over and never thought he'd see again, and now Radovid is the one that got away but could have been something more if Jaskier had been less flighty and less guarded of his very tender heart, oh my GOD.

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW 'EXTRAORDINARY THINGS' HITS SO MUCH MORE DIFFERENT FOR BOTH OF THEM NOW.

AND THE SHED…?????

#it’s free real estate prompt just tag me so i can read

[fucklovepayme]

FLPM Update 2023-2024

Hello guys!

A lot has happened since I last updated this blog. Let me start off by saying that manifestation is so fucking real, I don't care what anyone says. A lot of amazing things have happened to me this past year, and I am very grateful for it. My Saturn's Return (2020-2022) has been so damn rough to me, there was times that I gave up on life. I didn't care about my life or what happened to me. Thankfully that all changed in the beginning of 2023, I guess it is true when they say you have to go through your roughest time in life to receive your biggest blessings!

I manifested girlfriends that are chasing the bag too. I even became friends with some sex workers as well. It feels so good to hang out with true like-minded ladies, we get to freestyle together and hang out at more elevated events. And they are everything I manifested: young, pretty, supportive, and genuine. Unpopular opinion: I was getting tired of hanging out with slight pick mes, small-minded, and broke women. I want girlfriends who dgaf about these men, have an abundant mindset, and have money to do the nice things to come across the rich men we want.

I still dabble in sex work. I recently rejoined the infamous sugaring website (Starts with seek) and surprisingly it's not so bad this time around. Still have to scope out thousands of time wasters and the cheapies but I am meeting more POTs. I also joined some vanilla dating apps and set my settings to meet more established men. I've been out on some pretty nice dates with men that got coins and are not shy to spend it 🤑.

There's been some opportunities which I did some light escort activities 😅. I have a girlfriend that do threesomes with me for the right price. Sometimes we get approached at the bar or we pick out a guy that looks like a trick. If you would've told me that I would be doing threesomes for money (let alone free) 2 years ago, I would have laughed in your face. But now I don't give a damn and will proudly do it for the $$$$ and right man. I sometimes get approached when I'm out alone, and I do not take anything less than $1000. I was thinking about joining Er*s to get some steady tricks, but everytime I try to join it seems like the Universe intervenes and prevents my profile from getting approved :/. I'm still going to do my hoe-tivites until I get that wedding ring from my dream wealthy husband!

I've been hanging out with some powerful (and famous) men and women. I am not going to mention names for obvious reasons, but I met these people by simply being at the right places at the right times. I met a lot of celebrities growing up, but it's different hanging out with them as an adult 😊. At the end of the day, celebrities are just normal people with extra money and recognition.

I also became a home owner, and I did it in the time frame I gave myself. I made a goal list years ago that I wanted to be a home owner by the age of 30, and here we are! I achieved my biggest goal I set for myself, and I did it by myself. I am very blessed and grateful to be able to have my own property and I thank God everyday. Now I need a wealthy generous man who wants to pay for all the renovations I plan on doing!

My life is really a movie and I am enjoying every scene! I literally smile when I think about how much my life has changed this past year, mostly everything has been very positive and what I wanted. It's crazy how everything that has happened to me, started off as a thought, dream, or a journal entry. I believed in myself and did not lose sight of what I wanted in life. I'm so glad I'm a city girl that believes in myself and not a pick me or "bOsS bAbe", otherwise my life would not be as exciting 😉 I sometimes reflect on my adult life so far and I can honestly say that I have a lot of great experiences that the average person couldn't even dream of. I am living my best Samantha Jones and Toni Childs combined life that I have manifested since I was a little girl. Little FLPM would be in so much awe if she saw how she would be living her adult life 🥹.

Overall, I am way happier now than I was 2 years ago. I overcame the darkest time of my life and I am so strong for that and I'm proud of myself. Maybe in another post I will get more into detail of that time period, but right now it is still triggering. I am just happy that I am seeing more positivity into my life and I am open and ready for what's coming next! I will also be more active on this blog, posting at least once a week! Get ready to hop on this fun ride with me!

[schismusic]

Joy Division, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love New Order, too

Spring is weird as hell because one time you have this glaring sun that powers you up like being plugged into a wall outlet, then not five minutes later clouds begin to gather and you feel like you're going to die if anything goes south. So the most obvious combination to represent two sides of this same coin, emotional and meteorological, is Joy Division and New Order.

Sometimes you need Transmission or Shadowplay for the sunny days — impassioned jolts, sparks flying everywhere. Sometimes The Perfect Kiss hits harder on a cloudy afternoon, coming back home and in need of that extra push to not fall asleep in the train. It's surprising to realize the versatility displayed by both bands, or the same band in two different iterations according to whomever you ask. Peter Hook says, as late as 1993, that the laziest member of New Order is Ian Curtis. Or again this other person, in the comments under the Atmosphere official video on YouTube, who went to see New Order (Hooky-less New Order, which might be a relevant distinction) at the O2 Arena a couple of years ago and they gave an encore, says "Those of us who stayed got the privilege of watching Joy Division perform three of their songs". Interesting outlook on the matter. I personally saw Peter Hook and the Light play both Joy Division records and, I'm pretty sure, an encore comprised of just Love Will Tear Us Apart at the Arti Vive Festival in Soliera, back when it was still free to attend some of the events. I remember being pretty mad that Hooky had stopped to take pics with basically everyone and then left exactly as I was approaching. In retrospect I don't exactly blame the man, it was like midnight anyway. I remember nothing of the back trip home.

My first contact with Joy Division happened when I was thirteen and very much in my prog era. I was in Rome staying at an aunt of mine's place for my fourteenth birthday and she told me I could get a CD, since I had gotten some money saved up over time. Some Facebook page dedicated to Pink Floyd I'd liked (yeah, Facebook at age thirteen — I literally just wanted to play a fucking Flash game, back when Facebook allowed them, and I ended up getting to be terminally online. Crazy how things turn out) used to share a lot of memes and fanart relating to the Unknown Pleasures album cover, and me being a massive Pink Floyd head at the time I thought "I mean, if these guys are pushing this band so hard, that's gotta mean something". The album cover was pretty striking, admittedly: a far cry from the paisley ass paintings that I had grown to accept as the gold standard for the music I liked, but its simplicity struck a chord closer to The Dark Side of the Moon, or perhaps The Wall. Those were records I liked a lot, probably called them "the best records ever made" to more than one person, not like they aren't but that's a very bold statement to make when your listening experience consists exactly of

Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor when I was six;

Daft Punk's complete discography (minus Random Access Memories, which wasn't out yet) when I was twelve;

Pink Floyd's complete discography, courtesy of a CD collection coming out with some Italian newspaper, that same year;

a couple random classic rock records recommended to me by older friends and relatives usually well into their fifties or sixties at the time, random people on Internet forums — which, for clarification, I did not actively attend, preferring to just lurk from time to time — and the OndaRock "milestones" page.

So browsing through the surprisingly expansive CDs section of this electronics shop in Rome, and being mesmerized by a vinyl rack in the days when Music on Vinyl was the final frontier of pretending you could re-analogue the digital ("you mean to tell me these are like CDs, but bigger? Whoever designed these truly lived in the future"), I came across that very same album art that had stricken me so hard. I had listened to the first seconds of the album on YouTube, but that weird drum sound — so echoey, so distant, ultimately not particularly powerful, meaning it didn't really sound like Bonzo: it sounded more like my own band, which at the time didn't even exist yet — I didn't really know what to make of. This store I was in had one of those preview listening machines that would scan the barcode on the CDs and give you a small snippet of the song. I pull the CD up to the scanner, the scanner lights up green, I put on the headphones and the solo from this comes up:

Clearly they had to be kidding me. I had come to know, sneaking into infinitely many rehearsals with the band from my mother's town, what it sounded like when someone tried to play lead without something else filling up the arrangement (even though I didn't really know all that, or at least lacked the vocabulary to properly express it) and, for Christ's sake, didn't these guys notice rehearsing? It sounded empty, weirdly so, and it wasn't my thing, I thought. I put that CD away and picked up a band I knew I'd like — Genesis, specifically. So Nursery Cryme became the first CD I've ever paid with my own money, the very day I turned fourteen. Not a bad pickup. I remember being very impressed with the fast blurring lead guitar on The Musical Box and digging the sweet pastoral atmospheres of For Absent Friends and Harlequin. I still think of that record more often than one would probably assume looking at this blog, or my most played on Spotify. At the time, that was the best move I could take, really: why beat my head against a record that, as your average prog nerd ballbreaker, simply wasn't speaking to me?

Then all of a sudden in August of the same year my friend's dad hands me a 16 gigabyte USB drive, full of random music from all eras of rock. A lot of it remains inscrutable to me for a really long time, most notably Tom Waits (see related post), but I spent the whole month reading random folder names, seeing if something catches my eyes, and at one point I come across the Mars Volta. Open the folder up, read the names of their first three records, and my first thought is "Christ, these guys look incomprehensible. I'm about to have some fun". Long story short: I end up having a lot of fun, the Mars Volta turns into my favourite band at the time and finding out that they had previously been called At the Drive-In makes me gain some measure of respect for punk rockers: if they tried hard enough, I must've thought, they could prog as hard as anyone. In the meantime the ghost of Joy Division remains at the back of my head. I feel like I'm missing something, for the first time in my life: it's not them, it's me. Too bad that same realization didn't occur to me when it came to the people in my life until much, much later, but that's being fourteen for you I suppose. Early King Crimson and the Mars Volta were the pinnacle of violence to me, and not even the very few Metallica songs I'd downloaded just to see what would happen scratched that itch. It felt a bit too cauterized for some reason (I would later find out I had been looking in the wrong direction the whole time: the Black Album "sucked", according to my favourite metalhead of the time, who somehow catalyzed my interest from the very second I saw him in the school's courtyard. Hard to imagine why I would imprint on people like puppies do, but what the fuck, not like I've ever outgrown that anyway, I've just gotten better at managing it). But I felt there was more than violence to this, or different forms of violence. When Christmas came around and my relatives tried to get me presents, my mother asked if there was anything specific I was interested in, and I basically told her "look, if they can get me some CDs off of this list, I'm golden". It had some bangers on it, namely Noctourniquet by the Mars Volta — it's one of their best and I will die on this hill, be warned — and The Downward Spiral, which might as well warrant its own post in an ideal world. But the best of them all I think came from a random purchase, once again with the little money I had lying around at the time.

Closer appears to be, right away, a bit more concrete, and if there's something inexperienced music fans like is a pretty packaging that conjures a strong emotional response before they've even played the record. Compare a color-inverted graph of pulsar emissions to a literal funerary monument. Opening up the booklet I was shocked to see that Genesis was used as a negative point of comparison (bad omen, I thought) by people close to the band, and I came across much more detailed information about Ian Curtis's untimely demise — at that time, something far too removed from my experience to be faced with the delicacy and attention it deserves. Atrocity Exhibition hits like a ten-ton truck, a reference which at the time I wouldn't have been able to make for obvious reasons, and Isolation exposes all the nerve tissue under the skin. Passover comes in and strips everything even barer, and then A Means to an End turns… danceable, for some reason? Big emotional moment with The Eternal and Decades, which I thought actually took them closer to my usual tastes. And yet at the same time I kept looking at Colony, Heart and Soul and Twenty Four Hours as the most compelling cuts. Geometric assault sounding like sheet metal if it were music; rhythmically driven emptiness that serves as a minimal backdrop for depressed poetry, and finally a rocking ebb-and-flow that would probably inform a lot of my interest in GY!BE-like post-rock in the coming years. Very interesting to think that the same guys who'd done Unknown Pleasures could think of this. To this day, when asked, I still do think that Closer is the best Joy Division record, but what does it even mean when the records are exactly two, compilations notwithstanding?

It was around this time that it came to my attention that both Joy Division and another band called New Order had a record called Substance out, both published by the same recording company, both coming out within a year of each other. Looking it up, it turns out it's fully intentional, because New Order is simply Joy Division minus Ian Curtis. It would turn out to be a tad bit more complex than that. Anyway, I look New Order up and kind of have to do a double-take. Synthpop? In my Joy Division? More likely than you'd think, considering Isolation exists. But yeah, that sort of seals it — I wouldn't care about this New Order for a million years. Until all of a sudden a couple of years later David Sylvian bursts like a comet in my face, which of course leads me straight to Japan, the same year as I'd come across Berlin-era Bowie, and you can probably guess where this is going, right?

Well, you'd be wrong. I still don't check out New Order. There's a whole new world open to me — vaporwave and therefore R Plus Seven come to my attention, which leads me to dissect that record like an alien tool of unclear purposes. This of course leads me onto an ambient tangent, taking me back to my Tim Hecker listens of that same year, which has the effect of renewing my interest in "pure" electronic music and the then-rising post-dubstep movement. The sheer experience of sound, the dazzling modernity and innovation, is what's in at the time. I have no time for nostalgia-pandering dimwits: the future awaits. Then all that jazz from the first Godflesh post hits, then God pulls the funniest gag in the history of viral infections to my memory, and I have some time to actually look back, a bit less prejudiced. As it turns out, synthpop is not the devil, as some of you might have surmised by now, and as I relisten to Blue Monday I realized I have never listened to either of the Substance record. I do know some, most perhaps?, of the tracks on the Joy Division one, and I do think the New Order one has the more striking cover art — not to mention I knew, by this time, that this was the one to give Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance its name, and that Your Silent Face soundtracked one of the most memorable moments in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson. As the ultimate Hideo Kojima stan, I couldn't let this slide, so I pop the record on and get hit with this:

Way to go, guys. Holy shit. I knew that Ceremony was a Joy Division cut before they could record it, but what the hell — Bernard got it, too. It wasn't a matter of singing ability with songs like these, it's just getting it, finding the right energy. They had that right energy. And then it hit me just as many times these dudes have made Blue Monday over and over again before actually getting it right, and everytime I look into it it's funnier and funnier to realize just how many different attempts it took them to finally be Kraftwerk, but augmented — with the stellar results we all know. Everything's Gone Green, 5 8 6, Temptation potentially, all lead up to this one moment in the history of dance music where somehow three dudes and a girl hailing from Manchester managed to out-gay the Pet Shop Boys (by their own admission, apparently), to shake the whole world's collective booty, to do whatever it is they were supposed to do in this last comparison that would ideally make the previous one a bit less obnoxious but whatever, it's 3am as usual, you know how it goes by now don't you? But then after Blue Monday the record keeps going, and thank god it does, because it's banger after banger. How do these guys keep doing it?

So I spend some time with that record, then it fades down, then it comes back up last month, when the weather calls for it and its parent company. Which is when I find myself watching the Control movie for the first time, surprisingly enough seeing as I already enjoyed the work of Anton Corbijn as a photographer. Looking at all that, it is revealed to me that Joy Division never really having died is not a bug, it's a feature. Everyone is gasping, I get it, but please pick your jaws up and check this out: the band has never learned how to play their respective instruments. One might go so far as to argue they play their own stuff their own way, and that's basically it. Nothing could be further from the truth. These guys jammed, a lot; that's how Joy Division wrote songs, that's how New Order wrote songs, even going as far as having Bernard Sumner fucked up on acid so he could find the chorus to Temptation or the whole band bombed out of their minds on X in Ibiza clubs to write, basically, the entirety of Technique — and even then, not really, there's a couple jangly tracks that the X would most likely render unlistenable but what do I really know? Point being: it might now have been sparked by a music teacher or instructor, it might not have been the product of a process comparable to that within Television, which led them to organically seek out better, more "by the book" musicianship, but New Order were incredibly familiar with their instruments, had formed an element of comfort and understanding that counterbalanced the alien-ness to music terminology.

Peter Hook recently uploaded a Yamaha-sponsored video to his Instagram, which I am pretty sure has a say in running, where he jams on a Yamaha bass and, you know, it sounds like Hooky alright, but it's never a discernible bassline until he kicks into the A major strumming that opens Love Will Tear Us Apart. Before that, he just strolls around the neck, leisurely strumming away at power chords imbued with that thick chorus and reverb combo he became renowned for. I would never, in my wildest dreams, have imagined I'd find myself thinking "okay, awesome, stop talking — I want to hear you jam a bit more" referring to one of the musicians who were part of possibly two of the craziest storiest in the history of contemporary rock'n'roll, also notorious for playing the rockstar whilst carrying the minimum possible baggage of technical knowledge he could. Once again, this is nowhere near a knock to the man — quite the opposite. Ian Curtis asked "persistence, well, what does it matter?", and Hooky (and, of course, the other members of New Order) found a way to constructively answer that question. Moments before Coil, but a bit later than Israel Regardie, they said "persistence is all" and built a brand on finding a way to consistently sound like splendid, eternal, golden children: "like crystal", impassionate, tightly-knit performers with the purity of a child's heart. Ian Curtis had, in certain ways (at least artistically), the purity of a child in his heart, which some might even argue was a distinguishing feature of most of his literary idols — if you think about it, William Burroughs could be your dirty-minded classmate who walked in on his parents sharing an intimate moment in the bedroom (had his parents been gay men, the metaphor would probably fly better, but that most definitely wasn't the case). So the heart of Joy Division remains untouched, if a bit more naked. Heroes of post-punk, sons of the silent age, you can sleep soundly tonight.

[malichev]

In a HQ narrative, he will become a type of Anti-Hero, he will walk in the gray area and be able to slip on both sides of the coin. He didn't go completely crazy, after all. He's not doing well, obviously, but he combined the past and the present. How will this end? It can have many different endings. But with the books, we discover that the workers are NOT completely innocent, when he was a child, he discovered that they were doing something horrible, and that's why he had to run away. The Federation didn't want to keep looking for him, they practically thanked god he was gone.

[teecupangel]

i was gonna come in here with a Really Cool crossover idea w/ another game i've been playing recently, but then i realized i've only been playing minecraft (other than ac), which then led me to the idea of all the assassin's creed charas on a server together, and then i realized that the Normal, Logical thing would be for it to be a modern au, but the Hilarious and Chaotic option would be if it was, instead, that the server just. magically exists in all time periods. there's been weirder Isu BS before, i'm sure.

Man, can you just imagine this though?

The Gray is a vast empty space. It’s boring.

So when Desmond and Clay got stuck in it because Juno has a sick sense of ‘reward’, that bitch, they’re about to go crazy when they see something pop into existence.

It’s Altaïr just the way he looked when he had gotten married to Maria.

Altaïr had sorta-kinda maybe been fiddling with this little coin-like thing to get away from the mountain of paperwork that needed his attention because he had just been hopping all around the nearby area with his then-sorta-girlfriend-sorta-we’re-not-labeling-it before finally returning to Masyaf. They found the coin in one of the hidden rooms in Alamut. The Assassins there just sent it to ask if maybe Altaïr could figure out if it’s related to the Apple or not.

And Desmond and Clay are like “Isu bullshit?” “(nods) Isu bullshit.”

They try different things out and figure out that Altaïr could create small blocks of white light if he rubs the coin.

And he disappears when he drops the coin.

He visits again a few minutes later and they realize that rubbing the coin in ‘the real world’ transfers him to the Gray and he returns to the real world if he drops it here in the Gray.

They experiment some more. They learn time does not pass if Altaïr stays in the Gray and he can’t take any item with him to the Gray nor can he drop anything he already has.

Altaïr: If that’s true then why am I still wearing my clothes?

Desmond: Isu bullshit.

Altaïr: Are we truly making that the excuse for everything we cannot explain?

Desmond: Clay…

Clay: We believe that your real body isn’t being transferred here, it’s your mind. And it’s your mind that’s telling this place that you need clothes so you get clothes.

Desmond: In other words: Isu Bullshit.

Altaïr: (stares at Desmond for a moment before turning to look at Clay) He’s going to say that every time he thinks it’s too much of a pain to explain things, isn’t he?

Clay/Desmond: Yeah/Yup.

By the time Ezio ‘visits’ the Gray, they’re halfway on their way into making their first ‘home’ because what else are they supposed to do with Altaïr’s block-making coin anyway?

Ezio has so many questions and Desmond just goes “help us with this and we’ll talk”.

By the time Ratonhnhaké:ton gets there, they’ve just finished creating the walls of Monteriggioni and he had to play third vote as to what their main home would look like: Villa Auditore or Masyaf Fortress.

Ratonhnhaké:ton (at this point used to the weirdness because of Juno’s whole ‘drink this drug so we can communicate’ thing with the crystal skull) just shrugs and went “why not just combine the two?”

Edward was pretty sure he was sooooo drunk he was dreaming the first time he got there. So when these weird men ask him what he wanted to build, he went “My ship!” and proceeded to give them a rough description of his ship before dropping his coin because he was SO drunk.

The next time he got there, he was definitely sober and absolutely confused why he needed to build the Jackdaw in what he assumed to be the afterlife or purgatory.

All he got was “We already started it so we’re finishing it. This was your idea, drunk or not. You’re helping!”

When Arno got there, he was greeted by a ‘oh my god my eyes!’ glowing walled town that he can walk into. At the edge of the walled town stood a large fortress.

… Arno is SO confused right now.

When he entered the fortress, there was a large training ring with a castle keep up ahead that leads… to a mansion… with a forest behind it???

… And there was a ship in the middle of it.

The glowing walled town had a forest AND a ship as well???

Arno is so confused and his confusion only grows when he is greeted by a heated debate by two Assassins he was sure were cosplaying as the two great mentors of the Brotherhood (just how drunk was he right now???) about what to build next.

A chill dude sees him and says, “Why don’t we just get the new guy to pick our next project?”

And that is how the Gray starts the development of the courtyard of Versailles on the empty space to the left of the glowing town of…

Desmond: Monteyafport.

Altaïr: We are not calling it that.

Ratonhnhaké:ton: This place doesn’t even have anything from the Davenport Homestead?

Clay: Well, you picked the forest near your village, not Davenport Homestead. That’s on you, buddy.

By the time Evie and Jacob find their way to the Gray, Jacob is pretty sure he’s going to be blind any time soon, and Evie…

Evie lets out a loud squeaking sound and grabbed her brother’s arm so tight he shouts, making everyone look at them.

In the end, they decided to add Big Ben next to the villa. (“And a pub!” “Yes, Jacob. You and Arno can renovate one of the houses in town to be a pub.”)

[bunysliper]

Do you think Lily Castle is a more of a Mama’s girl or a Daddy’s girl??

Hi Anon!

So I feel like I usually write her as some combination of both over the course of her life and that feels good to me. I feel like when Lily's young, Kate worries on occasion that Lily won't want her as much because she's out of the house more often and Castle's the SaHD so much of the time, but I think Lily just adores her and asks about her all the time and wants all the Mommy Stories she can pull out of Castle and just will not leave her alone when she comes home. It's honest-to-god hero worship for a while, so much so that Castle even feels a twinge of jealousy, because he is home with Lily so much. But on the other side of the coin, Lily absolutely will cozy up to Castle and be his junior writing assistant, and want to play with him for hours and hours and hours, monopolizing him if he lets her (and he does, because she's freaking adorable, are you kidding?).

They're still close when she gets older and more independent, but both Castle and Beckett miss their little Sprout-sized shadow. And when she's older and she's angry at Kate (because they're butting heads and they're too much alike and Kate retreats because she's concerned she's going to say something too sharp, too biting and it will have lasting consequences), Lily knows she can curl up with Castle and just have dad time, where he'll be comforting and tell her she's not altogether wrong, but that she really needs to talk to her mom, because Kate loves her like crazy, even if she's pissed and is pissing Lily off, too.

[seraphmaws]

(feel free to help with flag id, I don’t feel well enough to make them rn)

Neoidyn

A alternative term for Xenoidenity, Neoidyn is the same concept of xenogender, but rather than something relating to your gender, it applies to your identity. It can apply to your whole identity or only parts of it (which can include gender). Neoidyn can be used along side of xenos and is NOT anti-xenogender. Any gender can double as a Neoidyn (Examples, Catgender can be Catneoid, Boything can be used as a Neoidyn, and so forth). Neoidyn can be used by anyone and can be altered to fit one’s experience.

This is not a replacement for xenogenders, but rather a counterpart. More information under cut

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Here it is!! Ive had a fascination with xenogenders for years now and i’ve connected with many of them. However, i never could connect to them on a gender level, but rather on an identity level. The term xenoidenity seemed like the perfect term for me, though unfortunately, everything i’ve read about it claims it is meant to be inherently anti-xenogender. I never felt comfortable going ahead with using the term as i am pro-xenogender and firmly believe that one should identify as whatever makes them comfortable with themselves (as long as it’s not harmful *coughcough*radqueers*coughcough*). But there was a lot of confusion with the term as i saw a lot of back and forth between pro-xeno people reclaiming the term and anti-xeno people trying to maintain its anti-xeno intention. I’ve had enough and decided to coin this so i have some peace of mind and no longer worry about using a term that is against what i’m am firmly for.

(Edit: So uhhhh, when I started making this I had no idea xeniden already existed. But this one is meant to be an add on to existing terms while xeniden looks like you have to coin a separate term. There are also not many xenidens from what I’ve seen. I’m coining this for my own personal comfort, I hope this isn’t too much of a recoin)

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How It’s Used

Neoidyn is essentially meant to be compatible with all genders. That meaning any gender can be a Neoidyn. For example, you can take Catgender, change “gender” to “neoid” and boom, you’ve got Catneoid. For terms that don’t have gender in its name (Ex: Boything), you can leave it as is. Neoidyn is meant to be very open ended so it can fit any experience. Catneoid can mean:

- Identifying as a cat

- Identifying with cats

- Having a strong connection to cats

- Behaving like a cat

- Being cat kin/linked/hearted or a cat alterhuman

- Being catgender

- And anything having to due with cats that can be tied to identity

- As well as any of these examples combined

There is absolutely no wrong way to use Neoidyn. It’s essentially an add on to xeno/neogenders. Since Neoidyns are intended to use existing genders/terms as a base, there is no need to coin your own or make your own flags. You may, however, coin subterms for Neoidyn

This is not necessary, but if you’d like to indicate you use a xeno as a Neoidyn you can apply two dark bars in the corners of the flag like so:

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End note: I am NOT a mogai/liom blog, I’m just a silly lil editor and stimboard maker who wanted to fill a gap within his identity 😭 This is a one off thing and I won’t be coining anything else after this, my silly edits and stims will resume shortly. This also gave me extremely anxiety posting this and I don’t wanna go through that again lmao. I don’t wanna be too involved with this, I just wanna hand this to yall, let yall go wild with it, and be done. Like I said, I made this for my own personal comfort and at least if I have this out there other people may connect with this and I can have an easier time explaining my identity. Credit is absolutely not required, just go crazy

[sol-shines]

@ your tags PLEASE talk abt your parker designs!!!

this is for you and @dreaming-of-stories-and-stars THANK YOU for enabling me :3 sorry this took a little bit

if you don't know what this is about i drew my takes on the parkers here !

rambles under the cut:

SO what i sorta wanted to do was make. each parker flow into the next while subtly changing in between ,,, something something losing yourself to the game, becoming unrecognizable. so let's cover it parker by parker:

prime: i personally Love the hc that the coin is parker's mom. so prime is a lil ancient roman coded guy. he's SOOOO eldest sibling coded help. like he and his mom have a very strained relationship but also he thinks that if he just does whatever she wants she'll finally be proud of him :P whoops! and yeah v explosive anger (firewalker reference!), leading to ego, leading to. You Know. anyway. oh ALSO the parkers get younger as we progress so :))) they all STARTED at 19 but have varying degrees of age. so prime is in his mid-thirties.

parker ii: AH the most elusive of the parkers. SO: in my personal lore interp, parker ii was created when prime starting to push back against the coin more and more to the point where it was becoming a problem. and prime of course is very destructive and makes a mess when he's angry. so ii came about from me going "...what if parker just. said fuck it and left. didn't give a shit about ego just didn't wanna play the game anymore and found a way out." and that's exactly what my ii did. absolutely fucking vanished and quit the game for good. somehow. which uhhh MIGHT have been what caused prime to go apeshit ("why does ii get to leave and i'm stuck here?") and end prehistory. whoops. so i wanted to make them look very vagabond-y. somehow got even edgier than prime (impressive). also they're abt 30-ish. and have crazy gender stuff going on. possibly transfem. "but how is that possible if you hc the parkers as transmasc-" shhh. i don't know <3

park3r: GOD i loved doing this one. this parker is such a bitch and i love him. the first commissioner parker, created bc "OKAY so we gotta make him more young and impressionable and less unstable AND take him out of this game bc very clearly Bad Things will happen if he stays" so they made. a chronically online teenager and made them commissioner AMDNFM. god yeah i love this design he's sooo. just a 19-year-old trying to fill an impossible role and putting on a cool face about it. tragic, yes. but they're gonna complain the whole time and make everyone else miserable too. fully believe he was just scared and out of his depth the whole trial :( oops why are parkers iii and iiii so sad. i drew him closer to mid-20s here but honestly he could easily be younger

p4rker: LOVE this guy's lore so my hc is that after the trial that killed park3r it was like "uhhhh FUCK we need a new one of those. stat." so. they just. took park3r's incin'd body (ik it's not really Canon that park3r was incin'd he just Died but. let me have this) and like. stitched it back together. so p4rker is covered in burns and stitched together like frankenstein all over, and they just threw a mask on them like "see!!! new guy!!" the result of this being they didn't have. a whole ton of time to add shit like Personality, so p4rker is the outlier in that they're very naive and even polite? they don't understand what all the fuss is about them and just wants to be. nice? shame he didn't stick around long :/ the drippy bits are a little percolation nod! in this particular drawing he's like 20 :(

pvrker is. obviously the least human. park3r was more of a prototype of a commissioner, p4rker was a temporary placeholder at best, pvrker... was well and truly made For The Game. and his appearance reflects that. kinda a combination of iii's bluntness and 4's naivety. in-universe some people think he's the most sinister or whatever bc he's so directly Controlled By ILB Shit and that's not NOT true but like. give him a break guys he's like 6 days old he's new at this :(

ANYWAY that's so long holy shit. here are my rambles i hope u like them. im So Bad at blaseball lore so someone yell at me if something i put in there isn't accurate but. yeag :)

[liviavanrouge]

WHB Kids(Will upgrade if more are made)

Askios

Description: Askios is the eldest of the kids and the son of Bael. He is quiet, preferring to indulge himself in a book, enjoying the quiet more than the loud ruckus his friends make. He's not the one to judge others and will join the antics if it means everyone leaves him alone. Is confirmed to have a crush on Davina but Satan would kick his ass before letting him get close to the girl.

Davino

Description: Davino is the second eldest of the kids and the older twin brother of Davina along with being Satan and Eve's son. He enjoys reading books and is always willing to indulge in his friends loud antics despite enjoying the peace and quiet. An enjoyer of sketching, he has a notebook filled with sketches that he carries around with him.

Davina

Description: The third eldest of the kids, and the younger twin of Davino alongside being the daughter of Satan and Eve. She's hyperactive and enjoys running about playing a few pranks with friends and dragging her brother around after her. She's called Satan's Princess due to acting like him at times. She's a big enjoyer of dancing and always pulls one of her nannies or guards to dance with her.

Hunapo

Description: Hunapo is the fourth eldest of the kids and the only child of Leviathan. He tends to be lazy, sleeping in his coffin and rarely coming out. He takes after Leviathan, causing his friends to call him his Father's Boy or tease him asking if he and his father were siblings rather than father and son. He enjoys threatening to hang others if they irk him. He is stated to be fond of Charaka possibly hinting at a crush.

Flavis

Description: Flavis is the fifth oldest and the son of Mammon. He is at times the voice of reason in the group, but indulges more in his chaotic side rather than his reasonable side. He frequently switches between being a child and being a mature prince depending on where he is and what he's doing. He enjoys collecting gold and silver coins having a stack of them in his room to look at.

Lesley

Description: Lesley is the sixth oldest of the kids and the daughter of Michael and Vivia. Her father now lives with her in the human realm. She enjoys sweets and always hold hope within others no matter who they are. She tends to be naive and at times going along with what the others wanted even finding the fun in some of the crazy things they end up doing. She's the love interest of Davino and enjoys sitting still for his sketches.

Charaka

Description: Charaka is the seventh oldest and the son of Beelzebub. Charaka is stated to be a free spirit, running away from home whenever he's able to and hanging out with his friends. He's stated to be the one who keeps the group together, lending an ear or a shoulder for whenever one of them needs it. He appears to find Hunapo adorable confirming a possible crush. He learns breakdancing and enjoys showing off his moves.

Andre

Description: The son of Andrealphus, he's the fourth youngest of the kids, being born a week before Lithea. He's close friends with Charaka and Hunapo, having been friends with the two for a long while before the others combined with them and made their group bigger. He has a distaste for blood and a weak stomach unable to eat most foods. He's supportive of his friends and tends to act out with Lithea the most. He enjoys firing off gun like weapons and is able to hit far away targets.

Lithea

Description: Lithea is the third youngest of the kids and the daughter of Lucifer. Lithea takes pride in her appearance and who she hangs out with. She's loud and even more hyperactive than Davina and Lesley combined. She can be kind, compassionate and thoughtful towards others and tends to speak with a gentle voice when she's not being overly hyper. She finds Prism interesting hinting at a possible crush. She enjoys making flower crowns and giving them to her father.

Sergio

Description: Sergio is the second youngest and the son of Stolas. He tends to be the slow one of the group, not having much stamina or a quick thinking process, depending on the others to enlighten him on things and help him understand what's going on around him. The others usually say a three sentence line to help him understand most things. He enjoys collecting angel wings but always cleans the blood off of them due to Andre's weak stomach.

Prism

Description: The youngest of the group and the accidental son of Michelleel. He's jumpy and tends to let out a squeak whenever he gets startled. He's shy and tends to hide behind the taller kids, peeking out whenever there's a conversation but not truly engaging in it. Lilthea teases him the most, causing him to become a flustered jittery mess, stuttering out any words. He finds Lithea fascinating possibly hinting at a crush. He likes to learn archery.

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Currently Watching - July

Because I love a good little list - in alphabetical order! 😊

Regularly updated during the month, latest update 28.07.2023

Here you can find my weekly roundup that goes into a bit more detail about each episode.

And a little link to my favorite bl-tropes-collection 💙

I am always happy about gif-requests. If you want a special scene, just let me know. Here you can find all of my gifs.

This is guaranteed to contain spoilers!

1. Alice in Boarderland Season 1 (1/8 on Netflix, no bl)

One day I was in the mood for some dystopian and uncomfortable watch and here we are. After that day I needed something cuddly and colorful, so I guess it will take me a while to finish it. But the first episode was really good.

2. Be My Favorite (10/12 on Youtube)

At first glance, Kawi is a loser. At second glance, a crazy loser. When he tries to travel back in time to change his life, it doesn't necessarily go in the direction he had in mind or Pisaeng, the later husband of Kawi's crush. But this series is so much more. Kawi is like our inner voice of insecurities and inadequacies. And it is like healing a little bit watching him gaining a little bit more self confidence and self love. And the same goes for Pisaeng. His journey in self-acceptence and starting to live the life he wants and deserves is just so beautiful. This show really hit home every week and right now is one of my all-time favorites.

3. Dinosaur Love (5/10 on iQiyi)

There is no excuse for this one. It is a hellfire of a show. It is bad. But I had a blast. I can't tell you what it is about, because I have no clue! All I know is, I love it. It is so bad, that it is good! I guess it is about the lovestory between Dino and Pak, told by some drunk students. And while they start to bond we get some sa and self harm. Great show...not.

4. Hidden Agenda (3/12 on Youtube)

Okay, I can smile a little bit watching this. Both of them have a hidden agenda and I kind of like Joke and his attempts to make Zo fall for him. And I like that we already know that Joke likes Zo. That makes everything...I don't know...a little bit cuter.

5. His Man Season 2 (13/14 on Gaga)

The korean dating show is back! I loved the first season and the second just started really good. I guess there will be some drama in those 14 episodes, but the first dates were so cute! I am looking forward to next week! There is so much drama going on! And the people are really unpredictable. I wish we could see more of their interactions, because a lot just comes out of the blue.

6. Jun & Jun (2/8 on Viki)

Okay, that was not the strongest start for me, but it was not bad. An office drama about Lee Jun and Choi Jun, who were childhood friends (and crushes I guess) and who meet again after being seperated for years. The one an intern and the other one the director. I like those combinations, so I am looking forward to the next episode and just hope it gets better.

6. King the Land (10/16 on Netflix, no bl)

You know the feeling, you wake up in the morning and you're craving some good korean romance drama? That happend to me one day and so I just thought to give this a shot and it is good. Cheon Sa Rang works as a concierge at the King Of The Land Hotel and there she always has to wear a smile, fake or real doesn't matter. She meets the new boss in town Gu Won, who just can't stand fake smiles, but I guess her beautiful and real smile will make him fall head over heals.

7. Low Frequency (3/8 on iQiyi)

The characters are a little bit quirky, the story looks interesting, the acting is a little bit stiff, the first episode was not that revealing, but it made me looking forward to next week. A bl with some supernatural element. I like those kind of shows.

8. Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 (4/12 on Gaga)

Minato and Shin are dating for three month now and it feels like we are back at the beginning of the first season. Minato is always surprised when Shin wants to exchange some affection or when he just wants to know if Minato likes him. And to be honest, if I was in his place, I would ask too, because right now it doesn't feel like Minato likes Shin. But with the second episode we finally get some of Minato's thoughts and it is cute and sad at the same time. The second episode totally got me and I am excited what there is to come!

9. See you in my 19th life (7/12 on Netflix, no bl)

It was a suggestion, sounded interesting, so I watched it and I really enjoyed the first episode, so I stayed. Ban Ji Eum is able to remember her past lifes. Her 18th one ended way too soon and in her now 19th life she wants to meet the one person again, who brought her joy again after 100 years of being tired of reincarnating and remembering all the pasts lifes. A very interesting concept and I like how bold and confident Ban Ji Eum is.

10. Shigatsu no Tokyo wa... (7/8 on Gaga or Viki)

Kazuma and Ren were close friends during middle school and now meet again years later after their ways parted. We get some cute flashbacks and much cuter interactions in the here and now. And now we are at the point where the cuteness gives way to reality and the cruel past and I hope we will see those two just communicate, because right now they are happy they are together, but there is so much more between them than just freinds with benefits. This one is definetely one of my most anticipated watches during the week.

11. Stay with me (16/24 on Gaga)

Well this is the new version of Addicted, but I guess it won't be a little bit more censored than the original one. I like the old one, despite its flaws and toxic traits. So far I like the first two epsiodes. The actors remind me more of stubborn highschool students which is quite nice. The dads are a mess! I am looking forward to more episodes.

12. Wedding Plan (2/8 on iQiyi)

I knew I am going to have a problem as soon as I finished the trailer. And here I am...totally obsessed with this show! And we are on episode 1! Well, what happens when the Wedding Planner and the groom fall for each other? I don't know either, but I can't wait to find out!

Finished in July

Series

1. The Luminous Solution (6/6 on Gaga)

Okay, I am totally confused with the ending and I guess they wanted to make more episodes, but didn't have the budget. The last episode fest very rushed and there were parts missing to understand the whole thing. Over all this wasn't a good show. The concept was interesting, but that was it. I really wish this show had more episodes and a little bit more budget for the quality part. Just a 4,5 out of 10 for me.

2. Step by Step (12/12 on Gaga)

Employee meets boss without knowing who he has met and crushes hard on him. This one was starting strong for me. It had a good pacing and intersting characters. But as the story carried on it lost me. I couldn't enjoy the characters. I think Pat is annoying and whiney and Jeng really needs to learn how to seperate work and privat life. I adore Man, but man I couldn't get Pat's and his chemistry. It wasn't there for me most of the times. And they built up a second couple with a complicated cheating story, but they dealt with it so rushed and shitty...I am lost for words at this point. They didn't even get a real conclusion at the end. This was frustrating. The last episode felt like a filler episode instead of a final. It was boring and the time jumps were just weird. Yeah, well... It is a 6,5 out of 10 for me. I really wish I could give it something higher.

3. La Pluie (12/12 on iQiyi)

I can't lie. The series lost me in episode 10. And it kind of destroyed my likings for this show. You know the feeling when you are starting to fall in love and on the way you discover a character trait you can't stand and just like that the love is gone. Well, that happend to me with La Pluie and especially with Patts. I couldn't trust him anymore after episode 10. I get it, he was frustrated, but that is not an excuse for his behavior. And yes, this is a show, it is fiction, but I still didn't like it. What I like is, that Tien and Lomfon got their ending together and there was no rain and no hearing loss in the end. Nope. Didn't happen. What a fucking nightmare of an ending. And now I really don't know how to rate this one, because I loved it til epsiode 9... I guess I go with a 7 out of 10. I won't go back here in the future, but I can't deny that I liked it in the beginning.

Short Film

Movie

Rewatched in July

1. History 3: Trapped

Every now and then I like to come back to this little gem and watch a cold mafia boss falling in love with a hot-headed cop who has made it his own agenda to bring said mafia boss down and falls in love with him instead. Love it! One of my favorite History seasons!

2. Love Tractor

I felt a little bit down the other day and just watched this comfy show and immediately fell better! I love it so much. And I adore the manhwa! It is just so wholesome watching Yechan fall in love with Yul and slowly work his way up to his heart. Just so cute!

Dropped/On-Hold in July

1. Sparks Camp

It was more cringe for me than anything else. So I had to drop it. I guess I will watch the last episode to see if there are some happy couples or not.

2. Tie The Not

It was really not that special for me and it felt just way too rushed. So I dropped it now. I was not looking forward to watch it and just forgot what I have watched rthe week before. Not a good sign.

3. Be Mine Superstar (2/12 on Viki)

Yeah...I knew it last week that the possibility is high I would drop it. And after yesterday's episode I know I am not looking forward to watch any more. I can't stand Punn. He is the worst enemie for my cringe tolerance and I can't watch his scenes...which is bad when he is one of the main characters...

Looking forward to in July

Be Mine SuperStar - Trailer (July 3rd on Viki)

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 - Trailer (July 6th on Gaga)

Stay With Me - Trailer (July 7th on Gaga)

Stay By My Side - Teaser (July 7th on Gaga)

Low Frequency - Pilot (July 8th on iQiyi)

Hidden Agenda - Trailer (July 9th on Youtube)

Laws Of Attraction - Trailer (July 15th on One31)

Wedding Plan - Trailer (July 19th on iQiyi and Youtube)

Jun and Jun - Trailer (July 20th on Viki)

After Sundown - Trailer (July 20th on One31)

For the first time in a while I am looking forward to all of these new bls, well at least most of them. I am really not a fan of horror movies 🫣

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

Okay here me out, fusion between kup and tarantulas. Both are parental figures to springer and both hate prowl with a burning passion. Accidental pun asside quite possibly a match made in the deep pits of prowl's hell.

Tarantup would be like Rambo if Rambo was also a crazy scientist. He's here to kick ass, do science and smoke cy-gars and he's all out of cy-gars.

Combining Tarantulas intellect with Kup's strategic mind, this fusion might be one of the most capable bots out there. He's quickly able to adapt to most situations thrown at him and come up with a variety of different ways to deal with problems. A master of guerilla warfare, he utilizes his webbings to improvise traps and make-shift weaponry.

Both his biggest weakness as well as his strength, Tarantup easily forms strong bonds with others. The problem is that he gets easily overly attached to certain individuals and this can easily be used against him. Betrayal from these individuals will completely blindside him or if anything were to threaten them then he would go out of his way to save them, even at the detriment of others and/or himself. Very loyal.

Has a love/hate relationship with Prowl where he switches between "I hate this guy and want to punch his stupid face" and "he's the only one who will ever understand me, he's my second half, we are two sides of a coin" and he flips between these two every couple minutes.

And yes, he's a total dad to Springer. Calls him 'son'.