#this is truly a playlist for the gays thank u

[melloneah]

this is all for the writer ask!!! :3 hope it's not too much >_<" answer the ones you're comfortable answering and don't force yourself to answer all of them if you don't want to! <3

🌵🥤🌻🍄📚 🍬🔪🥐🏜🦋🐝🧩

EHEHEHEHEHHE NEVER TOO MUCH THANK U SMMMMMM 🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love

i dont really listen to premade playlists, so ill link mine >:333 this is a playlist i made for a roadtrip to berlin, including all the songs i was listening to at the time, and ive since been adding new ones actively, so it's literally just a huge list of everything i love :D 🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

first of all gonna plug my besties ofc @levi-dayne writes sick ass fics for death note @uriekukistan writes amazing itafushi angst (and not only :33) SENDING BOTH OF THEM SMOOCHES GO READ THEIR STUFF! and a fic that id read recently and LOVEDDD was all about love by fullvoid (@casgore on here :3) the yuuji characterisation broke my heart - it was a gutwrenchingly real way of depicting mental illness, and i loved seeing how different he acted around people vs alone. and it was super cool seeing a healed megumi helping yuuji rather than the other way around!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!

🌻 ⇢ tag someone you appreciate but don't talk to on a regular basis FIRST OF ALL U!!!!!! i love the mutual interactions THANK U FOR BEING HERE!!!! @alonelystargazer is very sweet and i interact with her pretty regularly i feel :3 THANK U FOR INTERACTING WINNIE!!!!<3 cant think of anymore rn but if i do i WILL edit this post TRUST 🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

megumi likes penne but yuuji hates it so they always disagree over pasta shape if theyre making it for dinner. yuuji always wins bc his favourite is spaghetti and obviously everyone likes spaghetti so megumi doesnt bother fighting him on it 📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

HEHEHEHEH nervous. lets see "what kinda gay shit goes on around here when im not around" LMAO the choso x todo wip in action. what a quote thank u past me. you'll find out the context once i post it sjdhfgsjhfks

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

hmmmmm from random shit i think like. 1980s window designs in england lmaooo

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh 

answered here :333

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

ARRGRHRG ANY COMMENT. i get so excited u cant even imagine. i sometimes type 'AO3' in my gmail just to delude myself that i got a comment and get that little pang of joy seeing the notif 😭 my favvvv must be ones that quote certain lines tho bc then im like HEY!!!! I WROTE THAT!!!! U LIKED THAT??? DUDE UR NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS I WROTE IT

🦋 ⇢ share something that has been on your heart and mind lately

i feel like an everpresent topic ive had on my mind especially often for the last year is kindness. there's a multitude of things i could say, whether that's bashing people for lacking it, or get all teary over how beautiful it is (which!! it is!!!) but i think what ive recently discovered is that it's my only constant :3 when everything else goes wrong, that's all i have, and im really happy it's second nature to me (altho im still actively working on making myself better!!!!)

yeah, maybe everything sucks right now, but i know i can make someone else's day better :3 and often it makes things a little more okay to me too

🐝 ⇢ tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

RAHHGHG BESTIES. question for the bestiessss

@levi-dayne is so dear to my heart!!! such a sweet and kind person, who truly and deeply cares about others!!!! makes music, writes well AND ALSO DRAWS??!!! amazing and super talented person with super high ambitions too!!! SO SLAYFUL. what did i do to deserve such a slayful friend<333

@uriekukistan is one of the most naturally talented ppl i know!!!!! they write amazing fics, can DANCE super well, and took up drawing like 3 seconds ago and are already churning out really cool stuff on a fucking TOUCHPAD. ON THEIR LAPTOP. gofundme for rin graphic art kit when?? also ofc. a really good friend and very kind person :3333 <333

ILYSM BESTIESSSS

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

from a writing style perspective: first person and tense switches

from a content perspective: anything fucked up like noncon or incest....how tf are they often not tagged like??? or putting that at the bottom of the warnings list 😭 oh yea im far more concerned about swearing and underage drinking......

something im picky abt that sometimes annoys me enough to click off but i feel like it's just a weird personal preference is the overuse of alternatives to a characters name. so using "the brunette" like 5 times. just say his name!!!!! it's ok!!!!!

RAHHHHHH i usually reread my answers before i post but not this time. adios fuckers i dont remember what bullshit i wrote here but ur left with the consequences. if u wanna deal with even more of my terrible takes ASK ME STUFF

[sollucets]

aaaaaaaaaaaaa you're watching woh and you're on ep 9 already???? that means you're almost on ep 12 omfg MAKE SURE TO WATCH THE SPECIAL VER TO EXPERIENCE PEAK ROMANCE THAT SUNBATHING SCENE HAS CHANGED THE TRAJECTORY OF MY LIFE REWIRED MY BRAIN ETC ETC (and made me choose this url)

here's a playlist with all the slightly extended gayer episodes (ep 12 has the biggest difference) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk3CgXKvqvFp_0e1wE1twwEJc-PL9BmKS&si=5Otgb4Xw4v-856U0

also!!!! there's a very short but extremely important ep 37 you can find it on tumblr somewhere or ask me and i'll find it for u <33 oh and also there's a car commercial that is an important part of the lore so lmk when you finish the show trust me it'll heal your heart akdhsjsk

also also!! watch the "lip reading for sugar" videos by avenuex because censorship made them dub over a lot of lines that were considered too gay for chinese tv 👀 (it has two parts first on eps 1-15 and the other on the rest of the show) her videos on poetry and cultural references are also really interesting

hope u enjoy the show 💜💜💜

- @ahxu-laowen

yes the rumors (me admitting to it) are true. i, rowan "i think that's lao wen" "i don't go here" "literally never watched a c-drama" sollucets am making my way through word of honor :'>

uwah sof this is marvelous thank you for ur wisdom!! i think that playlist was what i was already using, if not that specific one necessarily... but most of those videos have history/watch progress on them. so i think i was doing it right

and those lip reading videos are Wild!! those are so interesting thank you for pointing me at them. ive stopped so i dont get ahead of myself too far but thats so fun to me. thank u

i'm "on" episode nine in the sense that i started it a little, but i havent finished it or anything yet so the last i saw was eight. and im really really enjoying it so far!!! i will eagerly await episode twelve but im already a big fan of everything going on. i really love the fight scene style & their developing connection (god... soulmates....) and i understand now. wen kexing truly shaping up for among the characters of all time ranking. look at him

[nanaminswhore]

music game tag

✨R U L E S✨

You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to!

Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs with no skipping!

Then tag people to also do the challenge!

☀️N O T E S☀️

Thank you to the lovely and incredibly talented @thedreamlessnights for tagging me! If you are as obsessed with Viktor as we are, please head on to their blog from that good, good Viktor sustenance❣️💕

You do NOT need to add your thoughts about the songs like I have! I just had time in my hands and thought it would be fun! 😆

🌙S O N G S🌙

1. “Sensitive” by MOTHICA

Holy shit this song is so good, if you like alternative rock with a synth-pop overtone, please give it a listen. Absolutely nasty electric guitar motifs in it! Not to mention MOTHICA’s voice is so buttery and delicious 😩

2. “Go for It” by Djo

Joe Kerry has made his way into my heart with his 80’s synth pop swagger ways!!

His new album DECIDE truly is such a work of honest and artistic goodness and has been on repeat for me these days! This song is a good one form the album but admittedly not one of my faves! Can’t wait to get my hands on the vinyl of this incredible album!

3. “I Wish” by Hayley Kiyoko

Oh our lesbian queen Miss Kiyoko 🥰 This song used to get me sooo deep in my gay feels when I first really came to terms with my identity. It is so gentle, so soft, and so bittersweetly honest about the feelings of loneliness that often tags along the existence of being queer 💕

4. “Shukumei” by Official HIGE DANdism

Oh this song is anthemic as FUCK❣️ HIGE always manages to get me imagining myself as the protagonist in the fluffy ending OP of a dark-ass anime sksksks

But seriously, the brass instruments 🎺 + modern synth and mixing 🤖 + Satoshi Fujihara’s light tone & scratchy timber 🎶 = lighthearted, hope-inducing goodness!

5. “Baby” by Relient K

Oh god, the “epilogue” song to the song “Savannah,” is truly a work of art. As a stand-alone song it is brilliant. Alongside its sister song, it truly feels like the beginning of a love that lasts forever. Together they paint a picture of affection and devotion so thankful and honest. It get emotional every time I heart it!

6. “If Only My Heart Could Speak” by Cody Fry

I’m a bit in love with romantic music that make me feel like I’m in a dance sequence in an animated / Disney movie with an orchestra accompaniment!

Cody Fry is soooo brilliant at making backtracks for the movies in my head! The swell, the tenderness, the romance of it all! Ahh!! 💕

7. “A-Yo” by SHINee

Oh my god 🥺 My babies SHINee (all of whom are older than me sksksk). Lucifer is such an iconic KPOP album and one that I feel was part of the greater shift KPOP had in the early 2010s. “A-Yo” is so lightly anthemic and is written and mixed with with hip-hop and R&B influences. So sweet, so nostalgic, and so fresh!! ✨

8. “I Hope of You Think of Me” by Lily Williams

Oh my god this song has been in repeat like no one’s business. The sweetest and softest friends-to-lovers song of the century that I use as the background song to my Steve x Y/N and Eddie x Y/N daydreams 🥰

Lily’s voice is the voice of God’s favorite angel, and twinkle of the brightest star. She is so lovely and so is this song 💕

9. “Just the Girl” by The Click Five

This one is a classic of early 2000’s-boy-band-with-a-guy-pining-so-fucking-hard-over-a-girl-way-out-of-his-league sksksksk

This song was popular for the generation before me but god, I’ve loved it with them since FOREVER. Early 2000’s pop rock is sooooo fun and so nostalgic and so recognizable. One of my all time favorites!!

It also makes for a great gay anthem if sung by a girl 🏳️‍🌈❣️💕🥰✨

10. “Split” by NIKI

This song is sultry and melancholic and has an old Hollywood / winter / holiday vibe! Definitely for the days I need to wallow in a mood 🖤

As an Indonesian person, seeing NIKI come into the international limelight has given me so much pride! 🇮🇩💕 She is such a talented individual with so many fuckin’ pop bops!! Please support your POC artists!!

🎶 T A G S 🎶

I tag @kentoswifey • @faeology • @gh0ullie • @playfulcl0ud • and anyone else who would like to do it!

[fmdduri]

PRESS PLAY!

after times, duri really, really needs a pick me up when he’s feeling down; which is something that can happen often to him. so, in very park duri fashion, he finds himself turning to music to help himself with that, which is often something that always works incredibly well for him. all he’s gotta do is put his headphones in and listen to music that’s a lot more upbeat (though, sometimes, he just kind of feels like listening to sadder songs to kind of really be in those feelings, if that’s what he deems necessary.) as of right now, his feel better playlist, “spirits rising” is filled with the upbeat songs that sometimes he really just needs on the days that he deems harder than others. in retrospect, as well, it can somewhat show his current tastes in music is as well, with some of the songs being recent from the third quarter of 2022. nonetheless, sometimes he’s just gotta blast these tunes and raise his spirits to be much, much better - even if you can’t tell that he’s feeling more on the rainy, gloomy side. 

001. asap by stayc candy.
 002. gee by girls’ generation lily.
 003. this hell by rina sawayama. 
004. no one dies from love by tove lo. 
005. pit a pat by xia. 
006. mascara by xg. 007. after like by ive. 
008. so what by boys world. 009. alien superstar by beyoncé. 010. hot in it by tiësto & charli xcx. 011. sunflower (p.e.l) by choi yoojung. 012. queendom by red velvet equinox. BONUS: i wanna dance with somebody (who loves me) by whitney houston.

[tilliam-w-psears]

what's ur favorite Grelle ship & why?

also how do u imagine modern Grelle? Like her looks, personality, lifestyle, etc

hmmmm i cannot say i have thought of grelle from a shipping perspective often! i think that grelle and madame red’s dynamic was very interesting but i do not think that it was a healthy relationship. big supporter of @retrievaldivision’s helen and aphrodite (of iliad fame) takes and that whole thing they’ve got going on (follow tumblr user retrievaldivision). i’ve been pretty forthcoming on my stance that william t spears and grelle are homies but i don’t think i’d be entirely opposed to that but i’m also very. selective? about ship content so a lot of the existing grelliam content doesn’t jive with me especially with how a lot of people write their dynamic (ie grelle is the victim and has never done anything wrong william t spears is cruel and unfeeling etc etc bc that is simply not true and also william t spears is my friend. did they ever think of that.) this isn’t to say good grelliam content is nonexistent but it’s rare for me personally to find stuff i like. honestly i feel like grelle learning to live like on her own would probably be healthiest for her but that’s just my personal take [points at hermit the frog marina on my grelle playlist]. sebastian and grelle is kind of funny bc they both suck and have tried to kill each other but i’m a known sebagni truther. so ultimately for favourite grelle ship i’m gonna have to go with i truly don’t know chief if you’ve got any recs drop em

as far as modern grelle. i cannot say i have thought about this either. most of my. headcanons. are around like the existing kuro universe or some equally fantastical type fiction (i am actually currently writing an ericalan fic based off of the russian folktale the soldier and death in which alan is death and eric is the soldier and it’s going to be based. thanks) so. but as far as modern universe goes i have thought about like the human +1 gang in which sebastian is an agent for some secret organization or another assigned to ciel’s case (parents dying in massive house fire, etc etc) and is like. also undercover as his adoptive father and they live in richpeoplesuburbsTM. agni and soma are their neighbours (agni is soma’s bodyguard and also takes care of him bc his parents are away often). finny and mey rin rent out the basement (they came with the house). they meet at the midford’s white people barbecue/garden party. anyway. so in this situation the reapers are all staff for the middle/high school (shoutout to @retrievaldivision for helping me come up w this also). grelle is the thotty secretary, william t spears is the counsellor, eric is the gym teacher, alan is the gay history teacher (courtesy of retrievaldivision), othello teaches chemistry, and ron is the IT guy. in this universe, grelle and ron are roomies and rent a shitty apt together. they’re obviously not rich because they work at a highschool so it’s not glamorous or anything but it works. i imagine grelle’s wardrobe consists mainly of pencil skirts and button ups. probably wears heels every day. glasses chain stays ON. personality wise much the same but because i am in control she is not pervy and weird. also she does not commit mass murder. like grelle’s general obnoxiousness is an integral part of her personality so i would like to keep that but have her not make unwanted sexual advances at her coworkers. there is something charming about the characters just being like. regular ass people. so. yeah. that’s my take.

[mundungs]

ϟ.  → robert sheehan : genderfluid : he/they/she : dealer of illicit objects and substances : the raven by the alan parsons project ϟ  did you see mundungus fletcher ? you know ,  31 year old halfblood who was formally in ravenclaw. some say dung can be quite furtive but are known to be unreliable. they are aligned with the order .  maybe that’s why they remind me of naming stray cats, flicking a lighter over and over again, falling asleep on the subway. ϟ 

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ciannán o’donnell is a flighty man, one of many relationships and flings and little loyalty, and so his affair with maeve fletcher does not last long. when she tells him she is pregnant, he moves on to a different woman, and maeve has her son alone, with her sister on her side. and thus, mundungus is born (and giving an arguably atrocious name).

he grows up with his mum – a halfblooded witch and by far his favourite person in the world – in limerick, attending muggle school there. he knew who his dad was, but wasn’t quite sure how to feel about — his father is a criminal, a prominent member of the irish mob. 

he meets his dad for the first time at age seven, and was nothing but impressed. his dad showered him with gifts, his mum watching with a furious look on her face but biting her tongue. that moment was a switch for mundungus; he felt the need to impress his dad. he stole some sweets from a store on his way home from school a week later, fished some pennies out of the pockets of his classmates a few months later. when he phoned his dad to tell him, his laugh was warm and filled with life. his relationship with his dad got better as his behaviour got worse. the thrill of stealing, of doing stuff he wasn’t supposed to, lit him not only on fire because it was exciting, but also because he knew his dad would adore it. 

but ciannan, a flighty man, pushes and pulls. and so mundungus was fed disappointment by his father, liking love off a shiny knife rather than a spoon ( silver or plastic, what the fuck does it matter ). details omitted, long story made short: his dad sucks and his mother tries, but mundungus is pulled towards that what smells of danger.

DRUGS MENT. at hogwarts, dung is sorted into ravenclaw. not at all the booksmart type, he falls more into the chaotic-creativity, random-bursts-of-wanting-to-learn-everything-about-something type of ravenclaw. there’s two worlds, then: the muggle world, where he slowly dips his water further in criminal waters, and the wizarding one, where he’s chaotic and messy but a student. when he grows older, these overlap: dung starts selling some of his dad’s weed at hogwarts, and soon gains a reputation of being able to get people less-than-legal shit. 

not getting high off your own supply is not a sentiment he agrees with. not then, not later, not now. dung is fun, always in for a party and willing to supply the goods to throw it. if some rich purebloods lose a few galleons at said party, well, it sure isn’t him! END OF TW

he graduates with two newts, in herbology and potions, failing his dada and charms exams. he’s not an academic.

falling into the family business after graduation is easy. mundungus is attracted by the criminal underworld, both that of muggle ireland and that of the wizarding world. knockturn alley was a place frequented in teenage years, but now becomes more his place. he makes connections, exchanges strange potion recipes for other things. makes an odd wager on a bunch of stolen brass scales and turns a profit. 

a career is not something that interests him; he is more interested in bending rules and making quick money. thievery, selling illegal shit, heists, fraud, fuck-all. mundungus is not limited by one descriptor, one kind of criminality. he just does what he wants and hopes to make a good penny.

but then he almost gets sent to azkaban over some, in his frank opinion, bullshit. it’s dumbledore who talks the wizengamot out of it, saddling dung up with some community service and persuading him towards the order. he’s twenty three. the war is still fresh. he has no interest in it, but he owes the old man. fine.

mundungus does vehemently oppose blood purity and any kind of discriminatory ideals, an anarchist in his very bones, but he is also cowardly. to side with self-proclaimed rebels is not in his blood and yet it’s where he ends up, bringing shady ties to the underworld to the table and a sheer ability to sneak around and fuck the law. and maybe, amidst the ranks of the order, dung finds something he’s not very familiar with: a large family. and dung? well, he’s the stoner, gay, super-fucking-chaotic cousin.

personality

if jesper fahey and kaz brekker had a child, it would be dung. 

other character parallels: fezco ( euphoria ), boris ( the goldfinch ), doug judy ( b99 ), jason mendoza ( the good place ), chris miles ( skins ),  nick miller ( new girl ), creed bratton ( the office ), scott lang ( marvel ), lillian ( unbreakable kimmy schmidt )

technically he’s homeless. he’s got a bedroom at his ma’s place, has a ton of squatter connects in the muggle scene and couch surfes aplenty, but dung doesn’t rent a place. why? landlords are evil. he could afford a place, just doesn’t see the point. life’s better with some adventure.

appears very neutral in public as it’s beneficial to his role in the order??? 

.... tortured artist. writes poetry and loves to draw and paint. 

tattooed the fuck up. some are his own designs.

can usually be spotted wearing The Coat, a rly expensive, vintage long coat that he once stole of a pureblood. he’s enlarged the pockets with some handy spellwork and pretty much carries everything he owes in there, like his produce and his money and his second pair of shoes and his art supplies and probably some random trash. 

loves animals. he loves stray cats especially <3 they are his kin. 

an anarchist. a bit of a punk. a deep idealist with a cowardly heart so constantly betraying himself (and sometimes others?)

queer! enby! genderfluid! i used he/him pronouns throughout this intro but dung truly doesn’t give a damn what u use. loves to dress up in feminine clothes. 

has a ton of aliases, lol, the most important one being marigold fincher. 

cusses too fuckin much to be healthy :/

oh no he is a big sad insecure kid deep inside :/ dont tell anyone how embarrassing!!!! shhhh!! it’s a secret.

quick connection ideas

victim. wow please. if your character is rich. let me steal from u. pick ur pockets. break into ur house. get some of ur stuff and drop it on the black market. 

customer. dung sells. whatever u need. drugs. weird magical things. ask and ye shall receive. his prices are whack but he does deliver <3

pal. party friends! order friends! random encounter friends! dung has a trashmouth and loves to talk pls let him chat u up and u will never be rid of him <3

couch. he couch surfs. a lot. if ur character trusts dung enough to let him into their home (which they shouldnt) then pls let him sleep over for a night. he will leave a strangely expensive necklace on ur kitchen table as a thank u. or wilted flowers. no in between.

skeptic. ur char is in the order and thinks dung is a liability and maybe they have a point. a point mundungus would rather not face :)

dmle bitches. dung hates anyone authoritative but esp the coppers at the ministry (hit wix & aurors) (yea he calls them coppers sorry he doesnt respect them enough to call them aurors <3). give me that doug judy/jake peralta dynamic. or just someone in the dmle who is like ... sigh this guy again??? 

fwb/one night stand/fling/etc. he’s a bit slutty <333 give him some ppl he’s hooked up with / will hook up with.

[commajade]

hii here's a nice/lighter ask, have you ever ranked an f(x) album? would you be willing to do pink tape or red light? id be curious to see!! have a good rest of ur day <3

YES THANK U!!! already did pink tape!! i like doing album rankings while i'm on a walk and my 12 year old brother came with me so there's 2 diff rankings for this now. we were on our way back and i made him sit at a park bench and watch the red light mv so he could get then complete ranking experience.

red light is truly an iconic moment in kpop history... pioneered the dark summer gg concept. remember when they released a halloween song in july. wow. also the mv is fantastic, tho i remember being upset they dressed amber so feminine this time around lol. baby gay me being upset in 2014.

1. red light - iconic iconic iconic and the rock version with luna's incredible solo bridge even more so. the military sounding clicking as percussion, the perfect build up, the buzzing sounds the rock guitar with the electro production. it's a very very korean song a very kpop song. honestly could be considered a perfect example of what to show when someone asks "what's kpop like?". the different sections are very different and distinct but put together with such slick confidence and it's a song that's meant to get u moving. amazing harmonies. and the song lyrics composition video all come together into a perfect cohesive whole.

2. dracula - i love halloween i love camp i love drama this song is so much fun. i love the harmonies.

when krystal pretends to bite that guy's neck!! perfection!! and released in july!!!!

3. summer lover - i love summer music... 시원해 it's all mountains and ocean road trip vibes i love it

4. spit it out - such interesting production honestly the most sonically interesting song in this album it's video game music and the central theme is clever korean wordplay. to gather courage in korean is "to eat your heart/put your heart in your mouth" and the song is like you were careless with my heart and ate it when you don't even want it, spit it out. not sure what genre of electro music the dance break is in (it's not quite dubstep) but i'm into it.

5. milk - love the analog sounds in the back and the experimental weirdness of the soundscape in general i can't say it's my fave but its v engrossing. that build up and back to chorus is so satisfying.

6. butterfly - reminds me of mr. boogie with the dark y2k club synths. the melody is soooo good i love the harmonies. sounds like a club bop but not quite. kinda sci fi space age sounding synths with i think repeated pentatonic scales?? deeply pleasing.

7. vacance - a little musical theater, a little rock, a lot retro, such refreshing harmonies and production. love luna's floaty effortless powerful high notes at the end.

8. all night - sooooo good such a good chill retro night time driving song. like a stripped down disco citypop sound. retro drumtrack and synth piano but has a lot of restraint when it comes to actual synths. i think the bass in this is real?

9. paper heart - very american sounding song

10. boom bang boom - i would put this on a work out playlist.

11. rainbow - 2014 clubbing song i don't think ever got any play at a club

my brother's ranking:

1. summer lover - feels 시원해, like refreshing

2. spit it out - the pew pew pew sounds r like they're spitting it out. sounds like a video game, 8 bit.

3. all night - i like this one because it reminds me of we ride by brave girls. i guess i like night themed songs and citypop. we ride is driving downtown in your car and all night is leaving the city at nighttime when most of the lights go out and streetlights and windows shining instead.

4. vacance - a montage song, a good one too. like they're getting their friends together to drive to las vegas.

5. dracula - halloween song

6. red light - the video was awesome. i like the lasers. and the projection. it has like a story. eyepatch. cat. the song was cool, it had tension. it was fast paced.

7. milk - the background beat is pretty cool.

8. paper heart - i wouldn't be good with a paper heart because i crease paper a lot

9. butterfly - sounds like an advertisement from a trampoline park.

10. boom bang boom - there's no explosions i was disappointed.

11. rainbow - i didn't like it. it didn't sound happy even tho it has rainbow as the title, i was expecting a happy summer song or a rainy song.

[omegawolverine]

for the ask game your rb'ed, Richie from IT? hope you are doing well!

hope you're doing well too! thank u for this ask i am so excited to do this one ajaksk

favorite thing about them: actually such a good friend, literally would do anything for his friends, loves them so fucking much and he has no clue how to say it so he just Does Things to show it and these things can range anywhere from being the only person to show up to your bar mitzvah or being an annoying twat just bc he knows it will make you talk to him more and richie looooves talking to his friends

least favorite thing about them: listen buddy you need to get better communication skills asap bc questionable humour is not getting you anywhere sir. also book!richie stop saying slurs.

favorite line: i think about richie's "cute, cute, cute!" line in the book everyday of my fucking life

brOTP: bevrichie aka wlw/mlm solidarity, aka she/they bisexual, he/they bisexual solidarity

OTP: streddie. i will say this to the day i fucking die, streddie deserved the world and they deserved to have it together.

nOTP: literally do not even look in my direction if you, for whatever reason, shipped richie with connor fucking bowers. i will literally obliterate you with my small, angry, gay hands.

random headcanon: adhd gives him the emotional regulation of a 5th grader with anger issues so he used to have a big problem with Not lashing out on people. he has since worked on it and found better ways to cope :]

unpopular opinion: richie tozier is literally canonically smart idc how funny making him dumb in your fics is or how badly you wanna use richie getting tutored by eddie as your cute reddie fic plot, stop erasing the fact that he's literally just a gifted kid. it is not that hard, truly. for fucks sake, make HIM tutor eddie, make HIM a smart motherfucker who makes jokes that are funny but half the time his friends dont get them bc they're obscure references to shit he only knows from doing hours of mindless reading or looking into stuff he found mildly interesting and ended up hyperfocusing on! give me smart richie tozier or give me DEATH.

song i associate with them: again, i am dumb and have a playlist for this mfer (2, actually). here is a few songs :>

dance, baby! - boy pablo

you dont care - zach villere

911/mr. lonely - tyler, the creator

(sorry if these links r wrong, im using my clipboard thing and it's confusing, ill fix them in a bit if they are lol)

favorite picture of them: stupid little squinty eyed homosexual

[georgeluzwarmhugs]

I just got tagged in the sweetest positivity post so im gonna make my own and feel free to send me an ask with other accounts that you love or want to get to know better or anything positive. ANY RUDENESS WILL BE DELETED SO DONT EVEN TRY OR I WILL END YOU. ok lets get started:) 💛

@wexhappyxfew

shannon where do i even startttt you are one of the sweetest people i have ever met and you make anyone smile that you can. you really are a sunflower, your personality really shows that. you are so supportive of me and my writing and i get so happy to see messages or updates or anything from you. you’re such a kind soul and you were one of my first friends in this community. i swear i’m gonna read all of your fics, long and short, eventually. i love you so much honey thank you for everything🥺

@hellitwasyoufirstsergeant

ANGELICA!! your writing is incredible i can’t believe i am so blessed to be on your taglist and read your works of art😄 you are so amazing in every way. i love our convos so much, some one make us a damn deck of cards. you are my baby and always will be, forever. the picture you use for your babe pics is *chefs kiss* his face is priceless. you are my biggest fan too, i love youuuuu💙

@liebegott

gianaaaaaaa my love i dont even know what to say. everything you make or write or contribute too is i m m a c u l a t e. i mean i listen to your playlists almost every single day. and your fics dont even get me started. i havent even read all the multi-chapter imagines but your writing is just truly indescribable. your way with words is amazing. you truly inspire me to grow and improve each day. and yes you may be turning into a fan page of me👀 i love you so much g, my queen❤️

@damngoodgirl​

you are so sweet butttttt our private conversations would make people concerned. your cannibalism and my freaky side do be coming out around each other. our throuple with joe is one of the only things keeping me alive right now. unholy trinity *debby ryan smirk* love ya girl💖

@floydtab

VERED you are one of my favorite people and i know you’re taking a break or whatever but i still love you no matter what. you were my 5th follower and ever since we have been such good friends. you’re an og for being in the snap group chat and the chat on here, even though you left it, which is perfectly fine of course. it’s no surprise your tag list is so long, your writing is absolutely wonderful. and your name is so cute🥺 i love you forever baby

@alienoresimagines

even though we’ve never interacted you are still so nice and read my writing. You are such a lovely person and thank you for taking the time to read my imagines🖤

@band-of-bitches

jillian you are so freaking amazing and i knew we would be friends from when i got my very first ship from you. i still look back to your wisdom tooth video lmaoooo you are so pretty too omg and we can both relate to curly hair problems i’ve had your post notifications on since i first followed you. anywayssssss i love you💜

@speirs-sexy-ass

JACE you’re my mother and istg you are the workout QUEEN (i know you have to but still) oh by the way you are so so gorgeous and one of my best online friends. your bf is gonna have to keep fighting me for your attention and i’m so proud of you for graduating and 200 followers! i’m gonna give you bday gift just wait and see;) i love you more don’t fight me on this.💚

@stressedinadress

amy i know we don’t talk much but your aesthetic makes me swoon and you are such a wonderful person. your princes for band of brothers are so accurate you are so creative. hehe just know i care about you💗

@lucky-strikes-8

all i gotta say is your ships are amazing and im always here for you lovey<3

@eugenieroe

soph can i just say you are the vibe QUEEN, and your stories always make me smile. i love here about your work antics and the creepy back room. you are so cute and you always make me laugh with our talks about being soldiers. we can be gay together too, i love you bub🤍

lemme know of anyone you guys appreciate so everyone can have some positive vibes

[barbers-glimmerin-darlin]

Music Tag Game

Thank you so much for the tag @finn-ray-nal-beads, this looks so fun! Although I feel like I’m about to well and truly expose my shoddy taste in music, please feel free to roast me accordingly. My favourite song from my playlist(s) for each letter of the alphabet!

A: Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix B: Beautiful, Dirty, Rich - Lady Gaga C: California - Lana Del Rey D: Daddy Issues - The Neighbourhood  E: Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark  F: Funnel of Love - Wanda Jackson G: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen H: Hayloft - Mother Mother I: I’ll Never Love Again - Lady Gaga J: Jig of Life - Kate Bush K: Kiwi - Harry Styles L: Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs M: My Manic and I - Laura Marling N: Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues O: Old Money - Lana Del Rey P: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Q: It’s Quiet Uptown - Hamilton (I couldn’t think of a single song that started with a Q this is the best I could do very sorry) R: Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush S: Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield T: Time of the Season - The Zombies U: Undisclosed Desires - Muse V: Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground  W: White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane  X: Sexxx Dreams - Lady Gaga (Yet again, couldn’t think of one that started with an X but this one has 3 x’s in it so it felt like a good alternative) Y: Young God - Halsey Z: Zombie - The Cranberries 

All these songs are my current faves, but as always, if you asked me again in a weeks time this list would probably be entirely different! 

Tagging anyone who wants to have a go at this, it was super fun!!! 

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

Charlotte, what are your fave kpop songs? I need recommendations!

ok SO the thing is: I’ve been into kpop (on and off) since like, 2007-ish, so there’s a lot there. This will be a very, very long list and I hope you’re ready (and that tumblr doesn’t fuck this up for me) Things I did include:  -Older songs  -Songs/artists you already know (for the sake of keeping it a general rec list)  -Jonghyun (RIP) -more SM Entertainment artists than I like Things I did not include:  -certain groups like Big Bang for reasons I won’t get into rn -Japanese songs by Korean artists because wow, we’d be here way longer still. 

I definitely mostly listen to the really bouncy happy stuff and less to like, ballads and more serious songs, but I’ll try to keep it a bit balanced. These are otherwise in no particular order, and I’m also not going to comment on every single one.  Sidenote: the first groups I ever listened to were TVXQ(/DBSK), Super Junior, and - since their debut! - SHINee, so those groups are very nostalgic to me personally. 

SNSD - I Got A Boy  SNSD - Gee SHINee - Dream Girl  SHINee - View  - this song is truly iconic, I love it so much SHINee - Lucifer SHINee - Tell Me What To Do - ngl I listened to this one a lot after Jonghyun died and it definitely still has that connection for me. Still, it’s a good song that I feel deserves some more attention.  Taemin - MOVE  Epik High - Fan - (TW violence, abuse, loud screaming, death) Epik High - Wannabe Epik High -  당신의 조각들 (Feat. 지선) ITZY - Wannabe  Blackpink - BOOMBAYAH  Blackpink - Lovesick Girls Sunmi - Gashina DBSK  - Hug - ICONIC. For real, I saw seventeen sing bits of this the other day.  DBSK - Mirotic - I know I say ICONIC a lot but uh. ICONIC.  Super Junior - Sorry Sorry - another one of those songs you regularly see other idols copy Super Junior - Wonderboy - this is very niche lmao. It’s the OST to their movie. There’s a lot there that I won’t go into rn.  2NE1 - I Am The Best 2NE1 - I Love You NCT 127 - Touch Stray Kids - Back Door  Stray Kids - Miroh  LOONA - Why Not  LOONA - Butterfly  LOONA / ViVi - Everyday I Love You - I know we always talk a lot about Heart Attack and New, but I actually really like this song too.  Jonghyun & Taeyeon - Lonely  Lee Hi - Breathe  - this song and the Jonghyun one are beautiful but they also make me very emotional, especially around this time of year. (RIP Jonghyun. You did well.)

Seventeen - Oh My  Seventeen - Very Nice  Seventeen - Thanks Seventeen - HIT Red Velvet - Peek-a-boo - this video is. so gay. I love it.  Red Velvet - Ice Cream Cake BTS - Blood, Sweat & tears  BTS - Spring Day  BTS - Run  TWICE - What Is Love - iconic and kinda gay, lbr TWICE - Likey Holland - I’m Not Afraid + I’m So Afraid - actual out gay kpop idol being iconic at everything he does Mamamoo - Egotistic - this video isn’t gay, but I sure am. (I AM LOOKING RESPECTFULLY) Mamamoo - Decalcomanie  Everglow - Dun Dun  Everglow - Bon Bon Chocolat EXID - Up & Down  - iconic dance. very uhh. suggestive. video.  Brown Eyed Girls - Abaracadabra Lee Hyo-Ri - U-go-girl Chung Ha - Gotta Go Anyway, I can keep going. In fact, literally every time I said ‘I’m going to take some songs out’ I actually added like 3 more lmao. Just so you know: I have over 130 songs saved in a playlist on spotify, and that’s not nearly everything I know/like. There’s probably plenty of groups/artists that I do know and like but just forgot about right now.  But I hope this has some songs you like! Take your time with them, and let me know when you find some you like or find something you want to know more about! After 13 years in kpop world, I’ve picked up lots of random information. 

[mab1905]

Things I needed to get off my chest, referring to the last epsiode of Supernatural.

WARNING: EVERYTHING YOU’RE ABOUT TO READ IS A PERSONAL OPINION, IF THIS FACT GETS YOU HEATED THEN GET OFF MY PROPERTY.

WARNING: (PART TWO) I USE THE WORD QU**R — UNCENSORED — AS A GENERAL TERM FOR THE LGBTQ COMUNITY, I ALSO USE IT AS A PERSONAL SEXUAL IDENTITY. IF THIS WORD TRIGGERS YOU THEN KEEP SCROLLING PAST THIS POST.

We all knew how this was going to end. Whether you’ve watched forever or stopped years ago or have never seen it but know the jist because of all the shit that’s been going around tumblr; you knew how this was going to end. And it was never going to be explicitly queer, it just wasn’t. Somehow, despite knowing that, it still hurts like a motherfucker. I’m disturbed. I’m actually disturbed. I’m disturbed as a queer man, I’m disturbed as a fan of the show, as a fan of the writers, as a fan of Misha (who is all good in my books because we all knew he put his heart and soul into that fucking confession scene despite knowing the horseshit that was gonna follow). So let me break this down.

Part One: The episode, in of itself, kinda just sucked.

The begining I liked— I thought, okay, some reminiscent stuff, they said it would be like older episodes, they’re referencing shit, they got a dog, okay sure. This is sweet. J2 knocking it out of the park with all the brotherly banter. I laughed, it was nice. The introduction of the monster was scary, an elevated classic. Some good old dean and Sam torturing the monster, I’m digging it. Going to some rusty old building, suspense where you see the monster in the background, a good time, you know? But that death scene— w o w. Now, I actually like the idea of Dean dying suddenly with something seemingly so small and trivial, (great life ends with a whisper not a scream, right?), but it was TOO sudden. It came out of nowhere in a bad way. The whole fight, them finding the monster, the brief flashback to someone from a past epsiode we had all forgotten about, it just felt so rushed. Rushed to the point where, throughout the entire death, I was just waiting for Dean to smile and say “sike.” I literally couldn’t believe it, and not because I was sad; how it happened, how it was written, was so awkward that I couldn’t believe they actually had it happen. I actually didn’t believe it until Dean’s body was burning. That’s how in shock I was. And even though Jared and Jensen were acting their asses off and doing a great job of it, it didn’t effect me emotionally at all, cause it just felt so weird, like I couldn’t take it seriously. Then that feeling lasted throughout the rest of the epsiode. Every thing that happened after that felt forced and unnatural. Like I was watching the YouTube Original knockoff of my favorite HBO show. It didn’t even end with Dean and Sam in the Impala. Them looking at the lego pieces stuck in the air vent or putting in a cassette tape and letting a NOT COVER VERSION of Wayward Son play. Why the fuck were they on a bridge.

Part Two: Cas.

It would have been almost better, if they hadn’t said anything at all. If it was just Dean and Sam for the entire epsiode and that’s it. I could have gotten behind that. But the second they made some half assed comment about moving on and sacrifice, it was fucking over. Any respect I had for this show was thrown out the window because I knew he wouldn’t be mentioned again (and I was genuinly shocked when he was). I wasn’t expecting a kiss, or for them to hold hands, or even for Dean to reciprocate at all, but that? What they fucking did? Every single bit of character development, every scene, every amazing bit of acting, all of it to feel like it was essentially thrown away with “we gotta just move past it.” We all knew it was a queer bait, we knew it from the begining, and I had prepared myself to be disappointed from the moment I started watching this show, but that just made me angry. Really truly angry. And no it’s not just a fucking TV show. It’s the longest running sci-fi show to date, it was the spec of queer representation people latched onto during their childhoods a grew up with, it is what influenced the lives of hundreds of thousands of people— and for them to essentially take the queer character that so many people had associated with and looked up to and seen themselves in and trusted and used to keep them going, and just push them aside and say that’s okay? They actually looked at that, they looked at the two lines this character who carried the entire show on his back was mentioned in, and said that’s okay? Again, I prepared for it, but to see it done so damn shamelessly, so blantanly, was just a fucking punch to the gut. Like I never truly realized how little they cared until now. I’ve been abused and bullied on the basis of my sexuality before, and it really does feel similar, certainly not as bad, but similar, because it’s coming from the exact same place in their minds. Even if they don’t truly mean to be homophobic or hurtful, that part of their brains told them this was okay to do to the people who had followed them and sung their praises for years. Well guess what. You’re done. You can leave now, thanks, but no thanks.

Part Three: Paint a Rainbow On Your Impala

I told my friend this, who has been watching the show for longer than I have, and who owns two toy model impalas: “keep your impala and paint a rainbow on it and hang it on your wall because fuck those assholes we didn’t need them to make it gay we did it ourselves.” I will not be boycotting the show entirely, and neither should you. I honestly don’t think I’ll be able to watch another full episode after this. That was it. That was really just... too fucking much. So that’s it. But I’m not going to pretend I won’t look up my favorite scenes once and a while. I’m not going to stop loving Cas, I’m not going to stop loving Misha ‘cause it’s not his fault for what the writers did. I’m gonna write a better ending in my head and read a fanfic and read metas from a few years ago and maybe make a gay crack video— because that’s the part of this that made me really happy. The queer part. The unashamed, open, diverse, amazing and wild queerness of this fandom and the development of this character. The part that the community built despite knowing the bullshit the show was putting us through. We held up this dumbass show because we had made an entire queer subculture for it to stand on. And maybe the source material is bullshit, but that’s real. That’s so fucking real and that on its own brings in enough representation for anyone too feel accepted and seen and heard. Music is very important to me, almost unmatched by anything else actually. I use it as comfort, as communication, as esacpe, as focus. I have a playlist for everything, and I have never in my life deleted a single one of them. It may seem like a small thing, but trust me it’s just one of those habits that’s built into my code and is so important to me. I was on the verge of deleting my SPN playlist, even just looking at it reminded me of how disturbed and wronged I felt. It was just so shitty and it made me feel shitty and it made anything connected to it feel shitty. But I came to the decision, that this is my fucking playlist, and Cas is our queer character, and he’s going to have lunch with the Crystal Gems and She-Rah and Deet’s dads from The Dark Crystal, and we are going to celebrate our own queerness within this community, and we are going to play “Angel With a Shotgun” SO loud and paint rainbows on our impalas and write the most passive aggressive fix-it fics we can and revel in this fandom and I will never touch another epsiode because F U C K. T H E M.

[gaytaikawaititi]

DUDE i just found u thru all ur peaky blinders playlists on spotify and i just needed to say ur extremely enlightened and big brained w some of these song choices, like ur mind has truly expanded and i thank u for sharing these revelations w the rest of us. alfie by cher got me crying

i need you to know that this might just be the best message anyone has ever sent me, thank you so much! i’m really glad you enjoyed it, i worked on them for a while and tried to find the best combination between goofy & emotional. anyway thank you again and have fun listening! ❣️🌹

(for anyone who’d like to check them out)

Alfie Solomons but make it gay

Tommy Shelby but make it funky & bi

Tommy & Alfie

Tommy & Alfie: Angst Edition

[teruthecreator]

i have so many thoughts about the epilogue so just jgbrbgjhrgbhrjg under the readmore spoilers for if u havent gone through it yet

the whole experience honestly just felt like a warm hug from both the creators and the cast of characters themselves. i haven’t existed in the fandom space for all that long, and i’ve yet to publish any works or generate any content for it, but just playing this through i still felt welcomed and appreciated and loved!! but i also loved how they incorporated So Many fanworks into it!!! from the email icons, to the images they sent, even the links they mentioned (the zine, penny snapcubes playthrough, that spotify playlist). this is one of the few times i’ve seen creators Truly acknowledge and appreciate their fanbase and validate the creations made inspired by the base material. it made the whole experience all the more warm!!! 

also the dialogue still felt very real!! i was nearly screaming bc even though i couldn’t hear the lil noises the characters make when you interacted with them in the game, i still could imagine their sprites and the way their sprites would change based on emotions and it was just!!!! so good!!! obviously they made the game so they’d understand the dialogue of their own characters but like props to em bc this is amazing

GAY PEOPLE REAL AND THAT’S ALL LIKE I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO SAY ABOUT THAT AND YET I WILL ELABORATE BC YUGO AND GABE SAID GAY RIGHTS AND I WILL BE CRYING ABOUT THIS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIA

 randy and gillis are just sooooooooooooooooooooo good. i will cry. RANDY WROTE A POEM,,,,ABOUT GILLIS,,,,,AND HE DOODLED A BUNCH OF HEARTS AROUND IT,,,,,MY HEART. AND THEN GILLIS ASKING FOR HIM TO READ THE OTHER POEM AND THEN REALIZE HE SENT IT TO THE GROUPCHAT IM SCREAMING. THANK YOU FOR JOCK/NERD REPRESENTATION I OWE YOU MY ASS 

also Lesbians. need i say anymore??? lesbians are Here and Accounted For. LULIA WANTING TO FLIRT BUT SHES SO AWKWARD ABOUT IT SHE SAYS “PLEASE” RIGHT AT THE END.......LOVE YOU QUEEN YOU’RE DOING YOUR BEST AND JERAFINA IS SEEING THAT 

last but not least we got habit and kamal and i Will be crying about this for the next eight hundred forever bc God,,,,,Gay People. 

i feel like the steam cards and habit’s valentine’s tweets sorta give away how their subtle implications are meant to be viewed, but i also really like how their current relationship is sorta open-ended! like they’re in the friend phase now, and in time Will Definitely be a thing. but i also feel like you could interpret it as Currently they’re a couple and they’re just being quiet abt it bc idk anxiety?? who knows. but i really liked how kamal was willing to help habit through everything!!! it’s very sweet!!! tho i really do hope he got some therapy bc he needs therapy God Please They All Do 

honestly my favorite parts of this thing were kamal. i love how he sorta lead the charge in organizing this email list, when in the game he relied on You to get everything together before he sprung into action. i think it proves that kamal’s got more gumption than previously assumed!! whether he gained some confidence after the Habitat, or was just really quiet and non-committal Because of getting tooth-shamed by Habit, it was really nice to see kamal portrayed as not just some anxious bumbling guy. dude’s got some depth!!! i feel like sometimes the fandom boils him down to just his anxiety, but this epilogue really let more of his character out!! like the fact that he plays the CELLO???? HELLO??? SIR??? YOU ARE A LEGEND??? DID YOU KNOW THIS???

also the music Literally made me cry. if it didnt make you cry, listen to it again. gods of composing, i swear! 

lastly, the ending. i really did love how they left you, the player (or the flower kid), the opportunity to just Say Anything. you didn’t have to do it immediately, you weren’t given dialogue options. you got a blank box to write Whatever, and i think that’s really sweet and satisfying and just...good! 

my email was kind of short. i felt weird writing it at first because my personal interpretation of flower kid is (like frisk) theyre their own character?? apart from the player?? but i know that wasn’t limbolane’s intentions, and both creators have said that flower kid can be an audience insert or an actual character based on your interpretation!! i could’ve delved into all the emotional ways in which i feel like this game has moved me during the, like, three months ive been hyperfixated on it. but i didnt! bc i didnt wanna cry anymore hgrbhjrgbh

i did call habit a king tho and i live by that. 

basically tldr; Play Smile For Me and Play The Epilogue bc it’s very good 

[ambitionsource]

Hi, I am so here for all this ambition content right now. I check this page every day! I remember u guys mentioning about a rl and dasher road trip and I was wondering about that! Thank you!

hello pal!! literally so honored and happy that you’re enjoying ambition and the fact that you check our page every day... ugh you’re too sweet. hopefully the nonsense we do around here is entertaining! very happy to have you in our fandom community <3

so yes, rl + da road trip! i hope it’s okay that i took a bit to answer this, bc i wanted to ruminate on it for a bit before typing it up. so as y’all know we refer to the summer between s1 and 2 as “cruel summer” (thank u tswift), and similarly we have a code name for the summer between s2 and 3 which is “summer of love.” this is admittedly mainly because of rl, but also because a majority of the characters are in such a better headspace this summer than they were last.

boppin the rest under a read more, because i just go on... and on... and on............. (i really love rl & da)

-- Maggie

one facet of this summer is that around... july sometime, dylucasher decide they want to take a trip down to virginia beach (or the beaches in that general vicinity) because they want to check out a beach that isnt grey and cold like the ones close to them in ny, and because a trip before their last year of school together seems like a fun and Classic idea. originally they plan it for just the three of them, but somehow riley comes up and all of them agree -- especially dylan -- that it would be way more fun if she came along too. so they try to convince her to come along, which doesn’t take much convincing, it’s more so about figuring out how she’s going to get around cory because if he knew she wanted to go on a like week long trip with her boyfriend (who he doesn’t really trust) and two other boys he would probably have a heart attack.

you know, it would be like “you can’t go on an overnight trip with three boys!!!” “dad, you know dylan and asher. they’re gay. they’ve been dating for three years. they’re GAY. i do not think i’m at ALL at risk in that scenario???” fsdfSDKGDL

so riley devises a plan / cover story that involves like “going to stay with mom” for a few days, maybe a lie about staying over at isa’s or yindra’s for a couple days in there, you know, she lays out the whole lie and then bribes maya to go along with it and help cover her tracks (rl have very inverse influences on one another -- where riley sort of tames lucas and helps calm him and make him less feral, she develops a bit of a rebellious streak from him or just better identifies the nuances of which rules should be followed vs which were meant to be bent or broken..)

the good thing about this road trip is that it’s what truly cements riley’s friendship with dylan and asher. they’ve been toeing the line of friendship for like two years now (as riley said in cruel summer, she regretted not taking the time and establish a friendship with them in sophomore year before everything fell apart), and it’s kind of like it’s bound to happen. riley and asher takes a little more time to grow and develop just because of the kind of person asher is, but on this road trip dylan and riley just Click. like they were basically made to be best friends, dylan is the first person who kind intrinsically Gets riley and they match each other in terms of enthusiasm / personality / brightness. again, a friendship that’s just been Waiting to happen, and this trip really brings that to the forefront.

(on that note, i once joked that when dylan and riley get really into chatting about something and lucas zones out, they start sounding like the villagers in animal crossing to him. like if he stops paying attention for even a second suddenly dyley sound like this. and i stand by that claim.)

as for the trip itself, its not like i have the whole thing perfectly plotted or anything like that, more just... musings and ideas. oh and a playlist, of course i have a playlist. obviously they’re really good about swapping around drivers and sort of organizing their time since they only have a week, and i think it’s mainly funded by dylan’s youtube vlogger coin. asher helps and riley chips in her fair share, but dylan basically covers lucas because obviously he can’t pay but they all want him there. he makes up for this by driving the most even tho the other three insist its not a big deal.

when it comes to sharing space, the quartet of them are pretty good at it. obviously when they stop for the night they just share beds by couple, but it is interesting to think about how different these two relationships are in terms of like... you know, where they’re at. like its super easy for da to share a bed because they basically do that all the time now, but for rl breaking that boundary would be a kind of unspoken big deal and lucas would be so cautious about it. like they spend most of the summer in riley’s car (can’t hang out at her place with cory there and no one is going to lucas’s) and so theyve probably like fallen asleep together there once or twice and maybe napped ONCE at riley’s place when maya and cory were both gone in the 2.5 months they’ve been together, but it’s still... not the same. so at first lucas would be really nervous about it, but after the first couple of nights he’d relax and realize its really not that big a deal -- esp since riley seems pretty confident and comfortable with it. by the end of the week, lucas wakes up in the middle of the night and riley has cuddled up next to him and he’s like... okay MAYBE sharing a bed with someone makes points. perhaps.

one of the nights on the way down the coast, what truly breaks the ice for dylan and riley is that they break out a SMALL amount of alcohol and both get tipsy (which for them is just like. giddy and giggly and very chatty. they’re both happy drunks without a doubt). lucas and asher don’t indulge bc lucas doesn’t trust himself getting intoxicated and asher is just wary of it in general, but they figure dyley can do it as long as they’re both supervising. so dylan and riley talk A LOT that night and truly form their Kindred Spirit bond and also lucasher end up regretting letting them drink bc for like a half an hour dyley do this thing where they just pretend to share secrets with one another. like they theatrically whisper in one another’s ears and look at lucasher while they’re doing it and then start laughing and they’re literally not saying anything Important (like it’s probably like riley being like “psst... i think lucas is... hee hee... lucas is hot”) and then dylan cracking up and agreeing but bc lucasher don’t know what they’re saying they’re like ha ha very funny........... but y’all aren’t talking about us doe right. wait, what did you say. hold on --

a lot of the trip is also based around being in nature and the outdoors, since they don’t get to do much of that day-to-day in manhattan. considering one of their favorite spots to hang out as a group during senior year is at central park, they’re all definitely fresh air outdoorsy kind of people to a degree. so like, stopping at parks, going on hikes, and of course the beach itself. i made an instagram edit of one of said hikes when i was testing a template i made:

naturally, and i swear this happens at least once on a long road trip whether it is with family or friends or any combo of people, but you hit a point where you get irritable and start to get a little sick of one another. i think in this case that mainly starts between lucas and asher, because although they’re Best Friends i think lucas has a knack for finding ways of irritating him. and also lucas probably gets irritated by dylan’s high energy after too much time with no breaks, so he’s also snappy, and as they’re on the way back up to nyc people are spatting at one another or getting snippy over stupid things so riles is like. here’s an idea! how about we split up for the day when we get to philadelphia. this is an excellent idea and none of them are opposed, so when they arrive in philly, dylan and asher split off to go explore the city + historical sites.

what do riley and lucas do? well, riley takes lucas to meet her grandparents, of course.

at first lucas is like ummmmmmm no because he’s SUPER nervous about meeting her family -- the only family he’s met is cory and we know that’s... unideal, and eric, both of whom have a completely different perception of him bc of school and his behavioral record. he’s yet to meet topanga or auggie yet or anything like that -- but riley assures him that her grandparents are chill and she has no doubt she’ll like them. they’re also meeting lucas with a completely blank slate (i.e. no preconceived notions about him like those who work at aaa), so it’s not hard for lucas to make a good impression since he really is like... a good guy. not to mention no way is he snarky or deadpan in situations where he doesn’t feel comfortable or like he has the right lmao, so he’s on his BEST behavior around amy and alan.

the good thing is that alan himself kind of had a similar background and run on the wild side that lucas does (kind of like jack, altho jack was never as troubled as lucas), and so i think he would kind of... inherently Get him. like he’d strike up a conversation with him and at first lucas would be like omg why is this man speaking to me please i’m invisible pretend i’m not here... but after a bit he’d find it’s surprisingly easy to talk to alan. and they’d talk for like an hour and get on pretty well. meanwhile, amy is talking to riley and is like so... let me guess. cory does not know you’re traveling with your boyfriend???? and riley is like... perhaps. maybe don’t tell him? pretty please? and once amy convenes with alan and is like how is he and alan is all “he’s fine, we can approve,” then they agree not to rat riley out.

riley and lucas also climb up into the matthews tree house and take a look around and they comment on how strange it is that cory and eric once used to like, hang out in there and in that house and were once teenagers (lucas: be careful this is humanizing your father too much for me). and i’d think they’d sit up in the treehouse for a little bit and just talk and riley would talk about how nice it must’ve been to grow up in the suburbs like this, and she’s surprised when lucas agrees and he admits he fucking hates living in manhattan. and that kind of prompts this subtle internal thinking in both of them of like hmm well... maybe in the future when things are different and we can make our own rules maybe we’ll move out of the city and into a quieter life... they don’t say any of that out loud, but they’re both thinking it. and at the tail end of that conversation riley kisses lucas which turns into a Really Good Kiss... but then they’re interrupted by amy calling for them to come down for dinner and its kind of like lmao, they’re both a little bashful but in a casual silly way

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Um Dodji by Parni Valjak is a Croatian(so basically the same as Serbian) Helermo song. And Neki decaci by Prljavo Kazalishte which is a yugoslav gay anthem. And Tose Proeski’s(he was Macedonian but he has Serbian versions of most of his songs) Pratim Te which gives me all the Helermo feels

OMG, both “Dodji” and “Pratim te” are such helermo songs 🥰

“Anđeli nek' te čuvaju kada vrijeme oboli Da li čovjek sve, baš sve, na kraju preboli” “May the angels protect you when the weather is ill Could a man get over everything, truly everything, in the end?”

“Ja sam sretan, iako na pola kisnem Pa me makar laktom u grudi pogodi Makar grub tvoj dodir bio, još mi godi” “I’m happy even though I’m half-wet push me away with your hand because your harsh touch still pleases me”

Straight into the playlist 😌💕

And “Neki djecaci” is a total berlermo song!!

“I loviš prljave žene A ja te čekam vjerno kao pas” “And you hunt down dirty women While I’m waiting for you faithfully like a dog”

If that’s not Martín Berronte, I don’t know what is 🥺

Thanks anon!! 💕