#this ship has great comedy potential i swear

[ponury-grajek]

fanart of the absolutely unjustified ship I drew because I wanted them to kiss

[chocodreamer]

Life Risking Romance (K-Movie Review)

Overall Rating: 6.5/10 (A great watch when you have nothing else to watch)

Genre: Comedy/Romance/Mystery/Thriller

Found on: Tubi (for FREE), Kocowa, Amazon Prime

Summary: During a long period of writer's block, Je-In (Ha Ji Won), a mystery crime novelist, comes across a flirtatious neighbor, Jason (Chen Bo Lin), whom she believes is a murderer. However, due to her infamy of repeatedly filing false reports on her neighbors, nobody believes her. To inspire her to write before her looming author deadline, she decides to investigate Jason, with the help of her best friend (and policeman) Rok Hwan (Chun Jung Myung). However, her budding feelings towards Jason interferes with the investigation, leaving Rok Hwan heartbroken and Je-In with more questions than answers.

🏁First Impressions:

After reading the summary, I thought this would be a sappy, over-dramatic romance like the telenovelas my mom would watch. To my surprise, the words "sappy" and "over-dramatic" are not the first words that come to mind when describing this show.

The first scenes show a "crime" taking place--the tension rising as a young woman, Je-In, hides, trying not to make a sound. This is all broken as Je-In lets out a fart that comically stinks up the whole room. (This joke is repeated some times throughout the movie. It's funny, I swear)

Just like it was clear this was going to be a thriller and comedy, it was clear Je-In and Rok Hwan's relationship was a long-time loyal one. With their light-hearted and witty bickering, it was hard not to immediately ship them.

However, Rok Hwan's tender feelings are unrequited. To my dismay, Jason enters the scene and takes Je-In's heart.

Although the charming Jason seemed like the man of everybody's dreams, I was already fond of the ever-so-loyal Rok Hwan (though he hadn't had much screen time yet), and rooted for him for the remainder of the movie.

🏳️Lasting Impressions

Although no scene left me cackling, bits of entertainment through characters, like the banter between not only Je In and Rok Hwan, but Yoo Mi (Yoon So Hee) and her secret boyfriend were happily anticipated throughout the movie. Even side characters like Rok Hwan's selfie obsessed co-worker got a smile out of me when they were on screen.

Apart from its silliness, the movie also had a few suspenseful scenes at just the right times. As Je-In scoured through Jason's apartment in search of clues, as Yoo Mi was chased in a dark alleyway, and even as Je-In fought a criminal (could it be the mystery murderer?).

I applaud the suspense and mystery highlighted carefully throughout this comedic movie, even if some of the action scenes ruined the suspense with its mediocrity.

With two male leads, there would of course be some romantic tension. Being a murder mystery, the true tension came when ...

SLIGHT SPOILER!

...a solid (and SHOCKING) clue was revealed to suspect Rok Hwan as the murderer. Not only was Je-In caught between two romantic interests, but two possible pyschos.

The chance that the beloved Rok Hwan be the murderer instead of new perfect boy-next-door Jason was agitating, but perfectly added the "mystery" into murder mystery.

The mystery wasn't clever, and it wouldn't have taken much brain power to find out who was the real killer, but that wasn't the point of the movie. The point of these two potential perpetrators purposefully tugged at your (and Je-In's) heartstrings to choose a side--loyalty and unwavering companionship or a thrilling romance that will end as soon as it starts (but never forgotten)?

[satansaidmyturnintheh3llscape]

Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Rise of the Serpentine” E12: Rise of the Great Devourer

Disclaimers: Show owned by LEGO. This is not a professional review/critique - it’s mainly intended for comedy.

- Episode title gives away its own ending ❌

- Intro ✅

- Also, according to Netflix, the episode is titled, “Rise of the Great Devourer,” but the episode itself says it called, “THE Rise of the Great Devourer.” My entire viewing experience is ruined /s ❌

- No part of Wu’s vision actually happens in real life ❌

- If Cole is so airsick, why is he just chilling out on the open deck of the Bounty? ❌

- “Hey, Cole, you’re looking a little green over there. How’d you like a mucus salt sandwich?” Jay is an a*shole ❌

- “Who would’ve guessed Little Lloyd Garmadon…” Little Lloyd Garmadon ✅

- “Where is that little runt?” Runt ✅

- “Serpentine, it’s time I spinjitzu you back into the filthy holes you came from…” I… I just love him, okay? He’s such a dumba*s, and a child, and I just <3 ✅

- The passage of time in this episode is absolutely ridiculous. It’s night for a moment, then day, then night again, and there’s no way enough time passes to actually make it make sense, so I’m just gonna sin it all here ❌

- “Ships don’t fly - only planes!” Birds don’t exist in Ninjago. Or flies. Or dragons, apparently. Or- ❌

- At this point the voice-swap thing has happened so many times that I literally ran out of jokes to make about it ❌

- “Butts are for sitting,” Only the wisest words from our favorite master, huh?

- “But even the sun must go down so that a new day begins.” Yeah, and then it rises again, which is actually a much more accurate description of Wu so I’ll give it to them ✅

- There is absolutely nothing securing this wooden board to the Bounty’s deck ❌

- Why did they drop the fangblades? Wouldn’t it have been better to just take them with and throw them into the volcano while they were going to grab Wu? ❌

- This ninja-chain thing is one of my favorite moves the ninja do. I don’t know why but it just shows their teamwork and how well they understand and care about each other so d*mn well ✅

- “Thank you, Cole.” Very blatant favoritism ❌

- “Someone or something has overwritten the system!” Actually he threw a sledgehammer into it, but sure ❌

- “Uh, cliche?” ✅

- “I’m not trying to defeat you. I’m just trying to keep you busy until the calvary arrives!” ✅

- “I hit him! I hit him, guys!” He sounds so proud of himself 😭 ✅

- How is a tour bus gonna go faster than a helicopter? ❌

- Lloyd please don’t throw the suitcase full of magical weapons down the staircase. Like there’s nothing objectively wrong with doing so I guess but still ❌

- “You’re too important now that you’re the chosen one.” Lines like this fuel so much potential for angst ✅

- “If you look off to your left and behind you, you’ll find ninja!” They don’t have to look out to their left at all, actually ❌

- “That is no truck; it is a moving fortress.” Still just looks like a bus to me ❌

- They said that Venomari venom was powerful stuff but Fangpyre venom gave that bus machine g*ns!

- WHERE ARE THE SERPENTINE GETTING ALL THESE MOTORCYCLES FROM? WERE THEY IN THE BUS?!?!? ❌

- Lloyd flying the Bounty ✅

- Also Green Bean if you’re gonna do this please get a stool ❌

- “Don’t let them reach the front!” “I’ll personally see to it myself!” Fun fact: Skales does absolutely nothing to prevent them from reaching the front. Like he literally doesn’t even try; he only even runs into Cole and gets immediately yeeted off the d*mn bus.

- “What? You try fighting up here!” ✅

- “No, no please!” This man legit BEGS for his life and Cole f*cking detonates him. Granted, Skales was the one who hypnotized him, sooooo go off king? ✅

- Also, H*LLLLLLL NO. Skales just took a godd*mn missile to the chest, there is no way he survived that ❌

- Love that Zane just holds Kai ✅

- “Who’s first?” *Wu rushes forward and detaches the car* Oh for f*cks sake not this sh*t again I swear to all that is Ninjago why the f*ck does he do this every godd*mm time what the actual fu- ❌

- Wu genuinely thinks that if he, his four super-powered ninja, and a massive, metal samurai all go in to fight the ONE (1) snake person who’s only weapons are invisibility (not very helpful in an enclosed car that he needs to arrive at Ouroboros) and a stick, they’ll lose. ❌

- “How do we get off this thing?” You use the vehicles literally attached to your backs, dumba*s ❌

- “This is really boring…” Nya, you. Have. Rocket boosters. ❌

- “You’re getting slow, old man.” I do have to hand it to them. Regardless of whether or not it was intentional, there are actually quite a few lines between Pythor and Wu that make much more sense with the context that they both fought in the Serpentine War ✅

- I don’t know if the sin should be that Pythor was about to eat Wu or that he was gonna eat the hat with him… ❌

- “Be FREE to do MY BIDDING.” Say that again, Pythor, but slower this time. ❌

- “What is that creature underground?” Idk man. Why don’t you take a guess… ❌

- “You must do everything in your power to defeat the Great Devourer…” Especially since it won’t be my problem to deal with anymore LOLZ🤪. But seriously the reason that so many of Wu’s sacrifices don’t work for me is because there’s little necessity to them. He didn’t NEED to get eaten by the Great Devourer, just like he didn’t NEED to take the Sword of Fire to the Underworld in the pilot, or didn’t NEED to fight Pythor alone a few minutes ago. In all of these instances, it just caused more problems. ❌

- I GREATLY appreciate the notion of completely ditching the lego-style character designs because there was simply no way for them to make the Great Devourer look this d*mn cool had they kept with it. ✅

Sentence: I hate Wu

[disaster-j]

♧ GMMTV '22 Line Up Analysis Pt.3 ♧

《Dramas and Lakorns》

(Note: these are not official synopses this is what I got from the trailer)

1. U.M.G: Unidentified Mysterious Girlfriend

My Synopsis

Mew has carried the guilt of his childhood friend, and first love, Erng’s mysterious disappearance for ten years, but now that she has returned he can't help but be suspicious. How does a girl suddenly reappear after a decade of being missing, acting as if nothing had happened at all? And is the thing that wears her face really the person Mew lost, or something else altogether? Perhaps, an entity from another world? 

My Thoughts

Has anyone here read the manga elDLIVE? Because I swear the trailer played and I was instantly transported back to when I was reading it in high school. I honestly love this one so much. I know sci fi mysteries likely aren’t most thai drama watchers’ cup of tea but they sure are mine. I’ve watched this trailer so many times already and I just know I’m gonna enjoy this one. The cast is amazing too, like NanonNamtarn? Incredible! Plus, Milk, Drake and Sing are here too! Absolutely cannot wait to see this one come to life. 

2. Oops! Mr. Superstar Hit on Me

My Synopsis

All Cake wanted was to get her mother’s favourite actor’s autograph. So why is she waking up in bed with this man, who is twenty years her senior? When two people a generation apart fall in love, things are bound to get messy.

My Thoughts

Right off the bat, the whole trailer was one big red flag imo. Like, the guy is 40 and he not only knowingly pursues Jane’s 20 y/o character but also they clearly have sex when she’s intoxicated, going by her state the morning after. The whole thing gives me the creeps so, even though I adore Jane, I will be staying very far away from this one. If I had to give an unbiased review of the show ignoring the age-gap I would say it’s gonna be a pretty melodramatic romance and there’s likely going to be a pregnancy at some point. Do with that what you will.

3. My Dear Donovan

My Synopsis

A hot and in-demand supermodel. An awkward but fun-loving kindergarten teacher. Opposites attract in this spicy romantic comedy of errors… with a twist?

My Thoughts

I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t given this one a lot of thought. It seems like your average romcom with a dash of ~spice~ added in. The cast is good, Namtarn is looking absolutely adorable and her and Luke seem like they’ll have good chemistry. It seems like a pretty solid romance. There’s really nothing wrong with it, it’s just very forgettable. Like, by the end of the event I’d completely forgotten what this one was about. That being said, I’m hoping the official trailer will stand out more because this actually does seem to have the makings of a good romcom. Will I watch it, though, depends entirely on what the final trailer is like.

4. The Warp Effect

My Synopsis

When 17 year old Alex suddenly wakes up as his future self, the life he finds himself living is nothing like he’d expected. How exactly does a shy, awkward virgin turn into a hot and sought-after expert in female anatomy? What choices did his past and future selves make to land him where he is? And what wrongs must he right to be able to fix the mess that is now his existence?

My Thoughts

Literally 13 Going 30 meets Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, right? The first time I watched the trailer I honestly wasn’t sure if I liked it, but now that I’ve rewatched it multiple times and figured out who is doing what, I'm genuinely intrigued. The plot is interesting, the cast is great and there’s even multiple queer character and a whole wlw ship, so I’m definitely into it now lol. Jan as a lesbian! Fucking finally!!!! Also, I’ve never been a fan of New, I always felt his acting was underwhelming and the only show I liked him in was DBK (this does not include the other Kiss shows), but I think this one has a lot of potential. So yeah, will watch and probably will like. 

5. Good Old Days

My Synopsis 

Six stories about six people, all loosely connected through six items found at an antique store. 

My Thoughts

Bored. The trailer started and I instantly lost interest. First of all, why does Krist keep popping up and narrating shit trying to sound all philosophical it doesn't fucking suit him. GMM stop casting him in every role ever challenge. Also, his character is a grown man trying to coerce a high schooler into dating him. Big yikes. The only stories out of the six that seemed interesting to me were Aye’s and Namtarn’s, so I’ll probably watch those. Otherwise I’m entirely indifferent. 

7. You Fight, And I Love

My Synopsis

In the midst of preparing for the match of a lifetime, Chang finds himself falling for- and eventually pursuing -his friend’s little sister whom he swore to look after. Noo just wants her makeshift guardian to see her as someone he can love, but when she finally gets her wish things start to get complicated. 

My Thoughts

So. Here’s my issue with this show. Love is an adult woman. Her and Joss are only around four years apart in age. So why tf does she look fucking twelve in the very first shot? There’s absolutely no reason for her character to be in high school, they could have made her a college student and the plot would not change at all. They’ve made deliberate efforts to make her look like a child while dating Joss who’s made to look like a grown-up and it creeps me out. Getting major pedo vibes from the execution of the mock trailer so I’m going to stay far away from this one. 

7. Midnight Series: Dirty Laundry

My Synopsis

____ (Film) runs an all-night laundromat and dreams of falling in love with one of her handsome regulars. But when chasing these dreams of romance leads her to a suitcase full of cash, she is faced with a big question. What’s more important, getting the guy or getting rich? Though, it seems, neither may be all that worth the ensuing chaos.

My Thoughts

Third and final part of the Midnight anthology. This is like if someone took the 3wbf concept and made a comedy out of it and I for one love it! The plot is so chaotic and funny and the cast is absolutely brilliant. Film and Nanon make a surprisingly good pair and seeing Jenny and Foei literally had me vibrating with excitement. Also, Jennie and Godji in the same show? Did someone read my mind???? And Nanon in drag? Absolutely glorious. This occupies the top spot with Midnight Motel and Home School in my most anticipated shows list. Holy hell this whole anthology is amazing, even though the cheating in the EM one will ruin me xD

8. P.S. I Hate You

My Synopsis 

A murder, an affair, a wedding, a scandal and a bride’s violent fate. The story of six friends bonded together with love and secrets, as they struggle to keep their various transgressions hidden from the world. But now that there is a traitor amongst them, they will finally be forced to face the consequences of their actions.

My Thoughts

Hot women being messy and committing murder? Um count me tf in. This story gives me The Player vibes, which I wasn’t initially taken with but now can’t wait to watch, so I’m definitely into this. This is also the only female-led show in the whole line-up (which, wtf gmm?) so that’s another reason I’m excited for it. Bc in the past their female led shows have been the kind of lakorns I’m not into. Anyway, I loved this trailer, it left me with a lot of questions and I just know that when the show airs I’m gonna be spending a lot of time trying to crack this case lol. That makes four out of four shows I’m most looking forward to out of this line-up. 

9. Devil Sister

My Synopsis 

Namcha has had a crush on his older neighbour Irin for a long time, despite her devilish reputation. When he finally has the chance to be with her, though, trouble arises in the form of her little sister Inn, who wants to have Namcha all to herself and colludes with ____ (Podd) to keep the two apart.

My Thoughts

Okay. Listen. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the trailer and concept. It’s a pretty classic romance plot. But that monologue Win's character has at the start calling women “nasty,” “moody” and “overbearing” instantly put me off and now I can’t shake the thought that the MC is gonna be a “nice guy” type. So it’s unlikely I’ll ever watch this. But aside from that it feels like a solid romance drama so if that’s what you’re into definitely give it a shot.

[renaerys]

Has anyone said “38. That ass is highly unprofessional” for Reds yet? Because I feel like the comedy potential is enormous

38. “That ass is highly unprofessional.”

There are far too many good scenarios for this excellent prompt and idk if I picked the best one, but an effort was made. 🤡

Send me a prompt and some characters! Reminder that the challenge is to make everything SFW, so we're getting creative here.

List of prompts

xxx

Blossom watched from across the room as Brick fist-bumped the head delegate from the China team. He’d been cagey and weirdly subdued all morning, but the moment the unmoderated caucus began, he slinked away without anyone noticing. Anyone, that is, except Blossom.

“Russia? You were saying?”

Blossom snapped the pencil she’d been holding between her fingers. Denmark leaned back and slowly pulled the cup full of fresh pencils out of her reach. “What? Oh, right. I’m proposing we form a sub-committee to begin formal negotiations.”

“No way, we don’t negotiate with terrorists,” said Canada. “Terrestrial or otherwise.”

The United States stood up and palmed his fist. “Agreed. I say we nuke ‘em before they can nuke us.”

“Oh, sure, great idea, Rambo. This is Model UN, not Independence Day.”

“Wow, super in-character of you, Switzerland. Why are you even here?”

Blossom put up her hand. “We have no idea if the aliens are terrorists. I agree that we can’t discount the possibility of hostile intent, but violence should not be our opening move.”

“Crisis update!” A staffer handed Canada a red envelope, which she read aloud to the gathered students-cum-delegates. The aliens had parked one of their space ships on the Xi’an city wall, destroying a huge chunk of it and killing some civilians, and China was using it as justification to attack with full force.

“Oh my god, I think we might actually be in Independence Day,” Canada said.

“Recess! I’m calling for a recess.” Blossom left the table as the United States, Canada, and a gaggle of European Union countries began to squabble.

She found Brick talking to Israel and Argentina. The minute he saw her coming, he excused himself from the conversation and walked the other way.

“Brick! I know you saw me.” Blossom followed him to the all-gender restrooms, where he was fixing his hair in the mirror. “What are you doing?”

“About to take a gratuitous shit. You might want to get out of here.”

She grabbed his elbow and spun him toward her. “I’m talking about your side conversations. What were you doing talking to China without me?”

“Russia’s a big country, and you looked busy doing your thing. I’m just doing mine.”

“And what, exactly, is your thing?” She peered at him. “I swear to god, if that KGB comment this morning wasn’t a joke and I find out you’ve been threatening the other delegates behind my back—”

“Relax, comrade,” he patted her shoulder, “before you pop a seam in your pencil skirt.”

Blossom could not help but check out her ass in the mirror now that he’d brought it up. Of course, he was also checking out her ass, because he was an uncouth jerk who knew exactly how to get under her skin, and now Blossom was at an impasse. If she told him off, she’d be giving him exactly what he wanted, which was to make her snap and froth. If she did nothing, he’d still win with the knowledge that he’d pissed her off and gotten the last word in to boot.

Much like with terrorists, when it came to dealing with teenage boys, negotiation was not an option; the only solution was total annihilation.

Blossom placed a hand on her hip and stuck her ass out more as she examined herself in the mirror. “You mean, this pencil skirt?”

Brick’s smile fell in defeat like so many doomed German aggressors marching into the heart of Russian winter. “Obviously.”

Perish, you fool.

“Did you see a loose thread somewhere around here?” She turned slightly and ran her finger along the side seam of her skirt in an unbridled act of hormonal militarism. “Or was it on this side?”

Brick rested his weight on the counter because he was weak and cornered and they both knew it.

“No?” She smiled. “Just your imagination, then. We better get back to the conference.”

She made it halfway to the door when Brick hauled his wounded carcass away from the sink counter and desperately fired back with: “Disgraceful tactics, honestly.”

“Me? I’m not the one committing treason and encouraging intergalactic warfare.”

“Hey, I signed up for global warming and nuclear proliferation, not this made up Men in Black bullshit. If aliens attacked we’d just blast them ourselves, no negotiation necessary, we can all go home.”

“Oh my god, so you admit you intentionally sabotaged the exercise! I knew it. You are highly unprofessional.”

“That ass is highly unprofessional!”

“Stop thinking about my ass!”

“I literally fucking cannot after that!”

Blossom fumed. “Are you saying I’m asking for it?”

“I’m saying how dare you expect me not to think about how good your ass looks in that skirt!”

“Oh, so it’s my fault, is it? Well, I’m so sorry for looking amazing in Western business professional!”

“Apology accepted!”

“Good!”

“Great!”

“Fantastic!”

“Wonderful!”

“Incredible!”

“Superb!”

“Glorious!”

“Brilliant!"

Blossom had at least fifteen more increasingly positive synonyms that she could have screamed at Brick, but Denmark popped his head in just as she was getting ready to shout stupendous at top volume.

“Um, hi. We’re taking a vote on what to do about the aliens and we need Russia’s vote, so…yeah.”

The vote was close and also meaningless, since China and several allies acted on their own against the aliens, who of course retaliated and gave the United States carte blanche to bust out the big guns. By the end of the conference, half the world’s population had been eradicated by nuclear weapons or alien technology. It was a complete and total disaster, and Blossom had no idea how she was going to explain it to her Model UN club coach when she got back to Townsville.

“Told you we should have just fought the aliens ourselves,” Brick said as they packed up their things for the flight back home.

“Please stop talking. It makes it harder for me to pretend you don’t exist.”

“Still wearing the skirt, I see.”

Blossom threw her water bottle at him, which was both very childish and very unsatisfying when he caught it. “I’m going to wear pencil skirts every day for the rest of the semester just for you.”

“Don’t you fucking dare.”

“I dare.”

“I’ll drop out.”

“No, you won’t.”

“I’ll check out your ass every day.”

“Go ahead.”

“I will.”

“Great, because I want you to.”

“Great, because I want to!”

“I’m going to look so good!”

“I completely agree!”

They stormed out of the conference center together.

“See you on Monday,” Blossom said in her best die in a trash heap voice.

“You better wear a skirt,” Brick said as if he’d just invited her to jump into an active volcano.

“I absolutely will.”

“I can’t wait.”

Blossom swallowed a scream and took off flying, knowing she’d be there all day if he didn’t get the last word in.

xxx

“Dude, are you okay? You’ve been aggressively staring at Blossom’s ass all morning.”

Brick sucked on his straw loud enough to draw Blossom’s annoyed glance. “Fuck off, Harry.”

“Are you, like, into her?”

She turned her back to him and power posed with her hands on her hips, which was an extremely flattering angle and a high-key bitch move. “I despise her.”

Harry smiled. “Oh, cool! Cool cool cool… Hey, so I was wondering who I should ask to Homecoming—”

“No.”

“But I just thought since you don’t—”

“No.”

Harry finally fucked off.

xxx

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Rating Bandori Ships - Moca Edition:

Alright so as is probably obvious for anyone whose talked to me, I have a lot of opinions and I like to talk about my opinions. And one thing my poor multishipper heart has a lot of opinions on is Bandori ships because this fandom is either multiship heaven or hell depending on how you look at it.

So I decided 'hey why not pop off about them' so that's what I'm going to do startig with a certain Moca Aoba who I am totally not at all biased towards.

Obligatory reminder that these are just my opinions and this isn't meant as an attack on any ship. Not that I feel particularly negative towards any Moca ship I've seen yet but still.

Ratings:

MocaRan- 10/10

Yes I like the main arguably somewhat overrated Moca ship. What can I say? They have so much canon interaction between the two of them and their dynamic is really what got me started towards getting severely hooked on Bandori as I am now. They both are shown to care deeply for each other and seem to get the other on a really deep level. For Moca, Ran seems to bring out the most genuine shows of emotion out of her while also being a good support for her, if in a very Ran way. For Ran, Moca seems to help her take things a little less seriously, and when necessary acts as a shoulder to cry on. Sasquana broke me.

LisaMoca- 7/10

I enjoy this ship. As much as it seems to be just kind of a toss on to the people who ship YukiRan (which don't get me wrong is also a very great ship I have a thing for rivalries with tension) Lisa and Moca have a great dynamic. I tend to see it as a brOTP more often which is why I didn't give it a 9 or 10 but they definitely have potential and them kissing on company time would definitely catch my interest. They also seem like they'd be a really supportive relationship. Moca can help Lisa chill out and not be so hard on herself and Lisa can motivate Moca to do things.

MocaHima- 6/10

This is another situation where I have a harder time seeing it as anything but some very good platonic love. They have a dynamic together that is extremely fun don't get me wrong, but by that token I don't feel the same tension between them. Moca's teasing of Himari tends to feel like less flirting in disguise and more like the way she'd tease a sibling. Besides Himari clearly has a type and Idk how much Moca fits that. They are shown to care for each other quite a lot though and in a situation where they are plopped together romantically I can see them having a wholesome dynamic since they have such a good platonic base

SayoMoca- 9/10

I've seen this all of once that didn't involve the two of them in an OT3 with Tsugu, and honestly? I'm kinda there for both, but this is just about Sayo and Moca. Now this is mainly because grumpy x clown is my jam, I really don't know how much canon there actually is to go on here. I really like the idea of them both bonding over how ridiculous Yukina and Ran's posturing can be, Moca narrating every encounter like a sports commentator for fun with Sayo acting like she's ignoring it but quietly adding in her own remarks and Moca catching them. There's also potential in Lisa sorta shoving them together either to try to help motivate Moca or maybe to help Sayo with Hina in a way by giving her 'practice' with the other eccentric genius of Bandori. Either way there's a lot of ways to kickstart it but once it gets going I also think they would have a really good dynamic for somewhat similar reasons to LisaMoca with a side of it seeming similarly balanced to MocaRan.

HinaMoca- 8/10

I'm honestly not too sure why I jam with these guys together as much as I do but that doesn't stop me. One of them is enough to cause chaos so what happens when you put the both of them together? Also they would be the types to blast an extra bassboosted version of Megalovina or even just play it on guitar at their wedding if they even bothered to do something as traditional as that and I'd be there for it

ChisaMoca- 7/10

This is a ship I've been slowly warming up to so this rating is kinda subject to change. Initially I didn't understand it as they barely interact in canon and I didn't see much potential in their dynamic but the more I think on it the more there seems to be. This is mainly because, in one case a literal sense, both are actresses. Chisato literally but Moca definitely puts on her own acts and clown show. So the idea of the two being able to peek under the other's mask is kind of interesting to me. Also serious x clown will never not vibe

MisaMoca- 8/10

I don't ship this in a serious sense so I can't give it full marks but in comedy or crack, even crack taken seriously they are god tier. They're the types who would behave like an old married couple but somehow in a really chill low-energy way. There's a great fic that has them having an ironic candle-lit dinner date that sums up why pretty well I can link it if anyone sees this and wants it

TomoMoca- 6/10

Pretty much the same as HimaMoca except instead of Moca not being Tomoe's type it's more about how even if they did both have mutual feelings I have a hard time figuring out how they'd get together in the first place. Tomoe probably wouldn't realize her feelings even if she had them and Moca would do her best to bury them under humor and good ol emotional suppression. If they did manage to get together though I can see them being cute.

SaayaMoca- 5/10

I don't really feel much when it comes to this as a romantic ship. It's there I guess? I like these guys a lot platonically and don't have a reason to dislike it romantically but it doesn't really make me feel anything. There's potential but I just feel like on most fronts LisaMoca is superior.

MocaTsugu- 11/10

Probably my OTP for the fandom if I'm being honest and the fact that it's chronically underrated hurts. Don't get me wrong I adore MocaRan and SayoTsugu is also very good I've got nothing against the chocomints, but come on. The obvious name play is right there! In all seriousness though I love these guys both as a platonic and romantic pairing so much. It might just be me, but I swear it feels like every time Moca's ever actively suggested something Tsugu was the first to jump on the support train. Moca doesn't seem to really punch down with her teasing of Tsugu the same way she does with Himari and Ran either, and if I remember right there's been at least a few times it's seemed to border on flirting territory even when considering it's Moca. The two also have several of the things the other Moca ships have going for them but I think these two do it better. Tsugu being a gentle but consistent motivator who deeply cares for Moca gives me life. And Moca herself has potential to be a calming presence with her chill demeanor who could get Tsugu to take a break for once in her life like she deserves. I'm also absolute trash for the headcanon that Afterglow all took turns having crushes on Tsugu in middle school. I just like the idea that Moca never really got over that crush and it comes back in full force once they're in highschool. Pair that with some good Tsugu lacking self-worth angst and believing her feelings towards Moca aren't reciprocated because Moca clearly has a thing for Ran and even if she doesn't there's still no way she has feelings for her no matter how many times she calls her 'Tsugurific'.

And there ya go. This ended up way longer than I expected it to and tbh for most of them I have a lot more thoughts but I didn't want to turn this into a novel. Tldr MocaTsugu underrated and I have no life :')

[paradiselostbythedashboardlight]

Quarantine, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Wrote 430,943 Words of Prose in a Year

As we are coming up terrifyingly fast on a full year of quarantine with no end to the pandemic yet in sight for most people, I’ve been taking some time to reflect on the last year of my existence in a state that most people now refer to as quarantine. Since March of 2020, I, like most other sane people in my country, have stopped traveling, going to stores, seeing all but a limited group of other humans, and begun having recurring nightmares about being in crowds without a piece of cloth over my nose and mouth.

Suffice to say, it has been a bit stressful.

The other thing that I have done since COVID-19 began rapidly spreading across the globe last year is write over 430,943 words of fiction. 

The number seems insane to me still. That is (approximately) one Gone With The Wind, one entire Lord of the Rings series, or the first four Harry Potter books. That is still sadly not yet War and Peace (but who knows… the pandemic isn’t over yet).

So now that I am looking back, I find myself with one question: how did this happen? Why did I do this? What does this mean about my life this year?

Since apparently I answer best by writing a lot, let’s begin at the beginning. Let me tell you a story. I’ll keep it short, I swear.

Part 1: Blast From the Past

In March of 2020, I was still in the midst of an academic semester. There was a long academic document to write and a class to teach. However, as quarantine abruptly robbed me of most of my usual commitments, I was suddenly thrust into the position of having more time on my hands than I knew what to do with. Consequently, I decided to break out the Nintendo Switch I’d gotten for Christmas and revive a childhood interest in video games.

And boy did I. I played the games I owned for all they were worth. I played them during the evenings when I had no social engagements to attend. I played them during the Zoom meetings I was already struggling to pay attention to. By the end of March, I had finished one game, and it had set the wheels turning in my brain.

Here’s a fact about me: I don’t usually tend to write or read a lot of fanfiction about things that I consider really really good. Basically, fanfiction for me has always been an impulse born from incompletion or imperfection. I see no need to add to a perfect story (although I happily consume and create fanart). But for something enjoyable and yet slightly unsatisfying? That’s fanfic territory, bud.

So by April, I had developed a sort of epic fanfiction for this video game I was playing. It was one of those magnum opus kind of ideas, a grand retelling of the story with a huge sprawling plot and Themes (™). 

At first, it was merely a thought experiment that lived only in my head, a sort of entertainment to ponder in the hours before falling asleep. What changed? Well, a friend of mine decided to also write a fanfiction on the same video game and she kindly consented to let me read it.

Suddenly, I was ravenously hungry to read and to write and to share and to consume. I wrote a hundred thousand words of this fanfic in April and into early May, sending each chapter to my friend and being spurred onward by her kind comments. 

The fic became a gargantuan endeavor full of strange little challenges I set for myself. It was a canon-divergence, requiring plotting, worldbuilding, a darker and grimer tone. For some reason, I decided to write each chapter from a different character’s perspective, making the final product into a series of essentially short story character studies which together formed a plot.

By the end of May, the story was published for the world to see. It was well-received, although not particularly popular by fandom standards. And that was the end. I had gotten out my pandemic crazies, the semester was over and now I could move on. I had made my peace with the source material, plumbing all of the little details that I wanted to examine and creating a narrative that I found satisfying.

It was over.

Part 2: Summer Lovin?

Except that it wasn’t.

Confession: as I had been posting my giant fanfiction, I had also begun to explore the fan community itself, mostly curious to see some nice art and gather a bit of demographic info about what was popular within the community. As a result, I found a fanfic recommendations page. Among the recommendations was one author who kept popping up and i finally decided to give the fic a read.

Woah. It was good. Like, really good. Like, professional quality writing and themes that seemed designed to appeal to me. I devoured everything that the creator had posted in a week and then subscribed to eagerly wait for more.

As June rolled around, I realized that I had a problem on my hands. My great big gen masterpiece was finished, but this author had gotten me hooked on something else, something with a nefarious reputation online: shipping.

The term du jour for this seems to be “brain worms” so let’s just say that reading other fanworks had given me some brain worms. Inspired this time not just by the source material of the game, but now the fan community itself, my mind began to develop another idea.

I wrote the fic, about 11k, in a single afternoon of frantic writing. When I finished it, I knew it was one of my strongest pieces. It had just come together, a combination of all the thought that I’d been brewing up and a stylistic execution that just worked with the story I wanted to tell.

I posted it on a new account. Shipping seemed vaguely shameful to me still and my mom reads the other account.

To my surprise, the fic blew up. It got so much more attention than my long fic ever had. Even more significantly, a fan artist actually drew a gorgeous comic of the pivotal scene, completely out of the blue! I was essentially thunderstruck. Honestly, it was probably the first time in my life that I’d ever received so much positive reinforcement from a piece of writing.

While I’d written short stories for undergrad workshops, they’d never been particularly good and I’d never gotten particularly great feedback on them. I’d applied and been rejected by more MFAs and literary magazines than I could count. I’d pretty much resigned myself to writing for an audience of me and me alone (which I don’t mean to sound tragic about, writing for you is great and fun!)

But receiving so much support and praise and feeling like I’d made other people happy or sad or moved? There’s nothing better.

This makes my decision to write another fic for the ship sound vaguely cynical, the action of a person driven by an addiction to praise. I mean, no lie, aren’t we all a little addicted to approval?

But my next fic was another long one, an 80k passion project modern AU that I dreamed up while spending a slow summer alone with my books and only able to leave the house for long rambling walks in the woods. The premise was essentially about characters attending a five year college reunion, something that I myself had missed due to COVID in May of the same year. The fic quickly became a way for me to process thoughts on a lot of topics in my life ranging from relationships to politics to mental health to classical literature.

This fic was also received with far more attention than I was used to and, as a result, I finally joined the notorious Twitter dot com where I found people talking about my fic unprompted, eager to follow me and like my every random thought.

I can’t say that this process was not without its ups and downs. Fandom has changed, in many ways for the better, since my last engagement with it during the 2013 Supernatural days on Tumblr. While fan friendships are often idealized or demonized, they are pretty much like any other human friendship (okay, maybe a little bit more horny on main). There is potential for amazing connection as well as pettiness. But in a year where many people suddenly had no social spaces that were safe anymore, I’m glad that I found a new line of communication with the world.  

So I kept writing fics for the ship, producing a lot of work that I am genuinely proud of and making connections with other people who enjoyed it enough to leave a comment.

To conclude this section, I was in fandom again. While I had not seriously engaged with a fan community since around 2014, I was back with a vengeance. And I had discovered an important truth about what unlocked my ability to write more than I ever had before: community support.

Not simply the kudos and the views. It was the comments. The discourse. The discussion. To add and contribute my thoughts and ideas to a greater network of thoughts and ideas that fed off of one another.

Often I had seen people complain about there not being enough fanworks for particular media or characters. Now I knew the secret. The comments and the community created the works. If I commented on other people’s fics, the more likely they were to write more. I made a resolution I have tried to keep, to comment on any story that I legitimately enjoyed reading, even if I had no particularly intelligent thing to say about it.

Part 3: A Novel Idea

By late October, I had produced a considering oeuvre for my ship of choice and was enjoying slowing my pace as I planned a few future projects.

Remember, though, how I mentioned not having engaged with fandom for the past 5 years? Well, that didn’t mean I hadn’t been writing.

For the past 4 years, I have won NaNoWriMo and completed 4 novels of over 100k each in length. These projects have been massively fun and improved my confidence with executing stories at the scope that I desire.

And so in November 2020, I settled down to write another novel. November is always a sort of terrible time write a novel if you work in academia, but this year, I had more time than usual. I set out to write a comedy fantasy novel, something mostly lighthearted and full of hijinks in order to pretend away some of the quarantine blues (which by this point were well established in my psyche).

This year in particular, I was reminded that writing a novel is… harder than fanfic. That seems like a very obvious point, but I’d written novels before. Suddenly, though, I was realizing how much a novel requires you to set up the world and the characters, while fanfic can be pretty much all payoff all the time.

While the fanfic flowed in wild creative bursts of energy, the novel required diligence of another sort. I wrote 2,000 words every day for two months. It was a grind. Sometimes, it was a slog. 

And sometimes it just wasn't good. The thing about writing your own novels is that the first draft is way more likely to be not good. You’re balancing a lot and it’s easy to let a few balls that you have in the air drop for a chapter or two, with no recourse but to go back and edit later.

I finished the novel by writing a final speedrun of 6k on new years eve, ending my 2020 with another project under my belt. No one has read it. Not even I have reread it.

I’m still glad that I wrote it. I’ll write another one next year. No one will read that one either.

Sometimes, we write for ourselves and no external validation is necessary.

Part 4: Where are they now?

January of 2021 is somehow now behind me, which is terrifying. I’m still writing. Mostly fanfic, although occasionally I go doodle around with some original ideas that are more conceptual sketches for the next novel.

As for the fanfic, I think I still have a few more good ideas left in me, but  I will probably leave it behind before the year is out. That feels a little bittersweet, a sort of temporary burst of fun and friendship that I wonder if I’ll ever experience again.

Coming to the end of this reflection, I suppose I should make a summative statement about what it all means.

In the end, it might not mean a lot. There are some small takeaways. 

It turns out that encouragement makes you write more! Who knew? Also, more free time makes you write more! Wow!!!!

The point that I think this reflection exercise has shown me, the point that I think matters more than any other, is that writing is a way to process my thoughts. Even if it is through the lens of ridiculous video game fanfic or novels about sad wizards, my writing is my way to make sense of my own mind. 

And sharing that is special. If you share it with online strangers, with your family on Christmas Eve, with your close friend who has become even closer and dearer to you since she let you read her work, or just with your mom (the one personal legally required to read your damn novel if you want to share it). To share writing is to give someone a little peek at your beliefs about the world.

And right now? When we’re still isolated and bored and scared and in desperate need of distraction? Binge some TV, play Nintendo, read a book. Take in other people’s thoughts.

But put down your own somewhere as well. It’s a conversation.

And for once, it’s a conversation that doesn’t have to take place on fucking Zoom.

[nocandnc]

Thank you so much for posting so much about Yugami and Chihiro! I really love the lowkey romance they had. Do you have any recommendations with the same genre like Yugami-kun doesnt have any friends?

Hi there! So sorry for the slow response - I spent a really long time pondering on this request ^^;;;;

Yugami-kun is such a unique series in so many ways. It’s hard to recommend anything that matches it exactly, but I’ll try and give some that fit in some areas at least…

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless / Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge

A very relaxed comedy series. It’s a little less serialized due to being a 4-koma, but I enjoy seeing different personality types interact with the protagonist. I especially enjoy the developments between him and his potential love interest! It’s slow going given the passive nature of both characters, but it’s definitely there, especially in later chapters. The romance is far more obvious than Yugami and Chihiro as the girl in the situation has blatantly admitted to liking Tanaka-kun, but I feel the way they admire and motivate each other is similar ^^

This series also has an anime adaption, so I’d highly recommend watching that before jumping into the manga!

The World of Machida-kun / Machida-kun no Sekai

This series isn’t so much of a comedy as it is psycological / character drama, but it’s another easy-going series that warms my heart. There is a romance here that progresses in a very natural, human fashion that was very refreshing. The titular Machida-kun is an oddball, but on the sweetheart side of the spectrum. Like Yugami-kun, it’s a simple story of characters living their lives and doesn’t get too dramatic.

No anime for this one, but I hear there’s going to be a live-action adaption if you’re into that sort of thing.

Girls’ Monthly Nozaki-kun / Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

I swear all these -kun titles are a coincidence This series follows a female protagonist who, after confessing to her crush, ends up working as his manga assistant. The comedy is off the charts, and there’s a large cast of lovable characters with lots of shipping potential. However, I wouldn’t say the romance progresses so much as it evolves…? Like Sakura-sensei, the author of Nozaki-kun loves subverting expectations, so the obvious romance flags never end up going the way you think. I call this one a comedic romance! A ComRom if you will!!

There is an anime adaption available so give it a watch if you can!

Our Precious Converations / Boku to Kimi no Taisetsu na Hanashi

This one’s a Shoujo and is pretty strictly a romance, but there’s some great comedy there. I especially like how the male and female lead really dig into one another and challenge each other’s worldview constantly. There are also a few side characters that build up over time, and after a while the classmate dynamics feel pretty similar to the ones in Yugami-kun. The male lead also speaks his mind much like Yugami-kun, so there is that.

No adaptions for that I’m aware of for this one.

Tsuredure Children / Tsurezure Children

Another romantic comedy 4-koma. This one’s all about high schoolers experiencing all types of love - smooth dating, awkward attraction, unrequited feelings, precocious crushes… among the large cast of characters, there’s bound to be a couple for everyone to enjoy (Sugawara x Takano and Yamane x Chiyo are my top favorites!!) - along with the romance, it’s just good fun to see how the wide range of characters bounce off each other be they lovers, friends or even enemies.

This series also has an anime adaption, but it only featured a handful of the couples during it’s 12 episode run, so reading the manga is best to get the full experience!

Overall I’m having trouble thinking of other series that really resemble Yugami-kun… maybe I need to read more Shounen Sunday publications? Overall the ones I’ve mentioned above generally make me feel similar things to Yugami-kun, rather than having any big similarities in terms of plot presentation or character developments. Even so, I hope you might enjoy some of them!

Other folks, feel free to join in on recommending more series! I’d be happy to check out new things as well ^^

[chey1x1]

i’ve decided to do a 1x1 search for potential partners!

the shortlist of it is that i’d like to only play f/f ships; i prefer using original characters, and i would like my partner to be over 18 (not for any smutty reasons; i’m 22 and i want to rp with people of similar maturity level.)

fun stuff under the cut! 

first: i don’t have any pre-made characters, but would prefer to start fresh with each rp and each new partner. that said, i don’t mind if you use a well-loved muse of your own. if you have preferences for FCs to play opposite, i’ll take them into consideration, but no promises!

some plots have suggested personality traits for different characters; feel free to take these and run with them, or adjust accordingly.

preference scale: * - i want; ** - i really want; *** - i’ll marry you if you play this with me, seriously. 

*** gothic romance (historical period): character a arrives, for some reason (perhaps for work, at the request of a family member, etc,) at an old manor, only to find that the place has an eerie air to it. floorboards squeak, windows fling themselves open, and she swears she can hear footsteps and voices coming from empty rooms. she has a feeling that character b, a young heiress and lady of the house, knows more than she lets on. character a is youthful, brave, bright, stubborn, and perhaps somewhat naive; character b is quiet and reserved, somewhat austere, lonely, and brooding yet gentle. the two women find themselves drawn to one another and together will grapple with a deep secret and a family mystery. (plot specifics aren’t filled in; i would love to have someone plot it out with me! i would prefer to play character b, but could be willing to change my mind!)

** f/f take on robin hood: characters can be character a as robin hood and character b as maid marian, or can shake it up and have character b as a knight/bounty hunter/etc. this one could have great opportunity for comedy of mistaken identities (ie, marian not realizing character a and robin hood are the same person; character a/robin hood not realizing that the girl she has taken a shine to is actually a bounty hunter out to get her, etc.) as well as some angst later on.

** fantasy: of any sort; i’m a huge fantasy fan; let’s plot something together! high fantasy centered on a relationship between two women, but with other plot elements. so many possibilities; queen x queen, queen x knight, knight x knight, rogue x thief, etc. also open to fairytale adaptations & modern/urban fantasy.

slasher parody: something that, along the lines of scream squeens + slasher films, parody the conventions of the horror genre. characters a and b are the last two girls left standing when a night of college shenanigans turns into a terrifying nightmare. i’d like the tone of this one to blend some humor with some drama-- it is, after all, a parody. no character specifications; i was thinking perhaps characters could be opposites, but who knows. (tw blood/violence, probably. not a huge gore fan myself, but.... it is slasher genre.)

* science fiction: i am a huge fan of sci-fi, but be warned - it’s probably going to be ‘soft scifi’ and i will probably definitely fudge some scientific concepts. concepts include: good ol’ space opera, with characters gallivanting off through space; something testing the limits of artificial intelligence, alien life, etc.

apocalypse/post-apocalypse: two characters trying to navigate survival during or after the end of the world. please no zombie apocalypse stories. 

honestly if you come to me with any concept and you go “okay this...... but with TWO GIRLS,” I’ll probably love it. 

[relicxkisses]

[Characters] Careful It Bites

Hello world!! 

I’ll be releasing BTS Mafia au fanfic called “Careful It Bites” soon so keep an eye out :D I haven’t been writing lately and I’ve been so inspired to make an action fanfic for a long time. So I decided to make my ultimate group to take the plunge on the action themselves hahaha plus they look so hot being cool. 

PS: I’m looking for someone to make a cool poster for this story. So please message me if you want to send in yours :D 

Genre: Action, Romance, Comedy, Thriller 

AU: Mafia, Military, Spy, Arrange Marriage

Pairings: BTS x OC/ Mostly Yoongi x OC/ Other idols will make cameo

Trigger Warnings: Blood, gore, drugs, war, guns, swearing (lots of it), bully, violence (everything you expect in a mafia au story) 

Rated: 21+ for the trigger warnings

Warning: Please don’t read if you can’t handle it cause I can make this from fluffy to angst in one second so get ready for an emotional roller coaster. 

Characters:

Kim Soomin

- Kim Namjoon’s sister. 2 years younger-1996 liner. Next in line to take over her mother’s spy organization called CX-3. 

-Engaged to Min Yoongi. They were arranged to be married but as they had grew up together, they didn’t mind being arranged together since they were already in love. 

-Fearless. Doesn’t let her fears get the best of her. 

-Smart. Like her brother, she is also a genius. Has a photographic memory so one look at the text book, she has all the answers in her head. Her IQ 155 is slightly higher than Namjoon’s. Likes to outwit her peers and enemies. 

-Great at martial arts. She’s an incredible fighter, loves to fight to underestimate her opponent’s skills and strength. Started training for martial arts since she was 5 years old. 

-Hot tempered. She tries to keep her temper down during conflicts but most of the time she was the one who started the conflict. 

-Good with guns and knives. She is very skillful at handling guns and knives. She’s very flexible and agile. So she can attack quietly and kill the opponent within seconds. 

:BTS Crew. 

~Consists of 7 most powerful men from different underground backgrounds. 

Kim Namjoon (Leader)

-Older brother to Kim Soomin. The next in line to be a Godfather after his father. 

-Leads BTS. Everyone hands down gave him that title for being a good role model and has the leadership skills. 

-Currently does missions for his parents. So one day he’s a spy and the next he will be a scary mafia leader. 

-Clumsy for an underground leader. Tends to accidentally shoot people because he happens to always forget to get the safety on or off in different situations. He can destroy things quickly too. One touch and something gets destroyed. Was unfortunately born with it and can’t be changed. 

-Good with shooting and fighting. Even though he’s clumsy, he’s very good at calculating distance and estimate the enemies move ahead. 

-Best at strategy. All of his missions are always fool proof due to his nature at being a strategist. Every move was carefully arranged at the designated timing. 

-Everyone that works for him are very loyal to him as Namjoon never backs out from his word. He can make enemies into his allies easily and they will stay by him no matter what happens. 

Kim Seokjin

-The eldest member in the group. 

-His handsome face made people underestimate how powerful he is. 

-Family is considered one of the most influential in Asia with them owning over 26 cities across Asia. 

-Owns a popular production company called Blank Canvas as a cover up to his own secret service organization. South Korea recognizes Seokjin as a talented CEO as his company is very successful in South Korea and Japan but no one has seen his face as he refused to have a public appearance to protect his identity. His secret service organization is called Amor Fati. 

-Has an alias name for Amor Fati: Kim Yeoljin.

-Best at manipulation. He is famous for manipulating his enemies to get what he wants. He usually uses manipulation when he’s interrogating or torturing his enemies. 

-Compiles intel for BTS. He knows everything and anything that happens around the world. He is one of the few people who gets informed first before the information spreads to somewhere else. He has connections from a garbage truck driver to the US president. 

-He’s actually very caring and funny to everyone in his family and BTS. He finds happiness easily achievable by being with the people who he loves closely. 

-Secretly skillful at medical practices and pharmacy. He is incredibly well-known to experiment new medicines and poisons. Most of the poisons used on his enemies were made by him so it’s incredibly difficult for his enemies to seek antidote unless they submit to Seokjin. 

Min Yoongi

-Kim Soomin’s fiance. He was the one to submit the idea of marriage to Soomin’s dad just because he’s over-protective. Soomin is his biggest weakness. 

-He is quiet, deadly and likes to curse a lot but to BTS he is just another grumpy 25 year old hacker.

-Family runs an arms dealer. Supplies weapons to military, spy organizations and secret service organizations. They even have several labs across the world to build new weapons. 

-Has every military forces to protect his family. The Min family has created a reputation for being honest and loyal. Therefore, all their clients has vowed to protect them if anything happens to the family. 

-One of the greatest hackers in Asia. He can hack into CIA,FBI and M15 security systems and even hack into NASA satellite grids. Sometimes they like to give him a challenge to see if he can crack their systems. 

Jung Hoseok

-The next heir to Asia’s biggest drug cartel. 

-Despite his frightening demeanor, Hoseok is very optimistic and bright for his line of work. People would go to him for advice. 

-Very highly skilled with guns and bombs. He likes to experiment with explosives and create a customize bombs for fun. 

-To hide his cargoes from the police and customs, he would go all out to create traps to ship the drugs out safely. 

Park Jimin

-The only family member that he has left is his little brother. Park Jihyun. He makes sure that his brother goes to school and study properly. 

-Owns a private marine army. The base is located on an island near Japan. It has its own marine academy. It is also a place for Jimin to keep all the boats and ships that he likes to collect. 

-Owns a few hospitals in South Korea and hotels as his side income. 

-He is very manipulative. He uses his appearance to trick his enemies and he doesn’t stop until he gets what he wants. 

-He is quick at making decisions so negotiations are always easy for him. 

Kim Taehyung

-Dubbed as the tracker in the group. He is skilled to track people. 

-With Jungkook, both are the assassins of BTS. He kills as he is told to, no questions asked. 

-Has a quirky personality and great sense in fashion. He likes to make sure that none of his designer clothes has a single drop of blood on them during his missions. 

-Very clingy with everyone in the group. 

Jeon Jungkook

 -The youngest in the group

-With Taehyung, he is the assassin in the group. Very skilled with guns especially snipers. 

-Very clingy to everyone, acts tough for his job but off duty, he is very adorable ad seeks attention. 

-He likes to play games a lot since he’s very competitive. None of his brothers wants to challenge him so he seeks out to games to kill his thirsts for a competition. 

A/N: I know the maknae line doesn’t seem to have that much cool things going on comparing to the elder ones. Remember stories are created to grow the characters with the story. Everything you read here has a high potential that it would be different. Chapter 1 is coming up soon and will be uploaded by this week! 

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Thoughts on Star Trek Discovery after 5 episodes

(Spoilers for Discovery S01E05 and Orville S01E06)

Episode 5 of Star Trek Discovery aired last night in Canada (up here the network Space airs it, so we don’t need to rely on streaming to view it). “Choose Your Pain” was its title and it’s ironic that it aired a few days after The Orville’s surprisingly hard-hitting “Krill” because it actually allows for something very close to an apples-to-apples comparison.

I’m going to go into spoilers, plus this will be a very long post (apologies; this is Exhibit A to show why I’m not on Twitter), so I’ll put a break here. The tl;dr is that, although I’m still willing to give it a chance, I’m still not “feeling” Discovery, which after 5 episodes is a concern; whereas, I find The Orville not only captures the classic spirit of Trek better, it managed in one single episode to make its Klingon analogue more interesting than the real Klingons in their current incarnation.

Before I begin, I wanted to set the scene to explain where I’m coming from. There is a lot of Discovery-bashing going on, and I don’t support that and this essay isn’t intended to be a bash. Although I am very critical of the show and not 100% certain that I’m going to stick with it much longer (though I’ll probably stick with it till its midseason break, at least), it’s not my intent to become a basher because then I’d be a hypocrite. I was a defender of Star Trek Enterprise throughout its entire run, and was upset to see it bashed mercilessly, to the point where I divorced myself from Star Trek and Star Trek fandom after it ended in 2005. Fortunately, Doctor Who had just come back on TV so I switched my allegiances to Who (which I’d been a fan of since the early 80s, but it became more intense). Fast-forward to 2017, and due to a mix of disappointment over what the series has delivered since Christmas 2015, combined with decisions regarding the show moving forward, I'm now divorcing from Doctor Who (as anyone who follows my blog knows). So with Star Trek back on TV the opportunity to move my allegiances back to Trek exists ... but Discovery isn’t doing it for me. Not yet. Instead, The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s underrated (in more ways than one) homage is the show that is earning my affection. I know I’m not alone in that.

But here’s the thing, and why I don’t really see the need to “bash” Discovery: because The Orville is so much like “proper” Star Trek - the optimism, the crew-as-family dynamic, the introspective and “ripped from the headlines”-inspired stories, and general sense of fun - this actually allows Discovery to seek its own path (even if that means delivering “improper” Trek), allowing both shows to co-exist (which they could regardless - it’s not as if they’re in direct competition).

But Discovery has problems. Before I get into that, though, some positive thoughts.

This week’s episode introduced Rainn Wilson as Harry Mudd, a character immortalized by Roger C. Carmel in the original series. And I thought he did a good job. I don’t have the same issues with recasting characters as some others do (I liked the guy they had playing Sarek earlier, too). My only complaint is they made him darker than Carmel’s version, which felt a bit inconsistent. But then again this is 10 years before Kirk encountered him and people change (it could be argued that Carmel’s version is more insane than Wilson’s, and maybe we’re seeing why in Discovery). I loved the reference to Stella, his wife, which was a great call-forward to the TOS episode “I, Mudd”. Trivia: Carmel was supposed to reprise Mudd for an episode of TNG, but the actor died before it was filmed; I believe some aspects of what was planned for Mudd - including a scene where he was supposed to actually pay tribute to his frenemy, Captain Kirk - were later reused when they brought Scotty forward into the TNG era in “Relics”. So having Mudd appear in a modern-day Trek is an idea that’s been kicking around for 30 years.

Obviously, Mudd will be back and I’m looking forward to it. I’d rather he be the recurring baddie than the new Klingons. More on that in a moment.

I also liked the on-screen reference to Jonathan Archer, Christopher Pike and Robert April early in the episode. Robert April was established in the animated series as the very first captain of the Enterprise, predating Pike. Since TAS is not considered canon (or at least it wasn’t considered canon during the pre-2005 era; it might have changed since), this is the first “canonical” acknowledgement of April in live action. I appreciated that.

I also liked Capt. Lorca in this episode. After two weeks of being just “there”, Lorca came into his own with this episode. And his backstory is interesting.

But I have criticisms of this episode, and of the show itself as we hit week 5. Starting with a minor point, after four weeks of keeping a lid on language, the swearing in this episode was awkward and clearly put in there “because we can” - there was nothing charming or cool about the first use of the F-word (twice in the same scene, yet) in the Trek franchise. I’m not one to go “oooh, swearing, bad” (The Thick of It is one of my favourite TV shows, for god’s sake), but there’s a time and place, and it just didn’t work - it came across as vulgar and awkward. If they’re going to have people swear in Discovery, fine, but don’t make it feel like “hey, we can swear now!” Torchwood ran into this same issue - and the swearing during Series 1 felt unnatural as a result. If they want Lorca and his crew to turn the air blue, they should get Armando Iannucci in to show them how it’s done.

What will be the deal-breaker for me is if this show continues to be populated with characters I don’t give a damn about. I like Michael (who was for the first time not the focus of an episode) and Lorca has potential - all the characters have potential - but 5 weeks in they should be further along than they are in terms of establishing them, even taking into account the two-episode prologue and the fact a core character only debuted this week.

Five weeks in, and without cheating online, I still don't remember the names of most of the main characters because they’ve made so little impression on me. Michael is fine, Lorca is fine, and I know the new guy is named Tyler (mainly because I’m curious as to whether he’s related to Jose Tyler of Christopher Pike’s Enterprise in “The Cage”), but the rest - by now they should have made enough of an impression for me to at least remember their names, not just call them “Michael’s roommate”, “the jerk who runs the spore drive and who might or might not be the chief engineer but we can’t tell”, “Odo 2.0”, “the doctor who lives with the spore drive guy and who I thought was the ship’s doctor until he mentioned that he answers to a chief medical officer who we’ve yet to see”, “the incompetent who got herself killed by the spore monster last week in a scene Seth MacFarlane would have rejected as too silly”, “the roboty woman on the bridge who kinda looks like Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy,” and “the woman whose head is half shaved”. In fact I think this was the first episode in which those last two individuals were actually identified by names on screen.

By comparison, I had not just the Orville character names but their functions nailed down by Episode 2 of that show. And I had much more invested in them as characters, even early on (and by “Krill” I find I want to know more about what’s happening with Borus and Klyden and their child, Alara’s love life, and whether Ed and Kelly are going to get back together or not). With Discovery it’s almost as if they’re all being set up to be redshirts. (As it is, I really don’t expect to Michael’s roommate - I looked it up; her name is Tilly - to survive the season. Too much telegraphing about her being naive and having dreams for the future.) Maybe they are if the show is taking the Game of Thrones “anyone can die” approach and if there is a reason why we’ve never heard of Spock having an adopted human sister before now.

When I started writing this very long (sorry!) blog entry, I mentioned an apples-to-apples comparison between Discovery and Orville. This week, “Choose Your Pain” and “Krill” both involved captains boarding enemy vessels and learning more about the bad guys. And it really drove home the fact that the new Klingons are rather boring. Never mind the different make-up and all that - I’m sure they’ll come up with a workaround to explain that the same way Enterprise did back in 2005 with the Augments story arc (and I didn’t miss the fact they name-dropped eugenics this week) - they just don’t have the spark of the Klingons of old, or even the Abramsverse versions. Not saying there aren‘t promising signs - I kind of like the fact the show is shipping cult leader Voq with the female officer L’Rell. Every episode so far has included focus on the Klingons. But in only one episode, The Orville managed to develop a very well-rounded picture of the Krill, making them relevant, interesting, sympathetic, and “villains” we want to see more of. The Klingons on Discovery? I want more Harry Mudd, fewer Klingons. Of course, a big difference between Orville and Discovery is the use of humour. Discovery pretty much has none, while Orville is a dramedy. Which was driven home during the climax of the Discovery episode when we were actually treated to an unexpected piece of Orville-like comedy when the female Klingon captain, who has the hots for Tyler. Encountering him trying to escape, she let off with something like “After all we mean to each other, you’re leaving?” (not an exact quote). It was a funny moment, but poorly timed. Seriously, we’re supposed to see her as a threat (and an ongoing one seeing as Lorca doesn’t finish her off as opposed to every other Klingon he encounters), and she spouts dialogue more appropriate for a spoof? Compare to The Orville, which usually knows when to be funny and when not to be. Having Ed Mercer and Gordon Molloy facing the possibility of having to kill a bunch of Krill children in order to save a human colony, and Mercer saying “If we kill those kids ... we have no souls” was a far more hard-hitting and dramatic moment than anything “Choose Your Pain” offered. And once things got serious, they got serious. The ending of “Krill” was chilling as Mercer realized that instead of saving a bunch of kids, he created a bunch of future enemies instead, instantly giving the series a long-term aspect as the potential is there for it to revisit this fact years from now, if it survives that long. The Avis rent-a-car jokes were funny, and the opening sequence where Bortus does his best Matter-Eater Lad impersonation (Google it) was cute, and I loved the gag where Ed starts talking before Alara can open a channel, but it was the serious moments that made “Krill” stand out. The next episode looks serious as well as it casts a long-overdue spotlight on Lt. LaMarr.So to sum up: I’m not ready yet to say “Discovery sucks” as some have. I don’t think it does, despite all I’ve written here. It has issues, yes, but every Trek series has issues and teething pains. I am concerned that the characters aren’t gelling for me and that’s what’s going to make me decide to keep watching in the long term. On the other hand, The Orville is proving to be a great show that also has had its rough patches and its teething pains, but it managed to hit the ground running a lot faster in terms of establishing characters and stories and tone. I am in the market for a sci-fi show to replace Doctor Who, and so far The Orville is winning the battle against Star Trek Discovery. But I’m not willing to write Discovery off ... yet.

[martyslittleusedblog]

Jontron and Nostalgia Critic Ask Meme: Titanic: The Legend Goes On

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“Yeah, I don’t even know where to begin with this one.”

“It’s perfect material for a kid’s film! Think of all the funny slapstick situations that could arise here!”

“What can I say? I guess a true story about a bunch of people freezing to death really makes for some good media.”

“Now, before you say anything, let me answer your very first question: Yes, this is real.”

“I SWEAR TO GOD THAT IS TRUE. A rapping. Dog.”

“I don’t really know what more to say about this. I mean, this film provides a great deal more questions than answers.”

“It’s something of a rite of passage to see this for yourself, so, without further ado...let the pain begin.”

“It’s something of a rite of passage to see this for yourself.”

“Without further ado...let the pain begin.”

“Be afraid, my fellow viewers. Be very, very afraid.”

“Let’s dive in. ...No pun intended.”

“Sure to go down in history as one of Il Italiano Primo, y’know what I’m sayin’?”

“Poor bastard. His name was so beautiful before the accident; so much potential...”

“Would you look at that? They got to the point real fast on that one, huh? They sank that sonuvabitch right away!”

“Well! Way to give away the ending!”

“What sorrow I feel for these characters so close to my own heart! Red-haired lady... Brown-haired guy... Old woman one and two, currently-drowning human, and of course, 101 Dalmati-- Hundred and one what. ...Hundred and one what now.”

“Hey, why save more people when you can save two dogs who’ll live for a collective three years after the end of this film!?”

“I guess Disney royalty will get you far in this life.”

“I’m glad this man’s violent death brought you momentary joy and distraction from the sinking of your ship.”

“Maybe they were just enjoying his, uh, perfect 10 here.”

“So, my first thought was, ‘Maybe the movie was so bad that it decided to fast-forward to the end and just skip the whole thing?’“

“Let’s go on this animated adventure together; maybe by the end of it, we’ll be laughing like two old ladies on the verge of death in a lifeboat! ...Huh? Could happen.”

“What, and now I have to anticipate all these characters dying, I’m supposed to get invested in them emotionally?”

“You just gave me a fuckin’ Final Destination vision of all my friends’ deaths! Y-Ya lunatic!”

“I’ll never forget you, me.”

“Serves you right for sittin’ quietly on a train!”

“From the look of half the passengers, you’d swear it was Noah’s ark, boarding two of every lamest animal!”

“What!? Why are there anthropomorphic animals boarding the ship?”

“You tryin’ to make some sick, twisted reality show? What are you doin’, huh? What are you doin’ to us!? What are you doin’ to yourself?”

“What are you doin’, huh? What are you doin’ to us!? What are you doin’ to yourself?”

“Excuse me, th-the fuck did you just say!? Do you know something we don’t? You got something to say? Why so devious?”

“Wait a second. I recognize that voice! You’re not really an old man!”

“I knew it! He was the iceberg all along!”

“Hey, more evil’s better, right?”

“Hey, listen, I’m sorry, uh, I didn’t mean to make you guys uncomfortable. I’ll turn the movie off now, if it helps.”

“If you don’t mind me, I’ll be over here in the corner, celebrating the death of my own innocence.”

“I can still hear the screams, papa!”

“Hey, guy, I don’t think the captain can hear you. What you’re saying is interesting and all, but at this moment, I think his brain is internally swelling...”

“Did I stroke out? Did they stroke out? Someone has stroken out.”

“Who could even get into such a headspace!?”

“I can’t decide on my accent, Mama! Is it Italian? Mexican? French?”

“What just happened? Is this movie on speed!?”

“Wait, wait. If we’re gonna go through with this, I want to be prepared... All right, continue.”

“Wait, wait! Sorry, this isn’t gonna do it... Okay.”

“WAIT! Wait! Sorry, I’m gonna need something a little bit more potent! ...Whew... Proceed.”

“WHAT THE FUCKING FUUUUUUUUCK.”

“I’ll take, uh, Broken English for 800.”

“I’m talkin’ about The Dude here.”

“What is going on!? Can’t this movie pick a scene and develop it?”

“It’s like a comedy of errors, except they forgot to tell us what the errors are!”

“She’s sinking! The plot is sinking! Quick, hire the emergency writers!”

“Isn’t he a little old to be having a nanny? I mean, what age does he have puberty, 35?”

“By God, I’m so delightfully bland!”

“I don’t think she realizes what she looks like there. I think, in her head, it’s looking a lot better.”

“Whoa, slow down, Romeo, alright? Leave some to the imagination!”

“I’m pretty sure that’s a big-ass pair of granny panties. I don’t know that you really do wanna see her in that.”

“WHOOOOAAA, he’s goin’ in for the touchdown!”

“And there is contrived love at first sight.”

“I’m so...spontaneously attracted to you!”

“Paint me, like one of your French boys! Paint me!”

“Eat up while you can, boys; you’ll need your strength for the Mexican winter.”

“She only said one sentence to me, but it was so...non-fragmented that I know that she has to be the one!”

“You’re tellin’ me Patrick Bateman Prince Charming has a pea-brain? You gotta be pullin’ my leg!”

“So, will this couple meet again? You bet your poor plotlines they do!”

“I lost my ball! This is the worst possible thing that could happen to me on this trip!”

“This is the worst possible thing that could happen to me on this trip!”

“Where you going? You just gonna bail on the convo? He’s still talking to you, he’s asking you a question! You can’t do that!”

“She literally looks back and then wanders away, full Sasquatch mode!”

“That all depends on if I get unstuck from being in five frames per second.”

“How heartwarming-- Wait, ‘first and last’?”

“Ugh, I don’t wanna know what happened in, around, or near that dress if _____ was so fond of that night...”

“Ah, no. It’s just two mice with a knife. Should’ve guessed, huh? Classic.”

“It’s incredible how much these animals have no defining character. In fact, they barely even talk!”

“Haha, how quaint! A raven fell through the exhaust grate in my cabin!”

“Alright, I can see you’re serious! Just please leave me and my family out of this!”

“Oh, what are you doin’!? You’re gonna get a disease! This is how the black plague started!”

“What? You weren’t sure? I think this is one of those things you gotta be sure about.”

“I’m sorry, I’m just a little embarrassed at my sneezes; I think they make me look like a little scared boy!”

“The first sensible thing said in this movie!”

“Why is life pain?”

“C’mon! C’mon, baby, I just want out!”

“Lemme just get in focus here... Dear God, it’s an iceberg!”

“Ah, there it is! Just pray to God it doesn’t have a song to sing, too!”

“ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!? Even Gilligan wouldn’t do something so stupid!”

“They’re not even throwing the water overboard; they’re just throwing it at the ship! What the hell?”

“Yeah, buddy, save that energy. Don’t wanna expend it before you get rowing.”

“Oh, that’s nice! You just rip through pure metal like it was a waffle!”

“Ay-yi-yi! What a shitshow.”

“I might be a little dead-ish when you see me, I hope that doesn’t bother you.”

“Hilarious; makes me totally forget that hundreds of people are drowning and freezing to death!”

“How dare they use casement window designs! It’s so last century!”

“You just...leave me behind with no way to contact or locate you for the rest of my life. (sarcastic) That’s what a real mother would do!”

“Ah, false alarm, it’s not _____! Throw him back! Move along, leave him for the fishes!”

“Well, at least the animals made it out alive. Good, the survivors are gonna need something to eat on their way back to shore.”

“What, do you have the brain of a baby? You don’t got object permanence yet? The moment [he’s/she’s/it’s/they’re] out of sight, [he’s/she’s/it’s/they’re] just gone from your reality?”

(sigh) “Cutting corners has saved us again.”

“And then, they lived happily ever after. But just them. It was honestly pretty terrible for just about everyone else.”

“No, no, you can’t be serious! There’s a ‘Where are they now?’ segment? I’ll tell you where they are now, at the BOTTOM OF THE FUCKING OCEAN, ARE YOU CRAZY!?”

“I’ll tell you where they are now, at the BOTTOM OF THE FUCKING OCEAN, ARE YOU CRAZY!?”

“’Happily ever after’!? What the hell is wrong with you!? This isn’t a postcard, this is the sinking of the fucking Titanic!”

“It’s so horrible that we, as human beings, don’t want to believe that WE created it, and with the help of Mr. Alcohol here, I just might be able to make that dream come true.”

“Oh, yes, destroy that memory.”

“I’ll never let go...of what you’ve done to me, that is, which is quite a lot, really. You’re a terrible, terrible thing. To the depths with you.”

[theseaeaglelives]

Round 25

THE SEA EAGLE

MAKING RUGBY LEAGUE GREAT AGAIN!!!

Round 25

Manly Sea Eagles      16 

Defeated by   

Parramatta Eels        32   

From the outset it was obvious that the primary focus of both teams was to achieve the outcome that would avoid them having to line up against the rampant Brisbane Bronco’s in week one of the finals next week.   

The Eels bolted out of the gates and opened the scoring after 4 minutes through veteran centre Michael Jennings. When former Sea Eagle Clint Gutherson crossed minutes later, at 12-0 to the Eels it looked like a rout was in the offering and that the Eels would achieve their primary objective.   

Manly had their chances with ball in hand, but without Tommy Turbo lacked polish and were unable to convert opportunities into points in the first half. A raft of penalty conversions and it was the Eels that held a commanding 16-2 lead at the break.   

Via two tries to live-wire replacement hooker Manase Fainu, Manly were able to mount a comeback and with 20 minutes remaining had reduced the deficit to 22-16 they seemed to have all the momentum. Young Fainu is a promising prospect for Manly and it is a testament to his potential that Nimby Koresou has been shipped of to the Panthers next year.   

Manly’s momentum was halted when gun centre-three quarter Brad Parker was KO’d by Kane Evans (who was binned) in the 67th minute. Without young Parker Manly’s final 10 minutes was a comedy of errors which included   

 -  Marty Tapou being penalised for playing the ball too fast when Manly seemed certain to score. 

 -  Despite being down to 12 men the Eels scored in the ensuing set

 - Schoolboy handling error by Cherry Baby 

 - Forward pass by young backrower Corey Waddell who was filling-in, for Parker in the centres

 - Despite being still with 12 men the Eels scored in the ensuing set with only 1-minute remaining.   

The final try ensured that at 32-16 the Eels would leapfrog Manly into 5th place (on for and against) and avoid the rampaging Bronco’s.  

Unfortunately for the Eels, the Bulldogs did not read the script and gave the not-so-rampant Bronco’s a towelling the following day thus consigning the Bronco’s to 8th place and a date with the Eels next week.   

Next week Manly take on their perennial whipping boys The Sharks at Lottoland*. Manly’s dominance against the Shark’s dating back to the early 1970’s has been well documented and if there was to be a team that Manly would want to face up to in a final it would be the Sharks. 

That said, without Tommy Turbo, Manly have been very flat in attack and will need to lift on their performances in the past two rounds. Add to this Manly are also likely to be without Marty Taupou who dished out a nasty high shot and could find himself suspended.

Lottoland set to keep final as Manly fan faces lengthy NRL ban By  Sam Phillips SMH September 2, 2019 — 5.38pm

 Lottoland will not be stripped of its first home final in more than a decade despite an ugly incident involving a spectator and Melbourne centre Will Chambers on Saturday.

NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg on Sunday warned the ground was in danger of being ruled ineligible to host a qualifying final next weekend due to security concerns after a Sea Eagles fan lashed out at Chambers. The governing body takes control of match-day operations during finals and NRL head of football Graham Annesley said the walkway which the Manly supporter reached through as he approached Chambers would not be opened as it typically is during play.

"There is a cage there as everyone knows which slides down and effectively cuts the tunnel or the gateway off from the general public. Because it was a sin bin and wasn’t at the start of the game or in the second half or full-time it wasn’t closed entirely," Annesley said.

"But when it comes to a finals game we will be in charge of all those matters and we wouldn’t expect a repeat of that.

"We’ll certainly be making sure that should something like that happen around a sin bin, there will be no opportunity for that cage not to be completely closed."

The NRL's investigation into the incident is ongoing but the man has not been charged by NSW Police.

A source familiar with the police investigation said Chambers had not made a formal complaint and a Storm official confirmed the club has decided to move on from the matter altogether.

While he may have escaped police charges, the man will be handed a ban by the NRL.

Annesley said the man in question would not be permitted back at an NRL game for "quite a while".

"People are fully entitled to go to our games and say and do whatever they want as long as they stay in the position they need to be and don’t go near any players or officials in an aggressive type of way.

"That will be dealt with over the next few days but I would suggest to you it will be quite a while before that particular person is back at an NRL game."

Sea Eagle Comment

The cage is a Manly institution at Brookvale Oval. Over many decades Manly fans have been given their God given right and opportunity to absolutely verbally spray opposition teams and players . Any opposition player who walks through the cage can expect nothing less than a full boar level of abuse should said player be deserving of same (and in some cases even if he's not deserving of it ).

The only problem here is that for some reason the Manly officials were unable to keep the demarcation line well defined. There is no way that a player and an irate Manly supporter should ever come face to face in the cage. That was never the intention of the cage. The purpose of the cage is to allow Manly fans the ability to vent their frustrations where it should be vented, that is at opposition players (but with the general safety of knowing the player the subject of the abuse is in the cage whilst the fan is safely outside the cage) .

Graham Annesley at the NRL is absolutely correct when he says  “People are fully entitled to go to our games and say and do whatever they want as long as they stay in the position they need to be and don’t go near any players or officials in an aggressive type of way”.

Unfortunately on any literal interpretation of this statement by the NRL, one can only now assume that the NRL fully condones racial vilification , homophobic slurs , sexist commentary, swearing and general rugby League supporter bad behaviour and unpleasantness (as long as you pay to enter the ground and don’t come into contact with players or NRL or club officials). Which if anyone has ever been to an NRL fixture is standard fare. Particularly if said supporter has had a few too many at the beer tent .

Thankfully the NRL is finally “getting it “. The needs of the fans must be paramount, as long there are well established boundaries (in this case the simple concept that if you are a fan, you must not go inside the cage).

The NRL has not confirmed that the NRL ground on game day is the last place where someone can go and say whatever they want in this latte sipping, politically correct, super sundae soft landscape that is modern day Australia.

Regrettably what the NRL is not getting is the drivel and low standard Rugby League that has been dished up in rounds 23 -25 this season on free to air television .

In this final round 25 we had a cracking fixture that was going to determine positions 7 and 8 in the Top 8 namely the Sharks vs the Tigers only to see that fixture being given to the dreaded Foxtel . Instead Sunday afternoon free to air football dished up a no relevance contest between the Knights and the Panthers seeing the Knights smashed by 50 plus points. Saturday night was even worse when the best the NRL could come up with on free to air TV was last placed Gold Coast Titans versus second last St George Dragons.

The Manly v Eels fixture was played at 6 PM on Friday night and was given no free to air coverage even though this had a bearing on positions 5 and 6 in the Top 8. Instead on Friday evening on free to air, another no relevance contest was displayed, this time the Filthy rorting Storm ( a team form Melbourne) v the going nowhere Cowboys ( and team from far North Queensland). How many Sydney siders, Brisveagasans, Novacastrians or Canberrians would have been interested in that?

NRL free to air is a joke. If the NRL thinks it can treat its fan base in this disgraceful way then they should only expect the inevitable. Which is ever decreasing TV ratings and not attendance by fans at games .

The Sea Eagle has not watched a free to air match for the last 3 months unless it was Manly playing (which wasn't very often ). And the Sea Eagle is a rugby league tragic. Simply put, there are too many rounds, too many low quality contests and a salary cap that has done nothing to level the playing field whatsoever.

All the salary cap has done is keep player salaries artificially minimised and punish clubs that can’t do what the Roosters and the Storm seem to be able to do. (which just upset fans even more).

The writing is well and truly on the wall for the NRL if this trend and state of affairs continues.

THE SEA EAGLE

[starcitizenprivateer]

Spectrum Spectator: One Step Back

Daisy Wences: Welcome once again to your show of shows, Spectrum Spectator. Where we take everything broadcast during the past week and blend it into a concentrated, easy-to-digest paste. I’m your entertainment emissary, Daisy Wences, and with me as always is this other person.

Lars Gonall: Why do I feel like the job title ‘Paste Purveyor’ would go over better with my parents than ‘Spectrum Critic?’

Daisy Wences: Because even though you’re a grown adult, you still live your life seeking your parents’ approval?

Lars Gonall: Once again, thanks to Daisy, I’m going to have some deep thinking to do after this show.

Daisy Wences: That’s why we’re all here, right? Profound self-epiphanies.

Lars Gonall: Profound epiphanies through the prism of spectrum are the perfect medium for self-reflection.

Daisy Wences: Which reminds me, have you caught Far From Home yet?

Lars Gonall: I have…

Daisy Wences: Yes! How many episodes have you done? Ten? Twenty?

Lars Gonall: Daisy has been begging me to check it out since she discovered it last week and I gotta say… it’s not for me.

Daisy Wences: What?!

Lars Gonall: For those of you unfamiliar, Far From Home is this personal diary and advice show that a solo pilot puts out from his Freelancer. It’s basically like when you get seated next to your friend’s uncle at a dinner party and they just want to talk about how good ships used to be in the old days.

Daisy Wences: You did not just compare Old Jegger to someone’s random uncle.

Lars Gonall: Later, when you go back and check the recording, you will see that I, in fact, did exactly that.

Daisy Wences: Despite what Lars says, I still think that this is a show worth checking out. I heard about it on a DIY forum when I was trying to fix a glitchy heater in my hab. Of course, instead of actually fixing the stupid thing, I wound up spending the rest of the night consuming every Far From Home episode I could find. Maybe because part of me always wondered what it would be like on the drift. Hearing him talk, you start to understand the difference between a solitary life and a lonely one.

Lars Gonall: I will say that I appreciated how he seemed very much about everyone finding their own best way to live. It wasn’t just him preaching about how we should all be space hermits. And I’ll also give it a few more points now that there’s that rumor circulating that he’s dead.

Daisy Wences: Wait? What?

Lars Gonall: You didn’t see this? It was on the Galactapedia page. Turns out he hasn’t put out an episode since the last one he did from Charon. People are speculating that something might have happened to him. A bunch of fans have started trying to organize a search for him.

Daisy Wences: He is a hermit, right? I bet he’s simply staying off the grid for a bit. I’m sure this is just one of those dumb spectrum rumors and he’ll show up in a week or two with a great story to tell. At least, I really hope that’s what’ll happen.

Lars Gonall: Yeah. You’re probably right. Just promise me that you’re not gonna run away to join the search.

Daisy Wences: Don’t worry, Lars. I’m not leaving the show… yet.

Lars Gonall: Since we got to talk about one of your new favorite shows, you want to talk about my new crush that you can’t stand?

Daisy Wences: Fine. Go ahead.

Lars Gonall: From the makers of such fine reality vids like Kid Empire and Weapon Wars: Shoot-Out Edition comes my brand new obsession, Face to Face, a dating show with a brilliant premise.

Daisy Wences: You mean an insanely creepy premise.

Lars Gonall: Oh, yeah. Won’t argue with you there. This is definitely a show for people who love cringe binging. All the contestants are sent into one of those new and really expensive BiotiCorp machines and given identical faces.

Daisy Wences: Want to know how they picked what that face would look like? They created a composite head from all the main single person’s exes. How messed up is that?

Lars Gonall: The show claims they’re trying to create an ideal partner for the selector by looking at their previous romantic choices. The lucky -

Daisy Wences: I guess that’s how they could be described…

Lars Gonall: The lucky bachelor is a fitness instructor from New Babbage named Eris who goes on dates with all the contestants and eliminates anyone they don’t like. Once eliminated, the candidates are reverted back to their original face.

Daisy Wences: I swear it’s like some bizarre cult. One of the contestants who got cut was sobbing because they didn’t want their old face back. I know it’s pretty common these days to adjust how you look, but the way they were all losing their identity while trying to become someone else’s fantasy made me really uncomfortable.

Lars Gonall: You had a much darker take than I did. For me, it was fun to watch people get to know each other in a situation where their looks didn’t matter. Eris couldn’t judge people on who was attractive or not, it was all about if they had a connection. What’s really going to be interesting is that the winning contestant gets to reconstruct their face however they want. Do they go with their original? An ‘improved’ version of themselves? Keep their new face? So many choices.

Daisy Wences: Do you think the people at BiotiCorp would have made the Calliope if they knew that this was how their amazing invention was going to be used?

Lars Gonall: I assume all scientists hope for a day when their discovery or invention can be used to help strangers pretend to be in love on spectrum.

Daisy Wences: Shall we move on to a show that we were actually scheduled to review this week?

Lars Gonall: Even better, a show that we both actually liked.

Daisy Wences: Last Friday saw the premiere of the much-heralded docu-series One Step Back. Filmed on Asura, it’s a hard look at what life is like for former criminals trying to re-enter society. The first episode focuses on Liz ‘Necro’ Salguero, a convicted shipjacker who was released from Quarterdeck last year.

Lars Gonall: You get a real sense of what it must be like to have this criminal reputation hanging over your head. At one point, she goes through a checkpoint on her way to sell some scrap and seeing how security swarms all over her to do a deep scan was really surprising to me. Maybe this is just my naïveté talking, but I always figured that serving time was enough to clear your record. It turns out though that the Advocacy keeps you flagged as a person of interest for a long time after you’ve been incarcerated, and a lot of people get access to those records.

Daisy Wences: One of the people they interview is a criminal rights advocate who is trying to change the law so that once your crime is atoned for, your records remained sealed unless you are charged with a crime again. We expect these people to be able to make a life for themselves, but with their past available to potential employers, many can’t find work and even when they do, it’s a long hard road to earning trust and respectability again.

Lars Gonall: This isn’t exactly the same thing, but I do remember this one time growing up when my dad accidentally clipped a ship that was rising out of hangar bay. He got flagged and until he paid off the fine, we weren’t allowed to use a lot of public landing areas. It was only a week, but still.

Daisy Wences: I had no idea you came from an outlaw family. It’ll be interesting to see what the show does to help forward the dialogue about all this. Apparently, since the episode was released, Liz has been overwhelmed with job offers and people looking to help her out. Pretty touching really. Of course, that’s just one person.

Lars Gonall: Strongly recommend you give this show a try. It’s not exactly lighthearted, but it’s doing some important things.

Daisy Wences: All right, on that surprisingly serious note, we have to take our first break. When Spectrum Spectators returns, we’ll be discussing the new Tavi Arteaga comedy, One Mann’s Treasure, about a young woman named Aleria Mann who leaves her bustling life in Prime to run her sick mother’s salvaging business out in the far reaches of Corel.

Lars Gonall: I’m pretty excited because we haven’t reviewed a ‘the character’s name is a title pun’ show in a long time, so be sure to stick around and we’ll be right back.

[sad-ch1ld]

via RSI Comm-Link

Daisy Wences: Welcome once again to your show of shows, Spectrum Spectator. Where we take everything broadcast during the past week and blend it into a concentrated, easy-to-digest paste. I’m your entertainment emissary, Daisy Wences, and with me as always is this other person.

Lars Gonall: Why do I feel like the job title ‘Paste Purveyor’ would go over better with my parents than ‘Spectrum Critic?’

Daisy Wences: Because even though you’re a grown adult, you still live your life seeking your parents’ approval?

Lars Gonall: Once again, thanks to Daisy, I’m going to have some deep thinking to do after this show.

Daisy Wences: That’s why we’re all here, right? Profound self-epiphanies.

Lars Gonall: Profound epiphanies through the prism of spectrum are the perfect medium for self-reflection.

Daisy Wences: Which reminds me, have you caught Far From Home yet?

Lars Gonall: I have…

Daisy Wences: Yes! How many episodes have you done? Ten? Twenty?

Lars Gonall: Daisy has been begging me to check it out since she discovered it last week and I gotta say… it’s not for me.

Daisy Wences: What?!

Lars Gonall: For those of you unfamiliar, Far From Home is this personal diary and advice show that a solo pilot puts out from his Freelancer. It’s basically like when you get seated next to your friend’s uncle at a dinner party and they just want to talk about how good ships used to be in the old days.

Daisy Wences: You did not just compare Old Jegger to someone’s random uncle.

Lars Gonall: Later, when you go back and check the recording, you will see that I, in fact, did exactly that.

Daisy Wences: Despite what Lars says, I still think that this is a show worth checking out. I heard about it on a DIY forum when I was trying to fix a glitchy heater in my hab. Of course, instead of actually fixing the stupid thing, I wound up spending the rest of the night consuming every Far From Home episode I could find. Maybe because part of me always wondered what it would be like on the drift. Hearing him talk, you start to understand the difference between a solitary life and a lonely one.

Lars Gonall: I will say that I appreciated how he seemed very much about everyone finding their own best way to live. It wasn’t just him preaching about how we should all be space hermits. And I’ll also give it a few more points now that there’s that rumor circulating that he’s dead.

Daisy Wences: Wait? What?

Lars Gonall: You didn’t see this? It was on the Galactapedia page. Turns out he hasn’t put out an episode since the last one he did from Charon. People are speculating that something might have happened to him. A bunch of fans have started trying to organize a search for him.

Daisy Wences: He is a hermit, right? I bet he’s simply staying off the grid for a bit. I’m sure this is just one of those dumb spectrum rumors and he’ll show up in a week or two with a great story to tell. At least, I really hope that’s what’ll happen.

Lars Gonall: Yeah. You’re probably right. Just promise me that you’re not gonna run away to join the search.

Daisy Wences: Don’t worry, Lars. I’m not leaving the show… yet.

Lars Gonall: Since we got to talk about one of your new favorite shows, you want to talk about my new crush that you can’t stand?

Daisy Wences: Fine. Go ahead.

Lars Gonall: From the makers of such fine reality vids like Kid Empire and Weapon Wars: Shoot-Out Edition comes my brand new obsession, Face to Face, a dating show with a brilliant premise.

Daisy Wences: You mean an insanely creepy premise.

Lars Gonall: Oh, yeah. Won’t argue with you there. This is definitely a show for people who love cringe binging. All the contestants are sent into one of those new and really expensive BiotiCorp machines and given identical faces.

Daisy Wences: Want to know how they picked what that face would look like? They created a composite head from all the main single person’s exes. How messed up is that?

Lars Gonall: The show claims they’re trying to create an ideal partner for the selector by looking at their previous romantic choices. The lucky -

Daisy Wences: I guess that’s how they could be described…

Lars Gonall: The lucky bachelor is a fitness instructor from New Babbage named Eris who goes on dates with all the contestants and eliminates anyone they don’t like. Once eliminated, the candidates are reverted back to their original face.

Daisy Wences: I swear it’s like some bizarre cult. One of the contestants who got cut was sobbing because they didn’t want their old face back. I know it’s pretty common these days to adjust how you look, but the way they were all losing their identity while trying to become someone else’s fantasy made me really uncomfortable.

Lars Gonall: You had a much darker take than I did. For me, it was fun to watch people get to know each other in a situation where their looks didn’t matter. Eris couldn’t judge people on who was attractive or not, it was all about if they had a connection. What’s really going to be interesting is that the winning contestant gets to reconstruct their face however they want. Do they go with their original? An ‘improved’ version of themselves? Keep their new face? So many choices.

Daisy Wences: Do you think the people at BiotiCorp would have made the Calliope if they knew that this was how their amazing invention was going to be used?

Lars Gonall: I assume all scientists hope for a day when their discovery or invention can be used to help strangers pretend to be in love on spectrum.

Daisy Wences: Shall we move on to a show that we were actually scheduled to review this week?

Lars Gonall: Even better, a show that we both actually liked.

Daisy Wences: Last Friday saw the premiere of the much-heralded docu-series One Step Back. Filmed on Asura, it’s a hard look at what life is like for former criminals trying to re-enter society. The first episode focuses on Liz ‘Necro’ Salguero, a convicted shipjacker who was released from Quarterdeck last year.

Lars Gonall: You get a real sense of what it must be like to have this criminal reputation hanging over your head. At one point, she goes through a checkpoint on her way to sell some scrap and seeing how security swarms all over her to do a deep scan was really surprising to me. Maybe this is just my naïveté talking, but I always figured that serving time was enough to clear your record. It turns out though that the Advocacy keeps you flagged as a person of interest for a long time after you’ve been incarcerated, and a lot of people get access to those records.

Daisy Wences: One of the people they interview is a criminal rights advocate who is trying to change the law so that once your crime is atoned for, your records remained sealed unless you are charged with a crime again. We expect these people to be able to make a life for themselves, but with their past available to potential employers, many can’t find work and even when they do, it’s a long hard road to earning trust and respectability again.

Lars Gonall: This isn’t exactly the same thing, but I do remember this one time growing up when my dad accidentally clipped a ship that was rising out of hangar bay. He got flagged and until he paid off the fine, we weren’t allowed to use a lot of public landing areas. It was only a week, but still.

Daisy Wences: I had no idea you came from an outlaw family. It’ll be interesting to see what the show does to help forward the dialogue about all this. Apparently, since the episode was released, Liz has been overwhelmed with job offers and people looking to help her out. Pretty touching really. Of course, that’s just one person.

Lars Gonall: Strongly recommend you give this show a try. It’s not exactly lighthearted, but it’s doing some important things.

Daisy Wences: All right, on that surprisingly serious note, we have to take our first break. When Spectrum Spectators returns, we’ll be discussing the new Tavi Arteaga comedy, One Mann’s Treasure, about a young woman named Aleria Mann who leaves her bustling life in Prime to run her sick mother’s salvaging business out in the far reaches of Corel.

Lars Gonall: I’m pretty excited because we haven’t reviewed a ‘the character’s name is a title pun’ show in a long time, so be sure to stick around and we’ll be right back.

[abitscrewyvinn]

I’m upset that RWBY is shit...

It has so much potential and the fandom, for the most part, is full of great people and artists! They started off strong with the trailers but people were already a little disappointed by the first episode. It was much different than what we had been shown. I was so excited for the show that I made an account on an old roleplaying site for Ruby in advance. So just.. Hear me out.

The first odd thing about the writing is that I much prefer the characters on their own as opposed to together on a team. Or in a group atmosphere. The dialogue is clustered and oddly written, doesn’t quite feel human or realistic. Even in a fantasy universe, the characters have to have some good flow to the dialogue.

The story ‘pays homage’ to nearly every fucking thing it can find because it doesn’t know what else to do. All the characters seem to be based on something from outside the show, and there are countless comedic references that are only funny if you know other things. For instance, I didn’t watch a lot of RT stuff before I met my boyfriend who’s super into it. They’re a funny bunch and MAINLY comedy but I’ll come back to that later. The voice actress of Yang is SUPER into making puns and it’s a gigantic inside joke but unless you watch their shit you wouldn’t get why Yang makes so many bad puns all the time. Thus the joke won’t be as funny.

About the mainly comedy thing. Roosterteeth is MAINLY comedy. They’ve apparently gotten pretty intense in RVB but I haven’t seen much of that. What I have seen that I liked? RageQuit, Let’s Play, Let’s Watch, Immersion, fuckin’ Camp Camp.. All of these things are mainly comedy based because they understand and write comedy REALLY well. They tried to make RWBY serious off the bat with the trailers being dark and ominous and vague; but as soon as you get into the first episode it’s just.. So much comedy. Jaune(sp) throws up on the ship, Ruby running into Weiss and exploding by sneeze, even her fucking PJ’s are adorable. So it sets the premise that none of this can be taken very seriously.

They go into the trials or whatever but the fighting choreography is so damn boring. The most interesting fight was the cis-swapped Mulan fighting a large snake but they SKIP most of that shit for the main cast. A lot of interesting characters get skipped out on for the main cast. Kinda like in Soul Eater, actually. But this time the main character isn’t quite insufferable.

Ruby herself is sweet and cute but I never got a sense that she had a sad backstory. Which is weird because I was so ready for a stoic child who’s been forced into battle, whom I saw in the first preview. Her actual character is nice enough and interacts okay with Yang, her half sister.. But I still find it boring as shit.

Weiss is a bitch. It is her job to be a bitch, that is her singular character trait. Her background trait is that she’s a spoiled kid who actually has the problems of most spoiled rich kids in animation. I.e. her parents/family are a bunch of assholes which makes her an asshole. They’re also racist as fuck towards Faunus but I can at LEAST give them props for having her care about Velvet later or whatever.

ALSO I SWEAR TO GOD THE ANIMATION STYLE MAKES ME GAG. “IT GOT BETTER” IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR HAVING A SHIT PHYSICS ENGINE. I don’t care what you tell me. I know it could have been budget problems or the were just trying something new but they’ve done 3d animation before in RVB, right? That shit was good! The fighting was fun to watch and also funny. Tex added a dimension of edgyness I guess, but that was also comedy to me. But RWBY? Nahhhh just use MMD. Fuck that style for anything aside from MMD and shitty MMD memes. The show even seems to be AWARE that the MMD thing is shit because they make a joke about the characters dancing in formation like in the game! Soooo what the fuck?? The designs are okay. They’re simple, basic. The weapons are the most interesting characters. The only characters I care about are Team SSSN and Qrow Branwen even though I’m salty about why the FUCK is he voiced by Vic Marinara?? Ya’ couldn’t get Steve Blum? At least he has range!

Then apparently Season 4 has pulled some REALLY shitty writing by SPLITTING UP THE MAIN CAST LIKE WHAT THE FUCK MAN. One of the FIRST rules I learned about writing is that splitting up the cast for more than a couple episodes is not a good thing. It makes the plot unfocused as all fuck and then shit goes everywhere. Then there’s this fake-ass-faunus bitch who’s a blatant Joker ripoff. I only ever liked the design of the first villain. Because I liked the design of the villain in Clockwork Orange and that’s what they decided to rip him out of. So at least that guy had style but the new guy’s face is just.. I can’t take him seriouosly at all because of his face and his fake fucking scorpion tail that’s OBVIOUSLY ATTACHED TO A BELT. They’ve gotten tails right before. Uh-uh, this guy is fake as shit.

TL;DR: I’M UPSET BECAUSE I WAS EXCITED FOR RWBY DUE TO THE PREVIEWS BUT WHAT I GOT IS A SHIT SHOW AND A SHITSHOW.