#tryna keep it on the downlow

[blodreina-noumou]

I don’t think that Lindsey post is bashing Natalie Dormer. I think it’s just saying that she deserves to be thirsted after JUST AS MUCH as her bc Lindsey is BAE.

I don’t wanna like, publically subtweet OP, which is why I left my rant in the tags, lmao, but I guess we’re going there. Do I tag them in this or nah?? I don’t wanna drag them into a debate they never asked for. I also don’t feel great about sitting here and criticizing them behind their back, but since this is anon...

The OP of that post (who I don’t know at all personally - let me make it super clear that I’m not trying to start shit, they can feel however they want to) did say the popularity of Natalie Dormer (and JLaw) over Lindsey Morgan “really shows how none of y’all have taste”

What else could they have possibly been implying? Bad taste usually means that whatever a person likes is...y’know, bad. Saying someone doesn’t have taste is a dig at their preferences, and indicates that you think their preferences are wrong.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If OP thinks JLaw and Nat D aren’t as attractive as Lindsey, they’re absolutely allowed to feel that way, and voice it publically on their blog. All I was saying is that it made me not really want to reblog that post, even though it celebrated Lindsey. I don’t love when people put other women down to lift one woman up. It left a bad taste in my mouth that made me, personally, not want to associate with it.

But I also recognize that it’s a flippant post on a microblogging platform that OP probably dashed off quickly, and that they probably weren’t intending to like, be a dick about it, more that they were frustrated that Lindsey doesn’t get as much attention as other actresses. And since Lindsey is a WOC and a damn beautiful/talented one to boot, I can understand where that frustration might stem from.

But like..........the actual reality is that it’s not about taste, it’s about visibility in pop culture, lmao. 

Natalie Dormer was on Game of Thrones and in The Hunger Games, at a time when both were at the height of their popularity. Both are massive franchises, with literally millions of viewers. 

JLaw (who I don’t care for as much as I used to, but whatever) was the star of The Hunger Games, which again, was massively popular at that time, and she went on to do several Oscar-baity movies (and actually fuckin’ won for one, shockingly.) She was also in X-Men!

No shade to Lindsey, but she’s a supporting actor on a CW show, a show which most people have either never heard of, or have a low opinion of.

Making that comparison isn’t fair to any of the actresses involved. Comparing them on looks alone is objectifying and yucky. Comparing them by starpower doesn’t put Lindsey in the best light. It just wasn’t a great take, imho. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just think there’s a better way to showcase the Hotness of Lindsey Morgan without bringing other celebrities into it, because it becomes a huge mess if you look at it for longer than like, two seconds.

I have a hard time comparing Lindsey and Natalie, because I think they have very different things about them they make them beautiful, and very different energies. I could see making the comparison between Natalie and Jennifer, but then OP’s whole point falls apart, because both Nat and JLaw were darlings of tumblr at one point in time. If OP wanted to make an issue about race and beauty, I think there are more eloquent and nuanced ways to do that.

I don’t wanna sit here and keep ripping it apart. Ultimately I know it’s not that big of a deal, and that person can feel however they want to, and this is a pretty vapid conversation at its core.

But like...I said what I said, y’know? 👀

[missile-maestro]

See you are a bitchass motherfucker, your acting licke a bitch rn. Just exsept it already.-C

NO! I am NOT a bitch ass motherfucker! Now quit bothering me!

[weebsinstash]

Maybe Val is a chubby chaser but is in denial. Like it that "Your not like my other workers and I like that. But the boss has to keep a profile. So I'm going to degrade you like no tomorrow."

Man the chubby reader community is STARVING and it shows. But I'm the same way, I'm just usually too embarrassed to write for it because, well, it just feels really indulgent and makes me feel like, dirty and guilty 😳

But yall i have got all sorts of Val x chubby reader ideas. I change it up based on how im feeling. Sometimes I make him unashamedly horny for all body types (which lowkey is how im HCing Ozzie as the fandom elected Better Valentino), or sometimes I make Reader the only exception (honestly yandere or characters in general who like you so much they basically omit parts of their personality is 👍 good food for me 👍).

I definitely think, though, that there's a bit of tension because of his position and he has this image to keep of being powerful and surrounded by sexy sluts that there are times where he would be very on the downlow about having feelings or being with you because, the company you keep reflects on yourself, and I bet there are definitely people that would shit on him for having a bigger partner, and you know Val, he's vain as fuck.

Fucking Val negging the Reader. He can be mean and tease you, so that when he finally does praise you and tells you you look pretty/handsome, it just feels so good, like you've fought for it and earned it, and you're so grateful to hear it, which is all part of the trap, keeping your confidence down so he can keep you under his thumb

This was originally a generic idea but I like it with the thick angle as well: I had this thought of, Reader living st the porn studio, right, and say Valentino concocts some sort of reason why he needs to start going through Reader's stuff, which is on his property anyways. Say one of his rings or colognes or something expensive of his is missing and he's drunk and accusing nearly anyone who walks by him. So he's going through your things as you watch on in horror when he finds IT: a cute but playfully sexy little item of lingerie. You're stuttering and stammering and he's grinning as you try to explain how, hey, you were talking with Angel and some of the other girls about how confident a person can wear in a pair of sexy underwear and how everyone needs at least one pair, so you bought yourself some lingerie and, hey, why is he giving you that dirty smirk for?

Suddenly he's demanding you put in on and wear it for him 😳 or, he's taking the little idk baby doll slip or whatever it is and turning it in his hands before sneering like "this is little kid shit, now I can REALLY get you something sexy" and next thing you know there's a ribbon wrapped box placed inside your room with a little note about how your vulgar boss is going to be dropping in directly to your room tonight and he wants you to "fix yourself up nice and pretty for him"

Also. God. So. For fun I've thought about a Reader who can travel to different Rings and shit and like. Imagine the drama of Val being on his "shut up i don't actually like you" routine and telling Reader they're like, icky and gross or whatever, and Reader just takes it, but then, Valentino is browsing a dirty magazine smuggled up from the Lust Ring, a magazine owned by Asmodeus himself, and whose picture does he find posing in lingerie for the camera? Yours. Maybe you're even the centerfold, all your curves complimented by nice lingerie and lace and silk

So obviously after he's done beating off to that, he's absolutely pissed that 1. Oh so you're tryna do sex work for someone who's not him huh? And 2. Why are you showing your body to other people before he's gotten to see it? And it was probably just some softcore posing but he's still incensed over it, that "someone else got to you first" and in a fucked up way he probably considers this a theft because "he owns you" and you working for someone else and using your body to make money for someone else is, in his eyes, taking money that would have been his

God. I've also thought of like, what if there wasn't a huge presence of bbw/bbm porn in Hell and Val just decides to turn you into one of his porn stars. Like I've pictured that Val is on set and one of his actors hasn't shown or is sick and here you're popping in, just briefly bringing him a coffee he's asked for when someone points to you and says "what about them? They're cute" and the next thing you know Val is watching you be railed by like 5 hellhounds while the cameras roll and suddenly you're like the biggest "big beautiful" porn star in the Ring of Pride

He's obviously possessive as hell BUT Val is definitely a cuck in the sense that he's a porn producer and he watches people get fucked all the time and I think he would definitely have a fetish for watching his precious little YN get absolutely DESTROYED by some mad dick and pussy, you know I'm right. I can also see him doing it as a punishment, like he catches some guy flirting with you and you're attempting to reciprocate and Val's all "oh so you wanna sleep around huh? Bet" and the next day has a martini in his hand while he watches you get spitroasted

Poor chubby YN is all lonely and horny and all you have is your douchebag creep of a boss constantly cockblocking you and making gross jokes about your body, either demeaning or "compliments" like how he'd like you use your thighs as earmuffs or "it's casual Friday, why are you still wearing clothes? :)"

Like I said.... lots of ideas 👉👈 kind of an embarrassing amount, really 👉👈

[taichouu]

Ghost face and you are a thing? 😳

😳😳 Um.... Perhaps... we are tryna keep it on the downlow tho...

[avoidintellect]

My mums at war with her sisters

And me, mine are trying to belittle

Me and whats wrong with my mind

This constant state from neat to mess

All over the place, my heads at I must confess

All over my body arms, feet head and chest

Nowhere for this weary soul to rest

But I lay in bed

And mostly dream

Things aint as bad as it seem

You hold the will to change your life

Although you rather just sit and moan

Get on the telephone and scream

Cause a scene for this little piece of green

Dream until their payday wished blessed

Looking for sales in the cheapest stores

Bragging about bargains, talkin out ya neck

Figuring that way you can still claim respect

I've thrived by my self

And I don't ever look back

To the first verse

In the first place

Staying here, depends on me

Well alright, thats calm, okay let's go

No asking, no more borrowing

Unless its transferable skills

That can fill this hollow

Gap where skunk and cali

Erased most of my memory

But I'm better now I only blaze

On evenings and Thursdays

Its kinda hard to change my ways

But I'm tryna inspire out this behaviour, hope it aint no phase

And sick to the stomach of repeating the same ole phrase

If I don't change me

Ima allow myself to soak up every energy

All the downlows

All those jealous hoes

I can't afford for those

To keep me anchored with them

Misery likes company and it aint got a friend in me....

Ya feel like bringing me down.

Fuck outta my face, clown

Your just a sad joke,

Tryna break my character, tryna provoke

Me, to switch. Uh uh you fail.

Aint gonna have me seating up in jail

(Tbc)

[bbyboynextdoor]

I know you said you don’t really fuck with downlow dudes and I don’t really fuck with them either but there’s this dude and can’t really get away from because he’s friends with my friends and I always see him around and he just a bitch because he always hints that he tryna fuck with me but then won’t, people say how he can be gay and stuff but he he’s a player and fucks hella girls and shit and I think he’s just tryna keep that picture but I know there’s more to him. Watcha think I should do?

Nothing. Don’t be a creeper and leave him alone. I deal with many guys like that and they just try to fuck with you for the attention.

[autistickitten]

That sensory overload feel when, holy shit, the taste of this mac salad sends a pain in the back of my nose, and now I feel like there's a big rock stuffed up my nose and I'm slightly freaking out but my mom made this just for me, so I'm keeping it on the downlow and just tryna drown with Pepsi?????

THE WORST TBH.

[weepylucifer]

omg TJ gets hurt in a riot (idk why she was there) and Samantha absolutely beats the shit out of whoever hurt her baby cousin's gf. Afterwards Sam takes TJ back to Jane and Sam's super apologetic to both Jane n TJ, and Jane's furious but tryna keep it on the downlow bc she knows TJ wouldn't like it if she started yelling. TJ's just like "oh, this is nothing. I've gotten far worse injuries from my own clumsiness"

no one has any idea why tj was there and how she even managed to get hurt, least of all sam, but jane is still all “how dare You endanger my girlfriend you piece of shit” and sam’s like “yikes”

[zdravstvuysclntse]

B-BY THE WAY,,,

This is why I’ve been so fucking scarce as of late!! I’m actually writing a crossover fic with Nonna and uhhh the characters from Food Fantasy because ihugyu fuck idk I wanted to.

Feel free to read if y’all want!! But keep it uhh on the downlow y’know? Like shhhh.. Most of my friends in the FooFan fandom have no idea that Nonna’s APH Murmansk, I’m tryna keep the crossover quiet till the end of the fic.. 👀👀