#wow. Whole ass rant in tags

[deerdeardarling]

Every day we get closer to the galar villain arc in Pokemon Masters and every day we get closer to a Hop sygna suit

[fisheito]

@bad-theory say sike right now bro i always wished to be powerful enough to . influence someone's Affection Levels for a Character like that 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[hanjisungz]

owl playoffs start today and i am so excited i could Scream

[lowkeyrobin]

HELLO!!

could you please write something abt roadtripping with charlie bushnell?

I LOVE YOUR WRITING💥💥💥

hey!! and yeah of course! ; and thank you so much, I appreciate it a lot 🫶🫶 ; thank you for requesting, hope you enjoy! ; I put this in a hc format bc I could not make this a oneshot lmfaoooo

CHARLIE BUSHNELL ; roadtripping

summary ; what it's like to roadtrip with charlie

warnings ; language, a joke at republicans

word count ; 370

masterlist

you usually switch around who's driving every couple hours to keep it fair

but he's usually the one who drives first

you're usually staring out the window, jamming to music, and taking pictures of cool/pretty views

you put on 365, good luck babe, popular dance pop songs when you have aux

he puts on more like singalong type songs, like zach brian, bo burnham, yk??

it's either that or like rap / hip hop

like my girl megan, yeat, ian, joey valance & brae, etc etc

you're vibing the whole way to your next location unless one of you / both of you are safely asleep

he goes off on tangents about nature and random shit he just magically knows

and you listen

then rant about music or books or whatever fandoms you're in or some crack ass fanfic you discovered at 3am

he's a calm driver

but if it's really dark or storming and he can't see in front of him, he's literally hunched over the wheel panicking

he often stops at gas stations every couple hours to get snacks and for bathroom breaks

he gets you a little stuffed animal and your fav snacks if you want them as well

he's got a ton of travel mags in his dashboard thing (the drawer thing I forget what it's called gang)

you flip through them a lot

"ooo woah that's so pretty"

"it is"

"wow, that's insane, holy shit"

"midwest core"

"bye it looks like republicans for miles"

you often play tag in parking lots when stretching your legs, the radio blasting cute songs (slow dancing in a parking lot by jordan davis, detour by maren morris, etc)

when you're asleep in the passengers seat, he'll often rest a hand on your thigh or over your hand on the console

sometimes he stops to drape a blanket over you if you haven't already

when he's asleep, you often hold his hand with the other on the wheel, or hum him to sleep absentmindedly cause you were focusing on the road and enjoying the music

you often take videos of each other doing funny shit, saying funny shit, etc

you've got albumsss of snaps in the car and pics of each other w dumb filters

[werewolfsmile]

re: "All I’m saying is the fact that someone isn’t talking to me about Eliot Spencer every second of every day is very unfair and borderline illegal." & tags - if you want to, can you elaborate on your werewolf!eliot ideas?? i’d like to hear about it!! if not all good tho :)

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Yes I would love to elaborate! (buckle up because i have Thoughts)

(wow this really got away from me so uhhh .... warning for 2k of ranting about Eliot as a werewolf?? list of headcanons under the cut)

From the moment I first met Eliot Spencer, I knew he was werewolf-coded. Aside from his insanely fantastic fighting abilities and the absurd amount of punishment he can take, there are many other factors that contribute to his werewolf status.

Eliot needs a pack Our boy is out here working on his own for years and look at all the good it did him! None! He carries severe trauma from his family life because he blames himself for how it all went down and doesn't think he'll be welcomed back. Plus something probably happened during his military days or early PMC days to put him off working with others. Could have been the pain of losing people all the time, could have been something more. Either way, Eliot working on his own is a defence mechanism - but a self-destructive one.

Wolves thrive in packs - like duh, they're pack animals. As my username suggests, I'm into werewolves and, by extension, wolves. I've done research for my own werewolf novels in the past, so I know that in an average wolf pack, each pack member will have physical contact with the other pack members on the regular. Like, several times an hour! (gosh if I can find the research paper this info came from I'll link it but honestly it's been years) That's a serious level of physical contact required to keep the emotional bonds of the pack healthy!

Flick back to Eliot. He loves to fight, he loves the violence and the pain, yes. He hates the killing and the blood on his hands. He actually tries to leave the assassin world behind after he meets Toby (which is before he meets Moreau, as per early dialogue in The French Connection Job). He bonds quickly with Toby. Show Eliot a little love and care and he's yours for life! He moves onto retrieval work, then somehow ends up working for Moreau.

Now, when we see Eliot and Moreau in The Big Bang Job, Moreau says, "You work alone." Which means that Eliot had that reputation when he came to Moreau. He probably only took contracts to start off with. But he accepted job after job from Moreau and was so good that he was highly respect and it's inferred he ended up as Moreau's top bodyguard/assassin. Why the hell would Eliot end up that close to a man who brings out all the worst in him? Because Eliot's a werewolf and no matter how toxic, Moreau fulfills the need for a pack bond that he's been missing all this time.

Fast forward to Eliot meeting the rest of the Leverage team. One job only - my ass. He saves Hardison's life after Hardison brought a gun to their little meeting - and we all know how Eliot feels about guns.

Wolves are designed to live and operate in packs. Eliot says it's one job only but is bonding with them all from the get-go. Werewolf trait confirmed.

Eliot needs physical touch Now, I know what you're thinking. Eliot canonically avoids physical contact with the team. He refuses hugs, especially from Hardison, growls at Parker poking his bruises (don't get me started on the growls), and shoves people (ahem Parker) out of his personal space. So why would he do all this if he needs physical touch??

Because he's one gigantic ball of angst and self-loathing and guilt.

Eliot doesn't think he deserves forgiveness or love or family, etc. That is a whole other rant, but he denies himself the physical contact he needs with others as a way of punishing himself.

However, as the series progresses, we see him become more comfortable with physical contact! He hugs Hardison several times, he doesn't move away from Parker, etc. Why? Because he's bonded with this team (ahem pack) and there's only so much he can suppress his instincts. The more time he spends with them, the more naturally the contact flows.

Eliot needs to protect others Whenever we get a scene of the team walking as a group, where is Eliot positioned 90% of the time?? That's right, at the back of the group. He lets the others walk in pairs and falls back to bring up the rear. He's keeping them all in his line of sight and constantly scanning for threats ahead, along with protecting the team from any rear attacks. It makes sense for him to do this given his military background, but it also makes sense for a werewolf to do this.

He's the only werewolf in the team. His instincts revolve around keeping the pack safe and protected, so he does that in the best way he knows how.

Not to mention how feral gets over kids!!

Wolf life is all about the pack and the family structure. Pups are integral to the pack's survival and future. Eliot doesn't have kids of his own. But that doesn't stop his instincts from blaring every time he interacts with a kid, be it on the con or off. He takes time out every time to help that kid in an attempt to calm the raging storm of instincts inside his body.

Eliot needs to feed others It's another werewolf instinct that rears its head when they're in the safety of their headquarters (ahem den). Protecting the team/pack from physical threats is just one aspect of taking care of them. Feeding them is the other major one.

None of these idiots can cook to save their lives - except Nate, but he's also drowning his liver 90% of the time, so Eliot has to compensate for that, too. The team can't operate at full capacity if they're not consuming good nutrition. So Eliot makes sure to feed them.

His humanity recognises that these are independent people - coworkers - and he can't control every meal of every day. But he can cook for them, once a week or once a job, which is just enough to satisfy his instincts that he's doing his part to care for them. Plus they love his cooking, and the praise he gets from it is an unexpected but pleasant bonus.

Eliot and team sports/kitchens This ties in with my first point about Eliot needing a pack, but all the times we see Eliot go super hard and get absorbed in the role he's playing are when he's on a team sport or he's in the kitchen. Both of these fulfill super important instincts for him - being in a team/pack and providing food for others.

Think about The Tap-Out Job. Eliot's playing a fighter but he's not pretending to be on a team. He doesn't get over-invested in the role. But what about when he's a baseball player? A hockey player? He falls into those roles hard because he's working with another team again, and this little werewolf is built for that environment. Same in The French Connection: the kitchen becomes his den, the students are his pack mates, and he goes hard at investing in them and protecting them. Never mind the personal aspect of Toby.

Same for episodes like The Fairy Godparents Job when we get a scene of Eliot teaching a bunch of girls self-defence. Team setting + protecting kids = happy werewolf instincts.

So, werewolf headcanons? I have a lot of different origin theories but the main one I like for Eliot is:

he became a werewolf either for a covert military op, or was bitten by Moreau (choose your own angst flavour)

if it was for the military, they were trying to engineer supersoldiers and he was deemed a failure; he has werewolf instincts all the time but only has enhanced strength, healing, etc on full moons

if it was bitten by Moreau, there's a psychic-style bond linking them, which is why he was so loyal to Moreau for so long, and also why he is so reluctant to go after Moreau

(wow this is too different theories already and i said this was my 'main one' whoops)

Eliot can only shift easily on the full moon; shifting outside of a full moon can only be caused by extreme stress and is ridiculously painful

he suffers an insanely high prey drive all the time and is so strict about his control because he doesn't actually wanna rip out the throat of Random Guard #3

he used to chain himself up for full moons so he didn't hurt anyone, but since the team found out about him, Hardison and Parker have taken it upon themselves to 'puppy-sit' him every full moon

this involves no chains but an obscene amount of dog chew toys. Eliot is never impressed. He also never chases or chews the toys. The video evidence Hardison has was obviously doctored.

Hardison and Parker found out the truth when a con went sideways and Eliot was trapped in a room with them during the full moon

he was terrified he was going to kill them - or worse, bite them - but his instincts recognised them as pack so instead he just tried to wrestle with them all night

Hardison had a major freak out when he discovered Eliot was a werewolf - it's one thing to be obsessed with sci-fi/fantasy, it's another thing entirely to see your best friend transform before your eyes

Parker was not even remotely phased, being all like, "pfft of course werewolves are real, I thought you knew that Hardison, you talk about your elves and orcs all the time!"

"Woman that is completely different and you know it!"

"What else do you think is fake? The tooth fairy?? Ha!"

Eliot is Done With Their Shenanigans

Parker only ever refers to Eliot as Sparky when he's in his wolf form

Sophie didn't actually know about werewolves before the reveal but she pretends that she did

Nate knew about werewolves before Eliot, he just chooses to pretend that they're Not A Thing

werewolves generally don't make good hitters, because the constant exposure to violence ramps up their hunting instincts aka they find it hard not to kill

of course, this doesn't matter if you're someone like Moreau who specifically wants killing machines and thus turns his top hitters into werewolves, to ensure loyalty and enhance his strength

the only other werewolf hitter not under Moreau's control that Eliot knows is Quinn, who most certainly did not pull his werewolf strength punches when they tousled in The First David Job

Quinn doesn't have a pack (werewolf or otherwise) and genuinely doesn't seem phased by this, which pisses off Eliot to no end

however, after they work together in The Last Dam Job, Quinn deems himself Eliot's Best Werewolf Bud and keeps popping up randomly to hang out on full moons, etc

Parker and Hardison are a bit weirded out (and a little jealous) of Quinn's attention initially, but soon get over that when they discover that two werewolves on a full moon absolutely play for hours like 6 month old puppies - especially with the tug rope

Eliot is Extremely Susceptible to belly rubs even in his human form, which is half the reason he pushes people out of his personal space a lot - his reputation would never survive anyone finding out

of course the entire team figures it out and take to ambushing him with belly rubs whenever he's being stubborn or annoying

belly rubs are also the only way he will relax enough when he's injured so they can treat his wounds

despite the incessant dog jokes, the ever-growing pile of dog toys, and the bowls labelled with "Sparky" and cartoon bone symbols ... Eliot absolutely adores the pack he's found himself in and wouldn't change them for the world

One of these days I will sit down and write a thousand fics for werewolf!Eliot! Till then, I'll just keep churning out the headcanons ;)

[thewritingofspencerrose]

M.Hughes Masterlist

First Day on the Job

It's chilly in the arena when we enter, hand in hand, for my first day.

Only a week into living here and I still don't fully think this has all set in.

I may be working on a medical team, but I'm going to be the first stop of all injured players as soon as they're off the ice.

It's all on me.

"Hey, what's going on in there?" A physical knocking on my forehead brings me from my thoughts, Trevor's smile being the first thing in front of me, mocking and coy.

Part of me wants to just smile and say I dazed off, but this is Trev, he's my partner in

"What if someone bleeds out? Or worse, what if everyone hates me?"

"What's the worst scenario?" Jamie questions from our side, not even attempting to save his laugh, Trevor pulling me closer to his body. "Everyone hating you?"

"You do realize everyone loves you right?" They're tag-teaming my nerves right now, and honestly I'm not even sure that'll be enough.

No exam prepared me for the nauseous anxiety that starting a lead job would bring.

"They don't know me!" It's a lame argument, but valid all the same as I pause just outside the locker room door. I know I'm allowed in. It's where I've been instructed to meet Coach Cronin and introduce myself to the boys.

"We have all heard literally everything about you, I'm pretty sure I could tell you things about yourself that you don't even know, Mags," his words are meant to be assuring, but assuring isn't loading properly right now.

"Then what if I don't live up to their idea of me?"

Even if I hadn't already been on the edge of a breakdown, the look on Trevor's face as he takes my shoulders, his shoulders slumped and eyes downcast.

"The boys already love you because I love you, and that's never going to change. So we're going to march your cute little ass into this lockerroom and wow everyone with all that Latin-anatomy-nonsense that we studied the last four years, got it?"

Sorry Dad, you better be saving for a wedding.

I just smile though, small and wide while he returns my look. But Jamie's groaning, moaning on about something involving us getting a room, and I can hear the sound of staff coming down the hall.

"Okay, let's get this over with so I can go home and rant about it with Q."

The boys both laugh, but Jamie is the one to open the door, Trev taking ahold of my hand with one of his, his other covering my eyes as he leads me into the loud atmosphere.

"Okay boys! Put 'em away! My girls here and unless you break 'em I want them nowhere near her eyeline!" Nevermind on the wedding, I may just kill him here and now.

"Trevor Zegras!" The team laughs loudly, oohing and ahhing while I pry Trev's hand off, and I can't help but laugh as I look out around me.

These boys are going to make me cry. Correction, I am crying.

"You guys-"

Trevor's hands wrap around my waist, chin resting on my shoulder and I can feel his smile. "Welcome to the team, Baby."

"And welcome to the team from the rest of us," the one I know to be Mason greets, everyone around clapping. "I'm not going to call you baby, because I value my life, but we're all really glad you're here, Margaret."

"Maggie," I correct softly, Mason's smile growing as Leo jumps up like a happy puppy.

"We get nickname privileges?"

There's a joy throughout the room as I take in his smile, the banner saying CONGRATULATIONS in Ducks colors, balloons and all sprawled about.

How could I not give these boys nickname privileges when they seem just as excited to see me as they would an old friend. It's like they're seeing Trev or Jamie after a long break.

"Of course you do, as long as y'all keep from getting too beat up," I offer, sticking out a hand. "Deal?"

"Deal to do our best," Leo accepts, shaking my hand as some of the veterans laugh.

Gudas just chuckling and shaking his head as he watches us both. "She's going to run this whole show."

[oconist]

azda your tags on that 'oconundrum' post are just...*chef's kiss*

the whole 'esteban has been a shitty teammate' narrative is so overblown and every time redditors repeat that or some other dumb shit about esteban it fucking boils my blood.

the amount of times people bring up alonso's dnfs last year to declare that 'esteban was actually shit' even though they're qualifying paces were very close. and the 'deep analysis' and 'calculations' people would do to estimate how many points alonso lost last year were...questionable. like people were actually saying alonso lost out on 60-80 points in the 2022 alpine...girl be for fucking real. not to mention they don't bring this same argument up in regards to esteban's 5 dnfs compared to checo's 2 in 2018 or literally right now with esteban's 8(!!!) dnfs compared to pierre's 3. nope just automatically 'wow esteban's so shit - he's never beaten a teammate in the championship standings!'

and the amount of vitriol and ire over a single incident from 5 years (in which both people involved made mistakes) is so fucking ridiculous. there have been so many documented instances of esteban and max being friendly since brazil 2018 and people still act like max hates him. the fuck? we all saw the rbrs crash in baku 2018 but everyone acknowledges that maxiel's doing just fine. like what the fuck? also there's max's entitlement in brazil 2022. or his use of racist and ableist slurs? any issues with that today - apparently not! but esteban accidentally crashing into max while trying to unlap himself - devil he's the devil. don't even get me started on the whole 'max was totally justified in shoving esteban - he had a arrogant look on his face'...

reddit goes on and on about how 'they're not toxic like other forms of social media like twitter or instagram' which is such fucking bullshit. daniel made a little quip last year about getting esteban for secret santa and literally everyone was all like 'see even daniel hates esteban! and they were teammates. esteban's a shitty teammate with no friends. hur de dur!' cut to daniel's gift to esteban being arguably being the most personalized and highest quality one of them all...

fuck...that was a HUGE ASS rant i'm so sorry. i'm just...so sick and tired of the esteban slander. this is my safe space.

no because you are speaking facts as usual. este's car last year also was damaged/bad but didn't dnf a couple of times, so if we start adding stuff like that, we should also add a hundred variables more to see who truly was better.

este was unlucky to have his longest teammanships with two guys with crazy ass fanbases, the amount of hate is so much to the point where i have seen alonsistas themselves be like 'hey too much' to other alonso fans regarding ocon.

like with pierre, pascal and daniel, zero issues.

i think the ratio of fans : haters or at least people that seen him as persona non grata is so disproporcionate towards the hater side because he's easy to punch down. he´s not vocal when he's not at fault, and when he was (the infamous renault radio) he's seen as a whiny crybaby as usual. people in the neutral side get easily swayed by the amount of hate people have towards him, but at least the situation is improving!! at least this brazilian gp, tons of brazilian fans were being very nice towards him and i've seen more and more people defend him, even spaniards.

feel free to rant any time you want <3

[shanie]

Rant about tonights Raw

I'm gonna need Sami, Kevin, Cody, Jey, and LA Knight to walk into Survivor Series, commit collective atrocities upon The Judgement Day and The Bloodline, and then walk out completely unbothered. I don't even care about what happens between then and now. This new crime family alliance can all go suck rancid dick professionally for a living, I'd be fine with it. I'm so done with all of them. Back when The Bloodline was cheating to win matches worked because they were all strong enough to win on their own most days they just chose not to. The Judgment Day are physically incapable of winning a match on their own and it's getting pathetic. You're booking them like The Bloodline 2.0 and making them look hella weak in the process.

Every member of The Judgement Day, outside of Dom, could be a dominant singles star if given a chance, or, in the case of Rhea and Finn, already HAS BEEN. Dominik is the only one who has truly been elevated by this arrangement. Together they hold all those belts but all the WWE is doing time and again is proving they don't deserve them. You aren't only making the four of them look weak as wrestlers you're making the belts look bad.

And bringing the remains of the Bloodline into this is just silly. And INSANE because like Kevin said, the whole thing with the renewed brand split was that. BRAND SPLIT. But Dominik was on Smackdown for no reason whatsoever and now Jimmy is on Raw? And yet we're supposed to genuinely think that Sami and Kevin aren't going to see each other after this?

SAMI WAS LITERALLY ON SMACKDOWN IN A DARK MATCH

And Jey and Cody. You're telling me the entire point of them holding the belts was as a two week plot point of giving Sami a reason to have beef with Jey? And then, you immediately squash that beef BEFORE JEY AND CODY EVEN LOSE THE BELTS?!?!!

WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT?!?!??!?!?

There are so many better ways to have done that without making the tag belts into a game of hot potato.

None of this writing makes sense.

Kevin spent how many months being preoccupied with keeping Sami away from Jey and acting super jealous. He gets traded to Smackdown, leaving Sami back on Raw with Jey, wow, he's pretty ok with this suddenly all things considered!

Sami spent the entire first month's worth of his tag run with Kevin obsessing over getting Jey to love him again, at the expense of Kevin getting his ass kicked repeatedly. Well, Sami, you got your wish, feeling salty? Grass not looking so greener after all, it turns ou--- WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WERE JUST "FRUSTRATED"???

What the fuck WWE. No really. What. The Fuck.

Make it make sense.

[kdramacrybaby]

Our Blooming Youth (2023)

Genre: Romance, Historical, Mystery

Synopsis: Min Jae-yi's whole family is murdered, and all evidence points to her, but she is innocent. A clue leads her to the royal family, so she infiltrates the palace to get an audience with the crown prince. The crown prince himself is caught up in a mystery after a curse was delivered to him, and in an effort to prove herself useful, Min Jae-yi helps him solve one of the mysterious happenings in the palace. She promises to help him with his curse, if he lets her investigate who killed her family.

Episode info: 20 episodes / Runtime around 70 minutes

Lead cast: Jeon So-nee (Min Jae-yi), Park Hyung-sik (Lee Hwan), Pyo Ye-jin (Ga-ram), Yoon Jong-seok (Han Seong-on), Lee Tae-sun (Kim Myung-jin)

Link to watch: You can watch on Viki or Dramacool

Drama rec masterlist | Drama rant thread (beware of spoilers)

I don't really have anything bad to say about this drama, actually. It starts off really strong and got my attention immediately.

It does maybe feel a bit slow at times, but they make sure to keep you on your toes with clues and hints left everywhere. Sometimes it was a bit confusing to keep up with what was happening, where it was happening and why, because when it's not slow, everything seems to happen at once. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just something I thought about while watching,

I absolutely adore both Min Jae-yi and Garam - the actresses really gave their all, and it was refreshing to see the female leads finally being the ones who do most of the work in the drama. They don't need no men to get through this world as long as they have each other. Showing them both kicking ass, and then fawning over Min Jae-yi's fiancé together later, was really cool. Girls can like pink and pretty dresses and still kick your ass.

There is one thing where I'm maybe a little confused as to how I should classify this drama - because it does feel like they hint of something supernatural going on throughout the drama. There is an immortal fish and something with white hair... and I just don't really know. But in the end, I feel like it can all somewhat be explained naturally, so I chose not to tag it as a fantasy drama.

Lastly, I feel like I have to mention the love triangle, though, to be honest, I'm not sure if it classifies as a love triangle at this point. Either way, it did bother me a tiny bit at one point, but overall it's actually really well executed, and I have no complaints about it.

In the end, I think this drama is a solid 4/5 stars for me. I enjoyed watching every episode, and I can't really put a finger on anything about it, though in the end, I didn't come out of the finale thinking "wow, I really want to watch this again right away."

Though I do have to admit, I have no idea why it's called Our Blooming Youth, when it's more a murder mystery than a coming-of-age drama - which is what I initially thought it was about because of the title.

[hearteyes-wheeler]

here’s my thing tho and it’s something that i don’t see a lot of in the st/byler tags. el is not stupid. we know this, the characters know this, hell even the duffers know this considering they’ve literally put that exact line in the show. so if she has been aware that will had been working on a painting for someone that she thinks he likes and hasn’t really been working on anything else, and mike comes up to her and mentions something about a painting that will gave him that was supposedly commissioned from her, then why the Fuck would she ask “what painting”. she would know exactly what painting that is and she would absolutely cover for will’s ass in the moment and ask him about it later in private. i would find it Very Very hard to believe that she doesn’t catch on immediately. i find it slightly more easy to believe that mike doesn’t catch on as fast despite knowing these two facts because he doesn’t know whether or not will had been working on multiple paintings considering they didn’t talk at all, but i do think he would also eventually piece it together bc he’s not stupid either. anyway that is all sorry for the rant lmao

wait you're so right. ok now i like the idea of el covering for will more than el being confused about what the hell mike is talking about lol

i have a feeling she already knows there's Something going on between mike and will. there're just so many scenes where she gives them the i know what you are dog look 😭 and i think that maybe mike showing her the painting and asking about it will confirm it for her. like a little yup these bitches gay moment jfksndks

i would really like to see a scene with will coming out to el. i think it would be really sweet. another accepting sibling moment like with jonathan but this time with el 🥹 i remember reading in a fic this one scene where something like this happens and will is like crying because he's different and el is just really comforting like i'm different too :D there's nothing wrong with you and her telling him he's her brother and she loves him and ahhhhhhh

as for mike i'm SO convinced he figured out what will was trying to say in the van. that boy did NOT look like he thought it was actually from el lol he either has rocks in his head and his only thought was wow will's pretty 🥰 and he didn't hear shit of what will was saying or he Knew and that's why he looks like That. i personally think he knew. but then i think that he had a moment of oh i read this all wrong, those were actually el's words not will's when will was pushing him to tell el he loved her at the pizza place. my boy looked DEVASTATED :((

anyways i went off a bit but yeah. i'm really excited to see how this whole painting will play out :) thank you for the ask!! 🫶🏼 hopefully my thoughts made sense lol

[starks-hero]

Okay you did not need to deliver such a fucking fantastic fic! Apologies for the entire ass rant I'm about to leave but you don't get to write something this good without some maniac of a fanfic reader squealing and flailing about it so...

Firstly, the title absolutely divine, but then I am a sucker for romantically poetic notions especially if there's a thread of angst in it

This is the first Thorin fic I've ever read, I'm not that big on Thorin (esp not when fili is right there👀 ) but *ahem that gif also your note of 'the intimacy of going insane with your crush' reeled me in, if that isn't the best genre ever! 🤣

You captured the eerie murkiness of Mirkwood so well and you really got Thorin's essence like nothing seemed out of place at all

THE DIALOGUE 👏👏👏 magnifique

'In the bogs of a cursed forest with your friends lost and your mind bewitched, all so that the king would keep looking at you as he was now'>>> I loved every word of this. You know that feeling when you haven't listened to ABBA in a while and then out of nowhere you hear it playing somewhere and there's a rising of joy in your soul and it feels like all the world has been righted. That is the feeling of that paragraph. Sorry but I love words and I love reading and you just killed it with that wording okay

🌌THE WHOLE INTERACTION WITH BOG CREATURE THORIN!!!! "I'm so glad, Amrâlimê, you must not look so surprised, my love" his thumb grazed your jaw, "that I should wish to call you such a name">>>cue me almost throwing my phone and screeching like the fell beasts of the Nazgûl🌌

Not to mention Thorin's interaction with the bog creatures! "Reader" being dismissive about the safety of the others and 'Thorin offering a baffled look that doubled as a warning'

Once again need I mention THE DIALOGUE IN THIS FIC! 💕

Question about the LOTR Dead Marshes, if you drown in there you become one of them, right? So if an siúlóir portaigh get you drowned do you become one of them?

In case you couldn't tell (lol) I'm seriously loving your own irish mythology infused into Tolkien's world

I feel like celtic/irish stuff and Gaelige fit quite well in Tolkien's creation. I dunno why but the Irish language feels at home in Tolkien's world to me, same with Scottish Gaelic

I have such little grasp of my own language it feels like old world/other worldly literary/mythical creation to me. Probably why it meshes so well with Middle Earth in my mind. Like it doesn't seem real to me but maybe that's cuz I'm from the North 🤣 (I will get my ass in gear and learn it better one day but laziness and annoyance win thus far)

Thorin staring off into nothing. Being brought back to reality by the sting of his wound. And then the first thing he does is worry/obsess over the illusion he saw. **weeping**fucking weeping* Your honor I need them to be together 😢 If you ever part 2 this pls tag me girl

P.s. I find it cruel that you aren't a published author. I need to read a whole book by you. Your writing style is sublime. It's just in that exact vein that is just so appealing to me. I'm not great at articulating myself so I'll just say this had me like 'ooh you bastid (affectionate).' YOUR. WRITING. SLAPS. If you ever publish your own book pls alert me cuz I will read it despite the possibility of it inducing cardiac arrest in me. Sorry books make me excited. From your mythology of the siúlóir portaigh and your general writing style I'm getting V.E. Schwab vibes but way way better

Imma shush now. Peace out ✌ God Bless 🕊 and Slán

Putting a read more option because I'm about to lose my mind :)

I want to start by saying that this is one of if not the kindest messages I've ever received, I mean wow. You completely moved me to tears. Watch me drive to the North right now just to give you a hug.

If it's okay I'm going to rant right back at you lol because there's so much things you mentioned that I want to discuss!

The title is actually based on a poem about sirens! I thought it fit the vibe of the fic really well.

Dialogue is something I've always struggled with. I could use a thousand words to describe a tree but I always get nervous when it comes to dialogue. I feel like when I write conversations they're always clunky so to get such positive feedback about that aspect of my writing is so lovely <3

GIRL YOU DID NOT JUST COMPARE MY WRITING TO ABBA! I needed to sit down reading this part. This is the greatest compliment I've ever received–

“If an siúlóir portaigh get you drowned do you become one of them?” when it comes to the siúlorí I haven't really fleshed them out enough (haha get it) to have any solid lore for them. So far all I have is that they roam bogs, marshes and wetlands and use a siren-like approach when hunting their prey. Wether they attack people to sustain themselves, to condemn their victim to the same faith as them or just out of maliciousness I haven't decided. It's completely up to interpretation :)

Bestie, don't get me started on how well the Irish language and Irish culture fits into the world of Tolkien. I could write essays. I think that's why I've always found middle earth so comforting, it's a fractured reflection of my own home.

As someone who's been out of school for a year and is still learning gaeilge, I promise we'll get there someday :)

Prior to my Thorin fic I hadn't written anything since October of last year due to writers block and self doubt. So to not only hear such lovely things about my writing but to also be compared to a published author– You have no idea how much it means to me. Thank you so much! You are every writer's dream.

Slán go foil, mo chara! Agus go raibh míle maith agat <3

[agapeeternal]

I'm glad the fandom is starting to see the truth about Gigi (the goodbye posts in November, not being together in December and the photos of her and another man cuddling with martinis in March- CHECK HER TAGGED PHOTOS ON IG If you haven't seen) but I really think the damage is done. She played this perfectly and she gained followers and comments like a pro. The Jennifer Anniston post was the final nail in the "I'm not going to say cheating because that's liable but lets play the rumor mill" game.

Meanwhile Glen is getting shredded on Twitter. His looks, his intelligence, his manners, his family, his politics (which were wrong by the way) and it's sad to me. He's literally playing a losing game. He stays silent and he is a jerk for not apologizing to Gigi. If he says anything to defend himself then he is a jerk and a liar for trying to fight what everyone wants to believe is true.

I'm really curious to see if he goes to the MTV movie awards. Top Gun is nominated and Anthony Ramos, who he is filming Twisters with, is also going so I could see them both making appearances. I wonder if anyone from TGM will talk to him or be afraid to be associated with a "cheater"

Overall I'm frustrated because I see the business plan Gigi is trying to achieve and everyone else online wants to play the poor poor little girl card. Look she is VERY SMART and very beautiful, work with what you can when you can, but burning this bridge and playing coy about the cheating (which again I don't think happened just because of the photos being published by Sydney and Glen), is just not the nicest way to do it.

Also I really need twisters 2 to be great, I was obsessed with the first movie. So we cannot cancel Glen and risk the production of this gem

Thank you for letting me rant

Yeah she dealt him a blow for right now. Nobody likes a cheater. And to all be actually say he cheated is dirty af. She knows what this is doing and she's not helping the situation by just letting the rumor mill go while she watches the followers and comments roll in. That pic from March is just...it's making it hard for me to stay balanced on this, I really am trying. But she's playing dirty pool.

People are tearing him a new asshole over what? Half-assed hints at cheating? A one-sided narrative that's being milked? They were looking for a reason to be able to drag Glen and Gigi gave it to them. It''s a double edged sword to stay silent. If he doesn't say anything then it doesn't give them ammunition to hit him with later on but if he does say something then he's just trying to cover his ass and make himself look good. He can't win.

I'm curious about that myself. I'd expect him to go since the reason he didn't go to the Oscars was because he was in Australia, but now he's stateside. I doubt the TGM cast would shun him for rumors. Miles especially since he knows what it's like to have a rumor mill constantly.

I fell the frustration, it's equally frustrating for me, especially because I know the way PR works and how she's playing the game. She's used this whole shituation to her benefit with no consideration of how it's gonna end up for Glen. She's seeing an opportunity and she's taking it.

I loved the first one too so I need Glen to give it to me good. (wow that didn't sound right.....)

[sisusen]

Just read your tags about "the happiest season" and agree with everything. I watched it last year and was just shocked with the immature behaviour and really sad she didn't throw the whole gf in the bin.

Gosh yes, definitiely, she should just have thrown her there! I thought I overreacted, I tend to be a bit on the bitter side when people are behaving like idiots, sitting there in my sofa wheezing "Dump them already!" and then people never do and then the other hold their little speach and gets taken back and I kinda understand, through my bitterness and all is good all is fine. This time though, I remained bitter!

And ok, small rant coming up: The way they treated Jane!! So shitty, so so so shitty, and it didn't matter one bit that they were there in the end (don't wanna spoil) because that's AFTER she had performed something great! She should not want to be included (watch out, my bitter ass is coming through again), she should dump those parents!! She clearly does what children often tend to do - hang onto those people half desperately because your parents are always your parents so as their kid you put up with so much crap because family feels important, its in our genes but god, she shouldn't have said what she said about wanting to belong! Just break free sweetie!

And those shitty kids!!!! Aaaaahhhh, no I don't wanna spoil so i wont say anything but god damn it!!! Also, about Jane again. Her painting. Fucking hell! That scene and apology went by in 2,7 seconds, aaahhh!!

Ok.

Wow.

Thanks for ask. Sorry about rant 🙈

And sorry if I spoiled anything for anyone, I tried to keep it vague 😬

[variinfreefallfalling]

Getting to know your BL mutuals - 2022 Edition

Simple, answer the questions. @ some people. Include the tag 'g2ky BL mutuals 2022' on your post so we can find everyone's answers!

Tagged by @dummerjan & @blmpff . Thanks mutuals!! ;⁠-⁠)

What have been BLs that took you by surprise this year?

Absolutely Choco Milk Shake, I would've usually gone the other way running after just reading the premise ( maybe thanks I didn't) but I went in because Strongberry and stuff about poly blah blah on here and I happily stayed because it was lovely and bonkers. I was hooked it's high up there in terms of story quality/ ingenuity with Color Rush (thank you KBL land). But here thank you Strongberry for accessible high quality BL and for that 'Long Time No See' nod.

Also I love love loved the idea of My Tooth Your Love just seeing the trailer and bts stuff but whew has it taken my world by storm..... There's always a place for Taiwan on my top list! You rock!!

What have been BLs that you felt a bit disappointed with this year?

Ha!

Not Me (sorry)

There has been no character fuck up I have ever seen as with the Gram story and arc....yikes :(

While I love the 'fight the power' storyline and OffGun (kings duh!) Whew that whole fuck up has me giving a rant to myself time and again. This show could have been best of all time. Seriously P'Nuchie is fucking awesome she can DIRECT yo! But whew I was pissed I don't trust that company that shall not be named!

The basis of this disappointment (rage) wasn't even about GramBlack CP which was in the novel though, it was just how can you turn Gram &Black against each other whilst they introduced them like they had a special connection different from the others in the gang...And and it was over a girl..come on and that romance was doing no favours for either character in it. It's like they had nothing going about themselves as individuals and we both know the fire they had and they were damn kick ass activists each in their own right.

Ugh I'll just stop here....

Rant over (lol) ..... it's never over

What has been your favorite BL this year?

Easy, To My Star 2: Our Untold Stories!

First of all: HWANG DA SEUL.

Also it's the best! This show broke me in pieces and handed them back to me whole!

I love you!

Favorite BL couples (not just of 2022)

I'll start with my best of 2022 and then do my best of all time in there

Kuea X Lian

Jiwoo X Seojoon

Zheng Zeshou X Fu Ligong

Bai Lang X Jin Xun'an

Jack X Zhao Zi

I'm sorry OffGun just really rock! (It's interesting from a casting point of view. Wow)

Edit: I left out Wenzhou. What has it all gone to....(I will take time for contemplation of my actions and I will spam post them for the foreseeable time)

Anyway without further ado, my murder couple:

Wen Kexing X Zhou Zishu

If you had to suggest a BL for someone what would it be?

Umm...

PSA: People please watch My Tooth Your Love, do yourself a favour!!

Yu Jin and Andy Wu are amazing actors (Taiwan,see!) I will not shut up about this! It's like I'm under a spell, they've become these characters it's kinda scary. I feel with them and I feel for them, that alchemy is amazing for me. There are few matched BL actors (actors period) like them that's part of what gets me. They're like operating on their own frequency and it's magnetic. They remark about on occasion about just how in sync they are/were in some of the scenes (first kiss scene, the whole of it as an example).

What's your non-BL favorite this year?

These are all not from this year but watched this year:

Love Is Science? Amazing (and has a lovely queer pairing)

Navillera (wow my soul is full)

Tagging @small-dark-and-delicious if you like. I don't know exactly mutuals who haven't done except a few. (I'm a smol account and I have my spells on the out)

Anyone who feels like it.....if you're reading this. There

[jollytastemakerfun]

The new III episode was crazy bruh like omfg.....

Spoilers in tags 😘🤭😶😜😈😈😭😜😢😔😋🤬❤️😡☺️😍😮🤓🤢😗🗞️😫💤🤩😉😋😛😝😂🤣😐😳😈😜💔🤙😶🤭😡🤬😰😔❤️😘💀🤨🙄👆😢😭

[scifigeekgirl]

Its going to be over 100 degrees every day for over a week where I live, if it's hot where you are and you see homeless people hanging out inside stores, mind your own freaking business. It's a literal oven out there.