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undermycoat · 9 months

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inspired by @izzyspussy’s prompt. hope u dont mind?? lol also tw for mention of james tartt. yknow how it is — also im thinking this takes place around the start of the season after the show ends 💚 but also (thanks nonny!) just pretend eras tour came out 2021 and barbie came out 2022 and not. now LOL

It starts as less than a handful of Tweets. Honestly, Jamie laughs at the first one, then scrolls by and completely misses the rest. And then he sees a group of lads donning West Ham merch pointing at him while on his morning run (sans Roy, who had to bow out due to a cold, the dick . . . Jamie's planning on picking him up breakfast) and whispering — but not quiet enough — that the Barbie has escaped his box. The Tweets (and comments and replies and DMs) appear more frequently after that.

The pictures of him in his pink tracksuit, tied to Roy’s bike, are passed around again. This time not by his loyal fans who begged for proper HD pics from him and thought he looked good as hell, but by the ones who call him Barbie and think his hair is blond and dumb and that he is just a dumb blond who isn’t even that good at football. At least that last bit could be easily refuted by his stats. He’s damn good at his job, and he knows it.

He doesn’t say anything about it, however, until they’re in the locker room after training, and Isaac huffs at something while looking at his phone. Jamie glances over to see him angling the screen toward him. “They’re callin’ you Barbie, bruv.”

Isaac is a really good friend, like, the best a guy could ask for. But Jamie kind of doesn’t want to think about this. “Yeah, I saw. It’s a compliment, innit? And kind of fittin’. I’m perfect, I’m everything. I am Barbie, ain’t I?”

At his easy dismissal, Isaac brightens up, grinning, and Jamie grins back. He finds the Tweet he was shown and posts a good selfie he took a few days ago, captioning it, I am everything. You wanna be Ken? It’s a bit stupid, but the insult is stupid too, so he thinks he’s allowed it.

The thing is — he wants to be unbothered by the nickname. The Barbie movie was fucking awesome, and though he’s still on thin ice with Keeley, even after their strictly-business trip to Brazil, they put aside their differences . . . that is, they put aside Jamie’s fuck-up to go and watch one of the screenings together. Yeah. It was fucking awesome. And he loves women. Like, major respect.

But the condemnations of the word are a knife’s edge away from a whiskey-tinged voice hissing soft and little bitch in his ear, and Jamie really can’t fucking deal with that right now. And he had gone and seen James in rehab, just for a couple hours, and he doesn’t regret going and seeing him, and he actually thinks it’s fucking mint the man’s getting help. He even enjoyed going through the old photos of his grandparents and James as a baby and even some of his own photos, when his mum looked a little less tired and he wasn’t afraid to smile too brightly. And in rehab, James is given limited Internet time, so the chances of him seeing the insults, seeing Jamie being called a girls’ toy, something pretty and pink, are small, and even if he does see, what can he do? They won’t just let him leave while obviously on some rampage.

It’s not like Jamie plans on going back to the man any time soon anyway. He’s not James Tartt’s anything. They just share a name. So what?

Jamie jumps at the touch of a hand on his shoulder. He pockets his phone (his Quote Tweet is now at twenty thousand likes and counting), and when he turns, it’s Roy, staring at him with those impossibly dark eyes and wild brows that make them even darker.

“Hi, coach,” he says with a grin.

Roy grunts back.

Jamie stays still for another second before blinking. “Got any wisdom for me?”

The other guys have begun to clear out, and now it’s just them and Beard still in the coaches’ office. And Will, who seems to be some metaphor for God, the way he’s always around, not even lurking, just . . . around.

Finally, Roy says, “Good pass. Don’t be late tomorrow.”

It’s so unbearably Roy that it makes Jamie sick. It also suggests there’s more he’s not saying, but Jamie isn’t sure what. He doesn’t push, however, just salutes him. “‘Course, coach,” he leans back on his heels, “dark and early, yeah?”

Roy nods, then pivots and mechanically goes back to the office. Jamie watches him go before turning and gathering his things. As he packs, he can practically feel Roy’s eyes on his back, but he knows when he turns, both him and Beard will be staring down at things on their desks. Whatever.

Jamie doesn’t run into anyone on his way out, and he’s grateful, taking a breath when he gets in his car then speeding off. He feels itchy under his skin, like when his foot falls asleep but the sensation is all over his body, and he kind of regrets leaving Nelson Road because he thinks running a few extra laps up and down the pitch would soothe him, if only a little bit. Despite this, when he gets home, he just gets out of his car and goes inside. It’s not that he’s worried about a repeat of his solo jog that one morning. It’s just really hot outside, what with it being late July and all, and he just showered, like, thirty minutes ago.

Every time a notification goes off on his phone, his stomach flips in a really awful way. Jamie turns off his phone.

Maybe now that he’s said something, it’ll die down. Since he’s made it clear he’s not bothered by it, that he can take whatever they give, they’ll stop.

And then, the first match of the season, Jamie walks onto the pitch, and a familiar song starts up. It’s not his song — but it’s certainly for him.

“Are they singing . . . ‘Barbie Girl’?” Colin asks from behind him.

“And changing the pronoun to ‘he’,” Jan adds, helpful as ever.

Jamie catches sight of one of the cameras recording the match, grins and sticks out his tongue, and when he looks to the opposing fans’ side, he even gives a little bow. Just for them. He thinks about something Lasso said to him once about bullying, after he stopped being a dick to Nate and asked why Ted never stepped in. Acknowledging it almost always makes it worse. Sorry that Jamie had believed in the ‘almost’.

;

After getting booted from Keeley’s and after a dinner at a kebab place that Jamie knows is good because Roy didn’t actually make him sit and watch — he picked bits of lamb from the skewer and placed them on the napkin in front of Jamie without a word — it’s not unusual for him and Roy to get dinner together. Sometimes it’s just them at Roy’s, who’s a better cook than his mum but not better than Simon, and sometimes it’ll be at a pub, and sometimes they’ll go to a restaurant. It was with ruddy cheeks that Roy admitted the kebab shop was like his church, but Jamie wasn’t judging. He thinks he understood the ecstasy of St Theresa after a bite of that lamb.

Tonight, however, Roy drops Jamie off at his place, and then parks the car and follows him in.

“Uh,” Jamie says when Roy stands in the entryway, a hand behind his back, posture stiff, “can I help you?”

“Go to your room,” Roy replies, and Jamie’s eyes go wide, and he says, “O-kay, Daddy,” before he backtracks, but Roy is backtracking too. “I mean, go somewhere that isn’t behind me or the kitchen.”

Jamie’s mouth drops into an ‘o’. “Right. Okay. I’ll just go to the living room, then.”

Roy nods, and Jamie walks slowly to the couch, backwards so he can watch Roy watching him.

He manages to sit still on his couch for a good two minutes, listening to Roy clattering about his kitchen, before he hops up and goes to sit at his dining table instead. It’s there that he sees a paper bag, and it takes everything in him not to peek into it. At the sound of the chair scraping against the floor, Roy leans back from where he’d had his head stuck in Jamie’s fridge, and he turns to look back at Jamie, who smiles innocently at him. He even waggles his fingers in a wave for good measure.

Roy rolls his eyes, but he’s smiling, so Jamie thinks it’s fine, and he doesn’t think about how good it feels to be the one behind Roy Kent’s smile. Roy goes back to rummaging through the fridge.

Eventually, Jamie gets roped into helping out, but all his complaints are customary, and he thinks if he had allowed himself — if he had been allowed — to dream about domesticity, this is exactly how it would’ve been. Right down to the celebrity footballer. It’s kind of perfect.

Then, Jamie’s phone goes off.

It’s his news app, which he keeps forgetting to turn off the notifications for, and it irritates him every time, but especially when he actually clicks the notification ‘cause the story looks interesting, only to find out he’s somehow already used up his articles for the month, and would he please be willing to spare a few pounds every month for more? In theory, yes, he is willing. In practice . . . he has other places to put his money.

That being said, the irritation he feels then is nothing compared to the humiliation he feels now, reading the headline: This Barbie is a Footballer: AFC Richmond Jamie Tartt’s new song.

Roy is turned the other way, so luckily, he can’t see the way Jamie’s smile immediately drops from his face. This shit isn’t even important! It’s just some stupid fan war mess, the opponents’ fans trying to get in his head, and it’s not fucking working, alright? He doesn’t care. He’s just embarrassed that it’s apparently made the news. It’s really not a big deal.

When he looks up from his phone, Roy is looking at him. Jamie swallows.

“It’s nothin’,” he tells him. “Just some politician, saying some stupid thing. Sam sent it to me to rant.”

Roy nods, but he looks like he doesn’t believe him. Jamie’s voice had wavered in the middle, so he doesn’t believe himself either. But he still doesn’t budge, just leans back against the counter and waits for Roy to either turn away or say something in return. Roy turns away. Over his shoulder, he says, “I have something for you after we eat.”

“Whatever’s in the bag?” Jamie asks. Roy grunts. “Is it concert tickets? Am I goin’ to see Taylor fucking Swift? The bag’s just to throw me off, obviously.”

“Fuck no,” Roy’s response is, pun intended, swift and immediate. Jamie grins. “You’ll see later. Just . . . wait.”

Jamie groans. “Fine. But it better be good, since you got me all excited for the concert.”

Roy gives him a stern glare. Jamie puts his hands up, then gets back to washing the dishes they’re done using.

All throughout their meal, Jamie struggles to sit still, and his eyes, without fail, return to the bag. It becomes enough of a problem that Roy takes the bag and hides it in his lap, but Jamie’s no coward, so his gaze still wanders to — well.

“The quicker you finish eating, the sooner you get to see it,” Roy growls out around his own mouthful of salmon and quinoa (Jamie was surprised he had those things in his freezer and cupboard too, but it made a damn good meal, so he’s not complaining).

Jamie grows a lot more focussed after that, and he’s done within minutes — nay, seconds. Roy raises his eyebrows in approval. Jamie licks the leftover glaze for the salmon off his fork for good measure. Roy looks down at his plate.

Once Roy finishes eating, the paper bag makes its triumphant return, Roy setting it between them. He nods his head at it, and Jamie takes it quickly, before the other can change his mind and take it back.

He doesn’t expect what he pulls out, but he feels like he should. He looks between the Barbie and Roy, who’s staring at Jamie with a gaze so intense Jamie worries he might burn up from it. If this had been bestowed to him any time the year before, especially from Roy, he’d think it a continuation of the insult. But all he feels right now is laughter, the weight in his stomach turning into something bubbly and light that works its way up his throat and past his lips. Slowly — because he’s out of practice, the old fart — Roy begins to smile back.

The stupid fucking made-to-move soccer Barbie is even wearing an England kit, and when Jamie turns her around, he grins at the number and name on the back.

“You fucking dick,” he says, the words coming out as a hiss through his teeth, that’s how hard he’s grinning.

“You’re Jamie fucking Tartt,” Roy replies, and Jamie wishes he had a word to describe the look the other was sending him, but the best he can do is say how it makes him feel — really fucking good; like nothing could ever hurt him; like there is no one else in the world but the two of them; like he could go win the World Cup, the FA Cup, all the Leagues, every award in the football world, and not break a single sweat. It makes him feel a lot like he’s in love.

Roy’s not done: “You are everything. Who gives a shit if some pricks call you Barbie? You fucking own it, Jamie. You are every-fucking-thing, and they’re not even Ken.”

And Jamie will make fun of him for it later, that he’s more than aware of the movie’s tagline, but at the moment, he’s clutching the Barbie to his chest like a lifeline, and he feels a sting behind his eyes, like tears are threatening to spill, and his cheeks hurt with how hard he’s smiling.

Roy clears his throat. “Phoebe said there are ways you can change the hair, but . . . don’t use heat. It’s plastic. You can cut it or dye it fucking . . . walnut haze or whatever.”

Jamie doesn’t even correct him that it’s walnut mist. He’s close enough.

He gives the doll one last squeeze. “Thanks, Roy, I mean it.”

Roy doesn’t reply, just gives a grunt and nods his head. That’s alright too. Jamie looks down at the doll again, then leans back in his seat. He holds it up to his face, angles her head so they’re cheek-to-cheek more or less.

“Like twins, ain’t we?”

And Jamie wonders if maybe there were something in the food, or maybe in their drinks, because it seems like Roy can’t stop smiling either.

;

The opposing fans are at it again. Jamie sees Roy glance back at him and grins. He considers mouthing all good, coach, but he’s more interested in using one arm to wave and the other to hold his Barbie up the same way he had when it was just him and Roy, teeth bared all the while. The crowd goes wild, of course.

He’s Jamie fucking Tartt. He’s everything. Of course no one is going to think of him as just Ken — that’s just ridiculous.

in case you can’t tell “condemnations” is supposed to be “connotations”. ily jamieisms 💚 also i wrote this rly fast on my phone so sorry & now on ao3 if u'd prefer to read it there ✌️

#my writing #royjamie #ted lasso #jamie tartt

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dolceaspidenera · 1 year

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Hey everyone, I did a Playlist for Leander! (There are actually more songs in there, I put here only the ones I think are more central to his character). You can find it on Spotify at this link Want to listen to the songs while staring at Leander's sexy smirk in full HD? Here's the video playlist 😏 ↳ Basically, my dumb and hyper-fixated brain decided it was a good idea to make a whole video out of the playlist - many hours of work later and about halfway through it, I started questioning many of my life choices but my hyper-perfectionism had already kicked in, so here we are. If you like it, please consider leaving a like, it would mean a lot to me 🥺🤗 Onto more interesting things, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on choosing these songs. From what we can gauge about Leander so far, he's charming and outgoing and set to do good with the Bloodhounds. He might have some kind of a savior/hero complex, he definitely has a giant ego to go with it. I think he is fairly genuine in wanting to help people but I also think that there is more to it, he gives me the idea of being pretty self-righteous about it. He also clearly likes to indulge in drinking and partying and has a habit of sleeping around. On top of all this, among all the LIs, he is the only one to have a human shadow, which in itself makes him pretty suspicious, he definitely has a much darker side. I found his behavior when you hesitate to trust him and touch his hand the most off-putting, and when put together with his quote "I can keep you safe as long as you trust me" you start to see that something's wrong with this man. There also seem to be elements of a controlling/manipulating personality from the way he tries to sway your opinion about the other characters (I don't think he is necessarily a yandere but he has his own agenda). We also know that mages tend to lust for power, and in his design the color green, which is usually associated with envy, recurs a lot. I tried to consider all these elements while choosing songs, I wanted to give him a fun/cheerful vibe with also more loud and fast songs to go with it and some darker lyrics and tracks to highlight his darker side (especially Jekyll and Hyde by FFDP). Finally, I also put two meme songs that were too good to pass on 😂 I'm pretty happy with the result, I think the overall vibe is fun and high-energy and reflects well Leander's personality (for how I interpreted it and from what we know so far). What do you think? What songs do you think would fit his character? Let me know in the comments, I'd really like to hear other people's opinions and share new music 😎

#touchstarved #touchstarved game #leander #playlist #spotify #leander touchstarved #leander ts #redspringstudio #cool music #red spring studios

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fulgurbugs · 1 year

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OT2 demo finished! time for thoughts on it so far:

i started with castti (i really couldn’t chose a fav before playing so i just picked apothecary because i wanted a healer and i like alfyn so) i managed to finish castti, hikari, and partitio before running out of time. for the final game i’m probably gonna pick up throne next since i want a dagger user.

ANYWAYS. here’s the stuff i was noticing so far

-YOU CAN SWAP YOUR LEAD. OH THANK FUCKING GOD NO MORE SUPER OVERLEVELED LEAD YOU CANT TAKE OUT

-chapter 1s are always solo, you don’t get to take your previously picked up guys there. i honestly like this a lot better, it gives your fresh level 1 party member a few levels and keeps them from being a cakewalk. id assume this also made them design the chapter 1s to all be better balanced around 1 character (lol ophilia and prim moment). but also, this avoids the therion problem where it makes absolutely no sense that other party members can come with him to rob a house in his chapter 1. this way they’re self contained and all equally difficult so i like it 👍

-new ability meter that’s unique for each character. (i forgot what it’s called already). i like this a lot, it gives an extra layer of depth and niche to everyone, since even if you ran two characters with the same class combo they’ll still have different abilities this way.

-environments and pixel art are gorgeous, as is expected with 2d-hd style but still. the game looks great

-in terms of characters they chapter 1s are all doing a good job of selling me on initial mysteries. all 3 i finished seem to have some good setups and lots of unanswered questions, even if amnesia and evil shadow blood are whatever tropes i dont care i still like them.

-since chapter 1s are solo there’s been no opportunity to see any party interactions, so i don’t know how much more there will be. this was one of my biggest gripes with OT1 and i hope there’s gonna be more than just travel banter and tavern dialogue this time. i know it’d be hard to account for every possibility of party members but. it’s not like this is an indie game just write more dialogue, have it acknowledged please please please please. however it seems when you meet the other travelers they do acknowledge your specific lead, since partitio had specific dialogue for castti recruiting him.

-class abilities are mostly the same with some differences, i noticed some elemental spells have been moved around, merchant has fire now and not wind. i wonder if it traded with thief or it’s like, dancer got wind, thief got dark, and merchant got fire now. looks like merchant still has some of its old busted skills, though i doubt they’d make the mistake of putting runelord back to let you abuse it the same way. warrior/merchant can still definitely do the dumb taunt/sidestep strat tho lol.

#octopath traveler #octopath traveller 2 #overall the game is looking so so good #dw i’ll be drawin my 3 if i can today. not sure how i’ll run thru when it comes out fully but #i won’t have to do 4 all the way thru and then swap party to avoid stupid overleveling this time #so probably everyone’s ch1s then everyone’s ch2s and so on #also hikari looking like a nice nice tactical nuke rn cant wait to beef him up

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elendsessor · 9 days

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nocturne no fusion run update part god(‘s voice) is dead

well here’s one that didn’t go as planned yet also kinda did

now i actually made some pretty massive mistakes, and at least let the first one be your take away if you ever do any challenge run where the demifiend has to be involved (aka not the demon only run yes that’s real)

do not, and i mean DO NOT pass up glacial blast.

i forgot that’s the only element metatron doesn’t either resist or nullify. my dumb ass decided i wouldn’t take it. i should’ve. i really really should’ve.

i did make the smart decision to finally replace tornado with bolt storm tho for mot. yay???

yeah i was originally gonna save metatron until post diet building but couldn’t remember if you get locked into an ending once you beat mitra/samael or once you entered the tower of kagutsuchi. either way, it was a perfect time to go back to the lab(yrinth) again… after beating up surt, mada, and mot.

as always, surt’s a joke if you null or drain fire. mot can’t beast eye spam in hd like he could back in the day so he got nerfed hard. mada was the only real problem because intoxicate sucks.

i was’t genuinely scared of metatron. worried it would take longer than it did, but he’s kinda weak by nocturne boss standards when you think about it.

i never found him as hard as beelzebub mainly because you start off at a massive disadvantage before fighting the fruit fly from hell, meanwhile you’re given all the tools necessary for mr roboto save for pierce which you don’t need. also because metatron wastes his turns with mahamon if you void or reflect light. death flies at least still damages and beel uses a variety of other elemental moves. the only thing that could make metatron harder for some is how he cracks down on buff/debuff cancelling hard and he has debilitate.

now, what’s the problem with my sorry band of losers featuring raidou kuzunoha the 14th and best girl pixie? simple answer is we don’t have enough ice power.

qing long had to be dropped sadly since he unfortunately can’t match up to a lot of the endgame demons without major assistance. on my first run, mabufula was doing nothing, and because i can’t fuse, there wasn’t any way to power him up without extensive grinding, be it for incenses or levels. i don’t think this would change much as yeah as i ended up learning aside from weak healing moves on high magic stat demons, no amount of buffs can make up for low/medium damage elemental attacks especially not multi target skills due to how they function. he did good though. a real unsung hero. carried my team in interesting ways. i can’t fully change his moveset into something much greater without fusion, not even if i redo mizuchi, but god he was an actual trooper and will always be remembered (i’ll probably resummon him for the heck of it though).

the original team was gonna be black frost, albion, and titania, but i hit another roadblock due to the whole no fusion thing meaning no moveset changing and a good chunk of black frost’s moves can’t be mutated. garuda could work but only through chaining. maybe lilith too, but that would require a lot of grinding i don’t want to do. i tried at least abusing megido and megidiola stones but they did nothing.

and then comes the idea of using tekisatsu.

while a physical move, it does almighty damage. the cons come from the low crit rate (at least in my experience i never get crits with it ;-;) and it isn’t super powerful outside of taking care of random encounters. raidou does get a special piercing ability, but i didn’t feel like abusing it with yoshitsune. i abuse the poor guy enough. also wasn’t super close (the exp from metatron was just enough to get him to learn the pierce skill). the original idea was buff with monke, debuff with war cry and provoke (+dekaja stone of course), have titania both heal and do bonus damage with glacial blast, and have demifiend play emergency support. had to switch monke out halfway through since the debuffing combos weren’t keeping up with how many times metatron spammed dekunda, so i swapped albion in (they null phys so if metatron did decide to use his normal attack it could potentially be wasted). it wasn’t as big a stall race as beel’s fight was thankfully, and i think that’s partly due to the ai giving up and prioritizing fire of sanai and the “forever useless until 4a onwards” mahamon over trying to remove the debuffs.

the other big mistake? i was wrong about the fat fuck elephant. you do need metatron, and yes the only way to get him without metatron is by clipping through the door, but in order to perform the glitch, it needs to be set up using a pc only exploit.

i’m playing on console.

raidou gets to be the op secondary attacker now. good. don’t separate the ankle biter from his boyfriend.

#shantien rambles #smt nocturne #smt #my head is aching so bad #goodnight gamers

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rughydrangea · 5 months

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After 81 glorious episodes, I have finished Jumong. I started it in July, pretty soon after it appeared on Viki (now please add more old long sageuks pretty please Viki!), and have been watching fairly steadily since then, mostly with my mum when we're in the same place (my dad at a certain point started watching with her but only managed to stay awake through episodes starting in the 60s, meaning he had no idea who half the characters were...). And I have some thoughts!

--I loved it! It didn't get me in the gut like a QSD or a SFD or even The Legend, but it really kept up my interest across 81 episodes, with a great mixture of action, intrigue, melodrama, and silliness (there was the intentional silliness like my man Mo Pal Mo, but also stuff like the oracle being struck by lightning when she tried to curse Jumong, which made me howl with laughter). I really wish we still got sagueks like this--long, deliberate, with no interest in being cool or youthful, give or take a backflip (though the fact that I now get to start Goryeo-Khitan War really does make me happy and excited).

--I started watching kdramas seriously in 2014. At that time, I was familiar with Song Il Gook--but only because I couldn't avoid endless gifs of him and his patriotically-named triplets. I vaguely understood that he had been a big-deal actor, but his main dramas were older and less accessible (and when he did Jang Yeong Shil in 2016 it wasn't available to stream legally anywhere), so I had never seen him in anything until this. And now... I would very much like for him to come back to dramas! He is honestly incredible here: so charismatic, so compelling to watch, SO handsome, and most importantly he really nails the incredibly long journey Jumong goes on, from callow loser to impetuous guy figuring it out to determined general to gravitas-laden king. Every step of the way I was with him, and though the show boasts a huge cast, he really was the reason for the season; the show isn't called Jumong for nothing. There are two episodes he isn't in when everyone thinks Jumong is dead, and it's like a punch to the viewer's gut as well, you just can't imagine this world without him in it! And did I mention that he's handsome?

--Speaking of handsome, shoutout to the 3-year time-jump around episode 50 when all of a sudden it seemed like all the men of the show had spent the weeks leading up to that growing out their hair and all their manes of glory were flowing in the breeze. Your efforts did not go unappreciated, gentlemen! (Also 2006 lace-front wigs are rough to watch in HD!)

--Speaking of compelling journeys, even though this was the Jumong show (literally!) Soseono also really went through it, and Han Hye Jin made every stage of her transformation from bold, overconfident young woman to burdened mother and queen believable and interesting. And these parallel journeys of the leads really do provide the emotional heart of the show: as they grow up and make difficult decisions and go down paths they never anticipated (particularly their marriages to different people), on the one hand they are fulfilling their dreams and destinies, but on the other they are basically guaranteeing that the beautiful time of their youth, when they were in love and saw a whole life together unfolding before them, could never be recaptured. Even when Soseono and Jumong finally marry, it is out of duty and obligation--not that there isn't a part of them that still loves the other, but that part has been entirely subordinated to the other projects that they dedicated their lives to. Soseono leaving does make sense (though Biryu's rebellion was so dumb that it made it impossible for me to have sympathy for him), but it was genuinely sad to see both her and Jumong realize that the thing they lost all those years ago could never be returned, not even by 15 years of marriage.

--And speaking of marriage... I feel really bad for Yesoya, a character who basically exists to abnegate herself and also give Jumong a baby. But I found their relationship weirdly fascinating (and though sageuks like Jumong have a reputation for being stodgy, I do want to highlight that both leads in this drama marry people they explicitly don't romantically love and almost immediately get pregnant. Sexuality exists in stodgy sageuks! (also Jumong got very frisky with those tavern girls after Haemosoo died)). By the end, when Yesoya comes back, Jumong looks at her with such warmth, it's as though feeling really really guilty ended up making him actually fall in love with her.

--Shout out to the casting director, Yuri really did look like he was Jumong's son.

--Imagine my surprise and delight that there is an honest-to-God gay couple in this 81-long episode sageuk from 2006 that is obvious, unambiguous, and deeply deeply sweet. Though my inability to makes heads or tails of Bae Soo Bin as an actor continues. I have seen him be very good (as he is here)! I have seen him be VERY bad. Where is the truth?????

I guess that's it for now. Come back to us, Song Il Gook!

#jumong #kdrama #my commentary #my year in review list is going to be late again because i spent all of my break watching jumong lol

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ethernalium · 10 months

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ffxvi points (+) and cons (-) from my perspective and deep ANALysis

+ story isn't opaque or deliberately vague, it has deep connections to the beginning from the end and it felt like you're diving more and more into it

+ mechanic of junctioning a summon and how we would have a glimpse of what it looks like in ffviii with gfs and it have incredible animations and design (bahamut is my fave, also odin is WHOAAAA, phoenix is beautiful)

+ do have faggotry

+ antagonist is cool and understandable

+ nihilism and love

+ eikons are a amazing lore that should be explored more, maybe with a dlc with leviathan the lost

- doesn't have a grid system or at least a fun equipment mechanic for some reason, which is weird since eikons are so cool, why I would want ultima weapon if I can do shit with that?

- bad publicity to the point they can't even talk about some things because it would appear to be a different game (they just gave us mid concept like right now)

- some sidequests are really boring, boring is not the word, it's just ??? in a moment soooo dumb

- enemies and bosses having lots of phases and then clive saying something shounen and stuff... CRINGE

- ultima could kill everybody, like, it's not believable at all that blue bitch died like that but I get it after all the power demonstrations they gotta invent something for clive lol

- you can't play with other party members with deeply sucks after all the cool ffvii mechanics for the modern hd stuff we have now it seems bad and I don't think final fantasy should lost the rpg essence

- party members rely a lot on clive even torgal seems to have donald ai (doesn't heal)

- they've rushed a lot of things in the maps idk why, it's really beautiful and them you got a moment where everything is pre made or something, I do blame ps5 tho it seems they were doing for ps4

-+ ps5 exclusivity but at the same time square can do this simply because the can

-+ it feels goofy but it's really fun how they put like you're about to transform into a eikon, gives parasite eve vibes but in a goofy way because it reminds me big bang theory lol

#ffxvi spoilers #didn't want to tag with this but it's important #hopefully a weirdo won't reblog this with their thoughts either #I'm just tagging for safety lol #you don't neeed to agree with me in nothing that's why it's my perspective 😛

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Wally anon: Oh yeah, I heard about the "super hell" nonsense cause Idk how one couldn't. with how terrible that sounded. 🙃

And sometimes the mess just makes it hotter for him (like how he loves to leave you), so a cake would be perfect for him to just lose himself in until his dick is fully covered in icing (& the cake has a new filling 😳). Oh, I can absolutely see living Wally pulling that during a particularly pent-up evening, even if he'd actually have to clean that up, but he'd just be SO horny he couldn't help himself. (also, not sure on the actual matter of what would feel better; am very unfamiliar with cakes fjdbk).

And he intends to get into every shape & form he can to make the experience as pleasurable as possible for the both of you. 🤸‍♂️

Oh? Which show was that?

Oh, he's the most attentive partner with aftercare. He knows he's insatiable & his wants can be a LOT to deal with for someone who isn't a ghost, so he's going to put in that extra effort to make sure you feel loved & comfortable after a particularly rough session. 🥰

As all partners should! 🙌

Keep the cheese coming cause you KNOW he's the cheesiest mfer when it comes to affection cause he's just so. sincere that he can't not be. ❤️ But you get used to the smell cause it's what you associate with him & the comfort he gives you‼️

Yeah💔 An unfortunate position to be in when you're trying to make your way up, but School Spirits + Thanksgiving should be the major boosts he needs (especially if T2 gives him exponentially more to do cause people do not. forget a high profile slasher, that is guaranteed). Fingers crossed on 2024 & beyond really showing everybody what he can do. 🤞

(gotcha. the kinda vibes we could all use more of, for sure.)

Super hell isn't horrible, but it was dumb cause the characters go to hell multiple times and get yanked back for some reason or another...so its a weird way to write a character out when they've brought them back from hell before lmao

He loves making a mess and making you into one fr. LEMME AT THE CAKE LEMME AT IT I would ignore all semblance of a diet and eat that cake (and his sksdjks) with that new white icing. But yesss omg he does it during a post-game celebration, everyone's in the other room and he's "just checking out the cake" (nothing suspicious going on there..) until he's done with it. If you're there, he'll make sure you get the slice that he messed up... but he'd say he just "smashed" it on accident with the serving tool. (Moist cakes are just softer and bouncier and spongier and all, hold their shape but are less chewy and thicker than other cakes.)

Oh I know he twists and turns and does every position in the book... or all the ones he knows of, but you'll have to pull out your phone and show him (I wonder if he holds it like a grandpa with that one facial expression yk)

Uhhh I think it was Doogie Kamealoha, MD. Didn't watch it tbh, just saw that Nico (Milo's character) rides a motorcycle and has a medical condition in the show and romances one of the doctors... also I think Noah Beck was on it for one episode?? Basically, I think it's Disney Kid's Grey's Anatomy

Exactly! He's so generous in after care and he'll try his best after being sosososo needy for the entire day/night.

LMAO I was kinda joking about the smell but I thought about it and I was like "woah- woah." But it's definitely a good thing.

Yesssss I'm saying!! School spirits going to Netflix was actually so good for him because it feels like everyone has Netflix, and Thanksgiving movie finally hit HD. So, edits should be on their way for him🤩

#wally clark x reader #wally clark x you #wally clark

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GT was obviously terrible, but in keeping with your positivity page, do you think there is something that the series, overall, had something going for it that was genuinely good? Like, an actual good idea, or is it just utterly irredeemable?

I've been saving this ask for last, so I guess we'll make this my final word on GT for the time being. I've got more stuff to cover going forward, and I don't want to get bogged down on old business.

If you're asking if GT could be "fixed" in some way, I think it's possible, but it would take a lot of work and it ultimately wouldn't be worth the effort. Toei would need to rewrite and reanimate just about everything, sort of like how they remade "Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans" in 2010.

The thing is, they improved "Plan", but the finished product still wasn't all that great. They basically took a low quality, hour-long adaptation of a video game story, and turned it into an okay-ish half-hour version in HD. Now imagine Toei doing that thirty-odd times, and that's probably what a "GT redux" would look like. You could tighten up the story, give the supporting characters more spotlight, make the battles more exciting, but in the end you're still retelling this tale that didn't exactly light the world on fire the first time.

And it's easy for fans like us to say "Well, they should take the team that made DBS: Super Hero and have them remake GT." But that would be a major undertaking, and I'd rather see those resources devoted to making something new, not remaking something old. It could be done, but it probably never will, and that's probably for the best.

But what you're really asking is if there's anything genuinely good about GT. When I consider the series in a vacuum, I think the answer is probably "no." There's some screencaps I took throughout this liveblog that look very pleasing. This one of Goten, Trunks, and Palace keeps springing to mind:

There's some others I could point out, and maybe one of these days I'll put together some sort of gallery, but they're mostly few and far between. I find them more enjoyable when they're stripped of the context of the anime they came from.

I also really like the idea of Pan as this feisty 110-year-old lady.

And some of the character designs are pretty cool. Baby right before he gets killed, Bulma's outfit in Episode 2 and 3, and Omega Shenron looks like a big deal, even if he failed to live up to the hype.

But you might have noticed that I'm kind of scraping up little things from the edges of the main story. That's because most of the "best" of GT is a mashup of things culled from better works.

Baby borrows heavily from several other DBZ characters and plotlines. What makes him unique is his dream of "Tuffleizing the universe", but we never get to see what that means or how he feels about it. He just wants everyone to have a "bad guy smirk" like he does all the time.

Super 17 is just Fusion Reborn and the Androids Saga crushed up and poured in a blender. It's especially insulting to me because that's some of my favorite stuff from DBZ, and Toei went out of their way to make a crappy version.

The closest thing GT has to any sort of throughline is the idea that the Dragon Balls are inherently dangerous. The Black Star Balls shows that if they're not made properly, they can blow up entire planets. Then the classic Dragon Balls turn evil, proving that there is no proper way to make safe Dragon Balls. This is a pretty shitty premise for a show with the word "Dragon Ball" in the title. In the finale, Trunks assures Pan that the Dragon Balls will return some day, but why would he want them to return? After all the destruction they've caused, you'd think Trunks would be relieved to be rid of the dumb things.

So what does that leave? The show itself is rotten, and Toei would be foolish to try to repair or remake it. What does it offer to the fandom?

And I think the answer to that is: Inspiration.

Marron is barely in GT at all. I meant to talk about her more, but I was surprised to find that she has even fewer appearances in GT than I remembered. She shows up in the Baby Saga for a couple of episodes, and then she's with Krillin and 18 when 17 attacks them, and that's it. And yet, there's a lot of fans out there making content about teen Marron and/or adult Marron. I don't know a lot about it, since I'm not particularly interested myself, but what does intrigue me is how it had to have started with the version of Marron we see in GT. Fans saw her, wanted more, and made their own version. Sometimes they stick to the GT design, and sometimes they steer clear of it, but it's always a response to the GT portrayal, one way or the other.

I won't lie, I've gotten some ideas from GT in the past, and I've developed a few new ones now that I've rewatched it again. The video games have done a better job presenting Super Saiyan 4 and the main villains than GT itself. A fan could probably write a kick-ass fixit fic about GT. Maybe someone already has. And there's plenty of smaller fics out there, shipping the younger characters, or just giving them the attention they didn't get from the source material.

I mentioned this before, but a lot of Luffa was inspired by my frustration with GT's refusal to give us Super Saiyan Pan or Bulla. Luffa's flash forward 1000 years into the future has a lot of resemblance to Goku's inscrutable presence in Age 890. Pan going from Age 4 to 110 had a lot to do with Keda going from 9 to 99 in my fanfic. The trick is that when I do it, I'm trying to give those moments more dramatic weight, something they sorely lacked in the TV Special and Episode 64. I think the Marron fans and Goten shippers are coming from the same place.

So it's dishonest for anyone to say "Oh, well you borrowed ideas from GT, so that means you actually thought GT was good." No. It's more like salvaging lumber from a collapsed barn and using it to build your own barn. GT is a challenge. You watch it and the show takes all your favorite characters and makes them suck and suck, and it's so disappointing that it basically dares you to do something better. Every time I think about the Shadow Dragons, and how that should have been a slam dunk for Toei, I start to think about how I could do it right. And maybe one of these days I will.

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Alan Moore sums it up a lot better than I could, when he gives writers the advice to read bad books for inspiration. There's a lot to be gained from analyzing a bad story, because it helps you understand what went wrong, and how to avoid the same pitfalls in your own work. And I think that goes for bad anime too. That's why I'm here.

And there's always diamonds in the rough, too. GT #43 is one of the worst of the worst. It's just a terribly animated episode, and yet it somehow includes this gorgeous shot of Vegeta. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And as Diamond Dallas Page always says: That's not a bad thing. That's a good thing! Bang!

#ask duhragonball #dragon ball gt #really sucks #but there's some decent-ish things scattered throughout #2023dbapocryphaliveblog

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KinnPorsche ep 5 Rewatch Rambles:

"What happened to me?" "You were drugged. But they didn't do anything to you." YEAH BUT YOU DID KINN

"Why are they targeting me?" To hurt Kinn, next question

Detective Kim at work lol

Kinn: "As a boss I had to take care of him" Korn: "As a boss you didn't have to fuck him" (I know that's not what he said but it's what he meant)

That Tankhun and Kim interaction tho lmao

"Are you fucking dumb, bro?" xD I don't like Ken but I love Perth

Porsche is having flashbacks of Kinn's boobies. Same, girl.

And the not-very-subtle "playing with fire" metaphor? Nnnnnice.

I also didn't notice before that he was crying while he's having those flashbacks. Investing in full hd sure payed off

At least Pete is just as clueless as Porsche usually is

But back to those flashbacks, you can't tell me Porsche didn't feel violated. As much as I love the series and the ship I still can't accept what happened and that it's just brushed off after Kinn apologizes for "crossing a line" by which he just means losing professionalism by sleeping with one of his subordinates (which is already very questionable in and of itself)

GUYS!! COMMUNICATE! Kinn is sad bc Porsche has been acting distant so he gives him the cold shoulder and calls up one of his boys and then Porsche isn't too happy about that ugh what a mess

Hahahah Porsche's like "I can do that too" and tries to get with a girl

But how poetic is it that they both can't stop thinking about each other and end up not going through with it

Ayyyy Vegas is back 🖤🔥 tbh I was kinda rooting for him the first time around

Ok the VegasPorsche motorbike ride with Why Don't You Stay in the background is actually so cute

Even though Vegas' intentions were questionable at best, he did manage to take Porsche's mind off things and make him feel better. I feel like they could have been such great friends without the whole manipulation and boyfriend-snatching

Gahhh Vegas is so cute in this, really close to Bible just being himself

THE HUG Vegas is smiling even when Porsche can't see his face VEGAS JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED

"What took you so long?" Kinn calm down he's not your husband (yet)

"Are you saying that I've hurt you?" "And have you not?" TELL HIM PORSCHE

"I can do whatever I want" KINN WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SAY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY

*almost kisses Porsche* "Starting tomorrow, Ken will be my head bodyguard" KINN NO USE YOUR WORDS. THE CORRECT ONES.

KimChay being cute I can't I can't do this again I can't take this heartbreak again I just can't

Detective Kim analyzing whether Chay is lying about Porsche he is really in his own separate detective movie huh

Omg the pics in Porchay's phone are so wholesome, just Chay with his loved ones, food, and cats. In mine Kim would find the same mirror selfie from 10 slightly different angles or with slightly different poses and then the same thing but from the day before and maybe the occasional random pic of something interesting I saw

Chay winning Kim over with his cuteness and talent AWWWWW

Pete is so hilarious

And such a good friend aaaaaa I love him

Porsche having dinner with his friends is just so wholesome awwww (why did Kinn have to show up and make it awkward)

I know I'm sounding more and more anti Kinn but I swear I'm not

"It's kinda cool to have a henchman. But he seems dull" ahahahah I fucking can't

"I'm taking you home" I REFUSE TO INTERPRET THAT AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN DOMESTIC AS FUCK

This is kinda where Kinn finally starts showing a bit more of his dorky side that we love so much

"If I don't care about you, why am I sitting here then?" <3<3<3<3<3

Aaaaand the handcuffed arc begins 👀

Daaaamn Chan really got that guy with one clean shot

Handcuffed in the forest arc here we gooooo

#kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche rewatch #kinnporsche ep 5

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BATMAN ENTRY SCENE | THE FLASH 2023 (4K ULTRA HD)

and we enter this battle ad ok you can see it on the cover the tower crane. and opened today. a special date bday of bja. so we looked and they are at him. and say it you tehn him in. and we crush you both. so we hit and they sayit non stop. now this is compulsive behavior and taught but so they wont stop. and yeh it is a serious concern he is a nut case and needs to be s toopped. it is a chemical no disease and spreads by air and he has seveal towers and becomes the lizard and has to try where he failed. and will try to use me fails.and then parker. and fails. he is not his line or race. is a bja. and hates them. they are stpuid and tue they are. and it is a strong precursor nd his son tries after he is crushed. and left. same diesease. nd they grew it in nyc. tons seek it out and parker finds it it is daily this is big though global. tons are at it shortly. and it is now we need it in. he is desperate fights all. sells stuff and to who know. and your ideas are sharp but we see it. har him and he is a pig. he wants thestuff and it is not worth it his stuff is worht a lot more he cant get at it so needs stuff to get stuff. and we fight

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it is a fight and here is no way around it and ai appreciate it a lot. he has become blood thirsty and wreckless and wihtout goals or much of anything else. humanity leaves him. and horrible. today.

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Thor Freya

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and he follows macs plan loses stufff likes it as macs palnned and turns him terrorist as they planned. a real loser. now he is hit as lizard man by this dueing his attempt to poison all. and yeh is not immuned. and they toy w it yes say it is other. said he heard it the bus talk. and this is it he is a nut on our son we need him off. but yeh. dumb person. lol. he alsos ays i aanticipated thata who would not who has at least half a brain to overcome macs you need to hang in there hold on for many year if ont tdecades and turmp frowns. no fun. and yeh we hit you you oaf.. fllows thier plan is a terrorist and that is trump and bain. we use it must and have. cleared out their areas using it and for our purposes.

Thor Freya

ok we move now and tae it all in they say stuff.

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we shall and horrendous comments are evil shits. w e pull thier cards here now. and really your diots. and he finally does it in batman. and bane sees. they will see it finally and he says we shall.

and we heard thereats all day. now they go there soon. take the poison. neeed stuff cant get to thegold and need intel on others. and ammo and mroe inny and all over. stores are huge there. and army stuff. need it now. and real army and psuedo empire.

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he meets his end and needs to wha t a loser. fag too. and shorlty. out here there and finally exiled. and good. by psuedo empire. jsutin said fun whitty uses stuff is close knit heard them and said knock it off louse and ok they heard it stop and stat horrendosu aholes and really. shits bu they are wrong wonts top an we out them in good. and take here hod them out they will fight them for power and we see it hopefully. need it too.

and it moves. they will try to poison our areas too we work and alerts are up and ot and on all stuff too

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lockhvrts · 4 years

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#this is going to sound dumb bc it is but i just found out #that the base ps4 records footage in 720p and now i finally now why my gifs look so awful in quality lmao #ive been giffing 720p footage the whole time ..... yikes #while thinking it was 1080p #(only the pro records in full hd)#why am i so stupid sdhjgfd #i could go out and buy a capture card for 100$ and get better quality footage #but i def wont pay so much just to improve the quality slightly dumblr compresses gifs anyway so #also #ngl im rly excited to see the graphical leap to next gen like demons souls and horizon2 looked so good #txt.personal

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spider-man-stan · 6 years

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so movie tickets are discounted every tuesday and i decided to take advantage of it and go see the wasp feat. ant man again but i lowkey wish that tony stark and the terrible, horrible, ‘i don’t feel so good’, very bad day was still in theatres bc i wanna watch it again :((

#okay #so the reason i really wish it was still in theatres #is bc i just have the dumbest most mundane things on this list of stuff i wanna do at some point in my life #and one of those things was to get breakfast burritos from mcdonalds and sneak them into a movie and eat them during the movie #like instead of popcorn and shit #i told you it's a dumb fucking list lmao #and i was planning on doing that when infinity war was still in theatres #but for whatever reason that didn't end up happening #and i'm finally doing it today #so im gonna watch ant man and the wasp #but i guess since i originally planned on doing this and seeing infinity war i'm kinda bummed that i'm doing it for a different movie #not that ant man and the wasp is a bad movie #i fucking loved it #the end credits made me wanna kick someone in the throat #but i loved it #it was just my original plan to do this for infinity war #and also since it got released on digital ppl have started posting all these hd gifs from the movie and i just really wanna watch it again #bc i fucking loved it so much :(((#anyways #this is funny reblog it #ant man and the wasp #scott lang #hope van dyne #hank pym #cassie lang #infinity war #tony stark #peter parker #i don't feel so good #movies

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hello, it's me somno. turns out the back pain led to a series of tests on me (the not kinky ones im afraid) that led to major issues with my health. im fine, just hospitalized.

i haven't been able to keep up here but i think im all settled here for now so i can visit my favorite dark content enthusiast!

speaking of dark content, let me tell you about that stalking prompt huhu

little dumb and innocent reader trying out a dating app for the first time after someone said that they made money out of the rich foreigners they met and began "sponsoring" them with money. inexperienced and trusting reader who didn't mind all the red flags: typing in their name, address, all the info that could be used against them. reader being 'matched' with a rich patron and naive reader who thought all they had to do was chat with the stranger.

reader who was dumbfounded and flustered when the stranger told them to strip. reader who made the patron promise not to record their session (which they still do of course)

rich patron getting off on reader touching themselves on camera just for that sweet money. patron paying the reader and reader thinking, thats that.

reader getting e-mails and scary dms the next few days after not logging on to the website. incognito pictures of their every day life, a complete exact copy of their school schedule mailed to them, even their missing used underwear sent to them in a package.

the items sent were also random, sometimes it's some lacy lingerie set (their sizes perfect), sometimes it's a dozen bouquet of flowers, other times were pictures of them and with their friends along with a letter demanding answers of what they are to them.

it gets worst after that. pictures of that time they showed their body, a small clip of the video that viewed their lewd expressions...

finally, reader has had enough and goes back to the website to confront the patron. reader doesn't get any reply except for an address to meet up.

dumb reader goes alone and finally, that patron who had been painstakingly wearing them down, will finally get a taste of that body.

the room is set up, every lewd angle will be shot in hd and will capture all the reader's possible expression.

(recommended possible patrons: ayato, childe, zhongli, diluc)

- somno anon

ITS DILUC N CHILDE I KNOW ITS THEM!!!

somno anon <333 i missed u and was worrying abt your back earlier today, i’m hoping for your speedy recovery and exit from hospital! sending flowers to your hospital bed n giving u many many (covid safe) kiths n well wishes!!

warning… dubcon, alcohol, yandere, unprotected sex, nonconsensual filming

featuring gn reader! x diluc/childe/thoma

it’s a luxurious hotel address and you feel out of place there. you knew that he said 10pm, so why did you get there 10 minutes early anxiously standing in the corner of the foyer with your eyes trained on your phone. you jump when a hand wraps around your shoulder, husky voice greeting you by your ear with his hot breath. “didn’t think you were so eager to meet with me, doll.” you don’t know why his tone makes you shiver, perhaps because it reminds you of how he moaned and groaned while pleasuring himself on cam, making you flush red and shake your head at his words. no, you were here to get answers and to get this creepy behaviour to stop! so why are you sitting on his lap in a penthouse room, being fed chocolate strawberries and sips of champagne between the most intoxicating steamy kisses of your life? it feels so good to be in his arms, even better than your dreams, but he has a video of you without your permission and you need to get him to delete it- but oh, you’re so tipsy, how much alcohol was in that sugary sweet flute and his lips?

it’s not long before he strips you bare and fucks into you, all of it recorded without you even knowing! you can’t even remind him to wear a condom or even tell him that you’re a virgin, he’s just so skilled and making you feel so full that you’re gone- can you even make it out of the hotel without leaking his thick seed? would he even let you leave that room, with bodyguards stationed outside to listen as he takes you over and over and make sure you can’t escape. no way he’d ever let you go after you walked right into his trap, to be loved so hard that you’d never know anything else but him.

i think they’d use a condom just to trick you into believing that they’d be safe and not fuck you raw. once you’re out of it and begging for their cock obviously they’d pull it off and let it lay by your head as they fuck their leaking tip into your hole!!! they’re baby trappers who loving fucking bareback!!! disgusting awful love of my life(s).

thoma also gives me this vibe!! he’s super lovey then super super angry, demanding to know who everyone in your life is to you. just something abt sweet boys who are actually possessive bastards cause you fell for their façade!

#somno anon <3 #genshin smut #genshin impact smut #tw. dark content #childe smut #genshin x reader #childe x reader #diluc smut #diluc x reader #yandere diluc #yandere childe #thoma x reader #thoma smut #tw. blackmail #tw. dubcon #tw. alcohol #childe <3 #thoma <3 #diluc <3

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murumokirby360 · 2 years

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My Adata HD330 2TB External Hard Disk Drive Review (with my Paper Dolls) - Part 2 [May 11, 2022]

Hello! This is Part 2 of my new item review, the Adata HD330 External Hard Disk Drive (with my paper dolls).😁

In this part, I'm going to show ya my comparison between my recent external hard drive (on the left) & my old broken one (on the right) is my Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB.

But before that: I would like to apologize for the long delay. My parents are busying extending our house to make more space 🏠🔨, plus the voting election in my country 🇵🇭🗳️, and of course... Umm... I felt emotional & depressed. The latter was the concern of my 160GB (3.5 inch) hard disk drive's life that was on the line 😟 because I made a dumb decision when I disassemble it & see what's the problem via following instructions without my knowledge about the hard disk drive. That 160GB HDD contains my artworks 🎨🖌️, photos 🖼️ & other files 📁 that are my precious memories from 2016 & beyond, and I can't retrieve them anymore. So, I REALLY NEED to find a good professional disk recovery store to save my files, but it'll be very expensive to pay & I don't have enough money. I guess, I DO REALLY NEED a job to earn my profits. *sigh* Without my precious files, there will be no... ME. And my life will be a downward spiral of depression.😔

Anyway, back to my topic... If you haven't seen my previous part, then please [CLICK ME!].

So, without further ado, let's get started:

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• [1st Image] As I said in my intro, you're looking at my two external hard disk drives. Despite the design & look, my Adata HD330 is taller than my old WD (short for Western Digital).

• [2nd Image] Another thing was the HD330 had shock & drop proof with built-in silicon case around the plastic shell case & also the interior 2.5 inch HDD, though I still need to buy a rugged hard case for extra protection. Whereas my old WD My Password Essential has nothing but four rubber pads on the back.

Little story 📖: My former BF actually purchased this Western Digital external HDD at the local tech store for me as a token of our friendship, and I was very surprised back then when I was in my high school days. *Sigh* 😌 Memories, I would never forget that moment.

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• Here are their side to side comparison, sandwich style.

• [5th Image (left)] On my old WD external hard drive, you may notice that there's a tiny hole on the left side. That's the light indicator when plugging the Micro-B USB port through the computer via cable.

• [6th Image (right)] And speaking of ports, both Adata HD330 & (old) WD My Passport Essential are sporting USB Micro-B 3.0 port. Well, actually 3.2 gen 1 port for the Adata HD330, meaning it's far superior port than the old 3.0 variant. (Well, I think) It'll be awesome if the HD330 will be sporting the USB type C cable for a modern look & less hassle plugging than the irreversible USB Micro-B. (Just suggesting)

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• [7th Image] Finally, their USB Micro-B 3.0 cables. On the left is from Adata HD330 & on the right is from WD My Passport Essential, which shows up aging from rust on the USB type-A male, but the male Micro-B was surprisingly quite intact & shine.

• [8th Image] On top of that, the old USB Micro-B cable 3.0 is longer than Adata's short-length cable. Also, that cable strap remains wrapped around, to this day.

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• My paper dolls said that these two external HDs are both blue! 💙Well yeah, of course not because I love blue, duh.😊 One is brand new & the other was very old, due to the signing age of fading WD logo on the front, scratch surface, etc. Not to mention not very functional, and hoping it will revive my old one (hoping my old files remain intact without a single corrupt), anytime soon. As soon as I want the 160GB hard drive will be an attempt to save it first (if possible).🤞😟

Overall:

• Well, nothing new. But, I would say it was a pretty good short comparison between my two existing portable/external HD (not High Definition) or HDD. 🙂👍

• Right now, I have nothing to transfer my files for my next & final part. 😟 So, I'm not sure if I could finish this topic this month (May) or not. But, here's hoping that I will find the way while my 160GB HD is putting in rest mode.

Well, that’s all for now. If you want to see my previous topic from March, as well as my current topic from April, then I’ll provide some links down below.↓😉

My Oria 120 in 1 Screwdriver Set Review:

• Part 1 [Mar 15, 2022]

• Part 2 (Final) [Mar 19, 2022]

My Adata HD330 (2TB) External HDD Review:

• Part 1 [Apr 12, 2022]

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spoadicdeviance · 3 years

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“Hooray! Skyward Sword HD is now making all the hints optional and you can ignore Fi!”

Um...almost all of the hints in Skyward Sword were already optional and outside of the tutorial. Fi only gave advice if you directly called on her.

“Yeah but now this extends to the opening section of the game. You can now skip the tutorial”

In the original version, you can already skip a good chunk the tutorial including, but not limited to, Fi’s explanation on dowsing, the remlit rooftop rescue, and the sword combat tutorial. It’s nice the remaster extends that optionality to the rest of the tutorial, but are we really going to pretend it “fixes a major flaw with the game”?

“Well the fact that the original version of Skyward Sword forces any part of the tutorial on the player is bad game design.”

That statement is dumb on so many levels. How dumb is it? Let me count the ways.

1. Multiple games have mandatory tutorial segments. It’s been standard for most modern games. Even adult games like Elder Scrolls and Grand Theft Auto have mandatory tutorials. Even other Zelda games like Breath of the Wild and Twilight Princess.

2. The late great Stan Lee once said that every comic book is someone’s first issue. I like to think that extends to games. It can range from a toddler with a Sesame Street game or a grown man starting out playing Call of Duty with his work buddies. Any video game has the potential to be someone’s introduction to the medium. Designers are aware of the abstract nature of interactive entertainment can be to a newcomer, regardless of age. So they want to make sure that the players are aware of the rules and limitations of their games. This makes sure the player is never confused to the point of frustration and in turn hamper said player’s enjoyment. Granted, having a tutorial doesn’t stop a select few from being terrible at playing games (*cough cough* Arin Hanson *cough*).

3. This point is one I need you all to remember; Skyward Sword, as well as all Zelda games and even the majority of Nintendo titles are designed primarily with kids in mind. Even the the T-rated titles. Yes adults can enjoy these games and being designed for kids doesn’t inherently mean a game is simplified and dumbed down. However you have take in mind the skillset of a kid playing games for the first time. You remember when you were a kid and you first started playing games. Heck have ever played games with a younger sibling, kid cousin, child you had to babysit, or maybe your own children. Trust me when I say outside of a select few prodigies, most kids are terrible at playing video games, and that’s okay. Nintendo knows that kids will make up for a large chunk of their audience and they have to accommodate for them.

Yeah it’s nice for a game to have its tutorial be entirely optional, like in Banjo Kazooie, but if a tutorial isn’t skippable I’m not gonna call it bad game design. I call it what it really is; an innocuous feature of modern game design used to help young/inexperienced players get into the game.

Even if you don’t need the tutorial that doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t need the tutorial.

Skyward Sword doesn’t pull a Final Fantasy XIII and have its tutorial go as long as 25 to 30 hours. Plus Skyward Sword already has a fair amount of it’s tutorials optional already. So I don’t think the select parts of the tutorial that were mandatory, as well as the entire opening section, from the original game are not this unredeemable sin Skyward Sword detractors make it out to be.

Also I know same detractors don’t really think tutorials are inherently bad, they only exacerbate their frustration to make Skyward Sword seem worse than it truly is while simultaneously ignore when games they like (Such as Breath of the Wild) not only do the same thing the complain Skyward Sword does it, but in some cases does it more overtly compared to Skyward Sword.

Then again Skyward Sword detractors don’t care about consistency or earnest thought in their critiques of video games. They care more for low effort hot takes and misconstruing what they don’t personally don’t like as “bad game design”. So what are you gonna do?

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