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scrollsfromarebornrealm · 2 years

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Riven’s Unhinged Screaming of Dante’s Inferno Rings 5-8 (aka Panda 2.0 (part 1)

Me this entire raid tier

NATURALLY UNDER A CUT FOR SPOILERS.

HE’S PRACTICING! YOU CAN DO EEET!

(Eric is a good bean he’s just got a little bit of a temper problem fite me if you dare and honestly as one who had a shitty father i can’t blame him really)

THIS. WAS NOT GOOD. ON MY NERVES. I SHRIEKED. CAN WE NOT START THE CREEPY BULLSHIT THIS EARLY

...uh...wut?

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the man, the myth, the motherfucking evil bastard bird of hell maker

Anyway. Wanted to clown on his ass, but honestly, need more information.

WHY YES THANK YOU. I NEEDED THIS ICLY, THANK YOU. (Because guess who got yoinked Exarch-style to come help out?)

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Oh HELL.

Anyone else feel their tetanus shot act up seeing this or was it just me?

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CAN WE HAVE A FUCKING DISCUSSION

ON HOW THAT

TURNED INTO THIS

(day one of a new raid. wiping was had)

Bruh.

At this point I’m used to people trying to kill me. IT’S JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED CUZ UM, WE GOT A WHOLE TIME TRAVEL THING AND AZEMS AND FINAL DAYS BULLSHIT-

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I’M GOING TO FUCKING PUNCH YOU, OLD MAN. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I HAD TO DEAL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT BEFORE?!

*SWEATS IN DYNAMIS*

SIR. I MAIN SUMMONER. THIN AETHER MY ASS LET ME SWITCH CLASSES SO YOU CAN GET TITAN’S ASS FACEFIRST

*gets Destiny’s Child stuck in her head* GODSDAMNIT

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FUCKING

KNEW

I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!! BULLSHIT YOU BEING ‘THEMIS’ AND ‘INVESTIGATING ON BEHALF OF A FRIEND’

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*Ancient Soap Opera Intensifies*

Yes. Please. I need a breather. And more drinking. Cuz WHAT THE FUCK

Dude, I figured this out at the start of the first raid tier. WE ALL DID.

SIR I AM JUST A SMALL AND INNOCENT FAMILIAR

THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE

MOVE ALONG

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‘Teehee it’s okay she’s a doppleganger! You know what they say, everyone has one! She’s got to be a good person at heart so it’s okay to trust her!’

SERIOUSLY?!

THAT’S WHAT WE’RE GOING WITH?!

I’M A DOPPLEGANGER FAMILIAR?

BULL

FUCKING

SHIT

(side note: Still feel this explanation even stronger for the ‘Azem knew about us’ theory)

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i know where this is going o/’ and i don’t like ittttt o/’

AND OF COURSE WE GO STRAIGHT TO THE NUCLEAR OPTION

SIR.

I AM A SIMPLE LITTLE INNOCENT FAMILIAR

PRAY MOVE ALONG NOW

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*sigh*

Greeeaaaaat. We’re working out father/son issues it seems.

WHEN YOU ARE SO FUCKING TIRED OF LOOKING UP AT PEOPLE FOR FUCK’S SAKE WHY IS EVERYONE TALL

SIR.

I AM A FAMILIAR.

MOVE ALONG.

PLEASE.

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-files this nugget away for later-

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please stop starting shit with your son my guy. please. PLEASE. WE HAVE ENOUGH ON THE PLATE AS IT IS.

we’re just going to stop here, because...OH MY FUCKING GOD THE BOSS MUSIC SOKEN FOR FUCK’S SAKE PLEASE AT LEAST TAKE US OUT TO DINNER OR BUY US A DRINK OR SOMETHING BEFORE YOU JUST SLAM OUT A MOTHERFUCKING ABSOLUTE BANGER OF A BOSS TRACK I’VE BEEN LOSING MY FUCKING MIND EVER SINCE I FIRST HEARD IT JFC JUST INJECT THAT SHIT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS JUST PLEASE ADMIT IT YOU’RE A FUCKING PRIMAL OR SOME NASCENT ELDER GOD BECAUSE HOLY SHIT THERE WAS NO REASON TO GO THAT FUCKING HARD I’M JUST A MERE MORTAL AND SERIOUSLY SQUARE ENIX PLEASE RELEASE THAT TRACK LIKE NOW

#ffxiv #ffxiv patch 6.2 #ffxiv Buried Memory #ffxiv spoilers #ffxiv spoiler #ffxiv patch 6.2 spoilers

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fonkeloog · 2 years

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Britt's music things (deluxe edition)

Sounds Good Feels Good

○ Artist: 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS)

○ Release date: October 23rd, 2015

○ Duration: 1 hour and 4 minutes

○ Overall rating: 7,6/10

Money: 6.4/10

I swear to god the first time I heard this song I got a near heart attack. The first 20 seconds is just background noise of them getting into the studio and settled behind their instruments. I had my sound all the way up. Once the music starts, it’s loud!

So, there aren’t any lyrics that are important to me. It’s a great song to dance too and an absolute banger to start the album with.

Take my money is a very accurate lyric. I am broke, but please take my money in exchange for this album on vinyl.

She’s Kinda Hot: 4.8/10

Very much a song made for the radio. It’s a bop, but it’s overplayed and I kinda hate it.

They say we’re losers and we’re alright with that / We are the leaders of the not coming backs. / We are the kings and the queens of the new broken scene / Yeah we’re alright tho.

Teenage me took these lyrics and made them her life anthem. And I can’t blame her for doing so.

Hey Everybody!: 6.1/10

Again. A radio song. I don’t hate it, but it definitely is a skip most of the time.

It is a great song for dancing, but that’s it really.

I don’t hate it, but it’s very pop sounding. (I listen to a lot of pop. So me saying this should tell you enough regarding the general sound.)

Permanent Vacation: 7/10

Congratulations, your imitations / Are taking over the radio stations / Corporations, calculations / We’re the voice of the new generation

This bridge is a masterpiece and I love it. Other than that, it’s another happy song without a lot of meaning.

Since this is the 4th song, the listener will start to think they have an idea as to what the sound of the album will be like.

Jet Black Heart: 10/10

And then you get hit with this.

Tears. Pain. Ouchies.

Cause I’ve got a jet black heart / And there’s a hurricane underneath it / Trying to keep us apart / I write with a poison pen / But these chemicals moving between us / Are the reason to start again.

The blood in my veins / is made up of mistakes / Let’s forget who we are / and dive into the dark / as we burst into colour / returning to life

I cannot with this song. It hurts in a good way, but it also hits way too close.

This song is kind of like a divider in the album. Before this it was all very happy and fun, but now you get this and it just makes you realise that this might not be your new ‘Happy album’.

Catch Fire: 8.3/10

I know that I can’t change the world / But maybe I’ll change your mind.

Really this song is just another one of those where you start listening to the lyrics and suddenly they hit you like a fucking wrecking ball.

It’s really hard to rate this song. Because I skip it almost all the time but I actually really like it? I just have to be in the mood to listen to it I guess.

The lyrics make up for most of the rating tho. The sound is not doing much to me personally.

Safety Pin: 7.1/10

The 2015 sound really comes out here.

Two wrongs make it right / We’ll safety pin, the pieces of our broken hearts back together / patching up all the holes until we both feel much better / Deleted things are really dead, so now I’ll say the things I never said / We’ll safety pin, the pieces of our broken hearts back together / No more waiting, we can save us from falling

Waste The Night: 7/10

Now that I critically listen to this album I realise that the main reason I like it, is because of the sentimental weight it has to me?

I don’t hate it, but they have definitely made much better albums after this one.

The last minute of this always catches me off guard. I think the song is finished and then the instrumental part starts.

Said instrumental is also the sole reason this gets a 7. I couldn’t care less about this song otherwise.

Vapor: 6.9/10

Okay. Call me a hypocrite, cause I will absolutely lose my mind to any of these songs live, but I don’t really care for this album as much as I used to do?

Vapor is still a bop, don’t get me wrong. I can totally see why teenage me went absolutely crazy when this dropped, but I am very indifferent to it?

Make it sound so sweet / when you lie to me

Still a solid 6/10 tho.

Castaway: 9/10

Now this I still love.

Cause you walked out and left me stranded / Nothing left but picture frames / And I just keep on asking myself / How'd we drift so far away from where we left off yesterday? / I'm lonely like a castaway / Heartbreak that I can't escape, a sinking ship I'll never save / I'm lonely like a castaway

I love the guitars, the way the fall back and the return full force.

This is what I remember most of the album being like, so it’s nice to know I wasn’t completely making things up

The Girl Who Cried Wolf: 7/10

This is so fucking sad. I love to listen to this when I need a good cry.

So look at me in the eye / is anyone there at all? / Cause I’m not dreaming / So look at me in the eye / Is anyone there at all? / Cause I’m not leaving

This song still means a lot to me, and it still makes me cry when I listen to it.

The way they end it just hits. Michael’s voice is so raw and full of emotions. It kind of feels like a hug from a friend

Broken Home: 7.5/10

I used to refer to this as ‘the divorce song’

It’s sad, and I like how vulnerable it is, but I can’t really relate to the lyrics so that makes it just another sad song to me.

I love how much it has done for a lot of other people tho.

It’s heartbreaking, but in a nice way?

Fly Away: 5.7/10

This song after Broken Home is the biggest emotional whiplash you’ll ever feel.

I like the song, I do not like the sudden change of pace.

It is once again a ‘I can see why teenage me loved this’ kind of song.

I like the parts where the music is kind of stripped away, but that’s about it.

Invisible: 9.8/10

I was already missing before the night I left / Just me and my shadow and all of my regrets / Who am I? Who am I when I don’t know myself?

Those lines still hit a little too close to home.

Another day, the walls are built to keep me safe / I can’t escape, it’s too late.

What a line to end with. And the violins?! Fucking beautiful

Airplanes: 8/10

I like the sound of this a lot more than I did when I was younger.

Like angels can fly, we’ll never die

That line is all that matters in that song. That, and the way the beat keeps coming back.

Solid 8/10. I had kind of forgotten how good of a song this was.

San Francisco: 9/10

This is giving such big ‘long lost childhood friends’ vibes. I love it.

It’s like a safe haven after the heartbreak.

I wanna get back to where we started / To the summer night / You know, you know, you know, you know we got it right

The song ends at 3 minutes, and then has a full minutes with violins and guitars to close it. I’m absolutely obsessed with that part. Especially when the violin joins. It just all works so well and ugh. I need that part to be longer

Outer Space / Carry On: 10/10

Can I quote this whole song?

6 minutes and 38 seconds of absolute heaven.

The darkest night never felt so bright with you by my side / Nothing like the rain, nothing like the rain / When you’re in outer space, when you’re in outer space

I love that part so much

Carry on, outlast the ignorance / Moving on, survive the innocence / And it won’t be long, won’t be long, won’t be long / You know it’s gonna get better / You know it’s gonna get better

God, what a way to end an album. Hearing this live was a dream come true and way too many tears. If you want to listen to only one song by 5sos, please let it be this one.

I always forget about this song and I’m so glad this reminded me of it again.

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Summary: teenage angst and every song on the radio in 2015 had a baby

This album will always hold a special place in my heart. It made me a fan of 5sos. Whoever, during the review I realised that I've grown up. A lot of the songs I used to feel passionate about don't really do anything for me now. I still like them, but it's definitely not my favourite album of theirs anymore. The first songs sound like they just wanted to get a hit, and then they close with such a wonderful one? It's kind of all over the place, but I love it anyways.

#britt's music things (deluxe edition)#album review #sgfg #sounds good feels good #5sos #i grew up with this so this is kind of bittersweet

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bigassnocash · 2 years

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OKAY EVERYONE it’s time for my tri-monthly television show rant!

This month is… OUTER RANGE! I’m just about st start episode 5 and I have a lot of feelings, and I have done some googling because I do like to spoil things for myself a little bit. I would also like to say it’s so much easier to watch this show when you aren’t high out of your mind and getting distracted my Cowboy Lewis/Bullrider Lewis. Having spent my entire life in rural Manitoba may I say, he is a hick girls wet dream and I love him dearly.

1. If Rhett is blamed in anyway for Trevor’s actual death I will rage rage FUCKING RAGE! That being said, I do believe in consequences to actions and he should be charged with aiding and abetting and helping hide the body.

2. Perry, I feel for you man I really do but sometimes I think Royal and Cecilia shelter you way too much. I truly do believe that if it came down to it, they would let Rhett take all the blame and go to jail for the murder because ‘Perry is a dad and he has Amy to take care of.’ Yes, Perry does have Amy and it would be heartbreaking to see her lose both parents but ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES! and killing someone is going to have major consequences

3. I don’t like Maria. I don’t like her character or her personality. I mean, it could be because I’m so deeply in love with Rhett but I digress.

4. Billy Tillerson might be, objectively, the best character. Offering Amy a ride home? Adorable. Trying to be polite and offering her dip even though she’s 9 and he should not be condoning that? Sweet in a silly way, I got a good giggle out of that. Plus, he has great music taste. Angel Of The Morning? Banger. Private Eyes? Certified Slap. 10/10 love Billy.

5. Rhett Abbott deserves so much better than his family. They have turned him into the person he is, whom he doesn’t want to be. You can see it in his face when Royal says “you’re more like me,” how absolutely disappointed, upset, and may I say, scared of turning out like his father. I don’t mean bull riding, I mean if becoming Royal. I don’t blame him for being scared of turning into him, I would be too

6. I think all the bits with the abyss/hole/time travel are unnecessary. Again I’m only on episode 5 so it might make more sense later but as of right now it adds nothing to the plot really.

7. I think Perry and Autumn fucked at some point. I don’t know gang, I just have a feeling they did.

8. For some of the pre made character playlists on Spotify; RHETT WOULD NOT LISTEN TO TAYLOR SWIFT!! At least not by choice. Amy would probably be the one to say “no uncle Rhett don’t change it I like this song.” I’m sorry but he wouldn’t. He would probably listen to the old timey twangy country or the new stuff. But not Taylor Swift.

9. I have so many mixed feeling about Joy. As an Indigenous bisexual woman I do want her to win the election and get voted Sheriff because that would be a huge thing for rural Wyoming. But as an upholder of the law and as someone who believes as much as she can in right and wrong I don’t want her to win. She seems more interested in doing what’s best for ‘her’ and the people on her side than actually doing what’s right. I don’t know man, mixed feelings.

Alrighty folks, that’s the end of my rant. Thank you so much for listening. If you have anything else to add or would like to talk about, please do

#outer range

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seroqueldreamer · 2 years

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Now onto Encanto, because I have... So many fucking thoughts and feelings. This is meant to be spoiler free, but I do apologize if shit kinda... Slips. I'm on mobile and idk how to do the *read more* thingy.

Let's start at the eldest and move our way down.

Alma - Alma has seen some shit. She's been traumatized, hurt, scarred, and she's grieved. But this... This doesn't excuse how terribly she's treated her son and her youngest granddaughter. She left a terrible situation but lost people she loved in the process. Alma worries and then her trauma affects the rest of her family.

Julieta - a Queen, a literal goddess, best mom. Julieta loves her daughters so unconditionally and wholly. Being the oldest of the triplets (presumably) and having a gift that can't go haywire, I'm assuming Julieta was forced to become a second parent when Alma was busy in the Encanto. Imagine being forced to look after a kid who can see the future and another who can control the weather with her emotions. Julieta is shown to be able to stand up to her mother though. Hell yeah.

Bruno - there's a lot to say about Bruno. I'll start, okay. Bruno in my mind is the unfavored child. He can see the future and then people blame him bc he makes "bad things" happen. When he saw Mirabel's future, he knew either he would be blamed or Mirabel would be blamed. He "left" for 10 years because of this vision and he blamed himself.

Pepa - being the one with the most unstable gift, I can only really imagine how many times she's been calmed down by Julieta or "calmed down" by Alma. I think Julieta is the one who taught her the "clear skies, clear skies" trick where as Alma tended to more... Shame her. "Pepa you have a cloud!" And honestly, because of this, Pepa is shown to be neurotic and anxious.

Isabela- the first of the grandkids to be born and the one who looks the most like Alma. Y'all saw it, right? I think Alma started trying to live vicariously through Isabela. Isabela is a troubled character at times and is... Like every older cousin I've met/had. But she was shown to be engaged for the sake of the family, per Alma's request.

Delores- The second oldest grand kid and the one who tends to get overlooked. She's shy and is shown covering her ears. It's also been confirmed, her room isn't sound proofed. She's soft spoken, but like her family, she's doing things for the benefit of the family.

Luisa - the third oldest grandchild who put out an absolute banger of a song. We learn through the song, Luisa is a people pleaser and has to be strong. The village and her family literally use her until she physically can't take any more pressure and loses her gift. I want to say that's Casita's way of forcing Luisa to take a break. Luisa tells Mirabel, "I'm the strong one, I'm not nervous. I'm as strong and as tough of the crust of the earth is." But its then revealed how fragile Luisa truly is.

Camilo- Gender fucking envy first of all. Secondly, does Camilo go through an identity crisis bc of the shape shifting? There's not a lot to say about Camilo because we don't see a lot of him except when he's shit talking Bruno.

Mirabel - baby. Sweet girl. Mirabel is the black sheep and Augustin, Julieta, and Luisa know it. Isabela treats Mirabel like shit. When Mirabel didn't get a gift, she essentially lost all usefulness for Alma. She doesn't have anything to exploit. Instead, Mirabel is left alone in that damn nursery for 5 years and didn't get to interact with anyone outside of most likely helping her mom pass out food or helping Delores sell fruit. Mirabel is shown, time and time again just looking for Alma's approval. It doesn't matter if she has her parents approval, her aunt and uncles, she wants her Abuelas approval so desperately but she comes to the realization, she'll never get it and it's heart breaking.

Antonio - the baby of the Madrigals. Sole cause of my baby fever returning. He's the sweetest and has shown Mirabel is his safe person. At his Ceremony, he doesn't ask his mom, dad, sister or brother. He asks for Mirabel. He gets his gift and its so cute. But with this, it's confirmed. Mirabel is the only one who didn't get a gift. Which... Is heartbreaking in it's own right.

#encanto #the family madrigal #thoughts.

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sole-cuore-amore-e-droga · 3 years

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Cyprus brings shampoo to Rotterdam 2021

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I FELL IN LOVE, I FELL IN LOVE, I GAVE MY HEART TO PRODUCT PLACEMENT.

Though I do see where they come from. Everyone from Panik Records, from her to Eleni Foureira featuring Perfectil on the “Fuego” MV, gonna need that sweet sweet money all of the time. But has Greece’s economy not really recovered for them to constantly need to advertise products on music videos or am I just losing my mind overthinking things?

Eitherway, this review may or may not appear before or during their rehearsal day, so see how do I make a fool of myself by trying to estimate Cyprus’s chances!

ARTIST & ENTRY INFO

This year we have a 26 year old Elena Tsagrinou from Greece here (the way they were last represented by a somewhat Cypriot on 2017?). She did music early on in her age, also participated in the Greek version of Got Talent. Though, before breaking out as a solo pop sensation in ways you cannot imagine, she used to be in a pop band OtherView. Strangely enough, I’ve heard of them because of this song below but I could’ve NEVER estimated it was her and never could have I predicted she would land herself a Eurovision entrance all alone:

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The band has had quite a few successful enough singles with her, she did some music shows participation and hosting, her band switched labels midway through (guess into which one they eventually landed, hint: some of the screenshots in this review have this peculiar logo), and in 2018, she had to “withdraw” from the group to go ahead and pursue the aforementioned solo career, somewhat. She continued doing a lot of shows (particularly seen on the MAD music channel related events), and doesn’t have as many singles as she had with OtherView right now, but she’s possibly well on her way to blossom as an artiste. Some of those reading (lol who am I kidding who even reads these) may be familiar with this little song of hers:

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You’ve heard way too many things about “El Diablo”, her 2021 entry, so idk if I feel like explaining the technical side of things all by myself or you already know everything. But in these reviews I repeat everyone else regardless, so let me just say that “El Diablo” is an obvious pop song, with a lot of Swedish related touches to it, because at least one person on this song also worked on Alvaro Estrella’s Melodifestivalen 2021 entry that glorifies at least a handful of the same cliches that “El Diablo” does lyrically. Dear Eurovision lyricists, you can use more foreign languages than Spanish for your obligatory foreign language incorporations, thanks~

Although I’m not sure about whether it is more Laurell Barker’s fault as much as it is Joker Thörnfeldt’s, but it’s easier to blame them equally, because the former probably came up with “ta-taco, tamale” and the latter couldn’t get enough of the word “mamacita” they used for the aforementioned Melodifestivalen entry. Anyway, the lyrics, from what I get, is that she’s in love with an eeeevil guy because he’s sweet talking her, they do some sexy stuff together (presumably), pour sauce on their bodies for no explicit reason other than “obligatory-foreign-reference-itis”, she’s breaking the rules (and idk if it was “mama-mamacita” telling her to do it), got the icy edges that the spicy is melting for her, throws eyelashes on the floor when she’s got no wigs to throw (but that doesn’t matter because even without a wig, she can flip her hair and make him look twice), and there’s as much as you need to know about the song’s lyrics as I feel like I should show to you, because eh. Eurovision has suffered from worse cookie-cutter lyricism through the years, “El Diablo” is painful but not the worst.

REVIEW

But I do like the song somewhat!

“El Diablo” was initially compared to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” upon release, and I totally kind of see why, because in all the right spots you can absolutely hum over the chorus to that over the one of “El Diablo”’s, it just exchanges gratuitous French translation of one of the already sung lines on the bridge for obligatory inserted Spanish terms just for the sake of being trendy with the crowds of the nowadays, because as we learned nothing these days, having a lot of Spanish in your song is apparently trendy. And Elena does nothing absolutely batshit insane on the music video (other than advertising) - no lapdance for the devil Lil Nas X style, no being forced into a bath, no person to sell her body to (not even the titular diablo), no dancers that rise out of their Christian sleep pods. Just Elena singing behind lots and lots of trash bin bag wrap.

Honestly the bigger issue for me than the song being “sAtAnIc because it is called “the DEVIL!!!”, aside from the lyrics, is that the MV does not come with any forewarning whatsoever for the people that are seizure prone when they see strobe lights? And that happens for some extended periods of this clip? I know you are indulged in your advertising and good for you but don’t just care for the companies that pay you if you use their products, do care about people’s wellbeings too, sometime.

But enough about the MV.

The song is decently sounding. It has interesting uses of what sounds like hi-hats during the verses (e.g.: a moment when this happens for the first time on the song is after Elena sings “tonight we’re gonna burn in a par-tY” the second time, and then there’s something that sounds soaring - that’s what I think that the hi-hats did.). It also has some sort of a synth piano on the second verse to boost the song’s sound rather than just relying on 808s and beats. I quite like how the chorus is so instant somehow, idk why but it is for me. Might have a gripe with that childish choir singing “I LOVE EL DIAB-LO” in the tune of standard kindergarten children teasing tune (aka ”NA NA NA BOO BOO”), as well as the constant breathing sounds, but they don’t distract me from generally “fucking” with this song, lol. It’s just that likeable imo.

I just can’t cope with the fact that Cyprus can’t seem to dare to go at least a little bit original with their song, yanno? Ever since 2019 they were called out as being a ripoff of something... hell, everyone since 2016 except Eleni was a ripoff of something. Alter Ego? “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers. Gravity? “Human” by Rag’n’Bone Man. Replay? “Fuego” itself. Running? “Lose Control”, Meduza x Becky Hill. Now we have a Lady Gaga song wannabe that even caught the attention of another singer that the music video looked like it was ripping off, and the Eurofandom caught up in hysterics:

Heads up, folks: not EVERY short haired blonde with messy hair, silvery tank top and shortpants that writhes on the floor is a Zara Larsson clone. And I don’t know who stirred controversy first - her or the fans - but this was ridiculous to see, even for me.

Although for a second I saw where they were coming from.

Now see why I want Cyprus to go original for at least once? Because I guess that the way “Fuego” was conjured up, it brought Cyprus so much success with how the package was, how Eleni sold it, and how the song sounded. You know the first thing of everything potentially going wrong for you later on is if you find the formula you’ve been looking for, but you proceed to be using the exact same formula that got you this far in the first place, without realizing what was it in the formula that you needed to bank on to further to make it click, but instead proceed to copy everything like it was an easy, fill-in-the-blank form. You can and should do better than that.

Though that doesn’t stop me from ranking it 11th this year.

Thing is, I really expected it to be the one female pop song of the year I would have the constant impulsive need to replay, replay, yeah. Ever since the chaotic entry MV drop that occured on some random-ass Cypriot TV show where three guys talked a lot (and before that, we got a cooking show), and kept growing increasingly agitated that no one is liking their show, until at some point one of them erupted in “IN TWU MEENETS... EL DIABLO... ON UR TEEVEE”; I was really devastated I couldn’t be able to break the replay button because of Panik Records deciding to rather benefit for themselves to have the MV on their app, then on Youtube, THEN on Spotify in that order. So I listened to a few video rips that I received / had for myself, and it was a fun time... until I realized the desire to play it declined much faster than I thought it would when it actually dropped on Spotify, oops. So I can’t really let myself rank it higher, when there are at least some catchier female bangers with better overall sound, better lyrics, and better multiple-replay factor. But I can’t really settle for a much lower rank for her than 11th, anyway. Girlbanger 2021 power y’all!

That and vocally she’s actually not that bad, even if she has shown up singing her song drunk in a handful of Instastories for some event of some party house, and at the time people overreacted, but I think that at least a large audience of those same people has collectively dropped their “Cyprus obvious NQ” talks come the pre-parties.

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Panik Records, when will you put the yeehaw El Diablo on streaming? Now THAT’S a version that has replay value, and I might never get bored of it instead :(

Approval factor: Yeah, there exists some for me in it Follow-up factor: CyBC did one of the nastiest in terms of following up their 2020 arc of “Bring Your Artist Back for Revenge Year” that was 2021, straight up ditching Sandro probably right after Eurovision was done (well it doesn’t look like the case because CyBC published a statement later, but I sense that it might’ve been the case), because “Running” wasn’t doing so well with the “YAS QUEEN” branch of the Eurofandom. Which sucks because Sandro would’ve actually been down to be asked again for Eurovision, as he revealed it to NikkieTutorials during many of her interviews with last year’s class of. “Agreement from both parties” my ass, unless Sandro secretly realized that like Tom Leeb, he was too busy for 2021 Eurovision, which I doubt. It actually sucks imo that Sandro can probably be considered as even a forever non-returnee, because Sandro is more of German roots than Greek, and if we learned anything about the Mukuchyangate 2021, is that Germany will never send a returning artist, at least one that didn’t represent their country first and foremost. So Greece could only ask Sandro nicely only if the contest comes on to Germany, I guess? How do you think they decided on getting Stefania, who still ever so regularly appears on Dutch music, to represent them this year? So on that regard the follow-up from CyBC stinks, eventhough I think that entrywise the follow-up was rather decent, at least in the usual Cypriot way of sending female pop (going from “Replay” to “El Diablo” which I like more than “replay”), and eventhough I’m falling out of the hype for Cyprus I once used to have, their 2015-2021 entry streak had entries that I largely feel positive for overall, so in that regard, the follow up is decent. Qualification factor: In a year of Semi 1 Female Banger Slaughterhouse, Elena goes out in my eyes with several scratches, but not enough to completely kill her chances. If anything, given the divisiveness of Ireland’s rehearsals, Elena is likely to obliterate any last memory of Lesley Roy any first time viewer has ever had, except for her stage graphics. Even if Elena’s staging will not be as mindblowingly cartooney as the last, once a bop comes on, everyone forgets the slower song and gives into the bop, at least that’s how the draws work when choosing what insignificant song to put on 2nd and wedge in between the opening banger and some lesser-key banger, right? I know that “Replay” barely qualified, but I find “El Diablo” slightly better, and it all goes well, it will barely just as qualify as well. Because in a Semi 1 Female Banger Slaughterhouse, she can’t be the losing one, really.

INTERNAL CORNER

I already told everything that was noteworthy about Elena’s journey in previous sections, honestly.

• That I said that CyBC likely ditched Sandro right after cancellation just like Hooverphonic ditched “Release Me” should they have had a chance to keep or toss their entry. It doesn’t present itself as the case, but I just feel like it is.

• That the song was revealed on a Cypriot talkshow where three dudes were aware that we were waiting for “El Diablo”, trying to throw some gratuitous English our way, hating that we didn’t like our show, but promising that “El Diablo” MV will be shown in “TWU MEENETS”, which wasn’t but worth the wait eh?

• That people were cackling at Zara Larsson joining in the talks of Elena’s MV having aspects of her own song’s MV plagiarized.

• That Elena performed her song in a private-ish event when drunk and having heaps of fun and people cried that it was gonna be a NQ.

And do I really need to elaborate about the local Cypriot church scandal? It just so happened that a bunch of people read into a song’s title so much, thought it was rude of their country to sing about the devil (eventhough the bigger offenses made here is the gratuitous Spanish more than anything), and hoped that the broadcaster will disqualify the very song they okayed to be internally chosen because they are displeased with it - and if it’s not disqualified, they even threatened to burn the headquarters down. No, really. That’s like the most amusing part of that whole spectacle. Imagine burning a broadcaster headquarters down for a song... if I did it for every favourite of mine that lost to other broadcasters, the broadcasters would run out of locations to rent, because everything else good is pre-occupied or the ashes of their lost headquarters staring back at them.

Imagine being toxicly Christian in 2021... How long until Elena’s face gets photoshopped on the main protagoniste of The Unholy?

ANY LAST WORDS?

Even if I’m with this song, part of me kind of wants me to fail to make Cyprus realize that their formula is starting to wear thin and they got to be somewhat of a versatile nation in Eurovision if they want to be on the radar of not just one specific niche. But then again, they learned nothing when they flopped with Tamta, because she sneakily qualified as opposed to failing even harder than Tulia, ah well. Will they ever learn?

But why would I openly wish this to a top 11 song of mine, oh dear. Good luck Elena, may God be on your side, I guess. :P

#eurovision #eurovision 2021 #rotterdam 2021 reviews #cyprus #elena tsagrinou #el diablo

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pokeydapuppy · 3 years

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The groups I’m cheering for this DRB ovo

Pfft, I am suuuuper late

But my final thoughts!

As you can see from above, I want BB, M, and FP to win. I only realized that I just needed Samatoki in there to be TDD haha Honestly a bit disappointing that I didn’t but lemme explain myself for my reasons.

While I do love the new divisions (I’m a hard DH fan tbh lol), I mostly wanted to focus on how it would affect the story and then the group’s performance. Since the start, before the lives, I wanted to support BB, M, and MTC. As you can see, It’s been changed from MTC to FP X”D

(Black Journey is too powerful imo it has me rolling every time. Though ramuda’s first beginning aprt definitely caught me off guard and that lil intro had me laughing. That chorus??? Freaking <3<3)

Buster Bros, I think I only got around to talk about the first two groups never the next two pfft. As much as I would like to see our favorite comedy duo win, I really want them to beat their father and get a sense of victory as well. I won’t forget the fact that they were the first to go first DRB rip Re:Start is ultimately better than Wara Osaka in my opinion, even if its tacky dance lives rent free in my mind and I think about them often lol. Jiro’s Aniki is going to take some time to get used to, but I think that development (all of them, save Ichiro tbh ??) in the drama track has pulled my heartstrings and they’re adorable.

Hmm, honestly when it does come to M vs BAT, my sibling has had me conflicted many times. (She’s also the one that converted me from MTC to FP blame her lol) It’s true- if BB is going to win, wouldn’t we want a Naughty Busters like reunion? If we aren’t going to get it from DH and MTC that is. Kaigen and RIP are also superb compared to Tomoshibi... (it was a good song I swear- just come on, BAT had more energy this time around XD It fit the hype I was looking for in the 2nd DRB) Rip for Kuko’s scream that isn’t in the actual recording only in the live ashdjkk. If he doesn’t do that future lives still Imma be sad lmao. Anyways I don’t think the “champions” should just go afterwards either. Also les make that inferior complex worse ehhhhh jkjk Also, overall I just feel like M’s popularity and that Drama track might secure them that win. I think the plot might be cleaner then?? Of course, it’s all debatable and Im sure that if either team won, the story could still develop just fine.

Dear goodness, Jyuuto’s part in Hunting Charm actually haunts me. Anyways, Fp doesn’t deserve to lose, what was that one joke floating around about the pink one getting it. Please. Just let them trick or treat form other clones, he doesn’t deserve this ajhsjkkk While as much as I think Samatoki deserves that win and revenge for Nemu (Also potentially meeting her?? But ig he doesn’t have to win to have that opportunity) I feel that FP’s stronger bond and passion to live might push them for that win.

As for the versus songs themselves-

Ohhh dear Most favorite to least favorite:

Reason to Fight - Light Shadow - Joy for Struggle

I’ll be honest, for the amount of hype that I had for the 2nd DRB, DhvsBB disappointed me... In the sense of energy of course- I still find it a heckin good bop. But I think what I wanted was just them spitting fire at each other, just fire XDD It was cute- their lil manzai and joking, but I think it would’ve been cooler to throw heat in there. Seemed more to DH’s vibe than a mixed battle vibe.

Now the other two songs, much like the past DRB songs were LIT. I absolutely loved them. That banger part in Reason to Fight that makes me throw my hands in the air to go with the beat (Yall know it lol) is killer. Doppo’s scream -beautiful as always (but also Jyushi’s and kuko’s lol)- including just the raw energy I felt from Light Shadow was absolutely phenomenal.

I honestly wish there was more anger(?) in Dh and Bb But I also get why it didn’t lol Either way, although they're like my top favorite divisions, that’s my reasoning. I’d chat about the Drama tracks too, but tbh I haven’t seen the translations yet so I don’t wanna spread misconceptions lol

This has gone long enough- Imma try and throw up some more art of hypmic though. I had this done a couple days ago but just wanted to post it anyways. You can sort of tell the rush because while I made some of the top transparent I didn’t erase the overlay LOL

Also I had 2/3 BB icons done, but I really want to post the three of them together... Hopefully I’ll pull myself up soon to finish Saburo pfft

#I'm sorry this is such a long rant ashdfkjk #I shoulda done this earlier LOL #hypmic #hypnosis mic #hypmic 2nd drb #yamada ichiro #amemura ramuda #jinguji jakurai #I didn't read over this because I have notes to do #Sorry for the mistakes lol

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insomniacandtired · 5 years

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Headcanons #2

Can you do another Irene/Seulgi/Joohyun?The first one was a banger, bro.👌

First of all, Irene and Joohyun love taking care of their princess

Anything she needs, she gets

Seulgi is the most spoiled princess ever

Or at least she would be, if she wasn’t who she was

All Seulgi cares about is making sure she was a good girl, and that her mommies never had a reason to punish her

They found reasons anyways, just so they could have fun with their baby

Seulgi’s only flaw is that she thinks too much about being a good girl, to the point where she ends up misbehaving

The twins feel really bad about it sometimes, since they’re both kinda scatterbrained

If they end up forgetting something, Seulgi automatically blames it on herself, and it takes a long time for Irene and Joohyun to convince her she didn’t do anything wrong

Would you please write an exid smut with dom!solji? Preferably lesol but you can choose the pairing if that doesnt work. Thank you!

Solji isn’t the kind of dom most would think her to be

With her mostly happy disposition, you’d think she was either a harsh sadist or not a dom at all

Instead, she’s the kind of dom that can make you feel guilty as hell about misbehaving with nothing but a look

LE’s the kind of person that isn’t normally a sub

Hell, she’s not even a switch

But when she’s with Solji, she can’t be anything else

She surrenders to Solji in an instant, laying back and letting her have her way

When Solji isn’t there, LE is the badass rapper we all know and love, but the moment Solji steps into the room, she transforms into a whiny lapdog

Behind closed doors, Solji likes to take LE and tie her to the bed, teasing her for hours before she finally takes mercy

By the end of it all LE’s whining and whimpering and can’t even remember her own name

As an experiment, Solji slips a collar around LE’s throat one time, and realizes LE likes it a lot more than she thought she would when she comes explosively with a scream

After that it’s hard to find LE without her collar on, even when Solji isn’t there

can i request sugarmommy!jihyo and babygirl!dahyun, please?

Jihyo owns the office building Dahyun interns at, and for a while, that was all there was between them

One day Dahyun is informed that her rent is going up, and when that was added to her student loans and the debt her father left her with, she realized there was no way she’d be able to afford enough food to stay alive

Swallowing her pride, she goes to the CEO in her best clothes with a resume and cover letter and begs for a job

Jihyo informs her that there aren’t any positions open, and Dahyun almost cries, before something she’d only ever read about pops into her mind, and she realizes it might be the answer to her problems

She’s already at rock bottom, she had nothing to lose

Proposing the idea to Jihyo, she’s surprised that the CEO accepts

At first Jihyo doesn’t ask for much besides her company, but Dahyun realizes the amount she receives is affected by how far they go

She still has some pride, so she doesn’t go further than kissing for a long time

When she and Jihyo finally grow closer, she decides that it’s not about the money anymore, and let’s Jihyo have her way with her

She cries when her ‘allowance’ goes up, convincing herself that Jihyo is only interested in her because she’s paying Dahyun for sex

It’s only when she calls herself a prostitute in Jihyo’s presence that the mistake gets addressed

Their relationship changes, but the biggest difference is Jihyo’s title changing from Sugar Mommy to girlfriend

hi, hope your days going well! can I request some nsfw viseul? love your page!

First of all, despite what it seems like, Vivi is definitely the “mother” of that relationship

She does her best to look after Haseul and provide for her, being the most supportive girlfriend ever

Most of the time they're soft as hell for each other, but every once in a while, Haseul decides she wants to be a bit bratty that day

And things get steamy

As supportive as Vivi is, she's just as strict

She does not approve of any rule breaking, even if it's just playful, and will always punish Haseul the moment she steps out of line

Haseul has long since figured out she's a low-key masochist, so the punishments aren't much of a deterrent

Vivi's favorite method is good ole fashioned spanking, but she occasionally strays to more exotic forms

Haseul is a big fan of shibari, even with the denial that goes along with it

Vivi was surprisingly into cockwarming

The sight of Haseul squirming on her lap, the long strap on nearly fully sheathed inside her, was almost too much to bear

Since we’re talking about girls being called daddy here, would it be okay to ask for Daddy!Seulgi and Babygirl!Yeri? Maybe something about Yeri cockwarming Daddy!Seulgi’s strap and being all super cute and whiny about it?

could you please write mommy!irene and daddy!seulgi with babygirl!wendy

i really, really love your works omg... maybe can i request a yermseul one? these two have been so close lately and we know the biggest crush yeri have on seulgi. So maybe a jealous!seulgi x yeri???

hello! do you have any yerene headcanons?? could you please say some of them please?

I can see a lot of you are on the same train of thought. I've decided to combine these asks, since they're pretty similar. Mommy Irene, Daddy Seulgi, babygirls Wendy and Yeri. I'm not sure where Joy would fit in. Maybe Yeri and Wendy's friend that Irene and Seulgi want to bring into their dynamic? Anyone has any thoughts, let me know, alright? So in this au, Seulgi and Irene are married. They seduced Yeri, an intern at Seulgi's firm. Yeri moved in with them and became their babygirl, never having to worry about a thing besides her schooling. Eventually she learned that her best friend, Wendy, was going through some financial troubles and persuaded Irene and Seulgi into letting her join them.

Yeri's been spending too much time with Irene lately, and not enough with her

At least, that's what Seulgi thinks

She watches as her lovely wife dances around the kitchen, tickling Wendy and peppering Yeri's face with kisses

It was a scene that she loved to come home to, their happy laughter washing away her stress and calming her down

That doesn't stop the dark pit of jealousy in her

She knew she was jealous, and she knew she really had nothing to worry about, but she couldn't stop herself from doing something about it

That evening, while she worked on the dishes with her baby, she set her plan to work

Unzipping her trousers, she pulled out the strap she had hidden and slipped it up the back of Yeri's skirt

Yeri froze, glancing over her shoulder and whimpering at the sight of Seulgi's scowl

Without a word, she slipped Yeri's panties to the side and sank into her, burying the strap in her lithe body

Yeri sighs out a weak “daddy…” as it enters her, but quickly realizes Seulgi's plan when she doesn't start to move

She whimpers, making Seulgi chuckle

“Such a good little slut, taking daddy so well. No moving, baby, I want you to feel me.”

She makes Yeri continue with the dishes, whispering filth in her ears the whole while, rubbing her sides and nibbling at her neck

Yeri can barely stand, but she keeps going, unwilling to be punished

By the time she finishes, Yeri's bent over the counter, desperately trying not to come

Seulgi, pulls out and turns to leave, just to be an ass, only to see Irene sitting at the table with Wendy in her lap, gently making their other baby come on her fingers

She has a dangerous look in her eye as she stares at Seulgi challengingly

“Don't let us stop you. Weren't you just about to finish?”

Seulgi grumbles, her plan ruined, but follows her wife's order, kneeling on the tile and hiking Yeri's skirt up to her hips

Yeri is squirming on her tongue in an instant, gasping for air as Seulgi pulls out every trick she knows

Irene watches smugly, kissing all over Wendy's face and neck

Wendy is trembling, but she lets Irene do as she pleases, too trusting to put up even the smallest bit of resistance

Irene cherishes that trust, doing her absolute best to make sure that all her girls are taken care of and happy, satisfying herself with their comfort

They manage to make Yeri and Wendy come at the same time, their babies collapsing bonelessly in the wake

They bring them to the master bedroom, the bed tere large enough to easily contain them all

They fall asleep together, content in the presence of their loves

hey, u write for momoland?

I do, as long as it doesn't involve Nancy.

Can you make a mihyo story for me? They're my favorite ship in twice. ^^

Jihyo was tired

It had been a long day at work, her boss yelling at her a total of five times (a new record)

All she wanted was to sleep

Instead, as she opened the door to her apartment she noticed an extra pair of shoes on the mat, shoes that she knew very well, considering she had bought them

Her bad mood vanished instantly, replaced with excitement as she rushed into the kitchen

Her girlfriend was there, dancing like a feather as she sang along with the radio

She paused in front of the stove, and Jihyo sighed happily at the sight of Mina's happy smile

Mina heard her, twirling over to her to wrap her arms around Jihyo's neck and plant a soft kiss on her lips, both of them smiling too much to kiss properly

“I thought you were in Japan, how are you here?”

Mina reveals that she managed to finish up a few days early and came back to surprise Jihyo

They eat cuddled up close, neither having room to use their utensils properly, but neither particularly cared, content in being close after a week of being apart

After finishing up and cleaning the dishes, they go to bed

They're both exhausted, but neither can fall asleep, letting out sleepy giggles and giving each other little kisses

“You have no idea how much I needed this today. I love you so much, baby…”

Mina chuckles, her eyes fluttering closed

“Mmm...love you too…”

can we get a teacher! momo and student! dahyun au/fic with subby dahyun): she baby

It's Dahyun's first year in university

She's nervous, she doesn't know anyone, she's away from home

It makes sense that she'd latch on to the pretty dance professor that's so nice to her

Even when she starts to make friends and go out more, she'll always choose Momo over any other plans, obviously infatuated

Despite what people say, Momo isn't stupid, nor does she take unnecessary risks

She explains to Dahyun that nothing can happen between them, since she's a student

Dahyun agrees, but doesn't change, continuing to prioritize Momo

When she finally graduates, she asks Momo out - impressed by her dedication, Momo agrees

Unsurprisingly, Dahyun likes to role play

Specifically, professor and naughty student

Momo isn't as into it, mostly just going along with it to make Dahyun happy, but she still has fun

Dahyun loves it when Momo brings her to functions

She likes to hang off Momo's arm, showing herself off as Momo's pretty little plaything

She's quite smart, but she likes to pretend to be vapid eye candy

Mommy!Yves taking care of sick Baby!Chuu? Super fluffy please?

Jiwoo doesn't get sick often, which is good, because when she does she can't really do anything for herself, she she really doesn't want to scare off Sooyoung

Sooyoung is always composed and serious, and Jiwoo is always trying to make herself more mature so Sooyoung doesn't get annoyed with her, so seeing her the way she gets when she's sick would probably make her break up with her

Unfortunately, she got sick

Even worse, it was a day that Sooyoung was supposed to come over to help her with her coursework, and Jiwoo had completely forgotten about it

Sooyoung let herself in with the key Jiwoo had given her

She found Jiwoo wrapped up in a blanket, sniffling, staring at her water bottle

Jiwoo is unresponsive until Sooyoung confusedly hands her her drink, brow furrowed as Jiwoo perks up immediately

Sooyoung puts on cartoons for her, doing her best to help her with everything she needs as she tries to figure out what's going on

She only finds out when Jiwoo tells her the next day

To Jiwoo's surprise, Sooyoung doesn't leave

She enjoyed taking care of Jiwoo, and didn't find Jiwoo's regression all that weird

After that, Jiwoo starts to be herself more, and finds that Sooyoung is actually a lot warmer to her when she's acting less mature

She liked to take care of Jiwoo, and since Jiwoo liked to be taken care of, it works out perfectly

im still thinking about seolbo relationship in pretty girl more seolbo plz

Seola is the strictest dom ever

It's rare for her to be lax about anything, but when she is, Bona takes advantage of it immediately

She likes to tease Seola, which almost always leads to her being bent over and punished, wherever they are

Despite that, Seola takes care of her girl

Whenever Bona feels down, Seola is always there to cheer her up and make her feel better

Bona can never hide when she's feeling down, not from Seola

She knows her too well

Instead of trying to hide it anymore, she just goes to Seola, quietly sidling up to her in the middle of whatever she's doing and pressing her head against her, waiting patiently for Seola to finish up and pull her into her arms

They never have any of those sugary sweet moments that so many other couple have, but they don't need to

They know they love each other, and they're quietly content with that

hi! i love your headcanons and writing. if you’re okay with it and/or ever have time, would sunmi/yves be something you’d consider writing for?

Sunmi and Yves are rival CEOs for modelling company, constantly battling for photo shoots and cfs

Whenever they're seen in public together, they're either glaring at each other or passive aggressively bragging and trying to one up each other

In private, however…

Up against walls, against windows, over counters, over the back of the couch, against the door, even in the middle of the floor

They're constantly doing their best to wreck the other, fucking each other into next week

Neither of them bottoms or tops, instead turning it into a battle to see who can make the other beg

Eventually, it becomes normal to wake up next to each other, make each other breakfast, even start to find themselves thinking about each other

It takes them a long time to realize they don't actually hate each other

#red velvet #exid #twice #loona #momoland #wjsn #sunmi #smut #fluff

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kpopgerapitico · 6 years

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EOYR 2017: Dance

As a person who is no way qualified to talk about dance, here is a whole post where I get picky about k-pop dances. So this is now a thing. Also, this is LONG, like stupidly long, like holy shit why can’t she get succinct.

Note, there are some qualifiers to this: 1. Unlike last year, there wasn’t a cool show with lots of live performances that were all dance centric and blew all of our collective minds. So only one song listed here is a live performance only. 2. There were some really fun dance practices that I wanted to mention. Some of them even accompany cool dances. 3. A lot of these songs did not make my end of year list for k-pop. It doesn’t mean I don’t like the songs, just that I don’t love them. 4. Only 1 song per artist. 5. My rules include: no one can be standing still for more than a couple seconds, and it has to look cool to me. That’s it. That’s all the rules.

Anyways, let’s start with those fun videos:

Hyuna’s Babe was not to me her best work, on first listen. My mind has changed about it. And while her dance itself is not particularly special for her, it is still on point. What makes the practice video so fun though is her staff, who seem determined to have her break from the badass character she plays on stage to her normal shy self. Via fanchants. It is amazing. Especially the end where she commits to it too.

The onesies trend in dance practices is great. CLC did the cutest version of it this year. Especially when juxtaposed against the banger Hobgoblin. You can’t help but grin, especially as they do the chorus, with its much harder hitting moves, or they constantly fight to keep the heads of their animals on their heads.

While Dingo music has a bunch of ways that they make lives more interesting (I’m partial to cooking live). There first attempt at a dance practice is pretty great too. And they get to take a very good dance to a very good song and make SF9 look like idiots. I’m partial to the full hanbok look, or maybe the matador. And it is O Sole Mio, with multiple changes, that still manages to look super cool.

The minute and a half before the song actually starts in the dance practice of Seventeen’s Clap is the best part of the dance practice. I don’t even need to speak Korean to understand most of the things being said. By far the best part is them realizing Vernon isn’t there, yelling for him, and having him walk in with headphones looking totally out of place. I get that he is faking it, but I also don’t care, because at least half of them lose it at his face. Oh, and there is a Seventeen level dance after, full of fun and lots of synchronization.

And now, for my single live performance. While Mnet absolutely murdered the filming of Shape of You, it is easily the best thing to come out of Produce 101 season 2 filming. The choreo is so damn good, that it doesn’t look like it was made by an idol, it looks like a professional choreographer spent hours on it. Also, I’m partial to anything that isolates movement in parts of the body, so all of the rhythmic stuff I just adore.

Finally, I looked at lots of dance practice videos, and chose some of the best and brightest. Or you know, the ones that looked cool . . .

Bottom 5:

I couldn’t mention dances this year without mentioning KARD, who put their mixed composition to such good use. I love the mirror image stuff they do across the center, as well as the different parts for the girls and guys. It works so damn well, especially in the choruses, where the differences disappear.

Ten is super young, but is already looking like he will take over SM’s dance line. I can see the youth in Dream in a Dream, where he is vibrant in his movement. And the backup dancers are working their butts off. I think he still has a way to go with some more subtlety in his movements, but for now, the drama is absolutely there.

Best props goes to VIXX, which in no way surprises literally anyone who saw the choreography for Shangri-la. I am still surprised that this song didn’t get much recognition, if only for the beautiful stage outfits that often accompanied the fans. It is super creative, and such a nice use of an accessory.

Speaking of props, Brave Girls also did a great job with the classic stage chair. I would not be brave enough to do their chair dance at all. Every time I watch the dance for Rollin’, I get super jealous of the core strength all of the girls have. They sit fully in a squat on a small surface and then still dance.

Another group I couldn’t leave out was Gfriend, with my choice of Fingertip. It is the only Gfriend song that I moderately like, and just like all of their songs, their dance is absolutely on point. It is exactly the best of what you expect a k-pop dance to be: so in-sync that you cannot tell if any of the members have made a mistake. Fingertip is another great example of this.

Top 5:

In 5th, we have the first influence of 1Million, a dance studio in Korea that has just in the last year really gained popularity. In fact, they got some idols, for their debut track. So the choreography of ACE’s Cactus is just a little bit harder than many idols have to deal with, and just a little bit more trendy. The resulting dance is damn impressive, especially for rookies.

In 4th is the dance practice that made everyone very very very thirsty. And no one can blame anyone except EXO’s choreographer. Not that literally anyone is complaining about The Eve. It is a song that depends on the members having mastered a body roll. Most of them do this successfully, and those who don’t, well we all still love them very much (poor Chanyeol . . . and you can’t even see Baekhyun try, since he is stuck in the back). Also the song is good? Like why wasn’t this the comeback? (I get it, Ko Ko Bop got chosen for reasons).

Moving on to another 1Million entry is the effortless Yacht from Jay Park. It would be so easy for him to get shown up by all these professional dancers, but instead, Jay Park carries it with loose muscles, lots and lots of practice, a just a little bit a humor at his own mistakes. The practice videos for him learning choreography with 1Million are almost as great as the dances themselves, which are the kind of effortless cool that Jay Park seems to be made of.

I couldn’t make a list and not include at least one of the dances that was a craze of variety shows, as idols and entertainers alike tried their best to be Sunmi. Because everyone wanted to make a finger gun a pretend to be a badass. But there is nothing like the original, who absolutely kills a dance that is entirely about attitude. Add to that a killer best, and there is a recipe for greatness.

Finally, is a group who I would never have guessed would hold such a high spot, if you told me before I watched the choreography for this song. The reality of Tomorrow, Today from JJ Project begs to differ. It is hard enough to dance in perfect harmony (see Gfriend), but to switch back in forth from mirroring choreography and matching choreography is insane. I can’t even imagine how you practice it together, because you are doing the same thing, but absolutely not the same thing. You can’t practice in the mirror, but have to practice facing each other, especially since so much of the choreography is done in that position. It breaks me in the best way. SUCH GOOD DANCE!!!

#eoyr 2017 #dance

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16/17 season review

It needs to be said that Bristol Rovers aren’t a successful team. In fact, Bristol as a whole has massively underperformed in football considering that cities like this have Premier League clubs knocking about. That’s the way it goes, and both clubs have somewhat accepted that neither of us will never be the best in England.

That’s practically the city of Bristol in a nutshell. You can look at places like Cardiff just across the bridge: when they want something, they say they’re going to get it and they do. In Bristol, the lads here say they want something, say they’re going to get it, and two appeals, five years and a court case later the project is “looking at other options”. It’s exactly the same with football here.

But what can you do about that? Really?

Because City have spent the season hanging around the bottom of the Championship, and two years ago Rovers were relegated into non-league; humiliation and heartbreak echoing around North Bristol.

City weren’t amazing that season either.

It was a bad season for football in Bristol, but at least City didn’t have the overhanging embarrassment of leaving the Football League entirely.

Rovers, however, spent the summer playing the role of a lost child, unaware and needing constant reassurance. Sack the board and Clarke out were all the gasheads could mutter. It was a travesty, and it was the first time it had ever happened to us.

The season started shaky, a couple of draws, a loss here and there, wins scattered across the board. That was just the beginning, and all we could do was hope for the best and not expect anything.

Soon things picked up. We won. A lot. We went 22 games without defeat and broke the longest unbeaten streak record for the Conference. We thought we’d get automatics. Of course it’s the Conference and only number one can certainly escape, but we nearly had it in the bag. A win at Dover and a win on the last day would’ve sorted it. But we don’t like doing things the easy way her apparently, so we drew at Dover and a seven nil thrashing of Alfreton wasn’t enough to knock Barnet off the top spot.

We picked ourselves up and glided through the playoffs: a 3-0 aggregate win against Forest Green Rovers, a local derby. And Wembley was stressful as well. Grimsby Town vs Bristol Rovers. We took 30,000 and they took 17,000: a record. From the thirty minute mark to the end of extra time, it was 1-1. Penalties were a blur: John-Paul Pittman kicking straight over the crossbar, and Lee Mansell slotting home the winner.

Relief.

The main emotion at the blue and white end of Wembley.

Relief.

And so the 2014/15 season came to close and the new season began.

In our low league minds, it was the comeback of the decade.

Bristol Rovers, little Bristol Rovers back in the Football League and ready for the next step.

A promotion campaign that doesn’t end until the 7th May 2016. Dagenham & Redbridge at home. A win and results to go our way to steal 3rd place.

It was only luck that Accrington didn’t win.

But it was pure resilience that we won, 93rd minute and Matty Taylor hits the post and Lee Brown pounced on the rebound.

That wasn’t relief; it was ecstasy. Because this time, we weren’t escaping; we were achieving.

And that was just the prologue.

2016 was almost an excuse to calm down. Relax and not stress out. We were back in our comfort zone of League One. I think i read somewhere that if you averaged out our league finishes since we entered the football league, we’d be around 15th in League One.

That just sums up Rovers really: 15th in League One.

Anyway, as long as we weren’t threatened by relegation, we didn’t really mind what happened.

We lost our first match because we always do: a 3-1 loss at Glandford Park. Ollie Clarke and Tom Lockyer both get booked, the silly bastards. Our first and second most disciplined players respectively.

That was alright, we’ll bounce back.

And we did, obviously, because The Memorial Stadium is our own and too easy to win at. 5 yellow cards, and that’s excluding the two that sent off Oxford’s Sam Long.

Up until January, our results were hit and miss. We won a few, lost a few, drew a few. I reckon the 5-1 battering at home at the hands of Charlton was the highlight.

We won our boxing day match and our News Years Eve match. Granted, they were both at home, but 2-0 vs Wimbledon and 4-1 vs Coventry were cracking games and we deserved to win them.

We went into the New Year feeling confident.

We took a big knock away at Charlton, them winning by a large margin once again. It was vaguely embarrassing really. Our away record was shocking all season; we only won about five games away. It was home record (which was genuinely the best in English football for three years) that kept us in the top half of the table.

Northampton at home was supposed to be fairly easy because they were soft and mid table and one of the only teams we’d beat away.

And fairs to us because we beat them 5-0, with a banger of a Billy Bodin goal, a seven minute hat trick by Ellis Harrison, and then another Harrison goal later in the game. This lead to some quality Harrison propaganda, and Rob Page getting the sack after calling the game “men against girls”.

Classic sexism.

(He got the Wales u21 manger job a bit later on so it turned alright for him in the end.)

Then we were blessed with a couple of 3-1 away losses in a row. Bit of a shit two weeks for the gasheads really. We were all sick of our shocking away record, and I dreaded away games, especially when i wasn’t going. That might sound weird, but watching us be shite live is better than suffering whilst refreshing twitter and seeing us concede every ten minutes.

The last game of January was a Westcountry derby: Swindon Town vs Bristol Rovers. It’s a derby that used to have a history of Rovers fans going into pubs with bats and smashing up a few Swindon fans, and then them lot glassing us back.

Now it’s just us singing inbreds and roundabouts and them nicking City’s song about hating gas scum.

Swindon were playing shit all season and our home run was quality so their wasn’t much doubt of us winning. Also, when we played them at the beginning of the season, after the called off match and the ticket price fiasco, we pulled a comeback out of our arses with a penalty and an own goal.

Billy Bodin scored what would turn out to be the only goal of the match and it was classic Bodin magic like always.

It’s a BTEC Bristol Derby, but because that never happens anymore, it’s was decently entertaining, if anything fairly stressful.

31st of January was the day that us Rovers fans were humiliated and angry.

Fucking hell were we angry.

Matty Taylor, our top goal scorer, who’d scored 61 goals in all competitions across three seasons, the bloke who played a massive part of our back to back promotions from the Conference and League 2, the lad we took from Forest Green and essentially made him relevant, decided to pay us back by moving to Bristol City on the last day of the transfer day.

Bristol City. Our fucking rivals. The only team that every gashead hates.

Taylor produces a great explanation of “it was too hard to resist” as if there aren’t actual contracts out on his life.

It was shambles. We had no idea what to do and we had no chance to pull ourselves back together. We had about four hours of the window left and no one to buy.

We were fucked essentially. And it was more than that.

I heard about it at school. I kept hearing whispers about Matty Taylor and i didn’t properly realise what was happening until last period.

The City fans were piping up and I felt sick, because we were about to lose our debatably best player to our local, and more importantly major, rivals.

School was going to hell, even though it’s in a village just off of North Bristol and in theory, my school should be full of gasheads. It’s not though because half of this city are glory hunters.

None of us though we’d fare well for the rest of the season, what with us not having a consistent goalscorer and all. It was just another excuse for other teams to take the piss out of us.

We found options though.

Ollie Clarke got his big break, which still makes me laugh considering he’s been here since he was about 14 and has always had bags of talent. He’d been in the squad for most of the season, and starting the majority of them. Ollie has 128 apps and 12 goals to his name and a good 11 of them were absolute worldies. He pulled one out against Oxford at the beginning of March, our first away win since October. My lad got one against Scunthorpe and a 40 second banger vs Chesterfield.

Billy Bodin became the main man. CR7 is just a poor mans BB23 really. He scored more goals than our actual strikers. We’ll be so lucky if we can keep him this summer.

Speaking of which, Luke James massively failed. The poor bloke didn’t score a single league goal in his 23 apps for us during his loan from Peterborough. He’s a lush lad, and his baby’s really cute, but he just can’t put the ball in the back of the net. Babber even had a straight penalty given, and it got saved straight out. (It was a pressure penalty and he shouldn’t have been taking it anyway so I’m not sure if i can be blaming him for this one.

Bolton away was such a crease it’s unreal. We should’ve won. We practically beat Bolton in their own backyard and we were disappointed. Darrell Clarke said in the post match interview that it shows just how far we’ve come that we’re disappointed in a draw at Bolton. He’s not wrong mates.

Our playoff push managed to last until the penultimate weekend, where we go full circle and pull a Bristol Rovers by losing 4-2 at Peterborough.

Quality.

Millwall at home was our last game of the season. They had to win to secure playoffs, and our result didn’t matter because we’d finish top ten either way, but we wanted to mess with Millwall’s play off party, and if all else fails, watch them get battered to fuck in the playoffs.

The first two goals they scored were textbook offside and that’s just a fact. The Mem was the loudest it had been all season even if we were leaking goals like a tap. (Ryan Sweeney not in the squad makes a massive difference apparently. Better than England u20s international Jake Clarke-Salter definitely.)

Anyway, we get one back, and then they get another, and then we get another one, and we go into half time 2-3 down. Us over here was thinking we were gonna lose 6-2 in the second half was decently wrong.

Our attacking force was mental and Millwall didn’t have a chance. Eventually, we get a free kick in a dangerous position. Bodin can take free kicks apparently and puts it top bins.

Southend were winning, and if we could keep that draw Millwall we’re out of it.

Course, they scored 85th minute, but we had our brief moment of glory.

There were upsides to Millwall making the playoffs (and eventually winning them) like not having to play them next season, more specifically going to The Den.

And that’s the season over.

A season that considering the circumstances, was very successful. We finished in our highest position since 1999 when main man Ian ‘Ollie’ Holloway was our manger.

Two years ago and if someone told me we’d be cracking it in League 1 I’d’ve twist your wrist in.

We’re not a big team, and we never will be, but Bristol Rovers is enough for me.

(as long we get into the championship soon and that uwe stadium starts happening @wael)

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