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prettyoddfever · 3 months

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why are you so against ryden

I'm literally only pointing out why specific examples of "Ryden proof" don't work, or were misinterpreted by people who don't know much about the band. If me being pro-reality means that you consider me anti-Ryden then, uh… you might want to examine that more.

As long as we're on this topic, I'm going to expand on an older post here and go off on a tangent:

I actually loved the Ryden part of the fandom in the pre-split days! Ryden felt like a fandom-wide inside joke that united so many fans and sparked so much creativity (sometimes it reminded me of inventing bs symbolism in english & art classes lol). I didn’t read the slash, but it’s not like those kids stayed exclusively over in their communities… they were everywhere. A lot of my favorite accounts were massive Ryden fans & fic authors. but even the most die-hard shippers in 2006 & 2007 would scoff if new fans asked if they were ever being serious with their comments. It was all just entertaining wish fulfillment done to amuse themselves. They would act like it was a legit alternate reality and write long funny primers & posts like “look guys, they are in love. this is facts… here I go with my proof," but when it came down to whether or not they actually thought it was real… no, of course not. The fanfic authors were the first to laugh and say they weren’t hurting anyone because nobody actually believed Ryden was real and everyone was on the same page. They argued that every single band had a slash community and it just came with the fame. Some fans genuinely wanted Ryden to be real, while others thought it was entertaining how you could cherry-pick events & isolate them from any context to make Ryden look plausible. And both groups were taking matters into their own hands by trying to tie enough pictures & random dots together to make it look like a happy alternate reality that satisfied everyone. It was funny.

The majority of the pre-split fandom understood that Ryden wasn’t real, so people were on the same page when they shared their “proof.” It was like an inside joke. For example, I’ll argue that unicorns could be real because I know that the person I’m talking to is aware of reality. I can get as creative as I want and just have fun because we’re both on the same page… and the other person will be like “well yes of course they’re obviously real.” It looks like we agree. But that does not mean that we truly believe it lol... we're just bored & entertaining ourselves. Someone else who is unsure whether or not unicorns actually exist might read our convo and conclude that we are certain unicorns are real and have proof! But I never intended for my silly convo with my friend to be taken that seriously.

For me, Ryden was more about the fandom. It was just fun to see a picture or new moment and wait to see if anyone else spotted the same potential too. The slash accounts across different sites/forums would even make fun of themselves for how far they would go to make everything fit Ryden. At times it felt like an affectionate joke about the band and the fandom.

I’d say the Ryden craze first took over with the huge surge of new fans during the summer 2006 tour (around the time Brendon & Ryan started fully going for the mic sharing each night). This was back when the band still read the forums and different fan sites and were trying to get a sense of what their fans were saying (such a bad idea lol). I was never totally clear on where the guys stood on Ryden in 2006 but it seemed like they were in on the joke… but it was so confusing at the same time. Like one minute they’d complain about the disgusting “pornfiction” in an interview and the next minute they’d be hamming it up for meet & greet pictures. Bden would practically hump Ryan’s leg during a show and then Ryan would suggestively run his hand up Bden’s thigh during a meet & greet exactly when he knew fans were watching… and then they’d both act like they didn’t get why fans ever came up with stories about them. I’m not saying their actions meant they were asking for something btw. I’m just saying that it’s equally true that the guys would claim they weren’t huge on Ryden and that they intentionally fueled the fire to get fans to laugh/scream at the right time. The band was super aware that the Ryden fans were a huge part of the fandom who drove a lot of the hype online… so it seemed like in late 2006 the guys were just trying to connect with a fanbase they were being quickly distanced from as they got more & more famous. Then in 2008 the guys intentionally added extra Ryden elements to their stage routine because they knew what a lot of fans still wanted to see.

So my conclusion was that it was all in good fun (except making suggestive comments to the band irl was horrible… people were even saying some seriously gross stuff to Zack about the boys and taking it waaaaay too far). During the lull of 2007, and even into 2008, there seemed to be a whole section of the fandom that was more invested in their fanfic communities than the irl band (they’d often come onto other boards & communities to ask for facts or details for their fanfics and watching the replies they got was like watching a really bad game of telephone haha so I’m guessing those plots diverged from reality pretty quickly). New fans were also being introduced to the band through fanfiction and seemed more intent on just spotting Ryden moments and learning the fanfic version of history rather than any real-life history. So by late 2008 there was definitely a small crowd who was taking Ryden more seriously and also understood less about the band. But I wasn't always sure if their tone was totally serious or not, because the joking posts had often been written in a serious tone too.

Side note on that: when I started this account in 2020 I hadn't thought about P!ATD much while I had been sick for years. I was just trying to throw myself back into the mindset of 2006 and rediscover a time when my world had been awesome & I was healthy. So when I saw all the sun/moon theories that had formed after I'd left the fandom I was like YES omg this is amazing. I lived for that kind of stuff. But then it was confusing how the same people who were currently posting all of the “ryden was real” stuff were the same ones who would quickly point out that another one of my Ryden posts wasn’t what really happened or that a photo manip that I considered fun was actually fake… I mean, obviously??? I didn’t get why there was any difference between everything. It took me a few months to get a read on the current fandom and realize that things weren't being done in the same joking spirit. I started struggling to explain why I was posting Ryden-ish stuff if I didn’t necessarily believe what I was saying (and again I’m having a hard time explaining here because it never felt like the fandom was making up crap we didn’t stand behind back then! we were serious that we believed it was a darn good connection/theory or photoshop job haha). Ryden used to be like this shared alternate lens to view events through that felt like teamwork to create. We would intentionally pretend like years of full context didn't exist and create our own parallel narrative that could coexist with reality in our minds. But now it feels like people are sharing "Ryden proof" for real as though the piles of creative nonsense are an actual recap of historic events... and you need to pick some kind of "side" to believe? Idk, it's weird. I dropped any remaining nostalgia connected with Ryden content and ended up shifting the tone & focus of my account to organizing actual facts, media, and info about events I remember.

I don't think it's ok that moments in the band's history are often distorted or erased in order to pass off certain examples of “Ryden proof” as real now. It would be a shame for ridiculous Ryden stories to be prioritized as key info about the band while normal info about band members & events gets ignored now (ex: turning Northern Downpour into some kind of Ryden thing totally erases what Ryan wanted to do with the song). A lot of people have told me that they don’t care what actually happened because they prefer their ideas anyways. And that’s fine, as long as you’re aware that what you’re choosing doesn't track with reality. (Also, I always felt like knowing the real events or original photos from a manip gave me more appreciation for how creative people were… but I suppose that’s because Ryden was more about the fandom for me).

SIDE TANGENT: I drifted away from the fandom after summer 2009 when I got sick, so I don’t know specifically what happened over the next couple years to get so many fans who were impressively uninformed about the band yet super intense about Ryden at the same time... but I'm also not surprised I guess. Some knowledge about the band absolutely faded to the background in the last half of 2006 as the overwhelming amount of newer fans invented their own answers and were more interested in freaking out over cute guys than actually taking the time to learn about the band. The knowledge wasn't lost, it was just drowned out for a while in the midst of their enthusiastic chatter. It felt like a waste of time to correct them too because they were absolutely everywhere and they weren't really harming anyone by screaming things like Ryan took his mom as a date to the VMAs lol. Maybe there was a surge of younger fans by 2010-2011 who didn't have the context to know what they were looking at too, and were very enthusiastic about Ryden? I don't know. This is all purely speculation on my part.

I actually don't care whether anyone thinks Ryden was real or not... that's definitely not my focus and I'm not trying to convince anyone of a "side" either. You can conclude whatever you want. My focus in my posts is simply to provide context for some of the inaccurate stories & examples that are currently being passed around as though they're actual history. I don't expect anyone to care. But at least the info is still available for any younger fans who might be interested in the real-life band.

#ryden

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jaegonsmoon · 2 months

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Legit question, not just to you but to any lucemond shipper reading this. Are you guys ready to see the new season and Aemonds lover, Alys??? No hate, just wondering on all this for S2. What are your thoughts?

- you don't care

- gonna ship lucemond regardless

- want to see how it plays out compared to the book

- gonna go ham with AU's

oh! so, actually all the above??? Like idrc much about Aemond or the greens, I’m fully team black in canon. However yes, I am very curious to see where his character goes and how they’re gonna be portraying his relationship with Alys on screen! given how much they have changed from the books to screen, idrk what to expect that’s why I feel genuine curiosity about his entire arc. But I am ready to cheer over his death nonetheless<3.

as for Lucemond, I’m gonna be shipping it as if it was oct ‘22 all over again!!! I don’t really care for any of that, I’ve never truly let canon dictate how I feel towards a ship, I love living in my own bubble with the pairing that captivates me and that’s truly bliss! :) so there’s that!

And lastly but equally as important, I’m just excited for the show overall, regardless of what happens, I’m gonna be sat. 🫶

#i’ll always be team rhaenyra and whatever au’s i create about her brothers and sons #but thats it hehe #lucemond #aemond x lucerys

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mrgaretcarter · 11 months

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Ted Lasso 3x11 thoughts

It really was very nice to see Ted around the neighborhood saying Hi to everyone again, I missed watching him be part of the community a lot throughout the season

I liked the selection of guys who went to get Nate back

I think it would’ve been nice to have seen something that indicated that shift for the team since the last time we saw them thinking about Nate was that disaster at the West Ham match but I’m also not that committed to this 😅 Maybe seeing the vote they mentioned could’ve been fun and illuminating

It felt true to Nate that he enjoyed working at the restaurant

They must’ve been late to practice waiting for 75 freaking kebabs to be ready lmao

Got a kick out of mama Lasso being the origin of the open peanut butter jar

Finding out Beard has to routinely go over to Ted’s flat to make his oven stop beeping was very fun

Had a real good time of Ted being so annoyed at his mom behaving exactly like him. The split shot where she’s heading for the stairs and he’s behind rubbing his face lmao

I cracked up at the press conference when Jamie said the goal should be scrapped from the records and “i apologize to everyone, especially the kids” lmao

Screamed at Ted’s mom being named Dorothy they are shameless

Rebecca was SO excited to meet mama Lasso it was so cute, the way she threw her arms up when Dottie dropped the “Winner winner BF Skinner” line was super adorable, it was also cute how low she had to lean in order to hug Dottie

“I can’t believe I’m finally getting to meet the woman who created one of the nicest humans I’ve ever met” was also very very cute and welcome, I would like a full detailed account of what Rebecca thinks about Ted now thanks (but also I wish that delivery had been more pointed somehow, more loaded, do you know what I mean? Not because I think it had to be, I just got shipper goggles on and that would’ve made me lose my mind.)

The way Rebecca laughed when Dottie said the thing about Ted popping out of her already asking the doctor if he needed anything made me laugh, and then how annoyed Ted was by it made me laugh even more

It’s also pretty cute that Rebecca was so delighted by mama Lasso doing the very things Ted annoyed her for originally, like, those are things she loves now because she associates them with him

Mamma Lasso charming the locker room was great

Ted and Rebecca off to the side in his office observing was also great. I love that Rebecca was delighted by mama Lasso but also aware that Ted was not having a good time (and she hit him with Oklahoma again!)

I laughed at the eyebrow hair joke cause I knew exactly what Ted meant 😂 I’ve annoyed my dad many times about this specifically

“Sometimes the truth can ruin a perfectly good story” “You should work for the daily mail” I cant explain it but this exchange delighted me, they seem so friendly and have such a good back and forth, it’s always a pleasure to seem them onscreen together, and I will never forgive them for not letting us see more of it this season

Rebecca Welton horse girl confirmed!

Ted said he didn’t eat the poop candy bar, but his mom said he did, but we know she has a tendency to embellish her stories, but Ted seemed eager to stop that one in its tracks, so what is the truth??

Trent jumping at the chance to interview Mama Lasso was funny as was her saying his hair is fabulous, real audience self insert moment

“Shouting is Roy’s love language”

I enjoyed Jamie’s boot room meltdown though it was a bit over the top lmao for a split second I thought he was gonna kiss Roy

“Will?” “Yeah” “You missed a good one” I was howling at this lmaoooooo and Will looked so disappointed too he is a nosy little bitch those boot room encounters are NOT an accident he wants that tea

I nearly started crying when Ted said “Man, this place is great, right?” Cause like is it Ted?? Is it really?? I haven’t felt that from you and why???? WHY

Again, wish we’d seen this vote about Nate coming back even more knowing Higgins was approached about it or maybe initiated it

I love that Beard and Dottie have a whole thing going on including nicknames and a theme song

Ted storming off lmaooo

On the one hand I’m very confused about R/K on the other I’m glad its confusing because it means they didn’t just skip their getting back together last week, it was just a hook up

Babs always delivers she is so funny

“Still running around in circles, making sure everybody’s okay without accepting a drop of help for himself.” Sure, but where was that this season 😅

When beard asked Dottie how she was and she didn’t wanna answer I immediately thought she was sick or something and spent the rest of the ep on edge about it

I still don’t get how we’re supposed to take Beard and Jane

Thought it was a bit much to directly quote soooo much of this be the verse

The ominous shot of Dorothy’s house spinning on the pinball machine I stg

Laughed at Ted trying to put the suitcase on the bed and his mom going not on the bed! And him having to redirect on the fly

“I’ve actually been talking to this therapist” “Oh let me guess, it’s all my fault” that was SO momcore. This scene where they talk about the panic attacks and therapy and Ted asks if she ever considered talking to someone was actually my favorite exchange between Ted and his mom in terms of the emotional stuff, that I really felt, especially when she says “And you know I love my tea” how heavy that felt and how informative it was, to me, of their relationship without overstating it

Nora telling Rebecca to stop using her jet is SUCH a fic thing I was losing my mind

Jamie not high-fiving the guy and just walking straight into his hand made me laugh

Of course Kenneth does drag

Keeley was weird in this episode but I cant say what the problem was

Everyone, and I mean everyone, at team movie night was so fun! Rebecca looked so incredibly good! She was wearing jeans!!!

Cracked up at Dani sussing out Roy and Keeley and Keeley being like we’re just friends! And Roy being like she just looks very nice!

Don’t care for the way they keep rehashing S/R 🤨

Ted saying Sleepless in Seattle is better than You’ve Got Mail is truly insane, terrible taste on the man.

Love to know Jamie has a very nice step dad and I loved his mum!

I saw people thinking it was weird that Roy kept staring at Jamie and his mum but to me it just seemed like Roy thought what he was seeing was weird

Jade grew on me, she and Babs were the only worthy additions this season (even if Jade is technically from last season)

The posters on Jamie’s wall sfdhglisfhg the ot3 is SO real this is crazy

They really gotta let Keeley speak, it feels like things have just been happening to her this entire season when will she be Keeley-fucking-Jones The Independent Woman again?

What the fuck was Roy trying to hug Jamie’s mum and blowing her a kiss and saying he loves her, was he drunk? I did not get that at all

Rebecca’s dad went to art school! Not sure why that’s exciting, but it is!

This episode made me realize how much I missed seeing more of the matches, I watched this game on the edge of my seat like it was in real time

Higgins not wanting to move and jinx it 😂 Everything with Keeley, Higgins and Rebecca on the stands is always great and fun

I wonder what Jade would report Derek for lmao I like that she got Nate fired, again, Jade really grew on me

Jamie’s “Fuck you” and “Thank you” and Ted using it later on with his mom was good, though the pep talk itself didn’t necessarily work for me

Jamie acting like a prick and taking the hazing was great, it was also great to hear Jamie Tartt dododododo again, didn’t even realize I’d missed it. Their second goal was so exciting and the ManCity crowd later cheering Jamie was emotional as were the flashes of his mum watching the game. Anyway, everything Jamie was good as it’s been for the entire season.

Unexpected to see James Tartt in rehab

I didn’t like the Pep cameo, sue me lmao

Jamie saying goodbye to all the players was great, especially him saying he’s proud of Colin

My favorite Ted moment of the episode was when he changed Beard’s mind about Nate. I liked that it was a callback to when they all laughed when first watching Nate struggling with the sign and Ted turned it around and showed Beard how cruel it was to mock someones lowest moment.

Roy/Keeley/Jamie is extremely real, and I loved Ted passing them by and the parallel to season 1 when he sees Jamie with his dad

Beard forgiving Nate was easily my favorite scene in the episode. I loved Beard and Ted’s backstory and I really really loved “And then I stole from my friend, who forgave me, and gave me a job and a life. So to honor that, I forgive you, I offer you a job, and the life part’s up to you.” That really got me and Brendan’s delivery worked so well for me, the forehead touch and the hug as well, it felt like such a genuine moment, I was very happy with it.

Ted and Dottie’s last conversation didn’t land for me, but I enjoyed Ted cursing lmao and I liked “Sometimes you lose, sometime you win, but most of the time you just tie.”

I knew from filming that Bex would show up on Rebecca’s doorstep but Ms. Kakes was a surprise and I’m already SO excited about where this is going, I hope Rupert gets so fucked especially after I had so many issues with how he was handled last episode. Ps: I loved the sweater Rebecca was wearing in this scene.

The fact that his mom left with just a note was an interesting parallel to Sharon trying to do the same and to Deborah doing it to Rebecca

Hannah’s back looked so good in that dress

By that point I’d told myself a truth bomb wasn’t gonna happen and gasped when we saw Rebecca in his office even though I knew full well she didn’t have any truths to bomb him with

It’s so funny that she had this on her calendar or whatever, like yeah she had nothing but still felt the need to uphold tradition you know how it is lmao she’s ridiculous, @thesumdancekid said she should’ve told him something silly just to maintain the pattern and I agree and think that would’ve been cute

Again it is always such a pleasure to see them together onscreen no matter what they’re doing, my heart went off just from seeing them framed by that door

I swear next ep better start exactly where this one left off, I will cry real tears if we don’t get Rebecca’s immediate reaction to Ted saying he’s leaving.

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted x rebecca #tedbecca #tl ramblings

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r4bidcherry · 3 months

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SCIKE

ship it

1. what made you ship it?

tbh ive always liked toxic ships i just never embraced it due to all of the fandoms i was a part of before td had no media literacy or nuance so if you ever shipped anything that didnt fit peoples impossible standards of cutsey uwu smol beans who have zero problems youd be compared to people who shipped literal illegal and disgusting shit which i very much do not appreciate due to some prior experiences with those type of people that im not gonna get into just know it traumatized me so yeah maybe dont compare me to those type of people that i hate with a burning passion lol

ik that wasnt much of a why i do but the answer is simple besides me saying the obvious stuff that goes for basically all ships and i really just wanted to finally rant about that lol 💀

2. what are your favorite things about the ship?

this could be argued that this has nothing to do with the ship buttttt the fellow shippers ive met multiple people who are pretty cool and nice and who became my mooties all because we loved our little toxic boys 🫶

and the fact the ship has really brought out the worst in mike and really leaves no room for woobification like let that man go ham!!!

most of the things i could list are less about the ship canonically and more about what people have done with it and man people are so creative and aaaaa its so nice but tbf thats also the case for most queer ships cause yknow the show doesnt care about us stop pretending it does lol

3. is there an unpopular opinion you have with this ship?

shipping it is the unpopular opinion lol just cause i said this fandom has more media literacy and nuance doesnt mean EVERYONE has it lol theres still people who are pulling the shit i explained in the first answer lol (proof being that one ask i got that one time)

other than that dont really have any

anyways scike takeover 2024 RISE WHERES YOUR ANGER WHERES YOUR RAGE RAHHHHH

#total drama #td scike

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seepylilthing · 10 months

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Ok guys I'm finally making this post

This is my man , my newest lovely , who was actually existent before The Librarian .

He is ever so special to me , so please , please love him .

All art here is done by my lovely qpp , @NYCT0__PHOBIA on Twitter !

This is Opal!Ink

Opal is a new guardian , he is just learning about aus and doing his best to become a proper guardian to the multiverse

Rather than having an array of colorful vials , he created one vial , an iridescent vial , compiled of all the other colors in a perfect mix to balance his emotions . It took him many tries and many fails to perfect it , but he refused to begin his training without having balanced emotions .

He is a lot more softspoken than Ink , Opal always has a gentle demeanor and positive outlook .

He also had no idea who Ink was for a while , and was rather confused with multiple people comparing him to Ink , until he finally got to meet him and piece everything together .

Honestly , I had no intention to make him a soft sweetheart , he was supposed to literally be ink but iridescent , but somehow he became a gentle soul who is positively Fluttershy coded .

Opal is 5'0" and has the biggest sweet tooth . His favorite color is pink so bonus points if you give him pink colored sweet treats .

His favorite pass times are drawing , painting , and crocheting .

He blushes a shimmering iridescent hue .

Pronouns are he/she/they

Rules

Honestly , go ham . Fanart is acceptable and encouraged and i want to see it , Just make sure that if you do nsfw in any capacity you keep it in an adult space away from minors .

Rping him is ok , as ink is a character meant for creative liberty so is Opal , and I won't get mad over interpretations that are different from mine . My Opal would definitely be friends with himself .

Self ship with opal is also totally ok and encouraged as I am a self shipper myself !

If there's any other concerns with his character , do feel free to send an ask in the ask box . I'm happy to answer any sort of questions about him .

#ink sans #inktale #ink sans au #my au #opal ink #seepy tells you about opal #sans au #undertale au #sans #sans the skeleton #undertale

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baronessblixen · 4 months

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My brain is soup today, so no Frasier thoughts other than the usual "ooh! it's really funny! what an absolute joy to watch~."

Though a part of me wants to yell "NILES, LET HER GO" about Maris. To think I had an ounce, nay, a shred of sympathy for her perspective because she said she loved Niles and turned down the fencing instructor.

We shall see how that problem progresses.

And I see what you mean by S4 being a bit slow-- and I agree that it's not bad, it's just a little slower than usual. Still, Frasier is Frasier and I'm enjoying myself quite comfortably. :DDD

I hope your brain unsoups itself real soon! You know, I never ever thought that much about Maris 😂 I was a Niles/Daphne shipper pretty much right from the start. Maris isn't, and never was, a good person.

Have you seen "Ham Radio" yet? That episode really is so funny. I often rewatch it 😂

#lovely asks #maris is just...#i mean she's there but also not #niles and daphne for me #and niles and roz as my crack ship <3 #you're making me wanna watch the show

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dailytweektweak · 2 years

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My Creek Headcanons pt 1 ( Ft Craig’s gang )

A mixture of late adulthood, teenage and early childhood years.

• Tweek made the first move on their first kiss

• Craig and Tweek both propose to each at the same time (Not by choice though, it was a happy outcome)

• When they were eleven , Tweek and Craig gave each other a candy ring and got 'married' in the playground at their school

• They moved out of South Park together at 21, and both went to separate college but in the same town

• On their anniversaries before moving out of South Park, they normally pack up and go away for a while because people in town always makes a HUGE deal on that day, and it annoys them

• Tweek is never at his home, and always spends nights at the Tuckers

• The Tuckers love Tweek, so much that they always make sure to stock up coffee just for him. He even got his own coffee cup.

• Clyde is the biggest creek shipper, so he always third wheels on them. He does not mind third-wheeling, but Craig and Tweek do mind and find it annoying.

• Speaking of Clyde, Craig and Clyde are always going to be best friends! even in their fifties, but Craig still yells at him for being an idiot

• Tweek can fight very well, so when he gets into fights Craig doesn't step in and help. Only because Craig knows Tweek will win, so he just cheers him on.

• But if Tweek does end up losing the fight, Craig will jump in (but that’s really rare)

• Tweek and Tricia are very close

• Craig and Tweek got married at twenty four years old

• Tolkien has Gnomes in his garden, Jimmy and Clyde like to tease Tweek with them

• Tweek says weird shit whens he's high, he say that he 'sees dead people', while Craig just doesn't stop talking and then cries.

• Tweek rarely drinks, but Craig enjoys it so he commonly go out with Tolkien and Clyde for a few beers

• Craig and Tweek are completely different when their sick. When Tweek is sick, he is open about it and wants to rest, but Craig pretends he’s fine and tries to carry on with his daily routine (until Tweek forces him to rest)

• Craig and Tweek is cat people , Craig finds dogs loud and annoying while Tweek finds them difficult to handle (and of course, too much pressure)

• Craig calls Tweek pet names a lot, but Tweek just calls him Craig

• Craig’s favorite pizza is plain cheese, and Tweek’s favorite is ham and pineapple

• Tweek has very long hair, you can’t tell because how messy it looks since he doesn’t brush it. Craig does brush it for him, but it always ends up looking like a bird nest again.

• Craig has an IPhone, but Tweek sticks with Android

• Speaking of phones, Tweek's phone is completely cracked whiles Craig’s is fine.

• They both are morning people, and they enjoy taking morning walks in the morning.

• Craig, Tweek, Clyde, Tolkien and Jimmy's favorite song to sing on the karaoke is Don’t stop believing by Journey (mostly when their drunk)

• Craig is normally the one cooking from them two, while Tweek does the baking.

• Tweek's enjoys gardening, he plants flowers, veg and fruits.

• They by all odds have Guinea pigs when their old, and their names will be Stripe.

• Craig has reading glasses in his fifties

• Tweek has his camera taped over on his phone and computer.

• Craig is always dressing up Stripe or putting little glasses on them.

• Craig played football in High school, while Tweek does music and theatre.

• Craig still watches red racer in his fifties, he sometimes falls asleep on the couch half way the show at early hours in the morning. Tweek scolds him for it though, but still ends up carrying him to bed.

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pendwelling · 2 years

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Hello! I really love your art and fics for Lout of the Count's Family, I found your blog by chance but it's actually what got me into LCF to begin with. I actually wanted to ask you about TWSB. I've seen you post about it and I've found a synopsis online, but would you mind talking about what you like about it?

OH GOD ACTUALLY I THINK I CAN GO ON FOREVER ABOUT THIS??? THANK YOU FOR SUCH AN AMAZING QUESTION I literally have so much to say, but also not enough words to even begin describing the full extent of what TWSB does to me.

To make things easier for me to write and for you to read, I think this will primarily be in messy bullet point form xDD

(Oh and omg?? I'm glad I was able to help get you into LCF. Perhaps I can hope to do the same with TWSB? 👀😂)

Haha but okay— So. Maybe we'll start with the premise/overall novel I guess? I just love it so much. After that we'll get to characters.

It's "Transmigration into a novel" trope—BUT!!! Refreshing take! Jung Yeseo actually hasn't read the og!novel. He literally knows nothing about what's going on besides what his younger sister, Jung Eunseo, has told him of both the plot and characters.

Thus, he sorta treats his sister's words like a survival guide. Even if the info becomes inaccurate as time goes by and his meddling with the plot changes things.

He knows how important the og!novel was to his younger sister. She cherished it, so in a way, he does too and wishes for it to go the same route.

But this is muddled by the fact that the character he transmigrated into, Jung Yeseo, dies during the war between the Riester Empire and the Venetiaan Holy Kingdom, after taking a blow meant for the Riester Empire's Prince, and Original Male Lead :|||||

Yeseo, now Jesse, as all main characters destined to die do, announces that he will ✨avoid the main characters, stay out of the plot, and survive peacefully as the diplomatic hostage, priest of a prince that he is.✨

Plot twist: this fool cannot escape the main characters xDD

Sounds like the typical transmigration plot, BUT!! with it's own refreshing takes!

We have 2 transmigrators. Yeseo (Jesse) and the og!MC Christelle, (originally a fellow Korean worker in her 30s named Ham Ga-in).

Original novel was a RoFan (Romance-Fantasy).

Current novel (TWSB) is anything BUT that xDD

Pace might seem slow at first, but it is pretty slice-of-life! Later on however, we get to see more adventure/action, as the characters slowly find goals and travel around the continent.

Speaking of continent, THIS NOVEL HAS AMAZING WORLDBUILDING.

Pretty much all of the locations are even based off current countries.

For example, Riester Empire's culture/character names are inspired by France. Venetiaan Holy Kingdom is inspired by Dutch.

Power system (mana, ether, priests, holy knights, mages, swordsmen, etc) is so interesting and well thought out. There are rules that are concretely established and it's just the best.

Interesting dynamics between Priests and Holy Knights! Symbiotic relationship!!! Which the main characters have! :D

Cédric and Christelle are both Holy Knights, so they require a priest to help replenish them with ether. Jung Yeseo/Jesse just so happens to have overwhelming amounts of ether due to special circumstances that eventually get mentioned :D

They are practically married due to this (/hj). They call each other partners and everything (Cédeic especially gets giddy when Jesse calls him this. The stoic simp, tsk.)

Romance is non-existent but MAN DO THESE INTERACTIONS FUEL THE SHIPPER HEART.

One this I ADORE about Sookym-nim's universe is that people just seem so open?? when it comes to sexuality?? No one finds anything wrong with suggesting if two people, or even multiple people, can enter a romantic relationship.

You actually don't realize this until you really think about it. It's a subtle thing but it made me so happy when I realized that.

The Priest/Holy Knight partnership/holy covenant is actually kinda like that. A deep and special relationship. Holy Knights are known to be very protective of their Priests.

Also, both women AND men have been explicitly stated to take interest in Jesse. At some point, the empress, Frédérique Riester, mentions (while comparing Yeseo to the rumours surrounding og!Jesse—who you can sort of think of as a less alcoholic and violent og!Cale Henituse) that Jesse didn't seem like he had any experience bedding either women or men. The universe really says Bi rights and I love it HAHA

Also—Sookym writes women so well. So many great women in power, so many kind, compassionate women. Women who are smart, scheming, funny, sly, powerful—so many types of women for us sapphics to simp over.

In both the Riester Empire and Venetiaan Holy Kingdom, line of succession/inheritance isn't based on gender, but on first born. Riester Empress Frédérique is so COOL, I simp.

(in some cases, such as Blanquer Duchy, competence also plays a bigger part instead of who is born first!)

Ofc the guys are also amazing as well!

We also have cute animals. So many cute, cute animals. I cry.

ANYWAYS!! CHARACTERS!!

The protagonist: Jung Yeseo, 28, who transmigrated into Prince Jesse Venetiaan of the Holy Kingdom, priest and diplomatic hostage in the Riester Empire. In the original novel, he was the 2nd Male Lead who died taking a blow for the Male Lead (Riester Empire's Crown Prince Cédric Riester) during the war between their kingdoms.

He's super kind. Refreshing when you consider all the angsty, sad, emo, stoic and tragic MCs LMFAO.

Of course his past isn't perfect, but he has amazing, wonderful supportive siblings and he grew up as a well-adjusted modern-day Korean citizen. Really just a kind, good "boy-next-door" type of character!

He can be a little prickly in his internal narrations, but who isn't? xD

I've seen reviews call him a Mary Sue and I want to WRANGLE NECKS.

Apparently being kind is just too much of a trait for some people??

Personally, I think it's one of his biggest strength. I love a compassionate MC, and even of his morals might seem foolish a bit, they are reasonable and admirable.

His kindness sort of make you want to tear up a bit: "how can someone as nice as this exist?"

But of course, it isn't unconditional. He knows when people are wrong, and when they deserve to be punished, and will get angry and vicious accordingly. But even despite that, he will frequently have that small thread of compassion for even people who harm (ex: The situation with Peter, Synkie, especially because they were kids—and Jesse has a soft spot for kids, but even so, he naturally acknowledges they deserve some kind of retribution for nearly assassinating him).

(Of course, when people are irredeemable, he doesn't play saint. He's a good guy, but not all-forgiving—and like it was mentioned by a Eunseo cameo in a certain chapter in the 500s, Jung Yeseo is a frightening person when angry.)

(Tldlr, Never piss off the kind and gentle person in a group. They are secretly the scariest when angry, and Jesse is no exception to that—if he gets angry then you KNOW shits going down oml haha)

But overall, he really just gives off the impression of someone who would be a very good and genuine friend :')

He radiates so much Big Brother Energy™ both literally and figuratively.

Even if annoyed, he will still be weak to young kids (again, see above: Older Brother Energy™). Even if the said "child" is actually a 24yo man, Yeseo will eventually succumb to his hyung instincts LMFAO. Which brings us to Cédric Riester (see section after Jesse bullet points) 😂

(He does swear however, though never at a person, but always at a situation. Apparently the Jung Family had a swear jar growing up, though it was his younger sister who mostly ended up giving it money xD)

HES ALSO SO UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY???? At some point, his friends are getting scolded heavily at the table by the Empress, and it's very much the sort of scene where you, the outsider of a family, has been invited to their family dinner, only for the head of the family/stern asian mother to start scolding your friends right in front of the table.

Except, instead of feeling very awkward, Jesse just continues eating LMFAO and the only time he ever really stops is because his chewing sounds too loud during the scolding, and he still has some shame left HAHA

(This guy is always eating, and it's admirable lolol but tbf in that situation, Ced, Chris and Eli deserved the scokding sKSKKSK)

Anyway— I like how they explore Jesse's status as a transmigrator, as well. He initially thinks of these people around him as characters, whom he only really knows through whatever it was his sister has told him, but he eventually grows to care for them genuinely.

Despite this, he is still very much a young man who cares deeply for his siblings that he believes he left at home, and doesn't know for how long, and naturally experiences home sickness. That's his goal, after all—to finish his role and eventually, somehow, go back home to his siblings.

(SPOILER-ISH 170+):

At some point, we see a vision of his apartment's veranda, and Jesse tries reaching for it. It won't go into much detail, but it's a rather bittersweet moment, especially when other characters, such as Cédric, misinterprets it as Jesse wanting to leave them—the friends he made who genuinely care for him (even if Cédric doesn't exactly show it in the most outward of ways.) Novel characters grow anxious about him feeling as if he could disappear at any moment, and Jesse has to deal with the dilemma of "do I want to return home? Can I really leave behind these people I've come to care about? Are they even real? What will happen to my body if I choose to stay in one world of the other?"

((END OF SPOILER))

His relationship with Cardinal Aurélie Boutier is also one of my most favourite things ever. She becomes a sort of mother figure after they become teacher and apprentice, and the amount of care Aurélie has for him brings me to tears sometimes. She doesn't have any children, but the way she eventually grows to consider Jesse as her own is just TTvTT<3

ANYWAY I LOVE HOW THEY EVENTUALLY GO ABOUT THE WHOLE NOVEL/REALITY THEME IN THIS BOOK. It's so so so good.

With that said, lets move on to the next character :D

Cédric Riester: 24 yo at the beginning of the novel. He was the first male lead and love interest in the original novel. He's the only Prince of the Riester Empire.

He's also lowkey bisexual but that's my opinion LMFAOOO (more like he's MainCharacterSexual)

Speaking from experience: you might hate this guy at first 😂 A lot of my friends and other readers did and I laugh about it all the time.

Eventually tho, he will probably become one of your favourite characters, if not THE favourite. Regardless, you will grow fond of him, as you will pretty much all of the main characters!

For comparison, he's similar to Yoo Jooghyuk from ORV. You really gotta get to know him and his motivation before he starts growing on you like the fastest mold.

His backstory explains a lot, and MY GOD DO YOU GROW FOND OF HIM.

He's so easy to bully. It's a fandom joke at this point to call him derogatory nicknames like; Ether pig. Black pig. Pig. Mosquito. 24/25-month-old kid. Brat. Crapdric. Cedick. Simpdric. Sapdric.

But don't get us wrong it's all done affectionately auhsdhskks

You might become a Cédric defender/apologist the more you read about him.

But how can you be an apologist if he's done nothing wrong—//slapped.

Thinks locking people up is the best way to protect them, and then when he notices it makes them (Jesse) sad, his 0 emotional intelligence naturally goes: 'Ah. I should hire an entire performing circus troop to his palace so that he will feel better.'

The poor guy is TRYING alright 😭

We can kinda blame it on his parents' love story. Those two were p wild LMFAO (but also pretty sweet auahbdldlskdld Frédérique, Alexandre and Aurélie's relationship is very reminiscent of Cédric, Jesse and Christelle's). Actually the whole Riester imperial family was wild with the people they cared about HAHA

But yeah, Cédric's origins as Male Lead in a Romance-Fantasy novel really shines through sometimes, but at the end of the day, you also just gotta remember he was once a kid who spent most of his childhood sick, suffering and sleeping, and now that he can finally move around as he wishes, his full brattiness can unleash now that he found people he can be a 'kid' with and run around the continent alongside him on adventures xD

Jokes aside tho, he's a genuinely good guy.

His character development makes me cry. He's a stoic bastard, but at the end of the day, he's OUR socially inept stoic bastard.

He cares a lot for his friends. So so much. Even if he doesn't outwardly show it.

He's also lowkey very very gay for Jesse. (You might even say Bi because he did fall for Christelle in the original novel too (again, see above for my comment about him being MCsexual) 😂 (actually the main trio pretty much radiate Bi energy I'm ngl LMFAO twsb universe is just very casual with sexuality and I am fr not kidding abt this it's canon and it makes me happy))

The first time Jesse saw his smile was when Jesse called himself Cédric's partner. You also gotta keep in mind this scene happened after Ced (at the imperial palace) and Jesse (at his marquisate iirc) we're separated due to reasons, and the whole palace was placing bets as to when Cédric was finally gonna cave in and chase after Jesse and co. to join them.

Cédric ended up having in pretty quickly xD The complete simp.

Heck, once Christelle and Ced had to pretend they were a couple in front of the Empress and Cardinal in order to help Jesse out, and the Empress asked them what they liked about each other, fully knowing that those two would rather d1e than ever get together.

Cédric then immediately proceeded to describe Jesse, and got jealous when Christelle caught on and also started describing Jesse 😂😂😂

This man gets JEALOUS so much when it comes to anyone expressing nearly any amounts of attention towards Jesse aUDGHDJSKKSKS

At some point (330+) the man even proposes to Jesse. He gets down on one knee and all and starts reciting his vows to unite their sound together and stuff and I'm in TEARS whenever I reread that part, because Ced did it in the MIDDLE OF BATTLE LMFAO

BUT ALSO TBF, it wasn't exactly a marriage proposal, it was a Covenant (which is basically soul marriage between Holy Knights and Priests, in simple terms HAHA) and readers everywhere went crazy sKSKSKKS poor Cedric tho because Jesse ignored him (he was too panicked by the fact that they were literally in battle—)

Anyways yes. Cédric is a character you will easily warm up to gradually, because deep down he's a genuinely great guy.

He's a filial son, and he's a great future ruler—he constantly proves that he is perfectly capable of succeeding his mother, and he cares for both her and his godmother the cardinal )and other members of his family that u get to know better later on.) He even initiates a duel to defend both Jesse, and Jesse's deceased father's honour after his cousin besmirched their names (the cousin insulated Jesse's father, who was a commoner, and Cédric had a very close and dear relationship with his own father, who was also deceased.)

Anyways yes. Cédric is a little prickly, but he's such a good guy deep down, honourable and who stands for what's right and those he cares about.

He's also the reason for why the readers are having a hard time trying to defend the genre of the novel LMFAO (but tbf, Jesse also contributes to that too. How much poetics are these guys able to wax about each other's looks? I'm on tears, I love them hdhdjkskks)

But anyway. Homoerotic subtext is something for a whole other day xDD

There's so much to say about him, but I think I've written more than enough, so let's move on to our beloved Christelle!!!!

Christelle De Sarnez—the original protagonist of the the novel, formerly called Ham Ga-In, a South Korean woman in her 30s who one day woke up in the body of a Duke's 19 y.o daughter. In the original story, she eventually fell for the 1st ML, Cédric, after overcoming their differences. The classic RoFan novel plot!!

Christelle is so interesting as a character, I find, because in the original novel, her not having any powers (due to not having absorbed a Divine Artifact) really shaped the story into the RoFan genre (amongst other things).

BUT in TWSB, she is able to become a Holy Knight and is able to overcome that role/destiny as a damsel in distress type of Romance MC, who gets kidnapped and has to rely on the ML to save her.

Which gave us our wonderful TWSB!Christelle :DD

Instead of getting kidnapped by pirated like the original Christelle had been, our Christelle ended up becoming a "Pirate Queen" and captured a whole ship just because Jesse off-handedly remarked she should get him a souvenir when she went to visit the north xDD

She is so strong and ALSO SO FUCKING FUNNY LMFAOOO

AT SOME POINT HAHA (CH 330+) SHES IN CHARGE OF A FEW HUNDRED SOLDIERS, AND UPON ARRIVING AT A VILLAGE FOR (REASONS) MADE THEM CHANT A KPOP GREETING:

"HELLO! WE ARE THE R.I.E.S.T.E.R IMPERIAL ARMY! NICE TO MEET YOU!"

LIKE LMFAOOOO WHO PUT HER IN CHARGE OF ALL THESE SOLDIERS 😭😭😂

*deep breaths* anyways—

Reminder again that Christelle is also a transmigrator. (But unlike Jesse, the world she went into wasn't a novel, it was just a whole different world where she didn't have to be an office worked anymore and could find romance while being rich, etc.)

This means she is a modern-day South Korean who is ABSOLUTELY aware of pop culture, and says the funniest shit ever istg (see kpop riester army example above) 😂

You can tell through Christelle and all the other references made throughout the novel that the author, Sookym, is also a rather pop culture-savvy person. A lot of other movie franchises get mentioned, and references to other pieces of media/literature are often seen.

One of my favourite Christelle moments that I can think of at the top of my head is when, like I said at the end of my Cédric rant, Christelle, at the end of her and Cédric's fake couples interview with the Empress, eventually cried our "Dobby is free!!" when the questions stopped coming. It made me laugh so hard when I saw it 😂

(Comments on Ridibooks were even laughing at some point when the author included a parody version of an Aladdin song in one arc of the novel, and joked about Disney copyright striking the novel xDD)

Just like Jesse, Christelle also gives off the impression of someone who would be a very good friend. That's how she is with Jesse after all!

While Cédric is a bit more "selfish" when it comes to Jesse and their status as partners, Christelle tries to be more understanding. She is very kind, considerate and I love her. (See a lil further below for more comments about her refreshing emotional intelligence!)

One of my other favourite moments is when Christelle told Jesse that if one day, if he had the feeling that she was different, he should call her "Ham Ga-In", and if she didn't recognize it, she wouldn't be the Christelle he knew. (At that point in the story, Christelle wasn't aware that Jesse knew she was also a transmigrator—even less so that for him, she was a novel character. Which makes the scene even more touching/heartwrenching, since Christelle truly trusted him, and just proved how much she cared about all her new friends and worried about the possibility of the original Christelle coming back to take her place).

I won't get into details, but the way this story treats its transmigrators :')))) makes me cry :')) I find this novel does it very well, especially in the later chapters when secrets start unfolding 👀

(Speaking of transmigrators—this story doesn't brush that fact of lightly. Christelle, just like Jesse, also feels some sort of 'imposter syndrome' and acknowledges that she "has taken the place of someone else's previous daughter". The way the author's treated this plot line between Chris and Christelle's mother was wonderfully done, and made me cry. I love it when stories address transmigrator issues and so on.)

TWSB!Chris feels more like the best friend of a romance story's slightly oblivious protagonist xD If Jesse is blind to Cédric's ML antics and actions towards him, Christelle is completely aware and trashes him for it 😂

She has so much more emotional intelligence than Cédric (who's only friend for literal years until he reached 24 was Élisabeth, the vice-captain of the imperial guard) and she balances him so well like that.

She's often the one who goes out of her way to make sure Jesse's feelings are considered and that people (ie our socially awkward and inept Cédric) will treat him right, because that's what friends do—treat their friends right and wish for it to be that way.

Btw Ced and Chris absolutely hate each other and it's the funniest thing ever, but they also do become good friends despite their opposing attribute repulsion HAHA

(At some point, Chris considers not giving Ced advice on how to get along better with Jesse, so that Jesse would end up liking her more LMFAO but she does end up giving him her 31y.o wisdom xD)

Anyways, Chris is so so great. So lovely, so funny, I holler in nearly all her comedy bits.

She also can't sing, and it's hilarious.

Yeseo's sister once told him that the original Cedric smiled when Chris sang, and Yeseo naturally presumed it was because the original FL was just so amazing it even made the stoic ML smile.

He was dead wrong.

Christelle is tone deaf 😂

Anyways, I think this is long enough. I'm not exactly sure if this sort of response was what you were looking for, but you did ask if I could talk about what I like about this novel, and the answer is simply just this:

So, so very much.

From the amazing worldbuilding and interesting power systems,

To the lovable characters that you only grow more fond of the more you read. Of course, there will also be characters (one in particular) that you will despise to their very bone, and that in itself is just proof of how well Sookym is able to write characters.

The main 3 characters are adults in their mid 20s—30s, and yet they are all very youthful and energetic in their own ways. I find it so refreshing to other stories, where sometimes adults are portrayed with all the hardships of their ages. But here, these characters who have gone through so much are able to often act like children as they run around the continent together causing havoc and try to accomplish their goal of collecting all the divine artifacts. It's so great seeing them have fun, and go on all these quests.

And truly, this story evokes such strong feelings within me.

One moment you're laughing your ass off at whatever ridiculous thing is happening, and the very next moment you might be thrown into the unveiling of a whole mystery. The shift of genres and tones that occur throughout the novel is so well balanced, and it gradually builds up so that at the pivotal moment the author requires it, you as the reader get hit with the accumulation that had been building over several chapters, and you can only sit there in tears and wonder 'why and how the hell is this been described as a "feel-good novel"?'

Sookym is truly amazing, to be able to write buildups that manage to land so impactfully, and bring to life characters who are so endearing you can't help but earnestly root for their success as they try and achieve their goals and get through obstacles throughout the way.

The day the webtoon adaptation gets officially announced, I don't think I exaggerate when I say I will be crying whilst reading the 1st chapter, knowing just all the adventures and trials these characters will have to face in the future TvT It is such a wonder rollercoaster of a read, and I adore it so much haha.

In the meantime, I will continue to draw fanart and write fics in hopes of dragging more people into reading this novel that I hold so dear :')

With all that said, thanks for the ask! I hope this was able to convey to you even a fraction's bit of my love for this novel! Forgive me if theres any typos audhjdksks I had a lot to say so this took me a while haha 😂 and I hope youre enjoying the novel, if ever you decide to give it a go!

#asks #TWSB #when the third wheel strikes back #섭남파업 #서브 남주가 파업하면 생기는 일 #i love twsb so very dearly #TWSB WEBROON MANIFEST SOON 😭🛐🛐🛐#Im not gonna lie #this couldve been WAY LONGER but sadly i have a lot of work to do :')))#just know that there is so many things about TWSB that makes me wanna scream and cry. how is it so good???#twsb asks

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shockbot · 2 months

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No worries, I wasn't planning on going ham. It's just fun finding other swinlock shippers but wanted to make sure I wasn't crossing a boundary first.

I just wanted to ask your opinion on Lockdown with a long tongue. Because it seems like the kind of thing Swindle would both love and hate for various reasons. Like Swindle is trapped between thinking it's kinda gross but also kinda hot. Which I kinda think might be Swindle's opinion of Lockdown in general. Swindle's whole thing seems to be so well manicured, clean cut. Meanwhile he's in a relationship with Lockdown of all people lol

Can't say I feel one way or another about it tbh. BUT I do lean into something near that thinking of swindle's opinion, as in lockdown doesn't sit within the boundaries of his usual 'type' given that swindle is definitely about presentability, marketability, looking slick, and lockdown doesnt seem to give one damn about any of that. But that in and of itself, that he is anything but wrapped up fancy and made to sell, but rather 'you get what you see', probably factors in positively somewhere too. Ultimately I think it's less abt what he looks like, in fact I don't feel that even becomes relevant until later on and by then it's one of those '.....oh'

#anonny

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yharnamsnewslug · 1 year

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Okay so: my problem with Season 3 is that it feels very aimless and we're going over New Plotlines when we haven't even worked through previous ones??

Season 3 should've been all about:

- Nate vs Rupert (Rupert as a main villain while Nate would be decoy). Focus on Rupert and why he loves Richmond, what he's doing to West Ham, what he's doing to Nate.

- Ted vs Panic Attacks. How is he tackling them? What's he doing to work on himself now that his therapist is gone?

- Keep the best plotlines of the season: Sam's restaurant, Amsterdam Episode Entirely.

- DO. JACK/KEELY. BETTER. If you wanted to talk about Rupert and how he first seduced Rebecca, and how it's mirrored with Jack??? It could've been done better, with more episodes, instead of the mess we have. It could've been done very well, especially since wlw don't have shows that they can watch to see red flags themselves. Could've been Tár, was just a mess.

- Literally makes so much sense to do Roy/Keely/Jamie at this point. It's not shipper brain, it's LITERALLY the most logical at this point in the show. And it would work very well.

- Focus more on Trent and how he views the team - make him go around Richmond to have other background characters speak about Ted and why what he's done matters. Make us remember why Ted is important.

- Keep making Rupert a dick, make him a BIGGER VILLAIN.

#ted lasso

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Have any Episode 5 predictions?

Oh...just a few...

Zava and Shandy out Colin. As in, Zava posts an image of Colin and Michael from the end of ep3/sends it to the press, but Shandy encouraged him to. We know Shandy wants a big "scandal" to blow Twitter up and we know Zava left the restaurant a few moments after Colin and Michael. Zava will claim he posted the image because Shandy said he should "show some love on his socials" but it would definitely be at least partially due to his anger surrounding the West Ham match. This allows a segway into two issues being resolved - Keeley will get to tell Shandy off for basically jepordizing her company and her job, and Zava will get to be put in his place. Maybe he'll leave. Can you leave halfway through a season? Apparently it's to do with your contract, so since Zava signed with "You're welcome" he could probably leave. So yeah. We'll get Zava and Shandy problems because. I want that.

On the subject of gay, Trent and Keeley will be gay. I'm not saying "canonized" because, as you can probably tell, it fuckin pisses me off when people say that bisexual Keeley is a headcanon. It's not. It's canon. Anyway, Trent will be canonized as queer and Keeley will revisit her bisexuality. Obviously it will be mainly Trent but I think Keeley deserves to get fuckin pissed off at Shandy for outing someone.

Okay enough self-indulgence. Aside from the episode dealing with three issues - Colin, Shandy and Zava - I think it will also deal with Rebecca in one of two ways. Firstly, it could deal with her whole green-matchbox-prophecy thing which I am now going to explain my theory of because it's my blog and I can.

-What if it wasn't a green matchbox. What if it was a green matchbox soldier. Something Ted is well-known for having and giving out. I'm not even a Tedbecca shipper but I can see when I'm wrong (ignore my huntlow denial). Rebecca's not going to get back with Sam, just like Keeley's not going to get back with Jamie. She's going to get together with Ted. Okay theory within theory is over-

Okay now that I've explained that, that's option one. Option two is that she deals with her issue with Rupert. In that way, I mean her bestie arc with Bex begins in full swing. Perhaps they bump into each other in the shops, perhaps at a game, but the point is they bump into each other. I think Bex is genuinely a nice woman who respects and likes Rebecca. Anyway, maybe Rebecca mentions the assistant idk. But those are the options.

BUT I think my first option is correct because the episode is literally called "Signs". Which brings me to my fourth point-

4. The match against West Ham will be addressed. I mean, come on, three red cards? It's got to be addressed. Again, the episode is literally called "Signs", so the Believe sign is coming back. The team are obviously going to be very ashamed of themselves (Dani is going to need more therapy lmao) and I think they'll opt not to disclose the information of why they went batshit crazy.

5. HOWEVER, I think Nate will begin to wake up, maybe even apologize to Ted. Ted will explain what Nate already knows and they might even part on good terms. I want this for two reasons. Number one, Nate was my BOY for season 1 and part of season 2 and I miss that teeny lad. Secondly, I think putting a good word in with Nate s what Ted needs. He needs to be reminded that his way of life does work. So far, he's got yelled at by Rebecca, had his request gone against by Beard and Roy, been embarrassed by the team and found out about Michelle and J*cob (fuck him) (and her actually). He needs to be reminded that he actually does so much good. He changed Nate's life. He gave him to opportunity to coach, something I don't think Beard would do and something the old coach definitely wouldn't have done. This is something he needs to remember.

Anyway. I know not all of this can happen, but the synopsis is "With their season in a tailspin, Richmond try to right the ship against the mighty Manchester City. Off the pitch, everyone faces their own setbacks." These setbacks 100% could be Keeley's issue with Shandy, Zava's anger at the match, Rebecca's increasing concern over the matchbox or Bex, Colin's problems with coming out. Of course, my thing with Nate and Ted isn't exactly a setback for Richmond, but it definitely is for West Ham. So there are my options. I hope you enjoyed them.

Also, where are these asks coming from istg-

#I mean I love them but I am *confusion*#tl #ted lasso #cedar crap #colin hughes #trent crimm #nathan shelley #rebecca welton

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Here's the thing, the company wants to make fans happy. They'll promote popular ships to do that. So jikook features heavily because they hang out a lot backstage, they're fun to watch and they're popular. That's it.

The moments we see between them are real. Maybe they ham it up for the cameras but several of them are just normal. The aspect where Hybe comes into it is that when Hybe edits it, they'll include jikook more than for example jihope because jikook is more popular.

Taekook is also popular. I think the problem with taekook is less that they're not hanging out but more that they're not doing anything entertaining together, no offense to either of them. I say this as someone who's watched their joint lives. If Hybe isn't including taekook, I think it's probably because they're probably doing something thats dull to viewers like playing games or looking at something on the phone. Normal stuff you do with your friend but nobody wants to see that.

None of this has anything to do with their irl relationships. Truly the people handling these videos have no idea if any of them are even dating let alone each other if that's even happening. They probably get some instructions like make sure every member gets a minimum screen time, these are popular members or pairings so include them more if possible (and here jikook is probably included yes), make this as entertaining as possible, don't include things that might cause problems (like a member talking to some girl or picking their nose and so on).

So it's not reality because of course things get edited out. But it's also not completely fake. They're not writing scripts for jikook. So in my view, Jimin giving Jungkook a hickey is a real thing. Now does he spend his time biting other members that we don't see because it's not included? Who knows. They include jikook eating together a lot in the footage. My view - they do have lunch together a lot but maybe their meals with the other members are edited out because they're just boring shots of them sitting at a table and eating while staring at the phone. Again we don't know.

It's all real and not real at the same time. What's real then? Jikook traveling to Tokyo alone was real (GCF debatable), enlisting together - real, rainy day fight - real including it being one of the things Jungkook really regrets, being close to each others families - real. A few things to put the situation into perspective.

I'm not saying they're dating btw. I'm just saying people who think they're not close are also perhaps falling into the same selective viewpoint that shippers fall into.

I can agree with all of this.

If jikook are around each other a lot at work then that’s going to be a lot of the footage they have for the both them.

You are right TK could sit next to each other and silently watch their phones or Jimin and RM could be quietly reading next to each other…not good content, so maybe we don’t get to see it.

Jin and JK are silly together so we get that. Jimin and Jhope like to chat it up, so it’s included.

Great points!

To your real list…should we add in JK watching Jimin content during a live? Or did the company commission that? (I personally don’t think they did)

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killerandhealerqueen · 1 month

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for the fic writers asks: 7, 11, 17

for the love your fandom asks: 4, 5, 10, 16

Thank you bby, love you! 🫶🏻

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

I'd say the worldbuilding in my most recent fic For All Eternity. It's a xianxia and xianxias aren't exactly that easy to write, in my opinion, so I'm happy with what I was able to do with this fic

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

I'm more partial towards certain pairings, but I never stop people from shipping what they want to ship. I'm not really a crack-shipper nor do I see the appeal of some ships that a lot of people like and I think it all just comes down to preference and what you like in a ship

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

Hmm...I mean, you take a look at my Killer and Healer fics and you'll see that they're pretty much all aus that I'd want to read but I think maybe...a Pacific Rim au? I haven't done that yet for any of my fandoms and I think it'd be good. But sci-fi is something that I'm not...really great at so it would definitely be on the back burner for a long time before I ever got around to it.

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4. say something nice about a ship you don't ship (it can be another ship in your fandom, a mutual's OTP, etc)

While I don't ship Yohan/K, I get why people do because like...the devotion, the pining, the one-sided unrequited love...I get it

5. something you see in fics a lot and love

Hm...when I'm reading a fic that's not mine, I love seeing how passionate authors are about their aus and how in-depth they go for them. Cuz like, I do that and I love seeing authors just got fucking ham

10. a blog (mutual or one you follow) that has made your fandom experience brighter

Oh, there are so many...but I guess one that I have to give a shout out to is @kpopfantasywriter because jiejie really is the person that I could go to and bounce ideas off of and vice versa and she's just made writing and fandom and headcanoning just...fun. But there are so many people who have made my fandom experience brighter and better and I just can't thank y'all enough

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

I guess for Killer and Healer is that Sun Yongren, while mainly being comic relief, is also really smart. He's a part of Jiang Yuelou's duo, him and Song Rong. They are his closest and only subordinates. And Jiang Yuelou doesn't work with stupid, so the fact that he's a part of Jiang Yuelou's team means that he's not stupid. (Though you can't tell that he's smart cuz sometimes he just says really dumb shit and next to Song Rong, he looks dumb so...but still! He's smart! Just does not have a good brain to mouth filter)

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I found your gwen analysisis and I have to ask as you seem pretty well informed on her comics-- what's the deal with earth 8 and why do the gwen and mikes shippers cling to it so much? Does it represent anything ? I see a lot them claim it's the only way Gwend can gain true happiness, but I'm not an expert in the comics

earth-8 is an alternate universe that's introduced in sitting in a tree, the crossover event by bendis and latour (miles and gwen's creators, respectively) that shipped miles and gwen together in the first place.

in the event, miles travels to gwen's dimension searching for his father, they bond for the first time while searching for him, fighting various supervillains on both of their worlds, and bouncing around the multiverse. gwen ends up on earth-8, a utopian future created when that world's miles and gwen (who she's told are 'the best possible' future versions of miles-1610 and gwen-65) are publicly known beloved superheroes who lead their world's greatest superteam, and are blissfully married with children. she meets those future kids, and seeing earth-8 makes her kiss miles because she's in a rough spot and thinks that might be the answer. then she immediately backtracks, insists she was just confused and would rather stay friends. and that's that.

i'm not a gwiles shipper, but i figure it's so loved by them because it's literally a perfect happy ending for their otp. gwen and miles get married in a big royal wedding ceremony that 300 billion people watched and they're so happy together after twenty years that they're going on yet another honeymoon. they have an adorable precocious son and beautiful genius possibly-psychic daughter who both have superpowers (and like twelve middle names for some reason), spider-ham's their nanny and their family leads a spider-themed super team that's their world's avengers. they're clearly rich, they're the biggest celebrities in their world, they have a penthouse in the fantastic four's old home, they're "america's favorite supercouple," they use their powers so responsibly that their world is in an "era of peace and prosperity unlike any seen", all their problems are solved. in sitting in a tree, it's sold to gwen as a "brighter tomorrow" -- it's not just a possible future, it's The Best Possible One, and the only way to get to it is to leave her world and get together with miles.

i get why it's their flagship. it's a canon universe where their otp ends up together and it's "perfect." their ship went on one pseudo-date and were told by fate "by the way, you're destined to end up together and if you do, look how automatically inherently perfect that ending is. you don't even have to work for it. it just happens and stays that way forever. your love will be so important it'll create a whole new world where you're the most important people in it." and this future is full of all the things that superficially, you'd want for a relationship: a happy marriage that's still going strong twenty years in, talented kids, money and success, a safe and prosperous world to live in.

the issue is, this definitely isn't a happy ending. at least, not for gwen.

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getting the Weird Shit about this future out of the way:

1: how the fuck do miles and gwen end up on earth-8 instead of earth-65 or earth-1610/616? if they left on their own, isn't leaving your friends, family, community and responsibilities to go get famous irresponsible and selfish? and if they lose those worlds in the future, shouldn't the focus be "how do we prevent that" instead of, "well, at least we get a happy ending"? 2: according to the in-universe timeline, gwen-8 leaves her world after the latour run when she's ~20, has her daughter at 26 (she's 38, charlotte is 12), and marries miles halfway between those events at ~23, when miles is ~19-20. isn't that weirdly young? they should be at the club. 3: they're public heroes who broadcast their wedding to billions of people and turned their preteen kids into superheroes who they send on dangerous missions with adults instead of letting them go to school and have friends their age. and miles and gwen are never seen spending time with those kids either: they're always sitting at home with a babysitter while miles and gwen are off on adventures or vacations. what the fuck. 4: all information about how happy and content miles and gwen are is told to us by everyone but them. the media gushes about them, spider-ham and the kids insist everything's great, the watchers insist that this world is soooo necessary and more important than earth-65's own future, but miles and gwen-8 are conveniently never around when earth-8 is visited. their perspectives are always sidestepped. we still don't know what they think about it. which is interesting given that...

5. if gwen-8 is really a future version of gwen-65.... then she's miserable. gwen-65 isn't that attracted to miles, doesn't care about getting married, is queer, is a loner who doesn't want to lead a super-team, dislikes being a celebrity with a public identity, doesn't care about money and status, and has no maternal instincts whatsoever. she also seems to lose her symbiote on this world, where it's demonized by her family. and one of gwen's worst fears is being treated like silk (so: being thrust into a relationship with a spider-man that she has little say in). earth-8 takes away all the things gwen actually cares about and leaves her in a situation that she'd hate in exchange for nice things she doesn't even want.

you know who does want those things? miles. he's the one who keeps carrying a torch for gwen after siat ends. he's the one constantly looking for female love interests to sweep off their feet. he's the one who's great with kids. he's the social hero and natural leader. (sure, his family and supporting cast are completely gone, but that's not acknowledged at all)

and given that earth-8 was bendis's idea, he's miles's creator, he loves writing swirl ships, and every time brian michael bendis writes gwen stacy he's always weird about it, it's real clear that this is the ideal future he wanted for miles... where gwen gets to be there as his trophy wife/babymaker.

this isn't a world where gwen finds happiness. her happiness was never considered when it was created because the world isn't meant for her. it's meant for him.

and it's not even true that this is the only happy ending gwen can have. gwen's comics disown earth-8 immediately: she isn't happy when she sees earth-8, rejects miles and never changes her mind. every time she talks about earth-8 after siat (... when bendis isn't around and latour can say what he actually thinks about it) she says "yikes, not going back there", and the comics introduce another future spider-gwen that goes to earth-8 just to shit-talk it for messing with gwen-65's future, and gwen-65 takes after her instead.

the reason earth-8's seen so fondly is, before the spiderverse movies, most gwiles shippers were miles fans whose only exposure to gwen was sitting in a tree and crossover events. they didn't read her comics, they didn't know her personality, and didn't really care to because the appeal of gwen to them was that she was a hot white girl with spider-powers, a nice design, and a famous name that could make miles look cool if he got with her and got her pregnant. they don't care that gwen wouldn't want earth-8, because they don't care about her as a person, just as a fantasy.

after the spiderverse movies, the new influx of younger gwiles shippers have only watched those movies and either only read siat, crossover events... or the wiki pages summarizing them. so they're taking earth-8 at face value too because they've never seen it in context. these fans might care a bit more about gwen, but they still don't know anything about her and mostly only see her as one half of a relationship that they think is the central point of the trilogy. if they even know or acknowledge that she's queer, they still expect her to want a heteronormative relationship. naturally, the universe where their otp is endgame, the center of the world, and have all the superficial elements of a happy ending is gonna be what they cling to. it's basically a fanfic come true.

the deal with earth-8 is on the surface it represents a happy ending. as long as you don't think about it, or don't know much about the characters (especially gwen), it seems great. but the second you look closer, all it does is raise bad implications. it's framed as a Perfect Future, but it really represents one where miles and gwen have respectively sold out their worlds, values and the themes of their stories for fame, safety and success. and where gwen gets nothing out of it.

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