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Omae: Complexity of Self-Expression and Intimacy with the Japanese “You”
The anime adaption of chapter 322 is rapidly approaching, so I wanna talk about something really interesting: as far as I can tell, Izuku is the only person Katsuki has ever used the pronoun omae (おまえ) towards in-canon. Furthermore, he has only used omae towards Izuku on three occasions.
The first time is after Deku vs. Kacchan 2 in chapter 120.
The second time is right after his apology in chapter 322. (Katsuki actually uses omae four times in a row in this scene.)
(We'll get to the third time later, just you wait.)
Why does Katsuki address Izuku differently in these scenes? To answer this, we’re gonna commit some language nerdery.
First, let’s be real about the fact that Japanese pronouns can be complicated. There are a ton of them. You learn the common uses—like you could say that, broadly, omae tends to be used by guys for their friends and romantic partners. But the reality is that in a high-context language like Japanese, pronouns can come across wildly differently depending on who uses it, to whom, with what tone, and in what context.
It is difficult to generalize real-life usage, so to be clear, I am talking about MHA as a piece of media. I could try to tell you that omae is rude but also friendly but also condescending but also comedic but also confrontational but also affectionate—and so on, but that wouldn’t help you understand what Katsuki’s omae to Izuku means and why it feels significant.
The thing is, Izuku and Katsuki can each say omae and mean completely different things, because their normal way of speaking tells us how to interpret their words.
When Izuku speaks, he is polite and considerate. He uses the boyish first-person pronoun boku (僕). In Japanese, avoiding second-person pronouns is the polite thing to do; you use the person’s surname and an appropriate suffix instead, and this is the tactic Izuku uses to address others. When he does say “you,” it is usually the familiar kimi (君) towards Katsuki.
We see Izuku use omae in only a few circumstances: he uses it towards himself during inner monologues when he is trying to figure out what to do or compel himself to act, and he uses it when he faces All For One.
Both of these involve what I think of as “tough talk”—Izuku talks tough to himself to push past his fears and be a hero. With AFO, he is talking to a villain, someone he has to defeat. From someone like Izuku who speaks with such politeness and humility, omae reads as aggressive and confrontational.
Katsuki, on the other hand, is always aggressive and confrontational. He uses the masculine, somewhat boastful first-person pronoun ore (俺) and the second-person pronoun temee (てめえ) towards just about everybody. Temee is an extremely rude, combative word; Japanese descriptions usually point out that it reads like fightin’ words—it’s what you’d call an opponent, someone you are confronting, challenging, or belittling. As mentioned, you’re supposed to avoid “you” words to be polite, so the fact that Katsuki whips out temee constantly and makes up insulting nicknames instead of using anybody’s real name is just like, damn, dude!
Unlike Izuku, Katsuki sounds like he is challenging everyone all the time. This means that, coming from him, omae actually seems gentler.
After Deku vs. Kacchan 2, he opens his sentence with omae, and Izuku looks startled by this.
They just had a huge, emotional fistfight, and Katsuki… isn’t addressing him as an opponent, like he always has before. For once, he is addressing Izuku not as his enemy, but his equal.
This scene is the first time Katsuki properly grapples with the truth of their mutual weaknesses and comes to an understanding about it. It leaves him frustrated and unsure, but he walks away seeing himself and Izuku as being on the same side.
Because he takes All Might's words to heart: they are two halves of what makes a hero. They need to learn from each other and push each other to truly reach their best—as rivals, not enemies.
In chapter 322, Katsuki talks Izuku through how he felt about him all these years. He goes over all the things he's had to face to see how wrong he was, to see his own weakness and Izuku's strength. The whole time, he uses the "you" word he always has: temee.
But when it comes time to tell Izuku his true feelings, he calls Izuku by his given name, apologizes, and then right away he says this:
This is a direct call-back to the core question that Katsuki posed to Izuku during Deku vs. Kacchan 2: "Is my way of admiring All Might wrong?"
The second half to that question has always been, implicitly, "Does that mean yours is right?"
Here, Katsuki acknowledges Izuku fully as All Might's successor and affirms that Izuku's path is not wrong, using omae to tell him so. And then he uses it three more times to convince Izuku to come back with them and fight together, "because saving people is how we win."
To me, omae in this scene comes across with such softness. He's speaking with more humility than we've ever seen, both in what he's conveying and his word choice. (There is a whole other conversation to be had about Katsuki's word choice for "I'm sorry," but that is for a different time.)
This omae is not just a sign that he sees Izuku as his equal, it's expressing care for him. Katsuki sacrificed his life for Izuku, telling him, "Stop trying to win this on your own." He is trying so hard to make Izuku understand: Come back, I was wrong. Come back, I care about you.
Which brings us to the third time Katsuki uses omae: chapter 362.
That's right, the infamous "Can I still catch up to you?" / "Can I still reach you?" line uses omae.
Here's the thing that's unique about this omae: it's in Katsuki's head. This is internal monologue; he isn't talking out loud to Izuku, he isn't trying to convey something to him face-to-face, he is just thinking about Izuku.
The word choice isn't for anyone else's benefit or any external purpose: this is just how Katsuki sees him.
I can't overstate how soft, vulnerable, and sincere this moment is for Katsuki. And what gets me about him thinking of Izuku as omae is, it makes me wonder, "How long has he thought of Izuku this way?"
When did Izuku stop being temee in his head?
Changing how you address someone is a big deal in Japanese. Whether it's a name or suffix change (Deku -> Izuku) or a pronoun change (temee -> omae), it represents a significant shift in the emotional dynamics of a relationship.
It crops up a lot in media as a dramatic moment of intimacy, sometimes even being a part of love confessions. This heightened drama is exactly what we see with Katsuki's apology when he calls him Izuku.
Katsuki addresses only Izuku with his given name and omae, and in the whole run of the series, he only uses omae in a few select instances. I would argue that this is really important, subtle character writing.
Looking at the scenes, at least to me, each omae reads as progressively more honest and intimate. Each time Katsuki uses it, he is reaching for Izuku. Each time, it means more.
#bkdk#bakudeku#dekubaku#dkbk#translations#mha spoilers#bnha spoilers#mha manga spoilers#bnha manga spoilers#bkdk apology#meta
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Arrrghh. People are finishing up Rebirth and looking up the different localizations, and the inevitable wave of hate for the English version is starting to gain traction again just like with Remake. I guess I just get super defensive about it because I have worked on large translation projects before, and it's not as straightforward as players seem to think.
It's not like the good ol' days of "This Guy Are Sick." They don't write the JPN script first, and then just send it out for translation anymore. Nowadays the different language scripts are all written simultaneously, with the teams working back and forth together, to check over each ofher's work and make sure that no one sentence is under- or overshooting a goal. Like it or not— everything is checked over and approved.
There's a lot more being translated than just words. There's so much to take into account— tone of voice, the cultural context, the lip sync and corresponding length of each line (which isn't allowed to run over by more than 0.2 seconds which is CRAZY). It's a messy process and it's a lot of goddamn work.
And then there's the audience, too. Different languages' audiences are often going to have wildly different interpretations of a character. A really good example from FFVII would be Yuffie. In the JPN version of the OG, Yuffie is written to be a confident girl who's dead serious about her ninja training. The ENG translation didn't do that justice... she instead comes off as a silly annoying kid pretending to be a ninja. Remake's DLC was testing the waters to see if they could write Yuffie in a way that's still faithful to both of the strikingly different regional perceptions of her character. And they nailed it.
The same thing happened with Cloud, and continues to influence the way he's written in the Re-trilogy. It's much more subtle than with Yuffie, but it's still noticeable, and I think it's why a lot of people get up in arms about his dialogue.
Cloud has always been written as having a stark disconnect between his tone of voice and his choice of words. It's just that the two major languages get it swapped! JPN Cloud has a harsh, mean tone, but his choice of words is polite and easygoing. On the other hand, ENG Cloud says a LOT of nasty shit out loud, but his true feelings are betrayed by his soft voice and gentle body language.
The difference goes unnoticed by the average player who isn't so invested to give a damn. But if you're actively searching for "bad translations" to get mad at, then you'll find them where one version's Cloud comes off a bit too strong. It's only natural that English Cloud is the one that pisses people off more often— after all, he's literally saying stupid shit to to piss other characters off constantly. His character is so convincing that players want to reach into their screens and wring his neck, and I think that's glorious.
But that's why it upsets me to see people turn that frustration at the localization teams. They didn't "ruin" a character's dialogue— they were just barely able to make something work, all things considered. Character, line length, culture, story context, facial animations, voice acting, for MULTIPLE languages, like... holy shit. It's a miracle that most of it is really really good, and that the bad is only a little bit bad.
Idk where this rant is going. Just... c'mon people. Have some respect for such an insanely complicated art form.
#look dude. some of the shit cloud says in ENG is awful yes. THAT'S THE POINT THAT'S THE POINT THAT'S THE POINT#it's supposed to be jarring!! it's supposed to make you want to fucking bite his fingers off!!!!!!#it's his shitty asshole coping mechanism and it's The Point Of Everything#the ENG and JPN versions may be different but The Point gets across nonetheless. and that is GOOD.#ugghhh ok just get this outta my system. seeya lol have yourselves a wonderful me gongaga monday tuesday#ffvii
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Kinda random, but if the characters are supposed to abstract while the series is running, I believe Kinger or will be last, or won't and will try to protect the others.
He is a king after all, the king is the last piece to be captured in chess. I think every character kinda fits a chess piece, but I don't have enough brain power to assign everyone.
I really enjoy this idea in a vacuum, but I think that in the context of the plot as we know it now it might be a bit of a reach. We will have to wait and see. However I am very happy you compared Kinger to the actual king in chess because I think his behaviour somewhat reflects what a king in a game of chess actually does.
((For those who don't know: I'm an aspiring chess nerd, and I have been learning how to play the game to the best of my abilities. Prepare for an infodump.))
A king in chess is the most important piece of the board when it comes to protection: losing your king means checkmate, a.k.a losing the game. At the beginning of the game, the king is surrounded by the rest of the chess pieces which act as his defensors. This reminded me a bit of how Kinger tries to constantly keep himself in a pillow fort in an attempt to self preservate.
When it comes to moves, the king is a bit peculiar. In spite of being so important, the king can only move a single square per turn; however, unlike most other pieces, it can move in all directions. Ironically, it has the same mobility of a pawn, but the ability to go everywhere of the queen.
Kinger himself is a bit of a nutcase. He is wildly unpredicatble (can move on all directions), sprewing out words of genius and genuinely insightful information while also acting completely nonsensical. Two sides of a guy... but the thing here is that he rarely takes action himself. The only instance of him truly deciding to do something besides keeping his fort was when he played rock paper scissors with Gangle. He moves with... caution is not the right words as I doubt he even is able of being cautios, but that's the sentiment; he can only "move" once, so he has to make it count.
An interesting detail about the chess piece is that it usually remains unmoved until the chess game enters its endgame stage. That would be when few pieces are on the board. Looking at the members of the current gang vs the many previous players seen on the crossed out doors, we can infer that at this current moment in time in the timeline the metaphorical endgame is taking place right now. And now, according to Jax, is when Kinger decides to start spewing out information about the digital world which he had never disclosed before. We don't know for certain if it was even a conscious decision, but it's certainly peculiar.
Concluding this with a bit of a sad thought: we all know that between those who have (presumably) Abstracted, there was another chess character by the name of "Queenie".
Due to her name and appearence, many have assumed that she and Kinger were formerly in close ties with one another possibly even prior to them entering the Digital Circus.
I think this headcanon has merit: they share a theme, appearence and the title of royalty, so why not assume a relation between the two? It'd be terribly sweet and tragic considering how she ends up...
However, I must point out something here that I haven't seen anyone bring up: Queenie is the black queen. Kinger is the white king. On the chessboard, they would be enemies, playing on opposite sides. With this in mind, I remember that the creator of the series said that there won't be any canonical ships in the show; with this knowledge, let's take this a step forward... what if the reason there won't be any relationship from an in-universe stand point is because the circus itself does not allow any deep interpersonal relationships?
Even if they were together prior to getting into the circus, Kinger and Queenie can't be together -- and this is reflected on their designs: king and queen on opposing teams.
And the Queen is a very active piece on the chessboard. I have no doubt that Queenie tried to figure out a way to escape and ended up Abstracted because of it. Mh... Since the queen is usually the one who targets the opposing king due to how powerful she is in chess... I wonder if Kinger got attacked by her when she abstracted, leaving him scarred - not so much physically, but definitely mentally.
#the amazing digital circus#tadc#the amazing digital circus theory#tdac theory#tdac meta#kinger#tdac kinger#kinger tdac#queenie#tdac queenie#queenie tdac#the amazing digital circus kinger#kinger the amazing digital circus#{carols be normal about fictional characters challenge: impossible}
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ROTTMNT NEWSIES AU - Characters and plot
Characters:
Leo - Jack Kelly
Raph - Crutchie
Casey - Davey
Mikey - Les (kind of?)
Donnie - Spot Collins
April - Katherine Pullizer
Big Mama - Snyder (the spider)
Ms. Medda - Senor Hueso
Krang Prime - Joe Pullizer
Warning: the following explanations are wildly out of order with large variations of detail
Leo is the obvious choice for Jack Kelly, both being angsty tenor protagonists and all, but I also think about it in the way they both so clearly want something. For Jack its Sante Fe, a place he's romanticized into this perfect world away from all of his hardships. Leo in the ROTTMNT movie is desperately hanging onto the past. Before he became leader, before the Shredder, maybe even before they became heros. He wants everything to go back to the way it was, where they could just go in, smash, get out and then grab pizza on the way home. But as things got more serious, this became unrealistic.
Raph serves as the role for Crutchie, more specifically he is taken to the refuge after they try and stop the wagons. This scene is what inspired everything. Maybe someone fucks up his eye with a police baton or something. This is what leads Leo to sing Sante Fe and then give up in the second act.
As for the earlier characters, Casey Junior is Davie. He just moved to NYC from another town where the job he had (tbd) had a union (cough rebellion cough) so he knows a lot about how to rally a group, just lacks the confidence. Originally I was going to have Donnie play this role... but I wanted to include CJJ somehow and I thought Don would be a perfect Spot Collins lmao, he definitely can be scary enough. Also I feel like Casey and Leo's talk in the collapsed subway station can parallel Jack and Davie in Medda's theater in the second act.
April O'Neil is a no brainer for Katherine, except I'm dropping the romance sub plot because I don't really like writing romance and even beyond the turtle human situation I just don't think that April and Leo would like eachother like that, you know? Also I feel like Katherine and April have some of the same spunk. They are also both witty so writing an April and Leo argument in this context would be so fun.
April is following the story and grows fond of the newsies and the Hamatos. Her pen name is April O'Neil, and I'm debating whether or not I keep Pullizer as her dad because Pullizer is Krang Prime and that makes absolutely no sense.
Mikey is still brothers with Leo and Raph, but he serves as Les for the cute little brother laughs and he convinces them to help out Casey, saying he won't help sell papers unless Leo takes Casey under his wing.
The newsies work for the Krang's newspaper business, but uhhh i have no ideas for clever names similar to The New York World but alien style. The New York Dimension???
Big Mama is Snyder because, you know, Snyder the spider. Her "refuge" hosts an underground child fighting ring. It sucks. Leo has escaped there in the past when he outsmarted her, and she hates him for it and is constantly after him. Leo takes refuge (hehe) in Señor Hueso's resturaunt, which he makes up for by waiting tables. April is there rating food and service, and Hueso warns Leo not to give her a bad impression. This is when they first meet. Hueso's is also where the Newsies gather in I'm The King of New York and other scenes. The glasses of water scene would be hilarious.
So uhhh yeah. In conclusion hyperfixation + other hyperfixation = WOAHHH THATS SO FIRE.
#rottmnt#tmnt newsies au#rottmnt newsies au#tmnt#save rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt leonardo#rottmnt raph#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt donnie#newsies#newsies the musical#au#teenage mutant newsie turtles
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gintama time loop reading that i had while watching
(laid out for my own reference. this doesnt have to interest u guys.)
okay so like. watching gintama and getting to kintoki arc. what i knew was 1. i was getting into the anime art style changes i had varying feelings about which signaled 2. i was getting into the back half of gintama 3. what i knew about the back half of gintama is that utsuro exists, gintoki did something fucked up on that cliff that ppl cant stop talking about and drawing parallels to with every arc of gintama, and ppl (i sensed) think the writing of the ending is stupid
kintoki arc has yorozuya and tae promise:
before breaking Gintama The Series into a distorted au where the chars are WILDLY different but still play out their roles to their arc-concluding purposes. birthing in me the image of a gintama that can fill any shaped-hole you put it in and still have the same basic inherent form it moves towards (whatever happened on that cliff, which i sensed was being gestured at in kintoki arc w the beheadment seppuku but had no idea the fucking. extent of lol)
gintama making formal changes (ugly or lovely art style shifts, at some point a radical change in thrust of story with the introduction of utsuro as a final and plot-twisty villain) but (hoping that it's) remaining the same at heart... or being railroaded into being the same. somehow the yorozuya promise became about. being cognizant of being in the narrative timeloop** and being subjected to Circumstances. being cognizant that something was being taken from u (catharsis of ending--) and also inflicted on u (--replaced with episodic and genre-typical* endless storylines)
(*not a slam. just that gintama's storylines are all about like. accepting the horrors. which is a journey of experiencing the horrors in order to come to terms with them that is harrowing to be subjected to over and over and over again. [cest la vie]
**and timeloop was also being flavored by me understanding yoo joonghyuk orv's regressions as about the endless iterative failures of making progress on a journey of recovery from trauma. all timeloops are about that to me now.)
thought shelved until obi-one's arc where, although i understood him as an oboro figure, he was performing a shouyoutsuro role of being a dearly missed mentor figure who comes back for happy family times yayyyyy but oh no he came back Wrong (a disabled cyborg programmed to betray against his own will). and Evil (needs to be taken down, and the shimuras-through-gintoki have to be the ones to dismantle their own happiness that it turns out was always retroactively tinted by this grief).
the presentation of nostalgia as longing for a return to the past that cant actually be achieved. or rather, you can achieve it, but Time changes things, and the past you get back won't actually be the same.
this helps me shift what i know about utsuro (shouyou but Wrong) into being about. what actually isnt that textually present in the series? but has to be assumed, i think? bc like? of course? the desire to have shouyou back (tho now i ask: whose? gintoki's? again, not really... in the text?). you can have shouyou (idealized gintama timeperiod where everyone is happy and innocent) back! you can have all the shouyou (early days swagful gintama anime that i am constantly missing as i move into the future material) back that you want! and its gonna fucking suck (for the chars and for the audience)!
and that basically ends up being the framing thought i take with me into utsuro's introduction................... it gets lost the more i actually see him and late-game gintama for myself and gain the context i never had for everyones blogging i was seeing. but. still. the theme i understood to be what gintama was telling me. you cant get back what you lost. and if (when) you try, you only come face to face with what was damaged in the losing.
however...................................
the further i got into silver soul and through to the ending the more it was............ interesting but confusing that, as i put it, the chars were "fighting the representation of the dangers of Nostalgia with More Nostalgia"?
and still i dont know what to do with the ultimate last-pages ending of gintama being a return to the status quo (with cosmetic changes). yay we defeated the evil specter of our past that haunted us and kept us in the desire timeloop. now we can get back to the episodic timeloop that we spent the fight with the specter... desiring to get back. hm. well!
#sopping wet gintoki posting#ULTIMATELY. any time i conclude a gintama reading conflict with 'sorachi is an imperfect writer' im not mad at him for it lol.#like. i say before in series that take big ideological swings. im not mad at u if u wanna like. tackle the problem of capitalism.#but arent singlehandedly able to come up w the solution to capitalism. i just had fun with u trying.#if sorachi cant singlehandedly solve. the problem of human grief. well it sure is fun to watch him iterate on it for 300 episodes and#700 chapters. thats not necessarily a Failure! but it is. interesting.#gintama time loop theory
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a huge barrier for me for actually sleeping with anyone ever is idk what to do to like, express that intent in a non-creepy way. like I know what NOT to do but idk what TO do to ask and I have moral OCD so my brain is constantly like Repent For Looking Up on Someone With Carnal Desire In Your Heart even though I'm not Catholic. like I know it's fine but OUGH the ingrained guilt be hitting. anyway hi sex witch I have gotten NO sleep so idk how coherent this is but tl;dr I have problems disease. This is probably more of a therapist issue than a you issue but I am hoping you don't mind anonymous venting? If you have ideas I'll take them
hey anon,
this is the most catholic shit I've ever heard from a non-catholic but on god we're going to get through it. I mean it absolutely IS therapist shit, please do that, but we can make a little start here.
I guess, like, realistically, let's talk about your fear of being perceived as creepy. how are you broaching this question? because as long as you're not doing it by leaning in over a stranger's shoulder to breathe wetly in their ear or sprinting at a group of people waiting for the bus whilst whipping open your trench coat to reveal your genitalia or propositioning cashiers at work, you're probably good. context is important, but you probably know that.
I also have to assume you're not just asking acquaintances at random if they want to bone but rather people with whom you feel like there's at least a little interest and a chance of saying yes. and if you're not sure about the vibe, great news! you can literally just ask to hang out with them to get to know them better and develop the vibe.
if you're not so much looking to add a sexual component to your relationship with someone you already know and rather perusing the apps (or websites? idk, are people still on okcupid or farmers only or whatever?), wow, that's even easier. pretty easy to be upfront about what you're interested in and filter accordingly!
regardless of what pools you're pulling perspective partners from, the best way to combat the fear of expressing an interest in sex is to accept that awkwardness is fine and, dare I say, normal. and fine! it's fine to be a little sweaty and nervous and have some little fumbles while making that overture. that's very normal, and doesn't actually need to be scary as long as we're operating in the mindset that it's totally fine if someone says no.
again, an invitation to explore sex together is only a creepy thing if you're doing it in one of those ways I described up to, or in a way that otherwise disregards the feelings of the person you're asking! and as long as you're asking in a way that's not wildly inappropriate, there's no reason to take a no as a rejection of everything about you. listen, there are TONS of people who I deeply love and would continue to deeply love even if they asked to hook up and I wasn't into it.
also, hey: get some sleep.
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Evening, Dev! An Advance Wars YouTuber I follow, Mangs, put up an interview of an ex WayForward contractor on the topic of the underperforming Advance Wars ReBoot Camp. I was wondering if you'd like to view it and give any thoughts. I'm always curious about your opinion on these things given your history and experience.
I watched the video. The opinion of the former employee gels with more junior employees I've worked with in the past - typically the perspective of devs who aren't privy to the decision-making process and lack the kind of context that's needed to understand the costs and benefits to the choices made. Here are a few specific thoughts I had on the various topics mentioned in the video.
Contract workers are often treated quite badly in our industry, especially those in QA. Contractors are the first to be let go, get little or no benefits for working, and are generally hired on through shell companies in order to protect the actual employers from liability. It's an unfortunate situation that's arisen from our legal system and extends far beyond the game industry.
Disagreeing with a major design decision like art direction is not at all uncommon. Leadership takes the responsibility on that one. I will be the first to admit that I've had my share of times where I disagreed with leadership and was right, as well as my share of times where I was dead wrong. I look back at the latter as valuable learning experiences.
I can tell that the person being interviewed doesn't really understand business because they'll say something vague about "record breaking profits" at the corporate level, but no solid information at any level below that. It doesn't matter that the overall company is profitable or not - each product that is developed still needs to justify its own existence via its accounting.
The pandemic, work from home, and return to office policies have affected the industry as a whole in many large ways. Publishing leadership sets the policy for the publisher, and studio leadership sets policy for the studio. My own publisher had different studios enact wildly different policies for work from home and return to office - one studio required all employees return to the office full time, while another only required two days per week.
It sounds like WayForward's engineering team and workflow faced a lot of challenges they had a hard time overcoming. I don't know whether this is because their team was shorthanded, lacked strong leadership, or just was always on the back foot and never able to stabilize due to a never-ending series fires that needed putting out. When everything is constantly on fire, it's extraordinarily difficult to get ahead. Remember, all tasks get prioritized. Fixing crashes is more important than adding new features like multiplayer or new units - crashes stop other dev team members from working, so the effect is multiplicative. I suspect that this was the root problem that caused the rest of the development to get caught in the development hell it sounds like.
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So I'm in the process of filling out the Kitakami regional Dex in Pokémon Violet, and Crawdaunt's entry jumped out at me:
A rough customer that wildly flails its giant claws. It is said to be extremely hard to raise.
So clearly Crawdaunt would not make a good pet. But I am curious as to how it compares to some of the other "rough customers" you've covered thus far.
(Admittedly, I also wonder if the "extremely hard to raise" thing is more of a remark on its growth rate; Crawdaunt has the Fluctuating growth rate, which gains levels very quickly early on but requires more EXP to reach level 100 than any other experience growth rate.)
Crawdaunt would indeed be hard to raise, and I would go so far as to declare it a terrible pet. It all comes down to one key detail about their behavior that sets them apart from other "rough customers": crawdaunts are described as actively seeking to fight any and every living being they come into contact with (Ruby).
Now, when we consider any given species' moves in this project, we're usually assessing the potential danger that the pokémon may present, using their move pool as an indicator of their biological capabilities. For example, my cat is usually very friendly and sweet, but when upset or bored she occasionally tries to bite or scratch me (this can usually be redirected towards a toy, of course). So if I were to analyze my cat in the same way that I analyze pokémon, I would take her biting and scratching abilities as what she is able to do to hurt someone, not as things she will do consistently. Crawdaunt is different. A crawdaunt will attack you. So, crawdaunts' moves carry a little more weight.
Crawdaunt can use some pretty impressively harmful moves, given their size, like Night Slash and Razor Shell, which can become even more destructive if they have the hidden ability Adaptability. At their size, and given their natural aggression, crawdaunts can be pretty dangerous to humans. I predict that their Fluctuating growth rate definitely plays a role in their reputation as difficult to raise in the context of battle training, when their natural aggression can be channeled in battle and may not play as big a role. But in the home, living with a three foot crustacean that constantly tries to snap your limbs up in their massive claws is not gonna be very fun. They're territorial too (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum), which may even increase their aggression when kept out of a pokéball, in a home context.
I certainly could not recommend a crawdaunt to any pet owner, and I'd advise keeping your distance from any you see out in the wild. They're best left to experienced pokémon trainers who know how to redirect their aggression in appropriate contexts.
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ok story time let's go
(i guess CW// religious baggage? vaguely cult-y stuff? Mormons?)
so i was laughing at that (presumably bait) tweet that got screenshotted and reposted on here, with the person claiming that y'all is a problematic term used by "bigoted southerners" and someone else dunking on them, because I'm Canadian and I say y'all ALL the time. and like, that by itself wouldn't be too notable - there ARE rural areas of Canada, particularly over in Alberta/Saskatchewan, where the local accent and slang have convergently evolved into something very similar to Texas (and I DID actually grow up in a town like that, though i never picked up the accent myself).
what makes my adoption of y'all particularly odd is that I picked it up in the Caribbean of all places. if you are familiar with my Not-So-Secret Tragic Backstory then you MIGHT know where this is going already.
I was raised in a Mormon family, so when I was 18 i was basically required to go do the missionary thing with the white shirts and ties and nametags. (this is very funny considering my current status as a gay trans furry artist and leftist, but this story isn't really about that.) I got assigned a random location in the world, and was shipped off to the Eastern Caribbean for 2 years. it was very hot and sweaty and overall not a very good time for me, the world's blondest palest scrawniest teen who would have to walk around all day every day in office attire.
ANYWAYS a few months after my mission began, we got a new mission president (the old guy assigned by the church to be in charge of all the missionaries in a region, along with his wife). while he was generally a pretty jovial friendly guy, he also had an occasional tendency to powertrip and institute random arbitrary rule changes whenever he felt that the missionaries weren't performing as well as he'd like and the numbers were down. with missionaries, there's a huge focus on "exact obedience" and "consecration" - this idea that the more single-mindedly devoted you are to Doing Missionary Stuff and Thinking About Jesus and Never Having A Single Fucking Independent Thought In Your Head Or Taking Care Of Your Personal Wellbeing Or Enjoying Yourself, the more god will bless you with like. charisma superpowers or something. to just change people's minds on the spot as you blast them with your Conversion Beam. and therefore anytime that ISN'T happening (y'know, because people have free will, and also because being Mormon is wildly unappealing to any reasonable outsider), it clearly MUST be because those darn young punk missionaries are probably thinking too much about their partners back home or drawing Pokemon fanart or collecting distractingly colourful neckties. can't have that!
so with all that context, I can finally get to the point, which is that one day our mission president decided the reason nobody was knocking on our apartment door begging to get baptized was probably because we, as missionaries, were too casual in our interactions with one another. specifically, he took issue with missionaries calling each other "dude" or "bro" or "man", or referring to each other collectively as "you guys". he insisted that this was "eroding the dignity of our sacred calling as missionaries" and that we should instead strive to call each other "Elder" and "Sister" (the titles used for male and female missionaries respectively) as much as humanly possible.
specifically as an alternative to "you guys", he suggested we start saying "Elders and Sisters" every time we addressed a mixed group of missionaries. which OBVIOUSLY sounds really fucking stupid. and I was in a leadership position at the time, so I had to deliver instruction/training to the missionaries in my area every week AND call them to check-in every night. being a missionary and constantly being commanded to do incredibly stupid arbitrary things really brought out my latent rebellious streak, and there was NO fucking way I was going to say "Elders and Sisters" if i could avoid it - the only people who actually complied with the new rule were immediately identifiable as goody-two-shoes and suck-ups and everyone wanted to push them into the ocean.
so INSTEAD, i and several other missionaries quickly realized that we could simply get away with saying "you all" or just plural "you" with like, a hand gesture to show we meant the group. which naturally just evolved into y'all pretty quickly because it's an incredibly natural contraction of words and it just feels good to say. and the mission president never complained about it, because we weren't using cool youngster slang like "guys" or "dudes" and instead it just sounded like a fun twangy rural affectation. and then i just kinda kept saying it for the rest of my mission, and continued saying it after i returned home and went off to college in the city and all that jazz.
...absolutely no clue where I picked up saying "howdy" all the time tho. i don't have an excuse or backstory for that one lol, it's just fun to say
#buny text#storytime#long post#idk what the standard tags are for tagging like. religious shit for folks to blacklist. particularly ex-mormon stuff#so if anyone needs to me to add tags lemme know#thank you for reading my very long post i think this story is very funny personally#i love when friends point out how much i say Y'all and assume it's because i grew up in rural alberta and i get to say 'actually no'
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Thoughts on Wish
I've never walked out of a Disney movie with such a lukewarm response before.
It's not Bad, but it also didn't feel like it had a lot of love put into it, either.
That being said, this is still an Asha stan account.
Asha is, without a doubt, the strongest point of the movie. Which is good, bc she's the main character. Right at the beginning it's established that her generosity is the root of her character, and her "adorkable" moments are next to none aside from the trailers. She very clearly does not want to be misunderstood or mistaken for selfish. She is, in all measures, Magnifico's foil. That being said, I don't like the ending, giving her the Fairy Godmother's wand and implying that's who she becomes. Not only bc the Fairy Godmother has almost always been portrayed as white, but also bc this movie was promised as the origin story of the wishing star, not the Fairy Godmother. Especially with the whole "made of stardust" thing, it would have been stronger if it was Asha joining Star and the other stars.
The music is really hit-or-miss. Either it's great or it does nothing. "This Wish" (and its reprise) and "This is the Thanks I Get?!" do great, "Knowing What I Know Now" starts off slow and gets strong, and the others just... fall flat. I'm just going to say it, I don't think "I'm a Star" needed to be explained in a song (which I couldn't even follow for a good portion of the performance.) "At All Costs" makes sense in the plot but without context can be wildly misconstrued.
King Magnifico is a fantastic Disney Villain because yes, he starts out with noble intentions, and even the audience might be tricked, but the moment his strategies and power are merely questioned he turns into a Problem, which is the best kind of Disney Villain I think. The plot is entirely his fault in the best way. Also I think he takes the cake for "Disney Villain who physically does the most damage to the protagonist" given how he throws Asha around and slams her to the ground with magic.
I love Queen Amaya and she deserved better than Magnifico.
Beyond Dahlia, I'm very ambivalent about Asha's friends. Gabo was more "rude for comedic effect" than actually Grumpy, and Dahlia constantly has the only brain cell. Dario wasn't dopey, he was just a stoner. And... Simon deserved better. They made his "sleepy" description be a result of having already given his wish over to Magnifico and therefore losing a part of himself, which is a nice touch that makes sense, but then he spends the rest of the movie being controlled to fight them (a plot point that almost honestly felt like an afterthought to the plot more than anything.) And we get... half a minute of resolving that. After he's been terrorized by bunnies I suppose.
I expected... a lot more Disney references. Like we saw Aurora's dress in Sonja's wish, and of course we find out that a recurring minor character who just came to Rosas turns out to be a Wendy reference when she goes off with Peter-reference to build a flying machine, but these were the only two references I really caught. For a story that's been "a hundred years in the making" there was really, really little actual joy to be found in it.
The ending should have been something like "Star invites Asha to come reside among Stars like her, but Asha demurs to remain in Rosas as heir to Queen Amaya, and once Rosas is safe in the hands of Asha's chosen heir, then she ascends to join the stars."
For a Disney movie, it's sweet and cute and has a wonderful message. For it to be the 100th anniversary movie, "a story a hundred years in the making," it kind of left me looking at it like "this is it????"
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Phenomenon: Getting “yeeked”
I’m sure a few iterators have experienced these, and were left with nothing but confusion, distress and astonishment afterwards.
To those who haven’t had one happen to them, and those who have had it happen to them and want context, allow me to elaborate on what they are.
Yeeks, the vibrant white, orange, bouncy creatures that jump around constantly, make tons of noise, and and alert everything in its presence, almost seems to invite predators to take a bite out of them.
This doesn’t work in their favor, and often gets them killed in places infested by caramel lizards, which are specifically adapted to hunt them.
However, those are the ones that stick outside of packs and stay where they are, and most travel a lot and stick together.
These yeeks are playful, daring, curious and like to explore, even seen sniffing other creatures like scavengers and slugcats, and taunting slow predators like green lizards by jumping over them.
Due to their curious nature and tendency to travel, they often find themselves in places where yeeks shouldn’t be, like above the clouds, beneath the crust, and inside iterators.
You would think they would never get that far, and get picked off by predators, but their main defense against predators is quite efficient, and is why they travel in packs.
They overwhelm their predators by working together to jump around wildly and make loud noises all at once.
They don’t just do it when they are threatened though, and will actually strike first and jump towards them to make it seem less like just a defense, and more like an active threat.
They also ambush predators very suddenly, funneling themselves through pipes all at once to surprise whatever’s on the other side, before filling the room with chaos.
Though this may not seem scary upon reading it, but imagine being a white lizard, casually just camping a pipe like the jerk you are, when all of a sudden you are jumpscared by 20 vibrantly colored creatures, aggressively lunging at you, bouncing off walls in all different directions at high speeds, filling your vision with nothing but a bright white and orange, changing direction and depth before you can even process what their direction and depth even was.
Everything is cut off from you, as your mind desperately tries to grasp the incomprehensible threat in front of you, behind you, above you, to your side, in your face, everywhere, to no avail.
You can’t make out a single thing, you still see, feel and hear it anyways, but you don’t know what it is, making everything you pick up feel like a violent static contorting your mind, shocking you into a paralysis and driving you mad.
There’s so much noise all at once. The noises sound like they should blend together, but they’re all at different times, frequencies and directions, broken apart, scattered and unnaturally mashed together with the ones they shouldn’t be, creating some kind of chimera for your ears.
Your not getting enough oxygen, everything is being pulled away from you and pushed at you all at once.
You can feel so many different textures and shapes on your skin, all touching you with different forces and staying for different times.
They poke, they cling, they scratch, they hit, and the difference between air and solids becomes a blur.
Bruises and cuts blossom on your skin, hurting you, and you finally grasp on to one feeling, one thought, one command.
Fear.
You run from the hurricane of madness, but it chases, kicking and pushing you off poles and platforms as you scramble in desperation to get away from it.
You find a pipe, and immediately slide through as fast as you possibly can, reaching for the fresh air, solid ground and peace.
Finally, your free. You don’t know how long it’s been, all you know is that your never going in that room again, or anywhere near whatever that was.
You look like you’ve been put through a blender, which you can’t say you haven’t, because it’s the best guess you have.
They might also do this for other reasons besides defense, like out of spite or sadism.
But they most commonly do it out of curiosity, and when they don’t view the target as a threat, they might be a bit more gentle and calm down after they’re done having fun or inspecting the target.
They may also target things, chase after them and return to do it again.
And unfortunately for iterators, they are a prime target for being yeeked, being a large source for curiosity or hatred from yeeks.
Luckily, more hateful and aggressive ones aren’t as common, but they exist, and you can come across them.
Just remember, while yeeks are usually only seen scavenging for food, they are omnivores, and whenever they please, they can be predators.
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Seven(ish) Sentence Sunday!
Thank you so much to my bestie/future possible podcast host (lol) @chaotictarlos. I now give to you a few more than seven sentences from my upcoming Tarlos Fighter Pilot AU, “Take My Breath Away” coming later this year.
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“You’re doing it again!” Marjan said. “Dude, if you’re infatuated with him or something you should just go up and talk to him rather than stare like a crazy stalker.”
“We’re supposed to be competitors, Firefox,” Carlos replied. “Besides, he’d probably just ghost me.”
“Remember what Captain Ryder literally just said? You’re supposed to learn how to be teammates. Maybe you’ll learn something from each other if you’re both not trying to constantly one up the other. Besides, when we’re up there, I need to make sure that you have my back and that you’re not just thinking about ways to beat him,” Marjan countered.
Carlos was starting to get a little tired of people having good points in their conversation. Marjan was right, Carlos definitely needed to at least get to know TK, maybe definitely in a context that was wildly different from their previous encounters.
He took a big swig of his drink before standing up and walking toward the other pilot, rolling his eyes at Marjan’s “attaboy, go get him!” as she patted his back. He mentally prepared himself, trying to think of polite conversation topics, but his mind went blank when TK turned around and spotted him.
TK smirked as he saw Carlos walking toward him, he had to admire the other man’s confidence for sure.
“Lieutenant Carlos,” TK said cooly, “of all the gin joints in all the world.”
“Lieutenant Strand,” Carlos said, his voice flat. He looked at the other man up and down, admiring the way his Navy khaki uniform hugged him in all the right places. All of his rational thoughts flew out of his mind as he imagined undoing each button on his uniform while kissing him senseless. He forgot about his previous distaste for the other pilot, and was only consumed by how fucking gorgeous he was. Lieutenant TK Strand was undoubtedly a ten, and Carlos couldn’t get him out of his head. In more ways than one.
“Why didn’t you tell me that you were in the Navy the last time we–” he said without thinking, not willing to even finish the sentence.
TK smirked again, and Carlos could feel himself getting weak at the knees at it. What was happening to him?
“You mean during our last encounter? Our little rendezvous in the bathroom? You didn’t ask, and to be frank, it seemed like you had other things on your mind at the time.”
“Yes, but we’re competitors,” Carlos said. “Competitors don’t–” He stopped himself again.
TK half-laughed. “What? Suck each other off in the bathroom of a beach bar? Yeah I think you’re right about that part. It would make watching sports a lot more fun.”
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I am still hard at work on this fic in between my busy work schedule and having some modicum of a social life. I’ve never published anything I’ve written before online so I’m excited and nervous for the rest of it to be finished.
I’ll tag anyone reading this who wants to participate since I don’t want to pressure you if you aren’t willing to share/aren’t working on anything at the moment. Just know that I love to read other people’s fics as well (even if they’re WIPs) and I will gladly hype you up or lend my prompt gremlin services to you. Ask @chaotictarlos, my powers are great. Thanks for reading! See you in the skies!
#seven sentence sunday#911 ls fic#911 lone star#tarlos fic#tk strand#carlos reyes#kilo writes#just give me top gun but gay and with tarlos
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Hi Goldy!
So what do you make of today's latest: Jikook's gold rings and tings?
A stylist’s choice that JK and JM co-signed?
A full-blown personal and public display of commitment?
Something else?
Thanks and I hope you’re doing well. ❤️
Usually I overlook things like couple rings, couple outfits and what not because- as i say time and again- it's Kpop. Drawing on queer aesthetics, homoerotic graphics and couple vibes is the je ne sais quoi.
They've already addressed the motivations behind their matching looks as wildly instigated by their stylists for obvious reasons most times.
They've equally demonstrated over the years a need to let us know they do share clothing items every now and then by their own volition. Sometimes it's because they are tired of wearing rings so they give it to the other, sometimes they think they have too many on, or that the other has too little on they almost naked.
Sometimes they wanna taunt and tease us.
Sometimes it has deeper meanings only they know.
So given the context and the sociocultural climate we arw in and taking the time frame within which this matching stuff was filmed- I'd vote that this was a deliberate calculated conscious choice with an agenda.
They are letting locals film them on the streets, going about their usual schedules as ot7, reinforcing this idea of Jikook as a couple even though we all know this is a tired ass marketing strategy and is totally uncalled for post the set off of their solo trajectory.
It's a not so subtle attempt to reiterate this whole notion that BTS are still together working as a group and not at all running separate schedules because they went solo.
It's something I've been anticipating. For them to double down on the ot7 agenda to present a unified front to the fans.
So yea, i roll my eyes at these things. It's blatant fanservice if it's their stylist's choice. It's riding on the waves of the bts friendship tattoos- even though it's not an entirely new phenomenon to occur within bts
If it's a personal decision, I'd say the same thing. So sentimental and for what🙄
Giving me butterflies in my shtomach thinking these two Nikas actually went out and bought a friendship ring to symbolize their years long friendship within BTS cos their friendship is/was never truly properly celebrated in the fandom like ever. Their relationship is/was constantly overly sexualized or worse invalidated every turn you took.
They themselves never addressed or acknowledge their genuine feelings of love and friendliness the way they emphasize that friendship in other ships. They push it under the rag or let it sit and marinate in our delusional braincells. Letting their actions speak beyond their words.
It would be nice if they acknowledged that they have a friendship too. A beautiful one at that. Their relationship is beautiful.
Either way, I love it.
Talk of public display of commitment, I don't know what beats the J.M on Jk's ring finger sis- maybe I'm sentimental but that Tattoo and that Rosebowl moment- JUNGKOOK CAN DO NO WRONG IN MY EYES FOREVER. Such a romantic. Whew.
Okay yall got my shipper motors running again. Let's go down that rabbit hole. Grab tissues. LOTS AND LOTS OF TISSUE.
GOLDY
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I really hate the way people on tumblr use "anti" as a descriptive noun when it absolutely is not one. Anti what? Anti isn't even a complete word...nevermind a complete thought... it's a prefix. If you call someone an anti what you are saying is "You are an against" which makes no fucking sense.
I see it used constantly by different people to describe wildly different people. I'll see a statement and I have no idea if I agree with it or not because I don't know what position the person is taking because I don't know who they are criticizing when they say anti. It's like they grouped the entire world into the worst most retarded false dichotomy ever conceived, people who are for stuff and people who are against stuff.
It used to just be the social justice crowd who used it to mean people who were against feminism or social justice in general...which should be the first clue it's a retarded nonsense thing to say. But now I see it used for just about everything. I've seen pedophiles use it to describe people who don't like cartoon porn involving kids, I've seen it used in the context of "shipping" but those arguments from both sides of whatever issue they are having is so incomprehensible to begin with I can't even figure out who the "shipping antis" are even with tons of additional context. My previous sentence doesn't make sense but there's no other way to say it because of how fucked the usage of that prefix is.
And even if it was a grammatically correct thought communicated properly....it's still a shitty insult, you're criticizing someone for being against something...by accusing them of being against it. Tumblr found a way to put circular reasoning into an insult.
It's like watching thinking and language degrade in real time.
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One afternoon after I had gone home, a co-worker of mine used my (colored) work printer to print a photograph of a political figure (possibly photoshopped or wildly taken out of context). He affixed a snarky little caption to it and put it in his mailbox. And there it has stayed, for weeks and weeks and weeks.
I have no idea what purpose it is intended to serve. He doesn’t seem to be doing anything with it. It is not in a location where he can see it at all times. It is, however, situated so that I have to look at it every time I a) use my mail box, which is next to his, b) look to the left while sitting at my desk, c) stand up and exit my workspace, and d) go to and from my desk. While I’m not any fonder of this person than he is, I find this picture tasteless, petty, and inappropriate for the workplace, and I don’t enjoy having to see it.
So when he’s gone on extended vacations recently, I have turned the photo in the mailbox over so I don’t have to see it constantly. I’ve kind of hoped he’d forget about it (he’s printed all kinds of pointless things on my printer and then forgotten to come and get them), but every time he returns, the picture goes emphatically right-side-up again.
And I know this is ridiculous, and I know I shouldn’t be this annoyed by it, but weeks and weeks of this has been building up, and I’m really struggling to contain my frustration. If he likes it so much, why doesn’t he take it to his desk where it won’t be in my face all the time? Why does it have to be in a place where I can’t avoid seeing a foolish picture of someone I dislike over and over and over every single day I’m at work? Why does this need to be in the office at all?
I’ve contemplated asking my boss how to cope with this, but I’m afraid she’ll dismiss me as being unreasonable (it is pretty ridiculous, I know), and I really don’t want to deal with the drama that will ensue if she does ask him to move it. This man is normally agreeable about most things, but he really enjoys bringing his politics to work (he ordered the book I was so conflicted about adding last year and frequently listens to political videos at his desk at volumes audible to the whole office) and can get difficult to deal with if confronted on this.
I doubt there’s anything that can be done, and I’m not asking anyone to solve this. Just...am I being ridiculous and petty?
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Hey TTC 😂,
One of the suspicious moment for me was the iconic Jungkook's live where jimin and Jin joined and later tae joined, if I am not wrong it was 2019.
Sus moments for me-
1. Tae condracting himself. First he says he saw jin-jimin live but then says he just saw picture and came. Jimin's face was so hilarious.
2. Amount of luggage. Jk had two big bags when they just came for 2-3 days. One was completely organized the other was less compared to the previous one. Maybe Jungkook wanted to sell his clothes like he did in vlive later.
3. Jungkook who doesn't like to share clothes is putting it on Taehyung's body who just came out of gym and Jin when asked if he could buy his clothes is like no you already bought. Dude I know your bae is there but he is your eldest hyung. Atleast play with him too.
4. Jk constantly complimenting Tae's body, calling him pretty person/boy. Not gonna lie I would too.
5. Tae saying his room is as big as jungkook's. Bighit sure loves taekook especially more than Jin and jimin.
6. Tae sharing TMI that he and Jungkook wear same underwear brand.
Non-taekookers- Taekook is dead
Jungkook and Taehyung - ~hold my underwear~ 🩳
7. When asked if they were gyming together jk said date and everyone got awkward, even the subtitle said so. No issue BiGHit loves using the word 'awkward'. Power of Taekook. 🤷
8. As soon as jimin and Jin went someone rang the bell, we can hear jk asking the person by saying 'what' but excusing on live they didn't know who it was. It's ok he might have excercised hard. Plus his bae is there baby got confused.
9. After doorbell, jk asking tae are you not going? Tae asked if he wanted to say something to army and then after tae ' supposedly' went, jk ended live in a minute or two, if I am not wrong. I need to eat more almonds 😅
10. In the starting, Tae says he came straight coz he got JK's vlive notification whereas Jin had to hear at peoples' door to know which was Jungkook's room. That means Tae knew where JK lived but then he says who's room is this. I mean look at Jimin's reaction again. He looked so done with him. I want to ask Tae- You are gyming with your 'BRO', you come straight to his room and ask whose room is this? What K-drama is this?
11. Don't even make me go about ghost residing in Jungkook's room. Ghost is sighing, papers are flying and Jungkook is internally crying. Thank God he wasn't Jungshooked like he did on a vlive when he asked Taehyung to eat spicy noodles next morning. I would have cried laughing. Oh wait! I am actually doing it.
I may be missing something but whole vlive was chaotic and people say why taekook don't come on live together. Don't know if both the boys are wildly naive or dangerously intelligent or drowning in between, but when they are together on live BIGHIT sure get terrorized.
And let's not forget about when we hear them on each other lives, them looking behind their cams and in one live we can clearly see Taehyung at the back when JK shifted cam (before GCF NEWARK recording).
They both are chaotic but I love this chaos.
I have to add one more thing about vlive
K-army confirmed this-
When tae asked aren't we sharing room first time jk says huh!? And tae repeats the statement/question and jungkook says you are so clueless.
Yeah he is your innocent/clueless baby.
You and this other anon have a lot of similar thoughts about this live! I can’t say I disagree, it’s definitely a highly suspicious one in my opinion as well.
I’d heard whatever Jungkook says off screen at the end of the live translated as, “You’re so tactless,” or something like that before, but I suppose tactless and clueless are pretty much the same in this context. It’s really hard to hear him though, so I’ve always taken this with a grain of salt.
Whether you take that one point into consideration or not, there’s so much in this live that’s wild, and really hard to explain away, in my opinion. I love it so much. It’s 13 minutes of pure chaos.
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