I..I um...h-hi? T-Thank you for the follow...m-may I ask why?

Because! I recognize you from the bird app (X) ! Hi it's me the same Dizzy individual do not be alarmed

I will admit I did a double take when I saw your username! Then I checked to make sure it was you and was delighted! I am waving 👋!

sorry i didn’t meant to imply that bbc was a healthier working environment earlier on, more so that they tried to project this image and so fans were under the assumption the girls were well treated (or if not well treated, at least not subject to the abuse they were) and that it has only been in more recent years (although to be honest i don’t know what im considering recent in this case, late 2020/early 2021? but i may be remember completely wrong) when the girls started opening up more about their experiences. i do really appreciate the examples you gave regarding the girls themselves sharing how much freer they feel at ctd, and i personally trust ctd more than modhaus any day.

No no no its okay no need to apologise haha I was wondering if that was what you meant anyway. I answer asks for both you the asker and my followers anyway so I want to cover all bases.

You're right that up until about 2020, international fans didn't really think twice about BBC mistreating them, which I think was an interesting side effect of their stan loona meme virality - and at the time not a lot of content that foreign fans could easily engage with so a lot slid under the radar. Hyeju mentioned the story about being forced to lose 6kg in a week first in 2019 on a FOTM episode, as well as crying in bed because of starving herself, but fans... didn't really seem to pick up on it at the time. I think it was honestly after I first answered the ask where I collated the jaden jeong imgur folder that people frequently refer back to now, and when the girls started speaking out more, when momentum began picking up. (I don't wanna sound like I'm taking credit here, I think we should all be grateful to team subbits who translate so much content that brought the mistreatment to our attention). As well as dieting, another instance that I think is forgotten about is the maknae line car crash in 2018 where the girls were forced to perform and do fansigns the day after, and a fansign account a week later suggested that the girls were, or at least Hyeju was, actually still injured/emotionally distressed from the crash - I think there's many orbits who don't even know they ever had a car crash. Hanbits have a habit of talking about mistreatment either on privs (which obviously wuebits would never see) or directly via emails to the company because they think negative press is embarrassing/shameful to the girls and don't want the girls' career to be associated with negativity so never made incidents like those a big thing - but I remember so many hanbit tweets complaining at the time - but back then the divide between wuebits and hanbits was even bigger, maybe because of the Choerry boycott misunderstanding, so again, it never made it to international side.

I forgot about this earlier, but not only do CTD not control what the girls eat, but the staff actively remind Yeojin to eat, as well as Vivi cooking for her, since its something she struggles with. I think that represent what kind of company they are really well.

MAX, HOMIE. this isn't a question but.

[slides into confession booth and wears a shame hat] i saw you following me here and i did not realise who you were but followed back because my genuine thought process was, "oh hey! another max! omg they're so similar to the max i know on twt THEY LIKE SUBBY BOYS AND WRITING TOO? THEY MUST BE COOL LIKE TWT MAX TOO IMMA FOLLOW BACK"

didn't realise you were the same person... until i saw someone's fic rec post TODAY... which included your ao3 name on it... and... y'know maybe i do have a question am i stupid

AHAHAHHAHA yes it is I, ao3 user writertothemaximum, twitter user fouldestruction, that is me, me am I(?)(/pretentious)

coughs, anyways, yeah, this is basically my priv, or where I talk about non-fandom specific things that I like (but if I see jjk art I like, I will reblog it), so I didn't put my ao3 username or any of that on purpose but maybe I should LMAO. I love art of all kinds, and western art music (classical music) is one of those passions that I don't really talk about online too much but I AM obsessed. My life's passion.

So yes, not surprising that you didn't connect the dots but extremely hilarious for me LMFAO I imagine there's other fandom friends who followed me back on here and were like "🧍 I-Is this the same person? It really sounds like it."

I also reblog more political/debate-y sort of things here that I wouldn't trust within my life on twitter AHAHAH so. I also use this blog for that.

So to answer your question--

you are not stupid, homie.

>patpat

the homie is very good, i adore the homie (pats again)

1. i was trying to search up ur acc to send this ask but i just typed in 'anne' and sat here for a good few seconds bc i couldnt remember ur username at all like i was having a mental blank it felt like the most in body dissociative experience ever (i know thats kind of a self-contradicting statement but i dont know how else to explain it)

2. for scientific reasons (kat-iology) i need to ask a potentially strange question: do you. do you make the like. [bites affectionately] [puts in mouth] [eats (thing)] kind of comments??? i was talking to chip and i made a comment about it and i realised i fully associate those comments/phrases with you as well but i can only recall you maybe once, saying or reblogging that post about biting affectionately or smth ?,, and then i sent it to chip instead of rb'ing it bc i felt bad biting you hrough the rb and then chip sent u an ask/msg about it ????? idk if u remember AHHAHAHA n e ways this is potentially top3 strangest asks i've ever sent, if not The Strangest Ask im so sorry i jsut need closure HQHAHAHHAHAHA (feel free to answer priv of ya want!!)

kat I swear I didn't ignore this it's just today was busy fjslfk 😭 lying in bed now so tired but fulfilled 👍✨

1) ME TOO MAN I will type in someone's name and be like well why doesn't Tumblr know Exactly who I want to see. This is dumb. Oh wait nvm I'm dumb

2) THIS WAS SO FUNNY TO READ 😭 just getting to the "I associate [insanity] with you" got me so good and I am so honored. I don't think I've ever said bite or eat or put in mouth but I definitely say "consume" a lot bc it's such a posh and bougie word for what I actually mean and I think it's funny. Like yeah I'm gonna consume him. I rly will. So ig short answer... yea I make those comments since consume and eat are synonyms?

I also do remember chip contacting me 😭 don't remember exactly how but it's familiar. But I also could very well be misremembering 🤷‍♀️

Side note I love when u just slide into my ask box and unload like I'm a bartender whose shift ends Not Soon and thus has to sit through people telling them stories (the ppl are probably tipsy so it makes the stories that much better) it is quite possibly the best thing ever 🥹🫶 I open up tumblr and I'm like omg kat remembers me and it's a nice feeling. I should have said that idk why I had to make a long ass metaphor

Hi, Hera my love!!!! I missed you so much, I wasn't here when you got back because I'm taking a break from Tumblr but I came back to see if you came back, omg I missed you so much! How are you?? I see you already talked to so many people already so it must be annoying to answer the same questions over and over again but I'm so happy you're back, how have you been? Have you been feeling well?? You have no idea the number of things I've realized when I was gone and while you were gone, I had such a huge dilemma on what I wanted, I remember being confused about what guy I wanted and I finally realized that I kept thinking about what I thought I wanted instead of what I actually wanted.

You know how sometimes you think you need something but it's actually something society or people around you tells you you should want? Yea well, that was me and the thought of me being with someone I was attracted to but didn't love. I got everything I wanted, I finally understood the law, and I have the person I told you about before in one of my posts, he was actually who I wanted but I made myself confused even though the rhythm of my heart was basically sounding out his name with every beat it made, I'm mainly on your account and I followed you on Twitter but Idk if you accepted or not(I don't really know completely how Twitter works yet but getting used to it).

I remember telling you in an ask, I think this was before I had an emoji but I sent an ask saying how you would be the first person I would tell I got everything I wanted to, I also wanted to tell Cinefairy but I see I got here too late :(. You were both the first blogs I followed with the law of assumption and I got so attached to both of you. I also remember how before you came back and I was still on Tumblr I was literally lurking on so many blogs so don't be surprised if you see my emojis on other blogs, that's me ;)

Anyway, I shall wait on my queen to answer this(it's okay if you can't answer right away or don't see it I know you always get a shit ton of asks). Stay safe my love <3

-🥺💖

My sweetest beloved precious Honey angel I cannot express how wonderful it is to hear from you again and bearing such wonderful news! Congratulations on the SP success, my love. I'm wishing the two of you a wonderful relationship.

If you're comfortable you should dm me on twitter (priv) so I can follow you back. Again, so lovely to hear from you again and I'm sending you the biggest hug <3

So, are you ready to tell me about that snail you mentioned earlier?

I got a priv msg of the same question, which I'm answering here.

A few months ago, I was playing Pokemon Go and I spotted a shiny Mimikyu. I thought this was pretty unusual, since (1) shiny Pokemon are rare, (2) Mimikyu are not usually shiny, and (3) it's not usual for your first shiny to be one you're particularly excited about getting.

Except, as I mentioned in the private message, I was mostly excited about getting "a shiny one," rather than specifically that one. I just knew it would be a shiny -- it was too too too good to be true and thus I didn't expect it, and thus I'd be surprised and excited when it happened, and not too surprised, and not disappointed, and my first reaction wouldn't be "oh my God, really?" It would be like recognizing that it's a miracle, rather than like being a miracle. That was my mindset.

I knew this, not because I expected to get a shiny Mimikyu. I knew it because of past experience with shiny hunting in the game, and this was the pattern. People would catch a shiny, and it would be special and I would admire it, but then I'd also be thinking "wow, really? was I really going to get a shiny in the first like 10 I caught?" And it wouldn't seem like a miracle because it would be expected.

In case it's not clear, this is not a "blind faith that I'll get a shiny if I keep catching Pidgeys" thing. Those catches weren't special to me in the way that a shiny catch is -- they didn't feel unlikely. They're not outliers in the sample.

So I walked around catching Pokemon for a bit, playing the game the way I usually would. But my chances were bad, so I just walked around some more, and eventually I caught a Drowzee, who I would've caught even if it wasn't a shiny. "Oh!" I thought, "I was right!"

And then after like 5 more minutes or something I got a shiny Mimikyu. So that was the miracle. It was like being in the middle of a completely average day, and then standing in a park, and then stepping outside, and seeing a shooting star. A very ordinary non-shiny Drowzee as a prelude to a very exceptional shiny Mimikyu is a very normal and expected combination of events, but it's still like walking through a park and looking up at the sky and seeing a shooting star. (Even if the park is not exceptional, and the constellations are really boring.)

So that was the miracle. "Ooh," I thought, "that's a shiny, hey?" And then I kept playing the game and stopped thinking about it for a while.

So: a few weeks ago, I played Pokemon Go after not playing for several days, and saw a bunch of shinies appear from the fog. It's very normal for me to walk around, see a bunch of shinies appearing from the fog, and get excited about them, because there's a big population of shiny Pokemon around.

Except I got my first shiny of the day, and it was one that wasn't in the sample, wasn't in the high-density part of the population, where I was expecting to see it eventually. Because it was, like, in the lowest-density part of the population . . . it was a Snivy.

I got excited and a bunch of people saw the shiny Pokemon I got and were excited. I asked them if they were excited, and they said no, they were actually sort of distracted, but I felt like they should be excited, I felt like there was a Miracle at our location.

And the game realized this and put a fucking 3-star snivy in my house, and the fact that it was a 3-star snivy meant that it was a part of the high-density population I was expecting to see shinies in the first place. I had been excited about the possibility of seeing a very common shiny and was less excited about it than I was about getting a 3-star shiny snivy.

And my partner looked at me with the expression of someone who does not know what they are looking at. "Why are you so excited about a Snivy?" she said. "You know you'll see a Snivy soon anyway."

I said I knew I would see a Snivy soon, but this was a special Snivy, it was a rare Snivy, we should all be excited, and, like, look, here it is! and we looked at the thing and I was feeling like I was living in a Miracle

And after a while, my partner just kind of realized "oh, the shiny is a thing he expects to happen," and my excitement calmed down. But I looked back at it and thought "I wonder if this is a Snivy that I can make a pokemon character out of? I don't think so . . . it's one of those [generic pokemon] with the stupid little hat."

And after a while I looked at it again and was like "fuck, you know what? I'm just going to make this my pokemon character -- it's a low-fantasy snivy, it's my guy, it's called Mimikyu"

And I still feel like I have a small god that follows me around.

Bas, congrats to 5k! That‘s amazing (≧∀≦)

I‘d love to know what got you into writing, have you been writing before you started writing reader inserts for One Piece? What made you start this blog? And do you have a piece you‘ve written that you‘re especially proud of? ♡

thank youuu Lale ❤

The answer might be shocking for some but...no, I haven't been regularly writing before I started some-piece. Really, really! Not even privatively. Extremely low self esteem been holding me in dead place for years.

I think I've managed to finish only 3 short fics before I oficially opened this blog? 2 were gifts for friends from different fandom and you won't find them anywhere. One might be still around since I wrote it for doctorgerth's challenge.

Reader insert was first fanfic genre that really clicked with me, before that I rarely read fanfiction. I don't even remember HOW did I find the first ones, but got swallowed pretty quickly and eventually grew brave enough to try my hand at it, since a lot of them were headcanons, which seemed managable for me?

The last straw was broken by writers I met on discord server made by one of them for their fans. Or should I rather say: by one particular writer who didn't like me and was discouraging me all the time when I started mentioning I'd love to give writing a try.

What can I say, I'm a petty creature 😂

This being said, the thing I'm still the most proud of is my first true Y/N fic (or scenario, how it was called back then): And the Freckles Were Everywhere, smut with Ace and virgin fem Reader. Before it I was writing only headcanons and little essays, I was terrified when I received this request but got stubborn and determined to finish it. I'm really proud of myself that I won against my selfhate, against discouraging environment and my stupid, depressed autistic brain.

Guess it was worth it. Right now, it's still one of my most popular written pieces 🤭

going out on a limb, is 🍋 snatcher? just because you’re reblogging art of them?

NOO i answered ur other ask privately so it should be in ur inbox i think? tumblr doesn't notify u with priv asks so lemme know if it didn't go thru 😎😎