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#honestly is there an organization member i dont like? not really tbh
moeblob · 8 months
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Demyx (my beloved)
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goodfully · 10 months
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ahh okay truthfully, as much as i like tumblr i still feel really awkward with it... goodness i feel like an old person that doesnt know how to use social media hfkehfm (like tagging? such an easy way to organize things! but i dont intend to "help ppl find your post" hahaha) but i like rambling to myself a little too much, into a void-like non-void?
anyway i just wanted to talk to myself again about upcoming reading plans hehe! i have about six weeks left before i leave my books and move out for grad school, and its going to be a really busy six weeks too. im really hoping i can finish reading hermann hesse, steppenwolf and elena ferrante, neapolitan novels!!! ahh but i read quite slow and its likelier that i wont be able to finish five books during this time, esp when my brains extra dead and messy while im packing or being with family members. i really hope so tho!!!
hhfh about steppenwolf... only read the authors note so far and ahhhh!!! hesse said that altho anyone can interpret what they read the way they want to, he hopes that his readers wouldnt misunderstand that this book is about man despairing, but rather that it is about man healing and believing. god god god i love hesse i actually havent read that many books by him yet, but im just so excited to finally read this one!!!
okies so i only just finished reading the brothers karamazov today (!!!) but ahh!!!!! seriously my favorite book ever. i wish i had actual words to say about it, now that ive actually finished reading it, but. ah.. words! i really love it a lot and theres just so many lines i wish to never forget. my goodness, the ivan monologues, zosima chapters, and ending speeches at the end of the trial...!!! theyll all forever be with me! ahh theres really too much to say, i think if i wanted to id need to pick one of the many many things from the book in order to talk about it more. i honestly want to bring this book along with me when i move but its so heavy hfjsjf and i have very limited space in the suitcase</3
i think reading about religion and god and everything in general does drive me a bit crazy. from what i know of dostoevsky (very little hahaha), he struggled with faith and believing in god before being a more devout christian. maybe thats why i liked tbk so much. i was just talking about it with my friend earlier! ive.. never been religious growing up but i still have that childish dream wishing that i was. my dads parents were christian and my moms family is daoist, but neither of my parents pushed anything on me, tbh they both didnt have really strong beliefs either. but still now i wish i just had full belief and trust in god, any god or deity.. just please let me believe in anything really. drives me insane. how can you have undeniable, unconditional divine love? i do wish i understood it so well that im able to love everything, but it frustrates me so much that no matter how much im trying to understand it, im not. and i think my interest in philosophy has more to do with figuring out what and how to believe than id like to admit.
i hope no one else sees/reads this but i also kinda hope someone does and gives me book recommendations... books that make me feel like i did during the zosima chapters hahaha
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spearxwind · 2 years
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OK GOT A LOT OF ASKS BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TODAY SO HERE THEY ARE, organized by topic!!
[MISC ASKS]
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I actually didnt even know about infamous recently, and I never really got into it out of spite because every time i would mention prototype people would be like ‘ohh so its just like infamous’ and like ? okay i guess
now i know its not entirely the case though. I havent really gotten into infamous though, it feels a little daunting since there is SO MUCH to those games and theres like, three or four of them (or more). I do wanna look at the lightning one so bad but i think you needed context from the other games??? Im not sure anymore 
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Ohhhh wow okay yeah I see. Man thats so cool I’d totally be down to illegally set up long distance radio comms. That kinda Fucks... 
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OUGH YES QUETZACOATLUS MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!! im so excited for them... also the mosasaur in the trailer got me FUCKED UP, I really really hope they give her more screentime i wanna see her sink ships!! please!!!
dont let it be like the previous movie where in the trailer they showed the mosa going free for a couple seconds and it turns out that was its total screentime in the whole movie at the very end... shes so underutilized and they keep making her bigger. PLEASE 
[TALAS/RISK]
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LKJSDJFLDLSKJSD GOD YEAH THEY REALLY COULD............. JUST FUCKIN GRAB RISK AND YEET HIM AT SOMEONE LIKE AN ANGRY CAT. YEAH
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Yeah they totally do that. Theyre unhinged
The only difference is risk enjoys biting crushing and killing and blood but talas doesnt enjoy gore so they each do their own thing but every so often they do pull a hannibal 
[ REX ASKS ]
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Oh they are absolutely open to collabs. In one of our past sessions Rex and a party member (keith) beheaded another party member by using their hands to pop the head off like a lego. (said party member was fine afterwards dw. they walked around with their own head under their arm like a basketball)  
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theyre into punching things until they de-atomize them tbh. no artistry just unbridled violence and rage, if the walls get painted red it’ll be from the sheer force of impact
they dont have a fave type of victim afaik, they’d just as soon smite someone they had to fight than just... stomp some flowers to death. just violence for violence’s sake. theyll eat ur bones though so if u have a skeleton they might be biased to that
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HONESTLY... YEAH TOTALLY IVE ACTUALLY BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS. I SHOULD MAKE EM DO THAT
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ough thank u, unfortunately its not too rare an occurrence here for some reason, I’m used to it up to a certain degree (but ive learned to nip the bud off when it starts, otherwise it gets bad)
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WAH THANK U. AND YEAH THEY DID.... finally i can play Violence...............
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You’re ok, I just wish it wasnt super commonplace to write those kinds of comments on peoples art. I know some artists are okay with it but man 😔
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jshldhks thank you!! I felt big brain tbh, I was coloring them and thought hm, maybe a black jacket would look weird if theyre already black themself,,, and then i was like. what if white though 😳😳😳 and the blood idea just went from there
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my supreme leader kiyo isn't that fleshed out tbh? or maybe i just forgot what i wrote about him bhdshbhsd but the basic gist is the same sorta 'wanting friends for sister so he made a club about it' thing, but with less protective intentions not that he doesn't care abt the people who join his cause, it's just that he feels like he's not rlly allowed to get close to them- they're supposed to be sister's friends, after all actually i think i had it so his sister was the leader of the organization before him? but she could never get too many members due to her illness, but when she died and the other club members adopted kiyo into the club, he ended up getting a bunch of people to join on accident? which just reinforces the feelings that these arent /his/ friends i also had him dressed up kinda formal? like a sweater vest, button up shirt, tie, still a mask but it's more medical to prevent making his sister sick- which is useless now, but it's become sentimental was also thinking this version of kiyo is very charming and somewhat manipulative, but he doesn't like to use these abilities too much. i think he can honestly be pretty convincing if he actually utilizes some of his abilities better- hence what happened here also also silly thing where he can seem very like.. suave, very detached- just this smart dude who is either kinda charming or slightly unnerving depending on what you think of his eccentricities but then if u get him really riled up he just has a sorta breakdown?? idk i dont remember exactly, but i remember it wasn't good oh! i also had it so he could and would insult others in a sorta backhanded/clever way if they were annoying him too much sdbdhs him and kokichi fight a lot sorry for rambling in ur inbox </3
Thank you for sharing, i love this version of Korekiyo, and now i think you would do a great whole talentswap AU
[EVERYONE IS ALOWED TO RAMBLE ON MY INBOX]
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Have you done Krekka for the ask game? I know you're a huge Nidhiki fan, curious if you have any thoughts on his partner?
I haven't gotten Krekka yet actually. So far I only done Toa Ignika and Axonn for the Bionicle ask game (which Im still accepting). That being said great choice. Krekka isn't necessarily a big favorite of mine (partially because I'm not that fond of the "dumb brute" archetype barring a few exceptions), but I have to admit I do have a soft spot for the big guy. Krekka is a relatively simple character when it comes to characterization/backstory/role in the story (especially when compared to Nidhiki), but that doesn't mean I don't have any "deeper" thoughts regarding him or that there isnt stuff worth discussing.
Anyways some thoughts/headcanons/general musings:
This is a weird thing to start with but... Krekka is kinda adorable for me. I think its kinda this ...overgrown puppy (bulldog??) vibe due to his loyalty and dumbness. I admit BOADH is a big reason for me feeling this way since it gave him a few moments that made me go "AWWW he's so cute". Just..love his loyalty so much.
His undying loyalty makes him stand out for me across the other dark hunters. While many dark hunters we ha e are opportunistic and schemy, Krekka is just...very loyal. Maybe too much so. But I love that he is loyal. Feels refreshing tbh.
And now I cant help but feel that TSO is just "guys stupid but at least he wont double cross me and is easy to keep in check" when it comes to him.
Not to go woobifying villains but I genuinely dont think the guys that bad. Hes just really stupid, overly loyal and doing his job. Its kinda like w Lariska being a decent person despite being a knife happy murder girl although to a much lesser extent since guys a literalminded fool and also just smashy boy.
I do like his backstory of being a former guard who lost his job and started wreck havoc until one day a dark hunter found and hired him. It isnt anything too complex but it works well for his character and explains why he is so loyal to Dark Hunters. It also helps bringing a bit more light to his homeland and I love when we get more info of places through character backstories, makes the world feel more real that way.
Also can Gorast please stop hurting charaxters I like. This is the reason shes my least favorite character in the 2001-2008 storyline that isnt just a glorified extra or a plot device.
When it comes to Krekka, one scene I always think of when I think of him is in BOADH where he temporarily forgot to fly and Nidhiki was just "WAIT A MOMENT LARISKA TOLD ME YOU CAN FLY????" and Krekka just goes "whoops I forgot". That was adorable honestly. You dumb idiot, forgot you could fly.
Also, I know he's kinda "the idiot character", and while I am NOT saying he isn't, I do think its worth pointing out that he's basically literal minded. In BOADH (again) when Nidhiki tried to do that training scenario Krekka basically was like "wait I’m here, there’s nothing there why should I move there". This is
Another thing I really like about Krekka is that how, despite being an absolute idiot and tool, he still is willing to sometimes not take Nidhikis bullshit, see preventing him from getting the Zamor launchers (geez BOADH did a lot for this guys characterization lmao)
I sometimes call him truck boy because his name is one letter off my languages word for truck.
Also unless canon/word of Greg says otherwise I don't think every member of his species is as stupid as him. Like possibly on similar level but still.
It is made pretty clear that Nidhiki couldn't stand Krekka at all, but I do genuinely wonder how Krekka feels about Nidhiki. Based on the little we have I'd say he liked him to some extent or at the very least, didn't hate him to the same degree. I also have to wonder how aware he was about Nidhikis haterd towards him.
I also love the idea that when Nidhiki was mutated, Krekka just...wasnt afraid of him at slightest, no fear in this dumb boy. (I also like the idea he didnt recognize him at first and Nidhiki just, had to explain to his thick skull who he was. It took a while but eventually he got it.)
On a related note, I find it interesting how the LOMN website describes him working with Nidhiki because guy knows where to get the good jobs or something rather than being his goverment (read TSO) assigned partner The way the twos relationship were described makes it feel that by this point the staff hadnt figured out what they wanted to do with Dark Hunters , or if it even was an organization or just these two tools.
Its really interesting for me how Krekkas characterization not only varies between the books/comics (where hes more intimidating and him being a simpleton isnt as pronounced) and the movie (where hes more of a dumbass) but also how his characterization evolved. Like, his loyalty wasn't that pronounced trait but now I feel its just as important part of him as him being a dumbass (which is to say, very interesting)
I remember how the aftoermentoined Metru Nui movie website described that Krekka hated toa to the point wouldve hunted them for free if Nidhiki didnt make sure the two would get paid. I feel this is somewhat early installment weirdness as it isnt mentioned anywhere else but at the same time Krekka being willing to fight without payment sounds 1000% in character if you ask me
Something I have been confused over: when exactly was Krekka recruited to the dark hunters??? The timeline is very vague about this and I wish we knew.
It's been AGES since I watched my home countrys dub of LOMN but what I recall I really liked Krekka's voice in that dub. He sounded more badass and I loved it, the VA had a pretty unique sound. Sadly dont think there is any clips of the LOMN dub, which is a shame. UPDATE: I rewatched the dub and I love the voice itself but felt the voice direction made him sound kinda inconsistent
This is more a "Nidhiki and Krekka related thought" rather than just Krekka related but one thing I really like about Krekka and Nidhiki is that how they are like a more serious and competent take of "those two evil henchmen with contrasting personalities" trope. Often these types of villains are rather goofy, but these two could be rather dangerous as well and I really like that. I also like their dynamic of just doing Nidhiki being done with Krekkas bullshit. One of the main reasons I wish LOMN was a miniseries rather than a movie is because I really wanted more screentime with the two.
On a related note can I JUST SAY I LOVE the way the two compliment/pararell each other. From design (Krekka being bulky mostly blue colored, Nidhiki being slender and monstrous, mostly green colored) to personality (Krekka being foolish and simpleminded but loyal Nidhiki being cunning and ambitious but treacherous) to powersets (Krekka being strong physical attacker, Nidhiki being weaker(??) but faster and more special attacker).Heck, even their backstories have similarities as they both lost their orginal purpose in one way or another and didnt have anywhere to go but Dark Hunters (the main difference being that Nidhiki inflicted his fate upon himself by betraying the toa while Krekka didnt really do anything iirc)
Now for something crossovery, Krekkas and Nidhikis dynamic reminds me a lot of Kronk and Yzma from Emperors New Groove. Yes I have drawn a parody of the "pull the lever kronk" meme, yes I intend to make more screencap redraws. They also remind me a lot of Mummymon and Archenemon from Digimon 02, partially due to the dynamic (smug spider that tries to be cunning and intimidating but gets outclassed by most other villains in that + loyal blue dumb boy) partially due to their ultimate fate being rather similar.
I don't know how familiar you are with the franchise, but Krekka reminds me a fair bit of Gamel, one of the four villain generals in Kamen Rider OOOs, mainly because "the dumb brute major villain that's kinda cuteish and loyal a f while everyone else is an asshole".
I remember reading a p good oneshot fic that was just him accidentally killing a civilian when all he wanted was a hug and...honestly that is p much what I imagine him being like. Guy may be strong, reckless and a fool but like I said I dont think hes all that bad and just a puppy. An overgrown, moronic puppy but a puppy nontheless
For AUs, I remember I have thought once of "What if Krekka survived but Nidhiki died" and just ...guy wouldve been very lost and confused and unsure what to do tbh. He would most likely returned to Dark Hunters but Mata Nui knows how say TSO wouldve felt about that. Its not too complex au yet but I am thinking of developing it further one day.
Thank you for asking.
Sorry this took longer than expected. I had too many thoughts and half of them were deleted so. I hope its worth the wait tho. I do have a lot of Krekka thoughts and tbh wasnt sure if I was even able to get them all here.
(I am still doing the ask game so if anyone wants to send me a bonkle I will try to give thoughts, meta and headcanons on them)
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irene-sadler · 3 years
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Six Months
someone wondered when the Baroness (a side character from the Tournament aka Sir Reynard and the Red Knight which I wrote earlier this year) was coming back and uh, “back” implies that she ever left in the first place, tbh. spoilers: she didn’t.
anyway so here’s a little something something
its a quick family story plus a story about civilians in wartime packed into a little over 4000 words. rated PG. ft teen romance drama, sheep, grown up romance non drama, and not a single canon witcher character. think Roseanne (original show not the weird remake that died on arrival for Reasons) but in the setting of The Witcher. or don’t if u have no idea what i’m even talking about b/c u dont watch 90s cable sitcoms constantly like i do lol.
Six Months:
The Nilfgaardian soldiers came at night, but they found an empty manor house. The occupants had had plenty of warning they were on their way; the family’s oldest son had ridden nonstop from Rivia Castle to warn them that there had been a coup, that the Queen had vanished and her young son was in charge, and that it was only a matter of time before their old enemy Caldwell came looking for them. Hilde thought they were, in many ways, fortunate - not lucky, because no luck had been involved - fortunate that their son was riding his fastest horse, fortunate that the rest of the household managed to collect what they could and hide the rest without dramatics or incident, fortunate to have somewhere else to go. An old herbalist’s hut in the woods wasn’t much, but it was, she’d said, a roof over their heads. They’d always had a plan, in case everything in their lives went very badly wrong. Everything had, and the hut was part of it.
    Then her son rode off with most of her other sons and the rest of her husband’s knights, on the chance that the Queen was out there somewhere, and left the place somewhat emptier-feeling in his absence.
    “Wish I was going with them,” the Baron said, looking down the woodland road after them.
    “We talked about this, Eldred; you’re sixty-seven years old, your eyesight’s going bad, and your knees don’t bend anymore. A warband’s got no use for you.”
    “I know that,” he said. “Don’t mean I don’t wish I was going.”
    A little flock of sheep crossed the path, with some of her nephews trailing after them, waving sticks and shouting.
    “I’ll be worried about them, too,” she said, as one of the sheep suddenly bolted. Eldred took her hand, squeezed it, and limped off after it.
    The next time their paths crossed he was in a slightly better mood. She hooked her arm through his elbow and looked up at the full moon through the trees.
    “Can’t hear myself think in there, so I came out here for some fresh air,” he said. There wasn’t enough room inside for even half the people who had followed them along. Most of the household had settled around the hut in tents and bedrolls. The inside of the hut was still jammed with the smaller children. They were also fortunate that it was spring, and nobody would freeze to death sleeping outside. No luck involved, again. No army fought in the winter, although she wouldn’t put it past the Empire to try.
    “We’ll have to build pens for the sheep and pigs, tomorrow,” she said. “Maybe some more shelters, too. The farmhands can do it. And I’ll organize some of the women t’ forage in the woods. We’re fortunate it’s spring. We might be living off pottage of oats and chickweed, but we won’t starve t’ death.”
    “You know,” Eldred said, “I was thinking I might get a shot at some of these invaders after all. They might turn up here.”
    “They might.”
    “Wouldn’t want any spies or wanderers t’ spot us and take word back to th’ army that we’re out here.”
    “No.”
    “Anyhow, with all these boys out here, I thought I might train ‘em up a little, just in case.”
    “That’s not a bad idea.”
    “Might take some of these girls, too,” he added.
    “Even better,” she said. He smiled down at her.
    “We’ll be safe here.”
    “Of course we will, with you around,” she said.
    ———
    Wars were just a part of life. She was born and raised in Rivia; she’d grown up watching her brothers and father ride off to war with Lyria, over and over again. Her father was killed by a Lyrian archer when she was twenty-three. She’d watched her mother’s face while they buried him. She never wanted to know what it took to make someone wear that hard, dead expression. Over a decade later the King married a Lyrian princess and those wars stopped, but more took their place. There had been the rebellion, after the King died, led by her own disgruntled brothers, who refused to serve a Lyrian; her husband’s promotion from petty knight to Baron was a direct result of the glory he’d won putting it down. That war had almost destroyed her marriage, but they’d pulled through, in the end. Then there had been bandits, minor invasions, civil unrest; it seemed like there was always something to fight over, but never anything new. Whether Lyrians were killing Rivians or Nilfgaardians were killing Rivians, they always had the same damn excuses for it. The older she got, the less patience she had for any of them.
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    Smoke from cooking fires floated through the newly cleared area around the camp. The forest echoed with the sounds of axes hitting wood and more trees falling. The pigs slept in the shade out of the heat, watched over by a pack of skinny boys from the village. The herbalist’s hut sat surrounded by a dozen almost identical buildings - buildings, children, chickens, dogs, a donkey that someone had brought in, loaded down with rushes -
    The Nilfgaardians hadn’t found them, but a whole lot of other people somehow had. Some of them brought livestock or food, but a hell of a lot of them had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Hilde refused to turn them away, even if a few of the hands muttered darkly about spies and famine. More was better; more people meant more hands to work and more eyes to keep watch. Eldred’s little force of skinny teenagers with homemade bows and farmhands armed with handaxes had grown in size, if not, in her opinion, in quality. He seemed pleased with them, at least. Some of them were standing watch at the edges of the clearing. She was pretty sure none of them were asleep.
    It turned out they weren’t; a minor racket interrupted the idyllic peace of the summer afternoon - some kind of argument, she thought. She abandoned the shirt she was mending and headed to the north side of the buildings, where she found a pair of youths shouting at each other. One, she noticed, was her own youngest son, waving a bow and turning an impressive shade of red. The other was a dark-haired girl. The latter spotted her before the former; Hilde watched with detached interest as the girl’s eyes widened and her stance shifted from aggressive to frozen fear.
    “Herron,” she said. “It’s -”
    “What’s this about?” Hilde asked.
    “- your mother.”
    Herron deflated, visibly.
    “We were just - we were talking,” he said, staring at his own feet.
    “I heard.”
    “Just a - a disagreement over the watch schedule,” said the girl. She raised an eyebrow, considered telling them to cut the shit, and then decided not to. Whatever it was, it was probably harmless, and it wouldn’t be improved by her involvement.
    “If you have an issue, take it up with the Baron,” she said. “Meanwhile, quit disturbing the peace.”
    The girl bowed and escaped at not quite a jog. Herron stared after her, still beet red.
    “Who’s that?” she asked.
    “Nobody.”
    “No?”
    “She’s just - she wasn’t at the right guardpost.”
    “Whatever you say,” she said. Herron was shifting uncomfortably, showing the usual signs of a teenager who desperately wanted to escape.
    “Go on,” she said. “Get back t’ work.”    
———
    Herron had begged to go to war with his brothers. He was only fourteen, and although he looked like a skinny, lanky, teenage copy of his father, he had none of Eldred’s athletic ability. The best that could be said for him was he was a decent shot. Maybe he would have survived the battlefield, but she didn’t want to take the chance. Besides, he was her baby boy; she felt like he had been ten years old only the week before. She couldn’t let him go, and Eldred had taken one look at her face and hadn’t argued with her. The resulting angst had taken weeks to wear off.
    Whatever Herron was up to, she was just glad he was finally speaking to her again.
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    The rainy season hit exactly on time; a genuine stroke of luck, because the rain would keep their ever-increasing hideout a secret for a little longer. The pigs were happy, but the sheep and humans less so. Hilde and her selected lieutenants kept the place running anyway, despite the endless mud, the nonstop damp, and the weather that ranged from a drizzly mist in the mornings to downpours in the afternoons and evenings that were so heavy Eldred stopped making his militia patrol the forest for fear they’d get lost or drown in a flash flood.
    During one of the downpours one of the militia members came splashing through the mud and into the hut. Eldred stopped scrubbing rust off his sword.
    “Something going on?”
    Hilde thought he sounded a little too hopeful.
    “Nothin’,” the man said. “Not really. Just, we had this kid come up t’ th’ east guardpost just now.”
    “Ask around; has t’ belong to someone around here,” Hilde said.
    “Don’t think so, milady, on account of it ain’t a human child.”
    “Oh. I’ll take a look,” she said. “Go on, I’ll be there.”
    Eldred shook his head slightly at her as she stood and pulled a cloak around herself.
    “What?”
    “Nothin’.”
      She could barely see where she was going, but she managed to slop her way through the muck between the huts and made her way the guardpost. A little pack of militia stood around the spot, watching a single, very small shape that huddled under a blanket. The shape didn’t look up when the guards all spotted her and stood.
    “Honestly,” she said. “How many people does it take to keep an eye on one five-year-old? Don’t you all have work to do?”
    “We were thinkin’ maybe there could be Squirrels about,” someone explained, awkwardly. She rolled her eyes; the expression might have lost some effect in the pouring rain and dark, so she added a little of it to her tone.
    “Yes, well. If so, I’ll protect you, Jenny. Get going, all of you. Find something else to do.”
    Most of them trailed off, muttering among themselves. One man stuck around; she raised an eyebrow at him, which he seemed to take as a sign. He stumped off a few yards away and stood squinting out at the dark woods. She rolled her eyes again and crouched down.
    “Hello. Who are you?”
    “I’m six,” the huddled shape said.
    “What’s that?”
    “You said I was five.”
    “Oh. Sorry. It’s hard to tell for sure, under that blanket.”
    “I don’t want t’ get wet.”
    “What’s your name?”
    “Ailfe.”
    “My name’s Hilde,” she said. “If you come with me, you can get something to eat and sit in front of a fire. What do you say?”
    “Alright.”
      Ailfe sat next to the fire, inhaling a steaming bowl of barley and dandelion leaves. Hilde offered seconds after the first bowl was done, bided her time, and, finally, asked, “So - Ailfe. Where are your parents?”
    The girl shrugged, took just enough time away from eating to say, “Dead,” and went back to it. Eldred shook his head again, slightly, when she glanced at him; he had looked less than surprised when she came in out of the rain lugging a bundle. He was trying to look like he was wearily embracing the inevitable, but she could see a hint of a smile in the corners of his mouth. She smiled back.
    “Where are you from?”
    “Dravograd,” Ailfe said.
    “Ah.”
    She’d heard rumors, in passing, through the militia, who’d heard them from the merchants on the roads. Hilde knew enough to believe them.
    “Well,” she said, “You can stay here, if you like; it’s not like we don’t have the room, and you can help my nephews with the sheep. How’s that sound?”
    “Fine.”
      Not twenty minutes later, the girl was dead asleep. Hilde pulled a dry blanket around her and stretched out on the pallet in the corner next to Eldred.
    “Couldn’t let her starve,” she said to him.
    “We’ve had stranger things than elves in our family, I suppose,” he replied. “Remember my uncle Egbert? Th’ one who turned into an enthusiast and became a priest of Pareplut?”
    “I always wanted a daughter.”
    “I know,” he said, kissed the side of her head, and added, “I love you.”
    “And I love you, Eldred,” she said.          
    -——
    When she’d decided she was going to marry him, her parents hadn’t been too sure about the idea. She was twenty and he was slightly more than a decade older, but she’d seen him in the tournaments, and she’d heard about him outside them. He was very often the best knight on the field - perfect form, an undeniable talent - and he was a close cousin to the King, and her aunt’s husband had it on good authority that he was as capable an administrator as he was a fighter. It was true that he wasn’t much to look at, but she wasn’t foolish enough to care about his missing front tooth, or the scar on his chin, or his crooked nose. The day he’d won yet another tournament and gallantly offered her the prize with a gap-toothed smile, she knew nobody in the world was going to change her mind about Sir Eldred Greenwood. Her parents would just have to get used to it.
    ——
    The rain stopped for good and the sun cooked all the water out of the air. She started sending the kids and donkeys off to the stream, a mile away, every morning and evening to fill kegs with water. Ailfe trooped along with the others, wearing a shapeless cap that covered her ears, looking as filthy and half-wild as any of them. She had forgotten about the incident with Herron completely.
    She was sitting on the top rail of a fence in the twilight, watching bats flutter through the smoke and lights of the camp and chatting about nothing in particular with Eldred. Anything resembling privacy was hard to come by, but most people seemed to be off doing something, somewhere, and nobody was near the sheep pens. At least, they didn’t think so, but they were wrong. Right around the time she lost interest in the bats and they ran out of things to talk about, something interrupted the forgotten background hum of insects and humanity.
    “Wynn?” a voice said, from the nearby guardpost, out of sight past a shed. Eldred jumped about three inches and, to her mild disappointment, stopped kissing her.
    “What the hell-”
    She covered his mouth with her hand, quickly.  
    “Shush.”
    It was only Herron. She recognized his voice. She didn’t immediately recognize the voice that responded.
    “Hi Herron. You on watch?”
    “Yep.”
    “When do you get off?”
    “Uh, in around an hour. Why?”
    She figured it out, after some thought; it was the girl he’d been arguing with, weeks earlier. Eldred raised an inquiring eyebrow up at her. She shook her head at him.
    “Do you want t’ get dinner afterward? My folks are cooking a chicken that quit laying.”
    “Oh,” Herron said. “I already ate.”
     After a brief pause, the girl said, “Um, well, have a good shift, then. I’ll see you later.”
    “Later,” Herron replied.
    Hilde waited a minute, then sighed wearily. Eldred looked pained.
    “That was the single worst thing I’ve ever overheard,” he commented.
    “I’m thinking you ought to have a talk with our son,” she replied, quietly.
    “First thing in the morning, and not a minute later,” he agreed. “Anyway, what were we talking about?”
    “We weren’t.”
    ————
    They’d had five sons. The oldest, Hal, had a wife and children of his own. He was at court, most of the time; Eldred had sworn off the place as soon as Hal was old enough to go without him, and only went up for holidays and emergencies. Edgar and Robin, the twins, were five years younger and as unalike as they could make themselves. Edgar was a wanderer, had barely been home for most of the last decade. She wasn’t sure if it was fortunate or not that he had been home during the spring. Robin had just gotten married during the winter, and had a position at court. Jack, the fourth, had died of consumption when he was four. Her youngest son was a surprise; she’d been over forty when he was born, and nobody had expected both of them to survive the event, but they’d been wrong. Herron was weedy, but he was as strong as an ox. He looked like his father, crooked nose and all, but he acted just like her long-dead oldest brother - kind, loyal, brilliant, and unbelievably easy to manipulate. It worried her, sometimes, but she knew better than to wonder if her youngest son would come to a similar end. There was nothing to be gained by dwelling on the past, and even less by trying to predict the future.
    ———
    The dry spell continued. One evening the donkeys and children went off as usual. An hour later as she was helping finish butcher one of the pigs, one of the boys scrambled out of the woods. Hilde balanced the knife in her hand and glanced at the trees behind him. Nothing seemed to be following him - at least, not very closely.
    “What’s wrong?”
    “They’re comin’,” he said, wide-eyed and shaking.
    “Who?”
    “Black Ones. We was on our way back, and - and -”
    She swore under her breath and turned quickly; she would have told one of the others to get Eldred, find the militia, but it was too late; someone had already gone.
    “- they took all the donkeys,” he continued, “Even Donny.”
    “What about all your friends? The other kids?”
    “I don’t know; everyone was running around, and there were soldiers, and nobody was payin’ attention to me and I just ran away.”
    Herron raced up, sweating heavily.
    “Ma, someone said th’ enemy’s here, and dad says t’ get everyone inside th’ stockade-”
    “Yes, I know what t’ do,” she said. “There’s a bunch of kids out in these woods, somewhere.”
    Her daughter was out there, somewhere. She had to go find them.
    “I’ll go look for them,” Herron said. “I’ll find them.”
    He looked terrified. She couldn’t send him - but she couldn’t not send him; she knew she couldn’t really go herself. What would she do out in the woods? Get lost. Get killed. Herron was, if nothing else, a good shot, and a halfway decent hunter.
    “I can do it,” he said. He looked even younger than he actually was, but he sounded confident. She breathed out and nodded.
    “Please be careful.”
    “I’ll try.”
      The stockade was barely a wall; it was a fence with a gate, but it was better than nothing. They’d built it to head height with the sharp ends of logs pointed out toward the trees, and it wouldn’t stop an arrow, but it would stop a horse. Hilde stood by the gate, looking through the holes in the fence at the path her husband and a bunch of teenagers and farmers had taken into the woods. He had trooped out with a sword in his hand, smiled at her under his helmet, and hadn’t looked back. She told herself he would be fine, and Herron would be fine, and the collection of women armed with axes and pitchforks and old spears left over to defend the entirety of the camp would be fine.
    Hours passed, and nothing happened. The feeling of stretched nerves in the air turned to one of faint boredom as the afternoon wore on. She took to pacing the perimeter of the fence, watching the trees for movement, listening for a sound other than the endless rattle of cicadas and crickets and the noise of livestock and people. The shadows got long, and nothing happened. She sternly told herself not to worry, or, at least, not to imagine horrible things that could be happening very far away.
    “Horses,” someone suddenly said. “I hear horses comin’.”
    She stared out at the woods, clutching the makeshift spear she’d armed herself with. There were horses out there; she heard a rumble that could only be a line of heavy cavalry, dozens of armored horses and men. She’d heard them a thousand times in a thousand melees, and she could imagine exactly what they would do to her mass of barely-armed, unarmored peasants if they broke through the fence.
    “Get ready with the spears,” she said. “Just like we practiced.”
    Spears was an overstatement; more than a few of the people who lined up behind the fence with the points of their weapons facing toward the trees were holding pitchforks, but Eldred had thought they’d do just as well. She had her own doubts, but they didn’t have anything better. Any side conversations ended as the sound of the oncoming cavalry rumbled louder; they stood and sweated and waited until the first horse appeared on the narrow road between the trees. She squinted at it; it was hard to see in the dusk, and she wasn’t very familiar with Nilfgaardian armor, but she didn’t think the rider was wearing black. In fact, the knight riding up at the head of the column had a distinctly familiar seat. She breathed, finally, and leaned the spear on the fence.
    “Those are Lyrian banners,” someone said.
    “It’s a trick,” someone else replied, shakily.
    “No,” she said. “No it isn’t. Open the gate.”
    She trooped up the road, met the column, found Herron limping along beside them with a bandage on his leg, a pack of children surrounding him, and Ailfe in his arms.
    “What happened?”
    “I did it,” Ailfe announced. “I saved the day.”
    “Oh?”
    “Well, sort of,” her son replied. “She did keep the Blackclads from catching her and the other kids -”
    “-we climbed a tree,” a boy announced, smugly.
    “-and then I found them and they caught me -”
    “Herron fought like a good one,” said Ailfe. “He got wounded, look.”
    “- then Dad and the lads turned up and attacked the Nilfs -”
     Ailfe finished the story in an excited shout.
    “- and then, durin’ the fight, th’ army came!”
    The knight from the head of the column pulled up and stopped.
    “Not that we needed help,” he said.
    “No, of course not,” Hilde replied, rolling her eyes at him.
    “- anyway, it all ended more or less well,” said Herron. “And they’re saying the Queen’s back.”
    She looked up at Eldred, caught a gap-toothed grin on his face.
    “Oh?”
    Eldred nodded at her.
    “We can go home soon,” Herron said.
    “Home?” Ailfe asked.
    “I’ll tell you all about it,” he said. “Come on, let’s get down to the camp. Ma, are you coming?”
    “In a minute,” Hilde said.
      “Well,” she said, in the comparative quiet after they left, “Did you see any of our sons?”
    “Not in this unit - these people are just scouts, really,” Eldred said.
    “They’re all alive, at least?”
    “Far as I know. We’ll see them soon enough, if all goes well.”
    “That’s a relief.”
    “Can I give you a lift back?”
    “A ride from a noble knight? I can’t say no to that,” she said.
    The camp was swarming with Lyrian soldiers, Rivian civilians, donkeys, barking dogs, and runaway goats and sheep. Eldred reined in the horse at the gate and overlooked the chaos. She thought she caught a glimpse of Herron and Wynn, ducking out of sight behind a hut, and quickly pointed out the leader of the soldiers.
    “Ah,” Eldred said. “Well, I suppose we could wade into this mess and talk to him -”
    “You’re the Baron,” she interrupted. “You can’t just sneak off by yourself with all this going on. Also, it’s getting dark.”
    “I wasn’t going to go by myself.”
    “Oh,” she said.
    “What I’m thinking is we go off somewhere and come back after this has a chance t’ calm itself down -”
    “I suppose I can always pretend you kidnapped me,” she said. “Someone has to maintain an appearance of responsibility around here.”
    “I promise to have you back before dark,” he said. “What d’ you say?”
    “It’s a deal.”            
    “Someone told me our Hal’s a Colonel, now,” he said, turning the horse around. She wrapped her arms around his waist and propped her chin up on his shoulder to see the road ahead.
    “Is he?”
    “Not that it’s a surprise; he’s just like you.”
    “A social climber?”
    “A pragmatist.”
    “You always were a romantic, Eldred.”
    “I’m a lucky man. We wouldn’t have made it all these months without you.”
    Luck had nothing to do with it; they’d planned and fought and were, again, fortunate that it had all worked out in the end. She buried her face in his neck and let him think it had, anyway.
    “I can’t wait to go home,” she said.
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varusai · 3 years
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who do you think is the most dateable dark matter thief?? i know you have an opinion and i need to hear it
sorry for the late response anon i honestly had to think abt this one for a few days lmao, but yeah i have opinions. below the cut bc fr i have opinions, all of them have major pros and cons (based on my characterization at least) and really i just have to break it down for u
Boros, everyones obvious first choice, but certainly not mine.
Pros: rich, tall, pretty, fun af, passionate, will kill for you np, give you anything you want, literally anything.
cons: has a god complex, doesnt respect you, not his number one priority at all, will forget about you once its not interesting for him anymore, probably argumentative/combative af, is very very smart and has no problem manipulating you in all the worst ways, is very entitled so he will never feel bad about anything, cant win arguments either bc he’ll want to settle it with combat, will get offended over little things just to argue bc he thinks thats fun
this is a relationship you’d get into if you literally have nothing to lose and dont care about your mental health. like hes hot but this shit would be toxic af and he will ruin your life and leave you to go fuck around and fight someone on the other side of the universe. this will be the best of times and the worst of times for you and you will never be the same afterward mentally or emotionally. the only way i would even consider it is if i lost my damn mind. The only way a relationship with him would ever work long term is if you were physically stronger than him and were capable of putting him in his place OR you were smart enough, suicidal enough, and interesting enough to him to engage in some psychological warfare and reject him if he asked you. Make him chase you for years, say yes, then decide that /he’s/ boring /you/ and leave him for another member of the squad to just destroy their established hierarchy and humble him to the point that he’s obsessed with you.
i dont have the energy for all that, so i’ll just smash and pass.
0/10 completely undateable
Geryuganshoop, also a probable second choice for many:
pros: cute, nice, tentacle alien (obviously), will respect you np, will also give you anything you want, not antagonistic at all, telepathic communication so no risk of miscommunication, emotionally intelligent and available, loyal to a fault,
cons: horrible boss/best friend that you will have to listen to him vent about for at least 3 hours a day, complete yes man as well so he will not tell boros no or cut him off and you will be stuck dealing with this no matter what, severely mentally ill and wont go to therapy bc he thinks hes handling it well, workaholic, needs a lot, and i mean A LOT of attention
this relationship would be great if not for boros lol. boros sabotages his social and romantic life but geryu has been friends with him too long to either cut him off or establish boundaries. he has no backbone (figuratively and literally) and wouldnt even consider it. he’ll ignore you in favor of his job too, to a massive degree. also i think that while the telepathic communication would be a major plus in most cases, here i feel like i’d have no less than 16 different, never before seen on earth, mental illnesses projected right into my brain just from being within a certain radius of him.
im already fucked up enough in that sense so pass unfortunately.
it would be a yes without boros in the picture tho lmao
so prob like 4/10 iffy datablillity, 1 level increase with each decade of therapy he gets tho so a lot of potential :D
Groribas, my fav girl:
pros: straightforward, realistic, very clear expectations, will not fuck around with you whatsoever like there is no mind games or anything here, will kill for you, rich and non materialistic so she’ll basically just let you do whatever with her money since she doesn t care about it, cares about her job but like...a normal amount. she absolutely has a good work/life balance, highly organized so she will not forget important dates, loyal af and will defend your honor under any circumstances, mean but in a funny way, a ton of fun to hang out with if you’re into that, no eyes so i dont have to worry abt eye contact ever
cons: extremely high expectations, like exhaustingly high, and not even a bit of flexibility there, if you dont meet the cut its a no, she’ll let you know and leave same day, she will also bully you, you need a thick skin and great sense of humor to survive, bad at feelings if you need emotional support???? go elsewhere, shes mega emotionally unavailable, will probably want to share bodies as a form of intimacy
overall its a solid 6.5/10 dateability for me i love the directness and no bs approach, we would def get along well. however, while im not sensitive, shes def gonna hit on some insecurities at some point and it will cause an argument lol. but i mean whatever. it happens. the body sharing would be an issue though, same reason i wouldnt be chill with having a symbiote despite being a major venom fucker. i need my space i cant deal with that. so thats a possible deal breaker if she couldnt get over that lol. and she wont, so we wouldnt work out. i wish it fuckin would tho😭😭😭 i would take whatever crumbs of attention she would be willing to give me
Melzalgald, my fav they/them bastard:
pros: amorphous and shapeshifting aka extremely attractive according to my taste in monsters, tall af but could chose to be a more reasonable survivable size lol, self contained and self-entertaining so they dont need a ton of attention to be happy, funny af, rich, will give you whatever you want and probably a bunch of shit you didnt know you wanted, very fun, built in friend group if you didnt already have friends, extremely emotionally intelligent and great people skills due to living in a collective, stupid af by choice, like some of em are very smart, but they dont claim that, will say fuck work and tell boros to eat shit to spend time with you, will kill for you as well, but only if you ask them to bc their first inclination is to just bother someone to death, very loyal, once they like you they like you really forever, it would take some pretty extreme circumstances to make them dislike you
cons: annoying af and its unavoidable, will talk over you, all of them at once will talk over you and do so loudly, no respect for personal space, they dont even know what that is, will probably accidentally manhandle you, they act stupid but arent so they can be manipulative, even if it isnt bad and they dont really mean to be, impulsive, forgetful of the needs of organic creatures so they will bother you at all hours of the day and night if you arent firm with boundaries, disgustingly extroverted and will bring randoms to your place without asking, or just...make new cluster members and you have to roll with it, will eat or absorb literally anything you have, will antagonize and bother you for fun, major jump scare risk since sometimes the forms are....fleshy
this ones hard for me like theyre hot af and i feel like they’d be super fun and good partners, but god....the noise. idk how long i could deal with that lol i dont like people in my house. it would drive me up the wall, but then again...i can simply kick them out when ive had enough. they arent projecting mental illness directly into my brain or requiring me to share a body sintelligento major plus. creepy thing/symbiote style hot monster without any of the invasiveness so tbh 8/10 dateability
some people date loud annoying extroverts who dont understand personal space that /arent/ rich, loyal, or emotionally intellegent so i’d be winning on a few different fronts lmao
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i agree how you described twt, sometimes everyone's just ready to fight it seems, i've genuinely had fun on both platforms at different times but now it's just too much on stan twt (no space for difference of opinion djsjdjj) it's good to know you're having fun as well :3 & omg i've seen few of my moots starting to give svt their attention after fallin flower dropped, everything abt it is <3333 the song, mv, choreo i love it.
hdjdjddkdjdj " virgos 😐 " also me in next breath "happy birthday mark :D i love you so much 🥺💕💗" any virgos reading this i really hope you enjoy your month to the fullest djjdjd <3. righttt?? you're correct abt mark's temper being very virgo djdjdkd.
your line screams hard-working people <3 jihoon, jaebeom, jeonghan the 3Js <3. isn't jaebeom also an infj? (i don't take mbtis seriously but at the same time it also makes me happy if it ends up matching someone i like djdjjd) chan & yugs 🥺 these two imo have the sweetest personality, like the one which makes you feel welcomed & they also have the cutest laugh 🥺.
i love jus2 <3 focus on me is one of my favorite kpop mvs of all time & also drunk on you??? i love this song so much, very sexy of them. the vibes, style and everything w/ their album, i want more songs like that. and for when i am feeling melancholy i need more songs like jjp's verse 2 😭💔 but i am also okay if they don't want to go back to these units bcoz everything so far they've been giving is just as great <33 ( maybe in future we'll get blessed w/ features 🥺)
honestly g7 as grp and individually have won me over with their music style, even if i don't like full album ik there will be 3-4 songs which will be exactly what i like to listen to, all of the music they've released individually i've liked it so much. there is this song of youngjae's, titled "i'm all ears" i had no idea of its existence until it popped up in my spotify i'm so glad it did, it's been in my playlist ever since. there was also a time when i was obsessed with jackson's 'on the rocks' djdjdk.
aww <3 the live performance video of 1° has mark as thumbnail so for long time i used to associate this song with him jdjddk. i think the only j*pe thing i'd miss is got7 studio live sessions 🥺. RIGHTJDKSKS aju nice's mv is very cute djjddk I love it, in reality its reverse tho, i see them and boom! 💖💛💗🤍💕💙
it was the year they won first bb*as award so that gave them the exposure, and no i don't follow them anymore. mixed feelings abt them, very negative feelings abt f*ndom fjdjdjd. i do miss what it used to feel like liking them sometimes. at that time i never thought i'll willingly drop them from my interest (i've stanned zayn since 2012 first him as grp member then solo. sometimes thinking abt it gives me a whiplash hddjks it's been 9 years, really thought it would be same with them too but it didn't happen)
i've had falling in love by yugs and in to you by jaebs on loop for days djdkdk i really love these two songs and also air by bammie <3 (i'm slow jams kinda person djdjdk :3)
(bam released the most fun album & title this year idc abt others, ribbon is one of the soty) also special mention of look so fine & running through the rain. yes! you do make sense they feel organic & very them.
exactly 😭 it's more believable when they drop stuff out of nowhere like encore 😭😭. the way youngjae posted his letter on twt too ddjjdkssk the announcement & release of encore is such a 'you just had to be there' situation the excitement, nervousness, confusion and everything 😭 sometimes i can't with them. also is the bibi with mark on ost, the same one you mentioned in last ask? the ost is really good <3, it must've been fun to see it happen (if its same bibi).
making a whole ass playlist just for me???? 😭😭😭🥺💗 yza you're so sweet nooooo 💖
and don't worry abt replying late jdjdkdjd i mean it, sometimes my friends text me after weeks and i'm am the same. it's really okay <3. i hope this week is treating you kindly, take care yza - 🪂
p.s ( just saw last post djjej) - it was me who manifested more bunny dino <3 manifesting even more <33
i was on stan twt during my younger years too and it was v fun and memorable to me ngl <3 idk what happened though.. it's evolved to be.. Something Else.. i still see a lot of good people there though 😭 and now that i'm in my Hag Era... idk it's just too fast for me now 😭 it's still my go-to place for updates though nothing can top twitter on that dept
and ms fallin flower.... i feel like everyone was blown away by it (based off of what i see carats when talk about it) and rightly so!! she SERVED. the looks too oh my god. it's another factor i look forward to and enjoy so much when i watch their performances!!
u know what? virgos 😐 indeed KJJKDFJKFDJKFDKJ i want to slander virgos today because it's their season and no one slanders them that often so <3 ABOUT MARK'S VIRGO TEMPER THOUGH... i know i've said i enjoy seeing it sm but whenever i think abt it i cant help but say that.. I Love His Temper <3 he doesn't get pissed off in a scary and douchebag-y way it seems so... contained?? IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE IT he punched an a/c though so that might not be the perfect word to describe him lmaoo <3
THE J TRINITY HFDJFJDJHDF BESTIE UR MIND IS SO!!!!!!!!!!! honestly... maybe it's the acts of service for me <3 JKDFKJFDKJFJKD i think this is just my eldest sister and savior syndrome speaking though kfjkdkjf ALSO OH MY GOD THE WAY U NOTICE THESE THINGS <3 THAT'S SO SEXIE OF U!!! and yes he used to be an infj!! there was an interview that's more recent wherein he mentioned that he's now an enfj though but i cant rmb which interview it's from :/ ALSO MOOD FKJJKGJGKF i dont believe in mbtis too but im just... a little obsessed w it for the fun of it all <3 and the way u described them </3 what if i tear up a little </3 I LOVE CHAN'S LAUGH SO MUCH BUT IM SO SOS O GLAD U BROUGHT UP YUGYEOM'S LAUGH??????????? IT'S NOT TALKED ABT ENOUGH LIKE...... HELLO!!!!!!!!!!! one of my bird moots said he sounded like a schoolboy in choir 😭😭😭😭😭😭
GOD UR TASTE!!!!!!! what if i start falling in l*ve a little :/ what then :/ focus on me was ahead of it's time and people fucking slept on THEM i cannot fucking believe this. this has to be some kind of sick joke 😭 ALSO HAVE U SEEN THE CHOREO FOR SENSES!!!!!!1 INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!! holy fuck!!!!!! sorry for the expletives but like.... holy SHIT they did THAT!!!!!!!! ALSO UR SO RIGHT </3 jjp verse 3 when... ALSO did u know i let go of the jjprojects url... thats the worst mistake of my life KDKJDSKJDSJK also agree wholeheartedly <3 i think they're all trying to find their footing this time around as soloists and im so proud of them for that!! i'll stand by my jus2 agenda though bc they're almost in the same company so maybe.. i might have hope left 😭
SO TRUE BESTIE!!! the same principle goes w svt for me as well <3 got7's such a flavorful group musically like... all of them have the capacity to go solo and they're still considered flops.. waht the fuck <3 ALSO OMG FJDKJFKFJD YOU'VE HEARD The Song!!!!!!!! maybe he'll be releasing something along those lines <3 esp now that he's supposedly coming w an album KJSJKDJSK on a similar note.. do u also listen to jamie (the other artist on the song) <3 NOO SHUT UP THIS CANNOT BE FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 i was obsessed w on the rocks too 😭😭😭😭😭😭 IT WAS MY FAVORITE ON THE MIRRORS ALBUM HELLO??????????????????????????? im proposing to u rn
ok now i have to watch all the live vids again JKDSJKSJDKDSKJ ik keep saying 'ur so right', 'i agree', and 'so true bestie' but im gonna have to say this again bc i LOVE LOVE LOVE live sessions sm no matter the artist. i also just am a little partial to live bands in performances like that in general so JDJKKDSJDS
the way you're saying these cute things abt the svteenies.. </3 giving me heartache!!! i'd bully them though i can't coddle them anymore <3
not the fandom JKFDKJFDKJFDKJFKJF ok but i think it's mostly their younger fans tbh. it wasn't this bad before.. i also really liked bts during their debut days. their songs were really good!! i kind of lost interest though and couldn't really get into them although their songs slapped lol. my irls are still into them though so i still hear about them. 9 YEARS............................... wait oh my god it HAS BEEN a little over a decade since 1d was The Thing huh 😭 now i feel kinda old lmao. and i totally get that feeling </3 it really do be like that sometimes JKFDJKJKFD
you really ARE keeping up w the sevens oh my god how are you doing it!!!!!!!!!!! it's like getting svt content now at this point but more complicated bc u need to get the updates from different sources JDKJSDKJJSKD love ur song choices too <3
ALSO FULLY RELATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when i saw bam's teasers... the aes was my cup of tea and THE HIGHLIGHT MEDLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't fucking get it out of my mind it's objectively one of the best things i've seen from kpop in 2021. i'm super impressed <3 love how abyss really supported bambam on this. they really went all in for him!!
I KNOW GKJDFJDK I GOT SUPER ???????/// DURING THE TIME EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY WERE DISBANDING LMAOOOO they pulled a move that's so unheard of though no one really expected That. i respect jaebeom so much for handling all the paperwork and shit behind the scenes it must've been HELL!! ALSO IT MEANT I CRIED FOR NOTHING THEN 😭😭😭 AND YES OH MY GOD IT'S THE SAME BIBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE SHOCK I HAD WHEN I SAW THE LIST????????????????????????? thought i was gonna black out like,,, mark,,, AND BIBI??????????????? she's fucking phenomenal how is she just a YEAR older than me.. INSANE!!! ... and i also thought jackson was gonna have an ost for this movie.. idk why it wasn't released though i didnt look into it :/
i had a rough few days so i'm not yet finished with the playlist (my laptop's Dead i am still trying to revive her and uni's starting soon 😭) but for the mean time, here's another one that some people from caratblr previously asked for JDSJKSDJ these are mostly english songs though its not my k-playlist KJDSKJSDJK
i do hope this week gets better!!! and i hope that you'll have a fun one too <3 thank u for being so patient w me 🥺 i just get so many messages and find the need to recharge FDKJDFJK
ALSO I FELT LIKE IT WAS U!!!!!! OH MY GOD, i even searched my blog for the word manifest but for some reason your ask didn't come up in the search so i didnt mention u in the tags so i wont misattribute if it ends up not being u 😭 thank u for manifesting this chan for me he's my little... hop hop now ig... 😭
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transcendencism · 4 years
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was also tagged by @chaoticspacelesbians​​ for the character traits meme, and i did some modifying to the language & wording bc it was. irritating me. but obv you don’t have to use the wording that i did!
tagging @ayrennaranaaldmeri​​, @macolegacy​​, and @entering--hyperspace​​ (ik ik i tag the same people every time lmao 🥺💖 i just love hearing about y’all’s ocs so much, but please dont feel obligated)
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[WEALTH]
$ financial: wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty
In his childhood, he and his dad didn’t have much back on Nar Shaddaa, and Oriothe started working for the Black Sun to get by. But once he got into the business of bounty hunting, he was able to make enough to live decently, with enough to spare to send back home.
✚ medical: fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged
All things considered, he’s pretty medically sound. Back with the Black Sun he dabbled with spice and adrenals, but he cut out the habit pretty quickly, mostly because he didn’t want to worry about medical bills.
✪ class or caste: upper / middle / working / lower / transient / slave / unsure
Class in the Star Wars universe is complicated because there’s a lot of unknown factors like the cost of living & how much bounty hunting actually gets you (depends on your reputation, it seems). I imagine since Oriothe lives somewhat comfortably and still has some to send back to his dad, he’d be more in the middle class, but honestly who the hell knows. Of course, after the end of Act 1 he’ll definitely be in the upper class.
✔ formal education: university / high school / junior high or middle school / elementary / none
ok the wording on this one completely pissed me off so i changed it to the level of educations in the U.S just for sake of ease.
I think Oriothe probably dropped out by middle school because working with the Black Sun and helping out his dad took up too much of his time, so he doesn’t have an extended formal education. That being said, he learned a lot more practical skills on the street.
✖ criminal record: yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / classified
Is bounty hunting illegal? You get hired by Imperials all the time... well, besides, he’s definitely done a lot of theft and probably murdered a few people as a member of the Black Sun.
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[FAMILY]
◒ children: has a child or children / has no biological children / wants children / has adopted children
I mean this isn’t until further on in his story (he’s still on Hutta poor guy...) but he, Theron, and Hyroh adopt Auzeva (and maybe more children...?)
◑ relationship with family: close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased
◔ affiliation: orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent(s) / not applicable  
He knows nothing about his mother except that she was a Sith Lord, and his dad doesn’t really like talking about it, so Oriothe doesn’t bring it up with him.
[TRAITS + TENDENCIES]
♦ extroverted / introverted / in between
The extroverted-introverted binary is kind of stupid but I guess he’s an introvert.
♦ disorganized / organized / in between
♦ closed-minded / open-minded / in between
♦ calm / anxious / in between
Oriothe is very nonplussed in response to just about everything, it’s pretty hard to shake him up.
♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in between
Depends. He’s definitely one to playfully argue,
especially
with Mako. It’s a kind of “haha we’re just playing around but also I know I’m right and you’re wrong” thing and it’s very entertaining. He and Hyroh do it too and it always makes Theron laugh.
♦ cautious / reckless / in between
Not self-sacrificing or stupid reckless, but reckless in the sense that he likes challenge. What’s the point of taking a bounty if it’s a guaranteed success?
♦ patient / impatient / in between
Like I said, nonplussed. He’s the kind of person that will apologize to restaurant servers if the food is taking too long and keep reassuring them it’s fine.
♦ outspoken / reserved / in between
Pretty reserved. He’s not a pushover, but he keeps to himself.
♦ leader / follower / in between
Doesn’t mind letting someone else take the reins, but he might silently judge them if he thinks he could do a better job.
♦ empathetic / unempathetic / in between
He won’t weep for some random poor souls on the street, and most of the time he doesn’t really care about whatever reasons his bounties give him when they beg him to let them go, but he does empathize with people.
He’s not good at giving words of compassion and comfort, but rather is more of a... emotional sponge. He’ll let you vent out whatever is hurting you and won’t really say much, maybe give you a hug if you want it, but that’s about it.
♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between
With how much risk he likes to take on jobs, he has to be pretty optimistic about his odds.
♦ traditional / modern / in between
Don’t really know what this is in reference to tbh
♦ hard-working / lazy / in between
♦ cultured(?) / uncultured  / in between
What is he, butter? i don’t understand the question
♦ loyal / disloyal / unknown
He usually doesn’t go back on a job unless there’s a really good reason to. Also he’s very dedicated to the people who are important to him.
♦ faithful / unfaithful / unknown
Faithful/unfaithful like in... relationships? Then definitely faithful. He doesn’t cheat.
[SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION]
❤ sexuality: heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / other
♡ romantic orientation: heteroromantic / homoromantic / biromantic / aromantic / panromantic / other
❥ sex: sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable / naive and clueless
♥ romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and/or inexperienced
❣ sexually: adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious
⚧ potential sexual partners: male / female / nonbinary / none / all
⚧ potential romantic partners: male / female / nonbinary / none / all
[ABILITIES]
☠ combat skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none
≡ literacy skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none
Like I said, he didn’t have a very extensive formal education. He can be understood easily, but he’s not about to start writing five page essays or anything like that.
✍ artistic skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none
✂ technical skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none
You learn a lot working with the Black Sun, from slicing to petty theft to how to make mechanical repairs, etc.
[HABITS]
☕ drinking alcohol: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
Usually just one beer after a long day, that’s about it.
☁ smoking: trying to quit / never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
Not anymore, but he did when he was younger.
✿ other narcotics: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
See above.
✌ medicinal drugs: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
☻ indulgent food: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
He’s a pretty good cook, and loves learning new recipes! He’s the only reason Hyroh and Theron aren’t always getting take-out.
$ splurge spending: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
Kinda has a bad habit of buying himself new toys (aka blasters, vibroknives, other cool tools a bounty hunter out to have).
♣ gambling: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess
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WELCOME ABOARD CADENZA
intro: yo my name’s trace andddd i’m a casual writer who spends more time in a self fulfilling prophecy loop about writer’s block than actually writing but i believe that can change with this project.
BASICALLY .. this is a piece of (idw) transformers fanfiction that will be based off of mtmte/LL in that the story revolves around a crew aboard a ship (cadenza!). the twist is that these are all OCs based off of friends of mine on a discord server. 
now, this idea originated earlier on this year (2019) anddd last time i worked on it was may and it is currently late december lmao . SO this sideblog is to make memes and shitposts from the cast so that i can both keep up my inspiration and also understand the characters better! (a starting cast of 11 and total of 19 , jesus fuck..)
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO here’s the guide to the cadenizens - our cast aboard the cadenza :D
these are all the notes i have currently - some characters are more fleshed out than others! but just an intro
CAPTAINS
pursuit - this one’s me!
psych consultant / jr tactician, autobot
speedster, black-red-gold, changes detailing a lot
prideful, relatively young, can be pretty darn bold/brash
mostly in charge of paperwork/technical stuff, public speaking
very few can get away with calling him “junior”
prowl fanboy, before cadenza was roommates with circlet and pandora
gives nicknames to everyone, this is law aboard cadenza
assigned mission by prowl to find stragglers/NAILs wherever in space (near the end of the war and prowl foresees the autobots winning soon, so it’s a last recruitment in case anyone wants to speed along the resolution)
pandora
product/weapon designer, autobot
spaceship-like alt mode, pink-purple-blue, outlier ability “pandora’s box” (details tbd)
hesitant but very positive and lighthearted, altruistic
in charge of coordinating people and asking favors/assigning jobs/communications - the more socially demanding interactions
loves to make teasing jokes about people, everyone knows she’s nice anyway so can’t really take it too seriously
circlet
artist, autobot
helicopter, lavender, rounder more streamlined appearance rather than sharp edges
neurotic, clumsy, cute until very angry
excels at graphs, organization, planning (often works with datum on this stuff)
known pursuit for basically their whole lives, practically brother and sister
THE CADENIZENS
deckout
frame designer, autobot
level headed, talks things through
he has spent far too much time with pursuit, putting up with his constant detailing and general bullshit
arc
welder/repairbot, autobot
likes order, rules, slow and steady wins the race!
mechanics = art
datum
analyst/engineer, ex-con, autobot
does his best to contribute, very organized, mindful of his past
works with circ on organizing and plans
like. truly, notoriously organized. how does he do it
armordive
revolutionary journalist, autobot turned NAIL
flying ship alt mode (likely will post separately)
loves random controversial facts that are really obscure
here to write about the crew
he’ll be picked up along the way, not part of the starting cast
roadagain
organics expert, humanitarian, secretly a rogue con, “NAIL”
softback jeep, orange-black-dark gray, camera/tripod attachments
speaks highly of original decepticon cause, bubbly, charismatic, he’s such a nerd
filming his own nature documentary
he’ll be joining the cadenizens when the crew get to earth, he’s with a group there along with stevotron, trip, and shamble
envoy
mediator/diplomat, autobot
space suv, black-red-light gray, weapons loaded into chassis but can’t use them all at once or it’ll drain her spark
easy to talk to, good listener, she has a.. mild obsession with money
was assigned to this mission by prowl 
trip
recently constructed in the war, unknown function, autobot turned NAIL
loves jokes/pranks (esp with stevotron), surprisingly intuitive at times
trainee, dabbles in everything aboard cadenza, he pretty much just helps out all around
among the group on earth
letariat
supply manager/rationer (pls . this man is an entire communism joke i can hardly handle it it’s amazing), autobot (participated in early decepticon uprisings before war broke out)
dark humor, has a gentle/serious side, he bottles up more than he should tbh
avalanche
politician turned soldier, decepticon prisoner
military truck ? thing?
disdainful of ex-cons, grammar nazi
uh he probably joins aboard along the way, not starting cast
shamble
poet, autobot, early con leanings
half of a jet alt mode, duobot (not like... just the legs or anything. he’s a whole bot)
very chill, loves plastic models/figurines from human culture
another member of the group from earth!
sicarius
musician, eukarian, autobot
beastformer, spider (sicarius desert spider)
energetic, she is fond of organics and small talk
livewire
psyche nurse, medical nurse, autobot
off color, clown-like scheme
friendly, a little more reserved in group settings
they do NOT take shit while on the job
stevotron
NAIL
the second half to the prankster duo with trip
originally had a very common cybertronian name so he picked this one to show his appreciation of earth 
the acting leader of the group on earth out of necessity more than anything else like desire for power
5P4M4
cadenza’s resident artificial intelligence
catalogs interactions, highkey wingman without anyone asking for it
and, well, the role of this last guy hasn’t been finalized. honestly all of this is subject to change though tbh 
stabilizer
security director? ex-con, not with the crew(?)
seeker, jet
hot headed, ambitious, can seem cold, dry humor, loves flying
jaded by autobots, tries to keep his cool, wants to ascend ranks despite his past
YALL IF ANYONE HAS LIKE... THINGS THEY’D LIKE TO SEE IN A FIC? OR WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS PLS SPEAK UP I DONT RLY EXPECT THIS TO CATCH THE INTEREST OF PPL OUTSIDE OF THIS SOCIAL CIRCLE BUT ON THE OFF CHANCE IT DOES THEN U KNO THE DOOR’S OPEN
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hey hey~ i was wanting to get into dreamcatcher! i know the songs chase me and piri and really enjoy their sound and visual!! wondering what variety i should start with for getting to know the members and what good b sides or underrated tracks/performances i might be missing? thanks for your beautiful content!
oh my GOD this is the best ask i’ve ever gotten and i love you for giving me such a good opportunity to ramble about my kids 
honestly i have a Lot of things to recommend, so i’ll try to organize and priortize stuff so it doesn’t get too overwhelming!
i have to start my recommendations with this dance practice because believe it or not, it’s what made me stan, along with you and i aka my fave title
to get to know the members i recommend:
the unhealthy guides to dreamcatcher - they highlight some of my fave moments of the girls
this clip of their dorm vlive
this clip of one of their most chaotic vlives. it’s hilarious lmao
for variety shows some of my faves are:
fact in star episode where they played the iconic pepero game
heyo tv - it’s a longer episode but it covers everything from their dancing to ther sense of humor!
when they covered a bunch of dances and slayed them all
trying to guess songs from choreography. it’s chaos
this one doesn’t have english subs but they do other members’ introductions and it cracks me up every time
here’s a full fact in star episode if you want to watch more!
okay, now for their music and performances! honestly i am absolutely in love with this group and depending on me i’d recommend everything lol, so i’ll start each item with the ones i’d say are essential and then just add stuff i like lmao
busking in suits: one of the most iconic things dc has ever done. everyone needs to watch this tbh!
dami - full moon
handong - full moon
yoohyeon - good night
jiu - good night
b sides: definetely check out trap, lullaby, wonderland, and there was no one left, sleep walking, mayday (the live band are fans that got invited!) and july 7th (yes they made the video themselves and yes they’re ridiculous lmao)
covers: they’re known for slaying every single cover, and with good reason
lucky strike
bang bang bang
treasure
believer (sua fancam)
immortal songs
some truly iconic stages: 7 rings, my house, move, troublemaker
ok lol sorry for recommending so many things shjdgfjs, but i hope you enjoy them!! also if you like ths list, feel free to ask for a part two or just. talk about the girls (asks or dms, i dont mind) 
and thanks for this amazing ask
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guktwt · 5 years
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love yourself tour experience! ♡  japan and singapore
hi! so i’ve been wanting to make a post like this for a while on twitter but i hate twitter rn so here i am. this january i was blessed with the opportunity to attend love yourself in nagoya (japan) and singapore and honestly? it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. i wanted to share my experience because really, concerts in japan and everywhere are else are so different, right from ticketing and the show itself. i thought you guys would find it interesting? and also i need to let this out ahhh keeping to myself is not going to do me any good :( anyways, i hope you find this post somewhat entertaining 💞
under the cut because this got really long sorry 
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♡ love yourself in nagoya ♡
first of all, tickets. getting concert tickets (and any ticket, really) in japan is tricky. most kpop groups in japan have a fanclub and if you’re a member, you get the benefit of applying for tickets first (like a presale!). did i say apply? yes i did. in japan, ticketing for concerts adopts a lottery system for presale and general sales usually a month later. 
for presale through fc, you’d have to apply for a lottery on a website and wait to find out if you win or not. you need a fc membership (paid), which also needs you to have a japanese phone number and address in order to apply. and you HAVE to pay your presale tickets in japan because you need to pay them in a convenient store. complicated, i know. FC presale tickets usually give the best seats. there’s no gurantee, but that’s usually the case. fortunately for me, i have a cousin residing in japan to help me with the address (you really need it, they’re going to ship you your membership card) and i found someone on twitter to help me make the payment. if you a apply for lottery, there’s no guarantee you’ll win. so you can apply as many times as you want with a maximum of 2 tickets for each shows. i think i used up all of my luck with this one [sobs]. FC presales usually have more than one round lotteries. 
general sales is much simpler. i dont have enough experience to know the details but it’s usually up on japanese ticketing websites and can use credit cards? dont know if foreign ccs are accepted though. 
oh and all tickets for all sections cost the same!!! so doesn’t matter if you get the best view or worst it’s all equal 
/if you have more questions about this don’t hesitate to send me an ask i don’t know much but i’ve read a lot about it/
you can’t know your seat until a week (or a month? idk) before the concert, when it’s time for you to print your tickets at the same convenient store (yes you have to print them and you can only do it once so don’t lose the damn thing!!). my seat was really good!!! i didn’t get floor sadly but my section was right in front of the extended stage so i got a great view. 
i arrived in nagoya a day before the concert (i spent a week in tokyo beforehand) and queued for merch!!! it was winter so it wasn’t hot at all and the japanese really know how to line up. everything is so organized like??? i was so amazed. i spent a good 4 hours queueing before getting my items and even then a lot of the things i wanted were sold out quickly :( 
and then comes the concert day!!!! basically since it was all seating tickets i didn’t have to worry about queueing for entry but i did queue for merch again,,,, from 4 am. let me tell you how devoted people are there when it comes to queueing. some actually stayed from the afternoon? and it was winter. crazy. 
i entered the dome an hour before the show started and the staff were so kind and helpful whenever i asked for help (i couldn’t find my seat). and everyone around is so kind and warm :( i didn’t really interact with a lot of people due to the language barrier but they’re so . polite. 
and moving on to the show!!!!!! japan has strict rules about recording so i couldn’t do any of that [:(] but honestly it just made me enjoy everything better. of course they were amazing on stage and their japanese were so cute :( i still can’t get over nagoya, nekkoya my pure babies!!! 
and uh . taehyung. so damn fine. can’t believe i was part of the first people to see him reveal his blue hair. and i can’t stress this enough but his gaze when he looks at the audience... i felt the love and fondness in his eyes i wanted to CRY. 
and jimin!!! was so clingy towards joon the whole night ugh we love a baby koala. and jungkook :( he introduced himself as kookoo im so fucking sad. the second he said kookoo desu i was ready to give up my firstborn for him. 
hoseok was a fucking machine. he’s so charismatic on stage i can’t handle him. and seokjin was full on crackhead mode :( we stan a whole legend i love love him so much. my mans yoongi was so?? small yet not??? i wanna put him in my pocket. my mans joon was looking like a whole snacc. all legs and dimples.  
honestly what struck me the most was how everyone gave seokjin a standing ovation and applause after epiphany???? that was my first time seeing something like that and i just started tearing up because it was so beautiful. people were so respectful they didn’t scream or shout when bangtan were doing their ending ments. the fanchants were absolutely on point!!! whenever bangtan bowed i actually spotted some people in my section bowing in return and i was !!!! oh my god 
but on another note you’d think that japanese fans are quiet during shows but theyre really not. they’re loud as hell too they just know when to shut up and listen and i think that’s beautiful. 
the whole thing passed by really quickly. i felt hollow and empty by the time it ended but i have to say that it was the most relaxing and chill concert experience i’ve ever had. it just feels so different than my previous concerts. the only downside about it is the no recording part (i could’ve been sneaky but staff was right in front of my section) i guess. but without worrying about my phone i got to watch them perform. like actually watch them. it felt euphoric. 
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♡ love yourself in singapore ♡
ah. 
so for singapore, i got cat 1 purple 2 tickets at first. but because me and my friend wanted yellow initially, we managed to find someone who wanted to trade with us. 
i arrived at the venue at 6 am because i had to distribute banners and fans for my fan support. here’s a pic of them!!!! 
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basically for standing ticket holders we were required to queue by 12:30 pm and fortunately my qn got the indoor holding area so i didn’t stay under the heat for long. we started moving to the venue at around 3 or 4 pm even thought they said it would be 2:30 pm. because my qn was large by the time i got inside all the good spots were already taken :( i ended up at the very back sigh and we had to wait for another 2-3 hours before the show starts. it was hot and everyone was thirsty. some people in the pit wanted to sit down but some also stood up so it was rlly cramped :/ 
everyone was hyped tho even when mvs were played. and then when the lights dimmed and the show finally started was where things got really,,, rowdy. when the first beat of idol played everyone pushed forward??? the amount of times i got squished and elbowed and pushed aside... man it was hectic. if you’re claustrophobic please do NOT go for standing in concerts. 
but that aside of course it was amazing loud and crazy. there were accidents here and there. at one point several people actually fell down but everyone helped everyone up. some people got mad and started yelling and others but that’s understandable. it was hot and cramped of course you’d get cranky. 
funny story i got my period two hours before the show and basically bled through my vagina for 3 hours as i watched 7 fine men go off on stage. 
but anyways. 
me and my friend managed to finesse our way from the back row to the third row because we’re amazing. no we did not push if you were there the pit was always moving so we just. squeezed through i guess. i was so fucking tired but when so what came on i forgot that my pants were like fucking soaked and just jammed the fuck out with everyone. they got really close to my section during this and i cant believe i got to see taejin dance together like clubbing buddies. jin is so goofy!!!!!! 
oh but fuck you guys jimin up close is ethereal. he looks so fucking unreal i couldn’t keep my eyes off of him throughout the whole thing. none of the pictures can ever do his beauty justice. he’s so fucking beautiful and i was starstruck. and he sang promise!!! i fucking couldn’t believe he did it. one word to describe him is definitely godly. 
namjoon was so hyped and loud too :( gosh he’s so adorable. hoseok looked crazy beautiful up close too. his aura.... fucking amazing. YOONGI ALSO MADE THE CUTEST EXPRESSION AFTER JIMIN SANG PROMISE I SQEUALED. gosh i was actually really close despite not getting barricade i feel like crying thinking about it now. 
jungkook went so close to my section during so what i got a good fancam of him that i can’t stop watching :( jimin slipped during dna my poor baby but he just laughed it off :(((( 
they all looked prettier irl tbh. they have such nice skin??? and all that shit about jimin being short... well guess what fuckers he’s all LEGS. man. i think i left that stadium as a jimin stan. 
taehyung’s so hot i wanna die n i want the whole of rapline to spit on me thx.
fun times aside the pit is hell. luckily the staff were responsible and gave us drinks after each set of performances. and everyone kind of just understood each other. whenever someone looked like they were about to faint people asked if they were okay. we helped each other and gave each other drinks. at one point during the show i crouched down because i was exhausted and someone asked if i was okay or if i wanted some candy. 
hellish experiences aside, there’s a mutual understanding between everyone in the pit. like, we’re in this together. i’m sweaty and thirsty and tired but i’m here for one thing and so is everyone else. it’s a good feeling. i mean, yeah, i was drenched in sweat and water but. it’s a good feeling. here are some pics!!!! (i have more videos bu t i cba to tak e screenshots ajsjs sorry)
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also met some of my twitter mutuals <3 love u guys 
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perhaps this is it for my experience post? yeah you can see how different nagoya and singapore were. it was exciting to be able to experience them both. now back to my post concert depression and withdrawal :(
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hanjisungz-archive · 5 years
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oooooooo i didn't watch episode 4 yet because of the subs but i did watch the previous ones ! you have a good eye and the fact that you write little notes about what you see? so sweet and organized i love it
kim hyeonbin stood out a lot ? i knew he was a passionate guy from the first episodes but in this mission he showed that he's not just the passionate guy? his dance is stable, his voice is quite attractive he's got the will and stamina too! in this industry you can't really miss people like him. also in the bs&t performance, i don't remember his name but he was in charge of most high notes, he's got a very attractive aura and his voice stands out in a good way, overall there are m a n y good++
trainees, like talent based most of them are very impressive and stable but there are only a few who not only look like they want this but truly show it every single second. there are many avengers in this season but at the same time it feels more dull? i hope that the national producers truly focus on each boy as a whole not only as a 'face' , the term of a 'good looking person' and the standards of beauty are overrated anyways. passion, charisma, devotion and talent are the true key -🌠
ahh i forgot subs werent out yet sfkhjdshfkjdshf but yea im almost done w the ep and im not gonna spoil it but im already reminded why i dont like these types of shows dskjhfdskjfh also my list of faves is steadily growing lol im gonna try to narrow it down to 11 and ill let u know !!!!! (also like with my biases i noticed i have a Type for my picks lmao) ((also please jfhsdkjfh ur sweet !!! i like to write notes about every show i watch, i did it with p101 seasons 1 and 2 haha and ill probably have like a ‘ep 4 faves list’ and a ‘ep 1, 2 & 3 faves’ list tbh)) who are your picks tho ????
hm if the ranking auditions were weak should i even watch the first 3 eps ??? i mean i probably still will so i can narrow down my list of picks but its sucks this season doesnt seem as good
also i could go on a rant about these shows and how they are really bullshit (a lot of the time mnet already has like 5 members they Know they want in the group and then see who everyone likes and edits them in a good light but Anyways.....) i hope that the fans do too but in reality they probably wont, it would be nice to see a group full of totally talented people instead of just people that get picked bc they are pretty but alas idk if we will get that
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Do you think Sasshi will get a grad single from AKB as well & not just HKT? With how much she have contributed to the whole organization as a whole. Also to your answer to "hope" that this will re-negotiate exclusivity contract, I don't think it's going to happen tbh. As much as I am frustrated with HKT current predicament in suddenly losing 3 of their top member, I doubt this will honestly change anything on exclusive contract side.
(Cont) There’s a reason why they really enforce the exclusivity contract. To understand, let’s backtrack to i.o.i, the very first pd 101 group. There was no exclusive contract at this time. 1 of the member, have originally debuted with her own group prior to joining pd. After i.o.i is form, the said member miss 1 of the schedule, which turns out for a group photoshoot for her own group next single. This 1 event led the other 10 girl companies to do as they please & start pulling away the girl & debut them in their own group. After that initial 1 member, another 4 member was pulled away by their companies. The group felt like it was falling apart & they barely had 1 year to promote. After i.o.i debut song, their next comeback could only happen with only 7 ppl from the og 11. K-fans was afraid that AKS will pull a power play on OTR to start pulling the j-line away. They want to avoid what happened before. Just thought I want to shed some light for the exclusivity contract reason 
Unlikely; like I said in my answer to the same question asked for Yamamoto Sayaka not too long ago, the historical precedent has been that the graduating sister group member only gets one graduation single with the group she is currently in (which, in Sashihara’s case, is HKT48), not with AKB48 or any other 48G group she may have a concurrent/regular position in. 
I appreciate the explanation, but I still disagree strongly with the decision to force our members to abandon 48G and commit entirely to IZONE, apparently without compromise. If it were like I.O.I (or Iriyama Anna’s activities in Mexico), where the commitment is only for a year (or less), then maybe I wouldn’t have minded so much - the tight time frame necessitates that the members focus their efforts more urgently on the project and make the most out of the limited time available. 
However, with IZONE, we’re talking about a whole two and a half years, which is a heck of a long time, more than twice that of I.O.I’s timeline. It’s long enough for an entire generational shift to occur within 48G, which could very well render Miyawaki, Yabuki and Honda entirely irrelevant to 48G by the time they return. Coming back to my point about time frames, IZONE’s 2.5-year-long existence leaves its members with far more wiggle room to pursue to their own separate endeavors. With so long until the contract expires, they don’t have to deal with the same tight deadlines like I.O.I had to. As such, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the members to continue working with their original groups concurrently with their activities in IZONE.
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Do all the asks coward
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1. what does your wallet look like?
-i got it as a present from my uncle for christmas and its really expensive but also so ugly im sorry uncle tom. its like that ‘southern fashion’ bullshit that white MAGA moms wear. but it was better than my old wallet, which looks like this and i got when i was 12:
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2. favorite color?
- baby pinnk
3. do you own a pride flag, or more than one?
-heres the thing: my parents basically know im not straight but i havent told them. my brother has thought i was a lesbian since freshman year, i have a small pride pin on my backpack, ive never been on a date, its complicated. but no, i dont have one. maybe one day, hopefully.
4. describe your favorite outfit
-black pants, platform doc martens, hoodie under a jean jacket, one clip on earring, and holding my crushes hand :]
5. when was the last time a girl made your heart flutter, and what’d she do?
-okay so theres this girl in my theatre class who is really cute, and she put her head on my shoulder and shes pagan so she drew a little sigil on my arm that means “safe and homely” so like :)))))))))))))
6. do you use nail polish?
-i do, i mostly do black tho
7. do you keep organized?
-absolutely. i have things online filed accordingly, i pick out my outfits the day before, my binders are neat, i learned how to army fold my shirts, i keep my shit CLEAN
8. ever take naps?
-only accidentally. ill be laying in bed watching youtube and next thing you know my autoplay has me watching a markiplier video even tho i dont like him and its 4 hours later
9. who was your first crush?
-idk if this is a real person or not so ill do both. my first fake person crush was either troy from high school musical or frankie stein from monster high. and my first real crush was on a boy named dominic in elementary school. i told him i liked him at the end of 5th grade because i thought i was switching schools but then i didnt and we never spoke again.
10. what are your crush tendencies? fall hard or often?
-both both both. i am the worst with crushes. i have crushes all the time because im romantic and a fucking fool. i have 3 crushes off the top of my head rn and i like them all for different reasons. thats not to say that i want to date them, but its that i like them a lot and i kinda wanna kiss their cheek or hold their hand idk
11. describe your ideal day
-play overwatch with my best friend (u gonble >:) ) then hang out with my cat, go get a smoothie, buy some cool shoes or something, take a shower and be asleep by 9 :,)
12. describe your ideal date
-i have stated that build a bear is an amazing first date and im NOT BACKING DOWN. ITS CUTE AS FUCK AND ILL ACCEPT NOTHING LESS!!
13. whats your favorite food?
-either sushi or strawberries :3c
14. who do you feel most comfortable around?
-my theatre class, people from camp, and gobble
15. what is your favorite compliment to receive?
-i dont have a favorite, any and all are going to make my face go red so i have to cover it and maybe make me cry
16. did you/do you like highschool?
-the first 3 years fucking sucked but senior year has been amazing so far. mostly because i just kinda stopped giving a fuck but its amazing
17. favorite animal?
-i think its cats now. i really like cats
18. do you like your name?
-eh, its okay. its pretty but also it seems like there are 60 million fucking people named grace and its so annoying. i wish it was something more unique idk
19. what kind of weather is your favorite?
-a light rain. no swinging trees or thunder, just lots of rain. its nice to stay inside and feel secure
20. do you believe in horoscopes?
-absolutely not. but theyre fun if you like them
21. tell us about your music taste
-its horrific. to sum it up, my two favorite musicians are the gorillaz and frank sinatra. take from that what you will
22. have you had your first kiss? if so, what was it like?
-i havent had my first kiss yet. gonna be honest, i felt like i was going to, a few times at camp and recently when classes ended. but yeah, nothing yet
23. did you have a favorite stuffed animal as a kid?
-i went thro cycles of favorites. but one ive had for years is a plush shadow the hedgehog from universal studios i got when i was 6. i used to carry him around, even to a pool once
24. what time do you usually wake up and go to bed?
-if you know me, you know i go to bed ridiculously early. i usually get tried at around 6pm and fall asleep between 7:45 and 8:30. and i always wake up before 6 am. i havent slept past 6 am continuously since the end of junior year. please help me
25. what dream trip would you take with your wife?
-maybe to go explore new york, just the two of us that sounds like fun :]
26. do you have any pets?
-i have 2 dogs and a cat. the family owns the dogs but that cat is mine
27. what pair of underwear is your favorite?
-uhhhhhhhhhhh i have some with rainbows that are cool? i dont have favorites, none of them are cute anyway
28. what makes you smile?
-funny jokes make me smile real hard, and if you compliment me at the right time, i kind of pull my legs up and hide my face? its cute and charming i promise
29. what makes you feel heavy?
-in both the physical and metaphorical sense, eating bread
30. what makes you feel better?
-watching bo burnham always makes me feel better, hes my go to whenever im really depressed
31. how do you show your love?
-i show my love in everything i do. everything i do is for love, i love love so much its sickening
32. when is it time to get a haircut?
-whenever u want to lol?
33. where would you live if you could live anywhere?
-maybe san francisco, its beautiful and i love the city
34. do your friends and family take good care of you?
-as much as i allow them to. sometimes i go days without communicating and i know thats annoying but my friends put up with it (they shouldnt have to, i know) and my family is okay. its cliche to say, but they honestly dont understand what im going thro alot of the times, esp with my anxiety and shit
35. have you always used the labels you use now?
-back in the beginning of highschool, i used they/them pronouns and identified as asexual/aromantic. eventually, it didnt feel right, so i know identify as cis and bisexual and that feels right to me
36. what makes you laugh?
-my friends, when people shit talk gobble and i in overwatch even tho???? we didnt know him?????? and the mcelroys always get me
37. who is your favorite fictional character?
-too many options, see list here
38. who do yo admire?
-my father when hes not threatening to throw my phone into a fucking lake and my friends for putting up with me
39. describe yourself in three words
-i am baby
40. how long does it take you to get ready in the morning? 
-usually about 45 min, more or less as each day goes
41. what do you wish you could tell your younger self?
-listen: STOP GIVING A FUCK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN, BE YOURSELF. STOP HIDING AND BEING SCARED OF YOURSELF, BE GENUINE!!!!
42. what would you do if you win the lottery?
-get my parents settled, see about other family members, and then distribute the money to charities accordingly, starting with flint and getting them water
43. would you call yourself a romantic?
-yes
44. what is your gayest childhood memory?
-my mom had cosmos magazines
45. do you have tattoos or want any?
-i dont have any tattoos but ive been obsessed with them since the 6th grade. id love to get tattoos, i just dont know what or where and also im afraid of pain
46. whats your worst habit?
-either biting my thumbs, starving myself, or ghosting my friends. prob ghosting my friends
47. what are you proud of?
-i guess coming out of my shell finally? idk, i actually have friends now and it feels amazing tbh. im in 5 group chats now. i havent been in a group chat since 6th grade. :))))))
48. did you know that youre actually a gift to the world, for real?
-hi i love you?
49. whats your favorite memory?
-there are so so many. but what comes to mind first is our dance night at camp where we all stood outside and i finally gave ian my tumblr and we all ran inside to dance to mr. brightside then ran outside again and we requested nightcore and rivers was fucking dancing their hearts out and we all sang along and im going to crying just typing this out
50. do you have a sweet tooth?
-i guess so. too much makes me feel like shit but i do really enjoy smarties
51. what do you like most about yourself?
-this is dumb, but my sense of style. since i got a job ive been wearing shit i actually like and its amazing. ill admit i have cool clothes
52. what makes you fall for a girl?
-besides acknowledging me, probably getting to know me and not like, putting me on a pedestal. idk its weird, ive met a lot of people this year who like to place me so high it feels like i cant make a mistake around them without disappointing them. idk, i want someone to call me out on my bullshit instead of assuring me im okay. i want to know what i do wrong so i can fix it
53. make a recommendation
-for what? uhh okay for music, listen to ‘clay pigeons’ by michael cera (yes i know michael cera) and for television, watch bojack horseman and for movies, watch the docuseries called ‘7 days out’ on netflix
54. have you ever had your heart broken?
-yeah, when i broke up with maddy because we werent ready to date. i cared and continue to care about her and i didnt want to hurt her but i knew its what we both needed. its what i needed, atleast. and i cant be a good girlfriend if i feel like im doing badly. but also ive had friends break my heart and family break my heart. but im okay now, this heart is ready to be broken again
55. when do you feel most yourself?
-def when i was at camp, that place is magical in the way it allows you to be yourself. but also when i talk to gobble because hes my best friend and when im at college, we can talk more and its gonna be dope as shit
56. name a gorgeous celeb
-jake gyllenhaal jake gyllenhaal jake gyllenhaal 
57. what are some of your favorite songs this week?
-fake happy by paramore, im not okay (i promise) by my chemical romance, tomorrow comes today by gorillaz
58. tell us 2 or your biggest hopes and fears
-biggest hopes: i publish a book someday & i get a job doing something i love
-biggest fears: i end up homeless and broke & something horrific happens in college
59. what flavor chapstick/lipbalm is the best?
-raspberry i guess
60. are you okay?
-i answered a lot more honestly then i shouldve for some of these and i start new classes tomorrow so im feeling really anxious so im doing alright i guess.
gobble you test me but i do love you
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do u know any good leftist orgs for people who are just starting out? im going off to college soon and i wanna join some lefty groups or do some volunteer stuff
honestly i would just say see whats near u/on ur campus and check different groups out and see whether u like what theyre doing. and research whatever it is before u join so you dont accidentally become a member of a fringe cult (also stay away from refuse fascism and the revolutionary communist party- refuse fascism is a front for the rcp and theyre a maoist cult) but yeah like there are some organizations that have chapters everywhere and i think a lot vary really widely and could be great in one place and useless/terrible in another which is why i wouldnt even recommended specific organizations tbh. just see whats around & maybe go to some meetings and see whats up and whether theyre doing organizing you want to be involved in
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